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A10206	The life of the holy and venerable mother Suor Maria Maddalena De Patsi a Florentine lady, & religious of the Order of the Carmelites. Written in Italian by the Reuerend Priest Sigr. Vincentio Puccini, who was sometymes her ghostly father. And now translated into English.; Vita di Santa Maria Maddalena de Pazzi. English	Puccini, Vincenzio.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1619 (1619)	STC 20483; ESTC S101534	127,169	365

Ghost in seuerall formes CHAP. 14. ABOVE all the Extasies of this beloued Spouse of Iesus that one was admirable which she had vpon the Vigil of the holy Ghost in the yeare 1585. wherin she remayned eight continuall dayes from the sayd Vigil vntill the feast of the Blessed Trinity returning only to her senses for the space of two houres euery day wherin she recyted her office and prouided for the necessity of her life by feeding only vpon a little bread and water and taking very little rest In this tyme she did euery morning receaue at the houre of Tertia the Holy Ghost in diuers forms of Fire of a Riuer of a Doue of a Pillar of a Clowd of a Wind and of Flaming tongues And at the same tyme she became so ioyfull and bright and did speake so sublimely of the most hidden Mysteries that it was a thing miraculous And yet further whilest she was speaking in the person of the Eternall Father or of Christ or of her selfe her voyce would be changed in such sort that euen without vnderstanding the wordes one might haue knowne that they were diuers persons which discoursed by her tongue So many were the spirituall intelligences which our Lord communicated vnto her in this Rapt as that being set downe by the Religious as she produced them they make a iust volume whereof is compiled an addition to the third part of her life But to giue some patterne of the aforesayd Extasis I say that on the Vigil of the holy Ghost which came that yeare vpon the eight of Iune she was called by the Eternall Father in these words Come my spouse the rest yet the impulse of my spirit Wherupon she remayned suddainly abstracted from her senses sayd Ecce venio venio citò citò venio And hauing beene a while in contemplation she began thus to speake in the person of the Incarnate Word Before thou enter into the admirable knowledge of my holy Ghost I will make knowne to thee what I meane to do with thee therfore be attentiue Heere she stayed a while and then resumed the discourse still in the person of the Eternall Word Know that vntill the day where you there below do celebrate that feast whereon thou didst so intrinsecally knit thy selfe to me and I in so great aboundance gaue my selfe to thee which was meant of the Profession which the yeare before she had made vpon the day of the most holy Trinity thou shalt be vnited to me in such sort that thou shalt be made partaker of diuin treasures Yet further know that for the space of fiue yeares as heertofore I told thee I will depriue thee of the feeling of my grace but not of my grace it selfe for that shall euer be in thee That priuation shall be made for the glory of my Father for the ioy of the Angells and of all the blessed spirits which stand assisting at the Throne of the most holy Trinity for the example of mortall creatures for the greater torment of damned soules for the confusion of Diuells for the ease of the soules in Purgatory and for the comfort of thy self I will also proceed with thee like to a valerous Captaine who before he exalt his souldier to high honour doth put him to many proofs and so I before I will exalt thee in the sight of my Father will proue thee first Thou shalt therfore indeauour to haue in thee the knowledge of thy being nothing and to be euer seconding and executing the internall inspirations which I will giue thee as hitherto thou hast done But although thou hast heeretofore done it with much indeauour yet heereafter thou must do it with much more Thou shalt procure to obserue nay I command thee that thou do obserue interiourly withall sincerity all the directions which I haue giuen thee Thou shalt reproue the defects of others speaking euer all truth I tell thee yet further that in all the Feria's Sexta's if thou wilt be attentiue at the houre when I dyed vpon the Crosse thou shalt receaue the spirit which I rendred to my eternall Father and although thou feele it not yet shall it euer descend on thee And as the creature cannot liue without a hart so I cannot be without thee whensoeuer thou shalt haue the knowledge of thy being nothing which as long as it remaynes in thee thou mayst well be confident that thou shalt euer be vnited to me And my peace shall be with thee although it may seeme to thee that thou art in continuall warre because in this probation which I will make of thee many infernall Lyons will come forth against thee beating thee and giuing thee torments Nor shall they only striue to beate thee exteriourly but also interiourly with greater fury yet they shall not be permitted by me to haue power