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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22853	An introduction to the loue of God. Accompted among the workes of S. Augustine, and set forth in his name, very profitable to moue all men to loue God for his benefits receaued	Simard, Marie Ange, attributed name.; Freake, Edmund, ca. 1516-1591.	1574 (1574)	STC 935; ESTC S108224	33,799	97

An Introduction to the loue of god ⸫ Accompted among the workes of S. Augustine and set forth in his name very profitable to moue all men to loue God for his benefits receaued Math. 22. ¶ Thou shalte loue the Lorde thy God with al thy harte wyth al thy soule and with al thy mynd This is the greatest and the first commaundement The second is lyke to this Thou shalte loue thy neighboure as thy selfe In these two commaundementes hange all the law and the Prophets 1 IOHN 2. Loue not the world neither the things that are in the worlde If a man loue the world the loue of the Father is not in hym Seene and alowed accordinge to the Quenes Maiesties Iniunctions Anno 1574. ¶ TO THE MOST vertuous and noble Princes Queene Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England Fraunce and Ireland defender of the fayth c. AMong all other benefites most gracious soueraigne Ladie which God in mercie hath bestowed vpon your roial person ▪ the knowledge of GOD is most singuler for the which we your humble Subiectes haue moste cause to prayse god But I meane not the knowledge of hys essence or beyng whych none of the Angels or heauenly powers are able to comprehend Neyther yet that general knowledge of God which is gotten by his creatures and workes from the creation of the world Which although it bee of no force to chaunge the mynde regenerate to true godlynes yet are all men by it made inexcuseable before God in as muche as when they knewe God they glorified him not as god But I mean the chiefe and singuler knowledge of God wherby not onely his vniuersall power and infinite mercy replenishing the whole earth but also his vnsearchable counsel in sauing vs by Christ hidden from the world is well perceiued and knowen This knowledge of God hath eternall lyfe annexed vnto it as sayth Christ Thys is lyfe eternall that they myght know thee the onely true God Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent And as this knowledge of God doth comprehende in it the counsell of God to saue vs by Christ so it doth renue the whole mā vrgeth hym to apprehend that good thing which it sheweth accordyng to the saying of Christ you shall knowe the truth and the truth shall make you free That this knowledge of God by hys good spirite already planted in your Maiesties hart might dayly encrease more and more bee confirmed I haue chosen out a litle short treatise stirryng and mouing verye much to the loue of God through the consideration of hys benefites Accompted amonge the workes of saint Augustine set forth in hys name to dedicate the same to your Highnes The diligent vewe and consideration whereof I knowe ryght well wyll not a litle enflame and set on fire those sparkes of the knowledge loue of God already by Gods good spirite kindled in your royall hart For I am not ignorant most gracious soueraigne of your good and gracious nature and how muche your Maiestye is enclined to loue and mercy to pity the poore miserable to respect the causes of such as are in distresse to help the oppressed to pardon offences to doo good to all men which all are nothing els but fruites of that knowledge and loue of God whych by the woorde of God and Gospell of Christ you haue conceaued And as the same hath alredy brought forth these fruites so I nothing doubt but the continuall meditation of Gods infinite loue and innumerable benefits wyl bring forth more loue of God to solace and comfort her selfe onely in his loue in respect whereof all pleasure ioy loue of this world waxeth vyle and chuseth rather wyth him to beare afflictions and suffer hard thinges then with the world to enioye the pleasures of sinne for a season For surely suche is the nature of the loue of God that as it nothing forceth of or regardeth not the afflictiōs of thys life so it vtterlye contemneth and treadeth vnder foote the vanities loue of this world as nothing in respect of his loue who first hath loued vs. To the furtherance whereof the diligent reading of this litle treatise wyll very much helpe Wherein the Author euen of sense and feeling and as one all together rauished with the loue of god setteth forth how diuersly by his benefites and loue we are mooued to loue him and that his vnspeakeable loue towards vs can no waies better be recompenced then by loue againe Wherein if it shall please your Maiesty to bestow some short tyme I know the more it is read the more comfortable delight wil be conceiued therein And though paraduenture this myght bee thought of some a trauaile altogether superfluous to translate the same out of Lattin in which tong it was first wrytten and to dedicate the same to your highnes considering the excellencie of your knowledge in the same tounge wherein you might vvith more delectation pleasure haue solaced your selfe yet to me it should not seeme superfluous beyng set foorth in a language that moste of your Subiectes do vnderstand therfore like to redounde to the profite of the moe And besides forth that vvhich is set foorth vnder the protection and priuiledge of Princes is of all men the more diligently read And to vvhom myght I more aptlye dedicate the introduction to the loue of God then to so godly and vertuous a Prince out of vvhose brest ther flovveth such streames of mercy and flames of loue tovvard her subiectes that shee seemeth an apt meete soyle of God vvherein the loue of God myght profitablye be planted The God of loue therefore enflame your most royal hart vvith his loue and vvith his holy spirit direct you in the ryght course to eternall lyfe That in this life your Maiesty may haue such sence and feeling of hys loue that in tyme to come you may haue the full fruition therof in his eternall glorye Amen Your Maiesties most humble Subiect and faithful seruaunt Edmund Roffen Viuat Regina Ad serenissimam D. D. Elizabetham Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Reginam fidei defens c. ¶ EPIGRAMMATA Nescia virgo viri regni Regina potentis Nobilibus multum sollicitata procis Non sociata tamen quia non mortalevidetur Coniugium mentem tangere posse tuam Accipe diuini coelestia pignora scripti Vnde tuum flagret pectus amore Dei. Qui pius in Christo te tam redamab it Iesu Quam fuerit Christus totus amore tuus Sed tuus ille quidem manet aeternūque manebit Illius in studio tu quia fixa manes Nil opus est igitur nostro Regina libello Qui doc●t vt facias quod prior ipsa facis Nil opus est fateor forsan tamen ista legendo Esse tuus poterit multiplicatus amor Ad eandem Principem Sacra deo Princeps et sacro nomine virgo Accipe quae sacro pignora fonte fluunt