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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B11947	A discours hapned. Betwene an hermite called Nicephorus & a yong louer called Tristan, who for that his Mistresse Petronilla entred into religion would faine become an hermite. All faithfullie dravven out of the historie of Petronilla, composed in French by the Right Reuerend Father in God Iohn Peter Camus Bishop of Belley. And translated into English by P.S.P.; Petronille. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; P. S. P., fl. 1630.	1630 (1630)	STC 4551; ESTC S116152	62,696	183

to your contemplation which require repose silence and may not be had but in the wildernesse Know then that being left an orphan without father and mother I was emancipated by publick authoritie a litle before the terme of my maioritie consequently put in the possession of my goods which are not so small but they are sufficient to nourish twentie Hermits as you are I beleeue that not making the vow of pouertie in any Religious order that I may keepe them and dispose of them as God shall inspire me We shall then liue together what reuersion wee shall haue we will bestow it in almes in such other pious works as you shall think good without troubling our selues to begg for our maintenance And to shew that it is true that I came not hither with emptie hands or vnfurnished of things necessarie to nourishe and cloathe my selfe behold a scantlet of the matter Then did he shew the Hermite a great purse full of pistolls and also some pretious stones more worth then gold and yet did occupie lesse place Good Nicephorus who did not see while he kept in this wildernesse such great quantitie of this yealoue mettall whose luster doth dazle the eyes of many men in the world did firmely beleeue in his minde that he was the Tentator who vnder a humaine shape came to diuert him from the way of perfection which is that of holy pouertie which he traced for many yeeres within his litle caue Wherupon arming himselfe with the marke of our saluation and vttering the name of our Sauiour with a low voice seing that Tristan did not vanish away to cleare himselfe of his doubt he tooke him softlie by the arme and said to him If I had not knowne that spirits haue neither fleshe nor bones as I do feele you to haue I would say that it is the Diuell that came to sollicit me to my ruine offring me richesse as he did to the sonne of God when he assaulted him in the wildernesse But I feare that not taking vpon him the forme of man he doth possesse your hearr to produce in myne the same effect to slide into it the death of grace by the venime of auarice I will then say vnto you the same that the Apostle said to Simon Magus away with your gold siluer from me which I know are the I dolls of the world to which they are like that do adore them and that put their confidence in them that man is abondantly riche that is poore in IESVS CHRIST I loue my begging by which I cōquer heauen for my selfe make others to conquer it for them making them to merit euerlasting goods when they giue me of their earthly goods better then all your treasure It is long since I haue put of that shirt of earthly possession and how should I putt it on againe I haue washed my feete chased from my minde those grose affections and how should I contaminat them of the new I will neuer call back againe what I haue once quitted and renounced with a good will for the loue of my Maister he hath nourished me so many yeeres in these deserts both with the dew of heauen which is the Manna of his consolations and with the fatt of the earth which is the daylie bread of the necessitie of the body as I haue all subiect to blesse his prouidence to confirme my selfe in this truth that such as seeke for God and his kingdome can neuer want any thing For my part I will promis you no gold nor siluer but that only which God will send me by the hands of such as he shall inspire to do me charitie I will impart it to you In the meane time I will tell you that if you will do as Iacob did quitt the house of the traitour Laban which is the world to inioye the embracing of Lia and Rachell to witt Action and Contemplation it is necessarie that you burie those Idolls at the foote of the Terebinthe of the crosse and that glorifying in nothing but in IESVS CHRIST crucified you will imitat him in his nuditie gloriously ignominious by depriuing your selfe of the care of temporall richesse according the Counsell which he gaue to that yong gentilman who was like to you to quitt all that Matt. 19. v. 21. he might be perfect not admitting him of his traine if first he vvould not distribut to the poore all that he possessed But my sonne quoth the good Hermitte I feare you resemble too much this yong man that like vnto him you will retire your selfe with à heauie heart not being able to digest the bitternesse of this drugg which make men forsake all the goods of the earthe that they may aspire to heauenly goods and that you will not so easely dispossesse your selfe of them as Iacob did putt of the skins which couered his hands good Ioseph his cloake That I may not lie vnto you quoth Tristan I could neuer beleeue that for being an Hermite a man must haue renounced the inheritance of his forefathers but well I knew it to be necessarie for to be admitted of those religious orders in which is made the solemne Vow of pouertie a thing not only necessarie but also very easie in those great Communalties whether they be riche The vovv of pouertie very easie in Communalties or begging Communalties because the Religion doth oblige it selfe to intertaine the Religious as they do consecrat themselues to the obseruance of the rules of the Religion But an Hermitte that liues alone without support is oftentimes trusting to a badd dynner while he exspects Manna or larks to fall from heauen to him as they did to the Israëlites for God doth not shew such fauours to all nations nor worke such miracles vpon all occasions Such as putt their trust in God quoth the Hermite are not shaked no more then is Mount Sion He that dwells in Hierusalem which is in the protection of the God of heauen whose very gates he doth loue is no more moued when he is in want then when he hath plentie of all things being assured that the hand of God is not shortned nor his power diminished He that hath care of the croes litle ones being abandonned by their Dames and of the least sparrow yea of the least flie will neuer abandon him that liues iust before him all his life time The sunne will sooner faile to lighten the world then his prouidence to shine vpon such as he loues he that spreds his beames and pouers his raine equally vpon the iust and the vniust that giues nourishment to all flesh and that neede do no more but open his hand to replenish all creatures with benediction All that may be good quoth Tristan in the pulpet but the practise is quitt otherwise For my part I would make no difficultie to renounce to the inheritance of my forefathers nor to make a vow of pouertie in a