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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01518	The droomme of Doomes day VVherin the frailties and miseries of mans lyfe, are lyuely portrayed, and learnedly set forth. Deuided, as appeareth in the page next following. Translated and collected by George Gascoigne Esquyer.	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.; Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216. De contemptu mundi. English.	1576 (1576)	STC 11641; ESTC S102877	200,832	291

forgeuenesse For euery good déede ought to be done for the zeale of iustice and righteousnesse and for Godly charytie but not for feare Thereof the Apostle saied If I speake with the tonges of Angels and of men and yet haue not charytie in mée it shall nothinge profit mée For thē doe wée chiefly performe our dutyes when wée reuerence GOD not onely for feare but also for the sure trust and confidence that we haue in his loue And when zealous affection not dreade doth rayse vs vpwards to doe that is good By this dread is vnderstoode and ment the seruyle feare which onely and principally dothe respect the punishment and correction Of the which sainct Iohn sayeth There is no feare in perfect charitie Then si●…ce we might be enduced as hath béen beforesayde to the contempt of this world by the consideracion of death iudgement the paines of hell yet ought we much more by much stronger reason to be enduced therevnto by the consideracion contemplacion and loue of the perpetuall blessednesse glory of the chosen The which is of a certayne infinit dignitie since it is an immedyate frewition of that vnmeasurable good holy and glorious god Wherefore as this frewition is altogether supernaturall we can neuer atteyne therevnto but by supernaturall meanes As thankeful thanksgeuing Fayth Hope Charitie the other gyftes of the holy Ghost And the more perfectly and plenteously that these meanes doo dwel abyde in vs so much the more vehemently we despise all worldly temporal things plainly perceue their vanitie vylenesse doo Yea we doo so much the faster more affectionately more abundātly more swyftly vncessantly aspyre go forewards approch or rather runne outryght towards y blessednesse of the heauenly Paradyse habitacion Embrasing executing all the helpe fauour assystance of gods holy spirit more redyly and more chearefully Wherefore let vs be moued by the desire of the felicitie and glory of the ●…lect to performe stoutly and couragiously all thinges that may please god Let vs quickly out of hande forsake the worlde yea lette vs accompt all the fraylties thereof to be as dyrt and doonge For as Augustine dooth well testifie The bewtie of ryghteousnesse and the pleasantnesse of th eternall lyght are such and so greate that although a man myght therein remayne but one onely houre in a daye yet euen for that small space vnnumerable yeares of thys lyfe béeinge full of delyghtes and flowing●… with temporall pleasures were worthily to be forsaken and set at naught For in the citi●… of God and the kingdom of the elect the lawe is charitie the king is veritie the peace is felicitie and the who●…e course of lyfe is eteruitie Wherefore my welbeloued prepare thy selfe and marke narowly what a great felicitie the blessed inioy and what exceedyng delight it is to see God playnely ▪ and distinctly For the fayrer that any thing is doe we not accompt it also the more delectable to behold it playnly and perfectly Since God then of him selfe is essentially totally and vndescribably fayre holy pure and bright 〈◊〉 or rather the true and infinite beautie the 〈◊〉 substantiall forme the separate eternall perfect simple and vnmyxed comelinesse the chief fountayne originall cause and exemplare shewe of any fayrenesse comelinesse purenesse and clearenesse in all creatures the most beautifull and comely of all other beyond comparison it is therefore moste euydent that to sée and behold him face to face and in his proper person is most delightfull most delectable and moste gloryous excéedyng too too much all other delight and glory more then can be with wordes expressed For the better swéeter and perfecter that any thing is in it selfe the more delightfull and pleasaunt the fruition therof must be But our Lord God being omnipotent onely to bée adored happie and of him selfe most excelent pure vndescribable and incomprehensible goodnesse that infinite swéetenesse that so perfecte Being that whatsoeuer pertayneth to the fulnesse worthinesse and pr●…heminence of any Being present paste or to come 〈◊〉 néedes agrée and be lyke vnto it in all perfection and excelencie it must néeds follow that the immediate fruition of it should be altogither and in all respects most pleasaunt swéete and delectable For the obtayning whereof