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<P>THE GLORY OF THE B. FATHER S. IGNATIVS OF LOYOLA, FOVNDER OF THE SOCIETY OF IESVS.</P>
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<HEAD>THE LIFE OF THE B. FATHER S. IGNATIVS OF LOYOLA <HI>FOVNDER OF</HI> THE SOCIETY OF IESVS.</HEAD>
<P>_AND the glory he atchiued, through Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance partly by his owne admirable
<PB REF="3">&s;anctity, confirmed by his miracles and Canoniza|tion; partly by the won|derfull holy life of <HI>S. Fran|cis Xauerius,</HI> his a&s;sociate and &s;pirituall child; partly by the many commenda|tions of the <HI>Society</HI> he in&s;ti|tuted, many wayes diuul|ged by <HI>S. Tere&s;ia;</HI> partly by <HI>S. Philip <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">erius</HI> his rare te|&s;timony of <HI>S. Ignatius:</HI> to|geather with the corre&s;|pondency held betwixt him and the <HI>Society:</HI> &amp; par|tly by the knowne &s;anctity of <HI>S. Charles Borromeus,</HI> mi|raculou&s;ly attained by the v&s;e of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> his <HI>spiri|tuall Exerci&s;es,</HI> with his af|fection
<PB REF="3">and e&s;teeme of the <HI>Society.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The heads from whence &s;uch things are deriued as this treati&s;e maketh mention of, in the &s;elfe-&s;ame words and phra&s;es of the Authours.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The many proce&s;ses for the Canonization of the <HI>SS. Ignatius</HI> and <HI>Xaue|rius,</HI> contayning the graue te&s;timonies of &s;ix hundred three&s;core &amp; fifteene wit|ne&s;ses, concerning the life and vertues of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> alone.</P>
<P N="2">2. The relations of the <HI>Auditours</HI> of the <HI>holy Rote,</HI>
<PB REF="4">deliuered in writing to the <HI>Pope,</HI> and gathered out of &s;undry proce&s;&s;es made by autority of his <HI>Holines,</HI> for the Canonization of the <HI>Ss. Ignatius, Xauerius, Tere&s;ia</HI> &amp; <HI>Phillip Nerius;</HI> receaued and approued by the Lords Cardinalls of the <HI>holy Rites</HI> (as they terme them)</P>
<P N="3">3. The relations made in the name of the Congre|gation of Cardinalls of the <HI>holy Rites</HI> (before our holy Father Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> the fifteenth, in a priuate <HI>Con&s;i|&s;tory</HI>) by the right Honora|ble Lord Cardinall <HI>a Monte Franci&s;co Maria,</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Portua,</HI> printed at <HI>Rome</HI> this
<PB REF="4">pre&s;ent yeare, touching the life, &s;anctity and mira|cles of the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>Ignatius, Xa|uerius, Tere&s;ia</HI> and <HI>Phillip Ne|rius.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. The memorable things done by the SS. <HI>Igna|tius, Xauerius, Tere&s;ia, Phillip Nerius,</HI> &amp; <HI>Charles Borromaeus,</HI> publi&s;hed at <HI>Rome, Naples, Salamanca, Venice, Madrid, Antvverp, Collen, Ingol&s;tade, Dilinge, Ausbourg,</HI> &amp; other places, by permi&s;&s;ion of &s;uperiours.</P>
<P><HI>Out of all vvhich heads this treati&s;e vvas compiled at</HI> Cra|couia, <HI>printed by</HI> Andrew Petriconius, <HI>vvith licence
<PB REF="5">of Superiours, and intituled:</HI> The glory of the B. Father Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of IESVS. <HI>Which copy</HI> wo <HI>follow.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>APPROBATIO Cracouien&s;is.</HEAD>
<P>EGo Seba&s;tianus Nucerinus San|ctae Theologiae Do|ctor, Eccle&s;iae Cathe|dralis Cracouien: Or|dinarius Conciona|tor, librorum in dioe|ce&s;i Craco. In lucem prodeu~tium Cen&s;or, fide~ pre&s;entibus facio quia opu&s;culum hoc, <HI>de Gloria S. Ignatii Lo|yola,</HI> Fundatoris So|cietatis
<PB REF="6">Ie&s;u, &agrave; Patri|bus eiu&s;dem Societa|tis prius relectum, vi|di, ac deuoto &s;tudio probaui: atque vt lu|cerna haec in cande|labro, Eccle&s;iae typo poneretur pote&s;tate~ feci.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Crac. <DATE>6. Iulij, Anno 1622.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Seba&s;tianus Nucerinus.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE GLORY OF St. IGNATIVS OF LOYOLA. Founder of the Society of IESVS.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>Of the Birth of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> and of his Conuer&s;ion to a good life.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAPTER I.</HEAD>
<P>_SAINT <HI>Ignatius</HI> was borne in that part of Spaine (ad|ioyning to the Pyrenan
<PB N="2" REF="7">hills) which beareth the name of Bi&s;cay, in the yeare 1461. His Father was <HI>Ber|trand Iannez</HI> Lord of <HI>Ognez</HI> and <HI>Loyola,</HI> of an ancient &amp; noble Family: His Mother, no way inferiour to her Hu&s;band in worth and Nobility, was <HI>Mary Sa~chez,</HI> de&s;cended of noble Pare~ts, Lords of <HI>Balda.</HI> Both which families in Bi&s;cay are of the number of them, to which the Spaniards giue the name and title of <HI>Great Ones.</HI> The&s;e were the pa|rents from whom <HI>S. Igna|tius</HI> de&s;cended; who, being him&s;elf endowed with ad|mirable parts of &s;oule and
<PB N="3" REF="7">body, &amp; hauing been bred a Page &s;ome tyme in the Court of King Ferdinand the Catholike, de&s;irous now to gaine him&s;elfe a re|putation by the warres, be|tooke him&s;elf to Don An|tonio Manriquez Duke of <HI>Naiara</HI> and Vice-Roy of <HI>Nauarre</HI> one who had been anciently allied with the family of <HI>Loyolaes;</HI> &amp; began to apply him&s;elfe wholy to the warres. But the Ca&s;tle of <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">plona,</HI> the principall Citty of <HI>Nauarre</HI> (the defe~|ce of which was co~mitted to the charge of <HI>Ignatius</HI>) chancing to be be&s;ieged by the French Army, a &s;to|ne
<PB N="4" REF="8">driuen out of the wall, by the force of the Artil|lery, wounded him in his left thigh, as he was &s;er|uing brauely at the head of his troupes, and &s;o vtterly broke his right leg, that with the blow he fell halfe dead vpon the place, which hapned vpon whit&s;on: Munday, the 26. of May, in the yeare 1521. <HI>Ignatius</HI> being wounded, the Fort was taken by the French, by whom <HI>Ignatius</HI> was no|bly treated, cured of his hurts, and &s;ent home. But whil&s;t yet he kept his bed, demaunding &s;ome propha|ne Bookes to pa&s;&s;e his ty|me,
<PB N="5" REF="8">two Bookes were brought vnto him; one, of the life of Chri&s;t, the other of his Saints; with the pe|ru&s;all of which, he found him&s;elfe &s;o touched, that to follow the &s;tepps of Chri&s;t, he re&s;olued to leaue the world, and take a iour|ney to <HI>Hieru&s;alem;</HI> there to confirme the Chri&s;tians in matters of &s;pirit, and to conuert the Infidels to the Faith of Chri&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>The memorable things done by <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> from the tyme of his conuer&s;ion till his death.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAPTER II.</HEAD>
<P>SAint <HI>Ignatius</HI> now cured of his hurts, bids adieu to his Pare~ts, &amp; all world|ly di&s;tractions, notwith|&s;tanding the &s;trong oppo|&s;ition of his Brother; and, being to &s;erue from then|ce-forth vnder the colours of Chri&s;t, tooke his iour|ney to the Mona&s;tery of the Benedictin Monks of <HI>Mont-&s;errata,</HI> where making
<PB N="7" REF="9">a generall confe&s;&s;ion of his &s;innes (a thing in tho&s;e dayes almo&s;t out of v&s;e) offering vp his &s;word and dagger with which he &s;er|ued the world, in the Church of that Mona&s;tery he watched that whole night, being the Eue of the <HI>Saluation</HI> of our B. Lady, before the Altar of that &s;a|cred Virgin, bare-headed, clad in a cour&s;e long Ca&s;|&s;acke, girt with a Cord, dedicating him&s;elfe there to the &s;eruice of God, in the yeare 1522. from whe~|ce he departed conti|nuing to yeild worthy fruits of pennance, in the
<PB N="8" REF="10">Ho&s;pital of <HI>Manre&s;a,</HI> and in a Caue neare the Riuer which wa&s;heth the feilds therabouts, and arriued at la&s;t at <HI>Rome,</HI> in the yeare 1523. where, hauing had the ble&s;&s;ing of Pope Adria~ the 4. he trauelled fore|ward towards <HI>Hieru&s;alem.</HI> But, not being able, for the imminent daunger and feare of the Turks, to re|mayne there, and employ his endeauours in the gai|ning of &s;oules, he returned into <HI>Spaine:</HI> where, that he might the better a&s;&s;i&s;t his neighbour in affayres of &s;pirit, being now thirty yeares of age, he put him|&s;elf
<PB N="9" REF="10">to the Grammer-&s;cho|le at <HI>Bercelona,</HI> &s;pending afterwards, at <HI>Alcala</HI> a yea|re and a halfe in the &s;tudies of Philo&s;ophy and Diui|nity; and la&s;tly, in the &s;pace of almo&s;t eight yeares, ma|de a repetition of the&s;e &s;tu|dies at <HI>Paris,</HI> liuing vpon Almes, in co~tinuall works of Charity, Humility and Pennance; where by the example of his holy life, by his prayers &amp; &s;pirituall di&s;cour&s;es, he gained to him&s;elfe Nine other Com|panions, and amo~ght them <HI>S. Francis Xauerius:</HI> Men fa|mous for their vertues, di&s;|cretion, and learning: And,
<PB N="10" REF="11">togeather with them made a vowe, that their cour&s;e of &s;tudies being ended, and all other re&s;pects &s;et a&s;ide, they would take their iourney to <HI>Hieru&s;alem,</HI> and wholy apply them&s;elues there to the gaining of &s;ou|les: but if, within a yeares &s;pace, they &s;hould light v|pon no commodity of &s;hip|ping, or &s;hould not be per|mitted to remayne at <HI>Hie|ru&s;alem;</HI> that then, their vowe being di&s;pe~&s;ed with, they &s;hould repaire to <HI>Rome</HI> offering their &s;eruice to his Holines, for the &s;piri|tuall good of their neigh|bours. But he him&s;elfe ha|uing
<PB N="11" REF="11">contracted a grieuous payne in his &s;tomacke, by his continuall &amp; laborious watchings and &s;tudies, and hauing (with the, re&s;t of his Companions, after a &s;trict examen, demaunded by them&s;elues, and graun|ted them) been honoured with the degree of Doctor in that Vniuer&s;ity; at la&s;t, by the coun&s;ell of his Co~|panions, and adui&s;e of Phi|&s;itians, he returned to his natiue Country: Where, after the working of many miracles, when he had re|couered his health, he too|ke his iourney towards <HI>Venice,</HI> whether the re&s;t of
<PB N="12" REF="12">his Companio~s, by agree|ment, were likewi&s;e to re|paire, and in that Citty was preferred to the dignity of Prei&s;thood. But the yeare aboue mentioned being now expired, and their embarquing for <HI>Pale&s;tin</HI> cut off by rea&s;on of the warres broken fort betwixt the Turke and the Venetians, he, with his Companions came to <HI>Rome,</HI> in the yeare 1537. At <HI>Rome,</HI> he pre&s;en|ted his &s;eruice to his Holi|nes, for the gaining of his neighbour. The Pope ap|proued the pious re&s;olu|tions of the&s;e Fathers, re|claming many &s;oules by
<PB N="13" REF="12">the indu&s;try of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> and his &s;pirituall exerci&s;es; and placed two of <HI>Ignatius,</HI> his Companions in the Roman Vniuer&s;ity (com|monly knowne by the na|me of <HI>Sapientia</HI>) there to read the publike lectures of Scripture and &s;choole Diuinity. Meane while S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> in&s;tituted the So|ciety of IESVS, for the defence and propagation of the Faith, and the gai|ning of &s;oules; and procu|red to haue it ratified by the Sea Apo&s;tolike, in the yeare 1540. in which So|ciety, be&s;ides the three vowes common to it with
<PB N="14" REF="13">other Orders, he added a fourth vowe, by which, promi&s;e is made to obey his Holines, in vnderta|king iourneyes to the Turks and Infidels, for the gaining of &s;oules, without demaunding any &s;tipend or proui&s;ion for that iour|ney. Which done, he com|po&s;ed the Con&s;titutions of the Society, directed by ad|mirable Diuine in&s;piratio~s (as &s;hall hereafter be de|clared) And being him&s;elf, by the vniforme con&s;ent of his Companions, cho&s;en General of the Order, after he had gouerned it with an admirable reputation of
<PB N="15" REF="13">wi&s;dome and &s;anctity, for the &s;pace of fifteene yeares, three monethes and nine dayes, and di&s;per&s;ed wel|neare a thou&s;and of his So|ciety, in almo&s;t a hundred &s;euerall Colledges, ouer the whole world; not only in <HI>Italy, Spaine, France,</HI> and <HI>Germany,</HI> but euen in the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>vve&s;t Indies, Iapo|nia, Bra&s;il, Ethiopia &amp; Per&s;ia;</HI> infinite multitudes of peo|ple being conuerted by him, and his, to the true Faith, and good life; ha|uing in&s;tituted many <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">gs for the good of t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oly Church; brought to a c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|&s;tome the often frequen|ting
<PB N="16" REF="14">of Sermons, Lectures, Ma&s;&s;es, Confe&s;&s;ion and Communion, in <HI>Rome</HI> fir&s;t, and afterwards in other places of the world; ha|uing, by the&s;e meanes, di&s;|couered the &s;ubtility of the Diuell, and &s;et a new lu&s;tre vpon the face of the Church: he ended his dayes of a gentle ague, full of merites, &s;trengthned with the Popes ble&s;&s;ing, and the Sacraments, accor|ding to the rites of the Church and gaue vp his Gho&s;t mo&s;t peaceably, into the hands of his Creatour, inuoking the name of IESVS, in the yeare 1556.
<PB N="17" REF="14">the la&s;t day of Iuly, the 65. yeare of his age, famous for his holy life, and miracles, as wel in his life tyme, as after his decea&s;e; and for other rare endowments (of which we now treate.)</P>
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<HEAD>The gift of Prophecy in <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> mo&s;t perfect.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. III.</HEAD>
<P>BEcau&s;e the gift of Pro|phecy, in compari&s;on of &s;upernaturall vertues, is e&s;teemed one of the ordi|nary or meane&s;t ornaments of Sanctity, and therfore to be attained without gra|ce,
<PB N="18" REF="15">or Gods frie~d&s;hip, from thence I thought good to begin the pray&s;es of S. <HI>Ignatius.</HI> And for as much as by the Spirit of Prophe|cy, many things not &s;ubiect to our &s;en&s;es are di&s;coue|red, and things yet to come are infallibly foretould, the &s;ecrets of mens harts are layd open, and, which is more admirable &amp; rare, the very &s;ecrets of Almigh|ty God, &s;urpa&s;&s;ing human vnder&s;tanding, are perfe|ctly vnder&s;tood; all the&s;e things were in S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> in as eminent degree. The very fir&s;t yeare, immedia|tely after his conuer&s;ion,
<PB N="19" REF="15">Almighty God began ad|mirably to enlighten his vnder&s;tanding: for going for deuotion &s;ake to vi&s;it a Church of S. Paul the A|po&s;tle, without the Towne of <HI>Manre&s;a,</HI> &amp; re&s;ting him|&s;elfe in his iourney neare the Riuer <HI>Rubricate,</HI> which ru~nes through that Towne vpon a &s;uddaine, a certaine diuine light &s;hined &s;o clea|re vpon him, that by that, without the helpe of any Ma&s;ter, he perfectly vn|der&s;tood many things, not only of the my&s;teries of Chri&s;tian beliefe, but of the mo&s;t &s;ubtile que&s;tions and opinions of Philo&s;o|phy,
<PB N="20" REF="16">as perfectly as if they had been pre&s;ented to his view in &s;ome curious loo|king gla&s;&s;e; my&s;teryes, which other me, after long reading and paynes, hard|ly comprehend. In which cele&s;tiall vi&s;ion he remay|ned a long &s;pace, not with|out infinite comfort and con&s;olation of mynd. Ar other tymes al&s;o, by cer|tayne &s;ecret &s;ignes and my|&s;ticall examples, the order, that great workeman ob|&s;erued in the Frame of this world, was repre&s;ented vnto him, which my&s;te|ryes, as in them&s;elues they &s;urpa&s;&s;e the forces of hu|man
<PB N="21" REF="16">vnder&s;tanding, &s;o S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> afterwards affir|med, that it was a thing not po&s;&s;ible to ghe&s;&s;e at them, much le&s;&s;e to expre&s;|&s;e and make them vnder|&s;tood to life. And of this kind, about the &s;ame tyme, he miraculou&s;ly came to to the knowledge many other things. By which di|uine fauours he was &s;o far forth confirmed in Faith, that though no other mo|numents had been extant of Chri&s;tian Religion, yet by the&s;e only my&s;teryes, miraculou&s;ly reuealed to him, he would haue been mo&s;t ready to giue his life
<PB N="22" REF="17">for the Catholike truth. In which re&s;pect S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> may well apply to him &s;el|fe tho&s;e words of S. Paul: <HI>For neither haue I receaued it from men, neither haue I lear|ned it, but by the reuelation of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us.</HI> Which extraor|dinary manner of faith in|fu&s;ed in S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> whil&s;t yet he was vnlearned, as well the Auditours of the holy Rote, as the Cardi|nalls of the holy Rites, par|ticularly noted in their re|lations to his Holines. His cour&s;e of &s;tudies being en|ded, at <HI>Venice,</HI> in his retire|ment to <HI>Vicenza,</HI> and in his iourney to <HI>Rome,</HI> he often
<PB N="23" REF="17">receaued &s;o many diuine reuelations, and &s;o ab&s;olu|te and perfect content and con&s;olation, that he &s;ee|med not only to be re&s;to|red againe, but to be re&s;to|red with aduantage to the &s;tate, in which he had for|merly found him&s;elfe at <HI>Manre&s;a</HI> (which place for the &s;ingular fauours &s;hew|ed him there by Almighty God, he was wont, in a re|ligious merriment, to &s;tile his primatiue Church) At &s;uch tyme as he compo&s;ed the Con&s;titutions of the Society, among&s;t other things, he principally re|ceaued reuelations of the
<PB N="24" REF="18">my&s;tery of the B. Trinity, of the diuine E&s;&s;ence, of the di&s;tinction &amp; proprie|ty of the per&s;ons; and this in a way of vnder&s;tanding &s;o plaine, &s;o perfect, and &s;o beyond the iudgement of the &s;en&s;es, that as he him|&s;elfe confe&s;&s;eth, in a little treati&s;e found after his death, of his owne hand writing, it had been im|po&s;&s;ible for him, in many yeares &s;tudy to haue attai|ned the like knowledge. And, in an other booke he left writte~, that he though it impo&s;&s;ible in this life, to arriue to a more perfect knowledge and vnder&s;tan|ding
<PB N="25" REF="18">of my&s;teries, then Al|mighty God, in a certaine vi&s;ion, had been plea&s;ed to reueale to him; Which of|ten reuelations, intermin|gled with a kind of vn|&s;peakeable delectation, were wont to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e his vnder&s;tanding, not for a &s;hort &s;pace, but often-ty|mes for many dayes togea|ther; &s;o that, whether-&s;oe|uer he went, whether he were in his chamber, in the Refectory, whether at home, or abroad, they euer accompanied, and as it we|re, watched with him; with the vehemency of which he was often &s;o tra~&s;ported,
<PB N="26" REF="19">and did &s;o loo&s;e him&s;elfe, that he &s;eemed in &s;pirit euer to be in Heauen, in body only vpon Earth. Moreover, the very fir&s;t yeare after his conuer&s;ion, whil&s;t he liued at <HI>Manre&s;a,</HI> the principall points of the Society he was to In&s;titute, and &s;uch things e&s;pecially, by which the Society dif|fereth from other Orders, were reuealed to him by Almighty God, as he him|&s;elfe acknowledged to Fa|ther <HI>Iames Laynez,</HI> one of the fir&s;t of his Society, and other graue Fathers: who, when they demaunded of him, for what cau&s;e he or|dained
<PB N="27" REF="19">&s;ome things in the Society, differing from the cu&s;tomes of other Orders; he yeelding them a parti|cular rea&s;on for each thing they demaunded; in con|clu&s;ion was wont to place the force of all his rea&s;ons, in tho&s;e admirable in&s;pira|tions, miraculou&s;ly be|&s;towed vpon him at <HI>Man|re&s;a,</HI> and the recollection he made there, in which Almighty God &s;ealed and imprinted in his mind mo&s;t manife&s;t and euident notions of all the&s;e things. At his departure out of <HI>Spaine,</HI> giuing &s;ome good precepts to one <HI>Iohn Pa&s;call</HI>
<PB N="28" REF="20">at that tyme but a youth, for the re&s;t of his life to come; and being asked of the youth, what would be|come of him? take hart child, quoth he, when thou growe&s;t elder thou &s;halt marty, and haue thy &s;hare of many troubles, which &s;hall hinder thee from bei~g tra~&s;ported with plea&s;ures, or being &s;lack in imploring the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of God: And &s;o it fell out. It was mira|culou&s;ly reuealed to him, that one of his companio~s, taken with a &s;olitary life, ca&s;ting with him&s;elfe how to for&s;ake the Society, was affrighted, by Gods per|mi&s;&s;ion,
<PB N="29" REF="20">with an ill Spirit. One <HI>Peter Ferrus,</HI> a Patauian borne, liyng &s;ick, pa&s;t hu|man hope of recouery, was certainely foretould by S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> that by the helpe of the Mother of God; he &s;hould &s;hortly recouer: the night following the &s;ick man; expecting with deuo|tion, what would become of him, the Mother of God, accompained with a glorious traine of Virgins, pre&s;ented her &s;elfe to him, and by giuing him her pi|cture, re&s;tored him his health: The day following, <HI>Ignatius</HI> returning, with a countenance more chere|full
<PB N="30" REF="21">the~ ordinary, not being ignorant of what had pa&s;|&s;ed, found Peter recouered and &s;aid vnto him: Did not I tell thee that the Mother of God would recouer thee? The death of <HI>Agnes Pa&s;chalis,</HI> who ended her dayes mo&s;t holily at <HI>Berce|lona,</HI> was miraculou&s;ly re|uealed to him at <HI>Rome;</HI> &s;o that the letters of <HI>Antony Araozius,</HI> one who was pre&s;ent at that widdowes death, brought him after|wards no newes of it. At <HI>Antvverp,</HI> long before the founding of the Society of IESVS, he foretould one <HI>Peter Quadratus,</HI> a Spaniard,
<PB N="31" REF="21">that he &s;hould one day be the founder of a Colledge of the Society: and &s;o it fell out: for he afterwards, with <HI>Francis Manionia</HI> his wife, fou~ded the Colledge of <HI>Medina del Campo.</HI> He fo|retould one <HI>Simon Rodriguez</HI> that infallibly he &s;hould re|couer and e&s;cape that &s;ick|nes. It was miraculou&s;ly di&s;couered to S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> that a certaine per&s;on, not long before admitted into the Society, being &s;o mole|&s;ted with an office impo&s;ed vpon him, that he could not take his re&s;t, or &s;leep in the night tyme, &amp; therfore began to thinke of retur|ning
<PB N="32" REF="22">back into the world the Saint commaunded the party to be called to him in the night tyme out of his bed, di&s;couering to him, by little and little his mo&s;t &s;e|cret &amp; co~cealed thoughts, &amp; with an admirable dex|terity quieted his troubled mind. The like charitable offices, with the like in|&s;ight, he performed to ma|ny others, who not being able through their igno|rance, to make knowne their di&s;ea&s;es, he di&s;coue|red the nature &amp; cau&s;es of them pre&s;cribing remedies for them. He foretould one <HI>Stephen Baroellus</HI> lying dan|gerou&s;ly
<PB N="33" REF="22">&s;ick, that he &s;hould not dye of that di&s;ea&s;e, who pre&s;ently after recouered to the admiration of all me~. His Companions at <HI>Venice</HI> finding &s;trong oppo&s;ition by many powerfull ene|myes, and being halfe re|&s;olued to let their bu&s;ines dye, informed S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> of the danger they flood in; who returned an&s;wer, wis|hing them they should not for&s;ake the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t, for by his a&s;&s;i&s;tance they should bring their bu&s;ines to their de&s;ired i&s;&s;u&euml;: which promi&s;e did not faile them; for within eight dayes af|ter, a &s;entence was giuen to
<PB N="32" REF="23">their aduantage, almo&s;t by the vniforme con&s;ent of the Senate: a thing e&s;tee|med no &s;mall miracle by men of vnder&s;tanding, that two &s;trange and vnkown Fathers of the Society, and they of the Spani&s;h nation, &s;hould be able to conte&s;t with the fauour and riches of the mo&s;t eminent Citti|zens of that Citty. He fore|tould <HI>Don Fraci&s;co de Borgia,</HI> whil&s;t he was yet Duke of <HI>Gandia,</HI> and <HI>F. Iames Laynez,</HI> that they &s;hould one day be Generalls of the Society of <HI>Ie&s;us&punc;</HI> He di&s;couered to <HI>Michael Arrouira,</HI> whil&s;t he was yet a youth, the mo&s;t
<PB N="33" REF="23">inward &s;ecrets of his hart about a marriage he then intended, with many mi&s;e|ries that were to befall him. I omit other examples of his &s;pirit of prophecy, too long to be mentioned in this &s;hort abridgement.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The manifold and often vi&s;ions of <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. IV.</HEAD>
<P>FOR as much as cele|&s;tiall vi&s;ions haue a de|pendency of the Spirit of prophecy, this is a fit place to make mention of them: not that the Sanctity of
<PB N="36" REF="24">Gods &s;eruants is diriued from them, &s;eeing it may be, &amp; is often tymes found without them, but becau&s;e they are al&s;o certaine orna|ments of Sanctity: &amp; ther|fore &s;ome rehear&s;all is to be made of them: for with the&s;e al&s;o, in as eminent a degree as may be attayned in this life, Ble&s;&s;ed S. <HI>Igna|tius</HI> was plentifully &s;tored.</P>
<P>The fri&s;t vi&s;ion he had, was of S. <HI>Peter</HI> the Apo&s;tle, who re&s;tored him to health, when the Phi&s;icians had giuen him ouer: for, it plea&s;ed his Diuine Maie&s;ty to haue him re&s;tored to health by the cheife Pa|&s;tour
<PB N="37" REF="24">(vnder Chri&s;t) and Prince of his Church, whom, in a manner pro|portionable to his diuine prouidence, he had cho&s;en for a &s;peciall Champion &amp; enlarger of the &s;ame. Lying awake one night, &s;ick in his Fathers hou&s;e, the <HI>B. Virgin Mary,</HI> appeared to him, with her little Infant IESVS, in a bright and glorious ma~ner: not &s;hewi~g her &s;elfe &s;lightly, but re|mayning long in his pre|&s;ence: with which he was &s;o taken, that immediately he conceaued a &s;en&s;ible hatred of all &s;uch things, as blind mortall men
<PB N="36" REF="25">hould mo&s;t in e&s;teeme, and of tho&s;e things e&s;pecially, which carry with them any &s;hew of vnlawfull delight: &s;o that fro~ thence-forward, the remembrance of them, how deeply &s;oeuer, by long v&s;e and cu&s;tome, rooted in his imagination, was vtter|ly extinct in him, &amp; wa&s;hed away.</P>
<P>At other tymes, in like manner, the Mother of God often &s;hewed her &s;elfe to S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> but principal|ly whil&s;t he compo&s;ed the Con&s;titutions of the Socie|ty, either offering vp her prayers, and comforting him with her pre&s;ence, or
<PB N="37" REF="25">confirming the Con&s;titu|tions he wrote of the So|ciety. Be&s;ides, Chri&s;t our Sauiour him&s;elfe vouch&s;a|fed often to comfort him with his de&s;ired pre&s;ence, at <HI>Manre&s;a,</HI> and other pla|ces. In his iourney to <HI>Veni|ce,</HI> being left behind by his fellow-trauellers, in certai|ne meddowes neare the Riuer <HI>Po,</HI> not being able, through weakenes, to hould on his iourney with them; our Sauiour Chri&s;t (as he had often done) ap|peared vnto him the next night, and hauing excee|dingly encouraged him, conducted him, the direct
<PB N="52" REF="26">way, to the Towne of <HI>Padua</HI> fir&s;t, and after wards to <HI>Venter.</HI></P>
<P>In his &s;ea-voyage to <HI>Hie|ru&s;alem,</HI> our B. Sauiour of|ten appeared to him, to his infinite incouragement, and conducted him at la&s;t to a &s;afe Hauen in <HI>Pale&s;tine.</HI> At <HI>Hieru&s;alem,</HI> being reuiled with opprobrious words, by a certayne Armenian, who laying violent hands vpon him, dragged him, in an iniurious manner to his Inne: in the mid&s;t of the&s;e affronts, he behold our Sauiour pre&s;ent with him, accompanying him, in his iniuryes, to his great
<PB N="39" REF="26">contentment.</P>
<P>As he trauelled to <HI>Rome,</HI> with his two Compa|nions, to found the Socie|ty, he entred into a certai|ne Church) of which the|re are many &s;tanding v|pon the high way not far from the Citty) to perfor|me &s;ome deuotio~s; &amp; being (as he was accu&s;tomed rapt into an <HI>Exta&s;ie.</HI> and tra~&s;por|ted in <HI>Contemplation, God the Father appeared to him in a glo|rious light, with his B. &s;onne bearing his Cro&s;&s;e, making shew of the bitter</HI> pangs and torments he endured who commending S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> with his Companions to
<PB N="40" REF="27">his Father; God the Father, when he had graciou&s;ly re|ceaued them to his prote|ction, turning to the Saint, with a cherefull browe, wouch&s;afed to vtter the&s;e comfortable words: <HI>Ego vobis Romae propitius ero:</HI> And this was the cheife cau&s;e, that, after the Confirma|tion of te Society, <HI>S. Igna|tius</HI> impo&s;ed vpon it the &s;oueraigne name of <HI>Ie&s;us.</HI> Be&s;ides, the writers of his life affirme, that he had of|ten vi&s;ions of the Diuine per&s;ons, &s;ometymes all to|geather, at other tymes only &s;ome one of the alone, and of the diuine E&s;&s;ence it
<PB N="41" REF="27">&s;elfe; and the&s;e things e&s;pe|cially at the &s;acrifice of the Ma&s;&s;e, and at &s;uch tyme, as being bu&s;y with compo|&s;ing the Con&s;titutions of the Society, he implored the light and approbation of the diuine Wi&s;dome. This appeareth euidently, by a large volume of his vi&s;ions, which, for piety and memory &s;ake, him&s;elfe tooke the paynes to reduce to a methode: which vi|&s;ions in him were &s;o admi|rable, and &s;o penetrating the profounde&s;t my&s;teries of the diuine E&s;&s;ence, that the mo&s;t learned and fa|mous Doctours of my&s;ti|call
<PB N="42" REF="28">and &s;chole-Diuinity of our age, doubt not to pro|fe&s;&s;e in their printed books that if that opinion be true, which, with <HI>Saint Thomas</HI> and other Fathers of the Church, many men fol|low, that <HI>Moy&s;es</HI> and S. <HI>Paul</HI> the Apo&s;tle, euen in this life, though for a &s;hort ty|me, beheld perfectly, and not in a figure, (as the Saints in the next life do) the diuine E&s;&s;ence, and as other moderne writers be|leiue of S. <HI>Au&s;ien,</HI> S. <HI>Bennet,</HI> and <HI>S Giles,</HI> Companion to <HI>S. F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ancis;</HI> the like perfect vi&s;ion of God, euen in this life, may probably be be|leiued
<PB N="43" REF="28">to haue been &s;eene by S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> who hath left behind him, of him|&s;elfe, with his owne hand writing, that at &s;uch tyme as he wrote the Rules of the Society, he often be|held the diuine <HI>E&s;&s;ence,</HI> and <HI>Be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">.</HI> And, before he had &s;tudied, being yet vtterly vnlearned, he was in &s;o ad|mirable a manner, in&s;tru|cted, by intellectuall vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">s, in matters of the Vnity of the E&s;&s;ence, and Trinity of the Per&s;ons, that in that Nonage of his conuer&s;ion, he was able to compo&s;e a Booke of the B. Trinity.</P>
<P>That famous vi&s;ion of
<PB N="44" REF="29">the holy Gho&s;t is not to be omitted, who appeared to <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> whil&s;t he com|po&s;ed the Con&s;titutions of the Society, &s;ometymes in that admirable fa&s;hion of fiery flames, as heretofore to the Apo&s;tles, &s;ometymes in other &s;hapes. Be&s;ides all which, it was a thing v&s;ual to this glorious Saint, to be comforted with frequent vi&s;ions of Saints &amp; Angels.</P>
<P>At &s;uch tyme as he mini|&s;tred the Spirituall exerci|&s;e, in <HI>Mont Ca&s;sino,</HI> to one <HI>Peter Ortizius</HI> an Agent of the Emperours, praiyng earne&s;tly for the health of <HI>B. Ho&s;ius</HI> his Companion
<PB N="45" REF="29">(whom he knew to ly grieuou&s;ly &s;ick) he &s;uddai|nely &s;aw (a thing reported to haue hapned to <HI>S. Bennet,</HI> in the &s;ame place, at the ty|me of the decea&s;e of <HI>German</HI> the Bi&s;hop) the &s;oule of his Co~panion, &s;hining wou~d|rous bright, carried vp by Angels, &amp; enter into Hea|uen.</P>
<P>And not long after, going one day to the Altar; in the very <HI>Introite</HI> of his Ma&s;&s;e, imploring the aide of all the Saints a glorious Squa|dron of Saints appeared before him, amo~g&s;t whom he perfectly &s;aw <HI>B. Ho&s;ius,</HI> in a mo&s;t glorious manner.
