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A02187	Newes from Italy of a second Moses or, the life of Galeacius Caracciolus the noble Marquesse of Vico Containing the story of his admirable conuersion from popery, and his forsaking of a rich marquessedome for the Gospels sake. Written first in Italian, thence translated into latin by reuerend Beza, and for the benefit of our people put into English: and now published by W. Crashavv ...; Historia della vita di Galeazzo Caracciolo. English	Balbani, Niccolo, d. 1587.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1608 (1608)	STC 1233; ESTC S100534	64,277	90

and want Christ Iesus CHAP. VIII Of the grieuous combats betwixt the flesh and the spirit when he resolued of his departure NOw heree by the way it may not be omitted what kind of cogitations he hath often said came into his mind as he was deliberating about this great matter For first of all as often as he looked on his father which he did almost euery houre who decrely loued him and whom againe he respected in all duety and reuerence so often doubtlesse he was striken at the heart with vnspeakeable griefe to thinke of his departure his mind no doubt often thinking thus What and must I needes forsake my deere and louing fathr and cannot I else haue God my Father O miserable and vnhappy father of my body which must stand in comparison with the Father of my soule And must I needes faile in duety to him if I performe my duety to God O miserable old man for what deeper wound can pierce him then thus to be depriued of the onely staffe and comfort of his old age Alas shall I thus leaue him in such a sea of troubles and shall I bee the onely meanes to strike into his heart the deepest wound of griese that yet euer pierced him in all his life This my departure is sure to make my selfe the obloquy of the world yea to breede reproch and shame to the Marquesse my father and to my whole stocke and kinred How is it possible that the good old man can ouercome or indure so great a griefe but rather he must needs be swallowed vp of it so with woe and misery end his life Shall I then be the cause of death to my father who would if neede had beene redeemed my life with his owne death alas what a misery is this like to be either to me or him or vs both yet must I care lesse for bringing his gray head with sorrow vnto the graue then for casting my owne poore soule with horror into hell And no lesse inwardly was he grieued in respect ofhis noble wife Victoria for hauing no hope that she would renounce Popery and go with him therefore he durst not make known vnto her the purpose of his departure but rather resolued for Christs sake to leaue her and all and to follow Christ Shee was now as he was himselfe in the prime of youth a Lady of great birth faire wise and modest but her loue and loyalty to her husband surpassed all How was it possible patiently to leaue such a wise so that his perplexed mind discoursed on this fashion when he lookt on her And shall I so yea so suddenly and so vnkindly leaue and forsake my wife my most deere and louing wife the onely ioy of my heart in this world my companion and partner in all my griefe and labour the augmenter of my ioy the lessener of my woe And shal I leaue her not for a time as hertofore Idid when the Emperors seruice called me from her but for euer neuer againe to enioy her yea it may be neuer to see her And shall I depriue my selfe of her thereby depriue my selfe ofal others also of al the comfort of the coniug all life married estate And shal I so leaue her desolate alone in that estate age whereof she is Alas poore Lady what shal she doe what shal become of her and of her litle ones when I am gone How many dolefull dayes without comfort many waking nights without sleep shal she passe ouer What wil she do but weep waile pine away with grief And as he cast these things in his mind he thought he euen saw his wife how she tooke on with her self sighing sobbing and weeping yea howling crying running after him with these pitifull out-cries Ah my deere Lord and sweete husband whither will you goe and will you Ieaue me miserable woman comfortlesse and succourlesse What shal become of me when you are gone what can honors pompes riches gold siluer iewels friends company all delights and pleasures in the earth what can they all do to my comfort when I want you And what ioy can I haue in my children without you but rather my griefe to be doubled to looke on them And how can I or the world be perswaded that you care for them and for my selfe Is this the loue that thou hast so often boasted of Ah miserable loue which hath this issue either neuer didst thou loue me else neuer had true loue so strange an end as this of yours hath And yet which is worse then all this you neuer shewed me cause of this your strange departue had I knowen cause it would neuer haue grieued mee halfe so much But now that the cause is not knowen what will the world iudge but that the fault is in me at least if they cannot condemne me for it yet how reprochfull will it be to me