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A20947	Heraclitus: or, Meditations vpon the misery of mankinde, and the vanitie of humane life with the inconstancie of worldly things; as also the wickednesse of this deceitfull age described. Faithfully translated out of the last edition written in French by that learned diuine, Monsieur Du Moulin By Abraham Darcie.; Héraclite; ou, De la vanité et misère de la vie humaine. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1624 (1624)	STC 7326; ESTC S115746	58,947	176

HERACLITVS OR MEDITATIONS vpon the Misery of Mankinde and the vanitie of Humane life With The inconstancie of worldly Things as also the wickednesse of this deceitfull age described Faithfully translated out of the last Edition written in French by that learned Diuine Monsieur Du Moulin By ABRAHAM DARCIE LONDON Printed by G. P. for Thomas Pauier and are to be sold at his shop in Iuie Lane M.DC.XXIV TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS IOHN Earle of Bridgewater c. And to the Princely Lady FRANCES his Noble Countesse As also to the Honorable Ladies the Lady FRANCES HOBART and the Lady ARABELLA St IOHN their worthy Daughters And to the Honor of the Right Honorable The Lord St IOHN Baron of Bletso the Illustrious Lady ELIZABETH His Noble and Vertuous Wife with their Honorable Sonne Mr St IOHN The Lord HOBART L. Chiefe Iustice of the common-Common-Pleas and to the Religious Lady his worthy Wife to their Generous vertuous Son Sir IOHN HOBART True Patternes of Vertue and Pietie Noble Patrons and Patronesses of Honor and Learning ABRAHAM DARCIE wisheth to these Noble Families all internall externall and eternall Happinesse and prosperity in Christ Iesus Right Honorable Most Worthy THat great and wise Monarch King SALOMON said long since that there is no end of making Bookes and much studie is a wearinesse of the flesh Which Paradoxe was neuer more verefied then in these degenerate dayes of Vanity when ignorant as well as wise men will bee still writing of themselues whereby the Presse is euen oppressed with multiplicitie of such idle Treatises more light then vanity it selfe But for such Bookes as doe either affoord direction to the Church or a way to reforme and better our Life those are most worthy to bee read and carefully obserued This excellent Worke first penned in French by one of the most learned Diuines in France clearely shewing vs the Vanity Misery and Inconstancie of this World doth warne and admonish vs to take heede how we trust to it and that we must not build our happinesse vpon so deceitfull grounds as Riches and Earthly possessions but to direct our Hearts leuell and lift our mindes and thoughts to HEAVEN to that Eternal and blessed Habitation of CHRIST IESVS Considering these things what greater abomination can there be then to see the people of this miserable age delight to vndoe one another enuie despise curse warre and finally kill one another For a thing so vaine as this World deceitful miserable inconstant and damnable which sometimes honors vs and presently contemnes vs cals vs to high Callings and sodainly debases and degrades vs lifts vs to high prosperity and immediatly flings vs headlong into lowe aduersity Therfore PHILIP King of Macedonia acknowledging the worlds great inconstancie hauing receiued many good newes in one day prayeth the immortall Gods to stop the course of so greatioyes fearing lest some sinister actions and mournefull euents should ensue them Right Honourable this Booke hauing past many Impressions in FRANCE is now arriued newly reuiued and augmented here in England and though it bee little in shew yet it containes many good things yea matters of weight and consequence worthy to bee read knowne and obserued As also very fit and needfull for a Christian to meditate The exquisite worth thereof hath mooued mee to translate it but the fame of your rare vertues hath the more imboldened mee to publish it vnder the banner of your Noble protections Accept it most Honorable as courteously as officiously it is Dedicated and Consecrated to the perpetuall Honour and Honourable vse of your Illustrious Houses and Noble Families by Your Honours and Worthinesse humble and deuoted obseruant ABRAHAM DARCIE A Table of the Contents of this Booke CHAP. 1. THe vanity and misery of the Nature of man fol. 6 CHAP. 2. The vanity and inconstancy of man in his action 10 CHAP. 3. Of mans Ripe Age. 16 CHAP. 4. The life of Courtiers 27 CHAP. 5. The life of Magistrates and wicked Iudges 31 CHAP. 6. Of mans estate being in Wedlocke 36 CHAP. 7. The vanity and inconstancie of Women 42 CHAP. 8. Of Couetousnesse Enuie and Ambition 45 CHAP. 9. Of Petty-fogging strifes and law-contention 53 CHAP. 