the heauenly God he is the fire whiche is neuer extinguished neither is he with mans loue consumed nor with wood noryshed BERNARDVS WHat is more horrible to thinke vpon then death what is more feareful â–ª then iudgement what more intollerable then the paiâ—es of hell fyre what more ioyfull then the glory of Heauen c. VVith this foresayd action I reade right ernestfull Repentantly into thy hart imprint Lhy state with teares bemone as most wofull VVith contrite hart doo now thy sinnes lament And wheretofore euyll custome by consent Of selfewyll dyd cause wickednesse abound Let hencefoorth grace amend thy lyfe present That lyfe to come with ioyes may thee redound ¶ FINIS Of the Contemplacion for SATVRSDAY ¶ THE AVCTORS Commemoration for SONDAY Remember here the ioyes of Heauen The principall blisfull state of seuen The Translators Application Thalmighty woorkeman ended now hiâ— worke which he dyd frame â–ª Resting from woorke he blest this day and sanctified the same As one that greatly dyd reioyce to see all thinges so well VVith glory infinite he restes where Saintes and Angels dwell This Sabbothes rest to keeps let vs. To enioy Heauens ioyes most precious AVGVSTINVS MAN dooth not comprehend in faith or beleeue what God hath prepared for them that loue him neither is it a thing that can be hoped sufficient nor desired as it ought to be yet may it be obteyned but it can be sufficiently esteemed valued or deemed according to the due value thereof PSALME 132. HOW dearely beloued thy tabernacles of vertues are Oh Lorde my soule hath desiered to knowe within thy Courtes and yet hath it fayled thereof MATTH CAP. 25. ENter thoâ— into the ioy of thy Lord. AVGVSTINE EVery man is made blessed in the country of the heauenly kingdome as well within doores as without within that is to say in the contemplacâ—on of the diuinitie of the Creator without to say in the incarnation and beholdyng in Heauen his Sauiour PSALME 84. BLessed are they which dwell in thy house oh Lorde they shall praise thee worlde without end PSALME 49. THere are glorius sayings of thee oh thou Citie of God. Idem O Lorde I haue loued the beautie of thy house and the place of thy habitation THOBIA CAP. 13. BLessed shall I be yf the rest of my seede might hereafter see the bright clearenesse of the Citie Hierusalem The gates of Hierusalem are builded of the Saphir and Smaragd stone and of diuers precious stones yea of precious stones is the compasse of the walles thereof APOCALIPS CAP. 21. THe heauenly Hierusalem hath the walles thereof in measure an hundred and foure and fourty cubites after the measure of man which is of the angel that measured the same hauing twelue foundacions that is to say all beautified with eache kinde of most precious stones And the first fundacion was of Iasper stone the second of Saphire the third of Calcedony the fourth of Emerald the fifth of Sardonix the sixth of Sardius the seuenth of Crysolity the eight of Berill the ninth of Topas the tenth of Crysophrasus the eleuenth of Iacinth and the twelfth and last fundacion of an Amethist Sequitur AND the streetes of the Citie resembled a golden world shining clearly as bright as glasse And the Temple thereof dyd I not see for the Lorde God euen the Almighty he is the Temple thereof and the Lambe And the Citie neyther wanted Sunne nor Moone to geue light therein for the beauty of the liuing God hath illuminated the same and the light thereof is the Lambe And the gates thereof are nâ—t shutt by day time for there shall no night be seene there And thyther shall they bring glory and honor out of the Nacions There shall nothing that is deâ—owled enter in therat neither any thing that woorcketh abomination or maketh leasings but such as are written in the booke of the life of the Lambe Augusti â–ª in confessi THere is a ioy that is not geuen vnto the wicked ones but vnto those thankful ones whiche honor thee whose ioy thou thy selfe art Ther is perfection and flowre of al fairenes VVhere simplest stuffe is gold and precious stone There is finall felicitie euermore faultles VVhose pleasures there surpasse all mencion There Christe our king for the saluacion Of those that liue in his feare and him loue Caelestiall ioyes preparde hath many a one For ay to dure in glorious Heauen aboue ESAI CAP. 32. MY people shal rest them in the Tabernacle of faithfulnesse in the beautiful court of peace ESAI CAP. 9. AND there shal be none end of peace August de ciuitate dei OH heauenly house of Hierusalem whiche art ful of light vnto thee breatheth my peregrination that he might possesse me in thee which hath made both thee and me AVGVSTINVS ETernall blessednesse consisteth in two pointes to say in the necessarie absence of all euyl and in the necessarie presence of al good If we aske what good there is at all to be found otherwyse it may not be answered but what so euer good thing may be is there to be found and what so euer euyl there is or may be in any place is not at al to be found there PSALM 84. ONE day in thy Courtes is better then a thousand Idem A Thousand yeeres are in thy sight but as one day GREGORIVS FOR who would loue that which he knoweth not wherevpon the Psalmist admonisheth vs saying Taste and see how sweete the Lord is And yf he manifestly declare his sweetenes yet you knowe him not because you haue not tasted of him AVGVSTINE SVch is the beauty of Iustice so much is the pleasauntnes of eternall light that although we had but one day and no longer limitted vs to tarry there euen for this cause only yf there were none other might in-numerable yeeres of this life be despised which are passed full of delightes in the abundance of temporal wealth and that but of right and with iust cause CHRISOSTOMVS PRosperity the Stepdame of vertues from the fyrst beginning of the world hath been proffering vnto her guestes sweete things to drincke that when men haue been drunke with the dregges of her wine she might entermingle them her deadly poyson therewith VVho would be carefull with deuoute diligence Digestly to thincke on the ioyes celestiall Might well discerne by true intelligence That worldly pleasure is of price but small VVhich as deceitfull would nought esteeme at all VVhen he dooth behold with great security That precious Pallace and place imperiall Ordeyned for Christes elect eternally SAPIENCE CAP 3. VNhappy and voyde is the hope of them their labours are without fruite but glorious is the fruites of the labours of the good men AVGVSTINE WHat madnes of soules is that to lose life and take death to gett wealth and lose heauen CHRISOSTOME IT is better to be compared vnto the brute Cattell then continually to be borne into this world For naturally to be boyde of reason is a thyng intollerable but
