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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

thou art Lord of all in thy hand is power and strength honour and dignitis and kingdomes are in thy disposition therefore wee giue thee thankes O God and we extoll thy great and glorious name But who am I and what is my people that we should promise such things to thee For we are strangers before thee and soiourners as all our fathers were our daies are like a shadow vpon the earth and here is no abiding See how Dauid cannot content himselfe in abasing himselfe and extolling the Lord and in how many words his affections vtter themselues This was Dauids meditation and let this be your looking-glasse and into the looking-glasse of this meditation looke once a day and pray daily that God would still open your eyes to behold your owne vilenesse and his incomprehensible power and loue to yee that with King Dauid you may humble your selfe vnder the mighty hand of his Maiesty and acknowledge all power and glory to belong to God alone that so you may be made partaker of those heauenly graces which God bestoweth not on the proud and lofty but on the humble and meeke Remember that ordinance of the eternall God that saith Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome nor the strong man in his strength nor the rich man in his riches but let him that glorieth glorie in this in that he vnderstandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which doe mercy and iustice on earth for these things please me saith the Lord. Therefore my good Lord if you list to boast boast not as the world doth that you are rich or that you are of noble birth or that you are in fauour with the Emperour and other Princes or that you are heire apparant of a rich Marquesdome or that you haue married so noble a waman leaue this kind of boasting to them who haue their minds glued to the world and therefore haue no better things to boast on whose portion being here in this life they can looke for nothing in heauen But rather reioyce you in that you are entred into the kingdome of grace glory in this that the King of kings hath had mercy on you and hath drawen you out of the misty darkenesse of errors hath giuen you to feele his endlesse loue and mercy in Christ hath made you of the childe of wrath his owne sonne of a seruant to finne and the diuell an heire of heauen and of a bondslaue to hell a free denision of the heauenly Ierusalem and glory in this that euen Christ Iesus himselfe is giuen you and made your owne and with him all things else So that as Paul saith All are yours whether the world or life or death things present or things to come all are yours in and by Christ who is the onely felicity of our soules and therefore whosoeuer haue him haue with him all thing else This is the true glory and the sound boasting of Christianity for hereby is Gods mercy extolled and mans pride troden vnder foote by which a man trusting too much to himselfe rebelleth against God This glorious boasting makes vs humble euen in our highest honours modest and meeke in prosperity patient and quiet in aduersity in troubles strong and couragious gentle towards all men ioyfull in hope feruent in praier full of the loue of God but empty of all loue of our selues or ought in the world yea it makes vs Christs true beadsmen and his sworn seruants and maks vs yeelde vp our selues wholly to imitate and follow Christ and to esteeme all things else as fraile and vaine yea dung and drosse that we may winne him Right honourable and my good Lord you see that I am so willingly employed in this seruice of writing to your honour and in conferring with you of heauenly matters that I haue forgot my selfe or rather your honour in being so tedious which in the beginning I purposed not I am priuie to my selfe and of my owneignorance and guilty of mine owne insufficiency as being fitter to be a scholar then a teacher and to heare and learne my selfe rather then to teach others and therefore I craue pardon of your honour Farewell The most reuerend Embassadour desireth in his heart he had occasion to testifie indeede that true good will which in his soule he beares you In the meane time he salutes you so doth the illustrious Princesse of Piscarta her highnesse and all other the honourable personages which are with me all which reioyce for this good worke of God in you and in all kindnes do kisse your hands and they do all earnestly intreat the Lord for you that he that hath begun so great a worke in you would accomplish the same to the end and the richer you are in temporall goods in lands and lord shippes that he would make you so much the more poore in spirit that so your spirituall pouerty may doe that which your worldly riches and honour cannot namely bring you at last to the eternall and neuer fading riches of the world to come Amen Farewell From Viterbium Your honours most humbly addicted and most louing brother in Christ M. Antonius Flaminius CHAP. VI. Of the many temptations the diuell vsed to pull him backe as by his father his wife and by noble men of his acquaintance BY this and other holy meanes Galeacius was confirmed in the doctrine of the truth and went forward constantly in the course of Gods calling and the way of godlines But the more couragiously he went on the more fiercely the diuell raged against him by his temptations endeuouring thereby to hinder him in that happy course yea and if it were possible to driue him backe againe which course lie commonly takes against those who haue propounded to themselues to tame the rebellion of the slesh and to relinquish the vanities of the world And first of all this zealous course of his in Religion procured him an infinit number of mockes and made him subiect to most vile slanders yea made him incurre the hatred of a great number but especially did he herein displease vex his father as one that was not only of a contrary religion but one who onely intended the honour of his house and the aduancing of his posterity which in respect of Religion Galeacius cared not for at all and therefore he did often sharpely chide him and charged him with his fatherly authoritie to put away those melancholy conceits as hee termed them No doubt but this was most grieuous to him who alwaies was most submisse and obedient to his father But another griefe did more inwardly afflict him which was in respect of his wife Victoria Who though she was alwaies a most kind and dutifull wife as also very wise yet shee would by no meanes yeelde to this motion and change of Religion because she thought and feared it would breed infamy and reproch to her self and her house and therfore was continually working on him by all meanes and

