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A06472	The glory of their times. Or The liues of ye primitiue fathers Co[n]tayning their chiefest actions, workes, sentences, and deaths.	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 16943; ESTC S108921	238,060	544

children doe they might please God better in obeying his Commandement and their Parents who lege talionis deserve more respect then their children can give them Many Bishops by the Emperours command being assembled at Sel●ucia to give their opinions concerning the Arrian Heresie Saint H●lary comming on a Sunday into a Chappell belonging to a Castle Florentia a Heathen Maid cry'd cut with a loud voice That a servant of God was come thither and falling downe at his feet shee earnestly desired his benediction and afterward leaving her parents shee followed him even to Poicters saying That though hee were not the father of her generation yet he was the Father of her regeneration Thus it is an easie thing with God of the stones to raise up Children unto Abraham to mollifie stony hearts and make them fructifie and beyond all mans beliefe by small or no meanes to bring great things to passe no lesse then an Heathens Conversion at the sight and approach of a man of God Such is the freenesse of Gods grace which is agens liberrimum The Winde bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but knowest no● whence it commeth nor whither it goeth even so is every one that is borne of the Spirit Hee got much credit and approbation in the Arrian Synod and by persecution of his enemies Valens and Vrsatius was sent back againe into France where Saint Martin met him seeking his acquaintance and adoring him as an earthly Deity Afterward Saint Hilary being come home and finding his Daughter to whom he had written a former Epistle constant in desiring to be married to the Bridegroome which her Father had provided shee returned unto Christ the Bridegroome of her soule whose body her Father with his owne hands buried O glorious Funerall better than life being translated from Earth to Heaven and that in the flowre of her age and spring of her youth Thus despising naturall affection hee shewed loves perfection in seeking her eternall felicity and glorification An History which sets forth to the life the reward of obedient Children She that obeyed her earthly father is rewarded by God her heavenly Father And whereas she did expect for a recompence of her patience an earthly Bridegroome she was espoused to the Bridegroome of her soule fairer than the sons of Men richer than the greatest Potentates whose are all the Beasts of the Mountaines and the Cattell on a thousand Hills sweeter than all sweetnesse and better than all goodnesse Within few yeeres after Saint Hilary departed this present life in the Reigne of the Emperours Valens and Valentian Earth deploring Heaven rejoycing and also our Saviour Jesus Christ admitting him into felicitie to whose glory he had lived and died Thus a blessed Life was seconded by a blessed Death and he that had seene the various changes in the revolutions of times did at last exchange 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 drosse for gold misery for happinesse and in peace was gathered to his Fathers But what eloquence can expresse his facundiousnesse he being in discretion provident in handling matters profound in learning eloquent for vertue admirable in composition various in resolution subtle and wise as our Saviour saith as a Serpent yet gracious as the simple Dove He was the Salt of Wit the Fountain of Eloquence the Treasury of Knowledge the Light of Learning a Defender of the Church and an Enemy to the opposers thereof whose words read seemed not words but thunder He that would know the character of his minde let him remember his constancie reade his Volumes and weigh his Sayings some whereof are here inserted Whose excellency may appeare to any indifferent Reader who shall weigh them in the ballance of mature judgement and they deserve no lesse approbation or title than sometimes did the sayings of Pythagoras among the ancients which were intitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the golden words of Pythagoras for according to that of the Wise man A word spoken in due season is like unto Apples of Gold in pictures of silver Such were these following viz. Of Custome Custome is a strong obligation and therefore he is a better Christian who not only by remission of sinne but by ignorance in sinne is blamelesse and innocent Whence it was that the Prophet denounceth a woe against such as draw iniquity together with cords of vanity Such are the cords of long continued custome which habituate a man in an evill way making him irrecoverably wicked Can a Blackamoore change his skin saith the Prophet or the Leopard his spots no more can yee that are accustomed to evill learne to doe good So that the truth of the ancient Proverbe is manifest that Custome is a second Nature for as slips of trees that are ingrafted and inoculated into another stocke partake of the nature of the stocke whereinto they are ingrafted