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A08566	The fiue bookes of the famous, learned, and eloquent man, Hieronimus Osorius, contayninge a discourse of ciuill, and Christian nobilitie A worke no lesse pleasaunt then profitable for all, but especiallye the noble gentlemen of England, to vievv their liues, their estates, and conditions in. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by VVilliam Blandie late of the Vniuersitie of Oxeford, and novv fellovv of the middle Temple in London.; De nobilitate civili et christiana. English	Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580.; Blandie, William.	1576 (1576)	STC 18886; ESTC S113632	145,792	234

free from all felowship and coniunction of the body desire nothing els but to behold their maker neither cā they reape any cōmoditie or conceiue any pleasure of things beneath in these lowe parts And to thinck this substanciall workmanship was made cheiefly for vnreasonable creatures or for the vse of trees plantes it were a thinge to absurde For were it not a thing farre vnsitting wyth the maiesty of God to haue framed so great and wonderfull a worke for brute beastes and creatures voyd of reason and vnderstanding and therefore ioyned vnto him by no kinde of affinitie and likelines God hath not therfore deuised this so goodly a frame for himselfe for Angels for the fruites of the earth for liuinge creatures voyde of reason but for man made of body reasonable soule consistinge of both those natures cōioyned that he might both with his outward sences vew the excellent workemanship of the worlde and also conceiue in minde deepely the exceding glory greatnes of the workeman Wherefore all the world with the beauty pleasure therof was ordeyned for the profite and vtility of man Firste and principally that hee mighte haue a dwellīg place wherin not onely the body should be nourished comforted wyth diuers sondry fruits of the earth which it aboūdantly bringeth forth for the maintenaūce sustentacion of all lyuing creatures but also that the minde obseruing through vnderstanding iudgemēt the works of Nature with the varietie pleasure and delectacion thereof might by a proper peculiar foode which chiefly consisteth in the manifeste seinge of the truth be fedde and receyue his solace and contentation That when the order settled rule and constant gouernment of so greate a woorke should stirre vp exceedingly the minde of man it mought also induce him to the cōtemplacion of the chiefe and principall workeman So that the goodly proportiō and frame of the worlde mighte be a schole and a certayne way and trade of learning wherby man might be taught to honour and worship his lord maker And thus it is cleare apparant that the most high mighty God hath for mans sake made and created fruites and cōmodityes which the earth wyth wonderfull plenty yeldeth sensible creatures all maner of soyles whatsoeuer the seas ouerwhelmed wyth a grosse and foggie aier the heauens the firmament the sterres by whose gentle mouinges much good happeneth to all lyuing creatures Man was not as yet created when God had prepared for him so beautifull so rich so bountefull a kingdome At length when the world it selfe was fully finished he made man his body of earth and be breathed thereinto a soule finely fashioned accordinge to his owne Image and similitude Here may you see manifestly the originall and beginning of the most excellent noble soule of man which being deriued and taken oute from no other thinge then the spyrite of God and being inclosed in the body as in a worthy vessel retayneth a deuine forme pure and deuoyde of all filthye corruptiō Then the body was not infected wyth any vice whereby reason mought be disturbed or the minde it selfe with darcknes ouerwhelmed The first mā therfore knew all sciēces vnderstoode the causes of all things was sufficiētly learned in the rule and discipline of life beinge instructed by no other teacher then God himselfe the giuer of all knowledge wisedome And he did not onely excel all other creatures in the comely shape feature of his bodye but he was farre beyond them all in the amiable and the most excellent and deuine shape forme of the minde For both parts thereof were wyth so singuler passing clerenes enlightened also vnited with such concord agreement the scarcely any surer concord or any more decent and seemely maner of comlines could be imagined There was in the mind no errour no motion in the sence wherby the rule of reason might be disordered whereas reason it selfe as it were in a perfect flourishing cōmonwealth so in a peaceable quiet estate coulde very easlie restraine all raging affections The minde therfore had no kinde of let and impediment wherby it might be hindered from daily contemplacion But the vnderstandinge capacitie of mā being flourishing quick bent to the search of highe matters when it had found out and discussed the nature of all thinges that were contayned and as it were hidden in the ayre the