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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50779	The life of the most learned Father Paul, of the Order of the Servie ... translated out of Italian by a person of quality.; Vita del padre Paolo. English	Micanzio, Fulgenzio.; Saint-Amard, John.	1651 (1651)	Wing M1959; ESTC R15887	131,569	304

minde wherein applying the Aphorismes which are written for the health and cure of the body to the cure and sanity of the minde which he limits as it seemes to maladies that are only in state and not in motion or in freedome from paine whereat a man in this life can never arrive onely he directs many singular meanes to obtaine a tranquillity Another little treatise of the rising and ceasing of opinions in us And the last that Atheisme is repugnant to humane nature and is not found therein but that they which acknowledge not a true Deity must necessarily faine themselves false ones There also two little bookes which goe together like a Metaphysick but imperfect and full of new and abstruse sences There is also a short examen of his owne defects whereunto hee had proposed a cure and this was fit to fal into the hands of those who after his death like doggs that draw dry-foot have not left the least by-way untraced to finde out some odours of imperfection and here they might have seene a man that never flatter'd himselfe but made a reall scurtiny unto the most recluded corners of his owne heart and both saw and censured in himselfe those things which to every other eye had beene invisible And those that in the rest of his life for more then 20. yeares had lived intimately with him doe most holily attest that they were never able to observe any such defects in him Because peradventure in those sixe yeares of his morrall studies hee had regulated himselfe like those true possessors of wisedome who studie not so much to seeme learned as to be truely and really good But all this was nothing compar'd to his beeing affixt to the divine Scripture particularly of the new Testament without any expofitor except onely the Greeke and Latine texts which hee used toreade from one end to the other repeating it over so many times that hee had it all in memory and upon occasion was able to repeate it all in the same manner as by daily frequency religious men use to recite the ordinary Psalmes His attention was so intire and profound that as in reading hee observed any point for meditation hee made in his Greeke testament upon the word or verse a little line after this manner And so by reading it over againe there was scarce a line or almost a word which had not a marke upon it whereof a great Prince having heard after his death did for curiosities desire to see the booke wee have also seene the very same course formerly used upon the old Testament as also his breviary wherein he recited the office markt all as aforesaid but especially upon the psalmes which he knew all by heart as also whatsoever was to be said in celebration of the mass whereof this is a sufficient demonstration that in his last yeares he could not see nor reade any word that was either written or printed without his spectacles and yet without them he did alwaies use to celebrate the masse I could not learne whether in these six years he had borrowed from his assiduity immersion in his studies more then two deviations The one was that Leonardo Mocenigo being created Bishop of Caveda who was one of those that many times though not so often as others frequented that glorius meeting of so many famous personages the rendezvous of Morosini was desirous first to be instructed by the father in the profession Canonicall and in whatsoever else besides his owne learning was convenient for his new Episcopall calling and afterwards to have his company along with him to Ferrara where the Pope Clement the eight was then abiding and where he was to be examined and consecrated The other was that famous controversie which by the power of the Dominican and Jesuiticall faction remaines still undecided Of the efficacy of divine grace called de auxiliis whereof there hath beene so much said and so much written In contemplation of which difference The Bishop of Montepeloso who was before that his intrinsecall friend by the name of Maestro Hippolito da Lucca a a man of much scholasticall learning but of a greater fame for goodnesse This man had read Theologie many yeares in the study university of Ferrara and was also confessor to Madame the Dutchesse of Vrbin and a very confident servant of hers when Alfonso the last Duke of Ferrara died That Princesse was in an ill repute with many of the better sort that she had beene unfaithfull in the procuring of some advantage to Caesar of Este And this father himselfe either for truth or for some neare respect of service to the Princesse was also in a finister fame to have either in confession or some other discourse being himselfe corrupted by large promises and great hopes perswaded the Dutchesse to adhaere to the Eclesiasticall faction So it is that he had not long after a slight recompence from Cardinall Aldobrandine of the said small Bishopricke in the kingdome of Naples but he was alwaies entertayned at Rome and deputed for one of those Prelates to examine the said controversie And he to whom the fathers great learning was so well knowne procured by letters and by his utmost power to make him come to Rome with large promises After seeing him resolute not to open his mouth in those windie and swolne differences went about to induce him by friendship to review the matter and by letters communicated his sence to him But this imployment was not worth the name of a deviation he having formerly most exactly read and studied all the ancient fathers and had in them a singular practise but especially in Saint Augustine in whom the doctrine of that point is more fully handled then in all the rest And it may truly be said that the two tomes the sixt and seaventh besides the tenth have no other scope and those were so familiar to him that a place could not be sooner toucht but his hand was as ready to be laid upon it and in hearing it alledged was able to say whether it were faithfully reported and was able to recite both the antecedent and subsequent words In all his writings there was nothing found of his in memory of that businesse but onely some responfive letters of the said Bishops whereby it appeared the father had written oft unto him of that businesse and of things whereby the prelate receiving a great deale of honor did alwaies move and urge the fathers coming to Rome but in vaine He was as it could be gathered out of those letters of the opinion of Saint Thomas to which he added the names of Saint Paul and Saint Augustine against the ancient and moderne Pelagians and Semipelagians There is onely extant a short writing to this purpose in which it appeares that at the instance of a Prince he had explicated the state of that controversie in Italian and what were the opinions of the controversies with their explications and principall foundation

