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A01759	The epistle of Gildas, the most ancient British author who flourished in the yeere of our Lord, 546. And who by his great erudition, sanctitie, and wisedome, acquired the name of sapiens. Faithfully translated out of the originall Latine.; Liber querulus de excidio Britanniae. English	Gildas, 516?-570?; Abingdon, Thomas.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 11895; ESTC S103163	93,511	458

man adorned not given to wine no fighter but modest not contentius not covetous O lamentable change O horrible contempt of the heavenly Commandements And doe ye not continually use the force of your words and actions for the overthrowing or rather overwhelming of these for whose defence and confirmation if neede had required yee ought to have suffered paines yea and to have lost your very lives But let us see what followeth Well governing saith he his house having his children subjected with all chastity Imperfect therefore is the chastity of the Parents if the children be not also indued with the same But how shall it be where neither the father nor yet the sonne as depraved by the example of his evill parent is found to be chaste But if any one knoweth not how to rule over his owne house how shall hee imploy his care over the Church of God These are the words that with apparant effects shold be made good and approoved Deacons in like manner that they should be chast not double tongued not overgiven much to wine not followers of filthy gaine having the mystery of faith in a pure conscience and let these also be first approoved and so let them administer having no offence And now trembling truely to make any longer stay on these matters I can for a conclusion affirme one thing certainely which is that all these are changed into contrary actions in so much that Clarkes which not without griefe of heart I doe here confesse are shamelesse and deceitfull in their speeches given to drinking covetous of filthy commodity having faith or to say more truely unfaithfulnesse in an unpure conscience ministring not upon probation of their good workes but upon foreknowledge of their evill actions and being thus defiled with innumerable offences they are notwithstanding admitted unto the holy function ye have likewise heard on the same day wherin ye should with farre more right and reason have beene drawne to prison or punishment then preferred unto Priesthood when our Lord demanded whom his Disciples supposed him to be how Peter answered Thou art Christ the Sonne of the living God and our Lord in respect of such his confession said unto him Blessed art thou Simon Ba●jonas because flesh and blood hath not revealed unto thee but my Father who is in Heaven Peter therefore instructed by God the Father doth rightly confesse Christ but ye being taught by the devill your father doe with your lewd actions wickedly deny our Saviour It is said to the true Priest Thou art Peter and upon this rocke will I build my Church But ye are resembled unto the foolish man who hath builded his house upon the sand And verily it is to be noted that God joyneth not in workemanship with the unwise when they build their house upon the deceitfull uncertainty of the sands according unto that saying They have made Kings unto themselves and not by me Semblably that which followeth soundeth in like sort speaking thus And the Gates of hell whereby the infernall sins are to be understood shall not prevaile But of your fraile and deadly frame marke what is pronounced The floods came and the winds blew have mainely dashed upon that house and it sell and great was the ruine thereof To Peter and his successors our Lord doth say And I will give unto thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven But unto ye I know yee not depart from me ye workers of iniquity that being separated with the goates of the left hand ye may together with them go into eternall fire It is also promised unto every good Priest What soever thou shalt loose upon earth shall be likewise loosed in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt binde upon earth shall be in like sort bound in Heaven But how shall ye loose any thing that it may be loosed also in Heaven since your selves for your sins are severed from Heaven and hampred in the bands of your owne hainous offences As Solomon saith With the cords of his sins every one is tyed And with what reason shall ye binde any thing on this earth that above this world may be likewise bound unlesse it be your only selves who intangled in your iniquities are so detained on this earth as ye cannot ascend into Heaven but without your conversion unto our Lord in this life will fall downe into the miserable prison of hell Neither yet let any Priest flatter himselfe upon the knowledge of the particular cleannenesse of his owne body since their soules over whom he hath government shall in the day of Iudgement be required at his hands as the murtherer of them if any through his ignorance ●loth or fawning adulation have perished because the stroke of death is not lesse terrible that is given by a good man then which is inflicted by an evill person Otherwise would the Apostle never have said that which he left unto his successors as a fatherly Legacy I am cleare and cleane from the blood of all for I have not forborne to declare unto ye al the counsell of God Being therefore mightily drunken with the use and custome of sinnes and extreamely overwhelmed with the waves as it were of encreasing offences seek ye now forthwith the uttermost endeavours of your mindes after this your shipwrake that one borde of pennance which is onely left whereby ye may escape and swimme to the land of the living that from yee may be turned away the wrath of our Lord who saith I will not the death of a sinner but that he may bee converted and live And the same Almighty God of all consolation and mercy preserve his few good Pastors from all evill and the common enemy being overcome make them free inhabitants of the heavenly City of Ierusalem which is the congregation of all Saints grant this O Father Sonne and Holy Ghost to whom be honor and glory world without end Amen FINIS The cause why Gildas alledgeth almost only the Scriptures Gildas citeth Scriptures not after the vulgar Translation The reasons why Britaine was at this time so defiled with vices The excuse of the invective of Gildas against the Scottish and Irish. The excuse of his seveare censuring of the English How the Kings Majestie is descended of the blood royall of these three Nations How the Saxons and Britaines are united in this Realme How other Kingdomes have increased by Vnions How united nations have beene called by one generall name How conveniently the name of Britaine agreeth to the Kingdome of the whole Island The Conclusion * Moses Num. 20.12 * Levit. 10.1 * Num. 14.28 * Exod. 14.22 * Exod. 16.14 * Exod. 17.6 * Exod. 17.11 * Num. 21.6 * Num. 14.45 * Deut. 1.45 * Num. 11.1 * Iosu. 3.16 * Ios. 6.20 * Ios. 21.24 * 2 Sam. 21.1 * Ieremies foure Lamentations written with the order of the Hebrew Alphabet * Thren 1.1 * Thren