when euen euery base companion dare lay it in my dish and point at me with their fingers when I go by and say this is that fond woman who married him with whom she could not liue and whom her husband disdained to liue withall This is that simple foole who is desolate hauing a husband and a widow her husband yet beeing aliue Either shall I be counted wicked which haue caused thee to leaue me or foolish miserable and vnhappy who chose so fondly as to take him whom I could not be sure of when I had him In a word I shall be depriued of thee yea of all possibility of hauing any other and so hauing a husband I shal liue in al misery altogether without a husband These two cogitations of his father and his wife greatly tormented him and the more because hee laboured to keepe close this fire which burned and boiled in hisheart namely to conceale his departure lest by being knowne it might haue beene hindred which he would not for a world Yet there was a third and speciall care that pinched him and that was for his children which were sixe in all goodly and towardly children and worthy of so noble parents the more griefe was it in that they were so yong as that they could not yet conceiue what it was to wanta father the eldest was scarce fifteene and the yongest scarce foure yeares old hee loued them with most tender and fatherly affection and was againe loued and honoured of them It is wonderfull to thinke how when his wife the Lady did giue into his armes his yongest childe to play withall as oftentimes wiues vse to doe how it were possible for him and what a do he had with himselfe to containe from floods of teares especially because his eyes seeing them and his hands holding them and his heart taking delight and pleasure in them his minde could not but discourse on this manner And shall I within these few daies vtterly forsake these sweete babes and leaue them to the wide and wicked world as though

beene such a husband to her so good and kind and euery way so well deseruing that she loued him as her owne eyes therefore more was she to blame that she esteemed him not as the light of her eyes but though this troubled her sore yet it moued her not to her duety so good a scholar was she in this Popish learning that she would rather incur her husbands yea Gods displeasure then her Confessors and rather breake their commandements so holy and iust then his which was so vngodlie and so vnreasonable and it also lesse preuayled with her because she imagined he would not so doe though he spake so but onely did it to feare her and so in feare hereof to make her yeeld vnto him CHAP. XXII Seeing he could not reclaime his Ladie he resolued to returne to Geneua and of the greeuous temptations he endured where he tooke his last farewell of his father wife children and friends and of his heauenly courage in bearing and passing thorow them all WHen therefore the good gentleman saw all things so farre amisse that euen his wife was against him of all other and gaue him a deeper wound then all other his friends denying him that societie and fellowship which the bond of marriage yeeldeth seeing that the time passed without any good doing but rather to the increasing of griefe on all sides hee theerfore resolued to depart and so calling his wife Victoria againe he iterated vnto her his former protestation and so bad her take it as his last warning The dolefull day of his departing being come hee held on his purpose and so entred into the chamber of his father the Marquesse to do his duetie vnto him and to take his leaue Who seeing his son thus past al hope of recouery quenching his fatherly affection in fury and raging madnesse like a frantike or desperate man reuiled him in most dispitefull termes and at last giues him his farewel with many a heauy and bitter curse This so strange and extraordinary persecution did this good gentleman suffer for Christs sake and it is marueile that it did not cause him to looke backe againe and turne his course But it was Gods doing that his father should vse these extreme and violent curses rather then to goe about to winne him by allurements and gentle perswasions for hee hath often vsed to tell his friends that this monstrous inhumanity and vnnaturalnes of his father did rather confirme and settle his minde his nature being rather to be ledde then drawen and rather to be wonne by friendlinesse and faire meanes then to be vrged by extremities But God would haue his seruant to be tried by both meanes namely the allurements of his wife and the minacings of his father Thus God would purge him in the fire of all kind of temptations And thus by the power of Gods grace hauing passed thorow this fire behold a hotter is to be ventured on Departing his fathers chamber with that burden of curses which the Lord turned into blessings he came into the great chamber and so into the hall where he found his wife his children his vncles sonne afore spoken of diuers noble gentlemen his kinsfolks and some his ancient familiars and domestick friends all fraught with griefe and making heauy cheere