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A20863	The school of patience. Written in Latin by H. Drexelius. And faithfully translated into English, by R.S. Gent; Gymnasium patientiae. English	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.; R. S., gent.; Stanford, Robert, attributed name.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 7240; ESTC S109941	206,150	562

God know and if there be knowledge in the h●ghest This is that infamous rock whereat so many have suffered shipwrack by despaire O you mortals God is neither ignorant nor unjust Most wisely and most justly are these revolutions in the world the first be made the last and the last first the innocent punished and the guilty pardoned We live heer as if we kept perpetually the Saturnalia the wicked dominier and flourish good men are made subject groan and lament masters serve and servants play the m●sters But how little a while will this continue F●r otherwise will it be in the eternall world This is but a prelud●um to that better life let us not wonder to see all things turned upside down in this game vertue oppressed with continuall labours and vice enjoying all ease and delicacies There is nothing upon earth done without cause Some I will here set downe Sect. II. THe first reason is that we may be conformable with Christ For whom he hath foreknowne and predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son God hath sent his Son unto us but what image I pray you hath he given us of himselfe No other then that which represented him a man contemptible miserable and nailed to the Crosse Behold O man what image thou must imitate to whom thou must conform thy selfe The whole life of Christ was nothing but a meer crosse and wouldest thou frame a quiet life to thy selfe flowing with delights and replenished with pleasures Christ before he was born had a stable pointed out for his nativity scarcely was he born but his death was sought after being born he was laid not in a cradle of Ivory or Silver but upon straw in a homely manger His infancie and youth he passed in labour and want witnesse himselfe I am poore saith he and brought up in labours from my youth When he began to preach he had many contumclies affronts and injuries offered him some took up stones to throw at him others led him to the top of a hill to cast him downe headlong Finally to conclude and crown as it were all his injuries at last he died on a Crosse and was buried in another mans tomb And as Christ began to suffer before he was born so ceased he not to suffer when he was dead for after his death and buriall he was called Seductor ille that seducer Very truly said Christ of himself Against me all thy wrath hath passed and over me thou hast brought all thy waves This is the Image of his Son which God proposeth to be imitated This is the court-colour and to be diversly afflicted is to wear our Princes livery It is a most true saying That all the life of Christ Tho. de Kempis l. 2. c. 12. n 7. was a continuall crucifying and martyrdome and lookest thou for joy and tranquillity It is the custome of some Academies to cloath those that live a●d study together in garments all alike so is it the pleasure of God that all his scholars in the school of Patience be clad in the same colour all sutable to his Son with contempt ir●isions calumnies calamities and aff●onts he hath predestinated them to be conformable to the Image of his Son The second cause is calamity and affliction awake men out of sloath We are most of us unwilling to take pains and very prone to sloath and idlenesse Hence comes it that unlesse we be rowsed we wax sluggish and sl●epy not without danger of our salvation Garments lying still unworn are eaten with moaths a field for want of tilling is overgrown with thorns a standing water is filled with Toads and Frogs and a man never exercised with calamities becomes effemina●e by pleasure and corrupted with vice For whilst men sleep the enemy comes and sowes darnell Wh●lst S●●son s●●pt in the bosome of D●●ila he l●st both his haire and strength the Philistines waked him indeed but to his cost being deprived of his haire and strength to defend h●m Scipio Nas●●a that soul of valour and wisedome would have Carthage spared for no other reason then to keep the Romans awake God himselfe placed in the middest of Israel the Hetheans Gergezeans Amorrheans Ch●naneans P●erezeans Heveans J●●●zeans most pot●st enem●es lest Israel shoul● sleep in vice and iniqu●ty and to m●●ster them occasion of perpetuall warre an● victory David before he was proclaimed King shrowded himself in the dens of wild beasts hardly secured from the secret practises of his enemies he made a scruple even to touch Saul his mortall enemy but when he had purchased his peace and flowed in pleasures and idlenesse he feared not by letters to pro●ure the death of his most faithfull servant Urias The Church of God never more flourished then when she was most afflicted amidst swords and crosses she beheld the combats and victories of her Martyrs After the same manner goes it with every particular man no sooner