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A10746	The pilgrime of Loreto Performing his vow made to the glorious Virgin Mary Mother of God. Conteyning diuers deuout meditations vpon the Christian and Cath. doctrine. By Fa. Lewis Richeome of the Society of Iesus. Written in French, & translated into English by E.W.; Pélerin de Lorète. English	Richeome, Louis, 1544-1625.; Walpole, Edward, 1560-1637, attributed name.; E. W. (Edward Worsley), 1605-1676, attributed name.; Weston, Edward, 1566-1635, attributed name.	1629 (1629)	STC 21023; ESTC S115933	381,402	480

whilest you haue light least darkenes do apprehend you And againe by one of thy Scribes Doe iustice before thy d parture Ioan. 12. Luc. 19. Eccles 14.17 for there is no food to be found in hell These are thy aduertisements most excellent and most worthy of a prudent valiant Capitaine for they comprehend and teach all that is necessary well to defend our selues well to fight and to ouercome well to liue and well to dye Graunt then O my soueraigne Lord that I may follow this point by point execute with a faithfull and constant obedience all that thy loue wisedome hath aduised me for my saluation that my life may be nothing but a prudent and continuall preparation to death my death a doore to life euerlasting The After-dinner and Euening of the eighteenth dayes Iourney Diuers sentences of Death CHAP. XLI THE rest of the day the Pilgrime shall passe his tyme way Psal 101.4.12 meditating some sentences of the Scripture or the holy Fathers written of this subiect As are My dayes haue sailed as a smoke and my bones haue withered and dryed vp like small stickes My dayes haue passed like a shaddow and I haue withered like grasse Iob. 14.5 And againe The dayes of man haue passed and the number of his monthes are in thy handes thou hast set boundes which he cannot passe 1. Pet. 1. And againe All flesh is grasse and the glory thereof like the flowre of the field Eccl. 9.12 the grasse hath faded and his flower hath fallen And man knowe●h not his end but as Fishes are taken with netts and Birds with snares so are the children of men taken in an euill tyme when it cometh sodainly vpon them Eccl. 9.10 And againe Labour and doe well with thy handes while thou canst for in the graue whither thou goest there is neyther worke nor industry nor knowledge nor wisedome Aug. l. 50 hom 27. Also The gate of pennance is open to vs and the day of death hidden from vs that by despaire we doe not increase our sinnes Item All the rest of our good and euill is vncertaine onely death is certaine Item Idem de verb. De. serm 21. de ciuit l. 13. cap 10 All the tyme of our life is but a race to death With th●se sentences and the like he may also remember the happy death of many persons Martyrs and others borne to heauen dying to the earth of diuers wicked men who by disastrous death haue begunne their hell in this world and so he shall passe this day and the next night and euery night after when he goeth to bed he shall remember death and his graue represented by that action and place for sleep is the image of death as the bed is the graue Death is a long sleep and the graue a long lying sleep and the bed are transitory death the graue firme and lasting The nineteenth Day A Meditation of Iudgement Particuler and Generall CAHP. XLII AFTER death sayth S. Paul followeth Iudgment Heb. 9. After the death of euery one in particuler cometh particuler Iudgement after the generall death of all men The Meditation of iudgemēt profitable commeth the generall Iudgement The memory and meditation of these two is a strong bridle to hold men from sinne a sharp spur to incite him to pennance and to prepare his pleas and books before he be presented to the examination of a Iudge so iust wise and mighty as he that must heare and iudge him Therfore the Pilgrime shall help himselfe with this consideration to cleare himselfe before the iudgment come and also to make him worthy to enter into the Sanctuary of that noble house the end of his Pilgrimage and to visit it with the profit of his soule The Prayer preparatiue as alwayes before The first Preamble for particuler Iudgement shall be to imagine a soule gone out of the body Matth. 25. as presented before God to be iudged and for the general to behould Iesus Christ cōming in maiesty accompanied with Angells and Saints to make a publike triall and iudgement of all mortall men both in bodyes and soules and to reward or punish euery one according to his workes good or bad The second Preamble shall demand a holsome feare of this fearefull day The first point shall be to meditate the sentences of Scripture that make mention of that day with some great exaggeration of speach as that Sayings of this Iugemēt 2. Cor. 5.10 Heb. 10. Psal 142.2 Iob. 3. 