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A10746	The pilgrime of Loreto Performing his vow made to the glorious Virgin Mary Mother of God. Conteyning diuers deuout meditations vpon the Christian and Cath. doctrine. By Fa. Lewis Richeome of the Society of Iesus. Written in French, & translated into English by E.W.; Pélerin de Lorète. English	Richeome, Louis, 1544-1625.; Walpole, Edward, 1560-1637, attributed name.; E. W. (Edward Worsley), 1605-1676, attributed name.; Weston, Edward, 1566-1635, attributed name.	1629 (1629)	STC 21023; ESTC S115933	381,402	480

it by true vsing of his grace Loue that rare and boundlesse beauty Loue eke thyne owne felicity Thy Neighbours friends and foes must be inclos'd VVithin the boundes of thy vnfeyned loue For this iust Law was framed and compos'd By God that sittes and ruleth from aboue VVho sayth he loues God not his brother Loueth neither th' one nor th' other The mortall race of mortall men we know Of one sole man did their beginning take So all that from this one did spring and grow One houshold only and no more do make Euery of whome by right of kind To fastest loue doth straitly bind Yet straiter is the knot and neerer band VVherewith God bindes vs in his holy house Sweetly vs conioyning with his blessed hand To be all one in his sole Sonne IESVS VVherto in reason all are lead Since all are members of one head Blessed is that soule which this Law keeps And is found faythfull to her spouse aboue VVho daily him doth seeke and neuer sleeps Burning in the flames of his holy loue VVho ' boue all thinges loues God the best And for his sake loues all the rest The After-dinner and Euening of the ninth dayes Iourney Threats and punishments of man 〈…〉 CHAP. XXII IN the After-noone the 〈…〉 make some repetition of what he meditated 〈…〉 setting before his eyes the threates which God 〈…〉 against mankillers also some examples of such as haue from heauen beene discouered and punished for this sinne contrarywise some others of such as haue byn easily pardoned Math. 2● All those that take the sword sayth our Sauiour shall perish by the sword And long before that he sayd VVho so shall spill the bloud of man Gen. 9. his bloud shall be spilled for God hath made man to his Image Cain was accursed for killing his brother Gen. 3. and by his owne mouth he condemned himselfe for well worthy of banishment death Plutar. lib Quae animalia sūt prudentiora for his murder Before Pyrrhus King of Epyrus a dogge discouered the murderers of his Maister who were therefore punished Hesiodus his dogge also discouered them who had killed him The swallowes him that had killed his Father The greatest men haue beene most sweet and courteous Moyses Dauid yea euen among Paynimes Alexander Iulius Caesar and the like Great men gētle and courteous and contrarywise slaues base and cowardly people haue beene fierce and cruell to reuenge Our Sauiour the patterne of all perfect and high vertue was wonderfull in this which he shewed at all occasions where he might make triall but most cleerly in the last distresse of his death and passion when he prayed that diuine prayer for his enemyes who crucifyed him encountring with a singular exploite of clemency the cruelty of his crucifyers Hauing discoursed vpon these examples and the like and sayd his beades or some other prayer to the B. Virgin he shal end his iourney betake him to his lodging The tenth day A Meditation vpon the 6. Commandement Thou shalt not commit Adultery CHAP. XXIII THE sixth Commandement shall be the matter of the tenth dayes Meditation The sixth commādement well placed after forbidding to kill which followeth very fitly after the forbidding of killing for the second and next iniury a second death whereby a man may offend and hurt his owne body or his neighbour is adultery and as by murdering the society of men is iniuried so also by adultery fornication and other such vices of the flesh the cōmon wealth is dishonoured disturbed with confusion of children The preparation and preamble shall be as before the substance of the meditatiō shal consist in these pointes following The first point shall ponder that this precept prohibiteth not only adultery Al impurity forbidden which man or wife committeth but also all kind of impurity all that may cause it as thoughtes words touchings lookes kissings gestures dishonest songs vaine superfluous attire wanton talke dissolute beholding paynting vnchast bookes and such like allurements to this vice Adultery is named as the principal head the other acts as making way thereunto and as complices to the crime How pleasing to God purity of body is The 2. shall be employed to meditate how cleanesse and purity of body is in it self pleasing to God and his Angels It is a vertue wholy heauenly diuine for to liue in flesh and not to sinne with the flesh is to liue in spirit and to be like those heauenly spirits who liue without stayne of flesh The Sonne of God made thereof so great account that he would be borne of a virgin he preached chastity and by all meanes inuited mē thereunto he would haue about his Altars