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A08964	The tranquillitie of the minde A verye excellent and most comfortable oration, plainely directing euerye man, & woman, to the true tranquillitie and quyetnesse of their minde. Compyled in Latine by Iohn Barnarde, student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, now lately translated into Englishe by Anthony Marten.; Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. English	Bernard, John, d. 1567?; Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1570 (1570)	STC 1925; ESTC S101618	90,089	234

euill and then taking vp the sworde of the spirite we put the whole armour of God vpon vs So with a valiaunt courage let vs enter to the battell and by the Lorde and his strength let vs stedfastly continue in resisting the assaultes of the Deuill Endeuor we now our heartes being made cleane by fayth to passe the tyme of this our pilgrimage vncorruptly and let vs associate our selues with the number of those which Saint Peter calleth the chosen generation the royall Priesthoode and the holy Nation that we maye set forth his vertues with a glad heart who hath plucked vs out of the power of darcknesse and called vs to hys maruellous light that he might make vs fit to be pertakers of the inheritaunce with Saints in the light Let vs giue our bodies a liuely Sacrifice holye and acceptable to God not fashioning our selues lyke vnto this world but transforming our shape by renuing our minde that we may trie what the worde of God is Let vs seperate our selues from such as eyther be addicted to the worlde or be seruants to their lustes Who like vile bondslaues beare the yoke with vnbeleuers and reioyce at all filthie talke refusing not to serue and flatter for suche men as were conuenient that they themselues should haue power and dominion of as Lordes ouer seruauntes Let vs learne our sanctification of our Mayster Christ whose doctrine what else doth it teach than repentaunce than sound and liuely fayth in Iesus our Sauiour than mortifying of our flesh denying our owne selues contemning of the worlde dispising of all things which eyther in the flesh or in the worlde displease God by the same christ our sauior learne to obtayne eternall lyfe Which as here we lay holde of by faith so in that blessed resurrection and redemption of our bodyes which we waite for we shall fully gloriously and perfitely inioy Let vs nowe so finishe the whole course of our lyfe as we may to the last breath obserue charitie procéeding forth of a pure hart good conscience and fayth vnfayned which is the finishing of the commaundement And aboue all things let vs endeuour to kéepe the vnitie of the spirite one with another through the bonde of peace that contention being taken away and abholished as much as is possible we may all togither speake one thing in Iesus Christ and thinke one thing in him in whom onely we increase in godly agréement and consent of friends by wearing out with voluntarie forgetfulnesse the iniuries done vnto vs we maye loue euen our enimies as the Lord hath commaunded vs and prouide to our power both for the safety of their bodyes saluation of their soules From hence shall that ioy in the holye ghost abounde and a quiet conscience shall lighten the minde Hereof it commeth that when at any tyme our minde is eliuated with any godly studie continuing stedfastly in prayer our communication with God becomes so pleasaunt and delectable that in maner forgetting our selues and taking verie little care for the bodie we neyther passe vpon sléepe nor desire meate nor yet séeme at that instant to liue amongst men in the earth but hauing attayned as it were to immortalitie we may séeme after a sort to be in company with Angels Hereof bréedeth so great a quietnesse and securitie as the day of the Lord which to the wicked shall become fearefull and terrible to vs shall be thought ioyfull luckie prosperous and happie And at the approching of the same let vs lift vp our heades and looke vp bicause the fulnesse of our redemption then draweth nigh For from them which haue the testimonie of a good conscience and being sealed with the holy spirit of promise beholde the pleasaunt beautie of the sonne of righteousnesse not with sadde but with chéerefull countenaunce and desirously with a ioyfull minde let in by the window of the hart the shining beames of the worde of God from such I saye doth the pleasaunt taste of eternall life which they perceyue while they liue here wype away all griefe and sorow and ingendring a contempt of the most vaine vanities of thys worlde bringes into them a most delectable ioy but the same ioyned with desire of putting of mortality For as euerlasting