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<P>THE RVLE OF THE RELIGIOVS, OF THE THIRDE ORDER OF SAINT FRANCIS, <HI> both &s;exes, making the three vovves, and liuing together in Communitie and Cloy&s;ter. VVith certaine other things vvhich the leaf follovving doth shevve.</HI></P>
<P>IHS.</P>
<P>AT BRVXELLES, By Ihon Pepermans, at the golden Bible, 1624.</P>
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<ITEM>THE Bulle of Pope Leo the tenth, in vvhich is declared that the profe&s;&s;ed Si&s;ters of the third order of S. Fra~|cis, living together in Communitie and Cloy|&s;ter having made the three vovves, are truly Religious and may en|ioye the privileges gran|ted to the Freers Minors.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>THe perfectio~s of the rule</ITEM>
<ITEM>The pray&s;e of the rule.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Three privileges which S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">. Francis obteined of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Three other privileges gra~|ted him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Seave~ other priuileges gran|ted him.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Certaine Indulgences gran|ted to S. Francis Order.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An examin of con&s;cience for &agrave; Religious per&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Twelue evilles which come by venial &s;inne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nine wayes by which we par|ticipate of others &s;innes.</ITEM>
<PB N="4" REF="5">
<ITEM>Twelue fruictes of the ble&s;|&s;ed Sacrament.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Twelue Evangelical coun|&s;els.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The malediction of S. Fran|cis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Litanies of our holie Father S. Francis.</ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="epigraphs">
<PB N="5" REF="5">
<Q><P><HI>QVicumque hanc Regu|lam &s;ecuti fuerint, pax &s;uper illos &amp; mi&s;ericor|dia.</HI> <BIBL>Gal. 6.16.</BIBL></P>
<P>Who&s;oever shall fol|lowe this rule, peace v|pon them, and mercie. <BIBL><HI>Galat.</HI> 6.16.</BIBL></P></Q>
<Q><P><HI>Regula e&s;t, qua rectum probari &s;olet: quam &s;i fle|ctes, quicquid ex illa muta|ueris, iniuria est recti.</HI> <BIBL>Se|neca Epi&s;tola 72.</BIBL></P>
<P>A rule is, that vvher|by the right v&s;eth to be proved: which if thovv
<PB N="6" REF="6">decline, what&s;oever thow change of it, is iniurie to the right. <BIBL><HI>Seneca Epi&s;t.</HI> 72.</BIBL></P></Q>
<Q><P><HI>Ni&s;i ad Regulam, praua non corriges.</HI></P>
<P>Vnle&s;s by rule thou can&s;t not correct the vvrong.</P> <BIBL><HI>Epist.</HI> 11.</BIBL></Q>
<Q><P><HI>Regulam tuam gestabis per omne tempus vitae tuae. S.</HI> <BIBL>Athana&s;ius lib. de Vir|ginitate, tom. 3.</BIBL></P>
<P>Thou shalt beare thy rule for al the time of thy life.</P></Q>
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<Q>Hard, great, difficult, but great are the revvar|des. <BIBL><HI>S. Hierom. Epist. to Rustic. the monck.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prologue">
<PB N="8" REF="7">
<HEAD>THE PROLOGVE.</HEAD>
<P>SAint Francis having a mo&s;t feruent de&s;ire to drawe al men to God of what &s;tate or co~dition &s;oeuer. Re&s;ted not, but hauing or|deined for the men his fir&s;t rule, called the Rule of the Freers Minors, and his &s;e|cund Rule for women, called of S. Clare, hath al&s;o written the thirde Rule, called of Poenance, for retyred per&s;ons remayning in the worlde,
<PB N="9" REF="7">Eccle&s;ia&s;tic, and &s;aecular; ma|ried, and vnmaried; of both &s;exes: confirmed by Pope Nicolas the fowerth. In this Order verie manie holie per&s;ons haue liued, of which a great number are beatified, and &s;ome al&s;o Canonized in the holie church, as Saint Elizabeth, S. Ludovic, king of France. S. Iuo Prie&s;t, S. Elzearius, Count: through who&s;e merites the order is verie much multiplied in al partes of the worlde. VVheras therfore great mul|titudes
<PB N="10" REF="8">of per&s;ons, of both &s;exes, are gathered toge|ther into &s;eueral communi|ties, holding the fore&s;ayd third rule, and after the maner of &s;piritual and Reli|gious people binding them &s;elues with the three vowes, to witte, of obedience, Pouer|tie, and Cha&s;titie, the &s;ame notwith&s;tanding hath been done by permi&s;sio~ of the &s;ea Apo&s;tolic: which hath holden it for good, and all &s;uch per|&s;ons lawfully profe&s;&s;ed for true religious. Afterward
<PB N="11" REF="8">Leo the tenth Pope of that name, out of the fir&s;t rule of Nicolas, aboue related, drewe the rule following and wrote it and co~firmed it, for all the religious of the third order, of both &s;exes, liuing in com|munities and Cloy&s;ters; in the forme en&s;uing, vvhich he wil of al to be ob&s;erved. And wheras &s;ome people ha|ue been and as yet are found, who wil not acknowlege for religious the profe&s;&s;ed of this third rule: it was nece&s;&s;arie at the end of the &s;ame rule,
<PB N="12" REF="9">heer &s;et downe, to adde the Bul of the &s;ayde Leo the tenth, Pope, out of which it is manife&s;t that euen before his time they haue been hol|den for true Religious, and that he wil al&s;o that all me~ do acknowledge and hold them for &s;uch, and that no man do co~tradict it, and other things he forbiddeth therein vnder paine of excommunication. He hath endued the fore &s;ai|de Religious with al priui|leges giuen and granted to the Freers Minors.</P>
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<Q><P>Omnia autem hone&s;te &amp; &s;ecundum ordinem fiant in vobis. 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 14.40.</P>
<P><HI>But let al things be done ho|ne&s;tly and according to or|der among you.</HI></P></Q>
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<HEAD>IN THE NAME OF OVR LOR|de beginneth the rule of the thirde Order of S. Francis called the Order of Poenance.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To our beloued children the Bre|theren and Si&s;ters of the third Order of S. Francis liuing in Congregation vnder the three e&s;&s;ential vovves.</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>LEo the tenth Pope.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>Belo|ued &s;onnes, and daugh|ters,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<PB N="15" REF="10">
<P>health, and Apo&s;tolical benediction. Among other thinges committed to our charge and gouernment, tho&s;e chiefly do make vs &s;o|licitous, by vvhich, the con|cupi&s;cen&s;es of the vvorld and flesh being brideled, the quiet &s;tate of innocencie, and fir&s;t peace giue~ vs from heauen is knovven to be re|duced to his original &s;tate and perfection.</P>
