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A00412 The contempte of the vvorld, and the vanitie thereof, written by the reuerent F. Diego de Stella, of the order of S. Fr. deuided into three bookes, and of late translated out of Italian into Englishe, vvith conuenient tables in the end of the booke; Vanidad del mundo. English Estella, Diego de, 1524-1578.; Cotton, George. 1584 (1584) STC 10541; ESTC S101688 253,878 566

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sinne VVhen men lyued more simplie in the begynninge of the worlde God graunted them longe lyfe but when he saw them vse it euill and that iniquitie increased thereby he made there tyme shorter The Prophet saith talking with God Thou hast set our iniquities in thy presence and our age before the light of thy countenance All our dayes were shortened and in thine angre were wee brought lowe After seuentie yeares be past our dayes shal be but euen like vnto a spiders webbe The Prophet sayth that for our sinnes God shortened our lyfe The miserie and breuitie of our lyfe doth the Prophet here expresse by the comparaison of the spider which with greate trauayle and payne weaueth a fyne a delicate webbe which afterward a small blast of wynde breaketh and taketh quyte away And so our lyfe which is with so much labour susteyned as soone as any blast of sickenes or infirmitie cometh is straight taken away from vs and therefore so short and so transitorie a thinge as that is is not inordinatlie to be loued or esteemed This lyfe is not heauenlie but earthlie it is not our countrey but our bannyshement God will not suffer it to be perpetuall but vearie shorte This lyfe hath an end but that lyfe where God inhabiteth with his elect hath no end A fonde felow were he that wolde not haue his iourney soone at an ende to be at rest in his owne countrey and he that taketh payne and laboreth harde here in this present lyfe is very vaine and foolish if he desire not to be at quyet reste for euer with Christ in the most ioyfull dwelling place of heauen VVhat slaue is there any where so much made of but that he wolde yet gladly be at his owne home And who is he that lyueth in a darke dongeon but wolde willingly be where he might see light This worlde is not our countrey but a Babilonicall prison and who so desireth longe lyfe desireth a long imprisonment And he that desireth olde age desireth a long infirmitie and where no true lyfe is there oughtest thou to long for death Death serueth vs as a medicine for the trauayles susteyned in this lyfe which neuer haue end but when our lyfe endeth and he that must needes departe hence better it is that he goe betyme then tarie to long Happie is he that beareth this lyfe with patience and desireth by death 〈◊〉 come vnto a better And happie is that soule vnto which God graunteth rest in the lyfe perdurable God is good in all his workes who hath here shortened this lyfe for thyne owne good and commoditie that thou mayest the sooner come to the lyfe eternall INNVMERABLE BE THE daungers vnto vvhich this lyfe of man is subiect and in hovv much higher state he liueth here into so many more trovvbles and daungers is he brought by meanes of them CHAP. 37. HIS daies florished lyke the flower in the fielde sayeth the prophete Dauid speaking of the lyfe of man To how many daungers is the flower in the fielde subiect vnto The sonne burneth it the wynde dryeth it vp man treadeth it downe the beast eateth it vp the water ouerfloweth it the heate withereth it away VVhat tonge can declare the daungers that man is subiect vnto and the perills that his lyfe daylie runneth in A little ●●row consumeth hym Sickenes maketh 〈◊〉 end of hym The Sea drowneth hym ●●finite be the inconueniences and innu●erable be the meanes by which his lyfe ●ay be taken away from hym when he ●●ast thinketh thereon Iob sayed My dayes doe passe away as shippe laden with apples more lightly ●oe they goe away then the poste that tra●ayleth