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A69462	Pietas Romana et Parisiensis, or, A faithful relation of the several sorts of charitable and pious works eminent in the cities of Rome and Paris the one taken out of the book written by Theodorus Amydenus ; the other out of that by Mr. Carr.; De pietate Romana. English	Ameyden, Dirk, 1586-1656.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674. Pietas Parisiensis.; R. H., 1609-1678.	1687 (1687)	Wing A3033; Wing W3450; ESTC R10919	86,950	204

PIETAS ROMANA ET PARISIENSIS OR A Faithful Relation of the several sorts of Charitable and Pious WORKS eminent in the Cities of ROME and PARIS The one taken out of the Book written By Theodorus Amydenus The other out of that by Mr. Carr. Printed at OXFORD An. Dom. 1687. Licet omnem Ecclesiam quae in toto est orbe terrarum cunctis oporteat florere virtutibus Vos tamen praecipus inter caeteros populos decet meritis Pietatis excellere quos in ipsâ Apostolicae Petrae arce fundatos Dominus noster Jesus Christus cum omnibus redemit beatus Apostolus Petrus prae omnibus crudivit S. Leo Serm. 2. Annivers Assumpt Christian Reader HERE are published for thy benefit two compendious Extracts one out of Theodorus Amydenus's Pietas Romana written Anno Domini 1624. The other out of Mr. Carr's Piety of Paris Anno Domini 1666 these being Collections of several sorts of charitable and pious works eminently flourishing in the two Cities of Rome and Paris which may serve as an Auctary to be added to the many famous Works of our Forefathers here at home and especially in the Royal City of London which are omitted here because better known to us and by others diligently recorded for Posterity The Publisher hopes that of such a great variety of patterns of wisely-disbursed wealth as are here presented some one or other may take the Reader and invite an imitation of them so often as these relations may happily fall into the hands of persons that as they are piously disposed so also are either wealthy and single or having children and made a competent provision for them have also reserved a part of their estate for themselves to be expended for their own more happy living and subsistance in the next world and especially so often as this Manual may come to the perusal of such who have had beforehand some serious thoughts of our Lord's directions and counsels given to them in the Gospel viz. of their laying up whilst here some treasure in heaven Mat. 6.20 21. because such will not fail them as all treasure here will and because their hearts and affections will surely follow and be where their treasure is and woe be to those whose affections here are not Celestial Again Of their making themselves some freinds whilst here with the Mammon of unrighteousness for so our Lord stiles wealth Luke 16.9 That these friends relieved here by them may afterward receive them i. e. when here by death they shall be turned out of doors into everlasting habitations so as the poor ejected Steward was received by his Lord's debtors whom he had before so prudently obliged such distribution of their wealth being as the Apostle also saith a laying up in store or treasuring for themselves a good foundation for laying hold on or purchasing therewith hereafter eternal life 1. Tim. 6.19 And lastly our Lord's counsel of their taking warning betimes from the unfortunate Builder here on earth of new barns Luke 12.18 for his increased goods for whose Soul the Divine Sergeants came the same night whilst he saith the text abounding here in wealth did not take care to be rich also towards God and so all these and his Soul too lost at once or warning also from the miserable rich man Luke 16.19 who having wealth and plenty given him wherewith to relieve such as poor Lazarus rather chose to feast himself with them and so had provided in the next world not so much as a drop of cold water to allay his thirst I say such meditations may happily prepare some Readers at least welcomely to entertain such proposals as this little Book suggests to them wherein they may see what various devices many others have used for saving their Souls with the good management of their Estates and may imitate them in such a Charity among this great choice as they judge more necessary or their means can best extend to Nor hath the Publisher any jealousy though this hath been suggested to him That the Scene of such publick Pieties being made here Rome and Paris will therefore give any just offence For thus he argues That the abounding in any Religion of such works as are in all allowed good and praise-worthy will rather provoke the rest to a pious emulation and that those who think themselves to enjoy more light of truth will hence endeavour not to be inferiour in the true fruits thereof Good Works And again That tho our own Country and the chief City thereof is very rich in variety of publick Monuments of the great Munificence of our Fore-fathers yet perhaps some inventions of forreign Charity may be discovered so beneficial as to be thought worthy to be transplanted also hither and some new succours to our necessitous neighbours here be happily derived from them Or that such as are also found here yet now but few and rare may be much more multiplied by occasion of the forreign patterns thereof seen much more frequent or being now more private Charities may become more publick And some publick Charities also here attempted and begun but not hitherto brought to such perfection as is desired or designed may by being compared with the same works more compleated abroad have their defects rectified and so the work be consummated For true love to God or our Neighbour knows no limits and useth to be very ingenious in multiplying new devices of serving them both to the uttermost And here to name some of those publick Charities abroad which seem either not to be at all or not so frequent here at home Such seem to be That Charity of providing convenient Receptacles and Hospitals for poor helpless exposed Infants here I am afraid too hastily committed with a small allowance to the nursing of some poor women some of them of no good reputation where partly by their negligence partly their wants many of these little ones come to a suddain end and are as little inquired after because the parish hereby is eased of a charge Again such are the frequent Sodalities or a company of pious persons united together in the prosecution of some or other charitable designs As the Sodalities in several trades for the relieving the necessities of those inculpably more indigent amongst them Sodalities for the succouring the necessities of formerly wealthy-families casually impoverished and bashful to publish their wants For easing poor housholders when burthened with many Children taking these from them and giving them education till they come to certain years or are also fitted for an honest imployment Founding Schools only for poor mens children for teaching them their Catechisme and to write and read and so dismissing them Sodalities For freeing and releasing Prisoners for debt at least when it is no very great summe and the persons not scandalous For visiting comforting and instructing Criminals condemned and endeavouring to bring them to a godly end of their life Setting up Apothecaries shops and supplying the

