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A72216	The second booke of the dialogues of S. Gregorie the Greate the first pope of that name containing the life and miracles of our Holie father S. Benedict. To which is adioined the fule of the same holie patriarche translated into the Englishe tonge by C.F. priest & monke of the same order.; Dialogi. Part 2. English	Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604.; Batt, Antonie.; Fursdon, John, d. 1638.; Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604. Short treatise touching the confraternitie of the scapular of St. Benedicts order.	1638 (1638)	STC 12350.5; ESTC S125237	72,895	252

day in to the holy mans cell found him weeping bitterly and when he had expected à good while and saw he did not giue ouer although it was his custome in prayer mildely to weepe and not to vse any dolefull lamentations he boldely demanded of him the cause of so great greife To whom the man of God presently replyed All this Monastery I haue built with what soeuere I haue prepared for my Brethren is by the iudgment of Allmighty God deliuered ●o the heathens and I could scarse ob●aine to saue the liues of the monkes ●n this place His words Theoprobus ●eard But wee see them verified in ●he destruction of his Monastery by ●he Longobardes For of late these Longobardes by night when the Re●igious were at rest entred the Monas●ery and ransacked all yet had not ●he power to lay hand on any man But All mighty God fulefilled what he had promised to his faithfull seruant Benedict that although he gaue their goods in to the hands of the paynims yet he praeserued their liues In this blessed Benedict did most clearely resemble S. Paul whose ship with all its goods being lost it pleased God to bestow vpon him the liues of all those who were with him How S. Benedict discouered the hiding of à Flagon of wine CHAP. XVIII OVr Monke Exhilaratus whom you know well on à time was sent by his maister with two wooden vessels we call flagons full of wine to the holy man in his Monastery He brought one but hid the other in the way not withstanding the man of God although he was not ignorant of any thing doue in his absence receiued it thankefully and aduised the boy as he was retourning back in this manner Be sure childe thou drinke not of that flagon which thou hast hid but turne the mouth of it downeward and then thou wilt perceiue what is in it He departed from the holy man much ashamed and desirous to make further triall of what he had heard held the flagon à side and presently there came forth à snake at which the boy was sore afrighted and terrified for the ●uill he had committed How the man of God reprooued à Monke for receiuing certaine napkins CHAP. XIX NOt farr distant from the Monastery was à certaine towne in which no small number of people by the moueing exhortations of Benedict were conuerted from their superstious idolatry In that place were certaine religious women and the seruant of God Benedict vsed to send often some of his Brethren thither to instruct and edifie their soules One day as his custome was he appointed one to goe But the monke that was sent after his exhortation tooke of the Nunnes some small napkins and hid them in his bosome As soone as he came back the holy Father beganne very sharpely to rebuke him saying How hath iniquity entred thy breast The monke was amazed and because he had forgott what he had done he wondred why he was so reprehended To whom the holy Father said What Was not I present when thou tookest the napkins of the hand maids of God and didst put them in thy bosome where vpon he presently fell at the feete of the holy man and repenting his folly threw away the napkins which he had hidde in his bosome How the man of God vnderstood the proud thought of one of his Monkes CHAP. XX. ONe day as the venerable Father late in the euening was at his repast it happened that one of his mōkes who was sonne to à lawyer held the candle to him and whilest the holy man was eating he standing in that manner beganne by the suggestion of pride to say with in himselfe Who is ●e whom I should waite vpon at ta●le or hold the candle vnto with such ●ttendance Who am I who should ●erue him To whom the man of God ●resently turning checked him shar●ely saying signe thy breast Brother what is this you say make the signe of the cross on your breast Then he forth with called vpon the Brethren and willed them to take the candle out of his hande and bad him for that time to ●eaue his attendance and sit downe quietly by him The monke being asked afterward of the Brethren concerning his thoughts at that time confessed to them how he was puffed vp with the spirit of pride and what con●emptible words he harboured in his thought against the man of God By this it was easely to be perceiued that nothing could be kept from the know●edge of venerable Benedict who was ●ble to penetrate the very secret ●houghts of the heart Of two hundred bushels of meale mir●culously brought to the Monastery gate CHAP. XXI AT an other time also in the country of Campania began à grea● famine and great scarcety of victuall● so that all the wheate in Benedict hi● Monastery was spent and but fiu● loaues of bread remained for the Brethrens refection When the venerabl● Father perceiued them sad and discontented he endeauored by à milde an● gentle reproache to reprehend thei● pusillanimitie and with faire promise to comfort them saying why are you sad for want of bread to day you are in want but to morrow you shall haue plenty The next day there were found two hundred sacks of meale before the Monastery gates by whom God● Allmighty sent it as yet no man knoweth Which when the monkes beheld they gaue thankes to God and by ●is were taught in their greatest want ● hope for plenty Peter BVt resolue I pray is it to be thought that this seruant of God ●ad continually the spiritt of prophe●● or onely at certaine times with ●●me discontinuance Gregory THe spirit of prophecy Peter doth not alwayes cast his beames vpon ●●e vnderstanding of the prophets for ●s it is written of the holy Ghost He ●●eatheth where he will so likewise ●ust we conceiue also when he plea●●th And therefore Nathan being de●anded by the king if the might builde ●he temple first aduised him to doe ●● afterward forbad him This was ●he reason that Helyzaeus knew not ●he cause why the woman wept but said to his seruant Who did oppose ●e let her alone for her soule is in anguirh ●● our Lord hath concealed it from me a●● not made it knowne Thus God Al●mighty of his great mercy disposet with singular prouidence to the en● that by giuing the spirit of prophec● some times and at other times with drawing the same the mindes of th● Prophets be both eleuated aboue thēselues and also be truely humbled fo● by receiuing the spirit they may kno● they are inspired by God and again●● when they receiue it not they ma● consider what they are of themselues Peter IT standeth with good reason wha● you haue said but I beseech you prosecute whatels you remember o● the venerable Father Benedict How by à Vision he gaue order to contriuc à Monastery CHAP. XXII AN other time the holy Father was requested by à certaine deuout an to send some of his disciples to ●●ild

