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B00832	The lives of saints written in Spanish, by the learned and reuerend father Alfonso Villegas, diuine and preacher. ; Translated out of Italian into English, and conferred with the Spanish. By W. & E.K. B..; Flos sanctorum. English	Villegas, Alfonso de.; Ribadeneyra, Pedro de, 1526-1611.; Kinsman, Edward.; Kinsman, William.	1614 (1614)	STC 24731.5; ESTC S95676	392,335	715

regard were not had of those garments and that men and women were not so proud and curious of them This was then the chastisement God inflicted vpon Adam of the which some lighteth on his posterity as this vniuersall law that we be all conceiued in originall sinne and borne the children of wrath This law was promulgated in the world three times first in the law of nature secondly in the law written and thirdly in the law of grace Iob was the trumpet of the law of nature but first preceded the musicke of the trumpet conformable to the lawe for the law was rigorous the musicke rigorous as thonder stormes and thonderbolts which fell on his flocks and heards of cattell and killed and consumed them all The miserable man being thus afflicted and oppressed with infinite aduersities and troubles opened his mouth and said Let the day wherein I was borne perish and so let the night also wherein I was conceiued let that night be turned into darkenes and be filled with misery and bitternes The Holy Ghost saith that Iob did not sinne in saying these words whereby it is euident that Iob did not curse the day wherein he was borne nor the night wherein he was conceiued but he cursed the originall sinne for that he endured and suffered so many troubles and aduersities because he was conceiued and borne in originall sinne which is the fountaine and spring of all euils The trumpetter in the law written was Dauid who saith in one psalme My mother hath conceiued me in sinnes as if he had said That which I say of my selfe I say also of all them that are borne and shall be borne S. Ierome in his translation doth not say sinnes but sinne although it be all one and the selfe same thing for the originall sinne in Adam was one sinne only and all men commit it in him This sinne is called in the plurall number because it is the occasion of all the sinnes committed in the world The denouncer of this law in the law of grace was S. Paule who writting to the Romans saith All haue sinned and haue neede of the grace of God Hitherto we haue shewed the publication of the law now let vs see how it comprehendeth the posterity of Adam if there be any exempt from it To this I say that although the soule of it selfe is not distained because God created it yet assoone as it is infused into the body at that very instant that they be together body and soule that creature is one of the posterity of Adam and per consequens the child of wrath and is in originall sinne Of this IESVS CHRIST was free and cleare for that he was the naturall sonne of God and by the same of nature Impeccable He was also free of this sinne for he that contracteth this sinne must discend from Adam by naturall propagation as to be borne of a woman by the worke of man And CHRIST though he was borne of a woman yet was it not by worke of man So that he descended from Adam after the corporall substance as the diuines say which is the same we haue said to wit that CHRIST was borne of the virgin Mary and was conceiued without originall sinne After IESVS CHRIST I say the same of the B. Virgin his most holy mother that she was conceiued without sinne but not for the reasons spoken before of the sonne but by grace and especiall priuiledge which it pleased God to graunt vnto her This is confessed in celebrating the feast of her conception to wit that there was not a moment nor instant in which her soule was in the disfauor of God but that assoon as she had her being she was gratious in his eyes she was faire and without any spot That this is so may be prooued by many reasons and congruencies very efficacious One is that of and from originall sinne arise two dammages and losses which be the effects thereof The first is the rebellion which we haue within our selfes making vs to be slow and negligent to doe good and dilligent to doe euill This saith S. Paule writing to the Romaines I feele a law within my selfe I feele a subiection an enemy who hindereth me and will not let me doe that which reason willeth The other dammage is that we are subiect to corruption and to be turned to dust after our death This said God vnto Adam assoone as he sinned Thou art dust and to dust shalt thou returne So that these being the effects of original sinne and not being found in the most B. virgin as indeed they were not it is a necessary Consequens that there was no sinne in her That these two defects were not found in her of the first it is a thing certaine and the doctors confesse it to wit that in her that biting dog who is called by the diuines Fomes peccati was quite quenched and tied and therefore she had no inward temptations but most assured peace and quiet in such sort that though she had appetite and sensuality yet did they neuer annoy her but were alwayes subiect vnto reason And hereof it cometh that she committed not any sinne either mortall or veniall in all her life She neuer spoke idle word she neuer was wroth