The life of the holy and venerable mother Suor Maria Maddalena De Patsi a Florentine lady, & religious of the Order of the Carmelites. Written in Italian by the Reuerend Priest Sigr. Vincentio Puccini, who was sometymes her ghostly father. And now translated into English.
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The life of the holy and venerable mother Suor Maria Maddalena De Patsi a Florentine lady, & religious of the Order of the Carmelites. Written in Italian by the Reuerend Priest Sigr. Vincentio Puccini, who was sometymes her ghostly father. And now translated into English.
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Puccini, Vincenzio.
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[Saint-Omer :: English College Press] Published by allowance of superiours,
Anno M.DC.XIX. [1619]
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Ecclesiastical law -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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"The life of the holy and venerable mother Suor Maria Maddalena De Patsi a Florentine lady, & religious of the Order of the Carmelites. Written in Italian by the Reuerend Priest Sigr. Vincentio Puccini, who was sometymes her ghostly father. And now translated into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10206.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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She is much troubled by the temptations of Gluttony. CHAP. 34.
IN THIS meane tyme, the Diuell (neuer ceasing to molest her) came with a temptation of extreme Gluttony. And although any vice of this kind was wholy contrary euen to her naturall in∣clination (besides the resolution that she had made, to feed only vpon bread and water) yet neuertheles, she was vrged withall violence by that maligne spirit, sometims to take meat by stealth, some∣tymes to desire those meats, which how∣soeuer they were in themselues shut vp, yet they seemed visibly to be represented before his eyes For hauing occasion to passe often by those places where the prouision was kept, she would instantly see the doores and cupbords to fly open before her, so as by occasion thereof, she was extraordinarily troubled with that tentation.
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But by how much the more she e∣steemed that sinne to be absurdly vnde∣cent and deformed, so much the more did the motion thereof giue her cause to humiliate her selfe; and she would vse to say to one of her Sisters; That God A∣lmighty could not suffer the Diuells to trouble her in any thing, which gaue her greater af∣fliction then by that tentation of Gluttony. But yet, sayd she, I must be faine to swallow downe these bits, which are both sweet and bitter; sweet, because they are made by the permission of God; and bitter for the shame and paine which they carry in themselues. In the eating now and then of an apple (when she was permitted to vse food of Lent) she would, through the contem∣plation of the beauty therof, so diue into the prouidence & liberality of him that made it, that she found no tast or sauour at all in the thing it selfe. With these ex∣ercises, but aboue all with the considera∣tion of her owne weaknes (since so vile and poore a thing, as the desire of meat, is able to make such warre against vs) she (humbling her selfe so much the
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more) was dayly ouercoming all diabo∣licall suggestions.