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Let us mourne and desire .
Be meeke , and humble , and mercifull , and pure , and peaceable , and hearing ill let us not revile againe , but rejoyce , and we shall no lesse than with miracles attract them that behold us , &c. S. Chrys. in Matth. hom. 15. in Eth.
Non sum melior patribus .
Blessed
are
they
that
die
in
the
Lord
,
for
they
rest
,
C.
Cajetan
Blessed
are
the
poore
,
Blessed
are
they
that
mourne
,
Blessed
are
they
that
hunger
,
L
4.
●
2.
[
A
Treatise
of
the
Beatitudes
,
&c.
]
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .
Beloved , give all diligence to be subject to the Bishop , and to the Priests and Deacons . For hee that is subject to them , obeyeth CHRIST which hath assigned them to their Office , and he that is disobedient to them , is disobedient to CHRIST IESVS . Indeed hee is an arrogant , contentious , and proud man , that obeyeth not his Superiours : Now God sayth , hee resisteth the proud , but giveth grace to the humble . S. Ignatu . Epist. 6.
NON SVM MELIOR PATRIBVS .
MATTH. 5.3 . Blessed are the poore in Spirit , —
There
is
none
poore
in
spirit
but
the
humble
,
and
hee
that
is
not
proud
is
poore
,
One
is
said
to
bee
a
servant
and
poore
,
for
that
hee
hath
nothing
of
his
owne
,
●
.
4
3.
Sayes
this
is
eff●cted
As
St.
●●ves
of
the
coun●●ey
ab●ut
Blessed
are
yee
poore
that
is
humble
in
heart
is
not
pleased
with
counterfeit
humility
,
but
with
true
humility
.
God
lookt
upon
her
lownesse
in
minde
,
aswell
as
in
her
estate
lownesse
of
his
Handmaid
Many
are
poore
in
condition
,
but
very
covetous
in
affection
The
Humility
of
the
Minde
and
Spirit
is
a
noble
Phil.
2.6
was
deepe
in
conspiring
for
the
Deitie
,
and
in
the
guilt
of
high
Treason
against
The
Poore
receive
the
Gospell
Hee
that
hath
no
money
,
is
to
buy
Wine
and
Milke
without
price
,
Esa.
To
Poverty
it
is
not
so
much
promised
as
exhibited
,
therefore
it
goes
in
the
present
,
for
theirs
is
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
:
hee
was
beginning
to
bee
in
want
He
that
will
bee
great
among
you
let
him
bee
your
Servant
.
A
Religious
person
asked
the
holy
man
how
he
might
bring
a
Spirituall
life
to
good
issue
;
alwayes
increasing
vertue
:
who
for
answer
,
required
that
he
should
prostrate
himselfe
flat
before
him
on
the
ground
;
signifying
humilitie
,
to
be
the
foundation
of
proficiency
and
perfection
in
Christianity
.
7.18
.
In
my
〈◊〉
divels
nothing
〈◊〉
good
,
Therefore
the
propriety
of
this
vertue
is
in
the
acknowledgement
of
Gods
grace
,
that
there
is
no
act
,
nor
moment
wherein
it
would
not
be
ill
with
vs
,
if
,
the
Holy
Ghost
should
leave
us
to
our selves
.
Sina
)
He
that
excels
in
vertue
,
ascribing
all
,
15.
19.
not
to
his
owne
labours
,
but
Gods
vertue
,
may
beare
himselfe
humbly
,
as
who
perswades
himselfe
,
that
he
is
not
of
himselfe
the
worker
of
good
and
honest
things
;
but
the
Instrument
of
grace
which
worketh
in
him
.
infinitely
wanting
to
divine
concourse
and
helpes
,
so
much
the
humbler
should
they
be
,
by
how
much
the
more
they
are
advanced
:
our
Lord
Which
is
to
do
like
Saints
,
and
yet
tremble
&
deject
our selves
more
then
sinners
:
to
follow
our
Saviour
,
and
be
of
his
company
,
minding
not
high
things
,
but
the
least
of
the
little
ones
:
for
of
our selves
we
are
nothing
to
make
one
of
Gods
poore
,
is
in
contemplation
of
goods
that
never
faile
to
raise
the
minde
unto
contempt
of
those
that
must
needs
perish
:
Therefore
he
cannot
be
poore
in
Spirit
that
hath
not
learnt
to
love
everlasting
riches
:
aptly
enjoynes
the
brother
of
low
degree
to
rejoyce
in
his
exaltation
,
the
rich
in
his
humillation
,
vers
,
If
hee
rejoyced
because
his
wealth
was
great
,
and
his
hand
had
gotten
much
.
3.
12.
No
marvell
if
poverty
was
refused
before
Christ
:
but
since
Christ
chose
it
,
Et
in
suam
accepit
partem
,
it
is
to
bee
savorie
unto
Christians
,
and
embraced
by
them
.
Seneca
then
of
it
is
culpable
for
a
man
to
climbe
up
into
a
state
that
suits
not
with
his
manners
and
merits
,
and
so
makes
not
of
necessitie
a
vertue
,
but
of
vice
necessitie
As
it
is
pernitious
if
it
bee
sought
,
so
offered
it
is
very
perillous
:
not
that
the
power
which
is
of
God
is
condemnable
,
nor
that
the
ordinance
of
God
is
the
midwife
of
sinnes
;
but
that
bumblenesse
ought
so
to
embrace
highnesse
,
whose
Author
is
the
Holy
Ghost
,
that
hee
which
is
called
higher
may
not
know
himselfe
aloft
,
and
the
creature
in
all
things
agnize
the
Creator
,
and
grace
the
giver
.
Because
men
seeke
in
Riches
and
Honour
excellency
and
abundance
,
therefore
D.
Thom.
promised
the
Poore
that
take
their
affections
from
them
,
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
,
whereby
man
attaines
the
excellency
and
abundance
of
all
good
things
.
because
Physitians
relinquish
,
the
broken
in
heart
God
himselfe
drawes
nigh
to
them
,
and
undertakes
their
cure
It
is
full
happinesse
if
God
looke
on
a
man
was
almost
perisht
recovered
him
with
a
looke
;
as
the
Sunne
looking
upon
the
fields
,
that
would
else
remaine
barren
,
makes
them
flourish
with
its
rayes
;
so
God
looking
upon
us
,
illuminates
and
makes
us
fruitfull
with
his
beames
.
Christ
(
Gal.
Now
I
live
not
,
but
and
where
I
am
away
there
I
do
best
.
God
gives
grace
to
the
humble
grace
no
where
maintaines
its
name
more
then
in
the
humble
,
who
takes
whatsoever
is
given
,
as
freely
given
by
grace
,
and
accordingly
gives
thankes
.
for
the
poore
and
Gods
Begger
attributes
nothing
to
himselfe
,
expects
and
takes
all
of
The
Vallyes
abound
with
corne
,
the
humble
in
Spirit
with
the
choysest
gifts
of
divine
Liberality
.
That
all
the
speech
of
blessed
was
usefull
to
edification
,
for
that
of
all
the
good
that
hee
had
done
,
he
attributed
nothing
to
his
owne
merits
;
but
alwayes
referring
all
his
workes
to
God
,
implored
his
assistance
in
all
his
actions
.
They
who
learne
of
Christ
to
bee
humble
,
and
meeke
finde
rest
to
their
owne
soules
,
(
Math.
The
beginning
of
Pride
is
when
one
departs
from
God
,
and
his
heart
is
turned
from
his
maker
.
the
Proud
man
hardly
takes
knowledge
of
his
sinne
,
or
if
he
understand
it
,
he
runnes
not
to
the
Physitian
,
but
promises
himselfe
recovery
of
himselfe
,
nor
can
the
cure
proceed
,
where
the
remedy
is
a
malady
:
whereas
other
lusts
waste
onely
that
good
and
vertue
to
which
they
are
contrarie
,
Pride
whiles
it
arrogates
all
to
it selfe
;
corrupts
all
at
once
:
When
all
vices
flye
from
God
,
Pride
alone
opposes
it selfe
unto
God
,
God
as
repeller
of
his
owne
wrong
enters
a
speciall
kind
of
combat
against
pride
,
as
if
hee
should
say
,
it
is
my
adversary
,
it
sets
it selfe
against
mee
,
that
encounter
belongs
to
me
,
Iames
To
scatter
the
proud
Which
perisheth
in
ascending
and
vanisheth
in
dilating
of
it selfe
:
and
to
a
wheele
,
That
rising
in
the
hinder
part
,
with
the
forepart
fals
to
the
ground
,
they
moove
not
to
any
spirituall
height
,
but
runne
a
vaine
circle
and
endlesse
round
,
Luk.
The
Lord
knewes
the
proud
a
farre
off
,
because
they
are
onely
in
his
apprehension
,
not
in
his
approbation
,
Master
of
the
sentences
L.
1.
18.
the
creature
The
creature
as
by
pride
Humble
your selves
to
God
that
hee
may
exalt
you
.
Is
not
this
great
that
I
have
built
for
the
honour
of
my
Majesty
?
Abraham
,
Iob
,
Moses
and
this
phrase
is
used
by
therefore
God
highly
exalted
him
It
's
a
great
matter
to
endure
reproach
,
but
more
to
passe
by
praise
without
any
damage
to
the
soule
.
Pride
is
an
ill
neighbour
to
good
actions
,
and
haughtinesse
ever
lies
at
the
catch
in
vertues
,
because
it
is
hard
for
one
that
lives
commendably
,
not
to
be
tooke
with
humane
commendation
,
was
all
of
water
and
sweat
till
he
dropt
hearing
of
his
owne
prayses
,
Imps
.
43.
I
will
speake
〈◊〉
true
Catholick
Church
:
thinke
you
that
therein
〈◊〉
were
or
can
be
wanting
Catholiks
,
that
would
suffer
〈◊〉
●mane
glories
sake
,
if
there
were
not
such
men
,
the
Apostle
would
not
have
said
,
if
I
give
my
body
to
be
burned
,
and
have
not
charitie
,
&c.
in
psal.
72.
there
be
some
that
doe
more
easily
give
all
that
they
have
to
the
poore
,
then
themselves
become
Gods
poore
.
and
ambition
,
and
proud
ostentation
of
our
owne
good
make
almes
,
of
no
grace
,
martyrdome
of
no
effect
:
If
a
man
give
away
a
great
estate
in
affection
of
humane
praise
,
and
suffer
d●re
torments
,
not
with
the
fortitude
which
God
infused
,
but
which
he
presumed
of
himselfe
.
rich
in
Gods
Spirit
poore
in
his
owne
high
in
operation
,
low
in
opinion
.
most
learned
least
proud
Spirit
of
vaine-glory
is
chiefely
nourished
by
sanctitie
he
who
hath
experienced
the
degrees
of
quelling
vices
,
perceiveth
that
the
vice
of
vaine-glory
,
is
either
onely
,
or
mostly
to
bee
shunned
,
of
them
that
are
perfect
,
for
the
vice
into
which
the
soule
first
fell
,
it
last
gets
out
Because
he
that
humbles
himselfe
shall
be
exalted
;
It
is
the
humble
mans
pa●t
,
most
to
feare
hutreacherous
adversary
,
who
most
assaults
the
strongest
,
and
being
the
fiercer
for
his
fall
,
straines
all
his
powers
to
conquer
his
Conquerour
.
When
a
man
is
joyed
of
any
good
worke
,
and
that
hee
hath
got
Pride
under
too
,
out
of
that
very
joy
pride
lifts
up
the
head
,
and
saith
,
why
doest
thou
triumph
,
loe
I
am
alive
,
and
therefore
alive
because
thou
doest
triumph
?
hu●ble
our selves
as
wee
grow
in
grace
,
because
the
more
wee
humble
our selves
,
the
greater
progresse
wee
shall
make
in
grace
God
(
Ier.
34.
17.
is
afraid
of
beeing
mastered
by
his
least
sinnes
.
Like
a
Spirituall
man
,
bee
little
and
low
,
and
whatsoever
thou
doest
or
leavest
undone
,
desire
no
other
reward
but
God
,
and
if
thou
receivest
any
consolation
,
glory
not
;
but
avouch
thy selfe
unworthy
of
gifts
,
and
please
not
thy selfe
in
them
,
but
returne
them
entire
to
In
humblenesse
of
minde
,
let
each
esteeme
other
better
then
himselfe
.
Which
the
Apostle
spake
not
in
a
humour
of
faining
,
S
Chrys.
tom.
29.
Th.
Martyr
the
Emperor
asked
what
hee
was
,
answered
,
Stand
by
thy selfe
,
come
not
neere
mee
,
for
I
am
holyer
then
thou
(
Revel.
and
the
change
of
Gods
right
hand
.
new
Profession
To
be
humble
,
but
without
debasement
;
to
be
content
,
but
without
any
want
;
to
be
chaste
,
but
without
any
chastizing
their
body
;
to
be
patient
,
but
without
any
provocation
.
Rejoyce
in
contempt
Schedule
of
as
a
foole
That
hee
which
pleases
himselfe
,
pleases
a
foolish
man
.
There
is
nothing
easier
to
him
that
is
willing
,
then
to
humble
himselfe
.
The
more
a
man
multiplies
Prayer
,
the
more
his
heart
is
humbled
,
for
he
that
needs
and
begges
cannot
but
be
humbled
being
buffeted
with
a
proud
thought
,
if
thou
take
from
it
matter
and
occasion
of
humility
,
to
thinke
thenceforward
more
basely
and
meanely
of
thy selfe
,
as
of
a
proud
man
,
thou
hast
slaine
the
great
with
his
owne
Sword
.
he
knowes
himselfe
,
that
knowes
the
distance
betweene
God
and
man
:
O
my
God
and
all
things
who
art
thou
!
and
who
am
I
?
All
the
Saints
how
much
the
more
they
behold
the
secrets
of
the
Divinitie
,
so
much
the
more
they
know
themselves
nothing
;
for
it
is
not
read
that
profest
himselfe
dust
and
ashes
,
but
when
he
had
the
dignity
to
have
conference
with
God
.
5●
.
alledging
to
th●t
●ff
ct
Tom.
p.
Cor.
●er.
In
l
to
that
which
is
contrite
and
broken
cannot
bee
puft
up
,
though
you
would
never
so
faine
,
thy
heart
therefore
suffer
it
not
to
bee
puft
up
nor
sweld
:
for
that
which
is
rent
,
is
not
subject
to
windy
swellings
,
and
if
there
bee
any
thing
that
blowes
it
up
,
it
cannot
containe
the
inflammation
,
in
that
it
is
rent
.
Christ
is
said
by
St.
to
have
first
taught
humilitie
and
to
have
in
his
proper
stile
Doctor
humilitatis
.
Clemens
Alexandrinus
men
in
nature
may
doe
the
same
good
that
a
good
Christian
,
but
not
from
the
same
cause
,
nor
with
the
same
intention
This
humilitie
is
the
differencing
note
of
Christianitie
:
when
one
is
rich
in
grace
,
and
yet
sayes
,
another
betrusted
this
treasure
in
me
,
for
I
my selfe
am
a
poore
man
,
This
humilitie
is
the
cognizance
of
a
Christian
sometimes
grace
is
substracted
,
not
for
pride
,
which
already
is
,
but
which
would
be
,
if
it
were
not
substracted
of
which
you
have
a
manifest
experiment
in
the
Give
not
thy
soule
to
pride
,
and
thou
shall
not
bee
constrained
to
suffer
horrible
fantasies
and
injections
.
Thou
wilt
admire
the
Ppysitian
,
when
he●
cures
●●t
by
contraries
,
but
a
contrary
way
,
easing
by
that
which
caused
paine
,
asswaging
heates
,
by
overcharging
with
heats
.
I
dare
bee
bold
to
say
with
St.
that
it
is
requisite
for
the
proud
to
sa●
into
some
ope●
&
haynous
sin
,
that
so
at
least
they
may
sa●
out
of
conceit
with
themselves
,
that
fell
by
standing
in
their
owne
conceit
:
while
they
regard
not
to
amend
their
sundry
falls
,
but
rather
wax
the
prouder
,
imagining
it
be
with
them
,
as
it
was
with
the
Apostle
,
that
as
hee
was
buffeted
,
that
he
might
not
be
exalted
with
abundance
of
revelations
,
that
they
should
not
bee
puft
up
with
the
plenty
of
their
vertues
.
humilite
is
called
the
storehouse
for
safe
custody
of
vertues
treasure
.
not
the
virginitie
of
blessed
Mary
humilitie
in
ill
deedes
is
more
pleasing
to
God
then
pride
in
good
,
as
Saint
collects
from
the
Pharisee
and
Publican
,
Who
therefore
resolves
a
humble
sinner
to
be
in
better
case
then
a
righteous
boaster
.
