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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

point but litle honest he couered his face for very shame O Christian learne honestie of this Pagan you aboue all fathers and mothers Hitherto haue we spoken of sinne in generall mortall veniall sinnes of thought of the tongue As touching that which followes after of sinnes of worke to the end that this litle discourse do not enlarge it selfe too lōge I wil contēt my selfe to speake of capitail to wit of those which are the springe and fountaine of all Saue only before I come therto I wil insert this alone THE V. CHAPTER Of the sinnes of parents and their children LEt not fathers and mothers thinke it strange if I addresse my selfe more oft and more particularly to thē in this litle discourse and that I set before them particularly this litle chapter sith all the good or euill fortune of a common welth proceedeth from no other cause then from their good institution or negligence to frame their children as they ought and to bringe them vp in the feare of God See the last chap. of the 3. booke of the life of our B. Father Ignatius by Ribadeneira As God hath commanded children to honor loue and helpe their parēts Exod. 20. 11. and to obey them in all that is reason so will he that parents loue their children Eccl. 7. 25. 26. nourishing them and bringing them vp according to their power and qualitie in all that which is needfull for them as well for body as for soule Et Ephes 6. 4. 1. Tim. 5. 8. S. Christ. to 6. ho. 27 §. 1. Of the negligence of parents to correct their children from their tendre youth and to instruct them in matters of faith and of good maners Can I conceale from Abraham the thinges that I will doe wheras he shall be into a nation great and very stronge and in him are to be blessed all the nations of the earth For I knowe that he wil cōmand his children and his house after him that they keepe the way of the Lord and doe iudgement and iustice Gen. 18. 18. Forget not the wordes that thine eies haue seene and let them not fall out of thy hart all the dayes of thy l●fe thou shalt teach them thy sonnes and thy nephewes Deut. 4. 9. And in the 11. Chapter Teache your children my commandements when thou sittest in thy house and walkest on the way and lyest downe and risest vp that thy dayes may be multiplied and the dayes of thy children Deut. 11. 19. Hast thou children instruct them and ●ow them from their childhood Ecc. 7. 25. The notable negligence of parents to see that their children know and vnderstand the contents of the Creed the Pater Aue Commandements the vse of the holy Sacraments is mortall sinne saith Nauar. Man cap. 14. num 17. He that spareth the rod hateth his childe but that loueth him doth instantly nurture him Pro. 13. 24. The childe that is left to his owne will confoundeth his mother Pro. 29. 15. An vntamed borse becommeth stubburne and a dissolute childe wil become headdy Pamper thy sonne and he will make thee afraid play with him he will make thee sorrowfull Laugh not with him lest thou be sorrie and at the last thy teeth shal be on edge Giue him not power in his youth contemne not his cogitations Curbe his neck in youth and knock his sides whiles be is a childe lest peshaps he he hardned and beleeue thee not O beautifull sentence Eccl. 30. 8. He that loueth sonne or daughter aboue me is not worthie of me Mat 10. 37. If the childe by the conuiuencie or winking of the parents come to fall into any sinne his parents shall be answerable for his soule S. Clement successor to S. Peter const Apost l. 4. c. 20. S. Basil saith that children are like vnto soft wax wherein one printeth what he list and with the selfe same singars one formes an Angell or a deuill Reg. fus disp interrogat 7. Those parents saith Saint Chrisostome which care not to correct their children I tell them the truth and without passion are more wicked their paracides for these doe but seperat the bodie from the soule but such parents by their conuiuence send both the bodies and soules of their children to eternall flames and he that is kild as touching the body must of necessitie haue once died but these poore children might haue escaped the fire of hell if the negligence of their fathers and mothers had not sent them thither l. 3. aduers vituperat vitae monast This is that which the wiseman saith Withdraw not discipline from a childe thou shalt strike him with the rod and deliuer his soule from hell Pro. 23. 13. 