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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16354	The life of the holie father S. Francis Writen by Saint Bonauenture, and as it is related by the Reuerend Father Aloysius Lipomanus Bishop of Veron. In his fourth tome of the life of Saintes; Legenda maior beatissimi patris francisci. English	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.; Montagu, Anthony Maria Browne, Viscount, 1574-1629.	1610 (1610)	STC 3271; ESTC S112955	142,663	258

THE LIFE OF THE HOLIE FATHER S. FRANCIS WRITEN BY SAINT BONAuenture and as it is related by the Reuerend Father Aloysius Lipomanus Bishop of Veron In his fourth tome of the life of Saintes Hic vir despiciens mundum terrena triumphans Diuitias caelo condidit ore manu BLESSED BE DTHE NAME OF OVR LORD IHS Printed at DOVAY by LAVRENCE KELLAM 1610. APPROBATIO Haec vita S. Francisci per S. Bonauenturam olim conscripta nunc in linguam Anglicam fideliter translata digna est quae in lucem edatur ab omnibus legatur Actum Duaci Calendis Martii 1610. Georgius Coluenerius S. Theologiae Doctor Professor librorum in Academia Duacensi Visitator Censor TO THE RIGHT VVORshipfull and most vvorthy religious gentlman A. B. all happynes in Christ our Lord vvisheth E. H. SVch is that svveernesse and imprisable comforte of spirite Righe VVorshipfull and pious Syr vvhich the readinge of Saintes Liues can effecte in our soules that I fully persvvade my selfe that amongest the exercices beseeminge a Catholike Christiane the readinge and perusinge his present subiecte vvill not be the leaste forcible and efficacious to induce men to embrace vertues Path and constantly to sustaine the manifoulde afflictions vvhich in these our miserable times are moste ordinarie and frequent vvith Gods best belouede seruantes this litle vvorke smalle in quantity yeat riche precious for the mattere it doth treate of containeth the life of that most rare and admirable Sainte S. Francis vvhich came to my handes by meanes of a poore yet euer honeste banished countrey man of myne vvho vvantinge helpe and meanes to publishe it I most vvillingly sett therevnto my helpinge hande to further so good a vvorke vvhich beinge novve perfectede I commende vnto your selfe as one selected and chosen by me vvorthie in manie respectes before others desiringe that you vvoulde vouchsafe to vndertake the patronizinge of this my euer propens duety tovvardes your best deseruinge selfe vouchsafe therefore fauorably to accepte of â—â—y greate goodvvill though shrovvded vnder the veyle of a small presente vvhich I offer not as intendinge thereby to requite or equalize those many benefites of yours for my best endeauours vvilbe farre avvantinge from due proportion and equality seinge that the acceptaunce hereof requireth a nevve kindnese but to renevve and stirr vp in my selfe some memorie of your respectede desertes and accordinge to my povvere to shevve my vvillinge desire to gratifie in vvhat I may your greate good vvill I presente vnto you not that vniuersalle and moste admirable troope of all Gods Saintes for that these you and others may hereafter by some other meanse receaue but this one life in particulare of that most blessed man S. Francis vvherein you may be houlde as in a glasse the full abundance of Angelicall conversation and as in vvhich is compendiously contayned the sume of a perfect life I vvill here omitt to recounte his rare vertues his invincible fortitude his Admirable temperance profound humility patience longanimity most feruent charity immouable fayth dauntles hope and such like innumerable vertues because all these vvilbe exactly manifested vnto you in this treatis yea such is the excelentcie of this Saint that beit spoken vvithout preiudice or derogation to other Saints he is thought by his surmounting holynes to haue atchiued and purchased not the lovvest seate in euerlasting ioy for vvhill the Prince of Angels and greatest of all creatures in naturall dovvries Lucifer him selfe thinking by his arrogante pride to haue ascended and as the scripture saith of him to haue been Similis altissimo Esaye 14. like vnto the highest vvas throvvne dovvne headlong in to the bottomles dongion of hell and euerlasting damnation he by his most rare humility he hath deserued to be exalted and in throvvned in that kingdom vvhich he by his contrary pride irrecouerably lost So as in this vve may see the deuine providence and vnsearchable vvisedome of god allmyghty vvhich revvardeth all according to theite deserts Luc. 1. veryfying this saying Deposuitpotentes de sede exaltauit humiles he hath put the mighty from theire seate and hath exalted the humble and meeke agreing allsoe vvith an other place Luc. 18. Quise exaltat humiliabitur qui se humiliat exaltabitur he that exalteth himselfe shal be humbled ore cast dovvne and he vvhich humbleth him selfe shal be exalted thus vve se hovv he exalteth his Saints vvhill Lucifer and his complices are depriued of that place vvhich theire vniust aspiring could not yealde them and therefore are becom an aprobry to the rest of the blessed Angeles and deadly enimies to mankynde seekynge allvvayes by theire manifould delusions to bringe others into that desperat estate