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A08964	The tranquillitie of the minde A verye excellent and most comfortable oration, plainely directing euerye man, & woman, to the true tranquillitie and quyetnesse of their minde. Compyled in Latine by Iohn Barnarde, student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, now lately translated into Englishe by Anthony Marten.; Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. English	Bernard, John, d. 1567?; Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1570 (1570)	STC 1925; ESTC S101618	90,089	234

wyth suche as sporte dallye and tryfell in waightye matters and for boast of their learning wit and eloquence make disputation hereof amidst their vaine pleasures The boundes also how farre we must intreate of ought to be considered so farre must we determine to go as the capacitie of our witte will serue and no farther than the hearers shall be able to beare away For as a boystous noyse or hedious sounde greeueth the héering ouer aboundaunce of meate noyeth the stomack gréeuous burthens the bearer continuall rayne the earth and ouermuch of anye thing is noysome and hurtfull so doe difficult questions quickly ouercharge weake and meane wittes I doe not discourage any from reading of Scriptures which thing I thinke as necessarie for the safetie of the soule as breath for the lyfe of the bodie but I reuoke them from disputation not from that which is godly but from the immoderate and intempestine maner thereof We may not sing the Lords song in a straunge lande that is to say not euerie where and where it is not lawfull to be done To much Hony cloyeth the stomake The winter flower commeth out of season It besemeth not a woman to weare the garment of a man nor yet a man a womans garment .. Mourning cannot beséeme the place of mariage nor mirth the time of funerall If in euerye thing that which chieflye pertaineth vnto it best becommeth the same how much more then doth it so in the vse of the Scriptures We must not runne a heade as if we were wild Coltes which can neyther suffer the bridle nor away with their Rider We must not declyne on this side least we returne to Egipt nor on the other side least we be caryed into Babilon but euer loue to be reading and alwayes exercising the lawe of God both night and day at morning euening and noonetide from bedde to rysing againe while we be in the way and in all our businesse Oftentimes among godly men after the example of the two disciples going to Emaus continually must we be talking with Iesus both by the way and in euerie place euermore glorifying God. Furthermore the euiles which by reason of sinne are brought into the worlde ought neyther to quaile our minde nor yet fray vs from constantnesse that thereby we shoulde the lesse firmelye repose our selues in the knowne truth And let vs resolue within our selues that the same is the heauenly doctrine which the sonne of God taught the Apostles Euangelistes and Prophetes by inspiration of the holy ghost comprehended in writing and which the church of Christ hath faithfully kept Who after she had so gréeuously bidden that hir Pastors were sléepers and that preaching was intermitted and so long lay hid at the last when the same reuiued againe she acknowlegde it and receiude it with longing and as it were with imbrasing armes It is no new and strange thing that the word of God and true religion shoulde be counted the cause of miseries misfortunes calamities tumultes commotions and of priuate and publike distructions The people which were in Egipt being giuen to Idolatrie in their aunswere which they made to Ieremie alleaged that the misery and scarcenesse which they were in was bycause they had seased to burne incense to the Quéene of heauen and to offer Sacrifice vnto hir for that they had turned to the true God euen their owne God. Achab complayned that the kingdome of Israell was troubled about Helias The lande coulde not abide the wordes nor beare the sayings of Amos. The preaching of Amos was cause of all their disquietnesse Paule with the Authors of his turmoyle disturbe the whole worlde It comes to passe also oftentimes that the true preacher of the Gospell togither with the truth it selfe of the Gospell is made the very outcast and cursse of the worlde In the olde tyme when Christes religion first grue vp all euilles were so whole imputed therevnto that it became a common prouerbe among the Romaines Doth there lack raine the Christians are cause thereof Verily the Ethnickes in times past transferred the common misfortunes which chaunce in mans lyfe to the enuie of Christians and iudged them to be cause of all publike distruction and discommodities