<PB N="46" REF="30">With which two vi&s;ions he was &s;o ouerioyed, that for many dayes after, he could not containe him&s;el|fe from weeping.</P>
<P>When Father <HI>Iohn Co|durius,</HI> one of the fir&s;t Fa|thers, lay in daunger of his life, with a violent &s;icknes, S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> intending to offer vp the holy Sacrifice of the Ma&s;&s;e for him, at S. <HI>Peters in Mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">te Aure<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">;</HI> in his iourney thither, being almo&s;t halfe way ouer the bridge <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">iculus</HI> common|ly knowen now by the name of <HI>Po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e Six<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI>) he ca&s;t vp and fixed his eyes vpon the heauens, and behold
<PB N="47" REF="30">the &s;oule of <HI>F. Iohn Codu|rius</HI> gloriou&s;ly carried vp among&s;t the Quires of An|gels; &amp; turning afterwards to <HI>F Bapti&s;ta Viola</HI> his Co~|panion: <HI>let vs,</HI> quot he, <HI>re|turne home, for our Codurius is decea&s;ed.</HI> At an other tyme, whil&s;t he was writing the Rules of the Society, he behold the Saints, in their glory, in &s;o Maie&s;ticall a fa&s;hion, as he confe&s;&s;ed, was not to be expre&s;&s;ed. And whil&s;t he was bu&s;y with the &s;ame Rules, he often heard, not with the eares of his vnde&s;tanding only, but with the eares
<PB N="48" REF="31">of his body, mo&s;t harmo|nious mu&s;icke from Hea|uen, with which he was enflamed with diuine loue, and melted into teares.</P>
<P>The yeare after his con|uer&s;ion, being pre&s;ent at Ma&s;&s;e, in the Dominicans Church; at the eleuation of the &s;acred Ho&s;t, he perfect|ly &s;aw, that vnder that figu|re, true God and man was really contained.</P>
<P>At &s;uch tyme as hee com|po&s;ed the Con&s;titutions of his Society, hauing one day con&s;ecrated the holy Ho&s;t, and offered to Almighty God the Rules of his Socie|ty; God the Father appea|red
<PB N="49" REF="31">mo&s;t graciou&s;ly vnto him, in&s;inuating by &s;ome my&s;ticall &s;ignification, that it would be a thing plea|&s;ing to his diuine Maie&s;ty, that the Mother of God &s;hould offer vp her prayers vnto him, for him: Where|vpon the B. Virgin &s;uddai|nely appeared, recommen|ding <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> to the eter|nall Father, and demon|&s;trating that her owne fle&s;h was there pre&s;ent in the Euchari&s;t, in the fle&s;h of her &s;onne.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="50" REF="32">
<HEAD>The Books vvhich <HI>S, Ignatius</HI> compo&s;ed, by diuine inspiration.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAPTER V.</HEAD>
<P>IT &s;eemeth not imperti|nent to make mention, in this place, of certaine books of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> writ|ten, out of doubt, by diui|ne in&s;piration, as things depending and belonging to the Spirit of prophecy. For though al the writings and Epi&s;tles of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> carry with them a more then ordinary reli&s;h of di|uine wi&s;dome, yet &s;ome of them in particular, haue a
<PB N="51" REF="32">more perfect ta&s;t of it.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t booke he wrot, in the fir&s;t yeare of his Conuer&s;ion, whil&s;t yet he was ignorant of his Gram|mer-rules, was that of the B. Trinity, con&s;i&s;ting wel|neare of eight hundred lea|ues. In which, after that glorious vi&s;ion, mentioned in the former Chapter, he expre&s;&s;eth this great mi&s;te|ry, (how &s;oeuer in a home|ly &s;tile) with &s;uch admira|ble variety of &s;imilies and exa~ples, that all men, with whom afterwards he di&s;|cour&s;ed of that &s;ubiect, &s;tood in admiration, and a&s;toni&s;hement of it.</P>
<P><PB N="52" REF="33">About the &s;ame tyme, in like manner, whil&s;t he was yet vnlearned, by the reue|lations of Almighty God, and in&s;tructions of the B. Virgin, he wrot an other booke of Spirituall Exer|ci&s;es: in which, be&s;ides other excellent admoni|tions, he pre&s;cribeth, with admirable dexterity and methode, diuers manners of prayer and contempla|tion, fit for reformation of manners, and progre&s;&s;e in vertue; he giueth Rules for the Examination of the co~|&s;cience; and rooting out of vice: for di&s;tingui&s;hing be|twixt great and le&s;&s;e offen|ces:
<PB N="53" REF="33">for re&s;training the vn|bridled pa&s;&s;io~s of the mi~d; for di&s;cerning the motions of the good, from them of the bad Spirit: for the good choi&s;e of a &s;tate of life, and directing that choi&s;e by the rule of Gods will: for the expul&s;ion of &s;cruples: and in conclu&s;ion, giueth nota|ble precepts for the di&s;cer|ning of Spirits. This was that booke which gained tho&s;e fir&s;t Fathers of the Society, and among&s;t them <HI>S. Francis Xauerius;</HI> which hath &s;tored many Mona&s;te|ryes with famous men; co~|firmed many Religious per&s;ons wauering in their
<PB N="54" REF="34">good purpo&s;es; reclaimed many di&s;&s;olute people to a reformed di&s;cipline; and in fine, brought infinite multitudes of &s;ecular and Eccle&s;i&s;ticall per&s;ons, through the Chri&s;tian world, to a reformation of their lewd liues, and ad|uancement of their good; among&s;t whom, to omit many of le&s;&s;e remarke, one of the cheife is, that great light of the Church, and patterne of Pa&s;tours, S. <HI>Charles Borom<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">us,</HI> Cardinall and Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Millay,</HI> who drew tho&s;e fir&s;t be|ginnings of his vertuous life, from the&s;e Excerci|&s;es
<PB N="55" REF="34">of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> which all his life tyme after, he &s;o reuerenced and e&s;tee|med, that at fir&s;t once a yeare, afterwards, till his dying day, twice euery yeare, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e was wont to ma|ke v&s;e of them; &s;o to &s;tir him&s;elfe vp to vertue, and a holy gouernment of his Church; and with them la&s;tly he prepared him&s;el|fe for his la&s;t agony and death. No marueile them, if euen in the life tyme of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> the&s;e Exerci|&s;es were wonderfully ad|mitted by all &s;uch, as had the charge of reuiewing them, &amp; confirmed by the
<PB N="56" REF="35">Bull of <HI>Paulus tertius</HI> &s;upre|me Pa&s;tour of the Church, without altering a tittle of them; and, recommended by him for a worke full of piety and Religion, and mo&s;t profitable and v&s;efull for the &s;pirituall good of &s;oules; &amp; by the Auditours of the holy Rote, and Car|dinalls of the holy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es, acknowledged for things not proceeding from the art, or inuention of any man, but from &s;ome &s;uper|naturall light infu&s;ed from Heauen.</P>
<P>The third Booke S. <HI>Igna|tius</HI> publi&s;hed, which whil&s;t he wrote, he was &s;o admi|rably
<PB N="57" REF="35">enlightned, and ho|noured with &s;uch glorious cele&s;tiall apparitio~s, as hath been &s;aid, was that of his Con&s;titutions of the Socie|ty of Ie&s;us, diuided into ten parts; a worke much larger then any of the re&s;t: which euen in the iudgement of &s;ome Heretiks, into who&s;e hands it often falleth, &s;et|ting a &s;ide the doctrine of Faith, and Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall ceremonies contained in it, is e&s;teemed a rate <HI>Peece,</HI> and a thing &s;urpa&s;&s;ing human wi&s;dome, being a liuely patterne of a perfect and well gouerned Common|wealth, And of many holy
<PB N="58" REF="36">and learned men, it is held a peece of work, de&s;eruing high e&s;teeme, for the depth of diuine wi&s;dome contayned in it, and for the excellent doctrine, full of Chri&s;tian and Religious perfections; and therfore, with good cau&s;e, appro|ued by many Popes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The guifts of a glori&s;ied Bo|dy miraculou&s;ly be&s;tovved vppon <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> in his life tyme.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. 6.</HEAD>
<P>AMong&s;t the infallible &s;ignes of the true
<PB N="59" REF="36">Church of Chri&s;t, &s;ome graue Ecle&s;ia&s;ticall wri|ters, learnedly and piou&s;ly recken t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e endowments of glorified bodyes, in a pro|portion befitting the &s;tate of this life, miraculou&s;ly be&s;towed vpon &s;ome children of the Church, famous for their holy liues: among&s;t whom they name <HI>B S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">gnatius.</HI></P>
<P>It is euident, by the te|&s;timonyes of many graue witne&s;&s;es, that his body, in this life, was endowed with the gui&s;t of <HI>Clarity:</HI> for his head and face was of|ten &s;eene shining in a glo|rious ma~ner: &s;o he was &s;ene
<PB N="60" REF="37">by one <HI>I&s;abel Ro&s;ella,</HI> at <HI>Ber|celona,</HI> whil&s;t he was hea|ring a Sermon in the Church, among&s;t the vul|gar &s;ort of people: &s;o one Iohn Pa&s;chall &s;aw him: &amp; &s;o he was beheld by them of the ho&s;pitall whil&s;t he liued among&s;t them. And at <HI>Rome.</HI> by <HI>Alexander Pe|tronius,</HI> by Father <HI>Oliuier Manare,</HI> and Father <HI>Levvis Gonzaluo;</HI> who, when&s;oeuer he came to <HI>Saint Ignatius,</HI> praying in his chamber (which he had often occa|&s;ion to do) he euer beheld him &s;hining with mo&s;t glo|rious beames. And <HI>S. Philip|pus Nerius,</HI> a man of won|derful
<PB N="61" REF="37">holy life, and a fa|miliar acquaintance of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> was a cu&s;tomed to &s;ay, that S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> was a man of that Sanctity, that the interiour beauty of his &s;oule &s;hewed it &s;elfe exte|riourly in him; from who&s;e eyes and countenance he profe&s;&s;eth often to haue &s;eene glorious beames, and rayes of brightnes to pro|ceed.</P>
<P>Concerning the guift of <HI>Impa&s;sibility,</HI> his &s;eauen dayes fa&s;ts, without taking any &s;u&s;tinance, accompa|nied, either with a violent exta&s;ie (a thing which much impaireth the forces of the
<PB N="62" REF="38">body) or with a cruelle whipping of his body thri|ce a day, and many howers &s;pent vpon his knees in prayer, without any wea|rines, or tiring of his bo|dy, do euidently shew it.</P>
<P>The guift of <HI>Subtility</HI> was miraculou&s;ly graun|ted to him, when in his life tyme, at the &s;elfe &s;ame mo|ment or in&s;tant of tyme, he was perfectly &s;eene in bo|dy, at <HI>Rome</HI> and at <HI>Coller,</HI> two places aboue nine hundred miles di&s;tant from each other, as &s;halbe rela|ted in the &s;ix tee~th chapter.</P>
<P>And that he was often in his prayers lifted from the
<PB N="63" REF="38">ground, was an euident &s;i|gne in him of the guift of <HI>Agility.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the wrtues, and &s;upernatu|rall guifts of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> in generall.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. 7.</HEAD>
<P>BEfore our abridge|ment of the vertues of S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> in particular, &s;ome what is to be &s;aid of his &s;upernaturall guifts in generall, by which it will appeare, that he was rai|&s;ed, by the hand of God, to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> rate and eminent degree of Sanctity &s;o to
<PB N="64" REF="39">proue a fitter in&s;trument to communicate &s;o great be|nefits to the vniuer&s;all Church of Chri&s;t. And, as to the comfort and profit of the Church, the diuine prouidence hath moued other great Saints, for &s;ome particular good end, to de|clare ingenuou&s;ly, though with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, to their deare&s;t friends, their mo&s;t concealed and mo&s;t nota|ble &s;upernaturall endow|ments, as we read in their liues; &s;o the &s;ame prouiden|ce hath wrought out of the &s;ecrets of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> and procured from his owne vnque&s;tionable, and won|derfull
<PB N="65" REF="39">circum&s;pect rela|tion, many arguments and tokens of the great fauours of God. He was earne&s;tly wont to labour, dayly to make &s;ome new &s;tep in the way of vertue, with this only ayme, that he might euer pre&s;ent his diuine Ma|ie&s;ty with &s;ome encrea&s;e of glory. To which purpo|&s;e, following the Coun&s;ell of S. <HI>Iohn Chri&s;o&s;tome</HI> and S. <HI>Iohn Climacus,</HI> like a proui|dent Banker, he compared the day pre&s;ent with the day pa&s;t, and the profit of one day with that of the other. And, howbeit it is a rare thing for men of ho|ly
<PB N="66" REF="40">life, not to loo&s;e of their fir&s;t &s;eruour; and more admirable, by re&s;pires, if not vvithout in|termi&s;&s;ion to aduaunce in the vvay of vertue, and mo&s;t of all to be admired, continually and vvithout pau&s;es o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">terims to profit: yet S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> did not only not make a dayly increa&s;e in vertue, but comparing the profit of the day pre&s;ent vvith that of the day pa&s;t, found and confe&s;&s;ed that he dayly aduan|ced, &amp; vvas more and more en|flamed vvith de&s;ire of Gods &s;er|uice: &s;o far-forth, that in his old age, he vvas vvont to terme the &s;tate he found him&s;elfe in, at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> [in vvhich place he had the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;o many glorious fauours, as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> been &s;aid before] his fir&s;t Rudi|ments, &amp; as it vvere, his rough|ca&s;ting, vvhich Almighty God
<PB N="67" REF="40">dayly poli&s;hed &amp; perfected in him. So that in <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> that vnque&s;tionable doctrine of <HI>S. Thomas</HI> hath place, vvho affir|meth 2.2 q. 161. art. 3. <HI>That they vvho principate of the guifts of God, knovv they are endovved vvith them; according to that of the A|po&s;tle</HI> 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 2 <HI>That vve may knovv that of God they are be&s;tovved vpo~ vs.</HI> In vvhich re&s;pect S. <HI>Vertha,</HI> in the te~th Chapter of her life, vvith good cau&s;e termeth it an adulterate humility, vvhich doth not acknovvledge the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">a|uours of God. And this doth e|uide~tly &s;hevv the excellency of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> his vertues, that he found the mercy and fauours of Almighty God tovvards him to be &s;uch, that by hovv much the more he &s;eemed to vvan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, and de&s;ire amendment, by &s;o much more liberall Almighty God vvas vvith him, and ca&s;t
<PB N="68" REF="41">vpon him more bou~tifully the trea&s;ures of his &s;weet|nes. Wherfore he profe&s;&s;ed ingenuou&s;ly, that he could not per&s;wade him&s;elf, that &s;uch a conionction of ex|treames was to be found in any man, as in him&s;elfe; to be &s;o vngratefull to his di|uine Maie&s;ty, and dayly to receaue &s;o many, and &s;o notable fauours at his hands. To which may be added that which <HI>Andreas Fru&s;ius</HI> (an intimate friend of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> and one who~, for his admirable wi&s;dome and innocency of life, S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> him&s;elfe and others of his acquaintance, were
<PB N="69" REF="41">wont to compare and re|&s;emble to &s;ome Angell) was accu&s;tomed to &s;ay, that in S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> &s;uperna|turall grace appeared to be in-bred, and connaturall to him: with &s;uch con&s;tancy and facility, at all tymes &amp; places, he held a &s;traight hand ouer his proceedings. And other iudicious men, with whom he dayly con|uer&s;ed, taking a long and curious account of all his actions, euen to the lea&s;t ge&s;ture or motion of his body, being taken them|&s;elues with admiration of his Sanctity, affirmed, that all the perfections contay|ned,
<PB N="70" REF="42">either in his booke of the Con&s;titutions of the Society, or in that golden treati&s;e of <HI>Thomas de Kempis</HI> of the imitation of Chri&s;t, or in his booke of Spiri|tuall Exerci&s;es, were per|fectly, and to life expre&s;&s;ed in him&s;elfe: Whence Fa|ther <HI>Levvis Gon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">alez,</HI> Con|fe&s;&s;our to the King of <HI>Por|tugall,</HI> a graue and di&s;creet man, was wont to &s;ay, that to conuer&s;e with <HI>Ig|natius,</HI> was nothing els but to &s;ee the booke of <HI>Thomas de Kempis</HI> (by others thought to be the booke of Ger&s;on) liuely and per|fectly acted in him.</P>
<P><PB N="71" REF="42"><HI>S. Ignatius</HI> relating vpon occa&s;ion to <HI>F. Iohn Polanco</HI> (a man of great wi&s;dome, one who&s;e helpe he made v&s;e of for the di&s;patch of letters) &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages con|cerning him&s;elfe, for the better in&s;truction of the other; and being demaun|ded of Father <HI>Polanco,</HI> in a kind of freedome, whet|her he ranne not a hazard of vaine glory, in the rela|tion of &s;uch pa&s;&s;ages, con|cerning him&s;elfe? the B. Father made an&s;were, that he &s;tood in feare of no vice le&s;&s;e the~ of vaine glory ad|ding be&s;ides the&s;es words you may re&s;t co~&s;ide~t <HI>Father
<PB N="72" REF="43">Polanco,</HI> that amo~g&s;t a thou|&s;and of Gods fauours be|&s;towed vpon me, many ty|mes I reueale not any, and that merely for the incapa|city of them who &s;hould heare me. And yet it is cer|taine that S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> had the Company and acquain|tance of men of rare parts, endowed with great <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">it, iudgement, experience, learning, and Sanctity, and men of deepe in&s;ight and knowledge, as well of the theoricke, as Practicke of matters of Spirit; who if they were not capable of vnder&s;tanding the graces of God, infu&s;ed in Saint
<PB N="73" REF="43"><HI>Ignatius,</HI> que&s;tionle&s;&s;e they were of a pitch higher then ordinary, far &s;urpa&s;&s;ing the ordinary cour&s;e of other Saints. Which is an admirable token of rare Sanctity.</P>
<P><HI>S. Ignatius</HI> had euer a great opinion of the holines of the Church, and of the Saints which flori&s;hed eue|ry age of the Church: be|leeuing they were adorned with many more admira|ble ornaments of diuine grace, then is left written of them in their liues, &amp; Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall hi&s;toryes: in which re&s;pect he held them in great veneration,
<PB N="74" REF="44">taking a &s;peciall care that their honour &s;hould be ad|uanced, and &s;pred by them of his Society, with all po&s;|&s;ible diligence, again&s;t all endeauours of any here|tickes to the contrary: of which his opinion of their admirable Sanctity, di&s;|cour&s;ing vpon occa&s;ion with a freind of his he af|firmed; that, for his parti|cular, he would not chan|ge the &s;upernaturall gui<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s which he him&s;elf, without any de&s;ert of his, had ai|ready, or was in hope to diriue from that diuine fountaine, with any one of the Saints, who&s;e liues
<PB N="75" REF="44">were then extant, if they were not endowed with greater graces and guifts, then any he had read, or were written of them.</P>
<P>Moreouer, the B F. affir|med of him&s;elfe, that he &s;hould not be able to liue, if his bre&s;t did nouri&s;h any human affection, or any thing which did not who|ly reli&s;h of heauen. In his actions he was not guided by blind affectio~, by which for the mo&s;t part, men are led to their de&s;truction, but by the &s;quare and di|rection of rea&s;on; often rep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ting, that by rea&s;on men are di&s;tingui&s;hed
<PB N="76" REF="45">from bea&s;ts. He had a &s;pe|ciall care that his actions &s;hould be intended purely for Gods &s;ake, not for feare of cha&s;ti&s;ement, or hope, of reward: not contented that each action &s;hould on|ly be directed to the glory of God, but labouring, with an act of reflexion of his &s;oule, that they might redound to Gods greate&s;t honour and glory. Whence it came to pa&s;&s;e, that all his Epi&s;tles and Sermons, and each leafe of his booke of Con&s;titutions, are full of tho&s;e words: <HI>Ad maiorem Dei gloriam. Ad maius Dei &amp; Creatoris no&s;tri ob&s;equium,</HI>
<PB N="77" REF="45">the like: his hand and mouth vttering, what his hart was &s;urcharged with: which &s;incerity of inte~tion he began to apply to his actions, from the fir&s;t day of his Conuer&s;ion, ob&s;er|uing it religiou&s;ly till his dying day. No marueile then if Pope <HI>Iulius tertius,</HI> in his Bull publi&s;hed the 19. of Augu&s;t 1550. not to affirme, euen in the life ty|me of the Saint: <HI>that there vvas nothing to be found in the exe~plar life of ugnatius, which &s;auoured not vvholy of piety &amp; Religion.</HI></P>
<P>But that is more remar|kable, which, as well the
<PB N="78" REF="46">Auditours of the holy Ro|te, as the Cardinalls of the holy Rites te&s;tify in their relations giuen to his Ho|lines, of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> in the&s;e words: <HI>He vvas &s;o i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tamed vvith the loue of God, that from morning to night, he nei|ther &s;ought, thought, spake nor de&s;ired any thing, but to plea&s;e God, and obey <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">as com|maunds: &amp; therfore he commit|ted him&s;elfe vvholy to him, re|&s;olued ab&s;olutely to fellovv him, though the lo&s;&s;e of Heauen and earth had gon vpon it: he dire|cted all his thoughts, vvords and deeds to God, as his aym<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">; and imended them only for
<PB N="79" REF="46">him and his honour.</HI> Thus they Which rare and extra|ordinary commendations of all S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> his inward and out ward actions, pro|ceeding from the&s;e Iudges Apo&s;tolicall, and the vn|que&s;tionable a&s;&s;ertions of &s;o many &s;worne witne&s;&s;es, how rare and eminent a degree of excelle~cy in ver|tue is &s;heweth in S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> and vnpartiall man will ea|&s;ily determine. Moreouer, the Deuills incredible ha|tred and indignation of the Saint, which he failed not often to expre&s;&s;e in his life tyme, is no &s;light te|&s;timony
<PB N="80" REF="47">vertue. Whence it came to pa&s;&s;e, that he often appea|red in horrid and ga&s;tly &s;hapes, endeauoring to fright and di&s;tract him in his prayers, and was often, with a little &s;ticke, cha&s;ed away by him, in contempt. At <HI>Rome</HI> the Deuill attem|pted to haue &s;trangled him in the night tyme, &s;topping his wind-pipe with &s;uch force, that the Saint for|cing his woice to inuoke aloud the holy name of Ie|&s;us, became hoar&s;e, and remayned &s;o, many dayes after. At other tymes, in like manner, as heretofore S. <HI>Antony,</HI> and S. <HI>Catharine S,
<PB N="81" REF="47">of Siena,</HI> he was al&s;o ill in|treated, and &s;oarely, be a|ten by the Deuill. And, as well during his life tyme, as &s;ince his decea&s;e, the Deuill hath often co~fe&s;&s;ed, in the bodyes of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed per&s;ons, that he had no greater enemy then S <HI>Igna|tius.</HI> All which excellencies of vertues, &amp; guifts of this Saint, &amp; &s;ome remarkable pa&s;&s;ages in particular, which &s;halbe breifly tou|ched, were co~firmed by the Oathes of &s;ix hu~dred thre|&s;core and fifeene witne&s;&s;es, in the proce&s;&s;e of his Cano|nization, iudicially exa|mined.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="82" REF="48">
<HEAD>The rare Cha&s;tity of <HI>S. Igna|tius</HI> &amp; purity of Con&s;cience.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. 8.</HEAD>
<P>A <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">ighty God, to ex|erci&s;e the Humility and Penance of <HI>Ignatius,</HI> permitted him, whil&s;t he was a Souldier, to &s;all into &s;o me wanton and la&s;ci|uious loues; but after that mortall wound receaued in the a&s;&s;ault of <HI>Pamplena,</HI> being by the reading of good books, conuerted to the Warre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">are of Chri&s;t, he neuer offended mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">al|ly his diuine Maie&s;ty; but
<PB N="83" REF="48">the very fir&s;t moneth after his conuertion, and reco|uery of health, he made an irreuocable vowe of perpetuall Cha&s;tity: which Sacrifice and Obla|tion of his deuout mind. Almighty God was plea|&s;ed to allow of, and accept in &s;o good part; that from that tyme to his dying day, howbeit he was other wi&s;e of a complexion fiery and hot, and by nature and cu&s;tome enclined to fall into tho&s;e la&s;ciuious|ne&s;&s;es, to which the often errours of his youth pa&s;t had invred him, yet he was vtterly freed from all &s;uch
<PB N="84" REF="49">&s;en&s;ualityes. Which, how rare excellent a guift it is of Almighty God, in &s;uch a man e&s;pecially as S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> profe&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe, before his conuer&s;ion, tho&s;e vio|lent tentations may wit|ne&s;&s;e, which many innoce~t and holy men haue &s;uffe|red, in matters of the fle&s;h, ordinarily wont to be re&s;i|&s;ted, by ca&s;ting them&s;elues into &s;now, nettles, thornes, and the like au&s;terityes.</P>
<P>But how he farther ex|celled in purity of mind, appeareth by this. He kept a perpetuall watch again&s;t all allureme~ts of the world and the idle and vnnece&s;&s;a|ry,
<PB N="85" REF="49">wandring of his mind, pre&s;eruing his &s;oule, with as great care from vice, as curious me~, in dirty wayes, are carefull to pre&s;erue their mo&s;t &s;umptuous and rich apparell. And how|beit he euer kept a com|maund of him&s;elfe, and ac|cording to S. <HI>Bernards</HI> Coun&s;ell, gaue him&s;elfe not to bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, but lent him&s;elfe to them; yet he howerly made an exami|nation of his con&s;cience. He carried a &s;euere hand ouer his &s;en&s;es; he dayly confe&s;&s;ed all his omi&s;&s;ions; he held euer in remem|brance the fauours of God,
<PB N="86" REF="50">taking a &s;trict account of his thoughts, words, and deeds. But this &s;ufficed not him, who&s;e ayme lay &s;o high; he inuented an other manner of Examen, which he called <HI>Particular Examen;</HI> and this he made v&s;e of, not only for obtay|ning victory of his le&s;&s;er vices, but for the vtter &s;up|pre&s;&s;ion, and &s;upplantation of them, and for his aduan|cement and increa&s;e in ver|tue: concerning which he hath pre&s;cribed certayne Rules to his Society, in his booke of Spiritual Exerci|&s;es. He curiou&s;ly ob&s;erued all things, which he knew
<PB N="87" REF="50">any wayes tended to the maintayning or increa&s;ing of the grace of Chri&s;t. If he chanced to heare any thing, which might iu&s;tly moue a man to pa&s;&s;ion or choller, he pre&s;ently recol|lected and betooke him&s;elf to God, ca&s;ting &s;eriou&s;ly with him&s;elfe what an&s;|were to make. Here-hen|ce it hapned, that neuer any impertinacy outranne his rea&s;on, nor he neuer lo&s;t the peace of his mind. Which cour&s;e he ob&s;er|ued, not in affayres of this nature only, but in all his other di&s;cour&s;es he like|wi&s;e had a care to &s;peake
<PB N="88" REF="51">nothing vnadui&s;edly, but with premeditation; &s;o that he vttered no word, not well dige&s;ted. And it is certayne, that more then thirty yeares before he de|cea&s;ed, he neuer mi&s;called any man by the names of <HI>foole</HI> or <HI>&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> or gaue any o|ther reproachfull language to any. When he had iu&s;t occa&s;ion to reprehend any man, he did it without bitternes, or any pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">quant word. And euen in his mo&s;t &s;euere reprehen&s;ions, he forebore to giue any man the epithite of di&s;obe|dient, proud, &s;ottish, or lazy; reprehending men
<PB N="89" REF="51">for their faults, by opening and vnfoulding the nature of them to them. He neuer v&s;ed any words of exagge|ration. He neuer detracted from any mans fame, nor lent any eare to any detra|ction. Which how rare a thing it is, in this world, S. <HI>Thomas</HI> teacheth 2.2. q. 73. art. 2. ad 2. <HI>That there are fevv, or no men at all, vvho out of leuity, at &s;ome tyme or other, vtter not &s;ome thing, in vvhich an other mans good name, hovv lightly &s;oeuer dothnot &s;uffer, be|cau&s;e at it is &s;aid</HI> Iacob 3. <HI>If any man offend not in vvord, he is a perfect man.</HI></P>
<P>He neuer di&s;cour&s;ed of
<PB N="90" REF="52">other mens imperfections, how publicke &s;oeuer they were, or obuious to all men; nor permitted other men to &s;peake of them, in his pre&s;ence. And if an other man by chance had co~mitted a fault, he either mitigated and excu&s;ed the fact, or if that could not well be, at lea&s;t he excu&s;ed the intention of the party. Touching the tran&s;gre&s;&s;io~s of them of his hou&s;ehould, his &s;ilence was admirable; neuer di&s;clo&s;ing any mans offence, but for his amend|ment; and then al&s;o with &s;uch mode&s;ty &amp; &s;weetnes, and with &s;uch a regard of
