The
First
Survay
.
Purgatory
is
laid
open
,
with
all
the
hellish
paines
,
with
which
the
Soules
are
there
tormented
.
FOR
feare
,
least
my
discourses
(
Deare
Reader
)
should
not
prove
so
lucky
,
as
to
raise
up
thy
compassion
,
nor
my
words
so
prevalent
,
as
to
make
a
breach
,
or
deep
impression
in
thy
heart
,
(
which
is
the
main
thing
I
aime
at
,
in
this
whole
Treatise
)
I
am
resolved
,
to
have
recourse
to
that
pious
Stratagem
,
which
the
first
Jesuits
so
happily
made
use
of
,
in
the
conversion
of
the
Indies
.
Those
good
Fathers
were
not
at
first
well
skill'd
in
the
language
of
the
new
world
;
and
yet
their
zeale
,
would
be
still
carrying
them
on
to
preach
,
whilest
the
Indians
stood
listning
and
staring
at
them
,
but
could
understand
little
or
nothing
.
This
would
not
have
done
their
work
,
had
they
not
withall
used
this
device
,
to
take
with
them
into
the
Pulpit
certain
devout
pictures
,
which
they
had
carried
out
of
Europe
,
in
which
the
Passion
of
our
Blessed
Saviour
,
was
very
lively
represented
;
here
they
fir●t
shewed
the
most
bitter
torments
,
which
the
Son
of
God
endured
for
their
sakes
;
and
then
they
laboured
to
express
,
in
their
best
Indian
phrase
,
the
name
of
God
,
Saviour
of
the
World
,
most
holy
Prophet
,
and
the
like
,
pointing
still
at
the
picture
,
to
tell
them
,
that
he
whom
they
saw
so
cruelly
misused
,
was
the
very
man
they
spake
of
.
And
this
they
followed
with
showers
of
teares
,
preaching
Christs
Passion
,
more
with
their
eyes
then
their
tongues
;
and
figuring
their
discourses
with
sighs
and
sobs
,
and
a
mournfull
voice
,
in
liew
of
other
tropes
,
and
Metaphors
.
Who
would
believe
it
?
The
Barbarians
,
at
the
sight
of
so
lamentable
a
spectacle
,
out
of
a
naturall
compassion
,
seconded
by
an
interior
impulse
of
divine
grace
,
burst
forth
into
fountaines
of
tears
,
and
became
strangely
concerned
,
for
that
poor
patient
,
whom
they
beheld
only
in
Effigie
.
The
heart
has
this
property
to
understand
the
language
of
hearts
,
let
the
expressions
of
the
tongue
be
never
so
imperfect
;
and
the
eyes
are
of
that
sympatheticall
nature
,
that
when
eyes
speak
to
them
,
in
floods
of
teares
,
in
liew
of
full
periods
,
they
instantly
melt
also
into
teares
;
and
so
mingle
their
griefs
,
with
a
strange
kind
of
Sympathy
,
and
neare
alliance
.
What
the
tongue
cannot
utter
,
the
eye
speaks
aloud
,
and
the
heart
,
and
the
very
ayre
of
the
whole
countenance
of
a
man
,
who
seems
to
carry
his
very
heart
on
his
brow
.
Seeing
therefore
my
discourses
may
fall
short
of
what
I
pretend
,
I
am
now
going
about
to
lay
Purgatory
open
,
to
represent
I
say
,
unto
your
view
,
as
in
a
Mapp
or
Picture
,
that
bloody
tragedy
which
is
acted
there
,
not
in
sport
&
merriment
,
alas
!
but
with
horrour
and
amazement
.
And
if
you
dare
not
with
the
eye
of
faith
,
contemplate
this
sad
and
horrid
spectacle
in
it self
,
at
least
refuse
not
to
look
upon
this
picture
,
which
I
am
going
to
delineate
,
to
give
you
a
rude
draught
of
the
just
rigour
of
Almighty
God
,
in
purging
holy
soules
,
and
as
it
were
distilling
them
by
drops
in
a
fiery
limbeck
.
§
1.
Of
the
fire
of
Purgatory
,
and
paine
of
sense
.
IT
was
a
strange
peice
of
niceness
,
that
of
the
Grecians
in
the
Councel
of
Florence
,
to
boggle
at
the
smoke
and
fire
of
Purgatory
,
and
yet
withall
to
confess
it
,
to
be
a
darke
and
dreadful
dungeon
,
an
abysse
of
mere
gri●f
and
torments
;
as
if
they
would
have
been
content
,
all
other
engines
of
cruelty
should
have
place
there
,
to
play
the
executioners
,
so
they
might
but
have
leave
to
banish
fire
,
from
having
any
thing
to
do
,
in
the
purgation
of
soules
.
The
Latin
Fathers
laboured
to
He
shall
be
saved
,
yet
so
as
by
fire
,
which
cannot
be
meant
of
hell
fire
,
as
the
Grecians
understood
it
,
because
there
is
no
salvation
or
redemption
to
be
expected
,
but
well
of
the
fire
of
Purgatory
,
which
is
designed
only
,
for
the
purifying
of
saved
soules
.
And
though
they
thought
fit
afterwards
to
wave
that
controversie
for
peace
sake
,
and
not
to
press
on
to
a
definition
;
yet
is
it
a
doctrine
very
generally
received
,
and
taught
by
the
holy
Fathers
,
and
Doctours
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
and
very
consonant
to
the
dictates
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
in
divine
Scriptures
,
that
there
is
a
reall
and
corporeall
fire
in
Purgatory
,
and
that
the
soules
which
depart
this
life
,
without
first
cancelling
their
many
failings
and
imperfections
,
by
satisfactory
workes
,
are
necessarily
plunged
into
merciless
flames
,
which
by
little
and
little
,
eate
away
all
that
dross
and
impurity
,
which
till
expiated
,
obstructs
their
entrance
into
heaven
.
Nor
is
it
possible
to
my
thinking
to
rayse
any
argument
of
substance
,
to
discredite
these
purging
flames
,
which
will
not
also
be
levelled
at
the
extinguishing
of
hell
fire
,
which
notwithstanding
holy
Writ
assures
u●
,
to
be
prepared
for
the
divill
and
his
Angels
.
Augustin
de
civit.
21.
10.
I
am
sure
St.
Austin
finds
the
same
difficulty
,
how
the
divels
and
mens
souls
can
be
tormented
with
fire
;
and
gives
the
same
solution
to
both
,
with
a
Why
should
we
not
say
,
that
incorporeal
spirits
may
be
truly
tormented
with
corporeal
fire
,
though
after
a
strange
and
wonderful
manner
?
Must
we
presently
renounce
the
Oracles
of
Gods
Church
,
because
we
cannot
fathom
them
with
our
narrow
capacity
?
the
very
fundamentals
of
our
Faith
would
be
shrewdly
shaken
,
should
we
measure
them
by
this
preposterous
rule
,
of
a
seeming
demonstration
to
the
contrary
.
Believe
it
,
it
is
one
of
the
first
rudiments
,
but
main
principles
of
a
Christian
,
to
captivate
his
understanding
,
and
so
re●ulate
all
his
dictamens
,
that
they
be
sure
to
run
paralell
with
the
sentiments
of
the
Church
.
And
this
I
take
to
be
the
case
,
when
the
question
is
started
,
about
Purgatory
fire
,
which
I
shall
ever
reckon
,
in
the
classe
of
those
truths
,
which
cannot
be
contradicted
,
without
manifest
temerity
,
as
being
the
doctrine
generally
preached
and
taught
all
over
Christendome
.
You
must
then
conceive
Purgatory
They
were
not
much
out
of
Suar.
d.
45.
Sect.
2.
n
:
14.
S.
Th.
in
4.
d.
21.
q.
1.
the
very
same
fire
,
which
burns
both
the
holy
soules
&
the
damned
spirits
,
&
the
pain
of
loss
is
in
both
places
,
the
chief
torment
,
as
I
shall
declare
hereafter
.
Now
does
not
your
hair
stand
an
end
?
does
not
your
heart
tremble
,
when
you
heare
that
the
poore
soules
,
in
Purgatory
are
tormented
with
the
same
,
or
the
like
flames
to
those
of
the
damned
?
Can
you
hold
from
crying
out
,
with
the
Prophet
Isay
,
who
devouring
fire
,
and
unquenchable
ardours
?
Heavens
!
what
a
lamentable
case
is
this
?
Those
miserable
soules
,
who
of
late
when
they
were
wedded
to
their
bodies
,
were
so
nice
and
dainty
forsooth
,
that
they
durst
scarce
venture
to
enjoy
the
comfortable
heat
of
a
fire
,
but
under
the
protection
of
their
skreens
and
their
fans
,
for
feare
of
sullying
their
complexions
,
and
if
by
chance
,
a
sparke
had
been
so
rude
,
as
to
light
upon
them
,
or
a
little
smoak
,
it
was
not
to
be
endured
:
Those
,
for
whom
down
it self
was
too
hard
,
and
even
ready
to
break
their
bones
,
one
single
grain
of
misfortune
,
a
stone
but
as
big
as
a
nutt
,
a
rotten
tooth
,
a
sullen
and
malignant
humour
,
stoln
into
the
marrow
of
a
bone
,
a
cross
word
,
an
affront
,
an
idle
fancy
,
a
meer
dream
,
was
enough
to
bury
their
whole
felicity
in
a
kind
of
hell
.
Alas
!
how
will
it
fare
with
them
when
they
shall
see
themselves
tied
to
unmercifull
firebrands
,
or
imbodied
as
it
were
with
flames
of
fire
,
surrounded
with
frightful
darkness
,
broyled
and
consumed
without
intermission
,
and
perhaps
condemned
to
the
same
fire
,
with
which
the
divels
are
unspeakably
tormented
?
When
Saul
found
himself
beset
on
all
sides
,
and
in
the
midst
of
his
enemies
,
and
saw
,
that
he
must
either
dye
instantly
,
or
fall
into
the
hands
of
that
base
and
accursed
crue
.
Oh
let
me
rather
die
(
cryed
he
)
he
will
do
me
a
favour
that
will
cut
my
throat
,
Good
God!
how
the
great
Saints
and
Doctours
astonish
me
,
when
they
treate
of
this
fire
,
and
of
the
paine
of
sence
as
they
tall
it
.
For
they
peremptorily
pronounce
,
that
the
fire
that
purges
those
both
happy
and
unhappy
Soules
surpasses
all
the
torments
,
which
are
to
be
found
in
this
miserable
life
of
man
,
or
are
possible
to
be
invented
,
for
so
far
they
go
.
Out
of
which
assertion
it
cleerly
follows
,
that
the
furious
fits
of
the
stone
,
feavour
or
raging
gout
,
the
tormenting
chollick
,
with
all
the
horrible
convulsions
of
the
worst
of
diseases
nay
though
you
joyn
racks
,
grid-Irons
,
boyling
oyles
,
wild
beasts
,
and
a
hundred
horses
drawing
several
waies
,
and
tearing
one
limb
from
another
,
with
all
the
other
hellish
devices
of
the
most
barbarous
and
cruell
Tyrants
,
all
this
does
not
reach
to
the
least
part
of
the
mildest
pains
in
Purgatory
.
For
thus
they
discourse
:
the
fire
,
and
the
pains
of
the
other
world
are
of
another
nature
from
those
of
this
life
,
because
God
elevates
them
above
their
nature
to
be
instruments
of
his
severity
.
Now
,
say
they
,
things
of
an
inferior
degree
can
never
reach
to
the
power
of
such
things
as
are
of
a
higher
ranke
;
for
example
,
the
ayre
let
it
be
never
so
inflamed
,
unless
it
be
converted
into
fire
,
can
never
be
so
hot
as
fire
.
Besides
God
bridles
his
rigour
,
in
this
world
,
but
in
the
next
he
lets
the
reines
loose
,
and
punishes
almost
equally
to
the
desert
.
And
since
those
soules
have
preferred
creatures
before
their
Creatour
,
he
seems
to
be
put
upon
a
necessity
of
punishing
them
beyond
the
ordinary
strength
of
creatures
,
and
hence
it
is
,
that
the
fire
of
Purgatory
burnes
more
,
torments
and
afflicts
more
,
then
all
the
creatures
of
this
life
are
able
to
doe
.
But
is
it
Aug.
in
Ps
.
37.
S.
Th.
supp
.
q.
100.
a
3.
&
in
4.
d.
21.
S.
Greg.
in
3.
Ps.
Penitent
:
S.
Anselm
.
in
Elucydario
.
really
true
;
that
the
least
pain
in
Purgatory
exceeds
the
greatest
here
upon
earth
?
O
God!
the
very
proposal
makes
me
tremble
for
feare
,
and
my
very
hart
freeses
into
ice
with
astonishment
.
And
yet
who
dare
oppose
*
St.
Aug.
St.
Thomas
,
St.
Anselme
,
St.
Gregory
the
great
,
&c.
Is
there
any
hope
of
carrying
the
negative
assertion
against
such
a
stream
of
Doctours
,
who
all
maintain
the
affirmative
,
and
bring
so
strong
reasons
for
it
?
Have
patience
to
heare
them
yet
once
more
;
sinne
,
say
they
,
exceeds
all
creatures
in
malice
,
and
therefore
let
it
be
never
so
little
,
it
must
deserve
a
punishment
exceeding
all
the
pain
that
can
proceed
from
creatures
.
Again
,
creatures
here
below
do
nothing
above
their
natural
reach
and
capacity
,
they
act
only
within
the
sphere
of
their
limited
forces
,
whereas
the
fire
that
is
designed
to
purify
guilty
soules
,
derives
its
vigour
and
force
from
God
,
Who
being
Almighty
,
and
besides
provoked
to
displeasure
,
makes
it
so
active
and
so
prevalent
,
that
there
is
nothing
can
be
compared
with
it
.
And
they
adde
unto
all
this
a
world
of
visions
,
and
revelations
,
which
seem
to
countenance
the
rigour
of
their
position
.
What
then
will
become
of
thee
,
poore
idle
soul
,
if
the
least
pains
in
Purgatory
surpasse
the
greatest
in
this
world
,
what
I
say
,
will
become
of
thee
that
art
so
tender
,
that
a
little
smoak
is
able
to
draw
tears
from
thy
eyes
?
But
for
thy
comfort
,
there
are
Doctours
in
the
Catholick
church
,
that
cannot
away
with
so
much
severity
,
and
namely
St.
Bonaventure
,
who
is
very
peremptory
Bonavent
.
in
4
d.
20.
in
denying
it
.
For
what
way
is
there
(
saies
this
holy
Doctor
)
to
verify
so
great
a
paradox
,
without
wounding
reason
,
and
destroying
the
infinite
mercy
of
the
living
God
.
I
am
easily
perswaded
there
are
torments
in
Purgatory
far
exceeding
any
in
this
mortall
life
,
this
is
most
certain
,
and
it
is
but
reasonable
it
should
be
so
,
but
that
the
least
there
,
should
be
more
terrible
then
the
most
terrible
in
the
world
,
cannot
enter
into
my
belief
.
May
it
not
often
fall
out
,
that
a
man
comes
to
dye
,
in
a
most
eminent
state
of
perfection
,
save
only
,
that
in
his
last
agony
,
out
of
mere
frailty
,
he
commits
a
venial
sin
,
or
carries
along
with
him
some
relique
of
his
former
failings
,
which
might
have
been
easily
blotted
out
with
a
Pater
noster
,
or
wash'd
away
with
a
little
holy
water
:
for
I
suppose
,
it
is
some
very
small
matter
,
now
,
what
likelihood
is
there
,
I
will
not
say
,
that
the
infinite
mercy
of
God
,
but
that
the
very
rigour
of
his
justice
,
though
you
conceive
it
to
be
never
so
severe
,
should
inflict
so
horrible
a
punishment
upon
this
holy
soul
,
as
not
to
be
equalled
by
the
greatest
torments
in
this
life
,
and
all
this
for
some
petty
fault
,
scarse
worth
the
speaking
of
?
How
!
would
you
have
God
for
a
kind
of
trifle
,
to
punish
a
soule
full
of
grace
and
vertue
,
and
so
severely
to
punish
her
,
as
to
exceed
all
the
racks
,
cauldrons
,
furnaces
,
and
other
hellish
inventions
,
which
are
scarce
inflicted
upon
the
most
execrable
criminals
in
the
world
?
What
do
you
make
God
to
be
!
is
he
not
a
God
of
mercy
in
the
other
world
as
well
as
in
this
?
He
,
says
Tertullian
,
that
is
so
sweet
Su.
d.
40.
3
,
4.
purpose
,
that
in
truth
the
pains
of
Purgatory
,
and
those
of
this
life
,
are
of
quite
different
species's
and
can
no
more
be
compared
together
,
then
a
flint
with
a
Diamond
,
but
that
there
may
be
so
many
flints
put
together
as
to
exceed
the
worth
of
a
Diamond
,
&
so
may
the
pains
of
this
life
be
so
multiplied
,
as
to
surmount
the
least
of
those
in
Purgatory
.
§
2.
Of
the
Worm
and
pain
of
loss
.
BUt
why
do
I
entertain
you
so
long
,
with
the
consideration
of
the
fire
and
flames
of
Purgatory
,
as
if
it
were
the
only
or
the
greatest
torment
of
the
afflicted
soules
.
Alas
!
there
is
a
worme
which
knawes
them
yet
more
to
the
quick
,
then
those
murthering
flames
,
which
make
but
an
outward
assault
.
It
is
this
worme
alas
!
it
is
this
worme
,
that
plays
the
tyrant
over
those
captive
soules
.
The
worme
of
hell
shall
never
dye
,
But
to
give
you
in
fine
a
more
particular
description
of
this
unsatiable
,
Judic
.
c.
11
&c.
18.
could
have
died
for
grief
when
he
saw
that
by
his
own
rashnesse
he
was
to
loose
his
onely
daughter
,
the
light
of
his
Eyes
,
the
life
of
his
Soul
,
and
Soul
of
his
life
.
And
that
poore
youth
,
from
whom
they
had
stolne
his
gods
,
although
they
were
meere
Idols
,
yet
did
he
take
on
most
bitterly
,
and
was
become
so
disconsolate
,
there
was
no
chiding
him
out
of
that
humour
.
What!
said
he
have
you
rob'd
me
of
my
gods
,
and
do
you
now
question
me
,
why
I
lament
,
as
if
he
had
not
cause
enough
to
grieve
,
who
has
lost
his
gods
?
And
you
may
observe
,
it
was
not
his
fault
that
they
were
lost
,
and
besides
they
were
but
gods
of
wood
and
stone
,
such
as
a
skilfull
Artist
would
have
made
farr
better
.
The
case
here
is
different
,
for
the
Souls
clearly
see
,
they
have
lost
God
,
through
their
own
carelesness
,
and
lost
him
for
ten
,
twenty
or
perhaps
thirty
years
,
and
this
puts
them
out
of
the
reach
of
all
comfort
.
T
is
true
,
here
below
we
are
not
able
to
taste
the
bitternesse
of
this
wormwood
,
but
those
pure
Souls
who
are
in
the
grace
of
God
,
and
full
of
light
,
and
well
grounded
discourses
,
see
so
clearly
the
grossenesse
and
foulnesse
of
this
errour
,
and
taste
so
sensibly
the
gall
and
bitternesse
thereof
,
that
it
is
a
more
vexing
pain
to
them
,
then
that
of
the
fire
.
But
you
will
say
,
it
is
but
for
a
short
time
,
that
they
are
to
be
kept
out
of
paradise
.
O
God!
this
is
enough
to
break
their
hearts
,
for
in
that
short
time
you
speak
of
,
they
could
have
exercised
a
Million
of
most
refined
,
heroicall
,
and
divine
acts
in
Heaven
and
all
this
is
lost
.
And
if
one
act
of
vertue
here
on
Earth
,
give
so
much
glory
to
God
,
and
so
much
joy
to
the
whole
Court
of
Heaven
,
what
a
losse
is
it
,
to
have
carelesly
let
slip
the
occasion
of
excercising
a
million
of
such
acts
in
Heaven
,
which
can
never
be
recalled
?
I
speak
not
for
the
merit
,
nor
for
the
content
there
is
in
doing
well
,
nor
for
the
degrees
of
glory
which
are
lost
,
no
,
I
touch
not
yet
what
concernes
their
interest
,
but
I
onely
treat
of
the
glory
which
they
might
have
given
to
God
,
by
their
signal
services
of
Love
and
Adoration
;
all
which
pretious
treasure
is
negligently
cast
away
.
When
that
Now
if
you
lay
on
the
back
of
But
since
these
two
Wormes
,
This
is
not
all
,
for
divines
Now
I
must
tell
you
plainly
,
all
I
know
St.
Bonaventure
strives
to
§.
3.
Other
Considerations
much
aggrevating
these
Pains
.
BUt
that
which
adds
new
Life
loose
God
willfully
.
and
strength
to
these
quick
and
piercing
pains
,
is
to
see
that
they
have
not
only
willfully
lost
for
ever
so
many
degrees
of
glory
,
whereof
the
least
is
an
inestimable
treasure
,
but
are
also
estranged
from
the
sight
of
God
,
by
their
own
carelesness
and
tepidity
.
To
want
the
sight
of
God
out
of
charity
,
is
to
find
a
kind
of
Paradice
in
Hell
,
but
to
loose
the
sight
of
God
by
his
own
fault
,
though
it
be
but
for
a
moment
,
is
a
Hell
indeed
to
a
Soul
that
loves
.
Naturalists
tell
us
of
a
little
bird
,
th●●
is
so
far
in
love
with
the
sun
,
that
she
lives
no
longer
then
she
can
behold
it
,
and
so
lives
but
a
few
hours
,
for
no
sooner
does
the
sun
set
,
but
the
poor
bird
seeing
no
longer
the
living
rayes
of
the
sun
,
believing
it
to
be
really
dead
,
dies
also
,
as
not
being
able
to
survive
the
sole
object
of
his
love
.
God
is
the
Sun
of
our
Souls
,
and
therefore
these
worthy
Souls
,
seeing
this
Sun
quite
ecli●sed
from
their
eyes
,
and
overcast
with
the
sable
night
of
a
suffering
people
,
would
doubtless
die
if
they
could
,
for
God
being
the
life
of
their
life
,
having
lost
his
life
,
how
should
they
live
?
When
the
Blessed
Virgin
and
St.
Joseph
had
lost
the
sight
of
the
little
Infant
Jesus
,
what
Tongue
can
express
the
affliction
of
their
Souls
?
He
only
knows
who
has
tried
it
by
experience
,
and
whose
eyes
God
hath
opened
,
what
it
is
to
loose
the
sight
of
God
and
to
loose
it
through
his
own
fault
,
and
to
be
as
it
were
poin●●d
at
,
for
a
wretch
that
has
lost
〈◊〉
God
.
I
wept
sayes
holy
David
,
and
I
You
may
imagine
all
the
vertues
All
were
lost
,
if
the
opinion
of
some
were
true
,
who
will
needs
have
the
Devils
play
the
executioners
in
Purgatory
.
Lord
,
what
a
terrible
warr
would
these
wicked
Aposta●a's
raise
,
against
the
holy
Soules
,
who
are
ere
long
to
take
possession
of
the
places
which
they
have
lost
in
Heaven
.
With
what
a
rage
would
they
assault
them
,
&
wreak
their
barbarous
fury
upon
them
,
were
they
to
be
treated
at
their
mercy
.
But
I
had
rather
And
yet
there
remains
one
§
4.
How
long
the
Souls
are
detained
in
Purgatory
?
IF
all
these
punishments
passed
away
like
a
tempest
,
if
the
time
of
their
continuance
were
but
short
,
their
case
were
not
so
deplorable
.
But
how
long
think
you
does
a
soul
dwell
in
Purgatory
?
First
,
it
is
most
certain
,
that
these
pains
are
not
eternal
,
otherwise
it
were
not
Purgatory
,
but
hell
it self
;
for
in
this
chiefly
lies
the
difference
between
hell
and
Purgatory
,
that
the
pains
of
Purgatory
,
lasts
but
for
a
time
;
those
of
hell
for
an
eternity
.
Again
,
it
is
most
certain
,
that
they
survive
not
the
day
of
Judgment
,
and
St.
Augustine
proves
it
evidently
,
because
then
all
souls
are
to
Sotus
held
a
singular
opinion
of
his
own
;
that
no
soule
Sect.
in
4.
d.
17.
q.
3.
remains
in
Purgatory
above
ten
years
.
For
,
said
he
,
we
must
set
some
bounds
to
the
rigour
of
Gods
justice
,
who
doth
all
things
in
number
,
weight
,
and
measure
,
and
is
said
to
dispose
all
things
sweetly
.
And
is
not
ten
years
of
most
bitter
pains
,
a
great
number
,
a
grievous
weight
and
an
everflowing
measure
,
to
say
nothing
of
so
many
prayers
,
so
many
masses
,
so
many
tears
,
so
many
priviledged
altars
,
and
Plenary
indulgences
,
so
many
almes
,
and
other
good
deeds
of
the
living
,
and
then
the
most
powerful
intercession
of
the
whole
court
of
Heaven
,
but
especially
of
our
blessed
Lady
,
and
her
beloved
son
,
who
is
the
Atturney
general
of
the
whole
Church
,
and
who
pleads
for
her
with
a
most
perswasive
and
divine
Rhetorique
.
Yet
for
all
this
,
I
must
tell
you
,
many
divines
lay
heavy
censures
upon
this
opinion
,
sticking
not
to
call
it
,
not
only
temerarious
,
but
also
erroneous
;
and
the
common
sense
of
the
church
is
quite
contrary
,
as
appears
by
the
immemorial
custome
,
of
perpetual
foundations
of
set
Masses
,
to
be
yearly
said
,
for
such
particular
persons
,
and
to
continue
to
the
worlds
end
,
all
which
would
be
needless
,
if
almighty
God
put
a
period
to
their
punishments
,
after
ten
years
;
for
to
what
purpose
are
those
Masses
after
the
ten
years
,
are
expired
?
And
though
the
most
learned
of
this
age
,
will
not
take
upon
them
to
condemne
this
opinion
of
errour
,
yet
they
all
accuse
it
of
much
temerity
,
There
are
some
few
of
late
,
are
faln
so
far
into
the
contrary
extream
,
that
they
cannot
afford
a
soule
once
in
Purgatory
,
should
ever
get
out
,
before
the
day
of
judgment
.
But
as
this
strange
Paradox
,
took
its
rise
chiefly
,
from
a
false
conceipt
,
of
the
nature
of
a
spiritual
substance
,
and
other
wilde
principles
of
a
new
minted
Philosophy
,
so
is
it
generally
cryed
down
,
and
not
only
contradicted
,
by
many
known
apparitions
,
&
revelations
,
which
the
Reader
will
meet
with
in
this
Treatise
,
attested
by
such
grave
Authours
,
and
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
that
he
has
little
reason
to
suspect
them
for
old
wives
tales
,
or
melancholly
dreams
,
as
these
men
would
have
them
:
but
seems
to
have
been
blasted
long
In
Bullar
.
Rom.
Conc.
Flor.
in
lit
.
vnionis
.
act
.
4.
agoe
,
and
condemned
,
in
a
particular
Bull
of
Pope
Benedict
the
eleaventh
,
and
in
the
holy
Council
of
Florence
,
where
it
was
expresly
defined
,
that
those
soules
which
after
they
have
contracted
the
blemish
of
sin
,
are
Purged
either
in
their
bodies
,
or
being
uncloathed
of
their
bodies
,
are
presently
received
into
heaven
.
And
since
the
Author
of
this
extravagance
,
will
have
Tradition
to
be
the
sole
rule
of
our
Faith
,
(
of
which
Tradition
,
we
can
have
no
clearer
proof
,
then
from
the
testimony
of
the
Church
)
let
him
but
look
into
the
general
doctrine
,
and
practice
of
the
church
,
both
now
at
this
present
,
and
time
out
of
minde
,
and
he
shall
discover
as
cleare
a
Tradition
,
for
this
common
perswasion
of
the
soules
being
released
out
of
Purgatory
,
some
sooner
,
some
later
,
according
to
their
own
deserts
,
and
the
relief
of
our
suffrages
,
as
for
any
other
thing
in
the
world
.
Do
not
good
people
generally
ground
themselves
upon
this
,
when
they
offer
up
their
prayers
,
give
almes
,
procure
Masses
and
Diriges
,
apply
Indulgences
,
for
the
present
relief
of
their
deceased
friends
?
Is
not
the
whole
practise
of
Christians
(
for
as
much
as
concernes
their
piety
to
the
faithfull
departed
)
built
so
wholly
upon
this
,
that
(
were
it
not
true
)
we
must
conclude
,
that
the
whole
Catholick
church
has
been
all
along
fooled
,
by
her
Pastors
and
Doctors
?
Who
has
ever
hitherto
so
much
as
fancied
it
in
a
dreame
,
that
his
suffrages
for
the
dead
,
were
to
be
of
no
greater
advantage
to
them
,
then
as
far
forth
as
they
had
power
,
to
advance
the
time
appointed
for
the
day
of
judgement
?
which
for
my
part
I
apprehend
so
coldly
,
that
,
did
I
not
relie
upon
better
motives
,
I
should
soon
lay
a
side
all
devotion
for
the
soules
departed
.