<P>Long &s;ince truly for this cau&s;e and re&s;pecte, Pope Nicolas the fovverth, our predece&s;&s;or, confirmed and approued the third rule of S. Francis, vvhich he tear|med
<PB N="16" REF="11">of poenance, by vvhich the holie co~fe&s;&s;or of Chri&s;t, ful of the &s;pirite of God, la|bored to further the &s;alua|tion of al faithful Chri&s;tia|nes.</P>
<P>But fora&s;much as by cour|&s;e of time, through the in|&s;piration of the holie gho&s;t, not only maried per&s;ons, &amp; &s;uch as dvvel in the vvorl|de, (for vvhom the fore&s;ay|de third rule vvas made by S. Francis) but al&s;o quires of innumerable virgins ta|king vpon them the three e&s;&s;ential vovves, and &s;ome al&s;o that of inclo&s;ure, by our authoritie, and hauing
<PB N="17" REF="11">builded verie manie mo|na&s;teries, not vvithout ma|nifold fruict and edification of the militant church, &s;ub|devved their necks vnder the yoake of the fore&s;ayde third Order. And becau&s;e in the &s;aide thirde rule, &s;ome things to maried per&s;ons accomodated, are in&s;erted vvhich to &s;ingle, a~d virginal e&s;tate, vnder this third Rule &s;eruing our lorde, are no vvayes conuenient, for vvhich the pure affectes of cha&s;t mindes, are novv &amp; then auerted from entring into the &s;ayde order; vvee according to the vvil of our
<PB N="18" REF="12">lorde, &s;eparating the pre|tious from the vile, doe con+firme anevv, &amp; approue, the &s;ame third rule di&s;tinguis|hed in maner, as follovveth and deliuer the &s;ame to you, and your &s;ucce&s;&s;ores to be kept, the tenor vvherof fol|lovveth, and is &s;uch.</P>
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<HEAD>Of the entrance of Nouices. CHAP. I.</HEAD>
<P>THe Brothers,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The con|diti|on of tho&s;e that are to be recei+ued.</NOTE> or &s;i&s;ters to this thirde Order to be receiued ought to be faithful Catholikes, not tyed in ma|riage, free of debtes, &s;ound
<PB N="19" REF="12">in bodie, prompt in minde, not taxed vvith anie vulgar infamie, reconciled vvith theyr neighbores. And of al+thees things, before they be receiued, of him vvho hath facultie to receiue them, they are diligently to be ex|amined.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the things which the Bro|thers and Si&s;ters are to pro|mi&s;s in the profe&s;sion of this third rule. CHAP. II.</HEAD>
<P>THe Brothers, and Si+&s;ters, after thay haue
<PB N="20" REF="13">for a vvhole yeare borne the habit of probation (vvhich ought to be of cour&s;e cloath according to the iudgement of the vi&s;itor) if their con|uer&s;ation shal be thought laudable in the Conuent vvherin thei haue borne the habit of probation,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the habit of the Bro|thers and Si|&s;ters.</NOTE> by the coun&s;ail of the di&s;cree|tes of the &s;ayde Convent, let them be receiued to the profe&s;&s;ion of the &s;ayde or|der.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the for|me of their profe+&s;&s;ion.</NOTE> In vvhich profe&s;&s;ion let them promi&s;s to keep the commandementes of God, and to make &s;atisfaction for the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, vvhich they shall commit again&s;t
<PB N="21" REF="13">this third Rule, vvhen of theyr prelates they shal be required, liuing in obedien|ce, vvithout proprietie, and in cha&s;titie.</P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the Fa&s;te. CHAP. III.</HEAD>
<P>THe Brothers, and Si|&s;ters, perpetually, on the &s;eco~d, fourth, &s;ixt feries, and the &s;abbath mu&s;t eate no flesh except on the fea&s;t of the natiuitie of our lorde. And from the fea&s;t of al &s;aintes vnto the re&s;urrectio~ of our lorde euerie fourth
<PB N="22" REF="14">and &s;ixth ferie, they mu&s;t be tyed to fa&s;t. and likevv&s;e euerie &s;ixth ferie of the vvhole yeare. Al&s;o from the fea&s;t of S. Martin vnto the natiuitie of our lorde let them fa&s;t euerie day, adioy|ning the lent of the vniuer|&s;al church, till the re&s;urrec|tion of our lorde, vvhich neuerthele&s;s from quinqua|ge&s;ima they mu&s;t begin. But on tho&s;e dayes in vvhich they fa&s;t not, let them eat only tvvice a-day. Except that from the fea&s;t of Ea&s;ter vnto the moneth of Octo|ber, tho&s;e that labour in pai|neful, or hard vvork may
<PB N="23" REF="14">eate thrice aday,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the labo|rers.</NOTE> the dayes of fa&s;t alvvaies excepted. Not vvith&s;tanding trauelers, in|firme, and vveake per&s;ons in time, of nece&s;&s;itie may breake their fa&s;t.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the diuine office, and Prayer. CHAP. IV.</HEAD>
<P>THe Brothers and Si&s;|ters mu&s;t in the church keepe &s;ilence,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of &s;ilen|ce.</NOTE> &s;pecially vvhen ma&s;s is celebrated, or the vvord of God propo|&s;ed. But in other places, let them keepe vvhat by their
<PB N="24" REF="15">&s;uperiores concerning &s;i|le~ce shal be ordeined them, they ought al&s;o euerie day in the euening, betvven them|&s;elues, and God, to thinck vvhat they haue done, &s;ay|de,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of ma&s;s to be he|ard for cler|ckes. for laie.</NOTE> or thought: And everie day (if they can comodiou&s;|ly) they ought to heare ma&s;s. And they mu&s;t procure, that they haue a religious man, vvho on certe in dayes may propo&s;e to them the vvorde of God, and induce them to poenance and virtues. And he or she or they vvho by them&s;elues do knovve to &s;ay the Canonical hovvres, ought to fulfil the Canoni|cal
<PB N="25" REF="15">hovvres according to the v&s;e of the holie Roma|ne church. But tho&s;e that do not knovve hovve to &s;ay the Canonical hovvres, let them &s;ay tvvelue Pater no&s;ters for matines, and for everie one of the other hovvres &s;eaue~, adding <HI>Gloria Patri</HI> in the end of euerie Pater no&s;ter, adding al&s;o <HI>Credo,</HI> and <HI>Mi|&s;erere mei Deus,</HI> in the begin|ning of <HI>Prime</HI> a~d of <HI>Complet.</HI> and vvho knovve not thees fore &s;ayde things, mu&s;t &s;ay three times, the Pater no&s;ter, for poenance. And as often as they take dinner, or mea|te, they ought to giuet han|kes
<PB N="26" REF="16">to God. but of Sacra|mental confe&s;&s;ion,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of Con|fe&s;&s;io~ and Co~|mu|nion.</NOTE> and re|ceiuing the &s;acred Commu|nion; they shal keep the or|dination of Pope Nicolas the fovverth, that thrice in the yeare they confe&s;s, and Co~|municate, or el&s;e the &s;tatu|tes of theyr &s;uperiores heer vpon ordeined.</P>
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<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the ordeyning of Prelates and Officers. CHAP. V.</HEAD>
<P>EVerie hou&s;e, if it shal be a Mona&s;terie of men, shal haue a Superior of this
