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A09620	Phisicke for the soule verye necessarie to be vsed in the agonie of death, and in those extreme and moste perillous seasons, aswell for those, which are in good health, as those, which are endewed with bodily sicknesse. Translated out of Latine into Englishe, by H. Thorne.	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407. De patientia et de consumatione huius sæculi, de secundo advento. aut; Thorne, Henry, fl. 1567-1584.	1567 (1567)	STC 19893A.7; ESTC S106667	56,136	144

assension into heauen with his lyfe with his merites and with his glorie Wherfore sathan hath no power ouer thee at all he can not hurte thée Rom. 8. séeing that thou art iustified through Christ séeing that thou art deliuered from all thy sinnes séeing that thou art become the child of GOD. God is thy father earnestly louing thée for Chiist his sake which hath reconciled and made a tonement for thée Wherefore be thou of good courage and reioyce thou in the lorde For séeing that thou art in the hands of almightie God thy good and most faithfull father thou art in safetie and out of al daunger For thou art enclosed and compassed about with the custodie of God and garde of angelles Christ is altogither become thine he couereth and taketh awaye all thy sinnes Ioan. 10. by his innocencie and righteousnesse No man can by violence pluck thée out of the handes of thy heauenly father Thou hast now the victorie when thou hast suffered and passed ouer this corporall crosse affliction the which being truely compared with eternall lyfe shal appere very easie 2. Cor. 4. Heb. 6. Ephe. 1. momentanie but of a short time Christ was in the like agony yea in a farre more bitter more horrible He is gon before thée he is thine head to whom thou must néedes become lyke and die vnto sinne and must lay aside this lyfe spotted and embrued with wickednesse that thou mayest after lyue the true life for euer with thy mayster Christ Let not thy sinnes trouble thée There is no cause why thy cōscience should be tormēted séeing that thy sinnes are now done away and abolished Thou hast ouercome and hast cast vnder foote that malignant spirite which goeth about to worke the destruction of our soules God now hath compassion on thée he careth for thée he doth defende and kéepe thée all the felowship of saintes and aungels doe regarde thée And euen as Christ can not be damned so lykewise thou canst not be damned if so be that thou beleue on him with the full confidence of thine whole hart If sinne death and hell can nothing hurt thy lorde and mayster Christ neyther can they hurt thée for thou art mistically graffed into Christ by fayth and Christ is effectuall in thée therefore thou canst neuer be damned If so be that thou thy selfe shouldst beare thy sinnes and make a tonement for them thou wouldst by no meanes be able to susteine and beare so great and heauie a burthen they woulde bee farre to weightie for thée they woulde deuour thée as one drowned into the bottome of hell But Christ being perfite God and perfite man did offer himself vp of his owne accord for thée he did put himself in thy roume discharging paying all things for thee as it is written in the Psalme Psal 69. I payde them the things I neuer tooke Truely thou diddest commit sinne against thy selfe but Christ purged them and made satisfaction for thée and planted thée in libertie if so be that thou beléeue this Gospell Although al the sinnes of the whole world were layde vpon thée onely yet God hath grace and mercie sufficient for them more then sufficient God hath promised thée his grace and blessing in Christ and the same is ratified certeine full absolute and perfite in Christ thy lorde and mayster Thou must néedes be saued if so be that thou fastē thine eyes vpon Christ Hypostasis For Christ is the naturall sonne of God in diuine substance veritie it selfe and touching his humanitie he is our fleshe and blood Who will be more sure and certeine then this Christ to giue and perfourme the promise of grace which is himselfe the veritie of his promise and loueth vs vnfaynedly in somuch that he had léefer dye then to disappoint vs in any parte of his promise Wherefore if thou beleue in Christ thou art now made partaker of his heauenly blessing thou art now eased of the burthen of thy sinnes nowe thou art the eire of God and the fellowe eire with Christ for euer Math. 24. For heauen and earth shall passe but the