to conquer thee but thou shalt euer be stored with this same grace of myne which now thou hast Nay how much more they come towards thee with violence so much more shall my fauourable assistance towards thee superabound although it is to be without any feeling comfort of thyne To this she answered cheerfully sufficit mihi gratia tua And after hauing beene a while in silence the discourse of the Incarnate Word followed on with great earnestnes and aboundance of speach to this effect There will not be wanting such as I haue appointed to fauour thee this was sayd by her Patron-Saints in bringing to thee spirituall food and thou shalt speedily flye vnder the shaddow of my purity not making any motion or operation without that although yet euen this shall be without the feeling of my grace Against the fiue grieuous temptations by which thou shalt be most assaulted thou shalt arme thy selfe with the gifts which already I haue communicated to thee Thou shalt take in the first assault my purity In the second my hart and thyne In the third my woundes which thou hast of me In the fourth the crowne of thorns which I wore In the fifth the great desire which thou hast of the saluation of my creatures And if all the Diuells in hell come with great fury to fright thee thou shalt not yet be afrayd for as their Enuy hath no end so I will neuer be wanting to continue my grace in thee And faile not thou to relate that which thou shalt participate therein This was meant by the high Intelligences which he would be pleased to graunt her as afterwards appeared After these words she hauing heard those heauenly directions replyed in her owne person O thou only begotten O Incarnate and humane Word who can execute thy great workes In respect of thee they are little but for me they are great Vpon this thought she remayned a while in silence finding her selfe still to be filled more and more with the Spirit of God she followed thus Who shall euer be able to resist so great assaults but such a one as is transformed into thee O my God

without troublesome considering of any thing which might concerne either her selfe or others that her memory should forget all thinges except the benefits receaued by him that her will should desire none of these earthly things but only do that whereby his diuine Maiesty might be pleased Finally he would haue her resigne all these facultyes of mind vnto his Prouidence and cast her selfe like a dead body into his hands Our Lord also told her his pleasure was That she should enter like another Daniel into a lake of Lions that is into a multitude of most horrible tentations which were to last fiue yeares That by her infernall enemyes she should be extremely afflicted vexed And to conclude that after the manner of gould she should be cast into the furnace of troubles and vexations both of body and mind wherby she might afterwards appeare more beautifull in the sight of God She further vnderstood That she was to enter into these tribulations as into a lake vpon the next feast of the solemnity of the Holy Ghost and by our Lord she was certifyed that in all these battails she should obteyne victory for the Word in the lake it self would preserue her the most sacred Virgin S. Augustine S. Ang●lus the Carmelite S. Catharine of Siena to all whome she was particulerly deuoted should bring her the food of spirituall comfort which they were to deriue from the Humanity of the Word by the vigour wherof she was to be restored and should not be ouercome by those tentations The Eternall Father did also promise That before this Probation he would infuse the Holy Ghost into her soule to the end that being fortifyed by such a buckler of defence she might more cheerfully enter into this battaile against the Diuells And besides he shewed her the lake of Lyons that is the tribulations and tentations that she was to endure after hauing receaued the holy Ghost Whereupon by this spectacle she grew instantly extremely pale shewing excessiue horrour at the sight of the most vgly formes of Diuels which appeared before her in the shape of hideous cruell beasts But yet neuertheles she offered her selfe with a cheerefull hart to the Eternall Father for the suffering of whatsoeuer tormēts or tentations How she was called three tymes by God and by him were giuen twenty Rules to be obserued by her CHAP. 10. THERE past not much tyme when once after hauing communicated she againe found her self to be called by Iesus in these wordes Come hither O my Spouse for I am he who drew thee out of my owne vnderstanding and placed thee in thy Mothers wombe where I was delighted in thee To this vocation she suddainly hearkned seeking vp down the Monastery where her Iesus might be and her countenance was extraordinarily inflamed In the the meane tyme she heard her selfe called againe in this manner O come for I am he who drew thee out of thy Mothers wombe vniting my selfe to thee and taking pleasure in thee She did therfore now with greater zeale proceed in the search of Iesus but the heauenly