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A20673	The practise how to finde ease, rest, repose, content, and happines. Written by a religious man of the congregation of St. Elias the prophet, and the order of our Blessed Lady of mount Carmell, restored by the Blessed mother Teresa. The second part. Containing directions how to end all controuersies, and take away all discontentments, and euils, and attaine vnto true ioy of minde, and content of heart, and all good; Practise how to finde ease, rest, repose, content, and happines. Part 2	Doughty, Thomas, fl. 1618-1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 7072.6; ESTC S106011	123,081	516

thee deare Reader abundance of Charitie that thou maist beare much Fruit of the holy Ghost and be abundantly Happy and Content For with the same Mat. 6. 38. measure you doe mete it shall be measured to you againe saith our Sauiour OF THE SECOND Fruit of the Holy Ghost which is Ioy. THe second Fruit which the Holy Ghost produceth in the hearts of such as loue God is Ioy not such base ioyes as haue gaping hunters when they haue found their prey or sensuall Men in the Lute and Harpe and 〈◊〉 ●0 Timbrell and Psalme and Wines in their Banquets for which cause Hell hath dilated his Soule and opened his Mouth without all measure or limitation and the Strong and High and Glorious ones shall descend into it but Ioy in our Lord according to the words of the blessed Virgine Mary saying My Spirit hath reioyced Luk. 1. 46. in God my Sauiour An exultation of the Heart and Soule in the liuing God according to the words of the Prophet Dauid saying My Psal 83. 5. Heart and my Flesh hath reioyced in the liuing God who is all Pleasure Content and Good An inestimable Ioy and content of Minde and Spirit to finde our Lord there according to his Promise Now indeed you haue Io. 16. ●● Sorrow but I will see you again and your Heart shall reioyce and your Ioy no man shall take from you Because it shall be in their inward soules with God Almightie which death will not take away but increase according to the words of our Lord saying As my Io. 15. ● Father had loued me I also haue loued you abide in my Loue If you keepe my Precepts you shall abide in my loue as I also keepe my Fathers Precepts and doe abide in his loue These things I haue spoken to you that my Ioy may be in you and your Ioy may be filled with so great Content that in this life you are neither capable nor would receiue or desire more Of this Ioy our Sauiour ●● 17. 11. further speaking saith Holy Father keepe them in thy Name whom thou hast giuen me that they may be one as also We and these things I speake in the World that they may haue my Ioy filled in themselues Of this Ioy S. Augustine speaking saith God forbid Con. li. 10. ca. 22. my Lord that with what Ioy soeuer I should reioice I should thinke my selfe happie There is a Ioy which is not giuen to the wicked but to such as serue thee gratis whose Ioy thou thy selfe art and that same is happie Life to reioice at thee of thee and for thee this is it and other there is none Againe Con li. 10. ca. 23. Such as will not reioice of thee who only art happie Life will not be happie for happie Life is Ioy of thee who art Truth God mine illumination the health of my face ●nd my God And out of this Ioy are the abundant Prayses and Ioyes of the Prophet Dauid saying Come let vs reioyce Ps ●4 to our Lord Let vs make iubilation to God our Sauiour The habitation in thee as it I● 8● ● were of all reioycing Light is risen to the Iust and Ioy to the right of heart Be glad ye Iust 〈…〉 1● in our Lord and confesse ye to the memorie of his sanctification Of this Ioy the Prophet A 〈…〉 〈…〉 writing saith I will 〈…〉 our Lord and will reioice 〈…〉 my IESVS Of this Ioy the Prophet 〈…〉 Isay speaking saith The ioy of 〈◊〉 Asses the pastures of flocks vntill the Spirit be poured out vpon vs from on high and the Desart shall be as Carmell and Carmell shall be reputed for a Forrest and Iudgement shall dwell in the Wildernesse and Iustice shall sit in Carmell The Ioyes and contentments of Men before they he endued with the Spirit of God are as the Prophet saith like the ioyes of wilde Asses all placed in eating drinking sleeping and following their carnall and sensuall appetites but after the Holy Ghost be poured out vpon them then they who were without Fruit and as such abandoned and forsaken and left to the ioyes of wilde Asses shall be as Carmell or Carmelites which is to say knowledge of Circumcision or a Circumcised Lamb and shall abandon and cast off all their wilde Asses pleasures to become partakers of the Promises of God to our Fathers saying Our Lord thy God will circumcise Deut. 30. 