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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22823	Godly meditations made in the forme of prayers by S. Augustine; De meditatione. English.	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.	1570 (1570)	STC 933; ESTC S119229	32,187	250

drincke of wherwith we are washed and sanctified and are made partakers of the only high diuinitie I geue thee thankes for thy marueilous and vnspeakable charitie and loue wherwith thou didst loue vs vnworthy persons didst saue vs by thine onely and beloued Sonne for so thou did●● loue the world that thou gauest thine onely begotten sonne to the entent that none which beleeued in him should perish but haue euerlasting life This thing truly is euerlasting life to know thee also Jesus Christ whome thou sentest to be very God by an vpright fayth and workes worthy for fayth Of the exceeding loue of the euerlasting Father towarde mankinde OH vnmeasurable pitie and fatherly loue oh inestimable charitie that thou shouldest delyuer thy sonne to suffer death to the entent thou mightest redeme and ransome a seruaunte God was made man to the entent that man being lost might be plucked out of that power of deuils How gentle and kinde a louer of man was thy sonne our God who thought it not enough to humble himself to bee made man of the virgiue Mary but also toke vpō him the paines of the crosse in shedding his bloud for vs and for our saluation He came a pitifull God he came for his pitie and goodnesses sake he came to search to saue that whiche was lost He sought the straye sheep he sought found and he being a good lord and truely a very good and plentifull shepheard brought him home vpon his shoulders vnto the foldes of the flocke Oh charitie oh pitie who heard any such thinges who is not astonied to consider the bowels of so great mercy who would not marued who would not honour and worship thee for thy great charity wherewith thou louedst vs Thou didst send thy sonne into the similitude of flesh subiect to sinne that we might condemne sinne for sinne that wee might be made thy righteousnes in him For hee was the very lamb without sporte which tooke awaye the sinnes of the worlde whiche destroyed our death by dying himselfe But what may we render vnto thee our God for so great benefites of thy mercie what prayses or what thankes Uerely if wee shoulde haue that same knowledge and power that blessed angels haue yet should we not be able to requi●● thy so great pitie and goodnes with any thing of valure No if all our mēbers were turned into tongues to repay vnto thee due prayses yet were not our flēdernes sufficient There is one thing that exceedeth all knowledge euen thine inestimable charitie which thou diddest shew vnto vs vnworthy persons for thy goodnes pities sake Thy Sonne our God did take vpon him to be the seede of Abraham not of Angels yea he was made like vnto vs in all thinges sinne onely excepted He therefore taking mans nature not Angels and glorifying it with the stole of holy resurrection and immortalitie caryed it aboue the heauens and aboue all the melodious companies of angels aboue Cherubin and Seraphin placing it vppon thy right hand This humane nature do Angels prayse all the powers of heauen do tremble to see a man to bee God ouer them This truely is all my hope all my trust And this same humaine nature is in Jesu Christ our Lord who is the portion of euery one of vs the flesh bloud Therfore wheras my portion raigneth there do I beleue to raigne whereas my flesh is glorified ther do I beleue to be glorified where my bloud ruleth there do I perceiue me to bear rule although I be a sinner ye● do● I not inistrust nor dispeire of the communion and partaking of fauour Although my sinnes do hinder me and in a manner forbid me neuertheles my substance requireth it And albeit that mine offences do exclude me yet the communion of our nature doth not expell me for God is not so vngentle as to forget man and not to remember that thing which himself beareth and that which for my sake he toke vpon him and that which for my sake he requireth But truly the Lord our God is lowly and meek and wonderfull gentle and loueth his flesh his members and his bowels In the very same God our Lorde Jesus Christ who is most gentle louing and merciful in whome we are risen from death that is to say from the state of pernition and eternall damnation and euen nowe by him we asccude into the heauens and now sit in the heauens in him I say our flesh loueth vs For we haue in him and by him a prerogatiue as it were a prefermence of our bloud for we are his members and his flesh and he is our head of the which dependeth the whole body as it is written a bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh they shall be two in one flesh and no man at any time hateth his owne fleshe but rather cherisheth and loueth it This is a great mistery I speak in Christ and in the church sayth the Apostle ¶ Of the double nature of Christ which hath mercy vpon vs ▪ and maketh intercession for vs. WHerefore with my lips and hart and with al the might that I may I render thankes vnto thine infinite mercy O Lord our God for all thy mercy wherwith marueilously thou hast vouchsafed to helpe and succour vs that were lost by the same thy sonne our sauiour and recouerer which dyed for our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification and liuing without ende sitteth on thy right hande and entreateth for vs together with the taketh pitie mercy vpon vs because he is God thorow thee O father euer lasting and of one substance with thee in all thinges wherby alway he may saue vs but forasmuch as he is man in which thing he is lesse inferiour vnto thee all power both in heauen in earth was geuen vnto him that in the name of Jesu euery knee should bowe both of celestiall and earthlye creatures and also of infernall that all tongues may confesse that oure Lorde Jesus Christ is in thy glory O Father almighty Hee verely was constituted of thee and ordayned to be a iudge of the quicke and dead for thou truely iudgest no man but hast geuen all thy iudgement to thy Sonne in whose brest al treasures of wisdome and knowledge ar hid He truely is both a witnes and a Judge a Judge and a witnesse whome no sinneful conscience can flye or auoyd for all things be they neuer so secret are open euen naked and vncouered vnto him He verily which was vnrighteously iudged himselfe shall iudge the whole worlde in equitie and the people in righteousnes and according to iustice Therfore do I blesse thy name euerlasting and glorifie the same with al my hart O almighty and mercifull Lord for that vnspeakable and maruellous coniunction of Godhead manhood together in the vnitie of a person and not after this sort that y one should be God and the other man but one the same was

