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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B11989	Vade mecum. = Goe vvith mee deare pietie, and rare charitie. VVhose flame is stirred vp, to dispell the cold out of the minde. By Otho Casmanne, preacher at Stoade. Translated out of Latine, by H.T. minister. The contents appeare in the page following.; Vade mecum. English	Casmann, Otto, d. 1607.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1606 (1606)	STC 4769; ESTC S107899	102,540	274

our selues wee must giue to our neighbours their due both in Giuing and Recompencing To our Neighbours Whether liuing Or dead To euery man generally To certaine men specially To all and euery man we owe both an Towards all Inward affection and Outward effects of loue To nourish familiaritie and societie in common conuersation 1. Carry therefore a louing affection towards A louing affection thy neighbour with a studie of Christian Concord 2. Shewe also the effects of a louing affection Effects of loue in word and déede In humanitie ciuilitie and liberalitie To certaine degrées or states thou owest also To certain states To the miserable special duties 1. To thy neighbours being in miserie compassion and commiseration or the bowells of Pietie 2. To certaine degrées also and states yéeld To certaine degrees their due both in affection and effects vz. To thy Superiours giue reuerence and obedience To the poore Almes and reliefe 3. To Strangers or Pilgrimes entertainment by Hospitalitie These duties to the liuing We owe also a dutie to our neighbours being To the dead dead Let vs therfore performe vnto them the last dutie of Charitie vz. Mourning and Buriall We must also haue a respect to our neighbours Retribution desert to recompence good turnes vz. Friendship for friendship And gratitude to them that deserue well of vs. In this manner then denying vnrighteousnesse and practising righteousnesse Entring A short Recapitulation to walke in the way of life in the Lord and not fainting but by Gods helpe going forward and profiting yea Perseuering in the same way at length we shall come to the ende of our way euen to the Lord with whom we shall enioy glory and immortalitie by Iesus Christ our Lord c. Amen The Epilogue containing An encouragement or spurre to vertue Encouragement to vertue First by reasons taken from Christianitie Secondly by wise sentences and examples taken from Heathen men FINIS Vade Mecum Goe with me DEARE PIETIE RARE CHARITIE Whose Flame is stirred vp to expell the Cold out of the mindes of many To all that professe the Name of Christ and call vpon his Godheade A sententious Prologue TO know and liue O yee Christians is all our Desires Let vs learne first to know that wée may know how to liue for Nō qui multa quidem sed quae sunt commoda vitae Is dici sapiens cur meriatur habet Not him that knoweth much alwaies A wiseman will I call But he that knows his life to rule What so shall him befall This world hath much science but little conscience least therefore our knowledge To know if it goe alone doe puffe vs vp let charitie be ioyned with it with christian prudence God and our selues let vs endeuour to know God and our selues But at this day many know many things but scarse any knows himselfe well for to know our selues is an A gradation hard point and not for euery one to attaine Let vs therfore learne first this diuine precept Euery one to know himselfe for he that knows himselfe shal know god he that knows God shal be made like vnto him he that is made like vnto God is worthy of God he that is worthy of God committeth nothing vnworthy of God but Acceptable thinketh on divine things and what hee thinketh he speaketh what he speakerh he Displeasing Godly worketh ergo caetera si vis noscere te ipsum noscere discas caetera si vis vincere teipsum vincere discas Noscere se ipsū vincere se ip sū Maxima virtus If ought thou dost desire to learne Learne first to know thy selfe If ought thou wouldest ouercome First then subdue thy selfe Thy selfe first know and first subdue All other vertues will ensue Let vs liue O yée christians that wée To liue may liue with Christ This life is to be desired not for it selfe but for an other wherevnto we must come by the gate of Death Therefore that we may alwayes liue with Christ let vs learne to liue and die well We learne to liue well by meditating on Death We learne to die wel by liuing Godly We learne to liue Godly by dying hapily The end of this life is a happy Death The end of Death is a blessed life We shall