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A08964	The tranquillitie of the minde A verye excellent and most comfortable oration, plainely directing euerye man, & woman, to the true tranquillitie and quyetnesse of their minde. Compyled in Latine by Iohn Barnarde, student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, now lately translated into Englishe by Anthony Marten.; Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. English	Bernard, John, d. 1567?; Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1570 (1570)	STC 1925; ESTC S101618	90,089	234

Christ for succour Let vs make spéede to come to thys our sauior with a sounde faith and learne to depende onely vpon him by whome we are lead from the vaine similitude of good thinges vnto the true and euerlasting goodnesse it selfe Also when we be troubled in our consciences let vs go to the minister of the Church such a one as is godly no babler of things tolde him but well wylling ardent in charity One that can indure troubles with vs One learned and exercised in Scriptures and garnished with giftes of knowledge who as a skilfull Phisition is both wylling and able to make medicine in due time for euery disease who sometime féeling in himselfe the fall of his owne conscience shall easily be able to staye vp ours when it beginneth to wauer and decaye But if such a one be not readie at hande nor may easily be founde out so as his aide maye be with vs then refusing others which be vnlearned vngodlye baine talkers drunkardes rashe bablers abroade whatsoeuer we tell them in secret affected with no priuate féele of sinne no Priestes but counterfeyters of Priestes no nor ministers of Christ but bondslaues of Sathan and rascall of the common wealth of whome we cannot looke for remedie of our sinnes nor to be instructed in godlines For how can they by their doctrine make vs better when by their examples they may make vs worse refusing such I say let vs if so occasion fall out go to the lay man which is indued with the same giftes that are in a godly Minister and with him let vs conferre to him let vs open our griefes and troubles if he can giue vs anye good councell let vs heare and receyue it with a willing minde Let vs often beare in remembraunce the mistery of our redemption accomplished and performed in Christ and wheresoeuer the holye Supper of the Lorde is rightly distributed and ordered as it ought to be thyther let vs often assemble to receyue the same worthilye togither Whereby we shall strengthen our mindes in the sure hope of our saluation we shal also take fruit of the heauenly pleasure while we yet liue here and when we be called by God to depart this life we shal be in a good readinesse and well setled in an excellent hope of dying well But if so be we cast all shamefastnesse from vs making our selues common to false Gods to commit adultrie with them like shamelesse Harlots and so wickedly depart from God leauing him so louing a husband to runne like a light huswife a whoring to Idols it is greatly to be feared least he make vs a Bill of deuorcement and then we vtterly loose his heauenly grace and fauour and through our owne default be depriued of the heritage of that blessed kingdome and so put for euer from that most delectable beholding of god from the felowship of Aungels and societie of Saintes Let vs not imagine in our selues good intentes and meanings when they haue a shewe thereof and yet be contrary to the worde of God since from thence rise oftentymes doctrine of Deuils and supersticious and vngodly customes but wyth great charinesse let vs reiect them from vs. For by them the children of Israell being beguyled did sacryfice their children to Saturne Thereby Aron erected the Caulfe to the intent he might kéepe the people in their duetie and obedience Thereby the Iewes persecuted the Apostles supposing they did God good seruice therein Let vs beare away what happened to Vza for staying the Arke to Saule for sauing king Agag and the best cattell Let vs not thinke that we ought to proue our owne wisedome or to followe the aduise of mans heart which is prone and inclyned to euill nor to doe that which séemeth good and right in our owne eyes but let vs doe that which the Lorde our God hath willed and commaunded vs to doe whose voyce when we here let vs not harden our harts but in hearing the same to declare our true obedience which the Lorde hath alwaye preferred aboue oblation and sacrifice Let vs neuer so long as we haue breath and lyfe within vs consent to the intisements of the world to the suggestion of Sathan or to the desires of the fleshe nor suffer our selues through their iolly flatteries to be inchaunted and ouercome as it were wyth the swéete tune of the Marmayde or to rest as séemeth to the vngracious in the pleasaunt slumber of sinne But let vs withstand them with all our force might determining to make continuall warre wyth those thrée most cruell aduersaries ▪ Let vs call to remembrance that God is 〈◊〉 sanctification and by lyuing well let vs trie whyther we haue the testimonie of a good conscience and not onely to laye holde of the liuely hope of our saluation but euery day also to increase the same more more Let vs knowledge and confesse that the most true worde of God which is the onlye comfort of our soules and wherein consisteth the spiritual kingdome of Christ is taken away from vs for our vnthankfulnesse and that we haue deserued to be put from the same which is so inestimable