and serued The Sunne shall grow darke not as now it doth somtymes by naturall causes or in respect that any cloude may ouershadow it or because the Moone may cast it self betweene it and the earth as it hapneth in the case of an Eclipse but it is to be obscured by a supernaturall and miraculous cause and so it is to be vnderstood that for a while it shall loose the whole light it had The Moone shall also loose her light The Stars shall fall from heauen Ioel. 2. either because when they are without light it shall seeme to be as if they were fallen or els for that in very deed they shall dislodge themselues from that high firmament where they are fixt and for some tyme shall fall from thence and deteine themselues in the ayre till they returne againe into their place The powers of the heauen shal be moued that is those celestiall bodies with their naturall vertue shall tremble and so shift their places as in an earthquake the earth is wont to do or if it be vnderstood of Angells the meaning is how in that day they shall make some kind of spiritual demōstration motion of great admiratiō The Sea shal be troubled shal be moued in a most wōderful māner and with the waues thereof shall make such a hideous noyse as will astonish the whole world oppresse and afflict with excessiue feare and horrour the harts of mortall men will make them euen whither againe with woe The Earth shall tremble 2. Pet. 3. and shal be open in many partes and shall disclose euen the pits of hel The Ayre with the same Earth and Sea shall burne by that most ardent ouerflowing of fire which shall consume al the liuing bodyes of fishes beasts and men God in his law commanded the children of Israel Deut. c. 13. v. 20. that when they should be to fight against the Idolatours and Pagans who dwelt in the Land of Promise and whome he was pleased to punish for their sinnes not only that they should kill the men but euen the very beasts which did them seruice and so in particuler he b A sign of this truth in the old Testamēt exacted this of Saul when he went to fight against the Amalecites and because he did not punctually comply with this cōmandment but suffered some of the Cattle to liue God was offended Saul was punished 1. Reg. 3. Let vs now see why God did not content himselfe with causing the men who had sinned to be put to death but the beasts also which had no fault It was to make men vnderstand and feele that sinne is so great a mischeife and is so worthy to be abhorred and punisht and that God doth indeed so much abhor it that it is a most cōuenient thing not onely to punish sinners with eternall tormēts death but to destroy also and consume and as it were to chastice the creatures wherof they did serue help thēselues towards their sinnes Therfore is it that resoluing in the Vniuersall Iudgment to chastice the wickednes of all men in a most complete manner he will not content himselfe to deliuer ouer sinners themselues to those eternall ardours of fire those other immense paines of hell but to the creaturs also wherof they made some vse in sinning he giues as it were a kind of payne and punishment in detestation of the sins themselues as also to the end that they may be purged and cleered frō that indecency and deformity which grew to them by the seruice which they did to sinners For thus it is that the Sunne the Moone Stars which did illuminate sinners whilest they were committing their sinnes shal be depriued by him for a whyle of all the light beauty which they haue he shall conuert it into thick darknes And as for the Sea the Earth Ayre which gaue food to sinners did maintaine them whilest they were offending God he will make them as it were feare and tremble will depriue them for a tyme of the naturall quality and disposition they haue and will consume and kill all those liuing creatures and plantes which were the food of sinners and wil destroy al those buildings which were the habitation of wicked men And thus through the mutation demonstration desolation which in the Iudgment God will shew in al the creatures which serued sinners he doth teach and testify the infinite hatred which he hath against sin And he doth induce perswade vs that now through the knowledge of this truth we may be drawn to abhor detest them and that with a penitentiall holy life we may cleanse our soules as well as possibly we can frō al fault offence of his diuine Maiesty 2. Pet. 3. S. Peter c This truth is insinuated by S. Peter doth admonish vs of the good effect which we are to draw from the change which is to be made vpon the creatures by saying to this effect Since there is a day of the vniuersall Iudgement to come wherin all the creatures for hauing serued sinners are to be purged with fire and burnt inferre my brethren from hence how diligent and constant it is fit for you to be in the leading of a good life and how holily and purely you are to conuerse in this world and how vigilant and carefull it will becom you to be in performing the works of piety towards God and of mercy towards your Neighbour expecting with a liuely fayth that day of our Lord and approaching and drawing neere to him with speed not with paces of the body but with the desires affections of the soule desiring and louing this day and preparing to see your selues at that tyme accompanyed with purity of life and with the exercise of vertue CHAP. V. How Christ our Lord discouereth the hate which he carryeth towardes