6. thy heart and the heart of thy Seede that thou maiest loue thy Lord thy God in all thy heart and in all thy soule that thou maiest liue Whereof S. Paul speaking Rom. 2. saith Circumcision of the heart in Spirit Againe Wee Phi. 3. are the Circumcision which in Spirit serue God and keepe the Commandements And Carmell the Mount from which wee take our Name and vpon which our Fathers Elias Elizeus and the sonnes of the Prophets liued in contemplation and adoration of God in Spirit and veritie shall be so dilated as a Forrest manie giuing themselues to contemplation all ouer the World And Iudgement shall dwell in contemplatiue Men and Iustice shall sit in Carmell in Carmelites or Men hauing circumcised hearts by the Spirit of God As in another place the same Prophet speaking saith Shall Isa 22. not yet within a little while and in a short time Libanus another more waste Mountaine in Palestina be turned into Carmell and Carmell reputed for a Forrest and in that day the deafe shall heare the words of the Booke and out of the Darkenesse and Mist the eies of the blinde shall see and the meeke shall adde ioyfulnesse in our Lord and the poore men shall reioice in the Holy One of Israel c. Againe of these Ioyes Ease and Rest which men endued with Charitie should attaine vnto the Prophet Isay further speaking saith When Isa 2. thou shalt poure out thy Soule to the hungrie and shalt fill the afflicted Soule thy light shall rise vp in darkenesse and thy darkenesse shall be as the Noone-day And our Lord will giue thee Rest alwaies and will fill thy Soule with brightnesse and deliuer thy bones and thou shalt be as a watered Garden and as a Fountaine of Waters whose Water shall not faile And the Desarts of the World shall be builded in thee Thou shalt raise vp the foundations of Generation and Generation and thou shalt be called the builder of the Hedges turning the Paths into Rest. If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabbath from doing thy will in my Holy day and call the Sabbath delicate and the Holy of our Lord glorious and glorifie him whilest thou doest not thine owne waies and thy will be not found to speake a word Then shalt thou bee delighted vpon the Lord and I will lift thee vp aboue the heights of the Earth and will feede thee with the Inheritance of IACOB thy Father for the Mouth of our Lord hath spoken If the

Epicurisme vnder the pretext of Religion they seeme to their followers neither to deceiue nor bee deceiued in their opinions or practise of Happines but by this craft preserue their credits and liue without suspition of wretchednes and yet take to themselues libertie to doe what their Flesh or concupicences doe desire without respect either to God or man more then the warinesse not to incurre the forfeitures and pennalties of Penall Lawes Insomuch as that they haue put Conscience which in Catholicke times men vsed to carry in their hearts and soules into their neighbours eyes that if he see them not doing amisse to accuse them to a Iudge bring them within the compasse of some penall Lawe all is well Cal lib. 3 inst ca. 14. Melāct in locis anni 1521. tit de peccato and their followers Cicero de leg In the sight of God their best and worst workes are of their owne nature as they say all equally mortall sinnes And he who feareth nothing but a Iudge and a witnes as Cicero a Heathen man well obserued What will not he doe in the darke And this policy these Libertines haue borrowed from Epicurus a heathen Philosopher who hartily louing carnall libertie and sensuall life not to be of all men contemned and accounted as a beast would not in plaine tearms defend publickely That man had no other happines then sensuall life but coloured his Lasciniousnesse vnder pretext of Religion and taught for truths That the Soule of man was mortall and that after death there was no reward for good deedes and so by denying of merite for good workes and punishment condigne to wicked deedes with the Lutherans and Caluenistes English Creed Art 11. of this age he founded his Sect Happines and Religion vpon the groundes of Faith onely without merite for good workes or exercises of vertue and by this craft did what his concupiscences desired and yet preserued his credit of being a Philosopher and found many followers in all ages Insomuch as St. Augustine before his Conuersion to our Catholicke Church if he could haue beleeued the Epicurian Articles had made himselfe of the Sect of the Epicures as hee saith in these wordes Nothing did call me from the deepe gulfe of carnall August lib. Conf. 8. cap. 16 pleasures but the feare of death and the Iudgement of God to come which notwithstanding the diuers opinions I held neuer departed from my brest And I did dispute with my friends Alipius and Nebridius of the ends of good and euill and Epicurus had caried away the prize in my minde had I not beleeued that after death there did