wrote to him he did it with reuerence vpon his knees and in his Reliquary he wore the name of S. Ignatius cut out of a letter of his to him as the relique of some great Saint whilst yet he was aliue He suffered himselfe to be guided like a child by S. Ignatius depending wholy of him and euer cherishing in his brest an admirable opinion of his sanctity which vpon all occasions he desired to expresse VVhich words saith S. Chrisostome in the like subiect hom 1. ad populum do sufficiently demonstrate and speake all his vertues for the iudgments of Saints goe not either by fauour or disfauour but are to be held vnquestionable The B. Virgin S. Teresia added much to the glory of S. Ignatius CHAP. XIX IF the glory of the Father be the wise child as holy writ expresseth the B. Virgin S. Teresia that glorious Foundresse of the Disealced Carmelites a woman so famous for her admirable and heroicall vertues who by those eminent degrees of Contemplation arriued to so fast a freindship with Christ renowned for her writings of mysticall Diuinity glorious for her patience and sufferance of labours one so higly esteemed through the Christian world for her reformation of the Carmelytes an elect spouse of Christ who through her vehemency of diuine loue was often surprised with extasies a woman famous for that fiery Cherubins dart piercing her brest one inflamed with an vnquencheable desire and thirst of soules adorned with the flower of pure Virginity glorious ouer the Christian world for her celestiall visions her spirit of prophecy her manifold guift of cures in her life tyme and after this sacred Virgin I say added much to the glory of S. Ignatius as one who acknowledged herselfe a child of his Society making vse of the Fathers of it for her confessions and the whole manage of her spirituall affayres and miraculously came to the knowledge of many things in praise of the Society leauing testimonyes of it both by word and writing and particularly in her Lise written by her selfe by the commaund of a certayne great Diuine of the Order of S. Dominick Out of which Life translated afterwards into Italian printed at Rome in the yeare 1601. and dedicated to Pope Clement the eight by the Arch-Bishop of Auignion I will here relate some passages translated word by word into Latin In the 5. Chapter and 47. page of the said life S. Teresia writeth thus I Remained in this blindnes aboue 17. yeares as I remeÌ„ber til a certaine learned Father of the Order or S. Dominick opened my eyes in some things and they of the Society of Iesus possessed me intyrely with such feares to wâ— that certaine sinnes were not to be esteemed trâ—fles which some ignorant Ghostly Fathers had taught her to be no sinns aggrauating my ill conceaued principles as I will relate hereafter c. In the 23. Chapter and 236. page of the same life S. Teresia writeht thus VVHen the Fathers of the Society of Iesus arriued here to whom I not knowing any of them found my selfe much addicted only because I had vnderstood as well of their insight into matters of Spirit as of their maÌ„ner of Praier but I found not worth in my selfe to discourse with them nor strength enough to obey them c. And againe in the same Chapter page 239. the speaketh thus IT was for my greater good that I came to know and deale with men so holy as they of the Society of Iesus It is here by the way to be noted that one Antony Kerbeke an Augustin Friar in his Latin version of the life of S. Teresia published at MeÌ„ts the yeare 1603. and printed by Iohn Albin hath omitted this almost all things els written by S. Teresia in praise of the Society But what his drift was in it it is hard to iudge And in the 244. page I Was afflicted suspecting my owne misery that they of the houshould should see me deale with persons of such Sanctity as they of the Society I seemed to haue the greater obligation not to become so miserable and to depriue my self of my idle recreations And againe page 246. in the end of the Chapter S. Teresia writeth BLessed be God who gaue me grace howsoeuer vnperfectly to obey my ghostly Fathers who for the most part were those blessed men of the Society of Iesus and my soule afterwards began to perceaue a manifest amendment as now I will relate In the 24. Chapter and 249. page she writeth thus of the Society I Dwelt not farre from them reioysing much that I could haue often communication with them for my only knowing of the holines of their conuersation was the cause of that great proficience I discouered in my soule In the 33. Chapter and 364. page writing of a certaine iourney she made with licence of her Prouinciall I Was much comformed when I vnderstood that in that place there was a House of the Society of Iesus In the 38. Chapter and 421. page she writheth thus of the Society SAint