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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72064	The Christian knight compiled by Sir VVilliam VViseman Knight, for the pvblike weale and happinesse of England, Scotland, and Ireland.	Wiseman, William, Sir, d. 1643.	1619 (1619)	STC 10926; ESTC S122637	208,326	271

one in a manner that left heauen to dwell in the world hath left the world to dwell in vs. A noble possession keeper a noble protector of all wee haue if wee can hold him By this being of God in vs wee shall not looke to prophecy or do miracles or great wonders in the world which are more for others good then our owne But all that is sure to better our soules wee shall be sure to haue God will neuer see vs want happinesse Wee are possest of God with receiuing of God and wee are often possest with receiuing him often And if it be miserable to be possest of euill and wicked spirits how happy is it then to be possest of God who brings all good things with him And lastly if this temple of his this body of ours do chance to perish or bee wronged or ruined for his greater glory our trial in tribus diebus Suscitabit illud Ioh. 2. he wil build it again quickly much fairer then it was There bee of you heere that haue tasted the good of this bread of Trauellers and often receiuing it it hath made you hardy and resolute in your businesse and to such as haue dyed in the field it hath beene their Viaticum as the fathers call it to bring them to God Such viaticum or voyage prouision God send vs neere our death if we dye on a suddaine Yee haue hitherto heard what necessity there is of this heauenly bread and some part of the benefit of it and what cause our Prophet had to cry out vpon vs as hee doth for misbestowing what wee haue so vily and not vpon these breads for heaping vnworthy things in this world and neglecting the worthiest that will sticke by vs for euer If the Prophet were now liuing and saw our grossenesse in this behalfe hee would thunder more plainely against vs then he doth Behold he is yet liuing in his writings and spirit Let not the letter lye dead in the booke take it and beate it in a mortar Bruise it well and powne it into spice that the fragrancy of it may fill euery corner of your house make a sheafe of wheate of it and thrash it out for a grist to serue at your board and feede your soule It followes in the same place your labours and not in Saturitie Esay 55. or fulnesse Now since we haue done with the bread of trauellers we ought of right to speake next of the bread of Angels which was the other part of my deuisiō before we leaue bread go to anew matter Howbeit because we haue reserued this of Angels to be spoken of last wee will breake order a little and goe forward first with our Prophets owne words as they lye and the other bread we shall finde oportunitie for God willing at an other time Why spend yee your siluer saith hee and not in bread your labour and not in saturity Hee said before your Siluer now your labour He said before and not in bread now and not in Saturity Before he found fault with misspending our goods now for wasting our bodies for so is to bee vnderstood this word labour which is as much to say as toyle of body and minde Gods curse it was vpon Adam that the earth and creatures should rebell against him and nothing he should haue without labour and toyle Gen. 3. in labore comedes If thou wilt eate thou must labour for it and in the sweat of thy brow shall bee thy foode He hath shewne before how prodigally wee spend our substance vpon euery thing but that wee should Our will vpon selfe-liking our wit vpon fancies our vnderstanding vpon things fading and transitory our learning if we haue any vpon sensuality our stile or tongue in setting foorth a lye assoone as a true tale our health in pastime and play and all that we haue in idle vanities for the most part with little respect of God or of his holy seruice for which onely we were created insinuating vnto vs that if it were not in bread or in order to God it must needs be in one of these Now comes he to our bodies also and the actions thereof how we bestowe our strength how our labour how our hands and feete how our sences and finding them all no better bestowed then the other were that is to say in hope of ease and yet no true ease in hope of pleasure and yet no true pleasure in hope of filling and yet empty in hope of Saturity and yet no true Saturity hee asketh this question as before of our money and other outward things so now of our labours and cares of life saying why bestow yee all these things as ye doe and not in Saturity Saturity yee must thinke is as much to say as fulnesse of contentment It is as much to say as I haue enough Lord Satis est I aske no more in this life It is written of holy Ephraim and others Luk. 22. Plat. lib. 3. that were much addicted to prayer and meditation that they found such extraordinary comfort therein sometimes that they brake forth into these words saying Satis domine enough Lord as much to say as hold thy hand Lord I haue enough Let mee not haue heauen before I come there I haue enough And this is not onely their contentment that are perfect but it is euery good bodies that loues vertue and delights in prayer and although he haue not extraordinary comforts nor can expect those rare illuminations which some haue had yet if hee vse but an ordinary deuotion in his ordinary course of prayers and resigne himselfe wholly to God he shall finde no doubt so much quickening hope that hee shall rise from his knees very contentedly with Satis domine and such compleate satisfaction as in his humility and acknowledgement of his vnworthinesse hee would thinke is much more then he could expect I confesse and let this be our ground that there is no absolute content in this life all our content euen a Saints content vpon earth is but in enigmate or like the sunne in a cloude vpon a gloomy day and therefore holy Dauid saith Satiabor cum apparuerit gloria tua he saith not Satior in the present Psal 16. but Satiabor in the future tense Signifying hereby that there is no saciety in this life no perfect filling or saturity here it must be in heauen not here it is in vision of God not in fruition of creatures wee are here but in expectation there in possession here in hope and promise there in deede and performance here in fight there in victory here like hunters and souldiers there wee deuide the spoiles The souldier in his fore-age is glad of any thing he can get and saith Satis The faulconer likewise or hunter is well pleased for the time at a poore mans house and saith Satis for it as if he were at home in richer fare And this is the best of

