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A01759	The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisedome, acquired the name of sapiens. Faithfully translated out of the originall Latine.; Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. English	Gildas, 516?-570?; Abingdon, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 11895; ESTC S103163	93,511	458

unjust mightily pursuing robbers abroad truely in the Country and yet not only loving but also rewarding such theeves as are with them at their tables giving almes bountifully but on the contrary side heaping upmountaines of mischiefes miserably sitting in the throne of Iustice but seldome seeking out the rules of rightfull judgement disdaining the honest and humble but extolling as much as in them lyeth unto the very starres the blooddy the proud the monstrous murtherers the combined and adulterous enemies if so as they say they may prevaile of God himselfe who together with their very names are to be razed absolutely out of the earth having many fettered in their goales but lading them with chaines whom they rather beate downe by deceits then punish for any due desarts making solemne oathes on the Altars and presently afterwards despising the same Altars as if they were but durty stones Of which so horrible a crime Constantine the Tyrannicall whelpe of the uncleane Lyonesse of Dannonier is not guiltlesse This selfe same yeare after the taking of a dreadfull oath whereby he bound himselfe first before God and by a solemne sworne protestation then calling all the quires of Saints and Mother of God to witnesse that hee would not contrive any deceipts against his Country-men he did neverthelesse in the reverent bosomes of two mothers the Church and the carnall Parent under the habit of the Saintly Abbot Amphibalus amiddest the very holy sacred Altars as I have sayd in stead of teeth with his abhominable sword and lavelin wound and rent the most tender sides of two royall children or cruelly the entrailes of two such nurselings whose armes no way defended with armour which no man almost as then more stoutly than these poore babes used but stretched against the day of Iudgement to God and the Altar did hang up O Christ at the gates of thy City the venerable ensignes of their patience and faith yea so he did it as the purple cloakes as it were of congealed blood did touch the seate of the heavenly sacrifice neither did he commit this truely after any precedent commendable actions For many yeeres before was he overcome with the often and interchangeable stenches of adulteries having thrust away his lawfull wife against the commandement of Christ and also the Doctor of the Gentiles saying What God hath joyned let not man separate and againe Husbands love your wives For why he had planted in the ground of his heart an unfruitfull soyle for any good seede a certaine most bitter set of incredulity and folly taken at the first from the Vine of Sodome which being watred with his vulgar and domesticall impieties as poyso●●nous kinds of showres an● afterwards to the offence of God more audaciously springing up hath brought forth into the world the sinne of horrible murder and sacriledge and not as yet discharged of the entangling netts of his former offences he encreaseth his new wickednesse with old villanies Goe too now I reproove thee as present whom I know as yet to be in this life extant why standest thou astonished O thou butcher of thine owne soule why dost thou wilfully inkindle against thy selfe the eternall fires of hell Why dost thou in place of enemies desperately stabbe thy self with thine owne swords with thine owne javelins What cannot those same poysonous cuppes of offences yet satisfie thy stomack Looke backe I beseech thee and come to Christ for why thou labourest and art pressed even downe to the earth with this huge burthen and he himselfe as he sayd will give thee rest Come to him who wisheth not The death of a sinner but that hee should be rather converted and live Vnlose according to the Prophet the bands of thy necke O thou sonne of Sion Returne I pray thee although from the farre remote regions of sinnes unto the most pyous Father who for his sonne that will despise the filthy foode of swine and feare the death of cruell famine and so come backe to him againe hath with great joy accustomed to kill his fated Calfe and bring forth for this erronio●s wanderer the first stole and royall ring and then talking as it were a taste of the heavenly hope thou shalt perceive How sweete our Lord is For if thou dost contemn● these be thou assured thou art almost instantly to be for ever tossed and tormented in the inevitable and darke floods of endlesse fires What dost thou also thou Lions whelp as the Prophet saith Aurelius Conanus Art not thou as the former if not farre more foulely to thy utter destruction swallowed up in the filthinesse of horrible murders fornications and adulteries as in certaine over-whelming flouds of the sea Hast not thou by hating as a deadly serpent the