sin by the so particuler account which he taketh of them all ANOTHER mystery of this diuine Iudgement discouering the mighty demonstration and detestatiō which God doth expresse against the faults whereby he is offended is the so particuler accompt which he will take of vs which we all must giue of all the facultyes or powers al the senses both of our body and soule of all the creaturs which we haue vsed and a If you beleeue this point of fayth to be true I shall not need to wish you to looke wel about you of all the workes which we haue performed all the wordes which we haue spoken and all the thoughts which we haue conceaued how little soeuer they fall out to haue beene without leauing out so much as any one idle word or any one idle thought We shall giue accompt of how we imployed our Vnderstanding if we did set it on worke vpon the inquiry and search of God and his truth and in contemplating on him his holy Cōmandments and the workes of
and who powre out the drink of spiritual comfort and ease to such as are afflicted and deiected that so they may beare their miseryes with patience who cloath their soules with vertues and celestiall guifts who are naked depriued of al spiritual graces and who cure and recouer out of their miserable infirmityes and who draw and deliuer out of that horrible captiuity them who are sicke of sinne and are taken prisoners and made slaues by Sathan Most certain it is that although all they who expresse mercy towards their neighbours shall be esteemed honored in that Tribunal shal be sublimed with glory and royall dignity yet these others who haue imparted it towards the soules of mē shal be much more esteemed and honoured by Christ our Lord and his Angels shal be raised to greater glory more aduaūced in the kingdom of heauen It is also to be considered that although these works of mercy whether they be corporall or spirituall and which respect the spirituall or corporall good of our neighbour are excellent and of great value and merit as we haue already sayd yet the interiour and exteriour workes of Fayth Hope Charity and Religion which haue e How highly gratefull those acts of vertue are which do immediatly respect Almighty God imediate relation to Almighty God and to the worship seruice which is due to him as our God and our Creatour are more excellent and of greater value merit then the workes of mercy which ayme but at the cōfort of our neighbours And so much more as any vertue doth draw neere approach to God so much more is the vertue more excellent Now the vertues which are called Theological which are Fayth Hope Charity do looke vp and serue immediatly honour Almighty God belieuing his truth and louing his goodnes and hoping in his mercy And the vertue of Religion doth respect and exercise the worship and veneration which is due to God as being soueraigne Authour and Lord of all thinges And these vertues being more excellent then that of Mercy towardes our Neighbour it is cleare that those faythfull Christians who with firme and liuely fayth haue beleeued in Christ our Lord and who confessed his fayth in the face of Tyrants who placed all their confidence in Christ searching with care after his glory and resigning themselues entirely to his most holy will and honoring him reuering him with true worship with pure prayers and with an exact performance of their promises and the vowes which they make to his diuine Maiesty certaine I say it is that in the day of his diuine Iudgment they shall be more esteemed and honoured by Christ for hauing done and suffered these thinges then either they or any others shall be for any other inferiour works which they may haue wroght towardes their Neighbours And therefore the reward of glory being so illustrious and so high which for the workes of spirituall and corporall mercy they shall receaue considering that yet the reward which these others shall obtayne is to be much more eminent and great and since notwithstāding that the kingdome which is to be giuen in reward of these workes of mercy is celestiall eternall yet for these acts of faith and Charity and Religion a greater and a better portion shall be allotted and set out in the same kingdome let vs be most diligent in the leading of a good life in cōseruing our soules pure and cleane in exercysing our selues in the acquisitiō of vertue And let vs be full of feruour towards the works of mercy whether they be spirituall or corporall euery one according to his Tallent O happy f Conclusion and for euer most happy they who shall thus imploy themselues Happy because they were elected from all eternity by almighty God Happy because they were called in Tyme to his faith and Religion and were instructed therin Happy because they did correspond to that vocation of God and did begin to lead a good life Happy because they did contynue therin Happy because if they fell they quickly rose againe by penance and were constant therin And Happy beyond all happies because when our Lord came to call them to accompt at the houre of their death he found them imployed in a good life and watchfull in the exercise of good workes expecting the tyme of his comming to receaue the reward of their labours at his mercifull and most liberall handes For it is sayd by no lesse then Truth it selfe Luc. 12. Happy is that seruant whome his Lord when he commeth shall find watching and imployed in the discharge of his duety with fidelity and prudence and