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B11418	The complaint or dialogue, betvvixt the soule and the bodie of a damned man Each laying the fault vpon the other. Supposed to be written by S. Bernard from a nightly vision of his, and now published out of an ancient manuscript copie. By William Crashaw.; Noctis sub silentio tempore brumali. English and Latin.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153, attributed name.; Fulbert, Saint, Bishop of Chartres, ca. 960-1028, attributed name.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626. Manuale Catholicorum. aut	1622 (1622)	STC 1909.3; ESTC S105114	31,120	195

thee Then if thou pray Christ will not stay to set thee free Albe thou were To death most neare yet still be sure And vnderstand That his high hand containes thy cure Be he thy quest That giues all rest from restlesse woes Who so adore And him implore shall come to those For many a one Dead long agone hath he reuiued And saued more That were before of grace depriued Be all thy loue On God aboue lift vp thy spirit That thou maist taste The Saints repast through his sole merit And honour him That he from sinne may thee deliuer That sinnes increase In thee may cease in prayer perseuer On him I call That all in all hath in his power Against all harme Be he mine arme my shield my towre And this liues length Vouchsafe vs strength to keepe his hest That at our end Wee may ascend to endlesse rest Amen HEre followeth the meanes and manner how our forefathers in the time of Popery prepared themselues and others to die consisting first of the confession of their faith and secondly of the Prayers which were made by them and for them in their last sicknesse by which it may appeare that though they were misled by the crafty Romish Clergie in diuers errors and superstitions yet in the great point of the meanes of saluation they were of our religion and were saued by it Truly and verbatim englished out of the Latine being an ancient Copie and by any of that side vnquestioned and heretofore in that kind published By W. CRASH Questions to be expounded to sicke persons whilst they haue the vse of reason and power to speak to the end that if any be not so well disposed to dye hee may be better informed and prepared and the questions be these according to Anselme the Reuerend Bishop 1. Let him be asked thus BRother dost thou reioyce that thou shalt die in the faith of Christ A. I doe Q. Doest thou sorrow and grieue for that thou hast not liued so well as thou oughtest A. I doe Q. Hast thou a hearty purpose to liue better if God giue thee time to liue A. I haue Q. Doest thou beleeue that thou canst not be saued but by the death of Christ A. I doe Q. Doest thou beleeue that Iesus Christ the Sonne of God dyed for thee A. I doe Q. Doest thou giue thankes to God therefore from thy whole heart A. I doe Well then good Brother whilst thy soule is in thy body giue him hearty thankes and settle all thy assurance vpon his death alone haue no confidence in any thing else trust thy selfe wholly to his passion couer thy selfe wholly with it fasten thy whole life on his Crosse cast thy whole selfe into this Sea and if the Lord God say hee will iudge thee answere thou Lord I obiect the death of my Lord Iesus Christ betwixt me and thy iudgement otherwise I will not contend with thee And if GOD say to thee Thou art a sinner answere Lord it is so but I set the death of my Lord Iesus betwixt thee and my sinnes If hee say thou hast deserued damnation answer It is true Lord but I place the death and merits of my Lord Iesus Christ betwixt thee and my ill deseruings and I offer vp him and the most worthy merits of his passion for the merits which I should haue had but alas haue not If the Lord say further that he is angry with thee answer Lord thou hast cause but I set the death and sufferings of my Lord Iesus Christ betwixt thy wrath and my soule Then let him say thrice Lord into thy hands I commit my spirit and if he be so weake he cannot let the company that stand by say Lord into thy hands we commend his soule And hee that doth this is safe and sure that he shall neuer tast of eternall death Also in another old Booke I find this written THese bee the sixe signes vpon which a man may rest confident of his Saluation 1. If hee beleeue the Articles of Christian faith as many as are determined by the Church 2. If hee reioyce to dye in the faith of Christ 