nothing was heard but sighes and sobbes and cries nothing was seene but teares and wringing of hands his wife embracing him and taking him about the necke beseeched him in most louing and most pitifull maner that be would haue care of himselfe of her and of all his children and whole house and not so wilfully to cast them all away His yong children all vpon their knees with armes stretched ou t and hands holden vp and faces swolne with teares cried vnto him to haue pitie on them his owne bowels and not to make them fatherlesse before the time His cosen and other kinsmen with heauie countenances and watrie eyes looked rufully on him and though for griefe they were not able to speake one word to him yet euery looke and euery countenance and euery gesture was a loud crie and a strong intreatie that he would stay and not leaue so ancient and noble a house in such wosull and desolate case No words can suffice to expresse the griefe of that doleful company nor that lamentable departure that there was to be seene Vnutterable was the griefe on their side and vnspeakeable was the torment temptation which the noble gentleman felt in this agonv when he must either leaue Christ Iesus or leaue all these for him But amongst aboue al there was one most lamētable sight which would euen haue wrung tears frō a hart of flint Amongst al his children he had one daughter a towardly goodly yong gentlewoman of xij yeres old who crying out amain wallowing in teares fell downe catching fast hold about his thighes and knees held him so hard as he could by no means shake her off the affectiō of a father wroght so with him as he could not offer with violence to hurt her he labored to be loose but she held faster he went away but she trailed after crying to him not to be so cruell to her his childe who came into the world by him This so wonderfully wrought with his nature he being a man of a most louing kind affection that he hath often reported he thought that all his bowels rowled about within him that his hart would haue burst presently there instantly haue died his child so hauing him fast about the legs But notwithstāding al this he being armed with a supernatural heauēly fortitude he brake thorow al these tēptations treading vnder foot whatsoeuer might hinder him frō Christ he escaped out ofthis perillous battell a glorious cōquerer so leauing that sorrowful house dolorus cōpany he came with speed to the shore where presētly taking shipping he caused them to hoist vp sailes towards Laesina with a turmoiled distressed mind one way surcharged with sorow to remēber the maner of his departure another way surprized with ioy to remēber that he had escaped And euen as a ship in a tēpestuoussea the boisterous waues tossing it vp down is thrown about somtime touching the clouds somtime plunged into the depth So no doubt the noble mind of this yong marquesse was no lesse distracted with cotrary cogitations being as it were in a labyrinth of distempered affections sometimes he could not but remēber that lamētable estate wherin he left his father wife children he often imagined he was stil amongst thē he thought he hard them cry cal vpon him thought he still felt his litle deere daughter clasping him about the legs trailing after him neither could he contain but breake out into tears neither could he for his life but often looke backe at that princely house with al those goodly orchards gardēs granges fields teritories to al which he was the only heire

all the infamies miseries which would ensue vpon this his conuersion and al the danger damage which therby his house and children were likely to incur But he said that seeing one of those must needes be chosen either to stay at home with a conscience burdened with a heauy heape of errors and superstitions piled together by the sleight of satans art euery momēt to sin against the Maiesty of God so many thousand waies or else to leaue his house his goods his family his country yea the world and all the glory of it and thereby purchase liberty of conscience to serue the Lord according to his word that therefore he resolued of the two euils to chuse the lesse and of the two good to chuse the greater and rather to shut his eies at all these then the sight of them should hinder him from yeelding to the cal and voice of his Sauiour Christ who saith That a man is not worthy to be his disciple who leaueth not father mother children brethren and sisters yea and his owne life in comparison of him And this he said was the cause why he did forsake parents and wife and children and all his friends and had renounced all his wealth and dignities because hee could not enioy both Christ and them And as for them all hee was sorie that either they would not come to him or that hee might not more safely liue with them thereby to comfort them But as for himselfe hee said hee had riches and honour and ioy enough yea all sufficient happinesse as long as with these two seruants and his little cotage he might liue in the true Church of God and might priuily serue him and might enioy Gods word