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A08680	Antidote against purgatory. Or discourse, wherein is shewed that good-workes, and almes-deeds, performed in the name of Christ, are a chiefe meanes for the preuenting, or migatating the torments of purgatory. Written by that vertuous, and rightworthy gentle-woman (the honour of her sexe for learning in England) Ms. Iane Owen, late of God-stow, in Oxfordshire, deceased, and now published after her death	Owen, Jane, of God-stow.	1634 (1634)	STC 18984; ESTC S103135	54,249	307

is yet another thing most worthy of your charitable commiseration You see that the Catholickes throughout England pay yerely great sommes of money for their Recusancy Among whom there are many hundred of poore Catholikes who are so ouercharged with these yearely payments as that their meane Estates are not able to support any long time such payments of which his Maiesty who is most prone to commiseration and pitty litle heareth in particular this being effected only by certaine Subordinate Magistrates aduerse to our Catholike Religion And thereupon for their auoiding of the said payments imposed vpon them diuers of these poore men and women haue forsaken already contrary to their conscience externally their Religion and are content to come to the Protestant Church Now heere I say such of you as be of great Abilities how ample a field haue you to sow your merits and satisfactions in I meane by contributing out of your purses some yearly sommes to these poore Catholikes thereby to ease and lessen their yearely payments In your worthy performaÌ„ce of this my propounded Motion you do not only help and succour them touching their bodies but which is far more pleasing in the sight of God you so take pitty of their soules as you preuent that diuers of them do not Apostatate forsake their Catholicke Religion which perhaps throgh feare of want of meanes they would doe And so you are become a secondary great Instrument of their finall Saluation And can you then otherwise thinke but that God who is mercy it selfe and who will take this Charity of yours as done to himselfe would take the like pitty of your owne soules both for the preuenting of your eternall perdition as also for mitigating your temporall punishments in Purgatory For heer our Sauiours words would be iustified in you Matth. 25. Verily I say vnto you in so much as you haue donne it vnto one of the least of these my brethren you haue done it vnto me In this next place I will descend to acts peculiar only to vs Catholikes such as do insist and rest in offering vp the prayers both of our selues but especially of the generall Liturgy of the most blessed Sacrifice of the Eucharist offered vp either for the benefit of our selues or of others Of which most dreadfull Sacrifice sayth S. Chrysostome homil 25. in Act. Apost Hostia in manibus adsunt Angeli adsunt Archangeli adest Filius Dei cum tanto horrore astant omnes And to begin Thinke what a worthy and charitable Act it were to concurre by causing Sacrifices and Prayers to be made for the redeeming of poore Soules out of Purgatory There is no man of an Humane and sweet Nature but he would commiserate a very beast much more a man lying in extremity of paynes And this Naturall Pitty is so gratefull to our Sauiour himselfe as that he pronounceth Matth. 5. Beati misericordes quoniam ipsi misecordiam consequentur Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtayne mercy So auaylable behooffull is pitty and mercy to the performers thereof But to proceed to another benefit of such a pious deed Yf a prudent man had a Cause of most great importance to be tryed before a seuere yet most iust Iudge And if at the same tyme there were certaine persons in prison whom that Iudge did much respect to whose earnest solicitations in any reasonable point he would lend a willing eare Now would not this Suppliant lay wayte by all meanes to redeeme the said men out of Prison if so he could who during their stay there were put to daily torments and rackings as well assuring himselfe that these Persons thus set at liberty by this mans meanes being men of most good and gratefull Natures Dispositions would be ready to speake to the Iudge and be earnest and solicitous in his behalfe And then is it not most probable if not certaine that this man would speed the better in determining his Cause The case is here a like and both are cast as it were in one mould The soules in Purgatory once from thence released shall become most blessed Saints in Heauen shall be most pleasing and gratefull to his Diuine Maiesty who cannot nor will not deny them the grant of any thing which they shall demaund and petition for at his hands Euery Catholike as all other men are to plead their cause before God the most iust Iudge Yet for the more easy obtayning of their Plea it is in the power of ech Catholike of good meanes if his will be answerable thereto to procure at least much to further by his liberall charges bestowed for the praying for the soules in Purgatory the releasing and setting free of diuers of the said tormented soules Now this being once performed those then Happy Soules shall no