A pretious booke of heauenlie meditations, called a priuate talke of the soule with God which who so zealouslie wil vse and pervse, shal feele in his mind an vnspeakable sweetenes of the euerlasting happines: written (as some thinke) by that reuerend, and religious Father S. Augustine; and not translated onlie, but purified also, and with most ample, and necessarie sentences of holie Scripture adorned, by Thomas Rogers.
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A pretious booke of heauenlie meditations, called a priuate talke of the soule with God which who so zealouslie wil vse and pervse, shal feele in his mind an vnspeakable sweetenes of the euerlasting happines: written (as some thinke) by that reuerend, and religious Father S. Augustine; and not translated onlie, but purified also, and with most ample, and necessarie sentences of holie Scripture adorned, by Thomas Rogers.
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1581.
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"A pretious booke of heauenlie meditations, called a priuate talke of the soule with God which who so zealouslie wil vse and pervse, shal feele in his mind an vnspeakable sweetenes of the euerlasting happines: written (as some thinke) by that reuerend, and religious Father S. Augustine; and not translated onlie, but purified also, and with most ample, and necessarie sentences of holie Scripture adorned, by Thomas Rogers." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22983.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Chap. II.
The hope of a Christian must
be cast vpon God.
ANd I thy creaturea,
wil trust in the sha∣dow
of thy wings,
b, euen in thy mer∣cie
whereby thou didst create
me.
Helpe thy creature, whome
of thy mercy thou hast created;
let me not perish through my
sinne, whome of thy goodnes
thou hast facioned; neither be
confounded in my miserie,
whome of thy clemencie thou
hast made.
For what profit is in creating
mee, if I go downe into mine
owne corruption? what? hast
thou, ô God, created the sonnes
of men in vainec?
Lord, gouerne that which thou
hast created. Despise not, ô
God, ye workes of thine handse.
Of nothing thou didst create
mef, and doubtles do not thou
Lorde direct mee, I shal come
againe to nothing.
For as I was not sometime,
and thou didest make me of no∣thingg: so Lord, if thou do not
gouerne me, I shal returne to
nothing in my selfe.
Help me, ô Lordh my lifei,
lest I perish in my wickednesk.
O Lord, hadst not thou crea∣ted
me, I had not bin at al: but
because thou hast created me, I
am. And yet am I nothing, if
thou guide mee not. For no
grace neither goodnes of mine
compelled thee to create me,
but euen thine owne most fa∣uorable
goodnes, and mercie.
loue which compelled thee to
make me, compel thee also to
gouerne me. For to what end
did thy loue compel thee to
make me, if I perish in my wic∣kednesm,
and am not guided
by thy right handn?
Let that mercie of thine, ô
Lord my Godo, compel thee
to saue that which is created,
that compelled thee to create
that which was not. Let that
loue winne thee to saue, which
wanne thee to create. For it is
no lesse now than it was; for so
much as thou art louep, who
art alwaies the sameq.
For thine hand is not short∣nedr
that it cannot saues; nei∣ther
is thine eare heauie, that it
cannot heare. But my sinnes
haue separated betweene mee
and thee; betweene darkenes;
and lightt; betweene the image
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of death, and lifeu; betweene
falsehood and truthx; betwene
this vanishing state of miney,
and thine eternitiez.