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B09275	Decrees of our Holy Father, Pope Innocent XI containing the suppression of an office of the Immaculate Conception of the most Holy Virgin and of a multitude of indulgences : according to the copies at Rome, from the printing-press of the Most Reverend Apostolick Chamber / translated into English out of the French copy, to which the Latine was adjoyn'd, as also here it is, by the direction of an eminent person of honour.	Catholic Church. Pope (1676-1689 : Innocent XI); Innocent XI, Pope, 1611-1689.; Inchofer, Melchior, 1585?-1648. Epistolae B. Virginis Mariae ad Messanenses veritas vindicata. English & Latin.	1678 (1678)	Wing I200A; ESTC R188290	21,891	70

DECREES OF OUR HOLY FATHER POPE INNOCENT XI Containing The SUPPRESSION of an Office of the Immaculate Conception of the most Holy VIRGIN And of A Multitude of INDVLGENCES According to the Copies at Rome From the Printing-Press of the most Reverend Apostolick Chamber Translated into English out of the French Copy to which the Latine was adjoyn'd as also here it is By the direction of an Eminent Person of Honour OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printed to the University for Ric. Davis 1678. Sept. 18 1678. IMPRIMATUR JOH NICHOLAS Vice-Can OXON Prove all things Hold fast that which is Good S. Paul 1 Epistle to the Thessalonians c 5. Let us not make to our selves a Religion out of our own Fancies For what is Real and True how small soever is more worth than all that we can invent of our own head S. Augustin in his Book of the True Religion c. 55. What is to be uttered in the presence of Truth it self ought not either to be spoken or written but with great Reverence and Circumspection least we Provoke God more to wrath even by those things whereby we think to Pacifie him For nothing can be Pleasing to him but what is Honest and True Letaldus a Monk of Mans in his Preface to the Life of S. Julian Bishop of Mans. The SUPPRESSION of an Office Of the Immaculate Conception of the most Holy VIRGIN FRier Raimund Capisucci of the order of the Preaching Friers Master of the Sacred Apostolique Palace Judge Ordinary c. By Authority of the Office we hold and by express Order of our most Holy Father by Divine Providence Pope INNOCENT XI to us directed His Holyness having first consulted heard the Advise of the most Eminent and most Reverend Cardinals the General Inquisitors We do Prohibite and Declare to be Prohibited a small Book Intituled The Office of the Immaculate Conception of the most Holy Virgin our LADY approved by the Soveraign Pontif PAUL the Fifth who hath granted to whosoever shall devoutly recite the same an Hundred daies Indulgence as may appear by his Bull of July 10. 1615. Printed at Milan by Francis Vigon Which Office begins with these Words At Mattins Ave Maria ver Eia mea labia nunc annunciate c. i. e. Hail Mary O my lips shew ye forth c. And ends with this Prayer Deus qui per Immaculatam Virginis Conceptionem c. i. e. O God who by the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin c. Let none therefore of what Order Degree or Condition soever dare to keep read print or cause to be printed the said Office But so soon as they shall have knowledge of this Decree whosoever shall have the said Office be required forthwith to deliver the same to the Ordinaries or to the Inquisitors of the Place under the Penalties contained in the Index of Books Prohibited In witness whereof we have given forth this present Decree Signed by our Hand and ratified by our Seal the XVII day of February in the Year MDCLXXVIII Fr. Raimund Capusucci of the Order of the Preaching Friers Maister of the Sacred Apostolick Palace c. The place of † the Seal This day being Febr. 19 1678 the above-mentioned Decree was set up and Published at the Gates of the Palace of the Holy Office of the Inquisition and in Campi Florae and other usual and accustomed places of the City by me Francis Perid Cursitor of our most Holy Father and of the most Holy Inquisition At Rome From the Printing-house of the most Reverend the Apostolique Chamber MDCLXXVIII The SUPPRESSION of a Multitude of INDULGENCES THe Sacred Congregation appointed for regulating Indulgences and Holy Reliques hath often times received complaints against certain Indulgences dispersed carried about in divers parts of the Christian world which are supposititious and purely false and others to be examined which upon diligent Inquiries are found to be either Apocryphal or by Popes of Rome revoked and called in or null and void the time for which they were granted being now past and expired Many of which not being easie to be discovered