God
man
is
a
grand
remedy
;
if
this
remedy
cure
not
pride
,
I
know
not
what
should
cure
it
:
O
stupendious
miracle
!
God
who
is
high
by
nature
,
humbled
himselfe
,
becomming
obedient
unto
death
,
and
we
who
are
by
nature
base
,
are
puffed
up
!
our
substance
is
rightly
esteemed
vacuitie
,
&
emptinesse
:
in
assuming
whereof
the
fulnesse
of
all
things
is
said
to
empty
himselfe
,
Es.
A
Philosopher
was
a
creature
of
vain
glory
,
hath
God
humbled
himselfe
for
thee
,
and
doest
not
thou
humble
thy selfe
for
thine
owne
soule
?
but
art
thou
proud
?
a●t
thou
lifted
up
?
How
much
did
hee
commend
humility
,
for
commending
whereof
he
chose
that
time
,
in
which
his
Apostles
beheld
him
with
strong
desire
,
as
who
was
ready
immediately
to
dye
;
Therefore
they
would
of
all
other
things
,
chiefly
retaine
that
in
memory
,
which
so
imitable
a
Master
made
the
last
demonstration
of
his
grace
.
the
mother
of
God
humble
4.
Christs
humanitie
humanitie
of
Christ
as
in
the
personall
being
,
it
so
stayes
on
the
personalitie
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
as
to
bee
without
its
owne
,
and
not
subsist
in
it selfe
,
so
in
the
beginning
of
grace
and
glory
,
Beati Lugentes , imitamini eum qui flevit super Ierusalem . B. Aug. de Sancta Virginitate , c. 28.
ABRAHAM comming into the Land of Promise , purchased himselfe a Monument , and tooke the Countrey for an Inheritance by a Grave , which is a place of weeping and mourning . Pastor Abbas . in vit. patrum , part. 2. in libr. de compunctione , fol. 117.
NON SVM MELIOR PATRIBVS .
Blessed are they that mourne , for they shall be comforted .
Blessed
are
they
that
are
mourning
,
that
doe
it
continually
the
sorrows
〈…〉
inta●●●
,
〈◊〉
be
such
as
d●plo●eth
sonne
〈…〉
cryes
and
continuall
〈…〉
Climactus
:
a
true
penitent
conceives
himselfe
to
loose
every
day
in
which
hee
mournes
not
.
A
man
is
bound
to
remember
God
every
moment
,
so
that
whatsoever
he
doth
he
may
not
doe
it
but
for
his
honour
,
and
that
hee
refraine
himselfe
from
things
prohibited
onely
for
the
glory
of
God
alone
.
Tamm●z
,
Ezech.
Ad
pop.
hom
sermon
remedies
u●
evil●
〈…〉
,
therefore
God
appointed
it
to
homile
faine
,
and
of
a
malady
of
sinne
made
a
remedy
.
E●●●
by
the
sorrow
of
the
heart
the
spirit
is
broken
.
35
.
25●
Iosiah
,
for
whom
Ieremy
a
turbato
felle
Hee
may
k●ow
himselfe
vitiously
hard
,
that
weepes
for
temporall
losses
,
or
the
death
of
friends
,
and
utters
not
his
griefe
for
sinne
in
teares
.
●●
3.
That
by
perpetuall
weeping
the
haires
fell
from
his
eyes
,
and
that
all
his
life
long
,
sitting
at
worke
〈◊〉
had
a
cloth
in
his
bosome
,
because
●f
the
teares
tha●
powred
downe
out
of
his
eyes
.
Prophets
eyes
affected
his
heart
tendernesse
〈…〉
by
Prayers
th●●gh
by
any
〈…〉
Cassian
.
collat
Every
sinner
knowes
himselfe
to
bee
then
visited
of
God
,
when
he
is
strucke
with
compunction
,
that
teares
follow
.
If
thou
caust
not
weepe
,
at
least
sigh
and
hee
sad
.
Where
shal
they
appeare
,
who
(
Pro.
rejoyce
to
do
evill
,
and
delight
in
the
frowardnes
of
the
wicked
:
You
may
conceive
how
few
are
blessed
,
so
few
mourne
Men
can
mention
their
sinnes
with
dry
eyes
and
light
hearts
,
yea
make
themselves
and
others
merry
with
them
,
I
glory
in
them
,
and
act
causes
of
teares
with
triumph
,
and
dispatch
the
businesse
of
their
death
laughing
.
Fooles
make
a
pastime
of
sinne
,
(
Pro.
I
and
my
fathers
house
have
sinned
,
Daniel
,
chap.
first
cast
out
the
beame
out
of
thy
owne
eye
,
that
thou
mayest
see
the
sinne
that
is
in
thy
right
hand
:
Hee
that
hates
i●
〈◊〉
grieved
,
he
was
grieved
for
the
hardnesse
of
their
hearts
,
memeber
is
sens●●●
grieved
and
mournes
not
for
the
〈◊〉
ande●str●●ares
of
his
fellow
members
,
he
hath
〈…〉
in
the
body
of
the
Church
(
〈◊〉
a
corp●r●
ecclesia
)
griefe
,
for
that
they
are
insensible
of
their
evill
,
and
understand
not
how
,
and
how
miserably
they
goe
to
ruine
:
while
we
weepe
,
they
will
laugh
,
and
even
that
invites
our
lamentation
:
for
if
by
our
mourning
they
assumed
any
sense
of
griefe
,
wee
might
cease
mourning
because
they
would
amend
:
but
by
reason
that
no
sense
of
griefe
affects
them
,
let
us
continue
Let
none
of
those
that
feare
thee
be
ashamed
because
of
me
,
O
Lord
God
of
Hosts
.
might
see
then
,
when
a
sacred
Virgin
lapsed
,
that
shame
filled
the
face
of
the
whole
Congregation
,
and
cast
〈◊〉
their
countenance
.
There
be
that
endeavour
to
sha●●●
the
〈◊〉
they
have
conceived
and
cannot
conceive
,
with
the
false
author
of
counterfeit
demurenesse
;
you
may
see
deepe
sighes
premised
,
〈◊〉
with
a
sad
countenance
,
dejected
looke
,
and
dolefull
voice
,
slander
comes
grav●ly
and
slowly
forth
;
And
truly
so
much
the
more
perswasive
,
by
how
much
it
is
beleeved
of
those
that
heare
it
,
to
be
uttered
with
an
unwilling
minde
,
and
rather
with
the
affection
of
a
Condoler
,
then
any
fetch
of
malice
:
I
am
grievously
sorry
saith
hee
,
for
that
I
love
him
very
well
,
and
never
could
reforme
him
in
this
thing
:
Another
tells
you
,
I
knew
so
much
of
him
before
,
but
it
should
never
have
g●●e
further
forme
,
but
seeing
the
matter
is
come
out
by
another
,
I
cannot
deny
it
,
I
speake
it
with
griefe
,
indeed
it
is
even
so
,
and
then
addes
it
is
great
pitie
;
for
truly
otherwayes
hee
excels
in
many
things
,
but
in
this
particular
,
to
confesse
the
very
truth
,
he
can
no
way
be
excused
.
what
others
due
for
the
bodies
of
men
,
to
doe
for
our
〈◊〉
their
soules
;
〈◊〉
them
dead
in
sinne
.
If
thou
he
fro●
thy selfe
,
land
thy
neighbour
〈…〉
for
th●
〈…〉
that
〈…〉
so
much
as
weepe
for
〈…〉
I
know
not
how
,
we
are
more
quickened
to
love
of
the
rule
through
Faith
,
whereby
we
beleeve
that
some
have
so
lived
,
and
hope
whereby
we
no
whit
despaire
;
that
we
also
who
are
men
may
so
love
,
in
that
some
men
did
so
live
,
and
thereupon
both
desire
more
ardently
,
and
crave
more
confidently
:
O
that
my
head
were
waters
,
and
mine
eyes
a
fountaine
of
teares
!
Rivers
of
teares
runne
downe
mine
eyes
,
because
men
keepe
not
thy
Law
:
indeed
chose
to
have
perished
with
others
;
but
St.
chose
,
not
to
perish
with
others
,
but
others
being
saved
himselfe
to
fall
from
endlesse
glory
(
Rom.
Doth
it
not
seeme
in
a
well
affected
minde
a
certaine
sober
being
besides
it selfe
,
to
have
that
fixt
in
the
affect
,
which
is
impossible
to
be
in
effect
,
to
be
willing
for
to
be
anathema
from
S●●es
,
is
reported
●o
have
kissed
the
ground
which
Preachers
trod
on
,
for
that
they
did
●●●perate
with
God
in
the
fat●●●●●
of
soules
:
and
〈◊〉
besought
God
that
〈◊〉
her
faith
and
body
〈◊〉
might
step
up
the
passage
〈◊〉
,
tha●
〈◊〉
●●ght
〈…〉
.
〈…〉
be
for
and
with
the
〈◊〉
of
〈…〉
●●●ber
of
the
punished
,
thou
without
it
in
the
highest
of
honour
.
loved
his
enemies
,
so
as
no
man
loves
his
friends
,
for
who
would
indure
to
goe
to
Hell
for
his
friends
,
when
he
might
goe
to
Heaven
?
Likewise
blessed
before
him
,
would
have
beene
blotted
out
of
the
Booke
of
God
for
his
enemies
that
(
would
have
)
stoned
happie
i●
hee
that
hath
so
farre
denyed
and
mortified
himselfe
,
5.
26.
as
to
bee
ready
to
undergoe
even
all
the
pa●●es
of
hell
for
Gods
love
,
so
hee
may
continue
in
his
grace
.
Ma●●
mesh
That
he
said
he
had
rather
h●●
an
●all
〈◊〉
sinne
,
then
in
Heaven
with
sinne
〈…〉
might
be
〈◊〉
admitted
)
If
the
body
be
dead
,
●h●●
repute●
them
without
●●●●as●ion
that
mourne
not
,
a
soule
perisheth
;
and
doest
thou
say
,
mourne
not
,
but
I
cannot
be
a
father
and
not
weepe
.
to
prescribe
his
followers
(
d●●●●i●●
〈◊〉
example
fr●man
)
a
rule
for
doctrine
,
and
pra●●●es
,
th●●
〈◊〉
hanging
over
our
heads
〈…〉
when
they
〈…〉
pro●●●●●e
Lord
may
and
〈…〉
of
us
,
that
he
would
〈…〉
the
scourges
of
his
anger
.
And
yet
〈…〉
not
remooved
by
example
〈…〉
them
thankfully
patiently
in
divers
particulers
before
him
goeth
the
pestilence
,
Hab.
with
Wine
and
Oyle
Who
but
onely
offenders
will
deny
this
;
and
yet
innocent
persons
ought
not
to
rejoyce
in
the
punishment
of
others
,
when
it
rather
suits
with
the
innocent
to
grieve
,
that
a
man
like
himselfe
should
become
such
an
offender
Chrysostome
.
If
God
punishing
saith
,
as
I
live
I
delight
not
in
the
death
of
〈◊〉
dies
,
●●e
should
imitate
the
Lord
,
〈◊〉
because
a
s●une●●at●
given
occasion
to
be
justly
〈◊〉
.
Blessed
are
they
that
mourne
,
let
men
mourne
abom●●●●●ly
,
〈…〉
as
they
can
,
let
them
mourne
,
but
not
without
godly
affection
and
taking
of
consolation
,
such
as
the
Gospell
affords
the
faithfull
in
their
mourning
.
worldly
sorrow
workes
de●●●
Sorrow
according
to
God
not
〈◊〉
●●pentance
and
life
,
Blessed
are
they
〈…〉
mourne
,
rejoyce
〈…〉
.
it
●●th
●om●●●ter
which
〈◊〉
●●th
the
●●●ld
of
sinne
and
causes
〈…〉
sorrow
〈◊〉
should
forget
his
name
if
he
caused
disconso●●●●
griefe
and
mourning
without
comfort
.
〈…〉
had
〈◊〉
that
a
〈…〉
the
griefe
which
pr●●●eds
from
aba●●●
〈…〉
world
.
are
went
to
undertake
an
embassage
for
sinnes
:
Ezra
,
Ta●
Holy
men
by
this
that
they
devoutly
sue
unto
God
,
for
sinners
are
fenced
with
the
aid
of
Gods
mercifull
grace
,
In
Rom.
serm.
that
they
may
not
be
in
any
sort
defiled
with
their
crimes
,
whose
uncleannesse
they
could
not
wipe
away
with
their
prayers
.
It
is
hard
to
recount
the
troubles
of
body
and
mind
that
I
endured
as
Christs
Pilgrim
,
and
all
things
went
ill
with
mee
〈◊〉
I
thanke
thee
oh
most
highest
,
but
returning
〈◊〉
my selfe
and
my
owne
heart
,
and
retireing
in
the
cl●fer
〈…〉
which
the
Lord
of
his
grace
varable
fed
mee
,
then
if
the
whole
would
had
〈◊〉
subdued
unto
mee
.
They
were
usefull
to
the
Lord
,
they
saved
themselves
and
others
,
by
excellent
examples
of
life
.
They
were
hold
out
as
a
glasse
to
all
beholders
,
One
of
them
was
able
to
〈◊〉
God
for
many
men
,
Two
of
them
were
able
to
stand
before
God
in
holy
prayer
,
and
assuredly
pacifie
the
Lord
God
for
many
thousand
men
.
stood
〈◊〉
me
my
mind
and
〈…〉
people
Dead
〈…〉
alone
5.
9.
omit
dutie
Clemens
Alexandrinus
How
great
was
his
perfection
,
that
had
rather
perish
with
his
people
,
then
be
saved
alone
!
as
if
God
did
beseech
you
by
us
,
we
pray
you
in
Christs
stead
be
yee
reconciled
unto
God
Concerning
the
workes
of
my
hands
command
you
mee
(
Si
quid
apus
est
impera
)
Every
pious
teare
becomes
a
seed
and
loane
of
everlasting
joy
.
teares
of
indignation
and
terrene
affection
.
Chrys.
prettily
calles
teares
the
spunge
of
We
ought
to
rinse
our
face
in
teares
,
rather
then
in
any
lavers
,
and
to
complaine
of
our
spirituall
drought
,
and
begge
raine
that
the
windowes
of
Heaven
might
open
,
and
cause
a
floud
in
us
.
would
to
God
some
body
could
g●ve
waters
to
my
head
,
and
a
fountaine
of
teares
to
my
eyes
:
It
may
bee
that
burning
fire
should
not
finde
,
what
running
water
had
before
washt
away
.
Yee
shall
mourne
and
weepe
too
.
urges
thee
to
tell
him
where
laughed
?
No
where
,
but
thou
readest
that
he
was
often
sad
,
when
he
saw
Ierusalem
,
he
wept
,
when
he
considered
the
traytour
he
was
troubled
,
when
hee
was
about
to
raise
he
groaned
:
and
doest
thou
laugh
?
BEATI
MITES
S. Aug. de Sanctis , Serm. 19. Solent medicinae periti aegritudines quas curandas suscipiunt aliquando curare per contraria , aliquando per similia , —
Majores nostri planxerunt dies sues , & avi eorum planxerunt dies suos , nullis hominibus dies placu●runt , quos vivendo egorunt . Sed posteris placent dies major●us , & illis iterum , illi dies placebunt , quos ipsi non sentiebant , & ideo placebant , quod enim presens est , acrom habet sensum . B. Aug. de diversis . Serm. 19. cap. 3.
NON SVM MELIOR PATRIBVS .
Blessed are the Meeke , for they shall inherit the earth .
They
who
are
of
restrained
manners
,
and
freed
of
all
passion
,
so
●●to
〈◊〉
no
perturbation
habit
in
their
soules
,
those
are
termed
Meeke
3.
10.
356.
357.
(
Iracos
the
wrath
of
Man
workes
not
the
righteousnesse
of
God
Bee
angry
and
sinne
not
.
Ephes.
groaned
in
his
spirit
and
troubled
himselfe
,
5.
1.
The
spirit
of
God
came
vpon
him
,
that
his
anger
might
be
kindled
greatly
.
Was
not
see
thou
how
much
the
anger
of
Saints
is
to
bee
diueded
,
if
wee
〈◊〉
Gods
spirit
comming
vpon
them
,
if
,
〈…〉
●old
them
cowardly
mora●●
,
wee
attend
not
ha●●●pirit
inwardly
m●●ning
.
