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A20957	A preparation to suffer for the Gospell of Iesus Christ. Or, A most Christian exercise full of comfort and consolation for these present times. Written in French by the learned, and zealous, Peter Du Moulin, Profresor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Sedan	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 7336; ESTC S118563	17,868	86

of God for these things to it seeme follies and it cannot conceiue them because they must be discerned spiritually but the spirituall man discernes all things And in deed man being extreamely vaine in all his cogitations in his opinions erronious and in his vnderstanding and will clean peruerted in matters of Religion he takes darknes for light falsehood for truth and euill for good no otherwise but euen like to those whose taste is depraued or stomacke alienated that delight more in grosse and bad then in good and wholesome meats or those who hauing some bitternesse lying on their tongue find the very hony it selfe to bee bitter in their mouthes Moreouer the Gospell manifesting vnto man his miserie his sinne his infirmitie and his impotencie he puffed vp with a conceit and presumption of himselfe abhorreth such a Doctrine And which further grieues the same also this condemnes sensuall and carnall affections together with worldly reason commaunding a renunciation of ones selfe and of the world and man is loath to leaue the loue of these things It summons also to the endurance of persecution and diuers things that are odious to the flesh so that affecting to liue at his ease hee expels and driues away such a Gospell which disturbes his worldly repose and the enioyance of his delights Now though the Lord hath absolute power ouer all creatures yet did hee not abolish this hatred of the world against the faithfull from whence he workes many benefites for our good for it is like a barre or rayle which separates vs from the world and the vices thereof For if the world did not hate vs but rather loued vs what would come of it but an adherence and confirmation of our selues to it and so to be infected with the contagion thereof whereas hating vs wee are thereby constrained to withdraw our hearts and to alter our affections from it that we may bee preserued from the corruptions thereof and aspire to a better estate then that of the world While Iacob beheld the affable visage of Laban hee tooke delight in it but when Laban chaunged his Countenance then hee spake of returning into his Countrey of Canaan While the children of Israel were not hated of the Egyptians they dwelt willingly in Egypt but after they came to bee hated and ill intreated they had a desire to depart to possesse the land of Promise While the world smiles vpon vs wee returne reciprocall contentment to it but when it sets countenance against vs and makes vs feele the sensible effects of her hatred then wee call to minde and desire our celestiall Canaan whereof God hath promised to vs a full possession Furthermore God makes vse of the worlds hatred as of a whip wherewith to scourge vs when we flie out too farre and abandon our selues to the corruptions of the world For then God looseth the reines to this hatred and permits them the execution of their malicious designes as in this troublesome time we haue had experience through the wonderfull excesse of our sinnes and transgressions Besides this hatred is a proper meanes whereby to exercise our vertue and constancie in the tryall of our Faith Patience Charitie Perseuerance and Benignitie It is also a proper subiect to vs of spirituall victory for where can any victory be without combate any combate without opposition any opposition without an aduersary or any aduersary without hatred The hatred of the world must erect vnto vs spirituall trophees and tryumphs the purple of our glory must be of a more lustrous and resplendant die by the effusion of our owne blood For if the Church were not hated of the world what wonder were it though it subsisted and persisted in the world surmounting and trampling it vnder and how should we come to acknowledg the miraculous ayd succor of God the depth of his prouidence power and protection Should we ascribe that to our selues which proceeds meerly from him take that to our owne happinesse which is deriued immediately from his grace But when God works a subsistēce to his church in the very mids of al the worlds hatred it is no lesse to be wondred at then when it was preserued in the midst of Egypt Babylon among the most truculent and bloudy aduersaries she had and as when shee was retyred within the arke she was secured amidst the waues winds tempests and stormes within a floting and fraile residence And if it be an admirable thing that this Vniuers should be maintained being inuironed with such a contrarietie of elements surely it yeelds no lesse cause of astonishment that God still preserues his Church in the midst of hatred contradictions and worldly assaults Yea the words of our Sauiour enioyne vs to this obseruation that we should be so farre from flattering the world or seeking the approbation thereof in any poynt that toucheth concerns religion