worde of the lorde endureth for euer Therefore beléeue and strengthen thy minde with good hope and doubt not but GOD is chéefest and almightie yea euen for thée hee became man for thy saluation he was also borne for thy sake hée dyed on the crosse he rose from the deade for thy sake and ascended into heauen he offered vp and performed all things which were promised vnto vs. For all the promises of God 2. Cor. 1. by Christ are yea and are by him Amen Wherfore desire of God to haue his mercy and then looke for none other thing at his hand but méere grace and mercy and the same for Christ and through Christ For without him truely there is no consolatiō no health no hope no helpe or succour In this only Christ is all comfort all ayde and staye and to be bréefe all the meanes of our saluation In him is all grace and mercie much more infinite and greater more highe plentifull and abundant then anye man can either comprehend or wyshe for God vouchsafe to graunt vs a sure and constant fayth After this maner thou shalt comfort the sick body either with longer or shorter communication as the matter shall require And I admonish thée déere brother in the lorde that thou withdrawe thy minde with as great endeuor and studie as thou mayest from the horrible contemplation of sinne and death and bend all thy thoughts vpon Christ onely fasten the eyes of thy minde vpon him cleane vnto him with all thine hart and as it were drinke him into thée call vpon him with full trust of minde and commit thy selfe wholy vnto him For thou shalt finde none other thing in this Christ than excellent innocencie righteousnesse lyfe and saluation all the which being deryued from Christ into thée are now become thine if so be that thou wilt acknowledge him to be thy redéemer and authour of thy saluation Wherefore I warne thée doe oftentimes beate it into thée by repetition and that for good cause that thou renue not or call to minde the remembraunce of thy sinnes nor torment thy self by waying the multitude and greatnesse of them Whē thy sinnes are banished farre off from thée set Christ crucified onely before thine eies fasten him in thine hart let thy whole minde senses be surely set on him cleane fast vnto him with all thine heart neuer to be pulled away By this meanes thou shalt withstande and preuaile against the gates of hell be they neuer so cruell be they neuer so horrible and terrible Call to minde with how great humanitie and clemencie with what gentlenesse benignitie Christ in the Euangelicall historie Math. 9. hath receyued and vsed all sinners which truely repenting haue asked forgiuenesse and besought his ayde and mercy And thou shalt finde Marie of Magdalene Luc. 8. Luc.

grace through Christ that he would fréely giue thée euerlasting lyfe if thou beleue and art baptised that he woulde neuer forsake thee that he will be thy father that he will crowne thee with grace and mercie Baptisme is a seale of saluation And thy baptsime is the seale and token of this league whervnto his promises being added it is requisite that thou stick fast vnto them For he gaue this singe that thou shouldest nothing doubt of his couenant and promised grace Thou art baptised into the death of Christ as saint Paule sayeth Rom. 6. that his death should be made thine and that he should make satisfaction in all things for thée and thou hast put him on in thy baptisme Gala. 3. that thou shouldest wholy be in him and hée in thée Therefore baptisme is a league lifting vp making merie and quieting thy conscience before god as saint Peter beareth witnesse 1. Pet. 3. that hee wyll neuer condemne thée for thy sinnes For thou iustified by fayth Rom. 5. art at peace with God A quiet calme and pacified conscience is the true peace The true peace And thou hast receiued baptisme as a most sure token and certeine seale of this iustification and remission of sinnes that thou shouldst stedfastly beléeue that God will haue mercye on thée that hée will preserue and delyuer thée Now therefore seing that God fauoreth thée and will be thy father and will neuer forsake thée and seing that thou hast receyued an infallible token and testimony hereof commende and vtterly giue all the matter and thy selfe also wholy vnto him and be thou obedient vnto his good will pleasure and thou must paciently abide and suffer his hande whether he will haue thée to dye or lyue so that his owne blessed will may be done vnto his owne praise glory Albeit it is not