Teresia here in her originall manuscript expresseth the name of the Society and reported the same by word of mouth witnesse Ribera in his life of S. Teresia printed at Rome in the 4. Booke 5. Chapter and 207 page which life the Reuerend Father Friar John a Iesu Maria discalced Carmelite in his abridgement of S. Teresia's life printed at Rome in the yeare 1609. and dedicated to Pope Paul the first stileth a history most worthy to be credited in his 1. Book 1. Chapter and 4. page thus say S. Teresia writeth of the Society I saw admirable things of some Religious persons of a certayne Order and of the whole Order in generall I oftentymes saw them in Heauen with white banners in their hands and at other tymes I had the like visions full of admiration In which respect I hould the said Order in great veneration as one who haue long conuersed with them and perceaue their liues to be conformable to that which Almighty God hath reuealed to me of them The same is to be read in the life of S. Teresia pag. 303. published in Latin by Martin Martinez and printed at Collen by Iohn Kinckius in the yeare 1620. And in the same Chapter in the page 430. of her life S. Teresia writeth thus FInding my selfe thus much afflicted in soule and body in a certaine Church of the Society of Iesus where I was hearing the Masse which one of the Fathers said for a Brother of the Society lately deceased I saw him enter into Heauen with great glory and by a particular fauour accompany the Maiesty of our Lord. In the 39. Chapter and 447 page towards the end BEing saith she in a Church of a certaine Colledge of the Society whilst the Brothers of that Colledge were receauing the B. Sacrament I saw a precious garment or as the Italian translation stileth it Pallio hang ouer their heads and this I saw twice but when other
the B. Virgin suddainely appeared recommending S. Ignatius to the eternall Father and demonstrating that her owne flesh was there present in the Eucharist in the flesh of her sonne The Books vvhich S Ignatius composed by diuine inspiration CHAPTER V. IT seemeth not impertinent to make mention in this place of certaine books of S. Ignatius written out of doubt by diuine inspiration as things depending and belonging to the Spirit of prophecy For though al the writings and Epistles of S. Ignatius carry with them a more then ordinary relish of diuine wisdome yet some of them in particular haue a more perfect tast of it The first booke he wrot in the first yeare of his Conuersion whilst yet he was ignorant of his Grammer-rules was that of the B. Trinity consisting welneare of eight hundred leaues In which after that glorious vision mentioned in the former Chapter he expresseth this great mistery how soeuer in a homely stile with such admirable variety of similies and exaÌ„ples that all men with whom afterwards he discoursed of that subiect stood in admiration and astonishement of it About the same tyme in like manner whilst he was yet vnlearned by the reuelations of Almighty God and instructions of the B. Virgin he wrot an other booke of Spirituall Exercises in which besides other excellent admonitions he prescribeth with admirable dexterity and methode diuers manners of prayer and contemplation fit for reformation of manners and progresse in vertue he giueth Rules for the Examination of the coÌ„science and rooting out of vice for distinguishing betwixt great and lesse offences for restraining the vnbridled passioÌ„s of the miÌ„d for discerning the motions of the good from them of the bad Spirit for the good choise of a state of life and directing that choise by the rule of Gods will for the expulsion of scruples and in conclusion giueth notable precepts for the discerning of Spirits This was that booke which gained those first Fathers of the Society and amongst them S. Francis Xauerius which hath stored many Monasteryes with famous men coÌ„firmed many Religious persons wauering in their good purposes reclaimed many dissolute people to a reformed discipline and in fine brought infinite multitudes of secular and Ecclesisticall persons through the Christian world to a reformation of their lewd liues and aduancement of their good amongst whom to omit many of lesse remarke one of the cheife is that great light of the Church and patterne of Pastours S. Charles Boromâ—us Cardinall and Arch-Bishop of Millay who drew those first beginnings of his vertuous life from these Excercises of S. Ignatius which all his life tyme after he so reuerenced and esteemed that at first once a yeare afterwards till his dying day twice euery yeare â—e was wont to make vse of them so to stir himselfe vp to vertue and a holy gouernment of his Church and with them lastly he prepared himselfe for his last agony and death No marueile them if euen in the life