sea earth beneath it was not satisfyed with those things which were vnder the circle sphere of the Mone and with those things which mighte be seene but woulde needes pearce the clouds and search the nature of heauen it selfe And being thus made of so excellent a dispositiō and nature was also indued with those vertues which excede the common state of man by the exercise and fruition whereof he might be the more assured alwayes of the loue and grace of his lord maker For the charecter figure of true perfect iustice which prepareth the minde to all holines is the most surest bulwarke and defence therof was deepely imprinted in him There was therein a firme and assured constancie of vertue the exceedinge perfecte shape comlines of honestie it self Againe he had his wit tyed to no kinde of necessity neither parcially inclined to any cause nor intermedled with any kind of affectiō or perturbation To be briefe God hauing shewed himselfe so liberall bountefull towards man he made him presidēt chiefe ruler of the earth appointed him a Princely place for his habitaciō The Grekes call it Paradise a gardeine flowing with most pleasaunt springs most delectable and decked with great store varietie of sweete smellinge flowers most fit to liue in in all felicitie pleasure In this most pleasaunt seate mā was placed that by that place which they say was high and mounted alofte he mought learne not onely like a ruler and gouernour wysely to guide the sterne thereof but also thereby be admonished with discrete gouernment free liberty to take vppon him the charge and rule ouer all other lyuinge creatures In the ordering of which kingdome he folowed not a written law but the law of nature that is a most perfecte order agreeable to the deuine nature of God which they terme the chiefest and most soueraigne law of all other Furthermore there was a promise made a reward appointed that if he did administer the gouernment assigned vnto him godly righteously he should enter into that heauenly kingdome and euerlastinge blisse the which in this life he would so much desire This was the first estate allotted and appointed to mā this was the first beginning foundatiō of that Nobility whereunto man aspired in which no man can note any thīg but that which is right honourable worthy of high estimacion Whereby it is euidently to be perceiued what a miserable miste of darcknes auerwhelmed the mīds of them which hauing theyr soule created by the prouidēce

praise as the vayne brute of the people for he feared mutch least that Hector in the middest of his glory would the more triumphe if he might saie he had put Diomedes to flighte he therefore purchased not due prayse of vertue In like manner Aristotle iudgeth of Hector for that he openly confessed that he tooke great care least that the men and women of Troye woulde spreade any rumour soūdinge to his dishonour and therefore would more boldly and couragiouslye venture his life in battaile This man of singular wit and learninge iudged them not to haue deserued the title of true honour and vertue for because they did not respecte true perfect honesty with he thought should be considered as the principall and chiefe ende of our life and therefore remoueth them from that ordre and degree that vertue purchaseth and placeth theym in a seconde roome in which he reposeth that counterfaite image of vertue whiche bringeth vs to do our office and duety through an ambitious desire of glory and is conteined within the compasse of law and ciuill discipline The ende therefore accordinge to Aristoteles opinion proueth euery Acte to be honest or dishonest ignoble or honourable For one and the selfe same action may be taken in hande whereby sometimes great estimation sometimes no small discredit and shame is procured according to the diuersity of the intent and purpose Whereby it foloweth necessarily that they onely may be termed stoute and valiaunt men whiche hauinge respect to the true ende of vertue worthely die the death and they that regarde rumoures and vaine reportes of the people and for that refuse not to endaunger themselues are to be estéemed as vaine and light but they that through some naughty and vnlawfull desire or some lewde and vicious perturbation of the minde are stirred vp to do some valiant enterprice are of all other to be holden most wicked Whereby it is concluded that neyther Hector nor Diomedes were to be commended for their prowes and puissance and that Achilles and Paris were not only not valiante but worthy of all shame and dishonour For the one in defence of an infamous and wicked marriage came forth into the fielde the other shed so mutch bloude and made that great slaughter of his enemies only to quench and satisfy the immoderate angre and rage of his mind Aristotle may be with al conuinced of the ignorance of true magnanimitye fortitude whereas he could not beinge ouerwhelmed with the like cloude of blindnes vnderstande what felicity was from whence the constancie