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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16354	The life of the holie father S. Francis Writen by Saint Bonauenture, and as it is related by the Reuerend Father Aloysius Lipomanus Bishop of Veron. In his fourth tome of the life of Saintes; Legenda maior beatissimi patris francisci. English	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.; Montagu, Anthony Maria Browne, Viscount, 1574-1629.	1610 (1610)	STC 3271; ESTC S112955	142,663	258

a poore man that asked him almes for the loue of God he presently remembring himselfe and entring into iudgement with his owne heart did speedily runne after him bestowing his almes with much affection vpon him making furthermore euen then a promise vnto Almighty God that from thence forward so long as he should haue any thing in the worlde to giue hee would never denie to giue something to such as should begge of him for our Lords sake which he observing continually with an vnwearied zeale of devotion vnto his death was thereby made woorthie to obtaine an aboundant encrease of the favour and grace of Almighty God For he was woont to say after that he had perfectly put on Christ that even whilest he was in secular habite he felt a great motion in his heart whensoever he heard any worde expressing the loue of God Furthermore the mildnesse of his conversation together with the sweetnesse of his manners his patience and tractable behaviour more theÌ„ is ordinary in meÌ„ his liberality beyond the measure of his ability which appeared in him in his youth were tokens that God had a greater aboundance of blessing to powre vpon him It fortuned once that a very simple man of Assisium by the instruction of God as we haue good cause to thinke meeting vpon a time with Saint FRANCIS as he passed along the Citty cast off his cloake and spread the same vnder his feete affirming that he should be worthie of all manner of reverence the time beeing nowe not long vnto wherin he should performe great matters and should be of the whole worlde for that cause marveilously honored But yet altogether ignorant was S. FRANCIS at this time of Gods determination concerning him aswell beeing by the commaundement of his father distracted in externall affaires as also by naturall corruption carried away with terrestriall â—â—â—â—ters wherby he had not as yet learned to conteplate vpo the matters of Heauen nor had accustomed himselfe to taste of the sweetnesse of God And because the scourge of affliction doth oftentimes giue light to the spirituall vnderstanding the mighty hande of our Lord did come vpon him the right hand of the highest wrought a perfect change within him afflicting his body with lingring infirmities whereby the better to prepare his soule to receiue the precious inspirations and motions of the Holy Ghost But having recovered his strength and being provided of decent apparell according to his vsuall manner he chanced to meete a certaine souldiar who was in yery deede a gentleman by birth but poore and meanely apparelled whose poverty he commiserating with a syncete affection dispoiled himselfe of his own apparell and furnished the poore souldiar therewithall that so in one worke he might performe a double office of piety both in covering the shame of a gentleman souldiar in releiueing the misery of a poore distressed man In the night following when he had betaken himselfe to his naturall rest it pleased the goodnesse of God to shew vnto him a great and beautifull pallace adotned with Military weapons insigned with the Crosse of CHRIST then foreshewing vnto him that the mercy which he had extended towards the poore souldiar for the loue of the heavenly King should be recompenced with an incomparable reward Wherevpon demaunding vnto whom all those goodly things did appertaine it was aunswered to him from aboue that they should be vpon him and his souldiars freely bestowed A waking therefore in the morning and having his minde not as yet exercised in the searching of Divine mysteries neither yet knowing how by the formes of visible thinges to consider the trueth of things invisible he perswaded himselfe that this vnaccustomed vision was a fore token of some great prosperity to happen vnto him So being as yet ignorant of Gods Divine ordinance towardes him he purposed to goe into Apulia vnto a certaine Earle of great liberality hoping by service vnder him in the wars to purchase a name of honour according as the mentioned vision vnto him seemed to foretell And being shortly after entred into his iourney as he came to the next City he heard in the night time our Lord in familiar manner thus speaking vnto him FRANCIS who is able to doe better for thee the master or the servant the rich man or the poore To whom Saint FRANCIS making aunswere that the master and the rich man were better able Our Lord presently replied why therefore doest thou leaue the master for the servant and the rich God for a poore man Then Saint FRANCIS asked what wilt thou haue me O Lord to doe And our Lord said vnto him returne into thine owne country for the vision which thon hast seene doth prefigurate a spiritual effect which is to be by the disposition of God not of man accomplished in thee In the