complying with his obligations whether they be common to all Christians or particulerly belonging to his state I tell you as an vndoubted truth that to such a seruant as this his Lord shall deliuer vp the possession of all his goods That is Christ our most mercifull Lord and our God will rayse him vp from the blessinges of grace in this life to the blessinges of glory in the next and from the basenes of this earth to raigne eternally together with himselfe in heauen Amen THE CONCLVSION TO THE READER MAKE accompt good Reader that this discourse is a Letter this which now thou art reading is the Postscript of it Thou hast seene the torments of Hell and the ioyes which are imparted to the elect in heauen Thou hast seene that if thou dye in mortall sinne thou wilt for euer be chayned in those torments for euer be depriued of those ioyes Take heed therefore of all sinne and especially take heed of the sinne either of Schisme or Heresy which are of the greatest that can be cōmitted The nature of Heresy consisteth in this That a man will make election of some one doctrine or more which is contrary to the beleefe of that true Church which is celebrated in the Creed of the first Councell of Nice to be One to be Holy to be Catholike to be Apostolike Be sure thou be of that one true Church which soeuer that be for thogh myself be resolued yet I will not heere handle that question by way of Controuersy but there is but one wherin a Christian can be saued one in the faith which it professeth howsoeuer it may be accounted many in respect of the infinite persons which it conteyneth and consequently of the particular Churches which it imbraceth The nature Wher in the nature of heresy doth indeed consist therfore of heresy doth not consist in the multitude or quality of the Articles of Religion which are held in difference from the dotrine and direction of the holy Catholike Church but it consisteth properly in the pride and presumption of that hart which dares preferre a priuate opinion of any one or seuerall Countries or any interpretation of holy Scripture which interpretation is also no more then a For he will make the scriptur affirm
vs it will infinitely concerne vs both instantly and exactly to cast vp all the accōpts of our Conscience to be cordially sorry for all our sinns to confesse them distinctly to purpose an amendment firmely and to satisfy for them intierly For this is a busines which must not be dispatcht after a cursory and superficiall manner but we are to consider with what care we would consult about our estats if they were in danger or about our liues if they lay on bleeding And heer we must not faile to vse so much more deligēce then there as Eternity is of more importance then a moment of Tyme And in fine we are to do it so as at the hower of our death when we shall go to stand before our Iudge we would be glad that we had done it For without this true repentance which signifieth a flight from sinne with griefe and supposeth a flight towards God with loue it is no Faith in Christ our Lord which will serue the turne to preserue vs out of that lake of eternall torment But rather the more knowledge we shall haue had of him by Faith the greater will our torment be if we do not pēnance for the sinns which we shal haue cōmitted against that Maiesty of his Which the same Fayth telleth vs to be infinite and that his hatred against sinne is also infinite and that as with strange mercy he will assume to incomprehensible immortall ioy the soule which at that day he shall find to be free from sinne so in whomsoeuer he he shall perceaue that sin remaines the same soule will he then instantly adiudg to that sea of fire brimston where it will saile in sorrow blaspheme and rage for all eternity To the pretious Death Passion of Christ our Lord we owe must acknowledg amongst innumerable others this vnspeakeable benefit for which let all the Angells for euer blesse praise his holy name That through the infinite merit therof we may be receiued to grace by meanes of true contrition and pēnance how often and how wickedly soeuer we shall haue offēded that high Maiesty But that Death Passion will neuer saue the soule of any one creature vnlesse both that mystery and all the other mysteries of Catholike faith be well beleeued al sinne be cordially detested which sinne is a monster so fierce and cruell as that it did cost the very sonne of God his life By that life and by that death I begge that thou wilt giue ouer to trample with thy durty feete in the sacred Bloud Royall of our B. Sauiour which he shed for thee vpon the Crosse For so thou dost preferring Barabbas before him as often as thou cōmittest any mortall sinne and so long thou hast continued to doe it as thy soule hath beene spotted with that crime Or if thou haue so little of the noble in thee as to be moued more by thine owne interest then by the consideration of that immense benefit which the foūtain of Maiesty vouchsafed with such excesse of loue to this wicked creature man then do I coniure thee euen by that very interest of thine owne that instantly thou make hast into thy selfe and that discharging thy soule by pēnance of whatsoeuer may be offensiue to the pure eyes of God thou implore his mercy now which may saue thee from that inflexible iustice of his in the last dreadful day At which tyme euen this very paper will appeare to thy extreme and euerlasting confusion if thou forbeare to serue thy selfe of this admonition Heauen and earth shall passe away but the word of God shall remayne for euer Matth. 