pentimento vero de suoi peccati confermo proposito d' emendarsene ò ch'serciterà qualche atto di virtu ad esempio de' sudetti Santi guadagni ogni volta sette anni altretante quarantene d' Indulgenza Chi leggerà qualche Capitolo della Vica de sudetti Santi ò viseterà il loro Altare ò venererà la loro immagine pregando per l'estaltazione di santa Chiesa e per la conversione de peccatori guadagni ogni volta cento giorni de Indulgenza Chiunque si eserciter à nella divozione del Santissimo Sacramento dell ' Altare ò della Vergine meditando quel Mistero e i beneficii che à not ne dirivano overo compatendo à i dolori che senti la Beatissima Vergine per la Passione e morte del Figlio ò in altra forma vener ando il Santissimo Sacramento e pregando per i visogni della Santa Chiesa guadagni ogni volta cento giorni d' Indulgenza Chi farà qualche limosina a' poveri overo compatendo à i dolori gìistruirà nelle cose della Fede ò buoni costumi ò pure opererà che ciò si faccia da altri ogni volta guadagni cento giorni d' Indulgenza Chi stando in Roma ò nel suo Distretto per lo spazio di venti miglia per legitimo impedimento non potria essere presente alla Beneditione solenne che il sommo Pontefice suol dare nel giorno di Pasqua e dell ' Ascensione se confessato e communicato preghera per l'estirpazione dell ' Eresie c. acquisterà l' Indulgenza come se fosse presente la quale Indulgenza conseguirà parimente chi starà fuori di Roma e di tal Discretto in qualunque luogo si sia benche egli non sia impedito facendo le cose sudette Chi raccommanderà devotamente à Dio in articolo di morte l'anima sua insieme ricorrerà all' intercessione de sudetti Santi ò d' uno di essi con la bocca ò non potendo col cuore essendosi confessato e communicato ò non potendo almeno contrito conseguisca plenaria Indulgenza de suoi peccati Che ciascuna delle soprad Indulgenze si possa applicare all' anime del Purgatorio per modo di suffragio Per acquistore le sopradette Indulgenze basta havere una Corona ò Medaglia c. benedetta da sua santità con le medesime Indulgenze facendo gl' atti prescritti come sopra benche per altro si douvessero fare per obligo Commanda sua Santità che nella distribuzione uso di queste Medaglie Corone c. si osserui il Decreto della fe mem di Alessandro VII stampato sotto li 6. Febraro 1657. cioè che le Medaglie Corone c. benedette con le sopradette Indulgenze non passino la parsona di quelle à quali sar anno consedute ò à quali da questi saranno distribuite per la prima volta e che non possano prestarsi ad altri ò darsi precariamente altrimenti perdano l'Indulgenza che anno e che per dendosene una non se ne possa sostituire in suo luogo un altra non ostente qualunque concessione ò priulegio in contrario Sua santità prohibisce la stampa di queste Indulgenze in ogni altro luogo fuori di Roma Michel Angelo Ricci Secr. In Roma Nella Stamperiadella Rev. Cam. Apost 1676. Con licenza de'Superiori Indulgences which his Holiness our Lord Pope Clement the X. grants to Crowns Rosaries Images Crosses and Medals blessed upon the Occasion of Canonizing the Saints and Confessors Gaetano Francesco Borgia Philippo Benizio Lodowico Beltrando and of St. Rosa a Virgin of Peru. WHosoever shall use to say at least once in the Week the Crown of our Lord or of our Lady or the Rosarie or the third part of it or the Divino Office of our Lady or of the Dead or else the seven Penitential Psalms or the Graduals or shall use to visit Prisoners or to relieve the Poor or to make mental Prayer for at least a quarter of an hour confessing himself to a Confessor approved by the Ordinary and communicating upon any of the Holy-days of our Lord and of the Blessed Virgin which Holy Church does celebrate that is to say Christmas the Circumcision Epiphany the Resurrection Ascension Pentecost Trinity Sunday and Corpus Christi The Conception Nativity Presentation Visitation Annunciation Purification and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin or on the day of the Nativity of St. John Baptist or of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul or of one of the abovesaid five Canonized Saints or of All Saints or of the Dedication of his own Church or of the Patron and Title of it shall devoutly pray to God for the rooting out of Heresie and for the Propagation of the Catholick Faith and for the other Necessities of Holy Mother Church shall every time obtain Plenary Indulgence Whosoever shall fast the Eve of every one of the abovesaid five Saints and having confessed shall communicate upon their Holy-day and shall pray as has been directed shall every time obtain Plenary Indulgence Whosoever shall say Mass or being confessed