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A52345	A treatise of the difference bbtwixt [sic] the temporal and eternal composed in Spanish by Eusebius Nieremberg ... ; translated into English by Sir Vivian Mullineaux, Knight ; and since reviewed according to the tenth and last Spanish edition.; De la diferencia entre lo temporal y eterno. English	Nieremberg, Juan Eusebio, 1595-1658.; Mullineaux, Vivian, Sir.	1672 (1672)	Wing N1151; ESTC R181007	420,886	606

make the poor Philosopher to forbear his dinner and not to relish one morsel of the Feast with pleasure Thou then who art no more secure of thy life than he how canst thou delight in the pleasures of the world he who every moment expects death ought no moment to delight in life This onely consideration of death according to Ricardus was sufficient to make us distaste all the pleasures of the earth A great danger or fear suffices to take away the sense of lesser joyes and what greater danger then that of Eternity Death is therefore uncertain that thou shouldest be ever certain to despise this life and dispose thy self for the other Thou art every hour in danger of death to the end that thou shouldest be every hour prepared to leave life What is death but the way unto eternity A great journey thou hast to make wherefore doest thou not provide in time and the rather because thou knowest not how soon thou mayest be forced to depart The People of God because they knew not when they were to march were for forty years which they remained in the Wilderness ever in a readiness Be thou then ever in a readiness since thou mayst perhaps depart to day Consider there is much to do in dying prepare thy self whilest thou hast time and do it well For this many years were necessary wherefore since thou knowest not whether thou shalt have one day allowed thee why doest thou not this day begin to dispose thy self If when thou makest a short journey and hast furnished and provided thy self of all things fitting yet thou commonly findest something to be forgotten how comes it to pass that for so long a journey as is the Region of Eternity thou thinkest thy self sufficiently provided when thou hast scarce begun to think of it Who is there who does not desire to have served God faithfully two years before death should take him if then thou art not secure of one why doest thou not begin Trust not in thy health or youth for death steals treacherously upon us when we least look for it for according to the saying of Christ our Redeemer it will come in an hour when it is not thought on And the Apostle said the day of the Lord would come like a theef in the night when none were aware of it and when the Master of the house was in a profound sleep Promise not thy self to morrow for thou knowest not whether death will come to night The day before the Children of Israel went forth of Egypt how many of that Kingdom young Lords and Princes of Families promised themselves to doe great matters the next day or perhaps within a year after yet none of them lived to see the morning Wisely did Messodamus who as Guido Bituricensis writes when one invited him forth the next day to dinner answered My friend why doest thou summon me for to morrow since it is many years that I durst not promise any thing for the day following every hour I look for death there is no trust to be given to strength of Body youthful years much riches or humane hopes Hear what God sayes to the Prophet Amos Amos 8. In that day the Sun shall set at midday and I will over-cast the earth with darkness in the day of light What is the setting of the Sun at midday but when men think they are in the middest of their life in the flower of their age when they hope to live many years to possess great wealth to marry rich wives to shine in the world then death comes and over-shadows the brightness of their day with a cloud of sorrow as it happened in the Story related by Alexander Faya Alex. Faya To. 2. Ladislaus King of Hungary and Bohemia sent a most solemn Embassage unto Charles King of France for the conducting home of that Kings Daughter who was espoused unto the Prince his Son The chief Embassador elected for this journey was Vdabricas Bishop of Passaw for whose Attendants were selected 200 principal men of Hungary 200 of Bohemia and other 200 of Austria all persons of eminent Birth and Nobility so richly clad and in so brave an Equipage that they appeared as so many Princes To these the Bishop added an hundred Gentlemen chosen out of his own Subjects so that they passed through France 700 Gentlemen in company most richly accoutred and for the greater Pomp and Magnificence of the Embassage there went along with them 400 beautiful Ladies in sumptuous habits and adorned with most costly jewels the Coaches which carried them were studded with gold and enchased with stones of value Besides all this were many Gifts and rich Garments of inestimable price which they brought along with them for Presents But the very day that this glorious Embassage entred Paris before they came at