examine your actions and sift your thoughts For that when ye were ministers of his kingdome ye have not judged uprightly nor kept the law of Iustice nor yet walked according to his will It shall dreadfully and suddenly appeare unto yee that a most severe judgement shall be given on them who governe For to the meaner is mercy granted but the mighty shall mightily sustaine torments For he shall have no respect of persons who is the ruler of all nor yet shall he reverence the greatnesse of any one because he himselfe hath made both small and great and care alike he hath of all but for the stronger is at hand a stronger affliction Vnto yee therefore O Kings are these my speeches that yee may learne wisdome and not fall away from her For who so observe what things are just shall be justified and who so learne what things are holy shall be sanctified Hitherto have we discoursed no lesse by the Oracles of the Prophets than by our owne speeches with the Kings of our Country being willing they should know what the Prophet hath spoken saying As from the face of a Serpent so flye thou sinnes If thou shalt aproach unto them the teeth of a Lyon will catch thee their teeth are such as kill the soules of men And againe How mighty is the mercy of our Lord. and his forgivenesse to such as convert themselves unto him And if wee have not in us that Apostolicall zeale that wee may say I did verily desire to he amathematised by Christ for my brethren Notwithstanding we may from the bottome of our hearts speake that Propheticall saying Alas that a soule perisheth And againe Let us search out our wayes and seeke and returne unto our Lord Let us lift our hearts together with our bands to God in heaven And also that of the Apostle We covet that every one of yee should bee in the bowels of Christ. And how willingly truely as one tossed on the waves of the sea and now arrived in a desired haven would I in this place make an end blushing shame forbidding me further to proceede did I not behold such and so great mountaines of malice advanced against God by Bishops or other Priests or clearkes yea some of our owne order whom as witnesses my selfe must of necessity first of all stone accordi●g unto the Law with the hard blowes of words least I should be otherwise reproved of partiality towards persons and then afterwards the people if as yet they keepe their decrees must pursue with their whole powers the same execution upon them not to their corporall death but to the death of their vices and their eternall life with God Yet as before I have sayd I doe crave pardon of them whose lives I doe not onely prayse but also preferre before all earthly treasure and of the which if it may be yet before my death I desire and thirst to be a partaker and so having both my sides defended with the double shields of Saints and by those meanes invincibly strengthned to sustaine all that arise against me arming moreover my head in place of an helmet with the helpe of our Lord and being most assuredly protected with the sundry assistances of the Prophets I will boldly proceede notwithstanding the stones of worldly rioters flye never so fast about me IT is very aptly said that sinne creepeth on as a Cancker for no man in a moment becommeth absolutely evill but even like the Sea that making his entry first at a little hole and afterwards enlarging his passage in the end breaketh downe the bancke and overwhelmeth the whole land so vice hath her progresses in depraved mindes the lamentable example whereof we may in the history of Britaine apparantly behold Our Authour hath already declared the infection of Heresie the corruption of infidelity the disorders of warre and the dissolution of manners that distempered the body of the Iland he laid open the sores of the temporall governors to the end that medicines might have beene the better applyed for their remedies and here now he beginneth to discover the grievous imperfections of the Clergy which are truely so much the worse by how much their lives ought to be more vertuous and exemplar and yet would I have you to know that these were defects not of Religion but of life such as those offences of the Priests Scribes and Pharisees so often in the word of God recited whose sins although too foulely they soiled their owne soules yet could they never staine the immaculate Church of God committed unto their charge Neither yet did Gildas as another Elias complaine that there was not one left but himselfe alone who worthily served God since in sundry places he sheweth how many were yet here in this land whose holy lives deserved most high commendation even as our Lord spake to the same Elias saying There remained seven thousand in Israel who never bowed their knees to Baal But suppose Britaine had beene wholly drowned in the deepe Seas of offences yet did Italy Greece and Gall. with many other mighty Provinces of the Christian world flourish at the selfe same time both in vertuous Life and true Religion not unlike the Kingdome of Iudah which in that season when Elias so complained of Israel did notwithstanding openly maintaine the true worshipping of God but this insueing Treatise telleth us that in the field of our Lord there sprung up Cockell and in his barne of purest Corne there was found chaffe and among his wisest Virgins foolish ones all which in this world cannot be separated but remaine untill the day of judgement to be severally divided thus doth he set before our eyes the beginning and proceeding of the wickednesse of Britaine whose blessed soule possessed with a true zeale to God departed to receive a Crowne of eternall glory before the conclusion of this tragedy of sinne for as ye shall reade in venerable Bede presently after the decease of Gildas they fell to open errors and then to disobedience of the Church in withstanding the authority of Saint Augustine the first Arch-bishop of Canterbury although within a while afterwards it pleased God of his singular mercy to recall them backe into his Catholike fold againe Neither let any man imagine I have Translated this worke to disclose the faults of Pastors and Superiours For I had rather with Sem and Iaphet conceale then with Cham reveale the imperfections of spirituall Fathers But having Englished the former part of Gildas I did also because I would not leave the worke maimed and unperfect adventure upon this latter wherein I would wish the Readers to consider that if this flame of sinne did scorch the Cedars of Libanus no doubt but it may burne the lesser silly shrubs if it infected I say the spiritualty it may assuredly unlesse wee be ware consume us of the Laity BRitaine hath Priests but some shee hath that are unwise very many that Minister but many of