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mercy_n	call_v	lord_n	sinner_n	2,337	5	7.5568	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B11418	The complaint or dialogue, betvvixt the soule and the bodie of a damned man Each laying the fault vpon the other. Supposed to be written by S. Bernard from a nightly vision of his, and now published out of an ancient manuscript copie. By William Crashaw.; Noctis sub silentio tempore brumali. English and Latin.	Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153, attributed name.; Fulbert, Saint, Bishop of Chartres, ca. 960-1028, attributed name.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626. Manuale Catholicorum. aut	1622 (1622)	STC 1909.3; ESTC S105114	31,120	195

fall againe 7 Doest thou forgiue from thy whole heart any that haue done thee any wrong in word or deede for the loue of Christ Iesus our Lord and Sauiour and as thou hopest for pardon from him and doest thou heartily desire to bee forgiuen of all men whom thou hast any way offended 8 Wilt thou that there bee full restitution made according to thy power yea though it should extend to thy whole estate if otherwise there cannot be satisfaction made 9 Doest thou beleeue that Christ dyed for thee and that thou canst be saued no otherwise but by the merits of Iesus Christ and doest thou giue God thankes for this from thy whole heart as much as thou art able And whosoeuer can giue true answer to these questions affirmatiuely out of a good conscience and faith not fained It is an euident and sufficient testimonie of saluation and let him not doubt but if he so depart hee is one of them that shall bee saued Behold heere good Reader our Religion practised in the most misty times of Popery behold here the true holy Catholike and ancient way to heauen Namely by Christ and his merits alone Here is no trusting on mans merits either our owne or others Here is no mention of Agnus dei or woodden Crucifixes Hee is not bid to trust in the prayers suffrages requiems dirges Masses Trentalls or other obsequies that shall bee said for him after his departure Hee is sent to no Angell no nor to the Virgin Mary for matter of Saluation Nay all are excluded and Christs death alone euen it alone is made the meanes of his Saluation And the makers hereof were so resolute and zealous in this point that they vsed such variety of words as though they could not sufficiently expresse the excellencie and the necessity of cleauing to Christ alone in the matter of Saluation And if any man suspect that this is but deuised by vs and falsly fathered vpon Antiquity let him know that not onely we haue the ancient Copies whose age will speake for themselues but Gasper Vlēbergius in lib. de Causis Causa 14 pag 462. editionis Colon. 1589. euen the better sort of Papists that be learned doe know this well enough A learned Papist of this age writeth that in a Church in Colaine this very booke is extant Manuscript and that he hath seene it and that this manner of comforting the sicke was vsed in former ages and confesseth that it containes the very treasure and kernell of Christian religion And saith further that this manner was vsed not in Germany onely but ouer all the Christian world Indeede to the Iesuites I confesse this is held a ridiculous manner of comforting the sicke such a spirit possesseth them Thus doth Gretzer their Champion flout vs Lutherans as he cals vs for thus doing The Lutherans saith he do Iac. Gretz in resut Leyseri de hist Ord. Iesuit thus comfort their sicke Relickes Crucifixes Agnus deis and such matters are but dead things nothing worth the Scripture hath not a word of them it is therefore very vngodly to trust in them but God is our hope and God is our strength trust in him c. On this wise fashion doe these godly comforters comfort their sicke persons Thus in the Iesuites iudgement it is but a silly course to trust in Gods mercy and Christs merits in point of saluation hereby it may bee discerned of what spirit they are But let them mock vs as long as with vs they mocke the Scriptures Antiquitie and the better sort of their owne side for we appeale to this that hath beene said whether this manner of comforting the sicke were not in vse long before Luther was borne Now if any obiect that in the same bookes there is mention of the Crucifixe and that it is appointed to be in the presence of the sicke person I answer it is true but not that he should worship it as now the Iesuites teach and Greg. de Valent. Gretzer Vasquez Chrys à visit c. all the approued Romish writers but that it may put him in minde of Christ which though it bee a