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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

the function of a priest who can neither iustly rule himselfe nor wysely gouerne other Neither he that Princelike maynteyneth iustice and vpright dealing can want that honour that to a prieste is properly belonginge Not so truly that hee which liueth vertuously can incontinētly administer holy rightes For wee should so make a confusion of all offices and all degrees of authoritie should be taken away then the which thing nothing can be more pestilente But yet shall euery man be a prieste that is a follower of righteousnes to vse that kinde of holy right which is to offer vp his owne body a liuely sacrifice holy and pleassnge God and to offer vppe due honour and reuerence proceedinge from a sincere and pure minde and vnderstanding What then foloweth A holy Nation a conquering people that you mighte shewe forth and preach vertues proceedinge from him which oute of darcknes hath called you into a marueylous light Nowe in that hee sayth Holy which was taken out of darckenes and called forth into marueylous light that is to the knowledge of deuine and heauenly thinges it is the gifte of the Holy Ghoste wyth his power and vertue inwardly illumininge oure mindes and stirringe them vppe and bringinge them to the chiefeste thinges of all And that this is the peculiar token of a heauenly gift and concerneth the auctority of Prophecie who seeth not For the function of Prophecie is nothing els but a declaration made by the holye Ghoste of hidden secreces the searchinge and finding out whereof is aboue the reache and Nature of man Seing therefore many thinges that farre exceeded mans senses are broughte to light by God do wee doubte but that there is imprinted in our mindes a certayne excellente gift of prophecie and a most certayne foretellinge of many thinges to come For what els is fayth wherewyth wee are all sealed and whereon wee are all grounded but an assured hope of those thinges which wee truste to obtayne engrafte in our mindes by God himselfe So falleth it oute that by the instincte and secrete workinge of God himselfe wee promyse oure selues those thinges which farre exceede the cogitacion of man which oute of doubte appertayneth to the office of prophecying Therefore this name of Christians is commended vnto vs by no base gifte and auctority giuen thereunto by Almighty God but by moste excellente and honourable titles For so it is ayded and assisted by the holye ghoste that it hath sufficiente ability to obtayne Princely iurisdiction to haue a moste excellente Priesthode and to be lifted vppe by the vertue and power of a heauenly minde to immortality BVt now sith we haue already spoken of the beginning and worthynes of so holy and so excellente a name I must also in few woordes intreate of the antiquity thereof Not to that ende truly as thoughe it greatly auayled to the worthines of Christian kinred how many armes and cognisaunces of our generation wee can accompte or howe longe continuaunce of time it helde the possession of gentilitie For seinge that it fetcheth his beginninge and taketh his firste ofspringe and Originall from God it feareth not the enuious reporte of newe made and late spronge Nobilitie But least wee shoulde seeme to exclude not a fewe who in this kinred were the verye chiefeste and whose excellent vertue was renowmed in many places I thought it expediente to entreat also of them For there is no cause why wee shoulde fette the first originall grounde of this name from the Actes of Antioche in which Cittie first as it is mentioned in Luke the name of Christians grew to be common For althoughe this name then first was commonlye receyued yet in deede longe before IESVS was conuersaunte wyth vs in earth the worthines and excellencie of this name was vsed amonge men For Christians are so called eyther because they folow the doctrine or gouernment of Christ Or els this name proceeded from that heauenly motion and annoyntinge Or as I rather suppose both these thinges auayled to the firste inuention of the name both because they were wholy prest to folow their maister Christ as thoughe they were by othe bounde thereunto and also were pertakers of the selfe same annoynting For who is so madde that he dare out of this kinred to thruste oute Moses Who had rather take vppon him reproche and contumely of Christe then to haue plentie of all Princely wealth and sumptuousnes Who dare denie Iacob who wyth greate deuotion worshipped Christe on a ladder Or Isaac who as a Sacrifice offered vppe to God was a shadow of Christes his