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A64409	The flaming hart, or, The life of the gloriovs S. Teresa foundresse of the reformation, of the order of the all-immaculate Virgin-Mother, our B. Lady, of Mount Carmel : this history of her life, was written by the Saint herself, in Spanish, and is newly, now, translated into English ...; Vida de Santa Teresa de Jesus. English. 1642	Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1642 (1642)	Wing T753; ESTC R33913	394,344	744

course of naturall things or which surpasse a man 's owne capacitie and his explicit and deciding iudgement at the present time is not only as I was saying a very foolish but euen a childish and ridiculous kind of thing I must heer put you also in minde how particularly it is found in Holie scripture that there are innumerable instances and especially in the Reuelations of the Blessed and Beloued Apostle S. Iohn which are incomparably more repugnant both to reason and euen to Common sense then anie thing which is related heer And as how difficult and strange soeuer those things of holy Scripture be they must yet be as entirely beleiued and that vpon the price of a mans being otherwise an Heretique or a verie Pagan as the Blessed Trinitie it self because in fine the least tittle of Holie Scripture is as fully and entirely to be beleiued as the verie Diuinitie it self of Almightie God since the verie least and lowest point of our Faith depends vpon the self same formall reason and groūd with the highest greatest So also whosoeuer shall not receaue whatsoeuer is deliuered by the Saints and great Seruants of Almightie God concerning such things as passe in their owne Soules through the entercourse and commerce of his Diuine Maiestie cuius deliciae are to be cum filiis hominum vvhose delight consists in visiting and regaling the Soules of his dearest and most deuoted Seruants the same being considered by holie and wise learned Discerners and Tryers and Iudges of Spirit vvhereof there is neuer vvant in God's Church and so the Catholique Christian World growing by degrees to accept thereof in the vvay of giuing a iust admittance a pious Morall credit to vvhat is related that man I say shall be neither pious nor prudēt who reiects it and he shall be an ignorant foole if he deride it Nor is also anie of my Readers to be scandalized a whitt if he chance to heare Saints speake of some materiall and corporeall kindes of things vvhich are represented to them in their Visions as namely Rings or Crownes or Chaines or Mantles or Darts or the like whereof there is some little mention euen in this Booke anie more then he hath cause to be scandalized at the Horses Riders and Trumpets and Seales and Pretious Stones vvherewith the Celestiall Ierusalem vvas paued in the Reuelation of S. Iohn For though I say not that he is necessarily bound in the qualitie of a good Catholique Christian to beleiue the Particulars vvhich are represented in this Booke after anie grosse materiall way vvith the same kind of infallible Supernaturall Faith vvhich he is strictly and precisely obliged to allowe to all things vvhich are contained in Holie Scripture vpon the price as I vvas saying of being otherwise an Heretique or a Pagan yet I presume to say and it seemes to be most true and certaine that vvhen such particular Supernaturall Fauours as aforesayd are vouchsafed by Almightie God to his Saints and are also admitted and embraced by multitudes of the learnedst and vvisest and holiest persons of the vvorld that man vvill be neither holie no nor so much as learned or wise vvho not only shall reiect that vvhich he hath no vvill to approue but deride also that vvhich he hath not vvitt or grace to vnderstand In a vvord the Visions expressed in Holie Scripture must be all beleiued by Diuine Faith in their true sense vvhatsoeuer that falls out to be and not the Visions of Saints vvith that but vvith a farre inferiour kind of Faith till the Holie Catholique Church both haue defined them and propounded them also to be beleiued by her Children Nor yet are yow my Reader whosoeuer you may be to be idly scandalized by any meanes at the Formes vvhereby things are represented sometimes in the Visions and Reuelations of Saints and this vpon another and that a very substantiall reason vvhich followes heer For the important busines in those cases is that our Blessed Lord is pleased to imprint at such and such times vpon the Soules of such and such of his deare Seruants such or such a kind of vertue or Fauour or Strength as himself is pleased to designe for the comfort progresse and perfection of that Seruant of his And so that Seruant consisting both of a Bodie and a Soule his Diuine Maiestie is also gratiously pleased manie times to affect both the Bodie and the Soule togeather vvith a sensible kind of feeling of that grace Those outward demonstrations vvhich speake but as it vvere to the Bodie seruing cheifly but to denote and describe in that sort to the vvhole man the influences and impressions vvhich then are made and powred out into the Soule But now it vvill come fittly in ere long to show you that part of the Epistle Dedicatory or Preface vvhich the Famous Dominican Father Doctour Father Levvis de Leon thought fitt to write both in honour of S. Teresa herselfe of those Primitiue Daughters also of hers who were first Founded at Madrid For thereby you will easily discerne what a Race that Glorious Saint had runne eauen like some Gyantesse in the way of our B. Lord as also how close those Children followed their holy Mother Of which Mother I shall not heer haue roome to reflect though I should but touch goe vnless vvithall I vvould make this Preface as long as the very Life it selfe And therefore you must giue mee leaue to adiourne you for more ample satisfaction of this expectation to those dropps vvhich I may perhaps both be able and vvilling to deriue and draw out of that Sea of her Perfections if I shall finish another small Discourse and Description of the Saint vvhich I intend to make and place as by vvay of Preface both to certaine Exclamations or loude Aspirations whereby that enamoured Soule of hers found meanes to vent it selfe to Almighty God as also to two short Relations which she made for her Ghostly Father in vvriting concerning the Degrees by vvhich she passed on in the exercise of vertue and in the vse also of Prayer that so the said Ghostly Father might be the abler to direct instruct her In the meane time I shall only say in very few vvords by vvay as it vvere of Antepast till the Feast come in That she vvas Of very antient noble Birth Of choyce Breeding Of a gratious louely person Of an humour highly acceptable and agreable to the vvhole vvorld vvhich knew her Of a melting and bleeding Nature Of most Loyall true tender Freindship Of a sweet charming way in conseruation Of great significancy and elegancy of speech in her expression though naturall and round and vvithout affectation in particular her Talent vvas rare in abounding vvith the choycest Comparisons which can be found Her felicity vvas also great in negotiation for she vvas owner of a solid vvitt a steddy sound iudgement and deep vvisdome She had a hart as open as day

