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A13187	Disce vivere Learne to live : a briefe treatise of learning to liue, vvherein is shewed, that the life of Christ is the most perfect patterne of direction to the life of a Christian : in which also, the well disposed may behold their orderlie passage, from the state of grace, to the state of glorie.	Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629.	1604 (1604)	STC 23484; ESTC S1737	203,338	618

Holofernes slept his head was taken from him all which import many dangers the ship the soule the surprising the vnexpected calling to giue an account the enuious sower Sathan the head Christ Iesus this considered had wee not neede watch while the foolish slept suddenly there was a crie at midnight when they would goe buy them oyle the bridegroome was passed and the gate shut it was not the title of being called virgines It was not the repeating of the name Lord Lord that now serued the turne to shewe that the name of holines wil not sustice as the rich mans calling Abraham Father stoode him in little s●…éede It is the watchful care of the wise virgin●… that did them good indeede the gate was shut to the foolish what was this gate Euen the gate of mercie in respect of indulgence the gate of grace in respect of acceptance the gate of glory 〈◊〉 respect of entrance Take heed saith our Sauiour watch pray Dauid might haue slaine Saule●…hile ●…hile hee was sléeping but hee ●…as pittifull would not wher●… he awakes him and shewes ●…im the danger hee was in The goodnesse of Almightie God to ●…an is farre aboue Dauids pitty to Saul See the patience and long ●…ffering of God saith the Apo●…tle to leade vs vnto repentance Behold I stand at the doore and ●…nocke God knocke●…h by his grace at the doore of our hearts 〈◊〉 his worde at the doore of our ●…ares by his benefites at the ●…oore of our plenty by his cha●…sements at the doore of our sorrowfull hearts to raise and st●…rre ●…s vp to vigilancie from the sleep of sinne wherein hee might haue taken vs but that his mercie is to spare for a tune of grace wherin we should be prepared for him hee knockes to awake vs and striues to enter if wee sléepe o●… and shut vp the dore then hee departs we cannot escape him eyther aliue or dead 2 Watch for you know not the day This day shall bee as the dayes of Noe of Lot while Noe was building and labouring the worlde was rioting and neuer more secure but Noe and his were saued when the rest perished In Sodome there was eating and drinking as if our Sauiour would haue vs heare what the sinnes of the men of Sodome were that hearing them w●… might take héede of committing the like It was not their eating and drinking saith Beda that condemned these men but the immoderate vse of thinges lawfull neither is it so much mentioned what they did as whereunto neglecting the iudgements of God they wholy gaue themselues that is to say to eating drinking Destruction came suddainly vpon these not that their ●…ruction was not foretold bu●…●…t it was not beléeued of any ●…re was not a stroke giuen in ●…ming the Arke which did not ●…monish the carelesse world of a ●…d to come though Noe were ●…nt in voyce yet hee spake in ●…rke according to that in the ●…pel If you beleeue not me yet ●…eue these works of mine but ●…uerse men beholding the Ar●… 〈◊〉 the building continued in their ●…s were sodainly swallowed 〈◊〉 by that suddaine destruction ●…t came vpon them No maruel ●…gh men sin to say true it is 〈◊〉 such wonder séeing they con●…r so little the end of sinning 〈◊〉 suddainnes of their own end ●…at security is this 3 This shall be saith our Sa●…our at the time when the Sonne of man commeth Though it be ●…uer so often foretold and the ●…ke bee neuer so long a buil●…ng though many speake by ●…ce by works for al that nothing is thought vpon somtimes a little is spoken of in this world about amendment of life all is but words For the comming of the bridegroome wee haue in holy Scripture to cōsider these three things first the signes going before as the darknesse of the Sunne the trouble of the creatures and such others secondly the signes that doe accompante him as the conflagration of the world the sounding of the trumpe the resurrection of the dead Thirdly those that follow after the going vpon the right and left hand the separating of the shéepe and Goates the ioyes of some and the wofu●… miserie of others the one called with a venite benedicti Come you blessed the other refused with an ●…te maledicti Goe yee cursed Lord say the Apostles