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A04503	An excellent treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen written by the worthy, Saint Chrysostome to Theodorus a friend of his, who by leud liuing, was fallen from the Gospell; fit to read for reclaiming their hearts which are in like case. Englished (out of an auncient Latin translation, written in velume) by R.W. With an annexed epistle of comfort from one friend to another, wherin the Anabaptists error of desperation is briefly confuted, and the sinne against the holy Ghost plainly declared.	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Cottesford, Thomas. Epistle of comfort.; Wolcomb, Robert, b. 1567 or 8.	1609 (1609)	STC 14631; ESTC S121653	61,720	216

who waite vpon him and suppose our selues wretched if we bee not vouchsafed any place amongst them though we know the weaknes and instability of th●se terrene things somtimes for forreine warres sometimes for ciuill conterwaits and sometimes for malicious spite yet howsoeuer it bee it grieueth those that haue fallen thence How then shall it not much more vexe vs if with the highest king who holdeth the whole globe of the earth Isai 40. not a part thereof onely yea who holdeth it in his fist who measureth the heauen with an hand breadth who supporteth each thing by the word of his power who reckoneth the Gentiles as nothing yea as spettle with this I say when he bestoweth honour that shal last for euer we haue no place neither be numbred among his seruants Will it not pinch vs more then any paine But peraduenture thou sayest it will suffice vs to escape hell albeit wee bee not thought worthy of the sight of the King What more vnhappy and wretched soule is there than to which this is sufficient Supposest thou that the King wherof we speake shall come to iudge the earth carried in Chariots of Mules or in gilded waggons or with the terrible power of a diademe Nay harken how the Prophets foretold as much as might be declared to men the comming of Christ One of them saith thus Our God shall come Psal 50.3 and shall not keepe silence a fire shall deuour before him and a mighty tempest shall be mooued round about him he shall call the heauen aboue and the earth to iudge his people And harken how another to wit Isaiah sheweth the diuerse sorts of punishments these are his wordes Behold the day of the Lord commeth cruel with wrath Isai 13.9 and firce anger to lay the land wast and he shall destroy the sinners out of it For the starres of heauen Verse 10. and the planets thereof shall not giue their light the Sunne shall be darkened in his going forth and the Moone shall not cause her light to shine Verse 11. And I will visit the wickednes vpon the world and their iniquitie vpon the wicked and I wil cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease I will make a man more precious then fine Gold Verse 12. euen a man aboue the wedge of gold of Ophir Verse 13. Therefore I will shake the heauen and the earth shall remooue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hoasts and in the day of his fierce anger And againe hee saith the windowes from on high are open Jsa 24.18 and the foundations of the earth doe shake The earth is vtterly broken downe 19. the earth is cleane dissolued the earth is exceedingly mooued The earth shall reele too and fro like a drunken man 20. and shall be remoued like a tent the iniquity thereof shal be heauy vpon it so that it shal fall and rise no more And in that day 21. shal the Lord visit the hoa●t aboue that is on high euen the Kings of the world that are vpon the earth and they shal be gathered together as the prisoners in the pit and they shall be shut vp in prison And the Prophet Malachies words are consonant hereto Malac. 3. Verse 1.2 Behold he shall come saith the ●ord of hoasts But who may abide the day of his comming and who shall indure when he appeareth For he is like a purging fire and like fullers s●pe Verse 3. And hee shall sit downe to fine and try the siluer he shall euen fine the sons of Leuie and purifie them as gold and siluer Chap. 4.1 And againe he saith for behold the day commeth that shall burne as an ouen and all the proud yea and all that doe wickedly shall bee as stable and the day that commeth shall burne them vp saith the Lord of hoasts and shall leaue them neither roote nor branch And another of the Prophets saith Dan. 7.9 I beheld till the thrones were set vp and the auncient of daies did sit whose garment was white as snow and the haire of his head like pure wooll Verse 10 A fiery streame issued and came forth from before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened And a little after Vers 13. as I beheld in visions by night beholde one like the sonne of man came in the cloudes of heauen and approached vnto the auncient of these dayes and they brought him before him And he gaue him dominion Vers 14. and honour and a Kingdome that all people nations and languages should serue him his dominion is an euerlasting dominion which shall neuer be taken away and his kingdome shall neuer bee destroyed Vers 15. I Daniel was troubled in my spirit in the midst of my body and the visions of mine head made me afraid So then when these things shall begin the gates of heauen shall be opened yea rather the very heauen shall be taken away as if the couerings of a pauilion were drawne together to wit