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A02187	Newes from Italy of a second Moses or, the life of Galeacius Caracciolus the noble Marquesse of Vico Containing the story of his admirable conuersion from popery, and his forsaking of a rich marquessedome for the Gospels sake. Written first in Italian, thence translated into latin by reuerend Beza, and for the benefit of our people put into English: and now published by W. Crashavv ...; Historia della vita di Galeazzo Caracciolo. English	Balbani, Niccolo, d. 1587.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.	1608 (1608)	STC 1233; ESTC S100534	64,277	90

reuiled yea and scourged but euen to die vpon the crosse as a cursed malefactor and all for vs why should not we much more beare patiently the taunts and mockes yea euen the slanders of Gods enemies Let vs therfore arme our selues as it were with a holy pride and in a sort scorne and laugh at their mockes and putting vpon vs mercy and pity as the feeling members of Christ let vs bewaile so great blindnesse in them and let vs intreat the Lord for them to pull them out of that palpable darknesse into his true and marueilous light lest Satan binde them to himselfe in his euerlasting prentishippe and so being his bondslanes and hired sworne seruants of his blacke guard doe send them out to persecute Iesus Christ in his members Which when they haue done all they can and all that the diuell their master can teach them though the diuell himselfe should burst with malice and they for anger grinde their teeth yet shall it all tend to the magnifying of Gods glory which they labour to obscure and to the furtherance of their saluation whom they so disdained yea to the increase of their glory in a better world whom in this world they thought worthy of nothing but of all disgrace And surely my most honourable Lord he that is possessed with the certaintie of this faith will without doubt make open warre with the corrupt affections of his owne nature and with all the world yea euen with the diuell himselfe and will not doubt but in time euen to ouercome them al. Therfore let vs humble our selues to our God and Father euerlasting that he would increase that saith in vs bring forth in vs those most blessed sweet fruits of faith in our harts liues which he vseth to work in them whom he hath elected that so our faith being fruitful of good works may appeare to be not a fained but a true faith not a dead but a liuing faith not a humane but a diuine worke in vs that so it may be to vs an infallible pledge of our saluation to come Let vs labour to shew our selues the legitimate and vndoubted children of God in seeking aboue all things that his most holy name may be sanctified in our selues and others and in imitating his admirable loue and gentlenesse which makes his sunne to shine on good and badde Let vs worship his heauenly Maiestie in spirit and truth and let vs yeeld vp the temple of our heartsto Christ Iesus as an acceptable sacrifice vnto him yea letvs shew our selues members of the heauenly high Priest Christ Iesus in sacificing to God our owne bodies and in crucifying the flesh with the affections and the lusts thereof that sinne being dead in vs the spirit of God may create in vs a spirituall life whereby Christ Iesus may liue in vs. Let vs die to sinne and die to our selues and to the world that we may liue blessedly to God and Christ Iesus yea let vs acknowledge and shew by our liues that we were once ●●ad but now are raised to the life of grace by the power of Christ Iesus Let our conuersation be heauenly though we liue on the earth let vs begin that life here which we hope to lead in heauen let the image of God shine bright in vs let vs disgrace and weare out the olde image of sinne and satan and labour to renue the image of Christ Iesus that all that see vs may acknowledge Gods image in vs. Which holy image of grace as it is beautifull and glorious in all Gods Saints so in you my good Lord it shall be so much more glorious in as much as you go before others in birth nobility honour and high place O what a pleasant sight is it to all true Christian men yea to the Angels yea how acceptable to the Lord himselfe to behold a man of your place and estate so farre to forget the world and denie himselfe so deepely to consider the frailty of his own nature and the vanity of all temporal things as to say with Christ I am a worms and no man and to crie out with Dauid turne thy face to me and haue mercy vpon me for I am desolate and poore O happy and true rich man which hath attained to this spirituall and heauenly pouerty and can giue a farewell to himselfe and the world and all things that he hath for Christs sake and can freely renounce and forsake carnall reason humane learning company and counsell of friends wealth honours lord shippes pleasures of all sorts delight of the court high places and preferments dignity and offices yea fauour of Princes yea his owneselfe How welcome shall he be to Christ which can denie all those for Christs sake Such a one may go for a foole in the world but he shal be of the Almighties counsell such a man knoweth that felicity consists not in any thing that this world can afford and therefore in the midst of all his wealth and abundance he crieth out to God as though he had nothing euen out of the feeling of his heart Giue vs this day our daily bread Such a man preferreth the rebuke of Christ before the