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B11989	Vade mecum. = Goe vvith mee deare pietie, and rare charitie. VVhose flame is stirred vp, to dispell the cold out of the minde. By Otho Casmanne, preacher at Stoade. Translated out of Latine, by H.T. minister. The contents appeare in the page following.; Vade mecum. English	Casmann, Otto, d. 1607.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1606 (1606)	STC 4769; ESTC S107899	102,540	274

According to the Charge of the Apostle If it be possible as much as is in you Rom. 12. Effects of beneuolence line peaceably with all men 2. Thou must also shewe the effects of thy wel-willing in déede and worke to performe towardes him in conuersation Humilitie Ciuilitie Liberalitie 1. Concerning Humanitie Denie not the right of Humanitie vnto Humanitie any man being thy selfe a man But signifie thy inward good will towardes all men in outward gesture and words for iustice wils thée to bee courteous and gentle to thy neighbour Shewing thy selfe easie and tractable in speaking in hearing in answering in companying Be yee gratious or amiable saith the Apostle Collos 3. Eph. 4. Rom. 15. Be yee curteous one to another Let euery man please his neighbour in that which is good 2. Concerning Ciuilitie Be not vnmindfull of Ciuilitie in méetings let thy behauiour be quiet thy conuersation Ciuilitie seemely Let mistresse Ciuilitie rule thy spéech and gesture for thou owest vnto thy neighbour both conuenient speech and gesture 1. Let her so gouerne thy spéech that Silenc speech first thou maiest learne to kéepe silence seasonably and séemely Next that thou maiest knowe when to speake wisely and rightly 1. Some time a comely silence is seasonable Circumstances of silence speech whereby we conceale our meaning or what we knowe Bethinke thée therefore aforehand whereof and to whom in what wordes in what place and time with what sound or voice any spéech is to be had or not had what to whom where and when it is meete to kéepe silence Weigh thy wordes saith the sonne of Syrach as in a ballance and Syrach 8 make a doore and barre for thy mouth and beware thou slip not at any time and fall before him that lieth in waight for thee Pray with Dauid Set a watch Psal 141 O Lord before my mouth and keepe the doore of my lippes 2. Sometime it becomes vs to speake vnto our neighbour and to vtter our mind but yet in due sort Sée therefore Circumstances that thou consider the things whereof thou speakest waigh thy words Obserue time and place temper thy pronuntiation decently 3. Let truth especially season thy talke Truth in our speech Eph. 4. with her attendants for thou oughtest to speake the truth to thy neighbour Be therefore most studious of truth and vtter thinges to thy neighbour as they are in déed according to the meaning of thy heart and the instruction of reason Let euery man speake the truth Zach. 8. to his neighbour saith the Prophet And Dauid testifieth that He that speaketh the truth to his neighbour from his Psal 15. heart and hath vsed no deceite in his tongue hee shall dwell in Gods Tabernacle With truth ioyne first gentlenesse next fidelitie both which thou owest vnto thy neighbour Deale plainely and fréely with thy neighbour what thou conceiuest aright Truth vtter what tbou hearest interpret fauourably in thy word and couenantes with thy neighbour Keepe thy promise firmely Keepe touch with thy friend laith Salomon And bee not carried about Prou. 27. Syrach with euery wind but be constant in thy words Let Christian grauitie order thy gesture Iestures towards thy neighbour that they may be framed towards euery one as is conuenient with comely behauiour let A●ule this be thy rule Shewe thy selfe in behauiour and gesture such as thou wouldest be counted And be thou inwardly such indéede as thou labourest to appeare outwardly 3. Concerning liberalitie Thou owest vnto thy neighbour good Beneficence or liberalitie turnes and benefits therefore according to thy abilitie thou shalt helpe thy neighbor both with thy purse and paines thou shalt communicate with him thy goods what thou maiest and oughtest Let thy Prou. 5. fountaines saith Saloman flowe forth and let the water streame in the streets but bee thou still owner of the springs Doe good vnto al but specially to those Gall. 6. Mat. 5. Syrach 5. and 14. of the houshold of faith But doe good to thē also the hate you c. Item According to thy power help the poore giue cheerefully for God loueth a cheerefull giuer To thy Beneficence adde Christian Gratification gratification whereby through thy curtesies and good turnes thou dost encourage thy neighbour in well doing that he may goe on to the end of that he hath wel purposed Light thou therefore an other mans candle by thine teach the way to the wandring giue faithfull counsell communicate willingly holsome doctrine further thy neighbour in the attaining of some honest function and other things necessarie These things thou owest to euery man To some speciall persons we owe also To speciall men some speciall