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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

redéemer and Iudge And thou O my soule as often as thou sinnest so often by faith and repentance be thou renewed Take hold by faith on Gods grace acknowledge the loue of Daily repentance Christ embrace the comfort of the holy spirit who is the earnest of our inheritance whereby it will come to passe that thou comming with confidence vnto the Throne of Gods grace shalt finde comfort against temptations in due season Through Iesus Christ c. Amen Prayers framed to the Argument of the fourth Member Proceede further to attaine Righteousnesse The fourth Member and Vertue O Almightie God and most mercifull Gods long suffering father I acknowledge thy infinite grace and mercie towardes me who hast bene hetherto so patient and long suffering towards me that thou hast not onely endured me hauing all my life long prouoked thée by my many and great sinnes but also hast now at the last preuented me by thy grace that I might come to the knowledge of my sinnes and turne from them and returne vnto thée by hartie repentance and deniall of vnrighteousnesse So that I séeme in some sort to haue procéeded in forsaking the loue of my selfe In moderating my carnall desires In mortifying the Affections of my mind In rooting out euill habites But because I must not stay here but from the deniall of vnrighteousnesse I Grace to proceede m●st procéede further to the attaining of righteousnesse which I cannot doe except thou O Lord doe giue grace and power therefore I come vnto thee O Lord beseeching thée to giue me grace both to attaine to vertues and to kéepe them being attained And because they be best both attained and kéept by frequent vse of godly prayer By an ardent loue of vertue and by continuall exercise Giue me grace O Lord neuer to faint Meanes in prayer with hartie affection to embrace vertue and not to hide my Talent but that occupying with the same I may make a good account to thée thereof And that I may grow from vertue to A purpose to perseuere vertue Grant that I may haue a firme will and purpose not onely to enter but also to perseuere in well doing that no storme of temptation may remoue mée that being in loue with vertues I may chéerefully doe the offices due to her yet not for any other respect than for thy glory Alwaies beholding our Maister Iesus Christ as the perfect patterne of life and death Amen We must begin at Iustice O Almightie and most mercifull father A prayer to attaine Iustice who art iust in all thy waies and holy in all thy workes I acknowledge that I am infinite waies bound vnto thée for thine vnspeakable benefits which I can no way recompence but by glorifying thée according to the rule of Iustice which thou hast prescribed to vs that as thou art iust so should we be iust also By giuing to euery one that which is due to them To thée that which is due to thée To men that which is due to men Giue me grace therefore O Lord to worship thee according to the prescript 1. Towards God rule of thy word that is to call vpon thy name with a true affection of heart and a liuely faith To submit my selfe obediently to thy Maiestie In a true feare of thy iudgements auoiding effences And in an earnest loue of thy promises embracing thy mercies To rest vpon thee by a firme hope and constant trust To testifie my thankfulnes by a chéerefull obedience of thy will Neuer to be ashamed of thy truth but to professe it constantly To endure the crosse with an inuincible courage Looking for that blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God euen thy sonne Iesus Christ our Lord Amen O Almightie God and merciful father 2. Towards our selues thou hast allowed vs to loue our selues to haue a moderate care of our selues by maintaining those good things which thou eitheir in soule or body hast bestowed on vs. Giue me grace therefore to be chiefly 1. The soule careful for the good of my soule by repairing reforming both the superiour and inferiour faculties of my soule Grant me grace therefore O Lord to Superior faculties The mind Wisdome apply my mind to the knowledge of Diuine humane things which either may further me to the life celestiall or make me profitable to humane felicitie Which is wisedome Graunt me Prudence to choose that Prudence which is verily good and to refuse that which is verily euill to marke what is to be desired and what is to be shunned Graunt me discretion which is the cōpanion Descretiō of true Prudence that I may discerne truth from falsehood certainties from vncertainties that which is profitable from that which is vnprofitable that which is seasonable from that which is vnseasonable things honest from vnhonest things pleasant from vnpleapleasant and to conclude good from euill And among these what is moore or lesse good what is conuenient for time place and persons Giue me grace O Lord to remoue all The conscience