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A25370	The English nvnne being a treatise wherein (by way of dialogue) the author endeauoureth to draw yong & vnmarried Catholike gentlewomen to imbrace a votary and religious life / written by N.N. Hereunto is annexed a short discourse (by way of conclusion) to the abbesses and religious women of all the English monasteries in the Low-countreys and France.	Anderton, Lawrence.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3109; ESTC R29040	86,325	178

Virgins seeing that point concerneth me more neerely in regard of my allready begun Course And it also will giue I thinke better satisfaction to my sister Cosmophila For what you haue aboue said of the first Institution of a religious lyfe may perhaps by her not be extended to women but to strayned only to men Confessarius I will condescend to your words First then we find that S. Ignatius the martyr who was the Apostles Scholler affirmeth Colledges of Virgins and saluteth them in his f Epistles Yea some of our Aduersaries the Protestants do thus confesse of this point In the flower of the Church meaning in the beginning of the primitiue Church there were g Virgins that professed perpetuall Chastity And which is more our learned Aduersaries the Century writers I meane all being eminent Protestants euen out of the rack of Truth confesse that in Constantines time being the first Christian Emperour there were Monasteries h of Virgins That there i then was a woman Gouernesse of professed Virgins And furthermore the said Protestants make particular mention of the Veyle k of the Virgins Of their religious l habit and particularly of their Consecration m and all this in the tyme of Constantine who liued three hundred yeares after Christ To conclude this point the Antiquity of Virgin Nunnes is much celebrated by Ioninian the third Emperour after Constantine and he had them in such Honour as that he published an Edict That who n should seeke not only to violate but euen to marry a professed Nunne should loose his life Thus much of this point Caelia I thanke you Good Father for thus your discoursing For I take great pleasure to heare that this Religious Course by me begun is warranted with such great Antiquity and particularly in vs Women And now Sister Cosmophila you may see that this my Chosen Course of lyfe is no late Innouation or out an humane inuention as some Enemyes thereto are not ashamed to affirme Cosmophila I agree with you Good sister in iudgment herein But Reuerend Good Syr seeing this Religious Course of life hath continued so many hundred yeares as that no more touching this point can be expected I would gladly know what kind of men and especially of women haue imbraced this course whether they haue beene but of the meaner sort only or of more noble and worthy Persons since this later degree of persons if so you can proue it will giue a great lustre and glory to a Religious life For I obserue that diuers of high place ranke in these dayes do euen contemne that Course holding it as sorting only to the meanor condition and sor● of Men of Women Abbesse You shall giue me leaue Good Cosmophila to take this taske touching this your lost question or demand from Father Confessarius with his good leaue and to impose it vpon my selfe to relate what I haue read as concerning this point in spirituall bookes written of this subiect in our owne tongue I am the more bould herein because many great examples not only of Men out euen of women imbracing this state of life may be here alledged And there Examples of women do more neerely concerne v● Women and therefore may with good shew of Reason be deliuered by a woman Therefore I will most briefly begin with men but will chiefly rest in the Presidents of Women First then we find to insist somewhat in fortaine Princes Lothaerius a Westerne Emperour about the yeare 800. Anastasius a Grecian Emperour in the yeare 750. besides some other Emperours Hugo King of Prouence and Emperour in the yeare 920 Pipin king of Italy and eldest sonne to Charles the Great king of France in the yeare 800. Bamba king of Spaine about the yeare 670. to haue vndergone a Religious and Monastical lyfe I will conclude omitting many other forraine kings Princes with Charlemaine who was king of Austrasia and Sueuia and who receaued the habit of a Monke at Pope Zachary his hands But to looke a little into our owne Country of England we shall find it to haue beene most fertil herein whiles the Land of England was deuided into many kingdomes According hereto we may reckon Sigebert king of the Northumbers anno 640. Ethelred king of the Mercians anno 704. Offa king of the East