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A00414	A methode vnto mortification: called heretofore, the contempt of the world, and the vanitie thereof Written at the first in the Spanish, afterward translated into the Italian, English, and Latine tongues: now last of all perused at the request of some of his godly friends, and as may bee most for the benefite of this Church, reformed and published by Thomas Rogers. Allowed by authoritie.; Vanidad del mundo. English	Estella, Diego de, 1524-1578.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1608 (1608)	STC 10543; ESTC S114515	174,792	500

were Gods friendes they suffered many a cruell torment aud dost thou giue thy selfe vnto voluptuousnesse and thinke for all that to haue ease and comfort in the other world Behold saith the Lord they whose iudgement was not to drinke of the cup haue assuredly drunken art thou he that shall escape free Thou shalt not go free but thou shalt surely drinke of it Thinke not that pouertie miserie and affliction were appointed for good mē for although God suffereth them to taste of them for a time yet are they not purposely prouided for them For God hath ordained them for his owne glorie But these afflictions properly belong vnto thee if thou art vngodly although they seeme nothing at all to appertaine vnto thee and therefore dost shunne them as thou dost If all the tormentes which the Martyrs haue endured were ioyned together they should bee nothing in comparison of the torments which the reprobate shall and must sustaine in the pit of hell If thou bee affraide in the darke night to bee among the ougly carcases of dead men howe wilt thou abide to be in the loathsome darkenesse among the dead in hell where thou shalt be forced to continue and neuer see the Sunne Moone nor stars A miserable land is that where night is continually and no day at all If now thou canst not endure the sight of one Diuell how wilt thou abide the horrible shapes monstrous and terrible sightes of many ougly and cursed feends If now thou art not able to abide to hould euen thy smalest finger and that a little while in the fire how wilt thou continue burning body and soule in that lake of fire and brimstone in comparison whereof the hottest fire in this world is but as fire painted on a wall If some little greefe seeme so painfull vnto thee now how wilt thou abide all manner of infirmities that may bee vpon thy body at once and together The damned person in hell shall bee made to beare in his body all infirmities whatsoeuer the body of man is subiect vnto yea euery part of him shall haue more paine than the wit of man is able to reach vnto or comprehend If thou shunne so a filthy sauor nowe howe wilt thou abide the most lothsome sente of that hellish pit If thou shouldest bee laid on a most softe and delicate bedde and haue all things ministred vnto thee there that might mooue thee to take pleasure therein yet if thou shouldest haue all this vnder condition neuer to come off from it in fortie yeeres space but be bound to bee there such a long time thou wouldst take it for an intollerable paine torment Then how wilt thou suffer thy selfe and that perforce to be bound with firie chaines in some narrow hol● of hell where thou shalt not stir at all and from which thou shalt neuer escape To liue continually without all hope and to bee well assured that no remedie shall come what can bee more miserable Thou therefore which without all measure louest the vanities of this world more than God thy creator turne vnto thy selfe and thinke vppon th●se so bitter and so wofull tormentes that mooued with godly repentance contemning these vanities thou maiest by the most holy and mightie God bee deliuered from these perpetuall tormentes and punishmentes in the pit of hell CHAP. 40. The glorious conditions of the Saincts of God cannot so much as be conceaued in the heart much lesse vttered by the mouth or described by the pen of man AND these to witte which haue loued the world shall goe into euerlasting paine and the righteous into life eternall saith Christ Euen as the iust iudge will lay euerlasting tormentes vpon such as leauing the seruice of God haue preferred the goods of this transitorie world before the God of heauen so to him that will contemne the base things of this world our Sauiour will say It is well done good seruant faithfull thou hast beene faithfull in little I wil make thee ruler ouer much enter into thy maisters ioy ●oseph bringing his two sonnes to be blessed of his father Iaakob placed Ephraim on Israeles left hand and Manasseh on his right after the manner of the worlde which giueth honour to the eldest and despiseth the youngest and poorest But Israell stretched cut his right hande contrary to Iosephs minde and laid it on Ephraims head which was the younger and his left hande vppon Manassehs head directing his handes of purpose for Manasseh was th● elder So will God doe when hee commeth to iudgement hee will put the right hande of his glory vpon them which in this world were at the left hand of aduersitie and his left hand of displeasure vpon them which liued in their life time on the right hande of ease and prosperitie and so condemne them vnto the euerlasting hell fire Great is the goodnes of God that giueth vnto men so great honour for so little labour or rather none at all At the sight of God his glorious maiestie whatsoeuer the heart of a godly man can desire the eye shal see yea The things which eye hath not seene neither eare hath heard neither came into mans heart are which God hath prepared for thē that loue him It is much easier to tell what life eternall is not than to vtter what the happinesse thereof shall bee God shall wipe away all teares from their eies there shall be no more death neither sorrow neither crying neither shall there be any more paine for there shal be perfect ioy and all things that may prouoke vnto ioy and gladnesse shall concur together in that place When Ioseph had made himselfe knowen vnto his brethren the ioy was so great that it pleased euen Pharao wel and al his house-hold How great thinkest thou shall be the ioy when all the Sainctes that euer haue bin are or shall be shall meete together in the court of the celestiall king If the ioy of the wise men at the sight of a starre was exceeding great what shall our ioy bee when wee shall see the glorie of all Gods childdren in the heauens If the birdes doe ioy at the rising of the corporall Sunne how shall our soules reioyce to see the Sunne of righteousnesse most comfortably to shew himselfe in his glorious brightnes and incomprehensible glory If ●Iohn Baptist not seeing Christ with corporall eies in his mortall estate did euen spring in his mothers belly for ioy how shall wee leape and triumph for ioy beholding Iesus face to face and that in his glorie If they of Beth-shemesh lifting vp their eies and spying the Arke reioyced when they saw it and if Zacheus ioyfully receiued Christ into his house what heart is able to comprehend the ioy that then we shall haue when we shall not receiue but be receaued into the euerlasting Tabernacles of heauen nor entertaine Christ but bee entertained of Iesus himselfe the