that cleane contrary we ought to haue it in continuall iealousie and suspition And besides this it is not proper to the church to be applauded or exalted of the world but rather to be molested and persecuted and the peculiar property of the children of the world as the Deuill their father is to hate whereas the property of the children of God is to loue the whole law of God being comprehended in this one word which is To loue God and our Neighbour From whence you may clearely discerne how far remote those of the Romane church are from Christianitie being stuffed with passion in all their censures with hatred in their designs against vs reputing themselues the more zealous Catholickes in that they hate vs and their charities likewise towards vs being extreamly cruel hard hearted for out of the loue they bear vs they put vs to death they persecute and burne vs out of a loue to our saluation whereas we on the contrary seeke peace and concord with them so far as the duties of religion or ciuility in conuersation may permit But if Christ thogh he were glorious and omnipotent suffred himself to be hated of the world and of the enemies to his Gospell let vs learne to admire and imitate his patience clemency And when the world crowned him with thorns can we look to be crowned with flowers If they crucified him will they glorifie vs we affect conformity with him in his beatitude shall we disdain to follow him in his persecutions And whereas the name of Christ is so holy his cause so iust and our profession so authentick what greater honor can be conferred vpon vs then to suffer for so worthy a cause Like vnto the Apostles we must reioyce that wee are found worthy to suffer for the name of Christ and that with S. Paul we may vaunt and glory in our tribulations For besides the honour we receiue in suffring for the name of Christ the reward wee expect therefrom is incomparable For he that perseuers to the end shall bee saued It is not said he that hates

on the earth and of those vnder the earth and euery tongue shall confesse that IESVS is the Lord sitting in glory with God the Father This is the glorious name by which and for which all things were all creatures subsist haue their being their life their operations and their good and yet neuerthelesse it is hated of men after the custome of many barbarous Nations who at the rising of the Sunne shoote their Arrowes against it with a thousand maledictions because they doe but feele the ardour and heate of it at high noone day not considering that without the benefit of his beames and vertue they could not liue And euen so the world shoote the darts of their hatred and madnesse against Christ who is the Sonne of Righteousnes when they apprehend but the ardour of persecution or else supposing that Christ brings with him some Inconuenience whereas indeed hee is the true sunne of all happines and that without his light and special grace there is nothing but darknes misery the shaddowes of death and death eternall Persons empoysoned with this hatred against the name of Christ are of two sorts some be those which make no profession at all of him but openly detest him as Paynims Iewes Turkes and miscreants The other haue some knowledge of him but yet they are erronious Christians mingling the word of God with false Doctrines Superstitions Inuentions and humane Traditions such as be the Heretikes and adherents to Antichrist And though this latter sort and their beleeuers auouch not publikly any hatred to the name of Christ yet they shew it by plaine and euident effects as Saul before his conuersion persecuted the Church of God though his intention and meaning was no wayes such And which is much to be lamented deluded and abused Christians shewe oftentimes more rancorous implacable hatred against the true faithful then those people themselues which hold the Gospel in abomination and suppose they beare a great zeale to Iesus Christ when they persecute him in his members and that they offer an acceptable sacrifi●e vnto God when they put his children to death If it be wonderfull therfore that this name of Christ is hated of men is it not likewise a very strange thing that true Christians should be hated one of another For though they haue the most principall rights in the citie of this world yet are they intreated as strangers they loue all the world and all the world hates them they seek after peace euery one makes warre against them they are detested of their enemies and yet they pray for them They are the honestest men of all others and yet are persecuted then the most wicked sort they liue in the flesh and yet not according to the flesh they conuerse on earth and are citizens of heauen they submit themselues to Lawes in their obedience and by their holy life surmount and excell them others curse them and they blesse they are punished and tormented as malefactors and men would not haue them confesse and acknowledge who they are their good names are slandered and depraued and yet wee are enforced to commend their integritie mortall enmitie is put in practise against them and no iust reason can bee rendred thereof men are ignorant of their Profession and notwithstanding