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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22838	A heavenly treasure of confortable meditations and prayers written by S. Augustin, Bishop of Hyppon in three seuerall treatises of his meditations, soliloquies, and manual. Faithfully translated into English by the R. F. Antony Batt monke, of the holy order of S Bennet of the Congregation of England; De meditatione. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Batt, Antonie.	1624 (1624)	STC 934; ESTC S101507	162,145	412

be pertaker of thy glory For albeit I doe not presume to demaunde by mine owne meritt to be admitted into thy wōderfull beauty yett I doe not despaire to obtaine the same by the meritt of his sacred bloud who hath redeemed me Onely lett thy meritts helpe me lett thy most holy and pure prayers which cannot but be effectuall in the sight of God succoure my sinfulnes I haue gone astray I confesse as a lost sheep my aboad here hath ben too too long being cast farr from the face of my Lord God into the darknes of this exile Where remaining expelled from the ioyes of heauen I doe dayly bewaile with my selfe the calamities of this my captiuitie making great lementation and in mournefull manner sounding forth a dolefull ditty when I remember thee o mother Hierusalem whilst the feet of mine affections stand at the entrance of thy gates o holie and comely Syon not being yet admitted to behold thine inner partes wide open but I hope one day to be brought vnto thee on the shoulders of my shepheard who hath built thee that I may dance with thee through that vnspeakable pleasure wherewith they reioyce who are with thee in the presence of God and our Sauiour who in his flesh through the effusion of his bloud hath made peace and pacified all thinges in heauen and in earth For he is our peace vinting both in one who ioyning together two opposite walles hath promised to bestow vpon vs in the same manner and measure the fullnes of thy felicitie which consisteth in the fruition of himselfe for all eternitie saying They shal be equall to the Angells of God in heauen O Hierusalem the euer happy house of God next after the loue of Christ be thou my ioy and comforte lett the sweete remembrance of thy blessed name be a solace to the sorrowes and heauines of minde Of the manifolde m●series with which mans life is replenished CHAP. XXI VEril●e o Lord I am wonderfull werie of this life and paine full pilgrimage This life is a miserable life a fraile life an vncertaine life a laborious life an vncleane life a life mystres of miscreants queene of such 〈◊〉 are proude full of miserie and 〈◊〉 not worthy to be termed a life yea rather a death in which we dy by sondry so●●es of death almost ech moment of time by the diuers defects of change and alteration The time therefore which we liue in this world how can we truly call it a life whom humore● puffe vp whom paines pull downe whom hea●es doe parch whō the aire maketh sick whom resting maketh fat and fasting maketh leane whom delightes make dissolute whom sorrowes do● consume whom pensiuenesse doth oppresse whom securitie maketh dull whom riches lift vp and make stately whō pouerty doth abase and make lowly whō youth maketh to be magnified old age to be crooked whom sicknes weakeneth sadnes afflicteth And close as it were at the heeles of all these euills doth furious death come after closing vp the end of all the delightes of this miserable life in that fashion as that being ended it is as if it had neuer been begun And albeit this liuing death and dying life be replenished with these and many more miseries ●et alas it entrappeth very many by her flattering allu●ements and noe lesse nomber by her false promises of preferments And although it be soe apparently false and bitter as that the blind louers thereof cannot but see and perceiue it yet by reason of the golden cup which it holdeth in her hand it causeth an infinite nomber of fooles to drinke and to be wholy drunke therwith They therefore are happy although not many who refuse her familiaritie who contemne her delightes transitorie who abandon her companie least at length they runne to ruine and perdition together with her that deceiued them Of the happines of that life which God hath prepared for those that loue him CHAPT XXII O Thou thrise happie life which God hath prepared for those that loue him a liuing life a blessed life a secure life a peaceable life a beautifull life a cleane life a chaste life a holy life a life voide of death free from sorrow a life without blemish without heauines without vexation without corruption without perturbation without variation and mutation a life full of all beautie and dignitie where there is noe aduersarie to impugne vs noe occasion of sinne to allure vs where charitie raigneth in perfection hauing noe feare of anie euil approaching where there is one onely day which is eternall and one onely minde and meaning of al where God face to face is seene apparently and with this bread of life the soule is satisfied aboundantlie O blessed life it pleaseth me much to thinke of thy brightnes and excellencie my hart is not a little delighted when I minde those good thinges which are in thee The more I thinke of thee the more I loue thee for that I am wonderfullie recreated through the vehement desire and sweete remembrance of thee It pleaseth me therefore to lift vp to thee the eyes of my hart to direct to thee the state of my mind to frame towardes thee the affectiō of a freinde Verilye it delighteth me to speake of thee to heare of thee to write of thee to conferre of thee to reade something daily of thy glorie and beatitude and often in my hart to thinke vpon what I haue reade that soe vnder the sweete shadowe of thy vitall ayre I may in some sorte be free from the hea●es dangers and sweates of this sraile and bricke life and being free may a little rest my weary head falling as it weare a sleepe in thy blessed bosome For this cause I am accustomed to enter into the pleasant feildes of the holie scriptures where I gather the most greene and wholsome hearbes of sacred sentences by writing them I eate them by reading I chewe them by frequent meditation and at lenght I doe swallowe them downe into the stomach of my memorie by recollection tha● by this meanes hauinge tasted of thy sweetnesse I may the lesse feele this most miserable lifes bitternes O life most happy o kingedome truly blessed voide of death neuer to haue ending where time without succession of ages is still the same where one continual day without interchange of night knoweth neither time past nor to come where the victorious souldier being vnited to those harmonious quires of Angels doth singe to God without intermission a Canticle of the Canticles of Syon Hauing his head adorn'd with an eternall croune By Christ th' eternall kinge in token of renoune O would to God my sinnes being pardonned and the burden of my fraile flesh being forth with laied aside I might enter into thy ioyes there to finde euerlastinge repose and might be admitted within the walles of thy Citty there from the handes of our Lord to receiue a crowne of glory to the end I might be placed to singe as one of that