Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	hand_n	soul_n	5,920	5	4.8872	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50779	The life of the most learned Father Paul, of the Order of the Servie ... translated out of Italian by a person of quality.; Vita del padre Paolo. English	Micanzio, Fulgenzio.; Saint-Amard, John.	1651 (1651)	Wing M1959; ESTC R15887	131,569	304

be God whatsoever pleaseth him pleaseth me with his help we shall well performe this last action And thereupon the Physician willing to put him in minde of some cordialls The Father interrupting sayd Let us now sorgoe these sooleries and I defire you would resolve me of two doubts The first that I am assured and have a full perswafion that whatsoever you present to mee is very good with such assurance I take it into my hand and when it comes neare my mouth as if my braines were changed in an iustant it renders it self to me horrid and abhominable The second and having spoken that word his breath failed him and he could not expresse the rest so the Physician finding by his veine that his vitall spirit beganne to wander away appointed that at eight a clock they should give him a Cordiall and in the meane time some rare Moscate which he would send him from home at the receiving whereof there being then past six houres of night he said Questa vesta mi pare cosa violenta this seems to mee to bee a most violent thing I will tell you onely one slight particular but to shew what the constancy of his minde was and his absolute understanding and quickness of sences to the very last The Father had in his chamber dispos'd things in such order that he could presently lay his hand upon any thing that he sought for as bookes writings instruments and such like even to the very least and smallest things About six at night the last of his life hee would cleanse his tongue with an instrument that he had used to that purpose a great while appointing Fra. Marco to go fetch it him out of such a place He went to seeke it with a candle in his hand and return'd telling him it was not there and hee could not finde it The Father bad him goe seek better for it was a very small thing He return'd and found it wherewith he clensed his tongue continuing with those that were present with an inestimable tranquility and without so much as a groane or shew of griefe with memorable words from time to time repeating some devout passages of Scripture and very often he would say Hor sum audiamo one Dio chiama Away let us be gone whether God calls us And the standers by seeing his voice beganne to faile and his pulses beate to an end entreated him to take a little rest at which he laught out and so hee past the time in whispering to himselfe that he could not be well understood except it were sometimes a word of Scripture and once he said Audiaemoa S. Marco che tardi Let us go to Saint Mark it begins to belate which is all that during his ficknesse was spoken without connexion and right sence In the meane time it strooke eight a clock He counted it and calling Fra Cossimo his other servant to him said now t is eight a clocke dispatch if you will give me that which the Physician ordained But he not able to receive but a small part of it Afterwards finding himselfe readie to die he cald Fulgentio to him and commanded him to leave him with these memorable words which were like to be alwaies engraven in his heart Hor sum non restate c. Now stay no longer to behold me in this state it will not he needfull go to your rest and I will goe to god from whence wee came And so he was willing to be embrac'd and kist by him And though Fulgentio knew well what it was to consirme his minde by the example of such a constancy yet he parted from him not to leave him but to execute his command and to obey him in another point which was to goe to the fathers to shew him so much charitie as to come and assist him in his passage with their prayers So he cal'd the Prior and the other Friers to come about his bed and make their usuall prayers and recommendations of that soule into the hands of God who although he could speake no longer yet with his eyes and signes gave assurance that he was in a fullnesse of understanding to the very last gaspe His very last words which were hardly unstood by Fra. Marco that stood over him yet often repeated where these two Esto perpetua I doubt not when in that trance he recommended his soule to God with such servent votes and praiers from his heart but he remembred to recommend also and to pray for the perpetuity of the most serene Republique to which he had done his service with so much faith and charitie And with those words he lost his speech and shortly after drew to an end which was accompanied with two notable circumstances One was that being unable to move his hands yet of himselfe by a force rather of spirit which was all in God then of his bodie he formed them into a crosse The other that fixing his eyes upon the crucifixe which was before him with a naturall deaths head of a Calvary he held it so a while and then casting them downeward and shutting them he breathed out his soule into the hands of God Thus was the end of this great personage and it pleased divine dispofition that it should be so testified to the excellent Senate by a publique writing and under oath and subscription of all the colledge of the reverend fathers of the Servi that were present against the fabulous falshoods and impudent lies that were after divulged that he died howling and crying out with apparitions of black doggs and other things of that kinde as also that in his Cell and chambers there were heard hideous noises Things onely visible and audible in the far distant houses of the Ecclesiastiques and heard to Rome but never of those that lived in the next chambers nor of any that were present Such inventions as these were also machinated against the memory of Duke Leonardo Donato a glorious Hero and before this they were growne to such an impudency to publish prodigious things in print which were said to happen in that yeare of the interdict against the defenders of the cause of Venice this may serve for an argument how far the narrations of such accidents may be believed which are written of persons so long after and so far distant that lived in abhomination with the Court of Rome I confesse that these examples so fresh make me doubt extreamly of the alterations and falsifications of so many narratives made in time past first kept secret and after divulged when the onely fautors of the factions of the Ecclesiastickes had the command of the presse and who without difference have either commended or dispraised so many great men not for matter of truth but onely because they were either favourable or contrary to their mundane interests But the father died as you have heard with a fame to the world of an incomparable man and with them that knew him and had to doe