14. EXAMPLES 1. Helie the high Priest albeit a Saint as S. Hierom writeth in c. 6. ad Ephes not hauing reprehended his children as he ought to haue done for their sinnes of Gluttonie and Lubricitie God called the prophet Samuell and said vnto him Behould I doe a thinge in Israel which whosoeuer shall heare both his eares shall tingle In that day will I raise vp against Helie all thinges which I haue spokē touching his house I will begin and accomplish it for I haue foretold him that I would iudge his house for euer because of iniquitie for that he knew that his sonnes did wickedly and hath not corrected thē 1. Reg. 3 11. c. And what betided then vnto him 1. He became blinde 2. His soule melted 3. The life of his posterity was shortned 4. He lost the battaile against his enemies thirtie thousand of his foote men remayning slaine vpon the place 5. The Arke of God was taken and carried from them 6. His two sonnes Ophin and Phinees were likewise killed the same day 7. He hearing the newes fell backward and broke his neck 8. His daughter in law at the rehearsall of so strange a fortune was deliuered before her time and so died How many mischifes doth the conuiuence of a father trayle after it 2. You haue seene a litle before a childe of fiue yeares old borne away by the diuels forth of his fathers armes for his blasphemies c. 4. § 2. Ex. 3. what a hart breaking was it to this father to see his childe carried to hell from whence he might haue deliuered him with three or four ierkes of a rod 3. S. Augustine preaching to the religious of the desert tould them that that very day wherin he preached vnto thē the sonne of Cyrillus one of the most notable bourgesses of Hippo hauing bene alwaies ouer well beloued of his father yea more then God and therfore left to all kinde of libertie ether to say or to doe whatsoeuer he list after he had wasted all his wealth in dissolutenes cominge drunke in a doores had forced his mother great with childe and stroue to violate one of his sisters had kild his father and dea●ly wounded his two sisters Aug. ser 33. ad fratres in eremo Deare God what greater disaster

his sinnes was much more stinking and abhominable vnto him then was the most corrupted carion D. Antonij 4. p. sum tit 14. c. 6. § 1. O sinne how horrible detestable cruell gastly and stinking art thou c Let vs fly from a monster so abhominable 6. S. Edmond had an exceedinge horror therof sith he said that he had rather cast him selfe into a burning fornace then to fall into one mortal sinne Sur. in his life c 29. Nou. 16. 7. Yea S. Anselme said that he had rather fall into hell then into sinne S. Ansel de similit Sur. 2. of Aprill See hereafter lib. 2. c. 3. § 1. the like answere of an old Iaponian §. 3. By mortall sinne we crucifie againe Iesus Christ. 1. O the full measure of all mischiefe that sinne is not only extremly iniurious to him who committeth it but euen to God him selfe the author of health It is the sentence of S. Paul Heb. 6. 6. saying that sinners crucify againe to themselues the Sonne of God and make him a mocquerie And in the 10. c. 29. he saith that they tread the Sonne of God vnder foote and esteeme the blood of the testament polluted wherin they had bene sanctified By one mortall sinne we crucifie againe the Sonne of God because we doe that which was the cause of his crucifixion And if his death had not bene sufficient for the ransome of all the sinnes of the world he must for the expiation of euery sinne which we commit haue againe bene crucified and put to death 2. With great reason then said that good doctor Ioannes Taulerus if God would suffer some one to see his owne sinnes as they are seene of God him selfe he would burst a sunder with very sorrow at the same instant perceiuing the iniurie and contempt that he hath done by them to his Creator and Redeemer lib. de vita pass Christi c. 7. EXAMPLES 1. At the time that the Albigensian heretiques ransacked France our Lady appeared vnto S. Leutgarde with a sad and weeping countenance The saint hauing enquired the cause of her heauines she answered vnto him that it was because that the heretiques and euil Christiās crucified againe by their sinnes her deare Sonne Iesus Christ Sur. tom 3. ex Tho. Cantiprat 2. S. Bridgit of Sueede haueing heard preached vpon a day the passion of our B. Sauiour the night ensuinge our Lord appeared vnto her al bloody and full of dolors as when he was fastned to the Crosse and said vnto her Behould my woundes The Saint beleeuing that they were fresh said vnto him in weeping wise Alas my Lord who hath hurt thee in this maner They quoth he that doe contemne and make none account of my charity Sur. to 4. Ribad in her life the 23. of Iuly 3. See more in the 2. booke c. 7. § 3. Example 4. of S. Collect. O execrable malice of mortall sinne Let vs now speake of veniall sinne §. 4. Of veniall sinne 1. Veniall sinne doth not exclude the grace of God nor charitie it diminisheth notwithstanding the feruor thereof and as S. Paul speaketh Ephes 4. doth contristat the holy Ghost obfuscat the conscience and hinder the aduancement in virtues and by litle and litle draweth a man to mortall sinne He that contemneth smale thinges shall fall by litle and litle saith the wiseman Eccles 19. 