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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34922	The voyage of the wandring knight shewing the whole course of man's life, how apt he is to follow vanity, and how hard it is for him to attain vertue / devised by John Cartheny, a French man ; and translated out of French into English by W.G. of Southampton, merchant ...; Voyage du chevalier errant. English	Cartigny, Jean de, 1520?-1578.; N. R.; Goodyear, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing C681A; ESTC R34789	91,602	121

good Hermit wherefore I was desirous to know his Name the which I asked Lady Memory who told me that it was good Understanding Then I received the holy Communion which being ended and Thanks given to God I meant to salute gratisie him But before we went to receive the holy Sacrament of the body and blood of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ I remembred the great love of our Lord which humbly took upon him our fraile and weak nature for our sakes became accursed and suffered most bitter death upon the Cross to deliver us out of the bandage of Sin Hell and Eternal death and to bring us to everlasting life I remembred also that love which he shewed unto me in drawing me out of the sink of sin wherein I was plunged over head and ears so that I was not only drawn from my unspeakable sins but also made a Communicant of the mystery of his Divine Majesty by faith And to the end it might please him to give me grace to receive it aright I prayed unto him on this wise O Sweet Jesus and loving Redeemer I yield thee thanks for thy unspeakable love by which thou hast purged me from the filth of sin and pluckt me by thy grace out of the dark dungeon of death Behold I reconcile my self unto thee most heartily beseeching thee that thou wouldest vouchsafe amongst the great number of thy benefits of thy great liberality to give me grace to be a faithfull partaker of thy precious body and blood represented unto me under the visible form of Bread and Wine O immortal King I am not worthy I confess of so great a benefit yet I beseech thee as thou dost make the unworthy worthy and the sinners just so make me worthy to receive this holy blessed and Heavenly Sacrament to my Souls Health Feed my Soul O Lord with thy spiritual Body and let thy blood revive and quicken my Spirit O make me by thy grace daily encreasing in me a member of thy mysticall body that I may be included within the Covenant and blessing which thou madest with thy Saints and Apostles in thy last Supper communicating unto them the holy Sacrament of thy body and Blood and consequently that I may be of the number of them which according to the Vow and Promise made in Baptism do live in Faith and by thy grace are received into the company of Saints Amen This prayer being ended with all Reverence and Devotion I received the holy Sacrament and that being ended we went from the Chappel into a great Hall where I met the good Hermit Understanding whom when I had saluted and he me I thanked him for his good sermon Then as we were talking Gods Grace said unto me Sir Knight I give thee for thy Governour this good Hermit Understanding believe his Counsel and do what he commands Then I remembred my old Governess Folly whom I left in the bog amongst Serpents and Toads so I was very glad of my Governour and give thanks to Gods Grace who from the Table gave me drugs to eat and repeated unto me a place written in the 80 Psalme of David Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it Then having swallowed that which she gave me I forgat the World and made no reckoning of any thing therein For all my desire was in haste to see the Palace of true Felicity I desired death to be with Christ in Heaven Dinner being done the Gates of Repentance were opened which were narrow contrariwise as it appeareth in the first Book that the entrance into the Palace of Voluptuousness was wide large and great but the end thereof was desperation and destruction as on the other side the entring into the Palace of Repentance is streight and narrow but the end thereof is eternal Life For Repentance as Saint Paul saith leadeth the Repentant to everlasting Salvation When the gates were open I mounted up into a Chariot of Ivory having golden wheels and two white Horses with wings drawing the same Gods Grace gat up first and with her hand helped me up then followed the good Hermit Understanding then Memory Conscience and Repentance but Gods Grace governed all who touching the Horses with her Rod they mounted up over the Mountains which are above the Earth So we passed through the Region of the Air where inhabiteth all the wicked spirits which watch to annoy such as would mount up to Heaven And though I was greatly agast hereat yet my trust was in Gods Grace under whose Wings I hid my self I trusted not in my Conscience although it was at peace nor to Repentance nor to Understanding but to Gods Grace only who safely throwded me under her Wings as the Hen doth her Chickens against the coming of the Kite Then she commanded the wicked