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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00579	The historye of the damnable life and deserued death of Doctor Iohn Faustus Newly imprinted, and in conuenient places, imperfect matter amended: according to the true coppy printed at Franckfort, and translated into English by P.F. Gent.	P. F., Gent.	1618 (1618)	STC 10713; ESTC S115007	74,183	80

conuerted after that he had ●●a● the sermon of Philip for he was baptized and saw his sinne and repented Likewise I beséech you good bro●her Doctor Faustus l●t my rude sermon be vnto you a conuertion and forget the filthy life that yet hau● ledd● ●ezent aske mercy and liue for Christ saith Come vnto me all ye● that ●e weary and heauy laden and I will refresh you And in Ezechiel I desire not the death of a sinner but rather that he will conuert and liue Let my wordes good Brother Faustus pierce into your Adamant heart and desire God for his son Christ his sake to forgiue you Wherfore haue you so long liued in your diuelish practises knowing that in the olde and new testament you are forbidden and that men should not suffer any such to liue neither haue any conuersation with them for it is an abhomination vnto the Lord and that such persons haue no part in the Kingdome of God All this while Doctor Faustus heard him very attentiuely and replyed Father your perswasions like me wondrous well and I thanke you with all my heart for your good will and counsell pro●ising you as farre as I may to allow your discipline whereupon he tooke his leaue And being come home he lay him very pensiue on his bed bethinking himselfe of the wordes of the olde man and in a manner began to repent that he had giuen his soule to the diuell intend●ng to deny all he had promised to Lucifer Continuing in these cogitations suddainly his spirit appeared vnto him clapping him vpon the head and wrung it as though he would haue pulled his head from his shaulders saying vnto him Thou knowest Faustus that thou hast giuen thy selfe body and soule to my Lord Lucifer and thou hast vowed thy selfe an enemy to God and vnto all men and now thou beginnest to hearken vnto an olde doting foole which perswa●eth thée as it were vnto good when indéed it is too lace for that thou art the Diuels and he hath good power presently to fetch thée wherefore he hath sent me vnto thée to tell thée that séeing thou hast sorrowed for that thou hast done begin againe and write another writing with thine owne blood if not then will I teare thée all to péeces Hereat Doctor Faustus was sore afraid and said My Mephostophiles I will write againe what thou wilt wherefore he sate him downe and with his owne blood he wrote as followeth which writing was afterward sent to a deare friend of the said Doctor Faustus being his kins-man How Doctor Faustus wrote the second time with his owne blood and gaue it to the deuill Chap. 49. I Doctor Iohn Faustus acknowledge by this my déed and hand writing that sith my first writing which is seuentéen yeares that I haue right willingly held and hath béen an vtter enemy vnto God all men the which I once againe confirme and giue fully and wholy my selfe vnto the deuill both body and soule euen vnto the great Lucifer that at the end of seauen yeares insuing after the date of this letter he shall haue to doe with me according as it pleaseth him either to lengthen or shorten my life as pleaseth him and hereupon I renounce all perswaders that séeke to withdraw me from my purpose by the word of God either ghostly or bodily and further I wil neuer giue eare vnto any man be he spirituall or temporall that moueth any matter for the saluation of my soule Of all this writing and that therein conteined be witnes my bloud the which with my hands I haue begun and ended Dated at VVittenberg the 25. of Iuly And presently vpon the making of this letter he became so great an enemy to the poore old man that he sought his life by all meanes possible but this godly man was strong in the holy Ghost that he could not be vanquished by any meanes for about two dayes after that he had exhorted Faustus as the poore man lay in his bed suddainly there was a mighty rumbling in the chamber that which he was neuer wont to heare and he heard as it had béene the groaning of a Sow which lasted long whereupon the good old man began to iest and mocke and said oh what Barbarian cry is this oh faire bird what soule musick is this a faire Angell that could not tary two daies in his place beginnest thou now to rim into a poore mans house where thou hast no power and wert not able to kéepe thy owne two dayes With these and such like words the spirit departed And when he came home Faustus asked him how hée had sped with the olde man to whome the spirit answered the olde man was harnessed and that he could not once lay holde vpon him but hée would not tell how the olde man had mocked him for the Diuels can neuer abide to heare of their fall Thus doth God defend the hearts of all honest Christians that be take themselues vnder his tuition How Doctor Faustus made a marriage between two louers Cap. 50. IN the Citty of Wittenberg was a Student a gallant Gentleman named N. N. This Gentleman was farre in loue with a Gentlewoman faire and proper of personage This Gentlewoman had a knight that was a suter vnto her and many other Gentlemen the which desired her in mariage but none could obtain her so it was that this N.N. was very well acquainted with Faustus and by that meanes became a suter vnto him to assist him in the matter for he fell so farre in dispaire with himselfe that he pined away to the skin and bones But when he had opened the matter vnto Doctor Faustus he asked counsell of his spirit Mephostophiles the which tolde him what to doe Hereupon Doctor Faustus went home to the Gentleman and bad him be of good chéere for he should haue his desire for he would helpe him to that he wished for and that this Gentlewoman should loue none other but him onely wherefore D. Faustus so changed the mind of the damsell by a practise he wrought that she should doe no other thing but think on him whom before she had hated neither cared she for any man but him alone The deuice was thus Faustus commaunded the Gentleman that he should cloath himselfe in all the best apparell that he had and that he should goe vnto this Gentlewoman ●●d showe himselfe giuing him a King commaunding him in any wise that he should daunce with her before he departed who folowing his Counsel went to her and when they began to daunce they that were suiters began to take euery one his Lady by the hand this Gentleman tooke her woo before had so disdayned him and in the daunce he put the King into her hand that Faustus had giuen him which she no sooner toucht but she fell presently in loue with him smiling at him in the daunce and many times winking at him rolling her eyes and in the end she asked him if be could

