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Author: Valdés, Juan de, d. 1541.
Title: The hundred and ten considerations of Signior Iohn Valdesso treating of those things which are most profitable, most necessary, and most perfect in our Christian profession. Written in Spanish, brought out of Italy by Vergerius, and first set forth in Italian at Basil by Cœlius Secundus Curio, anno 1550. Afterward translated into French, and printed at Lions 1563. and again at Paris 1565. And now translated out of the Italian copy into English, with notes. Whereunto is added an epistle of the authors, or a preface to his divine commentary upon the Romans.
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Print source: The hundred and ten considerations of Signior Iohn Valdesso treating of those things which are most profitable, most necessary, and most perfect in our Christian profession. Written in Spanish, brought out of Italy by Vergerius, and first set forth in Italian at Basil by Cœlius Secundus Curio, anno 1550. Afterward translated into French, and printed at Lions 1563. and again at Paris 1565. And now translated out of the Italian copy into English, with notes. Whereunto is added an epistle of the authors, or a preface to his divine commentary upon the Romans.
Valdés, Juan de, d. 1541., Ferrar, Nicholas, 1592-1637., Herbert, George, 1593-1633.
Oxford: Printed by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the Vniversity, Ann. Dom. 1638.
Alternate titles: Consideraciones divinas. English
Subject terms:
Spiritual life -- Modern period, 1500-.
Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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The Publisher to the READER.
BRIEFE NOTES RE∣LATING TO THE DVBI∣OVS AND OFFENSIVE places in the following CONSIDERATIONS.
To the 3 CONSID. upon these words, Not for thy speech! Other Law and other Doctrine have we.
To the 3 CONSID. upon those words, As they also mak use of the Scriptures to conserve the health of their minds.
To the 5 CONSID. Vpon these words. God regards not how pious, or impious we be.
To the 6 CONSID.
To the 11 CONSID.
To the 32 CONSID.
To the 33 CONSID.
To the 36 CONSID. On these words, Neither fearing chastisement for transgressiion; nor hoping for reward, for observation, &c.
To the XXXVII. CONSID. On these words; That God is so delicate and sensitive &c.
To the 46 CONSID. On these words, Exercise not thy selfe in anything pretending Iustification.
To the 49 CONSID. On these words, Remaining quiet when they perceive no motion, &c.
To the same CONSID. Vpon these words, A man's free-will doth consist, &c.
To the same CONSID. On these words, Neithor Pharaoh, nor Iudas &c. could cease to be such.
To the LVIII. CONSID. Vpon the seventh difference.
To the LIX. CONSID. Upon these words, And with doubtfulnesse I see he prayed in the Garden.
To the LXII. CONSID.
To the LXIII. CONSID.
To the 65. CONSID. on these words,
To the 69. CONSID. upon these words, So much faith, as thereby to remove Mountaines.
To the 94. CONSID.
CELIO SECVN∣DO CVRIONE, A SERVANT OF IESVS CHRIST, to all those, that are Sanctified by God the Father, & saved, and called by Iesus Christ our Lord,
A TABLE OF THE HVNDRED AND TEN CONSIDERATIONS.
approbation
A Copy of a letter written by Mc George Herbert to his friend the Translator of this Book.
THE HVNDRED AND TEN CONSIDERATIONS OF VALDESSO. Translated out of the Italian Lan∣guage into English.
CONSIDERATION I. How it is to be understood, that man was created af∣ter the Image and Likenesse of God.
CONSID. II. That mans happinesse consisteth in knowing God, and that we cannot know God, except we first know Christ.
CONSID. III. In what the Sonnes of God differ from the Sonnes of Adam.
CONSID. IV. From whence the revengefull affection proceeds in men And what effects the long sufferance causeth, where∣with God goes deferring the revenge of those in∣juries, which men doe unto him.
CONSID. V. The difficulty that is to enter into the kingdome of God; how it is to be entred, and in what it consists.
CONSID. VI. Two depravations of Man, the one Naturall, the other Acquisite.
CONSID. VII. That God will that we should remit unto him the execution of all our desires.
CONSID. VIII. The Covenants which Iesus Christ our Lord made between God, and Man.
CONSID. IX. An excellent priviledge of piety.
CONSID. X. In what regard the estate of the Christian person, that belieues with difficulty, is better, then of that Person which belieues with ease.
