Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10793	Of the foolishnes of men in putting-off the amendement of their liues from daie to daie a godlie and profitable treatise for the present time; written in the Latine tongue by that reuerend and worthie member of Christ his church in this age, Iohn Riuius. Newlie translated by Thomas Rogers.; De stultitia mortalium, in procrastinanda correctione vitæ. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1582 (1582)	STC 21066; ESTC S105156	60,254	183

be denied so foule and abhominable that it neither ought nor maie be excused And although they denie that they are altogether vngodlie because they haue the name of God in honour yet manifest is it that they are not godly because they followe those things which are cleane contrarie to godlines as Hilarie speketh of such like And they are namlie those who being not grieued at this filthines and wicked life of their shauelings show plainely that they abhorre the honest vndefiled bed as the Apostle saith that is the honest and lawfull mariage of the ministers of the holie Church Oh horrible case to heare oh wretched miserable state of Christian people Come Lord Iesu come and helpe thy Church which now a long space hath had those pastors vnder the popish tyrannie which are vtterlie in a manner destitute of all Christian faith They beleeue will some saie to haue saluation through Christ. Go to for we will not striue much about that point let vs thinke it be so What Beleeue they that which the Apostle saith VVhoremongers shall not inherite the kingdome of God They beleeue so I thinke neither maie we suspect the coÌ„trarie Now forsomuch as they are of that nomber for that must needes be graÌ„ted which no maÌ„ may denie which Paule or the holy spirit rather by Paule saith shall not inherit the kingdome of heauen howe can they promise themselues saluation through Christ then beleeue they both that they shalbe saued and that whoremongers as they are themselues shalbe condemned Oh immortal god what blokishnes is this what blindnes of hart what darknes of minde See they not what contrarieties they speake For if they haue an assured trust that they shalbe saued for that is it which we call beleefe theÌ„ that is false which Paule vnto the Ephesians dooth write but if it be sin as it is to saie so they can haue no faith or trust that God the Father is mercifull to them and pleased through Christ. Then what is their beliefe what makes them to promise to themselues saluation what faith haue they VVhat force our conclusion hath euen a blinde man maie see as the common saying is For the Apostle dooth propose and affirme that No whoremonger shall inherite the kingdome of God The whole world maketh the Minor and saith with one consent Popish Priestes are such Hereof doo the right Christians conclude that no Popish Priestes with their concubines shall inherit the Kingdome of God All men though they haue but meane skil in Logique see that this conclusion followeth of the former propositions which are manifestlie true and granted euen of our aduersaries For this argument is made in right moode and figure Popish Priestes therefore with their harlots haue none hope to be saued neither doo they beleeue as they falselie reporte albeit they feine certaine vaine dreames to themselues concerning faith But some will saie It maie be that they who to daie are wicked to morowe or when God thinkes good may repent and acknowledging their faults liue the time which they haue to spend in the feare of God and therefore we should not so quicklie despaire of anie mans saluation I know it well but it appeareth how these felowes are onte to returne vnto godlines and how vnfeindlie they repent For what one of manie thousands haue you seene heretofore which comming vnto himselfe hath either cast off his whore or determined neuer to haue companie with her hereafter I speake that which is well knowen and what we at this daie doo not onelie see with our eies but also euen well nigh feele with our handes if so I maie saie Not one of a thousand scarse can you finde which from his harte at anie time purposeth to amende or to put awaie his concubine But to let these things go how abhominable in the mene while be it spokeÌ„ in the feare of God deformed is the face of the popish Church wherein the pastors and rulers of the christian flock doo openlie to the great offence of the Church commit wickednes wherein whoremaisters adhorte vnto chastitie impenitent persons vnto repentaunce they who are defiled with all impuritie vnto holines And these things are doone not in villages onelie but in townes also and citties nor in a fewe regions onelie but in euery land beside and in all places where the Pope hath dominion yea the verie Bishops themselues loking on winking therat what saie I winking thereat permitting and approuing the same who because they do not seuerelie punish this wickednes as by their office they are bound but as I saide before for monie permit them yeerelie to haue harlots by these their pardons dispenatioÌ„s beside that it is a speciall prouocation vnto sin as one doth saie they emboldeÌ„ theÌ„ the more in wickednes prick forward giue such the head