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A19735	A svvete and deuoute sermon of holy saynt Ciprian of mortalitie of man. The rules of a christian lyfe made by Picus erle of Mirandula, bothe translated into englyshe by syr Thomas Elyot knyghte; De mortalitate. English	Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage.; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494, Regulae duodecim portim excitantes portim dirigentes hominem in pugna spirituali. aut; Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.	1534 (1534)	STC 6157; ESTC S108816	34,919	120

called Why doest not thou thanke god and reioyce that thou arte out of the diuilles daunger ¶ The iuste man Symeon who verelye was a good and a iuste man and kepte the commaundementes of god fulle of faythe whan aunswere was made vnto hym from almyghty god that he shulde not dye vntyl he had seene Christe whan Christe beinge ababe came with his mother into the Temple he in spirite knewe that Christe was nowe borne of whose commynge he was before warned And whan he behelde hym he knewe that he hym selfe shulde shortly after departe from this worlde wherfore being ioyfull of death that approchid and beinge sure of his soone sendinge for he toke the blessed babe in his armes and with prayses thankes vnto god he sayde with a lowde voyce Nowe good lorde thou wylte lycence thy seruance to departe from this mortall lyfe in peace accordynge to the worde that thou sendest me For nowe myne eyen haue beholde thy prouision of remedye that thou haste prepared in the syghte of all people As who sayth prouynge and witnessynge also that then peace was comne to the seruantes of god and that then was a pesible quietnesse Whan we being drawen oute of the stormes of this worlde desyre to come to the hauen of parpetuall suretye and also whan deathe beinge from vs excluded we atteine to immortalite or life euerlastyng That is our peace that is our sure tranquillite that is our stedfast our fyrme perpetual suretie Furthermore what els do we in this world but fight against the deuyll daylye in batayle and agaynst his waypon and ordinaunce make resistence with contynuall conflictes we stryue dayly with auarice with lechery with wrathe with Ambicion we haue a busy payneful wrastlynge with carnall vices and worldlye delectacions The mynde of man is besyged and all aboute compassed and assaulted with synne and hardly is matched on al partes and may vneth resiste and defende hym frome all For if he ouerthrowe Auarice than sterteth vppe lecherye If lechery be oppressed ambicion cometh in her place althoughe ambition be neglected yet wrath wyll exasperate pride inflatith drunkennesse allureth enuy breketh concorde and by the same is frendshyp dissolued Thou arte constrayned to curse whiche the lawe of god doothe prohibite Thou arte compelled to sweare whiche is vnlefull These persecutions thy mynde daylye doeth suffer with these many perils thy stomake is vexed And yet doeste thou delyte to tarye longe here amonge the swordes of people malycious whan rather thou shuldest couayte and desire dethe settynge the forwarde to haste the towarde Christe he sayenge to vs in his doctryne I telle you verely ye shall boothe wepe and wayle but the worlde shal reioice and be mery ye sha● be heuy and sorowefulle but your heuynesse shal be torned into myrthe Nowe who wyll not make haste to come where he shall be mery who will not wyshe to lacke alwaye heuynesse But at what tyme our sorowe shall be torned to mirth our lorde hym selfe declareth sayeng I shal se you againe your hartes shal reioyce and that gladnes shall no man take from you Wherfore sith to see Christ is perfecte reioysyng and our gladnes maye not be without beholdinge of him what blyndenes of minde yea what madnesse were hit to loue the vexacions paynes and continual sorowes of this present worlde And not rather to make all spedy deligence to come to the ioyes whiche maye neuer be taken from the This doth happen dere frendes by cause that faythe lacketh for no man doeth beleue that suche thynges shall come whiche almyghty god who euer is trewe hath all redy promised whose worde is eternall and to theym that beleue alwaye sure and constant ¶ If an honorable man and of greate grauitie dyd promise the any thynge thou woldest truste him and woldest not thynke to be deceyued of hym whome thou knewest to be as well in worde as in dede substanciall and stedfaste But nowe all mighty god talkith with the in his scripture and thou as false and disloyall doste flitter in a mynde mistrustefull and wauerynge God hath