ministers not maried but perpetually chast virgins also in his house as Queens betroathed to his maiesty by vow of virginity barren in body but in soule fertill in all sortes of vertuous workes Finally he hath restrained the mariage of all those that liuing vnder the name of Christians Chastity in euery vocatiō will be maried to one only wife establishing a law of Chastity in all estates and degrees of his houshould The 3. point shall consider how contrariwise Impurity is as pleasing to the Diuell our capitall enemy The sin of the flesh pleasing vnto the Diuel wherfore as it is displeasing to God our Creatour For though this wicked spirit hauing no body cannot directly take any pleasure therein notwithstanding it pleaseth him wonderfully well knowing that it displeaseth God and that aboue all other sinnes it maketh a man forget both heauen and hell for there is none doth so darken the iudgement and vnderstanding of man and take away the tast of heauenly things the feare of hell fire that doth more draw man from heauen and from saluation and that maketh him more carnall more stupide and beastly By meanes wherof this old preuaricator vseth all his craft deuises possible to make men fall thereinto therein to hold and keep them vnto old age yea euen vnto death Against playes wanton bookes To this purpose he inflameth their flesh with extraordinary fire by al sortes of enticements he chafeth them by charmes he proposeth them playes and comedyes which in Threaters may represent vnto them the fond fancies and loues as Painters do in the pictures of Amadis and such other wanton Writers which paint them in the bookes of base soules Against lasciuious Poets vnder the name of Poets who like trumpets of flesh and ignominy blow forth without blushing and with full mouth the shame of their owne others passions and finally he worketh al the wayes to giue the reines and liberty to this Cupid infernal Theon euen vnto the transforming himselfe into man or woman cloathing himselfe with figure and fantasticall body to pollute and defile the bodyes and soules of those whome he would hold fast in the fetters and chaynes of his tyranny thence

beginning and is cleansed by fayth in the Messias certaine ceremonies in the law of nature Moyses Conc. Tri. sess 5. and after the comming of the Messias by the fayth of the same professed in Baptisme by the which we are made children of God as by a second spirituall birth and generation Actuall mortall sinne Actuall is that which man committeth by his owne free-will and worke which if it be grieuous that is committed in any important matter with deliberate will and full consent is called Mortall because it bereaueth the sinner of the grace of God which is the life of his soule maketh it guilty of death euerlasting called by s. Iohn The second death 2. Cor. 6. Gal. 5. Apo. 21. Rom. 6. Apoc. 21. Rom. 6. And by S. Paul The reward of sinne Such a sinne was the pride of the first Angell his Complices made Diuells thereby Such a sinne was the disobedience of Adam Actuall in himselfe and Originall to all his children If the Actuall sinne be not grieuous that is if it be committed in a small matter without full consent as an idle word a light negligence an euill thought a foule motion without any stayed consent it is that we call Veniall of the Latin word Venia which signifyeth Pardon because it is easily pardonable not making man enemy to God and for defacing whereof no Sacrament is necessary as it is for mortal Notwithstanding we must keep our selues as farre from it as we can for that it cooleth and quencheth charity and christian deuotion and maketh way for mortall and it is well done to confesse them dayly both to purge them and to preuent them Aug. ser de Sanctis 41. epist. 19. Conc. Tri. sess 14. c. 5. Now this distinction taught by the Catholike Church as we learne in the Councell of Trent and the ancient Doctours namely S. Augustine may be vnderstood by a similitude in the body For as there be certaine diseases and woundes deadly of their owne nature as t●e Plurisie the hoat ague the wounds of the brayne hart or the like others are not so as the tertian ague and quartaine the Migrame Moratll woundes or diseases and other woundes or blowes on the lesse vitall and noble partes of the body which are small healed soone so it happeneth to the soule the diseases and woūdes whereof are vices and sinnes which if they depriue it of the Grace of God are mortall maladies Sinne the wound of the soule deadly woundes and is mortall sinne if they doe not depriue him thereof but alter a little the harmony of his peace with God these are light diseases and are veniall sinnes The third point shall ponder how sinne beginneth by suggestion groweth by delectation and is perfected by consent By suggestion of the diuell the world or the flesh some of these three enemies casting into our mynd some obiect cōtrary to the lawe of God to which suggestion suc●edeth a pleasing and lyking of the sense willingly beholding the obiect as Eue was delighted to see the forbidden fruit To pleasure succeedeth Consent and to consent the execution consummation of the sinne So Eue after she had receaued the suggestion of the Serpent cheapening it at the sight The steps of sinne vnto the depth and giuing her hart to delight thereon she reached her hand to the execution and bit of the apple and tooke that morsell that infected all the race of mankind Behold here say our Doctours the linkes Gre. l. 4. mora c. 25 Isido l 1. de sum●o bo●● c. 23 Psal 118. 