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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08680	Antidote against purgatory. Or discourse, wherein is shewed that good-workes, and almes-deeds, performed in the name of Christ, are a chiefe meanes for the preuenting, or migatating the torments of purgatory. Written by that vertuous, and rightworthy gentle-woman (the honour of her sexe for learning in England) Ms. Iane Owen, late of God-stow, in Oxfordshire, deceased, and now published after her death	Owen, Jane, of God-stow.	1634 (1634)	STC 18984; ESTC S103135	54,249	307

full of horrour and feare will result out of the said consideration And in like sort it is certaine that an earnest and intense consideration of the said point will ingender in vs a vehement desire of helping the said soules in Purgatory by satisfactory workes to wit Prayer Fasting Almes-deeds and chiefly by the most holy oblation and Sacrifice of our Lords body And indeed it is most admirable to obserue how gainfull a negotiation and this most iust may accrew vnto vs thereby And this spirituall negotiation may well be resembled to the proceeding of a man who should deliuer one and the same siluer vpon vsury to seuerall Merchants and yet should receaue a full and entyre Interest for one and the said Siluer from euery one of the Merchants Let vs explayne our selues in few words A man prayeth for the Dead attentiuely piously with fayth and great confidence of impetration and obtaining the thing prayed for This man so praying by way of merit purchaseth to himselfe the gayne of eternall felicity and happines since Prayer is a good worke in that respect deseruing eternall life if it proceed from Charity Of which gayne our Lord speaketh in the Ghospell in these words Matth. 6. Tu autem cum oraueris c. Thou when thou shalt pray enter into thy chamber and hauing shut the doore pray to thy Father in secret and thy Father who seeth thee in secret will repay thee To wit a Reward answerable to the merit Furthermore this praying for the Dead by way of satisfaction doth profit the departed soule in Purgatory for the which it is performed seeing Prayer is amongst others a laborious worke and therein it is satisfactory and consequently it is profitable for that soule to which it is applyed according to the intention of him that prayeth the Doctrine of the Church To conclude by way of impetration and humbly begging it profiteth the said departed soule whose freeing from Purgatory at least whose ease and mitigation of those paynes is therin beseeched and desired Since that for which Iust men pray to God through Christ is easely obtayned Our Lord himselfe saying Luc. 11. Petite accipietis c. Aske and you shall receaue and againe Marc. 11. Quicquid orantes petitis c. All things whatsoeuer you aske praying belieue that you shall receaue and they shall come vnto you And more Ioan. 16. Si quid petieritis c. Yf you aske the Father any thing in my name he shall giue it you Behould heere a threefould gayne proceeding from prayer made in behalfe of the soules departed But there may be adioyned a fourth benefit That is the soules for which we pray will not be vngratefull when they shall arriue into their heauenly Country but shall answere recompence our prayers with their like prayers in our behalfe To proceed Fasting being performed by vs and applyed for the deceased obtayneth a manifould gaine For first as a meritorious worke it is profitable to him who fasteth euen by the testimony of our Lord himselfe Matth. 6. Tu autem cum ieiunas c. When thou dost fast annoynt thy head and wash thy face that thou appeare not to men to fast but to thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret will repay thee Fasting also as a satisfactory worke being applyed for the dead doth helpe the dead For not without iust cause did Dauid fast with all his retinue and trayne euen till night when he was aduertized of the ouerthrow of King Saul and Ionathas and of a great part of the people of God To conclude Fasting in an other manner profiteth the party so fasting to wit in that the soules of the departed when they shall ascend to Heauen will not be forgetfull of their Benefactours but will power out prayers for them and such their prayers as proceeding from true Charity shall be heard Now in this next place to come to Almes-deeds This kind of good Worke also is accompanied with a threefould gayne For first it profiteth the poore to which the Almes-deeds are giuen and maketh them to become our friends that so when we fayle they may receaue vs into eternall Tabernacles Luc. 16. Againe Almes-deeds being applyed for the vse of the soules departed do bring a refreshing and refocillation to the said soules and consequently make them also to become our friends who hauing a title to the Kingdome of Heauen will no doubt helpe vs with their holy Prayers and Intercessions Thirdly Almes-deeds do as I may say bynd God to be a debtour vnto vs for thus the Holy Ghost speaketh by the mouth of Salomon Qui miseretur pauperis foeneratur Domino Who taketh pitty of the poore doth put out his siluer to interest euen to our Lord. Prou. 19. And Christ confirmeth the same in the Gospell saying Matth. 