tyme of S. Ignatius these Exercises were wonderfully admitted by all such as had the charge of reuiewing them confirmed by the Bull of Paulus tertius supreme Pastour of the Church without altering a tittle of them and recommended by him for a worke full of piety and Religion and most profitable and vsefull for the spirituall good of soules by the Auditours of the holy Rote and Cardinalls of the holy â—â—iâ—es acknowledged for things not proceeding from the art or inuention of any man but from some supernaturall light infused from Heauen The third Booke S. Ignatius published which whilst he wrote he was so admirably enlightned and honoured with such glorious celestiall apparitioÌ„s as hath been said was that of his Constitutions of the Society of Iesus diuided into ten parts a worke much larger then any of the rest which euen in the iudgement of some Heretiks into whose hands it often falleth setting a side the doctrine of Faith and Ecclesiasticall ceremonies contained in it is esteemed a rate Peece and a thing surpassing human wisdome being a liuely patterne of a perfect and well gouerned Common-wealth And of many holy and learned men it is held a peece of work deseruing high esteeme for the depth of diuine wisdome contayned in it and for the excellent doctrine full of Christian and Religious perfections and therfore with good cause approued by many Popes The guifts of a glorisied Body miraculously bestovved vppon S. Ignatius in his life tyme. CHAP. 6. AMongst the infallible signes of the true Church of Christ some graue Eclesiasticall writers learnedly and piously recken tâ—e endowments of glorified bodyes in a proportion befitting the state of this life miraculously bestowed vpon some children of the Church famous for their holy liues amongst whom they name B Sâ—â—gnatius It is euident by the testimonyes of many graue witnesses that his body in this life was endowed with the guist of Clarity for his head and face was often seene shining in a glorious maÌ„ner so he was sene by one Isabel Rosella at Bercelona whilst he was hearing a Sermon in the Church amongst the vulgar sort of people so one Iohn Paschall saw him so he was beheld by them of the hospitall whilst he liued amongst them And at Rome by Alexander Petronius by Father Oliuier Manare and Father Levvis Gonzaluo who whensoeuer he came to Saint Ignatius praying in his chamber which he had often occasion to do he euer beheld him shining with most glorious beames And S. Philippus Nerius a man of wonderful holy life and a familiar acquaintance of S. Ignatius was a customed to say that S. Ignatius was a man of that Sanctity that the interiour beauty of his soule shewed it selfe exteriourly in him from whose eyes and countenance he professeth often to haue seene glorious beames and rayes of brightnes to proceed Concerning the guift of Impassibility his seauen dayes fasts without taking any sustinance accompanied either with a violent extasie a thing which much impaireth the forces of the body or with a cruelle whipping of his body thrice a day and many howers spent vpon his knees in prayer without any wearines or tiring of his body do euidently shew it The guift of Subtility was miraculously graunted to him when in his life tyme at the selfe same moment or instant of tyme he was perfectly seene in body at Rome and at Coller two places aboue nine hundred miles distant from each other as shal be related in the six teeÌ„th chapter And that he was often in his prayers lifted from the ground was an euident signe in him of the guift of Agility Of the wrtues and supernaturall guifts of S. Ignatius in generall CHAP. 7. BEfore our abridgement of the vertues of S. Ignatius in particular some what is to be said of his supernaturall guifts in generall by which it will appeare that he was raised by the hand of God to thâ—â— rate and eminent degree of Sanctity so to proue a fitter instrument to communicate so
propriety of the persons and this in a way of vnderstanding so plaine so perfect and so beyond the iudgement of the senses that as he himselfe confesseth in a little treatise found after his death of his owne hand writing it had been impossible for him in many yeares study to haue attained the like knowledge And in an other booke he left writtē that he though it impossible in this life to arriue to a more perfect knowledge and vnderstanding of mysteries then Almighty God in a certaine vision had been pleased to reueale to him Which often reuelations intermingled with a kind of vnspeakeable delectation were wont to possesse his vnderstanding not for a short space but often-tymes for many dayes togeather so that whether-soeuer he went whether he were in his chamber in the Refectory whether at home or abroad they euer accompanied and as it were watched with