a benefite as Dauid being amazed when he thought therevpon song this Verse The Lorde sayth he hath not done so to euery nation nor his iudgement hath he opened to the heathen people Wherefore with iust sorowing let vs lament and let vs pray to God contynually that he wyll forget our sinnes and restore vs to hys grace and fauour againe And although not bicause of our vnworthynesse yet for the aduauncement of his name and challenging of his honor he will rise vp and defende the constant defenders of his pure religion and ouerthrowe the obstinate aduersaries of the truth which are Authors of darkenesse and subuerters of soules that he will by his iust iudgement giue them due punishmēt for their desert Who knowing him to be God doe not glorifie hym as GOD nor obey the Gospell of our Lorde Iesus Christ but wandering in their owne inuentions and sticking to their owne wysedome rather suppresse and keepe vnder the worde of god But these except they shortly repent shall suffer punishment euen death euerlasting from the face of the Lorde and from the glorie of his might when he shal come to be glorified in his Saintes and become wonderfull vnto all true beléeuers in him But if affliction fall vppon vs let vs recken it in steade of a benefite vnto vs since the Lorde thereby rather informs vs as children calling vs into the right waye then reiectes vs as Bastardes and reprobates to reserue a greater punishment for vs in Hell. Let vs in tyme of aduersitie abandon all naughtie murmurings against our merciful God and vse often prayer and thankes giuing vnto him with a sure hope and confidence in his mercy which thing is the most acceptable sacrifice of all other If affliction oppresse vs and there be no staye of miseries and disquietnesse

away with preaching of the worde of God as a thing of naught and contemne and settes little by the threatning concourse of Kings and whisperings of Princes against the Lord and against his Christ and by no torments can they be drawne away and made with lesse will courage or chéere to professe the truth vnto their last ende Wherefore by the continuall remembraunce of such causes as mooue the Lorde to bring afflictions and troubles vpon his elect we shall be incouraged to beare all things that shall happen both with a pacient and quiet minde and eyther to reioyce if in defence of righteousnesse we be vnrighteously punished or else take occasion if we be iustly and of due desert chastised to correct our maners and amende our lyfe thereby Let it fall to oure remembraunce that as a woman which lyeth in labour féeleth great anguish in hir whole body with the trauell but after she is deliuered and hir childe come into the worlde is not onely eased of hir paine but also taketh singuler ioy and pleasure by forgetting hir former trouble euen so affliction which at first is woont to séeme sharpe and bitter yet at length it accustometh to worke ioyfull and merrie endes with delectable fruites of pacience Let vs neuer ymagine in our owne opinion that there is eyther chaunce or fortune and so suppose things happen by easualtie and at all aduenture although no religion as may appeare forbids those wordes by fortune or chaunce to be vsed in phrase of speach when thinges come to passe nay but let vs thinke and perswade with our selues that there is a God and iudge for a suretie that all things by his councell and prouidence are excellently well gouerned It is the Lorde that appointes vs to death and restores vs againe to life He carieth vs downe to hell and bringeth vs from thence againe The Lorde maketh both the poore and riche He exalteth the humble and casteth dewne the high lookes of the prowde Through him kinges doe beare rule and by him kingdomes are transtated from one Nation to another for their wrongs and contumelies and for their riches compassed by fraude and guile Without the will of our heauenly father our sauiour affirmeth in the Gospell that so much as a sparrow doth not light vpon the house top nor that a heare falleth from the heade but by his prouidence And what carefull foresight the Lorde hath towarde his elect he himselfe doth plainely signifie vnto vs in these wordes of the Prophete Esay I haue borne you sayth he from your mothers wombe and brought you vp from your birth till you were growne and the Church will I beare vp in hir last age I haue made you I will also nourishe you beare you and saue you Wherefore the Lorde is angrie when we flie to the succor of man leauing Gods helpe Which thing we may well perceyue by the saying of the sayde Prophet An Egyptian is a man and not God their horses are flesh and not spirites and so soone as the Lord shall stretch foorth his hande then shall the helper fall and he also that looketh for helpe shal perish and both togither be consumed Let vs learne therefore with great trust and confidence to wayte for the assistance of God and onely to respect what his will and pleasure is to endure also with a quiet minde whatsoeuer his heauenly prouidence most graciously shall assigne vnto vs. Let vs follow the councell of that holye Martyr Cyprian who instructeth a godly minde howe he should turne euilles aswel those which be ingraffed in the verie nature of man as those which by other accidents happen vnto him to become an instrument of glorie For thus he wryteth Is any man ransackt of his substaunce either by warre shipwracke or by robberie Let him not deuise by and by to repayre his losses by naughtie and euill