The yong mans gleanings Gathered out of diuers most zealous and deuout fathers, and now published for the benefit of euerie Christian man, which wisheth good successe to his soule at the later day. Containing these foure subiects. 1 Of the mortality of man. 2 The poore mans harbour. 3 The mirror of vaine-glory. 4 Saint Barnards sermon on the passion of Christ. Whereunto is adioyned a most sweete and comfortable hymne, expressing the euerlasting ioy of a glorified soule. By R.B. gent.

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The yong mans gleanings Gathered out of diuers most zealous and deuout fathers, and now published for the benefit of euerie Christian man, which wisheth good successe to his soule at the later day. Containing these foure subiects. 1 Of the mortality of man. 2 The poore mans harbour. 3 The mirror of vaine-glory. 4 Saint Barnards sermon on the passion of Christ. Whereunto is adioyned a most sweete and comfortable hymne, expressing the euerlasting ioy of a glorified soule. By R.B. gent.

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R. B., Gent.

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At London :: Printed by Iohn Beale, for Beniamin Lightfoote: and are to bee sold at the corner shoppe at graies Inne Lane end in Holborne,

1614.

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Bernard, -- of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153 -- Early works to 1800.

Fathers of the church -- Popular works -- Early works to 1800.

Christian literature -- Early works to 1800.

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"The yong mans gleanings Gathered out of diuers most zealous and deuout fathers, and now published for the benefit of euerie Christian man, which wisheth good successe to his soule at the later day. Containing these foure subiects. 1 Of the mortality of man. 2 The poore mans harbour. 3 The mirror of vaine-glory. 4 Saint Barnards sermon on the passion of Christ. Whereunto is adioyned a most sweete and comfortable hymne, expressing the euerlasting ioy of a glorified soule. By R.B. gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00514.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE CHRI∣STIAN READER.
• errata
• OF THE MORTALITIE OF MAN.
• THE POORE MANS HARBOVR.
• THE MIRROR OF VAINE GLORIE.
• A SERMON of Saint Barnard vpon the passion of the Lord.
• Quaedam sententiae, eaeque vere Au∣reolae, ad humanae mentis inti∣mam deuotionem inflam∣mandam, ex∣cerptae.
• A MOST DE∣VOVT MEDITATION of Saint Barnard entreating of the miserie of man, and ex∣amination of the last Iudgement.
  • A Meditation of the short life of man, ex∣tracted out of the deuout and zea∣lous meditations, of that mellifluous Father Saint Barnard.
  • A Meditation of Saint Barnard where∣in he describes the method of prayer, and how a zealous Christian should pray.
  • A verie profitable prayer taken out of Saint Barnard, intreating of the forme and manner, how euerie one ought to consider himselfe, no lesse sententious then zealous.
  • That sinne is not to be excused.
• A Glorious Hymne of an an∣cient Father, expressing the Harmonious vnion of the heauenly Citizens.