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A01020	Deuout contemplations expressed in two and fortie sermons vpon all ye quadragesimall Gospells written in Spanish by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca Englished by. I. M. of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford; Discursos para todos los Evangelios de la Quaresma. English	Fonseca, Cristóbal de, 1550?-1621.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?	1629 (1629)	STC 11126; ESTC S121333	902,514	708

diuided the Nations and when he had separated the sonnes of Adam Esay calls it Germen dilectabile His pleasant Plant. Ieremie Vineam electam his elect and choyce Vine Saint Hierome Vineam Sorec which is a Vine-plant whose grapes according to some had no stones in them And he compassed it with an hedge whereby some Commentators vnderstand the Angels protecting of it others Gods garding of it himselfe others the feare of punishment For Feare keepes the Vineyard safe And this Gods owne Inheritance may runne a twofolde danger First In regard of the Deuills malice and against this God opposeth himselfe by making a hedge about it and by drawing a line beyond which the Deuill cannot passe Secondly In regard of our libertie against which hee hath placed the Feare of the Law and the seueritie of Gods chastisements For it is Feare that keepe● the Vineyard safe If there be any thing that puts a bridle to these our vnlawful longings it is this Feare as hath beene alreadie prooued in that our former discourse treating of the rich mans being in Hell God hath so seuerely punished some sinnes that in mans seeming he might be thought to haue gone a little too farre and to haue exceeded therein as in that of Ananias and Saphira and many others which as Tertullian hath verie well obserued were as so many Proclamations pasted vp on the principall posts of the Citie to aduise the people what his diuine Iustice meant to doe hereafter in the like kind of delicts And to this end God would that those his primary executions of his Iustice should remaine as a perpetuall memoriall to posteritie As that of the Angells against our pride that of Sodome against our lawlesse lusts that of Caine against our enuie that of Zenacharib against our arrogancie that fire of Gods wrath which consumed those that called for Quailes against our Gluttonie that of the Israelites early rising vp to gather Manna against our sloathfulnesse that punishment occasioned by the golden Calfe against our Idolatrie So that It is Feare that keepes the Vineyard safe This is that hedge wherewith it is compassed this that strong wall of defence and this the surest obseruance of the Law It is said in Deutronomie Si custodieris Praecepta mea ipsa custodient te If thou shalt keepe my Commandements they shall keepe thee And in Ecclesiasticus Si seruaueris seruabunt te Achior chiefe Captaine to the sonnes of Ammon notified this truth to Holofernes If this people haue kept the Laws commandements of their God let my Lord passe by lest their Lord defend them and their God bee for them and wee become a reproch to all the World For assure your selfe as long as they shall serue him he will serue as a Wall vnto them Where it is to be noted That as in a Wall there must not be any breach because thereby Cities commonly come to be lost so likewise must there not bee any breach in the obseruance of the Law for the transgression of one Commandement will serue to condemne thee as well as of the whole Decalogue and the failing in one vertue is the failing in all Thy bellie is as an heape of Wheat compassed about with Lillies The dangers are numberlesse that threaten this heape of wheat in the threshing floore Creditors Theeues Beasts Birds and Pismires But far more in number are those dangers that threaten our Soule those vertues which are to stand round about her must guard and defend her Circundate Syon complectimini eam Et Sepe circumdedit eam And he compassed it about with a hedge Hee had no sooner planted his Vineyard but he compassed it about with an Hedge To shew vnto vs That when a man hath once setled himselfe his house his wife his children and his familie he ought presently to compasse it in with a Wal which Wal must be the Feare of God and the keeping of his Lawes It must be like Salomons bed which had threescore strong men round about it of the valiant men of Israell such as could handle the Sword and were expert in warre euerie one hauing his sword vpon his thigh for the Feare by night Propter timores nocturnos Admonishing vs to keepe good watch and ward so many and so secret are those perills that attend vs that without the protection of God and his Angels we shall hardly be able to defend our selues Saint Paul sayes of himselfe Gratia Dei sum id quod sum By the grace of God I am that I am Whereunto Saint Augustine hath added Gratia Dei non sum id quod non sum By the grace of God I am not that which I am not By the grace of God thy house and thy lands may continue to thee and thy posterity to the worlds