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A06472 The glory of their times. Or The liues of ye primitiue fathers Co[n]tayning their chiefest actions, workes, sentences, and deaths. Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver. 1640 (1640) STC 16943; ESTC S108921 238,060 544

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appeared as it were a bright fire entring into his mouth and his face presently was as white as snow which so amazed Paulinus that hee could not write what came from Him the Captaine Stilicho had a servant possessed and Saint Ambrose healed him but hee after writ many false things and Stilicho should have punished him Ambrose hearing of it ●ad the servant to bee brought to him to whom Saint Ambrose said he should be delivered to Satan which came to passe immediatly Hee healed likewise Nicetius of the pain of his feet After he had ordained one Priest of Ticinum he fell sick and Stilicho hearing said That all Italie would be ruined when so pious a man died Foure Deacons in his sicknesse discoursing softly who should succeed him one answered Symplicianus and Ambrose by inspiration answered presently Senex sed bonus that is He is an old man but a good man at which they were affrighted which came to passe for Symplicianus did succeed him and Venerius succeeded Symplicianus Foelix governed the Church at Bononia Castus and Polemius bred under Saint Ambrose continued Deacons in Millaine before hee died hee was instant in prayer those that stood by heard him pray with his hands lifted up and so he departed this life and was buried in a Church called by his name with the confluence of abundance of people of all sorts and ages hee was another Elias and feared not to speak the truth before Kings and Emperours so that hee got the title Irrefragabilis Ecclesiae Doctor and is reputed amongst the most famous Fathers of the Latin Church Baronius and divers others have writ his life Saint Augustine prayseth Him highly so doe all grave Historians His Works that follow will prayse him in the gates Hee flourished under Gr●tianus and Theodosius Emperours and died the third yeere after Theodosius which as Baronius says was in the yeere of our Lord three hundred ninety seven Sentences out of Saint Ambrose Against covetous desires and pride Men that are carried away with insatiable covetousnesse are as it were hurried to Hell with unbridled and untamed Horses What wealth or faculties hadst thou oh man at thy first entrance into the World what shalt thou have at thy departure why doest thou therefore torment thy selfe Against neglect of grace Gold is offered to thee thou doest not say I will come tomorrow and take it but art glad of present possession thou shunnest delayes and puttest aside all excuses but salvation is promised offered to our souls and few men haste to obtain it Confession of sins To accuse our selves is to acquit our selves he that confesseth his sins acknowledgeth Gods righteousnesse Confession takes off Gods anger Against anger Anger is the fire-brand of all evill resist it if you can if not keepe thy place the best station is thy patience Liberalitie It is not to be so much enquired how much thou givest but with what heart that is not liberality when thou takest by oppression from one and givest it to another Of Virgins The victorie of Virgins exceeds that of Angels for they live out of the flesh these live in it Ambros de officiis Victorie is most glorious after a combat difficult and laborious The circle of goodnesse is to use Justice in seeking wisdome in inventing fortitude in prosecuting and temperance in possessing that there may be Justice in the affection wisdome in the understanding fortitude in effecting and temperance in using We have all things in Christ and Christ is all in us If thou desirest to be cured of the wounds of sinne hee is thy Physician if thou art in a hot Fever of worldly affections hee is thy cooling Fountaine if thou art loaden with iniquitie he is thy Justice in necessity he is thy helper if thou fearest death hee is thy life if thou would shun darknesse he is thy light if thou seekest Heaven hee is the way if thou desirest spirituall food he is thy heavenly Manna Selfe accusation for sinne is the beginning of Justification for hee that declareth his owne transgression glorifieth Gods Justice by his confession Ambros. super Beati immaculati A cleere conscience should not regard slanderous speeches nor thinke that they have more power to condemne him than his owne