Saxons Some small tyme after Kenred Finally Inas king of the same West Saxons all which did forsake the world and became Religious Monkes Thus far of men omitting to speake of many other Princes Lords and Noble men imbracing the same Religious Course But now to come to women of worth and dignity as being more peculiar to our drift intention I will restrayne my selfe to Empresses and Queenes who haue forsaken all Regall dignity or soueraignty and after the death of their Husbands entered into a Monasticall life and became Nunnes as we are at this pre●ent First then Theodora the Empresse about the yeare 880. imbraced this course of lyfe ●ugusta another Empresse anno 1190. Richar●is wyfe to the Emperour Charles le Grosse did build a Monastery into the which she after entred and therein dyed anno 890. Cunegundes wyfe to Henry the Emperour Agnes wyfe to the Emperour Henry the third gouerned some yeares the Empyre after her husbands death but in the end she surrendred vp the Empyre and chose to liue in the humility of a Monasticall life anno 1150. Elizabeth wyfe to the Emperour Albertus the first and Archduke of Austria did build a Monastery in the yeare 1290. and in that Monastery taking the Monasticall habit of a Nunne most happily ended her dayes This Elizabeth had two Daughters who followed her Example The one of them was marryed to the King of Hungary the other to the Count of Ot●ighen in like sort the said Elizabeth had two grand children to wit the Queene of Polonia her daughter who both entered into a Religious lyfe of Nunnes although her said daughter was in some sort assured in marriage to the Duke of Vratistaw To come to particular Queenes And first Tesia wyfe to Rachisius king of Italy with her Daughter Retruda ended their dayes in a Monastery spending their tyme in great Sanctity In France Radegundis who was maried to king Clotaire got his consent to depart from him and entred into a Monastery at Poictiers liuing and dying there with great shew of piety and deuotion in anno 520. Within some few yeares after Adocra wyfe to Chilperick king of France together with her daughter Childerade betooke themselues to this heauenly profession Balda about the yeare 650. wyfe to King Clouis king of France after the decease of her husband went to Celles where she enlarged a Monastery afore built and till death professed therein a Nunnes life Yt we cast our eyes into Spayne we shall find the like Examples of Deuotion For we read that Nunez wyfe to Veremond king of some Prouinces of Spaine and Teresa wyfe to

I will examine and condemne my selfe that the eternall Iudge condemne me not in the latter day I will with all sorrow and humblenesse frequent the Sacrament of Confession and will accept all necessary pennance and aduises c. Conclusion 1. Thanke the Goodnes of God that hath giuen the meanes to prouide for that day and ●yme and oportunity to do pennance 2. Offer him thy hart to performe it 3. Pray him to giue thee grace well and truly to accomplish it The third Meditation of Hell The Preparation 1. Place thy selfe in the presence of God 2. Pray him to asist thee with his grace 3. Imagine to thy selfe a darke Citty all on fyre with pitch and brimstome and thronged with miserable Citizens which cannot get out Considerations 1. Consider that the damned are within this bottomlesse pit of Hell as within this vnfortunate Citty where they suffer vnspeakable torments in all their senses in all their members Because as they haue employed all their senses and members to commit sinne so shall they suffer in all their senses and members the paines and torments due vnto sinne There the wanton eyes and lasciuious lookes shall be afflicted with the horrible vision of Deuills and hellish spactacles The eares for delighting in vicious discourses detractiōs slanders shall heare nothing but lamentable out-cries and desperate howlings and so o● others 2. Consider that ouer and aboue all thes● bitter torments there is yet another greater then they all Which is the losse and Priuatio● of the glory of God from whose amiable face fruition they are for euer irreuocably debarred Now if Absolom foūd that the priuation of the face of his Father Dauid was more grieuous vnto him then his very exile O mercifull Lord what an infinite griefe will it be to be for euer depriued from behoulding of thy most delightfull and louely face 3. Consider withall the Eternity of these paines which only thing maketh Hell intollerable Alas if a flea in our eare or if the heate of a little feauer make one short night so long and tedious how tedious and terrible shall the night of Eternity be accompanied with so many vnspeakable torments Of