and stability of vertue and the decent semelines of honesty issueth and floweth But you will saye he hath written many thinges of God shewinge therein great wisedome and learninge I knowe that very well But I pray you what place hath he assigned him in the makinge and creatinge of all thinges appertaininge to man For whereas he denieth the world euer to haue bene made in deede this one onely office he appoynteth to God to moue the worlde aboute the Pole with a wonderfull swiftnes By the conuersion and turninge whereof the chaunges and courses Generations and corruptions of a●l thinges vnder heauen are made Againe there were many of great learninge and iudgemente which supposed the worlde to bee ruled not by fortune or any meanes casuall but by the deuine prouidence and ordinaūce of god But not so that they either thought that vertues proceeded from him or that the desired ende of our life shoulde rest in him Therefore what auaile their incōstāt opinions of God dusked defaced with so manifold errours to the cōsideration of our last desired ende For yf they confessed an eternall euerlasting God forced thereunto through beholdinge the meruaylous and exceedinge beauty of the worlde and the wonderfull order of heauenly bodies yet for all that they did not due honour vnto him neither dyd put in him the hope of a blessed and happy life Therefore none of the whole packe of them either could beholde the end of our life or could perceyue in their mindes the perfecte fourme of vertue desiringe rather the shadowe and counterfaite then the plaine and liuely image of nobility representinge it more in a glorious ostentation and bragge of wordes then fullfillinge it absolutely in their maners and life To conclude if that onely may be iustly iudged true vertue which bringeth vs to perfecte felicitye it is most cleare which also hath bene proued sufficiently before that that onely is to be taken for vertue which lifteth vp our mindes intentiuely and with great affection to the beholding of God euerlastinge the beginninge and ende of all thinges Whereuppon this may also consequently folowe that all honoure and true noblenes receiueth light and beauty of that most excellent and notable vertue But all nobility whatsoeuer if it do not issue and spring out of this diuine vertue albeit it hath a faire shew glistereth gaiely neuerthelesse in very deede it is vaine mutable neither can it participate the nature of perfecte and true nobility And no doubt that race and kinred in which that heauenly kinde of vertue appeareth may not so much be thought to fetch his descent genealogy from men as to spring out of some celestiall and diuine generation Therefore after I haue declared the fall and misery of the first man I will manifestly discourse vnto you the worthy notes and properties of this diuine and celestial kinred For the declaration of that calamity and disstresse wherwith the first parent of all mankind being oppressed fell will conteine the cause of that error cloude of ignoraūce wherwith the minds of men ouerwhelmed so many ages lay hidden in darcknes that neither they could behold any heauenly light neyther sufficiently consider the worthines of true Nobility Wherby it came to passe that Nobility being vtterly extinct in steede thereof succeded an abiect minde and a vile estate rude base barbarous After these so many and wonderful miscryes be layed opē and euidently knowen then will it more clearely appeare by what meanes wee were againe restored to our former dignity how we againe recouered the name worthines that we afore loste TO returne therfore to man he as it was declared before was placed in the earth to the intēt he should be lord owner thereof Againe that he should gouerne all lyuing creatures behold the heauen aboue with al godlines and dutifull reuerence He had therefore a Princely iurisdiction ouer the earth he serued onely the Lord of heauē being a holy one wholy dedicated to God he was the expounder of his holy will and pleasure and the chiefe Prince first parent of al mankind Who hauing in body a most comely goodly personage in minde notwythstandinge attayned to honour due to celestiall creatures in so much that throughe a heauenly inspiration he could foreshew many thinges to come And thus naked he wandred in that sweete and delectable gardeine For neither wāted he any kinde of