out of reason no not when she saw her sonne hang on the Crosse and that the officers and other souldiers who stood about him scoffed at him haled him and vsed reuiling and opprobrious words to him This would haue mooued any mans hart vnto indignation yet the B. Virgin was not wroth with them nor gaue vnto them any euill language whereby to commit sinne and this is the common opinion We may then say that in her was not that spot of originall sinne And that her body was exempt on the other side from being conuerted into dust it is the tradition of the Catholicke Church that her body and soule was assumpted into heauen Then if the effects of originall sinne which be found in them that are stained therewith were not in the virgin it followeth that she had not that sin and that her Conception was most pure The other reason is this That either God was able to preserue the B. Virgin from this defect and would not doe it or else that he would haue done it and could not If you say that he was able to doe it and that he would not herein you put want of will to be in God that he would not doe vnto his mother all the good that he could and this you may not say by any meanes Then if we say that he was willing and could not doe it in saying so great preiudice is done vnto his omnipotency yea it is great blasphemy Let it be said then that he was able and would doe it and that really he did it Moreouer the greatest dignity that God could impart vnto a pure creature was to make her his mother and this so rate and singuler gift was bestowed on

most pure and chast as she was before and euer shall be Shee shall haue another spouse in heauen which shal be God himself to wit The Holy Ghost the third person of the holy Trinity He shall be her spouse and by him shee shall conceiue without losse or dammage vnto her virginity and hauing conceiued shall bring forth into the world our Sauior and Redeemer After we haue thus reioiced with Ioachim and Anna for that thy haue such a daughter borne vnto them we may also reioice with their other kinsfolke for that they haue gotten nowe such a kinswoman Let vs reioice also with the sinners for that nowe this day is borne their aduocate Let vs reioice with the Angels since that on this day is borne their Queene let vs reioice with God since on this day is borne his mother daughter and spouse And at the last let vs reioice with the virgin her selfe since God hath elected her to such gretnes and dignity And the occasion of this being for that we be sinners for if sinne had not bin God had not bin made man and if he had not bin made man shee had not bin his mother Therfore without doute shee being aduaunced to this gretnes by our occasion will remember vs and obteine for vs of the same God who is her sonne pardon and mercy for our sinnes transgressions and also his heauenly grace that we may be partakers of his glory The life of S. Adrian Martir THE worthy king Dauid speaking with God in one Psalme said Ps 118 I haue inclined my hart to do iust and good workes for retribution sake that is hauing regard vnto the reward which ariseth in doing them It is not euill to exercise and do good and holy workes in hauing regard vnto that which is gained therby in doing them The reason hereof is that the guerdon or reward which is expected is God himselfe In such sort that he who for that respect doth good workes doth them for the loue of God In the number of those may the glorious martir S. Adrian be accounted who by hearing of the greate guerdon the martirs expected did voluntarilie offer himselfe vnto martirdome His life was written by Ado. B. of Triers and it was in this manner THE Emperour Maximian commaunded that the Christians that were in the citie of Nicomedia a city of Bithinia should be diligently sought out Many were apprehended and after that the Emperour had admonished and willed them to adore the Idoll and sawe them constant and firme in the profession of the faith of IESVS CHRIST he bad them all to be chained vnto wodden postes and to be beaten with the rawe sinewes of beastes and when he heard them in they re tormentes to praise the name of IESVS CHRIST he caused their tounges to be cut out and theire mouthes to be beaten with greate stones The number of these martirs was 23. Adrian was present there as an officer to attend and see that the commaundement of the Emperour should be executed He was an Idolater and a man of good account with Maximian And when he sawe howe patiently the holy martirs tollerated those terrible tormentes wondering therat he said vnto them I coniure you by the God which you adore and for whom you suffer these torments to tell me truly what guerdon or reward you expect for I suppose it to be very greate The holy martirs though they had no tonges by the permission of God answered him thus The reward we expect is such so greate that eyes neuer sawe it nor eares haue hard it nor the hart of man cānot conceiue it for it is an vnspeakable good which God hath prepared for his frends Adrian hearing this desired not to heare any more but being inspired by God and shewing himselfe desirous to be partaker of so greate good entred into the midst of the martirs and said to the Register before whom the matter was handled write also my name with these soulders of CHRIST for I will be a Christian also as they be The Emperour