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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20946	Heraclitus, or, Meditations vpon the vanity & misery of humane life first written in French by that excellent scholler & admirable divine Peter Du Moulin minister of the sacred word in the Reformed Church of Paris ; and translated into English by R.S. gentleman.; Heraclite. English. 1609	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Stafford, Robert, 1588-1618.	1609 (1609)	STC 7325; ESTC S2575	27,860	136

Of Hell in respect of the Thornes which follow for the vanity and trauaile of this temporall life is a happinesse in regard of the torments of eternall death which doth swallow the most part of men It is a large way which leadeth to perdition and few do find the way of saluation Death commeth here to leuy souls for hell and doth enroule great and smale learned and ignorant rich and poore yea many which are esteemed holy and liue couered vnder the cloake of hypocrisy to the end that they might goe to hell with the lesse noise and not be staied by the way This Hel is a place of flames and yet there is perpetuall darknesse where soules doe wax olde and yet neuer die and where they liue continually to dy where they burne without consuming where they mourne without compassion are afflicted without repentance where torment is without end and past imagination There the vnhappy rich man which refused to giue poore Lazarus a crume of bread doth now begge of him a drop of water although whole riuers be not sufficient to extinguish his heate What if the Roddes that God doth punish his Infants withall doe sometimes make them almost dispaire and euen curse the day of their natiuity as Iob and Ieremie did What Iob. 3. 1. 3. Iere. 15. 10 are those afflictions that hee doth oppresse his aduersarie withall It is a horrible thing saith the Apostle to fall into Heb. 10. the hands of the liuing God For because hee saith in his anger as it is written in the 32 Chapter of Deuteronomie I haue lifted my hand toward heauen and said I am the euerliuing God If I whet my glittering sword and mine hād take hold on iudgement I will execute vengance on myne enimies and will reward them that hate me Praised be God which hath deliuered vs and drawn vs from that burning furnace of hell by his sonne Iesus Christ who as St. Paul saith to the Galatians was Gal. 3. reviled for our sakes and hath called vs out of perpetuall darknesse to his meruailous light 1. Pet. 2. 9. Is it possible for vs to bee ignorant what that torment is and not knowe how much he hath suffered for to retaine vs in feare and to make vs knowe the greatnesse of the grace of God the excellency of our redēptiō in Iesus Christ his sonne who is also God eternally blessed This whole precedent discourse How God frustrateth our designes hath led vs through all ages and through all the most ordinarie conditions of humane life yet in this voyage we haue knowne no thing but vanity and torment of Spirit And it hath chiefly appeared when we haue cast our eies vpō the diuine providence of God which doth from the highest heauens view all the actions of man not as an idle spectator but as a wise conductor and iust iudge And there frō aboue he laughs at the designes of great men and frustrateth their enterprises destroyeth their tonges and spirits of Babylonian builders ruineth their greatnesse breaketh their Scepters into shiuers teaching man that hee is nothing but dust and his wisedome but meere blindnesse To the ende that hee may learne to contemne the worlde and transport his hopes from earth to heauē and that hauing seene some beames of this terrestriall splendor which vanisheth as lightning he doth saie with St. Peter It is good that we bee Luk. 9. 33. here let vs make our selues here Tabernacles Happy is that man which hauing well knowne the vanity of this world doth retire himselfe towards God that he being in a sure hauen a farre off that being vnder his shadow as vnder a sure couered place may contemplate the ruine of the vvicked the instability of their designes the folly of their hopes the effects of the iudgement of God Therevpon the Prophet Dauid in the 92 Psalme saith also O Lord how glorious are thy workes and thy thoughts are very deepe An vnwise man knoweth it not and a foole doth not vnderstand this When the wicked grow as the grasse and all the workers of wickednesse doe florish then they shall be destroyed for euer It behoueth vs here to note carefully that this Psalme is entituled A song for the sabbaoth day For by it he doth advertise vs that this meditation requireth a quiet and resting spirit which beeing restrained from the presse of humane actions doth range it selfe into the house of God according to that vvhich hee saith in the 73 Psalme vvhere hee doth confesse that the prosperity of vvicked men hath offended him and that hee could hardly digest it vntil that hee had entred into the sanctuary of the Almighty and considered the end of such men For to vnderstand vvhat the true happinesse is and to vnmaske himselfe to the immaginary felicity of this vvorld it is not necessary to go to Philosophical schools or to builde his resolutions vpon the opinion of the vulgar but to enter into the holy house of God and there learne vvhat the difference is betweene the riches vvhich he scattereth vpon this great multitude and that vvhich he reserueth for his litle on s vvhat the vncertainty of this vvorldly prosperity is in respect of the certainty of Gods promises But vvith what insensible chains doth Sathan lead men into perdition How doth he triumph ouer those vvhich triūph in this vvorld Hovve they that thinke themselues most sure are vpon the point of their ruine perpetual destructiō Furthermore he doth cōsider Of the vaine glory of men hovv vaine the glory of man is in that some one doth boast of his particular strēgth wherein it is vnpossible for him ever to equal a Bul some other doe glorie in their beauty when as it is onlie a superficial colour which covereth the bloud bones and braines hiddeous thinges to see Jt is also a thing that age many maladies haue power to deforme Some other doth glorie of his honour and greatnes when indeede he is possest in this state with most trouble feare lesse liberty besides he is moūted so high that he cānot fal but with breaking of his ovvne neck Some other doth glory to be more drūk thē his cōpaniōs but if his belly be greater in capacitie then other mēs notwithstāding it wil never exceed a barrel This is also The misery of some conditions of men nations a vanity with a like peruersity Those former thinges are generall for vanities miseries are common to all men since that sin hath subiected mankinde to them But notwithstanding there are some more then other which are made examples of extreame miserie As poore beggars which are constrained through necessity to lie vpō the bare pauement as gallie slaues and as those miserable wretches which are made mercenaries The hundreth parte of humane kinde doth imperiously and impiouslie torment the rest and those that are feeble meane serue as prayes to the mightie Amōgst the Turkes