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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

downe bicause thou hast sanctified it for an euerlasting continuaunce that whereas thou after thy most excellent workes didst rest the seuenth day although thou wert at rest when thou madest them the same might be declared to vs by the voyce of thy booke bycause we also in thée might rest in the Sabboth of eternall lyfe after our labours which be very good also for that thou hast appoynted them vnto vs. To this inestimable ioy which this holy man most desirous of the immortalitie to come hath trimly discribed in his bookes to this perpetuall vacation after labour which shall bring such a rest with it as is to bée wished for with all prayer To that most blessed kingdome of ioy wherein dwelleth both righteousnesse peace To the heauenly Countrie to the felowship of Aungels to the most pleasant companie of Saintes in euerlasting life to come by the only meditation and remembraunce whereof wée conceiue an incredible delight in our mind and ioyes pierce our secret breast To all these thinges I saye doe all the children of God desire with longing sighes speedily to attaine and with feruent wishes wayte to haue that same their small taste of euerlasting life to be fully finished and perfected which thing the tumultes of the fleshe attempt to interrupt and the temptations of Sathan labor here to destroy and to plucke from vs For this frayle body being corrupt is heauie to the soule and this earthly mansion kéepeth downe the vnderstanding which is loden with cares And herevpon came that exclamation of S. Paule who tooke it grieuously that his bodie wandred here in a straunge Countrie as a banished man saying O wretch that I am who shall deliuer me out of this bodie subdued to death Againe I desire to be loosed and to be with Christ For the naturall corruption in man which is as it were the roote of all sinne no man hath had any hope to plucke vp quite by the roote or to ridde himselfe from the same in all respectes till death onely by reducing the flesh into dust at length shall remedie so huge an euill Herevpon the feruent desire of the creature abydeth longing that the sonnes of God may appeare And we our selues also which haue the first fruites of the spirite mourne in our selues desiring to bée put on a newe and wayte for the adoption which is the redemption of our bodie that the creature subdued to vanitye shoulde be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious libertye of the sonnes of god For euen then at the resurrection of the iust and regeneration to come shall sorow griefe anguish sicknesse affliction occasion of sinne yea and sinne it selfe haue an ende Then shall immortality swallowe vp mortalitie vncorruption deuoure corruption and perpetuall ioy consume the bitter calamities of this troublesome lyfe At that time there shall come to the godlye societie of the elect so manye as euer from the first beginning of the world of all ages are ordayned to euerlasting life and they togither with the Patriarks Prophetes Apostles Martyrs Virgins Confessors and with the holye Aungels of God shall contynually sing Halleluya and with ioyfull voyce shall attrybute honor vnto the king of heauen There shall they be satisfied with the plenteousnesse of Gods house and shall be filled with the ryuer of his pleasures There death being swallowed vp to victorie they shall behold the visage of his glorye with vncouered face which the Aungels in heauen are glad to looke vpon They which here did sowe in teares shall there reape with gladnesse They shal not hunger nor thirst any more neyther shall the Sunne or any heate lyght vpon them bicause the Lambe who is in the midst of the throne shall both gouerne and leade them to the liuely Fountaynes of waters and bicause also God hath cléerely wyped from their eyes all teares For as it is here wyshed for desired earnestly prayde and longed for from the very hart so there we shall lay holde of it take pleasure of it praise and magnifie it Here we are at strife and continuall warre with most cruell aduersaries suche as conspire our destruction there the crowne of righteousnesse is brought by the Lorde to the victor that hath fought a good fight the hath finished his course and that hath kept his fayth There there is decréed a most ample tryumph of ioye There are the temporall labours recompenst with the chiefest rewarde of Gods house Who therefore will not cry out with the Prophet How amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of Hosts My soule is wearie and wasteth with longing after thy habitation Blessed be they O Lorde which dwell in thy house for they shall euermore praise thée There shall they beholde that vnsatiable beautie and being inflamed with perpetuall loue thereof shall neuer cease from lawde and praise When can he be destitute of that peaceable quietnesse of minde which continually day and night is thinking vpon these celestiall and immortall things and which fixeth all his minde care and cogitation in continuall contemplation of heauenly matters Howe can he be out of quiet who with vehement sighes excéeding prayer labours to come to that blessed countrie where the saintes be pertakers of lyfe eternall and truth immutable and who euery day doth indruour to vnburthen himselfe somewhat of earthly cares The very right way therfore in my opion doth he take to the true tranquillitie of the minde who hath Christ to be his rocke and foundation and with stedfast faythe cleaues vnto him he being indued with a perfite perswasion of Gods good will towardes him purchaseth the testimony of a good conscience by performing the whole course of his life both godly iustly and soberly and who both in minde inuocation and confession cleaues so throughly to the true christian Church whereof the sonne of God is President the Aungels are protectors the holy spirite is the sanctifier the godly and elect of euerye age are the felowship as he is a verie member of the people of God and of the misticall bodye whose head is Christ and doth not onely hold fast the liuely hope of eternall lyfe to his last ende but also increaseth euery day by procéeding from one vertue to another For the expectation of the children of God who with a right passage and couragious stomake as to a prefixed signe go forwarde to the rewarde of their heauenly vocation cannot be deceyued if the same leane vpon the sure foundations of eternall election of the precious redemption of the promise of god For euen as God of his méere loue which he poureth into the hartes of vs by his spirite hath adopted vs to be his children that a certaine wonderfull greatnesse of loue being styred vp in oure mindes by the knowledge therof the same might waxe more vehement towardes our most mercifull God and also by sending downe his sonne hath performed our redemption and as

