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A00686	A briefe conference betwixt mans frailtie and faith wherein is declared the true vse, and comfort of those blessings pronounced by Christ in the fifth of Matthew, that euery Christian man and woman ought to make and take hold of in their seuerall tentations and conflicts: laide downe in this plaine order of dialogue, to helpe, if it please God, the conceit and feeling of the simplest. By Geruase Babington.	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1584 (1584)	STC 1082; ESTC S108359	56,099	166

fading flower soudenlie plucked vp and withered like grasse like smoke and like the bubble of the water Wee shall be forgotten with all our pompe as the trauailer is that tarrieth but a night our honour shall come to an ende as the players part vpon the stage our doinges sayinges lookes gestures states and maiesties shall be rowled vp as a screule and cast into the office of forgetfulnesse where nothing can bee founde againe And then what remaineth I say what remaineth any thing but woe and wormes if we haue contemned religion and liued disobediently against the Lorde anie thing but vexation and torment both of the bodie and soule in hell fire Will then swearing be liked or drunkennesse or whoring or tipling tauerning sporting in vanity lasciuious talking writing or looking carding and dising roisting and rouing pride and excesse or anie kinde of sinne detested of the Lorde Will then a dissembling time-seruer not be vncased Will then an vniust seruant not be found out Will then an vnfaithfull wife not be discouered or a beastlie furious franticke husbande not be rewarded Will then anie thing abide the face that commeth in the cloudes with thousandes of Angels but onelie a religious heart and soule that hath labored to know and indeuored to liue trusting onelie to the mercie of God in Christ for all wantes to be pardoned Alas we knowe it euen as we knowe we liue it wil not but destruction and death shal then be to the man or woman for euer that lewdly hath liued in this world and comfort endlesse to the contrarie Therfore once againe I saie the Lorde giue vs eies to discrie betimes the rewarde and ende of true religion and of a reformed mind and life in that day euen for his Christes sake our blessed Lord and Sauiour Amen FINIS ¶ A prayer for a familie in the Morning O Most gratious God louing Father the verie comfort that anie sinfull soule can haue when we miserable sinners here met together do consider of the great mercy goodnes that we haue euer since we were borne and before founde and dayly do finde at thy Maiesties handes together with our great vnkindnes shewed euerie way to thée again for y e same we must néedes confesse and euen doe from the bottome of our heartes acknowledge that maruellous is thy mercie in sparing vs still to liue and in not consuming vs away from the earth from before thée For hast not thou O déere God of thy frée mercy before y e foundations of the world were laide chosen and elected vs for thy children when others as good as we by nature shall burne in hell eternally being reiected of thée in that hidden counsell of thine Hast not thou to our endles comfort certified and made known vnto our spirits the same Hast thou not created vs neither beastes todes wormes or any such like ouglie creatures but in thine own image according to thy likenesse to rule ouer the fishes in the sea ouer the foules of heauen and ouer euerie thing that mooueth vppon the earth And when being thus created innocēt yet we persisted not in the same but fell into the curse that bringeth eternall death didst thou not so pitie vs as that for our redemption and safetie thou grudgest not vnto vs and for vs to bée powred out the heart bloud of Jesus Christ thy onelie son our sauiour no other meanes being whereby we coulde be saued Hast thou not by thy holie spirit wrought faith in our heartes to beléeue by him and for him to be iustified before thée Hast thou not in some measure begunne the death of sinne in vs and wrought our sanctification Enioie we not the benefites of thy worde the freedome of conscience great peace and plentie in outward things with manie and infinite benefites moe waking and sléeping at home and abroad in our selues and our friendes For all which O good Lorde what doe wee Are we thankefull vnto thée for them Doe we often thinke of them and labour to knowe thée and to serue thée with a perfect heart and a willing mind for them No no déere God we do not we doe not as we ought to doe But with pleasure or profite with vanitie or selfe loue we are carried away spende our dayes in iniquitie carelesse and vnféeling of our sinne and there is no goodnesse in vs yet is there mercie with thée O Lord and pardon to repentance Wherefore we all héere met together at this time before thy maiestie humblie confessing our wantes most intirelie beséech thée for Jesus Christ his sake to haue mercie vppon vs haue mercie vppon vs most mercifull Father and forgiue vs all that is past strengthen vs hereafter that dailie both in bodie and soule