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B11989	Vade mecum. = Goe vvith mee deare pietie, and rare charitie. VVhose flame is stirred vp, to dispell the cold out of the minde. By Otho Casmanne, preacher at Stoade. Translated out of Latine, by H.T. minister. The contents appeare in the page following.; Vade mecum. English	Casmann, Otto, d. 1607.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1606 (1606)	STC 4769; ESTC S107899	102,540	274

vertues are wrapped vp in labours and great expences that thou shouldest get to them by many difficulties Carefull labours or laborsome cares prepare the way to the attaining of faire and honest things Thou hast striuen to enter at the narrow gate procéede in the way giue not thou place to euill but throng on more boldly Pray and take paines and thou shalt ouercome all difficulties Labor improbus omnia vincit vntired labour doth ouercome al But nothing is so easie that seemes not hard if we goe about it with an ill will we clime to honour by vertue nature hath placed nothing so high whither vertue cannot reach They are deceiued with the error of a Vertue hath her delights false opiniō that think that a godly life is ful of trouble labour paine so that it is altogether voide of swéetnesse pleasure when as vertue is not without delight Christs yoke is swéet his burthen light Let vs heare Dauids experiēce I haue delighted as much in thy testimonies as in al maner of riches Item The iudgemēts Psalm 9. of the lord are to be desired aboue gold precious stones sweeter thā the hony the hony comb God himself in his couenant promiseth presēt helpe I wil giue them a new heart and a new spirit will Gods aide promised I settle in their bowels and I wil take away their stonie heart and giue them ● fleshie heart that they may walke in my precepts and keepe my iudgements and doe them that they may bee my people and I may be their God He therefore who is true and mightie will bring it to passe that thou maiest say with the Apostle Our old man is crucified with Christ that the body of sin might be destroied that wee might no more serue sinne Feare not saith Esay because Esay 40. I am with thee shrinke not because I am thy God I haue strengthened thee and haue helped thee and sustained thee by my right hand Behold all they that striue against thee shal be confounded brought to shame and bee as though they were not c. I am thy Lord God who take thee by the hand saying vnto thee Feare not I haue holpen thee When Iesus our Sauiour commeth And euery valley is exalted and euery mountaine and hill is humbled and the rough waies are made plaine That which thou canst not that shall the holy Ghost aboundantly performe in thée The Lord thy God shall circumcise Deut. 30. thy heart and the heart of thy seed that thou maist loue the Lord thy God with all thy hart and with all thy soule that thou maiest liue Say with Saint Augustine Lord giue that thou biddest and bid what thou wilt Be carefull to kéepe the loue of God and that wil Loue endureth many troubles make thée to swallow al troubles without paine For this is the loue of God that wee keepe his commandements and his commandements are not burthensome for all that is borne of God ouercommeth the world And Saint Augustine He that loueth laboureth not for all labour is contrary to them that loue not onely loue it is that blusheth at the name of difficultie Temptations of the world 4. The world also either with his glory and brauerie will allure thée to loue it or by his contempt and embacing will discourage thee when thou art entred into the way of pietie and charitie or will strike into thee a certaine I know not how to call it impudent shame to professe the truth No small impediments in the way of godlines But learne with me O Christian Spernere mū●ū spernere nullū spernere to met Spernere te sperni disce beatus eris Despise the world despise no man Except thy selfe perdee Learne to despise to be despisde So shalt thou happie bee Consider with me I pray you how Aydes against worldly felicitie short and transitorie the felicitie of this world is How many and great miseries are mingled with worldly delights How many and great dangers and snares lye in their way that walk through the parching heate of this world Consider the horrible blindnes and Egyptian darknes of worldings Looke on the world thou shalt looke on a filthy dunghill of sin and vncleannes Looke on the world and thou shalt looke into a shoppe of fraude and deceits yea into the house of death Contemne therefore the contempt of this world which being despised despiseth thee but thou shalt be commended of him that is most to be commended euen of God from whom all true praise procéedeth But if thou bee ashamed of the truth Aydes against shaming at truth and blushest at the waies of Gods holy Commandements Remember O man remember that thou must shortly dye and be presented before Christ how great shame shalt thou then be couered with If Christ were not ashamed to hang naked on the Crosse for thee why art thou ashamed to kéepe Christs sayings So many thousands men women haue powred out their blood with their life for Christs sake and art thou ashamed for loue of him to doe any good What wilt thou say in the day of the last iudgement what will he thy shame what confusion of face