liue blessedly if we be dead to the world Ergo. Viue diu sed viue deo nam viuere mundo Mortis opus est viua est viuere vita deo Viue sed vt séper viuas sic ergo beatus Viue deo moritur qui sibi viuit homo Yf long to liue thou doe desire Then long in God to liue The worldly life doth work to death For God true life doth giue So liue that thou maist alwaies liue And happines attaine Who liues vnto himselfe doth die Such death will be his baine Let vs not therefore reckon how long but how well we doe liue he hath liued Not how long but how well long who in few yéeres hath gayned many Talents by liuing well for not many yéeres and dayes make a long life but a liuely minde he liueth not that thinketh on nothing but how to liue he that hath nothing in his life more pleasāt then this A miserable life mortall life can neuer in his life imbrace vertue Many times therefore he that liued long hath liued but a while because he liued not well And many times he that liued well hath no long life to wit in this world full ill liue they that thinke to liue alway Let vs not alwaies be beginning to liue well for he liues ill who is alwayes beginning to liue well Oh beléeue me many haue ceased to liue before they euer began to liue therefore let vs diligently consider not so much how long but in what manner wee haue liued for not to liue but to liue wel is better Non est crede mihi sapientis dicere viuā Sera nimis vita est crastina viue hodie It is no wise mans part to say To morrow I will lyue To morrows life may come too late Yf God no life doe giue Therefore Oh man to know and liue begin goe not backward but proceede There is a mark set thée euen eternal life in heauen the chiefe perpetual happines 1 Marke Choose the better part with Mary Lay vp treasure in heauen wher rust nor moth corrupteth Math 6 not nor theeues can break through nor steale And God shall giue to thee ouer Apoc. comming to eate of the tree of life which is in the middest of the Paradice of God This is the marke of life This is true life striue to this from hence is banished all ill héere aboundeth all good Héere shalt thou rest againe from thy Còmodities in the ende labours being deliuered from all euills God shall wipe al teares from thine eyes there shall be no more death nor mourning nor cry nor sorrow 2 Héere shalt thou

precept is more vsuall saith Cyp. among the precepts of Christ than that we should insist or be deligent in giuing of almes and not be greedie of earthly possessions but to lay vp treasure in heauen S●ll your possessions saith hée and giue it in almes And again Lay not vp treasure for your selues on earth c. If thou wilt be perfect goe sell all that thou hast and giue to the poore and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen To conclude He calleth them Abrahams children whom hee seeth to be diligent in helping and feeding the poore 3. Concerning Pilgrimes or Strangers Thou oughtest to harbour Pylgrimes To pilgrimes Hospitalitie or Strangers Such good gests shalt thou receiue cherish and refresh as may no way empeach thy good name or bréede thée any mischiefe Exercise therefore Rom. 12. 1. Pet. 4. Heb. 13. Hospitalitie And bee yée readie to harbour one another without grudging Item Be yee not vnwilling to harbour strangers for by this meanes some vnawares haue lodged Angels And Saint Augustine saith Learne O thou Christian to giue entertainment least peraduenture hee against whom thou shuttest thy doore and to whom thou deniest entertainement be God himselfe Or at least one of Gods Saints of whō it is saide whatsoeuer ye did to one of these little ones which belieue in me ye did it to me And contrariwise whatsoeuer ye did not yee neglected to doe to me These things giue to thy neighbour while he is yet aliue And remember that thou art a debter Duties to the dead to the dead Performe to them therefore the last duties of pietie to wit mourning and buriall for as these who are sicke and at the point of death are to bée visited and comforted so those that bée dead must haue their right which are called iust for we ought both to mourne for them and to burie them Wherevpon the sonne of Syracb saith If any man dye bewaile and lament him as if Syrach ●8 thou haddest suffred some great losse and then wind his body according to the custome and see that he may be honestly buried These things shalt thou performe as a man but much rather as a Christian man both to the liuing and dead Now moreouer thou must haue a regard what thy neighbour hath deserued Retribution or recompence