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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37113	Du Vergers humble reflections vpon some passages of the Right Honorable the Lady Marchionesse of Nevvcastles Olio, or, An appeale from her mes-informed, to her ovvne better informed iudgement	Du Verger, S.	1657 (1657)	Wing D2921; ESTC R21646	66,712	176

like to be done without labour where we all experience in our selues what we heard from S. Paule a continuall ciuile warre in this mortall body of ours where the rebellious flesh makes head against the Spirit Is it enough to talke of humbled hartes lowly desires thankefull myndes sorrowfull sighes repenting teares and feare of offending without vseing any effectuall meanes to procure them Or can we be so desparatly left by common sense as to conceiue that powdered heades and paumpered feete daintily couered backes and cramd bellies should be a more conducing meanes then those others which we imbrace whilest they are looked vpon by you with contempt and scorne as thinges irrationall THE III. PARAGRAPHE IT was not thus that the Prophete Ionas who was sent from our Lord preached to the Niniuites It was not thus that the Kinge and people vnderstoode him who besides that they beleeued in God proclamed with all a fast and were clothed in sackcloth from the greater to the lesser And when the word came to the Kinge he rose out of his Throne and cast away his garment from him and was clothed with sackcloth and sat in ashes some Courtier might haue thought that this lowe bodily posture was not sutable to Maiestie and that God rationally should not be delighted in his sackcloth and ashes but in the humilitie and lowlynesse of his hart c. yet it pleased God to testifie he was pleased in it since the holy texte saith that God sawe not their hartes onely but their workes that they were conuerted from their euill way and had mercy c. The good Iob too reprehends himselfe and doth Penance in imbers and ashes making vse of an abiect posture of body together with an humbled harte what euer mistaken reason might haue suggested to the contrarie The kingly Prophete also went on in the same way put on cloth of haire and humbled his soule in fasting imploying good meanes to procure better effectes If examples out of the new law doe better please looke after S. Iohn Baptist in the wildernesse where you shall find him practising and preaching penance in a rugh garment of Camels haire not woueninto fine chamlet at Bucerus blusheth not to putt it with a girdle of a skinne about his loynes whose foode was locustes and wildehonie making himselfe the Prince and president of dirtie feere cold backes and hungry stomackes I meane a blessed patrone of a solitarie and austere life and profession Of whom our Sauiour said to those who went out to see him that they went not out to see a man clothed in soft garmentes c. THE IV. PARAGRAPHE OR if you had rather looke vpon him who came after him but was made before him the lachet of whose shoe he was not worthy to vntye that onely begotten sonne in whom his heauenly father was well pleased saying heare him Let at least his sacred words be layd vp in our harts and let his example be putt downe for a sure Rule Vnlesse faith he you doe pennance you shall all likewise perishe But what pennance must this be Certainly that which his wisdome taught vs not that which our iniquitie feyned to it selfe That which his painfull examples pointed vs out not that which our owne licenciousnesse pleaseth to admit of Because he suffered for vs leauing vs an example that we might follow his steps And saith he woe be to thee Corosaim woe be to thee Bethsaida for if in Tyre and Sidon had bene wrought the miracles that haue bene wrought in you they had done pennance in haire cloth and ashes long agoe See what kind of pennance he points at not humble hartes and sorrowfull thoughtes alone but such as inuolues the ioynt endeuours both of body and mynde humiliations abiections chastisements and mortifications of our owne members that we may beare about with vs a sound and pure soule in a sound body that is to th end we may become holy both in body and in Spirit according to S. Paule And if this were his preaching his practise swarued not from it For he confesses of himselfe that he was in labours from his youth He liued in the wildernesse watched fasted prayed whole nightes longe while he had neither sinns of his owne to satisfie for nor iudgement to dread but onely for our crymes and our example I haue left you an example faith he and how an example which I would haue you to follow because who followes me walkes not in darknesse but shall haue the light of life Which while we haue by his grace let vs confidently walke in it least being left to run at randome and grope out our way by the fallible light of reason darknesse so ouertake vs that we shall not know whither we goe and so vanish in our owne knowledge It was not thus that the great S. Paule followed him who came not to vs in loftinesse of speach or of wisdome but in the simplicitie and ignominie of the Crosse of Christ iudging not himselfe to know any thinge among vs but Iesus Christ and him crucified that is suffering the greatest corporall paines the greatest pouertie and nakednesse and the greatest abiection and confusion imaginable thence teaching vs by bodily mortifications and paines to vanquish the flesh by pouertie and nakednesse to conquer the concupiscence of the eyes and by confusion and ignominie to subdue the pride of life This was the humble knowledge that the great Apostle affected Iesus Christ and him Crucified wherin he placed all his glorie Thus to liue wholy to God he was nailed with Christ to the Crosse and liued he now not he but Iesus Christ liued in him THE V. PARAGRAPHE FINALLY to putt this busines in its true light let vs looke into the circumstances of that admirable Apostle Neuer had any the vertues which your La. speakes of in a greater measure Neuer did any putt a greater rate vpon pure loue and charitie then he who should he haue spoken with the tongues of men and Angells should he haue had all Prophecie knowledge of all mysteries all faith euen to the remouing of mountaines should he haue bestowed all his substance vpon the poore and euen deliuered his body to burne and yet haue wanted charitie he esteemed himselfe nothing nor conceiued any aduantage to acrue to him by all those other thinges Neuer had any humilitie of hart lowe desires in a greater degree then he who pronounced himselfe the least of the Apostles and one not worthy the name of an Apostle As reputing himselfe te first or greatest of sinners Neuer did any more admire Gods wisdome then he who leauing reason betakes himselfe to highest admiration crying out O the highnesse of the wisdome and knowledge of God how incomprehensible are his iudgementes and how inscrutable are his wayes Neuer did any breast harbour more sorrowfull sighes then his who testifies of himselfe that he had great sadnesse and continuall sorrow in his hart wishing himselfe to be an Anathema

