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A08590	The true Christian catholique or The maner how to liue Christianly Gathered forth of the holie Scriptures, and ancient fathers, confirmed and explained by sundrie reasons, apte similitudes, and examples. By the Reuerend Father F. Phillip Doultreman, of the Societie of Iesus. And turnd out of Frenche into Englishe by Iohn Heigham.; Vrai chrétien catholique. English	Outreman, Philippe d', 1585-1652.; Heigham, John, fl. 1639.	1622 (1622)	STC 18902; ESTC S113556	149,727	482

Roses Baron in Martirolog See the liues of S. Agnes S. Agatha S. Cecilie S. Vrsula S. Dorothe and others in Ribadeneira 12. S. Iulian hauing induced her husband Basillisses the first night of her mariage to keepe with her his virginitie a most sweet odor dispersed it selfe thoroughout the chamber and a resplendant light appeared to them and two quires one of Saintes wherin our Lord presided the other of virgins wherin our Lady presided The quire of Saintes began to singe Thou hast ouer come Iulian thou hast ouer come That of virgins Blessed be Basillisses who hath followed such holie councell and despising the vaine pleasures of the worlde hath made him selfe worthie of euerlastinge life This done two men clothed in white tooke them by the handes and ioyned them together then a venerable old man presented them a booke wherin he reade vnto them these wordes ensuinge the which were written in letters of golde Who so desiring to serue God shall contenine the deceitfull delights of the world as thou hast done ô Iulian shall be written in the number of those who haue not defiled them selues with women And Basillisses because of the intention which he hath to remaine a virgin he shall be put into the booke of virgins wherof Marie the mother of virgins holdeth the first place See their liues in the flowers of the liues of Saintes by father Ribad 9. of Iulie taken out of Metaphrastes §. 4. Of Charitie Abstinence is a virtu which bridleth the disordinat pleasures and desires of meates and prescribeth a due moderation vnto eating By disordered desires are to be vnderstood those which draw and allure a person to that which is vnlawfull as to eate meates forbidden or in time and place not conuenient or in too great quantitie or in an vndecent maner or else for that these desires be too importunat hauing no other thought but of the guttes and the bellie By due moderation is vnderstood that which is agreeable to the health of the body and to the functions of the soule For which cause it was that S. Aug. said Thou hast taught me O Lord that I approach vnto meates no otherwise then I would doe vnto phisick l. 10. Confes c. 31. Sobrietie according as it is taken in Eccles c. 51. Titus 2. 1. Pet. 1. is a virtu which doth duly moderate the affection and vse of drinking which may make drunke This virtu as also the precedent is the mother of health in that she taketh away and hindreth all the cause of sicknesses which is ouer much fulnes and cruditie or rawnes For it is a maxime receiued of all Phisitians None shall be seazed on by maladies who is carefull not to fall into crudities But it is much better to heare the same from the spirit of God Be not greedie in all ●easting and poure not out thy selfe vpon all meate for in many meates there shall be infirmitie Because of surfet many haue died but he that is abstinent shall adde life Eccl. 37. 32. Adde hereunto that this virtu maketh the body liuely expeditious to al its motions and its functions But what shall I say of the v●ilities the soule receiueth therby It both conserueth and augmenteth memorie sharpneth the wit rendreth it more capable to receiue diuine inspirations contemplatiōs Whom shall he teach knowledge And whom shall he make to vnderstand the thinge heard saith the prophet them that are weaned from the mylke that are plucked away from the breasts Isay 28. 9. That is to say to those that withdraw themselues from the delightes and pleasures of the bellie Hence it proceedeth that the abstinent and sober doe better discouer the snares of the diuell and are more stronge for to resiste him For which cause S. Peter said Be sober and watche because your aduersarie the diuel as a roaring lion goeth about seeking whom he may deuoure 1. Pet. 5. 8. EXAMPLES 1. All the first men which were from the creation of the world vntil the deluge the space of a thousand six hūdred yeares abstained both from wine and from flesh whence it was that they liued to nine hundred yeares old Theodoret Chrisost Hieron in Gen. 2. Venerable Bede entring into religion at seauen yeares old by reason of his great abstinence liued therein vntill the age of nintie two S. Hilarion till eightie four S. Paphnutius and S. Macarius vntill nintie Saint lames hermit till a hundred and four Saint Antonie till a hundred and fiue Saint Simeon Stillites till a hundred and nine whereof he passed eightie one vpon a pillar exposed to the sunne and winde S. Paul the first heremit vntil a hundred and fifteene wherof he liued a hūdred in the desert S. Arsenius and S. Romualdus liued a hundred and twentie S. Hier. in vita Hilarionis Pauli Athanasius in Antonio Cassianus collat 3. c. 1. Theodoret in Iultano Deceteris vide Lessium in suo Hygiastico fol. 60. 