is he at truce with adversity but he becomes sluggish and vicious assuredly unlesse we be often stirred up and visited and even galled with adversi●y wee languish and lose our selves with idlenesse We are perpetually inebriated and sluggish unlesse something happen to put us in minde of humane misery But observe heer what the master doth sometimes in the School He sees two of his scholars sleeping in their severall places and forthwith calls alowd to one of their fellows saying Pinch that Boy and awake him mean while lets the other sleep as if he saw him not And why commands he not both to be wakened The reason is because the one is docible capable of learning and shortly after shal be commanded to repeat his lesson being of a sharp wit ready tongue and therfore wel beloved of his master The other Endymion is the dunce drone of the school never better or more at quiet then when hee sleeps Such an one as this the master passeth over with neglect and had rather have him sleep then pr●●e and disturb the rest So Almighty God provokes incites and exercises his most forward and aptest scholars scourgeth every child whom he receives into his favour Sect. III. THE third reason is to increase their faith He that learns ought to believe We beleeve there is a heaven prepared for the blessed and a hell for the damned but I beseech you what lively faith or assurance have we of either No eye could ever penetrate to hell nor do any return from heaven to declare how matters go there This cogitation afflicteth many for some thinking not rightly with themselves have said There was never any known to return from hell Neverthelesse we must beleeve that there are both these places except we conclude that God is unjust for if he who hath covenanted to punish the wicked and reward the good payes neither in this world certainly in the world to come he will not fail both to punish the one and liberally to reward the other But most evident

largely and spend the day idly Happy therefore are the poore who willingly embracing poverty entertaine it as a speciall friend to vertue To this end was that generous speech of Saint Paul uttered The things which were to me a gaine the same I deem'd for Christ a detriment No man is worthy of God but he that knowes how to contemne riches and he is truely rich who agreeth well with poverty To this purpose Diogenes said Poverty is a vertue which is learn'd of it selfe The matter is plaine should not riches be taken from us we should be undone and destroyed by them And who is he that can so warily touch these thornes and not wound his owne conscience poverty alone is not wounded by this thorny brake He abhorres not poverty who aspires to blessed immortality For as truely saith Saint Gregory Whosoever he be that fixeth his desire upon eternity can neither be deterred with poverty nor shaken with adversity Sect. IV. A Garland of Straw THE Garland of Straw signifies all kindes of scoffes derisions and contempts This is a terrible and grievous punishment to scholars at school how light soever it seemes to others Some time it happens in schools that the master commands a boy to stand in a place by himselfe with roddes in his hand This is a more grievous punishment to that boy then to be ten times beaten with roddes In Spaine they put in mockery a paper hat upon those whom they lead to execution After this manner Andronicus an Emperour Vid considerationes g●ernita●is consid 5. 53. of the East was crown'd with a wreath of Garlicke set upon the back of a scabbed Camel and led thorow the city in a miserable triumph To be contemned derided and scoffed at a proud man deemeth one of the greatest punishments that may be inflicted This crowne of Straw seemes to some all lead beset with prickes like a bristled Hedge-hogge For we abhorre nothing more then to be disgraced branded with ignominy or forc'd to the blush in presence of others This often times seemes more grievous then death it selfe Hence it is that many guilty persons kill themselves in prison rather then they will be made an object of scorne and contempt to the world At the latter day when every one shal return from death to life that terrible arraignement in the sight and presence of all mankinde that calling to accompt and pointing out by the voice and finger of the judge that sterne eye fixed on the whole world shall more torment the damned then the very flames of hel For this cause shall men say in most desperate manner to the sleepy rockes and mountaines fall you upon us and to the hils cover us Then shall it seem to them a gentler punishment to be buried al●ve under the heavy weight of these mountaines then to be arraigned at the tribunall seat of Christ to receive that heavy sentence and be proclaimed by the elect the utter enemies of God Saul King of the Hebrewes a notorious example of a man infinitely wicked when he heard Samuel foretell the dissolution and final catastrophe of his kingdom fortunes the deprivation of Gods grace his owne reprobation and utter ruine of all desired only to preserve his honour But now honour me said he before the elders of