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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28179	The penitent bandito, or, The history of the conversion & death of the most illustrious lord, Signor Troilo Sauelli, a baron of Rome by Sir T.M.	Biondi, Giuseppe, 1537-1598.	1663 (1663)	Wing B2936B; Wing P1232_CANCELLED	53,944	149

no● rather submit himself i● imitation of the humilit● only to superiours but t● equals and even inferiour● also and in fine to al●● c This is the advice of S. Peter Subditi estote omini creaturae the world when just occasion should be offer'd The soul of this noble man was so well softned and sweetned by the unction of the Holy Ghost as that neither the greatnesse of his Nobility nor the ardor of his youth nor the natural boyling courage of his heart nor the fresh memory of his prosperity nor the unexpected arrival of his misery could make d A heart truely touched by Gods holy spirit wil overcome strange difficulties him once repine or keep him from instantly abasing himself But falling deeply upon the consideration of his sins and weighing duly how ful of demerit he was in the fight of God and knowing exactly that nothing is so truly ignoble as a Soul which has forfeited his grace and that rich or poor is little to the purpose but e wherin eternal true Nobility consists that the thing which imports is to be or not to be the servant or son of God it is not strange to see him east himself at the feet of common soldiers and stretch out his hands with such meeknesse at the will of the meanest Jaylors for the love of our Lord to signifie thereby the detestation wherein he had himself for having so presumptuously offended that Eternal Majesty which by all the Angels is adored From f The reasons why be was so frequent in confessing h●s sins hence also did it proceed that he so frequently confessed himself in that last night of h●s life and could never think he had sufficiently deplored his errors and detested the discorrespondence and ingratitude wherewith he had answered the unspeakable benefits of Almighty God Wherein if any man should think he used excesse it will be much more lawful for me to doubt that himself either has a mean conceit of the Infinite Majestie which is offended or an ignorant apprehension of the deformity of all sin which is committed or a proud and paltry mistaking of the Nothing which man was till he was created and the worse then Nothing which afterward he grew by sinning For g If you weigh these things well you will change your wondring at him into wondring at your self he that ponders these particulars as he ought and knowes that the offences into which he falls are innumerable and that the least of them which is committed against an Infinite Majesty in respect of the object is also infinite and that as no one good deed shall be unrewarded by the rich Mercy of God in Christ our Lord so no one transgression shall be left unpunished by his exquisite Justice will easily beleeve that in the space of a night it is hard for one to be too curious and too careful in setting straight the account of his whole life under the piercing eye of Almighty God But this Baron did even by moments in that short time which was left by the goodnesse of God acquire quire new h Great light of God is wont to breed great love of him great sorrow for having so shame fully offended him light and gain new love of our Lord and new contempt and detestation of himself and in the strength thereof found some actions to confess which he had not conceived to be sins before and others which he had confessed he had done it with a sorrow far inferiour to that he then felt For abstracting from the consideration which he had of his sins against God in respect whereof no soul is sufficiently able to quake and tremble under him I trust there is not a Readers eye in the world so dim as not to discern his undaunted heart And i The undaunted courage of this Baron that no thought of death had any power to take the least clarity from his understanding the least presence from his memory the least agility from his wit the least order from his speech or so much as the least puntillio from the civil respects and complements which are used among persons of his Nation and Condition Nor yet on the other side shall any man have reason to think that the punctuality which throughout the processe of this Relation he shall find to have been observed by the Baron in this last k This curtesie and complement was not affected but free and natural kind of courtesie did proceed from the least affectation of it Perhaps if we look neer home we may find some example to have been given of this not long ago but in the present case no suspition of it can be entertain'd both for many other reasons which will occur to him that reads the Relation and because as I sayd before these exact tearms of Honor and other respects to the company then present are as it were natural to men of his country and quality and there would cost them more pains to omit unless their minds were put into disorder by some passion then it would cost others to observe where they were not so natural as being learnt by industry and Art But yet that in so sad a case this man would for good manners forbear to set up his legs or not so much as stretch himself in the sight of others though his body did much incline him to it according to that mention which the Relation makes thereof may well go for a great argument in him of civility of modesty and of magnanimity And this is that which I thought fit to represent to you by way of Preface to this Story You will find the traces and foot-steps of putting men to death and the proceedings against l The several manners of treating Delinquents in several Countrys Delinquents to be very different from that of our Country both in relation to the body and the soul I take not upon me to say which are better which are worse With us the Processe of criminal persons is ever made in the face of the world but they are not sufferd to have any Advocates who may defend their causes In most other Countrys the Delinquents are permitted to have Advocates but the Processe is made though in publique Court yet only in presence of the Iudges and some few Advocates and Officers With us the Delinquents are suffer'd to live som dayes after their condemnation which certainly is meant in compassion to them in other parts after they are judged to dy and that it is so declared they think they do men a greater curtesy in putting them quickly out of pain With us there is no difference in the manner of death between a Clown and the best Gentleman of the Kingdom under the degree of a Baron unlesse it be in some very rare case by most particular favour of his Majesty but in all other places that I have seen all Gentlemen are beheaded to distinguish them from

