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A01200	The chronicle and institution of the Order of the seraphicall father S. Francis conteyning his life, his death, and his miracles, and of all his holie disciples and companions / set foorth first in the Portugall, next in the Spanish, then in the Italian, lastlie in the French, and now in the English tongue.	Marcos, de Lisboa, Bishop of Porto, 1511-1591.; Cape, William.	1618 (1618)	STC 11314.2; ESTC S4305	734,345	826

for your good and greater glory Know then that you shall dye before your husbaÌ„d and in short time and we shall ioyne with you neere about the time wherof we will also giue you an infallible token You shall vnderstand that within few dayes we shall dye by the stroake of the sword for the faith of our gracious Redeemer for which we infinitely thaÌ„ck his diuine maiesty exceedingly reioycing that it hath pleased him to elect vs to be of the nomber of his Martyrs But when we shall haue accoÌ„plished our course the Christians of Marrocco shall bring our bodyes into this citty to the meeting wherof you and your husband shall come in great reuerence and solemnity When then you shall see these thinges hope and know that your terme shal be expired and that you shall shortly be through loue vnited with God there to raigne eternally How the fiue Martyrs arriuing at Alenquer the InfaÌ„ta prouided theÌ„ shipping other necessaries to goe to Siuill and seculer habits therby to passe vnknowne amoÌ„g the Mores who otherwise would neuer haue permitted them to passe THE IV. CHAPTER THe fiue Religious hauing taken leaue of the Queene who gaue theÌ„ letters of fauour coÌ„mendation vnto AleÌ„quer whither they inteÌ„ded their iorney in which citty there was already a CoueÌ„t of Frere Minors whome they visited where for certaine dayes they comforted one an other in meane while they also bethought theÌ„selues of coÌ„modious meanes to goe to Lisbone distaÌ„t theÌ„ce about eight leagues in which time they were aduertised of a merchants ship wherin they vnderstood they might passe by the fauour of the Infanta Sanctia the daughter of Sancho second king of Portugall who resided in the same citty there kept her Court they preseÌ„ted vnto her the leters of the foresaid Queene for whose sake she gaue them a gracious welcome being one of the most pious vertuous ladyes that all Christendome did then afford and had reiected great matches to conserue her virginity wherof she made such esteeme as she desired rather to be depriued of Paradise theÌ„ to haue her chastity violated She was in deed endued with all vertues and liued in great abstinence and fasting wearing next her flesh a haire cloth in steed of a smock praying day and night giuing and distributing her reuenewes vnto the poore She was a true mother vnto the poore considering the affection wherwith she releiued comforted and assisted them She then hauing heard related the admirable worckes of S. Francis and his Brethren when they were there the yeare 1217. she called then vnto her and built them a Couent without Alenquer in a solitary place against the riuer by reason of whose ouerflowing she admitted them into her Pallace where she builded them a litle monasterie as a place more healthfull free from the inundations of the water and more commodious for her The pious Infanta then hauing vnderstood the holy and firme resolution of these said Religious commended it exceedinglie and for the time of their being there entertained them very curteouslie discoursing alwayes of spirituall matters She gaue them seculer habittes that they might trauell the more commodiouslie for otherwise they might haue bin entercepted in their passage neither would the merchants haue admitted theÌ„ into their vessels together with them in their habittes if they had in any sort discouered their designe for feare to offend the Mores whose disfauour they would not haue encurred for any thing whatsoeuer as people more respecting their profitt then their honour or saluation and more hungry of mony then of the glory of God Therfore then did they remayne some time in that citty in meane while their haire did grow and encrease so that their crownes or other distinctions could not be discerned from seculer personnes att length commending their pious desire prompt obedience and feruour of charity towardes God and their neigbour encouraging them also of her part though needlesly she sent them to Lisbone as worldlings and vnknowne there to embarcke themselues for Seuill hauing withall formerly furnished them with what was necessarie How the said Religious arriuing att Siuill and hauing cast off then seculer habitt did preach to the Mores and of the beginning of their tribulations THE V. CHAPTER THe good Religious not without much trouble arriued att Seuill where they disbarqued themselues This citty was then possessed and vsurped by the