woonderfull temperature as the equitie of the lawe might require making hym selfe partaker in the punishment wholy due vnto his sonne perfourmed him selfe a mercifull father and iust distributer of the law in this maner Ad Titum 2. LET vs liue soberly iustly and godly in this world looking for the blessed hope and glory of the mighty God. PSALME 40. BLessed is the man which hath the name of the Lord for his hope and hath not beheld nor looked after vanities and mischeuous falshoodes Idem BEhold the man which hath not taken God for his helper but hath trusted in the multitude of his ritches and preuayled in his vanitie the hope of the vngodly shall perishe Our hope our happe we set in worldlines And men with men defraude in vvhite and black Corrupting conscience all daring in darknes In our conceiptes as vve should aye hold svvack Our crazed Cables all at a cast vvyll crack Yf God so please his stormes but once to steare VVherefore in time for our misse mendes le ts make And stand vve fast els perishe vve in feare BERNARDVS WHat madnes is this where men doo desire to forsake plaine and simple dealinges for double double dealinges Where is the couetous man where is the lecherous person where is the ambicious and vayne glorious where is the vnthankfull person that whineth at the feâ—icitie of this world because howe much the more God hath bestowed his benefites vpon such one so much the lesse feareth he to offend him and reputyng not him self beholdyng in duety for the benefites of God receaued doth rather more impugne and withstand him DEVTERONO 32. WHOM the Lorde hath loued is puft vp with fatnesse and hath spurned against the Lord his maker PSALME 119. THEY are troubled and mooued vnto mischeefe as a drunken man. AVGVSTINVS THE thing that thou desirest to enioy is like vnto a Mouse trappe whyles thou seekest to catch thy desyre thou thy selfe art snared whyles thou holdest that which is an other mans thou art holden caytiue of the deuill BERNARDVS WHAT dooth GOD punishe or what dooth he hate but a mans selfe wyll in sinfulnesse Let selfe wyll in sinfulnesse cease and there shal be no hell ordeined for thee c. There is no reason our misrule can arrest This vvretched vvord so farre vvakes our vvitte Invvard to vvysedome our vvyls vve doo not vvrest For Couetis hath vs in his chaine so knitte And vvicked examples of sinners can vs tvvit VVhat resteth more vve shrinke not to trespas From this guilefull vvorld as vve should neuer flitt But our vvylles vve vvorke tyll out run be our glas 1. CORINT CAP. 3. THE foolishnesse of this world is counted wysedome before God. GALATHE 3. YOV foolishe dotyng Galathians who hath bewitched you that you wil not obey the trueth ESAI 19. de Impiis WHERE are nowe become thy wyse men the Princes of Zoan are become fooles the Princes of Noph are deceaued euen they that were reputed the cheefe stay thereof haue deceaued Egypt in the midst of it hath the Lord powred the spirite of wickednesse yea they haue deceaued Egypt in euery woorke thereof euen as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit TERENCIVS EVen seeing it with my eyes my selfe wittingly and willingly doo perishe and am vndone AVGVSTINVS in confes O You louers of the world for what cause doo you goe to warres with your selues Can your hope be greater in the world then that you become freendes vnto the worlde what other thyng els can you finde there but a frayle and brittell vessell full of dangers All these things let them perishe let vs geue ouer these vaine thinges and let vs goe another way to the wood to the searching foorth of those thinges which haue none end AMBROSIVS HE that is poore in the purse and ritche in good conscience sleepeth more soundly in the Cottage theâ— the ritche man that enioyeth gold and purple at pleasure AVGVSTINVS THE world passeth away and the concupiscence thereof Whether hadst thou leauer loue temporall thynges and with them passe away in time or loue Christe and with him liue for euer AMBROSIVS WHO was he at any time so mindful of the world that hath been mindfull of Christe as he should be Ephes pri Petri. CAP. 2. I Beseech you as Strangers and Pilgrims that you absteyne your selues from carnall desyres which fight agaynst the soule SENECA ad Lucillum STrangers and Pilgrims doo harbour them selues in many diuers Innes but they finde no freendship by their soiournyng at all Therefore I counsell eache christian creature In vvorldly vvayes his mind to modefy To liue in rrueth iustly and not to iniure Yea and vvith glad pacience to vvelcome aduersity VVith dreade and temperance vsing prosperity Thinking this vvorld a throughfare of vvo VVhat euer God send blesse him ay gladly As vve vvere Pilgrimes passing to and fro FINIS Of the Contemplacion for MVNDAY ¶ THE AVCTORS Commemoration for TVESDAY The state of innocencie heare Continually in mind le ts beare The Translators Application The second day a Firmament the Lord God dyd ordeyne VVaters aboue as wel as vnder to deuide in twayne The vpper Firmament Heauen cald the neathermost Earth is The Mornyng and the Euennnng cleare he let be made with this The state of innocencie cleare In mind and maners let appeare PSALME 25. THE innocent and iust men haue taken part with me IOB CAP. 27. VNtyll I dye wyll I not depart from my innocencie ECCLESIASTES 15. HAVE thou no delight in wicked children yf they shal be multiplied vpon the earth for one childe that feareth GOD is better then a thousand of the vngodly and it were better to die without issue then to leaue wicked children behind thee IOB CAP. 22. THE innocent shal be saued Idem CAP. 3. What innocent person did euer yet perishe at any time ECCLESIAST GAP 15. A Man is knowen and discerned in his children PROVERBES CAP. 23. WIthdraw not discipline from thy child for yf thou beate him with the rod he shall not dye AMBROSIVS THE dissolute or loose life of the children is referred vnto the negligence of the parentes The Aucthor figured here by the portrature Of Adam and Eue our parentes innocence VVhen they a time in God his grace stood sure Before their fall he geues intelligence Howe we should frame our liues with diligence To the recouerie of our lost heritage To God and Man eschewing all offence By lyfe innocent of eche estate and age SENECA IT is needefull that vertues haue a master and teacher of them but as for vices they are learned of vs without any teacher because vertue is a thing wherein difficulty consisteth SENECA THE bringing vp of children and the discipline or awe of correction wherein they stand doo confirme theyr maners and conuersation and euery childe hath a taste perseuerance of that which he hath learned 1. CORINT 16. THE doore is set open for vs but there is a manifest daunger before our eyes and we
of Iuda entred into the fauour of Ioas the Kâ—ng and did honour the King as a God who being ouercome with their flattering seruices gaue eare vnto them and both the King and his Counsell then forsooke the Church of the Lorde and dyd woorship vnto the starres of the Firmament and grauen Images and the wrath of the Lorde was mooued vppon Iuda and Hierusalem for this offence PROVERBES I Wysedome haue my dwelling in the counsels of men 3. REGVM CAP. 12. ROboam the King forsooke the counsell of the Elders of the kingdome wherevppon it came to passe that of twelue tribes which ruled in Israel he lost ten of them PROVERBES CAP. 12. THE counsels of the vngodly are meare deceiptfull snares vnto them selues VERSVS Regnum stat sanum per consilium veteranum Where auncient heads doo counsell giue The kingdome there dooth safely liue Regnum decressit vbi consilium iuuenescit That kingdome must of needes decay Where counsellors young do beare the sway Et proprium lucrum crescit Liuorque patescit And eche mans priuate gaines increase And malice from mischeefe doth not cease PSALME 26. I Haue hated the vniust liuers and I am abhorred of them Good company is of so great vertue It causeth sinners to become gracious VVhen they endeuour them selues to rescew From their folly and faultes defamous And eke euill company is so contagious That it corrupteth good inclination It is so vigorus violent and venemous It puts euen princes to great perdicion PSALME 112. THERE is risen vp a light in place of darknesse to suche as are of a true hart SAPIENCE CAP. 17. FOR with one chaine or band were they all