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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

euill and then taking vp the sworde of the spirite we put the whole armour of God vpon vs So with a valiaunt courage let vs enter to the battell and by the Lorde and his strength let vs stedfastly continue in resisting the assaultes of the Deuill Endeuor we now our heartes being made cleane by fayth to passe the tyme of this our pilgrimage vncorruptly and let vs associate our selues with the number of those which Saint Peter calleth the chosen generation the royall Priesthoode and the holy Nation that we maye set forth his vertues with a glad heart who hath plucked vs out of the power of darcknesse and called vs to hys maruellous light that he might make vs fit to be pertakers of the inheritaunce with Saints in the light Let vs giue our bodies a liuely Sacrifice holye and acceptable to God not fashioning our selues lyke vnto this world but transforming our shape by renuing our minde that we may trie what the worde of God is Let vs seperate our selues from such as eyther be addicted to the worlde or be seruants to their lustes Who like vile bondslaues beare the yoke with vnbeleuers and reioyce at all filthie talke refusing not to serue and flatter for suche men as were conuenient that they themselues should haue power and dominion of as Lordes ouer seruauntes Let vs learne our sanctification of our Mayster Christ whose doctrine what else doth it teach than repentaunce than sound and liuely fayth in Iesus our Sauiour than mortifying of our flesh denying our owne selues contemning of the worlde dispising of all things which eyther in the flesh or in the worlde displease God by the same christ our sauior learne to obtayne eternall lyfe Which as here we lay holde of by faith so in that blessed resurrection and redemption of our bodyes which we waite for we shall fully gloriously and perfitely inioy Let vs nowe so finishe the whole course of our lyfe as we may to the last breath obserue charitie procéeding forth of a pure hart good conscience and fayth vnfayned which is the finishing of the commaundement And aboue all things let vs endeuour to kéepe the vnitie of the spirite one with another through the bonde of peace that contention being taken away and abholished as much as is possible we may all togither speake one thing in Iesus Christ and thinke one thing in him in whom onely we increase in godly agréement and consent of friends by wearing out with voluntarie forgetfulnesse the iniuries done vnto vs we maye loue euen our enimies as the Lord hath commaunded vs and prouide to our power both for the safety of their bodyes saluation of their soules From hence shall that ioy in the holye ghost abounde and a quiet conscience shall lighten the minde Hereof it commeth that when at any tyme our minde is eliuated with any godly studie continuing stedfastly in prayer our communication with God becomes so pleasaunt and delectable that in maner forgetting our selues and taking verie little care for the bodie we neyther passe vpon sléepe nor desire meate nor yet séeme at that instant to liue amongst men in the earth but hauing attayned as it were to immortalitie we may séeme after a sort to be in company with Angels Hereof bréedeth so great a quietnesse and securitie as the day of the Lord which to the wicked shall become fearefull and terrible to vs shall be thought ioyfull luckie prosperous and happie And at the approching of the same let vs lift vp our heades and looke vp bicause the fulnesse of our redemption then draweth nigh For from them which haue the testimonie of a good conscience and being sealed with the holy spirit of promise beholde the pleasaunt beautie of the sonne of righteousnesse not with sadde but with chéerefull countenaunce and desirously with a ioyfull minde let in by the window of the hart the shining beames of the worde of God from such I saye doth the pleasaunt taste of eternall life which they perceyue while they liue here wype away all griefe and sorow and ingendring a contempt of the most vaine vanities of thys worlde bringes into them a most delectable ioy but the same ioyned with desire of putting of mortality For as euerlasting life is all wholy perfected in the immortalitye to come so is it at least wise begunne in this present lyfe But how may we attaine to that desired knowledge of perceyuing what maner of life that euerlasting life is which with such vnspeakable vncredible pleasure draweth the minde to God and what kinde of taste hath it among the Saintes that constraynes the children of God to haue such great desire to attaine to heauenly thinges before they be discharged of this mortall tabernacle of the bodie I will recite the wordes of Saint Augustine which do make this matter that we séeke for maruellous plaine vnto vs If the raging of the fleshe sayth he be at rest in a man the imaginations vpon the earth water and ayre be at quiet in him the heauens still and the verie soule it selfe be at rest in it selfe and go beyonde it selfe not in déepe cogitation of it selfe if he be quite voyde of dreames and imagined reuelations if euerie tongue euery signe or other transitory thing whatsoeuer be altogither at quiet forasmnch as if a man giue eare all these things doe say we our selues haue not made our selues but he made vs that abydeth for euer Which being sayde if