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A20673	The practise how to finde ease, rest, repose, content, and happines. Written by a religious man of the congregation of St. Elias the prophet, and the order of our Blessed Lady of mount Carmell, restored by the Blessed mother Teresa. The second part. Containing directions how to end all controuersies, and take away all discontentments, and euils, and attaine vnto true ioy of minde, and content of heart, and all good; Practise how to finde ease, rest, repose, content, and happines. Part 2	Doughty, Thomas, fl. 1618-1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 7072.6; ESTC S106011	123,081	516

and yet you enuie it The Passion of our Lord is the price of the whole World he redeemed the whole World and you with the whole World for your gaine cannot agree but rather to your losse in a part doe striue that you may loose the whole Heare in the Psalme They Ps 21. 19. haue diuided my Apparrell amongst them and vpon my Coats they cast Lots Why will you be diuiders of the Apparrell of our Lord and will not hold with the whole World the Coat of Charitie wouen aboue which his Persecutors haue not diuided In the same Psalme it is said Ps 21. 28. that all the World shall hold it he saith All the ends of the Earth shall remember and be conuerted to our Lord and all the Families of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight Open the eyes of your heart Ps 49. 1. and heare for the God of Gods our Lord hath spoken and hee hath called the Earth from the rising of the Sunne euen to the going downe out of Sion the beautie of his comelinesse If you will not heare this heare the Gospell our Lord speaking and saying by his proper mouth All things ought to be fulfilled of Christ which of him are written in the Law and Prophets and Psalmes and Penance and Remission of sinnes in his Name to be preached throughout all Nations beginning at Ierusalem That which is said in the Psalme He hath called the Earth from the rising of the Sun vnto the going downe This is vnderstood in the Gospell by all Nations And that which in the Psalme is said out of Sion the beautie of his comelinesse in the Gospell is said beginning from Ierusalem Wherefore doe you beleeue that the Cockle hath growne and hath filled the World and the Wheat to haue diminished in Brittanie onely to haue remained Doe you call your selues Christians and yet contradict Christ Hee saith suffer both to grow vntill the Haruest Hee did not say let the Cockle grow and the Wheat diminish Hee said the Field is the World and did not say the Field is Brittanie Thus Saint Augustine Epist 171. and we with him So deare Reader not to liue seeking after lyes and publikely professing in deeds and actions that God Almightie is forsworne when Sathan shall tempt thee in matters of Faith or any controuersie ariseth betweene thee some Protestant about Religion as about the Reall Presence Prayer for the Dead Intercession to Saints c. make some of the aforesaid Acts set downe in the former Chapter with zeale and feruor and hold fast the hope proposed which Heb. 6. 18. wee haue as an Anchor of the Soule sure and firme the Oath of God and that it is impossible for God to lye Be not remoued away from the two things vnmoueable the Oath of God and Impossibilitie for God to lye Whereupon is grounded all the whole course of the Scriptures and founded the House of God the Church of the 1. Tim. 3. 15. liuing God the Pillar and ground of Truth And neither Death Rom. 8. nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers neither things present nor things to come neither might nor height nor depth nor other creature shall be able to make thee a Protestant Sectarie or Heretike and separate thee from the vnitie of our Catholike Faith the Faith of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. And in arguing and disputing with Sectaries who denie our Catholike Faith put them to proue that the Oath of God the Promises and Prophecies are verified and fulfilled vpon their Sects and then thou shalt finde that their Doctrine proceedeth from this Sourse or Gulfe that Sathan is encreased in Pride hath got him a new Coat and reformed his Religion Whereas heretofore he was wont to goe like a Serpent and preach out of a Tree and taught that God Almightie could lye and men that would beleeue him should be as Gods No you shall Gen. 3. not die you shall be as Gods now he hath encreased his Pride and got a new Coat and goeth like a Precisian Minister and preacheth out of Pulpits and hath reformed his Faith and Religion teaching for God can lye and you shall be as Gods God can be forsworne and you are Gods and cannot lye erre or be deceiued but be assured to enioy Heauen and vpon this hath founded his reformed Religions the violating of the Oathes of God and publike profession in acts and deeds that God Almightie is periured and forsworne Heb. 6. 