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A41990 The voyce of truth or The high way leading to true peace composed in Latine by M.G. and translated into Inglish by F.G. M. G. (Martin Grene), 1616-1667.; F. G. 1676 (1676) Wing G1826A; ESTC R215166 33,580 126

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farre as to let them see you are offended T' is very convenient to dissemble your beeing offended and it can doe noe good to publish it It is wisdome when you are offended to bee silent very dangerous to speake What you doe not now speake of you may afterwards when you please take notice but you cannot recale what once is vttred The greater sense you have of an injury the more you ought to dissemble it and take heede your vnbeseeming passion doe not appeare in publick Know that if it bee hard to suppresse and dissemble anger it is yet much harder not to exceede the bounds of modesty and reason if you once beginne to speake in anger When your mind is well settled and free from passion you can hardly speake that you doe not repent somthing that you have vttered how then shall you expect to containe your selfe in reason when you are disturbed with anger If what you were a bout to speake bee necessary you may speake it afterwards and in the meane while you have the advantage of overcoming your passion When therefore it shall happen which you must allways expect that any on shall injure you in word or deede or prove vnfaithfull to you dissemble it for a while and passe it over as though you did not resent it And then as soone as you can come to mee in the Church and there comme morate your sufferings in my presence and advise with mee whether they ought to be borne or noe If they bee such as you confide you may bee able to beare doe not loose the occation of imitating my passion but offer them mee that they may bee layd vp in my wounds in memory of you for you ought to desire such crosses there beeing nothing in the world better then adversity well borne And if you complaine of smale and easy things what will you doe when greater evils shall befale you If the injury or difficulty bee soe great that you feare your forces are not able to beare it or that it ought not to bee suffered Consider in my presence what you can doe to avoyd it and that doe neyther ought you to expose your selfe to tentatione but helpe your selfe by all lawfull meanes that may secure you For though it bee allways good and to bee wished to suffer yet it is contrary to all reason and the will of God alsoe to expose your selfe to grievous tentations which probably you shall not master or are such things which justly ought not to bee borne with For it is incomparably better to fly tentations then to be overcome by them wherfore it is not only lawfull but necessary to apply fitt remedyes in these cases Only take heed you make not passion but reason your counceller doe not what flesh bloud shall suggest but what my father that is in heaven shall reveale vnto you for as long as you follow passion and obey the desires of the flesh you doe disorderly shall bee disquieted but as long as you doe not seeke your selfe or any other Creature but desire according to right reason to doe the will of my heavenly Father soe long shall you find in all things eyther prosperous or advers the wished peace Your peace shall bee the greater the better you are you will the better the greater progresse you make you will make the greater progresse the more you are vnited to mee you will bee the more vnited to mee the more you are sequestred from all Creatures and you shall bee the more sequestred from Creatures the lesse you seeke your selfe Endeavour therefore to leave seeking your selfe and vse violence to your selfe for the Kingdome of heaven suffers force and the violent lay holde of it The more opposition nature makes the greater violence you must vse to ouercome your selfe in occations And though at the beginnings you find it hard and difficult to overcome your selfe feare not but make your recourse to mee and I promise you shall finde my joke is sweet and burden light The first degree then to perfection and peace is to leave your selfe and the highest which you must always ayme at is in all things to adhere to mee which when you shall attaine to imagine you have found true peace FINIS Imprimatur Actum Gandavi 19. Decembris 1675. P. de MEY C. L. C. G.