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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06460	Tho. Lupsets workes; Works	Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494. Twelve rules. English.	1546 (1546)	STC 16932; ESTC S109651	115,080	426

Tho. Lupsets workes Londini ANNO. M. D. XLVI ¶ The contentes of this boke ¶ A treatise of charitie ¶ An exhortacion to young men perswadyng them to walke in the pathe waie that leadeth to honestee and goodnes ¶ A com●endious treatise teachyng the waie of dieyng well ¶ A sermon of Chrysostome that No man is hurte but of hym selfe ¶ A swete sermon of S. Cyprian of the mortalitee of man ¶ The rules of a Christian lyfe made by Iohn Picus the elder Erle of Mirandula ¶ Bathered counsels out of Saynt Is●dore Treatise of Charitie I Am wel mynded to stycke to my promesse of charitie by cause you can not mislike my writing how rudely so euer I write onles you diminishe your owne charitie For charitie taketh all thinges in good worth and consydereth more the good will of the workeman then the beautie of the worke Herevpon I am bolded to shewe my mynde in fewe woordes what is charitie and how we maie kepe charitie A saiyng muche vsed with euery man and woman but not so well perceyued as it is commonlye spoken Spekers of cha●●tie be plentie kepers of charitie be veraie scase althoughe you wold make serche through out all religious cloisters To be without malice and hate is not inough yet veraie fewe be founde so clere nor it is not inough to loue in a slyght or a common or in a meane wyse If you kepe in you Charitie ye bespotles of al grudges and therwith ye loue in the moste hyghest degree of louyng bothe god and man god for hym selfe and man for goddis sake But here nowe me thynketh we be to sodeinly entred with a skyp to the myddes of this mater let vs make some conuenient beginning and therafter lette vs procede For both you shall with the more ease gather the fruite of this lesson and I shall the better se what is taught if the sentences be ●yde in their due ordre And for as muche good sister as this thynge that we here take in hande to treate of is all holy all godly all heauenly farre passyng the relyques of sayntes farre passyng the halowed chalices Lette vs I praie you beware of presumpcyon to touche this mattier with foule fingers It is our part to wasshe oure handes cleane I meane as the matter is spirituall so our spirite muste be prepared in a due reuerence accordyng to the highe dignitie of this vertue the water that clenseth our spirite and mynde is mekenes Here with I saie we must prepare vs both you to here and I to speke of holy charitie bycause Christe saieth that in charitie is conteined all the law of god And goddis lawe dothe chiefely enforce .ii. thynges one to make vs by thretening of peynes to flee from syn an other to cause vs promisynge of ioyes to folowe vertue It muste nedes then be true that Charitie maketh men do bothe these thinges to forsake synne and to embrace vertue This is to saie by Charitie we refuse euyll and take good by charitie we flee doyng naughtly and cleaue to doyng well by Charitie we escape disprayse and deserue prayse by charitie we duly bothe feare and loue god finally by charitie we be ryd from the bondage of our ennemy the prynce of this worlde and be franke in the libertie of goddis kyngdome ¶ In this speakynge of charitie there semeth to be an other strēgth in the worde than comenly we vnderstande in our englyshe tonge and surely the trouthe is soo that farre aboue our cōmen vnderstandynge this worde signifiethe the hole perfection of a christen man It is a worde borowed with vs of the latyne called Charitas If you nowe will considre what is the fountayne lyfe and soule of mans vertue the spacing and rote of all his good workes you shall see that it is only the true loue of god For who so euer hath his mynde inwardly ameled bakē through fyred with the loue of god he is the blessed man that kepeth goddis worde that fulfylleth all goddis lawe that neuer willethe doyng euyll and euer willeth doyng well in the perfecie forme facion shappe and kynde of well doyng This loue of god that causethe suche perfections in man is called Charitie But remembre it maie not bee taken in the weake common maner for all they haue not this charitie that saie thei loue God Nor all they loue not God that so say We be not as our seyyng soundethe but as god seeth our thoughtes so we be● None of vs loueth god that enforcethe to wyll any thyng besydes goddys wyll He loueth not god perfetly that thynkethe any thyng besyde god he loueth not god perfitely that dothe any thing without god The perfecte loue of god can not stande with any care or studye for this lyfe the perfyte loue of god abydethe not the couplyng with any other loue the perfect loue of god knoweth none affectiō to kinred it knoweth no difference betwene poore and ryche it knoweth not what meneth myne and thyne● it ●anne not diuyde a foo frome a frende For he that truely and perfectly loueth god muste loue god alone nothynge besyde god nor with god but loue all indifferently in god and for god We that saie we loue god when we scant ones in a daie remembre god and yet neuer remembre we God in suche a maner but that more often and more ernestly we remembre other thynges in saiyng we loue god and doyng thus we can not proue true that we saie For the perfecte louer of god is so wedded togod that ●his thought nothyng abydeth but the quycke remembraunce of god Our spirites and senses be occupied with so many other matters that scante we haue leiser to thynke on god so farre we be from this charitie the whiche I saie is a vertue of that dignitie power and maiestee that by it selfe it conteineth all the preceptes of the patriarkes all the lawes of the prophetes all the doctrine of Christe all the rules of the apostels all the inuencions of the holy churche ye more then all this charitie hath a lybertee of power ouer bothe the olde and the newe testament For the true louer of god the whiche is the charitable persone is vnder no rule but he is a lorde aboue all lawes all inuencions all preceptes all commaundementes that god hath gyuen to man For charitie hathe no bonde But alwaie sister remembre that charitie is not perfecte oneles that it bee burnyng It is not a quenched loue a colde loue a loue growinge in the tethe or lyppes that is charitie but the hotte feruente burnynge hertes affecte towarde god is the loue that is vnderstand in the name of charitie the whiche as is saied doth not only contein all the doctrine of Christe but also it is aboue all lawes to rule rather then to be ruled The ende of all the course and walkynge of the sonne of god in this worlde was to leaue amonge men this Charitie The marke