2. Reg. 22. Prouer. 5. Aug. l. 8. contest c. 5 Greg. l. 25 moral c. 12 rings of this strong chaine of sinne Of suggestion commeth thought of thought pleasure of pleasure consent of consent the worke of the worke custome of custome despaire of despaire defence of ill of defence boasting of boasting damnation This is the chayne which that old Tyrant made of the worke whereof himself was authour that is of sinne these are the cordes and boltes wherewith he fettereth the poore sinner and in fine doth cast him hedlong bound hand foot into the shipwracke of eternal damnation In the speach the Pilgrime shal desire of God grace to auoid sinne and shall say O infinite bounty keep me from sinne if it please thee The speach and preserue me from any alliance with that abortiue impe so monstrous and infected Let death armed with all sortes of torments pull my soule out of my body rather than I should consent to any sinne though neuer so small against thy holy Law O sweet Iesu and infinit bounty how should I offend thee being so milde good and bountifull Chast Ioseph said to his Mistresse who sollicited him to vnchast loues How can I commit so great an offence against my Maister of whome I haue receiued so many benefits How can I then sinne against thee O my Maister and souueraigne Lord seeing thou hast bound me with many better titles by so many fauours and promises Seeing thou hast bought me not with gold or siluer or any corruptible price but with the ransome of thy most precious bloud how can I then offend thee O glorious virgin Mother of the Allmighty and who by speciall priuiledge from his Omnipotency wast preserued frō all spot in thy Conception and Birth To the B. Virgin and in all thy actions wast preserued all pure and beautified enriched and adorned with a thousand vertues help thy poore Pilgrime with thy credit and grace and procure me pardon of my sinnes passed and effectuall grace for hereafter to remaine without stayne of any sinne euen veniall if it may be by the grace of thy Sonne Let myne eyes be enlightened with the heauenly beames that they may neuer slumber into this deadly sleep and that myne enemie may neuer say Psal 124. I haue preuailed against him This guift O happy virgin will redound to the glory of the Maiesty of thy Sonne to the health of thy wearied Pilgrime who honoureth serueth thee and by thy assistance desireth to serue with all his soule that Lord whome thy self adorest The After-dinner and Euening of the sixteenth dayes Iourney Of the seauen Capitall sinnes commonly called Mortall and of their Branches CHAP. XXXVII IN the Afternoone and in the rest of the day the Pilgrime shall persist vpon the same matter for though it be but sowre to the taste yet taken with a holy Meditation and digested into the stomake of the deuout soule it helpeth much to deface and detest sinne He shall discourse vpon the seauen sinnes commonly called mortall or more properly Capitall for being the heades and springes of diuers others They are The 7. Capitall sinne Pride Couetice Lechery Enuy Gluttony Anger Slouth hauing so many vertues opposite to encounter them Humility Liberality Chastity Charity Abstinence Patience The contrary vertues Deuotion or Diligence Pride is an

its first fall vntill the comming of the Sonne of God incarnate he shal consider the confusion and miserable condition of men plunged for the most part in the darke dūgeon of ignorance of God and heauenly thinges and opp●essed vnder the tyranny of him who inthralled our first Father and held all his posterity prisoners in the slauery of all sort of sinnes vices The prodence of God towardes man before his sonnes cōming infinitly more cruel then that which the Iewes suffered in Aegypt for that was only a figure and shaddow of this On the other side he shall behould the diuine prouidēce not ceasing still to prouide help and succours to prepare dispose this patient by conuenient remedies and to retayne men in their duty and vertue by good lawes and good workes by punishments promises threatnings as the examples of the deluge of the burning of Sodome of his protecting of the iust do teach vs. And heere he shall remember how the Father of mercy in what measure he seeth our misery increase increaseth also strengthneth his remedies more liuely stirring vp his friends to the fayth hope of his helpe and benediction which namely he performed in the person of Abrahā Gods promises for the comfort of the world when hauing foretold him that his posterity should be captiue in a strange country he promised also that in the fourth generation they should be deliuered and should retourne from whence they parted which is according