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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08680	Antidote against purgatory. Or discourse, wherein is shewed that good-workes, and almes-deeds, performed in the name of Christ, are a chiefe meanes for the preuenting, or migatating the torments of purgatory. Written by that vertuous, and rightworthy gentle-woman (the honour of her sexe for learning in England) Ms. Iane Owen, late of God-stow, in Oxfordshire, deceased, and now published after her death	Owen, Jane, of God-stow.	1634 (1634)	STC 18984; ESTC S103135	54,249	307

all likely-hood reason and dispute with thy owne Soule True it is I thanke God of his most infinite and boundles Mercy that as a straying sheep I am at length brought into Christs sheep-fold and I hope to dye through the benefit of our Sauiours passion and of the holy Sacraments his seruant and in state of Grace and finally to enioy the interminable ioyes of Heauen But alas though the guilt of Eternall damnation incurred by my long former Schismaticall lyfe by my many other infinite sinnes as I hope through Gods infinit mercy be remitted yet temporall punishment due for all my former said sinnes in most inexplicable torments of Purgatory doth expect me My poore Soule must continue in those burning Flames how many yeares his diuine Maiesty only knoweth for the expiating of my said sinnes before I can arriue to Heauen When I was in health enioying my temporall state in all fulnes how easily with a voluntary relinquishing of a reasonable part thereof to pious and religious vses could I haue auoyded at least mitigated these now imminent and vnauoydable torments Good god where then were my Wits The very plowman prouides for the tyme of Winter yea the Ant to the which we are sent by Gods word Prou. 6. to be instructed hoords graynes of Corne for his after sustenance And haue I so negligently carryed my selfe as to lay vp before-hand no prouision against this tempestuous and rugged future storme O beast that I was Sweet Iesus how far distant were my former course of lyfe and daily actions from euer thinking of this vnauoydable danger I haue liued many yeares in fulnes of state I haue beene labouring in laying out good summes of Siluer to heap land to land for my Children to inherit I haue liued perhaps in a most profuse or wastfull manner I haue spent to much to gayne the deceitfull fauour of the world in sumptuous apparell exceeding my state in keeping an ouer wastfull house and in ouer great vnnecessary Attendance about me By meanes of some or all of these extrauagant Courses I haue spent much And yet not once did I euer thinke to bestow the twentith part of these superfluous charges to pious vses for the preuenting of those flames which within few dayes perhaps few houres my poore soule must suffer O wretch that I am that haue thus senselesly so neglected this fearefull day Here now my former pleasures and Iollity are come to their last end and period Gods Iustice must and will be satisfyed since nothing defyled and contaminated except all the rust therof be afore fyled away can enter into the Kingdome of Heauen Whither then now being encompassed on ech syde with such thornes of danger anxiety shall I turne my selfe To the world and my former pleasures thereof O God the remembrance of them is most nauseous and distastfull to me since the fruition of them is a great cause of my future paynes To my former greatnes and fulnes of my temporall state O that I had beene so happy as to haue made true benefit in tyme of that Mammon of Iniquity my wastfull spending whereof must giue fuell to that fyer And we are taught that Diuitiae non proderunt in die vltimo Prou. 11. To my Friends Kyndred former familiar acquaintance which I shall leaue behind me in the World Wo is me they are as wholy negligent of their owne soules danger concerning this point as my selfe haue beene How then can I expect them to be solicitous carefull of myne To thee then alone most mercifull and heauenly Father who art Pater misericordiarum 2. Cor. 1. and who dost crowne vs in misericordia miserationibus Psal 102. I do flye Who tookest mercy of the Woman of Canaan of Mary Magdalen of the Publican and of the thiefe hanging vpon the Crosse Betweene the armes of thy ineffable Compassion I cast my selfe Lessen ô Lessen for thy owne honours sake and the bitter passion of thy most Deare Sonne my Sauiour Iesus Christ these temporall paynes which now wante for me Let my present Compunction and Contrition of all my former sinnes through thy mercy Sons pretious death arriue to that ascent and height as that my Sauiour may say to me with the good