duties Both in hartie affection and willing effects As 1 To our neighbour being in miserie To such as are in miserie we owe Compassion and Commiseration or the bowels of mercie sorrowe therefore with thy neighbour in his miserie out of an earnest affection of loue desert and studie to relieue him Put vpon Coll. 3. you as the elect of God holy and beloued the bowels of cōpassion Item Be ye at concord haue a feeling of one 1 Pet. 1. anothers miseries loue as brethren c. Item Remēber those that are in bonds Heb. 13. as if you your selues were in bondes with them Haue compassion of those that be in afflictiō as if you your selues were afflicted in the body Item Reioyce Rom. 12. with them that reioyce weepe with them that weepe To certaine states of men we owe also Affection and Duties Giue therefore to euery one their due To our superiours Reuerence and Obedience To the poore Reliefe or Almes To the Pilgrimes or strangers Hospitalitie and Entertainment 1. Concerning our superiours Giue vnto thy Superiours first reuerence The superiours Reuerence Rom. 13. or worship That is sée thou giue due honour reuerence to such men as either in age state gifts or otherwise are thy betters Giue to euery one saith the Apostle his due Fear to whō feare Honour to whom honour belongeth Rise Leuit. 19. vp before the gray head honour the person of the aged Item Feare God honour the King For he that feareth God Syrach 10 honoureth his Prince saith Eccles Secondly we ought to yeeld obedience Obediēce to those that lawfully rule ouer vs so that wee must not onely heare the lawfull charge of our superiour but also studie to performe it Obedience saith Samuel is Sam. 15. better than Sacrifice And Greg. By Sacrifices were offred the flesh of other creatures by obedience our owne wil is mortified in that our will is subiected to the will of another for Gods cause And Bernard Christ rather than hee would loose his obedience lost his life 2 Concerning the poore To the poore almes Giue almes to the poore that thou maist reléeue theire want by thy supply No

Heathen man Heare them ponder them blush and followe them Except thou walke and continue in this way Thou shalt be odious to God The conclusion who hateth the workers of iniquitie Thou shalt be offensiue to good men and euen to the vnbelieuers because for thy sake the name of God is euill spoken of among the Gentiles Thou shalt be cursed euery where and procure grieuous punishments vpon thy selfe Thou shalt be holden captiue as a slaue in Sathans snares To conclude thou shalt haue no part in Gods kingdome but shalt heare that fearefull sentence of the most high Iudge Goe thou cursed one into euerlasting fire O homo Mors tua Mors Christi Fraus Mundi Gloria Coeli Et dolor Inferni sunt meditanda tibi Remember man thy dying day Generall restraints of sinne And Christ who for thee dide Remember Sathans subtilties And how this world doth slide Remember ioyes celestiall And paines that are in hell Let not thy flesh seduce thy soule Remember these things well FINIS Certaine short Praiers framed to the Argument of the parts and members of this booke for the vse of such as desire to profit by calling for the assistance of Gods grace in whatsoeuer they shall be instructed by this booke to be needefull for them 1. A Prayer to prepare vs to enter the way of Christian Pietie and Charitie fitting to the argument of the Prologue O Almightie God and most mercifull father who hast engrafted in al men a desire to knowe and liue And To know from whom all true knowledge and life procéedeth Grant me true knowledge whereby I may knowe thee and my selfe aright Least by knowing much and yet not knowing thée and my selfe aright It may bee saide of mee as of many other that I haue much knowledge and little conscience And am puft vp with knowledge but void of Charitie And seeing this life is not to be desired To liue for it selfe but for an other wherevnto we must enter by the gate of death Giue me grace that I may so liue here that I may alwaies liue with Christ that I may learne both to die and liue aright That I may studie not to liue long but to liue well That I be not sodenly taken out of this life before I haue begun to liue well Moreouer O Lord for as much as thou hast set a marke to such as will liue A marke godly to wit Euerlasting life and hast shewed the way to this marke Euen by The way Iesus Christ who is the way the truth and the life Grant me O Lord the knowledge of The knowledge of the way this way by the right vnderstanding of thy holy word and by the instruction and illumination of thy holy spirit That at the length I may féele thy grace working in my heart That by beginning in thée and not falling from thée but profiting and going forward in godlinesse I may walke in faith and charitie till I come to the marke by Iesus Christ c. Amen A prayer for the entrance of the way The first member of Christian Pietie and Charitie fitting to the argument of the first Member Incipe Begin O Almightie God and most mercifull The end and the