according to their Institute are so imployed in some other work that they cannot attend both solemn Mass also celebrated and on Festivals added the Musick of the Organ unless it be in the reformed Convents for they neither use Organ nor singing but recite Lauds and Hymns to God in their Churches according to the canonical hours in somewhat an higher but unison tone And by these we see that the City of Rome hath so many Centinels and Watchmen that whensoever our Lord shall come he may not find her sleeping Besides these of Men there are also other Religious Houses of Women some with and some also without clausure that the more may be attracted to such an holy and retired life These also are accurate observers of discipline and most conspicuous for holiness of life some eating no flesh at all and observing a perpetual Fast and after they have taken the habit being never seen again by any person living out of the Monastery no not by the nearest of their kindred using no beds but instead thereof sacks of Straw or bare Boards not wearing any linnen Never quitting their Habit tho very course day nor night but in it watching and sleeping yet nothing more in these mortifications is permitted to be done than what is ordinarily found to consist with health and a relaxation thereof made in case of sickness Some of these Religious are of Virgins some onely of Non-Virgins Of the first of these there are in Rome houses thirty one and three of the other One of honest Widows who destitute of any of their kindred with whom they may live have here a kind of Asylum and safe place of refuge Another of such as have been loose women and now are become Penitents and do deliberate on a better course The third is that famous Nunnery of St. Mary Magdalen in Viâ latâ for Harlots that have left off that miserable course of life and now are known by the usual name of Convertitae In all these Nunneries besides the particular Prayers that are made to God for all Christian people they sing likewise their continual hours as they are prescribed by the Church night and day with no less devotion and decency then is used in the Convents of the men The rest of their time vacant from Prayers is spent in band-labour spinning or other womans work the gain thereof is to be bestowed on the necessities of the house or in Charity to the Poor abroad CHAP. IV. Of the Lay-Sodalities and Confraternities in Rome And of their Oratories THere is a great number in Rome of these Lay-Sodalities that profess great Piety to God and Charity to their Neighbour Confraternities both National as of Germans French Spaniards c And of several Trades or other Professions As of Taylors Shoomakers Scriveners Stationers Cooks Bakers Goldsmiths Fishermen Painters c. which Sodalities may also be ranged to heads The first of such as use long vestments down to their feet being a kind of Frocks when they meet together after a Collegiate manner in all publick functions The other of those who use no Garment and intend only their charge in a private way Of the former of these Sodalities are numbred above forty and of the later above thirty Of all which as also of the Churches where they are founded and to which they relate the Author gives a particular account There are also three Sodalities of women exercising Charities like to several of those of the men forementioned Part 3. Chap. 3. One Sodality of which also takes care of those guilty Women that for their offences are condemned to death Now the intent of all these Confraternities and Sodalities is in the general one and the same viz. By their Prayers and good works to render Almighty God propitious to the world and with all readiness to assist every one of their Neighbours in their particular necessities as far as they are able And the Brethren of all these Sodalities are employed on every Holy-day in certain works of Charity either in giving Dowries to poor Girls or distributing Alms to the needy or visiting the Prisons with a purse made up to releive those that lye there for debt or for other civil causes or to visit the sick of their own Confraternity or to do the last office to their Dead and to pray for their Souls And altho every one of the forenamed Sodalities do interest themselves in all these good works which I have named yet do they chiefly intend that particular peice of Charity for the sake of which they were framed into a Sodality so not hindring the offices of others And very many of these Sodalities besides their being founded in several Churches to which they repair have also of their own certain Oratories apart like to Churches wherein on all Festivals they sing the Canonical hours CHAP. V. Of the Congregations of Cardinals consulting about Ecclesiastical Affairs and matters of Religion THE Pope being in a double capacity As the common Father or Pastor of the whole Catholick Church And as a Prince of that Dominion and Territory which is immediately subject unto the Church and not being able to do every thing by himself which belongs to the administration of either charge hath many Assistants in both functions especially the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church whose help and counsel he makes use of in divers qualities In the first and principal place by calling together as it were a Senate of those Fathers which is termed a Consistory wherein the Pope layeth open those affairs which are of most weight and importance concerning the State both of the universal Church and also of his particular Dominion asking these Fathers their several Opinions thereupon and then deliberating what is fit to be done And because this Consistory cannot well be assembled weekly and there intervenes many times such businesses as require quicker dispatch Therefore there is erected for such matters a certain particular Congregation of Conscript Fathers who may meet together oftner and certify the Pope of what is therein done and decreed for those Decrees receive their Execution only from him Other businesses which dayly occur and require not a compleat Senate are committed to several Congregations of Cardinals interessed some in the Ecclesiastical Discipline and whole State of Christian Religion and some in the civil administration of his temporal Dominion The several Congregations set over matters of Religion are seven The First is the Congregation of the Holy Inquisition into Heretical pravity In this Congregation are examined and sifted all persons opposing the Catholick Faith and those that are found to offend therein punished The Fathers of this Congregation meet every Wednesday and on Thursday the next day give an account before the Pope of all the Acts and Deeds done among them in that Congregation The Second Congregation for matters in Rel gion is that of the most illustrious Fathers who are chosen Interpreters of the Holy Council of Trent to