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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01759	The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisedome, acquired the name of sapiens. Faithfully translated out of the originall Latine.; Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. English	Gildas, 516?-570?; Abingdon, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 11895; ESTC S103163	93,511	458

better order and cheefely above all had imbraced Christian and Catholike religion then behold what these Benjamins proved who by the British Iacob Gildas I meane are termed Lupi â— rapaces ravenous Wolves see if that was not truely fulfilled in them which was rightly prophesied of that worthy Benjamin S. Paul which is Mane rapit vespere dividit escas in the morning or at the first they gained their booties by spoyling but in the evening or at the last they distributed their foode or baites what foode but to satisfie the hungry soules of men what baites but to catch such fish as might serve for the festivall table of our Saviour Looke into Wales and Cornewall and see how many Townes beare yet the names of Irish Saints who harboured there not as before to punish the Britaines with death but to draw them to the rewards of eternall life Peruse the histories of the Countries beyond Humber you shall read how the Pictes and inhabitants of Scotland who sometimes broke downe the Northerne fortifications and invaded the Land did afterwards beate down the Bulwarke of hell delivered the soules which sinne did withhold in bondage and made them the blessed captives of Christ men undoubtedly of rare holinesse and unspotted conversation had they not beene a little blemished with an erronious opinion about the celebration of Easter which as venerable Bede signifieth continued the longer among them because inhabiting in a farre removed region of the world they had not heard of the Cannons of the Church which commanded the contrary Moreover as our Saviour did feede them bodily whom before he refreshed spiritually so did they of Scotland not onely with the bread of life releeve their neighbours but also received the Britaines when they were expulsed out of their Country by the Saxons into their bosome and suffered them quietly to inhabit by them in Cumberland and with like charitable affection entertained also the Saxons with their Prince Edgar when they fled from the countenance of the victorius Norman William the Conqueror And as touching their old barbarous misbehaviour which Gildas here mentioneth we have no more reason to upbraide the Scottish therewith then to cast in the teethes of the refined Italians what their Country was before Saturne did first instruct them in civility being a time so overgrowne with rudnesse as the Poets doe thereupon wittily descant that men of that age were borne out of the trunckes of trees For in processe of time by carefull diligence commeth the correction and amendment of Countries and by carelesse negligence falleth the corruption and destruction of Nations The last are the Saxons and English called by him a people odious to God and man to God because they were Idolatrous Infidels to man because they murthered and oppressed the Christian Britaines and although he enlargeth himselfe in the dispraise of the Nation let no man neverthelesse suppose that he uttereth this of any malice as stung with the dreadfull miseries with the which they vexed his Country For who knoweth not that the English were in his age enemies of Christ religion and the Land But according to Esay In the dennes wherein dragons did formerly dwell greene reedes and rushes did afterwards grow and after the sentence of Hosea Where it was sayd ye were no people of mine there shall the same persons bee named the sonnes of the living God Yea the Lyons the Liberds the Beares and the Wolves shall as the Prophet writeth quietly lodge and live with Oxen Sheepe Kiddes and Calves and a little child no doubt the Sonne of the Virgin shall governe them all For if ever the wilde Olive were changed into the rightfull Olive of our Lord or if ever tree brought forth the true fruits of goodnesse then were both these undoubtedly verified in the Saxons For although they came but lately into the Vineyard yet having entred they laboured diligently and undertaking the race of a Christian life they ranne most swiftly and gained the garland victoriously and who so thinketh I exceede in their commendation let him but cast his eyes round about this Realme and hee shall see the Churches and Monuments of religion some fevv onely excepted altogether founded by them and that vve may leave the dead buildings and come to the lively stones of the heavenly Ierusalem how are the Provinces shires and Parishes of the Land severally adorned with mighty number of English Saints and if we may measure by the Governours what the people were since unto the examples of their Rulers the subjects are commonly conformable let us but consider the royall off-spring of the Saxons and we shall finde that never in any land so many Princes left their worldly estates to embrace Christian poverty and draw in the Yoake of our Saviour and never so many of Kingly blood were canonised in the heavenly Register as in this our Country what shall I say more In omnem terram exivit sonus eorum their renowne is spread over the whole world and their glory fixed above the firmament in so much as William of Malmsbury deriving the Pedegree of holy Edward the Confessour sheweth a descent not onely of Kings but also of Saints so as to the Church