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A22910 S. Augustines manuel Conteining special, and piked meditations, and godlie praiers: drawne out of the Word of God, and writings of the holie Fathers, for the exercise of the soule. Corrected, translated, and adorned, by Thomas Rogers.; Manuale. English. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. 1581 (1581) STC 938; ESTC S100327 31,471 117

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Sauiour came into y e world and was crucified and put vnto death for our sakes that he might through his death destroie him that had the power of death that is the Diuel And seeing the grapes of his flesh were carried vnto y e wine-presse of the crosse and the pleasant wine of his diuinitie began to spout-foorth the holie Spirit was sent to make readie mens harts that new wine might be put into new vessels and to see first that they were cleane least otherwise they marred y t which should be powred-in and then that they were wel hooped that they leaked not I meane that they were clensed from the delight of wickednes and hooped to keepe-out the delight of vanitie For that which is good could not enter til that which il is were gone The delight in wickednes polluteth and the delight in vanitie sheddeth The delight in wickednes makes the vessel to stincke and the delight in vanitie maketh it ful of clefts Men delight in wickednes when they loue sinne and they delight in vanitie when they loue transitorie things Then cast awaie that which is euil that you may taste that which good is Powre-out bitternes that you may be replenished with sweetenes The holie Ghost is ioie and loue then cast out the spirit of the Diuel and the spirit of this world that you may be capable of the holie Ghost The spirit of the Diuel worketh the delight of iniquitie and the spirit of the world the delight of vanitie And these delightes are euil because the one is a sinne of it selfe and the other is an occasion of sinne But when these euil spirits are throwne-out the spirit of God wil come and enter into the tabernacle of the heart and worke à good delight there euen à good loue which shal expel the loue both of the world and of wickednes The loue of the world allureth and deceaueth the loue of sinne defileth and bringeth vnto destruction but the loue of God inlighteneth the mind clenseth the conscience reioiceth the heart and bringeth into the sight of God Chap. 27. The effects of true loue HE that loueth God vnfainedlie doth euermore thinke it long vntil he come vnto God vntil he leaue the world vntil he be free from the corruption of the flesh his heart and affection are set on things aboue that he may finde the true peace Whether he sitteth or walketh or resteth or whatsoeuer he doth his heart is with God He exhorteth al men to loue God he commendeth the loue of God to al men and both in hart in word and by his conuersation he sheweth both how sweete the loue of God is and how euil and sower the loue of the world He derideth the glorie and reproueth the care of this world and sheweth what a foolish thing it is to put anie confidence in transitorie things He wondereth at the blindnes of men that they can loue he wondereth also that euerie man wil not forsake these transitorie and fleeting things of this world He thinketh that what he sauoreth should seeme sweete to al men what he loueth should like euerie man and what he knoweth euerie man should vnderstand Much and oftentimes doth he mufe vpon God and is sweetelie refreshed through such heauenlie contemplation and the oftner he doth so the greater is his ioie For verie comfortable is it alwaie euen to thinke vpon that