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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31380	Entertainments for Lent first written in French and translated into English by Sir B.B.; Sagesse évangélique pour les sacrez entretiens du Caresme. English	Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; Brook, Basil, Sir, 1576-1646?	1661 (1661)	Wing C1545_VARIANT; ESTC R35478	109,402	241

lost their money and their brains Their fathers are causes of their faults by gathering so much wealth for those who know not how to use it Yet if they have the true repentance of the prodigall child he must not deny them pardon But mercy must not be had of those who ask it by strong hand or seek it by a counterfeit sorrow Aspirations IT is an accursed wandring to travel into the countrey of nothing Where pleasure drops down as water from a storm the miserable consequences whereof have leaden feet which never remove from the heart Good God what a countrey is that where the earth is made of quicksilver which steals it self from under our feet when we think to tread upon it What a countrey is that where if a man gathered one bud of roses he must be forced to eat a thousand thorns and be companion with the most nasty filthy beasts in their stinking ordures and be glad to eat of their loathsome draffe for want of other meat Alas I have suffered and such a misery as this is necessary to make me remember the happinesse which I possessed in thy house O mercifull Father behold my prodigall soul which returns to thee and will have no other advocate but thy goodnesse which as yet pleads for me within thy heart I have consumed all which I had but I could not consume thy mercy For that is an Abysse which surpasseth that of my sins and miseries Receive me as a mercenary servant If I may not obtain the name of a sonne Why shouldst not thou receive that which is thine since the wicked spirits have taken that which was not theirs Either shevv me mercie or else shevv me a heart more fatherly then thine and if neither earth nor heaven can find the like to vvhom vvouldst thou have me go but to thy self vvho doest not yet cease to call me The Gospel upon the third Sunday in Lent S. Luke 11. Jesus cast out the Devil vvhich vvas dumb ANd he was casting out a devil and that was dumbe And when he had cast out the devil the dumbe spake and the multitudes marvelled And certain of them said in Belzebub the Prince of Devils he casteth out Devils And other tempting asked him a sign from Heaven But he seeing their cogitations said to them Every Kingdome divided against it self shall be made desolate and house upon house shall fall And if Satan also be divided against himself how shall his Kingdome stand because you say that in Belzebub I do cast out Devils And if I in Belzebub cast out Devils your children in whom do they cast out Therefore they shall be your judges But if I in the singer of God do cast out Devils surely the Kingdome of God is come upon you When the strong armed keepeth his court those things are in peace that he possesseth but if a stronger then he come upon him and overcome him he will take away his whole armour wherein he trusted and will distribute his spoyls He that is not with me is against me And he that gathereth not with me scattereth When the unclean spirit shall depart out of a man he wandreth through places without water seeking rest and not finding he saith I will return into my house whence I departed And when he is come he findeth it swept with a besome and trimmed Then he goeth and taketh seven other spirits worse then himself and entring in they dwell there And the last of that man be made worse then the first And it came to passe when he said these things a certain woman lifting up her voyce out of the multitude said to him Blessed is the womb that bare thee and the paps that thou didst suck But he said Yea rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it Moralities 1. THe Almond tree is the first which begins to flourish and is often first nipt with frost The tongue is the first thing which moves in a mans body and is soonest caught with the snares of Satan That man deserves to be speechlesse all his life who never speaks a word better then silence 2. Jesus the eternall word of God came upon earth to reform the words of man his life vvas a lightning and his vvord a thunder vvhich vvas povverfull in effect but alvvayes measured vvithin his bounds He did fight against ill tongues in his life and conquered them all in his death The gall and vinegar vvhich he took to expiate the sins of this unhappy tongue do shevv hovv great the evil vvas since it did need so sharp a remedy He hath cured by suffering his dolours vvhat it deserved by our committing sins Other vices are determined by one act the tongue goes to all it is a servant to all malitious actions and is generally confederate vvith the heart in all crimes 3. We have just so much Religion as vve have government of our tongues A little thing serves to tame vvild beasts and a small stern will serve to govern a ship Why then cannot a man rule so small a part of his body Is it not sufficient to avoid lying perjuries quarrels injuries slanders and blasphemies such as the Scribes and Pharisees did vomit out in this Gospel against the purity of the Sonne of God We must also repress idle talk and other frivolous and unprofitable discourses There are some persons vvho have their hearts so loose that they cannot keep them vvithin their brests but they vvill quickly svvim upon their lips vvithout thinking vvhat they say and so make a shift to vvound their souls 4. Imitate a holy Father called Sisus vvho prayed God thirty years together every day to deliver him from his tongue as from a capitall enemy You shall never be very chaste of your body except you do very vvell bridle your tongue For loosnesse of the flesh proceeds sometimes from liberty of the tongue Remember your self that your heart should go like a clock vvith all the just and equall motions of his springs and that your tongue is the finger vvhich shevvs hovv all the hours of the day pass When the heart goes of one side the tongue of another it is a sure desolation of your spirits kingdome If Jesus set it once at peace and quiet you must be very carefull to keep it so and be very fearfull of relapses For the multiplying of long continued sinnes brings at last hell it self upon a mans shoulders Aspirations O Word incarnate to whom all just tongues speak and after whom all hearts do thirst and languish chase from us all prating devils and also those which are dumb the first provoke and loose the tong to speak wickedly the other bind it when it should confesse the truth O peace-making Solomon appease the divisions of my heart and unite all my powers to the love of thy service Destroy in me all the marks of Satans Empire and plant there thy Trophees and Standards that my spirit be never like

