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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31380	Entertainments for Lent first written in French and translated into English by Sir B.B.; Sagesse évangélique pour les sacrez entretiens du Caresme. English	Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; Brook, Basil, Sir, 1576-1646?	1661 (1661)	Wing C1545_VARIANT; ESTC R35478	109,402	241

those devils which seek for rest but shall never find it Make me preserve inviolable the house of my conscience which thou hast cleansed by repentance and clothed with thy graces that I may have perseverance to the end without relapses and so obtain happinesse without more need of repentance The Gospel upon Munday the third week in Lent S. Luke 4. Jesus is required to do Miracles in his own Countrey ANd he said to them Certes you will say to me this similitude Physitian cure thy self as great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum do also here in thy Countrey And he said Amen I say to you that no Prophet is accepted in his own Conntrey In truth I say to you there were many widows in the dayes of Elias in Israel when the heaven was shut three years and six moneths when there was a great famine made in the whole earth and to none of them was Elias sent but into Sarepta of Sidon to a widow woman And there were many Leopers in Israel under Elizeus the Prophet and none of them made clean but Naaman the Syrian And all in the Synagogue were filled with anger hearing these things And they rose and cast him out of the City and they brought him to the edge of the hill whereupon their City was built that they might throw him down headlong But he passing through the midst of them went his way Moralities 1. THe malignity of mans nature undervalueth all that which it hath in hand and little esteems many necessary things because they are common The Sun is not countedâ—rare because it shines every day and the elements are held contemptible since they are common to the poor as well as the rich Jesus was despised in his own Countrey because he was there known to all the world and the disdain of that ungratefull Nation closed the hands of his great bounty Is it not a great unhappinesse to be weary and tyred with often communicating to be wicked because God is good to shut up our selves close when he would impart himself to us Men make little account of great benefits spiritual helps for that they have them present They must lose those favours to know them well and seek outrageously without effect what they have kickt away with contempt because it was easily possest 2. The choices and elections of God are not to be comprehendedwithin our thoughts but they should be adored by our hearts He is Master of his own favours and doth what he will in the Kingdomes of Nature Grace and Glory He makes Vessells of Potters earth of gold and silver He makes Holy-daies and working daies saith the Wise man his liberalities are as free to him as his thoughts We must not examine the reason why he doth elevate some and abase others Our eye must not be wicked because his heart is good Let us content our selves that he loves the humble and to know that the lowest place of all is most secure No man is made reprobate without justice no man is saved without mercy God creates men to repair in many that which he hath made and also to punish in the persons of many that which he hath not made 3. Iesus doth not cure his brethren and yet cures strangers to shew that his powers are not tied to any Nation but to his own will So likewise the graces of God are not to be measured according to the nature of him who recieves them but by the pure bounty of him who gives them The humility of some doth call him when the presumption of others doth estrange him The weak grounds of a dying law did no good to the Iews who disdained the grace of Iesus Christ And that disdain deprived them of their adoption of the glory of the New Testament of all the promises and of all Magistracy They lost all because they would keep their own wills Let us learn by the grace of God to desire earnestly that good which we would obtain effectually Persons distasted and surfeited cannot advance much in a spiritual life And he that seeks after perfection coldly shall never find it Aspirations THy beauties most sweet Iesus are without stain thy goodness without reproach and thy conversation without importunity God forbid I should be of the number of those souls which are distasted with Manna and languish after the Onions of Egypt The more I taste thee the more I incline to do thee honour Familiarity with an infinite thing begets no contempt but only from those whom thou dost dispise for their own faults O what high secrets are thy favours O what Abysses are thy graces We may wish and run But except thou cooperate nothing is done If thou cease to work all is undone I put all my happiness into thy hands It is thou alone which knowest how to chuse what we most need by thy