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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72844	The conversion of a sinner faithfully translated out of Italian, by M.K.; Breefe treatise exhorting sinners to repentance	Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588.; M. K., fl. 1580.	1598 (1598)	STC 16899.5; ESTC S124577	58,895	174

day be depriued before the darke night of death steale vppon you and ere your féete be entrapped or ye stumble at that foule blacke hillocke Therefore take the time and day whilest ye haue it for it shall be turned into darknesse And our Lord himselfe who better then any other knoweth the deapth of this daunger aduertiseth vs hereof in his Euangelist saying Luke 11. Take héed that your hearts be not opprest with too much meate drinke and with ouermuch care and turmoyle of this world least that dreadfull day catch you at vnwares which will steale vpon you like a théefe and vpon all those which inhabit vpon the face of the earth Therefore watch and pray continually that you may be deliuered from these huge heapes of calamities which hereafter will happen that you being cleane and vndefiled may be presented before the sonne of the pure Virgin the promoter of all our auaile and profit The Argument Those which haue loued God and liued according to his will shall be rewarded in Paradise which is the glory and merit that good men do respect Which notwithstanding any difference that is among the elect bringeth a common comfort and pleasure to them all because there is perfect charitie and God is all in euery thing Wherfore no other exercise is vsed there or no other paine or trauaile then to loue God to laude and glorifie him incessantly for euer CHAP. IIII. NOw that we haue declared the cōdemnation and sharpe sentence to be pronounced vpon the wretched sinner it followeth consequently that we treat likewise of the glorious recompence wherewith the righteous shall be endued which is nought else but that happie life and kingdome which God hath ordeined for his chosen people euen from the creation of all things which is such and so excellent that neither with the tongue of men nor Angels it can be expressed But that ye may haue some taste of this heare what S. Augustine briefly saith in commendation hereof in a certaine meditation of his in this sort O life alotted by God to them that loue him a liuing life a life voide of care a blessed life a quiet life a pleasaunt life a pure life a chaste life a life enemie to death a life that knoweth no gréefe voyd of molestation of smart of anxietie voyd of all corruption voyd of perturbatiōs not subiect to varietie change or mutabilitie A life full of beautie and perfection where no enemie shall molest thée nor no trespasse offend thée when is perfect vnitie vnfeigned and holie loue where all feare is far away where is one eternall day without alteration where God is séene face to face which is the foode of all that there abive Swéet GOD with an vnsatiable heart and greedie minde I couet thy hidden treasures and the more I long after them the more I luste and burne in desire considering thée my delight my life and Sauiour in contemplation whereof I féele my selfe excéedingly refreshed and reuiued O moste happie life O very blessed kingdome altogither with out death and without ende which doest not yéelde to any succession or alteration of times where is bright day continually without interruption of night there it is not knowne what mutation meaneth where the tryumphant Souldiour accompanied with a glittering crewe of Angelles singeth vnto GOD without ceasing the passing praise of Sion hauing gotten the crowne of euerlasting felicitie I would to God that my sin my gréeuous guilt were forgiuen me Thrise blessed were my soule if after this painefull pylgrimage I might be worthy to sée and beholde thy glory the beatitude the beautie the walles and the gates of thy Citie thy stréetes thy pallaces thy noble Citizens thy worthie King setled in his throne of magnificence Thy walles are made of precious stones thy gates are beautified with shining Pearles thy stréetes are paued with pure gold which resounde and ring aloude with the peales of perpetuall praises Thy houses are buylded with quadrant stones adorned with Saphyrs thy beames and rafters are of golde where no corruption can abide nothing may enter that is defiled O Hierusalem our mother thou art braue and pleasaunt in thy deuises the force of no aduersitie is felte in thée neither any of those discommodities are susteyned whiche here we find Thy ioyes are farre aboue any which this wretched life can yéelde vs. In thee is neuer founde night darkenesse nor chaunge of times Thy light issueth neither from lampe nor from the Moone nor yet from the stars but God the light of all lightes is ho which lightneth thée The supernall Emperour kéepeth continuall residence in the middest of thée enuironed and assisted with many millions of his ministers There the angelicall quires answere each to other melodiously there the frutes of true nobilitie doo yéelde a pleasaunt sent and spectacle to the beholders there is celebrated the feast of those who being safely arriued from the bottomlesse sea of these miseries and mishappes are incorporate in one societie with those which possesse eternall life There is the company of the Prophets the royall ranke of the Apostles the inuincible hoast of innumerable Martyrs there is the sacred conuent of graue Confessors there are the true religious the deuout women who despising all delights and dalliance haue conquered their fraile inclination There are the virgins and younglings which with their vertuous indnstry haue shunned she allurements of this vile deceitfull world There are the innocent lambs who robbing themselues of all earthly pleasures doo now skip and leape for ioy in theyr propper and peculiar houses And whatsoeuer difference there be in glory amōg them notwithstanding the solace and contentation is common to all There charitie ruleth béeing entire and perfect for that god is all in all whom they alwaies sée and séeing him continually are euer enflamed with his loue therefore they louing praise him and praysing loue him all their exercise all their endeuour is to magnifie him without ceassing or intermission O how happie were I and most happie if after the dissolution of this corporall prison I might heare the swéete musicall songs of that celestiall harmony and sing Psalmes of cōmendation to the eternall king of al the woorthy company of the most happie Cittie Now happie shoulde I be yea twise blessed if I might attaine to this felicitie to sing stand before my King my God my guide and to behold him in his glorie as himselfe hath promised to be séene Ioh. 7. whē he said O father my desire is that all those may be with me which thou hast giuen me that they may see the cleare brightnesse which I had with thée before the foundation of the world And all this is vouched out of S. Augustine Now tell me then what a chearefull day shall that be which shall so illuminate and clarisie thy courage if at the full consummation of this pilgrimage thou passe from mortalitie to immortalitie and in the same time that other●

