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A26189	Hell illuminated, or, Sancy's Roman Catholic confession wherein are such lessons, which if studiously practis'd, 'tis much to be fear'd, the Devil himself will turn Jesuit.; Confession catholique du sieur de Sancy. English	Aubigné, Agrippa d', 1552-1630.	1679 (1679)	Wing A4187; ESTC R16534	72,199	180

interr them They farther say that Nogent is a very proper place to play at Fiste-Cuffs in and that the Third Party which constrain'd the King to his Conversion will soon compel him to persecute the Huguenots or to make his condition alternative The Count of Lude having sometime since tak'n me for his Chieftain asked of me whether I did not think his fortune to be very good When you ride Post said I do you take any pleasure in a Jade whose knees are brok'n He answer'd me no. Consider then that when this great Captain quitted the Deceas'd King's Party on purpose to turn Huguenot and then left the Huguenots for that they had seen him set his tayl in the Manger at Courtrac when he mutiny'd against all the appearances of the battells and avenues of the Duke of Parma when he ravish'd Madam invisibly he has a Cure for all these accidents as having seven times clapt his knees upon the ground Now my dear friend Monsieur Le Comte would you lay your Saddle upon an over-ridden Hackney with broken knees to boot By such arguments as these have I seduc'd the Constable of the Third Party out of the Purgatory of Nogent Laverdin would have thrust his Nose in but they demanded money for his entrance he told me he had made such a regulation in the first Army of the Third Party that it should never oppress the people And in truth I find that the Great Officers of the Exchequer and the Magazines have had leisure enough To this purpose they quote me the Answer which the King made when the Count wrote to him that he lay there to pray to God The King to be quit with him sent him word That he would take care to the end his prayers might be the more perfect that they should not want fasting The Thunder of St. Denis was found to be too violent for a Purgatory-fire and forc'd the Thunderer to surcease his Determination The Tayl of Bourbon whom the Huguenots call the head of Marotte and which Monsieur William never took for a man but for a shadow This diminutive Priest turn'd over his Breviary and met by good fortune with this Text of the Gospel Non habet filius hominis ubi requiescat caput and thereupon he said to Bellozone he for whose sake it was reported that my Wife is fair among the Asses that is to say that my Brother has no place that holds for us But Monsieur William opposes him and says that there are four places still left for the Third Party places well protected from the fire of Heaven Sodom Gomorra Adma and Iseboin The Author of the Visions of the said Master William treats very largely upon this subject I shall conclude this Chapter with a Remonstrance to the Authors of the Third Party and of the third Place Know then most zealous Catholics that this Party is neither condemn'd nor absolv'd as having done neither good nor harm and therefore only reduc'd to Purgatory Your misery is that you are not authoriz'd by men of courage but only by such as call cowardice patience The Pope has not establish'd Purgatory only by words It was not your business to raise so many Disputes about the Princes of the blood the Pope has setl'd Purgatory by fulminations and you must have an Army of Thunderers for your design He shews the Keys of St. Peter as infallible Openers not only of the Gates of Heaven but of the purses of all Fools in general There 's a necessity also for the pains of St. Paul to be even with those that oppose the Decretals and to establish the Third place Thus when the Lutherans would dispute it out they were made to feel the fire of Purgatory by burning them that mis-believ'd it When the Huguenots attacqu'd the Spiritual Canons they made use of the Temporal So that upon occasion I have compar'd the Third Party to Purgatory which was only in Potentia The other was never in Act and indeed the Question is of no great Importance witness who at sixty years of age marry'd a young maid of twenty of whom he grew as jealous as a Tigre and of a most jealous old Fool was made a most Catholic Cuckold Against which he us'd all the Applications of Hans Carvell His friends asking him one day how he came to play the fool so After he had rubb'd his Ears and wip'd his Fore head scratching the hinder part of his Pole with a down-cast look upon the Evidences of his frailty These Huguenots said he are the cause of my misfortunes For in former times our Ancestors had a resting place to bait by the way as they went to Paradise but now these Tatterdemallions have dismantl'd Purgatory we must go directly to Heaven therefore I got me thi● Hackney to ride now and then as I saw occasion but never dreamt she would hav● stumbl'd at this rate CHAP. V. Of Justification by Works and of other Acts of Merit ACcording to this holy method of