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A11555	The true image of Christian love An excellent, learned, and very comfortable treatise, meete and necessarie for these dangerous days: wherein men are growen so disobedient to God, so vndutifull to their Prince, and so vnchartiable to their neighbors. Written in Latin by Adrian Sauorine a Dominican Frier, and translated 50. yeres ago by an English obseruant frier named Richard Rikes, [and] now truely conferred with the auncient copies, and published by A.M. one of the messengers of his Maiesties chamber.; Ymage of love	Ryckes, John.; Savorine, Adrian, attributed name.; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; Gough, John, fl. 1528-1556.	1587 (1587)	STC 21801; ESTC S101945	42,798	120

In vestitu de aurato circundata varietate In apparell goodly guilt set about with diuersity of orient colours and precious stones of vertues and gifts of grace with borders and hemmes of gold In thys Image shoulde all zealous affected soules that be the true and faythful spouses of Christ haue theyr glory and delyght and not in paynted clothes or carued and grauen Images set about with diuersity of byrdes beastes and foules which is but a grosse and coloured deuotion or more aptly to speake a meere fond and foolish superstition and let them haue such delight who féele no taste of glory and comfort inwardly in theyr soules by testimonye of a good conscience such as haue no zeale to perfect méekenes and feruent loue of God and cannot ioy or delight themselues but onely in earthly and transitory thinges But you that be Kinges and Noble mens sonnes and daughters yea all we that professe the glorious and triumphant name of Christe Iesus should principally haue our glory inwardlie and from the very harte In fimbriis aureis circumamicta varietatibus In hemmes and borders of gold that is to say godly and continual perseueraunce in true loue and patience which is true gold indeede surely approoued and tryed in the fire of trouble and aduersity apparelled and clothed round about with colours of diuers vertues so conueniently and so religiouslie set in order in the hart as one setteth forth another meruailous gloriously and the beauty of one increaseth by the noble vertue of the other and that beautie which nature it selfe affoordeth it is of so little splendour and orient appearaunce in sight as beeing placed among the other rich vertues it seemeth a thousande times more goodlie and precious Put diligence to obedience and nothing can be more pleasant let meekenes be ioyned with chastitie and nothing is more splendaunt vnite patience with pouertie and nothing canne bee more delectable running coupled with lowlines and gentlenes what is more beautifull set Iustice and mercy together and what better company benignitie placed with magnyficence is a royall pearle in the eye of the beholder sadnes or grauity dooth meruailously well and discretion mixed among all these maketh the whole vesture goodly sure and profitable And aboue all these is the rich gylt garment that I did speake of namely godly wisedome which is not in gesting riches pleasure and honours but in setting them at naught and despysing both them and all other earthlie thinges It is in compunction of hart and zealous contrition for our sinnes and offences in daily exercise of godlie and charitable works and in continuall meditation and contemplation of immortall and heauenly thinges in study of holie Scripture the lawe of God and to frame our life and conuersation thereafter The hemme of this vesture is perseuerant loue according as Saint Paul sayth Finis praecepti est charitas de corde puro et conscientia bona et fide non ficta The end of the commaundementes of God is charitie or perseueraunt loue comming from a pure hart and a good conscience and from a fayth vnfayned this is the extreame parte of godly wisedome wherein is sette great plentie of precious stones and Iewels the xii articles of y e fayth the seauen gifts of grace and many other inestimable treasures The white kercher vppon the heade is sure hope made by the workes of cleannes and deedes of pyttie and whited with the dewe of grace from Heauen aboue Loe thus haue I heere discoursed the habite and ornaments of thys Image of Loue occupy the eyes of our mindes in beholding these varieties and you that bee the very Temples of God set vp therein the Altare of your harts and there make your sacrifice and prayers for euen nowe is the time that Christ spake of to the Woman of Samaria saying Mulier crede mihi quia veniet hora quando neque in monte hoc neque in Ierosolimis