whom they should bridle yea they bring it so to passe that liuing in open wickednes they thinke they sinne not so for their owne coÌ„moditie they giue them occasion obstinatelie to persist in sinne of which as of all their office they shall one daie render an accompt What I praie you may some demaund should Bishops do in this case I will tell you They must as the Apostle teacheth not winke at such wickedues much lesse allowe and maintaine the libertie of whoredome but first admonish improoue rebuke afterward if these doo no good remoue them from their charge and gouernement of the congregatioÌ„ where they are placed theÌ„ banish them from the temples and sacraments afterward being condemned to the pit of hel to excommunicate theÌ„ froÌ„ the companie of the godlie finallie as Paule saith deliuer them vnto SataÌ„ for the destructioÌ„ of the flesh that the spirit may be saued in the daie of the Lord Iesus These thinges they should doo if their minde were to execute their office vprightlie and to be allowed before God the iudge who will aske an account of them for all their doings Cheefelie and aboue all things they should showe themselues an ensample of good workes as Paule admonisheth Titus and be to them that beleeue an ensample in woord in conuersation in loue in spirit in faith and in purenesse as he warneth Timothie But at this daie the Bishops for the moste parte showe themselues to be such as they suffer the Clergie to be whereby it falleth out that what by the licence and what through the example of Bishops that they sinne more wilfullie and boldly For as one saith That is thought to be well doone which is doone by example But forsomuch as Priestes hauing so manie occasions to repent and to forsake their wickednes for they both visit such as are extreamelie sicke and heare confessions of sinne and comforte the troubled conscience and absolue from wickednes and reach foorth the bodie of the Lord and minister extreame vnction and are present oftentimes when men giue vp the ghoste beside they sing Dirges

erect comfort and quicken vs according as Christ hath promised in the Gospel that our heauenlie Father wil giue the holie ghost to them which aske it at his handes And yet in the meane while let vs not resist the holie Ghost by yeelding to wicked affections contrarie to our conscience neither yet expel and grieue him to vse the wordes of Paule Let vs walke in newnes of life not insinfulnes Let vs giue vp our bodies a lâ—ing sacrifice holie acceptable vnto God let vs crucifie the flesh with the affections and the lustes thereof let vs keepe our selues vnspotted of the world Let vs be renued in the spirite of our minde and put on the newe man which after God is created in righteousnes and true holines Be we followers of God as deare children and walke we worthie of the Lord as it becommeth Saintes supporting one another through loue endeuoring to keepe the vnitie of the spirite in the bond of peace let vs be gentle one toward another and merciful let vs loue our enimies blesse them that curse vs doo good to them that hate vs and praie for them that hurt vs and persecute vs. Let vs giue to the hungrie meate to the thirstie drinke to the needie reliefe to the harborles lodging cloathing to the naked let vs visit the sick admonish the wanderer teach the ignoraunt councel the troubled comfort the afflicted let vs reconcile them which be at variance despise honour refuse promotion abhorre couetousnes finallie let vs endeuor euermore to tame and subdue our ingraffed naughtines together with wicked affections let vs not only take heed to ourselues least at anie time our hearts be oppressed with surfetting and dronkennes but also prepare we our selues in like sort vnto praier by abstinence and fasting And among so manie subtilties and batteringes both of the Diuel the world and the flesh let vs with earnest praier call for the helpe of God that we be neither in prosperitie proude nor out of heart in aduersitie VVhat so euer we doo let vs doo it to the glorie of God let no man seeke his owne but euerie man anothers wealth Furthermore let vs be such as maie offend no man but rather by good example prouoke others vnto godlines and wel-doing And last of all let vs praie continuallie and in all thinges giue thankes let vs set our affection on thinges which are aboue and not on thinges which are on the earth These be hard thinges thou saist I know that yet meete for Christians and necessarie to saluation Let vs then giue dilligence to cast awaie this nicenes of minde let vs not pamper our selues so as we doo neither veeld to our weaknes nor finallie of purpose make the grace of God in vaine to vs-ward Let vs not onlie not wittinglie run headlong into wickednes but stoutlie beside resist the Diuel when he driueth vs to sinne and neuer cowardlie let vs yeeld vnto him And so what is there so grieuous but thou wilt iudge it light so thou maist attaine vnto euerlasting life and heauenlie loies For wel and wiselie was it saide of Paule I count that the afflictions of this present time are not woorthie of the glorie that shalbe shewed vnto vs. Hetherto maketh The thinges which eie hath not seene neither eare hath heard neither