arguing points of Divinity by Similitudes there is no necessity for all Christians to trust to the Intercession of Saints For there are a sort of honest people and of very good fashion who gain Heaven without it by their own brave and good deeds as by the taking of one Rouen to be made Commanders of Tholouse Narbonne Carcasson and other places Another to be made Governour of Orleance Bourges and the dependancies another of Poictiers another of the three Frontiers of Bretaigne These are works by God's Authority which have been justifi'd and without saying ut mereamur they have merited or at least obtain'd general pardon and favour They that wrought these meritorious deeds have guelt the public Exchequers and are justifi'd thereby Let the Heretics with their St. Paul preach Faith and Grace as long as they please these with their St. James F. St. James of Spain have prov'd their faith by their works Upon this ground it is vain Huguenots that we must not admit Justification of works to be difficult after such works have been justifi'd They have obtain'd a Law and this Law has been a Law of Grace but when you shall have an occasion to require a Law yours shall be so lean and meagre and got with so much trouble that you shall be forc'd to confess with me that there is a necessity of Impetus by works and not of faith you do not believe in the Popes Indulgences Now mark but the Indulgencies of a King who is not a Pope and we shall find that these good works which you make scruple to justifie are become so meritorious as to have gain'd poor Villars the Admiralty of France Other Marshals though they have no Mints of their own yet can coyn what money they please And whereas other superstitious Hypocrites spend their time their money to buy pardons for so many thousand years these can shew ye thousands of Crowns got in a few months Insomuch that the payments of the merits of

the League being cast up the whole sum amounted to above seven millions seven hundred and sixty thousand Crowns More then this these good works have extended their benefits and supererogations to others who have taken lesser Towns and Villages under the chief Leader so that the Followers have been canoniz'd for the super-abounding merit of the Commander I do not bring into this rank either Merceur or Espernon They are yet to know more what it is to trust in works Now then let us see who they are that are so diligent in prese●ving their faith to their King and Countrey believing That the just shall live by faith These are they That do deeds worthy of Repentance but not good works not considering that faith without works al-a-mode is a dead faith Whence it comes to pass that some are starv'd to death others attend in the low Court of the Loure mangl'd Captains consumptive Majors maim'd Soldiers wooden-leg'd Engineers Spies and Discoverers with their Stockins out at heels that walk all together in the Switzers-Hall and have nothing to do but to exclaim against Madam Ingratitude in genere petitorio non suasorio Captains carrying the Basket the poor Soldiers the Mattock some shewing their wounds others numbring the fights they have been in the Estates they have lost some mutt'ring libels others modelling a Reformation and others studying where to get a meal upon the Coin of Reputation But some person or other will say have not all these poor Miscreants by your relation toil'd sufficiently Tell us some of their works I answer they were works of Iniquity in regard it is an ill thing to serve the ingrateful And Limaille reproaching the King with the long continuance of his services and his patience and how he had render'd himself irreconcileable to his neighbours for having faithfully executed his Majestie 's commands concluded his discourse with telling him he had not wherewithal to buy himself a Dinner Ventre St. Gri said the King who was not wont to swear after the Roman manner my Kingdom has been a pillaging for these so many years last past why did not you rob something for your self Rob as the rest do Nothing shews that works of that nature are not works and by consequence unworthy of reward The poor man continu'd to his dying day and considering his condition carry'd off the greatest share of the honour of the Siege of Amiens where he dy'd in the Mines of the Wall and this is call'd doing nothing He that would see this subject more learnedly handl'd let him read the King's Apology compos'd by Monsieur Catrier then chief Minister to Madam The King shew'd it me for the style of Madam de Rohan An Apology full of prevarication which Roquellaure hearing read cry'd out Mort dieu They that wrote this how much do they know of our business Some there are who accuse La Ruffie in regard that after a discourse concerning the humor of the King which was to punish good Services and recompence Crimes he said to them that complained of his Majesty you ought to blame your selves not him For since you understand his humor if you expect rewards you should do well to merit them by works worthy of recompence