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A04503	An excellent treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen written by the worthy, Saint Chrysostome to Theodorus a friend of his, who by leud liuing, was fallen from the Gospell; fit to read for reclaiming their hearts which are in like case. Englished (out of an auncient Latin translation, written in velume) by R.W. With an annexed epistle of comfort from one friend to another, wherin the Anabaptists error of desperation is briefly confuted, and the sinne against the holy Ghost plainly declared.	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Cottesford, Thomas. Epistle of comfort.; Wolcomb, Robert, b. 1567 or 8.	1609 (1609)	STC 14631; ESTC S121653	61,720	216

and in that time in which other that haue done well by the bright and gentle Angels being caried before the high throne of the euerlasting king shall be rewarded with immortall gifte These things are accidents to that day iudgement time but that which ensueth what tong can tell What pleasure what ioy shall it be to be with Christ when the soule camming to her proper vigor shall with confidence begin to looke on God none can declare the greatnes of that ioy For she triumpheth not alone for the fruit on of the things present but shee reioyceth much more because shee knoweth there shall be no end of her blessednes And howbeit no speech can set forth that gladnes and mirth nor any thought ōtaine it yet seeing as it were a certaine shadow of the thing to come we will also endeuour to acquaint you with it Demand we of the rich welthy of this world who vaunt in honors power with what gladnesse they are puffed out With how great delectation and pleasure they are in loue with these things so that sometime they carry their noses very high in the wind And that though they themselues know that these things are neither right happy nor yet euerlasting but vanish away sooner then a dreame which if they indure while this life remaineth if we make the most of them we can they can indure no longer Wherefore if men are so exceeding ioyous for fraile and transitory things with what ioy shall wee thinke those soules to be filled which haue gotten heauenly and eternall b●sse In which both quantity and quallity differeth so much from the other in excellency for all that in this life we account them good so that neither eye hath seene Isai 64.4 1 Cor. 2.9 nor eare hath heard nor heart as yet hath vnderstood them For as a little one is in the belly of his mother so are we in the world in wrapped straitely in darkenesse and cannot behold the light and liberty of the world to come But when the time shall come Such corne as we sow here such bread shal wee eate in the world to come that this world shal trauell in birth with vs and shal bring forth into the brighnes of the future world all it hath conceiued if any shall bee found by the meanes of sinne putrified or not of full growth they goe from darkenes to harkenes from tribulation to more bitter tribulation But they that shall be perfect and like vnto the king she proffereth to the father as a worthy issue to be placed in the ministery of Angels and in the seates of Archangels Therfore will you goe that way my friend that the countenance and kingly beauty of thy soule may bee polluted and this world at the last reiectt thee but repaire quickly the Image of thy father repaire thy vertue beauty and gallantnes that among other thou mayest be knowne of thy father The soule must be pollished more thē the body and God hath thus appointed The beauty of the body God hath limited with certaine naturall bonds but the beauty of the soule he hath made free and subiect to no necessity which leaueth far behind the comlines of the body Insomuch that the trimnes of our soule is at the back of God yet in our power For if the Lord had graunted vs licence to vse our owne fancy in our bodilie brauery we should haue beene burdened with superfluous and naught inaileable cares spending all the time of our life in them whereby the soule must needes not be docked Sith euen now when we haue no power ouer the trimnes of our bodies we so carke and care that by all possible meanes we polish them assaying by the painting of colours by the frisling of our haires by the roaling of our eyes by variety of vestiments by exquisite practises to augment our bodily b●auery But how much more conuenient were it for vs to goe about to garnish the soule wherein the true beauty is and such as may by vs daily be made more beautifull Yet we on the contrary consume the whole race of our life in spoyling the mistresse and in adorning the maiden leauing the mistresse like a vile bond-woman vntrimmed bespotted vtterly couered with all vnseemely sluttishnes When as God for this cause exempted vs from the carke of this body and inclosed it within the bonds of nature least being occupied in needles cares Soules defiled with sin may bee trimmed againe wee should neglect the beautifying of our soule whose beauty and brauenesse albeit it be brought to extreame pollution yet by our labour and diligence shee may be restored to notable gaynesse and be recouered so farre that shee may not onely bee admired of all good men but be desired and loued of the king himselfe who is Lord of all As the Prophet speaketh to it in the Psalmes The king shall haue pleasure in thy beauty Psa 45.11 Often times experience proueth that of those women which haue beene inured to common brothelrre if any bee somewhat handsome for fairenes sake she hath beene vnited in matrimony to some good man and hath beene drawne to honestie How much rather will not God contemne ne dispise the soules which haue fallen from their diuine excellency by the tyranny of the diuel into the brothelhouse and stewes of this present life You shall find that the Prophets haue vsed these examples when they spake to Hierusalem for she played the dishonest woman and went a whoring after a strange sort as sheweth the Prophet Ezechiel Eze. 16.33 saying they giue gifts to all other whoores but thou giuest gifts vnto thy louers and the contrary is in thee from other women Verse 34. And againe another saith thou hast sitten vpon the way waiting for them as a desolate * C. quaile Or thou hast sit waiting for them in the wayes as the Arabian in the wildernesse Iere. 3.2 chough This people which had so played the harlot the Lord reclaimed to himselfe for their captiuitie was not so much for their punishment as for their amendment For if in case God would haue punished and destroyed them withal he would not haue brought them home againe to their natiue soile neither would haue caused them to reedifie with greater magnificency their Citie and Temple which were ouerthrowen the glory saith he of this last house Hagg. 2.10 shall be greater then the first So then if God doe not forbid repentance to those that haue so manifoldly practised whooredome he will much more willingly reclaime thy soule which now first hath grieuously falne God is iealous ouer our soules The reason is for that no carnall louer though neuer so hoate can bee so ielous ouer the loue of his de●ling as God is kindled with the loue of our soules Which albeit dayly it may bee gathered yet it may be apparantly proued out of the word of God In a word read that is spoken of God

