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A07288	Saint Peters chaine consisting of eight golden linckes, most fit to adorne the neckes of the greatest states, nobles, and ladies in this land, as the chiefest iewell of true nobilitie: and not vnfit for the meaner sort. Digested into eight chapters, and published by R.M. minister. With a praier annexed to the end of euerie chapter.	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1560 or 61.	1596 (1596)	STC 17683; ESTC S112697	95,593	198

when hee was reuiled reuiled not againe when hee suffered hee threatned not but in great humility committed his cause to God that iudgeth righteously Therefore Christ for his great meekenesse and humilitie is compared in the Scripture vnto a Lambe Christ for his humility compared to a sheepe and to a lambe Ioh. 1.36 Esay 53.7 Christians called the sheepe of Christ Ioh. 21.16 and a sheepe Iohn saith Behold the Lambe of God And Esay by the spirite of prophesie saide that Christ was oppressed and afflicted that hee was brought as a sheepe to the slaughter yet opened he not his mouth This great humilitie of Christ ought to bee followed of all Christians who are therfore called the sheepe of Christ Vnto this humilitie Christ himselfe doth exhorte vs saying Learne of me that am meeke and lowly of heart and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules Learne of Christ what Mat. 11.29 shall we learne Learne humilitie learne patience if thou bee rich and an heire borne vnto great lands and possessions yet learne humilitie of Christ for hee was Lorde and heire of heauen earth when he so humbled himselfe for thy sake Art thou poore hauing nor house nor liuing Learne of Christ to be contented for he had them not The All vertues are to be learned of Christ Mat. 8.20 Foxes haue holes and the birds of the ayre haue nestes but the sonne of man hath not wheron to rest his head Art thou afflicted grieued and tormented in this life O learne of Christ to bee patient for hee suffered a great deale more for thee Blessed are they that mourne for they shall bee comforted Mat. 5.4.5 Blessed are the meeke for they shall inherite the earth In one word learne humility patience and all other vertues of Christ God sayth Saint Austen was made humble let man blush to be proud And to say the truth what cause hath man to bee proud that is nought else but Nothing in man wherof he shuld be proude before he was man he was dust before dust was made hee was nothing dust and ashes Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt returne saith the Scripture Puluises saith Isydore in puluere sede Cinis es in Cincre viue Dust thou art in dust therefore sit and abide Ashes thou art and therein spend thy life These things indeede are proper vnto vs our bodies are earthy weake fraile subiect to hunger to thirst to colde to heate to wearinesse to all kind of defect and sicknesses and last of all to death and corruption Our soules which are the chiefest parts of man are defiled and polluted with sinne and filthines whereof then should man be proud O esca vermium saith that sweete father O massa pulueris c. O Wormes meate O froath O vanitie why art thou so proud and insolent Learne therfore betimes of Christ to bee humble least Pride will haue a fall that pride haue a fall Knowe that without humilitie thou shalt neuer bee praised for any vertue Similitudes Isydore saith he that will heape vertues together without humilitie doth nothing else but carrie dust in the ayre As a little Colloquintida doth marre a whole pot of pottage so pride doth make all other vertues abhominable Pride and vaine-glorie hath brought many men otherwise indued with very rare gifts to shame and ignominie * Quanto doctior es tante te geras submissius is a good lesson for all that are or haue The better learned the more humble wee should be beene Schollers to remember Saint Gregorie saith al our gifts whatsoeuer are nothing worth except they bee seasoned with the salt of humilitie For this cause is it that I haue made mention thereof in this Chapter Humilitie is as salt to season al other vertues of vertue If any take profite thereby it is that I haue wished If any other by meanes of their pride scorne at it their case is to be lamented Now we will follow the other vertues in order euen as they are linked together by S. Peter when he saith Ioyne vertue with your faith with vertue knowledge and so forth A Praier for the vertue of humilitie O Most glorious God mercifull Father whose dwelling is in eternitie whose Maiestie filleth both heauen and earth I thy vile and wretched seruant nought else but dust and ashes doe prostrate my selfe here before thy throne of mercy beseeching thee euermore to giue me true knowledge and feeling of mine owne defects and miserie of the corruption of my body and deformitie of my soule polluted with sinne and iniquitie to this end that I may be truely humbled when I shall see all the partes of my soule and body and whatsoeuer proceedeth from them both euen my best deedes to bee stayned as a menstruous and defiled cloth O Lord let neuer the foot of pride get the vpper hand of me nor the winde of of vaine glorie ouerthrow me let faith bring me to the tower of vertue but let humilitie keepe me from falling Let me not glory in any thing that I doe or in any vertue that I haue seeing I haue nothing which I haue not receiued from thee Let not learning strength honour riches or beautie make me proude and hautie for they are but the fading flowers of this life Let me euer haue this poesie written in my heart Hee that exalteth himselfe shall be brought low but he that humbleth himselfe without hypocrisie shall be exalted because it is thou O Lord that resistest the proude and giuest grace to the lowly This grace good Lord I bescech thee graunt vnto mee for his sake that through humilitie hath purchased vnto vs eternall glorie euen Christ Iesus thy Sonne and Prince of our saluation to whom with thee O deare Father and the holy Ghost be all praise and glorie for euer Amen Of Knovvledge CHAP. 3. ASsone as Almightie GOD by his infinite wisedome had created heauen earth of nothing presently he saith let there be light shewing thereby as also Gen. 1.3 we finde by experience that nothing in the world would either haue beene pleasant or comfortable if therunto had not beene added the benefit of light And is not the same thing to be noted in the creation of man who is called by Phylosophers a little world Yes truely for the life of man without light is most tedious and vncomfortable Now looke what the Knowledge vnto the soule is as light vnto the eyes of the body light of the eyes is vnto the body the same is knowledge vnto the soule for a man that hath neuer an eye to see with all if he haue knowledge in his minde is much more happie then hee that hath two eyes without knowledge They that want the benefite of their eyes and sight are called blinde and they that want the benefit of knowledge are called ignorant the one is blindnesse of the body the other of the soule As therefore it is