6. Te faciente Eleemosynam c. When thou dost an Almes deed let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth that thy Almes-deed may be secret and thy Father which seeth in secret will repay thee To descend to the most blessed Sacrifice of Christs body bloud It is most cleare and euident that that oblation profiteth the party who offereth it vp as a guift most gratefull to God It profiteth the faithfull liuing as also the faithfull soules departed And that this is most vndoubtedly true appeareth from the many most credible Visions or apparitions manifesting that the faithfull soules in Purgatory do desire and expect nothing more then that the most celestiall oblation of the body and bloud of Christ may be offered vp for their refreshing or freeing them from their paynes Of which point read S. Gregory lib. 4. Dialogorum cap. 75. sequent Also the History of England writen by Venerable Bede lib. 5. cap. 13. In like sort the Epistle of Petrus Damianus ad Desiderium may be read finally the lyfe of S. Nicolaus Tolentinus in Surius tom 5. ad diem 10. Septembris For to this blessed Priest appeared once a great multitude of soules who with teares and most lachrimall voyces desired of him the celebration of the most holy Sacrifice as a principall Remedy for their paines in Purgatory Now from all the Premisses it is euident that we may receaue a most preciable and incomparable gayne if we daily powre out our prayers for the soules departed or if we do distribute Almes to the poore for the ease and refreshment of their paynes or if we do satisfy for the said soules either by our Fasting or other penitential works or finally do celebrate the most holy Sacrifice of the Masse for their deliuery out of Purgatory Thus far learned Bellarmine discourseth of this point Whose words I would desire euery good Catholicke Reader seriously to obserue But to enlarge my selfe a little further I could wish all of you of good states when iust occasioÌ„ is presented that you would be most bountifull in relieuing imprisoned Priests and poore imprisoned Catholiks

inexcusable who do not bleeue these points and yet those men are more inexcusable who belieuing these such like examples do not withstanding neglect and contemne them forbearing to make satisfaction for their sinnes to God in fasting mourning and bewayling the most poore state of their soules But let vs come to other heads aboue specifyed The second Head was the long and dayly sufferance of the paynes of Purgatory I grant that there is a wryter otherwyse of a great name and worth who did maintayne that not any soule remayned tormented in Purgatory aboue twenty yeares yea perhaps not aboue ten yeares notwithstanding the vse of the Catholike Church teacheth the contrary which prescribeth Anniuersary Sacrifices of the Holy masse to be offered vp for soules de parted not only for ten yeares but euen for a hundred yeares and more This point appeareth further from the vision which we related aboue out of Venerable Bede which sheweth that many Soules are to remayne to be tormented in Purgatory euen till the day of Iudgment And the same verity may receaue its further warrant from the authority of Tertullian a most ancient Authour who speaking of Purgatory vnder the name of Hell thus writeth l. de Anima cap. 17. In carcerem te mandet Infernum c. Hell may send thee to that prison from whence vntill thy sinnes be expiated thou shalt not depart perhaps till the day of thy resurrection But S. Cyprian Epist. 2. l. 4. discourseth of this point more perspicuously plainly thus saying Aliud est pro peccatis longo tempore cruciatum purgari igne c. It is one thing to be tormented with fyer for ones sinnes during a long tyme and other thing to haue purged his sinnes through a mans owne sufferance and seuerity of lyfe Which point receaueth its further proofe from the vision of blessed Ludgardis a most holy and eminent Virgin whose lyfe was written by Thomas Cantipratensis aboue mentioned who had written the lyfe of Christina Mirabilis And because the matter is of Consequence concerneth much by way of example the Prelats of the Church I will here set downe the words of the Authour himselfe which are to be found in the second booke of the lyfe of holy Ludgardis apud Surium tom 3. 16. Iunij The words are these Hoc ferÃ¨ tempore Dominus Innocentius Papa tertius c. About this tyme Innocentius the third being Pope after the Councell of Lateran was celebrated departed this lyfe and did presently after appeare visibly to Ludgardis After she saw him compassed about on all sydes with a great fyre she asked him who he was He answered that he was Innocentius the Pope But she replying with griefe said What is the Common Father of vs all thus tormented for so long a tyme He answered I am in these flames for three causes Which Crymes of myne had iustly deserued that I had beene punished with eternity of torments but that through the intercession of the most holy Mother of God to whom I did build consecrate a Monastery I had repentance of my said sinnes And so it is that I haue escaped eternall damnation