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A07396	The history of the Church of Englande. Compiled by Venerable Bede, Englishman. Translated out of Latin in to English by Thomas Stapleton student in diuinite; Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. English	Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.; Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598.	1565 (1565)	STC 1778; ESTC S101386	298,679	427

that euer I had committed not only in worde and dede but also in lyght thoughtes written there in greate blacke letters and he said to the ij fayre younge men that sate by me Why sitte yow here knowing most certaynly that this felow is owers They made answer Trewe it is Take him and leade him away to the botomelesse pit of damnation and with that they vanisht away Incontinent ij wycked sprites hauyng fyer pronges in their handes rose vppe and stroke me one in the hed and the other in the sole of my feete the which nowe with greate torment and anguysh creepe vp in to the bowells and other internall partes of my bodie and when they meete together I shall dye and be drawen hence by the dyuells watchinge and whyuering about me into hel without redemption Thus spoke that myserable manlying in extreme desperation and died owte of hande and now lyuinge in thrauldome with the deuill in euerlastinge payne doth that penaunce but all in vayne which in his lyfe time he myght haue done if it had bene but one howre with an assured hope of gods mercy and pardone for all his synnes Of this miserable and wrechyd man it is euident that as S. Gregorye wryteth of certaine he had not those visions for his owne sake whome they auailed nothing at all but for other men which knowing his lamentable end might be afeared to differ and prolonge the tyme of repentaunce while they haue oportunytye and leasure lest by sodayne preuention of death they dye impenitent That he sawe diuerse bookes brought before him by diuerse and sondry sprites some good some bad it was done by the diuine prouidence and permission of god to putt vs in remembraunce that our doinges and thoughts flee not away with the winde but ar reserued particularly to the straite examination of the dreadfull iudge And at the ende shall be shewed to vs other by the good angells which frindfully wishe our saluation or by the wicked sprites which spitefully woorke our damnatiō Concerning that first of all the good Angells brought forhe a fayre white booke and the deuills afterwarde their fowle euill fauoured black lygger the angels a litle one they an vnmeasurable greate one it is to be noted that in his childehode he did some good dedes yet notwitstandinge he disgraced all that euer was done with his lewde and loose demeanour in yowthe But if he wolde haue amended in youth the wanton toyes and foolishe panges of childhode and with wel doinge raunesomed them owt of the sight of god he myght haue bene brought to their societie of whome the Psalme of Dauid saithe Beati quorū remissae sunt c. Blessed ar they whose iniquities ar forgeuen and whose sinnes ar couered This history I thought good to set forth playnly and simplie as it was declared vnto me of that worthy prelate Pechthelme to the comforte of all suche as shall reade it or heare it Howe an other in leeke manner sawe a place of paine appointed for him in hell The. 15. Chapter FVrthermore I my self knew a religious man whom wold God I had neuer knowen placed in a good and famous monasterie notwithstanding he him selfe was infamous for his lewde behauiour and loose lyfe I could tell his name also if it were worth the telling This man was earnestly rebuked of his bretherne and other head officers of the monastery for his enormities and exhorted to a better trade of lyfe but all was in vaine Notwithstanding albeit he would not geue eare nor humbly obey their charitable exhortations yet they did tolerate him very longe for his externalll seruice which was very necessarie for them For he was a singular good carpenter This man was much geuen to dronknesse and other wanton pleasures of dissolutnesse and accustomed rather to fit in his shopp both day and night than to come to the church to singe or pray or heare the trew worde of life with his bretherne by which occasion it happened to him as men ar commonly wounte to saye He that will not come of his owne accorde within the church dore shall runne against his will to hell gates For he being now streeken with a very fainte desease and brought to extremitie called all the couent about him and with much lamentation and deepe sitghes leeke a man damned already beganne to declare vnto them that he sawe hell gates open and the deuill drouned in a deape doungell thereof and Caiphas and al the whole rablemēt that put Christ to deathe cast in flaminge fier hard by him and next to them oh miserable and wretched man that I am saide he I see a place of eternall perdition prepared for me His bretherne hearing these wofull wordes exhorted him earnestly to repent and be sorie for his sinnes while he was yet alyue Then he brought to extreme desperation answered No No. There is no time for me to amend my former life especially seing I perceiue my iudgement is past and fully complete already With those wordes he died without receauing the sacrament His bodie was interred in the formost parte of all the Abbaie not one of all the whole couent durst say masse for his soule nor singe psalmes nor once say one Pater noster for him Oh howe farre a sunder hath God separated light and darknesse The first blessed Martyr S. Steuen ready to suffer death for testimonie of the truthe sawe heauen gates open and Iesus standing on the right hande of God He to the ende he might more ioyfully die fixed the eyes of his mind there before his deathe where he should be after but this forsaied felow blacke in soule blacke in body and blacke in all outwarde doinges sawe hell open at the houre off his death and perpetuall damnation prepared for the deuill and all that follow him Againe to th entent that though his death were miserable in desperation yet by his owne damnation he might geue other example to repent and worke their owne saluation in time he sawe his owne place and doungell prepared amongest such caytyffs as Cayphas and his complices were This chaunced of late in the countrie of the Berniciens and wa● by common talke blasted all the countrie ouer so that it stirred vp many to make quick confession of their sinfull actes and not to take dayes with God Which God graunte it may worke allso in such as shall reade this present historie Howe many churches of Scotland by the instant preaching of Adamannus kept the feast of easter after the catholique maner and howe he wrote a booke of holly places The 16. Chap. AT that time a greate multitude of Scottes in Ireland and many Britons in Britanny receaued by the singular gifte of God the trewe manner of celebrating the feast of Easter taught by the catholique church For when as Adamannus a vertuous priest and Abbott of all the mounkes and religious men that were in the isle Hu being sent Embassadour by the prince