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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

the Paradises of Naples Naples the Paradise of Italy Italy of Europe Europe o the earth yet all these Paradises were nothing to him in comparison of attaining the celestiall Paradise there to liue with Iesus Christ If any Papists musing as they vse and measuring vs by themselues do suspect the story to be some fained thing deuised to allure and intise the peoples minds and to set a flourish vpon our Religion as they by a thousand false and fained stories and mirables vse to doe I answere first in the generall farre be it from vs and our Religion to vse such meanes either for our selues or against our aduersaries No we are content the Church of Rome haue the glory of that garland Popery being a sandie and a shaken a rotten and a tottering building needs such proppes to vnderset it but truth dare shew her selfe and feares no colours But for the particular I answere cunning liers as many Monkes were framed their tales of men that liued long agoe and places a farre off and vnknowen that so their reports may not too easily be brought to triall But in this case it is far otherwise the circumstances are notorious the persons and places famously knowen Vicum Naples Italy Geneua are places wel knowen Calantonius his father Charles the fist his Lord and Master Pope Paul the fourth his vncle were persons well knowen examine either places or persons and spare none truth seekes no corners disproue the story who can we craue no sparing neither is the time too farre past but may soone be examined He was borne within these hundred years and died at Geneua within these twenty yeares and his sonnes sonne at this day is Marquesse of Vicum Let any Papist doe what he can he shall haue more comfort in following the example then credit in seeking to disproue the storie In the course of my poore reading right Honourable I haue often found mention of this noble Marquesse and of his strange conuersion but the storie it selfe I first found it in the exquisit Library of the good gentleman Master Gee one that honours learning in others and cherisheth it in himselfe and hauing not once red it but often perused it I thought it great losse to our Church to want so rare a iewel and therfore could not but take the benefit of some stolne houres to put the same into our tongue for the benefit of my brethren in this Realme who want knowledge in Italian and Latine tongues And now being translated I humbly offer and consecrate it to my holy mother the Church of Fngland who may reioyce to see her Religion spredding it selfe priuily in the heart of Italy and to see the Popes nephew become her sonne And next of all vnto you right Honourable to whom I am bound in so many bonds of duety and to whom this story doth so fitly appertaine You my honourable good Lord may here see a noble gentleman of your own rank in descent birth education aduancements like your selfe to be like you also in the loue and liking of the same holy Religion And you good Madam may here conceiue iudge by your selfe how much more happy this noble Marquesse had bin if his Lady Madam Victoria had bin like your selfe I meane if she had followed and accompanied her Lord in that his most holy and happy conuersion And you all right Honourable in this noble Marquesse as in a crystal glasse may behold your selues of whom I hope you wil giue me leaue to speake that which to the great glory of God you spare not to speake of your selues that you were once darknes but now are light in the Lord Blessed be that God the father of light whose glorious light hath shined into your hearts Behold right honorable you are not alone behold an Italian behold a noble Marquesse hath broken the ice and troden the path before you In him you may see that Gods Religion is as well in Italy as in England I meane that though the face of Italy be the seat of Autichrist yet in the heart thereof there is a remnant of the Lord of hosts You may see this noble Marquesse in this story now after his death whom in his life time so many noble Princes desired to see His body hath lien in the bowels of the earth these seuenteene yeares but his soule liues in heauen in the bosome of Iesus Christ and his Religion in your hearts and his name shall liue for euer in this story Accept it therfore right honourable and if for my sake you will vouchsafe to read it once ouer I dare say that afterwards for your owne sake you will read it ouer and ouer againe which if you do you shall find it wil stir vp your pure minds inflame your hearts with a yet more earnest zeale to the truth and wil be an effectuall meanes to increase your faith your feare of God your humility patience cōstancy and al other holy vertues of regeneration And for my part I freely truely professe I haue bin often rauisht with admiration of this noble example to see an Italian so excellent a Christian one so neere the Pope so neere to Iesus Christ and such blessed fruit to blossome in the Popes own garden and to see a noble man of Italy forsake that for Christ for which I feare many amongst vs would forsake Christ himselfe And surely I confesse truth the serious consideration of this so late so true so strange an example hath bin a spur to my slownes whetted my dul spirits and made me to esteeme more highly of Religion then I did before I know it is an accusation of my selfe a disclosing of my own shame to confesse thus much but it is a glory to God an honour to Religion a credit to the truth and a praise to this noble Marquesse and therefore I will not hide it And why should I shame to confesse it when that famous renowned man of God holy Caluine freely confesseth as in the sequell of this story you shall heare that this noble mans example did greatly confirme him in his Religion and did reuiue and strengthen his faith and cheere vp all the holy graces of God in him And surely most worthy Lord and honorable Ladies this cannot but confirme and comfort you in your holy courses and as it were put a new life vnto the graces of God in you when you see what not the common people but euen such as were like your selues haue suffred for Religion and when you see that not only the poore and baser sort of men but euen the mighty and honourable as your selues are doe thinke themselues honored by embracing Religion Pardon my plainenes and too much boldnes with your honors vouchsafe to accept it as proceeding from one who much tendreth your saluations and reioyceth with many thousands more to behold the mighty gracious work of God in you Goe forward right noble Lord in the name of

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