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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33180	To Catholiko Stillingfleeton, or, An account given to a Catholick friend, of Dr. Stillingfleets late book against the Roman Church together with a short postil upon his text, in three letters / by I. V. C.	J. V. C. (John Vincent Canes), d. 1672.	1672 (1672)	Wing C433; ESTC R21623	122,544	282

ages states and conditions of men wherein they profitted some of them unto admirable sanctity and glory and even the worst and veriest truant among them was yet better than the wide world would have made him The one order of St. Bennet received into it twenty Emperours and ten Empresses forty seven Kings and above fifty Queens twenty Sons of Emperours and forty eight Sons of Kings about a hundred young Ladies daughters to Kings and Emperours a hundred other Princes and Princesses Dukes and Dutchesses Marquesses Earls and Countesses well near two hundred fifteen Bishops who left their Miters to live in that happy retired life and others of the inferiour Gentry innumerable And thus hath this holy order continued thus lived and flourished now a thousand Years in the Christian world the resting place of the rich and refuge of the poor So that all people who lived in those good daies and beheld religious orders had a contrary judgment of them unto Dr. Stillingfleet who was born but yesterday and never saw any Fifthly the eminence of learning in all these orders and the books of all sorts and kinds that have issued from them who is able to recount them No sort of knowledg no kind of literature has escaped them The one order of St. Bennet has brought forth fifteen thousand seven hundred Monks eminent writers and compilers of books The Academies were all antiently in their Monasteries At one Abbey in France called Fleury were brought up at once four thousand Students Their Rabanus set up the School of Germany Their Alcuinus founded the University of Paris Their Bede advanced our Oxford University first renewed by Theodore and Adrian benedictin Monks also Their Dionysius Exiguus perfected the Ecclesiastical computation Their Guido made the scale of Musick Their Silverster invented the Organ Theirs were Anselmus Ildephonsus Bernardus and Rupertus the four Marian Doctours and what not Sixthly if we please to consider the multitudes of glorious men in these five orders who had received a double portion of their Fathers spirit as Elizeus is said to have got of Elias above other Sons of the Prophets who wi●l then be able to recount the eminent Saints Confessours Martyrs Aposties and Converters of Countries that have issued out of these divine Sanctuaries The one order of St. Bennet has brought forth forty thousand blessed Confessours above three thousand Martyrs Missioners and Apostles so many and powerful that they have converted no less than thirty Provinces unto Christian faith St. Bennet himself converted Campania which had remained Pagan even to his daies St. Leander part of Spain St. Boniface and his companions much of Germany and Hassia St. Amand Willebrord Wilfred Switbert with their fellow Monks Belgium Holland Friseland and South Saxony St. Willehade Dacia Gothland and Groonland St. Kilian and Lambert the Taxandrians and other Germans St Lugdurus Adalbertus and other Monks out of the Monastery of Corbey Pannonia Sarmatia Poland and Muscovy St. Steven Suec●a St. Bruno Lituania St. Albo Gascony another St. Boniface Sclavonia St. Otho Pomerania St. Winkelin Wandalia and St. Austin with his good Monks sent hither by St. Gregory made all our England Christian wherein we now l●ve For though our learned and reverend Antiquary Mr. Broughton doth think that St. Austin and his holy Monks brought hither with them the rule of St. Gregory distinct from that of St. Bennet yet that is of small concernment to my purpose now in hand especially since that rule and all the former rules in our Britany did unite at last in St. Bennets rule as lesser lights in the body of the Sun And should I mention the holy Confessors learned Writers valiant Martyrs and vigorous Apostles all those glorious men in the orders of St. Francis St. Dominick St. Bruno and other such like founders bright stars now out of our sight yet shining in a higher heaven the day would fall me My voyage is now bent another way And therefore great Servants of God spirits inkindled from heaven brave vertuous hearts raised up even in your mortal pilgrimage above mortality it self let it suffice I love you Time will bring forth a better Pen to recount your names in a character more worthy of you than mine is I must go hence By this little Sir we may discern if the God of this world hath not utterly blinded our eyes that these holy orders were founded in the wisdom of God and power of God and not in Stillingfleetisme For counsels of men come to nought but what is of God is lasting as wise Gamaliel discoursed in a councel of the Jewes The order of St. Dominick St. Bruno Romwall and St. Francis have been six hundred years in the Christian world St. Bennet almost twice as long and yet live What is of God is powerful of it self without any worldly helps of force or subtilty What is of God is servent and vigorous What is of God however it may seem distastful at the first becomes dayly more delectable attractive and pleasing What is of God is zealous of God loves and bends towards God thinks nothing hard nothing tedious nothing heavy that is undertaken for Gods cause All time is well spent in his service all difficulties easy all labour pleasant all mortification comfortable all our members too few for his imployment all the blood in our vains too little to shed for his love And all this fervour and constancy love of God and amiableness to men zeal and vigour purity and perseverance were looked upon and approved and imitated to their power by such as lived here in England in the days of holy Catholick religion with all heavenly comfort however now out of sight it be all out of mind too so much out of mind that Dr. Stillingfleet calling it fanaticisme expects an applause for his labour The grand Turk a great enemy of Christians when he looked upon poor humble St. Francis who having come a long journey unto his conversion made his way unto him by the very majesty of his countenance and power of GOD that went along with him through all his Guard and Nobility about him the grand Seigneur had so great a reverence for the man that dismissing all that were about him he took him into his closet and there converst with him many hours in private several times And thence at last he dismist him with so much peace and honour as if he had been not a man but an Angel of God rather appearing upon earth And this thing was never done to any in that Court either before that time or since But the doctour never saw either St. Francis or St. Dominick St. Bruno or St. Bennet or any of their orders and therfore speaks of things utterly unknown to him according to the malice of his own heart be the truth what it will It was once a Christian lesson in England that we should speak of the dead nothing but good and of the living nothing but truth But