honour of the world and the afflictions of Christs religion before the pleasures of the world and because hee despiseth all things in respect of Christ and his righteousnes and is possessed and grounded with Gods spirit therefore hee sings with true ioy of heart with the kingly Prophet The Lord is my shepheard therefore I can want nothing neither will I feare hunger or any outward thing he feeds me in greene pastures and leads me forth besides the water of comfort This man distrusts himselfe and all the creatures in the world that he may trust and cleaue onely to God neither aimes he at any pleasure any wisedome any honour any riches any credit or estimation but such as comes from God himselfe and therfore he professeth with the same Prophet I haue none in heauen but thee alone and none in the earth doe I desire but thee my slesh consumeth with longing after thee and thou Lord art my heritage and portion for euer He that spake thus was a wealthy and mighty King yet suffered he not the eyes ofhis mind to be blinded or dazled with the glittering glory of riches pleasures or honour or ought else that a kingdome could giue for he knew wel that they al came of God and were held vnder God and must all be vsed to his glory and that he that gaue them hath farre better things to giue his children And therefore that King and Prophet makes his heauenly proclamation before al his people Blessed art thou O Lord God our father for euer and euer thine O Lord is greatnes and power and glory and victory all that is in heauen and earth is thine thine is the kingdome Lord and thou excellest as head ouer all riches and honour come of thee and

they had neuer beene my children nor I their father Yea happy had I bin if I had either neuer had them or hauing them might enioy them To be a father is a comfort but a father of no children and yet to haue children that is a misery And you poore Orphans what shal become of you whē I am gone your hap is hard euen to be fatherlesse your father yet liuing and what can your great birth now helpe you for by my departure you shall lose all your honour all your liuing and wealth and all dignity whatsoeuer which otherwise you had bin sure of nay my departure shall not onely depriue you of al this but lay you open to all infamy reproch and slander and bring vpon you all kind of misery and thus miserable man that I am shall the time be cursed that euer they had me to their father And what can your wofull mother doe when she looketh on you but weepe and wring her hands her griefe still increasing as she lookes vpon you Yet thus must I leaue you al confounded together in heaps of griefe weeping and wailing one with another and I in the meane time weeping and wailing for you all Many other griefes temptations and hinderances assaulted him though they were not so weighty as these formerly named yet which might haue beene able to haue hindred any mans departure being in his case as to leaue the company of so many gallant noblemen and gentlemen his kinred and acquaintaince to lose so honourable an office and place as he bare in the Emperours Court to leaue for euer his natiue soile the delicate Italy to depriue himselfe and his posterity of the noble tittle and rich liuing of a Marquesdome to vndertake a most long and tedious iourney to cast himselfe into exile pouerty shame and many other miseries without hope of recouery for euer to change his former pleasant life into all hardnesse and to giue a farewel to al the delicacies of Italy wherein he was brought vppe to leaue that goodly garden of his father the Marquesses which once should be his owne the goodliest garden almost in all Italy or all Cristendome which was furnished with plants of all sorts and these not onely of all such as grow in Italy but euen such as were to be got out of all other countries this garden and Orchard was so exquisite both this way and in diuers other sorts of elegancies that a great number of men of all qualities resorted daily out of all countries to see it But this and all other the pleasures and delicacies of this present life could doe nothing with him to remooue him from his purpose but he renounced them all and resolued to leaue them all to follow Christ so strong and admirable was the constancy of this noble Gentleman CHAP. IX How after all the temptations which flesh and blood laid in his way to hinder his departure he consulted with the Lord and from him receiued grace to ouercome them all BVt it may be asked whereupon was grounded so great vnmoueablenesse of this purpose or whence came it If we aske the world and common iudgement they will answere that doubtlesse melancholike humours preuailing in him spoiled the man of his iudgement and naturall affections and empaired common sense and reason and thence proceeded this obstinate and desperate purpose as the world iudgeth of it But if a man lift vp his eyes higher and behold the matter more seriously he might haue manifestly seene that it came to passe by the mercifull blessing and strong hand of God who from al eternity had predestinate him that hee should stand so vnmoueable against all temptations and continue in one tenour steady and stedfast vntill he had made voyde all the attempts of Satan and remoued all the stumbling blockes which his flesh and blood and carnall reason could cast in the way for the which purpose the spirit of God enabled him to reason with himselfe on this sort Thou Lord