reuiled yea and scourged but euen to die vpon the crosse as a cursed malefactor and all for vs why should not we much more beare patiently the taunts and mockes yea euen the slanders of Gods enemies Let vs therfore arme our selues as it were with a holy pride and in a sort scorne and laugh at their mockes and putting vpon vs mercy and pity as the feeling members of Christ let vs bewaile so great blindnesse in them and let vs intreat the Lord for them to pull them out of that palpable darknesse into his true and marueilous light lest Satan binde them to himselfe in his euerlasting prentishippe and so being his bondslanes and hired sworne seruants of his blacke guard doe send them out to persecute Iesus Christ in his members Which when they haue done all they can and all that the diuell their master can teach them though the diuell himselfe should burst with malice and they for anger grinde their teeth yet shall it all tend to the magnifying of Gods glory which they labour to obscure and to the furtherance of their saluation whom they so disdained yea to the increase of their glory in a better world whom in this world they thought worthy of nothing but of all disgrace And surely my most honourable Lord he that is possessed with the certaintie of this faith will without doubt make open warre with the corrupt affections of his owne nature and with all the world yea euen with the diuell himselfe and will not doubt but in time euen to ouercome them al. Therfore let vs humble our selues to our God and Father euerlasting that he would increase that saith in vs bring forth in vs those most blessed sweet fruits of faith in our harts liues which he vseth to work in them whom he hath elected that so our faith being fruitful of good works may appeare to be not a fained but a true faith not a dead but a liuing faith not a humane but a diuine worke in vs that so it may be to vs an infallible pledge of our saluation to come Let vs labour to shew our selues the legitimate and vndoubted children of God in seeking aboue all things that his most holy name may be sanctified in our selues and others and in imitating his admirable loue and gentlenesse which makes his sunne to shine on good and badde Let vs worship his heauenly Maiestie in spirit and truth and let vs yeeld vp the temple of our heartsto Christ Iesus as an acceptable sacrifice vnto him yea letvs shew our selues members of the heauenly high Priest Christ Iesus in sacificing to God our owne bodies and in crucifying the flesh with the affections and the lusts thereof that sinne being dead in vs the spirit of God may create in vs a spirituall life whereby Christ Iesus may liue in vs. Let vs die to sinne and die to our selues and to the world that we may liue blessedly to God and Christ Iesus yea let vs acknowledge and shew by our liues that we were once â—â—ad but now are raised to the life of grace by the power of Christ Iesus Let our conuersation be heauenly though we liue on the earth let vs begin that life here which we hope to lead in heauen let the image of God shine bright in vs let vs disgrace and weare out the olde image of sinne and satan and labour to renue the image of Christ Iesus that all that see vs may acknowledge Gods image in vs. Which holy image of grace as it is beautifull and glorious in all Gods Saints so in you my good Lord it shall be so much more glorious in as much as you go before others in birth nobility honour and high place O what a pleasant sight is it to all true Christian men yea to the Angels yea how acceptable to the Lord himselfe to behold a man of your place and estate so farre to forget the world and denie himselfe so deepely to consider the frailty of his own nature and the vanity of all temporal things as to say with Christ I am a worms and no man and to crie out with Dauid turne thy face to me and haue mercy vpon me for I am desolate and poore O happy and true rich man which hath attained to this spirituall and heauenly pouerty and can giue a farewell to himselfe and the world and all things that he hath for Christs sake and can freely renounce and forsake carnall reason humane learning company and counsell of friends wealth honours lord shippes pleasures of all sorts delight of the court high places and preferments dignity and offices yea fauour of Princes yea his owneselfe How welcome shall he be to Christ which can denie all those for Christs sake Such a one may go for a foole in the world but he shal be of the Almighties counsell such a man knoweth that felicity consists not in any thing that this world can afford and therefore in the midst of all his wealth and abundance he crieth out to God as though he had nothing euen out of the feeling of his heart Giue vs this day our daily bread Such a man preferreth the rebuke of Christ before the honour of the world and the afflictions of Christs religion before the pleasures of the world and because hee despiseth all things in respect of Christ and his righteousnes and is possessed and grounded with Gods spirit therefore hee sings with true ioy of heart with the kingly Prophet The Lord is my shepheard therefore I can want nothing neither will I feare hunger or any outward thing he feeds me in greene pastures and leads me forth besides the water of comfort This man distrusts himselfe and all the creatures in the world that he may trust and cleaue onely to God neither aimes he at any pleasure any wisedome any honour any riches any credit or estimation but such as comes from God himselfe and therfore he professeth with the same