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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08054	Of the seaven last vvordes spoken by Christ vpon the crosse, two bookes. Written in Latin by the most illustrious cardinall Bellarmine, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by A.B.	Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.	1638 (1638)	STC 1842; ESTC S113817	123,392	328

from their owne Vices they suffer from a guilty and selfe tormenting Conscience Certainly the most wise Salomon who was thought and reputed most happy if any man could so be could not deny but that he suffered his Crosse when he said Vidi in omnibus c. I saw in all things Vanity and affliction of mynd And a litle after I haue beene weary of my lyfe seing all things vnder the sunne to be euill and ●ll things Vanity and affliction of spirit Eccl 3 And Ecclesiasticus also cap. 40. a man very wise hath deliuered this generall Sentence Great Busines and trauell is created to all men and an heauy yoke vpon the children of Adam S. Austin sayth Inter omnes tribulationes c. Among all Tribulations not any is greater then the Conscience of a mans sinnes in Psal 45. S. Chrysostome in his 3. Homily vpon Lazarus teacheth that the wicked do not want their Crosses For if he be poore Pouerty is to him a Crosse if Pouerty be absent then his owne vnbridled Cōcupiscence doth afflict him more vehemently Yf he keep his bed for any disease he lyeth vpon a Crosse if he be free from diseases and infirmities of the Body then is he inflamed with anger which also is a Crosse But S. Cyprian demonstrateth that euery man euen from his natiuity is borne to his Crosse and to tribulation and that he doth fortell presage the same by his weeping as soone as he is borne For thus that Father writeth serm de patientia Vnusquisque nostrum c. Euery one of vs when he is borne receaued into the World taketh his beginning from teares And although as yet he be ignorant of all things he knoweth no other thing euen at his first birth and natiuity then to weepe through a naturall prouidence he bewaileth the anxieties and labours of a mortall life and the poore ignorant soule presently in the beginning doth protest and foretell with lamentation and crying the stormes of the world into the which he is ready to enter and suffer Thus S. Cyprian Since then these things are so certaine who can deny but that the Crosse is common both to good and euill men It yet remaineth to make it euidēt that the Crosse of vertuous men is ●●ort light and profitable and continually the Crosse of the wicked heauy barren and continuall And touching the Crosse of Godly men That it is short it cannot be denied seing it cannot be extended beyond the terme or tyme of this lyfe For iust men dying Now sayth the spirit they rest from their labours Apoc. 14. And that God shall wype away all teares from their Eyes Apoc. 21. That this present lyfe is most short though whiles it is flowing avvay it seemes long and tedious the sacred Scripture doth not obscurely signify when it sayth Iob. 14. Breues dies hominis sunt c The dayes of man are short and man borne of a Woman liuing a short tyme. And yet more What is your lyfe It is a vapour appearing a litle while and after it shall vanish away The Apostle who may be thought to haue suffered a most heauy Crosse and this for a long time to wit from his youth vnto his old age yet doth thus speake hereof 2. Cor. 4. Our tribulation which is momentarie and light worketh aboue measure exceedingly an eternall weight of glory in vs. Where he compareth his tribulation suffered aboue thirty yeares to an indiuisible moment of time and he styles it but a small tribulation to wit to be hungry to be thirsty to be naked to be stroken and buffeted to suffer a daily persecution to be thrice beatē with roddes by the Romanes fiue times to be whipped by the Iewes to be once stoned to suffer shipwrack thrice To conclude to be conuersant in many labours to be much in prison subiect aboue measure to stroks and wounds and to be often at the pit-brimme of death Now what Tribulations are to be accounted heauy if these of the Apostle be truly light and easy But what If I should add auer that the Crosse of lust men it not only light but sweet and pleasant in regard of the superabundant cōsolation of the Holy Ghost accompaning it Christ himselfe thus pronounceth of his yoake which may be said to be a Crosse Matth 11. My yoake is sweete and my burden light And in another place You shall weepe and lament but the world shall reioyce you shal be made sorrowfull but your sorrow shal be turned into ioy and your ioy no man shall take from you Ioan. 16. And the Apostle crieth out I am replenished with all Consolation I do exceedingly abound in ioy in all our Tribulation 2. Cor. 7. To conclude that the Crosse of the Iust is not only short and light but also fruitfull and most profitable it cannot be denied since our Lord plainly thus speak●th in S. Mathew cap. 5. Blessed are they that suffer persecution for Iustice for theirs is the kingdome of Heauen And the Apostle in his Epistle to the Romans cap. 8. bursteth out saying The Passions of this tyme are not condigne to the glory so come that shal be reuealed in vs. With whome agreeth his Co●postle S. Peter when he sayth Communicating with the Passions of Christ be glad that in the reuelation also of his glory you may be glad reioycing 1. Pet. 6. Now that the Crosse of the wicked is most tedious most heauy and depriued of all reward or fruit is easily demonstrated Certainly the Crosse of the wicked Theefe ended not with his temporall life but continueth euen to this day in Hell and shall continue for all Eternity for the worme of the Wicked in Hell shall not dye and their fire shall not be extinguished And the Crosse of the Rich Glutton which consisted in heaping together of Riches the which our Lord most truly compared to thornes was not ended in his death as the Crosse of Lazarus the poore beggar was but accompanying him euen to Hell doth burne and torment him and forceth him to say I would to God that a drop of Water might coole my tongue because I am tormented in this flame Thus we see that the Crosse of the wicked neuer findeth end And in this very time and life how heauy and sharpe their Crosse is the words of them whom the Booke of Wisdome introduceth as lamenting do fully witnesse Sap. 5. We are wearied out in the way of iniquity and perdition haue walked hard wayes What Are not Ambition Couetousnes Luxury hard wayes Are not those hard wayes which inseparably attend vpon Vice to wit Anger Dissentions Enuy Are not the workes which spring from these that is to say treacheries reproaches contumelies Wounds and death it selfe hard wayes Certainly these are of that vvorking Nature at that not seldome they force men as being desperate to become their owne Parricides and Butchers and thus by flying from one Crosse they fall vpon an other farre more insupportable and