art hee who drew and deliueredst me out of the thick and misty darknes of ignorance and hast enlightned my mind with the light of thy holy spirit and with the heauenly knowledge of thy truth thou hast made knowen to me the way of saluation and hast ransomed me to thy selfe by the blood of thy Sonne Now therefore good Lord and holy father I am wholly thine and consecrated to thy glory and as I am thine I will follow thee and obey thee and walke in the way of thy will whithersoeuer thou shalt call me Not my father nor my wife nor my children nor my honours nor my lands nor my riches nor all my delicacies and pleasures shall hold or hinder me one houre from following thee I denie my selfe O Lord and I deny this whole world for thee and thy sake O Lord thou knowest me and the readinesse of my mind to wait vpon thee and how that my heart is inflamed with the fire of thy loue yet thou seest againe how many enemies compasse mee how many hinderances lie in me way and how many temptations and impediments lie vpon me so that I am scarce able to moue or lift vp my head vnto thee O Lord I am now in the depthes of those troubles out of which the holy Prophet Dauid once cried to thee as I doe now O Lord haue mercy on me and deliuer my soule And although Satan and my owne flesh doe affright me in this my purpose whilst they set before my eyes the crosse and the infamy and the pouerty and so many miseries which I am like in this my new profession to vndergoe notwithstanding O Lord I lift vp my selfe in the contemplation and beholding of thy infinite Maiesty and therein I see and confesse that that crosse and affliction is blessed and glorious which makes me like and conformable to Christ my head and that infamy to be honorable which sets me in the way to true honour and that pouerty to be desired which depriuing a man of some temporall goods wil reward him with an heauenly inheritance then which there is nothing more pretious I meane O Lord with thy owne selfe and thy glory O euerlasting God and that by thy onely son Iesus Christ that so I enioying thy glorious presence may liue for euer with thee in that heanenly society O blessed and happy these miseries which pull me out of the worlds vanities and sinke of sinne that I may be made heire of an euerlasting glory Welcome therfore the crosse of Christ I wil take it vp O Lord and wil follow thee With these such like holy meditations other holy meanes he ouercame at last all the attempts of Satan al his owne natural and carnal affections yea and the world it selfe and verified that in himselfe which Paul affirmeth of Gods true elect that they that are Christs haue crucified the flesh with the affections and the lusts that is haue crucified their soules for Christ who crucified himselfe

thou art Lord of all in thy hand is power and strength honour and dignitis and kingdomes are in thy disposition therefore wee giue thee thankes O God and we extoll thy great and glorious name But who am I and what is my people that we should promise such things to thee For we are strangers before thee and soiourners as all our fathers were our daies are like a shadow vpon the earth and here is no abiding See how Dauid cannot content himselfe in abasing himselfe and extolling the Lord and in how many words his affections vtter themselues This was Dauids meditation and let this be your looking-glasse and into the looking-glasse of this meditation looke once a day and pray daily that God would still open your eyes to behold your owne vilenesse and his incomprehensible power and loue to yee that with King Dauid you may humble your selfe vnder the mighty hand of his Maiesty and acknowledge all power and glory to belong to God alone that so you may be made partaker of those heauenly graces which God bestoweth not on the proud and lofty but on the humble and meeke Remember that ordinance of the eternall God that saith Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome nor the strong man in his strength nor the rich man in his riches but let him that glorieth glorie in this in that he vnderstandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which doe mercy and iustice on earth for these things please me saith the Lord. Therefore my good Lord if you list to boast boast not as the world doth that you are rich or that you are of noble birth or that you are in fauour with the Emperour and other Princes or that you are heire apparant of a rich Marquesdome or that you haue married so noble a waman leaue this kind of boasting to them who haue their minds glued to the world and therefore haue no better things to boast on whose portion being here in this life they can looke for nothing in heauen But rather reioyce you in that you are entred into the kingdome of grace glory in this that the King of kings hath had mercy on you and hath drawen you out of the misty darkenesse of errors hath giuen you to feele his endlesse loue and mercy in Christ hath made you of the childe of wrath his owne sonne of a seruant to finne and the diuell an heire of heauen and of a bondslaue to hell a free denision of the heauenly Ierusalem and glory in this that euen Christ Iesus himselfe is giuen you and made your owne and with him all things else So that as Paul saith All are yours whether the world or life or death things present or things to come all are yours in and by Christ who is the onely felicity of our soules and therefore whosoeuer haue him