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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06360	The life of Gregorie Lopes that great servant of God, natiue of Madrid, written in Spanish by Father Losa curate of the Cathedrall of Mexico. And set out by Father Alonso Remon of the Order of our Lady de la Merced, with some additions of his owne.	Losa, Francisco de, 1536-1624.; White, Thomas, 1593-1676. aut; Remón, Alonso, 1561-1632.	1638 (1638)	STC 16828; ESTC S105406	99,533	326

weÌ„t to seeke him and finding him out brought him to Valladolid where at that time was the court of Spaine and there placed him with a Gentleman of good account to serue as his page much against Gregory his will but neither the braueries nor fassions of the court could make him forgett God and his inward recollection where vnto he perceiued his calling was and he was wont to say that whilest he serued in that place and was sent vpon errandes his chiefest care was to goe talkeing mentally with God Lastly groweing in yeares and haueing attained the twentieth yeare of his age or ther abouts and as much as may be gathered his father and Mother being now dead he resolued vpon that which he had allwaies determined and purposed in his mind and taking with him some little things which were necessary for such a long voiage he tooke his iourney towards Siuill with intent to take ship for the indies visiting some holy places which are in the way in Castile and Andalutia he passed by Toledo where whilest he praied in the great Church and visited many Reliques and pictures that are there he confessed that one day amongst the rest God did him in that place such a speciall fauour and grace as he had neuer receaued the like till that time but he would neuer tell what ir was From thence he went to our Ladyes of Guadalupe where he spent some daies in watching and continuall prayer beseeching that glorious Virgin the guid of the exiled that she woud obtaine of her blessed sonne to enlighten him in his iourney which he purposed aÌ„d it is certainely thought as much as could be gathered by that little which he declared for he did not reueale his thoughts to any body that the Mother of God at Guadalupe commanded him by a particular reuelation to goe to new Spaine which iourney he tooke in hand and performed very ioyfully THE SECOND CHAPTER How he arriued in new Spaine and of the exercises wherein he there employed himself AFter he was embarked the fleet wherein the went endured some tempests which seemed vnusualle to the Mariners in those parts but it seemes that all these were slights of the deuill who as soone as he getteth knowledge of any soule that is to warre against him he presently begins to trouble her and desireth to hinder her from going forward either couertly with the colour of goodnes or opeÌ„ly by opposing her but all these tempests passed ouer and he arriued safe at the post of S. Iuan de Lua there he gaue thaÌ„kes vnto God for his good successe and went to the City of Veracruz where he did declare somwhat of his mind and purpose in coming to the Indies because most Men goe thither to increase their fortunes and he it seemes had read that which S. Augustine saith in one of his Epistles if you would be a good Marchant and heape vp store of wealth giue that which you cannot keep and you shall receiue in exchange that which you cannot loose giue a little and you shall receaue a great deale because for these temporall goods which you distribute there shall be giuen you an eternall inheritaÌ„ce so he being furnished with cloaths mony and some other little things to the value of eightscore pound starling he gaue away aÌ„d distributed it all for the loue of God keeping nothing for himself but what was necessary to couer his body which was a sute of ordinary cloath of rash with which he went from the City of Veractuz to Mexico trauailing those 240. miles with many incommodities in his sustenance because he neuer asked any thing of any body neither for Gods sake nor for any other respect As soone as he came to Mexico being as is said before excellent in the art of writing least he should giue himself any occasion to be withdrawne froÌ„ his purpose neuer so little he did flie idlenes because as the poet Lucan saith that is the effect of idlenes and he setled himself to write first with a Scriuener by name San Roman and afterwards with the Secretary Turcius it was Lent at that time he was in Mexico and he fasted it all with bread and water and with the greatest abstinence silence and austerities as was euer seeene in any secular Man And this is manifest by Ã letter which Leues Zapata writ vnto him about 29. or 30. yeares afterwards which came to be in the yeare of our Lord 1591. It is dated from the Mines of Iaxio and writen vnto Gregory Lopes who was then in Santafe in great esteeme for his sanctitie as shall be sayd hereafter The tenour of the letter is this About 29. or 30. yeares agoe whilest that I dwelt in the street of Tabusa in Mexico there came out of Spaine and lodged in my house a Gentleman cloathed in rash and amongst other tokens he fasted that Lent with bread and water he was called Gregory Lopes they say that you are called soe I pray doe me the fauour to write if you be he and to coÌ„meÌ„d me to God in your prayres And that he was the same it is manifest by his answer which he sent back in the same paper in these onely words I am he that you speake of I will doe as you request me A sentence worthy of so great a personage a wise lesson and of great moment to teach the profane custome of this present age to spare their wordes and paper Gregory Lopes staid in Mexico onely till he could gett by his writing where withall to passe to Zacatrias whether he had a mind to goe as soone as he came to those mines and saw the confusion and couetousnes those wranglings oaths and periuries the suites in law quarrells and misfortunes of those Men so drowned in auarice by reason of that Minerall he was much discontented and great was the dislike that he had whilest he was there especially when one day he saw with his owne eyes that at such time as the Cartes went away with the siluer to Mexico two men which seemed to be discreet fell out about a certaine interest and killed one another at the same time without regard to giue account either of the goods to the owners their soules to God which was the greater losse This troubled Gregory very much being sory for the losse of those two soules aÌ„d being inwardly stricken he trembled with feare to see how much God was offeÌ„ded in that place and how easily Men went to hell From that time he begane to make more hast to put that in practise which he had determined in his mind namely to goe and liue in the wildernes solitary fearing least delay might be hurtfull since that the staying of Esau in hunting made him loose his fathers blessing and it is the opinion of wise Men that in war and in the way of vertue delay is for the most part hurtfull with this resolution he changed those cloaths he wore which were reasonable good for a