<PB N="27" REF="16">fraternitie, vvho shal be called the Local mini&s;ter. But if of vvomen, she shal be called the Mother: and they shal be cho&s;en by their conuents, or in&s;tituted by theyr Prouincial &s;uperiors, or General vi&s;itor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;o ne|uerthele&s;s,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of their &s;ub|iectio~ to the or|der of Fre|ers Mi|nores</NOTE> that none be perpetual, but for a certein time. Which Mini&s;ters, and Mothers shal obey in al things, vvich belong to this pre&s;ent rule, to the Pro|uincial mini&s;ters of the or|der of Minores of B. S. Fran|cis and to the vi&s;itors depu|ted by the &s;ame mini&s;ters, as long as they shal be in
<PB N="28" REF="17">the &s;ayde offices. But as con|cerning other offices vvi|thin the hovv&s;e, they shal keepe theyr ovvne &s;tatutes.</P>
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<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the maner of Conver&s;ing within and without. CHAP. VI.</HEAD>
<P>WHeras the Brothers and &s;i&s;ters of this fra|ternitie are called of poena~|ce,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the qua|litie of their ve&s;tu+re.</NOTE> it behoueth them to ab|&s;taine from al curio&s;itie, a&s;|vvel in ve&s;ture, as other things vvhat &s;oeuer. And according to the vvhol&s;o|me coun&s;el of the prince of
<PB N="29" REF="17">the Apo&s;teles Saint Peter, o|ther vaine orname~ts of this vvorlde layde a&s;yde, they ought to carie no corporal ornament, but only an hum|ble, and nece&s;&s;arie tegume~t of theyr bodie. They ought al&s;o to auoyd by all meanes acce&s;s to the courtes of Princes, lordes, or ladies vvhere the delicacies of this vvorlde are had; as our &s;a|uior doth vvitnes;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the &s;pa|ring of &s;pe|ach.</NOTE> Nor euer at onie time to be pre&s;ent at dances, playes, &s;portes, and other vanities of players. They mu&s;t al&s;o be &s;paring in vvordes, and &s;peaches vvhich &s;eeldom vvithout
<PB N="30" REF="18">&s;inne are multiplyed. And aboue al things they mu&s;t ab&s;taine from euerie lye, a~d vvhat&s;o euer oath, accor|ding to the commande+me~t of our lorde, vnle&s;s it be for peace, fidelitie, calumnie, and giuing te&s;timonie. And euerie day at evening a|mong other things they ought examine them&s;elues, if either lye, or anie oath they haue made, and for euerie one they mu&s;t &s;ay three times Pater no&s;ter.</P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="31" REF="18">
<HEAD>Of the vi&s;itation, and care of the &s;icke. CHAP VII.</HEAD>
<P>IF anie Brother or &s;i&s;ter of this fraternitie shal fal into infirmitie, the Mini&s;ter of the hovv&s;e, or Mother, once euerie day by them|&s;elues, or by another per&s;on shal be bound to vi&s;ite the~. And of the commun goo|des, they shall diligently cau&s;e al thinges nece&s;&s;arie, to be mini&s;tred vnto them. let them be bound al&s;o to moue the &s;icke per&s;on to
<PB N="32" REF="19">accept poenance, and to ma|ke a true co~ver&s;ion to God, by propo&s;ing the neerne&s;s of death, and the di&s;triction of the diuine iu&s;tice, and vvithal the diuine mercie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the vi&s;itation vvhich the Prelates ought to make of the Brothers and Si&s;ters. CHAP. VIII.</HEAD>
<P>THe Prouincial mini&s;ter of the Freers Minores, or the vi&s;itor of the &s;ame order, to vvhom he shal
<PB N="33" REF="19">commit it, shal vi&s;ite euerie yeare, once only in euerie hovv&s;e, vvith prese~ce of the elders, and the vi&s;itation made, he ought not to en|ter into the offices, or other invvard places of the Si&s;|ters.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of en|tran|ce of the enclo+&s;ure.</NOTE> And let neuer the vi&s;i|tor him&s;elfe remaine alone and &s;eparate vvith anie Si&s;|ter. And the Mini&s;ters, and Mothers, ought to tel the vi|&s;itor, the defects vvhich vvant correction, like vvi&s;e al&s;o the other Brothers,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the incor+rigi|ble.</NOTE> and Si&s;ters. And if anie shal be incorrigible, by the iudge|ment of the di&s;creetes of the hovv&s;e, as infectious cattel
<PB N="34" REF="20">let them be ca&s;t out of the congregation.</P>
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<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the Offices for the dead. CHAP. IX.</HEAD>
<P>AFter that anie Brother or Si&s;ter shalbe depar|ted out of this vvorlde,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of ma|king exe|quies</NOTE> the Mini&s;ter, or Mother, shal take care that their exequies be &s;olemnly celebrated: at vvhich, al the Brothers, or Si&s;ters of anie hovv&s;e, vvhe|re they shal happen to dye, ought per&s;onally to be pre|&s;ent, nor to departe vntil the bodie be put into the graue.
<PB N="35" REF="20">And for the &s;oule of everie one dead, vvithin eight day|es, let euerie Prie&s;t be bound to &s;ay one ma&s;s, And they that can the p&s;alter, fifty p&s;almes, but they that can not the p&s;alter, fiftie Pater no&s;ters, and at the end of euerie one, <HI>Requiem aeternam.</HI> And at the end of euerie yeare, or vvithin euerie yea|re, euerie Prie&s;t ought to &s;ay three ma&s;ses for the de|ad, tho&s;e that can the p&s;al|ter, one p&s;alter, but tho&s;e that can not the p&s;alter, a hundred Pater no&s;ters vvith <HI>Requiem aeternam,</HI> at the end of euerie one. And concer|ning
<PB N="36" REF="21">thees offices of the de|ad, and other diuine offices, in this pre&s;ent revve anne|xed, the care is impo&s;ed on the Mini&s;ters, and Mothers, that they be faithfully di&s;|charged.</P>
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<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD>Of the obligation of the things conteined in the rule. CHAP. X.</HEAD>
<P>AL and euerie thing in this pre&s;ent rule con|teined, are coun&s;els, to &s;au<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> more ea&s;ilie the &s;oules o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> the vvayfaring. and none o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="37" REF="21">them are obligatorie to &s;in|ne mortal, or venial, vn|le&s;s, by humane or diuine lavve anie one should be out of &s;ome other re&s;pect obliged. The Brothers and Si|&s;ters are neuerthele&s;s obli|ged to do the poenances im|po&s;ed vpon them by theyr &s;uperiors, vvhen heer vpon they are required. they are obliged al&s;o, to the three e&s;&s;ential vovves, pouertie, by hauing nothing in &s;pe|cial: cha&s;titie, becau&s;e af|ter the vovve they cannot contract matrimonie, nor vvithout tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, mix them &s;elues in vices of the