Enemies to get them hence and they forthwith sled away crying aloud Now have we lost our Knight lo he is mounted up to the Palace of Vertue in despight of us all Now he is escaped under the Wings of Gods grace Being past this brunt I heartily thanked Gods grace of her goodness and on the sudden I saw upon the top of a Mountain a goodly Palace Now for that love ingendreth tamiliarity and familiarity breeds boldness I asked Gods grace what place it was and she told me it was the Palace of Vertue It was so high that it reached even to Heaven and about it were seven sair Towers of Alablaster In the first dwelt Faith in the second Hope in the third Charity in the fourth Wisdome in the fifth Justice in the sixth Fortitude and in the seventh Temperance In the first Tower Gods grace shewed me Faith which waited for our coming near unto whom I might perceive the Palace of true Felicity With that I desired Lady Memory to put me in mind in the morning of seeing that gallant City Whiles we talked thus our Chariot arrived at the Court where Lady Vertue with her Daughters Faith Hope Charity Wisdome Justice and Temperance dwelt At the first sight I knew it was the same Lady Vertue which afore-time had so well admonished me to whom I gave no ear Then reverently upon my knees lamenting I cryed her mercy for contemning her Counsell and following Voluptuousness Wherewith she made me arise and in token that she took in good part my recantation she sweetly kissed me and bade me Welcome So with great joy accompanied with Gods grace true Understanding quiet Conscience and unfained Repentance I entred into the Palace of Lady Vertue Thus much for the second part of the Wandring Knights Voyage THE VOYAGE OF The Wandring Knight The Third Part. CHAP. I. The Knight declareth the great good the solace and the pleasure which he found in the Palace of Lady Vertue IF I had a thousand tongues to tell the truth of all the good and pleasures which I found in the Palace of Vertue and if I live a thousand years to report this matter all were too little in every

whereby covetousness and desire of Riches is understood First though Gold and silver be but Earth what vexation hath the covetous Man to atchieve it He saileth over tempestuous Seas he climeth over Monstrons Mountains he diggeth deep into the bowels of the Earth he suffereth hunger thirst cold heat and a thousand mischiefs One is drowned another killed the third robbed and he that hath obtained his purpose liveth in fear to lose it the covetous Man suspects every body It is not Coffers full of Coin that can make men happy Our Saviour terms it Trash and Thornes because it pricks the heart and corrupteth both Body and Soul Saint Paul saith He that wisheth Wealth in this World falleth into temptation Is not Judas an Example who in case of covetousnes hanged himself Now to Coucupiscence of Pride He that hath Honour Authority Might Estimation and Dignity in this World thinketh he is happy but such are loden with unhappiness for what pains labour and vexation endureth the ambitious Man before he can come to dignity Honour and Authority And when he hath it with all these vexations he is not sure how long he shall enjoy it We see oftentimes Fortune turns her Wheel and that the Ambitious end their Libes with infamy Take an Example of Priamus King of Troy who flourished in Friends and Riches Honour Might Kindred and Children did not he and his Off-spring the greatest part of them dye most miserably as for the rest they became Servitors and were at length killed in Troy Croesus King of the Lydians as rich and mighty as he was after he had raigned fifteen years he was Vanquished by King Cyrus lost his Realm was carryed away Captive and led all the rest of his life like a Slave Dionyfius the cowardly King of Sicill was hunted out of his Realm and became so poor that he kept a Schoole in Corinth and by teaching little Children he got his living very poorly God wot and beggerly Mithridate King of Pontus a rich and mighty Prince he subdued twelve Nations wherein some say all Languages were spoken yet he for all that after he had wearied the World with Wars was forsaken of his own People pursued by his own Son and overcome by subtilty insomuch that he was glad to desire a Frenchman to kill him who did so and that was his end Valerianus the great Emperour of Rome even he that persecuted the Christians and did much mischief was taken by his Enemy the King of Persia who against the Law of Arms made him lye down whiles he trode on his back to leap on his Horse Bajazet the fourth King of the Turks was Vanquished by Tamberlane a Tartarian and King of Scythia who kept him in a Cage like a beast and with a Golden Chain led him like a Spaniel throughout all the Army yea he was glad to feed under Tamberlanes Table like a dog And therefore let this be a conclusion that Honour Authority and Dignity is no Inheritage Moreover what Labours Trabels Verations and Perils do Princes pass through even at the present to maintain themselves in their Estates What Wars and slaughters have been committed partly to