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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08047	Of the eternall felicity of the saints fiue bookes. Writen in Latin by the most illustrious Cardinall Bellarmine, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by A.B. Permissu superiorum.; De æterna felicitate sanctorum. English	Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.; Everard, Thomas, 1560-1633.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621. De gemitu columbae English. Selections. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 1841; ESTC S113735	165,177	472

since the tyme allotted here for running is short and the iourney long Neuerthelesse if Christians would imitate men running and aspiring but for a corruptible and small Reward or Prize they might be of power and hability to runne both speedily and without vvearisomnes to the gaining of an incorruptible and sublime Prize or Reward What course take they vvho runne for the purchasing of a corruptible and tempora●l Pryze They depose and lay aside all Heauy burdens they cast of all their superfluous cloaths that they may runne vvith greater expedition and vvillingnes The same let Christians do let them disburden themselfs of the heauy vveight of the Cares of this VVorld Let then put of the Cloathes of Carna●l desires and Cupidities or at least let them put of all inordinate affectiōs to earthly commodities and Pleasures VVhen they haue performed this let them not vaunt of their owne strength and forces but let them trust in God All which being accomplished then let them complayne if through speedy running they be wearied in their Course This doctrine is not myne but it is the doctrine of the Proph●t Esay S. Paul Esay thus saith cap. 4. They that hope in our Lord shall runne and not labour And the Apostles words are these 1. Cor. 7. This I say Brethren the time is short it remaineth that they also who haue wiues he as though they had not and they that weep as though they wept not and they that reioyce as though they reioyced not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that vse this VVorld as though they vsed it not In which wordes the Apostle forbiddeth not that Christian men should haue no wyues and that they do not lament in time of aduersity reioyce in prosperity and that they should not buy thinges necessary or vse the goods and benefits of this World but he only admonisheth that in the prosecution of all these matters men should vse a mediocrity therein and should so curbe their owne immoderate Appetites in the fruition and practise of the forsaid Points as if they did not in any sort belong vnto them S. Melania a most noble Roman Matrone may be to vs an exāple of whom S. Iero. thus writeth in Epitaph Blesillae S. Melania being of these tymes and of true Nobility among the Christians when as sbe had lost at once two Sonnes and this immediatly before the dead Body of her husband was cold or interred did in this manner beare these her griefes I am heare to relate an incredible matter but I call God to witnes that it is very true VVho would noe haue thought but that she would haue stroken her breast after an enraged manner with tearing of her hayre and rending asunder her cloaths But she stood immouable and kneeling at the feete of a Crucifixe did not shee l a teare but as it were taking hould of Christ smyled and thus said I am now to serue thee heerafter with greater carefullnes and expedition in that th●u hast freed me of so great a burden Thus S. Ierome vvho by this example as by a most vvorthy Commentary hath explicated what it is that those who haue wyues children and other goods of this VVorld should be as though they had them not that thereby they with greater speed and celerity runne vnto the Prize But of this point we haue a more wonderfull and astonishing example in Iob who in one day lost all his Sonnes and daughters and his whole substance and riches and being full of Vlcers lay vpon a dunghill who but a litle before was the most happy man among all those of the East And yet as if all these losses had nothing concerned him he thus brake out in Words full of Wisdome Iob. 1. Naked came I out of my Mothers wombe and naked spall I returne thither Our Lord gaue and our Lord hath taken away as it pleased our Lord so is it done the name of our Lord be blessed To conclude S. Peter with the rest of the Apostles who were the first that followed Christ running after the Prize that they might teach vs vvhat is required to run both speedily and constantly thus say Matth. 19. Behould we haue left all things and haue followed thee what therefore shall we haue And our Lord approuing this their demaund by his answere clearely promised to them a Prize or Reward saying Amen I say to you that you who haue followed me in the regeneration when the Sonne of man shall sit in the seate of his Maiesty you also shall sit vpon twelue Seates iudging the twelue Tribes of Israel There remaineth yet the third document which teacheth vs that who desire in running to gaine the Goale ought to be ioyned with Christ for as the Apostle sayth 1. Cor. 9. All indeed do run but one gayneth the Prize But by this One doubtlesly is vnderstood Christ who ad currendam viaem reioyced as a Gyant to the race And of whom it is said in S. Iohn No man hath ascended into Heauen but he that descended from Heauen the Sonne of man which is ln Heauen Ioan. 3. But Christ doth not ascend alone but with all those who are liuing and true members of his Body of which himselfe is the Head Therefore all those who run though they distribute all their goods vpon the poore and deliuer vp their bodies euen to the fyer do but toyle and labour in vayne except they be ioyned with Christ by fayth and Charity and be made one with him as himselfe sayth Ioan. 17. As thou Father in me and I in thee that they also in vs may be One. But there is yet another manner of Coniunction with Christ which in a wondefull sort doth aduantage vs both to rūne for the Price both swifly and constantly This manner consisteth in the vnion of the interiour Eye of the Soule with Christ himselfe as Christ is the Price For Christ as Man did runne for the Price and as he is God so himself in the Price For Christ is true God and eternall life as S. Iohn witnesseth which point our Lord himselfe insinuated when he sayd I am the way the truth and the lyfe For Christ as the Truth doth leade vs as the VVay doth draw vs by himselfe as the lyfe doth bring vs to himselfe Therefore it followeth that nothing is more profitable or more conducing to the gaining of the Prize then neuer to diuert our eyes frō the Prize it self and to say with the Prophet Psal 24. Myne Eyes are alwayes to our Lord. For that man who hath the Eye of his hart vnited and conioyned with the Prize neyther seeth nor heareth nor regardeth what the behoulders do eyther say or doe whether they do deride prayse or dispraise him but sayth with the Prophet Psal 17. I am become as a man not hearing with the Apostle 1. Cor. 4. To me it is a thing of least account to be iudged of you or humane day But to passe