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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68809	Scrutamini scripturas the exhortation of a Spanish conuerted monke: collected out of the Spanishe authours themselues, to reade and peruse the holy scriptures; contrary to the prohibition of the Pope and Church of Rome, whose tyranny in this point plainely appeares to euery mans view. With other occurrences of no small importance.	Tejeda, Fernando de, fl. 1623.	1624 (1624)	STC 23922; ESTC S106037	49,742	76

benefit that may accrew to many by auoiding the desparate malice of some that put themselues to death with their owne hands and blind themselues because they would not behold the Sunne for this were a denying of that which is good to the good man to whom properly it belongeth to preuent an euill man of that ill himselfe seekes Thus farre the same Author proceedes whereupon he concludes that though many abuse the booke of the Reuelations of S. Gertrudis and other such like yet should they not for all this bee prohibited in the vulgar tongue Now if this reason bee of force in such bookes which are replenished with palpable lies and most impudent blasphemies as that is which we formerly mentioned of the espousal of Gertrudis with Christ and that which ensues of her that is to say when Gertrudis was drawing neer to the hour of her death Christ appeared to her clothed inglorious garments the ornaments of an heauenly spouse accompanied with his blessed Mother and S. Iohn Euangelist and an innumerable multitude both of men and women Saints of Celestial Courtiers and inhabitants and in particular the resplendant Armie of virgines all clothed in white who for all the day long continued in the Monastery and that in the same Monastery the Saints men and women conuersed with the Monkes and Nunnes of the Monastery and that the Lord comming to the bed of his spouse and beloued Idem c●p vltimo del libro 4. de la insinuacion de la diuina piedad hee beheld her with an amorous countenance and shewed to her many fauours and kinde entertainements and she bent her head to Christ who leaning and resting himselfe vpon the bed of the sicke partie with both his hands hee opened his breast The Reader must obserue as hee may perceiue in the Chap. 36. of the same Author that the same was written by the instinct of the holy Ghost which promiseth to them that shal reade it admirable benefits and manifested it to her and sayd I will now free thee from the bandes of the flesh and present thee to my selfe as the treasure and ioy of my heart to enioy thy sweete and pleasing companie c. Wherefore as I said if this reason bee of force in such like bookes who can bee so shamelesse as to denie but that it must needes bee much more preualent in the bookes of the holy Scripture which the holy Ghost himselfe inspired into his seruants the Prophets and Apostles who writte them to open our vnderstandings and make them sacred and holy And now it is time that we come to the other Granada who as it seemes hath conuerted his sweet and pleasant graines into fearefull and thundring bullets not so piercing and mortall to vs as to the Romane Church it selfe For he applies himselfe purposely to refute the vanity of that propounded calumnie with as much vehemency and splene as if his owne life therein concurr'd Granada en el preambulo de la segurda parte de la Introduccion del Symbolo This Author sayes how others obiect that by good reading many take an occasion to runne into many errors To this I make answere That there is nothing so good 〈◊〉 perfect which humane malice may not depraue and abuse What doctrine can be more exact and infallible then that of the Gospels and of S. Pauls Epistles and yet notwithstanding all the heretiques that euer haue beene both moderne and of ancient times haue pretended to ground their heresies vpon this so perfect doctrine whereupon the Apostle S. Peter making mention of S. Pauls Epistles he sayth that there are in them many very difficult things to be vnderstood so that many wicked men tooke occasion out of this to plant their errors And further hee addes that heretiques labour to maintaine themselues out of all the bookes of the holy Scriptures wreathing and wresting them to colour and cloake their errors And besides this what is there in humane life so necessary and profitable but if wee forecast some inconueniences that may ensue wee may thinke it fit to be reiected Thus fathers should neuer marrie their daughters because many wiues die in childbed and other some are cut off by the crueltie of their husbands let there be no Physicke nor Physicians because many times both they and their medicines kill there must be no swords nor armes seeing men euery day kill one another men must not crosse the Seas in that there happen euery day so many shipwrackes both of men and goods all study in Theologie must be laid apart because all heretiques abusing and adulterating of the same take occasion to ground their heresies and errors thereupon But what do I speake of earthly things seeing euen those heauenly are not exempted from their inconueniences What can be more expedient and requisite for the vse and gouernment of this world then the Sunne and yet how many men haue dyed growen sicke through the immoderate heate thereof But why doe I insist in these things when euen from the goodnesse mercy and passion of Iesues Christ our Sauiour which are the fundamentall causes of all our happinesse euill men presume to perseuere and continue in their sins Vnto all that formerly deliuered I will annexe this one thing of great consideration and therefore I demand What more efficacious and piercing motiue can there be to conuince all vnderstanding and reduce them to true faith then the resurrection of Lazarus who had lien buried foure dayes and stunke whom the Lord raised vp againe with these words Lazarus come foorth And this was sufficient that neither the gates of death nor the ligatures bands wherewith he was bound could keepe him in his graue What heart can there be so hard and obdurate that will not be mollified and yeeld to the faith and beliefe of that Lord by meanes of this so inexplicable a miracle But O the incredible malice of humane hearts this so wonderfull a miracle is not onely not preualent to subdue the hearts of the high Priests and Pharises but further here-from they were excited to condemne to death the worker of so renowmed a miracle wherewith not being content they sought to kill Lazarus because many by his meanes came to beleeue in the Sauiour Wherefore if humane malice be so implacable as that it here-from assum'd a motiue and stimulation to so great a wickednesse who can produce any argument from that abuse wherewith wicked men alienate and adulterate good things wringing and wresting them to their corrupt and prophane willes that hereby a good should be preuented and cut off To this demaund made by so famous an Author whose reasons all these I haue deliuered were I would faine haue the Romane Antichrist make answere who prohibites the reading of the sacred Scriptures to an innumerable sort of the vulgar depriuing them hereby of infinite many benefits which from the reading of the same doe accrew in that some abuse and alienate them