all the ioyes honors prayses and prosperities of this worlde are infinitely and with excéedyng lothsomenesse to be dispysed Then consider in such sorte as thou mayest what ioy it would be to sée and behelde the eternall being of his diuyne maiestie How it is and hath bene from the beginning of it selfe made ●…or created by any man nor dependyng of any thing but to it selfe of it selfe by it selfe and in it selfe alwayes sufficient Consider howe much good it would doe thée playnely and face to face to beholde the vndiscribable admyrable and incomprehensible God and in his euer springing wisedome and sapyence to sée and discerne the whole order comelinesse truth and perfection of all the vniuersal world with many other most secrete treasures of gladnesse yea to inioy this vnmeasured goodnesse and treasure and wholly to possesse it And therwith to haue all that may séeme faire amyable or to be desired Agayn to be so excéedingly illustrate with the godly wisdome so abundantly replenished with the diuine goodnesse that all thy capacitie vnderstading and all thy desire might therwith be throughly filled satisfied Yea furthermore consider what excéeding pleasure it would be to taste the swéetnesse of godly peace and tranquilitie to be euen swallowed vp in the loue of thy creator to be transformed into God to be made perfectly lyke vnto him to imbrace him louingly in him selfe in such sorte that thou coul●…est not at any tyme be withdrawen or plucked away frō his sight loue imbrasings to sée perceiue that most blessed vision and inward contemplation of the holy Trinitie the issuing out of the same how the sonne procéedeth from y father and howe the holy ghost procéedeth from them both howe theyr persons are to be worshipped as one in being thrée in subsisting and finally to behold perceyue perfectly their mutuall well pleasing ioye imbrasing loue and glorie For the diuyne and vncreated persons doe mutually loue eche other with an vnmeasurable kynde of loue they beholde eche other with an infinite kynde of delyght they inioye eche other with an vntermynable kynde of swéetenesse and they them selues onely doe fully and comprehensiuely knowe and beholde them selues So that the chosen shall reioyse in them selues at the sight and vision of God in themselues they shall reioyce in the beautye and comelinesse of their heauenly bodies and the bodyes of their corporal creatures and in them selues they shall reioce in the glorification of the bodie and the soule As also without and about them they shall reioyce in the societie of the Angelles and blessed people of god In them shall doubtlesse bee s●…ne the true bryghtnesse of the sommers lyght the true

that maye bée compared and of whom it is read The Lorde is our Iudge the Lorde is our lawmaker and the Lorde is our King It is most certeyne that as he is of an incomparable height and of a maiestie vndisc●…ibable so not to obey his precepts to set light by thē to dissemble them or to neglect them it is an incomparabl●… and in a manuer huge frowardnesse and wickednesse For if it bée greuous and thought to be wicked not to obay reuerence and geue honour vnto a carnall mortall and sinful father is it not most wicked not to ●…bey to bowgh to ●…rouch and to geue honour vnto the spirituall father the eternall creator the holy the almightie and immmortall god For he is that great Lord aboue all thinges to be praised Whose greatnesse that is to say in perfection dignitie and glory hath none end Whome euen Porpherye that great scoller of Plato doth call the King and father of gods Whome euen the heauenly powers doe dread feare and obey The which saying of Porpherye Augustyne in his booke de ciuitate dei doth often rehearse To conclude since the lawe of the Gospell is forthwith geuen vs propounded and commaunded by the onely begotten sonne of God himself beinge in all respectes true god It is most certayne that the same is most diligently to be obserued So that it is much more gréeueous to alter or dissemble the same then it had bene in times past to transgresse the lawes of Moyses Which were propounded vnto the people of God by the mediation of Moyses and the Angell Here vpon the Appostle vnto the Hebrues sayeth whosoeuer transgressed Moyses lawe being found giltie by two or thrée wytnesses dyed without any pardon And how much greater punishment sayth he doe you thinke that they deserue which spurue against the Sonne of God and holdeth the bloode of his testement to be defiled and cōmitteth dispightfulnesse against the spirite of grace Furthermore after his holy supper Christ beinge nowe néere vnto his Passion euen in the same night that he was betrayed sayed emongest other things vnto his Appostles If I had not come nor spoken vnto them they had not siuned Since then