him with the vehemency of which he was often so trāsported and did so loose himselfe that he seemed in spirit euer to be in Heauen in body only vpon Earth Moreover the very first yeare after his conuersion whilst he liued at Manresa the principall points of the Society he was to Institute and such things especially by which the Society differeth from other Orders were reuealed to him by Almighty God as he himselfe acknowledged to Father Iames Laynez one of the first of his Society and other graue Fathers who when they demaunded of him for what cause he ordained some things in the Society differing from the customes of other Orders he yeelding them a particular reason for each thing they demaunded in conclusion was wont to place the force of all his reasons in those admirable inspirations miraculously bestowed vpon him at Manresa and the recollection he made there in which Almighty God sealed and imprinted in his mind most manifest and euident notions of all these things At his departure out of Spaine giuing some good precepts to one Iohn Pascall at that tyme but a youth for the rest of his life to come and being asked of the youth what would become of him take hart child quoth he when thou growest elder thou shalt marty and haue thy share of many troubles which shall hinder thee from beīg trāsported with pleasures or being slack in imploring the assistance of God And so it fell out It was miraculously reuealed to him that one of his companiōs taken with a solitary life casting with himselfe how to forsake the Society was affrighted by Gods permission with an ill Spirit One Peter Ferrus a Patauian borne liyng sick past human hope of recouery was certainely foretould by S. Ignatius that by the helpe of the Mother of God he should shortly recouer the night following the sick man expecting with deuotion what would become of him the Mother of God accompained with a glorious traine of Virgins presented her selfe to him and by giuing him her picture restored him his health The day following Ignatius returning with a countenance more cherefull thē ordinary not being ignorant of what had passed found Peter recouered and said vnto him Did not I tell thee that the Mother of God would recouer thee The death of Agnes Paschalis who ended her dayes most holily at Bercelona was miraculously reuealed to him at Rome so that the letters of Antony Araozius one who was present at that widdowes death brought him afterwards no newes of it At Antvverp long before the founding of the Society of IESVS he foretould one Peter Quadratus a Spaniard that he should one day be the founder of a Colledge of the Society and so it fell out for he afterwards with Francis Manionia his wife foūded the Colledge of Medina del Campo He foretould one Simon Rodriguez that infallibly he should recouer and escape that sicknes It was miraculously discouered to S. Ignatius that a certaine person not long before admitted into the Society being so molested with an office imposed vpon him that he could not take his rest or sleep in the night tyme therfore began to thinke of returning back into the world the Saint commaunded the party to be called to him in the night tyme out of his bed discouering to him by little and little his most secret cōcealed thoughts with an admirable dexterity quieted his troubled mind The like charitable offices with the like insight he performed to many others who not being able through their ignorance to make knowne their diseases he discouered the nature causes of them prescribing remedies for them He foretould one Stephen Baroellus lying dangerously sick that he should not dye of that disease who presently after recouered to the admiration of all mē His Companions at Venice finding strong opposition by many powerfull enemyes and being halfe resolued to let their busines dye informed S. Ignatius of the danger they flood in who returned answer wishing them they should not forsake the cause of Christ for by his assistance they should bring their busines to their desired issuë which promise did not faile them for within eight dayes after a sentence was giuen to their aduantage almost by the vniforme consent of the Senate a thing esteemed no small miracle by men of vnderstanding that two strange and vnkown Fathers of the Society and they of the Spanish nation should be able to contest with the fauour and riches of the most eminent Cittizens of that Citty He foretould Don Fracisco de Borgia whilst he was yet Duke of Gandia and F. Iames Laynez that they should one day be Generalls of the Society of Iesus He discouered to Michael Arrouira whilst he was yet a youth the most inward secrets of his hart about a marriage he then intended with many miseries that were to befall him I omit other examples of his spirit of prophecy too long