promised to the whan thou shalt departe from this world immortalitie and lyfe euerlastynge And yet not withstandynge thou doubtest that is as moche to say as thou knoweste not god And also thou wyllynglye offendest Christe the mayster of all theym that beleue with the synne of incredulitie or lacke of beleue and that thou beinge constitute and admitted in to the church of god haste not faythe in the house of fayth How moche the departing from this worlde shall be to thy profite Christe him selfe master of our profyte and helthe dothe declare where he sayth to his disciples whiche sorowed by cause he tolde them that he wolde depart If ye loued me ye wolde reioyce for as moche as I goo to my father Therby teachinge and declaringe vnto vs that whan they whome we doo mooste fauour or loue doo departe oute of this worlde we shulde rather be glad than sorye Whiche thynge the blessed appostole remembrynge sayth in his Epistole My liuing is Christe death is to me gayne and auauntage Accomptinge the gretteste gayne not to be tangled in the snares of this worlde not to be subiecte to synne or carnall vices And beinge deliuered from troublous vexacions and from the venemouse teeth of the diuell to departe Christe calling vs to the ioye of helthe euerlastynge But there be some men which be greued for as moch as this trouble vexeth vs equallye as moche as the infydels As it were that a christen man beleueth to that intente onely that he wolde be free from the touche of al grefe and disease and inioy this worlde prosperousely Some be offended for as moche as mortalite is to vs with other in commune What thynge I pray you haue not we with other in commune as longe as this commune carnalytie remayneth accordynge to the ordinaunce of our fyrste natiuitie As longe as we be here in this world we be ioyned together with al man kynde in equalyty of fleshely substāce but in spirite we be separate Therfore vntyl this corruptible matter be with incorrupcion induyd and this mortall substance do receyue immortalite and this spirite do bringe vs vnto god our father what so euer incommodities do belong to this carnall bodye they be to vs with mankynde in commune For like as whan with colde blastes whiche do the cause barennesse the erthe is as it were fastinge and withoute foode hungre doethe excepte no man And whan a citie is wonne with enemyes by captiuitie all thynge is wasted And whan fayre wether restraynethe showers hit is but one drowth vnto all men And whan a shyppe is all to rent on a rocke the wrecke is cōmune to al them whiche be in it Also the payne of the eyen violence of feuers and disseasis of all other membres be to vs with all other in commune as longe as this commune bodye is borne aboute in

vessel and temptacion of trouble trieth men that be good Betwene vs christen men and other ●he onely diuersitie is that they in aduersitie doo grutche and complayne And vs Christen people aduersitie may not calle a way from the truthe of vertue and faythe but doth corroborat or strength vs in the grefe that we suffre That the bealy resolued with fluxes expulsethe by the bowels bodylye strength or that the superfluos heat ingendred in the marowe of our bones inflameth out by blysters in our chekes that our bowelles be shaken with continuall vomyttes that with abundaunce of bloudde our eyen do burne in oure heedes that some mennes fete and other membres putrified be cutte of or rotted that by losse of membres or other harme taken by siknes either our goinge is febled or our heringe is stoppid or our syghte is peryshed all this profiteth to the doctrine of fayth And to resyste with the powars of an immouable mynde agaynst so many assaultes of dystruction and dethe what valyantenesse of currage is hit ye and what honour to stande bolte vpprighte amonge the ruynes of man kinde and not to lie prostrat with them whiche hope not in god We therfore muste rather reioyce take in good worth the rewarde of the tyme that whyle we do constantly declare our fayth by sustaynynge of labour doo approche vnto Christe by Christes strait● passage we may receyue by his iudgemente the rewarde of lyfe whiche fayth doth require Lette him hardyly feare that not being regenerate by water and the holy gost is committed to the terrible fiers of hel Let him feare that is rekened no partener of the crosse passion of Christ Let him also fere which from this carnal deth shal passe to the second deth let him feare whome ones departed out of this world euerlasting fyre shal torment with paines continual Finally let him be a ferd vnto whom by longe tarieng