After that he speaks of those who have the honour to be a kin to his Majesty and those he renders worse us'd then the meaner Servants which makes me suspect La Ruffie to be the Author of this writing wherein he calls himself one of the King's kinsmen Witness the speech that his deceas'd Mother made to Madam at Bergerac I recommend said she to your care that poor knave La Ruffie You have more reason to love him then any other For the same reason that I have known the King your Father So have many others besides you reply'd Madam To which the Perigordine made answer so vostra gratia prou intendi so l'honordi die garde de la Compania Carnaument Afterwards La Ruffie was honor'd with the Office of a Spie at Chastellerault where he did a deserving act for he stole certain papers and was made Counsellor of State and Cuckold general under pay He that desires to read more of this Story may read the Last Will and Testament of Salbeuf a Gentleman of Gascognie who though he were a good Catholic accompany'd the K. in his flight from Paris untill the Siege sold seven Horses which belong'd to his Train making known to the King his daily losses At length shame drave him away from the Court But the desire he had to dye in his Prince's service detain'd him in the Army where he listed himself in one of the Companies of the Guards commanded by his younger Brother It happen'd that when the Cannons had ruin'd the shops under the Gate St. Honorè this very person desir'd to be set the outmost Sentinel in the Ruins whereupon the King visiting his Guards and his Approaches in the night-time the Captain from the corner of a house shew'd him his Eldest Brother The King seeing himself touch'd so to the quick went away without speaking one word Some few days afterward this poor Gentleman having again try'd the inclination of his Prince at length o'recome with grief and labour of body dy'd and though unlearned made his Will wherein he first beg'd pardon of God and then of the King his Master for having serv'd him in his Amours with Katharine de Luc d' Agen and several others some of whom were also themselves starv'd to death with the Children which they had by the King There was also much about the same time another Will made by the younger Son of the Chancellor of the Hospital who having left his Estate betook himself to attend the King in all his afflictions and to stick to the Faith and Religion of his party who thinking to have found a Sanctuary for his Errors at Quillebeuf which of a small Village was made a Garrison was shamefully repuls'd and disgrac'd by the Sieur du Plessis Thereupon pronouncing with his own mouth the Sentence of his death he call'd for Paper and made his Will which contain'd much of the same subject but more openly and plainly detecting the King's secrets but his servants violated the last commands of their Master and surrender'd up the Copy which as they say fully justifi'd my opinion concerning the Justification of Works CHAP. VI. Of Miracles and Pilgrimages THE Deceas'd Cardinal of happy memory in regard of his birth as being of the house of Lorrain understanding that the Marshal de Fervaques of happy memory also had discover'd a young Girl whom Belovet the Priest otherwise call'd the holy man had instructed how to counterfeit a Demoniac or person possess'd with a Devil on purpose to make out a Miracle the Easter following this great Prelate pronounc'd Fervaques guilty of a high peice of Impiety saying That though Miracles were false they were useful to make out pious frauds and certainly he did a very great kindness to the Country

other way to prove the Church of Christ but by the Kingdom of Anti-Christ To which I answer'd him with another argument invented by Bonniere or else by Guedron and Gouroy who have converted him Per. Oh! I confess that might well be for he chose rather to cry peccavi then take upon him the superintendency of Chartreux Math Pray give me leave to speak The Huguenots say that the chief of the Church of Rome are Thieves and such as prey upon the poor people Now the Text says My House is a House of Prayer but you have made it a Den of Thieves Our Church is a Den of Thieves and therefore that House of Prayer of which the Text speaks Per. By St. Dominic I must needs tell thee thou art a quaint Slut The reason is profound and good and of the same nature with that which is concluded upon these words The Scribes and Pharisees sate in Mose 's Chair Now our Works and Doctrine shew us to be both Scribes and Pharisees and therefore we sit in Moses's Chair But to pay thee with thy own coin I will tell the another argument which I keep a purpose for Vignoles To prove that St. Peter was at Rome we cite his Epistle where he sends his Recommendations from those that were with him at Babylon Now we cannot deny to the Huguenots but that Rome was thus call'd especially in the Revelations Seeing then that Babylon is Rome St. Peter of necessity wrote from Rome Math. This Reason may serve with the help of Monluke Well convert as many as you can I 