morning therefore he speedily returned backe to Assisium resting nowe full of security and ioy making himselfe a patterne of obedience did readily expect the pleasure of our Lord. From that time foreward hee with-drewe himselfe from the practise of his common trafique and devoutly besought Almighty God of his mercy that hee would voutsafe to shew vnto him what he ought to doe And when by much vse of praier the flame of Heavenly desire began aboundantly to encrease in him so that nowe for the loue of the Heavenly country hee contemned all earthely things as very nothing then did he well perceiue himselfe to haue found the hidden treasure like a well advised marchant purposed with the sale of all his marchandise to purchase this rare and pretious pearle But as yet he was ignorant how to proceed therein saving that it was to his spirit sugested that the entring into spirituall affaires is the contempt of the world and that the warfare of Christ is not otherwise to be by any man begun than by obtaining first the conquest of himselfe Riding therefore one day vpon the plaine Beholde howe his adorning the Altarâ— did please god otherwise the holy man woulde not haue done them adioyning nigh to Assisium there came in his way a certaine Leaper vpon whose sodaine aspect he coÌ„ceived in mind an especiall horror and loathing But returning to his already resolued purpose of perfection and considering that he ought of necessity first to overcome himselfe if he would become the souldiar of Christ he presently alighted downe from his horse and went to kisse him At what time the Leaper reaching fotth his hand as hoping to receiue something from him did indeed teceiue money of him and a kisse also therewithall But he being presently gotten vp vpon his horse againe and looking round about in the open field could not espie the Leaper there Being therefore replenished with admiration and ioy he began devoutly to sing praises vnto God purposing from this beginning evermore to aspire vnto greater perfections From thenceforth he began to affect solitary places Behold his pilgrimage to holy places as best fitting vnto

outward submission of words thus the holy man replied my Lord if the Father repell his sonne at one doore he must enter in againe at another By force of which humility the Bishop being wholy subdued embraced him with a loving and chearefull countenance saiyng then vnto him Beholde that none can preach the worde of god without leaue of his superiour From hence forth both you and your brethren may freely preache in in my Diocesse by my licence generall for so much your holy humility hath very well deserved It happened that once he came to Aretium at such time as the whole Cittie was so miserably afflicted with civill warre and dissention that it seemed to be therby in present danger of vtter distruction And he being then lodged in the suburbes sawe a route of Divells alofte in the aire right over the Citty insulting and also inflaming the perturbed mindes of the Cittizens to mutuall armes and slaughter But to the ende he might driue away those seditious powers of the aire he sent brother Siluester a man of singular simplicity and sincerity assigning vnto him the Office of a Crier saiyng Go before the gate of the Citty and on the parte of Almighty God commande the Diuells by vertue of obedience that they speedily departe Incontinently the childe of true obedience made hast to performe the Fathers commaundement having first given praise vnto Almighty God he beganne with loude voice to crie before the gate of the Citty on the parte of God Almighty and by the commaundement of his servant Francis depart ye farre away from hence all ye wicked Divells Aud presently vpon these wordes the Citty returned vnto peace againe and all the Cittizens with great good agreement renewed the lawes of their former civility For the raging pride of the Diuells which had as it were besieged that Citty being once repelled the wisedome of the poore that is to say the humility of Saint Francis comming then vppon them restored peace vnto the people and preserved the Citty from desolation For by the merite of that rare and excellent vertue of humble obedience he had obtained so powerfull a commaundement ouer those prowde rebellious spirits that the did both represse theire insolent arrogancy and did also repell their importunate violence In this manner the prowde Diuels do ever flie away from the eminent vertues of the humble saving that sometimes the mercie of God permitteth them to be buffeted of the enemie for the better preservation of their humility according as Saint Paul the Apostle writeth of himselfe 2. Cor. 12.7 and as Saint Francis proved by experience For being requested by Lord LEO Cardinall of the Holy Crosse to remaine some litle wile with him in the Citry he humbly consented thervnto for the reverence and loue he bare vnto him But in the very first night of his entertainement his praiers being ended and he preparing himself to sleep a sorte of Divells issued in vpon him furiously assailing the souldier of Christe Aug. 18. de ciu Deic 18. Whome when they had long and sorely beaten at lenght they left him for dead But as soone as the fiends were gone the servant of God calling