Neuerthelesse I shal be tormented with most cruell paynes euen till the day of Iudgment That I am permitted to appeare to thee thereby to intreate thee to procure prayers suffrages to be said for me this fauour the mother of mercy obtayned of her sonne in my behalfe And at the speaking of these least words he instantly vanished away Ludgardis did make knowne this his necessity to her sisters that he might be holpen with their prayers But Ludgardis herselfe taking great commiseration of his poore state did vndergoe wonderfull austerities for his reliefe Let the Reader take notice that Ludgardis did acquaint vs with those causes of this mans torments which we for the reuerence of so great a Pope haue thought good to conceale Thus much the former Authour touching the vision of Ludgardis which example hath often affected me with great feare and terrour For if so laudable a Pope who in the eies of men appeared not only good but also holy and worthy imitation was in great danger of being eternally damned in Hell yet in lieu therof is to be punished with most insufferable flames euen vntill the day of iudgment what Prelat may not feare Who ought not to search most narrowly into euery corner of his conscience For I am persuaded that so great a Pope did not commit any mortall sinnes except he committing them vnder the shew of some good was therein deceaued by his flatterers such his Domesticks of whom it is sayd in the Ghospell Matth. 10. Inimici hominis domestici eius A mans enemyes shal be they of his owne househould Therefore as being taught by this great example let vs all labour to make most diligent inquiry into our consciences for feare they be not erroneous though to our selues they appeare right and sincere But let vs returne vnto that point from which we haue digressed It is not to be doubted but that the paynes of Purgatory may be extended to ten twenty a hundred yea to a thousand yeares But let vs grant for the tyme that those paynes should endure but ten or twenty yeares who is able to endure most dreadfull inexplicable torments for the space of twenty yeares without any intermission or ease Now that those burnings are to be without any alleuiation or rest appeareth from the vision which we haue aboue related out of Venerable Bede Certainly if a man were assured that he should continue afflicted for the space of twenty yeares without any intermission or relaxation with the paine of the Goute or of the stomacke or the Head-ach or tooth-ach or of the Stone that he could not by reason of such his dolours take any sleep or rest no doubt such a man had rather make choyce to dye then to perseuer and liue in this miserable case And if choyce were giuen him whether he would remayne for twenty yeares without any respiration and ease in those foresaid paynes or would suffer losse of all his state and goods Certainly he would with a most ready mind seeke to be depriued of all his temporall meanes that so thereby he might free himselfe from so continuall cruell paynes with how much more reason then ought euery wise man to make choyce of vndergoing of Penance accompanied with its fruits which fruits are watching Prayer Fasting Almes deeds and especially teares which are a signe of true Penance Now if we add to the acerbity of these paynes and the long continuance of them this third Calamity to wit that the soules in Purgatory can in no sort help themselues their infelicity misery is much increased therby For here among men conuersing on earth there is hardly to be found any one so depressed in misery and calamity but that either by flight or by resistance or by mediation of friends or by appealing to

all likely-hood reason and dispute with thy owne Soule True it is I thanke God of his most infinite and boundles Mercy that as a straying sheep I am at length brought into Christs sheep-fold and I hope to dye through the benefit of our Sauiours passion and of the holy Sacraments his seruant and in state of Grace and finally to enioy the interminable ioyes of Heauen But alas though the guilt of Eternall damnation incurred by my long former Schismaticall lyfe by my many other infinite sinnes as I hope through Gods infinit mercy be remitted yet temporall punishment due for all my former said sinnes in most inexplicable torments of Purgatory doth expect me My poore Soule must continue in those burning Flames how many yeares his diuine Maiesty only knoweth for the expiating of my said sinnes before I can arriue to Heauen When I was in health enioying my temporall state in all fulnes how easily with a voluntary relinquishing of a reasonable part thereof to pious and religious vses could I haue auoyded at least mitigated these now imminent and vnauoydable torments Good god where then were my Wits The very plowman prouides for the tyme of Winter yea the Ant to the which we are sent by Gods word Prou. 6. to be instructed hoords graynes of Corne for his after sustenance And haue I so negligently carryed my selfe as to lay vp before-hand no prouision against this tempestuous and rugged future storme O beast that I was Sweet Iesus how far distant were my former course of lyfe and daily actions