7,6 The Hiflory e f Martin. low it, he promifed to have Communion with the Bithops, and fo did communicate with them the next day, and Caved the mans life. When he had done it he was in great doubt andperplexity about it, whether he had done well or not? and in this trouble went fecretly o'at of the City homewards : And by the way in a Wood as he was in heavir fs and doubt, an Angel appeared to him, and rebuked and chaffened him, for com- municating with them, and bid him take warn- ing by this,lett the next time he hazardedhis fat- vation it Pelf by it. And A'ì rain profeffed that long after this, the gift of miracles was denied hire ; but he communicated with the Synod and I3ifhops no more. This Hiflory I only recite without determi- ning how far the Reader is to believe it.: But I mull fay that the reading or it was a temptation to me, to doubt concerning my Communion , the Reader may eafly know with whom. For though I know how credulous and fabulous many ancient Writers were, yet I confidered, that this Ma- rian is oneof the mot} ancient , one of the rnoft learned, one of the moft flrialy Religious of all theold Hiflorians of the Church ; an:: than he was himfelf an intimateacquaintance of Martins, and had it from his own mouth ; and moll folemnly protefleth or fweareth that he feigneth nothing, and that themiracles of llMMrrin were known to him partly by his own fight, partly by Martin's own Relation, and partly by many credible wit- neffes : And they were fo believed commanly in that age by good men, that it was the occafion of his Canonizing. And if filch 1-iiftory is not to be believed,
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