where or when shal these things be or what shall be the signes of the comming of the Sonne of man 4 For the signes precedent as so many Heraulds before the comming of the King of glor●… amongst other trouble is described to be in those superiour bo●…s as in the Sun the Moone ●…d starres vnwonted signes ●…unge sights repugnant vnto ●…ure shall be seene These are 〈◊〉 signes because they signi●… the Sunne and Moone shall 〈◊〉 obscured the starres shall fall ●…n heauen their light shall be ●…rcom of a greater light which 〈◊〉 the glorious appearing of ●…ust like as the stars appeare 〈◊〉 at the rising of the Sunne Concerning these signes let thē●…e also their mysticall sence ●…he Sunne shall be darkened ●…t is the loue of Christ the ●…nne of righteousnes by the ●…s and cloude of unpietie the ●…oone or the Church with her ●…ht from the Sunne shall loose 〈◊〉 light the starres or teachers ●…ll fall from heauenly doctrine 〈◊〉 so forth Let them haue their ●…alisence and so let be consi●…r how the heauens frowne vp●… vs and the earth trembles ●…er vs. Secondly there shall 〈◊〉 trouble in the elements and ●…eat sorrow of the Nations the Sea and the floods shall make a noyse and men shall bee at their wits ends The confused noyse of the waters mouing to and fro the elements as S. Peter saith melting with heate at all which the hearts of ●…en shall be smitten with great terror there is no flying but all amazed they shal not knowe what to doe nay that which is more the powers of heauen shal be moued séeing these vnusuall effectes to happen they shall be moued euen the Angels themselues at the suddain transmutation and the incomprehensible maiestie of Christ what shal the sprigs of the Desert do when the Cedars of Libanon be ●…ken with feare If the pillars themselues shall shake how may the weaker parts of the building tremble 5 When this little worlde to witte man for so is hee called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is now vpon the dissoluing he suffereth fantasies many troubles euery part is moued euery sence is altered the whole body Lord how is it troubled how much more shall trouble disturbance appeare when this greater world is vpon disso●…tion and nowe giuing vp the Ghost For the signes in particular as first that the lights of Heauen shall fall the waters ●…re mens harts shal faile them for feare and the rest all which ●…e shew the violence of all shall be by the force of fire The first iudgement was with water to ●…le and quench the

God in hunger and thirst in watching and praying night and day they cared not to be poore vnto the world so they might be rich vnto God to be pilgrimes or as banished men vpō the earth so they might be citizens in heauen These holy friendes of Christ as Confessors Martyrs Virgins deuout Christians of all sorts men fearing God and eschewing euill gaue euident testimonie to the world whose seruants they were It was once the complaining wish of Caesar That wee had such Souldiers as were in the time of Alexander the great Viuitur nec Deo Liue wee doe is it to God I would to God it were Wee passe on for a while More nostro after a fashion such as it is but is all this to liue Christianly No verily so a priuate estate in this world be prouided for let all sinke or swimme for the worlde to come We respect our selues onely neglecting all others Christ pleased not himselfe saith the Apostle with vs it is otherwise and yet wee thinke our selues perfect Christians In that great knowledge we haue for we sinne not so much of ignoraunce as of negligence wee knowe but little as we ought VVhat auaileth it to haue Pharaohes glorie and Pharaohes ignominie Ahabs vineyard and Ahabs destruction The rich mans life and the rich mans death VVhat blindnesse is it in seeking riches or honour wilt thou perish sayeth Saint Austen for that which perisheth Thus we goe on and that which is worse we cannot tell when wee shall make an ende Thus wee liue and thus we die VVhat other remedie in this estate of thinges the disease beeing so generall then vvith Iairus in the Gospell who comes vnto Christ with his Domine veni et impone manum Lord come lay thy hand on her and my daughter shall liue or to renue that petition of the Prophet Dauid It is time Lord that thou haue mercie vppon Sion yea the time is come All that men can doe in this case is to obserue the manner of louing friendes who in visiting the sicke partie euerie one bringes somewhat by the grace of GOD to further his health for while GOD doth afoord space of repentance and the happie light