AN EXCELLENT Treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen Written by the worthy Saint Chrysostome to Theodorus a friend of his who by leud liuing was fallen from the Gospell fit to read for reclaiming their hearts which are in like case Englished out of an auncient Latin translation written in Velume by R.W. With an annexed Epistle of comfort from one friend to another where in the Anabaptists error of desperation is briefly confuted and the sinne against the holy Ghost plainly declared Heb. 3.13 Exhort ye one another daily while it is called to day LONDON Printed for I. Helme and are to be sold at his shop at S. Dunstans Church Of the profit of this Treatise THe prince of Surgeons Phoebus sonne In curing famous was Machaon and his brother too By art brought much to pas The best of these in festered sores Did all and could no more To soule of man corrupt by sinne Their skill denied a dore But heere behold ' gainst dreadfull crimes A soueraigne medcine lies A Moly Panaceia sweete To him that vpward sties If fallen downe thou feele dispaire Read through this pamphlet small It Theôn cheiras powerfull salue In such assaults maist call R. W. 1. Pet. 4.3 It is sufficient for vs that we haue spent the time past of the life after the lust of the Gentiles walking in wantonnesse lusts drun●ennesse gluttonie drinkings and in abominable idolatries To the Worshipfull and his special good friend Master IOHN KEMPTHORNE Esquier R.W. wisheth in this life prosperous successe in all affaires and in the life to come a crowne of glorie SEeing alwayes it hath bin accoūted a superfluous worke either to commend in Apollo wisedome or to extoll in Hercules puissance or to prayse in Minerua knowledge it may bee thought no lesse needlesse for mee to prayse in fined wordes and garnished stile if so I were able to doe your ardent zeale in Gods truth and maruellous affection towardes the true professors thereof And because among those that know you it shineth so oriently as in words to set it foorth were rather to imbeazle than illustrate it and among those that know you not by commending it abundantly may feare the censure of smoothing I thinke it better at this time as Salust saith of Carthage to speake nothing at all of it than a little Yet surely though the enuious happily mislike it this I affirme when I bethought to finde a meete protector for this pamphlet that might loue it as Antonius the Emperor was wont to loue books as Alphonsus was accustomed to esteeme the workes of Cicero that might reade it diligently as Erasmus did Terence as Bishop Iewell did Horace as Ladie Iane Graie did Platoes Phaedon none came to my minde before your Worship vnder the wings of whose tuition these my slender labors might safely be shadowed from all the malice of spitefull reproouers and taunting carpers Now concerning the worke some I knowe will finde fault with my presumption that being a tender suckling and nouice in good letters I would dare to put foorth ought in print especially in such a plentifull time of bookes Let these take this aunswere that I did it not voluntarily but inforced and that by the request not of one or two but of many whose good will I haue often experimented whose friendship in the Lorde I will not for a small cause violate whose authoritie I may not despise For lighting by chaunce on this treatise of Chrysostome reuerencing it at the first sight more for antiquitie than ought else assoone as I had read it ouer I did it faithfully for my priuate vtilitie into English neuer thinking it should come to this passe But hauing lent it vnto some of my friends desirous of such a peece of matter they fell suddenly into that liking and louing of it that they neuer ceased exhorting begging compelling I may say vntill maugre my head I graunted it should goe foorth for the benefit of many Which now beeing newly borne and come into the world I beseech your courtesie to receiue into your patronage and as it proceeded from a willing minde so to take it with a gladsome countenance And notwithstanding this testimonie of a gratefull minde doe not any way counterpoise the weight of your demerits yet I beseech you to accept of the poore widowes mites and of the cheerefull giuers minde Thus surceasing any longer to enterrupt your Worships serious affaires I suppliantly craue of the Almightie dayly to augment his graces in you and the vertuous Gentlewoman your wife that after your race run in this dale of miserie you may for euer enioy the sight of Christ Iesus in heauen Your worships daily and humble Orator ROB. WOLCOMB Of the restoring againe of him that is fallen OH Iere. 9.1 that my head were full of water and mine eies a fountaine of teares Much more fitly it is spoken of mee now The worthines integritie once of the person to whom he writeth Ecclu 16.3 then at that time of the Prophet of God For howbeit not many cities neither a whole countrey is to bee lamented of me yet I must mourne for a soule of more worth than many nations of more price than many cities For if one that doe the will of God be better than a great companie of the wicked thou also wast better once than many multitudes of the Iewes Wherefore let no man wonder if I peraduenture vse more large lamentations at this time The cause of the lamentation and powre out were plenty of teares than at that time the Prophet did For as I said I do not bewaile the sacking of a city which is taken nor the thraldome of the common people little set by but the downfall of an excellent soule and the ruine of a temple which Christ inhabited If any euer knew the ornaments of thy mind which now the flame of the diuel hath consumed if any euer beheld the temple of thy body when it glittered with the brightnesse of chastitie soothly he would deeme that lamentation of the Prophet small and much inferior wherein hee bewaileth that the handes of Barbarians had prophaned the holy place and that the enemies fire had destroied the Temple that the Cherubin and the Arke were defiled and that the mercy seat with the tables of stone and the golden potte were polluted For this lamentation which I vse is by so much more piteous and bitter than the other by how much more truly and euidently all these things were to bee seene in thy soule than betweene the wals of the Temple the Temple which was in thee was much holier than the other It shined not with the mettals of golde and siluer but with the vertues of the mind and giftes of the holy Ghost it had within it the Arke and the two Cherubins that is the faith of the father and the sonne and the holy Ghost The wretched plight whereinto this man was fallen Yet now nought of