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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08964	The tranquillitie of the minde A verye excellent and most comfortable oration, plainely directing euerye man, & woman, to the true tranquillitie and quyetnesse of their minde. Compyled in Latine by Iohn Barnarde, student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, now lately translated into Englishe by Anthony Marten.; Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. English	Bernard, John, d. 1567?; Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1570 (1570)	STC 1925; ESTC S101618	90,089	234

away with preaching of the worde of God as a thing of naught and contemne and settes little by the threatning concourse of Kings and whisperings of Princes against the Lord and against his Christ and by no torments can they be drawne away and made with lesse will courage or chéere to professe the truth vnto their last ende Wherefore by the continuall remembraunce of such causes as mooue the Lorde to bring afflictions and troubles vpon his elect we shall be incouraged to beare all things that shall happen both with a pacient and quiet minde and eyther to reioyce if in defence of righteousnesse we be vnrighteously punished or else take occasion if we be iustly and of due desert chastised to correct our maners and amende our lyfe thereby Let it fall to oure remembraunce that as a woman which lyeth in labour féeleth great anguish in hir whole body with the trauell but after she is deliuered and hir childe come into the worlde is not onely eased of hir paine but also taketh singuler ioy and pleasure by forgetting hir former trouble euen so affliction which at first is woont to séeme sharpe and bitter yet at length it accustometh to worke ioyfull and merrie endes with delectable fruites of pacience Let vs neuer ymagine in our owne opinion that there is eyther chaunce or fortune and so suppose things happen by easualtie and at all aduenture although no religion as may appeare forbids those wordes by fortune or chaunce to be vsed in phrase of speach when thinges come to passe nay but let vs thinke and perswade with our selues that there is a God and iudge for a suretie that all things by his councell and prouidence are excellently well gouerned It is the Lorde that appointes vs to death and restores vs againe to life He carieth vs downe to hell and bringeth vs from thence againe The Lorde maketh both the poore and riche He exalteth the humble and casteth dewne the high lookes of the prowde Through him kinges doe beare rule and by him kingdomes are transtated from one Nation to another for their wrongs and contumelies and for their riches compassed by fraude and guile Without the will of our heauenly father our sauiour affirmeth in the Gospell that so much as a sparrow doth not light vpon the house top nor that a heare falleth from the heade but by his prouidence And what carefull foresight the Lorde hath towarde his elect he himselfe doth plainely signifie vnto vs in these wordes of the Prophete Esay I haue borne you sayth he from your mothers wombe and brought you vp from your birth till you were growne and the Church will I beare vp in hir last age I haue made you I will also nourishe you beare you and saue you Wherefore the Lorde is angrie when we flie to the succor of man leauing Gods helpe Which thing we may well perceyue by the saying of the sayde Prophet An Egyptian is a man and not God their horses are flesh and not spirites and so soone as the Lord shall stretch foorth his hande then shall the helper fall and he also that looketh for helpe shal perish and both togither be consumed Let vs learne therefore with great trust and confidence to wayte for the assistance of God and onely to respect what his will and pleasure is to endure also with a quiet minde whatsoeuer his heauenly prouidence most graciously shall assigne vnto vs. Let vs follow the councell of that holye Martyr Cyprian who instructeth a godly minde howe he should turne euilles aswel those which be ingraffed in the verie nature of man as those which by other accidents happen vnto him to become an instrument of glorie For thus he wryteth Is any man ransackt of his substaunce either by warre shipwracke or by robberie Let him not deuise by and by to repayre his losses by naughtie and euill practises but thus let him say with him selfe It is the Lorde that prooueth me and shall I not loue him from the bottome of my hart It is euen he himselfe that gaue me these things and he himselfe it is that hath taken them awaye againe blessed be the name of the lord Let him giue thanks for that he receyued them of Gods bountifull