So
est
therefore
〈…〉
are
correctedby
the
〈◊〉
of
our
Superio●●
〈◊〉
●ee
accordingly
●remble
under
their
indigni●●
〈◊〉
,
if
not
so
sw●●●●he
Jova●
that
their
impulsion
〈…〉
of
the
Holy
Christ
.
Meekenesse
is
a
just
proportion'd
temper
of
the
minde
,
in
the
The
godly
,
contenting
themselves
alwayes
in
all
estates
with
the
will
of
God
,
are
ever
blessed
;
for
none
(
I
suppose
,
o●
are
more
blessed
then
they
that
fare
according
〈◊〉
their
owne
desire
and
wish
,
The
meeke
,
that
put
up
wrongs
,
shall
not
thereby
prejudice
themselves
,
but
preserve
their
estate
,
when
the
proud
and
peremptorie
oft
lose
their
patrimonies
and
their
Soul●●●●●
.
2.
9.
10.
Subtractionis
verbare
386.
387.
Mansuetus
homo
cordis
est
medicus
Give
mee
neither
poverty
nor
riches
,
Pa●e
canonis
mei
ale
me
,
2.
16.
is
not
to
bee
sought
as
the
one
thing
wee
ha●●●ood
of
,
but
as
things
wee
may
make
use
of
,
that
in
the
joynt
esteeme
of
all
men
,
he
had
beene
held
meet
for
the
Empire
,
if
hee
had
not
beene
Emperour
.
Dionysius
Halicarnasseus
with
the
extemporarie
food
which
God
supplies
,
cast
your
care
upon
God
if
wee
trust
not
God
for
things
of
the
body
and
this
life
,
wee
are
manifested
to
want
faith
for
matters
of
the
soule
and
the
other
life
.
By
these
meane
and
momentarie
things
,
the
Christian
is
tryed
whether
he
trust
God
,
and
if
he
be
not
solicitous
for
the
present
matters
,
it
is
cleere
that
he
keepes
hid
within
him
sound
and
entire
Faith
.
By
our
reposing
our selves
then
on
Gods
promise
for
temporall
things
and
the
body
,
wee
may
discerne
whether
we
in
truth
relie
on
him
for
those
of
the
soule
.
Commit
then
unto
God
the
things
which
be
requisite
for
the
bodie
,
and
so
it
shall
be
manifest
that
thou
committest
unto
him
things
that
are
necessarie
for
the
soule
,
To
eate
,
drinke
,
and
make
his
soule
enjoy
good
in
his
labour
(
Eccl.
Give
us
this
day
our
dayly
bread
.
for
that
hee
made
not
present
use
of
his
wealth
,
but
put
off
and
reserved
the
commoditie
thereof
to
yeares
that
were
not
his
.
Autarkie
,
or
selfe-sufficiencie
is
that
whereby
men
command
themselves
and
their
affections
,
and
so
bring
content
into
every
condition
(
Phil.
I
have
learnt
in
whatsoever
state
I
am
,
therewith
to
be
content
,
I
am
instructed
both
to
bee
full
and
to
be
hungry
,
both
to
abound
and
suffer
need
.
It
is
Christian
art
of
all
other
worth
the
studying
,
and
to
be
preferred
before
all
liberall
Sciences
,
Professions
and
dignities
of
men
Man
lives
not
by
bread
alone
,
but
by
every
word
that
proceeds
out
of
the
mouth
of
God
:
So
that
a
little
of
that
the
Righteous
man
hath
,
is
better
then
the
riches
of
many
wicked
(
Psal.
S.
Basil
.
hom
And
whereas
nothing
is
so
necessary
as
to
know
what
is
not
necessarie
:
How
many
things
can
I
be
well
without
!
Take
not
up
the
burthen
thou
canst
not
beare
.
the
hearts
and
the
workes
of
the
righteous
are
in
the
hand
of
God
:
1.
9.
they
cannot
goe
no
further
then
God
leades
them
,
prevaile
no
more
then
is
given
them
from
Heaven
.
My
worke
is
with
my
God
,
though
Israel
be
not
gathered
together
,
yet
shall
I
be
glorious
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
,
who
doth
not
recompence
events
but
labours
I
labour'd
more
then
they
all
.
Hee
saith
not
I
profited
or
did
more
good
then
they
all
,
religiously
shunning
an
arrogant
expression
,
and
otherwise
the
man
that
God
had
taught
,
knew
well
that
every
one
shall
receive
according
to
his
labour
,
not
according
to
the
event
,
and
therefore
he
chose
to
glory
in
labour
not
in
successe
.
Meeke
man
Iordanus
Dominicanus
We
would
argue
him
of
folly
,
that
when
he
had
sowne
his
seed
should
carry
a
bed
into
the
field
to
observe
how
it
grew
.
Iude
v.
bids
us
save
some
with
feare
,
pulling
them
out
of
the
fire
,
much
more
the
greater
the
labour
of
the
foolish
wearieth
every
one
of
them
,
because
he
knoweth
not
how
to
goe
to
the
City
:
It
inquires
its
owne
good
,
but
as
a
drunken
man
,
is
ignorant
which
way
to
returne
home
a
speedy
travailer
quickly
gets
to
a
City
,
so
he
to
tranquillitie
and
quiet
of
mind
:
returne
unto
thy
rest
O
my
soule
,
peccata
temporis
,
vitia
gentis
David
,
Hezekiah
,
Iosiah
Thrice
happy
and
blessed
are
the
Meeke
,
in
what
Land
soever
,
that
thus
inherit
the
earth
.
If
all
men
could
bring
their
severall
evils
into
some
one
common
place
,
every
man
would
rather
carry
home
what
hee
brought
,
then
stand
to
take
his
share
by
equall
division
.
was
finely
prefigured
in
the
children
of
Israell
;
for
when
they
touched
Manna
against
Gods
command
it
turned
into
Wormes
,
that
is
,
revengers
and
punishers
of
their
Disobedience
.
Who
am
I
Lord
,
that
thou
hast
brought
mee
hitherto
,
(
Minor
sum
)
Lord
I
am
lesse
then
all
thy
mercies
(
Gen.
(
Non
sum
dignus
)
I
am
not
worthy
to
carry
thy
shooes
(
Matth.
If
thou
seest
Oppression
and
violent
perverting
of
judgement
in
a
Province
,
marvell
not
at
the
matter
,
for
hee
that
is
higher
then
the
highest
regards
,
If
you
respect
the
providence
that
orders
all
things
,
you
may
perceive
there
is
nothing
any
where
ill
Very
evils
,
are
good
,
respect
had
to
the
divine
Providence
,
which
disp●ses
them
to
the
good
of
the
universe
.
Care
not
for
mans
day
Dionysius
Carthusianus
God
forbid
,
that
wee
should
bee
so
childish
,
undiscreet
,
imperfect
and
weake
,
as
to
seate
the
peace
,
vertue
and
grace
of
our
hearts
in
other
mens
hardnesse
,
and
within
the
power
and
reach
of
their
impietie
.
Let
patience
have
its
perfect
worke
(
Iames
I
am
sicke
in
bed
,
but
even
so
,
seeing
that
pleaseth
God
,
what
should
I
say
else
,
but
that
I
am
well
.
Picus
Mirandula
hee
could
not
bee
angry
for
any
event
,
unlesse
some
Caskets
stuft
with
his
notes
and
collections
should
miscarry
,
to
the
losse
of
his
watchings
and
night-paines
,
but
seeing
all
his
studies
were
for
God
and
his
Church
,
and
no
such
thing
could
happen
without
Gods
command
or
permission
,
hee
hoped
that
in
such
a
hazard
hee
should
not
be
over-gone
with
griefe
and
passion
.
No
sooner
taketh
the
Fort
of
the
mind
,
but
it
instantly
allayes
all
perturbations
,
Patience
it
necessary
not
onely
in
adversity
,
but
also
in
prosperity
,
that
we
exalt
not
our selves
more
then
beseemes
us
When
thou
takest
heavie
and
bitter
things
that
are
against
thy
will
as
if
they
went
with
thy
will
,
then
acknowledge
thy selfe
to
have
attained
the
measure
of
a
pious
and
religious
man
,
Iob.
PSAL. 107.9 . Inanis fuit anima quamdiu in errore fuit , sed recognoscens se esse in errore esurivit , sed clamando ad Deum satiata est bonis —
Remigius Altisiodor . ibid. Dum satis putant vitio carere , in idipsum incidunt vitium quod virtutibus carent . Quintilian . lib. 2. cap. 4.
NON SVM MELIOR PATRIBVS .
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after Righteousnesse , for they shall be satisfied .
our
Lord
saying
,
blessed
are
they
that
hunger
,
had
an
eye
to
faiths
hunger
bitten
.
Neither
could
wee
hunger
the
bread
that
comes
downe
from
heaven
,
Hunger
were
granted
to
them
that
loath
meate
by
him
that
vouchsafes
to
give
himselfe
for
satisfying
meate
to
the
hungry
.
Therefore
(
Paschusius
this
hungering
against
sloathfull
remisnesse
and
not
doing
what
in
vs
lyes
,
and
against
all
proud
resting
content
in
our
owne
store
,
and
what
wee
have
or
can
have
of
our selves
In
Gods
temple
the
fire
must
not
goe
out
by
night
,
Levit.
That
the
fire
which
came
to
send
must
be
cherished
in
us
all
the
time
of
our
lives
,
that
wee
may
be
ever
fervent
in
Spirit
(
Rom.
inflamed
in
bu●ning
desires
Out
of
which
Bishop
Greater
is
hee
that
is
in
you
then
bee
that
is
in
the
world
Righteousnesse
is
a
habite
whereby
the
bavir
is
Indiciously
desirous
of
whatsoever
appeares
good
unto
him
,
How
sweet
are
thy
words
unto
my
taste
,
sweeter
then
honey
to
my
mouth
the
edification
of
my
neighbours
doth
more
delight
mee
then
any
sweetnesse
of
any
earthly
thing
.
with
divine
distraction
for
the
fruition
of
good
,
that
it
may
enjoy
as
much
as
it
would
of
that
which
is
really
contentfull
,
to
him
that
hungers
and
thirsts
righteousnesse
,
all
the
bitternesse
of
adversitie
in
this
life
is
sweetnesse
,
which
he
patiently
indures
for
the
love
of
eternall
What
is
the
demonstration
of
will
but
voluntary
labour
Hee
is
handled
in
Councils
,
discussed
in
Consistories
,
disputed
in
Schooles
,
sung
in
Churches
,
all
those
are
Religious
imployments
,
but
ponder
what
is
the
more
generall
end
of
all
these
workes
,
see
if
by
all
those
there
bee
not
made
marchandises
of
Christ
,
name
is
a
gainefull
thing
Some
that
they
may
enjoy
God
use
the
world
by
the
way
,
and
some
that
they
may
enjoy
the
world
will
use
God
on
the
by
Thou
doest
hunger
righteousnesse
,
if
thou
beest
disposed
meekely
and
chearefully
26.
Where
hee
much
urges
this
matter
.
to
heare
Gods
word
Catholique
Church
this
destroyes
the
Church
,
that
you
seeke
not
to
heare
a
pricking
Sermon
,
but
one
that
may
delight
in
the
sound
and
composition
of
words
,
hearing
us
as
it
were
Ministrels
,
and
we
doe
miserably
following
your
lusts
,
when
it
were
expedient
to
root
them
out
.
3
4.
Man
shall
not
live
by
bread
alone
,
but
by
every
word
that
proceeds
out
of
the
Mouth
of
God
.
Matth
word
of
God
hath
incomprehensible
sweetnesse
and
vertue
,
for
whatsoever
the
holy
Spirit
hath
indited
,
is
in
very
truth
,
vivisicus
cibus
,
and
the
delicious
fare
of
a
chaste
,
sober
,
and
humble
zeale
indures
no
delay
,
and
one
day
is
a
whole
age
to
them
that
long
and
are
sicke
of
desire
.
but
with
all
greedinesse
of
minde
as
truly
hungring
and
thirsting
righteousnesse
.
whatsoever
referres
to
godlinesse
if
it
be
not
done
with
love
and
life
it
is
dangerous
.
We
must
know
our selves
perishing
to
God-ward
,
except
we
act
the
works
of
God
with
greedinesse
,
with
good
will
,
with
gladnesse
.
Those
that
are
●●●ed
devout
have
gust
of
greater
sweetnesse
then
others
that
are
farre
more
solid
in
Gods
love
,
who
would
a
hundred
times
more
readily
indure
Martyrdome
,
neither
in
sweetnesse
an
act
derived
out
of
the
will
,
but
a
certaine
passion
contributed
to
the
〈◊〉
,
wh●
re●p●●●
ad
allures
and
nourishes
little
ones
,
that
they
faint
not
by
the
way
.
2.10
,
134.
to
persue
vertues
for
the
vertues
themselves
,
and
for
the
sole
good
pleasure
of
God
with
all
affection
to
them
,
though
not
with
delectation
from
them
,
and
such
a
one
complies
the
best
that
may
bee
to
the
Prophets
monition
,
delight
thy selfe
in
the
Lord
;
for
he
speakes
of
that
delight
which
is
a
vertue
,
not
of
that
which
a
reward
.
a
Christian
is
to
doe
good
with
insatiable
desire
alwayes
pressing
after
more
.
the
righteous
never
sayes
enough
,
but
ever
hungers
and
thirsts
righteousnesse
,
and
if
hee
should
live
ever
,
would
ever
doe
his
best
to
bee
more
righteous
;
which
perpetuall
hunger
of
the
righteous
merits
everlasting
refreshment
,
and
is
one
reason
that
our
service
that
is
but
for
a
time
,
is
crowned
with
eternall
recompence
.
fulfils
(
Acts
all
his
will
man
of
desires
,
(
vir
desid●●●●rum
)
prove
not
onely
the
good
,
but
the
perfect
will
of
God
have
ever
in
their
desire
still
greater
glory
unto
God
,
and
direct
to
that
scope
all
their
assayes
and
consultations
.
Galli
himselfe
imperfect
perfect
Open
thy
mouth
wide
and
I
will
fill
it
Thy
receipts
shall
bee
according
to
thy
desires
.
Archiepisc
.
Eborac
Feare
not
you
the
greatnesse
of
this
worke
;
for
hee
will
be
with
thee
that
thus
said
,
〈◊〉
thy
in●●●
and
,
I
will
fill
.
That
is
the
Soules
mouth
Radulphus
Flaviensis
;
Hee
that
endeavours
what
he
can
(
totall
freedome
)
though
hee
cannot
fully
attaine
it
here
,
when
the
Iubilee
comes
it
will
accomplish
his
endeavours
,
blessed
are
they
which
hunger
Righteousnesse
,
for
they
shall
be
satisfied
.
Desire
wee
therefore
declaimes
that
it
is
a
token
of
purenesse
from
sinne
and
infection
,
and
of
a
glory
which
neither
they
have
nor
can
have
,
nor
ought
so
much
as
to
desire
to
have
,
so
long
as
they
be
in
this
world
,
which
St.
oft
learnedly
prosecutes
and
especially
in
his
Treatise
of
Perfection
.
Ah
Lord
,
would
to
God
I
had
for
the
honour
of
thy
name
,
as
great
love
and
affection
to
thee
,
as
ever
had
any
creature
.
be
not
therein
an
appetite
of
singularity
,
as
if
thou
alone
wouldst
performe
as
much
as
all
others
,
but
onely
an
affecting
to
love
,
Here
is
the
nobility
of
the
Soule
that
it
is
able
to
desire
infinite
,
for
God
himselfe
being
infinite
,
will
not
be
loved
of
us
with
a
finite
but
infinite
affection
,
and
there
is
nothing
but
our
desire
that
can
stretch
it selfe
to
infinity
,
let
our
desire
therefore
exhaust
it selfe
in
infinite
love
and
affection
of
adoring
and
honouring
God
.