by Christian people not well skilled in these affairs they are thereby deluded and disappointed of the hopes they had of obtaining Indulgences and Forgiveness of their sins For which cause the said Sacred Congregation earnestly desiring to apply a remedy to this evil which doth dayly spread it self more and more and to provide for the good of Souls and the due respect of Indulgences hath with great care and diligence caused a Collection to be made of divers of them and an Index or Table made thereof Such are those in the first place which are said to de granted by John II. and Sixtus IV to those who shall say the Prayer of the Charity of our Lord Jesus Christ We pray Thee most gratious Lord c. By Urban II. granted to the Church of S. Mary commonly called of Campagnole and of S. Victoria By Eugenius III. to the Revelation made to S. Bernard of a Blow or Stroke on the shoulder of our Lord Jesus Christ By Innocent III. to the Archiconfraternity or Arch-con-friery and rhe Order of the Redemption By Boniface IX to those who repair to the Chapel of S. Nicholas of Tolentin on the day of his Festival By John XXII to those who kiss the measure of the sole of the Foot of the Blessed Virgin By Alexander VI. to the Image of S. Mary commonly called Laghetti By Leo X. to those who wear the Cord of S. Francis Printed first at Rome and then at Milan in the year 1665. but there are also true Indulgences belonging to the Co-friers of the Archiconfriery of the Cordiliers of S. Francis To them that shall say the Angelical Prayer when the Clock strikes To the Image of the Immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary painted in a circle with the Moon under her feet By Pius IV or Pius V. to the Prince of Sienne By Clement VIII to those who say the Praye● O great mystery c. To the Church of our Lady as they call it of Mount-Serrat Printed at Avignon And likewise other Indulgences for the Soul● of Christs faithful people departed Printed a● Madrid July 20. 1606. By Paul V. to those who sing the Hymn We praise thee Mother of God We confess thee Virgin Mary c. or who be present on Saturday when it is sung And to the Crowns Rosaries and Medals blessed by the said Pope at the request of the Cardinal Frederick Borromaeus in the year 161● when the Church of S. Charles was building a● Rome And by the same Paul V Gregory XV to those who say Praised be the most Holy Sacrament Praise be to the most Holy Sacrament By Vrban VIII in honour of the same Sacrament at the request of Cardinal Magalotti And to the Priests that after the celebration of the Masse shall say Hail Daughter of God the Father Hail Mother of God the Son c. By Clement X to

'T is God alone is able to do this ..... There are in man a thousand windings a thousand artifices to deceive a thousand tricks for mischief In his heart is one thing in his mouth the quite contrary 'T is but few that are truly good and vorthy the love of God not carried on with varice But the greatest part of men by much are hypocrites and counterfeits more are desirous to seem good than to be so Wolves in Sheeps clothing It is not therefore to be wondred at if the Popes prudence be sometimes imposed upon and favours obtained for money Aeneas Silvius Cardinal of Sene afterwards Pope by the name of Pius II. in an Epistle to Martin Meyer Chancellar to the Archbishop of Mayence Care is to be had also that by pretence of false Miracles we may as well say False Indulgences we do not injury to those that are true The Faculty of Divinity at Paris in answer to a consultation concerning the souls of persons deceased appearing after they be dead January 22 1534. The holy Synod of Trent doth declare and ordain that the use of Indulgences being very wholsome for Christian people and approved by authority of Sacred Councils is to be retained in the Church And doth Anathematize those who who say they are useless and deny that there is in the Church a power to grant them But desireth nevertheless that according to the ancient and approved custome in the Church a moderation be used in the granting of them least by too great a facility therein the discipline of the of the Church be infeebled But being desirous that the abuses which herein have crept in and have been an occasion that the favourable name of Indulgences hath been reproached by Hereticks be reformed and corrected doth by this present Decree Ordain in the general that all wicked waies of making gain for the obtaining of them be wholy abolished as from whence hath issued the cause of manyfold abuses amongst Christian people And as for other abuses proceeding from superstition ignorance irreverence or from any other cause or in