in vvhich they knovve themselues to be for euer for as Saint Peter saith Diabolus tanquam leo rugiens cir cuit 1. Pet. 5. quaerens quem deuoret The deuill like a roringe lyon goeth about seekinge vvhom he may deuoure Against vvhom and vvhose most guilfull procedings vvhat is more avaylable and of greater force then the vertue of Christ his vvounds his and al Saints merits and intercessions vnder vvhose bannour he that fighteth as all Christian Catholiques ought most coÌ„stantly to doe alâ—though often tryed and assalted by spirituall foes yet can he neuer be ouercome and hauing patience to sustayne it vvill redound vnto a greater crovvne of glorie For if vve suffer afflictiones in this vvorlde and for the since are loue of God endure them couragiously vve shall vndoubtedly reape those incomprehensible revvardes 1. Cor. 2. Quae nec autis audiuis nec oculus vidit nec in cor hominis ascendit vvhich neyther eare hath heard nor eie hath see ne nor hath ascended into the hart of man to imagine the molestatioÌ„s and troubles of this present vvorld Rom. 8. are not condigne of the glorie to come as the Apostle saith Non sunt condignae passiones huius temporis ad suturam gloriam quae reuelabitur in nobis neither must vve imagin that if God send afflictions vpon his seruants either temporall or spirituall that he vvithdravveth his loue or zeale of our saluation nay his scourge doth presage greater loue and affection to his tried seruants for he saieth Ego quos amo arguo castigâ— Apoc. 3. vvhom I loue I chasten therefore he often suffereth our spirituall aduersatie to trie vs as he did holie Iob not aboue our povver to resiste but vvith his grace to ouercome 1. Cor. 10. and conquere our enemy Fidelis enim Deus est qui noÌ„ patietur nos teÌ„tari supra id quod possumus sed faciet cum tentatione prouentum For God is faithfull vvho vvill not suffer vs to be teÌ„pted aboue that vve are able but vvill make also vvith temptation issue that vve may be able to sustaine but vvhat should I inculcate patience and perseauerance vnto such an on as your selfe seinge that amongest soe many seruants of God you haue all

for her salvation and best agreable with her honest reputation For what busines would he say can a religious man haue where aboute to treate with a woman saue onely in enioyning holy Pennance vnto her or els in giving her councell to refome her life when she doth in religious maner require it Out of too much securitie the enemie is lesse avoided And the divell if he can get but one haire of a mans head to be his owne he wil soone make it to growe as big as a beame Idlenes also he taught to be eschewed as the very sinke and common receptacle of al naughty thoughts shewing by his owne example that the rebelliouse and slothful flesh was to be kept vnder by cotinuall discipline and profitable labours Wherefore he called his body his brother Asse for that it was to carrie hevie burthens and to be beaten with manie and frequent strips and not otherwise to be fed then with base meane diet If he saw anie idle or loitring person to liue vpon the fruites of others mens labours this man he called brother flie for that such an one doing no good him selfe but impairing the good labours of other men maketh himselfe vile and abhominable to all sortes of people Wherefore he vsed sometimes this manner of saying I will that my bretheren occupie themselues in labour and exercise least that being inclined to idlenes either theire harte or tongue doe wander after vnlawful thinges For his will and care was to haue silence by his bretheren observed according to the prescript rule of the Gospel which admonisheth men at al tims with all dilligence to abstaine from al maner of idle words as being to render an accompte thereof at the day of iudgemente Wherefore if he did finde any of his bretheren to be accustomed vnto idle and vaine wordes he did there vpon very sharpely reprehend him affirming that modest taciturnitie was both a secure preservation of a pure hart likewise a vertue of no smalle accompt considering that Death life are said to be in the haÌ„ds of the tongue not so much in regard of the taste as of the speach But although he endevored alwaies to induce his bretheren vnto austeritie of life yet he approved not that strcikt kinde of severitie which proceeded not from the bowels of devotion neither yet was seasoned with the wholesome salte of discretion For when as one of his brethren was vpon a night through too much extremity of abstinence greatly vexed with famine could not in that respect take any naturall rest the good and carrefull Pastor preceiving that one of his sheep was then in present danger of perishing called the brother forth with vnto him and set him bread before him and to the ende all bashfullnes might be away removed he first began to eate therof himselfe and so with sweetnesse invited him to do the like Whereby the brother being well incouraged reiected shame and willingly tooke his meate very much reioicing that by the wise and provident condiscending of the prudent Pastor he had happily escaped the hazard of his body and had also received no small example of edification when the morning was come the man of God calling his brethren altogether after