from euer thinking of this vnauoydable danger I haue liued many yeares in fulnes of state I haue beene labouring in laying out good summes of Siluer to heap land to land for my Children to inherit I haue liued perhaps in a most profuse or wastfull manner I haue spent to much to gayne the deceitfull fauour of the world in sumptuous apparell exceeding my state in keeping an ouer wastfull house and in ouer great vnnecessary Attendance about me By meanes of some or all of these extrauagant Courses I haue spent much And yet not once did I euer thinke to bestow the twentith part of these superfluous charges to pious vses for the preuenting of those flames which within few dayes perhaps few houres my poore soule must suffer O wretch that I am that haue thus senselesly so neglected this fearefull day Here now my former pleasures and Iollity are come to their last end and period Gods Iustice must and will be satisfyed since nothing defyled and contaminated except all the rust therof be afore fyled away can enter into the Kingdome of Heauen Whither then now being encompassed on ech syde with such thornes of danger anxiety shall I turne my selfe To the world and my former pleasures thereof O God the remembrance of them is most nauseous and distastfull to me since the fruition of them is a great cause of my future paynes To my former greatnes and fulnes of my temporall state O that I had beene so happy as to haue made true benefit in tyme of that Mammon of Iniquity my wastfull spending whereof must giue fuell to that fyer And we are taught that Diuitiae non proderunt in die vltimo Prou. 11. To my Friends Kyndred former familiar acquaintance which I shall leaue behind me in the World Wo is me they are as wholy negligent of their owne soules danger concerning this point as my selfe haue beene How then can I expect them to be solicitous carefull of myne To thee then alone most mercifull and heauenly Father who art Pater misericordiarum 2. Cor. 1. and who dost crowne vs in misericordia miserationibus Psal 102. I do flye Who tookest mercy of the Woman of Canaan of Mary Magdalen of the Publican and of the thiefe hanging vpon the Crosse Betweene the armes of thy ineffable Compassion I cast my selfe Lessen Ã´ Lessen for thy owne honours sake and the bitter passion of thy most Deare Sonne my Sauiour Iesus Christ these temporall paynes which now wante for me Let my present Compunction and Contrition of all my former sinnes through thy mercy Sons pretious death arriue to that ascent and height as that my Sauiour may say to me with the good thiefe to day thou shalt be with me in Paradise So shall thy Mercy thereby ouer-ballance thy Iustice For to speake in the Churches Dialect Plus potes dimittere quÃ m ego committere and it is my Comfort that I read in holy Writ Suauis est Dominus vniuersis miserationes eius super omnia opera eius Psal 144. Our Lord is sweet to all and his mercy is aboue all his Workes O that I had beene so happy as to haue followed the wholsome aduyce giuen to me by way of Presage in a little Treatise entituled An Antidot against Purgatory I then did read it but with a certaine curiosity as thinking it nothing to belong to me But alas I now find it to be a true Sybill or Prophet of my future Calamitous state Well then seeing my owne hower-glasse is almost run out let me turne my speach to you Deare Catholiks in my health my chiefest Familiars with whom I did most consociate in my former pleasures There is no difference betweene you and me but the tyme present and the tyme to come You all must once be forced to this bed of sorrow and be brought to your last Sicknes To you then and to all others who are negligent in prouiding against this Day I do direct this my charitable Admonition You are yet in health perhaps as improuident in laying vp spirituall riches against this fearefull day as my selfe haue beene O change your Course whiles there is tyme. Let my present state preach to you suffer these my last dying words to giue lyfe to your future Actions since they preach feelingly whose Pulpit is their death-Bed Be not in the number of those sensles creatures who are buryed so deep in earth as that they haue no tast or feeling of things to come Nolunt intelligere vt benÃ¨ agant Psal 35. Do now therefore Deare Friends do now what you can Now while you haue tyme heap vp togeather that spirituall Wealth which will buy out all ensuing paynes and turne the Current of your former superfluous Charges into the fayre streame of pious workes that so it may affoard you water for the quenchinge of those raging Flames Consider how you shall be conuented before the seuere Iudge froÌ„ whom nothing can be hiddeÌ„ of whoÌ„ the Prophet saith Tu cognouisti omnia nouissima antiqua Psal 138. He is not appeased with guifts nor admtiteth excuses who out of his boundles mercy remitteth to vs vpon our true repentance the paynes of eternall damnation but yet chastizeth vs with temporall punishment to satisfy his Iustice misericordia veritas obuiauerunt sibi iustitia pax osculati sunt Psal 81. Therefore now begin to spread your selues in workes

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