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A08964	The tranquillitie of the minde A verye excellent and most comfortable oration, plainely directing euerye man, & woman, to the true tranquillitie and quyetnesse of their minde. Compyled in Latine by Iohn Barnarde, student in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, now lately translated into Englishe by Anthony Marten.; Oratio pia, religiosa, et solatii plena, de vera animi tranquillitate. English	Bernard, John, d. 1567?; Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.	1570 (1570)	STC 1925; ESTC S101618	90,089	234

became weake and sicke and sléepe till the iudgement of the Lord which thing Paule testifieth in the .xj. to the Corinthians to haue hapned most iustly in his time what haue we wicked generation a people loden with iniquitie a deceytfull séede the lost children deserued who haue forsaken the Lorde our God and prouoked the holye one of Israell trayterously reuolting from him The Nobles haue béene vnfaythfull and companions with théeues they gaue no iudgement with the orphane the widowes and poores cause hath had no place before them Euery one from the least to the greatest hath loued taking of giftes They haue gaped after filthie gaine and couetousnesse Ambicion and robbing of the poore haue had their swinge Charitie and liberalitie towardes the destitute haue waxen colde Euerye one hath néede to beware of his next neighbour No man can safely giue credite to his owne brother for fayth honestie and conscience haue béene banished Among the whole multitude of the flocke there hath scarcely béene found one plaine friend of the truth But euen as before the destruction of Ierusalem for that he desired to spare his people and the place of his habitation he sent his Messengers betymes in the morning which seased not to cal them backe saying Returne ye wandring children confesse your iniquitie and your starting a side will I heale againe Euen so did the Preachers of Gods worde before this sodaine chaunge of state neuer more often more earnestly more boldely and vehementlye crye out and preache repentaunce fearing the people from theyr sinnes But neuerthelesse wyth theyr threatning they haue not made our hearts to yéelde We haue not thought vpon turning to the Lord in all our heart with wéeping fasting and lamenting We haue not repented earnestly and in good fayth In acknowledging our faultes we haue not giuen the glorie to God but being past shame with a stiffe necke with vncircumcised hartes and eares haue abidden still in our smnes We haue not submitted our selues vnder the mightie hande of God nor disposing our mindes to vnderstande what his life is haue bewayled our owne miserable condition saying from the bottome of our heartes we haue sinned Lord we haue wickedly departed from thée we haue done vniustlye we haue committed iniquitie In thy wrath O Lorde remember thy mercie space vs Lorde spare thy thy people and let not thine inheritance be a reproch to the worlde c. Nay rather we haue followed the example of the Iewes which scorned the messengers of God mocked his Prophetes and derided their Sermons vntill such time as the wrath of God was kindled against his people and no remedie could be founde Likewise we haue most shamefully derided the worde of God haue dispised the Ministers of Christ and haue counted them as madde men their prophecies being the true Oracles of God as the successe and ende of them haue verified we haue wickedlye esteemed to be but vaine fables and lyes Iustly therfore are we scourged For the Lorde hath taken away his kingdome from vs and gyuen it to a people working their owne workes He hath taken from vs the cléere light and sent darkenesse among vs Hée hath taken the candlesticke from vs and appoynted a hunger of his worde But not pacified onely with this punishment he hath also threatned desolation of Cities distructions ouerthrowes wastings and ruynes vpon which ensue losse of goods committing of adultry defloration of daughters besides the miserable leadinges into captiuitie by barberous nations Ye and more gréeuous than al these he assigneth vnto such as be obstinate and vngodly contemners of his worde and doe omit charitie and other good workes aboue mentioned And if for all this they will not repent he pronownceth that it shal be worse to them in the day of iudgement than to Sodom and Gomorrha But the sincere louers of the truth when contrarie wise the stubberne and disobedient by Gods iust iudgement are blinded shall sée light in darckenesse and among déepe errors shall spye out the light of the worde which worde shall be their guyde and shall make the way plaine vnto them least the féete of the Sainctes stumble against the darke mountaines These men shining in good works before the blindnesse of mortall men shall by shewing the true worde of the Gospell shake off the darckenesse of errors and by warning exhorting and reproouing the workes of darkenesse shall bring backe the shéepe of Christ often straying from the right course pathway vnto that one blessed flocke of true Christians These men also that the Deuill if it be possible may suppresse he stretcheth out his threates and terrors of gréeuous persecution against them that the preaching of the Gospell eyther by ridding such out of the way or by their consent vnto an vntruth might vtterly be put to scilence But he finally preuayleth by his violent meanes Lyttle doth he aduantage by his cruell and blouddie assaults to ouerthrow Gods seruants and to vanquish the truth For the Church of