possible that thou canst be damned if thou consecrate and dedicate thy selfe wholy vnto him surely trusting in his mercie promised for Christ his sake For he hath condicioned that he will be thy father And bicause he is true when thou doest acknowledge him to be thy father and doest looke for and hope to receyue all goodnesse of him he cannot but be thy father and preserue thée by what meanes soeuer he sharply vseth thee for a little space Seing therefore he hath promised to be thy father thou trustest vnto his promises without all question he taketh earnest care of thee and all thine Wherefore thou shalt commend vnto him not onely thine owne body but also thy wyfe and children thy kinsfolkes and fréendes and to be short all that thou hast and doubt not but he will be vnto thée in the steade of a verie father a wyfe a true fréend and cosine For hitherto he hath vsed thée as a dispensatour and steward in those things But now séeing that he will haue thée to lay aside the function of this office he wil appoint in thy roume an other steward for them which shall diligently and faithfully take care of them If thou hope for this of him and looke for it with a ful confidence of hart there is no doubt but he will do as I haue tolde thée Wherefore put out of thy minde all care of them and commit it vnto God Be rather carefull for thy selfe prouide for thy soule and thinke how to yéelde it vp vnto God And seing that God hath fréely forgiuen thée all thy sinnes for Christ his sake he will require nothing of thee at all for this his great and inestimable benefite but that thou againe forgiue from the bottome of thine hart all them which haue offended thée And he doth promise Math. 6. that he wil remit all our trespasses if we forgiue other men there misdéedes Therefore when thou hast so forgiuen all offences vnfaynedly that thou neuer reuiue them nor call them vnto memorie againe praye also for them which haue done thée harme according to the doctrine and example of Christ and if thou recouer help them néeding thine aide as much as thou mayest If thou haue such a minde voyde of strife enuie malice and wrath thou hast also a signe and token that God hath forgiuen thée thy sinnes For fayth whereby thine hart is purified and clensed exercising hir selfe and bringing forth hir fruits according to Gods infinite benifits cannot choose but likewise forgiue and doe good vnto hir neighbour This fruit of loue and charitie testifieth and doth ascerteine thée A liuely fayth bringeth foorth true fruites that thy faith is a true a liuely faith seing that she bringeth forth good and true fruites † 2. Petr. 1. This is the thing that saint Peter would haue whereas he biddeth vs to giue the more diligence to make our calling and election sure by good workes For he meaneth that those workes are witnesses and signes that thou art chosen and adopted of God to be his sonne vnto the ioyes of eternall saluation But thou shalt not hope déerely beloued that God will forgiue thée thy sinnes Payne cannot merite the remission of sinnes for the payne and gréeuousnesse of thy crosse sicknesse † Act. 4. Ioan. 1. For there is none other saluatiō ther is none other recompēce for thy sinnes then the onely death of Christ God truely respecteth none other thing in this case hée accepteth none other thing but his déerely beloued sonne This is the lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world And this thy sicknesse and paynes cannot make satisfaction vnto God so muche as for thy least offence muche lesse can it deserue saluation As S. Paule testifyeth saying I suppose that the afflictiōs of this lyfe Rom. 8. are not worthy of the glory which shall be shewed vpon vs. No creature Peter saieth Act. 4 there is no saluation in anye other than in Christ neyther in heauen neyther in earth no Angell coulde mitigate and pacifie the wrath of GOD the father then this thy disease and temporall affliction is much lesse able to aswage it And farder it was requisite that he which should pacifie that wrath and reconcile god vnto man should be both God and man as one ready to pleade and make intercession betwéene God being offended man condemned Therefore it behoued the sonne of God to be made mā that he might appease and satisfie the wrath of his father deliuer vs from it as the prophet witnesseth saying Hée taketh away our infirmities Esa 53. beareth our paynes God hath layd our iniquities vpon him I haue smitten him sayth god for the sinnes of my people 1. Petr. 2. And s Peter fayth By whose stripes we ar healed Thy sinnes therefore are forgiuen thée for this thy lord Christ his sake and for none other thing in all the world For none afflictiōs be they neuer so bitter and gréeuous can helpe vs. Christ is our only iustification 1. Cor. 2. redemptiō satisfaction and saluation