If thou be ashamed to doe well thou shamest to bee a Christian what shame can be more shameful Thou knowest what Christ saith He that is ashamed of me before men of him will I be ashamed before my father all his Angels Thou knowest also that of the Apostle If I endeuoured to please men I should not bee the seruant of Christ And one saith Why doest thou respect men why doest thou delay to doe those things which are acceptable to God good men Didst thou not promise in thy Baptisme to renounce the diuel and all The vow of Baptisme his workes and onely to loue God into whose name Godhead thou wast baptized Shame therefore to doe the workes of the diuel reioyce to doe the will of God It is a shamefull madnes to blush at well doing for the which we shall bee despised both in heauen and earth and not to blush or be ashamed of euill doing which hath a curse following it and punishment both in this and in the world to come Thou art not ignorant of that saying of our Sauiour The seruant Luc. 12. knowing his Lords will and not doing it shall bee beaten with many stripes What is it I pray thée that thou praiest daily that Gods will might be done and yet to please the world thou doest it not Consider I pray thée that it cannot be By the world vnderstand the wicked that it should bee well with thée concerning God and also concerning the world that thou shouldest please God and the world If other shuld laugh thée to scorne whiles thou séekest for treasure yet thou wouldest not desist from thy purpose for their scorning why then doest thou giue ouer to séeke the treasure of diuine grace and

faith that we may be rooted and grounded in loue Saying Thy will be done O father as in heauen by thy Angles so in earth by vs. Laying therefore aside all malice Exhortation 1. Pet. 2. and al guile and dissimulation and enuy and all backbiting As new borne babes reasonable and without deceit desire ye the milk of the word that ye may grow thereby to saluation if ye may tast how gracious the Lord is And striue to enter in at the straite gate Exercising thy 2. Tim. 4. selfe vnto godlinesse which is profitable to all things with great zeale and endeuour taking vpon thee the yoke of Christ Goe on in the way which thou hast entred for the kingdome of heauen suffereth violence and the violent catch it Say vnto Sathan that would drawe thée backe Goe behind me Sathan for thou art an offence vnto me The way of the righteous procéedeth Prou 4. as a shining light and groweth to a perfect day Be not therfore wanting to the Heb. 12. Psal 119. Not to profite grace of God but runne the way of Gods commandements If to profit be to runne saith Bernard then thou ceasest to profit when thou ceasest to runne and when thou ceasest to runne then thou beginnest to faint Hereof wee may plainly gather not to profit is nothing else but to fall away The spirit must euer either profit or fall backe And Augustine How much soeuer we liue here how much soeuer we profite here let no man say It sufficeth me I am righteous He that saith I stay in the way cannot tell how to come to the end of the way And the same August Goe forward my brethren examine your selues alway without fraud or flattery dislike alwaies what thou art if thou wilt attaine to what thou art not for where thou pleasest thy selfe there thou wilt stay Obserue diligently thy going forward Foure things to be noted in profiting In profiting perswade thy selfe assuredly that thou art daily beginning 2. Be not discouraged if thou perceiue that thou hast not yet profited so much as thou couldest wish 3. Let the purpose of thy race in profiting be God too God Therefore in the beginning of euery action first examine thy action diligently and afterward looke to the progresse end of it Then whatsoeuer humane praise might happen to thée by thy wel doing tread it vnder foot in respect of the glory of God 4. Looke to the patterne of all vertues euen Iesus Christ who is the sonne of righteousnesse the light of the world the way the Truth and the Life Through patience runne to the marke that is set Heb. 4. before thee looking to Iesus the captaine and finisher of thy faith In all things grow in him Eph. 4. First and aboue all things labour earnestly to subdue thy self and to flée vices then follow vertue and séeke after righteousnesse These things are to be obserued generally now of things specially wherin we ought to profit or goe forward First in denying vnrighteousnesse Two branches Secondly in attaining righteousnesse 1. Touching the abnegation or deniall of vnrighteousnesse Thou shalt denie vnrighteousnesse if thou deny thy selfe and mortifie the flesh Thou shalt deny thy selfe and mortifie the flesh if thou first foresée that thou sin not and after sinning that thou spéedily repent and beware not to commit the like sinne Now among sinnes Some are lighter and Two sorts of sinnes Some more greeuous Let vs make our beginning by shunning and declining the lighter sinnes Surely all sin offendeth the Maiestie of God and maketh the sinner guiltie of eternall death but it is euident that there All sinnes offend God Lighter sins to bee subdued are certaine degrées of sinnes and one sinne is more heynons than an other Hee therefore that will profit must make his beginning by subduing the lighter sinnes Though they séeme