that it may be restored and transfigured into better Then all things shall be in feare amazednesse and trembling shall fill euery place Then also feare shall shake the Angels and not the Angels alone but perchance the Archangels thrones dominions rules and powers For this is signified where it is said I will shake the heauen Jsai 13.13 for they are the fellow seruants of them that must bee iudged and must giue an account of this life If when one Citie is to bee iudged by the iudges of this world other feare and shake although it be not for great danger like to insue when the vniuersal world shall come to be iudged of him that lacketh not witnesse that doth not seek arguments that doth not require an orator for the cause but all these things being remooued that doth reueale the deeds wordes and thoughts of men that placeth each thing in open sight and heweth euery fact as it wrre in a painted table before the eyes both of the transgressors and the beholders how much more shall euery creature bee mooued with feare And if then no fierie streame should issue forth neither the terrible Angels or greesely executioners should stand by but if thus onely it were that men should be called before the king and some should be praysed and honoured other some without honour cast to confusion if men did onely suffer this punishment would it not surpasse the torments of hell that when other were endowed with gifts of the king they should shamefully suffer the repulse Which paine how vntolerable it is although speech now may not declare yet then shall we cleerely perceiue it when we come to experience Furthermore besides all these anguishes of torments fet before your eyes not confusion alone and vtter shame but the way how men are drawne to fire and deliuered vp to racking Thinke vpon those cruell and vgly tortors which throw sinners downe headlong

all these is left all things are taken from thy soule she is bereft of all her beautie and all the giftes which God bestowed on her she remaineth spoiled deformed fowle she hath lost all her aide and safegard No doore now is shut in her no entrie is kept but she lyeth open to all naughtie spirits which corrupt the soule No vncleane thought no filthie desire is thence expelled but if the spirit of fornication come it entreth in if the spirit of pride if the spirit of auarice if more hellish and vnpure than these shall come none forbiddeth them none beareth them backe For she hath no keeper no Sexton And as to the secrets of heauen there is no accesse for an vngodly person so at the first no infection could touch thy mind But perhaps I may seeme to speake incredible things to those especially that knew not thy former estate and onely see the destruction wherein thy soule now lieth This surely is the cause why I weepe without remedie because I knew thee and why I sorrow vncessantly because I remember how long it is vntill I see thee returne vnto thy wonted and pristine glory Which for all that men may iudge impossible Mat. 19.26 * Psal 113.8 9. 1. Sam. 2.8 For he it is that raiseth the needy out or the dust lifteth vp the poore out of the dunge That he may s●t him with princes ●uen with the princes of the people He it is that maketh the barren woman to dwell with a family and a ioyfull mother of children Let vs not then doubt nor despaire If Sathan draw to sin God can pull backe to goodnes but that thou mayest be conuerted into a better case For if the diuell could do so much in thee as to draw thee from the height of vertue to the depth of wickednes how much more shal God be able to reclaime thee to the highest pitch of goodnesse and not onely make thee that thou wast once but farre more blessed than thou diddest seeme in thy owne conceit Onely be of stout courage neither cast of the hope of goodnesse let not I pray thee that betide thee which doth the godlesse Vngodlines without penitencie breedeth to despaire It is impietie not the multitude of sinnes that bringeth a foole to desperation and therefore Salomon sayd not that each one when hee commeth into the depth of euils contemneth but * Pro. 18.3 the wicked saith he if he come into the depth of euils contemneth It is then a point of the impious to haue no hope of saluation Or when the wicked commeth thē commeth contempt and to contemne when they come into the depth of sinnes vngodlinesse not permitting them to haue respect to God and to returne thither from whence they fell So that this thought which cutteth away all hope of conuersion issueth from impietie and as a most heauie stone accloying the soule it perpetually compelleth it to behold the earth and neuer to looke vpward on God When we sinne we must not despaire But a lusty stomacke and loftie minde will cast down this hurtful weight of his soule and tread vnder feet Sathan that being his owne gouernour hee may sing the Psalmists words of God * Psal 113 2. As the eies of seruans looke vpon the hands of their masters and as the eies of a maiden vpon the hands of her mistres so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God till he haue mercy vpon vs. Haue mercy vpon vs O Lord haue mercy vpon vs for we haue suffered too much contempt And in these wordes of this heauenly prophecie there is singular doctrine we haue suffered too much contempt This is that hee would haue vs say that although for the multitude of our sinnes wee haue suffered much