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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21061	A treatise of patience. Written by Father Francis Arias, of the Society of Iesus, in his second part of the Imitatio[n] of Christ our Lord. Translated into English	Arias, Francisco.; Tobie, Matthew, Sir, 1577-1655.	1630 (1630)	STC 743; ESTC S115340	63,854	238

great Humility and Patience which the Saint would exercise in this wracke theÌ„ the Mercy which he would haue exercised if the goods had not bene lost And so without all faile the profit which the Saint drew from theÌ„ce was admirably great he receiuing it with a good will and giuing God harty thankes for the same and humbling himselfe much by the knowledge of his sinnes in regard whereof he confessed that God had sent him that losse to clense him more perfectly from those sinnes Saint Chrisostome teaches vs this truth and confirmes it by the example of holy Iob saying thus Nor onely the doing of good but the suffering of ill obtaines a high reward in the sight of God and Iob seemes to haue profited more in vertue by the afflictions which he endured then by the good deeds which he performed For really it was not so illustrious so high an act in him wheÌ„ with the wooll of his sheepe he clad the naked set his house open to the destitute that they might take parte of the goods he had as when hearing that the fier had consumed his stocke and that his house was fallen and his fortune ouerthrowen he accepted of that losse at the hands of God and thanked him for it And a greater victory did he obtaine of the enemy and he confounded him more in giuing thankes to God vpoÌ„ the losse of his goods then in bestowing theÌ„ vpoÌ„ poore people For certeinly it is an act of greater vertue to endure the losse of goods with a generous gratefull minde to God then to bestow almes vpoÌ„ the poore Nor is it a thing to be admired for a man to giue God hearty thankes when he is in good estate when things succeed prosperously with him but vpon the arriuall of mischances and in the losse of temporall goods to giue harty thaÌ„ks to God and to esteeme such contradictions for benefits is a very admirable thing and giues a very excellent testimony of great vertue This is the discourse of Saint Chrisostome Let vs therefore serue our selues of these examples and testimonies of Christ our Lord and of his Saints to make vs suffer all losse of temporall goods with Patience Let vs so much esteeme of of the spiritual health of our soules that whatsoeuer may be profitable to vs for them wee may value as a great mercy and gift of God And since the losse of teÌ„porall goods giues vs matter and occasion for the exercise of Charity towards God by louing it because he loues it and for the exercise of Patience by enduring it and accepting it willingly because God sends it and because therby we discerne the loue which God carries towards vs and the care he hath of our saluation since he giues vs helpes and ministers vs occasions whereby wee may serue him the better and so profit more let vs esteeme of euery temporall losse for a very great benefit and mercy of God and as for such let vs thanke and praise him saying with holy Iob. chap. 1. It is God who gaue mee this temporall blessing and it is he who hath taken it away as himselfe was pleased so hath he proceeded with mee Most iust and holy was his will both in giuing it and in taking it and his holy will the blessed for euer THE VII CHAPTER Of the Patience Wherewith wee are to endure corporall infirmities and of the example which Christ our Lord hath giuen vs herein ANother euill of punishmeÌ„t and very vsuall and common in the life of man is corporall infirmities and feauers and seueral other paines torments and wounds which he suffers by reason whereof he is in great need of Patience we must fetch it also in this kinde from the example of Christ our Lord. And though our most blessed Lord had no naturall infirmities at all nor was it fit that he should haue any because these are wont to proceed from some defect of coÌ„plexion or natural faculty of the body or from some disorder in life yet all the paines and torments of his most sacred Passion may serue for a most efficacious motiue to make vs support all kinde of those infirmities with Patience which may happen to vs in this life and particularly the paine torment of thirst which he suffered vpoÌ„ the Crosse the being so forsaken abandoned as then he was For that which meÌ„ are much troubled with in their sicknesse in their sicknesse is the paine and torment which sicknesse put them to and the want of that assistance seruice which is necessary for the cure or ease at least of the infirmity al this was found extreaÌ„ly in that thirst which Christ our Lord endured vpon the Crosse The thirst which Christ our Lord suffered was most vehemeÌ„t First by reason of the incomparable labours vexations which he had suffered all that day and the night before and secondly because by the hurts and wounds which they had giuen him he had shed either all or in a manner all the blood out of his veines and by the waie as he went and by the vexation and labour to which he was put he had sweat away all the humour of his sacred body which then was growen all consumed and dry And to this it must be added that from the supper of the night before and in all that day following he had not druÌ„ke so much as one drop of water Now if any one of these thinges be wont to cause great thirst as wee see in men who are wounded and haue shed much blood and in them who haue laboured and sweat much and in them also who haue not drunke of a long time before what kinde of thirst shall that haue bene which was endured by Christ our Lord Infallibly it was most extreame the torment which it caused was grieuous beyond any thing which we are able to expresse And now declaring the paine and torment which he felt thereby he said thus I thirst and the remedy and comfort which he obtained for the ease thereof was that one of the soldiers tooke a spunge and wetting it in wine which was spoyled and growen vineger and mingled with gall he tyed it to a long cane and so applied it to his sacred mouth and our Lord tooke thereof not to drinke it downe because it was not fit that he should drinke of so deadly a thing but he tooke it to haue a taste thereof he tooke as much as might serue to afflict torment his taste so to suffer the more for vs. So doth the deuout Lanspergius declare saying Our Lord vnderstanding well how bitter that drinke was which they gaue him did yet take therof through his great loue to vs not so swallow it downe but onely to afflict his tongue and taste with bitternes that so he might take torment in that parte of him from which sinne grew in vs. For Eue committed her sinne by tasting of the forbidden fruite and by