Mores they lodged in the house of a Cittizen that was a Christian rich noble and deuout there they putt off their seculer habitts tooke their owne and then for eight dayes together applyed theÌ„selues to fasting and feruent prayer with teares begging day and night of almighty God that he would please to assist and further them that they might begin their enterprise to the glory of his diuine maiesty to their owne and those ruined soules saluation and that he would giue them force to die for his holy faith Now being deceaued by the exteriour apparence of the deuotion of their Host they plainlie discouerd vnto him their full intention presuming of his aduise therin but they were much deceaued and amazed for he repenting that he had lodged them for feare both of himselfe and other Christian marchantes that liued there began to endeauour to dissuade them affirming that they would profitt nothing but would rather put themselues in extreme daunger and manifest perill to loose their owne faith by meanes of the terrible tormentes which would be inflicted on them Which these good Religious vnderstanding they instantlie without giuing any aunsweare or making him other reply forsoke his house and as couragious and valiant soldiers went directly to giue the assault to the fortresse of the ennemy to witt to the Temple of the Mores where finding all their ennemies in armes praying to their Prophett they began to chardge and strike them with the cutting sword of the word of God preaching and praysing the faith of IESVS But the great multitude of ennemies seeing them in such base and straung kind of habitts thrust them out with the pointes of their daggers and stroakes of cudgels vsing them as fooles This beginning of trouble redoubled the pious feruour of the good Religious making them actiue and desirous to suffer much more for the name of IESVS CHRIST wherfore they determined to seeke to enter into an other Temple greater theÌ„ the former and full of people there to conuince and coÌ„found the Mahometan errour and to preach the truth of the Christian faith but they were not permitted to enter there but were very rudely and with iniuries farre repulsed They enflamed with great zeale to denounce make knowne I. C. vnto these infidels were nothing terrified but to giue courage to themselues said to each other Brethren what doe we lett vs remeÌ„ber those wordes of our Lord I. C. Feare not litle flock for it hath pleased your Father to dispose vnto you his kingdome therfore lett vs not desist to preach his holy faith Wherfore doe we

iniustly afflict vs that oppose them selues against vs that iniury vs procure our vexation torment and death and we ought to loue them the more in that what they doe vnto vs God vseth them as an instrument and because what soeeuer he doeth and permitteth though it seeme displeasing vnto vs it notwithstanding auaileth to our saluation sith by meane hereof we shall purchase eternall life We ought besides to abhorre and hate our body when it is pleased in delightes and vices for so liuing carnally we estrange our selues from the loue of IESVS CHRIST and make our owne entry into hell and by reason that by sinne we become loathsome and miserable and that the concupiscences of our flesh are contrary to our true good and make vs prone to euill as our lord saith From the hart of man proceed euill cogitations fornications adulteries murders couetousnes theftes deceiptes blasphemies false testimonies pride and the foly of this world and all the foresaid euils procure and make the soule loathsome defiled and refrigerate we therfore who haue already forsaken the world should haue regard to no other thinge but to doe the will of God an to take contentment therin Lett vs haue care not to be like the earth by the way side full of stones and thornes because as our lord saith the seed that is the word of God which was sowne by the way side was trodden vnder foote by passengers and destroyed Hereto are compared those that heare the word of God but dispose not themselues to vertue and the deuill incontinently rooteth it out of their harts least beleeuing they might be saued They are compared to the stone wheron the other seed fell who willingly heare the word of God and insome sort dispose themselues to doe well but some affliction befalling them they are incontinently scandalized the seed then withereth because it hath no root They are compared to thornes who hearing the word of God haue their harts alwayes employed on worldly thinges and permitt theÌ„selues to be seduced by richesse and auarice busying themselues in terrestriall affaires and therfore the seed cannot profitt them But they are like to fertile land who heare the word of God and with the hart obserue and practise it and doe worckes worthy of penance Lett vs therfore as our Lord saith suffer the dead to bury the dead Lett vs be seriously