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B11989	Vade mecum. = Goe vvith mee deare pietie, and rare charitie. VVhose flame is stirred vp, to dispell the cold out of the minde. By Otho Casmanne, preacher at Stoade. Translated out of Latine, by H.T. minister. The contents appeare in the page following.; Vade mecum. English	Casmann, Otto, d. 1607.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1606 (1606)	STC 4769; ESTC S107899	102,540	274

is offended with thy sinnes induce thee to the studie of godlines 14. Let the cōmandement of the most best and most greatest God who willeth thy sanctification compell thée to the practise of Christian charitie 15. Let the regard of thy dutie due to God call thée to an obedience of holinesse that thou maiest testifie thy gratitude towardes him for thou art Gods debter 16. Let thy renouation begun wherby thou art become a new man stir thée vp daily for he that is borne of God sinneth not And a good tree bringeth forth good fruits 17. Let thy faith if it be liuely bring forth stir vp sharpen and maintaine the studie of vertue For without works faith is dead shewe therefore thy faith by thy workes 18. Let the light and knowledge of the will of God and his misteries kindle in thy minde holinesse Thou knowest Gods will doe it 19. Thou owest to thy God a sacrifice of worship to be seasoned by the f●●● of faith to bee enflamed by the fire of the holy Ghost to be sanctified by the merite of Christ 20. Thou art the Temple of the holy spirit wherewith thou art annointed and endued kéepe this Temple holy set forth the praise of God with thought word and mind mouth and life 21. Let the comforts of the holy Ghost whereby thou art refreshed running in the race of vertue and comforted in thy prayers bee as spurres vnto thée in the course of godlinesse 22. Let that swéete franquillitie of a good conscience and the inward ioy of heart which thou enioyest by vertue minister fire vnto thy deuotion 23. Let the manifold commodities which accompanie Pietie pricke thée forward for Pietie hath the promises of this life and of the life to come 24. Let the hope of fruite that comes thereby moue thée for thereby thou shalt relieue thy neighbour thou shalt glorifie God thou shalt stop the mouth of thy aduersaries 25. Let the vncertaintie of thy life and death euery where and at all times lying in waight for thée warne thee Liue well that thou maiest dye well 26. Let that glorious Tribunall of Christ and the fearefull iudgement of the last day before whom thou shalt be presented and at which time thou must giue an account terrifie thée 27. Let the terrour of ii fernall torments wherewith all the wicked shall be tortured compell thée to the obedience of faith 28. Let the reward of life and glorie eternall which with great ioy thou shalt enioy in Gods own presence in the midst of all celestiall happinesse illure thee 29. Be earnest to followe righteousnesse for by attaining thereto thou shalt obtaine the commendations of a wise man who is as the apple of Gods eye 30. If thou be iust thou shalt be happie euen as that thée which being planted by riuers of water fructifieth in due season and remaineth vnwithered As a florishing Palme trée or as a Cedar planted in the house of the Lord. The praises and priuiledges of the iust First thou shalt be noble in déed being the sonne of God borne of God 2. Thou shalt bee the very Image and liuely similitude of the liuing God 3. Thou shalt bee the beautifull and beloued spouse of Christ Thou shalt bée called the ioy delight of the most highest 4. Thou shalt be the Tabernacle and liuing Temple of the liuing God a certaine Chappel for the holy Ghost 5. Thou shalt spring forth as a bright light and encrease to perfect day 6. Thou shalt mount to heauen despising and treating vnderfoot all earthly and transitorie things 7. Being assured of Gods helpe thou shalt alwaies hope for saluation without doubting 8. Thou shalt beare iniuries patiently and pardon wrongs willingly 9. Thou shalt enioy true peace and tranquilitie of minde thou shalt be filled with true godlines and pleasures 10. Thou shalt be worthy of all manner of sound honour thou shalt be glorious in worship and praise 11. Thou shalt be adorned with Christ pietie with most beautifull ornaments 12. Thou shalt be very rich for thou shalt want nothing at any time And for thy sake the Lord will blesse the Citie and other 13. No creature shall hurt thée if thou be iust but euery creature shall serue for thy good For all things were made for thy behoofe and are preserued 14. Thou shalt haue the kingdome of God within thée and shalt be a King 15. All thinges shall prosper happily with thée Euen aduersitie shall make thy state most happie 16. Thou shalt haue God to bee thy protector thy gardian and reuenger 17. God will haue a speciall care of thee whom thou shalt haue to be thy teacher and guide 18. Thou shalt onely serue God and Christ being a perfit fréeman 19. Thou shalt haue God thy friend and whatsoeuer thou askest thou shalt obtaine And whatsoeuer