iudgemente To conclude after sinne and wickednes was once committed all meanes possible were deuised to heale the festered soore by sinne procured There were laid forth menacing threatninges there was sente amonge men death and destruction generall ouerwhelming of waters great waste hurt by fire Againe there happened straunge sights prodigious monsters to feare and terrifie the minds of mē Further the broiles and tumults of warre the vtter ruine and subuersion of countryes had this meaninge to strike into men some remorse of sinne and to withdraw them frō their wickednes abhominaciō On the other side the cōmodities of this life the law set downe by the finger of God the institutiō of holy religion Gods promises his exceedinge benefits were to reduce men both to their dutie to the purchasing of theyr owne health safetie God therfore of his entyre and fatherly clemencie goodnes and mercye prouided for the safegarde and preseruation of man his estate by all kinde of meanes whether they were ▪ ordayned for his chastisemēt or for a meanes to allure him to vertue goodnes But after that the extremitie of his sickenes so much increased and his wickednes waxed so great that his wounded soule seemed almost incurable the chiefe and principall of all Phisitions applyed vnto him another soueraigne medecine and gaue vnto him an especiall preseruation not onelye to repayre that which was impayred and lost by disease but also fully to restore his former healthe with further encreasinge the same wyth strength and all other necessary supplies This no doubt was the wysedome of Almighty God the eternall sonne of the father eternall begotten in such wyse as no tongue can declare the perfect image of his fathers glory the fountaine welspring of life immortalitie He therfore who had in the beginning of the worlde imprinted in man the shape and liklines of himselfe hath losed him which was bound wyth fetters of sinne death compassed about with al kinde of misery calamitie and hath by his singuler diuine prouidēce restored him to his former liberty First therefore it was expediente and necessary that that abhominable and most haynous offence wherewith mankinde generally was infected should be washed away and that the violating and defacing of the relligion of God shoulde be by some holy sacrifice or satisfaction raunsomed that the filthie staine by wickednes and sinne receyued shoulde be clensed and cleane taken out That at the length man beinge thus deliuered from the bondage and tyrannie of sinne mought recouer the worthy titles of his aunciente dignity and renowme and in the ende attayne the glory of lyfe euerlastinge But no such sacrifice coulde possiblye be found by which so great impietie might be purged or the iust iudgemēt of God satisfyed or the staine receyued quite and cleane taken oute and washed awaye Therefore we all defiled wyth sinne subiecte and thrall to moste woofull calamities soyled wyth the suddes and filthye frothe of all kinde of dishonesty were borne to perpetuall and euerlastinge miserye This shoulde haue beene our wretched and vnfortunate estate excepte our most bountefull mercifull Sauiour Christe had beholden vs most miserable and cursed ●aitifes with the eies of his mercy had of his singuler gracious goodnes taken vppon him the true fourme and shape of man and retaininge still the maiesty of his Godheade had after a wonderfull order vnited and ioyned thereunto the nature of man Therefore the Lord and Ruler of all the worlde at the bendinge of whose browe the Heauens and Earth do quake and tremble to the intent he mought bringe man lamentably loste and expelled out of the territory and pleasant place of Paradise to his natiue soile and country againe hee descendinge from the highest heauen was conuersaunte here with vs in Earth in such sorte that hee neither layd aside the rule of Heauen aboue nor yet did seclude and seperate himselfe from the swaie and gouerment of the whole world beside By this league and mutuall coniunction of the deuine and humaine natures sinne that had taken déepe roote in man was incontinently plucke vp by the rootes the rule and aucthority of death was abridged and for all manner of wickednes with the purest and holiest sacrifice that moughte be satisfaction was made For what more holye kinde of sacrifice could be inuented then that which was done and celebrated by the Highest Bishoppe who was by the auncient Prophecies of the holy Fathers saide to be a Prieste accordinge to the order of Melchisedech Who made sacrifice not with shéepe or calues or any offeringes by the vaine supersticion of men allowed of but with his owne most pretious bloude Who that hee moughte keepe vs from that death and destruction that did hange ouer our heades was content for the generall saluation of vs all to let those thinges light vppon his owne heade and for our sakes to offer vp himselfe a pure and vndefiled sacrifice Who suffered himselfe to be scourged with roddes and to be hanged on the crosse that he mought heare the punishment of our generall offence and appease Gods wrath against vs with the sacrifice of his sacred body O exceedinge greatnes of God O plenty infinit and vnmeasurable of the benefites of God and wonderfull largnes of his giftes heaped and powred vppon vs. He the maker of all thinges by whose power all thinges bothe aboue beneath were framed and finished who ruleth and disposeth all thinges the excéedinge glorye of whose maiestye the Heauens cānot containe did lie inclosed in the wombe of a most blessed Virgine and tooke vppon him the verye true and perfect shape of