liberalitie and let him also giue him thankes bicause they be taken away againe for triall of his fayth If he shall thus say with the same minde and will that holy Iob did he shall with him also reape a rewarde For the Lorde regardeth not how much a man looseth but how paciently he beareth the same Like as he hath not respect to the quantitie that a man giueth to the poore but with what will and intent the same be done Hast thou one onely sonne whome thou louest and sodayne death doth depriue thée of him or doth the plague take frō thée thy best beloued spouse thy children and thy friendes take it paciently and saye So it séemed best to the Lorde and so peraduenture it was expedient for vs and ours the Lordes name be blessed therefore There be also certaine diseases whiche are of no lesse terrible paine than the crueltie of any tormentors As the Plurisie the Sciatica the Goute the Stone the Paulsie the sorenesse of the raynes and bladder If any such griefe happen vnto vs let not our mindes be mooued to impacience least our tongue also breake out into blasphemous wordes But let him that is troubled saye with blessed Dauid and with Hely the Priest It is the Lord Let him doe whatsoeuer séemeth good in his owne sight So shall we turne those euilles which are not come vpon vs for professing of Christ not onely to be a crowne of rewarde vnto our selues but also to be extended to the glorie of Christ and peraduenture bring to passe that the Lorde through our pacience will tender vs and either take away quite or else mittigate our paine and torment But and if we be not eased thereof yet by suche meanes we shall cause the thing which before was intollerable through our impacient minde nowe by our quiet induring to become more tollerable Let wicked murmurings therefore in time of aduersitie be remooued from vs which be full of desperation and mistrust and most euident tokens of peruerse opinions according to the excellent iudgement of this graue wryter Let vniust complaynings agaynst the Lorde be reiected farre from vs Let vs subiect our selues vnder the mightie hande of god Lette vs receyue his gentle correction with a quiet minde who hath neuer suffered vnpunished such wrestling as hath béene agaynst his ordinaunce and appoyntment Let enery man that is full of paine trouble and miserie say with the Prophete Micheas I will beare the wrath and indignation of God bicause I haue sinned against him And with Daniell To thée Lord belongeth righteousnesse and to vs perteyneth shame and confusion Let vs fall to heartie and earnest prayer and to continuall exercise of the

wyth suche as sporte dallye and tryfell in waightye matters and for boast of their learning wit and eloquence make disputation hereof amidst their vaine pleasures The boundes also how farre we must intreate of ought to be considered so farre must we determine to go as the capacitie of our witte will serue and no farther than the hearers shall be able to beare away For as a boystous noyse or hedious sounde greeueth the héering ouer aboundaunce of meate noyeth the stomack gréeuous burthens the bearer continuall rayne the earth and ouermuch of anye thing is noysome and hurtfull so doe difficult questions quickly ouercharge weake and meane wittes I doe not discourage any from reading of Scriptures which thing I thinke as necessarie for the safetie of the soule as breath for the lyfe of the bodie but I reuoke them from disputation not from that which is godly but from the immoderate and intempestine maner thereof We may not sing the Lords song in a straunge lande that is to say not euerie where and where it is not lawfull to be done To much Hony cloyeth the stomake The winter flower commeth out of season It besemeth not a woman to weare the garment of a man nor yet a man a womans garment .. Mourning cannot beséeme the place of mariage nor mirth the time of funerall If in euerye thing that which chieflye pertaineth vnto it best becommeth the same how much more then doth it so in the vse of the Scriptures We must not runne a heade as if we were wild Coltes which can neyther suffer the bridle nor away with their Rider We must not declyne on this side least we returne to Egipt nor on the other side least we be caryed into Babilon but euer loue to be reading and alwayes exercising the lawe of God both night and day at morning euening and noonetide from bedde to rysing againe while we be in the way and in all our businesse Oftentimes among godly men after the example of the two disciples going to Emaus continually must we be talking with Iesus both by the way and in euerie place euermore glorifying God. Furthermore the euiles which by reason of sinne are brought