24. v. 30. And that word hath thus aduised vs and thus assured vs by the mouth of the most B. Apostle S. Paul speaking to the Galathiās Gal. 6.7 Nolite errare Deus non irridetur Quae enim seminauerit homo haec metet Quoniam qui seminat in carne sua de carne metet corruptionem qui autem seminat in spiritu de spiritu metet vitam aeternam The plaine and cleere sense whereof is as followeth Take heed you frame not certaine fantasticall and false opinions to your selues as if you could ouer-reach Almighty God euacuate his truth make him belieue that he gaue you a free law wherby to liue thē indeed he gaue But be well assured that the very truth is this Let euery man aliue consider seriously what he sowes for iust so and no otherwise shall he reape If you sow works of flesh which are particulerly cited before in this Preface out of a former Chapter of S. Paul to the same Galathians yow shall reape nothing but corruption but destruction but euerlasting damnation But if yow sowe workes of the spirit which are wholy contrary to those others and are there expressed to be Charity Ioy Peace Patience Benignity Goodnes Longanimity Meekenes Fayth Modesty Continency Chastity yow shall in vertue of that spirit wherewith you liue and whereby you are to walk passe on from this transitory to an eternall life then at the most liberal hands of God you shal receaue a most precious crowne of immortall glory A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS OF THIS DISCOVRSE chapter 1 HOW the office of being our Iudg doth belong to Christ our Lord as he is man and of the great benefite which God imparteth to vs in giuing him to be our Iudge Chap. I. chapter 2 Of the great desire which Christ our Lord hath for as much as concerneth him not to condemne any one in his iudgmēt but to saue them al. Chap. II. chapter 3 Of the benefit which Christ our Lord imparteth to vs in giuing vs to vnderstand and feele the grieuousnes of sinne by the meanes and manner of his Iudgement to the end that we may in tyme do pennance for it Chap III. chapter 4 How we are to haue great sense of the grieuousnes of sinne by reason of the demonstrations which shall be made by all the creatures of God before the Iudgement Chap. IIII. chapter 5 How Christ our Lord discouereth the hate which he carryeth towardes sinne by the so particuler account which he taks thereof Chap. V. chapter 6 How Christ our Lord declares to vs the detestation which he carryeth against sinne whereof the wicked are conuinced by that sentence which he pronounceth against them Chap. VI. chapter 7 How Christ our Lord discouereth the grieuousnes of sinne the hatred which he carryeth against it by the last sentence whereby he is to condemne the wicked and by the punishment which he inflicteth vpon them Chap. VII chapter 8 How the grieuousnes of sinne is yet more discouered by the causes of the Iudgmēt which are alleadged by Christ our Lord. Chap. VIII chapter 9 How a Christian is to draw a detestation of sinne out of the consideration of this Iudgement of God and great vigilancy in the leading of a good life Chap. IX chapter 10 Of other Considerations from which
the right vse of what I gaue thee imploying it well in the exercise of vertue in the increase of merit and in the multiplication of good works And so when he had rebuked this sloathfull seruant he commaunds the ministers of his Iustice to excecute the sentence which he giues against him when he sayth Take that vnprofitable seruant and cast him into exteriour darknes which is that of Hell where there is lamentation and euerlasting torment through the paines of intollerable both heat and could other torments also which are to be endured there CHAP. VI. How Christ our Lord declares the detestation which he carryeth against the sinnes of wicked men whereof they are conuinced by the sentence which he pronounceth against them THESE are the things wherof a man is to giue accompt in that diuine Iudgment of God And this is that which now is to be considered that so he may know how deeply God doth feele the weight of sinne and consequently how to moue himselfe to detest it And withall let him ponder how after that Christ our Lord hath demāded this accompt of thē whom he findeth to be culpable for not hauing complyed with these obligations but proceeded contrary to his commaundements How I say that most iust Iudge will conuince them in that terrible Tribunall before all the Inhabitants both of heauen and earth saying to them in his manner You a If this do not mooue thee pray to God that it may for els thou art in ill case men why haue you thus offended mee why haue your done me so many Iniuries I being your God of infinity Maiesty Goodnes and wisedome I being your Creatour your Father and your Sauiour who for you did giue my life and shed my bloud Why haue you spoken so many wordes in affront of me Why haue you wrought so many wicked deeds in dishonour and disobedience to my Law Why did you consent to those bad desires and thoughts whereby you came to cast me vnder the feet of those creatures esteeming louing them more then me Me whom you ought to haue praysed glorifyed with your tongues whome you should haue serued and obeyed with your workes whome you should alwayes haue desired and loued with your whole harts for whom you ought to haue giuē your liues