moreover speciall commissions to treate with him of things concerning his owne greatnesse The father penetrated the Cardinalis end giving an account thereof to the publique and thereupon the most excellent Colledge were desirous to heare the fathers owne opinion remitting the resolution to his only prudence and to them he gave such an answer that by those most wise Senators it was resolved that he should not treate with the Cardinall And among other reasons the Senate never being inclined to grant either benediction or absolution to such as needed it not they could not foresee to what end it was to grant a private conference betwixt so great a Cardinall and a Frier And although the Father where of himselfe very sparing to speake yet it was in the power of others to make it more or lesse as they pleased Nor can be that serves a Prince have a worse encounter being already hated for anothers sake then to heare a thing whereby one part may be made jealous without hopes of pleasing the other When the agreement wasmade it was one of the conditions that the Common wealth should give thankes to all those that were not specified by their names in that revolt By reason whereof many returned backe to the state that had grievously offended the publique And the father was also comprehended in Individuo which was a thing beyond the course of common reason or the doctrine of lawes that peace being made with the Prince it should not be intended to be made with all his Councellors All which afterwards the Pope himselfe Paul the V did nominally ratifie to the then Embassador Francesco Contarini and at this day the most serene Prince and Duke of Venice And the truth of thus much shall be verified by things subsequent That the Pope speaking of father Paul in individuo said that he had given his benediction to all and was not willing there should be any more words of what had past Vpon which promises of so great a Prince and upon the integritie of his owne conscience the father reposing himselfe in all cleerenesse and tranquillity serving his naturall Prince with that faith and diligence which he kept incomparably to his last breath It fell after divers times into debate whether the father should goe to visite the Nuntio Gessi that was sent to Venice after that accommodation It was answered that it was but an office performed in relation to their owne Embassador at Rome and howsoever that it was but an expression of reverence And it being referred to his owne consultation He for his part shewed himselfe most willing but yet with regard had to the manner how Nuntios use to treate with the Prince himselfe having power to colour their treaty with a pretext of religion whereupon it was resolved that he onely use a set forme of precise words that were prescribed him from the most excellent Colledge And further what he should tolerate and what he should replie to in case the Nuntio as he pretended should fall upon the cause This had so much varietie of opinions and contrariety that the businesse without resolution fell to the ground But it hath since happened that the greatest Prelates of this state as well Patriarchs as Bishops have indifferently upon all occasions treated with the father of these affaires some visiting him in his Monastery and others sending to invite him to their houses It fell out at this time when the differences were already composed in Venice that Gasparo Scioppio a man well knowne to the world by his writings in printe coming from Rome to passe into Germany as he said or that he brought with him as it was also said a writing full of reproach against the republique to be printed in Germany beside other writings full of impiety as that of Frier Tomaso Campanella a Dominican who having attempted to betray Cosenza into the Turks hands was at that time kept a prisoner in the castle of the egg by the Spaniards In that of this he gave documents to the King and government of Spaine how under certaine pretexts of religion they might impropriate the papacy or else stir up his Holinesse to raise new controversies against the lesser princes continuing the practise untill he found an opportunitie to seaze upon their estates and so proceeding as he would have the Spaniards doe untill they had gotten the Pontificate into one of their owne that they might be both King and Pope at once or else that the Pope might be held on as an instrument of the oppression of others Whether it were for this or for any other secret cause that he had incurr'd publique indignation he was detained in prison three or 4 daies if they were so many and afterwards by publique order he had libertie to goe where he listed But Schoppio was desirous to treat with the father and they discoursed together in matters of learning very long and particularly of the doctrine of the ancient stoicke which he professed he would recall to light out of the thick darknesse wherein it was obscured besides many other learned thoughts of his and very much also in matter of state especially concerning the protestants of Germany And so falling into neerer discourse with the father he began to let him know that the Pope like a great Prince had long hands and having conceived some deepe offence against him it was impossible but that it would fall heavy upon him and that if he had defired to have him slaine he did not want the meanes But that the Popes intent was to have him alive into his hands and to fetch him from Venice and bring him to Rome Yet neverthelesse he offered himselfe whensoever he pleased to treate for his reconciliation and with as much honour as he could desire affirming that he had many treaties in charge with the protestant Princes of Germany about their conversions To this the father answered that he had done nothing for which his Holinesse had reason to be offended that he had defended a a just cause That he was extreamely sory that such a defence as was made should be encountred with the Popes indignation That in the accommodation he was individually comprehended and that he could no way presuppose a falling of publique faith in a Prince But as concerning his being slaine that that of all things troubled him the least That it was a thing plotted against Emperors executed upon Kings and great Princes not against private men of so low a fortune as his was But if such a thing were design'd against him he said he was prepared to submit himselfe to the divine pleasure and that he was not so ignorant of humane condition but that he knew what was to be thought both of life and death and whether of him that knew them both well they were either of them to be desired or feared more then was necessary And if he should cause him to be taken alive and carried to Rome yet all the power