<PB N="91" REF="52">the delinque~ts good name, that, if the di&s;couery of the fault to one man, were &s;uf|ficient to redre&s;&s;e it, he ne|uer opened it to a &s;econd per&s;on; di&s;couering only the truth of it, without any vehemency or heate of words. He went once to Confe&s;&s;ion only for this &s;inne, that he had made knowne the fault of a cer|taine per&s;on to three of his Fathers, whereas two of them could &s;ufficie~tly haue applied a remedy: And yet the delinquent was &s;uch an one, that notwith&s;tanding the di&s;couery of this fault of his, his reputation could
<PB N="92" REF="53">not &s;uffer, by that third parties knowledge. He &s;pake &s;o of all men, that each man might beleiue he ftood in his good opinion, and might &s;eeme to claime a particular intere&s;t in his &s;oue. He was of behauiour &s;o compleate and well fa&s;hioned, that he neuer di&s;compo&s;ed either his hands or eyes; pre&s;eruing a <HI>decorum</HI> in his ge&s;ture, his gate, his feeding, &amp; &s;itting. No maruaile therfore if the perfection and c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">cum&s;pe|ction of S. <HI>Ionati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> euen in his lea&s;t actions, were &s;uch, and &s;o in&s;eperably conioy|ned with an internal purity
<PB N="93" REF="53">that be tooke all men with admiration that conuer&s;ed with him; in &s;omuch, that by how much the oftner and more familiarly men treated with him, by &s;o much the more they &s;tood affected to him, howbeit, ordinarily that &s;aying of S. <HI>Cyrill</HI> be found true: <HI>That he, vvho is euer pre&s;ent, loo&s;eth the respects due from them that Keepe him Company.</HI> And that of Tacitus: <HI>That things farth|e&s;t off are mo&s;t held in e&s;teeme.</HI> Certaine it is, that the B. Fathers Co~fe&s;&s;our, <HI>F. Iames Eguia</HI> (of whom <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> him&s;elf is reported to haue &s;aid, that he was equally
<PB N="94" REF="54">to be reuerenced with the greate&s;t Saints in heauen) did not only acknowledge S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> to be greater then a Saint, but could not be re&s;trayned, notwith&s;ta~|ding any pe~nances inflicted vpon him by the Saint, from extolling, &amp; &s;peaking infinitely in his pray&s;e: Be|getting wonder in all men, with the intimatio~ of what he would publi&s;h, if it were his fortune to &s;uruiue S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> but one hower.</P>
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<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="95" REF="54">
<HEAD>The guift of Prayer, in <HI>S. Igna|tius</HI> mo&s;t excellent.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. IX.</HEAD>
<P>AFter <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> was co~|uerted to a better life, he pre&s;ently betooke him|&s;elf to the refuge of Praier, the better to appea&s;e the wrath of Almighty God, &amp; implore his diuine grace. He dayly be&s;towed &s;eauen howers, vpon his knees, in Prayer: be&s;ides that, he had a &s;peciall care euer to be pre&s;ent at the Sacrifice of Ma&s;&s;e, Euen&s;ong, &amp; Com|pline. And bei~g afterwards
<PB N="96" REF="55">preferred to the dignity of Prei&s;t-hood, and Gouerne|ment of the Society; euer after he had offered the Sa|crifice of the Ma&s;&s;e, he &s;pent two howers in Con|templation; to omit his pre|paration to Ma&s;&s;e, and that morning Prayer, which all they of the Society, accor|ding to their Rules, are o|bliged to make, when they awake out of their &s;leep.</P>
<P>He &s;ea&s;oned all his actio~s with the &s;alt of Medita|tion, according to the pre|cept of <HI>S. Ba&s;ill.</HI> When and as often as he plea&s;ed, he conioyned him&s;elf with ea&s;e, by contemplation to
<PB N="97" REF="55">God, not only by ca&s;ting his eyes vpon the heauens and &s;tarrs, with which he was mo&s;t taken, but euen &s;o, that with the behoul|ding of any herbs or flow|ers, or any thing of le&s;&s;e reckning, he was &s;uddain|ly tran&s;ported with the &s;weet conceit of the loue of God. In the reciting of his <HI>Office,</HI> he was often &s;ur|pri&s;ed with &s;uch aboun|dance of con&s;olation, and flouds of teares; that he was forced, almo&s;t at euery word, to make a pau&s;e, and interrupt his prayers, &s;pen|ding great part of the day in repeating the P&s;almes;
<PB N="98" REF="56">So that through the abun|dance of teares, his eyes oft &s;uffered much, not without great daunger of|ten tymes of falling blind, and his body, by meanes of his often Exra&s;ies was infi|nitely trauelled. For which cau&s;e, his Companions ob|tayned licence of his Holi|nes, that it might be lawful for him to omit his <HI>Office,</HI> in lieu of which, notwith|&s;tanding, he would dayly performe a certaine taske of <HI>Beades,</HI> &s;o &s;oone as he awaked out of his &s;leep. And becau&s;e in performing his other deuotions, and particularly in the Sacrifice
<PB N="99" REF="56">of the Ma&s;&s;e, he likewi&s;e ranne the &s;ame hazard of being blind, through the importunity of his Com|panions, and Coun&s;ell of Phi&s;icians he re&s;olued to &s;eek, at the handes of Al|mighty God, that he might haue power, now &amp; then to moderate his teares; which al&s;o he obtayned. And from that tyme for|ward, he had &s;o ab&s;olute a mai&s;try and commaund of his teares, that he could in a manner re&s;traine, &amp; let loo&s;e the raynes of them at his plea&s;ure; in &s;o &s;etled &amp; quiet a manner, that the drines of his teares was not
<PB N="100" REF="57">impeachment to the fruit of his deuotion, nor the re|&s;traint of them was no hin|drance to the abundance of his diuine vi&s;itations. And when&s;oeuer at Ma&s;&s;e he bur&s;t not out thrice at lea&s;t into teares, he e&s;tee|med him&s;elf dry and inde|uout. He prayed with &s;uch feruour, that through the intention of his mind, he many tymes contracted &s;ome di&s;ea&s;e. And once he brought him&s;elf in daun|ger of death, by &s;aying two Ma&s;&s;es without intermi&s;|&s;ion vpon Chri&s;tmas day: in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">much, that except he were &s;trong and perfectly
<PB N="101" REF="57">in health, he could not well offer the Sacrifice of the Ma&s;&s;e: and it was ob&s;erued by them with whom he co~uer&s;ed, that euen at &s;uch tymes as he was be&s;t in health, he often fell into &s;ome infirmity after Ma&s;&s;e. And many times he became &s;o faint at the Altar, that of nece&s;&s;ity he was carried from the~ce to his chamber, by the help of other men, not being able to &s;tand vpon his leggs, for tho&s;e diuine vi&s;itations. In his daily Ma&s;&s;e (which alwaies, the night before, he put in readines in the Mi&s;&s;al, rea|ding it ouer with atte~tion)
<PB N="102" REF="58">he conceaued &s;o much <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oy, that his body being &s;ur|charged with the greatnes of diuine comfort, he could not freely take his breath, nor pronounce or vtter any word, till that abundance and plenty of diuine &s;weet|nes did cea&s;e. And &s;omety|mes it fell out, that betwixt the prayers and the Sacri|fice, his feruour was &s;uch, that his whole body was enflamed; his face waxed purple red, and all the vei|nes of his body beate, with the palpable beating and palpitation of his hart; and oftentymes al&s;o the very haire of his head &s;tood an
<PB N="103" REF="58">end. Neither was this ve|hement intention of his mind, in the Sacrifice of the Ma&s;&s;e only, but euen in the lea&s;t things which had any reference to God. In his <HI>Graces</HI> before meate and after, and in fine in all other things, he did &s;o with-drawe his mind, and recollect him&s;elf, that he &s;eemed to behould God pre&s;ent; not in Spirit only, but with his corporal eyes: his affection interiourly being &s;o enkindled, that his face grew red with it, and (which his Co~panions haue often &s;tood amazed at) &s;eemed wholy to be en|flamed.
<PB N="104" REF="59">No noi&s;e what&s;oe|uer, if it hapned not by his owne fault, was able to di&s;tract S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> whil&s;t he prayed. In matters belon|ging to Almighty God, he carried him&s;elf (as the wri|ters of my&s;ticall Diuinity terme it) rather <HI>pa&s;siuely</HI> then <HI>actiuely</HI> which by the~ is e&s;teemed the &s;upreme &amp; mo&s;t perfect degree of con|templation. Oftentymes in his prayers he was ab&s;tra|cted from his &s;en&s;es; and once in particular, the very fir&s;t yeare after his conuer|&s;ion, he remained &s;o in a perpetuall exta&s;ie, like a dead man, for the &s;pace of
<PB N="105" REF="59">eight daies, without taking any &s;u&s;tinance. In which meane &s;pace, certaine pious people iudging him to be dead, had cau&s;ed him to be buried, but that fee|ling his body, and cu|riou&s;ly ob&s;eruing al things, they di&s;couered by &s;ome little motion of his hart, that life lay hidden in him.</P>
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<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="106" REF="60">
<HEAD>S. Ignatius <HI>his more then or|dinary au&s;terity in the morti|fication of his body.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. X.</HEAD>
<P>THe B. Father, knowing wel that the entra~ce in|to the &s;eruice of Almighty God, required &s;ome puni&s;h|ment or cha&s;ti&s;ement of the body, as the fir&s;t Rudime~ts of a &s;pirituall life, and ap|prenti&s;hip of Chri&s;t, began by all po&s;&s;ible means, as far forth as it was lawfull for him for his health, to pu|ni&s;h his body. Not that he found it, any wayes, rebel|lious
<PB N="107" REF="60">to his Spirit (for fro~ the fir&s;t beginnings of his better life, he was by the &s;pecial fauour of Almighty God; freed from all &s;en&s;ua|lity, as hath been &s;aid be|fore) but that by the &s;harp|nes of pennance, he might wa&s;h away the corruption of his life pa&s;t, and make the fauour of heauen more propitious to him. He fa|&s;ted all the weeke, (exce|pting Sundayes) with wa|ter and dry bread giuen him in almes. He lodged among&s;t the refu&s;e of Beg|gers, vpon the grownd, or bare boords, without any couerture. Of his meate
<PB N="108" REF="61">and &s;leep he was mo&s;t &s;pa|ring. He puni&s;hed his body with a &s;harpe haire-cloth, be&s;ides a chaine or Iron girdle. He went at the be|ginning, bare-footed and bare-headed, v&s;ing after|wards, when he began to apply him&s;elfe to &s;tudyes, the &s;oules of &s;hooes boared through. He trauelled in the dead of winter, naked|ly clad, notwith&s;tanding the thick falling of the &s;now, or the freezing vp of all places, with the &s;harpnes of the fro&s;ts. Be|&s;ides which, he continual|ly whipped his body thrice a day, with cruel Iron
<PB N="109" REF="61">whipps; con&s;tantly auoi|ding all thi~gs which might giue his afflicted body any ea&s;e or contentment. So farforth, that though he were a man of a comely a&s;pect, and admirable fea|ture, yet the forces of his body being by little and little decayed, all that &s;oul|dier-like vigour, &amp; beauty of youth was vtterly faded in him. And in his old age, broken now with the au|&s;terity of pennance, &s;tudies, labours, and other conti|nuall troubles, though his yeares required a compe|tent diet, he was yet &s;o temperate in his meate and
<PB N="110" REF="62">drinke, that they of his hou&s;hould &s;tood amazed at it, &amp; that he &s;eemed vtterly to haue lo&s;t his ta&s;t in all things; &s;auing when now and then he fed vpon che&s;t|nuts, which in <HI>Italy</HI> and <HI>Spaine</HI> is the food of poore people. His diet out of fa&s;ting dayes, was Lambe, or &s;ome other fle&s;h of no greater value; Veale, Chi|kins or any &s;uch things as are accounted daynetyes, he would neuer ta&s;t, not though he had inuited &s;traungers to eate with him. He neuer tooke gu&s;t in the ta&s;t of any meate, how hungry &s;oeuer he
<PB N="111" REF="62">He neuer found fault with any di&s;h of meate, how&s;oe|uer, through the igno|rance or carele&s;nes of &s;er|uants, it were ill dre&s;&s;ed or &s;ea&s;oned; nor though he were &s;erued with ill and &s;ower wine. And in fine, he him&s;elfe would haue nothing peculiar to him|&s;elfe: he impo&s;ed once a pennance vpon one who &s;erued him at table, for bringing one bunch of gra|pes more to him then to the re&s;t. Which circum|&s;tances no vnpartiall man will e&s;teeme triuiall, if he con&s;ider either the yeares of the man to which much
<PB N="112" REF="63">is to be graunted; or the in|firmities of health, which in <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> were fre|quent, and the almo&s;t con|tinuall indi&s;po&s;ition and weaknes of his &s;tomacke; or la&s;tly, the authority he had among&s;t them he go|uerned, and liberty, as it were, to liue as he li&s;ted. He allotted him&s;elfe but four howers &s;leepe, or the|reabouts. He euer lodged in a little, homely, low, &amp; darke chamber, 29. pal|mes long, 14. broad, and 10. high.</P>
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<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="113" REF="63">
<HEAD>The lone of his neighbour admi|rable in <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XI.</HEAD>
<P>SAint <HI>Ignatius,</HI> had no &s;ooner plunged out of the filth of &s;inne, but im|mediatly he employed all his endeauours to draw his neighbours out of the &s;ame mire: and &s;pent his whole life-tyme after in tho&s;e en|deauours, to the good of infinite multitudes of &s;ou|les, and the notable benefit and profit of the Church. To which only end he ap|plied him&s;elfe to his &s;tu|dyes,
<PB N="114" REF="64">for the &s;pare of twelue yeares togeather, beginning them after he was 30. yeares of age; all which tyme he liued vpon almes, with great labour and paynes. At &s;uch tyme as he went to the Gram|mer-&s;chole at <HI>Bercelona,</HI> he laboured by all meanes po&s;&s;ible, to reduce a cer|tayne Mona&s;tery of Reli|gious women, who led at that tyme a di&s;&s;olute and debauched life, to their an|cient and wonted &s;tate of holy life; and actually effe|cted, that many of them did pennance and amended their liues. Which when
<PB N="115" REF="64">&s;ome prophane Louers of theirs perceaued, &amp; found the way to their de&s;ired be&s;tialityes more and more dayly blocked, they fel fu|riou&s;ly at vnawarres, vpon <HI>Ignatius,</HI> beating him with cudgells, in &s;o inhuman a manner, that he was for|ced, for &s;ome dayes after, to keepe his bed. But he had &s;carce recouered &s;trength; when nothing at all di&s;maid with this ill v&s;age, he returned chere|fully to the &s;ame charita|ble office. And being war|ned by his frends, and de|&s;ired for Gods &s;ake, not to bring him&s;elf againe with|in
<PB N="116" REF="65">the compa&s;&s;e of the like danger: <HI>What can there be,</HI> quoth he, <HI>more vvelcome to me, then to giue my life for Christ my Lord, and my neigh|bour?</HI> At <HI>Paris,</HI> hauing of|ten laboured, in vaine to reclaime a freind of his, from the familiarity of a certaine di&s;hone&s;t woman, &amp; knowing well the &s;treet, through which he was to pa&s;&s;e, for the accompli&s;h|ment of this his wicked de|&s;ire; howbeit in a wonder|ful cold &s;ea&s;on of the yeare, he ca&s;t him&s;elf naked, neck|deepe, into a water neare vnto the place, and when he perceaued his freind co~|ming
<PB N="117" REF="65">neare: <HI>Wheth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">r, vvhe|ther,</HI> &s;aid he, <HI>mi&s;erable wretch do&s;t thou ha&s;ten, do&s;t thou not perceaue the &s;vvord of diuine Iu&s;tice bent again&s;t thee? go on, go on, and &s;atisfy thy dete&s;table lu&s;t, I vvill here punish my &s;elf &s;o long for thy &s;ake, till vvith my &s;ufferance, I haue diuerted the vengea~ce of heauen fro~ thee.</HI> With which &s;trange &s;pe|ctacle the party was &s;o &s;tro|ken, and &s;o taken with ad|miration of that great cha|rity of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> that he euer after refrained that dangerous familiarity. He fa&s;ted three dayes from all meate or drink, be&s;towing his prayers and teares to
<PB N="118" REF="66">this only end, that he might reclaime an other per&s;on from his wicked purpo&s;es, who fro~ a vertuous cour&s;e he had begun, was in the way of falling to his fir&s;t lewd life: and in fine he obtained that that incon|&s;tant per&s;on co~&s;tantly per|&s;euered in his good cour&s;e begun. During that tyme he applied him&s;elf to his &s;tudies, he dayly gaue him|&s;elf &s;ome tyme to employ for his neighbours good. He euer drew as many as was po&s;&s;ible for him, by pious exerci&s;es and di&s;|cour&s;es, to a vertuous and pious life. He was a cheife
<PB N="119" REF="66">actour in the in&s;titution of the B. Sacrament, in his owne Country: and pro|cured that at noone a bell &s;hould daily ring, to pray for &s;uch as were in mortall &s;inne, and for the &s;oules in purgatory. He was the cau&s;e that the v&s;e of dicing was left off, and that the li|ues and manners of the &s;e|cular, and clergy people were reformed. He was wont to &s;ay, that he would be mo&s;t ready to walke bare-foot, loaden with hornes about the &s;treets, &s;o it might proue for the good of &s;oules, &amp; that he would refu&s;e no habit, how ridi|culous
<PB N="120" REF="67">or contemptable &s;oeuer ir were, &s;o it might redound to the good of others: and he made his word good, when&s;oeuer any occa&s;ion pre&s;ented it &s;elf to him. For this cau&s;e, with infinite labour and toile, and danger of his life, he made a iourney to <HI>Hieru|&s;alem,</HI> there to conuert the Infidels, &amp; a&s;&s;i&s;t the Faith|full: which to performe, hauing afterwards drawne to him&s;elfe nine eminent per&s;ons for his a&s;&s;ociats, he made a vowe: and in ca&s;e he would not be permitted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> all this vowe, he pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> his and his Compa|nions
<PB N="122" REF="67">endeauours: to the <HI>Popes Holines,</HI> for the good of &s;oules. For the &s;ame pur|po&s;e with infinite difficul|ties, and &s;trong oppo&s;ition of the Deuill, he in&s;tituted the <HI>Society</HI> of <HI>IESVS,</HI> the ayme of which he would haue to be this, that all they of that Society &s;hould labour, not only the &s;afety and good of their owne &s;oules, but &s;eriou&s;ly indea|uour the perfection of their neighbours: and he decla|red their vocation to be this, to trauell into diuers places, and liue in any part of the world, where the &s;eruice of God, and &s;afety
<PB N="122" REF="68">of &s;oules might be&s;t be ex|pected. And that they might the better &s;erue and a&s;&s;i&s;t others, he would haue the exteriour comport|ment of them of the Socie|ty, not conformable to an Heremticall manner of li|uing, but fa&s;hioned to the life of Chri&s;t, and of his Apo&s;tles: that is, in feeding and cladding them&s;elues, common with that of the mo&s;t regular Clergy of the Country. By which Socie|ty what effects he hath wrought in the Church, and what he doth to this day, worke by the chil|dren of it (who &s;ix yeares
<PB N="123" REF="68">&s;ince were numbred to be 13112. di&s;tributed into 33. &s;euerall Prouinces, and 516 Colledges) all vpright and vnpartiall men knowe: and the enemyes of the holy Church, and they in parti|cular of the Society, con|fe&s;&s;e. He was not a&s;hamed, when by that meanes he might withdraw any man from his wicked life, to reueale to him, with an vp right intention, &s;ome &s;innes of his owne, com|mitted whil&s;t yet he liued in the world: By which cour&s;e he a&s;&s;i&s;ted many men, almo&s;t fallen de&s;pe|rate. And from the &s;ame de|&s;ire
<PB N="124" REF="69">of his neighbours good, proceeded admirable mo|numents of piety in&s;tituted by him. For to omit the many Scholes of the Socie|ty, for the bringing vp of youth, ouer the whole world, out of all which, in this later age multitudes of famous men haue, and do daily &s;pring, endowed with &s;ingular parts of vertue and learning, and other rare ornaments of grace and nature. He was the cau&s;e that in Rome, the Mi&s;tris and &s;oueraigne Citty of the world, the German Col|ledg was erected, for the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">tirpation of here&s;y in
<PB N="125" REF="69">Germany: He was likewi&s;e the author of the hou&s;e of Orphanes, for children of both &s;exes, who had lo&s;t their Parents: Of the hou&s;e of yong Chri&s;tians, for the bringing vp of Ie|wes, and others newly conuerted to the faith: Of the Mona&s;tery of women, who&s;e mariages are doubt|full or litigious, where it is lawfull for them to re|mayne, till &s;uch tyme, as all controuer&s;yes being cleared, thy returne into grace and fauour of their hu&s;bands. For the begin|ning of which Mona&s;tery, be him&s;elfe, howbeit his
<PB N="126" REF="70">owne wants pre&s;&s;ed him much, hauing gathered a &s;u~me of too. Crownes out of the profit of certaine &s;to|nes which had been &s;ould, digged out of the place where the Church belon|ging to his Colledge &s;tood, was the fir&s;t that contribu|ted. He in like manner, in|&s;tituted an other Mona&s;te|ry, commonly called now <HI>Sancta Catharina de Funarus,</HI> in which place certaine yong maydens, who for want of maintena~ce liue in daunger of a di&s;hone&s;t life, are brought vp at great charges, either to be mar|ried, when they come to
<PB N="127" REF="70">yeares, or els to betake them&s;elues to &s;ome reli|gious cour&s;e. Of which kind, to this day, &s;ome hudreds of &s;uch yong Vir|gins liue in the &s;ame place. He had al&s;o an intention to effect that, which before, in his owne Country, he had brought to pa&s;&s;e, that all vlcerous poore people, mi&s;erably begging by the high waies; being gathered into one place, &s;hould be maintained by a common pur&s;e. He co~maunded ma|ny prayers to be offered to Almighty God, through|out the Society, for a certai|ne per&s;on, whom thre&s;core
<PB N="128" REF="71">yeares before had not been at Confe&s;&s;ion, by which he reduced the party to a better life. In conclu&s;ion, he continually lay in wayt, and ca&s;t with him&s;elfe, how he might drawe di&s;|&s;olute people from their &s;innes, to an amendment, willingly vndergoing any troubles, daungers, or inco~ueniences what&s;oeuer without repining, for the gaining of &s;oules. He brought to pa&s;&s;e, in like manner, that the law of <HI>Innocentius tertius</HI> of not vn|dertaking the cure of &s;icke per&s;ons, from the fir&s;t vi&s;i|tation of the~, till &s;uch time
<PB N="129" REF="71">as they had duely confe&s;&s;ed their &s;innes, a cu&s;tome, by conniuency almo&s;t quite aboli&s;hed, was now many yeares after put in force againe. And la&s;tly, a thing mo&s;t of all beneficiall for the good of &s;oules, the of|ten frequenting of holy &s;er|mo~s, lectures, Ma&s;&s;es, Con|fe&s;&s;ion &amp; Co~munion, being long before, through the negligence of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Prelats, out of v&s;e, <HI>S Igna|tius</HI> reduced it to a cu&s;tome againe; in <HI>Rome</HI> fir&s;t, and afterwards in many other places of the world, as an|cient hi&s;toriographers te&s;|tify, and the Auditours of
<PB N="130" REF="72">the holy Rote, fir&s;t, and afterwards the Cardinalls of the holy Rites haue con|fe&s;&s;ed, out of the te&s;timo|nyes of many &s;worne wit|ne&s;&s;es, liuing in <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> his tyme. Whom, in their Relations to his Holines for his Canonization, they haue in plaine termes ac|knowledged truly to de|&s;erue the title of <HI>Apostle of the Indians and Barbarians, &amp; of other Nations</HI> (which by means of his mi&s;&s;ions, haue come to co~fe&s;&s;e Chri&s;t) for the conuer&s;ion of the many barbarous nations, by his Companions. By the &s;ame rea&s;on that <HI>S. Gregory the
<PB N="131" REF="72">Great is &s;tiled, by venerable Bede, the Apo&s;tle of England,</HI> for &s;ending thithers <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|sten</HI> and other Monks, to preach the Gho&s;pell.</P>
<P>But the charity of <HI>S Igna|tius</HI> was not &s;atisfied with the &s;pirituall good of his neighbour only, for it extended it &s;elfe, in a plen|tifull manner, to their tem|porall commodities al&s;o. Immediatly after he had left the &s;eruice of the world, and recouered his health, he gaue continuall atte~dance to poore &s;ick per|&s;ons, &s;eruing the~ in the ho|&s;pital, with great humility,
<PB N="132" REF="73">and Charity: curing their hurts; and &s;ucking many tymes their &s;oares. And though he him&s;elfe, ha|uing for&s;aken for Chri&s;ts cau&s;e, all he had in this world, liued vpon the Charity of other pious people, yet he dayly de|maunded Almes, not only for him&s;elfe, but for other poore al&s;o: which when he had, he was mo&s;t libe|rall in the di&s;tribution of it, re&s;eruing to him&s;elfe the harde&s;t &amp; &s;tale&s;t cru&s;ts of bread, and be&s;towing the newe&s;t, vpon the poore of Chri&s;t, not without the &s;hedding of many teares
<PB N="123" REF="73">for ioy, in expre&s;&s;ion of the loue of his neighbour, for the loue of God. He was the cau&s;e that in his owne Country, they of the Sodality of the B. Sa|crament, demaunded Al|mes euery Sunday, for the vnknowne poore, or &s;uch as were a&s;hamed to aske Almes them&s;elues; cau&s;ing it to be di&s;tributed faith|fully among&s;t them. He per&s;waded his owne Bro|ther, euery Sunday in like manner, to be&s;tow twelue loaues of bread, in honour of the 12. Apo&s;tles. In vi&s;i|ting and conforting &s;uch as were any way afflicted,
<PB N="124" REF="74">whether they were pri&s;o|ners or free men, his cha|rity was admirable: and that he euer ob&s;erued, euen then when he execu|ted that toil&s;ome function of Generall of the-Society. But in his feruent loue of his enemyes, his charity was more eminent then in any thing what&s;oeuer. He neuer repaied any man ill turnes, for ill: he did not only proportion equally his good turnes for bad, but went beyond ill offices done him, in his propor|tion of good. Being diuers tymes, prouoked by di|uers, and iu&s;tly moued
<PB N="125" REF="74">to indignation, he neuer not with&s;tanding made the lea&s;t &s;hew of pa&s;&s;ion, or tooke any reuenge of any man when he might, how greiueou&s;ly &s;oeuer he were prouoked to it. Which might be &s;hewed by many notable examples, but that the promi&s;ed breuity of his treati&s;e wil not beare it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="12" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The loue of God in <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> mo&s;t perfect.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XII.</HEAD>
<P>SAint <HI>Ignatius,</HI> him&s;elfe, by his punctuall ob&s;er|uation of the commaund|ments
<PB N="126" REF="75">of God, and his ma|nifold charityes towards his neighbour, hath giuen abundant te&s;timony of his high e&s;teeme, &amp; true loue of Almighty God: But yet there are other infallible arguments of it, &s;ollidly, not Rhetorician like, ex|pre&s;&s;ed by the Auditours of the holy Rote, and Car|dinalls of the holy Rites, in their relations for his Canonization, and confir|med by their iudiciall &s;en|tence, after curious inqui|ry made, and the examina|tions of many &s;worne wit|ne&s;&s;es: <HI>It appeareth</HI> (&s;ay tho&s;e Comi&s;&s;aries and, Iudges
<PB N="127" REF="75">Apo&s;tolicall) <HI>how &s;incerely he loued God, out of the care and diligence he euer v&s;ed, to do good to his neighbour, for Gods cau&s;e in all things, spiri|tuall and temporall, and out of the especiall regard he had to keepe his hart vndefiled. For, he did not only pre&s;erue his af|fection from all &s;uch things as are oppo&s;ite to the loue of God, but ab&s;olutely renounced the loue of all creatures, which were nor God; vtterly conuer|ting his affection into the loue of God, and labouring to apply his de&s;ires to him. This loue towards God</HI> (&s;ay the &s;ame Iudges and Commi&s;&s;aries Apo&s;tolicall) <HI>he pre&s;erued &s;o
<PB N="128" REF="76">without mixture in his brest, that he had viterly bannished all loue of him&s;elfe: for he &s;aid &s;ometymes of him&s;elfe, that he would rather be contented if it were in his choi&s;e, to liue in doubt of his &s;aluation, and in the meane tyme &s;erue God, then dye at that instant with a&s;&s;u|rance of &s;aluation: and that if it should plea&s;e God to confine him to hell, he beleeued that the hearing of Gods name bla&s;phe|med would be more hard and painefull to him, then the &s;uffe|ra~ce of the torme~ts of hell it &s;elf. In conclu&s;ion, he was &s;o infla|med with the loue of God, that from morning to night he nei|ther &s;ought, thought, spake, nor
<PB N="129" REF="76">de&s;ired any thing, but to plea&s;e God and obey his com|maunds: and therfore he com|mitted him&s;elf wholy to him, re&s;olued ab&s;olutely to follow him, though the lo&s;&s;e of Hea|uen and earth had go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> vpon it: he directed all his thoughts, words and deedes to God, as his ayme, intended them only for him, and his honour: euer carrying tho&s;e words in his mouth, as his deui&s;e, AD MAIOREM DEI GLO|RIAM. Hence proceed that &s;pirituall ioy with which this &s;eruant of God was euer reple|nished, that cherefulnes of coun|tenance he euer enioyed, and that interiour peace of mind.</HI>
<PB N="130" REF="77">Thus they. Be&s;ides, the&s;e are notable argume~ts of his admirable loue of God; that how&s;oeuer he were &s;urcharged with care, or tired out with bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, with the only calling to mind, or imbracing as it were of Almighty God, he found him&s;elfe refre&s;hed, to his infinite content|ment. He was &s;o inflamed with the de&s;ire of behoul|ding Chri&s;t our Sauiour, as he is, that for that only, he &s;eriou&s;ly begged from day to day, to be freed from the bonds of his fle&s;h (if Almighty God, for the good of &s;oules, did not longer exact his endea|uours.)