here this one thing auaileth that his tormētes wailinges be in the meane tyme put of or differred Manye of our numbre do die in this mortalytie that is as who sayth many of our numbre be oute of this worlde deliuered Forsothe this mortalitie lyke wise as to the Iewes and paynims hit is a pestilence soo to the seruantes of god hit is a holsome departynge What if good men withoute any dyuersitie doo dye with the yuell men there is no cause that ye shoulde therfore thynke that deth is commune to good men with them that be yll For good men be called to ioye the yuell men be drawen into paine so suertie to them that beleue well and payne to miscreauntis the soner doothe happen Uerily good brethern we be vncurtaise and negligent hauynge regarde to goddes benefites ne we doo recognise what is offered vnto vs. Beholde howe virgins be departid saulfe and in peace with theyr glorye and praise not fearinge the thretninges corruptions nor bordel houses of Antichrist who is now commynge Children are eskape● the peryll of theyr slypper aege and haue attayned happily to the rewarde of innocencie and pure continence The delicate matrone nowe fearith no tormentes sence with spedy deth she hath preuented the feare of persecucion and the handes and tormentes of cruell tyrantes More ouer by feare of mortalitie and troubles of this tyme they whiche were late colde in faythe be nowe chaufed and warme they whiche were remysse or louse be knytte together and made substancial they that were cowardes be quickned in corage The forsakers of theyr faythe be compelled to retourne The paynems constrayned to beleue The olde faithfull people be called to quiete And a freshe and greatte ●oste of theym whiche becamme souldiours of Christ in the tyme of mortalitie is assembled with a more puisance to fyght withoute drede whē the battaile is ioyned what a thyng is this good frendes how conueniente and necessary is this pestilence and moraine which semyng to be monstruouse and horrible trieth out the goodnesse of dyuers men and examineth the myndes of all men that is to say whether the hole men do ayde them that be sycke If kynsmen be kinde one to an other If the maisters do pitie their fraile weake seruantes If phisicions do not abandon theyr pacientes If they which be cruell wyl withdrawe theyr violence If the oppressours and robbers at the lest for feare of deathe wyll asswage the insaciable appetite of furiouse auaryce If prowde menne wyll stoupe or vnthryftes auale theyr lewed courage If they that be ryche and shall dye withoute heires of theyr bodyes wyll any thynge distrybute amonge theyr nedy neyghboures And surely althoughe this mortalytye were to nothynge els profitable yet in this it hath benne aduantage to christen men and them whiche be goddes seruauntes that in lernynge not to feare deathe we the more wyllyngely desyre martyrdome This to vs is no death but an exercise whiche bryngeth to the mynde renoume of valyante courage and by dispisynge of deathe prepareth to receiue the garlande of vyctory But parchaunce some man wyl reply and saye yet not withstandynge this griueth me in this present mortalitie that where I had prepared my selfe to confesse my faythe and hadde disposed me with all my hole harte and full power to the sufferaunce of passion nowe preuented by deathe I am dissapoynted of martyrdome ¶ Fyrst to be a martyr it is not in thyne owne power but in goddes wyll and election Ne thou mayest not saye that thou haste loste that thynge whiche thou knowest not whether thou were euer worthy to haue it More ouer god the sercher of hartes and beholder and iuge of secrte thoughtes doeth see the and doeth commende and allowe the. And he whiche perceyueth to be in the vertue prepared for thy● 〈◊〉 shal yelde vnto the a 〈◊〉 ●ewarde Supposest thou hadde Cayne slayne his brother Abell at what tyme he off●id the sacryfice vnto almighty god wel and yet god beynge ware of his purpose condemned the murder conceyued in the mynde whiche Cayne dyd afterwarde execute So like as in Cayne a malicious thoughte and a mischeuous imagination was afore seene by goddes prouidence lyke wyse in the seruantes of god whiche confessynge fayth in theyr thoughtes and in theyr intentes conceyuyng martyrdome theyr soules beinge gyuen to that good purpose be crowned of god theyr iudge whiche knoweth all thynge It is not one thynge to lacke a wyll to be martired and to lacke martyrdome to a good wyll Suche as god fyndeth the to be whan he calleth the so doethe he iuge the accordynge as he hym selfe witnesseth sayenge And all congregations shall knowe that I am the serchour of mans harte and his reynes Nor god loketh for your bloude but for your fayth For neyther Abraham nor Isaac nor Iacob were slayne And yet not withstandynge they deserued to be honoured for theyr faythe and Iustice and to be the chefe of all patriarches vnto whose feaste is called euery man that is founde faythfull iuste and commendable we muste

