A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys ChristeMarguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
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A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys Christe
Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre
Devotional literature; Meditations -- Early works to 1800
Now thanked by the lorde, through faythe haue I gotē the same loue,
wherfor I ought to be satysfyed and content. Now haue I the my father,
for defence of my longe youth from wanton folyshnesse. Now haue I the my
brother, for to socoure my sorowes wherin I fynde non ende. Now haue I
the my sonne, for my feble age as an only staye. Now haue I the a true, &
faythfull husbande, for the satisfyenge of my whole harte. Now syth that
I haue the, I do forsake all them that are in the worlde. Syth I holde
the, thu shalte escape me nomore. Seynge that I se the, I wyll loke,
vpon non other thynge that myght kepe me backe from the beholdynge of thy
dyuynyte. Seynge that I do heare the, I wyll heare nothynge that letteth
me frō the fruycyō of thy voyce. Syth that I maye frely talke with the, I
wyll cōmen with non other. Seynge it pleaseth the to put me so nere the,
I wyll rather dye than to touche any other. Seynge that I serue the, I
wyll serue non other master.
[Sidenote: 2[unclear]. Thes. 2.]
[Sidenote: Exo. 15.]
Seynge that thu hast ioyned thy harte with myne, if he depart from thyne,
lete hym be ponnyshed for euer. For the departynge from thy loue is
harder than is any dampnacyon. I do not feare the payne of ten thousande
helles, so moche as I do feare the ones losynge of the. Alas my God, my
father, and creator, do not suffer that the enemy, inuentor of all synne,
haue suche power, that he make me to lese thy presence. For who so euer
hath once felte the losse of thy loue, he shall saye that he wolde rather
be bounde for euer in helle, than to feale the payne that one shall haue
by the losse of the same thy loue one momente of tyme. O my sauer, do
not permytt that euer I departe from the. But if it please the, put me
in suche a place, that my sowle through wantonnesse of synne be, neuer
separated from thy loue.
[Sidenote: Roma. 7.]
[Sidenote: Hebre. 9.]
[Sidenote: Eccle. 4[unclear].]
In thys worlde I can not haue perfyghtly thys my dsyre. Whych thynge
consydered maketh me feruently & with all my harte, to desyre the
departynge from thys bodye of synne, not fearynge the deathe nor yet any
of her instrumentes. For what feare ought I to haue of my God, whych
through loue offered hymselfe and suffered deathe, not of dett or dewtye,
but because he wolde for my only sake vndo the power that mortall deathe
had. Now is Iesus dead, in whom we are all dead, and through hys deathe
he causeth euery man to lyue agayne. I meane those whych through faythe
are partakers of hys Passyon. For euen as the deathe before the great
mystery of the crosse, was harde to euery bodye, and there was no mā
but was feared therwith, consyderynge the copulacyon of the bodye & the
sowle, their order, loue, and agrement, so were their sorowes extreme in
the departynge of the one from the other.
[Sidenote: Sapi. 3.]
[Sidenote: 1. Ioā. 4.]
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