to be mentioned in this short abridgement The manifold and often visions of S. Ignatius CHAP. IV. FOR as much as celestiall visions haue a dependency of the Spirit of prophecy this is a fit place to make mention of them not that the Sanctity of Gods seruants is diriued from them seeing it may be is often tymes found without them but because they are also certaine ornaments of Sanctity therfore some rehearsall is to be made of them for with these also in as eminent a degree as may be attayned in this life Blessed S. Ignatius was plentifully stored The frist vision he had was of S. Peter the Apostle who restored him to health when the Phisicians had giuen him ouer for it pleased his Diuine Maiesty to haue him restored to health by the cheife Pastour vnder Christ and Prince of his Church whom in a manner proportionable to his diuine prouidence he had chosen for a speciall Champion enlarger of the same Lying awake one night sick in his Fathers house the B. Virgin Mary appeared to him with her little Infant IESVS in a bright and glorious māner not shewīg her selfe slightly but remayning long in his
great benefits to the vniuersall Church of Christ And as to the comfort and profit of the Church the diuine prouidence hath moued other great Saints for some particular good end to declare ingenuously though with submission to their dearest friends their most concealed and most notable supernaturall endowments as we read in their liues so the same prouidence hath wrought out of the secrets of S. Ignatius and procured from his owne vnquestionable and wonderfull circumspect relation many arguments and tokens of the great fauours of God He was earnestly wont to labour dayly to make some new step in the way of vertue with this only ayme that he might euer present his diuine Maiesty with some encrease of glory To which purpose following the Counsell of S. Iohn Chrisostome and S. Iohn Climacus like a prouident Banker he compared the day present with the day past and the profit of one day with that of the other And howbeit it is a rare thing for men of holy life not to loose of their first seruour and more admirable by respires if not vvithout intermission to aduaunce in the vvay of vertue and most of all to be admired continually and vvithout pauses oâ—â—â—terims to profit yet S. Ignatius did not only not make a dayly increase in vertue but comparing the profit of the day present vvith that of the day past found and confessed that he dayly aduanced vvas more and more enflamed vvith desire of Gods seruice so far-forth that in his old age he vvas vvont to terme the state he found himselfe in at 〈…〉 in vvhich place he had the 〈…〉 to 〈◊〉 so many glorious fauours as 〈…〉 been said before his first Rudiments as it vvere his rough-casting vvhich Almighty God dayly polished perfected in him So that in S. Ignatius that vnquestionable doctrine of S. Thomas hath place vvho affirmeth 2.2 q. 161. art 3. That they vvho principate of the guifts of God knovv they are endovved vvith them according to that of the Apostle 1. Cor. 2 That vve may knovv that of God they are bestovved vpoÌ„ vs. In vvhich respect S. Vertha in the teÌ„th Chapter of her life vvith good cause termeth it an adulterate humility vvhich doth not acknovvledge the â—auours of God And this doth euideÌ„tly shevv the excellency of S. Ignatius his vertues that he found the mercy and fauours of Almighty God tovvards him to be such that by hovv much the more he seemed to vvanâ— and desire amendment by so much more liberall Almighty God vvas vvith him and cast vpon him more bouÌ„tifully the treasures of his sweetnes Wherfore he professed ingenuously that he could not perswade himself that such a conionction of extreames was to be found in any man as in himselfe to be so vngratefull to his diuine Maiesty and dayly to receaue so many and so notable fauours at his hands To which may be added that which Andreas Frusius an intimate friend of S. Ignatius and one whoÌ„ for his admirable wisdome and innocency of life S. Ignatius himselfe and others of his acquaintance were wont to compare and resemble to some Angell was accustomed to say that in S. Ignatius supernaturall grace appeared to be in-bred and connaturall to him with such constancy and facility at all tymes places he held a straight hand ouer his proceedings And other iudicious men with whom he dayly conuersed taking a long and curious account of all his actions euen to the least gesture or motion of his body being taken themselues with admiration of his Sanctity affirmed that all the perfections contayned either in his booke of the Constitutions of the Society or in that golden treatise of Thomas de Kempis of the imitation of Christ or in his booke of Spirituall Exercises were perfectly and to life expressed in himselfe