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BRIEF RELATION
OF
THE LIFE AND DEATH
OF
THE BLESSED FATHER,
FR. PETER DE ALCANTARA,
FRANCISCAN FRIAR,
WRITTEN BY GILES WILLOUGHBY, OF THE SAME ORDER AND OBSERVANCE.
THE PROLOGUE.
Misericordias Domini in aaternum cantabo: "I will sing the mercies of our Lord for ever," [1] saith that kingly Prophet David. And not without cause ; for, so great and unspeakable are the mercy-works of the Almighty, which out of the bowels of his infinite goodness, he hath shewed to mankind, from the first instant of his creation, that the tongues of men and angels are never able to express them.
How wonderful was this benefit ; that creating man after his own [2] image and likeness,[3]