Seeing
that
which
is
not
possible
to
be
done
,
is
landable
with
all
inclination
to
be
desired
,
because
whatsoever
we
aske
of
God
willing
it
to
be
and
our
impot●ncy
is
the
sole
cause
that
it
cannot
be
,
this
desire
though
it
never
be
effected
is
crowned
by
God
for
a
deed
,
according
as
our
Saviour
avouches
it
to
proceed
from
the
heart
that
our
workes
are
praised
or
condemned
:
so
then
where
no
work
can
ensue
,
the
desire
of
the
heart
stands
for
the
work
:
which
desire
having
ability
to
rea●ch
it selfe
the
godly
will
is
able
thereby
to
procure
it selfe
from
God
the
praise
and
merit
of
infinite
workes
,
notwithstanding
that
it
cannot
performe
infinite
workes
,
for
that
the
power
of
working
is
not
able
to
dilate
it selfe
so
farre
,
as
the
power
of
willing
;
you
see
then
how
much
it
availes
to
convert
from
the
creature
to
God
,
with
a
will
advanced
by
desires
and
aspirations
,
and
with
mentall
Prayers
set
on
fire
by
love
to
require
of
the
Almighty
things
above
all
might
,
since
the
munificence
of
God
is
so
great
,
so
great
his
loving
kindnesse
,
so
great
his
liberality
,
that
he
is
ready
at
all
thy
desires
,
for
asmuch
as
it
is
he
that
●oves
thee
to
de●●re
and
pray
,
and
permits
no
one
desire
or
s●gh
sent
up
to
him
to
returne
voide
or
empty
,
for
that
I
speake
not
of
other
secrets
which
he
work●th
in
thy
soule
,
either
he
more
clearely
i●●ightens
thy
heart
,
or
more
effectually
drawes
,
or
more
sweetly
a●ures
,
or
more
deepely
wounds
,
or
inflames
with
more
vehement
love
,
or
infuses
new
grace
,
or
increases
and
confirmes
what
was
given
before
,
or
he
graciously
refresheth
thy
minde
,
or
intimately
joynes
and
unites
himselfe
.
a
good
beginning
of
grace
when
a
man
afflicts
himselfe
,
uses
the
helpe
of
hunger
and
thirst
that
he
may
not
be
full
,
and
thinks
himselfe
just
and
rich
in
grace
.
are
a
hearbe
of
strong
savour
and
among
other
vertues
chiefly
medicinable
for
them
that
labour
of
a
loathing
stomache
,
that
can
neither
covet
nor
retaine
their
food
,
which
he
interprets
of
afflictions
,
that
make
men
in
their
distresse
,
with
much
desire
to
crave
the
food
,
which
they
loath
in
their
delights
:
Lord
Iesus
Excellent
and
choise
Christians
are
said
to
be
full
of
grace
,
not
that
they
may
not
receive
more
grace
,
but
because
they
abound
in
the
grace
of
God
and
gifts
of
the
Spirit
,
howbeit
they
dayly
grow
in
grace
,
and
the
more
plentifull
grace
they
have
obtained
,
the
more
abundantly
they
promerit
to
bee
perfected
in
grace
,
and
the
more
they
are
replenished
,
the
apter
are
they
rendered
for
the
increasing
of
grace
,
for
which
cause
our
sayth
,
to
him
that
hath
shall
be
given
,
and
hee
shall
abound
;
grace
issues
of
grace
,
profiting
is
in
order
and
serves
to
proceeding
:
Furthermore
,
as
one
sinne
by
the
guilt
and
burthen
of
it
inclines
to
another
,
and
makes
a
man
more
unworthy
of
grace
;
therefore
it
is
written
so
one
good
worke
dispose●
to
another
,
for
this
is
certaine
,
that
how
much
the
more
perfect
and
vehemen●
any
is
in
love
,
so
much
the
more
earnest
,
speedy
,
readie
,
frequent
,
and
f●●vent
affects
hath
hee
to
and
so
much
the
more
fully
▪
and
frequently
doth
hee
execute
the
Acts
of
other
vertues
in
due
time
and
place
Wherefore
as
Student
▪
of
Spirituall
affections
,
wee
are
dayly
to
exceed
our selves
in
our
first
fervour
and
first
diligence
,
and
most
vigilant
custodie
of
our
hearts
and
senses
,
striving
to
grow
in
Faith
,
Hope
,
Charitie
,
and
the
gifts
of
the
blessed
Spirit
:
Labour
●e
continually
to
avoid
ordinary
negligences
,
vanity
,
sloth
,
lightnesse
,
I
to
abhorre
all
veniall
sinnes
as
if
they
were
mortall
,
to
make
dayly
progresse
in
humility
,
patience
,
meeknesse
,
sobriety
,
and
other
morall
vertues
,
that
we
may
learne
wholly
to
breake
,
represse
,
and
beate
under
foot
the
beastly
movings
and
assaults
of
all
passions
,
cease
we
not
a
day
to
advance
our
hearts
in
Prayer
unto
our
and
Maker
,
to
insist
in
close
meditations
,
wholly
to
devote
our selves
to
vertuous
deeds
,
and
often
to
intend
and
direct
all
things
to
the
honour
and
glory
of
God
,
that
wee
may
truly
say
with
the
Psalmist
ever
zealous
and
praying
for
the
common
good
of
the
Church
with
burning
desire
,
and
longing
that
may
be
duely
honoured
of
all
,
our selves
especially
serving
him
with
all
our
strength
,
and
not
fayling
to
induce
others
thereunto
to
the
best
of
our
powers
,
by
intreaties
,
exhortations
,
and
good
living
,
this
consider
that
the
Kingdome
of
God
happens
not
to
sleepers
,
sluggards
,
slothfull
and
negligent
,
but
to
the
vigilan●
,
laborious
,
attentive
and
fervent
,
who
fruitfully
improve
all
the
time
granted
them
▪
let
us
note
and
tremble
at
that
in
the
because
thou
art
luke-warme
,
I
shall
spew
thee
out
of
my
mouth
.
Let
us
marke
how
eagerly
and
stoutly
Taske
men
labour
for
small
wages
,
for
a
few
pence
;
why
are
wee
remisse
then
in
the
service
of
God
,
why
doe
we
his
worke
negligently
,
that
have
not
apetite
and
temporary
rewa●d
,
but
eternall
blisse
,
incomprehensible
joy
,
the
chiefe
good
,
all
good
promised
unto
us
,
how
great
is
our
blindnes
,
how
great
our
folly
and
dulnesse
,
that
w●
are
more
affected
to
earthly
and
carnall
things
,
the●
to
heavenly
and
eternall
,
beseech
we
God
that
he
would
vouchsafe
to
illighten
and
inflame
our
hearts
that
terrene
and
temporall
matters
despised
,
we
may
bend
unto
God
with
all
our
affection
,
and
by
gracious
doings
,
gather
our selves
a
treasure
in
Wise
men
d●fined
pleasure
,
when
desire
going
before
satisfaction
Our
Lord
promiseth
sufficiency
to
them
that
hunger
justice
,
facti
sumus
sicut
consolati
how
great
soever
our
consolation
be
here
,
it
is
but
a
a
shadow
,
a
resemblance
of
future
&
full
consolation
when
God
shall
be
all
in
all
,
his
presence
filles
up
all
the
desire
and
appetite
of
soule
and
body
thirst
,
as
the
Gospell
treates
of
the
thirst
and
ever
burning
tongue
of
the
cruell
shall
the
Consummation
of
our
joy
bee
the
Consumption
of
our
desire
,
it
shall
rather
bee
oyl●
unto
it
a●
that
is
fl●we
,
thus
it
is
,
our
joy
shall
be
filled
up
,
but
there
s●allbe
no
end
of
our
desiring
nor
therefore
of
our
seeking
.
They
shall
drinke
of
the
River
of
Pleasures
.
would
thereby
expresse
the
greedinesse
of
the
drinkers
,
as
if
they
would
drinke
up
the
River
it selfe
if
they
could
.
they
that
eate
me
shall
yet
be
hungry
,
and
they
that
drinke
me
shall
yet
be
thirsty
.
g g De Celso puero pa. 232. Qui te Christe bibent , dulci torrente refecti , Non sitient ultrà ▪ sed tamen & sitient . Nam quos divini satiavit copia verbi , Hos Dulcedo magis pota sitire facit . Totus enim dulcedo Deus , dilectio Christe es , Inde replere magis , quàm satiare potes , Et desideriis semper sitiendus avaris , Influis , exciperis , nec satiatur amor . They that drink Christ refresht with pleasure store Shall thirst no more , and yet be thirsty more ; For whom the word of God doth satisfie , Those sweetnesse makes the more they drinke more dry . For God all sweetnes is , and CHRIST all love , Thence they can fill , but not satiety move . And alwayes thirsted with greedy desire , Flow in and fresh , but doe not quench the fire .
where
there
is
hunger
without
anxiety
and
fulnesse
without
satiety
that
which
is
not
sensuall
but
above
the
sense
cannot
cl●y
the
sense
.
Epicure
,
Aristippus
Beasts
of
brutes
in
the
habits
of
Phylosophers
,
Naturall
hunger
and
thirst
are
tedious
,
saving
that
in
hope
of
divine
assistance
,
there
is
in
Christian
appetite
a
burning
that
molests
not
,
a
flame
that
consumes
not
:
O
my
certainly
I
am
certain●
th●●
by
thy
grace
,
I
have
in
all
my
heart
and
in
all
my
soule
a
desire
of
thy
desire
,
and
love
of
thy
love
.
that
God
hath
grafted
in
mans
nature
that
he
should
take
his
food
with
pleasure
,
as
for
his
vertuous
exercise
in
moderating
delights
and
grievances
so
for
his
better
preservation
,
that
in
i●●●●●ents
and
infami●e
,
hunger
the
app●tite
of
conte●rf●ll
fo●d
might
admonish
him
not
to
neglect
himselfe
,
The
grace
of
the
Lord
S.
Ambr.
ibid.
the
love
of
the
Father
,
and
the
Communion
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
be
with
you
all
:
Holy
Ghost
;
in
whose
sole
communion
Macarius
)
the
faithful
soule
can
find
rest
for
all
its
affections
.
Manna
serving
the
appetite
of
the
eater
,
tempered
it selfe
to
every
mans
liking
,
Manna's
t●●●e
was
that
which
best
pleased
●●rthy
re●eivers
.
Manna
(
Revel.
the
Children
not
of
Concupiscence
but
of
will
:
that
he
who
drinkes
of
the
water
which
Hee
gives
,
shall
never
thirst
.
Ioh.
Quench
mee
the
en●mies
fiery
darts
in
the
Fountaine
of
Wisdome
,
and
the
River
of
Living
water
,
that
spring
in
thee
,
which
is
the
swasive
of
St.
to
his
friend
The
Law
is
good
,
but
sinne
is
sweeter
:
if
a
rationall
man
compares
himselfe
with
Himselfe
,
and
with
true
inspection
discusses
all
the
qualities
of
his
acts
,
shall
hee
in
the
secrets
of
his
conscience
finde
that
delectation
of
iniquity
committed
that
he
doth
in
righteousnesse
observed
,
As
we
render
our
body
dayly
and
con●●nient
allowance
,
so
let
us
study
to
give
our
soules
their
dayly
and
continuall
pensions
of
good
workes
,
p●●●ing
them
forth
before
God
in
Sobriety
,
reading
,
watching
,
and
Prayers
,
in
teares
,
almes
,
and
oblations
of
the
sacred
best
,
in
sighes
also
from
Repentance
for
our
sinnes
past
and
holy
desires
of
things
to
come
.
The
thirst
of
humane
Soules
needeth
some
infinite
,
water
which
therefore
the
finite
world
cannot
suffise
,
he
that
drinkes
of
that
water
shall
thirst
againe
,
but
they
that
drinke
of
Christ
in
whom
are
all
things
,
there
is
no
let
,
but
they
should
love
as
much
as
nature
can
effect
and
joy
as
much
as
they
can
joy
.
&c.
a
man
might
finde
many
whom
hazard
of
pleasure
more
detained
from
Christian
profession
thou
perill
of
life
,
thou
art
nice
,
O
Christians
,
if
thou
covetest
pleasure
in
this
life
,
wise
if
thou
conceivest
carnall
pastimes
to
be
pleasure●
Now
Lord
my
God
I
adore
and
implore
thy
ineffable
goodnesse
,
confessing
my
infirmity
!
remit
somewhat
the
sourges
of
thy
grace
,
and
reserve
it
for
me
in
thy
treasury
.
Gods
people
have
their
Spirituall
banquets
and
chaste
delights
,
whosoever
hath
had
the
lightest
,
say
in
the
taste
of
his
inner
man
of
the
sweetnesse
of
GODS
mercy
and
truth
whereby
all
his
providence
is
dispensed
,
and
made
any
experiments
of
those
joyes
that
shall
never
bee
allaid
with
any
regrate
,
in
admiration
of
eternall
,
hee
will
despise
all
corrupt
and
fading
good
Come
taste
and
see
that
the
Lord
is
good
.
Psal.
20.
taste
&
see
God
is
so
good
,
that
he
who
hath
not
tasted
him
how
good
he
is
,
will
not
any
wise
be
able
to
credit
another
tasting
that
he
is
so
sweet
.
Eie
hath
not
seene
nor
eare
heard
,
nor
hath
it
entred
into
the
heart
of
man
The
soule
that
hath
tasted
and
bin
satisfied
with
God
,
feares
(
as
to
be
cast
out
of
Paradise
into
hell
)
to
fall
from
those
pure
joyes
to
the
consolation
and
or
rather
desolations
of
the
world
.
what
was
ever
so
sweet
,
what
so
pleasant
!
woe
be
to
them
that
exclude
such
a
guest
,
2.
—
as
St.
Blessed
is
the
latitude
of
that
Soule
;
blessed
the
table
of
that
heart
,
where
the
Father
and
Sonne
no
doubt
with
the
holy
Spirit
,
sit
downe
,
suppe
,
lodge
;
where
the
first
service
is
Peace
,
Ioy
,
Righteousnesse
,
St. VALERIAN . Serm. 4. Manus arida nihil colligit , aut si collegerit , mox amittit .
NON SVM MELIOR PATRIEVS .
B.
A.
T.
F.
Blessed are the Mercifull .
The
Preacher
of
Almas
,
the
Prelate
of
Mercy
.
They
may
receive
more
then
they
deserved
or
could
have
desired
.
As
when
victuals
or
rayment
is
given
to
the
needy
,
the
Lord
witnesseth
that
hee
received
it
;
so
when
good
counsell
is
given
to
any
ignorant
,
hee
receives
it
,
whose
members
they
be
that
are
instructed
.
Wee
will
helpe
vp
an
Asse
fallen
downe
,
but
wee
neglect
and
despise
the
soule
of
our
Friends
gravelling
under
worse
burthens
,
(
then
can
oppresse
an
Asse
)
and
wee
smite
them
not
kindly
,
when
wee
see
them
goe
shamefully
into
Tave●●es
,
Iude
,
vers.
that
〈◊〉
should
pitie
the
Soule
that
Have
not
thou
a
will
,
because
thy selfe
art
over
,
to
turne
aside
the
bridge
of
Gods
mercy
.
I
will
have
Mercy
and
not
Sacrifice
,
That
it
is
not
possible
that
any
one
should
easily
bee
withdrawne
from
his
intention
by
hard●esse
and
rigour
,
for
neither
doth
Devill
exp●ll
●●vill
,
but
〈◊〉
him
to
thee
by
kindnesses
;
for
even
the
Lord
our
God
drawes
men
to
himselfe
by
mercies
and
comforts
.
If
you
of
the
Laitie
would
so
exercise
mercy
,
St.
CHRYSOSTOME
holds
,
you
might
reforme
mee
things
among
your selves
,
then
by
your
publike
Teachers
;
because
you
converse
much
together
and
mutually
know
each
other
,
and
have
speciall
interests
in
one
another
.
doth
not
without
ground
pu●naunce
it
an
incomparable
gift
of
GOD
,
that
any
righteous
man
is
held
ou●
before
us
upon
the
face
of
the
●●th
,
—
and
that
hee
●
blessed
,
who
hath
the
happinesse
to
kno●
a
〈◊〉
of
God
,
that
may
correct
him
〈◊〉
,
and
reprove
him
in
Gods
love
It
is
an
evident
token
of
a
soule
not
yet
purged
from
the
dregs
of
vice
,
in
other
mens
offences
not
to
condole
in
affect
of
pitie
:
but
demeane
themselves
after
the
rigorous
severity
of
a
Iudge
.
Guide
Carthusianus
First
put
on
whomsoever
thou
wilt
judge
or
reprove
,
and
as
thou
wouldst
thinke
expedient
for
thy selfe
,
if
thou
went
in
his
condition
,
so
deale
by
him
.