1. S. Aug. compareth veniall sinnes vnto the itche which spoyle the beautie of the face and disgusteth the behoulders feare them not saith he because they are lesser then the others but because they are in greater nombre The gnattes and flies are litle beastes which yet if they be many in number are able to take from a man his life Graines of Sande being multiplied doe sinke the Shippes and droppes of waters gathered together make riuers swell and ruine houses 2. Veniall sinne is like to a thrid tied to the foote of the soule which hindreth it to fly to perfection It is a mothe which eateth by litle and litle beames and summer postes which not able at the last to support the waight that is laid vpon them doe cause the fall of the whole house No polluted thinge shall enter into the celestiall Ierusalem saith S. Iohn Apoc. 21. 27. vnles therfore veniall sinnes be blotted forth in this life they traile a man to the fire of Purgatorie a fire so terrible that in respect therof the paines of this life are in a maner nothinge as both S. Aug. and S. Greg. say in psl. 37. ser 41. in 3. psl. paenit And our Lord him selfe saith That euery idle word that men shall speake they shall render an account for it in the day of iudgement Mat. 12. 36. And doost thou set so light by veniall sinne EXAMPLES 1. The Abbot Moises was posessed with the diuell for hauing thorough impatience spoken a litle ouer roughly vnto another Cassian Colat. 7. c. 27. Another Monke was also possest for hauing drunke with too much sensuallitie a glasse of water S. Greg. dial l. 1. c. 4. And another for hauing bene distracted voluntarily in his prayer Ibid. l. 2. c. 1. Is not this enough to giue to vnderstand that veniall sinnes are not so litle before God as men imagin 2. S. Marie of Ognia was so circumspect and so aduised in her actions euen in the very least of all that none could euer obserue the least idle word to issue out of her mouth nor anie other vncomely cariage and was accustomed to confes her selfe of her least faultes with as much contrition as if they had beene mortall sinnes Iac. de vitriaco Card. in her life l. 1. c. 6. 3. Eusebius Monke casting once his eye thorough curiositie vpon the the workmen which laboured in the fieldes whilst Amyan read the gospels vnto him for this cause not hauing well vnderstood a certaine passage whereof the other asked him the explication had so great repentance for it that he euer after mortified his sight duringe the time of his whole life carying continually his head enclined towards the earth by meanes of a great iron chaine which tyed his neck vnto his girdle and this for the space of forty yeares so great esteemed he this litle fault Theodore in hist sanct pat sect 4. Sophron. in prato● spirit 4. The B. Mother Teresa of Iesus foundresse of the discalceat Carmelits makes mētion in her writinges of her sinnes with such excesse of exaggeration albeit they were but very litle as if they had bene exceeding greuous If in reciting any lesson in the quire she chanced to fayle but a litle she presētlie prostrated her self vpō the groūd in the midst of the quire which all the other sisters seeing could not abstaine from teares and were constrained to interrupt their seruice for the great feeling they had therof Ribera in her life and in the 10. c. of that which she wrote with her owne hande Now if the Saintes haue so apprehended the malice of veniall sinne what

eye hath seene nor eare hath heard nor yet hath entred into the hart of man This answere moued him so much that he also would be enrolled in the catalogue of the martyrs and endured constantly to haue his members cut asunder peece by peece in the sight of his wife who likewise encouraged him therunto Ribad vpon his life 4. Theophilus aduocate hauinge receiued certaine Roses and Apples from heauen which S. Dorothe dying sent vnto him by an Angell found them so faire and so good that desiring to enter in the garden from whence they were gathered he became Christian and suffered martyrdome Ribad in the life of S. Dorothe virg and mart 5. Sir Thomas Moore Lord Chancelor of England being in prison his wife came and importuned him to condescend vnto the pleasure of the Kinge presentinge vnto him on the one side her future pouertie and the miserable estate of all her familie and on the other part the honors and riches which kinge Harry had promised him if he would be on his side Sir Thomas demanded of her How longe my dearly beloued shall we enioy these honors and riches Very easily yet quoth she these twentie yeares Then Sir Thomas all angrie with her said vnto her Get thee gone quoth he thou foolish marchant what shall I for twentie yeares of temporall goodes loose all the infinite goods of life eternall God forbid that I euer make any such market yea know that I had rather lie in this prison as longe as I liue suffer confiscation of my goodes all kindes of contumelies and death it selfe then to