remaine a life of the Soule and places proportionable to our merits which Epicurus would not beleeue So S. Augustine And from this Epicurian Doctrine of Protestants and libertie of their Gospell proceedeth their aboundant fruites and workes of the Flesh which are so copious that as their owne Authors doe testifie In Flaunders Richard Iefferie in his Serm. printed 1605. page 31. was neuer more drunkennesse In Italie more wantonnesse c. In Iurie more hypocrisie In Turkie more impietie In Tartarie more iniquitie then is practised generally in England The people of Stubbes in his Epistle dedicatory before his Booke of good Workes England saith another of their Authors are in most places dissolute proude enuious malitious disdainfull couetous ambitious carelesse of good workes So these two English Protestant Authors yet the one affirmeth * Iefferie that hee spoke what he had plainely seene in the course of some trauels and the * Stubbes other what hee had found in trauelling the whole Realme round about And according to the testimonies of these two is the Lamentation of the Puritans in their milde defence alleaged in Mr. Powels Booke of thinges indifferent saying What eye so blinde that it doth not gushe out with teares to behold the misery of our supposed glorious Church I meane the great ignorance the Superficiall worship of God the fearefull blasphemies and swearings in houses and streets c. The dishonour of Superiours the pride cruelty fornications adulteries drunkennes couetousnes vsuries and other like abominations c. O beholde and pitty the wofull and lamentable estate of our Church in these thinges And with this agreeth the testimonie of their Apostle Luther saying The world by this Doctrine In Postil super Euang Domini Aduentus of Protestants is dayly made worse Againe in the same Postile In so bright a light of the Gospell of Protestants men are more couetous more craftie more vniust more cruell more froward and to conclude they are much woorse then they were before in the Papacie Againe Before time when we were seduced by the Pope euery man did willingly follow good works and now no man saith or knoweth any thing but how to get all to himselfe by exactions pillage theft lying vsurie c. Againe It is saith hee a wonderfull thing and full of In Serm. coni Ger. Fer. 5. scandall that from the time in which the pure Doctrine of the Gospell was first called to light the world should dayly growe worse Of this Henry the eight after hee was a Protestant lamented saying I am sory that the Readers of the worde of GOD follow it in Fox Act. 1 pag. 1124 dooing so faintly and coldly For of this I am sure that Charitie was neuer so faint amongst you and vertuous and Godly liuing was neuer lesse vsed nor God himselfe amongst Christians was neuer lesse reuerenced honored and serued And with this testimonie of K. Henry the 8. agreeth the testimony of Fox saying Fox considerat 4. To rip vp all our deformities in particular I meane not heere neither need I the same being so euident to all mens eyes that who cannot see our excessiue outrage in pompeous Aoparell our carnall desires and vnchaste demeanors without feare of God our carelesse securitie without Conscience as though there were no Iudgement to come our studdy vpon this world as if there were no other Heauen And the same also affirmeth Caluin saying In cap 11 Dan. 5. 34 Ampugst the small number of those who haue withdrawen themselues from the Idolatry of the Papists the greater part is full of treachery and craft they counterfeit indeed great zeale but if thou looke into them thou shalt finde them full of deceit Againe There is scarsely to bee found the In com 2 Pet. 1. 2. tenth Protestant who hath for any other end giuen his name to the Gospell of Protestants then that hee might with greater libertie flowe in all Laciuiousnes Whereupon Andreas Musculus another In libro de nouissimo die Protestant saith If we would confesse the truth then are wee compelled to witnes this of vs Gospellers that there are not to bee found in the whole world men more giuen to whooring vsurie cousening and deceite then we Againe the thing it selfe doth speake and truth doth compell vs to confesse although