a thousand liues if you had been Maisters of so many Why haue you so dishonoured me transgressing trāpling vpō my Precepts Why haue you exchāged me with so extreme contempt for those most base aduantages and gayns of earth and for those most vaine delights guifts of creatures Since you confessed me by your wordes to be your Lord and God why would you deny me by your workes Tell me you men since I haue imparted to you so many supernaturall guifts which I gayned for you by my Passion Death A guift of Fayth and Baptisme whereby I made you Christians a guift of Grace whereby I adopted you for my Children so many Vertues whereby you might adorne your soules be enabled to worke well The guift of Sacraments which might conferre and conuey my Grace into your soules and innumerable inspirations which might quicken you vp towardes vertue and so many most high and most pretious guifts which I purchased at my so great cost why haue you set them at so low a rate VVhy haue you despised thē and permitted them to passe away without being of any profit to you at all More account did you make of the vanity of your descent according to your linage of flesh bloud then of the fayth of Christians and the adoption of the sonnes of God More account did you make of money which is made of dead mettall of the goods of this life and of the vaine punctillios of honour then of the blessing of my grace and of those immense eternall treasures of my glory I hauing giuen you such a holy Law a Doctrine so pure so profitable and so celestiall that you might obserue and keepe it hauing giuen you so many Prophets Apostles holy Doctours so many Preachers and teachers of my Ghospell to the end that they all might counsaile perswade you to the obseruation of my Commandmēts and to the accomplishment of my will yea and my selfe being come visibly downe to earth in flesh bloud to teach preach this Law to you by the very wordes of myne owne mouth why haue you made no more account of this law nor complyed with my will nor obeyed my wordes Why would you rather do that which Sathā that did tempt you to thē that which was commanded you by me VVhy would you rather follow and obey that peruerse enemy who abhorred you and endeauoured nothing but your damnation then me who am your God who was your Father who loued you and did procure your saluation euerlasting glory Tel me yet further O you vngrateful mē since it is I who gaue you life health and temporal goods space of tyme that you might sacrifice it all to my seruice how commeth is to passe that you would needs imploy it in offence of me I gaue you life I say and health and strength whereby you might haue acquired vertues and haue exercised good workes and so you might haue b throgh the passiō promise of Christ our Lord good workes arriue to be meritorious and not of themselues merited eternall happines And you on the other side haue imploied it in the pursuite of vaine honour of pleasing men for certaine interests which passe and perish and in the search of those deadly delights which now are carrying you on towards eternall torments I gaue you temporall meanes for the necessary supply of this life and that you might relieue the miseries of your Neighbours and you haue wasted them vpon the foolish complemēts of the world and vpon banquets which serued not for necessitie but for gluttony and vpon certaine attires ornaments which did but serue for vanity and vpon sports and other vicious imployments I gaue you Tyme to the end that you might imploy it vpon praying and ruminating and meditating vpon my benefits and mercyes and vpon the Mysteryes of my law and in performing workes which might haue relation to euerlacting life but you haue wasted it vpon vnprofitable conuersations and vpon wicked deedes which deserue to be rewarded with eternall fire These complaintes doth God make against sinners by his Prophet and there will he make them at that day with greater demonstration of mislike then euer till that tyme he will haue shewed And thereby he will conuince them all they shal be able to make no excuse or defēce nor haue so much as one word to answere and so shall that be fullfilled which the Psalmist sayth Psal 106. All wickednes that is all wicked men shal haue the mouth stopped vp Let vs now consider what euery one of these sinners will thinke within himselfe in that point of the
a stiffe and effectuall purpose to put in executiō all those meanes which ar either necessary or but euen conuenient for the obteyning of this kingdome of heauen Now for the entring into heauen it is necessary to cast sinne away For Sinne giues impediment to al approach thither and they who haue the soule loaden with any one mortall sinne cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen Let vs therfore clense our soules from former sinne by penance and let vs resist all temptations least els we may returne to fall againe according to the aduice of the Apostle who saith Houlding fast these promises of God which are so great and so certaine and do concerne those sublyme guifts of grace and glory let vs my brethren much beloued clense our selues from all spot of sinne whether it be interiour or exteriour He saith from all sinne because it will behooue vs to be clensed from al and we must fly with diligence from all From mortall sins because they are against Charity do separate vs from God and from veniall sins because they are contrary to the will of God