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The Christian diurnal Written in French by Fa. Nic. Caussin of the Soc. of Iesus. And translated by T.H.; Journée chrestienne. English
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Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, d. 1640.
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brother and coheire of Iesus Christ a vessell of election the temple of the holy Ghost What he may arriue vnto by glory To be an Inhabitant of Heauen who shall see the Starres vnder his feet which he hath ouer his head who shall be replenished with the sight of God his beginning his end his true only and originall happynesse The second the benefits receaued of God considered in generall as those of Creation Conseruation Redemption Vocation and in particular the guifts of the body of the soule of Nature of capacity ability industry dexterity Warinesse Nobility Offices Authority Meanes Credit Reputation Good successe of affayres such like which are giuen to vs from heauen as instruments to worke our saluation And sometimes one of the greatest blessings is that which few esteeme a benefit not to haue al these helps which lead a haughty spirit weake worldly euen into a headlong precipice but quite contray their better wants in the opinion of the world put him into the estimation of heauenly things man seeing what he hath been what he is and what he must be from whence he commeth whither he goeth that the vnion with God his Beginning is his scope butt and ayme if he doe what reason dictats to him he presently resolueth to haue neithersinew veyne nor artery which tendeth not to his end to subiugate his passions and no longet to serue creatures but so farre as he shall know them auailable to arriue at his Creatour Seruae commissum expecta promissuÌ„ caue prohibitum Euery creature sayth these three wordes to man O man preserue that which is giuen thee expect that is promised auoyd what is forbidden thee The third consideration is the passioÌ„ of the Sonne of God a bottomlesse abysle of dolours scornes annihilations loue mercy wisedome humility patience châ—tity the book of books the science of sciences the secret of secrets the shoppe where all good resolutions are forged where all vertues are purifyed where al knots of holy obligations are tyed The Schoole where al Martyrs are made all Confessors all Saints Our weaknesse and faintnesse commeth not but for want of beholding this table of Excesse Who would euer open his mouth to coÌ„plaine of doing too much of sussering too much to be too much abased too much despised too much turmoyled if he considered the life of God deliuered ouer abandoned for him to so paineful labour so horrible confusions so insupportable torments Nolo viuere sine vulneré cùm te videam vulneratum Oh my God my wouÌ„ded God as long as I shall see thy woundes I will neuer liue without wound The Fourth the example of all Saints who haue waited on the King in the way of the Crosse when we consider the progresse of Christianity the succession of so many ages Wheresoeuer our consideratioÌ„ setteth foot it findeth nothing but the bloud of Martyrs combats of Virgins Prayers Teares Fastings Sackcloth Haire-cloth Afflictions PersecutioÌ„s of so many Saints who haue as it were wonne heauen by maine force such haue been found who heer to fore filled sepulchers with their members torne with the engines swordes of persecution and yet were aliue to endure and suffer in their bodyes hauing more woundes then partes of their bodyes to be tormented Demorabantur in luce detenti quorum membris pleni erant tumuli sayth S. Zeno. Is it not a shame to haue the same name the same Baptisme the same profession and yet to be alwayes desirous to tread vpon Roses to be embarqued in this great ship of Christianity with so many braue spirtis which euen at this houre dayly do woÌ„ders go vnder hatches to sleep in the bottome of the Vessell as needlesle out-casts the very scornes of reasonable Nature The fifth the peace of a good conscience the inseparable companion of honest men which sugreth al their teares which sweetneth all their acerbityes which dissolueth all their sharpnesse a perpetual baÌ„quet a portatiue Theater a desicious Torrent of inexplicable contentmentes which begin in this world which are many tymes felt euen in chaynes prisos persecutions What will it be when the consummatioÌ„ shall be made in the other world when the curtayne of the great tabernacle shal be drawne when we shall see God face to face in a body impassible as an Angel subtil as a ray of light swift as the wings of ThuÌ„der radiant as the Sunne when he shall be beheld among so goodly and florishing a coÌ„pany in a Pallace of inestimable glory and when one shall lead no other life but that of God of the knowledge of God of the loue of God as long as God shal be God Nescio quid erit quod ista vita non erit vbi luet quod non capit locus vbi sonat quod non rapit tempus vbi olet quod noÌ„ spargit flat us vbi sapit quod non minuit edacitas vbi haeret quod non diuellit eternitas said S. Augustine What will this life be nay what will this life not be since all the goods thereof eyther are not or are in such a life Oflights which place cannot comprehend of voices and Harmonyes which Tyme caÌ„not take from vs of odours which are neuer scattered a feast which neuer is finished a blessing which Eternity well may giue but of which it neuer shall fee an end The sixth there is to be coÌ„sidered on the other side the condition of this preseÌ„t life A true dreame which hath the disturbances of sleep neuer therepose a childish amuzemeÌ„t a toyle of burthensome euerrelapsing actions where for one Rose a thousand thornes are found for one ounce of hony a Tun of gall for blâ—ssinges in sembâ—ance euills in substance The most happy there count their yeares and caÌ„not reckon their griefs the carreires of the greatest honour are there all of Ice and oftentymes not bounded but with headlong ruines His felicities are floating Ilands which alwayes recoyle backward at that tyme when we think to touch them with our fingar They are the feast of Heliogabalus where are many inuitations many ceremonyes many reuerences many seruices and at the end thereof we find a Table a banquet of waxe which melts before the fire fromwheÌ„â—e we returne more hungry then we came It is the enchanted Egge of Oromazes wherein this Impostor vauÌ„ted to haue enclosed all the happinesse of the world and in breaking there was found nothing but wind Omnia hae coÌ„spectui nostro insidiosis coloribus lenocinantur vis illa oculorum attributa lumini non applicetur errori sayth S. Eucherius Al these prosperityes flatter out senses with an imposture of false colours why doe we suffer those eyes to be taken in the snars of error which are giuen vs by heauen to behold the light and not minister to lying Yea that which greatly should distast vs in this present life is that we liue in a Tyme stuffed with maladies as old age with