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truth_n	church_n	doctrine_n	teach_v	6,712	5	6.4919	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12614	The ransome of time being captive Wherein is declared how precious a thing is time, how much he looseth that looseth it, & how it may be redeemed. Written in Spanish, by the R. Father Andreas de Soto, confessor to the most excellent Infanta Clara Eugenia. Translated into English by J.H.	Soto, Andrés de, 1553?-1625.; Hawkins, John, fl. 1635.	1634 (1634)	STC 22937; ESTC S101240	58,513	218

to satisfy they being vertuous and answereable to the seruice of our Lord that he may not faile in his wayand that according to the Prouerbe he fling not his burthen in the mire But by degrees by litle and litle as it were insensibly Custome hath crept in and pastimes are so differently vsed from the end intent for which they were fir● inuented especially after that in certaine entertainements coueteousnes and interest of gaine hath crossed and ouerthwarted these such gaming 's I vnderstand vvith the rest to be hurtfull and that so farre is it that they are helpes assistances to accomplish the better their offices and their expresse and precise duetyes that they owe to God and their conscience as that they are directly found to be impediments lets hinderāces and euident cause that there arise many imperfections and vvhat worse is many foule offēces against the Majesty of God as are lies false oathes impatience furious ire and quarrells which customarily beget disgusts distasts ill language enmityes and malitious rancours hence doe I account that which is passed in such gaming 's wagers to be ill employed and vtterly lost To visite one another and interchangeably to communicate charity is à very lawfull recreation and is necessary to the cōseruation of freindshipp among them ansvverably to this à Philosopher sayed that silēce hath broken of hath cutt of many freindshipps The discourses of comforts crosses one to another doe ease one another and hence they continue freindshipp But I vvill ingeniously freely deliuer my minde many visits in these dayes are so tedious without any benefit or good to be hence acquired and to so much prejudice of thy neighbour and of those who are absent or are such as that all which is treated of is meere vanity vvorldly of the world of it's language as that I esteeme them for dāgerous and for time ill employed time meerely lost being past of in such like visits I beleeue that the tongue is that which hath consumed most time vnthriftily scattered it for this worme neuer ceaseth or is weary and his fire is that which dilateth it selfe most at large and his spotts are such as are most spred although by litle and litle and this moth is that vvhich destroyeth more cloathes nor spareth it those which are of the finer sort Feasts and banquetts to the end of conseruation of peace freindship and concord and for other just reason are lawfull being temperate and moderate as they ought to be and vvith their due circumstances and vvhat is requisite But as now it is for the most part they are so disordinately vsed and vvith so great excesse yea so long and so tedious protracted to so many howers that I will not engage my selfe to make them good nor to take their iustification on my conscience for that rather my iudgement is convinced that their time is ill employed and the most part thereof so vtterly lost Of these called feasts balls or great meetings to dau●ce I know not what to say but that I esteeme them to many of the Company for dangerous and wanton and sometime awaken him who sleepeth and chāge quiet soules and heart disquiet them moue sedition in them and are the occasiō of vnlawfull thoughts disordinate desire I hold much of the time so spēt for ill employed and lost And to the end it may appeare with what discretion and moderatiō pleasures recreatiōs pastimes are to be vsed Lodouicus Blosius relateth that the sister of S. Cosme Damian was fififteene daies in purgatory for no other cause but that once shee attentiuely obserued out of à window with some small content and delight certaine persons who in the streete were sporting and merrily iesting playing the buffons And he writeth of a deuout maide that shee suffered there à longer time for that in her last sicknes shee had eaten vvith delight those meates which vvere prepared for her and tooke them as solaces and entertainements vvith some roote of earthly pleasure And it would not be out of purpose to loppe and cutt of the superfluities of the worlds pleasures to aptly dispose here in this place vvhat the diuine Chrysostome deliuereth reprehending the speeches vvhich vsurpe the name of jests or witty sayings merry conceits fond and ridiculous gibings and such kinde of carriages especially being from nipping and biting tongues who season them with malices which declare themselues so by incōuenien●ies which hence arise This life sayth hee bretheren its course is a time of warre of watch and for all to goe harnessed with corslets on their shoulders and eyes quick sprightly and attentiue against the ambushes of the enimy and ponder it vvell here is noe place nor time of laughter that belongeth to those of the world and to it's oftsprings vvho professe and practize their lavves and customes and abuses Heare thou Christian the vvords of our Lord vvho speaketh to his faithfull The vvorld shall rejoyce and laugh but yee shall runne the course in grauity soberly and sadly Christ vvas crucified for thy sinnes and buffeted sharply strucken and thou desirest to passe thy time in jests scoffs and profuse laughters and pastimes The end of the seauenth Chapter THE EIGHTH CHAPTER That it is lawfull also yea euen necessary that spirituall men vse some conuenient exercise which may tend for an intermission recreation solace THere were certaine Hereticks who moued by the words of the Euangelist Saint Luck it is expe dient to pray alwayes and incessantly these words being ill apprehended by them they brought into the Church à false and new doctrine teaching that dayly nightly one was neuer to cease from praying therein they should passe their time so cōtinually as that they were to doe nothing else without any intermission that à man should not employ himself at all to any thing whatsoeuer else But with expresse grounds of reason these hereticks were condemned and excōmunicated cutt of frō the Church for it is insupportable and impossible to our weake nature to pray alwaies as they deliuered nor is that the iudgement and sense of holy Church nor hath the high profound Trueth taught any such doctrine And what in those words are taught vs it is expedient yee pray alwaies and in those of the Apostle Pray without intermission is this That vvhen à great exigent occurreth to petition God ought or soe vvhen as vve are fallen into some vnwonted distresse tribulation or aduersity and are euen then in such māner afflicted vve are then to be suppliants vvith great instance vvith great earnestnes and perseuerance once and tvvice and the third time that he vvill be mercifull vnto vs and that he vvill help vs and be propitious and gratious to vs without discouragement vvithout ceasing or being dismayed and although at present that vvhich vve impetrate for be not granted vs that vve call out for it at