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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16354	The life of the holie father S. Francis Writen by Saint Bonauenture, and as it is related by the Reuerend Father Aloysius Lipomanus Bishop of Veron. In his fourth tome of the life of Saintes; Legenda maior beatissimi patris francisci. English	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.; Montagu, Anthony Maria Browne, Viscount, 1574-1629.	1610 (1610)	STC 3271; ESTC S112955	142,663	258

be for his soules health bestowed vpon Christian poore people or to the vse of their Churches But he for that he esche wed the burden of mony and did not see the rote of true piety to be in the mind of the Souldan would in no wise be perswaded there vnto And furthermore perceiving that he did not prevaile in the converfion of that nation neither yet could attaine vnto his purpose therein vpon forewarning by revelation from heaven receaved he made his returne vnto the partes of the faithfull And so both mercifully and marveilously it came to passe by the clemencie of God soe ordaining and by the vertue of the holy man promerriting the same that this friende of Christ did for his loue seeke after deathe with all his whole desire and could by no meanes find it whereby he might nor want the metrite of most desired Martirdome but might be yet reserved to be afterwardes insigned with a singuler priviledge And by that meanes was it also effected that that divine fire did yet more perfectly escape and boile in his harte that after wardes it might more powerfully flame and burst out in his flesh O holy man most truly blessed whose flesh although it be not cut with the sworde of the Tyrant doth not yet wante the similitude of the Lambe that was slaine O truly and perfectly blessed I say whose life although the sworde of the persecutor did not take away yet did he not loose the Glory of Martyrdome THE TENTH CHAPTER Of his diligence and fervency in praier THE holy servant of Christ Saint Francis perceaving that in body he was as yet a pilgrime from God albeit that vnto earthly desires 2. Cr. 5.7 he was already through the charity of Christ become altogether insensible 1. Thes â— 17 yet to the ende he might not be without the consolation of his wellbeloved attending vnto praier without intermission he endeavoured to offer vp his spirit before the presence of God And praier Beholde how necessary prater is to a religious man dovbtlesse was a solace vnto him in his contemplation meane while that in the circuite of the heavenly mansions he being already made a fellow Cittizen of Angells did with fervent desire seeke after his welbeloved from whom none other thing but the wall of his flesh did now disioyne him This also was a helpe vnto him in worke labour namely that in all the thinges he tooke in hande distrusting his owne industrie and firmely reposing vppon Gods heauenly piety he did by the instancy therof cast all his thought vpon our Lord. He firmely avowed that promptenesse in praier was aboue all things to be desired on the parte of a religious man verely believing that without the same no man might be able to prosper in the service of God he did by all the meanes he might stirre vp his brethren vnto the diligent exercise thereof For walking and setting within doores and abroade labouring and recreating hewas evermore so attentiue vnto praier that he seemed not only for what was in him either in harte or body but in labour also and time to haue dedicated and devoted all wholy therevnto He was alwaies heedefull at no time negligently to ouerpasse any visitation of the spirite For when iâ— was offered vnto him he followed the same and so long as our Lord vouchsafed to graunt it he comfortably enioied the sweetenesse thereof And even at such very times as he was seriously intentiue to trauell 2. Cor. 6.1 when he founde in himselfe any sweete motions Gods heauenly spiritt he suffering his brethren to goe before him did for a while make stay in the place and by that meanes converting the new inspiration vnto a present fruition he did not receaue the grace in vaine Oftentimes he was lifted vp with so great an excesse of contemplation that being ravished aboue himselfe and finding within him something beyond humane sence and vnderstandinge he did not know what was exteriourly donne about him For pasling one time through the Borough of Saint Sepulcher a Towne doubtlesse very populous and well replenished he beeing then borne vpon an Asse by reason of the feeblenesse of his body did meete a great multitude of people which came thronging vpon him for very devotion But being by them pulled halled and detained as also crushed and many waies pressed he seemed to be in all those things vnsensible and as a body devoided of life did not obserue what was donne about him In so much having now a good way passed the towne and being freed of the multitudes when he came vnto a certaine Hospitall of the Leapours the contemplator of hevenly things returning euen then as it were from another world demaunded diligently of his company when they should come nigh to the Bouroughe For verely his minde being fixed in the beames of heauenly Glory did not discerne