these thinges then whishe bicause they lifted vp their eare to him that made them and that he alone may speake not through them but by himselfe to the intent we may heare his worde not by the voyce of the fleshe nor by the voyce of an angell neyther through the sounding of a clowde neyther by obscure questions of similitudes but euen him whome in these thinges we loue himselfe without these things let vs heare euen as at this instant we stretcht out our selues with our rauished cogitation attayned to euerlasting wisedome which resteth vpon all thinges If this shall be continued other imaginations which be farre incōparable to these being withdrawne and onely this imagination rauishe swallow vp and repose the beholder thereof among inwarde ioyes that such maye be the life eternall as was thys present moment of vnderstanding him to whome we haue lifted vp our heartes Is not this as much as to enter into the ioy of thy Lorde Wherefore the same Saint Augustine in the last booke of his confessions adioyned this prayer therevnto O Lorde GOD giue vs peace for all things hast thou shewed vnto vs both the peace of rest the peace of a quiet conscience and the peace of eternall rest for all this beautifull order of things very excellent shall passe away when the measure of them is fulfilled and the morow after becommeth the euentide in them And the same is eyther the seuenth day or euentyde and hath no Sunne going

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 Meliora Spero Anno. 1570. ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Denham for Wylliam Norton To the ryght Honorable the Lord William Howarde Barron of Effingham Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter and Lorde Chamberlaine of the Queenes Maiesties moste Honorable houshold Anthony Marten Sewer of hir highnesse most honorable Chamber wisheth helth prosperitie and peaceable tranquillitie of minde in Christ Iesu ACcording to my promise right honorable in my former Epistle made to your Lordship Both for your more easie reading of this comfortable Oration concerning true tranquillitie of the minde and also for your better edifying therein I haue causde the same to be imprinted So as if it please you betweene whyles when vacation from publique affayres shall giue you leaue to bestow some priuate exercise therin you may reape such inestimable comfort and commoditie thereby as not onely your Lordship for your part shall fullye confirme your owne minde in perfite stedfastnesse be it in honorable and prosperous dayes which God bee praised you inioye eyther in aduersitie sicknesse or losse of friendes which by Gods appointmēt we mortal men daily are subiect vnto but also you shal be able to teach and conuince al others which with cōtinuall study restlesse trauaile disquiet themselues with worldly vanities seeking eyther at home where they liue or else by their industrie in farre Countries a meane to obtaine the quietnesse of their mindes after once so easie a meanes as is the free accesse to this booke shall be prest before their eies The Compiler hereof while hee liued of what disposition he was it appeares by the Booke it selfe which could not otherwise proceede then from a godly iustified spirite But althoughe this Translator eyther in respect of his owne vnworthynesse may be iudged vnfit to present vnto your Honor so worthy a thing to lay the same before the eies of the world either else for his manifold imperfectiōs vnhable to expresse in Englishe the sentences of so manye Poets and auncient famous doctors of the church as are comprehended cited in this little booke Yet this is my humble request that howe much soeuer shal be detracted from my ablenesse and sufficiency herein so much the more may be added to my paines dyligence taken in the same and also to my poore good will borne to your Lordship If this be performed and all thankes whatsoeuer might seeme to be due by any others taking profite hereby be wholy rendred to your Lordship and your Lordship yeelding the same againe vnto God I for my part shal acknowledge my selfe entirely to haue obtained for this my zealous indeuour herein bestowed as great recompence as my heart therein desired Your Lordships humble and obedient Anthony Marten To the Reader SO BE IT GOOD Christian Reader that thou hauing prouided for thy selfe aboundaunce of wealth in this worlde infinite substaunce plentifull commodities with hope to augment and increase the same by large and ample gaynes and hast setled thy heart to builde thee a sumptuous strong and beautifull house as well for the bestowing and ordering of these thy temporall ryches as for the sure and safe custodie of them saying with thy selfe this yeare I will be occupied in searching out of Timber Stone Bricke Lyme Labourers and excellent workemen for the better accomplishing of this my deuice The seconde yeare I will be furnished of all these thinges and prepare them readie for the worke and the thirde yeare I minde to builde and erect my house Will not thy heart burne within thee while the cogitation hereof is thus fixed within thy breast wilt thou not imagine that while all these thinges are in performing according to thy desire that euerie day will be a yeare and euery yeare a number Wouldest thou not with an earnest desire seeke to bee released of this hope ioyned with feare planted within thy breast and with all the trauell of