The spirituall director disinteressed According to the spirit of B. Francis of Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneua, Institutor of the Order of the Visitation of our Bl. Lady. By the most Reuerend Father in God Iohn Peter Camus, Bishope of Belley. Translated out of French by A.B.

CHAP. IIII. Of such as magnifie of purpose theire condition, bee it Pastorall.

BVt obserue à litle the malice of Self-loue; when this imperfe∣ction perceiues it self discouered on the one side, it couers it self on the other, and seekes to mount vnto the empire by another way, wherby one may soone perceiue, that he who preferrs himself before others, falls into such à degree of folly, as for the cure thereof there is more neede of Helebore, then reason. And if his enuie, and Iealousie chance to be discouered, then he beco∣mes yet more ridiculous, for there is none but derides the Enuie of Cain, of Iosephs brothers, of Saul, of Aman, and such like franticks;

wherfore it is necessarie to maske it vnder some other artifice, which is practised when à Pastor comes to raise the dignitie of à Parish by his discourse vnto Soules vnder his condct, sai••ing▪ that it is the mother church of à faithfull Christian, that it is there where he is regenerated of water and the holy Ghost, that the Pastor spouse of this church is his true father; that it belongs vnto answere for the Soules which liue within the limitts of his parish, that there is an obligation there to receaue the Sacraments; that their assistance is due, that ther the Parochiall Masse hath greate aduantage aboue the priuate Masses which are heard els where; that the Sacraments of Baptisme, of Matri∣mony, of extreame Vnction, are there administred; as also from thence is taken the holy Viaticum to carrie vnto the sick, and that it

would be of greater ed••f••cation ther to receaue the two other Sacra∣ments of Penance, and the Eucharist, then elswhere, in regard of the good example which those of the same parish owe each other, and à thou∣sand other such like reasons which they who serue in Parishes may bring for the maintenāce of Order, and Hierarchicall police. Besides if one would rest there, and content himself with the praises and prehe∣minencies iustly due vnto churches, in this manner, it were in some forte excuseable, though self-loue plaies there his parte openly enough, vnder the cloake of the Interest of honour, and preference, the man hideinge himself vnder his dignitie, and that of his church; à subtiltie too grosse not to be dis∣couered. But when one vncases himself, and exceedeing the bounds of good māners, comes to declame

against persons, and places of priuiledges, against the troupes of succour which the Generall of the Church-Militants armie sends for the aide, and defence of ordinary Pastors, and that insteede of appro∣ueing their labours, and assistance, they are blamed, as ouerthrowing order, and troubleing the state of the hierarchicall policie: t••uely this shock is too boisterous, and shewes too apparently, that there is some other motiue then the zeale of soules, and of the glorie of God, which causeth theise words of pre∣cipitation: and that it is the honorable Interest, which spurs on such spirits, whose tongues frame those com∣plaints soe full of iniustice. Seekeing then to fasten the Laietie to their Parishes as statues to their Niches, pictures vnto their frames Planets to their heauens, without giueing them à decent libertie of visiting

other churches, were truely vnder the cloake of politicall order, to ouerthrowe the order of Charitie, with the sacred spouse hath esta∣blished in his holy seller, which is to say, in his paternall prouidence.