the place appointed for their entertainment a Curriere arrived with the news of the death of the espoused Prince Such was the grief that struck the heart of the French King with so unexpected a news as he could neither give an answer to the Embassage nor speak with the Embassadour or those who accompanied him and so they departed most sorrowful from Paris and every one returned unto his own home In this manner God knows by the means of death to fill the earth with darkness and sorrow in the day of greatest brightness as he spake by his Prophet Since then thou knowest not when thou art to dye think thou must dye to day and be ever prepared for that which may ever happen Trust in the mercies of God and imploy them incessantly but presume not to deferre thy conversion for a moment For who knows whether thou shalt ever from hence forward have time to invoke him and having invoked him whether thou shalt deserve to be heard Know that the mercy of God is not promised to those who therefore trust in him that they may sin with hope of pardon but unto those who fearing his Divine Justice cease to offend him wherefore St. Cregory says The mercies of Almighty God forget him Greg. in moral who forgets his Justice nor shall he find him merciful who does not fear him just For this it is so often repeated in Scripture That the mercy of God is for those who fear him And in one part it is said The mercy of the Lord from eternity unto eternity is upon those who fear him And in anoth●r As the Father hath mercy on his Son so the Lord hath mercy on these who fear him In another According to the height from earth unto heaven he has corroborated his mercy upon those that fear him Finally the very Mother of mercy sayes in her Divine Canticle That the mercy of the Lord is from generation to generation upon those who fear him Thou seest then that the Divine mercy is not promised unto all and that thou shalt remain excluded from it whilest thou presumest and doest not fear his justice And

since he hath employed his omnipotency for our good and profit let us employ our forces and faculties for his glory and service CAP. VI. Of the End of all Time BEsides the end of the particular time of this life the universal end of all time is much to be considered that since humane ambition passes the limits of this life and desires honour and a famous memory after it Man may know that after this death there is another death to follow in which his memory shall also die and vanish away as smoke After that we have finisht the time of this life the end of all time is to succeed which is to give a period unto all which we leave behind us Let man therefore know that those things which he leaves behind for his memory after death are as vain as those which he enjoyed in life Let him raise proud Mausoleums Let him erect Statues of Marble Let him build populous Cities Let him leave a numerous Kindred Let him write learned Books Let him stamp his Name in brass and fix his Memory with a thousand nails All must have an end his Cities shall sink his Statues fall his Family and Linage perish his Books be burned his Memory be defaced and all shall end because all time must end It much imports us to perswade our selves of this truth that we may not be deceived in the things of this world That not only our pleasures and delights are to end in death but our memories at the farthest are to end with Time And since all are to conclude all are to be despised as vain and perishing Cicero although immoderately desirous of fame and honour Cieer in Ep. ad Luc. as appears by a large Epistle of his written unto a friend wherein he earnestly entreats him to write the conspiracy of Cataline which was discovered by himself in a Volume apart and that he would allow something in it unto their ancient friendships and Publish it in his life time that he might enjoy the glory of it whilest he lived yet when he came to consider that the world was to end in Time he perceived that no glory could be immortal and therefore sayes By reason of deluges and burnings of the earth In Somn. Scip. which mu●● of necessity happen within a certain time we cannot attain glory not so much as durable for any long time much less eternal In this world no memory can be immortal since Time and the World it self are mortal and the time will come when time shall be no more But this truth is like the memory of death which by how much it is more important by so much men think lest of it and practically do not believe it But God that his divine providence and care might not be wanting hath also in this taken order that a matter of so great concernment should be published with all solemnity first by his Son after by his Apostles and then by Angels Apoc. 10. And therefore St. John writes in his Apocalyps that he saw an Angel of great might and power who descended from heaven having a Cloud for his Garment and his head covered with a Rainbow his face shining as the Sun and his feet as pillars of fire with the right foot treading upon the Sea and with the left upon the