wealth whose power whose wisedome can be neither augmented nor diminished who neither before the cōstitution of the world nor after he had made all things is one iot more or lesse then hee was before nor if all the angels and all mankinde should be saued and should praise him perpetually is any whit the woorthier nor if they all were damned and did blaspheme him is lesse glorious at all This so great a lord not drawne nor driuen by any straights at all but of méere grace and bountie whilst our acts of hostilitie were yet in fresh memorie was content to encline the heauens of his royall maiestie and to descend into this Caue of calamities to cloath him with the vesture of our mortalitie to charge himselfe with the déepe debt of al our sins and for satisfaction thereof to endure such torments as were neuer suffered in this world For my sake O Lorde thou wast borne in a stall for mée thou wast laid in a manger for mée thou wast circumcised the eight day for me thou wast conueyed into Egypt for me to conclude thou wast persecuted and turmoyled with a number of infamies for me thou watchedst for me thou trauailedst for me thou swettest for mée thou didst wéepe for me thou hast prooued all those euils which my enormous crimes haue deserued thou béeing innocent and guiltlesse Finally for mée thou wast apprehended as a malefactour abandoned of thy fréends solde denied presented before the tribunall seate of those iudges where thou were accused bufferted defamed whipped spitted at scratched condemned crucified blasphemed pierced with a speare dead and buried Therefore with what desert of mine can I acquite my selfe I will not say of all these courtesies but of the least drop of blood shed out of thy holy side for me vnworthy wretch How is it possible that I should loue him sufficiently who so hath loued me so hath created me so hath redéemed me and hath bought mée so dearely If I be lifted vp from the earth sayth our Sauiour all things shall be drawne after me But with what chaines with what violence With the force of loue and with the bondes of his benefits With the rope of Adam sayth our Lorde I will draw thē vnto me and with the knot of loue Therefore who will not bee lifted vppe with this draught who will not suffer himselfe to bee catcht and caried with such chaines If one little drop of water falling continually vppon a stone will pearce and breake it at the last how shall not the bonds of so many benefits be inough to rent my stony heart a sunder And if the very earth wrought in the feruent heat is sometimes conuerted into fire how shall my heart be frée from burning béeing so beset with the glowing coles of such vnmeasurable loue if it bee so haynous an offence not to loue this Lorde what shall it be to offend him to despise him and to transgresse his commaundementes How canst thou haue any heart or hand to offende those handes which haue bene so bountifull vnto thée which for thée were spread vpon the crosse When that lasciuious woman besought the Patriarke Ioseph that he would betray his maister the holy man repelled her with this saying Behold O wretched woman what trust my Lord hath reposed in me to put all that he hath into my handes except thée his wife therefore with what face can I commit this vilanie against my Soueraigne Which is as if hée had sayd If my Lord hath béen so friendly affectioned towards me if he hath committed all that he hath to my custodie if in such wise he hath fancied and honoured me that in me only it resteth to dispose of his affaires how may I béeing tyed with the bonds of so many benefites haue any handes at all to offende a Lorde so liberall And it doeth not content him to say It is no reason to offende him but How can I offend him for the greatnesse of good turnes doo not onely restraine the will but in a manner all power and possibilitie to annoy the benefactor And it bindeth fast both the handes and the féete of a man that he cannot striue against it Wherefore if these kind of ceremonies as to bee gratefull for good turnes bée of so great force what shall we thinke of the benefites of God That man committed to Iosephs fidelitie all his businesse and God hath put into thy hands all that he hath Consider then howe much Gods treasures are more woorthy then any that Pharao did possesse for that so much more is this which thou enioyest then was that which Ioseph did receiue But tell me what thing hath God which he hath not giuen into thy hands heauen earth the sunne the moone the starres the sea birdes fishes trées beasts and finally all that is conteined vnder the golden globe he hath bestowed vppon thée and yet not that onely which is héere belowe in earth but likewise all that is in the Heauens aboue which is the glory the riches and the delights of Angels and Saintes which are there praying busily for thy commoditie All things saith the Apostle are yours whether it be Paul Paul or Apollo or Peter bee it the worlde bee it life bee it death bee it the time present or that to come all is yours for that all serueth for your behoofe and yet not that alone which is aboue the heauens but the Lord of heauen himselfe hath giuen vs his onely sonne after sundry sorts sometimes as a patron sometimes as a defendor sometimes as a sauiour sometimes for a teacher sometime for a Phisitian sometime for a rewarde sometime for a conseruation sometime for a remedie and for each other our néed The Father hath giuen vs his sonne the sonne hath merited for vs the holy Ghost the holy Ghost hath made vs meritorious of GOD the Father himselfe from whome floweth the streames of all felicitie Therefore if this father as the Apostle sayth hath giuen vs his onely sonne which was the greatest gift he could bestow on vs howe will hee not deliuer vnto vs with him all other things whatsoeuer Therfore if it bee true that God hath giuen vnto thée al that he hath if he hath wrapt thée fast with obligation of so many benefites howe is it possible that thou shouldest molest or gréeue so liberall and bountifull a benefactour If it be a gréeuous crime not to be thankfull for so good turnes what shall it be to adioyne to ingratitude the contempt and offence of the benefactor If that young man founde himselfe in such bondage and so impotent to annoy him who had committed to his fidelitie the charge of his house what heart or courage canst thou haue to offend him which for thy behoofe hath created both heauen earth O more vngrateful then the very beast O more cruell then the Tigres O more insensible then the senslesse creatures not to consider so great a fall for what beast what Lion what Tiger