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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25370	The English nvnne being a treatise wherein (by way of dialogue) the author endeauoureth to draw yong & vnmarried Catholike gentlewomen to imbrace a votary and religious life / written by N.N. Hereunto is annexed a short discourse (by way of conclusion) to the abbesses and religious women of all the English monasteries in the Low-countreys and France.	Anderton, Lawrence.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3109; ESTC R29040	86,325	178

a greedines would many of you read it Cōdemne then your owne want of spirituall feruour in such of you as but only vouchsafe to cast a curious eye here there vpon these leaues yet it may be in part said that this Booke in general discourseth of the same subiect of which the Areadia doth to wit of Loue But the Arcadia of sensuall and Vayn● Loue attended on with sinne and Repentance This of chast and holy Loue whereby a Soule by solemne vow espouseth herselfe to Christ her Bridegroome so verifying those words of the A Present b you a chaste Virgin Vre●● Christ I only wish that what Cosmophila a feigned young Gentlewoman in this Dialogue is supposed to do you really and truly would act her Sceene in your proceedings So might you by a mortifyed lyfe not only auoyd all spirituall dangers both of foule and body but infallibly purchafe to your selues an eternall Crowne of Glory Yf any of you reape such profit by this my Labour as by the ●eading heereof to shake hands for euer with the vanities of the world and happily to Cloyster your selfes in some deuout Monastery how fully should I thinke ●ny paynes to be recompensed herein And with this I cease inreating your remembrance of he only for my intention at east and endeauour of aduaning your spirituall good at the best tymes of your deuotions Yours in all Christian Charity N. N. The Explication of certaine Greeke Nam●●●vsed in this Treatise Caelia A woman exercising a Heauen●●● lyfe Cosmophila A woman that loueth 〈◊〉 World Christophila A woman deuoting her l●●● to Christ Monadelphus One only Brother Orthodoxus A man professing the 〈◊〉 Fayth Gynecia Womanhood Belgiopolis A Citty in Belgium or 〈◊〉 Low-Countreyes The Argument or Subiect of the ensuing Dialogue ORthodoxus an imaginary Catholike Knight in England and of a great State hath three Children by his Lady Gynecia two Daughters one Sonne The elder daughter is called Caelia the younger Cosmophila His sonne Monadelphus Calia is permitted with consent of her parents to become Religious and accordingly is sent ouer vnto an English Monastery of Nunnes in Belgiopolis Whiles she is in her Nouiship or yeare of Probation her Brother Monadelphus dyeth Hereupon Orthodoxus writeth to Caelia since as yet she was not professed to returne backe because for want of Heyres-Male he was determined to dispose of both his daughters in Mariage and to deuide after his death his State betweene them He receaueth no answere from Calia In the end Orthodoxus is forced to send his yonger daughter Cosmophila to Caelia to perswade her returne Cosmophila as being fully instructed by her Father who furnished her with diuers Obiections commonly made against a Religious lyfe was most earnest with her Sister to satisfy their parents desire and this in the presence of the Confessarius and Abbesse of that Monastery Caelia remayneth constant and immoueable in her pious Resolution The Confessarius learnedly displayeth the weakenes and insufficiency of all those Reasons and Arguments which Cosmophila brought That done he beginneth to discourse in a most full manner of the Dignity Worth Excellency Priuiledges Benefits of a Monasticall Life His Speaches by little and little did so strongly worke with Cosmophila as that she fully repenting her of former perswasions to her Sister wholy altereth her iudgment is resolued to lead the same Religious life with Caelia taketh the Habit of the Monastery beginneth her Nouiship and changeth her former name into Christophila The two daughters wryte a ioynt letter to their parents acquainting them with what hath fallen out They withal intreat the Confessarius to wryte with theirs his owne letter to Orthodoxus and his Lady He agreeth to their request Their parents receauing these Letters were at the first much agrieued But within some small tyme after partly by force of the said Letters but chiefly seeing they saw it was Gods will and Ordination that their only sōne should dye both their daughters should become Religious that they shold as being hopelesse of more issue leaue no Heyres Male of their owne bodies behind them they humbly submit themselues to Gods good pleasure therein They do so repentingly