that chief fruite of his most sacred Passion which are those spiritual and celestiall blessings through which we possesse God heer by grace afterward by eternall glory And therfore doth God giue vs afflictions and paines in this life not because our affliction or paine is pleasing to him but for that incomparable benefit which he knowes that wee ar to obtaine by meanes herof and which he ordained from all eternity to bestowe vpon vs in reward of that Patience wherwith wee beare it This is said by Rusbrochius And now by this consideration must wee faithfull Christians be greatly moued and encouraged to suffer corporall sicknesse and all other euills of punishment with great contentment For if the diuell as Saint Iohn Chrysostome saith when he propoundes to the heart of man some temporary and euen momentary delight the fruite and punishment whereof are most grieuous and eternall torments doth induce and ouercome him so farre as to winne him to expose himselfe to so great a misery for so fleÌ„der a delight how much more is it reason that wee who are the faithfull seruants of Iesus Christ when he proposes to our hearts those immense and eternall ioyes of heauen be moued and perswaded to receiue a sicknes or some other light and short trouble and to endure it with Patience which bringes forth such fruite and reward after it as is eternall life and an euerlasting kingdom of glory and aboue all which produces the fruite of pleasing and glorifying Almighty God which is incomparably the greatest reward and fruite which can be conceiued THE IX CHAPTER Wherein it is confirmed by the example of Saints how great the fruite of sicknes and other tribulation is and how this is an effect of Gods mercy which he she was towards his friends BEcause it is of so great importance to haue an vnderstanding feeling of this truth namely that it is a worke of vnspeakable loue in God to send vs sicknesses and other afflictions which he expresses toward his greatest friends and he prooues and perfects them thereby and makes theÌ„ worthy of most beautifull and most pretious crownes of glory wee will confirme it by the example of some very emiment Saints Timothy that holy Bishop and the disciple of Saint Paule was sicke of a paine in his stomacke 1. Tim. 5. which is a grieuous and irkesome disease and had also many other infirmities And Saint Paule louing him much and very tenderly and well knowing the great need he had of health that so he might with gust vndergoe all those difficulties which the office of a Bishop exacted at his hands did not yet take away this sicknes nor desire of Almighty God that it be taken away He cured other sicke persons Act. 9. and that with so great facility that it cost him no more theÌ„ to put of his girdle or to take out some handkercher which had wiped of his sweat then to giue it that it might be laid vpon those sicke persons and instaÌ„tly the men were cured And he obtained so very easily that which he vsed to aske of God as that begging once the liues of two hundred seaueÌ„ty and six persons who were going with him to Rome and were in danger of perishing by the way God did graÌ„t the suite and freed them from death at his request and yet to this disciple of his whoÌ„ he loued so much he neither gaue health by miracle nor did he beg the cure of God but permitted him to continue sicke as he was And for some ease in those infirmities which he had he gaue noe other theÌ„ that ordinary remedy which any vulgar friend would haue prescribed saying doe not still drinke water alone but take a little wine for that paine of stomacke which you endure and for the many other infirmities which you suffer But why then did not Saint Paule free his disciple Timothy from these sicknesses Because he knew that they were great testimonies of the loue which God bore him and that they were profitable to his soule by occasioning him to growe in Patience and humility and fauour in the sight of God Saint Gregory Nazianzen had many and grieuous sicknesses in his age they were both greater grew in effect to be continuall Amongst the rest he had the goute which tormented him much and so as that he could not stirre but carryed And thus howsoeuer he were of strong constitutioÌ„ his many acts of penaÌ„ce and continuall infirmities consumed him at last and he came to dy at the age of 65. yeares as Caesar Baronius collects by the writings of the Saint Notwithstanding that he was still so sicke he yet laboured much and by those labours he greatly benefited the Church and by his infirmities he greatly benefited himselfe for he carryed them with Patience had much comfort therein Saint Basil was tormented with most grieuous sicknesses and sometimes they brought him to the very dores of death Yea they were so continuall that the paine he suffered wheÌ„ he was best in health might passe for grieuous sicknesse in another Himselfe in his Epistles speaks therof and in one of them he saith I haue had many sicknesses and one of then hath succeeded another and now I am also sicke and there is scarce an houre of my life wherein I expect not my death And in another letter of his he saith If when I am best according to the apparance I haue of health they account mee amongst them who are giuen ouer from thence it may be vnderstood what kinde of thing I am when I am fallen into an expresse disease And it was matter of great admiratioÌ„ that vnder the waight of so many so great sicknesses he could labour so hard by writing disputing preaching gouerning and going as it were in pilgrimage to preach the Ghospell in diuers parts of the world that being so wasted with such paines of body and distempers of blood he should not slack one whit in the care and solicitude which he carryed in effect to all the Churches of the East which were mightly persecuted by heretikes And by meanes of these infirmities that most holy Doctor did mightily augment the merits of his most pure life Saint Gregory the Pope was exercised by Almighty God with extraordinary infirmities and most sharpe paines which continued a long time with him He had certaine seasons of the goute so long and tedious and which gaue him so excessiue paine that in one pang thereof it continued with him no lesse theÌ„ two yeares He saith thus in one of his Epistles I haue such torment by the goute that my life is grieuous to mee I daily faint vnder my paine and I expect the remedy of death He had also in his body an interiour ardour of heate which did as it were euen broyle and dry vp his very bowells And in all these infirmities and torments his heart was in such conformity to the wil of God he so greatly did desire

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