so whatsoever vice a man accustometh himselfe unto to the same are his affections glued as it were and inseparably joyned and the corruption thereof concentra●ed and made coessentiall unto it Of Gods Works God hath performed many things whose naturall causes being hid yet their effects are knowne And Faith is religious though joyned with naturall ignorance A fit Register of Gods various wisedome yea the treasure house thereof is the whole Universe wherein all his workes are done in number weight and measure all which by their operations and impressions they make are easily to be discerned to bee nothing else but the foot-steps of his Majesty Now as Moses could not see GODS face but his hinder parts he saw so can we not many times discerne Gods workes in themselves à priori but à posteriori wee may by necessary collections Proportionably Faith which is the gift of God in it selfe is a glorious grace but because of our ignorance naturall and affected wee doe not attaine to that height and depth of that divine mystery which they that shall doe must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must have an Eagles eye not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 having their understandings darkned being strangers from the covenant of grace Of hidden treasure By the similitude of hidden treasure the riches of our hopes are shewed because God was found in man for obtayning of whom all is to be sold that wading through all wants we may attaine the riches of Heaven That man can want nothing which hath him which is All in all And as sometime the Philosopher said Omnia mea mecum porto Whatsoever is mine I beare about mee so may a Christian rich in grace say Deus meus omnia since I enjoy God I enjoy all without whom enjoying all I enjoy nothing other things utor non fruor I enjoy for their use but have no true contentment in enjoying them Of the Church Those that are out of the Church cannot be capable of understanding divine mysteries for the ship wherein Christ preached the Word of Life was a Type of the Church those without being like the sands were

blasphemiae that name of blasphemy How did he wisely stop the fury of the Longobards and reduced them to peace by writing his book to Theudalinda the Queene in a word having with great care and piety amongst a world of troubles governed the Church thirteen yeers six moneths and ten days in the spight of all oppositions he died quietly and comfortably rendred up his soule into the hands of his Maker in the second yeere of Phocas the Emperour and was buried in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Peter in which Leo Simplicius Gelasius and Symmachus were formerly interred with a large Epitaph in commendation of his labours and studies His Deacon is highly to be praysed for preserving some of his Workes from the fire even to the hazard of his owne life Heare but what a man he was by the testimony of Paulus Diaconus Iisdem diebus sapientissimus ac beatissimus Papa Gregorius Romanae urbis Episcopus c. that is In these dayes that most wise and blessed Father Saint Gregory Bishop of the City of Rome which when he had written many things to the profit of the Church composed foure famous bookes of the lives of the Saints which he called his Dialogues which books he sent to Theodelinda the Queen whom he knew to be a Protector of the faithfull and which did much good to the Church for shee perswaded her husband to give meanes and Revenues to the Church and caused those Bishops which were in misery and cast out to be restored and peace was by her meanes procured to Gods people Sabinianus was the man that did succeed him in his Bishopricke and as one testifies there was a great dearth the next yeer after his death and hee saith debuit enim mundus famem sitimque pati c. The world must needs suffer a famine and thirst when such a Doctor as was both spirituall food and drink to their souls was taken away He wants not divers to afford him commendations and indeed there was a cloud of Witnesses who doe extoll him Isidore cals him timore Dei plenus humilitate summus that is full of the feare of God and chiefe for Humility endued largely with the gifts of the Holy Ghost and saith thus in conclusion Foelix tamen nimium foelix qui omnium studiorum ejus possit cognoscere dicta that is Happy is hee nay thrice happy that can know all his Works and Sayings Honorius Augustodunensis termes him no lesse then Organum spiritus Sancti c. that is The Organ of the blessed Spirit Incomparable for his wisdome who writ many things more precious than the refined Gold Trithemius cals him Theologorum princeps splendor Philosophorum Rhetorum lumen vitâ conversatione integer sanctissimus c. the Prince amongst Divines the beauty of Philosophers and the light to Rhetoricians of life and conversation most upright and holy And to shut up all heare but what Ildephonsus of Toledo saith of him Vicit sanctitate Anthonium Eloquentia Cyprianum Sapientia Augustinum that is he exceeded Saint Anthony in Sanctitie Saint Cyprian in Eloquence and Saint Augustine in Wisdome and so heare onely what