3. If he know that he haue grieuously offended God 4. If he be heartily sory for it 5. If hee resolue to forsake his sinnes if God giue him leaue 6 If hee hope and beleeue to come to eternall saluation not by his owne merits but by the merits of Iesus Christ And Anselme saith that these sixe questions are to bee asked of euery one at the time of his death and saith further thus Then say to the sicke person if Satan obiect any thing against thee oppose thou the merits of Christ betwixt thee and him and thus without all doubt he shall be saued This consolation of the sicke and preparation to their death is in ancient Copies ascribed to Anselme who liued more then 500. yeares agoe euen when Popery was almost growne to perfect age Now if any man make question how our fathers were saued in these later and worse times when Popery preuailed in a great measure I answere that euen almost the same preparation and same questions were vsed long after Anselme euen in the deepest darknesse of Popery for in the most euil time about the Councell of Constance some two hundred yeares agoe thus I find it written in an ancient Booke and it is ascribed to Gerson Euery Christian whether secular or regular is thus to be examined and informed in his sicknesse touching his saluation 1 DOest thou beleeue all the principall Articles of faith all that is contained in the whole body of holy Scripture according to the exposition of the Catholike and Orthodoxall Doctors of the holy Church and doest thou detest all heresies and errors and superstitions condemned or reproued by the Church and art thou glad that thou diest in the faith of Christ and vnitie and obedience of thy mother the Church 2 Dost thou know and confesse that thou hast many waies and grieuously offended thy God and thy Creator 3 Doest thou sorrow from thy whole heart for all thy sinnes committed against Gods Maiesty his loue and mercy art thou truly sorrowfull for the euils that thou hast committed and the good that thou hast omitted and the grace that thou hast neglected and art thou agrieued not so much for feare of death or any punishment as for that loue that thou oughtest to beare towards God 4 Doest thou beg pardon for all these thy sinnes of Iesus Christ desiring that by him thy heart may bee enlightned truely to see and know thy sinnes that so thou mayest particularly and more seriously repent of them 5 Doest thou propound and resolue truely to amend thy life if so be thou liue and neuer hereafter to sinne so againe but rather to lose any thing how deare soeuer vnto thee yea euen life it selfe then to offend thy God againe 6 Doest thou also desire of God grace to continue in this purpose that thou maiest not

cum friuolis suis condemnaui Aurum gemmas pradia nihil reputaui Rebus transitorijs abrenunciaui Et me Christi manibus totum commendaui 75 Ecce mundus moritur vitio sepultus Ordo rerum vertitur sapiens fit stultus Exulat iustitia cessat Christicultus Et in mundo iugiter labor tumultus 76 Mundus ad interitùm pergit his diebus Dij facti sunt iterum Iupiter Phoebus Nam qui mundum possidet abundat rebus Hic vt Deus collitur sceptris aciebus 77 Et quae theologicae virtutes vocantur Fides spes charitas ferè suffocantur Fraus auaritia quae deriuantur Ex his iam in seculo toto dominantur 78 Si sis ortu nobilis si vultu serenus Si benignus humilis moribusque plenus Haec nil tibi proderunt si tu sis egenus Sola nam pecunia formam dat genus 79 Dūmodo sim splendidis vestibus ornatus Et multa familia sim circumuallatus Prudens sim sapiens morigeratus Ego tuus nepos sum tu meus cognatus 80 Ista cum defic●rint statim euanescit Nostra consanguinitas morte refrigescit Cessatque notitia ita quod me nescit Qui dum diues fueram surgens mihi cessit 81 O miranda vanitas ô diuitiarum Amor lamentabilis ô virus amarum Cur tot viros inficis faciendo carum Hoc quod tranfit cit●●● quam flamma stuparum 82 Si mundus diuitibus tria posset dare Iuuentutem floridam mortem vitare Pulchram durabilem prolem procreare Benè possent diuites nummos congregare 83. Homo miser cogita mors ista compescit Quis est ab initio qui morti non cessit Hic si viuit hodie cras forte putrescit Cuique prorsus hominum parcere iam nescit 84. Quando genus hominum morti deputatur Quò post mortem transeat quisquam ignoratur Vnde quidem sapiens ita de se fatur Contremisco iugiter dum mens meditatur Quid sum quò propero quid mihi paratur 85 De morte dum cogito