<PB N="131" REF="77">In &s;o much that, if at any tyme, he chanced to fall into agreat &s;icknes, in hope of decea&s;ing, he was pre&s;ently ab&s;tracted from his &s;en&s;es, not with|out the infinite impai|ring of his health. For which cau&s;e his Phi&s;icians enioyned him &s;eriou&s;ly to with-draw his mind at &s;uch tymes, from the thought of heaue~ly things. In the mid&s;t of his mo&s;t &s;e|rious and important affai|res, he was &s;o zealous of withdrawing di&s;hone&s;t women from their lewd liues; that if any &s;uch, at any tyme chanced to re|pent
<PB N="132" REF="78">&amp; de&s;ired to retire her &s;elfe into &s;ome Mona&s;tery, he him&s;elfe being now a graue old man, and execu|ting the Office of Generall of the Society, would not &s;tick, for Gods honour, to conduct, and as it were, to v&s;her her on. And being warned by &s;ome freinds of his, that it was but labour lo&s;t, vpon &s;uch kind of people, who within &s;hort tyme after would returne to their vomit: <HI>I</HI> (quoth he) <HI>should e&s;teeme it a plentifull reward for all my labours and paynes taken in this life, if I could be a meanes to hinder any one of them, but from one nights
<PB N="133" REF="78">tran&s;gre&s;sing and offending of God.</HI> Calling often tymes vpon God, he cryed out, in a kind of tendernes of hart. <HI>VVhat I de&s;ire but thee, o Lord, that I de&s;ire but ther, or what is there els that I can de&s;ire?</HI> As often as ca&s;ting his eyes vpon the heauens, he beheld the &s;tarrs, which he was often and long ac|cu&s;tomed to do, all earthly things appeared contem|ptible in his eye, and he him&s;elfe was taken with a vehement de&s;ire of heauen. In his prayers to the B. Trinity, which were fre|quent and long, he concea|ued admirable diuine con|&s;olations.
<PB N="134" REF="79">Though in <HI>Spaine</HI> it be generally e&s;teemed a foule taint in bloud, and a blemi&s;h to any family, to haue had ance&s;ters de&s;cen|ded from a Iewi&s;h race: yet <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> howbeit his fa|mily were neuer touched with that infamy, was ouer-heard, by many men, to &s;ay to <HI>F. Ribadeneira,</HI> that he &s;hould haue e&s;tee|med it a &s;ingular fauour of Almighty God to haue de&s;cended from a Iewi&s;h race; that by that meanes at lea&s;t, he might in &s;ome &s;ort, though farre off haue been allied according to fle&s;h, to Chri&s;t our Lord,
<PB N="135" REF="79">and his B. Mother. Which words he vttered with &s;uch a &s;en&s;e of piety, out of his feruent loue of piety; out of his feruent loue of Chri&s;t, that he could not forbeare weeping.</P>
<P>At <HI>Rome</HI> when he in&s;tru|cted children, and other ignorant Auditors, in mat|ters of Chri&s;tian doctrine, he was euer wo~t to co~clud his exhortations in &s;uch &s;ort: <HI>Loue God with all your harts, with all your &s;oules with al your powe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</HI> Which words he vttered with &s;uch fer|uour, that he &s;eemed to &s;end forth flames, and &s;et on fire the harts of his hea|rers.
<PB N="136" REF="80">The B. Father in his latter tyme, was much cra|&s;ed in his health, and trou|bled with an almo&s;t conti|nuall weakenes and yrke|&s;omne&s;&s;e of his &s;tomacke, for which, he found no better nor more ready re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> medy, then the &s;imple and plaine Church &s;ong, dayly v&s;ed in Churches; <HI>&s;o that not only his hart, but his body reioyced in the liuing God, and was &s;trengthned, and recouered with the pray&s;es of its be&s;t be|loued.</HI> Wherfore if he had been led by his owne pri|uate affection, he would haue in&s;tituted in the So|ciety, the keeping of the
<PB N="137" REF="80"><HI>Quier.</HI> as in other <HI>Orders</HI> it is kept yet becau&s;e he &s;aw that, they of the Society, might propagate no le&s;&s;e the glory of God by other meanes, then by the <HI>Quier,</HI> and perfect them&s;elues and others, in the &s;eruice of God, he iudged it mo&s;t ex|pedient that the Society &s;hould forbeare the <HI>Quier;</HI> commending notwith&s;tan|ding the v&s;e of it (as he did all things els, in other <HI>Or|ders</HI>) as a thing mo&s;t proper to the In&s;titution of them all.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="138" REF="81">
<HEAD>The admirable commaeund in S <HI>Ignatius,</HI> of all his pa&s;sions.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAPTER XIII.</HEAD>
<P>SAint <HI>Ignatius,</HI> through the e&s;peciall fauour of God, and his owne labour <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">nd indu&s;try, had &s;o ab&s;o|lutely conquered all his pa&s;&s;ions and affections, and &s;o &s;ubdued them to rea&s;on, that though he could not truly be &s;aid to be without them (for that is a thing re|pugnant to human nature) yet he appeared to be vtter|ly voyd of pa&s;&s;ion, or any other turbulent motions
<PB N="139" REF="81">of the mind. And therfore, as well the Auditours of the holy Roman Rote, as the Cardinalls of the holy Rites, in their relations to his Holines, for the Cano|nization of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">|nes in plaine termes, that <HI>he had an ab&s;olute mai&s;try of all his turbulent pa&s;sions and affections.</HI> Which how rare and eminent a thing it is in this mortall life, all men find by experience, and the learned are be&s;t able to di|&s;tingui&s;h, who know what power the inclination to &s;inne hath, in our human nature corrupted by Adam. So that although there are
<PB N="140" REF="82">dry affections in men, of hatred, of de&s;ire, of flight, of ioy, of &s;orrow, of hope, of de&s;paire, of feare, of audacity, of an|ger; yet S <HI>Ignatius</HI> had &s;o conquered them all, that he made v&s;e of them, ac|cording to the rule of rea|&s;on, and &s;quare of Gods Lawes, not in any vicious manner, but in the way of nece&s;&s;ity. Whence it came to pa&s;&s;e, that though he were naturally of a chol|lerike &amp; fiery di&s;po&s;ition, yet for the wonderfull mildnes he v&s;ed in all his words and actions, he &s;ee|med euen to the Phi&s;icians them&s;elues, to be of a cold,
<PB N="181" REF="82">and (as they terme it) of a phlegmatike co~plexion. When at any tyme he was di&s;cour&s;ing of any &s;ubiect of merriment, if any of his, in the meane tyme had committed a fault repre|hen&s;ible, at his fir&s;t be|houlding of the delinquent he altered his countenance, and putting on a &s;euere browe, wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">, in his reprehen&s;ion, and &s;uddai|nely again aft<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"> the party was departed, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;ame in&s;tant of tyme, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">urned to his former caime and plea&s;antnes of di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ours, with as cherefull and quiet a countenance as if he had
<PB N="142" REF="83">had no cau&s;e to reproue any man: &s;o that he appea|red not to haue been mo|ued at all, but at his plea|&s;ure, to haue taken vpon him, and laid downe againe that &s;euerity requi&s;ite. He alwayes ob&s;erued the &s;ame method in his bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, being euer con&s;tant to him&s;elfe; and how beit in body he was diuer&s;ly di&s;|po&s;ed, and through his frequent infirmityes, more o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> fit for the di&s;patch of bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, his mind notwith&s;tanding was euer the &s;ame, &s;o that to obtaine or effect any bu&s;ines with him, it was not nece&s;&s;ary
<PB N="143" REF="83">to ob&s;erue tymes or occa|&s;ions. For, whether you tooke him after Ma&s;&s;e, or after dinner, as &s;oone as he aro&s;e out of his bed or after his prayers, to him it was the &s;ame, or whether his bu&s;ine&s;&s;es went cro&s;&s;e, or to his mind: in fine, he was neuer altered with any change or alteration of bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, but was euer him&s;elf. In all cro&s;&s;e acci|dents &amp; vici&s;&s;itudes of this life, he was &s;o pre&s;ent to him&s;elf, that he neuer &s;ee|med in any thing to alter his cour&s;e, or derogate from the dignity of a Reli|gious per&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="14" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="144" REF="84">
<HEAD>The rare patience and humility of <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XIIII.</HEAD>
<P>BY how much more re|markable the &s;uperna|tural gi&s;ts mencioned were in <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> by &s;o much more glorious was his hu|mility: which as the foun|dation of vertue, from the beginning of his conuer|&s;ion was eminent in him. So that in tho&s;e fir&s;t yeares, he went barely and naked|ly clad, he lodged (how|beit in hone&s;t places) with the ordinary &s;ort of Beg|gers;
<PB N="145" REF="84">he curiou&s;ly concea|led the nobility of his birth, and tho&s;e diuine vi&s;ions which were &s;o fre|quent with him. He was wont to &s;ay, that he found matter and example of ver|tue in all &s;uch as he con|uer&s;ed with, and that he was not offended with any man but him&s;elfe. He de&s;ired that his dead body might be expo&s;ed to the wild bea&s;ts, or birds of the ayre, to be de|uoured, or ca&s;t vpon &s;ome dung-hill. In matters which were not otherwi&s;e euident and cleare, he
<PB N="146" REF="85">ea&s;ily &s;uffered him&s;elfe to be led by the opinions of others, and being him&s;elfe Superiour, accommodated him&s;elfe to his inferiours. He de&s;ired to become con|temptible to all men: and but that he had a regard to the good of his neighbour, (for which it was nece&s;&s;ary for him to vp-hold him|&s;elfe, and his authority) he would haue walked the &s;treets halfe naked, in a contemptible manner, that &s;o he might haue been held and reputed a mad man. He v&s;ed all the power he had, not to be cho&s;en Ge|nerall of the Society,
<PB N="147" REF="85">taking that charge vpon him, by the commaund of his Gho&s;tly Father, and importunity of his Com|panions: which he him&s;elf, ten yeares after, in a Ge|nerall congregation of the Society, de&s;ired by all mea|nes po&s;&s;ible to haue re&s;ig|ned: he neuer di&s;cour&s;ed of his owne affaires, except he were moued to it, by &s;ome important occa&s;ion (according to the cu&s;tome of other Saints) for the recouery of the defea&s;ed minds of others, or for the comforting of deiected per&s;ons, who came to &s;eek coun&s;ell &amp; remedyes
<PB N="148" REF="86">at his hands, or els for the encouragement or &s;tre~gth|ning of them, by his exam|ple, again&s;t all cro&s;&s;e en|counters, and being forced to &s;peake of him&s;elfe, he did it &s;paringly, and that in the tender and growing yeares of the Society, ac|cording to the example of S. Paul the Apo&s;tle, who, as S. Gregory &s;aith, <HI>concea|led his good deeds, for his owne &s;afegard, and published the ap|parent wenders of God, for the profit of others.</HI> He concea|ued &s;o humble an opinion of him&s;elfe, that he valued him&s;elfe the ba&s;e&s;t of all mortall men, and thought
<PB N="149" REF="86">he &s;tood mo&s;t in need of Gods fauour. When&s;oeuer any di&s;cour&s;e hapned of the propagation of the Society, or the fruit it rea|ped in the Church of God, ouer the Chri&s;tian world, or of any other &s;ubiect what&s;oeuer which might redound to his prai&s;e, he &s;uddainly recollected him|&s;elfe; and melting into tea|res, was &s;urpri&s;ed with a mode&s;t blu&s;h. He would not permit him&s;elfe to be prai&s;ed by any man, and hauing vnder&s;tood that <HI>F. Iames Eguia,</HI> his Gho&s;tly Father, aman of wel-neare thre&s;core and ten yeares of
<PB N="150" REF="87">age, had &s;poken many things in his prai&s;e, &s;ur|pa&s;&s;ing the ordinary prai|&s;es of other great Saints, he impo&s;ed vpon him for his pennance, that he &s;hould, thrice a day, whipp him|&s;elfe, for three dayes to|geather. But no pennances being afterwards able to re&s;traine him from &s;pea|king his prai&s;es, <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> refu&s;ed, at la&s;t, to v&s;e him for his Gho&s;tly Father, and commaunded him be|&s;ides, vpon paine of ex|communication, and di|mi&s;&s;ion out of the Society, that from thence-forward he &s;hould forbeare to
<PB N="151" REF="87">&s;peake any thing in his pray&s;e. <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> being newly conuerted, before the performance of his vo|yage to <HI>Hieru&s;alem,</HI> was much mole&s;ted with ten|tations of vaine-glory, again&s;t which making bra|ue re&s;i&s;tance, and being &s;urpri&s;ed with them, in the mid&s;t of a daungerous &s;icknes he had contracted, he was more mole&s;ted with the conceit of offen|ding his diuine Maie&s;ty, then with the vehemency of his de&s;ea&s;e growing vio|lent vpon him; and at la&s;t through the fauour of Al|mighty God, he &s;o ab&s;olu|tely
<PB N="152" REF="88">conquered, &amp; vtterly rooted out that vice (and this the very fir&s;t yeare after his conuer&s;ion) that afterwards when&s;oeuer the glory of God, or good of &s;oules required it, he could as ea&s;ily di&s;cours of his owne vertues, as of his vi|ces, without any touch, or feeling of vaine glory. Though many men de&s;ired much the true picture of <HI>S Ignatius,</HI> he would neuer &s;uffer it to be drawne, or other wayes taken by any. To which purpo&s;e <HI>Cardinal Pacieco,</HI> comming once to vi&s;it <HI>S Ignatius</HI> lying &s;ick in bed, intending to &s;teale
<PB N="153" REF="88">his picture by a reli|gious &s;tratageme, hauing brought &s;ecretely, for that end, a Painter in his Company, who through certaine crannies had a full view of the Saint, and &s;o might drawe his picture, as he lay. But the Cardinals ob&s;eruancie could not pre|uaile again&s;t the Saints hu|mility; for his countenance did &s;o co~tinually alter from one fauour to an other, that the Painter, &s;tanding amazed, was forced to de|part, without doing any thing. The humility of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> was the cau&s;e, that though he acknow|ledged
<PB N="154" REF="89">the guifts of God to be admirable in him, and found that he was miracu|lou&s;ly fauoured by him, yet being preferred to the di|gnity of Prei&s;thood, he dur&s;t not pre&s;ently offer vp his fir&s;t Ho&s;t to God; but partly with a &s;erious atten|tion of his mind, partly with an ine&s;timable com|fort of &s;pirit, repleni&s;hed with abundance of new di|uine lights, prepared him|&s;elf day and night to it, for the &s;pace of eighteene mo|nethes. But his humility appeared mo&s;t in his &s;uffe|ring all things for Gods cau&s;e patiently and willin|gly,
<PB N="155" REF="89">with a peaceable and humble mind, iudging him|&s;elfe worthily to haue de|&s;erued all cro&s;&s;es, and not to haue merited any thing that was good. He be|&s;ought them earne&s;tly to forbeare, who went about to hinder iniuries and af|fronts done him; returning them may thanks, who did him apparent wrongs, doing them all fauours &amp; curte&s;yes in his power. A certaine heards-mans boy, ca&s;ting his eyes in con|tempt vpon the Saint, ash pa&s;&s;ed by him, brake out into a &s;cornefull laughter, heaping iniuries vpon him:
<PB N="156" REF="90">at which whil&s;t he with a cherefull countenance, re|mained in the place, his Co~panion turning towards him: <HI>Wherfore Father,</HI> quoth he, <HI>make you not ha&s;t from hence to auoid the&s;e in&s;olenc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">es of this vngracious boy? To which the Saint replied: Rather&punc;</HI> quoth he, <HI>why should we depriue the poore boy of this contentment, which, contrary to his expe|ctation he hath <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hus encoun|tred.</HI> So that he purpo&s;ely remained in that place offe|ring him&s;elfe in a curteous manner, to that impudent fellow to be beheld, &amp; cu|riou&s;ly ob&s;erued; co~ceauing more contentment in this
<PB N="157" REF="90">&s;corne and reproach, then other men in the popular applau&s;e and acclamations of the vulgar.</P>
<P>At <HI>Rome,</HI> whil&s;t he preached openly in the &s;treets, and certaine rogui&s;h boyes, in contempt, threw apples at his head, he &s;tood fixed like a &s;tatua, without any &s;hew of anger. He was wont to &s;ay that the vio|lent per&s;ecutions he endu|red, before and after the foundation of the Society, were more deare and wel|come to him, then any ho|nours or commodities this world afforded. Being
<PB N="156" REF="91">demaunded by a freind of his, at &s;uch tyme as for a fal&s;e imputation layd to his charge, he was committed to pri&s;on in <HI>Salamanca,</HI> whe|ther that impri&s;onement, and tho&s;e chaines did not much afflict him? <HI>And doth,</HI> quoth he, <HI>a pri&s;on appeare to you &s;o fearefull? know then that the whole Towne of Sala|manca cannot furnish me with &s;o many fetters or shackles, but that I would willingly de&s;ire more, for the loue of Chri&s;t my Lord.</HI> Neither did he only with humility, patience, and willingnes, embrace all aduer&s;ities, by which his honour, reputation, body,
<PB N="157" REF="91">and affaires might &s;uffer, but which is an eminent degree in the&s;e kind of vertues, he reioyced at any accident which hap|ned again&s;t him&s;elfe, or his good name; as the Auditours of the holy Rote haue noted, and the Cardinalls of the holy Ri|tes, in their Relations to his Holines.</P>
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<PB N="160" REF="92">
<HEAD>The life and reputation of <HI>S. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ignatius,</HI> miraculou&s;ly con|&s;erued often tymes, and defended by Al|mighty God.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XV.</HEAD>
<P>VVHom the diuine Maie&s;ty maketh choi&s;e of to exploit great actions in his Church, and to rai&s;e the glory of Chri&s;t, in &s;ome eminent degree, them and their reputation he is accu&s;tomed to pre|&s;erue, and by peculiar fa|uour and a&s;&s;i&s;tance defend. Of which in the life of S.
