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A15118	Here followeth dyuers holy instrucyons and teachynges very necessarye for the helth of mannes soule, newly made and set forth by a late brother of Syon Rychard whitforde; Here followeth dyvers holy instrucyons and teachynges very necessarye for the helth of mannes soule.	Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?; Isidore, of Seville, Saint, d. 636. Here be the gathered counsailes of Saynct Isodorie to informe man, howe he shuld flee vices.; John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407. Of detraction.	1541 (1541)	STC 25420; ESTC S105112	99,010	194

be gone Ioc. 3. ● is not from aboue as saynte Iames sayth of sapience 2. Io. 2. And saynte Iohn̄ cōmaunded his disciples therfore that they shulde not wyll ne desyre to loue the worlde nor those thynges that be ther in The worldly pacience than is al worldly and the gostly pacience heuenly The one bestly carnall The other gostly and spirituall The one / synfull and dyuelyshe And the other good and goodly Vnto the ton pacience man may attayne and rech by hym selfe by his owne wyll But vnto the tother not so And why The cause is that the cōcupiscens desyre and loue wherby the worldly ꝑsons do so styffly and obstinately bere and suffre paynes and sorous is of the worlde all synfull and man of hym selfe may fal into synne though he can not by hym selfe aryse agayne vnto the state of grace as by exeāple a man cā not clymbe vnto a steple toppe without streyrꝭ or some other-helpe but when he is at the hyghest place therof he may of hys owne wyl without helpe fal downe But vnto the gostly pacience man may not so attayne and come of hym felfe be cause the seruou● loue and desyre wherby the gostly ꝑsons done so strongly and meruelousely suffre so wonderfull paynes is of god and god is a spirite impossible that maye not suffre ne haue any payne A man therfore can not loue that thynge impassible with out he be holpyn inflamed with that godly fyre that is the holy goste so then maye he loue god and by that loue he may suffre and gladly bere vnsufferable and vnbereable paynes for god For as we sayde before charite bereth and suffreth al thynges Psal 〈◊〉 3. d. From the whiche charite saynte Paule sayde no thyng shulde departe him Nother trouble nor anguyshe nother hongre thyrst nor colde no peryle nor ioperdy ne ꝑsecucion nor vengaūce no dent of swerde nor drede of death For hyt is wrytten that we be mortified put to death euery daye / in all our lyfe tyme for the good lorde but in all these do we venquyshe and ouercome al for hym and by hym that hathe ꝑfectly loued vs. For I am certene sayeth he that nother death ne lyfe nor angelles nother pryncipates nor vertues nother thynges instant or presēt nor thyngꝭ to come No strength nor power nother heyght ne depthe nor any other creature may departe vs from the charite and loue of god which is in Christe Iesu our lorde and mayster Nowe you se what myght and strēgth loue hathe and howe inwordly ꝑsons hyt causeth them to take great labours and suffre muche and so to lerne pacience / and yet is hyt in dede no pacience nor worthy the name of paciēce although hyt be a suffraunce and so doeth seme only pacience For as we haue shewed before the cause of the suffraūce doeth make pacience not the selfe suffraunce yet may we christians take exeample at theyr suffraūce that be worldly to lerne and wynne true faythfull meritorious paciēce And muche may we be abashed a shamed of our dulnes and vnkyndenes when we se or here howe they suffre bere for the vayne loue of theyr lewde desyres and howe lytle payne we take and suffre for god to wynne very pacience Nowe let vs thā●urne our face frō thys maner of paciēce because we perceyue hyt is not true paciēce although the exeample myght moue vs and so teache vs / and let vs folowe the exeamples of better maysters and more sure lernynge ❧ ☞ ❧ ☜ ¶ Of the exeamples of gostly persons The .xvi. Chapiter ❧ ⚜ ❧ SAynte Iames sayeth we may take example of the yuel labour I● 5. 