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A06736	Fuga sæculi. Or The holy hatred of the world Conteyning the liues of 17. holy confessours of Christ, selected out of sundry authors. Written in Italian by the R. Fa. Iohn-Peter Maffæus of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by H.H.; Vite di XVII confessori di Christo. English	Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1536?-1603.; Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.; Baes, Martin, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 17181; ESTC S111891	465,460	588

Father of all Monkes in the West pag. 235. S. Stephen the first King of Hungary pag. 259. S. Edward Confessour King of England pag. 287. S. Anselme Bishop of Canterbury pag. 308. S. Otho Bishop of Bamberge in Germany pag. 169. S. Bernard Abbot of Clareuall in France pag. 187. S. Hugh Bishop of Lincolne pag. 155. S. Antony of Padua pag. 282. S. Thomas of Aquine the Angelicall Doctour pag. 316. B. Andrew Bishop of Fesula in Italy pag. 344. B. Laurence Iustinian first Patriarch of Venice pag. 361. S. MALACHY THE ARGVMENT BOrne in the Land surrounded with the mayne Of the Vergiuian deepe S. MALACHY Appeares and shewes vnpolisht shells containe Pearles often fraught with richest brauery We honour by our deeds not Countries gaine And do our selues infect vnstaynd thereby And learne to note how ere we rise or fall We and our Soiles are not reciprocall See how in tender yeares the world he leaues And from his childhood beares th' appointed crosse Try'de with affliction nothing Grace bereaues No paynes are hard no worldly domage losse No false allurements mooue no fraud deceyues Him of his hopes no Vanity doth tosse His constant soule nor from his Hauen driue Where we if like shall like to him arriue THE LIFE OF S. MALACHY BISHOP OF IRELAND Written by S. Bernard Of his Birth Minority and the first Flower of his Youth Chap. I. SAINT MALACHY borne in Hybernia or as we call it Ireland in the Citty of Ardmach was there through the particular fauour of the Diuine Clemency bred and brought vp in such sort as from the Natiue Barbarisme of the place he drew no more then Fishes do from the brackish Seas Whence it comes to be a thing most delightfull that so vnciuill and rude a Nation should seeme to yield vs a person of so gentle behauiour celestiall manners He who deriues the hony from Stones fetches oyle from the hardest Rockes hath moreouer wrought this 〈◊〉 True it is the Parents of S. Malachy were both of noble Bloud and of high Degree and the Mother no lesse generous of Mynd then Lineage was very solicitous to shew to the Child as yet tender the true way of Saluation making a great deale more reckoning thereof then of the swelling Literature o●… the world and yet wanted not the Child a good towardnes for eyther of both professions In schoole he learned the Grāmer at home the feare of God continually through his profit did satisfy both Mother and Mayster Which thing should not seeme to others to be any whit vntrue he hauing through especiall fauour from heauen the lot to haue so good a Soule which made him as well docible as strangely amiable and gracious From Mothers breast insteed of milke he sucked the waters of wisedome and day by day became more wise More wise shall we say or more Holy If I say both the one and other I should not much repent me because I should haue sayd but truth For manners he was graue a child indeed yeares but voyd of childish sportfullnes and howbeit held in veneration and admiration of all yet became he not thereby as generally others do haughty or insolent but rather quiet and submisse with all meckenes He was not impatient of gouernment not stubborne to discipline not dull for studies and finally not delighted with games the proper and general affect of that age so as in learning which was competent for him he out-stript all his equalls of the same age but in Goodnes of life and purchase of vertues he excelled as many as taught him and that not only through the industry of his Mother but euen also by the Vnction of the spirit wherwith being interiourly solicited pushed on he was neuer backward in diuine Exercises as to retire himselfe in solitude to meditate the holy law of Christ to make o●…en prayer to be temperate in dyer to vanquish sleep And wheras from publique frequenting of Churches he was partly hindred through schoole and partly kept backe through a certayne respectfull modesty yet forbare he not the lesse to lift vp his Mynd to the supernall Father to adore him euen likewise with exteriour gestures wheresoeuer in secret he could find occasion there vnto being at such tymes very cautious and circumspect to eschew vayne glory the most certaine poyson of vertues There lyes not farre off from Ardmach a village whither his Maister went often to walke without other company the this beloued Disciple Now therfore on a tyme while they were walking both together Malachy obseruing the Maister in a deep study with himself making a step as he related afterwards remayned somewhat behind and on the suddayne lifting vp his innocent hands from the how of his 〈◊〉 euer bent 〈◊〉 forth enflamed Iaculatoryes to the Starrs for not to be discouered very ●…lyly would he be putting himselfe agayne somewhat handsomely on the way and with so pious a theft would the blessed youth from tyme to tyme be deceiuing his Guide It boots not heere to relate all the acts which made his greener yeares very illustrious and admirable My penne makes ●…hast to much greater things And yet neuerthelesse will I not seeme to let passe this one thing by the way which in that tēdernes of his gaue matter not only of a good but of a soueraigne hope Being now arriued at last somwhat towards the end of the first arts and thirsting after the grauer Sciences being moued through the fame of a learned Doctour he went his wayes with great diligence though somewhat farre off to be acquainted with him But finding him at his entring into the howse very busy scoring of the wall very impertinently with an awle being disgusted with such a leuity and immediately pulling backe his foote from thence he had no list to re●…te him any more so much howbeit neuer so greedy of Learning he were he preferred honesty before knowledge In this sort then he passed ouer his childish yeares and yet in Youth reteyned he still as it were the same tenour of candour purity sau●… only that together with yeares did Wisedome and grace both with God and men alike increase in him with this besides that continually there beganne more high and sage reflections and discourses to awake in his breast For that the prudent youth beholding on the one side the malignity of the world and on the other the quality of the Spirit which swayed within his mind came more thē once to speake within himselfe in this sort My spirit is no whit secular for what hath it to do therewith since there is no more resemblance betweene them then betweene night and day Mine seemes to proceed from God nor am I ignorant of the gifts which he hath vouchsafed me From him do I acknowledge the stole of innocency I enioy with the flower of continency in me preserued hitherto From him that glory of myne so much securer as it is more secret consisting wholy in the