then among us those Words of Esay may be fitly applyed Reges servient tibi and againe Mamilla regum lactaberis Kings shall doe service unto thee and with the teates of Princes thou shalt be nourished Let us leave the heavens and returne to the earth was the glory of the Saxons which now mounted in blessed vertues aboue the Skie bounded here below onely in the Cloystures of Monasteries No but as the shaddow followeth the body so likewise ensued all commodities requisite in a well ordered regiment and first as touching learning which manureth the mindes of men and maketh them in due season bring forth their timely fruites they founâ—ded both the Vniversiâ—ties of Oxford and Camâ—bridge For the ancienâ— lawes the most excelâ—lent helme which steared the state the bridle which restrayned distempered wils and the very soule of the body of the Common-wealth they were by them chiefely framed and did their prayse onely consist in matters of pietie and peace and was not their warlike glory equall to their civill government not so truely but as a well compacted body hath bones and sinewes sutable to the head so was their powerfull strength answerable to their other vertues and not-onely of singular proofe at home but also obtained a most high commendation abroad in forraigne Countries All which heroicall actions they accomplished in lesse than five hundred yeeres notwithstanding they were during the same time almost continually either invaded by strangers or molested by unquiet neighbours And thus have I somewhat inlarged my selfe in declaring the undoubted worthinesse of these three Nations because I shall be enforced in this my translation to discover their ancient imperfections neither have I used this commendation as sugar Whereby these distastfull pills may bee the better

Greeke whereof Gildas could not be ignorant sithence he flourished about one hundâ—ed yeeres afterwards and was a man of great knowledge and wisedome but in respect this Island had beene long corrupted with Heretickes and now oppressed with Infidels it is likely that the Church in Britaine by reason of the tumults of such rebellious and outragious enemies wanting her due preeminence could not as yet display the banner of this reformed Bible but marched under the Ensigne of some other Translation which our Authour speaking generally to the whole Land hath for conformitie unto the common fashion as it seemeth vouchsafed here to use being especially as apt as any other to reprove the disorders of the Iland and no way patronizing either the Arians or Pellagians the most deadly cankers as then of the Christian Common-wealth or any other heresie that hath ever since lifted up her viperous head against the Church of God Another thing very much to bee lamented and merveiled at is that not onely the temporall Princes but also the Spirituall Rulers whose lives should be a light unto the rest and salt to preserve the soules of men from corruption had at this time many of them so degenerated from all goodnes as not only it provoked the justice of God to dispossesse them of their Country and give it to their deadly foes the Saxons but also made Pollidor Virgill suppose that Britaine did never after the persecution of Dioclesian perfectly returne unto the unity of the Catholicke Church againe an opinion by Gildasses owne words refelled for he sheweth how after the stormy winter as hee calleth it of this persecution succeeded the flourishing spring of true Christian and Catholicke religion but the Author himselfe declareth some notorious causes of the ruine of as well Civill as Ecclesiasticall discipline and the first was heresies for upon this fruitfull seede of the Gospell came the Arians and scattered the darnell of their detestable doctrine yea as he saith all other damnable Sectaries breathed out upon the Land their venemous poyson and not onely this but also from the very bowels of Britaine was borne that accursed wretch Pellagius and shortly after the death of Gildas were the Britaine 's overwhelmed with the darkesome cloud of the Quartodecimani who varied froÌ„ the Church of God in celebrating the feast of Easter these truely were the mothes that did eate the garment of the governmeÌ„t of the realme Another was bloudy warre the depraver of Civill discipline and the Author of disorder that for many yeeres built here his Fortresse who as hee commandeth for the time all Spirituall and nationall Lawes to silence so hee corrupteth the manners of all Countries through which hee marcheth by the power of warre were Infidels planted in the Land who as they were professed foes of the faith of God so were their lives defiled with all offences and these also in all likelihood infected the Britaines with the plague of their vices After the warres were ended and Britaines together with the Saxons like Sheepe and Goates continued in one fold altogether for a while the scourge of misery which chastised the Christian Britanes terrified them from transgressing the Commandements of God yet plentifull peace the Nurse of sensuality so lulled them afterwards asleepe in her lap with a seeming but deceitfull security that hereupon sprung the last cause of their confusion to wit exceeding wickednesse sprouting out from the roote of abundant wealth For according unto Moses Incrassatus est dilectus recalcitravit incrassatus impinguatus dilatatus dereliquit Deum factorem suum c. and even as the Children of Israel did sit them downe to eate and drinke and then arose to play untill the fury of our Lord was pawred out upon them so the Britaine 's growing fat in