〈◊〉 payne and pacience of yuel persons but muche more of the holy ꝓphetes whom nowe we blesse and prayse for theyr paynes and suffrynges you haue harde sayeth he what Iob suffered and what ende our lorde made you haue sene and perceyued Nowe than yf we shall take the doctryne and lerdynge of our pacience / before defined Ro. 2. ● and destribed at and by exeample We maye well begynne at the exeample of oure Lorde god that as saynte Paule sayeth doeth by greate pacience tarie byde and loke for oure ●ōuersion from synfull lyfe vnto good lyfe Aug. de paciētia Cap●● But here must you beware that you thynke not ne beleue pacience to be in god as hyt is in vs. For w● can neuer haue pacience without payne without suffrynge of losse hurte or grefe whiche maner of passions be neuer in god but when god doth mynystre Iustice so doth punysh the synne of man then we saye that god is angry displeased and yet in dede ther is no perturbacion of that passion of Ire in hym And agayne when he doeth vse vnt● vs his mercy grace benignite and goodnes then saye we that god loueth vs is pleased with vs and yet be ther non suche mutacions nor chaungynges of affec●yons or passions in god And yet may we say that god without any passion is most hyghly paciente And that he hath not only moste parfecte pacience but also that he is the selfe essenciall pacience and the founteyne well spryng and begynnynge of all good pacience And therfore they erre and thynke muche a mysse Aug. de paciē●●s et eypr● anus aug 〈◊〉 supr● Cap. 5. that do saye they may haue pacience of theyr owne selfe by the libertye of theyr fre wyll For Dauid sayde good lorde god thou arte my pacience That god hath pacience and that muche and meruelous aboue that any tonge can speke or any hert may thynke appereth openly from the begynnynge of the worlde In that specially that he so paciētly and mercifully suffred and bare the greate vnkyndnes yet forther the great rebellious obstinacie and disobedience of our fyrst parētes Adame and Eue. And also of theyr fyrst sōne Cayne in fleyng of his brother Abel And euer sythe that tyme hytherto hath borne and suffred and yet doth bere vnto the greate contumely and dyspyte of hys mayeste honour the ydolatrye of Caynes poste ryte ysshue and ofsprynge Cyprianus vbi supra and of al infideles that sette vp theyr fals goddes theyr ydoles of yerth metalles of ston wode in theyr profane tēples that is to saye such tēples as were neuer cōsecrate ne halowed but cōtrarye vnto all good religion wyched cursed he suffreth them to do vnto them sacrifice and sacrilege And yet god doth not only suffre and most paciently bere them in all these many other abhominacions but also dothe gyue hys gyfies equally as well vnto thē as vnto hys chosen chyldren The son the mone and y● sterres the elementes all maner of wedders all maner of frutes and fode in lyke vnto the good and badde or yuel ꝑsons And although hyt be in hys power and also iuste vnto theyr deseruynge to take vengaunce and wreke vpon them vtterly to destroy them yet

paganes dyd preferre in price set byfore a boue the body bycause hyt doeth remayne byde and last lenger then doth the body wherfore many of thē called wyse haue wylfully lost theyr lyfe rather then they wolde lose theyr honour Aag de Citutate dai lib 10.4 name or fame / as saynt Augu doeth shewe in his boke de Ciuitate dei Yet aboue all worldly honours the soule of man doth excede These .iiij. that we haue named appertenynge vnto man do stande and kepe an order of dignite and degre amonge them selfe as you may perceyue For the goodes of the worlde do stāde in the lowest degre The body next whiche is preferred more set by The fame and name aboue both them And the soule aboue all thynges vnder God our mynde is nowe to shewe vnto you howe pacience is commodious frutfull profitable and necessary vnto all these .iiij. And fyrst ¶ Howe pacience is profitable and necessarye vnto to the true getynge and vnto the lawful kepynge and increascynge of worldly goodes The vii Chapiter ⚜ ⚜ BEcause that worldly goodes be not alwaye well gotyn ne alwaye well reteyned kept / ne yet wel increased or multiplied we therfore put in these termes truly and laufully For althogh pacience largely taken as we shewed before may be ꝓfitable to gete holde and to increase goodes falsly and vnlawfully yet our pacience that we intreate doeth neuer so For when the seruantes of our pacience do put them selfe to labour study / and to gyue diligence to gete worldly goodes for the necessarie lyuynge of them that they haue in charge they do take pacience with al that god sendes and as saynt Iames sayeth they do Iac. 