linckt ESAI CAP. 56. THVS sayth the Lorde Keepe equitie and doo right for my sauing health shall come shortly and my righteousnesse shall be opened SENECA ad Lucillum PVT thou no confidence in fortune of this world for in a moment is the Sea altered and chaunged GREGORIVS THE great surges of temporall thinges carrieth with them the iudgement of eternall damnation HIERONIMVS IT is not possible for a man to enioy both the present felicities of this life and of the life to come and here to fyll his belly and there to satisfie his mind and from pleasures to pleasures to passe his appointed course that he may be both happy and blessed in heauen and earth togeather GREGORIVS IF we wyll seeke for the sweete it is requisite that wee doo suffer and tollerate the sower VERSVS Dulcia non meruit qui non gustauit amara The sweete to haue deserues not he That hath not tasted the sowre tree SOPHONI CAP. 1. THEY shall walke as the blind doo because they haue sinned against the Lorde EXODVS CAP. 10. AND Moyses lifted vp his handes vnto Heauen and there was made horrible darknesse for the space of three dayes vppon the whole land of Egypt so that no man knâ—we his owne brother neither knewe he in what place him selfe was but contrarywyse â–ª where so euer the children of Israel had their abiding there appeared light vnto them IOHN CAP. 10. THE light shineth in the darknesse but the darknesse comprehendeth it not ESAI CAP. 9. THE people that walketh in the darkenesse haue seene a great light appeared vato them there is light arysen vp vnto them that dwell in the shadowe of death LVKE CAP. 1. TO lighten those that sitte in darknesse and in the shadowe of death Actum Apostolorum CAP. 9. A Light from Heauen compassed him shining rounde about him and when he opened his eyes he sawe nothing SAPIENCE CAP. 2. FOR their owne malice hath blinded them selues Among the plagues of Egypt most horrible One was of darknes three dayes enduring VVhich was a token troublesome and terrible To all the Egyptians but there abiding The people of Israel had large light shining So though this world be blinded by abusance Yet amongst all some be in grace growyng To innocent lyfe through fruitefull repentance ECCLESIAST CAP. 40. THERE is great labour and trauell ordeyned for all men and a yoke of greeuous painefulnesse which shall be laid vpon the sonnes of Adam from their birth day vntill they shall returne vnto the Earth their graue the mother of all thinges euen from the degree of him which beareth the scepter and weareth the Diadem or Crowne vnto that lowe degree of him that is clothed in sackecloth fury zeale hurlyburly trembling and the feare of death burning in irefull indignation and contencion shall molest him and when he would take his rest in his bedde the dreame of the night passed shall take away his vnderstanding IOB CAP. 14. MAN which is borne of a woman hath but a short time here to liue and is filled with many miseries with heate colde and hunger and neuer remaineth in one estate because he is nowe in good health straightway sicke c. All mortall creatures conceaued in sinne VVretchedly borne liuing in variaunce Are lyke fragrant flowres in a Garden VVith fading florishe euer chaunging the chaunce The newe to olde succeedeth by ordinaunce So in his kinde goeth humane succession Now sicke now sound now glad now in greeuaunce Neuer standeth in one estate by condicion BERNARDVS HOO ritche Lorde art thou in mercie howe mighty in iustice howe bountifull in grace O Lorde our GOD there is none like vnto thee PSALME 34. BVT those that seeke foorth the Lorde shall not be put to confusion in euery good enterprise wherevppon saith Cassiodorus When we loue the Lorde we finde al things in him he is one onely to be sought for but he is that one wherein all thinges are conteined Oh woonderfull gaine oh singuler sallary or steepend for our paines why then doo we wearie our selues by diuers meanes but let vs with one vnitie of mind make haste vnto him who being had let vs seeke for none other felicities besides him but let vs holde him with fixed faith GENESIS CAP. 31. THOV hadst very little before that I came vnto thee and nowe thou art made riche by me and God hath blessed thee at my entrance vnto thee THOME CAP. 2. AT all times and seasons doo thou geue praises and pray vnto God and desire of him that he would direct thy wayes according to his wyll VVherefore our God meekely to thee we call Graunt vs thy grace for most surest suffisance To set aside all sinnes sensuall And be our guide with all good gouernance In mysty darknesse of worldly variance Graunt wylling mindes thy will to execute That vve may so serue thee vvithout dissimulance So as of thy grace vve be neuer destitute IERONIMVS THERE is nothing more like vnto the woorkes of the Deuils then to be continually at strife and debate one man with an other CASSIODRVS SEe that you haue vnitie in the bond of peace because there is not a more liuelier shape and fourme of Angelicall conuersation then is brotherly vnitie of one man with an other AVGVSTINVS GOD loueth the bonde of concorde and vnitie GREGORIVS THERE
4. THE way of the vngodly is as the darkenesse they knowe not where they fall IEREMI GAP 5. OVR sinnes haue debarred and prohibited the good graces of God from vs. PSALME 10. IN the woorkes of his owne handes is the sinner snared and taken PSALME 31. MANY plagues are there ordeyned for sinners but mercy shall compasse him rounde about that putteth his trust in the Lorde BERNARD BE ashamed oh my Soule and blushe at thy folly thou hast chaunged thy deuine shape and forme into a brutish and beastly forme Idem THERE is nothing more beastly then that man which is endewed with reason and vseth it not Idem HOw much the more a man shall sinne so much the lesse shall he knowe what sinne is and in deede so much the more shall he be delighted therewith Robart Grosthed Lincolniens SInne is the issue or generation of the deuill the parent of death the corruption of nature and the deformation or defilyng of the soule GREGORIVS WHAT greater poynt of madnesse can there be in man then for a very little pleasure of the flesh to make him self a bondman vnto euerlasting punishmentes DEVTERONO CAP. 28. WHAT yf thou wouldest desire of God that thou mightest heare the voyce of this thy Lorde and God speaking vnto thee that thou shouldest obserue and accomplishe all that he commaundeth The Lorde shall strike thee with madnes and with blindnes and with fury of the minde that thou shalt stumble at the noone day as the blind man is woont to stumble in the darknes and thou shalt not guide thy footesteppes but shalt alwaies suffer reproche and be oppressed with violence neyther shall there be any man to deliuer thee free from his fury Sinne is the cause of our perdition Sinne of the Deuill is daughter venemons In soule and body sinne causeth corruption Sinne is a sicknesse right contagious Sinne maketh a man foolishe and furious All in wood rage running without reason His dayes ouerdriuing in state styll daungerous VVith confused course of time and season PSALME 14.53 THEY haue trembled with feare where there was no feare at all LEVITCVS CAP. 26. IF so be that you wyll not heare me neyther doo all that I haue commaunded you but shall despise my lawes and ordinances I wyll set my face agaynst you and you shall perishe before the face of your enimies and you shal be cast vnder foote of those that haue hated you The King shal put them in feare yea the noyse of a leafe blowen from the Tree shall make them afraide they shal fall