worldly pleasures and foule in hidious sinnes continued on in their earthly contentments untill the sword of the Saxons which was scarcely as yet put in the sheath againe was by the sufferance of God drawne out afresh to deprive them of their pleasant Country But although mine Author Gildas discovereth the defects of Princes and Prelates yet let no man thinke that any Subjects can for the deadly sinnes of their Superiours either deprive or disobey them since neither David did for his adultery with Bersabee and murther of his faithfull servant Vrias lose his royalty nor yet the Authority of the chaire of Moses was any whit diminished although Scribes and Pharisees for a time possessed the same but that the Leapers who were clensed were sent to the Priests although unworthy of their Primacy and Caiphas himselfe albeit he was the persecutor of Christ Iesus prophesied because he was high Priest of that yeere all which I professe against the Heretickes who have perversely maintained the contrary Neither yet let any man falsly imagine that the Land was wholly as then drowned in iniquities for as Gildas doth in 2 places apparantly manifest there were diverse at that very time whose vertues he doth most highly commend and reverence Now before I doe harbour in the Haven of my desired end I must of necessitie passe by three rockes of exceeding danger the invectives I meane of Gildas against some sorts of people most happily combined under his Majesties government the first the Britanes the most auncient inhabitantes of this Island the other the Irish together with the Scottish and Pictes who next possessed part of the Land and last the Saxons and English who have very long enjoyed the most large and fruitfull portion of the Country The Britaines not onely by the pen of Sir Iohn Price a learned Knight and writer of theirs suspect Gildas for a Libeller but doe hardly also sustaine other Authors who alleadge also out of him any thing that may seeme disgracefull to the Nation unto whom truely as I have ever borne all due respect and tender affection so doe I most humbly crave their pardon in a word or two without offence to defend their wise and worthy Countreymen whom I may well compare unto a father who correcting his childe telleth him onely of his faults and imperfections or unto the Prophets who in old time reproving the Israelites did lay nothing before their eyes but their sinnes and offences or to the man in the Gospell who labouring to make his vine bring forth the desired fruit dresseth the roote with unsavory dung He doth not declare as now O renowned Britaines how yee releived your friends the Galles against the invincible Legions of Caesar how valiently yee defended your Land against his conquering army how one King of a little corner of your Island Silures or South-Wales I meane maintained warre against the whole power of Rome and the world and afterwards onely by misfortune falling into the hands of his honorable enemies was by them held in equall estimation for worthinesse with Perses the successour of Alexander but for valour with Alexander the great himselfe he nameth not your victorious Vortimer nor

unjust mightily pursuing robbers abroad truely in the Country and yet not only loving but also rewarding such theeves as are with them at their tables giving almes bountifully but on the contrary side heaping upmountaines of mischiefes miserably sitting in the throne of Iustice but seldome seeking out the rules of rightfull judgement disdaining the honest and humble but extolling as much as in them lyeth unto the very starres the blooddy the proud the monstrous murtherers the combined and adulterous enemies if so as they say they may prevaile of God himselfe who together with their very names are to be razed absolutely out of the earth having many fettered in their goales but lading them with chaines whom they rather beate downe by deceits then punish for any due desarts making solemne oathes on the Altars and presently afterwards despising the same Altars as if they were but durty stones Of which so horrible a crime Constantine the Tyrannicall whelpe of the uncleane Lyonesse of Dannonier is not guiltlesse This selfe same yeare after the taking of a dreadfull oath whereby he bound himselfe first before God and by a solemne sworne protestation then calling all the quires of Saints and Mother of God to witnesse that hee would not contrive any deceipts against his Country-men he did neverthelesse in the reverent bosomes of two mothers the Church and the carnall Parent under the habit of the Saintly Abbot Amphibalus amiddest the very holy sacred Altars as I have sayd in stead of teeth with his abhominable sword and lavelin wound and rent the most tender sides of two royall children or cruelly the entrailes of two such nurselings whose armes no way defended with armour which no man almost as then more stoutly than these poore babes used but stretched against the day of Iudgement to God and the Altar did hang up O Christ at the gates of thy City the venerable ensignes of their patience and faith yea so he did it as the purple cloakes as it were of congealed blood did touch the seate of the heavenly sacrifice neither did he commit this truely after any precedent commendable actions For many yeeres before was he overcome with the often and interchangeable stenches of adulteries having thrust away his lawfull wife against the commandement of Christ and also the Doctor of the Gentiles saying What God hath joyned let not man separate and againe Husbands love your wives For why he had planted in