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A81095	Jesus, Maria, Joseph, or, The devout pilgrim of the ever blessed Virgin Mary, in His holy exercises, affections, and elevations. Upon the sacred mysteries of Jesus, Maria, Joseph. Published for the benefit of the pious rosarists, by A.C. and T.V. religious monks of the holy order of S. Bennet.	A. C. (Arthur Crowther), 1588-1666.; T. V. (Thomas Vincent), 1604-1681.	1657 (1657)	Wing C7410; ESTC R231710	215,690	742

bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven Whereupon St. Cyprian St. Ambrose and St. Augustin Three very sufficient Doctors to ground an opinion conclude That by this generall tearm Quodcunque whatsoever We are absolutely prohibited to put in any exception and expresly oblig'd to believe That whatsoever whether offence or punishment St. Peter and consequently his successors the Popes shall unbind upon Earth shall be unbound also in Heaven And this large power must of necesty belong to the Keys says the Councill of Lateran since they are expresly given to take away all obstacles which may hinder our entrance into Heaven As therefore there is a double hinderance the Fault and the Pain so the Keys must be capable to open both these dores to make them compleat and perfect From all which may be gathered this brief definition of an Indulgence That It is a gift a Relaxation an Acquittance of the temporall pain due to the Divin Justice for the sins already pardon'd by Confession And this Relaxation is twofold Generall when the Indulgence is Plenarie which quits us from all the pain due to our sins And Restrain'd when the Indulgence imports only some certain number of Day 's Quarantins and year 's of Pardon When therefore you find in the Popes concessions an Indulgence of so many days Quarantins or years you are to understand it of the days and years of this world and not of Purgatory As for example He that gains an Indulgence of an Hundred years satisfies the divin Justice as much as if for an hundred years space he had done severe Penance So likewise a Quarantin is as much as if he had Fasted a whol Lent according to the custom and so of the rest Where you must take notice That for every mortall sin the sacred Canons ordain seven years Penance so that for 14. or 15. Mortall crimes he who hath committed them should in rigour undergo an hundred years penance which is above the age and ability of human nature Whereby appears the great profit of Indulgences to solace our weakness and shorten our pains whch must surely otherwise be payd to the divin Justice either by severe Penance in this world on by more severe punishments in the next though not necessarily long since they may be intensively so rigorous that one day there may be in quantity and quality of punishments more than seven years Penance of this World But you may ask what means a plenary and a Quarantin or a plenary and Ten yearts granted together Rodriguez answers That it is to satisfie such pains as are due to veniall sins of which pains we are not acquitted by the plenary Others as Valentia and Corduba say better That they are added ad cautelam for more security That so if by reason of some defect we ga●n not the greater Indulgence we may at least obtain the lesser §. 12. Three necessar I Advertisements for the gaining of Indulgences BUT here the devout Rosarists are to take three Advices The first is That Indulgences are not indifferently obtain'd by all sorts of persons but by such only as have duly and diligently purified prepar'd and dispos'd their souls to receive them by precedent Penance Or have led their lives in such Innocencie since their last confession as that they continue in the state of Grace Or have made an Act of Contrition and detestation of their mortall sins with purpose of confessing them in fit time and avoyding them for the future The second is That they must obey such other particular commands as the Bulls of Indulgences import That is They must punctually perform the enjoyn'd Actions of Almes-deeds Fastings Prayers Processions visitations of Altars and all other the works of devotion and piety there expressed The third is That they must offer up their devotions for these generally recommended ends and intentions in all the concessions of Indulgences 1. For the increase of Gods honour and glory 2. For the exaltation of the Catholique Church 3. For the prosperity of the Sea Apostolique 4. For the peace of Christian Princes 5. For the Re-union of Schismatiques 6. For the Conversion of Heretiques 7. For the correction of sinners 8. For the Consolation of the afflicted both living and departed §. 