thou giuest him shall be most acceptable to him 20. Thou shalt be a fellowe citizen with the Saints being admitted to the heauēly Citie And being an heire of the eternall kingdome as the sonne of God 21. Being a souldier of Iesus Christ in the Christian warfare thou shalt ●●ght manfully and valiantly 22. Thou shalt be in God and Christ and God and Christ shall be in thee 23. Thou shalt liue a long and blessed life in Christ the sonne of God And all manner of blessednesse shall bee in thée 24. Death shall not be fearefull vnto thée and thou shalt expect it ioyfully for dying thou shalt not dye but liue for euer 25. Thou shalt obtaine assured victorie against all thine enemies 26. When thou shalt enter into heauen thou shalt be crowned with heauenly glory and honour 27. In the generall iudgement thou shalt be adorned with praises by Christ the Iudge 28. Thou shalt sit with Christ to Iudge the world and shalt triumph gloriously with all the blessed Secondly be thou stirred vp O man by exhortations and examples of Heathen men Heare and blush I vse saith Seneca this authoritie against my self and euery day I arraigne my selfe when the candle is taken away and my wife is silent who now knoweth my manner I begin to examine with my selfe the whole day past I viewe ouer all my deedes and words I conceale nothing from my selfe I passe ouer nothing for why should I feare any my errors when I may say See thou doe it no more I forgiue thee for this time Againe he saith What is better than this custome to examine the whole day How sweete is that sleepe that followeth this surviewe of our selues how quiet how sound and free when the soule being either commended or admonished becomes an especiall and priuie censor of it selfe iudging of her owne meaning Therefore saith the same Seneca enquire into thy selfe first performe the part of an Accuser next of a Iudge lastly of an Intreator Sometime also offend or displease thy selfe For he doth willingly erre who knoweth not that hee doth erre he doth ouerloue himselfe who is content that other should erre

Vade mecum Goe with mee Deare Pietie and rare Charitie VVhose flame is stirred vp to dispell the cold out of the minde By Otho Casmanne Preacher at Stoade Translated out of Latine by H. T. Minister The Contents appeare in the Page following Duc me nec sine me per me Christ optimë duci Nam duce me pereo Te duce saluus ero Guide me sweet Sauiour Christ The way Let not my selfe me guide If thou me guide I shall be safe If I my selfe I slide LONDON Imprinted for Thomas Charde 1606. The Contents of this Booke The Epistle Dedicatorie of the Translator The Epistle Dedicatorie of the Author A Synopsis or view of this Booke A Prologue sententious Foure members 1. Incipe Beginne 2. Ne desice seu re gredere Faint not or goe not backward 3. Sed profice Goe forward or profit 4. By denying vnrighteousnes and By follewing of righteousnes An Epilogue sententious Prayers framed to the parts and members of this Booke To the three Right worshipful The Epistle by the Translator and religiously vertuous Gentlewomen Mistres Anne Osbourne widowe of the Right Worshipfull Maister Peter Osbourne Esquire Mistresse Dorothie Osbourne the wife of M. Iohn Osbourne Esquire Mist Grace Chapman the Widow of M. William Chapman Citizen Encrease of grace in this life with assured hope of glorie in the world to come HAuing had long experience Right vertuous Gentlewomen of your Christian Pietie and Charitie grounded vpon a true knowledge of the word of God I haue thought good to present vnto you this short Treatise of a learned Writer Translated by me for the good liking I had thereof Wherein he directeth euery Christian how to begin to goe forward to perseuere in the way of Pietie Charitie till he haue attained the marke which is eternall life Not that I thought you to haue much need of any such direction to be prescribed you who haue long since both found the way and practised the course of a Christian life and by Gods grace shall so perseuere But yet I iudged it might be a good confirmation to you that you haue not hetherto wandered vncertainly in your course as also that it might be some encouragement vnto you to perseuere But vnto other who haue not yet either sound the way or begun to walk or haue but slowly or faintly gone forward in this course to such this booke may be both a guide to direct thē in the way of Pittie and Charitie and also a spur to stirre them vp to goe forward I haue bene bold to ioyne you three in the Inscription of this Epistle as my three Charites or Graces of whom the Poets make mention Three louing and bountifull sisters And sure I am that grace is in euery of your Names and Nature hath ioyned you in Consanguinitie and neere Affinitie as also GOD hath vnited you in Pietie Now as in the Etymologie of your Names ye carry Grace so I doubt not but in your hearts ye possesse the three Christian Graces Faith Hope and Charitie which by Gods mercy shall neuer leaue you till they haue brought you to the expected end of your Faith and Hope