of small account yet I would wish thée not to make small account of them For remember 1. All sinne whether great or smal doth Manifold inconueniences wrap thée within punishment because it is a breach of Gods commmaundement 2. They defile the soule with their contagion They doe so deface our beautie saith Augustine That they seperate vs from the most chast embracings of our Spouse who is more beautiful than the children of men 3. As water quencheth flaming fire so doe they diminish the seruer of Charitie They weaken the faculties of the mind in the exercise of holy vertues as a loade laide on an horse maketh him goe the slower 4. They hinder our owne glory by hurting Gods glory and doe abate the blessing of our eternall glory 5. They dispose or prepare a man to greater sinnes and barre vp the way from receiuing newe graces They hinder the true deuotion of holy prayers to God and are an impediment to our progresse in a spirituall life 6. They spoile vs of many heauenly graces And as théeues who pilfer many A Similie small things by little and little are not of long time perceiued because the things are of small value yet in the end the theft is perceiued when the owner perceiueth that he wanteth many things So doe these pilfering sinnes by litle and little bereaue vs of many graces 7. They weaken the soule and make it apt to fall into all euill infirmities And though they séeme to be but small hurts yet are they not to be neglected but spéedily to be healed 8. They are as dust or as a cloud before the eyes which hinder the sight so that wee cannot chéerefully behold God nor purely loue him Hee therefore that despiseth small Ecclese 19 Eph. 4. things shal decay by little litle saith the Preacher Grieue ye not the holy spirit saith the Apostle And Saint Augustine Despise not small sinnes though thou Small sinnes to be despised Similes make light account of them yet be afraide at least when thou numbrest them And the same No sinne is so smal that by contempt becomes not great For the sea sands though they be very litle and so likewise the drops of water yet being multiplied growe to great flouds and doe much harme and the water that leaketh into the shippe will at the length sinke it The same There is no sinne so small that is not able to destroy a man if hee take pleasure in it And Hierom. Way not how little thy sinnes are but how great God is who is displeased with thee Therefore O man What is to be done to auoyde small sinnes 1. Search diligently and daily all the starting holes of thy conscience striue continually against euery sinne be it neuer so smal by new repētance exercise of faith we ought daily to cure our maladies not onely by acknowledging our sins but also by searching the root of thē 2. Call to remembrance otherwhiles that sinnes otherwise small in a man endued with great graces are recokned to be great For by how much

this accesse thou shalt performe two things First thou shalt humbly purely and Confession of sinne faithfully confesse thy sinnes generally and in particular Whervpon shal follow remission of them before God According to that I wil make my sinne knowne Psal 32. vnto thee and mine iniquitie will I not hide I said I will confesse my defaults vnto thee O Lorde and thou tookest awaye the punishments of my sinne Say with the Prodigal sonn Father I haue sinned against Luke 15. Heauen and against thee neyther am I worthy any more to be called thy sonne Secondly thou shalt intreat for pardon Intreating for pardon Rom. 8. for thy sinnes with grones that cannot be expressed and that with continuance In which case the spirit will helpe forward our infirmities For we know not what to aske as we ought but the spirit entreateth for vs. Finally to conclude a certaine and speciall perswasion must be sensibly and effectually A certayne perswasion imprinted in the hart whereby the promises of the Gospell must be applyed to thy Faith that Christ may speak inwardly to thy hart Be of good comfort my Sonne thy sinnes are forgiuen thée Sée therefore O man thou that returnest to God that thou giue thine assent vnto the Worde of God and withstand doubting and distrust and then by experience thou shalt féele a sence of ioy and comfort A patterne of the practise of Dauids repentance Dauid after his fall repenting giues the first place to the knowledge of his Knowledge of sinne sinne Haue mercie saith he on me O God after thy great mercie And vpon Psal 51. which Psalme Gregorie sayeth I should despayre of the healing of my wound If I did not presume of the omnipotencie of my Phisition Let others seeke for small mercy that haue sinned ignorantly I as I haue grieuously falne so haue I greatly offended But thou O omnipotent Phisition dost both correct the contemners and instruct the ignorant and pardon the confessors I doe know mine owne wickednesse and my sinne is alwaies against mee Here is present sayeth Gregorie the miserable Gregorye man let mercie also be at hand I know my own miserie if I did not acknowledge my selfe miserable I should not labour in mourning 1 I acknowledge that I haue sinned of Manifold acknowledgements mine owne accord and wicked will therefore I doe not hide mine vnrighteousnesse I know from what I am falne and what I haue incurred I know to whom I haue inthral'd my selfe by sinne