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A20947	Heraclitus: or, Meditations vpon the misery of mankinde, and the vanitie of humane life with the inconstancie of worldly things; as also the wickednesse of this deceitfull age described. Faithfully translated out of the last edition written in French by that learned diuine, Monsieur Du Moulin By Abraham Darcie.; Héraclite; ou, De la vanité et misère de la vie humaine. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1624 (1624)	STC 7326; ESTC S115746	58,947	176

HERACLITVS OR MEDITATIONS vpon the Misery of Mankinde and the vanitie of Humane life With The inconstancie of worldly Things as also the wickednesse of this deceitfull age described Faithfully translated out of the last Edition written in French by that learned Diuine Monsieur Du Moulin By ABRAHAM DARCIE LONDON Printed by G. P. for Thomas Pauier and are to be sold at his shop in Iuie Lane M.DC.XXIV TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS IOHN Earle of Bridgewater c. And to the Princely Lady FRANCES his Noble Countesse As also to the Honorable Ladies the Lady FRANCES HOBART and the Lady ARABELLA St IOHN their worthy Daughters And to the Honor of the Right Honorable The Lord St IOHN Baron of Bletso the Illustrious Lady ELIZABETH His Noble and Vertuous Wife with their Honorable Sonne Mr St IOHN The Lord HOBART L. Chiefe Iustice of the Common-Pleas and to the Religious Lady his worthy Wife to their Generous vertuous Son Sir IOHN HOBART True Patternes of Vertue and Pietie Noble Patrons and Patronesses of Honor and Learning ABRAHAM DARCIE wisheth to these Noble Families all internall externall and eternall Happinesse and prosperity in Christ Iesus Right Honorable Most Worthy THat great and wise Monarch King SALOMON said long since that there is no end of making Bookes and much studie is a wearinesse of the flesh Which Paradoxe was neuer more verefied then in these degenerate dayes of Vanity when ignorant as well as wise men will bee still writing of themselues whereby the Presse is euen oppressed with multiplicitie of such idle Treatises more light then vanity it selfe But for such Bookes as doe either affoord direction to the Church or a way to reforme and better our Life those are most worthy to bee read and carefully obserued This excellent Worke first penned in French by one of the most learned Diuines in France clearely shewing vs the Vanity Misery and Inconstancie of this World doth warne and admonish vs to take heede how we trust to it and that we must not build our happinesse vpon so deceitfull grounds as Riches and Earthly possessions but to direct our Hearts leuell and lift our mindes and thoughts to HEAVEN to that Eternal and blessed Habitation of CHRIST IESVS Considering these things what greater abomination can there be then to see the people of this miserable age delight to vndoe one another enuie despise curse warre and finally kill one another For a thing so vaine as this World deceitful miserable inconstant and damnable which sometimes honors vs and presently contemnes vs cals vs to high Callings and sodainly debases and degrades vs lifts vs to high prosperity and immediatly flings vs headlong into lowe aduersity Therfore PHILIP King of Macedonia acknowledging the worlds great inconstancie hauing receiued many good newes in one day prayeth the immortall Gods to stop the course of so greatioyes fearing lest some sinister actions and mournefull euents should ensue them Right Honourable this Booke hauing past many Impressions in FRANCE is now arriued newly reuiued and augmented here in England and though it bee little in shew yet it containes many good things yea matters of weight and consequence worthy to bee read knowne and obserued As also very fit and needfull for a Christian to meditate The exquisite worth thereof hath mooued mee to translate it but the fame of your rare vertues hath the more imboldened mee to publish it vnder the banner of your Noble protections Accept it most Honorable as courteously as officiously it is Dedicated and Consecrated to the perpetuall Honour and Honourable vse of your Illustrious Houses and Noble Families by Your Honours and Worthinesse humble and deuoted obseruant ABRAHAM DARCIE A Table of the Contents of this Booke CHAP. 1. THe vanity and misery of the Nature of man fol. 6 CHAP. 2. The vanity and inconstancy of man in his action 10 CHAP. 3. Of mans Ripe Age. 16 CHAP. 4. The life of Courtiers 27 CHAP. 5. The life of Magistrates and wicked Iudges 31 CHAP. 6. Of mans estate being in Wedlocke 36 CHAP. 7. The vanity and inconstancie of Women 42 CHAP. 8. Of Couetousnesse Enuie and Ambition 45 