punishmente Or Abraham which behelde the daye of Christe and by the sighte thereof conceyued a great and wonderful pleasure Or to conclude who will suppose Dauid to be rased oute of this lineall descente of Christian kinred wyth whom the couenaunte of Christe to bee borne of his line which was sometime made wyth oure forefathers after a most holy maner and fashion was renewed But what maner of man was Dauid Such a one as in the whole order of his life declared himselfe to be a man excellently furnished wyth all Christian vertue It were an infinite laboure if I shoulde go aboute to recite them all that were before the law and vnder the lawe This one thinge I say and affirme which by euery mans testimony is confirmed that there was neuer in any age anye man commended for singular godlines and vertue but he which wythall his hart embraced Christ Those thīgs that he should do the Prophetes stirred vp therunto by the holy spyrite foretolde Most holy kinges haue had their harts set on fire wyth an earnest longing and desire after him A figure of him many men furnished with all kinde of vertue by many signes expressed and signifyed And euen as when in a maner of a triumphe he was brought into Hierusalem with an innumerable company and multitude of people wherof parte which went before with their garments strowed the way and parte that folowed after wyth a wonderfull clapping of hands signifyed gratulation and harty reioysinge yet one generall voyce of them all was heard setting forth to the vttermost they could his vnuanquishable vertue So those worthyes of auncient time prepared the way vnto Christe and their posterity followed Christe with a most ardent desire and by the general voyce of them all the prayses of their onely King and Lord are lifted vp as highe as heauen This was that example which was proposed to Moses to followe Beholde sayth God vnto him and do according to the example vvhich in the hill is shewed vnto thee And not onely to Moses but vnto al them in whom singular godlines deuine wysedome appeared who throughe Christe the onely refuge of all humaine affayres haue obtayned all those worthye indumentes and qualities of the minde which made them in fame and reporte flourishe Who as they were by fayth perswaded they hooped woulde come whom already in minde they beheld as present and according to whose

of the common wealth the souldiar clad in armour might wyth dint of sworde repell and put a side from the commonwealth all imminent daunger For this cause Iohn neuer exhorteth men from applyinge themselues to the knowledge of feates of armes but prescribeth lawes vnto souldiours of harmelesse vsage and temperate behauour And Paule calleth those magistrates the seruaunts of God which wyth the sword punishe wicked and desperate persons Truly nothing were more hartely to bee desired of a Christian man then that all men woulde refrayne themselues from wickednes and sinnefull luste But forasmuche as that cannot alwayes fall oute and in steede of continencie vnbridled luste in steede of iustice either forraine force or ciuil broyles vse to aryse then of necessitie either the force of the ennemye is wyth weapons mayne strength to be beaten backe or the outrage of oure citizens with sword to be repressed That say they is contrary to Christian charitie As thoughe any kinde of cruelty were greater then to be dissolute and negligēt in a generall distresse and miserie Chryst hath commaunded that we shoulde bee reuenged of our enemyes No doubt it is the propertye of perfecte and absolute vertue when priuatlye wee susteyne wronges and iniuryes to shewe a singular and wonderfull patience of the mynde but when ether the common wealth and saftye of our countrye or the honour estate of religion is impugned thē agaynste outrage and villanye to take an inuincible stomach Chryst hath especiallye commended vnto vs peace No doubt that peace he hath commended whiche hee himselfe gaue vs which doth not cōsiste in pleasaunt reste and quietnes that mannes nature is prone to desire for who can suppose that he hath graunted vnto vs that kynd of securitye when he suffered his owne discples to be tossed as it were with troublesome waues of mannes outragious fury but that peace by the which we were reconciled into the grace and fauoure of God whiche had conceyued greate wrath and indignation agaynst vs and to whose religion our wilfull aypetytes were moste repugnāte These enmityes therfore and dislykinges betweene vs and God Christe as Paule testifieth in manye places with his own precious bloude hath done away and hath purchased for vs a peace continuall and euerlastinge