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A37113	Du Vergers humble reflections vpon some passages of the Right Honorable the Lady Marchionesse of Nevvcastles Olio, or, An appeale from her mes-informed, to her ovvne better informed iudgement	Du Verger, S.	1657 (1657)	Wing D2921; ESTC R21646	66,712	176

The same is frequently asserted by other holy Fathers as S. a Basile speaking of Monkes these saith he remayne the true and perfect followers of the Institutions of our Redeemour and of his life when he was conuersant amongst vs for as he haue'ng called his Apostle together into one societie made all thinges and euen himselfe common among them so these also who at this day rightly obserue the prescripts of his life obeying their Prelate imitate the Apostles and our Sauiours manner of liueing b S. Chrysostome Monkes liue after the same manner that all the Christians of the Frimitiue Churchliued at Hierusalem And againe in the 3. booke he writing against those that dispraysed Monkes affirmes that the Monkes in his dayes performed the same thinges which the Apostles had performed Possidonius affirmes in plane tearmes that S. Augustine begun to liue according to that Rule and forme which the Apostles themselues had instituted Madame did I not feare to proue too teadious to your Ladyshipe I could with a wett finger bring euen multitudes of like testimonies which are to be seene in the french abridgement of Baronius as also in Gualterius a French Iesuite And what is said of Monkes or religious men is also verified of religious women or Nuns according to the learned Pennottus saying that in the verie same manner that the Institution of the Canon Regulars proceeded from the Apostles so also the institution of the religious Canonesses sprung from the verie prime birth of the Church as well vnder S. Marke at Alexandria as vnder S. Iames at Hierusalem Where that most religious Emperesse our Countrie woman S. Hellen that greatest glorie of our Land and happie Mother of that greatest Emperour of the world Constantine the GREAT did not onely serue the nuns at table with her owne hands 1300. yeares a goe but euen consecrated herselfe to God among them dyed and was buried in their holy habit that is the verie same which the Canonesse all ouer the world vse till this day Pennottus prouinge that the Religious of the holy sepulcher both are now and euer were one and the same order as well with the other Canon Regulars as with those verie Canons which were restored by S. Augustine but instituted by the Apostles themselues THE III. REFLECTION Of the high encomions which Iesus Christ and the Ancient Fathers gaue to Monasticall life THE I. PARAGRAPHE WHENCE can we either more solidly or more fitly begin the commendations of Monasticall life then in his words from whose mouth and example as we haue alreadie seene it tooke its origine And to what end can emore iustly and fruitfully doe it then that the good giuer of it and all good giftes who is worthy of all prayse may be praysed by all thinges and in all thinges since it is not indeede by our owne witt worth or merite but by his gift that we are what soeuer we are laudably Iesus Christ then the wisdome of his heauenly Father who was the first counseller of this blessed life putt also the first most effectuall commēdations vpon it when he said Amen I say to you you who haue followed me in the regeneration when the son of man shall sit in the seate of his maiestie you also shall sit vpon twelue seates iudging the twelue tribes of I sraël and euery one that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or Mother or wife or children or lands for my names sake shall receiue an hundredfold and shall possesse like euerlasting If then we iudge of the greatnesse of the worke by the greatnesse of the reward and measure the profession by the promises what greater commendations could be putt vpon Monasticall life All the right of iudicature was giuen by the father to the sonne and yet the sonne will not exercise it alone but will haue those to share in it who shared with him in abandoning the world T is an absolutly iust retribution cryes out S. Bernard that they who here below contemned the glorie of humane greatnesse for Christs sake should there sit togeither with Christ being sin gularly glorified with the qualitie of iudge c. And we must know saith he that not onely the Apostles but euen all those that for Christs sake by the Apostles blessed example left all and followed him shall become iudges with him O singular familiaritie ô highth of honour ó priuiledge of confidence ó prerogatiue of perfect securitie O diuinely happie state which renders men so secure yea euen so glorious in that Wonderfull clashing of the elements in that dreadfull discussion of merites and that most doubtfull and daunting expectation of iudgement This securitie is the pecu liar rewarde of those Eunukes which geld themselues that is to speake with S. Augustine of those who vo e chastitie for the Kingdome of Heauen of those poore of Christ who follow poore Christ of those obedient sheepe who know and follow the voyce of their pastour and that too not in point of his commands onely but euen in his councells Finally saith S. Augustine let vs heare our Lord Christ Iesus pronouncing a most euident sentence in this behalfe for when he had spoken diuinely and terribly of not separating man wife saue onely f r fornication his Disciples said vnto him if the case of a man with his Wife be so it is not expedient to marie To whom he replyed not all take this word but they to whom it is giuen For there are Eunukes who were borne so from their Mothers wombe and there are Eunukes which were madeby men and there are Eunukes which haue gelded themselues for the kingdome of heauen He that can take let him take What could haue bene said fuller of truth and light It s Christ that sayes truth that sayes the power and wisdome of God that sayes that they who out of a pious resolution conteyne themselues from marriage geld themselues for the kingdome of heauen And on the contrarie side humane vanitie by an impious rashnesse contends that they who doe so doe onely eschew the present necessitie and troubles which accompanie a maried life but shall not haue any whitt more then others And yet I pray of what other Eunukes doth our Lord speake by Isaye the Prophete to whom he promiseth to giue a peculiar place locum nominatum in his house and in his walls farre better then that of Sonns and daughters but of those that geld themselues for the kingdome of heauen Christ goes he on prayses those that geld themselues not for this world but for the kingdome of heauen and shall a Christian contradict him affirming that to witt such gelding it is onely profitable in this life but not in the next Nor hath saith he the holy Ghost bene silent vpon this subiect but hath deliuered something both euident and stronge enough against those impudent and franticke wranglers and withall powerfull enough by impregnable Fortresses

