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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89642	The rule of penance of the seraphicall father S. Francis approued and confirmed by Leo the X. for religious persons of the 3. order of S. Francis : together with a declaration of each point of the Rule, profitable not only to the religous of this order, but also to all religious women / by Br. Angelus Francis, friar minour.	Third Order Regular of St. Francis.; Angelus Francis.	1644 (1644)	Wing M939B; ESTC R200641	90,610	395

vnlesse he were vrged for that he tooke no content in company yet at the time when he had gotten leaue to goe into England he was so much altered and changed as if he had bene another man or as one who was not able to cōtaine his ioy but in actions voice ad countenāce one might iudge what his heart possessed and so after a most austere penitentiall and humble life much admired esteemed and honoured of all he did offer vp a voluntarie sacrifice of his life for Gods cause that he might reape an eternall crowne in heauen which as we piously belieue and may gather out of his owne writings he obtained by the mediation of our B. Lady to whom he was singularly devoted and from whom he had receiued many favours Of Father Francis Bell who was formerly Confessour to your Religious women of the third Order Guardian of your Convent aforesaid and Provinciall of Scotland and a little before his death againe elected Guardian of your said Convent of Douay I neede say no more than what each one that knew him would say that he was a true Franciscan or child of our holy Father S. Francis that consequētly he was fitting fuell to satisfie the burning rage of Gods enemies and to make a pleasant holocaust to God by sacrificing his life for his sake Here I may apply the example of that famous Captaine Epimanon-das who did not so much glory in his great victories as that his parents from whom he had his being did take pleasure and content therein as Plutarch reporteth I for my part and I belieue such is the opinion of all your children whom you haue begotten in Christ Iesus doe not so much rejoice for the great glorie that redounds to our Province hereby as that you the Father of vs all with pleasure and content haue seene the fruict of your labours If Dutie may challenge it sure it must be yours by all right for whatsoeuer we doe is yours you R. Father being our first Father and vnder God the sole beginner and worker of our being in this happy state of Religion for if Vlisses was iudged to haue right to the Armour of Achilles because he was the occasion of his comming to the wars of Troy surely you may challenge whatsoeuer act praise-worthy may be performed by any of vs and therfore if any haue deserved praise in labouring for the conversion of soules in teaching instructing others in writing in vertuous examples or any other heroicke acts they are yours and are but so many additions to your Glorie If gratitude for benefits receiued may moue me who can better deserue it than your R. Paternitie who by your labour haue sustained maintained and conserued vs for diuers yeares truly if we proue vngratfull euen the very wals of your two erected Convents will crie shame on vs and giue testimonie of our ingratitude Now although each of vs haue this generall obligation yet in a more particular manner must I acknowledge it and therfore most willingly doe I xoffer this and all my labours as yours by all right and duty wherfore it resteth only that you vouchsafe R. F. to patronize and accept of this exposition of the Rule which Pope Leo the tenth hath accomated for Religious persons of the third Order of our holy Father S. Francis which I haue made and composed for your Religious daughters of that Order now residing at Neuport whose Religious Simplicitie prompt Obediēce peace full Amitie and regular Observance may crowne your old age with joy and content which I pray may alwayes continue both in this life and in the world to come Thus he wisheth who alwayes remaineth RIGHT REV. FATHER Your poore Beadsman and vnworthy Child Br. ANGELVS FRANCIS To the Reader I Haue thought good to advertise thee that in the beginning I intended to haue ioyned both parts of this booke in one volumne but finding the latter part to grow greater than I expected I was forced to divide them into two bookes and because the first part was some what disproportionable to the other by advise of some of my Friends I haue differred hitherto the setting forth of this first part and added some other things which although they concerne not the subiect I was to handle I meane the exposition of the Rule yet they conduce to the practise therof as also may supply the want of the formes and manner of cloathing Professing annealing of the Religious so that hereby vniformitie may be observed and the Confessours find most things that are necessary in this kind I hope all will take it in good part and excuse the litteral errours committed in the print which among strangers can hardly be avoided APPROBATIONES F. Georgius à S. Gulielmo Provinciae Angliae in ordine FF Minorum Prouincialis R. P. F. Angelo à S. Francisco meo Commissario in partibus Belgicis S. Th. Lectori CVm ad instantiam R. admodum Patris F. Ioannis Gennings Provinciae nostrae Patris Monialium nostrarum Tertij Ordinis S. P. N. Francisci Neoporti residentium lucubrationes aliquas ad pleniorem Regulae ipsarum Declarationem mediteris in merito S. Obedientiae tibi iniungo his praesentibus Licentiam do quatenus prius observatisijs quae in Concilio Tridentino circa impressionem librorum ordinantur eas quantocius praelo commendas Datum Londini Hac 22. Ianuarij Ann. 1642. LEgi librum cuius titulus est The third Rule Off. S. Francis as it is accommodated for Religious Persons Ab admodum Reuerendo patre Fr. Angelo à S. Francisco S. Thologiae Lectore Recollectorum Ordinis eiusdem S. Francisci Pouinciae Anglicanae Commissario compositum in quo nihil inueni fidei Catholicae vel bonis moribus contrarium sed plurima cum magna eruditione tradita quae illis pro quibus scriptus est in bonum cedent Duaci in Collegio S. Gregorij 15. Decembris 1644. F. BVDES INDVS BARIO S. Theologiae Doctor Professor in Collegio Vedastino Duaceno R. Admodum P. F. Angelus à S. Francisco S. T. Lector Recellectorum Provinciae Anglicanae Commissarius qui iam pridem de Tertia regula S. Francisci alio volumine bene meruit novas elucubrationes in eandem regulam vt iustis suorum desiderijs satisfaciat patrio idiomate praelo offert quas cum diligenter evoluissem iudicavi non modo per omnia sanē fidei bonis moribus consonas sed insuper visae mihi sunt vbique redolere spiritum S. Francisci verè pium multaque insignia mira perspicuitate complecti quae magno cum fidelium commodo eorum praesertim qui sub auspicijs Tertiae regulae deo sunt militaturi in lucem emitterentur Datum Duaci in Collegio Anglorum Decembris 21. Anno Dom. 1644. GVILIELMVS HYDAVS S. T. Professor Collegij Anglo Duaceni Vice-praeses VIsis approbationibus Virorum eximiorum ac doctissimorum Sacrae Theologiae Professorum super libello anglicè scripto