fruit of his great studies which were not addrest to ostentation but to true wisdome to the cultivating of his minde which is the greatest felicity of this life and to humility Prudence for the most part makes men somewhat rigide and difficall to be treated with and truly in former times the father hath beene taxed of such defects and he himselfe in his anatomy of his affections and defections where it appeares that he had listed them all for a combate and for a victory to be had over them which he had designed and there he acknowledge him selfe to be severe inofficious and hard to please But he had now so vanquisht those dispositions that his affabilitie and mildnesse was growne to be singular his modestie so marvelous that when he saw another in an errour or that he understood not the businesse he would never use a sharpe reprehension but bring them to a review and confute them with so civill language that he left them not without some conceipt of his owne propension to their opinions only excusing himselfe that what he could not condescend unto was by reason of his owne incapacity which neither gave him leave to see the reasons that had induced them nor how to resolve well upon his owne And for that officiousnesse wherein it seemes when he was in a lower fortune he had been wanting He was growne so prompt and obsequious that if he could doe a service or a courtesie to him that required it of him hee would bee so discontent that he could not conceale his displeasure In one thing he was insuperable to himself in activity and resolution because as in things of speculation he was sodaine and ready So in consultations that were to be put in action hee was growne slow and irresolute He would turne over and revolve and never seem satisfied and this fluctuation still increast upon him whereupon I am sometimes of opinion that a prudence in mediocrity makes men active and resolute but too great an one with an extraordinary knowledge of Histories and observation of examples and events makes men timerous and resty Or whether this this be a weaknesse proper and insuperable by old age or whether in the greatnesse of his soule from that time forward he beheld all those things so far below himselfe as to make that a Remora to his activity I am only sure that he was now reduced to so great an indifferencie concerning humane events as no man could aspire to a greater Now I am in a kinde of necessity of defrauding the Father of that which should be the top and supreame degree of his heroique and most perfect vertues and which would make him to appear to be of an intrepide heart and of a constancie which in a good cause were invariable by telling the true occasion for which some Senators not onely the principall but the very prime ones and of the greatest Families conceiv'd some ill affections towards him which while they were alive and some of them after the Fathers death could not dissemble Now with reverence to their illustrious Posterities let them ever preserve this picture of the Father truly without either too much light or in the purest colours and let it be drawne over with this veile That Fra Paulo such as he was never had any enemies neither as he was a publique servant nor a Consultor of State nor ever incurr'd the ill affection of any except it were for a publique cause This famous man pleased himself with a writing of his where he acknowledged hee had contracted the hatred of some great ones and great in government but yet such as did for the most part postpose the publique honour to their own interest and private commodities Hee might have comforted himselfe yet further in this that neither for promises nor threatnings they were able to make him decline the least point from that which was either of justice or publique service And it was not because he was ignorant how much it might have turned to his advantage to have done otherwise or that hee had it not alwayes in his mouth Conviene fedelmen●e servire And therefore he would doe nothing but what belong'd to his charge nor more willingly then what hee was commanded by the most excellent Senate But in a charge so universall it is impossible that something of the publique service should not traverse the interests and affections of private men which are a part of the body of government and in particular concerning Ecclesiastick Benefices and causes of that kinde wherein they are blinded by their passions for which respect the Father would alwayes say the Common-weal chad need to have both a Divine and a Canonist among them to which purpose before his death hee had publish't a little tract but to his friends he would say more freely that no man could bee able for such a service that had not troden under his foot both hopes and feares The reason of which speech shall be best understood by him that best understands Government and knowes how impossible it is to find a body so united to the publique good in which there shall not be some that will hate and threaten and persecute when they apprehend that any one shall oppose the designes of their private profit how necessary and cleare and just soever the opposition bee and this for the most part abounds in Aristocracies The fervour and totall dedication of himselfe next after God to the publique service may take argument from hence that hee was alwayes resolv'd that by his meanes nor for his sake no controversies should arise But under Paul 5. there was no occasion because all discord was put to silence as it was considered before But Gregory the 15th being created his Successor the Father had heard of some discourse that was used by him to the Venetian Ambassadours that were sent to congratulate his Election that there would never be a perfect peace betwixt the Republick and the Sea Apostolick but such a one as the Father Paul should approve of Whereupon the Father in that now declining age of his was strongly resolv'd rather then there should be any difference not onely to withdraw himselfe from the service of that Senate but declining the Popes anger if he should have persevered as not long after it removed out of his fancie and there were no more words of it it being the nature of that Pope not to insist long upon any thing and perhaps in this hee was not moved of himselfe but by some others or else that he had received some more briefe and significant satisfaction then hee expected to retire himselfe out of the State of Venice And because to have so disposed of himself as many great spirits would have done neither his conscience nor religion could well beare and to passe himselfe into a Protestant country had been to expose himselfe to calumnies or if into those States where the Court and the Ecclesiasticks have an absolute power