Gods or no stand in need of paines Such as are become so depriued of reason as to thinke that there was no God nor honor due vnto God to conuince them were necessarie paines sicknesses and torments that the Truth which Arguments deriued from Reason could not proue against such as had lost the right vse of Reason yet Affliction and Paines might force them to confesse So the Deuils in Hell though they cannot loue GOD Almightie or serue or adore him as they ought for that they are confirmed in Malice and multitude of Sinnes yet compelled by Affliction and Paines Beleeue that there Ia. 1. 19. is one God and tremble So forcible an argument is Paines and Afflictions against Atheists who denie God in their hearts that it is of force sufficient to conuince euen the Deuill that there is a God So doe but leaue these Atheists who denie that there is a God and esteeme all things to happen by Chaunce and Fortune in their Distresses and Afflictions to Chaunce and Fortune and permit nothing else to helpe them then they vvill not onely beleeue that there is a God but also earnestly perswade others that there is a God and that hee is the rewarder of those vvho shew and vse mercie to others and punisheth the cruell and hard-hearted According as it is vvritten in the Scriptures saying Blessed Mat. 5. 8. are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie And in Mat. 7. ● what measure you meate it shall be measured to you againe And God will render to euery Mat. 16. 27. man according to his workes As it fell out of late yeeres in a certaine English Souldier in the Garrison at Flushing in Zealand who whiles he was well in health could not be perswaded that there was a God but falling by lewdnesse of life into many diseases wherewithall hee was grieuously afflicted and tormented hee cryed out vnto him for helpe and mercie Their infirmities were multiplied Ps 15. 3. after they made hast to seeke for remedies and to call vpon God for helpe And this for proofe against Atheists that there is a God CHAP. III. That God is the content of Man and that it is not possible for Man to find any true Ioy or Content without enioying of God Almightie MAn hauing lost by sinne that which was giuen him by grace and fauour the Content and Pleasure of Paradise Gen. 1. 8. wherein after his creation he was placed still seeketh to recouer his auncient inheritance Ease Rest Repose Ioy Content and Happinesse old and young rich and poore Kings and Pesants wise men and fooles all seeke after Ease and Content No man so forlorne or decayed from the first originall of his Happinesse that loueth and affecteth Affliction Torments and Paines as they are Vexations and Griefes but euerie one how corrupt soeuer his nature is through sinne yet he desireth Repose and Happinesse O Sonnes of Adam seeke that you seeke but there it is not where you seeke it you seeke for Ease Rest Repose Content and Happinesse in the Honour Glory Riches Wealth sensuall Pleasures and Commodities of the World where neuer yet was found but their Opposites Griefes Anguishes Discontents and Vnhappinesse And whom shall we call for witnesse of this truth the fooles of the World No heare the Wise man speake I haue seene Eccl. 1. 14. all things that are vnder the Sunne and behold all are vanitie and affliction of mind Is it possible that the sonnes of the Earth cannot remember their Parents fall That in the enioying familiar conuersing with God in Paradise the place of Pleasure was all Ease Content and Ioyes and banished from thence they were put with all their posteritie into a cursed Land of Paines Trauels Cursed is the Gen. 3. 17. Earth in thy work with much toyling shalt thou eat thereof all the dayes of thy life thornes thistles shall it bring forth to thee Great is the ignorance of Mankind that looketh to gather Grapes of Thornes and Figs of Thistles Mat. 7. 16. to seeke for Ease Rest Repose and Content in the commodities of a cursed creature in the Mettalls Herbage skins of Beasts dead Fish Flesh sensuall Pleasures and corruption of the Earth base minds to be deluded with such base contents and grosse ignorance against which no reason or experience can preuaile God Almightie in creating of Man out of his infinite goodnesse gaue him Vnderstanding Will and Memorie according to his owne Image as it is written God created Gen. 1. 17. Man to his owne Image to the Image of God he created him male and female he created them their soules and formed their bodies of the slime of the earth God formed Man of the Gen. 2. 7. slime of the earth and breathed into his face the breath of life and Man became a liuing soule bearing in his mind the Image and likenesse of God Vnderstanding Will and Memorie Vnderstanding to vnderstand what was the chiefest good God his Creator of infinite Goodnesse Beautie Glorie Maiesty Excellencie and Perfection And a Will to will loue and seeke him at all times And a Memorie to remember him in all his actions with such a capacitie of him and hunger after him that whatsoeuer else hee seeketh hee should erre and whatsoeuer else hee should finde yet hee should want that as it were perforce though otherwise hee would not yet hee must needes seeke after his glorious Maiestie since nothing else is able to content the soule of man but God as Cicero a Pagan man well obserueth there were neuer any De Leg. lib. 1. people in the world so barbarous and irreligious but that although they knew not what God they ought to serue and adore yet they knew that they ought to serue and adore some God The light of reason in the most barbarous people manifesting to them that there could be no true Content and Happinesse but in seruing and adoring God though for want of grace they erred in the manner and through ignorance were deceiued in their opinions of his diuine Maiestie yet all with one consent cryed out that God was to be serued loued and adored seeing that there could be no true cōtent without the enioying of him God Almightie being onely He that is Sum qui sum I am Exo. 3. 