and they weaken the soule and dispose it to commit mortall sinne consequently to forfaite the kingdome of heauen So also for entring into heauen it is necessary to do good works such as are acceptable to God as Christ our Lord affirmeth saying Matt. 19◠If thou wilt enter into that eternall life which is true life keepe the commaundments Complying b It must stir vs vp to the practise of all vertue therefore with this obligation let vs performe holy workes wherby we may fulfill the commaundement of God and let vs put in execution the vertues of Humility Chastity Mercy Iustice Temperance Fortitude Religion and Charity by which if they be wrought in state of grace and do growe out of Charity they will make vs worthy of eternall life Besides c It exhorteth vs to perseuerance for the obteyning of this kingdome of heauen it is necessary that we continue in the good begun till we end in doeing well as our Lord did teach vs saying Matt. 24. He that contynueth to the end shall be saued Let vs therfore perseuere in good life and although the deuills comber vs with their temptations though men do persecute vs with their iniuries and though our Lord God do trye vs by many tribulatiōs let vs not turne backe nor be dismaied nor suffer our selues to fall downe to inordinate sorrow nor impatience nor disconfidence but let vs continually make our recourse to God and praying to him with humility let vs beg strengh at his hands wherwith to suffer and constancy that we may perseuere confidence that we may not dispaire So doth the Apostle aduise the Galathians saying Galat. 6. We who are liuing well and do exercise our selues in good workes let vs not faint nor giue ouer no nor growe slacke in the good course begunne but let vs contynue and grow therin with great constancy For in due tyme we shall gather the fruit if we doe not faint That is to say we shall eat the fruit of glory which shall haue no end Moreouer d We must not thinke of finding our heauen in this life if we meane to haue it in the next for the arriuing to enioy celestial beatitude we must despise the goodes and pleasures of this world And it is necessary that we place not our hartes or endes in them nor that we seeke for comfort in them as Christ our Lord did signify to vs by saying Luc. 6. Woe be to you who are the louers of riches and who haue placed your comfort in the cōmodityes of this life For this reason it will be necessary in most particuler manner to contemne all the commodityes of this life namely riches honours and pleasures as poore things transitory and base for by despising them we shall not place our end nor seeke for comfort in them This is therefore that fruit which we are to gather from the knowledge and desire of celestiall beatitude For knowing the greatnes and beauty and valew of heauenly things we grow quickly and clearely to see the vilenes poornes of such as be earthly and by desiring and tasting eternall things we grow instantly to loose the loue and tast of all thinges transitory And thus shall we perfectly accomplish that which the Apostle asketh at the hands of all the faythfull saying Coloss 3. If you be raysed vp with Christ seeke the things that are aboue That is e A place of S. Paul excellently pondered to say Since you are risen vp in soule to a spirituall life of grace with hope to be raysed vp in due tyme to an immortall and glorious life both in body and soule in imitation of Christ our Lord who rose vp from the dead to an immortal and glorious life seek you with your thoghts with your desirs with your good works and with continuall prayer the kingdom of heauen And since Christ our Lord who is your head is seated at the right hand of his Father possessing and enioying euen as man the greatest anthority and the greatest felicity of glory which he did euer communicate in Tyme or will euer communicate for all Eternity you that are members of his take gust and sauour in heauenly thinges and place not your delight and loue vpon those of the earth but desire those others so from the hart and with so great purity of life that you may euen by experience find the gust and most pure sauour of them addresse your life in order to this end of eternall glory which you loue and for which you hope This efficacious purpose determinate resolution to cleanse the soule from all vice to imploy it with perseuerance in good workes and cordially to despise earthly thinges is the vse which we are to make of the knowledg and desire of celestiall beatitude as hath beene sayd And it is most iust due that so we do and that for the going through with this enterprize which we are to make vpon heauen we be content to vndertake all labour and to encounter with any difficulty All the things f A plaine demonstration and I am in good hope that it will cōuince thee of this life which are of any valew are able to giue but the least cōtentment do cost some trouble and in all them some difficulty is to be endured The husband-mā for gathering in of a little corne doth manure and plough the ground before he sowes and after he hath sowed and that the blade is vp and the corne is growne is fayne first to cleanse it and then to sheere it with much labour The Sheepheard for the breeding of his poore flocke doth content himselfe to endure the heats and coldes and raines and windes and night-watches All Marchants and Factors and all the Maryners conductors who are of seruice to thē in their negotiations do