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B21445	The Capucin treated, or The lives of the Capucins with the life of S. Francis their patron. Wherein is described, and examined the original of the Capucins, their vows, rules, and disciplines. Written originally in French by the exquisite pen of that incomparably learned, and pious divine, Mr. Peter du Moulin, and Englished by Philanax Orthodoxus.; Capucin. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.	1665 (1665)	Wing D2581; ESTC R215372	45,820	122

but untill the next Saturday after their death St. Antonin who hath written the life of St. Dominick the Patron of the Preaching Fryars tells us that St. Dominick being once in a trance saw the heavens opened and a multitude of Monks in celestial glory but saw not one of his own Order amongst them whereupon this blessed Saint wept bitterly But Jesus Christ comforted him by shewing him a multitude of Jacobin Fryars that were hid under the Virgin Maries kirtle Not one of any other Order ever had this honour It is observable that this Antonin Archbishop of Florence was Canonized by Pope Clement the 7th An. Dom. 1523. and that in the Bull of Canonization the said Pope approves of and authorizeth the doctrine of this Antonin and gives great Indulgences to those who shall visit his reliques The same is recited by Theodorick in the life of St. Dominick as Surius reports But the Minors surpass all the other Orders in the greatness of their Indulgences granted by the Popes to St. Francis's Order Read a book entituled The treasure o● the Indulgences of St. Francis 's Cord Printed at Rouen by Tho. Dare in the Jew's street near the Palace 1614. and you shall find these words in p. 119. Item every day untill the nativity of our Lady there is eight hundred sixty five thousand and one hundred sixty two years and one hundred days of indulgence and a remission of the third part of sins granted to divers Churches The Jesuits laugh at this and care not to obtain of he Pope such Indulgences This may be seen in the book of the Indulgences of the fraternity of the Cord printed at Paris by John le Bouc at St. Hillarys Mount Pope Sixtus 5. Anno. 1586. on May 7 graunted to those of the fraternity of St. Francis's Cord who shall say five Pater nosters as many Ave Maries on Palm-Saturday and on the feast of St. John the Evangelist and that before Porta Latina the pardon of all their sins and power to free one soul out Purgatory And these priviledges are confirmed by the letters Patents of the same Pope dated at St. Marks Aug. 9. 1587. But the most memorable Indulgence is that which as the Rosary of Bernardin saith St. Francis obtained for the Church of Sancta Maria Angelorum Francis was born in this City which is in the Dutchy of Spoleta called Portiancula in the City of Assise viz. that all they who shall go into that Church shall receive the remission of all their sins However Jesus Christ would not grant this to St. Francis but on condition that he should get a confirmation of this Indulgence from the Pope Antonin in vita Dominici c. 1. sect 1. Statum regularem sub Didaco Episcopo apprehendit ut alterum baptismum Th. 2. 2 q. ult art 3. in 4. sent dist 4. q. 3. art 3. sect ad tertium Bell. lib. de Monachis c. 8. sect denique Eman. Sa. Aphor. in verb. Religio sex alae eorum sunt s●x perfectiones qui bus ornatus suit beatus Franciscus This also is one of the prerogatives of St. Francis's Order and of St. Dominick's Order that the habit of St. Francis or St. Dominick is as good as a second Baptism and that by vertue of this habit all our sins past are cancelled And this is the reason why many Princes and persons of quality on their death-beds have been clad in the habit of a Cordelier or Capucin that their sins may be pardoned Of all the Patrons of the Monastique Orders no one is exalted to so high a degree of celestial glory as St. Francis for he is placed in the highest degree of Angelical glory The Church of Rome makes nine Orders of Angels differing in glory The highest Order is that of the Seraphins The second is the Order of the Cherubins c. But St. Francis is placed in the Order of the Seraphins above the Cherubins as St. Antonin tels us in the life of St. Francis in the first Chapter where he saith that those words of the 18. Psalm He rode upon the Cherubins and did flie upon the wings of the winds are spoken not only of Jesus Christ but may also be applied to St. Francis who is exalted above the Cherubins And in the same Chapter he saith that the Six wings of the Seraphins are the Six perfections wherewith St. Francis was adorned In this high degree of Glory he sees eight Classes of Angels and all the Saints farr beneath himself St. Bonaventure a General of St. Francis's Order and a Cardinal saith the like as I shall shew you hereafter De Verborum signif in b. Aliud mite Cor et docile terra bona suscepit hoc est fratrum Minorum religio Pope Nicolas 3. in the Decretal Exiit qui Seminat saith that when Jesus Christ speakes of the fourth prrt of the seed which fell on good ground by this good fourth part is meant the Religion of the Minors In the same place this Pope commending the poverty and perfection of St. Francis observes he had no bagg and that he findes not those actions of infirmity which were in Jesus Christ Christus egit etiam infima sicut interdum ut in