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XXVI
INTRODUCTION.
Domino vitam tuam,” &c. Septimo, cum muliere Canan-
aea, “ Miserere mei Domine fili David,” semper clamavit.
Octavo, aliquoties a domino Erasmo 1 communicata est cum
summa gratiarum actione coeleste pignus accepit. Nono,
rogavit maritum ut filiam septem annorum in timore Dei
apud piam et honestam mulierem educari curaret; curam
vero infantium Deo commendavit. Decimo, mulierem
lecto astantem et recitantem Catechismum cum unica voce
deerraverat earn mox informavit. Undecimo, astantibus et
flentibus verba Christi dixit, “Nolite nunc super me flere
sed super vos et peccata vestra. Ratio est: Transeo
enim ex hac valle lachrymarum ad asternam vitam, quam
promeruit mihi filius Dei Jesus Christus ; sedete,” inquit,
“ in pace.” Duodecimo, cum vero sentiret horam extremam
mortis adesse dixit, “Nunc morion” Respondit mulier
astans, “Non morieris, sed transibis a morte ad vitam.”
“Hoc,” inquit, “scio, et quid dico scio tandem, Amen.”
Ad Symboli recitationem respondit marito; quoties earn
adhortati sunt primum ad patientiam, secundo ad fidem,
respondit, “ per Dei gratiam id fiat,” et sic constans perstitit
et cursum vitae fceliciter consummavit, ut aliis in exemplum
jure proponi possit juxta illud Salamonis : “ Mulier timens
Deum ipsa laudabitur.”
Such are all the facts I have been able to glean about
John Gau. We may say of him and of several of his fellow-
exiles, as was once said of the missionaries of an earlier day :
“ They were not men of high commanding powers to make
their names rise on all tongues, but they did their work faith¬
fully, and effected results of permanent value ‘in restoring
and building up the Church.’ Still more, they displayed anew
1 Erasmus was one of Gau’s fellow-chaplains in Our Lady’s Church.
INTRODUCTION.
Domino vitam tuam,” &c. Septimo, cum muliere Canan-
aea, “ Miserere mei Domine fili David,” semper clamavit.
Octavo, aliquoties a domino Erasmo 1 communicata est cum
summa gratiarum actione coeleste pignus accepit. Nono,
rogavit maritum ut filiam septem annorum in timore Dei
apud piam et honestam mulierem educari curaret; curam
vero infantium Deo commendavit. Decimo, mulierem
lecto astantem et recitantem Catechismum cum unica voce
deerraverat earn mox informavit. Undecimo, astantibus et
flentibus verba Christi dixit, “Nolite nunc super me flere
sed super vos et peccata vestra. Ratio est: Transeo
enim ex hac valle lachrymarum ad asternam vitam, quam
promeruit mihi filius Dei Jesus Christus ; sedete,” inquit,
“ in pace.” Duodecimo, cum vero sentiret horam extremam
mortis adesse dixit, “Nunc morion” Respondit mulier
astans, “Non morieris, sed transibis a morte ad vitam.”
“Hoc,” inquit, “scio, et quid dico scio tandem, Amen.”
Ad Symboli recitationem respondit marito; quoties earn
adhortati sunt primum ad patientiam, secundo ad fidem,
respondit, “ per Dei gratiam id fiat,” et sic constans perstitit
et cursum vitae fceliciter consummavit, ut aliis in exemplum
jure proponi possit juxta illud Salamonis : “ Mulier timens
Deum ipsa laudabitur.”
Such are all the facts I have been able to glean about
John Gau. We may say of him and of several of his fellow-
exiles, as was once said of the missionaries of an earlier day :
“ They were not men of high commanding powers to make
their names rise on all tongues, but they did their work faith¬
fully, and effected results of permanent value ‘in restoring
and building up the Church.’ Still more, they displayed anew
1 Erasmus was one of Gau’s fellow-chaplains in Our Lady’s Church.
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| Description | By John Gau [or rather, translated from the Danish "Den rette Vej til Himmeriges Rige" by Christiern Pedersen and Pedersen's treatise is itself a translation and extension of 'Die zwölff artikel unsers christliche glaubens', published by Urbanus Rhegius in 1534.]. Edited, with introduction and notes, by A.F. Mitchell. The glossarial index by T.G. Law. Edinburgh: printed for the Society by William Blackwood and Sons, 1888. Scots with English introduction and some Latin and German. A reprint of the only known copy of the edition printed at Malmö in 1533, with facsimile of original title page. |
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