Whence Father Levvis Gonâ—alez Confessour to the King of Portugall a graue and discreet man was wont to say that to conuerse with Ignatius was nothing els but to see the booke of Thomas de Kempis by others thought to be the booke of Gerson liuely and perfectly acted in him S. Ignatius relating vpon occasion to F. Iohn Polanco a man of great wisdome one whose helpe he made vse of for the dispatch of letters some passages concerning himselfe for the better instruction of the other and being demaunded of Father Polanco in a kind of freedome whether he ranne not a hazard of vaine glory in the relation of such passages concerning himselfe the B. Father made answere that he stood in feare of no vice lesse theÌ„ of vaine glory adding besides theses words you may rest coÌ„sideÌ„t Father Polanco that amoÌ„gst a thousand of Gods fauours bestowed vpon me many tymes I reueale not any and that merely for the incapacity of them who should heare me And yet it is certaine that S. Ignatius had the Company and acquaintance of men of rare parts endowed with great â—â—it iudgement experience learning and Sanctity and men of deepe insight and knowledge as well of the theoricke as Practicke of matters of Spirit who if they were not capable of vnderstanding the graces of God infused in Saint Ignatius questionlesse they were of a pitch higher then ordinary far surpassing the ordinary course of other Saints Which is an admirable token of rare Sanctity S. Ignatius had euer a great opinion of the holines of the Church and of the Saints which florished euery age of the Church beleeuing they were adorned with many more admirable ornaments of diuine grace then is left written of them in their liues Ecclesiasticall historyes in which respect he held them in great veneration taking a speciall care that their honour should be aduanced and spred by them of his Society with all possible diligence against all endeauours of any heretickes to the contrary of which his opinion of their admirable Sanctity discoursing vpon occasion with a freind of his he affirmed that for his particular he would not change the supernaturall guiâ—s which he himself without any desert of his had aiready or was in hope to diriue from that diuine fountaine with any one of the Saints whose liues were then extant if they were not endowed with greater graces and guifts then any he had read or were written of them Moreouer the B F. affirmed of himselfe that he should not be able to liue if his brest did nourish any human affection or any thing which did not wholy relish of heauen In his actions he was not guided by blind affectioÌ„ by which for the most part men are led to their destruction but by the square and direction of reason often repâ—â—ting that by reason men are distinguished from beasts He had a speciall care that his actions should be intended purely for Gods sake not for feare of chastisement or hope of reward not contented that each action should only be directed to the glory of God but labouring with an act of reflexion of his soule that they might redound to Gods greatest honour
people communicated I saw no such thing In the. 40. Chapter and 455. page of her life she speketh thus of the said Society of Iesus witnesse Ribera in her life writen by him in his 4. Booke and 5. Chapiter BEing vpon a tyme at my prayers with great recollection peace and quietnes I seemed to my selfe to be placed neare God and inuironed with Angels where I besought his diuine Maiesty for the good of the Church And it was reuealed to me what profit should accrew to the Church by a certayne Religious Order in the later dayes together with the fortitude with which that Order should vphold the Church And Ribera in the place aboue mentioned expresseth these words spoken then by Christ to S. Teresia to haue been vnderstood of the Society of Iesus as Martin Martinez translateth them pag 307. Oh if thou didst know what supplies those men shall bring to the decaying Church in after ages c. Which vision she saith she often had And howbeit in that life of S. Teresia which goeth about in print the name of the Society is not particularly expressed yet in the originall life and in all written copies I haue seen of it the name of the Society is particularly vsed And these words of our Sauiour she repeateth againe in the 40. Chapter howsoeuer not expressing the name of the Society which as I said is apparent and receaued from the mouth of S. Theresia her selfe So Martinez The said S. Teresia hearing one day the Masse of F. Balthazar Aluarez of the Society of Iesus her Ghostly Father saw him crowned with a Crowne of wonderfull brightnes all the tyme his Masse endured as Lewis de la Puente recounteth in the life of F. Aluarez c. 6. § 1. pag. 69. It was reuealed to S. Teresia that the said