downe to the earth when there is no man to strike them PROVER CAP. 12. THE way of the vngodly shall deceaue them the deceitfull man shall finde none aduantage APOCAL. CAP. 18. THERE is prepared a dwelling place for all the Deuils and a place of custody for euery vncleane spirite OZEA. CAP. 9. THEY are become abominable euen as those idols that they haue embraced and had in honour PROVERB CIP 18. THE belly of the wicked person is neuer satisfied SOPHONI CAP. 1. THEY haue walked as the blinde that sawe not because they haue sinned against the Lorde IOB CAP. 18. HIS foote path is hidden in the earth feare and trembling shall make him afraide on euery side IOB CAP. 20. THE praise of the vngodly shal be but for a small seazon and the ioy of an hypocrite is like vnto the poynt of a swoord yf his pride shall lift it selfe vp vnto the heauens and that his head doo touche the cloudes yet in the ende it shall be destroyed euen as the filthy dounghil and as a dreame that is vanished shall it not be found The mind of sinners is figured vnto hell VVherein is fyre and feendish cruelty Gods lawes and maners resisting as rebell VVith lothsome stenche of wylful iniquity Committed by the seuen sinnes deadly And he that sinne into his chayne can lincke By subtyll shiftes and shameles impiety T ys a speciall gift yf they twayne euer shrincke ROMANS CAP. 6. THE reward of sinne is death PSALME 146. HIS spirite shall goe foorth and shall returne into his owne land in that day shal all his cogitations perishe PROVERBES CAP. 11. THE wicked man being once dead there resteth no further hope vnto him BERNARDVS O Thou Soule of man not with precious golde or siluer but with the blood of the Lambe of GOD redeemed Why wylt thou deliuer thy selfe into destruction seeing Christe for the loue that he beareth vnto thee hath shed his most precious blood HYLLARIVS THE Soule that sheweth not her selfe nete and clearely shining indewed with the garment or robe of holy life is not the Soule espoused vnto Christe but the Deuils darling AVGVSTINVS HAppy is that Soule which shall so endeuour her selfe to gouerne her life that she may through Christe deserue to receaue and entertaine Christ as her geste and inhabiter within her ECLESIAST CAP. 4. BE sorowfull and heauy for thy Soule PSALME 69. THE zeale of thy house Lorde hath euen as it were eaten me vp 1. REGVM CAP. 22. THERE is none that soroweth for my state ECCLESIAST CAP. 32. THE wicked are hardly chastized to amendment and the number of fooles is infinite PSALME 32. BEcause mercie hath come vppon him he shall with mercie be chastized AMBROSIVS THE lewde and dissolute life of the child shal be imputed the negligence of the parentes PSALME 141. BVT the oyle of a sinner shall not hurt my head TVLLIVS FOR euery pounishment and correction ought to be without reproche neither to the reproche of him whiche so punisheth or chastizeth any person but to be referred only for the commoditie and profite of the weale publique AVGVSTINVS THE wrath of GOD is then greate when the offender is not by due chastisement reclaimed but suffereth him selfe to runne in further offence by taking a wandring libertie Mans soule is a iewell incomperable By Christe his bloodshed dearely bought VVherefore he wyll that we be coumptable To him in good wyll for sauety sought VVhen to captiue vs Satan sought Bereft of all solace then surely were wee Tyll this our champion for vs fought VVe deserued the scourge of his equitee ECCLESIAST CAP. 7 REmember thy last dayes and thou shalt not doo amis for euer ECCLESIAST CAP. 11. IF a man doo liue many yeeres and in all this time shall reioyce and be meery yet he ought to remember the dayes of darknesse and the daies of many which shal then come shal plainely testifie that the dayes past were the dayes of vanitie GREGORIVS THE true and perfect life is to be medâ—tating howe to dye well Idem HE that considereth with him selfe what maner of person he shal be when death assayleth him is euermore fearefull in his affaires to offend ECCLESIAST CAP. 12. THE Lorde shall bring all thinges to receaue iudgement that are done vnder the heauens ECCLESIAST CAP. 9. REmember the Lorde in thy life time because death detracteth no time HVGO de sancto victore WE
's none by flyght vvhich may be fugitiue Then Sunne and Moone obscured vvith anoyance Yea other Planets vvith beames obumbratiue Shall in their kinde shevve dolorus countenance DEVTERO CAP. 9. THere shall goe before thee a deuouring fyre and a consuming flame IOEL CAP. 2. BLowe vp the Trumpet in Sion Reioyce you that dwell vpon my holy hill Let all the inhabitantes of the earth be troubled and disquieted because the day of the Lorde is at hand because the day of darknesse and of smoothering heate draweth neare the cloudy and troublesome day Idem BEfore his face shall goe a deuouring fire and after him shal folow a burning flameâ— for the day of the Lord is a mighty day and a very fearefull day and who shall abide the same neyther is there any man which shall escape it Eodem IOEL BE you therefore conuerted and turne vnto me saith the Lorde with all your whole hart in fasting in mournyng and in bitter teares and you shal be saued APOCA CAP. 20. AND the sea gaue out from her the dead bodyes that were buried in the bottome thereof yea death and hell it selfe sent foorth their dead gohstes and there was sentence of iudgement pronounced vppon euery one according to their woorkes IOEL CAP. 3. I Wyll geather all nations togeather and I wyll bring them into the vale of Iosaphat and wyll dispute with them 1. CORINTH CAP. 15. TRuly we shall ryse againe at the iudgement day but we shall not all be immutable or vnchanged euen in a moment or twinckling of the eye in the last blast of the Trumpe Ricardus super 4. dist 47. HOwe or in what maner the Lorde wyll geue iudgement is not presently manifested to the world neither hath he woorthely rewarded euery man neyther hath he punisht them accordingly but the accomplishment thereof resteth behind in his handes as touching the body and the soule and as touching the desert of prayse or punishment EPHESI CHP. 4. VNtill we shall al runne togeather in one course with vnitie of fayth and woorshipping the sonne of GOD growing vp to one perfect man in measure of the fulnesse of the aige of Christe APOCALIPS 22. ANd I sawe as well the great as smal bodyes standing openly before the throne and the bookes were opened Athanasius in Symbolo AGaynst whose comming all men shall be warned to aryse with their bodyes out of the earth MALACHI CAP. 3. WHO shal be able to consider of the day of his comming or who shall endure to behold the sight of his presence IOB CAP. 14. WHO is able to warrant me that thou wylt protect my soule in the neathermost hell and hide me vntill the furie of thy displeasure shal be passed and that it wyll please thee to appoint me a time when thou wylt remember me That day is the day of wrath and calamitie yea the great day of miserie very bitter HEBREOS CAP. 10. BVT terrible and fearefull is the looking for of the iudgement and feruent heate of the fire which shall destroy all his enimies IOB CAP. 19. FLee you away from the face of the Lorde because the swoord is a reuenger of iniquities All fleshe shall aryse from death to liue In soule and body hauyng resemblance Then to receaue sentence definitiue Decreed by Gods deuine ordinance Hovv euer it be in ioy and greeuance VVe shall addresse vs young olde ritche and pore Happy or vnhappy as it shall then chance To rest in payne or pleasure euermore MARCI CAP. 13. THen