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A08047	Of the eternall felicity of the saints fiue bookes. Writen in Latin by the most illustrious Cardinall Bellarmine, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by A.B. Permissu superiorum.; De æterna felicitate sanctorum. English	Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.; Everard, Thomas, 1560-1633.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621. De gemitu columbae English. Selections. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 1841; ESTC S113735	165,177	472

the accomplishing of Signes and miracles Those Powers who haue the commandement and domination of the very powers of the vncleane Spirits Those Principalities who haue a soueraignty ouer the Kings and Princes of this world Those Archangells which are Adiutors and Assistors of the Prelates of the Church Lastly those Angells whose incumbency and charge is of euery particular man whiles he liueth hereupon the Earth Neither are these seuerall Points signified only by the seuerall Names of the Angels but for more proofe therof these very Names are certaine Ensignes or Images of Gods Omnipotency or mirrours wherein we may glasse his Puissance For example The Seraphims as by a certaine marke Image or glasse doe represent the infinit Charity of God who moued only by the force of loue did create the Angels themselues men and all other things and being created doth conserue them The Cherubims by the like Standard Image or glasse doe proclaime and shew the infinite wisdom of God who hath ordained all things in number weight and measure The Thrones doe in like manner demonstrate as it were in a perfect Image that secure Rest which God sitting in his Throne doth enioy Who not being moued moueth and worketh all things and resting in a continuall tranquillity doth dispose and gouerne all things Dominations doe euen preach that it is God who truly and properly hath the full domination and gouerment ouer all Creatures since it is in his power alone eyther to conserue all things or else to annihilate and reduce them to nothing The Vertues also doe signify that it is God alone who worketh mirabilia magna great and stupendious wonders and who hath reserued only to himselfe the power to renew or multiply at his pleasure such prodigious matters The Powers by their name doe figure out how God is absolutely and truly Potent to whom nothing is impossible since in him alone all true Power doth reside The Principalities doe import by their Enseigne that God is the Prince of all Kings of the Earth the King of Kings and the Lord of all those who row at the oare of gouerment The Archangells signify that God is the true and supreme Prelate or President of all Churches Briefely the Angells doe manifest that God is the true Father of Orphanes And that although he hath bequeathed Angells as Guardians to euery particular man yet that himselfe is present to euery man keepeth euery man and protecteth euery Man For that same Prophet who hath savd He that giuen his Angels charge of thee that they keep thee in all thy wayes doth also introduce God thus speaking in the same place VVith him I am in tribulation I will deliuer him I will glorify him Psal 90. And our Lord who sa●d Matt 18. Their Angels in Heauen alwayes do see the face of my Father who is in Heauen sayd also Matt. 10. Are not two sparrows sould for a farthing and not one of them shall fall vpon the ground without your father But the very hayres of your head are all numbred feare not therefore better are you then many sparrowes And thus much of those few things we know touching the Angels If it please the ●eader he may peruse S. Bernard frō whome I haue borrowed these few Points l. 5. de consider To these nyne Orders of Angels doth answere so great a multitude of Holy Men as that no man as we haue proued out of the Apocalyps is able to number them which multitude are also reduced to nyne Orders For some are Patriarchs some Prophets some Apostles Others Pastours and Doctours Others Priests and Leuites Others Monks and Hermites To conclude Others are holy Women Virgins Widowes or those who haue continued till death in coniugall State of Mariage And now ô Christian Soule I heere demaund of thee how an ineffable Felicity shall it be to interleague for all eternity with such holy Angels and Saints S. Ierome in his Epistle to Paulinus writeth that many are accustomed to trauayle into other forrayne Prouinces to discourse with People of other Nations as also to passe the very Seas to the end they might see and conuerse with such as were reputed most famous for learning and erudition It is also recorded 3. Reg 10. how the Queene of Saba came from the furthest parts of the Earth to Salomon for the so great opinion she had conceaued of his Wisdome To one Antony by profession of lyfe a poore despicable Hermite men of all parts euen flocked by reason of the report of his ●anctity yea Emperours themselues were ambitious of his friendship and amity What solace then wil● it be no● only to see so great a confluence of Angels and most holy Men but also dayly to