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A08964	The tranquillitie of the minde A verye excellent and most comfortable oration, plainely directing euerye man, & woman, to the true tranquillitie and quyetnesse of their minde. Compyled in Latine by Iohn Barnarde, student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, now lately translated into Englishe by Anthony Marten.; Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. English	Bernard, John, d. 1567?; Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1570 (1570)	STC 1925; ESTC S101618	90,089	234

by the inspiration of the same spirite doth regenerate quicken and renue teach rule gouerne sanctifie erect comfort and confirme vs in fayth helpeth our infirmitie maketh vs light and readie to all good workes Through which we crie with boldnesse Abba father which doth beare witnesse with our spirite that we be the sonnes of God and heyres with Christ Who béetng the earnest of our inheritaunce we are sealed to redemption of the possession purchased by him and being lightened in the ioyes of our minde we knowe what the hope is wherevnto we are called and hauing gotten the inheritaunce of the children we obtaine the riche glorie of his inheritaunce vppon the saints Wherefore seeing in all places the way to Christ is so large as he is present euerie where with his elect to their lyues ende and to the last consummation of the worlde we haue no néede eyther to include our selues in Monasteries or houses of Religion vnder a name of holinesse or to take long pilgrimages in hand for the quieting of our minde or to hide and kéepe our selues in secret wildernesse as the maner was of religious sort in olde time vnlesse like persecution of Christians should waxe hote againe as in those dayes it did But euery man abiding in that vocation whiche God hath called him vnto shall reache to the true ioye of the minde and attaine to the true solitarie contempt of the worlde purchasing to himselfe the testimonie of a good conscience if he put on Christ and laye holde of him in such sorte as he hath shewed himselfe in the scriptures and deuorsing from him all preposterous Iewish fashions he preferre the woorkes commaunded by God before mannes ceremonies and inuentions and to ende all at once if hée lyue and behaue himselfe as he ought both towardes GOD and his worde But of Christ and his worde of the maner of good liuing of the testimonie of a good conscience of the sense of eternall life and of the great comfort by learned men shall be spoken of more at large hereafter Now it is necessarie to declare the lets and impedimentes whereby the most part are so plucked from the true tranquillitie of the minde that a very fewe can attayne therevnto And first of all an excéeding number of people giuing ouer their true confidence in God depende vpon the goodes of fortune being once depriued of them they faynt in their mindes by and by and become sorowfull Moreouer others there be which stay themselues vpon the succour of great men and haue a light heart and indifferent mind so long as they are maintayned with reliefe from them But if the mainteyners themselues quaile they streightwayes runne downe hedlong and fall into most bitter mourning yea and further the greater sort themselues for a tyme vaunte and boast of their power and ryches but if they be excluded from theyr seate of honour and diseased of their flourishing fortune they streightway be at wars with themselues and spende all the rest of their life in sorrow and heauinesse All these being disappoynted of their expectation lye in miserie complayning of their crooked fortune and are woont to sing that doolefull verse The earth is full of sinfulnesse The sea is frayght with wretchednesse Some misfortune there happeneth alwayes in mans lyfe to interrupt and subuert our quietnesse vnlesse a man arme his minde to abide all misaduentures and prepare himselfe before hand to beare what soeuer shall happen vnto him Which common state and rule of life Euripides hath prettily set forth in these thrée verses following There is no worde so fearefull spoke nor fatall chaunce so glide Nor mischiefe wrested into man from wrath that tooke his seede But man by nature should put vp and paciently abide Wherfore Plato compared mans life to a Die whose best chaunce euery Dicer desireth to haue but yet howsoeuer it happeneth he must by arte remedie that which chaunceth to him otherwise than he desired For as the Bée gathereth most swéete hony out of the withered Tyme and out of other herbs of more vnpleasant iuice like so may we also out of euil and vnprofitable things picke out that which may turne to our profite and commoditie Euen as shipwracke to Zeno Citius and banishment to Diogenes gaue them occasion to studie Philosophie But let vs procéede to other perillous matters which be lettes of true tranquillitie of the minde There is seldome founde out any one that is content with his calling but thinks an other in happier case than himsefe When as the poore prefers the riche estate the rich the noble man the noble man the King and euery one hauing other states in admiration desires to be in the same case that they be in Hereof groweth so often chaunging of our trade of lyfe which séemes to bring a happie state with it when in déed they differ not much from sickmen which so often doe alter their purpose For euen as the sickeman cannot away wyth the sight of his wife blameth the Phisition is gréeued at his friende that comes to visite him and yet being gone is displeased againe