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A20863	The school of patience. Written in Latin by H. Drexelius. And faithfully translated into English, by R.S. Gent; Gymnasium patientiae. English	Drexel, Jeremias, 1581-1638.; R. S., gent.; Stanford, Robert, attributed name.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1640 (1640)	STC 7240; ESTC S109941	206,150	562

there is no object in the world more remarkable or worthier of admiration then a man couragious in misery and firmly resolved to sustain all adversity And behold this is an acceptable time behold now is the day of salvation The first lesson in the School of Patience is to know that without much suffering no man profiteth CHAP. II. The reason why the Schollers in this School are so sharply and roughly intreated MANY things are preserved by motion which otherwise would perish Corn corrupts unlesse it be stir'd and often turned Many times by lying still it sprowts or becomes musty A garment lying long as a close prisoner in a chest becomes a banquet for mo●thes Ir●n if it be never used is eaten and consumed with rust Vines without p●u●ing and cu●●i●g degenerate and grow wilde Grapes are soon rotten unlesse they be pressed A hundred su●h things may be observed and that which daily experiments confirme cannot be denied Neverthelesse we r●p●ne and wonder why God should exercise men with so many severall calamities we have shewed in the precedent Chapter that it is fitting and necessary this should be so Now we will make it apparent that nothing can be more for the behoofe and benefit of man Sect. I. A Thousand reasons may be alledged why God doth not vouchsafe to give his servants a Paradise on earth but rather sends them thither from the crosse Heer I appeal to the ordinary custome of men If a man conceives no hatred against a lewd house for being beaten there or tumbled down a pair of stairs much lesse will he detest that house if he be kindly entertained So if we should be well intreated in this world scarcely any would seek after the joyes of heaven Not one man amongst a thousand but would say I am well contented with those which I already have why should I seek after uncertainties Many men besotted with their pleasures and riches would neglect heaven and like brutish Oxen lye down in the pasture they go in Therefore it was requisite that all things heer should be mingled with gall lest the hony of this world should be preferred before the sweetnesse of heaven Why I pray you was Aegypt so cruell and malicious towards the Hebrews for their governours as we read were most tyrannicall their taskes doubled their scourges and afflictions insufferable and besides all their male children were threatned to be killed what was Gods designe herein Nothing else but to beget in his people an extream hatred and loathing of Aegypt and consequently of Idolatry in generall To this end were the exhortations of Moses moving them to desire the land of Promise To this end was Pharaoh suffered to tyrannize that the Hebrewes conceiving hatred against so cruell a Lord might seek another more peaceable countrey Excellently well saith Saint Gregory By Gods mercifull will it comes Greg l. 23. c. 13. post med to passe that his elect lead a troublesome life in this their pilgrimage This life is the way by which we travell towards our countrey and therefore by his secret judgement we are often afflicted heer lest we should fall in love with the way in stead of the countrey A traveller especially such an one as is easily disposed to loyter is soon perswaded to stay and solace himself under shady trees and in pleasant medows seeks new and new delayes one while sitting down in this place and another while in that till he hath trifled and idly spent the whole day Therefore Saint Gregory saith that our Lord maketh in this world the way which leads to heaven rough and sharp to his elect lest any of them entertained with ease and delights of this life as with a pleasant way should rather desire to hold on still his journey then speedily to finish it and lest too much delighted with the way he should forget what is to be desired in his countrey And as it doth much inkindle the love of God to have but once tasted how sweet our Lord is even so to have somewhat felt the bitternesse of transitory things doth not a little thrust us forward to the hatred of them Behold the power of adversity and affliction it presents us the wormwood of this world to taste it strewes the earth with thorns to force our feet to mend their pace Elegantly saith Saint Augustine O the infelicity of humane creatures the world Aug. to 10. Serm 3 de Temp. circa med is bitter and yet beloved think what it would be if it were sweet and savoury it is turbulent and yet most earnestly desired what would it be if it were calm and quiet How eagerly wouldst thou pluck the flowers since thou canst not hold thy hands from the thorns Saint Chrysostome was of the same minde If we invironed on all sides with so many miseries desire to prolong this present life what would we do without them when would we desire or seek after future felicity We are so madly blinded with selfe-love that in stead of health we dote on Physicke in stead of the journies end fall in love with the journey and the cratures in stead of the Creator Hence comes it that God is in a manner forced to give us bitter potions lest we rather covet to drink vinegar and wormwood then celestiall nectar and prefer earth before heaven Sect. II. That golden Orator Saint Chrysostome of whom I spake proveth excellently well that it is a thing very profitable to be afflicted Touching which point this is seriously to be considered that humane understanding conceiveth not so much as the least shadow of divine Majesty our imagination when we think of God reaches no further then to Kings and Emperours Alas how base how childish are even our sublimest cogitations Hence it proceedeth that we f●ll into so many errours It is the saying of the wise man God hath tryed them and hath found them worthy of himselfe So immense is the Majesty of God that no man may be esteemed worthy thereof before he be throughly exercised with sundry calamities like a stout and couragious Champion who cannot challenge the prize before he hath sought the combat To good purpose was that which Nicetas Choniates said He is onely miserable who in affliction is too much contristated and thereby rendreth himselfe unworthy of God Isaac being now almost blinde with age sought by touching to finde out his son Come hither said he my son that I may feel thee and may prove whether thou beest my son Esau or no. In like manner God dealeth with us I must touch thee my childe saith he my hands are hot indeed they burn but if thou be my childe thou wilt suffer me to touch thee he that refuseth to be touched by me is none of mine and is unworthy of me I suffered my only Son to be crucified and I found him worthy of me Even in the same sort I dealt with his Virgin-mother transfixed her heart with a sword of griefe which for many

