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A01492 A treatise of c[hri]stian renunciation Compiled of excellent sentences [and] as it were diuerse homelies of ancient fathers: wherin is shewed how farre it is lawfull or necessary for the loue of Christ t[o] forsake father, mother, wife and children, and all other worldly creatures. Against the enemies of the crosse of Christ, ... Wherunto is added [a shorte discourse against going to hereticall churches.] Garnet, Henry, 1555-1606. 1593 (1593) STC 11617.8; ESTC S113062 99,728 170

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see they want in the Church that which they desire they become the enemies of the good not onely addicte them selues to crooked behauiour but endeuour also to bend the righteous mēnes straight nes to their peruersnes They neglect to consider the things eternall and with the basenes of their mind they are subdued to the desire of that which is temporall and so much the deeper they fall frō things euerlasting because they repute that besides temporall goods there are no other To these men is much displeasant the iust mens simplicity and when they find occasion of trouble they perswade them to embrace their doublenes Wherfore is that very fitte which followeth His wife saide vnto him doest thou yet remaine in thy simplicity Blesse God dye For whose person did this deceiuing woman beare but of certaine carnall persons within the Churches bosome who in that they be within by their outward profession doe the more oppresse the good with vncorrected maners for lesse perhaps should they haue hurte if the holy Church admitting them had not receiued them in the very closett of faith and by such receiuing them vnto this profession were not in estate that she cannot auoide them Luc. 8 Hereof is it that the multitude oppressing our Redeemer but one only woman did touch him wherfore he saide who hath touched me To whom whan the Disciples answered the multitudes throung and presse thee and dost thou say who hath touched me he forthwith added some body hath touched me for I know that there is vertue proceeded from me Many therfore do presse our Lord and one onely toucheth because those which are carnall in the Church do presse him being farre from him those onely do touch him which being truely humble are ioyned vnto him The multitude therfore do presse him because the company of carnall folkes how much nearer it is admitted so much the harder is tollerated A new kind of persecutours it presseth toucheth not because it is importunate being present and yet in good life alwaies absent For sometimes they persecute vs by wicked speaches but sometimes onely by peruerse manners For sometimes they exhorte vs to that which they follow other times although they exhorte not yet ceasse they not to geue vs examples of iniquity Those therfore which by wordes or examples intise vs to euell in very deed are our persecutours by whō we are brought vnto the combate of tentations which at the least in our harte we may ouercome But we must vnderstand that those which are carnall in the Church sometimes through feare sometimes through presumptuousnes go about to perswade peruersnes and when them selues either for pusillanimity or haughtines do shrincke they seeke to instill the same thinges into the mindes of the iust and that vnder pretense of charity Charitable perswaders to schisme 2. Reg. 19. Mat. 16. Peter had a carnall mind before our Sauiours death and resurrection Saruias his sonne with a carnall mind followed his captaine Dauid yet the one sinned by feare the other by pride The first hearing of his masters death said Lord be it farre from thee this shall not be vnto thee The other not suffering the iniuries of his captaine saieth And for all these wordes shall not Semei be killed which hath cursed the anointed of our Lord But answere is geuen him what haue I to do with you ô sonnes of Saruias Euell counsailours are called Deuills why will you this day become Satan vnto me Euell counsailours than are called by the name of the Apostata Angells who with flattering speaches pretending loue do draw vnto wickednes Such are those who contumeliously oppose them selues to Priests yet farre worse are they which not of feare but of pride geue them selues to this vice whose figure especially was this wife of Iob endeuouring to bring her husband vnto pride saying yet dost thou remaine in thy simplicity Blesse God dye She reprehendeth simplicity in her husband because despising all that which is transitory he desired with a pure harte onely things eternall as if she had saide why dost thou simply desire things euerlasting and patiently groanest at thy present euells departing despise that which is eternally good and euen by death auoide that which is presently euell But those which are electe whilest inwardly they suffer of carnall men that which is euell how great an vprightnes they shew within them selues we may learne of the wordes of him which is woūded and yet sound How wiues shoud answere their Schismaticke husbands of him which sitteth and yet is erected Thou hast spoken saieth he like a very foolish woman if we haue receiued good of the hand of our Lord why should we not abide euell Holy men being ouertaken with the conflicte of tribulations whan at the very same time they abide some striking them and others perswading them to the first they oppose the buckler of patience against the second they hurle the dartes of Doctrine Two combares of Catholickes and with wonderfull conning of vertue they prepare them selues to both manners of fight that both within they may wisely confute that which is peruerse and without they may stoutely contemne whatsoeuer is contrary and by teaching the first correcte them by tolerating the second oppresse them For by suffering their enemies which rise against them they despise them and by compassion of their diseased frendes they reduce them to those they resist least they draw others but these they cure least vtterly they loose the life of all honesty S. Hier. in ep ad Tit. c. 3 §. 3 If it be good which the Emperour and Gouernour commaundeth obey the will of the commander God is to be obeyed before husbād or any other but if it be euell answere him out of the actes of the Apostles It behoueth to obey God more then men This same let vs vnderstand both of seruants to their masters and of wiues to their husbandes of children to their Parents that in those things onely they must be subiecte to their masters husbandes Parents which are not contrary vnto Gods commaundements An explication of diuerse lawfull manners of separation of man and wife according to the holy scriptures and the sentence and practise of holy Church VVE haue in diuerse places aboue sette downe the doctrine of Christ him selfe with the declaration of the Doctours of the Church §. 1 concerning the forsaking of wiues for the loue of Christ But wheras in this matter of forsaking or of liuing in the estate of wedlocke and perfourming matrimoniall dewty one to another the husband and wife is of like * Hieron Ep. ad Oceanum Aug. lib. 2. de adult con cap. 8. 19. Sylu. verbo Deuortium § 1. condition and that diuorce or separatiō or forsaking which is lawfull to the husband is lawfull also to the wife as well least wiues shold in this pointe be too rashe as that they may know if need should