life is all wholy perfected in the immortalitye to come so is it at least wise begunne in this present lyfe But how may we attaine to that desired knowledge of perceyuing what maner of life that euerlasting life is which with such vnspeakable vncredible pleasure draweth the minde to God and what kinde of taste hath it among the Saintes that constraynes the children of God to haue such great desire to attaine to heauenly thinges before they be discharged of this mortall tabernacle of the bodie I will recite the wordes of Saint Augustine which do make this matter that we séeke for maruellous plaine vnto vs If the raging of the fleshe sayth he be at rest in a man the imaginations vpon the earth water and ayre be at quiet in him the heauens still and the verie soule it selfe be at rest in it selfe and go beyonde it selfe not in déepe cogitation of it selfe if he be quite voyde of dreames and imagined reuelations if euerie tongue euery signe or other transitory thing whatsoeuer be altogither at quiet forasmnch as if a man giue eare all these things doe say we our selues haue not made our selues but he made vs that abydeth for euer Which being sayde if these thinges then whishe bicause they lifted vp their eare to him that made them and that he alone may speake not through them but by himselfe to the intent we may heare his worde not by the voyce of the fleshe nor by the voyce of an angell neyther through the sounding of a clowde neyther by obscure questions of similitudes but euen him whome in these thinges we loue himselfe without these things let vs heare euen as at this instant we stretcht out our selues with our rauished cogitation attayned to euerlasting wisedome which resteth vpon all thinges If this shall be continued other imaginations which be farre incōparable to these being withdrawne and onely this imagination rauishe swallow vp and repose the beholder thereof among inwarde ioyes that such maye be the life eternall as was thys present moment of vnderstanding him to whome we haue lifted vp our heartes Is not this as much as to enter into the ioy of thy Lorde Wherefore the same Saint Augustine in the last booke of his confessions adioyned this prayer therevnto O Lorde GOD giue vs peace for all things hast thou shewed vnto vs both the peace of rest the peace of a quiet conscience and the peace of eternall rest for all this beautifull order of things very excellent shall passe away when the measure of them is fulfilled and the morow after becommeth the euentide in them And the same is eyther the seuenth day or euentyde and hath no Sunne going downe bicause thou hast sanctified it for an euerlasting continuaunce that whereas thou after thy most excellent workes didst rest the seuenth day although thou wert at rest when thou madest them the same might be declared to vs by the voyce of thy booke bycause we also in thée might rest in the Sabboth of

eternall lyfe after our labours which be very good also for that thou hast appoynted them vnto vs. To this inestimable ioy which this holy man most desirous of the immortalitie to come hath trimly discribed in his bookes to this perpetuall vacation after labour which shall bring such a rest with it as is to bée wished for with all prayer To that most blessed kingdome of ioy wherein dwelleth both righteousnesse peace To the heauenly Countrie to the felowship of Aungels to the most pleasant companie of Saintes in euerlasting life to come by the only meditation and remembraunce whereof wée conceiue an incredible delight in our mind and ioyes pierce our secret breast To all these thinges I saye doe all the children of God desire with longing sighes speedily to attaine and with feruent wishes wayte to haue that same their small taste of euerlasting life to be fully finished and perfected which thing the tumultes of the fleshe attempt to interrupt and the temptations of Sathan labor here to destroy and to plucke from vs For this frayle body being corrupt is heauie to the soule and this earthly mansion kéepeth downe the vnderstanding which is loden with cares And herevpon came that exclamation of S. Paule who tooke it grieuously that his bodie wandred here in a straunge Countrie as a banished man saying O wretch that I am who shall deliuer me out of this bodie subdued to death Againe I desire to be loosed and to be with Christ For the naturall corruption in man which is as it were the roote of all sinne no man hath had any hope to plucke vp quite by the roote or to ridde himselfe from the same in all respectes till death onely by reducing the flesh into dust at length shall remedie so huge an euill Herevpon the feruent desire of the creature abydeth longing that