by the way they fled apace away ●nd saw not any good at all He sayed tru●y that his dayes paste faster away then the ●ost for runne the post neuer so fast yet ●ust he stay sometyme by the way to take ●is repaste in eatinge and drinkinge and ●ome tyme must he bestowe also in slee●ing But the dayes of man are alwayes ●n their course and neuer stay one whit ●ut alwaies runne on a pace toward d●●th ●hen thou sleepest when thou wakest all ●he tymes houres and momentes of thy ●●fe thou runnest with all speede towarde ●eath Iob likeneth also his lyfe to a shippe The shippe was not made to lye still at an ●●cker but to sayle and to trauayle from port to port no more wast thou made to contynue still in pleasures and delight ●ut to the end that by thy trauayle and payne taking thou maiest at last come vnto the quyet port of saluatiō And as the shippe sayleth with greate swiftenes and ●ea●eth no printe of the place which shee passeth by so passeth our lyfe away without any stay at all and leaueth no memo●● of vs after wee be gone VVhat is become of all the kinges 〈◊〉 princes that haue liued in the world 〈◊〉 paste lightly away and lefte no token behynd them of their being here at all The daungers also of a shippe sayli●● in the sea be not few nor small she stry●keth against the rocke spliteth asond●● The tempest cometh and ouerwhelme●● her The Rouers come and spoyle 〈◊〉 And lastlie set her on fier But yf thou co●●sider now the daungers in which tho● liuest thou shalt fynde thy selfe enuiron●● with many more sortes of infirmities an● daungers thē the ship is The ship parte●● from the hauen with a prosperous wynde setting vp her sayles and all her streame●● with greate iolitie mirth But after 〈◊〉 hath sayled a while shee striketh vpon 〈◊〉 rocke and then is all the mirth turned in●● mournynge So when man is borne an● entreth first into the world the frendes 〈◊〉 parentes make a great feast solempniti● thereat but all is in vayne For when by some chaunce or infirmitie he dyeth th●● doth all the mirth and ioye determyne 〈◊〉 take end agayne by sorow lamentatio● In the mornying sayth Dauid he flor●●shed and withereth agayne at night The shipp sayeth Iob is laden wi●● apples and not with yron or leade 〈◊〉 any other ware of waight The dayes 〈◊〉 man be fraight likewise with much 〈◊〉 vayne stuffe which is of no value neyther leaueth any good memory behynde but a smalle smell of fame like vnto rotten Apples whose sent is soone gone and quickelie forgotten From the daungers and mishappes of this miserable short lyfe can no man scape be he neuer so greate But rather they which carrie the greatest portes and be of highest degrees in this world doe suffer most daungers and endure most sorowes in it The hartes of Princes greate men haue many a thorne in them which are couered vpon with verie riche array and costlie apparell Their lyfe is full of heauines and care And the mightie men of the world lye they neuer so softe in their delicate dayntie beddes yet carrie they ofte to bedde with them an heauie hart and a suspicious mynde Neyther much delight or fauour can they
The memorie of this world momentani● God onely remembreth his seruātes eternallie cap. 6. How the world knoweth not her folowers cap. 7. Of the daunger wherein worldlie m●● lyue cap. 8. Of the carelesnes wherein worldlie me● doe lyue cap. 9 Of the slauerie of wordlie men cap. 10 Of the heauie yoke of the world cap. 11 Of the sweetenes of Christ yoke cap. 12 How in our afflictions wee are to rune 〈◊〉 God and not to the world cap. 13 How speedelie the world passeth away cap. 14. Of the vnquiet and carefull myndes 〈◊〉 worldlinges cap. 1● ●ow worldly consolations are full of bitternes cap. 16. Of the blindnes of worldly men cap. 17. Of the greefe of worldly men in partinge with the worlde cap. 18. Of the wages that the worlde gyueth her seruantes cap. 19. ●ow quickely the worlde casteth of her seruantes cap. 20. ●owe the loue of the worlde excludeth