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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19061	A true relation of the last sicknes and death of Cardinall Bellarmine Who dyed in Rome the seauenteenth day of Septe[m]ber 1621. And of such things as haue happened in, or since his buriall. By C.E. of the Society of Iesus.	Coffin, Edward, 1571-1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 5476; ESTC S118645	54,744	172

of this his desire he alleadged to be for that novv he had prepared himsel●e and knew not for the tyme to come what in the rest of his life if it were prolonged might befall him for sayd he I haue knowne diuers who if at some tyme when they were wel disposed had departed this life had beene in very happy state who recouering their health fell after very far from that feruour and dyed so desperatly as in humane iudgement they may be rather thought the children of perdition then life Now therfore quoth he seeing I am ready why should I liue longer and expose my selfe to such an hazard Now nothing troubles my conscience for God his goodnesse be still thanked therfore hath so preserued me hitherto as that I doe not remember in the whole course of my liue euer to haue committed any scādalous action which perhaps if I should life longer may befall me for weakenes of body drawes oftentymes with it weakenes of mind by which good men haue beene seene to haue relented from their former vigour and vertue This with more to this effect did he speake to expresse the cause why he desired the dissolution of his earthly tabernacle which was no other but that least through the frailty of body mind he should ●eerafter offend God whome hitherto in sanctitate iustitia omnibus diebus Luc. 1. vitae suae in holines and vertue all the dayes of his lire he had so carefully so continually serued and whome now he had rather dye then displease This his feruent desire grounded on the foresaid motiue was so imprinted in his hart and fixed therein so deeply as His disease is found to be mortall euen then when his violent ague bereaued him of his senses he was often heard to say Signore vorrei andare a casa mia quando sarà quel giorno che io venga al vostr● Regno c. O Lord I would gladly go to my howse when will that day be when I may come to thy Kingdome And the eleauenth day after his sicknes he sayd vnto all his Phisitians When shal I heare from you that happy newes that I must depart to another life when shall I be deliuered from this body of death They answered as before not so long as they could keep him aliue Well quoth he God sees my desire and how willing I am to come vnto him And indeed non est fraudatus desiderio suo God heard his prayer and that very night he was seene to yex or sob in such manner as a learned Phisitian watching with him held it for mortall and forthwith aduertised the Generall for so had the Cardinall before willed them when they shold perceaue him in euident danger who came early the next morning and seeing how matters went thought it best plainly to acquaint him with the truth and sayd vnto him My Lord I thinke that the end of this sicknes will be the end your life and by all likelyhoode you cannot escape long for the Phisitians now giue a very ill censure of your disease vpon some signes they haue seene and more and more discerne in you so as it seemes Almighty God will call you vnto him and you shall do well to make your selfe ready and dispose of what you haue the time is short and delayes are dangerous At this vnexpected but much desired message the good Cardinall replenished His great ioy at the newes of his death with inward ioy presently with cheerfull countenance and vndaunted courage brake forth into these wordes Buona nuoua buona nuoua ô che buona nuoua è questa that is good news good news o● what good newes are these Lo the security of an innocent mynde of a sincere seruant and Apostolicall man who ioyed in death wherat others doe tremble and made that his gaine which worldly mē esteeme their greatest losse but these graces are not bestowed but vpon such only as haue wholy bestowed themselues vpon God for such alone as S. Gregory saith contēplatione quadam retributionis Gregor 24. in Iob. cap. 7. prope finem inter●ae etiam priusquā carne expoliantur hilarescunt dum vetustatis debitum soluunt noui iam muneris laetitia perfruuntur by the cōtemplation of that which their soule receaues within doe before they leaue their bodyes become cheerfull euē then whiles they are yielding to the dissolution of their old nature doe enioy the comfort of their new reward So he of the vertuous in generall which in this worthy man we see so particularly accomplished who still prayed with the Apostle and sayd Cupio dissolui esse cum Philip. 5. Christo I desire to be dissolued and to be with Christ After this ioyfull exclamation turrning his speach vnto F. Generall as answering vnto that which he had suggested he sayd For disposing of my thinges I haue nothing left to dispose it grieueth me that I haue nothing to bestow vpon the Society for I feare much that in making you mine heyres as if I The pouerty of the Cardinall had something to leaue you I shall but charge you with new debts which for my sake you will be forced to discharge The Generall replyed that therein he should not trouble himselfe he had left the Society so much and so much honoured it with his name and immortall labours as it esteemed that treasure more then all the riches of the world Well thē said the Cardinall I came hither to bestow one whole yeare in preparing my selfe to dye but if it please not God that I bestow any more time heerin neyther truly shal it please me and therfore your message of death is most gratefull c. After this he caused one to reade vnto him the death of S. Charles Borromaeus as S. Charles Borromaeus desirous in his owne to imitate it which being ended he desired to receaue the Sacramēts of holy Church that as soone as might be least after he should be lesse able for indisposition both of body and minde to receaue them and to preuent also any suddayne accident that might in this weaknes take him away ere he had armed himselfe with this so necessary and soueraigne defence He receaueth the ● Sacrament with great denotion Forth with all thinges were made ready for receauing of the B. Sacrament of the Altar for his Viaticum which was ministred vnto him by the handes of the Generall and receaued with exceeding deuotion of the Cardinall for notwithstanding his extreme weaknes of body he would needs agayne as he had done before rise out of his bed and kneele on the ground to receaue it and so earnest he was to receaue it in this reuerent māner as it was not possible without his great griefe and distast to hinder him The Generall perceauing his will so feruently bent on that deuotion wold not withstand him therein least the inward griefe might more afflict his mind then that