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A17731	The seaven trumpets of brother Bartholomevv Saluthius of the holie order of S. Francis; exciting a sinner to repentance. A worke very profitable for the saluation of all such soules, as are bound with sinne. Now lately translated out of the Latin, into the English tongue, by Br. G. P. of the same order and obseruance; Sette trombe. English	Cambi, Bartolomeo, 1558-1617.; Perrot, George, 1601-1670, of the order of S. Francis.	1626 (1626)	STC 4469; ESTC S115141	107,909	452

THE SEAVEN TRVMPETS OF BROTHER BARTHOLOMEVV SALVTHIVS OF THE holie Order of S. Francis Exciting a sinner to repentance A Worke very profitable for the saluation of all such soules as are bound with sinne NOW Lately translated out of the Latin into the English tongue by Br. G P. of the same order and obseruance AT S. OMERS FOR IOHN HEIGHAM With permission of Superiors Anno 1626. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORIE TO HIS LOVING AND Deare Father Master H. P. his obedient sonne wisheth health in Iesus Christ DEARE SIR The intimacie of my euer and all bounden dutie which I acknowledge as tributarie due vnto you with the ardent zeale and desire of your speedie auersion from these broken cisternes of heresie and your penitentiall conuersion vnto the liuing waters of eternall life which are no where contained but in one Holy Catholique and Apostolique church haue moued mee often times to commend some litle treatise vnto you therein to lay open before your eyes the grieuous threatnings of almightie God against sinne●s and to admonish you in 〈◊〉 of the dangerous state wherin you liue hoping by th s to disburthen my selfe of the obligatorie duties which I acknowledge as boūd by nature but considering that touchinge this subiect many bookes haue beene learnedly written tha kes bee giuen to God by diuerse good Catholiques and faithfullie translated into our English toung I desisted to proceede in so worthy an enterprise till at length mine enflamed zeale filiall dutie it such sort burned a fresh within mee that I could no longer quench it by the insurging waues of the seas nor deferre the aduenturing with this present to make the same knowne vnto you I am nor ignorant how farre the mouthes of many Gentlemen of your rancke and neighbourhood are out of tast and much more affected to the flesh parts of Aegypt Exod. 16.3 then to the bread of Angells I meane rather to the reading of prophane then spirituall bookes taking greater delight in perusing strang pleasant histories therin to solace and recreate them selues then in the pious workes and wholesome exhortations of deuout and religious men who intend nothing but the saluation of your poore sinfull soules But as the Prophet Dauid Psal 4.3 sayeth O yee sonnes of men how long are yee of heauie hartes why loue yee vanities and seeke after lying Did they but know what profitt and fruite they may reape thereby doubtlesse they would paint euerie little sentence in the r hartes and mediate vppon them morninge and eueninge and binde them for a signe on their handes writting them in their entries and on the dores of their houses that so they might alwaies haue them in their sight and remembrance Deuteronom 6.6.7.8 Truly Deare Sir I haue endeauored in dressing this meate to prouoke your appetite Gen. 27.9 and laboured to sett forth this doctrine in such a stile that it may moue you diligently to read the same which if you doe I hope by the grace of God you shall finde that wonderfull chaung in your soule which others in former ages most happilie haue had and as that allmost euery day haue who by the means of spirituall bookes haue vtterly detested their former licentious liues and with great feruour and zeale begunne anew in Gods holie seruice Call to minde the treasurer of the Queene of Aethiopia who was reading I say the Prophet in his chariot when God almightie conuerted him by Saint Philip Act. 8.30 Remember likewise that those soe notable and famous workes which King Iosias did in all his kingdome proceeded from the reading of an holie booke which Helchias the Prophet gaue vnto Saphan the scribe 4. Regum 22.13 and S. Augustine relateth confess lib. 8. how three noble courtiers walking abroad in the euening with Theodosius the Emperour into the fields two of them went a litle aside vnto a Monkes cell and there finding a booke wherein was written the life of S. Anthony one of them begāne to read it behould in a moment he felt his hart so enkindled with an holie loue and moued with such a religious shame that hee together with his other companion being in a great agonie with themselues put off their secular apparell in the verie same place where they stood and bidding