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A17731	The seaven trumpets of brother Bartholomevv Saluthius of the holie order of S. Francis; exciting a sinner to repentance. A worke very profitable for the saluation of all such soules, as are bound with sinne. Now lately translated out of the Latin, into the English tongue, by Br. G. P. of the same order and obseruance; Sette trombe. English	Cambi, Bartolomeo, 1558-1617.; Perrot, George, 1601-1670, of the order of S. Francis.	1626 (1626)	STC 4469; ESTC S115141	107,909	452

God descended vpon them To be briefe the scripture is full of such examples although on the contrary his diuine mercy in expecting the conuersion of a sinner farre surpasseth his iudgement and the reason that there are so many examples extant of sinners in the scripture not punished by God sodenly is that he might declare vnto vs the riches of his mercy according to that saying of the Apostle Deus autē qui diues est in misericordiâ Eph. 2.4 God who is rich in mercie would expect them vntill they were conuerted he expected the penitencie of the olde worlde an hundred yeares before he would destroy it with the deluge in the meane time he commaunded Noah to preach pennance allthough according to the custome of the world they beleeued him not who were wont very seldome to beleeue Prophets who did denounce any destruction vnto thē but rather did persecute and torment them with diuerse punishments The Euangelist declareth this where Iesus Christ our Lord threatning Ierusalē Ierusalem inquiens Ierusalem quae occidis Prophetas Math. 23.37 Ierusalem Ierusalē thou which puttest to death the Prophets and stonnest them which are sent vnto thee But let vs omit these and declare how long time he expected before he would raine downe fire and brimstone vpon that obscene cōtaminated citie of Sodome and after that he had decreed to consume it he was soe clement that he was compelled drawne vnto it as if it were by the eares wherupō the holy scripture saith Clamor Sodomorum Gomor multiplicatus est Gen. 18.21 The cry of Sodome Gomorrha is multiplied and their sinne aggrauated exceedingly I will descend and see whether they haue in act● accomplished the crie which is come vnto me Notwithstanding though he hath in so full a measure manifested his mercy yet that he might demonstrate the hate detestation which he hath towardes sinne it appeareth by many wonderfull examples how seuerely and iustly he hath punished it euen so soone as it was committed which is an infallible argument of the great deformitie of sinne The second reason by which we may vnderstand the great displeasure which God conceaueth against sinne is that for the subuersion of the same he would giue his only begotten sonne to die a most ignominious death vpō the crosse amidst two theeues Sic enim Deus dilexit mundum c. Ioh. 3.16 so God loued the world that he gaue his only begotten sonne for the redemption of it Propter scelus populi mei percussi eum Isay 53.8 for the sinne of my people I haue strooke him and hee hath laid vpon him all our iniquities saieth the same holy Prophet Oh thou sinner consider wel this place and let it touch thee to the quicke if the eternall Father for the bannishing of sinne would that his owne sonne should suffer death who was not man only but also God and that so pretious a life should be giuē for the death of sinne which was prized at soe high a rate that the holy Apostle saieth Empti enim estis pretio magn● 1. Cor. 6.20 for yee are bought with a great price what an infinite then and immense indignation and wrath must God needs conceaue against sinne Furthermore how odious and detestable must execrable sinne be when Iesus Qui erat speciosus prae filijs hominum who was the fairest amonge the sonnes of men should soe abase himselfe that he made himselfe of no reputation that the Prophet Isay did say Vidimus eum c. Isa 53.2 we haue seene him and there was moe appearance of beautie in him we were desirous of him despised and most abiect of men a man of sorrowes and knowing infirmitie whereupon neither haue we esteemed him but counted him as a leaper and one striken of God oh yee Brethren sinners if the eternall Father would not pardon and remit sinne without the death of his only sonne how hatefull must it needes bee in his diuine sight and so much the more that it did not satisfie his infinite inscrutable iustice that his deare sonne should ōly dy but that he should suffer vpon the crosse a death most ignominious that he should be so oppressed with griefe and so tirannically hādled that his contenance and shape could not bee knowne Oh sinne be thou accursed that wast the cause that my sweet Sauiour Iesus suffered and died so shamefull vnheard of a death Oh Iesu my loue and delight commiserate and compassionate poore sinneful and wretched soules the which thou hast redeemed with so great a price as thy prepretious blood Neither can yee say that deare Iesus suffered and was crucified for the fall and sinne of Adam only when as trulie he died for the sinnes of the whole world Supra dorsum meum fabricauerunt peccatores Psal 128.3 sinners