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B00832	The lives of saints written in Spanish, by the learned and reuerend father Alfonso Villegas, diuine and preacher. ; Translated out of Italian into English, and conferred with the Spanish. By W. & E.K. B..; Flos sanctorum. English	Villegas, Alfonso de.; Ribadeneyra, Pedro de, 1526-1611.; Kinsman, Edward.; Kinsman, William.	1614 (1614)	STC 24731.5; ESTC S95676	392,335	715

so honoring them and imitating their vertues we shall receiue help and benefit by their asistance and prayers in this world and be receiued into the glorie which they posesse in the eternall beatitude Vnto the which God bring vs for his great mercy sake Amen The commemoration of the faithfull deceased THE prophet Daniell being in Babylon discouered a fraud and deceyt which the ministers of a temple vsed in making men to beleeue that their I doll called Bell did cate vp those meates that were offred vnto it when as they themselues indeed did eate it vp Darius the king punished these men with death where vpon the people raised an vproare and commotion against the prophet and the king not being able to restraine their furie they threw him into a denne among Lions to be by them rent and torne in pieces In this wofull state the holie man remained sixe daies being grieuous aswell for the continuall sight of the lions as for that the place was filthie and stincking and beside all this honger afflicted him exceedinglie It fell out at that season that the prophet Abacuc being in Palestina and carying victualls to his sheapheards an Angell told him that God comaunded he should carry that Victuall vnto Daniell who was in the Lions denne in Babilon Abacuc excused himself saing that he knew not where Babilon was neither did he know Daniell The Angell said I will shew thee and with that he took him by the haire of the head and in a moment set him in Babilon in the Lyons den and shewed him Daniell readie to die with hunger Abacuc said vnto him Daniell eate of this meat that is sent thee by God Daniell did eate thereof and was some what refreshed and enabled thereby to support and beare the affliction of that place of punishment vntill at last he was taken out by the kings comaundement By this figure is represented liuely vnto vs the commemoration the Catholique Church maketh for the dead on the next day after the feast of all saints Daniell in the lions denne representeth the soules that be in the paines of purgatory It agreeth also verie fitlie that the lions did not rent nor teare Daniell in pieces also that the sight of them was grieuous in that place of paine and also hunger afflicted him very much So the soules that be in the paines of purgatorie be not tormented by the diuells which is very iust as not firt that they should chastice those that they could not ouercome The place it self which is allotted vnto them is painfull and grieuous for it is full of fire which is the same with the fire of hell as S. Augustine affirmeth Honger doth afflict them also which is the great desire and longing they haue to see God For though they be secure to see him at length yet it is a great grief vnto them that the time is prolonged The prophet Abacuc who caried meat vnto his sheepheards is a figure of euerie good and faithfull Christian which doth good vnto the soules in purgatorie For in the carying of meat vnto his sheapheards viz vnto his Curate or any other priest in bringing bread and wyne vnto the Church and the other almes which are done for the soules such as praiers and sacrifises bee an Angell cometh and bringeth it vnto Daniell in the denne And in deed it is an article of the Catholique faith that all those things that be offred for the soules in purgatorie by persons that be in the state of grace or else if the work it self doth merit and deserue it as the holie sacrifise of the masse both comforteth and helpeth the soules that be in purgatorie exceedingly THE vndoubted veritie that there is a purgatorie is an Article of the Catholique faith and he that denieth it shall thereby prooue himself an heretique This truth is prooued by the testimonies of the scripture as that excellent learned man frier Alfonce de Castro saith in his book he made against hereticks Esay saith Our Lord shall wash the vncleanes of the daughters of Syon and the bloud of Ierusalem in the spirit of Iudgment in the spirit of heat The prophet Malachy also threatning sinners with the coming of Almightie God to chastice them saith of him that he is a fire in which the siluer is molten and purified These two places are alledged by S. Augustine to prooue that there is a purgatorie after this life IESVS CHRISTOUR our sauiour saith the same viz