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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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 fist Chapter of the fifth consideration which is the evil or misery on our left hand.
¶ The fist Chapiter of the fift consideration whiche is the euell or misery on our left hand.
Here let us set before our eyes, the great number of the wicked adversaries, and consider first in them how many evils, miseries, and shrewd turns they would have done unto us, and yet have not, neither to our bodies, goods, renown, nor our souls, the which they would have done but that the permission of God would not suffer them. And the greater that one hath his estate spread forth, and set in high degree: so much the more is he subject to escarmisshes, conspirations, deceits, detractions, and temptations of enemies, so that in all things we may know and perceive, the present hand of God, and his favourable kindness toward us. Is it then marvel, if we be then sometime stricken and scourged with one of these evils? Also ⟨p. 15⟩let us consider their evil purpose and ententes, and lament and pity them, for they be commonly given •p, and subject to all evils, even as •e be, as is to be seen here before, not withstanding they be in this case much more miserable then we, that is to wit, without the society and brotherly fellowship of the Church, as well corporal as spiritual. And these evils that we do suffer, is nothing in comparison of that they be in. In sin, infidelity, under the wrath of God, under the power of the devil, bond slaves, accursed, full of iniquity & sin, so that if all the world should curse them, it could not be said, to be more execrable & horrible, which if we consider well all these things as appertaineth: we shall see by and by, how great is the benignity of God, we suffering a certain little incommodity or evil of our bodies, being in faith in the kingdom of Jesus Christ, under the most blessed yoke of God, that which