and communicated shall hear it at an Altar where the Image or Body or some Relique of one of the abovesaid Saints shall be upon any day of every Month at his own choice praying as above shall obtain Plenary Indulgence Whosoever repenting of his Sins with purpose of Amendment shall visit in one day seven Churches at his own Choice and where there be not seven shall visit all that there be and where there is but one shall visit all the Altars of it praying likewise for the Extirpation of Heresie c. once a year shall obtain the Indulgences of the seven Churches of Rome Whosoever shall think devoutly upon any Mystery of the Passion of our Lord and in Reverence of that Passion shall humbly kiss the Ground seven times shall obtain upon that day the Indulgence of the Scala Sancta and that once every year Whosoever shall do an Act of true Repentance of his Sins with true purpose of forsaking them or shall stir up some Act of Vertue after the Example of the aforesaid Saints shall every time obtain seven Years and as many Quarantains of Indulgence Whosoever shall read some Chapter of the Life of the aforesaid Saints or shall visit their Altar or shall Venerate their Image praying for the Exaltation of Holy Church and for the Conversion of Sinners shall every time obtain an hundred days of Indulgence Whosoever shall exercise himself in the devotion of the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar or of the Virgin meditating that Mystery and those Benefits which are derived to us from thence or else having a feeling of those Griefs which the Blessed Virgin felt for the Passion and Death of her Son or in other
how nigh I should have come to Truth if it had been said by me will by and by appear 2. The Reader has here a farther Exemplification of Mr. Pulton's Method in disputing or managing a Conference He has Proofs given him and he takes no notice of them and goes on asking Where are they c. I had cited the Book the Indulgence the Pope that granted it and he cries out by whom was it granted at what time and what place this 't is to have been refin'd by Travel and to have staid eighteen Years out of the dull Air of England 3. But seeing Mr. Pulton is so much upon Inquiry I will give him my first Proof more at length and then several other Instances though not all of them of so high a strain out of the same Authentick Book in which the Rubricks which mention the Indulgences are printed in English but the Prayers are in Latin. For some believe them to be in this like Charms which have the more Vertue the less they are understood Horae B. Virginis Mariae ad usum Sarisburiensem Fol. 66. Paris 1526. THese 3. Prayers be wrytten in the Chappell of the Holy Crosse in Rome otherwise called Sacellum sanctae Crucis septem Romanorum who that devoutly say them shall obteyne 1000000. of yers of Pardon for deedly Synnes graunted of our holy Father Ihon 22. Pope of Rome Pater Noster Ave. Oratio Domine Jesu Christe c. TO all them that before this Ymage of Pyte devoutly say 5. Pater Noster and 5. Abes and a Credo pytuously beholdynge these Armes of Crysts Passion are graunted 32755. years of Pardon And Sixtus the 4th Pope of Rome hath made the fourth and fifth Prayer and hath doubulled hys foresaid Pardon Adoro te Domine Jesu Christe in Cruce pendentem c. THis Epistell of our Saviour sendeth our holy Father Pope Leo to the Emperour Carolo Magno of the whyche we syndest wrytten who that bereth thys Blessynge upon him and sayth it ones a day shall obtein forty yere Pardon and 80. Lenttyge And he shall not peryshe wyth soden death Crux X. Christi sit mecum Crux X. est quam semper adoro c. OUr holy Father Pope John the 22. hath graunted a hundred days of Pardon to all them that say this Prayer at the Elevacyon of our Lord Jesus Cryste Oratio Ave Caro Christi Chara immolata Crucis ara c. OUr holy Father Innocentius Pope of Rome hath graunted seven yere of Pardon to all them that say this Prayer devoutly at the Elevacyon of our Lord in the Mass. Oratio Salve lux mundi Verbum Patris c. THis Prayer was shewed unto St. Augustine by Revelacyon of the Holy Gooste and who that devoutly say this Prayer or hyre rede or beareth about them shall not perish in Fyer or Water nother in Battil or Judgement and he shall not dy of sodyn Death and no Venym shall poysmn him that day and what he asketh of God he shall obtein if it be to the salvation of his Soule and whan thy Soul shall depart from thy Body it shall not enter to Hell. Pater Noster Ave Maria. Deus propicius esto mihi c. THese 5. Petitions and Prayers made by St. Gregory and hath graunted unto all them that devouted say these 5. Prayers with 5. Pater Noster 