soveraign wisdome and thou givest it by thy extream bounty The Gospell upon Thursday the third week in Lent S. Mat. 18. If thy Brother offend thee tell him of it alone BVt if thy brother shall offend against thee goe and rebuke him between thee and him alone if he shall hear thee thou shalt gain thy brother and if he will not hear thee join with thee besides one or two that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand And if he will not hear them tell the Church and if he will not hear the Church let him be to thee as the Heathen and the Publican Amen I say to you whatsoever ye shall bind upon earth shall be bound also in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose upon earth shall be loosed also in heaven Again I say to you that if two of you shall consent upon earth concerning every thing whatsoever they ask it shall be done to them of my Father which is in Heaven for where there be two or three gathered in my name there am I in the midst of them Then came Peter unto him and said Lord how often shall my brother offend against me and I forgive him untill seven times Iesus said to him I say not to thee untill seven times but untill seventy times seven times Moralities 1. THe Heavens are happy that they go alwaies in one measure in so great a revolution of ages do not make one false step but man is naturally subiect to fail He is full of imperfections and if he have any virtues he carries them like dust against the wind or snow against the sun This is the reason which teaches him that he needs good advice 2. It is somewhat hard to give right correction but much harder to receive it profitably Some are so very fair spoken that they praise all which they see and because they will find nothing amisse they are ordinarily good to no body They shew to those whom they slatter their virtues in great their faults in little they will say to those who are plunged in great disorders

which kills them and if you take from them the worm which makes them itch or the executioner who doth indeed torment them they believe you take away the chiefest of their felicity Happy is that soul which holds nothing so dear in this world but will forsake it willingly to find God and will spare nothing to gain Paradise 3. There is nothing more common nor so rare as man The world is full of vitious and unprofitable men But to find one very compleat in all good things is to find a direct Phenix There are more businesses without men then men without businesses For how many charitable employments might many lazy and idle persons find out So many poor mens affairs continue at a stand so many miserable creatures languish so many desolate persons long to find some man who with little trouble to himself would take some small care of their affairs and make up a little piece of their fortunes Jesus is the man of God desired of all ages to him we must apply our selves since he is both life and truth By him we may come to all happiness by him we may live in the fountains streams of life in him we may contemplate the chiefest of all truths Aspirations WHat patience have I in committing sins and how impatient am I in my sufferings for them I am ever most readie to execute vice unwilling to abide the punishment O good God there are many years in which I have retained an inclination to this disorder to that sin My soul is bound as it were with Iron chains in this unhappy bed wil there be no Angel to move the water for me But art not thou the Lord and Prince of Angels Then I most humbly beseech thee O blessed Saviour do thou command and by thy only word my affairs wil go well and receive a happy dispatch my body will become sound my soul innocent my heart at rest and my life an eternal Glory The Gospell upon Saturday the first week in Lent and the Sunday following out of St. Matthew 17. Of the Transfiguration of our Lord. ANd after six dayes Iesus taketh unto him Peter and Iames and Iohn his brother and bringeth them into a high mountain apart and he was transfigured before them And his face did shine as the Sun and his garments became white as Snow And behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with him And Peter answering said to Iesus Lord it is good for us to be here if thou wilt let us make here three tabernacles one for Thee one for Moses and one for Elias And as he was yet speaking behold a bright cloud overshadowed them And loe a voice out of the Cloud saying This is my well-beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear ye him And the Disciples hearing it fell upon their face and were sore afraid And Iesus came and touched them and he said to them Arise and fear not And they lifting up their eyes saw no body but onely Iesus And as they descended from the mount Iesus commanded them saying Tell the vision to no body till the Son of man be risen from the dead Moralities 1. THe words of the Prophet Osee are accomplished the nets and toils planted upon mount Tabor not to catch birds but hearts The mountain