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A00940	A monomachie of motiues in the mind of man: or a battell betweene vertues and vices of contrarie qualitie Wherein the imperfections and weaknesses of nature appeare so naked, that anie reasonable soule may soone see by what spirit he is lead: herevnto also, besides sundrie deuout praiers necessarilie interlaced, diuers golden sentences of S. Barnard are annexed: and also a briefe conclusion of his vpon this theame, that victorie is obtained by resisting temptation. Newlie englished by Abraham Fleming.; De conflictu vitiorum et virtutum. English	Autpertus, Ambrosius, d. 784.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1582 (1582)	STC 11048; ESTC S102283	102,654	342

wisedome of thee ô Lord who canst and wilt pull awaie the fig-leaues from our filthines and discouer our secret shame O good God we humblie beseech thee therfore to keepe and defend vs from this detestable sinne whervpon dependeth a most heauie iudgement prophesied by the mouth of thy seruant Iob to light vpon all hypocrites and dissemblers namelie that Their hope shall perish their confidence be cut off and their trust decaie like a spiders web that they shall not once appeare in thy presence they shall be desolate and fire shall consume their dwellings their ioie shall last but a moment their excellencie become as vile as doong they shall vanish like a dreame or vision in the night and their finall reward shall bee euerlasting torments in hell fire where shall be weeping wailing gnashing of teeth From this sinne ô Lord and the plagues due therevnto deliuer vs for thy mercie sake Amen 1 S. BARNARDS golden sentence of the vertue following MEate sauoureth in the mouth and the praise of God in the hart It is to small purpose to magnifie the Lords name with the voice onelie without anie meaning or intent of the mind For God from whom nothing is hid that is vnlawfullie done requireth not the shrilnes and cleerenes of the voice but the cleannes and purenes of the hart Wilt thou therefore worship God aright doo him true and alowable seruice and shew thy selfe an imbracer of pure religion Then worship him in spirit and truth with singlenes of hart with a sincere and vpright mind visit the fatherles maintaine the widowes right followe the example of Christ and keepe thy selfe vnspotted of the world This is true worship this is pure religion 2 The REPVLSE giuen by true WORSHIP and pure RELIGION O Man take héede in anie case of counterfeting forging thy selfe to be that thou art not For to séeme before men otherwise than thou art what else is it but meere damnation Remember therefore the words of our Sauior Christ spoken to this effect Wo be vnto you Scribes Pharisies hypocrites for ye make cleane the out-side of the cup or platter but within you are ful of robberie and vncleannes O thou blind Pharisie first make cleane the in-side of the cup or platter that the out-side of them may be cleane also And the words of our Sauior vttered in the verie same sense with an often repetition or rehersall Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisies bicause you are like vnto painted sepulchres which appeare outwardlie to the eies of men gaie and beautifull but are full within of dead mens bones and all filthines Euen so you likewise séeme before men iust and righteous but within you are full of hypocrisie and wickednes Vpon whom this sentence of our Sauiour is verified They come vnto you in shéeps clothing but inwardlie they are rauening woolues 3 A praier for the former vertue O Eternall God without whose aid and assistance all our actions are turned into sinne bicause they are not seasoned with the salt of thy spirit but leauened rather with the dowe of the flesh we beseech thee of thine entire goodnes to teach vs the true worship of thee and the sincere seruice due vnto thy diuinitie O suffer vs not to be misled by the imaginations and traditions of men which highlie offend thy Maiestie but vouchsafing to open the eies of our vnderstanding with the keie of thine heauenlie knowledge direct vs how and in what sort we may walke religiouslie before thee Roote out of our harts good God all sinister seruice and dissembled adoration lead vs by the hand into thine holie temple and make a passage for thy spirit of sanctification into our dull and darke capacities that being reformed therby we may worship thee in spirit and truth knowing that thou art a spirit and therefore wilt admit none other worship to be done vnto thee but that which is true vnfeigned sincere and spirituall We knowe how thou hast abhorred the hypocriticall holines of the Gentiles of whom thou complainest by thy Prophet Esaie that they 2 The ASSALT giuen by DISOBEDIENCE O Man consider thine owne