wary of the slightes and mischeiuous deuises of the deuill who seeketh no other thing but to separate our soule from vnion with God by the bait of temporall richesse honours and pleasures of the flesh seeking to become lord and master of the hart of man employing all his endeauour to root out of his memory the preceptes of God and doth striue to blind the hart of man in the desires and cogitations of the world and to confirme him in them according to the saying of our lord When the vncleane spiritt shall depart out of a man he wandereth through places without water seeking rest And not finding he saith I will retourne into my house whence I departed And when he is come he findeth it swept with a besome and trimmed TheÌ„ he goeth taketh seuen other spirits worse then himselfe entring in theydwel there And the things last of that maÌ„ be made worse then the first Sith then we are by these speeches admonished lett vs not procure our ruine and death by disvniting our soule from God for whatsoeuer terrestriall recompense affaire or fauour but lett all we doe be only for the loue of God I pray all the Brethren that being freed and deliuered of al impediment and hinderance that may trouble them they make their best endeauour to serue loue and honour God with a pure hart and free spiritt in regard that he especially requireth the same of vs and lett vs so proceede that in vs may be the residence of his diuine Maiestie the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost who faith vnto vs Pray att all times that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Sonne of man he also teaching vs to pray saith When you shall pray say Our Father which art in heauen We therfore must alwayes pray and neuer faile therin Lett vs adore God with a sincere hart because such adorers please the eternall Father and he would haue it so God is a spiritt and they that adore him ought to adore him in spiritt truth Let vs haue recourse to our Lord as to the Father and Pastour of our soules who saith I am the good Pastour that feed and keep my flocke euen to the exposing of my life for it you are all Brethren therfore call not your selues Fathers on earth because you haue but one Father which is in heauen nor call your selues masters for you haue but one celestiall Master If you remaine in me and my wordes in you you shall haue and obtaine whatsoeuer you shall demaund And where there are two or three assembled in my name I am there with them euen to the end of the world The wordes that I haue spoken to you be spiritt and life I am the way and the verity and the life lett vs then keep the true life and doctrine and the holy gospell which it hath pleased him to manifest vnto vs as he sayth Father I haue manifested thy name to the men whome thou gauest me and they haue receiued the doctrine which I haue giuen them they haue knowne that I am truely come from thee and they haue beleeued that thou hast sent me For them I praye not for the world but for them whome thou hast giuen me Holy Father keepe them in thy name whome thou hast giuen me that they may be one as also we These things I speake in the world that they may haue my ioy filled in themselues I haue giuen them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world as I also am not of the world I pray not that thou take them away out of the world but that thou preserue them from euill Sanctifie them in truth Thy word is truth As thou diddest send me into the world I also haue sent them into the world And for them I doe sanctifie my selfe that they also may be sanctified in truth And not for them onlie doe I pray but for them also that by their word shall beleeue in me that they all may be one that the world may beleeue that thou hast sent me and hast loued them as me also thou hast loued and thou shalt lett them know thy name because the loue whereby thou hast loued me shall be in them and in me together By the same meane Father whome thou hast giuen me I will that where I am they also may be with me that they may see my glorie which thou hast giuen me I praye all the Brethren in the name of almightie God

example patientlie to sustaine his proper and particuler infirmities and labours in imitation of their cheife Pastour as also misprise all corporall recreation for the feruent desire they had to carry the crosse for the loue of IESVS CHRIST and to refine themselues in the vertue of penance Of the conditions which according to the will of S. Francis the minister Generall ought to haue THE XIV CHAPTER THe holy Father S. Francis being once so weakened with sicknes that his Religious supposing he would dye did visitt him extraordinarily beginning to feele the detriment proceeding of the losse of his presence In regard wherof they were very carefull to demaund him many matters concerning the serenity of their consciences and the obseruance of the Order Now one