was certified hereof and when the name of Adrian was read vnto him among the other Christians which were prisoners he caused him to be called said vnto him O Adrian what art thou become foolish that thou seekest to lose thy life wretchedly Adrian aunswered I haue been but nowe I am not a foole for that I am a Christian and no more an Idolater as I haue bene before time The'mperour being desirous to make him alter his purpose discoursed and conferred long with him but seeing his words did not preuaile in rage and fury he caused him to be chained and fettered and put in prison Adrian was about 28. yeares old had to wife a woman called Natalia who was a Christian When shee heard what had befallen vnto her husband shee went with greate ioy vnto the prison and fell at his feet and kissing his fetters wherewith he was gyued said vnto him Blessed art thou ô Adrian my husband and my Lord nowe thou hast found the riches which thy father left not vnto thee Passe securely vnto IESVS CHRIST in whom thou hast reposed thy treasure which thou shalt find herafter in the time of necessity when no man shall be able to deliuer from punishment the wretch which shal be condemned The father shall not be able to deliuer the sonne nor the mother the daughter nor the transitorie riches of the world nor the ambition to haue many seruants and a great patrimony the freind shall not be of ability to help the freind only the deedes which a man hath done shall do a man good and pleasure Thou my Lord hast IESVS CHRIST in thy company in whom thou hast deposed and laid vp thy treasures walk in the way thou hast begon be not wery therof to the end thou maiest enioy the promises Take heede let not the remembrance of earthly and momentary things moue thee to turne backward from thy way begon nether let thy kinsfolks nor the wailings of thy father and mother nor the flattery of thy freinds nor the menaces of thy enemies moue thee Let not the torments of the tirant put thee in feare but fixe thy eyes vpon the constancie patience of these holie martirs which be with thee Imitate them in life and thou shalt be rewarded with them in death The blessed woman hauing said these words went vnto the holy martirs one by one and kissed their gyues and fetters saieng I beseech you ô seruants of IESVS CHRIST to animate and encourage my husband gaine you his soule Be vnto him a father that by your meanes he may be regenerated vnto euerlasting life Adrian said vnto his wife Goe home from hence my deare and chast sister for when the time shall come that we shal be examined and iudged I will bring thee notice therof that thou maiest be present and see the end of this work Certein daies after S. Adrian vnderstood that they resolued to

of their coming The holie Bishop fetching a great sigh made them this answere Arrius is already dead in the sight of God for that he hath so grieuously blasphemed against the diuine essence denying that there is one naturality of all the three persons Peter then took the two priests aside and said to them in secret Although I be a grieuous sinner God out of his mercy hath called me to martyrdome and I will shew you part of mistery reueiled vnto me and I do it the rather for that you two are to succeed me in this dignitie wherein I now am the one after the other first Achillas and then Alexander I was at my prayers with great attention as my custome is and on a so daine IESVS CHRIST my Lord and God appeared to me in the likenes of a little infant The glorie of his face could not be seene so great was the splendour and brightnes that did proceed from it He was apparailed with a long harment which reached downe to the ground but it was rent from the toppe to the bottome and with his two hands he pulled it together to couer the nakedn●s of his breast which when I saw I was in a great feare but after being somewhat reuyued I asked him Omy Lord IESV what is this that I see how petifully is this your garment torne And he answered me Thou talkest often hereof but doest not endeuour to know it But know thou that Arrius hath done this evill vnto me who seeketh to get away may people from me which be my herita●ge and which I haue purchased with the shedding of my very deerest blood This which thou hast seene I wishe thee to shew to Aquila and Alexander which are to succeed the that they may as thou hast done Anathematize and excomunicate him that his soule may he saued This being saied and charging and enioyning them so to do it being the will of God he dissimissed them and sent them away in peace And it happened that people perseuering and awayting at the dore of the prison for the defence of the life of their Pastor to auoyd a tumult and the effusion of blood the tirannous ministers of the Emperour gaue direction and order that in the nigh at the officers should make a breach through the back side of the prison and take out of the same the holie Bissop Peter and to lead him to the place where S. mark had before time beene martyred and euen thus the cruell officers did and there beheadded him His body wad buryed in the same cittie of Alexandria by the Christians This was on a wedensday being the 26. of Nouember on which day the Church celebrateth his feast And it was in the yeare of our Lord 312. Maximinus being Emperour Of this holie saint maketh mention the Councell of Ephesus and