thy bodie labour to see the ende of this thy deuice and purpose and that with all expedition Whilest thou art yet casting and pondering of all these matters in thy minde howe to bring them to good effect If two of thy deerest friendes who haue a speciall regarde to thy bodie least it should perish with trauell and care doe presently come vnto thee The one of them saying Beholde the Timber Bricke Stone Lyme and all other necessarie thinges for buylding which I layde vp in store for mine owne selfe my wife and my children to buylde vs an house withall I haue ment towardes thee And that other friend also the sooner to deliuer thee frō thy troublesome imaginations say vnto thee Loe all these things meete for buylding I haue brought to the place where thou hast determined to lay thy foundation The plat forme is drawne the stuffe is excellent and well wrought the worke is framed and readie to be erected and the season of the yeare verie well serueth Therefore ease thy minde vnburthen thy conscience set thy heart at libertie Now there remayneth no trauell for thee but onelye that thou throughlye ouersee and suruay the whole gift which we haue bestowed vpon thee That is to saye beginning with the first stone of the foundation vewing and beholding euery thing by percell meale till thou come to the principall Piller in the middest vpon which the whole work is appoynted to depende And so continuing thy vewe and suruay till thou come to the last part being the roofe of the same house there to beholde the force and strength therof for resisting the stormie tempestes of raging Winter When thou hast thus done beginne thy house and finishe the same in fewe dayes to thy contentation which before thou diddest feare in many yeares coulde scarcely haue beene perfourmed Wilt thou nowe thou worldly mynded man bee vngratefull for this so high an earthly benifite receyued Or wilt thou not consent to this so reasonable and friendly a demaunde of such thy deare friendes Nay I am sure thou wilt not onely bee thankefull but also wilt runne with all diligence with great admiration with louing countenaunce and with all feast and melodie to imbrace them who haue deliuered thy bodie from trauell and watching and discharged thy minde from the thing whereof it stoode in feare Yea and I doubt not but thou wilt with a glad and willing mynde accomplishe and fulfill this their gentle and easie request made vnto thee If now thou haue thus taken carke and care about the buylding of an earthly mancion to repose and lay vp thy temporall treasure to place and solace thy carrian Carkasse If thou haue thus taken thought for the bodie so corruptible a thing so loose of life so short of

to the endes of the earth of whome all the Prophets do beare recorde that vnder his name euery one which put their trust of saluation in him should receyue remission of sinnes That he is the mediator spokesman and peacemaker betwéene God and man the throne of grace the head Bishop and high priest to make continuall intercession for vs The propiciation for the sinnes of the worlde Our iustification The Shepehearde and Curate of our soules our hope our life and our resurrection That he is that Emanuel the father of eternall life the Prince of peace the sonne of righteousnesse the light of the Gentiles And to conclude that he is the very Messias in whom be all the promises of God euen yeas and Amen whom the Leuiticall sacrifice and olde ceremonies did represent To him did Moyses lawe tende Of him did the Prophetes before prophecie And euen the verie same did the fathers of the people of Israell wayte for whom the Apostles Martyrs Confessors and all the holy men in their dayes did beleue being shewed and sent among them Christ therefore the reconciler of God and man who deliuered vs from the cursse of the lawe became a cursse for our sakes and as Paule sayth to the Collossians hath put out to them that beleue the hand writing which was against vs and the same being taken out of the way hath fastned vpon the Crosse He for a swéete incense hath offred vp himselfe an oblation and sacrifice vnto God and by death hath vndone him for euer that had the rule of death He pacified the fathers wrath not in part but wholye and perfitely and hath fully deliuered vs from the bonde of sinne and taken vs out of the pitte of hell He hauing conquered Sathan hath borne in token of victorie his dispoyled power and principalitie openly in the sight of the worlde And sumptuously and gloriously hath this mightie conquerour of death and hell triumphed by himselfe ouer those whom he hath conquered He hath made plaine the waye to heauen and ascending vp on high hath led captiuitie captiue and giuen giftes to men He sitting in heauen on the right hande of God the father maketh continuall intercession for vs and beareth the office of a bountifull patrone aduocate and spokesman He dayly renueth in vs the Image and similitude of God which is innocencie righteousnesse and holinesse which were lost in our first parent Adam He among the number of those which were adopted by the heauenlye father to bée the children of God hath made vs copartners with him both of his name and of his kingdome and to be heyres of euerlasting blessednesse He it is that is the true tranquillitie of the minde and quieting of our consciences Hée is the stedfast peace of the hearte and pacient mittigation of our troubles