contristor ploro Vnum est quòd moriar tempus ignoro Tertium quòd nescio quorum iungar choro Sed vt suis valeam iungi Deum oro FINIS THE COMPLAINT OR DIALOGVE BETVVIXT The Soule and the Bodie of a damned man Each laying the fault vpon the other Supposed to be written by S. BERNARD from a nightly vision of his and now published out of an ancient Manuscript Copie By WILLIAM CRASHAW LONDON Printed by G. E. for Leonard Becket and are to be sold at his shop in the Temple neere the Church 1622. To the VVorshipful my worthy beloued friends Hugh Hare Richard Brownlow George Crok and Iohn Walter Esquires Benchers of the honourable society of the inner TEMPLE Mercy Grace and Peace THe end and highest happinesse of a Christian man is to honour God in this life and to dye well the way to die well is to liue well and no better prouocation to good life nor preparatiue to a good death then a continuall and serious meditation of the mortality of this life the certainty of our end the vncertainty when and how the terriblenesse of the last iudgement and the account that each one must make then who haue not made it here before crossed the debt-book of their sins by the Lambe of God This made an ancient Father crye out When I thinke of that day I feare and tremble for whether I eate or drinke or what euer I doe I thinke I heare that terrible Trumpet sounding in mine eares Arise yee dead and come to iudgement And to this end the holy men of elder times willingly entertained all occasions that might helpe them in these holy cogitations One euidence thereof is this short and sweet Dialogue which as a fore-runner of others that may follow being diuulged and desired by many to bee englished I am therefore induced to make it common This being an age that needs all helps to holinesse and inticements to deuotion And this the rather in as much as though it was made in the mist of Popery euen not long after the Diuell was let loose yet is it not tainted with Popish corruption nor scarce smels of any superstition whereas it is stuft with godly truthes and wholsome instructions My thoughts intended and dedicated it to your selues and that worthy vertuous and religious Gentleman now with God the brother to one of you in nature and to you all in faithfull Christian loue But seeing he needs it not God hauing prouided better things for him and his soule now feeding on finer foode in Gods glorious presence and blessed vision of the Deity take you it therefore and that part of profite that might heereby haue falne to him and that part of my loue which heerein I shewed him diuide among you and as hee hath left behinde him to this Society and all that knew him the sweete smell of a good name for his many religious and morall vertues so let me leaue behinde me this little Monument of the much loue my heart owes you and shall bee willing to testifie by my best seruice as to this whole and honorable Society in generall so to your selues in particular To whom without wrong to any other I speake it I haue beene peculiarly beholden and by whom my studies haue beene much aduanced Now the God of Grace and Mercy so guide you in the wayes of holinesse and good workes that at your ends your body may not blame your soule nor the soule the body but both soule and body may haue cause to glorifie God their Creatour Redeemer and Sanctifier in whose loue I leaue you and rest yours in all Christian duety THE SPEAKERS 1. The Author 2. A Soule departed 3. A dead Carcasse 4. The Diuels THE AVTHOR IN silence of a Winters night A sleeping yet a waking spirit A liuelesse body to my sight Me thought appeared thus addight 2. In that my sleepe I did descry A Soule departed but lately From that foule body which lay by Wailing with sighes and loud did cry 3. Fast by the body thus she mones And questions it with sighes and grones O wretched flesh thus low who makes thee lye Whom yesterday the world had seene so high 4. Wast not but yesterday the world was thine And all the Country stood at thy deuotion Thy traine that followed thee when thy Sunne did shine Haue now forsaken thee O dolefull alteration 5. Those Turrets gay of costly Masonry And larger Palaces are not now thy roome But in a Coffin of small quantity Thou lyest interred in a little tombe 6. Thy Palaces what helpe they thee or buildings Thy graue vneth's of largenesse for thy feet Henceforth thou canst hurt none with thy false iudgings For thy misdeeds in hell we both must meete 7. I I poore soule oh I a noble creature Formed and made in likenesse of my God Adorn'd with graces of