which to loue and to commend is so delightful to the minde Chap. 28. VVhat the true quietnes of the minde is DOubtles the heart is then at rest when through desire it is wholie fixed vpon the loue of God and desireth nothing else but with a certaine blessed sweetenes is much delighted in that which it hath and in delighting is made iocund And if anie time either by à vaine cogitation or through worldlie busines it be somewhat drawne awaie there-from it hasteneth to returne thether with al speede deeming it a banishment to be anie-where beside For as euerie moment man may either enioie or vse the goodnes of God so euerie moment is man to thinke vpon God And therefore his offence is not small who in praieng is carried suddenlie awaie from his sight as though he did neither heare nor beholde Which is then done when man followeth his euil and vnbrideled affections and wherevnto the sight of the minde is easilie carried preferreth some vile creature before God by musing thinking therevpon oftner than vpon God who dailie is to be thought-vpon as à creator to be worshipped as à redeemer to be expected as à sauiour and to be feared as à iudge Chap. 29. That whatsoeuer withdraweth the sight of the minde from God is altogether to be shunned and abhorred WHosoeuer thou art that louest y e world looke afore-hande whether thou must go The waie which thou takest is the worst waie and verie dangerous Wherefore ô man auoide by little little thy worldlie busines withdraw thy self awhile from troublesome cogitations Cast awaie heauie cares laie aside greeuous distractions of the mind finde some leisure to serue God and rest thy selfe somewhat in him Enter into the chamber of thy minde exclude al things saue God and what makes to the seeking of him and the dore being shut seeke him And with thine whole heart saie vnto God I seeke thy face ô Lord I seeke euen thy face Oh then ô Lord my God giue thou mine heart instructions both where how to seeke thee both where and how to finde thee O Lord if heere thou art not where shal I seke thee absent but if thou art euerie-where then why do I not see thee present But vndoubtedlie thou dwellest in the light that none can attaine vnto But how may I come vnto the light that cannot be attained Or who shal guide and conduct me thereinto that therein I may behold thee Furthermore by what tokens and with what face may I seeke thee O Lord my God I neuer sawe thee I knowe not thy countenance Then what shal he doe ô Lord most hie what shal this thy far exiled seruāt do what shal thy seruant doe who is in perplexitie through the loue of thee and cast-awaie far fro thy presence Lo he longeth greatlie to behold thee yet thy countenance is far from his sight He desireth to come vnto thee yet vnto thy dwelling no man can attaine He coueteth to find thee yet he wotteth not where He loueth to seeke thee yet he knoweth not thy face Chap. 30. How through sinne man both lost the sight of God and found wretchednes O Lord thou art my God my Lord yet did I neuer see thee thou hast both made me yea and made me againe and bestowed vpon me what good things soeuer I enioie yet hitherto haue I neither seene nor knowen thee To be short I