this Eternity groweth in the damned an eternall desperation infinite rage and most abhominable blasphemyes c. Affections and Resolutions 1. Terrify thy soule and stir thy selfe vp to feare with the words of holy Iob O my soule art thou able to liue for euer with euerlasting flames and amidst this deuouring fyre Wilt thou willingly forsake the sight of thy God for euer 2. Confesse that thou hast deserued it And wretch that I am how often O my deare Lord from henceforth I will take a new course and tread contrary way for why should I descend into this bottomlesse pit of Hell I will therefore do this or that ●ndeauour to auoide sinne which only can beget this ●nmortall death The fourth Meditation of Heauen The Preparation 1. Place thy selfe in the presence of God 2. Pray him to assist thee with his grace Considerations 1. Consider a faire and cleare night and thinke how pleasant a thing it is to behould the skye all spangled with an innumerable multitude and variety of starres Then againe in thine imagination ioyne all this nights goodly beauty with the beauty of a sayre sunne-shine day such a one that the brightnesse of the sunne beames should not hinder the sight of the golden starrs nor the siluer ●ayes of the Moone and after all this say ●ouldly that all this is nothing in regard of the excellent beauty of that great Paradise O ●ow this place is to be desired and to beloued O how ●●elious is this noble Citty 2. Consider the Nobility Beauty and 〈◊〉 of the Inabitants and Citizens of this Blessed Countrey those millions of millions of Angelis and Archangells of Cherubins and ●●●phins those troupes of Apostles Prophets Martyrs Confessours Virgins and holy Matrons O how blessed is this blessed Company The lowe and meanest whereof is more beautifull t● behould then all this visible world what sight will it then be to see them altogether But O my God how happy are they They sing cont●nually melodious songs of eternall loue they always enioy a constant and stedfast estate of gladnesse the enterchange one to another vnspeakable contentment and liue in the comfort of endlesse and indissoluble a●mity 3. In a word consider what good the all haue to enioy God who gratifyeth they for euer with his amiable countenance and b● the same powreth into their harts an abysse o● delights What a good is it to be vnited euerlastingly to their beginning They are there like happy birdes which flye chir●ing singing perpetually in the Heauen of thy Diuinity which compasseth them on all sides with vnspeakable pleasures There euery one striueth with an holy emulation who may do best an● without any enuie sing the prayses of their Creatour Blessed he thou O sweet Lord and soueraigne maker who are so bountifull vnto vs and doe● communicate vnto vs so liberally the euerlasting treasures of thy glory And on the other-syde Go● blesseth them all with an eternall benediction Blessed be you for euer sayth he my beloued creatures who haue so faithfully serued me and who shall praise me euerlastingly with so great loue courage and contentment Affections and Resolutions 1. Admire and euer praise this heauenly Countrey O how beautifull art thou my deare Hierusalem 2. Reproach vnto thy hart the little courage which it hath had vnto this present for hauing gone so much awrye from the way of this glorious habitation O wherefore haue I so much estranged my selfe from my soueraigne Good Ah! wretch that I am for these pleasures so displeasant and light haue I a thousand and a thousand tymes left the eternall and infinite delights Where was my wit and vnderstanding to despise such goods so desirable for desires so vaine and contemptible 3. Aspire notwithstanding with vehement resolution to this delicious and desired aboad O my gratious God since it hath pleased you at the length to recall my wandering steps and to direct them into the right way neuer hereafter will I turne back to those by-wayes neuer hereafter will I stray from the true path Let vs goe with courage my deare Soule Let vs runne towards this blessed Country which is promised vs in the kingdome of Heauen What make we so long in this beggerly country of Aegypt I will therefore dispatch my selfe from all such things as may put me out of the way or hinder me in so happy a iourney I will performe such and such things as may bring me safely and speedily to my iourneys end Abbesse Reuerend Father Confessarius The time is now ended of Cosmophila her recollection and all her Meditations are now finished Therefore I hould it conuenient for her to leaue her solitary Chamber and so we both may see what fruite the hath reaped of this her allotted time Indeed I am in great hope that