with him then of spirituall conceipts of contemplation of celestiall things and of such other like discourses and you shall find him to be not able to conceyue hardly much lesse to put your aduices in practice and due execution Nor is it any wonder since the wax is hardned nor hath he spent his yeares in such practises hath alwayes had other obiects and other designes On the contrary side take me a child both tender of yeares and of conscience and who cannot as yet discerne the euill from the good the very same shall happen with this as with the other the wax is too soft and liquid for it it admits no characters or images Betwixt these two then the youth stands in the midst as temperatly composed of stiff and tender Do thou endeauour to instruct such a one and thou shalt imprint in his mind what thou wilt Which thing I noting sayd S. Anselme do employ my selfe with the more assiduity and follicitude in trayning vp of youth and do labour from their soules to extirpate all the rootes of vices and to plant the vertues in place of them that being purged in this manner and well tempered they may come to represent more to the lyfe the true image of a perfect man And these were the principall motiues of S. Anselme for the education of youth S. Anselme sueth to the Archbishop of Roan to be discharged of his Office but is denyed Togeather with a Vision of Ricolfus concerning him Chap. 6. IN the meane tyme occupations and affaires continually increasing and sorely oppressing the Man o●… God he held himselfe to be so much disquieted and distracted therewith from interiour exercises of the mynd which happened not so to him at the beginning as he went for counsaile a new to the aforesayd Archbishop of Ro●… before whome he vnfolded the occasion of his comming and bitterly bewayling his peace and tranquillity lost thereby be sought him that he might be disburdned with all expedition of the charge Whereto the Archbishop being a person of much iudgement and sanctity withall thus answered Do not my deerest sonne make instance to forgo the charge not do thou seeke to subtract thy selfe from helping others to attend to thy selfe only for I tell thee in good sooth that I haue heard heertofore of many and seen some also who hauing vnder the coulour of their proper quietnes abondoned the pastorall cure by that occasion being fallen into 〈◊〉 haue likely gone from euill to worse Which to the ed the same may not fall vpon thee likewise which God forbid I commaund thee in vertue of holy Obedience to reteine to thee still the Prelacy which thou hast nor to suffer thy selfe to be induced any wayes to depose the same vnlesse the Abbot do enioyne thee to it And if thou shalt be called heerafter to any greater charge that thou do not refuse by any meanes to accept therof Because I know very well thou art not like to stay any long tyme in that wherethou art but shalt shortly be aduanced to a higher degree To these words sayd S. Anselme Then woe to me poore miserable wretch I am ready to faynt with the present burden and yet when another more weighty shall be layd vpon me I may not refuse the same These sighes of S. Anselme moued not the wise Archbishop a whit but rather with the same seuerity he rehearsed to him agayne the same precept which he had giuen him In this wise the Seruant of Christ perceyuing himself to be quite excluded from that which he wished fayled not at last to conforme his own to the diuine will and returning home with new feruour new purposes gaue wholy himselfe to cherish increase the more solide vertues in his Monkes To which effect knowing very well of what importance was the vnion and communication togeather of the subiects with the Superiour he pursued with all the meanes that well he might to procure to himselfe the loue of ech one and that particularly with shewing of true compassion and tendernes to the sick and indisposed so as he stucke not to enter often into the Infirmary himselfe and there not only with sweet countenance and gracious words to comfort the afflicted but euen also as we sayd of Osborne to serue them and prepare them their dyet food with his owne hands and with diligence to find out the state of ech one and that which most would be gust-full and pleasing to them Through which dealing of his the bitternes and detractions not only ceased if there were any yet left but there followed a thing which may truly be called the very health of religion to wit a confidence and a certaine coniunction of the members with the head and that so strayt and so great withall as there was not any who not suddenly to manifest his secrets and ech passion thought which he had in his breast to the good Priour as a child would do to his sweetest Mother With which security and sweet familiarity would S. Anselme be curing of the inward wounds and remedying the temptations of his Monkes and that with so much more ease as their consciences were made more manifest and palpable to him So as by this meanes S. Anselme came continually to be held in greater grace and reuerence with all men And this good conceypt of theirs increased so much the more through a certayne meruayle which newly happened to the aboue named Ricolfus This man while he went one night through the Cloyster obseruing the houre of rising of the Monkes to Mattins in passing by good hap before the Chapter-doore peeped in with his eyes and beheld S. Anselme in prayer enuironed round as with a flaming circle of fire Ricolfus was astonished at the sight after he had a litle thought with himselfe what it should be he resolued to hye him to the Fathers celll when seeing no body there he returned to the Chapter agayne and found there the Priour as before but without the sayd flame yet most assured the while of that which at first he beheld so cleerly S. Anselme in a case of necessity miraculously procures a fish from the Riuer neere by And with the spirit of Prophesy foretels an accident to come Togeather with the Bookes which he wrote ON a certayne day S. Anselme being sent vnto by a principall Lord of Normandy to come and deale with him about certaine affayres he refused not to go and hauing discoursed with him till the Euening he was not inuited at all by the Prince to lodge there that night though the Monastery of Bec were farre from thence Which the Man of God perceyuing without speaking a word therof to any tooke his leaue and departed thence not knowing where to lodge In the meane time meeting with one of the Monkes of his owne Order he asked him Whither he went and were they might harbour and retire themselues that night The other answered Father we haue a house