thiefe to day thou shalt be with me in Paradise So shall thy Mercy thereby ouer-ballance thy Iustice For to speake in the Churches Dialect Plus potes dimittere quàm ego committere and it is my Comfort that I read in holy Writ Suauis est Dominus vniuersis miserationes eius super omnia opera eius Psal 144. Our Lord is sweet to all and his mercy is aboue all his Workes O that I had beene so happy as to haue followed the wholsome aduyce giuen to me by way of Presage in a little Treatise entituled An Antidot against Purgatory I then did read it but with a certaine curiosity as thinking it nothing to belong to me But alas I now find it to be a true Sybill or Prophet of my future Calamitous state Well then seeing my owne hower-glasse is almost run out let me turne my speach to you Deare Catholiks in my health my chiefest Familiars with whom I did most consociate in my former pleasures There is no difference betweene you and me but the tyme present and the tyme to come You all must once be forced to this bed of sorrow and be brought to your last Sicknes To you then and to all others who are negligent in prouiding against this Day I do direct this my charitable Admonition You are yet in health perhaps as improuident in laying vp spirituall riches against this fearefull day as my selfe haue beene O change your Course whiles there is tyme. Let my present state preach to you suffer these my last dying words to giue lyfe to your future Actions since they preach feelingly whose Pulpit is their death-Bed Be not in the number of those sensles creatures who are buryed so deep in earth as that they haue no tast or feeling of things to come Nolunt intelligere vt benè agant Psal 35. Do now therefore Deare Friends do now what you can Now while you haue tyme heap vp togeather that spirituall Wealth which will buy out all ensuing paynes and turne the Current of your former superfluous Charges into the fayre streame of pious workes that so it may affoard you water for the quenchinge of those raging Flames Consider how you shall be conuented before the seuere Iudge frō whom nothing can be hiddē of whō the Prophet saith Tu cognouisti omnia nouissima antiqua Psal 138. He is not appeased with guifts nor admtiteth excuses who out of his boundles mercy remitteth to vs vpon our true repentance the paynes of eternall damnation but yet chastizeth vs with temporall punishment to satisfy his Iustice misericordia veritas obuiauerunt sibi iustitia pax osculati sunt Psal 81. Therefore now begin to spread your selues in workes

and Israell would none of me So I gaue them vp to the hardnes of their hartes Psal 81. O most dreadfull Relegation But admit God will giue you tyme to repent yet the strength of your Armes is to weake to bend that Virgam ferream of Gods Iustice by the which he punisheth with eternall damnation finall Irrepentance and chastizeth sinne if so all such points be not with good workes cleared afore in this world with temporary but most insupportable paynes of Purgatory But yet to make you to cast a more feeling and intense Introuersion vpō your owne most deplorable states Suppose a Natiue Subiect should through some temporall respect and end beare himselfe most traitourously towards his King daily perpetrating some Act of disloyalty and euer banding himselfe openly with other his professed Enemies how could this Man in reason thinke that his submission could euer be sufficient for his after reconciling to his Soueraigne and obtayning Grace and fauour future aduancement to honour Dignity especially if the King were of that seuere disposition as that he was euer accustomed to punish though often in a lower degree then the offence deserued ech act of Disloyalty and Disobedience committed against him And is not the state of a Schismatike far more desperate and dangerous This man committeth spirituall Treason against the Diuine Maiesty by his daily communicating in Prayers and rytes with the Preaching Members of an erroneous Church Gods designed Aduersaries How then can he expect with his so much gauled Conscience to arriue to Heauen without extraordinary acts of Mercy to the poore and other workes of Piety in this world or of suffering most exquisite and invtterable torments in Purgatory Considering God is iust and seuerely chastizeth euery sinne committed against him Behould sayth he by his Prophet Isay I will be reuenged vpon my Enemyes will comfort my selfe in their destruction Isa 1. And againe God shall rayne snares of fyer vpon sinners Brimstone with tempestuous winds shal be the portion of their Cuppe Psal 11. Poore wretch I meane poore Schismatike how wilt thou be able to suffer these insufferable