of them who was very zealous of the rule and his profession made him this demaund Beloued Father you shall goe towardes God and your family who to this day haue alwayes followed you shall remayne in this vally of teares forsaken of you their deere Father and assured Pastour But since it will come to passe and that there is no remedy I most earnestly beseech you before your departure to assigne vs one of our Order if there be any worthy and capable to accept the charge and office of minister generall after you The holy Father with groning sighes and teares thus answeared my sonne I know not if there may be found a Father of so great a family a head of so great an army of God a Pastour of so great a flock that would be sufficient but I will leaue you a paterne modell wherein may be seene what he ought to be The Generall ought to be a man of great prudence of laudable reputation and of holy conuersation a man without selfe-loue and particular affection because if he should more fauour one part then an other a tumult and discention with scandale would proceed therof a man exceedinglie addicted to prayer and a continuall practiser therof and neuerthelesse he should elect and choose certaine houres of the day and of the night for the benifitt and contentment of his soule that in other houres he may attend to the gouernment of the flock which God shall haue committed vnto him the first houres of the morning lett him repaire to the place where he is to pray and celebrate masse recommending himselfe and his flock vnto the diuine protection He must also be a man that after must goe forth into a publicke place where all the Religious may commodiously speake vnto him and must answeare them with humility prouiding for each one according to his necessity as to him shall seeme best lett him be a man of courage and constancie that will no be moued with others wordes but will gouerne with iustice and therfore lett him not giue light beleefe to wordes that shal be reported vnto him but lett him first search to know the truth then lett him proceed according to iustice and lett him not disdayne to heare indifferentlie the litle with the great nor haue lesse care of the one then the other a man all whose actions may be so many exemplar good workes God hauing giuen him grace to appeare such by his vertues a man that hath imprinted in him the image of piety of simplicity and of patience labouring to create vertue in himselfe and others exciting euery one by his example to imitate him a man aboue all other things detestinge mony as that which is more able then any thing else to corrupt our estate and profession a man euer mindfull that he is the head and light sett in an eminent place that other Religious may see and follow him to imitate him in his holy exercises a man that is content though he be Generall with one only habitt and one breuiary where with to say his diuine office one inck-horne and one seale to prouide for the occurants of the Religious of the Order a man not ouer much addicted to the curiosity of learning nor seeking to furnish his librarie to the end he doe not robbe the diuine office and prayer of much time consuming it in the study of learning a man principallie of condition and conuersation spiritually to comfort the desolate as one that must be the remedy and refuge of the afflicted for feare that this vertue and remedy not being found in him it happen that his sheep by their labour and vexation be att length surmounted by the detestable and perillous disease of despaire lett him be ouermore a man fitt to humble himselfe according to the example of IESVS CHRIST and sometime to mortifie his sence and particuler opinion though reasonable to gaine vnto God the soules of his subiectes as did the Apostle S. Paul a man that shutteth not the bowels of compassion against the Apostatats of the Order who are as strayed sheep to whome he ought neuer to deny mercie considering their temptations were very prompt and lett him thinck that if God would permitt him to be tempted he perhappes would fall into a deeper pitt a man that if necessity sometime constraine him to eate meat better then ordinary he doe eat it publikelie and not in secrett that others may in like sort be in their necessities prouided for a man that being requisite for him principally to giue light and luster to obscure the darckned soules doe seriouslie consider what he is to doe that he may discouer the true and loyall path to passengers amongst so many crooked disordered and confused wayes A man not reioycing in the honours and fauours of the world nor troubled in iniuryes and afflictions a man not defiling nor in any sort mittigating the worthy forme of iustice by impartiality by desire of conseruing his honour or reputation or for whatsoeuer other respect not correcting him that deserueth recompense nor fauouring him that meriteth punishment