sooner leaue their Goale and Prison and ascend to Heauen but as euen abounding with a Seraphicall Charity shall in recompeÌ„ce of so great a spirituall ease and Relaxation procured to them euer batter at the eares of our Almighty and mercifull Lord with their daily and incessant prayers that his Diuine Mercy would be most indulgent and pittifull to such men for the preuenting or at least mitigating of their temporall paynes by whose meanes those soules had a more speedy deliuery from their torments in Purgatory Heere then may a man who is rich in temporall state if so he be rich in charity lay out his wealth to an infinite increase of spirituall gayne O how many peculiar Aduocates and Intercessours of the then most blessed soules released out of Purgatory might a rich Catholike purchase to himselfe by this former meanes thereby to pleade his cause before the Throne of Almighty God in his greatest need And fooles I will not say Madmen are all such vpon whom God hath bestowed abundance of temporall riches and yet themselues remayne vnwilling slow in this spirituall traffique of a good and competent part of their said temporall state and meanes But because this point of relieuing by Good Workes the soules in Purgatory is of most great importance both to the poore soules relieued the liuing party performing such a most charitable work to them Therefore besydes what is already deliuered by me aboue I will adioyne as most mouing any man of Piety and Iudgment the discourse of the aforementioned learned and worthy Cardinall Bellarmine of this point who maketh the ninth Chapter of the third booke de Gemitu Columbae the subiect hereof Thus then that blessed man writeth We haue shewed aboue that there are very many or rather innumerable soules of the faithfull in Purgatory and that they are a most long tyme to be tormented almost with incredible punishments Now here we will declare the fruite which may be gathered from this consideration And certainly it cannot be doubted but if the ponderation and weighing of this point be serious longe attent and full of fayth and confidence a most vehement commiseration and

another Iudge or by humbly beseeching the mercy of the Iudge or by some other meanes he may free himselfe in some measure from the vexations with which he is enuironed But alas in Purgatory the Soules can do nothing but only patiently suffer their punishment True it is that Holy Men liuing heere on earth may pray for the dead may offer vp almes and other satisfactory workes for the soules in Purgatory But this priuiledge is not granted to the soules themselues being in Purgatory except by a certaine Priuiledge to some few and this most rarely to wit to appeare to liuing men and to beseech ayde and help by their charity Therefore the state and condition of those soules are most miserable who being in those torments caÌ„not beget any ease or help to themselues or to the soules of their Father Sonne Brother Mother sister or wyfe or of any other friend lying in Purgatory But perhaps It may be here suggested that few are those Soules who come to Purgatory and therefore the punishments there inflicted are not much to be apprehended but in a sort to be sleighted and smally regarded But to this I answere that the soules which lye cruciated tormented in Purgatory are innumerable and so many as that the number of them is sufficient to moue and stir vp mercy though their torments were far more easy and light This is euident seeing we are instructed a little before from the history of Venerable Bede that Drithelmus did see an infinite number of soules in Purgatory as also froÌ„ the lyfe of Blessed Christina that the place of Purgatory was a most vast huge place replenished filled with soules Neither can it be otherwise seeing nothing that is defiled and contaminated can enter into the kingdome of Heauen but they only are able to penetrate vnto the sight of God which is a light and in whom there is not any darkenes and to that place of infinite purity who are truly holy and immaculate are meÌ„bers of that Church in which there is not either macula or ruga spot or wrincle Ephes 5. Now who these men are are most rare and most few and therfore it followeth that all others who belong to the number of the Elect are to passe through the torments and paynes of Purgatory Now from all the former passages of this discourse it may necessarily be gathered that the Doue hath iust cause daily to lament and mourne for so many meÌ„bers of hers which with an infinite desire thirst after their heauenly Country and yet are in the meane time detayned from thence by intollerable flames of fyer and are cruciated afflicted with most bitter inexplicable paines Thus far doth the Godly Cardinall Bellarmyne discourse of these former foure Heads touching the Nature of Purgatory Which discourse in regard both of his Learning Sanctity ought to sway and preuayle much with all such good pious English Catholikes who are sollicitous and carefull of their owne soules good Now the Authour of this Treatise wil conclude this first Section by adioyning a Reason drawne from Schoole Diuinity which demonstrateth that the paynes of Purgatory