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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17887	A draught of eternitie. Written in French by Iohn Peter Camus Bishope of Belley. Translated into English by Miles Car preist of the English Colledge of Doway; Crayon de l'eternité. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.	1632 (1632)	STC 4552; ESTC S107542	142,956	502

became mortall and the Eternall for your saluation did subiect himselfe to Tyme in vniting his Diuinitie to our humanitie How good occasion doth this descent of the Sonne of God into earth administer vnto you to rayse vp your selfe to Heauen and there to seeke a permanent Citie for euer in the holy Sion Vndertake this holy exercise by taske and for the space of some dayes to th' end that custome may beget in you a habite frequently to thinke of Eternitie For the third PRACTISE oblige your selfe by a firme pourpose yet without vow to say euery day at some houre most comodious for you three PATER NOSTER's And in reciting them to thinke of the Blessed accursed and essentiall Eternitie which is God Vniting your selfe to the last by Loue by desire to the Blessed detesting the accursed rather by the correction of your manners and amendment of life then by emptie words For as we come not to the celestiall Eternitie without doing good so we auoyd not the accursed but by flying euill When you recite your beades or the Crowne of our Blessed Lady a prayer very familiar to all those who make profession of pietie Let this crowne of flowres put you in mynd of the flowres which neuer fade wherof the Garland of Eternitie is wrought Let the round forme of this Crowne make you myndfull that the Sphearicall figure which hath nether begining nor end is the Symbole of the essentiall Eternitie which neuer had begining nor shall euer haue end This you may vse as a fourth PRACTISE None can liue like a good Christian who doth not twice a day at least wind vp the Cloke of his heart and thinke of his wayes to witt in the morning and euening These are two tymes which he that desires to liue according to God and to direct his footsteps in the pathes of Peace ought neuer to omitt Take then some litle part of that tyme to cast a looke vpon Eternitie that totall coÌ„tinuance which is neuer followed with euening nor morning And beseech God Almightie that you may so passe through temporall that you may not loose eternall things This shall be a fift PRACTISE for you Le ts passe to Other indeuours LXXV THere is nothing so frequent in the mouth of Christians Athanasia as the Prayer which our Lord and Maister made to direct vs to his heauenly Father according to his words and spirit to th end that hauing his will in our mouth we might be heard for the reuerence of it If you will beleeue me as often as this holy Prayer shall passe through your lipps you shall call to mynd the Essentiall Eternitie by apprehending that you speake to the Eternall God You shall thinke of the Blessed Eternitie in making this petition Thy Kingdome come and of the accursed Eternitie in pronunceing that other Deliuer vs from euil since it is the collection and fulnesse of all euils And let this aduise passe for THE SIXT ENDEVOVR OR PRACTISE You may doe the like when pietie shall moue you to salute the Blessed virgine in the words of the Angell and the Church And when as you shall beseech her to assiste you by her intercession in the houre of your departure out of this life call to mynd that this houre shall be the tyme and instant which shall decide your Eternitie A moment in which you will stand in great need of her assistance to auoyd the perills of Hell and to acchiue the Land of the â—ueing Let this be the SEAVENTH PRACTISE I say the same of the Apostles Creed When you recite it waigh the Articles therof in the waights of the Sanctuarie The Communion of Saintes of the Triumphant Church with those of the Militant And Life euerlasting and they will serue you as MEMORIALLS to engraue in your soule the Memorie of Eternitie Behold the EIGHT PRACTISE Whether you assiste in the solemne songe of the Diuine Office or you recite your boures apart Remember that for diuers reasons the holy Church hath ordayned that these two versicles should be added to the end of euery Psalme Glorie be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost Euen as it was in the begining and now and euer c. And that amongst the others this is not the least prowrefull to imprint the memorie of Eternitie in the mynds of the Faithfull Take this for a NINGHT PRACTISE The Iewes that they might continually remeÌ„ber Gods law carried it about with