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

He confessed oftentimes that hée was persecuted by his mothers Image and with the cruell scourgis firie whips of the furies in Hell. And moreouer by a detestable deede of the Magis attempted to call vp hir spirite againe to pacifie hir It is sayde that Appollidor thought wyth himselfe in a dreame howe he sawe his owne skinne pulde from him and his members by little and little cut awaye and also that his daughters were all their bodies ouer on a light fire turning and daunsing about a circle Hipparcus also the sonne of Phylastratus a little before his death dreamed that he sawe bloud sprincle vpon his face out of a certaine péece of plate If I should call to remembraunce the reast of the examples which be of lyke sorte Paper woulde not suffice to continue the same Truely an euill conscience in the mynde is lyke a sore in the body It is contriued thorow default not conuayde in by casualtie It mightily dismayeth the minde and continually tormenteth the same with deadly griefes of pensiue remembraunce After that Alexander that noble king and fortunate spoyler of the world had cruelly slaine Calistenes and caused Clytus his familier to be killed the one bycause he refused after the Persian maner to worship him as God and the other bicause he preferred the Actes of king Philip his father before his there entered into him afterward such a sore repentaunce through remorse of his sinnes as hardly it scaped him that he had not killed himselfe What should I speake of Sylla that oppressed the Romaynes of Antiochus that with warres ouercame the Indes eyther of which for the vnhonestie of life which through shedding of bloud and beastly crueltie they stayned and polluted did perishe with the ougly disease of Lice and pined awaye with the grieuous and defestable torment of conscience To this number I maye referre Herod that put Iames to the sworde thrust Peter in prison and to please the Iewes stirred vp persecution against the Christians But at last being striken by the Aungell was eaten of wormes and after grieuous affliction by the wounde of his conscience miserablye gaue vp the ghost I cannot here altogither passe ouer with silence those which dally with God in most graue and weightie matters which wilfully for gaine and honors sake eyther resist or forsake the truth which repeale any thing manifestly agaynst the worde of God and binde their consciences either to the wicked betraying refusing or vtter denying of Christ by othe For euen as peace by the promise of God doth attende vpon the true Israelites who are the constant professours and mainteyners of christian pietie euen so the beguylers false working Epicures enimies to Christes Crosse whose bellie is their God and earthly things their studie bewitching men from beleuing the truth which they resist as Iannes and Iambres did Moyses declining also from the way of glorie and led to the desire of ryches Such doth God with the workers of iniquitie turne into their owne reprobate imagination with a rewarde worthie of such a fault will the iust Iudge once make recompence vnlesse they repent earnestly from the bottome of theyr heart For what for Cannonships Prebendes Deanryes Benifices Bishoprikes or some other temporall commoditie they eyther resist or forsake Christ or else they deale with the preaching of the Gospell which tendeth to the saluation of our soules as with a prophane thing and in a mattter so weighty behaue themselues vnfaythfullye and muche lyke to disloyall fugitiues Or else they will ambiciouslye séeke in the holye scripture which waye to please the vaine appetites of the people vaunting of the pregnancie of their owne wit and learning and boasting of their eloquence and yet in time of persecution will be the first that shall start aside from the knowne truth and so to the great fall of the weaker sort fowly and shamefully betray the doctrine which before they did worthily professe But surely they shall neuer escape frée vnpunished for so great a contumely wherin they go to about beguile god and to dim his eyes as they tearme it neither yet in such sort departing and forsaking the wholsome doctrine they shall euer escape from the handes of the liuing God and his fearefull maiestie whom they haue dishonoured This was felt of Latonius this did wretched Spera both by his wordes teach vs and by his example plainly lay before our eyes if wryters in their bookes haue shewed vs the truth The Apostles in the primatiue Church committed such persons by the word to Sathan that he might haue power to persecute their bodyes who once perceyuing that neyther they should haue rest in their bodyes while they yet lyued neyther in their spirite being departed they might be reclaymed thereby and so through long repentaunce attaine to saluation no greater torment nor vexation more grieuous coulde be imagined then was bidden by them which disloyallie departed from Christ being so vexed with the bitter anguish of conscience as they had no rest neyther day nor night so much as to breath vpon the same or to be at any staye of quiet minde But I will no lenger stand vpon the impedimentes and lettes which hinder the peaceable tranquillitie that all men so busily séeke for Who is he nowe that if he had subdued all Nations vnder heauen if he had gotten all the worlde in possession woulde not lay aside all dominion and willingly surrender vp the empyre of the worlde to the intent he might quiet his afflicted conscience and washe awaye the griefes and blemishes thereof which neuer suffers the minde once to take breath Let vs therefore séeke out where and from whence that excellent quietnesse of the minde is to be looked for which doth not onely appease the carefull cogitations and thoughts of the conscience but also slakes and kéepes vnder the raging affections of the same and besides doth make easie and tollerable whatsoeuer else doth eyther hurt the bodie or any other outwarde chaunce that happeneth to arise Omitting the erronious opinions of the ignoraunt which alwayes throughout euery age as it were swallowed vp a number and led them from the right race of life let vs beginne with an other kinde of stile returning to Christ and his worde to the trade of a good life the testimonie of a good conscience to speake of eternall life and of the manifolde consolation had by the Saints Of which I promised to intreate more at large afterwarde The scriptures declare and in plaine wordes beare record that Iesus doth saue his people from their sinnes That he is the lambe of God which takes away the sinnes of the worlde That he is the blessed séede of Abraham in whom all the generations of the earth shoulde bée blessed who shoulde breake of and treade downe the heade of the Serpent throughe whose subtiltie our first parents were allured to sin That he is the saluation of God from sea to sea and