impediments whereby my conscience may be wounded and grieued which are onely my sinnes which bring sorrow and inflict wounds Graunt that I may so restraine my conscience Knowledge of the law by the knowledge of thy law and awe of thy iudgements that I may not dare any thing contrary to thy will And if my conscience chaunce to be A remedie wounded that I may spéedily seeke my remedie which onely is the redemption by the bleed of Iesus Christ apprehended by a true and liuely faith whereby our consciences are secured before thee if therewithall we abstaine from our sins and serue thée with a pure minde Giue me grace O Lord to will nothing but that which is agréeable to thy will reuealed in thy word that cleauing onely thereunto I may both will and doe those things which are good and acceptable to thée which grace we obtaine by the assistance of thy holy spirit who worketh in all men the power both to will and to performe according to thy frée grace Through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen Giue me grace also O Lord to rule Inferiour faculties The Irascible part the inferiour faculties of my soule Anger and Lust And that I may moderate Anger graunt me fortitude whereby my soule may bée strengthned stirred vp and armed to endure labour and danger yea of death for Christs sake with a good courage that I may bee able to moderate and subdue my affections and not bee subdued of them That I may despise worldly honour and seeke the glory of God and eternall felicitie that I may patiently beare all troubles and aduersities and crosses which cannot with godlinesse and honestie be auoided Graunt mée constancie that I may perseuere in honest and godly purposes Constancie retaining one tenure of minde will that I be not puffed vp in prosperitie nor cast downe in

vertues are wrapped vp in labours and great expences that thou shouldest get to them by many difficulties Carefull labours or laborsome cares prepare the way to the attaining of faire and honest things Thou hast striuen to enter at the narrow gate procéede in the way giue not thou place to euill but throng on more boldly Pray and take paines and thou shalt ouercome all difficulties Labor improbus omnia vincit vntired labour doth ouercome al But nothing is so easie that seemes not hard if we goe about it with an ill will we clime to honour by vertue nature hath placed nothing so high whither vertue cannot reach They are deceiued with the error of a Vertue hath her delights false opiniō that think that a godly life is ful of trouble labour paine so that it is altogether voide of swéetnesse pleasure when as vertue is not without delight Christs yoke is swéet his burthen light Let vs heare Dauids experiēce I haue delighted as much in thy testimonies as in al maner of riches Item The iudgemēts Psalm 9. of the lord are to be desired aboue gold precious stones sweeter thā the hony the hony comb God himself in his couenant promiseth presēt helpe I wil giue them a new heart and a new spirit will Gods aide promised I settle in their bowels and I wil take away their stonie heart and giue them ● fleshie heart that they may walke in my precepts and keepe my iudgements and doe them that they may bee my people and I may be their God He therefore who is true and mightie will bring it to passe that thou maiest say with the Apostle Our old man is crucified with Christ that the body of sin might be destroied that wee might no more serue sinne Feare not saith Esay because Esay 40. I am with thee shrinke not because I am thy God I haue strengthened thee and haue helped thee and sustained thee by my right hand Behold all they that striue against thee shal be confounded brought to shame and bee as though they were not c. I am thy Lord God who take thee by the hand saying vnto thee Feare not I haue holpen thee When Iesus our Sauiour commeth And euery valley is exalted and euery mountaine and hill is humbled and the rough waies are made plaine That which thou canst not that shall the holy Ghost aboundantly performe in thée The Lord thy God shall circumcise Deut. 30. thy heart and the heart of thy seed that thou maist loue the Lord thy God with all thy hart and with all thy soule that thou maiest liue Say with Saint Augustine Lord giue that thou biddest and bid what thou wilt Be carefull to kéepe the loue of God and that wil Loue endureth many troubles make thée to swallow al troubles without paine For this is the loue of God that wee keepe his commandements and his commandements are not burthensome for all that is borne of God ouercommeth the world And Saint Augustine He that loueth laboureth not for all labour is contrary to them that loue not onely loue it is that blusheth at the name of difficultie Temptations of the world 4. The world also either with his glory and brauerie will allure thée to loue it or by his contempt and embacing will discourage thee when thou art entred into the way of pietie