Prophet I haue none in heauen but thee alone and none in the earth doe I desire but thee my slesh consumeth with longing after thee and thou Lord art my heritage and portion for euer He that spake thus was a wealthy and mighty King yet suffered he not the eyes ofhis mind to be blinded or dazled with the glittering glory of riches pleasures or honour or ought else that a kingdome could giue for he knew wel that they al came of God and were held vnder God and must all be vsed to his glory and that he that gaue them hath farre better things to giue his children And therefore that King and Prophet makes his heauenly proclamation before al his people Blessed art thou O Lord God our father for euer and euer thine O Lord is greatnes and power and glory and victory all that is in heauen and earth is thine thine is the kingdome Lord and thou excellest as head ouer all riches and honour come of thee and
renued daily His body pined away buthis minde and soule grew from strength to strength and as a by-stander feeles not the paines of him that is tormented or racked before his eyes so his soule and mind stood as it were a farre off beholding the paines and vexations of the body and being vntoucht it selfe did as it were laugh at Satan sinne death and damnation who by all their ioynt power could doe no more but onely to vex and racke this poore carcase with bodily disease but were not able to touch the soule to vexe the minde or wound the conscience If any man aske the reason why his mind and conseience were so quiet in this so great torment of the body the reason was for that his mind was imployed in holy meditations as of the singular loue of God his father vnto him in Christ Iesus whereby he assured himselfe vndoubtedly of saluation of the manifold holy graces wherewith God had adorned him by the force whereof he said he had borne off so many buffets of Satan had passed so many pikes of troubles and come away conquerer in so many fearefull fights as had opposed themselues against him in his conuersion These gifts and graces of God he weighed with the crosses of his sicknes and found them far heauier and he compared these momentany and light afflictions with that exceeding and eternall weight of glory which he said he knew was laid vp for him in heauen These and such like meditations cheered vp his spirit more then the force of his sickenes could appall him But aboue al things he felt vnspeakable comfort and sweetnes in his prayers to the Lord which he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 feruently and with a zealous and faithfull heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 often say that in the midst of his prayers his soule seemed to him to be euen rauished out of himself and to taste of the blessed ioyes of heauen So that the saying of the blessed Apostle was verified in him As the suffrings of Christ abounded in us so consolation by Christ abounded much more In his sickenes he wanted no helpe of the Physitions for they came to him out of all parts of the citie and willingly did they all do their diligence about his body whose soule they knew had Christ Iesus to be the Physition for it His friends also continually visited him who were of the chiefe men in the citie and they were all welcome to him rich and poore and it is hard to say whether he receiued more comfort by them or they more spirituall edification by him his speeches and behauiours were so full of patience and so well seasoned with all grace All his friends performed to him what duety soeuer was in their power but especially his worthy wife did then shew her selfe most louing and loyall for she was neuer from about him and saw that he wanted nothing which the world could yeelde for the recouery of his health But all was in vaine for the time of his dissolution was at hand and he had runne the royall race of a most holy Christian life and now nothing remained but a blessed death He might say as the Apostle did with much ioy of heart I haue run my race I haue finished my course I haue kept the faith from henceforth is laid vp for me a crown of righteousnes which Christ the righteous Iudge will giue to me and to all such as wait for his appearing After few daies the violence of his sickenes was such as it ouercame all power of physicke so that it was manifest that that blessed houre approched wherin the Lord had appointed to accomplish his owne good worke in him therefore he sequestred himself altogether from any more care of his body and from al worldly cogitations he renounced the world and all in it he tooke his farewell of his wife and all his Christian friends and said hee should lead them the way to heauen Hee fixed all his thoughts vpon his soule and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ixed on the Lord in heauen and cried to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hat as he had sought him al his life so he would â—â— him and acknowledge him for his owne And thus as all his friends sat about him and as the Preachers and Ministers were occupied in holy praiers and reading of the Scriptures and applying to him the heauenly consolations of God word in the performance of these exercises he ended his dales wherein hee had taken delight all his life long and as hee reioyced to haue them in this life so it pleased the Lord that he should haue them at his death And so in the midst of all his friends in the presence of the Ministers euen in the fight of them all he peaceablie and quietly yeelded vp his spirit and rendred his soule into the hands of his