way father who hast proposed a happy ende to a Christian life and hast shewed vs a good and right way whereby we might attaine the same yea and hast set vs in that way by the Sacrament of Baptisme and hast instructed vs by thy holy word and confirmed vs in the same by the blessed Sacrament of thy Body and Blood Giue me grace that I may earnestly bend my whole studie and desire to attaine that end or marke And that my heart may long after thée my God from whom I haue long time bin wandring Grant me now at length seriously to meditate my conuersion by turning from sinne the worst of all euils and by returning to thée my God the best of all goods And that I may truly turne from sin Turning from sin giue me grace to consider the miserable state of man liuing in sinne vz. How grieuous a thing it is to haue thée his The miserable state of a sinner enemie and thereby to be depriued of grace in this life and of glorie in the life to come How grieuous a thing it is to grieue the holy spirit and the holy Angels our kéepers How grieuous a thing it is to become a slaue to sinne and Sathan and so an heire of damnation I craue thy helpe therefore O God to leade me to repentance That I may Repentance search my selfe and examine all my actions both internall and externall according to the rule of thy Iustice euē thy law whereby I may discerne how I haue in Degrees of sinne inward heart grown from suggestion to delight from delight to consent from consent to a defence or iustifying of my sinne How Outward I haue growne in action from secret sinning without feare before thée to open sinning without shame of men from thence to a custome without compunction deceiuing my selfe with a vaine hope of mercie with danger of dispaire in the Feare of God end strike therefore O Lord a feare of thée into my heart and astonish my minde that I may feare to be forsaken of thy grace to bee depriued of thy sight to bee tormented in hell pricke my heart not so much with a sorrowe Godly sorrow of thy punishments as with a sorrow of offending thée my good and mercifull father that the spirit of adoption Rom. 8. may succéede the spirit of bondage And the swéete comforts of thy Gospel may sucéede the terrors of thy Lawe Through Iesus Christ our Sauiour c. Amen Now in our conuersion as there is Returning to God Terminus a quo so there is Terminus ad Quem As we must turne from sinne so we must returne to thée who art the chiefest good most simple most perfect Grant mee therefore thy holy spirit which onely can worke this conuersion Effects of our conuersion in my soule By illuminating my vnderstanding that it may iudge aright By directing my will that it may choose aright and by inspiring my heart that it may desire that which is good That in the ende I may bring forth the fruits of holinesse and obedience towards thée my God to whom I am infinitely bound c. And the duties of charitie towards my neighbours As in the practise of the holy Prophet Dauids repentance we are taught And because delaying of returning is dangerous as by thy holy word and Dangers of delay sundry examples we are taught Giue me grace not to defer my conuersion vnto thée but euen this day at the least to begin Least by continuing in sinne I treasure vp for my selfe wrath against the day of wrath Least I be restrained from thée Least I be depriued of ioy and comfort of the spirit Least my conscience be seared

priuate Psal 1. or cloyed with the word of truth exercise thy selfe rather in the word of God by reading meditating talking and conferring with other Let thy delight bee in the law of the Lord meditate therein both day and night let the word of Colloss 2 Christ dwell in thee plentifully in all wisedome teaching and exhorting one another Apply thy reading 1. Tim. 4. Being asked a reason of thy faith at any conuenient time or otherwise being prouoked defend Gods truth out of the holy Scriptures and be not ashamed to confesse it Be readie saith Saint Peter 1. Pet. 3. alwaies to giue an answere to euery one that asketh a reason of the hope that is in you for euery one that confesseth me before men him will I saith Matt. 10. Christ confesse before my father who is in heauen Be not slacke to serue God in publique Exercise of religion publique exercises of Religion At appointed times but especially on the Saboath repaire to the Church where the Christian Congregation is assembled in vnitie of minde forsake not such méetings neither despise thou the communion of Saints but attend the word of God as it is méete vse the Sacraments and pray deuoutly with the Saints Let vs not Heb. 10. forsake the mutuall assemblies saith the Apostle as is the the manner of some Doe all to the glory of God Let all things be done to edifying 1. Cor. 10. 