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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72547	Three godly treatises [brace] 1. To comfort the sicke, 2. Against the feare of death, 3. Of the resurrection [brace] / written in French by Mr. I.D. L'Espine, preacher of the word of God in Angers ; and translated into English by S. Veghelman.	L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597.	1611 (1611)	STC 15514.5; ESTC S5293	148,307	355

whom Iesus Christ had made them subiect insomuch that they were constrained to acknowledge the power which had beene giuen them ouer them in obeying to the cōmandements which they made them in his name ought well to assure vs that going forth to combat against them prouided that wee bee furnished with the same weapons that they had to wit faith and the word of God we cannot faile but carry away the victory ouer them and by faith to quench all their fiery darts Ephes 6. your aduersary the Diuell saith S. Peter like a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may deuour 1. Peter 5. whom resist stedfast in the faith And S. Iohn you are strong 1. Iohn 2. and the word of God dwelleth in you and you haue ouercome the wicked And doth not Iesus Christ say speaking of faith Mat. 16. that the gates of hell that is to say all the counsell the subtleties the sleights meanes and power of the Diuell shall haue no power against it and as little haue they against the word Which wee see plainly in the example of Iesus Christ Mat. 4. for when hee came to assaile him and hauing tryed by all meanes hee could to cause him to fall into a mistrust of God hee could neuer attaint him with all his fencing because he found him couered and so well armed on euery part with the word that he was faine to leaue the field and victory and to returne with shame If we also be well armed with it we need not feare that he can offend vs or doubt but that vsing such weapons we shall be victorious both against him and against all our enemies As saith St. Paul The weapons of one warfare are not carnall 2. Cor. 10. but mighty through God to the ouerthrowing of strong holds destroying the counsels and euery high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God Whosoeuer then would feare the diuell Luc. 11. Iohn 12. 1. Iohn 3. Reuel 12. being furnished with faith and the word of God should thereby shew that hee doth not yet well know what the force of the one and the other is nor what is the strength of the Captaine that conducts vs and vnder whose banner wee fight for hath not he brused the head of the Serpent hath not hee cast forth the strong out of his tower and pillaged all his weapons Is it not he that hath cast forth the Prince of this world and who hath destroyed all the workes of the diuell Is it not this great Captaine Michael who hath alreadie got the victorie against the Dragon and his Angels and still pursueth them vntill such time as they bee quite exterminate Now the better to keepe our selues from him we must note that the two principall crafts which hee trieth against vs to make vs fall are if he seeth vs to bee vertuous to eleuate vs into a vaine presumption of our selues of our workes and vertues But if to the contrary he sees that we are vicious and that during our life wee haue bene debauched and dissolute then hee propones and sets that before our eyes and doth euen amplifie and aggrauate as much as he can the enormitie of our sins to the end to precipitate vs into a despayre of the grace of God They are the two cordes saith St. Augustine wherewith this tormentor of mankinde is vsed to strangle men But wee haue before shewed how wee must cast off these two temptations And as for our Iustice that it is so filthie and so imperfect that wee must make no more account of it before God then of old ragges and durtie linnen And on the other part that our vices cannot be so great but the grace and mercy of God surmounts them nor so filthy but the iustice and bloud of Iesus Christ is sufficient to wash make them cleane nor finally so damnable but in confessing then with humility displeasure God as soone sheweth himselfe faithfull and iust to pardon 1. Iohn 1. and quite forget them It remaineth now to assure the sicke against the feare that he may haue of the iudgement of God For when we see our selues as it were adiourned by sicknes there personally to appeare shortly if we are not altogether stupid we will call to mind that which is said in the Scripture to wit That it is a horrible thing to fal into the hands of the liuing God Item that there is no fauour nor acception of persons Rom. 2. that is to say respect to the greatnesse nobility riches beauty knowledge kindred alliance nor other such like which are regarded amongst men and oft times eauseth to make them strong and decline in their iudgements from the straite way of iustice Which happens not in the iudgement of God who being impassible and vnchangeable there is nothing that can alter his will By the meanes whereof all his iudgementes are measured by the rule and pronounced according to the rigour of the law Item that all our thoughts affections words workes and generally all the course of our life from the beginning to the end is there vnfolded and sifted out to the last That the bookes and registers are there produced wherein are noted all the faults that euer wee did commit in heart or in thought with all their circumstances Item that iudgement without mercy shal be done vnto those that haue not shewed mercy And to be short that no vertue is there receiued nor any iustice allowed that is not perfect and accomplished in all points When I say we shall come to set all those things before vs touching this iudgement so fearefull the which we can neither shunne nor turne away from vs and that on the other side there presents before our eyes the vices the corruptions the imperfections that are in vs and the infinite number of sinnes that we haue committed against the first and second table that is to say against God and man it is not possible but we must stand astonished and altogether amazed seeing likewise that we haue parties and accusers that pursue vs with all extremitie to wit the diuell the law and our owne consciences which produce against vs a thousand and a thousand informations requiring that we be damned considering the quality of the crimes whereof wee are conuicted All which thinges we cannot preuent nor otherwise escape the rigour and iudgement of God but first in confessing our debts and afterwards hauing recourse vnto the death of our Sauior Iesus Christ to acquit vs of it For it is not so with the iudgement of God as with that of men amongst whom the criminall is condemned as soone as by his mouth he auoucheth the offence but to the contrary the confession of our faults is one of the meanes by the which we obtaine remission and are absolued and iustified before God as faith St. Iohn If we confesse our sins 1. Iohn 1. he is faithfull iust to pardon our sins