his companion related vnto him the whole matter as it had befallen him saiyng I do verely belieue Brother that the Divells who can doe nothing but as the providence of God doth dispose haue for this cause rushed now with so great fury vpon me because ther is no good hope to be conceiued of my aboade in the Court of Princes For my brethren that abide in poore and forlorne places hearing that I am now in company with Cardinals will peradventure imagine that I am busied in wordly affaires that I am advanced with honors and that I do abound with pleasures Wherfore I thinke it better that he who is given as an examplevn to others should avoide the Court and converse humbly among the humble in humble places to the ende that vnto them who sustaine povertie himselfe may giue encouragement by sustaining the like with them In the morning therefore they came and humbly excusing themselves tooke their leaue of the Cardinall For the holy man abhorred pride as the roote and of spring of all other evills besides no lesse detesting the foule vice of disobedience which he esteemed as her most pestilent deformed daughter but the humility of pennance he did as equally approue It fortuned once a certaine brother to be brought before him who having committed some offence against the law of obedience was therefore rightfully to be corrected by the discipline of iustice But the man of God by evident tokens perceyving that the brother was vn fainedly pennitent for his fault of transgression was by the loue he bare to humility much inclined to pardone him yet least that his facility in par doning might be vnto others an occasion in like manner to offend he commaunded the brothers Capouche to be taken from him and cast into the middest of the flaming fire to the end that all men might obserue with how great and with what mauner of revenge the offence of disobedience ought of right to be chasticed and corrected But when the Caponche had bine a good while in the fire he commaunded the same to be taken out of the fire againe and to be delivered vnto the brother vpon his humble repentance A wonderfull marter it is to reparte The Capouche being raked out from the middest of the flames bare no marke or signe of burning at all and so it came to passe that wod by this one miracle did both approue the vertue of the holy man and did also commend the humility of pennance Worthely therefore is the humility of Saint FRANCIS to be immitated and embraced which obtained even in earth so admirable a dignity as to incline the wil of God to his desire to chaunge the affection of man to foile by his commaundement the insolent pride of the Divells and with a beck to represse the devouring names of the fire This is in very deâ—e that high and excellent vertue which exalting them that possesse it while it giveth reverence vnto all deferveth worthily to be honored of all THE SEAVENTH CHAPTER Of his loue of pouerty and of the marueilous supply of his wants AMONG the many and fundry gifts of spirituall graces which holy Saint FRANCIS obtained of the bountifull giuer of all things he merited by a certain speciall prerogatiue to aboued in the riches of simplicity by the loue of most perfect pouerty This vertue the holy man considering to hane binne familiar vnto the sonne of God waighing also the same to be now a daies as it were abandoned throughout the world did so efficacioussy endeuour to espouse the same vnto himselfe by perpetuall Charity that for the loue thereof he did not only forsake both Father and Mother but also did freely distribute and disburden himself of what ever he either had or might in time to come

after Christ he put speciall confideuce her he made an aduocate for himselfe and his bretheren according as he sometimes familiarly declated vnto his companioÌ„s He burned with an admirable fervour of al his hart soule towards the blessed Sacrament of our Lord his body woondering with an vnspeakable amazement at that most charitable condiscending and most condiscending charity He did oftentimes communicate and that with so great devotion that he made others also to be devoute by his example whilest he at the sweete tasting of the immaculate Lambe was as one drunck in spirit ravished for the most part into an extasie of minde He loved the mother of our Lord Iesus Christ with an vnspeakable loue for that by her the Lord of Maiestie is be come a brother vnto vs and we by her haue happily obtained mercy In her next after Christ he reposed his principall confidence her he did most especially choose to be the Advocatrix for himselfe and all his brethren And to her honor he did most devoutly fast from the feast of the holy Apostles Saint Peter Saint Paul vntill the feast of her Assumption Vnto the Angelicall spiritts also considering them to burne with a maveilouse fire of excessiue loue towardes God and of inflaming the soules of the elect therwithall he was conioined with an inseparable band of loue and for devotion towardes them he fasted fortie daies from the Assumption of the glorious virgin attending all that time vnto continuall praier But vnto blessed Saint Michaell the Archangell for that it belonged vnto his office to represent the soules he was the more devoted in an especiall bonde of