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A17889	The spirituall director disinteressed According to the spirit of B. Francis of Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneua, Institutor of the Order of the Visitation of our Bl. Lady. By the most Reuerend Father in God Iohn Peter Camus, Bishope of Belley. Translated out of French by A.B.; Directeur spirituel desinteressé. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; A. B.	1633 (1633)	STC 4554; ESTC S107544	184,066	696

not therfore absolutely blame à man for consulteing with diuerse for one cannot take councell enough in à thing of soe greate importance as saluation on which depends an Eternitie Nor the haueing diuerse Directors at one time as we haue in the Ecclesiastick and Politick state many Superiours ouer vs though subordinate one vnto the other and of an vnequall power for as I sayd before when à Director hath à greate height and eminencie much eleuated aboue the Confessor as well in the Theorique as the Practique there is neuer any debate because the greatest light obscures the lesser and in that respect there needes no deliberatiō which councell to followe But excepting this case I saye and think therin to speake according to the spirit of God who is life and veritie that this occurrence is daungerous vnto à Soule which findes it self sometimes betwixt two yrons and as it were wauernig in such sorte that it knowes not which way to tourne it selfe seeing euill euery where and good on no side though many tîmes it is not so nor can there be à more tedious torment then that of an erronious conscience CHAP. VI. The surlie Director THe person of Whom I speake was in this state for though her DIRECTOR made more noyse and was in more vogue by his preacheing I knowe not whether he yeelded more fruite then her CONFESSOR à man full of zeale in the seruice of soules who did many good workes without soundeing the trumpett serueing God with his substance and with couered dishes as our sauiour commaunds in the Gospell This I knowe and with assurance that he had farr more experience in the conduct of soules at the Tribunall of Penance then the DIRECTOR though he beleeud it not and that the DIRECTOR contrarywise esteemed himself much more fitt then he and endeuored like à Pedant vpon all occasions to gouerne both him and the penitent Soule with à browe farr more humbleing then humble and who had much more of the Pharisie then of the Publican When this good Preist gaue vnto this pious Soule some spirituall aduise which he conceiued profitable she presently related it vnto the DIRECTOR as vnto her touch-stone yf it pleased not this Preacher he declamed against it with full voyce and with such scornefull and despiseing tearmes no lesse vnbeseemeinge the mouth which vttered them then honorable vnto the modestie and patience of him vnto whom they were addressed How ofte had the austeere Empire of this sufficient DIRECTOR caused the Penitent person to forsake her CONEESSOR yf he had not bene affrayed to loose the absurd practise of his loftie Theorie and that the streames of this source should haue bene spent vpon other Meadowes then those of his owne house And then seeing himself to haue gotten the absolute dominion both ouer the spirit of the Penitent and the CONFESSOR it delighted him to ouerthrowe with the impetuous blast of his mouth all whatsoeuer the other had endeuored to buid vp solid and to pluck vp whatsoeuer he had planted before it had taken any deepe roote seldome giuing any other reasō then the ignorant condition of this poore Confessor and of à man litle versed in these Anagogies for this word pleased him of the superessentiall supereminent life Hee treated him as one of à meane spirit litle illuminated and no wayes skillfull in the interiour and contemplatiue life not so much as vnderstandeing those fayre tearmes of the misticall Theologie which with their emphasie astoinsh the World and which are more like the lāguage of Angells rather then of men so farr are they aboue the base and lowe stile of the Earth To conclude he made vse verie authentically of the priuiledge which the Apostle giues vnto the spirituall man which is to Iudge all others and not to be Iudged by any When I had discouered this whole misterie which certes was not of iniquity yet where I noted à manifest injustice I placed my self on that side which I esteemed the more lust according to the imitation of our sauiour who vpheld the penitent Mary against the censure of the Pharisie I took parte with the Confessor oppressed by this Rabby whose wine he dimolished ād dissipated sometimes like the boare sometimes like the fox to the greate trouble and damage of this Soule which was incomparably better counselled and directed by her owne prudent capable and charitable Confessor who cheerely vnderstood her whole interiour then by this imperious Director who onely beholding the superficiall parte and that which he could onely gather by à bare conference made himself growe into an Arte wherof he had no practise neither could he exercise it being restrained by his Institute I tooke then this creature off from this double torture and leaueing her in the ordinary question of the judiciary seate which God hath established in his Church I freed her from the extraordinary question of this vnexperienced Director wherof she found her selfe much eased as of à troublesome yoake or rather of an insupportable burthen à burthen which he himself who layd it on would not perchaunce haue so much as touched with the tip of his finger CHAP. VII Subiect of Murmure THis passed not without Murmure the vse wherof is no lesse frequēt amongst those of the other world then that of the Windes and the Waues on the sea according to the testimonie of S. Bernard But what imports it if men blaspheme vs or speake euill of vs so that God giue vs his blessing Whether by reproch or by good fame so as his diuine goodnes be serued therin we haue our onely end The cause of Quipps was not so much the zeale of the Soule as the bitter and contentious zeale about the priuation of certaine commodities which proceeded from this precioús Direction For there is this difference betweene zealous persons that some are eaten vp with the zeale of the spirituall good of their Neighbour but the zeale of the others consumes their Neighbours goods Shall I say prouided I breake not the bond of concord nor yet the chayne of Perfection I loue certes Plato and Socrates but I loue much more the truth so that it be charitable and respectfull because it is à testimony that the same proceedes from à Charitie which is true and full of respect I will say then that this person of whom I speake was aged without children in state of Widow hoode and which is the pointe well accommodated with the goods of fortune And who by à liberalitie truely magnificent distributed à greate parte therof to the needy so that one might say of this person as doth the Psalmist happie is the man who mercifully giues Almes for thereby prepares he the way to receaue in the day of judgement à fau●urable sentence because the mercifull shall obteine mercy And the eternall sentence Come ye blessed of my father shal be giuen in the examination of the works of Charitie Thus goes on the Psalmist sayeing he who distributeth and largely giueth