A SVVETE AND DEVOVTE SERMON OF HOLY saynt Ciprian of mortalitie of man The rules of a Christian lyfe made by Picus erle of Mirandula bothe translated into englyshe by syr Thomas Elyot knyghte LONDINI IN AEDIBVS THO. BERTHELETI Preface ¶ To my ryghte worshypfull suster dame Suzan Kyngestone THe circumspecte person whiche is accustomed one tyme in the yere to be vexed with feuer Catarre or lyke sykenes preuenteth that tyme by expulsynge the matter whiche moughte be occasion of suche desseases and studyeth to reduce the bodye into suche temperaunce and so to preserue hit as the sayde matter shall not be augmented wherby moughte ensue any detriment Lyke industry or rather moche more ought to be vsed good Suster of euery raysonable creature as well agaynste the mooste certayne sikenes and fynall dyssolution of nature called corporall death as also agaynst all worldly vexations and troubles called the toyes of fortune or the crankes of the worlde consyderyng that of any of them neyther the tyme can be knowen whan they shal happen nor assured remedy may be founden for to repelle theym onely a pure and constante faythe hauynge therto ioyned wysedome and pacience may sustayne theyr assaultes and stronglye resyste them As it is excellently declared and taughte by the holy doctour and martyr sayncte Cyprian● in a sermon which he made to the people of Affrica where he was Bushop in the tyme whan ●here was continuall persecution of paynyms and also mortalitie by generall pestilence whiche sermone whan I had ones ꝑ vsed in redynge I liked so well that I desyred that all other persones mought vnderstonde it Remembrynge that many there be whiche I doubte not are as neglygente as I in consyderyng those sondry calamities not withstandynge that they haue beholden men and women of euery astate whiche haue dyed eyther before that they looked for death or in some other wyse than they vouched saulfe or els forsaken of fortune haue lyued in pouertye Wherfore as welle for theyr instructyon as myne howe we may be alway prepared agaynst those naturall and worldly afflictions I haue traunslated this lyttell boke not supersticiouselye folowynge the letter whiche is verely elegante and therfore the harder to trāslate into our langage but kepynge the sentence and intent of the Autour I haue attemted not with lyttell study to reduce into english the right phrase or forme of speakyng vsed in this treatise whiche I haue dedycate and sente vnto you for a token that ye shall perceyue that I doo not forgeat you and that I doo vnfaynedly loue you not onelye for our allyaunce but also moche more for your perseuerance in vertu warkes of true faith praieng you to communicate it with our two susters religiouse Dorothe Alianour and to ioyne in your praiers to god for me that I may be constante in his seruice and performe well such other warkes as ben in my handes onely to his honour and glory ¶ I haue added hereto a litel tretise but wonderful frutful made by the vertuouse noble prince Iohn̄ Picus Erle of Mirandula who in abundāce of lerning grace incomparablye excelled all other in his tyme and sens whose picture I wolde to god were in all noble mens Chambers and his grace and vertues in theyr soules and maners Hartyly fare ye wel At london the fyrst day of Iuly the yere of our lorde god 1534. The sermon of holy sayncte Ciprian of mortalytie of man RIGHTE wel beloued frendes all be it that manye of you haue your myndes intier perfecte the fayth stable and the soule deuoute not beinge meued with the hugenesse of this present mortalytie but like to a puissant stedfaste rocke rather do breake the troublous assaultes of this worlde and the violente floodes of this present tyme the soule her selfe not beinge broken ne ouercome with any temptations but onely proued Nethelesse for as moche as I doo consyder to be in the multitude dyuers whiche eyther by waykenes of courage or by smalnes of faythe or by swetenesse of the lyfe of this worlde or by the delicatenes of theyr kinde or that whiche is a more heuye thynge beynge deceyued in the opinion of truthe doo not stande faste ne set forth the diuine and inuincible might of their stomakes I moughte no lengre dissemble that mater ne