vs for faith is as before is noted the A Similitude hande wherewith wee apprehende and laie sure holde vppon the righteousnesse of Christ Iesus And euen as a lyttle childe maye as truelye holde a golde ring or precious iewell wyth his litle and weake hand as a giant with all the force of his hande and fist beeing one and the selfe same ring so the merits of the sonne of God bee one and the same whether our faith bee weake or strong to apprehend them This then beeing as wee haue sayde the least measure of faith when wee haue an earnest desire to bee saued and yet haue not the full assurance of our saluation it is then our dutie daily to praie the Lord to increase our faith till we come by little and little vnto the greatest measure which wee shall not haue at the first but in some continuance of time when wee haue bene well practised in repentance for as soone as wee haue the least measure of faith repentance will also appeare in some measure When therfore I saie we haue some time bin well practised in repentance and haue had diuerse experiences of Gods loue towards vs in Christ then afterwardes will appeare in our hearts the fulnesse of perswasion which is the ripenesse and strength of faith For this is the greatest measure of faith when anie one daylye increasing in faith comes to be fully perswaded of Gods loue in Christ The greatest measure of faith towards himselfe particularly of the forgiuenes of his owne sins This I suppose is the greatest measure of faith how be it I am still perswaded that there is no mans faith so strong but it is No mans faith so strong but it is sometimes shakē sometimes shaken with the winde of doubfulnes Thus are wee come now at length thorough Gods assistance to the concluding shutting vp of this discourse of faith being the foundation of our whole worke wherein wee haue seene what true faith is what excellent vertues and operation it hath what great profit and commoditie we The summ of the first chapter receiue by it that many of our forefathers haue bene renowned for their faith lastlie whose gift it is to whom it is giuen and in what measure Now to him that is of power to establishe vs according to the gospell of Rom. 16 Iesus Christ by the reuelation of the mistery 25. which was kept secrete since the world began 26. but nowe is opened and published among all nations by the scripture of the 27. prophets at the commaundement of theeuerlasting God for the obedience of faith To God I say onely wise be all praise and honour and glorie thorough Iesus Christ our Lord Amen A Praier for faith and the increase thereof O Almightie God and omnipotent creator Lord of heauen and earth the giuer of all good things from whence euerie good perfect gift doth proceed and by whose mercifull goodnes it is augmented and increased within vs I beseech thee of thine infinite clemencie to plant deeply in my soule that most sweet root of faith and to water it continually with the dew of thy heauenly grace that it may spring and bud forth into the greene and liuelie branches of a godly life with peace of conscience and ioye in the holie Ghost and that the seed thereof so soone as it is ripe may fall downe againe into the garden of my heart to the further increase of the same til it growe vp into that great tree of euerlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour To whome with thee O father and the holy Ghost be all honor and glorie for euer Amen OF VERTVE IN GENERALL CHAP. 2. THE order and course of nature being duly obserued doth make this plaine vnto vs that though there bee manye and innumerable thinges in this worlde yet that euery thing hath a certaine head root fountaine beginning from whence each particular is deriued For when God which is the cause of nature woulde shew forth in the theatre of this world the surpassing excellencie of his wisedome not onely in creating all things of nothing but also in gouerning and preseruing all things that were created that they might continue and indure out the time which he had appointed The Scripture saieth that God did make euerie thing according to his kinde withall did put certaine seedes of thinges in the Gen. 1 12 The course of natural things continued by Gods prouidence ti● the ende o● the world things themselues wherby there might be a propagation or continued course of things from generation to generation so long as the world should indure Right so Gods mightie power and infinite wisedome doth no lesse plainelie appeare in things supernatural I meane in the gifts of the mind wherwith he doth beutify adorne the soule of man for it is God that giueth both the beginning increase of al Faith the roote of vertue vertue and goodnes Now the beginning of vertue in vs is faith which God doth first plant in the hart of man faith then may be cōpared vnto the roote frō whence doth arise the stemme of vertue Vertue in generall breaketh out into particular branches as knowledge temperance patience and the rest and euery branch bringeth foorth fruit according to his kind Therfore Saint Peter writing vnto such as were conuerted vnto 2. Pet. 1. 5 the faith willeth them to ioyne therevnto vertue saying Ioine vertue with your faith whereby doubtlesse he meaneth that they should endeauour to lead a ciuill honest life as euery one had receiued the measure of faith and to the end they shoulde not thinke it a matter indifferent he biddeth them to giue al diligence therunto euen to ioyne vertue with their faith because by throgh their faith in Christ God had giuen them all things that pertaine vnto life and godlines through the knowledge of him By flying ●he corrup●…ōs of this ●orld wee ●aw neervnto God that had called them vnto glory vertue wherby most precious promises were giuē vnto them that by them they should bee partakers of the godly nature in flying the corruption which is in the world through lust So that now wee see what must bee the chiefe and principall care of all those that haue receiued this excellent gift of faith wherof we haue spoken in the former chapter Namely to giue all diligence to ioyne vnto our faith vertue that so our faith may appeare by our honest liuing godly conuersation Wherefore in this chapter wee must speake of vertue in generall being the second lincke in Saint Peters Chaine afterward come to her particular branches Vertue in generall is obedience to Gods commaundements wrought in Gods children what vertue is from whome we haue it by the spirit of sanctification directed or referred to the glorie of God and accepted of him in Christ Iesus And to speake plainly whatsoeuer thing