The Waters of Shiloh to Quench the Fire of Purgatory, Title page – Dedication
THE WATERS OF SILOE.
TO QVENCH THE FIRE OF PVRGATORY and to drowne the traditions, Limboes, mans ſatisfactions and all Popiſh Indulgences, againſt the reaſons and allegations of a Portugall Frier of the order of St. Frances, ſupported by three treatiſes.
The one written by the ſame Franciſcan and entituled The fierie torrent, &c.
The other two by two Doctors of Sorbon.
The one intituled The burning furnaſſe. The other The fire of Helie.
BY PETER DV MOVLIN Miniſter of Gods word.
Pſal. 118.12.
They came about me like Bees, but they ſhall be quenched like a fire of thornes.
Faithfully tranſlated out of French by I. E.
Printed at Oxford for Iohn Barnes dwelling neere Holborne Conduit. 1612.
TO THE RIGHT WORTHY SIR DVDLY DIGS Knight, true content in this life, with eternity in the life to come.
SIR if the remembrance of former benefits can moue or bounty in more ample ſorte extended can prevaile, I hauehave reaſon both to agniſe your louelove ſhewed, and your bounty ſhowred towards me; leaſt worthy of ſuch immerited affections. Yet becauſe vnthankfulneſse ſtops the current of Gods bleſsings, and makes vsus degenerate from that we ſhould be, I reſolved with my ſelfe to gratifie your louelove (at leaſt in ſome ſort) by acknowledging that entire duty I owe you, and conſecrating vntounto your worthy ſelfe, ſome thing that might ſeeme worthy of ſuch a patronage. May it pleaſe you therefore to take ſurview of this worke which by long Travaile I hauehave brought to this perfection: it is the fraight of my poore bark purchaſed by this years ſaile; it ſeemes more then an Elephants birth, and therefore promiſeth ſatisfaction to the iudicious reader. Let it bee ſhadowed vnderunder the wings of your protection, who beſt deſerveth it, becauſe you nouriſhed both me and it, when there was ſcarſe any being to mee or it: to particulariſe your divers & ſundry affections to which and for which I reſt ever devoted, would craue a tract of it ſelfe, which makes me omit them, only I wiſh my effects, were anſwerable to my affects, to accompliſh that which I would. But ſo fruitleſſe bee wiſhes that their harveſt ſeemes ſcarſe worthy the gleaning. This poore teſtimony of my louelove may not only demonſtrate what I owe vntounto you: but what I owe the Church in the faith I hauehave profeſſed, which I will ever keepe inviolable, not making travaile as too many doe to the wrack & ruine of my Religion, but the confirmer of thoſe vnſetled intentions which were but halfe grounded in me; experience hath reduced my wavering thoughts to an harbour of quiet repoſe; theſe be the fruits I reaped, which as my firſt fruits are to you tendred, to manifeſt my louelove and dutie vntounto you, the ſinceritie of my conſcience to the Church, and my charitable deſire to profit all: much I ſhould wiſh you in content, but more I cannot then already you enioy, and therefore reſt
Ever obliged to your reſpected ſelfe I. B