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A72769	The exercise of a Christian life written by G.L. ; being the first ground and foundaion [sic], whence the two treatises appertaining to resolution, were made and framed, by R.P.; Esercizio della vita cristiana. English	Loarte, Gaspare, d. 1578.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.; Banister, Mr.	1594 (1594)	STC 16644.5; ESTC S2211	82,607	248

I beleeue as god A remedy against infidilty hath taught me in his worde neither descend to any other particularities thus likewise must thou do if in case he molest thee with temptations of blasphemy saying Thy blasphemy be to thy perdition for I adore and loue my Lord Against blasphemy God With this or some such like short speech maist thou set thy mind at rest intending to some other businesse different cogitations neither let these his suggestions dismay or troble thee any whit for all of them shall not make thee lose any iot of grace and Gods fauour yea by dooing as I tell thee thou shalte greatly increase thy rewarde If likewise hee goe at any time about to bringe thee in any perplexities scruples or other obscuryties whereby thou wotest not A refuge in time of perplexity well on which side to turne thee accoumpte not of them but conuert thy selfe wholely to God saying I will my Lorde my God both in this and eache other thinge whatsoeuer thou wilt neither doo I will or yeelde cōsent in any thing that may displease thee And thus maiest thou with this saying be in quiet and in great securitie In like manner if he induce thee to Against desparation desperation laying before thee the multitude and enormity of thy sinnes behold Christ thy iudge nailed vppon the crosse in whome thou hast more goodnesse without all comparison then in thy selfe thou canst haue euils And thus putting all thy confidence Christ crucified ought to be our cōmon refuge in him maiest thou despise and defie all the deuils and not onely in this but in al other thy temptations woulde I haue thee make Iesus Christ crucified a familiar defence buckler for thee sith that like as Moses gaue to the children of Israel being stung in the desart or bit of venemous serpents that serpent of brasse raised vppe on an high peece of wood whereon who so looked Num. 22. fixedlie and with faith were cured of their greefes in like manner and much better al such as with faith consider and behold our Lord and Sauior Christ crucified and heaued vppe on The brasē serpent a figure of Christ crucified the wood of the crosse whom the serpent of brasse did in figure represent shall be healed of all their bitinges and stinges of trespasses and temptations At such time therefore as thou feelest the serpent assault and bite thee with the sinne of pride behold Christ Against pride Phil 2. humbled on the Crosse and obedient euen till death If with couetousnesse behold that Couetousnes pouertie and nakednesse wherewith he hangeth thereon in such extreame Mat. 8. distresse as he hath not where to rest his head If thou finde thy selfe assailed with the delights of lust beholde Carnall lusts his brused and beaten fleshe fraught full of extreame anguish and how for thy sake hee hangeth on the Crosse all wounded from toppe to toe and afflicted with moste greeuous torments If thou feele thy selfe prouoked to Gluttony gluttony looke vppon him fastened to the Crosse who being extreamely pained with drought hadde gall and Math. 27 vineger giuen him to drinke If thou perceiue thy selfe stirred vppe to Anger Anger beholde that inuincible patience of our Sauiour in abiding all those his most villainous blasphemies and incomprehensible tormentes If thou beest vexed with the venemous vice of malice consider that most feruent Malice charitie wherewith our sauiour shed his bloud on the crosse for all and prayed for his persecutors that crucified him Luk. 13. Sloth If sloth or idlenesse cause thee to waxe cold in good workes fixe thine eie vppon those feete so cruellie nayled to the Crosse which were neuer wearied with wandering and seeking for thy welfare Finally in this thy Lorde and sauiour thus crucified if thou seeke in time to him thou shalt find sufficient remedies against all manner of temptations wherewith in this myserable life thou mayest bee any wayes assayled It resteth now to admonish thee of one onely thing touching this matter A necessary aduertisement that when at any time thou shouldest either with this or any other of the aforesaid remedies repulse thine Enemye and resist his suggestions yet must thou not thinke thy selfe to bee secure as though the battell were ended and the field fully fought won The malice of the feend sith this is the propertie of the deuill when he is ouercome in one tentation to arme himselfe forthwith and to make preparation for another Like as he did to our Sauiour in the wildernes whom when hee could not one waie Matth. 4 Mark 1 Luke 4 ouercome he assailed and set vppon another And therefore albeit thou weene thy selfe to be at some rest and findest the feend to haue taken truce with thee for a while after hee is vanquished yet beware thou trust not too The Deuils truce not to bee trusted much to him for when thou suspectest least then will he returne to make a fresh assault and to molest thee with new tentations And if he then hap to find thee vnarmed and vnprouided of meanes to encounter and withstande him easilie wil he subdue and conquer thee and the aduantage which thou hadst woon before honorably he will then make thee lose dishonestly Take heed therfore thou neuer lay thy weapons aside but alwaies bee prouided and in readinesse for the combat neither bee thou tired with his importunate infestations whereby he for the most part ouercommeth those that waxe wearie to withstand him but like wise as he is importunate in tempting thee bee thou as constant and importunate in withstanding and resisting him And by this meanes shall thy crown be the more rich and precious A per ser 61. de mo ben ven de Tent. as the temptations which by Gods helpe thou ouercommest bee more irkesome and importunate What a good Christian ought to do when he falleth sicke or draweth nigh the houre of death Cap. 25. ALl such thinges as I haue hytherto intreated of will helpe thee during the time it pleaseth God to grant thee health and strength of bodie but because this temporall life of ours is subiect to manie infirmities and in the end no remedie but all of vs must needes once die according to God his good ordinance Heb. 9 27 and appointment I haue for this cause thought good in this chapter to adde certeine aduises and instructions to teache thee the better how to gouerne thy selfe both in time of sicknesse and in the houre of death neither oughtest thou with worse will to read these nor with lesse diligence Note wel to execute them in their time then the former Neuertheles these aduises shal principally profite those that in their health did employ their time in such exercises as haue bin heretofore spoken of in this little Treatise preparing themselues continually to death as all good and faithfull Christian