conscience hath to cleere him He that giveth counsell to another should be exemplary in good works in learning in integritie in gravity that his speech may be wholsome and irreprehensible his counsell profitable his life honest and his opinion gracious Comfort should be given with milde gentlenesse not with rugged harshnesse that so it may rather pacifie sorrow and mitigate the fury of passion than stirre up in the minde any commotion Christ took upon him the nature of man that he might confirme man Again Christ suffered himself to be overcome that hee might overcome by his sufferings Againe saith this Father wee owe God all that we have for our creation O then what do we owe him for our preservation Again he saith what have wee that we have not received yes saith hee sins of all sorts and degrees His Works in the Pari●ian Edition 1549 are by Cardinall Bellarmine registred In the reading whereof you shall finde no lesse judgement then eloquence well beseeming such a Father Tome 1. 1 Of Offices 3 books 2 Of Virgins three books 3 Of the Institution of Virgins one book 4 To a devout Virgin one book 5 To a falne Virgin one book 6 Of Widdowes one book 7 Of Penitence two books 8 Exhortation to penitence one book 9 Of forsaking the World one book 10 Of the good of Death one book Bellarmine takes that book to a falne Virgin not to be St. Ambroses Tome 2. 1 Of the calling of the Gentiles two books 2 Of Faith to Gratianus five books 3 Of the Holy Ghost three books 4 Of Faith against the Arrians one book 5 Of the Incarnation one book 6 Of the Mystery of the Pasche one book Bellarmine allows not that of the calling of the Gentiles to be this Fathers Tome 3. 1 A Funerall Oration at the death of Valentinian 2 Another on Satyrus 3 Of the Resurrection 4 On the death of Theodosius 5 Ten books of Epistles 6 Sermons to the people 92. Bellarmine doubts some Epistles to be his and some Sermons Tome 4. 1 His Exameron six books 2 Of Paradise one book 3 Of Cain and Abel two books 4 Of Noe one book 5 Of Abraham two books 6 Of Isaac and the soule one book 7 Of Jaacob and a blessed life two books 8 Of Joseph one book 9 Of the blessings of the Patriarchs 1 book 10 Of Naboth one book 11 Of Eliah and fasting 12 books 12 Of Tobiah one book 13 Of Job and David three books 14 Of Davids Apologie one book 15 Of Solomon one book 16 Of Mysteries one book 17 Of the Sacraments six books 18 Of the dignitie of the Priesthood one book 19 Prayers before Divine Service 1 book 20
the one side and the paines of hell on the other side and that he must of necessity bee cast upon one of them that he had rather bee thrust into hell without sinne where the drowned are tormented than goe to heaven cloathed with sinne where the Saints onely enjoy everlasting life Idem de Venatione Diaboli Cap. 183. The Devill goes out every day a hunting First he seizeth on them that never sorow for their sinne but he begins to let them goe that he perceiveth to be cast downe in the sight of their offences yet there 's a third sort that upon repentance are healed from their sinnes those hee looseth altogether Let the first sort lament and mourne let the second grieve on still but let the third rejoyce for evermore Id. de quadrato lapide Cap. 173. de similitud Every foure square stone hath sixe equall sides let it fall upon which it can it lyes fast so must a just man persist in his integrity for hee hath sixe sides to fall upon too Prosperity Adversity Liberty Subjection Private and publicke employment Now upon which of these soever the Dye turnes let him stand fast and immoveable maugre the Devill and all his opposition Id. de Iustitia Justice is the freedome of minde giving to every one his due To betters reverence to equalls love to inferiours instruction to God obedience to it selfe sanctity to enemies patience and to the poore workes of compassion Such was the detestation which this good man had of sinne that hee would use to say If I could see the horror of sin and the dolour of hell both with my bodily eyes before mee and must of necessity passe through one of them I would rather chuse Hell than sinne Another saying of his was I had rather enter Hell being free from sinne if it were possible than reigne in Heaven with the pollution of sinne upon me Likewise humane frailty made this good man thus to crye out O durus casus Heu quid perdidit homo quid invenit perdidit beatitudinem ad quam factus est invenit mortem ad quam factus non est O hard hap alas what did man lose what did he find He lost