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A22838	A heavenly treasure of confortable meditations and prayers written by S. Augustin, Bishop of Hyppon in three seuerall treatises of his meditations, soliloquies, and manual. Faithfully translated into English by the R. F. Antony Batt monke, of the holy order of S Bennet of the Congregation of England; De meditatione. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Batt, Antonie.	1624 (1624)	STC 934; ESTC S101507	162,145	412

most sacred quire that with those most blessed spirits I might helpe to sounde forth the praises of my maker that in presence I might contemplate the face of Christ my Lord and Sauiour and might for euermore behold that supreme vnspeakable and incomprehensible brightnes and splendour and thus being from the fare of death sett at libertie I might reioyce for euer through the guift of perpetuall immortalitie Of the happines of a holie soule departing out of this worlde CHAPT XXIII HAppie is that soule which being sett at libertie from this earthly bodie doth freely mount vpp to the heauenlie countrie Shee is at rest and securitie fea●ing neither death nor aduersarie because shee doth incessantly see our Lord shining in beautie whom thee hath serued and loued and to whom at length shee hath ioyfullie and happilie arriued Such shall be the greatn●●s of this her glorie and ●elicitie as that noe time shall diminish it neither sha●l any aduer●arie be euer able to be●aue ●er of it The daughters of Syon haue seene her and esteemed her most hap●ie The Queenes likewise and concu●ines haue commended her saying What 〈◊〉 shee that ascendeth vp from the desert flowing with delightes leaning vpon her beloued What is shee that commeth rising vp as the dawning of the day faire as the moo●e chosen as the sunne terrible as the forefront of an armie sett in battle aray O how ioyfullie shee issueth forth how shee hastne●h how shee runneth when as one astonished shee heareth her well beloued saving vnto her As●●se make hast my loue my doue my beautifull one and come For winter is now past the raine is gone and departed the flowers haue appeared in our land the time of pruning is come the voyce of the turtle doue is heard in our land the figg tree hath brought forth her greene figges the florishing vineyardes haue giuen theire sauour Arise my loue my beautifull one and come My doue in the holes of the rock in the hollow places of the wall shew me thy face let thy voyce sounde in mine eares for thy voyce is sweete and thy face comely Come o my chosen my fairest one and my doue come myne immaculate and my spouse and I will place my throne in thee because I haue desired thy beauty Come that thou maiest reioyce with mine Angells in my presence whose company I haue promised thee long since Come at length after soe many dangers and trauailes enter into the ioy of thy Lord which none shall euer be able to take from thee A Prayer to the Saints to succour vs in our dangers and necessities CHAPT XXIV Happy are you o blessed Saints of God who haue alreadie passed ouer the sea of this mortalitie and haue deserued to arriue at the porte of perpetuall rest peace and securitie It is you that are without feare and free from tempestes reioycing for euermore in that hauen of happines O you that are voyde of care for your selues by your charitie I beseech you haue a care of vs you that are assured of your immmortall glorie be mindfull of our manifold miserie For his sake I beseeche you who hath chosen you who hath made you such as you are by beholding whose beautie you are satisfied by whose immortalitie you are become immortall and as it were deified by whose blessed sight you are for euer blessed be you alwaies mindfull of vs and help vs miserable wretches who remaine as yett in the sea of this wretched world tossed to and fro with continuall stormes and tempests O you most faire gates raysed by God to that height of glory help vs lying heere beneath like the vild pauemēt of this vale of miserie Lend vs your hand and lift vs vpon our feet wholie grouelinge on the ground to the end that being cured of our infirmitie we may be made strong to encounter our ghostly ennimy I beseech vou to pray continuallie and without ceasing to make intercession for vs wretched and carelesse sinners that by your prayers we may be admitted into your sacred societie without which we cannot possiblie be saued Because we are exceeding fraile and men voide of all force and abilitie or rather beastes subiect to our owne flesh and sensualitie in whom there appeareth searce any token of vertue Neuerthelesse making profession of Christianitie we are caried and vpheld by the woode of Christs crosse sayling by help of the same as in a shipp through this great and spatious sea where there is an innumerable multitude of thinges that creepe where there are liuing creatures both small great where there is a most fe●rce and cruell Dragon alwaies ready to deuoure vs where there are those gastly gulfes S●ylla and Charybdis and other innumerable pe●illous places in which those that are doubtfull in the faith and take not heede doe suffer shipwrack and are drowned Pray therfore