haue builded vppon my backe saieth the Prophet Dauid in the person of Iesus Christ what need we many words Iesus Christ our Lord died for the abolishing and abliterating of all sinnes and offences generally and particularly and he suffered no more for all then for one yea I say he offered himselfe to be buffeted and massacred for one only soule and if it were needfull and necessary he would doe the same againe for the most abiect soule that liueth Oh therfore yee sinners sinne no more by your so many offences and execrable iniquities crucifie no more your sweet Iesus indulgent Father for what of only the Iewes doe yee say he was crucified I will tell you brethren that what time so euer ye commit any sinne in as much as in your power lieth you doe crucifie him againe and doe cause him with euery one of your mortall sinnes if his death and passion were not already sufficient to vndergoe and suffer the same againe Rursum crucifigentes sibimetipsis filium Dei Hebr. 6.6 crucifying againe vnto themselues the sonne of God oh therefore Brethren abstaine from such infinite heinous offences and offend not your louing God any more with such death-bringing iniuries which loueth you so exceedingly mercifully expecteth your penitency and conuersion saying Conuertimini ad me in toto corde vestro Ioel. 2.12 turne to me with your whole harte oh clemencie oh benignitie oh loue of Iesus oh ingratitude oh obduracie oh malice of a sinner Oh deare and louing Iesus haue pittie vpon vs looke not vpon our iniquities but remember that infinite mercy wherewith thou diddest imbrace vs Et secundum magnam misericordiam tuam Psal 50. and according to the multitude of thy mercies doe away mine iniquitie Amen The third Trumpet of the detriment that sinne bringeth to a soule in this life THE VII CHAPTER ET tertius Angelus tubâ cecinit Apoc. 8. and the third Angell sounded the trumpet Draw neare my sinfull Brother and attentiuely giue eare vnto the soūd of this trumpet if thou canst not be moued to the abhorring of sinne by that deformity which the former trūpet hath sounded vnto thee at least

magnificent glorie must haue an end thy splendour beautie and comelinesse must decay and thy flesh whyther that body of thine must turne to dust and ashes thou shalt die shalt be consumed and depart this present life But which is most to be lamented at last thy miserable and execrable soule if thou repēt not shall depart out of thy filthy and putrified body to a place of greater misery then can be expressed But when shal this be when thou thinkest least of it when thou art least of all prepared when thou shalt be strangely bound with the chaines and fetters of thy sinnes by the diuell The cordes of my sinnes haue bound mee saith the Prophet Psal 118. taking vpon him the person of a sinner Man knoweth not his end saieth Ecclesiastes but as fishes are taken with the hooke and as birds are caught with the snare so men are taken in the euill time when it shall sodenly come vpon them Eccles 9. O wretched sinner giue eare receaue the sound of this fearful trumpet Thou must once die ô sinner and thou oh harlot must one day be dissolued But when wilt thou say The time is vncertaine the time is concealed from thee the time is only knowne vnto God himselfe and it may be when thou not so much as thinkest of it There is nothing more certaine then death and there is nothing more vncertaine thē the houre of death saith S. Bernard This yeare this moneth this weeke this day this hower and moment thou mayest die and yeeld vp the Ghost They spend their dayes in mirth and in an instant they descend into hell Iob. 2. men shall be indulgent to their sensualities sporte laugh and be merrie and in a moment shall die and go to hell For when they shall say peace and securitie then shall sodenly destruction come vpon them as the paine to a woman in childbirth and they shall not escape saith the holy Apostle 1. Thessa 5.4 Of the last and deadly disease and damage of the soule and that after this life there is no recouery THE XV. CHAPTER MIserere mei c. Psal 6.3 haue mercy vpon me oh Lord because I am weake heale me oh Lord because my bones are sore troubled saith the Prophet Dauid Consider a while ô sinner that a little before thy soule depart out of thy vncleane polluted body thou shalt be vexed tormented with some cruell disease or other vnlesse thou be killed or die sodenlie which God forbid from soden vnprouided death oh Lord deliuer vs as our holy Mother the church teacheth vs often to repeate Tell me I pray thee who hath made thee certaine that thou shalt not fall downe dead as thou art eating who hath secured thee that thou shalt not departe this life hauing now the bread in thy mouth and the cupp in thy hand who can tell thee for a certaine that when thou art in the highest degree of delightes pleasures and worldly contentments that then euen in the midst of these thou shalt not be dissolued and descend into the abisse of perpetuall darknesse ô wretched and vnhappie sinners call to minde and foresee what you doe and haue respect vnto the end which most certainly shall come but when you know