5. The Maria and a Credo 500. years of Pardon Oratio Ave Manus Dextera Christi c. THis Prayer shall ye say in the Worshyp of all the blessyd members of Cryste devoutly and ye shall have 300. days of Pardon for every Salve Oratio Salve tremendum cunctis potestatibus Caput c. THis Prayer is made by our Holy Father the Ihon the 22. and he hath graunted unto all them that devoutly say this Prayer beholding the gloryous visage or vernakell of our Lord 10000. dayes of Pardon and they that kann not say this Prayer let them say 5. Pater Noster 5. Abes and 5. Credo in Deum Salve Sancta facies Nostri Redemptoris c. AN other Oryson to the blessyd Vernacle of our Lord who that sayth it devoutly shall have 3. yers of Pardon graunted by our Holy Father the Pope Innocentius Oratio Ave facies praeclara c. WHo that devoutly beholdeth Thys Armes of our Lord Jesus Cryste shall obteyne 6000. yers of Pardon of our Holy Father St. Peter the fyrste Pope of Rome and of 30. other Popes of the Chyrche of Rome successours after hym and our Holy Father Pope Ihon the 22. hath graunted unto all them very contryte and trewly confessed that say these devout Prayers followinge in the Commemoracyon of the bytter passyon of our Lord Jesus Cryste 3000. years of Pardon for deedly Synnes and other 3000. for venial Synnes and say fyrste a Pater Noster and The Maria. Oratio Dirupisti Domine Vincula mea c. THis Prayer made the holy Doctor St. Ambros of all the Artycles of Crystus passyon and our holy Father Anastasius the Pope hath graunted to all them that devoutly say it five hondreth days of Pardon Oratio Domine Jesu Christe c. OUr holy Father Pope Innocentius the 2d hath graunted to all them that say this Prayer devoutly in the Worship of the wound that our Lord had in his blessyd syde whan he was deed hanging in the Crosse. 4000. days of Pardon Pater Noster The Maria Oratio Ave Vulnus Lateris Nostri Salvatoris c. Oratio Sancti Bernardi de Senis Ordinis Minorum THis moost devoutly prayer sayd the Holy Father Saint Bernard dayly knelying in the Worshyp of the moost holy name Jesus And it is well to believe that through the Invocation of the moost Excellent name of Jesu St. Bernard obteyned a Syngulare ward of perpetual consolacion of our Lord Jesu Cryste And this Prayer is wrytten in a thabell that haunged at Rome in St. Peter's Chyrche nere to the high Awter there as our holy Fader the Pope evely is wounte to say the office of the Masse and who that devoutly wythe a Contryte herte dayly say thys oryson yf he be that day in the state of eternal damnacyon than this eternal payne shall be chaunged him in temporal payne of purgatory it shall be forgotten and forgyven throw the infinyte mercy of God. Pater Noster The Maria. Oratio O bone Jesu O dulcis Jesu O Jesu fili Mariae c. ALexander the 6th Pope of Rome hath graunted to all them that say thys Prayer devoutly in the worshyp of St. Anna and our Lady and her Son Jesus 10000. yers of Pardon for deedly Synnes totiens quotiens Oratio Ave Maria gratiâ plena Dominus tecum c. ANother devout Prayer to be sayde before the ymage of St. Anna Maria and Jesus of the whyche Raymundus the Cardinal and Legate hath graunted a 100. days of Pardon totiens quotiens Oratio Quotquot Maris sunt
guttae arenae terrae grana c. A After all this Mr. P. may perhaps offer at an Evasion and alledge that Prayers without Money procure Indulgence Be it one way or other they have found out an easy method of comforting Sinners My Sermon speaks of the Money under the name of Almes But Pope Leo call'd it a Tax and the Council of Trent in one place calls it Almes and Gain in another They take it under the name of Almes but no Penny no Indulgence if the Penny be to be had And when a Pope grants one he grants to the dispensers as great a temporal benefit as if he had given them a Toll a Fayr or a Mercat The Jesuit Escobar in his Book taken from the works of 24. Jesuites and printed 37 times in Spain and thrice at Lions and once at Brussels saies something of this nature but elsewhere more is told Is an Alms exacted for the gaining of an Indulgence do's any suffice A halfpenny sufficeth if it be not declared that it is done proportionably to the fortunes of the Giver But what if a poor Man ha's not so much as an halfpenny Some have asserted that in such a case there should be a Commutation of the Alms into some other pious work But I with Anthonie Fernandez of Corduba part 3 c. 7. § 8. n. 3. do affirm that it is the mind of the Pope that he who is not able to give an Alms may obtain an Indulgence without any Commuting It should seem by this Casuist that Money is the principal matter aim'd at But much more Money