your Good Angel And first ask pardon of him with your hart for the little gratitude you have expressed for the Custody he has afforded you which has bin so incessant so patient so diligent and so full of love Vpon which words he said casting himself upon his knees Yea not only with my mouth but with my heart I beg pardon of him for the very much ingratitude I have used notwithstanding his so great benignity and love to me and so kissing my knee he sate down again So that I proceeded and said Consider then with your self that your (h) S Hierom says expresly That every soul has an Angelus Custos assingd it by Almighty God from the first instant of the birth till the last of life lib. 3. conc in 18. Mat. The holy Scriptures and Fathers a bound also in proof of the ministry of Angels in the help of men good Angel now is here who even from your very birth and so much more at this hour which is so full of danger assists you and especially in six particulars First he hinders the impetuous assaults of the devil and weakens the force of all those malign spirits who at this instant conspire to the damnation of your soul Secondly he breathes into your heart preparation Generosity Devotion and Contrition● Thirdly he lightens this darknes this anguish and this Death Fourthly with great sollicitude he carries forward and backward those messages which passe between God and you he gathers up your sighs your very countenances and the humiliations of your hart there is not one of them which he suffers to lose his way Fiftly he negotiates with other Angels of superiour (i) We read in holy scripture Dan. 10. how one Angel helps another for the good of men Quires so to procure effectual assistances for your salvation In most particular manner he moves S. Michael the Archangel that he will defend you in this night Sixtly he sollicites my good Angel also that he may procure me to be a competent instrument in this passage which you are making towards your salvation Salute him therefore and say thus with me Angele Dei O (k) He ponders the prayer which Catholikes say dayly to their good Angel Angele Dei qui custos es mei me tibi commissum pi●tate superna h●die illumina custodi rege gub● na thou Angel of God so i● known and so ill used by me qui custos es mei who keepest me with so continual care and perfect love me tibi commissum who am committed to thee being a man so faulty and brought by the providence of God to this passage but yet a sinner who by his mercy and thy prayers is contrite for his sins pietate superna by the goodnes of God for I find no desert but cordially confesse much demerit in hac morte hac nocte in this death which is due to me for my offences and in this last period of my life illumina custodi rege guberna do thou illuminate defend protect and govern me Amen This good Noble Man did repeat these words with affectuous and abundant tears and even by his countenance one might see his very heart split in his body And not contenting himself to say it once he would needs repeat it then three times and afterwards he did it again so often the same night as that all the times arived I think to ten letting me know withal that he had not felt greater solace and gust in any one spiritual Exercise then in this Secondly said I you shall take the glorious Virgin for your l To pray for him as one man may do for another though all the Saints much more the glorious Mother of God do perform it in a far more ex●ellent manner Intercessor and then S. John the Baptist and S. Paul who were both condemned to the losse of their heads as your Lordship is It is true said he they were condemned as I am but with this difference they sufferd innocent I for my faults therefore I accuse my self of such and such and such offences which I have committed against God Which howsoever I confessed before yet for the reasons I have already touched I do willingly repeat After he had ended his Confession and received Absolution upon his knees I desired him to sit down again that the wonted company might come about him And ever some one of them would be taking up some verse of the Holy Scripture which might be appropriated to the present occasion As Viam iniquitatis amove à me de lege tua miserere mei Suscipe servum tuum in bonum justificationes tuas edoce me Bonum mihi quia humiliasti me ut discam justificationes tuas Cognovi Domine quia aequitas judicia tua in veritate tua humiliasti me Fiat cor meum immaculatum in justificationibus tuis ut non confundar Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam secundum multitudinem miserationum tuarum dele iniquitatem meam Erravi sicut ovis quae perjit quaere servum tuum Domine Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori Deus in audiutorium meum intende And a hundred other such as these which now and then were declared by some one of (m) The Religious men declared them though the Confortatori might represent them us according to the present occasion wherein he took much contentment Besides he had great comfort in using these other Jaculatory Prayers Maria Mater gratiae Mater misericordiae Tu nos ab hoste protege hora mortis suscipe repeating often these last words hora mortis suscipe And again Eia ergo advoca nostra illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte Jesum benedictum fructum ventris tui mihi post hanc noctem ostende O clemens O pia O dulcis Virgo Maria. Ora pro me peccatore indigno in hac hora mortis meae Amen Amen Amen But especially in often and fervently repeating Recordare Jesu pie Quod sim causa tuae viae Ne me perdas illa die c. In this exercise those brothers of the Congregation of the Misericordia were very perfect and discreet delivering out in fit times a great number of these versicles without importuning or perplexing him And so also did other Religious men according to the occasion without either interrupting one the other or overwearying the yong Noble man and they likewise exhibited with them certain motives and considerations with much brevity but with great life of devotion When these things were ended I said It will not be amiss that we recite the Litanies if these Gentlemen think it fit And I said the yong Lord if you and they be so pleased will be he that shall recite them They all made answer in the negative saying Your Lordship would but weary your self too much Nothing lesse said he but to me it will be of extream contentment And so