But
I
mean
not
here
to
dispute
the
question
,
since
this
Treatise
is
not
intended
so
much
,
in
a
polemical
,
as
in
an
affectuous
and
moving
way
,
And
therefore
I
leave
it
for
others
,
who
have
already
entered
the
lists
,
and
are
engaged
in
the
quarrel
.
And
so
I
take
no
notice
,
how
it
can
stand
with
Gods
impartial
justice
,
that
,
whereas
many
soules
may
leave
this
world
,
in
the
same
condition
,
as
to
Purgatory
,
that
is
(
in
this
Authors
opinion
)
with
the
same
bur●hen
of
depraved
affections
,
some
of
them
shall
lye
1000
years
in
Purgatory
,
to
wit
,
those
that
die
1000
years
before
the
day
of
judgement
,
an●
others
but
a
day
,
or
an
houre
,
or
a
moment
,
to
wit
,
those
that
die
immediately
before
that
general
accompting
day
.
For
since
he
owns
no
other
paine
in
Purgatory
,
but
that
which
flowes
from
the
said
crooked
inclinations
and
affections
bent
against
reason
(
which
I
suppose
to
be
the
same
in
all
)
why
should
some
of
them
(
as
it
must
necessarily
follow
in
these
principles
)
shake
them
off
so
soon
,
and
others
groan
so
long
under
them
?
Again
,
I
say
nothing
how
harshly
it
sounds
in
a
christians
eare
,
that
a
holy
soule
in
the
other
world
,
should
not
only
still
pursue
the
same
wicke●
inclinations
,
for
example
,
to
drunkenness
,
gluttony
,
and
carnality
,
which
she
had
in
this
life
,
but
that
this
should
be
her
only
punishment
.
I
say
as
little
,
how
in
this
opinion
,
great
sinners
,
that
die
immediately
Trid.
sess.
14.
c.
2.
Flor.
act.
4.
cit
.
after
baptisme
(
who
certainly
go
directly
into
heaven
)
must
needs
carry
their
Purgatory
with
them
into
heaven
.
For
since
it
is
evident
that
baptisme
does
not
blot
out
their
perverse
inclinations
,
they
cannot
be
dispossessed
of
them
,
but
must
of
necessity
carry
them
into
the
other
world
,
as
well
as
others
,
and
consequently
must
have
their
Purgatory
in
Heaven
,
Purgatory
being
nothing
else
with
him
,
but
the
inhering
strife
and
fury
of
such
irrational
affections
.
I
let
slip
a
world
of
other
absurdities
,
because
my
ayme
,
as
I
told
you
,
in
publishing
this
Treatise
,
is
not
to
canvase
curious
and
impertinent
questions
of
Purgatory
,
but
to
move
the
Reader
,
to
a
solid
devotion
for
the
poore
soules
,
which
I
feare
is
not
a
little
cooled
,
since
these
fond
opinions
came
to
light
.
But
now
me
thinkes
,
I
heare
my
Reader
very
inquisitive
to
know
.
§.
5.
Whether
their
pains-grow
less
and
less
?
IT
is
pitty
to
see
sometimes
how
your
greatest
divines
are
entangled
,
and
lost
in
their
over
subtile
speculations
.
As
for
the
pain
of
loss
,
which
the
soules
endure
by
being
deprived
of
the
sight
of
God
,
they
agree
;
that
,
it
is
daily
much
lessened
,
for
seeing
the
time
draw
nearer
,
in
which
they
are
to
be
made
happy
with
the
sight
of
God
,
whom
they
love
so
ardently
,
it
exceedingly
rejoyces
them
,
and
certainly
they
cannot
chuse
but
much
sweeten
,
and
consequently
lessen
their
pains
,
by
the
frequent
repetitions
of
that
devout
aspiration
,
which
St.
Teresia
was
wont
to
use
,
when
she
heard
the
clock
strike
.
O
lovely
houre
,
how
dost
thou
rejoyce
me
,
by
bringing
me
the
welcome
newes
,
that
I
am
now
a
whole
houre
nearer
to
the
sight
of
God
.
For
a
heart
that
loves
,
cannot
but
be
overjoyed
,
to
know
,
that
,
he
approaches
to
the
faire
object
of
his
love
,
though
it
be
but
a
moment
.
But
as
for
the
paine
of
sence
,
your
Doctors
are
divided
,
some
hold
,
that
as
for
the
continuance
,
that
is
certainly
shortned
every
day
,
by
the
day
that
is
past
,
which
is
evident
,
and
in
particular
,
that
the
prayers
of
the
faithfull
,
obtain
of
God
,
an
abridgement
of
the
length
of
the
time
,
which
he
taxed
for
their
punishment
,
so
that
the
more
one
prayes
for
the
souls
,
the
more
is
cut
off
,
of
the
time
of
their
suffering
,
which
by
that
means
becomes
the
more
tolerable
.
But
as
for
the
sharpeness
,
and
intenseness
of
the
paine
,
and
the
action
or
activity
of
the
fire
,
as
they
speak
in
schools
,
that
is
as
grievous
in
the
last
moment
,
as
at
the
first
,
and
as
painful
in
the
end
,
as
at
the
beginning
of
their
Purgatory
.
And
they
flatter
the
soules
,
as
if
this
were
best
for
them
,
because
the
greater
the
pains
are
,
which
they
endure
,
the
sooner
are
they
purged
,
and
made
worthy
to
enjoy
the
presence
of
God
.
Others
teach
,
that
as
well
the
paine
,
as
the
time
,
are
continually
lessened
,
according
to
the
proportion
of
the
relief
,
which
they
receive
from
the
suffrages
of
the
Church
.
And
why
not
?
since
Gods
goodness
is
so
great
,
such
is
the
desire
of
the
Church
that
begs
it
,
the
tears
of
the
faithful
pretend
to
no
less
,
and
we
must
not
consider
the
fire
as
an
Element
working
naturally
,
and
equally
at
all
times
,
but
rather
as
an
instrument
of
Gods
justice
,
who
gives
it
more
or
less
force
and
power
,
to
worke
upon
the
soules
,
as
he
pleases
.
Why
should
Almighty
God
,
who
is
so
loving
a
Father
,
refuse
to
give
this
relief
,
at
the
earnest
suite
of
children
,
in
behalf
of
their
Parents
,
Brothers
,
Sisters
,
and
dearest
friends
,
I
say
at
their
instance
,
who
are
so
sensible
of
their
torments
,
and
so
much
concerned
for
their
ease
and
relief
.
I
willingly
embrace
this
opinion
,
as
more
worthy
of
the
bowels
of
mercy
,
more
sympathizing
with
the
heart
of
Christ
Jesus
,
and
better
suiting
with
the
prayers
of
the
Church
,
and
the
sighs
of
Christians
.
And
certainly
none
can
better
clear
this
difficulty
,
then
the
soules
themselves
,
who
feel
the
pains
we
speak
of
,
and
these
have
often
by
Gods
permission
appeared
to
their
friends
and
devout
persons
,
and
born
witnesse
for
this
truth
;
that
their
pains
were
still
lessened
,
as
they
received
new
succour
,
from
the
pious
endeavours
of
their
friends
upon
earth
,
untill
they
came
at
length
to
cease
and
determine
.
And
we
must
not
here
be
too
nice
,
and
hard
of
belief
,
for
,
as
it
is
an
argument
of
too
much
rashnesse
and
folly
,
to
give
credite
to
all
pretended
visions
,
of
what
nature
soever
,
so
it
argues
too
much
brutishnesse
,
and
profaness
,
to
believe
none
;
especially
,
when
they
are
authorized
by
the
Church
,
and
by
persons
of
authority
and
credit
beyond
exception
,
that
we
must
either
believe
them
,
or
believe
nothing
in
this
World
.
§
6.
A
notable
example
in
confirmation
of
all
the
precedent
Doctrine
.
BEfore
I
leave
off
finishing
this
Picture
,
or
put
a
period
to
the
representation
of
the
pains
of
Purgatory
,
I
cannot
but
relate
a
very
remarkable
History
,
which
will
be
as
a
living
Picture
before
your
eyes
.
But
be
sure
you
take
it
not
to
be
of
the
number
of
those
idle
stories
,
which
passe
for
old
wives
tales
,
or
meere
imaginations
of
crackt
brains
and
simple
souls
.
No
,
I
will
tell
you
nothing
but
what
venerable
Bede
,
so
grave
About
the
year
of
our
Lord
690
a
certain
English
man
,
in
the
County
of
Northumberland
,
by
name
●rithelmus
,
being
dead
for
a
time
,
was
conducted
to
the
place
of
Purgatory
by
a
guide
,
whose
countenance
and
apparrell
was
full
of
light
;
you
may
imagine
it
was
his
good
Angel
,
Here
he
was
shewed
two
broad
Valleys
,
of
a
vast
and
infinite
length
,
one
full
of
glowing
firebrands
and
terrible
flames
,
the
other
as
full
of
Hail
,
Ice
,
and
Snow
,
and
in
both
these
innumerable
souls
,
who
as
with
a
whirlwinde
,
were
tossed
up
and
down
,
out
of
the
intollerable
scortching
flames
,
into
the
insufferable
rigours
of
cold
,
and
out
of
these
into
those
again
,
without
a
moment
of
repose
or
respit
.
This
he
took
to
be
hell
,
so
frightfull
were
those
torments
,
but
his
good
Angel
told
him
no
,
it
was
Purgatory
,
where
the
souls
did
pennance
for
their
sins
;
and
especially
such
as
had
differred
their
conversion
,
untill
the
houre
of
death
;
and
that
many
of
them
were
set
free
,
before
the
day
of
Judgment
,
for
the
good
Prayers
,
Almes
,
and
Fasts
of
the
living
,
and
chiefly
by
the
holy
sacrifice
of
the
Masse
.
Now
this
holy
man
being
raised
again
from
death
to
life
by
the
power
of
God
,
first
made
a
faithfull
relation
of
all
that
he
had
seen
,
to
the
great
amazement
of
the
hearers
,
then
retired
himself
into
the
Church
,
&
spent
the
whole
night
in
prayer
,
and
soon
after
,
gave
away
his
whole
estate
,
partly
to
his
wife
,
and
children
,
and
partly
to
the
poore
,
and
taking
upon
him
the
habit
,
and
profession
of
a
Monke
,
lead
so
austere
a
life
,
that
though
his
tongue
had
been
silent
,
yet
his
life
and
conversation
spake
a
loud
,
what
wonders
he
had
seen
in
the
other
world
.
Sometimes
they
should
have
seen
him
,
(
as
old
as
he
was
)
in
freezing
water
up
to
the
ears
,
praying
and
singing
with
much
sweetnesse
,
and
incredible
fervour
,
and
if
they
had
asked
him
,
brother
,
alas
!
how
can
you
suffer
so
much
sharpe
and
bitting
cold
?
O
my
friends
,
would
he
say
,
I
have
seen
other
manner
of
colds
then
these
.
Thus
when
he
even
groaned
under
the
voluntary
burthen
of
a
world
of
most
cruel
mortifications
;
and
was
questioned
,
how
it
was
possible
,
for
a
weak
and
broken
bod●
,
like
his
,
to
undergo
such
austerities
,
Alas
!
my
dear
brethren
would
he
still
say
,
I
have
seen
far
greater
austerities
then
these
,
they
are
but
roses
and
perfumes
in
comparison
of
what
I
have
seen
in
the
subterraneous
lakes
of
Purgatory
.
And
in
these
kind
of
austerities
,
he
spent
the
remainder
of
his
life
and
made
a
holy
end
,
and
purchased
an
eternal
Paradice
,
for
having
had
but
a
sight
of
the
pains
of
Purgatory
.
And
we
dear
Christians
if
we
believed
in
good
earnest
,
or
could
but
once
procure
to
have
a
true
sight
or
apprehension
of
them
,
should
certainly
have
other
thoughts
,
and
live
in
another
fashion
then
we
doe
.
The
second
Survey
.
A
Glimpse
of
the
Paradice
of
Purgatory
,
or
of
the
ineffable
Joyes
,
and
Heavenly
consolations
of
the
Soules
there
.
I
Do
not
stile
that
the
Paradice
Wherefore
under
the
notion
of
the
Paradice
of
Purgatory
,
I
understand
,
the
excessive
joyes
of
these
captive
souls
,
the
incomparable
acts
of
their
will
and
understanding
,
and
the
continual
favours
shour'd
down
upon
them
from
Heaven
,
even
amidst
their
most
cruel
torments
.
§.
1.
How
these
excessive
joyes
can
stand
with
their
unspeakable
torments
?
TO
make
this
good
,
we
must
But
you
must
observe
that
all
Now
will
you
clearly
see
,
how
the
souls
can
at
the
same
instant
,
swim
in
a
paradise
of
delights
,
and
●et
be
overwhelmed
with
the
hellish
torments
of
Purgatory
?
cast
your
eyes
upon
the
holy
Martyrs
of
Gods
Church
,
and
observe
their
behaviour
.
They
were
torn
,
mangled
,
dismembred
,
flead
alive
,
rackt
,
broyled
,
burnt
,
and
tell
me
,
was
not
this
to
live
in
a
kind
of
Hell
,
and
yet
in
the
very
height
of
their
torments
,
their
hearts
and
souls
,
were
ready
to
leape
for
joy
;
you
would
have
taken
them
,
to
be
already
transported
into
heaven
.
Hear
them
but
speak
for
themselves
.
O
lovely
Cross
,
made
and
the
Mother
of
the
Machabees
.
that
I
had
a
thousand
Children
,
or
a
thousand
lives
,
to
sacrifice
them
all
to
my
God
.
What
a
pleasure
it
is
,
to
suffer
for
so
good
a
cause
?
Welcome
tyrants
,
tygres
,
You
may
imagine
then
,
that
the
Souls
once
unfettered
from
the
body
,
may
together
with
their
torments
,
be
capable
of
great
comforts
,
and
divine
favours
,
and
break
forth
into
re●olute
,
heroical
and
supercelestial
acts
▪
The
holy
Ghost
tels
us
,
that
the
body
that
is
corrupted
,
burthens
the
Soul
,
and
the
earthly
habitation
,
presses
downe
the
understanding
.
So
that
a
Soul
,
by
the
infirmities
of
the
body
,
is
violently
kept
,
from
the
free
excercise
of
her
functions
,
whereas
if
the
body
were
supple
,
pliable
,
and
willing
,
to
follow
the
perswations
of
a
resolute
,
and
generous
Soul
,
or
the
inspirations
,
with
which
she
is
plentifully
supplied
from
above
,
what
might
we
not
be
able
to
do
,
even
in
this
life
?
Now
,
that
which
is
not
done
here
,
but
by
very
few
,
who
are
lookt
upon
,
as
so
many
miracles
,
and
prodigies
of
men
,
is
easily
performed
,
by
those
separate
holy
souls
,
who
are
in
the
very
porch
of
Heaven
,
assured
of
their
eternal
salvation
.
In
fine
,
will
you
have
,
a
most
perfect
exemplar
,
and
idea
of
this
wonderful
combination
,
of
●oys
,
and
griefs
,
in
one
simple
person
;
you
may
clearly
see
it
,
in
the
most
sacred
person
,
of
our
blessed
Saviour
,
who
in
the
midst
of
his
bitter
passion
,
and
in
the
very
height
of
his
agony
,
and
extream
dereliction
,
when
he
not
only
seem'd
,
to
have
been
abandoned
,
by
his
eternal
Father
,
but
had
even
abandoned
,
and
forsaken
himselfe
,
by
miraculously
withholding
,
the
superiour
part
of
his
blessed
Soul
,
from
relieving
,
and
assisting
the
inferiour
,
yet
even
then
,
had
all
the
comforts
of
Heaven
,
and
saw
God
face
to
face
,
and
consequently
,
was
at
the
selfe
same
time
most
happy
;
by
the
fruition
of
the
beatifi●al
vision
,
and
yet
so
oppressed
with
griefs
,
that
he
cried
out
himself
,
my
soul
is
sorrowful
unto
death
;
and
againe
,
O
my
God
,
alas
!
why
hast
thou
thus
forsaken
me
!
Conceive
somthing
like
unto
this
,
of
the
Souls
in
Purgatory
,
who
are
most
miserably
tormented
,
and
yet
replenished
with
heavenly
comforts
.
§.
2.
Two
maine
grounds
of
their
comfort
,
the
double
assurance
they
have
of
their
salvation
,
and
impeccability
.
THe
better
to
unfold
you
this
Another
heavenly
comfort
,
O
good
Jesu
,
where
were
you
,
alass
where
were
you
even
now
my
dear
Saviour
,
when
your
enemies
and
mine
,
conspired
so
cruelly
against
me
?
why
came
you
no
sooner
to
relieve
me
?
I
was
here
replied
Christ
,
beholding
thee
,
and
preserving
thy
heart
from
sin
.
If
it
be
so
,
said
the
invincible
Hermite
,
do
but
assure
me
this
,
that
I
shall
not
sin
,
and
let
Lucifer
,
with
all
his
accursed
crue
,
and
hellish
power
,
nay
let
all
the
world
besides
band
against
me
,
since
my
God
stands
by
me
,
and
will
secure
me
from
offending
him
,
I
make
nothing
of
all
the
rest
.
Pain
is
no
more
pain
;
Hell
is
no
more
a
hell
,
but
a
mere
Paradise
,
since
it
helps
me
to
gain
Paradise
,
which
is
worthy
to
be
purchased
with
a
Million
of
Hells
.
§.
3.
More
grounds
of
Comfort
arising
from
their
voluntary
suffring
,
their
disinteressed
Love
of
God
,
and
exact
conformity
with
his
holy
Will.
IN
the
next
place
,
take
this
most
But
there
is
yet
something
of
a
Did
we
truly
know
what
is
the
This
pure
love
,
which
the
souls
Can
there
be
any
doubt
of
this
,
when
we
find
souls
even
in
this
miserable
life
,
so
couragious
,
and
so
conformable
to
the
divine
pleasure
,
as
to
offer
themselves
,
to
be
buried
in
Hell
fire
,
so
it
might
but
add
one
single
graine
of
encrease
to
Gods
glory
.
No
,
this
diformity
or
uniformity
to
the
designes
of
Gods
providence
,
is
so
excessive
great
,
in
these
devout
souls
,
so
vigorous
,
and
so
puissant
,
that
it
cannot
be
expressed
,
or
conceived
in
this
our
gross
ignorant
world
.
The
Ecclesiastical
This
excessive
conformity
,
and
Judas
Machabeas
,
and
if
God
have
so
disposed
of
us
,
let
us
die
my
brethren
,
and
let
us
die
bravely
;
it
must
be
as
the
Heavens
have
decreed
,
and
I
will
have
it
so
,
though
at
the
cost
of
a
hundred
thousand
lives
.
And
holy
Job
,
Is
it
not
reason
(
said
he
)
that
we
should
as
well
receive
what
we
call
evils
,
at
the
hand
of
his
justice
,
as
favors
,
at
the
hand
of
his
mercy
?
That
noble
Roman
,
that
buried
his
Ponyard
in
his
own
Sisters
breast
,
whom
he
met
foolishly
bewailing
,
the
good
fortune
of
the
City
of
Rome
,
had
nothing
to
alledg
for
his
justification
,
but
this
;
What
(
said
he
)
shall
not
Rome
be
Rome
,
as
well
in
the
excercise
of
rigourous
justice
,
as
in
the
maintenance
of
her
greatness
,
and
demonstration
of
her
absolute
power
.
Can
I
offer
a
more
pleasing
holocaust
,
unto
the
Gods
,
then
to
sacrifice
my
Sister
,
when
Romes
justice
requires
it
?
This
Roman
severity
carries
with
it
.
I
know
not
what
masculine
generosity
,
and
this
cruelty
to
a
foolish
Sister
,
argues
much
piety
to
his
dear
Country
.
In
effect
all
the
world
cried
up
the
fact
,
which
at
first
sight
,
seemed
too
brutish
,
barbarous
and
inhumane
.
The
holy
souls
that
burne
with
ardent
charity
,
seeing
it
necessary
,
that
the
divine
justice
should
receive
plenary
satisfaction
,
and
that
Gods
interest
is
extraordinarlly
concern'd
,
that
his
justice
should
rule
by
course
,
as
well
as
his
mercy
,
goodness
and
charity
,
these
holy
souls
,
I
say
,
seeing
all
this
,
have
such
a
pleasure
in
their
torments
,
as
cannot
be
comprehended
in
this
miserable
life
,
which
is
so
ful
of
self-love
,
but
by
some
few
noble
and
generous
souls
;
that
love
God
only
for
himself
;
and
that
so
purely
,
as
not
to
make
any
reckoning
of
their
own
concernes
or
suffrings
.
§.
4.
Another
comfortable
consideration
,
drawn
from
the
desire
they
have
to
make
themselves
worthy
of
the
sight
of
God
.
TAke
another
consideration
,
Now
as
they
see
in
Purgatory
,
that
there
is
no
other
obstacle
,
but
the
rust
and
filth
of
sin
,
and
the
remainder
of
their
former
misdemeanours
,
and
that
Purgatory
fire
,
is
deputed
by
almighty
God
,
to
purifie
and
refine
them
,
and
so
to
make
them
worthy
of
his
presence
,
they
are
so
far
from
grumbling
or
repining
at
this
sweet
rigour
of
Gods
justice
,
that
on
the
contrary
,
they
take
it
for
a
great
favour
and
an
extraordinary
piece
of
mercy
,
of
almighty
God
,
their
most
loving
Father
.
When
they
saw'd
off
the
Leg
of
that
great
Philosopher
,
he
held
it
out
with
both
his
hands
,
he
encouraged
the
operatour
,
and
perhaps
also
took
hold
of
the
Saw
himself
,
to
do
the
Surgeon
that
piece
of
service
,
saying
withall
,
let
u●
thrust
my
friend
let
us
thrust
,
and
let
us
not
fear
to
cut
off
this
rotten
and
useless
bone
,
the
pain
you
give
me
,
will
procure
me
a
great
deal
of
good
,
and
the
sooner
we
have
done
,
the
better
.
Be
not
afraid
then
,
my
dear
enemy
,
but
strike
in
thy
Saw
boldly
,
the
crueller
thou
art
for
the
time
,
the
sooner
thou
wilt
put
me
out
of
pain
.
And
thus
the
Surgeon
cut
off
his
Leg
,
with
as
little
sense
or
feeling
,
as
if
it
had
been
the
Leg
of
a
statue
,
or
of
a
person
,
that
had
no
relation
to
him
,
or
was
his
mortal
enemy
.
And
that
Japonian
Virgin
,
who
was
to
dye
by
fire
,
could
not
hould
from
kissing
the
burning
coales
,
and
crying
out
joyfully
,
O
lovely
Let
God
cost
never
so
much
,
he
cannot
be
too
deare
.
St.
Catherine
of
Genua
was
heard
to
say
,
she
believed
,
that
the
greatest
paine
which
the
souls
have
in
Purgatory
,
is
to
see
,
they
have
an
obstacle
within
themselves
,
and
some
few
blemishes
,
which
hinder
them
for
the
time
,
from
enjoying
〈◊〉
●ight
of
their
creatour
;
in
so
much
that
their
spight
and
anger
,
is
not
so
much
against
the
flames
,
though
never
so
biting
,
as
against
these
unlucky
blemishes
,
and
loathsome
remainder
of
their
sins
.
Nay
they
are
in
a
manner
in
love
with
the
fire
,
which
by
little
and
little
helpes
to
free
them
from
this
cruel
paine
,
and
do
like
the
Patient
,
who
kisses
the
razour
,
that
is
to
cut
out
whole
slices
of
putrified
flesh
,
from
a
Gangrene
,
or
mortal
Ulcer
,
which
would
otherwise
insensibly
bereave
him
of
his
life
,
if
that
fierce
remedy
were
not
applyed
.
§.
5.
Their
suffering
without
merit
,
and
the
free
exercise
of
their
vertues
without
impediment
,
are
to
them
special
motives
of
comfort
.
VVHat
a
pleasure
,
thinke
Blessed
Father
Francis
Borgia
,
was
wont
to
say
,
he
would
willingly
go
to
Purgatory
,
and
lie
frying
there
,
to
the
end
of
the
world
,
to
heap
up
a
new
treasure
of
grace
,
and
glory
,
and
to
become
a
greater
Saint
in
heaven
,
and
a
more
acceptable
servant
to
his
divine
Majesty
.
In
earnest
this
was
an
act
of
a
noble
heart
,
and
purified
soul
,
aspiring
to
the
highest
pitch
of
perfection
.
The
holy
man
took
it
for
a
most
incomparable
satisfaction
to
see
himself
every
moment
,
to
go
on
encreasing
in
vertue
,
and
heaping
up
graces
upon
graces
,
and
at
the
last
,
to
purchase
so
high
a
place
in
the
Kingdome
of
heaven
,
as
not
to
have
cause
to
envie
the
highest
Seraphin
.
And
yet
me
thinks
,
if
I
may
have
leave
to
vent
my
own
thoughts
,
there
is
somthing
of
a
holy
kind
of
self
interest
,
in
this
point
of
perfection
,
holy
I
say
,
but
withall
interest
.
But
why
may
we
not
believe
,
that
those
holy
captive
souls
fly
higher
and
offer
themselves
to
God
,
to
suffer
there
for
one
another
,
out
of
a
divine
kind
of
civility
,
and
generous
act
of
fraternal
charity
?
For
in
this
world
,
there
have
been
Mothers
have
chosen
rather
to
die
themselves
then
see
their
dear
children
die
before
them
.
There
have
been
also
souls
,
as
I
have
touched
elsewhere
,
have
wisht
to
be
damned
(
alwaies
understanding
that
it
were
without
sinn
)
to
save
others
,
and
this
without
hope
of
grace
,
or
glory
,
merely
in
obedience
to
perfect
Charity
.
And
why
should
we
make
such
a
wonder
of
it
,
since
the
very
Tygress
who
has
no
heart
,
but
what
is
made
up
of
cruelty
,
has
nevertheless
love
enough
,
to
cast
her self
into
flames
,
if
she
find
no
other
expedient
to
save
her
young
ones
.
Can
we
believe
,
that
bruits
have
more
love
,
and
mortal
men
more
charity
,
and
courage
,
then
the
holy
Souls
of
Purgatory
have
for
the
love
of
God
,
and
of
those
Souls
they
passionately
love
.
O
sweet
Purgatory
,
O
amourous
flames
of
charity
,
and
pure
trancendent
charity
,
worthy
of
the
souls
,
which
are
so
pure
?
Sure
this
is
that
,
which
the
holy
servant
of
God
meant
,
when
she
said
,
that
the
souls
there
are
wholly
despoyled
of
all
self-interest
,
and
do
wholly
devote
themselves
to
Gods
interest
,
and
that
of
pure
charity
.
We
should
soon
see
wonders
in
§.
6.
They
joy
in
the
continual
decrease
of
their
pains
,
and
influence
of
pure
heavenly
consolations
.
THe
fire
of
love
,
makes
more
sensibly
with
them
,
then
their
tormenting
flames
.
The
natural
instinct
,
they
have
to
be
with
God
,
and
their
longing
thirst
,
so
to
take
their
fill
of
those
inebriating
joyes
when
they
see
themselves
forcibly
detained
,
and
bound
fast
to
so
base
an
Element
as
Fire
,
is
a
torment
beyond
expression
.
St.
Ambrose
Ambr.
Ser.
1.
maintains
,
that
the
fire
of
love
,
which
had
seized
on
St.
Laurence
his
heart
,
was
more
active
,
then
that
which
consumed
his
flesh
,
and
melted
the
very
marrow
of
his
bones
.
Wherefore
it
must
needs
be
great
comfort
,
unto
these
sweet
souls
,
to
see
that
their
sufferings
,
Ther
's
nothing
sure
that
is
ad
Ephes.
2.
6
make
us
sit
by
his
divine
Majesty
,
and
as
it
were
side
by
side
,
to
his
son
Jesus
Christ
,
a
favour
,
that
has
so
ravisht
my
soul
,
that
I
cannot
think
on
it
,
without
incredible
S.
Chrysostome
)
when
he
spoke
this
?
For
my
part
,
I
believe
,
he
was
lying
in
a
dungeon
,
in
irons
,
neck
and
heels
together
,
forsaken
of
all
the
world
,
and
that
it
was
in
this
generall
dereliction
,
when
he
was
surprised
with
those
ravishing
joys
of
heaven
,
and
had
such
a
feeling
of
Gods
greatness
,
that
he
seem'd
to
be
already
seated
at
his
right
hand
.
When
thinke
you
,
says
S.
Thomas
,
was
he
rapt
up
into
the
I
begin
to
fear
,
this
discourse
may
debauch
your
devotions
,
and
coole
your
charity
,
and
that
,
seeing
the
souls
enjoy
so
much
comfort
in
Purgatory
,
your
compassion
for
them
may
grow
slack
,
and
so
not
continue
equall
to
their
desert
.
Remember
then
,
that
notwithstanding
all
these
comforts
here
rehearsed
,
the
poor
creatures
cease
not
to
be
grievously
tormented
,
and
consequently
have
extream
need
of
all
your
favourable
assistance
,
pain
and
endeavours
.
When
Christ
Jesus
was
in
his
bitter
Agony
,
sweating
blood
and
water
,
the
superiour
part
of
his
soul
enjoyed
God
and
his
glory
,
and
yet
his
body
was
so
oppressed
with
sorrow
,
that
he
was
ready
to
dye
,
and
was
content
to
be
comforted
by
an
Angel
.