expose so foole-hardily my felicitie as indeed he did for he was put to death for this cause Sanderus de schismate Angl. Would to God we did the same as often as ouer flesh like to this womā incites vs to sinne and that at the smiting of the clock yea in all times we had in our mouth and in our hart this short sentence O glorie eternall what is it to haue thee and what is it to loose thee The true Christian Catholique or The maner how to liue Christianly THE SECOND BOOKE THE PROLOGVE IT is an error of the heretiques who vnder the name of a Christian which they carrie with false markes and vnder the skin of a sheepe nourish the hart of a woulfe that to go to heauen it is not necessarie to doe good workes Such an one was Valentinus as S. Ireneus testifieth l. 1. c. 1. and S. Epiphanius l. 1. cont heres c. 32. And Eunomius and Aetius his Disciple of whom S. Aug. maketh mention l. de heresibus c. 54. and in the age last past Luther Caluin Melancthon c. Bellar. tom 11. controuer l. 4. c. 20. de iustificatione Yea Luther saith that faith is nothing worth vnles it be depriued of all good workes how litle soeuer Did any euer heare more absurd and pernicious doctrine Thou art better taught ô true Christian Catholique and it is by the fruites also of thy good workes that the sanctitie of thy soule is knowen for thou houldest with the vniuersall Church according to the lesson which the holy Ghost hath taught her in the scripture and the holy Fathers that he who intends to goe to heauen ought to to keepe the cōmandements of God to exercise him selfe in good workes This is that which our Lord said vnto a certaine Doctor in S. Mat. 19. 17. c. 7. 22. Not euery one that saith to me Lord Lord like as heretiques doe who haue often in their mouth the name of the Lord but haue the diuell in their hart shal enter into the kingdome of heauen but he that doth the will of my father which is in heauen Lord saith Dauid who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest in thy holie hil Psal 14. 1. Thou wilt render to euery one according to his workes Ps 61. 13. Mat. 16. 27. And if I should haue all faith so that I could remoue mountaines and haue not charitie I am nothing 1. Cor. 13. 2. See the sentence of S. Peter in the 1. booke last chap. § 7. We haue before brought and alleadged that whick maketh for the extirpation of vice And sith it is not enough for a Gardener to haue rooted vp the naughtie herbes out of his garden vnles he likewise sowe good seede therein and set good plantes I will with Gods asistance in this secōd booke giue aduice vnto the Christiā who desires to liue as a good and virtuous Catholique ought do doe and shew him the meanes proper and easie how to plant in his soule such virtues as are most necessary for the exercise of good workes following the selfe same order which I did before to wit of holie Scripture holie Fathers Examples THE 1. CHAPTER Of the signe of the Crosse THE soldiars of this world accustome to weare vpon them a scarfe or riban of the same color of their Ensigne to giue to vnderstand vnder what head banner they beare armes In like maner the Christian who is the soldiar of Iesus Christ and serueth vnder the stādart ensigne of the Crosse hath a custome to giue this signe a at all times in euery houre imprinting it ether on his fore-head on his mouth or on his breast b in the morninge at his vp risinge in the eueninge at his downe lying at the striking of the clock in yaninge both before and after worke eating drinking and in eache necessitie which from all antiquitie hath bene vsed in the Church c yea both prefigured and fore-tould by the Prophets d in the old law and taught and recommended by our B. Sauiour in the new e a S. Ephrem l. de ver a poenitentia c. 3. S. Aug. l. de Cat. rud c. 20. b S. Ambrose de Isaac anima c. 8. c Tertul. de corona milit c. 3. d Ezech. ● e Mat. 28. §. 1. Of the ancient vse and custome to make the signe of the Crosse at the begining and ending of our workes and how dangerous it is ether to eate or drinke not makinge before hand this holy signe The prophet Ezechiel saw vpon a day six men enter into the temple of Ierusalem and heard a voice which commanded them to passe thorough the middes of the citty and to strike or kill without mercie al the inhabitants except euery one vpon whom they should see the signe of Thau Ezech. 9. 5. S. Iohn in the Apoc. c 7. 1. saw four Angells who had commandement from almightie God to afflict all the men vpon the earth And as they went to execute this commandement another Angell came from the risinge of the sunne hauing the signe of the liuing God who turning him selfe towards the others said Hurt not the earth and the sea nor the trees till we signe the seruants of our God in their foreheades And S. Iohn saith that the number of those that were thus signed were a hundred fortie four thousand of euery tribe of Israell Ibid.