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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28874	The life of St. Ignatius, founder of the Society of Jesus written in French by the Reverend Father Dominick Bouhours of the same society ; translated into English by a person of quality.; Vie de Saint Ignace, fondateur de la Compagnie de Jésus. English	Bouhours, Dominique, 1628-1702.; Person of quality.	1686 (1686)	Wing B3826; ESTC R8869	249,798	410

of Burgos and a Cardinal going thither and Condoling Ignatius's misfortune he ask'd him if his Imprisonment was not painful to him D' ye think said Ignatius smiling 't is any great matter to be in Prison and in Chains for my part I confess truly to you that there are not so many Dungeons nor Fetters in Salamanca but that I should be glad of more for the love of my Saviour Jesus Christ He made almost the same Answer to some Nuns who mightily compasionating his Condition wrote to him Letters full of tenderness and grief on his behalf and of Resentment against those who had made him be arrested But he condemn'd these Sentiments of Nature in them and told them it was a sign that they did not know the Treasures which are hid under the Crosses we suffer for the Service of God This Advertisement had such an effect upon these Religious Women that they became enflam'd with the desire of Humiliations and Sufferings In the mean time Frias who had much the Character and Spirit of Figneroa came to interrogate the Prisoners Ignatius deliver'd into his hands the Book of his Spiritual Exercises and told him the Lodging of his other Three Disciples to the end they might be Examin'd Immediately they were apprehended and put into a Dungeon apart where they could have no Communication with Ignatius or Calisto The Grand Vicar took the pains himself to read the Book of the Exercises and afterwards gave it to three Doctors to read of which one of his own Name was call'd Frias the other Paravignas and the third Isidoro After they had all four throughly examin'd it they sent for Ignatius to come before them and propos'd to him divers Questions not only upon the Matters contain'd in his Book of Exercises but also upon many Theological Points treated of in the Schools Ignatius acknowledged to them that he was no Learned Man However he answer'd so to the purpose that the Doctors were surpriz'd One of them to puzzel him propos'd a crabbed and difficult Question to him out of the Canon Law He answer'd he did not know what the Canonists had determin'd upon that Point but in Obedience to them he told them his own Opinion of it which prov'd to be exactly right and true They commanded him to explicate to them the first Precept of the Decalogue in the same manner as he usually did to the People He did it but like a man inspir'd and in such a way as perswaded them that the Holy Ghost spake by his mouth This notwithstanding they again told him that they much wonder'd that he being no Schollar as he confest himself should undertake in the beginning of his Exercises to determine the difference between a Venial and a Mortal Sin To which he plainly answer'd that they were his Judges And if he had advanc'd any thing contrary to Faith they ought to condemn him But if his Doctrine of the distinction between a Venial and a Mortal Sin had nothing in it but what was Catholick he humbly hoped that they would approve of it At this very time while they were examining Ignatius the Prisoners broke open the doors of the Prison and having kill'd or bound the Guards all made their escape except the Companions of Ignatius who were found all alone in the Prison with the Doors open This did not a little serve to justify their Innocence In conclusion after two and twenty days of Imprisonment the Master and his Disciples were cited before the Judges to hear their Sentence read by which they are declar'd to be good Men and their Doctrine to be Sound They are farther permitted to speak of Heavenly things and to Instruct the People as much as they please But altho the difference which Ignatius had set down between Venial and Mortal Sins were allowed to be Orthodox by the Judges themselves they forbad him to touch upon that Point in his Catechisms or in his Exhortations till such time as he had studyed four years in Divinity Here we may wonder that the Lords of Loyola did not appear during all these Storms and that since the Conversion of Ignatius none of his Family did ever look after him This possibly may be either because Ignatius still made it his chief business to conceal his Family and his Condition so that his Kindred were wholly Ignorant what was become of him or else God might permit for the greater Perfection of his Servant that he who had absolutely abandon'd the World should also be forgot by it Ignatius who desir'd not his Liberty but for the Service of his Neighbour was not well satisfy'd with the last Article of his Sentence He look'd upon it as a Snare laid to catch him He knew that his Enemies had caus'd this Article to be inserted with design of raising new Quarrels and Complaints against him Wherefore to avoid the ill Consequence of it he resolv'd to leave Salamanca and even Spain it self He had at the same time a strong Inspiration to go for France to continue or rather to recommence his Studies in the University of Paris which was at that time the most celebrated in all Europe Having found by Experience that the little Progress which he had made in Learning at Alcala and Salamanca did much proceed from his losing time in begging about for his subsistance he thought that before he entred into a strange Countrey he might in Conscience raise a small Fund wherewith to subsist during his Studies Wherefore when he past through Barcelona he made no Scruple to accept of the Money and Bills of Exchange which his Friends offer'd him He left his Companions there whom he found not over dispos'd to follow him and departed alone about the end of December however with design that they should follow him when he had made their way and prepar'd accommodations for them There was little Security upon the Frontiers of the two Kingdoms where the Souldiers on both sides robb'd and ill treated Passengers It was besides a severe Winter and the Snow which cover'd all the Ground made the ways hardly passable Notwithstanding he perform'd his Journey without any Disaster and came to Paris in good health at the beginning of February 1528. The chief End which Ignatius had in this Voyage was to advance in Learning He lodged in the University with some Spanish Students And that he might be Master of the Latin Tongue he put himself again to the Study of it in Montaigu College Whereas he had no love for Money and had no Inclination to keep it out of the Principle of Evangelical Poverty he trusted all that he had with one of his Chamber Fellows But this Companion of his prov'd very unfaithful to him Part of the Money he riotously spent and the rest he run away with Ignatius who had no Recruit was constrain'd to retire to the Hospital of St James where Spaniards are receiv'd and which was founded by Charlemain for the Pilgrims of St James