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A21061	A treatise of patience. Written by Father Francis Arias, of the Society of Iesus, in his second part of the Imitatio[n] of Christ our Lord. Translated into English	Arias, Francisco.; Tobie, Matthew, Sir, 1577-1655.	1630 (1630)	STC 743; ESTC S115340	63,854	238

meanes of her sinne did Adam sinne and so haue wee all done after him Such a kinde of refreshinge was allowed to Christ our Lord against his paine and torment of thirst which was to encrease the same paine and torment So saith Saint Cyrill In stead of some wholesome drinke which might refresh him they gaue him a bitter and hurtfull drinke and that curtesy which they would seeme to vse in giuing him somewhat to take was conuerted into cruelty by giuing him so vile a thing And this did Saint Luke chap. 23. signify saying that the soldiers putting a scorne vpon our Lord did offer him vineger The Psalme recounts the iniury and affliction which hereby they put vpō Christ our Lord amongst the rest of his torments saying Psal 68. They gaue mee gall in steed of meate and in my thirst they gaue mee vineger to drinke That is to say they were so farre from hauing compassion of me in my miseries so great was the cruelty which they vsed towards me that when I came with my Crosse vpon my backe to the place of torment in steed of some aromaticall wine such as they vsed to giue dying men for their comfort they gaue mee wine corrupted and mingled with gall and mirrhe which being so very thicke was become as a most bitter and most hurtful meate And being afterward nayled vpon the very Crosse hauing my blood exhausted and I being totmented with thirst and declaring the thirst I had they gaue mee vinagre mingled with gal to drinke This was the torment of thirst which Christ our Lord suffered vpon this Crosse and thus was he content to be abandoned and by meanes of this and the rest which he endured there all faithfull Christiās are to comfort thēselues in their corporall infirmities and must be animated to endure them with Patience to imitate our Lord thereby and conforme themselues to his holy wil. So saith Saint Gregory To the end that sicke persons may conserue the vertue of Patience in their sicknesses they must cōtinually consider the paines which our God and our Redeemer did suffer at the hands of his owne creatures how many affronts how many buffets how many spittings how many scourges and how many thornes he endured for our saluation and particularly how to bestow the sweetnes of heauen vpon vs he tooke when he was most thirsty the bitternes of gall for himselfe This is the saying of Saint Gregory Besides this Christ our Lord declared by many examples and testimonies of the holy Ghospell how great blessings are contained in corporall infirmities and how great fruites are gathered from thence by such as endure them with Patience By this meanes of sicknesse he drew many to his Faith and to his grace and to the obedience of his Ghospell and he cured them so of many sinnes For when they found themselues sicke they went in search after health of the body and then belieuing and doing penance for their sinnes they obtained also health for their soules So doth the holy Euangelists informe vs often For speaking of those woemen who with great deuotion faith followed Christ our Lord Saint Luke saith chap. 8. Our Lord going to preach amongst those Citties and townes diuers woemen followed him whom he had deliuered from impure spirits cured of their infirmities Some of these were Marie Magdalen and Ioanna the wife of Chusa a lawyer of Herods and Susanna and many others And they following our Lord did supply him out of their meanes with necessaries for the sustentation of his life By these words the holy Euangelist giues vs to vnderstād that their hauing bene sicke and cured by our Lord was the way to make them beleeue in him to follow him both in body and soule And of the womā who was sicke of a bloody fluxe Matth. 9. Marc. 5. and had found no remedy by her Physitians S. Matthew declares the same and that her infirmity had made her looke for remedy in Christ our Lord to be beleeue and confide in him with so liuely faith that shee obtained health both in body and soule And the same thing happened to the paralitike Mat. 9. Mar. 2. for whom the roofe of the house was taken of that he might be brought before our Lord for his infirmity was the cause why he made himselfe be carryed presented to him and that he would beleeue in him with sorrow for his sinnes and so obtaine pardon thereof The same also happened to innumerable other sicke persons whose sicknesses were the cause why they sought out Christ our Lord and gaue eare to his word and beleeued in him and amended their liues and obtained true cure of their soules A great blessing of God is this kinde of corporal infirmity since it is the roote and occasion of so high a good as it is for man to know his sinnes and to be sory for them and to obtaine a cleane and healthfull soule and eternall happines afterward Saint Gregory aduises sicke persons to consider this well that so they may vnderstand the great benefit of sicknesse and thus he saith Let sicke persons consider how profitable the sicknes of the body is for the health of the soule how great a gift of God it is For it makes a man enter into himselfe and knowe his weakenes and his sinnes and the miseries to which he is subiect It makes him feare God and reforme his life that so by meanes of penance he may be made cleane from his former sinnes and may be bridled and fortified towards the not cōmitting others afterward Saint Gregory Nazianzen relates how being one day present with Eudoxius a holy man who was sicke and interpreting at the request of the sicke man the seauenty second Psalme wherein the holy Ghost declares how God is wont to visit his seruants in this life with the scourges of sicknesses and other afflictions that holy man whom some cōceiue to haue bene Saint Basill lift vp his eyes to heauen and exclamed saying I giue thee thankes ô celestiall Father and Creatour of mankinde for that thou doest vs good against our wills that is thou sendest vs infirmities other miseries which wee would not haue whereby yet thou doest good to our soules by exercising this exteriour man which is the body thou clensest the interiour man which is the minde and thou carriest vs on towards eternall happines by aduersities and contradictions to our gust And Saint Gregory addes further that the Saint spoke those words as reioycing and delighting in his sicknesse This diuine effect of sicknesse is thus declared in holy scripture by the mouth of the wise man Prou. 20. The signe of the hurt and the secret woundes of the belly doe cure mens euills His meaning is that both the exteriour hurts of the body which are not very grieuous and those also which are deep and dangerous and doe pierce euen into the most inward parte of the bowells doe clense the soule