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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35529	Heaven opened, and the pains of purgatory avoided by the very great indulgences of the two most illustrious archconfraternities : the one of our Blessed Lady, called the Rosary, and the other of the seraphical father, St. Francis, called, The cord of the Passion.	Cyprien, de Gamaches, ca. 1599-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing C7715; ESTC R17286	39,070	158

was girded when any were sick of divers infirmities he would go to them and dipping the Cord into the water gave them to drink and by such means many were cured The Dignity of this Confraternity of the Cord of the Passion THe same Reasons that prove the great excellency of the Rosary prove also the dignity of this Arch-Confraternity for the same prayers actions confessions communions and processions belong to them both but besides there are many noble things particular to this as you may see here The vessel of election St. Paul doth freely confesse himself Eph. 3. the prisoner of Jesus Christ for the Gentiles and that for the hope of Israel he was compassed with a chain wherein as he teaches Eph. 6. he was a Legat of the Gospel which made him exhort the Collossians Chap. 4. to be mindful of his bonds and Tim. 1. not to be ashamed of his chains wherefore the Soveraign Bishops have had great reverence and honour to the chains which have pinched and bruised the members of the Apostles and Martyrs And St. Gregory who was in the year 616. sent for a great rarity to the Princes and Kings of his time part of the chains of the holy Apostle St. Peter and St. Paul for he sent to the Empress Constantia part of the chains that were fastned to St. Pauls neck and hands whereby as he saith many Miracles were wrought The like he did to Childebert King of France and to Richaredus King of the Visigoths The antient Christians did with great reverence go to kiss the bonds and setters of the Martyrs witness Tertullian lib. 2. ad uxorem and divers others but St. Chrysostom shall serve for all who in the 4. Chap. ad Eph. Serm. 8. sayes That there is nothing so magnificent and excellent as to be prisoner for Jesus Christ and as the chains by the sacred hands which they have environed It is greater renown to be bound with manicles and to be shackled for Jesus Christ then to be an Apostle or Doctor or Evangelist And further down he saith If any one should give me in possession the whole Heaven and the choice of this chain I had rather chuse that chain Moreover If I should fail to be with the Angels in Heaven or with Paul the prisoner certainly I should chuse to be in prison If any one should set me in the number and rank of the celestial powers who are about and near the heavenly Throne or bind me with cords I had rather be bound there is nothing more happy then the chains c. I cannot assure my self that St. Paul was so happy in that he was carried and rapt to the third Heaven as that he was cast into prison c. And a little after O happy bonds O happy hands which this chain hath adorned Babilas Patriark of Antioch as Suidas affirmeth desired that the iron of his hands and feet might be buried with his body saying That one day they would serve him for an ornament But the bands and cords which have touched the holy and sacred flesh of Jesus Christ are much more pretious and honourable and therefore this Evangelical Seraphin this crucified Angel Image Imitator and Standard-bearer of our Saviour justly hath raised up this part of the arms of the Passion girding his body with a rude and gross cord for as with the heart we believe unto justice but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation Rom. 10. so by this exterior sign he would confess the affection and devotion he did bear unto him imbracing his bands which he gave to all his children and to all the world to wear in memory of his Passion teaching that no man ought to blush or be ashamed to wear this Cord since our Saviour hath worn such for our sakes So St. Anthony the Hermit did reverence St. Paul the Hermits weed made of the Palm-tree leaves and did wear it on the principals and most solemn Feasts St. Jerom saith That he had rather chuse it then the Royal Purple not for any other respect then for that it was so holy a mans The faithful People were no less devout to our Seraphical Father For happy were those that could get any part of his Habit or of any thing that he had which they kept with great faith and confidence neither did their hope fail them as may be seen by many examples especially of the Cord as St. Bonaventure affirmeth in the miracle related above he saith besides that by putting a piece of that Cord which St. Francis did wear a woman in child-bearing being in eminent peril was safely delivered Pope Gregory the Ninth and Pope Martin the Fourth did not only wear the Cord privately but also died in the habit of St. Francis The like four other Popes have done with the publick profession of this rule thereby adorning their triple Crowns with a poor Cord chusing to carry the heavie burden of their worthy charge being clad in a poor contemptible manner Many Catholick Kings of France Arragon and Sicil the late Arch-Duke and Arch-Dutchess and not long since Cardinal Infanta have chose to take this poor habit in their last passage and to be buried therein Cardinal de Treio in his Epistle before the work of Saint Francis saith That it doth not unbeseem the Royal Purple to wear the Cord of St. Francis St. Lewis King of France the Queen Blaunch his Mother St. Elizabeth Queen of Hungaria both Queens of England both Queens of France now living the Queen of Portugal Many other Kings and Queens Princes Dukes and Dutchesses and other of Inferiour degree have girded themselves with it insomuch that Cornelius Mutius saith That there is no Nation that doth not receive and honour this Cord glorying with Saint Paul in the Bands of our Saviour And truly We have nothing so pretious in our Christian Religion as the holy Passion of our Redeemer whereof the wearing of the Cord is a continual representation The Pope Sixtus the 5th saith That the Cord representeth divers Mysteries as Charity which doth as it were ties God to us and draws us to Him by Grace and Glory Moreover it putteth us in mind of our Sins wherewith as with Ropes we are bound and consequently stand in need of Gods Mercy But principally it represents the Passion of our Saviour whose Memory ought alwayes to remain in our hearts But such is our frailty and tepidity that we quickly forget so great a benefit And God hath raised his servant St. Francis imprinting his sacred Stigmates on his Body to renovate by all means possible the aforesaid Passion in our minds And to this end he hath called Fryers-Minors that by Words and Deeds they might preach teach and represent his Passion and Poverty From whence we may gather the dignity of this Confraternity Other Confraternities are founded on the Intercessions and Merits of Saints in whose Honour they are erected but this is erected and Ordained in the memory and