o yee holy Saints pray to our Lord for vs o all you troupes and assemblies of the blessed pray for vs that being aided by your meritts and intercession we may deserue to attaine our shippe and marchandise being in safety to the hauen of perpetuall happines and quietnes of continuall peace and securitie which shall neuer cease The soules desire to attaine to the heauenly city Hierusalem CHAPT XXV O Mother Hierusalem thou sacred city of God thou dearest spouse of Christ my hart doth loue thee my mind doth exceedingly longe after thy beautie O how gli●●ering how glorious how generous art thou Thou art altogether faire and there is noe spott in thee Triumph be gladd o faire daughter of the Prince for that the king euen he that surpasseth all the children of men in beauties excellencie hath desired thy fauoure and hath been enamoured of thy beautie But what is thy beloued more then an other beloued o thou that art most beautifull My beloued is white and ruddie chosen of thousands As the apple tree among the trees of the woodes soe is my beloued amongst the sonns of mē Behold I sitt ioyfull vnder the shadowe of him whom I haue desired and his fruite is sweete vnto my throat My beloued hath putt his hand through the hole and my bellie hath trembled at his touch C ●nt 5. In the night season in my bedd I haue sought him whom my soule loueth I haue sought and founde him I doe holde him and will not lett him goe vntill he bring me into his house into his bedd-chāber o my most gloriouse mother For there thou willt graunt me to suck of thy breasts more perfectlie and aboundantlie and I shal be in that manner satisfied with vnspeakable plentie as that I shal not hunger or thirst any more during all eternitie O how happie will my soule be yea happie euerlastinglie if I shall merit to be hold thy glorie thy felicitie thy beautie thy gates and walles thy streetes and manifolde mansions thy most noble citizens and thy most puissant king sitting in his magnificence Because thy walls are built of pretions

A HEAVENLY TREASVRE OF CONFORTABLE MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS WRITTEN BY S. AVGVSTIN BISHOP OF HYPPON In three seuerall treatises of his Meditations Soliloquies and Manual Faithfully translated into English by the R. F. ANTONY BATT Monke of the holy order of S BENNET of the Congregation of England AT S. OMERS For IOHN HEIGHAM Anno 1624. TO THE MOST ILlustrious Lord and our most Reuerend Father in Christ the Lord GABRIEL GIFFORD de S. Maria Archbishoppe and Duke of Rhemes first Peere of Fraunce c. our good and gratious Lord. THis little booke of the greatest Doctor of the Church of God faithfullye translated into the English language for the confort of our afflicted Catholickes runneth of its owne accord into your gratious patronage first in regard of the authour who hauing beene the tongue of holy church to preach dispute and define with power and efficacie against the rebellious heretickes and schismatickes of his time seemeth to exact that his workes should be dedicated onely to such a patron as cometh nearest vnto him in those sacred functions and certainely the world can witnesse that no Bishop of this age hath so powerfully so learnedly so constantlie am●ast so manie factious insurrections before so great and glorious auditories in many of the chiefest cittyes of France and especiallie in that abridgement of the world and Royal seat of the Monarchie of France Paris impugned and confuted the furious and fierie heresies of Caluinisme then your grace hath donne Whervpon the most Christian King the eldest sonne of the Church and glorious Lilly of the Princes of the world with manifest showe of a feelinge iudgement of vertue and true zeale of Catholicke faith hath worthily chosen your grace to be chiefe Pastour of his Peeres and Metropolitan of that holy church of Rhemes which as in times past it deserued to be called so vnder your graces gouernment it will still deserue to be accompted the Mistris of Ecclesiasticall discipline in France Secondly in regard of the Translator who being a poore monke and vnworthy member of that litle monasterie of S. Laurence in Dieulewart in which your Lordship receiued the habit of S. Bennet and exercised with not able humilitie al the duties of an humble and an obseruāt religious and afterwards al the parts of an exemplar and prouident superiour could not persuade himselfe to seeke abroade any other patron of his poore labours hauing one so excellent at home whose glory greatnes might ennoble and beautifie the worke which the Translatours rude and vnpolished language could not so perfectly expresse to the reader as the worth thereof doth deserue And though so small a labour may seeme a very vnproportionable guift to be offered to soe Illustrious a Prelat yet the offerours ability stretchinge to noe greater a present will in your graces courteous acceptance supply that want of proportion especially since he had a kinde of necessitie imposed vpon him by dutifull affection and by commaund of obedience to testifie by this little endeauour the common ioy and gladnesse of al his brethren the English Benedictins in this your Lordships so