shall they see the sonne of man comming in the Cloudes of Heauen SAPIENCE CAP. 12. WHO shall stand against thy iudgement oh Lord or who shall come before thy presence as a reuenger vppon the wicked ones of this world PROVERBES CAP. 6. THE Lord wyll not spare any flesh in the day of reuengement neither wyll he be pacified with the entreaty of any person neither wyll he take great rewardes to redeeme any soule PSALME 110. BEcause his mercie is enduring for euer HIERONIMVS IF only the lawe and iudgement of mortall creature and fraile flesh which shal be turned into dust be with such care â—hroughly trembled at and feared With what carefull feare ought we to prouide for the iudgement of the deuine maiestie PSALME 110. I Wyll sing of mercy and iudgement vnto thee oh Lord. Idem O GOD geue thy iudgement vnto the king c. PSALME 36. THY iudgement oh Lord is as the light of the mid-day APOCA CAP. 20. AND behold the dead were called vp to be iudged as touching those things that were written in the bookes to receaue their reward according to their woorkes NAVM CAP. 3. BEholde sayth the Lord God of hostes I come vnto thee and wyll discouer thy shamefulnesse euen in thine owne face and wyl shewe thy nakednesse vnto the nations and reproche vnto other kingdomes and I wyll poure out vpon thee thy owne abominations and will smite thee with reproches Then shall our kyng vvhich iudged vvas vs iudge In glorious forme of deuine humanitie From vvhose face there may be then no refuge No fauour freendship revvard parcialitie Nor any respect ouer high and lovve degree VVhen in tvvo diuers maners he shall administrate His iudgement to the godly vvith mylde mercie But most seuere Iustice vnto the reprobate SAPIENCE CAP. 5. BVT the righteous shal liue for euermore their reward also is with the Lord and the care for them is with the highest Chrisostomus super Mattheum IN that day of the Lordes reuenge we shal haue nothing to answeare for our selues for the Heauen the Earth the Sunne and the Moone the Dayes and the Nightes and all the whole Worlde it selfe shall stand against vs to beare witnesse against vs of our sinnes and wickednesse IACOBI CAP. 5. YOur ritches are become rotten and consumeâ— your garmentes are eaten with the Moth your golde and your siluer is become rusty and the rust thereof shal be a witnesse against you ABACVCK CAP. 2. THE stone in the Walle shall crie out against you and the Tymber betweene the Rooffes of your houses shall answere against you HVGO de sancto victore THE conscience of man is as a booke shut whiche shal be opened in the day of iudgement MICHEAS CAP. 3. HEare O ye Princes of the house of Iacob captaines ouer the house of Israel Eiusdem CAP. 6. LET the high Hilles heare the iudgement of the Lord. LVKE CAP. 16. GEVE a reckonyng of thy Stewardshippe SAPIENCE CAP. 6. THere shal be a most sharpe iudgement ordeyned for such as beare aucthoritie ouer others AVGVSTINVS THE Prelates are woorthy to dye so many deathes as they geue euill examples of death vnto their people committed in charge vnto them ESAI CAP. 46. HEare me oh you of hard hartes whiche are farre of from dooing iustice IEREMI CAP. 15. MY people is become a disobedient people their Sheepheardes haue led them a wrong way DANIEL CAP. 13. INiquitie is gone out from Babylon euen from those that were the elder
Iudges which were seene to beare rule ouer the people and they haue turned away their vnderstanding and haue withdrawen their eyes from beholding the Heauen neither would they remember the iudgementes of the iust This processe of iudgement is short vvithout tarying VVhen for our sinnes shall serue none excuse But our vnkindnesse to Christe our soueraigne king Our consciences eke vvitnesses shall vs accuse VVhen vve his gracious good fauour abuse God graunt therefore by ages tofore past VVe in this last aige such vvarnyng may take That cleauing in feare to this our God fast VVe may auoyde the danger of the dreadfull lake 2. CORINTH CAP. 6. FOR we all must needes be manifested and openly reuailed before the tribunall seate of Christe that euery man may reape that whiche he hath done in his body be it good or be it bad ESAI CAP. 13. BEhold the day of the Lord shal come that cruell day and full of indignation wrath and furies to put the earth in feare and her sinners to be ouerthrowen by her because the Starres of Heauen and their glitâ—ering hue shall not geue foorth light vnto them EZECHIEL 6. THE end commeth it shall stand vp as a watchman against the sorowe shal come vpon thee which dwellest vppon the Earth the time is come the day of death is neare at hand and not of the ioyfull sound of the Hils Now euen at hand foorthwith wyll I powre out my indignation vppon thee and wyll accomplishe the desire of my fury vppon thee and wyl iudge thee according to thy wayes and wyll lay vppon thee as a burden all thy wickednesse and my eye shall haue no compassion vpon thee neither wyll I shewe thee any mercy but wyl lay vpon thee thine owne wicked wayes MATTHE 25. THen shall he say to those which shal stand vpon his left hand Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fyre whiche is prepared for the deuil and his angels ORIGEN SInners doo lincke them selues in amitie with the Deuill as they which are by the prouidence of God saued are made coequals with the holy angels So such as perishe are compared vnto the angels of the Deuil Augustinus 21. de ciuitate dei HEreby also is it manifest that the same fire is geuen by ordinance for a pounishment vnto men and deuils Gregorius 33. cap. mora IT belongeth to the iustice of a straight Iudge neuer to withdrawe pounishment from them whiche of their owne mindes in this life would neuer withdrawe them selues from sinne PSALME 119. VNderstand this you that haue forgotten God least that at any time he take you away by force and then there be no man to take you out of his handes c. Then shall Christe thus pronounce for conclusion From his leaft hand vvhen he the vvicked shal expel Depart yee vvofull vvretches vvith my malediction To the perpetuall fyre and tormentes of hell In dolorous darknesse vvith deuils there to dvvell VVithout recouerie shall be there your residence Fellovved vvith feendes furious and fell And of my person neuer more to haue presence MATTHE 25. COme you the blessed of my Father possesse you the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world ORIGEN FOR the holy ones of God whiche haue wrought the woorkes of righteousnesse haue alredy taken for their hyre the inheritaunce on the right hand of GOD for their woorkes of righteousnesse wherein consistes both rest and glorious triumphe AVGVSTINVS LAbour in worldly matters will discourage thee from comming vnto God but behold the Heauens whiche haue learned the first commaundement they fulfill the same TOBIA 6. THE Lorde GOD of Heauen shall rewarde thee with ioy and comfort for the werisome trauel that thou hast endured 2. CORINTH 1. FOR this ioye and comfort that we haue conceaued is a witnesse of our conscience within vs c. PSALME 100. BE you glad in the Lord and be ioyful you that are iust c. and reioyce you in the lord c. MATTH CAP. 24. WAtche therefore because you know not the houre when the Lord wyll come HIERONIMVS IT was not requisite that the Apostles should haue the day of the foreknowledged comming of Christe reuealed vnto them that by reason of theyr earnest looking for of his comming they not knowing when yet might alwayes beleeue that he would come whom they knewe not howe soone he would come GREGORIVS WHat man seemeth to watche