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A20947	Heraclitus: or, Meditations vpon the misery of mankinde, and the vanitie of humane life with the inconstancie of worldly things; as also the wickednesse of this deceitfull age described. Faithfully translated out of the last edition written in French by that learned diuine, Monsieur Du Moulin By Abraham Darcie.; Héraclite; ou, De la vanité et misère de la vie humaine. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1624 (1624)	STC 7326; ESTC S115746	58,947	176

agreeable to the industry of Moles which digge vnder-ground with much dexteritie but are blind when they come into the Sunne So wee haue much skill in earthly affaires to sell to couenant and to supplant any one But take one of these men vvhich is is most subtill in these things and bring him to the brightnesse and light of the holy Gospel and there he is altogether blind and of a selfe-conceit will continue so For during the time that hee doth foresee future euents and alterations of estate hee is ignorant of his owne destruction while that he discourseth on the affaires of Kingdomes hee is a Slaue to the Diuell And notwithstanding that blind iudgement of his dareth contest against the Euer-liuing GOD the folly and foolishnesse of the children of darknesse against the Diuine wisedome of the Father of Light and the discretion of man against the Prouidence of the Almighty For the wicked do couer themselues with silence craft and dissimulation Like vnto little children which think that they are sufficiently hidden when their eyes are closed Beleeuing that no body seeth them when they see no body But in the meane time God perceiueth them both naked and vncouered yea better then they themselues For God is not onely all hand in holding and conducting the whole Vniuerse but also all eye in seeing and discerning all things in it The thickest bodies are to him transparant and darknesse it selfe is to him light and therefore the Prophet Dauid doth iustly reprehend that foolish wisedome in the 94. Psalme where he saith Vnderstand ye vnwise among the people and ye fooles when will ye be wise He that planted the eare shall he not heare or he that formed the eye shall he not see Now in this place he calleth them vnwise not which are fooles and run vp and downe the streetes nor those priuate and particular men which are without Office nor the heauy-spirited Commons but such as are crafty and manage affaires with dexterity thinking by their sagacity to couer themselues from the wisedome of God or to dazle the eyes of his prouidence sacred Like vnto the most dangerous Agues which are vnder the appearance of Coldnesse So the most ridiculous follie is that which lieth vnder the appearance of wisedome It behoueth also the Faithfull to exercise his meditation and to be a spectator of the actions and thoughts of men and of all the vnprofitable labours of his life For it is in humane life as in a Faire where there commeth two sorts of people one for to buy and sell the other onely to see Man that feareth God is like to one of those which come to see he is not there idle and to search nothing but to contemplate the worke of God and humane actions But he may say when he hath seene all the delights that the curious vanity of men can shew forth O how many things are there in this world which I haue nothing to doe withall What if during this contemplation some one doth iustle or throng vpon him or if one cut his purse that it doe afflict or depriue him of any thing All that such a one will doe is to goe out of that company and knowing himselfe to be a stranger in this world will trauell toward his Country where that Celestiall Habitation is pressing alwaies as the Apostle saith towards the marke for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus If the world contemne him hee will contemne that contempt as knowing himselfe better then the world and to be called to a better hope hee will esteeme the promised allurements of the world vaine the occupations of men base and importunate and according to the example of Mary in the tenth of Luke he will choose the good part which shall not bee taken from him concluding all his meditations after the same maner as Salomon doth in the end of Ecclesiastes The end of all is the feare of God and the keeping of his Commandements for in it is comprized the summe of mans beeing Now therefore after all this meditation let vs rest our selues vpon these two Maxime's and Propositions which are the true foundation that zeale is grounded vpon The first is for to loue God it behooueth to contemne the world The second is that for to contemne the world it is necessary for the Faithful to know his own worth noblenesse and excellencie of vocation The first Maxime is taken out of S. Iohn in his first Epistle Loue not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man loue the world the loue of the Father is not in him For all things that are in the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world And the world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that fulfilleth the will of God abideth for euer Nothing doth so farre separate vs from the loue of God as our affection to the world seeing that the holy Scripture for to admonish vs doth call the world The Kingdome of the Diuell But as the Moone hath no light but from the Sunne so our soules haue not any light but by the regard of God and by a consequent neither more nor lesse But euen as the Moone doth lose her light when she is hidden within the