euen eternall life Which God for his sonne Iesus Christs sake graunt to you and all true Christians Amen So fare ye well Your vnworthy Pastor H. T. To the whole bodie of the Colledge of S. Mary at Stoad Otho Casmanne The Epistle Dedicatorie of the Author Preacher of the said Colledge wisheth saluation in Christ YOu venerable and Reuerend men and Brethren greatly beloued in Christ vnto whom by the fauourable will prouidence of Iesus Christ whose vnworthy Minister I acknowledge my selfe I do execute the embassage of the Gospel who also for that purpose haue chosen and called me to teach among you the word of Christian veritie and sanctitie Are not to be passed ouer by me The tongue serues to teach but giue me leaue I beseech you by writing to warne those whom with mourning I daily wish to teach by example life and work would to God I might perceiue that it were in my power to performe it It is a great matter certainly to be a Minister of the Word but to bee a Worke-maister aunswerable to the word is by Christ a farre greater matter Wee loue a frequent Hearer of the word of God but a diligent Doer of A dooer of the word hard to finde the word heard kept we admire These are my grones these are my wishes in this calling which by the will and grace of God I maintaine pardon me I pray you if I vnburthen these things into your bosome with that Charitie and Faith that is meete to wit That I be not a monster hauing a larger tongue than hands For that saying of my maister Iesus Christ doeth sounde in my eares He that teacheth and doth he shal Mat. 5. be called great in the kingdome of heauen He will haue me not only to be the salt of the earth in soundnesse of doctrine but also the light of the world in holinesse of life example of vertue Otherwise of mine owne mouth will hee iudge me as an vngratious seruant And Luc. 19. Ibid. 12. I shall bee beaten with many stripes If I binde together heauie burthens and laie them on other mens shoulders and I my selfe scarse touch them or moue them with my little finger Euery man must shewe his faith by his workes as a tree is knowne by her fruite Let vs all heare that saying of Aurelius Numerianus Be that which thou art reported to be Or that of Horace Tu recte vivis si curas esse quod audis Well doest thou liue if thou endeuer To be the same thou hearest euer We are called Christians let vs liue a Christian life We are called spirituall let vs liue in the spirit and mortifie the deeds of the flesh Let vs ioyne in wishes and mingle mournings that by begging and getting the helpe of the holy Ghost we may rather be than desire to seeme good For as one saith It skilleth more what thou art thā what thou art accounted Let vs I say on all sides endeuour with ioynt forces to bee the same before God that we wold seeme to be before men That shall we do if ioyning Charitie with Knowledge Holinesse with Veritie we lead a godly and Christian life Surely God is holy and we his seruants ought to be holy that we may be vnited to him Wee are not our owne men Why then should our owne Reason will beare the sway in our counsels and actions Let vs labour in all the parts of our life to enioy God as the chiefe ende hauing a respect vnto his will to do it We are in the Church the holy Citie of God whom he hath consecrated to himselfe Let vs count it a wickednes Motiues to godlines to prophane it with our impuritie Christ who hath recōciled vs to God is a pattern set before vs let vs

by the Esay 41. hand and saying to thee Feare not I haue holpen thee Feare not ô Iacob that art a worme He will strengthen thy weake hands and thy feeble knees and make thy feete to step aright But let thy will bee firme to persist in faith and the workes of faith and to resist those things which hinder them First Satan is an aduersarie whom thou must Impediments withstand being stedfast in faith Secondly the very length of time often bréedeth a vaine feare but in thy God thou maiest doe all things Thirdly the world many times affrighteth vs with his bugges or turneth vs aside by his examples But labour thou thou shalt haue thy hyer after wearines followeth rest hope and thy hope shal not confound thée 5. Indue thy mind with méekenesse which may so appease the angry force Meekenesse therof that it offer not violence to reason or remoue her out of her state but may make thée readier to pardon than to reuenge By méeknesse therefore anger must be Anger to be refrained Eph. 4. Tit. 3. refrained or brideled Walke saith the Apostle in all meeknesse and humilitie forbearing one an other and forgiuing one an other in modestie shewing meekenesse to all men Item Let vs behaue our selues in much patience and long suffering and mildnes in the holy Gost By méekenesse desire of reuenge Eph. 4. Colloss 3 which riseth of anger must be restrained or cut off With patiēce support ye one an other forgiuing one an other if anie man haue a quarell against an other euen as God for Christs sake hath forgiuen you not rendring euill for euill Rom. 12. The effects of meeknes Psal 147. Iudith 