in deede which to beholde the brightnesse of the true light keepeth open the eyes of his mind That man watcheth who obserueth that order of dooing well which he beleeueth is acceptable before god That man watcheth which driueth from him the darknesse of dolour and negligence IOHN CAP. 3. O Ye generacions of Vipers who hath taught you to flee from the wrath to ome Doo you therefore shewe foorth woorthy fruites of repentance PSALME EVen as the wounded bodies sleeping in their graues that is to say The sinners of whom there is no further memory and those are repulsed out of thy handes PSALME 36. DEpart from dooing that is euill and doo good After the first sentence the second folowe shall Full of solace and consolation Saying vnto those on his right hand all Come ye chyldren on my benediction VVhich haue me loued with true intention Receaue you the kingdome of lasting blis Reserued for you from the worldes creation God grannt vs thy grace to labour for this ESAI CAP. 46. REturne and come againe oh you that haue frowardly walked after your owne hart GREGORIVS O How strait shall then be the way for the reprobate aboue in the Heauens shall sitte the Iudge full of displeasure belowe in Hell shal be an horrible confusion vpon the right hande shall stand our sinnes to accuse vs vpon the leaft hand infinite numbers of Deuils which shall drawe vs to the tormenting place within vs the gnawing of our conscience and without vs the Woâ—ld burning rounde about Whyther then shall the sinner flee To appeare to iudgement shal be intollerable for him and to hyde him setfe shal be impossible PSALME 138. I Haue remembred these and I haue powred out myne owne soule before me HIERONIMVS BVT thou discreete Reader marke and consider that both the punishments which are ordeyned are eternall and that the euerlasting ioyfull life hath in it no maner of decay or ruine ECCLESIASTI CAP. 7. BE mindfull of the wrath of the Highest because he wyll not long foreslewe the time MATTH CAP. 10. FEare not ye those that haue power to slay the body onely but rather feare you him which is able to destroy both body and soule euen in the very Hell. Augustinus de verbis Domi. BVT we see all such as loue this present life temporall and which is soone ended so to labour for the same that when the passion of death approcheth them they make all the shift they can that they not be taken away with death and by all meanes seeke to prolong their life If then men doo with suche
labour and such care endeuour thâ—m selues to the ende they would liue a litle longer howe and by what meanes ought they to labour and be carefull for the life euerlasting And yf such men be accompted wyse which trye all maner wayes howe they may deferre death and prolong life for a short time How foolish are those whiche liue so as thereby they lose the life euerlasting surely such may be called most fooles of all other Reuolue in mind the great perplexitee Of sinners seeing them selues in such assay VVhen rheir iust Iudge aboue them they shall see And vnder them Hell to swalowe them as pray All faythfull Christians marke this by the way If sentence geuen for Temporall offence Deserue here a death with losse of goodes alway VVhat to offend the highest shal be the sentence PSALME 118. THey are corrupted and become abominable in their studies it is time Lord to besturre thee they haue dispersed and wrested thy lawe IOB CAP. 5. I Wyll pray vnto the Lord who reproueth the wyse men of this world in their craftinesse and dooth disperse the counsels of the wicked PROVERBES CAP. 2. HE hath forsaken the right way and walketh through the darke places ESAI CAP. 1. THey geue not sentence in fauour of the Orphane and the complaint of the Wydowe hath not come in before them IOB CAP 36. DIssemblers and lukewarme worldlings doo proâ—â—re the wrath of God vpon them PSALME 10. THE mouth of them that speake mischeuous thinges is stopped Let the deceitfull lips be come dumbe and not able to vtter their speache LVKE CAP. 16. THe children of this world are in their generation wyser then the children of light Psalmista de impiis 8. THey are troubled as a drunken man and all their wysedome is vtterly consumed ESAI CAP. 29. FOR wysedome shall depart and perishe from the wyse of this world that is to say from such as are reputed wyse men and their vnderstanding shall be darkened because it is said IEREMI CAP. 4. THey are wyse enough to woorke wickednesse but to doo well they haue none vnderstanding BERNARDVS SVrely thou hast found out wisdome aright yf thou canst esteeme of all things as they be namely of sinne and vices as thinges that are vyle and altogeather to be shunned Of â—emporall thinges as that whiche is fraile and transitory and therfore to be smaly made accompt of but of eternall thinges as that which is best and therefore aboue all others câ—eefely and specially to be desired and imbraced Of worldly witte see the furious raige How it is dased in wylfull darckenesse VVhere spirituall wysedome graue godly and saige Should rest in those that Christe doo professe Some yet there are which practize nought lesse But subtilty the simple to circumuent As wyly VVoolues their deedes them expresse VVhich dayly deuoureth the Lambes innocent SOPHONI CAP. 1. THey shall walke as the blind in darknes because they haue sinned against the lord ESAI CAP. 49. THus sayth the Lorde In an acceptable time haue I heard thee and in the day of health haue I helped thee 2. CORINTH CAP. 6. WE exhort you brethrâ—n that you receaue not the grace of God in vaine for he saith Behold the acceptable time Behold now the day of your sauing health APOCAL. CAP. â—0 ANd he swore by the God that liueth for euer because there shal not be any longer time ECCLESIASTI CAP. 39. FOR all things shal be sought for in their time DEVTERONO CAP. 32. de impiis IT is a nation wanting the counsell voyde of the wysedome of the highest Would to God they would once be wyse and geather vnderstanding and that they would prouide for the later dayes c. PSALME 2. HEare this al ye nacions marke and geue eare heare this you that inhabite the world SOPHONI CAP. 1. THe great day of the Lord is at hand it is very neare and too too swiftly comming vpon vs ye heare tell that the day of the Lorde shal be bitter â—hen shall the strong man be troubled That day shal be the day of wrath the day of tribulation and of sorowe the day of calamitie and of trouble the day of the Trumpe and the sound of the Trumpe vpon the strong defended cities and vppon the angels on an hie and I wyll vexe all flesh and they shall walke as the blinde doo because they haue sinned against the Lord. Sequitur BVt their siluer and their gold shall not deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the lord All the earth shal be consumed with the fyre of his indignation HIERONIMVS super Mattheum SO oft as I consider vppon the day of the Lordes iudgement I quake for feare in euery part of my body and whether I eate or drinke or what thing so euer els I doo mee thinkes I heare the fearefull Trumpe alwayes sounding in myne eares Aryse vp you dead and come to iudgement c. Such worldly wyse make no prouision For their soules health that euer shall endure But runne headlong into the pit of perdition VVoorking their wylles at all aduenture But such as feare God in euery condition VVith spirituall wysedome furnished are Liuing in feare and harty contrition Agaynst the last day them selues to prepare PSALME 47. THOV shalt renue the face of the earth when the sinners shall perishe thou shalt see it MATTH CAP. 