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.
Of such as once were godlie,
and afterward proued wicked;
and contrariwise.
GReat are these thy
iudgments, ô Lord
God, ô iudge righ∣teousa and strong,
which iudgest rightb, and dost
things that are vnsearchablec
and deepe: the which when I
consider al my bones do shake.
For there is not a man vpon
earth sure, that wee can serue
thee godlie & purelie in feared,
and reioice before thee in trem∣bling
al the daies of our life:
that there shoulde be neither
seruice without feare, nor ioie
without trembling; and that he
which hath girded his harnesse
may not boast himselfee as he
that hath laid it off; neither in
deede that anie flesh should re∣ioice
in thy presenceg but shake
and tremble before theeh; inas∣much
as no man knoweth whe∣ther
he be worthie loue or ha∣tredi,
al things being kept vn∣certaine
til the time to come.
For, Lord, we haue not onlie
heard our fathers tell, but haue
seene also with our eies, which
thing I cannot vtter without
trembling, nor confesse with∣out
feare, how manie hertofore
haue climed in manner vp vnto
heauenk, and made their nest
among the starsl, which after∣ward
fel downe headlong euen
to helm, and were hardened in
wickednes.
Wee haue seene the stars fal
from heauen through the vio∣lent
stroke of ye Dracons tailen.
And we haue seene some lieng
in the dust of the eartho, who
sodenly by thine helping hand,
ô Lord, haue woonderfulie as∣cended.
We haue seene the liuing, di∣eng;
and the dead, rising from
death: we also haue seene them
which walked among the sons
of God, in the mids of stones of
firep, euen as claie to haue va∣nished
to nothing.
We haue seene light become
darknes; and darknes come out
of light: because publicans and
harlots doe go before the in∣habiters
into the kingdome of
Godq; and the children of the
kingdomer are cast into vtter
darknes.
And how commeth al this to
passe, but euen because they
moūted vp vnto that hil, wher∣into
the first ascended an An∣gels,
and came downe a diuel.
predestinate, them thou hast
calledt, and sanctified, & clen∣sed,
that they may be a meete
dwelling placeu for thy maie∣stie,
with whom and in whome
thy holie and pure delight isx,
in whom thou takest pleasure,
and reioicest their youth, dwel∣ling
with themy in their remē∣brance,
that they may be thine
holie templez: which doubtles
is no smal commendation of
our humanitie.