14. which am and all other things being by participation frō his goodnes depending vpon his Apo. 4. will no creature can haue any true good content or rest but in him and from him he being all Ease Rest Repose Content and Happinesse holdeth them in his hand cōmunicateth them to his creatures at his pleasure according to the saying of the Prophet Thou hast made the Ps 35. 11. wayes of life known to me thou shalt make me full of ioy with thy countenance delights are in thy right hand euen to the end Againe Thou openest thy hand Ps 103. 28. and fillest euery liuing thing with

and yet you enuie it The Passion of our Lord is the price of the whole World he redeemed the whole World and you with the whole World for your gaine cannot agree but rather to your losse in a part doe striue that you may loose the whole Heare in the Psalme They Ps 21. 19. haue diuided my Apparrell amongst them and vpon my Coats they cast Lots Why will you be diuiders of the Apparrell of our Lord and will not hold with the whole World the Coat of Charitie wouen aboue which his Persecutors haue not diuided In the same Psalme it is said Ps 21. 28. that all the World shall hold it he saith All the ends of the Earth shall remember and be conuerted to our Lord and all the Families of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight Open the eyes of your heart Ps 49. 1. and heare for the God of Gods our Lord hath spoken and hee hath called the Earth from the rising of the Sunne euen to the going downe out of Sion the beautie of his comelinesse If you will not heare this heare the Gospell our Lord speaking and saying by his proper mouth All things ought to be fulfilled of Christ which of him are written in the Law and Prophets and Psalmes and Penance and Remission of sinnes in his Name to be preached throughout all Nations beginning at Ierusalem That which is said in the Psalme He hath called the Earth from the rising of the Sun vnto the going downe This is vnderstood in the Gospell by all Nations And that which in the Psalme is said out of Sion the beautie of his comelinesse in the Gospell is said beginning from Ierusalem Wherefore doe you beleeue that the Cockle hath growne and hath filled the World and the Wheat to haue diminished in Brittanie onely to haue remained Doe you call your selues Christians and yet contradict Christ Hee saith suffer both to grow vntill the Haruest Hee did not say let the Cockle grow and the Wheat diminish Hee said the Field is the World and did not say the Field is Brittanie Thus Saint Augustine Epist 171. and we with him So deare Reader not to liue seeking after lyes and publikely professing in deeds and actions that God Almightie is forsworne when Sathan shall tempt thee in matters of Faith or any controuersie ariseth betweene thee some Protestant about Religion as about the Reall Presence Prayer for the Dead Intercession to Saints c. make some of the aforesaid Acts set downe in the former Chapter with zeale and feruor and hold fast the hope proposed which Heb. 6. 18. wee haue as an Anchor of the Soule sure and firme the Oath of God and that it is impossible for God to lye Be not remoued away from the two things vnmoueable the Oath of God and Impossibilitie for God to lye Whereupon is grounded all the whole course of the Scriptures and founded the House of God the Church of the 1. Tim. 3. 15. liuing God the Pillar and ground of Truth And neither Death Rom. 8. nor Life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers neither things present nor things to come neither might nor height nor depth nor other creature shall be able to make thee a Protestant Sectarie or Heretike and separate thee from the vnitie of our Catholike Faith the Faith of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. And in arguing and disputing with Sectaries who denie our Catholike Faith put them to proue that the Oath of God the Promises and Prophecies are verified and fulfilled vpon their Sects and then thou shalt finde that their Doctrine proceedeth from this Sourse or Gulfe that Sathan is encreased in Pride hath got him a new Coat and reformed his Religion Whereas heretofore he was wont to goe like a Serpent and preach out of a Tree and taught that God Almightie could lye and men that would beleeue him should be as Gods No you shall Gen. 3. not die you shall be as Gods now he hath encreased his Pride and got a new Coat and goeth like a Precisian Minister and preacheth out of Pulpits and hath reformed his Faith and Religion teaching for God can lye and you shall be as Gods God can be forsworne and you are Gods and cannot lye erre or be deceiued but be assured to enioy Heauen and vpon this hath founded his reformed Religions the violating of the Oathes of God and publike profession in acts and deeds that God Almightie is periured and forsworne Heb. 6. 