17. God meaning more abundantly to shew the heires of his Promise the stabilitie of his Counsell in performing what hee did promise for the establishing of the hearts of men in the infallibilitie of our Christian Catholike Faith Church Priesthood swore two Oathes the one in confirmation of the Priesthood of our Lord for euer Ps 129. Heb. 7. Our Lord hath sworne and it shall not repent him thou art a Priest for euer aecording to the Order of Melchisedeck The other this which we treate of The Oath of God to Abraham Act. 3. Of multiplying Gen. 22. his Seed as the Starres of Heauen and as the sand that is by the Sea-shoare Thy Seed shall possesse the gates of his enemies In thy Seed shall be blessed all the Families of the Earth And vpon these Oaths is founour Catholike Faith And the Deuill meaning more abundantly to shew his malice and power in the hearts of wretched men the heires of his Myseries and endlesse Torments hath brought them to plant a Faith and Religion grounded and founded vpon the denying in actions and deeds of the fulfilling of both these Oathes of God First by winning men to denie in effect and deeds that God Almightie hath multiplied Christians his children as the Starres of Heauen possessing the Gates of their enemies and mouing them to affirme in acts and deeds that for many hundreth yeares together God Almightie hath failed in fulfilling of his first Oath he hath planted in their hearts his new Ministeriall Doctrine And secondly by winning Men to deny in action and deeds that our Lord was a Priest for euer according to the Order of Melchisedeck and mouing them to affirme in acts and deeds that he was a Priest but for once and that according to the Order of Aaron in offering vp of himselfe once vpon the Crosse he hath destroied all the Christian Priest-hood life and Religion which was amongst them And so by mouing men in acts deeds publikely to professe that God Almightie hath beene twice forsworn the Diuel hath founded and planted amongst them his new reformed Religions groūded and founded vpon two cōtradictories to the grounds of our Catholike Faith viz. God Almightie cannot lye or be forwsorne God Almighty is periured and can lye Which is so manifest that if Malice and Passion doe not blinde thy heart and extinguish the light of reason in thy vnderstanding I will make thee touch it as we vse to say with thy

finger For graunt me but that God Almightie cannot be forsworne nor violate his Oaths and in euery opinion of Faith and Religion as a creature of God Almighties maintaine in act and deed that he cannot be periured or forsworne and thou caust not be a Protestant of any Sect or sort by any means possible but of necessitie be of that Faith and Religion Protestants call Papistrie As for example the question is whether our Catholike Church or your Protestant Congregation bee the true Church of God Let vs goe to the Oath of God and as creatures of God Almightie let vs in actions and deeds firmely and faithfully beleeue this Oath of God to Abraham to be true and submit our vnderstandings and iudgements vnto it as vnto the most infallible and most certaine truth that can be and as willing to honour God without passion or malice let vs simply seeke whether this Oath of God By my selfe haue I sworne I will blesse thee and will multiply thy Seed as the Starres of Heauen and as the Sand that is by the Sea shoare Thy Seede shall possesse the Gates of his Enemies and in thy Seede shall be blessed all the Nations of the Earth be more verified vpon our Catholike Church or your Protestant Congregation First for Temporall blessings all the Christian Kings and Kingdomes that euer haue beene flourishing vpon the face of the Earth before Henrie the eight were so Catholike that thou canst not name me one who was in Faith and Religion a Protestant and held the Religion Protestants now maintaine For spirituall blessings we haue written in all Ages Bookes and Volumes of the Spirituall blessings and gifts of God the gifts of the holy Ghost bestowed vpon vs Exercises of Spirituall life loue and vnion of heart with God amongst you there is not any one professing such things all denying inherent grace and infused vertues And whether the Seede of Protestants or Seede of Catholikes haue beene multiplied as the Sand that is by the Sea-shore possessing the Gates of their enemies not only all the Chronicles and Histories of Countries and Nations doe beare witnesse for vs but euen Protestants themselues conuinced with truth doe confesse it Perkins vpon the Creede pag. 307. affirmeth That during the space of nine hundreth yeares the Popish Heresie hath spread it selfe ouer the whole Earth Fulke in his Treatise against Stapleton pag. 25. affirmeth That some Protestants haue written that the Pope hath blinded the World these many hundreth yeares some say a thousand some say one thousand two hundred some nine hundred yeares And Napper in his Treatise vpon the Reuelations pag. 68. affirmeth That betweene the yeare of Christ three hundreth and three hundreth and sixteene the Antichristian and Papisticall reigne begun reigning saith he vniuersally and without any debatable contradiction twelue hundred and threescore yeares pag. 145. saith The Pope and his Clergie during all that time possessing the outward visible Church of Christians So these English Protestants And it is a thing of it selfe so manifest that Protestants are not able to name any one Minister or Preacher for one thousand foure hundred yeares