〈…〉 with all pacience abyde the tyme and wedder that god prouideth and euer do thanke hys goodnes where the vnpacient persons do murmure and grudge agaynst god and cōplayye vpon the wedder and yf any thynge fortune cōtrary vnto theyr mynde in theyr labours they more hynder them selfe and destroy theyr goodes by theyr lacke of pacience Vitas patrum As we rede in Vitas patrum of a person that wolde nedely go into wyldernes to be alone bycause he coulde not be pacient amonge his compeny And he wente vnto a well to feche water in an erthen pot for his necessite and when he had set downe the pot vpō the gronde whyle he couered the foūteyne the pot fell ouer and he sum what displeased fylled hyt agayne and yet hyt fell agayne and so by the laste forgetynge all pacience he brake the pot in a furie but yet when he came vnto hym selfe he returned vnto his monastre And I sawe my selfe a man that in shutyng amonge cumpeny was so moued into passion because he myssed his marke and purpose that he brake hꝭ bowe all to shyuers Many suche braydes haue we sene of impaciēce And many persons bycause they lacked pacience in theyr labours and in the beryng of the rebukes / and intreates of theyr Maysters or suffraymes haue cōmen to beggry / or fallen to thefte of such other vnlawful lyuynges The pacient persons haue euer a fore syght what is necessarie to be don accordynge vnto theyr charge and that wyll they do with diligence and with good ꝑseuerant pacience hauyng euer a good garde warenes that no goodꝭ be gotyn vnlawfully or cōtrarye vnto cōscience And thys maye suffice to shewe that pacience is good and profitable for the true obteynynge and getynge of worldly goodes nowe for the garde kepynge and for the increace of those goodes ¶ That pacience is necessarie for the due and lawfull kepyng of such goodes as be truly lawfully goten The viii Capiter ☞ ☜ THis cōclusion is sure and certeyne fyrst that no goodes vnlawfully gotyn may be lawfully kept An other cōclusion that in tyme of the extreme nede of the neghbur no person may kepe lawfully gotyn goodes frō the due releue of such nedy ꝑsons Dette also must uedely be payde as the dayse appoynted For if any ꝑsones beynge in dette and hauynge sufficient to paye without the greate extreame hynderance of theyr state / and cōdicions of lyuyng I wolde for the increase of theyr owne goodes by the gaynes of that det kepe hy● vnpayde they shulde do wronge and that gaynes were vnlawfully goten lyke wyse of the reteyne and withholdynge of dettes for the mayntenaūce of vayneglorious astate These poyntes suche other secluded and put on parte by due pacience for suerly they be euer done for lacke of pacience to departe with the goodes all such goodes as be lawfully goten may be lawfully reteyned kept But euer to be kept vnto a good and lawful purpose and intent and a good effecte ende And accordynge vnto the state and degre or cōdicion of the persons And so of the lawfull increasce of the same wtout vsurie symony fraude gyle desceyte or any suche other vnlawfull meanes howe thys good lady our Maystres dame pacience doth inserue and auayle vnto thys custodie / increasce may appere vnto you thus yf you consyder howe the pacient persons done euer lyue amonge theyr neyghburs restfully without discorde or debate euer redy rather to suffre wronge hurte and losse then to be at debate or to stryue with any ꝑson so that euermore pacience induceth concorde And concorde doeth folowe pacience as her syster and most by loued frende And suerly by concorde Salust pacient and peasfull lyuynge small goodes a lytle stocke shall growe encreasce and multiplie And by dyscorde stryfe and debate greate substance of ryches is sone sparpuled broght