a man that he mought place man in some degree and deuine perfection This was that which many hundred yeares before was foretolde by men inspired with the holy ghoste to witte that time woulde come that God couered with humaine shape shoulde vse the office of an instructer and teacher should deliuer vnto vs the holsome discipline of vertue and godlines For Esaye writeth thus All nations shall runne to him and mutch people shall goe and they shall saye come ye lette vs ascende vp to the hill of the Lorde and to the house of the God of Iacob and he shal teach vs his waies and wee shall walke in his pathes And in another place he vttereth such speach as if God the father should impart his minde and counsell with his sonne In this manner I haue appoyncted thee to be the atonement betwixte me and mankinde to be á light to lighten all nations to make the blinde to see to set him at liberty which is fast tyed in chaines Againe in another place the sonne of God speaketh thus of him selfe The spirite of God resteth on me for that he hath annoynted mee and sent me to instructe the meeke in spirite and to remedye thē that are afflicted Baruch the Prophet calleth him God from whence hath spronge all knowledge and wisedome And a little after this he

Christians fetch their petegree from God himselfe Who haue not their generatiō in that maner as the race of those famous worthyes that Homer wryteth of For they when some of them excelled other in anye notable and famous Acte did easely challenge vnto theimselues a fayned nobilitye referringe the first beginninge of their whole kinred to the false and wicked Goddes of the Gentiles But wee Christians truely call our father not Iupiter or Bacchus but the highe allmighty and euerlastinge GOD. Neither can any man without an heynous intollerable offence doubt of this so worthy and famous gentility seinge it is made euident and knowen vnto vs by so manye and so immunerable testimonies of holy scripture First Iohn the holy Prophet of God doth saye that those which hath receaued the faith of Christe haue receyued this speciall benefit that they are made the children of god In so much that they are not in any wise to be esteemed of that line to the which by cōsanguinity they are linked or of that race into which by adoption they are receyued but are to be reputed and referred as the ofspringe and children of god Beholde saith he in an other place what benefit we haue receiued of God in that we are called the sonnes of god But what saith Paule In howe many places Howe notably howe rhetorically doeth he dispute of the excellencye of nobility As where he calleth Christe our brother where he sayeth that by the meere bounty and free grace of the holie spirite we are adopted into the kinred and family of god VVheras he with vehement speach calleth that vniuersall creator of all thinges the father of vs all But can you require a greater warrant then his owne testimony I will declare sayth he thy name vnto my bretheren and in the middest of thy holy Temple will I prayse the. And in another place You must not call vpon any father in Earth for one only is your father in heauen finally this I goe vp to my father and yours my God and your God. It were an endles labour to collecte and gather together all aucthorities that ratifie and confirme this diuine kinde of generation and kinred But I haue saide inough and to mutch all ready especially whereas I hasten to speake of other matters But this I suppose not out of the way to warne you of that they are not diuerse families and kinredes in which we repose this holy and godly nobility For although they are by bloud seuered by estate and condicion diuerse by reasō of distinct places infinite yet after they are into one place assembled to the intent they should shew thēselues valiant souldiars vnder their cheife and generall Captayne Christe they are incontinently tyed together vnited with one bloude of kinred and consanguinity For they haue nowe laide aside all alliaunce and proximity of bloude by which afore they were seuered and beinge adopted into the house and kinred of God in which there is no distinction of birth they are nowe equall and all a like Gentlemen For after that they being inwardly sanctified by the outwarde element of water in the holy sacrament of Baptisme for most parte had renounced the olde vse and custome of sinne and had laid aside the prince and image of our first father and leauinge their former life and beinge as it were borne againe began to enter into a newe life there was wrought incontinently a newe disposition of the mynde of man and there did springe vp and arise therein a wonderfull perfection and excellencye of nature so that no●e no signe of mans infirmity was left Therefore that birth daye of ours we ought not to solempnize wherein we are borne in to the worlde beinge by nature appoincted to all kinde of miseries and wofull calamities but that daie I saye we ought to celebrate with wonderfull