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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09628	Tvvelve rules, and vveapons concerning the spirituall battel Together with a briefe exposition vpon the sixteene Psalme: with two most worthie epistles, written in Latin by that most worthy and noble gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula. And translated into English for the benefite of all good Christian souldiers in the spirituall battaile.; Selections	Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.; W. H., fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 19898A.3; ESTC S110418	18,502	40

in his name but it is to the sauing health of him that asketh or because wee are not harde for that in asking good things we aske not them as wee ought but wauering in hope and he whose hope is doubtful hath a colde petition therfore saith Iames Let him aske in faith doubting nothing I haue sayd vnto the Lord thou art my God After he armeth himselfe against pride he beginneth to describe his estate The whole state of a good man consisteth in this word I haue sayd to the Lord thou art my God The which word although it seemeth almost common among all men yet fewe there are which can truely say it Euery man hath that for his God which he counteth for chiefest good which onely had we thinke our selues happy if all other thinges are wanting and if that one thing be wanting yea if we haue all things els that are good wee thinke our selues vnhappy The couetous man therefore saith vnto his money thou art my God for if he want honor health vertue and friendes so hee hath money he is content and if hee haue all those good things which we haue rehearsed and want money he thinketh himselfe a wretch The glutton also saith to his bellie the incontinent to his lust the ambitious to superioritie and glorie Thou art my God See therefore how fewe there be which can say I haue said vnto the Lord thou art my God He onely can doe this whom God onely doeth suffice so that if all the kingdomes of the world and all heauenly and earthly things were set before him yea to offend his God but once he would not take them In this word therefore consisteth the whole state of a righteous man For thou standest not in neede of my goods He yealdeth a reason wherefore hee saith onely to the Lord thou art my God The reason is for that onely God hath no neede of our goods for there is no creature which wanteth not the help of other creatures farre more imperfect then it selfe as Philosophers and Diuines affirme because if one had not beene the other had not beene for confounde part of that which is called vniuersall and confounde the whole The whole being confoūded all the parts are confounded All creatures are part of one vniuersal of the which God himselfe is no part but the beginning nothing depending vpon it for God hath got nothing by the creation of the world neither should he lose any thing if the whole world were brought to nought Therefore God alone hath no neede of our goods We ought therefore to take shame to account him for God which standeth in neede of vs such is euery creature Furthermore we ought not to accoūt for God that is for the chiefest good but that wherein is the chiefest good but in no creature is the chiefest good therefore wee ought onely to say vnto the Lord Thou art my God But to the saints that are in the earth Next vnto God wee ought to loue those most which are most neare vnto God such are the angels and the blessed in the celestiall Ierusalem our lande kingdome and countrey Therefore after he said vnto the Lord thou art my God he addeth He hath made wonderfull his pleasure That is he hath made his loue woonderfull and his good will toward the Saints which are in his land that is in the celestiall countrey which is called the land of God and the land of the liuing And if wee truelie consider what great felicitie his Countrey yealdeth and what great misery this world bringeth and the great goodnes and excellencie of those Citizens we shall alwayes desire to part from hence to be dwelling there These and such like when we meditate vpon wee ought alwayes to prouide that our meditations become not vnprofitable For we ought of euery meditation to reape some fruite as for an example when we enter into meditation of that heauenly Countrey we ought to get this benefite thereby not onely to be strong to suffer death and patient when by course of nature the houre shall come or if it be before to be suffered for the faith of Christ but also to wish it willingly desiring to part hence from this vale of miserie and so to raigne in that blessed land with God and his Saints When therefore the iust man hath described his state which is wholy in affection toward God and things pertayning to his diuine maiestie hee also from his heart despiseth the state of wicked men and saith Their infirmities are multiplied By infirmities he vnderstandeth Idols and so hath the Hebrew text for euen as a good man hath one God whom he loueth and reuerenceth so bad and wicked men haue many gods and Idols and because there are many pleasures many desires diuers passions which they obey they therefore seeke diuers pleasures because no one sufficeth them The wicked therefore wander about and hee addeth they made haste after that is after their desires they headlong and inconsiderately fell whereby we are taught that we make no lesse speede to vertue then they doe to vice neither with lesse diligence serue and obey our God then they their Lord the deuill The iust man considering the state of wicked men doeth assuredly purpose as we alwayes ought to doe neuer to folow their waies and saith I wil make no account of their bloudy sacrifices neither wil I make mention of them within my lips Hee speaketh of bloud aswell for that Idolaters were accustomed hauing gathered the bloud of their sacrifices to exercise therewith their ceremonies as also for that the whole life of the wicked the right vse of reason being left followeth sensualitie which consisteth in bloud He hath said that he will not only not doe sacrifice vnto Idols but also not name them which onely without offence can be sayd and done shewing by this that a perfect man ought not onely to abstaine from vnlawfull pleasures but also from those which are lawfull that his minde may the rather be setled in heauen and geuen more purely to the contemplation of heauenly things and lest that any should deeme it meere folly to depriue himself of all pleasure he addeth The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance As if he had said maruell not if I forgoe all other things to enioy God in whom all other good things are enioyed These ought to be the words of euerie Christian The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance Because we Christians to whom God is promised for an inheritance ought to be ashamed to desire any thing beside him and least that it should seeme presumption to any to assure this vnto himselfe he addeth the same Thou art he which doest geue me mine inheritance As if he had said O Lord my God I know well that I am nothing in respect of thee by mine owne endeuours I am not able to ascend to enioy thee but thou art he which doest draw me vnto thee through thy grace and thou