<PB N="38" REF="22">flesh: and obedience, in as much as toucheth tho&s;e things, vvithout vvhich this fraternitie can not commo|diou&s;ly be manteined. They are al&s;o bound to keep in|clo&s;ure tho&s;e Si&s;ters vvhich haue expre&s;ly vovved to keep it, vvhich to al and euerie Conuent vve grant, &s;o that the ho&s;pitalitie, and charitie, vvhich they are vvont to exerci&s;e vvith the infirme, do vvith reputation &s;uffer no detriment.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Rome at Saint Peters vnder the ring of the fisher, <DATE>the 20. day of Ianuarie 1521. in the 8. yeare of our Papacy.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
<PB N="39" REF="22">
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="Papal bull">
<HEAD>THE BVL OF PO|PE LEO THE TENTH, wherin is declared that the profe&s;&s;ed Si&s;ters of the third order of &s;aint Francis liuing together in co~munitie and cloy|&s;ter, hauing made the three vovves are true Religious, and endued vvith the priuileges giuen to the Freers Minors.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>To our vvelbeloued &s;onn Chri|&s;topher, of the title of S. Marie of Aracoeli, Prie&s;t Cardinal.</SALUTE>
<PB N="40" REF="23">
<SIGNED>LEO THE TENTH, POPE.</SIGNED>
<SALUTE>TO our beloued Sonn, health and Apo&s;tolical benediction.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Tho&s;e things vvhich by the &s;ea Apo&s;tolic are knovve~ to be provident|ly con&s;tituted, or deined, and declared, &s;ometimes the Roman Bishop, according as in our lorde he &s;eeth pro|fitably to be expedient, hath accu&s;tomed, (vvhen it is de|manded of him) to approue, and of nevve to ordeine, and di&s;po&s;e, lea&s;t the &s;ame in &s;uc|ce&s;s of time be &s;ubiect to
<PB N="41" REF="23">impugnatio~. It is true indeed that hertofore Sixtus IV. of happie memorie, our prede|ce&s;&s;or hath e&s;tablished, and ordeined the Si&s;ters of the third Order of S. Francis li|ving collegially by making the three e&s;&s;ential vovves to be true Religious, and the vovve of obedience, pouer|tie, and cha&s;titie, by the Si|&s;ters of the third Order of S. Francis, liuing collegially, then made in the handes of theyr Superiors, or by them for the time hereafter to be made, to haue the force, and validitie of a &s;olemne vovve, and to induce euerie effect,
<PB N="42" REF="24">vvhich a &s;ole~ne vovve doth induce, made in vvhat&s;ouer of the Religions approued by the Apo&s;tolick &s;ea, and to hinder matrimonie to be co~tracted, and to take avvay that vvhich is already con|tracted. And although vve in the &s;acred Councel of La|teran la&s;t celebrated for co~|&s;eruing of peace and vnitie betvven Prelates and Reli|gious per&s;onnes, the &s;ame &s;acred Councel approuing it, haue profitably ordeined, vvilled, and decreed, that the Brothers and Si&s;ters of the fore&s;aid third Order, bearing the habit therof,
<PB N="43" REF="24">and leading collegially vir|ginal, and vidual, or conti+nent life by expre&s;s vovve, ought to enioy al the priui|leges of the Freers Minores, as in our and our fore&s;aid predece&s;&s;ores letters re&s;pec|tiuely is more fully contei|ned. Neverthele&s;s, as your vigilancy hath lately related vnto vs, manie Praelates and Rectors of parish, churches chiefly in France, and Ger|manie affirme the &s;ayde &s;i&s;|ters not to be religious, and that therfore they can not enioy the fore &s;ayde priuile|ges, and do not permit them to haue oratories, and places
<PB N="44" REF="25">for burial, and in their ora|tories the Sacrament of the Euchari&s;t, and holie oyles, and to &s;ing ma&s;&s;es, and make holie vvater, but as mere &s;e|culars do endeuor to com|pel them to hear ma&s;&s;es, and receiue the Sacraments of the church, in their pa|rish churches, to the great troble of the &s;i&s;ters, and &s;ca~|dal of verie manie: vvher|fore you vvho execute the office of General mini&s;ter of the &s;ayde order of Freers Minors by Apo&s;tolical gra~t, haue made humble &s;uppli|cation to vs that vve vvould out of our Apo&s;tolikall Cle|mencie
<PB N="45" REF="25">vouch&s;afe to appro|ue, renevv and furthermore intirely to e&s;tablish the de|claration of Sixtus 4. and the brief therupon geuen; hence it is that vvee yeelding our con&s;ent to &s;uch your de&s;ires, do by our Apo&s;tolick outhori+tie, by the tenor of thees pre|&s;ents approue, and renevve, and decree that the &s;ayde declaration of the forena|med Sixtus our praedece&s;&s;or vvith al, and everie clau&s;e therin conteyned ought to obteine the force of perpe|tual &s;tabilitie. And moreo|ver to al and everie Praelate a&s;vvel regular, as &s;aecular and
<PB N="46" REF="26">Rectores of parish churches and al other Eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;ons, vnder paine of ex|communication lata &s;enten|tia, vve forbidd that the &s;ay|de Si&s;ters (vvhom according to the ordinance of our fo|re&s;aid predece&s;&s;or, vve de|clare for true Religious) they do not heare after pre|&s;ume to hinder in vvhat &s;ort &s;o euer, but that they accor|ding to the priuileges of the &s;aide Brothers, may haue freely, and lavvefully, ora|tories vvith a lovve &s;teeple and bel, and in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ame o|ratorie the Sacrament of the Euchari&s;t, in a comely, and
<PB N="47" REF="26">decent place, and al&s;o holie oyles for theyr ovvne v&s;e only, and halovved burial in vvhich the bodies of the Si&s;ters dece&s;&s;ed by theyr co~|fe&s;&s;or may be buried, and in the &s;ame oratories holie vva+ter to be &s;olemnly made, a~d ma&s;&s;es according to theyr deuotio~ &s;olemnly to be &s;ong and celebrated. And that to hear ma&s;&s;es and other diui|ne offices in anie other pla|ce then in the &s;ayde orato|ries, or to receiue the Eccle|&s;ia&s;tical Sacraments of an other, then the confe&s;&s;or &s;ecular, or regular by their &s;uperiors to them a&s;&s;igned,
<PB N="48" REF="27">by no meanes, by the &s;ayde Prelates and Rectors or anie others to be compelled or any vvay for &s;uch re&s;pect to be mole&s;ted: and the con|fe&s;&s;or him &s;elfe, if he be &s;e|cular, as long as he shal con|tinevve in the office of con|fe&s;&s;or impo&s;ed vpon him by his &s;uperiors, cannot at al be hindred in the premi&s;&s;es by the ordinaries of the pla|ces. And notvvith&s;tanding to al and euerie the Arch|bishops, Bishops, and per|&s;ons con&s;titute in Eccle&s;ia|&s;tical dignitie, Metropolita|nes al&s;o, or Canons of Ca|thedral churches, vvho heer|vpon
<PB N="49" REF="27">on the behalfe of the &s;aide Si&s;ters shal be requi|red, by thees pre&s;ents vve do commande, that they, or tvvo, or one of them by him&s;elf, or another, or ot|hers a&s;&s;i&s;ting the &s;ayde &s;i&s;ters, or theyr hovv&s;es in the pre|mi&s;&s;es, vvith &s;afeguard of efficacious defen&s;e, do make them to enioy thees like pri|vileges in peacible po&s;&s;e&s;sio~, not permitting them heer|vpon by the ordinaries and Prelates and fore&s;aide Rec|tors, or vvho&s;oeuer els vvrongfully to be mole&s;ted, repre&s;sing the gayne-&s;ayers, &amp; disobedient a~d rebellious,
