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A06514	A treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the Frenche tung, and translated in to Englishe by Robert Fills; Tessaradecas consolatoria pro laborantibus et oneratis. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Fills, Robert, fl. 1562.	1564 (1564)	STC 16988.5; ESTC S118884	48,129	154

this euell shineth mōste excellently and aboue the others the great bountifulnes mercy of God our father mighty to comfort vs in all our anguithes and sorowes For there is not one of vs all that shall feele the hand of God more presently vpon him then when he calleth to memory the yeeres of his life past Saint Augustine saith if the choice were geuen to a man to dy or to returne againe to his first life he would rather choose the death seeing so many euilles and so great daungers that he hath passed and with how great difficulty and pain The whiche sentence is true if it be well considered For as we may se heere how often times that man without his own endeuour without any care yea with out and against his own desire hath doone and suffred many thinges of whiche if he had taken councell before they were done or that he did take councel that after the wurk being finished he was constrained and abasshed in him selfe and to say Too what purpose are these thinges happened to me or how are they come to passe contrary to my entent and thought or that I haue purposed far other wise So that this prouerbe is true Man purposeth and God disposeth That is to say he dooth it otherwise and clean contrary to that mā hath purposed So that if we had but onely this to beholde we can not deny but our operations oure life and our actes to be gouerned by the counsaile and bountifull puissaunce of God not by our owne prudence Heer wee may see how often times God hath bene w t vs when we saw him not nor felt him and how veritable it is that Saīt Peter hath said That the mercifull God hath care for vs all Wherefore if wee had nother bookes nor preaching yet our owne liues caried and led thorow so many euelles and daungers would shew vs sufficiently the deuine bountifulnes of God is very neer vs as though he had borne and kept vs in his bosome without our deliberation and without any feeling of vs in any thingꝭ as saith Moises in Deuteronominū 32 Chap. The Lord hath maīteined and defended him as the apple of an eye Hee hath led him ouer all and borne him vpon his shoulders And frō thence commeth these exhortations whiche be conteined in the Psalmes I haue remembred the daies past I haue meditatid all thy woorkes and I haue thought vpon the woorkes of thy handes I doo remembre all the meruailes whiche haue beene from the beginning I haue bene mindefull of thy iudgementꝭ and haue bene comforted Now these thingꝭ and all other like tend to this end that we may know this that God hathe bene euen then present with vs when we thought not of him and specially when it semed he was absent from vs for hee that hathe receiued vs into his protection without vs yea in so many necessities yea in small thingꝭ and yet while it seemed that he had forsaken and left vs neuertheles he hath not throwen vs of as it is said in Esay I haue forsaken thee for a litle time but I will gather thee againe in my great mercy And let vs ioyn this to it Who is it that hath had care for vs in so many nightes while wee haue slept Who hath cared for vs so oftē and so many times as we haue felt our selues greeued when wee wandred about in our owne folies and haue doone numbers of thinges in the whiche wee haue not had respect to our selues or since what time haue we had care or taking charge of our selues When the auaritius man is in care and study to gather great heapes of mony hee dooth diligently and earnestly study and care to seek and heap vp together Also seeing how all our care wil wee or nil we retorneth to God onely and that we be scarsly at any time left to our owne councelles And yet God dooth this onely to instruct vs and to learne vs to reknowledge his great bountifulnes and that sometime we may vnderstand how great difference there is betweene his care and oures By this meanes it happeneth that sumtime he permitteth that we be assailed with some