get and partly to keep rule and Regiment Ambitious Worldlings cannot play with their pleasures if they have not first passed some of these Vexations In youth men run their race without regard of Conscience but when age comes on and nothing left for Lust when White hairs a Walking staffe or crutch a pair of spectacles Cotton put in their ears when none of these things can help them then must they endure the gnawing of Conscience which Voluptuousness kept hidden a long time Whatsoever is pleasant to youth the same is unpleasant to Age. And what comfort may an Old Man conceive when he can think upon no time of his youth that was well spent and Vertuously bestowed What discomfort is it when Conscience accuses the old man of his young years wickedly wasted But as the Elect live in hope so do the Reprobate in despair He that followeth Voluptuousness is Gods enemy For Saint James saith He that loves the World hateth God You may well think that Sin is hated of God when he suffered his only Son to dye upon the Altar of the cross for this end that Sin should not be unpunished And why was it but because the Sins of Adam encreased as Generations multiplyed The evill rich Man that lived at his lust was Tormented in Hell with fire and thirst in whom the words of our Saviour Christ are verified saying Woe unto you that now laugh for you shall lament and weep Go to you foolish Worldlings therefore and you Vain Voluptuous persons vaunting your selves happy in following your fleshly appetites when for such pleasures you shall suffer torments not in this World but in the World to come you will sing a new note But now to our Knight whom we left in the mire and deep ditch of Sin I refer you to the Psalms of David and chiefly the 36.98.72.143 and there you shall find the truth that Worldly Felicity is no other thing than Vanity dreams and meer a●uses and also that Worldlings are accursed and unhappy Wherefore I beseech you in the name of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to use the goods of this world as Pilgrims use their Lodgings and such fare as they find in their Voyage that is not to set your hearts upon them nor so to love them that nothing be lest for the Lord. For as the Knight saw the Palace of wordly Felicity sink suddenly with all her people and pomp even so shall it happen unto all Voluptuous worldings at the dreadfull day of Iudgment unless they return from their wicked wayes forsake Sin embrace a new lise and serve the Lord in holiness and righteousness VVherefore let us bridle our affections refrain our own pleasures repent with true sorrow of heart attend wait and hope for the mercy of God by the intercession of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ that he may make us happy Possessors of true and everlasting Felicity to whom be all honour and glory world without end The end of the first part of the Voyage of the wandring Knight THE VOYAGE OF The Wandring Knight The Second Part. CHAP. I. Gods Grace draweth the Knight out of the filth of Sin wherein he stuck fast I Have declared in the first part of my Voyage how being governed by Folly in contemning Vertue and following Voluptuousness I entred into the Palace of false Felicity there resting my self for a certain season and transgressing all the Commandements of God in leading a diffolute and worldly Life thinking that by living so I might be happy whereas indeed I was unhappy And why because that in stead of Felicity I found Vanity For as I thought to recreate my self in hunting I saw the Palace of Voluptuousness sink and come to utter confusion and my self also plunged into the pit of Sin even up to the saddle

point to decipher it for it consisteth not in Angelical knowledge much less in mans wit wholly to comprehend so noble a mystery none knows it but he who hath proved it you may be sure that there are not as in the Palace of Worldly pleasure chambers hanged with Silk Tapestry and every corner sumptuously and superfluously adorned No no but there were Histories of the Old and New Testament to view and mark I found not their Coffers full of Gold and Silver Cup-boards of Plate Presses of Silks all manner of Mercery-ware neither dainty Dishes delicate Drinks bawdy Songs wanton Musick the Lady of Love her Son Cupid nor any thing that Worldlings imbrace but I found a thing far supassing all that is in the World This good this joyfull this comfortable this unspeakable this incomprehensible-thing cannot be named worthily enough but of good and bad he is called God even he who is the only Soveraign good above all things reasonable and unreasonable Peradventure you will say this is stoange news that you Sir Knight should see God in the Palace of Vertue How is it strange seeing he is every where not only in Heaven but also in Earth and in Hell Truly I confess that God is every where but I deny him to dwell every where and yet I know that by his power and invincible presence he is every where though not every where by the fulness of his greatness and his gifts it followes then that he dwelleth every where I pray you what