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A20673	The practise how to finde ease, rest, repose, content, and happines. Written by a religious man of the congregation of St. Elias the prophet, and the order of our Blessed Lady of mount Carmell, restored by the Blessed mother Teresa. The second part. Containing directions how to end all controuersies, and take away all discontentments, and euils, and attaine vnto true ioy of minde, and content of heart, and all good; Practise how to finde ease, rest, repose, content, and happines. Part 2	Doughty, Thomas, fl. 1618-1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 7072.6; ESTC S106011	123,081	516

their Soules since they want patience and so the hauing of a Soule serueth them for nothing but to be afflicted and tormented Whereby appeareth the excellencie of this fruit of the Holy Ghost Patience that it maketh men Masters or iust possessors of themselues in prosperitie and aduersitie alwaies to be the same and haue and exercise at all times the free vse of reason graces and gifts which God Almightie hath bestowed vpon them In Prosperitie not to be puffed vp with pride nor wanton with externall Ioyes and in Aduersitie not to be deiected changed or altered with Sorrow or Griefe As patient Iob said Our Lord gaue and our Lord Iob ● 2● hath taken away as it hath pleased our Lord so is it done the Name of our Lord be blessed And being beset on euery side with afflictions yet by Patience so inioyed and possessed himselfe that of him it is said In all these things IOB sinned not with his lips neither spoke he any foolish thing And since by Patience we possesse our Soules what can we esteeme to be of greater worth then Patience What Mat. 16. 26. exchange will a men giue for his Soule and giue it to be afflicted with Temporall and Eternall Torments What doth Mat. 16. 2● it profit a man if he gaine the whole World and sustaine the damage of his Soule By this thou mayest see how basely and lightly worldly men doe esteeme of their Soules seeing that many times they lose them through anger and impatience rather then they will willingly part from superfluous Meate Drinke Apparell esteeme of the World or such like earthly commodities O sensuall Man is not the life or Soule more then Mat. 6. Meate and the Bodie more then Apparell Be not carefull therefore for the morrow Be not angrie or afflicted for that thou possessest not such worldly things as thou wouldest vse to morrow For the morrow day shall be carefull for it selfe it will bring new cares with it Sufficient for the day is the euill or malice thereof Beare it patiently and so the next day and so the third day if thou liue so long If thou canst not easily beare patiently the cares euils or malice which fall vpon thee in one day why wilt thou put the cares and euils of many dayes together into thy phantasie and prouoke and ingender in thy selfe impatiencie anger furie or wrath to the loosing of thy Soule Is not thy Selfe and Soule more worth to thee then the worldly commoditie thou wantest why then wilt thou be so foolish as to be angrie and exchange away thy Soule for a thing that is worse then it For what art thou angrie Is it peraduenture for that thou canst not enioy some good If it be not good what wilt thou doe with it or why shouldest thou be angrie because thou canst not haue that which is naught If good it be why wilt thou wish it so much euill as to desire that it should become subiect to one who hath exchanged away his Soule and is run out of himselfe Wherefore thy right course is first to possesse thy Selfe and Soule and seeke by Patience the Mat. 6. Iustice of God and all these things shall bee giuen vnto thee besides And from this fruit of the Holy Ghost ariseth the vnspeakeable Patience which wee haue seene practised and exercised amongst the English Martyrs and Confessors of our Catholike Faith heere in England in these late yeeres of Persecution some hauing beene in Prison twentie yeares some twelue some eight and almost all of them without any allowance from their persecutors to sustaine life Many put to torments many to cruell death and yet prayed patiently for their persecutors and preached by example Charitie in their greatest torments Heere is Apoc. 14. 12. the Patience of the Saints which keepe the Commandements of God The Scriptures speaking of the reward which God will bestow vpon those who seeke by Patience to possesse their Soules saith Beeause thou Apoc. 3. 10. hast kept the word of my patience I will keepe thee from the houre of temptation which shal come vpon the whole world to tempt the Inhabitants of the Earth that is he will free them from the temptations of the Deuill from which God of his goodnesse deliuer thee Reader OF THE FIFT FRVIT of the Holy Ghost which is Bountifulnesse or Liberalitie THe fift fruit which the Holy Ghost doth produce in the Hearts of such as loue him is Benignitie a readinesse and willingnesse of minde to help and doe good to our Neighbours and freely to communicate vnto others such things as God Almightie hath bestowed vpon vs which doth wonderfully shine in all the actions of our Sauiour imparting of his gifts graces and fauours to all that would prepare themselues to receiue them and hath left this Benignitie or Liberalitie of doing good to our Neighbours as a particular Legacy vnto vs saying A new Commandement I giue Ioh. 13. 14. to you That you loue one another so as I haue loued you that you also loue one another In this all men shall know that you are my Disciples ● Ioh. 3. 18 if you haue loue one to another not in word nor in tongue but in deede and truth by Liberalitie supplying our Neighbours wants with whatsoeuer God Almightie hath bestowed vpon vs. Of this Benignitie or Liberalitie our Sauiour speaking saith Doe good to them that Ma● 5. hate you and pray for them that persecute you and abuse you that you may be the children of your Father which is in Heauen Who maketh his Sun to rise vpon good and bad and raineth vpon iust and vniust Whereby appeareth the excellencie of this Benignitie or Bountifulnesse towards all that it maketh men true Disciples of our Lord Sauiour sons of God whose Mercy and Liberalitie is aboue al his works doing good and vsing of mercie to euery one and for this cause S. Paul writing to Timothie saith Command the ● Tim. 6. 17. Rich of the World not to be high-minded to doe well to become rich in good workes to giue easily to communicate the riches they haue to others to heape vp to themselues a good foundation for the time to come that they may apprehend the true Life liue happily in this life and in the other enioy eternall Glory according to the words of S. Peter saying Brethren labor the more that by ● Pet. 1. 10. good workes you may make sure your vocation and election for doing these things you shall not sinne at any time for so there shall be ministred to you abundantly an entrance into the euerlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Whereupon our Sauiour saith Giue and there shall be giuen to Luk. 6. 37. you to be the Sonnes of God true Disciples of our Lord Content and Happinesse good Luk. 6 ●5 measure and pressed downe and shaken together and running ouer shall they giue into your bosome