Father the life Passion and death of Iesus Christ his son and our Redeemer This offering sometimes he made for the whole world othertimes for particular persons or intentions according as he vnderstood that it was the will of God he made such account of this Sacrifice or spirituall Masse that one day talking with me about it he told me that God had thousands of priests in the world who made this offering spiritually many times in the day and that he did frequent two kinds of spirituall communions both consisting in ardent desires the one of receiuing Sacramentally our Sauiour Christ the other of receiuing within himself the Father the son and and holy Ghost making himself a liuing and pure temple of the Blessed Trinity and giuing it actually entertainment in his heart where it might come and allwaies remaine I asked him one day how he did exercise the loue of God and his neighbour he answered me that he onely repeated some versicles of Dauid such as these Praise yee our lord all nations praise yee him all people All the workes of our lord blesse yee our lord praise yee him and glorify yee him for euer Let all the earth o Lord adore thee and blesse thee Wherwith I remained not onely satisfied but allso well affected to that manner of praving which containeth so much in it He was allso very carefull to pray for our holy Mother the Church for her increase and for the exaltation of our holy Catholick faith throughout all kindoâ—es He did pray very carnestly for those that were in sin and he said that this prayer was very pleasing vnto God relating vpon this occasion that which had passed betwixt our Sauiour and saint Catherine of Siena who praying vnto him instantly for those that are in mortall sin heard from his diuine mouth I intreat thee to pray vnto me for them and he was wont to repeate those wordes with much tendernes and commiseration when there was occasion to talke of those that are in sin To the same purpose he related an exemple which saint Denys the Areopagite in his eighth Epistle to Demophilus affirmeth that he had heard from the mouth of saint Carpus the Bishop to whom by reason of his cleanenes and sincerity of heart God reuealed many thinges and it was this the said saint Carpus vnderstanding for certaine that an idolater had peruerted a Christian and made him forsake his faith was so incensed against both as that he instantly besought God to take them away from the face of the earth not being able to endure that such wicked men should liue vpon it since that they peruerted the way of God and looking vp towardes heauen he saw therin Iesus Christ sitting enuironned with innumerable Angells and saints then looking downe into the earth as it were by the mouth of a well he saw hell and its tourments and in the very brinke of the well were those two wicked men whom he had cursed staggering and ready to fall and trembling in pittifull manner because those hellish serpents sought to catch hold and pull them in Carpus was told that he would doe well to pray for them that they might be freed from those grieuous paines but he would not yea he prayed vnto God to let them fall into that well and lifting vp his eies againe towardes heauen he saw the most merâ—ifull Iesus who moued with compassion rose vp and offered them his hand that they mighâ— esâ—hape sent his Angells allso to help them and truning to Carpus said vnto him oh Carpus I am ready to suffer againe for mens sake see whether it would like you to be for euer in this hell and liue amongst those serpents depriued of the sight of God and the company of his Angells and saints He made vse of such examples to practise himself and teach others the spirit of Iesus Christ He did amorously and earnestly importune God in his prayers to draw vnto him all countries and nations couerting them and making them enter into the lap of the Church and to reduce the Iewes and heretikes to the holy Catholike faith This he did without eueâ— desisting from that act of loueing God which we spoke of The chiefe scope of his prayer for his neighbours was that the will of God might be fullfilled in them on earth as it is in heauen and he tooke occasion from all thinges to make that prayer If he heard men say how the king for his great power and iustice was feared and reuerenced and that he enioyed his kingdome in peace he presently turned to God and said thou art allmighty aÌ„d iust Ã´ Lord let all feare thee and reuerence thee and possesse Ã´ Lord all this thy kingdome in peace When he heard that a father for his goodnes was loued by his sons he presently said vnto God Ã´ Father and fountaine of all good let all thy sons loue thee When he vnderstood how a gardiner endeauoured to make all his trees yeeld fruit he presently turned to the Creatour of all saying let none of thy creatures be lost oh Lord let them yeeld their fruit in their proper season When he heard of great warres and shedding of bloud he lifted vp his heart vnto God saying your sons and my brethren whom you command me so much to loue behold Ã´ Father how they behaue themselues and to say in briefe all the goods and euills of the world were vnto him motiues of prayer Sometimes he told me that he saw in God all whatsoeuet was in the world as it were gathered into one point without any discourse the which it might be was by some great light of contemplation which he receiued in certaine occasions wherby we may gather something of the excellence of his prayer and how eleuated his soule was and like vnto God since that he had the whole world abridged in his vnderstanding and with such particular light reduced to an vnity that he might offer it vnto God He desired much that his neighbours should neuer cease to pray vnto God euen in their exteriour workes because as one well experienced he knew the great good that it containes and he was wont to praise the Machabes for that vertue who in their greatest battailes as is related in their history did at the same time fight with their handes and pray in their hearts He vsed another manner of praying worthy the learning and imitating for whensoeuer he was to speake answer or aske any thing he first fixed his mind on God by mentall prayer imploring his diuine assistance To this purpose he was woÌ„t to tell that which befell Nehemias with Artaxerzes as is written in the second Chapter of the second of Esdras for this great Monarch asking of Nehemias his cup bearer what it was that he desired the text saith that before he began to speake he made his prayer vnto the God of heauen wherby he obtained of the king all whatsoeuer he asked He was much deuoted to the Pater

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