<PB N="161" REF="92"><HI>Ignatius,</HI> there are notable and rare examples.</P>
<P>When S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> lay &s;ick in his Fathers hou&s;e of his mortall wound, in emmi|nent danger of death, to the great regret of the whole hous-hould, hauing receaued by the aduice of freinds, the holy Rites of the Church, <HI>S. Peter</HI> the Apo&s;tle appeared to him, vpon the Eue of his fea&s;t, re&s;toring him miraculou&s;ly to his de&s;ired health. In &s;omuch, that immediately he was ea&s;ed of his paines, and began with appetite, to fall to his meate. And it is a token
<PB N="160" REF="93">of a peculiar care Almighty God had of S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> his life, that he committed the cu&s;tody of him, not to any Augel of an inferiour <HI>Order,</HI> &s;uch as are ordinarily ap|pointed for our Guardians, but to an Arch-Angell of a high degree. That he pre|&s;erued him in his &s;eauen|dayes fa&s;t, without recea|uing any &s;u&s;tinance; in his exta&s;ies, and other prayers, without any infirmity, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">mpairing of his &s;trength; with a cruell whipping of his body thrice a day, and the performance of &s;eauen howers Prayer vpon his knees.</P>
<P><PB N="161" REF="93">S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> hauing been left by his fellow-trauel|lers, and arriuing late in the euening at <HI>Venice,</HI> where knowing not the way to the publicke Ho&s;|pitall, nor hauing any money to hire him&s;elfe a guide; being now accu&s;to|med by long v&s;e to lodge ill; he found an empty Trade&s;-mans &s;tall, in an open publicke gallery, where the night drawing on, he might in &s;ome &s;ort re&s;t his wearied limmes. But whil&s;t he pa&s;&s;ed thus the night, a neighbouring Senatour, <HI>Marco Antonio Treui&s;ano:</HI> a man of knowne
<PB N="164" REF="94">integrity, who afterwards came to be <HI>Dogue</HI> of <HI>Venice,</HI> was rai&s;ed vp by a voice from Heauen, rebuking him for &s;olacing in a &s;oft bed and curious furniture, whil&s;t in the meane tyme the &s;eruant of God being a &s;tranger, and de&s;titute of all human comfort, lay poorely in an open place not farre from his porch. He therfore being &s;troken with infinite horrour and feare, aro&s;e &s;uddainely, &amp; finding S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> gaue him noble entertainement. In his &s;ea-voyage to <HI>Hieru|&s;alem</HI> he di&s;couered that many foule facts were
<PB N="165" REF="94">committed, by &s;ome of the pa&s;&s;engers, in the &s;hip he pa&s;&s;ed; for which he in reprehending them freely, they con&s;pired with the marriners, plotting to put a&s;hoare this trouble&s;ome controller, in &s;ome de&s;ert Iland, out of their &s;ight and fellow&s;hip. Which de&s;igne of theirs being di&s;|couered by &s;ome other Spani&s;h pa&s;&s;engers, they acquainted <HI>Ignatius</HI> with it coun&s;elling him with|all, to haue a care of him&s;elfe. But he not|with&s;tanding, when gentle admonitions would not
<PB N="164" REF="95">&s;erue, continued to repre|hend them &s;harply for their enormities, relying vpon the prouidence and helpe of Heauen: by the fauour of which it came to pa&s;&s;e, that they approaching neare the Iland de&s;tined for their exploit, were violent|ly driuen backward with a contrary wind, and whe|ther they would or no, brought <HI>Ignatius</HI> to his de|&s;ired Hauen.</P>
<P>Being to returne into Italy, he found by chance three Pa&s;&s;age-boats bound for that place: two of which being tall, &amp; &s;trongly built &s;hips, refu&s;ed to admitt
<PB N="165" REF="95"><HI>Ignatius:</HI> the third, a &s;mall and ill compacted ve&s;&s;ell receaued him; and hauing put to &s;ea togeather with a fauorable wind, the two which refu&s;ed to receaue <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> were &s;uddainely ca&s;t away; and the third only, which tran&s;ported him being weake, &amp; much beaten with tempe&s;t and foule weather, arriued the moneth following, &s;afe in <HI>Apulia.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Alcala,</HI> at the in|&s;tance of the Suffragant of that place, one <HI>Iohn Lucena,</HI> made a gathering for the clothing of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> in his Clergy garments: with
<PB N="168" REF="96">whom comming to a cer|tayne per&s;on of quality, to demaund almes for that purpo&s;e, the noble man, rurning to. <HI>S. Ignatius: If this fellow,</HI> quoth he, poin|ting to the Saint, <HI>de&s;erue not to be burnt,</HI> I <HI>will he con|tented to be burnt in his place.</HI> And the &s;elfe &s;ame day (a thing worth ob&s;eruing) that noble per&s;onage was con&s;umed by fire which by chance had taken hould on part of his hou&s;e.</P>
<P>At <HI>Paris,</HI> one <HI>Mi|chael</HI> a Spaniard, being incen&s;ed again&s;t <HI>S. Igna|tius,</HI> for hauing drawne <HI>Saint Francis Xauerius,</HI> to
<PB N="169" REF="96">the warrefare of Chri&s;t, from the mid&s;t of appa|rent worldly honours at|tending him, re&s;olued to kill him, as the authour of this fact. And hauing violently entred his lod|ging, for that purpo&s;e, and in a rage ru&s;hed vp &s;taires, with his naked &s;word, he was affrighted vpon a &s;ud|daine, with this voice from Heauen. <HI>Whither goe&s;t thou mi&s;erable wretch?</HI> and retur|ned back againe, di&s;coue|ring the whole bu&s;ines him&s;elfe, being afterwards conuicted, by the guilt of his owne con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Not &s;ar from <HI>Ba&s;&s;ana</HI> li|ued
<PB N="168" REF="97">a certaine Anchorite, a man of a faire reputation of &s;anctity, who ob&s;eruing curiou&s;ly <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> and finding nothing peculiar in his habit, differing from that of the ordinary &s;ort of Clergy: and perceauing him to be of a plea&s;ing &amp; familiar behauiour, with|out any &s;hew of an Ereme|ticall &s;pirit: mea&s;uring his &s;anctity by the &s;quare of a &s;olitary life, concluded there was nothing &s;ingular in him, or de&s;eruing parti|cular note or remarke: and therfore began within him|&s;elfe, to &s;light him, and co~|ceaue a poore opinion of
<PB N="169" REF="97">his worth. But Almighty God would not long per|mit the &s;implicity of the man to be mi&s;led by errour. For being in his prayers, more vehement then or|dinary, Almighty God was plea&s;ed to reueale vnto him, that the man of whom he had conceaued &s;o &s;light an opinion, was a man full of Apo&s;tolicall &s;pirit, and a ve&s;&s;ell of election for the &s;afety of many. From which tyme foreward the Anchorite condemning with &s;orrow his owne ras|hnes, re&s;olued euer after, to reuerence <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> &amp; his followers.</P>
<P><PB N="170" REF="98"><HI>F. Iames Fguia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> a man of knowne Sanctity, and Gho&s;tly father to <HI>S Ignatius</HI> was wont to &s;ay, in the life tyme of the Saint, that he liued more by miracle, then by the force of na|ture. And after the death of <HI>S. Ignatius:</HI> the mo&s;t fa|mous and renowned Phi&s;i|cians of that tyme, exami|ning the vitall parts of his body being opened, held it for a miracle, that he &s;hould liue &s;o long, e&s;pe|cially vndergoing the charge of Generall of the Society, with &s;o continuall and con&s;tant a plea&s;ant face and countenance. For his
<PB N="171" REF="98">&s;tomacke, through his ab&s;tinence, &s;obriety, and continuall drines, appea|red &s;trangely contracted. His liuer was &s;o hardned and congealed, that it was almo&s;t become &s;tonie. And <HI>Realdo Columbo,</HI> a famous Anatomi&s;t of that age, wit|ne&s;&s;eth in his booke of ana|temy, that he found three &s;tones in his liuer veyne, or as they terme it, in his <HI>Vena Porta.</HI></P>
<P>This extraordinary care God had of the life and re|putation of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> is confirmed by the &s;entences of many graue Iudges, of|ten giuen in behalfe of the
<PB N="172" REF="99">innocency of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> at <HI>Alcala, Salamanca, Venice, Paris &amp; Rome,</HI> how&s;oeuer his aduer&s;aries by foule &s;launders and calumnies, employed all their art to traduce his innocency, and vtterly take a way his fame and good name. But of all others, the clearing of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> at <HI>Rome,</HI> of that mo&s;t iniurious imputation laid to his charge, by a Monke infected with the here&s;yes of Luther, was the mo&s;t famous: For this Mo~ke hauing &s;pred abroad that <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> and his fol|lowers, as men guilty of gro&s;&s;e enormities, had been
<PB N="173" REF="99">conuicted of here&s;y and other foule facts in <HI>Spaine</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> and of late al&s;o at <HI>Venice,</HI> and that hauing e&s;caped the ha~ds of Iu&s;tice, they were come to <HI>Rome</HI> to debauch &amp; corrupt youth, vnder the colour of pie|ty, with the like foppe|peries, broached by this Monke and his complices, it begat in &s;hort tyme, &s;o violent a hatred again&s;t S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> &amp; his Companio~s, that many men began to e&s;teeme them runne-agate wandring Rogues, and to dete&s;t, and fly their Society and aquaintance. And the bruit had not only filled
<PB N="174" REF="100">the mouthes of the vulgar in <HI>Rome</HI> but it &s;pread it &s;elf, by meanes of the letters &amp; me&s;&s;engers of their aduer|&s;aries, into other Cou~tries and adioyning Prouinces, that the IGNATIANS, with their ring leader, were e&s;teemed branded men, &amp; conuicted of here&s;y and other foule crimes. But our Sauiour Ie&s;us, who had made a promi&s;e to <HI>S Igna|tius,</HI> in his iourney to <HI>Rome,</HI> that he would be &s;auorable to him, quickly deliuered him out of the&s;e calamities. For it came to pa&s;&s;e miracu|lou&s;ly, that almo&s;t all they who had been Iudges of S.
<PB N="175" REF="100"><HI>Ignatius</HI> in <HI>Italy, France,</HI> and <HI>Spaine,</HI> arriued at <HI>Rome,</HI> about their &s;euerall occa|&s;ions, at the &s;elfe &s;ame time, when &s;entence was to be giuen there again&s;t S. <HI>Igna|tius.</HI> All who being called to Iudgement, di&s;couered the fables and impo&s;ters of his aduer&s;aries, giuing rare te&s;timonies of the vertues and piety of S. <HI>Ignatius.</HI> Be|&s;ides which, the letters of the &s;eueral Citties of Italy, in which the Fathers had &s;ometyme re&s;ided, being brought to <HI>Rome</HI> about the &s;ame tyme, added much to the reputation of their de|&s;erts, and the refutation of
<PB N="176" REF="101">the &s;launders of their fal&s;e accu&s;ers. By which, and by the expre&s;&s;e commaund of his Holines, the Gouer|nour of the Citty being moued, cleared <HI>S Ignatius,</HI> by his &s;entence in ample manner, not only of all fault, but of &s;u&s;picion of fault. But it hapned far o|therwi&s;e to them that con&s;|pired again&s;t him, how|beit not at the in&s;tance of <HI>S. Ignatius:</HI> for Michaell, after the di&s;couery of the impo&s;ter, was banni&s;hed: An other of them after Iudgement giuen again&s;t him, being &s;urpri&s;ed with a violent &s;icknes, ended
<PB N="177" REF="101">his dayes of it: an other turned hereticke, leauing his picture behind him to be &s;entenced to the fire in his place: a fourth was condemned to perpetuall pri&s;on.</P>
<P>The like fauours of Al|mighty God to <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> may be farther confirmed by &s;ome dome&s;ticall exam|ples. One of his fir&s;t fol|lowers, a man not yet truly marked with a perfect &s;tampe of vertue, being tran&s;ported with an affe|ction of a &s;olitary life, and comparing the labour of S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> his life, with the re&s;t and ea&s;e of the other,
<PB N="178" REF="102">and the dangers of this, with the &s;afety of that (as he conceaued it) being thus di&s;tracted with many doubts, &amp; di&s;hartned with the greatnes of the In&s;titu|tion of the Society, re&s;ol|ued to betake him&s;elfe for coun&s;el to an Anchorite of approued &s;anctity. But he had &s;ear&s;e put his foot out of the hou&s;e for that pur|po&s;e, when a vi&s;ion of an armed man was pre&s;ented vnto him, threatning him with a naked &s;word and menacing a&s;pect: which notwith&s;tanding, when &s;till he continued his way to the Anchorite, the ar|med
<PB N="179" REF="102">man in a fury oppo&s;ed him&s;elfe, not cea&s;ing to pur&s;ue him, till he turning with &s;peed, had &s;ought his refuge in the embraces of <HI>S. Ignatius:</HI> to the admi|ration of all the neigh|bours, who &s;aw the party affrighted betake him&s;elfe to his heeles, but could not di&s;couer any thing which might occa&s;ion his flight.</P>
<P>An other of his Fathers conceauing &s;ome grudge again&s;t <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> demeaned him&s;elfe &s;tubbernly and contumaciou&s;ly towards him, for whom the B. Fa|ther praying earne&s;tly in his Ma&s;&s;e, and &s;hedding
<PB N="180" REF="103">many teares, cried out to our Sauiour: <HI>Pardon him, o Lord; forgiue him o Lord.</HI> To which our Sauiour replied: <HI>Let me alone; for</HI> I <HI>will vnder|take thy quarrell for thee; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> vergeance of him, if he do no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> repent.</HI> And it came af|terwards to pa&s;&s;e, that that Father (ca&s;ting his eyes with deuotion vpon &s;ome reliques in a certaine Church, an armed man ap|peared, threatning him with a fearefull counte|nance, and whipp in his hand, if he became not obe|dient to <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI> After the &s;ight of which though the Father humbled and
<PB N="181" REF="103">&s;ubmitted him&s;elfe, yet he was diuer&s;ly afterwards af|flicted, in confirmation of the truth of that which Al|mighty God had reuealed to <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The famous Miracles wrought by S <HI>Ignatius,</HI> in his life tyme.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAPTER XVI.</HEAD>
<P>THough: <HI>the triall of &s;an|ctity con&s;i&s;t not in the wor|king of wonders,</HI> as <HI>S. Gregory</HI> the Pope noteth (whence it came to pa&s;&s;e, that &s;aint Iohn Bapti&s;t, a man &s;o re|nowned in the holy writ,
<PB N="182" REF="104">for his &s;anctity of life, is not reported in the Gho|&s;pell, to haue wrought any miracle, whil&s;t he liued) yet becau&s;e the voice of the vulgar &s;eemeth to exact miracles, at the hands of Saints, which, howbeit they are not merites, as S. <HI>Bernard</HI> teacheth, yet they are &s;ignes &amp; tokens of me|rites; the &s;anctity of S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> was not voyd of this ornament of Miracles. For in the proce&s;&s;es of his Canonization, are mentio|ned more then two hun|dred Miracles wrought by him, all confirmed by the vniforme and graue a&s;&s;er|tion
<PB N="183" REF="104">of many &s;worne wit|ne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>Here &s;ome few only, be&s;ides them often aboue mentioned, which hapned to S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> in his life|tyme, &s;halbe touched.</P>
<P>It fell out at <HI>Bercelona,</HI> that two Brothers, about their Patrimony, had long &s;ued one another. And he, in fine who&s;e fortune it was to loo&s;e the &s;ute, falling, with too vehement appre|hen&s;ion, into de&s;paire, hung him&s;elfe, with a hal|ter, vpon a beame in his chamber. The bruite of which came no &s;ooner to the eares of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> but
<PB N="184" REF="105">&s;uddainely he betooke him&s;elfe to the place, and cutting a &s;under the halter, from that vnfortu|nate rafter, gaue order that the dead body &s;hould be laide vpon a bed. Which done; falling a part vpon his knees, he began with many teares, to de|maund the &s;afety of that mi&s;erable creature, at the hands of Almighty God. But whil&s;t <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> (being at that tyme but a &s;tudent in the Grammar &s;chole) was thus earne&s;t in his prayers, they who were there pre&s;ent, &s;tan|ding in &s;u&s;pence, with their
<PB N="185" REF="105">eyes fixed vpon the bed, (a thing full of miracle:) the dead man returned &s;ud|dainly to life, and had the v&s;e of his voyce &s;o long till calling for a Gho&s;tly Fa|ther, he had confe&s;&s;ed his &s;innes, and receaued ab&s;o|lution; and then at la&s;t gaue vp his gho&s;t, lately redee|med from out the jawes of hell, into the hands of his Creatour.</P>
<P>He recouered immedia|tely a certaine man called <HI>Ba&s;tida,</HI> who had been many yeares &s;ick of the falling &s;icknes, by ca&s;ting vp his eyes and prayers for him to Heauen.</P>
<P><PB N="186" REF="106">He often cha&s;ed the De|uil out of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed per&s;ons, by the &s;igne of the cro&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>He re&s;tored a woman to health, who lay halfe dead of a Con&s;umption.</P>
<P>He deliuered one <HI>Simon Rodriguez,</HI> being al&s;o at deaths dore, from his di|&s;ea&s;e, by a pious embrace.</P>
<P><HI>Iohn Bapti&s;ta Coce,</HI> who by accident one euening, had &s;o burnt his hand, that it became vtterly vn&s;eruicea|ble, and di&s;abled for any manuall function, the next day, by his prayers, had his hand healed and re&s;tored.</P>
<P>Returning &s;ick, into his Country, of a quotidian
<PB N="187" REF="106">ague, and preaching often in the open feilds (becau&s;e the Churches were not ca|pable of the concur&s;e of people) howbeit his wea|kenes would not permit him to rai&s;e his voyce a|loud, yet euery word of his &s;ermon was perfectly and di&s;tinctly heatd, and vnder&s;tood of all men, for the compa&s;&s;e of more then three hundred paces.</P>
<P>Comming once to vi&s;ite one <HI>Alexander Petronio,</HI> who lay &s;ick in a darke &amp; clo&s;e chamber and bed, in regard the windowes and dores were kept &s;hut, to keep out the light, he repleni&s;hed
<PB N="188" REF="107">the chamber with &s;uperna|tural &s;plendour of his face, and recouered the &s;ick per|&s;on.</P>
<P>He freed one <HI>Eleutherio Pomano,</HI> who had been greiuiou&s;ly mole&s;ted, for the &s;pace of more then two yeares, with certaine foule tentations of the Deuill, by his only &s;eing, and di&s;|cour&s;ing with the party. <HI>Which</HI> (&s;aith S. Bernard in the like ca&s;e) <HI>I prefer before the miracle of rai&s;ing a dead body: becau&s;e there only the exteriour but here the interiour man is re&s;tored to life.</HI></P>
<P>The Colledge of <HI>Loreto</HI> being fearefully haunted
<PB N="189" REF="107">with &s;pirits, appearing in &s;undry foule &s;hapes of men &amp; bea&s;ts, and the ordinary exorci&s;mes, and other cere|monies v&s;uall hauing been applied, and tho&s;e fearefull apparitions neuerthele&s;&s;e not cea&s;ing: the Rector of the Colledge addre&s;&s;ed him&s;elfe, by letters, to <HI>Saint Ignatius,</HI> commen|ding the bu&s;ines to his holy &s;acrifices &amp; prayers. Who no &s;ooner receaued newes of it, but he ab|&s;olutely &s;reed the hou&s;e, from tho&s;e haunts of the ill &s;pirit, by his prayers and letter, not for the pre|&s;ent
<PB N="190" REF="108">only, but for euer af|ter.</P>
<P><HI>S. Ignatius</HI> his linnen, being wa&s;hed with deuotion by a certayne deuout woman, re&s;tored life and motion to her withered and dead Arme.</P>
<P>One <HI>I&s;aac,</HI> a Iew, refu&s;ing, with a pa&s;&s;ionate ob&s;tinacy to become Chri&s;tian, and contemning curte&s;yes and al other cour&s;es taken with him by others, was by S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> &s;oone &s;atisfed, ap|pea&s;ed, and per&s;waded to be bapti&s;ed, by the only vttering of the&s;e three words: <HI>Mane nobi&s;eum I&s;aac.</HI> A certaine per&s;on of note,
<PB N="191" REF="108">being of a more turbulent &s;pirit then was fit longer to be endured, and S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> not being able by gentle per&s;ua&s;ions, to cure his di|&s;ea&s;ed mind, changing at la&s;t his &s;tile, and beginning to call vpon the Iu&s;tice of God, and repre&s;ent vnto him the vengeance of Hea|uen, he did it with &s;uch a feeling, and expre&s;&s;ion of feruour, that the walls and hou&s;e appeared to him to tremble and &s;hake with horrour. With the &s;ight of which the &s;tanders by bei~g &s;troken, immediately fell vpon their knees, implo|ring the mercy of God, by
<PB N="192" REF="109">their prayers and vowes. And the delinquent pro|&s;trating him&s;elfe at the feet of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> and with a voyce of confu&s;ion, beg|ging pardon for his of|fence, promi&s;ed from then|ce-foreward an ame~dment of him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>Father <HI>Leonard Ke&s;&s;elius</HI> re&s;iding at <HI>Collen,</HI> had a ve|hement de&s;ire to &s;ee <HI>S. Igna|tius,</HI> then at <HI>Rome,</HI> aboue 300. leagues di&s;tant from thence: And hauing be|&s;ought the B. Father by letters, that it might be lawfull for him to trauell a foot to <HI>Rome,</HI> he made an|&s;wer, that his pre&s;ence was
<PB N="193" REF="109">nece&s;&s;ary at <HI>Collen,</HI> for the good of others; enjoyning him be&s;ides not to &s;tir from thence, for that Almighty God peradue~ture, by &s;ome other cour&s;e, might &s;o pro|uide that he might &s;ee him, without the paynes and toyle of &s;o tedious a iour|ney. The Father therfore being one day at his praiers S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> appeared vnto him, being yet aline and breathing, and di&s;cour&s;ed long with him, to his infi|nite contentment.</P>
<P>The B. Father, lying of|te~ &s;ick, if in the meane time, any difficulty hapned, for the &s;olui~g of which his ver|tue
<PB N="194" REF="110">and wi&s;dome was re|quired, he &s;eemed, in a manner, to be perfectly re|couered and his mind gui|ding his body, appeared a &s;ound man. So that it be|came familiar to them of the hou&s;hould, as often as he fell &s;ick, to de&s;ire that &s;ome bu&s;ines of con&s;e|quence might happen, for the facilitating of which <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> might ri&s;e, and be quit of his de&s;ea&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="195" REF="110">
<HEAD>Diuers miracles wrought by <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> after his decea&s;e.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XVII.</HEAD>
<P>IN the proce&s;&s;es for the Canonization of <HI>S. Igna|tius,</HI> commenced by the au|thority of the Ordinaryes fir&s;t, &amp; afterwards by that of the Sea Apo&s;tolicke, more then two hundred miracles are related, wrought by the merits and interce&s;&s;ion of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> after his decea&s;e: Be&s;ides which, there are diuers o|ther as authenticall, not yet
<PB N="196" REF="111">publi&s;hed (becau&s;e tho&s;e former for his Canoniza|tion were more then &s;uffi|cient) confirmed neuerthe|le&s;&s;e by the graue te&s;timo|nies of men beyond excep|tion, and printed at <HI>Rome</HI> and other parts of <HI>Italy;</HI> in <HI>Spaine</HI> and in <HI>Germany,</HI> and other places, by the appro|bation of them whom it concerneth to approue the~. Here only I wil relate &s;ome few, becau&s;e my breuity promi&s;ed will not permit many&punc;</P>
<P>When the body of S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> lay expo&s;ed vpon the Beere, for the perfor|mance of his funerall rites,
<PB N="197" REF="111">one <HI>Bernadina</HI> a Roma~, had a vehement de&s;ire to bring a daughter of hers, who had been lo~g troubled with the Emerodes, &s;o greiueou|&s;ly that no art of phi&s;icke could cure her, to ki&s;&s;e the hands of his dead body, a&s;&s;uring her &s;elfe the reco|uery of her daughter, by that touch: but the daugh|ter, tra~&s;ported often tymes by the pre&s;&s;e of people, not being able, for the throng, to approach neare the bo|dy, her mother layd hould of a piece of his garment, &amp; had no &s;ooner applied it to her daughters body, but &s;he was quit of her di&s;ea&s;e. Father
<PB N="198" REF="112">daughters body, but &s;he was quit of her di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>Father <HI>Nicolas B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hadilla,</HI> hauing been long &s;ick of an ague, was recouered by lying in the bed of <HI>S. Igna|tius.</HI></P>
<P>At <HI>Manre&s;a,</HI> a certaine Lady of quality, feeling no liuing motion of her child in her wo~be, for the &s;pace of three howers before &s;he was brought to bed, at la&s;t was deliuered of a dead child: the vnfortunate &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e of which being much lamented by the &s;tanders, by, the rather becau&s;e the child had not been chri&s;t|ned; the midwife, about
<PB N="199" REF="112">halfe an hower after the deliuery of the woman, implored with confidence the help of <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI> And had &s;car&s;e begun her pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">y|ers, but the child, before pale and black, returned now to life.</P>
<P><HI>S. Ignatiu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> being be&s;ought for the life of a little dead infant of an Indian woma~s; re&s;tored the child to life.</P>
<P>He re&s;tored many blind men their &s;ight, deafe men their hearing, lame men their limmes: cured men &s;troken with the pal&s;ey; others giuen ouer by the phi&s;icians, and lying at deaths dore, he re&s;tored
<PB N="200" REF="113">perfectly to their health. He appeared to many after his decea&s;e, either deliue|ring them from greiuious tentations, or freeing them from their di&s;ea&s;es, or o|ther dangers, or giuing them good coun&s;ell, or fo|retelling them things to come, or comforting &s;uch as &s;erued him with diuine con&s;olations. And in his iourney to heauen, at the very in&s;tant of his decea&s;e at <HI>Rome</HI> (as afterward appe|ared by the computation of howers) he appeared in glory to that noble and Re|ligious Lady <HI>Margareta de Lilus,</HI> commending the So|ciety
<PB N="201" REF="113">to her, as to a princi|pall benefactre&s;&s;e of the Colledge of <HI>Bolonia.</HI></P>
<P>Many Deuils haue been ca&s;t out of po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed per|&s;ons, and out of hou&s;es which they haunted, by the reliques of the holy Fa|ther, or by hanging vp his picture.</P>
<P>The oile of the lampe, which burneth before his body, hath wrought many &s;trange cures.</P>
<P>He hath ea&s;ed many wo|men who haue called vpon him, in the extreamity of their, child-bearing la|bours: and be&s;towed chil|dren vpon barren women.</P>
<P>At <HI>Carpentras</HI> a certaine
<PB N="202" REF="114">woman being deliuered of a child without motion, &amp; of the complexion of a black-moor; &s;o that it was doubtfull what cour&s;e was to be taken, in this prodi|gious accident, whether the child ought to be chri&s;tned or no, or whether it were to be deferred till &s;ome motion were di&s;co|uered in it. At la&s;t by the per&s;ua&s;ion of a certaine Chanon, they implored the aide of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> by which the child was &s;ud|dainely not recouered only but &s;o recouered that his countenance became che|refull and faire,</P>
<P><PB N="203" REF="114">He cured diuers of the pleuri&s;ie.</P>
<P>He protected many men from the fury of their ene|myes. Others being fallen head-long from &s;ome dan|gerous precipice, were de|fended from all hurt, by inuoking his name.</P>
<P>At <HI>Ce&s;enza,</HI> one <HI>Angelo Lopez,</HI> vpon the Eue of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> in expre&s;&s;ion of his affection, had filled his windowes with many pa|per-lanterns, adding to each lanterne the picture of the Saint, and, with in|finite demon&s;trations of gratulation, repeated often the&s;e words: <HI>Io Loyola, B.