alreadie disposed to repentaunce of the which as before I sayd this Declina à malo auoyd euill is the first part I would propound these few points for their consideration First the enormity of sin in the which there is nothing but all kinde of things that should terrefie a man for before that man by suggestion of the Serpent transgressed the commaundement of God what death nay what dreame of death had man being created immortall 1. Cor. 15. Nowe death the last enemie that shall bee destroyed is most irrigular and enormous and most aduersant vnto Rom. 5. the life of man Death commeth by sinne for by a man came sinne and by sin came death into the worlde There is no worldling that is not afrayed of death But it is a wōder that the worldlings are not afraid of that thing which causeth death Perswaded I am that if a mans eye were so spirituall to see things corporall a man would abhorre the sight of any sinne were it neuer so small A man that hath a care of neatnesse and cleanlinesse in apparaile can not abide the least moat in the world or the least spot that may be imagined in any part of his apparell and all this is because he would not offend the eyes of men But a man that is little lesse in degree then the Angels and made for Psal 8. the praise of his creator who regardeth not the bodie but maketh an account of the soule hath no regard of the decking of his soule but onely followeth the lustfull delights of the flesh If then men bee so diligent in brushing and cleansing of their garments that they should not offende the eyes of carnall men doth it not behooue thee to take heed that the garments of thy soule be not defiled with the most filthie spots of sin in the sight of Almightie God Secondly let him that loueth his own saluation alwayes diligently consider the frail estate of this world And let him weigh how short all carnal delights are That man will quickly abhor the way of sinne which considereth that the pleasure of the flesh is verie short but the paine that is due vnto it to bee eternall The worlde passeth awaie and the desire thereof 1. Ioh. 2. and all men passe awaie by death and no man is permitted to staie long in this worlde for what is the worlde but a great deepe and a troublesome Sea in the which there are so manie monsters of sinne as there bee euill desires in men O false deceiptfull and impure worlde which so fowlly doost deceyue those that trust in thee and doost drowne those that doe followe thee in the depth of hell How happie are those that contemne thee for Christ his sake And making a comfortable diuision doe speedilie depart from thy vanities whatsoeuer wee see in the worlde is vanitie and euerie louer of the worlde is vaine and shall quickly be corrupted Thinke that you shall quicklie die for nothing doth so much withdraw a man from sinne as the often and diligent meditation of Ies Syra death for it is sayd Remember thy latter end and thou shalt neuer sinne the necessitie of death beeing thought vpon diligently dooth terrifie the minde and keepeth it from sinne Thirdly the meditation or thinking vpon the last iudgemēt in the which al men must be presented before the iudgement seate of Christ helpeth much to the flight of sin No man can escape this terrible iudgement but we must all appeare in it of the which day of iudgement doth the Prophet say very great Ioel. 2. and terrible is the day of the Lord and who can abide it And Salomon saith All things that are done vnder the Sun Prea 21. wil the lord bring to iudgmēt c. And in Esai we reade The Lord will come to Esai 3. iudgment with the elders princes of his people And Amos wo be to them which desire the day of the Lord for why Amos. 5. doe yee wish the day of the Lorde for that day is darkenesse and not light And Sophonie pronouncing the bitternesse of that day saieth the voyce Soph. 1. of the day of the Lorde is bitter there shall the strong man bee troubled That day is a day of anger of trouble and anguish a day of calamitie and miserie a day of darknesse and blindnes a day of mist and whirlewinde in the fire of the zeale of the Lord shal all the earth bee deuoured because hee shall quickely dispatch with all the dwellers on the earth Saint Ambrose saieth that nothing is more profitable for an honest life than to thinke that he shall bee our iudge which knoweth the secretes of our heartes and is not delighted with dishonest thinges For all we as Saint Paul saith must be presented before the tribunall seate of Christ for euerie man shall receyue as hee hath doone in his bodie eyther good or euill At that terrible houre the puritie of the heart will bee more worth then the subtill perswasions of Rhetoricians a cleere conscience shall auaile more than all the money in the worlde For hee that shall iudge all things cannot bee deceyued nor by entreatie changed Fourthly the consideration of the bitternesse of the eternall paines is auaileable to the eschuing of sinne for there is not so vehement a tentation of carnall pleasure but it may bee repressed if a man thinke of the punishment that the wicked suffer in hell And here least a man should thinke that there is no hell I will make but this discourse There is no nation as Tullie saith so barbarous but it hath this sentence naturallie written in their harts Deos esse That there are Gods Nowe that there is a God by the scriptures it is manifest For saint Paule saith for the inuisible thinges of him that is his eternall Rom 1. power and Godhead are seene by the Creation of the worlde beeing considered in his workes to the intent that they should not be excused And for the singularitie of one God what dooth not Nature tell vs seeing that we see all thinges concurre to the conseruation of one whole vniuersity And Aristotle himselfe the greatest enimie of one prouidence of all thinges in the worlde dooth not onely confesse but also proue that there is one onelie Primus motor the first moouer which being granted we must say that there is a God a Creator a Conseruer a gouernor of all things and consequently a prouider for all thinges For if there be a God it is requisite that in him should be all kind of perfection So if we count it a perfection in an vnreasoble Creature to haue a care of the young that is procreated of it howe much more is it a perfection in almightie God not onely willingly and not of necessitie to create all things but also to haue a perpetual care of things created aswel visible as inuisible reasonable as vnreasonable And as the scripture Psal 145.