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A20946	Heraclitus, or, Meditations vpon the vanity & misery of humane life first written in French by that excellent scholler & admirable divine Peter Du Moulin minister of the sacred word in the Reformed Church of Paris ; and translated into English by R.S. gentleman.; Heraclite. English. 1609	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Stafford, Robert, 1588-1618.	1609 (1609)	STC 7325; ESTC S2575	27,860	136

Caesar because that it had his Jmage on it Let vs therefore then giue our selues to God seeing that wee beare his ovvne Image But the Jnconvenience is that we do often abolish the Image in rubbing it against the Earth and polluting our soules with worldly thoughts and desires That wee may therefore misprise the earth all that the word doth promise it requireth that wee come to the second point which is to know perfectly vvhat the vvorth and excellency of the faithful is For vvhen as men by an vnfriendly amity and cruell welwilling do sollicite some one to doe ill which hath the feare of God and to offende his conscience in offending God Jt behoueth the faithful to thinke in himselfe vvhat I that am a childe of God and am of a celestiall noblenes that am one of the first borne whose names are registred in heauen shall I esteeme Heb. 12. the promises of the world which when they are most certaine they are too base for me to meditate on to delude the son of a Prince with an apple To entice vvith siluer the Sonne of the King of Heauen to offende his Father And after the ensample of Esau to sell my birth-right for a messe of pottage Such persuasions shall not by any meanes possesse me God will not afflict me with so great a blindnes We are vnworthy to be followers of Christ if wee doe not esteeme our selues to be better then the world Was it not for the loue of the faithfull that the world was framed Will not God ruinate it againe for to reedify for thē a fairer house in heauen vvhere shall bee the fulnesse of glory For this heauen or climate is inferior to the vvorth dignity of the children of God You that feare God trust in his Son knowe that it is you that vnderprop the world and that nourish the wicked in it Therefore the enimies of God are bound in obligatiō to you For he doth cōserue the worlde out of a respect vvhich he hath towards his chosen and elect vvhereof some are mixed amōgst the euill and others are yet vnborne It is vvritten in the 6. of the Apocalyps That God doth attend vntill our fellowe seruants be accomplished And therefore this is one of the reasons why that Christ doth call the faithfull the fault of the Mat. 5. 13 earth vvhich is as much as a little part amōgst mē which conserueth the rest and delayeth their destruction For God conserueth the sinfull because of the good to the end that they should serue as medicines to them and that the might and power of our aduersaries might serue to compell vs to the feare of God and to trust in his promises Such being the excellency of Gods elect aboue the rest it behoueth vs to respect the pleasures riches greatnesse of the vvorlde as things that are most ridiculous and as the painted kingdomes vvhich the Deuill shewed vnto Christ Like those vvhich from the highest part of the Alpes doe looke into Campania vvhere the greatest Citties seeme like vnto little Cottages how much lesse and base wil they seeme then if they were discerned from heauen Frō thence therfore it behoueth that the faithful contemplat humane things and that hee transport instantly his heart to heauen since that there is his treasure And considering from thēce the Pallaces of Princes hee will esteeme them as habitations of Ants the turbulent murmuring of men as the buzzing of an angry swarme of Bees and contemplating from thence vvhat things are most greate and apparant in the earth he vvill say The vanity of vanities that all is vanity That Holy glory wil not hinder Christian humility For wee knowing the vvorthinesse in our selues doe finde our dignity in Iesus Christ If repentance doth humble vs faith doth exalt vs If we are nothing before God vvee are somewhat in God in his fatherly affections And therefore in this the faithfull are contrary to vvorldly men For they do lift their eies to heauen by too much pride but presse downe their heart on the earth vvith avarice and incōtinency vvhereas the godly on the contrary hath his eies vpon the earth by humility as the Publican which durst not lift his eies to heauen but hath his heart in heauen by faith and hope The contempt of this vvorlde proceedes not out of a loue to himselfe but out of a true affection to God The wickednesse which now reigneth MOreouer the contempt of the vvorld borne of the loue of God shal at lēgth grow to hatred of the world when that besides the vanity and misery of it he shall contemplate the mischiefe and enmity against the Almighty which there reigneth when besides that vanity which some doe lay open to the view of all he wil represent to himselfe the iniquities which are closely kept the treasons adulteries murders which are priuatly and lurkingly committed when he shall consider the vials of Gods wrath and displeasure powred generally vpon humane kinde For in the consideration of this vvorld it behooueth vs to leaue out no part of it but to obserue all manner of Nations people amongst which there are many Pagans which not only by a Consequent but also by expresse profession adore the Deuill The East Indies dedicate their Tēples to him and honour him with all respect The West Indies are afflicted and tormented ordinarily with euil Spirits In most part of the North lurking deceipts and assuming strange shapes are very commō amongst the Inhabitāts