conuerse and consociate with them in most strict loue and participation of their felicity If but one Angell should exhibite himselfe in his full splendour to our sight now in our exile who would not most willingly hasten to see him What then will it be to behould all the Angels togeather at one sight And if any of the Prophets Apostles or Doctours of the Church should now descend from Heauen with what a thirstines of attention would we euen drinke vp his words and speaches But in the Kingdome of heauen it shal be lawfull for vs to see and heare not only one but all the Prophets all the Apostles all the Doctours and to haue dayly intercourse and familiarity with them How much doth one Sunne exhilerate reioyce the whole Earth What then will so many innumerable Sunnes doe being liuing Sunnes vnderstanding Sunnes and such as do make a continuall Iubiley in the Kingdome of God I will euen vnbreast my selfe and speake what I thinke to wit the consideration of this inward amity and familiarity with the Angels and holy Men of which not any is foolish not any wicked but all most good and most wise is so pleasing and preuayling with me as that it alone would seeme a most great happinesse and for the obtaining only thereof I would most willingly abandone and shake hands for euer with all the comforts and delights of this world Of the true Monarchicall forme of the Kingdome of God CHAP. III. THe third reason why that Celestiall habitation is called a Kingdome is because in that Place is found the perfect forme of Gouerment This is the difference betweene a Kingdome a Cōmonwealth whether the Cōmonwealth consist of certaine and eminent men or of the Communalty and more vulgar sort To wit that in a Kingdome all supreme Soueraignty is inuested in onely one whereas in a Commonwealth it is shared and deuided among many In these temporall Kingdoms of men the supreme power doth not reside truly and properly in one man For it may be that a King without either the counsell or consent of others may giue commandement that such or such a thing shal be done but yet his directions cannot be put in execution except his Subiects doe affoard their concurrency aide And

preserued no tongue is able to expresse with what radiant splendour light those most holy impressions shall shyne seing all the glory of Saints compared to the Glory of Christ is lesse then the Beauty of the starrs with reference to the Beauty of the sunne But now what shall I speake of the Pleasures which the Eyes of the Blessed shall take in behoulding that most spacious and large City which Tobias and S. Iohn as aboue we haue proued as not hauing Words worthy inough to set out and proclaime its beauty said That it was all made of gould and garnished with rich Iewels Margarites and other precious stones Tob. 13. Apoc. 21. What lastly may I say of the New Heauen and the New Earth the which the Holy Scriptures do promise to vs after the day of Iudgment and of the renouation of all things into a better state For these things as they are vnknowne to vs so they shall delight the Eyes of the Blessed with a new and admirable ioy when their Beauty shall begin to be seene Of the Ioy of the Eares CHAP. VI. THat the sense of Hearing and the Instruments of speach shal be in the Kingdome of Heauen no man may doubt For the Bodies of the Blessed shal be true and liuing Bodies and in euery part perfect And such was the Body of Christ after his Resurrection as all the Apostles many disciples and others haue testified For they did heare him speake and he did answere to their demaunds And S. Paul himself did heare Christ speaking to him from Heauen he answered to Christ hearing him That there shal be Canticles and songs and chiefly of that Word Alleluia the aforesaid Toby and S. Iohn do witnes From hence then we may gather that in that Heauenly City there shall not be wanting many most sweet Sonnets with the which God may be praysed and the Blessed eares of Holy men may be wonderfully delighted And if these things ought to be performed in proportion and measure thē doubtlesly those songs ought to be the more sweet harmonious by how much the singers shal be more skilfull and he that is praysed more noble and sublime the place where the Musicke is made more high and the Company or presence of the Auditours more intelligent and in greater number What consolation therefore will it be in that most high peace and in the concord of soules and in that ardour and heate of Charity towards their supreme Benefactour to heare the most cleare voyces of those which shall sing Alleluia If S. Francis as S. Bonauenture hath left written was so rapt and moued at the sound of a Citherne played vpon but a very short tyme by an Angell as that he thought himselfe to haue beene in a new World what delights then shall our Eares enioy when millions of musitians with most concordant and sweet voyces shall with full accord and consent prayse God and other Millions with like melody and feruour shall many tymes repeate the said Prayses And perhaps in that Heauenly Citty not only the prayses of God shal be celebrated with Musicall voyces