we may glorifie thée more than we haue doone yéelding thankes daily for daylie benefites and striuing in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life But because we cannot but offend and fall diuers wayes good Lorde for thy mercie sake pearce our heartes with a féeling of the same and neuer suffer vs to goe on with dull and dead soules not séeing or sighing for our offences As a speciall meanes to kéepe vs in obedience before thée O déere Father worke in vs a continuall an effectuall remembraunce that wee shall not alwayes liue héere in the shewe of this wretched worlde that doeth so please vs now but that a day will come when the trumpe shall sounde the dead shall arise and all wee shall appeare before thy tribunall seate of iudgement there to receiue according to our déedes without respect of persons O good Lorde giue vs a remembrance and a féeling of the vnspeakeable comfort and eternall weight of glorie which in that day shall be giuen vnto vs if in this life we serue and please thée And contrariwise euen terrifie our consciences and let vs as it were sée before our faces the dreadfull iudgementes and the fearefull tormentes that both in body and soule they shal be sure to haue for euer more in the pitte of hell which in this life doe not serue and please thée but followe their owne fancies and wicked delights Giue vs an hatred of sinne and a true loue of righteousnesse Blesse thy worde euer more with fruite vnto our soules when we doe heare it giue vs a desire to heare it often Remoue O Lorde in thy good time such hinderances of the fruit thereof as are amongst vs giue it full course and sende foorth labourers into thy haruest which not for filthie lucre and gaine but of loue and zeale to thée and thy people may preach thy worde sincerely Blesse vs O Lorde from all hypocrisie glosing and halting before thée And because we little know how soone thou shalt sende this pampered flesh of ours to the wormes stoppe our breath and call away for our soules to come vnto thée whether this day or no before the euening blessed Father for Jesus Christ his sake prepare make vs readie

windowes of heauen and powre his mercies out vpon your La. the Lorde confirme you in all good workes giue you a true sight of this vaine world make your heart shake at his iudgementes melt with a fruitefull feeling of grace assured to holie life and the Lord to profite make you thinke you euer heare that voice ARISE YOV DEADE AND COME VNTO IVDGEMENT and yet in faith to saie with cheerefull heart COME LORDE IESVS COME QVICKLIE So be it London this first of December 1583. Your Honors most humble bounden to death Geruase Babington A Conference betwixt mans Frailtie and Faith Frailtie O Wicked worlde and wretched state I stand in O heauy hart sorowing soule how should I comfort you I haue it not I see it not I feele it not what any way might ioie mee and howe then can I giue it you The contrary I see in fullest weight and measure and wo is me ten thousand times that euer I sawe this light yea let the day euen perish wherin I was borne and the night when it was saide there is a manchilde conceiued Let that daie be darknesse let not God regard it from aboue neither let the light shine vppon it But let darkenesse and the shadow of death staine it let the cloud remaine vpon it and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day let darkenesse possesse that night let it not be ioined vnto the dayes of the yeare nor let it come into the accounts of the moneths Yea desolate be that night and let no ioy be in it Let the stars of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it let it looke for light but haue none neither let it see y e dawning of the daie because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe nor hid sorrowe from my eies Why died I not in the birth or why died I not when I came out of the wombe Why did the knees preuent me and why did I sucke the brests For so shoulde I nowe haue lien and beene quiet I should haue slept then and beene at rest Or why againe was I not hid as an vntimely birth either as infants which haue not seene the light Woe is me I liue woe is mee I doe not die and wo I feare much more when ended is my course Faith Why Frailtie what in the name of God meaneth this fearful impatiencie or what case can there be in the life of man and woman so vncomfortable as that in regard thereof they should thus cris out Open your selfe and conceale not your griefe for the verie speaking of it shall giue some measure of ease Frailtie Alas I knowe not almost howe to doe it For my conceites doe so oppresse me and euer as I thinke of one miserie still the remembraunce of an other thrusteth it selfe so into my minde and at last the heape appeares so huge as all amazed I faint vnder the beholding of them and my cogitations are so distracted as it is not possible for me to make an orderly rehearsall of my woe Yet since I haue met with you I wil performe it as I can committing my selfe to that mercie that hath no measure and to your selfe as an instrument to applie his comfortes to me begging