God cap. 21. ●ow the worlde doth continually persecute the good cap. 22. Of patience in aduersitie cap. 23. Of flying from the worlde cap. 24. Of the mutabilitie of the worlde cap. 25. How we are to shunne the small euills of the worlde cap. 26. Howe we oughte to flye the companie of worldly men cap. 27. Howe we oughte to accompanie with the good cap. 28. Of the intention of him that despiseth the worlde cap. 29. Of the memory of death cap. 30. Of the vncertaine houre of death cap. 31. VVhy God will not haue vs to to knowe the houre of death cap. 32. That the seruante of God oughte to meditate vpon death cap. 33. Of the firste armie of the worlde which is pryde cap. 34. Of humiltie cap. 35. Of couetousnes cap. 36. Of Liberalitie cap. 37. Of Lasciuiousnes cap. 38. Of Chastitie cap. 39. Of the good that worldly mē loose ca. 40. The end of the second parte OF THE VANITIE OF THE worlde The third parte VVhich shevveth vs hovv contemnynge vvorldlie vanities vvee ought to serue Iesus Christ. HOw the worlde doth not satiate our soules cap. 1. Howe God alone doth satiate our soules and not the world cap. 2. VVhy God doth satiate our soules and not the world cap. 3. How perfecte contentement is founde in God alone cap. 4. How we ought to trust in God alone ca. 5. Of the loue of God cap. 6. Of the loue of our neighbour cap. 7. Of the loue of our enemies cap. 8. Of selfe loue cap. 9. Of the denying of our selues cap. 10. Of the contempt of our selues cap. 11. Of the conquest of our selues cap. 12. Of the knowledg of our selues cap. 13. Of the consideration of mans miserie cap. 14. Of the knowledg of God cap. 15. Of meditation and contēplation cap. 16. Of true mortification cap. 17. Of abstinence and fasting cap. 18. Of the loue of solitarines cap. 19. Of Silence cap. 20. Of Idle wordes cap. 21. Of murmuring cap. 22. How the seruante of God oughte not to ●xamine the lyfe of others cap. 23. ●ow we oughte to beare with our neyghbours imperfections cap. 24. ●f Idle thoughtes cap. 25. ●f Idlenes and slouth cap. 26. ●f the f●ruor of good workes cap. 27. ●owe we oughte not to resolue rashely cap. 28. ●f the feare of God cap. 29. ●f obedience cap. 30. ●f pouertie cap. 31. ●ow we oughte continually to doe good workes cap. 32. ●f perseuering in goodnes cap. 33. ●f temptations cap. 34. ●f the profit of temptations cap. 35. ●f the remedie agaynst temptatiōs which is prayer cap. 36. ●f the end whereto man is created ca. 37. ●f the dreadfull iudgemēt of God ca. 38. ●f the paynes of them that loue the vanitie of this worlde cap. 39. ●f the glory that they shall haue which despise the vanitie of the world cap. 40. The ende of the third and last parte Laus Deo O felix puerpera gloriae lucerna Surge veni propera domina super●● Mea terge vulnera veniae pincerna Me Christo confedera me sempe● guberna Iesu fila Dauid 〈…〉 O regina virginu per quā luxest orta Reparatrix hominū felix coeli por●● Verus splendor luminum quaeso m● con●orta Sursum ante dominum precē mea● porta Mat. 6. Exd. 3. 1. Reg. 5. Exod. 2. Exod. 16. Io. 14. Pr. 12. Gal. 6. Eph. 5. 2. Reg. 11. Mat. 4. Luc. 2. Mat. 5. Gen. 24. Eccl. 1. Phi. 3. Amos. 9. Prou. 14. Danie 2 Thren 1. Luc. 9. Ioh. 2. 1. Thess. 5 Psal. 48. Eccle. 3. Genes 3. Psal. 118. Rom. 6. Gene. 25. Psal. 67. Rom. 6. Psal 77. Psal. 54 1 Cor. 4. Math. 27. Iohn 8. Iohn 5. Luc 18. Mat 6. Mat. 5. 4. Reg. 20 Mat. 6. Prou. 27. Dan. 3. Exo. 16. Exo. 20. Ios. 7. Esa. 10. Exo. 10. 1 Cor. 15. Apoc. 4. Psal. 113. Esa. 25. Dan. 4. Iu. 15. Iob. 31. Exo. 4. Oze 13. 1. Cor. 10 Psal. 29. Psal. 29. Mat. 25 Iohn 8. 1. Cor. ●1 Psal. 90. Luc. 17. Luke 18 Rom. 11. 4. Reg. 25. Mat. 20. Mar. 10. Num. 10. Mat. 26. Iob. 1. Gene. 30. Exod. 13. Act. 1. 2 Cor. 5. Heb. 13. 1. Pet. 2. Psal. 141. Psal. 38. 2. Cor. 4. Heb. 11. Prou. 31. 2. Reg. 18. Eccle. 11. Luke 16. Mat. 11. Mat. 6. 1. Tim. 6. Gal. 1. Heb. 11 Iob. 1. Iob. 16. Psal. 34. Esa. 14. Psal. 98. Sohp 1. Eccl. 19. Iob. 17. Ose. 9. 