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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54283	Pensez-y bien, or, Thinke well on it containing the short, facile, and assvred meanes to salvation / dedicated to those who desire to enjoy the happy eternity ; and translated into English by Francis Chamberleyne Esq.	Chamberleyn, Francis.	1665 (1665)	Wing P1432; ESTC R27157	41,920	132

houre thou shalst not have any more time to thinke on it Thinke on it often and profoundly Alas thou thinkest day and night two or three months together on Philosophicall question is not thy saluation more deare unto thee Thinke and considere well on it beseeching the blessed Virgin thy good Angell and the Saints that they engraven deeply this thought in thy heart that it may produce the fruit of eternall life in thee THE SECOND PART Concerning that which one would not have done if he had ben to dye presently I remember to have read in the history of Barlaam and Josaphat that ther was in a certaine Region of the world a florishing Kingdome the habitants of which were accoustomed to choose a King evety yeare during which time they gave him all soveraignity and a retinue sutable unto his quality but the year was no sooner expired but then they banished him into a desolate and unhabited Island wher he had more to suffer in exile then he had recreation and pleasure in his Royalty Among these annuall Kings there was one more provident then the others for foreseing that at the yeares end they would not fayle to use him after the same manner they had afforded unto his predecessors he resolued to live as frugatly as possibly and to save all he could and to send it privatly into the place of his banishment where he failed not to arrive at the ordinary time and by reason of his providence did not meete with those inconveniences and miseries which the others found ther but enjoyed pleasure and content This Parable for I do not belive it to be a true story plainely declaires the blindnes and stupidity of those which the world hath raysed unto greatnes and riches with which they are wholy delighted and absorpt they never thinking that at the end of their life which how longe so ever it be is not a day in the kalender of God the world will deprive them of all it seemed to bestowe on them sending them into the other world where they shall finde nothing but poverty and misery for want of providence Deare Reader I love thee too tenderly for to wish thee so much misery but on the contrarie I do pray from the bottome of my heart for thy greatest happynes in the next life where thou must remayne for all cternity And for this end I aske of thee if God should send a messenger from heaven for to advertise thee that within eight dayes thou shalt die wouldst thou not be exceedingly pleased for having well imployed thy time in honoring and serving thy good Creator in imitating in all thy actions the virtues of thy sweet Saviour in correcting thy faults and doing pennance in cultivating thy soul and adorning it with all virtues in doing good to all that needed thy assistance and ingaining the favour of those who are powerfull in the celestiall Court What contentment unto a Captayne who having bravely overcome his enimies returnes loden with pretious bootie and trophies before his Soveraigne for to receave of him prayses and recompenses due unto him Thinke well on it Thou wilt say that this is but a grosse and rude reprefentation of the ineffable joy which the Soul hath at the howre of Death seing her self environed with many good workes which conducts her vnto the Throne of God O how sweet is Death unto such a Soul O how willingly doth she behold it Wherfore dost thou not live accordingly that thou mayst die so AMiable Iesus sayes in the ghospell that we ought to be alwayes ready for we know not when Death will come If thou shouldst be warned that it will be to morrow wouldst not thou thanke thy memory for having alwayes kept thee in the presence of God and often put thee in minde of the favours which every moment thou receavest from the liberall hand of thy Creator for having perpetually presented unto thee the beauty of heaven and the horror of hell what hopes conceaves the courtier who ever had his eyes on his Prince for to performe his will when he perceaves the daye arriues of the Princes liberality and great bounty Thinke well on it Thou wilt blesse the memory which affords so much felicity unto the soul and wilt exhort thine to afford thee the like happynes IF thy understanding which endeavors to know all could understand that within two dayes it must depart this world would it not leap for joy to have fought the Creator in all creatures and all crcatures in the Creator not having esteemed any othet knowlegd then the making him self most agreable unto God and to be conducted in all things by the faith which made him seeke after heaven in misprising the earth what pleasure and comfort receaved the woman of the Ghosple at the finding of her groat which she had long seeked after did she not invite her neighbours for to congretulate and rejoyce with her Thinke well on it Thou wilt tesolue to imploy thy intellect inseriously considering the grandeurs of thy God and thou wilt make use of all other sciences to arrive unto this knowledg IT is very probable that once in thy life thou hast desired thy death If now thou shouldst see him with his mortiferous Sythe wouldst thou not feele asweet and delicious ravishment of heart for having never loved any other thing then the infinitly amiable goodnes and him who hath infinitly loved thee How great is the consolation of the spowse of a Prince wher she is certayne to have soly loved her husband and that her bridegroome knowes her fidelity Thinke well on it Boldly of affirme him unhappy and miserable who being able to love God loves any thing els take heed least thou be such an one IT is a long time since God hath preached vnto thee that thou shalt render an account of all the talents which be hath bestowed on thee jmagine this to be the day in which he will demaund them of thee and if it were what sweet and ravishing content wilt thou feele in being able with truth to say with the servant of the ghosple lord thou hast given me five talents behold other five I have gained over and above Thou hast given me eloquence which I have alwayes imployed to prayse thee and to procure all others to do the same Thou hast given me a great spirite which I have used in overcoming thy enimies and comforting thy servants Thou hast given me learning which helped me to discover thy greatnes and mighty workes and to declare them unto others Thou hast given me the grace to be beloved of all I have not taken any other pleasure then that it might make me able to inforce all to love thee Thou hast given me industry to trafick and gayne some thing with which I have vertuously and decently maintayned my family and relived the poore Who can explayne the joy and pleasure which thou wilt receave when the great Lord and Master imbrasing thee with affection shal

