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A17888	A spirituall combat a tryall of a faithfull soule or consolation in temptation. Written in French by I.P. Camus Bishope of Belley, and translated into English by M.C. P. of the Eng. Coll. of Doway.; Lutte spirituelle, ou encouragement à une âme tentée de l'esprit de blasphème et d'infidélité. English.	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.	1632 (1632)	STC 4553; ESTC S107507	60,746	308

time saith S. HIEROME to his deuoute EVSTOCIVM the diuells assault you and vpon these assaults your thoughtes say vnto you what shall we doe ELIZEVS will make you answere Feare not we haue more freinds then foes and praying for you he will say ô Lord open this Maydes eyes and make her see and then you shall discouer a fierie chariote descending vpon you which taking you vp as another ELIAS will make you sing with ioye My soule hath beene deliuered out of the fowlers snares as a bird that escapes and flies away from the springs which are set to catch her In the like aire S. CHRYSOSTOME comforting a soule layed at by temptations saith vnto her giue eare to IESVS CHRIST saying you shall be afflicted in the world yet loose not for all that your confidence And with what reasons doth he encourage her by the promisse of his grace and assistance haue assurance for I haue ouer come the world * Hearken to him who promiseth vs to lighten our burden by putting himselfe into the yoake with vs. He will not suffer vs to be vanquished by the temptation since he doth promise vs that we shall draw profit frō it that he will not permit it to passe our strēgth If we on our part contribute what is ours a litle Patience courage acknowledgement of his assistance when all shall be despared of according to humane reason he will make vs victorious * For who can resiste the will of God And if he be for vs who will be able to vāquish vs let vs therefore put our trust in him sith he hath made vs such promises and we expect so ample recompence from him Let vs call to mind that a reede became as stronge as a pillar in our Sauiours hand and out of his hand the pillars of the tēple became a as reede of the desert * which plainelie appeares in the example of S. PETER who putting confidēce in himselfe had so lamentable a fall and rising vp againe after that fall went so couragiouslie to death placeing his whole trust in his Masters grace Sotrue it is that those who confide in our Lord are no more shaken by temptations then the mountaines of Sion * Their feete are confirmed vpō the rocke * They are eleuated vpon a hgh rocke * where they haue built their Abode an abode which doth resiste the windes and weather * of temptation For as a tempest doth manifest the Pilots skill saith S. BASILE wrastling the wrastlers strength fighting the Capitaines vallour so doth temptation demonstrate what confidence the Christian doth repose in the diuine goodnesse Of Patience CHAP. XIX EXAMINE further THEOPISTE whether your complaintes may not proceede from want of patience and rather be issues of your weakenesse then of the force of the temptation For as passiō doth often make vs apprehend iniury that is done vnto vs farre greater thē indeed it is so impatience makes vs so weake that a smale burden doth ouer loade vs and makes vs crie out with those cowardly Discouerers of the Land of Promis that that Contry deuoures its inhabitants and that there are none but Giāts who liue in it Contrariwise Patience accompaigned with courage finds all things supportable being assisted with the grace and loue of God she suffers all she endures all * and though she be euen ouerset with the heauie load of calamitie yet doth she neuer say it is enough knowing well that the light and passing moments of tribulation doe worke an eternall waight of glorie in vs. In this sort a patient soule doth out-braue temptations and remaynes vnshaken amidst assaults as a Rocke that riseth with a sharp tope out of the midst of the Ocean and is not moued with the angrie billowes which are dasht in peeces at its foote Make head against the diuell saith S. IAMES he will flie from you * He resembles those cowardly curres which barke more then they bite and as the greate S. ANTONIE said so Sainct ATHANASIVS remarkes vpon his life sets onely vpon fainte harts and flies the resolute a true wolfe which dare onely deuoure the innocent lambe but dare not meddle with mastines Hereupon S. GREGORY in this moralls saith that in the holy Scripture he is tearned MARMICALEON that is to say Formica-leo for as much as