euen to the Diuell the enemie of all goodnes I know the blot that I haue gotten by sinne and the filth wherewith I haue horriby defiled my selfe 2 I acknowledge that I haue sinned against Manifould wayes against God thée onely and done euill before thée against thee my Creator whom I vnhappy creature haue not serued but haue rather cleaued to the creature then to the Creator Against my Lorde against whome I as a most wicked seruant haue rebelled to obey thine enemye against thée my Law giuer whose will while I shoulde haue followed I haue shamefully despised and to satisfie my lust I haue transgressed thy Lawes Against thee my most louing Father for whose innumerable benefits I haue béene so long vnthankefull yea with whose benefits beeing fatted and pampred I haue kicked against thée my Father and being forgetfull of thy loue I haue preferred mine owne Loue and the Loue of the Creatures before thée Finally against thee my good God most mightie most iust haue I sinned whiles I haue departed from thée on whome I should wholy haue depended and in whome onely as my ende I should haue rested 2 After the knowledge of sinne came A consternation Psal 6. a feare or cōsternation of his mind which did inuade his minde Lorde sayeth he rebuke me not in thy fury neyther chasten me in thy wrath 3 Héere vpon a great sorrow possessed Sorrow for sinne Ps 38 his hart Mine iniquities are gone ouer my head and are like asore burthen to heauy for mee to beare my wounds are putrified and corrupt through my foolishnesse I am racked and vexed exceedingly my hart panteth my strength hath Ps 51. forsaken me c but an humble and contrite hart thou wilt not despise Hope of pardon psal 6. 4 Hope of pardon succéedeth Turne thee O Lorde and deliuer my soule saue mee for thy mercie sake because in death no man remembreth thee and in Hell who will confesse thee As my soule sayeth Gregorie is turned to thee by the storme of repentance so turne thou to Gregorie me by the calme of mercy and being turned to me deliuer my soule And therefore Dauid saieth to his soule why art Psal 42 thou cast downe O my soule and why frettest thou within me Trust in God for I will yet praise him 5 After hope of pardon Dauid communeth Faith p●al 25. with God and resteth in him O my God in thee doe I trust let me not be put to confusion The Lorde is my saluation In thee O Lorde doe I hope let me neuer be confounded 6 Out of this Faith breaketh out from Confession the soule a cōfession watching to heauen I said I will confesse my sinnes vnto the Psal 32. Lord and thou tookest away the punishment of my sinne My sorrow is euer Psal 38. in my sight for I will open my iniquitye before thee and bee carefull for my sinne 7 A purpose of amendment of life followeth Purpose of Amendmēt Psal 6. Psa 39. Depart from mee all yee that worke iniquitie For the Lord hath heard the voyce of my weepin● I saide I will take heede to my waies that I offend not in my tongue 8 Finally he reioyceth with an inward Inward ioy and peace Psal 103. sense of ioy and peace Praise the Lorde O my soule and forget not all his benefits who forgiueth all thine iniquities and healeth all thy diseases he will not alway be striuing or chiding neither keepeth in his anger for euer c. Returne into thy rest O my soule because God hath beene bountifull to thee Thus doe we depart from euill not Counersion not without greefe without a sorrow of euill that is wee are sorry wee haue béene euill neyther doe we approach to good as to God without Faith in him For hee that will come to Heb. 11. God must beleeue that God is Now this departing from euill and approaching to good imports a certaine Conuersion imports a change vnde et alio Threefould chaunge which hath two tearmes or bondes vz from whence and whether This chaunge is in the minde will and harte An the minde there is a change of the 1 In the mind Iudgement and counsell The minde disaloweth the euill that is done and alloweth the good that is to be done 2 In the will In the will the chaunge is on this wise the will refuseth the euill which hetherto it

glory Viewe one the one side God and Paradise which is the dwelling of the blessed and on the other side the world and the conuersation of worldlings and tell me whether estate is more to be desired O how great ioy shalt thou be filled with when by death thou shalt depart hence if for humane fauour or displeasure thou wert neuer hindred or ashamed to liue to God 2. Take heede of Relapse that is Relapse daungerous Fall not backe into thy former sins The memory of thy life past which before thy conuersion thou didst leade as it séemed swéetly in the fulfilling the lustes of the flesh is wont to draw with it a certaine sadnes in the will because thou perceiuest that thou art perpetually excluded from that pleasant life by thy conuersion to God But knowe thou that this Relapse as they call it or falling backe into sicknesse is dangerous Our Sauior Christ threatning vs that of a man falling backe to Vnderstand fal or end his old sinne the last shall bee worse than the first And that in thrée sorts 1. In respect of the diuel who doth assault the man lately deliuered from the In respect of the diuel sinnes wherewith he held him in slauerie more cruelly he attendeth him more watchfully he inuadeth him more sharply as a praie recouered out of hie hands or as a morsel snatched out of his Iawes And not finding rest he saith I will returne into my house whence I came out And leadeth with him seuen other spirits worse than himselfe The man therefore relapsed in respect of Sathan is in worse case than before he was 2. In respect of God also because such a sinner as a dogge to his vomite In respect of God or as a swine to her wallowing in the myre is sooner forsaken of God We haue healed Babilon saith the Lord by the Prophet but yet shee is not Ierem. 