2. Pet. 4.18 VVe must appeare before the Tribunall of Christ that euery one may receaue in his body as he hath done good or bad And It is a horrible thing to fall into the handes of the liuing God The wordes also of Dauid who though he were an holy man yet trembling at the expectation of that day he sayd Lord enter not into iudgement with thy seruant for none liuing can be iustifyed in thy sight And of Iob VVhat shall I doe when God shall rise to Iudgement and when he shall aske what shall I answere And of S. Peter If the lust shall hardly be saued where shall the sinner appeare With which sayings the soule shall spurre forward her selfe saying If the Saints haue so feared this iudgement what shall I poore sinnefull creature do The maiesty of the Iudg. The second point shall bring in consideration the quality of the Iudge wise to know all iust to punish all mighty to execute all his Iudgements and Decrees Whose power none can escape whose wisedome none can deceaue whose equity none can bow Aug. l. de 10. chordis c 1. 2. Innoc. l. 3. de ciuit mundi and from whose sentence none can appeale as the Doctours say And if we tremble before a Iudge whō we thinke will not be corrupted what shall the Proud doe before that Iudge who infinitly detesteth that vice What the couetous before the supreme bounty and liberality The Lecher before Purity it selfe What other sinners before him who is the Capitall enemy of all sinne The generall iugement The third point shall set before our eyes that dreadfull generall Iudgement whereof holy men speaking could not find wordes great inough proportionably to expresse the greatnes of it Sound forth sayth one of them sound forth the trumpet in Sion cry out on my holy mountaine that all the Inhabitants of the earth may tremble for the day of our Lord cōmeth it is at hand Seph 1.4.15.16 a day of darknes and obscurity a day of cloudes and tribulation And another The great day of our Lord is after this day this is a day of wrath a day of tribulation and anguish a day of tumult and desolation a day of darknes and obscurity a day of cloudes and tempestes a day of the sound of trumpets and alarums This is the day which properly is called the Day of our Lord. The day of Iudgement when the

therfore it is that he shewed himselfe to accept the sacrifice of Abel and checked Cain for hypocrisy Gen. 4.4 and after speaking to Abraham Father of his people Walke sayth he before me and be perfect I will make my couenant with thee Gen. 15. and I will multiply thee exceedingly Walke that is do well I will giue thee a rich reward of thy fidelity and good works and as he sayd a little before I am thy reward too-to great The last iudgmēt shall be vpon our workes In the new Testament there is nothing oftener or more earnestly recommended vnto vs then good workes All the sermons of our Sauiour are founded vpon this Theme and in one of them he foretelleth that at his great day at the shuting vp of the world he will iudge men for their good or bad workes Matt. 10.42 to eternall glory or confusion and in one place he promiseth reward euen vnto a cupp of cold water giuen for his sake shewing that he will leaue nothing though neuer so small without recompence Rom. 2.10 Matt. 25. Apoc. 22.12 so carefull he is to encourage vs to do well His Apostles and seruants S. Paul S. Iohn and others haue spoken in like sort preaching alwayes that God will render vnto euery man according to his workes and liuing agreeably to their preaching How good workes merit paradise The second shall note that good workes measured by the foot of bare nature without any other quality and as an effect only of free will doe not merit eternall glory a limited action hauing no proportion to a recompence of an infinit valew but being considered not in it selfe but as grafted in heauenly grace and the infinite vigour of the holy Ghost dwelling in the soule giuing it the right of adoption towardes God by the merits of Iesus Christ The wōderful beginning o● birth of naturall thinges it contayneth in this respect the price of euerlasting glory And as we see in nature a little liuely seed to containe in it a hidden vertue and force to bring forth a great tree and fruit without number as for example a little nut incloseth in the seed a Nut-tree and millions of Nuttes and as many trees by succession for euer after so in a supernaturall sort the action of morall vertues quickened by the grace of God carieth a title and seed of the kingdome of heauen this is a meruailous strength vertue Prosper in Psal 111. and it is also from God whereupon S. Prosper sayth What can be found more strong and puissant then this seed by the growth filling wherof is gained the k ngdome of Heauen We know also that inheritance is due by iustice to adoptiue children in like sort is the inheritance of heauen due to the Christian that serueth his heauenly Father with the Charity loue of a true child And in title of this grace and adoption God promiseth felicity to his children and by his promise bindeth himselfe in iustice to giue vnto their vertue the reward of life euerlasting 2. Tim. 48 and therefore S. Paul sayth confidently I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue kept the fayth for the rest there is reserued for me a Crowne of iustice which our Lord the iust Iudge shall render to me at that day and not only to me but to all that loue his comming He would say I haue done good works How ●od bindeth himselfe by his promise and by them deserued a crowne which God hath promised to all those that serue him and therefore I expect it as a thing due from his hand who gaue me the grace to worke well who by his promise is bound to crowne my workes and all that serue him And elswhere speaking of the adoption of the children of God If we be sonnes sayth