end by the grace of God thy eyes may abstaine from that which is euill Totus mundus in maligno positus est All the world is set vpon mischiefe The world is a continuall warre a long inlarged temptation And Saint Ambrose calls it Piraterium A Sea fraught with Pirats For as Saint Augustine saith therein there is nothing safe In Paradice the forbidden Fruit nor the Tree of Life were not secure and therefore God placed a Cherubin before the gate to gard it the surer Salomon had not his bed-chamber safe though it were garded with so many strong men How shall it be with that house then that is without walls or any defence at all Vbi non est saepes diripietur possessio saith Ecclesiasticus A Vineyard that is without a Mount giue it for lost Edificauit Turrim He built a Tower in it This Tower Origen and Saint Hierome vnderstand to be the Temple of Ierusalem which was built in a high place Irenaeus would haue it to be the same Citie whereof Esay said Venite ascendamus ad montem Domini Saint Ambrose and Saint Hilarie The heigth of the Law Others that place where the fruits of the Vineyard were to be kept Abundantia in Turribus tuis Other Schoolemen and Doctors take it to be the Churches Beacon or Watch-Tower Others to be our Faith whose sight extends it selfe to earth heauen and hell There is nothing that imports the World more than the eyes of this Tower Some seeking out the principall cause of the Worlds perdition say Couetousnesse is the root thereof Radix omnium malorum cupiditas Others Ignorance alledging that of the Phylosopher Omnis peccans est Ignorans But the truth is it is the want of Faith Et fodit in ea Torcular He digged a Pit for the Winepresse By this pit of the Winepresse Origen and Saint Hierome vnderstand the Sacrifice of our Sauiours bodie and bloud Saint Hilarie The Crosse of Christ Saint Gregorie The chastisement of Hierusalem The Owner of this Vineyard had made it so perfect and so absolute that the Renters thereof liued in a manner idle and had little or nothing more to

all Arts either Li●●rall or Mechani●all we giue 〈◊〉 ●redit to them that are therein most eminent As to the best Diuine the best Physitian the best Lawyer and to him that is our best friend because we are fully persuaded that he will not deale doubly with vs but deliuer vs the very truth and represent things as they are In the saluation of the soule we will not beleeue our Sauiour who is the best Artist and our best friend but the diuell the world and the flesh which are our three mortall enemies The first being the father of lyes the first cause and first inuenter of them that is to say Ex proprijs loquitur out of his owne Mynt he coynes them the other two haue inherited and professed lying time out of mind fiue thousand yeares agoe and vpward If it be not as I tell you tell me I pray when did the world treat truth Salomon stiles it Diuitem mendacem A rich lyar As for the flesh when did that euer leaue off to lye it was one of Sampsons fooleries That he knowing the intention of his false hearted Dalila and that her purpose was to deliuer him vp into the hands of the Philistims and hauing thrice caught her with the theft as we say in her hand yet for all this faire warning would not take better heede but melting with two drops two poore teares that trickled downe her cheekes stickt not to reueale vnto her the secret of his strength and where it lay And Dalila complaining Thou hast thrice beguiled me and told me lyes yet this good honest man neuer titted her in the teeth with her lightnes and her treason It is a strange kind of blindnes That thy flesh should commit so many treasons and poppe thee in the mouth with so many lies and yet thou shouldest still beleeue her But the Moores beleeue Mahomet who lyes vnto them The Gentiles those Idols that deceiue them and onely Christ comes to be the descreydo a man of no credit among vs and to whom we will not giue beleefe S. Bernard talking in his name with a Christian askes him the question Why doest thou more affect my enemie and thine than me I did create thee I did redeeme thee with my blood I did beare thee vp in the palmes of my hands Sure it is because thy soule is full of euill humours A foole receiues not the words of Wisedome vnlesse thou tell him that which is in his owne heart It is Salomons As is an house that is destroyed so is wisedome vnto a foole There is nothing more pleasing and peaceable than a well built house and nothing more vnpleasing and vnpeaceable than an old ruinous house that is ready to fall And so is wisedome to a foole If I say the truth c. One of the most lamentable miseries of this age is That truth doth not carry that credit and estimation as a lye doth As the true sores of a poore wretched creature doth not mooue mans heart to that pittie as your false ones doe so truth doe not generally goe so farre as doth a lye For a lye is no sooner sowne but it presently growes vp and spreads it selfe amaine ô good God how easily is it beleeued how willingly entertained Our Sauiour Christ being