CONSID. XI. In what maer Gods being just doth redound to the profit of them, that by Revela∣tion believe in Christ.
CONSID. XII. In what manner the Reason of our inward man serves us to that, which the Eyes of our outward Man.
CONSID. XIII. A comparison which shewethin what the benefit, which the generation of mankinde hath re∣ceived from God by Iesus Christ, doth consist.
CONSID. XIIII. Amongst the things which Christian Piety obligeth us to believe, what that is which is belie∣ved with greatest difficulty.
CONSID. XV. How Christian persons ought to governe themselves in their tribulations, afflictions, and troubles.
CONSID. XVI. That the promises of God belong to them who belieue them.
CONSID. XVII. In what manner a Man ought to resolue himself tou∣ching the world, and touching himself, that he may become a true Christian.
CONSID. XVIII. In what things that person who pretends, and desires to enter, and to persevere in the kingdome of God, ought to be exercised; and what a man brings of his own thereunto.
CONSID. XIX. That the Christian life consisteth in this, that a man esteem himselfe dead to the world, and pre∣tend to liue to God.
CONSID. XX. That in the Infirmity, Amendment, and Health of the mind, Men ought to govern them∣selues, as in those of the body.
CONSID. XXI. The difference of Sinnes, and Sinners: The Ob∣ligations of Piety: The Signes of Piety and Impiety.
CONSID. XXII. For what reason God sometime giues a godly man a Child, and suddenly takes him away.
CONSID. XXIII. That to him, whom God disenamours of the world, & enamours of himselfe, the selfe same things be∣fall, as doe to him, that disenamours himselfe of one woman, and en∣amours himself of another.
CONSID. XXIV. That those Persons, who are governed by the holy Spirit in their serving of God, pretend to increase in the love of God.
CONSID. XXV. In what sort pious persons are moved to put in exe∣cution the justice of God.
CONSID. XXVI. That the Flesh, whilst it is unregenerated Flesh, is the enemy of God, and that Regeneration is pro∣perly the work of the holy Spirit.
CONSID. XXVII. That by Mortification a Christian man maintaines him∣selfe in his resolution, and by reducing of his minde to God, he maintaines himselfe in the cer∣tainty of Gods providence.
CONSID. XXVIII. For a man to assure himselfe of his Vocation.
CONSID. XXIX. That to believe with difficulty is a signe of Vocation.
CONSID. XXX. That God in communicating spirituall things unts, dealeth as in giving the fruits of the earth.
CONSID. XXXI. That the liuelinesse of Affections is more dammageable then that of the Appetites; and that it is necessary that both the one, and the other should be Mortified.
CONSID. XXXII. In what consisteth the abuse, and in what consisteth the use of Jmages, and of Holy Scriptures,
CONSID. XXXIII. In what manner through the patience, and through the Consolation of the Scriptures we maintain our selves in Hope.
CONSID. XXXIV. In what doth consist the benefit which men haue obtained from God by Christ.
CONSID. XXXV. Whence it is, that that difficulty comes, which pious per∣sons haue to continue in that whith appertaines to Piety, and Justification.
CONSID. XXXVI. In what the Christian Liberty doth consist, how it is knowne, and how it is exercised.
CONSID. XXXVII. That they, who know God by mens relation, have a false opinion of him, and they who know him by the holy spirit, have a good.
CONSID. XXXVIII. By a comparison is shewed in what the errour of false Christians doth consist, and what thing that is which true Christians doe.
CONSID. XXXIX. That Quickning answereth to Mortification, and the glory of the Resurrection an∣swereth to Quickning.
CONSID. XL. Two Wills in God, one Mediate, and another Immediate.
CONSID. XLI. That God will, that Pious Persons should know that all things are to come from him, and that they should pretend to haue them all of him.
CONSID. XLII. In what sort a pious person ought to governe himselfe in the state of prosperity, and in inward adversity.
Addition.
CONSID. XLIII. How a pious person may assure himselfe to have ob∣tained Piety, and Justification by the Spi∣rit, and not by Humane wisdome.
CONSID. XLIIII. In what manner a man shall know what fruit hee hath made in Mortification▪ and what is the cause, that they, who apply themselves to Piety, are sol∣licited by Affections, and Appetites, with which they were never before sollicited.
