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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10793	Of the foolishnes of men in putting-off the amendement of their liues from daie to daie a godlie and profitable treatise for the present time; written in the Latine tongue by that reuerend and worthie member of Christ his church in this age, Iohn Riuius. Newlie translated by Thomas Rogers.; De stultitia mortalium, in procrastinanda correctione vitæ. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.	1582 (1582)	STC 21066; ESTC S105156	60,254	183

words Ay yoke is easie and my burden light Hetherto belongeth that which Hierome in a certaine place doth write Too much custome of sinning saith he maketh tie waie to vertue seeme hard and vnc●mfortable to vs but alter this custome once and you shall finde the waie to rightiousnes to be a goodly and pleasant waie So saith he no lesse trulie then elegantlie And if Stilpho the Philosopher which thing Cicero doth testifie Being naturallie enclined vnto wine and women did by learning so bridle and subdue his nature that no man sawe him drinke at anie time nor yet beheld anie appearance of wicked lust in him Why maist thou not through Gods assistance tame by litle litle and as I maie saie cast of a wicked custome yea though it be much ingraffed and verie old An Ethnike subdued his nature shall not a Christian ouer-come custome especiallie if earnestlie he bend him selle there-vnto if continuallie he looke to himselfe if after a sort he offer violence to him-selfe and yeeld not to weaknes if in consideration of mans imbecillitie he call for Gods assistance by earnest and ardent praier if by almes and liberalitie vpon the poore he seeke after the fauour of God finallie if he make petition that the holie Spirite which maie raise vp newe motions in his heart and pricke forward his studie and endeuors to liue wel maie be giuen him But proceede we to the rest Cap. 13. ❧ A remedie against the fourth cause of prolonging repentance spoken of before in the fift Chapter THey whom riches prosperitie doo make secure for this was the fourth cause of prolonging repentance should often call into minde that horrible voice of our Sauiour extant in the gospel after Luke VVo be vnto you that are rich for you haue receiued your consolation VVo be to you that are full for you shall hunger VVo be to you that nowe laugh for you shall waile and weepe Neither let them forget what God saide vnto the rich man in the Gospel O foole this night wil they fetch awaie thy soule from thee Let other examples be remembred also of such whome before we cited as were either drowned suddenlie by the flood or consumed suddenlie by fire in Sodom So would both those rich men whome the seruant of God Iames biddeth to VVeepe and houle for the miseries that shall come vpon them and that fine glutton also who being buried was tormented with the flames of hel fire Let vs then from our hearts cast of securitie let vs not forget God in prosperitie let vs feare the wrath of that Iudge before whose iudgement seate we are all to stand to pleade our owne cause our owne conscience accusing and bearing witnes either with vs for wel-doing or against vs for our wickednes It falleth out for the most part that prosperitie puffeth vp the minde that rich men are proud that wealth makes men head-strong We should therfore continuallie vse wel our good fortune and prosperitie we should looke againe and againe least this temporarie happines bring vs vnto eternal miserie and destruction VVhat is then to be done That Paule writing vnto the Corinthiās sheweth in few words Hereafter saith he let both they which haue wiues be as though they had none And they that weepe as though they wept not And they that reioice as though they reioiced not And they that buie as though they possessed not And they that vse this world as though they vsed it not For the facion of this world goeth awaie In which wordes the Apostle sheweth that we must haue either no care at all or that our least care should be either of wiues or of prosperitie or aduersitie or finallie of riches and wealth of this world but that our chiefest yea and onlie care is to be cast vpon heauen and heauenlie thinges Not without cause did Paule commaund Timothie to Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded and that they trust not in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God And Dauid in the Psalmes doth saie If riches encrease set not your heart thereon Riches are not simplie condemned the which godlie men haue possessed but the trust in riches and the pride and hautines which ariseth from riches is condemned For wealth commonlie and prosperitie are woont to make men haue stomackes and hie mindes Hence that in the Comedie Because wealth is encreased their mindes are exalted He therefore which hath gathered riches and enioieth the world at will let him both yeeld thankes to God for the same and take heede that he insult not and waxe high minded yea and also let him againe and againe too euermore bring his fortune into suspicion but aboue all vse he dilligence that through securitie as manie doo he forget not God and that he neuer leese the sense of Gods vengeance against sinne nor haue his minde either occupied with idlenes nor inuaded by negligence Of which vnles he beware it is doubles to be feared least leaning too much vpon present happines he be carried awaie with a false ioie and least flattering him-selfe with hope of long prosperitie the feare of God being quite remoued in the meane while he be oppressed as commonlie the death of death commeth vpon vs when we litle looke for the same Let vs therefore place before the eies of our mind that saying of the Apostle VVhen they saie Peace and safetie saith he then shall come vpon them sudden destruction So then as the same Apostle warneth vs let vs not sleepe but let vs watch and be sober Neuer let vs saie we shall haue peace euill shall not come vpon vs or as they did of whome the Prophet Esaie maketh mention who saide VVe haue made a couenant with death and with hel are we at agreement Though a scourge runne ouer and passe through it shall not come at vs. In the old and also in the newe Testament we maie finde many both testimonies of Gods displeasure against wickednes and examples of punishmentes vpon the vngodlie by the reading whereof euerie man to his profit maie shake off carelenes in prosperitie For it is not our minde in this place to alleadge all least our booke doo growe ouer-big Let it neuer be forgot which Moses mentioneth of mankinde which was drowned by a flood in the beginning of the world of the vtter consuming both of Sodom Gomor by fire of the manifold and extreme calamities of the people of Israel of the often carying them into captiuitie by barbarous nations for their cōtempt of godlines nor finallie which ecclesiasticall histories doo write of the ouer throwe wasting and destruction of Ierusalem For all these thinges are writtē as Paule writing vnto the Corinthians doth saie To admonish vs vpon whome the endes of the world are come Now what punishment the Lord hath laid vpon particular men for their wickednes it were long as I haue said and needeles to show I wil alledge but one for example sake