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A01202	An introduction to a deuoute life composed in Frenche by the R. Father in God Francis Sales, Bishop of Geneua. And translated into Englisg [sic], by I.Y.; Introduction à la vie dévote. English	Francis, de Sales, Saint, 1567-1622.; Yakesley, John.; Tauler, Johannes, ca. 1300-1361. Colloquium theologi et mendici. English.	1613 (1613)	STC 11316.5; ESTC S105599	212,387	622

IHS AN INTRODVCTION TO A DEVOVTE LIFE COMPOSED IN FRENCHE By the R. Father in God FRANCIS SALES Bishop of Geneua AND TRANSLATED IN TO ENGLISH By I. Y. By IOHN HEIGHAM With Permission 1613. TO THE RIGHT VIRTVOVS GENTLEWOMAN MISTRIS ANNE ROPER DAVGHTER TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR WILLIAM ROPER OF WELL-HALL IN ELTHAM THIS excellent summarie of spirituall life Right worshipfull and trulie Religious hath gained so great credit with all deuout minds for the exceeding profit and delight which they haue found by perusing it that no booke whatsoeuer hath been in so short a time so often and in so manie places reprinted none by so manie men and those of so great iudgement and in such varietie of bookes treating of the same subiect so much commended Litle indeed it is in quantitie but in substance and effect as I may say infinite Like the philosophers stone which being but small in bignes and not verie beautifull in shew conteineth in it the seedes of all metalls with the onely touch changeth baser metalls into the soueraignest of all which is gold the sole gouernour now of this iron world For euen so truly not onely in my iudgement which in these heaueuly matters reacheth but low but in the iudgement of great diuines and very holy men th●re hath not come out any abridgement of deuotion like this conteining so copiouslie in few leaues so plainlie in sweet language so profitablie and aptlie for practize of all men the rules and instruction of spirituall perfection nor so pregnant in efficacie to conuert the iron affections of our soules into the golden virtue of charitie and true deuotion the queene of virtues that enamoureth God him self with her heauenlie beautie This made me desirous to peruse it carefully for the bettering of my owne soule and to translate it painfully for the benefit of manie soules in our poor distressed countrie which more then any other countrie standeth in need of such good bookes for counter poisons against so manie venemous writings as worldly and fantasticall heads daylie publishe This also made me so bold as to dedicate the booke and my labour taken in translating of it vnto your good selfe as a treatise likely to be most pleasing to that excellent disposition which inclineth your mind to all holie virtuous exercises and an argument almost proper and peculiar to the feruent zeale of Gods glorie descending vnto you and all your worthy familie by inheritance and naturall affection receaued from your glorious progenitour that excellent true states-man learned councellour englands honour faithes zealous champion and Christs constant martyr SIR THOMAS MOORE your great grand-father His admirable virtues may easilie persuade any man that you neither would nor could degenerate from so liuelie a paterne and your deuout and virtuous life doth as easilie proue you to be descended from that faire roote by so goodly braunches as your worshipfull father and grand-father of whome as you haue taken the worthines of your bloud so haue you learned their pietie and godlines which maketh you delight in nothing so much as in the practize of deuotion and Christian perfection This I say makes me so hardie as to desire you to accept of this my labour and not onely to patronize it with your title as a thing vowed to your seruice but also at your best leasure to read it and practize it that so I may be not onely repayed by your courteous acceptāce of my good will but likewise be partaker of those spirituall ioyes and increase of pietie which I doubt not but you will reap out of this fertil field of deuotion which is the principall fruict that in this my poor labour I desire to haue generally in all deuout soules that shall read this book and more particularlie in yours to whome I dedicate it and my self to remaine allwayes Your seruant in our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesu I. Y. A DEDICATORY prayer of the Authour O Svveet Iesu my Lord my Sauiour and my God behold heere prostrate before thy diuine maiestie I entitle and consecrate this vvriting vnto thy glory giue spirit and life vnto these lines by thy heauenly blessing that those soules for vvhome I vvrote them may in reading these vvords receaue the sacred inspiratiōs vvhich I vvishe thē particularlie may be moued to implore thy diuine mercie for me that shevving vnto other the vvay of deuotion in this vvorlde I become not a reprobate myself in the vvorld to come but to gether with all thy deuout soules vvho shall profit by this labour of mine I may ioyfully sing that triumphant song of the blessed Saints in heauen vvhich amidst the daungers of this mortall life I pronounce from my hart as a testimonie of my faith and fidelitie Life and glorie to my Lord and Sauiour Iesus euen so svveete Iesu liue and raigne graciously and gloriously in our soules for euer and euer Amen MY DEARE READER I beseeche thee to reade this Preface for thy satisfaction and myne 1. THE Paynim historians report of a mayden called Glycera greatly delighted in making of nosegayes who could so fitly and properly varie and chaunge the disposition and mingling of the sweet flowers in her posies that with the self same flowers she would frame manie diuers kinds of nosegayes in so much that the painter Pausias came short of his cunning striuing as it were by emulation to expresse the varietie of her flower-workes for he could not chaunge his colours into so many fashions in his pictures but Glycera would find more by a new maner of placing of her flowers in her nosegaies Euen so doth the holy Ghost dispose and order with enterchaungeable varietie the instructions of deuotion which he geueth by the tongues and pennes of his seruaunts that the doctrine which they teache being one and the self same the discourse notwithstanding which they make and in which they deliuer his doctrine do much differre according to the diuersitie of methods fashions that I may so say in which they be couched and composed I cannot therfore neither ought I or would I in any sort write in this introduction any thing but that which hath been alreadie published by our learned predecessours concerning this matter they be the self same flowers that I present vnto thee gentle reader which diuers before me haue offered vnto thy view but the nosegay which I haue framed of them is of a different fashion from theirs as being handled in another forme and wrought after another manner 2. Those that haue treated of deuotion before me haue allmost all attended onely to the instruction of persons alltogether retired from worldly conuersation or at the least haue taught a forme of deuotion which properly and principally directeth and tendeth to that retired state of life But my intention is particularly and principally to instruct such as liue in cities and townes busied with the affaires of their houshold or forced by their place and calling to folow