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.'The fifth
S
E
k
M
o
N
tWo parts; 'a
body,
aad •
afonle,
he
rememh~ed
the onefo much; as he quite left the
()ther our ofhis
1iiementll.
·For, his
Recipijli ta
was
his.hodj,
arid rtothing elfe.
Now
reafon would, the
body
lhould nor take up the whole.&uipt; buttbar the poore
foufe
lhould be thought upon too.
Ptirple
and
Jilke,
and
Ede, bzhe,
they are butthe
bodies
part: But
almes
and workes ofmercy, they, they be the
{oules.
May not our foules
h.e admitred fuitors,that we would
remember
them (that is)remember
Lazarru?
for
that is rhe foules portiori : For, the other parr, he and we all
remember
fall: enough.'
~:. ·~
.
4 Thus,remembrmgnelther Goo hor
Lazarfl4,
nay, nor
h1sownejoule,
his
.J
rncmorie rhus failing him, Go n pro7ided, and fent fome, to put him in minde.
.Sprc, as he.hJd
received
thofe former
good thing's,
fo alfo had he received
M~fes
and
th~
'Prophets,
by his ovme.confeffion: And,in receiving them, he had received a great
benefit, and (peradventure) greater in this than the other: And,
Mo{es
had told him
Dcuq
•·•9·
~s
much-as
A
br~ham
eels him now:
Vtinam novifima providerent, Would
Go o (faith
Mofcs)
menwotd~rememberthefot~reNovifima;
I.
Thatthereisadeath;
z.
Ther~
Dcut.p.a.
is
a,It~dgemmt;
3• There is·a
Heaven;
4· Theteis a
Hell:
Bur,of all the foure,
No.
<vijfirnainfemi
(in the fame
chapter)
the nethennoll:;
Nuncigitur cruciari;,
the place
Icr.s
.p.
of
torments.
The
Propl1ets
fa1d as much:
Ieremze,
Evcrrhmke, that an end there will
be,
Et qutdjiet
in
novifimo,whar
ihall become of
u~
inthat
end~
Who
ninMgll4(faitb
E!ay ll·' 4 ;
E{a.y)
C411
endt~re
devourzngjire.?
Who can dwell
w1~h ~rdor~s
{emptterm;
ever
!ailing
Jlurnings
~
Thefe he had: and1fh,e had heardlhefe, 1t •s plamly affirmed,
Audtamip–
jos
would have done it; they would havekepthim,for ever comming in that place.
But, rhefe
~lfo
living
~e
ll:rove
to
forger, and (as ingenderers ofmelancholy) to re·
move dwm
farr~
;tway."
Artd~ th~t
he might the more eafily doe it, it was thought
not arniil"e, to
cal\sh~ir
authomy m
~ueihon, w~mher
they were worth the hearing
or no.
It
is (in
effcet)
cohfelfed by h1m : that Ius
jive brethren
and he were of one
opinion.; tha.t the hearing of
Mo{es
and the
Prophets
was
a
motivefarreunworrhyt()
<;arry fu.ch
m~n
as they. An,
A11gell
from heaven, or
imeftom the deadmight
(per·
haps<)
~ut, theBooke~of
Mofes
~ould ~ev:rmovethem.
It was not, for nothing;
he.complamerh ofh1s
tongue: Illalmgtta,.
wuh that
tongt~e,_
he had fcomed the
Holy
oracles:
peradventure, that place, wherem he now lay, w1th that tongue which, in
that place, feelerh the greatell:
torment;
and, from that place, the fmallell:
comfort:,
both which it had beforeprophanely derided.
Thus then you fee his
Scalam inferni,
thebriefc of his faults, for which his
Rt·
,eeipt
cndeth in this bitter
Re.:ipe
of
tormmts
without end. ' Epicuriline: no life but
this:
Nogoodbut
thefe here, Good
attire;
good
~heere,
,
This \vas his reward:
<.A·
Mmh,6,~.
men, dicevobu, rmpiffis.
<Saint
Chryfortome
two.) •
B.emembring
neither Go o in
heaven, nor
Lazarfl4
on earth; • but being a
Gurges;
a Gulfe of all that he
received,
himfelfe:
l
No not his
ownefoule;
4
nor (!ail ofall) this place of
torments,
before
he was in.it; and fcorning at
Mofes
for
remem~ring
him ofit. This you fee: And,
\..
in him, you fee who they be, over whom
.ll.braham
lhall reade the like fentcnce:
jzyl
bah(t
&;res,
&e•
tr.
lhetit/tt
R"•!dArtfili
. Now then; wee have fetupbothfidesofthis
Croffe,
andfafretiedeachpartfo
other with
'l{pw
therefore:
Let us atlix the
Infcription,
and fo an end. That, is
Rt.
cordareJili:
The want of which brought him thither; The fupply of it {hall keepe
us thence. ·
_
.
Fili recordare: optime
dif1t~m,
(ell{er'o,
Excellently wdl faid, but
too
!ate(faith
SaimBernard.)
For,alas! commeth
Ahrahamin
now,
·withRecordare?
Dothhe
nowaffixthetitle~
why; itistoolare. True, itisfo: But, rill now, he would
not
{uffer any to fet it up. Before, while it was rime, and when it might have done him
good, then he would not endureit : Now he is faine (when it is out oftime)ro
kno~,
what in time might have done h1mgood: andmay doe others, if(inrime)they look
to it. , Indeed,to him now, it is of no ufein the world; buronely to let him fee,
by
what lullice he is where he is; and what he futfereth, hefutfererh defervedly.
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