ha's been design'd and procur'd than Escobar's Halfpennys would amount to For Pope Boniface the ninth made by his Agents in one Province above a hundred thousand Florens by selling of Pardons and he had so great Custom for them because he gave Indulgence for All Sinns without Repentance So an Author of their own assures us It is true other Alms are sometimes required but together with them there goes Money for the special Masses as in the following Example which I have transcrib'd from the End of an Antient Roman office in MS. What Man or Woman that causeth or maketh thies Messes folouing devoteli to be saed for themself or for any other special frend in whatsoever tribulacion nede Sekenes or dises that thai be in thai schal be delivered with the grace of God within X. daes And in the sam forme the Saul of ther Frende schal be pardon'd and relesed of their panes in Purgatori First schal be said of the Sondai a mes in the worschippe of the Trinite being light iij. candels and that dai fede iij. pore men or doo iij. almes dedis The Moundai a mes in the Worschip of St. Michael and al the Angels and light nine candels and fede nine pore men or doo ix almes dedis The Tisedai a mes of Saint John Evangle and light iiij candels and fede iiij pore men or doo iiij almes dedis The Weddonsdai a mes of Saint Peter and other Apostels and light xii candels and fede xii pore men or doo xii almes dedis The Thorisdai a mes of the holi gost and light vii candels and fede vii pore men or doo vii almes dedis The Fridai a mes of the holi cros and light v. candels and fede v. pore men or do v. almes dedis The Saterdai a mes of owr Ladi and light a candel and fede a por man. or doo a almes dede And at ich on of thies messes aforsaid must be offerde after the power and devocion of them that causeth thies messes to be said and verali thorow goddis merci this praer within short time shall be hard of God and sai this holi ympe Ueni sancte spiritus within vii Verses and this versicul Emitte spiritum tuum creabuntur And this Collet following S. Deus qui corda fidelium If this be too ancient and out of Date I will offer one which is more Modern in which though the gaining of Money is not proposed yet great Superstition appears and the easiness of Pennance Indulgenze che la santita ' din. Signore Clemente Papa K. concede alle Corone Rosarii Imagini Croci e Medaglie benedette in occasione della Canonizatione de Santi Confessori Gaetano Francesco Borgia Filippo Benizio Lodovico Beltrando e di Santa Rosa Vergine del Peru. CHi sarà solito dire una volta almeno la settimana la Corona del Signore ò della Madonna ò'l Rosario ò la sua terza parte ò l' Officio Divino ò piccolo della Madonna ò de' Morti overo i sette Salmi Penitenzialè ò Graduali overo haver à per usanza di visitare i carcerati ò di souvenire i poueri ò di far per un quarto d'hora almeno orazion mentale se confessandosi da Confessore approvato dall ' Ordinario e communicandosi in qualsivoglia delle Feste del Signorè e della B. V. che celebra la S. Chiesa cio è Natività Circoncisione Epifania Resurrezione Ascensione Pentecoste Trinità e Corpus Domini Concezione Natività Presentazione Visitazione Annunziazione Purificazione Assunzione della B. V. ò nel giorno della Natività di S. Gio. Battista ò de SS Apostoli Petro Paolo ò dell ' uno dè sudetti cinque Sancti Canonizati ò de tutti i santi ò della dedicazione della propria Chiesa ò del Padrone ò Titolo di essa devotamente pregarà Dio per l'estirpazione dell ' Eresie e per la Propagazione della Fede Cattolica e per altre necessita della santa Madre Chiesa ogni volta conseguisca Indulgenza plenaria Chi digiuner à la vigilia di ciasche duno de' sudetti cinque santi e confessato si communicherà nec giorno della sua festa e pregherà come sopra acquisterà ogni volta Indulgenza plenaria Chi dira messa overo confessato e communicato l' udirà all' Altare dove sia l' imagine ò'l corpo ò qualche reliquia d'uno de' Sudetti Santi in un giorno di ciasche dun mese à sua elezione pregando come sopra acquisti Indulgenza plenaria Chi pentito de' suoi peccati con proposito d' emendarsi visiterà in un'istesso giorno sette chiese à sua elezione e doue sette Chiese non sieno visitarà tutte quelle che vi sono essendovene solo una visitarà tutti gl' Altari di essa similmente pregando per l'esterpazione dell ' Eresie c. una volta l' anno guadagni l' Indulgenze delle sette Chiese di Roma Chi pensera devotamente à qualche Mistero della Passione di Nostro Signore à riverenzà della medesima Passione bacierà humilmente la terra sette volte in quel giorno acquisterà l' Indulgenza della Scala santa e ciò una volta l' anno Chi farà un ' atto di