In
like
manner
these
holy
souls
,
have
indeed
great
joys
,
but
feele
with
all
such
bitter
torments
that
they
stand
in
great
need
of
our
help
.
So
that
you
will
much
wrong
them
and
me
too
,
to
stand
musing
so
long
upon
their
joys
,
as
not
to
apply
your
best
endeavours
to
afford
them
succour
.
Let
us
then
here
break
off
this
discourse
,
and
passe
on
to
consider
,
what
assistance
we
owe
,
and
they
expect
of
our
charity
,
and
first
let
us
see
what
a
charity
it
is
to
help
them
.
The
third
Survey
.
That
there
is
not
in
this
world
a
more
eminent
or
Prudent
Act
of
faternal
Charity
,
then
to
help
the
Soules
in
Purgatory
.
THe
Divine
Apostle
,
the
Desciple
of
Paradise
,
and
The
more
power
the
love
of
God
has
in
us
,
the
greater
is
the
heat
of
fraternal
charity
,
which
burnes
the
very
heart
of
our
souls
,
and
like
the
Phenix
,
takes
delight
to
live
and
dye
in
so
noble
a
fire
,
and
to
consume
in
such
harmlesse
and
yet
murthering
flames
.
My
designe
here
is
,
not
to
treat
of
the
love
of
God
,
but
only
to
suppose
,
that
the
more
one
loves
God
,
the
more
he
loves
,
and
desires
to
help
his
neighbour
,
and
to
believe
that
a
man
loves
God
,
without
doing
his
uttermost
to
assist
his
neighboure
,
in
way
of
charity
,
is
to
fool
him self
directly
.
Would
you
know
how
much
you
love
God
,
look
with
what
courage
you
use
to
serve
your
neighbour
,
for
otherwise
your
charity
is
not
fire
,
but
smoke
,
and
your
affections
are
not
divine
love
,
but
winde
,
or
a
meer
natural
love
,
or
in
a
word
selfe
love
,
or
rather
an
empty
shadow
,
or
Phantastical
appearance
of
divine
love
.
He
that
loves
not
his
neighbour
,
whom
he
daily
sees
with
both
his
eyes
,
says
St.
John
,
how
can
he
make
us
believe
That
which
I
am
to
maintaine
,
is
that
amongst
all
the
acts
of
faternal
charity
,
or
works
of
mercy
,
the
most
sublime
,
the
most
pure
,
and
the
most
advantagious
of
all
others
,
is
the
service
we
perform
for
the
souls
in
Purgatory
.
In
the
History
of
the
incomparable
§
1.
The
greatness
of
the
charity
to
the
Souls
in
Purgatory
,
is
argued
from
the
greatness
of
their
pains
,
and
their
helpless
condition
.
SInce
there
is
no
torment
under
Next
to
the
grievousness
of
their
When
our
blessed
Saviour
,
saw
that
poore
creature
,
and
heard
him
say
,
that
he
had
lane
there
perishing
at
the
Pond
side
,
for
the
space
of
thirty
eight
years
,
for
want
of
a
man
to
help
him
in
,
it
went
to
the
very
heart
of
sweet
Jesus
and
presently
forsaking
all
others
he
cured
this
poore
impotent
creature
,
and
wrought
that
famous
miracle
in
favour
of
this
helpless
wretch
,
forsaken
of
the
whole
world
besides
,
and
certainly
,
this
was
a
case
of
great
commiseration
,
but
nothing
comparable
to
th●
case
we
treat
of
,
for
those
that
are
yet
living
(
though
never
so
miserable
)
have
a
thousand
tricks
and
devices
to
shift
and
help
themselves
in
their
miseries
,
but
the
poore
souls
alas
,
have
no
way
left
them
,
to
decline
or
sweeten
their
martyrdome
.
Pliny
reports
that
an
Eagle
seeing
one
day
,
the
young
maid
his
dear
Mistresse
,
who
had
cherished
him
in
her
bosome
,
to
be
laid
flat
on
a
burning
wood
pile
was
so
struck
at
the
sight
,
what
with
love
,
and
what
with
compassion
,
that
she
immediately
took
wing
,
and
launching
into
the
burning
flames
to
deliver
her
,
was
there
consumed
with
her
.
Good
God!
shall
Savage
beasts
,
and
that
Tyrant
of
the
Aire
,
have
more
pity
of
a
dead
carcasse
,
that
feels
nothing
,
then
we
have
of
immortal
souls
,
who
have
so
great
a
feeling
of
insupportable
torments
.
Your
Indian
women
use
to
hold
it
for
a
great
honour
,
to
throw
themselves
into
the
flames
to
their
dead
husbands
,
&
so
to
joyn
souls
and
ashes
together
,
and
shall
it
be
said
,
that
a
natural
love
,
is
more
daring
then
a
supernatural
and
that
women
have
more
love
for
the
dead
carcasses
of
their
husbands
,
then
we
for
the
preciou●
souls
of
our
Fathers
,
Mothers
,
Brothers
,
Sisters
and
others
who
are
most
worthy
of
incomparable
love
.
§.
2.
Our
Charity
for
the
souls
departed
is
prefered
before
all
other
works
of
mercy
.
YOu
shall
be
judg
your self
,
you
that
read
this
.
If
God
at
the
same
instant
,
should
put
you
both
in
Purgatory
,
and
in
a
common
Gaole
(
as
it
is
most
easy
for
him
to
do
)
I
conjure
you
to
tell
me
,
in
which
of
the
two
places
would
you
desire
to
be
first
relieved
?
and
ought
you
not
to
do
that
for
others
which
you
would
have
them
to
do
for
you
?
Besides
the
spiritual
works
of
mercy
,
are
of
a
higher
rank
then
Again
,
when
you
bestow
an
Almes
on
a
poore
body
,
t
is
true
,
But
the
good
you
do
for
souls
,
so
be●utiful
,
so
noble
,
&
so
holy
,
besides
the
rew●rd
you
shall
be
sure
to
receive
from
God
,
it
is
not
to
be
imagined
,
how
well
it
is
bestowed
,
and
how
grateful
they
are
for
it
.
There
is
nothing
lost
,
though
you
give
never
so
little
,
they
take
themselves
to
be
infinitely
obliged
for
your
charity
they
never
forget
it
,
they
never
complain
,
they
never
turn
ungrateful
.
Certainly
it
must
needs
be
an
unspeakable
advantage
to
you
,
to
be
assured
,
that
the
good
you
do
,
is
for
a
happy
soule
(
though
unhappy
for
the
time
)
for
a
Saint
,
that
is
ready
to
be
canonized
in
heaven
,
and
happily
after
a
few
more
moments
of
pain
,
shall
be
a
greater
Saint
there
,
then
many
whose
feasts
wee
keep
with
great
solemnity
?
Besides
,
it
cannot
but
be
an
excessive
comfort
,
to
oblidge
a
soul
,
which
God
loves
with
all
his
heart
,
and
which
will
soon
lodge
in
his
very
heart
.
Lastly
,
what
an
honour
must
it
be
,
thus
to
contribute
to
the
glory
of
so
happy
a
soul
,
who
within
●●hile
shall
be
brighter
then
the
sun
,
and
a
companion
to
the
Angels
,
and
shall
exercise
a
world
of
most
sublime
acts
of
vertue
,
of
thanksgiving
to
God
,
fraternal
charity
,
and
the
like
.
And
if
you
chance
to
go
your self
into
Purgatory
,
before
they
are
released
,
you
will
be
exceedingly
joy'd
,
to
see
what
a
gratefull
remembrance
they
have
of
your
charity
,
and
would
not
for
all
the
treasures
in
the
world
,
but
have
done
that
little
you
have
done
for
them
and
will
scarce
have
a
more
sensible
feeling
for
any
thing
,
then
for
having
lost
so
many
faire
occasions
,
of
relieving
〈◊〉
many
poor
souls
in
their
grievous
torments
.
Our
Blessed
Saviour
tells
us
,
whosoever
bestowes
a
charity
on
a
disciple
,
or
on
a
Prophet
,
shall
be
sure
to
have
the
reward
of
a
disciple
or
of
a
Prophet
.
Now
as
long
as
your
charity
exten●s
it self
only
to
the
living
,
let
your
motive
be
never
so
pure
,
and
for
the
love
of
God
,
alass
,
you
are
often
deceived
,
and
think
you
do
a
good
turn
for
an
Apostle
,
and
he
is
an
Apostate
,
or
another
Judas
,
you
take
him
for
a
great
servant
of
God
,
and
he
often
proves
to
be
a
most
wicked
fellow
,
●
r●venous
wolfe
in
a
lambs
skin
,
and
this
is
seen
daily
,
and
every
where
,
not
but
that
you
ought
to
do
it
,
and
shall
never
want
your
reward
.
But
it
falls
out
clear
otherwise
,
when
you
place
your
charity
upon
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
for
they
are
undoubtedly
the
disciples
of
Christ
,
they
are
Prophets
and
great
Saints
,
and
therefore
●hosoever
shall
do
any
ch●ritable
office
for
them
,
may
well
hope
to
have
,
the
reward
of
Saint●
.
For
so
it
is
not
only
those
that
are
thus
relieved
,
shall
be
translated
into
heaven
,
but
those
also
t●●t
relieve
them
,
shall
be
carried
●●●●her
in
●ue
time
,
to
take
possession
of
the
glory
of
the
Saints
.
St.
Thomas
tells
us
,
there
is
an
It
is
the
●●st
ordered
●harity
to
help
the
Souls
.
St.
Th.
2.
2.
●e●ord
.
ch●
.
order
to
be
observed
in
our
works
of
charity
to
our
neighbour
,
●hat
is
,
we
are
to
see
,
where
there
is
a
greater
obligation
,
a
greater
necessity
,
a
greater
merit
,
and
the
like
circumstances
.
Now
where
is
there
more
necessity
,
or
more
obligation
,
then
to
runne
to
the
●●re
,
and
to
helpe
those
that
lie
there
,
and
〈◊〉
not
able
to
get
out
?
Where
can
you
have
more
merit
,
then
to
have
a
hand
in
raising
up
so
great
Saints
,
and
Servants
of
God
?
where
have
you
more
assurance
,
then
where
you
are
sure
to
loose
nothing
?
where
can
you
find
an
object
of
more
compassion
,
then
where
there
is
the
greatest
misery
in
the
world
?
where
is
there
seen
more
of
Gods
glory
,
then
to
send
new
Saints
into
heaven
to
praise
God
eternally
?
Lastly
,
where
can
you
shew
more
charity
,
and
more
of
the
love
of
God
,
then
to
employ
your
tea●s
,
your
sighs
,
your
goods
,
your
hands
,
your
heart
,
your
life
,
and
all
your
devotions
,
to
procure
a
good
,
that
surpasses
all
other
goods
;
I
mean
,
to
make
soules
happy
for
all
eternity
,
by
translating
them
into
heavenly
joyes
,
out
of
insupportable
torments
.
That
glorious
Apostle
of
the
Indies
,
St.
Francis
Xaverius
,
could
run
from
one
end
of
the
world
to
the
other
,
to
convert
a
soul
,
and
think
it
no
long
journey
,
the
dangers
by
Sea
and
Land
seem'd
Sweet
,
the
Tempests
pleasing
,
the
Labour
easy
and
his
whole
time
well
employed
.
Good
God!
What
an
advantage
have
we
,
that
with
so
little
and
few
prayers
,
may
send
a
thousand
beautifull
souls
into
heaven
,
without
the
least
hazard
of
loosing
any
thing
?
St.
Xaverius
could
not
be
certain
,
that
the
Japonians
for
example
,
whom
he
baptized
,
●●uld
persever
in
their
faith
,
and
though
they
should
persever
in
it
,
he
could
have
as
little
certainty
of
their
salvation
.
Now
it
is
an
Article
of
our
faith
,
that
the
holy
souls
in
Purgatory
,
are
in
grace
,
and
shall
assuredly
one
day
enter
into
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
.
But
since
I
am
entred
upon
the
St.
Ignatius
,
that
glorious
founder
of
the
society
of
Jesus
,
stuck
not
to
say
,
he
should
think
his
whole
life
well
bestowed
,
should
he
but
hinder
an
ungracious
soul
,
from
offending
God
one
onely
night
.
Such
an
esteem
he
had
of
encreasing
Gods
glory
,
and
such
an
apprehension
of
diminishing
the
least
grain
thereof
.
What
a
mercy
is
it
then
,
that
by
helping
a
Soul
out
of
her
purging
flames
,
you
are
the
cause
of
a
million
of
most
divine
acts
,
which
would
never
have
been
,
had
not
the
time
of
her
delivery
,
been
antidated
by
your
charitable
and
devout
prayers
.
Tell
me
,
dear
reader
,
what
can
you
doe
here
below
comparable
to
this
?
How
many
thousand
Beggars
,
Prisoners
and
sick
persons
may
you
relieve
,
without
procuring
the
thousanth
part
of
this
●nspeakable
good
?
That
which
one
does
by
anothers
means
,
he
is
accounted
to
do
himself
.
So
that
all
the
new
Saints
,
I
mean
,
all
the
souls
,
who
have
been
delivered
by
your
assistance
,
shall
be
as
it
were
your
Lievtenants
,
and
your
Vicar-generalls
,
or
your
Embassadors
,
to
do
incomparable
wonders
in
Heaven
,
whereof
you
are
the
cause
,
in
whole
,
or
in
part
.
And
what
comparison
is
there
now
,
between
the
good
▪
we
doe
for
men
upon
earth
,
and
what
we
doe
to
relieve
souls
in
the
other
world
.
There
is
but
one
onely
Case
They
will
certainly
tell
you
,
that
where
there
is
question
of
a
mortal
sinne
,
or
of
the
eternal
losse
of
a
soul
,
that
has
been
ransomed
with
the
blood
of
Christ
,
they
had
rather
lye
still
groaning
under
their
torments
,
then
purchase
a
little
ease
at
so
dear
a
rate
.
No
,
they
are
not
so
selfish
,
their
love
is
more
pure
then
so
,
their
fidelity
to
God
,
will
never
suffer
them
,
to
seek
their
own
glory
,
with
the
least
diminution
or
,
lessening
of
Gods
glory
.
St.
Catherine
of
Siena
,
be●●●d
two
years
together
,
with
tears
in
her
Eyes
,
that
she
might
be
damned
for
all
mankind
,
and
that
she
alone
might
suffer
all
the
pains
of
Hell
;
rather
then
any
one
soul
should
be
damned
,
or
her
dearest
spouse
grievously
offended
.
And
do
you
believe
that
a
tender
Virgin
,
made
of
flesh
and
blood
,
and
as
yet
a
sinner
,
at
least
so
far
as
to
be
guilty
of
certain
venial
transgressions
,
can
have
less
Self-love
,
more
courage
,
and
more
of
the
love
of
God
,
then
the
souls
of
the
other
world
,
who
are
totally
disengaged
from
all
self-respects
,
and
love
God
only
with
a
most
perfect
love
.
No
,
they
had
rather
double
,
and
redouble
their
cruel
Martyrdomes
,
with
a
million
of
fresh
torments
,
then
willingly
give
consent
,
that
for
their
sakes
,
one
should
forbear
to
hinder
the
commission
of
a
mortal
sin
,
or
the
damnation
of
a
soul
.
And
therefore
,
should
the
case
fall
in
your
way
,
stick
not
t●
bestow
your
time
,
for
the
benefit
of
the
living
,
do
not
so
much
as
think
on
the
Souls
in
Purgatory
,
who
would
most
willingly
,
melt
themselves
away
in
tormenting
fire
,
rather
then
permit
such
a
horrible
mischief
.
§.
3.
Of
the
great
advantages
we
receive
,
by
this
devotion
for
the
Souls
departed
.
BUt
to
come
nearer
to
you
,
And
first
,
though
it
were
true
But
suppose
the
Angels
,
should
Mark
well
the
reason
I
am
now
going
about
to
lay
down
before
you
.
Christ
Jesus
has
vouchsafed
,
to
honour
his
Church
so
far
,
as
to
stile
her
his
body
,
of
which
he
is
the
divine
head
;
Now
it
is
most
certain
,
that
of
all
the
members
of
this
most
sacred
,
and
mistical
body
,
that
which
is
the
most
oppressed
with
evils
,
and
the
most
lamentably
afflicted
,
are
these
dear
souls
,
who
are
alass
,
most
severely
treated
in
the
bosome
of
the
Church-suffering
,
since
there
is
not
any
torment
in
the
world
,
that
is
comparable
to
theirs
,
as
you
have
seen
elsewhere
.
If
then
our
Blessed
Saviour
,
see
your
heart
melt
with
co●passion
,
for
that
part
of
his
body
,
which
is
the
most
comfortless
,
and
the
most
afflicted
of
all
others
,
sure
he
must
needs
love
you
,
with
a
paternal
affection
,
and
give
you
a
thousand
benedictions
,
for
the
ease
and
pleasure
you
give
him
,
in
that
part
of
his
body
,
which
suffers
most
.
Historians
tell
us
,
how
a
man
having
one
day
plucked
out
a
thorne
out
of
a
lions
foot
,
the
generous
beast
feeling
himself
eased
,
in
that
part
which
was
most
grieved
,
soon
forgot
his
fierce
nature
,
and
by
force
of
love
and
gratitude
,
metamorphosed
himself
into
a
Lamb
,
to
waite
upon
this
Saviour
of
his
,
who
had
●●
us
preserved
his
life
,
and
by
way
of
requital
,
in
a
like
occasion
of
danger
,
saved
the
〈◊〉
life
also
,
to
the
astonishme●●
〈◊〉
all
the
beholders
.
God
playes
the
Lyon
of
Juda
below
in
Purgatory
,
permitting
his
justice
to
sway
the
Scepter
of
rigour
,
now
if
you
but
pul
out
the
thorne
out
of
his
foot
,
that
is
,
〈◊〉
you
ease
him
in
that
part
of
〈◊〉
mystical
body
which
suffers
t●e
pains
of
Purgatory
,
this
Lyon
will
soon
become
a
Lamb
,
he
will
not
only
save
these
poor
souls
,
but
when
you
your self
are
in
most
need
,
as
when
you
are
strugling
for
life
,
he
will
shew
himself
,
he
will
fight
for
you
,
and
will
give
you
the
true
life
;
In
a
word
,
he
will
make
you
clearly
see
,
how
well
he
takes
it
,
that
you
have
pluckt
out
the
thorne
out
of
his
foot
.
Now
let
us
suppose
the
worst
.
I
do
not
say
,
that
these
souls
,
who
are
truly
miserable
,
and
yet
holy
,
under
a
cruel
restraint
,
and
yet
happy
,
not
able
to
merrit
any
thing
,
and
yet
gracious
in
the
sight
of
his
divine
Majesty
,
no
,
I
do
not
say
,
that
when
they
are
once
got
into
Paradise
,
they
will
be
so
many
Angels
,
Guardians
of
yours
,
so
many
Advocates
,
to
plead
your
cause
at
the
grand
Tribunal
of
the
most
holy
Trinity
,
so
many
patrons
and
sureties
for
you
and
yours
.
But
I
say
,
that
even
while
they
remain
prisoners
,
they
will
do
miracles
for
you
.
I
said
miracles
.
Now
hear
how
they
will
doe
,
that
which
cannot
be
done
.
They
will
effect
that
for
you
,
which
they
cannot
do
for
themselves
,
and
were
it
necessary
,
to
work
a
miracle
in
good
earnest
,
they
would
sooner
do
it
,
then
forsake
you
in
your
nec●ssities
.
I
am
not
igno●ant
,
that
the
Angelical
Job
▪
Ah
,
you
my
We
read
in
the
life
of
St
Catherine
Shall
I
tell
you
,
there
are
many
worthy
persons
,
think
these
words
of
Jesus
Christ
,
may
be
very
properly
applied
to
the
souls
in
Purgatory
.
Do
good
(
saith
he
)
and
make
your selves
friends
at
the
charge
of
your
purses
,
and
be
good
stewards
of
Mammon
,
the
false
god
of
Riches
,
that
those
whom
you
relieve
,
may
assist
you
at
the
hour
of
your
death
;
and
lead
you
into
eternal
tabernacles
.
Among
the
poor
,
none
so
secure
,
of
enjoying
the
delights
of
Paradise
,
as
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
who
are
all
predestinate
,
and
all
holy
,
for
the
present
they
are
poor
indeed
,
and
helpless
creatures
,
but
if
you
contribute
never
so
little
to
their
ease
,
they
will
be
sure
to
requite
you
in
your
necessities
,
if
not
before
,
at
least
when
they
are
once
possest
of
the
joyes
of
Heaven
.
Cardinal
Baronius
,
a
man
of
credit
,
beyond
exception
,
relates
We
read
such
another
story
of
〈◊〉
.
●erthus
.
ap●●
P.
Roam
de
Purg.
c.
20.
St
Gertrude
,
how
she
was
troub●ed
at
her
death
,
to
think
what
must
become
of
her
,
since
she
had
given
away
all
the
rich
treasure
of
her
satisfactions
,
to
redeem
other
poor
souls
,
without
reserving
any
thing
to
her self
;
but
that
our
Blessed
Saviour
gave
her
the
comfort
to
know
,
that
she
was
not
only
to
have
the
like
favour
,
of
being
immediately
conducted
into
Heaven
,
out
of
this
world
by
those
innumerable
souls
,
whom
she
had
sent
thither
before
her
by
her
fervent
prayers
,
but
was
there
also
to
receive
a
hunderfold
of
eternal
glory
in
reward
of
her
charity
.
By
which
examples
we
may
learn
,
that
we
cannot
make
better
use
of
our
devotion
,
and
charity
,
then
this
way
.
But
he
that
will
〈…〉
satisfie
himself
,
that
he
can
loose
nothing
,
but
gain
excessively
though
he
should
offer
up
all
his
satisfactory
works
,
for
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
let
him
read
over
what
F
Eusebius
Nerem●ergicus
,
and
F.
James
Monford
,
have
excellently
well
written
upon
this
subject
The
Fourth
Survey
.
Of
the
powerful
means
to
quench
the
flames
of
Purgatory
.
COuld
the
poor
souls
,
but
de
Congruo
,
as
they
speak
in
Schools
,
or
by
way
of
a
certain
congruity
,
conveniency
,
or
decency
.
The
time
of
meriting
expired
with
their
lives
,
what
now
remaines
,
is
wholly
deputed
for
suffering
,
and
it
is
not
the
least
of
their
vexations
,
to
see
how
easily
they
might
have
prevented
all
these
mischiefs
in
their
life
time
,
and
that
now
there
's
no
remedy
,
but
by
suffering
to
supply
for
that
negligence
though
they
would
never
so
fane
.
Howsoever
,
I
love
those
divines
,
Su.
in
3.
p.
d.
19.
post
.
St.
Tho.
who
are
somthing
more
civil
in
this
point
,
then
their
fellows
,
and
am
easily
perswaded
by
them
,
that
although
the
souls
,
cannot
immediately
contribute
the
least
to
their
own
ransome
,
or
any
way
merit
their
own
deliverance
,
yet
may
they
be
so
happy
,
as
to
work
upon
the
goodness
of
their
Angels
,
and
by
their
means
,
obtain
some
sweet
refreshments
,
at
the
merciful
hand
of
God
,
wherewith
to
allay
the
bitterness
of
their
torments
.
And
following
their
opinion
,
who
teach
,
that
they
pray
for
us
,
and
procure
us
heavenly
favours
,
what
inconsequence
were
it
,
to
say
further
,
that
they
move
our
good
Angels
,
to
inspire
us
efficaciously
,
to
intercede
for
them
,
and
to
assist
them
with
all
the
duties
of
Christian
charity
,
it
being
a
thing
,
to
which
they
are
otherwise
of
themselves
so
much
inclined
,
without
the
sollicitation
,
or
importunity
of
others
.
§.
1.
What
succour
they
receive
,
from
the
Angels
,
and
Saints
in
Heaven
?
IN
the
first
place
,
you
would
be
This
I
take
to
be
the
pious
belief
Vid.
Su.
d.
48.
Sect.
9
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
as
delivered
by
the
whole
sacred
Torrent
of
Doctors
.
Nor
is
there
the
least
reason
,
why
they
should
not
do
it
,
being
not
only
powerful
,
but
full
of
charity
,
especially
,
when
they
remember
,
that
the
like
charity
was
bestowed
on
many
of
them
,
that
their
necessity
is
extream
urgent
,
that
they
are
all
Members
of
one
body
,
that
they
do
not
only
concur
to
the
glorification
of
their
dear
brethren
,
but
are
themselves
to
receive
an
additional
increase
of
accidental
glory
,
for
having
advanced
the
delivery
of
those
precious
souls
,
who
perhaps
may
be
holier
then
some
of
their
own
blessed
company
:
Besides
,
this
is
a
charitable
office
,
sutes
well
with
their
happy
state
,
and
there
appears
not
the
least
inconvenience
in
it
in
this
World
.
And
yet
,
if
this
be
so
,
one
would
think
,
they
might
soon
turn
all
the
souls
loose
,
and
empty
Purgatory
,
so
that
it
were
impossible
,
for
any
soul
to
make
any
long
stay
there
.
Hold
,
you
must
pardon
me
,
and
not
flatter
your selves
too
much
,
with
this
vain
credulity
.
You
are
to
know
,
that
the
Saints
,
are
not
such
strangers
to
the
decrees
of
divine
justice
,
as
to
beg
the
souls
release
without
punishment
,
for
that
were
the
way
to
destroy
all
justice
,
no
,
they
accommodate
themselves
to
the
Laws
of
heaven
,
and
willingly
submit
to
the
most
equitable
resolves
of
Gods
justice
amongst
which
,
it
stands
irrevocably
decreed
,
that
this
life
should
be
the
place
for
mercy
,
but
that
justice
should
bear
the
sway
in
Purgatory
.
Do
not
then
wonder
,
that
the
Saints
,
do
not
obtain
so
extra
vagant
a
favor
,
the
souls
themselves
,
who
are
the
most
nearly
concerned
in
their
own
sufferings
,
would
be
ashamed
to
demand
it
.
Is
it
not
reason
,
that
God
should
be
God
in
all
his
attributes
,
and
exercise
his
justice
as
well
as
his
mercy
?
We
must
take
heed
,
how
we
employ
,
or
rather
abuse
his
clemency
so
,
as
to
break
down
the
Laws
of
his
justice
.
Will
you
then
know
what
the
Saints
do
?
First
,
They
pray
God
,
to
inspire
Thirdly
,
Many
Saints
have
left
behind
them
,
a
great
treasure
of
satisfactions
,
above
what
was
due
for
their
sins
,
so
many
holy
innocent
hermits
,
so
many
chast
Virgins
,
so
many
great
Saints
of
all
orders
in
Gods
Church
,
who
lead
such
austere
lives
.
Now
is
it
not
very
likely
,
that
these
good
Saints
,
may
pray
God
,
to
apply
the
superbundance
of
these
their
merits
and
satisfactions
,
to
the
poor
souls
in
Purgatory
,
and
who
knows
,
whether
the
infinite
goodness
of
God
,
may
not
accept
it
for
good
payment
.
Fourthly
,
Why
may
we
not
piously
imagine
,
that
even
those
Saints
,
who
have
no
such
remainder
of
merits
,
pray
those
that
have
it
,
to
bestow
it
as
an
almes
to
relieve
the
poor
souls
.
Sure
they
are
so
courteous
as
not
to
deny
any
thing
to
one
another
,
especially
in
a
case
of
so
great
commiseration
,
and
why
should
they
hoard
up
these
precious
treasures
,
which
cannot
availe
them
?
or
how
can
they
bestow
them
more
charitably
.
Fifthly
,
What
harme
were
it
to
say
,
that
the
Saints
beseech
our
blessed
Lady
,
and
even
Christ
himself
,
who
has
an
infinite
treasure
of
satisfactions
in
store
,
to
apply
some
of
their
precious
merits
this
way
.
I
know
the
severer
divines
,
will
not
have
it
,
that
the
Siants
have
recourse
in
this
,
to
our
blessed
Saviour
,
who
has
determined
,
what
,
and
how
he
will
have
this
applied
,
according
to
the
ordinary
straine
,
and
set
Laws
of
his
divine
justice
,
but
there
be
other
Doctors
,
of
a
milder
temper
,
believe
,
he
may
be
drawn
somtimes
,
to
wave
the
extremity
of
rigour
,
&
to
dispense
with
his
own
Laws
,
so
that
by
extraordinary
priviledge
,
we
may
hope
for
this
favour
of
sweet
Jesus
,
and
his
Saints
.
And
if
other
Saints
,
have
so
much
charity
for
the
poor
Souls
,
you
will
think
it
but
reasonable
,
that
the
Fathers
and
Mothers
(
the
same
is
to
be
said
of
other
near
relations
)
who
are
in
Heaven
,
and
know
,
that
the
Souls
of
their
dear
children
,
are
lockt
up
in
that
fiery
furnace
,
will
use
all
their
possible
endeavour
,
as
far
as
God
will
give
them
leave
,
to
fetch
them
out
.
But
what
shall
I
say
,
of
those
saints
who
were
lifted
up
into
Heaven
,
before
their
time
,
by
the
extraordinary
assistance
of
the
living
,
whose
turne
now
it
is
to
be
in
Purgatory
,
is
it
not
very
credible
,
they
will
now
requite
their
courtesie
,
and
with
usury
too
.