Sorcery is there an ordinary profession the Divel raigneth without contradiction Jn that Country which did once flourish where the Apostles had planted so happily the Holy Gospell the churches are nowe changed into Mosquees and Temples of Idolatry In the West the head of the visible Church is become an earthly Monarck banks are erected in those places where in time past was the house of God Amongst those erroneous and envious people are scatterēd the Iewes which blaspheme against Iesus Christ and having persecuted him in his life do iniuriously wrōg him after his death The Country from whence come decrees and orders for Religiō hath in it publique brothell houses and Sodomy is there an vsuall custome Here it is also where doubts in religiō that concerne a mans faith are decided in the midst of corruption There only remaineth in the world a handfull of people which serue Jesus Christ in truth and verity and they can scarce receiue breath in this aire which is so contrary to them being here as fishes without water as the remainder of great Massacres as pieces of boards scattered after the breaking of a great vessel And yet neuerthelesse amongst these few which are substracted out of the rest of the world Corruption doth encrease as a Cancre or vlcer Quarrels vanity superfluity in apparell Avarice ambition sumptuousnes which spendeth foolishly doeth infect the one part of this smal troupe For God is il serued in priuat families their almes are colde they pray seldome read never In briefe a cōtagion of vices by conversing with our adversaries doeth infect vs vvhich is the first step to superstition For error creepes in to vs by vice and spirituall fornication by corporall Jf therfore where God is most purely knowne he be there il serued Hovv much more amōgst the rest of the world If vices do harbor within the Sanctuary hovv much more in the body of the Church and habitatiō of the wicked Therefore Christ doth rightly call Sathan the Prince of the world Peter doth iustly vvrite in the 2. of the Actes Saue your selues from that perverse generation For Sathan lyeth in ambush for vs all this age is infectious vices are like vnto glue temptatiōs strong our enimies mightie our selues feeble ignorāt the vvay of Saluation narrow and full of thornes and few there be saith Christ that finde it And those which finde it do not alwaies keepe it but many hauing knowne the truth do leaue it and returne to their vomit Let vs know then a place so dangerous that we may passe by as strangers which do not only passe but also run from it flying from the world to come vnto God For we shal neuer haue repose vnlesse wee rest our selues vpō him The heauen moueth alwaies and yet it is the place of our rest on the contrary the Earth resteth alwaies and yet it is the place of our motion The Quadrantes Horologies imitate the motion of Heauen but the faith of the beleeuers doeth imitate the rest which is aboue all Vlysses did more esteeme the smoake of his owne house then the flame of an others Howe much more thē would he esteeme the flame of his owne chimney than the smoake of anothers We are here strāgers this is not our house our habitation is in heauen Let vs compare the smoake of this strange house and the darkenesse of the Earth with the beauty and splendor of our ovvne dvvelling vvhich is in the kingdōe of Heauē Here is the raigne of Sathan there the kingdome of God Here is a valley of teares there the height of mirth Here wee sovv in sorrovve there vvee reape in Ioy Here we see the light of the Sunne through tvvo little holes vvhich are called the eies there vvee receiue light from God on every side as if vve vvere all Eyes Therefore because God is all in all To him be honor and glory in this vvorld and in the world to come Amen FINIS

HERACLITVS OR MEDITATIONS VPON THE vanity misery of humane life first written in French by that excellent Scholler admirable divine Peter Du Moulin Minister of the sacred word in the reformed Church of Paris And translated into English by R. S. Gentleman Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes 1609. TO HIS MVCH HONORED FATHER S. F. S. SIR The naturalrespect that an obseruāt sonne oweth to a worthy and carefull father obligeth me to meditate on some thing that may deserue your pervsall and answere part of your expectation hauing therefore tasted the fruites of many mens invētions I could not finde any sort so holesome for a man of your yeares nor so pleasing to mine ovvne relish as this ensuing treatise of that worthy Gentleman and admirable divine Peter Du Moulin vvho by his tongue and pen doth daily win many souls to God which otherwise would by the subtill delusion of Sathan and the persuasiue discourses of vvicked Masse-priests and sin-plotting Iesuits run headlong to their owne destruction I know your expence in my breeding may iustlie require as great a worke as this immediatly frō my selfe which I shoulde bee as willing to performe as you to command were it not that I looke backe into this age as ful of envious detractiōs idle censures as voide of all true iudgement and vertue Moreover this matter being a diuine morality or rather a morall diuinity woulde seeme too graue for my youth and too high for my knowledge Wherefore I am the rather desirous to make vse of this Translatiō because it will serue not only as a buckler against those criticall shafts which some musty quiuer might send out against me but also as a comfort restoratiue for your declining age I haue presumed to dedicate it to your fatherly censure as being yet vnable to apprehend any other thing that may either adde perfection to it selfe or deservedlie attract any favor frō you humbling craving that the errours of