<PB N="50" REF="28">(al Appellation layd a&s;yde;) calling herunto al&s;o, if need shal be, the ayde of &s;ecular povver: vvhat&s;oeuer con&s;ti|tutions, Apo&s;tolical ordinan|ces or other of any &s;ort, to the&s;e contrarie notvvith&s;tan|ding. And becau&s;e it vvold be hard for thees pre&s;ent let+ters to be &s;ent originally to al prouinces, vve vvil, that to the copies of them &s;ub|&s;cribed by the hand of a pu|blic Notarie, and firmed vvith the &s;eale of anie per&s;on con&s;titute in Eccle&s;ia&s;tical dignitie, the &s;ame credit be fully giuen in iudgement, and out of it, as if the origi|nals
<PB N="51" REF="28">pre&s;ent vvere shevved or exhibited. </P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Giuen at Ro|me at Saint Peters vnder the fishers ring, <DATE>the la&s;t day of Augu&s;t 1517. in the fifth year of our Papacie.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="52" REF="29">
<HEAD><HI>THE PERFECTIONS OF THE RVLE CON|&s;i&s;t in &s;ix Seraphicall VVin+ges, to vvit, in totall</HI> O|bedience, <HI>in Euangeli|call</HI> Pouerty, <HI>in imma|culate</HI> Cha&s;tity, <HI>in pro|found</HI> Humility, <HI>in Pa|cificall</HI> Simplicity, <HI>in Se|raphicall</HI> Charity.</HEAD>
<P>OBedience is a Vertue vvhich hath three degrees: the fir&s;t is Obedience by profe&s;sion,
<PB N="53" REF="29">vvhich is vvhen one doth accomplish the command|ment of God, or the Prelate, touching the exteriour. The &s;econd is Obedience by con|formity, vvchich is vvhen the commandment is per|formed not alone in the ex|terior, but al&s;o vvithout mur|muration, according to the intention and vvil of him that commandeth. The third is Obedience by vnion, by vvhich he that is truly Obe|dient, hath no other respect but the plea&s;ure and vvill of God.</P>
<P N="2">2. Euangelicall Pouerty is a vertue that hath three de|grees:
<PB N="54" REF="30">the fir&s;t is Pouerty by Profe&s;sion, that is, to haue no right nor propriety in any thing vvhat &s;oeuer: the &s;e|cond, to retaine only the &s;imple v&s;e of things nece&s;&s;a|ry, &amp; re&s;t contented vvith the mo&s;t vile: the third, not to haue any affection, euen in thinges nece&s;&s;ary, but by vvay of con&s;traint to take the bare v&s;e of them.</P>
<P N="3">3. Cha&s;tity is a vertue that hath three degrees: the fir&s;t, Cha&s;tity of body, by vvhich all the exteriour members are re&s;trained from any im|pure or &s;u&s;picious act: the &s;econd, cha&s;tity of hart, by
<PB N="55" REF="30">vvhich the hart is pre&s;erued from any dishone&s;t or vn|cleane thought: the third, Cha&s;tity of the &s;pirit by vvhich vve not o~ly refraine from any dishone&s;t loue, but al&s;o from al exce&s;siue delec|tation or &s;pirituall con&s;ola|tion.</P>
<P N="4">4. Humility is a vertue that hath three degrees: the fir&s;t is, Humility of knovv|lege, by the vvhich man doth acknovvledge to be vile and abiect in him&s;elfe: the &s;econd is Humility of ex+hibition, by vvhich the inte|riour humility is expre&s;&s;ed in the exteriour, as by the
<PB N="56" REF="31">attire, by vvordes, and by vvil, and abiect vvorkes: the third is Humility of affectio~, through vvhich a &s;oule doth not only humble her&s;elfe in the &s;ight of God, but al&s;o in the &s;ight of men, de&s;iring to be e&s;teemed poore &amp; abiect.</P>
<P N="5">5. Simplicity is a vertue vvhich hath three degrees: the fir&s;t is &s;implicity of thoughts, that is, not to enter into higher cogitation then the vnder&s;tanding is capable of, neyther of honours and vvordly dignities, but to e&s;|teeme him&s;elfe the mo&s;t vn|vvorthy to &s;erue God of all others: the &s;econd is, Sim|plicity
<PB N="57" REF="31">in vvords, auoiding all affected curio&s;ity in &s;pe|ach, &s;peking plainly vvith|out &s;uperfluity, vvhich &s;til comes of an ill roote, to vvit vanity: the third is Simpli|city of vvorks, imploying our &s;elues in no other but &s;uch as are &s;imple and profi|table. And a generall rule of this Vertue is to haue a pure; right, and &s;imple intention: but Simplicity vvithout Pru|dence is not of value: for God loueth tho&s;e that vval|ke in Prudence.</P>
<P N="6">6. Charity is a vertue of three degrees: the fir&s;t is to lone God not only for his
<PB N="58" REF="32">benefits, but al&s;o for that he is mo&s;t vvorthy of it: the &s;e|cond, is to loue our neigh|bour, not only for the loue of our neighbour but &s;imply for the loue of God: the third to loue our &s;elues in labou|ring for vertue, our happi|nes, and glory; not for our ovvne re&s;pect but for the loue of God, and to be plea|&s;ing vnto him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Pray&s;e of the Rule.</HEAD>
<P>THe holy Father S. Fran|cis, encouraging his Re|ligious to the ob&s;eruance of the Rule, &s;aid It vvas the
<PB N="59" REF="32">booke of life: the fruit of vvi&s;dom: the marrovv of the Gho&s;pell: the hope of he|alth: the path of &s;aluation, the ladder by vvhich one a&s;|cendeth to heauen: the key of Paradi&s;e: and the pledge of Eternall Peace.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Three Priuiledges, vvhich our holy Father Saint Fra~|cis obtayned of Almighty God.</HEAD>
<P>POpe Gregorie the Ninth &s;aid he had vnder&s;tood of the holy Father S. Fran|cis, that Almighty God had
<PB N="60" REF="33">graunted him three Priui|ledges: the fir&s;t that the mo|re the Religious of his order did increa&s;e, the more he vvould prouide for them: the &s;econd that none should euer vnhappily dye in the habit; the third that vvho|&s;oeuer should per&s;ecute his Order should be grieuou|&s;ly punished by Almighty God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="61" REF="33">
<HEAD>Three other Priuiledges w|hich he &s;ayd to haue recea+ued by the Seraphim, when as he appeared vnto him, in the mountayne of Al|uerne.</HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t, that his order should la&s;t to the day of Iudgment: the &s;econd that vvho&s;oeuer vvould liue vvic+kedly in the Order should not indure long: the third that vvho&s;oeuer did loue his Order although a great &s;in|ner, he should receaue and obtaine mercy of Almighty God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="62" REF="34">
<HEAD>Seauen other Priuiledges vvhich by an Angel vve|re reuealed vnto the holy F. S. Francis in the Coue~t of S. Vrbane, to all that ob&s;erued his Rule and dy|ed in the Order.</HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t, that if their in|tention be good, they shal euer be gouerned by the holy Gho&s;t: the &s;econd, that in this their perigrina|tion they shall &s;til be par|ticularly defended, &amp; in all their temptations al&s;o, from mortall &s;inne: the third, that