a man that by his ouer-seuere rigour is not occasion of the ruine or despaire of any soule and that by his too tender compassion causeth not sloath and negligence in his subiectes or by long sufferance and indiscreet indulgence occasioneth a dissolution in discipline a man that doth know how to gouerne himselfe to be of each one both feared and loued a man that att the first relation shall suspecte the accusations made against his Religious till he haue duelie examined and gotten knowledge of the truth a man that with great feare of God refuseth the chardge of such office and the obligation of so great a Prelature acknowledging himselfe insufficient of such dignitie euer reputing honour to be a great burden And finallie a man that disdayneth not yea procureth as I would doe and seeketh to haue for his companions men adorned with holy vertues whome he knoweth to desire nothing for themselues but seeke only the honour of God and the reformation of the order the saluation of soules and of all the Brethren and that both himselfe and they giue to each one good example of themselues comfort the Brethren

you from pride from the vices of auarice of enuy and vaine desires so detrimentall to your soules and by your example to your neighbours also you shall in your sermons exhort the people to pay their tythes to the Preistes of whome so doeing you shal be entreated to preach and heare their confessions though you should not so much respect that as to conuert them for a man conuerted will soone finde a confessour as for me I demaund no other priuiledge of God but to loue and reuerence each one and to conuert the most sinners that I can by obedience to God and his holy church and the same more by humilitie and example of the obseruance of our rule then by wordes Of the afflictions incident vnto the Order reuealed vnto the holy Father S Francis THE XXVII CHAPTER THe holy Father S. Francis being one time in prayer att our Lady of Angels most instantlie praying his diuine maiesty that he would please to shew mercy to the ChristiaÌ„ people on whome he had reuealed vnto him that he would lay a great scourge God answeared him Francis if thou wilt that I haue compassion of my people procure dilligentlie that thy Order perseuer in such sort as it is instituted that therin may be found such as may worthelie make intercessioÌ„ for them and in fauour of thy Order and of thee I promise thee not to lett fall on my church that great affliction which aymeth att it threateneth it But I will haue thee know that if thy Order doe preuaricate the first punishmentes which I shall inflict on my church shal be on the preachers therof and will giue to the deuill what authority ouer them he will Thence will grow so manie scandales betweene them and the world that none will aduenture to take the habitt but in the desertes where I will preserue this few number of elect as I preserued the children of Israel so manie yeares and so the good being conserued in my grace the Order shall afterward be reduced to his pristine estate Herevpon did S. Francis prophesie that a verie violent temptation should be raised in his Religion by pourchaced science wherwith in manner of a furious winde from the region of the desert as the affliction of Iob furiously striking the four corners of the house of his Religion his owne children would bring it to ruine because said he being puffed vp by their learning and relying theron they well lay ambushes and cast snares for the true and lawfull children framed by that huge damned woman called pride to whome they will sacrifice their child birthes that is their worckes and will liue in the delightes of the profitt of them and of the recompence of their impudencie and arrogancie Now the auctoritie of such Religious wil be extremelie bitter and insupportable to the iuste that shal be persecuted by them because their simplicitie obedience pouertie and zeale of the honour of God shall in a manner inexplicable secretlie confound them Wherfore they by reason of their pride being vnable to endure it relying on the wisedome and reputation of their valure and the authority of the nobility and Princes of the world pourchaced by meane of ambition will persecute them to death There is also found a prophesie of the holy Father S. Francis written by the hand of Brother Leo of the great schisme and diuision that was in the Church after the election of Pope Vrban the sixt the yeare 1378. that continued neere 40. yeares the tenour wherof was thus A time will come when the holy Church shal be full of schismes which will put men in extreme perplexitie as well in the spirituall as temporall estate and the deuill shall haue manie followers and shal be more dilligente then ordinary to take aduantage by this occasion to augment his kingdome then shall the beauty of this Order be defiled with that of others and prophane apostasie