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christian_n	body_n	member_n	mystical_a	1,520	5	10.6674	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10792	A treatise against the folishnesse of men in differinge the reformation of their liuing and amendment of their manners, compyled by the godly lerned man John Riuius, and translated into Englishe by Iohn Bankes.; De stultitia mortalium, in procrastinanda correctione vitæ. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.; Bankes, John, fl. 1550.	1550 (1550)	STC 21065; ESTC S104544	62,520	220

¶ A TREATISE AGAINST the folishnesse of men in differringe the reformation of their liuing and amendment of their maners Compyled by the godly lerned man Iohn Riuius and translated into Englishe by Iohn Bankes ¶ TO THE MOSTE HONOrable and his singular good lorde the lorde Marques Dorsette his lordshyp his humble oratour Wissheth grace and helthe WHEN I weye with my selfe diligently examine the similitude in S. Paul where he compareth the Churche of Christ to a naturall body moste honorable Lorde I fynde that he can not iustely be taken for a membre of the same which doth not imploy his studies to this ende that he may likewise conferre some thing therunto in his vocatiō and calling as in the naturall body euery membre helpeth the whole For we se that there is in a naturall body suche an affection and desyre of euerye membre to helpe and maynteyne thother that not onely the senses be redye to do their part and office as the eye to see the eare to here and so likewyse in the teste of the senses but also all the other partes of the bodye do soo muche care for the whole that they shunne no danger thoughe it be neuer so great to helpe and succour the same If any man than which beareth the name of a christian shal spy for the any thyng that may conduce and profyte the misticall bodye and dothe not his endeuour to the vttermoste to brynge the same thervnto verely he is to be thought an vnprofytable membre not worthye in my iudgemente to be accompted of that membre of whom Christ is the head Surely it myghte be a great shame for vs Christians if we shoulde not hauyng such light of the gospel as we haue endeuour in some wyse to profite the common welth of Christ when we shal call to mynde the excellent saienge of the moste diuine philosopher whiche is that we be not borne for our selues onely ▪ but parte of our birth our natiue coūtrey doth chalenge vnto it part our parentes and an other parte also our familyars and frendes Plato dyd knowe onely by the lyghte of naturall reasone that al excellent and good gyftes came of god and were gyuen to thintent that a man shulde therwith helpe and profyte others Of the whiche opinion were also al the philosophers whiche had tasted of honest discipline and learnynge Who so euer therfore doth thincke hym selfe to be a membre of the common welth of Christe whiche is his mystycall body he must nedes much more be enforced of Christian knowledge and charitie to imploy his labours in bestowing those giftes whiche god hath gyuen him to the profyte of others Nowe than seynge that among the mēbres of this same misticall body many of theim be oppressed with greuous diseases as desperacyon to much affyance in them selues and trust in theyr owne workes and other grosse erroures as supersticion idolatrie c. wherby the most iust wrath and indygnation of god is prouoked agaynste them trulye he were verye vnnaturall and shulde t●stifie that he had not tasted of the spirite of god which neyther moued with thexample of the hethen nor with loue towardes the brethren consyderynge the greate daungers that myght ensue here vpon wolde take some paynes and endeuoure to procure medicines so farre forth as in him lieth to ease and helpe the same We haue exaumples hereof wherwith we might be much moued continued by the most gratious workyng of god euen from the apostels tyme. For the holy fathers martyres besyde theyr greate trauayle in confutynge of heresies whiche was and myght be a sufficient testimonie of theyr zele and diligence haue left also sondrye monumentes and workes aswell parteynynge to the orderynge of mens maners and behauyour as also to the confirmynge of their consciences And not only they but also men of this our age for what godly wyttes hath god stirred vp And howe diligently haue they applyed theyr studyes and bestowed theyr talentes in garnishynge good learnyng and settyng forth the syncere and pure worde of god and to passe ouer them that haue taken excedyng great paynes in foreine and straung countries euen here in Englande god hath moued many with sondry gyftes some to be able to set forthe workes of theyr owne and to hunte the Romyshe fox and some alwayes with open mouth to crye out agaynst hym other some to translate of other mennes c. And herevnto hath god also reised vp the hartes of noble men that they doo not onely assist and defende them that bestowe their laboure herein but also helpe forwarde with the same them selues amonge whom I may moste worthely recompt your lordeshyp whiche hath ben euer enclined to the settynge forthe of true godlynes and religion and to the rotyng out of false and fey●ed supersticion whervnto god hath also prouyded for you alwayes ministers for the same I therfore though my talent be but smale moued with these and such lyke examples thought that I coulde not be iustly rekened or takē for a membre of the mistical body of Christe if that when all true chrystians be so busily occupied and labour so dilgently in the lordes haruest I shoulde be founde ydle and vnoccupied like to the seruaunte in the gospell whiche hyd his talente and brought it not forthe to profyte others This last wynter therfore whan I redde ouer two lytle bokes whiche D. Iohn Riuius an excellent lerned and godlye man compiled in the latyne tongue th one of the refourmacion of mans maners and lyuynge the other of encouragynge them to dye that be vexed with sicknes and marueylynge muche that such two bokes coulde be kepte hyd so long and not translated into Englyshe conteynynge suche a profitable and necessarie matter so apt and conuenient for our time I thought that I shuld not be euyl occupied if I translated the same in to Englishe that they might be made commune and profite the more which whan I had finished musynge with my selfe vnto what patrone I mought beste directe the same I founde none lyke to your lordshyp whether your manyfolde vertues or your zele to aduaunce the glory of god be consydered And verely it semed to me that it could not honestly be dewe to any besydes your lordshyp for so muche as it was done in your lordshyppes house The one parte of my labour which is now finished I bryng and humbly present to your lordshyp at this time not bycause you haue any nede her of for your self but bycause if it shoulde be commended by your lordeship it myght be the better receyued and profite the more For besides thopinion that men haue conceyued of other vertues where with your lordeshyp is endued they haue also conceiued a singuler opinion o● the zele your lordshyppe hath to set forth the pure worde of god and to rote out false and feined supersticiō which thing may apere very plaine as they also gather bothe by other thynges and also by thorder taken in your lordeshyppes