13. Of the Indulgences conferr'd upon the Confraternity of the Rosary AND now let 's produce the promis'd Treasures of the Indulgences themselves In the discovery whereof First we shall mention none but such as are expresly avouch'd by approv'd and authenticall Authors and directly drawn out of the Popes Bulls and Indults For since Clement the fifth in the Councill of Vienna hath impos'd a formall precept in vertue of holy obedience and upon pain of incurring eternall damnation on all such as shall presume to promulgate any Indiscreet that is as the Gloss in Clem. Verb. Religiosi explicats not granted Indulgences we have carefully as behoves us endevoured to avoid the penalty by diligently and painfully examining each particular Concession here set down and deliver'd Secondly we shall purposely omit the multitude of less Indulgences which remit certain day's years and Quarantins of enjoyn'd penances and set down onely the plenary Indulgences which are abundantly numerous to satisfy the most covetous Christians devotion I. At their first Admittance UPon the day that any one is first receiv'd and inroll'd into the sacred Confraternity of the Rosary having confessed and communicated and recited a third part of the Rosary and pray'd for the peace and tranquillitie of the Church he gains a Plenary Indulgence and Remission of all his sins Pius quintus in his Bull Consueverunt Romani Pontifices 27. of Sept. 1559. II. At their own choice ANy member of the Rosary hath the liberty once in his life and at the Article of his death to make use of any Ghostly Father who is impowr'd to confer upon him a plenary Indulgence Innocentius octavus 15. Octob. 1484. III. At the hour of death IN the hour Agony and Article of Death 1. Being confessed and communicated a plenary Indulgence Pius Quintus Consueverunt 27. of Septemb. 1559. 2. Or saying with mouth or in heart Jesus Maria a Plenary 3. Or calling thrice either by mouth or in heart upon the holy Name of Jesus a Plenary Pius Quintus Greg. 13. Clemens 8. 4. Or having a blessed Candle of the Confraternity in their hand in honour of the Virgin Mary at the time of their departure a Plenary Adrianus 6 Illius qui Dominicum Cal. Aprilis 1523. who is cited and confirmed by Clement the 7th Ineffabilia 10. Cal. April 1529. To gain which Indulgence the third part of the Rosary must have been at least once recited in the Chappell of the Rosary or in some place where the Reciter thereof might have a view of the Rosary Altar as appears by the Collation of the words of the Popes grants and by the ends for which they grant this Priviledg to wit that the Rosarists

of certain spirituall exercises tending to the common end of our Creation the fervour and good examples of his faithfull Associats warm his Tepidity excite his Piety and add the continuall fewell of courage and constancy to his holy Resolutions according to that saying of the Wiseman Si unus ceciderit fulcietur ab altero c. where many are united together if one falls he may be rais'd up by his fellow and if one be assaulted two may be able to repulse the adversary For Funiculus triplex difficile rumpitur A triple cord says he is not easily broken And one man alone is as a small single slender threed feeble frail and easily pash'd in peeces but being twisted and ty'd to many others by the strong bands of a spirituall friendship he becoms formidable to all his Infernall Enemyes And this by reason of the mutuall succour of their multipli'd prayers and merits according to that pithy expression of Saint Ambrose Dum singuli orant pro omnibus sequitur ut omnes orent pro singulis When as every single person pray's for all it follows that all pray for every single person Now though generally in all confraternities there is a Communication of prayers merits and spirituall goods yet not in all alike And this is the particular point wherein this Arch-Confraternity of the Rosary seems to excell all others In which according to their severall Institutes Approbations Intentions this participation of Prayers and Communitie of Merits is confin'd to some certain place where they are receiv'd and to that congregation whereof they are children and members Whereas the Brethren and Sisters of this Arch-confraternitie being any where receiv'd are every where priviledg'd and who so is inroll'd in this Book of our Blessed Lady of Power is forthwith made a happy partaker of all their spirituall perfections who are registred in Rome in Paris in any place of the whole universe The learned Doctor Navar gives the reason hereof Because says he this Communication is express'd and declar'd in the Statuts Erections and Confirmations of this Confraternity without which particular expression they could not enjoy that speciall priviledg For confraternities are certain associations of severall people