CHAP. 9. Of Petty-fogging strifes and law-contention 53 CHAP. 10. Of Philosophy and the knowledge of diuers tongues 55 CHAP. 11. Of Pilgrims and Ciuill vertues 59 CHAP. 12. Of old and decrepit Age. 77 CHAP. 13. Of Death 69 CHAP. 14. Of the terrible Iudgement seat of God 74 CHAP. 15. Of Heauen 79 CHAP. 16. Of Hell 81 CHAP. 17. The misery and vanity of our Life and the wickednesse that now raigneth HERACLITVS TEARES OR THE MISERY OF HVMANE LIFE WITH The vanity and inconstancie of worldly things IF we doe but seriously consider this besotted World how like a turbulent torrent it is ouerflowne with all sorts of impertinent and importunate affaires which cut our time into a thousand pieces wee shall finde that each of them takes from vs one part of our life leauing vs no time but that which wee gaine by theft subtracting some houres for to examine our selues in secret and to entertain our mind with religious thoughts These solitary meditations haue sufficient in them to employ our wits For the first Subiect which doth present it selfe to our perusall is a consideration of the vanity and misery of humane life not for to molest vs any way while we are in it but to prepare our selues to depart well out of it No man can aspire as hee ought to the future life which doth not contemne this present neither can any man contemne this present which doth not well know it and the way truely to know it is to remoue it farre from vs to withdraw it from our heart and to banish it from our affection For worldly goods beeing neere at hand doe both dazell the Minde and distract the Iudgement But let vs first enquire before we proceede of some one that hath passed this way King Salomon in the beginning of Ecclesiastes entring into that meditation doth write that vanity is most vaine all is vanity That great and mighty King who had riches without example peace without trouble glory without enuy who was obeyed of his Subiects respected of his Neighbors and raigned forty yeeres which was a sufficient time to content his minde in sumptuous buildings in multitude of Horses in all variety of studies and Sciences who had trauersed his spirits through all the secrets of Nature euen from the Cedar vnto the Hysop Neuerthelesse in the conclusion of all considering how these sweets are confected with bitternesse how there is little constancie in these things how there is small content in all this trauell hee makes this the cloze of all his actions That all is vanity and affliction of spirit But before that Solomon had proued these things hee learned that lesson of Dauid his father which is written in the 39. Psalme Truely euery man is nothing but vanity he walketh in a

more tormenteth those whom he doth possesse then when he knoweth that he must depart But now when Man hath passed the bitter anguish of Death where is then become his glories Where are his pomps and triumphs Where is his Voluptuousnesse and Wantonnesse Where is his Maiestie excellency and holinesse They are vanished as the shadow and it is chanced to them as to the garment that the wormes haue eaten or as the wooll that the moth hath deuoured Let vs behold Man when hee is in the graue Who euer saw a Monster more hideous then the dead carkasse of Man behold his excellency Maiestie and Dignity couered with a lumpe of earth Heere you may see him that was cherished reuerenced and honoured euen to kisse his hands and feet by a sodaine mutation become a creature most abominable and to them it happeneth as Salomon writeth in his booke of Wisedome What hath it profited saith he the pride and great aboundance of riches All these things are passed as is the Arrow shot to the white or as is the smoke that is dispersed with the winde The sole memory of Death mournfull Funerals and the reading of Inscriptions engrauen in Sepulchers doth make the very haire to stare and stand an end and strikes Man with an horrour and apprehension of it Some represent Death terrible to the aspect and depriued of flesh other consider it with compassion mixt with dread Some particular man which not long since was clad in Silke and shined with Diamonds is now assaulted with troupes of Wormes and breathes forth intolerable sents while that his heyre doth laugh in secret and enioyeth the fruit of all his labour which he himselfe neuer enioyed And neuerthelesse in this his very dust corruption doth appeare an Ambition and pride doth rest within his Tombe For then behold stately Sepulchers engraued stones that report some famous actions and proud titles vpon his Tombe set out with false Narrations to the end that Passengers by may say Here lyeth a goodly stone and a corrupted