mercifull God and faithfull Creator of whom he had receiued it who immediatly by the ministery of his holy Angels receiuing it at his hands and washing it pure in the blood of Iesus Christ crowned it with the crown of eternal heauenly happines And thus this holy man was translated from a noble man on earth to be a noble Saint in heauen and of a Marquesse on earth in bare name and title he was aduanced to be a glorious triumphing King in heauen where he now raignes in glory with that God whom he so faithfully serued on earth That God and mereifull father grant that all we that reade this admirable story may be allured to take vpon vs the same most holy profession that this thrice noble Marquesse did and may renounce and cast off what euer in this world we see doth hinder vs from the holy fellowshippe of Christ Iesus and strengthen vs that we may be faithful to the end that so we may obtaine the crowne of life in that glory where this noble Galeacius and all the heauenly host of Gods Saints do wait for vs. Amen This was his life this was his end let thy life be like his and thy heart walke in the same way then shall thy soule die his death and thy latter end shall be like his O Lord how glorious art thou in thy Saints FINIS Genes 47. Heb. 11. a The very yeare when Luther began to preach the Gospell * That is Pope Paul the fourth See how the first step of a mans conuersion from popery is true and sound mortification of carnall lusts and a change of life See also how the first meanes to bring a man out of error to the truth is study of holy Scriptures 1. Cor. 1. 26 27. Iohn Psal Psal Psalme Psalme 1. Chron. 28. Ieremy Phillip Hieronymus Fracastorius Sinus Adriaticus His seruants but two His attire plaine but comely His humilitie and lowly minde Euidences of nobility shining in his actions and behauiours How greatly he was esteemed in Geneua They stil called him by the title of Marquesse He was alwaies visited by strangers and trauellers especially Princes and noble men His company and conuersation His courtesie and affabilitie His rare perfections His eloquence and ability of speech His mildnesse to his inferiors His charity to the poore His good workes and charitable deedes His ordinary exercises of Religion publike and priuate His particular and personall calling His courage and iustice His loue of peace and continuall ending of contentions and setting men at vnity that were at variance
NEWES FROM ITALY OF A SECOND MOSES OR THE LIFE OF GALEACIVS CARACCIOLVS the noble Mar quesse of Vico. Containing the story of his admirable con uersion from popery and his forsaking of a rich Marquesse dome for the Gospels sake Written first in Italian thence translated into latin by reuerend Beza and for the benefit of our people put into English and now published BY W. CRASHAVV Batcheler in Diuinitie and Preacher at the Temple In memoria sempiterna erit Iusius PSALME 112. The iust shalf be had in an euerlasting remembrance Printed by H. B. for Richard Moore and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetestreete 1608. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND MY VERY GOOD LORD EDmund Lord Sheffeild Lord Lieutenant in the North and Lord President of his Highnes Counsell there of the noble order of the Garter and to the right honourable and religious Ladies the Lady Dowglasse his mother and Lady Vrsula his wife and to all the vertuous of-spring of that noble race Grace and Peace c. GIVE me leaue right Honourable to put you all in one Epistle whom God and nature haue linked so well together Nature in the neerest bond and God in the holiest Religion For a simple new-yeares gift I present you with as strange a story as out of the holy stories was euer heard Will your Honours haue the whole in briefe afore it be laid downe at large Thus it is Galeacius Caracciolus sonne and heire apparent to Calantonius Marquesse of Vicum in Naples bred borne and brought vp in Popery a Courtier to the Emperour Charles the fift nephew to the Pope Paul the fourth being married to the Duke of Nucernes daughter and hauing by her six goodly children at a Sermon of Peter Martyrs was first touched after by reading Scripture and other good meanes was fully conuerted laboured with his Lady but could not perswade her Therefore that he might enioy Christ and serue him with a quiet conscience he left the lands liuings and honoures of a Marquesdome the comsorts of his Lady and children the pleasures of Italy his credit with the Emperour his kinred with the Pope and forsaking all for the loue of Iesus Christ came to Geneua and there liued a poore and meane but yet an honourable and an holy life for fortie yeares And though his father his Lady his kinsemen yea the Emperour and the Pope did all they could to reclaime him yet continued he constant to the end and liued and died the blessed seruant of God about fifteene yeares agoe leauing behind him a rare example to all ages This right Houourable is a briefe of the whole and it is a story admirable and imitable if any other in this later age of the world Some vse to craue of great personages not to respect the gift but the giuer but in this case I contrariwise intreat your honours not to respect the giuer but the gift of the giuer I say enough if I say nothing but of the gift I meane of noble Galeacius I say too little when I haue said all I can But this I must needs say So religions so noble so vertuous was the man so resolute so holy so heroicall was the fact so strange the beginning so admirable and extraordinary the perseuerance as if