righteousnes couer and hide mine vnrighteousnesse Let thy merites make me acceptable before the most high Iudge Increase thy grace in me as peril encreaseth least faith should wauer in mée least my hope shoulde stacker least my charitie should ware cold least humaine weakenesse should be ouercome by the terrour of death But after that death possesseth my bodilye eyes yet let not the eyes of my mind be turned away from thée And when death hath takē away the vse of my tongue yet let my hart instantly cry and say vnto thée Psal 3● Into thy hands I commend my spirite O lorde to whom be all honor and glorye worlde wtout end Amen ❧ A Sermon of pacience of the consummation of this world of the second comming of the lorde the euerlasting ioyes of the righteous the paines of the wicked and of other things written by saint Iohn Chrisostome patriarch at Constantinople Iohn Theophylus being the expositour thereof out of Gréeke into Latine and translated out of Latin● into Englishe by H. Thorne THe lyfe of godly men is verie notable and bright And by what meanes should it shine but through pacience Therefore imbrace pacience Pacience is the mother of Fortitude Psal 27. as the mother of Fortitude For the Psalmist giueth vs admonishment saying Tarry thou the lords leasure and kéepe his wayes And saint Paule to the ende thou shouldst possesse this vertue sayeth Rom. 5. Affliction worketh pacience which if thou exercise thou shalt finde hope the fountaine of all goodnesse For hope maketh not ashamed Be thou therefore subiect and obedient vnto the lord Psal 37. 1. Petr. 2. Iaco. 4. and pray vnto him thou shalt thereby find that thing which is not to be contemned that is to wit he will giue thée all thine harts desire Who is more happy than he which hath in possession the beneuolent eares of so mighty a king Who wisheth not to haue the iudges eares opē vnto him at his commaūdement 1. Cor. 3. Thou déerly beloued art the workman laborer of vertue Christ hath hyred thée into his vineyarde Math. 20. Gala. 6. Whiles thou hast yet time do good works Harken what sainct Paule sayeth Looke what a man soweth euen the same shall he reape Sow in the spirit and thou shalt reap eternal life Gala. 6. For he that soweth in his body reapeth corruption of his bodye And heare what another counsell giuer sayth Sowe righteousnesse for your selues and you shal gather the fruite of righteousnes Let it not lothe thée to take paines There is an hope of haruest and fruite time For where conflictes are there are rewardes Where there are contentions there are honours 1. Timo. 4 Where battell is there is a crowne also Haue thou a regard herevnto and arme thy selfe vnto pacience Let him alwayes sounde in thine eares which crieth with the sainctes Be of good courage that thine hart maye be comforted abide the lords leisure Psal 27. vse and exercise thy field This life is thy field take vnto thée a good toole I meane the old and the new instrument Hedge thy ferme with the brembles of doctrine prayer and fasting If thou haue such a hedge the beast I saye the diuell can not enter in Toile thy soule as a good vineyard And euen as the keepers of vineyards doe clap with their handes crie with their voice and with such like noises do kéepe off the wayt layers So cry thou out also with praiers sing with the melodye of psalmes and thou shalt put to flight that foxe and wicked beast as who sayth the diuell Of the which foxe the scripture maketh mention saying Take ye the foxes c. Cant. 5. Alwayes watch thyne enimy if he shoot at thine hart with vnlawfull concupiscence If he sling into thy soule filthye cogitations Ephe. 6. 1. Tessa 5. put foorth the shielde of faith turne about the helmet of hope take vp the sword of the spirit that is the worde of God And thou being thus armed shalt be able to defende thine enimy and sée that thou he not faint harted in the conflict 1. Petr. 5. 