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A34922	The voyage of the wandring knight shewing the whole course of man's life, how apt he is to follow vanity, and how hard it is for him to attain vertue / devised by John Cartheny, a French man ; and translated out of French into English by W.G. of Southampton, merchant ...; Voyage du chevalier errant. English	Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; N. R.; Goodyear, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing C681A; ESTC R34789	91,602	121

him to Dinner chap. 9. Dinner being done Voluptuousness sheweth the Wandring Knight the rest of the Palace of worldly Felicity with the superscription of the Towers thereof and by the Author is declared the evil fruit of certain notorious sins chap. 10. The scituation or standing of the Palace of worldly Felicity chap. 11. The Author declareth how the Wandring Knight and such like voluptuous livers in the World transgress the Commandements of Almighty God chap. 12. The Knight going for to recreate himself and to view the Warrens and Forrests which were about the Palace of Worldly Felicity anon he saw it sink suddenly into the Earth and perceived himself in the mire up to the Saddle skirts chap. 13. The Author cryeth out bitterly against Worldlings and their Felicity chap. 14. The Second part of the Voyage of the Wandring Knight GOds Grace draweth the Knight out of the filth of sin wherein he stuck fast chap. 1 Gods grace sheweth Hell unto the Knight with all the Voluptuous company that he saw in the Palace of Worldly Felicity chap. 2. The Knight declareth how he entred into the School of Repentance and of his entertainment there chap. 3. How true Repentance begins in us and how the Knights Conscience accused him with the pains he had deserved chap. 4. By the Commandement of Gods Grace Remembrance read to him the goodness of God with the promises made to the repentant Sinner chap. 5. A Sermon which Vnderstanding the good Hermit made unto the Knight upon the History of Mary Magdalen chap. 6. The Knight having received the holy Communion heard the Sermon and Dinner ended mounted into a Chariot of Triumph and was by Gods Grace carryed to the Palace of Vertue chap. 7. The third part of the Voyage of the Wandring Knight THe Knight declareth the great good solace and pleasure which he found in the Palace of Lady Vertue chap. 1. The description of Vertue chap. 2. The description of Faith and how we ought to believe in God for our Salvation chap. 3. The description of Hope and how we ought to hope in Almighty God chap. 4. The description of Love and Charity and how we ought to love God and our Neighbour chap. 5. The effects and praises of Love and charity chap. 6. The description of the four moral Vertues Prudence Justice Fortitude and Temperance chap. 7. How Faith from the top of the Tower sheweth unto the Knight the City of Heaven chap. 8. The desires that the Knight had to come to Heaven and how Gods Grace brought perseverance chap. 9. Good Vnderstanding sheweth the Knight how to keep perseverance alwayes with him chap. 10. The Protestation that good Vnderstanding taught the Knight to make every day to avoid temptation that he ought to humble himself before God and what he should ask in his prayers chap. 11. The Authors Peroration or Conclusion to the devout Readers or Hearers chap. 12. THE VOYAGE OF The Wandring Knight The First Part. CHAP. I. The Wandring Knight declareth his intent and foolish Enterprise supposing in this World to find true Felicity MAny Historiographers both Poets and Orators as well Prophane as Divine have by Writing notified divers persons with their Voyages and Adventures First Justin and Diodore of Sicilie have made mention of the Argonautes Voyage by Sea that is to say of Jason and his Allies Castor Pollux Hercules and other Peers to the I le of Cholcos to winne the Golden Fleece which a great Dragon kept Also Homer a Greek Poet writ in Verse the wandring and Sea Voyage of Ulysses and his Companions at their return from the Trojan Wars After him Virgil a most eloquent Latine Poet set down in Verse the Voyage of Aeneas into Italy with his fortunes after the subversion of Troy Now if we come to the sacred Histories we shall find first how Moses wrote of the Children of Israel their going out of Aegypt into the Land of Promise and of the two and forty Mansions that they made in the Desarts for the space of forty yeers And how the four Evangelists likewise most faithfully have written of the holy peregrination of the Blessed Son of God our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ who took upon him our fraile and