condemne it In a word looke what the soule is to the body the same are the faithfull to the world the soule is dispersed ouer all the members of the body and the faithfull ouer the seuerall parts of the earth the soule dwelleth in the body yet is not of the body and so the faithfull dwel in the world yet are not of the world the soule loueth the body though the body warre and contest with it and the faithfull loue all the world though all the world be opposite to them the soule is enclosed within the body as within a gaole or prison and yet she preserues the bodie and the faithfull are imprisoned and shut vp in this world as within a prison and yet they preserue support the world by reason that for their sakes God forbeares to destroy it and when the number of the faithfull is accomplished then the world shall ende and finish The soule is incomparably more excellent then the body and the faithfull of infinite more value then the world The soule is of heauen and the body of the earth so are all the faithfull heauenly whereas the body is wholly earthly and terrestriall The immortall soule dwelleth as a stranger within our mortall tabernacle and so the faithfull haue but a trauailing life in this corruptible world attending most blessed and happie immortalitie The soule being depriued of bodily delights is made the better and more perfect and so the faithful rudely intreated by the world doe profit the more in the exercise of vertue From whence proceedes it then that they are so hated of the world why from this that they are not of the world for if they were of the world the world would loue them because euery thing loues it's like But in that they are distinguished and separated from the world by the profession of the Gospell which a doctrine so sweet amiable and healthfull comprehending and exposing the promises of the grace of God and of life eternall propounding such sacred and admirable misteries such perfect and diuine Instructions how comes it to be thus hated First in that the world is ignorant of it for those that truly know it cannot but loue and embrace it and so of violent presecutors they many times become ardent and zealous Professours The reason of this ignorance is because it is altogether spirituall celestiall and the world earthly and carnall which cannot beleeue nor apprehend it by reason of the sublimitie and excellency thereof no more then the beasts can be capable of the discourse of Reason To which purpose the Apostle affirmes in the first to the Corinthians the second chapter Wee propound wisedome to the perfect a wisedome no wayes of this world neither of the princes of this world which come to nothing but we propound the wisdome of God which consists in mysterie that is to say hidden which God had ordeined before all ages for our glory which none of the Princes of this world haue knowen for had they knowen it they would neuer haue crucified the Lord of Glory But as it is written these bee things which the eye neuer saw the eare heard nor that neuer hath entred into the heart of man but God hath reuealed them vnto vs by his Spirit for the spirit sounds all things yea euen the profoundest matters of God For who is he amongst men that knoweth the very things of man but the spirit of man which is in him No man in like manner knoweth the things of God but the Spirit of God Now we haue receiued not the spirit of this world but the Spirit which is of God to the end that we might know the things that are

A PREPARATION TO SVFFER FOR the GOSPELL of IESVS CHRIST OR A most Christian Exercise full of Comfort and consolation for these present times Written in French by the Learned and zealous PETER DV MOVLIN Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Sedan LONDON Printed by A. M. for Robert Mylbourne and are to bee sold at his Shop at the great South doore of Pauls 1623. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE TRVLY NOBLE AND MOST EXCELLENT LORDS ●ODOWICK Duke of RICHEMOND and of LENOX c. ●AMES Lord Marquis of HAMLETON c. ●ILLIAM Earle of PEMBROOKE c. ●ENRIE Earle of SOVTHAMTON c. ●OBERT Earle of LEICESTER c. ●OHN Earle of HOLDERNESSE c. ●AMES Earle of CARLISLE c. ●r OLIVER St. IOHN Viscount Grandison ●VDLEY Lord NORTH Baron of Catelage ●RTHVR Lord CHICHESTER Ba Belfast ●eligious Peeres of ENGLAND Mirror of Honour and Vertue Noble Patrons and Paternes of good Endeauours True Pillars and vpholders of Christs true Doctrine and the comfort of the Church of God BRAHAM DARCIE heartily wisheth to their Illustrious Persons all Jnternall Externall and Eternall Happinesse and Prosperitie in the holy TRINITIE ILLVSTRIOVS LORD● IF in this vicious age it a rare thing to see an E●ample of Vertue that your Noble Persons m● needs be much more ra● seeing it comprehende● with great Excellencie and Perfection all t● Vertues in one which the corruption of th● present age rendreth most remarkeable b● the Eminencie of your High Callings a● the Nobilitie of your Illustrious Discen● makes it more admirable For if an inund●tion of vices the dangerous contagions Courts where many seducing obiects of euils ●re often presented rather to Great then In●eriour Persons haue not beene able to