acknowledg their former Errour in dehorting of Caelia as that both being wel strokē in yeares they resolue for satisfaction of that fault to liue no lōger togeather as man and wyfe but to spend the rest of their life in a Religious Course Hereupon Orthodoxus acquainteth the Confessarius by Letter that he intendeth to enter into some Religious House of the Capuchins and Gynecia into the Monastery where her two daughters do remaine THE DIALOGVE COSMOPHILA being sent ouer into the Low-Countreyes by her Father Orthodoxus as is before declared with instruction and order to bring backe her sister Caelia into England and now safely arriued at Belgiopolis meeting with a Reuerend Man ●n the street courteously saluteth him in this manner Cosmophila Reuerend Syr God saue you It seemes by your habit that you are a Clergy-man and so in likely hood the better able to satisfy my demand I am a Stranger and an English woman and but at this very houre arriued with my Seruants to this Noble Citty of Belgiopolis My desire is that you would be pleased to direct me vnto the Monastery of the English Nunnes in this Towne The Confessarius Gentlewoman and it should appeare by you● attendance of Worthy State and Condition I will not only satisfy your request but wi●● my selfe conduct you to the Monastery for am the Confessarius to the Religious and vertuous women of that House Therefore if 〈◊〉 please you let vs go together for it is clo●● by This is the Monastery Come in and re●● your selfe a while in this roome till I sha●● send for the Lady Abbesse vnto the Grate t● speake with you and entertaine you according to your worth And loe where she approacheth The Abbesse Is there any one here who would speak with me Confessarius Yes Madame For as I was passing through the Streets I ouertooke this worthy Gentlewoman a stranger and English as she sayth by birth She desired me to shew her this Religious house but what the cause of her comming hither is or why she is desirous to see this house I know not Noe doubt she will acquaint your Ladyshippe with her Motiues thereof Abbesse Gentlewoman Are you the party that would speake with me Yf it please you then you may relate your busines Cosmophila I am And herewith I am to make knowne vnto you that I haue a Sister in this your house called Caelia whom I would gladly see And to her I shall impart all the particulars of my long and tedious iourney Abbesse I will send for her to come vnto you presently And heere she commeth Sister Caelia ●now you this English Gentlewoman who you ●ee on the other syde of the Grate She sayth ●e knoweth you Caelia O God! It is my Sister Cosmophila for we ●oth

want of knowing one another much lesse of any former streight entercourse betweeene your Worshippe and my selfe ye● I hould it expedient to salute you the worthy Lady your Bedfellow with these my letters With the Subiect wherof vpon your opening of them you will be fully acquainted They concerne as you may perceaue the present state of your two daughters Caelia and Cosmophila Gentlewomen of such desert as that you haue reason greatly to reioyce in a spirituall consolation that you are become Parents to two such Children The elder of them to wit Caelia came ouer the last yeare as you know to become Religious this with both your consents though not at the first yet at the last obtained Your second daughter I meane Cosmophila was lately sent by you vpon the death of Monadelphus your only Sonne and Heyre to persuad● her Sister not being as yet professed to leau● her vocation and to returne back with her in to England for their mutually enioying o● your fayre worthy Estate after your death And hereby you may take notice how Go● hath far contrary to your expectation disposed in these matters Your daughter Caelia slands immoueabl● indeed inexorable to all the persuasion● which her Sister to the contrary could mak● to her in her resolution to proceed in her already begun state And Cosmophila her selfe i● at the length determined through my speaches and reasons to her alleadged as a poor and subordinate Instrument vnder God here in to imbrace the same Spirituall Course with her Sister and rests firmely resolued as you may further vnderstand by their owne letters here to remayne with vs For she already is entred into the Company of the Religious Sisters and hath begun to make her Nouiship Who can deny but that in this busines there is Digitus Dei Gods Good prouidence preordination Now Worthy Syr whereas your selfe and your vertuous Lady are Catholikes professing one and the same Religion with me I hold it the rather my duty to giue you both what satisfaction I am able for the alleuiating and lessining of both your griefes which perhaps you may conceaue by this strange