farrewell vnto courtlie pleasures beganne to erect a spirituall building and did forsake all thinges of this world desiring nothinge more then to follow their Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Such admirable chaunges and notable alterations haue holy bookes procured in these persons who with due attention considered them Accept then Deare Sir this small guift and first fruites of my poore endeuours which may be a means as I hope to call you into the path of a good life and induce you forthwith by Gods grace to make profession of the Catholique faith which faith vnlesse euery one keepe holy and inuiolable without doubt he shall perish euerlastingly S. Atha creed Come therfore speedily into the foulde of Christ if you will be preserued from the raueninge wolues Ioh. 10.16 Haue recourse vnto Noahs arke Gen. 6.18 if you will be saued from drowning Be a member of the Catholique and vniuersall church which according to the Apostle is Columna firmamentum veritatis 1. Tim. 3.15 the pillar and ground of truth And be no longer seduced by the fallacies and deceipts of death bringing heretiques Now at the last as you tender your owne soules health confesse your sinnes with the Prophet Dauid Psal 50. crie aloud vnto God for mercie with Saint Marie Magdalen Luc. 7. wash the feete of our Sauiour with tears of true contrition Goe out with S. Peter Math. 26. and weepe bitterlie For now is the acceptable time now is the day of saluation The night will come when it will be too late to worke 2. Cor. 6.2 True it is that the theefe was saued and found mercie at the last gaspe but God forbid as a right virtuous sonne said in the like case to his owne Father that wee should vse such preposterous pollicie as when our senses are astonished our wittes distracted our vnderstandinge obscured when both bodie and minde are tormented with the gripes of mortall sickenes that then wee should beginne to thinke of the weightie matters of our saluation and of the suddaine to become Sainctes when we are fearce able to behaue our selues like reasonable creatures No no deceaue not your selfe take time while you may when it is once past it is impossible to recall it according to the old prouerbe post est occasio calua feare not persecution or l●sse of goods feare not them that kill the bodie and are not able to preiudice the soule but rather feare him that can precipitate both body and soule into the infernall abisse of hell Math 10.28 Is it not a most lamentable case that men who professe themselues to be Christians should haue a greater care of their worldlie pelfe honours and dignities then of the health and saluation of their owne soules Wee

confesse and humblie acknowledge that wee haue all offended thy diuine and infinite maiestie wee doe all desire to amend and to reforme our liues and actions wee doe confesse ô my Lord Iesu that thine ineffable clemencie benignitie hath beene wronged and abused by vs all wee confesse our dullnes and negligence in cooperating with the diuine concourse of thy grace and last of all we confesse that in all thinges we haue bene most vnprofitable negligent and vnworthy seruants and most vndeseruing of such a clement louing and bountifull Father Lord and Master And therfore we cast our selues downe prostrate at thy feet submissiuely imploringe thy goodnes that thou wouldest not haue respect vnto our iniquities but vnto thy fatherly mercy most gratious compassion Euen as a Father hath mercy vpon his sonne so God is mercifull vnto those that feare him because he hath knowne our making He hath remembred vs because we are but dust Psal 102 15. Man is as the hay his dayes decay as the flower of the field Remēber therfore my Iesu that thou art our Father correct and instruct vs as a Father that we being moued with thy so great beniguity clemency and charity may fly and haue recourse vnto thee like good children and abandoning all vices may faithfully serue thee and loue honour and obey thee as our louing clement mercifull and omnipotent Father for euer and euer world without end Amen The fift Trumpet of the losse that sinne bringeth at the day of Iudgement THE XXIII CHAPTER ANd the fift Angell sounded the Trumpet Draw neare and with attention giue eare vnto the terrible sound of the fift Trumpet for there must come a reuolting first and the man of sinne shall be reuealed the sonne of perdition which is an aduersarie and is extolled aboue all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he sitteth in the temple of God shewing himselfe as if he were God and then that wicked one shall be reuealed whom our Lord Iesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the manifestation of his coming him whose coming is according to the operation