<PB N="204" REF="115">Pater to!</HI> But, in the mid&s;t of this triumph, by chance it came to pa&s;&s;e, that by the greatnes of the wind, the fire had taken hould of his lanterns; which when it was ob&s;erued by &s;ome ra&s;|callity of the vulgar, they began to &s;coffe at this de|uotion, vpbraiding the man for his &s;uper&s;tition, and with a bitter allu&s;ion to his <HI>Motto</HI> of triumph, in|uert the words of it thus: <HI>At, at, Beatus vritur: at, Lo|yola crematur!</HI> At which the man growing infinitely out of patience, out of his &s;en&s;e of this irreligion v&s;ed to S. <HI>Ignatius; And I for
<PB N="205" REF="115">my part,</HI> quoth he, <HI>haue &s;o high an e&s;teeme of the &s;anct<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">y of the B. Father, that I beleiue him to be able to protect his cin|ged picture from the fire</HI> Nei|ther was he deceaued in his beleife; for the flame ha|uing con&s;umed the paper round about it, forbore to touch the picture, either in demon&s;tration of the Sanctity of the B. Father, or in ob&s;eruancy of the zeale of him who de&s;i|red it.</P>
<P>At <HI>Braga,</HI> a certaine woma~ hauing been lately brought a bed, was &s;o much weake|ned, for many dayes after, with a continual flux of
<PB N="206" REF="116">bloud, that life could har|dly be kept in her from fol|lowing the cour&s;e of the flux: who drinking of the water into which her child had been dipped, hauing been wrapped im|mediatly before in the gar|ments of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> her flux &s;uddainely &s;topped, and &s;he recouered her ac|cu&s;tomed &s;trength.</P>
<P>In the Towne of <HI>Gui|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">arent,</HI> a ceataine woman, hauing already lo&s;t the v&s;e of her &s;ight and hearing, and receaued the holy oile and other rites of the Church, lay vtterly out of her &s;en&s;es: and whil&s;t &s;ome
<PB N="207" REF="116">about her, out of deuotion, were endeauoring to put her in mind of her la&s;t words, a certayne woman, who in curte&s;y &s;ate by to vi&s;ite her, called to remem|brance that a little piece of the guirdle <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> v&s;ed in his life tyme, had lately been &s;ent to her, by a &s;onne of hers of the Society; which &s;he with great con|fidence, and reuerence towards God, pre&s;ently applied to the &s;ick woman: which done, &s;he began to recouer her &s;en&s;es by de|grees, to breath, to &s;treatch out her hands, and make &s;ignes for meate; to the ad|miration
<PB N="208" REF="117">of the Phi&s;itians, for the &s;uddainne&s;&s;e of the cure: all which things were afterwards confir|med, by the atte&s;tations of &s;worne witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>At <HI>Caglari</HI> a certaine el|der Brother &s;natching vp a knife at dinner tyme, hurt his yonger Brother in the eye: and at the &s;ame tyme, the daughter of a certayne Gentleman, car|uing at the table, was &s;ore|ly hurt, in like manner, in one of her eyes. Both which, calling vpon the aide of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> were deliuered from daunger, beyond expectation.</P>
<P><PB N="209" REF="117">An other woman had been &s;o weakned, for the &s;pace of four monethes, with continuall paynes, that &s;he was vtterly de|priued of the v&s;e of her feete: But the fea&s;t of <HI>S. Ig|natius</HI> drawing neare, &s;he, de&s;irous to partake of the common iollity expre&s;&s;ed that day in our Church, was not fru&s;trated of her de&s;ire; for her paine cea&s;ing and her feete bei~g re&s;tored to their wonted &s;tre~gth, &s;he came thither with ioy to haue a &s;hare in the deuotio~.</P>
<P>In the &s;ame place, vpon the Eue of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> the A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lltiery playing round, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"> infant who could
<PB N="210" REF="118">not &s;peake, and who had neuer heard the name of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> cryed out, to the admiration of all &s;tanders by: <HI>To morrow is the day of B. Ignatius.</HI> But they who were pre&s;ent, hearing a thing &s;o full of wounder, for experiment &s;ake, de|maunded againe of the child, what was to be done to morrrow; who an&s;we|red as before.</P>
<P>At <HI>Maiorca</HI> dwelt a cer|taine woma~, who through the contraction of her &s;i|newes, was become &s;o lame, that &s;he could not go without crutches: the whole towne therfore bei~g,
<PB N="211" REF="118">filled with the noi&s;es of trumpets, voyces, &amp; other mu&s;icall in&s;truments, Al|mighty God in&s;pired her with a de&s;ire of vi&s;iting our Church, Who put her &s;elfe in readines to go, not|with&s;tanding the di&s;&s;ua|&s;ions of her &s;i&s;ter, who fea|red &s;he might mi&s;carry: by the pre&s;&s;e of people. She neuerthele&s;&s;e gaue no eare to her di&s;&s;ua&s;ions, but put her &s;elfe vpon the way, and was &s;uddainely cured and recouered &s;trength in her feet. And throwing a way her crutches, without any helpe betooke her &s;elfe to the Church, where in
<PB N="212" REF="119">thanks-giuing, &s;he cau&s;ed a Ma&s;&s;e of the B. Sacra|ment to be &s;aid.</P>
<P>An other woman, who &s;ome yeares pa&s;t had recea|ued her &s;ight by the mea|nes of this B. Father, lying now againe de&s;perately &s;ick, and being giuen ouer by foure Phi&s;icians, not forgetful by whom &s;he had receaued light before, now againe repo&s;ed all her ho|pes and con&s;idence in the &s;ame Phi&s;ician. One night therfore &s;he called out vpon one of the women, who were accu&s;tomed to watch with her: <HI>Make ha&s;t,</HI> quoth &s;he, <HI>come hither with
<PB N="213" REF="119">&s;peed, and behould this glorious splendour: O if thou had&s;t come &s;ooner thou shoulde&s;t haue be|held my</HI> S. Ignatius <HI>vi&s;iting me; for I am now recouered, and perfectly well.</HI> And the euent confirmed it to be true. For the Phi&s;icians them&s;elues could not deny, but that &s;he was cured by &s;ome &s;ecret power.</P>
<P>At <HI>Monte in Gallicia,</HI> a great fire, raging for many dayes toagether, and con|&s;uming a certaine wood, gathered &s;till n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">w forces, di&s;per&s;ing and &s;preading: it &s;elfe far and neare, there being no human meanes to &s;top or re&s;traine it; To
<PB N="214" REF="120">which the wind ry&s;ing, vpon a &s;uddaine, droue the flame towards the Barnes and bordering Towne, &s;o that the fire was now ad|uanced within three or foure paces of the Corne and hou&s;es: a certaine per|&s;on therefore, taking the picture of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> which he had about him, and fal|ling to his prayers, threw it into the mid&s;t of the fla|mes, there where the fire raged mo&s;t, and threatned greate&s;t ruine: and imme|diatly the fury and rage of it cea&s;ed, the flames which flew highe&s;t de&s;cended and vani&s;hed, &amp; the whole
<PB N="215" REF="120">fire returned vpon a &s;ud|daine from whence it be|gan. And which is worth admiration, a certaine wo|man who had ob&s;erued the throwing in of the picture, leaping into the mid&s;t of the &s;moaking brands, raked away the a&s;hes with her fingers; and being vnhurt, brought away the picture from the mid&s;t of the burni~g coales.</P>
<P>At <HI>Friburg,</HI> a little child of three yeares of age, by chance had broaken his arme; the mother of whom &s;earing the di&s;plea&s;ure of her hu&s;band, being then ab&s;ent, inuoketh the help
<PB N="216" REF="121">of S. <HI>Ignatius:</HI> but she had &s;car&s;e ended her prayers, when, to her infinite con|tentment, she found her child before her eyes, whole and without hurt.</P>
<P><HI>S. Ignatius.</HI> being inuo|ked, wrought a pre&s;ent cure vpon diuers who had been &s;orely wounded: who&s;e cure would other|wi&s;e haue exacted a long tyme.</P>
<P>Many men, by the pre|&s;ence of S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> his pi|cture, or by the application or touch of his reliques, haue cured the plague, when it raged mo&s;t &s;orely, and con&s;umed multitudes.</P>
<P><PB N="217" REF="121">A certaine Noble man at <HI>Plata</HI> perceauing the skie to be ouerca&s;t with thick clowds, and fearing a great &s;poile of his Corne; lying yet open in the feild, made a vowe to <HI>S Ignatius;</HI> for the preuenting of the tem|pe&s;t: &s;o that when all the adioyning territoryes &s;welled with flouds of raine, not a drop had tou|ched; or fallen vpon his feilds.</P>
<P>At <HI>Naples,</HI> one <HI>Vincentio Pagano</HI> hauing prepared certayne artificiall fires for the celebration of the fea&s;t of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> had daunge|rou&s;ly through his owne,
<PB N="218" REF="122">folly, &s;corched his hand. Vpon which accident, certayne women of his ac|quaintance began to flock about him, applying to his burnt hand a note or &s;u|per&s;cription of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> his hand-writing; the touch of which pre&s;ently ea&s;ed his paine, and the raging of the burnt part, which v&s;ually cea&s;eth not till a certayne day, was out of hand appea&s;ed.</P>
<P>At <HI>Catanzaro</HI> a certayne pious woman, hauing a &s;onne by one <HI>Gaspar Mari|&s;cano</HI> her hu&s;band, out of her deuotion to <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI>
<PB N="219" REF="122">had a de&s;ire to haue him chri&s;tned by the name of <HI>Ignatius,</HI> how beit her hu&s;|band (in regard the reli|ques of <HI>S. Ireneus</HI> were pre|&s;erued in that Citty) had rather the child &s;hould haue been called <HI>Ireneus:</HI> but in conclu&s;ion, after much debate about the bu&s;ines, they concluded the child &s;hould be named <HI>Ignatius Ireneus.</HI> But this contention occa&s;ioned many differences after|wards betwixt the man &amp; wife: for the wife, euer after, called her child <HI>Igna|tius,</HI> and gaue a &s;trict com|maund to them of her hou&s;
<PB N="220" REF="123">hould to do the like; and <HI>Gaspar,</HI> on the other &s;ide, commaunded them to call him <HI>Ireneus.</HI> The difference had co~tinued thus betwixt them, almo&s;t the &s;pace of three monethes, when ar|guing the bu&s;ines, one morning, they both grew &s;omewhat hot, till the Fa|ther, at la&s;t, in ie&s;t: <HI>VVell,</HI> quoth he, <HI>let the &s;trife be put to the arbitrement of the child him&s;elfe:</HI> to which the Mother was contented to agree; where vpon the Fa|ther, in merriment, de|maunded of his child, at that tyme but three mone|thes old, by what name he
<PB N="221" REF="123">would haue him&s;elf called? when, behould, the child miraculou&s;ly receaued the v&s;e of his tongue, di&s;tinctly pronouncing the name of <HI>Ignatius.</HI> Which voyce &s;o tooke his Father with ad|miration of the miracle, that from thence-foreward he gaue order his child &s;hould be called <HI>Ignatius,</HI> dedicating him to the &s;er|uice of <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI></P>
<P>In the Territory of <HI>Peru,</HI> in the <HI>We&s;t Indies,</HI> one <HI>Chri|&s;topher Martinez de Peredes,</HI> for the &s;pace of foure yea|res togeather, was forced through the lamene&s;&s;e of
<PB N="222" REF="124">his feet, to make v&s;e of one crutch in the beginning, &amp; afterwards of two: who hearing vpon the fea&s;t of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> the triumph of the people: <HI>And shall I,</HI> quoth he, <HI>vpon this day, when all men are in iollity, re|maine as it were an vnbidden gue&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">? shall</HI> I <HI>alone remaine de&s;titute?</HI> Which words he had &s;car&s;e vttered, when his feete recouered forces, and he found him&s;elfe &s;o &s;trong, that early the next morning, without any other helpe, he betooke him&s;elfe to the Colledge.</P>
<P>One <HI>Benedicto Lopez</HI> Pre|fect of the &s;iluer mines,
<PB N="223" REF="124">pur&s;uing a certaine Ethio|pian fugitiue, was &s;et vpon by fiue others at vnawar|res, who &s;tabbing and but|chering him in &s;undry pla|ces, dragged him from his hor&s;e, in a mo&s;t barbarous manner. In which his ex|tremityes he implored the aide of <HI>S Ignatius,</HI> who pre|&s;ently pre&s;ented him&s;elfe to him in the&s;e exigents, &amp; laving hould of his Cloake, bore of, with both hands, the blowes of his enemyes, &s;o that at la&s;t (his enemyes being depar|ted, and the B. Father va|ni&s;hed (he found him&s;elfe &s;afe, and without hurt, &s;a|uing
<PB N="224" REF="125">that his hat and other garments were pierced.</P>
<P>A certaine Lady at <HI>Auig|nion,</HI> had a &s;onne much af|flicted with a violent con|tinuall feauer, who be&s;ides the de&s;ea&s;e it &s;elfe, with the violence of it, had one of his hands di&s;iointed, and in a deformed manner, turned the wrong &s;ide out|ward; &s;o that in the opinion of the Phi&s;icians, he was in danger of the lo&s;&s;e of his hand, if not of his life with it. Which la|mentable ca&s;e, a certaine Religious woman, allied to the &s;ick youth, compa&s;|&s;ionating,
<PB N="225" REF="125">vowed three Ma&s;&s;es, and as many waxe candles to <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> for the health of her kin&s;man. Which done, the youth im|mediately recouered; and in a more infallible con|firmation of the miracle, his hand was replaced in the right place.</P>
<P>At <HI>Bercelona,</HI> one <HI>Eliza|beth Rebelles</HI> a Religious woman, being in &s;ome high place bu&s;y about her worke, vpon a &s;uddaine vnfortunately tumbled headlong to the ground, &amp; receaued &s;o &s;ore a blow, that her thigh-bone, which is the &s;ollide&s;t bone
<PB N="226" REF="126">of the body, was vtterly broken. The Phi&s;ician &amp; Chirurgian were imme|diately called, who for more then fourty dayes to|geather, with what dili|gence was po&s;&s;ible, applied all the remedyes their arts afforded, how beit to little purpo&s;e. In conclu&s;ion, the &s;ick woman was brought to tho&s;e termes, that in all mens iudgements, &s;he was pa&s;t recouery, and as it was conceaued, could not la&s;t longer then that day. Yet notwith&s;tanding, as &s;oone as a Relique of <HI>S Ignatius</HI> was applied to her hart, &s;he pre&s;ently recouered.
<PB N="227" REF="126">One <HI>Hierome Humphrey;</HI> aboy of ten yeares of age: vpon one of his eye-browes, neare the te~ples had recea|ued a mortal wou~d, which occa&s;ioned an inflamma|tion in his eye, &amp; ca&s;t him into a feauer. For which the Chirurgian had him in cure a moneth, not being able to helpe him; for the wound did not only not heale, but grew &s;o deepe and wide, that it receaued a tent of a &s;inger long, and voided &s;o much filth as amazed the Chirurgian. The Mother of the child made a vow to S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> commending her child to
<PB N="228" REF="127">him; and behould, when (an other Chirurgian, in the meane tyme hauing been called, for the better con&s;ulting about the cure) the bands of the &s;ore were vnfoulded, they found the wound perfectly healed, clo&s;ed vp, and &s;ound.</P>
<P>One <HI>Ferdinando Pertel</HI> ha|uing fallen into a Tercian ague, which afterwards proued a double Tercian, and at la&s;t a pe&s;tile~t feauer, with a kind of rauing and fearefull horrour of his &s;en&s;es, was for&s;aken by the Phi&s;icians, and lay in his la&s;t extremity. Being ther|fore prepared with all the
<PB N="229" REF="127">Rites of the Church, and inuoking S. <HI>Ignatius;</HI> who&s;e picture he held in his had, he began &s;uddainly to re|couer; and was cured of his di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>One <HI>Anne Barzellona,</HI> a woman of thre&s;core yea|res of age, hauing for aboue the &s;pace of two yeares, been &s;o mi&s;erably &s;troken with the pal&s;ey, that &s;he was vnfit for any labour, and vnable, with|out crutches, to go vp and downe &s;taires, and with her crutches al&s;o &s;eemed rather to creept then go; to which when the applica|tion of no remedyes would
<PB N="230" REF="128">&s;erue, and she be&s;ides was taken with an apoplexie in her other &s;ide, &s;o that &s;he became impotent, and was confined to her bed: Finding her&s;elfe thus void of all human helpe, by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of her crutches, and one <HI>Margaret</HI> her &s;i&s;ter, &s;he betooke her&s;elfe to a Chappel of <HI>S Ignatius,</HI> two howers trauelling di&s;tant from her lodging. Where, making a vowe in honour of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> immediatly &s;he began to find her&s;elfe better, and was able to bow her knee, which be|fore was growne &s;tiffe: And hauing ended her de|notions,
<PB N="231" REF="128">aro&s;e full of con|tentment, and returned a ioyfull woman, nimbly to her lodging.</P>
<P>A bone and &s;uper&s;cri|ption of S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> being applied to the eyes of a cer|taine Widdow of <HI>Matorca,</HI> called <HI>Iane Clara Noguera,</HI> who was blind, re&s;tored her her &s;ight.</P>
<P>Diuers other Miracles of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> are related in a late life of his, &s;et forth by Father <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o Ribadeneira</HI> in Spani&s;h, printed at <HI>Ma|drid</HI> in the yeare 1601. and tran&s;lated by others into <HI>Latin, Greeke, Italian,</HI> the <HI>Poland</HI> and other langua|ges,
<PB N="232" REF="129">and publi&s;hed in the cheife Cittyes of <HI>Italy, Spai|ne, France, Germany</HI> and other places, where &s;uch as are curious to peru&s;e them, may find them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the rare Sanctity of <HI>S. Fra|cis Xauerius,</HI> a&s;&s;ociate &amp; &s;pirituall child of <HI>S. Igna|tius;</HI> redounding to the, glory of <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XVIII.</HEAD>
<P>SAint <HI>Francis Xauerius</HI> was borne in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Xauere,</HI> the yeare 1497 of noble Parents, <HI>Iohn La&s;&s;o</HI> Pre&s;ident of the kings
<PB N="233" REF="129">Coun&s;ell, and <HI>Mary Apzi|leueta,</HI> Lord of the Towne of <HI>Xauere,</HI> and other adia|cent Territoryes; by whom he was vertuou&s;ly brought vp and &s;ent to <HI>Paris:</HI> where whil&s;t he was enabling his vnder&s;tanding by his &s;tudyes, he was wonne by the pious di&s;|cour&s;es and &s;pirituall exer|ci&s;es of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> to the warrefare of Chri&s;t, and with him eight other a&s;&s;o|ciates; men of rare parts of vertue &amp; learning. And in conclu&s;ion, after he had &s;pent &s;ome tyme in <HI>Venice, Bolonia</HI> and other Cittyes of <HI>Italy,</HI> as a matchle&s;&s;e ex|ample
<PB N="234" REF="130">of &s;anctity to tho&s;e places, working rare ef|fects by his Sermons and other offices of piety, being now preferred to the di|gnity of Prei&s;thood, at the in&s;tance of <HI>Iohn</HI> the third king of <HI>Portugall,</HI> he was commaunded into <HI>India</HI> by <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> there to conioyne tho&s;e Ea&s;terne nations to Chri&s;t, being honoured for that purpo&s;e by Pope <HI>Paul</HI> the third, with the dignity and au|tority of <HI>Legate Apo&s;tolicall.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>India,</HI> by the foun|dation of many Churches and Colledges, of the So|ciety, he generally di&s;per|&s;ed
<PB N="235" REF="130">and &s;pred the faith of Chri&s;t. He gained fir&s;t the kingdome of <HI>Trauancor</HI> to the faith, then the Iland of <HI>Zeilan, Aurea Cher&s;one&s;us,</HI> the region of <HI>Maurica,</HI> and other barbarous Nations: afterwards <HI>Iaponia,</HI> the vt|termo&s;t climate of the Ea&s;t: where before the name of Chri&s;t had neuer been heard of, receaued by him the light of the Gho&s;pell: a man of an vndainted &s;pirit, contemning in his traueils of tho&s;e va&s;t Countryes, the imminent danger of death, the rauing &amp; pyracyes of the Ocean, with the like di&s;commo|dityes
<PB N="236" REF="131">of his infinite naui|gation. And la&s;tly, he in|tended a voyage into that va&s;t kingdome of <HI>China,</HI> the more to di&s;per&s;e the name and glory of Chri&s;t. He conuerted and bapti|zed, in the ten yeares &s;pace of his re&s;idence in <HI>India,</HI> many hundred thou&s;ands of people: he a&s;&s;i&s;ted many deeply engaged in the filth of &s;inne, <HI>Domino cooperante, &amp; &s;ermonem confirmante, &s;e|quentibus &s;ignis.</HI> For in his life tyme he rai&s;ed more then fourteene dead per|&s;ons.</P>
<P>Vpon the frontiers of <HI>Pi&s;caria</HI> he rai&s;ed a boy,
<PB N="237" REF="131">who for many howers to|gether had layne drowned in a well. In the Towne of <HI>Mutan,</HI> in like manner he rai&s;ed an other boy, who dying of a pe&s;tilent feauer, had remayned dead foure and twenty howers. At <HI>Comire</HI> he rai&s;ed a third body, which had layne buried vnder the earth a whole day togeather. Nee|re the Promontory of <HI>Co|mori,</HI> he rai&s;ed a Girle: not farre from, that place a cer|taine married woman. In the Iland of <HI>Vaccare.</HI> neare <HI>Zeilan,</HI> the &s;onne of a cer|taine Infidell. At <HI>Malaca</HI> the daughter of one who
<PB N="238" REF="132">had beene lately conuerted. At <HI>Bembari</HI> a certayne boy: another at <HI>Comori:</HI> At <HI>Puni|cal</HI> he rai&s;ed a man who had laine dead a whole day. Neare <HI>Manapar</HI> he rai&s;ed one <HI>Antoni Miranda.</HI> At <HI>Malaca,</HI> a certaine mans daughter who had been three dayes buried and ouerwhelmed with earth. He re&s;tored to life in like manner, the &s;onne of one <HI>Mahomet Sarangio,</HI> who had layne three dayes vnder water, to omit others rai&s;ed by him in his life tyme.</P>
<P>And after his death he re&s;tored almo&s;t as many
<PB N="239" REF="132">to life. In the proce&s;&s;es for his Canonization, mention is made of aboue fiue and twenty per&s;ons rai&s;ed by him from death to life. He often re&s;tored blind men to their &s;ight. Di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed per&s;ons: cured many lying de&s;perate, and giuen ouer by the Phi|&s;icians, healed lepars, cal|med tempe&s;tuous Seas, pre&s;erued &s;hips fro~ wracks re&s;tored the lame to their limmes, and recouered men &s;troken with the pal|&s;ey. He foretold infallibly many things to come, pe|netrated mens concealed thoughts, had a certayne
<PB N="240" REF="133">knowledge of &s;ecrets, and things ab&s;ent. He appea|red in diuers places farre di&s;tant, at one and the &s;elfe &s;ame tyme. He &s;pake &s;eue|rall languages, which he had neuer learned, as rea|dily, congruou&s;ly, and eloquently as if he had been borne and bred among&s;t tho&s;e Nations. And it fell out oftentymes, that at &s;uch tymes as he preached to multitudes of people, men of &s;euerall Nations, at the &s;ame tyme, heard him vtter their owne language. And with one and the &s;elfe &s;ame an&s;wer, he often &s;atisfied the de|maunds
<PB N="241" REF="133">of &s;euerall Infi|dells. He was &s;o rauished and tran&s;ported with the de&s;ire and loue of God, that he was often miracu|lou&s;ly rai&s;ed from the ground, with a countenan|ce inflamed, eyes &s;park|ling and fixed vpon the heauens, and being &s;ur|charged with cele&s;tiall ioy, was forced to exclaime: <HI>Sat e&s;t, Domine, &s;at e&s;t.</HI> By the &s;igne of the cro&s;&s;e he tur|ned &s;altwater into fre&s;h, in &s;euerall ve&s;&s;ells at Sea. Hauing dipped a bra&s;en Crucifix, which he wore about his neck into the Sea, to appea&s;e a tempe&s;t,
<PB N="242" REF="134">and by accident lo&s;t it; walking the next day, vpon the &s;hoare, he e&s;pied a &s;ea crab miraculou&s;ly brin|ging him his crucifix in his clawes, which hauing de|liuered it, &s;uddainely re|turned back into the Sea, from whence it came.</P>
<P>He ended his dayes in the I&s;le of <HI>Sancion,</HI> neare <HI>China,</HI> vpon the &s;econd day of De|cember, in the yeare 1552. famous for many miracles, and all ornaments of San|ctity. His body was found entire long after his death, how beit in was neither bowelled nor baulmed, but buried in quick lime:
<PB N="243" REF="134">and it appeared, many mo|nothes after his decea&s;e, liuely, full of iuyce and fre&s;h colour, &s;oft and tra|ctable, &s;ending forth an admirable &s;weet &s;auour, and many tymes bleeding. For whith he was honou|red and reputed a <HI>Saint</HI> im|mediatly after his death, not only among&s;t Chri|&s;tians, but euen among the Infidells; the rather for the many miracles dayly wrought by him. It appea|reth by the proce&s;&s;es for his Canonization that many dead bodyes were rai&s;ed by him, after his death: that many lamps
<PB N="244" REF="135">burned before his body, with water only put into them, as clearely as if they had been filled with oyle, which being often-tymes extingui&s;hed, tooke fire againe of them&s;elues, with|out human helpe: that diuers were cured by him, or by his reliques, or pi|cture, of lepro&s;y, pal&s;ey, blindnes, bloudy-fluxes, cankers, vlcers and other de&s;perate and incurable di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>This &s;o eminent man, de&s;eruedly &s;tiled <HI>the Apo|stle of the Indiaes,</HI> euer had <HI>Saint Ignatius</HI> in &s;o great veneration, that as often
<PB N="245" REF="135">as he named him before his familiar acquaintance, he gaue him the Epithet of <HI>Saint</HI> or <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed;</HI> and when|&s;oeuer he wrote to him, he did it with reuerence, vpon his knees: and in his Reli|quary he wore the name of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> cut out of a letter of his to him, as the relique, of &s;ome great <HI>Saint,</HI> whil&s;t yet he was aliue. He &s;uffered him&s;elfe to be gui|ded like a child by <HI>S. Igna|tius,</HI> depending wholy of him, and euer cheri&s;hing in his bre&s;t an admirable opinion of his &s;anctity, which vpon all occa&s;ions, he de&s;ired to expre&s;&s;e.
