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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51303	An exposition of the seven epistles to the seven churches together with a brief discourse of idolatry, with application to the Church of Rome / by Henry More ...	More, Henry, 1614-1687.	1669 (1669)	Wing M2660; ESTC R7302	134,158	410

piissimi Qui Meritis clarissimi In Coelis refulgetis A peste clade corporum Praeservetis operum Moribus nè langueamus Nec moriamur spiritu Sed Animae ab obitu Velociter surgamus Et vivamus in Gratia Sacra Coeli palatia Donec regrediamur 5. Such a piece of Devotion as this is that to S. Francis Sancte Francisce properè veni Pater accelera ad populum qui premitur teritur sub o●ere palea luto latere sepultos AEgyptio sub sabulo nos libera carnis extincto vitio Which is plainly a Prayer to this Saint that he would deliver us from the bondage and drudgery of Sin which is onely in the power of our great Saviour and Redeemer Christ for to doe That Invocation of S. Andrew is also for that spiritual Grace of duly Bearing the Crosse here that we may obtain Heaven afterwards Jam nas foveto languidos Curámque nostrî suscipe Quò per Crucis victoriam Coeli petamus gratiam But that to S. Nicolas is against the Assaults of the Devil Ergò piè nos exaudi Assistentes tuae laudi Nè subdamur Hostis sraudi Nobis fer auxilia Nos ab omni malo ducas Vitâ rectâ nos conducas Post hanc vitam nos inducas Ad aeterna gaudia The like Devotion is done to S. Martin S. Andrew S. James S. Bartholomew and others though not in the same words 6. When I have given an example or two of their Prayers put up to their She-Saints I shall a little more copiously insist on those to the blessed Virgin They beg of S. Agnes the greatest Grace that God is able to impart to the Soul of man that is to say to serve God in perfect Love And this Gift this one poor single She-Saint is solicited to bestow on all men Ave Agnes gloriosa Me in fide serves recta Dulcis Virgo dilecta Te exoro precibus Charitate da perfectâ Deum per quem es electa Colere piè omnibus That Devotion put up to S. Brigitt is that she would play the skilfull Pilot and lead us through all the tempests and hazzards of this World so safely that at last by her good Conduct we may attain to everlasting Life The Rhyme runs thus O Bregitta mater bona Dulcis Ductrix Matrona Nobis fer suffragia Naufragantes in hoc Mari Tuo ductu salutari Duc ad vitae bravia 7. But that to S. Catharine is a piece of Devotion something of an higher strain or rather more copious and expresse But so great a Boon they beg of her as is in the power of none to give but God alone Ave Virgo Dei digna Christo prece me consigna Audi Preces praesta Votum Cor in bono fac immotum Confer mibi Cor contritum Rege Visum Auditum Rege Gustum Olfactum Virgo sancta rege Tactum Ut in cunctis te regente Vivam Deo purâ mente Christum pro me interpella Salva Mortis de procella Superare fac me Mundum Nè demergar in profundum Nè me sinas naufragari Per Peccata in hoc Mari. Visita tu me infirmum Et in bonis fac me firmum Agonista Dei fortis Praestò sis in hora mortis Decumbentem fove leva Et de morte solve saeva Ut resurgam novus homo Civis in coelesti dome 8. Now it is observable in this devotionall Rhyme to S. Catharine that whereas the Council of Trent advises men ad Sanctorum orationes opem auxiliumque confugere that in these many Verses there are not passing two or three that are an entreating of the Saint to pray for us but to aid and succour us in such a way as the Story of the Saint and the Allusion to her Name most naturally leads the phancy of the Devotionist to think sutable for her As if she were the giver of Courage of Patience and of Purity of minde and was to comfort and support us in the very Agonie of death by her presence Which Petition is very frequent to other Saints also So plain a thing is it that this Invocation of the Saints is not a mere desiring of them to pray for us But here the Devotionist commits the whole Regimen of both his Soul and Body unto this Saint to rule all his Faculties and Senses and begs so high Vertues and Graces as that none but God can supply us with them as I intimated at first Whence the Invocation upon that very account also must appear most grosly Idolatrous as Grotius who yet is no such foe to the Papists does expresly acknowledge and declare CHAP. V. Forms of Invocation of the blessed Virgin used by the Church of Rome egregiously Idolatrous 1. AND if they can contain themselves no better in their Devotions towards these lesser Saints to whom their Church-men will allow onely the Worship they call Dulia how wilde and extravagant will they shew themselves in their Addresses to the Virgin Marie the Mother of God to whom they allow the Worship they call Hyperdulia And that is the thing I will now take notice of though not according to the copiousnesse of the Subject for it would even fill a Volume But some Instances I will produce and those such as are publick and authentick as I intimated at first In the Rosarie of the blessed Virgin she is saluted thus Reparatrix Salvatrix desperantis Animae Irroratrix largitrix spiritualis Gratiae Quod requiro quod suspiro mea sana Vulnera Et da menti te poscenti Gratiarum munera Ut sim castus modestus dulcis fortis sobrius Pius rectus circumspectus simultatis nescius Eruditus munitus Divinis eloquiis Constans gravis süavis benignus amabilis Corde prudens ore studens veritatem dicere Malum nolens Deum volens pio semper opere A very excellent Prayer if it had been directed to a due Object But such things are asked as are in the power of none but of Jesus Christ himself as he is God to give 2. For the Virgin Mary is here made no lesse then a Saviour and giver of all spiritual Graces as she is also a giver of eternall Life in what follows in Prose Peccatorum causolatrix infirmorum curatrix errantium revocatrix justorum confirmatrix desolatorum spes auxiliatrix atque mea promptissima adjutrix tibi Domina gloriosa commendo bodie quotidie Animam meam ut me in custodiam tuam commendatum ab omnibus malis sraudibus Diaboli custodias atque in hora mortis constanter mihi assistas ac Animam ad aeterna gaudia perducas Here is the commending of the Soul of the Devotionist into the Protection of the Virgin that he may be kept from all Evil and from the Frauds of the Devil and that she would assist at the hour of death to convey his Soul to the eternall Joys of Heaven 3. Like that at the end of the Rosarie