This was the same which was shewed and reuealed in a certaine vision to Elyas the Charret of Israell and the horsemen therof as Elizeus wordes be at what time hée fledde to mount Horeb for feare of Iezabel For the word of the Lorde spake vnto him that he should come out of the caue wherin he rested all night and to stande before the Lorde in the Mount. And beholde the Lorde passed by and a mightie strong wind that rent the mountaynes and brake the rockes before the Lorde but the Lorde was not in the winde After the wynde there came an earth quake but the Lorde was not in the earthquake After the earthquake was a fier neyther yet was the Lorde in the fier And after the fier there came a soft still voyce which when Helias hearde he couered his face with his mantell Why was it the Lords pleasure to appéere in a soft still voyce but to shews plainely that he woulde giue rest and quietnesse vnto such are sadde and afflicted with veration both of soule and minde so as in their whole heart they séeke after God and flie onely to him for helpe as did this Elias when he sat vnder a Iuniper trée in the wildernesse wishing for death Wherfore with this voyce the Lorde in the Gospell doth mercifully call vnto him such as are become weake through desperation as are troubled in conscience and loden wyth cares saying Come vnto me all yée that labour and are heauie loden and I will refresh you Learne of me for I am méeke and humble and yée shall finde rest vnto your Soules For they which with extreme inwarde feare heartily and wyth remorse of their sinnes dreade the payne which they haue iustly deserued and being abashed and amazed for feare of hell fire and of the féendes therin do truely bewaile their sinnes and in this anguished minde through conceyuing of Gods wrath doe humbly flye as it were through this narrowe streight of perpetuall gréefes and afflictions to the vnspeakeable mercye of God through Christ meaning to liue a godly lyfe and asking pardon of their trespasses and remission of their sinnes from such doth the sonne of God wipe cléerely away all teares such doth he beholde wyth a fauourable and louing countenaunce and with the excellent comfort of his holye spirite doth he pacifie and set all their harts at ease and libertie For that place of Esay which sayth The spirite of the Lorde be vpon me for the Lorde hath annoynted me and sent me to preach good tidings to the poore that I might heale those which be contrite of heart that I might preache deliueraunce vnto the captiue and sight to the blinde that I might reuenge the oppressed and comfort them which be in heauinesse that in stéede of Ashes I might giue them plentie of Oyle of gladnesse for sighing pleasaunt oyntment for a mourning spirite a robe of honor the Euangelist expoundeth to be Christ himselfe We were al by nature the sonnes of wrath and as lost shéepe haue gone astray euery one declyning for the right trade of life vnto his own wicked wayes and forsaking God the fountaine of life and of all good things haue purchased to our selues misery death and damnation But Christ of his infinite mercy left the seate of his maiestie in heauen and being sent from aboue came into the worlde and méekelye of the virgin Marie tooke vpon him the nature of man to the intent he might haue pitie vpon our miserable state to saue sinners to call that backe againe which was gone astray to séeke and saue that which was lost and to giue his life for the redemption of manye Who also was wounded and sacrificed for our faultes and buffited for our sinnes all which the father layde vppon him in the name of vs all and by his beating and stripes made vs safe and whole This was he who euen as he drowned Pharao and the Egyptians in the red sea so by his death he querthrew Sathan the continuall enimie of mankinde and set vs at libertie béeyng washed and made cleane through the helthfull sacrament of bloud and water that ranne from him He became the wisedome

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

so muche for their office sake as for pride chalenging to themselues more than is right oftentymes he throweth into the fire But to comprehende the whole summe of the matter vnder one conclusion and to drawe toward the ende of our purpose with a compendious alleagement of causes I will briefly recyte the chiefe matters why God doth often vse his elect to the Crosse and to afflictions He sendeth aduersitie vpon them to the ende that they féeling the greatnesse of gods wrath agaynst sinne maye altogither sée how base they be of themselues acknowledging also the guile of their owne spirite may perceyue howe farre they be from dying to themselues and from liuing onely to the glorie of god Very often doth subtile securitie ydle féeblenesse craftie hypocrisie flattering loue of a mans selfe secret pride and close contemning of God créepe into heartes of the Saintes all which through affliction as with fire must be burned and boyled out For God is a iealous God and desires to be loued in déede and to be worshipped with all the hart He loueth nothing that is fayned nothing that is counterfeyt but all things which be sincere vnfayned and liuely For this cause he doth shewe himselfe angrie with his elect and bringes troubles vpon them that they being contrite in hart may beginne to mislike themselues and to shake off their olde slouth féeblenesse securitie and dissimulation