For
example
,
there
may
be
a
soul
in
Purgatory
,
has
helpt
above
a
thousand
other
Sou●●
;
out
of
that
place
of
torments
,
can
it
be
imagined
,
but
that
that
regiment
of
Saints
,
will
do
all
they
can
,
and
more
if
it
were
possible
,
to
deliver
this
their
deliverer
,
and
to
place
him
in
the
court
of
Heaven
,
who
had
so
great
a
hand
,
in
their
timely
preferment
.
But
because
we
are
mere
strangers
,
to
the
stile
of
that
court
,
and
nothing
acquainted
with
the
constitutions
of
that
divine
Monarchy
,
let
us
conclude
only
thus
.
That
whatsoever
the
Saints
can
do
,
for
the
comfort
of
these
languishing
souls
we
may
be
sure
they
do
it
,
and
do
it
punctually
,
without
neglecting
the
least
moment
,
and
where
they
cannot
prevaile
,
without
breaking
the
just
decrees
of
their
Soveraigne
,
there
they
willingly
acquiesce
,
and
with
due
submission
,
adore
the
divine
justice
.
So
much
for
the
Saints
.
Let
us
now
speak
of
the
Souls
themselves
,
and
see
.
§.
2.
Whether
they
are
capable
,
of
being
relieved
by
one
anothers
Prayers
?
IT
may
be
justly
questioned
,
de
Virgin
.
Didymas
offered
to
dye
,
for
St.
Theodora
,
and
in
conclusion
both
died
for
her
,
and
with
her
.
Elizeas
being
dead
himself
,
raised
another
from
death
to
life
,
which
was
more
then
he
did
for
himself
.
St.
Paul
seems
to
have
been
content
,
to
be
damned
,
to
save
the
Jews
,
alwayes
reserved
,
that
it
might
be
without
sin
.
David
would
willingly
have
met
with
death
,
in
her
uggliest
attire
so
he
might
have
saved
his
son
Absalon
,
and
yet
he
knew
him
to
be
but
a
graceless
&
unnatural
parricide
.
Shall
not
holy
souls
,
have
as
much
kindness
for
other
souls
,
whom
they
see
,
upon
the
point
of
being
metamorphosed
into
Seraphins
,
as
David
had
for
a
meer
reprobate
and
lost
creature
?
Many
Saints
in
this
world
,
have
beg'd
it
as
a
favour
of
Almighty
God
,
that
they
might
suffer
for
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
and
have
done
it
in
good
earnest
,
freely
renouncing
their
own
conveniences
,
for
the
souls
comfort
,
by
a
most
heroical
act
of
supernatural
charity
.
Do
not
you
believe
,
that
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
have
a
more
refined
love
,
and
that
they
actuate
themselves
in
more
heroical
,
transcendent
acts
of
charity
,
since
they
are
not
only
grown
to
be
inpeccable
,
but
have
withal
a
far
clearer
insight
,
into
the
nature
of
this
divine
vertue
.
I
but
they
can
merite
nothing
.
True
,
but
do
you
take
them
,
to
be
so
selfish
,
as
to
do
nothing
purely
for
Gods
sake
,
without
seeking
their
own
interest
?
what
say
you
to
our
Angel
Guardians
?
is
it
for
any
private
lucre
or
merit
,
or
purely
to
please
God
,
and
to
do
us
a
work
of
singular
charity
,
that
they
have
so
sollicitous
a
care
of
us
?
And
when
God
himself
loves
us
,
is
it
I
pray
you
,
for
any
interest
of
his
own
,
or
out
of
an
excess
of
his
overflowing
bounty
,
and
charity
,
which
Seneca
spoke
a
word
,
which
shew'd
a
magnanimous
,
and
true
Cardinall
Bellarmine
,
§.
3.
That
the
dead
may
receive
help
from
us
that
are
living
,
and
how
we
must
be
qualified
to
doe
them
good
.
BE
pleased
to
take
notice
,
what
several
meanings
these
Wherefore
the
Saints
,
may
well
proceed
by
way
of
impetation
and
prayers
,
or
at
most
,
represent
their
former
satisfactions
,
which
are
carefully
laid
up
in
the
treasury
of
the
Church
,
in
lieu
of
those
which
are
due
from
others
,
but
as
for
any
new
satisfaction
,
or
payment
,
derived
from
any
penal
act
of
their
own
,
it
is
not
to
be
lookt
for
,
in
those
happy
mansions
of
eternal
glory
.
The
Church
militant
may
do
either
,
as
having
this
advantage
above
the
Church
triumphant
,
that
she
can
help
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
by
her
prayers
and
satisfactory
works
and
by
offering
up
her
charitable
suffrages
,
wherewith
to
pay
the
debts
of
those
poor
souls
,
who
are
run
in
arreare
in
point
of
satisfaction
due
for
their
sins
.
Had
they
but
fasted
,
prai'd
,
labor'd
,
or
suffer'd
a
little
more
in
this
life
,
they
had
gone
directly
into
Heaven
;
what
they
unhappily
neglected
,
we
may
supply
for
them
,
and
it
will
be
accepted
for
good
payment
,
as
from
their
bayles
and
sureties
.
You
know
,
he
that
stands
surety
for
another
,
takes
the
whole
debt
upon
himself
,
this
is
our
case
,
for
the
living
as
it
were
entering
bond
for
the
dead
,
become
responsable
for
their
debts
,
and
offer
up
fast
for
fast
,
tears
for
tears
,
in
the
same
measure
and
proportion
,
as
they
were
liable
to
them
,
and
so
defray
the
debt
of
their
friends
,
at
their
own
charge
,
and
make
all
clear
.
This
then
is
the
general
sense
Pope
Innocent
the
third
,
and
a
thousand
others
,
as
appears
by
unquestionable
relations
of
grave
Authors
.
What
they
cannot
of
themselves
,
they
beg
of
us
,
and
beg
it
as
an
alms
for
charities
sake
and
it
were
both
sin
and
shame
to
deny
them
.
That
which
often
costs
us
but
little
,
they
esteem
at
a
high
rate
,
and
could
they
but
give
us
a
clear
sight
,
of
the
wonderful
effects
of
our
smal
endeavours
,
we
should
questionless
take
their
cause
more
to
heart
then
we
do
.
Howsoever
St.
Thomas
,
and
other
divines
assure
us
,
that
even
in
rigour
of
justice
,
our
satisfactions
are
accepted
in
lieu
of
theirs
,
since
God
has
so
ordain'd
,
and
past
his
word
for
it
to
his
dear
spouse
the
Church
,
who
really
believes
it
to
be
so
,
and
proceeds
accordingly
.
So
that
we
may
rest
confident
,
that
whosoever
undertakes
to
provide
for
those
distressed
souls
,
so
he
be
qualified
with
the
conditions
which
are
requisite
on
his
part
,
shall
infallibly
relieve
them
.
Well
,
but
you
long
now
to
know
,
what
these
conditions
are
,
with
which
we
may
be
morally
certain
,
that
our
suffrages
are
effectual
towards
the
purifying
,
and
releasing
of
the
poor
souls
in
Purgatory
.
He
that
will
have
his
works
acceptable
But
let
us
now
look
a
little
into
Su.
d.
48.
Sect.
8.
good
and
of
an
infinite
valew
,
that
the
Priest
that
sayes
it
,
or
sings
it
,
as
a
Minister
of
Gods
church
(
let
him
be
never
so
unworthy
)
is
alwayes
acceptable
for
her
sake
,
in
whose
name
he
acts
,
that
if
you
take
him
as
a
private
,
and
particular
person
,
t
is
true
,
all
his
prayers
and
devotions
,
can
availe
nothing
,
but
as
he
represents
the
Church
,
he
cannot
fail
,
to
do
the
maine
deed
we
pretend
,
and
we
need
not
scruple
it
.
You
would
be
amazed
,
should
I
further
tell
you
,
that
it
may
very
well
fall
out
sometimes
,
that
you
may
gain
more
,
by
hearing
the
Mass
of
a
loose
,
or
deboach'd
Priest
,
then
of
another
,
for
that
which
is
common
to
both
is
,
that
th●y
both
offer
up
the
propitiatory
sacrifice
of
the
Mass
,
which
is
alwayes
pleasing
in
the
sight
of
God
,
they
are
both
Ministers
of
the
Church
,
and
under
this
qualification
,
they
are
both
acceptable
persons
,
both
have
the
intention
you
require
,
of
relieving
the
soul
you
recommend
unto
them
,
both
performe
all
the
holy
rites
and
ceremonies
,
which
the
Church
prescribes
in
this
case
:
In
this
they
differ
,
that
the
one
adds
particular
devotions
of
his
own
,
which
are
grateful
to
God
,
because
he
is
in
the
state
of
grace
,
and
one
of
his
adopted
children
,
whereas
the
others
personal
actions
,
are
of
no
worth
,
because
we
suppose
him
to
be
in
an
ill
state
.
Well
,
but
this
is
the
cause
why
you
that
know
it
&
are
fearful
to
loose
by
the
bargaine
,
bring
so
many
Theological
acts
of
Faith
,
Hope
,
and
Charity
of
your
own
,
so
many
holy
affections
,
springing
from
a
zealous
devotion
,
all
inflamed
with
the
love
of
God
,
that
the
loss
you
were
afraid
of
,
is
abundantly
recompenced
,
and
with
no
little
advantage
to
your
cause
.
Be
not
then
of
the
number
of
those
fond
persons
,
who
profess
,
they
are
afraid
to
sound
obits
,
for
their
deceased
kindred
,
least
the
Masses
should
come
to
be
said
by
ungodly
,
and
irreligious
Priests
.
It
were
meer
simplicity
,
to
be
afraid
of
clear
cristal
water
,
because
forsooth
,
it
issues
out
of
the
snoute
of
a
black
marble
serpent
,
or
passes
through
the
Jawes
of
a
Lyon
of
Brass
.
Would
you
refuse
a
million
of
Gold
,
if
it
were
sent
you
out
of
Turkie
,
from
some
wicked
renegado
?
or
should
the
Pope
send
you
a
Cardinals
Cap
,
would
you
be
so
nice
as
not
to
accept
it
,
because
the
messenger
that
brought
it
,
were
an
ill
condition'd
fellow
?
Elias
was
not
so
dainty
,
as
to
forbear
his
meat
,
because
it
was
brought
by
a
Raven
.
Do
a
Gods
name
what
is
fitting
,
and
leave
the
rest
to
God
,
who
out
of
his
infinite
goodness
,
knows
how
to
supply
all
these
defects
,
especially
such
as
happen
against
your
will
,
and
such
as
you
know
not
how
to
prevent
,
unless
you
were
a
Prophet
.
§.
4.
Of
the
particular
wayes
we
have
to
help
them
.
THe
holy
Canons
,
and
Doctors
of
the
Church
,
comprehend
all
the
means
,
and
advantages
we
have
,
to
relieve
,
the
dead
,
under
these
four
general
heads
.
1.
The
Priests
oblations
&
sacrifices
.
2
The
Prayers
of
devout
people
.
3.
Almes
deeds
.
4.
Fasting
,
unto
which
,
you
must
reduce
all
kind
of
austerities
,
all
penal
works
,
that
afflict
the
body
,
what
way
soever
,
and
in
a
word
,
all
that
goes
under
the
common
notion
of
suffrages
.
For
the
enjoying
of
all
which
helps
,
St.
Augustin
observes
,
how
greatly
it
may
import
to
bury
the
dead
,
in
Churches
where
the
bodies
of
Saints
and
holy
Martyrs
lie
enterred
,
not
that
the
bare
lying
th●●e
can
so
much
availe
them
,
but
for
this
,
that
devout
people
resorting
more
thither
,
then
to
other
places
,
to
perform
their
devotions
,
to
God
,
and
his
Saints
,
and
seeing
the
Tombes
of
their
deceased
friends
,
cannot
but
remember
to
apply
their
charitable
suffrages
,
for
the
help
of
such
needy
persons
.
I
am
in
love
with
that
Religious
But
you
may
not
only
comfort
the
John
Chrysostome
assures
us
,
that
God
,
who
is
always
prodigal
of
his
mercies
,
will
be
sure
to
remember
you
,
and
the
holy
Souls
,
soaring
up
to
Heaven
with
the
wings
of
your
Charity
,
will
there
plead
for
you
with
so
much
eloquence
,
as
to
gain
your
cause
,
or
at
least
obtain
so
much
patience
for
you
,
as
to
defie
the
worst
of
your
evils
,
which
do
so
insult
,
and
tyranize
over
you
,
with
so
much
insolence
,
Pliny
would
make
us
believe
,
there
are
certain
fishes
,
that
entertain
so
faire
an
amity
,
and
faithfull
correspondence
with
one
another
,
that
if
one
of
them
chance
to
be
hung
in
the
net
,
the
other
strives
al
he
can
possibly
to
set
him
free
,
and
having
no
other
means
to
compass
his
design
,
presents
his
taile
,
or
one
of
his
sins
,
which
the
other
lays
fast
hold
on
with
his
teeth
,
so
that
,
while
the
one
thrusts
with
all
his
might
,
and
the
other
draws
with
all
his
force
,
they
break
the
mash
,
make
way
for
the
prisoner
to
get
out
,
and
so
swim
away
both
triumphing
in
their
liberty
.
Mean
while
the
kind
fish
that
was
sorely
bitten
,
bleeds
fresh
of
his
wounds
,
and
yet
is
so
well
pleased
to
have
purchased
his
friends
liberty
,
though
at
the
cost
of
his
blood
,
that
he
thinks
not
of
his
own
mischief
,
for
the
joy
he
takes
in
his
friends
safety
.
Do
you
the
same
for
your
friends
,
who
are
detained
captives
in
Purgatory
,
lend
them
your
Armes
,
your
Head
,
your
Blood
,
all
your
griefs
,
and
pains
,
and
they
will
be
the
sooner
released
out
of
their
miserable
thraldome
,
and
you
by
their
favour
,
shall
in
your
turn
passe
through
it
with
so
much
●wiftnesse
,
that
you
shall
scarse
feel
the
scorching
flames
,
with
which
they
are
so
grievously
tormented
.
You
have
another
easy
,
but
And
they
are
the
less
to
be
excused
,
because
it
is
very
probable
,
Prepos
.
de
Indulg
.
q.
14
dub
.
10.
&
Alii
.
passim
:
that
they
may
gain
Indulgences
,
which
are
appliable
to
the
dead
,
whether
they
be
in
the
state
of
grace
or
no
,
so
they
do
but
the
work
prescribed
.
What
will
they
do
(
sayes
the
Apostle
)
that
are
Baptized
for
the
dead
?
What
means
this
Baptisme
for
the
dead
!
I
leave
a
dozen
of
Interpretations
,
to
tell
you
,
there
were
some
fervent
Christians
in
those
days
,
that
took
a
world
of
pains
,
and
suffered
a
world
of
austerities
for
the
faithful
departed
,
and
so
were
Baptized
in
the
tears
of
contrition
,
and
in
the
blood
of
a
most
rigourou●
and
penitential
life
.
I
requi●●
not
so
much
of
you
,
only
a
little
care
of
applying
such
indulgences
as
you
have
in
your
power
,
to
do
them
good
,
who
by
a
little
of
your
favourable
assistance
,
would
be
soon
set
at
liberty
.
Cruel
heart
!
canst
thou
refuse
so
slight
a
curtesie
to
souls
so
holy
,
and
yet
in
so
lamentable
a
condition
.
And
if
thou
hast
the
honour
to
get
in
thither
thy self
hereafter
(
I
say
the
honour
)
dost
thou
not
deserve
to
be
let
alone
,
to
feel
at
leisure
the
smart
of
thy
idleness
and
disloyalty
.
Who
will
take
the
pains
to
help
a
wretch
,
who
would
scarse
stir
a
finger
to
help
out
souls
,
whose
eternal
happiness
she
might
as
easily
have
procured
,
as
cut
a
smal
thred
in
two
,
or
quench
a
little
sparke
of
fire
?
I
have
not
the
confidence
,
to
It
was
a
pious
invention
,
that
A
sodality
to
help
the
〈◊〉
.
of
certain
Bishops
,
and
other
Ecclesiastical
persons
of
Rome
,
An.
984.
to
erect
a
sodality
,
of
those
that
should
particularly
devote
themselves
to
pray
for
the
dead
,
which
custome
continued
a
long
time
at
Rome
,
and
is
yet
extant
in
some
part
of
the
Christian
world
.
When
one
of
their
number
dies
,
they
all
contribute
their
pious
labours
,
to
help
him
out
of
Purgatory
,
I
say
all
,
not
only
those
who
remain
yet
alive
,
but
those
also
,
who
are
already
got
into
heaven
;
so
that
it
is
impossible
for
him
to
make
any
long
stay
there
.
What
a
pleasure
is
it
,
to
see
that
a
soul
of
this
happy
confraternity
does
no
sooner
enter
into
Purgatory
,
but
a
good
part
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
conspires
to
procure
her
enlargement
.
This
is
to
be
wise
indeed
,
these
are
matters
of
state
,
which
all
the
world
would
be
well
versed
in
,
as
importing
them
far
more
,
then
the
government
of
whole
Kingdomes
.
Methinks
,
you
that
read
this
,
should
now
long
to
spread
abroad
this
most
excellent
devotion
,
by
erecting
one
of
these
sodalities
,
which
would
be
of
so
great
advantage
to
your self
and
others
.
Most
part
of
mankind
is
so
taken
up
,
with
building
rich
houses
,
or
providing
stately
Tombs
for
their
Rotten
Carcasses
,
they
have
no
leasure
to
think
,
what
will
become
of
their
souls
,
or
in
what
a
fiery
mansion
they
are
like
to
be
lodged
,
at
their
first
appearance
in
the
other
world
.
Do
they
not
in
truth
deserve
,
to
lye
there
frying
whole
yeares
Without
mercy
they
that
had
so
little
wit
,
as
not
to
endeavour
the
avoiding
of
an
evil
,
which
only
deserves
the
name
,
if
compared
with
the
petty
evils
of
this
world
,
which
are
such
bug-bears
in
our
weak
sighted
apprehensions
.
A
man
that
is
undone
,
by
some
cheat
or
surprize
,
may
be
pittied
,
but
he
that
sees
his
own
ruine
,
and
will
not
stir
a
foot
to
prevent
it
,
no
creature
can
pitty
such
a
man
,
and
certainly
,
he
deserves
not
the
least
compassion
.
The
world
has
generally
a
great
esteem
of
Monsieur
d'
Argenton
,
Phillip
Commines
,
and
many
worthily
admire
him
for
the
great
Wisdome
,
and
sinceraty
he
has
laboured
to
express
in
his
whole
History
,
but
for
my
part
,
I
commend
him
for
nothing
more
,
then
for
the
prudent
care
he
took
here
,
for
the
welfare
of
his
own
soul
in
the
other
world
.
For
having
built
a
goodly
Chappel
,
at
the
Augustins
in
Paris
,
and
left
them
a
good
foundation
,
he
tied
them
to
this
perpetual
obligation
,
that
they
should
no
sooner
rise
from
table
,
but
they
should
be
sure
to
pray
for
the
rest
of
his
precious
soul
,
and
he
ordered
it
thus
,
by
his
express
will
,
that
one
of
the
Religious
should
first
say
aloude
,
let
us
pray
for
the
soul
of
Monsieur
d'
Argenton
and
then
all
shoul●
instantly
say
the
Psalm
de
Profundis
.
Gerson
lost
not
his
labour
,
when
he
took
such
pains
,
to
teach
little
children
,
to
repeat
often
these
words
,
my
God
,
my
Creatour
,
have
pitty
on
your
poor
servant
John
Gerson
.
For
these
innocent
Souls
,
all
the
while
the
good
man
was
a
●●ying
,
and
after
he
was
dead
,
went
up
and
down
the
Town
,
with
a
mournful
voice
,
singing
the
short
lesson
he
had
taught
them
,
and
comforting
his
dear
soul
with
their
innocent
prayers
.
Now
as
I
must
commend
their
prudence
,
who
thus
wisely
cast
about
,
how
to
provide
for
their
own
souls
,
against
they
come
into
Purgatory
,
so
I
cannot
but
more
highly
magnifie
their
charity
,
who
less
sollicitous
for
themselves
,
employ
their
whole
care
to
save
others
out
of
that
dreadful
fire
.
And
sure
I
am
,
they
can
loose
nothing
by
the
bargaine
,
who
dare
thus
trust
God
with
their
own
souls
,
while
they
do
their
uttermost
to
help
others
;
Nay
though
they
should
follow
that
unpparallel'd
example
of
F.
Hemando
de
Rbo
.
Hist.
l.
1
c.
4.
§.
3.
Monsoy
of
the
society
of
Jesus
,
who
not
content
to
give
away
all
he
could
from
himself
to
the
poor
souls
,
while
he
lived
,
made
them
his
heirs
after
death
,
and
by
express
will
bequeathed
them
all
the
Masses
,
Rosuries
,
and
whatsoever
else
should
be
offered
for
him
,
by
his
friends
upon
Earth
.
§.
5.
Certain
questions
resolved
,
about
the
application
,
and
distribution
of
,
our
suffrages
.
IT
will
not
be
amiss
here
to
resolve
you
certain
pertinent
questions
.
Whether
the
suffrages
we
offer
up
unto
God
shall
really
availe
them
for
whom
we
offer
them
,
and
whether
they
alone
,
or
others
also
may
receive
benefit
by
them
.
Whether
it
be
better
,
to
pray
for
a
few
at
once
or
for
many
,
or
for
all
the
souls
together
.
And
for
what
souls
in
particular
?
To
the
first
I
answer
,
if
your
And
hence
I
take
my
rise
,
to
Now
to
define
precisely
,
whether
it
be
alwaies
better
done
,
to
help
one
or
two
souls
efficaciously
,
then
to
yeald
a
little
comfort
to
a
great
many
,
is
a
question
I
leave
for
you
to
exercise
your
wits
in
.
I
could
fancy
it
to
be
your
best
course
,
to
do
both
,
that
is
,
somtimes
to
single
out
some
particular
soul
,
and
to
use
all
your
power
,
to
lift
her
up
to
heaven
,
somtimes
again
,
to
parcell
out
your
favours
upon
many
,
and
now
and
then
also
to
deal
out
a
general
Almes
upon
all
Purgatory
.
And
you
need
not
fear
exceeding
in
this
way
of
charity
,
whatsoever
you
bestow
,
for
you
may
be
sure
,
nothing
will
be
lost
by
it
.
And
St.
Thomas
will
tell
you
,
for
your
comfort
,
that
since
all
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
are
perfectly
united
in
charity
,
they
rejoyce
exceedingly
,
when
they
see
any
of
their
whole
number
,
to
receive
such
powerfull
helps
,
as
to
dispose
her
for
heaven
,
they
every
one
take
it
as
done
to
themselves
,
whatsoever
is
bestowed
upon
any
of
their
fellows
,
whom
they
love
as
themselves
,
and
out
of
a
heavenly
kind
of
curtesy
,
and
singular
love
they
joy
in
her
happiness
,
as
if
it
were
their
own
.
So
that
it
may
be
truly
said
,
that
you
never
pray
for
one
or
more
of
them
,
but
they
are
all
partakers
,
and
receive
a
particular
comfort
,
and
satisfaction
by
it
.
Me
thinks
this
very
consideration
,
should
inkindle
in
your
hearts
a
fresh
desire
,
to
be
often
●olafing
those
happy
souls
,
and
to
entitle
your selves
their
special
benefactours
,
who
will
never
suffer
the
remembrance
of
your
tender
mercies
,
to
be
blotted
out
of
their
gratefull
memories
.
But
let
us
now
state
the
case
First
,
Because
the
Masse
is
alwayes
to
good
purpose
,
as
having
its
effect
,
ex
opere
operato
,
as
they
speak
in
schoools
,
or
of
it self
,
without
any
relation
had
to
him
that
says
it
,
or
causes
it
to
be
said
.
Secondly
,
Because
they
use
to
say
,
that
the
last
wholsome
advice
,
we
ought
to
give
to
a
desperate
soul
,
plunged
over
head
and
ears
in
sinne
,
is
to
be
sure
alwayes
,
to
be
good
to
the
poore
,
for
sooner
or
later
,
good
will
come
of
it
Thirdly
,
It
is
truly
said
of
alms-deeds
,
that
they
are
good
sollicitours
,
and
have
a
most
charming
Rhetorick
,
to
obtain
of
God
,
and
to
extort
as
it
were
out
of
his
hands
,
what
they
please
.
In
so
much
,
that
if
the
sentence
of
condemnation
,
were
already
signed
in
the
hands
of
God
(
it
is
the
expression
of
St.
Chrysologus
)
God
And
here
again
,
taking
upon
me
,
to
be
Proctour
for
this
sufferring
Commonwealth
,
I
conjure
you
,
to
be
liberal
in
distributing
your
almes
,
and
procuring
M●sses
,
for
the
souls
departed
.
I
can
expect
no
less
from
their
goodness
,
but
that
their
Angel
gardians
,
or
yours
,
or
those
of
the
poor
,
will
inspire
them
with
good
thoughts
,
and
move
them
,
to
poure
ou●
their
ardent
,
and
innocent
prayers
,
for
you
in
recompence
of
so
great
a
charity
.
Mean
while
you
shall
be
like
the
Crow
,
that
brought
bread
to
St.
Paul
the
Hermite
,
without
so
much
as
tasting
it
,
or
like
the
Whale
that
convay'd
Jonas
safe
to
the
shoar
without
feeding
on
him
,
or
to
use
St.
Gregory's
comparison
,
you
shall
be
like
the
water
in
the
Sacrament
of
Baptisme
,
which
falling
upon
the
head
of
a
child
,
washes
away
the
foul
staine
of
original
sin
,
and
entitles
him
heir
to
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
and
mean
while
glides
away
into
some
noysome
sinke
,
and
there
turnes
to
filth
and
corruption
.
Now
to
the
last
Query
,
for
what
§.
6.
How
dangerous
it
is
to
trust
others
,
with
what
concerns
the
sweet
rest
of
our
souls
in
the
next
world
.
AS
I
cannot
but
highly
magnifie
,
It
would
go
h●rd
with
many
,
You
have
no
reason
in
the
world
,
to
expect
others
should
love
you
better
,
then
you
love
your self
,
so
that
if
you
can
finde
in
your
heart
to
neglect
your self
,
it
is
a
folly
to
expect
others
will
have
more
care
of
you
.
Sure
it
is
not
good
going
to
heaven
by
proxy
,
nor
standing
to
anothers
courtesy
,
in
what
concerns
the
necessary
refreshment
and
ease
of
our
souls
.
You
that
are
so
rich
in
worldly
wealth
,
but
bare
enough
of
solid
vertue
give
but
a
tolerable
excuse
,
why
you
do
not
build
a
Chappell
,
or
an
Hospital
,
that
good
people
,
remembring
their
founder
,
may
be
daily
pouring
out
their
prayers
for
you
,
both
living
and
dead
.
That
which
you
often
cast
away
,
at
an
unlucky
throw
at
Dice
,
would
suffice
,
that
which
you
bury
in
a
caprichious
peece
of
building
,
or
devoure
at
an
idle
entertainment
were
more
then
enough
.
Why
do
not
you
get
a
priviledged
Alter
in
your
own
Parish
,
or
at
least
cause
frequent
Masses
to
be
said
at
such
Altars
,
to
release
poore
souls
,
that
others
may
be
as
kinde
to
you
hereafter
?
Why
do
not
you
send
good
store
of
Almes
to
poore
prisoners
,
that
your
charity
may
help
to
redeeme
souls
out
of
Purgatory
.
You
do
nothing
of
all
this
,
and
yet
would
be
thought
to
be
in
your
right
senses
,
which
I
look
upon
for
my
part
as
a
meere
paradox
.
§.
7.
Some
motives
fetcht
even
as
farr
as
the
other
World
,
to
stirr
us
up
to
be
mindefull
of
the
dead
.
CArdinal
Cajetan
has
a
singular
tenet
,
which
will
not
a
little
help
,
to
promote
piety
&
deserves
highly
to
be
recorded
,
as
a
Doctrine
,
which
suits
well
with
the
infinite
goodness
of
our
most
just
and
mercifull
God
.
The
question
is
,
what
becomes
of
all
the
merit
,
of
those
Masses
,
and
other
suffrages
,
which
are
offered
for
souls
,
which
are
not
in
Purgatory
?
some
hold
,
it
is
applied
to
their
Parents
,
Alliance
,
or
Frends
,
others
to
those
that
are
so
frendless
,
as
to
have
no
body
to
remember
them
,
others
to
them
that
stand
in
most
need
of
help
,
others
will
have
it
horded
up
with
the
rest
of
the
Churches
treasure
.
A
pious
opinion
of
Cajetan
.
But
this
learned
Cardinal
maintains
,
that
it
goes
all
to
relieve
their
soules
,
who
in
this
world
were
particularly
addicted
to
pray
for
the
dead
.
And
what
can
be
more
reasonable
?
According
Who
can
lay
a
better
claim
to
it
then
they
?
For
first
,
the
founders
themselves
,
were
they
but
half
acquainted
,
with
what
passes
in
the
other
world
,
cannot
but
be
well
pleased
at
it
.
Then
,
it
is
a
powerfull
incentive
,
to
encrease
devotion
in
the
hearts
of
all
good
Christians
,
who
may
hope
in
their
turnes
to
reap
the
like
fruit
of
their
charitable
labours
,
for
the
good
of
souls
.