to weake harts like pismires he is cruell arrogant violent as though he were a Lion but to braue and Lion-like spirits he is as vile and cōtemptible as a Pismire Which the same S. ANTHONIE did frequently obbraide him withall in the desert while he alone if one may be said to be alone who hath God in his compagnie domineered ouer so many legions of wicked Spirits and by a heauenly generousnesse like to that of SAMSON mowing downe the Philistians defied all Hell S. EPHREM considering a soule of this temper compares her to an Anuyle which though it be continually beaten yet doth it not buge an inch out of the place where it is once set It remaines immouable And in steede of being made hollow like to a stone vnder the drops of water it becomes harder and more solide He that complaines vnder the assault of temption vnlike to a Laurell-tree which being burnt crakes not resembles an emptie Caske knocke vpon it and it redounds vastly which the full Peece doth not If he were replemished with grace and vertue his tune would be gratefull and he would imitate ISAYE who saith Our strength is to be placed in Hope and silence That a moderate complainte is no signe of impatience CHAP. XX. HOwbeit I doe in no wise affirme THEOPISTE that I may not augment your temptation by scruples and so adde affliction to affliction * that you offend in groning vnder the burden which doth presse you downe for we haue euen seene the Mirrour of Patiēce the good IOB testifying a dolourous sense of greife in many words The greife were to too miserable that were depriued of speach and prohibited to complaine The verie Sonne of God Paterne of all vertues gaue testimonie of sadnes in his annoyes and vttered words that had apparance of complaintes as that his soule was sorrowfull euen vnto death and those which he tooke in so high a strayne vpon the Crosse As for the kingly Prophete he so frequently all through his Diuine Psalmes grones vnder the loade of his miseries as doe also all the rest of the Prophetes especially IEREMIE that none can deny their plaintes without affected blindnesse nor yet blame thē without rashnesse As it happens therfore to those who are full of interiour consolations that at vnawares and euen against their will some secrete voice doth escape frō them wherby one may gather the excesse of their delight and abundance of their ioye * so how worthy is his cōplainte to be pardoned who as IOB said being oppressed with thoughtes which doe torture his hart * doth giue therby testimonie that an interiour greife hath seased vpon his hart Sainte ANTONIE that famous

the patient makes of the state he feeles himselfe in Those litle duplicities those windings that spirituall cunning those couertures which we sometymes make vse of while we treate in matter of cōscience with those to whom we haue trusted the gouernement of our soule are oft cause that the temptations which would but passe through our hart doe put themselues in garrisons and withall falling into mutinie doe stirre vp reuoults seditions and tumults But blessed be God Father of our Lord IESVS CHRIST Father of Mercies and God of all consolation who comforts vs in all our troubles * Benediction light wisdome thāksgiuing honour vertue and strength be to God who hath giuen you courage as to another Acan to glorifie him * and to confesse vnto him your owne iniustice against your selfe A great part of health is to wish to be well This makes vs couragiously vse all conuenient kinds of remedies It is a great stepp to goodnes to desire to become good for grace wherby we are made such is neuer awanting to those who haue a will fruitfully to receaue it and carefully to manage it Such may I esteeme you my deare THEOPISTE since for so many yeares you haue made profession of pietie and giuen the testimonie of a good life that you desire to be deuoute Greife for Peace lost CHAP. X. ALas and this it is thē that drawes so many sobbs frō your breast such a world of sighes from your mouth and such floods of teares frō your eyes while you thinke of the faire weather that is past wherin you fought with such courage and alacritie * Ah say you the crowne of my head is fallen woe be to me for I haue offended * And my misfortune is that I know not myne owne miserie * Hence I lift vp my hands towards the heauens and say ô Lord from my secrete sinnes cleanse me and from other mens spare thy seruant ô Sion ô wishfull peace of my hart when I thinke of thee myne eyes become foūtaines and the aples of myne eyes swime therin I ranne so well ay me what 's this that