CGNSID. XLV. Whence the feare of death proceeds in pious persons, and that it is a signe of Predestination for a man to content himselfe, that there should be another life.
CONSID. XLVI. That they, who walke through the Christian path with∣out the inward light of the holy Spirit, are like unto them that walke in the night with∣out the light of the Sunne.
CONSID. XLVII. Foure Counter-signes to know them by, who pre∣tend piety, and the spirit, not having ei∣ther the one, or the other.
CONSID. XLVIII. That hee who prayes, and workes and understands, doth then pray, worke, and understand as hee ought, when hee is inspired to pray to worke, and to understand.
CONSID. XLIX. Whence it proceeds, that humane wisdome will not attribute all things to God: And in what manner they ought to bee attri∣buted to him.
CONSID. L. In what the Depravation of man doth consist, and in what his Reparation doth consist. In what Chri∣stian Perfection doth consist.
CONSID. LI. In what manner God makes himselfe to be felt, and in what manner God makes him∣selfe to bee seene.
CONSID. LII. That a Christian ought to put an end to the Affe∣ction of Ambition, which doth consist in Growing: and also to that which doth consist in Conserving.
CONSID. LIII. In what manner the men of the world attending unto Honour, are lesse vitious, then at∣tending unto conscience.
CONSID. LIIII. That Prayer, and Consideration are two books, or In∣terpreters very sure ones to understand holy Scripture, and how a man ought to serve himselfe of them.
CONSID. LV. Against curiosity; and how the holy Scriptures ought to be read without curiosity.
CONSID. LVI. Which is the most certain, and most secure way to obtain perfect Mortification.
CONSID. LVII. Whence it comes to passe, that by the knowledg and sense of the things of God the Flesh is Mortified.
CONSID. LVIII. Eight differences between them, who pretend, and pro∣cure to mortifie themselves with their proper industry, and them, who who are mor∣tified by the holy Spirit.
CONSID. LIX. That in the motions to pray the Spirit doth certi∣fie a man, that he shall obtaine that which he demands.
CGNSID. LX. Whence it proceeds, that the superstitious are se∣vere, and the true Christians are Mercifull & Pittifull.
CONSID. LXI. In what manner a pious person governes himselfe in those things that befall him.
CONSID. LXII. That humane wisdome hath no more iurisdiction in the judgement of their workes, who are the sonnes of God, then in the iudgement of the proper works of God.
CONSID. LXIII. That the holy Scripture is like a Candle in a dark place, and that the holy spirit is like the Sunne. This shewed by saven conformities.
CONSID. LXIV. In what manner Jesus Christ our Lord will be followed and imitated.
CONSID. LXV. How that is to be understood, which S. Paul saith, that Christ reigneth, and shall reigne, untill the re∣surrection of the just being made; he doe consigne his Kingdome to his eternall father.
CONSID. LXVI. In what manner the malignant spirit is more impetu∣ous then the holy spirit.
CONSID. LXVII. That in the regenerate only by the Holy Spirit there being experience of the things of God, there is also Certification of them.
CGNSID. LXVIII. That the desire of knowledge is Imperfection in a Man, contrary to the judgement of Humane Wisdome.
CONSID. LXIX. That a man ought alwaies to acknowledge himselfe in∣credulous, and defectiue in faith: and that there is so much faith in a man, as much as there is knowledge of God, and Christ.
CONSID. LXX. In what those three gifts of God, Faith, Hope, and Charity doe consist: and in what their eminency amongst other gifts doth consist: and the eminency of Charity amongst the three gifts.
CONSID. LXXI. Vpon the most holy prayer of OUR FATHER.
CONSID. LXXII. That man pretending that part of the image of God, which did not appertaine unto him, lost that part, which did appertaine to him.
CONSID. LXXIII. That the union between God and mon is made by loue: that loue growes from knowledge: what a kind of thing knowledge, loue, & union is.
CONSID. LXXIV. That it beides to pious persons in spirituall things, as it befalls in outward things to him, who having been blind begins to see.
CGNSID. LXXV. How it is understood, that God communicates unto us his Divine treasures by Christ: how God reignes by Christ: and how Christ is the head of the Church.
CONSID. LXXVI. What thing scandall is, and in what manner Chri∣stian persons ought to govern them∣selves in the scandall.
