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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

puddle sincke of all iniquitie shall we be kindlie inuited to the mariage dinner Math. 22.4 and refuse to come for some base commoditie that is complacent vnto our sensualitie Certainly such proceeding would argue want of faith in vs that we should not beleeue that the diuine iustice will punish sinne with perpetuall bannishment out of the celestiall paradise of endlesse blisse and with euerlasting paines and torments in the horrible fire of hell Let vs then as the Apostle aduiseth Heb. 12.12 shake off from vs all weight and clogg that may hinder vs let vs by patience and long animitie runne and make hast vnto the combat offered vnto vs with our eyes fixed vppon the authour of our faith and principall cause therof Christ Iesus who setting before him the ioyes of heauen and contēning the confusion or worldly shame that thereof might ensue sustained the bitter death of the Crosse and thereby hath obtained to sitt at the right hand of the seat of God his Father Lastly as Gods vnworthy Legate your dutiful sonne I admonish you with the Prophet Psal 47.13 that out of hand you compasse Sion the Catholique Church and embrace her that you build in her towers by considering her fortresses the holy Doctors and Fathers which watch and defend her Walles that you sett your hart on her strength resting assured of all matters of faith vpon her the pillar and foundation of truth that you distribute her houses by obseruing and marking diligently how many particular churches were speedilie founded into the world th●t you may declare that in another generation by teaching thē to hould fast the same faith or to returne vnto it if they be relapsed or to receiue it if they be estranged from it Because this is God our God for euer euer Christ God incarnate that worketh a●l this is our verie God and Sauiour not for a few yeares as an hundred six hundred a thousand or millions of thousands but for euer and euer He shall rule as a King consequently haue a kingdome his Catholike church euermore to endure vnto the end of the world which church must be your Mother if you will haue God for your Father For it is an infallible rule with S. Cyprian and S. Augustin Non habebit Deum patrem qui nolit habere Ecclesiā matrem Cypr. simp prelat he shal not haue God for his Father who wil not haue the church for his mother It may be you shal haue your Scripturarum fures Origen in 2. ad Rom. theeues of the scriptures your presumptuous heretikes fly through the whole b ble quoting the Psalmes Prophets Gospell Epistles very readily vnto you as Vincentius Lirinensis sayth such mens fashion is but take heed of them for they giue you the bare text w●thout the true meaning and as the Diuell did vnto our Sauiour they come vnto you with a Scriptum est Math. 4.6 couering themselues ouer head eares with scripture as with the wooll and fleese of simple sheepe Beware of such f●lse Prophets which are inwardl● rauen ng wolues Mat. 7.15 worke out your saluation with feare trembling remembring that none shall be crowned which doth not lawfully fighte 2. Tim. 2. Now therfore make ioyfull all the Angels and court of heauen with your conuersion strike the stroake with God say with the Prophet Nunc cepi Mal. 7.6 now I haue begunne in Gods blessed seruice Doe you with S. Hierom although your Mother much lamenting should show you her brests with which shee gaue you sucke and your Father should weepe on his knees before you hereby to keepe you from the sweet repose and tuition of the Catholique church runne ouer your Father cast your Mother aside and make hast to the standard of the Crosse Solum pietatis genus est in hac re esse crudelem this is the greatest kinde of pietie aboue all other in this point to shew your selfe cruell I humbly implore the diuine Maiestie and lying prostrate at your feete do begge with teares that he would so moue and mollifie your hart that at the sound of these summoning Trumpets all impediments being incontinently cast aside you may attentiuely harken to their dreadfull echoe Sweet Iesus out of his infinite mercy and by his bitter death and passion blesse direct and confirme you with his principall spirit Psal 50. that when he shall be pleased inwardly to moue you with his diuine inspirations he may gratiously inuite you to tast of the heauenly waters of his most sweet and our holy mother the Catholike church Cōtristate not any longer the holy Ghost Ephes 4.30 by hardning your harte but thankefully receaue and entertaine the same with submission reuerence respect towards so great a maiestie and without delay make profession openly of the Catholique faith and religion of our auncient holy Christian forefathers that so you may raigne with our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and with them in heauē participating there of such ioyes as neither eye hath seene eare hath heard nor euer hath ascended into the hart of man to conceiue Cor. 2.9 to which God of his infinite mercie bring vs who hath so dearly bought vs that we may there raigne perpetuallie in glorie with him for euer Amen Your humble and dutifull sonne during life G.P. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL HIS DEARE MOTHER Mistris E. P. increase of all spirituall and temporall consolation TO you deare Mother doe I offer these My poore endeuours which I doe implore And begg of God-allmightie on my knees At their arriuall may find ope the dore Of your desires What pittie cannot moue For its one sake may enter by my loue Let mee noe longer frutelesse sacrifice Vppon the sacred Altar of sinceare Deuotion offe●… with tear-tricklinge eyes Dride vpp with sighs redoubled are with feare Which wakes my thoughts with a perpetuall fright In the dead-silent howers of the night To thinke the wombe wherein I was conceau'd The louinge Breasts which first gaue nourishment Vnto my tender yeares whose armes receau'd Into the bosome of such sweete content My Infancy which tenderly to wrapp They tooke delight lay'd prostrat● on the lapp Of more then common-care should what Alas Must I pronounce the sentence Perrish ô noe Heauens forbide the fatall howerglasse Is nott yett runne Though itt draw too too lowe Returne my dearest Sunamite returne Let not in vaine thy holy off'rings burne T' was noe small greefe you seem'd for to expres With pittie moueinge plaints and promises By which you did coniure mee no●-Lesse Deare to my soule then yours to bannish these Religious enterprises What will bee The Greefe when wee must part and neuer see Each other thinke you Nether is that all For in the day of wrath and indignation Men shall reioice to see their Parents fall By the iust iudgement of Gods ordination Thus much my filiall duty forst mee too The rest I leaue to Iesus Christ and you Your most dutifull and obedient Sonne G. P. To the deuout

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