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A06448	Granados spirituall and heauenlie exercises Deuided into seauen pithie and briefe meditations, for euery day in the vveeke one. Written in Spanish, by the learned and reuerend diuine, F. Lewes of Granado. Since translated into the Latine, Italian French, and the Germaine tongue. And now englished by Francis Meres, Maister of Artes of both Vniuersities, and student in Diuinitie.; Meditaciones para todos los días de la semana. English	Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588.; Meres, Francis, 1565-1647.	1598 (1598)	STC 16920; ESTC S107751	68,524	280

pompe in the night of this world to weak dimme eyes vvhich cannot iudge but by outward appearances But when that cleare and bright day of iudgement shall come wherein God shall reueale the darkest and obscurest thinges of our soules and shall manifest the secret counsailes of our harts then those that seemed happy and glorious shall be knowne to be filthy vile and without any hope of saluation Wherefore these mighty mē are like vnto Owls which flying in the darke doe seeme to cast some light from them but when the day ariseth they show blacke as they are If these gloriosoes had eyes to looke into theyr most vile riches and to behold the stinch and corruption of their owne flesh which shall be turned into ashes they that are nowe swelled and puffed vp and doe despise others through the noblenes of their birth theyr power and dignity should well perceaue hovve abiect base blacke and corrupt they are Wherefore I cannot be induced to thinke otherwise but that if they would deeply consider and weigh these thinges they would presently cast out of their harts al the earthly glory of this world knowing as Hierome saith that it is impossible that any one should be happy in both worlds and appeare glorious both in heauen and in earth Secondly the glory of thys world as we sayde is to be eschewed because it is fraile and without any cōstancy or foundation therfore it is like vnto a smoke or a vapour which the higher that it is lifted the lesse it is seene and to a flower of a good sent and fairenes which a little Sun-shyne dooth dry vp in a short time is vvithered with a little blast of wind and dooth loose all the beauty and fragrancy Such is the glory of the vvorld of vvhich Esaias sayde All flesh is grasse and all the grace and glory thereof is as the flower of the field The grasse withereth the flower fadeth and the glorie thereof passeth away Such are the louers of thys temporall momentany glory vvorthily compared to grasse vvhich grovveth on the topps of houses to day greene and to morrow not seene VVherefore the Wiseman sayth All power is of short continuance and hee that is a King to day to morrow is dead Tell me where is the povver and glory of King Assuerus vvho gouerned an hundred and tvventy prouinces VVhere is the glorie of great Alexander at whose presence the vvhole earth vvas husht to vvhom all Kings and Tyrants payed tribute as it is in the first Booke of the Macchabees VVhere is the glorie of that great Empyre by vvhich he conquered and subdued vnder him almost all the Kingdomes of the vvorlde Where are all the Princes and Potentates of the vvorld vvho raigned ouer both man and beast They are passed and gone avvay as a straunger or a Soiournour that tarryeth but for one day Trulie not one of them remaineth all their dayes vvere spente in vanitie and theyr yeares svviftly posted avvay Death feareth no man it swepeth all avvay without any difference or partiality it is a fierce cruell beast that spareth not any body it taketh avvay both the king and the begger and maketh all equal alike Thirdly the glory of thys world is to be auoided because it is deceitfull and dooth performe none of those thinges it promiseth but deceaueth all men in this life Which of the Princes and Emperours hath it not deluded promising vnto them long life peaceable honours a quiet empire when as it cannot prolong mans lyfe one houre VVho in earthly glory was lyke vnto Alexander who was neuer subdued in any warre who alwayes triumphed ouer his enemies vvho ouerthrew huge hoasts with a litle army who neuer besieged Citty but he tooke it neyther was there any prouince which did not obey his Empire But now when he seemed an absolute conquerour and purposed to passe the rest of his time in peace and tranquillity hee vvas on a suddaine poysoned Tell mee why doest thou follow and hunt after the glory of the world which cannot succour thee in death Fourthly as I said humaine glory and applause is to be auoyded and eschewed because it is a very euill and naughty pay-mayster