and so remembring their infirmitie maye from thenceforth be earnestly bent to praye to God and more solicitus to liue a godly life For as salt preserueth fleshe that it doe not putrifie and the drawing playster searcheth and purgeth that part of the bodie which is sore least through corrupt matter it pine away and as the hote yron béeing put therevnto burneth out and consumeth whatsoeuer shoulde hinder the recouerie thereof so doth tribulation least we should waxe rotten in the filthynesse of sinne drawe vs backe from the renuing of sinne taketh away the delight of resting in euill quencheth the fire of lust and easily plucketh out of a good heart whatsoeuer is an impediment to the good health of the mind Moreouer through miserie God calles away his elect from the loue of this worlde wherein they haue proufe and experience onely of troubles and disquietnesse who béeing drawne away before by the flickering intisementes of creatures he now leades them back againe to the loue and worshipping of him their Creator And he so inflames thē with a desire of celestiall things as they trauell to come to the euerlasting and blessed countrie of heauen and all the whole course of their life here in earth to muse vpon nothing else but vpon the lyfe celestiall For euen as by long boyling of golde which is throwne into the Fornace any other corrupt thing mixed therewith is tryed out and taken away from it lyke so through trouble and aduersitie both the delight we haue in creatures the flattering we make of our selues the confidence we haue in men and whatsoeuer else is not pure vanisheth away and is put from vs and the minde thereby wholy bent vppon God of whome it wayteth to obtaine a quietnesse Wherefore it is not without a cause that iudgement beginneth first at the house of the Lord when as the harts of the Saintes being by this meanes made plyaunt lyke waxe are become of righter iudgement and of better minde Which thinge in times past was signified by that when as God so would that all the borderers vpon the children of Israell should be enimies vnto them And as well these priuate miseryes and infelicities as also publike calamities be after a sort the voyce of the lawe and more sharper Lessons than any Sermons that the Ministers can make in the temple concerning repentaunce For they chiefly aboue all other things make the greatnesse of Gods wrath and hatred agaynst sinne to be apparaunt to vs whereof no vtterance of mouth is able so much as to make a shadowe much lesse expresse it plainly For these bring to passe that a mā forsaking his owne strength runnes with true inuocation and confession of his owne imbecillitie and weakenesse vnto Gods diuine succour These when we fall admonishe vs of our dutie and that we giue from thence forth a greater héede and resist with a more vigilant eye the temptations of Sathan the desires of the fleshe and the intifementes of the worlde These strike men with feare and dread that when an example of others is layde before their eies it may cause them to remember what themselues should be afearde of and so hauing experiment by others may be framed more slacke to commit sinne Moreouer the Lord by causing his elect through affliction to become subiect vnto him teacheth them true obedience instructs them to pacience and invres them to bée plyant to his will with a quiet minde For in the induring of trouble and miserie there was woont alwayes to be a great difference betwéene the godly sort and the vngodlye For as the couragious horse shewes by his prauncing and all other tokens of fiercenesse howe vnwillingly he abideth his Ryder yea he throwes him off if he can and yet neuer thelesse is brought vnder will hée or no and as the gentler horse more quietly suffers his Ryder turnes what way so euer he appoyntes him and lettes himselfe be tamed Euen so the wicked when God doth try them with miserie with pensiuenesse and with aduersitie they spurne agaynst it although they nothing preuaile and being impacient of their misfortune make resistance all that euer they can But the godly sort stoupe to God suffer themselues to be ruled and with all humblenesse of minde yéeld to the will of god Through which it commes to passe that as the one sort reapes no fruite through their impacience so the other by their sufferaunce depart with excéeding great profite and commoditie For as the Sunne hardneth myre and yet melteth waxe euen so in a maner doth affliction make good men become the better and euill men the worse The godly men therfore do paciently indure the wholsome and fatherly kinde of correction of our heauenly father They beare whatsoeuer God layeth vpon them with a true submission of mind They dayly take vp the crosse which God hath appoynted for them They perseuer stedfastlye in suffering of these things till they haue made an ende of thys lyfe They desire by prayer to be deliuered from vengeaunce and punishment but not from good instruction From the furie and wrath of God not from his iudgement according to that saying of Ieremie Correct vs O Lord in thy iudgemēt not in thy displeasure least thou breake vs to powder and so we become nothing Poure out thy wrath vppon people that haue not knowne thée and vpon Kingdomes which haue not called vpon thy name The elect doe know how Christ hath in euerye one of his members as it were a certaine quantitie and measure of trybulation which