sugae paetet in loculis who had two actions of infirmity viz. he had a bagg and he fled In these two things Holy Francis surmounted Jesus Christ CHAp IV. Of the words Minor and Minime and of the observation of the whole Rule THe Monks of St. Francis's Order are called Minors that is to say Less than others in token of Humility But there is sprung up another Order of Monkes whereof St. Francis of Paula a Calabrian is Patron and Author This Saint lived in the time of Lewis 11. who dyed Anno Domini 1483. The Monks of this Order not thinking it humility enough to be called Minors call themselves Minimes that is to say Least of all The Life of these Monkes is altogether Quadragesimal that is a continual Lent By vertue of this title they pretend a right to begging because Jesus Christ in the 10. of Matthew saith Whosoever shall give to drink to one of the least of these or to one of these Minimes a cup of cold water onely shall not lose his reward However this hinders them not from receiving an alms of wine although Jesus Christ speaks of cold water onely It is observable that in the Masse of th● said St. Francis of Paula which is celebrated on the second of April the Priest reads aloud this verse of the Gospel Quo● uni ex Minimis fecistis mihi fecistis Alleluja What you have done to one of thes● Minimes you have done it to me For the presuppose that Jesus Christ will speak o● them in the day of the general Judgment This Masse which is peculiar to the Orde● of the Minimes they have caused to b● printed But to return to the Fryars Minors ther● are divers sorts of

sinnes deserve and that the Pope gathers this overplus into his Treasury and distributes it by his Indulgences in payment for the sins of others The Monks believe that by whipping themselves by fasting and going bare-foot they expiate the sinnes of others Wherefore Bellarmine saith Bell. lib. 1. de Indul. r. 4. s sex that the Saints are in some sense our Redeemers The Legends of Saint Dominick and Saint Antonine say that Saint Dominick a grand emulator of the holiness of Saint Francis lasht himself three times a day with an iron chain viz. Once for his own sins which were very small once for the sinnes of the living and once for the sinnes of those souls which are in Purgatory who no doubt received much ease thereby And it is this same Saint that once had mercy on the devil for the devil having transformed himself into a Sparrow and Saint Dominick catching him contented himself onely with pulling off the feathers from his head whereas it was in his power to have wrung off his neck By these things God is blasphemed For such things are attributed to God which if a man should do he would be accounted either wicked or mad For what Judge would not be accounted unjust or out of his wits who should let a malefactor go because his neighbour hath whipt himself for him But things which are ridiculous in civil society are esteemed good in religion as if a man must lose common sense to augment piety All this abuse proceeds from this viz. that men utterly destitute of the knowledg of the holy Scriptures which are to them a book sealed and altogether unknown seek other satisfactions and other payments for sin then the death and passion of Jesus Christ For seeing Jesus Christ hath fully satisfied Gods justice to what purpose are others satisfactions presented to him Is not this to accuse God of injustice to pretend that he takes two payments for one debt when the first is sufficient Is it not to dishonour that most perfect satisfaction which Jesus Christ hath accomplished for us to joyn it with the whippings and austerities of Monks which is just as if a man should mingle coals and diamonds together For Pope Clement the VI. in his Extravagant Unigenitus saith that the merits of the Virgin Mary and of the other Saints do help to compleat the treasure of the benefits of Jesus Christ giving us to understand that the benefits of Jesus Christ make but bare measure but that the addition of the Saints merits makes heaped measure and is an addition to the merrits of Jesus Christ And for this reason the Priest in the Mass prays for salvation not onely through the Saints intercession but also through their merits The Lord God take pity on so many poor people involved in so many abuses and discover the deceit of those who being themselves notorious sinners do yet by a proud humility think to expiate the sins of others CHAP. XXV Of the Fraternity of the Cord. * Printed at Rouen by Tho. Daré in the Jews street near the Palace anno 1614. An Extract of a Book entituled The Treasure of the Indulgences of St. Francis 's Cord translated out of Italian into French And of the Canonization of St. Francis and Ignatius de Loyola THe Fraternity of St. Francis's Cord is a Society of superstitiously devout people both Men and Women and as well Clergy-men as Lay-men Into which Fraternity they who enter are obliged to certain Observations and for a Badge of the Fraternity wear a Cord in imitation of the Cord which St. Francis wore and do participate of all the Merits and Satisfactions of those of the said Fraternity They who have the least of merit do for all that as really partake of the merits of the others as if they were their own They lend their merits to each other and he that is asleep or at dinner participates of the merits of him that whips