practises but thus let him say with him selfe It is the Lorde that prooueth me and shall I not loue him from the bottome of my hart It is euen he himselfe that gaue me these things and he himselfe it is that hath taken them awaye againe blessed be the name of the lord Let him giue thanks for that he receyued them of Gods bountifull liberalitie and let him also giue him thankes bicause they be taken away againe for triall of his fayth If he shall thus say with the same minde and will that holy Iob did he shall with him also reape a rewarde For the Lorde regardeth not how much a man looseth but how paciently he beareth the same Like as he hath not respect to the quantitie that a man giueth to the poore but with what will and intent the same be done Hast thou one onely sonne whome thou louest and sodayne death doth depriue thée of him or doth the plague take frō thée thy best beloued spouse thy children and thy friendes take it paciently and saye So it séemed best to the Lorde and so peraduenture it was expedient for vs and ours the Lordes name be blessed therefore There be also certaine diseases whiche are of no lesse terrible paine than the crueltie of any tormentors As the Plurisie the Sciatica the Goute the Stone the Paulsie the sorenesse of the raynes and bladder If any such griefe happen vnto vs let not our mindes be mooued to impacience least our tongue also breake out into blasphemous wordes But let him that is troubled saye with blessed Dauid and with Hely the Priest It is the Lord Let him doe whatsoeuer séemeth good in his owne sight So shall we turne those euilles which are not come vpon vs for professing of Christ not onely to be a crowne of rewarde vnto our selues but also to be extended to the glorie of Christ and peraduenture bring to passe that the Lorde through our pacience will tender vs and either take away quite or else mittigate our paine and torment But and if we be not eased thereof yet by suche meanes we shall cause the thing which before was intollerable through our impacient minde nowe by our quiet induring to become more tollerable Let wicked murmurings therefore in time of aduersitie be remooued from vs which be full of desperation and mistrust and most euident tokens of peruerse opinions according to the excellent iudgement of this graue wryter Let vniust complaynings agaynst the Lorde be reiected farre from vs Let vs subiect our selues vnder the mightie hande of god Lette vs receyue his gentle correction with a quiet minde who hath neuer suffered vnpunished such wrestling as hath béene agaynst his ordinaunce and appoyntment Let enery man that is full of paine trouble and miserie say with the Prophete Micheas I will beare the wrath and indignation of God bicause I haue sinned against him And with Daniell To thée Lord belongeth righteousnesse and to vs perteyneth shame and confusion Let vs fall to heartie and earnest prayer and to continuall exercise of the

all filthynesse and pronownce wrath and punishment against those which be defiled Let vs be abashte to commit in the sight of God who séeth all things such filthinesse as we would be ashamed off if but our owne companion should be priuie therevnto Let it come into our remembraunce what we professed in baptisme howe famous conquerours warryours and Captaines we would become and vpon victorie gotten what large and bountyfull rewardes we shall looke for as eternal tryumph in heauen lyfe peace euerlasting saluation blessed and heaped immortalitie with all good thinges Let vs still beare in minde the shortnesse and vncertainetie of this lyfe death in a maner euerye minute to be looked for Let vs thinke of the last and dreadfull iudgement of hell the féends and fire that shall neuer be extinguished Through remembraunce whereof the vnlawfull raging of our fleshe and lustes of the same maye be abated and for feare of punishment of our wickednesse we will kéepe our selues in better order But and if we preuaile nothing through all these remedies if we perceiue our selues to profite little neyther by the earnest practising of the worde of God neyther by the contynuall company of good and godlye men by often prayers made to God nor yet by shunning of ydlenesse and auoyding the discōmodities which ensue vpon the same If neyther by earnest industrie and studie by honest labors godly exercises and occupations if through much hunger fasting and watching through sobrietie and temperaunce of life if by thinking vpon the promises and threatninges of God that if eyther we ouercome we shall haue euerlasting ioy or if we be ouercome we shall haue eternall payne we obtayne nothing we profite and preuayle nothing thereby there resteth then the shoote anker wherevnto we must flie being so called wythout any scruple of conscience euen honest and lawfull matrimonye appointed for them which cannot kéepe themselues continent and the onely safe remedie chiefely prepared by God for redresse of this euill according to the saying Let euery man take his owne wyfe for auoyding of fornication and againe it is better to marry than to burne Which thing the holye ghost doth aduaunce with this notable praise Honorable is wedlock among all persons and the bed vndefiled Wherfore he that shall in this sort obey rather Gods calling than giue eare to mens prohibicion maye not thinke himselfe to sinne thereby Naye rather he sinneth by cloking the matter before men with a fayned holynesse by disdayning the matter when God doth call him by