came into mans heart hath GOD prepared for them which loue him For how great a thing is it which no force of wordes can expresse not cogitations comprehend namelie to be a cittizen and inhabiter of heauen the heire of God the coheire of Christ to possesse the kingdome prepared for the godlie before the foundations of the world euerlastinglie to behold the most souereigne good to enioie the most comfortable contemplation of Gods heauenlie countenance to abide in the societie of Angels in the companie of Saintes in the number of the righteous with continuall Hymnes and Psalmes together with all the holie Angels and Patriarkes and Prophetes and Apostles and Martyrs and with all the godlie now enioying blessed immortalitie and eternitie to praise God euen the fountaine of all glorie VVhat Are not all the miseries and troubles of this life compared to the glorie to come euen to be iudged of no waight nor meete to deserue so great a reward as is appointed for them that in verie deede we maie be ashamed of our nicenes and securitie And who is there calling to remembrance the kingdome of heauen euerlasting life eternall happines the exceeding great and infinite ioie the fellowship of Angels the societie of all the Saints which departing in the feare of God doo enioie felicitie worldes without end I saie who calling these thinges to remembrance wil couet to liue vpon earth and not with Paule rather desire to be loased and deliuered out of the prison of the bodie Let vs not then deeme those thinges hard which our sauiour Christ so often beate into the heads of his for the attainment of this so vnspeakable happines especially sith contrariwise they which obserue not the commaundements of God necessarie vnto saluation are not onlie bereued of the felicitie whereof we haue spoken but are cast headlong into hel among the damned where they are tormented euerlastinglie with extreme paines appointed for the reprobate iudged to hel fire and perpetuall death throwen into vtter darknes where shalbe weeping and gnashing of teeth plagued with most bitter paines and torments which euer shall endure and that in the societie and crew of Diuels and damned soules without all hope of better state that is they shall continue worldes without end in despaire which more grieuouslie shall vexe them then anie torment or then all torments beside Now whome would not these things terrifie from sinning as the feare of hel the paines of which there is neither end nor measure euerlasting death vnquenchable fire vnspeakable tormentes the fellowship of Diuels the societie of the damned horror anguish trembling both euerlasting for continuance and vnmeasurable for greatnes such as neither mans minde can conceaue nor any mouth declare I saie what man is there but wil be terrifed by that daie of wrath as both the Prophet and Paule in his Epistle vnto the Romanes calleth it that daie of trouble and heauines of destruction and desolation of obscuritie and darknes of cloudes and blacknes at what time he wil reward euerie man according to his workes O that the cogitation and memorie of these things were continually fresh before the eies of the minde vndoubtedly then either I am much deceaued or men with more dilligence would obserue Gods commaundements they would study earnestly both to abstaine from sinne and wickednes and also to liue vprightlie and vertuouslie all the daies of their life Moreouer what if here in this world vertue sometime be rewarded as wickednes and il behauiour is punished And to saie nothing of the conscience whereof we haue spoken at large in other bookes let vs bring out those things which in a manner we doo feele

art committing anie fowle and dishonest fact how much more oughtest thou to abstaine there-from through reuenence and shame of God and his Angel Fearest thou to haue man priuie to thy fact and art thou not afraide in the presence of God whose eies beholding all thinges no man can escape to commit that which thou wouldest not doo in the sight of man Especially seeing he one daie shall be thy Iudge which now beholdeth whatsoeuer thou doest A certaine Philosopher councelleth vs So to liue as though we liued in the sight of all men so to thinke as though one might behold the most secrete cogitation of the heart Againe saith he So doo all thinges as though some man sawe thee It is doubtles good to appoint a keeper ouer thy selfe to haue one vpon whome thou maist looke backe whome thou maist suppose is priuie to all thy cogitations A great part of wickednes is left vndone if one be present when a man is about to sinne Thus councelleth an Ethnike which I would haue euerie man suppose to be spoken to him-selfe If therefore thou enterprise any thing which is filthie and wicked before thou goest about the same thus reason with thy selfe what is that I doo Shall I commit that in the sight of God which for my life I would not haue any man to know Should I driue awaie the Angel appointed to ouer-looke me by this crime which would not loase the friendship of a mortall man Shall I grieue the holie spirit to make the euil spirit reioice through my falling Hath Christ redeemed me with his precious blood that voluntarilie I should giue