light euil making as though he cared not for vs but truely there is neither day night nor houre but he careth for vs not withstanding yet he letteth and stoppeth that all the euelles whiche bee neere vs come not all at once to tempt vs and proue vs as his deere and welbeloued Children to learne vs to commit all our care to him and to call to remembraunce our life past and considre how muche our care and study is vnprofitable and impuissaunt What doo we profit or what may we profit our selues in all ●ur life Beholde we can not heale a ●ittle hurt on our legge or finger no ●ot in a good space Wherefore doo wee torment our sel●es then in such great anxiety and ●orow at the pricke of one euell or ●aunger And wherefore doo wee not ●ommit to our good God the care of ●s seeing hee hath chastesed vs by ●o many miseryes and euilles and ●ath preserued vs without our dilygence yea and also our life We can wel witnes the same to knowe these thinges is to knowe the woorkes of God to meditate therin is to be cō●orted but those that bee ignoraunt ●n those thinges fall into this incon●eniēce of whom it spoken in the. 27. Psalme saying Because they haue ●ot vnderstand nor knowen the wurkes of God nor the wurkes of his handes thou shalt destroy them and not build them vp For those whiche doo not commit vnto God their care ●ea in smal pointes be very vnkinde for all the care that God hath had for them in all their life ¶ The fourth Chapiter of the fourth consideration whiche is the euel or misery vnder vs. HEtherto we haue seene no other thing in all the euilles and miseries whiche we suffer but the goodnes of God is so fauourable and so great that among so many euelles with the whiche we be enuironed in this worlde and be wholy emprisoned in the same yea they bee scarcely permitted to assail vs very seldome so that what soeuer euel or misery it be whiche dooth presently assail vs yet neuertheles it is an aduertisement of a certaine great gain or great goodnes y t God wil honour vs with all when hee dooth not suffer that we be oppressed with the multitude of euels in the whiche we be in For what a benefite is it of God that when one is tempted with a number of miseries and troubles and yet is scant touched with one Yea it is meruail that he is not hurt of all yea and a grace that he is not stricken and ouercome vtterly The first euel that is vnder vs is death the secōd is hel For if we consider the horrible death of others by the whiche the wicked bee punished we shall see easely what a gaine and benefite it is not to suffer that

and all without sinne and wh● he shal be yet in any sinne the sinne shall not greene him but bee perd●ned because of y e insuperable righteousnes of the Lord Jesus the whiche dooth as it were swalow vp all our sinnes ▪ vpon whome our faith is stayed hoping sted fastly that Jesus Christe is euen suche a one as we beleue that he is And he that beleeueth not this it is to him as one y e tolde him a fable or as to a dum man or one that knoweth not Christe nor what he dooth profite him nor what vtilitie is in Jesus Christe Where fore if we had no other meditations or considerations but this onely it were sufficient to fulfil vs with vnspeakable consolation if it bee diligently considered w t an attentife hart we shall not onely be sorowful for our euelles but also we shall glory and reioyce in out tribulations thorow the great ioy that we haue in our Lord Jesus and shall scantly feele our miseries and euelles That good Lord Jesus our God blessed for euer make vs to feel and perceiue this Glory So be it ¶ A breefe Table of the principall matters cōtained in this book and heere you shall vnderstand that this letter a be tokeneth the first side of the leafe the letter b betokeneth the last syde and l be tokeneth the numbre of the lines on the same side A Abundaunce of riches bringeth not so great cōsolation as dooth a good conscience fo 28. b. line 9 Afflictiōs are to be loued fo 24. a. l. 23 Afflictions good to vs fo 25. a. l. 4 Afflictions of a Christian be not as y e afflictiōs of y e wicked fo 25. a. l. 19 Agathe went into prisō fo 49. b. l. 13 B Benignitie of God is great fo 15. a. li. 21. Bodily graces can not be estemed Fo 27 b. li20 C Care of God for vs