he then heires that is Rom. 8. by right of adoption we haue heauen for well doing Now God had giuen this right grace freely to Adam he hauing lost it by his owne fault the Messias that is the sonne of God Iesus Christ How Iesus hath recouered what Adam lost was promised to recouer him and his posterity who at last comming into the world and being made Man hath meritted by his Passion in fauour and behalf of all men his brethren past present to come wherewith their workes are made liuing workes in iustice meritorious of life euerlasting Iesus the root of al merit if they be lyuely members of their head Redeemer Therefore in the first fountaine that is by the merit of Iesus Christ we merit life euerlasting and our recompence which is the glory of the goodnes and iustice of God and such as say that our merits do derogate ●rom the honour of God are ignorant of the law of God and of the vertue of our Sauiour iniurious to the same God himself to the merit of the same Sauiour The idle person is worse thē the beast The third point shall consider how he that doth no good workes doth abase his owne dignity vnder the vnreasonable and vnsensible creatures al which do worke according to their power The heauens do compasse the earth make it fertill with their influence the sunne and starres doe shi●● the beastes plants elements cease not to moue and labour all the partes of the vniuersall world are in perpetual Action and employ themselues without rest to the end to which their Creatour made them If the idle be punished how much more the ill occupied That man therefore who standeth idle is a monster amongst insensible Creatures hauing so good helpes aboue them and the promise of eternall felicity which they haue not if he labour not nor serueth the maister that made him to wo●ke and serue him is worthy of eternall misery and confusion although he should do none other ill but what death deser●eth he that not only dooth no good but also committeth sinnes witho●t number The prayer The speach shall be to God vpon the misery of man and shall begge grace to attend to good and holy Actions to his seruice in these or like termes O Lord of Angells and men what shall I ●ay after this m●ditation of thy workes and the workes of men Vpon thy lawes and their loyalty and obedience What shall should sa● in my prayer of the m●s●●y of man of thy greatnes Of his ingratitude and thy libera●ity Of my pouerty and thy strength and vertue Thou hast made man O Lord that is chief Captaine of all thy other corporall creatures to thyne owne image and likenes furnished and coupled his nature with an immortall soule with an vnderstanding and freewill two noble instruments to do noble actiōs and highly to prayse thee in them I contrary wise for getting my selfe and my degree only amongst all creatures haue ceased to do well and haue beene compared vnto bruit beastes Psal

the world was busied in making good cheere some wicked Cittizens driuen with rage and enuy against them that had wonne the prize and against the Magistrates that by pa●sicke sentēce had adiudged it them set fire to the towne house and raised in this publicke flame a most cruell sedi●ion against the Cittizens diuided amongst themselues I found my self besieged in a lodging hard by the house with diuers oth●● merchants whome they sought to kill and had already broken downe the doores to enter fynding my selfe thus betwixt the fire and the sword without meanes to escape a miserable death I had recourse to God with al my hart making a vow to him that if it would please him to deliuer me from the danger of this dolefull day I would not deferre to dedicate my selfe wholly to his seruice and I was heard for I had no sooner pronounced this vow but I felt some body without see●ng any that seized on me with great violence and carying me in the aire brought me hither in an instant into the orchard where I was found the last wednesday Therfore if it be God that hath giuen me will to doe well if it be he also that made me be thus caryed to follow his counsells your Fatherhood may iudge by the circumstances and not refuse to open if it please you the gate of mercy to a poore penitent with these wordes he began to weep and cast himselfe at the feete of Dom-Prior And continuing his discourse my Father saith he refuse not a prodigall child whome to saue the Sonne of God descended from heauen If you account me a thiefe I haue confessed and doe still that I am so but I am also penitent punish me here with you for satisfaction I will contribute my life and death with you● therefore reiect me not for being a thiefe our Sauiour would be crucified betweene theeues and at the tyme of his death he shewed so much and his last exploit of clemency and mercy was employed in the behalf of a thiefe But doe with me what you will I will not goe from that place where the Angell of God hath put me and so he held his peace sighing and weeping All that were present were much moued to compassion And Dom-Prior sayd vnto him with a graue and gracious countenance My friend your teares sighes make me belieue that you are touched by God and that your desire deserueth to be heard but weigh well your strength and the designement you vndertake and letting him kneele still to try his constancy and patience What he