1. Reg. 9. Math. 4. Psal. 61. Psal. 75. Eccl. 13. Luc. 15. Luc. 10. Genes 3. 2. Cor. 12 Mat. 15 Eccle. 5. 1. Tim. 6. Psal. 75 Philip. 3. Luc. 10. Iob. 1. Sap. 7. Psal. 4. 1. Iohn 2. Gen. 13. Gene. 31. Exo. 1. Dan. 4. Gene. 1. Rom. 1. Phil. 3. Luke 14. Gene. 39. Mat. 19. Mat 16. Leu. 11. Iud. 7. Iob. 1. Luc. 6. Psal. 83. Psal. 41. Psa. 136 Mat. 5. Apo. 7. Apo. 21. Iob. 3. Iob. 21. Luc. 16. Iohn 11. Luc. 19. Iohn 11. Luc. 19. Mat. 18. Exo. 14. Eccl. 2. Exod. 2. Psal. 93 Tob. 5. Prou. 15. Esa. 24. 1. Cor. 7. Sap. 10. Heb. 11. 1. Pet. 2. Sap. 7. Psal. 11. Io● 1. Iob. 10. Io. 16. Phil. 4. Luc. 10. 1. Cor. 1. Psal. ●1 Esa 14. Prou. ● Luc. 1. Psal. 3. Can. 4. Ioh. 14. Eph. 2. Gen. 21. Iohn 16. Gal. 5. Psal. 102. Psal. 138 1. Cor. 14. Eccl. 9. Psal. 90. Io. 12. Io. 19. Gene. 3. Iob. 1. Prou. 1. 1. Re. 9. 2. Reg. 11. 2. Reg. 1. Gene. 40. Mat. 17. Mat 5. 2. Tim. 3. Luc. 13. Math. 7. Io. 15. Io. 12. Mar. 55 Mar. Vlt. Io. 15. Mat. 5. Act. 7. 2. Cor. 12. Mat. 5. Hester 3. Mat. 16. Luke 16. Act. 14. Psal. 60· Prou 13. 2. Re. 20. Psal. 50. 1. Pet. 2. Gene. 42.45 1. Re. 26. Tob. 11. Psal. 15. Psal. 119. Gene. 1. Exod. 1. Act. 9. Psal. 2. Mat. 6. Exo. 12. Num. 11. Ag. 1 Mat. 6. Gene. 1. Mat. 25. 1. Pet. 5. Psal. 93. Luc. 8. Io. 19. 1 Cor. 3. Srp. 5. 1. Re 3. Act. 26. Luc. 23. 1. Cor. 3. Pro. 10. Luc. 16 Sapi. 5. Exo. 4. Prou. 3 Gen. 32. Eccl. 27. Exod.
thou mayest easelie wood●● well and therefore doe thou neuer cea●● laboringe to doe well The Apostle sayth let vs neuer 〈◊〉 slow nor slacke in well doinge for in ty●● to come wee shall gather the fruit there●● It is not good then to leaue the doinge 〈◊〉 good deedes for althoughe thou merit●● not heauen by thy good deedes present●● done without the state of grace yet m●● thou not faynte in the doinge of them 〈◊〉 the tyme will come when thou shalt ha●● chaunged the state of thy lyfe that th● wilt reioyce of the doinge of them Christ passing by a figge tree beca●● it had no fruyte vpon it he cursed it an● strayght way it withered away And albe●it it was not then the tyme of bearin● fruite yet for all that he gaue it his cur●● God knoweth well that when man is 〈◊〉 sinne it is not his tyme of bearinge fruy●● ●hich be the meritorious woorkes of ●●ernall lyfe yet will he neuerthelesse that ●e sholde doe them This is to be vnder●●ode in Christes cursinge of the figge tree 〈◊〉 that tyme that man ought neuer to be ●nfurnished of good deedes at any tyme. God wolde not that any vncleane beast ●●olde be offred to him in sacrifice and ●et he wolde not haue the beast cast away ●ut commaunded to haue it solde away ●●d onely the pryce thereof offred vnto ●im The workes that be wroughte in ●●nne out of the state of grace although ●●at they be morally good yet are they but ●●ke vnto the vncleane beast and God re●eyueth not the worke but onely the price ●●ereof being willinge that thou sholdest ●xercyse thy selfe in good workes to the ●●tent that by custome of doing them and ●y the fulfilling of his commaundementes ●hich thou arte bounde vnto God may ●ccepte those workes after in their due ●●me although that presently those works ●oe merite nothing That Doctor of the lawe which de●aunded of Christ which was the greatest ●ommaundement of the lawe although ●●at he asked it of him to tempt him with●ll and of an euill intent yet in as much ●s the demaunde was good he deserued ●y it to haue this much lighte gyuen him ●t Godes hande that he tolde him he was ●ot farre of from the kingdome of God ●or although that thou meritest not glory yet doest thou merite temporall benefites thereby and that the deuill hath the lesse power to doe thee harme therefore it 〈◊〉 good at all tymes that thou sholdest exer●cyse thy selfe in doing of good deedes fr●● some good by them will redounde vnto thee at the last THE REVVARD OF ETERnall lyfe is not gyuen vnto them th●● beginne to doe vvell and after leaue it of agayne but they are onely crovvne● vvith euerlastinge glorie vvhich do●● perseuer therein vnto the ende CHAP. 