in short tyme vnto ryght noght yf you wyl more clerely se and perseue thys truth set before you vnpacience and vnrestfulnes For the philosopher sayth Philo. Qui bene definit contraria assignat He that wold wel determyne declare a thynge wyl apoynt with hyt a contrary thynge For contrary thynges ioyned and set forth together do euerych more euydently appere and shewe eche the better for other For yf you set blacke by whyte the whyte colour shall seme the whyter / the blacke the blacker Sette nowe before you .ii. suche neghburs as haue bene knowne bothe in one towne bothe ryche and of good substance that for a tryfle a thynge as I was credible informed passed not the valure of a grote or vi.d fell at stryfe / went vnto the lawe so longe that nother of them was worth the grote / or yet i●.d And but late two ma●er of persons in dyuers cuntreyse dwellynge and makyng sute at London at the lawe for landes came hyder vnto the pardone and ared counsell whiche ꝑsons not withstandynge dyd not folowe the counsell vnto the tyme that they had spende more then the landes were worth after .xxuij. yeres purches and yet in the ende were fayne to folowe the same counsell that fyrst was gyuen vnto them Dame pacience wolde here haue saued kept increasced all those goodes your Englysh prouerbe

of worldly goodes Sometyme for the hurte noyance of the body Sometymes for the blottynge steynynge and hynderance of fame And sūtyme byonde all these thynges for the trouble of the mynde alon we shall shewe you howe cōmodious and profitable pacience is vnto the quietude and reste of the mynde ¶ That pacience is profitable and necessarye vnto the quietude and reste of mans mynde The .xii. Chap. ☞ ☜ THe losse of wordly goodꝭ may fortune vnto any person without any hurt or noyance of his body or of the fame or good name or yet without any ioꝑdy of soule as when theues or soden fyre do steyle and destroye the goodes and yet when the persons hauynge that losse haue knowlege therof the mynde is cōmunely troubled and gruged therwith But ther then hath paciēce a place For then doth the ꝑson that is disciple vnto pacience call vnto mynde that al maner of worldly goodꝭ be not gyuen vnto vs as vnto propriete as our owne goodes but they be cōmitted and delyuered by our lorde as his goodꝭ vnto our necessarie vse and administracion and euer vpon a counte For without any feyle we shal rendre yelde a count of euery peny And also y● sayde disciple knoweth well hyt is but lent good and that also without any day appointed or set but euer at the wyll of the owner wherfore he wyl saye mekely and with due pacience Iob. 1. b with holy Iob. Dominus dedit dominus abstulit c. Our lorde gaue al and our lorde hath take it as it pleaseth our lorde so be it blessed be euer the name of our lorde And lykewyse a ꝑson may be hurt or greued in his body although ther be no losse ne hurt in the goodꝭ nor yet in y● fame and that when the mynde is quiete But yet sone after the mynde wyl be vnrested withall and seke for remedy And yf no remedy can be had then the disciple of this good lady calleth for his maystres and she ful louengly is redy at hande and sayeth Remēbre good chylde what botches skabbes / had holy Iob specially what payne thy sauyour Iesu suffred for the and take me thy maystres to be thy leche or phisicion thou shalte be lyghtly and well cased Yet forther the fame may be sore assayled and in greate ioperdye without any losse of goodes or greaf of the body and without any blemysh of the soule As was in holy Susan whē she was in harde case shamefully accused but se what her maystres my lady dame paciēce dyd for her For she neuer accused her fals accusers ne yet vnto her dere fryndes dyd she excuse her selfe but bydynge with her lady pacience she remytted and cūmytted her holle cause vnto our lorde and with as fewe wordes as myght shewe that she was not careles nor neglygēt of fame sayde vnto our lorde O eterne and euerlastynge god that haste the perfecte knowledge of all hydde Daniel 13. e. and pryuey thynges that knowest all thynges before theyr bygynnynge Thou knowest wel lorde that these men haue borne