must doe who leaueth the world went forward with him saying My sonne you aspire to a high enterprise you must wholly renounce the world and all her vanities you must make deadly warre with your owne body by labours abstinence fastings watchings hairecloth disciplines other skirmishes troublesome painefull to a man that is worldly who hath nourished his flesh at a full table Math. 16.24 and a soft bed and which is most difficult of all you must renounce your owne selfe according to our Sauiours decree that is giue ouer your owne iudgement and will ●au 9.23 which are two of the most potent peeces of the soule and which a man can leaue with more difficulty then all the good of the world besides You must become a litle childe and when you shall iudge that any thing should be thus and thus done for you you shall be commanded the contrary when you would goe to the garden you shall be sent to the kitchen you will loue to sing they will set you to write and finally you must be ruled by the rules of religion and your superiours and not by your owne iudgement Are you content to contract with God and vs vpon these conditions My father quoth Gratian I desire not to be admitted vpon any other condition The world then to doe all that your rule and commandement shall bid me For as concerning the world I haue renounced it already and haue in horrour her vanities which to my cost I know to be deceitfull and pernicious experience hath taught me that lesson The flesh And for my Flesh I hope to handle it as it deserueth and payne shall be no great newes vnto it for it hath laboured allready and endured but too much for the world and for farre lesse wages then I expect for my labour in the seruice of God My iudgement and my will are no more my owne I now make an offering of them to God Proper iudgmēt and leaue them vpon his Altar in your hands and haue firme confidence in him who hath giuen me the desire to consecrate my selfe wholly to his seruice that he will also giue me strength to accomplish it This was Gratians answere which did wōderfully content all the company and Lazarus turning to Dom-Prior My Father saith he your benignity cannot deny this request for it is iust the grant easy I am content quoth Dom-Prior but so that you will be content to yield to one small request which I shall make for him There is nothing in my power quoth Lazarus that I will refuse I require quoth Dom-Prior only that you would stay this day with vs nothing can be more reasonable nor more easy you shall comfort vs your friends to morrow is Sunday and this day a day of rest say the word and Gratian is receiued Father quoth he vnder correction you should haue demaunded some better thing you require nothing in this but to prolōg your paine to your charge but seeing it pleaseth you that shall not hinder Syr Gratians contract with your Fatherhood Arise then my dearely beloued quoth Dom-Prior I imbrace you now as my litle brother you shall be no longer at prisoners table but sup with your host this night and to morrow god willing you shall haue a maister who shall begin to furnish you with the weapons of religion The rumour of this miracle was presently caryed ouer all the Conuent Dom-Procurator who was present all ioyfull beheld Lazarus I said wel Sir Lazarus that your coming would bring vs good fortune for not only you haue recouered vs our sacred moueables but haue also deliuered from suspicion this innocent and will be a cause to make him our brother It is not we answered Lazarus that brought good fortune hither but we found it heere But Dom-Prior was wonderfully glad of these good fortunes and namely that the Pilgrims would stay vntill the morning All the afternoone vntill Euensonge was imployed in seeing the parts and offices of the Conuent and the Cells of Religious They saw three goodly pictures in a faire chamber where they vsed to make their recreation The first represented on one side diuers persons who caryed their purses to the feete of certaine Prelates and on the other a great ship tossed in a terrible tempest the mast was brokē the shipmen vpon the hatches casting all their merchandise

beginning midle and end of my best prayers and desires And I haue full hope in the goodnes of him Gen. 12.14 that sayd Go out of thy country out of thy kindred and from the house of thy Father that if he giue me the grace to be a good religious man as he hath giuen me the desire he will also yield more comfort to your person and more seruice to your house by my prayers then by my presence I could affoard what estate or calling soeuer I should imbrace And in this respect the prudence and piety of my well beloued brother and my deerest sister shall supply all the want you may haue by my absence For you haue had good triall experience this seauen yeares that this house can well stand without me and that your old age receiueth by their onely assistance obedience and charity all the seruice and succour that a father may expect of his best children And therefore I beseech you my most honourable Father to heare my request blesse my departure saying this he cast himselfe at his feete The good old man began to weepe a good while and being somewhat pacifyed caused his Sonne to rise vp and sayd vnto him with a graue and constant countenance My Sonne