adorabitis Patrem Vos adoratis quod ●●scitis nos adoramus quod scimus quia salus ex Judaeis est Sed venit hora et nunc est quando veri adoratores adorabunt Patrem in spiritu et veritate Nam et pater tales quaerit qui adorent eum Woman beleeue me the houre commeth when yee shall neyther in thys mountayne nor yet at Ierusalem worshyp the Father Yee worshippe yee wot not what wee knowe what wee worship for saluation commeth of the Iewes But the howre commeth and nowe it is when the true worshipper● shall worship the father in spirit and trueth for such the father also requireth to worship him that is not after the outwarde obseruaunces as the Iewes did that kept the outward obseruaunces of theyr lawe in sacrifices and prayers with theyr mouthes but their hart and loue was farre from God therefore hee lothed and despised their sacrifice saying 〈◊〉 mihi multitudinem vict●●arum vest●●rum pl●●us sum c. What shall I doo with your diuers sacrifices I am full of them I require them not of yours but a louing and a contrite hart he neuer despiseth and that is the sacrifice which he requireth Howe this Image of Looue is to bee honoured Chapter 11. WEe haue deliuered vs in manie and sundry places of Scripture that God regardeth not the outwarde appearaunce of man but looketh earnestly on his inward behaui●r whervpon it is said in the Prophet Samuell Nec iuxta i●●uitum 〈◊〉 ego indica 〈◊〉 enim vidit as quae parem 〈…〉 cor For God see●th not as man seeth for man lookketh on the outwarde appearaunce but the Lord beholdeth the hart and iudgeth thereafter Againe Non secundum visionem indicabit neque secundum auditum aurium argu●● c. And he shall iudge not after the outward seeing of mans eyes nor after the hearing of the eares but after the very right and after the thought and intent of man Therefore if a man take héede and be wary what he doth in the sight of man much more ought he to be careful what he doth in y e sight and presence of almighty God When the body is clothed in a religious vesture we thinke it well and as beseemeth but what doth it help or auaile if y e mind beare stil a secular and sinful habit after the manner and fashion of the world such kéepe silence outwardly séeme in the eies of men as saints but let them looke that the mind with in be at rest from vaine thoughts and not cloyd or choked with worldly imaginations els all their holines is to smal purpose In the material Temple we knéele and stoupe lowe to the ground but what doth that profit vs if in y ● inward temple of our soule we stand sturdily vnreuerently against God and our superiors in disobeying his or their commandements Some fast and abstaine from many thinges which are good and of themselues doo not defile man but shoulde they not rather

refraine from suspition detraction and from all euill speaking one of another which indéede polluteth and defileth both other mens consciences and their owne also Many doo make gaye and adorne the materiall temple or Church and shewe great reuerence and deuotion in it but to what end is that saith y ● prophet Ezechiel When the temple of their soule is ful of serpents Idols abhominations of Egipt that is euill and vncleane thoughts well worthy to be auoided and suspended Wee sing and praise God with our tongue let vs looke that wee doo so likewise with our heart and minde We speake fayre and deuoutly wyth our mouth let vs meane as well in our soules or els it is not well The body is kept and contained within a little house or Cell let not the minde then be wandering about y ● huge wide world Wee account it well doone of vs if we vse oftentimes to accuse our selues of our sinnes before a Prieste our ghostly father but it is much better doone and more auayling to our soules health when we doo secretelie and earnestly accuse and confesse our sinnes to God with a true penitent and vnfeygned hatred of them and with a zealous and labouring intent to forsake them for the true loue and feare of God for an inwarde wounde must haue an inward medicine and none is able to forgiue sinne but hee that with the breath of his mouth confoundeth sinne and treadeth triumphantly vpon death hell and damnation If ye come to heare the worde of God which is the most necessary and onely foode of the soule heare it inwardly least it be sayd Audientes nō●●diunt They heare and heare not But heare Gods word so outwardly that you may saie with the Prophet Dauid Audiam quid loquatur in me Dominus Deus I wyll hearken what the Lord God speaketh in me wyth feruent desire to accomplish in deede that which is shewed in word that it may be said vnto you Blessed are