the ground of his heart an unfruitfull soyle for any good seede a certaine most bitter set of incredulity and folly taken at the first from the Vine of Sodome which being watred with his vulgar and domesticall impieties as poysoâ—â—nous kinds of showres anâ— afterwards to the offence of God more audaciously springing up hath brought forth into the world the sinne of horrible murder and sacriledge and not as yet discharged of the entangling netts of his former offences he encreaseth his new wickednesse with old villanies Goe too now I reproove thee as present whom I know as yet to be in this life extant why standest thou astonished O thou butcher of thine owne soule why dost thou wilfully inkindle against thy selfe the eternall fires of hell Why dost thou in place of enemies desperately stabbe thy self with thine owne swords with thine owne javelins What cannot those same poysonous cuppes of offences yet satisfie thy stomack Looke backe I beseech thee and come to Christ for why thou labourest and art pressed even downe to the earth with this huge burthen and he himselfe as he sayd will give thee rest Come to him who wisheth not The death of a sinner but that hee should be rather converted and live Vnlose according to the Prophet the bands of thy necke O thou sonne of Sion Returne I pray thee although from the farre remote regions of sinnes unto the most pyous Father who for his sonne that will despise the filthy foode of swine and feare the death of cruell famine and so come backe to him againe hath with great joy accustomed to kill his fated Calfe and bring forth for this erronioâ—s wanderer the first stole and royall ring and then talking as it were a taste of the heavenly hope thou shalt perceive How sweete our Lord is For if thou dost contemnâ— these be thou assured thou art almost instantly to be for ever tossed and tormented in the inevitable and darke floods of endlesse fires What dost thou also thou Lions whelp as the Prophet saith Aurelius Conanus Art not thou as the former if not farre more foulely to thy utter destruction swallowed up in the filthinesse of horrible murders fornications and adulteries as in certaine over-whelming flouds of the sea Hast not thou by hating as a deadly serpent the peace of thy Country and thirsting unjustly after civill warres and often frequent spoyles shut up the gates of heavenly peace and repose against thine owne soule Being now left alone as a withering tree in the middest of a field remember I beseech thee the vaine and idle phancies of thy Parents and brethren together with the untimely death that befell them in the prime of their youth and shalt thou for thy religious deserts be reserved to live some hundreds of yeares or to attaine to the age of Methusalem being now bereft almost of all succeeding posterity No surely but unlesse as the Psalmist saith thou shalt bee more speedily converted unto our Lord that King will shortly Brandish his sword against thee who by his Prophet saith I will kill and I will cause to live I will strike and I will heale and he is not who can deliver out of my hand Bee thou therefore shaken out of thy filthy dust and withall thy heart converted to him who hath created thee that When his wrath shall shortly burne out thou mayest be blessed in hoping on him But if otherwise eternall paines will be heaped up for thee where thou shalt be ever tormented and never consumed in the cruell jawes of Hell Thou also who like to the sundry coloured Parde art divers in manners and diverse in mischeifes whose head now weareth hoare who art seated in a Throne full of deceipts and from the botome even to the very top deflowred with sundry detestable murders and adulteries a naughty sonne of a good King as another Manasses sprung from Ezechias Vortiper thou Tyrant of the Demetians why dost thou astonished stearve away What! doe not such violent gulfes of sinnes which thou dost swallow up as most pleasant wine if thou thy selfe art not rather swallowed up by them is yet satisfie thee especially since the end of thy life dayly now also approacheth Why dost thou heavily clogge thy miserable soule with a lustfull sinne of all others the foulest by putting away thine owne wife and after her honourable death with a certaine irrecoverable burden of thine impudent daughter Wast not I beseech thee the residew of thy

God Because thou hast beene disobedient to the mouth of our Lord and not observed the precept which thy Lord God hath commanded and hast returned and eaten bread and drunke water in this place in which I have charged thee that thou shouldest neither eate bread nor drinke water thy body shall not be buried in the Sepulcher of thy forefathers And so saith the Scripture it came to passe that after he had eaten bread and drunke water he made ready his Asse and departed and a Lion found him in the way and slew him Heare yee also the holy Prophet Esay how he speaketh of Priests on this wise Woe be unto the ungodly evill befall him for the reward of his hands shall light upon him Her owne exactors have spoyled my people and women have borne sway over her O my people who tear me thee blessed they themselves deceive thee and destroy the way of thy footesteps Our Lord standeth to judge and standeth to judge the people Our Lord will come unto judgement with the elders of the people and her Princes Ye have consumed my Vine the spoile of the poore is in your house Why doe ye breake in peeces my people and grinde the faces of the poore saith our Lord God of Hosts And also Woe be unto them who compose ungodly lawes and writing have written