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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17888	A spirituall combat a tryall of a faithfull soule or consolation in temptation. Written in French by I.P. Camus Bishope of Belley, and translated into English by M.C. P. of the Eng. Coll. of Doway.; Lutte spirituelle, ou encouragement à une âme tentée de l'esprit de blasphème et d'infidélité. English.	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.	1632 (1632)	STC 4553; ESTC S107507	60,746	308

feruour of your first Charitie * But in very deed THEOPISTE I doe not proceede with you in spirit of guile but speake out of the abundance of my hart* and according to the true sense of my soule A sense so true and solide that all the holy Scripture which is the word of Truth of Truth and of life euerlasting * is all full of it nor are pious bookes furnished with any other instructions vpon the matter of temptations Which I assure my selfe you will be constraind to confesse vnto me if allaying for a while the tumult of your hart and silencing the noise of your disquiete you would call to mind the precepts of our B. F. in the fourth part of his Philothee For what he speakes there of temptations in generall ought and may easely be applyed to yours in particular And if my ignorance dare adde any thing to so great an Oracle I beseech your humilitie to arme her selfe with patience to reade what I am about to put downe An holsome Feare CHAP. VII YOv thinke you are lost and I hold that you walke in the way of saluation You repute your selfe an Ethnike worse then an Infidele and I admire your Faith you apprehend your selfe defeated and I sing not your victorie For all victorie proceeds from the God of Hostes but the victorie of the Tryumph of Gods Mercy in you You neuer saw your selfe say you so feeble in point of Faith and I neuer saw you so constant in it It is true in deede that your aduersarie like vnto a roreing Lion doth roame about endeuouring to make you his prey marrie the resistance you make against him by the force of Faith * doth make me iustly beleeue that grace superaboundeth where you deeme sinne doth abounde * For you haue to doe with an enemy whom IESVS CHRIST by his death did so weaken that he can gaine no aduantage against vs but by our owne disloyaltie and dasterdlinesse all the feelings which he can rayse vp in vs not being able to forme any sinne at all without our consent So that as from Grace which is neuer awanting all our succour comes so from our selues alone is our ruine * Which when it arriues we are not so much to accuse the enemyes force as our owne malice But you feare say you to fall by consent and that force of the Tempest driueing your fraile vessell against the shelues you may suffer shipwrake in Faith * which is the most deplorable that can be suffered in spirituall life While I for my part dare assure you that he is blessed who feares continually * for he that feares to offend God doth truely loue his Law * and his Faith This feare of our Lord doth driue away sinne * and permits it not to raigne in the soule * DAVID tearmes it the ferme Pillar and firmamēt of the mynd * Who knowes not that it is the will of God that we should worke our saluation in Feare and Trembling * O Lord said DAVID pierce my flesh with the nayles of thy Feare and make me to dreade thy iudgemēts * I should be exceeding sorie THEOPISTE that this Feare should forsake your hart and I should intertayne a farre worse opinion of your desease if your pulse did not beate so hard That which makes you sorrowfull glads me what afflictes you comforts me what you conceaue to be signes of death are to me markes of life in you To doubt and to consent are incompatible CHAP. VIII YOu stād in feare THEOPISTE that your consent should follow your sense or feeling and I hold according to all Diuinitie a farre better warranty then your apprehensions that it is as impossible to ioyne a doubt and a consent together as a certaine with an vncertaine thing For consent doth presuppose so full and absolute aggreement and yeelding vp of it selfe and so constant a determination that it leaues no doubt at all behind it The Archer that hath a shaking hand hardly euer hits the white The ayme to be leuell and straight must also be stiddie and constant The surest signe that we consent not is to doubt that we consent So that the same thing which doth trouble you doth free and cleare my iudgement of all doubt Thus your blinding Egiptian fogges are to me a light as to the Israelite The darke cloud which doth incompasse you is to me a Pillar of fire * for its light a fire for strength a pillar I would to God that you had ether my eyes or at least would credit my words you should presently be cured That in the temptation we are to feare the fault and not the paine CHAP. IX BVt happily it is the too inordinate desire of health that delayes the cure Fire is fallen vpō them * saith the Psalmist speaking of the children of Israel nor haue they seene the sunne * Nothing doth so much hinder a man to discerne the light of reason as the heate of a violēt passiō which is neuer without smoke THEOPISTE I doe a litle doubt me that in this tribulation which doth afflict you you doe more fly the Paine then the Faulte or at least that you feare and flie not the Faulte but by reason of the Paine which followes it as the inseparable shadowe of this infortunate body This peraduentures is the roote of your euil God will be loued for his ownesake Not for the reward which he promiseth otherwise the reward would be loued as God and God as the reward He will haue vs to abstayne from sinne not so much for the feare of his Iustice as for feare to offend his goodnes Thence it may be he leaues you to be tempered and seasoned in this temptation By meanes of it he vrgeth you on by frightes to th end that being gotten to a higher degree of Charitie this sterne and seruile feare may giue place to filiall feare And then this yoke shall rott away that is shall burst by the application and force of that heauēly oyle * following the tearmes of one of the Prophetes Lay your hand vpon a good not an erroneous conscience and vpō an vnfayned Faith * and tell me in words of Truth * THEOPISTE whether I haue not put my fingar vpon your sore and touched you to the quicke For the knowledge which I haue of the goodnes of your soule makes me as I cōceaue clearely see that this feare causeth you to runne vp and downe searching for Dittanie to draw out of your thigh or rather out of your hart the arrow of tēptation the smarte wherof doth more trouble you then any ferme beleife you haue of faulte cōmitted But tell me then in simplicitie of hart my deare THEOPISTE if it be not as I say or rather as I coniecture since like vnto NABVCHODONOSOR you will haue me not onely to interprete but euen to arreade your dreames and thoughtes For loe Phisitians doe onely cure the deseases they know nor doe they know them but by a true relation which