peace of thy Country and thirsting unjustly after civill warres and often frequent spoyles shut up the gates of heavenly peace and repose against thine owne soule Being now left alone as a withering tree in the middest of a field remember I beseech thee the vaine and idle phancies of thy Parents and brethren together with the untimely death that befell them in the prime of their youth and shalt thou for thy religious deserts be reserved to live some hundreds of yeares or to attaine to the age of Methusalem being now bereft almost of all succeeding posterity No surely but unlesse as the Psalmist saith thou shalt bee more speedily converted unto our Lord that King will shortly Brandish his sword against thee who by his Prophet saith I will kill and I will cause to live I will strike and I will heale and he is not who can deliver out of my hand Bee thou therefore shaken out of thy filthy dust and withall thy heart converted to him who hath created thee that When his wrath shall shortly burne out thou mayest be blessed in hoping on him But if otherwise eternall paines will be heaped up for thee where thou shalt be ever tormented and never consumed in the cruell jawes of Hell Thou also who like to the sundry coloured Parde art divers in manners and diverse in mischeifes whose head now weareth hoare who art seated in a Throne full of deceipts and from the botome even to the very top deflowred with sundry detestable murders and adulteries a naughty sonne of a good King as another Manasses sprung from Ezechias Vortiper thou Tyrant of the Demetians why dost thou astonished stearve away What! doe not such violent gulfes of sinnes which thou dost swallow up as most pleasant wine if thou thy selfe art not rather swallowed up by them is yet satisfie thee especially since the end of thy life dayly now also approacheth Why dost thou heavily clogge thy miserable soule with a lustfull sinne of all others the foulest by putting away thine owne wife and after her honourable death with a certaine irrecoverable burden of thine impudent daughter Wast not I beseech thee the residew of thy

earth A sword of fire is sent out against yee and who is he that shall restraine it shall any man repulse a Lyon that hungereth in the wood or shall any one quench out the fire when the straw is burning our Lord God will send out evills and who is he that shall represse them and fire will passe forth from out his wrath and who shall extinguish it it shall brandishing shine and who will not feare it it shall thunder and who will not shake with dread God will threaten all and who will not be terrified before his face shall the earth tremble and the foundations of the sea fleet from the depth And marke ye also what Ezechiel the renowned Prophet and admirable beholder of the foure Evangelicall creatures speaketh of wicked offendors unto whom pittifully lamenting before hand the scourge that hung over Israel our Lord doth say Too farre hath the iniquity of the house of Israel and Iudah prevailed because the earth is fully filled with iniquity and uncleannesse Behold I am mine eyes shall not spare nor yet will I take pitty And afterwards Because the earth is replenished with people and the City fraughted with iniquity I will also turne away the force of their power and their holy things shall be polluted prayer shall approach and sue for peace and it shall not be obtained And somewhat after The Word of our Lord quoth he was spoken unto me saying Thou sonne of man the land that shall so farre sinne against me as transgressing it shall commit an offence I will streatch forth my hand upon her and breake in peeces her foundation of bread and send upon her famine and take away mankind and cattle from her and if these three men Noah Daniel and Iob bee in the midst of her they shall not deliver her but they in their justice shall be saved saith our Lord. If so be that also I shall bring 〈◊〉 evill beasts upon the land and punish her she likewise shall be turned to destruction and there shall not be one who shall have free passage from the face of the beasts and admit these three men are in the midest of her I live saith our Lord if their sonnes and daughters shall be preserved but they alone shall be saved and as for the land it shall fall to confusion And againe The sonne shall not receive the unrighteousnesse of the Father neither yet the Father the sonnes unrighteousnesse The justice of the just shall be upon himselfe And the unjust man if he turneth him away from all the iniquities which he hath done and keepeth all my Commandements and doth justice and abundance of mercy hee shall live in life and shall not dye All his sinnes whatsoever he hath committed shall have no further being he shall live the life in his owne justice which hee hath performed Doe I with my will voluntarily wish the death of the unrighteous saith our Lord ra●her than he should returne from his evill way and live But when the just shall turne himselfe away from his justice and doe iniquity according to all the iniquities which the