and charitie or will strike into thee a certaine I know not how to call it impudent shame to professe the truth No small impediments in the way of godlines But learne with me O Christian Spernere mū●ū spernere nullū spernere to met Spernere te sperni disce beatus eris Despise the world despise no man Except thy selfe perdee Learne to despise to be despisde So shalt thou happie bee Consider with me I pray you how Aydes against worldly felicitie short and transitorie the felicitie of this world is How many and great miseries are mingled with worldly delights How many and great dangers and snares lye in their way that walk through the parching heate of this world Consider the horrible blindnes and Egyptian darknes of worldings Looke on the world thou shalt looke on a filthy dunghill of sin and vncleannes Looke on the world and thou shalt looke into a shoppe of fraude and deceits yea into the house of death Contemne therefore the contempt of this world which being despised despiseth thee but thou shalt be commended of him that is most to be commended euen of God from whom all true praise procéedeth But if thou bee ashamed of the truth Aydes against shaming at truth and blushest at the waies of Gods holy Commandements Remember O man remember that thou must shortly dye and be presented before Christ how great shame shalt thou then be couered with If Christ were not ashamed to hang naked on the Crosse for thee why art thou ashamed to kéepe Christs sayings So many thousands men women haue powred out their blood with their life for Christs sake and art thou ashamed for loue of him to doe any good What wilt thou say in the day of the last iudgement what will he thy shame what confusion of face If thou be ashamed to doe well thou shamest to bee a Christian what shame can be more shameful Thou knowest what Christ saith He that is ashamed of me before men of him will I be ashamed before my father all his Angels Thou knowest also that of the Apostle If I endeuoured to please men I should not bee the seruant of Christ And one saith Why doest thou respect men why doest thou delay to doe those things which are acceptable to God good men Didst thou not promise in thy Baptisme to renounce the diuel and all The vow of Baptisme his workes and onely to loue God into whose name Godhead thou wast baptized Shame therefore to doe the workes of the diuel reioyce to doe the will of God It is a shamefull madnes to blush at well doing for the which we shall bee despised both in heauen and earth and not to blush or be ashamed of euill doing which hath a curse following it and punishment both in this and in the world to come Thou art not ignorant of that saying of our Sauiour The seruant Luc. 12. knowing his Lords will and not doing it shall bee beaten with many stripes What is it I pray thée that thou praiest daily that Gods will might be done and yet to please the world thou doest it not Consider I pray thée that it cannot be By the world vnderstand the wicked that it should bee well with thée concerning God and also concerning the world that thou shouldest please God and the world If other shuld laugh thée to scorne whiles thou séekest for treasure yet thou wouldest not desist from thy purpose for their scorning why then doest thou giue ouer to séeke the treasure of diuine grace and

how much hée is indebted He that doth a good turne must be silent he that receiues it must declare it 3. Benefits must be giuen silently that they may onely be knowne to them whō they profit Sometime also euen he that is relieued must be deceiued by hauing a benefit not knowing from whence he receiueth it 4. Although thou oughtest to giue to euery one that asketh yet in him to whom we giue we may respect his manners his good affection towards vs his néere dwelling his societie with vs the good turnes curtestes aforetime done for our behoofe 5. A benefit that sticks long in the giuers fingers and which he séemes loth to depart with so giues as though it were wreasted from him is not acceptable But those good turnes which are readie easte occurrent where there is no delay but in the bashfulnesse of the receiuer are most acceptable 6. The often vpbraiding of benefits deiecteth the heart and casteth downe the courage Let vs giue our benefits fréely and not let them to vsury He is worthy to be deceiued who thought of receiuing againe when he gaue 7. There is no benefit so great that a malicious minde may not embace there is none so small that a good Interpreter will not aduance 20. Concerning Truth Sinceritie and Fidelitie Seneca 1. Truth is like her selfe in euery part A lye is slender and thinne if yee looke into it diligently ye shall sée thorow it 2. A man that hath done a shrewde turne may fortune be hid but though he be hid his conscience will not bee flattered 3. Counterfet things doe soone returne to their nature but such as are grounded on truth and rise from a sound foundation procéede