shaddow of the earth so also doe our soules lose their brightnesse for they are called in the holy Scriptures The children of light when they molest and wrap themselues within the shadow of earthly things cares and worldly concupiscences which wee ought to tread vnder our feete according to the example of the Church which as it is vvritten in the 12. of the Apocalypse hath vnder her feete the Moone that is the mutable instabilitie of these inferiour things To this purpose Iesus also would that the penny should bee restored to Caesar because that it had his Image on it Let vs therefore then giue our selues to God seeing that we beare his owne Image But the inconuenience is that wee doe often abolish the Image in rubbing it against the earth and polluting our soules with worldly thoughts and desires That wee may therefore contemne the earth and all that the world doth promise it requireth that wee come to the second point which is to know perfectly what the worth and excellency of the faithfull is For when as men by an vnfriendly amity and cruell well-willing doe sollicite some one to doe ill which hath the feare of God and to offend his Conscience in offending God it behooueth the faithfull to think in himselfe What I that am a Child of God and am of a celestiall noblenesse that am one of the first-borne whose names are registred in Heauen shall I esteeme the promises of the world which when they are most certain they are too base for mee to meditate on To delude the sonne of a Prince with

seekest by thy inticing flatteries to deliuer vs to an enemie farre vvorse then the Philistims which is the Diuell himselfe Such pleasures are like vnto guilded pils which vnder their externall beauty include bitternesse They are also like vnto fresh Riuers that end their course in the Sea losing their sweet rellish in an ocean of saltnes True zeale cannot flourish vnder so nice and delicate a gouernment nor can the perfect knowledge of God which is a celestiall gift be subiected to the belly it cannot remaine amongst swine that habitation is onely agreeable to the diuell who by the permission of Iesus Christ hauing entred into a Herd of swine compelled them to runne headlong to their owne ruine and who as it is recorded in the holy Writ nourisheth prodigall children vvith the husks of pleasures in stead of their parents bread It behooueth the Husbandman when the trees are yong to vphold them and to lop the o're-weighty branches if afterwards he intends to gather any fruit Likewise it is necessary for Parents to reforme correct the vices that raigne in Youth lest afterwards it returne to their shame and reproach But there are at this day many fathers and mothers who for not hauing well instructed their children in their youth doe receiue much sorrow and griefe in their age a iust reward for such Parents who although they be said to be nourishers of the bodies are the destroyers of the soules of their children If Ely was grieuously punished vvith his children for that hee did not so sharpely chastice them as their offences did require what shall become of those fathers and mothers which in stead of correcters are the childrens corrupters Such Parents may well bee compared to Apes which kill their yong ones by too much clasping them between their armes and keeping them so deare and this is the cause that so many fall into the hands of the Hangman which is to them reformer and correcter Many there bee that in stead of giuing good exhortations to their Family doe shew them first themselues naughty and wicked examples For the first commandement that they giue them how to liue well is to blaspheme sweare exercise gluttony and drunkennesse to spoile the substance of their youth to bee fornicators and to kisse women and maidens in their presence There bee also many mothers heere that learne their Daughters to Dance to vse Rhetorick termes to haunt companies to scoffe and flout to paint and colour their faces to decke their fingers with Rings and their necks with Iewels as though they were Iewel-sellers pretending to keepe a shop but in the end it will happen to them as it did to the Prophet Dauid 2. King 13. 15. whose sinne was punished in his children which were most of them so wicked that the one of them defloured his owne Sister and the other killed his Brother and afterwards sought the death of his owne Father and chased him out of his Kingdome The ancient Philosophers maintained this argument that all sinnes committed in this world vvere punished in the World to come except the sinne that Man committed in the bringing vp of his children and for that hee suffereth punishment in this world for the father can giue nothing to his child but fraile and mortall flesh by the corruption whereof the life taketh end but by good learning and knowledge eternall praise memory is gotten Therefore to conclude if children haue been in great misery being nourished with spotted milke yet the misery doubleth in those that should cause them to bee instructed for the food of the body is more vile then the food of the soule CHAP. III. Of Mans ripe Age. HAuing finished this our second discourse Man is growne to his full perfection both of strength and discretion and his heat being allayed by age behold other vanities which attend on him although not altogether so violently scorching yet more opinionated and troublesome for hee entreth into deeper cogitations and trauell in the spirit It is requisit therefore that hee frequent publike places that he haunt the company of those that are