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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06462	A compendious and a very fruteful treatyse, teachynge the waye of dyenge well written to a frende, by the flowre of lerned men of his tyme, Thomas Lupsete Londoner, late deceassed, on whose soule Iesu haue mercy.	Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530.	1534 (1534)	STC 16934; ESTC S122071	22,183	84

the cruel tirant eate of his burned syde whiles the tother parte was a rostynge This saying declared that this ho●y marter feared no death ¶ Howe manye thousand● martyrs suffered incredyble peynes of slayinge with hookes they skyn from the fleshe of scrapynge with tyle stones the fleshe from the bones of rentynge and tearynge membre from mēbre with horses with bowed branches of trees of beatynge with whippes tylle the bowelles fall out of hangynge of burnynge of Crucyfyinge of infynite straunge and newe deuyses for payne Howe manye I saye suffred all that cruelle tyrantes coulde imagyn eyther with hande fyer or ironne rather than they wolde ons deny them selfe to be of Christis profession Whan it was proclaimed that who so euer wold saye he was Christened he shulde cruelly be put to deth There passed no daye without a great nūbre of them that boldly spoke tho wordes of the whiche shoulde folowe so blouddye a slaughter This was a manyfest token that feare of death hadde no maner of place with our blessed martirs the whiche with a constante boldnes defied and dispised the myghty cruell and fierse emperours theyr courage to dye ouerthrew the ragyng madnes of tyrantes The cause of this myrthe in so pitious martyrdomes was that this blessed men knewe howe Christe nother could nor wolde deceiue them but y t for theyr lyttel regarding of this lyfe they shoulde opteyne an other lyfe where their ioy shuld neuer haue nother change nor decrease nor ende Therfore my good Walker mystruste you not Christe whose doctryne the heuen and the erthe hath by innumerable myracles this many hundreth yeres approuyd and confyrmed to be trew the bloude of so may sayntes haue witnessed the same and the diuels with all the damned spirites soo surely beleue the trouthe of Christes teachynge that they trymble and quake thereat Be not moued with the common ensample of the hole worlde though both spirituall and temporall men though the pope with all his cardinalles byshoppes and prestes thoughe the princes with all theyr gentylmen and subiectes mangnifye esteme loue noryshe and by all meanes cheryshe this lyfe yet beleue you the trouth and thinke al the world false where Christes sayinge agreeth not with that the world doeth If it were possible that you sawe the angels of heuen lyue contrary to the preachynge of Christe yet ageynste them all beleue the sonne of god and loue not to abyde in this lyfe when Christe calleth you hense make a smale valure of this present plesures whā Christ sayth all be vanites may be torned to endles sorowes Regarde no honour no promotion here when Christe sayth the place of honour is in heuen and here is none aduācement that is not both shame and also may be cause of a perpetualle wretchednes Dispice the ease and rest that these riches bringeth in as moche Christe saythe that of them be taken many impedimenntes and lettes to enter into the sure quietnes of blessed soules Thynke no place to be for your abydyng in this world when christe sayth here is not your coūtrey but your father and your dwelling place is in heuen Haast therfore hence This is to saye be wyllynge to forsake this straunge countray And seinge the waye to your homewarde lyeth by deathe take a couragious stomake to die and dye gladly that you may dye well Beleue I say Christe you shall thynke it paynefull to be in this lyfe Beleue Christe and you shall be gredye to be partaker of the heuenly ioyes whervpon wyll folowe a plesante remembraunce of deathe by the whiche you shall departe frome your peyne to that ioye the whiche you desyre And hereof is made a glad dyinge the whiche I styl name a good dieng Thus if we canne take this feare awaye we be well forwarde and herof wyll easyly insue the reste that is to dye gladlye It is a true sayinge that who so euer feareth death he shal neuer do a dede worthy for a lyuyng man Therfore if hit were but onely for lyfes sake it is our parte to despise the feare of deathe ¶ Besyde this feare of deathe the loue I say of this lyfe soore hyndereth the gladnes of dyinge no man dyeth gladly that estemethe moche this lyfe He that rekeneth in this worlde hym selfe happye when he hath gotten ryches possessions auctoritie promotion a ryall state a princelyke courte abundaunce of welthy fare a rule and power bothe to auaunce his frende and to vndo his foo this man I say that glorieth in his fantasye for these and such other thinges can not but with moch sorow depart hence To this mās hart y e remembrance of deth is a euer greuous thoughte his mynde canne not but lament whan he seeth the necessite to be pluckid and drawen frome these commodities in the whiche resteth the ioye pleasure and gladnes of his mynd he hath so stedfastly accustomed hym selfe to take this worlde for heuen that it wyll not synke in his brayne to hope of an other heuen he hath so corrupted his taste with thinkyng this lyfe to be swete that nedes it must be a bytter thyng to make an ende of all his pleasures and in this case be not onely they that haue this worlde at their wyll but also they be in the same case that haue naught and be gredy of hauynge As moche loueth he this worlde that wolde fayne be ryche as he that is ryche It is nat the hauynge nor the lackyng of abundance in goodes that maketh a sorowfull hart in the remembraunce of dethe but it is the mynd that valureth and pondreth these present goodes to be of a great price and worthy to be tarid for This mind I say as wel in a cōmuner as in a kynge as well in a yoman as in a lord as wel in an hermite monke or frier as in a marchant plowmā or vacabunde as wel in beggers as in ryche men is the thinge that causeth sorow in dying And gladly no manne dyeth that loueth the welthe of this lyfe Wherfore the lerning to die wel requireth necessary a lesson howe moche the goodes of this worlde be worthy to be regarded And let the truthe haue in your stomacke his place so that if it be tru that the thinges of this life be worthy to be loued and to be cared for than loue you them and care for them If the truth be other wise change your mynd nother loue these saide thynges nor care for them Of the truth in this matter no man can dout that beleueth Christe whom if you thynke to be god you muste also thinke it all trouth that he saith It can not be otherwise then Christe testifieth whose preching euer exhorteth vs to wylful pouertie the which is nother to loue y e goodis of this world though we haue thē nor to care for them though we haue them not only by Christis teching we shulde care for the kingdom of heuen the whiche standeth in the clennes of