voyce not ceasing called her the third time with these wordes Come hither O thou elected soule for I will giue thee a Rule make a bound to thy passions for the whole tyme of thy life vntill I bring thee to delight and enioy me in the land of the liuing As soon as she heard these words she becam immouable abstracted into Extasie At which tyme there were giuen to her by the eternal Word twenty rules which she was to obserue throughout all her life for her greater profit in the perfection of vertue which she in the person of the VVord deliuered in this manner I the Spouse of thy soule and the Word of my Eternall Father do giue thee a Rule in the same act of loue wherewith I graunted made thee partaker of the greatnes of my purity o thou beloued of me who am beloued note this Rule which is myne and thyne myne because I prescribe it and thyne because thou art to obserue it 1. First I require of thee that in all thy actions internall and externall thou haue an eye to that Purity which I haue made thee vnderstand and imagine that euery one of thy wordes and works are to be the last of thy life 2. Thou shalt procure to the vttermost of thy power and of the grace which I will giue thee to haue as many eyes as thou shalt gaine soules 3. Thou shalt neuer giue any counsaile nor impose any commandement although thou haue authority so to do till first thou shalt haue made it knowne to me as I am hanging vpon the Crosse 4. Thou shalt not obserue any defect nor reproue it in any mortall creature till first thou shalt haue knowne that thy selfe it more vnworthy then that creature 5. Thy words shall be sincere true graue and far from all flattery and thou shalt be euer bringing me for an example to the works which are to be performed by the Creatures 6. Take care that with such as are thy ●qualls thy cheerefullnes do not take away thy grauity that thy grauity do not diminish ●n thee Meeknes and Humility 7. Let all thy actions be performed with ●uildnes and with so humble and sweet manner that they may be like so many loadstons to draw the creatures towards me and let them be done with so much prudence as that they may serue for a rule to the members of my body that is to the soules of my Religious and to thy Neighbours 8. Be thirsty as is the Harte after water night and day to be exercise Charity towards the members of my body making the same account of the weaknes wearines of thyne owne which thou makest of the ground whereon thou treadest 9. Thou shalt force thy selfe as much as I shall make thee able to be meate for the hungry drinke for the thirsty a garment for the naked a garden for the imprisoned and a solace for the afflicted 10. With such as I leaue in the sea of the world thou shalt be prudent as the serpēt and with myne elected soules thou shalt be simple as the Doue being affrayd of the former as of the face of a dragon but louing the later as so many Temples of the holy Ghost 11. Be euer subduing of thy Passions and demand grace of me wherewith to do it who haue dominion ouer all the creatures 12. Thou shalt condescend vnto my creatures and suffer with them as I whilest I was on earth proceeded with supreme charity towards them hauing euer in thyne eares that sentence which was afterward of myne Apostle Quis infirmatur ego non infirmor 13. Thou shalt neuer faile to giue any thing to any person when it is desired if thou haue power to dispose therof and thou shalt neuer depriue any creature of any thing that hath beene graunted to it vnles first thou consider that I am the searcher of thy hart that

who is blind in himselfe true in speaking of thee and of thy creatures He that shall conuerse with the creatures without giuing scandall or impediment to thy Loue. The meeke the peaceable and the patient After these and many such other intercourses of heauenly speach which as hath beene sayd are noted in a booke apart she added this in the person of the only begotten Word Feare nothing my deerest Child for I will euer remayne with thee and this probation which I am pleased to make of thee shall be an euident signe of the certainty of the great gifts and graces which I haue graunted thee Besides it shall be a meane of bringing thee vp to greater perfection If thou shalt be inuironed by great battailes not knowing which way to turne thy selfe nor conceauing that I am with thee yet know indeed that by me thou shalt neuer be abandoned To these words she answered Sufficit mihi gratia tua in excessu mentis mea non mouebor in aeternum And thus hauing humbled her selfe in the diuine presence after many other discourses she yeilded her selfe readily to the soueraign will of God by saying Omnia possum in te She entreth into the lake of Lyons that is to say into the battaile against the Diuells and vnderstandeth that she is to suffer for the good of soules CHAP. 15. IN this very Rapt vpon the day of the solemnity of the Holy Ghost she was conducted in height of spirit and the Lake of Lyons was shewed whereinto shortly she was to enter This was easily knowne by her words