17. God meaning more abundantly to shew the heires of his Promise the stabilitie of his Counsell in performing what hee did promise for the establishing of the hearts of men in the infallibilitie of our Christian Catholike Faith Church Priesthood swore two Oathes the one in confirmation of the Priesthood of our Lord for euer Ps 129. Heb. 7. Our Lord hath sworne and it shall not repent him thou art a Priest for euer aecording to the Order of Melchisedeck The other this which we treate of The Oath of God to Abraham Act. 3. Of multiplying Gen. 22. his Seed as the Starres of Heauen and as the sand that is by the Sea-shoare Thy Seed shall possesse the gates of his enemies In thy Seed shall be blessed all the Families of the Earth And vpon these Oaths is founour Catholike Faith And the Deuill meaning more abundantly to shew his malice and power in the hearts of wretched men the heires of his Myseries and endlesse Torments hath brought them to plant a Faith and Religion grounded and founded vpon the denying in actions and deeds of the fulfilling of both these Oathes of God First by winning men to denie in effect and deeds that God Almightie hath multiplied Christians his children as the Starres of Heauen possessing the Gates of their enemies and mouing them to affirme in acts and deeds that for many hundreth yeares together God Almightie hath failed in fulfilling of his first Oath he hath planted in their hearts his new Ministeriall Doctrine And secondly by winning Men to deny in action and deeds that our Lord was a Priest for euer according to the Order of Melchisedeck and mouing them to affirme in acts and deeds that he was a Priest but for once and that according to the Order of Aaron in offering vp of himselfe once vpon the Crosse he hath destroied all the Christian Priest-hood life and Religion which was amongst them And so by mouing men in acts deeds publikely to professe that God Almightie hath beene twice forsworn the Diuel hath founded and planted amongst them his new reformed Religions groūded and founded vpon two cōtradictories to the grounds of our Catholike Faith viz. God Almightie cannot lye or be forwsorne God Almighty is periured and can lye Which is so manifest that if Malice and Passion doe not blinde thy heart and extinguish the light of reason in thy vnderstanding I will make thee touch it as we vse to say with thy

Flesh are dead to Grace in this life and to Glory in the other But such as liue according to the wisedome of the Spirit in Continencie and Chastitie by mortifying their inordinate appetites shall liue with the life of Grace in this life of Glory in the other and in Temporall peace of minde in this life and Eternall in the other Because the Wisedome of the Rom. 8. 13. Flesh is an enemie to God for to the Law of God it is not subiect neither can it be for if you liue according to the Flesh you shall die but if by the Spirit you mortifie the deedes of the Flesh you shall liue For whosoeuer are led by the Spirit of God and mortifie the deeds of the Flesh they are the sonnes of God But if any man haue not the Spirit of Christ the Spirit of Continencie and Mortification the same is not his but the Deuils Whereupon Saint Paul yet further saith I say walke Gal. 5. 16. in the Spirit that is in doing acts of Mortification and Continencie and the lust of the Flesh you shall not accomplish for the Flesh lusteth Gal. 5. 17. against the Spirit so these are enemies one to another and combate for the victorie If the inordinate lust and desires of the Flesh preuaile so farre with thee as that they bring thy Will Reason and Soule to consent to their desires then the inordinate lust and concupisences of the Flesh are Lords and Masters and thy Will Reason and Soule become slaues to their owne vassals and thou becommest a beast and a beastly man to runne after thy fleshly Lusts and Concupisences like the wilde Asses and beasts of the Forrest and that is thy life and felicitie If thy Soule or vpper part make continent and mortifie thy Lusts and Carnall desires and inordinate appetites of thy flesh then thy Soule or vpper part is Lord and Master and thou liuest like a