10. Of Philosophy and the knowledge of diuers tongues 55 CHAP. 11. Of Pilgrims and Ciuill vertues 59 CHAP. 12. Of old and decrepit Age. 77 CHAP. 13. Of Death 69 CHAP. 14. Of the terrible Iudgement seat of God 74 CHAP. 15. Of Heauen 79 CHAP. 16. Of Hell 81 CHAP. 17. The misery and vanity of our Life and the wickednesse that now raigneth HERACLITVS TEARES OR THE MISERY OF HVMANE LIFE WITH The vanity and inconstancie of worldly things IF we doe but seriously consider this besotted World how like a turbulent torrent it is ouerflowne with all sorts of impertinent and importunate affaires which cut our time into a thousand pieces wee shall finde that each of them takes from vs one part of our life leauing vs no time but that which wee gaine by theft subtracting some houres for to examine our selues in secret and to entertain our mind with religious thoughts These solitary meditations haue sufficient in them to employ our wits For the first Subiect which doth present it selfe to our perusall is a consideration of the vanity and misery of humane life not for to molest vs any way while we are in it but to prepare our selues to depart well out of it No man can aspire as hee ought to the future life which doth not contemne this present neither can any man contemne this present which doth not well know it and the way truely to know it is to remoue it farre from vs to withdraw it from our heart and to banish it from our affection For worldly goods beeing neere at hand doe both dazell the Minde and distract the Iudgement But let vs first enquire before we proceede of some one that hath passed this way King Salomon in the beginning of Ecclesiastes entring into that meditation doth write that vanity is most vaine all is vanity That great and mighty King who had riches without example peace without trouble glory without enuy who was obeyed of his Subiects respected of his Neighbors and raigned forty yeeres which was a sufficient time to content his minde in sumptuous buildings in multitude of Horses in all variety of studies and Sciences who had trauersed his spirits through all the secrets of Nature euen from the Cedar vnto the Hysop Neuerthelesse in the conclusion of all considering how these sweets are confected with bitternesse how there is little constancie in these things how there is small content in all this trauell hee makes this the cloze of all his actions That all is vanity and affliction of spirit But before that Solomon had proued these things hee learned that lesson of Dauid his father which is written in the 39. Psalme Truely euery man is nothing but vanity he walketh in a

other mortall creatures Kings are most liberally prouided for for what maketh man appeare more happy in this world then Goods Honors Dignities and Rule licence to doe good or euill without controulement power to exercise liberalitie and all kinde of pleasure as well of the body as of the minde all that may be wished for to the contentation of Man either in varietie of meates magnificence in seruice or in vestures to raise at their pleasure the meanest man to high place and with a frowne disgrace the mightiest All which is continually at a Princes command there is nothing that may please the memory or flatter the desires of the flesh but is prepared for them euen from their cradles onely to make their liues more happy and full of felicitie But now if wee iudge of their liues vprightly and weigh them in a true ballance wee shall finde that the selfe-same things that make them happy in this world are the very instruments of vice and the cause of greater sorrowes for what auaile their costly ornaments honorable seruices and delicate meates when that they are in continuall feare to bee poisoned wrong seduced and often beguiled by their seruitors Haue wee not had experience thereof many times Doe not Histories report that some men haue beene poisoned with Pages and with the smoake of Torches Wee may reade likewise of certaine Emperours that durst not lye downe to rest in the night before they had caused their beds to be lyen in and all the corners of their chambers to bee searched lest they should bee strangled or murthered in their sleepes Others that would not permit any Barbers to touch their faces for feare that in trimming of their heads or beards they would cut their throats and yet to this day they are in such feare that they dare not put meat into their mouthes before their taster haue tasted thereof What felicity can a Prince or King haue that hath many thousands of men vnder their gouernment when he must watch for all heare the complaints and cryes of euery one procure euery mans saufeguard prouoke some ●o doe well by liberall gifts and others by terrour feare He must