contempt and are surrounded with reproches yet our eyes shall waite vpon the Lord our God till hee haue mercy vpon vs that we will not leaue of beseeching vntill we be vouchsafed forgiuenes We ought to be earnest in prayer when wee sue for forgiuenes and not to rest till God haue fulfilled our petitions For this is the badge of a constant and setled minde that it is not wearie of perseuering in intrearie through dispaire to obtaine but continueth and persisteth in crauing vntill the Lord haue mercy vpon it * These two periods following G.F. Capito hath not in his translation And least you should think you offende greatly before the Lord if not vouchsafed to be heard you continue importunately in prayers call to memory the Euangelicall parable and there you shall find that the Lord sheweth that stiffe perseuering beggers are not vnacceptable to him For he saith * Lu. 11.8 Though he would not giue him because he is his friend yet because of his importunitie he will rise and giue him as much as hee needeth Vnderstand therefore deare friend that the diuell putteth into our mindes despaire of obteining to this end that he may cut from vs the hope of the goodnesse of God which is the Anchor of our saluation the foundation ●f life the guide of the way ●hrough which wee passe to ●eauen in briefe the Apostle ●aith * Ro. 8.24 by hope we are saued Insomuch that our saluation consisteth in hope which draw●th vp our soules from out the earth knit as it were to certaine chaines hanging downe from heauen and calleth againe those to the heauenly dwelling place which cleaue to themselues exalting them securely aboue the troubles of this life and earthly miseries Wherefore if any encumbred with these calamities bee dissolute and let goe out of his hands the anchor of hope hee must needes fall and be caried into the bottomlesse pit and profunditie of euils The dangers of despaire Which assoone as the enemie shall perceiue and see vs loath the multitude of our sinnes and feare through remorse of conscience straightway he draweth neere and casteth before our eyes cogitations of despaire more heauie than any leade or grauell which if wee vndertake we must of necessity bee drowned in the depth or euils because with the very load the staies of our saluation are broken Into the which depth because thou art cast thou dost throw behind thee the precepts of a good and gentle lord and thou doest obey the becke of a bloudy and mercilesse tyrant Mat. 11.30 the enemie of thy saluation Thou hast shaken off the sweete yoke of Christ and hast laid on thy necke for it the hard and iron fetters of sinne thou hast shaken off the easie burden of a lowly and meeke Lord and for it hast hanged about thy neck a milstone but how long doest thou so continue Stand now at the last and cease to drown thy vnhappy soule without any care without any aduise how long doest thou hast it foorth and cast it downe headlong to thy owne decay Luke 15. And truly the woman in the Gospell which found againe the lost groate

that they may not surmise they cannot tread the true way vnlesse they see thee returne Regard I desire you the pensiuenesse of the whole congregation of the faithfull brethren the great ioy and triumphing of the faithlesse the vsuall by words of slouthfull youthes regard wbat authority thou art to many to wallow in the mire of riot And if so be that you returne into the way of your former vertues all these things will be turned into the contrary Our shame and confusion shall light on them we shall be ioyfull and glad For we will blaze abrode throughout the world that thou art a subduer of lust a subduer of vncleane and foolish voluptie and riot and we will brute farre and wide thy glorious triumph That victory is the greater that is gotten after a fall and that is restored after flight And you shall not onely be rewarded for your owne labour and reformation but shall receiue a meede for the safety of them who leuelling their life to thy conuersation haue without dispaire returned themselues to repentance Neither any hereafter hauing fallen howsoeuer will not be greedy by and by to rise and incontinently to be restored Despise not if you loue me these great profits neither bring our soules with sorrow to the graue but vouchsafe vs some rest and chase away the cloud of heauines which for thy sake hath ouercouered vs for loe letting passe our owne euils we bewaile thy fall But if you would a little looke vpward and be in loue with celestiall things we should be eased of this lamenting and we might be caused to consider our owne offences That men may by repentance repaire their pristine gainesse yea somtimes be made more excellent than before they were hetherto we haue confirmed out of the word of God And to cōclude this point this is the cause why that harlots and Publicans inherit the kingdome of heauen and that many that were last shall be first Henceforth I will adde the things that haue beene done in our age of which thou * G. F. C. of which my selfe may bee a witnes thy selfe art a witnes * G. F. C. I know You know that yong man the sonne of Vrbanus the chiefest of that prouince whose parents died in his minority but left him very wealthy in houshold stuffe gold siluer and possessions That youth contemning at the first all pompe and pride which that age and ritches for the most part follow he left the schooles of humane artes and