it euen with teares tenne thousand times at your handes I consider then that I am created heere in this worlde a reasonable creature consisting of bodie and soule both subiect to dreadfull and endlesse woe if I finde not mercie with the Lorde which I confesse vnto you I comfortablie cannot assure my self of as yet bicause the hand of God me thinke more heauily presseth me diuers waies than I imagin it would do if he loued me Faith And wherein I praie you doe you thinke you are pressed ouer heauily Pouertie the first temptation Frailtie ALas in manie things and yet God laie not my pleading with him to my charge To begin with some thing I must needes confesse vnto you that my lowe estate in the world is a maruellous temptation to me manie a time For God knowes I am poore and euen verie poore notwithstanding all my paines carke and care which is not a little My charge also is great for such an one as I am and their want as good reason bindeth is my continuall woe Yet if this were all me thinke I could wrastle with it and by Gods helpe get the victorie but these companions of pouertie are they that sting me so sore to wit disdaine and contempt both of me and mine of my doinges sayinges or any thing that proceedeth from me and that reiection which is made of me out of all meetings and companies those whisperinges that I heare reproches that I carrie euen at their handes that I little thought would haue done it and that scornefull pitying of me which often appeareth with such like For in deede if euer anie found it I finde it true that by wise Syrac was saide so long agoe There is euen as much peace betwixt the riche and the poore as betwixt Hyena and the dogge But looke howe the wilde Asse is the Lions pray so are the poore meate for the riche And looke howe the proude hate humilitie so doe the rich abhorre the poore If a rich man fall his friendes set him vp againe but when the poore falleth his friendes driue him away If a rich man offende he hath many helpers hee speaketh proude wordes and yet men iustifie him but if a poore man faile they rebuke him and though he speake wisely yet can hee haue no place When the riche man speaketh euerie man holdeth his tongue and looke what he sayeth they praise it to the clouds but if the poore man speake they say What felowe is this And if he doe amisse they will destroy him These these companions of my pouertie are the thinges that euen cut my heart a sunder and wil I nill I it breaketh euen vpon mee by force as it were to thinke that if the lord loue a man hee should neuer suffer him for want of worldly trash so despitefully to be intreated in this worlde and so generally This is but one thing that troubleth me besides which I haue manie moe but helpe me if you can ere I go anie further Faith Nay goe on vtter your gréefe fullie and then your minde wilbe the fitter to heare a great deale For otherwise you will be musing of the rest when I shall he speaking to you for your ease in this Frailtie An other verie daungerous torment then I must needes confesse is that continuall vncomfortablenesse which is still in me by reason of diuerse thinges as by a weightie and stinging sense of mine owne sinnes by sight of other mens loose course and grieuous dishonouring of God in euerie place giuing thēselues to flatterie dissembling and all manner of holowe dealing with God and man by meditation of the fierce wrath of God and most dreadfull iudgementes which assuredly hang ouer vs for these thinges

written to confirme our heartes in an vnfained loathing of it séeme it neuer such wisedome in a wicked worlde and bring it neuer such gaine to the vsers of it Now on the contrarie side consider againe what a lasting praise is giuen to the contrarie namely to sincere faithfull true and plaine honest dealing with all men So shall it still appeare vnto you cléerer that detestable in the eies of god is a glosing tōgue with an holow halting and dissembling heart What man is he saith y e prophet Dauid that listeth to liue and would faine see good daies let him keep his tongue frō euil and his lips that they speake no guile As if he should say halters will be halted withall one waie or other let them doe what they can and so euill a nature shall finde either with God or man or with both at last a deserued recompence and therefore be simple Againe in an other place Blessed is the man in whose spirit there is no guile And againe Lorde who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest vpon thy holie hill Euen the man saith the Lorde that amongest other vertues hath this by name to speake the trueth when hée speaketh from his heart And what a spéech is that of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians Our reioicing is this the testimonie of our conscience that in simplicitie and godlie purenesse and not in fleshly wisedome we haue had our conuersatiō in the worlde His conscience bore him witnes of plaine dealing euer it ioyed him Ours crie within vs our dissembling is monstrous shall it neuer thinke we bring sorrowe to vs Reade at your leasure the first of Syrach