Matth.
also
put
on
man
,
before
hee
would
judge
men
.
wisedome
〈◊〉
rash
and
●●just
suspicious
and
judging
especially
of
things
●●ternall
,
unknowne
,
indifferent
,
—
And
yet
that
is
one
of
the
worst
cor●●●●ions
r●●guing
in
the
heart
of
many
of
the
religio●●
that
they
repro●e
,
bold
and
●●advised
in
judgeing
of
others
.
brotherly
correction
ought
to
be
carried
with
great
moderation
,
with
sorrrow
for
them
,
and
good
will
to
them
in
time
and
place
,
and
with
prayer
alwayes
premised
that
by
stripes
amendeth
one
,
over
whom
hee
hath
command
,
or
restraineth
him
by
any
discipline
,
and
yet
forgiveth
him
from
his
heart
the
sinne
wherewith
he
was
injured
and
offended
,
or
prayer
that
it
may
be
forgiven
,
not
only
in
that
he
forgives
and
prayes
,
but
also
in
that
he
correcteth
and
punisheth
with
some
medicinable
paine
,
he
gives
an
almes
because
he
sheweth
mercy
.
To
grant
an
indulgence
for
unlawfull
courses
is
not
to
shew
mercy
,
but
to
neglect
the
right
of
mercy
,
all
the
Lords
pathes
are
mercy
and
truth
,
Psal.
Because
even
mercy
it selfe
is
equally
weighed
and
distributed
.
That
to
speake
ill
and
give
bitter
termes
it
a
vice
whereunto
humane
frailty
is
so
bent
;
especially
towards
subjects
and
inferiours
,
that
they
think
it
calling
not
miscalling
.
Give
by
imparting
of
the
good
thou
hast
,
forgive
by
remitting
of
the
ill
thou
sufferest
,
by
which
two
the
most
learned
Father
avouches
sinnes
to
bee
done
away
,
and
that
wee
make
Quasi
faenus
trajectitium
.
the
blessed
Protomartyr
Cryed
with
a
loud
voyce
,
because
in
great
charitie
,
upon
his
knees
,
because
in
sincere
and
humble
integrity
,
hee
prayed
for
himselfe
standing
,
for
them
that
stoned
him
kneeling
Mercy
shall
be
rendred
in
just
judgement
to
the
merits
of
good
workes
,
CHAP.
2.
for
when
it
is
said
he
shall
have
judgement
without
mercy
,
that
hath
shewed
no
mercy
,
it
is
manifested
that
he
in
whom
are
found
the
good
works
of
mercy
,
shall
have
judgement
with
mercy
,
and
thereby
also
that
mercy
it selfe
is
rendred
to
the
merits
of
good
works
.
Rash
judging
others
agravats
our
owne
judgement
,
for
God
will
pron●unce
sentence
against
us
,
not
onely
according
to
the
nature
of
our
sins
,
but
also
according
to
our
judgement
of
●thers
.
they
are
friends
to
no
men
,
and
have
all
men
their
foes
.
If
thou
keepest
thy
owne
Tongue
s●●m
evill
speaking
thou
shalt
not
neede
to
feare
the
scourge
of
another
mans
tongue
,
Iob
,
Thou
hast
afflicted
me●
in
very
faithfulnesse
,
Galiel●●●
Ahi●●d●r
a●fi●
14
●
.
5.
In
pr●pri●ty
of
speech
.
God
never
inflicted
any
p●●ishment
in
this
life
as
●begi●●ing
of
eternall
d●●●●tion
,
but
onely
in
●●gard
of
the
〈◊〉
for
〈…〉
the
la●●●tio●
of
God
so
●●rst
〈…〉
him
,
●e
infli●●ed
p●●●shment
〈◊〉
for
his
〈…〉
will
〈◊〉
the
〈◊〉
of
Forgive
the
sinne
of
servants
,
that
thou
mayest
have
thy
Lord
and
Masters
pardon
for
thy
sinnes
.
therefore
so
saying
,
wee
binde
our selves
in
hard
bands
,
except
wee
d●e
as
we
speake
The
having
a
will
to
revenge
is
a
horrible
,
griev●us
and
fearefull
tentation
,
with
all
our
powers
and
with
all
our
strength
to
bee
avoyded
:
There
flowes
not
from
God
so
small
a
gift
Corp●rallor
Spirituall
,
in
which
God
Almighty
with
all
his
divine
vertue
and
goodnesse
is
not
included
,
for
the
affection
with
which
God
gives
is
to
bee
expended
.
His
mercy
endures
for
ever
Loving
kindnesse
which
is
sweeter
then
life
(
Psal.
Hee
gives
more
to
a
poore
distressed
man
,
that
yeelds
him
compassion
in
his
heart
,
then
hee
that
gives
him
an
almes
without
compassion
.
none
can
deny
it
more
and
more
rewardable●
in
adversity
to
give
Thankes
,
then
in
prosperity
to
give
Almes
,
as
for
neither
to
blasphame
God
nor
man
,
nor
murmure
in
his
utmost
want
Is
any
so
poore
that
hee
hath
neither
victuals
to
feede
the
hungry
,
nor
apparell
to
cloath
the
naked
,
nor
house
to
harbour
the
stranger
,
nor
feete
to
visite
the
sicke
.
Augustine
,
Wee
cannot
want
to
spare
for
God
,
if
wee
spare
to
spend
on
our
lusts
,
nothing
can
suffice
Covetousnesse
,
a
little
may
suffice
God
,
two
mites
sufficed
the
Widdow
to
shew
mercy
,
two
mites
sufficed
to
buy
the
Kingdome
of
the
Mercifull
in
his
good
doing
,
becomes
an
organ
of
Gods
Doe
not
thou
despise
the
needie
,
who
though
hee
be
poore
himselfe
can
make
thee
rich
I
have
beene
young
and
now
am
old
,
yet
did
I
never
see
the
righteous
forsaken
,
nor
his
seed
begging
Bread
,
Clemens
Alexandrinus
If
any
say
,
that
hee
hath
oft-times
seene
the
righteous
wanting
bread
,
●●●so●●
,
and
where
there
was
not
another
righteous
man
,
greeve
not
that
thou
hast
not
Christ
to
see●●
,
and
entertaine
as
had
,
hee
hath
〈◊〉
reaved
thee
of
that
bonum
,
saying
,
I
was
hungry
and
yee
fed
mee
,
in
that
you
did
it
to
the
least
of
my
brethren
you
did
it
to
mee
.
you
shall
not
have
me
alwayes
,
but
the
poore
,
14.12
.
Spoken
3.
21.
The
King
of
Kings
,
Lord
of
Princes
,
Father
of
Orphans
and
Widowes
,
prefixing
to
those
of
high
degree
his
title
of
power
,
to
those
of
low
degree
his
title
of
provision
;
as
it
is
applyed
by
Pel●sia●●●
▪
I
know
many
that
fast
,
pray
,
sigh
,
expresse
all
charglesse
religion
,
but
give
never
a
peny
to
the
afflicted
,
what
are
those
the
better
for
all
their
other
vertue
?
Th●●
they
sold
their
houses
and
their
lands
,
&
laying
up
treasure
for
themselves
in
heaven
,
offered
the
prices
to
the
Apostles
,
to
be
distributed
for
the
uses
of
the
poore
,
but
now
we
give
not
the
tith
of
our
patrimony
,
and
when
the
Lord
bids
us
sell
,
we
buy
rather
and
turne
gatherers
.
Whether
neede
will
ever
come
or
no
is
uncertaine
,
but
sure
the
time
will
come
in
which
you
shall
repent
yee
that
you
did
not
dispence
your
wealth
.
Give
to
fixe
and
also
to
seven
,
for
thou
knowest
no●
what
evill
may
come
on
the
Earth
Why
shouldst
thou
treasure
up
for
Theeves
and
mothes
,
and
mutability
of
times
,
removing
and
casting
uncertaine
riches
one
while
on
one
,
an
otherwhiles
on
another
.
Thou
art
Gods
workman
when
thou
givest
to
the
Poore
thou
sowest
in
winter
what
thou
mayest
reape
in
summer
,
why
shouldst
thou
feare
then
,
O
thou
unbeleever
!
lest
in
so
great
a
house
so
great
a
house-keeper
should
not
feede
his
owne
workman
.
any
wh●●
Some
alledge
the
multitude
of
their
children
and
their
great
charge
,
for
the
extennating
of
their
Charitable
workes
,
who
for
that
very
cause
in
the
Iudgement
of
blessed
ought
to
worke
the
me●●
,
as
having
many
for
whom
they
must
become
humble
suiters
〈◊〉
GOD
,
and
this
is
〈◊〉
●y
ingage
for
and
were
pledges
,
this
is
to
provide
before
hand
for
our
future
heires
according
to
the
faith
of
holy
scripture
,
saying
Iunior
fui
;
Psal.
I
have
beene
young
that
it
is
but
an
excuse
of
unbeleevers
.
Men
give
for
use
twelve
,
or
ten
,
or
eight
in
the
hundred
;
God
takes
it
at
an
hundred
for
one
,
and
yet
men
will
have
no
contract
with
God
,
peradventure
they
are
doubtfull
of
his
assurance
,
why
is
not
man
bound
to
man
by
the
obligation
of
a
little
paper
?
God
gives
assurance
in
so
many
and
great
volumnes
and
is
not
held
debtor
.
There
shall
be
judgement
without
mercy
to
him
that
shewes
no
mercy
,
Feed
the
hungry
that
yee
feed
not
the
fire
of
Hell
.
mercy
rejoyces
over
judgment
By
mercy
and
truth
iniquity
is
purged
away
.
7
13.
Dan.
4.
The
poore
mans
miserie
is
the
rich
mans
medicine
,
there
shall
bee
a
healing
Coffer
of
Righteousnesse
A
gift
in
secret
pacifieth
wrath
:
the
Blinde
and
Lame
to
be
the
Porters
of
Paradise
,
the
Doore
keepers
at
Heaven
gate
,
Elegantly
St.
a
kinde
of
of
revenge
to
feed
and
not
commiserate
,
and
addes
that
God
the
Artificer
of
fraile
nature
would
have
us
assist
in
common
and
by
mutuall
returnes
of
helpe
,
every
one
to
testifie
in
another
,
what
he
is
afraid
of
for
himselfe
,
this
is
not
yet
charity
nor
reverence
vouchsafed
persons
,
but
provident
feare
of
like
casualties
,
and
religious
horrour
of
common
accidents
in
another
mans
hunger
,
every
one
pities
himselfe
.
Put
not
the
moneyes
for
which
they
sold
their
estates
,
in
the
Apostles
hands
,
but
laid
them
at
their
feet
,
declaring
their
Faith
and
the
pitie
and
reverence
which
they
bore
the
Apostles
;
for
they
did
not
apprehend
themselves
to
give
,
more
then
receive
:
Lord
when
did
we
minister
unto
thee
(
Matth.
how
much
soever
hee
labour
,
and
how
many
almes
soever
hee
doth
to
be
affected
as
if
hee
had
done
nothing
.
I
would
gladly
be
a
Benefactour
to
all
,
and
indure
punishment
as
one
that
injured
all
,
rather
then
be
injurious
unto
any
and
bee
crowned
and
renowned
,
as
a
benefactour
to
all
.
the
poore
mans
hand
is
Blessed
is
hee
which
considers
the
Poore
,
One
man
in
his
need
will
seeke
to
thee
,
thou
must
seeke
and
finde
anothers
necessity
:
Men
will
never
doe
,
except
they
constantly
lay
aside
something
according
to
their
Revenues
,
as
it
were
a
duty
that
must
be
payd
the
King
,
so
had
his
Bagge
when
once
you
speake
that
they
would
give
something
to
the
poore
,
presently
they
alledge
against
you
,
that
infinite
necessities
are
vpon
them
,
grievous
tributes
and
taxations
,
that
they
are
not
able
to
pay
their
compositions
and
other
rates
,
and
heape
so
many
things
against
you
,
that
they
would
almost
conclude
you
criminall
that
you
would
so
much
as
monish
them
of
such
a
businesse
,
little
understanding
that
the
necessitie
of
saving
soules
should
be
preferred
before
all
necessities
.
Singlenesse
a
vertue
substracting
all
superfluities
,
Withhold
not
good
from
the
owners
thereof
,
to
whom
it
is
due
:
other
mens
goods
are
withheld
when
superfluities
are
possest
.
that
charity
in
similitude
of
the
Deity
,
gives
what
it
hath
,
and
hath
what
it
gives
.
as
taking
cause
from
himselfe
to
shew
mercy
,
not
of
judgement
as
receiving
inforcement
from
us
to
practise
I
have
made
thee
a
God
to
is
the
Lords
words
to
when
hee
put
him
in
ability
to
doe
good
Iustine
Martyr
might
determine
him
an
imitator
of
God
,
who
supplying
to
the
needy
whatsoever
he
hath
received
of
God
,
is
made
a
God
to
them
that
receive
of
him
.
It
is
vertues
part
to
be
an
agent
rather
Eth.
l.
then
a
patient
of
goodnes
It
is
a
more
blessed
thing
to
give
then
to
receive
.
138.
139.
to
render
a
thank-offering
to
God
,
that
we
are
of
them
that
be
able
to
be
good
doers
,
not
of
them
that
need
to
be
receivers
:
without
poverty
riches
are
unprofitable
the
members
of
the
body
which
are
lesse
honorable
are
most
necessary
,
honour
all
men
l●●
imployments
seeing
the
rich
thrive
by
benefit
of
the
poore
mans
Prayer
begging
dayly
bread
for
them
,
therefore
it
is
meet
they
should
impart
their
wealth
with
them
,
that
their
bowels
may
blesse
them
,
and
spirits
bee
quickned
in
devout
supplications
for
them
,
and
God
that
despiseth
not
the
poore
heare
their
orisons
for
them
,
and
so
the
rich
support
the
poore
as
the
elme
the
vine
,
and
the
poore
lade
the
rich
with
fruits
as
the
vine
the
Elme
.
Zeno
,
gold
and
silver
are
money
if
you
lay
them
out
,
Idols
if
you
hoord
them
up
.
But
th●se
things
of
the
covetous
,
not
to
the
covetous
;
those
things
to
you
brethren
,
but
not
concerning
you
;
for
our
poore
have
forgot
how
to
beg
,
our
widowes
make
willes
,
and
more
might
I
say
in
commendation
of
your
blessednesse
,
if
ye
were
not
mine
.
they
possesse
only
to
keepe
others
out
of
possession
,
and
O
the
contradiction
that
they
make
in
adjects
and
names
,
they
call
those
goods
which
they
make
no
use
of
,
but
to
evill
purposes
.
5.
16.
not
all
that
have
riches
,
but
that
improve
them
to
workes
of
righteousnesse
,
they
are
the
rich
.
If
thou
lovest
thy selfe
be
kinde
to
thy
Neighbour
,
for
thou
canst
not
more
advantage
thy selfe
then
in
profiting
him
.
He
erres
that
supposes
a
conscience
neare
,
and
inward
with
God
,
to
be
allured
by
advantage
,
it
is
damage
to
a
holy
will
not
to
bestow
favours
,
you
esteeme
them
the
onely
gaines
which
renew
to
you
of
liberality
,
who
receive
wealth
in
giving
.
Ruricios
,
Hee
loves
not
goods
that
would
not
have
them
alwayes
,
he
shall
depart
a
Begger
out
of
this
world
,
that
sends
not
his
portion
before
out
of
his
estate
unto
eternall
blisse
.
I
thanke
thee
O
Lord
my
God
,
that
they
hast
counted
me
worthy
to
render
thine
to
thee
,
and
that
of
the
goods
of
the
world
,
there
remaines
with
me
but
the
third
part
of
a
penny
,
which
also
I
bequeath
to
the
poore
that
are
my
brethren
in
if
we
have
done
good
workes
,
we
shall
carry
them
with
us
to
the
heavens
,
they
will
carry
us
with
them
to
heaven
.
in
all
mercy
had
an
Altar
,
and
was
adored
onely
at
Athens
the
Nurcery
of
learning
and
humanitie
.
doe
good
to
all
especially
to
the
houshold
of
Faith
(
Gal.
good
without
exception
to
worthy
and
by
that
meanes
thou
maist
bring
the
unworthy
to
good
,
because
the
soule
it
quickly
drawne
by
temporals
unto
the
feare
of
God
:
panem
refectionis
,
cum
verbo
correptionis
,
To●
▪
with
thy selfe
if
heaven
were
ready
to
fall
,
and
God
should
honour
thee
so
farre
,
as
to
give
thee
power
to
support
it
,
wouldst
thou
not
conceive
it
a
great
glory
?
So
now
God
vouchsafes
thee
a
greater
,
to
sustaine
that
which
he
respects
more
then
Heaven
,
his
faithfull
members
of
whom
the
world
is
not
worthy
.
Heb.
Treasurer
for
the
Poore
BEATI
MVNDO
CORDE
Prov. 30.12 . There is a generation that are pure in their owne eyes : and yet is not washed from their filthinesse .