3. Some yeares past the Suffragan of the bishop of Bamberg visiting his dioces penetrated as far as into Turing where he gaue the Sacrament of Confirmation which since a hundred yeares had not bene giuen out of the citties of this Bishoprick to six thousand persons amongst which aboue the number of two hundred had past aboue a hundred yeares so that the children were a hundred yeares olde the nephues seauentie so of the rest vnto the fourth regeneration Extracted out of the annales of our Societie And I my selfe aboue four yeares past spake at Teux in Franchimont with a poore contriman who was aboue a hundred and twentie yeares old and was yet lustie and this by reason of the sobrietie which he had obserued in his liuing 4. Iosephus writeth that the Essenois liued for the most part to a hundred yeares old by meanes of the simplicitie of their foode and the good gouerment which they obserued for saith he there is giuen to eache one nothing else but bread and pottage Lib. 2. de bello Iudaico 5. From this abstinence and sobrietie it proceeded that all the Saints aforsaid were euermore in vigor of spirit spending both the daies and nights in holy prayer and contemplation with such contentment that it seemed vnto them euen already to tast the delightes of the blessed as amongst others S. Anthonie and S. Arsenius who from the setting of the sunne to the rising therof remayned in prayers without so much as once mouing them angrie that the sunne beating with her beames vpon their eyes disturbed them from their prayers so able were they and contented for to pray Athanas Ribad 19. of Iuly 6. To conclude this matter it will not be from the purpose to set downe in this place what Tertulian writeth as an eye witnes of the sobrietie and abstinence of the first Christians They neuer saith he set them downe to table but first they make their praiers to God They eate as much as those doe that rise a hungred They drinke as much as is meet for

Indian woman to lie with him behould how at mid-night a tempest arose with a terrible thunder The woman stricken with feare cryed out saying O blessed virgin Marie keepe me Which this dissolut companion hearing he said vnto her That it was needles to call vpon our Lady for that she had not the meanes how to helpe her Scarce had he vttered the last wordes but a thunderbolt caried him out of the bed into the midest of the chamber burnt all his shirt The woman lept forth of the bed and puld him by the feete but his feete remayned in her hādes as if they had not held to his body She endeuored to draw him out of the chāber but a flame entring at the doore hindred him that he could not get forth She cryed for helpe and the neighbours runne and finde this accursed caytiffe starke dead with his mouth open in a horrible manner without teeth without tongue and all his members brused and grounden in such a sort that in pulling of them though neuer so litle one deuided and rent them from the body Franciscus Bencius in the Annales of Col. of Pacen of the societie of Iesus in Peru. in the yeare 1588. And Matheus Timpius in the Theatre of the diuine vengance Happie was this poore wenche that she called vpon our B. Lady so luckelie but cursed was this hoore-master and blasphemer so to haue mocked her §. 3. Of Malediction and of wicked Imprecation To curse any one is to wishe him some euill as the plague death the diuel to take him or the like In the old law he that cursed father or mother was to be put to death Leuit 20. 9. c. 24. 15. The mothers curse rooteth vp the foundation Eccles 3. 11. that is to say ouerthrowes her whole familie Maledictiō according to S. Thomas is of its nature mortall sinne because it repugneth vnto charitie and is so much the more greuous as the person which one curseth ought to be more loued and reuerenced as for example God Saints Superiors and our parents S. Thom. 2. 2. q. 76. a. 3. EXAMPLES 1. Surius vpon the life of S. Zenobius martyr writeth that a mother angrie with her childe who afflicted with a terrible ague asked her drinke vnto the fourth time in one night said vnto her childe in choller in giuinge him the goblet Hould drinke and swallow downe the diuell and all together at the same instant the childe was posessed of the diuell He writeth likewise of another mother who being beaten of her children sent them all vnto the diuell and that forthwith they were seased and possessed in such sort that they fell a bytinge and tearing of one another The mother repenting her of her fact albeit a panim brought them vnto S. Zenobius who by the signe of the holy Crosse deliuered them and baptised them together with their mother and all the houshold Ioannes Archipresbiter Aretin in the life of S. Zenobius and Surius 25. of May. 3. S. Aug. in his 22. booke of the cittie of God de diuers ser 94. writeth that a certaine woman in Capadocia hauing seauen sonnes and three daughters was stricken of