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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04512	A sermon of Saint Chrysostome, wherein besyde that it is furnysshed with heuenly wisedome [and] teachinge, he wonderfully proueth, that no man is hurted but of hym selfe: translated into Englishe by the floure of lerned menne in his tyme, Thomas Lupsette Londoner; Quod nemo laeditur ab alio. English	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530. aut	1542 (1542)	STC 14639; ESTC S107812	26,107	62

taken away Of some other is sayd He is extremely sycke phisitions haue gyuen hym ouer there is no hope in hym of lyfe For some other that lye in prison is great m●ne made for other that be outlawed and banysshed theyr countrey for other that be plucked into bondage from their fredome for other that be spoyled of their ennemies that be in thrauldome that be throught sea wrackes distroyed through fyre bourned through ruines squashed All this sorte is lamented bewayled mourned for of all menne They that do naught and lyue vngraciously be of no man pitied or weped for but rather oftentymes they be of all men preysed and be callid fortunate and had in great honour and this truely is the cause of all euylle and myschiefe But nowe so that as I sayde in the begynnyng no man interrupt my tale let vs shewe how that none of the forsayd yuels and mysfortunes can hurt a wise man nor yet corrupt the vertue of this mynde For tell me he that by theues is spoyled of all his goodes what hurt hath he in the vertue of his mind But if you wyll let vs fyrste as we proposed describe what is the vertue of the mynd and that this inuisible vertue may the better be knowen let vs make a coniecture and take a lykelyhode of sensible and bodyly thinges and for exaumple let vs see what is the excellency and vertue of an horse I pray you wyll ye saye it is in the gaye trapper in the syluer brydell in the harneys besette with preciouse stone and perle begarded with golden frynges with riche tassels shal the vertue and noblenes of an horse be in these thynges or els rather in the swystnes of runnyng in the sted fastnes of fote in the assurednes of pace and lusty courage of stomak and such other pointes apte and mete eyther to make a iourney or to vse in warre as to be an horse that nothinge amased nor afrayde rusheth agaynste our ennemies or whan nede shalbe can delyuer his master by swift flight from slaughter Is it not clere that the vertue of an horse resteth rather in these thinges than in the other foresayd In lyke maner what shall we saye of other beastes Is not the goodnes of them in theyr strength and theyr propretie mete for oure vse For he that wolde prayse an oxe wyll he consyder the stall where the oxe standeth or any thynge caste vppon the beaste or els onely beholde the bygnesse of his body the strength of his lymmes the surenesse of his hooffe And he that wolde preyse a vyne wyll he not consyder the largenes of the leaues the lengthe of the wrynkled spurges or elles rather loke howe thycke the clusters be howe bygge the grapes growe and other fruites and trees in the same maner Wherfore let vs also of this fashion speake of men boultynge out in them what is the very vertu of a man and than let vs recken the man to be hurted whan he is hurted in that vertue What now is the excellency and vertue of a man it is not rychenesse feare not pouertie nor it is not bodily helth feare no syckenes nor it is not renowme and fame let no yuel tonge feare the nor it is not this cōmon lyfe thou nedest not feare deathe nor it is not libertie nor noblenes lest thou be afrayd of bondage or of that we call churles bloudde but yet what is this vertue of mans mynde It is to thynk right of god and to do ryght amongest men For al the foresayd vanities may be taken from man agaynst his wyl but this said vertue he that hath it can not lose it by noo mans violence nor yet by the dyuels excepte he hym selfe destroy it Our aduersary the dyuell knew well this order and degree of thinges and therfore whan he assauted the blessed man Iob he destroyed al his substāce not to make hym pore but that he agreued with so great losse shuld speake som wordes of blasphemy ageinst god and for the same selfe cause the dyuell fynally vexed and turmoyled the hole bodye of this pacient saynt not that he shuld be sycke wher of rose none hurt to Iob but the dyuelles intent was to moue hym through the panges of syckenes yf perchaunce he myght forget his constant wyll toward god and so be priuated of that vertue that his mynde alway kepte For this onely purpose the fynde slewe all his