Cardinall Bellarmine relates of him who calls him Doctorem eximium meritò magnum that is a most egregious Doctor and well deserving the name of Great Hee died in the yeere of Christ Iesus 604. Sentences out of Gregory Magnus Of Poverty Hee is poore whose soule is void of grace not whose coffers are empty of mony the contented poverty is true riches Of the holy Scriptures The holy Scriptures are direct and right for admonition lofty for promises terrible for threatnings Of God God is never absent though the wicked have him not in their thoughts where he is not by favour he is by punishment and terrour Of conversion to God Every convert hath a beginning a middle a perfection in the first there is sweetnesse to allure him in the second bitternesse to exercise him in the third fulnesse of perfection to confirme him Of the Incarnation Will you observe our Saviours motions hee came from Heaven into the wombe from the wombe to the cratch from the cratch to the crosse from the crosse to the Grave from the Grave to Heaven On the Crosse of Christ. Christ shewed patience in his passion commended humility fulfilled obedience perfected Charity those were the four Jewels that adorn'd his Crosse. Charitatis Humilitatis jubar These are onely true riches which make us rich in vertue therefore if thou desire riches love true riches If thou aspire to honour seek the Kingdome of Heaven If thou affect glory strive to bee enrolled in the high Court of Angels Hee that loves this present pilgrimage in the midst of sorrow knows not how to shew sorrow for the words of a just man are full of sorrow for in regard of present sufferings his speech and sighs aspire to heaven He is most perfect in piety that doth most perfectly feele anothers misery The best eloquence and expression is to declare the mind by good action for conscience doth not check the speaker when his life is better then his speech Hee that lives obscurely and doth not profit others by his example is like a burning coal but hee that imitates holinesse shewing the light of uprightnesse to others is like a lampe burning to himselfe and shining to others True Faith doth not onely consist in verball profession but in actuall operation The fortitude of the Just is to overcome the flesh to contradict the will to forsake the delights of this life to love affliction for an eternall reward to contemne prosperity and to overcome adversity Joy doth discover the mind but adversity as it doth outwardly oppresse so it doth inwardly suppresse the thoughts and make us more close and cautious Gregory Magnus would say of himselfe that hee could never reade those words in the Scripture which Abraham spake to Dives Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receivedst good things without horrour and astonishment lest having received such good things of this World meaning such dignities and honours as he had he should be excluded from having any part and portion in the happinesse or good things in the world to come Of Gods Word Saint Gregory saith and wishes all men that heare the Word of God to taste the Word of God with the palate of their hearts Not to have a slavish feare Feare not man who must die nor feare the sonne of man who is but grasse Of godly Desires Our desires saith this Father do sound more powerfully in the secret eares of God than our words Againe the more earnestly God is desired of us the more sweetly is he delighted in us Saint Paul saith Hee that searcheth the heart knoweth what is the minde of the spirit Rom. 8. I have here set downe his Works as they are set

with graces his body did not want it's persections for he had a proper stature a grave pleasing and winning countenance and he was so healthy by nature that seldome or never did any disease or sicknesse torment him But I passe from all those outward decorements and will take a view of the gifts of his minde Being entred into a devout course of life who can but admire his innocence and integrity of life it was so eminent that Alexander Alensis would say Non videri Adam in Bonaventura peccasse that is that Adam seem'd not to have sinned in Bonaventure And was not his meeknesse and humility as great which indeed is the Basis and ground-worke the Mother and Mistris of all vertues and that he might not forget the practice of it did hee not ingrave in his study that sweet saying of our LORD JESUS Learne of me for I am humble and meek Doth he not in all his Writings lively expresse it for with what simplicitie is his stile composed off only for that hee writ for the good of simple men as he saith and was not hee as carefull to keepe his conscience unspotted and pure Did he not use ordinarily to say He could not forget his appearance before the great and terrible Judge And they that please may reade the commendation that Gerso Chancellor of Paris gives him for the care he had of it Nay such was his study of humility that lest at any time his mind should swell with pride or ambition he would put himselfe to servile and inferiour offices as to sweeping of roomes washing of vessels and making of beds which many thought too base