And
who
can
find
fault
,
that
such
straggling
suffrages
,
which
of
right
belong
to
no
body
,
should
be
so
profitably
employed
?
This
opinion
is
no
Article
of
faith
,
but
is
a
very
pious
conjecture
,
worthy
of
that
most
eminent
Cardinal
.
And
me
thinks
I
see
the
blessed
souls
themselves
,
for
whom
these
holy
suffrages
were
offered
,
to
lye
prostrate
before
the
throne
of
God
,
beseechi●g
him
to
apply
them
to
those
needy
souls
,
who
while
they
lived
were
so
full
of
charity
,
as
to
forget
themselves
to
be
sure
to
remember
them
.
Me
thinks
I
see
the
other
Saints
in
heaven
,
who
were
handed
out
of
Purgatory
by
the
armes
of
charity
,
to
be
joynt-petitioners
,
and
their
good
Angels
also
,
and
all
of
them
together
,
to
become
earnest
suitors
,
to
obtain
this
favour
of
Almighty
God
,
who
is
easily
overcome
in
a
suit
of
this
nature
,
which
is
so
rational
,
that
the
granting
it
must
needs
cry
up
his
ineffable
wisdome
and
mercy
.
And
I
cannot
but
think
,
that
if
the
case
were
to
be
decided
by
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
they
would
all
unanimously
agree
,
that
such
suffrages
as
these
,
which
out
of
meer
ignorance
,
were
misapplied
to
those
that
could
make
no
benefit
of
them
,
cannot
be
better
disposed
of
,
then
to
their
companions
,
who
in
their
life
time
were
so
charitable
to
other
soules
.
This
I
take
to
be
a
very
moving
consideration
,
and
yet
I
have
just
cause
to
fear
,
all
I
can
say
to
you
will
hardly
s●ffice
to
mollify
that
hard
heart
of
yours
,
and
therefore
my
last
refuge
shall
be
to
set
others
on
,
though
I
call
them
out
of
the
other
world
.
And
first
,
let
a
damned
soul
read
you
a
Lecture
,
and
teach
you
the
compassion
you
ought
to
bear
to
your
afflicted
brethren
.
Remember
In
the
next
place
,
I
will
bring
in
the
soul
of
your
dear
father
,
or
mother
,
to
make
her
own
just
complaints
against
you
.
Lend
her
then
a
dutifull
,
and
attentive
ear
,
and
let
none
of
her
words
be
lost
,
for
she
deserves
to
be
heard
o●●
▪
while
she
laies
forth
the
state
o●
her
most
lamentable
condition
.
Peace
,
It
is
a
holy
soul
,
(
though
cloth'd
in
flames
)
directs
her
speech
to
you
after
this
manner
.
Am
not
I
the
most
unfortunate
One
must
have
a
heart
of
Steel
,
or
no
heart
at
all
,
to
heare
these
sad
regrets
and
not
feel
.
some
tenderness
for
the
poor
souls
,
and
as
great
an
indignation
against
those
who
are
so
little
concerned
for
the
souls
of
their
parents
,
and
other
neer
relations
.
I
wish
with
all
my
soul
,
that
all
those
,
who
shall
light
upon
this
passage
,
and
heare
the
soul
so
bitterly
to
deplore
her
misfortune
,
may
but
benefit
themselves
half
as
much
by
it
,
as
a
good
Prelate
did
,
when
the
soul
of
Pope
Benedict
the
eighth
,
by
Gods
permission
,
revealed
unto
him
her
lamentable
state
in
Purgatory
.
For
so
the
story
goes
Pith.
Baron
.
an
.
874
the
Church
Patient
.
I
wish
again
,
they
would
in
this
but
follow
the
example
of
King
Lewis
of
France
,
who
was
son
to
Lewis
the
Emperour
,
sirnamed
the
Pious
.
For
they
tell
us
,
that
this
Emperour
,
after
he
had
been
33.
years
in
Purgatory
,
not
so
much
for
any
personal
crimes
,
or
misdemeanours
of
his
own
,
as
for
permitting
certain
disorders
in
his
Empire
,
which
he
ought
to
have
prevented
,
was
at
length
permitted
,
to
shew
himself
to
King
Lewis
his
sonne
,
and
to
beg
his
favourable
assistance
,
and
that
the
King
,
did
not
onely
most
readily
grant
him
his
req●est
procuring
Masses
to
be
said
in
all
the
Monasteries
of
his
Realm
,
for
the
soule
of
his
deceased
Father
,
but
drew
thence
many
good
reflections
,
and
profitable
instructions
,
which
served
him
all
his
life
time
after
.
Do
you
the
same
and
believe
it
,
though
Purgatory
fire
is
a
kinde
of
Baptisme
,
and
is
so
stiled
by
some
of
the
holy
Fathers
,
because
it
cleanses
a
soul
from
all
the
drosse
of
sinne
,
and
makes
it
worthy
to
see
God
,
yet
is
it
your
sweetest
course
,
here
to
baptize
your self
frequently
,
in
the
tears
of
contrition
,
which
have
a
mighty
power
to
wash
away
all
the
blemishes
of
sin
,
and
so
prevent
in
your
own
person
,
and
extinguish
in
others
,
those
baptismal
flames
of
Purgatory
fire
,
which
are
so
dreadfull
.
The
Fifth
Survey
.
How
all
Antiquity
was
ever
devoted
to
pray
for
the
Dead
.
THis
charitable
devotion
for
the
dead
,
is
a
thing
so
inbred
and
natural
unto
us
all
,
that
we
seem
,
as
it
were
,
to
suck
it
in
with
the
very
milk
of
our
Nurses
:
Nor
was
there
ever
any
people
,
I
do
not
say
Christian
,
but
even
Jewish
,
or
Heat
henish
,
which
did
not
professe
some
Piety
in
this
kinde
.
As
for
the
Jews
,
it
is
well
known
Judas
Machabeus
,
had
for
the
good
of
Having
in
several
feirce
encounters
,
made
such
a
slaughter
of
his
enemies
,
as
to
strew
the
fields
over
with
dead
Carcasses
,
and
to
stain
the
Rivers
with
blood
,
he
caused
a
diligent
search
to
be
made
,
for
all
those
that
had
faln
on
his
side
,
to
have
them
honourably
enterred
in
the
Sepulchers
of
their
Fathers
.
But
the
mischeif
was
,
that
in
stripping
them
of
their
Cloathes
,
they
discovered
under
their
coates
some
unlawfull
spoiles
,
which
they
ought
to
have
destroyed
,
according
to
their
law
,
but
had
secretly
reserved
to
themselves
,
a
crime
,
for
which
they
all
instantly
concluded
,
those
unfortunate
soules
,
had
deservedly
been
cast
away
,
and
cut
off
by
the
hand
of
God
.
And
some
there
were
doubtlesse
,
that
fell
a
cursing
this
their
fordid
avarice
and
high
transgression
,
but
the
good
Captain
,
takes
this
occasion
,
to
exhort
them
to
adore
the
just
judgments
of
heaven
,
and
to
learn
at
the
others
cost
to
have
the
fear
of
God
before
their
eyes
,
and
to
be
more
religious
in
their
wayes
,
and
yet
withall
to
be
more
reserved
in
their
censures
,
and
rather
to
have
pitty
on
the
soules
of
their
fellow
souldiers
,
who
probably
might
not
die
in
so
desperate
a
condition
,
as
not
to
be
relieved
by
their
help
.
This
done
,
he
makes
a
collection
,
he
raises
a
summe
of
12000.
drachms
,
he
sends
it
to
Hierusalem
,
to
procure
Sacrifices
to
be
offered
,
for
their
sins
that
were
slain
,
who
for
ought
he
knew
,
might
dye
in
a
faire
way
to
a
hopefull
resurrection
.
Now
,
whether
shall
we
first
admire
,
the
tender
heart
of
this
noble
Cavalier
,
or
his
religious
piety
,
or
his
charitab●●
liberality
.
He
knew
well
,
those
miserable
wretches
had
committed
a
most
foul
crime
,
and
yet
he
would
not
despaire
of
their
salvation
,
but
was
willing
to
believe
,
they
repented
themselves
of
their
frailty
,
and
that
God
had
sent
them
their
deaths
,
onely
as
a
temporal
punishment
,
for
the
terrour
of
others
:
Nor
had
he
the
least
doubt
,
but
that
our
Lord
would
be
well
pleased
with
his
charity
,
and
accept
of
the
Sacrifices
which
he
thus
offered
,
for
the
repose
of
their
souls
.
And
certainly
,
the
fact
is
most
highly
commended
by
the
sacred
Text
,
which
concludes
the
story
,
in
these
words
.
It
is
therefore
a
holy
and
healthfull
cogitation
to
pray
for
the
Dead
,
that
they
may
be
loosed
from
their
sins
.
O
that
so
faire
an
example
would
teach
all
Christians
,
to
be
good
and
liberall
to
the
Dead
;
for
alas
,
the
greatest
part
of
mankinde
content
themselves
,
with
drawing
two
or
three
sighs
,
at
a
funeral
,
or
saying
a●●●●rt
prayer
or
two
at
most
,
wher●●●
this
generous
Captain
(
even
before
the
clear
light
of
the
Gospel
)
did
all
this
,
and
confirmed
it
with
a
noble
Gift
of
12000.
drachms
.
§.
1.
Of
the
natural
instinct
of
all
Nations
to
honour
,
and
comfort
the
dead
.
IT
may
well
put
most
Catholicks
to
the
blush
,
to
consider
what
an
incredible
care
,
all
nations
have
ever
had
of
the
dead
,
by
the
meer
impulse
of
nature
.
Cesar
takes
notice
,
how
superstitiously
What
shall
I
say
of
those
other
Nations
,
whose
natural
piety
lead
them
,
to
set
burning
Lamps
at
the
sepulchers
of
the
dead
,
and
strew
them
over
with
sweet
flowers
,
and
Odoriferous
perfumes
?
It
was
very
usual
with
the
old
Romans
,
to
shed
whole
floods
of
tears
,
to
reserve
them
in
viol
glasses
,
and
to
bury
them
with
the
●●●nes
,
in
which
the
ashes
of
their
de●d
friends
were
carefully
laid
up
,
and
by
them
to
set
Lamps
,
so
artificially
composed
,
as
to
burn
without
end
By
which
Symbols
,
they
would
give
us
to
understand
that
neither
their
love
,
nor
their
grief
,
should
ever
dye
,
but
that
they
would
always
be
sure
,
to
have
tears
in
their
eyes
,
love
in
their
hearts
,
and
a
constant
memory
in
their
souls
for
their
deceased
friends
Good
God!
shall
charity
be
overcome
by
vanity
,
shall
Religion
yeeld
to
Idolatry
,
and
shall
●he
Catholick
Roman
stoop
to
the
Pagan
Roman
?
shall
a
little
vain
glory
,
or
a
me●●●atural
affection
have
the
power
to
draw
whole
Glasse
fuls
of
tears
,
from
the
eyes
of
idolatours
,
and
shall
not
a
Religious
compassion
prevaile
so
far
●s
to
draw
a
single
tear
or
a
figh
,
or
a
good
word
from
the
mouth
of
a
Christian
?
shall
they
take
on
so
bitterly
for
dead
carcasses
,
that
are
not
sensible
of
the
flames
,
that
consume
them
?
&
shall
not
we
be
more
concerned
for
souls
,
that
really
feel
the
smart
of
a
most
cruel
fire
?
sure
they
will
one
day
rise
up
in
judgement
against
us
,
and
reproach
us
for
believing
as
we
do
,
and
carrying
our
felves
clear
contrary
to
the
belief
we
profess
.
They
had
another
custome
,
not
only
in
Rome
,
but
elsewhere
,
to
walk
about
the
burning
pile
,
where
the
dead
Corps
lay
,
and
with
their
mournful
lamentations
,
to
keep
time
with
the
doleful
sound
of
their
Trumpets
,
and
still
every
turn
,
to
cast
into
the
fire
some
precious
pledg
of
their
friendship
.
The
Women
themselves
,
would
not
stick
to
throw
in
their
Rings
,
Bracelets
and
other
costly
attires
,
nay
their
very
hair
also
,
the
chief
ornament
of
their
Sex
,
and
they
would
have
been
sometimes
willing
,
to
have
thrown
in
both
their
eyes
,
and
their
hearts
too
.
Nor
were
there
some
wanting
,
that
in
earnest
Suet.
in
Aug.
Dion
.
Alex.
threw
themselves
into
the
fire
,
to
be
consumed
with
their
dear
spouses
,
so
that
it
was
found
necessary
,
to
make
a
severe
law
against
it
,
such
was
the
tenderness
they
had
for
their
deceased
friends
,
such
was
the
excess
of
a
mere
natural
affection
.
Now
our
love
●●
infused
from
heaven
,
it
is
supernatural
,
and
consequently
ought
to
be
more
active
,
and
powerful
to
stir
up
our
compassion
,
for
the
souls
departed
,
and
yet
we
see
the
coldness
of
Christians
in
this
kind
,
how
few
there
are
,
that
make
it
their
business
to
help
poor
souls
out
of
their
tormenting
flames
.
It
is
not
necessary
to
make
Laws
to
hinder
any
excess
in
this
kind
,
it
were
rather
to
be
wish'd
,
that
a
Law
were
provided
,
to
punish
all
such
ungrateful
persons
,
as
forget
the
duty
they
owe
to
their
dead
parents
,
and
all
the
obligations
they
have
to
the
rest
of
their
friends
.
It
will
help
somthing
to
encrease
Diod.
Sic.
l.
17.
c.
16.
our
confusion
,
to
reflect
how
Alexander
the
great
behaved
himself
at
the
Funerals
of
his
dear
Hephestion
.
They
tell
us
,
he
spent
at
least
twelve
thousand
Talents
that
is
,
above
seven
Millions
,
and
two
hundred
thousand
Crowns
,
upon
his
funeral
pile
.
It
was
beautified
with
a
world
of
rich
,
and
goodly
statues
,
made
of
Ivory
,
Ebony
,
or
some
precious
Mettal
,
amongst
others
,
you
might
have
seen
curious
Mermaides
,
with
exquisite
musick
,
lockt
up
within
them
Eagles
,
Dragons
and
other
beasts
represented
to
life
,
stately
galleries
hung
with
Scarlet
richly
embroydered
,
triumphant
crowns
of
p●●e
Gold
,
torches
,
fifteen
cubits
high
,
perfumes
without
end
.
O
what
an
excess
of
love
,
and
superfluity
was
this
?
what
a
st●r
to
make
a
handful
of
ashes
,
of
the
carcass
of
a
miserable
damned
wretch
?
And
yet
all
this
was
nothing
,
Diod.
Sic.
l.
3.
Bud.
to
the
mad
profuseness
of
that
other
infamous
and
desperate
King
,
who
yet
living
built
his
own
funeral
pile
,
and
made
himself
and
a
world
of
treasure
to
the
valew
of
fifty
millions
of
Gold
to
be
all
consumed
to
ashes
.
What
reflections
shall
we
make
upon
all
this
,
we
that
are
scarse
willing
to
spare
a
shilling
,
to
ease
a
soul
that
lies
consuming
in
the
flames
of
Purgatory
.
Tell
me
,
dear
Reader
,
what
would
they
not
have
done
for
souls
,
they
that
bore
so
Religious
a
respect
to
the
bones
,
ashes
,
and
smal
remainder
of
dead
carcasses
?
They
first
cloth'd
themselves
with
black
cypres
,
wash'd
their
hands
clean
,
quencht
the
fire
with
milk
and
wine
,
then
they
made
a
diligent
search
for
the
bones
,
carefully
raking
them
up
out
of
the
ashes
,
they
placed
them
in
their
bosomes
,
wash'd
them
with
their
tears
,
and
their
choysest
wines
,
dried
them
again
,
and
lapped
them
up
in
their
finest
linnen
,
covered
them
over
with
roses
,
and
o●her
costly
perfumes
,
and
so
reserved
them
in
urns
of
glasse
,
Ivory
,
or
porphyry
,
and
could
never
think
they
had
done
enough
for
them
▪
And
can
we
Christians
,
with
the
eye
of
our
faith
,
pierce
the
Earth
,
and
see
poor
souls
burning
in
Purgatory
fire
,
and
see
them
with
dry
eyes
,
and
with
a
frozen
heart
?
Can
we
be
so
niggardly
,
as
to
grudge
them
a
little
comfort
,
or
refuse
to
cast
on
our
Wine
,
our
Milk
,
and
our
flowers
,
the
wine
of
our
charity
,
the
Milk
of
our
innocency
,
and
the
flowers
of
our
devout
sighs
,
and
prayers
to
help
to
quench
their
flames
.
Christ
Jesus
told
the
Jewes
,
that
the
Queen
of
Saba
would
condemne
them
at
the
latter
day
,
and
I
fear
Queen
Artemifia
Strabo
.
l.
14.
Diod.
l.
16.
will
condemne
u●
,
for
having
built
one
of
the
seven
miracles
of
the
world
,
in
honor
of
her
dear
Lord
and
Husband
,
not
content
with
this
exteriour
de●onstration
,
of
the
dutiful
affection
she
had
for
him
,
she
took
a
strange
resolution
,
to
drink
up
his
ashes
,
and
to
lodge
them
in
her
heart
,
and
so
to
make
it
good
to
the
very
letter
,
that
man
and
wife
are
indeed
but
one
flesh
,
one
body
and
and
soul
,
have
but
one
life
,
and
can
die
but
one
death
.
What
would
she
not
have
done
,
to
have
lodged
his
soul
in
Heaven
,
she
that
took
such
care
to
lodge
his
ashes
in
her
breast
?
What
have
you
to
say
for
your selves
,
you
unkind
wives
,
or
what
answer
can
you
make
you
unnatural
Children
,
when
she
shall
question
you
,
what
care
you
took
,
to
provide
a
better
mansion
for
the
Souls
of
your
Husbands
,
or
your
Parents
,
when
they
were
lodged
in
the
merciless
flames
of
Purgatory
fire
?
Sure
you
are
not
sprung
,
from
that
wicked
race
of
barbarou●
people
,
who
were
wont
to
feast
themselves
with
the
flesh
of
their
dead
Parents
,
and
to
justifie
the
fact
,
by
saying
,
that
it
was
I
should
never
make
an
end
,
should
I
go
about
here
,
to
reckon
up
all
the
religious
expressions
of
charity
,
which
the
Pagans
are
known
to
have
made
to
their
dead
friends
,
and
therefore
I
say
nothing
of
the
ten
valiant
captains
,
§.
2.
The
constant
practise
of
the
Church
in
all
ages
,
to
pray
for
the
dead
.
IT
is
a
pleasure
to
observe
,
the
You
may
see
a
set
forme
of
Eccles.
hier.
c.
7.
prayer
for
the
dead
prescribed
in
all
the
ancient
liturgies
of
the
Apostles
,
Besi●es
St.
Clement
tels
us
,
it
was
one
of
the
chief
heads
of
St.
Peters
sermons
,
to
be
dayly
inculcating
to
the
people
,
this
devotion
of
praying
for
the
dead
,
and
St.
Denis
sets
down
at
large
,
all
the
solemn
ceremonies
,
and
prayers
,
which
were
then
used
at
funeralls
,
and
receaves
them
no
otherwise
then
as
apostolical
traditions
,
grounded
upon
the
word
of
God
,
and
certainly
it
would
have
done
you
good
to
have
seen
with
what
gravity
,
and
devotion
that
venerable
Prelate
performed
the
divine
office
,
and
prayer
for
the
dead
,
and
what
an
ocean
of
tears
,
he
drew
from
the
eyes
of
all
that
were
present
.
Let
Tertullian
speak
for
the
next
in
Rom.
c.
11.
3
d.
age
.
●ut
the
Sonne
of
●od
can
guesse
how
long
,
or
how
many
ages
,
a
soul
may
stand
in
need
of
the
Purgation
of
fire
Mark
the
word
ages
,
he
seems
to
believe
,
that
a
soul
may
for
whole
ages
,
that
is
,
for
so
many
hundred
years
,
be
confined
to
this
fiery
lake
,
if
she
be
wholy
left
to
her self
,
and
her
own
sufferings
.
It
was
not
without
confidence
4
th
.
●ge
.
Euseb.
l.
4.
c.
60.
&
71
(
sayes
Eusebius
)
of
reaping
more
fruit
from
the
Prayers
of
the
faithfull
,
that
the
honour
of
our
Nation
,
and
the
first
Christian
Emperour
,
Constantine
the
great
,
took
such
care
to
be
buried
in
the
Church
of
the
Apostles
,
whether
all
sorts
of
devout
people
resorting
,
to
perform
their
Devotions
to
God
and
his
Saints
,
would
be
sure
to
remember
so
good
an
Emperour
:
Nor
did
he
faile
of
his
expectation
,
for
it
is
incredible
as
the
same
Authour
observes
,
what
a
world
of
sighs
and
prayers
,
were
offered
up
for
him
upon
this
occasion
.
Saint
Athanasius
brings
an
eligant
We
do
not
busie
our selves
(
saies
Saint
Cyrill
)
with
plating
crowns
,
Cyril
.
Hieros
.
in
Catechesi
5.
mystag
.
or
strowing
flowers
,
at
the
Sepulchers
of
the
dead
;
but
we
lay
hold
on
Christ
,
the
very
sonne
of
God
,
who
was
sacrificed
upon
the
Crosse
for
our
sins
,
and
we
offer
him
up
again
,
to
his
eternal
Father
,
in
the
dreadfull
Sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
as
the
most
efficacious
means
,
to
reconcile
him
not
only
to
our selves
,
but
to
them
also
.
Saint
Epiphanius
stuok
not
to
Saint
Ambrose
prayed
heartily
He
had
the
same
kindnesse
for
Conc.
Carth
3.
can
..
29.
them
.
And
much
about
this
time
it
was
,
that
some
out
of
too
much
care
that
the
dead
should
as
soon
as
might
be
,
have
all
the
comfort
they
could
afford
them
,
were
grown
into
an
abuse
of
making
no
scruple
of
saying
Mass
for
them
after
Dinner
,
so
that
it
was
sound
necessary
that
the
Church
should
make
a
severe
decree
against
it
.
Will
you
honour
the
Dead
Saint
Augustine
is
every
where
very
full
of
this
subject
,
but
it
may
abundantly
suffice
here
,
to
set
down
a
part
of
the
ardent
prayer
,
which
he
made
for
his
good
Mother
after
her
death
.
Hearken
to
me
I
beseech
thee
(
O
my
God
)
for
Confesse
c.
13.
his
sake
who
is
the
true
medicine
of
our
wounds
,
who
hung
upon
the
Crosse
,
and
sitting
now
at
thy
right
hand
makes
Intercession
for
us
.
I
know
she
has
willingly
,
and
from
her
heart
,
forgiven
such
as
offended
her
,
forgive
thou
also
her
sins
,
O
Lord
forgive
her
I
beseech
thee
,
and
enter
not
with
her
into
judgment
.
Let
thy
Mercy
overtop
thy
Justice
,
&c.
And
I
verily
perswade
my self
that
thou
hast
already
done
what
I
desire
;
but
yet
accept
,
O
Lord
,
this
prayer
,
which
I
willingly
make
.
For
she
,
when
the
day
of
her
death
drew
neer
upon
her
,
did
not
crave
that
her
body
might
be
sumptuously
adorned
,
or
embalmed
with
Spices
and
Odours
,
nor
desired
she
any
curious
or
choice
monument
,
or
cared
she
to
be
conveyed
into
her
own
Country
.
They
were
not
these
things
she
recomme●ded
to
us
,
but
only
she
desired
to
be
remembred
at
the
Altar
,
whereat
she
used
to
assist
,
without
pretermission
of
any
one
day
,
&c.
Let
her
therefore
rest
in
peace
with
her
husband
,
&c.
And
inspire
O
Lord
my
God
,
inspire
thy
servants
,
my
brethren
,
that
whosoever
reads
these
my
confessions
,
may
at
thy
Altar
,
remember
thy
servant
Monaca
,
with
Patricius
her
husband
,
&c.
St.
Paulinus
,
that
charitable
Prelate
,
who
sould
himselfe
to
redeem
others
,
cold
not
but
have
a
great
proportion
of
charity
,
for
captive
souls
in
the
other
world
.
No
,
he
was
not
only
ready
to
have
turnd
slave
himself
,
to
purchase
their
freedom
,
but
he
became
an
earnest
solicitour
to
others
in
their
behalf
,
for
in
a
letter
to
Delphinus
,
alluding
to
the
story
of
Lazarus
,
he
beseeches
him
to
have
at
least
so
much
compassion
,
as
to
convey
now
and
then
a
drop
of
water
,
wherewith
to
coole
the
tongues
of
poor
souls
,
that
lye
burning
in
the
church
which
is
all
a
fire
.
I
am
astonisht
,
when
I
call
to
mind
the
sad
regrets
of
the
people
of
Africa
,
when
they
saw
some
of
their
Priests
drag'd
away
to
Martyrdome
.
The
Author
says
,
they
§.
3.
A
continuation
of
the
same
subject
from
the
sixth
Age
,
after
Christ
unto
our
dayes
.
ALmighty
God
has
often
John
Climacus
Pope
Symmachus
and
his
Council
St.
Isidor
delivers
it
as
an
apostolical
tradition
,
and
general
Age.
l.
1.
de
offic.
c.
18.
&
l.
2.
c.
penu●t
.
practise
of
the
Catholick
Church
in
his
time
,
to
offer
up
sacrifices
and
prayers
,
and
to
distribute
almes
for
the
dead
,
and
this
not
for
any
encrease
of
their
merit
,
but
either
to
mitigate
their
pains
or
to
shorten
the
time
of
their
durance
.
Venerable
Bede
is
a
sure
witness
St.
John
Damascene
made
an
eligant
Were
it
but
a
dog
(
says
Simeon
Age.
In
vita
St.
Pachom
.
St.
Euseb.
&c.
Metaphrastes
)
that
by
chance
were
faln
into
the
fire
,
we
should
have
so
much
compassion
for
him
as
to
help
him
out
,
and
what
shall
we
do
for
souls
,
who
are
faln
into
Purgatory
fire
?
I
say
souls
of
our
Parent●
,
and
dearest
friends
,
souls
who
are
predestinate
to
eternal
glory
,
and
extream
precious
in
the
sight
of
God
?
And
what
did
not
the
Saints
of
Gods
Church
for
them
in
those
days
?
some
armed
themselves
from
head
to
foot
in
course
hair
cloth
,
others
tore
of
their
flesh
with
chains
and
rude
disciplines
;
some
again
pined
themselves
with
rigourous
fasts
,
others
dissolved
themselves
into
tears
,
some
passed
whole
nights
in
contemplation
,
others
gave
liberal
almes
or
procured
great
store
of
Masses
:
In
fine
,
they
did
what
they
were
able
,
and
were
not
well
pleased
that
they
were
able
to
do
no
more
,
to
relieve
the
poor
souls
in
Purgatory
.
Amongst
Age.
Luitprand
.
l.
4.
c.
7.
others
,
Queen
Melchtild
is
reported
to
have
purchased
immortal
fame
for
her
discreet
behaviour
,
at
the
death
of
the
King
her
Husband
,
for
whose
soul
she
caused
a
world
of
Masses
to
be
said
,
and
a
world
of
almes
to
be
distributed
,
in
lieu
of
other
idle
expences
,
and
fruitless
lamentations
.
There
is
one
in
the
world
,
to
Abbot
Odilo
,
who
was
the
Authour
of
an
invention
,
which
I
would
willingly
have
found
out
,
though
with
the
loss
of
my
very
heart
blood
.
Take
the
story
as
it
passed
thus
.
Sigeb
.
in
Chron.
an.
998.
A
devout
religious
man
,
in
his
returne
from
Hierusalem
meets
with
a
holy
hermite
in
Sicily
,
he
assures
him
,
that
he
ofte●
heard
the
Devils
complaine
,
that
souls
were
so
soon
discharged
of
their
torments
,
by
the
suffrages
of
the
faithful
,
and
particularly
by
the
devout
prayers
,
of
the
Monkes
of
Cluny
,
who
never
ceased
to
power
out
their
prayers
for
them
.
This
the
good
man
carries
to
Odilo
,
then
Abbot
of
Cluny
,
he
praises
God
for
his
great
mercy
,
in
vouchsafing
to
hear
the
innocent
prayers
of
his
monkes
,
and
presently
takes
occasion
,
to
command
all
the
Monasteries
of
his
order
,
to
keep
yearly
the
Commemoration
of
all
souls
next
after
the
feast
of
all
Saints
.
A
custome
which
by
degrees
grew
into
such
credit
,
that
the
Ca●●olick
Church
thought
sit
to
establish
it
all
over
the
Christian
world
,
to
the
incredible
benefit
of
poor
souls
,
and
singular
encrease
of
Gods
glory
.
For
who
can
sum
up
the
infinite
number
of
souls
,
who
have
been
freed
out
of
Purgatory
by
this
holy
invention
,
or
who
can
express
the
glory
,
which
accrued
to
this
good
Abbot
,
who
thus
fortunately
made
himself
Procuratour
general
of
the
suffering
Church
,
and
furnished
her
people
,
with
such
a
considerable
supply
of
necessary
relief
,
to
alleviate
the
insupportable
burthen
of
their
suffrings
.
St.
Bernard
would
triumph
,
Age.
Ser.