of the people Which most fonde opinion both Cyprian in a fewe wordes to Demetrian doth reprehende and Tertulian in these few lines insuing discribeth If Tiber saith hée runne ouer the walles if Nylus doth not ouerflowe the féeldes if the heauens stande still if the earth mooue if pestilence and famine come vpon men they crye out by and by away with the Christians to the Lions with them Yea those also which were learned and brought vp in liberal sciences to the intent they might make the ignorant more cruel towards the Christians dissembled their knowledge affirmed to the people that the distructions miseries whereby it was expedient that by spaces appointed both of times places mankind shoulde be tormented happened by meanes of the christian name and bycause the same was sprede abrode with so wonderful fame and renowme to the defaceing of their Gods. Wherevpon that wicked Porphirius coniectured that the worshipping of Christ was cause of the plague that so long reigned in his time and for that Aesculapius and the rest of their Goddes which should haue succoured them were neglected Wherefore it is no maruell if the very same thing happen to the heauenlye doctrine in these dayes since now it reuiueth againe which chaunced in the olde time euen when the same first sprong and increaste Besides this also the multitude of heresies that by cruell spirites are raysed vp here and there ought nothing at all to seduce vs from the right fayth nor so much preuaile as they should make vs refuse to heare the voyce of Christ spred abroade in euery place by the true preachers of the Gospell and to suffer our selues willingly to be blinded with errors For it is no maruell as after the appearing of the Sunne so many stinging flies and venimed wormes ensue the same if at the preaching of the Gospell a number of monstruous follyes and damnable errors accompanie the same When as among the good séede that the sonne of man shall sowe the enuious man which is the Deuill will mingle cockle And euen in the Apostles tyme these errors appeared no lesse hurtfull than now in our age Iohn the Euangelist by Saint Ieromes opinion at the request of the Bishoppes of Asia last of all wrote his Gospell agaynst Cerinthus of whom came the Cerinthians which sayd that the world was made by Aungels and agaynst other heretykes but especially agaynst the sect of the Hebionites who affirmed that christ was not before Mary Wherevpon he was compelled to set forth his diuine natiuitie He testifieth also of the Nicholaitans who allowed the copulation of women What a traueyle susteyned Saint Paule agaynst those of Corinthe which denyed the resurrection of the

but the same which I commaund you to doe that onely doe vnto the Lorde neyther adding nor diminishing anye thing Let vs heare the voyce of our sauiour Search the Scriptures sayth he c. they are the same that testifie of me Let vs follow the example of those which were conuerted vnto Christ in the beginning when the church first sprong vp who examined the doctrine of the Apostles by the Scriptures and out of them searched forth throughly the preaching of the Apostles whether it were true or no. The same way whereof I haue now giuen aduertisement I iudge méete among other things that the louers of the truth shoulds chiefly doe Thus did Chrysostome aduise vs And faint Ierome also by the wordes of the Prophete gathers and foreshewes that the people in the ende of the worlde should no lesse doe of their owne accorde whose wordes although they be somewhat long yet bicause they haue very great relation to the matter I will recite them in thys place When ye shall sée sayth he the abhomination of desolation standing in the holye place as much to saye as wicked herifie which is the hoste of Antichrist standing in holy places of the Church at those dayes let them which be in Iewrie flie vnto the Mountaynes that is let them which be of Christianitie repayre to the scriptures For euen as a true Iewe as saint Paule sayth is a Christian not he which is a Iewe outwardly but he which is a Iewe inwardly in the heart so true Iurie is christianitie vnder which name is to be vnderstand confessing And by the Mountaynes are signified the scripture of the Apostles and Prophetes Of which it is sayde wonderfully doest thou giue light from thy holy hill And agayne speaking of the Church Hir foundation sayth he is layde vpon the holy hils And why doth he will all Christians at this time to repayre to the scriptures Bicause neuer to this verie day since heresies haue entered into those Churches there could be any prouse of true Christianitie nor any other refuge can there be for the Christians which woulde know the