from the 33. verse to the ende Neuer forget also the commendation that Christ giueth to Nathaniel But what should I heape vp anie moe testimonies May I not still referre you to the fifth of Matthewe and you there sée euen this tēptation also as one that should assault the godlie prouided for in these wordes Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Consider then of it well Frailtie and be assured where there is a blessing set vpon the head of the vertue there is also a curse set vppon the heade of the vice euer If they bee blessed of the Lorde that reserue in themselues notwithstanding all temptations to the contrarie an honest faithfull simple true dealing and meaning heart towarde all men and in whose spirites there is no guile then as you liue you may assure your soule the contrarie are cursed before the face of him that is truth it selfe and neuer any thing but trueth And whatsoeuer they gaine and get in the worlde they gaine and get the Diuell and all with it vnlesse the Lorde turne their heartes But let this suffice a while touching God and his worde howe they doe allowe this vice whereunto you féele your selfe so greatly tempted And a little also weigh his childrens iudgement of it the auncient graue and godlie fathers of his Church S. Chrysostome writing vpon the 7. of Matthewe and considering this slie nature of men and women so faithfull in shewe and so faithlesse in proofe breaketh out into this detestation of it Fie fie saith he what a course is this If it be a shame to seeme to be false and nought is it not more shame to be so in deede Therefore either be as thou seemest or seeme as thou art euer Where you plainely sée the true loathing that this godlie father lodged of this vice in his heart S. Austine speaking vppon the wordes of Christ to Nathaniel concludeth this glorious glosse that manie make and this déepe dissembling that manie vse to be a speciall of the generall heade fraude and deceite the verie naming whereof wee all abhorre And vppon these wordes againe of the Psalme Keepe thy tongue from euill and thy lippes that they speake no guile Then saith he is it treacherous Fraud Cum aliud in pectore clausum habetur aliud promittitur aut verbo aut actione When one thing is hidden in heart and an other thing promised either by worde or action Nowe of the contrarie vertue openlie and expresselie hee affirmeth that the simple God heartily loueth and an other sheweth who they be euen they whose dealings are without pleites and fouldes wrinckles euerie way Againe that simplicitie and plaine open honestie that is contrarie to fraude and subtiltie euer is commended saieth Lactantius And simplicitie is euer ioyned with true wisedom saith Tertullian No vertue so necessarie betwixt man and man as humble simplicitie and modest grauitie saieth an other And to conclude if wee regarde the sentences and iudgementes of anie but our selues certainely mee thinke it should neuer bee forgotten what S. Hierome so heartily speaketh Haue euer such a regarde of trueth in all thy doings as if once thou hast spoken it all one thou takest thy selfe pressed with it as if thou hadst sworne it a thousande times Thus sée you secondlie then the iudgement of true Christian teachers touching the vice you are so stronglie tempted to staine your selfe withall Thirdlie nowe viewe the opinion of the heathen concerning the same and if nature taught them verie heartilie euen to abhorre it what will bee the ende Frailtie can you suppose either of your selfe or any other in whom neither nature nor the renued light strength thereof the blessed word of God can kéepe vpright in y e Christian course of plaine true faithfull honest meaning speaking thinking and dealing with all men What is horrible deceite and fraude saith one of them a famous Councellour but when one thing is doone and an other presented in outwarde shewe Therefore like of the one and like of the other hate the former and abhorre the latter thought this man sée you plainely in this place And in an other place he hath this reason against it Suspition saith he of others was neuer good but the more any man or woman vse dissembling and halting themselues the more euer they will stande in a suspicious feare of others that they likewise vse it therefore neuer was it nor euer shalbe any commendable course in any Againe how soundeth it still vnto all posterities the discredite and shame of those cauilling glosing Thracians who hauing taken truce for 30. dayes spoyled their enemies in the night with this shameful shift that they named no truce to be kept on the night but onely on the day And howe liueth still and will doe long on the contrarie side the praise of M. Regulus amongest these heathens because he rather chose to die a cruell death than once to breake the faith he had truely plighted and any way by fraude subtiltie and dissembling treacherie to take the course that others did But I staie my selfe and assure you of this that in al crations and spéeches in all pleas and actions for and against any man amongst them honest plainenesse was euer an