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A01286	A booke of christian ethicks or moral philosophie containing, the true difference and opposition, of the two incompatible qualities, vertue, and voluptuousnesse. Made by William Fulbecke, maister of Artes, and student of the lawes of England.	Fulbeck, William, 1560-1603?	1587 (1587)	STC 11409; ESTC S105667	32,626	90

in building and battering in turning square into round and triangles into quadrangles is such an infinite labour and a world of busines that he which waigheth in a ballance bothe the care and the commoditie shall find an ounce of commoditye for a pounde of care and hee that putteth these thinges in practise shall lyke a peruerse Al●umist distill a pennie out of a portague Therefore let him that mindeth to be a true Christian despise these transitory corruptible and contemptible things for which the worldly myzer giueth no truste to his eyes hath the byrdes of the ayre in suspition feareth least his owne behauiour doo bewray his base and barbarous affections Let him erecte and life vp his mind to the celestiall and diuine solaces which neither eye hath séene nor eare hath heard nor the hart of man is able to imagine to the pursuing of which the mindes of worldly Mammonistes are slowe footed drooping and continually dreaming of the eternitie of their barnes when the very Weasels before their eyes doo deuoure theyr corne and euen against theyr wylles they are drawne of God to heauenly and spirituall things vpon which they looke as Cerberus looked vpon the sunne when he was drawne out of hell verie straungly vn●●thly and in déede theyr blea●ed eyes cannot long behold the brightnes of the diuine Maiestie Nowe if the worldly felicitie could be attained without labour as it were in a traunce as if we should let it in at a windowe or if Fortune would throw into our nets our selues sléeping as shee is fayned to haue dealt with her loue Polycrates then there might be a kinde of reason framed by our fancye and it might perhappes bee beléeued with an vncircumcised credulity that it were a great deale better to serue the world then God but if there be more wearines in walking as a worldling thē labouring as a Christian if to be choaked and strangled with the cares of this world be an infinite torment if to sée the conscience besieged with an hundred hels and to feele the racking and renting thereof as it were with a thousande fleshhookes be an intollerable griefe then happie and thrise happy is the mortified Christian that is satisfied with the swéete content of a meane estate and the moderate portion that God hath allotted him If we be no where lesse troubled then in the wayes of God and no where more wearied then in the way of sinners as that voice of damned persons beareth witnes Lassati sumus in via iniquitatis we were wearied in the way of wickednes is it not an extreame madnes rather to bestow our labours landes and life vppon those thinges from which wee must very shortly depart not into a newe Paradise but into an eternall dungeon where there is continuall g●ashing of teeth and the worme neuer dieth then to consecrate our liues and liuinges vnto the Lorde and for his sake to abide the vttermost brunt of tribulatiō whē for our paines wee shall haue a surpassing reward for the honour that wee héere loste an vnchaungeable honour for the pleasure that héere we forsake an inestimable felicitie besides all this what a singuler peace and what a delicate banquet is a good conscience not wexing pale with villanous cogitations which is better then all the Epicures delights then all transitory pleasures then all curious exquisite inticements wherwith the iugling worlde doth sophistically delude vs. What pleasure can there bee in the riches of this worlde which before they are purchased doo weary vs when they are possessed doo infatuate vs and when they are loste doo excruciate vs. Without question the soules of the wicked are tossed hether and thether with perpetual cares with moste intricate perplexities and griefes innumerable Thys the Lorde hath affirmed who as he cannot deceiue so he cānot be deceiued Cor impii quasi mare feruens the hart of a wicked man is like a raging Sea that can take no rest Nothing is quiet vnto them nothing peaceable the trenchers wheron t●ey cutte theyr meate with trembling handes can beare witnesse the meate y t stayeth in●theyr chaps whilst they are thinking mischiefe can beare witnes their slow imperfit digestion may beare witnes the leanes palenes and wannes of their chéekes may beare witnes They are affraid of all things suspect all things and euerye thing is a messenger of death vnto