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A94392	The holy history. Written in French by Nicolas Talon. S.I. and translated into English by the Marquess of Winchester.; Histoire sainte. English	Talon, Nicolas, 1605-1691.; Winchester, John Paulet, Earl of, 1598-1675.	1653 (1653)	Wing T132; Thomason E212_1; ESTC R9096	367,834	440

approach of the skins of Wolves and that Lambs scarce come out of the Yeows belly have neverthelesse natural apprehensions of the Wolf My soul hast thou not seen Chickens hiding themselves under the wings of a Hen at the meer shadow of a Kite Partridges flying before Haukes and even Lyons roaring at the sight of a Cock I ask of thee From whence proceeds this fear these affrightments and Antipathies If thou tellest me they are Natural and have bin as it were infused by Nature even from the first to the last of each kind I likewise answer that this Original stain of culpable Nature is derived from father to son and from the first man to all his of-spring and so it comes to be imprinted in the substance of their Souls And if thou hast a desire to passe further and know the reason I am content stand then upon thy guard my Soul for I intend to fight thee with thy own Weapons Is it not true that when by thy desires thou kindlest fires and infamous flames in thine Eys thou art the cause of this Burning and that it is thy self who renders them Criminal Is it not as true that when thou armest thy Hands to commit a Murther and thy Tongue to detract and bite like a Dog or to vomit forth some Blasphemy it is thou that makest both thy Hand and Tongue culpable which are thy Members thy Officers thy Slaves and Executioners which act perform and execute what thou hast commanded them In like manner Adam having bin chosen by God for the Head and Father of all mankind Original sin his Heart was the Fountain which should powre out it's qualities into the substance of their Souls even as doth the Head and Heart into the armes into the tongue and into all the Members of the Body Moreover the Will of Adam was so streightly united to that of his Children as when he acted they seconded all his Actions From whence I conclude that as Actuall sins committed by the Ears Eyes and Hands take their Malignity from the Heart and Will which is their Cause and Origin so likewise those sins which are commonly called Originall The first Contagion and are found in the Soul of all Mankind have as it were crept in and taken their Descent from Adam as their Author and beginner which having been once infected hath afterward made its venom pass from Father to Son as by Hereditary right Poor Children of Adam pittifull Reliques of an unfortunate Father behold your Patrimony the Rights of your Families and what Adam and Eve have left you for Legacies Let no Man hereafter be astonisht to see you wandring about Countryes Pittifull Reliques of Sin and going from door to door in Cities with Tears in your Eys Sighs in your Mouths with dusty Hair and Sun-burnt Faces Let no Man be any more astonished to see you goe bare-Headed and bare-Footed a Wallet on your Shoulders and a Staff in your Hand for these are the portions of Sin Miserable Mortals the Earth from henceforth shall be to you but a Dark Prison Life but a Gally and the World but a great Chain of Misfortunes The Elements shall joyn in Arms against you The Fire shall inkindle frightfull Comets over your Heads The Air shall dart forth merciless Thunder-bolts upon your Houses The Sea shall raise its Billows against your Towers and the Earth shal be the Theater of VVars the Meadow in which the Plague shall Mow and the Field of Battail where all the powers of the VVorld and Hell it self shall deliver you up to Tragick Combats In fine your Bodies shal be Subject to all sorts of Maladies and your Minds to all kinds of Passions I hear already Envie grumbling and murmuring in the Heart of Cain I hear the cry of Abell Let us observe a while what passeth CHAP. VI. The Murther of Abel and the Despair of Cain ANtiently in Temples Houses and Closets Concil 6. in Trullo Can. 32. the Images of Jesus Christ were drawn in form of a Lamb which was the most lively Mark and Symbol that Painters could find out to frame some Copy of Meekness Abel was this Picture from his Birth and shewed from the beginning so sweet and facile so plyant and tractable a disposition as Adam and Eve were even inforced to bestow on him their most tender affections Cain on the contrary who was his Elder Brother Diversity of Natures appeared to be of so fierce and imperious a Nature that at length to sweeten it they resolved to oblige him to cultivate the Earth that his spirit might learn how to soften the hardest of Elements and to temper the harshness of his Courage Abel at the same time employed himself in keeping Sheep Fuitque Abel pastor ovium Cain agricola Gen. 4. v. 2. and guiding his Fathers Flocks amidst the Pastures His mind in repose and amidst the silence of the Fields began to take its flight And as God had chosen his Heart to powre into it his dearest favours he easily felt himself surprised with a Holy thought and a Sacred desire which was elevated to God to offer unto him the purest and choicest Sacrifices Cain also felt some touch of Piety Factum est autem post multos d●es ut offerret Cain de fructibu● terrae munera Domino Gen. 4 v. 3. Abel quoque obtulit de primogenitis gregis sui de adipib●s corum Gen. 4. v. 4. and but passingly beheld a glorious Light which sufficiently shewed him all he was to doe from whence I gather by the way That there is no Clymate so barbarous no Land so desart nor no Cave so tenebrous into which God casts not his Shafts and darts not his Lights to illuminate our Hearts and Souls But it often comes to pass that we shut the Doors and Windows suffering our Day and Life to slip away to expect Death and Blindness in the Night Abel received the Day from its Aurora and neither the Interests of the World nor the Goods of the Earth were ever able to separate his Soul from the Interests of Heaven and Piety His Intentions were still most pure and he had no other Object than the Glory of a God who requires the whole and not a single part who demands Hearts and not bare Words and who cannot permit upon his Altars but the fairest and most liberall Victims of Love Now this is what our innocent Shepheard did when he rendred his Sacrifice most perfect offering unto God what he had most beautifull most fat and rare among his Flocks having first set apart the First Fruits and afterwards Immolated them with the rarest Lights of his Understanding and the purest Flames of his Will Cain on the other side erects Altars Very different Sacrifices Rupert lib. 4. in Gen. c. 2. Cain cum De● of seriet sua scipsum sibi retinet and offers Fruits But in offering his Presents saith Rupertus he retains Himself And his Earthy