God and christian religion haue euermore augmented thorowe persecution and by the verye same meanes that other things haue bene extinguished and brought to nothing they haue growne and increased Which thing Saint Augustine excellently well declareth in a certaine Epistle of his to Volusyan When tyrannous infidelitie sayth he speaking of the first famous professors and teachers of Christs religion rageth against them they wayte for things foreshewde they hope vppon promises they teach the commaundementes of a small number they are spread ouer the worlde they conuert the people with maruellous facilitie they increase amongst their enimies they waxe more and more with persecution through grieuous affliction they are caryed out to the endes of the earth By those which are most vnlearned most abiect and least of number they are brought to fame to renowme and are multiplyed The most excellent wyttes the trymmest eloquence the wonderfull cunning of wise eloquent and learned men of the worlde they doe bring vnder Christ and conuert to preache the way of godlynesse and saluation Through aduersitie and prosperitie which chaunce in the course of times they throughly exercise themselues both in pacience and temperaunce The worlde drawing nowe towardes an ende and declaring manifestly by the féeblenesse of things the last age of the same men doe wayte for eternall felicity in the heauenly habitation and with much greater confidence bycause the same is porficied of before Also amongst all other things the infidelitie of wicked nations stormes against the church of Christ but she through pacience and stedfast professing of faith amidst the crueltie of resistaunce hath the ouer hande Wherefore rightlye did one vtter that noble sentence boldelye and without feare he declared it that the bloud of Martires is the seede of Christes religion But now that wée haue largely inough set forth how and in what maner euery man ought to behaue hymselfe to finde out the truth in the troublesome time

let vs by staying vpon Gods promises cast our minde beyond all griefe and vexation vpon the euerlasting good thinges and by laying the one against the other transferre those heauie troubles which presently molest vs to the rewarde of immortalitie and euerlasting ioyes to come Let vs fully resolue with our selues that there is neyther fortune nor chaunce but that all things be most righteously gouerned by the prouidence of God almightie and that what displeasure and miserie soeuer doth happen in mans life happeneth for the best to them which haue respect to godlynesse and loue God from the bottome of their hart and hauing a feruent zeale towards him doe desire him earnestlye doe choose him for their Protector and defender in all their affaires doe call vpon him onely doe flie to his mercie onely and doe repose their trust on him as their onely and alone succour So we putting our trust in the frée goodnesse mercy and clemencie of almightie God shall be replenished with excellent comfort and being kindled with loue of the true eternall good things shal be brought with a full and perfite course to that most desired quietnesse of minde Where we being filled with the spirite be it in prosperity or aduersitie let vs speake vnto our selues in Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall songs singing and making melodie in our hartes with thanks giuing alwayes to the Lorde for all thinges in the name of our Lorde Iesus Christ which is one and the same both yesterday and to day for euermore To God the Father also who is king of Kings and Lorde of Lordes who onelye hath immortalitie and dwelleth in the light that no man can attaine who largelye plentifully and aboundantly will participate with his elect people the thing which here onely in the heartes of Saintes is begonne euen the rest of eternall life which we so greatly long for through his beloued sonne in whome he hath made vs deare vnto him To him be dominion vertue power glorie honor and prayse euerlastinglye worlde without end Amen FINIS The Philosophers trāquillity Democritus The iourney of Apollonius The wonderfull thirst that Cleanthes had after wisedome The tranquillitie of ciuill Gouernors The insaciable ambition of Alexander Gainmongers tranquillitie Spoken ironice or in mocking wise Ouid. Esay 5. The tranquillitie of voluptuons men The modestie of the author Voluptuous men haue no part with tranquility of minde The voluptuousnesse of Xerxes Iob. 21. Luke 6. Luke 16. True tranquillitie with getting of ryches hath no societie Horace 2. Tim. 6 Math. 16. Psal. 48. Heb. 13. Iob. 1 Luke 12. Crates threw his substaunce into the sea Psal. 38. Psal. 61. Gredinesse of honour hath no part with true tranquilitie of the minde Lucan in his second booke Seneca Horace Seneca in Thyeste What true tranquillitye of the minde is and the cōmendation thereof Prayse of Philosophie Psalme 18. True tranquillitie is scuered from Philosophie and is transserred to Christ Aristotle A notable saying of Plato Trāquillity trantierred to Christ Ephe. 1. The lettes of true trāquillitie Mens Ioue bent vpon casuall goodes The confidence wee haue in mē The trust men haue in their own power and riches Euripides Miscōtent with our owne state and wondering at other mens Wicked and vnlawfull Artes. Deute 18. Desire of excelling others Heape of troubles Our life a continuall warfare The craftie wylinesse of Sathan The grieuous euils of our time The worme of the conscience What a murder Bessus committed Alexander deliuered to be worshipped as God. Sylla and Antiochus dyed wyth the disease of lyce Denying of Christ by othe Psal. 124. They lyuing in maruellous dispaire after they had forsaken the Gospell at length killed themselues Loke Gribalde in english That Christ is the true tranquillitie of the minde Math. 11. Esay 61. Luke 4. Esay 53. 