and want Christ Iesus CHAP. VIII Of the grieuous combats betwixt the flesh and the spirit when he resolued of his departure NOw heree by the way it may not be omitted what kind of cogitations he hath often said came into his mind as he was deliberating about this great matter For first of all as often as he looked on his father which he did almost euery houre who decrely loued him and whom againe he respected in all duety and reuerence so often doubtlesse he was striken at the heart with vnspeakeable griefe to thinke of his departure his mind no doubt often thinking thus What and must I needes forsake my deere and louing fathr and cannot I else haue God my Father O miserable and vnhappy father of my body which must stand in comparison with the Father of my soule And must I needes faile in duety to him if I performe my duety to God O miserable old man for what deeper wound can pierce him then thus to be depriued of the onely staffe and comfort of his old age Alas shall I thus leaue him in such a sea of troubles and shall I bee the onely meanes to strike into his heart the deepest wound of griese that yet euer pierced him in all his life This my departure is sure to make my selfe the obloquy of the world yea to breede reproch and shame to the Marquesse my father and to my whole stocke and kinred How is it possible that the good old man can ouercome or indure so great a griefe but rather he must needs be swallowed vp of it so with woe and misery end his life Shall I then be the cause of death to my father who would if neede had beene redeemed my life with his owne death alas what a misery is this like to be either to me or him or vs both yet must I care lesse for bringing his gray head with sorrow vnto the graue then for casting my owne poore soule with horror into hell And no lesse inwardly was he grieued in respect ofhis noble wife Victoria for hauing no hope that she would renounce Popery and go with him therefore he durst not make known vnto her the purpose of his departure but rather resolued for Christs sake to leaue her and all and to follow Christ Shee was now as he was himselfe in the prime of youth a Lady of great birth faire wise and modest but her loue and loyalty to her husband surpassed all How was it possible patiently to leaue such a wise so that his perplexed mind discoursed on this fashion when he lookt on her And shall I so yea so suddenly and so vnkindly leaue and forsake my wife my most deere and louing wife the onely ioy of my heart in this world my companion and partner in all my griefe and labour the augmenter of my ioy the lessener of my woe And shal I leaue her not for a time as hertofore Idid when the Emperors seruice called me from her but for euer neuer againe to enioy her yea it may be neuer to see her And shall I depriue my selfe of her thereby depriue my selfe ofal others also of al the comfort of the coniug all life married estate And shal I so leaue her desolate alone in that estate age whereof she is Alas poore Lady what shal she doe what shal become of her and of her litle ones when I am gone How many dolefull dayes without comfort many waking nights without sleep shal she passe ouer What wil she do but weep waile pine away with grief And as he cast these things in his mind he thought he euen saw his wife how she tooke on with her self sighing sobbing and weeping yea howling crying running after him with these pitifull out-cries Ah my deere Lord and sweete husband whither will you goe and will you Ieaue me miserable woman comfortlesse and succourlesse What shal become of me when you are gone what can honors pompes riches gold siluer iewels friends company all delights and pleasures in the earth what can they all do to my comfort when I want you And what ioy can I haue in my children without you but rather my griefe to be doubled to looke on them And how can I or the world be perswaded that you care for them and for my selfe Is this the loue that thou hast so often boasted of Ah miserable loue which hath this issue either neuer didst thou loue me else neuer had true loue so strange an end as this of yours hath And yet which is worse then all this you neuer shewed me cause of this your strange departue had I knowen cause it would neuer haue grieued mee halfe so much But now that the cause is not knowen what will the world iudge but that the fault is in me at least if they cannot condemne me for it yet how reprochfull will it be to me when euen euery base companion dare lay it in my dish and point at me with their fingers when I go by and say this is that fond woman who married him with whom she could not liue and whom her husband disdained to liue withall This is that simple foole who is desolate hauing a husband and a widow her husband yet beeing aliue Either shall I be counted wicked which haue caused thee to leaue me or foolish miserable and vnhappy who chose so fondly as to take him whom I could not be sure of when I had him In a word I shall be depriued of thee yea of all possibility of hauing any other and so hauing a husband I shal liue in al misery altogether without a husband These two cogitations of his father and his wife greatly tormented him and the more because hee laboured to keepe close this fire which burned and boiled in hisheart namely to conceale his departure lest by being knowne it might haue beene hindred which he would not for a world Yet there was a third and speciall care that pinched him and that was for his children which were sixe in all goodly and towardly children and worthy of so noble parents the more griefe was it in that they were so yong as that they could not yet conceiue what it was to wanta father the eldest was scarce fifteene and the yongest scarce foure yeares old hee loued them with most tender and fatherly affection and was againe loued and honoured of them It is wonderfull to thinke how when his wife the Lady did giue into his armes his yongest childe to play withall as oftentimes wiues vse to doe how it were possible for him and what a do he had with himselfe to containe from floods of teares especially because his eyes seeing them and his hands holding them and his heart taking delight and pleasure in them his minde could not but discourse on this manner And shall I within these few daies vtterly forsake these sweete babes and leaue them to the wide and wicked world as though