2. Cor. 2. but in al things be sober and wel aduised say thus with thy selfe We be not ignorant of his subtilties Phil. 4. Reioyce always as it is written Let your softnesse be knowen vnto all men Let the feare of God shine in thine hart that thou become not a fugitiue souldier that thou be not a fearful and sluggish labourer least thou happily léese thy crown This life is short But the sentence of gods iudgement is permanent endlesse Thou considering this mayest boldlye tell thine hart and saye with the holye prophet Be strong Psal 27. and tary thou the lords leysure and he shall comfort thine hart Follow Dauid his example 1. Reg. 17. and slea thine enimy by the casting of one stone The angels stād by thée beholding thy life 1. Cor. 4. For s Paule sayth We are become a gasing stocke vnto the worlde both vnto angels vnto men If they perceiue that thou hast the vpper hand they wil reioyce in thy well doing But if thou bée subdued they will sorowfully depart not being able to looke on thée in the contrary part the deuils wil scorne thée Therfore take vp the feare of God in the stead of a sword For the feare of God is like a two edged sworde cutting off all euill concupiscence desiers And also haue thou alwayes in minde the last day The last day when the heauens set on fire shal be dissolued For the burning elements shall melt The earth all that is thereon made Math. 24. Luc. 21. Ioel. 2. EZech. 32. Esay 13. Ioel. 3. Psal 97. 1. Tes 5. 2. Petr. 3. shal be brent when the starres shal fal down as leaues and the sunne and moone shall be darkned and shall not giue their light whē the sonne of God shall be séene and shall come downe from heauen vnto the earth and the powers of heauen shall be moued when the aungels shall runne hither and thither the sound of trumpets shall be hard fire shall burne before him and he wandring about shall purge all the world with fire and in his circuite there shal be a mighty tempest There shal be such earthquakes Psal 50. and lightnings as neuer shall be the lyke nor haue bene euen vnto this daye in so much that the very powers of heauen shall be taken with great trembling 2. Petr. 3. What maner of men deerely beloued in Christ then ought we to be at that time What feare and what horror will there then come on vs Thinke with thy selfe how the Israelites in the wildernesse were not able to abide the dimnesse and darknesse of the ayer and the voyce of God speaking out of the middle of the fire Exod. 20. but willed that he should no more speak vnto them for they were not able

to abyde him when he did hyde the greatest part of his maiestie althoughe he came downe not offended with them nor spake he vnto them wrathfully Therefore consider this if they were not able to abide his comming which comforted them when that neyther the burning heauens were dissolued neyther the earth and that is in it was burnte when that neyther they which sounde the Trumpet did blow as that trumpet shal be sounded which shall rayse vp al them that haue slept from the beginning of the world neyther any other of the terrible things to come did then happen how shall we do when he shal come downe with intollerable wrath The second cōming of the lord Psal 50. furye and shall sit vppon the throne of hys glory and shall call the earth Euen from the East vnto the Weast and from all the costes of the earth that he may discerne and knowe his people and giue to euery man according vnto his deserts what men alas behooueth vs to be when that we shal stand stripped and naked readie to bée brought foorth vnto the iudgemēt seat Where then shall that painted colour and the force and strength of the fleshe become then where shall that deceitfull and vnprofitable beautie the pleasantnesse of mans voyce impudent shamelesse babling become Where then is the trimming and decking vp with clothes and the delight pleasure of most foule and filthie sinne Where then are they which drinke wyne with pyping and singing and haue no regarde or respect vnto the workes of GOD where then is the contempt despising of them which nowe lyue without feare Then where is delicasie and nysitie For all those things shall passe away and shall be dissolued as the corrupt ayre Loke for this matter Sapi. 5. Where then is the gréedie desire of money and riches and vnmercifulnesse hir continuall companion Where then is pride which disdaineth all men thinketh hir selfe to be somewhat Where then is the vaine and vnprofitable glorie of man the great might tirannie Where then is the king the prince the capitaine Where then are the puffed vp magistrates contemning God in comparison of their owne riches When they shall perceyue that this saying must bée spoken of them They maruailed they are moued they are troubled feare is come vpon them Oscae 13. Iere. 50. Psal 48. 