the story were not debased by the rudenes of my translation I durst say none so great but might reade it nor so good but might follow it I may say much rather then Iacob Few and euill haue my daâ—â—s beene Yet in these few daies of mine something haue I seene more haue I read more haue I heard yet neuer saw I heard I or read I any example al things laid together more neerely seconding the example of Moses then this of this most renowned Marquesse Galeacius Moses was the adopted sonne of a Kings daughter Galeacius the naturall sonne and heire apparent to a Marquesse Moses a Courtier in the Court of Pharaoh Galeacius in the Court of the Emperour Charles the fift Moses by adoption a kinne to a Queene Galeacius by marriage a kinne to a Duke by blood sonne to a Marquesse nephew to a Pope Moses in possibility of a Kingdome he in possession of a Marquesdome Moses in his youth brought vp in the heathenisme of Egypt Galeacius nooâ—eled in the superstition of Popery Moses at last saw the truth and embraced it so did Galeacius Moses openly fell from the heathenisme of Egypt so did Galeac us from the superstition of Popery But all this is nothing to that which they both suffred for their conscience What Moses suffred Saint Paul tels vs Moses when he was come to yeares refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter and chose rather to suffer aduersitie with the people of God then to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season steeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt Nay Moses had rather be a base bricke-maker amongst the oppressed Israelites being true Christians then to be the sonne of a Kings daughter in the Court of Pharaoh amongst Idolaters In like case noble Galeacius when he was come to yeares and knowledge of Christ refused to be called sonne and heire to a Marquesse Cup hearer to an Emperour Nephew to a Pope and chose rather to suffer affliction persecution banishment losse of lands liuings wife children honours and preferments then to enioy the sinfull pleasures of Italy for a season esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the honours of a Marquesdome without Christ and therefore seeing hee must either want Christ or want them hee dispoyled himselfe of all these to gaine Christ If right Honourable the wife fooles of this world might haue the censuring of these two men and their actions they would presently iudge them a couple of impassionate and stoicall fellowes or else melancholike and brame-sicke men to refuse Marquesdomes and Kingdomes for scruple of co nscience but no matter as long as the men are Saints in heauen and their actions honoured of God and his Angels admired of good men and neglected of none but those who as they will not follow them on earth so are they sure neuer to follow them to heauen So excellent was the fact of Moses and so heroicall that the holy Ghost vouchsafes it remembrance both in the olde and new Testament that so the Church in all ages might know it and admire it and doth Chronicle it in the Epistle to the H brewes almost two thousand yeares after it was done If God himselfe did so to Moses shall not Gods Church be carefull to commend to posterity this second Moses whose loue to Christ Iesus was so zealous and so inflamed by the heauenly fire of Gods spirit that no earthly temptations could either quench or abate it but to winne Christ and to enioy him in the liberty of his word and Sacraments he delicately contemned the honors and pleasures of the Marquesdome of Vicum Vicum one of
the Paradises of Naples Naples the Paradise of Italy Italy of Europe Europe o the earth yet all these Paradises were nothing to him in comparison of attaining the celestiall Paradise there to liue with Iesus Christ If any Papists musing as they vse and measuring vs by themselues do suspect the story to be some fained thing deuised to allure and intise the peoples minds and to set a flourish vpon our Religion as they by a thousand false and fained stories and mirables vse to doe I answere first in the generall farre be it from vs and our Religion to vse such meanes either for our selues or against our aduersaries No we are content the Church of Rome haue the glory of that garland Popery being a sandie and a shaken a rotten and a tottering building needs such proppes to vnderset it but truth dare shew her selfe and feares no colours But for the particular I answere cunning liers as many Monkes were framed their tales of men that liued long agoe and places a farre off and vnknowen that so their reports may not too easily be brought to triall But in this case it is far otherwise the circumstances are notorious the persons and places famously knowen Vicum Naples Italy Geneua are places wel knowen Calantonius his father Charles the fist his Lord and Master Pope Paul the fourth his vncle were persons well knowen examine either places or persons and spare none truth seekes no corners disproue the story who can we craue no sparing neither is the time too farre past but may soone be examined He was borne within these hundred years and died at Geneua within these twenty yeares and his sonnes sonne at this day is Marquesse of Vicum Let any Papist doe what he can he shall haue more comfort in following the example then credit in seeking to disproue the storie In the course of my poore reading right Honourable I haue often found mention of this noble Marquesse and of his strange conuersion but the storie it selfe I first found it in the exquisit Library of the good gentleman Master Gee one that honours