his wickednesse for he is just like a fish that playes with the baite when the hook sticks fast in his throat We must waite and ●ttend for help from heaven patiently with●ut being tired even till the fourth which is is the last watch of the night All which proceeds from the hand of God comes ever in fit time and that man is a great gainer by his patient attendance who thereby gets nothing but perseverance 3. They know Jesus very ill that take him for a Phantome or an illusion and cry out for fear of his presence which should make them most rejoyce So do those souls which are little acquainted with God who live in blindenesse and make much of their own darknesse Let us learn to discerne God from the illusions of the world The tempest ceaseth when he doth approach and the quietnesse of our heart is a sure marke of his presence which fils the soul with splendour and makes it a delicious Garden He makes all good wheresoever he comes and the steps which his feet leave are the bounties of his heart To touch the Hem of his Garment cures all that are sick to teach us that the forms which cover the blessed Sacrament are the fringes of his holy humanity which cures our sins Aspirations O Lord my soul is in night and darknesse and I feel that thou art far from me What Billows of disquiet arise within my heart what idle thoughts which have been too much considered Alas most redoubted Lord and Father of mercy canst thou behold from firm land this poor vessel which labours so extreamly being deprived of thy most amiable presence I row strongly but can advance nothing except thou come into my soul Come O my adored Master walk upon this tempestuous Sea of my heart ascend into this poor Vessell say unto me take courage It is I. Be not conceited that I will take thee for an illusion for I know thee too well by thy powers and bounties to be so mistaken The least thought of my heart will quiet it self to adore thy steps Thou shalt raigne within me thou shalt disperse my cares thou shalt recover my decayed senses thou shalt lighten my understanding thou shalt inflame my will thou shalt cure all my infirmities And to conclude thou only shalt work in me and I will be wholly thine The Gospel upon the first Sunday in Lent S. Matthew the 4. Of our Saviours being tempted in the Desart THen Iesus was led of the spirit into the Desart to be tempted of the Devill and when he had fasted fourty dayes and fourty nights afterward he was hungry And the tempter aproached and said to him If thou be the Sonne of God command that these stones be made bread Who answered and said it is written not in bread alone doth man live but in every word that procedeth from the mouth of God Then the Devil took him up into the holy City and set him upon the pinacle of the Temple and said to him If thou be the son of God cast thy self down for it is written that he will give his Angels charge of thee and in their hands shall they hold thee up lest perhaps thou knock thy foot against a stone Iesus said to him again It is written Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Again the Devil took him up into a very high mountain and he shewed him all the Kingdomes of the world and the glory of them and said to him all these will I give thee if falling down thou wilt adore me Then Iesus saith to him avant Satan for it is written the Lord thy God shalt thou a dore and him only shalt thou serve When the Divil left him and behold Angels came and ministred to him Moralities 1. IEsus suffered himself to be tempted saith Saint Augustine to the end he might serve for a Mediatour for an example for a remedy to work our victory over all temptations We must fight on his side Our life is a continuall warfare and our dayes are Champiōs which enters into the lists There is no greater temptation then to have none at all Sleeping water doth nourish poyson Motion is the worlds soul fighting against temptations is the soul of virtues and glo●y doth spring and bud out of tribulations Virtue hinders not temptation but surmount it Jesus fasted saith the ordinary Glosse that he might be tempted is tempted because he did fast He fasted fourty dayes and then was hungry he did eat with his Disciples the space of fourty dayes after his resurrection without any more necessity of meat then the Sun hath of the earths vapours to make us thereby know that it onely appertained to him to teach that great secret how to manage vvant and abundance by vvich S. Paul vvas glorified 2. The first victory over a temptation is t● knovv that vvhich tempts us Some temptations are gay smiling at their beginning as those of love and pleasure vvhich end in terrible bitter stormes Others are troublesome and irksome Others doubt full and intricate Others rapide and sudden vvhich cease upon their prey like an Eagle Others are close and catching These are the snares of Satan vvho fomes like a Bore to arsike a Lion and hisseth like a Serpent We should alvvayes have an eye ready to mark from whence the temptation comes whither it tends what is the root of it what the course what the progresse and what power it may have over our spirit 3. Solitude of heart fasting prayer the word of God are weapons of an excellent temper which the word incarnate teacheth us to use in this conflict These things are to be used with discretion by the counsell of a good directour to whom a man must declare all his most secret thoughts and bear a breast of Christall toward him with a firm purpose to let him see all the inward motions of his heart It is also good to note here that our Lord would expresly be tempted in that Desart which is between Jerusalem and Jericho where the Samaritan mentioned in the parable did poure wine and oyl into the sores of the poor wounded man to teach us that by his combat he came to cure the wounds of Adam and all his race in the very place where they were received 4. Sin is killed by flying the occasions of it Absence resistance coldnesse silence labour diversion have overcome many assaults of the enemy Somtimes a Spiders web is strong enough to preserve chastity at other times the thick walls of Semiramis are not sufficient God governs all and a good will to concur with him is a strong assurance in all perils and it will keep us untoucht amidst the flames of lust 5. Since it imports us so much to fight valiantly let us bring the hearts of Lions Where is our Christianity if we do not give testimony of it to God both by our sidelity and courage How many Martyrs have been rosted and broild because