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love_n	aaron_n	beard_n	descend_v	34	3	7.9169	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09741	The happines of a religious state diuided into three bookes. Written in Latin by Fa. Hierome Platus of the Societie of Iesus. And now translated into English.; De bono status religiosi. English	Piatti, Girolamo, 1545-1591.; More, Henry, 1586-1661.	1632 (1632)	STC 20001; ESTC S114787	847,382	644

comparison of it and loue it aboue health and beautie or if he haue not yet bought it wil esteeme any thing too pretious to bestow vpon it and not rather as S. Gregorie speaketh in this very subiect willingly forsake al that he loued among earthly things forgoing that which he had got distributing that which he had gathered togeather and thinking the beautie of earthly substance which pleased him before deformed in comparison of the luster of this pretious Margarite which now only shineth in his mind 8. Aegidius one of the first stones in the famous buildings of the order of S. Francis a man of so great sanctitie that when he heard the name of God or of Heauen he was wont to be presently transported out of himself is reported to haue made this amswer to one that asked his aduice whether it were best for him to enter into Religion Tel me sayd he if a poore man should come to know for certaine that in such a place there lay hidden a great treasure would he stand to aduise whether it were best for him to dig there or no The man answered No Then sayd he with how much more alacritie and readynes should men runne to the infinite Treasurie of God where only are the true eternal riches which the man vnderstanding went presently and sold al that he had and hauing giuen it among the poore entred into Religion 9. The same holy man being once demanded whether a man might remayne in fauour with God and liue in the world made answer that he might but he had rather haue one degree of grace in Religion then ten in the world because grace is easyly preserued and increased in Religion where a man liues sequestred from wordly troubles and tumults which are deadly enemies of the grace of God and moreouer is encouraged and egged on to vertue by his spiritual Brethren In the world Grace is easily lost because secular care which is the mother of distraction doth hinder and quite take away the sweetnes of grace and by their euil examples people prouoke one another to euil and withdraw one another from that which is good and as it were by force take a way the life of the soule and throw it headlong into euerlasting destruction so that without doubt it is much better to haue farre lesse grace so it be secured and assisted with so many helps to increase it as are in Religion then to haue farre greater grace with so euident danger as is in the world These are the very words of that holy man 10. Wherfore let vs conclude what we haue hitherto sayd and much more which might be sayd of the miserie of this world and of the greatnes of this treasure that is of the happines of a Religious life with the heauenly vision in which both these togeather were declared to S Anselme of whō we find recorded that being once in an extasis trāsported out of himself he saw a mightie swift Riuer which drew al the filth of the whole ca●●h into it self so that the water therof was most horribly fowle and stinking and besides it carried away with it whatsoeuer it met men and women poore and rich Which sight mouing him to great admiration and compassion he asked how those people liued and what was their sustenance and it was answered him that they dranke of that filth wherin they wallowed and tooke great pleasure therin miserable creatures as they were and withal the vision was declared thus vnto him That the Torrent was the world wherin people are blindly carried awaye with their riches and honours and vnlawful delights and though they be so infinitely miserable that they cannot temper themselues in any thing yet they esteeme themselues fortunate and happie men From thence he was carried into a large spatious seate walled round about and the wal● being al couered with beaten siluer made a most glorious shew within this inclosure he beheld a pleasant meddow ful growne with grasse of a strange nature for it was as siluer and yet grew and was soft and pliable so that when he sate downe vpon it it gaue vnder him and rose againe when he rise vp The ayre was most sweet and pleasant finally al things were so delicious in it that a man might think himselfe abundantly happy if he had no more but that And this he was told was a Religious life God shewing him by these similitudes that in the world al things are vile and loathsome fickle deadly and euer tending to destruction and contrariewise in Religion al things beautiful and pleasant finally bright and sumptuous as siluer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE HAPPINES OF A RELIGIOVS STATE THE PREFACE That a Religious State is not only profitable but honourable BEhold how good and how pleasant it is to dwel Brethren in one As the oyntment in the head which descendeth vpon the beard of Aaron As the dew of Hermon which descendeth vpon mount Sion● because there our Lord hath commanded blessing and life for euer A great commendation of a sociable life a life lead in common togeather and great promises and rewards of Fraternal loue and coniunction set forth not by man but by the Holie-Ghost who cannot be mistaken in the weight of his prayses nor misse of the performance of what hee promiseth And both the prayses of this life and promises of the Holie-Ghost do so properly and apparently agree with a Religious State that no man can doubt but the Royal Prophet when he vttered this Prophetie had the frame and Idea therof before his eyes and beheld so long before the beautifulnes of this forme of life in the diuine light then communicated vnto him Which S. Basil deliuereth when speaking of Religious people and discoursing at large of their happines in conclusion he sayth that the Prophet Dauid in his Psalmes sung thus of them Behold how good and how pleasant it is to dwel Brethren in one Expressing the holines of their life by the word Good and the contentment and ioy which arriseth from so great concord and vnion by the word Pleasant And learned S. Augustin interpreting that Psalme teacheth no lesse making no doubt but that the whole Psalme was penned purposely of Religious people and declareth withal the great force which the Good and contentment heere described hath to work vpon mens minds These words of the Psalter sayth he this pleasant sound this sweet melodie both in the eare and in the vnderstanding begat Monasteries This sound awaked the Brethren who haue coueted to dwel in one This verse was their Trumpet it was heard ouer the whole earth and they that were before diuided were gathered togeather Thus spake S. Augustin and very truly 2. For first the name of Brethren doth so fully expresse that which passeth in a Religious Community that there could not be a word deuised to signify the thing more liuely because as Brothers they haue one