shall be expedient but to such as are in health especially to yonge men let it bee seldome granted More ouer let eating of flesh be granted to such as are sicke weake for their recouery But when they ar recouered let them after the acustomed manner wholy abstaine from flesh And let the Abbot haue a speciall care that the Cellerarius or seruitors neglect not the sicke be cause whatsoeuer is donne amisse by his disciples is imputed to him Of old men Infants CHAP. XXXVII ALthough mans nature it selfe be inclined to pitty these ages that is old men Infants not withstanting it is also fitting that by the autority of the Rule they should be prouided for Let therefore their weaknes be all ways considered let the rigour of the Rule in victualls be by noe means kept with them but let there be a pious consideration had of them and let them come timely to the canonicall howers Of the weekely reader CHAP. XXXVIII REeadinge ought not to be wanting at the Table whiles the brethren eate Neither ought any one to presume to reade who shall take vp the booke by hap hazard but let him that is appointed to read for the whole weeke enter in vpon sondaye And then after masse and communion let him desier all to praye for him that God may keep from him the spirit of pride and let this verse be thrise repeted in the oratory he first begining it Domine labia mea aperies os meum aenuntiabit laudem tuam Then after the benediction giuen let him enter in to reade Let great silence be kept at the table soe that noe voyce or muttering be hard but only of the reader and for such thinges as ar necessary for meate drinke let the brethren soe prouide that no man neede to aske any thing And if any thing shall be wanting let it be asked rather by the sound of some signe then by voyce nor let any one there presume to aske any thing of that which is read or any thinge else least occasion o● speech be giuen vnlesse perhaps the Prior will make some breefe exhortation for the edification of the brethren And let the hebdomadarius take a few pottage before he beginne to reade for holy communion sake and least perhaps it be troublesome to him to fast soe long afterwards let him eate with the other weekely officers of the kitchim and seruitours And let not the brethren or reade by order but such as maye edifie the hearers Of the measure or quantity of meate CHAP. XXXIX AT the dayly refection as well of the sixth as ninth hower at all tables we thinke two dishes of hot pulse will be fitting by reason of the infirmyties of diuers that he who can not eate of one may make his refection of the other Let therefore two dishes of hot pulse suffice the brethren and if there bee any apples or frute let them haue it for a third dish Let à pound of bread be the allowance for one daye whether ther be one refection or both dinner and supper and if they be to suppe let a third part of that pound be reserued by the Cellerarius for their supper And if their labour be great it shall be in the power of the Abbot to add to their ordinary allowance what he shall thinke expedient hauing alwayes a care to auoid excesse and surfiting that the monkes be not ouertaken with indisgestion be cause there is noe sinne more contrary to à christian then gluttonie and our Lord saith see that your harts be not opprest with gluttonie drunckennes But to children of yonger age let not the same quantity be giuen but lesse then to the elder obseruing alwayes moderation and frugality And lett all generally abstayne from eating of foure footed beasts excepting such as be very weake and sick Of the measure of drinke CHAP. XXXX EVery one hath his proper gift from God one thus another thus and therfore we apponit the measure of other mens victualls not with out some scrupu●osity Yet considering the weaknes infirmity of many wee thinke a pinte of wine will suffice each one a daye But to whom God giues the giuft of abstinence let them know they shall receaue their proper reward And if either labour heate of the sommer or situation of the place require more let the Prior doe what he thinketh good hauing euer a care that fullnes or gluttony creepe not in And although we reade wine to be in no sort the drink of Monckes yet because in these times they will not be so perswaded let vs atleastwise cōsent to this that we drinke not our fill but sparingly with moderation because wine makes euen wisemen to Apostatike But where the necessity of the place will not allowe that measure appointed but lesse or perhaps none at all let them prayse God that liue there not murmur And this aboue all things we admonish that there neuer be any murmurations At what howers the brethren ar to take their refection CHAP. XXXXI FRom the holy feast of Easter vntill whitsontide let the brethren take their refection at the sixt hower suppe at night But from whitsontide all the summer longe if they labour not in the feilds or the extremity of the heate doth not molest them let them fast wedensday friday till the ninth hower but on other days let them dine at the sixth hower Which sixth hower of dinner if they worke in the feilds or the heate of the sommer be great shall be continued at the discretion of the Abbot and let him soe temper dispose all things that soules may be ●aued and what the brethren doe maye be done without murmuring But from the Ides of september vntill the beginning of Lent let the brethrē always refresh themselues at the ninth hower And from the beginning of Lent vntill Easter let them refresh in the euening but let it be soe ordered that then in the euening there be noe need of à light at time of refection but that all be done by daye light yea at all times whether supper or noe supper let the hower of refection be soe ordered that all things be donne by day-light That noe man maye speake after Complin CHAP. XXXXII. MOnkes ought to keep silence at all times but especially in the night howers And therefore at all times whether they be dayes of fasting ordining when it is a day of dining presently after they are risen from supper let them come all together and being sett let one reade the collations or liues of the fathers or some other thing that maye edifie the hearers but let them not reade the Heptateuch or booke of kings be cause it will not be profitable for weake vnderstandings to heare this scripture at that hower yet at other times it may be read But if it be a fasting daye after that Euen-songe is saide with in a litle space let them come to the reading of the