whose Intervall is from the tenth of Nero or Anno Christi 63. till Anno Christi 324. when Constantine the Great a zealous Professour of Christianity had subdued the most potent enemies of it and himself For then the Church was raised out of the dust or rather out of the mire and bloud that she was troden down into by the Ten cruel Persecutions and began to be the Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Church in sublimity and exaltation according to the signification of that word But in this Intervall of their Afflictions and Martyrdome she was the Church in Smyrna Now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are all one and signifie Myrrh which whether you respect the Plant it self which grows in sandy dry and uncultivated places and is it self rough and thorny with sharp pricking leaves or else the gumme of the Tree which is biting and bitter to the taste and has its very name from thence in the Syriack 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quia amara as Martinius notes it is very significative of this Intervall of the Church that succeeds wherein those horrible Pagan Persecutions raised against the Christians are comprehended So that Smyrna signifies the bitter Affliction and Persecution of the Church as that Lamp named Wormwood does the sad Calamity of the Western Caesareate 2. To which you may add that Smyrna that is to say Myrrh was a main Ingredient in the embalming of the bodies of the dead which again reflects upon the many Funerals or rather Deaths and Martyrdoms of the Members of the Church which would be caused by the Persecutions of those times Besides that as Myrrh keeps the body from Corruption it may be a Symbol of the eternizing of the memory of the Martyrs to all Posterities Not to take notice of their conserving of their very Bodies themselves which they call Reliques though this Allusion can be no countenance to the abuses in those things And lastly this Allusion to Myrrh is still the more emphaticall in that the body of our Saviour that faithfull Witness as he styles himself after his martyrdome on the Cross is said to be embalmed with Myrrh John 19. 3. These things saith the First and the Last who was dead and is alive The Titles that Christ adorns himself with when he speaks to the Church of Ephesus are He that holds the seven Stars in his right hand and who walketh in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks namely through all the Successions of them like that Promise Behold I am with you to the end of the World intimating thereby the presence of his Spirit through which he would in all Difficulties sustain the Bishops and Pastours of his Church Which general signification seems well enough proportioned or fitted to the Condition of the Church of Ephesus he expresly requiring of them no more then Zeal and Courage in the general But now he speaks to the Church in Smyrna and there enters a more bloudy Scene and terrible he seems to encourage them with higher and more palpable and particular Animations in the very entrance of his discourse These things saith the First and the Last the same that began the War for this Kingdome we strive for and will be the last in the field to assist my friends and discomfit mine enemies as well as I was the first And be not afraid of dying for the Truth for though I was crucify'd my self yet behold I am now alive And I tell you it for a pledge unto you of the same Happinesse if you lay down your lives as the Times will shortly require it for me and for my Gospel This is very particular and apposite to the Condition of the Church in this Smyrnian Intervall wherein there were to be so many and so bloudy Persecutions 4. I know thy works and tribulation and poverty that is to say I know the great Affliction and misery thou art oppressed withall being destitute of all the Comforts of this present life and in danger of death every moment Which is a right Smyrnian Condition indeed according to the Title of the Church in Smyrna But thou art rich namely with those spiritual Graces of Meeknesse of Patience of Christian Courage and Fortitude and of sincere and invincible Love of the Lord Jesus even to the death it self And I know the Blasphemy of them that say they are Jews and are not but are the Synagogue of Satan That is I take notice of the reproach that those men cast upon Christianity who call themselves Christians and yet make nothing of dissembling and denying the Faith upon the arising of any Persecutions for my Name 's sake as if a Christian could be such a vile false and abject Hypocrite This is to blaspheme them that are called by my Name The right Christian is the true Jew whose heart is circumcised and therefore he will not lie with his tongue and whose Faith is so strong in me and hopes so firm of a better life that he can if the cause of my Gospel so require willingly part with this for the Love of me and for the Interest of my Kingdome These are the true Members of my Church who are for suffering the other the Synagogue of Satan as I told Peter when he would have disswaded me from undergoing the death of the Cross Get thee behind me Satan for thou savourest not the things of God That the Jews signifie the Christian Church there is nothing more frequent in the Apocalyptick style then that And this mention of these false Christians in opposition to these Smyrnian Sufferers does plainly insinuate that sense which I have given 5. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer Do not imitate the base Cowardise of this Synagogue of Satan these Hypocrites and Dissemblers After that sharp reprehension of Flinchers from the Faith he returns to encourage and corroborate the Church in Smyrna Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have tribulation ten days The red Dragon that old Serpent in his fight with Michael for the things of that Vision are co-incident with this Smyrnian Intervall of the Church I say the Pagans incensed by the old Serpent will cast several of you into prison that your Faith may be tried and God may receive the glory of your Fortitude and Constancy This you shall have for ten days that is till the time of consummation that Victory and Redemption be wrought for you or that you die Or rather thus You shall have tribulation for ten days There will be ten Seasons of bloudy Persecutions which you must run through those ten Persecutions so famous in Church-History and so frequent in the mouths of all men Which consideration among others does not a little ratifie this our Exposition of the Church of Smyrna and consequently gives strength to the whole Hypothesis of the seven successive Intervalls Be ye faithfull unto death