66.
in
Cant.
when
he
had
to
deal
with
Hereticks
,
that
denied
this
piviledg
,
of
communicating
our
suffrages
,
and
prayers
to
the
souls
in
Purgatory
.
And
with
what
fervour
he
would
apply
himself
to
this
charitable
employment
,
of
relieving
poor
souls
,
may
appear
,
by
the
care
he
took
,
for
good
Humbertur
,
In
vita
Malach.
which
he
relates
of
blessed
St.
Malachy
,
who
died
in
his
very
bosome
.
This
holy
Bishop
,
as
he
lay
a
sleep
,
hears
a
sister
of
his
,
lately
dead
,
making
lamentable
moane
,
that
for
thirty
dayes
together
she
had
not
eaten
so
much
as
a
bit
of
bread
.
He
starts
up
out
of
his
sleep
,
and
taking
it
to
be
more
then
a
dream
,
he
concludes
the
meaning
of
the
vision
was
to
tell
him
,
that
just
thirty
dayes
were
now
past
,
since
he
had
said
Mass
for
her
,
as
probably
believing
she
was
already
where
she
had
no
need
of
his
prayers
.
For
this
indeed
is
the
ordinary
excuse
,
wherewith
many
use
to
●●●●ke
their
idleness
,
God
be
with
him
,
he
was
a
good
soul
,
he
is
certainly
in
Heaven
ere
this
,
there
is
no
more
need
to
pray
for
him
,
&c.
whereas
God
knows
heaven
is
not
so
easily
purchased
,
as
fooles
imagine
:
Howsoever
,
this
worthy
Prelate
so
plyed
his
Prayers
after
this
,
that
he
soon
sent
his
Sister
out
of
Purgatory
,
and
it
pleased
God
to
let
him
see
,
by
the
daily
change
of
her
habit
,
how
his
Prayers
had
purged
her
by
degrees
,
and
made
her
fit
company
for
the
Angels
and
Saints
in
Heaven
.
For
the
first
day
she
was
covered
all
over
with
black
Cypresse
,
the
next
she
appeared
in
a
Mantle
something
whitish
,
but
of
a
dusky
colour
,
but
the
third
day
she
was
seen
all
clad
in
white
,
which
is
the
proper
Livery
of
the
Saints
.
What
think
you
now
sayes
Saint
Bernard
,
is
not
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
got
by
violence
?
Did
not
Saint
Malachy
force
it
by
storming
?
were
not
his
Prayers
like
stroaks
of
a
〈◊〉
like
engine
,
to
make
a
breach
in
heaven
,
for
his
sister
to
enter
at
?
Sweet
Jesus
,
you
that
suffer
this
violence
;
are
your self
the
cause
of
it
;
the
good
Prelate
breaths
nothing
but
what
you
have
inspired
him
;
so
sweet
are
you
in
your
Mercies
,
so
faithfull
in
your
Promises
,
and
so
powerfull
in
your
divine
wonders
.
Thus
far
Saint
Bernard
But
I
cannot
let
passe
in
silence
,
one
very
remarkable
passage
,
which
happened
to
these
two
great
servants
of
God
.
Saint
Malachy
had
passionately
desired
to
dye
at
Claravallis
,
in
the
hands
of
devout
Saint
Bernard
,
and
this
on
the
day
immediately
going
before
All
Souls
day
,
and
it
pleased
God
to
grant
him
his
request
.
It
fell
out
then
that
while
Saint
Bernard
was
saying
Masse
for
him
,
in
the
midle
of
Masse
,
it
was
revealed
to
him
,
that
Saint
Malachy
was
already
glorious
in
Heaven
,
whether
he
had
gone
straight
thither
out
of
this
world
,
or
whether
that
part
of
Saint
Bernards
Masse
had
freed
him
out
of
Purgatory
,
is
uncertain
,
but
Saint
Bernard
hereupon
changed
his
note
,
for
having
begun
Masse
of
Requiem
,
he
went
on
with
a
Masse
of
a
Bishop
and
Confessour
,
to
the
great
astonishment
of
all
the
standers
by
.
O
t
is
good
to
have
such
devout
Masses
said
presently
after
ones
death
,
t
is
good
to
dye
in
so
good
hands
,
as
will
not
quit
you
till
they
have
conducted
you
safe
to
the
Quire
of
Angels
.
Saint
Thomas
of
Aquin
,
that
Durand
argues
the
case
thus
:
Sure
Christian
charity
,
has
more
Age.
In
4.
d.
45.
power
with
Almighty
God
,
then
a
mere
natural
friendship
can
have
,
with
the
civill
Magistrate
;
now
it
has
been
often
seen
,
that
a
condemned
person
,
has
been
quit
at
the
earnest
entreaty
,
or
voluntary
satisfaction
of
their
friends
:
Stories
are
full
of
such
courteous
Civilities
.
How
can
we
then
make
any
question
,
but
that
God
will
as
easily
be
moved
,
to
release
holy
soules
out
of
Purgatory
,
at
the
sweet
importunity
of
their
friends
tears
,
prayers
,
&
sufferings
here
upon
earth
.
It
was
a
laudable
custom
in
some
Countries
,
that
if
a
chast
Virgin
should
present
her self
at
the
place
of
Execution
,
to
beg
a
Fellon
for
her
husband
,
her
request
was
granted
,
and
the
poor
criminal
was
with
great
joy
instantly
conveyed
from
the
gallowes
to
a
nuptial
feast
.
This
custome
,
though
now
out
of
date
,
may
yet
serve
to
tell
us
,
that
Almighty
God
will
not
deny
to
set
a
soule
free
,
from
the
punishment
of
all
her
misdemeanours
,
if
we
beg
it
earnestly
at
the
hands
of
his
infinite
mercy
.
And
now
we
are
come
down
to
the
fifteenth
Age
,
where
the
Age.
Conc.
Flor.
in
decreto
.
Fathers
of
the
Council
of
Florence
,
both
Greeks
and
Latins
,
with
one
consent
,
declare
the
same
faith
,
and
constant
practise
of
the
Church
,
thus
handed
down
to
them
,
from
Age
to
Age
,
since
Christs
and
his
Apostles
time
,
as
we
have
seen
,
viz.
that
the
souls
in
Purgatory
,
are
not
only
relieved
,
but
translated
into
heaven
,
by
the
Prayers
,
Sacrifices
,
Almes
,
and
other
charitable
workes
which
are
offered
up
for
them
,
according
to
the
custome
of
the
Catholick
Church
.
Nor
did
their
posterity
degenerate
,
or
vary
the
least
,
from
this
received
doctrine
,
untill
Luthers
time
,
when
the
holy
Age.
Trid.
sess
.
25
Council
of
Trent
,
thought
fit
againe
,
to
lay
down
the
sound
doctrine
of
the
Church
,
in
opposition
to
all
our
late
Sectaries
.
And
I
wish
all
Catholicks
,
were
but
as
forward
to
lend
their
helping
hands
,
to
lift
souls
out
of
Purgatory
,
as
they
are
to
believe
they
have
the
power
to
do
it
,
and
that
we
had
not
oftner
,
more
reason
,
then
the
Roman
Emperour
to
pronounce
the
day
lost
,
since
we
let
so
many
dayes
pass
over
our
heads
,
and
so
many
faire
occasions
slip
out
of
our
hands
,
without
easing
,
or
releasing
any
souls
out
of
Purgatory
,
when
we
might
do
it
with
so
much
ease
.
The
Sixth
Survey
.
Of
twelve
excellent
means
to
prevent
Purgatory
,
or
to
provide
so
for
our selves
,
as
not
to
make
any
long
stay
there
.
BEhold
the
most
important
point
of
all
others
,
the
secret
of
secrets
,
and
the
true
knack
of
all
state
affair●s
in
this
world
.
They
talke
of
certain
water●
,
which
have
so
strange
a
power
,
to
dull
the
edge
of
fire
,
that
if
one
wash
his
hands
,
with
them
,
he
can
receive
no
prejudice
,
though
he
should
thrust
them
afterwards
into
the
fire
,
or
into
boyling
lead
.
The
preservatives
I
am
here
to
treate
of
,
are
of
a
higher
nature
,
they
do
not
curbe
the
restless
activity
of
this
our
sublunary
fire
,
which
is
bent
only
against
dull
bodies
,
but
they
arme
us
against
the
raging
fire
of
Purgatory
,
which
God
has
prepared
,
to
torment
our
very
souls
in
the
other
world
.
§.
1.
The
first
perfect
contrition
.
ONe
of
the
surest
means
,
to
avoide
Purgatory
,
is
to
dye
with
teares
in
our
eyes
,
and
St.
Th.
supp
▪
q.
5.
a.
3.
true
contrition
in
our
he●rts
.
For
Divines
teach
,
that
our
contrition
may
be
so
great
,
●s
to
wash
away
all
those
spots
of
sin
,
which
Purgatory
●●re
was
otherwise
to
have
words
off
.
And
therefore
as
I
take
it
to
be
a
gr●●t
piece
of
folly
,
to
defer
the
exercise
of
so
prec●ous
●n
a●●
,
unto
the
houre
of
our
death
,
so
I
esteem
it
,
one
of
the
most
solid
devotions
of
all
others
,
to
accustome
our selves
to
it
all
our
life
time
,
that
by
daily
frequenting
such
acts
,
we
may
at
length
get
such
a
habite
,
and
facility
in
them
,
as
with
Gods
grace
,
to
have
them
at
our
call
,
when
we
come
to
dye
.
All
must
not
look
for
the
same
priviledge
,
which
the
good
thief
had
at
the
last
gaspe
.
It
was
but
little
that
he
sayd
,
but
he
spoke
it
with
so
cordial
an
accent
,
that
he
deserved
to
heare
those
comfortable
words
,
of
our
blessed
Saviour
,
This
day
thou
shalt
be
with
me
in
Paradise
,
and
soon
found
them
verified
,
by
a
present
fruition
of
the
beatifical
vision
.
Almighty
God
is
pleased
sometimes
,
to
make
so
forceable
an
entry
into
the
heart
of
man
,
and
to
set
it
so
desperately
on
fire
,
with
his
divine
love
,
that
there
is
no
remedy
,
but
to
dye
between
the
armes
of
love
,
and
griefe
,
and
thrice
happy
are
those
souls
that
loose
their
lives
in
this
divine
encounter
,
and
dye
in
the
amourous
flames
of
ardent
charity
,
they
are
sure
never
to
feel
the
murthering
flames
of
Purgatory
.
Such
was
the
death
of
our
blessed
Lady
,
St.
John
Evangelist
,
and
infinite
others
,
who
have
been
straight
carried
into
heaven
out
of
this
world
,
upon
the
wings
of
love
,
or
contrition
,
so
that
a
heart
,
that
is
well
seasoned
with
contrition
,
or
steeped
in
a
bath
of
salt
tears
,
is
like
the
heart
of
Prince
Germanicus
,
which
This
is
that
they
call
a
good
Peccavi
,
but
it
must
be
a
good
one
indeed
,
for
it
is
not
every
ordinary
,
and
triviall
kind
of
sorrow
,
which
can
work
such
wonders
.
Those
that
have
been
long
used
,
to
actuate
themselves
in
those
generous
acts
of
contrition
,
may
be
full
of
confidence
,
that
the
mercy
of
God
,
will
not
faile
them
at
the
houre
of
their
death
,
and
that
their
good
Angels
will
be
then
ready
,
when
it
most
imports
,
to
inspire
them
with
all
the
best
motives
of
true
contrition
since
they
have
gone
all
along
with
them
,
still
furnishing
them
with
such
good
thoughts
,
and
with
so
much
good
success
,
that
their
hearts
have
been
a
thousand
times
broken
with
a
lively
,
amorous
,
and
cordial
contrition
,
and
repentance
for
their
sins
.
And
certainly
,
they
that
dye
,
either
in
the
fire
of
so
ardent
a
love
,
or
in
the
water
of
so
piercing
a
grief
,
need
not
feare
the
fire
of
Purgatory
,
for
that
fire
(
says
St.
Bonaventure
)
was
not
made
for
them
.
So
that
methinks
,
this
charity
may
be
fitly
compared
,
to
the
Seraphin
at
the
gates
of
Paradise
,
brandishing
his
flaming
sword
,
which
Tertulian
calls
the
por●er
§
2.
The
Second
,
to
dye
in
Religion
.
ANother
safe
way
to
escape
Purgatory
,
is
to
live
,
and
die
in
a
good
Religious
order
,
and
at
his
death
,
to
renew
,
and
3.
Many
Popes
have
granted
a
Sixt
Greg.
13.
Greg.
14.
Plenary
Indulgence
,
in
forme
of
a
Jubily
,
to
all
Religious
persons
,
that
either
by
word
of
mouth
,
or
in
their
hearts
,
call
upon
the
sacred
names
of
Jesus
Maria
,
at
the
hour
of
their
death
.
And
what
Religious
person
is
there
,
that
does
it
not
,
either
when
he
dies
,
or
not
long
before
,
not
only
once
,
but
a
thousand
times
.
To
say
nothing
,
that
many
are
of
opinion
,
that
they
gain
this
4.
Who
can
better
deserve
,
to
go
directly
into
heaven
then
they
,
whose
lives
are
a
continual
Purgatory
?
They
go
in
rough
hair
shirts
,
pine
themselves
with
rigourous
fasts
,
tear
of
their
flesh
with
cruel
disciplines
,
drink
up
their
own
tears
,
live
of
nothing
but
mortifications
,
and
perpetual
hardships
,
and
thus
abundantly
satisfie
,
for
all
the
sins
they
have
committed
,
and
for
those
they
never
dreamt
of
,
but
had
rather
dya
thousand
times
then
commit
.
They
that
have
no
will
but
that
of
their
superiour
,
they
that
breath
nothing
but
holy
sighs
,
and
burn
with
ardent
charity
,
how
can
they
burn
in
Purgatory
fire
?
5.
Divines
furnish
me
with
another
pregnant
proofe
,
and
it
is
this
.
It
is
certain
,
(
say
they
)
that
a
solemne
Profession
in
Religon
,
brings
with
it
a
plenary
Indulgence
;
or
remission
of
all
their
sin●
,
not
only
because
it
is
a
second
Baptisme
,
or
a
lingring
kind
of
martyrdom
,
which
is
not
compleated
in
a
few
moments
,
as
other
Martydomes
are
,
but
also
,
because
in
the
opinion
of
the
angelical
ult.
a.
3.
Doctour
,
it
is
so
sublime
and
eminent
an
act
,
as
surpasses
all
other
acts
in
this
life
,
so
that
if
Daniel
,
(
says
he
)
could
say
,
that
by
giving
a
little
almes
,
we
may
blot
out
our
sins
,
what
may
we
not
say
,
of
this
supereminent
act
of
liberality
,
by
which
,
a
man
gives
unto
God
,
all
his
goods
,
and
present
possessions
,
with
all
his
fair
hopes
of
improving
them
,
his
body
,
his
life
,
his
honour
,
his
will
,
his
soul
;
with
a
million
of
worlds
if
h●
had
them
in
his
power
.
The
same
holy
Doctour
says
else-where
that
a
man
,
who
sacrifices
his
will
unto
God
,
the
most
noble
portion
of
his
soul
,
and
makes
it
to
become
his
eternal
slave
,
gives
God
ful
satisfaction
for
all
his
misdem●●uours
,
since
a
pure
creature
,
cannot
present
him
with
a
more
noble
gift
,
then
to
make
him
an
entire
Holocaust
,
of
that
which
is
dearest
unto
him
in
this
world
,
which
is
his
will
,
and
the
absolute
soveraignty
over
himself
,
and
all
his
concernes
.
Others
go
yet
Su.
verb.
Religio
n.
27
&c.
further
,
and
assure
us
,
that
as
often
,
as
a
good
Religious
man
,
renews
this
his
profession
,
he
makes
a
new
purchase
of
the
same
favour
,
and
obtaines
an
entire
pardon
,
of
all
the
pain
due
to
his
sins
,
and
that
these
,
and
the
like
priviledges
,
are
not
tied
only
to
solemne
vowes
,
but
are
common
to
all
vows
,
that
make
up
the
substance
of
a
Religious
man
,
of
what
order
soever
in
Gods
Church
.
And
they
say
withall
,
that
these
favours
are
not
in
the
nature
of
indulgences
,
granted
by
his
Holiness
,
but
are
inseparably
annexed
unto
the
vowes
themselves
,
which
are
so
generous
,
and
so
precious
acts
,
in
the
sight
of
God
,
that
they
move
his
goodness
,
to
blot
out
the
remembrance
of
their
sins
,
and
to
cancel
out
a
great
part
,
if
not
all
the
pain
,
which
was
due
for
them
.
Now
put
all
this
together
;
and
it
will
necessarily
follow
,
that
since
the
Pope
on
the
one
side
,
grants
a
Jubily
,
unto
all
religious
,
at
the
houre
of
their
death
,
and
since
they
have
it
in
their
power
,
on
the
other
side
,
to
renew
their
vowes
,
before
they
dye
,
by
which
act
they
may
fully
satisfy
,
for
all
their
sins
,
there
cannot
be
a
greater
assurance
of
going
directly
into
heaven
then
theirs
,
who
have
as
I
told
you
this
double
security
of
a
general
pardon
,
that
one
way
or
other
,
they
can
scarce
sayl
to
obtain
it
.
What
shall
I
say
now
of
their
perfect
resignation
,
unto
the
will
of
God
,
their
invincible
patience
,
their
love
of
God
,
their
Virginal
purity
,
their
exact
,
and
punctual
obedience
,
with
a
million
of
other
divine
acts
of
vertue
,
which
are
so
incident
and
connatural
to
a
religious
vocation
,
all
which
no
doubt
stand
ready
to
assist
them
at
the
last
houre
,
and
to
show
them
heaven
gates
open
,
and
ready
to
receive
them
,
and
howsoever
to
assure
them
,
that
their
stay
cannot
be
long
in
Purgatory
,
since
they
leave
behind
them
so
many
of
their
own
order
,
who
will
be
sure
to
ply
them
with
Masses
.
Indulgencies
,
and
other
charitable
works
for
their
speedy
deliverance
,
§.
3.
The
third
.
To
b●
an
Apostolical
Preacher
.
A
Third
meanes
to
redeem
Purgatory
,
is
to
be
a
zealous
,
and
apostolical
Preacher
,
for
as
this
is
a
life
of
eminent
perfection
,
and
incredible
merit
,
so
is
it
extream
painful
,
and
may
well
passe
for
a
Purgatory
in
this
life
.
But
observe
,
that
I
speak
of
an
Apostolical
Preacher
,
or
of
one
that
is
full
of
divine
fire
,
or
a
holy
zeal
for
the
good
of
souls
.
I
mean
not
those
that
preach
themselves
,
those
that
desire
to
be
admired
,
and
adored
for
Oracles
,
those
that
profane
the
word
of
God
with
their
vain
glosses
,
idle
applications
and
affected
eloquence
,
seeking
nothing
more
then
worldly
applause
,
and
really
destroying
by
their
life
and
conversation
,
all
they
build
up
in
the
pulpit
.
St.
Paul
compares
such
vaine
Preachers
,
to
crackt
trumpets
,
and
broken
bells
,
which
make
a
noise
indeed
,
but
are
altogether
useless
.
They
send
others
to
heaven
(
sayd
St.
Xaverius
)
and
go
Gods
knows
whether
themselves
.
St.
Gregory
likens
them
to
the
water
of
baptisme
which
entitles
children
to
the
kingdom
of
heaven
,
and
is
it self
conveyed
into
some
noysome
sinke
:
and
there
turnes
to
corruption
.
I
speak
then
of
a
Preacher
,
who
is
a
man
of
God
,
one
that
does
what
he
says
,
and
says
what
he
does
;
one
that
ayms
at
nothing
,
but
the
salvation
of
souls
,
preaches
to
a
few
,
or
to
many
,
in
Cities
or
Villages
,
Princes
Courts
,
or
poor
Hospitals
,
with
the
same
fervour
of
spirit
.
One
that
rents
their
hearts
in
sunder
,
and
draws
floods
of
tears
from
their
eyes
,
one
that
preaches
like
another
St.
Paul
,
and
draws
his
sermons
out
of
the
Pentatuke
,
of
the
five
wounds
of
his
redeemer
;
one
that
after
he
has
done
all
he
can
,
believes
he
is
an
unprofitable
servant
,
unworthy
to
open
his
mouth
,
or
to
tread
upon
the
earth
.
Such
a
one
in
my
opinion
,
if
he
die
in
the
exercise
of
his
holy
function
,
either
goes
not
at
all
to
Purgatory
,
or
stays
not
there
.
This
was
the
case
of
one
Cherubin
,
a
famous
Hist.
St.
Fran.
3.
p.
l.
7.
c.
2.
Preacher
of
the
Order
of
St.
Francis
,
who
before
he
died
,
had
the
comfort
to
see
St.
Hierome
,
whom
he
had
chosen
for
his
peculiar
Pation
,
and
with
him
three
thousand
souls
,
all
saved
by
his
meanes
,
who
assured
him
,
that
they
were
sent
expresly
by
Almighty
God
,
to
carry
him
into
heaven
,
and
so
to
requite
him
,
for
shewing
him
the
way
thither
,
in
his
zealous
sermons
.
Not
unlike
unto
this
,
is
that
story
which
I
touched
elsewhere
out
of
Cardinal
Baronius
.
He
tels
us
that
Annal.
Eccl.
an.
716.
St.
Boniface
,
saw
a
holy
Abbot
at
his
death
;
surrounded
with
divels
,
and
much
terrified
see
them
so
insolent
,
as
to
cry
out
;
his
soul
was
theirs
,
when
he
behold
his
good
Angel
appears
at
the
head
of
a
white
troop
of
blessed
souls
,
who
after
a
solemn
profession
,
that
they
had
been
all
saved
by
him
,
gave
him
the
comfort
to
understand
,
that
they
had
brought
an
express
commission
,
to
convey
him
instantly
into
heaven
.
But
you
long
now
,
to
have
me
paint
you
out
such
a
Preacher
,
for
though
there
may
be
many
,
that
sooth
themselves
up
,
with
a
vain
perswasion
,
that
they
are
the
men
,
yet
if
we
sift
a
little
narrowly
into
them
,
we
shall
possibly
find
so
much
vanity
,
so
much
care
of
esteem
,
so
many
by
ends
,
and
so
many
other
imperfections
to
steale
into
their
sermons
,
that
we
may
safely
say
there
are
but
very
few
Apostolical
preachers
indeed
,
and
such
as
seek
only
Gods
cause
,
and
the
good
of
souls
.
Take
an
exact
Idea
from
one
Gonzales
Silveria
,
of
the
Society
of
Jesus
,
scarce
ever
went
up
into
the
pulpit
without
a
hairshirt
,
and
would
say
,
a
man
must
be
well
armed
who
goes
to
fight
against
vice
.
It
was
also
very
usuall
with
him
,
to
encounter
Goliah
with
Davids
sling
,
to
make
a
bloody
discipline
,
and
so
to
mount
up
into
the
Pulpit
,
and
there
like
thunder
,
to
carry
all
before
him
.
He
had
for
the
most
part
,
but
five
books
for
his
Library
,
to
wit
,
his
breviary
the
Bible
,
the
lives
of
Saints
,
a
crucifix
,
and
the
picture
of
our
Blessed
Lady
.
In
these
five
books
,
he
studied
for
all
his
sermons
,
and
certainly
,
the
thunder
bolt●
of
his
admirable
eloquence
,
were
framed
in
the
heart
of
his
crucified
Lord
,
the
best
furnace
of
divine
love
,
the
sweet
flowers
of
his
Rhetorick
,
were
steeped
in
the
milke
of
the
Virgin
,
his
trops
and
figures
,
and
the
whole
variety
of
his
sermons
,
were
borrowed
out
of
the
word
of
God
,
and
the
admirable
lives
of
his
Saints
;
and
lastly
the
religious
,
and
devout
performance
of
his
dayly
task
of
divine
office
,
and
holy
Masse
,
gave
fire
to
his
discourses
,
wherewith
he
did
not
only
heat
,
but
inflame
the
hearts
of
his
auditours
.
He
would
preach
you
twice
or
thrice
a
day
,
and
would
do
it
the
more
willingly
,
in
the
meanest
places
,
&
to
the
poorest
people
.
His
common
lodging
was
the
Hospital
,
where
he
contented
himself
with
a
spare
diet
,
and
gross
fare
,
he
was
never
observed
,
to
be
over
nice
,
and
coy
of
his
sermons
,
nor
required
he
much
time
,
to
make
them
with
applause
.
The
only
thing
he
had
before
his
eyes
,
was
the
glory
of
God
,
and
helpe
of
souls
,
and
his
life
preached
more
then
his
tongue
,
for
he
really
acted
more
in
his
own
person
then
he
taught
others
:
As
for
his
manner
of
preaching
,
it
was
rather
powerful
then
charming
,
and
fitter
to
break
their
hearts
then
please
their
eares
.
Such
was
his
fervour
,
that
he
poured
his
whole
heart
,
and
his
whole
zeal
out
of
his
mouth
,
and
he
would
be
so
transported
with
this
zeal
,
as
not
to
take
notice
of
any
thing
else
.
Once
as
he
was
Preaching
,
he
struck
his
hand
upon
a
sharpe
naile
,
which
stuck
out
in
the
Pulpit
,
and
made
it
bleed
so
extreamly
,
that
the
whole
Auditory
took
notice
of
it
,
and
some
of
the
devout
women
courteously
offered
their
handkerchiefs
,
to
bind
up
the
wound
,
and
stop
the
bleeding
and
all
this
while
,
the
good
man
neither
saw
handkerchief
,
nor
naile
,
nor
blood
,
nor
took
the
least
notice
of
any
thing
till
after
his
sermon
,
when
the
wound
being
grown
cold
,
he
was
heard
to
wonder
,
how
the
blood
came
there
,
and
to
complain
,
that
his
hand
put
him
to
some
paine
.
Another
time
,
preaching
in
the
Queen
of
Portugals
chappel
,
he
had
put
himself
into
such
a
heat
,
that
his
mouth
being
clammed
up
,
he
could
scarce
get
out
his
words
,
when
the
Queen
perceiving
it
,
called
for
an
Ewer
of
water
,
which
was
instantly
brought
,
and
presented
him
by
the
young
Princesse
,
but
the
man
of
God
,
was
so
rapt
in
his
devout
thoughts
,
that
he
saw
neither
the
Ewer
,
nor
the
Princesse
,
nor
the
Queen
;
so
that
they
were
forced
to
pull
him
by
the
sleeve
,
that
the
Princesse
Royal
might
not
stand
thus
waiting
on
him
,
with
the
Ewer
in
her
hand
;
and
then
the
Queen
her self
prayed
him
to
make
use
of
the
water
,
to
coole
and
refresh
his
dry
mouth
.
With
much
a
do
,
the
good
Father
came
to
himself
,
and
rising
up
,
made
a
low
obeysance
to
the
Queen
,
and
to
the
Princesse
,
thanked
them
for
their
care
,
excused
himself
for
being
so
uncivill
,
as
not
to
minde
them
,
but
for
all
th●s
,
would
not
take
a
drop
of
water
,
but
went
on
with
his
Sermon
,
to
the
great
wonder
and
edification
of
all
the
standers
by
.
This
,
this
is
to
preach
like
a
man
full
of
Gods
Spirit
,
like
one
that
has
his
heart
so
transported
with
zeale
,
and
his
Eyes
so
bent
upon
moving
his
auditours
,
that
he
can
see
nothing
else
.
And
would
you
have
such
a
fiery
man
as
this
be
condemned
to
Purgatory
,
one
that
has
so
much
charity
for
others
,
that
he
forgets
himself
,
and
distills
out
his
life
into
blood
,
sweat
and
tears
and
is
consumed
in
the
fire
of
Charity
,
which
is
the
sweet
Purgatory
of
the
servants
of
God
.
§.
4.
The
fourth
.
To
serve
the
infected
.
THose
that
charitably
expose
themselves
,
to
serve
the
infected
,
and
so
come
to
get
the
Plague
,
and
to
die
in
the
service
,
freely
giving
away
their
lives
to
save
others
,
may
have
a
great
confidence
,
that
they
have
served
out
,
if
not
all
,
at
least
the
greatest
part
of
their
Purgatory
.
For
since
an
act
of
Contrition
,
or
of
perfect
Charity
,
has
power
,
to
make
a
soule
instantly
fit
for
heaven
,
as
it
falls
out
in
Martyrdom
;
why
may
we
not
hope
,
that
the
same
priviledge
,
follows
these
charitable
soules
we
speak
of
,
who
though
they
dye
not
,
by
the
hands
of
a
bloody
Executioner
,
yet
are
cut
off
by
a
Martyrdome
of
incomparable
Charity
.
Christ
our
Saviour
said
,
that
the
greatest
Charity
that
a
man
could
have
in
this
life
was
to
give
his
life
for
his
friends
,
where
by
the
way
,
Saint
Bernard
notes
,
that
his
charity
must
needs
be
greater
,
then
the
greatest
,
since
he
gave
his
divine
life
,
not
only
for
his
friends
,
but
even
for
his
enemies
.
What
shall
we
then
thinke
of
their
charity
,
who
voluntarily
sacrifice
their
lives
,
for
infected
persons
,
whether
friends
or
enemies
,
acquaintance
,
or
no
acquaintance
rich
or
poor
and
do
it
generously
,
dying
a
thousand
deaths
for
feare
,
danger
and
paine
,
before
they
come
to
dye
in
good
earnest
?
