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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71096	The verity of Christian faith written by Hierome Savanorola [sic] of Ferrara.; Triumphus crucis Liber 2. English	Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.	1651 (1651)	Wing S781; ESTC R6206	184,563	686

same entity Then he commands himself to be believed as God the Sonne being the same with the Father and the holy Ghost and that he is at the same time true man the sonne of the Virgin Mary whom he also commands to be adored as the true Mother of God that the Crosse also which was alwayes esteemed as the instrument of equivalent ignominy should be held in most supreme honour and veneration as the chief sign of our salvation In his last supper he commanded by his last Will and Testament that we believe that Bread and Wine by virtue of a few words of Consecration were really and substantially changed and transubstantiated into his Body and Bloud notwithstanding that the wonted accidents of Bread and Wine persisted and that we should under those signes of Bread and Wine adore him and receive him as nourishment and a celestiall viaticum by which he promised us eternall life and that no body could enter into the kingdome of Heaven unlesse they were born again of water and the holy Ghost Moreover he commanded that all his Scriptures should be believed to a tittle without hesitation doubt or derogation notwithstanding they contain things most difficult to humane understanding without the belief of all which there was no salvation Nor is this constant and firm veneration of those things sufficient unlesse contemning visible things and loving the invisible we do patiently undergo all kind of persecutions In patientia enim vestra possidebitis inquit animas vestras In your patience you shall saith he possesse your souls He promised his followers and servants in this life not riches honours and dignities but the clean contrary to wit poverty ignominy oppression and what is more outrages blows banishment gaols conflicts and torments by suffering which for his sake he promises us an unspeakable beatitude promising things unto us which exceed the understanding of man as Glory for example in heaven with the Angels the Resurrection of the bodies and that which neither eye hath seen nor ear hath heard nor hath ascended into the heart of man These things notwithstanding being so he brought to passe whatever he pleased although the world fought against him For innumerable men of all sorts and conditions have so received and maintained this Doctrine that they chose rather to leave their lives then to forsake their Faith Kings also and Princes as we see at present humbly inclining themselves under the yoke of Faith are obedient to his inferiour Ministers Let us set therefore before our eyes Christ as a poor man accounted formerly and esteemed the sonne of a Carpenter and contemned by those that knew him and let us ask him what he thinks Now let him answer I though a poor man and a stranger to the world do intend to bring the whole world under my Laws and do intend that men do adore me as a true God together with my Father and the holy Ghost and that they also worship the Crosse on which being nail'd I shall die a most ignominious and cruel death between two theeves and after this cruel death that they do most devoutly and honourably reverence the Instruments and Reliques of my torments and preserve and place them amongst their chief and precious jewels and treasures And that above all things with Faith and their best Devotions they adore this Sacrifice of Bread and Wine as the true substance of my Body and Bloud and that by the Water of holy Baptisme they believe their souls to be cleansed from all spot of sinne and that they are sanctified by the anointing of Oyl and Balm and lastly that receiving and observing my whole Doctrine entirely they esteem it as a great wickednesse to derogate ought from it even to the last tittle and that they honour and make their addresses unto my Mother being sanctified with an uncorrupted and perpetuall Virginity and esteem her next unto God as Lady and Queen of the Universe by a speciall prerogative exalted above all the quire of Angels and that they make their supplications to those whieh from being Fishermen I have chosen to be my Disciples and that they adore their very bones ashes and other reliques wouldst thou not judge this poor man thinking and speaking such things of himself to be a sot fool and worthy onely to be laughed at If further whilst thou laugh'st at him he should go on and say it is my will that they not onely do most firmly beleeve all those things but that for this reason they lead their lives most continently and uprightly and for my promise given them of an invisible happinesse they despise all terrene and sensible things and to shew their most ardent affection towards me they do most willingly undergo poverty thirst famine toils miseries torments and most cruel deaths and that they choose rather all these things then deny the least tittle of my Doctrine Wouldst thou not think this man wholly mad and out of his wits If he should adde to this it is my pleasure that all this be brought to passe against the resistance of the whole world against Kings and Princes against all the Religions and sects of Gods and men I intend to fight against infernal powers to gain the victory and triumph over them questionlesse thou wouldst burst into a louder laughter But if being asked by what confidence or arms he meant to effect those things he should answer by no other then by the preaching of himself and his Disciples and because eloquence hath a great force to perswade the minds of men lest any of his victories should be attributed unto it that he should affirm that faculty no way to fit his purpose and that his Ministers should bring those things to effect without all art by a sober modest and simple narration of those things thou wouldst ascribe this to a higher degree of madnesse If he should go on I know that for my sake an infinite multitude of men would perish that the more there die the more the number of the faithful shall increase and my Faith shall be propagated to the farthest ends of the world for the bloud of my Martyrs shall as the Seed of the Church yield a fruitfull harvest of my Believers and I will deliver unto one of those my Fishermen and to his Ministers which shall never fail by a continuall inheritance the perpetuall Sceptre of the Kingdome of Heaven and I will make to stoop the supreme City and Lady of the world and the Emperour himself to kisse the feet of my Substitutes Oh! if thou shouldst hear him say so with what furies I will not say madnesse wouldst thou think him to be agitated what peals of laughter wouldst thou not bestow upon him Hearken to him a little further there shall be infinite Books written of me by most excellent and learned men which shall praise and magnifie both me and my Doctrine and extolling it above all others shall defend it with their whole forces my