relation made vnto them of what had chanced in the night adioyned also this heedful admonition vnto them Let charity saith he not meat my brethren be a patterne and example vnto you Furthermore he taught them to follow iscretion as the Chariot man of al vertues how beit not that discretion which the flesh doth advise but that very same which Christ hath taught whose most holy life is vndâ—ubredly knowen to be the most exact paterne of all perfection And for so much as it is not possible for a man invironed with the infirmity of his fleshely body so perfectly to followe the vnspoted lambe of Christ crucified for vs vpon the Crosse but that he shall daily gather some filthy Dreggs of sinne vpon this cause he avowed by vnfallible document that they who do with vigilancy aspire to the perfection of life ought daily to cleance theÌ„selues with streames of teares For though himselfe had already attained vnto a wonderfull purity both of heart and body yet ceased he not with showers of teares continually to cleance the eies of his minde not much regarding the losse of his corporall eies For having gotten through continuall weeping amost daungerons imperfection in his eies being for that cause by the Phisitian advised in any wise to abstaine from teares vnlesse he would vtterly loose his sight the holy man made answeare vnto him Brother Phisitian we must not in any sorte for the love of that light which is common aswell to flies as to vs men in any small degree refuse the visitatioÌ„ of that light which is of everlasting continewance considering that it is not the spirit which hath for vse of the flesh receiued the benefit of light but contrary wise it is the flesh which for the vse and service of the spirit hath receyued the same at the bountifull hand of God And therefore he did rather chuse to loose his corporall eiesight than by repressing the devotion of his spirit to hinder those comfortable streames of teares wherby the inwarde eie is cleared that it may by able to see God But being ypon a time councelled by the Phisitians and therewithall instantly perswaded by his brethren to suffer himselfe to be cured by a certaine kinde of Cawtery the maÌ„ of God humbly assented therevnto the rather in that he perceyued it would aswell be healthfull as otherwise painefull vnto him The Surgion therefore being sent for came and put his iron instrument into the fire to worke the cure But the servant of Christ chearing vp his body which was now sommewhat daunted with feare beganne in this manner as to a frind to speake vnto the fire saying My brother fire whom Almighty God hath created of a most exquisite seemelinesse full of fotce notably beautifull and profitable be favourable at this houre be curteous now vnto me I beseech the great omnipotent Lord who hath created thee so to temper the violence of thy burning heat that burning with sweetenesse I may be able to endure thee This praier indeed he made the signe of the Crosse right over against the red hotte iron instrument and so remained afterwards without all kind of feare or quailing Then was the sparckling iron entred vp to the top within the tender flesh and the Cautery was drawen from the very eare to the eie brow In the doeing whereof what paine the holy man sustayned he himselfe expressed vnto his brethren saying Giue praise vnto God my brethren for I verely say vnto you that I haue neither felt the heat of the fire nor yet any payne in my flesh And turning to the Phisitian he said vnto him If the flesh be not already well concocted put in your iron againe The Phisitian then perceaving in so weake

after Christ he put speciall confideuce her he made an aduocate for himselfe and his bretheren according as he sometimes familiarly declated vnto his companioÌ„s He burned with an admirable fervour of al his hart soule towards the blessed Sacrament of our Lord his body woondering with an vnspeakable amazement at that most charitable condiscending and most condiscending charity He did oftentimes communicate and that with so great devotion that he made others also to be devoute by his example whilest he at the sweete tasting of the immaculate Lambe was as one drunck in spirit ravished for the most part into an extasie of minde He loved the mother of our Lord Iesus Christ with an vnspeakable loue for that by her the Lord of Maiestie is be come a brother vnto vs and we by her haue happily obtained mercy In her next after Christ he reposed his principall confidence her he did most especially choose to be the Advocatrix for himselfe and all his brethren And to her honor he did most devoutly fast from the feast of the holy Apostles Saint Peter Saint Paul vntill the feast of her Assumption Vnto the Angelicall spiritts also considering them to burne with a maveilouse fire of excessiue loue towardes God and of inflaming the soules of the elect therwithall he was conioined with an inseparable band of loue and for devotion towardes them he fasted fortie daies from the Assumption of the glorious virgin attending all that time vnto continuall praier But vnto blessed Saint Michaell the Archangell for that it belonged vnto his office to represent the soules he was the more devoted in an especiall bonde of loue the