nourishing still his vnlawful lustes and filthie cogitations and by distayning his conscience Many godly wryters of our tyme bewayling the filthy lyfe of Church-men for which the whole order of them farde the woorse haue complayned not without cause vppon the lawe of single lyfe which by the sincere iudgement of them haue drawne manye troopes of men to desperation to the eternall wrathe of God and to blasphemies Let vs therefore thinke and vtterly resolue in our hart and minde the thing which is most true that is to say that a naughtie and corrupt conscience can not call vpon God which is playne by that saying of Iohn in his first Epistle and thirde Chapter If our heart condemne vs not then haue we trust to God warde and whatsoeuer we aske we shall receyue of him It is a lamentable thing in such sorte to liue as thou darest neyther call vpon God nor yet to put thy trust in his gouernment and defence Such persons so lyuing without God and so alyenated from a godly lyfe the deuill doth blinde euery day more and more and bewraps them in hainous crimes For the Apostle testifieth in playne words that blindnesse is the punishment of lustes Wherein they being blinded become voyde of all councell and wytte but purchase to themselues punishment and destruction If Ioseph had defiled himselfe with adultery he had forgone many gifts of God and being forsaken of hym had fallen into manye sinnes As it happened vnto Dauid who besides the adulterie committed with Bethsabe added thereto the murther of Vryas hir husbande that excellent man and many other offences committed he The Lord opened the Cataractes of heauen to destroy the worlde with the floude for the licencious lustes thereof With fyre and Brimstone he consumed those two Cities which so raged and shamefully went a madding in all kinde of wicked lustes He slue all the Sychemittes by the handes of Iacobs sonnes for rauishing of Dyna He destroyed all the Cananites bicause they were defiled with incestious lusts besides the hanging of their chiefe rulers For adultery he consumed xxiiij thousande from among the children of Israel He brought the whole tribe of Beniamine well néere to an ende for defiling the Leuits wyfe He suffered Salomon being delighted with lustes of fowle voluptuousnesse and inchaunted with the intisements of Harlots to allowe the examples of Idolatrye Moreouer amongst other things he deliuered Ierusalem chiefely for this sinne into the handes of the king of Caldea To this rule maye be referred the destruction of Cities and kingdomes which are rehearsed of Ethnike Wryters besides the mutation of common weales and pitifull endes of famous men As for example the rauishing of Helen was the destruction of Troy and the incest of Oedipus appeared to be cause of great euill that happened vnto the citie of Thebes The kings for deflowring of Lucretia were banished out of Rome and for the wicked acte of Appius the Decimuir the common welth was chaunged againe Very well therfore doth Aristotle in the first treatie of the Politicals rehearse by many examples which there he alleageth that sensuall luste is one of the causes of mutation of kingdomes At Athens the sonnes of Pysistratus for the dishonor they did to a mayde were driuen out of the citie And Pawsanias the Lacedemonian Captaine for the like iniury that he had done at Byzance was cōdemned by the Iudges to die with famine although he being a victor before had remoued the Persian armie Wherefore bearing away the calamities which doe chaunce not wythout cause to such as be polluted but yet as punishmentes whereby God declares hys wrath to the worlde against this sinne Let vs also whither we leade a single lyfe or be maryed when occasion is offered remember howe we haue dedicated our name to our chiefe Captaine Christ and are sworne to his worde howe we haue promised to fight vnder him all the dayes of our lyfe and so let vs manfully set forward to fight Let vs remember that none may be crowned but he that shall ouercome and that none can ouercome except he fight nor can fight except enimies be present which should prouoke to the battaile Whose prouocation what else is it at length but the séede and occasion of euerlasting glorie if we yéelde not to temptation but cleaue to the shielde of fayth wherewyth wée destroy all the fierie darts of that

holy Scriptures the most sure strengthning of the hart out of which if apt sentences be taken and prudently with great aduisement collected and haue the same persectly and as it were at our fingers ende they will not onely kéepe downe the serpent appearing vp with his heade and minister present remedie to all the diseases of the soule but also will arme and make vs readie to indure with a pacient mind all other troubles and afflitions which shall come vpon vs Let vs thinke and suppose them to be but base borne and not right children whome the Lorde doth not chasten And a shrewde figne may be gathered that God hath reiected those which be continually out of trouble Let it be euident in our mindes that all things further to saluation and fall out for the best to such as loue God and that affliction with such doth not argue the hatred of God but declares rather his loue who chastiseth them for a season as children ouer whome he taketh more than fatherly care exercising them with troubles that they being put of from the filthinesse of sinne according to the Image of the first begotten of God he might determine to endue them with blessed