ioye and pleasure in which the light of heauenly grace was offered vnto vs our saluation and liberty by the gratious goodnes and benefit of Christe our blessed sauiour procured For we are not so much to be called the children of those Parentes by whose meanes we inioy this wretched and mortall life as the children of God himfelfe of whom wee haue this kind of life that is full of diuine perfection and by whom at length we shall obtayne immortality Therfore although a kinred be made of them that are nowe ioygned togeather but were distincte called and chosen allmoste out of all Nations differinge in place in manners and nature dislyke although they are all called to the participation of this most holy couenaunt yet one kinred of al kinredes is made hauinge the very selfe same holy rightes the verye selfe same roote and originall of their gentility The first beginning of our race and kinred as it is afore declared is God himselfe at whose becke all thinges were made are preserued in their good estate vnto whom all thinges are caried with a desire passinge mans cogitation credit For he was the aucthour of our generation hee blessed vs with most excellent giftes and called vs to the inheritāce of immortall glory he enritched vs with all heauenly and celestial ornamētes What thinge can a man deuise in his minde in estimation and worthines more excellent then the man should be raised out of the slime of the Earth to climbe to so highe a degree and estate of dignitye Let any man therfore if him listeth vaunt of his badges and cognizances let hym brynge doune the line of his noble race from the very first founder of his nobility let him with woordes of verye light credite ▪ aduouch Hercules or some one of the worthies to be the chief and first beginner of his house and kinred or if he may purchase credite therby let him descende from the race of Iuppiter himselfe so that we may truely call the eternal and euerlasting God our father whiche truelye wee may be bolde to do wheras we retaine within vs inclosed the spyrite of god which is vnto vs a pleadge of this our diuine and spirituall nobility For no more assured and more substanciall testimony can possibly be spokē of thē that gift of the holye Ghost most bountefully bestowed vpon Christian men with which they are inflamed with which as with an earnest desire of celestiall thinges in all kynd of vertue they are made vigilant which purchaseth to the soule security ioye and a wonderfull charity This assistance of the holye spyryte is of that sort that it will not suffer vs to be of weake and faynt eyther courage or hope Of the whiche that we mighte the better intreate the verye Etymologie and worthynes of the name of a Christian is to be declared the beginning of whiche name I will somwhat more at large expresse And whereas that is cōmonlye knowen it is not needefull for me to geue no●yce thereof that the name of Chryst implyeth a certayne vnction and annointing foorthe verye same signifyeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in

religion of Christ For if the minds of men instructed with precepts of Christian religion are thereby made cowardlye and dasterdly and by those olde and vnclean ceremonies in which Godlye honoure was doone to the Idols of wicked men they were incited to valiantnes surely they seame to be preferred before the rules of our religion But consider with thy self the foolish madde and erronious opinion thou hast helde They whiche haue truelye tasted of Christes religion are not moued with the flyinge of birdes the scrychinge of shrechowles nor the intralles of beastes threatninge some dolefull euent They are not troubled with earthquakes with thunderclappes with any prodigious and monsterous wonders To conclude there is nothinge that can daunt or dismay the mynde of a Christian man. For he is so trayned that if hee should se all the worlde egrelye bente to battayle if hee shoulde see all manner of daungers deuysed and prepared agaynste hym if he shoulde see euerye thinge rounde aboute set on lighte fire and almost consumed hee notwithstandinge through an assured hope and confidence shoulde remayne vnchangeable neither be discouraged through the terrour of any mischiefe First because he beleeueth that he is garded and defended with a mightye and puissante armye For he readeth in the holy scriptures that there are garrisōs of Angells whiche defende the Godlye from all iniurye and in tyme of neede qualifie the outrage force of the enemye For Iacob knew him selfe with this strength to bee fortified when he declared that he saw the tents of God. Agayne when the Syrians army was euen vppon Helizaeus readie to deuoure him and his seruaunt stroken with great fear cryed for help feare not sath Heliseus and be of good courage for our number farre excedeth theirs And it foloweth in that holye history And when Heliseus hadde made his prayers to god hee sayth O Lord open the eyes of this boye that hee may also see And the Lord