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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20438	Euerard Digbie his dissuasiue From taking away the lyuings and goods of the Church. Wherein all men may plainely behold the great blessings which the Lord hath powred on all those who liberally haue bestowed on his holy temple: and the strange punishments that haue befallen them vvhich haue done the contrarie. Hereunto is annexed Celsus of Verona, his dissuasiue translated into English.	Digby, Everard, Sir, 1578-1606.; Maffei, Celso, ca. 1425-1508. Dissuasoria. English.	1590 (1590)	STC 6842; ESTC S105340	139,529	251

enimies made an open scoffe of it and they poured liquid golde into his mouth as a man concerning religion of all others most vnworthie signifying thereby that hee whose minde was inflamed with the feruent desire of gold should haue his dead bodie euen burnt and scorched therewith being poured red hot into him These be the rewaids these be the presents these bee the gaines and fruits of them which presume to take religious thinges vnto themselues or vnder any colour whatsoeuer to conuert them to other vses And as we reade that the Lord punished these men most grieuouslie for their contempt of religion so also we finde it plainelie written that to the deuout and religious God of his iustice hath giuen great benefites and prosperous successe in all things which they tooke in hand For it is written of Alexander the great a most inuincible king that concerning diuine worship and orders of the Church hee was alwaies most liberall For when he was yet but a young man and in the midst of his sacrifice he took both his haÌ„ds ful of frankensence and sweet odors for offerings Leonides said vnto him O Alexander wheÌ„ you shall once haue conquered those lands which beare those odours frankensence then you may sacrifice largely but now more wiselie sparingly Alexander answered O Leonides I pray thee when thou desirest prosperous successe deale not niggardlie with the gods Of whoÌ„ we reade in Iosephus as also in other auncient histories that he bestowed many excellent great gifts vpon that holie temple of Ierusalem and that with his owne hands he sacrificed vnto our God He so reuerenced Iadde the high priest of the temple that lying prostrate on the earth hee adored him he also commanded that the priests and ministers of the temple should boldly freely require what they would and among other magnificent giftes hee graunted them this one thing that it should be lawfull for that nation to liue by their owne lawes for euer and also that seauen yeares all the Countries of the Iewes should be free from all kinde of tribute Lastlie he decreed that what Iewe soeuer would goe to warre with him should be verie gently and honourably intreated He hauing done all this in so good order as a man strengthened by God with a good courage he passed forwarde with his armie towardes the Indians verie stronglie and with great expedition most victoriouslie he conquered Porrus that mightie and almost inuincible king of the Indians I caÌ„not but wonderfully coÌ„mend that worthie maÌ„ Themistocles who notwithstandig the rest of his noble excelleÌ„t vertues yet he excelled especiallie in giuing due reuerence vnto religion of whom it is recorded that publique affaires laid aside if he had anie leisure hee would bestowe that in beholding the beautifull furniture of the Church in viewing the gifts and offeringes which were in the holie houses Wherefore he was verie careful lest any man should pull down or deface any thing there or lest any thing should be wanting which he knew did appertaine to religion And if these men nowe mentioned were so deuout and superstitiously religious in seruing their false gods how much more ought we Christians so to doe which retaine the knowledge of the true and eternall God with what care with what diligence with what studie with what indeuour with what pietie and reuerence ought we to imbrace the true vnfained religion with which the true Creatour of heauen and earth is truelie worshipped which not onelie giueth vs these earthly and temporall goods and prosperous successe in our offaires without the helpe of anie other but also after this life giueth eternall blisse and happines vnto the soule if so be we haue liued here well which benefites the gods of the gentiles could not only not giue to them which worshipped them but they could neither profit nor hinder them in anie thing without the assistance of God If we read that anie time they haue either profited or disprofited men we must thinke that it came by the permission of God and that so much more righteous as it were more secrete Neither can there bee anie thing done iu the worlde without his commandement who is the fountaine the spring the roote and beginning of all things and who onely ruleth moueth and preserueth the world Wherefore if you desire to inioie the fauour of God the giuer of all good things you must indeuour your selues with great care studie and diligence that in anie wise the integritie of holie worship and religion bee more seriouslie regarded and kept That there be no impiety committed against the holie Temple and goods dedicated to God That there be no vnworthie fact coÌ„mitted on your parts against the priests ministers of God Into which kind of impietie if at anie time wee shall fall let vs assure our selues that God will bring vppon vs the same plagues and punishments which those false gods or rather the true God sent by them vnto those which despised them so much more grieuoulie and seuerelly as the offence and sin committed against the true and high God is greater and more hainous then that which is committed against false gods and deuils Wherefore now marke diligentlie O ye noble Venetians I beseech you mark and see most clearelie how prosperouslie all thinges succeeded with them which reuerenced God truely and the holie things dedicated to his worship what miserable ends they had which contemned or prophaned them Neither is it maruaile if your affaires scarce prosper if you sustain many discommodities dangers calamities and ouerthrowes for your exactions and pollings of the Church are not such that they doe deserue anie helpe from God they are not such that they can turne awaie his vengeance and displeasure which nowe hangeth ouer your heads out of doubt they are not such that they can promise you good successe or victorie in your warres Your opinion doth greatlie deceiue you if you thinke so If you bee so perswaded beleeue mee you kill your selfe with your owne sword Neither doe these exactions helpe you one whit but rather much like to the poison of Ietalie manâ—e detriments dangers losses ensue thereof To conclude those do not mittigate the wrath of God nowe kindled against you but rather they prouoke and call for it dailie Wee reade in Trogus Pompeius a most eloquent man and of great authoritie that one of the kings of Fraunce called Brennus when he had conquered the Macedonians by force of armes as though earthlie spoiles were of no account with him he turned his force to the spoilings of the temples of the gods In scoffing manner answering that the rich gods ought to bestow on mortall men And therefore when he made expedition towards Delphos minding there to spoile Apolloes temple where there was great store of gold siluer of a sodain there arose an Earthquake with which a great part of the mountaine rushed downe which destroied almost the whole armie