together who held and maintained the Doctrine they now teach And to let passe other States Countries and Towns and make instance in the Citie of Venice The Gothes Michele Zappulo in his Historie of Venice afflicting Italy many Catholike Italians flying the fury of those barbarous people did retire themselues into that place of Venice which is now called Riualta before called Lupa which being then not inhabited and vnknowne to the Gothes with the consent of the Senate of Padoa chose three Consuls Alberto Faliero Thomaso Candiano and Canone Dauolo and by their help begun the Foundation of the Citie of Venice vpon the fiue and twentieth day of March in the yeare of our Lord foure hundred twentie and one which hath continued euer since in the Catholike Faith vnion of the Church of GOD dilated ouer the World without alteration or change in Religion or State or hauing beene sacked or spoiled as their Histories and succession of Men from age to age doe abundantly testifie Whereby thou seest that our Catholike Church is so manifestly the true Church that vnlesse thou wilt first affirme in effect and deed that God Almightie is periured and forsworne thou canst not denie it that the Church of the Protestants is so manifestly the false Church that without affirming in effect and deeds that God Almightie may be forsworne it cannot in any one Article bee defended And the same thou shalt finde in any other question as for example thou wouldest examine whether Catholike Priests that offer to God the Sacrifice of the Masse or Protestant Ministers who haue no externall Sacrifice be true Christian Priests admit but of the Oathes of God for true without malice and passion and the Controuersie is ended and it is as manifest vnto thee by both the Oathes of God that Massing Priests are true Christian Priests as it is manifest that God Almightie cannot be forsworne Of the first Oath we haue spoken before The second Oath is Ps 109. Heb. 7. Our Lord hath sworne and it shall not repent him thou art a Priest for euer according to the Order of Melchisedeck First of Protestant Ministers there were none for many hundreth yeares together visibly knowne in the World as they confesse so this eternall Priesthood of Christ could not be verified in them as in his Priests or Ministers Secondly they haue no externall Sacrifice That Catholike Priests haue beene these many hundreth yeares offering to God as Ministers of his Sonne his Bodie and Bloud vnder the formes of Bread Wine according to the Order of Melchisedeck as they doe now that Protestants confesse as wee haue immediatly before set downe So do but admit that God Almightie is not forsworne in both these Oathes and of necessitie thou must defend that Massing Priests are true Christian Priests and Protestant Ministers false And in all other Questions Controuersies firmely beleeue the Oaths of God which are the most certaine and infallible truths that may be and such as wherevpon all the rest of the Scriptures depend and honour God Almightie by maintaining them in words and deeds and thinke that thy Vnderstanding Wit and Iudgement may deceiue thee as they many times doe but the Oathes of God cannot and thou canst not but be a Roman Catholike or Papist So manifest it is that our Catholike Faith is founded vpon the Oathes of God and Protestantisme of all Sects and sorts is founded vpon Publike profession in acts and deeds that God Almightie is periured and forsworne that if passion and malice doe not blinde the light of reason in thee thou canst not but see it and confesse it Thus hauing laid the foundation of our Ease Content and Rest vpon the surest foundations which are to be found in Heauen or Earth the Oathes of God hoping thou desirest to finde that

in England who firmely grounded and founded in the infallible certainetie of the Oathes and Promises of God doe thinke whatsoeuer they can suffer or endure in this life too little to manifest the constancie of their Faith and Hope in the Promises of God that as S. Paul writeth of the Romans so wee may say of the English Catholikes Your Faith Rom. 1. 8. is renowmed throughout the whole World and will be in all Ages in this life and after death for all eternitie in Heauen A fourth may be to remember that it is the Precept of our Lord saying Loue your enemies doe good to Mat. 5. 44. them that hate you pray for them that persecute you and abuse you Thou seest what paines the Pursuinants take at the commaundement of their Maysters to apprehend take spoyle and torment Priests and Catholikes and in all equitie it must needes be a great shame vnto thee that the commaundement of a Man should haue more force to moue men to breake the commaundements of God then the commaundement of God hath to moue thee to keepe them especially considering that all which they can get is but to diuide the spoyles betweene their Maysters and them and the good countenance of their Maysters to themselues And thou expectest the Kingdome of Heauen the happie Vision of God and eternall Glorie A fifth may be to consider what it is that thou desirest Is it not Content and Happinesse Wouldest thou not be Content and Happie This is the Way Looke after all those who euer