are far more atrocious and intollerable then any paynes or torments of this life can be It is this Three things do concurre as well to griefe or payne as to ioy To wit Potentia Obiectum Coniunctio vnius cum altero as S. Tho. p. 2. q. 31. ar 5. saith An intelligent or at least a sentient Power or Faculty a conuenient Obiect to that Power and an Vnion or Coniunction of the Obiect with the Power Now as concerning the Power doubtlesly Potentia rationalis a Rational Power or Faculty is more capable of payne or griefe then Potentia animalis a sensible Faculty or Function For if we respect Apprehension or knowing the Vnderstanding in a Rationall soule is as it were a mayne Fountaine the Sense but a small Riuer So far as concerneth the Appetite or Desire the wil of a Rationall Soule is a maine Fountayne also The Appetite being inferiour to it is but like a small Riuer Seeing therfore the naked soule it selfe is immediatly tormented the griefe thereof ought to be the greatest in respect of the Patient for here in this lyfe not so much the soule as the body is tormented by reason of the paynes of the body some griefe and dolour passeth into the soule Now concerning the Obiect The fyer of Purgatory must be far more violent horrible intense then the fyer in this world is seeing that fyer is created and instituted as an instrument of Gods Iustice who would shew his power in the creation of it Lastly touching the Coniunction of the Power with the Obiect the Coniunction of the Soule with the fyer in Purgatory shall be most strait and as it were intrinsecall For heere in this world where all things are corporall and bodily there is no Coniunction made but only by the touch of the Extremities or vtmost parts of the bodyes and the Superficies of things wheras in Purgatory the torments and fyer thereof shall penetrate most inwardly the very soule it selfe Thus farre touching this first Section Of the meanes to auoyde at least to mitigate the paynes of Purgatory SECT II. HAuing in the precedent Section shewed out of the iudgment of the most learned Cardinall Bellarmyne the atrocity of the paynes of Purgatory and some other Circumstances accoÌ„paning the said paynes in this next place it is conuenient to set downe the meanes through force whereof the sayd paynes may receaue some alleuiation and mitigation I imitating herein the Physitian who first inquireth into the disease after prescribeth Medicines for the curing of the same These meanes according to the Doctrine of the Catholike Church are these following To wit the most holy Sacrifice of the Masse Prayer Almes-deeds or good workes according to those words of S. Austin serm 32. deverb Apost Orationibus sanctae Ecclesiae sacrificio salutari Eleemosynis non est dubium mortuos adiuuari It is not to be doubted but that the Soules of the dead are helped by prayers of the holy Church by the healthfull Sacrifice and by Almes deeds With whom accordeth S. Chrysostome Hom. 41. in 1. ad Cor. saying Iuuatur mortuus non lachrymis sed precibus supplicationibus Eleemosynis A dead man is helped not with teares but with prayers supplications and Almes-deeds With which two former Fathers Venerable Bede to omit many other to auoyde prolixity doth conspire in these words l. 5. hist c. 13. Multos preces viuentium Eleemosynae c. The prayers of the liuing Alms-deeds Fasting and principally the Celebration of the Masse do helpe many who are dead that they may be freed from their torments before the day of Iudgment But of these three seuerall kinds of Suffrages for reliefe of the soules in Purgatory I will chiefly insist in shewing the force and efficacy of good works or Almes-deeds In the explication of

all likely-hood reason and dispute with thy owne Soule True it is I thanke God of his most infinite and boundles Mercy that as a straying sheep I am at length brought into Christs sheep-fold and I hope to dye through the benefit of our Sauiours passion and of the holy Sacraments his seruant and in state of Grace and finally to enioy the interminable ioyes of Heauen But alas though the guilt of Eternall damnation incurred by my long former Schismaticall lyfe by my many other infinite sinnes as I hope through Gods infinit mercy be remitted yet temporall punishment due for all my former said sinnes in most inexplicable torments of Purgatory doth expect me My poore Soule must continue in those burning Flames how many yeares his diuine Maiesty only knoweth for the expiating of my said sinnes before I can arriue to Heauen When I was in health enioying my temporall state in all fulnes how easily with a voluntary relinquishing of a reasonable part thereof to pious and religious vses could I haue auoyded at least mitigated these now imminent and vnauoydable torments Good god where then were my Wits The very plowman prouides for the tyme of Winter yea the Ant to the which we are sent by Gods word Prou. 6. to be instructed hoords graynes of Corne for his after sustenance And haue I so negligently carryed my selfe as to lay vp before-hand no prouision against this tempestuous and rugged future storme O beast that I was Sweet Iesus how far distant were my former course of lyfe