shal be accomplished to the dissention of two Realmes when few shall obey the holie Church with a true charitie and he that shall not be canonicallie elected to the Papacie yea suspected of heresie shall be obeyed because manie shal be subtillie peruerted by him by his contagious errours then shal scandales multiplie and Christianitie be diuided manie refusing to contradict the same the scismes and diuisions of the Clergie of Religious and of the people shal be so violent that if those dayes were not abbreuiated by God the elect if it were possible would fall into the same errours if God of his mercie should not deliuer them S. Francis in regard of this reuelation particulerlie put into his rule the vow of obedience vnto the Pope vnto his successours canonicallie elected and to the holie Romane church in the beginning and end of the same rule knowing how much it would profitt his order in that so turbulent time to perseuer firme therfore he gaue this instruction to his that foreseeing the same they might know to gouerne themselues well therein Of the liberty wherinto the Order should fall prophecied by S. Francis THE XXVIII CHAPTER THe holie Father S. Francis being one day in presence of the Cardinall Vgolino Protectour of the Order and of manie other of his Religious he vttered these wordes which he afterward also preached to the Brethren a time will come when the Religious of my Order by the malice of the deuill shallleaue the way of holie simplicitie and pouerty indifferentlie receauing all sort of mony and all such legacies as by testament shal be bequeathed them and leauing solitarie and humble places will build faire and sumptuous houses in cittyes and townes capable to entertayne Princes and Emperours then by fauour they will procure obtaine priuiledges of the Popes through art and humane prudence and by their earnest importunitie they will obtaine requestes merelie iniust though cloaked with truth by this meane they will not onlie abandon their rule instituted by IESVS CHRIST against their solemne profession but will also ruine and alter the puritie therof chaunging the good intention into peruerse and being armed by meane of the said priuiledges against obedience against other Religious and against all the Clergie when they shall expect to gett the victory the wretches shall â—inde themselues fallen into the trench which themselues shall haue made gathering no other fruit of their seminary but scandales which they shall offer to God in steed of the saluation of soules who seeing the same shal be no more thenceforward their Pastour but their ruiner according to their meritt And therfore he will leaue them entangled in the nettes of auarice and their vaine desires Which being naturalie considered of many shall cause that acknowledgeing this punishment of the hand of God they repent their faultes and retourne to their former estate notwithstanding that they be persecuted and derided of others as are all the vertuous and true seruantes of God by the wicked and impious But as the same temptations shall accomplish the

doth meritt more ha that goeth in pilgrimage to sainct Iames of Galicia or he that sheweth him the way I see many thinges that are not myne I heare much that I vnderstand not and I speake much that I doe not performe and it seemeth to me that a man is not saued for seeing speaking and hearing but for well performing that which he knoweth to be the best Wordes are farther distant from deedes theÌ„ the earth is remote from heauen If any one would permitt you to goe into his vineyeard there to gather grapes would you content your selfe with leaues It is a thousand times more necessary for a man to gett instruction for himselfe then for all the world If you desire to know much doe many good worckes and humble your selfe withall possibility A Preacher should not speake ouer-curiously nor too grosly but should vse only common and ordinary tearmes Then the holy Father smilingly proceeded there is great difference betweene the ewe that bleateth much and her that bringeth many lambes that is it is not one thing to preach and to putt in execution Br. Giles one day sayd to a Doctour that seemed to glory much in his doctrine and preaching if all the earth were in the possession of one man and he should not labour it what fruit would he reap therof Rely not therfore so much one your learning albeit all the knowledge of all the world were in your head because not performing worckes necessary to your saluation it would nothing auayle you This holy Father prayed a Religious that went to preach att Perusia to take for the theme of his sermon these wordes I kisse I kisse I speake much and performe litle This is in his life a litle before This holy Father expounding these wordes of our Sauiour IESVS CHRIST I haue prayed for thee Peter I haue prayed for thee that thy faith faile not and thou