to greater and better 4. I had rather faile of successe than faile in my promise He that hath faith in his dealing wil deale vprightly euen with his enemie He that léeseth his credit léeseth the vttermost that he can when single harted faith is once gone she seldome returnes from whence she went No man euer lost fidelitie but he that neuer had it 5. Both points are faultie both to belieue euery body and to belieue no body That thou wilt haue another man not to disclose that doe not thou disclose first 6. An euill man speaking faire count as a snare laide for thée For he hath his poison which is his faire spéech 7. As a modest gate or pace is fit for a wise man so should his spéech be graue and not bold or rash Be therefore slowe in spéech 8. And let this bee our chiefe rule what we think to speak what we speak to thinke That the man and his spéech may agrée 21. Concerning friendship 1. Bethinke thée whom thou wilt receiue to thy friendship but when thou hast taken aliking embrace him with thy whole heart talke with him as boldly as with thy selfe Reueale all thy secrets to him if thou thinke him faithful thou shalt make him faithfull 2. The remembrance of my friends deceased is swéet vnto me for I held them as if I should loose them I haue lost them as if I had them 3. It is to no purpose to séeke a friend onely in the markets or concourse of people if thou looke diligently thou shalt finde him at home for he is deceiued that séekes a friend in the common walkes and assemblies or that makes triall of him at a feast For thou shalt finde thy friend within thy breast and not on the Exchange 4. It is troublesome to haue all men as friends it is enough that they be not our enemies 5. Dissimilitude in manners distance in manner of life contrarietie in nature dissolueth friendship Approued friendships desire earnestly retaine constantly kéepe perpetually Enmities which happen vse honestly belieue slowly lay down spéedily 6. With our friends we ought to haue short reckonings and long friendships 7. First setle thy selfe to be good and then séeke another like to thy selfe 8. Admonish thy friend secretly but praise him openly If thou beare with thy friends faults thou makest them thine owne So trust thy friend that thou leaue no place for an enemie 9. It is a march an●ising not a friendship that respecteth commoditie For he detracteth or discrediteth friendship who prouideth for good haps 22. Concernng Gratitude or Thankfulnesse 1. This surely is agreeable to Iustice so be thankfull for euery benefit receiued 2. Some giue thankes by stelth in a corner or in the eare they are afraid to doe it openly that they may be saide to haue a benefit rather by their owne vertue than by others helpe 3. Let vs therefore thinke nothing more honest than a thankefull mind And he that accepteth a good turne thankfully hath paied the first pention 4. He that willingly oweth thanks doth recompence a good turne And he that meanes to be thankfull forthwith when hee receiueth doth acknowledge it 5. To recompence a good turne and to be thankfull requireth time and abilitie and a prosperous fortune Nothing is so necessarie or with more care to be learned than to requite a benefit and to giue thanks 23. Generall precepts note them well 1. It is the triumph of Innocencie not to sin And where we may doe most harme to forbeare 2. Thou sinnest twise when thou appliest thy selfe to obey sinne The eyes offend not if the minde command not the eyes 3. Vices doe créepe and hurt by touching the sinful liues of offenders doe passe to euery one that is next 4. No possession no waight of gold or siluer is more to be estéemed than vertue 5. Vertue is thankefull to euery one both dead and liuing if we followe it in good sooth 6. All benefits would bee bestowed in light or openly but there is no stage or theater greater to vertue than a good conscience 7. We must so liue as if we liued in the sight of all the world wee must so thinke as if euery man might sée into our inward breast or as if euery man might sée our heart 8. Regard thy conscience more than same for same may be deceiued many times but by thy conscience neuer 9. Feare no man more that is wéeting of thy sin thā thy self for thou maiest escape another but thy selfe neuer For sinne is a punishment to it selfe 10. Learne this one thing to despise this life No man euer ruled it well but hee that despised it Thinke still of what manner thy life is and not how long for not to liue long but to liue wel is a good thing 11. It is a good thing to finish our life before death and then to expect the time that remaineth in securitie 12. None of vs knowes how néere the Lord is Let vs therefore frame our mindes as if wee were come to the last home No man receiueth death chéerefully but he that hath prepared himselfe thereto long before 13. Whatsoeuer thou doest looke to death Euery day must be ordered as it were the last These are out of a