touchstones for to know the good from euill If he be come of a great and Noble stocke hee must make many enterprises of Warre put himselfe in perils hazzard his life and shead his bloud to die in the way of Honour or else hee shall bee reputed a dastardly Coward and vtterly despised of all men If hee be of base estate and that hee be called to the knowledge of Arts Sciences and needfull trades yet for all that he runneth into a thousand dangers trauailes paines and troubles as well of the body as of the soule hee toileth day and night and sweateth water and bloud to get a maintenance during his life and oftentimes it is seene that what paines soeuer man taketh for his liuing yet it is scant sufficient to serue his necessitie Let him be of any Vocation or Calling whatsoeuer there come vnto him irremoueable cares domesticke troubles or the knowledge of husbandry or contentions in Law or the labour of painfull Mechanick Arts all to the end that he may get somwhat for his children who sucking from him it may be all that he hath is onely requited with ingratitude and reproch These infelicities are the occasion that man is alwayes wearied with the things present desiring onely things to come and continually endeuouring to catch at somewhat that is already escaped whereas if by chance they obtaine it it dissolueth to nothing as it is in their hands or if they enioy it yeelds no contentment nor doth any wise appease their feare or satisfie their desire It is not therefore without cause that M. Aurelius was wont to say when hee considered the misery of mankinde I mused in my mind said he whether there might bee found in any age a man that could vaunt that in all his life-time he neuer tasted aduersitie and assuredly if there might bee such a one found he would be such a fearfull monster vpon earth that all liuing things would bee amazed to behold him Then he concluded after this sort saying And in the end I found my owne thoughts true for hee that vvas yesterday rich was to day poore hee that was yesterday in health was to day sicke he that laughed yesterday did to day weepe he that was yesterday in prosperitie was to day in aduersitie and he that was yesterday aliue was to day dead But let vs now returne to our former matter and set downe our discourses in order What liuing man is he in al the world that hath giuen himselfe to any Science or otherwise to liue but that at one time or other hee disliked of his owne profession and is weary thereof And for the better vnderstanding of the same we will particularly discourse the miseries and troublesome liues of all the principall estates liuing vpon the bosome of the sinfull earth Searching into all estates of men we shall finde that aboue all

stand ope to all be shut to none But in these our moderne dayes they can cunningly transpose the point and and thus peruert the sense Stand open gate to none be shut to all Doe not these heauen-tempting Nimrods depopulate and leuell vvith the ground whole townes crowd and iustle many honest and ancient Farmers out of their Demesne deuastate their Possessions and expose them with their Wiues Children and Families to be Camerades with palefac'd beggery onely to lay the Basis of their Babel-out-brauing Palaces abillimented with Punkish out-sides to cheate the speedy approaching Traueller of his hungry hopes as Zeuxis did the silly Birds with his liuely-limbed Grapes as if they be in-lined with quaint garnishing and costly furniture beautified with curious pencild pieces wheron thy eye may glut it selfe by gazing yet perhaps maist thou be chap-faln for want of victuals These glittering obiects are the Medusas that inchant the violent instigations that spurre on young luxurious heires to hurle out their Angle to catch their fathers liues and languishingly to long till they see their mossie-bearded Sires topple vp their heeles into their graues And when their Fathers surrender vp their breathes to him from whom it was first diffused then doe they mourne forsooth though ceremonially not for that they are dead but because they died no sooner The premisses pre-considered what can be expected then but an imminent desolation or conclusiue dissolution of this foolish doting world since vniuersally it is but an indigested Chaos of outragious enormities Religion is made the Canopy to shrowd the putrifaction of Hypocrisie and it 's growne the highest Maxime in mundane policies to seeme not be religious equall-handed Iustice is rush'd aside by stubborne authoritie and all Morall vertues imbraced in their contraries How long then most milde more merciful God wilt thou forget to bee iust Oh how long wilt thou shut vp the vessels of thy wrath and protract reuenge Art thou not the powerful God of Iustice how canst thou then be any thing but thy selfe What infinities of sinnes are shot vp to Heauen against thee Yet still and still thou wooest vs with the heauenly breath of thy holy Gospell vncouering those inexpressible wounds thou receiuedst for our Redemption from sinne and Satan that we might with pittifull commiseration behold them and vncessantly crying out vnto vs How oft O my deare children whom I haue bought with the price of my most precious bloud would I haue gathered you together euen as the Hen doth her Chickens and yet nor yet you will not be collected How oft hath hee thundered and knockt at the doores of our hearts with the power of his Spirit to wake from the profound Ecstasm o f soule-killing sinnes yet still lye we snorting on the bed of securitie and cannot be rowzed How