retaine it in silence but that as ferre forth as the meanesse of my lernynge or wytte moughte extende I wold declare the doctryne of Christe by a sermone conceyued lyfely expressed to the intent that the slouthe and dulnesse of delycate myndes moughe be reformed And also that he whiche hathe all redye professed to be the sernaunte of Christe may hereafter be demed worthy of Christe therto accepted Uerely good frendes he that fyghteth for god being in the celestial cāpe doth hope on thing is that be godlye oughte to knowe well hym selfe to the intente that in the tempestes and stormes of this world there be in vs no dred or fearefulnesse sense almyghtye god hath afore warned that such thynges shulde happen Instructynge and teachynge vs by his owne mouthe with a prouidente exhortation and therwith preparynge and comfortynge the people of his churche to the paciente sufferaunce of thynges to come wherin he prophecied and declared vnto vs that bataile famine erthquakes and pestilence shuld aryse in sondrye contrayes and places And to the intente that no sodayne dreade or feare of straunge thynges anoyenge vs shoulde in any wyse oppresse or a bashe vs he tolde vs before that towarde the ende of the worlde aduersities and troubles shulde more and more be increased Now beholde all that whiche he spake of hath happened and is come amonge vs. And sith that is now happened whiche was before spoken of there shall also nowe ensue all that whiche was promysed our lorde hym selfe promysyng and sayeng What time ye shall see all these thinges come to passe than be you sure that the kyngedome of heuen is at hande The kyngedome of heuen good frendes beginneth now to approche The rewarde of life and the comforte of helthe euerlastynge parpetuall gladnesse and the possession of Paradyse whiche before we hadde lost now the worlde passynge awaye become at hande euen nowe after thynges erthlye doo succede that whiche is heuenlye after smalle thynges greate thynges and precious after thynges transytory thynges eternall or euerlastynge What tyme is it nowe to be sad Or who amonge these troubles wyl be timorus or sorowfull but onely he in whome lacketh booth fayth and hope for he onely feareth death whiche wyl not go vnto Christe and he whiche wyl not go vnto Christe is he whiche doeth not beleue that he nowe begynneth to raygne with Christe It is writen The iust man liueth by fayth If thou be a iuste man thou lyuest by fayth If thou beleuest trewely in god commyng to Christe and beinge sure of his promyse why doeste not thou runne and imbrace Christe nowe thou arte

remembre to doo not as we our selfe wyll but accordynge to goddis● wyll And so god commaundeth vs euery daye to praye Howe ouerthwarte and peruerse a thing is it that where we desyre that the wyl of god be doone whan he calleth and sendethe for vs oute of this world we do not furth with obey his commaundement pleasure but agaynste that we murmoure and stryue and be broughte lyke frowarde seruantes with heuye and sower countenaunce to our maysters presence departynge hense with the bonde of necessitie not with a wyllynge obedyence and yet wyll we be honoured with heuēly rewardes of him vnto whom we come not wyllingly but by constraynte onely wherfore than do we aske and desyre that the kyngedome of heuen may come vnto vs if worldly captiuitie so moche doth delyte vs Wherfore do we aske and desyre in our prayers so often rehersed that the tyme of the reygne whiche is promised shulde come spedyly if our desyres and wishes to serue the dyuell are more to be sette by then to raygne with oure Sauiour ¶ More ouer for the playner declaration of goddes prouidence and that our lorde whiche afore seeth all thynges to come will gyue to vs counsayle concernyng our very helth it happened late that one of our companye and a preeste beyng atteynted with siknesse and lokynge for death whiche approched desyred leaue to departe as he was prayenge and in poynte of deathe there stoode hard by him a goodly yonge● man of an honorable porte and maiestie hyghe of stature and fayre whome the syght of man mought vneth beholde with carnall eyen sauynge that he whiche was departynge out of the worlde with eyen more spiritual mought loke on suche one and the same person so apperyng not without indignation as well in countenaunce as speche grudchinglye spake in this wyse ye feare to suffer and ye wyll not go forthe what shall I doo to you whiche was the speakyng of one that blamed and also exhorted who allowed not them whiche for the tyme present were carefull of persecution and yet sure