they which heare the worde of God and keepe it that is as much to say as we should heare it with the eare of obedience which eare Dauid exhorteth the Kings daughter to incline shee whose beauty was inwardlie in hemmes of Gold as I spake before This haue I sayd that we shoulde not leane or trust too much to outward obseruaunces and ceremonies otherwise then the word of truth doth assigne whereto I add that they bee also little or nothing acceptable without the inward and deuout workyng goe therewith We may not leaue of the honourable and deuout customes and holye ordinaunces of the Church Haec oportuit facere et illa non omittere These ought ye to haue doone not to leaue the other vndoone as the outwarde must not bee left off so the other béeing the holy and inward obseruaunces are much more necessarie and they must néedes bee doone if we will haue anie profit of them S. Iohn therefore sayth in his Gospell Spiritus est Deus et eos qui adorant eum in spiritu et veritate oportet adorare God is a spirit and they that worshyp him must worship him in spyrit and in trueth Remember wee not the foolish Virgins who had Lampes of goodlie works outwardlie but they wanted that they should haue had inwardly I meane the Oyle of diuine grace which was the cause the bride groome knewe them not and so they were excluded from the marriage Therfore reare vp an altar in your inward temples euen in the very bottom and depth of your harts you that be the lyuing temples of God there set vp lights of heauenlie knowledge gette you learning bothe by doctrine and grace whereby you may worke teach and shewe examples of light make there your oblations of a méeke and contrite hart there make a swéet sauour to God with y ● burning coles of vnspotted loue and swéete incense of deuotion there knéele méekely with reuerent inclinations there make your protestations with lowlie feare earnest compunction of hart there erect vp your glorious Image of loue there vse your meditations and contemplations and there behold those two Images whereof I shewed you before The one is a goodlie great Image increat and incomprehensible that is GOD himselfe Deus charitas est God is loue The other our owne little Image our little loue created and caused by the Image of God as a little Image in a glasse but yet it is verie precious and good by meanes wherof the soule hath lyfe the ghostly sences y T I spake of And though our loue bee verie little nothing in comparison of y ● other diuine Image which is infinite not to bee equalled in that it excéedeth all thinges whatsoeuer Yet hee wyll haue ours vnto the likenes of his loue saying Hoc mand● vobis vt diligatis in Uicem sicut dilexi vos This I commaund you that you loue together as I haue loued you And many times he inciteth to loue one another and teacheth howe saying Sicut dilexit me pater et ego dilexi vos Manete in dilectione mea As the father hath loued mee euen so haue I loued you Continue you in my loue Agayne Greater loue then this hath no man that a man bestowe his life for hys freends yee are my freendes if you doo what soeuer I commaund you And a number like examples hath hee left vs of hys euerlasting loue that wee myght frame ours thereby towardes our neighbours which because it is of so great valewe and estimation let vs yet speake somewhat more thereof and hold our labour well spent in discoursing on so speciall a matter If wee wyll consider what is the fountayne life and soule of mans vertue and the very roote of all hys christian actions you shall sée that it is onely the true loue of Gods And whosoeuer hath his minde inwardly and thorow lie inflamed with the loue of GOD hee is the blessed man that kéepeth Gods word that fulfilleth al his law that neuer willeth the dooing of euill and euer delighteth in dooing well This loue of God that causeth such perfections in man is likewise called charity and he loueth not God perfectly that is without this charity The perfect loue of GOD cannot stande with any care or study for this lyfe the perfect loue of God abydeth not the coupling with any other loue the perfect loue of God knoweth no affection to kindred it knoweth no difference betwéene poore and rich it knoweth not what meaneth thine and mine it can not distinguish a foe from a fréende For he that truely and perfectly loueth God must loue God alone nothing beside God nor wyth God but loue all indifferently in God and for God We that say wee loue God when wee scant once a day remember him and yet neuer remember wee God in such manner but that more often and more earnestly we remember other things in saying then that