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death_n	body_n	live_v	spirit_n	4,077	5	5.2407	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04387	The fyrst chapitre is the lyf of saint ierom as it is take of legenda aurea The seconde is of his lyf also as saint austyn wryteth in hys pystill The thyrd is how saint Jerome apperid to sai[nt] Austin in grete ioye ...; Vita	Winter, Simon, d. 1448.	1499 (1499)	STC 14508; ESTC S100688	31,925	60

man a lyue knew the paynes by experyence he sholde rather chese to be tormented vn to the ende of the worlde without remedye with alle the paynes to geder that alle men suffred from Adam tylle now than be tourmented a day in helle or in purgatoyre wyth the leste payne that is there And thetfore yf thow aske me the cause of my grete wepyng it is for drede of paynes that are ryghtfully yeue vn to synners for I know wel that I haue synned ayenste god And I dowte not but that he is ryghtwis And therfore merueylle not thoughe I sorowe But rather thow oweste to be gretly merueylled why men that wote wel they shalle dye Atte the leeste by experyence of other lyue heer in grete sikyrnesse and thynke not how escape so grete paynes At these wordes I was so touched wyth inwarde sorowe so that vnnethe I myght speke and I sayde Allas what is thys that I heere But I pray the telle me what difference is there be twyxe the paynes of helle and of purgatore he saide there is no difference in gretnesse of paynes but in o wise ther may be difference for the paines of helle abydeth no ende but monyng at the day of dome whan the bodyes shal be tormented with the sowles and the paine of purgatoire hathe an ende for after they haue doo her penaunce there they shal be take vn to endlenes Ioye I asked be they that are in purgatoure tourmented alle I lich or ellis diuersly he sayd dyuersly somme more greuously and sōme more eisely After the quantite of the synnes for in heuen alle blessid sawles be holde the face of god wherein is all blysse and thoughe eche of theym haue asmoche Ioye as they can wylle or thynke yette they be not alle eueyn in Ioye for some hath more and some hath lasse after there dedes that they haue dso And yf thow merueyle that there may be dyuerse Ioyes in saynctes while the only cause of they re ioyes is god hym self in whom may be no dyuersite The aunswere is thys that the knowyng of holding and vnderstandyng of god is alle the rewarde ioie of saītes therfore though al soules in blyse know god as he is yet sō se vndèstād lases thā other so haue lase ioie sōme so vndiystād hym clerly than other and so haue more Ioie So it may be sa●de of the paynes of dapned soules For though all dapned saules be in one place of paynes ytt they are tourmented wyth dyuerse paynes after the qualyte of the synnes for ther is so myche dyfference be twyx the paynes of crsten men and hetheen menne that the paynes of hethen menne in regarde of the that false crysten men suffer be as it were no payne And ther be vnspekable may not be thought of ony that lyueth in erthe and so it is worthy For crysten men receyue the grace of god in vayn and wolde not be amended of theyr synnes while they lyuid holy scripture cryeng vpon theym c̄tynuall and they set not there bye I saide it is ryght horyble that thou seyst And wolde god hit were bysylly festned in the myndes of alle that be alyue that they myght sece from synne for drede of payne yf they wold not for loue of Ioye ¶ Of the deyng of these thre men ▪ a reryd and how Sainct Ierome conforted theym in ther passyng NOw I praye the telle me how it was wyth the the laste day whan thy saule passid from thy body he seid whan the oure of my deth came there came so grete multytude of euylle spyrites eēdes in the place ther I lay y t for multytude they myght not be nōbred the lykenes of them was suche y t ther may not thyng bi thouȝt more paynefull nor me re horyble for eny man of lyue wolde Rather put hym self to brenne in hottest flames of fire than ye wolde see the formes of theym in twynkelyng of on eye Thes fendes came vn to me and brought vn to my mynde all the synnes that euer I dide sturyng me to truste no lenger in the mercy of god for I myght not escape nor wythstande theym to assente vn to theym Glorious Ierome came with a grete company of Aungelles aboute hym seuyn tymes brighter than the sōne and confortid me And whā he saw the wicked