de●raue or viciate the vnspotted Sinceritie 〈◊〉 your Noble and Constant hearts This is 〈◊〉 Example almost without Example ap●auded of those that know your Names more ●dmired of those that know your Persons ●a Commended and Extolled euen by your ●ery Enemies Amongst your many Rare ●ertues PIETIE which is and ought to ●ee the chiefest as that which disswadeth vs ●om all worldly and transitory Pleasures and ●ffectations makes vs approach neere to ●OD to bee partakers of that incompre●ensible Ioy Comfort and euerlasting Hap●nesse allotted only to Christs Elect shines ●ith an excellent splendor through your whole Noble Conuersations GOD who is the onely Giuer and true Rewarder of Vertu● hath so adorned and enlightned you with th● Cleare and Radiant Beames of his Gospel that no waues of Idolatrous temptations sha● bee able to shake the Foundation of your tru● grounded Faith built not vpon the Sand o● humane Tradition and Inuention that th● least winde remooues but on the firme Rock of Diuine Perseuerance and Constancie which no superstitious storme can ouerwhelme● That holy Prouidence which keepes you sti● pure and immaculate hath blest and preserued you from time to time from all perill● and dangers and hath endued you with hi● heauenly Fauours and Graces which are euident demonstrations of greater Blessings to come heereafter Making the people of GOD hope you are thus preserued to be true friends of his Church and the terrour of her Enemies Ouer which you will bee tryumphant CHRIST making your enterprises pro●perous and your Noble designes victorious ●or which I am euer ready to send vp my zea●ous Prayers to GOD for all happie suc●esse In testimony whereof I humbly tender ●nd prostrate to your Honours this Excel●ent and healthfull Preparation Dedicated ●ikewise to the most Noble Sincere and Reli●ious Princes and Lordes of FRANCE True and Zealous Warriors for CHRISTS cause Your Graces and Honours most humbly Deuoted ABRAHAM DARCIE To the most Illustrious H. B. of Roan Princes of Leon. FRED Prince of Sedan H. of Trimouille Prince of Talmont N. Duke of Seuilly AMORI Marquis of La Moussay Mon. Le Vidame de Chartres N. Marq. of La Force ST Marq. of Duras CL. Earle of Montgomery LE. E. of La Suze GASP. E. of Chastillion Most Illustrious Lords IN these tottering and vncertaine times when the loue and respect of the world and the terrour of persecutions and tribulations makes many look back that haue laid fast hold on the Plough of true Religion I thought it most expedient to salute you with this Treatise of a secure and safe Preparation against the assaults of malicious hearts and attempting hands that by the heroicall vertues of Christian patience and constancy you may be able to resist whatsoeuer impious force or violence which would faine make a breach in your Noble Religious and Zealous hearts This I haue done not out of any doubt or feare of your firme and setled resolutions but onely to giue you to vnderstand how farre your Illustrious persons are interressed in the daily and continual praiers of the whole Church for your happy and victorious successe and that whensoeuer you vouchsafe but to read this diuine Discourse your Lordships may be put in mind of the zealous and affectionate prayers of Gods people who hauing made my vnworthy selfe their generall mouth and voyce I doe not a little reioyce of the fit opportunity I haue herein to manifest vnto your Lordships mine owne particular humble loue and affection which being grounded vpon the many noble and apparant vertues of your Lordships and innumerable fauours and benefits imparted to me without desert desires yet in so small and slender a testimony as this to make known the large extent of my wishes and desires that God may accumulate vpon your Lordships in so holy and iust a cause all auspicious and wished successe as he whom all your Lordships ioyntly and each of you in particular will euer rest Your Lordships most bounden and deuoted P. DV MOVLIN A PREPARATION to Sufferings for the Gospell of IESVS CHRIST A Christian Exercise full of comfort and consolation for these present Times SVrely he spake not ill that sayd how Christian Exercise consisted in two things To doe well and to suffer much For God will bee glorified not onely by our actions but also by our Sufferings by which we manifest our vertue and zeale as much or more then by our Actions And so the holy Scriptures perswade vs the rather to acknowledge the importance of these duties in that they so often exhort vs both to the one and to the other Our Sauiour Christ also was not content to giue vnto his Disciples necessarie Instructions for well liuing but further hee premonifies and forewarnes them with a carefull Aduertisement against the diuers assaults and combats they were to suffer through the hatred of the world encouraging them to the fast-hold of Constancie vnder the assured hope of eternall saluation the which hee doeth expressely by these words here You shall be hated of all men for my Names sake but hee that holds out to the end the same shall be saued In these words he does not apply himselfe onely to the Apostles but in their persons to all the faithfull the which hee notifies by