them Who would therefore aemulate them or immitate theyr manners Who hauing forgotten theyr dignitie their heroycal nature and theyr heauenly Monarche béeing made frée men are become bondslaues to the worlde lyuing miserably dying more miserably and most miserably like to be afflicted wyth eternall flames There is none but he seeth these things as cleerely as hee beholdeth the Meridian Sunne but there is not one amongst a thousande that doth these thinges which he knoweth are to be practised but we cleaue as yet to the durt wallow in the myre and though the loathsome satietie of pleasures doo breede a surfeit vnto vs yet cure we the poyson of pleasures with the hemlocke of obstinacie and though our myndes doo sometime reclayme vs from such vanities or rather impieties yet such cogitations are soone extinet We assigne the regiment of our mindes to a foolish Phaeton namely to the secure sensualitye of an appetite charmed with pleasures Let a Christian man consider what a daungerous thing it is to liue amongst them day and night whose life is not onely an inticement to sin a wicked May-game and a moste pernitious example but doth wyth al endeuour bende it selfe to the ouerthrowe of vertue vnder the Emperour Beliall vnder the standerde of death and vnder the stipende of hel wageing battail against heauē against the Lord and against his annoynted These are they whom God hath deliuered into passions of ignominie into a reprobate sence to doo those thinges which are vndecent ful of all iniquitie full of enuy hatred deceite malignity poysenfull blasphemers of God contumelious proude disdainfull inuentors of mischiefe vnwise dissolute disorderly without affection without mercye who though they sée the iustice of God yet wyll not acknowledge it beeing so far from excuse that they which seeke to cloake and colour theyr impuritie are the seauenfolde sonnes of the deuill are worthy to be racked wyth wilde horses till they confesse y e truth And therefore let them which are zealous in the Lordes wayes seperate themselues from the company of such to whom the name of God is odious vertue vnpleasant Religion a base profession godlines a symple gyft honestie a straunge monster and charitie a foolish affection Let a certayne holie ambytion possesse our myndes and let vs disdayne to take precepts of them which therefore offende because they lacke the vse of godly precepts It were better farre that they taking example of the godlie by lyuing wel may learn to be Christians then that the godly omitting theyr good purpose shoulde by lyuing as they doo bee transformed to

lost his light and the moone béeing depriued of her light shall stand astonished when the reuenging fire shall droppe from Heauen and the sparkes of the lightning shall kindle in the stonye Rockes whē the Seas and fountaines shall burne when the ayre shall be inflamed wyth burning clowdes when this auncient forme of the world shall bee chaunged Let them thinke of y ● miserable Dungeon which contayneth the powers of darknes that loathsome lake of hell where the deuills are plunged as in a swallowing gulphe out of which there is no egresse buried in the bottome of a vaste fornace and breathing out of their nostrelles the smoake of vengeaunce out of their mouthes an eternall fire to torment the distressed with one hande they stretche out bright firebrandes in the other they holde theyr thrée forked fuskins both of them as fit instruments of theyr tyrannous crueltie There is continuall gnashing of téeth sighing and sorrowing both of the deuill himselfe and those whom hee scourgeth with whips that will neuer be worne scorcheth with fire that wyl neuer be extinguished fettereth wyth chaynes that will neuer be loosed and teareth with wilde Bulls that will neuer be wearied consumeth with a worme that will neuer be filled dysioynteth with rackes which will neuer be broken The Prince of darknesse howleth because he hath lost the heauenly mansion wherein before hee had the vse of inestimable ioyes And they because they left the happines y ● was offered vnto them if they woulde haue left the waies that ledde to destruction Let them to whom God permitteth the fruition of this vitall ayre thinke of these thinges and lay them vp déepelie in their hartes let them lift vp their eyes to heauen and their hartes to the heauenly comfortes let them long to be placed in the Parradise of blisse and to be cladde with the robes of glorye to be crowned with the garland of victorie to be initiated into the misteries and admitted into the secrete treasure of that diuine contemplation which is not by any mans spéeche or thought counteruailable by the benefit of