<PB N="246" REF="136"><HI>VVhich words</HI> (&s;aith S. Chri&s;o&s;tome, in the like &s;ubiect, hom. 1. ad popu|lum) <HI>do &s;ufficiently demon|&s;trate and &s;peake all his vertues. for the iudgments of Saints goe not either by fauour or disfa|uour, but are to be held vnque|&s;tionable.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>The B. Virgin <HI>S. Tere&s;ia</HI> added much to the glory of <HI>S. Ignatius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XIX.</HEAD>
<P>IF the glory of the Father be the wi&s;e child, as holy writ expre&s;&s;eth: the B. Vir|gin <HI>S. Tere&s;ia:</HI> that glorious
<PB N="247" REF="136">Foundre&s;&s;e of the <HI>Di&s;ealced Carmelites,</HI> a woman &s;o fa|mous for her admirable and heroicall vertues; who by tho&s;e eminent degrees of Contemplation, arriued to &s;o fa&s;t a freind&s;hip with Chri&s;t, renowned for her writings of my&s;ticall Diui|nity, glorious for her pa|tience and &s;ufferance of la|bours, one &s;o higly e&s;tee|med through the Chri&s;tian world for her reformation of the <HI>Carmelytes,</HI> an <HI>elect &s;pou&s;e</HI> of Chri&s;t, who through her vehemency of diuine loue, was often &s;ur|pri&s;ed with exta&s;ies, a wo|man famous for that fiery
<PB N="248" REF="137">Cherubins dart piercing her bre&s;t, one inflamed with an vnquencheable de&s;ire and thir&s;t of &s;oules, adorned with the flower of pure Virginity, glorious ouer the Chri&s;tian world for her cele&s;tiall vi&s;ions, her &s;pirit of prophecy, her manifold guift of cures, in her life tyme and after: this &s;acred Virgin, I &s;ay, added much to the glory of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> as one who ac|knowledged her&s;elfe a child of his <HI>Society;</HI> making v&s;e of the Fathers of it for her confe&s;&s;ions, and the whole manage of her &s;pi|rituall affayres, and mira|culou&s;ly
<PB N="249" REF="137">came to the know|ledge of many things in prai&s;e of the Society, lea|uing te&s;timonyes of it both by word and writing: and particularly in her <HI>Li&s;e</HI> written by her &s;elfe; by the commaund of a cer|tayne great <HI>Diuine</HI> of the Order of S. <HI>Dominick.</HI> Out of which <HI>Life,</HI> tran&s;lated afterwards into Italian, printed at <HI>Rome</HI> in the yeare 1601. and dedicated to Po|pe <HI>Clement</HI> the eight, by the Arch-Bishop of <HI>Auig|nion.</HI> I will here relate &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages, tran&s;lated word by word into Latin.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="250" REF="138">
<HEAD>In the <HI>5.</HI> Chapter and <HI>47.</HI> page of the &s;aid life, <HI>S. Tere&s;ia</HI> writeth thus.</HEAD>
<P>I Remained in this blind|nes aboue 17. yeares, as I reme~ber, til a certaine lear|ned Father of the Order or S. <HI>Dominick</HI> opened my eyes in &s;ome things and they of the <HI>Society of Ie&s;us,</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed me intyrely with &s;uch fea|res <HI>(to w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">, that certaine &s;innes were not to be e&s;teemed tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">fles, which &s;ome ignorant Gho&s;tly Fathers had taught her to be no &s;inns)</HI> aggrauating my ill conceaued principles, as I will relate hereafter, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="251" REF="138">
<HEAD>In the <HI>23.</HI> Chapter and <HI>236.</HI> page of the &s;ame life, <HI>S. Tere&s;ia</HI> writeht thus.</HEAD>
<P>VVHen the Fathers of the <HI>Society of Ie&s;us</HI> arriued here, to whom I not knowing any of them, found my &s;elfe much addi|cted, only becau&s;e I had vn|der&s;tood as well of their in|&s;ight into matters of Spirit, as of their ma~ner of Praier: but I found not worth in my &s;elfe to di&s;cour&s;e with them, nor &s;trength enough to obey them, &amp;c.</P>
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<PB N="252" REF="139">
<HEAD>And againe in the &s;ame Cha|pter page <HI>239.</HI> the &s;peaketh thus.</HEAD>
<P>IT was for my greater good that I came to know and deale with men &s;o holy as they of the <HI>Society of Ie&s;us. It is here by the way to be noted, that one Antony Kerbeke an Augu&s;tin Friar, in his Latin ver&s;ion of the life of</HI> S. Tere&s;ia (<HI>published at Me~ts, the yeare</HI> 1603. <HI>and printed by Iohn Albin</HI>) <HI>hath omitted this; &amp; almo&s;t all things els written by</HI> S. Tere&s;ia <HI>in prai&s;e of the Society. But what his drift was in it, it is hard to iudge.</HI></P>
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<PB N="253" REF="139">
<HEAD>And in the <HI>244.</HI> page.</HEAD>
<P>I Was afflicted, &s;u&s;pecting my owne mi&s;ery, that they of the hou&s;hould &s;hould &s;ee me deale with per&s;ons of &s;uch Sanctity as <HI>they of the Society,</HI> &amp; I &s;eemed to haue the greater obliga|tion not to become &s;o mi|&s;erable, and to depriue my &s;elf of my idle recreations.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>And againe page <HI>246.</HI> in the end of the Chapter, <HI>S. Tere&s;ia</HI> writeth.</HEAD>
<P>BLe&s;&s;ed be God who gaue me grace (how&s;oe|uer
<PB N="254" REF="140">vnperfectly) to obey my gho&s;tly Fathers, who for the mo&s;t part, were tho&s;e ble&s;&s;ed men of the <HI>Society of Ie&s;us,</HI> and my &s;oule after|wards began to perceaue a manife&s;t amendment, as now I will relate.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>In the <HI>24.</HI> Chapter and <HI>249.</HI> page, she writeth thus of the Society.</HEAD>
<P>I Dwelt not farre from them, reioy&s;ing much that I could haue often communication with them for my only knowing of the holines of their conuer|&s;ation, was the cau&s;e of
<PB N="255" REF="140">that great proficience, I di&s;couered in my &s;oule.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>In the <HI>33.</HI> Chapter and <HI>364.</HI> page, writing of a certaine iourney she made, with licence of her Prouinciall:</HEAD>
<P>I Was much comformed when I vnder&s;tood, that in that place there was a Hou&s;e of the <HI>Society of Ie&s;us.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>In the <HI>38.</HI> Chapter and <HI>421.</HI> page she writheth thus of the Society:</HEAD>
<P>(<HI>SAint</HI> Tere&s;ia <HI>here in her originall manu&s;cript, ex|pre&s;&s;eth the name of the</HI> Socie|ty&punc;
<PB N="256" REF="141"><HI>and reported the &s;ame, by word of mouth: witne&s;&s;e</HI> Ri|bera <HI>in his life of</HI> S. Tere&s;ia <HI>printed at</HI> Rome, <HI>in the</HI> 4. <HI>Booke,</HI> 5. <HI>Chapter, and</HI> 207 <HI>page, which life the Reuerend Father, Friar John a</HI> Ie&s;u Ma|ria, <HI>di&s;calced Carmelite, in his abridgement of</HI> S. Tere&s;ia's <HI>life, printed at</HI> Rome <HI>in the yeare</HI> 1609. <HI>and dedicated to Pope</HI> Paul <HI>the fir&s;t, &s;tileth a hi&s;tory mo&s;t worthy to be cre|dited, in his</HI> 1. <HI>Book,</HI> 1. <HI>Cha|pter and</HI> 4. <HI>page</HI>) <HI>thus, &s;ay</HI> S. Tere&s;ia <HI>writeth of the Socie|ty:</HI> I &s;aw admirable things of &s;ome Religious per&s;ons of a certayne Order, and of the whole Order in ge|nerall;
<PB N="257" REF="141">I oftentymes &s;aw them in Heauen with white banners in their hands, and at other tymes I had the like vi&s;ions full of admiration. In which re&s;pect I hould the &s;aid Or|der in great veneration, as one who haue long con|uer&s;ed with them, and per|ceaue their liues to be con|formable to that which Almighty God hath reuea|led to me, of them. <HI>The &s;ame is to be read in the life of</HI> S. Tere&s;ia. <HI>pag.</HI> 303. <HI>pu|blished in Latin by Martin Martinez, and printed at Col|len, by, Iohn Kinckius, in the yeare</HI> 1620.</P>
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<PB N="258" REF="142">
<HEAD>And in the &s;ame Chapter, in the page <HI>430.</HI> of her life, <HI>S. Tere&s;ia</HI> writeth thus:</HEAD>
<P>FInding my &s;elfe thus much afflicted in &s;oule and body, in a certaine Church of the <HI>Society of Ie|&s;us,</HI> where I was hearing the Ma&s;&s;e which one of the Fathers &s;aid for a Brother of the Society lately decea|&s;ed, I &s;aw him enter into Heauen with great glory, and by a particular fauour, accompany the Maie&s;ty of our Lord.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<PB N="259" REF="142">
<HEAD>In the <HI>39.</HI> Chapter, and <HI>447</HI> page, towards the end.</HEAD>
<P>BEing, <HI>&s;aith she,</HI> in a Church of a certaine Colledge of the <HI>Society,</HI> whil&s;t the Brothers of that Colledge were recea|uing the B. Sacrament, I &s;aw a precious garment (or as the Italian tran&s;la|tion &s;tileth it <HI>Pallio</HI>) hang ouer their heads: and this I &s;aw twice; but when other people communica|ted, I &s;aw no &s;uch thing.</P>
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<PB N="260" REF="143">
<HEAD>In the. <HI>40.</HI> Chapter, and <HI>455.</HI> page of her life, she spe|keth thus of the &s;aid <HI>Society</HI> of <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> witne&s;&s;e <HI>Ribera</HI> in her life writen by him, in his <HI>4.</HI> Booke, and <HI>5.</HI> Chapiter.</HEAD>
<P>BEing vpon a tyme, at my prayers, with great recollection, peace and quietnes, I &s;eemed to my &s;elfe to be placed neare God, and inuironed with Angels, where I be&s;ought his diuine Maie&s;ty for the good of the Church. And it was reuealed to me what profit &s;hould accrew to the Church, by a certayne
<PB N="261" REF="143">Religious Order in the la|ter dayes, together with the fortitude with which that Order &s;hould vphold the Church. <HI>And</HI> Ribera, <HI>in the place aboue mentioned, expre&s;&s;eth the&s;e words &s;poken then by Chri&s;t, to</HI> S. Tere&s;ia, <HI>to haue been vnder&s;tood of the</HI> Society of Ie&s;us, <HI>as</HI> Martin Martinez <HI>tran&s;lateth them pag</HI> 307. Oh, if thou did&s;t know what &s;upplies tho&s;e men shall bring to the de|caying Church, in after ages! &amp;c. Which vi&s;ion &s;he &s;aith &s;he often had. And howbeit in that life of S. <HI>Tere&s;ia</HI> which goeth about in print, the name of the
<PB N="162" REF="144"><HI>Society</HI> is not particularly expre&s;&s;ed, yet in the ori|ginall life, and in all writ|ten copies I haue &s;een of it, the name of the <HI>Society</HI> is particularly v&s;ed. And the&s;e words of our Sauiour &s;he repeateth againe in the 40. Chapter, how&s;oeuer not expre&s;&s;ing the name of the <HI>Society</HI> which as I &s;aid, is apparent, and receaued from the mouth of <HI>S. The|re&s;ia</HI> her &s;elfe. So <HI>Martinez.</HI></P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>S. Tere&s;ia</HI> hea|ring one day the Ma&s;&s;e of <HI>F. Balthazar Aluarez</HI> of the <HI>Society</HI> of <HI>Ie&s;us</HI> her Gho&s;tly Father, &s;aw him crowned with a Crowne of won|derfull
<PB N="163" REF="144">brightnes, all the tyme his Ma&s;&s;e endured, as <HI>Lewis de la Puente</HI> recoun|teth in the life of <HI>F. Alua|rez. c.</HI> 6. &sect; 1. <HI>pag.</HI> 69.</P>
<P>It was reuealed to <HI>S. Te|re&s;ia</HI> that the &s;aid <HI>F. Alua|rez</HI> her Gho&s;tly Father &s;hould be &s;aued, and our Sauiour &s;hewed her an eminent place in Heauen which he was to enioy, adding, that he was at that pre&s;ent arriued to &s;o high a degree of perfection in this world, as was not ex|ceeded by any man then aliue; that according to that degree his &s;eate in Heauen was prepared,
<PB N="264" REF="145">&amp; that he was gon beyond the perfection of all crea|tures then vpon the earth, and yet then the Church of God was well &s;tored with men of rare Sanctity, as well in the <HI>Society</HI> as out of it. This reuelation S. <HI>Tere&s;ia</HI> di&s;couered to <HI>F. Bal|tazar</HI> him&s;elfe, and other Fathers of the <HI>Society;</HI> and to &s;ome of her owne Mo|na&s;tery, &amp; other Religious per&s;ons who reported it as a truth infallible. She noted it al&s;o in her &s;ecret Notes which fell afterwards into the hands of <HI>Diego Iepe&s;io</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Tarazona</HI> who &s;et forth her life in Spani&s;h, in
<PB N="265" REF="145">the yeare 1606. and dedica|ted it to Pope <HI>Paul</HI> the fifth, among&s;t which Notes, he finding this reuelation, im|parted it to others as <HI>Lewis de la Puente</HI> writeth in the life of <HI>F. Aluarez</HI> &sect;. 2. <HI>pag.</HI> 124. <HI>and</HI> 126.</P>
<P>The &s;aid S. <HI>Tere&s;ia,</HI> being demaunded by one of her Nu~ns, whether &s;he thought it would any way auaile her to be directed by <HI>F. Aluarez,</HI> replied that it were a great mercy of Almighty God to her, <HI>for,</HI> quoth &s;he, <HI>he is one to whom my &s;oule oweth more then to all others in this world, and who hath more a&s;si&s;ted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">d directed me in the way of
<PB N="266" REF="146">perfection.</HI> So writeth <HI>Lewis de la Puente,</HI> in the life of <HI>F. Aluarez</HI> cap. 11. in the be|ginning of the page 117.</P>
<P>The &s;ame S. <HI>Tere&s;ia</HI> appea|ring many yeares after her death to a certaine &s;erua~t of God of approued vertue &amp; credit, and one particularly deuoted to her&s;elfe, and comforting her in her affli|ctions; amo~g&s;t other things vttered the&s;e words: <HI>And I my &s;elfe,</HI> quoth &s;he, <HI>am a child of the Society, and had one of that Order for my Gho&s;tly Father, whom now I &s;ee and honour in Heauen.</HI> Which she vnder&s;tood of <HI>F. Aluarez.</HI> for though she
<PB N="267" REF="146">had other Gho&s;tly Fathers al&s;o of the Society, yet he remained longe&s;t &s;o, and with great indu&s;try a&s;&s;i&s;|ted her to put in execution tho&s;e her a&s;piring thoughts and of whom she boa&s;ted that he had been her Gho&s;tly Father and Ma|&s;ter, Se <HI>Lewis de la Puente</HI> in the life of <HI>F. Aluarez cap.</HI> 58. &sect;. 1. <HI>page</HI> 607.</P>
<P>The &s;ame S. <HI>Tere&s;ia</HI> knew by reuelation of the death of fourty Fathers and Bro|thers of the Society, mar|tyred by the heretikes in their iourney to <HI>Bra&s;ill,</HI> and as &s;oone as they were put to death reuealed it to <HI>F.
<PB N="268" REF="147">Aluarez</HI> her Gho&s;tly Fa|ther, that &s;he had &s;eene the~ with crownes of Martyr|dome in Heauen. As <HI>Diego Iepe&s;io</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Tarazona,</HI> writeth in the life of <HI>S. The|re&s;ia lib.</HI> 3. <HI>cap.</HI> 7. <HI>pag.</HI> 152.</P>
<P>The &s;ame S. <HI>There&s;ia</HI> &s;aw the &s;oule of F. <HI>Gutierez</HI> of the Society of <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> who died in <HI>France</HI> for the faith, by the mi&s;eryes &s;u&s;tained in pri&s;on, carried in triumph into Heauen, with a Laurell of Mar|tyrdome, as is to be read in the life of F. <HI>Suarez</HI> printed at <HI>Lions</HI> 1620. in the begining of his fir&s;t Tome <HI>de Gra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">a.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="269" REF="147">But they of the Society who haue either been Gho&s;tly Fathers of S. <HI>Te|re&s;ia,</HI> or els at her intreaty, haue had the examination of her &s;pirit or reuelations, and haue approued them, are the&s;e following as they are mencioned by the wri|ters or tran&s;latours of S. <HI>Tere&s;ia's</HI> life: <HI>B. Francis Bor|gia, F. Antony Araoz. F. Giles Gonzalez. F. Balthazar Aluarez, F Martin Gutiers. F. Salagar; F. Ripalda, F. Paul Hernandez, F. Rodorignez Al|uarez, F. Santander. F. Francis Ribera,</HI> F. <HI>Henriquez F. Bar|tholmew Perez</HI> &amp; others &s;in|gularly expert in matters
<PB N="270" REF="148">of &s;pirit, who&s;e names the Reader may find in the a|bridgment of the life of <HI>B. Mother Tere&s;ia</HI> &s;et forth at <HI>Rome</HI> by the <HI>Rd. Father, Friar Iohn</HI> di&s;calced Car|melite, in his 1. booke, 1. chapter, and 8. page: and 1. booke 10. chapter and 51. page, and 4. booke, 4. and 5. chapters 227. &amp; 231 pag. And in <HI>Ribera.</HI> 4. booke, 7. Chapter and 316. page of his Roman edition in Ita|lian. And in the 8. page of the Italian abridgeme~t pu|bli&s;hed at <HI>Rome</HI> this pre&s;ent yeare. And in the preface of <HI>Co&s;mo Gacci,</HI> annexed to the Italian life of <HI>S. Tert&s;ia.</HI>
<PB N="271" REF="148">And in the Epi&s;tle dedica|tory of the &s;aid life printed in Latin at Collen, by <HI>Iohn Kinckius.</HI></P>
<P>And that <HI>S. Tere&s;ia</HI> drew tho&s;e fir&s;t beginnings of her more tender and entire freind&s;hip with Almighty God, from the adui&s;e and cou~&s;el of a Gho&s;tly Father of hers of the Society, the R. Father <HI>Iohn a Ie&s;us Maria,</HI> di&s;calced Carmelite wit|ne&s;&s;eth in his abridgement of her life, lib. 1. c. 10. pag. 51. in the&s;e words: <HI>About that time,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>her Gh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tly Father decea&s;ed at Ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">a, a thing which much afflicted her, becau&s;e she co~ceaued she should
<PB N="272" REF="149">hardly find another to &s;ucceed him &s;o an&s;werable to her de&s;ire. Yet she cho&s;e another of the &s;ame Society, who di&s;couering that out of a noblenes of di&s;po|&s;ition in her, she would not &s;uf|fer her&s;elfe to be behind hand with any per&s;on, who bore her any affection in the way of freind-ship, (in &s;uch things no|uerthele&s;&s;e as le&s;ned not her af|fection to heauenly &s;ubiects) coun&s;elled her vtterly to re|trench and renounce all &s;uch freindships: a thing which ap|peared &s;ome what rigorous in her eye, when she reflected vpon the ingratitude if it. But the Father vrged that she would haue recours to prayer, enioy|ning
<PB N="273" REF="149">her for &s;ome dayes, the hymne of the holy Gho&s;t, for ob|tayning light in that particular which she &s;eriou&s;ly vndertocks, and praying &s;ome what long, for that intention, vpon a cer|tayne day, she was &s;urpri&s;ed with a &s;uddaine exta&s;ie, which till that tyme was a thing vnv&s;uall with her, and being welneare depriued of her &s;en&s;es she heard the&s;e words within the center of her &s;oule:</HI> It is my will that now thou hould freind&s;hip with An|gels, not with men. <HI>VVhich words added &s;o &s;trong a re&s;o|lution to her bre&s;t, that in a mo|ment she ouercame her&s;elfe in that, which for many yeares to
<PB N="274" REF="150">geather by great indu&s;try, and much importunity, she could not conquer in her&s;elfe. From this tyme forward our merci|full God began to speake to her, and often conuer&s;e with her.</HI> Thus he.</P>
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<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the glory deriued, to <HI>S. Ig|natius,</HI> from S. <HI>Philip Nerius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAPTER XX.</HEAD>
<P>BEfore we treat of the meanes by which <HI>S. Phi|lip Nerius</HI> increa&s;ed the glory of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> we will breifely touch, who, and how eminent a man this <HI>S.
<PB N="275" REF="150">Philip</HI> was. He was therfore the Founder of the Con|gregation of the Oratory, which as it hath begotten many famous me~, &s;o amo~g&s;t others it produced that renowned writer of Eccle|&s;ia&s;ticall Annales, <HI>Cae&s;ar Ba|ronius,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Bazius</HI> author of the two Tomes of the maker of the Church: who&s;e &s;pirituall Ma&s;ter and Father <HI>B. S. Philp</HI> was, among&s;t all other Chri&s;tian vertues, in which he was eminent, he euer pre&s;erued his vir|ginity vntouched; be&s;ides which, he had a miraculous guift be&s;towed vpon him
<PB N="276" REF="151">of di&s;cerning in cha&s;t per|&s;ons, the perfume of cha|&s;tity, and in others, the ranknes and &s;tench of vn|cha&s;tity. He was famous for the guift, of Prophecy, he arriued to the know|ledge of many things con|cealed farre from him, and &s;uch as were the mo&s;t in|timate &s;ecrets of mens harts; he foretould things to come, he was v&s;ually comforted with the appa|ritions of Chri&s;t, and of his Angells and Saints: He appeared to many in his life tyme, releeuing them in their afflictions: he cu|red &s;ick per&s;ons without
<PB N="277" REF="151">number, and recouered men ga&s;ping at deaths dore: he re&s;tored one dead man to life, in his life ty|me, another after his owne decea&s;e, to omit many other glorious miracles wrought by him; he was &s;eene rai&s;ed from the ground, in the tyme of his Ma&s;&s;es, and other deuo|tions: he reclaimed many men from their &s;inefull to a vertuous and religious life; he was euer held in great veneration of all men. In conclu&s;ion, he en|ded his dayes at <HI>Rome,</HI> full of merites, the 26. day of May, the yeare of our Lord
<PB N="278" REF="152">1595. in the 80. yeare of his age.</P>
<P>This eminent man was a familiar acquaintance of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> at who&s;e hands he &s;ought long before his in&s;titution of the Congre|gation of the Oratory, to haue beene admitted into the Society, as his familiar freinds the two Cardinalls <HI>Cu&s;ane</HI> and <HI>Bellarmine</HI> (to whom he him&s;elfe had of|ten tould it) bore witne&s;|&s;e of him after his decea&s;e: but he receaued a deniall from <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> as a man de&s;igned, by the prouiden|ce of God, for &s;ome other In&s;titution, beneficiall to
<PB N="279" REF="152">the Church: howbeit he was euer a tender louer of the <HI>Society,</HI> as wel in the life tyme of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> as after, of whom (as <HI>Gallonin,</HI> a|mong&s;t other &s;worne wit|ne&s;&s;es, te&s;tifieth in the 15. page of his life, publi&s;hed at <HI>Rome</HI> in Latin) <HI>S. Philip</HI> was wont to &s;ay, that <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> was a man of that &s;anctity, that the interiour beauty of his &s;oule &s;hewed it &s;elfe in him exteriourly, profe&s;&s;ing to haue often &s;eene rayes of brightnes to proceed from his eyes and countenancd: which thing as well the Auditours of the holy Rote, as Cardi|nalls
<PB N="280" REF="153">of the holy Rites, vnder&s;tood to be an euide~t token of his &s;anctity. No merueile then if <HI>S. Philip,</HI> being an eyewitnes of the &s;anctity of S <HI>Ignatius,</HI> was wont to haue recour&s;e to him for coun&s;ell in his doubts, and was comfor|ted with the only &s;ight of him, when he was afflicted in mind; and that after the death of <HI>S. Ignatius,</HI> he euer cheri&s;hed that freind&s;hip begun with the Society. Be&s;ides, when he changed his place of habitation, fro~ <HI>S. Hierom.</HI> to a place neare the Church of <HI>S. Maria in Valicella</HI> for many yeares af|ter,
<PB N="281" REF="153">as long as he continued Gernerall of the Congre|gation of the Oratory; he v&s;ed for his Gho&s;tly Father <HI>F. Iohn Bapti&s;ta Peru&s;co</HI> of the Society of <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> a man of holy life, and well ver&s;ed in affaires of &s;pirit. And af|terwards, hauing re&s;igned his Office of Generall to <HI>Ce|&s;ar Baronius,</HI> one of the &s;ame Congregation, and begun to v&s;e him for his Gho&s;tly Father, which was two yeares before his death, bei~g then worne out with yeares, &amp; vnable to betake him&s;elfe to <HI>F. Peru&s;co,</HI> dwel|ling farre from him; he was often accu&s;tomed notwith|&s;tanding,
<PB N="282" REF="154">at certaine tymes of the yeare, to addre&s;&s;e him&s;elfe to him, and by a Generall Confe&s;&s;ion, to giue him an account of his con&s;cience.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="21" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the gl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ry, accrewing to S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> by <HI>S. Char|les Borromeus.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XXI.</HEAD>
<P>THat matchle&s;&s;e exam|ple of Sanctity <HI>S. Char|les Borromeus</HI> Cardinal, and Arch-Bi&s;hop of <HI>Milan,</HI> was not the lea&s;t cau&s;e of <HI>S. Igna|tius</HI> his glory, of whom he euer bore a pious memory after his decea&s;e, &amp; by the
<PB N="283" REF="154">v&s;e of his booke of <HI>Spiri|tuall Exerci&s;es,</HI> arriued to that emine~t degree of &s;an|ctity notorious to the whole world, and as much as he could conueniently, perpetually made v&s;e of his Society, as appeareth by many conuin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ing argu|ments, out of the memora|ble things done by <HI>S. Charles</HI> publi&s;hed by certaine do|me&s;ticall Prelats of his, <HI>Iohn Peter Gui&s;&s;ano, Grattarolio</HI> and others.</P>
<P>In the yeare. 1562. <HI>S. Char|les,</HI> being to receyue holy Orders, and de&s;iring wor|thily to prepare him&s;elf to offer vp his fir&s;t Sacrifice
<PB N="284" REF="155">of the Ma&s;&s;e to Almighty God, he made choi&s;e for that purpo&s;e of the hou&s;e of the profe&s;&s;ed Fathers of the Society at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</HI> where he prepared him&s;elfe with the <HI>Spirituall Exerci&s;e</HI> of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> Founder of the &s;aid Society. So writeth <HI>M. Aurelio Graitarolio</HI> in his I|talian Booke of the &s;ucce&s;|&s;es of the veneration of S. <HI>Charles,</HI> and in an Oration made vpon his anniuer&s;ary day before an other <HI>Cardi|nall Borromeus,</HI> &amp; the Clergy and people of Millan, the yeare 1601.</P>
<P>The &s;ame S. <HI>Charles,</HI> when he had with great
<PB N="285" REF="155">pompe &amp; ceremony, cele|brated his fir&s;t Ma&s;&s;e in pu|blike, to &s;atisfy the deuo|tion of the people, that he might more freely comply with his owne priuate de|uotion, he would celebrate his &s;econd Ma&s;&s;e, the next day in the hou&s;e of the pro|fe&s;&s;ed Fathers of the Socie|ty, and that in a priuate Chappell S. <HI>Ignatius</HI> was wo~t to v&s;e, where he wat|ched that whole night. Se <HI>Sachinus,</HI> in his hi&s;tory of the Society. part. 2. lib. 7. n. 11.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1562. In the fir&s;t beginning of his Prie&s;t hood, he began al&s;o with
<PB N="286" REF="156">more then ordinary au&s;te|rity, and frequent prayers, to dedicate him&s;elfe to the exerci&s;es of vertue. In which that he might walke the more &s;ecure from dan|ger, he entertained for guide of his Spirituall life, <HI>F. Iohn Bapti&s;ta Ribera</HI> a Spa|ni&s;h Father of the Society; a man of long experience, great vertue and learning, who hauing prepared the B. Cardinall by the <HI>Spiri|tuall Exerci&s;es</HI> of S. <HI>Ignatius,</HI> directed him in the way of &s;olid &amp; true vertues, trai|ning him in the more per|fect exerci&s;es of them. For which purpo&s;e he daily
<PB N="287" REF="156">went him&s;elfe to the Car|dinall, who lodged in the <HI>Pallace,</HI> neare his vncle Po|pe <HI>Pius quartus,</HI> &amp; di&s;cour|&s;ed long with him. Which the enemy of man-kind perceauing, and fore-&s;eing the great good like to en|&s;ue of this Spirituall pro|gre&s;&s;e of S. <HI>Charles,</HI> &s;tirred vp the principall kindred of the Cardinall again&s;t the Father, whom they con|ceaued to be the cau&s;e of this cha~ge of life in S. <HI>Charles</HI> who&s;e auer&s;ion from a &s;e|cular cour&s;e they infinitely deplored: &amp; therfore they began, by all opprobrious cour&s;es, iniuriou&s;ly to de|ride
<PB N="288" REF="157">&amp; reuile the Father &s;o to deterre him from his co~|uer&s;ation with S. <HI>Charles,</HI> which when the Cardi|nall di&s;couered, he gaue order that euer after, the Father &s;hould be brought in to him, by &s;ome &s;ecret way. So writeth <HI>Iohn Peter Gui&s;&s;ano,</HI> in his Italian life of S. <HI>Charles,</HI> printed at <HI>Ve|nice,</HI> the yeare 1615. lib. 1. c. 5. pag. 14. col. 2.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1563. S. <HI>Char|les,</HI> now created Arch-Bis|hop of <HI>Millan,</HI> knowing the corrupt manners of the Clergy &amp; laity there, where a&s;well the &s;ecular as regu|lar Clergy led liues more
<PB N="289" REF="157">&s;candalous then lay-men, infamous for their publike carnalities, putting on the &s;word in &s;teed of the hood rude and indecent in the Church, and ignorant of things requi&s;ite; in &s;omuch that they who had the charge of &s;oules, knew not the forme of ab&s;olutio~, nor vnder&s;tood not re&s;erued ca&s;es, or cen&s;ures, they them&s;elues neuer frequen|ting the Sacrament of Co~|fe&s;&s;ion, who becau&s;e the charge of other mens Con|fe&s;&s;ions was committed to them, co~ceaued that them|&s;elues were no wayes obli|ged to it, and committed many things ful of &s;ca~dale:
<PB N="290" REF="158">and that the lay men, on the other &s;ide, through their many vices, the la|mentable contempt of Sa|craments, and Eccle&s;ia&s;ti|call ceremonyes, and the gro&s;&s;e ignorance euen of our Lords Prayer it &s;elf, were in pittifull e&s;tate, de&s;iring to rectify the&s;e de|uious cour&s;es of his owne comming to them, &s;ent be|fore him out of the Court of <HI>Rome,</HI> one <HI>F. Benedicto Pal|mio</HI> of the Society of <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> an eloquent and zealous preacher, with &s;ome other his Companions of the &s;ame Society, to di&s;po&s;e the people, as his fore-run|ners,
<PB N="291" REF="158">by preaching &amp; Con|fe&s;&s;ions, to for&s;ake their lewd liues, and entertaine a new di&s;cipline and refor|mation de&s;igned, and infi|nitely de&s;ired by him. For which purpo&s;e he obtai|ned two <HI>Breues</HI> of <HI>Pius IV.</HI> his vncle, one to the Duke of <HI>Se&s;&s;a,</HI> then Gouernour of the &s;tate of <HI>Millan,</HI> and an other to the Magi&s;tra|tes of the Citty, by which his <HI>Holines</HI> commended to them the prouiding of a hou&s;e co~modious for the&s;e Fathers to exerci&s;e their functions. Wher-vpon the Church of S. <HI>Vitus in Perta Ticin,</HI> was giuen to them, &amp;