immortall life Let vs call to remembraunce that God sendeth trouble and disquietnesse to the intent the olde man béeing subdued within vs wée should with an humble and contrite spirite and with certaine reuerence tremble at his worde Let vs beare away that true similitude that as the séede of the Haruest whiche is couered wyth Frost increaseth more fruitefully and as the flambe with blowing is kept vnder to the intent it maye increase and be made greater so doth God through aduersitie more vehemently rauishe our mindes stirres them vp and increases them with a longing for him Let examples layde before our eyes be a comfort vnto vs whereby the minde may be made more stedfast to suffer losse and displeasure and to indure paine and vexation After the example of Christ let vs paciently abide affliction and whyle we be oppressed with euilles let vs haue an eye to Iesus the finisher of our fayth Who is so arrogant as will refuse to imitate the sonne of God why doth the Disciple complayne himselfe since his Maister leade the waye and willed that he shoulde indeuour to followe him why doth the seruaunt require to be in better state than his maister And hath not Christ the sonne of God ascended by the crosse to tryumph by slaunder to glorie by death to immortalitie And let vs sayth saint Paule in following his steps clime vp by the same degrées to glorie For if we haue both dyed togither liued togither and also suffered togither we shall also reigne eternally togither The Lorde loued Iacob but Esau he hated yet abode Iacob more troubles in this lyfe than Esau did Yea did he not abandon Saule and preferre Dauid a poore Shepherd and yet notwithstanding how did he exercise him both with trouble and affliction How often did he leade him to extreme daunger of his life that vnlesse the Lorde of his excellent grace had deliuered him he could haue found no way to escape What needes me to speake of Danyell who being twise throwne into the Lyons Den twise escaped by the will of almightie God Or what néede I to remember Iob a singuler patterne of pacience from whome the Lorde tooke all that he had as well the honor and ornamentes of his life as the reliefe and comfort of his prosperous helth clothing his bodie also with lothsome sores and yet restored more than dubble folde to him againe Let the children of God remember hereby that the Saintes in time of affliction doe depende vpon God onely and of him doe wayte so greatly for succour and safetie as they may boldly saye with Dauid The Lorde is my light and my saluation whom then shal I be afearde of The Lorde is the sure strength of my life who shall then make me afeard If an host of men were set against mée yet shall not my heart be astonied If the strength and crueltie of warre shoulde inuade me yet shall my minde be at rest and quyet For such as these be doe beare with so pacient a mynde whatsoeuer betyde as although the worlde shoulde turne vpside downe the verie ruine thereof shoulde confirme their mindes According to that saying of the Prophete Let them learne that blessed are the Nations whose GOD is the Lorde Iehouah and the people that haue chosen him to be their inheritaunce about whome the Aungels of the Lorde pitche their tents that they maye preserue them and deliuer them by wonderfull meanes Let them learne that a king cannot be saued by the multitude of his hoste neyther a mightie man by his great strength That a horse is but a vaine thing to saue a man nor that a man is deliuered by the puissance of his horse Let them not forget that excellent verse and not onely to vse the same often in their communication but to verifie it also in their liuing Some put their trust in horses and some in Charriots but vve vvill call vpon the name of the Lord our God. For being in thys sort disposed in their mindes although they were in as narrowe a straite as were the children of Israell and had on their backe halfe cruell Pharao with his mightie host the déepe Sea before them and excéeding high mountaines on eyther side yet would they not be dismayde with seare nor dispayre but with a pertite pacient minde not once muttering would wayte for helpe of Moses the Captaine of God almightie according to that saying Be yee stable and ye shall see the saluation of God which he vvill bring vpon you The Lorde shall fight for you and yée shall be still They which doe not refuse nor séeke to escape the same state of suffering trouble and affliction that Christ himselfe the Prophets Apostles and holy Martirs did nor require a better condition of lyfe than Iesus the verie head corner stone nor then the pillers of of the Church being the chosen Prophets of God and Apostles did but doe so leane vnto God and quietly suffer whatsoeuer his prouidence shall allote vnto them as without complaining and lamenting without moning of their present fortune and without any vnlawfull indeuour eyther of trusting to themselues or making prouision for substaunce they then expect and wayte onely for the help of almightie God From such the Lord cannot be absent but will maruellously delyuer them and that often contrary to the expectation of al men as it is euident not onely by examples but also as it plainely appeareth by the booke of Psalmes My soule sayth he wayte thou still paciently vppon God for of him commeth my saluation He verily is my strength my defence my health and my strong holde so that I shall not fall The minde that is thus affected can neuer take a repulse of