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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	church_n	earth_n	militant_a	5,036	5	12.4963	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19061	A true relation of the last sicknes and death of Cardinall Bellarmine Who dyed in Rome the seauenteenth day of Septe[m]ber 1621. And of such things as haue happened in, or since his buriall. By C.E. of the Society of Iesus.	Coffin, Edward, 1571-1626.	1622 (1622)	STC 5476; ESTC S118645	54,744	172

had for that he was so neere his home or as he did alwayes in this sicknes call it a Heauen Bellarmines howse Casa mia to my howse and worthily did he call it his howse for as S. Augustine sayth of the militant Church on earth non magis est domus tua quàm domus vhi habes Aug. tract 10. in Ioannem salutem aeternam There is no howse more thine then that howse where thou hast euerlasting saluation so might he no lesse fittly say of the triumphant howse Kingdome and inheritance of all Gods seruants on earrh which he with so long and infatigable labour had purchased that it was his house for there had he fixt his hopes there had he heaped vp al his wealth there was his hart his treasure all his desired good to this world he was not so much a stranger as an enemy And although that euen here Honour did follow his noble labours as the shadow the body yet did none more fly from it none more contemne and condemne it then he The Cardinall proceeding in his discourse sayd and often repeated these wordes satis di● vixi I haue liued long inough it is tyme to depart hence and rest with God in euerlasting peace What I haue to do more in this vvorld I am now feeble and fit for nothing I am only a meere burden trouble to my selfe others And then further declared hovv he did loath and abhorre and had still loathed abhorred the course of this vvorld that men vvere so deeply plunged in the desire of temporall and transitory things grieuing at their preposterous proceedings that their endeauours vvere not directed to their right end and that God was not sought for knovvne nor glorified as he ought to be and this point piercing indeed his hart he concluded vvith saying that God had shewed him now a spirituall sauour to call him avvay because it vvas bitter and distastfull vnto him to stay any longer heere c. Thus vvith more to this effect did he then speake and of these things only vvas his continuall speach The Phisitians expecting the issue of the disease and nature thereof found it to be a continuall feuer per subintrantiam with proportion of a double Tertian the one more excessiue then the other the former bereaued him of his senses the other vvas much more moderate And truly it seemes this bereauement to haue been sent him for the greater manifestation of his vertue for therein he no lesse edifyed others that savv His extremity of sicknes singular patience him then he did in the other but rather much more for according to the rule of the Philosopher In repentinis cognoscitur habitus our disposition is best knovvne by suddaine euents so the violent and suddaine pulls did shevv the habits of his Saint-like mynde hauing no other effect therein then to make him recurre to his prayers which he did as soon as they began and say them as farre as he vvas able When this vehemency vvas a little relented he would make the signe of the Crosse and begin another prayer neuer so much as once in all these extreme fits speaking any idle word or shewing the least signe of any impatience In so much as my selfe in company of others often visiting him and that at such tymes as he was in this feuer I doe sincerely protest that I neuer saw man in his best health repose more quietly or make lesse shew of feeling the force of any disease then alwayes I saw him in this For the most part his armes were decently layed a Crosse on his brest he neuer mouing vnles he were willed any part of his body neuer sighing neuer complayning no though his tongue were scorched with the raging heat of the ague did he euer so much as call for drinke or once offered to refresh his mouth so as the beholders could make no other iudgement of him but that which the disciples made of Lazarus si dormit saluus erit if he sleep he will recouer Ioan. 11. for his magnanimity was such he rather seemed to sleep then to be sicke and thereby gaue greater signes of life then death But notwithstanding this his great courage patience the disease still increased and the increase caused the Phisitiās according to their wont to warne His wil testamēt him to make his last will testament to the end he might be the more free in thinking on the life to come towardes which he did now draw on apace To this suggestion he made no other answere but that all was dispatched his testament was made his goods disposed euery thing determined many yeares ago adding withall that he had giuen to euery one of his seruāts somwhat according to their degree and place which they had in his seruice and according to that small ability he had to gratify them withall For other things although he once intended to make no wil as mindfull of that pouerty which he had vowed in Religion yet afterward least such small things as he left should come vnto other handes then of poore men he made a short Will agreable to his little wealth which I shal after set down leauing his Order the Society of Iesus I meane heyre not to his wealth which was none at al but as he said vnto thē in his sicknes propensae voluntatis ac paupertatis meae of my affection and pouerty he might well say of his pouerty for besides that which he had left for his owne diet which was alwayes very meane and the wages of his seruants he had already bestowed the rest on the poore in so much as he had not inough left him for his buriall and exequies in case the Pope had not fauoured him as after shal be shewed and the Will it selfe vvas such as might beseeme Bellarmine but to others will seeme perhaps as strange as any that hath beene made for many yeares by a Cardinall Now though this mention of making his last Will gaue him to vnderstand the danger of his disease yet he much desired to be more particulerly enformed thereof and to that end requested all the Phisitians to tell him plainly in what state he was assuring them all that he feared not death but desired it and so far quoth he I am from all feare as that I fynd a speciall comfort to thinke theron yea life it selfe would be more grieuous vnto me then death Wherfore I pray you aduertise me betymes that I may receaue the holy Sacraments ere I depart Vpon these words the fourth day of his sicknes it was consulted amongst the Doctours whether it were not expedient that he should receaue the B. Sacrament of the Altar per modum viatici and they iudged it not expedient to giue it him in that manner but only by way of ordinary communicating and their reason was because he might yet continue for many dayes and in case some sodden accident should befall him