her eldest sonne with the consent of all the others Which she supported so impatiently that she went to Church to curse them vpon the holy Font wherein they had bene baptised As she was in the way the diuel appeared vnto her in the likenes of her husbands brother who hauing aked her whither she went she answered that she went to curse her sonne The diuel tould her that she should curse them all When she was come to the place of the Font all in a furie she toused her haire and discoueringe her breastes besought God that he would sende vpon her children the punishment of Cain making them all trembling and rogues This being said she retourned and behould instantly her eldest sonne was stricken with a trembling of all his members and before the end of the yeare all the others were in the like perplexitie The mother seeing the vnfortunat disaster of her children conceiued so great sorrow therfore that she hunge and strangled herselfe her children became vagabound rogues here and there about the contrie wherof two bretheren and sisters were seene of S. Aug. at Hippo who healed them at the reliques of S. Steuen Learne here you fathers and mothers to restraine your choller and to bridle the intemperance of your tongue that you become nor the cause of such disaster vnto your children 4. That famous posessed person at Laon in Lannois in France anno 1566. fell she not into the power of the diuell thorough the wicked imprecation of her parents which hath likewise hapned to so many others §. 4. Of contumelious wordes To giue one some euill name or to obiect vnto him some vice ether of body or minde as to cal him lyer dolt theife drunkard or the like is a contumelie which of its nature is a mortall sinne Whosoeuer shall say to his brother Thou foole shall be guiltie of the hell of fire Mat. 5. 23. And the Apostle S. Paul Rom. 1. 30. ●ancketh the cōtumelious with those that doe deserue death EXAMPLES 1. As the holy prophet Eliseus went vp to Bethell certaine children came ●oorth of the cittie who seeing him with his head balde mockt him saying Goe vp bald-pate which the Saint hearing he turned him towards them and cursed them and behould at the selfe same instant two Beares which came forth of the forrest ran vpon these children and deuoured of them fortie two 4. Reg. 2. 2. The Chamberlain of the Emperor Valens hauing vomited forth a number of iniurious contumelious wordes against S. Aphrates went to prepare the Emperors bayne but he was come no sooner in but he became stark madde and cast him selfe into the scalding water wherin he dyed Theodoret l. 4. hist. eccles c. 26. Card. Barron tom 4. of his eccles Annales in the yeare of our Lord 370. 3. Iohn Aratus a great fauorer of the Iewes in Lacedemonia after he had disgorged a many of contumelies against S. Nicon was in the night time whipt in his sleepe of two venerable old men who hauing sharply rebuked him for his sinne cast him into a deepe prison Hereupon he awaked and found him selfe taken with a stronge ague and knowing that this was a punishment from God arose and went and sought forth the Saint and asked him forgiuenes S. Nicon forgaue him but withall told him that God had decreed to take him out of this life and that therfore he should dispose him selfe for his death Hereupon he returned to his house layes him downe on his bed and three dayes after gaue vpp the ghost Baron tom 10. of his annales anno 932. See you not by these examples that contumelie is a great sinne You shall then be chasticed ether in this life or in the other you fathers and mothers who hearing your children to pronounce the like wordes doe not punish

the enflamed wordes of the holie fathers and examples Thou seest then o Christian by what hath bene said how pernicious and horrible sinne is and consequently what reason thou hast to detest and fly it as much as thou maist But yet perhaps thou wouldest willingly haue some remedies to preserue thy selfe from this accursed monster Besides the feare and loue of God the ●istrust of ones selfe the due frequentinge of the Sacraments of Penance and of the Eucharist spirituall lecture daylie examen of conscience and holy prayer wherof we will treate by Gods asistance in the booke ensuing behould here seauen singular remedies most effectuall 1. To fly the occasions as are dangerous places and euill companies The memorie 2. Of the presence of God 3. Of the passiō of our Lord. 4. Of death 5. Of iudgment 6. Of hell and of the eternitie of the damned 7. Of heauen and of the eternitie of the saued §. 1. Of flying the occasions of sinne The Prouerbe saith that the occasion causeth the thiefe The Flies and Gnattes houering about the candle fall at the last into the flame He must not walke nere the water who will not be drowned If thou then o Christian wilt keepe thy selfe so as not to fall into sinne flie the occasions such as are euill companies the dangerous places of tauernes and other houses of dissolute women in the euening and time of night For a maide for example doth put her selfe in great hasard of offending God and of her owne honor who vndertakes to talke with a younge man alone in a place apart in the darke or in the night You shall rendar account fathers and mothers who giue such libertie vnto your daughters See l. 2. c. 3. § 4. examp 3. He that loueth danger shall perish in it Eccl. 3. 