with a good and stedfast beliefe in God and Iesus Christ and vse your vocation in holines Lastly to knit vp my troubled oration this is my friendly request that you would goe to rest and let nothing trouble you also if you chance to heare any noise 〈◊〉 rumbling about the house be not therewith afraid for there shall no euill happen vnto you also I pray you arise not out of your beds ●at aboue all things I intreat you if you hereafter find my dead earkasse conuey it in the earth for I dye both a good and bad Christian for that I knowe the deuill will haue my body and that would I willingly giue him so that he would leaue my soule in quiet wherefore I pray you that you would depart to bed and so I wish you a quiet night which vnto mee notwithstanding will be horrible and fearefull This Oration or declaration was made by Doctor Faustus and that with a hearty and resolute minde to the end he might not discomfort them but the Students wondred greatly thereat that he was so blinded for knauery coniuration and such like foolish things to giue his body and soule vnto the deuill for they loued him intirely and neuer suspected any such things before he had opened his mind vnto them wherfore one of them said vnto him Ah friend Faustus what haue you done to conceale this matter so long from vs we would by the helpe of good Diuines and the grace of God haue brought you out of this net and haue torne you out of the bondage and chaines of Sathan whereas now we feare it is too late to the vtter ruine of your body and soule Doctor Faustus answered I durst neuer doe it although I often minded to settle my selfe vnto godly people to desire counsell and helpe and once mine olde neighbour counselled me that I should follow his learning and leaue all my coniurations yet when I was minded to amend and to follow that good mans councell then came the deuill and would haue had me away as this night he is like to doe and said so soone as I turned againe to God he would dispatch me altogether Thus euen thus good gentlemen and deare friends was I inthralled in that satanicall band all good desires drowned all pitty banished all purpose of amendment vtterly exiled by the tyrannous threatnings of my deadly enemie But when the Students heard his words they gaue him councell to doe nought else but call vpon God desiring him for the loue of his swéet son Iesus Christs sake to haue mercy vpon him teaching him this forme of prayer O God be mercifull vnto me poore and miserable sinner and enter not into iudgement with me for no flesh is able to stand before thée although O Lord I must leaue my sinfull body vnto the Deuill being by him deluded yet thou in mercy maist preserue my soule This they repeated vnto him yet it could take no holt but euen as Caine he also said his sinnes were greater then God was able to forgiue for all his thought was an his writing he ●●ant he had made it too filthy in writing with his owne blood The Students and the other that were there when they had prayed for him they wept and so went foorth but Faustus tarryed in the Hall and when the Gentlemen were laid in bed none of them could stéepe for that they attended to heare if they might be priuy of his end It hapned betwéene twelue and one a clocke at midnight there blew a mighty storme of winde against the house as though it would haue blowne the foundation thereof out of his place Hereupon the students began to feare and got out of their beds comforting one another but they would not stirre out of the chamber and the Host of the house ranne out of doores thinking the house would fall The Students lay néere vnto the hall wherein Doctor Faustus lay and they heard a mighty noise and hissing as if the hall had beene full of Snakes and Adders with that the hall doore stowe open wherin doctor Faustus was that he began to crie for help saying murther murther but it came foorth with halfe a voice hollowly shortly after they heard him no more But when it was day the Students that had taken no rest that night arose and went into the hall in the which they left doctor Faustus where notwithstanding they found not Faustus but all the hall lay desprinckled with blood his braines cleauing to the wall for the deuill had beaten him from one wall against another In one corner lay his eyes in an other his téeth a pittifull and fearefull sight to behold Then be●an the Students to waile and wéep for him and sought for his body in many places lastly they came into the yard where they found his body lying on the horse dung most monstrously torne and fearefull to behold for his head and all his ioynts were dashed in péeces The fore-named Students and Masters that were at his death haue obtained so much that they buryed him in the village where he was so gréeuously tormented After the which they returned to Wittenberg and comming into the house of Faustus they found the seruant of Faustus very sad vnto whome they opened all the matter who tooke it excéeding heauily There found they also this historie of Doctor Faustus noted and of him written as is before declared all saue onely his end the which was after by the Students thereto annexed further what his seruant had noted thereof was made in another booke And you haue heard that he held by him in his life the spirit of faire Helena the which had by him one Sonne the which he named Iustus Faustus euen the same day of his death they vanished away both mother and sonne The house before was so darke that scarfe any body could abide therein The same night Doctor Faustus appeared vnto his seruant liuely and shewed vnto him many secret thinges the which he had done and hidden in his life time Likewise there were certaine which saw Doctor Faustus looke out of the window by night as they passed by the house And thus ended the whole historie of Doctor Faustus his Coniuration and other acts that he did in his life out of the which example euery Christian may learne but chiefly the stiffe-necked and high minded may thereby learne to feare God and to be carefull of their vocation and to be at defiance with all deuillish workes as God hath most precisely forbidden to the end we should not inuite the deuill as a Guest nor giue him place as that wicked Faustus hath done for here we haue a feareful example of his writing promise and end that we may remember him that we goe not astray but take God alwayes before our eyes to call alone vpon him and to honour him all the dayes of our life with heart and harty prayer and with all our strength and soule to glorifie his holy name defying the deuill and all his workes to the end we may remaine with Christ in all endlesse ioy Amen Amen that wish I vnto euery Christian heart and Gods name to be glorified Amen FINIS