for it promiseth glory and payeth euerlasting perdition and eternall confusion Wherfore the Lord saith by the Prophet I will turne their glory into shame So theyr strength shall bee turned into weakenes their wisedome into foolishnes and their pleasures into punishments For according to the quantity of the falt shall be the quantity of the punishment vvhich they shall be tormented vvith Heereupon Saint Hierome speaketh thus to the louers of this fleeting and deceitfull vvorld Woe bee vnto you miserable vvretches vvho endeuour to goe to heauen by the vvay of riches and pleasures and vnderstand not vvhat our Sauiour sayth That it is easier for a cammell to goe through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of heauen Remember that this is a Diuine sentence and the words of him who sayth Heauen and earth shall passe but my words shall not passe O miserable vvretches and more inconstant then any wind howle mourne who are onely great and noble by the benefit of fortune but in deed are base abiect and blind vvith the smoake of vanitie with deceaueable honours and false dignities of this vvorlde Doe yee not see the shortnes of time howe death perhaps this might shal cut off the thred of your liues and that yee shall be tormented for euer in hell vvhere yee shall alwayes liue dying without end yea more dying then all the men that die in the world vvhere no rest shall be giuen but torments shall alwayes liue to reuenge Where yee shall not onely be tortured with men but also with deuils For so much the greater shall thy punishment be there as thy glory was greater here as thou hast liued in greater delicacies and delights See how our Sauiour that vnchāgable truth al whose deeds words are one instruction amōg his twelue apostles whō he choose would haue but one Bartholomew a noble man one Matthew a rich man hee chose all the other poore men and fishers that he might signifie that the noble and rich men of this world can hardly be saued and be made worthy of heauen For if by one onely sinne man became guilty of hell fire how shall a rich man be saued desirous and greedy of populer applause hunting after the fraile and mortall glory of this life which is none other thing then a filthy impure vessell and receite for all sinne full of pride and luxury full of couetousnes in the rich mighty and noble men of this world These are theeues that robbe the poore of that they should liue by vvho eate vp their labours killing and treading them vnder theyr feete vvhen notvvithstanding God hath blessed them vvith great aboundance of vvealth that they therby might nourish

If it please thee viewe the bodies of them who are departed out of this life and thou shalt finde nothing in them besides ashes wormes stinke lothsomnes What thou art novve they sometimes were what they are nowe thou shortly must be they were mē as thou art now they did eate drink as thou doost They spent theyr dayes in wealth suddainly went down to the graue See how the fleshe nourished in delights now beeing meate for wormes lyeth in the graue how the vnhappy soule descendeth that it may be fuell for the infernall fire without any hope that euer the torments and punishments shall haue end VVhat shall thē theyr vaine glory profit them in what steede shall then the power of thys vvorlde stand thē what shal then their carnall delights couetousnes of riches help them where are then their merry disports where is then their boasting presumptiō of false ioy O into hovve grieuous miseries are they fallē after a short pleasure frō a counterfet mirth they are fallen into assured misery eternall torment What hapned vnto thē may also happen vnto thee for thou art both a man compounded of the same dust ashes that they were framed of man of earth slime of slime and after death thou shalt bee turned into dust ashes neyther knowest thou where whē or how Wherfore seeing that death waiteth for thee in euery place if thou beest wise expect him in like manner at all times and in euery place Let the louers of this worlde remember sayth Isidore how short the felicitie of this world is how barren slender the glory of it is and howe weake and fraile the power is Tell me if thou canst where are the Kinges Princes Emperors of ancient times vvhere are the rich and mighty men of this vvorld They are all passed away as a shadow vanished as smoake and if a man seeke for them hee shall not finde them VVhat if wee say that manie of those Kings Princes Emperours thought that they shoulde alwayes conquer and neuer die O blinde and ignorant beholde it is not so beholde the matter is fallen out quite otherwise they are dead as other