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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17888	A spirituall combat a tryall of a faithfull soule or consolation in temptation. Written in French by I.P. Camus Bishope of Belley, and translated into English by M.C. P. of the Eng. Coll. of Doway.; Lutte spirituelle, ou encouragement à une âme tentée de l'esprit de blasphème et d'infidélité. English.	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.	1632 (1632)	STC 4553; ESTC S107507	60,746	308

Champion said well vnto our Sauiour where wast thou ô my master while I sustayned so rough assaults Dost thou so abandone those that serue thee And our Sauiour said vnto him I stood at thy right hand a spectatour of thy vallour and loyaltie encouraging the one crowning the other Sainte PAVLE will haue vs to weepe ouer the deade in a mediocritie * And I am confident that moderate and modest cōplaintes are pardonable in a violent affliction Marrie we must be carefull to put a dore of circumspection to our lipps * least we might commit excesse offensiue to the Diuine Prouidence as though it did onely walke at pleasure vpon the celestiall valtes without consideration of that cōcernes vs For if without it the least bird doth not flie in the ayre nor doth one heire fall from our heade * how much more will it shine in things appertayning to our eternall saluation IOB is highly cōmended in the holy scripture for that in all the rude essayes of his Patience one onely word did not escape out of his mouth which could be imputed to him for sinne O how faithfull is that soule who can say with the Psalmist I haue not opened my mouth because it is thou ô Lord who workest in me what thy holy pleasure is Then shall my wound be healed when it shall be thy blessed pleasure to say the word Meane while I will kisse thy alwayes mercifull hand yea euē when it afflictes vs because thou dost neuer visite but for the conseruation of our soule The paine of temptation is a participation of our Sauiours passion CHAP. XXI THus we are to suffer my deare THEOPISTE not onely with patience but with loue too loue an vnseparable companion of ioy and both of them daughters of a good will the labours and paines of contradictions and Crosses as well interiour as exteriour calling to mynd that he who suffered for the sinners of contradiction in himselfe least we might chance to faile in courage Was to passe through many contradictions euen to the dying of his garments in the purple of his owne precious blood to enter into his owne glorie * This is properly the Crosse which our Sauiour commands vs to take vp and follow him * and it is in those sufferances that the true imitation of the passion of our Redeemour consisteth and that touching of his Crosse * which the Apostle commends vnto vs. And by how much these paynes are greater by so much more liuely doe they represent and so much more conformitie they haue with those of IESVS CHRIST For which cause the great Apostle exhorts vs to haue the same feeling in our anguishes which the Sōne of God had * And what feeling had he but to bathe himselfe in the Baptisme of his bloode * waighing nothing so much in all his sufferances as well those of body as of soule as the holy will of his father to whom he was made obedient vnto death and the death of the Crosse * Such ought our disposition to be in all our afflictions of what nature soeuer they be esteeming them as a fountaine of IACOB wherin we are to wash our vncleanesse * or rather as an excellent and noble estate since that by meanes of them prouided that we be in grace we suffer in qualitie of our crucified Sauiours members not in fansie but in truth not following our owne choyce but as it shall please God almightie whom we are constantly resolued inuiolably to follow euen to death through the midst of these contradictions though they were euē to continew to the last gaspe of our life It was in this generous disposition that the great Apostle with an inuincible and heroycall courage gaue assurance that all the creatures should not be able to separate him from the Charitie of God And though at certaine tymes moued by the contradictions which he felt in his mortall body betwixt the lawes of his members and those of his spirit * this motion made him desire to see his soule deliuered out of the prison of his body * yet was it not out of any desire he had to descend from this Crosse * as he himselfe assures vs in many passages where he shewes his indifferencie to liue or to dye but it was a sacred sallie of his loue which as fire did continually make towards its Center and his Center was the bosome of God there was all his desire * and his delightfull rest for euer and euer How honorable this Tryall is CHAP. XXII BVt what an honour is it to vs THEOPISTE that God by tēptations doth daigne to put vs to tryall therby to make vs worthy of himselfe * Is it not a speciall grace done to a souldier when his Capitaine out of the good opinion which he hath of his iudgement and vallour sends him out to discouer the enemy and though this honour be attended by danger yet so farre is he from cōplayning that of the contrarie he reputes it a singular obligation and an argument of his Capitaines Fauour Shall we be lesse acknowledging of God's fauours since faith assures vs that he nether tempts nor permits vs to be tempted but onely to make manifest whether we loue him or no * as the sacred Oracle speakes in the booke of Deuteronomie God and the diuell tempts diuersly saith sainte AMBROSE the one to distroye the other to crowne vs nor indeed is God's temptation any other thing but a tryall of our fidelitie according to the Psalmist proue me ô Lord and tempt me burne my reynes and my hart * So was the Patriarke ABRAHAM tempted so proued and found obedient * All this life is but the Nouishappe of the next and a continuall essay of our constācie The Lābe shall one day say to the Elect receauing thē into his eternall marriages these are those who remayned constāt in my seruice through all their tēptations * This caused IOB to affirme that all our life was but a warfare vpō earth * or as S. HIEROME notes vpon the Ebrew text a temptation vpon the earth * Whēce we are taught faith that good Father that if we pretend the crownes of Glory we are to haue no other imployment here below but to fight * O how wōderfull great is God's mercy saith the Doctour with the golden mouth to treate vs in temptations like to a Phisitian who by a light paine remedies a greater curing a hote feeuer with a litle hungar and thrist Certes temptation is equally profitable to the vertuous and vicious working increase of grace in those and moueing these to purge themselues of crime and by the helpe of Pennance to obtayne pardon therof * And least that you may be troubled to read that sometymes God doth tempt vs * sometymes he doth tēpt no man * as though the diuell onely did tempt being thervpon called HE THAT TEMPTETH * S. AVGVSTINE will teach vs by a cleare distinction that there is a mayne difference betwixt the temptation of deceauing and