theÌ„ know that they must die like men that theyr bodies are made of a lothsome matter that they are but wormes meate dun ashes earth earth earth most vile and corruptible earth as all other men be though their descent bee princely ofte times from the house of many mighty Kings and Emperours though the knee of flesh and bloud doe bowe and kneele at their presence though their honour bee great in the eyes of the people their scepter mightie their crown gorgious yet one clod of earth must couer their heades in the graue and all their glorie shall be shut vp in a fewe lines according to the saying of saint Augustine in his booke De vera innocentia Qui splendes in mundo c. Thou which shinest in the world aboue the rest thou accountest of thy nobilitie of thine auncestors thou reioycest in thy large dominions in thy parentage in the great honour and homage which all men doe vnto thee knowe thy selfe that thou art earth and thou shalt bee consumed into earth againe looke vppe but a little and beholde those which were placed in the same throne of maiestie before thy time What is become of those excellent Oratours those mightie princes those puissant conquerous those renowmed Emperours Looke vnto the graue whether thou art passing beholde and see are they not all nowe rotten dust are they not like a sparke of fire which is vanished is not all there glorie and fame contained in a fewe lines written of them by some poore contemned scholler shall not the greatest Prince in this world rise vp naked at the daie of iudgement all amazed trembling and quaking Naie not his bodie onelie but his heart and his minde his soule and his conscience shalbe laied open before the Lord his Angels his saints and all his elect If hee haue plaied the tyraunte beating his fellowe feruantes ruling for his owne gaine and not for the benefitte of his Church shall not the remembraunce of his honour bee a stinging serpent to him in his conscience and his Princely dominion a most deadly corasiue to his heart Therefore be wise ye kings and princes of the worlde and yee which iudge the earth hearken to the wordes of vnderstanding Knowe yee that the wisedome of this world is not as is the wisedome of God Many men in their wisedome forecast by all meanes possible to come into possession of riches honour authoritie power and maiestie which when they haue attained let them but looke back a little and consider with what wicked sinnefull greeuous paines they were gotten with what feare and daunger they are possessed with what greefe they are loste let them enter into theyr owne heartes and beholde what a hell of corruptions and what an armie of tempting serpentes accompanie the minde that is set vppon riches let them marke howe manie wise men of this world haue come vp of nothing to great aboundaunce of wealthie authoritie and yet after they haue well practised and wiselie waied manie yeeres which waie they might come to enioye the height of their desire which is to rule whilest they liue heere on earth and to leaue the like to their posteritie it hath pleased the Lorde in one hower to cutte of the sequell and issue of all theyr hope Either theâ—â—elues togeather with their posteritie are cutte off or else the Lorde dooth take awaye that theyr ioye before theyr face or after all sendeth a worse mischeefe to theyr soule then anie penne can write anie tongue can tell or anie heart can vnderstand Which though we cannot sound to the bottome yet let vs learne by the shadowe to gesse the pourtraiture of the body by the effect to search the cause by the conclusion to knowe the trueth of that axiome Who so euer maketh his God of any thing here on earth it shall neuer prosper with him And who so maketh his quiet heauen here He shall neuer possesse the eternall heauen in the world to come Who so presumeth of his owne wisedome before the iustice of God or on his might that he may treade downe the poore hee shall not bee able to stand vpright in the daie of his daunger and to his vtter confusion he shall heare that voice at length Non est sapientia non est prudentia non est consilium aduersus dominum there is no wisedome there is no pollicy there is no counsell against the Lord. If wee will not hearken to the poore contemned ministers of Iesu Christ which forewarne vs dailie of that great daunger of our soule which wee rashlie aduenture by more esteeming of man then of God of the seruice of man then of the seruice of God of the commaundement of man then of the commaundement of God of the house of man then of the Church of God of the seruaunt of man then of the minister of God the stones in the wall shall crie out aloud and our owne conscience shall tell vs plainly that in loouing the honour the maintenaunce the issue of our bodie wee haue vtterly lost the saluation of our owne soules O that our eyes were so cleane washed with the water of life that wee might but once stedfastly behold the bright beautie of the radiant sonne of God no doubt we would leaue this great politike wisedome of this world wherin euery one striueth to frame his children and learn the true wisedome which is follie in the eyes of flesh wee would humble our selues before the Lorde and kisse the sonne least he be angry We would not count of that sweetnes which is tasted with toong nor of the fading beautie which shineth in the face of sinneful flesh we would cast our worldly honour in the dust and put our scepter vnder the foote-stoole of Iesu Christ We would not so much seeke the honour of earthly kingdoms nor triumph so often in the flesh but we would first aboue all other thinges reade the will of our God and meditare in the same both daye night wee would seeke to differ from the heathen in extolling our scepters after the manner of flesh bloud we would leaue the delight careful seeking of the worlde which is the first entraunce vnto Christ. We would knock at the doore of his mercie by a true faith and enter further by perfect obedience We would drawe neere to the father and kisse the sonne most louingly because he loued vs first so entirely that when wee were his enemies and beeing a most vile and sinnefull creature he left thousands of bright shining holie angels his daily ministers the spheares of heauen the stars of the firmament with all the rest of his beautiful creatures comming down in great humilitie was made man He beeing the high God of heauen earth for our sake was made man he suffered hunger and thirst reprochies and reuilings agonies and paines he sighed in his heart hee groned in the spirite and that which is able

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