the blessednesse to which he was made and found death to which he was not made His Workes are thus registred by Cardinall Bellarmine Three Bookes 1 Of Truth 2 Of Free-will 3 Of the fall of the Devill then 3 more of 1 Grammar and prose 2 Enarrations on St. Matthew Explanations on some of the Evangelists Vpon the Canticles Tome 2. Vpon all the Epistles of St. Paul On the Apocalypse Tome 3. Of the contempt of the World Hymnes 4 Soliloquies 5 For an unwise man 6 Against an unwise man 7 Of the Incarnation 8 Why God was made man 9 Of the Virgins Conception 10 Of the Sacrament 11 Annotations on the same 11 Of the proceeding of H. G. 12 Of Similitudes 13 Of Gods will 14 Of the concord of Praescience and Predestination 15 Of mans misery 16 Of members and actions attributed to God 17 Of the measuring the Crosse. 18 Of Meditations 19 A meditation of our Redemption 20 Of the Passion 21 Pricks of divine Love 22 Homilies on Saint Luke 23 Of the Virgin Maries excellence 24 Of the Image of the World 25 Dialogues containing the summe of Christian Religion Tome 4. Divers Epistles in three bookes An. Christi 1119. Sanctus Rupertus RVPERTVS HE that reades this mans life must expect that nor my pen nor any other can compleatly in each particular act fully delineate it but yet as Authours have publikely blazoned his worth it hath beene my care to register it in our native tongue and I hop● not in vaine for good examples prevaile much and are to an ingenuous spirit as a whetstone or patterne to imitate To begin therefore with his parents He was borne in Germany as Trithemius and Cocleius doe testifie but they were not so able for wealth as vertue they had an especiall care that this their sonne should be vertuously educated our birth-places nor our parents cannot diminish the worth that wee practise the house is never the worse for being little in Israel the Family disparages not so there be a David in it wee are not bound to answer for other mens faults neither is it to be concluded because our Fathers have halted that therefore wee should be lame Vertue deserves commendation as well in the Cottage as in the Court and many times is not accommodated with the affluence of worldly endowments The greatest Rivers flow from Springs and the Tree is not to be disliked because it is low if the fruit be good it makes not whither it grows on an Hill or a Valley According to that of Ausonius Non obstare locum cum valet ingenium Question not the Tree When the minde you good doe see This Rupertus was in his youth brought up in all offices of pietie and duty in the Monastery of Leige under the tuition of Heribrandus an upright and prudent man of whom hee acquired the principles of those Arts that were fitting his age and it seems his Tutor did not neglect his charge but finding him to be an ingenuous youth mildly imposed some duties of Religion upon him which he performed as carefully and reverently an admirable patterne the onely way to have men prove absolute is to have them well at first seasoned seldome fals that fruit by stormes which is cherished by a milde spring There are few that faile in age whose youth have been accustomed and inured to pious performances being by this good Instrument so fitted now hee proceeds to higher actions hee made godlinesse the very food of his soule and profited in the practice of it daily more and more so that following that he gained knowledge and reputation as it is said I bone quò virtus tua te vocat I pede fausto Grandia laturus meritorum praemia That is Proceed ô Goodman with an happy pace In tracks of vertue take th' rewards with grace He was not carelesse of any kinde of Learning that might conduce to Religion so was hee admirable for divine poetry as may appeare by his expressions of the Holy Ghost in excellent Verse as also the life of Saint Augustine and Odolia a Virgin as also his Hymnes upon Severus the Confessor so likewise hee alwayes thought upon that of Saint Paul give attendance to reading Did hee not also restore the Greeke Tongue at this time almost decayed in Italy nay did he not fairly recover them from their Barbarismes that were then encroaching upon the Latine so that it appeares this Rupertus was not onely famous for Poetry and the Greek tongue but also for Oratory in the Latin phrase a rare thing living in those barbarous times to restore Languages to their Genuine beauty And if I should but a little digresse it would not be an errour a little to insist upon the praise of Divine Poetry if there were nothing