fruites of Monasticall life THE I. PARAGRAPHE MADAME Beleeue the workes was the maxime of a wise man and that other of wisdome itselfe ex fructibus eorum cognoscet is eos comes home to the same thinge To this sure tryall I am here to inuite your prudence Let not your more impartiall iudgement be so much swayed by what they say or euen what we say but by what our Lord saith you shall know them by their fruites What they say to witt our enemyes as your Honour has the goodnes to tell vs we shall hereafter with iustice protest against as fowle calumnies howeuer we can scarse hope that what we say should passe for payment yet sure we are that what our workes say ought to be the wise mans satisfaction Please then to know monasticall life and liuers by their fruites And may not we say to that effect without fearing to meete with any specious contradiction that Monafteries haue produced such multitudes of ripe fruites fruites I say of pietie of learning of conuersions of nations that had not our prodigall slaunderers loued emptie huskes better then the pure solide bread of their fathers house from which they fled they had found delightfull varietie enough to haue fed their thoughtes vpon But as S. Augustine could tell the world 12. hundred yeares agoe It is noe wonder that they hate the name Monke or vnitie who haue cutt themselues from the vnitie of the Church And that the name of Monke stands in their way since they will not liue together with their brethren but by following Donatus c. quitt Iesus Christ What a large field would a learned pen haue to labour in and what pen so learned as would not euen be oppressed should it vndertake to point out the fruites of pictie which haue sprung from the Alumnuses of Monasticall life Sure I am it is a work so farre out speakinge my smale abilitie that I ch●fe rather tymely to strike sayle then to giue into so uaste an Ocean I will therfor say nothing of those huge fires of deuotion which our Basiles Hieromes Augustines Benets Gregories and thousands more of their disciples euen to this day well knowen to the whole world left behind them to inflame Christian hartes Nor will I aduenture to relate what great lightes and ornaments Monasticall life brought out in later ages as Aquinases Bonauentures Albertus Magnuses Bernards multitudes more whose learned monuments the whole world venerates and admires till this day Nor finally attempt the particularising of those Monasticall persons who haue either bene blessed authours or instruments of the conuersion of a great part of this knowen world euen of allmost all the new which none can question to the faith of Christ I will onely confine my discourse to our owne little world togeither with some neere neighbouring nations Madame What doe we owne of Christian religion which we must not originally ascribe vnto them What of pietie wherin their sacred cells had not a great part What of learning diuine and humaine wherof their Schooles may not iustly chalenge the deepest share What of ancient historie wherof they were not the cheife and almost onely authours Was the light of Christ his benignitie and humanitie to shine to those that sat in darknesse and in the shadowe of death euen to vs shutt out from the world Gods prouidēce makes vse of one of those for the worke who in the Actes 4. had but one hart and one soule to plant at once in the hart of our Land as well Christianitie as fraternitie and to teach vs how good and pleasant a thinge it is for brothers to liue in vnitie and communitie I meane that famous Decurio S. Ioseph of Arimathea who had the honnour and happinesse to burie our Blessed Sauiour accompaigned with cleauen other Saintes begun that renowned Abbey of Glostenburie that Mother of Monasteries and Saintes Was that tymely light obscured or extinguished two monasticall persons to witt Phaganus and Deruuianus Monkes are sent from Rome to re-kindle and restore it at king Lucius instance to Pope Elutherius Doth religion in England for a second or third tyme fall into decay Rome in S. Gregorie the Great his person comes in to our ayde and Religious persons are made the instruments of our Happinesse to witt S. Augustine and his companions And was not scolland and Ireland made happie by the like meanes Rome sent and Monkes were the men and by those holy workmen Patrike Palladius c. the blessed worke of the conuersion of those two Nations was accomplished Noe lesse can be ascribed to them in point of deuotion and pietie For who euer so largely contributed to it and made themselues so manifestly knowen by their fruites Witnesse S. Anselmes treatises of pietie Hiltons Scala perfectionis that vnparelled peece Tauleres Harpius Susos Ruisbrochius and Thomas a Kempis all their admirable workes All Monasticall persons or Monkes for I take the word in its latitude as it is extended to all religious persons and our neere neighbours in or about the skirts of Germanie What is more diuinely inflaming then those of S. Anselmes What more solidly and Christianly perfect then that and many other peeces of Hilton what more sublimely mysticall then those of Taulere Harphius Suso Ruisbroke What more full then that of Maubornus What more heauenly simple and more aduantagiously coming home to euery ones vse then Kempis his workes They afforde honie and milke to the least children and yet proue solide foode to the most manly appetite As many lines as many pious sentences as many sentences as many firie darts to peirce the most hardened harte Should I endeuour highly to commend them I should not much feare to offend any since the worlds iudgmenthath long agoe past vpon them and giuen them to be the best of spirituall bookes and withall being in euery ones hands they speake the language of heauen more profitably for themselues by their effects Thus much in short according to my purpose to giue a smale taste of the delicious fruites of monasticall pietie which would yet haue bene much better proued by their liues then by their lynes could they haue bene of so large extent and perpetuitie Now to fruites of Monastikes learning which as I humbly confesse to your Lasp passes my abilities as being shutt vp in Latine wherin my knowledge it but slender and therfor I had recouse to an honest friend who tooke the paines to bestowe vpon vs what followes Mr Howeuer I must cōfesse you haue made noe happie choyce in addressing your selfe to a man who hath spent the least parte of his tyme in histories and who when he is taken at the best passes for nothing among men of learning yet being called vpon by Mrs du Vergers who is knowen to be a louer of learning and a verie vertuoso in antiquities beyond the rate of a woman and that too in order to a noble person whose abilities