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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 sixth Chapter of the sixth consideration of the evil or misery on the right hand.
¶ The sixt Chapiter of the sixt consideration of the euel or misery on the right hand.
Our friends be on our right hand. In whom Saint Peter declareth, that our evils and sorrows be mollified, in the first of. S. Peter, the fifth Chapter, where he saith. Resist the devil, being strong in faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that be in the world. Also the Church prayeth in their prayer, ordinarily that we being provoked by the example of the saints might follow the virtue of their passions, this is that they sing. How many torments have the saints suffered to the death, that they might come assuredly to the glorious crown of martyrdom? By these canticles the church willeth us otherwise to understand then to celebrate the feasts and memories of saints, or to build them temples, altars or Images.
OVr frendꝭ be on our right hand. In whome Saint Peter declareth, that our euelles and sorowes bee molified, in the first of. S. Peter, the fift Chapiter, where hee saith. Resist the deuell, being strong in faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethern that be in the world. Also the Churche praieth in their prayer, ordinarely that we beeing prouoked by the example of the saintes might folow the vertue of their passions, this is that they sing. How many tormentes haue the saintes suffered to the death, that they might come assuredly to the glorious crowne of martirdome? By these canticles the churche willeth vs otherwise to vnderstand then to celebrate the feasts and memories of saintes, or to build them temples, aulters or Images.
But after their example we should be incited and moved to suffer the ⟨p. 19⟩