only Children knowes not the singulare care I have of them And in another place he complains with great indignation Who is more blind then he who serves me who is more deafe then he vnto whom I speake by my Embassadeurs who is lesse reasonable then he vnto whom soly I have given reason But what would yee thinke of a Child which a potent Monarch should finde lying in the durt and having adoptated him for his sonn should send him for a certayne time in to a remote country to the end that with a little labour and with great assistance he might heape vp treasures there to be discouered with which he might gayne a florishing kingdome and make him self in a manner equall and coheire with the legitimat sonn of this Prince if this vnfortunate Child in lieu of searching after this treasure should consume the mornings in sleep and spend the rest of his time in play and debauchery or to run after Butterflyes if he should imploy all his meanes in buying fescues pinns and glow wormes would he not be justly thought to have lost his senses and to be vnwortly of the least favor done him would he not at his returne deserve in steed of a faire pallace an obscure prison and for a crowne of a King fetters and manacles of a slave in lieu of a Princely entrataynment the chastizement of a griveous criminall Of farr greater punishments are those worthy on whom the Prophete Ieremie sheds so many teares the 4. Chapter of his lamentations Blinde and insensible are they they might have byn nurished with exquisite and Royall food but they loved better to be filled with filthey ordures it was in their choice to become beautifull like Angells by their virtues but by their vices are made more black then the Devils and it was most easy for them with a little patience to be kings for all eternity in the happy Paradise but by their wicked demeanour they have purchased the eternall paynes of a most miserable Hell Have yee never well considered FRem whence proceeds this great misfortune tell mee ingeniously Comes it from man for not having sufficient light to guide him No this can not be for he hath reason which would sufficiently direct his steps if he were not blinded with too dark passions Faith would conduct him directly vnto God if he were not hendred by vice Divine inspirations would rayse him vnto high perfection if ke were not depressed by the charming allurments of the world and the flesh Proceeds it from the wicked nature of persons who resemble certayne trees incapable to beare any good fruit nor to serve for any thing then the fire No it is not this but that which makes so many Confessariours to sighth is to see amongst so many rich natures which they incounter and which seemes to be made soly for virtue to see ther are I say so few make vse of these great prerogatives of nature vvhich never the lesse are some of the most assured markes of predestination if they vvould but never solittle cooperate Proceeds it from the vvant of sufficiēt instruction and that the soul being left free vnto its depraved inclinations doth not clearely distinguish good frō evil virtue from vice Truly this reason is nothing especially in these times in vvhich the least girle or Boy knovves the deformity of vice seeing every one takes vp the maske of virtue and can not be deceaved vnles they grosely flatter them selves From vvhence then proceeds this evil Ansvvere me I beseech yee But be fore yee ansvvere I conjure yee by all the favors vvhich yee have receaved from Heaven by the pretious Blood of Iesus Christ shed for yee by the share yee pretend to have in Paradise Thinke well on it ANd after good and profound consideration yee vvill freely confesse that this mischiefe and ill fortune arrives from not having had due consideration for if one had but once well thought on it and seriously pondered wherfore are we in the world and what is that we would desire to have done when we shall be departing this world it would be almost impossible to offend our good Creator and we should finde great facility to serve him Is not this true Thinker well on it IF yee never solittle doubt it I will wholy convince yee by two or three examples What was it I pray yee which fred S. Antony from all the ill habits and coustomes of this world for to rayse him vnto that sublime degree of perfection vnto vvhich he arrived Three vvordes vvell considered have made this great vvonder He entred on a certayne day into the Church to heare masse as he ought and being attentive vnto the Ghosple he heard how Iesus Christ sayed If thom wilt be perfect goe sell all thou hast and follow me These wordes knocking at his Heart he opened the gate he kearkneth vnto them he weighs them and seriously considers them goes forth the Church he hastneth to give a beginning vnto the great perfection he afterwards shewed How many others have heard the same Ghosple but all have not so well considered it as he What extraordinary power drew S. Augustine out of the vice in which he was so farr ingaged for to addict him self vnto virtue Three words well considered caused this miraculous change you have read how his good Mother S. Monica exhorted him to live well but he seemed deaff she powred forth fluds of teares but did not mollify him she passed dangerous seas to follow him and always solicite him but she prevailed nothing Ye have heard how S. Ambroise vndertooke him how they conferred to gether how he was allwayes at the sermons of this holy and eloquent Prelate notwithstanding all this he remained alwayes firme and obstinat in his imperfection One day he entred into a Garden and lying vnder a tree the Epistles of S. Paul by him he heard a voyce which sayd vnto him take reade take read he rises openes his booke and findes these words It is not in feasts nor in debaucherey it is not in the bead nor ordeurs of the flesh much lesse in quarels and contests that God is found but put on Iesus Christ He reads these words over and over he meditats on them he considers them he engraves them in his heart He runs vnto his deare Alipius he hastneth vnto his Mother he wholy bequeathe him self vnto God What power broke the strong chaines which fast bound a yong Gentleman in the vanityes and follies of the world One sole thought well digested in his soul He was in a city ready to represent some galentry vnto the eyes of a great and brave assembly wherfore he retird vnto his lodging betimes to be the ealier vp in the morning But the ardent desire he had to appeare permitted him not to sleep or to take any rest he turned him self an hundred times in his bed and as often demanded what hovvre it was at last amonghst these inquietudes a thought came into his