holds me * What troublesome Remora stopps the shippe of my affections which sayled vnder full sayles vpon the Sea of Grace and spirituall delightes What scorching winde hath dryed vp those pleasing fountaines * out of which I drew water of life wherwith I quenched my thirst While God dilated my hart with sweete affections I ranne without paine within the compasse of thy wayes * While he couered me or rather inuironed me with his good pleasure as with a buckler * I contemned the attempts of myne enemye O who will reduce me to the same estate in which I was in tymes past while I washed the feete of myne affections in the butter * of cōsolations and while to me from the Rocke of Faith flowed floodes of oyle * O how my gold is obscured or rather turnd blacke how my redd coulour is changed * No let me be called no more Noemi but Mara since my soule is fild with bitternesse * O God what stumbling block is layd to crosse my way who walked towards thee so directly and whereas nothinge but holy words of prayse honour and benediction issued out of my mouth and rose vp in thy sight like vnto the smoake of incense * while my tongue did onely meditate thy iustice my lipps thy glorie * whence is it that myne interiour doth open its mouth against the Heauens * and like to the wells of the Abisse vomits out no other thing but a smoake of blasphemie and impietie which doth dimme the starrs and depriue me of light THEOPISTE doe not you lye to the Holy Ghost as did ANANIAS and SAPHIRA Tell the truth Are not these your vexatiōs and anguishes Are not these the groneings or rather the roreings of your hart But alas why doe you thus wrongfully change iudgement into Absinth * honie into Gaule and mistake the heauenly dewe and Manna for hayle A lenitiue CHAP. XI BE comforted and I say againe be comforted * to speake with ISAYE for what you apprehend chastisements are caresses Be it that the tempest is great must we therfore loose courage forsake the sterne Though euen the whall had swallowed you vp with IONAS though the knife were put to your throte * though God should euen kill you ought you yet for all that to leaue of to hope in him * I reioyce in my sufferances for CHRIST * said the Apostle and delight in myne infirmities to the end that the vertue of my master may remayne in me * And what is this vertue but Patience I but will you say I suffer not for IESVS CHRIST as did his vessell of Election but against IESVS-CHRIST so that I am one of the diuels martyres Why though the diuell should martyre and torment you as he did IOB and saint PAVLE by the dīuine permission who told you yet that the torments which proceed from the diuell are suffered for the diuell and not for IESVS CHRIST who knowes not that it is the cause not the sufferāces which makes the martyrdome Now the marke and seale of a good sufferance is patience ioyned to Charitie He that suffers without this though he should giue his bodie to be burnt should onely aduance his owne damnation Beware then ô THEOPISTE least by your impatience you spoyle the worke of God in you which can neuer come to its full perfection but by patience * Why doe you thinke that patiēce is meerely vsefull to sustayne exteriour crosses and vexations and that its imployment doth not also concerne the interiour As though forsooth inuisible enemies were not as much to be feared as visible ones and we our selues were not as dangerous to our selues as any other If you know not this you are but yet a freshman in the spirituall warfare But if you be not ignorant of the truth of it when doe you thinke you can make better vse of this Weapon then in the present occurrence God's assistance in temptation CHAP. XII BVT giue me leaue ô man not of litle Faith * but of litle courage a litle to raise vp thy hart without making it swell like a balowne with the winde of any presumption and to tell you that according to the prouerbe you crie before you be hurt and imitating the Prophete you crie out that your bellie aketh * and that death is in the potage * Without anie iust cause For I beseech you what is it that doth affright and so desperately terrifie you It is say you that I continually am haunted with a blasphemous spirit wherewith mine eie is troubled my soule and my bellie * that is my soule and my bodie my whole man Alas doe you not discouer that there is nothing there but the the shadowe of death not death it selfe And with a verie graine of confidence in God are you not able to walke in the midst of the region of the shadowe of death without fearing anie wisfortune *