himself or of him that turns over the consecrated Beads of his Chaplet seven times The Fraternity of Saint Francis's Cord hath great Priviledges and the Popes have granted it great Indulgences These priviledges have been set down in writing by divers but especially by Antonio Brugneto an Italian Observantin Monk whose very words in the 104. page are these The most glorious Father Francis a little before his death obtained of God the Creator three Priviledges as the defunct Pope Gregory reports them from St. Francis his own mouth viz. The first is That as the number of Monks should increase so should all things necessary be provided for them by the Divine Providence The second That whosoever shall wear the Habi● of his Order shall not die unfortunately The third That whosoever shall persecute the Religion of his Order his dayes shall be short and his end miserable Moreover the most glorious Father Francis a little before his death revealed to a certain Monk who is worthy of credit that he had obtained three other Priviledges of our Creator when he appeared to him in the likeness of a Seraphin and left the impression of the holy Marks on him The first is That the profeffion of his Monks should continue until the end of the world The second That whosoever shall live well in his Order shall live a long time in it The third That whosoever shall heartily love his Order how great a sinner soever he be shall find mercy from God if so be he turns from his evil wayes The same Author in the 109. page hath these words First Pope Clement the Fourth hath granted to those men who on their death-beds shall desire to be clad in the Habit of St. Francis his Order and to those women who shall desire to be clad in the Habit of St. Clare and to be buried in it the pardon of the third part of their sins This same Indulgence was granted them by Pope Nicolas the Third and by Pope Urban the Fifth Moreover Pope Leo the Tenth confirming the said Concessions adds by way of overplus That they who should die in this Habit of St. Francis or St. Clare and should be buried therein should have a plenary Indulgence for all their sins And in the 95. page Moreover on Olive-Saturday on the Feast of St. John the Evangelist and on the other Feast of St. John Port-Latine Pope Sixtus the Fifth he hath granted to those of the Fraternity who shall on such dayes rehearse the seven Penitentiary Psalms the redemption of one Soul out of Purgatory As for the Indulgence granted as the Minor Fryars say by Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary and confirmed by the Pope at Nostre Dame des Anges called Portiuncula the Rosary of Bernardin and the aforesaid book of rhe Indulgences of the Cord and the Chronicle of St. Francis say that St. Francis would not have the Pope's Bull for confirmation of the said Indulgence For saith he I have the glorious Virgin and Jesus Christ for Notaries and the Angels for Witnesses This Indulgence is to be had on the second day of August whereby every one who hath been confessed and is contrite and shall then go into the Church of Nostre Dame des Anges shall obtaine a plenary absolution both of sin and punishment If this same person should go into any other Church with the like or greater contrition he should not have the same Indulgence It is worth our notice that St. Francis obtained this Indulgence of Pope Honorius by presenting him with three red Roses in the Winter But Pope Sixtus the Fifth who was a Cordelier hath abundantly heaped up Indulgences plenary more plenary and most plenary as they Phrase it on the Order of the Minor Fryars and upon the Fraternity of St. Francis's Cord. But of all these Indulgences of three or four hundred thousand years the Jesuits make little reckoning and have never much troubled themselves about procuring any of them from the Pope esteeming their own Order although barren in pardons and Indulgences better then that of the Minor Fryars However in one respect the Cordeliers and Capucins surpass the Jesuits viz. in that St. Francis was Canonized by the Pope immediately after his death without the least difficulty But as for Ignatius Loyola the founder and Patron of the Jesuits who dyed Anno Domini 1556 the Jesuits were above seventy years solliciting in the Court of Rome to obtaine from the Pope that he might be put into the number of the Saints and at last with great difficulty obtained his Canonization seventy years after his death So long did the sanctity of Ignatius hang in suspence which no doubt was the cause of great trouble and perplexity to him However this future Saint during all this waiting received some consolation For some years before his Canonization he was Beatified which is a forerunner of Canonization At last the Pope having received more clear and certain proofs of the holiness of Ignatius put him into the Catalogue of the Saints and ordained that he should be invoked in the Church of Rome which had not been lawful during those seventy years that past betwixt Ignatius his death and Canonization But as in the Chappels and Colledges of the Jesuits you shall see few Images of St. Francis so in the Convents a●● Churches of the Capucins it is a very rar● thing to see the image of St. Ignatiu● For the Capucins believe that St. Franc●● hath more credit in the Court of heaven and that he is exalted above the Cherubins FINIS