9. If thou be méeke thou shalt be acceptable to God The Lord receiueth the meeke he heareth the prayers of such as be gentle The prayers of such as be humble meek haue euer bin acceptable to thee saith Iudith To such he sent his sonne To preach to the meeke he sent me To such hee giues his grace To the meeke he giueth grace Such he directeth in all their actions He shall Esay b 1. Prou. 3. guide the meeke in iudgement he shal teach the gentle his waies 6. Thou owest humilitie to thy soule Humilitie which may make thee not to waxe proud of the store or worth of any graces but in acknowledgement of thine own infirmities to prefer euery one before thy self In humilitie embracing one another Item Decke your selues inwardly with lowlinesse of minde for GOD 1 Pet. 5. resisteth the proude and giueth grace to the lowly Humble your selues therfore vnder the mightie hand of God he shal exalt you in due time My sonne saith Syrach behaue thy selfe humbly apply thy selfe to the lowly for this is Syrach 3. better than all that which the world esteemeth so highly The greater thou art the more humbly behaue thy selfe and the Lord will loue thee for the Lord is the most high and yet he worketh great things by the lowly and afflicted And Chrysostome saith Nothing is to bee compared to the vertue of humilitie for it is the roote the nurce the prop and band of all goodnesse And Saint Augustine If we will attaine to the height of Charitie wee must first thinke of the foundation of humilitie And Basil Humilitie is the safest treasury of all vertues Anselme reckoneth seuen degrées of humilitie The first is to knowe thy selfe to Seuen degrees of humilitie be contemptible The second is to be sory for it The third to confesse it The fourth is to perswade the same to other in time and place The fifth is to beare it patiently when other report it The sixt is to take it in good part when thou art vsed contemptibly The seuenth is to accept desire and loue the same It must néedes be a great strength in the mind that shal ascend to these degrées Though thou do neuer so great matters yet count not thy selfe great Thou shalt become humble if thou contemne all worldly and humane things and doe consider the beginnings of thine own being 2. Concerning the concupiscible or Vertues moderating the concupiscible part lusting part Thou shalt moderate thy soule which is prone to lust by these Christian vertues 3. Temperance Abstinence and Continence 1. Thou oughtest to kéepe thy soule in Temperance Temperance whereby thou maiest refraine and restraine thy lustes thy pleasures delights of the body from which because they be natural we are the more hardly drawne Sundry reasons there are which ought to stirre thée vp to moderate the appetit●● Motiues of iust First because the voluptuousnes of the body doth hinder that God by his word cannot enter into the soule of man to drawe and conuert it to him Secondly because bodily pleasures are vaine slipperie momentanie euen vanitie of vanities leauing behind them remorse sorrow repentance not easily remoued Thirdly because euen in the very moment of time wherein carnall pleasures doth entangle vs with her allurements it doth so bewitch our mindes with her poyson shall I call it or swéete charme that it wholly subdueth vs. Let not sinne Rom. 6. therefore raigne in your mortall bodies that yee should thereunto obey through the lustes thereof But striue against the tyrannie of pleasures which a● it were certaine cruell beasts doe deuour the soule and strangle reason if in time they be not preuented Seneca saith It is an easier matter to hinder the first motions of the affections than to rule their violence set thou therefore vpon the roote of lust as it were with a sword 2. If thou loue thy selfe challenge to thy Abstinence sobrietie selfe abstinence and sobrietie and yéelde them to thy soule that thou maiest kéepe the nutritiue power thereof in an holy temperance and moderate vse of meate and drinke Vse sparingly saith Ecclesiasticus Syrach 31 Eccles. 10 those things that are set before thee that thou bee not odious for thy greedines And the Preacher saith Blessed are thou O land whose princes eate in due time for refreshing and not for ryot for he that is moderate in feeding shall prolong his life Item Wine moderately drunke is a cheering to the soule and heart And strong drinke soberly taken is health both to soule and body Let not therefore your hearts Luk. 21. bee ouercome with surfetting and drunkennesse and cares of this life c. Thou must therefore striue earnestly with thy selfe against thy bodily appetities which as it is hard to ouercome so it is glorious to ouercome for the diuell vseth the necessitie of the flesh as a iust patronage to an inward temptation 3. If thou wish well to thy flesh sée Continence and Chastitie thou retaine Continencie and Chastitie and embrace them that thou maiest kéep the generatiue power of thy soule in a holy temperance and lawfull vse ordained of God Cal to mind often these warnings This know ye saith the Apostle and