profiteth it the damned that he is in hell by his power Iustice and Vengeance Truly by such presence of God they have no joy no consolation no benefit or selicity for that all are cursed in whom God dwelleth not by his grace whatsoever they be be they Kings Princes or Popes who have all other riches and delights in the World But all they that have the grace of God are happy or at least wise in hope though they live even in a loathsome prison and are poorer than Lazarus which desired to be refreshed with the crums that fell from the evil rich Mans Table Now when we pray to God we say Our Father which art in Heaven for that is the place where God gives the enjoying and possession of himself to his elect and that is their dwelling prepared by the grace of God That is that God speaks of by the Prophet Esay saying Heaven is my seat and the Earth is my foot-stoole For asmuch saith God as I dwell in mine Elect by Grace I will tumble at my feet those that love Voluptuousness rather then their Maker In the book of Wisdom it is written That the seat of wisdom is in the soul of the just God is wisdom and the just soul his seat God is in every place where he dwelleth but he dwelleth not in every place where he is This is most true though marvellous for the evil are alwayes where God is but yet God dwelleth not in them Wheresoever the wicked are they cannot hide themselves from God and yet they are not dwellers with God nor God a dweller with them They are where God is as the blind man in the Light of the Sun the Light is not in him because he hath not the use of it But the good are alwayes with God and God dwelleth in them as in his Temple Saint Paul saith That the temple of God is holy And therefore is ye live well as he commands you you are his Temple And God himself saith I will be in them I will walk amongst them I will be their God and they shall be my people Now therefore you see that although God be every where in his power yet he dwelleth no where but where he is by grace It is plain that where Vertue is there God inhabiteth by grace which is the only consolation of all reasonable Creatures Is it possible that any Man can find in Heaven or in Earth such Soveraign good as is in God who is the most excellentest and chiefest good and the true joy of all reasonable Creatures Now can that body fail in any goodness which hath God by his Grace resting in his Heart who is the only Authour of all goodness and the giver of all true Ioy and persect Felicity But some will say that they see good People in the World oftentimes suffer misery deprived of their goods and put by the pleasures of this world which appeareth in the sadness of their countenance for they seem to be conceived with sorrow and as it were to labour and travel in heaviness as a Woman in Child birth I confess it to be so but yet if you say that they are not surnished with all good and true joy and Felicity you err greatly For the Soveraign good which is God dwels in the just soul for evermore although foolish Worldings say in their Hearts and thoughts Can it be that those miserable men which are afflicted with poverty or imprisonment have more possession of true Felicity than we that wallow in Wealth and are without want of any Worldly pleasures But they consider not that true Ioy consisteth in the Soul But be you sure that as the Soul is the most precious part of the body so ought the goodness of the Soul to be greater than the goodness of the body The Ioy of the Iust and Righteous is more inward than outward for all his goodness is in the soul as the joy of wanton Worldlings is outwardly in the body This just Man suffereth outward extremities but yet inwardly he hath more joy than the Voluptuous Man And though the just man being alwayes afflicted maketh shew of sadness all his life time yet at the hour of death their joy and consolation appeareth with hope of eternal life whereas contrariwise the Wordling goeth his way with grudging and despair The just man esteems Gold and Silver to be coloured Earth worldly wealth and Voluptuous seeding to be Famine and Filth Honour Dignity and Delight to be smoak which the Air consumeth suddenly to be short he maketh all the World no better than an exile and although his body be detained here for a season yet all his thoughts cares desires and meditations are conversant among the Orders of holy Angels and the happy Assembly of Saints in Heaven singing Psalms and Prayses incessantly So that whatsoever we esteem evill in this World God turns it to good For he makes us rejoyce in Tribulations taking them for medicines to purge our corruptions and not accounting our Persecutors as our Enemies but rather as Helpers to salvation The just Man esteems simple fare sufficing nature better than abundance of delicate or excessive Drunkenness or Gluttony They take more pleasure in kneeling praying and fasting then worldlings do in dancing and singing wanton Songs Finally that they do or suffer God turns it to good And therefore Saint Paul saith that all things turn to the good of those that love God The eye never seeth the