my selfe into the bondage of Satan Hath he redeemed me from sinne to the end I should runne headlong into wickednes Hath he therefore made me an heire of heauen that through mine owne default I should forgo the same Where is now my zeale to God-ward where is my reuerend feare of his maiestie where is my faith and godlines Is this the thankes I giue to my God for his so innumerable benefites Is this the thankes I doo yeeld to Christ for my saluation Doo I thus submitte my selfe to the direction of the holie spirit With this holines doo I approch vnto the Lordes table Looke I for the comming of Christ after such a sort Shall death laie hold on me in this state of life Shall I go vnto the iudgement seate of God in this pickle Shall I suffer mine affections to preuaile the weake flesh to ouercome sinne to raigne in my bodie Am I so voide of stomacke and courage that I can-not resist the motions of the minde Doo I behold the better and yet chuse the worser still These and other thinges for who can recite all thinke dailie with thy selfe so wilt thou not easilie doo that which is not seemelie Then to come vnto an end whatsoeuer thou goest about perswade thy selfe that God is present as in deede he is and beholdeth all thy doinges and therfore stand thou in awe of him and let the reuerence of him with-draw thee from wicked enterprises For as the Poet saith He witnes is and Iudge also He so doth view the heart of man That euerie thought he wel doth kno And him deceaue no creature can This also wil further thy zeale to liue wel if continuallie thou thinke with thy selfe how thou art the sonne and heire of God in the spirituall regeneration and which is the greatest honour the brother and heire annexed with Christ. For who wil not be inflamed mightelie vnto godlines and with a Christian feare and shame abhorre sinne when he shall call into remembraunce how that God is his Father Doo not therefore I saie doo not forget this benefite at anie time loue him worship him serue him honour him ouermore who hath made thee his sonne by adoption and neuer doo anie thing which maie displease him hencefoorth Fulfil thou his wil obeie his commaundement keepe his lawes Thinke with thy selfe that not onlie the participation of his inheritance but also the imitation of his vertue and goodnes doth belong vnto thee so that although thou canst not by imitation attaine vnto that singularitie of goodnes which is in the Father yet endeuor thou earnestlie to come nigh the same and thinke it a most shamefull thing to degenerate there-from And if at anie time vnwittinglie thou coÌ„mittest somwhat contrarie to thy Fathers minde as great is mans frailtie let it much grieue thine heart punish thy selfe therefore thinke no paine grieuous enough for thee who hast offended so mercifull a Father and neuer be quiet in minde and at rest til thou hast recouered thine offence with greater good deedes and pacified thy Father by vnfained repentance So farre shouldest thou be from sinning voluntarilie and from committing anie sinne against thy conscience And who so remembreth howe that he is the sonne and heire of God the brother heire annexed to Christ doubtles wil be terrified from sinne and wickednes not so much for feare of the last iudgement of euerlasting tormentes and of hel fire which neuer wil be quenched as for feare of displeasing his so louing Father and will endeuour to liue godlie to offend no man after the example of the Father to doo well to all men not so much in hope of reward in heauen and of eternall ioie as through a certaine greate and vnspeakable loue which he beareth toward God the Father He which beleeueth as Paule saith that his bodie is the Temple of the holie Ghost dwelling in vs easelie refraineth from sinne and polluteth not him-selfe with filthie lust Finallie who out of doubt thinketh that he is adopted into the fellowship of Saintes wil not neglect to emulate the vertues of the Saintes namelie zeale toward God and loue toward man Cap. 20. The causes whie we proceede not in wel doing hauing purposed to liue in the feare of God with the remedies for that infirmitie of man BVt some wil say what may be the cause whie minding some-times to liue chastlie soberlie and godlie after the wil of God we doo not constantlie fulfill which wiselie we purposed To aunswer in few wordes the principall cause is the naturall wickednes that is in vs the proanesse which we haue to sinne which cleaueth to our bones and bowels that is to saie the verie flesh that we beare about which hath a grieuous and troublesome combat and a continuall fight in a manner with the inner man as witnesseth Paul So that we must resist the same when it inticeth vs vnto lust and filthy pleasure vnto the vices of the throate and bellie vnto lasciuiousnes and wantonnes and vnto other vices and vnhonest factes and furthermore we must bridle the same by godlie cogitations exercises watching abstinence and also tame and bring it vnder by continuall sobrietie and temperance This made our sauiour Christ to wil vs To take heede least at anie time our heartes be oppressed with surfetting and Paule both to bid that we be not

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