to the outward letter of the history the deliuerance of the Hebrewes the children of Abraham happening in the fourth generation that is foure hundred yeares after they entred into Aegypt allowing euery generation a hundred yeares Foure diuers generations and were put in possession of the land of Promise According to the interiour or mystical sense it is the redemption of man wrought by the comming of the Sonne of Man into the world in the fourth kind of generation which was this For the first was that of Adam without Father and Mother the second that of Eue made of the substance of Adam without a Mother the third is the ordinary of all men borne of Father and Mother by the common law of Nature the fourth then was this of the Sonne of God made Man and borne of a Mother without a Father He shall note also in the same place and marke that faith and hope were alwayes entertained and renewed among the people of God by diuers sacraments sacrifices ceremonies and prophecies which did figure and foretel this future Messias Redeemer of mankind as is euident in all the law of Moyses The third point of the Meditation The desires of the Saints dead and liuing of the comming of the Messias CHAP. XXIII FOR the third point the Pilgrime shall choose certaine places of Scripture which declare the desires and longing of the Saints who from the tyme of the law of Nature Moyses The Fathers desirous of the comming of Messias bewayling the great miseries of mankind and longing after the promised Redeemer were in an incredible expectation of his comming and ceased not to cry for him with prayers sighes teares so much the more feruent by how much the more they saw the greatnes of our euill and misery Moyses sayd Exod. 4. I pray thee O Lord send whome thou wilt send He spake to the Father Exod. 4. desiring him to send his Sonne How long sayth Dauid O Lord wilt thou turne thy face from vs How long wilt thou forget our pouerty and anguish Psalm 43. How long shall our enemies lift vp their hornes and glory in our destruction Arise O Lord arise and for the loue of thy name send vs help and succour As if he had sayd Lord if thou deferrest thy comming to the end by thy staying to make vs acknowledge our owne misery and pouerty alas we know already too well and cannot sufficiently bewayle it we know full well that without thy help we are lost Psal 8.20 help vs then O Lord and shew vs thy face we shall be safe Send vs this promised face this valiant woman this diuine seed Gen. 3.13 that should crush the head of our enemy shew thy image thy face thy Sonne incarnate which fully doth resemble thee to the end that we may be deliuered out of our misery And in another place as it were comforting himselfe in a holy hope he singeth out this diuine generation Psal 71. He shall descend like a showre of raine vpon a Fleece signifying the heauenly and virginall Conception of the Sonne of God And this was the rayne dew which Esay the Prophet demanded O heauens powre downe thy dew from aboue Isay 45. and let thy cloudes rayne downe the Iust. Let the earth open and bring forth our Sauiour Let it bring forth this iust man that must be borne of a Virgin and beare our iniquityes And againe Isay 64. I would thou wouldest open the heauens and descend the mountaines would melt at thy presence His meaning was O King of heauen when wilt thou descend from thy heauenly throne I would thou wouldest open the heauens and come downe to vs at thy only presence our spirituall enemies the mountaines of pride should be abased and confounded After these places of Scripture considered he shall cast his eyes vpon those great and holy soules The iust soules in Limbo or Purgatory who after the death of the first Iust Abel being shut in the prison of Limbo or wrapped in the flames of Purgatory did expect the comming of the Redeemer in whome they belieued and hoped in their life tyme and did inuocate him in this prison of hope did pray him and presse him for his mercy sake to make hast Genes 3.13 Adam sayd Send this woman and that seed O my Maker wherewith thou didst threaten the pride of that old Dragon the first cause of my f●ll and finish this my long banishment Abel sayd Gen. 4.4 O Father of the whole world send that Lambe which thou madest me to figure by my first sacrifice and open our prison gates Noe sayd O God Almighty make that Prince of peace to appeare signified in my tyme by the raynebow in the cloudes a figure of thy Couenant which thou didst promise to make with mortall men Abraham O Lord Genes 12.3.18.18.22.18 46 4. Act. 3.25 thou didst often promise to multiply my seed as the Starres of heauen and as the sandes of the Sea and to giue them the Country of Chanaan and didst sweare vnto me by thy selfe to blesse all Nations in my seed my race is multiplyed the country of Canaan is giuen according to thy word when will it please thee to accomplish the principall point of thy promise and rayse that branch wherein the world shall be blessed and draw vs out of these shadowes into the possession of thy light and euerlasting felicity Isaac and Iacob sayd as much Genes