humane nature The self same Saviour hath set down the Parable of the boluptuous Voyage of the prodigal Child and his returne S. Luke very notably and sincerely hath delivered in writing the painful and holy perigrination of that great bessed of Election Saint Paul together with the great travel he took to preach the Gospel and the Faith of Iesus Christ to all the Gentiles And now by Gods grace I mean to declare mine own Voyage and Adventures much like to that of the Prodigall Child who left his Fathers house and ranged into strange Countries wasting all his goods living licentiously but after he knew his lewdnesse he returned back to his Father of whom he was very lovingly received So I by great Folly counselled in absenting my self farre away not only in body but also in mind from God my Father and Creator have wasted and consumed all the goods which the same my God and Father had bountifully bestowed upon me in following bain pleasures of this life But in the End I being inspired with Divine grace acknowledged mine effences and leaking the dark Region of sin and vanity through the aid and conduction of Divine grace am returned to mine Eternall Father humbly requiring pardon and mercy who of his unspeakable mercy hath lovingly received me But how all this hath been done I will declare unto you praying you patiently to give me the hearing and attentively consider my talk and well to note the whole from the beginning to the End When I had passed in all Folly and Lastiviousnesse three weeks of the years of mine age that is to say My infancy Child age and Youth which make together one and twenty years I entred into the age of a young man which is the fourth week of my age which is between two and twenty and four and twenty years At five and twenty I was minded to make a Voyage by my foolish industry to seek where in this World I might stud true Felicity and Happinesse which seemed to my sortish sense an easse matter being Young Strong wild Hardy and Couragiously disposed Me thought in my mind to live in the world without Felicity was a Life worse than Death But alas being plunged in deep darkness of Agnorance I considered not that true Felicity was the Gift of God from above and cannot be attained without his help Being robbed of Reason I thought it might come easily of my self without the help of others so that then I sought true Felicity where she is not was not nor ever shall be as in Riches worldly Pleasure strength Honour and Delights of the flesh But I was in so thinking as very a Fool as he who hopeth with Angling Lines to catch Fishes in the Air or with Hounds to

whereby covetousness and desire of Riches is understood First though Gold and silver be but Earth what vexation hath the covetous Man to atchieve it He saileth over tempestuous Seas he climeth over Monstrons Mountains he diggeth deep into the bowels of the Earth he suffereth hunger thirst cold heat and a thousand mischiefs One is drowned another killed the third robbed and he that hath obtained his purpose liveth in fear to lose it the covetous Man suspects every body It is not Coffers full of Coin that can make men happy Our Saviour terms it Trash and Thornes because it pricks the heart and corrupteth both Body and Soul Saint Paul saith He that wisheth Wealth in this World falleth into temptation Is not Judas an Example who in case of covetousnes hanged himself Now to Coucupiscence of Pride He that hath Honour Authority Might Estimation and Dignity in this World thinketh he is happy but such are loden with unhappiness for what pains labour and vexation endureth the ambitious Man before he can come to dignity Honour and Authority And when he hath it with all these vexations he is not sure how long he shall enjoy it We see oftentimes Fortune turns her Wheel and that the Ambitious end their Libes with infamy Take an Example of Priamus King of Troy who flourished in Friends and Riches Honour Might Kindred and Children did not he and his Off-spring the greatest part of them dye most miserably as for the rest they became Servitors and were at length killed in Troy Croesus King of the Lydians as rich and mighty as he was after he had raigned fifteen years he was Vanquished by King Cyrus lost his Realm was carryed away Captive and led all the rest of his life like a Slave Dionyfius the cowardly King of Sicill was hunted out of his Realm and became so poor that he kept a Schoole in Corinth and by teaching little Children he got his living very poorly God wot and beggerly Mithridate King of Pontus a rich and mighty Prince he subdued twelve Nations wherein some say all Languages were spoken yet he