of God the righteousnesse sanctification and redemption for vs He it is that bare our sinnes vpon his backe on the crosse that we being dead to sinne might liue to righteousnesse This most sacred ground of our religion and reuerent misterie of our redemption is to be exercised in the hearts of euery true christian with a continuall remembraunce And least the same should be forgotten of vs Christ left his bodie in the holy sacrament and misticall banket of his supper which he commaunded to be distributed directly with that perspiquitie of wordes which he himselfe ordeyned and appoynted that it might effectually be a remembraunce of the olde offered sacrifice and playnly as it were with liuely Image to represent the death of our redemer shewing perfectly and after a sort laying it before the eyes of the communicantes that all the people with meditation of so great fearefull a misterie being godly amazed and as it were rauished beyond thēselues shoulde for that time occupie themselues with nothing nor haue any other consideration in their mindes but of Christ onely crucified on the Crosse The sacrament being in this sort ministred according to Christes institution might by meanes of the worthinesse of the wordes and vertue of the holye spirite mightilye worke in the minde and earnestly stirre vp the same and also might plainly before the eyes of all the people discribe Christ paint him out and as Paule hath to the Galathians in a maner crucifie him a newe And hereof growes that excesse of saint Chrisostomes wordes Imagine sayth he the bloud of saluation flowing as it were out of the deuine and vnpolluted side and that spirituall and wonderfull bloud running into the Cup to purifie vs and there the tongue tasting to be made red and blouddie and so drawe nighe and receyue it with pure lips But although I haue as occasion did serue recyted to what ende chiefly that misticall feast doth tende which cōprehendeth chiefly respecteth the declaration of the lords death yet that no man lay to my charge how I haue indirectly past ouer with silence those high benifites besides the cōmon confession of our fayth whereby we wayte for saluation of our soules through one and the same Sauiour and besides the effectuall remēbrance of the mistery of our redemption which to make perfit Christ gaue his bodie to be slain his bloud to be shed I acknowledge also in the instituting of the sacramēt of the Lords supper the singuler loue of God towardes mankinde For he not content onely to redéeme vs and after that redemption to put vs in dayly remembrance therof but he verily also and in déede féedeth and nourisheth the faythfull with his owne liuely fleshe so long as they shall liue here like straungers aliants and till they haue made an ende of this habitation He increaseth thereby our fayth strengthneth vs to abide tribulation confirmes our hope of hauing eternal life kindleth our loue towards him mainteynes our brotherly charitie prolonges our lyfe and frames the same to good order quieteth our consciences and as thoughe he forgatte our sinnes reconciles himselfe againe vnto vs He bréedeth in our mindes thereby spirituall pleasure and delight draweth awaye our ymaginations from the frailtie of our bodies and procureth vs to thinke of immortalitie and that which is most of all he cooples and ioynes vs to himselfe mixeth vs and as I maye say vnites and incorporates vs with him in a most sure bonde Which contriuing and linking one within an other the sensible nature of man can not comprehende Neyther howe he is our heade and we his members and fleshe of his fleshe bone of his bones nor howe he dwelleth and liueth in vs and we in him For if it be a thing to be maruelled at howe we be members one of another and man and wife maye be all one fleshe howe much more wonderfull is this most nighe coopling togither of Christ and vs which doth most truly and certenly not faynedly colourably or phantastically happen vnto such as doe faythfully eate this sacrament Whereat the diuine Prophete being helde with admiration prophecied saying The mercifull and gracious Lorde hath so done his maruellous workes that they ought to be had in euerlasting remembraunce he hath giuen meate to them that feare him Wherefore to this poynt doth the similitude of Cyrillus aptly concurre Euen as sayth he if one take molten ware and poure it to other ware and worketh the whole togither so must it néedes be that who so receyues the fleshe and bloud of the Lorde he be in such sort ioyned to him that Christ be found in him and he in Christ But now that we haue béene occupied in calling to minde the benifites which are annexed to the Lordes supper being dulye ministred as it ought to be and worthylye receyued of the faithfull let vs returne to the matter which we haue in hande that is to say to the great misterie of our saluation and redemption through rememberaunce whereof there groweth peace of conscience and tranquillitie of mynde Whereby though the Deuill putte vs in feare the worlde disquiet vs and the fleshe prouoke vs yet the same remayneth still in perpetuall quietnesse securitie Thence commeth it that the multitude of sinnes and greatnesse of them doe not debarre vs the way to Gods mercie nor the abyding in sinne for a season vtterly take away all hope of forgiuenesse From thence springeth our loue that we haue towardes God which spared not his owne Sonne but for all our sakes gaue him to death and with him gaue vs all good things Thence riseth that déepe mindefulnesse of Gods benifites in that he adopted vs to be his owne children and for this benifite continuall thankes is to be celebrated of all the faythfull There is nothing in all the worlde that at such time as we are meditating vppon Christ can once pierse our conscience much lesse driue it to desperation were it for committing the greatest sinne of all other For if transgressing of the law brings terror vnto vs It helpeth againe to remember that Christ hath redemed vs from the curse of the law If sinne trouble vs we are recomforted in that Christ not only remitted to the debtor ten thousand tallents which ought a great deale forgaue Peter that had grieuously offended him pardoned the Théefe who had long continued in sinne but also by his owne bloud washed vs cleane from all sinne If death gréeue vs Christ is become both our lyfe and resurrection If the wrath of God make vs pensiue by Christ are we reconciled vnto god If hell fire feare vs Christ by conquering of Hell hath opened the gates of heauen If the fire of Purgatorie disquiet our mindes Christ for the sinnes of mankinde hath satisfied God and the punishment which by Gods iustice was done vnto vs he himselfe hath abydden it and hath not onely deliuered vs from the offence it selfe but also from the