not Be it that God out of his infinite mercy and clemency will not deale with thee according to thy merits nor take thee away with a suddaine vnforseene but with a common ordinary kind of death In what an astonishmēt wilt thou then be whē thou shalt see the last messenger of thy life which shall be an ordinary disease but deadly euen in thy flourishing yeares beauty strength or in whatsoeuer gift and endowmen of nature belonging to a cōpleate and perfect man consider vnfortunate wretch that thou shalt not depart this life on a suddaine without some vehemēt feauer or the like disease which through heat or colde shall one while cause thy teeth to chatter shake an other while with heat burning shalt not only be enflamed molested with the grief of thy stomacke and head but thy very harte will tremble and quake within thee that all thy nerues sinewes iunctures arturies and veines shal be moued tremble and all this through thy intollerable paine and anguish neither shalt thou haue sleepe or appetite last of all thou shalt take no rest night nor day What wilt thou doe then miserable soule loaden with sinnes which for the space of soe manie moneths or yeares loste hast not confessed nor bene reconciled to God and thy neighbours nor agreed with thy aduersarie who like an other Sardanapalus hast runne a moste libidinous course and lastly seest thy selfe to be defiled and contaminated with the spott and filth of thy sinnes and offences Tell me I beseech thee how great will that anguish bee and how intollerable that affliction which then thy sinnes shall cause and bring vpon thee how infinite shall thy doloures be which shall cruciate thee when thou shalt cal to mind the iniuries wherewith so many yeares together thou hast offended almighty God Tell me whether of these greifes will be more vehement the tormentes of the body or the sorrow of thy soule For when thou shalt beginne to feare death and to receaue a remuneration according to thy sinnes which is death what a present hell will it bee to all the powers and faculties of thy soule when as for the hardnes of thy harte thou canest not repent Indurauerunt facies suas c. Ierem. 5.3 They haue hardened their faces more then the rocke and would not returne saith the Prophet Ieremie Be thou conuerted oh sinner and turne with al expedition vnto thy God expect not blinded soule the last howre in which that vnwelcom messēger of death shall come intimate vnto thee thy dissolution It is your cause that is now in hand therefore be well aduised what you doe it is your suite that is now in action therefore take counsell preuent the future and expect not that latter and perilous time What shall you then be confessed and brought into the state of grace who cā make you certaine of that or promise you that thē God will forgiue your crimes offences and admitt you into his fauour who haue all your life time so exceedingly offended him But if God should then assist you notwithstanding it wil be very painfull and laborious to remember your so innumerable sinnes By what meanes shall you call to minde so many wronges wherby you haue dishonoured God when as you shal be circumuented with so many griefes and oppressed with so many diseases and torments It may be you shall not be capable of sense or reason Last of all how shall it be manifest vnto you that you shall be of power and abilitie to make a true confession or speake or pronounce the words when you shall be dried vp with heat and debilitated with extremitie of sicknes Alas blinde and miserable wretches why prouide you

wretch with how many difficulties will he then circumuent thee and the more because thou shalt not know what to answere in thine owne behalfe thou shalt be sore besett on euery side and preuaile nothing at all thou shalt be cast headlong into the gulfe of eternall perdition Alas miserable vnfortunate and forlorne sinners you will then haue no time to take an inward hatred of your hainous crimes and misdeedes The diuell will stand in your presence alleadging and reciting al your enormous faultes and offences declaring them to the full to the which you will not know what to answere or to make any excuse for your selues Harken sinners to a terrible example which maketh for our purpose and is related of Iohn Climachus in the eight sermon of his booke of sermons the historie is thus A certaine Monke called Stephen dwelling in moūt Sinay was wonderfully delighted with the tranquillity of a solitary life who as this authour reporteth was adorned with rare vertues learning for many yeares together to become a valiāt souldier of Iesus Christ This religious mā the day before he died would some times looke on the right side other times on the left side of his bed as though there were some present that demaunded a very strict account of all the thinges which euer hee had done We indeed saw no body saieth he to talke thus with him yet sometimes he would say Trulie so it is againe he would say I graunt it but this I haue confessed and for the same I haue fasted lamented so lōg a time Another while he would say it is true and presently after you belie mee