betooke himselfe to a base life in which putting on course and homely arayment he departed to the mountaines and desart places Where being exercised in the temperancy of true philosophy he not onely matched which is but seldome seene in those yeeres but passed too great and wonderfull men in the vertue of abstinency yea when afterward he was baptised he passingly increased in vertues At which thing all reioyced praysed the Lord that borne to so great wealth descended of such a family euen in the Aprill of his daies he troad vnder foote at once all vanity of this momentary life and had an hungry desire of eternall ioy Liuing after this sort and in this admiration among all certaine of his kindred but naughty persons at the first came to see him and after by continuance of lewd talke Euill speeches corrupt good manners drew him againe to that he hated and loathed so that all philosophy which he studied being layed apart he came from the hilles to the market place Then carried on a palfrey through the midst of the citie and guarded with footemen he vauntingly began to wander vp and downe the streetes Insomuch that the raines of chastity were also let loose because it hath no fellowshippe with dainties and ryot After this he was snarled in the baite of filthy loue and led into captiuitie by euery lust which caused all men to despaire of his saluation For swarmes of parasites enuironed this hope lost yonker the adulterous rabble compassed him in And what hope would a man thinke to be remaining Those also which were giuen very much to reprehending found fault with this likewise that in the begining he entred a course he could not continue in and had aspired to that was aboue his reach forsaking the study of learning wherein he might haue profited When these and such like things as touching his life being rumored abroad were knowne to all and we also were ashamed of his doing certaine holy men expert in this kind of hunting and who had found out by long vse and experience that naught was to be despaired putting on the armour of hope they began to watch him more narrowly And if it fortuned he were in the street they approached neere and courteously saluted him but he on horse-backe scarce greeted them againe or thought them worthy an answere when they went by his side such was his pride and wickednes But those mercifull men accounting none of these an iniury respected only that they had intended that they m●ght if it were possible by any meanes deliuer the lambe out of the teeth of wolues which by patience was in fine achiued For weighing they did this often and prying into his owne life with the inward eyes of his mind he blushed somewhat at their boldnesse and tendring and when he marked they came a far off he would dismount from his horse and bowing his head towards the earth he harkened diligently to their speeches and in processe of time he reuerenced them more And so reuolting by peece-meale through the grace of God and their meeke counsell and rid from all the nets of death wherin he was entangled he went againe to the wildernes to the mountaines and to the wonted exercises of philosophie and after was of such humilitie that his latter doings exceeded his wonderfull beginning He learned by proofe the occasion of his fall and the allurement of all his error That also he did which doubtlesse was agreeable to Christs commaundement in the Gospell Mat. 19.21 Selling all he had and distributing it on the poore to the end he might remooue his treasure from the earth to heauen and his heart might bee there where his treasure was But because as yet hee had somewhat left on earth his heart returned to the earth and making an estimate of all his goodes for he cared nothing for them he bestowed much on the needy that so freeing himselfe from care of mind he might take away all occasion of stumbling And thus walking in the way to heauen by amendment he is come to each accomplement of vertue so you see how this yong man fell quickly and arose speedily Another also after many labours he had sustained in the wildernes hauing onely the company of one in his life and mansion place continued an Angelicall life from his yong age to his very old daies * Good Lord how much difference is there betweene the Romish Masse-mongring Moonkes now being

that sinketh shal draw with it the worker Rewardes in the life to come of workes both good and bad If the multitude of euils shal ouer-poyse it will pull the worker to hell but if the good works shall be greater they will resist and repugne against the euils and will bring their worker to the place of the liuing euen from the gates of hell This is not phantastically imagined of my braine the diuine Scriptures disassent not from it for this the word of God speaketh Thou * Psal 62 12. Mat. 16.27 Differēces of ioyes plagues in the life to come Caluin Iustitu lib. 3. cap. 25. sect 10. Bulling in Comment Erasmus in Paraphras in 41 vers cap. 15. 