of it I haue not beene troublesome some to you to inueigh against vanities or loue of the world Ye haue store of bookes concerning that matter I haue not declaimed of worldly contentments how far they bee from true contentments yea rather thornes Mat. 13. Eccl. 1. as our Sauiour calles them or affliction of spirit as Salomon tearmes them Euery sermon yee heare is full of this Argument whereunto I referre you And therefore if yee should like to loue them or set your heart on them beeing so base as they bee in vaine yee hasten forward that goe so cleane backward In vaine yee flye vpward with so heauy a clogge at your heele and in vain do I perswade you to make haste that will not doe a way first what will hinder you of your iourney Haue ye riches loue thē loosely part with them willingly if neede bee Haue yee pleasures vse them moderately in godly feare Haue ye honour and preheminence keepe watch with your selues ouer pride and disdaine and let all that know you make account of you that yee bee as humble as honourable And so if yee can carry your contentments in this sort as God bee the practicall ground in whom alone is our true Satis or contentment then are yee vndoubtedly in your true and perfect way to heauen and nothing remaineth now but that yee make haste and take comfort in it Howbeit for that in our best actions and endeauours that we haue in our way to God our spirits bee often times dull and haue neede of quickening Sap. 9. for as it is written our body corruptible weigheth downe our soule and hindreth haste exceedingly It shall be our next and last point that I will entreate of to say somewhat of the ioyes in heauen that may waken vs when wee slumber remember vs when wee forget and spurre vs forward to amend our pace when wee begin to stand still But this I will reserue vntill our next meeting I will trouble you no further now FINIS THE SECOND Oration vpon Panis Angelorum I Began the other day with Bread and now I will end with Bread I began with Bread of Trauellers I will end with Bread of Angels The best dish I haue reserued for last the bread the Angels feede on for euer The other bread which wee haue spoken of was a preparatiue for this bread and this thereward of that to set at board with angels to eate angels meate Psal 77. Not the meate that was brought the Israelites by the ministery of angels and perished but that which angels themselues doe feede on in sight of their maker And how farre better is this then to sit with Princes or to be fellowes with Potentates This is it must bee the reward of our Labours this the Saturity which nothing can be added vnto The very reward that holy Moses looked after and now hath to his fill As it is written Moses beheld his reward Heb. 11. His eye was still vpon this reward and so ouercame with ease the hardnes he sustained vpon mountaines and rocks for forty yeares together and what he endured in all his timethere the tongue of man cannot expresse Hee was one that walked perfectly in the wayes of God alwayes and therefore was wortthy to talke with God face to face Mitissimus super terram not a milder or an humbler that euer liued vpon earth And yet the better to hold out through all afflictions to the end aspiciebat remunerationem hee was glad to looke at his reward and to remember often what he should haue for his paines in the end S. Paul likewise had his eye that way Rom. 8. that he said that all wee can suffer in this world cannot deserue the glory that attends vs in the world to come But how did Saint Paul or how did Moses know this were they euer to see it certaine it is they had some illustrations more then other because their loue of God was greater and their paines in Gods seruice much more then others 2. Cor. 12. Exod. 33. The one was rauished into the third heauens the other saw the back-parts of God as the Scriptures make mention By which I inferre if such noble sparkes as these had neede of these comforts and to reflect sometimes vpon their reward How much more wee that are of the latter brood borne as it were in the wayne of the world and comming short a great deale of their spirit and feruour had we neede I say to thinke one it often and to beare continually the ioyes of heauen in our minde yea to keepe if it might be a true picture of them alwaies before our eyes for feare of forgetting For thus it is with vs. If we forget them we are like to hazzard them if we remember them they are like to be our owne There be foure last things that we are taught to beare in minde Deut. 32. and wee shall neuer sinne whereof heauen is the principall Death iudgement and hell are very needefull also to be thought of because it is good for vs to feare aswell as loue These indeede doe fill vs with feare and terror but heauen filles vs with loue and ardent desire Hell driues to God heauen drawes to God Hell whips vs with horror heauen hales vs with beauty Loue feare are both of them profitable I say but loueis more acceptable to God because it is his owne prime and originall quality who dreadeth nothing and all things dread him It seemeth my deare louers and friends yee looke that I should somewhat say of the ioyes of heanen what they bee and so it were fit if I were able to performe it But mee think when I enter into so great a matter I am stricken on a suddaine with barrennesse and know not how to expresse my selfe or where to begin For I must speake of that which I doe but wincke at a farre off neither can I well tell what credit I shall haue with you to philosophate vnto you of most excellent colours which I neuer sawe but darkeling For if S. Paul could not tell vs that little which he saw nor yet Moses nor if any other Saint haue beene there and come againe to life as S. Gregory writes of one Felix in Dial. much lesse shall I be able that neuer came neere that place to delineate vnto yee any thing with my rude pensill 2. Cor. 12. that shall bee worth your expectation Saint Paul cals them Arcana hidden misteries that are kept vnder seale from vs and such as we may not aspire to knowe vntill we come there and much lesse to tell no not with the tongue of an angell The best that I can bring you will bee but a reflexion of a reflexion or a peece of the Sunnes glory by night in the body of the Moone And yet since ye are come to heare and I haue vndertaken to say somewhat I will bee bold to say what I