wonderfull though worthily deserued promotion Perhaps it will be counted a sleight obseruation yet may it be pardonned me if in demonstration of ioy I poure forth what my affection biddeth me though in exacter iudgement I should haue concealed it that the order of S. Bennet gaue the first Bishop and first English Bishop vnto our nation before euer it had any and now againe hath giueu the first consecrated English Bishop that the nation hath had after so long an interruption as heresie hath made in that dignitie For in the beginning of our conuersion from Paganisme to Christianisme and for many ages after scarse had England any Bishop that was not a Benedictin that being a prerogatiue willinglie granted by the whole nation vnto the order which first planted and watered and cultiuated the true faith of our Sauiour Christ amongst them continued in those glorious labours neuergiuing them ouer by interruptiō as a late authour would haue it beleiued contrarie to the truth of historie which it seemes he did not well examine for euen in the most troublesome times of the church of England both of ancient and later memory the monkes of S. Bennet haue showed themselues most zealous in defence of the faithe and therfore balling Iohn Bale no great friend of Priests not r●gulars in his booke of the writers of England rayleth at a learned Benedictin as the first and most zealous and eloquent unpugner of W●clif●n Oxford and a better author as being a worthy Confessor M. D. Pitz in a booke of the same title numbreth a copious catalogue of learned preachers and writers of the same order who successiuely from age to age emploied their endeuours to desend illustrate the faith which their first Fathers had brought into England and he might haue learned out of M. D. Sanders no small number of Abbots Monks of the order to haue stood for the same with losse of their liues and himselfe might haue remēbred the famous and Reuerēd Abbot Fecknam so much tossed torinoyled in the late Q. Elizabeths daies for his constancy in retaining of his faith refusal of the oth of Suprem against which he writ and in which constancie he gloriously died in prison whose Chaplain and fellow monke D. Sebert Buckley not manie yeares after the death of his Lord receiued from beyond seas a fresh supply of Monasticall Benedictin preachers sent to continue their auncient mission by authoritie of the sea Apostolicke from the Popes of glorious memory Clement the eight Paule the fift as appeareth by the motus proprius of the holy Father Paule the fift dated the 24. of Decemb 1612. Pont. suian 8. And we may put your grace for a witnesse though domesticall yet now as being a Bishop vnpartiall who haue knowen many Confessors of the order and can restifie of one especially who though blind in body yet cleare sighted in mind in the church of West-minster publickly and stoutely confuted in an after-noone sermon aprecedent railing sermon which D. Horne by appointment of the Councel sounded in the eares of the people to disgrace the profession of Monkes and Catholique Religion So that there neuer hath bene any interruption of Benedictin preachets and teachers in England and we trust neuer wil be till the worlds end of which confidence of ours we esteeme a very probable argument the memorie and loue vnto the order of S. Bennet so deepely ingrafted in the harts of English men that no emulation by neuer so extraordinarie diligence can roote it out and we thinke no small coniecture therof may be taken from this admirable promotion of your Lordship of which we may say what Mardocheus said vnto Hester Et quis nouit vtrum idcirco ad regnumveneris vt in tali tempore parareris Who can tell but that your grace is therfore by Gods prouidence raised to this Ecclesiasticall

how to praise him blessed is that man whose helpe is from God who hath soe disposed the ascents of his harte in this dolefull vale of miserie that by them he may ascende vp to the place of eternall felicitie Happie are the cleane in harte for they shall see God happie are they o Lord that dwell in thy house they shall praise thee for euer and euer A Prayer greatly mouinge the harte to deuotion and to the loue of God CHAPT XXXV O Iesu our redemption loue and desire God of God giue ●are to me thy poore vnworthy seruant To thee I c●ll crie with a loude voyce with my whole harte To thee I call calling thee into my soule enter into the same and make it fitting for thee that thou mayest possesse it without wrinkle or blemishe of iniquitie because reason requireth that a cleane dwellinge shoulde be prepared for soe cleane a Lord to dwell in Sanctifie me therefor I beseech thee thy vessell which thou hast made cleanse me from malice fill me and preserue me full of thy grace that heere and for all eternity I may be made a fitt habitation for thy diuine maiestie O most sweete most powerfull most louing most deare most powerfull most desired most inestimable most amiable most beautifull Lord thou art more sweet then honie more white then either milke or snowe more pleasant to the tast then nectar or delitious wine more pretious then golde or pretious stones and more deare to me then all the riches