The Mount of Calvarie . d Father,doc by nac what thoathinkelt good: for I am ready to fuiTci alltheftripes that thou wilt lay vpon race,becaufe I can neuer forget nor put out of my miad the griefewhich I haue conceiued m knowing that I muft fufier. Suchdoleful! Words as thefc are,doe well fcene to proceed from aman which is in great anguiOi, and from one who feeth kim-felfe condemned to die, confefsing and proteflmg that he di-eth for obedience fake,and that he taketh his death withpa*tiencerdoth not he die for obedience, who offcreth himfclfcvato death,and doth not hee take his death in patie
The Mount of Calvarie . d Father,doc by nac what thoathinkelt good: for I am ready to fuiTci alltheftripes that thou wilt lay vpon race,becaufe I can neuer forget nor put out of my miad the griefewhich I haue conceiued m knowing that I muft fufier. Suchdoleful! Words as thefc are,doe well fcene to proceed from aman which is in great anguiOi, and from one who feeth kim-felfe condemned to die, confefsing and proteflmg that he di-eth for obedience fake,and that he taketh his death withpa*tiencerdoth not he die for obedience, who offcreth himfclfcvato death,and doth not hee take his death in patience, whoknowcth not how tocoplainThcre are fome perfons whichfeele no labour and paine but of the raind, as great lordsjandthere arcothers which fcelc no paine but of the body, as la-bourers J and fomc which neither feele them in mind nor bo-<iie as fooles; and fome there be which feele themboth in themind and the body,as vertuous men doe. Seneca in his bookeof Clemency fay th. That the labour of the tuiod doth wea». fy a man by night, and is at reft in the day, becaufe th^n heis alfo occupied ^ and the labour of the body doth weary aroan by day,and is at cafe in the night, becaufe hee is at reft:but he who doth labour fpiritually and corporally,doth paftcthe day time in fweating,and all the night in fighing . Cicertfayth vnto his friend yAtticM, That of all the infelicities ofthis world, the greateft is to haue his body ouerlaid with la-bour,ancI his heart loaden with is wont to mode-rate the anxiety of the mind,and good chcrifhing the labourof the body, but what comfort can the body giue vnto theinindjor the mind vnto the body, when theone fweatcth,aBclthe other figheth ? According vnto the litterall fence, goodking z?4«i</did complaine of both thefetrauails, thatis, thetraucllof the body, when hee fayth, Et egtinflA^eSafAratHSy«w,3nd the trauell of the mind,when he faith, Et hdor meusin confpeHi* met ftmfer, the which vexations hee fufifered atthe hands
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