<PB N="63" REF="34">the fire of Purgatory shall not detaine them after their death from the immediate inioying of euerla&s;ting glo|ry: the fourth, that they shall receaue in them&s;elues that promi&s;e of our Sauiour ma|de vnto his Apo&s;tles, of &s;it|ting on the tvvelue &s;eates to iudge the tribes of I&s;rael: the fifth that &s;uch as loue the Order Almighty God vvill increa&s;e his graces, and ble&s;&s;inges tovvardes them in this vvorld and the next: the &s;ixth, that tho&s;e vvho are enemies to his order, &amp; do per&s;ecute it vvithout repen|ting, either their life shal be
<PB N="64" REF="35">shortned, or if it be long it shalbe replenished vvith mi+&s;ery, and after their death be eternally lo&s;t: the &s;eaue~th that there shall euer be Re|ligious of good and holy li|fe, louers of the honor of God, &amp; their Religion, in this Order.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Certayne Indulge~ces graun|ted amongst many others, by the &s;ouerayne Bishops of Rome, vnto all the Reli|gious of the Order of Saint Francis.</HEAD>
<PB N="65" REF="35">
<P>THe Religious both men and vvomen shal gaine a plenary both <HI>&agrave; paena &amp; culpa,</HI> from paine &amp; fault, on the daies of their Cloathing, Pro|fe&s;&s;ion, and article of death: al&s;o at the article of death, the Fathers &amp; Mothers of the &s;aid Brothers &amp; Si&s;ters may haue the &s;ame giuen them, by any lavvful Confe&s;&s;or.</P>
<P N="2">2. All the Religious that shall receaue the mo&s;t holy Sacrament vpon all Sundayes throughout the yeare, all the fea&s;tes of our Ble&s;&s;ed Saui|our, &amp; of our Ble&s;&s;ed Lady, of the Saints of the Order, shall gaine a plenary Indul|gence,
<PB N="66" REF="36">And if it happen that any could not confe&s;&s;e &amp; communicate the&s;e dayes, their hindrance being lavv|full, they may gaine the &s;ame Indulgence if after being freed of that impediment, they confe&s;&s;e and communi|cate for that intention, not|vvith&s;tanding the day of the fea&s;t be pa&s;t.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Religious vvho shall recite the Corone of our Lord, that is 33. <HI>Pater nosters,</HI> and <HI>Aue Maria,</HI> in honour of the 33 years he liued in the vvorld, or the Coronne or Ro&s;ary of the Glorious Virgin Mary, con|tayning
<PB N="67" REF="36">72. <HI>Aues</HI> vvith 7. <HI>Pa|ter nosters</HI> and one <HI>Pater no|ster</HI> and <HI>Aue</HI> for the Souerai|gne Bishop, do gaine plenary Indulgence, Like vvi&s;e the &s;ame is graunted as often as they &s;ay the &s;eauen P&s;alms and Letanies, the Gradual P&s;alms, the office of the dead, or a&s;&s;i&s;t at the Letanies of euery &s;econd Sunday in the moneth.</P>
<P N="4">4. As often as the Religi|ous eyther by day or night, in vvhat place &s;oeuer they be, shall recite &s;ix <HI>Pater no|sters</HI> and <HI>Aues,</HI> and <HI>Gloria Pa|tri,</HI> fiue for the nece&s;&s;ities of the Church, and the &s;ixt for
<PB N="68" REF="37">the Popes Holines, shall gai|ne the Indulgences of the Stations of Hieru&s;alem, of Rome, of S. Iames, and of Portiuncula.</P>
<P N="5">5. Item reciting the P&s;al|me <HI>Exaudiat te Dominus in die tribulationis &amp;c.</HI> three <HI>Pater nosters</HI> and <HI>Aues,</HI> for the Po|pes intention, they shallgaine all the Indulgences graunted by the Soueraigne Bishops, to the Confraternity of the Ro&s;ary, to the Churches of our Ble&s;&s;ed Lady of Loreto, of Mont-&s;erat, and of &s;aint Ia|mes de Compo&s;tella.</P>
<P N="6">6. Euery time they &s;ay the <HI>Angelus Domini</HI> at the accu|&s;tomed
<PB N="69" REF="37">time vvhe~ it ringeth, a plenary Indulgence; and the like euery time they co~|municate. As often as they heare the Ma&s;&s;e of the Con|ception of our Ble&s;&s;ed Lady, praying for his Holinesa~d the vniuer&s;all Church, is graun|ted a Plenary indulge~ce, Say|ing the diuine office, or the office of our Ble&s;&s;ed Lady, be&s;ides all other Indulgence, they gaine 100. yeares of pardon.</P>
<P N="7">7. Saying once euery day one <HI>Pater noster</HI> and <HI>Aue Ma|ria,</HI> calling deuoutly three ti|mes vpon the Holy Name of Ie&s;us, they gaine 3000. yea|res
<PB N="60" REF="38">of pardon.</P>
<P N="8">8. It is graunted vnto the Si&s;ters that foure times a yea|re they may haue a generall ab&s;olution in ful remi&s;&s;ion of their &s;innes vvhat&s;oeuer, and be re&s;tored to the e&s;tate of innocency, as fully as they could receaue it from his Ho|lines: &amp; the like is graunted them on euery fea&s;t of our Ble&s;&s;ed Sauiour, our Ble&s;&s;ed Lady, on the fea&s;t of S. Peter and S. Paul, S. Francis, Saint Clare, S. Catharine Queene and Martyr, the fea&s;t of All Saints, and euery day of the holy vveeke; yet notvvith|&s;ta~ding the&s;e graces vvil pro|fit
<PB N="71" REF="38">nothing, vnto tho&s;e vvho should vpon pre&s;umption to gaine them, &s;in more freely. They may apply all priuiled|ges and Indulgences graun|ted to them&s;elues, vnto the faithfull departed. Note that for the gayning of the&s;e or any indulgences is requi&s;ite the applying of the intention for the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>An examen of Con&s;cience for a Religious Per&s;on.</HEAD>
<P>WHat are his euill incli|nations and bad cu&s;to|mes, vvhence they proceed, &amp; vvhat vvarre &amp; exerci&s;e
<PB N="72" REF="39">he v&s;eth again&s;t them.</P>
<P N="2">2. What Pa&s;&s;ions mo&s;t rai|gne in him, a~d by vvhat mea|nes he hath hitherto indea|uoured to mortify them.</P>
<P N="3">3. What are his principall, mo&s;t frequent, and mo&s;t trou|ble&s;ome temptations, and hovv he hath hitherto beha|ued him&s;elf in them.</P>
<P N="4">4. If he be indifferent in accepting any imployment of the holy Religion, vvillin|gly accepting vvhat&s;oeuer is appointed him.</P>
<P N="5">5. Whether God be the only inte~tion of all his actio~s, or if he &s;eeke proper commo|dity or prai&s;e in his vvorkes.</P>
<PB N="73" REF="39">
<P N="6">6. Whether he doe not prefer exteriour matters, as good qualities and naturall gifts and graces, before the &s;tudy of vertue and perfe|ction.</P>
<P N="7">7. If he de&s;ire, and be mo&s;t conte~ted his Superiours should haue knovvledge of all his faultes.</P>
<P N="8">8. If he be confident and open harted to his Superiours &amp; confer vvith them in any nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ion of things touching the good of his &s;ou|le.</P>
<P N="9">9. Whether he be truly vnited by affection vnto his Superiours, or if he haue any
<PB N="74" REF="40">auer&s;ion, &amp; from vvhence it proceedes.</P>
<P N="10">10. Whether he be not too familiar vvith &s;ome, and if that familiarity be not hurt|full to him &s;elf and the other party, and if by that occa&s;ion he loo&s;e not time, &amp; di&s;edify others.</P>
