Here begynneth a lytell treatyse in Englysshe / called the Extripacion of ignorancy: and it treateth and speketh of the ignorance of people / shewyng them howe they are bounde to feare god / to loue god / and to honour their prince. Which treatise is lately compyled by sir Paule Busshe ... and dedicate unto the yong and most hye renomed lady Mary / princes & doughter unto the noble progenytour / our worthy souerayne kyng Henry the eight / kyng of Engla[n]de and of Frau[n]ce / & hye defe[n]der of ye christenfaithe. &c |
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Here endeth the first parte of this volume/whiche hath shewed howe man is bounde to feare god by manyfolde examples. And nowe immediately here foloweth the seconde parte/whiche shall speke of ye loue that man ought to haue to almighty god.
Diligamus nos deum/quoniam deus prior dilexit nos. Prima Iohannis quarto.
Deum diligite.
But
yet god thus to drede/and nothīg to loue
It were but labour tedious/& scant merytorious
For he that a place wyll purchase aboue
Eternally to raigne/in state most prosperous
Must combyne drede/with loue ardent & amorous
As two thynges necessary/to one belongyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
It were but labour tedious/& scant merytorious
For he that a place wyll purchase aboue
Eternally to raigne/in state most prosperous
Must combyne drede/with loue ardent & amorous
As two thynges necessary/to one belongyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
This loue is so noble/so hye and so exellent
If it be pure/voluntary/fre and spontayne
That to all vertues/it is a spectacle euydent
For nother drede/nor yet obedience certayne
May be acceptable vnto god/this is playne
Except loue be the origynall/and the well spring
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
If it be pure/voluntary/fre and spontayne
That to all vertues/it is a spectacle euydent
For nother drede/nor yet obedience certayne
May be acceptable vnto god/this is playne
Except loue be the origynall/and the well spring
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
The loue that Christ shewed first for man
In his plasmacion/by giftes hye and excellent
Was for no qualyteis/that in hym raigned than
His production was so baren/yet of his mynde peruident
To magnify our nature/it was his entent
For of all his creatures/he made man lorde & kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
In his plasmacion/by giftes hye and excellent
Was for no qualyteis/that in hym raigned than
His production was so baren/yet of his mynde peruident
To magnify our nature/it was his entent
For of all his creatures/he made man lorde & kyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
Wherof mounted this gifte of preemynence
But onely of his mere loue/as I sayd before
Nat in vayne to betaken/through our neglygence
But as a presydent/alwayes to be had in store
Loue to encrese & augmēt/specially again therfore
This may we vnderstande/by reason rulyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
But onely of his mere loue/as I sayd before
Nat in vayne to betaken/through our neglygence
But as a presydent/alwayes to be had in store
Loue to encrese & augmēt/specially again therfore
This may we vnderstande/by reason rulyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
The multitude of benefites/shulde engēdre amyte
Namely whan they be exibite/to people indigent
wrapped in wretchednesse/and bondes of calamite
As is our nature/all lame and impotent
By necessite ineuitable/of it selfe nat sufficient
But that god mynistreth/vnto vs all thynge
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Namely whan they be exibite/to people indigent
wrapped in wretchednesse/and bondes of calamite
As is our nature/all lame and impotent
By necessite ineuitable/of it selfe nat sufficient
But that god mynistreth/vnto vs all thynge
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Suche is our necessyte/that no creature can say
Without the exellent gyftes/of god omnypotent
I am able to lyue/one naturall day
No doutlesse/to speke/and to be indifferent
Be he neuer so noble/nat the space of a moment
So feble & so sklender/is our substaūce wauering
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Without the exellent gyftes/of god omnypotent
I am able to lyue/one naturall day
No doutlesse/to speke/and to be indifferent
Be he neuer so noble/nat the space of a moment
So feble & so sklender/is our substaūce wauering
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Let vs consydre/howe prone in tymes all
Christ is to sustulte/our impotence and debilyte
For our necessite/is nat so vrgent at all
But moche more prone/is his ayde and benignyte
All seasons helpyng/our care and aduersite
Gyueng vs lyfe/conseruyng our being
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
Christ is to sustulte/our impotence and debilyte
For our necessite/is nat so vrgent at all
But moche more prone/is his ayde and benignyte
All seasons helpyng/our care and aduersite
Gyueng vs lyfe/conseruyng our being
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
This is euydent/experiēce dothe ye cause patify
That his conseruacion/may nat be sequestrate
From our substaunce caduke/vyle and transitory
For if it be/we all are but frustrate
Redacte to adnichilacion/from all thyng priuate