which they shall behold the shyning gates of the heauenly Ierusalem the walles stréetes and dwellings thereof y ● troope of Cittizens and theyr mightye Monarche whose Towres are of precious stones whose buildinges are adorned with Saphire and Smaragdi Then they shall sée the Sacrifice of their redemption the pure holy and immaculate Lambe with the quyre of Angels they shall glorifie God amidst y e blessed number of Prophets Apostles Martyrs Confessors with the righteous Men and Matrons with the innocent Virgins and Children Wherefore let them desire to bee deliuered from these fleshly bondes let them be wyllingly content to leaue their Tentes of Ceder that dwelling with Cherubins and Seraphins and the happy soules of the Saintes they may triumphantlie sing these hymnes vnto the Lorde which are vsed in Sion Let them adde to these thrée three other contemplations very necessary and conuenient let them déepely I say deliberate of these three thinges First howe base our estate is in this life Secondly howe discommodious this worlde is vnto vs. Thirdlie how short and momentarye this life is For the first let them enter into the consideratiō of mans original who when he commeth into the world doth with great weakenes imbecillity feare and trembling enioy the earth and receiue the ayre hee shrinketh quaketh and quauereth stagereth and starteth backe as though hee woulde gladly returne and reenter into the closette of his mothers wombe And for the euident demonstration of his mysliking of this world he beginneth to weepe and cry out in most rufull and pittifull manner with a skréeking and dolefull gen●thliacon which ●s so proper to the nature of man when it first sprouteth in this world that the learned Mirandula not vnwisely sayd that a Child as soone as he is borne giueth out no signe which is proper to man but onely weeping and hath hee not good cause of weeping when hee commeth into the Theater wherein Maliciousnes playeth her prize when hee commeth into a vayle of myseries into a deserte full of vncleane byrddes into the world I meane possessed of white deuills and blacke deuils into a place that receiued him being actually innocent but wyll send him backe béeing ouerflowne of vices and when hee groweth in age he groweth like a tender hearbe vnto which hee hath often beene and may well bee compared not for any internall power wherein hee resembleth the herbes of the fielde but for an internall impotencie for hys fraltie tendernes and weakenes for his great néede of vnderpropping cherishing and defending subiect to the coldnes of the ayre subiect to the parching of the Sunne subiect to rage and violence and when he is euen at the toppe of his perfection how farre is he excelled in many thinges of the brute beastes which he taketh vppon him to mannage to vse at his pleasure and with a lyon-like looke to despise All temporall and worldly delight consisteth in three thinges in perceiuing thinges present which are delightfull vnto vs in remembring thinges past which haue béene pleasant vnto vs and in hoping for thinges to come which may be pleasant vnto vs. In these three thinges Man may challenge the victory but quietnes consisteth in thrée other thinges In perceiuing thinges pleasaunt without hurt in remembring thinges past without greefe in looking for thinges to come wythout feare And in these three thinges Man is ouercomed of the brutish creatures Varietie likewise consisteth in three thinges in enioying many thinges aunswering to many affections in finding out helpes to nature in knowing many thinges in those thrée Man is the victor But contentation is reposed in three other things in being fre● from mutabilitie of desires in beeing satisfied with that which natures bountie doth exhibite in knowing nothing that might be wyshed to bee knowne and heerein the sauage beastes haue preheminence There bee foure small thinges in the earth sayth Salomon and yet they are wyser then men that bee wyse The Antes a people not strong yet prepare they theire meate in the Summer The Connies a people not mighty yet make they theyr houses in the Rockes The Grashoppers haue no kinges and yet they goe all foorth by bandes The Spider holdeth with her hand and is in kinges pallaces So the Lorde that hee myght shewe howe weake mans power is beeing compared to other creatures that hys owne power might cleerelye shyne in the creation and gouernment of them dooth thus expostulate wyth Iob. Who hath sett the wilde Asse at libertie or who hath loosed his bands It is I which haue made the wildernes his house and the salt places his dwellinges Hee mocketh the multitude of the Cittie hee heareth not the crye of the dryuer And againe Hast thou gyuen the horse strength or couered hys neck with neyghing he diggeth in the valley and reioyceth in his strength he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man he