injustice that they may oppresse the poore in judgement and worke violence unto the cause of the lowly of my people that widdowes may be their prey and they make sâ—â—ile of the Orphans what will ye doe in the day of visitation and calamity approching afarre of And afterwards But these also in regard of wine have beene ignorant and in respect of drunkennesse have wandered astray the Priests have not understood because of drunkennesse and have beene swallowed up in wine they have erred in drunkennesse they have not knowne him who seeth they have beene ignorant of judgement For all tables are filled with the vomit of their uncleannesse in so much as there is not any free place to be found Heare therefore the Word of our Lord O ye men ye deceivers who beare authority over my people that ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ in Ierusalem For ye have sayd we have entred into a truce with death and with hell we have made a covenant The overflowing scourge when it shall passe forth shall not fall upon us because we have placed falshood for our hope and by lying we have beene defended And somewhat after And haile shall overthrow the hope of lying together with the defence Waters shall overflow and your truce with death shall be destroyed and your covenant with hell shall not continue when the overflowing scourge shall passe forth yee shall also be troden under foote whensoever it shall passe along thorough yee it shall sweepe ye away withall And againe And ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ Lord hath sayd Because this people aproacheth with their mouth and with their lippes glorifie me but their heart is farre removed from me behold therefore I will cause this people to admire with a great and amazed wonder For wisedome shall decay and fall away from her wisemen and the understanding of her sages shall be concealed Woe be unto yee that are profound in heart to conceale counsell from our Lord whose workes are in darkenesse and they say who seeth us And who hath knowne us for this thought of yours is perverse And somewhat afterwards Thus saith our Lord Heaven is my seate and the earth the foote stoole of my feete What is this house that ye will erect unto me and what place shall be found of my resting repose all these things hath my hand made and these universally have beene all created saith our Lord on whom truely shall I cast mine eye but on the humble poore man and the contrite in spirit and him that dreadeth my speeches he that sacrificeth an Oxe is as he that killeth a man he that slaughtereth a beast for sacrifice is like him who beateth out the braines of of a dogge he that offereth an oblation is as he that offereth up the blood of an hogge he that is mindfull of frankincense is as he that honoureth an Idoll Of all these things have thâ—y made choice in their wayes and in their abominations hath their soule beene delighted Listen ye also what Ieremy that Virgin and Prophet speaketh unto the unwise Pastors in this sort Thus saith our Lord What iniquity have your fathers found in me because they have removed themselves farre off from me and walked after vanitie and are become vaine And somewhat after And entring in ye have defiled my Land and made mine inheritance abomination The Priests have not sayd Where is our Lord and the Rulers of the Law have not knowne mee and the Pastours have dealt treacherously against me Wherefore I will as yet contend in judgement with you saith our Lord and debate the matter with your children And a little afterwards Astonishment and wonders have beene wrought in the land Prophets did Preach lying and Priests did applaud with their hands and my people have loved such matters What therefore shall be done in her last and finall ends To whom shall I speake and make protestation that he may heare me behold their cares are uncircumcised and they cannot heare Behold the word of our Lord is uttered unto them for their reproach and they receive it not because I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the earth saith our Lord. For why from the lesser even unto the greater all study avarice and from the Prophet even unto the Priest all worke deceit and they cured the contrition of the daughter of my people with ignomy saying Peace Peace and peace there shall not be Confounded they are who have wrought abomination but rather they are not with a confusion confounded and have not understood how to be ashamed Wherefore they shall fall among those who are ruinating in the time of their visitation shall they rush headlong downe together saith our Lord. And againe All these Princes of the declining sort walking fraudulently being brasse and iron are universally corrupted the blowing bellowes hath failed in the fire the Fiâ—er of mettals in vaine hath melted their malicious acts assuredly are not consumed â—all them refuse and reproâ—ate silver because our Lord â—ath throwne them away And after a few words I â—m I am I have scene saith â—ur Lord. Goe your wayes to â—y place in Shilo where my â—ame hath inhabited from â—he beginning and behold â—hat I have done thereunto ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ the malice of my people of â—srael And now because ye have wrought all these works saith our Lord and I have spoken unto yee arising in the morning and talking and yet ye have not heard me and have called yee and yet yee have not answered I will so deale towards this house wherein my name is now called upon and wherein ye have confidence and to this place

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