learning in others and cherisheth it in himselfe and hauing not once red it but often perused it I thought it great losse to our Church to want so rare a iewel and therfore could not but take the benefit of some stolne houres to put the same into our tongue for the benefit of my brethren in this Realme who want knowledge in Italian and Latine tongues And now being translated I humbly offer and consecrate it to my holy mother the Church of Fngland who may reioyce to see her Religion spredding it selfe priuily in the heart of Italy and to see the Popes nephew become her sonne And next of all vnto you right Honourable to whom I am bound in so many bonds of duety and to whom this story doth so fitly appertaine You my honourable good Lord may here see a noble gentleman of your own rank in descent birth education aduancements like your selfe to be like you also in the loue and liking of the same holy Religion And you good Madam may here conceiue iudge by your selfe how much more happy this noble Marquesse had bin if his Lady Madam Victoria had bin like your selfe I meane if she had followed and accompanied her Lord in that his most holy and happy conuersion And you all right Honourable in this noble Marquesse as in a crystal glasse may behold your selues of whom I hope you wil giue me leaue to speake that which to the great glory of God you spare not to speake of your selues that you were once darknes but now are light in the Lord Blessed be that God the father of light whose glorious light hath shined into your hearts Behold right honorable you are not alone behold an Italian behold a noble Marquesse hath broken the ice and troden the path before you In him you may see that Gods Religion is as well in Italy as in England I meane that though the face of Italy be the seat of Autichrist yet in the heart thereof there is a remnant of the Lord of hosts You may see this noble Marquesse in this story now after his death whom in his life time so many noble Princes desired to see His body hath lien in the bowels of the earth these seuenteene yeares but his soule liues in heauen in the bosome of Iesus Christ and his Religion in your hearts and his name shall liue for euer in this story Accept it therfore right honourable and if for my sake you will vouchsafe to read it once ouer I dare say that afterwards for your owne sake you will read it ouer and ouer againe which if you do you shall find it wil stir vp your pure minds inflame your hearts with a yet more earnest zeale to the truth and wil be an effectuall meanes to increase your faith your feare of God your humility patience cōstancy and al other holy vertues of regeneration And for my part I freely truely professe I haue bin often rauisht with admiration of this noble example to see an Italian so excellent a Christian one so neere the Pope so neere to Iesus Christ and such blessed fruit to blossome in the Popes own garden and to see a noble man of Italy forsake that for Christ for which I feare many amongst vs would forsake Christ himselfe And surely I confesse truth the serious consideration of this so late so true so strange an example hath bin a spur to my slownes whetted my dul spirits and made me to esteeme more highly of Religion then I did before I know it is an accusation of my selfe a disclosing of my own shame to confesse thus much but it is a glory to God an honour to Religion a credit to the truth and a praise to this noble Marquesse and therefore I will not hide it And why should I shame to confesse it when that famous renowned man of God holy Caluine freely confesseth as in the sequell of this story you shall heare that this noble mans example did greatly confirme him in his Religion and did reuiue and strengthen his faith and cheere vp all the holy graces of God in him And surely most worthy Lord and honorable Ladies this cannot but confirme and comfort you in your holy courses and as it were put a new life vnto the graces of God in you when you see what not the common people but euen such as were like your selues haue suffred for Religion and when you see that not only the poore and baser sort of men but euen the mighty and honourable as your selues are doe thinke themselues honored by embracing Religion Pardon my plainenes and too much boldnes with your honors vouchsafe to accept it as proceeding from one who much tendreth your saluations and reioyceth with many thousands more to behold the mighty gracious work of God in you Goe forward right noble Lord in the name of
thou art Lord of all in thy hand is power and strength honour and dignitis and kingdomes are in thy disposition therefore wee giue thee thankes O God and we extoll thy great and glorious name But who am I and what is my people that we should promise such things to thee For we are strangers before thee and soiourners as all our fathers were our daies are like a shadow vpon the earth and here is no abiding See how Dauid cannot content himselfe in abasing himselfe and extolling the Lord and in how many words his affections vtter themselues This was Dauids meditation and let this be your looking-glasse and into the looking-glasse of this meditation looke once a day and pray daily that God would still open your eyes to behold your owne vilenesse and his incomprehensible power and loue to yee that with King Dauid you may humble your selfe vnder the mighty hand of his Maiesty and acknowledge all power and glory to belong to God alone that so you may be made partaker of those heauenly graces which God bestoweth not on the proud and lofty but