33. HE that perseuereth vnto the ende shal be saued sayth Iesus Christ. Ma●● beginne with vertue but fewe attayne to the end● of it It profiteth tho● nothinge to haue begonne well yf tho● doest leaue it of agayne Take away perseuerance and thy vertue shall haue no reward nor thy good woorke any merite Some doe begynne well and for tha● they continue not in it they doe not onely loose the merite of their woorke but also ●●serue to be punnyshed The frendes of Iob beganne well in ●●uing of hym comfort and contynued in ●euen dayes together who because that ●●ey perseuered not in that good woorke ●●ey deserued punnishement at gods hand The begynnynge of Saule was good ●●●t because he perseuered not therein he ●●ed and euill death If thou doest despise ●●e vanitie of the worlde worldlie men ●●ll begynne to persecute thee Returne ●●●t agayne to that which thou hast once ●●ft and quyte forsaken Many haue had the world in contempt ●●d yet because they haue returned and ●●oked backe to the worlde agayne like ●●tts wife that looked backe towarde So●●me they haue receiued their punnishe●ent therefore and doe nowe burne in ●ll for euer Many are nowe in hell that once des●sed the vanities of the worlde but they ●●rseuered not therein And our goostlie ●●emy the deuill careth not howe well ●●ou begynnest so that thou perseuerest ●●●t therein Labor to continue in the good ●●●y wherein thou hast begonne and con●●●ue on thy course if thou doest thinke ●●wynne the victorie Be faithfull vnto 〈◊〉 death and thou shalt get the crowne of ●●fe In the border of the cheefe Priestes ●●sture there were wroughte certeyne ●●und gernetts which stoode betwix●● the litle belles of golde that hange at the 〈◊〉 of the vesture Of all the fruit that gro●●eth onely the pounegarnet hath a crow● in the toppe the which because it is 〈◊〉 rewarde of vertue is placed amonge g●● workes which are signified by the 〈◊〉 belles of golde they are not set in 〈◊〉 highest parte nor in the middest of 〈◊〉 garmente because they are not gyuen v●●to those that beginne well nor vnto th●● that doe come vnto the middest of th● worke but they are set in the ende or lo●●●est parte of the vesture because they o●●●● shall receyue the crowne that doe co●●●●nue vnto the later ende The tree that is often remoued ●●●uer taketh any sure rooting and if th●● doest chaunge and alter thy course 〈◊〉 doest not continue in that thou haste 〈◊〉 begonne thou shalte neuer bring forth ●●●ny fruite of vertue By the frequenting good workes and the multiplyeng of v●●●tuous deedes the very habite of ver●● is fully grounded in thee Is there any thinge better then Go● that thou wilte leaue the seruice of hy● for any other thinge Salomon sayth th●● the wise man perseuereth and abideth 〈◊〉 his wisdome firmelie like vnto the sonn● but the foole chaungeth still lyke 〈◊〉 moone Be not thou moued at euery win●● The birdes wold haue troubled Ab●●●ham in the offerringe of sacrifice to Go● almightie but Abraham wold not leaue● his sacrifice for any trouble that they cold gyue him If thou doest gyue thy selfe vnto prayer take heede that thou be not mo●ested with busie and importante cares which will annoy thee and trouble thee as the birdes troubled Abraham but thou must dryue them away from thee and con●inue earnest in that which thou goest a●out for what good doeth it to take great matters in hande and bringe none of them ●o a good ende Spende not all thy lyfe in ●eginning to doe well for feare lest death ●ome vpon thee and finde thee idle and ●ut of the way In the psalme it is written Man passeth ●way lyke an image A paynted image of a man that is made sitting in a chayre gyueth 〈◊〉 shew to the eye as though it wolde rise ●tande vp but it neuer standeth it seemeth ●s though it wolde goe but it neuer goeth And so playeth many a man that is often ●etermining to draw toward God but yet ●e goeth not to him at all he maketh ma●y profers of going and yet standeth still when he sholde goe