into the worlde ought neyther to quaile our minde nor yet fray vs from constantnesse that thereby we shoulde the lesse firmelye repose our selues in the knowne truth And let vs resolue within our selues that the same is the heauenly doctrine which the sonne of God taught the Apostles Euangelistes and Prophetes by inspiration of the holy ghost comprehended in writing and which the church of Christ hath faithfully kept Who after she had so gréeuously bidden that hir Pastors were sléepers and that preaching was intermitted and so long lay hid at the last when the same reuiued againe she acknowlegde it and receiude it with longing and as it were with imbrasing armes It is no new and strange thing that the word of God and true religion shoulde be counted the cause of miseries misfortunes calamities tumultes commotions and of priuate and publike distructions The people which were in Egipt being giuen to Idolatrie in their aunswere which they made to Ieremie alleaged that the misery and scarcenesse which they were in was bycause they had seased to burne incense to the Quéene of heauen and to offer Sacrifice vnto hir for that they had turned to the true God euen their owne God. Achab complayned that the kingdome of Israell was troubled about Helias The lande coulde not abide the wordes nor beare the sayings of Amos. The preaching of Amos was cause of all their disquietnesse Paule with the Authors of his turmoyle disturbe the whole worlde It comes to passe also oftentimes that the true preacher of the Gospell togither with the truth it selfe of the Gospell is made the very outcast and cursse of the worlde In the olde tyme when Christes religion first grue vp all euilles were so whole imputed therevnto that it became a common prouerbe among the Romaines Doth there lack raine the Christians are cause thereof Verily the Ethnickes in times past transferred the common misfortunes which chaunce in mans lyfe to the enuie of Christians and iudged them to be cause of all publike distruction and discommodities of the people Which most fonde opinion both Cyprian in a fewe wordes to Demetrian doth reprehende and Tertulian in these few lines insuing discribeth If Tiber saith hée runne ouer the walles if Nylus doth not ouerflowe the féeldes if the heauens stande still if the earth mooue if pestilence and famine come vpon men they crye out by and by away with the Christians to the Lions with them Yea those also which were learned and brought vp in liberal sciences to the intent they might make the ignorant more cruel towards the Christians dissembled their knowledge affirmed to the people that the distructions miseries whereby it was expedient that by spaces appointed both of times places mankind shoulde be tormented happened by meanes of the christian name and bycause the same was sprede abrode with so wonderful fame and renowme to the defaceing of their Gods. Wherevpon that wicked Porphirius coniectured that the worshipping of Christ was cause of the plague that so long reigned in his time and for that Aesculapius and the rest of their Goddes which should haue succoured them were neglected Wherefore it is no maruell if the very same thing happen to the heauenlye doctrine in these dayes since now it reuiueth againe which chaunced in the olde time euen when the same first sprong and increaste Besides this also the multitude of heresies that by cruell spirites are raysed vp here and there ought nothing at all to seduce vs from the right fayth nor so much preuaile as they should make vs refuse to heare the voyce of Christ spred abroade in euery place by the true preachers of the Gospell and to suffer our selues willingly to be blinded with errors For it is no maruell as after the appearing of the Sunne so many stinging flies and venimed wormes ensue the same if at the preaching of the Gospell a number of monstruous follyes and damnable errors accompanie the same When as among the good séede that the sonne of man shall sowe the enuious man which is the Deuill will mingle cockle And euen in the Apostles tyme these errors appeared no lesse hurtfull than now in our age Iohn the Euangelist by Saint Ieromes opinion at the request of the Bishoppes of Asia last of all wrote his Gospell agaynst Cerinthus of whom came the Cerinthians which sayd that the world was made by Aungels and agaynst other heretykes but especially agaynst the sect of the Hebionites who affirmed that christ was not before Mary Wherevpon he was compelled to set forth his diuine natiuitie He testifieth also of the Nicholaitans who allowed the copulation of women What a traueyle susteyned Saint Paule agaynst those of Corinthe which denyed the resurrection of the