that he that shall speak wordes against the Holie Ghost shall not be pardoned neither in this World nor in the World to come S. Gregorie vseth this sentence and so doth S. Bernard also as an effectuall proof of this veritie For they say if sinnes be not remitted in the other world this sentence shall not be remitted in the other world should not haue beene written And the truth beinge that in all holie writt there is not any superfluous word fot to say there were any as S. Basile saith in his Exameron were blasphemie it followeth then that there is a purgatorie for it is a cleare case that no sinne is pardoned in hell S. Paul also writing to the Corinthians saith 1. Cor 3. that the workes euery one hath done be they gold siluer or stones wood haie or strawe the fire shall try them And then he saith imediatly that he whose workes shall haue need of this tryall shall suffer detriment so that such shall not be saued but by fire hom 6 sup exod ● Origen alleadgeth this sentence to prooue this veritie There is another verie forceable reason for this point S. Iohn saying in the Apocalips speaking of the holie heauenly cittie of Ierusalem that none shall enter thereinto with any spot or staine of sinnes Cap. 21. yet manie mē dye with veniall sinnes others that haue mortall sinnes are cōfessed haue not time to do their enioined penance Of these who are pardoned and absolued of their faults it is cleare that they shall do penance in purgatorie before they enter into heauen for thither they cannot come with any spot Therefore we must needs confesse that there is a Purgatory where the soules shal be purified refined from all their filth defects with which they depart out of their bodies before they enter into heauen Moreouer many holy persons of vertuous life who are worthy of credit herein haue had reuelations of this truth as S. Gregorie writeth in his dialogues But beside all these reasons alleadged I wil relate one which is of great authoritie and was as it is said the first cause and beginning that mooued the Catholique Church to ordaine Gui l●el in rationall ib 7. cap. 25. and institute the Commemoration of the faithful departed on the next day after the feast of all saints and this it is In the life of the holie Abbot Odil● written first by Peter Damian Cardinall of the Church of Rome and related by frier Laurence

to the secular power and Magistrates to giue their wickednesse it 's due reuenge and recompence That seeing this had beene the auncient practize of the primitiue Church in her glorious dayes and now wee had no new Christ nor new Church he besought the royall clemencie of his Maiestie not to bring in this new manner of proceeding so contrarie to the statutes of all Antiquitie neither so to be lead with a zeale of Iustice as to raze the verie foundations of Iustice which could not stand firme without conseruing the bounds and limits prescribed vnto each power and authoritie But the King esteeming this so round resolute an answer to be a disloyaltie in his Bishops and open-withstanding his soueraigne authoritie did presse them further to make him a promise of keeping his ancient prerogatiues and royall customes The Archbishop with the assent of his brethren answered they would so farre forth as they were not contrarie to the priuiledges and prerogatiues of the Church soe firmely established Now amonghst those royall prerogatiues these sixe were included amonghst many others 1. That vpon no cause whatsoeuer any appeale should be made to the Sea Apostolique without hauing obtained licence of his Maiestie 2. That it should neuer be lawfull for any Bishop or Archbishoppe to depart out of the kingdome or come at the commaund of the Pope without licence of the King 3. That it should not be lawfull for any Bishop to excommunicate any person that holdeth in Capite of the King without licence of the King nor graunt any interdict against his lands nor the lands of any his officers 4. That it should not be lawfull for any Bishoppe to punish Peri●rers nor False witnesses 5. That Cleargie men should be bound to answer haue their tryall and punishment in secular Tribunals 6. That the King and his secular Iustices and other officers should bee Iudges in matters of Tithes and other like causes Ecclesiastical These were contained amongst many other articles drawn by his Maiesties officers as auncient prerogatiues of the Crowne and notwithstanding they were so contrarie and preiudiciall to the practize of the Primitiue Church and priuiledges of great Kings Monarches yet his Maiestie thereunto moued by his officers and esteeming it a great disparagement of his Princely autoritie to be subiect to the Church and want of Iustice not to chastize