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love_n	certain_a	face_n	great_a	62	3	2.1122	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06514	A treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the Frenche tung, and translated in to Englishe by Robert Fills; Tessaradecas consolatoria pro laborantibus et oneratis. English	Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.; Fills, Robert, fl. 1562.	1564 (1564)	STC 16988.5; ESTC S118884	48,129	154

be engraued within our hartꝭ and a singuler cōfort of great powre in our temptations For certainly Job did not onely suffer but with the same hee was tempted with impatience of his owne wife the whiche said to him contemptuously Thou remainest stil in thy sīplicity Blaspheme the Lorde and dye as if shee had said All mē may plainly see that there is no God that wil leaue thee so and forsake thee Wherefore then doost thou put thy trust in him and doost not rather deny him And in suche sort after shee had angred him said Wherfore doost thou not knowledge thy self to be mortall and that nothing is left vnto thee after this life There is none of vs the whiche his owne wife that is to say sensualitie shal not furnish inough of suche matters for the sensuall man vnderstandeth not the thinges that ●e of God Now all goodes that be corporall be common to all but the Christian and faithful hath other goodes muche more excellent whiche be inward goodꝭ that is to weet the faith of Jesus Christ of whom it is said in the Psalme 44. The kinges daughter is all glorioꝰ within her clothīg is all of wrought golde For as ye● haue seene the euelles in the first cōsideration that there is no euell so greate in man as the euell within him Also the faithful may not nor cānot se the inestimable great goodnes or felicitie that is with in him for if he felt it be holde hee should bee incontinent in heauen for y e kingdome of heauen is within vs as saith Jesꝰ Christe For to haue faith is to haue the trueth the wurd of God Now to haue the wurd of God is to haue God the creator maker of all thīgꝭ And if these thinges were reueled to the soule in suche perfection as they be in deede shee would spring out of the body incontinent for the great abundaunce of ioy and sweetnesse Wherfore of good right the louing corrections of whiche we haue spoke before be called aduertisementes of the goodes whiche wee haue within vs the whiche our good God declareth to vs by the same because this life can not bear nor suffer that they vereueled to it but thorow the great goodnes and mercy of God they bee hidde to vs vntil toey bee growen in their perfect measure This is it that the Fathers and Mothers doo geue to their Children sometimes little Horses Tabors Pipes and other trifels by the whiche they doo incite and stur vp the mindes of their children to greater and more excellente thinges Neuertheles they doo break foorthe and shew them selues sometimes as when the conscience reioiceth and triumpheth in the confidēce and sure trust of God and when shee speaketh willingly and frely of God when shee heareth his wurd with a gratioꝰ eare and an attentife heart when she is brought to be ready and diligent to serue him obey him to doo good wurkes and to suffer aduersities the whiche thinges be certain tokens of an inestimable good which is therein hidden the whiche springeth out thorow a certain conduit by small droppꝭ although it happeneth sometimes that this is reueled more fully at large vnto those spirites whiche be geuen to contemplation so they finde them selues as it were swallowed vp y t they wot not where they be as Saint Augustine confesseth him self to be and many others ¶ The second Chapiter of the second consideration the which is the good to come or before vs. THose that be no Christians can finde no great comefort in hope of the good to come in the middes of their troubles because all thinges be to them vncertaine For this affection and vaine hope dooth bring to them a certaine tumult but thorow faith wee doo comfort one an other freendly And wee doo hope for better thinges but the weaker doo at tempt clime vp to great thingꝭ and oftē in vncertitude yet they be oftē deceiued voyd of their hope as Jesus Christe sheweth in y e. 12. of S. Luke of him y t said to his soule I wil pul down my barns make thē greater say to my soule Take thy rest drīk eat make good cheer for y u hast goodꝭ inough for many yeers but God said Fool this night shal thy soule be taken frō thee the goodꝭ that y u hast heapid together whose shall they be thē Euen so is it w t him y t gathereth treasure is not riche in God But y e Christians haue a more excellēt felycitie whiche commeth certainly but it is thorow afflictions death Also they reioice in a certaine sure hope so that the present euel endeth and contrary y e good augmenteth whiche is the verity in Jesus Christe where in they prospet and profit from day to day and for the loue thereof they liue in hope and ouer aboue these thinges they haue two moste great commodities in the death to come First the death is an end of all the tragedy of euelles of this present life as it is written The death of the faithfull is pretious before the face of God againe I shall sleepe in peace and rest me If the righteous be preuented by death hee findeth quickening and comfort And contrary the death to the wicked and Infidels is the beginning of euelles as it is said The death of the wicked is moste vnhappy also the euel dooth ouertake and katche y e wicked in his death In this maner was Lazarꝰ cōforted y t which hath receiued heere his euel and the riche glotton vnhappy was tormented because hee receiued his goodes heere in this life By this meanes also it commeth that the Christian findeth him self alwayes better and encreasing in goodnesse whether he liue or whether he dye so blessed a thing it is to be a Christian and to beleue in Jesus Christe and therefore Saint Paule saith Christ is to me aduauntage whether I liue or whether I dy And to the Romaines 15. Hee that liueth liueth to the Lorde and he that dieth dieth to the Lorde be it whether we liue or whether we dy we be the Lordes Jesus Christe hath begotten vs this assurance For he is dead and risen againe to thend that he might be Lorde of the quicke and the dead hauing powre to make vs sure and to certify vs aswel in the death as in the life as is said in the. 23. Psalme Though I should walke in the middest of the shadow of death yet wil I feare no euel for thou art with mee But if we be not certified of this aduauntage of death it is a sign that the faith of Jesꝰ Christ is in firm and weak in vs the whiche doo not wurthely esteeme the gaine and price of his moste precioꝰ death They cannot beleue yet the death to be good because that is letted by the olde man and the wisedome of the fleshe whiche hath yet to muche vigour and strength and therfore wee ought to assay and