needlesse superstition yet it is not that impietie and Idolatrie which now at this day is practised and maintained in the Romish Church and my purpose is not to discharge those times nor our forefathers in those times of errours and superstitions but of the idolatry impietie and blasphemie of the present Church of Rome And the same answer is also to be giuen to another obiection That in the same book there are prayers to the Saints and Angels It is so and from that errour those ages cannot be cleared but withall let vs still obserue that those praiers are not to help them in matters of saluation as are many blasphemous prayers now vsuall in Popery and that sinne in those misty times being a sin of ignorance no doubt was pardoned vnto them in the mercy of God seeing that for their reconciliation with God and eternall saluation they beleeued to attaine it onely by the merits and passion of Iesus Christ But let not vs feede on their infirmities but louingly passe by them and let this content and comfort vs that their meanes of saluation which they vsed and trusted vnto is the same with ours at this day For better testimony whereof let vs set downe some of their prayers being such as the best Christians may vse at this day with much comfort Certaine Prayers vsed by our forefathers in the darkest times of Poperie in the time of a mans sicknesse some to bee made for the sicke and some by the sicke person gathered out of the same Ancient Bookes When the sicke person feeles his strength to faile then let him commend his soule to God in this prayer O Most high and Soueraigne GOD whose goodnesse and mercy is infinite O most glorious Trinitie which art loue and mercie and goodnesse it selfe haue mercy vpon mee most miserable sinner for vnto thee and vnto thy hands I commend my spirit O Lord my most louing God and Father of mercies shew thy mercie on me thy poore creature and forsake me not in my last need but stand with me and helpe my succourlesse soule saue my poore and desolate soule that it be not deuoured of the infernall dogs O most louing Lord and sweete Sauiour Iesus Christ the Sonne of the liuing God I beseech thee for thy honor and by the vertue of thy most blessed passion command that I may bee receiued into the number of thy Saints and seruants O my Sauiour and my Redeemer I here yeeld vp my selfe wholly vnto thee O graunt me thy grace and thy glory vouchsafe mee pardon of my sinne and giue mee a portion of thy glory But ô my deare Lord I challenge not a place in heauen for any worthinesse of mine owne merits for I am but dust and ashes and a most wretched sinner but for the vertue of thy most blessed passion by

which thou diddest vouchsafe to redeeme me miserable man and to purchase heauen for mee euen with the price of thy precious bloud I beseech thee therefore by the most blessed and bitter passion which thou sustainedst on the Crosse for mee especially in that houre when thy blessed soule did leaue thy body that thou wouldest haue mercy on my poore soule at the time of my departure Then let him lift vp his heart with ioy and thankesgiuing and say Lord thou hast broken my bonds therfore I will offer to thee the sacrifice of praise After if his weakenesse grow so that he lose the vse of his speech let some of the by-standers say these Prayers following ouer him or more if he l●ue so long MErcifull God and Father we beseech thee for the multitude of thy mercies looke fauourably vpon this thy seruant our deare brother who with true and hearty confession seekes pardon for all his sinnes at the hand of thy mercies O Lord heare vs for him and wee beseech thee for him most holy Father to renue in his heart whatsoeuer is corrupted by the frailty of his flesh and restore that grace which the wily and malicious enemie the Diuell hath stolne out of his soule O Lord recall him to the vnity of thy Church ingraft him into the body of thy Sonne O Lord take pittie of the sighes and sobs of his soule and grones of his heart O Lord look vpon his teares gather them into thy bottle and be good to him who hath no hope com●ort nor confidence but in ●hy mercy seale vp the assu●ance of his recōciliation with ●hee O most holy father we humbly commend the soule of this thy seruant and our brother into the hands of thy vnmeasurable mercies humbly beseeching thee according to the greatnesse of that loue in which the blessed soule of thy Sonne did commend it selfe into thy hands that for the worthinesse of that infinit loue of thine in which thou diddest receiue that holy soule vnto thy selfe thou wouldest vouchsafe in this our brothers last houre to receiue his poore