my people and before Israel So much he fear'd this losse when all things else were in a desperate case that his people should cease to honour him Behold how Saul was able like the Ostrich to disgest the greatest calamities as hard iron and yet is dejected with a thing which might seeme to be of least account to weare this wreath of straw he esteemes more grievous then death it selfe What was the cause He was proud There is nothing in the School of Patience more fit to suppresse pride then this Garland of Straw This is the most efficacious meanes to pull downe arrogancy he that is crowned with this Garland is forced though much against his will to qualifie his lofty spirit But above all things this is most to be admired we desire to be reputed submissive humble and yet hate nothing more then humility contempt of our selves free us from ignominy and in a manner all things else seeme tolerable with this men are wont to be most dejected they especially that are proud and not fully subjected We vainely perswade and flatter our selves that all things besides this garland of straw are tolerable A very fond perswasion which Cassianus refu●eth thus We would saith he have chastity Cass collat 4. c. 1● 〈◊〉 of body without chastizing our flesh acquire purity of heart without labour and watching enjoy carnall case quietnes and yet abound in spirituall vertues possesse the gift of patience yet never would beprovoked by scorns reproches practise the humility of Christ without the losse of worldly honour and serve him with humane praise and estimation In a word we desire to keep our head from the straw garland and to be humble without humility In this case we must not flatter our pride this garland of straw is fittest for that head which most abhorres it to that alone this diadem is most suitable Elegantly learnedly saith Seneca Sen. do Provid c. 4. post initium How can I be assured of thy cōstancie against ignominy infamy and popular hatred if I see thee all thy life soothed and applauded and followed with acertain inexpugnable and headlong troop of flatterers This one word Repete rehearse the same again vexeth more the Reader then any other correction how rigorous soever But this is an apparant signe of secret pride which liketh nothing worse then to be blamed or shamed by blushing whereupon some men singular as well for learning as contempt of themselves when their ruin was to read at dinner or supper purposely pronounced some words amisse that they might be forced to blush at their owne dissembled ignorance When Martin Delrio a man of an ancient house and by the many notable books he wrote famous for his learning had divers years professed divinity at Liege he was by command sent to Tornay where according to the rules of his Order he might retire himself from publick reading and noise of the world and quietly spend some time in holy meditations Heer he laying aside both Philosophy and Divinity underwent yea even ambitiously sought after all the most abject offices amongst religious novices Sometimes with a poore thred bare cloake he attended the Cater to the market and carried to the Colledge the provision he bought thorow the streets in view of all the people taking upon him the office of a poore Porter This man neither feared nor refused the garland of straw nay he thought himselfe honoured by wearing it This above all the rest much astonished the religious of his order to see a man so grave and learned after he had spent so many years in the socity of Jesus been reader a long time in

Philosophy and Divinity and a preacher highly esteemed after all this I say his sight failing him and almost blind with age so diligently and willingly whilst others sate at table to stand or incommodiously sit at the usuall deske reading according to the custome some pious book and pronouncing the tones and accents according to the direction of others Behold how Delrio with a prompt and ready will embraced a garland of straw Nothing seemed to him so ignominious and shamefull in his latter yeares as the feare of shame and ignominy The like did Lanfranke a man singularly endued with all manner of literature He on a time was appointed reader and being by his unlearned Superiour commanded to repeat what he had read and to pronounce it contrary to the rules of Grammar readily obeyed Questionlesse he reputed this straw garland a speciall ornament This good man was not ashamed for Christs sake to be put to shame Aloysius Gonzaga did the like as is recounted in his life When the minde is once throughly steel'd with vertue it becomes impassible no derisions nor contempts can ever wound it Can a man think you truly resign'd to the will of God be at any time moved with ignominy who hath once fully rejected the opinion of the world and placed all his honor in Christ his Saviour An ignominious death is beyond all ignominy yet this so many thousand holy Martyrs have embraced with as cheerfull a countenance as other when they are adorned with purple and diadems Christ himselfe King of Martyrs to this end suffered a most ignominious death to teach his servants