2. Cor. 1. The memorie of the misterie of our redēptiō is chiefly celebrated in the precept of the Eucharist The benefites which ensue the right receyuing destributing of the sacrament of the Eucharist Psal. 110. The apt similitude of Cyrillus Purgatory Cyprian in his treatise against De metrianus S. Ambrose Comfort taken by the worde of God. Luke 11. Psal. 119. Psal. 1. Deut. 28 Leuit. 26. 2. Tim. 3. Rom. 15. Chrisosteme in the thirde sermon of Lazarus 2. Tim. 2. Gregorie in an Epistle to bishop Lean. Augustine in the third Epistle to Voluscanus Saint Hieroms opinion Drigin in a certayne Homely How the conscience may be quieted in time of contention about Religion Iohn 5. Actes 17. Chrysostomes prophecie of this oure age vpon the. 24. of of Mathew Antichrist in the church Rom. 1. Psal. 6. No refuge but to the scriptures Myracles chieflye wrought among false Christians S. Hierom vpon Nahum Mark 14. That the people themselues in the ende of the worlde shall seeke for the scriptures Luke 16. The word of greater aucthoritie than the Church The Church hir office Galat. 1. August in an Epistle to Hierom. Only the canonicall Authors can not erre Exercise of the spirite of fayth in the word of god 1. Tim. 4. The differēce betwene spirites Often and feruent prayer Indeuor to helpe others Earnest indeuor of amendement Reuerence and humilitie towards Goddes worde An excellent comparison betweene the virginitie and humilitie How nedefull is charitie to the scripture A pretie similitude of Gregorie Nazianzen in the first booke of diuinitie 2. Timo. 2. Euils imputed to Gods worde must not discourage vs from louing and defending the same Iere. 44. 3. King. 18. Amos. 4. 1. Cor. 4. A pretye quip of Tertuliau August in his seconde booke de ciuitate dei The multitude of heresies reigning abrode must not disswade vs from reading of scriptures Apoc. 2. 1. Cor. 1● Dissolute life and other euils not to be imputed to the worde of God. The supersticious sort more feruent in their Religion than the true worshippers in theirs Euiles imputed to man himselfe to Sathan and to the worlde The true Preachers without blame Act. 10. Augustine in a certaine Homily Our departing from Goddes worde The laste yeare of K. Edwarde Why Gods worde was taken from vs. The prophecie of Latimer and others In steede of Gods worde Idolatrie Goddes thretnings The Church of God and christian religion augmentes with persecution August to Volusianꝰ A noble sentence Who be excluded from a quiet minde To whome Christ is become the true tranquillitie of the minde 1. Thessa. 4. Hebrues 12. Of concupiscence How the conscience that is troubled with inwarde concupiscence may be quieted Howe to suppresse concupiscence Idienesse the feeder of lustes Mariage the shoeteanker of concupiscence 1 Cor. 7. Last of Hebrues Corrupt life of Church-men Ephe. 4. Gene. 6. Gone 19. Leuit. 8. Num. 25. Iud. 30. Sensuall lustes the cause of translating kingdomes Promise in baptisme A prettie saying 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 12. 1. Tymotb 1. The meanes of true quietnesse Of eternell life hauing beginning in this life August of the feele of eternal life Why the holy elect do so vehemently desire to leaue this earthly habitation Rom. 7. Philip. 1. Rom. 8. 2. Collos 5. The felicitye of the Saintes in life to come Psal. 35. Apoc. 7. The rewarde of the iust Psal. 83. True tranquillitie of the mind resteth in the sure confidēce in christ in the testimonie of a good conscience and in the liuely hope of eternall life Iustifying by fayth S. Barnard Of true trāquillitie of minde in time of afflictions 2. Colos 4. Deut. 29. Psal. 119. Why God doth suffer his elect to be tormented by the wicked Rom. 7. The elect not free from sin but rather prone to euil Psal. 77. The chiefe causes why God sende affliction to the iust The first cause Why God sheweth himself angry with his elect The second cause The thirde cause Publike calamuies the voyce of the lawe The fourth cause The difference of induring trouble betwene good men and euill Iere. 10. Augustine in his booke de peccatorū meritis The fife cause The six●… cause Tranquillity two wayes to the godly The seuenth cause Gene. 22. Iob. 1. Deut. 13. The eight cause Why the godly are brought to extreeme perill Psal. 21. Psal. 21. The ninth cause That there is no fortune but all thing be rightly gouerned by the omnipotent power of God. 1. Kin. 2. Math. 10. Esay 46. Esay 31. Euilles turnde to our benefit Cyprian Tranquilitie in all sicknesse and diseases No murmuring in aduersitie Mycheas the last chapter Danyel 9. Hebr. 72. Rom. 8. We see by examples whom God loueth he also chastiseth Heb. 12. ● Tim. 2. 1. Pet. 2. Dan. 6.14 Psal. 26. Psal. 32. Psal. 32. Exod. 4. Psal. 61. The Saints of most quiet minde in aduersitie Actes 16 2. Cor. 11. Wisd 5. Esay 8. The stedfast ioy of Martyrs at their death 2. Macha 7. The effecient cause of the Saints trāquillitie in affliction Death an aduauntage to the elect Hatred of the worlde the rewarde of vertue Banished for the gospell of christ Math. 10. Psal. 146. How God prouideth for the yong Rauens Esay 30. Foure causes whye god suffers the wicked so long to florishe Rom. 2. Luke 16. Mat. 6. Psal. 16. A repetition of that whiche went before In the time of Qucene Mary