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A22897	A little pamphlet entituled the ladder of paradise Very worthy and needful to be read of every Christian that is willing to tread the steps which lead to heauen.; Scala paradisi. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Guigo II, d. 1188, attributed name.; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.	1580 (1580)	STC 937; ESTC S115844	15,368	46

one of his epistles vnto a Lady that Ladies also hauing the vvoord of God so especially dyrected vnto them might endeuour thēselues vvith the greter dyligēce to read it and certēly knovv themselues not to be excluded frō the exercise therof The vvisdome of GOD in the last chapter of the Prouerbs discribing and as it vvere painting out the properties not of a mean vvomā but of a noble mans vvife and a vertuous Lady among other excellent qualities that such a vvomā ought to haue He saith She opēeth her mouth vvith vvisdōe and in her tung is the lavve of grace But lest I should passe the competent boūds of an Epistle I vvil breefly note the Book the Chapter and the Verse of diuers other places vvhere God him self by his holy vvord plainly teacheth that all men yea men vvomen and children ought to be diligently exercised in the vvord of God as the onely vvay to eternall life and the Ladder of Heauen Deut. 6. ver 6. 7. Deut. 8. ver 3. Deut. 11. ver 18 19. 20. Deut. 31. ver 11. 12. Iosu 8 ver 35. 1. Reg. 22. ver 5. 2. Reg. 23. ver 2. 2. Esd 8. ver 3. 18. ibi 9. ver 2. 3. Psa 1. ver 3. Psa 19. ver 7. Psa 36. ver 31. 32. Psa 119. Pro. 1. ver 1. 2. 3. 4. Pro. 2. ver 1 2 3 4 5 9. Pro. 4. ver 20 21. 22. Pro. 6. ver 23. ibi 7. ver 1 2 3. ibi 8. ver 9. ibi 28. ver 9. Esay 8. ver 19. 20. Esay 29. ver 19. Esa 34. ver 16. Esay 48. ver 16. Esa 59. ver 21. Eccle. 24. all Eccle. 39. ver 1. Mat. 4. Mar. 12. ver 24. Lu. 16 ver 29. Iho. 5. ver 39. 47. Iho. 8. ver 43. Iho. 15. ver 3. 7. Act. 11. ver 1. 14. Act. 13. ve 26. 46. Act. 26. ver 2. 3. Rom. 10. ver 8. 17. Rom. 15. ver 4. 1. Cor. 10. ver 11. 2. Cor. 1. ver 13. Ephe. 3. ver 1. Thesa 4. ver 18. Phil. 2. ver 16. Collo 3. ver 16. 2. Timothe 3 ver 15. 16. Ia. 1. ver 18. 20. 1. Pet. 1. ver 23. 1. Pet. 2. ver 8. 2. Pet. ver 19. 1. Ioh. 2. ver 12. 13. 14. Iude. ver 17. Apoc. 1. ver 3. The very nāe of Gods vvoord ought to strike into our harts great reuerēce tovvard it great desire to haue it great haste to hear it great loue to read it like care to keep it If a Kīg or a Queen should vvrite vnto vs lord hovv vvould vve shore vp our eares vvhat haste should vve make to hear the contents Beholde God him self hath directed his letters to euery one of vs his ovvne spirite is his Secretary his Prophets and Apostles are Purciuants messengers that bring them vnto vs. Intollerable is the contempt of God that sen deth thē if vve doo not humbly read them hear them and diligently mark and obserue the speciall points and contents of them The dredful vvoords of God doo folovve such contempt as it is vvrittē O turn you vnto my correction lo I vvil expresse my minde vnto you and make you vnderstād my vvoords Seeing then that I haue called you refused it I haue stretched out my hād and no man regarded it but all my counsel yee haue despised and set my corrections at nought therfore shall I also laugh in your destruction c. VVhat promise can be svveeter then to haue God expresse his minde vnto vs and make vs vnderstand his vvoord VVhat terror can be greater then to haue God laugh and reioice in our destruction From vvhich dredful destruction I beseech almighty God deliuer vs and stay vs vppon the steps of his holy vvord til vve come into his happy kingdome Your La. euer to commaund T. VV. Suorum quisque Vulnerum remediūex diuinis Scripturis eligat Chrisost in act Cap 13. Ho. 29. ❧ Let euery man chuse out of the diuine Scriptures the remedy of his ovvn vvoūdes These are the vvords of S. Iohn Chrisostom vvriting vpon the 13. Chapter of the acts the 29. Homely FINIS To the Reader IAm not ignorāt that as well this as many other books which are numbered reputed and printed among the workes of Augustine Bishop of Hippo are thought of māy not to be his wherin as I mean not to contend but regarding more the matter thē the man and also finding the same amōg the rest of his works not only in the later editions but in the prints of such olde tīe as hardly cā be red but of those which are vsed to read antiquities wherof I my selfe haue one to shew I thought it good ther fore leauing the censure to such as are learned to make no questiō therof specially seeing this Ladder of Paradise long be fore the time of Augustine was set vp by Christe Iesus for his chosen and elected children to ascend into those mantions which he hath prepared for them not only in the kingdōe but also in the house of God his father to Paradise Cap. 1. WHen vpon a certain day béeing occupied with the bodily labour of my hands I had begun to think vpon the exercise of that spirituall man foure spirituall steps sudenly offred thē self vnto my minde as I thought theron namely reading meditation prayer and cōtemplation This is the Ladder of those that be religious by which they are lifted vp frō the earth in to Heuen This lader is parted in to fewe steps not withstanding it is of vnmesurable and incredible greatnes whose lower part resting vpon the earth the vpper end perceth the clowds and sercheth out the secrets of Heauen These degrées as they are in names and number diuers so are they distinct in order and woorthines if any man doo diligently beholde their properties and their seuerall offices what they woork concerning vs how they differ and haue the preheminence one of a nother what soeuer labour or study hee shall spend therin they shall repute the same but short and easy in comparisō of the great profit and swetnes therof Reading is a looking vpon the Scripture with a diligent intention of the minde Meditation is a studious action of the minde searching out by drift of proper reason the knowledge of hidden trueth Prayer is a deuout bending of the hart vnto God for the putting away those things that are euil and obtayning those things that are good Contemplation is a certain lifting vp of the minde depending vpon God tasting the Joyes of euerlasting swéetnes The discription of the offices of the foure degrees or steps Cap. 2. THe discription of the foure degrées then béeing set foorth There resteth y t we beholde their offices Readīg seketh Meditatiō findeth Prayer requesteth Contēplation taketh the taste wherof the Lord him self saith séek and yee shall finde knock and it shalbe opened vnto you Seek by reading and you shall finde by meditation Knock by praying and it shall be opened vnto