Does
not
the
Church
list
them
amongst
other
Saints
,
in
the
Roman
Martyrologe
?
Does
she
not
keep
their
feast
,
and
make
an
honourable
commemoration
,
of
their
glorious
death
,
on
the
28
day
of
February
?
does
she
not
withall
tell
us
,
that
the
faithful
devout
people
,
were
accustomed
to
honour
them
as
Martyrs
?
would
you
then
have
these
kind
of
Martyrs
,
who
dye
in
the
fire
of
charity
,
go
to
Purgatory
?
To
what
purpose
?
to
Metamorphose
it
into
heaven
?
For
if
a
Virgin
,
who
is
violently
dragd
away
to
the
stews
,
which
is
a
kind
of
hell
,
where
they
make
a
Massacre
of
chastity
,
in
the
opinion
of
St.
Ambrose
,
changes
it
into
a
kind
of
heaven
,
what
can
we
thinke
of
those
charitable
souls
,
but
that
,
if
they
were
conveyed
into
the
suffering
church
,
they
would
sodainly
change
it
into
a
Church
Tryumphant
.
Hear
a
comfortable
story
to
this
purpose
.
One
Damian
;
of
the
holy
order
of
Annal.
St.
Fran.
St.
Francis
had
devoted
himself
,
to
serve
those
that
lay
sick
of
the
Plague
with
a
burning
desire
to
give
them
all
the
comfort
he
could
,
by
his
charitable
visits
.
St.
Francis
met
him
one
day
,
and
said
my
Son
,
did'st
thou
but
know
what
a
crown
in
heaven
is
prepared
for
thee
,
in
reward
of
this
charity
of
thine
,
thou
would'st
be
out
of
thy self
,
for
meer
joy
,
go
on
,
in
Gods
name
,
for
it
will
not
be
long
,
before
thou
art
translated
into
heaven
to
eternal
glory
.
The
good
Frier
,
continued
the
employment
,
till
one
day
being
in
fervent
prayer
,
he
rendred
up
his
happy
soul
into
the
hands
of
his
creatour
.
Can
you
now
believe
,
that
a
man
,
that
sacrifices
a
good
part
of
his
life
,
on
the
Altar
of
the
highest
charity
,
which
is
in
the
world
,
next
unto
Martyrdom
it self
,
one
that
looses
his
own
life
,
to
make
others
live
,
and
dyes
in
the
flames
of
a
devout
prayer
,
that
this
man
I
say
,
goes
to
Purgatory
,
or
rather
do
you
not
believe
that
heaven
stoops
to
take
him
up
,
and
to
crown
him
with
immortal
glory
.
Eusebius
takes
a
pleasure
,
to
relate
the
high
esteem
they
had
of
Thou
hast
delivered
me
according
to
the
multitude
of
thy
mercies
,
from
the
oppression
of
the
flame
,
which
hath
compassed
me
,
and
in
the
midest
of
fire
I
was
not
burnt
.
What!
shall
purity
have
the
power
to
resist
fire
so
that
many
chast
Virgins
have
received
no
harme
by
it
,
and
shall
not
charity
in
its
perfection
,
be
as
good
a
preservative
against
the
fire
of
Purgatory
?
§.
5.
The
fifth
.
A
tender
devotion
to
the
Virgin
.
I
Cannot
be
perswaded
,
that
a
soul
truly
devoted
to
the
honour
,
and
service
of
the
mother
of
God
,
can
be
long
detained
in
Purgatory
,
if
she
go
thither
at
all
.
For
how
should
this
be
?
does
our
blessed
Lady
want
power
,
she
that
can
do
all
things
(
says
St.
Anselme
)
or
charity
,
she
that
has
no
bowels
but
of
charity
,
she
that
has
a
heart
so
tender
,
that
though
you
suppose
a
heart
,
to
be
made
up
of
all
the
mothers
hearts
in
the
world
,
it
could
not
be
more
tender
then
hers
,
which
is
all
sweetness
,
and
tenderness
.
St
Brigit
had
a
son
,
lived
not
so
good
a
life
,
Osor
.
in
cone
.
St.
Brigit
.
revel
.
as
to
look
for
Heaven
,
without
passing
through
Purgatory
.
This
great
servant
of
God
,
who
was
not
without
the
passion
of
a
loving
mother
,
casts
about
,
how
to
save
the
poor
youth
,
who
was
grown
careless
enough
of
himself
.
She
resolves
therefore
,
to
offer
him
up
to
the
Blessed
Virgin
,
and
to
trust
her
entirely
with
his
salvation
.
She
undertakes
the
trust
,
and
carries
it
on
so
luckily
,
that
in
fine
,
she
saves
him
,
and
at
the
hour
of
death
,
takes
up
his
soul
into
Heaven
.
This
she
did
,
by
first
working
him
to
a
perfect
act
of
contrition
,
which
impt
his
wings
for
Heaven
,
and
then
cutting
of
the
thred
of
his
life
,
which
should
have
held
out
one
day
longer
.
So
that
the
Devil
finding
himself
thus
cozened
,
made
his
complaint
to
God
,
the
just
judge
of
the
world
,
who
returned
this
answer
.
Know
,
that
my
mother
is
Lady
and
Queen
of
Heaven
,
and
therefore
has
liberty
,
to
place
there
,
whom
she
pleases
,
and
what
she
does
in
this
kind
,
is
well
done
,
and
pleasing
in
my
sight
.
There
is
a
world
of
examples
,
of
the
like
favours
,
graciously
showred
down
from
the
mother
of
mercy
,
who
has
often
taken
the
pains
,
to
conduct
her
good
Children
,
and
faithful
Servants
into
Heaven
.
And
when
it
stands
not
with
Gods
justice
,
but
that
a
soul
must
into
Purgatory
,
what
does
she
not
to
help
her
out
,
as
well
by
her
own
powerful
intercession
,
which
she
will
be
sure
to
interpose
,
as
far
as
it
may
stand
with
the
just
decrees
of
heaven
,
as
by
the
prayers
of
her
devout
servants
,
into
whose
hearts
she
inspires
a
thousand
good
thoughts
,
of
tenderness
for
their
souls
;
who
were
particularly
devoted
to
her
.
How
many
divine
consolations
,
and
refreshments
does
she
send
them
,
by
their
good
Angels
?
And
since
it
is
certain
,
that
she
goes
somtimes
,
to
visite
them
on
their
death
beds
,
why
may
we
not
piously
imagine
,
that
she
gives
them
the
like
comfortable
visits
,
when
they
lye
tied
to
their
beds
of
fire
in
cruel
torments
?
The
Lionness
,
and
the
Tigress
,
though
never
so
fierce
by
nature
,
will
leap
into
the
fire
,
to
save
their
young
ones
,
or
perish
there
;
God
forbid
,
we
should
make
any
comparison
between
the
Blessed
Virgin
,
mother
of
the
Lyon
of
Juda
,
and
these
wilde
beasts
,
and
yet
,
since
we
must
allow
so
much
tenderness
to
such
cruel
and
savage
Mothers
,
we
may
not
doubt
,
but
that
the
Mother
of
mercy
,
seeing
her
beloved
Children
in
the
fire
of
Purgatory
,
will
flye
thither
to
fetch
them
out
.
The
devout
and
learned
Richardus
de
Sancto
victore
,
commenting
Rich
c.
39.
in
Cant.
upon
these
words
of
the
Psalmist
,
●e
shall
not
be
confounded
,
when
he
shall
speak
to
his
enemies
in
the
gate
:
tels
us
,
that
this
gate
,
is
the
blessed
Virgin
;
to
appear
at
the
gate
,
is
to
dye
,
and
to
be
cited
to
Particular
judgement
,
where
no
body
(
sayes
he
)
is
ever
confounded
that
finds
this
gate
,
but
favourably
open
,
and
to
whom
should
the
mother
of
God
be
favourable
,
but
unto
those
,
that
were
constant
in
her
Service
,
and
from
what
confusion
does
she
deliver
them
,
but
from
the
dreadful
fire
of
Hell
and
Purgatory
.
O
God!
what
assurance
have
we
,
when
the
Queen
of
Heaven
is
pleased
to
plead
for
us
,
and
to
procure
us
a
favourable
sentence
;
and
since
it
is
her
well
beloved
Son
,
that
is
to
be
our
judge
,
who
denies
her
nothing
,
what
may
we
not
hope
for
?
When
St.
John
Damascene
had
lost
his
hand
,
he
begged
it
again
of
the
Queen
of
Heaven
;
and
his
sup.
mistes
est
.
Mary
hold
thee
by
the
hand
,
fear
not
falling
,
cries
St.
Bernard
,
The
holy
Abbot
Guericus
had
de
assump
.
reason
,
to
wish
rather
to
be
lodged
in
the
bosome
of
the
blessed
Virgin
,
then
in
Abrahams
bosome
,
O
,
it
is
no
smal
security
,
to
be
under
her
protection
,
though
it
were
but
under
her
feet
,
for
who
should
fetch
a
soul
thenc●
to
throw
her
into
Purgatory
?
God
the
Father
?
how
?
out
of
the
hands
of
his
beloved
daughter
?
who
then
?
God
the
Son
?
how
,
from
his
beloved
mother
?
who
then
?
God
the
holy
Ghost
?
what
,
from
his
dearest
Spouse
?
who
then
?
St.
Michael
with
his
Sword
and
Buckler
?
that
were
pritty
,
that
a
creature
should
attempt
,
what
the
blessed
Trinity
forbears
,
out
of
love
to
the
Mother
of
God
.
Who
then
?
The
Devil
?
what
,
the
serpent
,
whose
head
she
crushed
under
her
feet
,
or
any
of
his
fellows
,
who
tremble
at
the
very
found
of
her
name
?
No
,
there
is
not
the
creature
,
dare
meddle
with
a
soul
,
that
is
once
sheltred
,
under
the
royal
mantle
of
her
protection
.
So
true
it
is
,
that
one
of
the
best
preservatives
against
Purgatory
,
is
to
be
very
devout
to
the
blessed
Virgin
,
Mother
of
God
.
But
it
must
be
more
then
an
ordinary
devotion
,
as
to
make
a
vow
of
chastity
in
her
honour
,
to
devoce
ones
self
entierly
to
her
,
to
do
her
some
signal
piece
of
service
,
to
call
often
upon
her
,
and
with
a
filiall
confidence
,
to
bullil
a
goodly
Chappel
,
or
some
house
,
where
she
may
be
served
to
the
worlds
end
,
to
give
liberal
,
and
frequent
almes
for
her
sake
to
compose
some
excellent
work
in
her
praise
,
and
so
to
draw
many
others
to
her
service
.
To
maintaine
poor
Schollars
,
in
a
way
to
be
Preachers
,
or
Religious
men
,
with
this
obligation
,
that
they
shall
make
it
their
study
,
all
their
lives
,
to
preach
her
greatness
,
to
promote
her
service
,
and
to
draw
all
the
world
after
her
.
To
make
her
a
present
of
Masses
,
communions
,
fasts
,
disciplines
,
and
other
mortifications
,
but
above
all
,
to
imitate
her
glorious
vertues
,
and
to
regulate
our
lives
accordingly
.
If
you
do
these
,
and
the
like
things
,
and
do
them
with
a
good
heart
,
you
need
not
fear
,
Purgatory
will
do
you
any
great
harm
.
She
will
obtaine
for
you
,
such
a
measure
of
true
contrition
,
such
a
proportion
of
love
,
and
conformity
to
Gods
will
,
so
much
patience
in
your
last
sickness
,
such
holy
and
ardent
desires
to
serve
God
,
suc●
profound
humility
,
in
a
word
,
such
Heroical
acts
of
vertue
,
as
blot
out
of
your
soul
,
what
Purgatory
was
to
have
done
and
put
you
in
a
present
capacity
,
to
go
directly
into
Heaven
:
And
if
an
extraordinary
pass
should
be
necessary
who
can
better
procure
it
for
you
,
then
the
Lady
of
the
House
,
the
mother
of
the
Judge
,
the
Empress
of
Paradise
,
and
Princess
of
the
Universe
?
§.
6.
The
sixth
,
an
humble
patience
.
YOu
that
suffer
great
miseries
in
this
world
,
may
comfort
your selves
with
such
precious
sufferings
,
for
so
you
be
faithful
to
God
,
so
you
voluntarily
embrace
what
God
sends
,
in
spight
of
impatience
,
so
you
submit
to
the
Laws
of
his
sweet
rigour
,
which
chastices
you
,
so
you
freely
offer
all
your
little
All
,
to
this
great
Lord
,
of
all
the
great
All
of
the
whole
universe
,
so
from
time
to
time
you
be
stil
letting
fal
some
good
word
,
to
testifie
that
your
soul
,
and
your
body
play
not
at
the
same
game
,
move
not
upon
the
same
center
,
but
that
while
the
one
is
oppressed
,
and
cries
out
,
the
other
secretly
praises
the
paternal
goodness
of
Almighty
God
,
so
you
do
all
this
,
you
may
be
confident
,
there
will
be
little
,
or
no
Purgatory
●or
you
,
for
since
you
have
a
Purgatory
in
this
world
,
there
is
no
reason
you
should
have
another
hereafter
.
I
learn
this
secret
,
of
St.
Gregory
,
who
admires
a
poor
paralytique
,
that
lay
rotting
on
a
straw
in
Evang.
bed
,
where
he
had
lived
so
all
his
life
,
or
rather
,
where
he
had
died
so
all
his
life
,
his
life
being
nothing
else
,
but
a
meer
concatenation
of
hourely
deaths
.
Seruulus
was
the
name
of
this
poor
wretch
,
who
at
his
death
,
was
comforted
with
angelical
musick
,
and
carried
away
by
Angels
,
to
sing
his
own
part
in
heaven
for
all
eternity
.
One
of
those
that
were
present
,
told
St.
Gregory
that
at
the
hour
of
his
happy
departure
out
of
this
life
,
so
sweet
a
smel
was
spread
all
over
the
little
Roome
,
where
he
lay
,
that
he
never
felt
the
like
,
and
that
this
continued
,
and
was
perceived
by
all
the
standers
by
,
until
his
holy
body
was
laid
in
his
grave
,
and
the
service
ended
.
But
you
will
say
,
every
body
cannot
be
so
holy
as
this
good
man
,
certainly
they
may
,
by
the
grace
of
God
;
for
St.
Gregory
observes
but
four
things
in
him
,
which
you
may
command
as
well
as
he
.
First
he
read
often
the
holy
Scriptures
,
to
comfort
his
heart
in
his
sufferings
.
Secondly
,
he
gave
a
part
of
the
Alms
he
received
of
Gods
people
,
unto
other
needy
persons
and
lodged
poor
pilgrims
in
his
poor
Cottage
.
Thirdly
,
holy
aspirations
and
devout
breathings
,
were
often
heard
to
proceede
from
him
which
were
like
so
many
fiery
darts
shot
into
the
heart
of
God
,
and
bringing
thence
the
sweet
air
of
Paradise
,
to
refresh
his
soule
,
which
by
such
amourous
entertainments
,
found
lesse
trouble
in
her
afflictions
.
Fourthly
,
He
was
sensible
enough
of
his
pain
,
and
would
complain
of
it
sometimes
,
I
say
complain
,
do
you
think
Saints
have
bodies
of
Steele
!
but
betweeen
one
complaint
and
anoother
,
he
would
be
often
thus
sweetly
interposing
.
O
my
God
,
I
desire
thy
will
may
be
fulfilled
in
all
things
,
and
nothing
else
but
thy
will
.
I
am
willing
that
thou
handle
this
my
body
,
and
all
that
belongs
to
me
,
according
to
thy
divine
pleasure
,
both
in
time
and
eternity
.
Now
tell
me
,
dear
reader
,
canst
thou
not
do
all
this
,
as
well
as
this
poore
paralytick
,
who
lived
for
no
other
end
,
but
to
be
dying
a
lingring
death
,
all
the
dayes
of
his
miserable
and
yet
thrice
happy
life
.
Will
you
have
a
soule
so
holy
,
and
so
plyable
●o
Gods
will
,
be
thrown
into
Purgatory
fire
▪
Sure
(
said
St.
Austine
)
if
he
meant
to
damn
us
in
the
other
world
,
he
would
not
damn
us
in
this
,
to
a
Hell
of
most
loathsome
and
intollerable
diseases
,
and
I
may
say
the
like
here
,
that
if
God
meant
to
punish
his
serva●ts
in
Purgatory
after
this
life
,
he
would
not
punish
them
here
in
a
Purgatory
of
miseries
.
His
goodnesse
is
not
wont
to
punish
the
same
fault
twice
.
Go
into
Hell
and
purgatory
while
you
live
(
cried
in
c.
3.
ad
Colon.
whereas
the
other
are
but
pure
sufferings
.
Hear
Saint
Chrysostome
.
The
tongue
that
praises
God
in
the
midest
of
afflictions
,
is
not
inferiour
to
the
tongues
of
Martyrs
,
and
likely
they
may
have
both
the
same
reward
.
If
a
man
praise
God
,
and
give
him
thanks
in
his
sufferings
,
it
is
reputed
as
a
kinde
of
Martyrdome
,
and
would
you
have
a
Martyr
go
to
Purgatory
;
he
that
findes
heaven
open
,
and
ready
to
receive
him
.
For
as
Emissenus
saies
very
well
,
the
Heavens
are
not
onely
open
to
Saint
Steven
,
but
unto
all
Martyrs
,
and
unto
all
that
suffer
,
and
die
with
the
name
of
Jesus
in
their
mouths
,
constancy
in
their
hearts
,
and
fidelity
in
theirs
souls
.
The
works
of
patience
according
to
St.
James
are
perfect
,
and
that
which
is
perfect
,
§
7.
The
seventh
Devotion
for
the
Souls
in
Purgatory
.
SHall
I
deal
candidly
with
you
;
one
of
my
chief
mo●ives
of
publishing
this
Treatise
,
was
to
perswade
you
this
truth
,
that
one
of
the
best
means
to
prevent
Purgatory
,
is
to
have
a
great
tendernesse
,
and
a
particular
care
to
comfort
the
souls
there
,
to
spare
nothing
that
can
further
their
deliverance
;
in
a
word
,
to
make
your self
a
general
Agent
for
this
suffering
Church
,
to
sollicite
for
their
eternal
rest
.
Take
now
the
proofs
of
this
Assertion
,
and
the
whole
strength
of
my
discourse
.
1.
Christ
said
in
plain
terms
,
In
what
measure
you
mete
,
it
shall
be
measured
to
you
again
;
that
is
,
you
shall
be
dealt
withall
,
in
some
manner
,
as
you
deale
with
others
.
2.
Take
a
second
reason
of
St.
Peter
,
who
exhorts
us
above
all
things
to
have
charity
for
one
another
,
because
charity
covereth
the
multitude
of
sins
.
For
since
it
is
the
greatest
Charity
in
the
world
to
Parud
.
l.
2.
c.
70.
terms
,
as
that
the
women
onely
were
permitted
to
secure
themselves
,
and
to
take
away
with
them
what
they
could
carry
upon
their
backs
;
but
as
for
the
men
,
they
were
to
remain
at
mercy
,
exposed
to
the
fury
of
the
fire
and
sword
:
The
good
women
laying
their
heads
together
;
found
out
this
strange
expedient
,
to
save
their
husbands
,
as
well
as
themselves
,
for
every
one
taking
her
husband
upon
her
back
,
and
what
else
she
was
able
to
carry
about
her
,
they
marched
out
of
the
town
.
Never
was
man
so
struck
with
astonishment
,
as
Gibellin
was
at
this
fight
,
and
though
he
might
have
disputed
their
passage
,
as
not
consisting
with
the
true
meaning
of
the
Articles
,
yet
was
he
so
taken
with
so
rare
astratageme
,
and
strange
example
of
a
true
conjugal
love
,
that
●he
suffered
them
all
to
pass
freely
to
the
admiration
of
the
whole
world
.
And
surely
we
may
hence
conclude
,
that
all
those
who
have
so
much
love
for
the
poor
souls
in
Purgatory
,
as
to
carry
them
,
as
it
were
,
upon
their
backs
out
of
their
miserable
thraldome
will
find
heaven
gates
open
,
and
all
the
blessed
spirits
ready
to
receive
them
with
acclamations
of
joy
,
for
so
sweet
an
excess
of
charity
.
3
It
is
not
possible
,
that
they
who
have
been
thus
ransomed
out
of
Purgatory
,
by
the
ardent
zeal
of
their
friends
here
,
should
not
hold
themselves
obliged
to
restitution
,
to
return
I
say
the
like
charity
to
the
souls
of
their
benefactours
,
when
they
leave
the
world
.
How
can
those
happy
souls
,
that
swim
in
the
ocean
of
overflowing
charity
,
chuse
but
employ
all
their
power
,
and
interest
,
to
make
them
so
.
But
sure
I
need
not
go
about
to
multiply
reasons
,
in
a
case
so
clear
of
it self
so
full
of
piety
,
and
heavenly
decency
.
I
will
only
minde
you
of
what
I
told
you
elsewhere
out
of
Cajetan
,
how
reasonable
a
thing
it
is
,
that
all
those
holy
strayes
,
or
wandring
suffrages
,
which
are
offered
up
for
such
souls
as
are
not
in
Purgatory
,
should
be
applied
unto
them
;
that
had
a
particular
affection
and
devotion
to
help
souls
out
of
that
fiery
dungeon
,
and
this
certainly
will
be
a
means
to
fetch
them
out
quickly
,
if
they
ever
come
there
.
§.
8
,
The
Eighth
,
To
be
a
great
Alms-giver
.
THe
Eighth
means
to
prevent
Purgatory
,
is
to
be
very
liberal
,
and
tender
hearted
to
the
poore
.
The
holy
Ghost
teaches
us
as
much
in
most
emphatical
and
comfortable
words
,
some
whereof
I
have
chosen
to
lay
down
before
you
,
with
a
desire
to
imprint
them
in
your
hearts
.
Blessed
is
the
man
,
that
understandeth
concerning
the
needy
,
and
the
poor
,
in
the
evill
day
our
Lord
will
deliver
him
,
our
Lord
preserve
him
,
and
give
him
life
,
and
make
him
blessed
in
the
land
,
and
deliver
him
not
to
the
will
of
his
enemies
.
Our
Lord
helpe
him
in
the
bed
of
his
sorrow
.
These
words
need
no
gloss
.
For
what
is
this
evill
day
,
but
the
day
of
particular
judgment
,
at
the
houre
of
death
,
since
it
is
the
great
critical
day
,
and
the
most
considerable
moment
,
upon
which
eternity
depends
.
Now
he
●●●ls
us
,
that
God
will
deliver
him
this
day
,
from
what
I
pray
you
,
if
not
from
eternal
fire
,
and
from
the
dreadfull
fire
of
Purgatory
,
according
to
the
measure
of
his
charity
,
and
liberality
to
the
poor
.
He
tells
us
again
,
that
he
will
make
him
happy
in
this
day
,
out
of
which
I
conclude
,
that
he
shall
not
goe
into
Purgatory
,
for
how
can
he
be
happy
that
day
,
if
he
lye
in
flames
of
fire
?
Call
you
this
to
deliver
a
man
from
evil
,
to
plunge
him
over
head
and
ears
in
a
fiery
gulf
.
St.
Chrysologus
spoke
with
a
Water
quenches
burning
fire
,
and
almes
resisteth
sins
,
God
is
the
beholder
of
him
that
rendreth
grace
,
he
remembreth
him
afterwards
,
and
in
the
time
of
his
fall
he
shall
find
a
sure
stay
.
Sonne
bow
down
thy
eare
to
to
the
poor
without
sadness
,
be
merciful
to
pupills
as
a
Father
,
and
as
a
Husband
to
their
Mother
,
and
thou
shalt
be
as
the
obedient
sonne
of
the
highest
,
and
he
will
have
mercy
on
thee
more
then
a
mother
.
O
God
,
what
sweet
words
are
these
!
when
he
is
about
to
fall
;
he
shall
find
a
sure
stay
,
when
he
is
ready
to
sink
into
Purgatory
he
shall
be
held
up
,
he
shall
be
strengthned
,
he
shall
be
raysed
above
the
firmament
,
he
shal
be
carried
into
Paradise
.
What
would
a
loveing
Mother
do
less
,
if
it
were
in
her
power
?
And
since
God
has
given
us
his
word
,
that
he
will
be
more
then
a
Mother
to
such
charitable
souls
,
that
is
,
have
a
greater
tenderness
,
and
love
for
them
,
is
it
credible
that
he
will
suffer
them
to
fall
into
Purgatory
,
or
if
justice
require
some
satisfaction
there
,
is
it
not
likely
,
that
all
means
will
be
used
to
remove
them
out
of
hand
.
The
Cesars
crownd
themselves
with
laurell
,
as
fancying
it
to
be
a
sure
protection
against
fire
from
heaven
,
but
I
may
safely
say
,
that
a
merciful
soul
all
covered
over
with
laurels
,
olive
branches
,
and
refined
gold
of
charity
,
cannot
be
struck
with
fire
from
heaven
,
and
has
as
little
reason
to
feare
the
fire
of
Purgatory
.
It
is
better
(
sayd
St.
Chrysostome
)
ad
pop
.
to
give
an
almes
to
the
poor
,
then
to
worke
a
miracle
,
or
to
raise
a
dead
man
,
for
in
this
you
are
beholding
to
God
,
but
in
that
God
is
beholding
to
you
.
And
therefore
,
since
God
is
indebted
to
you
,
tell
him
plainly
you
will
be
payd
with
no
other
coyn
,
but
tha●
of
Paradise
,
if
he
thinke
of
sending
you
to
Purgatory
,
tell
him
,
you
will
be
first
payd
,
what
he
is
pleased
to
owe
you
,
for
he
has
promised
y●●
life
everlasting
,
and
therefore
let
him
first
place
you
in
Paradise
,
and
you
will
have
leasure
there
to
talke
of
Purgatory
.
It
was
an
answer
worthy
of
eternal
memory
,
that
of
the
good
Count
Thiband
of
Champagne
.
A.
poore
Gentleman
fell
at
his
feet
,
with
tears
in
his
eyes
,
saying
my
Lord
,
you
are
the
Father
of
the
poor
,
I
have
two
daughters
to
marry
,
and
have
no
way
to
compass
it
,
having
nothing
in
the
world
to
give
them
,
those
poor
creatures
are
utterly
lost
,
if
you
take
not
pitty
on
them
and
me
,
your
most
humble
servant
,
and
therefore
I
beseech
your
honour
,
to
have
mercy
on
us
.
The
two
poor
young
women
,
were
all
this
while
on
their
knees
,
as
beautiful
as
the
sun
,
their
eyes
humbly
cast
down
upon
the
ground
,
and
their
faces
covered
with
a
modest
and
virginal
blush
when
out
steps
a
ruffi●n
like
courtier
.
his
name
was
Arrant
,
and
rudely
tells
the
poor
Gentleman
,
it
was
a
pritty
fight
indeed
,
to
see
him
beg
an
almes
with
his
sword
by
his
side
.
Besides
he
was
to
know
that
the
Count
was
not
for
nothing
surnamed
the
bountiful
,
for
he
had
given
away
so
much
,
that
he
had
no
more
left
to
bestow
.
How
!
replied
the
Count
,
that
's
not
so
,
I
have
yet
something
left
,
God
be
thanked
,
and
enough
too
to
bestow
upon
the
good
Gentleman
,
for
I
am
willing
to
part
with
thee
,
and
to
yeild
up
unto
him
all
the
interest
I
have
in
thee
.
Take
him
friend
,
continued
he
,
and
be
sure
you
do
not
part
with
him
,
till
he
has
bestowed
both
your
daughters
This
he
sayd
,
and
it
fell
out
so
in
good
earnest
;
for
the
Courtier
was
glad
at
his
own
charge
,
to
provide
competent
portions
for
the
two
poor
young
women
,
and
all
France
admired
,
and
highly
extolled
the
Count
,
for
his
purdent
carriage
of
the
whole
business
.
Can
you
find
in
your
heart
to
condemn
such
a
brave
Prince
to
Purgatory
,
after
he
has
left
many
such
charitable
examples
behind
him
,
one
I
say
,
that
has
given
so
much
away
in
pious
uses
,
that
he
has
no
more
to
give
,
one
that
would
willingly
have
sold
himself
after
all
,
to
make
an
almes
of
the
price
,
to
our
blessed
Saviour
,
in
the
person
of
those
poor
innocent
doves
.
The
Angel
Raphael
deserves
credit
,
when
he
tells
us
in
express
tearms
,
that
it
is
better
to
give
almes
,
then
to
lay
up
treasures
of
gold
,
because
that
is
it
which
purgeth
sin
,
and
maketh
us
find
mercy
and
life
everlasting
.
How
does
your
heart
feele
at
this
comfortable
lesson
,
since
charity
has
the
power
to
purge
sin
,
what
need
of
another
Purgatory
,
and
since
she
is
so
happy
as
to
procure
life
everlasting
,
have
you
not
reason
to
hope
she
will
at
your
death
set
heaven
gates
open
,
and
leade
you
in
thither
as
it
were
by
the
hand
.
When
those
dutiful
children
,
§.
9.
The
ninth
,
Angelical
purity
.