is afflicted with our Lords Passiō and weeping bitterly he ●eareth Feed my sheepe Paule a rauening woolfe and another young Beniamin is strooken blind in a traunce that he may receiue his sight and being compassed with a soudaine horrour of darknes calleth him Lord whom before he persecuted as man Euen so now o Marcella we haue seene our louing Blesilla thirty daies cōtinually to haue bene tormented with the burning of an ague that she might learne to reiect the delightes of that body which shortly after is to be cōsumed with wormes To her also came our Lord Iesus and touched her hand and behould she arising now serueth him she sauoured somewhat of negligence and being tied with the bandes of riches she lay in the sepulcher of the world But Iesus groned and being troubled in spirit cried out Blesilla come forth Who arose whan she was called and being come forth now sitteth at the table with our Lord. Lett the Iewes threaten swell These men are like to Iewes spiritually seeking to murder Lazarus lett them seeke to murder her which hath bene raised vp againe and lett the onely apostles reioise she knoweth that she oweth her life vnto him who did restore it she knoweth that she embraceth his fecte whose iudgement lately she feared her body lay almost dead and death approching did shake her gasping members Where were than the helpes of her kinred where were than the wordes full of vanity she oweth nothing vnto thee o vngratefull kinred which dying to the world is reuiued vnto Christ Who is a Christian lett him reioise he that is angry sheweth that he is no Christian A widow loased from the bond of mariage needeth nothing but perseuerance The discription of an holy widow But doth the browne garment offend any person lett Iohn offend him than whom amongst the sonnes of women there was none greater who being called an Angell baptized our Lord him selfe for he also was cladd with a camells Skinne and girded with a girdle of heare do grosse meates displease thē nothing is more grosse than locusts Let those women rather offend Christian eies who with vernish and colourings paint their cies and cheekes whose plaistered countenances deformed with ouermuch shining do resemble idolls who if they happen for want of heed to let fall a teare it trickleth down in a furrow whom not so much as the very number of their yeares can perswade that they are olde who with other folkes haire sett forth their head and paint out in aged wrinckles their youth fore spent who finally in presence of many nephewes are trimmed like trembling girles Let the Christian woman blush if shee force the comelinesse of nature if she make prouision for the flesh vnto concupiscence in which according to the Apostle whosoeuer are delighted cannot please Christ Our widow before was very carefully dressed and all the day at the glasse she studied what might be amisse now she confidētly saith But we behoulding the glory of our Lord with face reuealed 2 Cor. 3. are transformed into the same image from glory vnto glory as of our Lords spirite Than the maides did platte her heare and the harmeles head was wringed with friseled toppes but now the vntrimmed head knoweth this to suffise it that it is couered Than did the very softnes of feathers seeme hard and she could scarce lye in the raised beddes now she riseth betime for to pray with her shrill voice preuenting the others in singing Alleluia she is the first which beginneth to praise her Lord. shee kneeleth vpon the ●are ground and with often teares that face is purged which before was defiled with painting after praier there are soung psalmes and the feeble necke and wearied knees and sleepy eyes for the earnest feruour of the mind can scant obtaine any rest the mourning gowne is leaste fouled whan she lieth on the ground The course pantoffle affordeth the price of gilte shoes vnto the poore the girdle is not besette with golde pretiouse stones but wollen and most pure because of the simplicity and such as may rather straiten the vestiments than adorne thē If the scorpion enuieth fo good a purpose and with flattering speach perswade againe to eate of the forbiddeu tree in steed of a shoe lett him be crusshed with ANATHEMA A deseription of Antichrist and whilest he dieth in his poison lett him haue this answere● Go after me Satan which is as much to say as aduersary for he is the aduersary of Christ and an Antichrist whosoeuer is displeased with the precepts of Christ I pray you what haue we donne like vnto the Apostles that they are so offended The Apostles forsooke their Parents They forsake their aged father with their shippe and nettes the publicane riseth from the custome house and followeth our Sauiour The Disciple which desired to returne home and bidd his frendes farewell is forbidden by our masters voice The buriall of a father is not allowed and it is a kind of piety for our Lord to be voide of piety We because we go not in silkes are esteemed Monkes because we are not droncke neither open our mouthes vnto dissolute laughter we are called graue and melancholy if our coate be not gorgeouse we straite heare that cōmon prouerbe he is an hypocrite deceiuing Greciā See how Let thē vse euen yet more rude scoffes and carry about with thē men stuffed with fatte paunches earnest Gods Saints haue bene against the Persecutors of vertue our Blesilla will laugh and not disdaine to heare the reproches of croking frogges wheras her Lord and master was called Beelzebub A notable epistle of Saint Bernard in the person of one Helias a monke vnto his parents ep 111. §. 6 THe onely cause for which it is not lawfull to obey our parents He defendeth his entry into religi●n against them Mat. 10 True loue of parents toward the is children Mat. 10. Mich. 7 is God For he saieth Who loueth his father and mother more than me is not worthy of me If you loue me in deed as good godly parents if you carry a true and faithfull piety towardes your sonne why do you disquiet me being about to serue God the father of all and endeuour to drawe me backe from the feruice of him to whom for to serue is to raigne Verely I now perceiue that a mans enemies are those of his owne houshould In this I must not obey you in this thing I ta●e you not for my parents but for my foes If you loued me you would certainely reioise because I go to my father yours yea and the father of all otherwise what haue I to do with you What haue I of you but sinne and misery onely this corruptible carcase which I carry I confesse and acknowledge that I haue of yours is it not sufficient for you that wretches that you are you haue brought me a wretch into the wretchednes of this world and