loue the rather for the fervent zeale he bare vnto the salvatiou of all the elect And as concerning the Saints out of the remembrance of all them as out of fierie stones he grewe to be more aboundantely inflamed in the vnquencheable zeale and loue of God bearing towardes all the Apostles and specially to Sainct Peter and Saint Paule for the exceeding charitie which they had towardes Christe a most principall and rate devotion and for the reverence and loue of them he dedicated vnto our Lord a peculiar Lenten observance This poore man of Christ had no more but two mites his body namely and his soule to giue vnto God with liberall charitie But these two he spated not for the loue of Christ to offer vp so coÌ„tinually that as it were all his life time he sacrificed his body by the rigour of abstinence and his spirit by the fervour of desire exterioutly in the Porche of his body immolating the burnt sacrifice and in the temple of his soule inwardly beginning the sweete smelling incense of devotion But yet for all this so was he borne alofte to divine things by the excessiue devotion of charity that neuer thelesse his affectuous benignity did dilate it selfe vnto his Copartners in nature and grace For whome the singular pietie of his hart had made to be a brother vnto all creatures besides him it is no marvaile if the charity of Christ did make to be much more a brother vnto creatures ennobled with the Image of their creatour and redeemed with the bloude of theire maker And therefore he reputed not himselfe to be the friend of Christ vnlesse he did cherishe the soules which he had redeemed He saied that nothing was to be preferred before the wellfare of soules approvinge the same especially by this that the only begoten soone of God vouchsafed for the loue of them to hang vpon the Crosse And from hence proceeded his combatte in praier his discourse in preaching and his excesse in giving good example Wherevpon so often as ouer much austerity was reprehended in him he made answere that he was giuen for an example vnto other men For notwithstanding that his innocent flesh which had now willingly and freely subiected it selfe to the spirit stoode no waies in neede of any scourge at all for his owne offences yet for examples sake he daily renewed both paines and burdens vppon himselfe keeping hard waies for other mens instruction For he vsed to say If I speake with the tongues of men and of Angells and haue not Charity in my selfe whereby to giue example of vertue vnto my neighbours I profite others but litle and my selfe no white at all And with a fervent inflammation of charitie he did emulate the glorious triumphe of the holy Martirs for that in them neither could the flame of loue be extinguished nor yet could the stability of fortitude be any way infeebled Wherfore being wholy set on fire with that perfecte charity which casteth out feare he also desireth by the flame of Martirdome to offer himselfe as a liuing sacrifice vnto our Lord to the end he might make requitall according to his power vnto Christ that suffered death for vs vpon the Crosse and might also provoke others by his example vnto the loue of God For in the sixt yeare after his conversion burning altogether in desire of Martirdome he purposed to passe the seas vnto the partes of Siria to preach the Christian faith and pennance vnto the Saracens and other infidelles And being gotten aboarde into a cerraine shippe that made for those partes by meane of contrary winds he was inforced to put a shore vpon the coaste of Salauonia Where having made some tyme of aboade and nor having founde any shippe in all that space prepartd to passe the Seas he thereby perceiving himselfe to be disappointed of his desires made earnest request vnto certaine Marriners euen then prepared for Ancona that for the loue of God they would take him along with them But they obstinately refusing him as not having wherewith to deftay his charges the maÌ„ of God singulerly reposing vpon the goodnesse of our Lord entred secretly into the shippe himself and his companion with him At that time fortuned to be there a certaine man of Gods owne sending as is to be thought for the relief of his poore servant who bringing with him necessary provision of victuals and calling vnto him one of the shippe that had the feare of God before him delivered the same vnto him saieng keepe these things faithfully for the poore brethren that lie secret in the shippe and in the time of neede imparte thereof friendly vnto them And so it came to passe that when the shippemen labouring by sorce of the windes for many daies together and all that time not being able to get to lande had in the meane while exspended all their provisions yet still vnto poore Saint Francis remained of that Almes which was by Gods appointement reserved for him Which nevertheiesse though it were but very small was yet by Gods devine power so marveilousely multiplied that they making very many daies aboade vpon the Sea it aboundantly supplied all their necessities euen vntill they came vnto the very Porte of Ancona The marriners therefore perceiving themselues by meane of the servant of God to haue escaped many daungers of

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