Aime-dieu thy words do shew that thou hast pitty and compassion of thy Father and that thou wouldest part from me without violence thou doost well and like a good child for though thou knowest not yet what it is to be a Father thou doo●t notwithstanding wisely coniecture that fatherly loue doth make me feele thy departure and thou doost piously endeauour so much the more the asswage the griefe that groweth in me by nature by how much the more pricking and piercing it is Know thou my Sonne that I haue beene now long time prepared to conforme my selfe to the will of God namely seauen yeares since thou wentst in pilgrimage with thy brother Pauline when togeather with him thou madest thy meaning knowen vnto me I found some difficulty to resolue my selfe but at the last this is my mynd and my resolution I am content glad that the will which God hath giuen thee to do well and serue him with a perfect hart hath continued in thee liuely and constant shall be more glad to see thee happily effectuate the same I thinke I cannot wish a better fortune then to see thee in the seruice of such a Lord and that I cannot haue a desire more worthy and fit for a Father then to desire thy saluation The obligation thou hast to me is small in it selfe and nothing in respect of that thou owest vnto God Of me thou hast the beginning of thy being in the mortall seed of thy mortall body which being well considered is a thing of nothing and should indeed haue beene nothing if the Almighty hand of God had not giuen force to nature to forme thy members within in the wombe of thy mother and all these members formed are but a lumpe of nothing if he had not infused a soule bearing his owne image and likenes to rule therein to quicken and gouerne it and finally that little I haue contributed to thy generatiō cōmeth also frō the liberality of the same Lord so that all being well deducted it is God that hath giuen thee all thou hast and all thou art and from him all thy goods do rise to his goodnes thou must returne duty and homage and to me thou owest nothing but by the law of the same God who commaundeth thee to honour father and mother in consideration of what thou hast receyued of them For the rest thou art all his and if he had taken thee twenty yeares since or before from me or frō this world he had done me no wrong taking but his owne And when these dayes past I had newes of thy death I setled my selfe to a resolution to thanke him for all with the hope I conceyued that he had shewed mercy vnto thy soule and hauing now conserued thee in life and desire to serue him I haue the more to thanke him for the honour he doth me calling thee to the seruice of his Altar An honour much greater then if thou wert called to the court of the greatest Prince in the world The care paine and charges that I haue bestowed to bring thee vp in vertue and to make thee worthy of a noble house and which thou hast learned in schooles in warres in thy peregrinations are also gifts of his holy hand and cānot receiue a richer recompence nor a better fortune nor a more roiall imployment then in the house of God And if I be a true Father I cannot desire thee a better inheritance then that which thy heauenly Father will giue thee if thou seruest him as a faythfull child And if I should pretend to haue some comfort of thy presence I should receiue an vnspeakable comfort to vnderstād that thou wert in the traine and wages of this King placed amongst his domest●call seruants leaning his eares to thy deuotion speaking to him of me and praying to him for me and demaunding of him by thy continual prayers some gift for the saluation of my soule Thou settest before myne eyes for my comfort the assistance of thy brother sister Surely the proofe I haue had of their filiall sincerity obedience hath made me hope wel of thē but know thou that the hope of my repose solace is in God who hath giuen me such children and if he will call them also to his seruice I will then also expect help at his hands in my viduity and solitude and will thinke that I haue receiued at his Maiesties hands a new benefit without fearing that my house and race shall end by them for if it shall once take an end according to the common course of families of this world it cannot be more honourable ended then by this sacred sterility of religious persons vowed vnto God Many Fathers will thinke my iudgment and opinion inhumane but I am content that it is reasonably and magnanimous before God If for my temporall commodities which I may expect of my children I should hinder their vocation from heauen vnto eternall goods which specially I should desire vnto them I should not be a true Father for this should not be to loue my children but to loue my selfe to preferre mine owne temporall ease before their honour and saluation and therefore my Sonne haue no griefe to leaue thy Father to serue God Thou leauest not thy Father neyther but doest obey him If I haue done any thing for thee thanke him who made me thy father beseech him to do me this fauour to end my mortall pilgrimage vnder the safe conduct of his grace I beseech him with all my hart to make thee great in his sight and a worthy seruitour in his holy house and thy fellowes and this is the blssing I giue thee farewell my deare Sonne fare thee well