1 Cor. rewardest euery one according to his worke For not in hell onely but in the kingdome of God there shall be many differences * Iohn 14.2 In my fathers house saith he are many dweling places And againe * 1. Cor. 15.41 There is another glory of the Sunne and another glory of the Moone What is more wonderfull then that he sheweth how exactly the measure of our deedes shall be weighed One starre saith he differeth from another starre in glory that by it he might shew that amongst all and euery one that shall be in that kingdome there will be a difference Therefore sith wee know all this let vs not withdraw our selus frō goodworks neither yeeld to sloth sluggardie the presence of despaire And admit we cannot attaine to the clearenesse of the Sunne or Moone yet we must desire the brightnes of a starre howbe●t inferior to them let vs seeke at the least for some light by our good deeds let vs labour to be sound worthy to inlarge somewhat the shining of heauen If we cannot be gold if we cannot be precious stones yet let vs be in stead of siluer onely let vs now be turned into that matter which fire may consume that we be not found to be wood hay or stubble let vs be euen the last in goodnes not the first in euill * By often adding a little there will arise a great heape as wittily said Hesiodus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Small good workes conioyned with faith and repentance go not without reward And as worldly riches increase when euery small gaine is regarded so it fareth in heauenly riches in increasing the which no little good deede must be cōtemned Surely it is an absurdity seeing our Iudge doth not deny a reward for * Mat 10 a cup of cold water for vs to say that vnlesse wee doe great things it wil be nothing auaileable Yea this more I ad that he that despiseth not small and little things will by little and little come to great things and * Eccl. 19.1 he that contemneth small things which concordeth with the Scripture shall fall by little and little And therefore I thinke for this cause our Lord and Sauiour did ordaine for small things great rewardes For what is lesse than to visit the sicke And yet for this small worke hee hath laid vp a great reward And againe what is so easie as to giue the hungry bread the thirstie drinke the naked raiment and to seeke out him that is shut vp in prison Yet these things that be so little and small he reckneth so great as that he accounteth them ministred not to man but to himselfe and for them hath promised the celestiall kingdome Wherefore most deerely beloued enter enter the waye to eternall life and put on againe * My yoke is light my burden light This burden is not the weight of him that is loden but the winges of him that flieth For birds haue burdens of their feathers which on earth they beare of them they are borne into the heauen Augustine the yoake of Christ which is easie and his burden which is light recouer the vertues of thy mind make thine end according to thy beginning let not the treasure of spirituall graces gotten by such labour decay and they will verely perish if thou persist in euils exasperate the wrath of God against thy deedes But before thou loose much of thy treasure and before thy manured field be surrounded with hurtfull deluges if thou exclude the entrance and stop the ouerflowing of sinne thou maist bring it againe to his pristine fertility and by husbanding make it very battle Arise therefore arise and shake off the dust from thee arise from the earth and straightway beleeue mee thine enemy will be affraid For he threw thee downe as though thou shouldest neuer rise vp but if he shall see thee to rise from the earth and lift thine eyes towards the heauens incontinent thy boldnes will out-countenance him * Resist the deuil and he will flie ftom you Jam. 4.7 If one flie the deuill he is a Lion if one resist he hath for he is Belzebub that is a God of flies no more power than a weak flie according to the old verse Hostis non laedit nisi cum tentàtus obedit Est leo si cedis si stas quafi musca recedit and the more ready thou art the more fearefull he will be and the more thou presumest the more fraile and infirme thou makest him Thinke also on this that the more hardinesse God shall indue thee withall the more he will weaken both his boldnesse and might If so be thou haue affiance in my wordes me thinketh I see towards thee the mercy and aide of God but thine aduersary to be affrighted by reason of shame and confusion Me thinketh I perceiue now in my mind that with all gratefulnes and fauour euery vertue allureth thee to her hold on then earnestly labour chearefully runne forward willingly Thou shalt find no want of me in that I can but I will still reason with thee in speech I will continually exhort and stir thee vp both present with liuely voice and absent with letters Albeit I perswade my selfe if thou gladly read this I haue now written there will bee no cause why thou shouldest seeke for farther medicines Deo soli sapienti laus gloria TO THE Reader IF the wicked would earnestlie consider the terriblenes of the day of the Lord it must needes bee that they would either wholy renounce sinne or at least not so much bee delighted therewith VVhich Chrisostome right wel perceiued for that so copiously so liuely as it were with a pencile he depainteth that day and time On the other side to ponder equally the rewards that in heauen abide for them who in this life seeke chiefly the setting forth of Gods glory the benefitting of their neighbour who bewailing theyr sinnes with true and vnfayned repentance by the hand of faith lay hold on Gods promises auayleth not a little to the abandoning of sinne and iniquitie VVherefore gentle Reader in the sentences following I haue vsed this order that those which appartaine to the second comming