spirites how harde thei troubeled me he was gretly sturid ayenste theym and saide with a feerfule voice ye spyrites of wickednesse and of alle cursidnesse whi come ye heder wot ye not well that he thus shuld be socored by my helpes leueth hym anone and with draw this wickednesse frome hym as ferre as the Este is from the weste and anone with thes wordes alle that companye of cursid spirites was aferde And with grete crienges and waylynges they wēt out of the place there I lay ¶ And tht glorious Ierome bade some of the angelles that they shulde not go from me but abyde tylle he come ayen And with the other angelles in haste he wēt his wayes whā he was gone the Angelles that he lefte to kepe me Bigyne to conforte me behotyng me faire yf I wolde suffre and abide with stronge herte and these wordes of conforte an oure paste And than came sainct Ierome ayen And stādyng in the doore he sayde com in haste Then sodenly my soulle lefte the body so greuously And birterlly that no mannes mynde myght vndirstande what anguysshe and disseeses these were But yf he lernyd theym by experience as I haue For yf the vndyrstandyng of alle men shulde resceyue alle anguysshes and sorowes that they cowde they shnlde cōpte theym at nought in regarde of the departyng of the saule from the bodi But while he tolde me this and many mo thynges fulle harde and dredefulle to alle men whyche I wryte not her for lengthe the day biganne to ende and therfore he must nedis leue to telle the thynges that by fylle hym after his dethe whiche I desyred moste to here ¶ How the saules of the iii men stode to fore the dome of god and how sainct Ierome hade theym to se the ioies of heuen the payne of purgatorie of helle and sith bade theym go ayen to ther bodies ●He next day after I clepid the other tweyne with hrm to wete how they acordid that by wytnesse of theym alle thre I myght be taught the more surely And whan they beganne to telle me y t that the other had cold me to fore I seide though thes thinges be profitable yet it is not veine to speke theym often yet leuyng thys that I haue herde I praye yow telle it forthe what by fyl you after ye were departed from the body than seid he that spacke on the day to fore what askest thow cyrille it is not possible to telle it fully for spirituell thynges may not be cōprehendid in oure wytte thow knowest that thow hast asoule and yette what

dyspised and trode downe of alle folke But thys sclaundre of hym grewe soo ferre that it went in to alyzaūdre and Cypre and othere landes and Cytees somoche that there durst no man comme within his dore Merueylous god syttyng a boue and seeyng all folke He suffred his seruauntes to fall in trybulacyons and desseses for theire better But he fayleth not them whan nede is After a yere was passed that the fend hadde vsed suche malyce a yenst the seruaunt of God the holy Bysshop the same Bysshop left alle other thinges and went pryuely in to the Chyrche where the body of saynct ierome was buryed as to an hauen of refuge And ther at his tombe he sette hym to praye and after he had beden ther two houres in his pariers ther cōme a man in to the cherche full of the speryte of malyce And fyndyng the Holy man ther prayng he ranne vnto hym as a dragon and repreued hym sayng that he laboured contynualy to stirre womennes hertes to vnlefull lustes But the Innocent lambe Siluayn Ioynge of his of his owne despite answerd not Than he with his ryght hand drow out his sword that he bare by hys syde and lyfte vp it to haue put it into Syluans throte And whan thys wurshipfull Bysshop Syluan put ayenst hym this word help Glorious Ierome this man tourned hys owne throte and soo slewe hym self After it hapened that a nother wicked man came in to the cherche and wenynge the holy Byshop Syluayn hadde slayne hym He toke his swerde to haue slayne the said Siluan and shortly to telle he kylled hym self as the other had doo to fore And vnneth was he falle to the ground or that other two camme in to the cherche and seyng thes men deed they wened the holy man hadde doo it and therfore oon of theym that more cruell began to crye and called hym theef and sayd how longe shall thy malyce eudure thow styrrest women vnto thy fowle willes and therto thow sleest men thus preuely Certayn this daye shal be an ende of thy weekednesse And a none he ranne with hys naked swerd to haue slayn hym And whan Syluan