mercies is with me And if great is the Lords mercies doubtles great are my merits The more able he is to saue the lesse care doe I take Chap. 23. Special medicines against sinne and despaire GReatlie haue I sinned ô Lord and my conscience accuseth me of manifold offences yet doe I not despaire For where sin abounded grace abounded much more He that in consideration of his hainous wickednes doth despaire denieth God to be à merciful God He greatlie defaceth the glorie of God which doubteth of his mercie and as much as in him is denieth God to haue loue truth power in him wherein al mine hope consisteth to wit in the loue of his adoption in the truth of his promise in the power of his redemption Then let my foolish cogitation murmur as much as it wil saieng who art thou how great is that glorie by what merits hopest thou to obteine y e same And I wil boldlie make this answere I knowe whome I giue credit vnto for of his tender loue he hath adopted me for his Sonne who is both of his promise true and also mightie in performance and he may doe what he wil The multitude of my sinnes can not dismaie me if the death of Christ come into my mind for my sinnes are not able to ouermatch his mercie The nailes and the speare doe crie vnto me that I am reconciled to Christ if I loue him hartilie Longinus with his speare hath opened to me y e side of Christ and I am gone-in and rest there quietlie He that feareth let him loue For perfect loue casteth-out feare There is no such remedie against the heate of lust as the death of my redeemer He stretched-out his armes vpon the crosse and held-out his hands to show how he is readie to embrace the penitent sinners Betweene those armes of my Sauior I both wish to liue and desire to die There I wil sing without care I wil magnifie thee ô Lord for thou hast exalted me and hast not made my foes to reioice ouer me Our Sauior bowed his head and gaue vp the ghost euen to kisse his beloued And so often doe we kisse God as we are pricked at the hart with the loue of him Chap. 24. A zealous meditation to mooue vnto the loue of God O MY Soule thou which art endued with the image of GOD redeemed with the blood of Christ betrothed through faith endued with the Spirit adorned with virtues and counted with the Angels Loue thou him who hath so loued thee care thou for him who hath a care of thee seeke thou him who seeketh thee Loue thy louer of whom thou art loued who in louing hath preuented thee who is the cause of thy loue He is the merit he the reward he the fruite the vse and the end Be thou careful with the careful be thou at leisure with him that hath leisure cleane with the cleane and holie with the holie As thou offerest thy selfe in the presence of God so wil he appeare in thy sight A good and merciful God of great kindnes requireth such as are good and merciful and louing and humble and kind Loue thou him who hath brought thee out of the horrible pit out of the mirie claie Choose him for thy friend before al friends who when al things shal faile wil keepe his faith In the daie of thy burial when al thy friends wil depart from thee he wil not forsake thee but protect thee from the roaring of them that be readie to deuoure and conduct thee through an vnknowen contrie and bring thee vnto the streetes of supernal Zion there place thee with the Angels before the face of his maiestie where thou shalt heare that angelical musicke Holie Holie Holie There is the song of mirth the voice of ioie and welfare and thankes-giuing and praising and Halleluiah for euer and euer There is perfect felicitie excellent glorie surpassing ioie and al good things O my soule sigh hartilie and earnestlie desire to attaine vnto that supernal citie whereof such glorious things are spoken in which who so dwel are al euen like such as triumph with ioie Through loue thou maiest ascend To the louer nothing is hard nothing vnpossible The soule that loueth doth often-times ascend and boldlie runneth about the streetes of celestial Hierusalem visiting the Patriarches and Prophets saluting the Apostles wondering at the armies of Martyrs and Confessors and beholding y e flockes of virgins Heauen