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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B11947	A discours hapned. Betwene an hermite called Nicephorus & a yong louer called Tristan, who for that his Mistresse Petronilla entred into religion would faine become an hermite. All faithfullie dravven out of the historie of Petronilla, composed in French by the Right Reuerend Father in God Iohn Peter Camus Bishop of Belley. And translated into English by P.S.P.; Petronille. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; P. S. P., fl. 1630.	1630 (1630)	STC 4551; ESTC S116152	62,696	183

those that are adorned with it a holy and Royall people if they make the state of it inferiour to the state of a simple girle who hath commaund to hold her peace and no right to speake within the Church or to some porter or gardener of the Conuent Those that approche to the Altar to whose words God doth make himself obedient who haue the kees of the kingdome The function and povver of a Priest orderly laid dovvne of heauen who doe bind and loose who are the Magistrats of the Church who sitt vpon the seate of iudgment in the house of Dauid and iudge the twelue tribs of Israël that is to say all the world whose sentences giuen vpon earth are confirmed and ratified in heauen whose hands blessed and consecrated doe handle the most dreadfull mysteries of our Religion and who do that thing which the Angells do adore who haue power ouer the Diuels who dispence the Sacraments and confer the grace of God to all mortall men those Diuine men which S. Francis preferred S. Francis prefered Priests to the very Angels to the Angels because that one only man of them doth make euery day that which all the Angels in heauen cannot doe For to whom of the Angels was it euer said consecrate my body and what thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heauen those men that are almost to be adored that the Angells do reuerence and call their fellow seruants to God shall they be the vnderlings of those which doe not merit in consideration of their dignitie to loose the lachets of their shooes Ah! Regulars pardon me it is the zeale of the house of God which doth gnaw me it is the desire of his glorie and of his beautie which I see dried vp in his principall members which doth transport me to tell you that you vse very discourteously your elders the Ecclesiasticall Cleargie whom forsooth you call Seculars notwithstanding that by their Clericall habit they haue deposed Secular is no fitt Epitetho for a priest the ignominie of the secular habit that by the reception of their holy Orders they haue renounced to the desires of the world and to all that is profane in it It seemes that you would imitate Iacob and supplant them as if they were all Esaüs but know that if you be Hebrewes so are they if you be Israëlites so are they if you be the seede of Abraham so are they and I will say more for them that they are both more ancient in the Church and of a greater ranke witnesse the processions of a higher dignitie of more eminēt functions I will say so much for it The Church may be vvithout Monks but not vvithout Pastours is no time for a man to hold himself vp when he is shaked and falling downe that their imployments are more vtile and more necessarie then yours for the Church hath beene may be without Mōks but it cannot be without Pastours without Vicars without Priests without Doctours without Preachers for if the salt be moltē with what shall men salt if the candle be quinched how shall men haue light Perchance you will say that you doe the same actiōs which It doth not properly belong to Regulars to administer the Sacraments the Pastours doe but in you it is but in way of accessarie in them principally in you it is pleasure in them paine in you it is of free will in them of necessitie in you by way of recreation and as passingers in them it is of dutie and office in you it is without chardge of soules in them with chardge which make them to be answerable for the soules and so farr answerable that they shall giue soule for soule and bloud for bloud in you it is but in some things in them in all things in thē at all times in you when you please that your commoditie doth permit it in you so that the seruice of your commonaltie doth marche before that of the neighbour in thē there is no exception in you it is at certaine houres in them at all moments you fight as voluntaries they as necessaries you marche but in the wings of the battle they make the body of the armie they carrie the waight of the heate of the day and the cold of the dew of the night in summer and in winter in spring time and in haruest without rule in their dyet without assurance in their sleepe Of seuen Sacraments you administer but two and the one of them which is the Eucharist but at your ease within your houses without carrying it to the sick in the heate of the sunne in frost in snow in raine and in Th life and exercise of poore Pastour exactly described tempest at all houres of the day of the night and all dayes of the yeere through the dirt incōbrāces of the cities and townes through the woods and the meere through the mountaines and the vallees through the stones and the moores of the fields And the other Sacrament which is that of pennance you administer when you are prayed particularly called vpon and as pleaseth your Superiours who haue as great care of the conseruation of their owne subiects as they haue of the sick for whom they are not answerable But the Pastours by obligation ought to keepe still neere the sick to presse them to enter in fauour with God by the Sacrament of recōciliation to preache vnto them in season and out of season to the end to make them think of their saluation which is part of their owne saluation as being bound to giue account to the Prince of Pastours the Bishop of our soules IESVS CHRIST of his sheepe committed to their Vigilance As for Marriage Baptisme Extreme-Vnction they are things which you do not medle with all they are for the gleaners no more then you medle with Confirmatiō and Order which you leaue for the Bishops This you shew your prudēce declare that you haue eatē both butter and honny which make you reiect the least and choose the Isaia 7. v. 15. best that you know how to make vse hansomely of the fanne which separate the corne from the chaffe and pretious things from vile and base things You doe not snuff your lamps but with golden snuffers you doe not take the coales as the Seraphim of the Prophet but with gilt tongs The rodd of Moyses doth not please you because sometimes it is turned to a serpent and deuoure or doth worke dreadfull and rude effects The rodd of Aaron fitts you best because it ingenders nothing but flowres fruict Euen so you know Friars take the profit leaue the paine for the priests how to pull the rose without touching the thornes to gather the hony without feeling the sting of the bee to eate the kernell of the nutt cast away the shell to doe as children doe when they gett bread