the seuenth generall Synode S. Gregorie Nazianzene Eusebius in his 8 book 14. Chapter and 9. book 6. chapt Nicephorus The Tripartite historie Vsuardus Venerable Bede and Ado. The life of S. Saturnine Martyr OVR first father Adam hauing offended Almightie God in breaking his comandement God ●●ioyned him in penance for his sinne to digge and till the ground Hereof it cometh that all men being partakers of his sinne for as S. Paul saith all sinned in him we be also partakers of his penance and punishment So it befell to S. Saturnine that glorious martyr who being old was condemned by the Emperour Maximian to labour about the building of certaine Thermi or hote bathes by carying sand morter and stones from one place to another though the cause why he suffred this slauery and drudgery was not for any sinne he had comitted but only for that he was a Christiane which this tyrant hold and accounted to be the most heynous offence of all other and therefore he layd on him these grieuous afflictions The life of this holie martyr with the life of S. Marcellus the Pope was written by the notaries of the Romaine Church and is rehersed by Laurence Surius in this manner The Emperour Maximian returning from Africa to Rome and being desirous to please Dioclesian that had aduanced him to high estate and made him his partner in the Empire and knowing that Dioclesian had comaunded certaine artificiall hote Bathes to be made was very dilligent to further and hasten the workes for which cause he comaunded all them that were conuicted of any grieuous or heynous oftences among which he held and accounted the Christians not to be the least to wor●k and labour about that building vnder a saffe guard and watch hauing many ouerseers and masters ouer them Among other that were condemned to this slauery an honorable old man called Saturnine was one His work was to digge sand and to carry it from one place to another and for that through his weakenes and debillitie of age he fainted and tyred oftentimes and was not able to doe his taske as the ouerseers of the work required they often rated and reuiled him But he was holpen out very charitably by other Christian that were yonger and especially by one Sisinnius who carried those burdens that were apointed for himself and most of those that belonged to Saturnine and that so cheerefully that they went singing H●mnes and psalmes in the praise of IESVS CHRISTE The surueiors of the work wondering at the same acquainted a Tribune called Spuriu● there with and he certyfied the Emperour Maximian thereof who comaunded they should be brought to his presence They being before him he said to Sisinnius what is your name Sisinnius answered I am a sinner and a seruant of the seruants of IESVS CHRIST and I am called Sisinnius The Emperour said vnto him what verses be those that you sing as you work Sisinnius answered If thou diddst vnderstand them or haddst notice of thē thou shouldest also know thy ceator who is the Creator said Maximian but the inuincible Hercules To vs Christians said Sisinnius it is a thing abhominable and detestable to speak such a word or to name him in such sort Choose one of these two things said the Emperour eyther sacrifice to our God Hercules or els assure thy self thou shalt be put to a terrible death Sisinnius answered I haue alwaies desired to dye in that manner and to be worthie to obtaine the crowne of Martiredome for the profession and loue of my Lord IESVS CHRIST Maximian chasing at these wordes deliuered him to Laodicio a prefect charging him either to compell Sisinnius and Saturnine to sacrifice to their Gods or els to put them to a cruell death He put them into prison where they remained a while and there they conuerted many Pagans to the faith of CHRIST Then were they taken out from thence loaden with giues and fetters bare foote and barelegged and so l●d into a Temple to do sacrifice when they were brought before the Idoll Saturnine lifted vp his voyce and sayd O lord confound the Idolls of the Gentilles At these wordes the

400. in the raigne of the Emperours Valentinian and Theodosius after he had beene Bishoppe 20. yeares The Catholike Church celebrateth his feast on the 7. day of December which was the day he was consecrated Bishop which is done because those other dayes for the most part fal in the holy week or else Easter His body was buried in the same Citty of Millan in his Church God did many miracles by meanes of this saint after his death euen as he had done many whilest he liued Let vs all pray vnto God that by the merits and intercession of S. Ambrose he would make vs partakers of his heauenly glory Amen The immaculate Conception of the mother of God GREAT was the indignation that the potent King Assuerus had conceiued against the Iewes that were in his Realme wherevpon he made a law by which he commanded all the Iewes to be put to the sword And to the end none should appeale from this nor entreat for them he made another law by which he commaunded vnder paine of death that for certaine dayes none should be so hardy as to come and speake vnto him except hee were by him called The beautifull and wise Queene Ester vnderstanding what the King her husband had decreed desired to go and entreat for the people yet feared to be the first to prooue the rigour of the law if she came to the kings presence