fo 9. a li. 19. fo 10. b li. 14. Fo 42. b. li. Christian ought to bee greeued with the misery of others fo 15. b. li. 3. Christian is alwaies better and increceth in goodnes whether he liue or dy fo 34. a. li. 20. Comfort to man is that hee feeleth not all his finnes Fo. 3. a. li. 3. Communion of Saintes what it is so 51. b. li. 2. it is in good and euel fo 53. a. li. 13. Confession of sinnes proceeding frō faith iustifieth and sanctifieth fo 22. b. li. 16. Corporall tribulation is aduertisement of the inward euel fo 1. b. l. 11 Curse is the cause of blessing fo 24. a. li. 18. D Dauid the figure of Christe fo 38. a. li. 16. Dampnation of some for lesse euellꝭ then we doo fo 13. a. li. 14. Death greatest of all terrible thingꝭ fo 6 ▪ a. li. 4 Death feared of Saintꝭ fo 6. b. li. 3. Death feared of Christe fo 6. b. li. 4. Death is to be desired rather thē this life if we loue God fo 8. a. li. 11. Death is rather to be chosen then to returne to the whole kinde of life passed Fo. 8. b. li. 11. Death of the wicked is often times deserued of other which God dooth keep fo 12. a. li. 11. Death good to vs. fo 25. a. li. 5. Death of a Christian likened to the brasen serpent fo 25. a. li. 7. Death is the beginning of life fo 25. a. li. 23. Death is neuer tasted of him that kepeth the wurd of Christe fo 25. b. li. 1 Death of the faithful is precious Fo 34. a. li. 4. Death of the wicked is moste vnhappy Fo. 34. a. li. 12. Death maketh an ende of euellꝭ and paines vice and sinnes Fo. 35. b. li ▪ 21. Fo. 36. a. li. 20. Death whiche was the paine of sin is now the end of sinne and beginning of righteousnes fo 36. b. li. 21. Death the cause of al good Fo. 37. a. li. 21. E Euelles within a man moste miserable fo 1. a. l. 11. Euelles ful knowne would make a man perishe Fo. 1. b. li. 5. Euelles long continued we make no count of them Fo. 4. a. li. 7. Euelles be not measured according to the fact but after thoppinion Fo. 4. a. l 13 Euelles what soeuer one suffereth none can be surely exempted from them Fo. 5. b. li. 19. Euelles common to all men Fo. 6. b. li. 13. Euelles to come are moste to be feared Fo. 6. b. li. 18. Euellꝭ of aduersaries letted by God Fo 14. b. li. 7 Euellꝭ of other shall make our owne seeme light Fo 17. b. li. 25 Euelles and sorowes be molified ●● 18. b. li. 4 Euelles of the soule bee worse then the euelles of the body fo 36. a li. 5. E●ample of euel liuers doo help to our aduertise mentes fo 43. b. li. 14 F Feeble and weake haue moste neede of comfort in death Fo 6. b. li. 11 Felicitie of Christians through afflictions and death Fo. 33. b. li. 15. G God dooth chasten vs benignly discouering vnto vs the least euelles fo 1. b. l. 1 Goliath was the figure of sin Fo. 38. a. li. 14. Goodnes that GOD dooth to the wicked moueth vs to consider his goodnes to the good fo 47. a. li. 14. Goodꝭ of y e wicked be spurrꝭ to moue vs to trust in the inuisible goodꝭ set light by the euelles whiche wee doo suffer Fo. 47. b. li. 8. Goodes that a man hath in his owne person cannot be nombred Fo. 27. b. li. 15. Goodes of the spirit more excellent then the goodes of honour fame c. Fo. 28. b. li. 9. H Hermit complained because he was one yeere without trouble Fo. 21. b. li. 7. Hye degree is subsect to many temptations Fo. 14. b. li. 15. Honorable estate engendreth feare Fo. 5. a. li. 13. Horror of diseased personnes Fo. 16. b. li. 12. Hurtful thingꝭ y t seem to hurt y e beleuers doo thē moste good Fo. 59. a. li. 3. I Ignomini mother of glory Fo. 24. a. li. 20. Ingratitude not to esteeme wurthely the benefites of God Fo. 13. b. line 11. Iniuries sanctified by Christ Fo 24 b. li. ● Justice of God is but one Fo. 13. a. l. 16 L Lot was ●exed by the wurkes of the wicked Fo 16. a li 15 Lot increased in righteousnesse thorow suffering wicked examples of the Sodomites Fo 48. b. li. 13 Loue of righteousnesse is the loue of death Fo 36. b. li. 25 M Maladies hurtig the body be named CCC Fo 5. a. li. 2 Mankinde is noble and can doo many thinges that no oother creature cā doo Fo 28. a. li. 2 Meat among volupteous men is not found good with out sauce Fo 29. a li 16 Members of one body help one an other Fo 52. a. line 10 Mountain of mirre what it is Fo 23. a. line 18 Parentes louing their Children