men are theyr lyfes haue fayled them as the lyfes of other Princes that liued and ruled before them What the estate of man is after death Saint Bernard dooth very well teach VVhat saith hee is more stinking then a carkasse what is more horrible then a dead man He that was of a beautifull coūtenance and comely stature whilst hee liued after death lyeth with a gastly and fearefull face for vvormes putrefaction horror follow a dead man Which thing seeing it is so vvhat doe riches delicacies and honours profit Riches doe not deliuer from death nor delicacies frō wormes nor honours from corruption And Saint Chrysostome sayth Hast thou not seene manie that haue dyed amidst theyr delights euen in their drunkennesse in other fonde pleasures of thys lyfe Where are they now that not long since ridd through the streets brauely mounted swelled with pride richly attired in silkes garded with attendants and seruitours smelling of perfumes oyntments and spices fawned vppon with flatterers and parasites where is now all their pompe and vaine toyes gone Where are nowe theyr large costly banquets theyr immoderate laughters theyr ease and idlenes theyr effeminate luxurious and riotous lifes All is gone What is become of their bodies that ere vvhile vvere vvayted vppon vvith so great troupes and were kept so neate and finicall Behold they are gone downe into the graue Contemplat the dust ashes worms the beauty of that pulchritude aud thou wilt sigh bitterly Behold with diligence and pry narrowly into each of their monuments serch their graues and Sepulchers tosse turne ouer theyr bones and ashes thou shalt finde nothing heere but ashes nothing besides the reliques of worms which haue eaten their bodies and see what is the end of them albeit they liued in this world in delights and glory I pray God that thou mayst diligently consider of these things and that they may neuer slip out of thy memory But ô greefe the vnhappy sonnes of Adam neglecting true and wholsom studies and endeuours doe seeke for and hunt after vaine and transitory pleasures If therefore ô my brother thou wilt alwayes in thine hart meditate of these things and consider the misery and vildnes of this life thou wilt be humbled and wilt detest pride seeing that thou art not ignorant that pride is the badge and cognisance by which the children of the deuill are knowne For he is as holy Iob saith the King ouer all the children of pride Gregory confirmeth this Pride saith he is a most euident token of reprobates but contrarily humility is a badge of the elect Seeing therfore that euery one is knowne by that he hath hee is easily found vnder vvhat King he warreth For euerie one carrieth as it were a certain title of his labour whereby hee euidently sheweth vnder whō he serueth that is whether vnder Christ or the deuill O cursed pride hated of GOD and men This tumbled Lucifer headlong out of heauen banished Adam out of Paradice drowned Pharaoh with his Army in the red Sea depriued Saul of his kingdome transformed Nabuchodonozer into a beast and destroyed Antiochus with a most horrible and hideous death The second Meditation for Tuesday of sin and what discommodities come by it HE that committeth sinne saith the beloued Disciple of Christ is of the deuill for the deuill sinneth from the beginning for this purpose appeared the Sonne of God that hee might loose the works of the deuill Sinne is so heauy a burthen that neyther heauen nor earth can beare it but with the Author and worker of it it descendeth into hell Euery word deed and thought contrary to the lawe of God according to Saint Augustine is sinne which ought none otherwise thē hell to be eschewed of all them who aspire to the heauenly kingdome and that for three causes the first of which is because it displeaseth God the second because it pleaseth the deuill the third because it is hurtfull and bringeth many discommodities to man First I say thou oughtest to eschew sinne because it exceedingly displeaseth thy Creatour in which place we are to consider what God hath done by reason of sinne No man is ignorant that for sinne God hath destroyed the workes of his owne hands that for sinne he hath cast Angels out of heauen disparadiz'd men and drowned with flood of waters all mankinde as the booke of Genesis vvitnesseth Other Kings and Emperours that they may reuenge the iniury done vnto them of theyr enemies doe spoyle and wast their Countries Dominions but God subuerted and destroyed his owne kingdome because sinne had entred into it Neyther doth God only hate sinne but all that which by any manner of way pertaineth vnto sin Men although the vvine hath lost his vertue