this Translation may not any way impeach your good opiniō but as you haue formerly so now ever after you will bind me to rest Your most observant and respectiue sonne R. S. THE AVTHORS EPISTLE Dedicatory to the Lady ANN of Rohan Sister to the Duke of Rohan MADAM This book which warreth against the vanitie of humane life is deseruedlie due vnto your Ladyship who hath truly vanquished it in your selfe I encounter it with words but you ouercome it by actions And actions doe so far surpasse words as health excelleth a medicine and as victory is more honorable then a combat Your name only in the beginning of my booke shall serue for a ●●●ument for if this little worke be a true portraiture of vices your life is a perfect patterne of opposite vertues Also I doe ingeniously confesse to haue receiued from your perfections much aid toward the perfecting of this small inuention For to drawe out the Image of vices I am to represent the contrary of that which I do both see and admire in you to haue the sacred word of God often in your hand but more often in your mouth to be daily in prayer to haue Modesty without Art to haue your hand open to the afflicted and your eare deafe to vice In vnderstanding aboue your sex to haue humility below your condition to haue a firme and free zeale without any scruple from which christian prudency hath taken away al affected austerity These are vertues that each apart is sufficient to attract admiration notwithstanding they all concur in you They are vertues that the greatnesse of your house doth render more remarkable and the corruption of our age more admirable An age in which vices are māners and wherein debosching humors and prophane vanity are passed into nature and turned into complexion In the midst of these corruptions you shine as a burning candle in an obscure night I am well assured that your modesty permitteth not this discourse but the publike profit requireth it To the end that each may knowe what estimation we haue of vertue To the end also that those vices which spread themselues increase amongst vs may be repelled by your good Example and that your vertues seruing as accusations may be a meanes to incite vs to good It is our glory that that sacred seed which wee haue scattered abroad hath fallen into so fertill a land where it hath brought forth so rare fruit especially amongst vs who haue so many examples exstant that doe demonstrat the difference betweene true piety and that superstitious deuotiō which endeuoureth to obtaine the fauour of God by a seeming pensiue action which limiteth it selfe to a set number of reiterated prayers and hath reduced religion to the fingers ends Hauing then had Madam so many reasons to dedicate this writing vnto your Ladyship This one being sufficient that I had neuer vndertaken it but by your command For I am destitute of those ornamēts that are required in this distastfull age I haue not any great words nor those swelling tearmes that only fit frolike humors I spèake not of the Barriquades of greedy The fooleries of Father Corton in his sermons before the K. of Frāce desire nor of the Escalades of vertues I call not Iesus Christ the Daulphin of heauen neither doe I compose Orations vpō the Fanne and Nosegay it sufficeth me to write French my intention being only to be vnderstood and in deciphering of vices to plant in your spirit the contēpt of the world and the loue of God In meane tearmes I intend to discourse of high matters and with a coale to delineat out the truth The defect that is in it ought to be imputed in part to my dulnes in part to my condition which is much busied and disturbed It is hard for a man to meditat amongst the blowes of Harquebusches and to mount his spirit very high when a thousand opposed things doe tend downward and break his flight But the selfe same ing enious disposition which solicited you to incite me to write shall also cause you to support the imperfectiōs of it Because not thinking in the beginning it should haue passed forth of my house it is not so well adorned as I could wish But seeing that it must now trauerse abroad by your commandement my desire is that it may be receiued as frō the hand of him which prayeth to God for the prosperity of your most Noble family which God hath honoured with his holy and diuine alliance who hath noe other ambition thē to obey you and remaine all his life Your Ladyships most humble and obedient servant PETER du MOVLIN Meditations vpon the vanity and misery of humane life THE importuning diversitie of worldly affaires doth cut our time into a hūdred thousand pieces And every affaire doth take frō vs one part of our life leauing vs no time but that which wee gaine by theft substracting some howers for to examine our selues in secret to entertaine our mind

God And in the meane time to employ his endeauors to the edification of the Church stretching out his hand to the Erroneous for to reguide thē into the right way of Salvatiō rather then to hide his Talēt in the earth and to cut himselfe cleane off frō the body and all civill society as an vnprofitable member So did the Apostles and those glorious lampes which haue enlightned the Church of God and which shine to this daie amongst vs they being dead I know wel that the opinion of Aristotle in the beginning of his Politiques is true that He which is of a solitary di●●●sition is either of a most divine or very base spirit because that hee doth estrange himselfe from all society either for that hee hath vertues more then humane or that he is so contemptible and meane in respect of man that he is vnworthy to approach neere him But let him knowe which doth affect solitarines because hee doth surpasse all men in vnderstanding