once couuerted confirme thy Brethren he thus interpreted it Almighty God sayd he would giue to vnderstand that a man should first labour for himselfe and then for others And albeit the conuersion of soules be very gratefull vnto God yet it is vnderstood of those that can doe it without preiudice to the saluation of their owne soules seruing God as S. Paul whersoeuer they are Therfore this holv Father would often with great feruour of spiritt say Paris Paris thou doest ruinate the Order of S. Francis Which this good Religious sayd seeing the disquiett and trouble of spiritt of many learned Frere Minors that put confidence in their sciences Br. Giles hearing a quaile and a doue to sing sayd in feruour of spiritt there is the way there is the way and not there as if they sayd lett vs endeauour to doe well in this life and not expect the other with reasoÌ„ sister doue thou speakest this so sweetly groning But sinner wheron thinckest thou why makest not thou they profitt of this aduertisment Besides it is to be vnderstood that Br. Giles speake this vpon the allusion of the Italianâ— and Spanish tongue with the note of the doue and the quaile which is quaqua which cannot be applyed to the French tongue A discourse of good and euill wordes THE XXXVII CHAPTER HE that vttereth good wordes is as the mouth of God he that speaketh ill litle differeth from the mouth of the deuill When the seruaÌ„tes of IESVS CHRIST asseÌ„ble together in any place to discourse they should talke of the excelleÌ„cy of vertues that they may seeme pleasing vnto theÌ„ and giue them coÌ„tentment and should also be exercised in theÌ„ By which act they shall come to loue theÌ„ more and to performe better actions for the more a man is burthened with vices the more needfull it is for him to speake of vertues because by the frequeÌ„t and pious discourse of them he persuadeth and easily disposeth himselfe to put them in practise But what shall we say the conditions of this world being so corrupted that one cannot speake good of good nor euill of euil We will then confesse the truth that we know not how to speake of good how good it is nor lykewise of euill how euill it is Wherfore it seemeth that neither of these to thinges can sufficiently be comprehended So that I tell you I esteeme it not a leâ—â—e vertue to know how to be silent then how two speake well and according to my iudgement a man should haue a long neck as a Crane that his wordes passe by many ioyntes before it goe out of the mouth A discourse of perseuerance in good worckes and of the memorie of death THE XXXVIII CHAPTER WHat doth it profit a man to fast pray giue almose mortifie himselfe and to haue vnderstanding of celestiall thinges yet with all this doth not arriue to the desired port of saluation There hath bin sometime seene in the mayne sea a faire shipp loaden with abondance of wealth which neere vnto the hauen surmonted by a litle tempest hath miserably perished What then hath auayled the brauery and richesse that it brought But on the contrary hath bin seene an old vessell vnseemely and contemptible to each one that hath defended it selfe from the perilles of the sea with her burden of merchandises and securely arriued in the port such an one deserueth praise The same happeneth also to men of this world and therfore ought they to liue alwayes in the feare of God For although a tree grow and is fastened in the ground he doth not yet sodenly become great and when he is great he doth not presently florish he is not so soone fruitfull if he be they be not ripe if ripe they do not in euery respect content the master For some doe rott other are beaten downe by the windes of temptations and are deuoured by the wormes of the sences Two thinges I hould for great benefittes of God when a man hath his hart remote from sinne and replenished with loue towardes God which two thinges whosoeuer shall possesse without danger of any euill shal be in possession of all good But he must perseuer because if one had from the beginning of the world to this instant liued in distresses afflictions and now should haue abondant fruition of all kind of ioyes all the miseries past would not offend him on the contrary if one had alwayes spent his time in continuall iollyty and contentment and were att this present oppressed with diuers miseries and infirmities his pleasures past would nothing reioyce him Wherfore each one should leuell att that where althinges are to end and determine A seculer person hauing told this holy Father that he would be content to liue a long time in this world and to be rich and haue his pleasure in all thinges he answeared him If you should liue a thousand yeares and were lord of all the world what recompence shoulde you receaue in the death of this body which you shall with so great affection and pleasure haue

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