unrighteous hath committed all the just actions which hee hath done shall remaine no further in memory In his offence wherein he hath fallen and in his sinnes in which hee hath transgressed he shall dye And within some words afterwards And all nations shall understand that the house of Israel are led captive away for their offences because they have forsaken me And I have turned my face from them and yeelded them over into the hands of their enemies and all have perished by the sword according unto their uncleane sinnes and after their iniquities have I dealt with them and turned my face away from them This which I have spoken may suffice concerning the threates of the holy Prophets onely I have thought it necessary to intermingell in this little worke of mine as well as the former menaces a few words also borrowed out of the wisdome of Salomon which declares unto Kings matter of exhortation or instructiō that they may not say I am willing to lade the shoulders of men with heavie and insupportable burthens of words but not so much as once with mine owne finger which is with speech of consolation to moove the same Let us therefore heare what the Prophet hath spoken to rule us Love justice saith he yee that judge the earth This onely testimony if it were with a full and perfect heart observed would abundantly suffice to reforme the governours of our Country For if they had loved Iustice they would also love God who is in a sort the fountaine and originall of all justice Serve our Lord in goodnesse and seeke him in simplicity of heart Alas who shall live as one before us hath sayd to see these things performed by our Countrymen yea if perhaps they may be any where accomplished Because he is found of those who doe not tempt him he appeareth truely to them who have faith in him For these men without respect doe tempt God whose Commandements with stubburne despight they contemne neither yet doe they keepe to him their faith unto whose Oracles be they pleasing or somewhat severe they turne their backes and not their faces For perverse thoughts doe separate from God and this in the Tyrants of our time very plainely appeareth But why doth our meannesse intermeddle in this so manifest a determination Let therefore him who is onely true as wee have sayd speake for us the holy Ghost I meane of whom it is now pronounced The holy Ghost verily will avoyde the counterfetting of discipline And againe Because the spirit of God hath filled the globe of the earth And afterwards shewing with an evident judgement the end of the evill and righteous hee saith How is the hope of the wicked as the doune that is puffed away with the wind and as the smoake that with the blast is dispersed and as the slender froth that with a storme is scattered and as the memory of a guest who is a passenger of one day But the just shall live for ever and with God remaineth their reward and their cogitation is with the highest Therefore shall they receive the kingdome of glory and the crowne of beauty from the hand of our Lord. Because with his right hand he will protect them and with his holy arme defend them For very farre unlike in quality are the just and ungodly as our Lord verily hath spoken saying Them who honour me I will honour and who so despise me shall be of no estimation But let us passe over to the rest Hearken saith he all yee Kings and understand ye learne ye Iudges of the bounds of the earth listen with your eares who conteine multitudes in awe and please your selves in the troopes of nations Because power is given unto yee from God and puissance from the highest who will

an arme upon yee and disperse upon your countenances the dunge of your solemnities But that ye may in the meane time with a more thirsting desire prepare your Organs and instruments of mischiefe to be converted into goodnesse hearken yee if there remaineth as yet any so little inward listening in your hearts what he speaketh of a holy Priest saying My covenant of life and peace was with him for historically he did speake of Levi and Moses I gave feare unto him and he was timerous of me he dreaded before the countenance of my name the law of truth was in his mouth and iniquitie was not found in his lippes he walked with me in peace and equity and turned many away from unrighteousnesse For the lippes of the Priest shall keepe knowledge and from out his mouth they shall require the law because hee is the angell of our Lord of hosts And now againe hee changeth his stile and desisteth not to rebuke and reprove the unrighteous saying Ye have departed from the way and scandalized many in the law and made voyde my covenant with Levi saith our Lord of hosts In regard whereof I have also given ye over as contemptible and abject among my people according as ●ee have not observed my ●ayes and accepted counte●ance of men in the law What is there not one father of us all What hath not one god created us Why therefore doth every one despise his brother And againe Behold our Lord of hosts will come and who can conceive of the day of