Jesus How sweet is thy yoke and how reasonable is thy Will Anathema to all those who refuse obedience to thy most holy commands whilst these faithful servants shall enjoy those Favors and Benections which thou from all eternity hast reserved for thy Elect. CHAP. XLVIII The last Canticle of Moses WHen once we give up our selves as a prey unto Vices the longest period of our lives commonly serves but to weave the largest Web of misery but also when years pass away in virtuous actions they are but miraculous courses the moments whereof are illustrious and their events most happy And it is for this cause I believe that the Wiseman compared the life of the good to the Sun which produceth nothing but Beauties and Lights whereas the life of the wicked is tenebrous bringing forth nothing but Lightnings and Obscurities Now if ever the life of any person hath been full of glory prosperity and happiness though daily intermixt with afflictions and disquiets it was that of Moses of whom we may justly say what heretofore Carthage did of certain Captains That all the days of his life and all his actions had something I know not of Divine and transcending the capacity of man Nevertheless all the prodigies and miracles he wrought would have been but streams which lose themselves in running and clarities which vanish after some sparklings if his death had not been the Image of his life and even the moment God chose to manifest to him the particular care he took of his people in giving him Josua for a Successor and assuring him that after his death they should enter into those happy Countries they had so long expected To this effect God descended in the Pillar of the Cloud as on his Throne Apparuitque Dominus ibi in Columna nubis c. Deut. 31. v. 15. and spake familiarly unto Moses concealing nothing from him of all that was to come Was not this an admirable Colloquy God alone with Moses and Josua as to ratifie the choise of the one and to discharge his heart into the bosome of the other Moses saith he Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen Ecce tu darmies cum patribus tuis populus iste consurgens fornicabitur post Deos alienos in terra ad quam ingreditur ut habitet in ea thi derelinquet me irritum faciet foedus quod pepegi cum eo Deut. 31. v. 16. Et irascetur furor meus contra eum in die illo derelinquam eum c. Deut. 31. v. 17. this people for whom I had so much tenderness and love and which thou hast conducted with so much labour and zeal shall shortly enter into the Land I have so long promised them But whilst thou shalt enjoy the repose of thy forefathers these miserable wretches will become fornicators and adhere unto Idols and shamefully break that faith they have so often sworn to me I shall be inforc'd to immolate them unto my severest rigours and as so many victims to sacrifice them to my just indignation to the end in the height of their miseries they may know at last that I have abandoned them and besides all their misfortunes and punishments are but the lamentable effects of their crimes and the inevitable darts of that fury they have provoked Behold the cause Nunc itaque scribite vobis Canticum istud docete filios Israel ut memoriter teueant ore decantent c. Deut. 31. v. 19. why God commanded Moses to compose a Canticle which conteins a description of the Miracles he had done in favour of the people of Israel which ever since the Hebrews have stiled an abridgement of the Law and which as in effect we shall immediatly see is a Summary of the rarest wonders God hath ever done for men and namely for these ingrates unto whom Moses made the first recital thereof enjoyning all of them to learn the same and never to forget it Stop your course saith he you beautifull Planets which move in the day over our heads and march under our feet whilst we are at rest and under the shade Sun who incessantly dost run upon this azure and luminous Chariot Audite caeli quae loquor audiat terra verba oru mei Deut. 32. v. 1. and thou Moon whose so various revolutions are made in a list of Diamonds and Saphirs stand still awhile and listen to this discourse Heaven and Earth I call you for witnesses of my words and it is unto you I address my voice to the end if men doe not hear me you may be more sensible and frame at least some Consort to cause this Canticle of honour and praise to resound Let my words produce in my mouth Concrescat ut pluvia doctrina mea slaat ut ros clequium meum quasi imber super herbam quas● stillae super gramina Deut 32. v. 2. Quia nomen Domini invocabo date magnificentiam Deo nostro Deut. 32. v. 3. and in your hearts what water doth in the bosome of the Earth rain upon herbs and dew upon fruits and flowers to the end Virtue may there spring again and that some profit of my discourse may appear in your souls Render then unto God the praises you owe him and exalt his name whilst I shall invoke it and cause the memory of his benefits to resound in all places Is it not true that his works are perfect Dei perfectasunt opera omnes via ejus judicia Deus fidelis absque ullae iniquitate justus rectus Deut. 32. v. 4. and that with weight and measure he hath made all that is visible to our eyes What can be added unto the most beautifull draughts of his Goodness Power Wisedome and Sanctity He is most just most Good most holy most Wise most Powerfull and all the beauties which have any spelndour are but the marks and tracts of such as reside in him as in their Fountain Have you never contemplated his designs and the effects of his Divine Providence which hath ordered the Planets in their Orbs the Elements in their spaces and all bodyes in their temperaments and under those Lawes which best suit with their essence Should not the whole Universe be converted into mouths and tongues to praise him into Spirits to admire him into Hearts to love him What meaneth this great preparation and all this pomp to which honours and congratulations are rendred and to which so many applauses are given unless to shew some rayes of light which have been drawn by his own hand and form'd by his sole word But O horrour and abomination Peceaverunt ei non filii ejus in sordibus generatio prava atque perversa Deut. 32. v. 5 all these discourses are unprofitable for his own Children deride his Paternall goodness and you your selves to whom I direct my speech are so blind and barbarous as to repay all his benefits with contempt and disloyaltie Is this then