soule also and make it partaker of the same loue And thou most sweete Sauiour and most merciful Lord Iesus thou that dying on the Crosse wast so pressed with anguish and torments for vs as made thee sound out that pitiful voyce vnto thy Father My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee we beseech thee estrange not thy selfe and turne not away thy face from thy seruant our brother now in the houre of his soules affliction when his strength faileth and his spirits are so spent that he cannot cal vpon thee heare vs ô Lord heare vs for him and for that thy glorious victory in which thou diddest triumph on the Crosse and for thy precious passion and bitter death think of him the thoughts of mercy and not of iustice shed thy mercies in his soule and speak comfortably to his conscience deliuer his soule out of all spirituall diseases saue him from the torments due vnto his deseruings and bring him for thine owne merits sake to eternall rest O Lord Iesus Christ which didst redeeme vs with thy precious blood write with thine owne blood in the soule and ingraue thy wounds in the heart of this thy seruant that in them hee may see and reade thy dolefull sufferings and thy sweete loue thy sufferings that they may be effectuall to ransome him from those sorrowes and torments which he hath merited by his sin thy loue that it may vnite his heart to thee in indiuisible and inseperable bonds so as he may neuer bee separated from thee nor thy Saints for euer and euer And Lord Iesus Christ we beseech thee make his soule partaker of all the merits of thy most sacred incarnation passion resurrection and ascension make him partaker of the vertue of thy most blessed Sacraments and all thy holy mysteries make him partaker of all the prayers and good deeds done in thy whole Church make him partaker of all thy blessings graces and comforts of all thy elect and grant that with them all hee may liue in thy presence for euermore O Lord which powredst out thy prayers for vs on the Mount Oliuer and sweatst water and blood wee beseech thee let that precious bloud of thine which thou diddest so aboundantly powre out for our saluation let it be presented and offered to thy Father to stand against the multitude of the sinnes of this thy seruant our brother Lord be with him at his last houre and then deliuer him from the anguish and torments which for his sinnes hee may iustly feare Graciously receiue his soule in the houre of his departure open the gate of heauen vnto him and giue him a portion with thy Saints in glory for thy owne most glorious merit O Lord Iesus Christ who with God the Father and the holy Ghost liuest and raignest one God for euermore Amen And when the sicke mans strength begins to faile and the soule is ready to depart then let the soule be commended to God by one of the by standers on this manner The commendation of the Soule to be said at a mans death I Here commend thee to Almighty God most deare Brother and I doe commit thee to him whose creature thou art goe forth therefore O Christian soule get thee gone out of this filthy world goe forth in the name of the Almighty Father who created thee In the name of Iesus Christ who dyed for thee In the name of the holy Ghost who hath beene powred out vpon thee And when thou happy soule art deliuered out of the prison of the body the glorious Quire of heauenly Angels meete thee and the company of all holy Saints entertaine thee the louing countenance and cheerefull grace of Iesus Christ shine vpon thee a mercifull Iudge be he vnto thee that thou maist haue sentence to sit for euer amongst his Saints on his right hand thy dwelling bee in peace and thy habitation in the heauenly Ierusalem for euermore farre be it from thee euer to feele or know how horrible the darkenesse how terrible the flame and how intolerable the torments of hell are Sathan and all his hellish guard bee they confounded at thy presence and if he dare set vpon thee victory triumph be on thy side shame and trembling fall vpon him from the presence of Gods Angels be he banished into the blacke mists and confused Chaos of eternall darkenesse But let the Lord arise and let his enemies bee scattered as the smoake vanisheth so let them flye away But let the iust be exalted and reioyce in the presence of the Lord let the infernall legions not dare to touch thee nor presume to hinder thee and hee who disdained not to dye for thee be hee thy Sauiour and deliuerer from all spirituall vexation Be the gates of Paradise open vnto thee and thy Christ giue thee thy place and mansion in the same And he that is the true Pastor and great Shepherd of the