25. THese shall depart into the perpetuall torment ESAI CAP. 3. THE light of the Moone shal shine foorth as the Sun doth and the Sun shall geue foorth his beames as the light of seuen dayes together euen vpon that day when the Lord shall binde vp the woundes of his people and shal heale vp the scarre of the stripe and behold the name of the Lord commeth from a farre whott shal be his wrath and indignation and greeuous to be susteyned ECCLESIASTI CAP. 43. THE Heauens shall shewe foorth their beauty in the day when the glory of the sonne of man shal be seene APOCALIPS CAP. 14. NOwe in deede is the time when the spirite shall say Let all flesh rest from their labours PETER CAP. 2. cathol THE Lorde knoweth best times when to take away and deliuer the godly from the temptations of this world and to keepe the wicked ones to be tormented at the day of iudgement PROVERBES CAP. 16. THe iudgementes of the Lorde are as the ballance and the weightes PSALM 55. FEare anâ— trembling haue come vpon me and the darke places haue enuironed me round about AVGVSTINVS FALL to repentance whyles thou art iâ— health and yf thou shalt so doo I say vnto thee that thou shalt be safe because thou hast repented thee whyles otherwyse thou mightest haue trespassed for yf thou wylt in time repent thee when thou shalt not haue power to sinne sinne shall forsake thee before thou forsake them Soone after sentence of generall iudgement The heauens shall royally be renouate Then shall the wicked to Sathan be sent To make abode with him for euer exterminate Then
9. YOV shall serue strange goddes whiche shall not suffer you to take any rest nyght nor day SAPIENCE CAP 4. AND there shal be after these thinges seene those that shall slide away without â—onor and liue in reproches amongst the â—ead for euer and they shal be laid waste euen â—â—to the very last man. GREGORIVS in moribus THE pounishment is by the ordinance of God distinguished according to the meaâ—â—re of the fault committed â—el is a hole of horrible darknes VVhere light is languorus and nothing delectable â—Vhich sorowfull sight causeth cares to increase From feendish figures foule and terrible â—Vhose tragedie to tell no tongue may be able So restles is the rage thereof most vnquiet â—Vith al mischiefe abounding wretched miserable â–ª In soule and body theyr paynes are so complete ECCLESIASTI CAP. 13. THERE is most wicked pouertie in the mouth of the vngodly IOB CAP. 2. HE shall cast vp agayne the wealth and ritches that he hath swalowed vp and deuoured PSALME 99. THey shall leaue their ritches for strangers to posses APOCALIPS CAP. 18. WIthin one houre are they bereaued of such substance PROVERBES CAP. 11. THeir ritches shall not auayle the wicked in the day of vengeance he that trusteth in them shall haue a fall IOB CAP. 2. ALL sorowe violently russheth in there vpon him SENECA THere is no other man more acceptable vnto GOD then he that contempneth worldly ritches BOECIVS de consolatum OH foolish blessednesse happening vnto man by brittle wealth which when hee hath gotten hee then becommeth secure and careles therein IOB CAP. 2. AND there shall a fire consume them which shall not cast any light Isidorus de summo bono THE fyre of hell shall both geue light vnto the augmentation of the payne for the wretched soules to the end they may see that shal be to their sorowe and also shall not geue light to their comfort because they shall not see that may be to ther ioy ESAI CAP. 9. THE people shal be as the foode of fyre Gregorios in Dialogo THE wicked haue death in hell that shall neuer dye want without want ende without end because death there is immortall penurie neuer fayling and the ende of their paines infinite PSALME 28. EVilles haue compassed me rounde about whereof I am not able to resite the number In hell of flaming fyre is horrible heate VVhich fire without fayle or distance shall endure Greeuously tormenting with furie to freate Both body and soule in payne passing measure O liuing death euerlasting in languor O deadly lyfe of endles mortalitie Sowssed in sadnes and sorowe euermore Should not man than restraine from all peruersitie DEVTERONO CAP. 28. GOD shall strike thee with neede or penurie sicknesse and colde with heate and drought with corrupt ayre and with rust of the earth ESAI CAP. 33. WHich of you shal be able to dwell where the deuouring fyre hath his force PSALME 94. BVT yet shalt thou consider before thyne eyes and shalt see the reward that shal be geuen sinners I wyll remember and beare in mind these thinges and my spirite waxeth faint therefore ECCLESIAST CAP. 1. MY sonne remember thy ende and thou shalt not sinne for euer PSALME 90. BEcause a thousand yeeres are before thine eyes as yesterday which is passed IEREMI CAP. 17. THou shalt be cast out also from the heritage that I gaue thee and I wyll subdue thee vnder the heauie bondage of thyne enemies in a land that ye know not for ye haue ministred fyre to myne indignation which shall burne euermore PROSPERVS IN this present life temporall pleasures are counted sweete and troubles are coumpted bitter but who is he that despiseth not the voluptuousnesse of this worlde thirsting or longing after the felicitie of the life euerlasting or who would not willingly drinke the cup of tribulation for Christe in this world fearing the euerduring torment of the fyre in hell Robertus in quali IF it be a tedious thing for the healthfull man to lye waltering in his bed all day and all night long and in the softnesse thereof to wallowe him selfe at wyll so vnto a young dissolute person it happeneth likewyse a thing ircksome to keepe company long tyme with fayre Women These and suche other like which were woont to be doone for sport and pleasure doo with continuall vse thereof bring lothsomenes Alacke therefore why do such sinners slumber in sinne why rather doo they not awake and why doo they not consider before that horrible tormentes in hell are prepared for them which shall endure a thousand thousand yeres after yea for euerlasting Man in thy mind make a resemblance Of furious fyre and paynes infernall VVhich are enduring without distance Forget not the tormentes thereof eternall But deepely print them in thy memoriall So shalt thou eschewe all snares of sinne And inconuenience by vice preiudiciall VVhich is more greeuous then man may esteeme HIERONIMVS ad Palma AND thincke we then brethren that the power of God haue foreshewed vs these thinges in sport or that the Apostlâ—s haue told vs of these things in a laughing mâ—ode that the iudgâ—ment of the deuine Maiestie is newly begun and determined without discretion But these are no sporting plaies when paynes doo passe herevpon yf they haue suffered pounishment in midst of their ioy they are yet notwithstandyng beleeued of vs to haue spoken these thinges but in iest and not in earnest ESAIAS SAra was sawen in peeces Danyel was throwen amongst the Lyons Paul was beheaded with the swoord Peter was hanged vppon the Crosse after the same manner that Christe was and all this tendeth to that ende that with their doctrine and good lyfe they might reuoke and withdrawe vs from our sinnes AVCTOR WHerefore sayth the sayde Robart Oh wicked oh peruerse oh deceitfull and oh deuelishe cogitation of them which doo esteeme and suppose that there is no hel at all Oh thou hard and stony molded soule oh thou bewitched oh thou vicious soule what dooest thou or whyther wandrest thou why dooest thou make such haste to hell wardes wheras thou shalt liue most miserable for euer Nowe therfore returne thou vnto the Lord thy God which shal deliuer thee â–ª and graunt thee both grace and glory in Heauen Thincke wee the Prophetes spent their time in sport Or the Apostles shewing infernall payne The people from their sinnes for to exhort Theit wayghty woords we should not take in vaine VVhich were content of tyrantes to be slaine To obteyne Heauen and hellish payne eschewe Their fayth in Christe so firme was and certayne By their examples let vs our life renewe ISIDORVS POâ—der well in thy mind what so euer sorowes or vexations of torments are ordeyned for sinners what so euer pounishmentes of this world or els whatsoeuer bitter gripes of sorowes assayle thee yf thou comparest such like altogeather vnto the state of hell all that thou sufferest shall seeme light and easie vnto thee BERNARDVS FEare to breake the