which before was a den for Tigers and Panthers according to the Story is now beautified by our Saviour and becomes a place full of sweetness and ravishments Jesus appears transfigured in the high robes of his glory The cloud made him a pavilion of gold the Sun made his face shine like it self The heavenly Father doth acknowledge his Son as the true Prince of glory Moses and Elias both appear in brightness the one bearing the Tables of the Law and the other carried in a burning Chariot as Origen saith which made the Apostles know him For the Hebrews had certain figures of the most famous men of their Nation in books They both as Saint Luke saith were seen in glory and Majesty which fell upon them by reflection of the beames which came from the body of Jesus who is the true fountain of brightness The Apostles lose theÌ„selves in the deliciousness of this great spectacle and by â—eeing more then they ever did desired to lose their eyes O that the world is most contemptible to him that knows how to value God as he ought So many fine powders so many pendents and favours of Glasse so many Towers and Columns of durt plastered over with gold are followed by a million of Idolaters To conclude so many worldly â—ewels are like the empty imaginations of a sick spirit not enlightened by the beams of truth Let us rely upon the word saith Saint Augustine which remains for ever while men passe like the water of a fountain which hides it self in the Spring shews it self in the stream and loseth it self at last in the Sea But God is alwayes himself there needs no Tabernacle made by the hands of man to remain with him for in Paradise he is both the God and the Temple 2. Tabor is yet but a small patern we must get all the piece we must go to the Palace of Angels and brightnesse where the Tabernacles are not made by the hands of men There we shall see the face of the living God clearly and at full There the beauties shall have no vails to hide them from us Our being shall have no end Our knowledges will not be subject to errour nor our loves and affections to displeasure O what a joy will it be to enjoy all and desire nothing to be a Magistrate without a successour to be a King with out an enemy to be rich without covetousnesse to negotiate without money and to be everliving without fear of death 3. But who can get up to this mountain except he of whom the Prophet speaks who hath innocent hands and a clean heart who hath not received his soul of God in vain to bury it in worldly pelf To follow Jesus we must transform our selves into him by hearing and following his doctrin since God the Father proposeth him for the teacher of mankind and commands us to hearken unto him We must follow his examples since those are the originalls of all virtues The best trade we can practise in this world is that of transfiguration and we may do it by reducing our form to the form of our Lord and walking upon earth like men in heaveÌ„ Then will the Sun make us have shining faces when purity shall accompany all our actions and intentions Our clothes shall be as white as snow when we shall once become innocent in our conversations we shal then be ravished like the Apostles and after we have been at mount Tabor we shall be blind to the rest of the world and see nothing but Jesus It is moreover to be noted that our Saviouâ— did at that time entertain himself with discourse of his great future

lost their money and their brains Their fathers are causes of their faults by gathering so much wealth for those who know not how to use it Yet if they have the true repentance of the prodigall child he must not deny them pardon But mercy must not be had of those who ask it by strong hand or seek it by a counterfeit sorrow Aspirations IT is an accursed wandring to travel into the countrey of nothing Where pleasure drops down as water from a storm the miserable consequences whereof have leaden feet which never remove from the heart Good God what a countrey is that where the earth is made of quicksilver which steals it self from under our feet when we think to tread upon it What a countrey is that where if a man gathered one bud of roses he must be forced to eat a thousand thorns and be companion with the most nasty filthy beasts in their stinking ordures and be glad to eat of their loathsome draffe for want of other meat Alas I have suffered and such a misery as this is necessary to make me remember the happinesse which I possessed in thy house O mercifull Father behold my prodigall soul which returns to thee and will have no other advocate but thy goodnesse which as yet pleads for me within thy heart I have consumed all which I had but I could not consume thy mercy For that is an Abysse which surpasseth that of my sins and miseries Receive me as a mercenary servant If I may not obtain the name of a sonne Why shouldst not thou receive that which is thine since the wicked spirits have taken that which was not theirs Either shevv me mercie or else shevv me a