to suffer and not to put affronts and disgraces upon others No man is more pleased with contempt then he who hath first learned to contemne himselfe A true despiser of himselfe is as content with contumelies as if they were miters and then most of all rejoyceth and applauds his happinesse when he is most derided For true glory indeed is to suffer with indifferencie for Christs sake as well the greatest as the least reproach and contumely The true disciples of Christ are crowned first with thornes and afterwards with gold and pretious gems King David pursuing the Amalekites found in the field an Egyptian even sick to death and strictly examined him about his countrey house and kindred who returned this answer I am an Egyptian young man servant to one that is an Amalekite and my master hath left me behinde because I fell sicke three dayes since David commanded this man to accompany him after he had sworn him S. Gregory having considered these passages Greg. in Evang said God chuseth those whom the world despiseth because for the most part by being despised a man comes to know himself The garland of straw is an ignominy prejudiciall to none but such as are impatient Let us go therefore as Saint Paul encourageth us let us go out of the Camp to meet Christ Jesus carrying upon us his disgrace Saint Paul is our leader to that bloudy pavilion of Christ crucified he exhorts us to follow him through glory and disgrace through infamy and good fame as seducers yet speakers of the truth We have innumerable valiant Champions to accompany us in this way who have been well acquainted with crosses d●sgraces and whips yea with prisous chains and fetters To gain a crown of gold they have patiently worn a wreath of straw He is not yet arrived to happinesse who knowes not how to endure contempts and disgraces Sect. V. Wands THe miseries of man which daily molest him are represented by Wands Occasions of suffering are never wanting let us stand or sit walk or eate drink or sleep the troubles and grievances are innumerable which intrude upon us we are daily contesting and wrangling with our own inconveniences It may well be said that the master in this School never layes afide his wands You shall scarcely see a man that hath not daily some mischance or other happening unto him But most of those whereat we repine are more offensive then prejudiciall The words of that most religious Thomas a Kempis concern all men Thou art wretched wheresoever thou Imi● Christ l 1. cap. 22. initio l. 2. c. 12 n. 3. 4. art and whithersoever thou turnest thy selfe except thou turn to God Dispose and order all things according to thy own will and liking yet shalt thou neuer want something to suffer either willingly or unwillingly Turn to all above thee below thee within or without thee and in all these thou shalt finde a crosse every where thou must of necessity suffer with patience if thou wilt enioy inward peace and deserve an everlasting crown These miseries of ours though they may be endured and overcome with facility yet considering they occurre daily our merit thereby is wonderfully increased if we suffer them for Gods sake as Ludovicus Blosius teacheth Blos insiit spirit c. 2. propius finem very well that it is a matter of no small moment to suffer even the least trouble for the love of God All that can be said of these kindes of miseries and molestations is that they are burdensome but wholsome if they be willingly embraced For as Saint Augustine saith God regards Aug in Psa 61. prope finem what a man is willing rather then what he is able to do Abigail the wisest amongst the women of her time besides the present of all kindes of viands to appease King Davids wrath made likewise her addiesse by a notable oration saying The soul of my Lord shall be kept as safe as if it were in the posie of the living with thy Lord God but the soule of thy enemies shall be wheeled about as it were in the force and circle of a sling Heer this wise Lady by an excellent comparison shewed the difference between the lives of the wicked and just especially in suffering adversities Good and vertuous men are like fresh flowers which the Gardiner having newly gathered lest they should be scattered and wither ties them together in a nosegay with so strait and hard a bond that if it were possible they would cry out and complain of the injury But flowers thus compacted and set in water live long and flourish By this posie I understand daily miseries which teach us at least to live with more purity though perchance with lesse content As for example I am very hungry to relieve my hunger I insinuate with the Cooke I am thirsty but love not to draw mine own drink and therefore make use of the Butler I want apparrell but know not how to make it and therefore I employ the Taylor To want these things is indeed a misery but hereby I become more courceous and am obliged to love and respect oth●rs If there were some that wanted no mans help they would affoord none so much as a good word After this manner the soules of good men are preserved as it were in the bundle of the living It is farre