what manner soever forasmuch as they cannot easily be all prohibited in particular by reason of the manifold corruptions of the different places and provinces wherein these abuses are committed Doth strictly charge all Bishops that every one as to his own Church do make a diligent collection of such kind of abuses and make report of them in the first Provincial Synod to the end that they may be censured by the suffrages of the other Bishops also and thence transmitted forthwith to the Soveraign Roman Pontif and by his authority and prudence it be so ordained as may be most expedient for the universal Church so that by this meanes the Treasure of the holy Indulgences be distributed to all Christian people in a pious and holy manner and without corruption Council of Trent Sess 25. in the Decree touching Indulgences I say it more out of sorrow than by way of reproach that the Lives of the Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius are written with more seriousness than the Lives of the Saints by Christians And that Suetonius hath with much more integrity and less corruption related the affairs of the Caesars than Catholicks have done I say not those of their Emperors but of their Martyrs Virgins and Confessors ⸫⸪ I forbear to name persons But certain it is that those who thus mingle the Ecclesiastick History with fictions and falshood cannot be good men or persons of honesty and that the whole of their Narrations is purposely designed either in order to Lucre or in order to Errour the one whereof is base and sordid the other mischievous pernicious ˙ ˙ So that those who have gone about by fictions and false stories to stir up in mens minds a devotion for the Saints have but as I may judge by these false stories impaired the credit of those which are true and what has been most accurately delivered by the most serious Authors is by this means become questionable ˙ ˙ As though these holy men of God who had in truth done and suffered so much for Christ did stand in need of our Lies Admitting then that these fictions how fals soever might with so much wit and artifice be composed as not to do hurt they are at best but useless and of no real service and like lasy Soldiers the burden of them is more than the advantage they hinder more than they help ˙ ˙ They do therefore a great deal of mischief to Christs Church who think they can never write a good history of the worthy deeds of Saints unless embellished with forged Revelations and false Miracles Melchior Canus who was one of the Divines in the Council of Trent lib. 11. de locis ch 4. Making his visite in those parts de Liano he understood that near the church of that place there was a Coffin of Stone with some bones in it which were had in great veneration as true reliques of Saints There being a common report that the night before the Feast of S. Peter in vinculis or Lamm●s day there did in miraculous manner come forth of those bones so great a quantity of water that it filled the whole Coffin and though those of the neighbourhood came in great numbers that day to take of that water which they held to be a thing miraculous holy yet was the water not at all diminished but the Coffin still continued full ˙ ˙ The Cardinal S. Charles Borromeus who held the reliques of Saints in great Veneration where ever he met with them would needs come see these and examine them that thereupon he might particularly recommend them to the people for their greater veneration Whence came the Proverb That Cardinal Borromeo would neither let the living nor the dead be at rest Resolving then to visite these bones and inquiring diligently how they came there he could find nothing of certainty He thereupon began to suspect it was some devilish cheat And to evidence the truth he caused the Coffin and the bones to be well dryed and then committed the custody thereof to three Priests whom he could trust that same night on which the water used to come forth And then there appearing no sign of water at all it was thereby discovered to be a meer artifice and cheat And to make provision against so great an abuse he caused both the Coffin and reliques to be buried under ground that the people might not any more be cheated to that false worship Which thing was received by the people of those parts with great admiration extolling the Cardinal as a holy man and having the spirit of God with him Johannes Petrus Issuanus a Priest of Milan in the Life of S. Charles lib. 6. chap. 7. The thing was done in the year 1580. We Ordain that the Bishops be careful to have the Breviaries within their Diocess to be well accurately corrected and that things therein appointed to be read