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A14583	An epistle sent by Monsievr de Vrillac, advocate in the Parliament of Paris; to Monsievr de Vrillac his father, vpon the occasion of his conuersion. Faithfully translated into English, accoriding to the French copie; By C.C.	Vrillac, Monsieur de.; C. C., fl. 1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 24893; ESTC S101817	11,766	24

of Bastard children to be afraide to call themselues by the name of their father we are vnworthie the seruice of so great a King if we be ashamed to weare his Liuery for such a base seruant can neuer serue so rich a master In a word I haue considered that God punisheth no sinners more seuerely in his wrath then Rom. 1. 18. such as withhold his truth in vnrighteousnesse and I haue oft trembled at the hearing of these words spoken by Iesus Christ to the Church of Laodicea Reu. 3. 15. 16. I would thou wert either cold or hot but because thou art neither cold nor hot but luke-warme I will spew thee out of my mouth And thence it is that I haue bin terrified with that horrible threat which God pronounceth in Apoc. 21. against such as feare man more then God and the seruant rather then the Maister for not onely to vnbeleeuers abominable murtherers whoremongers sorcerers Idolaters and all lyars But also vnto the fearefull is reserued that Reu. 21. 8. lake of fire and brimstone which is the second death Nay were it that God threatned vs not at all with such terrible punishments yet ought wee to be ashamed hauing receiued so many mercies from him to repay him with so horrible ingratitude it being monstrous that such who make Conscience to steale from other men their goods should yet dare to defile themselues with sacriledge For there is not a worse sacriledge then to rob God of his glory and he is worthie to be branded for a double dealer who denies vnto God that iust defence of his cause which he owes vnto him This is it then I haue considered with my selfe Iesus Christ is not ashamed to call me his brother Heb. 2. 11. and should I be ashamed to confesse my selfe to be his seruant He hath not spared to shed his bloud for me and should I spare to speake for his truth He died for my saluation and should I not liue to his glory I concluded then that seeing he meant to glorifie my soule and bodie in heauen it is just and reasonable that in soule and bodie I glorifie him on earth according to the exhortion of the Apostle Ye are bought for a price glorifie God then in 1 Cor. 6. 20. your bodie and in your spirit for they are Gods And yet I must tell you that God hath not setled me in this resolution but through many conflicts For the flesh to weaken my saith was readie to rocke Iud. 16. 15. me asleepe in her lap and this flesh a sworne enemie that shee might still retaine me in her bonds and hinder me from ascending the mountaine of saluation caused me to looke backe towards those Gen. 19. 2● worldly profits which I was to abandon she told me that I should breake the necke of all my Fortunes as they are wont now adayes to speake and should imprison my selfe within the den of perpetuall ignominie this obiection I confesse somewhat the more daunted me being now come to those yeares which naturally long for delights and thirst after prayses the progresse in my studies also hauing raised me vpon the steps which lead to honours whereunto the fauour of my friends seemed to haue made a way open for me But againe I thought that this was a sleight of the great Harlot which to retaine me still in the filthinesse of her abominations meant euen like Potiphars wife who inticed Ioseph to commit adultery with her to hold me by the cloke through the consideration of earthly commodities and therefore I chose rather to leaue my cloke with Ioseph then to forsake mine innocencie or to make any breach in my Conscience I considered that all the riches and honours of this world are turned to wormewood to him that feares not God and that all the pleasures of the flesh are but like to the Bees which haue honey in their mouth but stings in their tayle the beginning seemes pleasing but the end lamentable for after a short laughter and a few fond delights in this life followes eternall death where shall be endlesse weeping and gnashing of teeth I also considered that God hauing created man to be Lord of the whole world man should not yeeld himselfe as a vassall or slaue to such vile creatures That the whole world is not a portion worthy of the children of this great King That God hath not indewed me with an immortall soule to be intangled in the things which haue but onely the dignitie to be mortall That my soule being of an heauenly nature ought to mount aboue all these terrestrial things and to aspire to those things that are aboue In a word I concluded that I should make but an ill match of it to win the whole world if for Man 8. 38. it I should lose my soule and that it would proue but a meane comfort to goe to hell laden with many Tit●es For this cause I gaue my selfe to meditate on the saying of Christ Thou carest and art troubled about Luke 10. 41. many things but one thing is needfull I gaue heed likewise to the exhortation of our Sauiour in S. Mathew Chap. 6. First seeke the kingdome of God Mat. 6. 33. and his righteousnesse and all these things shall be added vnto you And that of S. Iohn Labour not for Iohn 6. 27. the meate that perisheth but for that which endureth to eternall life I tasted also the vertue of Pauls cordiall words 1 Tim. 6 Godlinesse with contentment 2 Ti● 6. 7. is great gaine For we brought nothing into this world and it is certaine we shall carrie nothing out Therefore hauing food and rayment let vs therewith be content And because Examples haue often the force of instructions I set before me the Prophet Moses Heb. 11. 24. 25. 26. Who being come to age refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sinne for a season Esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt for he had an eye to the recompence of reward I mused on the writings of Dauid wherein he glorieth more that hee was Gods seruant then that hee was King of Israell preferring the house of God before his Palace Royall As also I thought on the saying of that excellent Prince the Emperour Theodosius who preferred his being a Citizen in the house of God before all the glory of his Empire But aboue all me thought I was wonderfully rauished in considering the Apostle S. Paul who had bin brought vp at the feete of Gamaliel who vnderstood the secret of Sciences and spake the language of Angels who had whereof to boast as concerning the flesh hauing all the aduantages his Nation afforded and yet he cryeth out Phil. 3. That which was Phil. 3. 7. ● ● gaine vnto me I esteemed losse for Christ Yea I haue counted all

