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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68091	A preparation to the most holie ministerie wherein is set downe the true meanes to be well prepared to the same, by an exact description, and consideration, of the necessitie, excellencie, difficultie, and great profit therof; with the maruellous effects of the same: also a liuely exhortation to all youth, to giue themselues to the studie therof: and a confutation of the obiections which may be brought in any sort to touch the same: verie profitable and necessarie in these our times, ... Diuided into two bookes. Written in French by Peter Gerard, and translated into English by N.B.	Gerard, Pierre.	1598 (1598)	STC 11754; ESTC S108635	151,047	320

where she is she bringeth foorth Wherefore we may conclude of a certaintie that hee that is ambitious is also enuious Thē seeing that this passion is as it were engraffed in the heart of euery one euen as Plutarch saith As there is no Larke without his crest so there is no spirit to be founde in which there is not some seede of enuie fo farre ought it bee from vs to flatter our selues as though it were some little fault For they which suffer themselues to bee ouercome of the same may commit an infinite number of straunge sinnes the which are so much the lesse tollerable as this vice is more infamous and wicked then others VVherfore enuie is more infamous then other vices For when one is ouercome with choller with couetousnesse with ambition with pleasure for feare to offende hee findeth out an euasion or some light excuse as when one is accused to bee negligent or slouthfull in his businesse hee will aunswere that he is to take aduice in his affaires if an other be reprehended of impatience hee will answere that hee ought not to dissemble an iniurie that is offered vnto him for if hee do so hee may be alwaeis subiect to wrong Againe if an other bee reprooued that he is giuen to pleasure hee will say that hee must passe the time merilie that he must be gallant otherwise hee shoulde bee thought to bee a Melancholicke Stoick if hee hee ambicious hee will answere otherwise none will reckon of him vnlesse hee bee aduaunced to honour and credite To conclude if he be couetous he will say that hee hath manie children to maintaine and if he were poore none would care for him and if he should grow to be sicke hee must depend vpon Phisitians and Apothecaries c. But if one aske the enuious man wherefore he is enuious what can hee aunswere But that God is more good more liberall more mercifull to giue vnto one more beautie to an other more riches to an other more knowledge For when is an enuious man sorrowfull Euen then when hee seeth another man more furnished with some graces then himselfe hee reioyceth when another is grieued and when he hath occasion to bee grieued Contrarily hee is afflicted when others are ioyfull he laugheth when others weepe and weepeth when others laugh To be briefe hee is healed by an other mans sickenesse and is reuiued by an other mans death But let vs see by examples the occasions that the enuious take to torment and crucifie themselues Wee reade Gen. 26 VVhat bee the occasions of enuie that Isaac in the time of a grieuous famine went vnto Abimelech King of the Philistines in Gerar and that GOD hauing blessed his store in making his flockes of Sheepe and Cattell to encrease and all that hee possessed It is sayde afterwardes in the Hystorie that the Philistines enuied him where wee maye see an apparaunt matter of theyr enuie which was that they enioyed not such blessinges as Isaac did Wherevppon they made a great tumult for the Philistines troubled Isaac they stopped vp all his Welles with which hee watered his flockes and their rage was so great that for to appease and allay the same Isaac was constrained to depart from them And the reason is added by Abimelech himselfe where hee spake on this sort vnto Isaac Get thee from vs for thou art mightier then we a great deale This faire reason might make Abimelech ashamed and all his Subiectes because it did proceede from the disease of the minde VVhat was the cause that Rachel conceyued such an hatred agaynst her sister Lea Gen. 30. And murmured so much agaynst her husbande that shee her selfe sayde that Shee shoulde die if hee gaue her not children The reason is set downe because Rachel sawe shee bare Iacob no children as her sister Lea did for which cause shee was a reproach vnto those that liued at that time shee pursued with enuie her sister Lea who was in great reputation amongst all at that time because that barrennesse was reproachfull to Women and that was the cause that Rachel was so enraged agaynst her sister Lea in that shee was not so fruitfull as shee Let vs go forward if this vice creepe into men of warre or into Courtes or into Kingdomes or into the Church of God it stirreth vp incredible mischiefes In warre among them that make profession to carrie armes Who can speake of halfe of those troubles that it kindleth whereof ca●e that strife and contention betwixt the men of Ephraim and Gideon then when Gideon pursued the rest of the Madianites that he had in chase It proceeded from no other cause but that Gideon had done an exployt of warre most memorable which had neuer beene ended but lamentably had not Gideon perceiuing well the occasion pacified them attributing vnto them the better part of the victorie Iudg. 8 Eunie destroyeth all where it entreth as wee maye reade If it creepe into Courtiers it is neuer satisfied but with the death of those that it dooth enuie There is a notable example hereof among the gouernours that Darius had appoynted ouer his Realme Dan. 6 And ouer those three Rulers that had the ouersight of the hundreth and twentie gouernours for wee reade that Darius hauing appoynted Daniel one of the three ouer the hundreth and twentie gouernours hee loued him so well that hee thought to haue set him ouer the whole Realme that he should bee the seconde after him insomuch that the other Gouernours beganne to enuie and to beare such a vehement iealousie towardes him partlie because hee was so beloued of the King and partlie because of the Iewish Religion that they founde out a meanes to accuse him of vnfaithfulnesse towardes the King because hee would not call vppon the King Darius according to the decree that the enemies of Daniel had caused to bee made What came to passe hee was cast into the Lions Denne to bee deuoured of them and it had so come to passe if GOD had not shewed a maruailous token of his prouidence in defending in restrayning the nature of those furious Beastes who in steede of tearing him in peeces did him no harme at all but the other his accusers beeing by the commaundement of the King cast into this Denne with theyr Wiues and Children were deuoured euen vnto theyr bones before they were come vnto the bottome of the Denne If it infecteth Kings or enters into them vnto whome their Kingdomes may come by any meanes this furious Beast doth shewe her selfe more cruell for shee doth not onely procure the death of them vppon whome shee fastneth her selfe but shee is so outragious that shee prosecuteth vnto death all those whom she so mortally hateth yea euen to banish out of the places the brute beasts where those whom they enuie doo remaine yea and ouerthrow the place it selfe such is their insatiable enuie Amongst other examples we may read that when Saul had a long time sought