fals wytnes agaynste me and se good lorde I go to death whyle I dyd none of all these thynges that they haue malyciously cōpowned / and made of theyr owne hedes agaynst me And forthwith by the meane of my lady pacience and of her mother mekenes helpe came she was delyuered and her fame and good name not only p̄serued kept but also vnto her eterne glorye multiplied increased Nowe yet go forther vnto the selfe mynde And you shall percey●●e that althogh in a ꝑson the state of the goodes of the corps or body of the fame and good name ye and also of the selfe soule be whole sounde / and stoude al vpryght yet may y● mynde be sore vexed and troubled Aug. de pacien cap. as dayly happeth in euery tētacion of the gostly enymyes the dyule the worlde and the flesh by many other occacions of theyr mēbers and seruandes 2. Reg. 16. b. as was in dauid whē he sled from his son absolon a man called semet a lym of the dyule rebuked him extremely in so much that hys seruandes were greately moued therwith so that one of them wolde haue slayne the wreche but dauid turned vnto my lady pacience and so was not only rested in hys owne mynde but also with his wyse godly wordes he appeased hys sayde seruandes Thus appereth that pacience is good and profitable vnto the quietude and reste of mynde For the mynde is not onely moued and troubled by tentacions and suche outwarde occasions but also many tymes without knowne occasion when the persons within them selfe ben troubled vexed can not tel why nor with whom yet wyll they lum / lowre Tertulianꝰ in Apolo loke all of a ded fashon and no thyng can please for that tyme. The cause wherof may be an humour in the body and many tymes that vnrest of mynde cūmeth of opinion or suspicion Seneca ad Lucil epla 78. whiche many tymes do muche greue vnrest the mynde For let a person put a way opinion and suspicion sayeth seneke and greate outwarde trouble shall lytle or nothynge greue Aug. de pacien La. 9. For pacience wylfully taken doeth by good deliberacion auoyde all suche trouble and wynneth / and geteth therby great ease and rest of mynde For the person that hath wylfull pacience Quinti lianus La. 10. hathe but lytle payne And the impacient person by cause he wyll not suffre doth not auoyde the payne hurt that greueth hym and that he dredeth but rather doth he multiplye hys payne by impacience where the pacient person that hath determinate wyll rather to suffre then to do any wronge or puyl doth mynushe make hꝭ payne Ouidiꝰ 8. M●tha fa. 7. or trouble much lighter lesse by pacience Aud yet doeth also auoyde / and excape many wors or greater troubles paynes wherinto he shulde by impacience haue siypped / and be drowned The wyse seneke therfore sayde vnto a frynde of hys that was troubled and not pacient therwith Vbi supra ad Lucil. Make not sayde he thy mater wors and thy trouble more greuous by thy quarelles cōplayntes and impacience And vnto an other frende he sayde Bere and suffer sayth he with euyn mynde Ad Pau linum episco 6 and good wyll and take also and account as gaynes of marchandes al suche aduersites troubles as fortune doth sende or as happe fall by chaunce in this lyfe for the tyme shall come in a whyle very shortly Macto that felicite and ioy shall make an ende of al myseryes and yuyls And macrobius sayeth who so euer for the tyme wyll dissimble and lytle care for troubles vexacions shall in a shorte space after haue by the beniftce of pacienc● great rest of mynde and ease and pleasure Your cōmune englysh ꝓuerbe doth so affirme