haue with him all thing else This is the true glory and the sound boasting of Christianity for hereby is Gods mercy extolled and mans pride troden vnder foote by which a man trusting too much to himselfe rebelleth against God This glorious boasting makes vs humble euen in our highest honours modest and meeke in prosperity patient and quiet in aduersity in troubles strong and couragious gentle towards all men ioyfull in hope feruent in praier full of the loue of God but empty of all loue of our selues or ought in the world yea it makes vs Christs true beadsmen and his sworn seruants and maks vs yeelde vp our selues wholly to imitate and follow Christ and to esteeme all things else as fraile and vaine yea dung and drosse that we may winne him Right honourable and my good Lord you see that I am so willingly employed in this seruice of writing to your honour and in conferring with you of heauenly matters that I haue forgot my selfe or rather your honour in being so tedious which in the beginning I purposed not I am priuie to my selfe and of my owneignorance and guilty of mine owne insufficiency as being fitter to be a scholar then a teacher and to heare and learne my selfe rather then to teach others and therefore I craue pardon of your honour Farewell The most reuerend Embassadour desireth in his heart he had occasion to testifie indeede that true good will which in his soule he beares you In the meane time he salutes you so doth the illustrious Princesse of Piscarta her highnesse and all other the honourable personages which are with me all which reioyce for this good worke of God in you and in all kindnes do kisse your hands and they do all earnestly intreat the Lord for you that he that hath begun so great a worke in you would accomplish the same to the end and the richer you are in temporall goods in lands and lord shippes that he would make you so much the more poore in spirit that so your spirituall pouerty may doe that which your worldly riches and honour cannot namely bring you at last to the eternall and neuer fading riches of the world to come Amen Farewell From Viterbium Your honours most humbly addicted and most louing brother in Christ M. Antonius Flaminius CHAP. VI. Of the many temptations the diuell vsed to pull him backe as by his father his wife and by noble men of his acquaintance BY this and other holy meanes Galeacius was confirmed in the doctrine of the truth and went forward constantly in the course of Gods calling and the way of godlines But the more couragiously he went on the more fiercely the diuell raged against him by his temptations endeuouring thereby to hinder him in that happy course yea and if it were possible to driue him backe againe which course lie commonly takes against those who haue propounded to themselues to tame the rebellion of the slesh and to relinquish the vanities of the world And first of all this zealous course of his in Religion procured him an infinit number of mockes and made him subiect to most vile slanders yea made him incurre the hatred of a great number but especially did he herein displease vex his father as one that was not only of a contrary religion but one who onely intended the honour of his house and the aduancing of his posterity which in respect of Religion Galeacius cared not for at all and therefore he did often sharpely chide him and charged him with his fatherly authoritie to put away those melancholy conceits as hee termed them No doubt but this was most grieuous to him who alwaies was most submisse and obedient to his father But another griefe did more inwardly afflict him which was in respect of his wife Victoria Who though she was alwaies a most kind and dutifull wife as also very wise yet shee would by no meanes yeelde to this motion and change of Religion because she thought and feared it would breed infamy and reproch to her self and her house and therfore was continually working on him by all meanes and

deuices she could labouring to mooue him by teares and complaints and by all kinds of intreaty that a wife could vse to her husband and withall sometimes vrging him with such vaine and fond reasons as commonly women of that Religion are furnished withall What a vexation this was and what an impediment to his conuersion such may iudge easily who are cumbred with husbands or wiues of a contrary Religion And no little griefe and temptation was it to him besides all these that the most part of the noble men in and about Naples being either of his blood or kinred or his familiar friends vsed continually to resort vnto him to follow their old and ordinary sports and pleasures Alas how hard a thing was it to shake off all these on a sudden and to take vpon him a direct contrary course of life to that he had ledde with them afore which he must needs doe if he would goe on as he had begun And further it was no little vexation to his soule to liue in the Court when his office and place called him thereunto for there hee might heare of any thing rather then of Religion and not a word by any meanes of Gods word but talke enough of common and worldly preferments and pleasures and deuising of meanes for the most cruell handling and dispatching out of the way all such as should depart from the Romish faith Any Christian heart may easily conceiue how deepely those temptations and hinderances vexed his righteous soule in this his course towards God insomuch as a thousand to one they