of thée and what good turnes thou hast receiued that thou maiest recompence and requit them For iustice requireth that thou retribute and repay the good turns thou receiuedst with good turns as being a due debt Retribute therefore or returne to thy friend friendship and at the least thankefulnes for his well deseruing of thee 1. Concerning friendship Thou doest returne friendship if in good will and curtesse thou doe render Friendship mutuall loue to thy friend Recompence therefore hartie good will with hartie good will enterchange curtesies such as be honest and possible But thou shalt be carefull to set thy affection on such as thou perceiuest to bée With whō bent earnestly to true godlinesse and a serious studie of vertue that yee may growe vp together in godlinesse as it were one heart Therefore Eccles saith Ioyne thy selfe to good men and reioyce with them Item A sure friend is Syrach 9. 6. a strong hold hee that hath such a one possesseth a great treasure And Cassian saith That is faithfull friendship and a coniunction indissoluble or a ioynt that cannot be dissolued which is founded vpon equalitie of vertues for the Lord maketh men that are of like manners or conditions to dwel together in one house And therfore in those onely loue can continue without breach in whom there is one purpose wil who wil nil the same thing or one thing 2. Concerning gratitude or thankfulnesse Thou doest returne thankefulnesse Gratitude to thy neighbour who hath deserued well of thée when thou doest render vnto him a thankeful remembrance of a benefit receiued with a willing declaration of thy good will both in word and déed Carry therefore towardes thy benefactors a minde or desire to recompence benefites rrceiued or at the least a heart most readie to wish well But if thou canst requit good turnes receiued with gifts and curtesies Chrisostom saith The best gardian of benefits is the memorie of benefits and a continuall confession of thankes And Bernard Nothing can be returned more acceptable by the receiuer to the giuer than if he shewe himselfe thankfull for that he secretly receiued for he doth reproach to the spirit of grace who doth not take a good turne from him that giueth it with a gratefull minde Thus hauing abandoned vnrighteousnesse labour to attaine righteousnesse 1. Begin I say to enter the way of saluation by Conuerting from euill to good 2. Faint not for any temptations which are in the way 3. But goe forward by denying thy selfe 4. And following Christ in the way of holy vertues by 1. A firme purpose to attaine to vertue by 2. A fortitude ouercomming all impediments by 3. A swéet contentment in vertues possession by 4. A daily examination of our profiting in the way of vertue The Epilogue or Conclusion containing An encouragement or spur to vertue That thou maiest ô man be enflamed in the studie of Pietie and Charitie First by reasons takē frō Christianitie Consider at large these short sayings LEt the most holy and most glorious God allure thée by the perfectiō of his vertues whose glorie thou oughtest earnestly to further 2. Let the eternall knowledge of God whereby thou art foreknowne prouoke thée to holinesse 3. Let the vndeserued and frée loue of God wherewith thou art loued the mercie and grace of God wherewith he preuenteth thée drawe thée 4. Let thy holy predestination to life first holy or blamelesse next eternal procure thée 5. Remember that thou art created by thy Creator to walke in holinesse and righteousnesse 6. Let the Image of God thy father and Creator whom thou oughtest to resemble not to be a degenerate or vnkindly sonne inuite thée 7. Let the wonderfull benefite of Gods preseruation and gouernment whereby thou art maruellously kept euen vnto this houre exhort thée 8. Let the vnspeakable loue of God the father who gaue his onely sonne to thée and to death for thée encline thée to godlinesse 9. Let the inestimable or vnvaluable benefite of thy Redemption bring thée to an holy obedience for thou wast redéemed that thou shouldest be thankefull 10. Let the patterne of perfection and charitie Iesus Christ whose steps thou must follow enflame thy heart with the loue of charitie 11. Let the dignitie of thy calling lead thée to holines of life for thou art called not to vncleannes but vnto holines 12. Call to minde how thou wast reconciled to God who was offended with thy sins by Christ that thy sins were forgiuen thée that thou mightest liue to God and righteousnesse 13. Let the gifts of the holy Ghost which are giuen thée to sanctifie thée who