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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20647	Pseudo-martyr Wherein out of certaine propositions and gradations, this conclusion is euicted. That those which are of the Romane religion in this kingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of allegiance.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1610 (1610)	STC 7048; ESTC S109984	230,344	434

not confesse vppon ●hat racke they must bee vtterly expunged as wee noted of others before 12 And vpon this superabundant value of the merite of Martyredome Bellarmine builds that conclusion which wee now condemne which is That because many martyres haue but fewe sinnes of their owne and their passion is of a large and rich satisfaction a mightie heape of Satisfaction superabounds fr●m martyrs And so they being sent hither as Factors to encrease that banke and Treasurie it appears ● thinke sufficiently that this doctrine of merit●s dooth mis-prouoke and inordina●ly p●●forward inconside●ate men to this vitious ●ffec●ation of Martyrdome To which also the Doc●●ine of Purgatory contributes as much perswasion THE THIRD PART OF PVRGATORY AS Morbizan the Turke being mooued by a Bul of Pius 2. by which he granted Indulgences to all thē that would take Armes against him by a Letter to the Pope required him to call in his Epigrammes againe And as a great learned man of this time calls Panlus the fifts Excommunication against the Venetians Dirum Carmen And as Bellarmine saies of Prudentius when he appoints certain Holydaies in Hect Paenarum celebres sub styge feriae That he did but play More poetico So all discourse of Purgatorie seemes to me to bee but the Mythologie of the Romane Church and a morall application of pious and vseful f●bles 2 To which opinion Canus expresses himselfe to haue an inclination when he saies That men otherwise very graue have gathered vp rumours and transmitted them to posterity either too indulgent to themselues or to the people and that Noble Authors haue beene content to thinke that that was the true law of History to write those things which the common people thought to be true And this censure he forbears not to lay vpon Gregory and Bede by which two so many fabulous things were conuaied to posterity To which ingenuity in Canus Lypsius his Champion saies iudgement● But in this onely their discretion and an abstinence from a slippery and inconsiderate creduli●ie is in q●estion and euen in matter of iudgement in as good iudgement as this Authour hat● Canus w●l● iustly enough in that Church haue a good ●oo me And if this Authour as hee pre●ends ●n that pl●ce acc●pt none of these fables but such as the authoritie and iudgement of the Church hath approued either many of the Stories must loose their credit or els the Popes that approued them 3 Who haue beene wisely and prouidently most liberall and carefull to affoord most of that sustentation of Approuing to ●hose things that were of themselues most weake and indeffensible● so so S. Brigids Reuelations are not onely approued by Boniface the ninth but confirmed by Martin the fift Both which hauing concurred to her canonization one reason why it was done on her part is because at her marriage being at thirteene yeares of age and her husband eighteene she vowed one yeares continency and the reason on the Popes part was That there might some goodnesse proceede out of the North for she was o● Swethland According to which superstition in their Mysterious ceremonies when the Gospell is song all other parts being done towards the East hee must turne to the North from whence all euill is deriued and where the Diuels dwell But for all their barbarous and prophane despite and contumelies which they impute not to the Diuell but to Princes and all sorte of people beyond their Hilles their Stories are full of the memorie of Benefites which Sea hath receiued from Northern Princes and Binius confesses that the remote and Northerne people did so much honour the Romane Church that whomsoeuer they hea●ed to sit in that Chaire and to be Pope though but in name without any discussion of his entrance they reuerenced him as S. Peter himselfe which saies he is a wonderfull thing to be spoken Which imputation since Binius laies vpon Northerne Catholiques they are fairely warned to bee more circumspect in their obsequiousnesse to that Church without discussing the persons and the matter which is commaunded them 4 But to returne to this Comique-Tragicall doctrine of Purgatory if Canus weigh nothing with them Sir Thomas Moore of whose firmenesse to the integrity of the Romane fa●th that C●urch neede not be ashamed intimates as much when he saies That hee therefore vn●ertooke to transl●te Lucianus Dialogue Philopseudes to deliuer the world from superstition which was crept in vnder Religion For saies he superstitious lies haue beene tolde with so much authority that a Cosoner was able to perswade S. Augustine thog● a graue man a vehement enemy of lies that a tale which Lucian had before derided in this Dialogue was thē newly done in his daies Some therfore think● saies he that they haue made Christ beholden to them for euer if they inuent a fable of some Saint or some Tragedie of hell to make an olde woman weepe or tremble So that scarce the life of any Martyr or virgine ●ath escaped their lies which makes me suspect that a great part of those fables hath beene ins●rted by Heretiques by mingling therof to withdraw the credite due to Christian Histories 5 And in our daies Philip Nerius the Institutor of the last Order amongst them who was so familiar in heauen whilst hee liued vpon earth that he was faine to intreat God to depart further from him And to draw back his minde from heauenly matters and turne them vpon earthly before he was able to say Masse And could heare the Musique and Symphonie of the Angels And could distinguish any vertue or any vice by his smelling This man I say was euer an enemie to these Apparitions and vsed to say That God would not take it ill not to be beleeued though he should truly appeare to vs in any shape And to a Scholler that tolde him that our Lady appeared to him in the night he said next time she comes spit in her face which he did and found it to be the diuell Nor did hee easily beleeue possessions but referred it commonly to the indispositions of the body and suspecting iustly the same diffidence in others which he found in himselfe hee prayed to God that he would worke no miracles by him 6 So that not onely for feare of illusions and mistaking bad spirits for good for for that their greatest Authors which haue writ of that subiect euen in these cleare curious times are still confident that An euill spirit what shape so euer hee appeare in may be knowne by his feete or hands And that he is euer notoriously deformed either by a Tayle or by Hornes And that hee will van●sh if one vse him as Friar Ruffin did who when the diuell appeared to him ordinarily in the forme of Christ crucified by S. Francis his counsaile said to him Open thy mouth implebo stercore and thereupon was deliuered from that