THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER. What Priuiledges this Third order enioyeth.
VVE must still vse the for∣mer distinction, for those that are of this Order and liue in their houses out of commu∣nitie
The rule of penance of the seraphicall father S. Francis: approued and confirmed by Leo the X. for religious persons of the 3. order of S. Francis : together with a declaration of each point of the Rule, profitable not only to the religous of this order, but also to all religious women / by Br. Angelus Francis, friar minour.
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- The rule of penance of the seraphicall father S. Francis: approued and confirmed by Leo the X. for religious persons of the 3. order of S. Francis : together with a declaration of each point of the Rule, profitable not only to the religous of this order, but also to all religious women / by Br. Angelus Francis, friar minour.
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- Third Order Regular of St. Francis.
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- M. DC. XLIV [1644]
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"The rule of penance of the seraphicall father S. Francis: approued and confirmed by Leo the X. for religious persons of the 3. order of S. Francis : together with a declaration of each point of the Rule, profitable not only to the religous of this order, but also to all religious women / by Br. Angelus Francis, friar minour." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89642.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
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doe only enioy those priui∣ledges that are granted to the Friarminors, and are purely spiri∣tuall, as indulgences absolutions and such like. And so all those that doe not make the three vowes.
But those that liue in commu∣nitie, and are subiect to the Ordi∣naries, making the three vowes, doe enioy all, and singular, the pri∣uiledges, that haue bene giuen pe∣culiarly to the third Order which indeed are very many; whereas those that are subiect to the Friar minors, are participāt of all the pri∣uiledges, Indults, and graces, that haue or shalbe giuen to the Friar Minors or poore Clares. For to omitt other Popes Leo the thēth in Bulla Dudū faelicis cōmunicates vnto the Religions of this third Order, all and whatsoeuer priui∣ledges
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that had beene granted to the poore Clares: and before, in his Bull, Ea per quae, he commu∣nicated vnto them that had beene granted to the Friar minors. Cle∣ment the 7. in his bull. Dum vbe∣res fructus, doth put all three Or∣ders together, and communicates to them, all three, all the priui∣ledges, graces, and grants, that haue beene giuē to any Religious mēdicants or not mēdicants, Iulius the 3. confirmes the same. Pau∣lus the 4. more amply, as also Pius the 4. The same hath bene done but with limitation to the Coun∣cell of Trent by Greg. 13. Sixtus 5. and Celment 8.
Whence it appeares, that as these three Orders came forth from one rocke that is from the holy and seraphicall Father S. Francis, as hath bene declared be∣fore
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so the soueraigne Pastours of Gods Church haue imparted e∣quall graces, and fauours, which shewes the great esteeme that they had of this Rule, and profes∣sion.
I omit here to set downe the particular Priuiledges that here∣by haue beene grāted to this Or∣der as being very many, and ob∣uious in the authors that haue spoken of the Priuiledges of our Order as Hieronymus Roderi∣quez, Portell, and others: in the meane time there ariseth a que∣stion concerning their subiection to the Friar minors which re∣quires another chapter.