togeither with a true and profound tranquillitie to deliuer such as are alreadie infected with the plague and preserue the rest and to succour the Church in the present necessities which she grones vnder THE II. OBSERVATION WHAT appeares yet but good and vertuous and well beseeming that common Father He neither speakes of selling or euen giueing out of any store of his owne but out of the common stocke of the Catholike Church Or by any other authoritie but that which was left by Iesus Christ to the Church and deriued vpon his person by lawfull succession euen from the Chaire of Peter erected by Christ Iesus Nor doth he make vse of this authoritie vpon a slight occasion but in a generall and crying calamitie Nor yet doth he imploye this common treasure for any sordide lucre or otherwise badd end or by such indulgence to make Christians lesse carefull to performe good workes c. But for a most laudable and Christian one to th end saith he that their fastes prayers and penitentiall practises to which he exhortes them may be done with more fruite feruour of Spirit Therfordoth he open communicate distribute the treasure of the same Church on the behalfe of Almigh tie God Father onne and H. G. Nor doth he take vpon him to begin a new thing neuer before heard of in the Church of God but proceedes according to the ancient custome of the Romane and Mother Church Which is deliuered in the Councell of Trent as followes Wheras the power of granting Indulgences was conferred vpon the Church by Christ and that she vsed this kind of power deliuered vnto her by the diuine prouidence in the most anceent tymes the holy Synode doth teach and commande that the vse of Indulgences which is verie profitable to all Christians and made good by the authoritie of holy Councells should be retayned in the Church and doth anathematise or curse all such as either affirme that they are vnprofitable or denye that the Church hath power to grant them Howbeit the Councell desires that moderation be vsed in granting them according to the ancient and approued custome of the Church least otherwise Ecclesisticall discipline might be shaken by too much facilitie And desiring that the abuses which were vpon haue creptin wherby the fomous name of indulgences is blaspheamed by the heretikes should be corrected and amended it orders in generall by this present Decree that all base lucre for the gayning of them which hath bene a great cause of many abuses among the Christian people should be vtterly abolished THE III. OBSERVATION HENCE you may see Madame that the Pope goes not along without Counsell authoritie nor did the Councell of Trent begin any neW thinge but continued an old runing still secure in the foote stepps of Ancesters and ancient Councells But wheras neither Pope proceede he neuer so fairely fatherly and Christianly nor ancient Fathers nor Councells will find any great credit with our Souueraigne Aduersaries who may seeme to say with those arrogant persons described in the 11. Psalme We will magnifie our tongue our lipps are our owne who is our Lord and vpon that proud accompt will be their owne and the worlds great iudges I will onely out of respect to your Honour and other louers of truth point at the authorities in the margent taking vp with one passage out of S. Paule which me thinkes should satisfie all men and giue them occasion to reflect that the Churches and Popes proceeding in point of Indulgences was drawen vpon that Originall This holy Apostle then Corinthians 1. and 5. planely exercises the power which Christ S. Matthe the 16. conferred vpon his Apostles and in them to his Church as to the first parte of it to witt to retayne sinne c. vpon the incestuous Corinthian I indeede absent in body saith he but present in Spirit haue alreadie iudged in Spirit him that hath so done in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ c. to deliuer such an one to Sathan for the destruction of the flesh that the Spirit may be saued in the day of our Lord Iesus-Christ Behold the offender excommunicated or cutt of from the Communion of his Christian brethren kept in pennance for his cryme But as to the seconde parte of remitting or loosing c. in the 2. to the Corinthians 2. being moued to compassiō by Tymothie Titus c. he grantes him an Indulgence or pardon and remits the rest of his pennance For my selfe also that which I pardoned if I pardoned any thinge for you in the person of Christ that we be not circumuented by Satan Nor is the Popes Indulgence any other thinge then a remitting or pardoning part of Penance or satisfaction inioyned for or otherwise due to sinne and that too in the name person or by the authoritie of Christ the guilt therof being alreadie pardoned The Bull againe Wherfor we confiding in the mercy of Almightie God and in the authoritie of his blessed Apostles S. Peter and S. Paule in vertue of that verie power which we haue receiued of our Lord Iesus Christ without any merite of ours to tye and vntie doe grant and giue by the tenure of the presentes most plenarie Indulgences and remission of all the sinns as it is wont to be granted in the Iubilie yeare c. to all faithfull Christians that are in our said holie citie who within the space of a month after the dare hereof shall faste one of the frydayes of the said month and hauing first confessed their sinnes shall reuerently receiue the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist And least by the great concurse of people should they visite Churches after the ordinarie manner the infection might be increased deuoutely say their the Rosarie of the Blessea Virgine Marie or the seauen Penitentiall I salmes with the Litanies and prayers following at home in their owne particular and prayed for the foresaid purposes and giuen almes to the poore as their owne charitie may suggest to each one in particular As also to all others in what places soeuer without our said citie who are in places where there is noe suspicion of the plague which we leaue to the iudgements of the ordinaries of the respectiue places shall visite the Churches appointed by the said Ordinaries their Vicaires Officialls or by their order or in want of them by such as haue charge of soules in those places presently after these presentes are come to their knowledge c. The rest of the Bull I omit as contayning onely the style of the Court togeither with the Priuiledges granted to all Preists approued by lawfull authoritie to absolue all reserued cases irregulariries Censures changing vowes c. and permission for all Penitents to make free choyce of any Preist so approued THE IV. OBSERVATION AND I beseech you good Madame hat can malice meete with in all this I doe not say iustly lyable to so blacke calumntes but euen not worthy of highest