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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14258	The hundred and ten considerations of Signior Iohn Valdesso treating of those things which are most profitable, most necessary, and most perfect in our Christian profession. Written in Spanish, brought out of Italy by Vergerius, and first set forth in Italian at Basil by Cœlius Secundus Curio, anno 1550. Afterward translated into French, and printed at Lions 1563. and again at Paris 1565. And now translated out of the Italian copy into English, with notes. Whereunto is added an epistle of the authors, or a preface to his divine commentary upon the Romans.; Consideraciones divinas. English	Valdés, Juan de, d. 1541.; Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633.	1638 (1638)	STC 24571; ESTC S119070	234,477	356

selfsame pretending to satisfie his appetites with Barsabe●… caused her husband to be s●…aine and did with the wife what pleased him to which matter God set no impediment at all In like manner S. Peter not pretending piety denyed Christ and God consented it to him and pretending piety he would not converse with the Gentils and God did not consent to it As likewise he did not consent to it that S. Paul should goe where he pretending piety would haue gone untill that pretence of his became not his but of the holy spirit which abode in him And I hold it certain that the most continuall and ordinary temptation with which pious persons are tempted is this of pretending piety in which the Angell of Satan transfigures himselfe into an Angell of light making that to seem piety which is no piety But pious persons may comfort themselves with two things The one is that against the temptations of the Angels of Satan they haue the illustrations of the holy spirit who discovers the deceit of the malignant spirit And the other is that God useth to restrain with his hand pious persons that they should not fall into this kinde of errour it being so much contrary unto true piety And together herewith pious persons ought alwaies to stand watchfull in such manner as the Angell of Satan comming transfigured into an Angell of light they may know him guard themselves from him Three things here offer themselves to me The first seeing the errour is so great which is committed pretending piety every man ought to goe with more regard to doe those things with which he pretends piety then to doe things with which hee pretends his proper satisfaction The second that those persons which are elected of God doe not erre pretending piety through the illustration which they haue of the holy spirit and because God restraines them with his hand It is a great signe of piety and of the election of God not to erre pretending piety And the third that then a man erres pretending piety when he doth a thing wherewith by himselfe alone he thinks to satisfie God to oblige God As if I should chastise my body not with that intent with which Saint Paul saith he chastised his that is to hold it in servitude and subjection to his spirit but with intent to merit by that chastisement which I doe on myselfe Amplifying this cōparison throughout all the outward things which men doe it is understood when they erre pretending piety And I return to say that he who shall feel himselfe directed by that way through which hee doth not erre pretending piety he may certifie himselfe that he is the sonne of God and consequently Brother of the onely begotten sonne of God Iesus Christ our Lord. CONSID. LXXX What Gods intent is demanding of men that which of themselves alone they cannot giue him And why he giues them not at once all that which he will giue them VNderstanding that it is true in effect that men who see with the eyes of humane wisdome hold it for injustice and cruelty in God that hee demands of men things which they of themselves alone cannot giue him such as are The loue with all the heart even in the time of the law and the Faith of the heart in the time of the Gospell which are two things which a man is of himselfe as able to giue unto God as he is able to touch heaven with his hand And understanding likewise as it is in effect true that the men who see with the eyes of the holy spirit doe in the selfe same demand and through the selfesame demand know mercy and piety in God And they should haue known altogether the contrary in him if so be hee should demand things that men could giue unto him with ease And setting my self to consider whence these two so contrary judgements proceed which humane wisdome and Gods holy spirit make conce●…ing this demand of God I haue understood that the judgement which humane wisdome makes proceeds from the not knowing the being of God and the not knowing the being of man and that the judgement which the holy spirit makes proceeds from the knowledge of Gods being and the being of man And it is certain that because humane wisdome knows not the being of God it proceeds that seeing he demands of men that which they cannot giue it judgeth that he doth this to condemne them as it would of one of the Princes of this world who sould require of his subject●… that they should not sleep for a whole yeare setting a penalty if so be they did sleep And because humane wisdome knows not the being of a man it proceeds that it would hold it for a better and more profitable thing for a man that God should rather require of him that which he can give rather then that which he cannot giue even as it judgeth and holds for better that a Prince of the world should demand of his vassalls rather that which they can giue him with ease then that which they cannot give him though with difficulty And it is also true that from the knowledge which the spirit of God hath of Gods being it proceeds that not judging of him that which of the Princes of the world it knowes that he demanding of men that which they cannot give him he doth it not to condemne them but to save them and that from the knowledge which the holy Spirit hath of the being of man it proceeds that knowing that he in himselfe is so arrogant that if God should demand of him for his salvation things that he could with facility giue of himselfe he would enter into such pride when he had given them that by the selfe-same way whereby he thought to obtain salvation hee would get condemnation he comes to know that the intent with which God demands of men that which of themselves they cannot giue him is not to condemn thē as humane wisdome judgeth neither is it to difficult their salvation as the selfesame humane wisdome judgeth which hereupon holds God for unjust and for cruell but it is to saue them and to facilitate their salvation God doing this to the intent that men proving to loue God with all their heart he knowing their impossibility in the one and in the other matter should haue recourse to God demanding of him both the one thing and the other to the intent God may giue them both the one thing and the other and they giving to God the one thing and the other may obtain that felicity which they desire not for that which they are of themselves but for that which they are through God In such manner that with much reason not humane but divine men that see with the holy spirit know mercy and piety in God considering that he demands from men that which they cannot giue him of themselves and they would know cruelty in God when he should demand of them that