of theyr departynge but gaue counsayle for the tyme comming Our said brother herde whē he was dyenge what he shoulde tel vnto other For he herde whan he shoulde dye that whiche he shulde reporte vnto other and he herde not for him selfe but for vs. For what shulde he lerne whiche was than in departyng In dede he lerned for vs whiche remayned to the intent that in herynge the preeste of god blamed whiche asked his ryghtes we shulde knowe what was to al menne expedyente More ouer to vs of al other most symple howe often hath it benne shewed by reuelation howe sondry tymes haue I ben playnelye commaunded of the goodnes of god that I shulde alway affirme and openly preache that our bretherne delyuered from this world by the callinge of god shoulde not be bewayled and sorowed for sens I knewe well that they were not loste but sent onely befor● vs and so departynge preceded And therfore as men being in iournay or vyage to be desired but in no wyse lamented Ne we shoulde putte on vs blacke gownes for theym whiche nowe haue receyued and put on whyte garmentes Ne we oughe to gyue occasion to infidels to reproue vs lefully with good reason for as moche as we do mourne for theym as they were dede and looste for euer whiche we saye do lyue euer with god and so with the witnes of our awne hartes and stomakes reproue the fayth which in word and sentence we haue confessed Surelye we be the deceyuours of our owne faythe and hope ●if that that we say apere to be false and dyssembled It profiteth no thinge to shewe in wordes vertu and in dedes to distroye verytie The apostolle Paule rebuketh chydeth and blameth suche as be heuy or sorowfull for the deathe of theyr frendes We wyll not sayth he good bretherne that ye shoulde be ignorante in that whiche concerneth them that do slepe in naturall deathe to the intente ye shulde not be sorowful like as they be which are without hope If we beleue that Iesu Christe dyed and roose agayne afterwarde In like wise god almighty shall finally brynge with hym those that slepte in Christe Also he saythe that they whiche doo lacke hope be heuy whan theyr frendes do departe But we wh●che lyue in hope and beleue in god do verely trust that Chri●● suffred for vs and dyd eftsones ryse We I say whiche dwell● in Christe and do arise by hym and in hym why refuse we to departe hense or waylē and lament for theym that be goone Christe hym selfe our god warneth vs sayenge I am the resurrection and lyfe he that beleueth in me although that he dyethe he shall lyue and all that lyueth and beleueth in me shal neuer die If we beleue Christe lette vs haue faith in his wordes and promises and we shall neuer dye Let vs come therfore with asure gladnesse vnto Christe with whome we shall liue and raygne euer For by that that we dye we passe from death to immortalytye in as moche as lyfe euerlastyng may not succede without departynge from hense All be it it is no clere departyng but rather a passage chaunge of this lyfe for the lyfe eternal the temporall iournay perfourmed who wyll not hye hym from the warse to the better Who wyll not couayte to be reformed and chaunged to the figure of Christ or wyll not desyre to come shortly to the dygnitie of celestiall grace Paule the apostell preachynge our abydynge sayth he is in heuen frō whens we abyde the commynge of Christe Iesu who shall transforme our symple bodye in semblable figure to the bodye of his clerenes And Christ our lord promised that we shall be suche whan he praied to his father that we mought be with him and lyue with hym in eternall places and be ioyfull and mery in the kyngedome of heuen sayenge Father I wyll that suche as thou hast giuen to me that they be with me where so euer I be and that they se the clerenesse that thou gaueste to me before that the worlde was create wherfore he that intendeth to come to the place where Christe is to the bryghtnes of the Realmes celestyalle oughte not wayle or lament but accordynge to the hope whiche he hath in the promyse of god and truste that he hath in trouthe be ioyfull and gladde in his departyng or translation from hence For as moche as we rede that Enoch was translated or taken oute of this worlde by cause he pleased god as holy scripture witnesseth in the booke of Genesis in this wyse Enoch pleased god and was not afterwarde founden for god translated him from hense That thyng wherwith he pleased in the syghte of god was that he deserued to be taken from the perylles of this presente worlde Moreouer the holye gooste teacheth by Salomon that they with whom god is pleasid be the soner taken a way