had turned him backe againe and doubtlesse they had done so indeed had not God assisted him with speciall grace CHAP. VII How he escaped the snares of the Arrian Anabaptists and after of the Waldesians and of his resolution to leaue his countrey hono urs and liuings to enioy the liberty of Gods Religion BVt aboue all these Satan had one assault strongest of all whereby he attempted to seduce him from the true and sincere Religion of God About that time the Realme of Naples was sore pestred with Arrians and Anabaptists who daily broched their heresies amongst the common people colouring them ouer with glorious shewes These fellowes perceiuing Galeacius not fully setled as yet in Religion nor yet sufficiently groūded in the scripture tried al meanes they could to intangle him in their errours and blasphemous fancies wherein the mightie worke of God was admirable towards him for he being a youth a gentleman but a meane scholar and little studied and but lately entred into the schoole of Christian Religion who would haue thought that euer he could haue resisted and escaped the snares of those heretikes many of them being great and grounded scholars and throughly studied in the Scripture Notwithstanding by the sincere simplicity and plainnesse of Gods truth and the inspiration of the holy Ghost hee not onely descried the fondnesse of their heresies but euen vntied the knots and brake their nets and deliuered himselfe and mightily confuted them yea such was the working of God as being sometime in their meetings hee was strongly confirmed in the doctrine of the truth by seeing and hearing them Thus by Gods mercie he escaped and was conquerour in this sight But the diuell had not so done with him for another and more dangerous battell presently followed The Waldesians of whom wee spake before were at that time in Naples in good number With them did Galeacius daily conuerse their courses of life and study being not farre vnlike These disciples of Waldesius knew as yet no more in Religion but the point of Iustification and misliked and eschewed some abuses in Popery and neuerthelesse still frequented Popish Churches heard Masses and were present ordinarily at vile Idolatries Galeacius for a time conuersed with these men and followed their way which course doubtlesse would haue spoiled him as it did a great sort of them who afterwards being taken and committed for the truth were easily brought to recant their Religion because they wanted the chiefe and the most excellent points nor were sufficiently setled and yet afterwards againe not daring to forsake their hold in Iustification and therefore comming to it againe were taken as relapsers and backsliders and put to extreame torments and cruell death In the like danger had Galeacius beene but that the good prouidence of God otherwise disposed and better prouided for him for his office and place that he bare in the Emperours Court called him into Germany and so withdrew him from his companions the Waldesians for the Lord had a greater worke to worke in him then the Waldesians were able to teach him for there in Germany hee learned that he neuer knew afore that the knowledge of the truth of Iustification was not sufficient for saluation whilst in the meane time a man wittingly defiled himselfe with Idolatry which the Scripture cals spirituall whordome and of no man did he reape more sound and comfortable instruction then of Peter Martyr of whom we spake afore whom God had lately called out of Italy and confirmed him in the truth This Martyr instructed Galeacius soundly in the way of the truth and made it plaine vnto him by priuate conferences as well as publicke reading for he was at that time publick professor of diuinity at Stransbrough in Germany Galeacius furnished with those holy instructions returned to Naples and presently resorting to his companions the Waldesians amongst other points conferred with them about the eschewing of Idolatry and deliuered his iudgement therein But they not induring scarce to heare it presently forsooke him for they would by no meanes entertaine that doctrine which they knew was sure to bring vpon them afflictions persecutions losse of goods and honours or else would cause them to forsake country house and land wife and childe and so euery way threatened a miserable estate to the professors thereof Now this their forsaking of him and telling him of the danger of this profession was another strong temptation to keepe him wrapped in their Idolatry and to make him content himselfe with their imperfect and peeced Religion But GOD which had in his eternall election predestinate him that he should be a singular example of constancy to the edification of many and the confusion and condemnation of luke-warme professors gaue him that excellent resolution and that heauenly courage as he escaped at last conquerour ouer all those temptations and assaults of Satan and nothing could suffice or content him but the pure Religion and also the profession of it and therefore seeing no hope of reformation in Naples nor any hope to haue the Waldesians ioyne with him and seeing plainely that he could not serue God in that countrey he resolued vndoubtedly that hee would forsake the countrey and seeke for Christ and his Religion wheresoeuer hee might find them and that hee would rather forsake father wife children goods and lands offices and preferments to winne Christ then to enioy them all