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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

the fourneysse for the lawes of their countrey and of god the whyche thynge conteyneth theyr vertue preyse and glorye For by and by whan they were throwen in the fyre beganne theyr vyctorie and in that instaunt momente they hadde deserued theyr rewarde by theyr assured faythe and aunswere sayenge vnto the kynge We nede not aunswere the to this questyon for our god is in heauen whome we honoure and serue that maye delyuer vs oute of this bournynge ouen and shall delyuer vs O thou tyranne out of thy handes that if god wylle not delyuer vs thou shalte well knowe that to thy goddis we wyll neuer bowe nor this ymage of golde that thou settest vp we neuer wyl worshyp Of these wordes they were crowned and in this testimonye and feythe they had theyr rewarde and thanke of god in this rested theyr course the whyche they ended in the martyrdome of theyr confessyon But as touchynge that the fyre was ashamed to touche theyr bodyes and loused theyr bondes and forsakynge his owne nature refresshed theym with the dewe of heauen in the myddes of the hotte fourneysse This was a poynte of the grace of god whose pleasure was to make his power be knowen by the wounder and meruaylle of soo straunge a thynge but the chylderne in this hadde noo vauntage theyr vyctorie was in theyr owne stedfast confessyon in theyr owne constaunte and assured feythe wherby they opteyned the glorye of soo noble a martyrdome What nowe canste thou creke agaynste this although thou art banysshed thy countrey dryuen from thyne acqueyntaunce and frendes broughte to thrauldome to be bounde in the seruyce of cruell maysters All this hapned to the sayde chyldern● thou lyuest withoute teachyng without instruction without comforte the sayde chylderne were in the same case Thou arte bounde thou arte spoyled thou arte constrayned to dye all this passed the sayde chylderne that euer by theyr passyons wexed more glorious And the Iewes hauynge theyr temple theyr sacrifyces the boke wrytten with the hande of god hauynge also Cherubin their holy and secrete place of prayers and all other thynges mete for theyr daily sacrifices and hauyng the prophetes some departed some yet alyue the whiche instructed them in theyr present maniers and shewed what god dydde contynually for theym and what he hadde in tymes paste done what he dyddde for theym in Aegypte what in the wyldernesse and what alsoo god d●●●e for theym whan they came into the place promysed to theym Yet all this not withstandyng they not onely nothyng proceded in grace and vertue but also in a perpetuall wytnesse of theyr owne myschiefe and vngratiousenesse they sette vp in theyr churche ydols and ymages of false goddis sacryfyenge to the same bothe theyr owne sunnes and daughters Thus they dydde in theyr temple and also in other places in woddis and mountaynes but these sayde three chyldren in a straunge countrey in the handes of theyr ennemies vnder the power of a cruelle tyranne throwen into the fyre be nothynge hurted and not onely that but also take therof greatte honour and glorye Nowe thanne to make an ende we knowynge and gatheryng these manier of exaumples out of the holy scrypture where be many mo that make to this purpose if a man wyll seke there so that diuersely we may see-some without all constraynte without all necessitie without any cause to be against them selfe and take soore hurte somme other hauyng all the worlde agaynste them to be stedfast in theyr right way and not able to be neuer so lytel remoued from theyr vertue Thus whan we euidently knowe and see ▪ we shulde without all doubtyng conclude with our self that if any man be hurtid he is hurted of him selfe although the number of theym that do hurte be infinite althoughe all in a plumpe that dwelle other in the earthe or in the sea wolde agree to hurte yet they can not in noo smalle poynte hurte hym that is not hurted of hym selfe With this we ▪ began and with this we make here an ende ☞ FINIS LONDINI in officina Thomae Bertheleti typis impress Cum priuilegio ad im primendū solum M. D. XLII LVCRECIA ROMANA THOMAS BERTHELETVS Goodn●●● of an h●● Goodnes an oxe Goodnes a vyne ●he excel●cy of mā Iob ... Tim. 6. Luc. 6. 2. Cor Pleasu●● Ryches ●sal 104.