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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

renued daily His body pined away buthis minde and soule grew from strength to strength and as a by-stander feeles not the paines of him that is tormented or racked before his eyes so his soule and mind stood as it were a farre off beholding the paines and vexations of the body and being vntoucht it selfe did as it were laugh at Satan sinne death and damnation who by all their ioynt power could doe no more but onely to vex and racke this poore carcase with bodily disease but were not able to touch the soule to vexe the minde or wound the conscience If any man aske the reason why his mind and conseience were so quiet in this so great torment of the body the reason was for that his mind was imployed in holy meditations as of the singular loue of God his father vnto him in Christ Iesus whereby he assured himselfe vndoubtedly of saluation of the manifold holy graces wherewith God had adorned him by the force whereof he said he had borne off so many buffets of Satan had passed so many pikes of troubles and come away conquerer in so many fearefull fights as had opposed themselues against him in his conuersion These gifts and graces of God he weighed with the crosses of his sicknes and found them far heauier and he compared these momentany and light afflictions with that exceeding and eternall weight of glory which he said he knew was laid vp for him in heauen These and such like meditations cheered vp his spirit more then the force of his sickenes could appall him But aboue al things he felt vnspeakable comfort and sweetnes in his prayers to the Lord which he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 feruently and with a zealous and faithfull heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 often say that in the midst of his prayers his soule seemed to him to be euen rauished out of himself and to taste of the blessed ioyes of heauen So that the saying of the blessed Apostle was verified in him As the suffrings of Christ abounded in us so consolation by Christ abounded much more In his sickenes he wanted no helpe of the Physitions for they came to him out of all parts of the citie and willingly did they all do their diligence about his body whose soule they knew had Christ Iesus to be the Physition for it His friends also continually visited him who were of the chiefe men in the citie and they were all welcome to him rich and poore and it is hard to say whether he receiued more comfort by them or they more spirituall edification by him his speeches and behauiours were so full of patience and so well seasoned with all grace All his friends performed to him what duety soeuer was in their power but especially his worthy wife did then shew her selfe most louing and loyall for she was neuer from about him and saw that he wanted nothing which the world could yeelde for the recouery of his health But all was in vaine for the time of his dissolution was at hand and he had runne the royall race of a most holy Christian life and now nothing remained but a blessed death He might say as the Apostle did with much ioy of heart I haue run my race I haue finished my course I haue kept the faith from henceforth is laid vp for me a crown of righteousnes which Christ the righteous Iudge will giue to me and to all such as wait for his appearing After few daies the violence of his sickenes was such as it ouercame all power of physicke so that it was manifest that that blessed houre approched wherin the Lord had appointed to accomplish his owne good worke in him therefore he sequestred himself altogether from any more care of his body and from al worldly cogitations he renounced the world and all in it he tooke his farewell of his wife and all his Christian friends and said hee should lead them the way to heauen Hee fixed all his thoughts vpon his soule and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ixed on the Lord in heauen and cried to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hat as he had sought him al his life so he would ●● him and acknowledge him for his owne And thus as all his friends sat about him and as the Preachers and Ministers were occupied in holy praiers and reading of the Scriptures and applying to him the heauenly consolations of God word in the performance of these exercises he ended his dales wherein hee had taken delight all his life long and as hee reioyced to haue them in this life so it pleased the Lord that he should haue them at his death And so in the midst of all his friends in the presence of the Ministers euen in the fight of them all he peaceablie and quietly yeelded vp his spirit and rendred his soule into the hands of his mercifull God and faithfull Creator of whom he had receiued it who immediatly by the ministery of his holy Angels receiuing it at his hands and washing it pure in the blood of Iesus Christ crowned it with the crown of eternal heauenly happines And thus this holy man was translated from a noble man on earth to be a noble Saint in heauen and of a Marquesse on earth in bare name and title he was aduanced to be a glorious triumphing King in heauen where he now raignes in glory with that God whom he so faithfully serued on earth That God and mereifull father grant that all we that reade this admirable story may be allured to take vpon vs the same most holy profession that this thrice noble Marquesse did and may renounce and cast off what euer in this world we see doth hinder vs from the holy fellowshippe of Christ Iesus and strengthen vs that we may be faithful to the end that so we may obtaine the crowne of life in that glory where this noble Galeacius and all the heauenly host of Gods Saints do wait for vs. Amen This was his life this was his end let thy life be like his and thy heart walke in the same way then shall thy soule die his death and thy latter end shall be like his O Lord how glorious art thou in thy Saints FINIS Genes 47. Heb. 11. a The very yeare when Luther began to preach the Gospell * That is Pope Paul the fourth See how the first step of a mans conuersion from popery is true and sound mortification of carnall lusts and a change of life See also how the first meanes to bring a man out of error to the truth is study of holy Scriptures 1. Cor. 1. 26 27. Iohn Psal Psal Psalme Psalme 1. Chron. 28. Ieremy Phillip Hieronymus Fracastorius Sinus Adriaticus His seruants but two His attire plaine but comely His humilitie and lowly minde Euidences of nobility shining in his actions and behauiours How greatly he was esteemed in Geneua They stil called him by the title of Marquesse He was alwaies visited by strangers and trauellers especially Princes and noble men His company and conuersation His courtesie and affabilitie His rare perfections His eloquence and ability of speech His mildnesse to his inferiors His charity to the poore His good workes and charitable deedes His ordinary exercises of Religion publike and priuate His particular and personall calling His courage and iustice His loue of peace and continuall ending of contentions and setting men at vnity that were at variance

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