heart more fatherly then thine and if neither earth nor heaven can find the like to vvhom vvouldst thou have me go but to thy self vvho doest not yet cease to call me The Gospel upon the third Sunday in Lent S. Luke 11. Jesus cast out the Devil vvhich vvas dumb ANd he was casting out a devil and that was dumbe And when he had cast out the devil the dumbe spake and the multitudes marvelled And certain of them said in Belzebub the Prince of Devils he casteth out Devils And other tempting asked him a sign from Heaven But he seeing their cogitations said to them Every Kingdome divided against it self shall be made desolate and house upon house shall fall And if Satan also be divided against himself how shall his Kingdome stand because you say that in Belzebub I do cast out Devils And if I in Belzebub cast out Devils your children in whom do they cast out Therefore they shall be your judges But if I in the singer of God do cast out Devils surely the Kingdome of God is come upon you When the strong armed keepeth his court those things are in peace that he possesseth but if a stronger then he come upon him and overcome him he will take away his whole armour wherein he trusted and will distribute his spoyls He that is not with me is against me And he that gathereth not with me scattereth When the unclean spirit shall depart out of a man he wandreth through places without water seeking rest and not finding he saith I will return into my house whence I departed And when he is come he findeth it swept with a besome and trimmed Then he goeth and taketh seven other spirits worse then himself and entring in they dwell there And the last of that man be made worse then the first And it came to passe when he said these things a certain woman lifting up her voyce out of the multitude said to him Blessed is the womb that bare thee and the paps that thou didst suck But he said Yea rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it Moralities 1. THe Almond tree is the first which begins to flourish and is often first nipt with frost The tongue is the first thing which moves in a mans body and is soonest caught with the snares of Satan That man deserves to be speechlesse all his life who never speaks a word better then silence 2. Jesus the eternall word of God came upon earth to reform the words of man his life vvas a lightning and his vvord a thunder vvhich vvas povverfull in effect but alvvayes measured vvithin his bounds He did fight against ill tongues in his life and conquered them all in his death The gall and vinegar vvhich he took to expiate the sins of this unhappy tongue do shevv hovv great the evil vvas since it did need so sharp a remedy He hath cured by suffering his dolours vvhat it deserved by our committing sins Other vices are determined by one act the tongue goes to all it is a servant to all malitious actions and is generally confederate vvith the heart in all crimes 3. We have just so much Religion as vve have government of our tongues A little thing serves to tame vvild beasts and a small stern will serve to govern a ship Why then cannot a man rule so small a part of his body Is it not sufficient to avoid lying perjuries quarrels injuries slanders and blasphemies such as the Scribes and Pharisees did vomit out in this Gospel against the purity of the Sonne of God We must also repress idle talk and other frivolous and unprofitable discourses There are some persons vvho have their hearts so loose that they cannot keep them vvithin their brests but they vvill quickly svvim upon their lips vvithout thinking vvhat they say and so make a shift to vvound their souls 4. Imitate a holy Father called Sisus vvho prayed God thirty years together every day to deliver him from his tongue as from a capitall enemy You shall never be very chaste of your body except you do very vvell bridle your tongue For loosnesse of the flesh proceeds sometimes from liberty of the tongue Remember your self that your heart should go like a clock vvith all the just and equall motions of his springs and that your tongue is the finger vvhich shevvs hovv all the hours of the day pass When the heart goes of one side the tongue of another it is a sure desolation of your spirits kingdome If Jesus set it once at peace and quiet you must be very carefull to keep it so and be very fearfull of relapses For the multiplying of long continued sinnes brings at last hell it self upon a mans shoulders Aspirations O Word incarnate to whom all just tongues speak and after whom all hearts do thirst and languish chase from us all prating devils and also those which are dumb the first provoke and loose the tong to speak wickedly the other bind it when it should confesse the truth O peace-making Solomon appease the divisions of my heart and unite all my powers to the love of thy service Destroy in me all the marks of Satans Empire and plant there thy Trophees and Standards that my spirit be never like

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