THe
ninth
,
and
a
very
efficacious
preservative
against
Purgatory
,
is
a
singular
chastity
,
or
virginal
purity
I
cannot
think
that
a
pure
and
humble
heart
,
a
Soul
that
is
newly
divorced
from
a
virginal
body
,
can
ever
be
tied
to
purging
flames
.
This
Diamond
of
chastity
,
has
I
know
not
what
,
that
makes
it
victorious
over
flames
;
this
mount
Libanus
as
white
as
Snow
,
is
never
visited
with
fire
from
heaven
;
this
virginal
Laurel
,
which
triumphs
over
the
pleasures
of
this
world
,
fears
not
the
fury
of
any
subterraneous
flames
;
this
St.
John
may
be
plunged
into
boyling
Oyl
without
feeling
the
least
smart
;
this
Royal
Salamander
can
live
untouched
in
the
midst
of
fire
;
this
pure
Gold
suffers
no
detriment
in
the
crucible
;
this
Eagle
cuts
her
way
through
the
element
of
fire
,
and
soares
up
to
Heaven
without
singing
her
wings
;
these
innocents
●ing
merrily
in
the
furnace
of
Babilon
,
as
if
they
were
in
a
terrestrial
Paradice
.
In
earnest
there
is
no
reason
,
that
persons
as
chast
as
Angels
,
who
were
invincible
,
and
untouch'd
in
the
midst
of
the
flames
of
concupiscence
,
which
devoure
almost
all
the
world
,
there
is
no
reason
,
I
say
,
that
those
who
were
proof
against
these
subtle
alluring
flames
,
should
not
appear
as
good
proof
against
those
other
cruel
devouring
flames
,
or
that
they
should
ever
feel
the
smart
of
the
one
,
that
had
so
valiantly
overcome
the
false
flatteries
of
the
other
.
St.
John
says
,
that
Virgins
follow
the
Lamb
wheresoever
he
goes
,
they
are
the
ordinary
courciers
of
Jesus
Christ
that
have
washed
their
Robes
in
the
blood
of
the
Lamb.
And
shall
such
clean
innocent
souls
,
need
the
help
of
Purgatory
fire
,
to
wash
away
the●r
staines
?
St.
Teresia
once
seeing
a
Cannon
in
the
Church
,
ready
to
be
laid
in
his
grave
,
and
another
time
one
of
the
society
,
who
was
also
laid
upon
the
Beer
,
ran
instantly
to
kiss
their
dead
corps
,
and
when
all
were
astonished
to
see
her
,
she
tould
those
whom
it
concerned
,
that
she
was
very
certain
,
that
those
two
reverend
persons
were
Virgins
,
and
that
their
happy
souls
,
had
for
that
cause
taken
their
flight
into
heaven
,
just
as
they
parted
with
their
bodies
.
The
Greek
History
tels
us
,
that
,
Which
of
you
,
said
the
Prophet
Mart.
Rom.
17.
May.
most
chast
and
incomparable
virgin
Restituta
,
who
being
condemned
to
be
burnt
alive
,
was
for
that
purpose
put
into
an
old
ship
,
ful
●f
Pitch
,
Brimstone
and
Fire
,
and
thus
exposed
to
the
mercy
of
those
merciless
Elements
.
She
apeared
in
the
midst
of
the
Sea
,
as
in
a
floating
fire
,
upon
her
knees
and
there
breath'd
out
her
sweet
soul
into
the
hands
of
her
heavenly
spouse
,
leaving
her
Virginal
bo●●
still
entier
,
and
without
suffering
the
least
detriment
,
by
the
smoke
or
by
the
fire
.
Now
it
was
the
fire
of
love
that
gave
her
the
mortal
wound
,
no
other
fire
durst
touch
,
or
consume
that
Virginal
flesh
,
which
was
consecrated
to
her
dear
Saviour
,
by
the
fair
hands
of
chastity
.
Go
cast
me
such
a
soul
into
Purgatory
fire
,
and
let
it
do
its
worst
and
burn
her
if
it
can
.
No
,
Fire
will
sooner
melt
a
Diamond
,
and
all
things
that
are
the
most
impossible
will
sooner
come
to
pass
,
then
a
pure
and
angelical
Virgin
shall
feel
the
smart
of
tormenting
fire
;
which
has
the
discretion
(
says
St.
Chrysostome
)
to
§.
10.
The
tenth
.
A
profound
humility
.
IT
cannot
enter
into
my
●●●d
,
that
a
soul
which
is
truly
humble
,
shall
ever
enter
into
this
place
of
torments
,
much
less
be
long
detained
there
.
They
say
there
is
a
bird
,
that
will
be
sure
to
save
her self
in
all
occasions
of
danger
,
by
sinking
down
so
low
into
the
water
as
to
be
out
of
all
reach
.
The
soul
of
a
man
that
is
truly
humble
,
sinks
down
so
deep
into
the
center
of
her
own
nothing
;
that
there
is
not
the
thing
under
heaven
that
can
come
near
her
,
to
annoy
her
,
and
if
by
chance
a
little
Purgatory
fire
should
be
let
down
upon
her
,
it
would
do
by
her
,
as
,
they
say
,
the
fire
which
falls
from
heaven
does
by
a
pe●ce
of
well
disposed
moulde
,
which
is
so
far
from
burning
and
destroying
it
,
that
it
converts
it
into
some
precious
stone
.
The
great
God
of
heaven
,
who
loves
to
crush
the
heads
of
ambitious
persons
,
to
lay
them
level
with
the
ground
,
and
to
grinde
them
to
powder
,
takes
pleasure
to
raise
humble
souls
out
of
the
dirt
,
to
make
them
prime
potentates
of
Paradise
,
and
to
fit
among
the
Princes
of
his
heavenly
kingdom
.
He
that
will
be
sure
to
find
the
glory
of
the
Saints
,
(
sayd
St.
ad
pop
.
ocean
,
be
sure
that
humility
be
your
pilot
.
When
St.
Paul
took
himself
for
no
better
then
the
dust
of
the
common
streets
,
then
it
was
that
he
was
rapt
up
to
the
third
heaven
.
True
,
And
I
may
be
bold
to
tell
you
,
that
if
you
be
but
humble
,
they
will
not
easily
make
you
stoop
so
low
as
Purgatory
,
but
will
rather
lift
you
up
above
the
wings
of
Seraphims
.
The
royal
Prophet
made
it
his
prayer
to
God
,
to
look
down
upon
his
humility
,
to
consider
his
labours
,
and
to
blot
out
all
his
sins
and
make
him
as
innocent
as
an
Angel
,
or
a
child
of
a
year
old
.
What
has
an
Angell
or
an
Infant
to
do
in
Purgatory
?
Some
hold
a
man
that
is
St.
Doroth.
ser.
2.
de
humil
.
very
humble
to
be
a
kind
of
Martyr
.
Must
Martyrs
be
sent
like
criminals
to
broyle
in
Purgatory
?
No
,
no
,
(
says
Climachus
)
rejoyce
§.
11.
The
Eleventh
.
To
communicate
well
and
often
.
I
Should
never
make
an
end
,
should
I
go
about
to
bring
in
all
the
heroical
vertues
,
which
are
strong
antido●s
,
and
powerfull
preservatives
,
against
the
fire
of
Purgatory
,
and
yet
I
cannot
chuse
but
vent
a
thought
or
two
more
,
which
with
the
rest
,
I
submit
to
your
discreete
judgement
.
And
First
,
I
take
those
that
communicate
often
,
and
do
it
well
and
worthily
,
to
be
pritty
secure
from
feeling
any
great
smart
in
Purgatory
,
St
Ignatius
The
Romans
used
to
put
a
peec●
of
silver
in
the
dead
mans
mouth
,
and
verily
believed
,
that
by
giving
this
for
his
passage
,
he
should
be
conveyed
safe
to
the
Elizian
fields
.
This
was
a
vain
superstition
,
but
you
must
give
me
leave
to
fancy
,
that
when
a
good
Christian
di●s
,
with
his
saviour
in
his
mouth
,
or
in
his
heart
,
all
Paradise
lies
open
to
receive
him
.
Open
your
gates
,
you
Princes
of
heaven
,
open
your
gates
,
for
Roger
King
of
Sicily
,
having
long
laboured
in
vain
,
to
Hist.
Neup
.
p.
2.
l.
1.
make
himself
master
of
the
Island
Corfu
,
at
length
tired
out
with
so
long
a
siege
,
fell
upon
this
noble
stratageme
.
He
makes
as
if
a
certain
Nobleman
of
the
town
,
were
dead
in
his
camp
,
who
desired
to
be
buried
within
their
walls
,
with
the
rest
of
his
ancestours
.
He
was
accordingly
layd
upon
the
beare
,
and
covered
like
a
dead
corps
,
a
noble
conv●y
was
prepared
to
●●t●nd
the
Hearse
,
with
torches
in
their
hands
,
nothing
was
wanting
to
make
up
a
compleat
Funeral
.
The
Town
mistrusting
nothing
,
set
open
their
gates
to
let
them
in
,
but
my
counterfeit
dead
man
,
was
scarse
got
upon
the
draw
bridge
,
ready
to
enter
the
Town
,
when
behold
he
sodainly
changes
the
whole
scen
,
reviues
and
starts
up
with
his
sword
in
his
hand
,
which
was
a
sign
for
all
his
attendants
to
throw
away
their
torches
,
and
to
betake
themselves
to
their
weapons
,
and
they
managed
them
so
well
,
that
they
first
took
the
Gate
and
then
the
Town
,
and
the
whole
Island
,
to
the
great
terrour
and
astonishment
of
their
enemies
,
who
found
themselves
guld
,
and
surprized
with
so
unexpected
,
and
unusual
a
ceremony
.
A
grave
Prelate
tearms
the
H.
lib.
de
Enchat
.
Eucharist
the
incordiation
of
God
,
as
if
he
would
have
said
,
that
God
in
this
holy
Sacrament
is
as
t'
were
incorporated
into
our
hearts
,
and
our
hearts
into
God
,
so
that
God
lying
thus
hidden
within
us
,
he
that
is
●ord
of
the
celestial
Hierusalem
,
to
which
our
hearts
have
laid
so
close
,
and
so
loving
a
seige
,
if
we
present
him
to
the
blessed
inhabitants
,
as
dead
for
the
love
of
us
,
they
dare
not
but
admit
him
,
and
them
also
that
carry
him
after
this
manner
,
in
the
very
center
of
their
hearts
and
souls
.
Upon
occasion
of
a
hot
contest
at
Florence
,
about
Savanorola
,
when
some
would
have
him
an
Heretick
,
others
not
,
there
were
two
amongst
others
took
a
strange
resolution
,
to
put
it
to
the
trial
of
the
fire
,
and
he
that
could
endure
the
flames
better
,
was
to
be
thought
to
have
the
better
cause
.
The
day
agreed
on
being
come
,
the
fire
prapared
for
the
purpose
,
and
all
the
world
longing
to
see
the
success
of
this
strange
challenge
,
it
was
discovered
,
that
one
of
the
parties
,
had
hid
the
blessed
Sacrament
in
his
bosome
,
believing
that
the
fire
would
not
hurt
him
,
while
he
carried
so
precious
a
treasure
about
him
.
What
came
of
it
,
and
what
was
the
conclusion
of
the
whole
business
▪
you
may
read
at
leasure
in
the
History
it self
,
I
only
bring
this
,
to
shew
the
mans
confidence
in
this
powerful
preservative
,
and
then
you
may
please
to
remember
,
how
the
sacred
host
has
been
sometimes
seen
,
to
hang
in
the
ayre
,
surrounded
about
with
flames
,
and
thus
to
have
been
miraculously
preserved
.
I
know
we
are
not
always
to
look
for
miracles
of
this
nature
,
and
yet
me
thinks
,
we
may
be
confident
,
that
Purgatory
fire
will
have
nothing
to
do
with
a
soul
,
where
Christ
has
been
pleased
to
take
up
his
constant
lodging
.
Where
the
King
is
,
there
is
the
Court
,
where
Christ
is
(
says
Sinesius
)
there
Syn
,
Ep.
111.
Ang.
de
gen
.
ad
litt
.
must
needs
be
good
fortune
and
victory
,
where
God
is
(
says
St.
Austin
)
there
is
Paradise
,
ay
though
you
were
in
the
deepest
pit
of
Purgatory
,
God
would
not
deny
you
entrance
into
Heaven
,
who
never
refused
to
entertain
him
in
your
heart
;
he
never
knocked
at
your
door
but
you
were
still
ready
to
receive
him
,
can
you
think
he
will
be
less
courteous
to
you
in
the
other
world
?
Besides
all
this
,
he
that
receives
often
and
devoutly
,
receives
withall
such
store
of
heavenly
lights
,
such
a
tenderness
of
heart
,
such
inflamed
desires
,
so
much
innocency
in
his
conversation
,
and
so
much
purity
of
intention
in
all
his
actions
,
he
is
withall
so
transformed
into
God
,
upon
whome
he
feeds
,
and
feasts
himself
continually
,
he
is
so
identified
with
him
,
and
to
use
the
phraise
of
St.
Dennis
,
and
St.
Bonaventure
,
he
is
so
straightly
united
with
God
,
that
as
St.
Paul
speaks
of
them
that
cleave
to
God
,
he
becomes
one
spirit
,
and
as
it
were
one
thing
with
God
.
This
being
so
,
will
you
have
this
heart
,
which
is
but
one
thing
with
Christ
,
to
be
swallowed
up
in
Purgatory
,
and
so
to
carry
Christ
thither
?
They
say
,
Albertus
Magnus
held
,
&
whether
he
held
it
or
no
I
know
many
other
worthy
persons
maintain
,
that
one
single
thought
of
the
most
bitter
passion
Granad
.
de●rut
.
du
Pont.
4.
p.
Medit.
of
our
Blessed
Saviour
,
is
so
powerful
,
and
so
effectual
,
that
a
man
may
gain
sometimes
more
by
it
,
then
if
he
had
fasted
with
bread
and
water
,
or
disciplined
himself
every
day
til
blood
comes
or
read
over
dayly
the
whole
Psalter
.
I
mean
not
to
examine
now
the
truth
of
this
assertion
,
according
to
the
rigour
of
divinity
,
I
only
say
that
in
some
sense
it
may
be
true
,
and
this
makes
very
much
for
my
present
purpose
.
For
there
is
not
the
thing
in
the
world
,
that
is
a
more
lively
representation
of
the
Passion
of
Christ
,
then
the
blessed
Sacrament
,
which
he
left
expresly
,
as
an
eternal
memorial
of
his
Passion
,
commanding
us
to
remember
his
death
and
bitter
passion
,
when
we
receive
him
,
and
still
acting
in
our
hearts
that
sad
tragedy
,
though
without
the
effusion
of
his
blood
,
and
imprinting
in
our
souls
,
the
several
passages
of
his
most
precious
death
.
Good
God
?
of
what
merite
then
must
a
holy
Communion
be
,
and
a
Communion
,
which
is
often
frequented
,
and
continued
to
the
hour
of
death
.
If
such
as
these
go
to
Purgatory
,
sure
,
there
will
be
none
free
.
St.
Thomas
tels
us
,
the
blessed
Sacrament
is
call'd
a
pledge
of
eternal
life
,
now
(
says
he
)
we
never
use
to
deliver
up
our
pledge
,
until
we
are
possessed
of
the
thing
for
which
it
was
engaged
;
see
then
(
saith
he
)
that
you
part
not
with
the
body
of
Christ
,
unto
his
eternal
father
,
til
he
has
received
you
into
Paradise
,
for
which
it
was
given
you
,
as
a
most
precious
,
and
secure
pledge
.
Hence
it
is
that
St.
Ambrose
stiles
it
,
a
parcel
of
eternal
life
,
an
Opux
.
de
sanct.
sacram
.
essay
or
tast
,
a
certain
infallible
assurance
of
enjoying
it
,
and
St.
Cyprian
cals
it
an
infusion
of
the
de
cen●
dom
.
divine
essence
,
and
St.
Bonaventure
a
wonderful
deification
,
or
Metamorphosing
of
the
heart
,
by
which
a
man
that
communicates
often
,
is
so
deified
,
that
he
seems
to
be
a
little
god
upon
Earth
.
And
to
such
as
he
it
is
said
,
You
are
Gods
and
the
Sons
of
the
highest
.
Go
now
and
bury
these
little
gods
in
Purgatory
,
you
will
sooner
work
a
miracle
,
and
turne
Purgatory
into
Paradise
,
for
certainly
Purgatory
cannot
be
a
fit
place
,
for
those
that
are
gods
by
participation
,
or
consorts
of
divine
nature
,
as
St.
Peter
tearms
them
.
If
the
sheeps
teeth
,
that
feed
upon
a
certain
hearbe
in
Candia
,
seem
to
be
made
of
pure
Gold
,
what
must
we
think
of
those
,
that
are
daily
nourished
with
this
divine
Plant
of
Paradise
,
Lilium
convallium
▪
but
that
they
have
hearts
of
Gold
,
consciences
of
Gold
,
and
so
pure
and
refined
Gold
,
that
the
fire
of
Purgatory
can
find
nothing
more
to
purifie
and
refine
in
them
.
§.
12.
The
twelfth
,
A
faithful
,
and
exact
obedience
.
THe
twelfth
,
and
last
means
,
to
prevent
Purgatory
,
which
I
intend
here
to
propose
,
is
an
exact
,
and
faithful
obedience
,
for
I
cannot
perswade
my self
,
a
true
obedient
person
,
will
have
much
cause
to
fear
Purgatory
.
Elias
flew
up
to
heaven
in
a
fiery
chariot
,
how
could
he
do
it
without
burning
?
very
well
,
for
he
did
it
to
obey
God
.
The
three
Children
went
into
the
Babilonian
furnace
,
alas
?
they
are
lost
creatures
.
No
,
for
they
went
in
to
obey
God
.
This
being
so
,
be
of
good
comfort
,
the
fire
knows
not
how
,
to
arme
it self
against
obedience
.
Jonas
lies
three
days
floating
in
a
Whales
belly
,
sure
he
is
undone
,
the
poor
man
will
never
appear
more
.
He
will
,
he
will
,
and
quickly
too
,
for
though
it
was
his
disobedience
,
which
made
him
a
prey
to
that
devouring
monster
of
the
Sea
,
yet
he
now
willingly
submits
to
the
decrees
of
heaven
,
and
were
it
to
do
again
would
as
willingly
cast
himself
in
,
to
obey
the
will
of
God
,
and
since
it
is
so
,
he
will
infallibly
recover
his
liberty
,
and
not
loose
the
least
hair
of
his
Head
.
Moses
walks
in
the
bottom
of
the
read
sea
,
while
the
waters
stand
like
mountains
on
both
sides
,
threatning
death
and
destruction
,
alas
,
it
were
great
pitty
so
worthy
a
person
should
be
thus
lost
in
waves
.
Feare
not
,
there
is
no
danger
,
no
,
since
he
entered
to
obey
God
,
neither
the
sea
,
nor
death
dare
attempt
any
thing
against
him
,
all
the
elements
,
have
two
much
respect
to
his
obedience
,
to
do
him
the
least
injury
.
Daniel
▪
is
in
the
Lions
jaws
,
who
put
him
there
?
obedience
,
Feare
nothing
,
he
will
not
perish
,
the
cruell
lyons
,
will
be
his
life-guard
to
protect
him
.
Behold
Susana
under
a
cloud
of
stones
ready
to
haile
down
upon
her
,
who
put
her
there
!
obedience
to
the
law
of
God
.
And
therefore
do
not
fear
,
she
will
come
off
untouched
.
All
creatures
do
so
highly
honour
the
commands
of
their
Creatour
,
that
they
will
sooner
forget
their
own
na●ure
,
then
forget
to
obey
him
,
and
honour
all
those
,
who
had
rather
die
then
disobey
.
It
is
a
kind
of
Martyrdom
(
says
St.
Thomas
)
to
dye
for
obedience
,
and
without
question
Purgatory
was
not
made
for
Martyrs
.
It
is
a
perfect
holocaust
,
to
sacrifice
his
life
upon
the
Altar
of
obedience
,
and
why
should
a
heart
,
thus
burnt
and
consumed
in
obeying
,
be
any
more
exposed
to
fire
?
St.
Bernard
,
in
his
funeral
sermon
of
Humbertus
says
,
that
if
that
holy
Monke
had
any
thing
to
suffer
in
Purgatory
,
it
was
for
want
of
a
little
obedience
,
in
that
which
concerned
the
care
of
his
health
and
that
otherwise
,
he
could
not
but
thinke
,
that
he
went
immediately
into
heaven
.
Let
us
heare
the
great
St.
Ambrose
.
Whosoever
In
Ps.
39.
(
says
he
)
does
the
will
of
God
,
who
lived
and
died
in
obedience
shall
not
die
eternally
,
but
at
the
houre
of
his
death
shall
heare
those
comfortable
words
,
which
were
spoken
to
the
good
thief
,
this
day
thou
shalt
be
with
me
in
Paradise
.
Why
so
?
Is
it
not
sufficient
,
that
St.
Ambrose
speakes
it
so
roundly
?
But
if
you
will
have
a
pertinent
reason
for
it
,
take
this
.
When
Abraham
,
out
of
pure
obedience
,
would
have
sacrificed
his
dear
Isaac
,
God
seemed
so
well
pleased
,
(
I
had
almost
said
obliged
to
him
for
it
)
that
by
way
of
requital
,
he
made
a
solemn
Oath
,
to
give
him
his
only
son
,
and
the
land
of
promise
,
flowing
with
all
manner
of
delights
.
Tell
me
,
is
not
every
obedient
person
another
Abraham
?
nay
,
is
he
not
greater
then
Abraham
,
since
it
is
a
far
harder
task
,
for
a
man
to
sacrifice
himself
,
then
to
sacrifice
his
son
;
to
sacrifice
,
I
say
,
his
will
,
the
noblest
part
of
man
,
which
is
born
to
be
sole
empress
of
the
universe
,
and
has
no
other
life
,
but
to
rule
and
command
as
well
in
the
great
,
as
the
lesser
world
.
Now
let
him
be
but
another
Abraham
,
and
sure
you
will
not
think
it
fit
to
send
him
to
Purgatory
,
who
carries
in
his
bosome
the
delights
of
Paradise
.
The
Abbot
Mutius
,
when
he
turned
Monke
,
brought
his
only
son
with
him
to
the
Monastery
,
about
eight
years
old
,
that
he
might
begin
betimes
to
learn
the
fear
of
God
.
The
Abbot
of
the
Monastery
,
to
make
trial
of
his
obedience
,
peremptorily
commands
him
,
to
take
the
Child
,
and
throw
him
into
the
River
,
for
he
did
nothing
but
disquiet
the
Monks
.
The
holy
man
,
without
disputing
the
case
,
animated
with
an
angelical
obedience
,
and
a
heart
like
that
of
Abraham
,
takes
up
the
Child
,
runs
away
with
him
to
the
River
throws
him
in
,
and
returns
again
with
dry
eyes
,
and
without
any
sign
of
trouble
,
as
if
he
were
not
at
all
concerned
,
for
the
loss
of
his
own
Child
.
And
certainly
,
the
Child
had
been
drowned
,
had
not
certain
Monkes
,
who
could
swim
well
lain
secretly
there
,
by
the
Abots
appointment
,
who
took
up
this
little
Moses
,
saved
this
Isaac
,
and
brought
him
back
to
the
Monastery
,
where
they
all
stood
in
admiration
,
of
so
perfect
an
example
of
blind
obedience
,
and
self
denial
,
in
so
natural
and
lawful
an
affection
,
as
is
the
love
of
a
parent
to
his
dear
Child
.
The
same
day
,
it
was
revealed
to
the
Cass
.
l.
4.
c.
27.
Abbot
,
that
this
fact
of
Matius
,
was
as
pleasing
to
God
,
as
that
of
Abraham
,
and
that
he
should
be
eternally
blessed
for
it
.
Go
now
and
cast
this
soul
into
Purgatory
,
who
stuck
not
to
cast
his
only
Son
into
the
River
,
at
the
command
of
his
superiour
,
and
when
you
have
done
,
will
they
not
sooner
think
you
cast
in
the
whole
River
,
which
was
thus
blessed
by
a
perfect
act
of
obedience
,
and
so
quench
the
flames
,
then
suffer
her
to
lye
burning
there
.
Mutius
did
but
once
cast
his
son
into
the
River
,
and
how
many
Religious
souls
,
out
of
the
same
spirit
of
obedience
,
expose
themselves
a
thousand
times
,
to
all
dangers
both
by
Sea
and
Land
,
and
after
all
this
,
must
they
needs
visit
Purgatory
in
their
way
to
heaven
?
It
seems
boldly
said
of
St
,
Austin
,
in
Joan.
that
the
blessed
Virgin
was
happier
in
obeying
God
,
then
in
being
the
Mother
of
God
,
and
yet
Christ
himself
,
said
as
much
in
express
tearms
.
For
when
by
way
of
applauding
him
,
they
were
crying
up
her
de
civ
.
c.
1
(
says
St.
Austin
)
to
be
thus
prodigal
of
our
lives
;
and
even
like
Samson
,
to
make
our selves
away
,
when
God
requires
it
;
No
,
this
is
no
crime
,
but
a
pious
holocaust
,
offered
upon
the
Altar
of
obedience
,
and
will
you
then
kill
a
man
that
is
already
dead
,
will
you
burn
him
in
Purgatory
,
that
is
already
consumed
in
the
holy
flames
of
obedience
,
God
does
not
use
to
punish
,
or
purge
the
same
fault
twice
;
and
therefore
a
soul
that
has
been
once
purged
in
the
fire
of
obedience
,
hath
no
need
of
being
purged
again
in
the
fire
of
Purgatory
.
O
what
a
thing
it
is
to
be
obedient
,
cried
Gerard
,
as
he
lay
a
dying
,
in
St.
Bernards
armes
,
I
have
been
carried
before
Gods
high
tribunal
,
and
have
seen
the
power
of
obedience
,
no
body
shall
ever
perish
that
is
truly
obedient
;
but
when
he
comes
to
die
,
shall
mount
above
the
quires
of
Angels
Arch-angels
,
and
Apostles
,
according
to
the
merit
of
his
obedience
,
and
with
this
he
died
.
Must
Angels
,
Arch-angels
,
Apostles
,
and
those
that
are
in
the
same
degree
of
perfection
,
be
thrust
into
Purgatory
fire
?
Is
it
reasonable
,
that
they
should
be
confined
to
so
loathsome
a
prison
,
that
made
themselves
voluntary
prisoners
,
under
the
severe
government
of
obedience
.
I
am
resolved
(
said
H.
David
)
to
fear
no
evils
,
of
what
ragged
nature
soever
they
be
,
An
obedient
man
speaks
nothing
but
victories
,
says
the
holy
Ghost
in
the
Proverbs
.
What
victories
?
Such
as
St.
Dorotheus
Pro.
c.
21.
28
Doct.
1.
describes
,
when
he
tells
us
,
that
a
soul
being
seated
in
her
triumphant
chariot
,
drawn
by
humility
and
obedience
,
treads
all
underfoot
,
and
with
a
swift
motion
steeres
her
course
up
to
heaven
.
If
humility
and
obedience
be
her
horses
,
they
will
not
easily
convey
her
into
Purgatory
,
for
they
know
not
the
way
thither
,
but
only
into
heaven
,
their
own
native
country
,
where
they
will
be
sur●
to
leave
this
triumphant
,
and
victorious
soul
;
in
the
joyful
fruition
of
eternal
happiness
.
Take
away
self-will
and
there
will
be
no
hell
,
cries
St.
Bernard
:
If
obedience
can
put
out
hell
fire
,
de
.
resur
.
she
most
needs
have
power
to
put
out
the
fire
of
Purgatory
.
What
a
solid
comfort
must
this
be
to
religious
souls
,
who
have
given
themselves
over
to
the
practice
of
this
vertue
,
and
to
all
those
,
that
living
in
the
world
,
yet
do
nothing
of
their
own
heads
,
but
are
constantly
ruled
by
the
will
of
God
.
It
is
a
strange
,
but
very
true
observation
Bonau
.
c.
13
▪
reg.
novi●
▪
to.
7.
of
St.
Gregory
,
and
of
St.
Bonaventure
,
that
God
who
is
invincible
,
will
yet
suffer
himself
to
be
overcome
,
by
the
obedience
of
his
servants
,
so
far
as
even
to
obey
them
;
I
say
obey
,
for
it
is
the
very
expression
,
he
uses
himselfe
,
in
the
case
of
Josua
,
who
is
said
to
have
stopped
the
sun
in
his
full
carreere
,
because
God
was
pleased
to
obey
the
voice
of
his
obedient
servant
.
If
this
be
so
,
that
God
will
refuse
nothing
to
an
obedient
soul
;
let
her
aske
him
to
be
freed
from
Purgatory
,
and
she
will
not
be
denied
it
,
who
never
denied
him
any
thing
.
And
without
all
doubt
,
it
is
as
easy
for
her
to
curb
the
fire
of
Purgatory
,
as
to
stop
the
sweet
motion
of
the
heavens
.
You
then
that
are
obedient
,
know
your
power
,
you
may
appeale
from
God
to
God
,
in
case
he
should
sentence
you
to
Purgatory
,
you
may
boldly
claim
his
promise
,
of
denying
you
nothing
,
and
then
you
will
be
sure
to
make
it
in
your
bargain
,
to
have
nothing
to
do
with
Purgatory
,
but
to
go
straight
into
heaven
,
there
to
enjoy
him
for
ever
.