Christ our Lord King and Messias is come and in his owne proper person did speake vnto our Fathers and vnto vs by them let vs endeuour in all thinges to obey him for otherwyfe our sinnes will bée wonderfull great and huge Out and alas wherefore doo we neglect them wherefore are we oppressed in our sluggishe bodyes or wherefore doe wée langwishe pyne away in the dead sléepe of sinnes These thinges my welbelo●…ed consider déepely Wey them dilligently Behold thē narrowly And to be astonyed at the displeasure of that most highly exalted ruler of all thinges Eschewe and avoyde this dishonor and kepe his commaundementes For ●…e it is vnto whome as the scriptures witnesse the holy army of ●…eauen is assistant with reuerent feare Whose anger no man is able to indure By whome they bowe which beare vp the world And at whose becke the pillers of heauen doe tremble and are affrayde For behold the heauen and the firmamentes of heauens the déepes and all the earth with all that in them is shal be moued at the sight of god And yet the madd sencelesse hart of man dothe not feare nor dreadeth not his displeasure Who leaueth not sinne vnpunished And for the same doth appoynt payne and torment Of the enormitie of sinne as touching the 〈◊〉 and rightcousnesse of the diuine mynd●… and thought Art. 7. IT is certeine that the iuster holyer that any well disposed mynde is the more the foule blot of sinne doth gréeue and displease the same And therfore since the diuine minde highest to be adored is altogether of an infinite purenesse cquitie and holinesse yea rather the vnmeasured and superessentiall purenesse the contemplatorie holinesse subsisting of it selfe the vndiscrybable equitie and exemplare 〈◊〉 it is certeyne that the same dothe detest and hate with an infinite abhominacion and hatred the deformitie blotte and vnpureness●… of sinne Euen as Moys●…s speaketh sayinge God is against all wickednesse Then here vpon ●…nne hath gotten his most gréeuous and crooked enormytie bicause it is against the most cleane and pure holynesse of the dieuine mynde And against the vntermynable righteousnesse of the same And the sinner himself which loueth chuseth embraseth and houldeth that which god so much hateth reproueth and putteth from him by a certein kinde of meane doth incurre a wonderfull displeasure and purchase an infinite deformitie in the sight of god To conclude the holyr●… and more iuster god is so much the filthynesse and deformytie of sinne is the more vnlyke him And God is as hath bene sayd before of a holynesse and righteo●…snesse perfectly vnlimytable And therefore sinne is infinitly vnlyke the purenesse of the holynesse and the righteousnesse of the equitie of the highest god Herevpon also sinne is infinitly eloyned se 〈◊〉 far frō god for as Auguistn saith in his ix booke de ciuitate dei Ther is none other eloyinge or distance and seperation from god then his vnlyknesse or dissimilytude And since dissimilitude is the cause of displeasure hatred and turning away sinne dothe deserue the eternall and infinite displeasure which is a turnige awaye and a hatred to God whiche deserueth eternall dampnation Wherevpon it is sayd to be infinitly gréeuous and horrible Furthermore the more natural plesant conuenyēt that any one thinge is to another so muche the more contrary disconuenyent and displeasing the opposite and contrarietie thereof wil be vnto it Now the holynesse is so naturall to the glorious and highest God that he is substaincially holy not by any addicion or puttinge to So that it is altogether one thinge vnto him to be and to bée holy Insomuche as his holynesse is his essentyall béeinge And his essentiall béeinge is holynesse moste pure moste cleane and symply perfect The mosté honourable prymordyall and fynall cause and reason of all vertue and purenesse Holynesse is also moste conu●…nyent and b●…ste pleasinge vnto god For hée loueth and requireth holynesse in conuersation and dothe make those most deare entyre and famyliare vnto him which are worthily and stedfastly bent vnto holynesse Thus it is moste apparant howe infinitely contrary displeasinge and disc●…uenyent the vnpurenesse of sinne is vnto god Therefore the Psalmist singeth saying Early in the morninge I will presēt my self before thée I will behold thée For thou art no god that would haue iniquitie Neither shall the malycious dwell néere vnto thée Nor the vniust shall not endure before thy face The lyke argument is of the enormytie of sinne by consideration of the diuine righteousnesse Which is altogether vnmeasureable ●…nd inflexible measure and the vnfallyble rule of all verteuous streightnesse For god is iust and hath loued righteousnesse and his countenaunce hath beheld equitie Of whome it is red in an other place Great and wonderfull are