together In societatem autem non veniunt nisi bona expressa say the Jurists In Societies there is no farther communication of any goods amongst the associated persons than only of such as are express'd in the contract of association Therefore proceeds this famous Canonist Hanc communicationem universalem ipse tanto magis suspicio quanto minus memini logere per aliarum Confratriarum Statuta esse similem factam I set a higher price upon this Confraternity by reason of this universall Communication for that I remember not to have read the like in the constitutions of any other Confraternity Besides this Priviledge which gives the Confraternity of the Rosary a precedency before all its collateralls and which is thus briefly here insisted upon not to obscure their lustre but to blazon its own splendor there is yet another in which it also much more surpasses all other confraternities whatsoever Which is The vast Treasure of Indulgences conferr'd upon it by the prime Pastors of the Church there having been no Pope since Sixtus quartus who hath not liberally layd open the Churches Store-house to enrich the sacred Rosary and added new benefits to his predecessors bounty as will apear by the sequall of this discourse §. 11. Of Indulgences in generall BEfore we give in the large Catalogue of Indulgences it may be very convenient to declare the nature reason and ground of all Indulgences with as much brevity and plainess as is possible for their information whose capacities cannot reach the intelligence of School-Divinity It is therefore an assured Tenet amongst all Orthodox Authors as is elsewhere largly declared in our Oration of Indulgences and may be abundantly prov'd by many express'd passages of Holy Writ That when our Mercifull Creator pardons the fault of a converted sinner he doth not always remit the punishment which he hath thereby deserved Adam and Eve the first sinners and the first Penitents were surely pardon'd and yet severely punish'd for neither was he restored to the priviledg of Immortality nor she exempted from the pangs of childing God pardon'd his Idolatrous people by the interecession of Moyses but bids them expect to be punish'd in the day of his revenge Nathan declar'd King David absolv'd from his Adultery and yet God visited him for the chastisement of the same crime with many rigorous adversities Our Originall Sin is remitted in Baptism and yet our understandings remain still punish'd with ignorance our wills with malice and all the faculties of our bodyes and souls with sensualitie and Rebellion against our Reason From which and other infinit examples we must needs infer That when the fault is pardon'd the punishment is not always relaxed and consequently That after our Reconciliation to the Divin Mercy by our due Contrition Confession and Conversion we are still liable to make satisfaction to the Divin Justice This then being suppos'd as most certain First That whosoever offends God mortally on the one side committs a fault and on the other side contracts an Obligation to satisfie for it which are called culpa and poena Secondly That the Fault may be pardon'd by Confession and the penaltie by Penance and satisfaction either in this World or in the next Thirdly That few in this world either do or can fulfill that penance which their sins deserve Hence it is That every sinner stands in need of some forraign assistance to warrant him from the flames of Purgatory in which he must pay Usque ad ultimum quadrantem Even to the last farthing who hath not payd it in this world And this Assistance must necessarily be deriv'd unto us from the superabundant merits of our Blessed Redeemer whose precious Blood Death and Passion is the prime source of all Christians merit and satisfaction Now say our learned Divins The same blood of our Saviour which hath merited for us a Remission of our crimes and a Reconciliation to Gods favour is also applyed to us for the relaxation of our deserv'd punishments By four manners of means First By means of the Sacraments Secondly By means of some Heroique Act of Charitie such as is Martyrdom c. Thirdly By means of satisfactory works done in the state of Grace such as are Almesdeeds Fasting and Prayer Fourthly by the means of Indulgences The First three are the Ordinary means whereby our Redeemers Satisfactions are apply'd unto us The last of Indulgences is the extraordinary means whereby they are also apply'd unto us either by our Saviour himself immediatly or by him instrumentally who is intrusted with this power by our Saviours own concession express'd in these words Tibi dabo claves Regni Coelorum c. I will give to thee O Peter the Keys of my heavenly Kingdom Whatsoever thou shalt bind upon Earth shall be