opened the eyes of the boy and he sawe and behold a mountayn al couered with horsemē and fiery chariotes that compassed Heliseus rounde aboute And that no man may thinke that God dealeth but with fewe in that maner it is written els whereof all them whiche with a pure and vndefiled hart embrace righteousnes and honoure God in all singlenes and simplicity The Angell of the Lorde hath pitched his tentes rounde aboute them that feare him He therefore which doth faithfullye creditte those testimonies and doth vndoubtedly beleue that he is by the power of God protected can in no wise tremble with feare but wyth a lustye and boulde cowrage will vse that sayinge that in another place is writtē If tentes stand vp agaynst me my hart shall not feare If a battaill rise vp against me in him wil I put my trust And that place also These in chariottes they in horses but wee in the name of the Lord haue our hope reposed They beyng vanquished weere slayne but wee beeynge of good courage caried away the victory This hope therefore I say will not suffer the familye of Christians to be weake and fayntharted Further the cogitation of immortalitye and a certayne foreknowledge of glorye to come what force hath it to the confirmation establishing of their constancie Caesar reporteth that the Frenche men were maruaylously stirred vppe to all prowes and valiauntnes throughe an opynion that the Druides did perswade thē to be of which was that the soules of mē were not subiect to death but after their departure passed from one bodye to another and therefore castinge a part all feare of death they valiauntly tooke in hande wayghty and daungerous enterpryces not makinge accompte of lyfe Whereas they were perswaded that death was nothinge els but the chaung alteration of lyfe and passinge of the soules from bodies to bodies And is it euen so in deede The auncient Frenche men through a moste vayne opinyon grounded vppō a vile fond superstition feared no māner of daunger and shall Christians feare death who beleeue not through a slender opynyon but throughe a constāt trust and affiaunce that after they haue departed this lyfe they shal obtayne most perfecte blessednes For what is moore manifestlye knowen in Christian religion then that all they that embrace iustice and godlines after that they are losed out of their bodies as it were oute of bonds shall as it were flye vp into heauen that they mighte obtayne worlde without ende euerlastinge glorye Agayne what is more deepelye printed in oure myndes then that the bodyes whiche are nowe vtterlye consumed shal bee agayne restored and beeynge wyth celestyall and heauenlye bryghtenes illumyned shall bee agayne vnyted to the soules wyth so fyrme and sure a league and band that it can bee by no meanes vyolated and broken that we beeynge after suche an heauenlye sorte renewed mought enioy al perfect eternal pleasurs both in bodye soule He who in this poynte is fullye perswaded beleeue me will neuer vnwyllynglye and wyth a grudgynge mynde departe from this lyfe intermedled wyth so manye myseryes calamityes Lastly what should I speak of the infinite wōderful loue with the which they that are truly entered into Chrysts holy profession are euery day more and more nflamed This vndoutedly is moste euidente that our minds are by no meanes so muche incited and stirred vp to hazard aduenture our liues as by loue and charity For to him that is in loue nothinge seemeth harde and all thinges are moste sweete and pleasaunte which are enteprysed for the attayninge that thinge which is vnto him moste deare and tender In so much that he not onely contemneth death which seemeth to all men most terrible and dreadfull but sometimes perswadeth himselfe moste willingly to desire the same That if loue lightly begonne betwixte man and man and grounded on very small causes hath such force that it causeth the contempt of death what may be thought of the excellencie of charitie which is through the gifte grace of the holy spirite moste liberally powred into pure and vndefiled mindes by the force thereof Christian Nobilitie supposeth all the sweete pleasure of life to be reposed in labours and perils despising all pleasures of the bodye and the britle estate of honoures and all aboundance of worldly wealth And being greatly inflamed wyth the desire of Christe it cannot be remoued from Godlines neither wyth threatninges nor wyth terrours nor wyth straunge and newe deuised punishmentes To conclude this loue maketh a man thincke that all tormentes which he suffreth for Christes sake whom hee tenderly and earnestly loueth are lighte and pleasaunt Furthermore nothinge is so much desiered and wished for of Christians as for the relligiō of the euerliuing God to loose theyr liues in the middest of the most exquisite tormentes of the body that can be deuised Which truly is not to be wōdered at For whereas loue turneth aside the cogitacion of the minde from feare it muste needes be that perfecte and godly loue is