or vertue that he ought to repell that humour and to condescend by humility and meekenesse to the imperfections of others labouring for the good of the Church or Common-weale either by worde or worke For what are al those perfections any more then shadowes obscure traces of those perfections which are in Iesus Christ Notwithstanding he tooke vpon him our shape and conversed amongst men that there by he might saue them and win soules to heauen Therefore to conclude this point Jf to fly from the world be a vanity how much more to follow it If vices and torments doe harbor in the desert how much more in presses and throngs of people Truely if vanity bee in euery place let vs say that All is torment and affliction of Spirit But in the meane time that Old age Man is busied about all these vaine conceipts while hee is pushing ●ime with his shoulder endevouring nothing al daies of his life but to rise to go to bed to apparel himselfe to make himselfe vnready to fill his belly to evacuat his stomacke Which is no more then a Circle of the selfe same importuning occupations much like vnto a Millers horse that alwaies treads one compasse While hee is thus busied with such occasions beholde olde age stealingly arriveth to which few do attaine and all desire But if any doe peradventure gaine that time they desire to haue it prolong'd to the vtmost This age being as grapes which haue lost their iuice and as the sinke of mans life is without question the most vnhappy for those men that are worldly as on the contrary it is the most blessed for such as are godly For worldly men in this age are doubly possessed with waywardnesse their feare and distrust doth encrease their iudgement waxeth weake and begins to diminish Wherefore wee doe wrongfully call a melancholy humour wisedome or a disability sobriety because oldnesse leaueth not pleasure but pleasure leaueth it And therefore hee doth vndeseruedly complaine that the time manners of men are chāged into worse while nothing is changed but himselfe For in his youth all things pleased him if they were neuer so bad in his old age all things disliked him if they were neuer so good Like vnto those which being in a shippe thinke that the baukes moue vvhen it is onely themselues It is also a vice incident to this age for to speake much because they are no more able to performe any thing and that they think also thēselues most fit to propose precepts to youth and to declare thinges of time long since Like vnto a declining state as that of the Romaine Empire where there are manie talkers but few valiant not much differēt from the aged time of the world where are many curious disputers but few of the true religion In this age also doth encrease the loue of wealth earthly cares doe summon new forces against man hee waxeth all gray and every thing in him beginneth thē to wither onely his vices excepted That ancient man of whom the Apostle maketh often mentiō being ready to dote waxeth not olde in worldlie age but then is hee in his full vigour He then fore-feareth approaching death and holdeth his life like vnto an Eele which slideth away In the meane time he determineth of tedious designes and heapeth vp riches as if death stoode a far off and durst not appeare Thē man hath least feare to die when nothing of worth remaineth in him but the very leese dregs of life Then doth hee prepare himselfe least to gaine the future blisse when age forwarnes him every gray haire doth ordinarily advertise him yea many times death takes for a gage one part or other of our body as an arme or eie or legge to serue for an advertisement that he will very shortly fetch the rest For old mē are affianced to the earth by a long vse and habit notwithstanding they are vnwilling to go to it whē nothing remaineth in them but euill This is also a vanity and great griefe of Spirit In conclusiō of all this vnprofitable wearisome travaile Of death behold the approach of death before they haue learned to liue much lesse to die The most part of thē being taken out of this worlde before they know to what end they entred in They vvoulde willingly prolong the date of their life but death admits no composition for it hath feet of vvool but armes of Iron it commeth insensibly but having taken once holde it never looseth her prize To this pace or step man commeth so slowly as possible he can For if a ship should sinke amongst the waues two hūdred leagues from land notwithstāding every passenger would striue to swimme not with an intent to saue his life but to repell death for some minutes and to render nature her last inevitable tribute Every mā trembleth at this passage and laboureth to settle himselfe here The sole memorye of death mournefull funerals and the reading of Inscriptions engrauen on sepulchres doth make the very haire to stare and stand on end and strikes man with an horror and apprehensiō of it Some represent death terrible to the aspect and deprived of flesh others consider it with compassion mixte with dread Some particular man which not long since was clad in silke and shined vvith Diamōds is now assaulted with troupes of wormes and breathes foorth intollerable sents while that his heire doth laugh in secret and enioyeth the fruit of all his labour which he himselfe never enioyed And never thelesse in this his very dust and corruption doth appeare an ambition and pride doth rest it self within his tombe For then behold stately Sepulchers ingraued stones that report some famous actiōs and proud titles vpon his tombe set out with false narrations to the end that passengers by may say Here lyeth a goodly stone a corrupted body Surely this is a vanity of vanities and one extreame vanity But all these are as Roses