The which we may then especially enioy when we most vehemently and egrely fighte other for the safetye of our country or maintenaunce of the sayth of Chryste and his religion Vnlesse paraduenture wee suppse that Abraham wanted the benefite of this peace at what time he gathering a bande of men of his owne domesticall seruauntes encoutred with a huge and puissante host of his enemyes and valiauntlye farre exceedinge the estimation of man vanquished fowre mighty Kynges and his enemyes beyng parte of theym slayne the other part put to the worse he caried away the spoyle Or if wee thinke likewyse of Gedeon who beynge garded onely with three hundred men of warre slew innumerable multitudes of his enemyes Agayne what thinke you of Iosua Moses his sucsessour what of Ieptes what shoulde I reherce manye other noble menne honowred as well for theire feruente zeale of religion as magnifyed for theire worthye exploites in martiall affayres May we think that they did offende God when they most valiantly set vpon theyr enemyes Or shal we not rather say that thē especially the peace of God tooke effect among them when in the cause of righteousnes agaynst Godlesse they waged battaile But what haue we to do say they with those examples of antiquitye They were Hebrues but we are Christians And are you still of this opinon that you will exclude oute of the numbre and from the worthy callinge of Christians those holye men who as I haue before declared were right good true worshipers of Christ and had receiued the same gifte and grace at the handes of God that we our selues haue receiued for what other thīg signifyeth that outcry The sword of God and Gedeon a gayne that place The spirit of god was poured vpō Iephthe and other like places innumerable but that not withoute the mightye power of Christe so greate warres coulde be takē in hand and dispatched Further what signifieth that out of heauen battail was waged agaynst thē the stars continuinge in theire order and in theire proper course fought agaynste Sisara but that the hostes of Heauen vnder the charge of Christ their captayne whom the holye scripture calleth lorde of hostes do fighte for the Godly against the vngodly and wicked Therefore there is no cause why we shoulde lightlye make accounte of those examples of vertue left vnto vs by those most holye men for a memorial to cōtinue with vs as lōg as time indureth For they are not to vs straūg exāples but properly belonging vnto vs and familiar as done by our owne auncestours to the imitation whereof wee must at length stirre vp our dull natures For I woulde not haue any man so weake-brainde to thincke that contrary to the will and pleasure of Christe which we know assuredly to haue beene don by his holye ayde and assistaunce and to the accomplishinge whereof it is most euidente that the valiauntest men of all haue bin with his voyce almost excited and stirred vp For to omitte Historyes of auncient time Constantine the Emperour ouercame Maxentius not so much throughe the multitude and nomber of his souldiars or strength of his hoste or his skill and experiēce in warrefare as by the furtheraunce and helpe of Christ whom at the very first onset he so terrifyed that after a moste shamefull sort he put him to flighte and made him ready to seeke his owne destruction in the ende compelled him to drowne himselfe in the channel of Tiber the riuer The which maruaylous and wonderfull terrour Christe himselfe stroke into the hartes of his ennemyes For whereas Constantine at that time thought very well of Christian relligion he saw almost at the very instant when he should encounter with his ennemy the ayre being most fayre and cleare the signe of the Crosse shyning marueylous brightly and hearde a voyce sent downe from Heauen declaringe vnto him that he should obtayne the victory if he would folow the crosse as the ensigne and flagge of God most high euerlasting From hence proceedeth the ground and cause that kinges and Princes especially in theyr Ensignes haue a crosse In this signe Constantine not onely obtained victory but reposed in the same the cause of immortalitye and euerlasting glory Hauing that signe caryed before him he put to wracke hostes of his ennemyes innumerable and did most largely extende the handes of the Romayne Empyre VVHat shoulde I speake of Theodosius Who had such a conflicte with Eugenius that he might easily perceiue that by the helpe of Christe himselfe present with him he gat the vpper hand Whych Emperour truly in one poincte was mutch to be meruailed at For at such time as others cherished their bodies with sleepe and delicious meats he