it is not so I neuer cōmitted any such crime thē shortlie after he would tell them verily you accuse me vniustly and lay this infamy vndeseruedly vppon mee But this most of all amazed vs when he sayed I yeeld that it is true neither doe I know what to replie or answere for my selfe yet I put my trust in God who is mercifull so that this obscure iudgement which none there present did vnderstand was most terrible to relate but especially in this that the diuels should accuse him of thinges which he neuer did O wretch that I am to what streight was that Anachoret brought into a true louer of a solitarie and an heremiticall life who after that he had continued a monke for fourty yeares and had shedd forth many profitable teares yet after all this he affirmed that he could not say any thing for him selfe or giue a sufficient answer to excuse his offences Woe woe then to vs where was that large promise which allmighty God had made by the mouth of his holy Prophet Ezechiell Si impius egerit paenitentiam Ezech. 18.27 If the wicked shall doe pennance for all the sinnes which he hath wrought all his iniquities which he hath done I will not remember He could answere nothing nor alleadge this in his behalfe whereupon God is onely to be praised and extolled who knoweth the cause and reason of all thinges And so much the more for that some monkes affirmed that this Stephen so long as he liued in the desert fedd and nourished a Leopard with his owne hāds yet this Heremit of such fame and note in the world being called to giue an account of his life left no certainty behinde him what sentence passed on him whither he was accepted before God or no. This history Climachus relateth Haue you giuen eare to this sinners how is it then that you liue so securely being contaminated with vices and loathsome sinnes supposing that you shall die well enough when Alas you heare that so famous an Heremit a man of such notable sanctitie who did great pennance ful fourtie yeares now dying had nothing to answere when a reckoning was to be made O how narrowly shall our life be discussed and examined when we shall be summoned by death to appeare before the tribunall seate of allmightie God to render a strict account of the same We read in the Chronicles of our sacred order that when a certaine brother died who had liued well and deuoutly and giuen good example to all the comunitie a Doctor of diuinity beinge slacke in perfourming his office which was to say Masse for this dead brother according to his obligation thinking indeed that seeing he had liued so vertuously he did not stand in any need therof Hereupon one day betimes in the morning this deceased religious appeared vnto him and sayed Salue Magister vbi est illa charitas quâ te sacrificium pro me facturum promiseras God saue you Sir what is become of your charitie in that you promised to offer the holy sacrifice of the Masse for my soule I thought replied the diuine you had no need thereof No need of it saied the other Vtinam scires quàm seueré negotium in morte transigatur I would to God thou knewest how seuerely our busines is handled after death Know thou that I am punished in purgatorie with most grieuous paines and torments for which if thou wilt offer this holy sacrifice for me forthwith I shal be freed when he had sayed this he departed and the Doctor fulfilled his promise Alas therfore sinners take heed what you doe refraine from your mischieuous acts doe pennance for your former offences delay not diligently to caste vp your account Lord God almightie cleaue in sunder the stonie hartes of wandering sinners that thou mayest be worshipped and poore soules redeemed with thy moste pretious bloud may be saued Take away Lord Iesu and vtterlie destroy the power of Sathan which he so long hath exercised with all cruelty against the miserable soules of men that so this damned spirit may be put to vtter shame and confusion thy holy name be praised and glorified and sinnefull soules deliuered Amen Of the societie which the soule of a sinner hath after death THE XXXVI CHAPTER ITe maledicti c. Goe yee cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the diuell and his Angells Is not this the sentence sinners which Iesus Christ the iudge will pronounce in the last iudgemēt against the reprobate who haue died in mortall sinne goe yee cursed into euerlasting fire in the companie of all the diuels Cōsider therfore what associates you shall haue after death thinke that you shall be amongst the most cruell enemies of your soules But how long shall you tarry with that cursed crew for one tenn or a thousand yeares yea for euer miscreants and for all eternitie Alas what miserie Alas what torments and paine will you haue to continue imprisoned in that infernall darke dungeon Ponder that after death thou shalt be wholie in the diuels custodie where thou mayest bee sure that these deadly enemies of God and of mankinde will vse all cruelty to afflict thee which possibly they can deuise When I pray thee will the diuel beginne his dominion ouer thee in respect of thy soule In the very day of thy death and departure out