for a man that shoulde be adorned with reason to liue without reason is and may be wel counted a trespassing life PSALME 49. MAN being in honor hath none vnderstanding but is compared vnto the brute beastâ—s yea vnto the vnwyse and is made like vnto them c. GREGORIVS THE carnall delectation darkeneth and obscureth so that mind which she doth infect that she can not see the clearenesse of the true light but therevpon is more deuilishly delighted so as thencefoorth she suffereth fierie flame euen ascending vpward HIERONIMVS WE all are geuen to be wary in least matters and negligent in greatest thinges Isidorus de summo bono BEcause thou wouldest be such one that no earthly thing delighteth thee at all beleeue me thou shalt see euen at the same moment of time that thing which thou desirest GREGORIVS IF we would consider what and how great benefites these be which are promised vs in the heauens we should thinke in our mindes that all thinges are vyle and base whiche wee enioy vppon earth for the earthy substance being compared vnto the heauenly felicitie is a burden heauy for vs to beare and not a treasure to enioy The temporall lyfe being compared vnto the life eternall is rather to be called death then lyfe for that same dayly diseaze of corrupt nature what other thing els is it then a certaine proloxitie or circumstaunce of death IOHN CAP. 6 THere shall no man take away your ioy from you BERNARDVS OH thou house of God the Citie of the great kyng what woonderful ioyes are there in thee howe much and what great gladnesse how blessed are thy inhabitantes VVhen men to things temporall doo beare affection They least esteeme of euerduring blisse VVherevpon in nature ryseth such corruption That oft who on earth most prosperous is Of the heauenly beautitude most of all mis Their carnall lust a bondage dooth become To them selues who then would consider of this For transitorie pleasure should eternall paines shone PSALME 101. I Wyll sing of mercy and trueth vnto thee oh Lord. PSALME â—8 FOR what is there for me in heauen and what would I haue of thee vpon earth I am delighted in the way of thy testimonies as in all my ritches my hart hath refused to be comforted in worldly thinges Sequitur I Haue been mindfull of my God and I am comforted PSALME 76. THY consolacious oh Lorde haue made my soule glad BERNARDVS FOR vnto the image and similitude oâ— God is euâ—ry reasonable soule made It may be better exercised then all other creatures but in very deede it can not be satisfyed at all PSALME 34. I Shall be satisfyed when thy glory shall appeare AVGVSTINVS THE soule that is entrenched with the flowres of vertues and with the deawe of heauenly grace is called the Paradise of the Lorde GREGORIVS THE vâ—permost trenche possesseth the soule when she is afflitted with the desire of the heauenly kingdome euen with salte teares but the neathermost trenche doth she enioy when she throughly feareth by her sorowe and teares the tormentes of the pitt of hell Secundus Bonauentura FOR our naturall bodyes are compaâ—t of foure Elementes wherevpon with foure fould qualities shall they be remunerate for the Earthy Elament shal be turned to eternall immortalitie the Watry Elament into al maner of vnabilitie in suffering the Ayrie Elament into a speciall agillity or swiftnes and the Fyry Elament into most bright clearenes And then shall these shine as the Sunne and as the sparckes out of a flaming Furnace shall they disperse them selues abrode because the Lorde shall wipe away all sorowe from their eyes AVGVSTINE WHere so euer the spirite desireth to be then there altogeather shall the body be also c. VVe shall in the heauens of God haue inspection In soule and body endowred with dignity Yea and in this bodyly shape shall we haue cognition Eche one of other before Gods great maiesty VVhen as thus glorified in soule and eke in body Such ioyes shall we taste and endles consolation That in the midst our sauiour triumphing with victory VVe shall shine seuen times more dearer then the son VINCENCIVS AND there is a fruition of blisse whiche shall endure for euer and that in diuers maner not vpon the behalfe of euery perticuler soule which shall enioy the same but on the behalfe of such as shal posses them soules for the blesâ—ed and elect of God howe muche the more perfectly they are enobled with the light of glory and by the same ilâ—ustration or noblenesse the more conformable made So muche the more sharpe contemplacion haue they of the deuine essence and in the same contemplacion the more are they delighted 1. CORINTH CAP. 15. THere is one light of the Sunne an other light of the Moone and an other lyght of the Starres but euery Starre differeth in hrightnesse eche from other and so shall the resurrection of the dead differ one soule from an other AVGVSTINVS NO inferior shall enuie his superior euen as now no other angel inferior doo not enuie their superior in heauen for some one shall haue a larger gift of blessing and some other a lesse So as notwithstanding what so euer gyft eyther of them haue in the blisfull state of heauenly ioy he shall hold him selfe content therewith and shal not at any tyme wyshe or desyre for more c. GREGORIVS LEt therfore the greatnes of the rewards â–ª layd vp for thee in heauen encourage tâ—y â—oule but let not the force of the conflict in Christes fayth terrifie thee for no one man shal be câ—owned with the gaâ—lâ—nd of victory but he that hath rightfully â—ought it out to the vttermost BERNARDVS THat is y alone true and only ioy which is not conceaued of the Creature but of the Creator whiche when a man possesseth there is no man shal take the same away â—roÌ„ him Whereunto yf we compare all other sweetenesse the same may be coâ—mpted to a mindful pâ—rson al sweetenes a sorrâ—we euery bitâ—er thing sweete euery comely thing filthy and finaâ—ly whatsoeuer other may seeme to delight vs the same in deede is but greeuous and intollerable PAVLVS I Desire to be dissolued and to be with Christe ORIGEN ALL my comforters seeme vnto me â—eâ—ious and burdensome They vexâ— me but comfort me not I seeke for my Creator and it is greefe to me to behold euery Creature PSALME 56. THis is my rest for euer and euer wyll I dwell here because I haue chosen the same Nathles in respect of that eternall glory All worldly ioy is but fond ianglyng And beauty braue is but deformity Sweete thinges are sowre myrth very mournyng Or what so euer other delectable thyng All is reâ—uted but payne in comparison And worldly wealth is very vomentyng In respect of heauenly store of graces many one AVGVSTINVS COnsider wel thou faythful soule what inestimabâ—e honor it shal be for thee to be crowned of the cheefe King of Kinges with his owne handes and to