earth and al things in them contained do cal vpon me continuallie to loue my Lord God Chap. 25. Of true knowledge what it is WHat is the knowledge of the truth It is first to knowe thy selfe and that thou both studie to be such as thou oughtest to be and also amend that which is to be reformed Secondlie it is to knowe and to loue thy maker for this is al mans happines Consider therefore how vnspeakeable the loue of God is to manward He created vs of nothing and whatsoeuer wee haue he gaue the same But forsomuch as we loued the gift more than the giuer the creature than the creator we fel into the snare of Satan and became his bond-slaues Neuerthelesse God of his great loue sent his owne Sonne to redeeme seruants and sent also the holie Ghost whereby he made seruants his sonnes by adoption He gaue his Sonne for a ransome the holie Ghost for a pledge of his loue and reserueth himselfe wholie for the inheritance of adoption And thus God as he is verie gratious and merciful of his good wil and loue to mankindward bestoweth not his goodes onlie but himselfe also to redeeme man and that not so much for his owne sake as for mans behoofe That men might be borne of God God first was borne of man Now what hart is so flintie but wil be softened by this loue of God so preuenting man O vehement loue that God for mans cause can vouchsafe to become man Who can hate man whose nature and likenes he beholdeth in the humanitie of God Doubtles who so loueth not man hateth God and so abideth in death For God became man for mans sake that he might be a redeemer as he was before a creator and that man not onlie might be ransomed through his riches but also loue him the more entirelie God appeared in the similitude of sinful flesh that each sense of man might be made blessed in him and as wel the eie of the hart be renewed in his diuinitie as the eie of the bodie in his humanitie that whether it go in or out mans nature which he hath created might in it finde comfort and refreshment Chap. 26. VVhat the sending of the holie Spirit worketh in vs. FOR our
the holie Table pag. 29. 12 A zealous praier for grace to meditate deepelie vpon the goodnes of God pag. 32. 13 A thankes-giuing vnto God for the incarnation of his deere Sonne to saue man pag. 34. 14 The more God is thought vpon the more louelie he seemeth pag. 36. 15 How the trobles in this world are nothing answerable to the ioies in heauen pag. 38. 16 Of the kingdome of heauen and how it may be attained pag. 41. 17 What Paradise is and the ioies thereof pag. 42. 18 That we can not please God but through loue pag. 46. 19 How GOD requireth some thing of vs like to himselfe pag. 49. 20 Of the boldnes of the soule that loueth GOD pag. 41. 21 The singular loue of GOD to manward pag. 55. 22 The refuge of à Christian in time of tentation pag. 57. 23 Special medicines against sinne and despaire pag. 59. 24 A zealous meditation to mooue vnto the loue of God pag. 62. 25 Of true knowledge what it is pag. 65. 26 What the sending of the holie Spirit worketh in vs pag. 68. 27 The effects of true loue pag. 71. 28 What the true quietnes of the mind is pag. 73. 29 That whatsoeuer withdraweth the sight of the mind from God is altogether to be shunned and abhorted pag. 75. 30 How through sinne man lost the sight of God and found wretchednes 78. 31 Of God his woonderful mercie pag. 81. 32 The happie state of such as enioie the ioies of heauen pag. 84. 33 That soueraigne happines is to bee sought for pag. 87. 34 How the Sancts loue ech other mutualie in heauen pag. 91. 