1. Cor. 1. there shall be sorowes as of a woman trauailing with child they shal be consumed with a vehemēt spirit Where then shal be come the wisedome of the wise with all there newe inuentions Wo bee vnto them They are moued they are troubled as a dronken man and all there wisedome is swalowed vp 1. Corin. 1. 2. Petr. 3. Where then is the worldly wise the scribe and the treasurer of this vaine world Way and consider déerely beloued what maner of men we ought to be when that we must yeelde an accompt of all that we haue ●●ne as well small as great things For vntill that we according to iust iudgement fully make satisfaction what shall our estate and condicion bée in that houre and how carefull shall we bée that we maye obtaine fauour in the sight of God Math. 25. And what ioy shall we haue which shall be placed on the right hande of God How then shall we féele our selues when that all the saintes of God shall gréete vs Abraham shall salute thée Isaac and Iacob Moyses Noe Iob Dauid and all the holy prophetes apostles and martirs and all good men which haue pleased God in the lyfe of there fleshe And how many shalt thou there heare whose lyfe thou shalt haue in admiration whome thou wouldest euen now wyllingly sée They will there come vnto thée reioysing at thy saluation After what sort shal we then be affected How inestimable shall that ioy bée when the gladsome king shall say vnto them which stand on his right hande Math. 25. Come ye blessed of my father take to your inheritance the kingdome which was prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde Then shalt thou receyue a most decent kingdome Sapi. 5. and crown of beautie at the lordes hand and after that shalt raigne with Christ Then shalt thou inherite al these eternall things 2. Timo. 4. which God hath ordained for them that loue him Then shalt thou euer afterward be without dread and heauinesse Ponder and consider what it is to raigne with Christ in heauen For as I haue tolde thée thou shalt receyue a diademe at the hande of the lorde and shalt euer after raigne with Christ Thinke with thy selfe what a thing it is to beholde the face of God for euer what a brightnesse hath it For then there shall be no sunne to giue the day light Esay 60. as Esay sayeth and the rising of the Moone shall not lighten the night Apoc. 21. Esay 64. 1. Cor. 2. But the lord God shall be thine eternall light and thy glorie Beholde what ioyes are layed vp in store for them the feare the lord and kéepe his commaundements The perdition of the wicked Consider againe also the perdition of sinners when they shall be brought foorth vnto the terrible iudgement seat of God with how great confusion then shall they be taken before the iust iudge hauing not one worde to aunswere how shall they be ashamed Psal 2. when the lorde shall speake vnto them in his wrath and vexe them in his sore displeasure Math. 25. saying depart from me ye wicked into eternall fyre which is prepared for the deuill and his Angels Alas what miserie and affliction shall there spirit suffer when that all men shall crie out aloude saying Let the sinners be turned into hell Psal 9. and all nations which forget God What time wil they howle out wayling and lamenting when they shall bée caried awaye that they maye be cruelly tormented world without ende what place alas is that where is wayling and gnashing of téeth called hell the which sathan himselfe abhorreth what is that Gehenna fyre vnquenchable Esay 66. Marc. 9. Math. 22. what is that worme venimous neuer ceasing howe greeuous are those vtwarde darkenesse alwayes continuing what are the ministers appointed for tormentes which lacking mercie and without compassion reprooue and punish Then they that are tormented will gréeuously crie vnto the lord Pro. 1. and he wil not héere them Then shall they vnderstand that all things which they had in this lyfe are vaine and transitorie Read for this Ecclesiastes and such things as they supposed here to be pleasant to be founde more bitter than gall and poyson Then where is the pleasure of the fleshe so termed falsely To feare God is true pleasure Psal 63. For there is none other pleasure but to feare the lorde This is the pleasure this replenisheth the soule as it were with marrow fatnesse Then shall they be in desperation of themselues and of the