dignitie worthines Thine estate is honourable and thou art better than the best To serue and obeie is an abasing of thy vocation it is a signe of inferioritie and subiection To be a maister carrieth some title of authoritie but to be an vnderling or seruant is an argument and token of an homelie and course calling Account of thy selfe therefore and of thy reputation What art thou that thou shouldest do homage to such as are woorse than thy selfe It were more méete for thée to command and gouerne and they to obey and be ruled considering thou art so excellent in all respects that there is not one to be found comparable vnto thée either in wit policie diligence or anie other good qualitie Cast off the yoke therefore of subiection for to obeie is seruitude and bondage slauerie thraldome yea to be inferiour to such as are not thy betters is a token of a base mind and a cowards hart Therefore estéeme of thy selfe Lord-like and not seruant-like stoope not vnto anie cap not crouch not for a man is but a man and thou being a rare man and matchlesse néedest not passe a point for the proudest pecocke for all his fine feathers and trim taile And rather than thou shouldest be at commandement like a seruant trie maisteries for superioritie and get it by vsurpation For a loftie looke and an hautie hart doo best béecome a man 3 A praier against the former vice O Most louing Father who hatest all kind of disobedience frowardnes stubbornes rebellion contumacie obstinacie and contempt which are the fruits of the corrupt flesh and hast declared also thy hatred by denouncing most terrible plagues against so detestable sinne we beseech thee to plow vp the sandie soile of our harts with the cultre of thy sanctifieng spirit that wee may beecome tractable mild gentle lowlie and obedient as it becommeth vs. We knowe by the information of thy holie word that who so disobeieth thee is subiect to manie curses and who so resisteth a iudiciall magistrate is punishable with death euen by thine owne ordinance and lawe We know that thou detestest nothing more than the sinne of disobedience and transgression of thy commandements though the intent seeme neuer so good honest and tollerable to mans iudgement and reason This is prooued ô eternall God in Saule whom thou by the mouth of Samuel didst charge with a precise commandement that he should kill Amalek and make a common spoile and hauocke of all that came to his hands who being incensed with couetousnes spared the verie best things and conuerted them to his owne vse and possession contrarie to thy will But thou in thy iustice didst shew thy vengeance vpon him in not onelie reiecting and casting him out of thy fauour but also in disgrading him of his dignitie and taking from him his kingdome We beseech

that we may tread in the footesteps of faithfull Abraham Tobie Cornelius that deuout captaine of the Italian band whose continuall exercise was in the feare of thee and the honour of thy holie name wherevnto also he trained all his houshold insomuch that from the highest to the lowest they studied to set foorth thy glorie but he especiallie who by his continuall praier vnfeined inuocation and charitable alms-deeds grew in great fauour with thee receiued the assurance of saluatiō by the testimonie of a pure and vndefiled conscience We knowe ô Father of mercie and God of all consolation that thou requirest a kind of diuine seruice at our hands proper peculiar to thy Maiestie which is to worship thee in spirit and truth This we are bound by dutie to exhibit and shew thee as also all other exercises of Christianitie consisting in loue and charitie we are charged in thy lawe to testifie vnto men O giue vs the grace we beseech thee to doo it for Iesus sake Amen The xiij Combat 1 S. BARNARDS golden sentence of the vice insuing O Holie soule be solitarie and alone that thou maist serue him onelie and keepe thy selfe for him alone of whom thou hast made thy speciall choise aboue all other Refraine thy selfe from gadding abroad refuse common meetings forsake thine owne houshold depart from thy friends and deerest acquaintance haue nothing to doo with the multitude flie the companie of men and women forget thine owne people and thy fathers house so shall the King delight in thy beautie Runne not to Dan and Bethel to Babylon and Aegypt but keepe at home in Gods citie euen his Church and congregation and meddle not with the heathen the infidell the prophane person and heretike least by touching pitch thou be defiled Thou art solitarie and void of loose libertie ô man if thou thinke not of the ordinarie affaires of the world if thou couet not things present if thou despise that which manie desire if thou loath that which maine like if thou deale not with matters of strife if thou