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A treatise co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of true & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the…A treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the…
A treatise co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of true & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the French tongue, and translated in to English by Robert FillsA treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the Frenche tung, and translated in to Englishe by Robert Fills
London : J. Alde, 1564
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶ The second Chapter of the second consideration which is the evil to come or before us.
¶ The second Chapiter of the second consideration whiche is ye euil to come or before vs.
The present evil what so ever it be, importeth and helpeth much if we address our eyes toward the things to come, the which be in ⟨image 17⟩such manner so great, and of so great number that of this only evil cometh this great and one of the principallest affections, which is called fear, and after the definition of some which say, that fear is an infection of the evil to come, as also the Apostle saith. 11. Chapter to the Romans. lift not thy self up by pride, but fear. This evil is so much the greater: as we be, less certain what, and how much it shall be. So that this prover be, which is commonly used in some places may be here spoken, that there is no age past scabs, the which is not withstanding a disease of young boys, yea little Children, so that there is no man (what so ever he be) that can be assured to be exempt from the evils of others, what soever they be. But all that one suffereth: an other may suffer the same also. To this appertaineth all the histories and tragedies of all worlds and all the complaints of this world. And to this ⟨p. 5⟩appertaineth also that some do ob•rue more then. 3. C. names of mala •es, by the which the human body •ay be tormented. Now if there be […] many maladies, how many think e that there be of other infortune f goods, friends, and finally of the spirit only, which is the principal, nd subject to all evils, and the only retract of sorrow and misery? Now he force and feeling of these evils roweth so much the more: as the ate is honourable which engendereth t all hours, to fear poverty, sickness, ignominy and all other adversities, which may come suddenly in an hour, as all things hang, as it were by a thread, like as it were the knife of Denis the tyrant which he hung over the head of his host. And what soever happeneth not of these things, may be esteemed as clearly gotten and a great comfort to the evil which is present. So that we ought to say with Jeremiah. This come