Ier. 51.7 . Calix aureus Babylon . Quoniam qui a veritate deficit , quarit illec●bram ut specie saltem pretiosa ad bibendum aliquos illicere possit . B. Ambr. de Elia & jejunio . c. 15.
NON SVM MELIOR PATRIBVS .
T.
F.
Blessed are the Pure in heart .
The
Mercifull
that
carry
the
eyes
of
their
heart
sincere
and
cleare
even
to
their
adversaries
,
may
plainly
without
let
or
watering
behold
the
unapproachable
brightnesse
of
GOD
,
for
that
clearenesse
of
conscience
and
puritie
of
heart
,
suffer
no
Cloud
betwixt
the
Lord
and
our
sight
.
That
a
reasonable
soule
is
the
chiefe
and
principle
glasse
wherein
to
see
God
.
This
the
Israel
of
God
must
continually
hold
,
wipe
,
looke
on
;
hold
,
lest
falling
down
,
it
sinke
to
the
earth
in
love
;
wipe
,
lest
it
bee
soiled
with
the
dust
of
vaine
thoughts
;
looke
on
,
that
it
divert
not
the
eye
and
intention
,
to
vaine
studies
,
cleanse
that
which
is
within
,
that
the
outside
may
be
claue
also
:
They
are
pure
in
hart
,
these
heart
doth
not
smite
them
with
remorse
of
deadly
sinne
,
The
Harlot
wipes
her
mouth
But
wash
thy
heart
,
O
Ierusalem
:
Set
me
as
a
feale
upon
thy
heart
,
〈◊〉
soule
upon
thy
arme
:
ever
confesse
,
on
the
heart
,
that
we
may
ever
love
,
on
the
hand
,
that
we
may
ever
labour
.
the
fleaing
off
the
skin
was
a
riddle
of
naked
discovery
,
for
nothing
at
all
in
as
is
hid
,
nor
doth
any
thing
lye
latent
from
the
divine
and
pure
eyes
of
God
,
but
that
pierces
to
the
dividing
asunder
of
the
soule
and
spirit
,
S.
Ephrem
.
conf.
&
reprehensio
suiipsius
.
p.
of
the
joynts
and
marrow
,
and
that
is
the
cutting
of
the
creature
in
pieces
.
Besides
that
,
he
injoynes
the
inwards
and
feet
to
be
washed
,
which
our
Redeemer
expounds
for
us
,
saying
;
Blessed
are
the
pure
in
heart
.
which
purification
Lupus
Abbas
faith
begin●
here
,
charity
finisheth
hereafter
.
Wh●●●
have
I
in
heaven
but
thee
,
and
there
is
none
upon
earth
that
I
desire
besides
that
,
〈…〉
〈◊〉
the
hope
of
〈◊〉
happinesse
〈…〉
of
any
heavenly
creature
,
or
in
the
contents
of
any
worldly
excellency
,
and
not
in
God
that
made
us
,
our
eyes
are
ever-runne
with
a
thicke
filme
,
we
cannot
see
God
.
My
Soule
thou
hast
said
unto
the
Lord
,
thou
art
my
God
:
A
man
hath
that
for
his
God
,
which
hee
hath
for
his
chiefe
good
,
and
hee
hath
that
for
his
chiefe
good
,
in
which
he
a
conceives
all
good
,
which
if
he
have
alone
,
hee
thinkes
himselfe
happy
,
and
which
alone
if
he
wants
,
he
holds
himselfe
miserable
.
God
,
thou
art
my
God
,
because
God
alone
sufficeth
it
.
So
that
if
there
were
propounded
to
it
all
the
Kin●domes
of
the
●orld
,
all
the
goods
an
〈◊〉
,
all
the
good
in
heaven
,
yet
would
it
not
oure
offend
God
to
have
them
all
.
Nothing
can
separate
a
pure
heart
from
not
all
the
felicitie
not
all
the
miserie
of
this
present
world
,
not
all
the
glory
,
not
all
the
paines
of
the
world
to
come
,
not
though
he
should
fall
from
Heaven
,
and
be
cast
into
hell
,
which
meanes
by
height
and
depth
:
not
possibilities
,
as
life
,
death
,
famine
,
sword
;
not
impossibilities
,
as
for
Angels
,
Principalities
,
Powers
,
to
joyne
together
and
end●●vour
the
diversion
of
his
heart
from
God
,
●ot
〈◊〉
other
creature
.
Refusall
to
bee
●●●forted
by
any
creature
is
a
signe
of
great
Puritie
and
inner
repose
.
Whatsoever
living
thing
is
consecrated
to
God
,
it
must
dye
;
They
that
are
crucifie
the
flesh
,
and
the
affections
thereof
:
let
men
therefore
praise
their
Fastings
,
their
Watchings
,
their
relieving
the
Poore
,
their
visiting
the
Sicke
these
things
are
all
holy
,
but
if
any
purifying
his
conscience
before
God
,
mortifie
the
vices
thereof
this
is
the
holy
of
holies
,
whose
praise
is
not
of
men
but
of
God
.
defines
purity
,
a
separation
of
the
worse
from
the
better
.
a
Pope
or
Emperour
receives
more
honour
from
being
Gods
servant
,
then
a
commander
of
men
:
because
every
creature
that
is
middle
,
between
inferiour
and
superiour
,
takes
greater
dignity
from
subjection
to
the
superiour
,
then
by
dominion
ever
the
inferiour
;
as
water
takes
pollution
from
the
earth
,
purification
from
the
ayre
.
Blessed
〈◊〉
the
p●●e
in
he●●●
,
because
like
the
Sunne
,
they
shine
even
in
darknesse
.
in
God
praises
his
word
the
divell
and
man
sell
,
for
that
the
〈◊〉
and
the
other
was
affectate
to
bee
like
God
,
not
in
purity
,
but
in
power
:
I
have
said
you
are
Gods
,
There
is
no
other
way
to
salvation
,
but
for
him
that
would
come
to
salvation
to
become
a
God
.
Vertues
what
are
they
Damascene
,
other
then
Characters
of
the
divine
nature
.
Let
us
feare
onely
one
thing
,
to
feare
any
thing
more
then
God
,
and
to
disgrace
his
good
image
with
our
naughtinesse
.
Let
no
man
despise
thy
youth
but
be
an
example
to
beleevers
in
all
puritie
:
renewed
in
the
holinesse
of
truth
,
Ephes.
Sanctifie
them
in
thy
truth
,
Ioh.
W●e
be
to
the
Drunkards
,
wee
be
to
the
Fornicators
,
&c.
W●e
be
to
you
Hypocrites
,
Scribes
,
and
Pharisees
hypocrites
Rome
,
Alexandria
,
Antioch
,
Constantinople
,
Russia
,
Armenia
?
Primitive
Church
If
any
say
hee
would
but
he
cannot
,
let
prevaile
with
him
not
to
say
I
cannot
,
but
I
will
not
;
certainly
thou
c●nst
,
but
thou
wilt
not
helpe
thy selfe
For
as
hath
it
,
It
is
to
them
,
above
all
kindes
of
torment
,
and
all
paines
,
if
they
see
any
devote
his
endeavour
to
the
word
of
God
.
Yee
are
pure
through
the
Word
,
Ioh.
You
may
reade
in
the
lives
of
the
Fathers
,
how
one
bemoaning
himselfe
to
an
Abbot
,
that
oft
hearing
the
monitions
of
the
Ancients
hee
retained
nothing
,
was
bade
to
take
one
of
two
emptie
vessels
,
which
chanceably
stood
by
,
and
put
water
into
it
,
and
wash
it
,
which
done
,
the
Abbot
asked
whether
of
the
two
vessels
was
the
cleaner
,
and
was
answered
,
that
into
which
the
water
was
put
;
then
the
oldman
said
to
him
,
so
is
it
my
sonne
,
with
the
Soule
that
frequently
heareth
the
words
of
GOD
,
though
it
retaineth
nothing
of
the
things
which
it
inquires
,
yet
it
is
more
clens●d
then
that
which
asketh
nothing
.
the
Active
life
may
be
continued
without
the
Speculative
:
but
the
Contemplative
,
cannot
be
compassed
without
the
Practique
.
Wisdome
enters
not
into
an
impure
S●ule
.
Sap.
Neither
is
it
possible
with
a
foule
and
dustie
glasse
to
take
the
representation
of
Images
,
nor
with
a
minde
darkned
in
passion
and
prejudice
,
to
undertake
the
illumination
of
the
Holy
Ghost
▪
An
impure
one
cannot
looke
on
the
brightnesse
of
true
light
,
and
that
which
is
a
pleasure
to
cleane
mindes
,
is
a
paine
to
Come
and
see
Without
a
pure
minde
,
and
resembling
the
Saints
in
life
,
a
man
cannot
apprehend
the
minde
of
Saints
,
for
as
if
one
would
see
the
Sunne
hee
purges
his
eye
,
and
purifies
the
innate
light
within
,
to
discerne
that
which
shines
from
without
,
or
if
hee
would
behold
a
great
Citie
,
hee
goes
neare
to
it
;
so
he
that
would
comprehend
the
minde
of
Divines
,
must
clense
his
owne
minde
,
and
draw
neare
to
them
in
similitude
of
life
.
Vacate
&
videte
Because
when
the
soule
desists
from
sinne
,
it
must
tarry
to
a
Sabbath
of
rest
,
before
the
conscience
afford
it
a
repose
,
The
sweetnesse
thereof
meanes
the
Soule
from
all
things
sensible
,
and
from
the
trouble
of
their
cares
,
that
it
sets
aside
all
Temporals
,
and
longs
to
bee
alone
with
God
.
The
heate
of
businesse
is
then
rightly
temper'd
,
when
wee
so
follow
our
worke
,
that
we
may
with
a
quiet
heart
see
him
unto
whom
wee
labour
to
consecrate
our
workes
.
Olympiodorus
,
That
the
Practique
is
a
previous
introduction
to
Theorie
.
Socrates
did
wisely
begin
with
Moralitie
and
urge
vertuous
living
,
that
the
minde
might
thereby
bee
advanced
to
higher
knowledge
,
as
was
long
agoe
noted
by
The
cunning
and
action
of
the
right
hand
being
neglected
through
sloath
,
extinguishes
with
it selfe
the
light
of
Contemplation
.
The
mysteries
of
Faith
are
held
in
a
pure
conscience
Blessed
are
the
pure
in
heart
where
the
intellect
is
pure
and
accommodated
to
understand
.
Annoynt
our
eyes
with
eye-salve
that
wee
may
see
,
moved
his
friends
with
the
eye-salve
of
good
workes
,
let
us
sharpen
the
Eyes
of
our
heart
,
that
wee
may
there
see
God
.
42.
45.
Vertuous
affection
is
the
face
of
a
contemplative
Soule
raised
to
the
altitude
of
true
knowledge
,
O
most
loving
Lord
thou
lovest
him
that
preserves
his
Puritie
incorrupt
,
for
like
loves
its
like
;
and
because
thou
art
pure
and
of
all
the
most
pure
,
therefore
thou
lovest
the
pure
and
makest
them
of
thy
counsell
,
as
it
is
written
,
He
that
loves
purenesse
of
heart
the
King
shall
be
his
friend
.
My
father
and
I
will
love
him
and
shew
our selves
unto
him
.
To
the
pure
all
thinges
are
pure
,
de
Kombis
As
in
our
Countrey
GOD
is
the
glasse
in
which
the
creatures
shine
,
so
by
the
way
the
Creatures
are
the
glasse
in
which
God
is
seene
.
The
purer
that
any
is
in
heart
,
the
more
capacious
of
So
much
the
more
copiouslie
shall
men
see
God
by
how
much
the
more
studiously
they
purge
themselves
.
Anton.
Cent.
Be
wee
of
pure
minde
,
for
I
beleeve
that
a
soule
purified
throughout
in
every
power
,
and
standing
now
in
its
owne
nature
may
become
so
quicke-sighted
as
to
see
more
acutely
,
and
matters
more
remote
then
the
Devils
can
,
as
which
hath
GOD
revealing
unto
it
.
God
shall
be
seene
and
knowne
after
the
proportion
of
our
The
endlesse
vision
of
the
Deitie
be
that
the
indeficient
fulnesse
of
felicity
,
for
thence
are
the
pure
in
heart
blessed
,
because
they
see
God
;
wherefore
wee
shall
so
farre
see
the
Deitie
of
the
whole
Trinity
,
as
we
shall
receive
by
the
gift
of
grace
,
that
wee
may
be
able
to
see
.
2.
16.
in
the
devotion
all
Booke
j●yn'd
with
How
much
the
more
a
man
loves
his
neighbour
here
,
so
much
the
more
hee
shall
see
there
the
majesty
of
God
.
There
is
one
glory
of
the
Sunne
,
and
another
of
the
Moone
If
Principalities
knew
not
,
much
lesse
did
Angels
know
:
The
knowledge
of
God
to
them
that
are
counted
worthy
thereof
,
is
the
supreame
of
all
good
things
,
to
which
all
intelligent
nature
aspireth
,
which
God
gvie
us
to
partake
in
purifying
our selves
from
the
affects
of
corruptible
flesh
.
Thinke
not
the
Kingdome
of
God
to
bee
ought
else
then
the
true
understanding
of
things
that
are
,
which
the
Scriptures
also
call
blessednesse
;
for
the
Kingdome
of
heaven
is
within
you
.
Felicity
stands
in
GOD
3.
16.
That
light
cannot
bee
attained
or
guessed
at
by
any
argumentation
or
Art
of
man
;
otherwise
it
had
not
bin
affirmed
inapproachable
.
Darknesse
is
Gods
pavilion
In
the
thicke
darknesse
GOD
will
bee
seene
,
My
meditation
of
him
is
sweet
,
Psal.
The
true
beauty
and
most
desirable
and
visible
alone
to
him
who
is
purified
in
heart
,
that
is
all
about
the
divine
and
blessed
Nature
,
on
whose
lightnings
and
grace
whosoever
fixes
his
eye
,
participates
somewhat
from
it
as
it
were
in
a
tincture
,
dying
his
owne
sight
with
a
flourishing
lustre
.
Lord
lift
up
the
light
of
thy
Countenance
upon
us
,
and
thou
shalt
put
gladnesse
in
our
hearts
.
If
the
face
of
a
Friend
,
whom
wee
love
,
doth
most
truely
change
us
,
and
render
us
all
chearie
,
and
pleasant
,
and
voyd
of
heavinesse
;
what
shall
the
face
of
GOD
doe
,
comming
invisibly
on
the
Soule
that
is
cleansed
from
all
filthinesse
:
Naturally
the
Creatures
cannot
know
GOD
as
hee
is
in
himselfe
,
but
as
hee
is
in
their selves
.
This
is
true
felicity
that
wee
may
be
one
spirit
with
God
,
that
wee
may
possesse
God
in
God
;
not
in
our selves
,
knowing
as
wee
are
knowne
;
for
he
knowes
us
not
by
us
,
but
by
himselfe
,
so
wee
shall
know
him
by
himselfe
,
and
not
by
our selves
,
this
is
the
whole
reward
,
this
is
Life
eternall
,
In
th●t
〈…〉
of
him
●●lfe
●s
eternall
Li●e
.
And
in
the
forme
of
GOD
not
the
forme
of
a
Servant
,
or
any
created
forme
or
representation
.
For
the
back
parts
are
all
notifications
of
himselfe
S.
Nazian.
serm
after
himselfe
111
,
112.
I
beseech
thee
shew
mee
thy
glory
,
Shew
us
the
Father
and
it
sufficeth
us
They
cannot
bee
fully
satisfied
in
those
sights
,
till
in
the
glory
of
Gods
Saints
in
the
day
of
his
Power
the
mysterie
of
the
Father
,
Sonne
,
and
Holy
Ghost
bee
disclosed
.
Ineffable
light
receives
the
godly
,
and
the
vision
of
the
Holy
and
kingly
Trinitie
shining
most
clearely
and
most
purely
,
and
mingling
its
whole
selfe
with
the
whole
minde
,
in
which
alone
I
chiefly
place
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
.
as
one
They
see
also
in
God
the
quiddities
of
all
things
,
&c.
To
apprehend
God
May
it
bee
admitted
to
equality
of
knowledge
.
In
Heaven
they
are
said
to
bee
comprehensors
,
because
they
apprehend
according
to
all
their
power
,
all
their
understanding
,
all
their
will
.