35 Of the perfect ioie of eternal life pag. 93. FINIS 1581. OS HOMINI SVBLIME DEDIT Printed by Henrie Denham dwelling in Pater noster Row at the signe of the Starre Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis 1 This Booke why called a Manuel 2 Author of this Booke who 3 The Argument of this Booke a D. Bern. in die S. Andreae serm 1. 4 The occasion why this Booke was made 5 Methode of this Booke 6 Vse of this Booke b Mark 13 verse 33. c 1. Thes 5. verse 17. d Cyril praefat Catech. e Hierome in Epist f August in serm f August in serm g Manuel cap. 25. Manuel cap. 11. a Iere. 23 verse 24. b Heb. 1 3. c Eccle. 23 verse 18.19 d Ioh. 5 17. e Psal 50 8.9 c. f Luk. 15 4.5 c. g Wis 11 23. Iohn 3 16. Iohn 13 1. h Exo. 20 5. i Ier. 26 3. k Psal 79 5. l Wis 7 27. m Mal. 3 6. n Psal 50 8.9.10 c. o 1. Cor. 7 verse 4. Iam. 1 17. p 1. Pet. 2 verse 24. Isai 53 5.6 c. q Matth. 18 verse 23.27 c. 35. r Iob. 23 8.9 ſ Ioh. 1 18. 1. Tim. 6 16. t Eccles 23 verse 18.19 u Prou. 15 verse 29. x Eccl. 23 verse 18.19 y Psa 50 8.9 c. z Ier. 23 24. a Ier. 32 18.19 b Psa 139 7.8 c Heb. 1 3. d Isa 54 13. Iohn 6 44.45 e Eccl. 16 18 19. f Psa 102 24.25 c. g 1. Tim. 6 verse 16. h Deut. 6 4. 2. Kings 19 verse 15.19 a Iob. 23 8.9 Psal 139 7.8 b Iam. 1 17. c Mar. 10 verse 18. Luk. 18 18. d Gen. 1 1.2 Heb. 1 1.2 e Psal 50 8.9.10 c. f Iohn 5 17. g Matth. 11 verse 25. Luk. 10 21. h Ier. 32 19. i Eccles 15 verse 20. k Psal 11 5.6.7 l Exod. 6 3. Gen. 35 11. m Gen. 1 26.27 Psal 100 3. Psal 119 73. n Dan. 9 4.5.6 c. o Gal. 3 13. 1. Tim. 2 6. Psal 103 1.2.3.4 c. p Ier. 23 24. q Act. 17 28. r Psa 139 7.8 c. ſ Reu. 6 15.16.17 a Gen. 1 26.27 Colos 3 10. b Rom. 5 15 16 c. c Rom. 8 30 d Luk. 15 4.5 c. e Isai 40 31. f Psal 26 8. g Psal 23 2. h Reu. 7 15.16.17 i 1. Tim. 1 1. k Hos 13 9. l Isa 41 14. Isa 44 24. a 1. Cor. 1 17.18.19 c. b Gen. 1 26.27 Psal 119 73. c Act. 17 28 d Iam. 1 17. e Ioh. 11 25. f Iohn 14 6 g Reu. 21 4. Reu. 22 5. h Mat. 6 24. Luk. 16 13. i Luk. 1 78. k Ioh. 6 35.48.50 c. l Iohn 4 13 14. m Reu. 21 23 a Iohn 1 9. b Iohn 4 13 14. c Psal 36 8. d Psal 19 12 13. e ● Ioh. 2 15 f Matt. 6 10 g Heb. 1 1.2 c. a Phil. 1 23. b 1. Cor. 13 verse 12. Reue. 22 4. c Reu. 7 15.16 d Reu. 21 4. e Psal 36 8. f Heb. 11 13. Heb. 13 14. g Reu. 22 4. h Reu. 21 4. i Reu. 5 8. k Reu. 21 4. l Reu. 21 verse 27. m 1. Cor. 2 verse 9. n Psa 137 3 a Reu. 7 16 17. Reue. 21 4. b Reu. 22 4. c 1. Cor. 13 verse 12.13 d Reue. 21 verse 23.24 Reue. 22 5. e Ioh. 17 24. 21. a Reu. 21 4. b Dan. 7 27. c Reu. 21 4. d 2. Tim. 4. verse 7.8 e Phil. 1 23. f Reu. 7 16.17 g Reu. 5 1.2 c. h 1. Cor 13 verse 12. i Reu. 21 4. k 1. Cor. 15 verse 53.54 l Eccles 23 verse 19.20 m 1. Cor. 13 verse 13. n Iob. 7 1. o Psa 102 11. Psa 103 14.15 p Iob. 14 1. a Psa 116 12. b Psa 23 2. c Phil. 4 7. a Psal 7 1.3 b Psa 45 2. c Iob. 23 8.9 Psal 139 7.8 d Ioh. 3 16. e 1. Pet. 2 verse 22. f 1. Ioh. 4 8. g Deut. 6 5. Matt. 22 37. Luke 10 27. h Phil. 2 12. a Psa 45 2. b 1. Pet. 1 18.19 c 1. Tim. 3 verse 16. d Heb. 7 26 27. e Luk. 22 19 f 1. Cor. 11 verse 26. g Reu. 21 23 24. h Ioh. 6 35.48.51 a Psal 45 ● b 1. Ioh. 4 8. c Ioh. 14 6. Iohn 25 11. d Act. 17 28. e 1. Tim. 1 1. f Col. 3 4. g 1. Tim. 1 1. h Eph. 5 30. a Eph. 5 29. b Iohn 1 14. c Phil. 2 8. d Col. 2 14. e Rom. 8 34 f 1. Tim. 1 1. g Eph. 2 5.6 h Reu. 19 1. a Iohn 3 16 b 1. Pet. 1 18.19 c Eph. 2 5. d Rom. 8 verse 30. e Matt. 5 8. f Phil. 1 23. g 1. Cor. 14. verse 25. h Iob. 10 8. Psal 100 3. i Col. 3 1.2 k Matth. 13 verse 44.45 l Matt. 6 21. Luke 12 34. m Phil. 4 7. n Rom. 8 15 Galat. 4 5.6 o Gen. 1 26.27 a Rom. 8 18 b Psal 31 10. c Hab. 3 16. d 1. Cor. 2 9 e Matth. 13 verse 43. f Rom. 2 6. Reu. 22 12. g Matth. 25 verse 34.35 c. h 1. Cor. 13 verse 12. Reu. 22 4. i Eph. 2 6. k 1. Cor. 15. verse 28. a 1. Cor. 13 verse 12. b Matth. 11 verse 12. c 1. Pet. 1 verse 18.19 d