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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04384	Certaine selected epistles of S. Hierome as also the liues of Saint Paul the first hermite, of Saint Hilarion the first monke of Syria, and of S. Malchus: vvritten by the same Saint. Translated into English; Selections. English	Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20.; Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.	1630 (1630)	STC 14502; ESTC S107704	168,063	216

displease Christ. I speake not these thinges as if according to the Prouerbe The sowe were reading a lesson to Minerua but now that you are s●…tting to Sea I haue admonished you as one friend should do another choosing that you should rather obserue my skill to be little then my good will and desiryng that wherein I haue slipt you may passe on with a firme pace I haue gladly read that booke which you composed for the Emperour Theodosius with much prudence and eloquence and especially I liked the subdiuision thereof And as in the first parts you ouercome others so in the later you outstrip your selfe The very manner of discourse is close and cleane and together with the purity of Tully it is full of sentences For that kind of eloquence as one saith is but cold and weake when onely the words deserue praise Besides you make your consequences of thinges very well one thing ●…angs handsomly vpon another Whatsoeuer you assume i●… either an end of that which goes before or a begining of that which followes Theodosius is happy in being defended by such an Orator of Christ. You haue giuen lustre to his princely roabes and you haue consecrated the profitablenes of his lawes to succeeding ages Proceed on in vertue you who haue layd so good foundations What kind of souldier will you proue when you haue experience O that I were so happy as to haue the leading of such a wit as yours not through the Aonian mountaynes and those tops of the hill of Helicon whereof the Poets speake but by the tops of Sion and Itabirium and Sina If I might but teach you what I haue learned and deliuer the mysteries of Scriptures as it were into your hands some such thing would grow vp to vs as the learned Greece neuer had Hearken therefore my fellow seruant my freiend my brother obserue a little by what path you are to walke in the holy Scripture All that which we read in those diuine bookes doth shine indeed and that brightly euen in the barke but it is much sweeter in the substance and depth thereof He who wil eat the kernell must breake the nut Reueal myne eyes saith Dauid and I will consider the wonderfull thinges of thy law If so great a Prophet confesse so great darkenes of ignorance with what a night of stupidity may we conceiue our selues to be enuironed who are but little ones and as it were but sucking babes But this veyle was not onely put vpon the face of Moyses but vpon that also of the Euangelists and Apostles Our Sauiour spake to the people in parables auowing that that which he deliuered had somewhat in it of the Mysticall he said He who hath eares to heare let him heare Vnles all things which are written of him be opened by him who hath the keye of Dauid which shuts and no man opens and which opens and no man shuts they will neuer be disclosed by any other If you had this ground and if your worke were perfected by this last hand we should haue nothing more gracefull nothing more learned nothing more delightfull nothing more Latin then your bookes Tertullian is frequent in sentences but of no very delightfull speech Blessed Cyprian walkes on all sweet and smooth like a most pure fountayne but employing himselfe wholy vpon the exercise of vertue and taken vp by the troubles of persecution he discoursed not at all of holy Scriptures Victorinus who was after crowned with an illustrious marytrdome is not able to expresse what he vnderstands Lactantius who was a very flood of Ciceronian eloquence I would to God he could as well haue confirmed our doctrine as he did easily confute that of others A●…nobius was vnequall and subiect to excesse and with al confused without diuiding his worke Saint Hilary is aloft in his french stile and hauing the ornament of those flowers of Gr●…cian eloquence he is inuolued sometimes in long periods and is farre out of the reach of ordinary men I passe ouer the rest in silence whether they be dead or still aliue of whom others may iudg●… either way after our time And now I come to you who are my fellow in profession my companion and my friend I say my friend though you be not yet of my acquaintance and I will pray you not to suspect my friendship of flattery but rather conceiue that I am in errour or that I slip through the loue I beare you then that I would deceiue a friend by speaking hlm fayre You haue a great wit and an vnspeakeable store and copie of speech and you expresse your selfe purely and with ease and the same facility and purity is seasoned with prudence for the head being sound all the sences are in vigour If labour and the vnderstanding of Scripture were added to this prudence eloquence we should see you in a short time to hold the very highest place amongst our men and ascending vp to the house of Sion with Iacob to sing vpon the house tops that which you had learned and knowne in the priuate roomes of the house Gird your selfe vp I beseech you gird yourselfe vp Nothing of this world is giuen to mortall men but vpon the price of great labour Let the Church haue you noble as the Senate had you in former time and now prepare riches for your selfe which you may daily bestowe and yet will neuer fayle as long as the world lasts Doe it whilest yet your head is not sprinkled with grey haires before you be ouergrowne with diseases and melancholy and old age and payne and before sad death carryes vs vnmercifully away I cannot be content with any mediocrity in you but I desire that all may be eminent all excellent With what greedy gladnes I haue receaued the holy Bishop Vigilantius it is fitter that you learne by his wordes then by my letters Vpon what ground he went hence and left vs so soon I must not say least I may seem to offend some I haue entertayned him a while as he was passing by in hast and I haue giuen him a taste of our friendship to the end that you may learne by him that which you desire to know of me I entreat that by your meanes I may salute your fellow seruant who labours with you in our Lord. FINIS THE LIVES OF SAINT PAVL THE FIRST HERMITE OF SAINT HILARION THE FIRST MONKE OF SYRIA AND OF SAINT MALCHVS Written by Saint Hierome THE LIFE OF SAINT PAVL THE HERMITE WRITTEN BY S. HIEROME THE ARGVMENT PAVL of Thebais hauing about the age of 15 yeares being instructed in the literature as well of the Graecians as of the Aegyptians both his Parents being dead and he accused by his Sisters husband for being a Christian and flying from Decius and Valerianus the persecutors betooke himselfe to the wildernes There did he lead his life by the space of ninety foure yeares in admirable abstinence and sanctity till such tyme as being visited by that