it for vs his members to desire the enioying of all our liberties heere below in this corruptible world or to lie sucking at the breasts of the poysonful sweets ther of yea for as much as Iesus Christ hath suffered so much for our saluation is it not iust equall that wee prepare our selues to suffer for his glory according to that exhortation of the Apostle let vs Heb. 13. 13. goe forth out of the campe bearing his reproach For I also thought that to escape a theefe in the way I ought not to cast my self headlong into infinite and ineuitable miseries For what corzie is more sencible and intollerable then that of an euill conscience yea all the tortures in this life are but light flea-bitings in respect of those eternal punishments wherewith God will punish those who worship the beast his Image and whosoeuer they Reu. 14. 9. 10. be that receiue the marke of the beast in their foreheads But that which did yet fortifie mee most of all was the consolation which the Apostle giues vs saying in his Epistle to the Romanes That all Rom. 8. 28. thinges worke together for good to those that loue God That by afflictions we are made conformable to the Image Ver. 29. of the Sonne of God and that all our sufferings Rom. 8. 18. of this present life being well weighed are not worthie of the glory which is to come and shall in due time bee reuealed vnto vs For our light affliction which is but 2 Cor. 4. 17. for a moment works in vs a farre more excellent and eternall weight of glory whilst wee looke vpon not the things which are seene but on the things which are not seene which are eternall For those who are come out of Reu. 7. 14. great tribulation and haue washed their long robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe that stand Verse 15. before the throne of God and serue him day and night in his Temple shall haue no more hunger nor thirst 16. the sunne shall not light vpon them nor any heat for the Lambe which is in the midst of the throne shall feede 17. them and leade them to the fountaines of liuing waters and God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes That was it which caused me to change my note and to thinke nothing sweeter then the waters of Mara when Christ our true Moses casts into them the wood of his Crosse assuring vs of the m●rit of his death and passion yea I dare say that afflictions for the name of Christ doe bring with them more true ioy and comfort to the faithfull soule then the whole world furnished with all her contentments to a prophane wretch And therefore Christ saith Blessed are they who are persecuted for Mat. 5. 10. righteousnesse sake for theirs is the kingdome of heauen Blessed are ye when men reuile you and persecute Verse 11. you and shall say all manner of euill saying against you falsely for my names sake reioyce and be glad for great 12. is your reward in heauen for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you That is it which Saint Iames also saith in his Epistle My brethren Iam. 1. 2. thinke it perfect ioy when you fall into diuers temptations And that likewise of S. Peter reioyce in as 1 Pet. 4. 13. much as yee are partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall appeare yee may be glad and reioyce If ye be railed vpon for the name of Christ blessed are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth vpon you Thence it is that the Apostles in the Acts went away reioycing that they Act. 5. 41. were counted worthie to suffer rebuke for the name of Iesus Christ And that the Apostle Saint Paul who had been rapt vp into the third heauen and had heard words which are vnexpressable which is not possible for man to vtter chose yet rather to reioyce in his sufferings The ioy which he for a time possessed among the Angels being no let vnto him to reioyce in the middest of the Martyrs I take pleasure saith he in reproches in 2 Cor. 12. 10. necessities in persecutions in anguishes for Christ for when I am weake then I am strong From thence it came that out of the middest of his most inward passions he cries out I am filled with consolation 2 Cor. 7. 4. I am full with ioy more and more in all our affliction for full well he knew that it is freely giuen vs for Phil. 1. 29. Christ not onely to bel●eue in him but also to suffer for his sake And therefore according to Christ his exhortation I beleeued that I ought not to feare those Mat. 10. 28. who hauing killed the bodie can doe no more but to feare him rather who can destroy both bodie and soule in hell fire and that if the sufferings 2 Cor. 1. 5. of Christ abound in vs the consolations of Christ shall abound in vs also If we die with Christ that 2 Tim. 2. 12. we shall also liue with him That if we suffer with him we shall also raigne with him And that if Mar. 8. 35. any will saue his life he shall lose it and whosoeuer shall lose his life for Christs sake and the Gospels he shall saue it And no maruaile if neither the threats nor promises of the world preuailed with me to hinder me from giuing glory to God seeing the world can promise nothing which is more excellent then the kingdome of heauen nor threaten any thing more terrible then the paines of hell But as with a stedsast eye I looked vpon the world which I now forsake and the crosse which I embrace soon the other side when I come to cast mine eyes vpon you most honoured Father and Mother and to set before me your tender affections and paternall loues whilst I call to minde with what mildnesse you brought me vp what care you had of my education sparing no cost to instruct me in the knowledge of good letters framing my mind to the loue of vertue and then againe when I thought how much affliction and discomfort my departing would bring vnto you in following a Religion the excellencie whereof you yet discerne not All these things I say well weighed so wrought vpon mine affections that it hath caused floods of teares to fall from mine eyes and to be brought as it were to nothing for the truth is my loue towardes you is so ardent and respectiue that if it were but to endure any temporall punishments I had rather suffer a thousand torments and tortures then to breed you the lest discontentment yea I ingenuously confesse that this consideration so farre preuailed with me that it had in a manner stayed me from proceeding on in this faire path wherein I now walke if God hauing compassion of mine infirmitie had not drawne me