and daily actions from euer thinking of this vnauoydable danger I haue liued many yeares in fulnes of state I haue beene labouring in laying out good summes of Siluer to heap land to land for my Children to inherit I haue liued perhaps in a most profuse or wastfull manner I haue spent to much to gayne the deceitfull fauour of the world in sumptuous apparell exceeding my state in keeping an ouer wastfull house and in ouer great vnnecessary Attendance about me By meanes of some or all of these extrauagant Courses I haue spent much And yet not once did I euer thinke to bestow the twentith part of these superfluous charges to pious vses for the preuenting of those flames which within few dayes perhaps few houres my poore soule must suffer O wretch that I am that haue thus senselesly so neglected this fearefull day Here now my former pleasures and Iollity are come to their last end and period Gods Iustice must and will be satisfyed since nothing defyled and contaminated except all the rust therof be afore fyled away can enter into the Kingdome of Heauen Whither then now being encompassed on ech syde with such thornes of danger anxiety shall I turne my selfe To the world and my former pleasures thereof O God the remembrance of them is most nauseous and distastfull to me since the fruition of them is a great cause of my future paynes To my former greatnes and fulnes of my temporall state O that I had beene so happy as to haue made true benefit in tyme of that Mammon of Iniquity my wastfull spending whereof must giue fuell to that fyer And we are taught that Diuitiae non proderunt in die vltimo Prou. 11. To my Friends Kyndred former familiar acquaintance which I shall leaue behind me in the World Wo is me they are as wholy negligent of their owne soules danger concerning this point as my selfe haue beene How then can I expect them to be solicitous carefull of myne To thee then alone most mercifull and heauenly Father who art Pater misericordiarum 2. Cor. 1. and who dost crowne vs in misericordia miserationibus Psal 102. I do flye Who tookest mercy of the Woman of Canaan of Mary Magdalen of the Publican and of the thiefe hanging vpon the Crosse Betweene the armes of thy ineffable Compassion I cast my selfe Lessen Ã´ Lessen for thy owne honours sake and the bitter passion of thy most Deare Sonne my Sauiour Iesus Christ these temporall paynes which now wante for me Let my present Compunction and Contrition of all my former sinnes through thy mercy Sons pretious death arriue to that ascent and height as that my Sauiour may say to me with the good thiefe to day thou shalt be with me in Paradise So shall thy Mercy thereby ouer-ballance thy Iustice For to speake in the Churches Dialect Plus potes dimittere quÃ m ego committere and it is my Comfort that I read in holy Writ Suauis est Dominus vniuersis miserationes eius super omnia opera eius Psal 144. Our Lord is sweet to all and his mercy is aboue all his Workes O that I had beene so happy as to haue followed the wholsome aduyce giuen to me by way of Presage in a little Treatise entituled An Antidot against Purgatory I then did read it but with a certaine curiosity as thinking it nothing to belong to me But alas I now find it to be a true Sybill or Prophet of my future Calamitous state Well then seeing my owne hower-glasse is almost run out let me turne my speach to you Deare Catholiks in my health my chiefest Familiars with whom I did most consociate in my former pleasures There is no difference betweene you and me but the tyme present and the tyme to come You all must once be forced to this bed of sorrow and be brought to your last Sicknes To you then and to all others who are negligent in prouiding against this Day I do direct this my charitable Admonition You are yet in health perhaps as improuident in laying vp spirituall riches against this fearefull day as my selfe haue beene O change your Course whiles there is tyme. Let my present state preach to you suffer these my last dying words to giue lyfe to your future Actions since they preach feelingly whose Pulpit is their death-Bed Be not in the number of those sensles creatures who are buryed so deep in earth as that they haue no tast or feeling of things to come Nolunt intelligere vt benÃ¨ agant Psal 35. Do now therefore Deare Friends do now what you can Now while you haue tyme heap vp togeather that spirituall Wealth which will buy out all ensuing paynes and turne the Current of your former superfluous Charges into the fayre streame of pious workes that so it may affoard you water for the quenchinge of those raging Flames Consider how you shall be conuented before the seuere Iudge froÌ„ whom nothing can be hiddeÌ„ of whoÌ„ the Prophet saith Tu cognouisti omnia nouissima antiqua Psal 138. He is not appeased with guifts nor admtiteth excuses who out of his boundles mercy remitteth to vs vpon our true repentance the paynes of eternall damnation but yet chastizeth vs with temporall punishment to satisfy his Iustice misericordia veritas obuiauerunt sibi iustitia pax osculati sunt Psal 81. Therefore now begin to spread your selues in workes

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