The life of the Reuerend Fa. Angel of Ioyeuse Capucin preacher Sometimes duke, peere, and marshall of France, and gouernour for the Kinge in Languedoc. Together with the liues of the Reuerend Fathers, Father Bennet Englishman, and Father Archangell Scotchman, of the same ordere. Written first in the Frenche tongue, and now translated into English by R.R. Catholique priest.

Of a certayne spirituall rauishment, wherein it was reuealed to him, what hee should doe: & of the totall obligation of all these things. THE ELEVENTH CHAPTER.

ALthough these precedent considerations, moued mee greately to forsake the world yet was I tossed oftentimes with contrarieties, before I could attaine the end of a small resolu∣tion. But thou o Lord which art neare to those which haue a troubled harte, for thou hast not despised a contrite and humbled harte, so that after I had beene occupied in the con∣sideration of my life to come, and not without

greate anxiety and perplexity of spirit, after I had my recourse to thy goodnes by continuall praiers, and finally after I had resolued to cause three masses to bee said in honor of thee most holy Trinitie, with intention to praie thee to giue mee thy grace to abandon the world, thou didst then call mee with soe cleare, manifest, & loude voice, that I could not resiste soe power∣full and effectuall will, and calling; for about midnight beeing all alone in my chamber, and lifting vp my spirit towards thee in this affaire, I felt my selfe drawen by thee and my spirit so filled with a sodain supernaturall light, and was so surprised with so greate a fire of Charitye, that beeing out of my selfe, and transported in∣to thee, I rested like one that had loste all fee∣ling of my selfe and the worlde, in which ra∣uishment and alienation of sense; I knew after an vnspeakable māner thy holy will touching my vocation, so that if an Angell had appeared visibly to mee to haue declared it, I could not haue better knowne it, nor more certainly be∣leeued it, so that with greate astonishment I could not containe my selfe but cryed out say∣ing: o Lord whoe is like vnto thee, who is like vnto thee: o Lord; thou didest so aboundantly distill the deawe from heauen euen into the bottome of my soule that by the meanes of it, I spending all the night in thinking of it, I pas∣sed it in greate sweetenes & spirituall delightē, and so beeing ouercome by the excesse of thy

goodnes, I protested before thee and all the heauenly court to abandon the worlde wholly, and do distribute all that I had to the poore, which are thy members, of which promise I neuer after repented mee; but which is more supported and fauoured by thy speciall grace, without any contrary tentation, the tyme bee∣ing prolonged, I desired nothing more then to haue opportunitie to effectuate it perfectly; which happening afterward at the feast of the blessed Trinitie I beleeued piouslie, thou didest vouchsafe mee this grace by reason of my deuo∣tion in honour and praise of it, to wit, because in the day of my reconciliation, it was inioy∣ned me for penance, that I should faste three daies, and that I shoulde giue thee almes to three poore persons; and likewise the day before, I determined to haue three masses celebrated, offering all to the honour of that most holy Trinitie.