life the clean life the chast life the holy life the life that knowest no death knowest no sadnes or pensiuenes a life without spot without do lour without vexation without corruptiō without trouble without variety or mutabilitie a life most full of pleasure and dignitie wheras is none aduersarie to striue against a man no inticements of sinnes wheras is perfect loue without all maner of feare wheras is day continually one spirite of all men wheras God is sene face to face and the minde is fed with this meat of life without ende I haue a very good minde and desire to marke and geue heed to thy clearnesse with thy goods the desire and appetite of my hart is delighted Loke how much I am able to consider with my selfe in musing and thinking of thy commodities euen so much am I rauished rapte with thy loue with the ardent desire of thee the sweet and comfortable remembrance of thee am I wōderfully delited I haue a pleasure therefore surely to lift vp the eyes of my harte vnto thee to erecte the state of my mind and conforme or fashion the affects of my minde vnto thee It pleaseth me to talke of thee to heare of thee to write of thee to conferre and meditate of thee to read euery day of thy blessednes and glory and to muse oftentimes in my minde of that things I haue read concerning thee that at the least by such meanes I being vnder the sweet refresshing comforting of thy liuely ayre may passe from the vexatiōs ieoperdies laboures and trauels of this mortall life that wil soone perish and that in passing I may lay my wery head in thy bosome to sleepe or to rest a litle For this cause do I enter into the pleasant medow of the holy scriptures and in plowing I pluck the goodliest greene herbes of sentences and in reading I do eate them and in frequenting I do meditate and as it were cut them in gathering them together at the last I last them vp in my memory that by such meanes whē I haue tasted of thy sweetnes I may somewhat lesse feel the bitternes of this most wretched life O thou most happy life oh kingdome which art blessed in deed which lackest deth which art without end no time doth successiuely passe at any time to thee wheras continuall day without night knoweth no time whereas that capitaine conqueror is accompanied with those quires of Angels singing of himnes songes they sing vnto God without ceasing the ballet of ballets of Sion Oh most noble head which art cōpassed about with a perpetuall crowne oh that pardon and forgeuenes of my sinnes were graunted vnto me then immediatly this burden of my fleshe layde away that I might enter into thy ioy to haue true rest that I might get with in the goodly and beutifull walles of thy citie to receiue a crown of life at the hand of our lord that I might bee amongest those most holy quires that I mighte stand with the most blessed spirites of the creator of glory that I might see presently the coūtenance of Christ that I might beholde alwayes that most hie vnspeakable light incomprehensible which can not be cōtayned as in a place And so I should not only be out of al feare of death but also I might reioyce alwayes at the gift of the euerlasting incorruption Amen ¶ Here do we complaine that wee be not moued nor pricked in our contēplation prayer like as the Angels be which tremble at the sight of God. PArdon me O Lorde pardon me mercifully forgeue me and haue mercy vppon me spare mine ignoraunce and my great vnperfectnes do not reproue me as a rash fellow because I dare be be so bolde which am but thy seruaunt but would to God I were eyther a good seruant or none vn profitable nor euill seruant And therfore am I an euill man because I prayse blesse worship thee which art our God almighty terrible very much to be feared I worship thee I say with out contritiō of hart and without a well of teares For if so be that the Angels when they worship and prayse thee do tremble being fulfilled with merueilous gladnes I which am a sinner whilest I stande before thee saying prayses offring sacrifice why am I not afrayd in my hart why am I not pale in my coūtenance why do not my lips quake and tremble why is not all my body afrayd why do I not mourne and bewayle before thee after such a sort that teares might spring out of mine eies I wold faine but I am not able because I can not do that whiche I desire to doo This maketh me truely wonderfully to marueill that I am no more moued when I see with the eyes of my fayth thee which art so fearful But who can do any thing without the help of thy grace except thou make our stony hartes to relent wee of our selues are not able to mollifie them but all our health dependeth vpon thy great mercy O wretch that I am how is my soule made without any feeling or perseuerance that it is not afraid with ouermuche feare whilest it standeth before God and singeth to him his owne prayses Alas how is my hart so hardened that mine eyes do not gush out gret flouds of teares without ceasing when I which am but a seruaunt or bondman do common and talke in my Lorde and maisters presence Yea a man with God a creature with a creator I that am made of the shine of the earth do speake with him that made all thinges of nothing Put me before thee O Lord whatsoeuer I perceiue of my selfe in the secrets of my hart I do not keep it close from thy brotherly ears Thou art rich in mercy liberal in rewards geue me of thy goods that with them I may serue thee For with nothing els can we serue or please thee but with thine owne giftes which thou hast vouchsafed to bestow vpon vs Fasten I beseech thee thy feare in my flesh let my harte reioyce be glad to feare thy name Woulde God my sinfull soule feared thee so much as that holy man which sayd I alwayes feared God as though it wer great swelling floudes should come and tumble vpon me O God the geuer of all good things geue me amongst thy praises a wel of teres with the purenes of hart and reioyeing of minde that I louing thee perfitly and worthely praising thee may feele taste and sauour in the pallace of my hart how sweet and pleasant thou art O lord as it is written Do ye tast and see how sweet delectable the Lorde is Blessed is the man that putteth his trust in him Blessed is that people which knoweth glad and ioyful praysing Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose harte are thy wayes which going through the vale of misery vse it for a well Blessed are the