risen the High Priests and other the Prelates of those times persuaded the souldiers that were set to gard the graue that they should giue it out that his Disciples had stolne him away But how my Masters replyde the souldiers can we doe this without danger to our selues or be able to answer the matter For if the President should call vs to account and examine vs about it eyther we must answer that we were asleepe and testigos dormidos you know no hazen ●e Sleeping witnesses will not be admitted for proofe nor stand good in Law Or that his Disciples did set vpon vs and tooke him thence by force which likewise will hardly be beleeued and will not sound halfe handsomely First that silly fishermen should set vpon souldiers Secondly the stone not being taken away we cannot well auouch that they stole him away yet notwithstanding the Clergie were instant vpon them and told them doe you but say as we bid you and it is enough for If it come to the Presidents eare we will worke with him well enough Whereupon hauing withall well greased their fists they published the theft And the glorious Euangelist Saint Matthew tells vs This saying is noysed amongst the Iewes vnto this day The like passeth in point of Heresie What hath ruined so many Kingdomes destroyed so many Churches and tormented so many Saints but the lyes of your Arch-Heretikes who will not pardon God himselfe In a word God was to come into the world for to giue testimony of the truth Whereas for the receiuing of a lye one wicked mans asseueration is sufficient Osee saith That there is no truth in the earth no mercy no knowledge of God but that all is lies thefts murders and adulteries Mendacium furtum homicidium inundauerunt Where the word inundauerunt is worthy your weighing A riuer while it runnes betweene two bankes and keepes it s●lfe within it's bounds the wayes are free and open to all But when it leapes out of his bed and ouerflowes the fields and the high wayes you know not in the world how to finde sure footing nor where you or your horse may safely tread There were euermore lyes in the world but now they haue broken their bounds in that strange manner and leapt so farre from forth their bed that no man well knowes which way to take What a world of Euidences did Dauid shew vnto Saul of his loue vnto him What notable seruices did he doe him in that hi● single combat against Goliah In getting so many victories against the Philistims In playing vnto him vpon the harpe when the diuell tormented him Afterward Saul pursuing him in the mountaines hunting after his death as if he had beene a beare or wild bore once Dauid tooke away his speare and the pot of water that stood at his beds head another time he cut off the lappet of his garment This Saul saw with his eyes and confessed it with his mouth saying Iustior me es Thou art more righteous than I. And yet in the end he gaue more credit to those lyes which your Court whisperers buzz'd into his eares than to those truths which himselfe fel● with his hands He that is of God heareth Gods words ye therefore heare them not because ye are not of God Saint Augustine and Saint Gregory expound this place of your Pr●cogniti and those tha● are predestin●ted And S. Iohn doth diuide al the whole world into two sorts of persons Qui ex deo est non peccat qui peccat ex diabolo est The children of God and the children of the diuell The one heares Gods Word the other heares it not And though this be not a

our selues 2. Cor. 2. Philip. ● Ezech. 9. Iohn 11.35 Zach. 1● 10 Eccl. 22. Eccl. 38. Gods mercie the Spring from whence all his blessings flow Prou 31. Sin is death it selfe The character of a yong man The raising of Lazarus Christs greatest myracle Psal. 107. ●0 1. Cor. 15.54 Death is a large draught but Christ swallowed it downe 3. Reg. 1● Mat. 6.7 God regards not the length of our praiers but their strength Exod. 4. Psal. 137. Workes out-speake Words Cant. 4. ● 3 Reg. 1● Beloued a name of great preheminence Gods fauours seldome come single 4. Reg. 20.3 The ●ighteous euer mind full of Gods seruice forgetful of their Mat. 25. Iniuries done to God more greeuous to the righteous than if done to themselues Psal. 39. No loue where no releefe 4. Reg. 1. Osee 4.12 Ezech. 21.21 4. Reg. 19. Psal. 37.5 His will must be ours The peruersenesse of mans will Esay 58.3 The best reward that God can giue his followers Mans miserie the blason of Gods Maiesty Iob. 6.2.3 Iob. 1. Nothing more properly ours than Vertue In all humane goods the cretures haue the start of man The goodnes of Gods condition toward Penitents expressed two manner of wayes First he neuer remembers their sinnes Esay 38.17 Secondly hee neuer forgets our seruices Mat. 26. 2. Reg. 8.16 Gen. 31.13 Malach. 3.16 Death whither temporall or spirituall called a Sleep that fitly Iob. 33. Iud. 3. Gen. 20. Luk. 12. 