often O how often hath hee out-stretched his all-sauing hand to heaue and helpe vs out of the slimie mudde of our impieties yet still lye we groueling and ouer-whelmed in the insensible Lethargy of abominable transgressions How many warning-pieces hath he discharged vpon vs How oft hath hee displayed his milke-white Ensignes of peace vnto vs What deuouring plagues what fires what inundations what vnseasonable Seasons what prodigeous Births what vnnaturall Meteors what malevolent Coniunctions what ominous apparitions what bloudy assassinations of mighty Kings what Rapes what Murthers what fraudulencies betwixt brother and brother what horrible conspiracies by sonnes against fathers All these sent as Heralds against vs yet will wee not come and bee reconciled These prodigious precursions or precursiue prodigies should deterre each humane creature from spurning against his Creator These pre-monitions should instruct vs that Gods dreadfull vengeance waits at our dores like a staru'd Tiger gapes for our destruction And notwithstanding he doe for a while fore-slowe to let fall his flaming rod of fierie indignation vpon vs yet is the Axe already laid to the roote of the tree and God must and will assuredly come to iudgement seeing that now not any of those ancient predictions mystically pointed out vnto vs in the soule-sauing Writ by the holy Prophets remaine vnfinished but onely the finall destruction of that Romish seuen-headed Monster together with the recollection of the vagabond Iewes into the sheepe-fold of Iesus Christ Doth not an vncouth terrour seize vpon a man whē in the depth or noone of night this sudden and vnthought of out-cry of fire fire shall fill his affrighted eares and chase him out of his soft and quiet slumbers whereat skipping from his easefull bed and distractedly gazing through the Casement shall behold his owne house o're-spred with a bright-burning flame and himselfe together with his Wife and Children seruants goods and all most lyable to the deuouring rapacitie of imminent danger O consider then wicked man how thy soule will be beleaguered with anguish and horrour when in that last and terrible Day thou shalt behold with thy mortall eyes the Cataracts of heauen vnsluced and hushing showres of sulphurious fires disperse themselues through all the corners of the earth and aire the whole Vniuerse o're-canoped with a remorselesse flame when thou shalt see the great and glorious Iudge appeare triumphantly in the skies whilest mighty-winged clouds of deuouring flames fly before him as Vshers to his powerfull and terrible Maiestie attended with countlesse multitudes of beautious Angels golden winged Cherubims and Seraphims sounding their Trumpets whose clamorous tongues shall affright the empty ayre and cal awake the drowzy dead from their darke and duskie cabins when thou shalt see the dissipated bones of all mortals since the Creation concatenate and knit in their proper and peculiar form amazedly start vp in numberles troupes flocke together all turning vp their wondring eyes to gaze vpon their high and mighty Creator Then O then will thy conscience recommemorate afresh thy past committed sinnes and with the corroding sting of guilt will stab thorow thy perplexed soule Then O then will it be too late to wish the Mountaines to fall vpon thee for they themselues for feare would shrinke into their Center Alas it cannot then bee auaileable to woo the waters to swallow thee for they would bee glad to disclaime their liquid substance and be reduced to a nullity What will it boote thee then to intreat the earth to entombe thee in her dankish wombe when shee her selfe will struggle to remoue from her locall residence and to fly frō the presence of the great Iudge The aire cānot muffle thee in her foggy vastitie for that wil be cleerely refin'd in her will be celestiall flames before contaminated with humane pollution In fine how will thy soule tremblingly howle out and breake forth into bitter exclamations when thou shalt heare that definitiue or rather infinitiue sentence denounced against thee I know thee not Depart and goe into euerlasting torment whilest Legions of diuels with horrid vociferations muster about thee like croking Rauens about some dead carkasse waiting to carry

death for death is the path of life a Gaole-deliuery of the soule a perfect health the hauen of heauen the finall victory of terrestriall troubles an eternall sleepe a dissolution of the body a terrour to the rich a desire of the poore a pilgrimage vncertaine a thiefe of men a shadow of life a rest from trauell an Epilogue to vaine delight a consumption of idle desires a scourge for euill a guerdon for good it dis-burdens vs of all care vnmanacles and frees vs from vexation solicitude and sorrow Of all those numberlesse numbers that are dead neuer any one returned to complaine of death but of those few that liue most complaine of life On earth euery man grumbles at his best estate The very elements whereby our subsistence or being as the secondarie cause is preserued conspire against vs the fire burnes vs the water drownes vs the earth annoyes vs and the aire infects vs our dayes are laborious our nights comfortlesse the heat scorcheth vs the cold benummes vs health swels vs with pride sicknesse empaleth our beauties friends turne Swallowes they will sing with vs in the Summer of prosperitie but in the winter of tryall they will take wings and be gone Enemies brand our reputations with deprauing imputations and the enuious man hurleth abroad his gins to ensnare