and sacraments not being mixed and defiled with the superstitious deuises of mans braine and as long as he might liue in the company of godly men and haue time and liberty to meditate by himselfe and to conferre with them of the great blessings which in his conuersion his good God had vouch safed to him that so he might with true contentation and perfect peace of conscience aime aspire at that immortal glory which Christ Iesus hath prepared for al his children yea he concluded that his want was abundance his pouerty pleasant and his meane estate honourable in his eyes as long as he indured them for these conditions This his answere was as hardly entertained of his kinsman as it was vnlooked for afore it came but seeing he could not reply with any reason nor answere him with any shew of argument and perceiued it hard or rather impossible to remoue the man one iot from his resolution for that he had grounded it not on any reason or will of man but vpon the holy word of God and his powerfull and vnresistable calling therefore with a sorrowfull heart hee held his tongue bitterly complaining within himself of his so hard hap and vncomfortable successe and so resolued to returne home againe heartily wishing he had neuer taken that iourney in hand and so at last he went indeed and tooke his leaue of his beloued Galeacius but not without plenty of teares on both sides with many a wofull crie and pitifull farewell And no maruell for besides neerenes in blood their likenesse in manners and daily conuersation together had linked them in a sure bond of friendshippe but there wanted in one of them the surest linke in that chaine that is Religion and so it could not hold and therefore the world pulling one of them from Christ and Christ pulling the other of them from the world so these two friends left each other being in feare neuer to see one the other againe CHAP. XV. Of his cosens returue to Naples without successe and how Galeacius was proclaimed Traytor for his departure ANd thus at last he came home to Naples with heauie cheare Whose approch being hard of there was running on all sides to heare good newes but when he had deliuered his message alas how all their sorrow was redoubled vpon them and how his father wife children and al his friends were ouerwhelmed with griefe and the rather because as at the same time an edict was published wherein Galeacius was proclaimed guilty of high treason and therefore al his goods comming to him by his mother were confiscate and himselfe and all his posterity vtterly cut off and excluded from all right of succession in his fathers Marquesdome which thing aboue all other grieuously affected the old Marquesse and grieued the good old man at the very heart the aduancing and honouring of his posterity being the onely thing hee had aimed at all his life Whereupon hee bethought himselfe as old as he was to make a iourney to Caesar the Emperour and thereby if it were possible to preuent this mischiefe purposing to make but this sute to his Maiesty that his sonnes departure from the Roman Church might not preiudice nor hinder the succession and honour of his children and posterity but that he himselfe might onely beare the punishment of his owne fault CHAP. XVI Of the second meanes vsed to recall him his father sent for him to come and meete him at Verona but all he could doe by himselfe or others whom he set on preuailed nothing at all AND whilst he was resoluing of this purpose hee bethought him of another remedy and meanes whereby he hoped to remoue his sons mind from his purpose and withdraw him from the company of these heretikes of Geneua as hee and the world accounted of them Therefore in hast he dispatched away a messenger with letters to his sonne commanding him by the authority of a father to meete him at a certaine day appointed at the citie of Verona in the Dominion of the Venetians at which towne he promised to stay for him as he went to wards Germany to the Emperour and for his sonnes more securitie he procured a safe conduct from the Duke and Signory of Venice that his sonne might goe and come without danger of life or liberty Galeacius receiuing the letters and being resolued by his owne conscience and them to whom he imparted the matter that hee might not any way with good conscience disobey so reasonable a request and lawfull a commandement of his father answered that he would goe although he feared that by this meeting and talke of his father and him his fathers minde would but be more vehemently exasperate against him for he firmely resolued afore he went that all the threatnings intreaties counsels and temptations that his father could deuise should not stirre him one inch from that course of Religion whereby he had begun to serue the Lord. With this purpose he departed Geneua Aprilis 19. 1553. furnished with heauenly fortitude assisted 〈…〉 aiers of the Church and armed with constancy and with the sword of Gods word whereby he hoped to sustaine and beat backe all the darts of temptations whereby hee knew hee should be assaulted Comming to