at there going euen so is the wauering way and trade of life and the wandedring and inconstant mutabilitie of the minde which seldome doth ariue at the quiet and desired porte Wherefore euen as they which are quesie stomacked and are disquieted with vomiting doe leape from one ship to another that they maye finde some ease therby vntill they perceiue themselues nothing the better but to doe the same still that they did before carying their vomite as I may say still about with them where euer they go Euen so they which euer betwene whiles choose now one now an other trade of lyfe doe rather intangle themselues in cares and troubles than be discharged and rid therefrom For whilste they studie as it were to lande at next shallowes they are caryed ofttymes into a more huge déepe and as I may say into a bottomlesse poole What if we do not except out of this number the curious tellers of mens natiuities the Mathematricians and the Astronomers who after a sort doe drawe and call backe all things to a fatall lawe and suppose that mans life maners and successes are gouerned by the power of starres and in prognosticating of other mennes misfortunes cannot foresée their owne destruction With these men let vs ioyne the guessing Soothsaiers which by their deuination tell before of thinges to come Also the wicked inchaunters and detestable Nigromancers which rayse vp the soules of deade men or rather call vp Deuils of whome the Lorde doth plainly forbid to aske any question Such men putting confidence in their vnlawfull and abhominable practises and forsaking the true God being led with their owne horrible errors and ouerlong deceyued with lyes neuer remayne in a stayde and quiet minde And there be others which be so inflamed with the loue of themselues as they couet to

to the méeke that haue suffered affliction and to resist the prowde which will not submitte themselues to Christ with all their reuerence Wherefore not meaning to preferre my owne iudgement before others but humblie submitting my selfe to the opinions of all the godly if I haue erred in any place doe not yet doubt but the shéepe of that blessed folde will acknowledge the voyce of the true shephearde and such as are of Christ both with an indifferent and willing minde will accept whatsoeuer is recited oute of the text of that our onelye mayster of whome so euer it be spoken It were no hard thing to discide the whole cause by the worde of God without the ayde of other sciences But although this were easie to be done and is vsed of the most sort yet neuerthelesse if out of prophane wryters there fall thinges into minde which maye serue to the more full and perfite declaration of the matter which we haue in hande being consonant also with those diuine institutions of Christ I cannot sée why any man should iustly reprehend either the apt bringing in of examples and similitudes or the wittie and pleasaunt sentences of Philosophers séeing they bée as fitte attendauntes vpon the worde of God which being wayed both with iudgement and reason are rarely and aptly but yet conueniently placed Nowe before I enter anye further into the matter I humblie craue the ayde of almightie God desiring the eternall father of our Lorde Iesu Christ whome I acknowledge to be the true giuer of all good things through his sonne that in stéede of this my want and imperfection he will poure vpon me his holy spirite to minister giue and inspire in me those things which both may be acceptable and pleasaunt vnto him and also profitable and commodious to the common wealth And first let vs go backe againe to those foure chiefe kindes of lyfe which the voluptuous sort the studious of gaine the polytique and Philosophers do labour to attaine And let vs with some greater consideration searche out whither in lucre and aduauntage in worship and renoume in knowledge or cunning the true tranquillitie of the minde may be found since in these as within their chiefest limites and vttermost boundes those former things consist and haue their being The vnlawfull lust of voluptuousnesse which with the pleasauntnesse thereof so easily créepeth into the minde will neuer finde any ende neyther yet can the thirst of vnlawful desire be euer satisfied They say that Xerxes when as all things had prosperously happened vnto him according to his minde before his passage into Gréece promised a rewarde vnto him that coulde finde out a newe pleasure But the thirst of his desire was such as no pleasure were it euer so wittily deuised coulde satisfie his minde Morcouer the pleasure of the bodie abounding and passing quickly awaye doth oftner as the Philosophers say leaue causes of repentance behinde it than of calling the same to remembraunce being past But such repentaunce oftentymes approching bicause it ingendreth griefe and causeth a certaine inwarde gnawing through sorrowe vtterly excludeth all quietnesse of mynde A great way of are the tender and delicate persons which loue finenesse Yea and farre of are they which be filled with daintie fare till they sweate blow againe and much lyke vnto fatte oxen giue themselues to surfetting and drongennesse farre dissonant from the swéete and sound ioy of the temperate sort which followe noble abstinence and moderation in fare and dyet For the first entering to voluptuousnesse although it séeme pleasant yet notwithstanding it bringeth bitter endings with it and vnlesse repentaunce be had incurres at length hell fyre They which are occupied with the Tabret and Harpe and reioyce at the sounde of the Pype spende their dayes as best lyketh them but in a moment saith the pacient Iob they go downe to hell Deceyuable is the reioyceing of this worlde wherevnto the voluptuous sort doe trust ouer much and wherein according to the frantike maner forgetting their weaknes rashely and wildely they fall to leaping for ioy such deserue the curse of god For wo be to you sayth Christ that now laugh for ye shall wéepe and lament Let vs chiefly therefore remember that worthie example of our sauiour Christ which he put vnder the person of the riche man to warne euery one to beware and take héede For he enioying delicate fare here and being corrupt and marred with the inticementes of pleasure in this worlde made no reckoning of the immortall lyfe to come therefore departing hence was cast hedlong into hell to be tormented with horrible torments of Deuils and to be adiudged to the perpetuall flames and fires there continually to be burned And moreouer that if men woulde so little regard the fearefull iudgement seate of the last Iudge yet should reason wherein we differ from brute beastes reuoke them from that fowle and filthie trade of life What thing more horrible and wicked is there than to prouoke the flesh to vncomelinesse and dishonestie which alreadie of it selfe rageth more than is conuenient For since the Philosophers agrée that as the horse is made to runne the oxe to drawe the dogge to séeke out so man is ordeyned to two things that is to say to vnderstande and doe and doth not pleasure the enimie to reason make féeble corrupt and subuert the whole worke of man whervnto he was ordeyned and also chaunge him from the nature of a moste excellent creature into an inclination which is more than femenine For pleasure if it be anye thing great is a hinderaunce to councell weakneth the memorie abateth the sharpenesse of witte taketh away the power of constantinesse and the strength of agillitie dulleth not onely the eyes of the minde but vtterlye also extinguisheth the light of the soule and in processe of tyme so transformeth a man into a most foolishe and wanton beast that he may worthily be called a smooth hogge of Epichrus hearde Verye well therefore doth the Poet call and fray vs away from the loue of pleasures in this verse following Carnall pleasures let be refraynde For pleasures hurt with sorrow gaynde For not onelye the strength of the minde and wit but the disposition also of the bodie senses and good helth leaueth and forsaketh them that loyter in ydlenesse liue finely delicately and wantonly be amorous delight in drinking playing dauncing to the noyse of Instrumentes be attentiffe to louing wanton and trifling songes and thereby styrre vp kindle and in filthie maner inflame the lustes of the fleshe prone of it selfe to euill and such as haunt harlots and are caried hedlong into euery kinde of intemperance and voluptuousnesse And moreouer they which are delighted in lucre and gaine apply themselues wyth harte and minde to getting of ryches and as waking birde catchers they diligently insue after their pray to catch the birde before it come at them But so much the farther they flie from the

minde whereof the other is framed and whereto it is semblant And what doth Philosophie promise to bring to passe being adorned with so many high prayses as it is called the guide of our life the schoolemaister of manners the mother of vertues the expeller of vices the tilling of the witte the medicine of the minde doth it not promise a rest from cares delectation of the mindes of such as be trauellers therein And doth she not as in hir owne right challenge the shaking of of vaine carefulnesse quenching of lusts driuing away of feare and the curing or to speake least the moderating of turmoyles of the minde Neyther doth Phylosophie set forth onely in vtter shewe so greate a profession but the héerers also thereof being taught goodly preceptes and instructed with iolly perswasions doe declare both by their life communication the vertue and force therof resting in them Which of the olde Phylosophers was eyther moued with the occasions of sorrowe or was appalled at death when it aproched Socrates fast bounde in prison seased not to dispute of Phylosophie and the very daye of his death reasoned at large concerning the immortalitie of the soule And when in his hande he helde that deadly cuppe he departed this miserable body with so pleasant and iocande a minde as he séemed not to be preased to his death but vsing pleasaunt wordes as if he had gone to a solemne banket of his friendes whome he had not séene a good whyle before Wherefore to such as know not Christ beyng not yet reuealed to all the worlde I woulde iudge no kinde of life comperable to the Phylosophers eyther if they séeke to driue away cares eyther else for the naturall recreation of their mindes For what is there that eyther in welth and riches eyther in pleasure and pastime either in honor and aduancement doth so excéedingly pacifie the minde and poures gladnesse therin as doth the science of Phylosophie and knowledge thereof which hath beene author of those goulden precepts of lyuing and being collected into bookes hath published the same for a memoriall to all the posterities But after that Christ the brightnesse of glorie who being the same light that giueth light to euerie man comming into this worlde shewed himselfe to the earth and opened the secret will of his father and the true knowledge of tranquillitie of the minde both to kingdomes and nations we are commaunded to here his voyce him to obey and serue him to follow as our onely shepherde and maister in whome all treasures of wisedome and knowledge lye hid The Phylosophers were but men and as Saint Paule calleth them but naturall men who coulde attaine no higher from earthly things than the naturall reason of man woulde permitte them But Christ both is and was the sonne of God who of his infinite mercy left the throne of his maiestie in heauen and from the bosome of his father descended downe vpon the earth to open the misteries hid from euery generation since the beginning of the worlde that wherevnto man being but a creature could not attaine by reason of his blindenesse therevnto his minde might ascende being lightned chaunged and regenerated by the spirite of Christ And the Phylosophers doe chiefly exhorte euerye one to that worthye and triumphant victorie which is ment of our lustes and appetites than which they accompt none more greater nor yet more honorable For he that hath ouercome an enimie was of more force than his enimie but he that by restrayning himselfe bridleth his owne lustes such a one hath ouercome himselfe He that hath ouerthrowne his enimie hath vanquished an externe aduersarie but he that subdueth his owne desires conquereth a Rebell and domesticall Traytour There is no euill that is not easier to be resisted than worldly pleasure For of what sorte so euer it be the same is a terror to vs euen at the first sight and for the asperitie thereof striketh vs with a quaking feare For she with hir smiling lookes allureth men vnto hir and with hir sweete motions falling into the senses spéedily winneth fauor no lesse than doth the song of the Marmayde call backe and drawe to hir companie such as passe by Through wanton pleasures was Hanniball vndone at Capua yet could no ouerthrow in battel discomfite him Wherfore he that ouercommeth his lustes doth not only with the olde Troians put away Helene frō him but plainly triumpheth ouer sin doth a greater act than to ouercome the strongest holde in the world Very well therefore sayd Plato A man to ouercome himself is the chiefe and most excellent victory of all others but to be ouercome of himselfe of all others is a most shameful horrible fall With such like exhortation the Phylosophers doe annimate and incorage vs to this difficult hard conflict and teach instruct vs with all the preceptes they can and yet doe they neyther kéepe néere the right course nor rightly set forth the same and are neyther present with their hearers as they shoulde be neyther indue them with diuine powre from aboue neyther yet are able to gyue grace for bearing away of victorie But Christ leadeth vs from all wandring and troublesome crossewayes of error and blindnesse and setteth vs with his doctrine a true and readie way and doth not only sit as Iudge of our doings but furnisheth vs also with the whole armour of God wherewith we being armed and fortified on euerie side maye resist all our aduersaries at once both ouercome the motions of the fleshe and kéepe our soules vndefiled from the worlde And the same Christ being truly present with his spirit in euery place both exhorteth vs to fight indueth vs from aboue with strength to the battell by hys grace helpeth vs to ouercome when wée faint lifteth vs vp and when we get the victorie crowneth vs Moreouer although we willingly imbrace the wholsome admonitions of Philosophers whereby we are called to remember our frailtie and weaknesse and to kéepe downe the pride of man and although we set some store by those excellent disputations which deliuered the minde from perishing and so earnestly endeuored to set the same at libertie yet verie greatly and I knowe not how farre of Philosophie hath béene from the féele and taste of eternall life Euen so much as neyther eie hath séene neyther eare hath heard neyther heart hath imagined Yet some maner of féeling thereof hath God reueled to his elect by his holy spirite But of the exceding greatnesse of that vnspeakable glorie none of the olde Philosophers coulde so much as dreame vpon or make coniecture of Which thing God in his sonne Iesus hath appoynted as a right of inheritaunce to be inioyed of the true worshipers of him euen since the first beginning of the world and creation of all things For others lacked the holy spirit of promise and adoption which God imparteth to the faythfull that desire and call vpon him for the same and

God but shall obtaine of hys bountifull goodnesse eyther an inestimable comfort in all kinde of tribulation eyther else a cleane riddance thereof or at least wise a mitigation of his troubles From hence floweth so sure a confidence in God that the saintes are in most quietnesse of minde in time of aduersitie As were those thrée most noble children which song in the flaming Fornace and inuited to their swéete song all creatures and euerie particuler part of the worlde to praise the glorious maiestie of God and to magnitie and extoll his goodnesse And as were Paule and Silas also in a certaine Citie of Macedon who being seourged with rods throwne into the innermost prison their féete fast tyde in the stockes at midnight did set forth God with praises song psalmes togither with a ioyfull minde Wherfore it is thought that GOD sheweth himselfe more amiable to vs in aduersitie than he doth in prosperitie And therevpon what a chéerefulnesse had the Apostle Paule as his wordes declare what ioye what glorying in the Lorde had he while he remembred his labors his stripes his imprisonmentes shipwrackes watchings hunger thirst colde and a number of other perils and often