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death_n	body_n	reason_n	soul_n	6,782	5	5.3548	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09628	Tvvelve rules, and vveapons concerning the spirituall battel Together with a briefe exposition vpon the sixteene Psalme: with two most worthie epistles, written in Latin by that most worthy and noble gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula. And translated into English for the benefite of all good Christian souldiers in the spirituall battaile.; Selections	Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.; W. H., fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 19898A.3; ESTC S110418	18,502	40

art he which geuest thy selfe to me to be inherited Let the iust man then consider how great is this felicitie that God shal be his inheritance He addeth The lots haue fallen to me in goodly places For euery mans part and portion of olde time was deuided by lottes And because there are many which although they are called to this felicitie as are all Christians yet notwithstanding they make no accompt of it so that oftentimes for a little light pleasure they change it He addeth the same My heritage is excellent vnto me As if he had said euen as that heritage is excellēt so doe I esteeme it exceeding well and doe repute all other things in respect of it according to the saying of Paule but very dong but because to haue this light of vnderstanding that man may know this felicitie is a gift geuen from God he therefore addeth I will thanke the Lord for geuing me to vnderstand For because man oftentimes purposeth to serue God according to humane reason when sensualitie and the flesh repugne But that man is perfect that hath not only his soule but also his flesh enclined vnto God according to that saying My heart and my flesh haue reioyced in the liuing God Therefore hee addeth My reynes also chasten me in the night season That is the very reynes themselues wherein is accustomed the greatest inclination to concupiscence doe not moue me to euil but rather rebuke and chasten me that is they withhold me in the night season insomuch that they tame and scourge the very body Then he sheweth the cause and saith J set the Lord alwaies in my sight For if any man haue God alwaies before his eies for a rule of all his works and in all his works he seeketh not his owne commoditie nor glory nor pleasure but onely to please God he shall in short time become a perfect man and because he so doeth in al his affaires he shall alwaies prosper Therfore he saith He is on my right hand that I can not be moued Hee sheweth how that the felicitie of a iust man is great because he shal be for euer happie both in soule and body and therefore he addeth My heart is mery That is to say my soule is merrie knowing after death heauen to be prepared for him And my flesh shall rest in hope That is although it reioyceth not as if it were out of hand after death to receiue his state yet notwithstanding it resteth in the graue with this hope that it shall rise in the day of iudgement together with his soule immortall and most glorious and this he declareth in the verse following for because he said his heart was merry he geueth a reason Because he shall not leaue my soule in hell And because that hee said his flesh rested in hope he yealdeth a reason saying Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption Because that which was corruptible shall rise incorruptible and bicause Christ was the first which entred into Paradise and made the way for vs and was the first which rose and his resurrection is the cause of our resurrection therefore these things which wee haue spoken of are principallie to be vnderstoode of the resurrection of Christ as Peter the Apostle declareth And secondly they are to be vnderstoode of vs in as much as we are members of Christ which onely saw no corruption because his body was not putrified in the graue Therefore because the way of well liuing leadeth vs into perpetuall life both of soule and bodie He therefore addeth Thou hast made the wayes of life knowen vnto me And because the whole felicitie of this life consisteth in the true vision and fruition of God he therefore addeth Thou shalt fill me with the ioy of thy countenance And because the felicitie shall endure for euer he therefore addeth At thy right hand are pleasures for euermore He saith at thy right hand because our felicitie is compleated in the sight and enioying of Christes humanitie which sitteth at the right hand of the maiestie of God on high according to that of Iohn This is our ful reward to see God and him whom he hath sent Iesus Christ TO HIS NEPHEW Iohn Franciscus Iohn Picus Earl of Mirandula wisheth health in him which is the true health MAruaile not my Sonne neither take any griefe or dismaye that vpon thy departure from me there are so many occasions of euill ministred vnto thee which may disquiet thee and withstande thy determined purpose of good life how greate a myracle should it be rather if to thee alone amongst mortall men the way to heauen were made plaine and easie without labour and toyle as though there were no deceitful world nor wicked deuill or as though thou were not yet in the flesh which lusteth against the spirite and maketh vs of men monsters vnlesse wee shall looke well to our selues but rather reioyce as S. Iames counselleth thee saying Reioyce my brethren when yee shall fall into diuers temptations Nor without good cause for what hope is there of glory when