chyldren for this intent he turmented Iobs bodye with more cruell and greuous peynes than though he hadde bene rent with the violent handes of hangemen or of turmenters For no nayles nor fleshchokes coulde so haue torne the sydes of that holy man as the fynde dygged in theym with wormes to hurte hym was the dyuels purpose and therfore al these peynfull sorowes he cast vpon Iob to make hym thynke somwhat amysse of god without the whiche poynte Iob coulde not be hurted To this purpose Iobs frendes that came to comfort him were by the find pricked to prouoke greuously Iob and they sayd to hym O Iob thou art not yet punyshed accordyng to the greatnes of thy trespasses and weighte of thy synnes And many such wordis they spake and accused hym But the blessed Iob priuated and spoyled of citie of house of goodes of seruauntes of chyldren had for his palaice a dunge hyll for his bedde the grounde for his clothes cotten and stinking straw Yet al this not with and ynge the blessed man Iob is not only by these meanes nothing hurted but also by this persecution he is made better more noble and of higher dignity For where the find had spoyled him of all his goodes and also of all bodily ease and healthe there blessed Iob through his pacience gatherid infinite riches of vertue Nor he was not with god in soo great hope and truste before he swette and laboured in this cruell batayle Than of this let vs consyder if this holy man Iob that suffred so moche and so intollerable thinges suffred of him that far passeth al maner of mē in al kides of cruelty of vngraciousnes yet if he could not be hurted in the vertu strength and power of his mynde who nowe than is there whose excuse shal appere right and iust whan he saith That person lettid me that mā offended me that man hurted me that person dyd me great wrong For if the dyuel that is full of al mischief with his hole power and al his might setting vpon the house substāce and body of so iust and holy a man with al his dates al his ingins al his artillery yet coulde not hurt hym but as I said made him hereby more glorious and more worthy to be looked vpon how than I pray the can any persone blame an other as though he might be by an other man hurted or noyed Here thou obiectest and sayst what was not Adam hurted of the dyuell was not he deceyued and dryuen out of Paradyse To

constrayned to ieoparde theyr lyfe without shypmayster without maryners withoute sayle without oores Neuerthelesse bycause theyr hartes and myndes were fast set in the knowledge of god and hadde theyr inwarde eyes lyfte vp to heauen and coulde welle remember that this pryncis power his regall pompe his fasynge pryde all his holle glorye of rychesse were fraylle vyle vnworthye to be regarded They thus helped and stayed vp with the fethers and wynges of fayth fleing to heuen regarded and compted the kynges courte for a stynkynge dongion and pryson full of prowde gloryouse stately persones yet the kynge commanded them to be sette downe at his owne bourde that pompouse table besette with all the shewe and muster of gluttonye and bealyfare They toke this princis companye for none honour but for an abhomynable sclaunder and shame to theym and were lyke lambes sette in the myddes of wolues and were by necessitie driuen other to dye for hunger or to eate of those meates that were becursed and forbedde of god What dydde than these yonge chyldren ▪ this tender age bounde in this thrauldome They soughte none excuse in that god knewe theyr necessitie and myght se howe they were constrayned beinge in the handes of a tyran kepte in bondage hauynge noo power to resyste theyr cruelle lorde and prowde conquerour they imagyned none of these excuses but determyned vtterly with them selues to forbeare to the dethe only that they wold not offende nor dysplease God or do that thynge that was not lefull for them to do Thus they were on all sydes besette with thynges cleane resysting and contrary agaynste theyr desyre They were bare and naked of almoney wher by they myght haue sommewhat swaged the fiersenesse of theyr rulars and kepers nor yet they coulde haue no sure truste in any mans frendeshyp seing they were alyens and strangers and authoritie they hadde none beynge bonde prisoners nor in number they could not preuayle beinge but thre alone what do they than Surely that thyng that onely semed to be in theyr power With fayre wordes they ●ntreate theyr keper whome they founde full of feare leste he shoulde be putte to deathe yf he fauoured and applyed to theyr desyres and soo this keper sayde to theym I soore feare my lorde the kynge leste he