remember none iniurie and reuenge no wrong dooing otherwise thou louest loose libertie and delightest therein albeit in bodie thou liue solitarie and alone 2 The ASSALT giuen by wandering loose LIBERTIE O Man consider with thy selfe that thou art a creature borne to libertie and not to seruice let thy mind therefore run vpon choise and varietie tie it not to one speciall place or one proper practise The world is wide and full of people their customs are diuerse and their maners not alike Thou shalt learne that abroad which thou shalt not sée at home the sundrie fashions of countries their kind of gouernment Commonwealth their order of diuine seruice and religion and other obseruations not vnnecessarie And why then shouldst thou not vse the benefit of libertie and passing from place to place sée and learne as well for thine owne pleasure as for others example If thou beléeue that God is euerie where that all the corners of the earth are replenished with his greatnes why then dooest thou so precisely bind thy selfe to one place to one seruice to one religion to one custome to one tradition to one order and dooest not rather séeke what is abroad 3 A praier against the former vice O Lord God Father of light we giue thee most hartie thanks for thy great loue and clemencie declared vnto vs in stopping the swift course which thou by thy diuine fore-sight perceiuedst vs readie not onelie to take but also to keepe humblie beseeching thee to kindle in our harts an inward hatred against loose libertie and licentiousnes knowing the mischiefs therevpon depending to be such as that they doo not onelie ingender thy dishonour but also our owne shame and confusion Examples hereof we haue manie in the sacred Scriptures and speciallie that of Dinah Iacobs daughter vpon whose wandering straieng abroad to see the pleasures of a strange land and the fashions of yoong damsels there dwelling not onelie the losse of hir honestie but also the shedding of much bloud did insue Let this ô Lord be a sufficient warning vnto vs that by libertie there commeth more euill than good naie rather no good at all For it openeth a free passage vnto manie vices which otherwise might be suppressed with restraint What the cause should be of so manie strange innouations and disguisings not onelie in apparell but also in behauiour and not onelie in behauiour but also in opinion and beleefe thou knowest and we confesse to be nothing but licentious libertie whiles some not content with the customs trades maners affaires vsages and orders of their owne natiue countrie doo let loose their straieng affections with their wandering bodies and learne in prophane places among vncircumcised people of polluted harts and tongues most abhominable abuses tending altogither to the derogation of thy glorie the breach of christian vnitie peace and concord the defa●●●tion of the Gospell the offence of manie a weake conscience and the vtter confusion of a thousand thousand soules Turne our harts ô Lord that we affect not couet not desire not this detestable libertie which though to the flesh and the wild lusts of the same it be delectable and pleasant yet to the soule it is most damnable and noisome Deliuer vs from it ô Lord for it is the nurse of vanities ô deliuer vs from it for thy mercie sake and for thy beloued sonnes sake our Sauiour and redeemer Iesus Christ Amen 1 S. BARNARDS golden sentence of the vertue following THere is nothing more vnstable and wauering nothing more swift and flitting in thee ô man than thine owne hart which so often as it stumbleth at the stone of euill thoughts so often it offendeth God Thy hart is vaine variable and vnsearchable and so often as it is led by it owne will and consent so often it wanteth Gods counsell It is like a bird flieng out of hir nest like a ship lanching into the deepe like an arrowe shot out of a bowe And what is the cause of this vnstablenes euen lacke of trust in God Trust in God ô man and continue in thy place beleeue in him affie thy selfe on his goodnes and thou shalt obtaine contented staiednes A foole changeth and altereth like the moone but a wise man abideth firme and fast like the sunne a foole wauereth like a reede but a wise man standeth still like a strong oke a foole is compared to the wandering starres which are euer moouing but a wise man is likened to the fixed starres which keepe their appointed places For the first the mist of darknes is prepared for the second the cleerenes of light is ordeined 2 The REPVLSE giuen by Christian contentment and STAIEDNES O Man if the case stand as thou saiest and confessest that God is eueriewhere then is it thy dutie to kéepe thée where thou art and not to forsake that place which thou wouldest so faine change for another bicause God is