my life which had so great command In iewels riches lands did so abound Built Palaces and iudged many a land Think'st thou I thought of Tombe in this base ground 45 Oh now I see and find it to my griefe That neither gold nor wealth nor larger rent Honour strength knowledge nor soueraigne hearbs reliefe Can cure deaths bitter sting nor it preuent 46 Before our God we guilty both doe stand And both in fault but not both equally The greatest burden lyeth on thy hand And this to proue full many reasons lye 47 No wit so meane but this for truth it knowes Iustice it selfe and reason both agree That where most gifts of vertue God bestowes There most is due and ought repayed be 48 Life Memory and powerfull vnderstanding God gaue to thee and with it sense of might Wherewith thou shouldst haue curb'd at thy commanding Concupiscence and followed that was right 49 Then since thy dower of vertue stretcht so farre And foolishly thou gau'st thy selfe to me And my entisements neuer would'st debar That thy fault greatest is all men may see 50 Further I adde with anguish of my heart Which mine owne case doth plainly demonstrate The flesh can nothing doe if soule depar It neither moues nor stirs early or late 51 It neither sees nor speakes then is this proued The Soule giues life no power in flesh doth rest If then the Soule rightly her God had loued The flesh had neuer her great power supprest 52 If Gods loue liuing thou hadst holden deare And poore mens causes rightly hadst de finde And vnto wicked counsels giuen no eare Nor me nor thee worlds vanitie had twinde 53 I that liu'd gay and gorgeous in attyre Loe what of all now vnto me remaines Wormes rottennesse and narrow lodge of mire These after all delights are left my gaines 54 And oh I know that at the later houre I shall arise and as I did offend With thee shall finde a second death most soure An euerlasting death death without end The soule confesseth 55 VVIth hollow fearfull voice then howles the soule Oh had I not amongst the creatures beene Why with his creatures did God me enroule Whom he foreknew should perish thus for sinne 56 Happy are you bruit beasts happy your state You wholly dye at once and only rot Once dead all torments cease such is your fate Oh! were such end for sinners such their lot The Body askes the Soule a Question 57 THen quoth the Body to his pensiue Ghost If thou hast beene among the fiends in hell Tell me I pray what sawest thou in that Coast Is no helpe left from thence with Christ to dwel 58 For Kings and great men what is their prouision Which liuing Lorded it in high degree For them is any hope left of redemption For money lands bequests or other fee The Soule giues answer 59 THe question senslesse body wanteth reason For when to hell the wicked damned be Redemption then is hopelesse out of season Bootlesse are almes-deeds prayers and charity 60 If all the piety of men should pray If all the world in price were offered If all good men should fast both night and day For this not one should be deliuered 61 The roaring diuell cruell and full of rage For infinite of worlds or any gaine Would not forgoe one soule shut in his cage Nor ease his torments nor make lesse his paine 62 And to thy question what is there prepar'd For Lords and great ones Gods Law is expresse The more that here one is aduanc'd or fear'd More fearfull is his fall if he transgresse 63 A rich man therefore dying in his sinne No man shall sharper torments feele then hee How much more pleasures that he liued in So much more grieuous shall his torment be The Author in vision 64. AFter the Soule had said these mournfull words Behold two fiends more blacke then pitch or night Whose shapes with pen to write no wit affords Nor any hand of painter pourtray right 65 Sharpe steely prickes they did in each hand beare Sulphure and fire flaming they breathed out Tusked their teeth like crooked mattocks were And from their nostrils snakes crawled round about 66 Their eares with running sores hung flapping low Foule filthy hornes in their blacke browes they wore Full of thicke poison which from them did flow Their nayles were like the tushes of a Bore 67 These finds in chaines fast bound this wretched soule And with them hal'd her howling into hell To whom on flockes ran other diuels more And gnashing