despyseth feare and turneth not his backe from the sword Iob béeing greatly apalled and daunted wyth these and such like spéeches doth confesse his imbecillitie acknowledgeth his basenes and remooueth from hys mind all opinion of statelines wyth great humilitie méekenes and lenitye of mind frameth this aunswere to the Lorde Beholde I am vile what shall I aunswere thee I wyll lay my hande vpon my mouth Thys may sufficiently argue mans ignobilitie and contemptible estate in thys life if we rest onely in the naturall manne and goe no further but this notwithstanding he will scarce beléeue that this worlde is discommodious and daungerous vnto him sith hee tasteth the fruites of most acceptable fréendshippe and hath such a large title to so many freendes By that recorde I wyll be tryed and as the iudgement of freendshypp is registred in the hartes of wise men let definitiue sentence bee giuen The discoloured and mutable affection of fréendes hath driuen many to that exigent that they haue beene ready to aduowe and betake themselues to a voluntary exile whereof Vmbricius the Romaine was one who made this protestation proponimus illuc Ire fatigatas vbi Daedalus exuit alas Thither I meane to hie Whither the wearied Dedalus constrained was to flye And he giueth afterward a substantiall reason Quis nunc diligitur nisi conscius cui feruens Aestuat occultis animus semperque tacendis What man is nowe beloued but he whose guilty mind Dooth feele the flames of secrete sins and can no comfort find Salomon did much lament the defect of charitie and the coldnes thereof when he considered that the poore and innocent manne was fréendles and succourlesse I behelde sayth Salomon the ●eares of the innocent and there was none to comfort him and hee coulde not resist the violence of aduersaries beeing destitute of all mens ayde Therfore I praysed them that were deade more then them that were lyuing and happier then bothe did I iudge him that was not yet borne As it was in Salomons time so is it nowe and I feare worse What cruelty is daylye committed of neighbour against neighbour brother against brother fréend against freende non hospes ab hospite tutus Nec socer a genero fratrum quoque gratia rara est nor hoste his guest doth spare Nor sonne in lawe the father in lawe and brothers loue is rare There is nothing more common in these dayes then fréendly salutations sugered spéeches large promises fauning faces fauourable wordes the fidelitie of the forehead and the charity of the countenaunce But a fréende that will take his hart out of his brest and gage it for thy safetye to whom thy teares be as greeuous as the droppes of hys own blood which accounteth thée his owne déere worth though thou be deformed by pouertye such a fréend is the beauty of the world and his fréendship is a rare mysterie to the cōsideratiō of man But such fréend ship is y e imagined fréendship of Aristotle which is so haue we corrupted altered nature an accident but not inhaerent in any subiect an excellent thing diuinely described But y e good Philosopher peace be to his cinders coulde not giue an instance of a perfit freend though hee gaue many rules and documents which may direct to fréendship Nothing tinckleth more in the eares of men then the name of society and the profession of amitie nothing seemeth more delectable vnto vs then the name of fréendship nothing more detestable then the name of enimitie yet in the common practise of our life that which by wordes we doo so greatly dyscommend by déedes we doo confirme and approoue and in our hartes enimitye hath a francke tenement freendshyp is tenaunt at wyll which in euerye cholericke furie we are ready to extrude This is the cause that freendship is so clowded by anger so diminished by suspition so weakened by emulation so corrupted by enuie so supplanted by trechery so solde for commoditie so chaunged with nouelty so farre distant from constancie that this onely remaineth to a mā to beast of in fréendshyppe that he is not deceiued nor be trayed by his fréendes Now if fréends be so disprofitable and fréendshyppe so daungerous a thing in this Worlde what are then our foes in this worlde our sworne foes our bitter enemies such as are neuer satisfied tyll theyr eies be glutted with beholding a whole Ae●na of miseries falling vppon vs. Let him loath therefore this world let hym loath this life let him desire to leaue this carkasse This life is indéede a death and this carkasse