nourish peace amongst his Subiects and defend his Realme against the inuasion of forraine enemies besides many other calamities that are depending vpon a Regall Crowne But now touching the vnhappy states of wicked Princes vnto whom three kindes of people are most agreeable and familiar The first are flatterers which be the chiefe enemies to all vertue and they that impoison their soules with a poison so pestiferous that it is contagious to all the world their Princes folly they call Prudence their crueltie Iustice their wantonnesse Loue their fornications Pleasures and pastimes if they be couetous they call it good husbandry if they be prodigall they call it liberalitie So that there is no vice in a Prince but they cloake it vnder the shadow of some vertue The second sort are such who neuer rest night but in the morning they bring in some new inuention or other how to taxe and draw money from the poore people and generally all their study is imployed to bee wastefull and prodigall in the exactions and misery of the poore Commons The third and last sort are such that vnder the cloake of kindnesse and honestie counterfetting good men haue alwaies their eyes fixed vpon other mens liuings and make themselues reformers of Vices They inuent wicked false deuices not only how to get other mens goods but oftentimes their liues who before God are most innocent Behold heere you may well see the manifold miseries that compasse Scepters and States of Princes Heere are the thornes that they receiue in recompence of their brightnesse and royall dignity which ought like a Lampe to giue light to all the world but when it is eclipsed or darkened with any vice it is more reproachfull in them then in any other priuate person whatsoeuer for they sinne not onely in the fault which they commit but also by the example which they giue The aboundance of honours pleasures that Princes enioy serueth as a bait to induce them to euill and are the very matches to giue fire to vice What was Saul before hee was made King whose life is shewed in the holy Scriptures whom God did elect Yet hee made a sudden eclipse or changing How wonderfull was the beginning of the raigne of King Salomon the which being ouercome with royall pleasures gaue himselfe as a prey to women Of two and twenty Kings of Iudah there is found but fiue or sixe that haue continued in their vertue If we consider the estate of the Assyrians Persians Grecians Egyptians we shall finde more of them wicked then good If we consider what the Romane Emperours were which hath been the most flourishing Cōmon-wealth in the vvorld vvee shall finde them so ouercome with vices and all kinde of cruelties that I doe almost abhortre to speake of their corrupt and defiled liues What was the estate of their Common-wealth before that Scilla and Marius did murmure against it before that Cataline and Catulla did perturbe it before that Caesar and Pompey did slander it before that Augustus and Marcus Antonius did destroy it before that Tiberius and Caligula did defame it before that Domitian and Nero did depraue it For although they made it rich vvith many Kingdomes yet were the vices they brought with them greater then the Kingdomes they gained For their goods and riches are consumed yet their vices remaine vnto this day What memory remaineth of Romulus that founded the Citie of Rome Of Numa Pompilius that erected the Capitoll Of Aurus Marius that compassed it with walles Did not they shew what felicity remaineth in high estates who are more subiect to the assaults of Fortune then any other earthly creature For many times the thred of life breaketh when they thinke least of death and then the infamy of those that bee wicked remaineth written in Histories for a perpetuall memorie thereof The which thing all estates ought more to regard a thousand times then the tongue that speaketh euill which can but shame the liuing but booke record a perpetuall infamie for euer which thing beeing duely considered of by many Emperours Kings in times past forsooke their Scepters and Royall Empires and betooke them to an obscure life resting better contented with a little in quiet then to enioy with full saile the crooked honors of the world CHAP. IIII. The life of Courtiers BVt aboue other vanities and miseries which corruption doth continually attend there doth appeare in Princes Courts a certaine Noble captiuitie where vnder the colour of Greatnesse is the highest Seruitude and those gilded chaines that fetter mens minds He which will liue heere must alwayes be masked and prepared in one houre to conuert himselfe into twenty seuerall shapes to entertaine many seruants but no friends Their innocency is accounted meere simplicitie and to affirme