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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

for whatsoeuer he should say vnto them they should take any reuenge vpon him but without any reply at all returne backe againe With such commission those Russians being come to S. Antony and intreating him with the greatest courtesy they could to accept of that small charity which Ezelinus sent him and to remember him only in his deuout prayers by so liuely experience they presently knew what he was since with a seuere looke shew of anger he thus answered to the message God forbid I receaue in signe of liberality the very bloud of the poore of Christ for which shall Ezelinus ere he be aware thereof make an exact accompt to the diuine iustice and get you hence also without delay least through your iniquityes eyther the howse ouerwhelme vs with a sudden ruine or the earth come to swallow vs vp with a horrible rupture Whereat those miserable wretches with bowing downe the head went silently and fearefully away to giue account to their wicked maister of the whole successe who being cleared in this manner of the suspitions falsely conceaued by him touching the seruant of God from that tyme forwards held him in the esteeme he ought and gaue order to his souldiers they should let him say of him what he listed himselfe and though the Tyrant through his inueterate custome in sinning was neuer conuerted from his lewd wayes yet certaine it is that the memory of S. Antony serued him often tymes for a bridle and through feare and reuerence of so great a man he forbare afterwardes to commit many outrages which he had otherwise effected without respect These then and the like assaults the couragious Champion of Christ would not fayle to make at any tyme when need required Though indeed no merueyl it be that for the defence of the truth he should not feare the face of any man how angry soeuer who with so much desire heretofore had sought to drinke of the chalice of the passion The excellent guifts and talents of S. Antony especially necessary to so notable a preacher as he was Chap. 7. LEt no man thinke by the former Chapter that S. Antony shewed himselfe to be so rigorous and terrible to all He wanted not iudgment to discerne the difference of his Auditours nor skill and practize to deale with the rich with the poore with the noble and ignoble according to the capacity and nature and state of ech one And how beyt the principall foundation of his preaching was placed as we haue sayd in frequent prayer and continuall abnegation of himselfe neuerthelesse he tooke light and nourishment of sound and sincere knowledge from the auncient Doctours sacred Councells and diuine Scriptures wherein he was so versed and dexterous as it is affirmed for certaine that when by any misfortune they might hap to be lost he alone from the Cabinet of his memory was sufficient to recouer them agayne as heeretofore Esdras had done and to put them faythfully in writing Wherof among other persons of authority Gregory the Ninth his Holynes gaue truely a most cleere and graue testimony for that S. Antony being come to the Court of Rome for this likewise was a notable exployt of his to oppose the designes and endeuoure of Fryar Elias and of others who sought to wrest the Rule and enlarge the Religious discipline he not only laboured efficaciously in this matter but preached also to the Court and people of Rome in diuers places and tymes with so great abundance of true and profund conceipts with such subtilityes and art in discouering the origens and causes of vices and in appling apt remedyes to each one and with such sharpe and sound interpretations of the Psalmes and the Prophets and of all historyes Oracles and diuine precepts as the Pope himselfe being astonished besides infinite other prayses afforded him with a Pontificall spirit daigned to call him The Arke of the Testament There were added to these so rare guifts of a Christian Oratour a dignity of aspect a grace in his gestures á sweetenes and cleernes of voyce and all in so eminent a degree as he seemed to be an organ for honest delectation and for a holesome mouing of soules framed by the hand of God himselfe And that which more increased the wonder was so great a variety quaintnes and propriety in the Italian tongue in a man trayned vp in Prouinces so remote and come into Italy being of yeares so mature and so late brought forth to the light of the world and to the eminency of Pulpits Whence it is not very easy to explicate the concourse of people of all conditions that assembled together at the sound of that celestiall harmony and diuine Trumpet in shutting vp their shopps leauing their traffikes in the market places and the noyses of the Pallace and taking vp places before day at the sacred audience with such hast and strife withall as many tymes the seruant of God was constreyned to abandon the Churches and Cittyes and goe forth into the spacious playnes and there from the higher bancks to breake the bread of the diuine word vnto the hungry multitude And he howbeyt corpulent by nature and much subiect to sweating and diuers infirmityes left not for all that to expose himselfe with great promptnes and without sparing any labour or trouble where the greatest need was hope of a more certaine copious haruest Now who were able to set downe what fruite followed to the glory of our Lord and saluation of men Who could number the rancours and enmityes deposed the restitutions made the Concubines forsaken the processions disciplines fasts the pious works both common and particuler instituted for behoofe of body soule Many contemning the vanity of the world though rich and potent otherwise eyther dedicated themselues to the diuine seruice in Religion or the better to assure their conscience very freely subiected their whole substance and their life it selfe vnto the dispose of the faythfull seruant of Christ the good and faythfull through his discourses would depart from him very full of consolation of new courage and purpose afresh The sinners chasing away darknes and sleep astonished at the diuine prouidence acknowledging their perilous estate and the greiuousnes of their synnes as wounted Harts to the fountayne so ran they to the tribunall of Confessours with teares and sighs How S. Antony mountes into the Chayre of Theology and was the first of his Order that read in those Schooles Chap. 8. VVE may not seeme to passe ouer in silence how 22. Theeues being accustomed to rob and murder trauaylours in a certaine thick and obscure forest and then after vnknowne in the Citty to appeare in the habit of Honourable persons being lastly moued with the fame which ran euery where of the Angelicall preaching of S. Anthony resolued to goe all at once to heare him And found the report of him to be nothing false but rather remayned so mollifyed and softned at his fyery speaches as the