docilitie I thought my selfe obliged to correspond by my slender assistāce vnto the cōfidence which it testified to repose both in my publique and priuate speahes I tooke then vpon me this care amongst diuerse others and not withstandeing my dayly imployements in preaching I repaired at certaine houres to the Tribunall of Penance which is in the church as à Poole for sheepe and as the Founteine of the house of Iacob applied to the purgation of humane imperfections I found this soule then in such sorte lost in seruile feare and all worne-out with scruples bredd by the contradiction of these guides as being ledd by force it knew not well what way it went so contrary was it vnto it selfe The payne which I tooke to restore its spirit vnto à quiett and reposed seate God he knoweth that in my retirement I cast my thoughts on this soule and that I ardently prayed for its consolation In the end God heard the preparation of its heart and disperseing these obscurities and discontents caused the splendour of his face to shine vpon it and rendred it the Ioy of its saluation confirmeing it with his principall spirit Theis feares too seruile and mercinary as much swolne with self-loue as voide of diuine dilection by litle and litle dissolue them selues and charitie being diffused by the holy Ghost into its heart this starr whose influences are so benigne made like the sunne in the spring to open the flowers in the lande of its interiour And whē this sacred vertue Queene of all others had somwhat dilated its soule the excessiue terrous as the shadowes of the night became dispersed by its amiable b●ames And this soule aduanceth with so much ardor and vigor in the way of God that it seemes rather to flye o● runn then to walk I left it in this good disposition after I had finished the course of my preacheings and was vpon the point of retireing vnto my residence And because experience made me knowe that all the trouble of its spirit sprunge from noe other source then the Antipathie of the councells of her ordinary Confessor and this blessed Director who was as greate à Theoritian and Rhetoritian as the other à good Practitian and experienced in the gouerment of soules I freely councelled her and according to God without any constraint as S. Peter sayth that if she would haue à Director besides her Confessor she should make choise of one who had the knowledge of the Theorie ioyned with the Practise and who did actually dedicate and exercise himself in the seruice and guidance of soules at the Tribunall of Penance For be he neuer so vnderstanding à man yet defectiue in the experimētall parte he cannot proue otherwise then vnfitt and vnable not to call him à bad and dangerous Director ād one blinde leadeing another since he putts himself vpon an Arte which he vsed not and whose Practick is sometime as far distant from the Theoricke as the North from the Southe CHAP. V. Concerning Theorie without Practise VVhat I then spake with the Sourdine I doe now publishe with the Trumpett What I sayd vnto one soule I speake vnto all What I councelled in particular and private I preach vpon the howse topps what I sett forth with my tongue I signe it with my hand by this treatise And I say againe that à Director without Practise that is to say without experience is à hollow read on which no man ought to leane For as much as by this fayre theorie without the vse he spoiles all in lieu of perfitting he hinders in steede of advanceing he darkens where he should illuminate he imbroiles in place of disintangleing he imprisoneth where he ought to free he demolisheth where he should build he misleades in lieu of directing and causeth to stray where he should reduce And like vnto that temerarious of the fable who ambitious to guide the chariott of the Sunne gaue fire where he thought to haue produced light troubleing the spirits and breaking the braynes whose weakenes is no lesse worthy of pittie then their subtiltie culpable who practise vpon their docilitie an imperious gouerment which comes very neere vnto tirannie Everie one is not an Elias to guide well the chariott of Israell It is an act wherto certes knowledge is needefull but much more experience which to speake the truth is not attayned but by practise not vnlike vnto that of Phisitiones who become not able but by vse And indeed who in à daungerous sicknes would putt his lyfe into the handes of à Phisition well versed in greeke and Arabique and who in his art should speak wonders yet wanted the Practick Who would comitt his cause vnto an Aduocate whose memory were stuffed with the leaues of the Code and the Pandecte ye● knowes not the ordinary waye of the courte Who knowes not that à simple Atturney wanting both Latine and learning shall better manage à busines then the ablest Professor in the lawes To become à Good Painter it sufficeth not to talk well of colours shadowes proportions if he know not by the pencille how to set forth his work So it is in all artes all sciences and professiones And who can be found who knowes not the greate Chaos betweene the Theorique and the Practique He who swolne with à self-opinion through the conceipt which he hath of the same thinkenig himself to be à greate maister therin is his owne deceauer and this passage of the diuine Apostle may be applied vnto him he that thinketh himself to know something in which he knoweth nothing as yet knoweth not in what manner he ought to knowe All which causeth me te say that à Soule which for its greater securitie or consolation would consult with à Director besides its Consessor in respect two eyes see more then one and one brother assistes another ought to choose one not onely expert in the administration of the Sacrament of Penance but of à capacitie and experience so transcendinge and surpassing its ordinary Confessor that no emulation or dispute be made betweene these Angells about the body of Moses that is to say about the guidance of this hearte which with all candor and simplicitie yeelds it self vp into their hands Otherwise it vndergoes the daūger of resenting many contradictions in it self and the same panges of minde which Rebecca suffered in her body whē she complained of those two nations which in the persons of the twinnes did combatt in her sides If then the Church guided by the holy-ghoste giues but one Pastor vnto à flocke composed of diuers sheepe yea and euen in her full extent which is vniuersalle acknowledgeth but one Pastor as she makes but one body and one flock In what manner can one onely soule be diuided in its gouerment vnto so many Confessors and Directors who often in lieu of cure cause siknes As that auntient Emperour sayd toucheing the multitude of his Phisitions to which he artributed the cause of his death I doe