the variety of places and times nor yet of the perâ—ons that frequently came to meete him And the like hearevnto the manifold experience of his companions hath well testified very often to haue befallen vnto him And for so much as in praier he had fully perceaved that the much desired presence of the holy-Ghost did so much the more familiarly offer it self vnto them that attend vnto praier by how much as he did finde them to be more alienated and enstraunged from the disturbance of worldly things he therefore seeking after solitary places did in the night tyme resorte by reason of praier into the Deferts and Churches at that time vnfrequented Howbiet that in those places he very many times sustained most horrible assaults of the Divells whoe sensibly entring into combatte with him endevoured to disturbe him from the exercise of praier But be armed with Gods heavenly wepons looke how much the more vehemently he was assailed by his enemies so much the more strong did he become in power of resistance so much the more ferveÌ„t perseverant he was in the accomplishment of his praier Confidently vâ—sing this speachevnto Christ Vnder the shaddow of thy wings do thou protect me Psal 16.8 from the face of the wicked who haue afflicted me But vnto the Dâ—uels he said spare not to worke vpon me al that you are able O ye malignaÌ„t deceitful spirits For yee can doe nothing but as the hand of God letteth loose the reines vnto you and I for my parte am ready with all willingnesse of minde to sustain whatsoever he hath determined to be inflicted vpon me Which constancy of his minde the proude Divels not being able to abide departed away from him with shame and confusion But the man of God now remaining solitarie vndisturbed filled the woodes with dolorouse groanes he sprinkled his places of abode with teares he beate vpon his breast with his hand and having gotten as it were a secrete place of residence he had free conference with his Lord and Maister There be made answeare for himselfe before his Iudge there

outward submission of words thus the holy man replied my Lord if the Father repell his sonne at one doore he must enter in againe at another By force of which humility the Bishop being wholy subdued embraced him with a loving and chearefull countenance saiyng then vnto him Beholde that none can preach the worde of god without leaue of his superiour From hence forth both you and your brethren may freely preache in in my Diocesse by my licence generall for so much your holy humility hath very well deserved It happened that once he came to Aretium at such time as the whole Cittie was so miserably afflicted with civill warre and dissention that it seemed to be therby in present danger of vtter distruction And he being then lodged in the suburbes sawe a route of Divells alofte in the aire right over the Citty insulting and also inflaming the perturbed mindes of the Cittizens to mutuall armes and slaughter But to the ende he might driue away those seditious powers of the aire he sent brother Siluester a man of singular simplicity and sincerity assigning vnto him the Office of a Crier saiyng Go before the gate of the Citty and on the parte of Almighty God commande the Diuells by vertue of obedience that they speedily departe Incontinently the childe of true obedience made hast to performe the Fathers commaundement having first given praise vnto Almighty God he beganne with loude voice to crie before the gate of the Citty on the parte of God Almighty and by the commaundement of his servant Francis depart ye farre away from hence all ye wicked Divells Aud presently vpon these wordes the Citty returned vnto peace againe and all the Cittizens with great good agreement renewed the lawes of their former civility For the raging pride of the Diuells which had as it were besieged that Citty being once repelled the wisedome of the poore that is to say the humility of Saint Francis comming then vppon them restored peace vnto the people and preserved the Citty from desolation For by the merite of that rare and excellent vertue of humble obedience he had obtained so powerfull a commaundement ouer those prowde rebellious spirits that the did both represse theire insolent arrogancy and did also repell their importunate violence In this manner the prowde Diuels do ever flie away from the eminent vertues of the humble saving that sometimes the mercie of God permitteth them to be buffeted of the enemie for the better preservation of their humility according as Saint Paul the Apostle writeth of himselfe 2. Cor. 12.7 and as Saint Francis proved by experience For being requested by Lord LEO Cardinall of the Holy Crosse to remaine some litle wile with him in the Citry he humbly consented thervnto for the reverence and loue he bare vnto him But in the very first night of his entertainement his praiers being ended and he preparing himself to sleep a sorte of Divells issued in vpon him furiously assailing the souldier of Christe Aug. 18. de ciu Deic 18. Whome when they had long and sorely beaten at lenght they left him for dead But as soone as the fiends were gone the servant of God calling his companion related vnto him the whole matter as it had befallen