<PB N="292" REF="159">a hou&s;e commodious pur|cha&s;ed for them. So writeth <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano,</HI> in the place aboue mencioned l. 2. c. 9. p. 22. col 2. and l 2. c. 1.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1565. In the fir&s;t Prouinciall Coun&s;ell he called at <HI>Millan</HI> for the reformation of the Clergy and people of that Citty, he cau&s;ed <HI>M Benedicto Butinie,</HI> to make an Italian Sermon of the meanes and nece&s;|&s;ity of the reformation of the Church, in the pre&s;ence of 4. Cardinalls &amp; eleauen Bi&s;hops. So writeth <HI>Gui&s;&s;a|no,</HI> l. 1. c. 11. p. 26. col. 2.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1566. He cau&s;ed the Fathers of the
<PB N="293" REF="159">Society of Ie&s;us to take the fir&s;t charge of his Seminary in&s;tituted for the reforma|tion of the Clergy which Fathers he euer v&s;ed in all the mini&s;teryes of his Church. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano,</HI> l. 2. c. 5. p. 46. col. 1.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1566. S. <HI>Char|les</HI> perceauing his harue&s;t great, and his labouring men but few, out of a vehe|ment de&s;ire he had to find many good ones, he trea|ted with <HI>F. Palmeo,</HI> Prouin|ciall of the Society of <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> about the foundation of a Colledge at <HI>Millan,</HI> and ob|tayned of the Generall of the Society a competent
<PB N="294" REF="160">number of able men, of wounderfull exe~plar liues, &amp; infinitely zealous of the glory of God, and good of &s;oules, to whom he gaue the pari&s;h Church of S. <HI>Fi|delis,</HI> with the adioyning hou&s;es, tran&s;lating the <HI>Cure</HI> of that Church to another. And of the&s;e Fathers he af|terwards made v&s;e for the training of his new Semi|nary, and for the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;oules, and diuers other v&s;es. For (they are the words of <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI>) in their &s;ermons they were feruent and mouing, diligent and laborious in Confe&s;&s;ions, and all Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall fun|ctions,
<PB N="295" REF="160">as men full of cha|rity and diuine &s;pirit, being adorned be&s;ides with rare parts of wi&s;dome and lear|ning, So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 2. c. 7. p. 52. col. 1. &amp; 2.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1569. S. <HI>Char|les</HI> yearely made the <HI>Spiri|tual exerci&s;es</HI> once, by which he euer encrea&s;ed in fer|uour of &s;pirit, &amp; perfected him&s;elfe in vertue. After|wards he made tho&s;e <HI>Ex|cerci&s;es</HI> twice euery yeare, which cu&s;tome he ob&s;er|ued till his dying day, per|&s;wading many others, and principaly his owne Of|ficers, to the v&s;e of tho&s;e <HI>Exerci&s;es:</HI> and he ordayned that the Clergy of his Se|minary
<PB N="296" REF="161">minary &s;hould make v&s;e of them, at their fir&s;t entra~ce, &amp; at their receaui~g of holy <HI>Orders;</HI> For which purpo&s;e he built a hou&s;e, with in the <HI>Canons</HI> quarter, calling it by the Greck name <HI>A&s;cete|rium,</HI> or place of Excerci&s;e. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano,</HI> l. 2. c. 16 p. 78. col. 2. And l. 7. cap. 11. p. 317. col. 1. and l. 8. c. 5. &amp; 23. And <HI>Greatorolia</HI> in the place aboue. mencioned. n. 1.</P>
<P>The B. Cardinall percea|uing the Church of S. <HI>Fide|lis,</HI> which he had giuen to the Fathers of the Society, not to be capable of the concour&s;e of people, which
<PB N="297" REF="161">for deuotion &s;ake, re&s;or|ting to it, gaue order that the de&s;igne of a new Church &s;hould be made, by a famous Architect, &amp; laid the fir&s;t &s;tone him&s;elfe, much furthering the fabri|cke of it, by his liberality. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 2. c. 19. p. 9. col. 2. In the yeare 1572. At <HI>Millan</HI> he founded the Colledge of the Society, commonly called <HI>Brerano,</HI> in which, be&s;ides the Latin &s;chooles, he ordained &s;chooles of Philo&s;ophy &amp; Diuinity, which &s;chooles he would haue them of his Clergy frequent.</P>
<P>Moreouer, by permi&s;|&s;ion
<PB N="298" REF="162">of his <HI>Holines,</HI> he re&s;i|gned the Abbey of <HI>Arona</HI> to the Society, &amp; founded in that place, a <HI>Nouitiate</HI> of that <HI>Order.</HI> So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 3. c. 1. p. 23. and 124.</P>
<P>Hauing in&s;tituted a Col|ledge for the vertuous bree|ding of yong Gentlemen, in Chri&s;tian ma~ners, neere the Colledge of the Socie|ty, he committed the fir&s;t Gouernment of it, to the Fathers of the &s;ame Society So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 3. c. 4. p. 132. c. 1.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1575. Being called to <HI>Rome,</HI> for the yeare of <HI>Iubily,</HI> he prepared him&s;elfe to gaine the &s;aid
<PB N="299" REF="162"><HI>Iubily,</HI> by the <HI>Spirituall Ex|erci&s;es</HI> of the Society. So <HI>Grattarolio</HI> in the place abo|ue mentioned n. 1. And <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 3. c. 6. p. 139. col. 2.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1576. Hauing obtained, of Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> the 13. a <HI>Iubily</HI> for the Citty of <HI>Millan,</HI> he employed <HI>F. Francis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eru&s;co</HI> of the Socie|ty of <HI>Ie&s;us</HI> to compile a trea|ti&s;e of the manner of gai|ning a <HI>Iubily,</HI> So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l, 3. cap. 8. p. 146. c. 1.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1576. he tran&s;lated the bodyes of S. <HI>Fidelis</HI> and <HI>S. Carpopho|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> Martyrs, from the Ab|bey of <HI>Arona,</HI> to the Col|ledge of the Society, not|with&s;tanding
<PB N="300" REF="163">the &s;trong oppo&s;ition of the inhabi|tants. Se <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;&s;ano,</HI> l. 3. cap. 8. p. 147. 148.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1578. Being to take a iourney into <HI>Sauoy</HI> to vi&s;ite the &s;acred <HI>Sindon</HI> of Chri&s;t our Sauiour, he tooke to accompany him in his iourncy, <HI>F. Francis Adorno,</HI> of the Society of <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> and <HI>F. Iames Crucio,</HI> with intention to make v&s;e of him for his directour in the <HI>Spirituall Exerci&s;es.</HI> which he intended to make in that iourney. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 5. c. 5. p. 216. c. 1.</P>
<P>And in this iourney, he cau&s;ed <HI>F. Adorno,</HI> ouer
<PB N="301" REF="163">night, to propo&s;e points of meditation to all his follo|wers. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> in the &s;ame place c. 2.</P>
<P>Being to make an other pilgrimage to <HI>Monte Varal|lo,</HI> a place adorned with the my&s;teryes of the pa&s;&s;ion of our Sauiour, he would haue the &s;ame <HI>F. Ad<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></HI> along with him, to be di|rected by him in the &s;piri|tuall mannage of his life. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 5. cap. 6. p. 222. c. 2.</P>
<P>In which pilgrimage, whil&s;t he vi&s;ited tho&s;e Chappels honoured with the memory of the pa&s;&s;ion of our Sauiour, meditating
<PB N="302" REF="164">of the my&s;teryes of the pa&s;|&s;ion, he tooke his points of Meditation from <HI>F. Ader|no.</HI> So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> in the place aboue me~cioned p. 223 c. 1.</P>
<P>Hauing founded a Col|ledge of <HI>Suitzers,</HI> he ordai|ned that the &s;chollers of it &s;hould frequent the &s;choo|les of the Society. So <HI>Gui&s;|&s;ano</HI> l. 5 c. 12. p. 238. col. 1.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1580. At <HI>Flo|rence,</HI> many men de&s;iring to receaue the B. Sacrament, at his ha~ds, he made choice for that &s;olemnity, of the Colledge of the Society. So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 6. 3. p. 247. col 1.</P>
<P>At <HI>Venier,</HI> being reque&s;ted to mini&s;ter the Commu|nion
<PB N="303" REF="164">in generall, for the &s;a|tisfaction of the deuotion of the people, who infini|tely de&s;ired it, he made choi&s;e for that purpo&s;e, of the Colledge of the Socie|ty, where al&s;o at the in|&s;tance of the Popes Nun|cio, and the Patriarch of that Citty, he preached. So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano,</HI> in the place aboue mentioned.</P>
<P>Two Colledges of the Society were founded in <HI>Switzerland</HI> by the meane<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the B. Cardinall, one at <HI>Lu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">erna,</HI> the other at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">|burg.</HI> Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 6. c. 8. p. 265. col. 2.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1583. Being
<PB N="304" REF="165">made <HI>Vi&s;itour Apo&s;tolicall</HI> of the valleyes of the <HI>Gri&s;ons</HI> infected with here&s;y, a|mong&s;t other a&s;&s;i&s;tants of &s;o good a worke, famous for their liues &amp; learning, he made choi&s;e of F. <HI>Achil|les Giliardo</HI> of the Society of Ie&s;us to accompany him in this iourney, dayly em|ploying him in the expli|cation of Chri&s;tian beliefe. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 7. c. 4. p. 300. col. 2. And being to place &s;ome good men in lieu of other &s;candalous Prie&s;ts, in tho&s;e valleyes, for the &s;pi|rituall profit of the inhabi|tants, he left behind him the <HI>Oblates</HI> of S. Ambro&s;e,
<PB N="305" REF="165">an <HI>Order</HI> in&s;tituted by him &s;elfe, and highly e&s;teemed by him, and &s;ome of the Society of Ie&s;us. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;a|no,</HI> p. 302. col. 1.</P>
<P>He cau&s;ed a <HI>Catechi&s;me</HI> to be made by the &s;aid F. <HI>A|chiles Galiardo</HI> for the help and in&s;truction of them of that Country, printed in the yeare following. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 7. c. 5. pag. 305. col. 1.</P>
<P>In the yeare 1584. Being &s;ollicited by certaine of the <HI>Gri&s;ons,</HI> to &s;end thither &s;ome pious Prei&s;ts, to a&s;&s;i&s;t them in matters of faith, &amp; good life, among&s;t three, he made choi&s;e of, F. <HI>Fran|cis
<PB N="306" REF="166">Adorno</HI> was one, who, with the re&s;t, wrought much good among&s;t them. So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 7. cap 6 p. 307. c 2.</P>
<P>The la&s;t month before his death, being to make, as his cu&s;tome was the <HI>&s;piri|tuall Exerci&s;es,</HI> he cau&s;ed F. <HI>Franc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">s Adorno</HI> to come to him, being directed, and obeying him, as a man of holy life, and long expe|rience in affayres of &s;pirit, and direction of &s;oules, who&s;e helpe he ordinarly v&s;ed in the like ca&s;es. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 7. c 11. p. 317 c. 1.</P>
<P>In this holy recollection, in which before his death;
<PB N="307" REF="166">he made the <HI>spirituall Exer|ci&s;e,</HI> vnder the conduct of F. <HI>Adorno,</HI> he him&s;elfe be|fore day, brought a candle to the &s;aid Father, that he afterwards might rai&s;e the re&s;t of his family, who by his order al&s;o made the &s;ayd Exerci&s;es, in the &s;ame place. And <HI>S. Charles</HI> bore &s;o much reuerence to F. <HI>Adorno,</HI> that he came with great &s;ilence into his cham|ber, lea&s;t otherwi&s;e he might wake him, and pa&s;|&s;ing by him bowed with reuerence to him, notwith|&s;tanding that often tymes he perceaued him to be a &s;leepe. <HI>So Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> lib. 7. col. 2.</P>
<P><PB N="308" REF="167">Pa&s;&s;ing by <HI>Arona,</HI> in his returne to <HI>Millan,</HI> and being inuited to &s;ee hunting by one Count <HI>Renato</HI> a kin&s;|man of his, who had pre|pared to &s;hew him &s;port, he refu&s;ed it, and tooke vp his lodging with the Fathers of the Society (&s;ee <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 7. c. 11. p. 321 c. 1) And in that Church celebrated his la&s;t Ma&s;&s;e. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano,</HI> in the &s;ame place.</P>
<P>In the la&s;t howers of his life, he tooke coun&s;ell of F. <HI>Adorno,</HI> in all things, de|pending wholy of his obe|dience, as his &s;pirituall Fa|ther and Confe&s;&s;our, who a&s;&s;i&s;ted him at his death,
<PB N="309" REF="167">with a crucifix in his hand, putting him in mind of heauenly things. Se <HI>Gui&s;&s;a|no</HI> l. 7. c. 12. p. 322. c. 1. And 323. c. 2. And c. 14. p. 329. c. 1. And l. 8. c. 3. p. 359. col. 1.</P>
<P>When F. <HI>Adorno</HI> of the Society of <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> who a&s;&s;i|&s;ted <HI>S. Charles</HI> at his death, in the quality of his Gho&s;t|ly Father, was returned to his Colledge, after the de|cea&s;e of the &s;aint, the &s;ame night <HI>S. Charles</HI> appeared to him, clad in his Bi&s;hops ro|bes, &amp; with a countenance and face plea&s;ant, and &s;hi|ning with glory, &s;pake to him thus: <HI>Our Lord &s;endeth
<PB N="310" REF="168">death, and our Lord re&s;tored life. I am well, and you shall &s;oone follow me.</HI> And it came to pa&s;&s;e accordingly, that within few moneths after F. <HI>Adorno</HI> decea&s;ed at <HI>Genua</HI> with an opinio~ of &s;anctity. So <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> l. 9. cap. 14. p. 329 col. 1.</P>
<P>And it is a great argu|ment of the extraordinary opinion <HI>S. Charles</HI> had of the in&s;titution and gouer|nement of the Society of <HI>Ie&s;us,</HI> that as a familiar freind of the Society, and one who reuerenced that <HI>Order,</HI> he would haue his owne hou&s;hould, as neare as was po&s;&s;ible, ordered ac|cording
<PB N="311" REF="168">to the Rules and In&s;titutions of the Society, giuing the names and epi|thetes v&s;uall in the Society to diuers Officers of his owne hou&s;hould, of which thing &s;ee <HI>Gui&s;&s;ano</HI> in his &s;e|cond booke, third, fourth and fifth Chapter, and el&s;|where.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Certaine Spirituall admoni|tions of S. <HI>Ignatius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">CHAP. XXII.</HEAD>
<P>IT would exact a great volume to include all the&s;e &s;piritual admonitio~s, with which, as with &s;o many pretious &s;tones, the
<PB N="312" REF="169">Bookes and &s;undry Epi|&s;tles of <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> are ador|ned. Some few of them therfore &s;hall here be men|tioned and the&s;e in his owne words, that (omit|ting many others for bre|uity &s;ake) the&s;e may cor|re&s;pond to tho&s;e things which haue already been breifely related of his vir|tues and Miracles.</P>
<P N="1">1. For as much as man is created to this end, that he may prai&s;e and reuerence his God, and by &s;eruing of him, arriue at la&s;t to &s;alua|tion, &amp; that all other crea|tures, vpon the face of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">arth are created for mans
<PB N="213" REF="169">v&s;e, as meanes to a&s;&s;i&s;t him in the pur&s;uit of this ayme of his creatio~, it followeth that they are &s;o farre forth to be made v&s;e of, or for|borne, as they further or hinder the pro&s;ecution of this end In which re&s;pect, we ought to carry our &s;el|ues with indifferency to|wards all things created (as they are permitted and not prohibited to the freedome of our will) &s;o that (as much as lyeth in vs) we de|&s;ire not health rather then &s;icknes, or prefer not riches before pouerty, honours before contempt, long life before &s;hort: for it &s;tandeth
<PB N="214" REF="170">with rea&s;on, that in all things, we de&s;ire and make choi&s;e of &s;uch as lead vs to the end for which we were created.</P>
<P N="2">2 Euery good Chri&s;tian ought to be readier to in|terpret in a good &s;ence any doubt full or ob&s;cure pro|po&s;ition of an other mans then to condemne it: and if he find the words not to be excu&s;ed, let him examine the inte~tion of the &s;peaker, which if he find al&s;o to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">, led him reprehend him with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eekene&s;&s;e: and if that &s;uffice not, let him then lay hould of all other oportunityes, by which he
<PB N="215" REF="170">may rectify his vnder&s;tan|ding, and &s;ecure him from errour.</P>
<P N="3">3. The fir&s;t &s;tep nece&s;&s;ary to &s;aluation is, that I ab&s;o|lutely &s;ubmit my &s;elfe to the ob&s;eruance of Gods lawes, and that I willingly tran&s;gre&s;&s;e not again&s;t any diuine or human precept, which obligeth vnder paine of <HI>mortall</HI> &s;inne, not though the gouernement of the whole world were propo&s;ed to me for it, or the vttermo&s;t extremity of my life went vpon it.</P>
<P>The &s;econd &s;tep is yet of greater perfection: that with a con&s;tant mind, I be
<PB N="216" REF="171">equally inclined, where the honour of God, or oc|ca&s;io~ of my good is equall, to riches, pouerty, ho|nours, contempt, &s;hortnes or length of life. And that for no hope of human feli|city what&s;oeuer or daun|ger of my owne life, I euer be induced to co~&s;ent to the lea&s;t &s;inne, though <HI>Veniall.</HI></P>
<P>The third &s;tep is of mo&s;t ab&s;olute and profund hu|mility: that hauing arriued to the other two degrees of perfection though the ho|nour of God were equall, without any aduantage, yet in more perfect imitation of Chri&s;t, that I rather choo&s;e
<PB N="217" REF="171">with him, who was poore, contemned and &s;coffed at, to be poore, contemptible and e&s;teemed a foole, then to enioy wealth, honours and the reputation of wi&s;|dome.</P>
<P N="4">4. For the good choi&s;e of any thing, it is our duty to con&s;ider, with a pure and &s;incere intention, wherfore we were created, to wit, for Gods honour and our owne &s;aluation. Which being &s;o, &s;uch things are only to be made choi&s;e of as leade vs to that end, for as much as the meanes euer ought to be &s;ubordinate to the end, not the end to the
<PB N="318" REF="172">meanes. By which it appea|reth that they are in an er|rour, who re&s;olue princi|pally to marry, or &s;eeke af|ter &s;ome Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall of|fice or benefice, and then to &s;erue God, prepo&s;terou&s;ly confounding the end with the meanes, &amp; not tending directly towards God, but labouring indirectly to wine him to their peruer&s;e intentions. A quite contra|ry cour&s;e is to be taken, by propo&s;ing fir&s;t to our &s;elues the honour of God, as our ayme, and then making choice of marriage or Prei&s;thood, and all other thinges, as they are ordai|ned,
<PB N="319" REF="172">or tend to that end. Wherfore nothing &s;hould moue vs to the v&s;e or for|bearance of any meane, till fir&s;t we haue had a particu|lar regard, as well of the honour of God, as of our owne &s;aluation.</P>
<P N="5">5. For the good choi&s;e of a &s;tate of life, or of any other cour&s;e (whether it be matter of deliberation of be&s;towing money vpon my kindred, or others, to whom I haue any tyes of freind&s;hip, or any other thing, which by circum|&s;tances may proue good or bed, it infinitely importeth me to con&s;ider, if a man
<PB N="320" REF="173">whom I had neuer &s;eene, &amp; a mere &s;tranger to me, yet one to who~ I wi&s;h all kind of perfection, &s;hould oc|curre, with the like doubts concerning choi&s;e or ele|ction, what I would coun|&s;ell him to do, and what choi&s;e to make, for the greater glory of God, and perfection of his &s;oule. Which when I haue con&s;i|dered, let me re&s;olue to do my &s;elf what I would coun|&s;ell an other.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t likewi&s;e ca&s;t with my &s;elfe, what cour&s;e I would rather wi&s;h I had ta|ken, in the pre&s;ent action or deliberation, if I were
<PB N="321" REF="173">now at the point of death; &amp; accordingly now I ought to re&s;olue vpon the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Moreouer I mu&s;t con&s;ider what cour&s;e, in this particu|lar I &s;hould de&s;ire to haue taken, when I &s;hall &s;tand at the tribunall of God to be iudged. Which, when I haue con&s;idered, let me re|&s;olue now vpon the &s;ame, that I may then be more &s;e|cure.</P>
<P N="6">6. Nothing ought to be concluded or re&s;olued in tyme of tentation or de&s;o|lation, touching our &s;tate of life, or good purpo&s;es; but mu&s;t be co~&s;tant to that which we formerly deter|mined
<PB N="322" REF="174">in tyme of diuine con&s;olation. For as a &s;oule when &s;he e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">oyeth diuine con&s;olation, is not guided by her owne in&s;tinct, but by that of the good &s;pirit, &s;o in tyme of de&s;olation &s;he is ruled by the ill &s;pirit, by who&s;e in&s;tigation, nothing is right done.</P>
<P N="7">7. A man enioying the con&s;olation of God, ought to con&s;ider how he will af|terwards carry him&s;elfe when he &s;hall chance to fall againe into de&s;olation, and then in tyme put on a re&s;o|lution &amp; &s;tre~gth to breake the force of it when it &s;hall come.</P>
<P N="8"><PB N="323" REF="174">8. Euen as a woman ray|ling or conte&s;ting with a man, if &s;he perceaue him make re&s;i&s;tance with a re|&s;olute &amp; con&s;tant browe, relenteth and quitteth him, but if &s;he di&s;couer him to be timerous or de&s;irous to auoid her, &s;etteth vpon him a fre&s;h, with extreame in&s;o|lency; &s;o the Deuill is wont to loo&s;e hart and faile in his re&s;olution, when he findeth a &s;pirituall Champion, re|&s;olutely and with a feare|le&s;&s;e and vndaunted &s;pirit, with&s;tand his tentations. But if he di&s;couer feare in the fir&s;t brunt or encou~ter, or argue want of courage, no &s;auage bea&s;t, vpon the
<PB N="324" REF="175">face of the earth, is more barbarous or vntamed.</P>
<P N="9">9. Our enemy imitateth the example of &s;ome volup|tuous louer, who intending to debauch a yong Maide or Wife, de&s;ireth to haue his words and coun&s;ells concealed, fearing, or di|&s;tru&s;ting nothing more the~ that the Maiden &s;hould di&s;couer his de&s;igne to her Father, or the Wife to her Hu&s;band, becau&s;e then he knoweth his labours and endeauours are in vayne. In the &s;ame &s;ort the Deuill &s;e|riou&s;ly endeauoreth that the &s;oule which he inten|deth to circumuent or in|trap, keepe his fal&s;e &s;ugge|&s;tions
<PB N="325" REF="175">vnder the &s;eale of &s;e|crecy: and taketh it for a foule affront to haue his de&s;ignes reuealed, either to a Gho&s;tly Father, or any &s;pirituall man, for then he is a&s;&s;ured to faile in his ex|pectation, and receaue an vtter ouerthrow.</P>
<P N="10">10. He is wont, in like manner, to imitate a Gene|ral of an Army, who inten|ding to giue on, or a&s;&s;ault a <HI>Fort</HI> be&s;ieged, maketh fir&s;t his di&s;couery of the &s;tre~gth of the place, falling on there, where he findeth it lea&s;t fortified. In the &s;ame &s;ort the Deuill laying &s;iege to our &s;oule, &s;ubtily en|quireth
<PB N="326" REF="176">with what vertues morrall or Theologicall the &s;oule is fortified, or voyde of, and in that place e&s;pecially placeth the force of his a&s;&s;ault, hoping there to ouerthrow vs, where he di&s;couereth vs lea&s;t proui|ded, and &s;lighte&s;t guarded.</P>
<P N="11">11. It is a cu&s;tome of the ill &s;pirit to transforme him|&s;elf into an Angell of light, and di&s;couering the pious intentions of our &s;oule, to &s;eeme at fir&s;t to approue the~, beginning afterwards to intice vs to his peruer&s;e de&s;ires: for he &s;eemeth to cheri&s;h, and comply with the pious intentions of the
<PB N="327" REF="176">&s;oule, but in conclu&s;ion, en|gageth her by little and little, and entangleth her in his &s;nares.</P>
<P N="12">12. We ought to take a curious account of our thoughts concerning the beginnings, the middle, and the end; which three cir|cum&s;tances if they be right, it is an argument that the good Angel in&s;pireth tho&s;e thoughts: but if by di&s;|cour&s;e and due examinatio~, we di&s;couer &amp; follow any thing, which either in it &s;elf is ill, or draweth vs fro~ any good, or forceth vs to a le&s;&s;e good then the &s;oule in her fir&s;t &s;earch, was re|&s;olued
<PB N="328" REF="177">to haue followed; or tireth, di&s;turbeth, or affli|cteth our &s;oule in lieu of the quiet, peace; and tran|quillity it enioyed, it is an euident &s;igne that the ill &s;pirit is author of tho&s;e thoughts, as an enemy to our good.</P>
<P N="13">13. <HI>S. Ignatius</HI> was wont to &s;ay that Innocency and Sanctity of life were rare things in them&s;elues, and by many degrees to be pre|ferred before all things what&s;oeuer: but except they were &s;ea&s;oned with wi&s;dome, &amp; a certaine me|thod in treating with men, that they were lame &amp; im|perfect,
<PB N="329" REF="177">and not fit to guide others: &amp; that in matter of gouernme~t, great wi&s;dome conjoined with meane &s;an|ctity, was of more force, then eminent &s;anctity con|ioyned with le&s;&s;e wi&s;dome.</P>
<P N="14">14. He was wont to &s;ay that the familiarity of all women what&s;oeuer ought to be auoided, euen of &s;uch women as appeared &s;piri|tuall, but e&s;pecially of &s;uch who&s;e yeares and co~dition might import greate&s;t dan|ger<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> out of which, for the mo&s;t part either &s;moke or flame followeth.</P>
<P N="15">15. He &s;aid it was a thing full of daunger to direct all
<PB N="330" REF="178">men the &s;ame way in a &s;pi|ritual cour&s;e, or to mea&s;ure other me~ by ones &s;elf; or to reduce others to the &s;ame method of liuing and pray|ing, which a man findeth profitable in him&s;elfe.</P>
<P N="16">16. He was wont to &s;ay, that the proficience a man made in the way of vertue, was not to be gathered out of the face or countenance, or out of the ea&s;ines or good natural di&s;po&s;ition of a ma~, or out of continual prayers or often recollection, but out of the victory of ones &s;elf, &amp; &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of di&s;or|dinate pa&s;&s;ions rebelling again&s;t rea&s;on; &amp; principal|ly
<PB N="331" REF="178">out of the peace &amp; equi|ty of the mind, immouea|ble in all &s;uddaine &amp; de&s;pe|rate affayres. In&s;omuch, that though he him&s;elfe were eminent in the holy guift of prayer, yet he euer preferred the &s;pirit of mor|tification as they terme it, before the &s;pirit of &s;pecula|tion or prayer. For as in matter of eloquence, in which there is a nece&s;&s;ity as wel of art as practi&s;e, me~ of vnder&s;tanding attribute much more to practi&s;e the~ precept; &s;o in the pur&s;uit of vertues, in which as well &s;peculation as action is re|qui&s;ite, much more profit
<PB N="332" REF="179">is made by practi&s;e &amp; exer|ci&s;e, the~ by mere &s;peculatio~.</P>
<P N="17">17. He &s;aid it was infinite beneficial for the fortunate &s;ucce&s;&s;e of bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, that in the vnder&s;ta~ding of pious actions, a man &s;o much rely vpon the de&s;ired a&s;&s;i&s;tance of God, as if no human help were to be expected; and on the other &s;ide, &s;o farre make v&s;e of human reme|dyes, which are lawfull, as if no diuine helpe or a&s;&s;i|&s;tance were requi&s;ite.</P>
<P N="18">18. He &s;aid the Gho&s;tly Fa|thers and Superiours of other men ought to imitate the Angells, who in pre&s;er|uing the &s;oules committed
<PB N="333" REF="179">to their charge, omit no ne|ce&s;&s;ary diligence, yet what|&s;oeuer happen, loo&s;e no|thing notwith&s;tanding of their peace and happines.</P>
<P N="19">19. He adui&s;ed men cho|lericke by nature, to haue a &s;peciall care how they treate with collerick per|&s;ons, in regard that di&s;&s;en|tions ea&s;ily ari&s;e. In which re&s;pect he coun&s;elled &s;uch me~ often to premeditate &amp; ca&s;t with the~&s;elues, how to auoid that inconuenience: which cour&s;e he held ne|ce&s;&s;ary not in men of ha|&s;ty di&s;po&s;itions only, but in all men for the conque&s;t of all other vices.</P>
<P N="20"><PB N="334" REF="180">20. He was wont to &s;ay, that if a man demaund any thing at thy hands vnbe&s;ee|mi~g thy per&s;on, thou ough|te&s;t to moderate thy indi|gnation, &amp; &s;o to carry thy &s;elf, that thou both deny what is &s;ought or demaun|ded at thy hands, and yet al&s;o part freinds with him who demaundeth it.</P>
<P N="21">21. He &s;aid it was the Of|fice of a Religious man, ra|ther to gaine me~ to Chri&s;t, by di&s;&s;wading them from a Courtiers life, then to be a meanes to bring any man to the Court.</P>
<P N="22">22. The B. Father was wo~t to &s;ay, that if Miracles were
<PB N="335" REF="180">to be &s;ought at the ha~ds of Almighty God, men ought to demaund more &amp; more conuincing Miracles tou|ching the ob&s;eruance of the <HI>Commaunds</HI> only, then tou|ching the ob&s;erua~ce &amp; fol|lowing of the <HI>Coun&s;ells:</HI> be|cau&s;e Chri&s;t our Sauiour did plainely per&s;wade vs to follow his <HI>Coun&s;ells,</HI> and on the other &s;ide, demo~&s;trated the great difficulties, &amp; eui|dent danger of &s;aluation, in the enioyning &amp; po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing of riches. <HI>Matth.</HI> 19. v. 23.24.</P>
<P N="23">23. It is a thing infinitely beneficiall to the aduaunce|ment and proficience of a &s;pirituall life, wholy, &amp; not
<PB N="336" REF="181">in part to abhorre al things which the world affecteth and embraceth, &amp; to couet with all our powers, what|&s;oeuer Chri&s;t our Sauiour loued &amp; approued; to wit, co~tumelies, fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es, the &s;ufferance of iniuries, to be reputed a foole: but this without any cau&s;e gi|uen on our parts.</P>
<P N="24">24. That we may the bet|ter arriue to this degree of perfection, each man ought to employ his be&s;t indea|uours, to &s;eek in our Lord, the greater abnegation and mortification of him&s;elf, as much as po&s;&s;ible in al thi~gs.</P>
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<CLOSER>Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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