Earth sending forth a great and terrible voice as the roaring of a Lyon which was answered by seaven thunders with other most dreadful noises and presently this prodigious Angel lifts up his hand towards Heaven But wherefore all this Ceremony wherefore this strange equipage wherefore this horrid voice and thunder all was to proclaim the death of Time and to perswade us more of the infallibility of it he continued it with a solemn Oath conceived in a Set form of most authentique words listing up his hand towards Heaven and swearing by him that lives for ever and ever who created Heaven and Earth and all which is in it There shall be mo more time With what could this truth be more confirmed than by the Oath of so great and powerful and an Angel The greatness and solemnity of the Oath gives us to understand the weight and gravity of the thing affirmed both in respect of it self and the importance of us to know it If the death of a Monarch or Prince of some corner of the world prognosticated by an Eclipse or Comet cause a fear and amazement in the beholders what shall the death of the whole World and with it all things temporal and of Time it self foretold by an Angel with so prodigious an apparition and so dreadful a noise produce in them who seriously consider it For us also this thought is most convenient whereby to cause in us a contempt of all things temporal Let us therefore be practically perswaded that not onely this life shall end but that there shall be also an end of Time Time shall bereave Man of this life and Time shall bereave the World of his whose end shall be no less horrible than that of Man but how much the whole World and the whole Race of mankind exceeds one particular person by so much shall the universal end surpass in terrour the particular end of this life For this cause the Prophecies which foretell the end of the World are so dreadful that if they were not dictated by the holy Spirit of God they would be thought incredible Christ therefore our Saviour having uttered some of them unto his Disciples because they seemed to exceed all that could be imagined in the conclusion confirmed them with that manner of Oath or Asseveration which he commonly used in matters of greatest importance Math. 13. Luc. 21. Amen which is By my verity or verily I say unto you that the world shall not end before all these things are fulfilled Heaven and earth shall fail but my words shall not fail Let us believe then that Time shall end and that the World shall die and that if we may so say a most horrible and disastrous death let us believe it since the Angels and the Lord of Angels have sworn it If it be so then that those memorials of men which seemed immortal must at last end since the whole Race of man is to end let us only strive to be preserved in the eternal memory of him who hath no end and let us no less despise to remain in the fading memory of men who are to die than to enjoy the pleasures of our senses which are to perish As the hoarding up of riches upon earth is but a deceit of Avarice so the desire of eternizing our memory is an errour of Ambition The covetous man must then leave his wealth when he leaves his life if the Theef in the mean time do not take it from him and fame and renown must end with the World if envy or oblivion deface it not before All that is to end is vain this World therefore and all which

that his loathsome smel infected his whole Army and his body as hath been said flowed with lice and vermin Consider here the end of Majesty when the greatest power of the Earth cannot defend it self against so noisome and so contemptible an enemy In the same manner Feretrina Queen of the Barcaeans all the flesh of her body turned into maggots and grubbs that swarming every where at last consumed her Some have had serpents bred in their arms and thighs which have devoured their flesh even whilest they lived With reason then does man enter into the World with tears as divining the many miseries which he shall have time enough to suffer but not to lament and therefore begins to weep so early §. 2. Strange Pestilences Vide Pet. Bon. l. 3. Theatr. mundi WHat shall I say of those strange pestilential infirmities which have destroyed whole Cities Provinces Many Authors write that in Constantinople there happened so strange a Plague that those who were infected with it thought they were kill'd by their next neighbours and falling into this frenzie died raging with fear and imagination that they were murthered by their friends In the time of Heraclius there was so mortal a Pestilence in Romania that in a few dayes many thousands died and the greater part of those who were struck flung themselves into the River to asswage that excessive heat which like a fire burnt their entrails Thucidides a Greek Author writes that in his time there was such a corruption of the air that an infinite of people died and no remedy could be found to mitigate that disaster and which was most strange if any by good hap recovered they remained without memory at all of what