him saiyng I do verely belieue Brother that the Divells who can doe nothing but as the providence of God doth dispose haue for this cause rushed now with so great fury vpon me because ther is no good hope to be conceiued of my aboade in the Court of Princes For my brethren that abide in poore and forlorne places hearing that I am now in company with Cardinals will peradventure imagine that I am busied in wordly affaires that I am advanced with honors and that I do abound with pleasures Wherfore I thinke it better that he who is given as an examplevn to others should avoide the Court and converse humbly among the humble in humble places to the ende that vnto them who sustaine povertie himselfe may giue encouragement by sustaining the like with them In the morning therefore they came and humbly excusing themselves tooke their leaue of the Cardinall For the holy man abhorred pride as the roote and of spring of all other evills besides no lesse detesting the foule vice of disobedience which he esteemed as her most pestilent deformed daughter but the humility of pennance he did as equally approue It fortuned once a certaine brother to be brought before him who having committed some offence against the law of obedience was therefore rightfully to be corrected by the discipline of iustice But the man of God by evident tokens perceyving that the brother was vn fainedly pennitent for his fault of transgression was by the loue he bare to humility much inclined to pardone him yet least that his facility in par doning might be vnto others an occasion in like manner to offend he commaunded the brothers Capouche to be taken from him and cast into the middest of the flaming fire to the end that all men might obserue with how great and with what mauner of revenge the offence of disobedience ought of right to be chasticed and corrected But when the Caponche had bine a good while in the fire he commaunded the same to be taken out of the fire againe and to be delivered vnto the brother vpon his humble repentance A wonderfull marter it is to reparte The Capouche being raked out from the middest of the flames bare no marke or signe of burning at all and so it came to passe that wod by this one miracle did both approue the vertue of the holy man and did also commend the humility of pennance Worthely therefore is the humility of Saint FRANCIS to be immitated and embraced which obtained even in earth so admirable a dignity as to incline the wil of God to his desire to chaunge the affection of man to foile by his commaundement the insolent pride of the Divells and with a beck to represse the devouring names of the fire This is in very deâ—e that high and excellent vertue which exalting them that possesse it while it giveth reverence vnto all deferveth worthily to be honored of all THE SEAVENTH CHAPTER Of his loue of pouerty and of the marueilous supply of his wants AMONG the many and fundry gifts of spirituall graces which holy Saint FRANCIS obtained of the bountifull giuer of all things he merited by a certain speciall prerogatiue to aboued in the riches of simplicity by the loue of most perfect pouerty This vertue the holy man considering to hane binne familiar vnto the sonne of God waighing also the same to be now a daies as it were abandoned throughout the world did so efficacioussy endeuour to espouse the same vnto himselfe by perpetuall Charity that for the loue thereof he did not only forsake both Father and Mother but also did freely distribute and disburden himself of what ever he either had or might in time to come

whose sacrifice it hath impeached He vsed to recite his psalmes with soe great attention of minde and spiritte as if he had God ever present before him and when he chanced in them to finde the name of our Lord he seemed euen to licke his lipps for the very abouÌ„dant delight of the sweetnesse he tasted therein And being also desirous with a most especiall reverence to honour the very name of our Lorde and that not only thought but also named and written he did sometimes perswade his brethren togather vp al the litle scrapps of paper that might any where be founde containing the same them to put in some cleane and decent place least it might haply chance that the sacred name written therein should be trodden vnder foote But the name of Iesus when he did either speake it or heare it did inwardly so fill him with such a singuler kinde of exvltation that he thereby seemed to be altogether chaunged euen exteriourly as if some mellifluous swetenes had altered his tast or some harmoniacall sounde his hearing But in the third yeare before his death it came to passe that for the stirring vp of greater devotion he purposed to celebrate the festivall memorie of the birth of the childe Iesus at the village of Graecium withal the greatest solemnity that possibly he could And to the end the same might not be imputed to levitie he craved licence of the Pope and having obtained the same he caused a manger to be prepared as also hay to be gotten and an oxe and an Asse to be brought to the place The brethren were called togither the people assembled themselues the woode adioyning was ful of voyces and that venerable night was by meane of