the offences of cleargie-men most earnestly insisted to haue all the Bishops promise without any restriction or limitation to keep the aforesaid prerogatiues contained as he said in their temporall allegiance And not hauing obtained his desire hee was greatly incensed against the Bishops and rising in a great wroth and indignation went forth of the place wherein was the assembly and next day very earely without giuing audience to any of the cleargie out of London All the courte was in a tumult and vproare and now of the Bishops some began to shrinke and seeke by all meanes though with shipwracke of their conscience to recouer the fauour of their Prince and remaine assured of their temporall goods though with euident hazard of loosing those which are euerlasting Amonghst the Prelates some that should haue aduaunced the vnitie of the Church gaue the King counsaile to set the Prelates at variance amonghst themselues Others laboured to make the Archbishop more plyant to his Maiesties will with promises with menaces wi●h rehearsing benefits receaued daungers iminent to the whole cleargie the fruites of peace the bad sequeles of disunion betwixt Prince and cleargie That rigour was not fit for all times that somtimes yeelding though with some inconuenience did afterwards draw on many greater commodities that troubles and vexation now threatning the Church were matters of more weight then some liberties of the Church that his Maiestie protested his desire neuer was to preiudice the Church but only to be honoured before the Peeres of his Realme and that a bare promise and consent would giue him satisfaction Wherefore oppressed with the weight of manie Noblemen and Prelates persuasions and with the teares of many that bitterly wept the vtter ruine and distruction of the cleargie he yeelded to the will and pleasure of his Maiestie and in a Generall Parlament holden at Claringdon promised in the word of Trueth and without any restriction or limitation to keepe the aforenamed Prerogatiues and so did likewise all the other Bishops The King was not yet contented heerewith but hauing drawne a writing of those prerogatiues would for the greater euidence and strength thereof haue it signed with all the Prelates seales The Archbishop crauing some little respitte to consider of so weighty a matter tooke one coppie of the writing with himselfe and gaue one to the Archbishop of Yorke leauing the third in his Maiesties hand and so being licensed by the King departed from the Courte and went towards Winton And now being retired and alone by himselfe and reflecting vpon all his former actions duely poising the sequele of all this businesse how preiudicious it would be to all the Church of God what a breache and confusion of Ecclesiasticall libertie how great a slauerie to men that were the particular lot of IESVS CHRIST and how bad a precedent to all the world and scandall to all other Princes and Prelates sorrow griefe teares sighes and sobbes proceeding from a repentant heart did make him consume and melt away Neither was he content to doe rigorous penance in fasting and sack-cloth but he also suspended himselfe from the Altar and from the communion of the bodie and bloud of our Sauiour CHRIST vntill he was restored thereunto by the absolution and spirituall consolation of the Bishoppe of Rome The King vnderstood of the Archbishops change and alteration and all his proceedings were aggrauated and misconstered by his calumniators aduersaries His austeritie of life was superstition his zeale of Iustice nothing but crueltie the care of his Churches reuenues was attributed vnto couetuousnesse his contempt of wordly fauours was desire of vaine glorie following the will of God a proud conceite of himselfe insisting in his Auncestours steppes in defending right and a little more care thereof then some of his later slacke temporizing Predecessoures rashnesse and ouermuch wilfulnesse finally some made no scruple to say that if the Archbishops power went on in that manner the Kings Maiesties royall dignitie would quite decay and Princes should heere after reigne such and so long and with only that power and autoritie as the Archbishoppe with his cleargie would Heereupon the Archbishop was cited to appeare before his Maiestie at North-Hampton First he was iudged both by Nobleman and Prelates to haue all his moueables confiscated for not appearing personally vpon a citation of the King and yet his answer to their obiection was verie sufficient Now in the verie first entrance and beginning heere were two strange things as the Archbishop pleaded and neuer heard of before in the world An Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of England spirituall