F. Aluarez her Ghostly Father should be saued and our Sauiour shewed her an eminent place in Heauen which he was to enioy adding that he was at that present arriued to so high a degree of perfection in this world as was not exceeded by any man then aliue that according to that degree his seate in Heauen was prepared that he was gon beyond the perfection of all creatures then vpon the earth and yet then the Church of God was well stored with men of rare Sanctity as well in the Society as out of it This reuelation S. Teresia discouered to F. Baltazar himselfe and other Fathers of the Society and to some of her owne Monastery other Religious persons who reported it as a truth infallible She noted it also in her secret Notes which fell afterwards into the hands of Diego Iepesio Bishop of Tarazona who set forth her life in Spanish in the yeare 1606. and dedicated it to Pope Paul the fifth amongst which Notes he finding this reuelation imparted it to others as Lewis de la Puente writeth in the life of F. Aluarez § 2. pag. 124. and 126. The said S. Teresia being demaunded by one of her NuÌ„ns whether she thought it would any way auaile her to be directed by F. Aluarez replied that it were a great mercy of Almighty God to her for quoth she he is one to whom my soule oweth more then to all others in this world and who hath more assisted â—â—d directed me in the way of perfection So writeth Lewis de la Puente in the life of F. Aluarez cap. 11. in the beginning of the page 117. The same S. Teresia appearing many yeares after her death to a certaine seruaÌ„t of God of approued vertue credit and one particularly deuoted to herselfe and comforting her in her afflictions amoÌ„gst other things vttered these words And I my selfe quoth she am a child of the Society and had one of that Order for my Ghostly Father whom now I see and honour in Heauen Which she vnderstood of F. Aluarez for though she had other Ghostly Fathers also of the Society yet he remained longest so and with great industry assisted her to put in execution those her aspiring thoughts and of whom she boasted that he had been her Ghostly Father and Master Se Lewis de la Puente in the life of F. Aluarez cap. 58. § 1. page 607. The same S. Teresia knew by reuelation of the death of fourty Fathers and Brothers of the Society martyred by the heretikes in their iourney to Brasill and as soone as they were put to death reuealed it to F. Aluarez her Ghostly Father that she had seene theÌ„ with crownes of Martyrdome in Heauen As Diego Iepesio Bishop of Tarazona writeth in the life of S. Theresia lib. 3. cap. 7. pag. 152. The same S. Theresia saw the soule of F. Gutierez of the Society of Iesus who died in France for the faith by the miseryes sustained in prison carried in triumph into Heauen with a Laurell of Martyrdome as is to be read in the life of F. Suarez printed at Lions 1620. in the begining of his first Tome de Graâ—â—a But they of the Society who haue either been Ghostly Fathers of S. Teresia or els at her intreaty haue had the examination of her spirit or reuelations and haue approued them are these following as they are mencioned by the writers or translatours of S. Teresia's life B. Francis Borgia F. Antony Araoz F. Giles Gonzalez F. Balthazar Aluarez F Martin Gutiers F. Salagar F. Ripalda F. Paul Hernandez F. Rodorignez Aluarez F. Santander F. Francis Ribera F. Henriquez F. Bartholmew Perez others singularly expert in matters of spirit whose names the Reader may find in the abridgment of the life of B. Mother Teresia set forth at Rome by the Rd. Father Friar Iohn discalced Carmelite 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. 231 pag. And in Ribera 4. booke 7. Chapter and 316. page of his Roman edition in Italian And in the 8. page of the Italian abridgemeÌ„t published at Rome this present yeare And in the preface of Cosmo Gacci annexed to the Italian life of S. Tertsia And in the Epistle dedicatory of the said life printed in Latin at Collen by Iohn Kinckius And that S. Teresia drew those first beginnings of her more tender and entire freindship with Almighty God from the aduise and couÌ„sel of a Ghostly Father of hers of the Society the R. Father Iohn a Iesus Maria discalced Carmelite witnesseth in his abridgement of her life lib. 1. c. 10. pag. 51. in these words About that time saith he her Ghâ—stly Father deceased at Abâ—â—a a thing which much afflicted her because she coÌ„ceaued she should hardly find another to succeed him so answerable to her desire Yet she chose another of the same Society who discouering that out of a noblenes of disposition in her she would not suffer herselfe to be behind hand with any person who bore her any affection in the way of freind-ship in such things nouerthelesse as lesned not her affection to heauenly