his comming and who shall endure to stand to behold him For he shall passe forth as a burning fire and as the fullers hearbe and shall sit melting and trying silver and he shall purge the sonnes of Levi and clense them as gold and as silver And somewhat afterwards Your words have growne strong against me saith our Lord and ye have spoken thus He is vaine who serveth God and what profit because we have kept his Commandements and walked sorrowfull before our Lord of hosts We shall therefore now call the arrogant blessed for because they are erected and builded up while they worke iniquity they have tempted God and are made safe But heare ye also what Ezechiel the Prophet hath spoken saying Woe upon woe shall come and messenger upon messenger shall be and the vision shall be sought for of the Prophet and the law shall perish from the Priests and counsell from the Elders And againe Thus saith our Lord In respect that your speeches are lying and your divinations vaine For this cause Behold I my selfe unto ye saith our Lord I will stretch out my hand on your Prophets who see lies and them who speak vaine things in the discipline of my people they shall not be and in the Scripture of the house of Israel they shall not be written and into the land of Israel they shall not enter and yee shal know that I am the Lord because they have seduced my people saying The peace of our Lord and there is not the peace of our Lord. Here have they built the wall and they annointed it and it shall fall And within some words afterwards Woe be unto these who fashion pillowes apt for every elbow of the hand and make veiles upon every head of all ages to the subversion of soules and the soules of my people are subverted and they possesse their soules and contaminated me unto my people for a handfull of barley and a peece of bread to the slaughter of the soules whom it behooved not to dye and to the delivery of the soules that were not convenient to live while ye talke unto my people that listeneth after vaine speeches And afterwards Say thou sonne of man thou art earth which is not watered with raine neither yet hath raine fallen upon thee in the day of wrath in which thy Princes were in the middest of thee as roring Lions ravening on their preyes devouring soules in their potent might and receiving rewards and thy widd●wes were multiplyed in the midst of thee and her Priests have despised my law and defiled my holy things Betweene holy and polluted they did not distinguish and divided not equally betweene the uncleane and cleane and from my Sabbaths they veiled their eies and in the midst of them they defiled And againe And I sought among them a man of upright conversation and one who should altogether stand before my face to prevent the times that might fal upon the earth that I should not in the end utterly destroy it and I found him not And I powred out upon it the whole designement of my minde in the fire of my wrath for the consuming of them I repaid their waies on their heads saith our Lord. And somewhat after And the word of our Lord was spoken unto me saying O Sonne of man speake to the children of my people and thou shalt say unto them The land whereupon I shall bring my sword and the people of the land shall take some one man among them and ordaine him to be a watchman over them and hee shall espie the sword comming upon the land and sound with his trumpet and signifie unto the people who so truely shall then heare the sound of the trumpet and yet hearing shall not beware and the sword shal come and catch him his blood shall light upon his owne head because when hee heard the sound of the trumpet hee was not watchfull his blood shall be upon him and this man for that hee hath preserved his owne soule hath delivered himselfe But the watchman if he shall see the sword comming and not give notice with his trumpet and the people shall not beware and the sword comming shall take away a soule from among them both the soule it selfe is caught a captive for her iniquities and I will also require her blood at the hand of the watchman And thou O son of man I have appointed thee a watchman over the house of Israel and if thou shalt heare the word from out my mouth when I shall say to a sinner Thou shalt die the death and yet wilt not speake whereby the wicked may returne from his way both the unjust himselfe shall die in his iniquity and truely I will require his blood also at thy hands But if thou shalt forewarne the wicked of his way that he may avoide the same and he neverthelesse will not withdraw himselfe from his course this man shall die in his impiety and thou hast preserved thine owne soule And so let these few among a multitude of Propheticall testimonies suffice by which the pride or sloath of our stubborne Priests may be repelled to the end they may not suppose that we doe rather of our owne invention then by the authority of the Lawes and Saints denounce such threats against them And now let us also behold what the trumpet of the Gospell sounding to the whole world speaketh