of his Gospel amongst vs wee may not dispayre of anie ones conuersion to aduise men for the best it is their care to whom God hath cōmended in his owne sted a fatherly care of soules There is a necessitie laid vppon vs all to liue well wee runne for a wager we fight for a garland In seeking to repaire deuotion pietie which this world hath welneer lost we will be as ready as our aduersaries themselues and in honouring our Lord Iesus Christ who hath honoured vs all we wil goe with them hand in hand if not before them in cleaning to the foundation wee hope one day to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the liuing howsoeuer vncharitable vnpriestly and vnchristian Censurers in manie spitefull Pamphlets giue out against vs. T is true the sinfulnes of this age is great with sighing hearts we wish it were otherwise and with the Publican say Nowe God be mercifull vnto vs for we are sinners we are not as we should be good God make vs better But sirs are wee alone in this defect of godlinesse Your owne Writers will tell you no happily your own experience can tell you no seeing iniquitie like the darknesse of Egypt hath spread it selfe ouer the face of the earth Would to God this bitternes were left on both sides and that contention were once laid asleepe Moyses would not haue an Hebrew smite an Hebrew There is a common aduersarie of vs all let vs fight against him vvho lieth in waite like a subtill spie his desire is to make discorde and trouble in earth because hee can trouble heauen no more VVell let busie medlers content themselues and serue GOD humbly in their calling let them cease to trouble the peace of this Church and Common-wealth which Iesus Christ long continue remembring that of Gamiel If this counsell be of men it will come to nou●…ht but if it be of God you cannot destroy it VVere wee no other but plaine naturall men God giuing vs reason and vnderstanding we are thence mooued to passe our time orderlie whilest wee are heere It is our common saying Better vnborne then vntaught but beeing Christian men mercifull Lord that wee should not remember the happie hope wee all haue or ought to haue In the Articles of our Creede wee mention an euerlasting life after death and acknowledge a iudgement to come O good God that wee should liue as if hell fire were no other but a Poeticall fiction Assuredly wee doe our calling open iniurie acknowledging the holie Catholique Christian faith when our profession promiseth one thing and our practise performeth another Is it not wonderfull that we shold euen forget whose creatures we are yet this we doe all knowe their beginning was from God that after a while in GOD they must end Now for to spend this space betweene our beginning and our end in vndutifull sort toward him were in very reason vnreasonable When wee see a vineyard well manured and ordered wee by and by say It hath a good Keeper shall wee not say the same of a life well ordered It is a glory vnto the vine when the branches are fruitfull it is a ioy vnto the Father when the Sonne is dutifull we are the braunches Christ is the vine we are his children hee is our Father Father which is aboue all through all and in vs all Being Christians we are the Lords heritage and the Lords heritage should be holy vnto him wherfore the name Christian saith an ancient Father is a name of iustice a name of goodnes a name of integritie of patience of humility of innocencie of pietie and hee rightly beareth this name who neuer beareth malice in his heart who followeth Christes doctrine and endeuoreth Christes example that blessed patterne for imitation The skilfull Painter hauing nowe proposed vnto himselfe some excellent worke all his study care is to expresse in as liuely manner as he can the forme laid out before him the life of Christ our Sauiour according to his humanity is laid out before vs as a goodly table our best Arte and industrie is required to work according to this forme and to labour seriouslie vntill Christ be formed in vs as the Apostle speaketh that is vntill some forme or resemblance of him appeare in vs vvho are his children and beare his name Rude work God knowes make they who neuer regard the patterne set before them nor any way respect the wel ordering of the pensill and so drawe such monstrous and vgly formes as themselues may be sorie to see should I call him a christian sayeth one in whom there is no act of Christianitie no conuersation of iustice who oppresseth the miserable who maketh manie poore to make himselfe rich whose mouth is