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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18252	The Christian diurnal Written in French by Fa. Nic. Caussin of the Soc. of Iesus. And translated by T.H.; Journée chrestienne. English	Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, d. 1640.	1632 (1632)	STC 4871; ESTC S118870	61,257	412

of the moity of their life In the Countrey the heauens the ayre the earth the waters which the Cittyes bereaue vs of are afforded vs with farre more liberty There it is where all the creatures of God speake to vs face to face to tell vs the wonders of the Creatour The Christians of the primitiue Church made Hermitages of their Farmes to found a retreat from affaires of the world and to obserue fit times for reposes but many now a dayes make of their gardens Tēples for Belphegor where no other Diuinityes are adored but the belly ryot game and impurity Many vse ayre-takings barley-breakes where they runne not farre without stumbling for they rather ressemble the list of Atalanta and Hippomenes then the race where S. Paul exhorted the Christians to runne There it is where the sense flattered with a thousand delicious obiects put themseues into the field where the bloud is enflamed the tongne vnloosned concupiscence enkindled and where false liberty renteth often a piece of the scarse which was as yet ouer the face of Modesty audaciously becomes a Portresse to Loue. Such are the sacriledges which dry vp yeares which bring disorder into seasons sterility into the entrailes of the earth despaire into our miseryes SECT VII Of foure Conditions of Recreation YOur recreation ought to haue foure notable things Choice of persons Good intention Innoceney Moderation Choice of persons auoyding euill company as the most dangerous shelfe of life for the frendship of wicked men is like to bundels of thrones which keep togeather to burne and crackle in the flames Your friendship should be vertuous saythfull disinteressed if you from it desire to deriue any fruit Good intention such as would be fit to cherish health strength to serue the soule for a good man ought to seeke for merit euen in play and repast as S. Francis who rose in the night fed before a poore hungry fryer to take from him the shame he had of eating at an extraordinary houre Innocency For there must consideration be vsed therin least nature be dissolued into a brutish life altogeater vnworthy of a generous hart Behind then comes gluttonny intemperate gaine bold scoffing and detraction which in this Age is very hard to be auoyded The most ordinary book in companies of men is mā himselfe you shall find very few who are now adayes delighted to talke of the old new Testament nay verily not so much as of ancient Roman Consulls or Aegyptian Pyramides or of the antique warres of Caesar Men study the bookes of time talke of garbes habits cōtenances conditions of affaires customes and allyances and allthough we haue no purpose to offend any yet is it a matter very easy in so great variety of discourse to let many words fall which are of much lesse valew then Silence It is a singular industry to make a good matter slide into company whether it be vpon occasion question consequēce narration or proposition as the rouerēd Father Iaquinot obserueth in his Addresse Moderation since as sayth the Wiseman as we must not excessiuely glut our selues with hony so ought one to take heed that recreations which are made to refresh the mind tend not by exorbitancy to dissolution It must be obserued what tym● place and persons require and to find out your selfe in some recreation you must not go out of your selfe by profusion SECT VIII Of v●cious conuersation And first of the Impertinent THe Hebrewes say Game Anger Glasse and Conuersation are the windowes of the soule which many tymes cause her to see more then she would That man is wise who maks vse of the meeting of company as of a file to polish the mind euer to render it more apt for its functions Vicious conuersation is drawn as it were to three heades to wit the Impertinent the Vaine the Maligne Impertinent as the clownish the sottish the troublesome which happeneth to many thorough the want of prudence fashion and ciuility Theophrastus one of the quaintest wits of Antiquity relateth some passages thereof which he sayes he obserued in his tyme arguing a great weaknesse of iudgment Some sayth he seeke to lay hould of one going vpon an important businesse to tell him as they pretend a matter of great importance when it is spoken it is found to be nothing els but a meere foppery Others inuite a Traueller who comes out of the countrey extremely weary to walke vp and downe Others draw a man out of a ship ready to dis-anker to entertaine follies on the shore Others come to beare witnesse when the cause is determined and bring along with them sweating full many a drop the Phisitian to se● one newly deceased Others boast they know the way wel and promise the rest to be their guide but do wander in the very beginning protest they haue lost their ayme● Others make enquiry very grossely into affa●es and hasten to aske a Generall of an army whither he goes and what his designe is Such also sayth he are to be found many times so r●sticall that admiring nothing of all that which deserues admiration in ciuill life sticke vpon the way to behold an Oxe as men in rapture and in company haue no better behauiour then to take their dogge by the muzzle and say Oh what a braue beast is this how well he keepes the house Such conuersation is able much to vilify a mā to take from him all the estimation he may gaine in his profession SECT IX Of vaine Conuersation VAine conuersation is that of bablers flatterers vain-glorious and such like This poore Theophrastus in my opinion fell into the hands of a tattler since he so well describeth a man who with much passion spake the prayses of his wife and then told all he had dreamed the night before then what he had eaten at diner then that he had an ill stomack From thence taking his flight he discoursed of ages and assured him that men of these times were much short of the Auncients Afterward he told that Corne was cheape that there were many straungers in the Citty that if it h●p●pened to rayne the yeare would be f●uitfull that he had a field to be ploughed that Dan●ppus gaue the greatest w●●light at an offering that there were so many staires in such a piece of building and that he had numbred them and a thousand other the like Such people addeth this Author are more to be feared then a feauer He that desireth to liue at rest should seldome keep them company Horace makes mention of one very like who made him sweat downe to the heeles and when he saw him so vexed that he knew not which way to turne him I well see sayth he syr that I am troublesome but there is no remedy for since I haue met with you it is fit I waite vpon you hauing nought els to do Flatterers are much more acceptable though they are many times more daungerous for they