of Sathan in all power and lying signes and wonders and with all seducing to iniquitie those that perish because they haue not receaued the truth according to charitie that they might be saued 2. Thess 2. Heare ô you sinners the terrible and fearfull sound of this Trumpet be astonished with all expedition arise from the sinke of sinne thinke seriouslie with your selues what exceeding great detriment damage it bringeth with it Alas thou vnhappie soule if thou couldest but penetrate the greatnes of the losse that sinne procureth how vigilant wouldest thou be for being ensnared in it and if thou being depriued of the grace of God shouldest fall how dilligently wouldest thou rise againe Miserable sinner if thou wouldest be throughlie mooued with the horrour of sinne weigh well in thy minde what thinges shall befall thee at the last day of iudgement And first of all consider that Antichrist polluted and defiled with all kinde of sinne and vices must thē appeare who is the chiefest enemie of God who shall striue by all meanes to seduce the faithfull beleeuing Christiās affirming that he is true God If thou desirest more particularly to know the conditions and affections of this hellish and diabolicall vsurper consider diligently the forementioned wordes There shall come reuolt first and the man of sinne shall be reuealed c. Turne your cogitations Brethren to the names which are attributed vnto him by S. Paul A man of sinne The sonne of perdition that wicked man whose coming is according to this operation of Sathan O wretched and vnhappy shal they bee which liue at this time for many of them shall either be seduced by his false doctrine or compelled with the extremity of his torments and tortures to follow his diuellish inuētions Contrarilie moste happie are they which shall follow blessed Iesus keeping his holy law with purity and integrity of minde for although they shall be tormented with the diuerse and many kindes of torments punishments yet they shall be saued and receaue a crowne of eternall happinesse Time will not permit or suffer me ô sinners to insist any longer vpon the improbous impietie of Antichrist neither did I at the first intend it but this I ardently desire that you considering the greatnes and multitude of euille wherwith your soules are blemished and deformed may auoide them with great detestation abhorre and loath them for what other cause is there wherefore Antichrist should be so impudēt and so wicked but sinne He shall be a most false lyer borne by the operation of the diuell who shall haue a shew of sanctity when he is most wicked what maketh him be so cruelly minded against the professors of Christianity which are the seruantes of God but sinne what other reason shall there be wherfore so many poore soules shall be seduced by him but sinne wherfore the holy Apostle saieth In all seduction of iniquity vnto them that perish for that they haue not receaued the truth in charitie that they might be saued Therfore God will send them the opinion of errour to beleeue a lie But who hath secured vs that that dreadful day shall not come euen in our time Certaine it is that Antichrist shall come but when there is nothing more vncertaine O you vnfortunate and wretched soules what if he should come now what would you doe which way would you dispose of your selues without all doubt should not God most extraordinarily preserue you you would vnite and ioyne your selues vnto him for because you haue reiected and refused the truth which so often hath bene ministred vnto you by sermons and other spirituall exercises and not only refused it but in some sorte haue scorned vilified and contemned it how iust would it be with God if he should permit you to be seduced with the hellish doctrine of that enemie of God that you should heare him obey him worship him honour follow him and eternally perish and be damned with him Cōsider o you blinded sinners with feare and trembling what Dauid the holy Prophet saieth of the diuine maiestie in these wordes Hee is terrible in his diuine councels vpon the sonnes of men how hidden and profound are the diuine iudgemēts Blessed are they which runne the race of their liues with feare blessed is that man saieth the wiseman which is alwaies fearfull Consider also ô you wretches what the holy Prophet speaketh of the righteous and such as are enflamed with the loue of God Serue saieth he your God in feare and reioyce in him with trembling as if hee should haue said you which worship God with all your soules serue him with all feare and reuerence him when soeuer you desire inward exultation doe it with feare and trembling But you o wicked sinners who incessantly serue your enemie the diuell lying plunged in the filth of