<P N="11">11. If he loue and imbrace the interiour and exteriour mortifications, and rather tho&s;e matters that be humble &amp; abiect, then of e&s;teeme and credit.</P>
<P N="12">12. If he ob&s;erue al his Rules &amp; Con&s;titutions, of vvhich he maketh le&s;&s;e e&s;tee|me, &amp; for vvhat rea&s;on.</P>
<PB N="75" REF="40">
<P N="13">13. If he de&s;ire truly to be penitent for all his faultes, truly confe&s;&s;ing them vvith &s;trong purpo&s;e of amende|ment.</P>
<P N="14">14. If he make a particular examen euery day vpon one imperfectio~ and vvith vvhat preparation he receaueth the holy Sacrament: and hovv he frequenteth the holy exerci&s;e of prayer.</P>
<P N="15">15 If his vvordes &amp; di&s;|cour&s;es in Recreatio~ or other vvi&s;e, as al&s;o vvith &s;ecular be of edification: hovv he ob&s;er|ueth &s;ilence, and &s;pendeth his time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="76" REF="41">
<HEAD>Tvvelue great Euills vvhich come by Veniall &s;innes.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, they doe &s;o darken and ob&s;cure the eyes of our vnder&s;tanding, that they cannot &s;ee almighty God. 2. They kill the feruour of di|lection and diuine Charity. 3. They hinder our prayers and petitions from being he|ard by God. 4. They defile and &s;potte the &s;oule. 5. They contri&s;tate the holy Gho&s;t, and reioice the enemy. 6. They depriue vs of the &s;vveet and amiable familiarity of our Ble&s;&s;ed Sauiour. 7. They
<PB N="77" REF="41">are a great cau&s;e and meanes of our fall into more grie|uous &s;innes. 8. They cau&s;e a &s;oule to fall into great &s;louth and tepidity in all goodnes. 9. They vveaken exceedingly the forces of the &s;oule, from re&s;i&s;ting her bad inclinatio~s. 10. They incline our affectio~s and de&s;ires to temporall mat|ters. 11. They prolong and augment the paines in pur|gatory. 12. They exceedingly hinder vs from &s;eeing &amp; en|ioying the pre&s;ence of God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="78" REF="42">
<HEAD>Nyne wayes by which we par|ticipate of the &s;innes of others.</HEAD>
<P>BY Coun&s;ell. 2. By com|mandment. 3. By con&s;ent. 4. By procuration or per&s;ua|&s;ion. 5. By flattery 6. By hol|ding our peace of his fault of vvhome vve ought to haue care. 7. To di&s;&s;emble or not to reprehend, and hinder if vve be thereunto obliged. 8. In participating of the mat|ter, vvhereof &s;uch a &s;inne doth proceed. 9. In defending the fault of another.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="79" REF="42">
<HEAD>Twelue fruits of the B. Sa|crament.</HEAD>
<P>IT not only maketh po&s;&s;i|ble but al&s;o mo&s;t ea&s;y the for&s;aking and leauing of all earthly &amp; fading thinges.</P>
<P N="2">2. It cau&s;eth great profit &amp; aduancement in heauenly thinges.</P>
<P N="3">3. It ray&s;eth the &s;oule a+boue all things created.</P>
<P N="4">4. It inforceth the &s;pirit vnto al good.</P>
<P N="5">5. It illuminateth and gi|ueth light to the vnder&s;tan|ding, in the knovvledge of God.</P>
<PB N="80" REF="43">
<P N="6">6. It cau&s;eth an inflamed feruerous po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the pure loue of God alone.</P>
<P N="7">7. It is the con&s;ummation of al vertue &amp; perfection.</P>
<P N="8">8. It giueth the &s;oule po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion of the treasury of all goods &amp; riches.</P>
<P N="9">9. It cau&s;eth a continuall interiour ioy.</P>
<P N="10">10. It indevveth her vvith a happy &s;ecurity &amp; a&s;&s;ura~ce, in &s;eeing him in vvhom she belieueth.</P>
<P N="11">11. A perfect peace begin|ning in this life &amp; co~tinuing for eternity.</P>
<P N="12">12. A parfaict vnion vvith Almighty God, vvherby the
<PB N="81" REF="43">&s;oule is made participant of all diuine perfection.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Twelue Euangelicall Coun|&s;ayles.</HEAD>
<P>POuerty, vvherby a Religi|ous per&s;on is e&s;tranged from all terre&s;triall things.</P>
<P N="2">2. Obedience vvithout vvhich no vertue is perfect.</P>
<P N="3">3. Cha&s;tity vvhich beanti|fieth and adorneth all other vertues.</P>
<P N="4">4. Charity tovvardes our enemies, vvherby all &s;piri|tuall infection of any &s;inne is expelled.</P>
<P N="5">5. Man&s;uetude, vvhich (as
<PB N="82" REF="44">&s;ayth S. Ambro&s;e) is the me|dicine of the hart, vvherby the &s;oule is illuminated by God Almighty, to knovv his &s;ecrets.</P>
<P N="6">6. Mercy, vvhich exten|deth it &s;elfe to the help of e|uery one vvithout limite, en|treth &s;vveetly into the hart vvith pitty, &amp; clean&s;eth it from all &s;inne.</P>
<P N="7">7. The &s;imple vvord al|vvaies fructifying in God, in purity of intention, in chari|ty &amp;c.</P>
<P N="8">8. Shunning occa&s;io~ of &s;in|ne, co~ducting the &s;oule vvith prudency, and &s;ecurity to the purcha&s;e of vertue.</P>
<PB N="83" REF="44">
<P N="9">9. Right intention, vvhich maketh all vvorkes to pro|ceed of humility, to the edifi|cation of our neighbour.</P>
<P N="10">10. Co~formity of the vvor|ke vnto the vvord, vvherby all &s;pecial in&s;truction is &s;eri|ou&s;ly, &amp; vvith all profit ac|cepted.</P>
<P N="11">11. Auoiding of vn profita|ble &s;olicitude, therby better to attend vnto &s;piritual illu|minations, vvhich are ob&s;cu|red by earthly cares.</P>
<P N="12">12. Fraternal Correction, vvhich is a light that illumi|nateth the vnder&s;tanding, ac|cording to that of the Apo&s;t|le, &s;aying, That vvhich is cor|rected
<PB N="84" REF="45">is made apparent by the light that follovveth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="malediction">
<HEAD>The Malediction of S. Francis.</HEAD>
<P>BY thee O Eternall, and Heauenly Father, and all the cele&s;tial Court, and by me mo&s;t Vnvvorthy, be ac|cur&s;ed all tho&s;e Brethren, vvho by their euill example doe ruine and de&s;troy the thinges vvhich thou ha&s;t bu|ilt, and cea&s;e&s;t not build, by &s;o many holy Brethren of this Order.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="quotations">
<PB N="85" REF="45">
<Q><HI>Cum votum voueris, &amp;c.</HI><BIBL><HI>Deut.</HI> 23.21.</BIBL>
<P>WHen thovv ha&s;t vo|vved a vovve to our lorde thy God, thovv shalt not &s;lacke to pay it: becau&s;e our lorde thy God vvill re|quire it. And if thovv delay, it shal be reputed to thee for &s;inne. If thovv vvilt not pro|mi&s;s, thovv shalt be vvithout &s;inne. But that vvhich is once gone out of thy lippes, thovv shalt ob&s;erue, and shalt do as thovv ha&s;t promi&s;ed to our lorde thy God, and ha&s;t &s;po|ken vvith thy proper vvil, and thyne ovvne mouth.</P></Q>
<PB N="86" REF="46">
<Q>Vovve ye, and render to our lorde your God. <BIBL><HI>P&s;alm.</HI> 75.</BIBL></Q>