on the humble and meeke Remember that ordinance of the eternall God that saith Let not the wise man glory in his wisedome nor the strong man in his strength nor the rich man in his riches but let him that glorieth glorie in this in that he vnderstandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which doe mercy and iustice on earth for these things please me saith the Lord. Therefore my good Lord if you list to boast boast not as the world doth that you are rich or that you are of noble birth or that you are in fauour with the Emperour and other Princes or that you are heire apparant of a rich Marquesdome or that you haue married so noble a waman leaue this kind of boasting to them who haue their minds glued to the world and therefore haue no better things to boast on whose portion being here in this life they can looke for nothing in heauen But rather reioyce you in that you are entred into the kingdome of grace glory in this that the King of kings hath had mercy on you and hath drawen you out of the misty darkenesse of errors hath giuen you to feele his endlesse loue and mercy in Christ hath made you of the childe of wrath his owne sonne of a seruant to finne and the diuell an heire of heauen and of a bondslaue to hell a free denision of the heauenly Ierusalem and glory in this that euen Christ Iesus himselfe is giuen you and made your owne and with him all things else So that as Paul saith All are yours whether the world or life or death things present or things to come all are yours in and by Christ who is the onely felicity of our soules and therefore whosoeuer haue him haue with him all thing else This is the true glory and the sound boasting of Christianity for hereby is Gods mercy extolled and mans pride troden vnder foote by which a man trusting too much to himselfe rebelleth against God This glorious boasting makes vs humble euen in our highest honours modest and meeke in prosperity patient and quiet in aduersity in troubles strong and couragious gentle towards all men ioyfull in hope feruent in praier full of the loue of God but empty of all loue of our selues or ought in the world yea it makes vs Christs true beadsmen and his sworn seruants and maks vs yeelde vp our selues wholly to imitate and follow Christ and to esteeme all things else as fraile and vaine yea dung and drosse that we may winne him Right honourable and my good Lord you see that I am so willingly employed in this seruice of writing to your honour and in conferring with you of heauenly matters that I haue forgot my selfe or rather your honour in being so tedious which in the beginning I purposed not I am priuie to my selfe and of my owneignorance and guilty of mine owne insufficiency as being fitter to be a scholar then a teacher and to heare and learne my selfe rather then to teach others and therefore I craue pardon of your honour Farewell The most reuerend Embassadour desireth in his heart he had occasion to testifie indeede that true good will which in his soule he beares you In the meane time he salutes you so doth the illustrious Princesse of Piscarta her highnesse and all other the honourable personages which are with me all which reioyce for this good worke of God in you and in all kindnes do kisse your hands and they do all earnestly intreat the Lord for you that he that hath begun so great a worke in you would accomplish the same to the end and the richer you are in temporall goods in lands and lord shippes that he would make you so much the more poore in spirit that so your spirituall pouerty may doe that which your worldly riches and honour cannot namely bring you at last to the eternall and neuer fading riches of the world to come Amen Farewell From Viterbium Your honours most humbly addicted and most louing brother in Christ M. Antonius Flaminius CHAP. VI. Of the many temptations the diuell vsed to pull him backe as by his father his wife and by noble men of his acquaintance BY this and other holy meanes Galeacius was confirmed in the doctrine of the truth and went forward constantly in the course of Gods calling and the way of godlines But the more couragiously he went on the more fiercely the diuell raged against him by his temptations endeuouring thereby to hinder him in that happy course yea and if it were possible to driue him backe againe which course lie commonly takes against those who haue propounded to themselues to tame the rebellion of the slesh and to relinquish the vanities of the world And first of all this zealous course of his in Religion procured him an infinit number of mockes and made him subiect to most vile slanders yea made him incurre the hatred of a great number but especially did he herein displease vex his father as one that was not only of a contrary religion but one who onely intended the honour of his house and the aduancing of his posterity which in respect of Religion Galeacius cared not for at all and therefore he did often sharpely chide him and charged him with his fatherly authoritie to put away those melancholy conceits as hee termed them No doubt but this was most grieuous to him who alwaies was most submisse and obedient to his father But another griefe did more inwardly afflict him which was in respect of his wife Victoria Who though she was alwaies a most kind and dutifull wife as also very wise yet shee would by no meanes yeelde to this motion and change of Religion because she thought and feared it would breed infamy and reproch to her self and her house and therfore was continually working on him by all meanes and