if he had still liked it my self had been excused and discharged with all the world But yet they were not so fauourable to my Companion for her they would not absolue but left her to her self yea and they sayd that she was obliged to take away the scandall She went therefore to a great learned man and a great Seruant of God of S. Dominick's Order to tell him what had passed and indeed to giue him account of the whole busines And this was before the Prouinciall had giuen it ouer for now there was no Creature in the whole Towne who would giue vs anie opinion in the Case and therefore they might well affirme as they did that we proceeded in all this of our owne heads But that Ladie made relation of the whole busines to this holie man and acquainted him with the Rent which she meant to settle vpon it out of her owne Estate with much desire that he would assist vs for he was the greatest learned man in all that Towne at that time and perhaps there were not manie more learned in his whole Order I told him also of all that which we intended to doe and some motiues thereof but I acquainted him not with anie Reuelation of mine but only with those naturall reasons which moued me For I desired not that he should giue vs anie opinion but according to them And he on the other side wished that we would giue him the rearme of eight dayes wherein to answer He asked vs also then whether we were resolued to doe that verie thing which he should direct and I told him we were But though I sayd thus much and me thinkes I would haue done as I sayd yet did I neuer loose assurance that the Monasterie in fine would be made My Companion had yet a stronger Faith for whatsoeuer they might say to her she would neuer giue-ouer to execute the designe But now though I held it impossible but that the worke would be done so assuredly did I beleiue that the Reuelation aforesayd was true prouided alwaies that it were found to containe nothing either against Holie Scripture or the Decrees of the Church which we are bound to beleiue and obserue yet howsoeuer as I said before I conceaued that that Reuelation was really of Almightie God if still that learned man had told me that we could not effect the thing without offending his Diuine Maiestie and that we should haue sinned against good Conscience by procuring it I conceiue that I should instantly haue giuen it ouer and sought-out some other meanes for my releif but for the present our Lord imparted none but this to me But now this Seruant of Almightie God told me that he had taken this busines into his care togeather with a full resolution to employ himself earnestly in procuring that we might giue-ouer our purpose because the clamour of the people against it had already come to his notice and so also had it appeared to euerie Creature to be an impertinencie and besides that a certaine Cauallier of the Towne as soone as he had vnderstood that we intended to speake with the Father sent to him to aduise him to consider well what he did and that by no meanes he should help vs yet that now himself beginning to consider what he was to answer vs and to reflect seriously vpon the busines and vpon the intention which we had and with what good order and Religious manner we proceeded he resolued in fine that it would be a thing resulting much to the Seruice of Almightie God and that we should by no meanes forbeare to put it in execution And in conformitie to this his answer was That we should make what hast we could to conclude it And he also let vs know his opinion of the way and manner which we were best to hold in it and that though the Rent were little yet Almightie God was to be trusted with somewhat And that for his part he desired that whosoeuer should contradict or oppose it might be sent to him for he would know very well what to answer And accordingly he assisted vs euer as I shall declare heerafter With this we went much comforted away as also in that we found how some holie persons of that place who formerly had been opposite to vs grew now to be appeased and some of them did also assist vs and amongst them was that holie Caualier of whome I made mention before Who in regard that our pretence seemed to aspire to great perfection as indeed it doth because it is wholy grounded in Prayer he gaue-vp this opinion and Vote That howsoeuer the meanes whereby things must be effected seemed to carrie much difficultie with them and to be without great apparance of successe yet perhaps that it might fall-out to be of Almightie God Now it may be that our Blessed Lord disposed him to be of this minde and the Doctour also that Preist and Seruant of Almightie God whome I related to haue voted first and who is the verie Mirrour of all that Towne the person whome Almightie God perserues there for the good of manie Soules was now also growne already to assist me in the busines And thus we were come to this condition by the helpe of manie Prayers and now already we had bought the House in a good part of the Towne though but a poore one but I value not that at all for our Lord had told me before that I should enter as well as I could and that afterward I should find what his Diuine Maiestie would doe and that haue I seen well performed And so although I found that we had but little meanes yet I beleiued that our Blessed Lord would take order that we should be fauoured by other wayes THE THREE AND THIRTIETH CHAPTER She proceedes in the same Subiect of the Foundation of the Monasterie of the Glorious S. Ioseph She declares hovv she vvas commanded to attend to that busines and of the time vvhen she forbore to follovv it and of some troubles vvich she had and hovv she vvas comforted in them by our Blessed Lord. THis busines being now in such case and so neer the point of finall dispatch that they were to draw-vp the Writings the verie next day following it fell out to be iust then when our Prouincial grew to change his latter opinion and returne to his former and I beleiue he was moued to it by Diuine ordination as we shall see afterward For our Prayers hauing been so manie as indeed they were it seemes that our Blessed Lord went perfecting the worke and appointing that it should be dispatched though after a different manner from what we conceiued But when once the sayd Prouincial had formerly refused to admit of the House my Ghostlie Father gaue me a commandment that I should now thinke no more of that matter And yet our Lord best knowes what troubles and afflictions it had cost me before I could euer bring it to