attained vnto high degree of Rest and Ioy and obserue their steppes and thou shalt finde that they are all gone in this path of outward Tribulation and Persecution And supposed that thou couldest finde another way to Rest and Ioyes wouldest thou forsake the comfort of so good companie to goe alone when as by so doing thou shouldest but depriue thy selfe of much Ease and Ioy. The seruants of God who willingly take paines and readily suffer persecution for the loue of God in their sufferings and persecutions doe not suffer but in outward shew view and sight of the World hauing in their inward hearts and soules more Ioyes and Content then any Penne or Tongue is able to expresse God Almightie is more tender ouer his who will willingly suffer persecution for his loue then euer was the most affectioned Mother in the World ouer her onely Child that giue but thy consent free will and resignation of minde readily by Gods grace to suffer whatsoeuer persecution or tribulation it shall please his Diuine Maiestie to permit to fall vpon thee willingly march on in that way to Rest by which he will conduct thee and suffer paines of torment thou neuer shalt but be so full of Ioy in the greatest seeming paines that if they were sensible to others as they will be to thy selfe thy suffering would conuert not one but all the World And if thou wilt beleeue the Testimonies of all pious Men in this Age and in all Ages past thou shalt finde it most true by their Testimonies and Experiences that either all Content and Ioyes which are to be found in this life or the most part are to be found in suffering and enduring outward paines labours and persecutions for the loue of God such are the Promises of God as wee haue said immediately before and God Almightie is iust and faithfull in all his Promises if there be no defect on thy behalfe So the Prophet Dauid affirmeth saying According Ps 93. 19. to the multitude of my sorrowes in my heart thy consolations haue made my soule ioyfull Againe Thou hast proued vs O Lord by fire thou hast Ps 65. 9. tryed vs as Siluer is tryed thou hast brought vs vnto a Snare thou hast laid Tribulations on our backes thou hast set men vpon our heads we haue passed through fire and water and thou hast brought vs out into refreshing So Saint Paul often affirmeth saying As the 2. Cor. 1. 5. Passions of Christ abound in vs so also by Christ doth our comfort abound Againe We make 2. Cor. 8. 2. it knowne vnto you Brethren the grace of God that is giuen in the Church of Macedonia that in much experience of Tribulation they had abundance of Ioy. Againe to the Corinthians liuing in persecution and tribulation hee writeth saying Our hope is firme for you 2. Cor. 1. 7. knowing that as you are partakers of the Passion so shall you be of the Consolation also And further affirmeth saying All Discipline for the present truly Heb. 12. 11. seemeth not to be of Ioy but of Sorrow but after it will render vnto them that are exercised in it most peaceable fruit of Iustice So S. Peter witnesseth saying My dearest communicating ● Pet. 4. 12. with the Passions of Christ be glad that in the reuelation also of his glorie you may be glad reioycing If you be reuiled in the Name of Iesus Christ you shall be blessed because that which is of the honour glorie and vertue of God and the Spirit which is his shall rest vpon you The holy Ghost will rest vpon you with his gifts and fruites from whose communication proceedeth all our Content and Happinesse as wee will shew in his place So Saint Paul concludeth That all men without exception shall find Content by Persecution saying All that will liue godly 1. Tim. 3. 12. in Christ Iesus shall suffer Persecution Whereby thou seest that if either the light of Reason or Grace may preuaile with thee thou hast no cause to hate or wish euill vnto the persons of the Pursuinants or seuerest Persecutors but to hate and detest their sinne impietie and wickednesse and loue cherish and doe all the seruiceable offices thou canst vnto their persons since that by patiently enduring the euils and wickednesse they practise vpon thee God Almightie hath disposed to conduct thee to more temporall and eternall Rest Content and Happinesse then euer otherwise thou couldest haue expected to haue receiued Which considered thou oughtest to haue great compassion vpon those poore miserable and wretched people which serue for nothing else but by God Almighties permission to conduct thee to Happinesse after to descend themselues into eternall Torments and out of compassion to pray much for them if peraduenture God Almightie will haue mercie on them also that they may see their errors and come to loue God Almighty with their whole hearts and their neighbours as themselues and saue their soules that those whom thou hast had as persecutors vpon Earth thou mayest haue as companions of Glorie in Heauen which God Almightie graunt vs and to that end I set downe these Acts following Acts of Charitie or Loue toward our Neighbour O King of Kings in whose hands are the hearts of all Kings for thy tender mercies I beseech thee graunt that my King Queene and Prince may so liue and serue thee vpon Earth that after death they may be found