with their teeth to dancing fell 68 They welcom'd her with greetings full of woe Some wrested her with cords senselesse of dread Some snatcht and tore with hooks drawne to and fro Some for her welcome powr'd on scalding lead Diuels 69 SVch horror we doe on our seruants load Then as halfe wearied the diuels cryed Now art thou worse then was the crawling Toade Yet thousandfold worse torments thee abide The Soule cryes out 70 AFter all this the groaning Soule deepe sighed And with what voyce it could low murmured But when within the gates of hell she entered Shee howled out Iesus the Sonne of Dauid The Diuels answer 71. THen all the diuels together loud did cry Too late too late thou callest on thy God Here is no roome for Miserere mei o hope of easement from this bitter rod. 72 Neuer hence forth shalt thou the light behold Thou must be alter'd to another hue Thou art a Souldier of our Campe enrol'd Such is the comfort that in hell is due The Author concludeth 73. THen I awaked full of feare And much amaz'd my selfe did reare To God I said with folded hands O shield me from such grieuous bands 74 I left the world and it forsooke Of goods and lands no care I tooke I did renounce each worldly thing And gaue my selfe to Christ my King 75 The world is drownd in sinne and vice All order chang'd not one man wise Both Iustice and Religion lost And all the world in turmoile tost 76 The world to ruine runnes amaine False gods are now set vp againe Vnto the rich their hands men hold He is the God that hath the gold 77 The vertues of Diuinity Are chok't faith hope and charity The brood of couerise and craft Beare all the sway and sit aloft 78 Be thou noble wise and faire Courteous lowly debonaire And poore thou maist do what thou can But onely money makes the man 79 If I be clad in rich array and well attended euery day Both wise good I shal be thoght my kindred also shall be sought I am say men the case is cleere Your cousin sir a kinsman neare 80 But if the world doe change and frowne Our kindred is no longer knowne Nor I remembred any more By them that honoured me before 81 O vanity vile loue of mucke Foule poyson wherefore hast thou struck Thy selfe so deep to raise so high Things vanishing so sodainly 82 For if the

which thou diddest vouchsafe to redeeme me miserable man and to purchase heauen for mee euen with the price of thy precious bloud I beseech thee therefore by the most blessed and bitter passion which thou sustainedst on the Crosse for mee especially in that houre when thy blessed soule did leaue thy body that thou wouldest haue mercy on my poore soule at the time of my departure Then let him lift vp his heart with ioy and thankesgiuing and say Lord thou hast broken my bonds therfore I will offer to thee the sacrifice of praise After if his weakenesse grow so that he lose the vse of his speech let some of the by-standers say these Prayers following ouer him or more if he l●ue so long MErcifull God and Father we beseech thee for the multitude of thy mercies looke fauourably vpon this thy seruant our deare brother who with true and hearty confession seekes pardon for all his sinnes at the hand of thy mercies O Lord heare vs for him and wee beseech thee for him most holy Father to renue in his heart whatsoeuer is corrupted by the frailty of his flesh and restore that grace which the wily and malicious enemie the Diuell hath stolne out of his soule O Lord recall him to the vnity of thy Church ingraft him into the body of thy Sonne O Lord take pittie of the sighes and sobs of his soule and grones of his heart O Lord look vpon his teares gather them into thy bottle and be good to him who hath no hope com●ort nor confidence but in ●hy mercy seale vp the assu●ance of his recōciliation with ●hee O most holy father we humbly commend the soule of this thy seruant and our brother into the hands of thy vnmeasurable mercies humbly beseeching thee according to the greatnesse of that loue in which the blessed soule of thy Sonne did commend it selfe into thy hands that for the worthinesse of that infinit loue of thine in which thou diddest receiue that holy soule vnto thy selfe thou wouldest vouchsafe in this our brothers last houre to receiue his poore soule also and make it partaker of the same loue And thou most sweete Sauiour and most merciful Lord Iesus thou that dying on the Crosse wast so pressed with anguish and torments for vs as made thee sound