'le do my endeavour I hope to debauch some of your brother Apostles as I have already done by the Trumpeters of his praises La Bross and Beau Lieu I will give them such variety of dishes that they shall talk of my Conversions as they have begun at the Lady Constables at a Dinner where they declar'd That I had more enclin'd St. Mary to be converted then your brother the Master-worker of Conversions Alas men are tir'd with expectance Thy brother was promoted by the Encomiums of Abbot Tyron but no body is promoted by the Recommendations of your brother So that they have very fairly told me they will cry him up no more Wherefore has not he satisfi'd them since they were hir'd to cry him up Per. As for Duret the Devil 's in his tongue He was so impudent one day at the Arsenal as to say in my hearing that he would never Dine where the Abbot and my Brother were if the drinking Glasses were not mark'd because the one was rotten with the Neapolitan disease and the other with the Leprosie 'T is a brave World when such smell-feasts as He shall compare themselves with my brother In my opinion they deserve the same sharp rebuke that the Count of Tonnerre gave to Beaulieu who talking of a Masquarade cry'd ever and anon the Counts of Soissons Auvergne and I. Whereupon the Count of Tounerre put him in mind of the Fable of the T S. We Apples also swim My Brother is none of their friend nor will he ever assist them to unravel this yarn They shall not swim together because the Count has commanded the Captain of his Guards to cut off his hands and cast him into the River Thereupon he went to the King and upon his knees besought him to give him a Grant to commit a murder which was to be done the same day the Grant was made Was it not a cursed peice of Impudence to report and write in Rime doggerel That the King and Monsieur Rosny to save Charges were about to dismiss the Comedians Tho 't is true indeed that the King out of his particular inherent wisdom has bethought himself of a neat sham for the poor Players For he has threaten'd to suppress them unless they will admit him in without paying which liberty he has also attain'd for Madam Marchioness So that now they say they have a Play every Month which costs them nothing But notwithstanding all this this Varlet Duret perhaps he aims to be Treasurer himself still advises the King to put the Players down telling him That he has a compleat Company in his own House That he had for a Captain Vpance Vitray well pepper'd with the distemper The Count of Soissons who playes the Doctor when he reads his military lessons like a School-master at the door of his Closet He says the King has provided among the rest that the Italians shall act Gallows take thy due being already like to starve but there are Camp-masters and Captains in the lower Court who are as able to act that part as they Math. In good faith thy Brother would do well to shew 'em the way at a distance He had little to do to discontent Sallette another of his Apostles for that Strumpet Condel But he cannot endure a companion and therefore he cannot endure himself And so you because you have got a little Latin by surprise cannot endure that I should share with yee in the Conversion of St. Mary Mont. Per. If there be any difference between us two the younger ought to submit to the elder by right of Nature Math. Take heed of establishing that maxim and advise your Brother likewise for the Huguenots would make a wicked advantage of it Don't you know very well That all the Catholic Ceremonies of Calicut where the Church visibly adores the Devil are like the Ceremonies of the Roman Church both in respect of their Monks and Nuns their auricular Confessions and Fasts Nay their chief Priest is likewise call'd Papa having also a Papal Crown which has not one nail less then that 〈◊〉 Rome The Jesuits excuse it by saying that the Devil is God's Ape upon Earth But the Huguenots on the contrary maintain That the Pope is the Devil's Ape fo● that very reason which you have alleg'd because the Devil is eldest Per. Speak softly the Devil 's a fool Se● yonder the Baron of Salignac Math. 'T is all one he 's one of my choice Fathers Per. Proselytes thou meanest dissembling Hypocrite as thou art So he is gone by sometimes he curses himself for having bin converted and at other times he never minds it I would not for twenty good Pistols that he had overheard us or any other who was not well resolv'd in his mind Thou hast call●d me Pimp and I have call'd thee Whore which is the more honourable of the two Who would think that such Doctors are fit persons to recall revolters from Heresie or to save Souls that are in jeopardie of Perdition Math. For thy part Pimp-major as thou art such a one it is a thing without example In reference to my self it is not so who as I am a good honest insinuating Whore may promise my self better success for such a one was Rahab There 's a president for yee Rahab the Harlot thou knowst receiv'd and sav'd the Spies of Israel Thus have I done I have sav'd M. St. Mary