alteration in your yonger daughter and perseuerance in the Elder And for the better facilitating of this point with the consent of both your Daughters I haue sent with these letters A Goppy of the whole discourse which passed betweene Cosmophila and my selfe By perusing whereof you may conceaue First the weakenes of those Obiections made by you against Religious life so much for the tyme insisted vpon by your daughter Cosmophila Secondly you may here see the seuerall arguments and vnanswearable Reasons fully warranting the Election and choyce of that state of life which both your daughters haue made And these said Reasons are taken from the Worth Dignity Honour and benefits of a Religious and votary life And notwithstanding my sending to you ●eformer whole discourse yet considering how strongly and violently and this perhaps with some offence to God You and your Lady may entertaine at the first these vnexpected occurrences therefore intending to transgresse the bonds of a letter I haue thought it conuenient for both your Spirituall good a● also for the good of other parents to whom this my discourse may perhaps hereafter be made knowne if so themselues haue any Children desirous to take a Religions Course to enlarge my selfe in these leaues following by discouering and expressing how dangerous a thing it is in Catholike parents and how domageable both to their owne Soules and to the Soules of such their Children who would gladly imbrace a Religious life to hinder resist and withstand them in this their pious Resolution Touching then this Subiect I will deuide my whole future discourse into three generall branches or Heads First I will shew the grieuousnes of the sinne in Parents diswading their Children from the Election of so blessed a Course Secondly I will alledg diuers examples of Gods iust and seuere punishments inflicted vpon parents and other such persons who haue labored to withdraw and alter the mindes of those who haue made choyce of this Monasticall and retired Course In the third and last place I will proue by force of Reason that parents ought to be cōtent quietly to resigne their Wills to Gods Will herein I meane in ioyfully suffering their Children to be called by God to this his so peculiar seruice To begin with the first And first it is euident that such Parents do fight warre euen against Gods owne will and predetermination a warre most impious and withall most exitious and fatall to them that vndertake it For can it be denied but that to scatter abroad that which God hath gathered together to diswade those Souldiers which his diuine Maiesty hath mustered to serue vnder his owne standard to destroy what God hath built Finally to oppose and withstand the Counsell if God is a most heinous sinne and a great Sacriledge committed against him who is Lord both of Heauen and earth And yet all those Parents and others who seeke to dehort their Children or their friends from a Religious life if so they were resolued to vndergoe that holy Course are interessed in all the former rehearsed Transgressions Let vs produce the iudgments of some ancient Fathers touching the atrocity of the Parents sinne herein We will begin with S. a Chrysostome who reckoning vp diuers degrees of malice which are found in any sinne wherin Charity is chiefly wanting concludeth That the greatest want of Charity is voluntarily to ●ppose against a Mans Saluation And thus in this Fathers iudgment Parents through a prepo●erous loue borne towards their Children in diswading them from a strict seruice of God ●o become their Paricides and do commit so much the more cruell and inhumane murther of their Children by how much the life of the Soule is better and more deare then the life of the Body S. Anselme that holy Father and Bishop o●Canterbury thus discourseth of the heinousn● of this sinne in these words Yf he b that separateth the precious from the base that is a Soule from the World be as the mouth of God He then who● mouth and hand draweth a Soule that adhereth ● God to the world what shall he be Shall not that fa● vpon him which our Lord sayth c He that gathereth not with me scattereth and He that is not wit● me is against me Thus S. Anselme I will descend herein to the iudgment of S. Bernard who thus tragically amplifieth himselfe vpon this subiect d O hard-harted Father O cruell Mother O barbarous and impious Parents yea not parents but peremptory man-killers whose sorrowes are the safty of their Children whos● comforts their destruction who had rather their Children should perish with them then raïgne without them O strange abuse c. Yf Parents care not for their owne Saluation what auayleth it them to persecute their Children What comfort can be that burneth afford