before shee was called But at the last her pitty ouercame feare She adorned her selfe in rich and costly apparell shee set on her head a royall Crowne and accompanied with two Damosels one of the which led her by the hand and the other held vp her traine shee came into the place where the King was and lifting vp her eyes shee was in great feare so that shee swounded and fell vnto the ground The king seing that stood vp and sustained her by the armes that she might not fall and then touched her with the rodde of Gold which he had in his hand in signe and token of clemency and pitty and said vnto her Be not afraied my sister for the law was made for others not for thee Hester was somwhat comforted seeing the king so mild and grati●us toward her and craued pardon of him for her people and obtained it This figure is very fit and agreeable to our purpose for the Immaculate Conception of the most B. Virgin Mary King Assuerus signifieth our Lord God who published a law against all mankind for the sinne of the first man and because all men are borne in originall sinne the law would therefore that they should be depriued of his sight thrust out of his presence This law being promulgated God concealed himselfe and would not permit any humaine creature to see him as Esay the Prophet said Indeed thou art a hidden God and th●re is no man that hath seene thee Queene Hester which accompanied with two damosels went with such feare vnto the king signifieth the mother of God whose chiefe attendants were chastity and humility When therfore this Queene was to be in this world and her soule was infused in the body organized and fashioned in the wombe of her mother Anna by little and little it had fallen into originall sinne and therewith bin distained if the King Assuerus had not preuented it God hasted to it and sustained it with his armes by preseruing it from all spot of sinne and telling her that the law was not made for her whereby he would inferre that he exempted her from the generall law by the which all other are conceiued in sinne Then bowed he the rod of gold touched her therewith which signifieth the person of the word The Virgin was touched with the rod of Gold when God was made man in her sacred wombe for to that end God preserued her from sinne that she might be the worthy mother of his only begotten sonne The king Assuerus bad her also to craue a grace and fauour and she was not slack therein yea all mankind receiue especiall fauours of God by the merits and intercessions of this most pure Virgin I also hope to receiue of her one particuler grace which shall be this that by her meanes her Son will graunt me grace to entreat truly of the misery of the pure Conception of his mother Wherefore for the vnderstanding thereof I say That OVR Lord God hauing created our first fathers in his fauour and friendship he enriched them with giftes and graces naturall and supernaturall He gaue vnto them the Lordship and dominion ouer all corporall and earthly creatures he clothed them with originall iustice which was a gift granted not only vnto Adam but also vnto all his posterity he gaue vnto him a most blessed house which was the terrestriall paradise a place full of felicity and content And because Adam seing himselfe so rich and honored should not haue occasion to grow insolent and proud he gaue a precept vnto him as a paying or owing fee and vassellage by acknowledging God for his Lord which was he forbad thē to eate of the fruit of one only tree in the garden Adam broke the commandement and offended him for the which God did chastice him exemplarly There was a publick act or arraignement made in the which were present the three diuine persons Angels and many other creatures Before all these were Adam and Eue brought as publick penitents in body with their heads vncouered and in place of fetters their guiltines which the diuines call Reatus which remained in their soule after they had sinned and was like a cord which tyed them In steed of a taper which publicke doers of pennance carry in their hand serued naturall reason which notwithstanding had lost for the most part its light by their sinne In this manner were our first fathers produced and accused before the iudgement seat of God and being examined of their sinne Adam confessed it yet he laid the fault vpon Eua and Eua likewise excused her selfe by the serpent The guilty persons hauing confessed their offence they were sentenced so that from that time they began to dye Their goods were confiscated and they thrust out of the terrestriall paradise their posterity were proclaimed Traitors their discendents that were borne of them the children of wrath and disfauoured of God And wholly to execute the sentence against Adam there was a degradation made of him for he lost as we may say the red or inflamed Vestmēt of charity the Stole of immortality the Maniple of original iustice the Girdle with which reason restrained sensuality the white Albe of innocency and the Amice which was as a helmet of fine temper with which he defended himselfe from the temptations of the deuill This degradation of the person of Adam being performed holy writ saith that God gaue vnto him and Eua certaine short garments which was as the habite of publicke penitents and from these our garmēts fetch their originall It were well that so great