but also the Triumphs of Martyrs the Honour of Confessours the Glory of Virgins and the victories of all the Saints against the Deuill shal be extolled with Celestiall Musicke For we thus read Eccl. 31. Who is proued therein and perfect shall haue eternall Glory He that could transgresse and hath not transgressed and do Euill and hath not done it therfore are his good things established in our Lord and all the Church of Saints shal declare his Almes Although this may be vnderstood of the prayses of mortall men in the militāt Church here vpon Earth yet withall it may be meant of the immortall Citizens and of the triumphant Church in Heauen Since there the Saints shall haue truly eternall glory and that is truly and properly the Church of Saints And whereas our Lord in the Gospell sayth that the faythfull and prudent seruants shal be praysed of God in the Heauenly Kingdome Matth. 28. Well farre thee good and faythfull seruant because thou hast beene faythfull ouer a few things I will place thee ouer many things Enter into the ioy of thy Lord Why may we not thinke that those words of our Lord shal be celebrated with the singing of the whole Celestiall Court shall againe and againe be most sweetly repeated Certainly the Catholike Church doubted not thus to speake of S. Martin Martinus hic pauper modicus diues Caelum ingreditur hymnis caelestibus honoratur Martin being but poore and temperate did enter into Heauen rich and is honored with Celestiall Hymnes To conclude S. Austin affirmeth the same point in expresse Words l. 22. de Ciu. c. 30. saying There shal be true glory where no man shal be praysed through the errour or adulation of the Prayser True Honour which shall not be conferred vpon any not worthy Neither shall any vnworthy seeke after that Honour where none but he that is worthy shall be permitted to be O therefore thrice Happy Soules who in that place where all flattery is banished and exiled and no lye is found to be shall heare their owne Prayses and Trophees to be celebrated without danger of Pryde but not without increase of ioy and comfort Of the Ioy of the sense of smelling CHAP. VII TOuching the other senses litle is to be said not in that they want their great Pleasures but because what Pleasures those shal be the Holy Scripture hath not declared Neuerthelesse this is euident to vs that many Bodies of Holy Saints haue after their deaths braathed out a most sweet Odour This S. Ierome testifieth of the Body of S. Hilarion For he affirmeth that ten Months after the Body was interred it was found entyre as if it were then liuing and did cast from it such a fragrant smel as if it had beene imbalmed with sweet oyntments The like doth S. Gregory witnes of the body of S. Seruulus the Palsey-man His words are these l. 4. Dial. c. 14. The soule departing such a fragrancy of smell did rise as that all there present were replenished with incredible sweetnes And a litle after Till the Body was buried the sweetnes of that smell did not depart from their Noses Neither are there wanting many other such like Examples both of former later tymes from all which we may gather that if the Bodies of the dead Saints after the Soule is glorifyed do send forth such sweet smells then much more the liuing and glorifyed Bodies of the saints shall breath forth a most delicious and sweet Odour I will adioyne hereto that which the said S. Gregory relateth of the liuing and most glorious Body of our Sauiour Thus he writeth lib. 4. c. 16. hom 38. sup Euang. Tarsilla the Virgin then looking vp sow Iesus comming and suddenly there was as it were sprinkled such a fragrancy of a wounderful Odour as that the sweetnes therof did assure all that

the Deuill had afore violently taken from vs not that himselfe might enioy it but only that we might be depriued of it For to this end the Deuill seduced Eue and by her he caused Adam to sinne that so they might be Consorts and fellowes in punishment Christ therefore is that prudent Merchant Matth. 13. who gaue all his goods that he might buy this precious Margarite by the which he clearely inough did teach that the Kingdome of Heauen is signified for it is he of whom the Apostle speaketh when he sayth 1. Cor. 6. You are brought with a great Pryce And the Apostle S. Peter Not with corruptible things gould or siluer are you redeemed but with the precious bloud as it were of an immaculate and vnspotted Lambe Christ 1. Pet. 1. And againe They deny him that bought them the Lord. 2. Pet. 2. For Christ at one and the same tyme did buy Paradise for vs and did buy vs. For we before were made Captiues and had lost Paradise by sinne But Christ redeeming vs from sinne and from the Captiuity of the Deuill did withall adopt vs the Sonnes and heyres of God and in so doing did restore Paradise vnto vs. From hence therefore the greatnes and vvorth of the Celestiall Paradise may be conceaued to wit that in the Wisdome of God it is thought to be vvorthy of an infinite Pryce If heere among men a prudent rich merchant should be content to giue all his vvealth for the buying of a precious Pearle certainly no man vvould once