vnreasonable and insensible creatours myght not bere For the son the mone the starres and the foure elementes dyd not bere ne suffre his death paciently but openly shewed them selfe to be confounded troubled and discontent therwith The son and the mone the starres bycause they wolde not se and beholde that cruell dede of the Iues dyd hyde and withdrawe theyr beames and lyght So that the nyght dyd close shyt vp the day all remayned in darkenes The yerth quaked the stones brake graues opened and ded corses dyd aryse and all to complayne in theyr maner vpon the innocent death of theyr maker And he hym selfe in al thys wrongfull intreate nothynge sayde ne spake ther vnto nothyng was he moued Nor yet in al these paynes and passion shewed he any sparcle or the least token of his maieste to be knowen but perseuerantly and cōtinually he suffred all vnto the laste ende bycause that my lady paciēce s●●●de in hym tryumphe and be shewed and knowe a●l all / and perfect And yet after all thys se and by holde a pacience aboue paciēce that is that he dyd and yet doeth receue vnto grace them that slewe hym and that they may be cōserued kepte therin He setteth open the gates sacramentes of his holy churche vnto all persons that wyll retourne and come whome vnto hym For the moste vnkynde aduersares the most fel blasphemers and raylers and the most cruell and hatefull enemies of hys holy name yf they wyll repente and do penaūce knowlegyng theyr defaulte and trespas he doth not only receyue vnto grace and forgyue wholly and fully all theyr synnes but also he doth gyue them inestimable vnthynkeable rewarde that is 2. Cor. 1. e. here in thys lyfe a confortable quietude reste of cōscience For saynt Paule sayth Our glorye prayse and conforte is the testimonie and wytnes of our conscience and thys is no small gyfte nor lytle to be estymed or weyed but yet that foloweth is more and greater gyfte that is the rewarde of the kyngdome of heuen in ioye and blys euerlastynge Oh good Iesu what may be more paciently more benignely and gently or what maye be more louyngly and mercifully spoken ymagyned or thought Those that shedde the blode of Chryste were quyckened and made lyuely by the same blode of Chryste Suche and so greate and meruelous is the pacience of Chryste And els yf hyt had not bene so greate we shulde haue lacked and myssed in the churche of Chryst many greate doctours and teachers and examplers of paciēce As saynte Paule saynt Cypryane dyuers many other yf we than do dwell and byde in Chryste most dere bretherne deuote scolers of pacience yf we haue clothed as saynt Paul sayeth and put Chryste vpon vs Ro. 5. d. as our lyuery that is yf we wyl faythfully were hys lyuery clothynge bere hys connysaunce and bage of armes yf we take hym for the way / and meane of our helth saluacion let vs then that do folowe hys holsome steppes go 1. Io. 2. and passeforth after hys Exeamples for saynt Iohn̄ sayeth who so sayth he dwelleth in Chryst must walke and go forth after suche forme maner as he walked wente And saynt Petre sayde vnto hys disciples 2. Pe. 2. Chryste dyd suffre and take payne and passion for al leuynge and gyuynge exeample vnto all you faythfull people that you shuld folowe hys steppes For he dyd neuer synne nor trespas nother in dede nor worde Note thys poynt well good deuote reders that syth our sauiour Chryste neuer offended in the least thynge and yet suffred moste and that moste wyllyngly also without any gruge hys exeample of paciēce muste nede be vnto vs excellent and occacion of good reason for vs to take pacience and gladly to suffre / that we haue well deserued for our synnes and offences ❧ ☞ ❧ ☜ ¶ That our owne myserie and multitude of our synnes shulde moue vs vnto pacience The .xviij. Chap. ❧ ☜ ❧ ☞ YF we cōsyder how much we of iustice be bounde and howe muche of good reason we haue deserued to suffre we may the rather be moued vnto paciēce Fyrste than that we of iustice ryght shulde suffre all paynes and sorowes paciently let vs remēbre the sentēce of our lorde god which sentence anone in the bygynnynge of the worlde and of man kynde he gaue vpō our parentes and forefathers Adam and Eue because that they myndeles and forgetfull of hys cōmaundement wylfully brake hys lawe wherby all theyr posterite yssue and ofsprynge be borne and bounde vnto pressures cōflictacions paynes troubles and labours all the tyme of thꝭ lyfe For thus our lorde sayde vnto Adam Genes 3 ● d. Because thou waste obediente vnto the voyce and counsell of thy wyfe And so hast eaten of that tree wherof I cōmaunded the thou shouldest not eate cursed be the yerth in thy worke Thou shalt in greate labours eate therof all the dayes of thy lyfe And hyt shal bryng forth vnto the thornes and