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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61254	A treatise of God's government and of the justice of his present dispensations in this world by the pious, learned and most eloquent Salvian ... ; translated from the Latin by R.T. ... ; with a preface by the Reverend Mr. Wagstaffe.; De gubernatione Dei. English	Salvian, of Marseilles, ca. 400-ca. 480.; R. T., Presbyter of the Church of England.; Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712.	1700 (1700)	Wing S519; ESTC R16712	155,065	281

necessaries of Life Why do we forbear to Thank Him for His help in our Distresses that he gives us Deliverance in times of Danger and for His Preservation and Protection in the midst of so many Barbarous Nations The Goths do not do thus this is not the way of the Vandals altho' their Instructors be but indifferent yet in this particular they are much better than we I have reason to think some will be offended at what I say But since Truth is more to be regarded than any Mans Displeasure I will say it and say it again The Goths do not do thus this is not the Practice of the Vandals who when they are in any Danger beg help of God and call their Successes the Gift of Heaven Our Misfortune in a late Encounter is a Proof of this For when the Goths were afraid we presum'd to put our Confidence in the Huns but they trusted in God when they sued to us for Peace we deny'd them they sent our Bishops we rejected them they Honoured God in His Priests tho' of * The Goths became Arians in the time of the Emperor Valens another Communion but we contemn Him even in our own As the Actions of either Party were so was the Issue of the Matter Victory was given them in the greatest fear and confusion to us amidst the greatest Haughtiness and Stifness So that the saying of our Lord was truly fulfill'd both in us Luk. 14. v. 11. and them For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be Litorius in the Year 439 taken as he was besieging Tolose the Capital City of the Goths in Gaul be exalted For they were exalted for their Humility and we were abased for our Pride X. That Commander of Ours found the truth of this who enter'd that City of the Enemies as a Prisoner which on the same day he presum'd he should have entred as a Conquerour He sufficiently prov'd what the Wise Man said A mans heart deviseth Prov. 16. v. 9. his Way but the Lord directeth his Steps For because he thought his Way was in his own Power he neither had the direction of his Steps neither did he find the path of Safety Psal 107. v. 40. Contempt as we read is poured upon Princes he wander'd in the Wilderness where there is no Way and is brought to nothing as Water that runneth apace Now in this Case beside the Misfortune of the thing the Present Judgment of God was manifested that he himself should suffer what of his own head he thought he should Inflict on others For because he believed that he could Captivate the Enemy without the Assistance and help of Heaven he himself was made a Prisoner He pretended to the highest pitch of Counsel and Wisdom and yet incurr'd the Disgrace of Fool-hardiness The Shackles he prepar'd for others he carried himself and pray how could the Judgment of God appear more evidently than that he who had the daringness of the Plunderer should himself become a Booty who presuming upon Triumph should himself become the Subject of one should be encompass'd about hall'd along should be bound have his Arms ty'd behind him should see those Hands Shackl'd which he thought were excellent at Fighting should become a Spectacle to Children and Women should see the Barbarians playing Tricks with him should bear the Taunts and Scoffs of both Sexes and that he who had all the Arrogance and Pride of a Man of Mettle should undergo the Death of a Coward And I wish this were the short Remedy of his Misfortunes and that his Torments were not more lasting For he as to the Punishment they inflicted on him being kept a long time in Goal by the Barbarians and wasting under a lingring Distemper was reduc'd to that Misery That which Men oftentimes take to be more grievous and bitter than their Hardships he was even pitied by his very Enemies And how came all this to pass How without doubt but because as I now said they were obedient to God and we Rebels to Him they believ'd Victory was in the hand of God and we took it to be in our own nay in * Those of the Huns. impious and sacrilegious ones which is worse and more wicked than our own The * Theodoric King of the Goths King of our Enemies as the thing it self hath declar'd and prov'd prostrate in Sackcloath powr'd out Prayers to the very day of the Battle before the Battle he lay at Prayer and rose from Prayer to the Battle Before he began the Fight he had fought with Supplications and therefore he march'd in Confidence to the Battle because his Devotion had already merited the Victory XI The Case was much the same as this In the Year 422. in the Engagement with the Vandals against whom being fix'd in Spain when our Army march'd and carried as much Considence and Presumption along them that they should certainly rout them as they lately did in the Affair of the Goths they perish'd with the same Insolence and Pride and with the very same Destruction And that saying of the Prophet came upon our Army The Lord hath rejected Jerem. 2. v. 37. thy Confidence and thou shalt not prosper in them For we trusted in our Wisdom and our might in contradiction to God's Command who says Let not the wise man glory in Jerem. 9. v. 23 24. his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might but let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me for I am the Lord. We are therefore deservedly overcome For they betook themselves to better helps than we For whilst we prided our selves in our own Armies and those of our Allies our Enemies on the other side had among them the Books of the Holy Scriptures The Fear and Consternation of the Vandals had at that time driven them for Help to them more especially that they might oppose the sacred Volume of the heavenly Oracles against their approaching Foes and even open the very mouth of God Almighty against us Here now I would know whether any one of our side ever did thus or who would not be ridicul'd that should but think of doing it He would be scoffed at with a Witness as almost every thing that relates to Religion is by our People And therefore what Advantage can it be to us to have a Religious Title that we call our selves Catholicks and boast of the Purity of our Faith that we despise the Goths and Vandals and upbraid them with the Name of Hereticks when we our selves live as wickedly as any Hereticks can do And therefore that is most truly said to us which holy Writ spoke to the Jews that trusted in the Law How do ye say we are Wise and the Law of the Lord Jerem. 8. v. 8. is with us Trust ye not says the Prophet in lying words saying The Temple of the Lord Jerem. 7. v. 4