them yea wore it euen before their eyes written vpon Phylacteries or peeces of parchement VnderstaÌ„ding literally certaine passages of the auncient Couenaunt wherby it is commanded that one should alwayes behold them that is that one should haue them as rules of their actions I would to God that Christians were as carefull to haue still before their eyes the eternall Ghospell and to that effect they had painted Tables in their houses to renew the memorie therof I know some personages who to this pourpose caused the words of a Prophete to be written vpon the chimney of their chambers in letters of Gold WHO IS ABLE TO LIVE FOR EVER IN A CONSVMING FIRE AND AMIDST ETERNALL FLAMES This is facile and Fruitfull and shall be counted for the TENTH PRACTISE An other memoriall of Eternitie LXXVI BEsides these former PRACTISES which are very familiar I will yet bestow vpon you Athanasia a verie facile Memoriall to make you thinke of Eternitie vpon euery occasion It is the vse of Aspirations or Reflections which the Doctours of spirituall life doe so highly recommend to such as desire to liue piously and according to God If you will please to make vse of it you will shortly find by experience that all things will rayse you towards God who is the essentiall Eternitie wherin you will represent vnto your selfe the differeÌ„t Idea's of the Blessed or accursed Eternitie All the creatures being as so many Mirrours vnto you shall discouer the Image of the Eternall God And which way so euer you turne your selfe the inuisible and eternall God shall appeare in visible and temporall things All that can fall within the knowledge of your senses shall beare you aboue your selfe to him that passeth all vnderstanding Or at the least you may make reflection vpon the eternall delightes or colours which doe attend you in the blessed or accursed Eternitie according to your comportment in this life And to afford you some smale scantling of that so familiar an exercise to those that are conuersant in the knowledge of Saintes As oft as you shall behold this vniuersall obiect of heauen and earth which was S. ANTONIE's great booke wherin he read in capitall letters the Authour's greatnes whom all this admirable fabrike cost but one smale word what will hinder you to say with DAVID Ã´ Lord how wonderfull is thy name through all the world thy magnificence is extolled beyond the Heauens Heauens which are but the workes of thy hands Heauens which shall passe while thou shalt still remaync

What Memoriâ— hath not this remembrance in abomination What Vnderstanding doth not flie a consideration so odious What Will hath not an auersion from a subiect so distastefull What Fantasie doth not turne it selfe from so sad an obiect What Pen in lieu oâ— writing would not fly away from a matter so much to be fled What Inke blacke enough to equalise the blacknes of those coles of desolation This notwithstanding my Athanasia the most holy and most wise doe admonish and councell vs to thinke frequently of it and to descende into Hell liueing that we may not descend thither dying saith a Father of the Church subtilly and truly True it is this medicine is bitter and its bitternesse may cause a kind of drunkennesse and distraction of mynd marrie it is a wholsome distraction and its conuulsions giues health and holinesse to the soule it doth seaze vpon It is that volume of the Prophete's bitter in the mouth but restorature in the heart What abundance of people fall into this gulfe for want of forefeeing it Let vs cast our selues into it by foresight Athanasia but as Dyuers into the sea to bring vp the pearles of good and holy resolutions The horrour of this subiect XXII IT is neuerthelesse very hard that I may not say impossible to be hold this subiect in the face without astonishment For if the verie words eternall Reprobation and Damnation make the most constant and resolute courage quake what will the consideration of their effect doe A woman became once a Statua of salt vpon the aspect of an abominable towne burnt with heauenly fire the inhabitaÌ„ts wherof descended into Hell aliue I would to God that the sight of the accursed Eternitie would make vs as immoueable as Statua's to bad actions and would Season vs with the salt of true wisdome Moyses had an horrour and an apprehension of his rodd while departing out of his hand he saw it traÌ„sformed into a serpent and although God commaÌ„ded him boldly to take hold of this beast by the tayle yet durst he not doe it without trembling O Athanasia what heart is so resolute as to behold the rodd of God rodd of direction in his Kingdome changed into a rodd