breres or bremles And the herbes of the felde shall be thy fode And in the swette of thy face shalte thou eate thy brede vnto the tyme thou retourne and tourne agayne into yerth wherof thou came / was made For thou arte duste of the yerth and into duste shalte thou retourne Thys is the sētēce of god vnto y● which all we be boūde vnto the tyme that death departe vs from thys worlde For by thys sayde sentence all we must nedely remayne and byde in sorowe mournynge payne trouble and labours all the dayes of our lyfe And so eate our brede in the swette of our face and in continuall myserie In tokyn wherof euery man when he is fyrste borne and receyued into the hospitall and ynnes of this worlde for we haue here no dwellynge place he begynneth hys lyfe with teres and wepynge Hebre. 13. c. And although he be yet ignorant no thyng knoweth of thys worlde ne any thynge els cā he do in that fyrste natiuite and byrth but wepe yet by the prouidence and disposicion of nature he lamenteth and mourneth And thus the rude and vntaught or vnlerned soule and lyfe of man forth with in the fyrste begynnyng doeth by hys wepyng and mournynge testifie and wytneseth the anxietes / anguyshes labours storines and turmoyles of thys worlde wherinto he entreth and cūmeth For certenly as longe as we lyue in thys worlde we muste nedely swete and labour and suffre many greues And yet in all our paynes shall we neuer haue better solas and conforte then of paciēce Al thys nowe haue we shewed vnto you that you shulde euidētly perceyue and se howe by the iustice and ryghtwysnes of god we be boūden to suffre and take paynes and moued by our owne miserie to lerne pacience yet haue we a forther occasion to suffre to lerne pacience of our owne deseruyng For that I spake of before was iuste and due

vnto vs not of our owne deseruynge but on the synne of Adam called synne originall But yf we loke wel vpon our selfe and duely cōsyder howe after our byrth we were washed and clensed from that synne in the blode of Chryst by the holy sacramēt of baptyme and yet howe muche payne we haue syth that tyme deserued by our owne actuall synnes we haue occasion of good reason to suffre mekely and so to lerne pacience A well lerned man sayde Qui sua metitur pondera ferre potest He that doth mesure well hys burthens and weyght of synnes Marciales cocus maye the more easly suffre bere the paynes due therunto Reason sheweth that he shulde iustly be punyshed that hath deserued so to be Grego 5. moral But who is he that neuer dyd amysse ne euer deserued payne shewe vs which is he and we shall laude prayse hym The prohpete sayth Psal Peccauimus cum patribꝰ nostris iniuste egimus iniquitatem fecimus We haue sayeth he done synne as our fathers dyd we haue done vniustly and wroght iniquite and wykednes 3. Read 8. e and. 2. Pari. 6. f. g. 2. Io. d And Salomom sayth there is no man that may not synne And saynt Iohn̄ sayth Yf we saye we haue no synne we deceyue our selfe / and truth is not in vs. All than be synners wherfore euery man of good reason shulde bere and suffre any temporall payne or trouble for hys synne accordynge vnto hys merite and deseruynge that with a meke and penitent herte 9 Moralium and with a good wyll and glad mynde as saynt Gregorye sayeth because he may therby auoyde 9 Moralium escape paynes and troubles eterne and euerlastynge whiche as he sayeth shal be force without pacience And a let ned Poete Duidiꝰ Leuiter exmerito quicquid paciare ferēdum est What so euer sayth he thou doste suffre by thy deseruynge shulde be lyghtly borne And the wyse Seneke Seneca Quod merito pateris pacienter ferre memento Cūque reus tibi sit ipsum te iudice dāpna Remembre frende sayth he to bere paciently that thyne owne merite deseruynge thou dost suffre And syght in thyne owne conscienie thou art gyltye make thy selfe thyne owne iudge cōdempne thy selfe what hurte or wronge can be done vnto any man or sayde that he hathe not by some maner of meanes deserued I cā fynde none Peraduenture you wolde saye that yf a true man were called these or accused and suffred death for that thyng he dyd not stele that were then you