14. Ecclesiasticall rites Moreouer obserue the publique Ecclesiasticall rites attending on Religion that all things may be done decently and in order in conuenient time and place 3. Whatsoeuer crosse it pleaseth God Patience vnder the Crosse to lay vpon thée thou oughtest to beare it patiently for this is our dutie to God Carry therefore the crosse wherewith God doth try thée his child or chastice thée in this vale of teares carry it I say with patience stoutly and with an inuincible Rom. 12. Prou. 3. Heb. 12. mind Be patient in afflictions My sonne saith Saloman refuse not thou the chastening of the Lord neither grudge when thou art reproued of him For whom the Lord loueth he chasteneth c. God doth chastice thée lest thou shouldest Vses of the crosse thinke thy selfe without all fault Hée would haue thée more more to returne to him to cast off sinne and to imbrace vertue that the old man might be crucified and the newe-man reuiued Hée would haue thée to preuēt further lapses and not to rush into securitie He would also staie other from wickednes by punishing thée and that they might spedily returne to good Moreouer the seruant and disciple must be conformed to his Lord master Christ is our Lord and master with whom we must suffer if we will raigne with him God trieth thy faith thy hope thy obedience thy patience thy feruencie in praier He will haue his power and mercie to appeare in strengthning deliuering thée He would make thée wearie of this earthly life to be stirred vp with a desire of thy heauenly loue Therefore beare that is to be borne patience will haue the victorie Be constant in faith and yéeld to God the obedience of thy faith Persist in this Constancie religious worship of God by perseuering vnto the last breath of thy life in a liuely faith and loue of God neither doe thou suffer any thing either prosperous or aduerse to remoue thee from that heauenly truth or godlinesse which thou hast learned Be faithfull vnto death saith the Apoc. 2. Mat. 10. spirit and I will giue thee the Crowne of life for hee that perseuereth vnto the end shall be saued 2. Concerning mans due Iustice giueth to euery man his due man must giue first vnto himselfe that which is due to himselfe And next to his neighbour that which is due to his neighbour Giue to thy selfe that which is due to thy selfe Thou oughtest to loue thy selfe To thy selfe thou owest loue and not to hate thy selfe but this loue must be holy and moderate that knowing thy selfe by the helpe of Gods grace thou maiest frame thy selfe to an holines and righteousnes conformable to the Lawe of God Thou shalt loue thy Rom. 13. Eph. 5. neighbour as thy selfe And neuer yet did any man hate his owne flesh yea he nourisheth and cherisheth it euen as the Lord doth the congregation Auselme saith Iustice is a libertie of the minde giuing What iustice is to euery man his proper right to our Superiour reuerence to our Equal concord to our Inferiour discipline to God obedience to our selues holines to our enemie patience to the needie mercie And a man becomming iudge of himselfe must search himselfe without partialitie Enter therefore into thy selfe Dwell with thy selfe and seeke not thy selfe without thy selfe And as Plautus saith Euer perswade thy selfe it is best that thou thy selfe be best if thou cannot attaine to that yet at the last that thou maist bee next the best First therefore thou owest to thy selfe The knowledge of our selues 1. Cor. 11 and 13. the knowledge of thy selfe Surely it is a very hard matter to knowe our selues but heare thou the Apostle who saith Let euery man examine himselfe Item examine your selues whether ye be in the faith Heare other wise Christians as Ayapetus for one We must first learne this diuine precept that euery one knowe him selfe for hee that knoweth himselfe knoweth God He that knoweth God shall become like to God but he that shall become like to God must be worthy of God hee becomes worthy of God who cōmitteth Acceptable to God nothing vnworthy of him but thinketh on diuine things and speaketh what he thinketh and doth what he speaketh Chrysostome saith It is the part of a wise man first to knowe himselfe to viewe what hee himselfe is what is beneath him what is within him what is aboue him what is ouer against him what before him what behind him For this consideration hath a fourefold fruite Our own commoditie our neighbours charitie the worlds contempt and the loue of God And Bernard saith No man is saued without the knowledge of himselfe out of which riseth humilitie the mother of saluation and the feare of God which as it is the entrance to wisedome so is it the entrance to saluation Beeing knowne to thy selfe Care of our selues thou owest of good right to thy selfe a diligent care of thy selfe concerning integritie holinesse to the composing and decking of thy selfe Now thou shalt frame thy selfe to integritie and holinesse if thou studie to vse and order aright the things which God hath committed to thée Whether they be Inward or Outward First therefore when thou knowest Care of goods Of the minde thy selfe reforme all the inward goods of thy minde and body to a rightnes pleasing God Iustice therefore yéelding thy selfe thy right commandeth thée aboue all things to be carefull in enforming rightly and repairing the faculties of thy