truth of the fayth but to the scriptures of god Wherefore bicause verie herisies themselues in shew of wordes haue all those things which are peculiar to Christ in the truth aswell churches as the godly scriptures themselues Bishops and other orders of Church men Baptisme the Eucharist and all the rest and finally euē Christ himselfe Whosoeuer therefore is willing to know which is the true Church of Christ how shall he knowe the same in such a confusion of likenesses but all onely by the scriptures euen as in tymes past they were knowne by signes and tokens who were the true Christians and who were the false But nowe the working by myracles is all taken awaye and it is spide rather to be a trade among those which be false Christians He therefore that will learne whiche is the true Church of Christ howe shall he know but all onely by the scriptures The Lord therfore knowing what a great confusion of things woulde happen in the latter dayes willeth the Christians which be in Christianitie and would vnderstande a sertentie of the true fayth that they should flie to no other thing than to the Scriptures For else if they haue respect to other matters they shall fall and perishe not vnderstanding which is the true Church For the Deuill which could not with diuers afflictions ouercome the saintes being ouercome in his owne crueltie armed himselfe with deceyt and vnder the name of Christ and the Prophetes attempted to seduce them saying by his Ministers Behold here is Christ which is the Church Beholde there is Christ which is the Church For the false Preachers of the truth doe the verie same things in dissimulation which the faythfull doe in the truth For they studie chastitie they celebrate fasting they doe almes déedes and fulfill all ecclesiasticall rules And do they not séeme to be great matters to seduce and lead men from the right way when thou séest the Deuill worke the workes of God Thus farre Saint Chrysostome in his Cōmentaries vpon Mathew which if they be not Chrysostomes yet are they the doings of some other learned and cloquent man one so exercised in the Scriptures as in Erasmus opinion his iudgement in this poynt néede not giue place to Chrysostome And Saint Hierome wryting vpon the thirde Chapter of the Prophet Nahum foresheweth most truely that it woulde come to passe in the ende of the worlde when as the Pastors being sléepie and secure in ydlenesse the people shoulde séeke after the scriptures of their owne accorde For woe be to them saith he which bée schoolemaisters of peruerse doctrine in Niniue And aptly is it sayde to them Thy Pastors haue slumbred for to sléepe haue they betaken their eyes and their eye lids to slumber And therefore being brought a sléepe by the King of Assyrians they haue not founde a place for the Lorde nor a tabernacle for the God of Iacob They haue not hearde of Ephraim the fruitful church nor haue founde out the thicke woodes For the King of Assyrians knoweth that hée cannot beguile the shéepe vnlesse he first rocke the pastors a sléepe It is alwayes the Deuills practise to bring a sléepe vigilant mindes And moreouer in the passion of our Lord he filled the Apostles eyes wyth deadly sléepe Whome our Sauiour waking sayde vnto them watch and praye that you enter not into temptation And agayne that I say vnto you I say vnto al watch And bycause he seaseth not at any time to bring a sléepe those which be watchfull howe many soeuer they can beguile and intise to sloth with the faire flattering and deadlye tune of the Marmaide The worde of God rayseth them vp saying rise thou that sléepest and lift vp thy sefe and Christ will lighten thée In the comming therefore of Christ and his worde and ecclesiasticall doctrine and at the consumation of Niniue sometime the beautifull harlot the people which before were brought a sléepe vnder their teachers shall be wakened and shall make hast to go to the mountaines of the scripture and there they shall finde the hilles Moyses and Iesus the sonne of Naue and the hilles of the Prophetes and Apostles togither with the Euangelicall doctrine and hill of the newe testament And when they haue fled for succor to these mountaines and haue béene occupied in the reading of these hilles If they shall finde none to instruct them bycause the haruest is great and the laborers but few yet shall both their studie be well allowed bycause they fledde to the mountaynes and the maisters for their partes blamed by reason of their sluggishnesse For he brought them in but there was none to receyue them Wherefore they that be studious and desirous of the truth first of all must here the worde of God euen the verye same worde which Adam Abraham the fathers