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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20946	Heraclitus, or, Meditations vpon the vanity & misery of humane life first written in French by that excellent scholler & admirable divine Peter Du Moulin minister of the sacred word in the Reformed Church of Paris ; and translated into English by R.S. gentleman.; Heraclite. English. 1609	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Stafford, Robert, 1588-1618.	1609 (1609)	STC 7325; ESTC S2575	27,860	136

So men desiring to dally vvith pleasures because of their lustre at the length loose themselues amongst thē yet notwithstāding they fear God their Father vvhē he cōmeth to thē vnder the maske of afflictiōs or death Also mā doth ingēder in himselfe either foolish or pernicious feares Some one beeing iealous that his wife doth affect others ende voreth to espy search out that vvhich hee feareth to find by this meanes angereth her so that she seeketh to be revēged in such nature which he formerly suspected Some other fearing to liue without honor cōmits such things that subiects his body to some cruell torment and staineth the memory of him with perpetuall infamy Sōe other feareth the want of riches but he shal wāt it die without it Some againe feareth he shal dy before marriage but God wil attend that time and by wedlocke will make him twice miserable When I consider what Childish wisdome humane wisedome is I finde it agreeable to the Industry of Moles which dig vnder ground with much dexterity but are blind when they cōe into the Sunne So wee haue much skill in earthly affaires to sell to couenant and to supplant any one But take one of these men which is most subtill in these things and bring him to the brightnesse and light of the holy Gospell and there hee is altogether blind and of a selfe conceit will continue so For during the time that he doth foresee future evēts alterations of estate hee is ignorant of his own destruction while that he discourseth on the affaires of kingdomes hee is a slaue to the Deuill And notwithstanding that blind iudgement of his dares contest against the euer living God the folly and foolishnes of the childrē of darknes against the diuine wisedome of the Father of light And the discretion of mā against the prouidence of the Almighty For the wicked do couer themselues with silence craft and dissimulatiō like vnto little childrē which thinke that they are sufficiently hidden when their eies are closed beleeuing that no body seeth them when they see no body But in the mean time God perceiues them both naked vncouered yea better thē they know themselues For God is not only al hand in holding and conducting the whole vniverse but also all eie in seeing dicersning all things in it The thickest bodies are to him transparant and darknes it selfe is to him light therfore the Prophet David doeth iustlie reprehend that foolish wisedome in the 94. Psalme where he saith Vnderstand yee vnwise among the people and yee fooles when will yee be wise He that planted the eare shal he not heare Or hee that formed the eie shall he not see Novve in this place he calleth them vnwise not which are fooles and runne vp and downe the streetes nor those priuate particular men which are vvithout office nor the heavy-spirited Commons but such as are crafty manage affaires with dexterity thinking by their sagacity to cover themselues frō the vvisedome of God or to dazell the Eies of his sacred prouidence Like vnto the most dāgerous Agues which are vnder the appearance of coldnes so the most ridiculous folly is that which lyeth vnder the appearance of wisedome It behoueth also the faithfull to exercise his meditatiō and to bee Spectator of the actions and thoughts of mē and of al the vnprofitable labours of his life For it is in humane life as in a Faire where there commeth tvvo sorts of people one for to buy sell the other only to see Man that feareth God is like to one of those which come to see he is not here to be Idle search for nothing but to contēplate the works of God humane actions but he may say whē he hath seene al the delights that rhe curious vanity of men can shewe forth O how many things are there in this world which I haue nothing to do withall What if during this contemplation some one do iossell or throng vpon him or if one cut his purse that is doe afflict or depriue him of any thing all that such a one vvill do is to goe out of that company knowing himselfe to bee a stranger in this world will trauell towardes his Country where that celestiall habitation is pressing alwaies as the Apostle saith towards the marke for the price Phil. 3 14. of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus If the vvorld cōtemne him he will cōtemne that contempt as knowing himselfe better then the world and to bee called to a better hope he vvill esteeme the promises allurements of the vvorlde vaine the occupations of men base and importunat And according to the example of Mary in the tenth of Luke Hee will chuse the good part which shal not bee taken from him Concluding all his Meditations after the same māner as Salomon doth in the ende of Ecclesiastes The ende of all is the feare of God and the keeping of his commandements for in it is cōprised the summe of mans being Now therefore after all this Meditation let vs rest our selues vpon these two Maximes and propositions which are the true foundation that zeale is grounded vpon The first is for to loue God it behoueth to contēne the world The second is that for to contemne the worlde it is necessary for the faithfull to know his own worth noblenesse and excellency of his vocation The first Maxime is taken out of St. Iohn in his first Epistle Loue not the world neither Chap. 2. ver 15. the things that are in the world If any mā loue the world the loue of the Father is not in him For all that is in the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eies and the pride of the life is not of the Father but is of the world And the worlde passeth away and the lust thereof but hee that fulfilleth the will of God abideth for euer Nothing doth so farre separate vs from the loue of God as our affectiō to the world seeing that the holy Scripture for to admonish vs doth call the world the kingdome of Ioh. 16. 11. the Divell But as the Moone hath no light vnlesse frō the Sunne So our soules haue not any light but by the regard of our God and by a consequent neither more nor lesse but euen as the Moone doth loose her light whē she is hid within the shadow of the earth So also do our souls loose their brightnes for they are called in the holy Scripture the Infantes of light when they molest and wrap themselues within the shaddow of earthly things cares and worldly concupiscences which wee ought to tread vnder our feete according to the example of the Church vvhich as it is vvritten in the 12. of the Apocalyps hath vnder her feet the Moone that is the mutable instability of these inferiour thinges To this purpose also Jesus Christ vvould that The peny should be restored to