Wee
shall
be
like
him
for
wee
shall
see
him
as
hee
is
.
to
bee
punished
from
the
presence
of
GOD
,
where
there
is
any
right
Iudgement
,
the
greatest
horrour
is
not
to
see
him
in
whom
alone
is
satisfaction
,
if
God
should
come
and
speake
with
his
owne
voyce
,
and
say
to
a
man
,
Wilt
thou
sinne
,
sinne
doe
whatsoever
thou
pleasest
,
whatsoever
thou
affectest
in
all
the
Earth
,
bee
it
at
thy
service
,
let
thy
anger
be
death
,
let
men
be
beaten
and
condemned
at
thy
will
,
or
reserved
to
thy
use
,
let
none
resist
thee
,
none
say
what
doest
thou
?
none
,
I
will
not
doe
what
you
would
have
mee
,
none
why
have
you
so
done
?
Let
all
those
earthly
things
which
thou
desirest
abound
with
thee
,
and
live
in
them
,
not
for
a
time
but
for
ever
,
onely
thou
shalt
never
see
my
face
.
Brethren
why
did
you
sigh
,
saving
that
there
is
sprung
up
in
your
hearts
,
the
chaste
feare
that
indureth
for
ever
,
whereby
one
would
cry
out
and
say
,
rather
let
all
th●se
things
be
tooke
away
and
let
me
see
thy
face
.
Our
inheritance
is
incorruptible
,
impolluted
,
idefeisable
.
Let
us
feare
lest
a
promise
being
lest
us
entring
into
rest
,
any
of
us
should
so
much
as
seeme
to
come
short
.
MATTH. 18.19 . D●cuisti concordiam simul junctam vinci omnin● non posse , quicquid simul petitur à cunctis , Deum pacis pacificis exhibere . B. CYPRIAN . Epist. 1● .
Quicunque odio aut longinquâ inter se lite dissenserint , & ad Pacem revocari , diutinâ intentione nequiverint ; à Sacerdotibus civitatis primitur arguantur , qui si inimicitias deponere , perniciosâ intention● noluerint , de Ecclesia coetu justissimâ excommunicatione pellantur . Concil. Agashease cap. 31.
NON SVM MELIOR PATRIBUS .
Blessed are the Peacemakers , for they shall be called the Sonnes of God .
They
shall
bee
called
the
Sonnes
of
Combinations
of
evill
lusts
,
the
leagues
of
wickednesse
,
the
compacts
of
vice
,
are
without
the
honour
of
this
name
.
hee
procures
unitie
to
prevent
Peace
.
Seeke
peace
and
pursue
it
Ecbrewes
(
Heb.
If
it
be
possible
,
so
much
as
in
you
,
make
Peace
with
all
:
beeing
about
to
say
have
peace
with
all
men
,
because
he
foresaw
that
to
be
difficult
,
he
premised
if
it
he
possible
,
and
subjoyned
what
is
possible
,
so
farre
as
is
in
you
,
for
if
we
desire
to
preserve
in
our
minde
charity
towards
them
that
hate
us
,
although
they
have
not
peace
with
us
,
yet
without
doubt
we
have
peace
with
them
.
Ego
pax
,
I
am
peace
,
Perturbation
is
caused
by
alienation
from
God
,
pray
we
then
that
the
light
of
Gods
countenance
,
may
shine
upon
us
,
that
wee
may
be
in
a
constitution
beseeming
Saints
,
quiet
,
and
meeke
,
and
every
way
untroubled
,
by
the
preparation
of
peace
ready
to
every
good
work
.
The
Lord
will
blesse
his
people
with
peace
(
Ps●l
.
Peace
is
either
in
the
beginnings
which
gives
here
,
or
complete
when
the
beleever
departs
into
peace
,
for
our
peace
begins
by
the
desire
of
the
Creator
,
and
is
complete
by
manifest
vision
of
him
,
to
wit
,
because
his
body
that
is
inh●●●●d
by
the
m●nde
,
is
bridled
under
the
dispose
of
●ustice
,
from
the
disorderly
motions
of
lusts
.
Phil.
Peace
I
leave
unto
you
,
my
peace
I
give
unto
you
,
let
not
your
heart
be
troubled
:
Hierom
,
Let
us
not
imagine
,
that
peace
is
onely
to
bee
sought
in
this
,
if
we
wrangle
not
with
others
,
but
then
peace
thas
is
our
inheritance
,
is
with
us
,
if
a
quiet
minde
be
disturbed
with
no
passions
.
Clemens
Alexandrinus
,
Blessed
are
those
Peace-makers
,
who
instruct
and
induce
into
that
peace
,
which
is
in
reason
,
and
a
life
led
according
to
God
,
them
that
bee
here
impugned
by
ignorance
in
their
life
and
erring
course
.
peace
.
Ier.
when
we
by
sinning
had
made
difference
betweene
us
and
God
,
and
notwithstanding
God
first
sent
his
Embassadors
to
us
,
that
we
who
had
sinned
might
be
intreated
to
come
unto
peace
with
God
,
let
the
pride
of
man
blush
,
let
every
one
be
ashamed
,
if
hee
doe
not
first
satisfie
his
neighbor
,
seeing
if
after
our
fault
,
even
God
himself
,
that
was
offended
,
doth
beseech
us
by
his
legats
intervening
,
that
we
would
be
reconciled
to
him
.
Iames
ch.
One
would
more
willingly
part
with
a
thousand
talents
,
&
think
it
losse
grievous
,
then
to
have
three
halfe
pence
tooke
from
him
against
his
will
.
Abraham
(
Gen.
if
one
will
sue
thee
for
thy
cloak
,
let
him
have
thy
coat
also
the
law
is
good
if
one
use
it
lawfully
.
Contend
not
with
one
that
is
mightier
then
thy selfe
.
Luk.
right
(
Syr.
that
halfe
is
more
then
the
whole
,
And
againe
because
thou
must
needs
humble
thy selfe
before
the
Iudge
,
and
bee
subject
to
him
,
for
the
necessity
of
thy
cause
.
Againe
,
because
all
suite
is
a
provocation
of
the
heart
,
and
evill
projects
.
eyther
by
favour
,
or
fraud
,
or
bribes
,
thou
makest
all
haste
to
assist
thy
cause
,
though
from
the
beginning
,
thou
hadst
no
purpose
so
to
doe
,
in
processe
the
necessitie
of
the
controversie
compels
thee
to
doe
so
,
for
at
first
thy
strife
was
onely
for
gaine
,
afterward
thou
contendest
also
for
glory
,
and
art
more
content
even
to
sinne
,
onely
that
thou
maist
overcome
,
then
to
be
overcome
onely
that
thou
maist
not
sinne
.
The
ancient
Popes
by
Apostolicall
authority
refused
for
If
betweene
parties
there
be
actions
,
&
debates
,
whiles
each
will
demand
and
defend
his
right
,
the
expressions
of
charity
ought
not
to
bee
omitted
,
or
denyed
amongst
Christians
,
for
if
I
will
recover
that
which
is
mine
,
I
ought
not
to
retaine
from
another
that
which
is
Gods
.
54.
As
if
a
Iudge
sell
it
is
theft
to
sell
things
not
saleable
,
as
for
a
Iudge
to
sell
just
judgement
,
or
a
witnesse
true
testimony
,
or
an
advocate
the
defence
of
a
bad
cause
.
Let
shame
be
no
hinderance
but
that
the
injustice
perceived
in
the
pleading
he
dismisse
the
cause
,
which
when
it
seemed
the
better
hee
undertooke
,
when
he
hath
told
the
truth
before
unto
his
Client
:
for
even
in
this
if
we
be
equall
Iudges
is
very
great
kindnesse
,
that
we
deceive
not
the
Client
with
vaine
hope
,
neither
is
he
worthy
the
patronage
of
an
Advocate
or
Counsellour
,
who
governes
not
himselfe
by
his
counsell
,
and
verily
it
suits
not
with
him
,
whom
wee
hold
for
an
Oratour
,
wittingly
to
maintaine
unjust
matters
.
the
impleading
of
good
causes
,
and
defending
of
bad
.
PVblique
Peace
is
the
happinesse
of
a
State
.
Psal.
Iude
v.
illic
mandavit
Deus
benedictionem
(
Psal
there
God
commands
a
blessing
Because
of
the
divisions
of
there
are
great
thoughts
of
heart
.
Politicall
Peace
My
peace
I
leave
unto
you
:
he
hath
ingaged
all
promises
and
blessings
to
us
,
in
the
preservation
of
peace
,
and
left
us
peace
for
our
inheritance
.
Have
salt
in
your selves
,
and
have
peace
one
with
another
,
thou
shalt
finally
know
it
to
bee
of
God
,
if
it
bee
peaceable
,
Christ
.
Prov.
My
Sonne
for
sake
not
the
Law
of
thy
Mother
,
Let
the
Spirit
of
the
Prophets
bee
subject
to
the
Prophets
.
I.
C.
T
C.
He
that
will
not
obey
the
Gospell
,
must
bee
tamed
,
and
taught
by
the
Law
;
gainsayers
are
to
bee
openly
rebuked
,
and
curbed
by
spirituall
censures
,
and
penall
lawes
;
otherwise
Kingdomes
,
Houses
,
Churches
,
States
,
will
bee
all
in
divisions
through
them
,
that
cause
more
tumult
in
Church
and
Commonweale
,
then
Swearers
,
Drunkards
,
and
like
en●rmious
livers
.
Peace
makers
They
shall
be
called
the
Sonnes
of
They
shall
bee
called
We
are
preferred
by
Faith
and
Hope
higher
then
any
durst
have
presumed
of
himselfe
,
to
bee
and
bee
called
the
Sonnes
of
God
.
Which
no
man
durst
have
hoped
,
which
if
by
chance
it
had
come
into
a
mans
minde
,
he
might
have
judged
himselfe
to
have
incurred
blasphemie
,
which
is
so
great
,
that
for
the
very
greatnesse
it
seemes
to
many
incredible
,
in
that
we
hope
,
that
we
shall
obtaine
the
glory
of
the
Sonnes
of
God
.
that
in
the
order
of
happy
saved
men
,
they
alone
are
denominated
the
Sonnes
of
God
,
they
and
those
that
love
their
enemies
.
Peace
seemes
to
bee
the
most
complete
of
Beatitudes
,
being
a
good
frame
of
the
ruling
power
,
so
that
the
peaceable
man
hath
his
distinctive
note
,
in
that
his
manners
are
composed
,
but
he
that
is
combatted
of
evils
hath
not
yet
attained
the
peace
that
is
of
God
,
which
the
Lord
gave
to
his
Disciples
,
which
transcending
all
intellect
keepes
the
soules
of
the
worthy
:
Grace
and
Peace
be
multiplyed
to
you
.
who
makes
those
that
are
of
one
minde
to
dwell
in
one
house
,
(
qui
facit
utrumque
unum
3.
24.
the
godly
as
poore
in
spirit
,
as
meeke
,
as
just
,
were
a
part
of
the
seasoning
,
the
blessed
as
Peacemakers
are
the
whole
salt
.
The
counsellours
of
peace
shall
have
joy
,
There
is
no
comming
to
the
denomination
of
a
Sonne
,
but
by
the
name
of
a
Peacemaker
.
if
peacemakers
be
the
children
of
God
,
make-bates
be
the
children
of
the
divell
.
And
Peace
is
defined
the
tranquillitie
of
order
.
that
it
must
be
little
in
a
religious
man
,
not
to
exercise
the
enmities
of
other
men
,
or
not
to
adde
oyle
to
the
fire
of
contentions
by
speaking
ill
,
unlesse
by
faire
speeches
he
studie
to
quench
it
.
Tarentasium
,
To
have
peace
with
all
,
to
counsell
peace
,
and
revoke
into
peace
parties
at
variance
.
I
speake
to
your
shame
,
is
it
so
that
there
is
never
a
wise
man
among
you
?
Peter
Raizan
Guigo
Carthusianus
that
pleas
and
law
termes
,
were
more
grievous
to
him
then
ague
fits
,
Aegidius
Minorita
,
Hee
that
would
keepe
peace
,
must
preferre
all
men
before
himselfe
.
eschew
evill
,
do
good
1.
Cor.
3.3.11.16
5.
6.
1.
seeke
peace
and
ensue
it
Whence
come
strifes
,
debates
,
contentions
,
come
they
not
from
hence
,
from
the
lusts
that
warre
in
our
flesh
.
that
it
is
not
onely
good
,
but
pleasant
to
dwell
in
unity
.
Ps.
Paul
Gal.
couple
joy
and
peace
Esay
,
there
is
no
peace
to
the
wicked
,
there
is
no
joy
Isidore
Polusiate
in
Christs
Kingdome
righteousnesse
produces
peace
,
and
peace
brings
forth
joy
.
a
childe
of
Peace
,
Luk.
the
child
of
Peace
,
must
seeke
peace
,
through
the
vertue
of
Nativitie
,
the
Woolfe
shall
cohabit
with
the
Lambe
,
the
Leopard
with
the
Kid
,
the
Calfe
,
the
yang
Lion
and
the
Fatling
keepe
together
,
in
the
leading
of
a
little
childe
,
the
Cow
feed
with
the
Beare
,
and
the
Lion
compasture
with
the
Oxe
,
and
a
suckling
child
play
with
the
Aspe
and
Cockatrice
,
Where
strife
is
there
is
confusion
,
and
every
evill
worke
,
God
is
not
the
author
of
confusion
,
but
of
peace
.
hatred
,
variance
,
emulations
,
wrath
,
strife
,
sedition
,
heresies
,
envyings
,
reports
that
at
after
the
statu●s
of
those
that
denominated
their
t●ibes
,
were
the
images
of
the
gods
bearing
the
childe
in
her
armes
In
Salem
is
Gods
Tabernacle
in
pace
locus
ejus
If
two
of
you
shall
agree
,
whatsoever
yee
shall
aske
it
shall
be
done
unto
you
:
God
▪
Peace
.
Heb.
to
beare
the
chastisement
of
our
peace
.
Esay
Holy
Ghost
Beati
qui
Persecutionem
patiuntur
Quid illud , quod soletis de sustentatis persecutionibus gloriari , si Martyres non facit causa sed poena , cum diceretur , beati qui Persecutionem patiuntur , frustra est additum propter justitiam . —
B. AUGUST , Epist. 2●● . Sic inter nos composuerunt Clerici & circumcelliones vestri , ut vos Persecutionem , nos Passionem sustiner●mus .
NON SVM MELIOR PATRIBVS .
T.
F.
Blessed are they that are Persecuted , &c.
●
.
Aug.
de
serm.
Domini
in
monte
S.
Chrysost.
hom
persecuted
for
righteousnesse
sake
,
vers
.
persecuted
for
his
sake
,
vers
.
S.
Chrys
Cajetani
sentacula
Rigteousnesse
sake
is
honoured
by
the
Church
,
as
a
chiefe
Martyr
,
who
was
slaine
not
because
he
would
not
deny
but
because
hee
would
not
conceale
the
truth
,
and
forbeare
to
speake
against
incestuous
marriages
:
For
it
is
evident
that
he
who
stickes
not
to
dye
,
that
hee
may
not
commit
a
light
sinne
against
God
,
would
a
great
deale
much
the
more
not
sticke
to
dye
,
sooner
then
hee
would
provoke
with
any
grievous
sinne
doth
oft
largely
insist
in
the
dangerous
tentation
,
that
is
by
the
generality
of
l●●se
Christians
insulting
over
a
few
strict
(
quasi
de
ipsa
iustitia
)
all
that
suffer
any
evill
,
because
they
will
not
yeeld
to
drunkennesse
,
&c.
the
Lord
will
repute
it
in
an
aestimate
of
Martyrdome
:
begin
whosoever
thou
beest
that
hearest
me
to
live
as
a
Christian
,
and
see
if
thou
beest
not
upbraided
for
it
even
by
Christians
,
but
in
name
,
not
in
life
,
not
in
manners
—
be
not
thou
ashamed
of
thy
hope
,
as
hee
liveth
in
thy
heart
,
so
let
him
habit
in
thy
mouth
,
for
not
without
cause
would
his
signe
should
bee
fixed
in
our
forehead
,
as
in
the
seate
of
shamefastnesse
,
that
a
Christian
may
not
bee
ashamed
of
the
reproch
of
are
so
farre
from
suffering
persecution
for
righteousnesse
,
that
they
had
leifer
be
punished
,
then
retaine
unto
righteousnesse
:
quintessence
of
vertue
lyes
in
the
indurance
of
miserie
,
the
passions
of
this
life
,
though
they
may
not
to
be
conferred
,
yet
they
doe
conferre
to
the
future
crowne
of
glory
,
suffered
for
us
and
our
salvation
,
not
his
owne
,
and
therefore
was
crucified
with
his
face
looking
downe
to
the
earth
,
as
if
hee
should
say
,
I
suffer
for
sinners
:
because
hee
suffered
properly
for
himselfe
,
was
crucified
with
his
face
looking
up
to
Heaven
,
as
if
he
should
say
,
I
suffer
for
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
.