was past in so much as the Fathers forgot their Sons and Husbands their Wives Marcus Aurelius an Author worthy of credit speaks of a Plague in his time so great in Italy that it was easier to number the quick than the dead The Souldiers of Avidius Cassius being in Seleucia a City within the Territories of Babylon entred into the Temple of Apollo and finding there a Coffer which they imagined might contain some treasure opened it from whence issued so pestilential and corrupted an air that it infected the whole Region of Babylon and from thence passed into Greece and so to Rome still corrupting the air as it went in so much as the third part of mankinde remained not alive The calamities of the times nearer ours have been no less For as our sins decrease not so the justice of God in punishing us slakes not A year after Francis King of France was married to Donna Leonora of Austria there raigned in Germany strange infirmity Those who were infected with it sweating forth a pestilential humour died within four and twenty hours It began in the West but passing afterwards into Germany it raged with such fury as if it meant to extirpate all mankinde for before any remedy could be found there died so many thousands of people that many Townes and Provinces remained desert Such was the putrifaction of the air that it left almost nothing alive and those few that remained in signe of pennance and to avert the wrath of God went signed with red Crosses They write that it was so violent in England that not onely men died but birds left their nests their eggs and young ones the wilde beasts quitted their Dennes and snakes and moles were seen to goe in companies and troopes not being able to endure the poyson enclosed in the bowells of the earth and many creatures were found in heapes dead under trees their bodies broken out into blanes and botches The yeare 1546. the last of May began in Stix a City of Provence a most mortal pestilence which lasted nine moneths in which died an infinite number of people of all ages in so much as the Church-yards were so full of dead bodies as there was no room left to bury others The greatest part of those who were infected the second day became frantick and flung themselves out of windowes or into wells others fell into a flux of blood at the nose which if they stanched they instantly died Married women became abortive or at four moneths end they and what they went with died whom they found covered over with spots something blewish on one side which seemed like blood sprinkled over their body The evil was so great that Fathers forsook their Children and Women their Husbands Riches did not preserve them from dying of hunger a pot of water being not sometimes to be had for money If they found by chance what to eat the fury of the sickness was such as they often died with the morsel in their mouths The contagion became so great that many took it by being onely looked upon and the ayr of the City was so corrupted by the grievous heat of this pestilential evil that wheresoever the steam of it came it raised great blisters mortal sores and carbuncles O how monstrous and horrible a thing it is to hear the relation of the Physician who was appointed for the cure and government of the sick This infirmity saith he was so sharp and perverse that neither Bleeding Purging Treacles nor other Cordials could stay it it kill'd and bore down all before it in so much as the onely remedy which the infected persons hoped for was death of which being certain so soon as they found themselves ill they began to make their Winding-sheets and there were ten thousand who wore them whilest they yet lived knowing certainly that the remedy and end of their evil was to die and in this manner stood expecting the departure of the soul and the fearful separation of the two so dear friends and companions which he affirms to have seen in many persons especially in one woman who calling him at her window to appoint something for her infirmity he saw sewing her Winding-sheet and not long after those who were appointed to interre the dead entring the house found her stretched out upon the floor her Winding-sheet not yet finished To all this is humane life subject Let those therefore who are in health and jollity fear what may befall them § 3. Notable Famines FAmine is no less a misery of mans life than Pestilence which not onely particular persons but whole Provinces have often suffered Such was that which afflicted the Romans when Alaricus that arch-Enemy of Mankind after the destruction of all Italy besieged Rome The Romans came to that poverty famine and want of all things that having nothing left of that which men commonly use to eat they began to feed on Horses Dogs Cats Rats Dormice and other vermin where they could lay hold on them and when those failed they eat one another A horrible condition of humane nature that when God suffers us to fall into those straights our necessity forces us to feed upon our own kind Nay Fathers spare not their Sons nor Women those whom they have