sayd thys worde Helpe gloryous Ierome this man slow hym self as the other hadde doo to fore with hys owne hand The tother man that cam wyth hym seeyng this was aferd and ranne oute of the doore and cried out and said cōme heder alle folke and seeth this wicked Syluan that not oonly defoulleth women but also Sleeth men wyth his wytchetraft Thanne alle the people of men and women came rennynge cryenge that Syluayn the Arshebysshop was worthy to by brent And whan thys came to myn ere 's I went wepynge thyder fulle heuely and ther I sawe how a monge cruell wulues stood that meke lambe Ioyefulle and mery as he hadde be in grete prosperyte No thynge he sayd but I suffre thys ryghtfully for I haue synned a gaynst my god alle they bete hym and pulled hym and led hym vnto tourment And he was so moche the more glad and the tourment was more greuous but a none he was lad out of the cherche dore sodenly gloryous Ierome was sey Rysyng vp oute of the place where he laye Soo bryght that mannes eyen myghte not well endure to loke vpon hym And thus he appered that alle myghte see hym and with hys ryghte hand toke Syluayn by the ryght hand And with aferefulle voyce he badde theym that helde hym leueth of whiche voyce and vysyon was of soo grete power that alle that were ther were aferde and alle the strenght of they re bodyes fayllyng fylle downe to the erthe as dedde men In the mene tyme a woman bounde handes and fete and fulle of the fend was broughte vnto the cherche for helpe by thandes of many men And anone as the womans fote touched the cherche doore the fende be ganne to crye ferefully by her mouth and sayd Mercy Mercy ¶ Gloryous Ierome sayd vnto hym Thow wicked sperite goo oute of this seruaunt of god and telle the wickednesse that thow hast doo agaynst syluayn shewyng thy self in lykenesse of Syluayn to alle folke whan Gloryous Saynct Ierome hadde beden the fend appeere In the lykenesse of Syluayn Soo that alle men myghte knowe It it had be Siluan the Archebyshop And ther he told all that he had doo to slcaunder the seruaunt of god And loo with grete crying the fend vanyshed a waie And thanne gloryous Ierome not leuyng the ryghte hand of the bishop sayd vnto hym with a softe voice what desirest thow of me my moost dere Syluan that I shall doo more for the He answerd my lord my lord he saide That thow leue me no more lenger her Than sayd gloryous Ierome that thow askest shal be doo And therfore cōme thow after me anone And this sayd anone he appered noo lenger But after the space of a shorte houre Syluan passed to cryst ▪ And thenne alle the people was astonyed and merueyled After this the body of this wurshipfull Syluan was bore in to the cherche of Nazareth with dew wourship with the multytude of people bothe of Nazareth and bedlem And ther in the cherche of Nazareth we buryed the body of silan as was semyng But many wordes myght not expresse the wondres of this wourshipfull Bysshop for I haue more to saye of saynct Ierome I leue of ¶ How hethen mē y t can to vysyte Saynct Ierome were Merueylously delyuered from theues and from deth THer were two hethen men riche good on ther manere herīg of the miracles of ierome cōme from alizāder with moch deuociō to visite the reliq̄s of gloryous Ierome and goynge in theire waye if hapened them to erre in they re waye in to agret wod where they saw no steppes of men nor of horsses therfore they cleped vn to the name of gloryous ierome cōmytted them to his kepyng in the same wood dwelled a prynce of theues hauyng vnder hym more than v honderd sendyng somme oo waye somme an other waie to sle men and to bryng there bodyes to hym of goodis bothe This prynce seyng thes two men he cleped iii theues and bad them goo sle them And whan they had taken they re armoure were nye them where they sawe tofore but two they see an Innumerable multytude and oon goyng to fore them so bright that non myght loke vpon him Than the theues were aferd and wist not what to do but tourned ayē and whan they were ferre from theym they loked a gayn and sawe but two and thā poursewed them ayen but assone as they cōme nere thei saw as they dyd to fore then were they more astoned in all hast wēt to theire prīce told hym he called them foles cleped othere xii theues goynge hym self with theym and they alle were aferd they saw but two whā they came nere they saw as many as they dide to fore thā they were aferde