the sonnes of God may appeare And we our selues also which haue the first fruites of the spirite mourne in our selues desiring to bée put on a newe and wayte for the adoption which is the redemption of our bodie that the creature subdued to vanitye shoulde be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious libertye of the sonnes of god For euen then at the resurrection of the iust and regeneration to come shall sorow griefe anguish sicknesse affliction occasion of sinne yea and sinne it selfe haue an ende Then shall immortality swallowe vp mortalitie vncorruption deuoure corruption and perpetuall ioy consume the bitter calamities of this troublesome lyfe At that time there shall come to the godlye societie of the elect so manye as euer from the first beginning of the world of all ages are ordayned to euerlasting life and they togither with the Patriarks Prophetes Apostles Martyrs Virgins Confessors and with the holye Aungels of God shall contynually sing Halleluya and with ioyfull voyce shall attrybute honor vnto the king of heauen There shall they be satisfied with the plenteousnesse of Gods house and shall be filled with the ryuer of his pleasures There death being swallowed vp to victorie they shall behold the visage of his glorye with vncouered face which the Aungels in heauen are glad to looke vpon They which here did sowe in teares shall there reape with gladnesse They shal not hunger nor thirst any more neyther shall the Sunne or any heate lyght vpon them bicause the Lambe who is in the midst of the throne shall both gouerne and leade them to the liuely Fountaynes of waters and bicause also God hath cléerely wyped from their eyes all teares For as it is here wyshed for desired earnestly prayde and longed for from the very hart so there we shall lay holde of it take pleasure of it praise and magnifie it Here we are at strife and continuall warre with most cruell aduersaries suche as conspire our destruction there the crowne of righteousnesse is brought by the Lorde to the victor that hath fought a good fight the hath finished his course and that hath kept his fayth There there is decréed a most ample tryumph of ioye There are the temporall labours recompenst with the chiefest rewarde of Gods house Who therefore will not cry out with the Prophet How amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of Hosts My soule is wearie and wasteth with longing after thy habitation Blessed be they O Lorde which dwell in thy house for they shall euermore praise thée There shall they beholde that vnsatiable beautie and being inflamed with perpetuall loue thereof shall neuer cease from lawde and praise When can he be destitute of that peaceable quietnesse of minde which continually day and night is thinking vpon these celestiall and immortall things and which fixeth all his minde care and cogitation in continuall contemplation of heauenly matters Howe can he be out of quiet who with vehement sighes excéeding prayer labours to come to that blessed countrie where the saintes be pertakers of lyfe eternall and truth immutable and who euery day doth indruour to vnburthen himselfe somewhat of earthly cares The very right way therfore in my opion doth he take to the true tranquillitie of the minde who hath Christ to be his rocke and foundation and with stedfast faythe cleaues vnto him he being indued with a perfite perswasion of Gods good will towardes him purchaseth the testimony of a good conscience by performing the whole course of his life both godly iustly and soberly and who both in minde inuocation and confession cleaues so throughly to the true christian Church whereof the sonne of God is President the Aungels are protectors the holy spirite is the sanctifier the godly and elect of euerye age are the felowship as he is a verie member of the people of God and of the misticall bodye whose head is Christ and doth not onely hold fast the liuely hope of eternall lyfe to his last ende but also increaseth euery day by procéeding from one vertue to another For the expectation of the children of God who with a right passage and couragious stomake as to a prefixed signe go forwarde to the rewarde of their heauenly vocation cannot be deceyued if the same leane vpon the sure foundations of eternall election of the precious redemption of the promise of god For euen as God of his méere loue which he poureth into the hartes of vs by his spirite hath adopted vs to be his children that a certaine wonderfull greatnesse of loue being styred vp in oure mindes by the knowledge therof the same might waxe more vehement towardes our most mercifull God and also by sending downe his sonne hath performed our redemption and as