Andrew should please to commaund him Then answered the seruant of Christ I will haue thee the first thing thou dost to relinquish this ill practise and conuersation of Gamesters and after that for eight dayes that thou attend to Fasting and to recommend thy selfe hartily to the most Blessed Virgin The conditions seemed hard to Iohn and yet notwithstanding to make some try all thereof vsing some violence to himselfe he dismissed and abandonned the euill companyes and with abstinence and prayer made the Mother of God so propitious to him as not without the amazement of the whole Citty and his infinite ioy he was cured both of the Vlcer which deuoured his flesh and of the greedy appetites which vnder a false shadow of good consumed his sensuall and vnwary soule Such then were the actes which B. Andrew practised with his neighbour full of simplicity truth by whose meanes we may well beleeue that many others at that tyme were weaned from vices and confirmed in vertue How B. Andrew was made Preist and then Superiour and of the guift of Prophesy which he shewed in a particuler euent Chap. 5. THough the modesty submission of the Blessed Andrew were now already well knowne he had notwithstanding new commodity to manifest with a noble document how much he sought to please God only and how be abhord all worldly glory It was in tymes past and is yet to this day a custome in Florence as in other places of Christendome also to make feasts at the first Masse of a new Preist with musique pompes and banquetes which demonstrations of ioy and gladnes as they are not to be blamed while they are kept with in the bounds of a moderate festiuity so when they exceed the same there is much danger incurred least Christiā ceremonyes degenerate into gentil prophane and that in operations of the spirit and mind the flesh and belly may intrude themselues and finally least in the seruice and worship due to God only the diuell a fearefull thing should haue his part therein Now the Blessed Andrew hauing passed ouer allready the gulf of youth and not being able to resist Superiours that he might not be promoted vnto sacred Orders as soone as he knew the matter to be diu●…lged and how the Corsinoes striued to celebrate the Primitia of his Priesthood with exquisite musique rich hangings and sumptous banquetes recollecting himselfe a litle and considering such pompes were not any thing conformable with his profession and worthily fearing some manner of abuse therein with leaue of the Prelate retired himselfe into a Conuent which is called by the name of the Sylua some seauen miles forth of the Citty and heere as without all noyse so with extraordinary spirituall sweetenes he offered his first sacrifice to the most holy Trinity which how gratefull and acceptable it was the Emperesse of Heauē her selfe did testify who ouer that same vnbloudy hoast appeared to B. Andrew encompassed with a troupe of Angells and with the words of Esay the Prophet very plainely sayd to him Seruus meus es tu in te gloriabor Which sayd by little and little mounting aloft she vanished quite With which fauours the prudent man not puffed vp awhit but rather attending to abase himselfe and to acknowledge all good to proceed from the meere benignity of the highest became euery day more worthy and more capable of new graces So as a little after the aforesayd vision being sent to Paris to giue himselfe more exactly to his studyes and thence afterwardes in his returne into Italy passing by Auignon where the Cardinall Corsino his neere kinsman was while there he entertayned himselfe for some space he gaue sight to a blind man who in the Church porch according to custome was publikely begging an Almes From thence being come into Florence he deliuered one Fryar Ventura a Carmelite from a dropsy And to the end that B. Andrew might not seeme to want the guift of prophesy also euen much about that tyme being intreated by a freind to baptize an infant which had beene newly borne into the world he did it louingly and in taking him out of the sacred Font had a reuelation from heauen of the vnhappy successe which that poore creature was to haue Whereupon being moued to compassion and being not able to hold from weeping he was demauded by the Gossipe what made him to weep so Then B. Andrew though vnwillingly made answere Know then how this Child is come into the world to the totall destruction of himselfe and his howse Of which prediction as then the secular made but litle recknoning but saw it at last to be too true Because the Child in progresse of yeares being giuen to an ill life and euen loaden with ●…mes and wickednes at last with some men of ill demeanour conspired against his countrey and the conspiracy discouered the miserable wretch by the hāds of a hangman finished his dayes with a due punishment and the vtter ruyne of his Family The excellent tallent and manner which B. Andrew had in gouernement Chap. 6. THough B. Andrew endeauoured what he could to keep himselfe from the eyes of mortall men obscure and vnknowne notwithstanding being now come into a singular opinion fame of sanctity he was chosen by the Pouinciall Chapter of the Carmelit Fathers to be Superiour of the Conuent of Florence to which charge he maynly opposed himselfe but yet the common consent of the Electours preuailed and the authority of him who of obedience might impose it vpon him In which office he let the world to vnderstand cleerely that it is not as others thinke that much spirit and good gouernement be incompatible in the same person B. Andrew through the habit of prayer and of other vertues now already confirmed in him conseruing that which he had so purchased for himselfe continually without loosing yet awhit of his authority the least of all and not affecting preeminencyes nor titles but endeuouring with all possible diligence that such as were vnder his care should wholy free from all temporall sollicitude attend to God only wherein without doubt consists the true and essenciall fruite of the religious and monastical life since otherwise for a man to be shut vp in Cloysters and to thinke continually of meat drinke and cloth and other such like necessityes is not formally to abandon the world but materially to change the dwelling only nor is it to leaue the old habits but only to alter the obiects and it is euen the same to be drowned in the Hauen as in the wide Ocean as much to be loaden and oppressed with iron as with lead Whereas on the contrary the mind being discharged of terren thoughts like a dry feather flyes lighlty aloft and then spirituall exercise●… do neuer tire when the frayle nature neuer wants its due and conuenient sustenance Which charge for that it singularly belonges to him that gouernes others in the diuine seruice hence it is that