CONSID. LXXVII. Two contrarieties between them that live according to the flesh, and them, that live according to the Spirit.
CONSID. LXXVIII. Two griefes, one according to the world, and the other according to God: And two weaknesses, one according to the flesh, and the other according to the Spirit.
CONSID. LXXIX. How perilous the errors be, which men doe pretending piety.
CONSID. LXXX. What Gods intent is, demanding of men that which of themselves alone they cannot giue him: And why he giues them not at once all that which he will giue them.
CONSID. LXXXI. Two weaknesses in Christ, and in his members; and two powers in him and them.
CGNSID. LXXXII. In what properly consisteth that Agony, which Jesus Christ our Lord felt in his Passion and in his Death.
CONSID. LXXXIII. Five Considerations in the resurrection of Christ.
CONSID. LXXXIV. That only the Incorporation in Christ is that which mortifies.
CONSID. LXXXV. Foure manners by which a Christian knowes God by meanes of Christ.
CONSID. LXXXVI. To know the inward Motions when they are of the holy spirit, when of the malignant spirit, and when of a mans proper spirit.
CONSID. LXXXVII. That all the creatures were spoyled in mans depra∣vation, and that they shall be restored in mans Reparation.
CONSID. LXXXVIII. What the cause may be, that God commanded man, that he should not eat of the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evill.
CONSID. LXXXIX. Six causes, for which it seemes necessary, that the Son of God should liue in that manner, and that forme of life wherein he did liue.
CONSID. XC. In what the Christian perfection, the Duty, and Decorum doe consist.
CONSID. XCI. That only the Sonnes of God have certain satisfactionn in every thing.
CONSID. XCII. In what manner Mortification is the proper coun∣terigne, by which we know our selves the Sonnes of God.
CONSID. XCIII. That that suffering is most Christian, and most accep∣table to God, in which he that suffers, finds least of his own will.
CONSID. XCIV. Three sorts of Conscience: one by the Law naturall, and the other by the written Lawes: and the other by the Gospell.
CONSID. XCV. That men are incapable of the divine Generation of the sonne of God, and of the spirituall Rege∣neration of the sons of God.
CONSID. XCVI. That as then a man knowes himselfe a pilgrim in this world, when because God loves him, the world persecutes him.
CONSID. XCVII. Whether Iustification be a fruit of piety; and whether piety be a fruit of Justification.
CONSID. XCVIII. How that is to be understood, that the holy Scripture saith, attributing condemnation sometimes to infidelity, and sometimes to evill works; and salva∣tion sometimes to Faith, some∣times to good works.
CONSID. XCIX. Whence it proceeds that men beve not that all our sinnes were chastised in Christ, or they be∣lieve is with difficultie.
CGNSID. C. That the fruits which in Christian Persons in the beginning of their Incorporation in Christ seem of the spirit, are of the flesh.
CONSID. CI. Whence it proceeds, that the impious cannot believe; that the superstitious believe with ease; and that the pious believe with difficulty.
CONSID. CII. That Christian faith hath necessity to be confirmed with experience: Of what kind the experience is, and how it is obtained.
CONSID. CIII. Against the Imagination, with which our Chri∣stian Faith is troubled.
CONSID. CIV. That Baptisme through the Faith of the Gospell is effi∣cacious even in Children, who dye before they come to the age to be able to approue their being Baptized.
CONSID. CV. Three principles whence the ignorances arise, with which men erre against God.
CONSID. CVI. That that which the Scripture calls the knowledge of Good and Evill, the wisemen of the world haue called, and and doe call naturall light, Prudence, and humane reason.
CONSID. CVII. In what manner from a mans not knowing himselfe; nor God, there is caused in him an impossibility in accepting the Grace of the Gospell.
CONSID. CVIII. In what manner the evill of Adams disobedience ap∣pertaines to us all: and the good of Christs obedience reacheth unto us all.
CGNSID. CIX. The Conceit which as a christian I have at present of Christ, and of them who are the Members of Christ.
CONSID. CX. That the principall gifts are not understood, untill they be possessed.
AN EPISTLE DEDICATORY of IOHN VALDESSO to his Commentary upon the Romans. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS LADY, the Lady DONA IULIA de Gonzaga.
ERRATA.