to be performed by such an holy and Religious man yet nor any nor all these seem'd so to him hee knew how to bring good out of them for he would say they kept his body from pride and idlenesse Who when hee thinks of Bonaventures care for the poor and sick but will admire him how cheerfull was hee in ministring to them how diligent in visiting them though their diseases were noysome and in some sort dangerous it may be said of him as Gregory Nazianzen said of Saint Basil qui hominum leprâ laborantium vulnera curavit osculatus est that is who both healed the Lepers and kissed their sores hee spent much time in these actions yet perform'd the houres at his study so that he seem'd to be one who had a care to redeeme the time if he knew any troubled in minde hee would not leave him till he had given him comfort if any was poore what care would hee have to get him provision where any was falling from the truth how earnest would he be to recover him To come to his spirituall exercises of Meditation Contemplation and Prayer Did hee not make his head a fountaine of teares Was it not his chiefest care in all his Meditations to inflame the hearts of his Readers to kindle the fire of devotion in their breasts Hath hee not shewed the vertue matter forme end and distinction of Contemplation and Meditation Hath hee not laid forth the parts effects fruits times of prayer And in all his labours is that saying true of him that his words were not inflantia but inflammantia that is not high swelling puft up but inflaming such as moved compunction stird up zeale did work mortification and produced repentance in the hearts of his auditors What might not I say of his patience in bearing injuries Of his true valour in undergoing labours Of his contentednesse in refusing great Honours Of his wisdome in managing himselfe in all publike meetings Of his prudence in government But let us take a short view of excellent learning and admired Scholership who in this kind flowed more than he it is without all question that he attained not to such an height onely by his labour but also by the helpe of the blessed Spirit of God Yet his labour was great and constant he hated idlenesse He read over the whole body of the Fathers and made that famous piece which hee cals his Pharetra by the Works and Sayings collected out of Saint Gregory Saint Ambrose Saint Augustine Saint Hierome Cyprian Chrysostome Isidore Anselme Bernard Cassiodore and divers others hee was so diligent in holy Writ that he did write two Bibles out with his owne hand hee was so conversant in the sacred Scriptures that he had most of them by heart One of his Bibles is at the place of his birth kept as a treasure in the Church the other reserved in a famous Library as a testimony to future ages of his labour Now observe his happy progresse which hee made in Paris and indeed how could such a diligent Bee as Bonaventure was but gather honey from such able Instruments as there then was to omit many others these two were of note Albertus Magnus and Alexander Halensis so that by the Learning of these men Paris was to Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure as once Athens was to Saint Basil and Nazianzen After the studie and paines of three yeeres in Paris Bonaventure was by the good liking of all held fit to be publike Reader in Divinitie there which hee so divinely performed that Gerso sayes of him thus Nescio si unquam talem Doctorem ac Bonaventuram habuerit studium Parisiense I know not saith he whether ever the Universitie of Paris had the like Doctour as Bonaventure was The first Worke hee set out at Paris was Expositions and Comments on the bookes of the Master of Sentences Hee also made an Hexameron on the first Chapter of Genesis which all men lament that hee brought it not to perfection but it was so well liked that hee had the Archbishopricke of York in England offered him for his labour which Dignity he modestly refused when as he was made and appointed Chiefe of his Order hee stopt the mouthes of all Adversaries by his example wisdome moderation learning and good constitutions hee was meeke and courteous to all rather working men to obedience by faire exhortations and entreaties then by force and rigour His generall Learning is divided into three parts his exposition of Scriptures his Tracts his interpretation of the Sentences In all his Works appeare Learning study exercise Tri-themius sayes of him to his eternall prayse that he was matter not words subtile not curious eloquent not phantasticall His actions were as renowmed as his Works what journies did hee undertake to relieve the poore to profit the Churches to reconcile differences this I cannot omit that when as by the death of Clement the fourth at Viterbium there was no Pope but a great dissention amongst the Cardinals for three yeeres together when as they had so ordered that the choice of the Pope should be put to Bonaventures choice hee contrary to all their expectation chose a stranger a man of excellent parts one Theobald Archdeacon of Leige whereby he stopt a great quarrell and withall shewed his great