Of shape and forme/nothyng remayning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
That his conseruacion/may nat be sequestrate
From our substaunce caduke/vyle and transitory
For if it be/we all are but frustrate
Redacte to adnichilacion/from all thyng priuate
Of shape and forme/nothyng remayning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
These consyderacions/ought to auaunce reason
With solicitude of mynde/concludyng finally
That man is most bounde/hauyng discrecion
God alwayes to laude/with seruage and study
Inuestigate who listeth/he fyndeth nat the cōtrary
For this yeldeth reason/without more recuyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
With solicitude of mynde/concludyng finally
That man is most bounde/hauyng discrecion
God alwayes to laude/with seruage and study
Inuestigate who listeth/he fyndeth nat the cōtrary
For this yeldeth reason/without more recuyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Nowe/sithe man is bounde/aboue creatures all
To god omnypotent/for his benefites infynite
He ought to reuolue/in his mynde principall
What thyng may be/most acceptable in his sight
And the same to rendre/with hert and myght
Or els reason may reproue/his vnworthy dealyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
To god omnypotent/for his benefites infynite
He ought to reuolue/in his mynde principall
What thyng may be/most acceptable in his sight
And the same to rendre/with hert and myght
Or els reason may reproue/his vnworthy dealyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
What thyng may be/thynketh man in mynde
Unto god his maker/more plesaunt or acceptable
Than to shewe him loue/as reason doth him binde
Doutlesse nothyng/so precious nor cōmendable
Nor to vs nothyng/so necessary nor profytable
If it be depured/from all erthely recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Unto god his maker/more plesaunt or acceptable
Than to shewe him loue/as reason doth him binde
Doutlesse nothyng/so precious nor cōmendable
Nor to vs nothyng/so necessary nor profytable
If it be depured/from all erthely recuyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
This loue must be pure tāgled wt no welth mūdain
But fixte on hym onely/which of nought made all
Or els inordinate is our lawe/this is playne
For whan loue is wrapped/with affection carnall
It is nat good nor godly/but beestly and brutall
And to people reasonable/greatly discordyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
But fixte on hym onely/which of nought made all
Or els inordinate is our lawe/this is playne
For whan loue is wrapped/with affection carnall
It is nat good nor godly/but beestly and brutall
And to people reasonable/greatly discordyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
What shulde man/hauyng the vse of discrecion
Fixe his mynde/on thynges vayne and transitory
Though nature gyue beautie/& fayre impression
Set nat thy mynde/on suche maters rasly
For it is but volage/and chaunged shalbe shortly
To all creatures: this chefe poynt is belongyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Fixe his mynde/on thynges vayne and transitory
Though nature gyue beautie/& fayre impression
Set nat thy mynde/on suche maters rasly
For it is but volage/and chaunged shalbe shortly
To all creatures: this chefe poynt is belongyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
It is greatly vncomely/vnto vs people mortall
To set our hertes on that/whiche can nat remayne
For he that is prudent/to mynde ofte wyll call
That suche faynt follyes/shulde nat hym cōstraine
His maker to forget/for thynges abiecte & vayne
But labour he shulde busely/for his soule prouiding
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
To set our hertes on that/whiche can nat remayne
For he that is prudent/to mynde ofte wyll call
That suche faynt follyes/shulde nat hym cōstraine
His maker to forget/for thynges abiecte & vayne
But labour he shulde busely/for his soule prouiding
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
What can the worlde promyse to the perpetually
Sithe nothyng it hath/that is perdurable
But fraite with vanitees/cowarde vnder pall
Thy mynde to enuolue/with thoughtes damnable
And thy soule to put/to paynes intermynable
This euer eschewyng/thy lyfe mysgouernyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Sithe nothyng it hath/that is perdurable
But fraite with vanitees/cowarde vnder pall
Thy mynde to enuolue/with thoughtes damnable
And thy soule to put/to paynes intermynable
This euer eschewyng/thy lyfe mysgouernyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Such dolefull rewardes/amōg people prudent
Are vtterly dispysed/and set at nought
Reuoluyng in mynde/this prouerbe ofte frequent
The childe is yll taught/and worse vp brought
Whiche in age/hath no mynde nor thought
His body to refrayne/from in ordynate lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Are vtterly dispysed/and set at nought
Reuoluyng in mynde/this prouerbe ofte frequent
The childe is yll taught/and worse vp brought
Whiche in age/hath no mynde nor thought
His body to refrayne/from in ordynate lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
God made nat man/as doctors make relacion
His wyttes fyue/to spende inordynate
But his parte were/his lyfe and conuersacion
So to gouerne & adorne/with no abusyon violate
