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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

the ambushes of thy enemies if thou desirest to be accepted of God and so at length to become happie see that no daye passe wherein once at the least thou makest not thy prayers vnto God and prostrating thy selfe with the humble affection of a godly minde criest not out with the Prophet not outwardly from thy lips but inwardly from thy heart Remember not the offences and ignorances of my youth but according to thy mercie for thy goodnes sake remember me O Lord. The spirite shall teach thee which maketh request for vs and also necessitie euery houre what thou shalt aske of God sacred reading shall also helpe which I pray thee most earnestly vse setting aside the vaine fables and triflinges of Poets There is nothing more acceptable with God nothing more profitable for thy selfe as day night to haue in hand the holy Scripture In it there is a certaine celestiall and heauenly power liuely effectual which doeth transforme the minde of the Reader so that he vse it purely humbly into a diuine godly loue by a most wonderfull vertue But I haue now exceeded the limits of an Epistle the matter and the affection drawing me therto which I haue alwais had toward thee especially from that houre wherin I was first certified of thy most godly purpose Lastly I will admonish thee of that which when thou wast with me I haue often spoken of to thee that is that thou neuer forget these two thinges the sonne of God to haue died for thee and that thou though thou liue long art shortly to die With these two as it were with two spurres the one of feare the other of loue driue thy horse through the short race of this momentary life vnto the gole of eternall felicitie when as we neither ought nor can prefixe any other ende vnto our selues as then to enioy in both body and soule perpetuall peace without end by the infinite goodnes of him which is both God and man Christ Iesus Farewell Feare God John Picus Earle of Mirandula wisheth health to Iohn Franciscus his Nephew THou art happy my sonne when as GOD hath not onely geuen thee grace to lyue well but by liuing well in the meane time to heare ill at wicked mens hands specially because thou liuest well It is an equall praise by the commendable to be commended and to be condemned of the condemnable But I therefore account thee not happie in that this reproache is glorious vnto thee but because our Lord Iesus Christ is true yea trueth it selfe affirmeth that our reward shal be aboundant in heauen when men shall speake euill of vs and shall falsly say all maner of euill saying against vs for his names sake This is an Apostolicall dignity to be accounted worthie to suffer reproch for the gospels sake We reade in Luke that the Ahostles went out reioysing from the sight of the counsell because they were thought worthie to sustain and endure reproch and contumelie for the name of Iesus Let vs therefore reioice if that wee are accounted worthie with God so great glorie as to haue his glorie manifested by our ignominie and if we sustaine any thing hard or troublesome of the world let that most sweete voice of the Lord cōfort vs If the world hate you knowe ye that it hated me before you If the world hated him by whom it was made shall we most vile men and if we consider our wickednes most worthie all reproches if any detract or speake euill take it greeuously and to stop the wicked tongue shall wee beginne to liue wickedly Let vs therefore rather content our selues ioyfully with their bad reports and if our felicity be not such for vertue sake for true h to suffer stripes bonds prisonmēt sword as our nobles and worthies haue done before vs. Yet let vs thinke it goeth well with vs if we suffer reproches backbitings and hatred of wicked men lest that all occasion of good endeuors being taken from vs there be no hope of blisse left for vs. Furthermore if men praise thee for thy wel liuing this thy vertue as it is a vertue makes thee like vnto Christ but in as much as it is praised it makes thee vnlike who for a rewarde of his vertue receiued of men the death of the crosse therfore God saith the Apostle exalted him and gaue him a name which is aboue all names Therefore it is rather to be wished to be crucified of the worlde and exalted of God then to be exalted of the world and condemned of God The world crucifieth vnto life God exalteth to glory The world exalteth to ruine the Lord iudgeth to hell To conclude if the world flatter and fawne vpon thee it can scarce be that vertue which altogether erected vpward ought to haue God onely for to please doe not encline it selfe somewhat to the plausible fauor of men and if it loose nothing of his integritie yet it looseth somewhat of his reward because when it beginneth to bee performed in earth where all things are little the lesse shal be rendered in heauen where all things are great Happie are the reproches that cause safetie that neither the floure of righteousnesse wither with the pestiferous winde of vaine glorie nor the stipende of eternitie be diminished by the vaine applausure of popular fame Let vs my sonne embrace these contumelies and as seruants of the Lord with a most holy kinde of ambitiō Let vs triumph but in the ignominie of the crosse of Christ We preach saith S. Paul Christ crucified to the Hebrewes an offence to the Gentiles foolishnes but to vs the vertue wisdome of God The wisdom of this world is foolishnes with God and the foolishnes of Christ is that which ouercommeth the wisdome of the world by the which it hath pleased God to saue as many as beleue If thou doubtest not them to be mad which detract thy vertue and cal Christian life that is heauenly wisdome madnes remember then how great thy madnes would be to be seduced from thy determined course in liuing well by the iudgement of mad men whereas euery error is to be taken away by correction not enlarged by imitation Let them neigh let them baule let them barke goe thou on lustely thy iourney and weigh by their wickednes how much thou art indebted vnto God who hath enlightened thee that satest in the shadowe of death and translated from their companie who wandered and wallowed here and there out of the waye without a guide in most obscure darkenes hath associated thee with the sonnes of light Let that most sweete voyce of the Lord alwaies sound in thy eares Let the dead burie their dead follow thou me They are dead which liue not to God and in the time of temporall death most painefully and labouriously purchase to themselues eternall death of whom if thou demaundest whether they goe how they apply their endeuors works and cares and to conclude what end they haue prefixed