1. Reg. 2.6 Christs passions differing from ours Sin discoasts a man frō God Psal. 1.6 Reasons why Christ wept Ier. 9.17.18 Ibid. 21. The death of the soule is a true death that of the bodie but a shadow Men carelesse of nothing more than of their soules Dead Lazarus the embleme of a Sinner Old sins like old sores hardly cured A threefold death of the Soule Amos 11. Gods loue seene by the delayes he vseth in his punishing Genes 1● Iob. 7. Why the heathen erected Pyramides ouer their deceased Psal. 29. The difference betwixt Lazarus rising out of the graue our Sauiour Occasions to sin must bee auoyded Why God appeared to Moses in a Bush. Gods iudgement euerie way compleat 1. Reg. 16. Christ why called the Light of the world 1. Io●n 1.5 1. Tim. 6.16 The benefit of this Light Gen. 3. Baruc 3.34 The reason why some hate and shunne it Iohn 6. Iob. 29. Iob. 7. In mans life the●e are two wayes and he had need of a Guide The glorie of the Sunne Mat. 5. Rom. 8. Luc. 17. Christ testified by many yet not embraced of the Pharisees Three conditions required in euery Testimonie Christ the ●●ly true Sunne that seeth all things Eccl. 23. Hier. 17. Apoc. 3. Inconueniences which would haue followed the peccabilitie of Christ. Apoc. 7. 2. Reg. 11. Sinne maketh the most valiant man a Coward Iob 25. No man free from sinne Iob 9.30 Iob 38. Two things required in men of eminencie and place conscience and fame Publike persons must looke to their fame as well as to their conscience Looking-glasses why placed about the Lauer of the Temple The vse of Bel● in the border of the Priests garment Priuat persons must conceale their workes but men of publike ranke must shew them●elues examples Gen. 39.3 Our Sauiours innocencie exemplified by his death Christs equal proceeding against the diuell a patterne for all Magistrates Ioh. 11. The Crosse and death of Chri●ttormented the diuell more than himselfe Ioh. 8. Truth lesse welcome to the ●ares of men than flatteries and lies The World the Flesh ●nd the Diuell all lyars Prou. 18. Eccl. 21. Mat 28. What mischiefes haue proceeded from lying Gods word how to be heard that the heari●g it may testifie our Predesti●ation Foure circumstances requi●red to the hearing of Gods Word Act. 13. 1. Tim. 6. Prou. 23. The soule of the just that of a sinner wherein differing Men are neuer worse than when they thinke all is well Passion alters all properties to it selfe Better to be mad than passionate Patience when most to be applauded Luc. 22. Marc. 11.1 To suffer iniuries a great noblenesse Iob. 18. A patient man whereunto resembled Iob● Clemencie a profitable vertue Exod. 32. Gods honour must euer be preferred before our own Truth can neuer be altogether supprest Mat. 10. Obliuiō hath two bosomes Iudges ought to be free from passion 2. R●g 14. Daniel 3. Why Christ withdrew himselfe from the Pharisees A hard heart can neuer be mollified Prou. 26. Luke 23.16 Reuenge in man a s●mptome of Cowardize ●erem 3. No policie preualent against the word and wisdome of God Enuie of all vices the most vnfortunate to it selfe fortunate to others Mat. 23. Luk. 11. Like Priest like People Psal. 106. Num. 25. 1. Pet. ● Prou. 1. ● Iosh. 1. Honest seruice little respected by earthly Princes No policie preualent against the wisedome of God God must be serued by vs before man Gen. 3. It is bad seruice to share in other mens sinnes Our longest life but little 2. Mac. 7.36 2. Mac. 6. Iob 9. Christ must be sought while he may be found Amos 2. Act. 2. Good neuer truly liked till lost Neuer any m●● so hated of the world as Christ. Time a pretious Iewell Leuit 23. Num. 29. Why instituted Leuit. 23.43 Pride incident to Man Good men are verie rare ●sal 71. Eccl. 49. Apoc. 12. Heauen not gotten without paines No appetite so fierce as that of a sinner Ier. ● Exod. 4. Dan. 7. What ment by the water of life Esay 42 43 44. Prou. 5. Ezec● 35. Ioel. 2. The Holy Ghost Why compared to water 2. Cor. 4. The power of Gods word The force of Eloquence Gods power neuer more seene than in his Passion Acts 20. Why Christ desiring to die did fl●e to auoide death Gods Counsells vnsearchable Mat. 6. Iosh 8. Aduantage against an enemy no Cowardize Men flye sometimes to come on the fiercer To flye in time of persecution how farre lawfull 1. Mac. ● 9.9 In some cases it is fortitude to flye 2. Reg. 4. Iob 40. Eccles. 22. Why Christ desiring to die would flye to auoid death Power should neuer bee showne but in extremity The greater Chris●● shame the greater our redemption 3. Reg. 15. Vaine-glory not to be affected Men couet honor though with the hazard of others God vseth no partialitie in the dispensation of his fauours We must not relye on others Vertue but our owne Honor where no merit is ads to our shame not to our shining Worship should not wait but vpon worth Honour a bait which all men bite at Eccl. 43. Kindred the ouerthrow of many Prelats Enuy neuer greater than amongst brethren Kindred will cleaue to a man in his prosperity but neuer look on him in aduersitie Three Feasts of dedication among the Iewes 3. Reg. 8. Esdr. ● 1 Mach. 1. Mans Heart Gods Temple 2. Cor. 6. Leuit 26. Mans Soule must bee renewed to make it a fit habitation for God Psal. 51. Baptisme the fou●dat●on of Christian