our liues who would then desire to liue where there is nothing that begets content for this world is a Theater of vanities a Chaos of confusions an Embassador of mischiefe a Tyrant to vertue a breaker of Peace a Fauorite of Warre a friend of Vices a coyner of Lies an Anuile of Nouelties a table of Epicurisme a furnace of Lust a pit-fall to the rich a burthen to the poore a Cell of Pilgrims a den of Theeues a calumniator of the good a renowner of the wicked a cunning Impostor and a deceiuer of all How is the progresse of poore proud mans life violently agitated like the riuer Euripus with contrarious motions The pleasure of the wyly world thus inueigles him Come vnto mee and I will drowne thee in delight The corruption of the luxurious flesh thus ingles him Come vnto me and I will infect thee the Diuell he whispers this in his eare Come vnto mee and I will cheate and deceiue thee But our sweet and sacred Sauiour Iesus Christ with perswasiue inducements thus intreates him Come vnto me I pray thee that art heauy laden and I will receiue and exonerate thee and with the mighty arme of my mercy and compassion lift off that vnsupportable loade which crusheth downe to Hell thy groaning soule Study then to liue as dead to the world that thou maist liue with God for the iust man is said neuer to liue till after death Endeuor thy selfe to march faire through this worlds Labyrinth not to squander and looke asquint vpon the Circean allurements thereof But without turning either to the right or left hand runne straight on in that Eclipticke line which will conduct thee to that celestiall Ierusalem where with that immaculate Lambe Iesus Christ thou shalt enioy pleasure without pain wealth without want rest without labour ioy without griefe and immensiue felicitie without end Moreouer the contempt of the world born of the loue of God shall at length grow to hatred of the world when that besides the vanity and misery of it he shall contemplate the mischiefe and enmitie against the Almighty vvhich there raigneth when besides that vanity which some doe lay open to the view of all hee will represent to himselfe the iniquities which are closely kept and the Treasons Adulteries Murthers which are priuately and lurkingly committed when he shall consider the vials of Gods wrath and displeasure powred generally vpon all man-kinde for in the consideration of this world it behooueth vs to leaue out no part of it but to obserue all manner of nations and people amongst which there are many Pagans which not onely by a consequent but also by expresse profession adore the deuill The East Indies dedicate their temples to him and reuerence him with all respect The West Indies are afflicted and tormented ordinarily with euill spirits In most part of the North lurking deceits and assuming strange shapes are very common among the Inhabitants Sorcery is there an ordinary profession and the Diuell reigneth without contradiction In that Countrey which did once flourish where the Apostles had planted so happily the holy Ghost the Churches are now changed into Mosques and Temples of Idolatry In the West the head of the visible Church is become an earthly Monarch and banks are erected in those places where in times past was the House of God Amongst those erroneous and enuious people are scattered the Iewes which blasphemed against Iesus Christ and hauing persecuted him in his life doe iniuriously wrong him after his death The Countrey from whence came Decrees and Orders for Religion hath in it publike Brothel-houses and Sodomy is there an vsuall custome Here it is also where doubts in Religion that concerne a mans faith are decided in the middest of corruption There onely remaineth in the world a handfull of people which serue Iesus Christ in truth and verity and they can scarce receiue breath in this ayre which is so contrary to them beeing here as fishes without water as the remainders of great Massacres as pieces of boords scattered after the breaking of a great vessell and yet neuerthelesse among these few that are substracted out of the rest of the world corruption doth increase as a Canker or Vlcer Quarrels Vanity Superfluity in Apparell Auarice Ambition Sumptuousnesse which spendeth foolishly doth infect the one part of this small troupe for GOD is ill serued in priuate families their almes are cold they pray seldome and reade neuer IN briefe a contagion of vices by conuersing with our aduersaries doth infect vs which is the first steppe to superstition for errour creeps in to vs by vice and spirituall fornication by corporall If therefore where God is most purely knowne hee bee there ill serued how much more amongst the rest of the world If vices doe harbour in the Sanctuary how much more in the body of the church and habitation of the wicked Therefore Christ doth rightly call Satan The prince of the world and Peter doth iustly write in the second of the Acts Saue your selues from that peruerse generation for Satan lieth in ambush for vs all This age is infectious vices are like vnto glue temptations strong our enemies mighty our selues feeble and ignorant and the way of saluation narrow and full of thornes And few there bee saith Christ that finde it And those which finde it doe not alwayes keepe it but many hauing knowne the trueth doe leaue it and returne to their vomit Let vs know then a place so dangerous that wee may passe by as strangers which doe not onely passe but also runne from it flying from the world to come vnto God for wee shall neuer haue repose vnlesse wee rest