doubt but that the Ievvell vvere of so inestimable Worth and valew as that it could hardly fynd a sufficient pryce Of what account and estimation then if vve haue any sparke of true iudgment ought the Possession of the Kingdome of Heauen seeme to vs to be the vvhich the VVisdome of God the VVord Incarnate vvith all his labours toyles and dolours for the space of thirty three yeares and lastly vvith his owne bloud and most precious death did purchase and buy VVe are vvholy stupid yea mad if vve vvill sell our interest and title of that thing for a base and most vile price of temporall Good vvhich Christ our Lord rated at an infinite Pryce and valevv But vvhat Not only Christ vvas content to buy Paradise with the effusion of his owne bloud but all Saints being herein taught by him did most willingly expose whatsoeuer they had with all their force strength for the gayning of the said Paradise Yea the Blessed Apostle thus bursteth out in words Rom. 8. The Passions of this tyme are not worthy of the glory to come that shal be reuealed to vs. And if any of the Martyrs were demanded whether they did willingly buy Paradise vvith such Torments as also if the Holy Confessours were questioned whether they did in like sort promptly and readily buy Paradise with their so many Watchings Fasts Prayers Almes deedes and Persecutions no doubt they would all cry out in one voyce with the Apostle The Passions and sufferings of this tyme are not worthy of the glory to come which shal be reuealed to vs. For although the Bloud of Christ was not only a worthy price of Paradise for vs but also as I may speake more then a worthy Pryce as being supereminent and exceeding the dignity of the thing which was bought neuerthelesse Christs good pleasure was that we also should buy Paradise thereby the more to honour and exalt vs. The Glory of man is great in that he obtayneth Paradise not only from the merits of Christ but also from his owne merits streaming from the Vertue and force of Christ his merits And if a man will not when it is in his povver do good and suffer euill for the buying of Paradise he is worthily expelled from the buying of Christ as an euill and slouthfull seruant as Christ himselfe admonisheth in the Parable of the Talents Matth. 25. and the Apostle vehemently counselleth Rom. 8. when he sayth Yf sonnes Heyres also Heyres truly of God and Coheyres of Christ yet if we suffer with him that we may be also glorified with him And to preuent that whereas some men may perhaps complayne they haue not a sufficient Pryce for the buying of Paradise let such take notice that nothing more is asked of vs here but what our selues haue For thus S. Austin speaketh The kingdome of God is worth so much as thou hast Which point the same Father proueth from examples of diuine Scripture thus he writing tract in Psal 49. Quid tam vile c. What is so vile what is so terrene and earthly as to breake and giue a peece of bread to the Hungry So much the kingdome of Heauen is worth For it is written Possesse the kingdome prepared for you for I was hungry and you gaue me bread The VVidow did buy it with two mytes Peter bought Paradise by leauing his nets and Zacheus by giuing the halfe of his Patrimony Thus far S. Austin discourseth To whom Venerable Bede is heerein agreable when he sayth that he who hath nothing besides himselfe yet in giuing himselfe he buieth Heauen His words are these Serm. 19. de Sanctis Regnum caeleste c. The kingdome of heauen requireth no other price then thy selfe Tantum valet quantum es tu te da habebis illud Certainly Lazarus the beggar had nothing which he could giue but only his patience in suffering his griefes and paynes and yet he was carryed by the Angells into the bosome of Abraham And the good thiefe had nothing in this World that was his but only a free ready voyce with vvhich he cryed out Remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdome and yet he presently did heare To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise O most truly great liberality of God! O ineffable felicity of man who can so easily make bargaine as it were with his Lord for the price of a thing most precious aboue all other things Dost thou O man couet of God and thirst after the enioying of Paradise the height of all delights pleasures Giue thy selfe in pryce thou shalt obtaine it But what is the meaning of these Words Giue thy selfe To wit Loue God from the depth of thy hart Humble thy selfe vnder his potent mighty hand Prayse him at all tymes Submit thy selfe with all promptitude of mind to his will whether it shal be his pleasure that thou shalt be rich or poore glorious or ignoble finally in Health or in sicknes for his Will in euery thing is good and all his Iudgments are iust Say to God I am thyne dispose of me according to thy best pleasure and Will I do not resist I do not reclayme I do not with-draw my selfe out of thy iurisdiction My Hart is prepared and ready O my God my hart is prepared Let not my VVill but thy VVill be done This Holocaust of Obedience did Christ daily offer vp to his Father as himselfe doth testify vvhen he