her becoming so very pale and sad as it moued euery one to compassion She then beheld a number of Diuells almost numberles who with frightfull tentatiōs threatned to assault her and she heard most horrible rorings as of the fiercest Lyons Whereupon with the very anguish hauing cast her selfe vpon her knees she deliuered words so deseruing pitty as made all them weep who were present But because she spake with extraordinary vehemency her speach could not be taken but a little at the first which was thus I inuite the heauen and the earth the inhabitants thereof to come and succour me Soone after turning her selfe towards God Where is sayd she O my God that sun of thy grace To me it seemes obscured thy goodnes seemeth to be wholy withdrawn from me I am now abandoned like a body that hath no part wherewith to help it selfe and as the trunke of a barren tree for hearing that thy grace is retyred from me I cannot help my selfe After this it was told her by Almighty God that she not being able to help her Neighbours otherwise he was pleased that she should do it by supporting of paynes and troubles for them Whereupon she added The cursed Heretikes nor can I name them in this action otherwise will be an occasion to me of most bitter paynes for although they did once receaue thy holy Ghost yet haue they not continued to possesse it And so many proud Spouses of thyne which haue rebelled from thee will prouoke these raging Lyons to come against me for the increase of my anguish affliction But at last O Word if those wretched soules will returne to thee I would esteeme my selfe happy and a thousand tymes contented that the Diuells should come vnto my torment I see I am round about enuironed with such cruell spectacles that I cannot conteyne my selfe whilest I heare their hideous noyse from extending also myne owne voyce And if I shall be forbidden to do so exteriourly yet I can neuer be so abridged interiourly but that I will exclayme so long to God as that I will be heard at last These diuellish spirits O my Iesus would fayne abolish all Fayth annihilate humility disgrace purity and in lieu of my resignation vnto thee would place in my hart a will peruerted Nor doe I meruaile that since they cannot bring this to passe they returne to me with so great fury and rage and striue to make so hideous noyse to the end that I may not heare the Orders which came downe to me from my God It happeneth to me as to one that expecteth death who hath no lesse affliction when he seeth the instrumēt which is to cut off his head then he hath whilest he is in the act of suffering I see well O my Lord that if thou shouldst retyre the power of thy hand these enemyes would depriue me of life They would fayne teare out my bowells which makes them run against me with such fury But my Spowse hath first placed in me his owne spirit and his hart withall those other gifts and graces and did after place me in this Probation and tentation resoluing that I should suffer for the creatures to the end that they may be conuerted to him I remember well O Word of certaine shaddowes which were giuen me by thee vnder which I was to fly for some space of time that I might loose the hearing of these horrible rorings and fearefull noyses and the seeing of this spectacle of Diuells which is so hideous O Eternall Word thou hast brought me into a great lake wherein I know not which way to turne my selfe where I may not see heare so many fierce beasts which run with open mouth towardes the deuouring of me What therefore shall I do It will be best that I take courage and do my selfe honour by it making a vertue of necessity that is by glorying in the paynes I endure Redime me à caluminantibus me Generatio mea ablata est conuoluta à me Oportet me gloriari in varijs tentationibus Timor tremor venerunt super me contexerunt me tenebrae Aestimata sum tamquam mortuus à corde O Lord cast thy right hand ouer me and giue me strength Many other things she proceeded to say and she also vnderstood in this Bapt that vntill the day of the most B. Trinity the feeling of the diuine grace should not be wholy withdrawn from her but that she was more to be fortifyed by God for her spirituall comfort Of fiue tentations which for fiue years did afflict her She had a signe from God tha● she was not deluded And how for the space of fiue houres she was beaten by Diuells CHAP. 16. AFTER that the Omnipotent God had fortifyed this true seruant of his with so many soueraigne conceptions enricht her with so many graces vpon the day of the most holy Trinity being the 16. of Iune in the sayd yeare 1585. when she returned from that Rapt wherein she had remayned for the space of eight dayes and nights successiuely he withdrew from her the delight and feeling of his grace Whereupon the hideous sight of Diuells and fierce tentations did at that tyme begin to afflict and fright her in such sort that it wold haue brought terrour and horrour to any humane creature whatsoeuer though of most innocent and holy life And as she had receaued from her