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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18931	A breefe methode or way teachinge all sortes of Christian people, how to serue God in a moste perfect manner written first in Spanishe, by a religious man, named Alphonso ; and reduced owte of Latin into English in manner of a dialogue for the easier vnderstanding and capacities of the simpler sorte, by I.M.	Alonso, de Madrid.	1605 (1605)	STC 535.5; ESTC S641	54,991	168

doe my best endeuour therein said Probus THE FIRST INSTRVCTIon shewing to what ende God created Man placed him vpon earth CAP. 2 THe first instruction said Alphonso the foundation of all often seriously to be considered is that God as the holy Scripures and Fathers teach created and sent vs into this world not to enioy rest in the transitory commodities pleasures thereof but that taking of godds creatures so muche as may suffyce our necessities we occupy bestow our selues and all the reste we haue in seruing honoring our lord who haith prepared for our rewarde the blisse of heauen wherein we shall possesse for euer God him self that is an infinite good and in him all good thinges more aboundantly then we can imagin To honour serue God therfore my sonn are we come into this world All we doo besydes this is nothing els but loste laboure vaine hurtfull tryfling dishonorable to the noble children of such a father as God is No doubt father said Probus but we were created to serue God as you say But what kynde of seruice dothe God requyre of man is by man of bounde dutie to be performed THE SECOND INSTRVCtion of two manners how to serue god how Man is bounde vnto them CAP. 3. THere be two sortes of seruinge god said Alphonso two waies in lyke manner are we bounde to serue him The sirste is in the obseruing of godds commaundementes which we are all bounde to kepe vnder paine of eternall damnation to hell fyre The second is more perfect is this that forsakinge all earthlye thinges and withdrawinge our hartes from the loue thereof we caste oure affection wholly vpon our heauenlye Father which is an infinite goodnes in all thinges laboure to be of the same spirit will with him accordinge to the example which our Sauioure the naturall Sonn of God left vs whiles he serued here on earth not for any nede of his owne but to instruct vs how we ought to serue our Lorde This way Christ taught the yong man which had kept the commaundementes when he said If thou wilt be perfect geue all thou hast to the poore com folow me How are Christians bounde to this manner of seruice said Probus Not vnder payne of eternall damnation said Alphonso as in the first way but by a Law of frendshipp with god of equity gratitude wherein all the children of God that woulde not be reckned base-minded vngratefull foolish should moste carefully keepe them selues that they may appere the worthy children of so graceous a Father For to all it is geuen in commaundement that we loue our Lord with all our soule with all our hart with all our minde and with all our strength And to all he said Be you perfect as your heauenly Father is As he deserueth much blame that going to som place for dispatch of som weightie necessary affaires neglecting leauing the thing he wente to doe trifleth away his tyme in vyle sportes abiect thinges so likewise is he much blame worthy that being borne into this world to serue the high maiestie of God with all his powers abilities which seruice is most due vnto God most profitable to the seruant yet omittethe it because it is not commaunded him vnder paine of death bestowing him self in the mean season in a meaner and more abiecte kynde of seruice mixed with muche worldly vanitie that most swiftly passeth away bringethe with it much euill And albeit God haith left it in our free choice and curtefye yet the bound of frendshipp equitie gratitude requireth that we endeuoure to serue him to whom all honour and seruice is most due in the best manner we are able The first way to serue God said Probus is plame manifest to all Christians but the other apperteyneth onely to you Eremites to religious persons and Clargie men As the first said Alphonso is common to all Christians taught euery where so there is no Christian but he may be taught learn performe the seconde I can hardly think so said Probus for we may not all forsake the world cast all our hartes vpon this perfect seruinge of God you speake of No person said Alphonso is made a Christian before he first solemnly renownce the worlde with all the pompes vanities thereof yelde him self to the obedience seruice of God And therefore the profession not onely of Ermits religious persons Priestes but of all true Christians also is to forsake the world serue their Lord with all they are haue For as I said God created man for this ende for all temporall earthly things no man doth rightly vse them or can haue them but to his exceedinge harme vnlesse he turne them wholly to the seruice honoure of his Lorde whose in truth they be not mannes but for a litle tyme to vse as god haith ordeyned commaunded which seruice we ought to yeld to God not onely in keping his generall commaundements but in the perfectest manner as Christ our Lord by his owne exawple haith taught vs all And this seconde is that which now I purpose to teach you that is how ryche men artificers all sorts of people may serue their Lord and God most perfectlye This will be most comfortable to vs of the world said Probus but it semeth a most difficult thing to be done THE THIRD INSTRVCTION Of the wofull ruine destruction made in mannes soule body by sinne by reason whereof he fyndeth greate difficultye in seruinge God CAP. 4 YOu must know moreouer saide Alphonso that if man had continued in the happy state wherin God created him at the first when he placed him in paradise it had bene noe difficultie for him to haue serued God in most perfect manner to haue wrought any good For thē by originall iustice his sesuality inferior powers were kept in most semely order perfect obedience to his reasō will And these againe were guyded assisted by singular abundante graces easily to obey serue God woorke any good But after once by the euill vse of his free will he sinned transgressed the commaundement of his Lord he with all his progeny were spoyled of those graceous giftes cast owt of that happy state place into the banishment of this miserable worlde His appetites his will and whole soule became so infirme diseased that loathing the infinite good for which he was created as a thinge wherein now he tooke noe delight or pleasant taste auerst from all good he is euer since inclyned to euill and can desyre or loue scarsly any other thinges but abiect viceous hurtfull By reason of that greauous losse wofull chaunge mankynde euer since haith founde much difficultie in the seruice of god or doinge well Our concupiscence and inferioure powers being now for want of originall