sayde a wronge which he had not deserued And in lyke maner yf a vyrgyne were accused and falsly condempned of fornicacion vnclennes as the holy wyfe Susan was vnto thys I sayde By some meanes he had not deserued For I herde of a mā that was iudged to be hāged for stelyng of a best which he neuer touched ne euer sawe Danie 13. d. e. And whē he came vnto the place of execucion the galouse he sayde vnto the people Lo sayde he I neuer stale thys beste And yet haue I deserued thys death not for the bullocke but for the mattocke For he had before stolne a pore mans mattocke And though a man stale neuer any suche goodes yet hathe he oftymes stolne withdrawne frō god hys duete And lykewyse of the most pure and clere vyrgyne that although without any touche of man or any delyberat consente vnto the synne of vnclennes hathe kept her bodely vyrginite yet hathe she per aduēture done fornicacion as the ꝓphete Hieremy sayeth with many wanton louers Hiere 3. a. For as oftyne as by any other synne she hath offēded our lorde so oftyne hathe she done spirituall fornicacion yf than she were accused of vnclēnes though neuer so falsly yet were not that accusacion vtterly vndeserued So than be we fawty in all that can be done vnto vs. And no thyng cā be sayde ne layde vnto our charge but that we haue by some maner or meanes deserued that more also whiche thyng yf we do wel consyder and weye may of good reason moue and gyue vs occasion and also may in duce lede and teache vs to suffre so as diligent disciples to lerne and to approyche vnto paciēce Thus we conclude that our owne myserie wrechednes may be an occasion of pacience Nowe shall we make you a breue recounte of the sayde cōmodites of paciēce by the effectes of impaciēce and so make an ende with the merites rewarde of pacience ☞ ★ ❧ ⚜ ☜ ★ ❧ ¶ A breue recapitulacion and shorte recounte of the sayde cōmodites of pacience by the respecte cōsideracion of impaciēce and of the merites rewardes of pacience The .xix. Chapiter BEcause good deuoute christians that you maye the more redyly haue in mynde the sayde cōmodites and benefites of pacience I haue here setforth a cōpendious and shorte recounte of them And that the goodnes and profet of paciēce may the more bryghtly appere the more euidently be perceyued and knowne let vs consyder the hurtes harmes and the yuel incōmodites of impacience For as we sayde byfore contraries leyde to gether as blacke and whyte do eche shewe the better for other As pacience than is a gracious gyfte of god So is impaciēce a worke of the dyuyl And as the persons that haue god dwellynge bydyng within them be pacient So those persons whose myndes and hertes the dyuyl hathe in possession be alwaye impacient vnrestfull The dyuyl hym selfe coulde not suffre that god made mā after hys owne ymage And therfore by impacience he fyrst peryshed and loste hym selfe And Adam by the impacience of the appul forboden dyd breke the cōmaundemēt and so fell into deth bycause that he loste and lefte pacience that shulde haue bene the keper of the grace byfore receyued of god And impacience caused Cayne to inuye the sacrifice of hys brother Abel Esau by impacience solde his honour and enheritance for a messe of potage And impacience caused the chyldren of Israell the chefe chosen people of god to be vnto hym most vnkynde and after theyr meruelous delyueraūce out of Egypt when Moyses was a whyle absēt and with god for theyr welth they made a calfe theyr god and euer they were impacient rebellious agaynst the goodnes of god and slewe hys prophetes and hys iuste true seruantes And neuer dyd they leue theyr impaciēce vnto the tyme they came vnto the crosse p̄cious blode of Chryste what thyng els suppose you but only impacience doth cause these heretykes after the exeample of the Iues to rebell rage agaynst Chrystes sayth And agaynst hys peace and charite to moue so many odious hateful diuisions discencions and debates in the church of Chryst Suerly no thynge but impacience alon And to make as they saye short tale All that pacience doeth edefye and brynge vnto glorie profet and good impaciēce doeth destroy and brynge to