51 sound Loe let vs leaue her Item Who will haue pittie on thee O Ierusalem Ierem. 15 or who will goe to intreat for thy peace for thou hast forsaken mee saith the LORD thou art gone backward And Christ saith to the man cured of the Palsie Behold thou art made whole sinne no Ioh. 5. more least a worse thing happen vnto thee Item Thou vngratious seruant Mat. 12. I forgaue thee all that debt when thou desiredst me shouldest not thou haue had compassion on thy fellow-seruant euen as I had pittie on thee And the Lord being wrath deliuered him to the Iaylors till hee should pay the whole debt Ye knowe how it saide Hee that loueth danger shall perish in it 3. In respect of the sinner himselfe who often falleth backe into sinne the last In respect of the sinner is worse than the first for sundry causes First because in euery sinne there is a turning from God by the transgression of the commandement and a turning to the diuel by the delight in sin And out of this delight by custome of sinne are engendred euill habits which make our returne to God hard So that we get as the Prophet saith A harlots forhead Ierom. 3. that cannot blush And Saint Augustine Out of our peruerse will riseth lust and while wee serue our lust wee breede a custome and while we resist not custome it becomes a necessitie And Solomon saith The wicked when hee is come into the deepe make light of it All other sinners doe warre against thrée enemies but he that often falleth The three enemies The Diuel world flesh backe into sinne must warre against a fourth enimie to wit custome the hardest enemie among all Secondly he that is reconciled to God and is deliuered out of the power of darknesse euen the diuel and is restored to The fourth Custome Sin in a Christian more hainous than in an infidell 2. Pet. 2. the frée libertie of the spirit doth sinne more heinously by Relapse than hée that is by nature a child of wrath and liues in slauery to sinne hauing neuer receiued faith nor the grace of Christ It had bin better for them not to haue known the way of righteousnesse than after they haue knowne it to fall backe from the holy Commandement which was giuen vnto them And Basil As the aire which is drawn in pestilent places doth breed priuie diseases in the body so out of euill custome many mischiefes arise though they be not by and by felt and perceiued Thirdly consider with mee what a great indignitie is in this matter For what can bee imagined more absurde than euen now to haue wept and mourned An indignitie and to haue entreated Gods infinite mercie to obtaine remission of thy sinnes and sodenly changing thy purpose to forget thy selfe to set light by Gods grace to renounce godlinesse to bee clearely an other man and to thinke otherwise than eare-while thou wast and desirest alway to be Fourthly when we often fall backe Hard to obtaine Gods fauour to the same sinnes it is an harder matter no doubt to returne againe into Gods fauour both because the iniurie is greater and Gods displeasure iuster and because we our selues haue hardned our hearts and finally because Sathans power and dominion ouer our soules is encreased For this cause are wee Heb. 10. taught That to those that sinne wilfully after the knowledge of the truth receiued there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sinne but a fearefull expectation of iudgement and deuouring fire which shall consume the aduersaries But this place is rather vnderstood of Apostasie and sinne against the holy Ghost Be not therefore negligent in auoiding Exhortation such cogitations as solicite thée to returne againe to thy old life yea the more often and earnestly that they thrust themselues into thy mind the more spéedily and strongly let them be cast out We must saith Ciprian meete with the suggestions of the diuel and not nourish a snake till hee become a serpent And Hierom. Kill thy enemie while he is small and dash iniquitie in peeces euen in the seede Be seruent in prayer and often vse that prayer which was so familiar to Saint Augustine Da quod iubes iube quod vis Giue ô Lord that which thou biddest and bid what thou wilt The third member Profice Goe forward or proceede IT is the gift of God to procéede in the God the cause of profiting Iere. 10. way of Saluation For God giueth the encrease I knowe O Lord that the way of man is not in his owne power neither is it in man to correct his owne way Wee must therefore aske this gift of Praier the meanes God by prayer in whose hand it is And Dauid Leade me O Lord in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies make thy way plaine before my face Wée must therefore pray That according to the riches of his glory hee will strengthen vs by his spirit in our inward man that Christ may dwell in our hearts by