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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08457	The pearle of perfection sought after by Charles Odingsells, Doctour of Divinitie	Odingsells, Charles, d. 1637.	1637 (1637)	STC 18782; ESTC S113411	51,839	106

there the same Father speaking of the just and righteous saith Bernard ub● suprà Iustus nunquam arbitratur se comprehendisse nunquam dicitsatis est sed semper esurit sititque justitiam The just man never supposeth that he hath comprehended never saith it is enough but alwayes hungreth and thirsteth after righteousnesse So that if he might liue alwayes he would alwayes as much as in him lieth striue to be more righteous But as the emptiest bladders are most filled with winde so the poorest Christians haue many times the greatest conceit and opinion of their own sufficiency they thinke they haue enough when as in truth they haue a great deale too little Omnia illi desunt Bern. de consid l. 2. ca. 7. qui nil sibi deesse putat he wants all things who thinketh he wanteth nothing saith holy Bernard When our Saviour rehearsed the precepts of the second Table to the young man he answered presently All these things haue I kept from my youth up Mat. 19. v. 20 21. what lacke I yet but the wisedome of GOD threw downe his pride and stopped his mouth with a Si vis esse perfectus c. If thou wilt be perfect goe and sell all that thou hast and giue to the poore and thou shalt haue treasure in heaven This was a corrosiue to his stomach a pill which he could not well digest And yet there ought to be in every one of us such a measure of perfection as that through effectuall charitie and loue of God we should be readie and willing upon just occasion actually to relinquish father and mother wife and children our goods our lands our liues and all things for the asserting of GODS glorie and for the testimony of Iesus This historie of that young man in the Gospell teacheth us how forcible a remora the loue of the world and worldly things is to stay the shippe of the Christian soule saying on in her voyage unto perfection and felicitie Whereupon the Apostle St. Iohn cryes amaine unto us 1 Iohn 2.15 Loue not the world nor the things of the world for if any man loue the world the loue of the Father is not in him CHAP. XXIX Of three evill qualities in spirituall sloath ACarelesse negligence of our estate in pietie is attended with three evill properties First it is cold and remisse in proficiency secondly it is heavie and dull in going on to perfection thirdly it is a waster and destroyer of grace and so a maine enemie to perfection Wherefore this spirituall sluggishnesse is by Iohannes de sancto Geminiano aptly compared to Saturne the highest planet for three things First He is infrigidativus of a cold qualitie Ioan. de Sanct. Gem. de exempl Simili● rerum lib. 1. cap. 2. secondly He is tardè incessivus of slow motion thirdly He is faetuum mortificativus a destroyer of young ones First as Saturne is of a cold cooling qualitie causing coldnesse in the inferior bodies and exciting melancholy So spirituall sloath makes a carelesse Christian become cold and remisse in charitie in the loue of God and man for he neither so loveth GOD objectivè as to will more good to Him than to any creature neither doth he so loue Him appretiativè as to value Him at a higher rate or price than the whole world or his owne life Nedum intensivè much lesse doth he loue God with a greater and more ardent degree of loue than his owne life or any other creature And seeing the love of our neighbour is the reflection of Gods loue in out hearts this being so remisse that other of necessitie must be very coole and so coole as that he neither loveth his neighbour as himselfe after the rule of the Law nor as Christ loved us which is the rule of the Gospell So that whereas inward perfection consists in the loue of God and our Neighbour saith Aquinas Aquin. in Heb. cap. 6. lect 1. the spirituall sluggard must needs come short of perfection being so cold and defectiue in this golden vertue of Charitie which is Vinculum perfectionis Col. 3.14 the very bond of perfection Againe as Saturne is of a slow motion finishing his course through the Zodiacke in no lesse than thirtie yeares so the spirituall sluggard is very slow in the use of grace and exercise of good workes going so slowly on unto perfection as that he doth scarce formicinum gradum movere mooue as fast as the pismire and stands in neede to be brobd with Salomons goade and set on his way with a Vade ad formicam piger c. Goe to the Ant thou sluggard Prov. 6.6 consider her wayes and be wise which having no guide over-seer or ruler provideth her meate in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest Lastly as Saturne is destructiue to young ones lately brought forth so spirituall drowsinesse and remissenesse even slay the fruits of grace and vertue when they begin to spring up If any pious motions to good be lately engendred in the heart either by reading the word of life or hearing it read preached or expounded or by private admonition or any good meanes by and by this pestilent vice is readie to strangle them in the birth Children borne under the dominion of Saturne are not vitall many times die within a few dayes as the Astrologers say so good motions begunne in the spirituall sluggard oft die as soone as they be borne and so never come to perfection So that whereas Fulgentius saith of Saturne Filios verò suos comedisse fertur Fulg. Myth ad Catum l. 1. in Fab. Sat. quòd quodcunque tempus gignit consumit He is said to devoure his sonnes because whatsoever time begetteth it consumeth this spirituall sloath doth it not in a long tract of time but in the nativitie or soone after for this common pernicious vice is like the red Dragon in the Apocalyps Apoc. 12.4 which stands before the woman readie to be delivered for to devoure her childe as soone as it is borne But wee must shake off this pestiferous Viper wee must be vigilant and stand upon our watch every houre least whilst wee sleepe the enemie come and sow tares amongst the good seeds of grace sowen in our hearts When the fire of the Spirit is begun to be enkindled in us let us not quench it and put it out againe with the cold water of carelesse remissenesse and negligence but as the Trumpet of grace exhorteth let us with all diligence and holy endeavour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Tim. 1.6 blow up the sparkes of grace already sparkling in our soules let us by all meanes nourish them but not extinguish them that so we may grow up into Christ our head unto a perfect man following the most wholesome counsell of the great Apostle St. Peter concluding his last Epistle with this heavenly exhortation Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour