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A14583	An epistle sent by Monsievr de Vrillac, advocate in the Parliament of Paris; to Monsievr de Vrillac his father, vpon the occasion of his conuersion. Faithfully translated into English, accoriding to the French copie; By C.C.	Vrillac, Monsieur de.; C. C., fl. 1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 24893; ESTC S101817	11,766	24

things to be losse vnto me for the excellent knowledge of Iesus Christ my Lord. For whose sake I haue depriued my selfe of all things and doe iudge them to be dung that I may winne Christ The like is sayd of all the Apostles who vse this speech to Christ We haue lest all and followed thee Mat. 19. ●● And that which most comforted me was the answere of our Sauiour Verily I say vnto you that whosoeuer hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother for my sake and the Gospels shall receiue an hundred folde as much and shall inherite eternall life And therefore euen as the Apostles forsooke their Nets to follow Iesus Christ I also put from me these vaine cares and the deceitfull hopes which intangled my minde and with the royall Prophet I concluded O Lord thou art my portion Psal 119. 55. I haue determined to keepe thy law And that as Christ saith Those are blessed which heare the Luke 11. 28. word of God and keepe it As also with Mary I haue chosen the good part which shall not bee taken Luke 10. 42. from me I sayd in my selfe what though I possesse not great things here on earth yet shall I bee rich in thee and an inheritour of the kingdome which God hath promised to those that loue him I shall possesse that pearle of inualuable price to wit the knowledge of the Gospell and the graces of the Spirit I shall be adorned with Iesus Christ the riches of Israel and the glory of our hope And I shall obtaine a treasure in heauen where the moth corrupteth nor and where theeues neither breake Mat. 6. 20. through nor steale If I lacke honor among mortall men God will single me out as among his Mal. 3. 17. 1 Pet. 2. 9. most precious Iewels I shall enter into the royall Priesthood and I may boast that I am descended of the most auncient nobilitie that may be seeing the titles of Gods house and familie are more auncient then heauen and earth and if I forsake worldly pleasures I shall haue spirituall gladnes I shall reioyce in God my Sauiour with a Ioy vnspeakeable 1 Pet. 1. 8. and glorious and as Dauid taking his flight into the Deserts comforted himselfe in the expectation of the kingdome which God had promised him so will I comfort my selfe in looking for those eternall felicities which God hath reserued for me among the Angels To be short if with Iesus Christ I haue not whereon to rest my head I will reioyce that in Iesus Christ I haue peace of Conscience that God is the portion of Psal 16. 5. mine heritage and of my Cup alwayes O Lord Psal 84. 1. of hosts how amiable are thy dwelling places my foule ceaseth not greatly to long yea euen fainteth for the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh reioyce in the liuing God For a day in thy Verse 10. Courts is better then a thousand else-where I had rather be a doore-keeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of wickednesse Now if my flesh were loth to forsake her commodities shee thought it yet more strange to betake her selfe vnto such an vnpleasing condition shee thought it folly and madnesse to enter into a path all paued with thornes and filled with afflictions she set before me the reproch of the Gospell but especially in these woefull times in which pietie is heresie and wherein it is counted a dishonour to serue Christ But according to the Apostles example I shooke off this Viper without Act. 28. taking any hurt I beleeued that I ought to contemne this contempt according to the saying of the Apostle I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Rom. 1. 1● Christ seeing it is the power of God to saluation to all that beleeue I thought it better to share with Gods children in the words reproach then to be had in execration before God and his Angels and willingly to be made the ofscouring of the earth seeing so I might be made heauens delight I thought it folly to imagine I should reape before I had sowed to ouercome without conflict and to be crowned before I had run my race to the end and that it is impossible to partake of the excellencie of Christs crosse without feeling the weight of it seeing the paschall Lambe was to be Exod. 12. 8. eaten with soure herbs and the bread of the Lord like that of Boaz must be eaten with dipping it in Ruth 2. vineger I consider that seeing the kingdome of Iesus Christ is not of this world it were extreame folishnes in me to seeke the world in his kingdome or to thinke of rest in his kingdome who is the enemie of our Father or not to make profession of the Gospell til persecutions be ended or to set before vs Iesus Christ without his Crosse or a Gospell without reproach To tarry till God had traced out a new way to heauen and till the worlde and Satan should cease to bee for the enmitie of the old Serpent which began in the earthly Paradice Gen. 3. will neuer haue an ende till wee become to the heauenly I also thought that ther is no afflictiō for the Gospell which Iesus Christ hath not fore-told that such as are enrolled for seruants in his armie must accept it vpon condition that whosoeuer will come Luke 9. 23. after me must deny himselfe and take vp his Crosse and follow me Iesus Christ tels vs that if we will enter Mat. 7. 23. into life eternall wee must passe through the straight gate and this is that aduantage which in this life he tels his Apostle he must take for his patrimonie I will shew him how many things hee must suffer for my sake A lesson which the Apostle sets vs Act. 9. 16. al to take out saying By many afflictions we must enter Act. 14. 22. into the kingdome of heauen and 2. Tim. 3. All that 2 Tim. 3. 12. will liue godly in Christ Iesus must suffer persecution I shake of delicacie when I cast mine eyes vpon Daniel who chose rather to be cast into the Lyons den then to giue ouer lifting vp his hands to heauen vpon those three worthies who chose rather to bee exposed to the mercy of the fiery furnace then to bow before an Idol and vppon so many cloudes of witnesses who were willing rather to shed their blood then defile themselues with Idolatrie And aboue all I was astonied in beholding Iesus Heb. 12. 2. Christ the author and finisher of our faith who for the ioy that was set before him endured the crosse and despised the shame For the seruant is not greater then his Iohn 13. 16. master nor the Ambassader greater then hee that sent him Seeing our head was crowned with thornes and was offered vinegar to drinke all streaming ouer with blood what a vile shame is