but a Tombe and Sepulcher of a shry●ed soule Let him desire to bee dissolued and to bee with Christ for that is the best without comparison Let him lastly call to account the shortnes of thys life Let him marke howe the Feathers are almost as soone molten as they beginne to growe Man sayth Iob is of a short continuaunce and full of trouble hee buddeth as a flowre and is soone cutte downe he vanisheth also as a shaddowe and continueth not Though a man sayth Dauid shoulde passe the compasse of a thousand yeeres they are but as yesterday with thee and as a watch in the night Thou takest them away as it were in the flowing of the sea they are as a dream They are in the morning as grasse that vadeth away which vadeth in the fame morning wherein it flowrisheth in the euening it is cutte vppe and withereth away all our dayes passe away from vs by thine anger we spende our yeeres and they are like vnto a tale in the daies of our life be but seauentie yeeres and if we bee most healthfull but eyghtye yeeres the greatest excellency of them is troublesome and greeuous which when it passeth away wee doo immediatly vanish Let vs therefore make great account how we spend y e dayes of our peregrination in this worlde and the longer we liue let vs liue the better God will not bee wanting to our wyll if our will be not wanting to our selues let the worldling weigh in hys mynde the reasons and precepts that of the sacred worde of God I haue borrowed If he thinke them to burthenous let him thinke of the reward that he shall haue for the carriage The weight wherewith he is charged is the waight of pearles not of quarry si●nes Euery ounce hath a pound of commoditie and let the godly Christian take this poeticall clause not as poetical but true and as a fréendly farewel of a contemplatiue Christian Hîc sumus extorres alienaque regna tenemus sub grauis exilii seruitiique iugo Est illîc natale solum sedesque penatum Regnat vbi magno maximus orbe pater Heere vnder heauy yoke of seruitude Like banisht men we runne a pilgrims race There is our Country and our onely God Where onely God doth beare imperial mace The Authors Resolution SIncke downe into the bottome of thy graue Into the dankish denne of Uestaes wombe Thou mildering lumpe of my dispised coarse With greenish Mantle let thy loynes be cladde Bestowe thyne entralles on the griping wormes And at the dawning of that dreadfull day When Christ as corronell of blessed Sayntes Shall bee enuironde with a burning Sphere A radiant Starre to his tryumphant Church When hallowed soules shall to theyr bodies flye And damned ghostes shall bee recorporate Ryse thou againe and with these fleshly eyes Beholde the fleshe of thy sweete Sauiour Christ Strike then thyne hart and let thy teares distill Strayne then thy voyce to heare the Echoes sounde Which with a cheerefull chaunt may bidde thee come May bidde thee come to taste the ioyes of Heauen To beare a Crowne to take eternall rest And thou my soule which wandrest heere too long In desert vaste of worldly wyldernesse Flye to the vtmost Heauen thy natiue soyle To take thyne heritage among the Sayntes To holde a plotte of Parradise for share And leaue the Wagon of this earthly moulde To be dissundred by the tooles of death Make heauen thy Hauē make Sions mount thy towre Make there thy nest where Hermons dewe doth droppe Make there thy tents where God of hostes doth raigne Make him thine arme who is the God of hostes Make there thy mansion where thou still must liue Let Salem newe by thy Ierusalem Let Abrams bosome be thy Palestine For Mylke of Canaan tast thou Angels foode For Iordan ●●oode let Cristall Fountayne serue Let mercie be thy meede good happe thy hope Nourish this hope good Lord and graunt thys happe FINIS Sol oculi Mundi Horat. Epistolarum Lib. 1. Ouid in Epi. Acont Non sum qui soleam paridi● reprehendere factum Nec quemque qui vir possit vt esse fuit Horat. Epistola● lib. 1. 1 Timoth. cap. 3. Salust in coniur Aristot lib de Histor animalium 8. cap. 5. Ioseph Ben Gord. Iohn Baptist Gello incite● Horat. ●irgil ●eneid 1 Herod o● lib. 1. ●ion in vita Neronis Prouerb 23. Iacob 1. Sapi. 5. ●say 57 Rom 1 Math 19 Iuuenal Satyr 3. Aristo Libro 2 ●●hicor cap. 2 Seneca in Thebaid Villeius Pater cul Prou 2 Prou 26 Iunenall Satyr 3 Arist in arte poetica Cicero Arist Metaphisi 3 c. 5 Valer. Flaccus argonautic Lib. 6. Augustus Senec● Cicero Li●ius Lib 1 De moribus vltima fiet quaestio Iuuenal Dion in vit Seuer Statius in Achilie id Psal 22. Psal 55 Ouid Ouid in Epistol Virgill Ioan. Pic. Mirand lib. 7 in Astro Aristot R●etoric 1. cap. 11. Prou. 30 Iob 39 Iuuenal Satyr 3 Eccle 4 Phill. 1. Iob 14 Psal 90 Mantua I