many cleare shining lights of lowde soundinge and harmoniacall praises made to be both very light some and full of solemnity There stood the man of God before the manger full of devotion besprinkled with teares and overcome with ioy The holy sacrifice of the Masse was solemnely celebrated vpon the manger the Leuite of Christe S. FRANCIS did sing the Ghospell And afterwardes vnto the people that stood about him he preached of the nativity of the poore King and ever as he named him he did for the very tendernesse of loue call him the child of Bethlem But in this meane while a certaine souldier of great vertue and creditte called Maister Iohn of Graecium who hauing for the loue of Christe forsaken the secular warfare was now in great familiarity conioined vnto this seruant of God did testifie himselfe to haue seene a litle child of great comlinesse lieing a sleepe in that manger whom the Blessed Father S. Francis embracing in both his armes did seem to wake out of his sleepe And this vision of the devout souldier not only the holinesse of him that beheld the same did make to be credible but the very evident truth thereof did vndoubtedly approue it and the miracles succeding did also confirme it For the example of holy S. Francis being considered of the world is of great force to stirre vp the harts of such as are heauie and dull in the faith of Christe and the hay of that manger being by the people reserued was in marveilouse manner effectuall for the recouerie of sicke Cattell and a singuler preservatiue against divers other pestilences God Almighty in all things glorifieing his servaunt demonstrating the efficacy of holy prayer by manifest wonders and miracles THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER Of his vnderstanding the scriptures and of his spiritte of prophecy BVT vnto so great a perspicacity of minde had the vnwearied custome of prayer together with the continuall exercise of vertues brought this holy man of God that albeit he had no skill in the holy sacred scriptures by the ordinarie course of learning yet neverthelesse being enlightened with the beames of eternall light he did searche the depth of them with a wonderfull sharpenesse of vnderslanding For his conceite being pure from all manner of blemish did penetrate into the most hidden misteries and where the science of the Doctour did stand without doores even there was the affection of the lover admitted to enter in Sometimes he did reade in the holy bookes and what soeuer he did once take in his minde he did most firmely imprint in his memory not hearing any thing in vaine with the bare present attention of his minde but ruminating therevppon with an affection of continuall devotion And being once demanded by his brethren if he did like that the men of learning who were alreadie admitted vnto the order should still attend vnto the study of the holy scriptures he answeared It liketh me truly very well but yet soe that following the example of Christe of whom we may obserue that he did more frequently pray than reade they do in no waies omit the exercise of prayer nor yet doe so giue themselues to study as only to knowe howe they ought to speake but to practise the things they haue learnd when they haue donne those things themselves then afterwardes to propose them vnto others to doe the like For I would said he that my brethren should be disciples of the Gospell that soe they should profitte in the knowledge of the truth as that therewith all they doe also increase in the purenesse of simplicity whereby they doe not separate from the prudence of the serpent the simplicity of the done which our chiefe maister hath with his owne blessed mouth conioyned therevnto Being demaunded at Sienna by a certaine religiouse man whoe was Doctor of divinity concerning certaine questions which were very difficult hard to be vnderstood he did with such a clearnesse of doctrine discouer the secretts of Gods divine wisedome that the same learned man was thereat greatly amazed and with much admiration thereof did say Vndoubtedly the divinity of this holy Father is like as it were an Eagle borne vp a lofte with the wings of purity and contemplation but our knowledg creepeth belowe vpon the ground For though he were but euen vnskilfull in the manner of speaking yet was he so full of heauenly knowledg that he explicated most doubtfull questions and produced to light many hidden and secret things Neither is it to be held for strange that the holy man had from Almighty God receaued the vnderstanding of the scriptures seeing that by the perfect imitation of Christe he did beare the truth of them liuely expressed in his workes and that by the plentifull vnction of the Holy Ghoste he had the teacher of them abiding with him in his harte And so singulerly also did the spirite of prophecy appeare in him that he did not only foresee future things but did also see into the hidden secrets of mens harts did moreouer behold the things that were absent as though they were present in marveilouse manner exhibiting himself present vnto those that were absent For at that time wheÌ„ that the army of the Christians did beseige the

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