body CHAP. XIV Of the terrible Iudgement Seat of God BEing dead in this world hee must then appeare before the Iudgement Seat of God with such a terrour to those that consider it well that there is no member but trembleth It is the Day that the Lord will come like a tempest when euery ones heart shall faile them and all the world shall bee astonied for euen as Lightning which riseth from the East and extendeth to the West so shall the comming of the Sonne of Man be Tribulation shal then be so extreme and great as the like hath not beene seene since the beginning of the world till now nor euer shal be the like The Sunne shall be darkened and the Moone shall giue no more light the Starres shall fall from Heauen and the waues of the Sea shall rage men shall bee amazed with feare and the powers of Heauen shall moue Woe shall be in those dayes to them that are with child and to them that giue sucke For as it was in the dayes before the Flood they did eate drinke marry and were married euen vnto the day that Noah entred into the Arke and knew nothing till the Flood came and tooke them all away So shall the comming of the Lord be and then all kinreds of the earth shall mourne and shall hide themselues in Dens and Caues and in the Mountaines and shall say vnto them Fall vpon vs hide vs from the face of him that sitteth vpon the Throne Blow out the Trumpet saith the Prophet Ioel that all such as dwell in the world may tremble at it for the Day of the Lord commeth and is hard at hand a darke day a gloomy day yea and a stormy day Before him shall be a consuming fire and behinde him a burning flame Then the dead that are in the graues shall rise and come forth the bones and the other parts shall finde out their ioynts for to ioyne againe together with the body that the earth hath putrified and corrupted All those that the Beasts and Birds of the ayre haue deuoured all those that the Sea hath swallowed vp all those that are vnvapoured in the earth and all those that the fire hath consumed shall bee reduced and brought to their former estate All the bloud that Theeues Pyrats Murderers Tyrants and false Iudges haue vniustly shed shall then appeare before the Maiestie of God So that there shall not one drop of bloud bee lost from the time of Abel that was the first slaine of men vnto the last so that there shall not one haire perish If the vaile of the Temple did breake with the Earthquake the Sunne darken and change his brightnesse for the wrong that was done vnto IESVS CHRIST being on the Crosse although in nothing he did offend what countenance may the poore sinners shew that haue offended him innumemerable times who then shall abide the shining brightnesse of Gods Maiestie sitting vpon his Throne of glory It is the dreadfull houre when wicked Monarkes Kings and Princes shall giue account of their vnlawful exactions that they haue made vpon their Subiects and of the bloud that they haue wrongfully spilled It is the houre wherein Merchants and such as haue traded in the circle of the world that haue beguiled and sold by false weights and measures shall render a iust account of the least fraud that they haue committed It is the houre that couetous men and Vsurers that haue beguiled some vndone others shall pay themselues the cruell interest of that which they haue ill gotten It is the houre when Magistrates and wicked Iudges that haue corrupted violated and suspended Iustice shall be accountable for their corruption and iniquities It is the very houre wherein Widdowes Orphanes and other afflicted persons shall make their complaints before God of the wrong and oppression that haue beene shewed them It is the houre wherein the wicked shall say repenting in themselues troubled with horrible feare Behold these which in times past we had in derision infamy reproach are now accounted among the children of God whose portion is amongst the Saints It is the houre wherein foolish and dumbe persons shall be more happy then the wise eloquent Many Shepheards and Carters shall bee preferred before Philosophers many Beggers before rich Princes and Monarches and many simple and ignorant before the witty and subtile Let vs therefore that are Christians looke to our selues and take heed wee bee not counted vnder the iudgement and sentence of the most greatest miseries of all miseries The which sentence is recited in the 25. Chap. of S. Mathew where it is said Goe yee cursed into euerlasting fire CHAP. XV. Of HELL MAny and great are the miseries which man suffreth in this world but yet all of them are but as Roses in respect of the Thorns which follow for the vanity and trauaile of the temporall life