rather for the fervent zeale he bare vnto the salvatiou of all the elect And as concerning the Saints out of the remembrance of all them as out of fierie stones he grewe to be more aboundantely inflamed in the vnquencheable zeale and loue of God bearing towardes all the Apostles and specially to Sainct Peter and Saint Paule for the exceeding charitie which they had towardes Christe a most principall and rate devotion and for the reverence and loue of them he dedicated vnto our Lord a peculiar Lenten observance This poore man of Christ had no more but two mites his body namely and his soule to giue vnto God with liberall charitie But these two he spated not for the loue of Christ to offer vp so coÌ„tinually that as it were all his life time he sacrificed his body by the rigour of abstinence and his spirit by the fervour of desire exterioutly in the Porche of his body immolating the burnt sacrifice and in the temple of his soule inwardly beginning the sweete smelling incense of devotion But yet for all this so was he borne alofte to divine things by the excessiue devotion of charity that neuer thelesse his affectuous benignity did dilate it selfe vnto his Copartners in nature and grace For whome the singular pietie of his hart had made to be a brother vnto all creatures besides him it is no marvaile if the charity of Christ did make to be much more a brother vnto creatures ennobled with the Image of their creatour and redeemed with the bloude of theire maker And therefore he reputed not himselfe to be the friend of Christ vnlesse he did cherishe the soules which he had redeemed He saied that nothing was to be preferred before the wellfare of soules approvinge the same especially by this that the only begoten soone of God vouchsafed for the loue of them to hang vpon the Crosse And from hence proceeded his combatte in praier his discourse in preaching and his excesse in giving good example Wherevpon so often as ouer much austerity was reprehended in him he made answere that he was giuen for an example vnto other men For notwithstanding that his innocent flesh which had now willingly and freely subiected it selfe to the spirit stoode no waies in neede of any scourge at all for his owne offences yet for examples sake he daily renewed both paines and burdens vppon himselfe keeping hard waies for other mens instruction For he vsed to say If I speake with the tongues of men and of Angells and haue not Charity in my selfe whereby to giue example of vertue vnto my neighbours I profite others but litle and my selfe no white at all And with a fervent inflammation of charitie he did emulate the glorious triumphe of the holy Martirs for that in them neither could the flame of loue be extinguished nor yet could the stability of fortitude be any way infeebled Wherfore being wholy set on fire with that perfecte charity which casteth out feare he also desireth by the flame of Martirdome to offer himselfe as a liuing sacrifice vnto our Lord to the end he might make requitall according to his power vnto Christ that suffered death for vs vpon the Crosse and might also provoke others by his example vnto the loue of God For in the sixt yeare after his conversion burning altogether in desire of Martirdome he purposed to passe the seas vnto the partes of Siria to preach the Christian faith and pennance vnto the Saracens and other infidelles And being gotten aboarde into a cerraine shippe that made for those partes by meane of contrary winds he was inforced to put a shore vpon the coaste of Salauonia Where having made some tyme of aboade and nor having founde any shippe in all that space prepartd to passe the Seas he thereby perceiving himselfe to be disappointed of his desires made earnest request vnto certaine Marriners euen then prepared for Ancona that for the loue of God they would take him along with them But they obstinately refusing him as not having wherewith to deftay his charges the maÌ„ of God singulerly reposing vpon the goodnesse of our Lord entred secretly into the shippe himself and his companion with him At that time fortuned to be there a certaine man of Gods owne sending as is to be thought for the relief of his poore servant who bringing with him necessary provision of victuals and calling vnto him one of the shippe that had the feare of God before him delivered the same vnto him saieng keepe these things faithfully for the poore brethren that lie secret in the shippe and in the time of neede imparte thereof friendly vnto them And so it came to passe that when the shippemen labouring by sorce of the windes for many daies together and all that time not being able to get to lande had in the meane while exspended all their provisions yet still vnto poore Saint Francis remained of that Almes which was by Gods appointement reserved for him Which nevertheiesse though it were but very small was yet by Gods devine power so marveilousely multiplied that they making very many daies aboade vpon the Sea it aboundantly supplied all their necessities euen vntill they came vnto the very Porte of Ancona The marriners therefore perceiving themselues by meane of the servant of God to haue escaped many daungers of

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