loke vppon you and see your faces paler and leanet than bet the other yong men and vpon that blame me and putte me for your sake to deathe But they of the other parte with wyse aunsweres toke from hym all his feare and caused hym to beare theym fauour Thus whan they had done as moche as lay in theym and as moche as was possyble for theym to doo streyght the ayde and succour of god was at hande and dydde for theym his parte Than I saye this worke is not the worke of god alone but the begynnynge thereof commeth of theyr pourpose and redy mynd For they were fully determyned with theym selfe not to tast of the vnlefull meates And whanne they had constantely and strongely kepte this mynde streyght the becke of almyghtye god confyrmed theym in the same and broughte theyr pourpose to a gloryouse ende Seest thou nowe in this place that who soo euer hurteth not hym selfe he canne not be hurted of an nother For I praye the looke with me vppon the case of these thre chylderne yonge they were in bondage in thrauldome all alone there hanged ouer theym a stronge and myghtye power cruelle commaundementes feare of deathe compulsyon of the tyranne and fierce threttenynges On the other syde helpe and succour was there none nother of kynseman nor of neyghbour nor of cytesyn acquayntaunce none that coulde counsaylle theym to folowe the beste noo earthely comforte yet in all this heape was there nothing that coulde hurte theym seynge theyr owne mynde and pourpose hurted theym not But contrarye on the other syde the chosen people of god the Iewes hauynge on all sydes soo many aydes as I before rehersed soo great succour and helpe of god yet they preuayled nothynge in the healthe of theyr mynde onely by cause theyr owne proper sluggysshenesse theyr owne frowardenes betrayed and distroyed theym selues But lette vs retourne to oure three chylderne They fyrste opteyned this gloryous vyctorye that they were not defoyled with fowle and vnlefulle meates And whanne the tyranne was in this poynte ouerthrowen and caste vnder theyr feete they were brought to greatte enterprises and battayles of more honour for a moche more cruel constreynment a far greater mi schiefe and heynouse condicion was put before theym A furneys was sette on fyer the fierce and cruelle people of the Persis clustereth aboute theym the tyranne rageth all that countreye is sette to dysceyue and peruerte these symple and innocente chylderne there is ordered dyuers and sundry sortes of instrumentes to sounde after the sweete consente of musyke O a newe kynde of crueltie fyre and musyke is coupled together the threttenynges of tourmentes and feare of deathe is myngled with pleasure And yet all not withstandynge he that dothe his endeuour and vttermooste power can not be hurted of an nother yea by the inforcementes of his ennemyes he shall increase in glorye and honoure as by these foresayde meanes these chylderne came to an hygher vyctorye than they hadde before For the tyranne Nabugodonosor bounde them and cast them in the sayde fourneysse of fyre but he coulde nothynge hurte theym but dydde them passynge good in that his fiercenesse and crueltie gotte theym a greatter crowne and an hygher rewarde For they in the myddes of the bournynge fornace in the myddes of the ragynge Persis that bourned more than the verye fyre in suryouse madnesse had a noble and gloryouse vyctorye ouer theyr ennemies and beinge but thre selly chylderne and prysoners ouercame that holle nation with theyr tyrannye whose noble actes and honour is songe and shall be songe for euermore Thus than he that hurteth not hym selfe an other persone can not hurte hym I wyll not ceasse often to repete the title of my Sermon and summe of my pourpose For if as we haue before touched nother imprysonemente nor bondage nor thrauldome nor the losse of countreye of all frendes and acquayntaunce nor an hole hoste of enemyes nor the fyre nor the cruell tyranne was not of sufficient power to hurte three yonge chyldren beinge lefte of all ayde beinge straungers and brought into the handes of theyr ennemyes what thyng is there able to breake the vertue and courage of the mynde But thou sayest to me God helped and was with them and delyuered them out of the fyre In lykewise thou oughtest if thou fulfylle thyne vttermooste endeuour to hoope and truste to haue the ayde and grace of god For doubtelesse God wylle be with the yf thou leaue not before thy selfe Howe be it I doo not compte the sayde chylderne happye and blessed bycause they trampilled and walkyd vppon the fyre wythoute hurte but by cause they wolde be bounde and wolde be caste in to