there wanteth hope of victorie and what victory can there be when there is no fight Hee is lured to the crowne that is allured to the combat and especially to such wherein no man can be ouercome if hee will not himselfe neither neede we any mans help to conquere but onely his which geueth vs both mind and might to ouercome It is great felicitie to a Christian to consider that the victorie consisteth by the goodnes of God in his owne will and the rewardes thereof farre greater then either his wish or worthinesse possiblie may be Tell me my deare Sonne is there any thing in this life of these things whose desire troubleth earthly mindes that can bee attayned without labor or not enduring many indignities and miseries The merchant thinketh it well with him if after many nauigations many thousand discommodities thousand perils of life he get some gayne It needeth not that I write vnto thee as touching the warfare of this world whose miseries experience it selfe hath and doeth sufficiently teach thee What heapes of griefes what great anxietie how much carefulnes there is in obteyning the fauour of Princes in purchasing the friendship of our equals in compassing of honors I am rather for to learne of thee then to teach thee who contenting my selfe and meane leisure with my bookes haue learned from my very youth to liue within my bounds These therefore earthly transitorie vncertaine and vile things common also to vs with brute beasts shall we with paine and panting scarcely attaine and shall we be drawen as if we were drousie and sleepy and as it were against our will vnto heauenly and diuine things the which eye hath not seene nor the eare heard as if without vs the Lord could not raigne neither those heauenlie Citizens be euer blessed Truely if this earthly felicity might be got with ease a man might shunning labour like better to

and prescribed to thēselues by the attaining wherof they are become happy they haue either nothing at al to answere or els they speak words of repugnance and contrarietie to themselues as it were the dotings of phanatical persons neither know they what to doe but according to the maner of them that swim in flouds by the force of an euill induced custome they are carried as it were with the rage of a streame on the one side iniquitie blinding them on the other side Sathan prouoking them to euill fall downe headlong into all mischiefe being blinde guides of the blinde vntill death vnawares take them and it be said vnto them Frend this night will they require thy soule of thee but whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided Then they commend those whom they condemned then they praise those whom they despised and would imitate those when they cannot whom when they might ensue they had rather pursue Listen not my deare sonne to what men shall either say or thinke of thee account it nothing only view in thy mind the iudgement of God which he will geue to euery man according to his workes in his reuelation from heauen with Angels and powers taking vengeance on al with fiery flames which haue not knowen God obeyed his Gospell which as the Apostle saith shall bee destroyed for euer from the face of God and from the glorie of his vertue when hee shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made wonderfull in all them which haue beleeued It is written Feare not him which is able to destroy the body but him which is able to cast thy soule downe to hell But how much lesse art thou to feare them which are able neither to hurte the body nor soule who if they now backbite thee gouerned by reason they will not the lesse backbite thee if thou shouldest leaue to be vertuous and come to be vicious not because vice displeaseth them but because the vice of backbiting alwayes pleaseth them Shunne if thou hast any care of thy soules health shun as much as thou canst their companie and returning to thy selfe often pray thou in secrete vnto thy most mercifull father crying out with the Prophet Vnto thee O Lord haue I lift vp my soule my God in thee doe I trust I will not be ashamed though mine enemies mocke me and scorne me for all that hope and trust in thee shall not be confounded Let them be confounded that doe wickedly teach me thy waies O Lord and shew me thy paths direct me in thy trueth and teach mee for thou art God my Sauiour in thee will I alwaies trust See also that thou remember death to be at hand and the small time wee haue to liue yea lesse then a geometricall poynt then how euill that auncient enemie is which promiseth vs the kingdomes of the world that hee might take from vs the kingdome of heauen how false pleasures are which imbrace vs to the end to strangle vs how deceitfull are honors which lift vs vp to cast vs down how deadly are riches which the more they feede vs the more they poyson vs how short how vncertaine how wauering how false how fantastike is all that which all these together had at wish are able to accomplish vnto vs. How great things are promised prouided for these which despising the presents seek that Countrey whose king is Deitie whose law is charitie whose maner is eternitie With these and such like cogitations occupie thy minde which will stirre thee vp sleeping kindle thee cooling confirme thee staggering and yeeldeth vnto thee winges of godly loue tending to heauen that when thou shalt come vnto vs the which we al expect with earnest desire we may not only see thee whom we would but also such as we would Farewell and loue God whom thou hast so begun FINIS