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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22983	A pretious booke of heauenlie meditations, called a priuate talke of the soule with God which who so zealouslie wil vse and pervse, shal feele in his mind an vnspeakable sweetenes of the euerlasting happines: written (as some thinke) by that reuerend, and religious Father S. Augustine; and not translated onlie, but purified also, and with most ample, and necessarie sentences of holie Scripture adorned, by Thomas Rogers.; De meditatione. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.	1581 (1581)	STC 944; ESTC S100313	79,627	230

not thou didest redeeme me when I was forlorne I had bin destroied I had died but thou camest downe vnto the dead thou tookedst mortalitie vpon thee Thou a King camest downe vnto thy seruant and to redeeme thy seruant thou didest giue thy selfe and that I might liue thou didest die and ouercome death When thou didest humble thy selfe thou didest exalt me I was lost I folowed after wickednes I was a bondslaue to Sathan but thou wart sold for me to redeeme mee and so thou louedst me that thou gauest thy bloud a raunsome for me O Lord thou hast loued me more than thy selfe because for my sake thou wouldest needes die On such wise and with so deere a price thou hast brought me home from banishment redeemed me from bondage withdrawne me from punishmēt caled me by thy name and sealed me with thy bloud that I should euermore haue thee in remembrance and neuer forget him who for my sake shunned not the crosse Thou hast annointed mee with that oile wherewith thou wast ointed that of thee Christ I might be called a Christian Lo thou hast written mee vpon thine hands so to haue me in remembrance if so be cōtinualie I haue thee in mind And thus alwaie thy fauor and thy mercie haue preuēted me For out of much and great perils thou hast deliuered me oftentimes ô my sauiour When I haue wandred thou hast reclamed me when I haue bin ignorant thou hast instructed me thou hast corrected me when I haue sinned when I despaired thou hast comforted me when I fel thou hast raised me thou hast vphelde me when I haue stood when I haue traueled thou hast guided me when I haue come home thou hast receiued mee thou hast watched mee when I haue slept and when I haue cried thou hast heard me Chap. 14. That the eies of the Lord are continualie vpon the doings and cogitations of men FOr these and manie mo good turnes hast thou done me ô Lord my God the verie life of my soule And doubtles it should be a pleasure to mee not onlie to talke think alwaies of them but also euermore to thanke thee to praise thee to loue thee for al thy good things and that with al mine heart and with al my soule and with al my mind with al my strēgth yea from the verie pith and intrals of mine hart and of al my iointes ô Lord my God the blessed sweetenes of al which delight in thee But thine eies haue seene mine imperfection thine eies I saie are much brighter than y e Sunne beholding al y e waies of men and the ground of the deepe and in euerie place at al times looke both vpon the euil and the good For sithence thou rulest al things fillest al things art alwaies wholie euerie where yea sithence thou hast a care of al things that thou hast created for thou hatest nothing which thou hast made thou dost so behold my waies my steps and so watch and ward night and daie for my safetie looking so narowly vnto al my paths like a continual watchman as though thou hadest forgot thine other creatures of heauen and earth and hadest cast al thy care vpon me alone hauing no care at al of the rest For the light of thine vnchangeable sight neither encreaseth doe thou see but one nor diminisheth if thou behold infinite diuers things For euen as at one time thou considerest the whole perfectlie togither so doth thy whole countenance behold at one time al particulars although diuers and that perfectlie togither wholie Yet seest thou al things as one thing one thing as al things for thy selfe art whole canst neither be diuided changed nor diminished And therefore thou being whole in al time and without time dost behold me wholie togither and alwaies euen as though thou haddest naught else to consider of Yea so thou standest vpon my garde as though thou wouldest forget al other things and bend wholie to me alone For alwaies thou shewest thy selfe present and offerest thy selfe readie at al times vnto me if thou find me readie to receiue thee O my Lord go I where I wil thou wilt neuer forsake me vnles I forsake thee first Wheresoeuer I become thou leauest me not For thou art euerie where So that to what place soeuer I go I may find thee by whom I may be that I perish not without thee because without thee I cānot be And therefore I confesse indeede that whatsoeuer I do wheresoeuer I doe it I do it in thy presence and that whatsoeuer it be which I doe thou seest it better than I which do it For when I do aught at anie time thou art present at al times as a continual beholder of al my thoughts intentions delectations and doings O Lord my sighing is not hid from thee and my verie thought is open to thy sight Thou knowest Lord whence the spirit commeth where it is and whether it goeth For thou art the trier of al spirits Also thou best knowest inwardlie whether the roote of that tree which hath faire leaues be sweete or sower yea thou narowly dost search the verie pith of the rootes and by the moste euident truth of thy light thou gatherest numbrest considerest and sealest not the intent onlie but the verie pith also of the roote thereof that so thou may estrender vnto euerie man not onlie according to his woorkes but also according to the inner and secret pith of the roote from which proceedeth the intent of the worker What I purpose when I worke what I thinke and wherein I delight thou beholdest thine eares do heare it thine eies see it and consider it thou sealest markest notest and wrightest the same into thy booke be it good or euil that afterward when the bookes shalbe opened and the dead iudged according to the things written in those bookes thou maist render for wel doing rewards and punishment for wickednes Happilie this is it which thou didest saie by these words I will see what their end shal be and which is spoken of thee on this wise He trieth the perfection of al things For thou doubtles in al that we doe regardest the end of the intent more than that which is done And when I diligentlie consider these things ô Lord my God terrible and mightie I am vtterly agast both through feare and shame forsomuch as wee haue great neede to liue wel and vprightlie because we do al things in the presence of that Iudge who seeth al things Chap. 15. That man of himselfe can do nothing without the assistance of God O Lord most mightie and puissant God of the spirits of al flesh whose eies are vpon y