27. Can a man hide fire in his bosome that his garments burne not Or walke vpon heate coales that his soales be not burnt Pro. 6. 27. My sonne if sinners shall entise thee condescend not to them If they shall say come with vs c. walke not with them stay thy foote from their pathes Pro. 1. 10. Depart from the wicked and euill shall fayle from thee Eccl. 7. 2. He that toucheth pitche shall be defiled with it he that communicateth with the proude shall put on pride Eccl. 13. 1. With the holie thou shalt be holie and with the innocent man thou shalt be innocent psl. 17. 26. If thy right eye scandalise thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is expedient for thee that one of thy limmes perish rather then thy whole body be cast into hell Mat. 5. 30. By the eye that scandaliseth is to be vnderstood all occasion of scandall and of offence The master then must quit him selfe of his maide if she giue him occasion to offende God and if it be the master which inciteth the maide to commit euill then must she leaue him and so of others There is no assurance saith S. Hierom to sleepe nere vnto a serpent it may be that he will not bite me but it may be also that he will bite me l. cont Vigilant And writing to Furia touching her widdowhood he saith Fly the companie of younge youthes let not your house admit these young courters of girles which weare their perewigges who haue their haire f●…sled their habits spruce and their lookes lasciuious admit not likewise neere vnto you singers and players c. but insteed of these holie widdowes Epist. 10. S. Aug. bewayling the stealth of apples which he had committed in his youth saith If I had bene alone I had neuer done it it was wicked company that caused me to doe it O frindship too too iniust seduction of spirit when one saith Let vs goe let vs doe it and one is ashamed not to be without shame l. 3. Conf. c. 8. 9. EXAMPLES The children of Seth were good before they were married but as soone as they were allied with the daughters of Caine they became so wicked that God was constrained to drowne them all by the deluge Gen. 4. 6. 7. 2. Loth being retired from the holy company of Abraham was taken by the Infidells all his goods were burned in Sodome he made himselfe drunke and being drunke violated his two daughters Gen. 14. 19. 3. Salomō cōuersing with the Egiptiā Ladies became an Idolater 3. Reg. 11. 4. 4. S. Peter leauing the companie of our Ladie and the Apostles and rancking him selfe amongst the wicked denied thrice his Lord and Master Mat. 26. 70. 5. Gordiana aunt to S. Gregorie delighting ouer-much to be in company of certaine secular maydes forgot the vow she had made to serue God and by litle and litle turned all worldly after the death of her two sisters Tharsilla Emiliana which wēt to heauen she plunged her selfe entirely in vanities with the finall perdition of her soule S. Greg. 4. Dial. c. 14. Hom. 38. in Euang. 6. A younge scholler studying in the dioces of Mastrick finding him self vpon a day in the company of some younge and dissolute libertines was conducted into a certaine house where it wanted litle that together with the puritie of his hart he lost not the flower of his virginitie Seing him selfe therfore assaulted with an impudent woman he forsooke his companions and departing forth of that debauched lodging it being now night he went towards his owne dwelling and as he went he began to thinke not without great astonishment vpon the euident perill which he had passed to make an irreparable losse of the pretious treasure of his chastitie As he entertayned him selfe in this thought behould a young man of a most maruellous beautie appeared vnto him and gaue vnto him a box on the eare that so fierce and soundly set on that he feld him flat vpon the ground saying vnto him Learne then learne thou for another time to flie euill company and so disappeared sodainly The schollar all shaking and trembling for very feare got him selfe vp some while after and waighing more seriously what had passed knew more clearly that this younge man was his Angell gardien which had deliuered him that day from so great danger and had admonished him so charitably of the fault which he had committed for which cause he gaue thankes vnto God and to his good Angell makinge a firme purpose to fly for the time to come more carefully then euer before all kinde of euill company And the better to assure that it was not a dreame the cheeke wheron the Angell smote remayned sweld sundry dayes after P. Francis Albertin in his treatise of our Angell Gardien c. 7. ex speculo ex dist 10 ex 9. See also another as remarkable in the treatise aforsaid c. 19. and here before c. 4. § 7. examp 3. of S. Edmond in the 2. booke c. 3. § 4. exampl 3. If we haue so great care to conserue our body from euill ayres and from all that which may be