man or reasonable creature and not like a beast and commest by perseuerance in Continencie and Mortification to enioy these delicate Fruits of the Holy Ghost which heere we treate of And for this cause the Life of Man is Iob. 7. called a Warfare For the Flesh Gal. ● ●7 lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh for these are aduersaries one to another that not what things soeuer you will those you doe without combate But combating the lust of the Flesh with Continencie and Mortification which are the fruits of the Spirit you come to enioy inestimable libertie of doing alwaies by combate what you will and will nothing but that which is reasonable according as it is written Where the Spirit of our 2 Cor. 3. 17. Lord is there is Libertie Againe Brethren you are called Gal. 5. 13. into Libertie And S. Paul setting down wherein this libertie consisteth saith Make Gal. 5. ●3 not this Libertie an occasion to the Flesh but by Charity serue one another For the Law is fulfilled in one word Thou shalt loue thy Neighbour as thy self This is the Libertie vnto which we are called a Libertie of doing good alwaies and when we will by being conquerers ouer the inordinate lust of our Flesh and wicked temptations of the World and Diuell by the assistance of the Holy Ghost his gifts and fruits in vs. Who shall deliuer me saith Rom. 7. S. Paul from the bodie of this death the Grace of God by Iesus Christ our Lord. Again The Grace of God our Sauiour 1. Ti● 2. 1● hath appeared to all men instructing vs that denying impietie and worldly desires we liue soberly and iustly and godly in this World expecting the blessed hope and comming of the glory of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ Whereby thou seest deare Reader the excellencie of Continencie since that by instructing thee how to deny impietie and worldly desires it will bring thee to liue soberly and iustly and godly in this world euen as one that continually expecteth the comming of the great God to Iudgement which is the greatest Happinesse we can attaine vnto in this life according to the words of our Lord saying Blessed is Luk. 12. 43. the Seruant who when the Lord commeth he shall finde so doing verily I say vnto you that ouer all things which he possesseth he shall appoint him OF THE TVVELFTH fruit of the Holy Ghost which is Chastitie THe twelfth fruit which the Holy Ghost doth produce in the Hearts of those who loue him is Chastitie which is an abrenuntiation of carnall pleasures and sensuall delights not absolute necessary to Nature wherby they attaine to perfect libertie of Spirit and freedome of Minde and easily and without impediment attend vnto the Exercises of the Heauenly Ierusalem according to the words of S. Paul saying He that is 1. Cor. 7. 23. without a Wife is carefull for the things that pertaine to our Lord how he may please God But he that is with a Wife is carefull for the things that pertaine to the World how he may please his Wife and he is diuided amongst many Masters that he cannot easily serue and loue God with his whole heart according to the Commandement So likewise S. Paul saith The Woman vnmarried and the 1. Cor. 7. 34. Virgine thinketh on the things that pertaine to our Lord that shee may be holy both in Bodie and Spirit But she that is married thinketh on the things that pertaine to the World how she may please her Husband And this I speake to your profit not to cast a snare vpon you but to that which is honest and that may giue you power without impediment to attend vpon our Lord. If thou wouldest obserue it thou shalt finde that the thing which hindreth thee from meditating and practising spirituall courses pious exercises of life is thy vnchast minde which seeking after the fornications of the World and Flesh perpetually distracteth thee frō well doing or thinking by hir vntame thoughts and wandring discourses after the sensual pleasures vanities of the Earth which if by Chastitie of minde thou couldest cut off thou shouldest as S. Paul affirmeth not onely meditate vpon the things that pertaine to our Lord and be holy both in Bodie and Spirit but also without impediment attend vpon our Lord and liue an Angelicall life vpon Earth according to the words of our Sauiour saying They Luk. ●0 35. that shall be counted worthy of the Resurrection from the dead neither Marry nor take Wiues neither can they dye any more for they are equall to Angels Whereby thou seest the excellencie of chaste Life that it will free thee from Worldly cares and distractions and will indue thee with such a facilitie in seruing God as that thou shalt be able as S. Paul saith to 1. Cor. 7. attend vpon our Lord without impediment And this is sufficient in part to shew vnto thee the Ioy Ease Rest Repose Content and Happinesse which God Almightie