Gregory said every Greg hom 35. in Eva● one seemeth to be so much the lesse learned as he is discovered to have lesse patience so it is directly for every one the more foolish and simple he is the more he exceeds in impatience which Salomon likewise expresly affirmes that the learning of a man is knowne by his patience but fooles and impatient men are mad and rage against themselves overthrow the table clatter the pots teare their haire strike their breasts and thighes and sometimes knocke their heads against a post as Augustus Cesar knocking his head against a wall exclaimed Restore my legions again Var●s restore them Thus every mans indignation lights heaviest on himselfe Sect. IV. HEnce comes it that we are exasperated many times for triviall and base things the negligence or slacknes of a boy or a fire not kindled in due season sets us quite off the hookes a table negligently covered moves us forthwith to choler and provokes us to impatience we quarrell with the pen we write with the horse we ride on and the cloathes we weare From whence think you arise these and such like speeches What divell brought this man hither What unluckie hell hound hath laid upon us this heavy burthen Whence comes this troublesome and intolerable villaine O how I am wearied with this labour which is to such small purpose O how these wicked men trample upon me and why do I not abandon them and flye as farre as I can from this troublesome worke Thus we miserably wrastle and wrangle with our labours and crosses Very fitly here as Balaams Asse said to him may our labours that vexe us our crosses whereon we are crucified speak to us as Moses and Aaron did to the people What I pray you are we neither is your murmuring against us but against our Lord. Every crosse may truly say What have I done to you that you should so stomacke the matter have patience towards me and I will render all give way a little I beseech you to patience s●ffer your selfe for a while to be in misery and another day you shall be rewarded with an hundred fold But too many sayest thou and too grievous calamities infest us at one time Is it so indeed my masters can we expect commendations for our patience by suffering so little or nothing at all It is learnedly said of S. Gregory and to the purpose Thinke I beseech you what shall become of Greg to 4. l. 9. Epist 39. post initium mihi p 344. patience if you have nothing to suffer I shall never repute any one an Abel that hath not a Cain For good men if they be exempted from evill can not be perfectly good because they are not purified and refined The very company and conversation of evill men purgeth the good Wherefore this daily must be inculcated Have patience I beseech you have patience I pray even for Christs sake be patient Patience is a salve for every sore And as we must alwayes call upon sluggish and slothfull persons Go to make haste away dispatch be quicke So we impatient creatures must still be put in minde Go to patiently Christian brother patiently beare this or that or the other thing and all things patiently Here we had need to have the young man at our elbow to admonish us who every day saluted Philip King of Macedon with these words Thou art a man Let the same youth every houre or even every minute call upon us Gently and patiently I beseech you Whatsoever vexeth or oppresseth us is to be endured patiently Sect. V. WE many times forget our selves we remember not that we are in banishment where all miseries whatsoever should be born with patience Ah! Christians why are we in such eager quest after delights we have lost paradise from thence we have been long since exiled It is true we take our journey that way againe towards Paradise we bend our course but we are not yet arrived He that thinkes this journey passable without patience is like him who goes in the raine without cloak or hat or without a sword and target amongst his enemies The patient man is armed on all sides cap a p● and which is the most glorious kinde of victory overcomes all his enemies not by striking but by suffering The patient man walkes through coales as through roses Isaias fortified with this strength of patience calls upon our Lord whilst he is cut in peeces Stephen begged pardon for his enemies that stoned him the Apostles are scourged beheaded crucified and yet triumph with Christ on the crosse Patience hath a perfect worke Patience as Saint Cyprian saith overcomes Cyprian tract de Patient serm 1. initio temptations beares persecutions and accomplisheth martyrdomes It is she alone which firmly strengtheneth the foundations of our faith Patience by the testimony of Tertullian is beautifull in all sexes in all ages Patience is the guardian of all vertues Patience is an impenetrable brest-plate Saint Augustine gives her this Aug. in ps 42. circa med Plin. l. 21. nat hist cap. 11. initio ubi haec Herba et●am Nict●gretum Echonomychon app●llatur commendation that all patience is sweet and acceptable unto God Pliny saith there is a certaine hearbe called Nyctilopa because it shines a far off in the night being of a fiery colour and having thornes instead of leaves The Parthian kings make use thereof when they take their vowes Behold an excellent symbol of patience Patience is on all sides rather guarded with thornes then beset with leaves she is of the colour of fire and in time of affliction sends forth her native splendor never more illustrious then when she is for Christs sake most disasterous The only remedy for all evills in the Schoole of Patience is to suffer Seneca lib. 3. del●a cap. 16 Tho. de Kemp. J●●it Christi l. 2. ca. 3. sine and give way to necessities It is the saying of an excellent writer he that knoweth best how to suffer shall hare most peace This is the man that masters himselfe becomes Lord of the world the friend of Christ and heire to the kingdome of Heaven If thou E● lib. 3. cap. 35. initio guard not every side with the shield of Patience thou shalt not be long unwounded CHAP. II. That afflictions are to be born cheerefully PHARAOH King of Egypt was afflicted with di●e●s calamities because he contumaciously withstood the will of God and would not dismisse the people of Israell But after the losse and slaughter of so many men and beasts he of his owne accord forced the Jewes to depart arise quoth he and goe forth from my people you and the children of Israel goe sacrifice to the Lord as you say And the Egyptians urged the people to go forth out of the land quickly the Israelites were as glad and willing to goe as they to urge them and with a cheerefull countenance tooke their leave for indeed they