of iron driuing away the reprobate as earthen potts and in a rodd of furie and not quake with a iust feare sith that euen the heaueÌ„ly Intelligences the celestiall Virtues assured of their saluation shall be moued with feare when the great Iudge shall come at the consommation of the world to hold his last Assises That which the Poetes fabulously relate of their Medusa and of the Sunn's retrogradation least it might giue light to the horrid and vnnaturall banquet of Thiestes are but weake strokes of the sacred horrour which the consideration of the cursed Eternitie doth imprint vpon a soule The reprobate to preuent the definitiue and irreuocable sentence of their eternall condemnation shall one day inuoke the mountaignes to fall vpon them and to burie them in an eternall obliuion And if the heate of the Babilonian fornace did affright all the beholders with the firie flashes which it vomited out what must the aspect of that eternall fornace made hote with the wroth of God and maintained in a continuall heate with a blast of brimstone needes worke in a heart that hath its sight sharpened by Faith It is an vniuersalitie of euils XXIII I Will discouer vnto thee all sortes of good saith God to his fauorite Moyses in manifesting my selfe vnto thee Yes for in the vision of God all felicitie is comprised as also all sortes of euil in the priuation of this obiect of the soueraigne Beatitude For if the supreme Felicitie according to all the Diuines be a perfect collection of all good doth not the rule of Contraries oblige vs to beleeue that the toppe of the soueraigne infelicitie is a collection of all euil Goe to then my Athanasia let vs represent vnto our myndes all the calamities and torments imaginable and vnimaginable and let vs loade the shouldiers of one onely with this heauie masse and let vs affirme that such is the least part of the sufferances of the damned In this world calamities are alwayes in a manner particular so that it is an extraordinarie thing to see the same partie assaulted with two or three at the same tyme and when the defease is violent it dures not for that ether the desease ceaseth or the patient opprest with it ceaseth to bee In Hell it is not so for all the torments which we can coÌ„prehend yea euen those which are incomprehensible meet in the same instaÌ„â— vpon the damned's heade vpon whom scourges are reunited and ruineâ— multiplied euen as the Eagles to make vse of the Scriptures comparison and haulkes doe in troopes seaze vpon carrion O God said the good Iob that man of greeues and oppressed with infirmities and miseries thou hast rowled vpon me all the billowes of thy wroth And Dauid in a like aire I am come to thâ— brode sea and the tempest hath swallowed me vp how much better doe these words suite with the reprobate who perceaue the heauie hand of the Diuine iustice vpon them without all hope of solace To them it belongs to reade in the booke of Lamentations maledictions and misfortunes which the Prophete did sometymes write by Gods command to reclaime Israel from its vice and destruction to them I say who are fallen to the bottome of all miseries The great Angell of the Schowle S. THOMAS giuing a reason why all calamities conceauable doe fall vpon the damned saith after S. BASILE that in the end of the word when fire shall generally purge it there shall be a separation made of all pure and impure things in the elements and as that which is pure shall be reserued for the pleasure and content of the Elect so that which is impure shall be cast into the Sinke or center of the earth where the comon opinion placeth Hell to be a continuall torment to the damned being most iust that as by their sinne they abused all creatures so they all should conspire to torment them as it is written in the booke of wisdome That all the world shall fight for the seruice and glorie of the iustice of God against the mad men Propose vnto your selfe then Ã´ Athanasia a person reduced to that point of miserie that at one instant he should be afflicted with all sortes of paines not onely in the principall members but euen in the least partes of his bodie so far forth that he should resent particular stingings through euery pore Speake the truth to behold the most vile and wretched creature on the earth in this dismale estate would it not moue horrour in your heart And yet Faith doth assure vs that the torments of the damned are far other and that all this collection of euils is but a poore part of their cup. And Verily most reasonable it is that such as imployed all the powres of their

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