Reproches
,
Persecutions
heere
shewes
himselfe
Opus
imperfect
readie
to
reward
,
not
onely
for
death
,
imprisonment
,
stripes
,
but
for
simple
disgrace
and
injurious
speeches
.
Hee
which
touches
you
,
touches
the
apple
of
mine
eye
,
Zach
to
expresse
the
tendernesse
of
his
gracious
affection
to
us
,
he
named
the
most
tender
part
of
mans
bodie
,
that
wee
might
most
plainly
understand
,
that
with
how
little
a
touch
of
a
small
stroke
,
the
sight
of
mans
eye
would
bee
offended
,
with
so
little
a
contempt
of
his
Servants
is
And
say
all
manner
of
evill
of
you
,
all
evill
thy
tongue
deviseth
mischiefe
,
Psal.
that
which
Nature
ordained
to
utter
the
reasonable
devices
of
an
advised
heart
,
that
tongue
fore-runnes
the
heart
,
and
it selfe
deviseth
unreasonable
imputations
.
Paul
(
Heb.
not
alone
falsely
,
but
also
for
if
wee
bee
falsely
ill
spoken
of
,
though
not
for
mee
shall
receive
the
reward
of
patience
,
but
we
shall
not
partake
of
that
high
blesfulnesse
,
which
we
should
partake
of
,
if
both
did
concurre
.
If
you
bee
reproched
in
Christs
name
why
dost
that
persecute
me
?
Psal.
The
reproches
of
them
,
that
reproch
thee
are
falne
upon
me
,
it
is
a
blessed
despite
to
displease
with
It
is
a
blessing
to
be
cursed
for
is
in
the
cause
,
reproch
is
desirable
,
art
thou
dishonoured
for
the
name
of
Happy
art
thou
,
for
this
thy
shame
shall
be
turned
into
an
Angels
glory
.
Rejoyce
and
bee
exceeding
glad
.
Rejoyce
,
Bee
exceeding
glad
Count
it
all
joy
when
yee
fall
into
many
temptations
,
Iam.
they
were
scourged
,
bound
,
imprison'd
,
ston'd
,
sawne
a
sunder
,
tempted
,
slaine
,
these
are
the
braveries
of
Saints
,
Thus
the
Primitive
Christians
were
affected
.
blessed
is
he
that
is
held
worthy
of
sufferings
for
more
blessed
he
that
abounds
in
such
sufferings
.
by
our
reioycing
in
Christ
Iesus
I
die
dayly
.
not
onely
rejoyced
,
being
reproched
and
persecuted
for
but
also
wished
that
he
might
suffer
more
,
well
knowing
that
thereby
he
should
reape
more
fruit
.
I
take
pleasure
in
infirmities
,
in
reproch
,
in
necessities
,
in
persecutions
,
in
distresses
for
As
the
sufferings
of
abound
in
us
,
so
our
consolation
abounds
by
Aegidius
Minorita
what
〈◊〉
the
cause
that
we
take
afflictions
heavily
,
and
answeres
,
we
doe
not
heartily
covet
spirituall
consolations
.
it
is
the
exercise
of
perfect
faith
to
give
way
to
gainfull
penalties
.
who
●●●●n
say
all
manner
of
evill
of
you
falsely
for
my
sake
,
rejoyce
and
be
exceeding
glad
,
for
great
is
your
reward
in
heaven
,
if
yee
be
right
in
Faith
,
seeke
not
the
praises
of
men
upon
earth
,
when
ye
shall
have
the
applause
of
Angels
in
heaven
.
great
is
your
reward
in
heaven
,
If
wee
suffer
wee
shall
reigne
.
ad
asue●
f●●●
Follow
Christ
and
conquer
for
thou
followest
victorious
,
King
,
who
will
have
thee
partaker
of
his
victorie
,
and
if
tha●
〈◊〉
killed
thou
shalt
more
then
conque●●
.
(
aureolam
7.
12.
He
that
with
his
will
detracts
from
thy
reputation
,
shall
against
his
will
adde
to
thy
retribution
.
Wee
are
made
a
spectacle
to
the
world
,
to
Angels
,
and
to
men
.
Minutius
Faelix
How
goodly
a
spectacle
for
God
is
a
Christian
encountring
with
paine
!
2.
7.
stands
as
Priest
offering
to
the
Father
the
sacrifice
of
a
prime
Martyr
,
stands
as
supervisor
,
and
ready
to
render
the
prize
to
the
valiant
Champion
.
chose
afflictions
with
the
people
of
God
,
rather
then
the
pleasures
of
sinne
,
and
esteemed
the
reproch
of
greater
riches
,
th●●
the
treasures
of
Aegypt
,
because
he
had
respect
to
the
recompence
of
reward
.
Behold
we
count
them
blessed
,
that
have
suffered
,
For
so
persecuted
they
the
Prophets
that
were
before
you
,
SO
Persecuted
they
the
Prophets
from
he
must
refuse
to
be
an
that
is
not
exercised
with
the
malignitie
of
a
Let
not
us
then
for
shame
be
the
sole
impatients
that
cannot
suffer
.
all
the
Saints
were
trained
through
miserie
,
onely
was
the
worlds
darling
,
and
perhaps
therefore
fell
so
greevously
.
Take
my
Brethren
the
Prophets
that
have
spoken
in
the
name
of
our
for
an
example
of
suffering
affliction
Art
thou
bee
that
troublest
Israel
?
it
is
neyther
shame
for
us
to
suffer
of
our
Brethren
,
what
hath
suffered
,
nor
credit
for
them
to
doe
,
what
hath
done
.
Matth.
It
is
enough
for
the
Disciple
to
bee
as
his
Master
,
and
the
Servant
as
his
Lord
,
if
they
have
called
the
Master
of
the
house
how
much
more
shall
they
call
them
of
the
houshold
,
feare
them
not
therefore
.
de
Kempis
If
thou
mightest
bee
at
thy
choyce
,
thou
oughtst
to
wish
rather
to
indure
adversitie
,
for
Christ
then
to
bee
recreated
with
many
delights
;
because
so
thou
shouldst
be
more
agreable
vnto
Christ
and
conformable
to
all
Saints
.
Theodore
Studita
Fathers
and
Brethren
,
GOD
hath
collated
on
us
a
high
priviledge
,
Persecution
for
him
as
hee
sayes
;
Blessed
are
yee
,
when
men
revile
and
persecute
you
for
my
sake
.
That
it
was
better
for
him
to
dye
for
then
to
have
the
Empire
of
all
the
ends
of
the
earth
.
In
the
tenth
most
grievous
Persecution
,
Martyrdome
was
more
strongly
sought
by
glorious
passion
,
then
the
Popedome
afterward
by
base
ambition
.
That
if
a
man
love
Christ
hee
would
wish
to
bee
bound
for
Christ
,
rather
then
to
inhabite
Heaven
,
may
be
also
then
to
sit
at
Christs
right
hand
.
Every
action
of
Christ
is
the
glory
of
the
Catholike
Church
,
but
the
glory
of
glories
is
the
Crosse
Pretious
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
are
the
tribulations
▪
which
are
for
him
and
his
sake
,
and
above
all
prayer
,
and
sacrifice
and
odour
,
and
the
sweat
of
them
is
above
all
perfumes
.
It
is
impossible
for
any
s●t
in
this
earth
not
to
bee
hated
,
was
hated
,
yea
GOD
himselfe
is
hated
of
the
wicked
,
and
his
good
Spirit
,
and
wouldest
not
thou
behated
,
but
loved
.
The
Apostles
rejoyced
,
that
they
were
counted
worthy
to
suffer
reproach
for
Christs
name
,
let
vs
also
rejoyce
if
we
be
worthy
of
so
great
glory
with
God
,
that
his
glory
should
be
set
forth
in
our
shame
.
If
the
world
hated
him
by
whom
it
was
made
,
shall
wee
vile
men
,
and
in
respect
of
our
sinnes
worthy
to
bee
hated
and
reviled
,
take
it
so
ill
,
that
lest
they
should
say
ill
,
wee
should
begin
to
doe
ill
,
rather
let
us
take
it
gladly
,
and
if
wee
be
not
so
happie
as
for
vertue
and
veritie
to
suffer
stripes
,
bonds
,
imprisonments
,
swords
,
thinke
it
goes
well
with
us
,
if
wee
suffer
the
detractions
and
hatred
of
the
ungodly
.
Wheresoever
the
holy
Spirit
is
there
followes
as
a
shadow
Persecution
and
opposition
,
as
we
see
in
the
Prophets
,
our
Lord
and
his
Apostles
,
for
since
Christs
Crosse
that
the
Spirit
forsooke
the
Iewes
,
and
passed
to
Christians
,
no
Iew
hath
beene
persecuted
,
but
onely
Christians
have
been
made
Martyrs
.
The
world
cannot
hate
you
Because
I
have
chosen
you
out
of
the
world
,
therefore
the
world
hates
you
,
Ioh.
Religiously
thankes
God
that
hee
was
worthy
of
the
worlds
hate
.
Paulinus
,
The
Lord
bee
thanked
,
who
hath
given
me
also
a
miserable
sinner
to
say
,
they
hated
me
without
a
cause
.
Yee
dread
the
Tyrants
and
Executioners
hands
,
are
the
Physitians
and
Chirurgians
hands
any
gentler
?
Heretofore
sweet
Iesu
,
I
conjectured
my selfe
to
be
one
of
thine
,
but
now
that
thou
hast
given
mee
part
in
thy
torments
,
I
know
assuredly
that
I
am
accepted
,
and
gracious
with
thee
.
1.
A
Chr●stian
Christians
should
,
without
fayle
,
compasse
more
grace
and
glory
by
persecution
,
then
by
supportation
,
if
they
knew
how
to
improve
it
in
due
sort
,
as
the
enemies
of
holy
Martyrs
advantaged
them
more
to
eternall
felicitie
then
their
friends
.
As
oft
as
thou
remembrest
them
,
that
have
afflicted
thee
,
intercede
for
them
all
in
truth
and
with
all
thy
heart
,
as
for
them
,
by
whom
great
advantages
have
beene
procured
to
thee
.
Pardon
them
that
afflict
mee
,
for
by
their
meanes
,
I
beleeve
that
I
shall
be
glorified
in
thy
sight
,
most
gracious
Father
.
77.
I
blesse
thee
I
blesse
thee
O
Lord
,
for
thy
fatherly
love
,
wherby
thou
turnest
into
my
safety
all
that
I
suffer
.
I
beseech
thee
also
most
sweet
Father
,
for
all
those
that
have
at
any
time
inflicted
any
adversity
vpon
mee
,
that
thou
wouldst
not
only
pardon
,
but
never
impute
it
to
them
,
nay
because
they
were
the
ministers
of
thy
eternall
dispensation
&
providence
,
collate
on
them
the
reward
of
thy
eternall
blessednesse
.
If
the
damage
therby
growing
to
them
,
did
not
cause
in
us
heavines
&
continual
sorrow
,
I
should
almost
have
said
that
we
acknowledge
thanks
to
them
for
their
blasphemies
as
procurers
of
our
blisse
.
Gregory
Nazianzen
wils
his
to
fly
from
Persecutors
,
for
that
being
Christians
,
they
ought
not
onely
to
looke
after
their
owne
things
(
no
not
in
case
they
bee
most
strong
and
constant
)
but
also
to
spare
those
that
persecute
them
.
So
that
for
their
part
they
inferre
nothing
to
their
perill
.
Let
us
not
hate
but
rather
love
them
and
take
pitie
of
them
,
they
have
a
devill
and
are
beside
themselves
.
Blessed
are
they
that
be
reviled
for
righteousnesse
Blessed
are
yee
when
men
revile
and
persecute
you
for
my
sake
,
So
persecuted
they
the
Prophets
The
time
shall
come
,
that
whosoever
kils
you
,
will
thinke
hee
doth
God
good
service
In
vita
S.
Chrys
c.
Hee
specified
them
that
under
pretext
of
the
Church
make
havocke
of
Gods
people
,
for
hiding
their
envies
and
ill
doings
,
they
counterfeit
in
words
to
take
care
for
the
Church
,
which
in
deeds
they
lay
waste
.
I
hate
no
insolencie
more
then
that
,
which
practises
out
of
a
conceit
of
its
owne
lawfulnesse
.
Of
all
obstinate
impietie
,
this
is
the
most
injurious
,
to
carry
Christs
colours
and
wage
warre
against
Christ
.
The
noble
personage
was
carried
about
the
amphitheater
a
Title
going
before
him
,
in
which
was
written
,
Attalus
Christianus
.
That
this
is
most
grievous
,
when
neither
the
afflicted
undergoe
passions
in
full
assurance
of
martyrdome
,
nor
the
people
repute
&
reverence
them
in
the
ranke
of
Martyrs
,
because
the
name
of
Christians
is
vested
upon
the
persecutors
.
There
is
one
crime
now
vehemently
pursued
,
the
accurate
observation
of
the
traditions
of
our
Ancestors
.
He
persecutes
that
compels
to
evill
,
but
he
that
either
punishes
evill
done
,
or
prohibits
it
to
be
done
,
hee
doth
not
persecute
but
love
.
Scripture
,
Scripture
If
thou
wilt
be
happie
,
cast
thy
count
Inprimis
to
despise
and
bee
despised
.
To
contend
for
the
Faith
once
delivered
to
the
Saints
That
some
great
Prelates
in
his
dayes
though
they
assented
not
to
their
tenets
,
connived
at
the
Petrobusians
Woe
unto
you
,
when
all
men
shall
speake
well
of
you
,
for
so
did
their
Fathers
of
the
false
Prophets
.
Heretickes
,
Schismatickes
Hee
murthers
a
Hereticke
,
that
tolerates
him
to
bee
a
Hereticke
.
compell
men
to
enter
Gods
house
Luk.
Obstinacie
must
be
inforced
,
not
intreated
.
A
man
that
doth
not
evill
but
suffers
it
to
be
done
,
God
will
judge
and
say
;
I
will
not
punish
thee
,
but
the
infernall
Devils
will
plague
thee
,
them
will
not
I
hinder
.
Royall
King
will
dance
before
the
Arke
blusht
not
to
bee
sleighted
in
the
opinion
of
Females
,
nor
shamed
hee
to
under
goe
reproaches
among
Women
for
the
matter
of
Religion
.
I
wonder
more
at
dancing
,
then
fighting
Theodosius
,
H●norius
,
Martian
Disciplinarian
faction
What
can
bee
more
pleasant
to
Christians
then
to
suffer
for
Although
wee
should
not
have
such
recompences
as
are
hoped
,
what
excellency
of
glory
doth
it
not
exceed
to
suffer
for
him
that
made
us
?
Iohn
,
Wishes
to
be
disgraced
and
contemned
for
God
,
rather
then
to
be
honored
of
all
Kings
:
for
there
is
nothing
,
nothing
at
all
parallel
to
that
glory
.
If
yee
be
reproached
for
Christs
sake
,
happie
are
yee
,
the
Spirt
of
glory
rests
upon
you
.
Dionysius
Carthusianus
And
our
Lord
said
to
St.
Tentations
make
a
man
famous
and
glorious
even
in
this
world
,
so
that
others
rest
upon
him
,
as
a
sure
stud
.
Him
that
overcommeth
will
I
make
a
pillar
in
the
temple
of
my
God
.
Opposition
illustrates
a
Christian
,
As
sweet
Oyles
yeeld
not
abroad
their
sent
,
unlesse
they
be
stirred
,
and
sweet
Spices
dilate
not
their
fragrant
savour
,
except
they
be
burned
;
so
whatsoever
is
odoriferous
in
holy
men
by
vertues
,
they
diffuse
in
their
tribulations
;
which
is
the
Simile
of
S.
Theodore
Edissen
Give
blood
,
and
take
Spirit
Except
a
corne
of
Wheat
fall
into
the
ground
and
dye
,
it
abides
alone
,
but
if
it
dye
it
brings
forth
much
fruit
.
The
saving
of
Seed
is
in
the
sowing
,
The
righteous
sow
in
teares
(
Sementivam
vim
Sow
many
in
me
,
that
I
may
reape
manifold
,
—
How
much
am
I
damnified
,
that
I
cannot
many
times
dye
for
Christ
?
Hee
that
loseth
his
life
for
my
sake
shall
find
it
.
If
you
have
forgone
any
joyes
of
this
life
,
it
is
traffique
to
part
with
any
thing
to
gaine
much
thereby
.