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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09628	Tvvelve rules, and vveapons concerning the spirituall battel Together with a briefe exposition vpon the sixteene Psalme: with two most worthie epistles, written in Latin by that most worthy and noble gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula. And translated into English for the benefite of all good Christian souldiers in the spirituall battaile.; Selections	Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.; W. H., fl. 1589.	1589 (1589)	STC 19898A.3; ESTC S110418	18,502	40

serue the world then God But if we are nothing the lesse yea much more then in the way of God wearied in the way of sinners whereof is that saying of the damned we are tyred in the way of iniquitie it cannot be but extreame madnes to bee more vnwilling to labour where reward is rendered then where for our labor punishment is ordeyned I omitte to shew how great the peace and felicitie of the mind is to know it selfe cleere in conscience free from fault the which doubtlesse is farre more to bee esteemed then all the pleasures that may be enioyed or wished in this life what is worthy the wishing for in these worldly plesures which while they are a seeking they defatigate and being obteyned doe infatuat being lost doe excruciat Doubtest thou my sonne that the mindes of the wicked are not tossed with cōtinual care it is the word of God which cannot be deceiued nor deceiue the hart of the wicked is as it were the raging sea that taketh no rest for there is nothing vnto thē safe nothing peaceable all things import vnto them feare care death shall we therfore enuie these shall we haue these in emulation and forgetting our proper dignitie our countrey and our heauenly father shall we when as we are borne free become their slaues and bondmen that liuing together with them miserably dying more miserably at length in eternal fire we may be tormented most miserably O the blinde mindes and hearts of men who is he that seeth not trueth it selfe yet neuerthelesse leaue we vndone the things which we know are to be done Doubt not my sonne but especially in those places wherein thou remaynest innumerable impediments will beset thee and driue thee if it were possible from thy purpose of liuing a holy and godly life and fling thee downe headlong if thou takest not very good heede but among the rest it is a deadlie plague day and night to be conuersant among those whose life is not onely in euery parte an enticement to sinne but wholy set and placed vnder the Emperor the deuill vnder the standerd of death vnder the salarie of hell in expugnation of vertue fighteth against heauen against the Lord against his Christ But crie thou out with the Prophet Let vs breake their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from vs. For these are they whom the Lord hath deliuered vp into their hearts lust and into a reprobate sence to doe those things which are not conuenient being full of all vnrighteousnes fornication wickednes couetousnes maliciousnes full of enuie of murder of debate of deceite taking all things in the euill part whisperers backbiters haters of God dooers of wrong proude boasters inuenters of euil things without vnderstanding ill natured without naturall affection without faithfulnes without mercie Which men when they dayly saw the righteousnes of God yet notwithstanding they vnderstoode not how that they which doe those things are worthy of death not only those that doe them but also they which doe fauor such as doe them Please not thou therefore my sonne whom vertue displeaseth but let that saying of the Apostle be alwaies before thine eyes It behooueth vs to please God rather then man And also that of the Apostle If I should studie to please men I should not then be the seruaunt of God Let a certaine kinde of godly ambition inuade thee and vouchsafe not them worthie to be masters of thy life who were fitter to be thy schollers For it is farre decenter that they begin to be men by liuing well with thee then that thou omitting thy good purpose shouldest become a beast by liuing ill with them There holdeth me I take God to witnes sometimes as it were an extasie and a certaine kinde of astonishment when I begin I know not whether rather to thinke vpon or to be sory for to admire or to deplore the studies of men or to speake more plainly their meere madnes For truely it is meere madnes not to beleeue the Gospell the trueth whereof the bloud of Martyrs crieth the voice of the Apostles soundeth miracles proueth reason confirmeth the world witnesseth the elements shew the deuils confesse But it is farre greater madnes if thou doest not doubt of the trueth of the Gospell to liue notwithstanding as though thou doubtedst nothing of the falsenes thereof For if those words be true that it is most harde for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heauen why doe we then daily busie our selues in heaping vp riches and if it bee true that the glorie which is not of man but of God is to be sought why doe we then alwayes hang depend vpon the iudgements of men There is no man that careth to please God if we stedfastly beleue that the time wil come when the Lord shall say Goe ye cursed into euerlasting fire and againe Come ye blessed and possesse the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world Why doe we thē either feare nothing lesse then hel or hope for nothing lesse then heauen what els can be said but that there be many Christians in name but very fewe in deede Striue thou my sonne to enter in by the narow gate and geue not heede to that which many men doe but to that which ought for to be done the which the law of nature reason and God him selfe will shew thee For thy glorie shall not be the lesse if thou be happie with a fewe nor thy punishment the lighter if thou bee miserable with many There are two most principal present remedies for thee against the world and the deuill with the which as with two wings thou shalt flye vp on high from the valley of teares that is to say almes and prayer for what can we doe without the helpe of God or how shall hee helpe being not called vpon And moreouer he will not heare thee calling vpon him which hast not first heard the poore calling vpon thee For it is not vnmeet that God despise thee being a mā who being a man hast despised a man It is written With what measure ye meate shall other men measure to you againe And elswhere Blessed are the merciful for they shal obteine mercie But when I inuite thee to prayer I doe not inuite thee to that which consisteth in much babbling but to that which speaketh to God within the secrete closet of the minde in the priuie chamber of the hart with affection most earnest and in the most bright clowde of contemplation doeth not onely present the minde vnto God but it doeth by certaine ineffable meanes vnite it fast which the experienced onely know Neither doe I waigh how long thy prayer be but how effectuall and how earnest it be interlaced rather with sighes then poured out with a continuall order and number of words If thou regardest thy saluation or wilt be free from the snares of the deuil from the stormes of the world from