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book_n	black_a	green_a	green_n	54	3	16.7468	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36877	The monk's hood pull'd off, or, The Capvcin fryar described in two parts / translated out of French.; Capucin. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Basile, de Rouen, d. 1648?	1671 (1671)	Wing D2592; ESTC R17147	60,217	212

dejected gravity This is a very fair lesson for the Capucins But to return to this great process the Capucins did at last obtain sentence in their favour for they had on their side one of the Popes near kinsmen who was a Capucin By this sentence of the Pope the Recollects were condemned to shorten the tip of their hood but they openly protested that they would not obey this sentence saying That they would rather dissolve their Order and relinquish all then acquiesce in this sentence Wherefore yet to this day in despight of the Pope they wear their hood of the same length as before Of this hood as of the rest of the habit of the Regular Monks it is observable that it is not lawful for a Monk to make the least change no more then in the colours of the Mass For it is not lawful to sing Mass in a red habit on those days on which it is appointed to be sung in a green habit nor to be sung in a black habit on those days on which it is appointed to to be sung in a violet habit The rules in this case are very strict and are placed at the beginning of the mass-Mass-book But Father Joseph wrongs us in his new book by endeavouring to prove that the like things are done amongst us objecting against me that I wear a Ruff and that as there are Masses in Green Violet c. so it may be said amongst us there are Sermons in a Ruff and Sermons in a Band Sermons in a Gown and Sermons in a Cloak for this Minor Fryar knows well enough that we have no rules to oblige us to wear a Ruff or a Band as the Church of Rome hath inviolable laws concerning Masses in green red and violet It is to be supposed that when St. Peter and St. Paul were in a gay humour they sang Mass in a green habit My design in mentioning the colours of Masses so strictly enjoyned is to shew that false Religions having corrupted the true doctrine do endeavour to colour this wickedness with a multitude of ceremonies and external observations in which great mysteries are pretended So our Adversaries having destroyed the body of true piety pay the people with variety of colours CHAP. XVII How St. Francis obtained of Pope Innocent the Third the approbation of his Rule FRancis when he was but a private person little known and followed by none moreover being esteemed out of his wits by his fellow citizens who threw dirt at him and also by his Father named Peter Bernardo who did beat him and kept him prisoner a long time composed a Rule and some laws to the observance whereof he would oblige those who would believe him promising them life eternal But because this Rule could not be received without the Popes approbation and authority he went to Pope Innocent the III. to beg the confirmation of Mathew Paris an English Monk Superstitious in the highest degree and an admirer of St. Francis in his History of the life of Henry the III. saith that the said Saint Francis presented himself to Pope Innocent the III. sitting in Conclave and gave him his Rule in writing intreating him to authorize it by his approbation but Pope Innocent taking notice of St. Francis's bad cloaths his dirty and contemptible countenance his long beard and the black hair of his eye-brows hanging down over his eyes despised him and said to him Go brother and wallow in the dirt with the Swine for thou art more like them than like a man Which words as soon as Francis heard he bowed himself very low and in obedience to the command of his Holiness went and wallowed with Swine in a puddle wherein he tumbled so long that he was covered with dirt from head to foot and in this pickle he came again and presented himself to the Pope saying My Lord I have done what you commanded me Whereat the Pope being very much astonished and admiring his great obedience granted his request and approved St. Francis's Rule which is observed at this day by the Capucins and the other Minor Fryars with a grand obedience This approbation was granted Anno Domini 1212. as St. Bonaventure and St. Antonine testifie And this approbation was again confirmed by Pope Honorius successor to Innocent CHAP. XVIII Of the Humility and incomparable patience of St. Francis and of his most notable actions DIvers have written the life and actions of St. Francis Vincent in his Mirrour of History writes it at large Matthew Paris an English Monk in the life of Henry the Third describes the actions of St. Francis and sets down his Rule These two Historians wrote about thirty years after St. Francis's death Jacobus Voraigne hath written his Legend We have also the Chronicles of St. Francis upon the same subject But the Authors of greatest authority are first St. Bonaventure a Capucin of St. Francis's Order and a Cardinal who wrote about forty years after Saint Francis's death This Bonaventure the Church of Rome placeth amongst her Saints and Principal Doctors This is that Saint Bonaventure who composed the Psalter of the Virgin Mary containing one hundred and fifty Psalms which are nothing else but the hundred and fifty Psalms of David out of which Bonaventure hath taken the word God and hath put the word Virgin in its stead for example he thus begins the 109 Psalm which according to the Hebrew is the 110. The Lord said unto our Lady sit thou at my right hand c. And in Psal 90. instead of He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High he hath put He that dwelleth in the help of the Mother of God And in the 129 Psal Out of the depths have I cryed unto thee O our Lady hear my voice And so throughout the Psalms By this means the true honour which all Christians owe to the holy and blessed Virgin turns to her reproach by transforming her into an Idol and by putting her in the place of God This is that Saint Bonaventure to whom the Capucin Joseph would have us give credit and would have us believe that description of Saint Francis's life which he gives us Besides this St. Bonaventure we have St. Antonine Archbishop of Florence Canonized by Pope Clement the seventh Anno Domini 1523. with the approbation of his Doctrine and great Indulgences granted to those who shall visit his Sepulchre I speak this because no body may think that such passages as I shall quote out of these Authors are things which the Church of Rome believes not or that I have invented them or that they are forged by persons of small authority I alledge such Saints as are prayed unto and adored in the Church of Rome Saint Francis his Father was named Peter Bernardo A Citizen of Assise in the Dutchy of Spolete in Italy Saint Francis's name when he was young was John Bernardo but he changed his name and would be called Francis because he spake