for all that after he had wearied the World with Wars was forsaken of his own People pursued by his own Son and overcome by subtilty insomuch that he was glad to desire a Frenchman to kill him who did so and that was his end Valerianus the great Emperour of Rome even he that persecuted the Christians and did much mischief was taken by his Enemy the King of Persia who against the Law of Arms made him lye down whiles he trode on his back to leap on his Horse Bajazet the fourth King of the Turks was Vanquished by Tamberlane a Tartarian and King of Scythia who kept him in a Cage like a beast and with a Golden Chain led him like a Spaniel throughout all the Army yea he was glad to feed under Tamberlanes Table like a dog And therefore let this be a conclusion that Honour Authority and Dignity is no Inheritage Moreover what Labours Trabels Verations and Perils do Princes pass through even at the present to maintain themselves in their Estates What Wars and slaughters have been committed partly to get and partly to keep rule and Regiment Ambitious Worldlings cannot play with their pleasures if they have not first passed some of these Vexations In youth men run their race without regard of Conscience but when age comes on and nothing left for Lust when White hairs a Walking staffe or crutch a pair of spectacles Cotton put in their ears when none of these things can help them then must they endure the gnawing of Conscience which Voluptuousness kept hidden a long time Whatsoever is pleasant to youth the same is unpleasant to Age. And what comfort may an Old Man conceive when he can think upon no time of his youth that was well spent and Vertuously bestowed What discomfort is it when Conscience accuses the old man of his young years wickedly wasted But as the Elect live in hope so do the Reprobate in despair He that followeth Voluptuousness is Gods enemy For Saint James saith He that loves the World hateth God You may well think that Sin is hated of God when he suffered his only Son to dye upon the Altar of the cross for this end that Sin should not be unpunished And why was it but because the Sins of Adam encreased as Generations multiplyed The evill rich Man that lived at his lust was Tormented in Hell with fire and thirst in whom the words of our Saviour Christ are verified saying Woe unto you that now laugh for you shall lament and weep Go to you foolish Worldlings therefore and you Vain Voluptuous persons vaunting your selves happy in following your fleshly appetites when for such pleasures you shall suffer torments not in this World but in the World to come you will sing a new note But now to our Knight whom we left in the mire and deep ditch of Sin I refer you to the Psalms of David and chiefly the 36.98.72.143 and there you shall find the truth that Worldly Felicity is no other thing than Vanity dreams and meer a●uses and also that Worldlings are accursed and unhappy Wherefore I beseech you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to use the goods of this world as Pilgrims use their Lodgings and such fare as they find in their Voyage that is not to set your hearts upon them nor so to love them that nothing be lest for the Lord. For as the Knight saw the Palace of wordly Felicity sink suddenly with all her people and pomp even so shall it happen unto all Voluptuous worldings at the dreadfull day of Iudgment unless they return from their wicked wayes forsake Sin embrace a new lise and serve the Lord in holiness and righteousness VVherefore let us bridle our affections refrain our own pleasures repent with true sorrow of heart attend wait and hope for the mercy of God by the intercession of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ that he may make us happy Possessors of true and everlasting Felicity to whom be all honour and glory world without end The end of the first part of the Voyage of the wandring Knight THE VOYAGE OF The Wandring Knight The Second Part. CHAP. I. Gods Grace draweth the Knight out of the filth of Sin wherein he stuck fast I Have declared in the first part of my Voyage how being governed by Folly in contemning Vertue and following Voluptuousness I entred into the Palace of false Felicity there resting my self for a certain season and transgressing all the Commandements of God in leading a diffolute and worldly Life thinking that by living so I might be happy whereas indeed I was unhappy And why because that in stead of Felicity I found Vanity For as I thought to recreate my self in hunting I saw the Palace of Voluptuousness sink and come to utter confusion and my self also plunged into the pit of Sin even up to the saddle