That wt ioye & felycite/his soule might be decorate
In the stage glorious/all thyng surmountyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
His wyttes fyue/to spende inordynate
But his parte were/his lyfe and conuersacion
So to gouerne & adorne/with no abusyon violate
That wt ioye & felycite/his soule might be decorate
In the stage glorious/all thyng surmountyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
A hert with deuocion flamed/wyll couet alway
The thyng speciall/which is pure and cōstaunt
And that onely desyre: bothe night and day
Whiche is good and honest/and to god plesaunt
Deformed with no enormyte/to his state repugnāt
His laude so hyndring/& his good name deprauīg
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
The thyng speciall/which is pure and cōstaunt
And that onely desyre: bothe night and day
Whiche is good and honest/and to god plesaunt
Deformed with no enormyte/to his state repugnāt
His laude so hyndring/& his good name deprauīg
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Man ought to desyre/the thyng moost emynent
Sure and nat fadyng/whiche all tyme dothe profite
Drowned with no errour/voyde of all turment
As endlesse blysse/incomparable and perfyte
Whiche euery good man/dothe desyre and couyte
His carcas dispisyng/for suche treasour sekyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Sure and nat fadyng/whiche all tyme dothe profite
Drowned with no errour/voyde of all turment
As endlesse blysse/incomparable and perfyte
Whiche euery good man/dothe desyre and couyte
His carcas dispisyng/for suche treasour sekyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
This endlesse blysse certayne/is of suche valour
That it is impreciable/no man can it bye
With golde ne syluer/richesse nor yet treasour
It excelleth so in honour/in beautie and glorie
And ordayned it is/no man can deny
For god and his angels/and man well lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
That it is impreciable/no man can it bye
With golde ne syluer/richesse nor yet treasour
It excelleth so in honour/in beautie and glorie
And ordayned it is/no man can deny
For god and his angels/and man well lyueng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
The apostell Paule/in his epystles dothe say
That no hert can thynke/nor materiall eye se
No eare can here/nor tonge expresse may
The inestymable glorie/ioye and felycite
That is comprised/without fastidiosyte
In this realme of pleasure/in beautie shinyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
That no hert can thynke/nor materiall eye se
No eare can here/nor tonge expresse may
The inestymable glorie/ioye and felycite
That is comprised/without fastidiosyte
In this realme of pleasure/in beautie shinyng
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
In this court angelycall/raigneth no mortalyte
No nede nor indigence/but plente and habūdaūce
No age decrepite/infecte with infyrmyte
But helth/welthe/and peace/without perturbaūce
No bonde ne seruytude/nor yet mysgouernaunce
May entre this trone/of Christes garnysshyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
No nede nor indigence/but plente and habūdaūce
No age decrepite/infecte with infyrmyte
But helth/welthe/and peace/without perturbaūce
No bonde ne seruytude/nor yet mysgouernaunce
May entre this trone/of Christes garnysshyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
Deum diligite.
Salomans sapience/that surmounted so hye
Nor Absalons beautie/yt was praysed in especiall
Is nat to be compared/in laude and glorie
To the wisedome and beautie/whiche perpetuall
In this stage and trone/clerer than cristall
Gloriously adorned/thynges all excellyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
Nor Absalons beautie/yt was praysed in especiall
Is nat to be compared/in laude and glorie
To the wisedome and beautie/whiche perpetuall
In this stage and trone/clerer than cristall
Gloriously adorned/thynges all excellyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
Deum diligite.
The fortitude of Sāpson/nor the velocite of Asael
As scripture sheweth/in sentence most worthy
Nor yet the long lyfe/of the auncient Matusaell
Were but gyftes naturall/enuolued with misery
Nothyng to be resembled/to the goodnesse heuēly
whiche in this glorious habitacle is euer abydyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
As scripture sheweth/in sentence most worthy
Nor yet the long lyfe/of the auncient Matusaell
Were but gyftes naturall/enuolued with misery
Nothyng to be resembled/to the goodnesse heuēly
whiche in this glorious habitacle is euer abydyng
Wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng
And all this man/yu maist purchace and optayne
By vertuous lyueng/and by loue true & perfyght
Louyng thy maker/yt hath ordayned the to raigne
Thus for tyme perpetuall/in his presence and sight
In his trone euerlastyng/neuer destitute of lyght
But garnisshed with beautie/in vertue shyning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
By vertuous lyueng/and by loue true & perfyght
Louyng thy maker/yt hath ordayned the to raigne
Thus for tyme perpetuall/in his presence and sight
In his trone euerlastyng/neuer destitute of lyght
But garnisshed with beautie/in vertue shyning
wherfore attende my wordes/& pondre my sayeng.
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