out that pitiful voyce vnto thy Father My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee we beseech thee estrange not thy selfe and turne not away thy face from thy seruant our brother now in the houre of his soules affliction when his strength faileth and his spirits are so spent that he cannot cal vpon thee heare vs ô Lord heare vs for him and for that thy glorious victory in which thou diddest triumph on the Crosse and for thy precious passion and bitter death think of him the thoughts of mercy and not of iustice shed thy mercies in his soule and speak comfortably to his conscience deliuer his soule out of all spirituall diseases saue him from the torments due vnto his deseruings and bring him for thine owne merits sake to eternall rest O Lord Iesus Christ which didst redeeme vs with thy precious blood write with thine owne blood in the soule and ingraue thy wounds in the heart of this thy seruant that in them hee may see and reade thy dolefull sufferings and thy sweete loue thy sufferings that they may be effectuall to ransome him from those sorrowes and torments which he hath merited by his sin thy loue that it may vnite his heart to thee in indiuisible and inseperable bonds so as he may neuer bee separated from thee nor thy Saints for euer and euer And Lord Iesus Christ we beseech thee make his soule partaker of all the merits of thy most sacred incarnation passion resurrection and ascension make him partaker of the vertue of thy most blessed Sacraments and all thy holy mysteries make him partaker of all the prayers and good deeds done in thy whole Church make him partaker of all thy blessings graces and comforts of all thy elect and grant that with them all hee may liue in thy presence for euermore O Lord which powredst out thy prayers for vs on the Mount Oliuer and sweatst water and blood wee beseech thee let that precious bloud of thine which thou diddest so aboundantly powre out for our saluation let it be presented and offered to thy Father to stand against the multitude of the sinnes of this thy seruant our brother Lord be with him at his last houre and then deliuer him from the anguish and torments which for his sinnes hee may iustly feare Graciously receiue his soule in the houre of his departure open the gate of heauen vnto him and giue him a portion with thy Saints in glory for thy owne most glorious merit O Lord Iesus Christ who with God the Father and the holy Ghost liuest and raignest one God for euermore Amen And when the sicke mans strength begins to faile and the soule is ready to depart then let the soule be commended to God by one of the by standers on this manner The commendation of the Soule to be said at a mans death I Here commend thee to Almighty God most deare Brother and I doe commit thee to him whose creature thou art goe forth therefore O Christian soule get thee gone out of this filthy world goe forth in the name of the Almighty Father who created thee In the name of Iesus Christ who dyed for thee In the name of the holy Ghost who hath beene powred out vpon thee And when thou happy soule art deliuered out of the prison of the body the glorious Quire of heauenly Angels meete thee and the company of all holy Saints entertaine thee the louing countenance and cheerefull grace of Iesus Christ shine vpon thee a mercifull Iudge be he vnto thee that thou maist haue sentence to sit for euer amongst his Saints on his right hand thy dwelling bee in peace and thy habitation in the heauenly Ierusalem for euermore farre be it from thee euer to feele or know how horrible the darkenesse how terrible the flame and how intolerable the torments of hell are Sathan and all his hellish guard bee they confounded at thy presence and if he dare set vpon thee victory triumph be on thy side shame and trembling fall vpon him from the presence of Gods Angels be he banished into the blacke mists and confused Chaos of eternall darkenesse But let the Lord arise and let his enemies bee scattered as the smoake vanisheth so let them flye away But let the iust be exalted and reioyce in the presence of the Lord let the infernall legions not dare to touch thee nor presume to hinder thee and hee who disdained not to dye for thee be hee thy Sauiour and deliuerer from all spirituall vexation Be the gates of Paradise open vnto thee and thy Christ giue thee thy place and mansion in the same And he that is the true Pastor and great Shepherd of the