<Q>They shal vovve vovves to our lorde, and pay them. <BIBL><HI>I&s;a|as.</HI> 19.21.</BIBL></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;alm.</HI> 21.26.</BIBL> I vvil render my vovves in the &s;ight of them that feare him.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>S. Bernarde in his treatie of precept and di&s;pen&s;ation.</BIBL> PErfect obedie~ce knovveth no lavve, it is not &s;treitned vvithin boundes: nor content vvith the breadth of our pro|fe&s;&s;ion, vvith larger vvil it is caried to al the latitude of charitie: and to al that is en|ioyned
<PB N="87" REF="46">free, by the vigor of a liberal and cheerful minde con&s;idering no mean: vnto infinite libertie is extended.</Q>
<Q><BIBL>Out of a treatie of S. Bernar|dine, to which the title is. <HI>Qui habendi Proprietarij.</HI> They violate their vovve and are proprietaries.</BIBL>
<P N="1">I. WHO vvhat&s;omever thing, or of vvhom|&s;oeuer giuen, do hide in frau|de from their Prelate, or do not forthvvith re&s;tore it, vvhen he co~mandeth, either that it be re&s;tored, or lent, or
<PB N="88" REF="47">giuen to another.</P>
<P N="2">2. Who change the v&s;e of things of the communitie in|to their proper v&s;e, or giue them to others, vvithout li|cence of the Prelate.</P>
<P N="3">3. Who hide the key lea&s;t the Prelate take onie thing avvay, or othervvi&s;e di&s;po&s;e: and if onie thing be taken avvay, are trobled, and do murmur.</P>
<P N="4">4. Who deliberately are of that minde, that if onie thing vvere taken avvay, or called back, they vvold not forthvvith yelde.</P>
<P N="5">5. Who vvill not &s;pend Almes depo&s;ed or giuen for
<PB N="89" REF="47">their nece&s;&s;itie, but by a kind of prouidence for the time to come, or trea&s;uring, do re|&s;erue it: &s;eeking in the mean time more.</P></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="litany">
<HEAD>LITANIAE B. P. N. S. FRANCISCI.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>KYrie elei&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;te elei&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Kyrie elei&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;te audi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;te exaudi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater de c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">is Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fili Redemptor mundi Deus Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<PB N="90" REF="48">
<ITEM>Spiritus &s;ancte Deus, Mi&s;ere|re nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Trinitas vnus Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Franci&s;ce, Pater ama|bilis, ora pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater admirabilis. ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater benigne, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater venerabilis, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vexillifer Ie&s;u Chri&s;ti, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Eques Crucifixi, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Imitator filij Dei, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Seraphim ardens, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fornax Charitatis, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arca Sanctitatis ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cultor pacis, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vas Puritatis, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Norma Iu&s;titiae, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Speculum prudentiae, ora.</ITEM>
<PB N="91" REF="48">
<ITEM>Regula Poenitentiae, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Magi&s;ter Obedientiae, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Exemplar Virtutum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Patriarcha Pauperum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Profligator Criminum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lumen tuae Patriae, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Decus Morum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Viuificator Mortuorum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Saluator Famelicorum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ob&s;equium Lepro&s;orum, or.</ITEM>
<ITEM>praeco magni Regis, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Forma Humilitatis, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;ors Sublimitatis. ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Victor Vitiorum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dux Minorum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Praedicator Silue&s;trium, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Portans dona Gloriae, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Auriga militiae no&s;trae, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nouis vtens Prodigijs, ora.</ITEM>
<PB N="92" REF="49">
<ITEM>Caelum caecis aperiens, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gratum gerens ob&s;equium, ora pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Templum Chri&s;to con&s;ecra~s, ora pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ho&s;tes malignos proterens, ora pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tenens vitae brauium, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Spargens virtutum munera, ora pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Amplians iter ad gloria~, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Parce nobis Do|mine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Exaudi nos Do|mine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<PB N="93" REF="49">
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> Ora pro nobis Beate Pater Franci&s;ce.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> Vt digni efficiamur promi&s;&s;ionibus Chri&s;ti.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>Oremus.</HEAD>
<P>DEus qui Eccle&s;iam tuam Beati Franci&s;ci meritis foetu nouae prolis amplificas: tribue nobis ex eius imitatio|ne terrena de&s;picere, &amp; cae|le&s;tium donorum &s;emper par+ticipatione gaudere. Per Do|minum no&s;trum, &amp;c. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
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<DIV1 TYPE="approbation">
<PB REF="50">
<HEAD>APPROBATIO</HEAD>
<P>IV&s;&s;u R. P. N. F. Andreae &agrave; Soto Sereni&s;s. Infanti Hi&s;|paniarum &agrave; Confe&s;&s;ionibus, Commi&s;&s;arij Generalis, re|gulam hanc Tertij Ordinis S. Franci&s;ci ex Latino in idio|ma no&s;trum Anglicanu~ ver|&s;am, cum adi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">cta Bulla, ad exemplaria latina diligenter contuli, &amp; peromnia ij&s;dem conformem inueni. 30. Octo|bris, 1624.</P>
<P><HI>Ita Te&s;tor F. Bonauentura Frat. Minorum Anglorum, Duac. Guardianus.</HI></P>
<PB REF="50">
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