Fo 1. b. line 23 Passion of Christe called a baptisme Fo 24. b. li. 14 Passion of Christe is ●● somuche the lesse strength in a man as he is far ther from the loue of suffring troubles of this worlde fo 27. a. l. 3 Percecutions sanctified by Christes suffringes Fo 24. a. li. 11 Pleasure and volupte ousnes engelldre werines Fo 29. a li. 2 Pouertie inriched by Christe fo 24. a. li. 16 Presence of God among vs Fo 9. b. li. 21 Prouidence of God is alway present toward vs Fo 39. b. li. 21 Purpose of manne Fo 9. a. line 4 R Rebukes of the worlde are rather to be imbraced and kissed then the Apparel Cups or other be sselles that Christe touched Fo 25. b. li. 23 Reliques doo not so muche good as troubles in this world fo 26. a line 8 Resurrection of Christe what good it dooth to vs Fo 55. a. lin 18 S Saint John Bapt●●● beheaded Fo 19. b. li. 9 Saintes praied for the euelles of other fo 15 b. li. 25 fo 18. a. li. 7 Soule of the Sinner more horribls then the sore diseased body fo 17. a. line 3 Saintes haue suffered tormentes to haue a Crown of life Fo 18. b. l. 16 Sensuall man vnderstandeth not the thinges that be of God Fo 21. a. l. 15 Shame is glorified by christe Fo 24. a. line 15 Shames of the world be to be imbraced Fo 25. a. line 23 Sin is destroyed by his owne frute Fo 38 a li. 4 Sufferinges of other domoue vs to praise God Fo 44. a. li. 14 Suffring of our troubles is nothing if it be compared to the s●●●●ing of the Saintes Fo 21. ● li. 18 Supper of the Lord Fo 53. a. li. 16 W Wicked be as a raging Sea Fo 17. b. line 4. World likened to the Sea Fo 4. a line ● ¶ Faults escaped in y e printig Leaf ●de line fault correction 11 1 11. it spoken it is spoken 14 1 21. same of the. sea sād of the sea 1● 2 25. the the euelles the euelles 28 1 24. riches abūdāce riches ● abundance 31 1 ● yea yet 50 2 〈◊〉 albeit also 51 2 〈◊〉 re●oice reioice ❧ Imprinted at London at the Long S●… adioining vnto Sainct Mildreds Churche in the Pultrieꝭ by John Alde Ro. 15. Ro. 11 ▪

supper Who is he that dooth despise the least porcion of the bread the whiche likewise may not be saide that he hath despised the holy communion or supper Wherefore if wee be angred if we suffer yea if we dy cast our eyes vpon this and beleeue firmly be wee certaine that it is not wee that be sadde or heuy or that doo suffer or that doo dy no we be not alone but Jesus Christe and his Churche suffreth with vs. So is it that Jesus Christe hath willed that the way of death should bee to vs comfortable and that we should passe ouer all our miseries by the same the whiche all mē haue in horrour and be afraid of But now wee entring into the way of the passion and of the death hauing all the Churche to accompany vs and the Church dooth suffer more constantly then we can our selues so that we may truly appropriat take to our selues that whiche Elie sayde to his seruaunt Giezi whiche was taken with feare in the second of Kinges the sixt Chapiter Feare not for there are more on our sides then of our ennemies And after Elie had praied hee said Lorde y t it may please thee to open the eyes of this Lad that he may se and then the Lord opened the eyes of Giezi and he saw and beholde the mountaine was ful of souldiers and of Chariottes round about Elie. And now their lacketh no more to vs but that wee pray that God wil open our eyes that wee may see the Churche or congregation of GOD round about vs yea the eyes of our faith thē ther shalbe nothīg so horrible nor fearful that shall make vs a fraid as is said in the. 134. Psalme As the hye mountaines are round about him euen so standeth the Lorde about his people from this time forth for euermore Amen ¶ The seuenth Chapiter of the seuenth consideration of the good whiche is aboue vs. I Doo not speake of the eternall and celestiall goodꝭ whiche the blessed doo enioy as in a clear light and vision of God but rather or at the least I speake of those according to faith and after the meanes by the whiche these thinges may bee comprehended of vs. Also this seuenth consideration is Jesꝰ Christ the king of glory rising from death For as we reade in the seuenth consideration of euelles he suffred died was buried so heerewe may beholde y e souerein īestimable ioy of our hartꝭ and the