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
Than I perceyue to haue non other accuser but Iesus Christ, whych is my
redemer, whose deathe hath restored vs our lost inherytaunce. For he made
hym selfe our man of lawe, shewynge hys so worthye merytes afore God,
wherwith my great debte is so habundauntly recōpenced, that in iudgement
it is accompted for nothynge. O redemer, here is a great loue? We fynde
but fewe suche mē of lawe. Swete Iesus Christ, it is vnto the that I am a
detter, yet dost thu both praye, and speake for me. And moreouer whan thu
dost se that I am poore, with the abūdaūce of thy goodes thu dost paye
my debte. O incomprehensyble see of all goodnesse. O my father, dost thu
vouchesaue to be my iudge, not wyllynge the deathe of a synner? O Iesus
Christ, true fysher, and sauer of the sowle, frynde aboue all fryndes.
For thu beynge my man of lawe dedyst excuse and speake for me, where thu
couldest iustly haue accused me.
[Sidenote: Esa. 53.]
[Sidenote: 1. Pet. 2.]
[Sidenote: 1. Ioā. 4.]
I feare nomore to be vndone by any man for the lawe is satisfyed by the
for all. My swete spouse hath made the payment so habundaunt, that the
lawe can aske nothynge of me but is payed of hym. For as I beleue, he
hath taken all my synnes vpō hym, and hath geuē me in place of them, hys
owne goodes in habundaunce. O my sauer, presentynge thy vertues, thu dost
content the lawe. Whan she wyll reproche me of my synnes, thu dost shewe
her how willyngly in thyne owne fleshe, thu hast taken the dyscharge
of thē, through the coniunctyon of our marryage. Also vpon the crosse
through thy passyon, thu hast made satisfactyon for it. Moreouer thy only
charyte hath geuē me thys, that thu hast for me deserued. Therfor seynge
thy meryte to be myne, the lawe can aske nothynge of me. Than wyll I
feare nomore the iudgement, but with desyre rather than parforce, I do
tarry for the tyme that I shall se my iudge, and heare a iust iudgemente
of hym.
[Sidenote: Psal. 119[unclear].]
[Sidenote: Math. 25.]
[Sidenote: Luce. 13.]
Yet I knowe that thy iudgemēte is so iust, that there is no faulte
therin, & that my infydelyte is worthye to suffer the cruelnesse of
helle. For if I do only consydre my deseruynge, I can se nothynge in it
that can keape me from the fyre of helle. True it is, that the torment
of helle was neuer prepared but for the deuyll, and not for reasonable
men. Neuerthelesse if any man haue set in hys mynde to be lyke to the
deuyll, than ought he as the deuyll to be payed with a lyke rewarde. But
if a man through cōtemplacyon of the sowle, do holde of the, hys Angell
of coūsell, vertue, goodnesse & perfectyō, he is sure to obtayne heauen,
whych is a place of thy deseruynge for hym. Than shall the vycyouse be
ponnyshed with the same, to whom they ioyned themselues. For sith that
they folowed Sathan, they must holde suche place as is for hym and hys
angels prepared.
[Sidenote: Hebre. 1.]
[Sidenote: Luce. 11.]
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