and honoures of this worlde What doe I say o my God my onely hope and my surpassing great mercie What doe I say my happie and secure sweetnes What doe I say in saying these thinges Verilie I say what I am able not what I ought Woulde to God I were able to singe such hymnes of prayses as doe the quires of blessed Angells O how willinglie woulde I bestowe my selfe wholy in singing and setting forthe thy praises O how deuoutelie in the middest of thy Church would I pronounce those Canticles of celestiall melodie to the praise and glorie of thy holy name But because I cannot doe this shall I therefore holde my peace Woe be to those that haue not thee in theire mouth because thou art he that openest the mouthes of such as are mute and makest the tongues of infants to be eloquēt Woe be to those whose talke is not of thee because those that are talkatiue and full of wordes are to be esteemed as men speecheles if theire talke doth not tende to the extollinge of thy praises But who is able to praise thee worthily o vnspeakable vertue and wisedome of the Father Seeing therefore I want wordes by which I might be able sufficientlie to expresse thee o diuine worde of all power and knowledge I will in the interim say what I can vntill thou vouchsafe to call me vnto thee where I shal be able to speake what appertaineth both to thee and me Wherfore I humbly beseech thee that thou wilt not soe much consider what I say as what I desire to say Verily I greatlie desire to speake that of thee which is fittinge meete in respect that all praise thankesgiuinge and glorie is due vnto thee Thou knowest therefore o God from whom the very secrets of our hartes cannot be concealed that thou art more deare and acceptable to me then heauen and earthe and all thinges els● that are therein for I loue thee aboue heauen and earthe and all other thinges contained in them yea soe greate loue is due to thy holy name as that in comparison thereof noe transitorie thinge doth deserue the fame I doe loue thee o my God very muche and doe desire to loue thee still more and more Giue me grace that I may alwaies loue thee accordinge to the greatnes of my affection and according to the greatnes of my obligation that thou onely maiest be my whole intention and my whole meditation Lett me thinke of thee in the day time without ceasinge Lett me dreame of thee in the night season Lett my soule talke to thee lett my minde discourse with thee Lett my harte be beautified by the light of thy holy sight that hauinge thee for my conductor and capitaine I may marche forewarde from vertue to venue and at length may beholde thee the God of Gods in Sion During the time of this life I doe see thee obscurelie as it were through a mrtroure or looking glasse but then I shall beholde thee apparentlie face to face where I shall knowe thee like as I am knowen of thee Blessed are the cleane in harte for they shall see God Blessed are they o Lord that dwell in thy house they shall prai●e thee worlde without end I beseeche thee therfore o Lord by thy manifolde mercies by which we are deliuered from eternall death mollifie my stonie harde harte harder then either stone or iron with thy most sacred and powerfull vnction and make me at all times to become a liuinge sacrifice in thy sight by the fire of compunctiō Make me to haue alwaies in thy sight a humble and contrite harte ioyned with aboundance of teares Make me in all my desires as one wholy deade to this wretched world and through the greatnes of the feare and loue of thee to forgett all thinges transitorie in so much as that I may neither greiue nor growe gladd at any temporall thinge being free from the feare loue of whatsoever passeth away with time beinge neither depraued through flattery nor dismaied through aduersitie And for that the loue of thee is forcible like vnto death graunt I beseeche thee that the fierie and sweete force of thy loue may wholy withdrawe my minde from all thinges vnder heauen that I may adhere to thee alone being fedd with the only memorie af thy sweetnes Lett the most odo●iferous smell of thee o Lord descende lett it descende I beseech thee lett it descende and with it lett the mellifluous loue of thee enter into my harte Let the admirable and vnspeakable fragrant sauoure of thee come vnto me causinge in me an eternall desire and affection and producinge in my harte fountaines of water flowinge into life euerlastinge Thou o Lord art infinitely good and therefore infinitelie to be loued and praysed of those whom thou hast redeemed with thy pretious bloud O most liberall louer of men most louinge Lord and most iust iudge to whom the Father hath committed all iudgment thou perceiuest in the most wise iudgement of thy righteousnesse whether this be iust and reasonable or noe that the children of this worlde of the night and darkenesse doe loue and seeke after riches and honoures that are transitorie and cannot long continue with a farr greater desire earnestnes and studie then we thy seruants doe loue and seeke after thee our God by whom we haue been made and redeemed For if one man loueth an other with soe greate affection as that the one can scarcely endure the other to