strength of our felicitie and comfort The Sonne of God beeing raised frō death dieth no more death shall no more reigne nor haue domination ouer him This is the furnace of Charitie and the fire of GOD in Sion as saith Esay For Jesꝰ Christ is born to vs and not onely so but is also geuen to vs and therfore his resurrection is mine and all that he hath accomplished by his moste glorious resurrection And as Saint Paul in the. 8. to the Romaines dooth glory and reioyce saiyng How shall he not geue vs all thinges with him Now what hath hee doone in rising from death He hath destroyed sinne he hath raised the righteoꝰ and iust hee hath swalowed vp death he hath brought life hee hath obtained victory ouer hel and prepared for vs euer lasting glory Beholde the inestimable goodes so that the vnderstanding of man can very hardly perceiue o●beleeue that they be geuen to him As Jacob in the. 45. Chapiter of Genesis hearing that his Son Joseph reigned in Egipt he as rising from a deepe and profound dreame myght not beleeue those whiche tolde him those thinges vntil they shewed him the Chariottes with stuffe sent from Joseph Also as difficil and hard a thing it is to vs to beleeue y t so great goodes is prepared for vs by Jesus Christe to vs whiche be so vnwurthy except he him self doo make vs beleue it by his wurd in many sure textes places And as he did appeere and declare him self to his disciples by many apparitions Also he dooth now allure and draw vs to him as by Chariottes by long experience and vsage and this is a Chariot moste gratioꝰ louing that he is made of God to vs righteousnes wisedome sanctification and redemption As Saint Paul saith 1. Corinthians the. 1. Chapiter I am a sinner but I am borne and lifted vp in his righteousnesse which is made mine I ā filthy shameful and miserable but his holinesse is made to me my sanctification and my purgation in the whiche I am moste graciously and louingly trained and brought vp I am foolish but his wisedome dooth sustaine and bear me I am wurthy of damnation but his liberty is my sufficient raūsome O Chariot moste sure so that y e Christian and faithful person whiche beleueth the same may asmuche glory and reioyce in all these goodes and merites of our Lorde Jesus Christe as him self had doone them They be his owne proper so that now he may boldely abide the iudgement of God the whiche without this is of all men importable This faith is a thing moste excellent for it bringeth to vs suche inestimable goodes so glorioꝰ that it dooth constitute vs the glorioꝰ Children of God for wee can not bee Children but wee must possesse and obtaine the goodes of our father and the enheritaunce Now the Christians may boldely say death where is thy victory O death where is thy sting that is to say sinne for the ●●ing of death is sinne ▪ and the strength of sinne is the lawe Thankes bee to our Lorde God whiche hathe made vs to obtaine victory by Jesꝰ Christe our Lord y t is to say The law dooth constitute and declare vs sinners sin maketh vs culpable of death and dāp nation Now who hath vanquished these thinges Is it our righteousnes Is it our good life No truly it is the Lord Jesus rising from death cōdemning death and sin making vs partakers of his righteousnesse resigning to vs his merites putting his hand vpon vs and taketh vs to him and fulfilleth the law and ouercommeth sinne and death Now for all these thinges honour geuing of thankes and praise bee to our good God for euer and euer Amen This is the moste souereigne consideration in the whiche we be all redy so by lifted vp not onely aboue our euelles but also aboue our goodnesse and be all ready in possession of the goodes of others gotten by the labor of other in place where we were couched before in the euells of other and conquered by the sinnꝭ of other and augmented by our owne ▪ We be now couched and set in the place of the righteousnes of Jesus Christe y t whiche is to him righteousnes for as muche as we are ioyned to hi which is agreable to God and as a mediatour dooth intercede make request for vs and this moste holy sacrificator and aduocate is made whole altogether oures These thing doo make the Christian to be ful of all strength Lorde of all thinges hauing all ●●●nges