and bury my father taking for a pretence of their stay the loue reuerence and duty which they owe to their parents But these will not take heede to what immediatly comes after Iesus autem ait illi sequere me dimitte mortuos sepelire mortuos the spirit of truth who can teach all perfection saith follow me and let the dead bury the dead Whereby we are giuen to vnderstand that spirituall workes of mercy are to be preferred before corporall and that the following of Christ is farre more excellent than the duty or respect we owe to our parents for God hath more right to vs than our parents haue True it is we are commanded to honour our Father and mother but first and with much more reason we must honour God we must loue our Parents but aboue all God Well said that holy woman 2. Mac. 7. I know not how you appeared in my wombe for neither did I giue you spirit nor soule nor life and the members of euery one I my selfe framed not but the creatour O that all parents would haue this consideration for if the creatour did giue spirit life and soule to their children can they thinke much to giue them or to permit them to giue themselues to God And herein I haue marked a strange deceit of the enemie for I haue knowne and heard of many that vpon such like pretenses haue staid away from entring into religion they haue beene very well contented to trauell into farre countries or to serue in the court or some such like place where perhaps they shall neuer see their parents much lesse haue occasion to helpe them and most commonly are to them a great burden vexation and trouble yea sometimes to their vtter vndoing yet all is thought well on both sides if they enter not into religion Can there be any greater absurditie than that vpon these aery and vngrounded pretenses of helping or comforting their parents and friends they should withstand the vocation that God hath giuen them and yet in short time withdraw themselues from their parents sometimes also with their consent to range themselues vnder some warlike standards where they may enioy one another afarre of vntill a little bullet dissolue all and conclude perhaps with a dismall end And indeed where soeuer they goe death may suddainely meet with them and then the dead parent dead to God may bury his dead sonne or daughter which might haue happely dyed to the world and alwayes haue liued to Christ Iesus Some others there be who are doubtfull of their abilitie and strength saying with Saul Non vales resistere Philistao isti nec pugnare aduersus cum quia puer es Reg. 17. thou art not able to resist this Philistian nor to fight against him because thon art a child You cannot perseuer in such austeritie your delicate and tender complexion and constitution cannot vndergoe such mortifications fastings disciplines and such like but these doe not ponder that if they with Dauid goe on in the name of our lord they neede not feare the victorie and that he who giueth the vocation will also grant perseuerance both vocation and perseuerance being the gift of God And certaine it is that where there is a good vocation there seldome or neuer can be wanting a happy perseuerance especially where there be so many meanes to conserue it For in religion they are animated by the good examples of others defended by many holy prayers which are dayly offered for them and strengthened by abundance of grace which God doth ordinarly communicate to those that liue in a religious communitie I doe not say but that some may fall but howsoeuer it is rare and that very great malice which God doth most commonly punish with seuerity and some publicke punishment for the abbetterment of others As for what they pretend of weaknesse or of tender complexion besides that as God giues the vocation so also he giues strength to performe it let them take any religious communitie and they shall find some that haue beene as weake and tender if not more than they yea continuall experiēce teacheth vs that those who haue beene most tenderly bred vp are many times such as desire and practise most austeritie And indeed who more ready to fast more prompt on all occasions than those who are of more noble birth and consequently of a more delicate education It is admirable to see how humbly with what submissiue obedience and with how great austeritie and mortification kings and queenes princes and nobles of all sorts haue comported themselues in religion to the confusion of those who haue beene of a lower ranke by birth though equall in religion all setting their hands to the same plough To this we may adde that none ate in better health or of longer life than religious persons who no way confide on their proper force and strength but on the goodnesse and grace of God knoweing full well that it is not humane force which must preuaile but Gods particular helpe and assistance And we all see the strong and well able bodyes to faile and die as soone as the weake Without all doubt there may be many iust reasons to desist from a course of religion begun for many times God doth permit his seruants to be affl●cted with such infirmitie sicknesse or weaknesse for their greater benefit that they are not able to goe forward And then so farre is it from being a disparagement to them either to leaue or not enter into religion supposeing it be not out of lightnesse of mind or inconstancy that as they haue merited much before God in their pious desires so they haue manifested their loue to God being ready to doe more if they could In which case their desire of being religious will not be without the merit and reward of religion as the desire of martyrdome wants not in some part the crowne thereof Nothing more frequent and ordinary than to see very many good soules strongly possessed with a vehement desire of martyrdome to haue beene by the diuine prouidence hindred of the same and euery day many doe attempt with a full resolute minde that which God in his wisedome otherwise disposes No man will condemne a souldier that valourously enters into the field although by accident or want of prouision he be forced to retire Neither can any one blame such vertuous soules who leaue religion not through inconstancy or want of deuotion or desire to perseuer but because it is Gods will to dispose otherwise of them Finally to conclude this chapter omitting many other like meanes that some doe vse to deterre others from religion as generally included in those before mentioned Some there be who out of a great zeale to the good of soules not well considering and pondering the state and vocation of each one doe seeke to draw others to some more perfect state or religious course which thing in itselfe is good and pious as S. Thomas well prooues yet