paynes and this for many yeares at the best that is if finally thou dye in true Repentance of thy former Schismaticall Course who with such anxiety toyle impatiēce art accustomed to endure the payne of the tooth-ach or other torment in this world And is the Schismatike so sensible of a litle payne in this life yet hopes he shall not be sensible of infinitly greater paynes in the life to come Therefore now in tyme rayse your selues out of this spirituall Lethargy awake since the longer you continue in this your desperate state you do but all that time admitting you finally dye repentantly euen heap fuell together for the nourishing of your flames in Purgatory Remember the Wisemans saying Eccles 10. Languor prolixior grauat Medicum You cannot but know that during your state in Schisme you are wholy depriued of Gods Grace by which we make clayme to Heauen Gratia Dei vita aeterna Rom. 6. since you wilfully depriue yours selues of the benefit of the Sacraments of Gods Church which Sacraments our Sauiour hath instituted in his Church as the ordinary meanes or Conduits for the deriuing of Gods grace into mans soule Well I will close this point of Schismatikes with this one asseueration To wit that a poore Motley foole be you not offended for I speake the truth to whome God hath afforded only the vse of his fiue Senses is in far more happy state then you Schismatikes are This mā though most despicable in the eye of the world as through want of the vse of Reason cannot merit so he cannot demerit You through your abuse of Reason do not only not merit but in lieu thereof you increase the heape of your sinnes through a daily coaceruation of your Schismaticall Transgressiōs This man is infallibly freed from the paines of Purgatory much more of Hell You are assured to suffer the paines of Purgatory at least God grant through your finall irrepentance not the paynes of Hell Briefly this man through the benefit of his Baptisme hath his Originall sinne cancelled as for Actuall sinne he standes not obnoxious thereto You are indeed freed by your ablution in that sacred Font from originall sinne but then you repeale the worth Dignity therof by your actuall perpetrating of mortall sinne I speake in the sight of God I had rather be one of these poore-rich fooles so to call them for he is rich who is assured of his inheritance of Heauen then to be the greatest and most welthy Schismatike in England being resolued to continue yeare after yeare in this his most wicked course of Schisme Quid proderit homini si vniuersum mundum lucretur anima vero suae detrimentum patiatur what shall it profit a man if he gayne the whole world and loose his owne Soule Matth. 16. Well in this next place to touch a litle vpon such who are at this present actually Catholiks yet haue perseuered many yeares in a Schismaticall state before they were incorporated into the Catholike Church what satisfaction and deeds of extraordinary Mercy to others are they bound to performe to peeuent the paynes of Purgatory or els to endure them for many yeares This partly appeareth from the vgly state so to call it of a Schismatike aboue in part described And if he will not performe such abstersiue Acts of penance in his owne lyfe tyme by contributing shewing pitty and relieuing of others let him take heed he fall not vpon that dreadfull sentence of the Apostle Iac. 2. Iudicium sine misericordia ei qui non fecerit misericordiam Iudgment without mercy is to fall to him who will not practise mercy Alas Are you not men Must you not once dye and how soone God knoweth And are you not then to render a most strict accoūt for your fore-passed lyfetime euen to him of whom it is said for his most exquisit and narrow search into our sinnes Scrutabor Ierusalem in lucernis Sophon 1. I will search the sinnes of Ierusalem with a Candle And will you then be so negligent and careles in preuenting that dreadfull time Since God is no accepter of Persons neither will Riches Worldly pompe nor any other such glorious miseries help a soule ready to depart out of its body for the deliuering it from Purgatory except great Almes-deeds besides other penitentiall works be performed in the life tyme. Well then my poore and deare Catholike who for many yeares through thy wicked dissimulation in matters of Religion hast most highly offended God Imagine thy selfe that at this very instāt thou wert lying vpon thy death bed that bed I say which the Prophet calleth Lectum doloris Psal 40 the bed of griefe worne away with payne and sicknes not expecting to escape but looking euery minute for thy last dissolution How would thy Iudgment be altered and wouldst thou not thus in