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A10876	The Christian mans guide Wherein are contayned two treatises. The one shewing vs the perfection of our ordinary workes. The other the purity of intention we ought to haue in all our actions. Both composed in Spanish by the R.F. Alfonsus Rodriguez of the Society of Iesus. Translated into English.; Ejercicio de perfección y virtudes cristianas. Part 1. Treatise 2-3. English	Rodríguez, Alfonso, 1526-1616.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1630 (1630)	STC 21142; ESTC S112045	75,603	296

before God there is no reconing made of the yeares of our life but of the goodnes of it neither of the lōg time which we haue bin in Religion but of that which we haue spent well in Religion of which the Holy Scripture affords vs a remarkable example It is said in the first book of Kings that Saul raigned two yeares ouer Israel 1. Reg. 13.2 Saul was a child of one yeare ould when he began to raigne and raigned two yeares ouer Israel where as it is certayne that he was King forty yeares for so Saint Paul sayes in the Actes of the Apostles Act. 13.21 Afterwards they demaunded a King God gaue vnto them Saul the sonne of Cis a man of the Tribe of Beniamin for fourty yeares How comes it then that in the Chronicles of the Kings he is sayd to haue raigned but two yeares the reason is because in the Annales and records of God Almighty there is no reckoning made but of only those yeares which we haue liued well and so he is said only to haue raigned two yeares because only in those he gouerned as a good righteous Prince we read in the Euangell Matt. 20.8 that those who came to worke in the vinyard at the eleuēth hower were for one howers worke preferred to those who had laboured al the day since in that one hower they had done as much of true labour as those who had wrought frō morning vnto night Let vs then cast vp our accounts according to this reckoning and see by our good workes how long we haue bin in Religion This is excellently declared by Eusebius Emissenus Eusech ho. 9. ad Mō who from a Senator was afterwards Bishop of Lions We vse to count saith he Our yeares and the space of time which we do liue be not deceaued who soeuer thou art with the number of those dayes which you haue passed ouer since in body you haue left the world make account that you haue only liued that day in the which you haue denyed your owne will in which you haue resisted your ill affections and which you haue passed ouer without any transgression or breach of your rule make account that you haue liued that day which hath b●n inlightned with the beāes of purity and holy meditation with such dayes as these make vp if you can your computation of yeares and by those measure the time of your being Religious and feare otherwise least that should be said vnto you which was reproached to the Bishop of the Church of Sardis in the Apocalips Angelo Ecclesiae Sardis scribe Apoc. 3.1 scio opera tua quia nomen habes quod viuas mortuus es esto vigilans non enim inuenio opera tua plena coram Deo meo I know thy workes saith God although they are vnknowne to men Apoc. 5.2 you haue the name to liue and you are dead you beare the name of a Christian the habit of a Religious man but your works fit neither of them for they are not ful before my God but empty empty of God and of your selfe too full for you doe no other then seeke your selfe in them your owne commodity your honour and esteeme Let vs therefore be watchfull and make it all our labour to do full workes and liue full dayes to the end that in a little time we may liue long and merit much in the sight of God Almighty A MORE EXPRESSE DECLARATION of the vprightnes and purity of intention with which we are to do our Actions CHAP. XI THEY giue commonly a good aduise to those who cōuerse with their neighbours touching the manner of their cariage in those functions which they exercise actions which they performe by the which it may be gathered how pure our intention ought to be how free and desingaged our selues and how sincerely we are to seeke God in all occasions And it is the Doctrine of the Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church S. Hierome S. Gregory S. Chrysostome as we shal see afterwards They say that when we vndertake any action to the end our neighbour from thence may reap any generall or particular profit we are not to reflect vpon the fruit and good successe of it but only to fulfill the wil of God in doing it in such manner that when we heare confessions or when we preach or teach we ought not much to regard whither those you cōuerse with all be conuerted amended or profited but ōly one our parts to do the will of God and please him in doing the b●st we can and for the successe of our actions as whither such an one be conuerted or profits by our sermons or becomes learned by hearing of our lessons that belongs not vnto vs 1. Cor. 3.6 but only vnto God Ego plantaui Apollo rigauit sed Deus incrementum dedit for vs saies the Apostle al that which we can do is but to plant and water like as that Iardiner doth but for to make the plants grow and the trees bring forth fruit belongs not to the Gardiner but to God the fruit of soules which is that they depart from their sinnes that they conuert themselues to God and that they go forward in virtue perfection doth only appertayne to God and the value and perfection of our Actions doth not depend vpon it This then is that purity of intentiō which we are to indeauour to haue in all our Actions that by this meanes we may attayne vnto a great purity in our intentions inioy a delitghful peace of mynd for those who do their Actiōs in this manner are neuer troubled when the successe of their affaires comes by any chaunce to be thwarted or fayles of executiō or produceth not the fruits they hoped for for they proposed not this end vnto themselues neyther haue they placed their cōtentmēt in it but only for to do the will of God performe al to please him vnto their vtmost Power for if when you preach heare confessions or do any other function for to helpe your neighbour you propose vnto your selfe beforehand to make great profit of it let this be your principall end in the performance of thē when any chaunce crosseth your designe in this you become troubled and disquieted And not only loose your peace of mynd but euen sometimes all patience if you proceed not further Our B. Father S. Ignatius declares this with an excellent example or similitude Lib. 5. c. 2 vitae B. P. Ignat. do you know said he how we are to carry our selues in those our functions wherein we imploy our selues vnto the helpe of our neighbour Iust so as the Angell Guardians do with those who are cōmitted vnto their charge by God Almighty who neuer cease with all possible care to counsayle defend and gouerne thē to illuminate excite helpe them in all good but if through misuse of that freewill they haue they obey not to