death also when he delighted in the infirmities rebukes necessities persecutions and anguishe which he had suffered for Christes sake when he reioysed in abyding so many great cruelties and miseries for preaching of the Gospell when he was filled with excéeding ioye in all his tribulation when he brake out in the mids of trouble into a certain godly ioyfulnesse of minde saying Blessed be God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ which is the father of mercie the God of all comfort comforting vs in all our troubles in so much as we are able to comfort them that be in any maner of trouble by the same comfort wherwith we our selues are comforted of god For the same cause the Apostles departing from the face of the counsell to be scourged wen with great ioye that they might be counted worthy to beare blame for the name of Iesu Wherefore although it appeares plainely that the Church of God hath euermore bene vexed with trouble and persecution of the wicked As when Abell which was killed of hys brother Esay most cruelly sundered with a Saw Ieremie that was stoned to death by the people in Egypt Zachary slayne by the Priestes Iohn by Herode Christ by Pylate Steuen by the Iewes the Apostles by cruell Tyrants and so manye Martirs assigned to death and extreame punishment and as the godly who of wicked seorners are so troden vnder foote that oftentimes they are reputed for most vyle abiects and the crime of newe seditious deuise and doting foolishnesse layde to their charge and therfore the Prophet constrained by reason of their enuie hatred reprochings slaunders and tauntes sayde with lowde voyce beholde I and the children which the Lorde hath giuen mee are a token wonder and prodigious thing in Israell yet is it a delight among so many miseries of this life in so variable cases of mens dealing in such tossing and turning of the world in so many terrors of punishments rebukes to remember how farre from impacience the saintes of God bée with what a chéerefull countenaunce they depart from this life and with how stedfast a minde they go towardes their death as towarde the gate of eternall life How did the seauen brethren and their noble mother of whome the storie of the Machabées puttes vs in remembraunce howe light set they by those horible tormentes how scorned they the cruell tyraunt howe smally did they weigh all thinges present before their eyes in respect of the immortall ioy to come And no maruell although a mortal man that hath not the spirite of God will be amazed thereat For God hath made a choyse of the heartes of such as haue a good conscience and charitie therewithall which maketh euery thing verie pleasaunt be it neuer so bitter and vncomfortable whome he will swéetelye inspire with his peace which excéedeth all capacitie and vnderstanding and who shall be to him in stéede of a Temple wherein he will dwell and walke From hence springeth out that wonderfull pacience of the Saintes who perceyue that their obedience shall be bountifully rewarded in time to come and shall be precious and well accepted in the sight of the heauenly father through Christ Hereby is the whole minde possessed with God and strengthned by him and hereby is the liuely hope of immortalitie to come confirmed God onely which is the chiefest and that one alone goodnesse doth by the presence of his comforting spirite in the tyme of trouble so recreate and satistie with ioy the mindes of his elect that eyther they plainly put away all féele both of iniuries done vnto them of pouertie of banishment of contempt of infamie of prisonment of tormentes and of other miseryes and calamities or at least wise beare them out with an excellent courage For they desiring as the Apostle did to be loosed and hoping assuredly to die wel count death an aduauntage to them to seperate them from all miserie to giue them an entring to all aboūdance of good things whither they desire to be caried with full sayle as did Simeon who after he had séene the childe Iesus pronounced out this verse saying Lorde nowe lettest thou thy seruaunt depart in peace c. that the soule being loosed from the prison of the body wherin after a sort it lyeth as it were brought a fléepe maye stie vp to hir quiet rest to delectable peace and libertie and to euerlasting life where it may continually draw out of the plentiful fountaine of gods blessed maiestie continuall pleasures delectations and ioyes Who then had not rather with the wayfaring man if it so pleased God be ridde at the first stone he commeth at by the way than to endure so many griefes so many labors and daungers to the vtter tyring of his bodie during the whole course of his iourney in this life For the children of God mourne while they yet liue within this earthly mansion of the bodie which being once consumed they know how they haue a dwelling place with God euen a mancion not made with handes but such a one as is euerlasting in heauen And they being lightned with a sure hope thereof doe endure all maner of troubles not onely with a pacified mynde but with a willing and a glad heart also They count banishment for defence of the Gospell and for righteousnesse sake but a trifle They know that in this lyfe the rewarde of vertue is the hatred of the worlde is persecution is hunger and banishment which they had rather enter into among other perfite exuls of God and to wander here and there vncertainly than by remayning among Idolaters to possesse a fine and delitate lyfe while in the meane tyme by assenting and subscribing to their euils they must of