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A00935	The diamond of deuotion cut and squared into sixe seuerall points: namelie, 1 The footpath to felicitie. 1 2 A guide to godlines. 81 3 The schoole of skill. 181 4 A swarme of bees. 209 5 A plant of pleasure. 245 6 A groue of graces. 283 Full of manie fruitfull lessons, auaileable to the leading of a godlie and reformed life: by Abraham Fleming.	Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607. Footepath of faith, leading the highwaie to heaven. Selections.	1581 (1581)	STC 11041; ESTC S102282	82,454	300

to the earth out of whose bowels he sprang The like lawe of necessitie tooke hold of mother Eue of Caine Abel Sheth and the issue of him and his to the daies of Noah who notwithstanding his preseruation in the Arke from the generall floud went the waie of his predecessors hauing liued the space of nine hundred and fiftie yeares 5 Abraham the father of the faithfull so named by the holie Ghost and after him all the Patriarches yea Moses that good man at whose intercession God spared the wicked Iewes manie a time and withdrew the whip of his vengeance wherewith he was purposed to smite them euen he and the rest Enoch onelie excepted who after his assumption was no more séene among men had but their time beyond which they might not by anie dispensation passe so that we sée euen in them notwithstanding their excellencie the waie of all flesh which is naturall death manifestlie expressed 6 It were more laborious and cumbersome than necessarie and requisite to adde anie more examples in so plain vndoubted an argument Considering then that these men being longer liuers than the rest paide tribute vnto Cesar it is verie vnlikelie that anie inferiour vnto them in all respects should be exempted from the discharge of so due a debt 7 This waie of all flesh walked Samson notwithstanding his wonderfull strength diuers waies declared Salomon for all his wisdome the brute whereof together with his magnificence and roialtie caused him to be renowmed far and néere so that neither the one were his fortitude and might incomparable yea so rare and strange as that the Lion of all beastes the valiantest was in his handling as weake as a Lambe nor the other were his knowledge so profound and heauenlie as that the signification of no secret was too high for his wit could adde one daie one houre no not so much as one minute to the length of their life no more than it is in mans power to put one cubite to his stature or to make one heare white or blacke 8 The conclusion therefore is euident that there is one waie of all flesh and that is death chance it either on land by sicknes on sea by drowning in battell by the sword chance it either by fire or famine by pestilence or other maladie chance it either sléeping or waking eating or drinking riding or running laughing or wéeping the common and ordinarie ende is death and all is but death be the meanes neuer so diuers This considered and aduisedlie thought vpon there were no better bridle to raine in the coltish nature of man and to restraine him from the filthie custome of sinne wherevpon dependeth eternall death and damnation for this is the footepath to felicitie The ninth Chapter 1 A dead coarse compared to a looking glasse and the necessarie doctrine therevpon depending 2 Of two differing waies deciphered by the letter Y. 3 The testimonie of Christ touching these two waies 4 Who they be that walke in the wide waie of wickednes and of the preposterous course of the world 5 That no man hath the power to reforme himselfe 6 Necessarie considerations for true Christians 7 Of such as hauing gone astraie in the wrong waie retired and drewe backe into the right and of one that would not be persuaded to tread in crooked pathes 8 Of such as walked in the wide waie of wickednes and of their wofull case 9 An exhortation how we ought to walke 1 THe waie of all flesh remembred as it is rehearsed the hearts of men by litle and litle must néeds growe into a misliking of sinne For as to haue a looking glasse before thy face and therin to take a view of thy phisiognomie is a present and readie waie to make thée sée anie blemish wart speckle freckle mole staine spot or wrinkle in thy countenance and to amend and reforme it if it be not naturall and brought euen from the verie cradle so to consider in a dead coarse the state of thine owne bodie when thou shalt be called if thou be touched with anie care of conscience should not onlie put into thy minde the remembrance of death but also the cause of the same which is sinne for that men die and returne to earth from whence they came the cause is sinne onlie wherewith if the nature of man had not ben corrupted his state had bene heauenlie diuine angelike immortall 2 This common and vsuall waie of all flesh is an entrance vnto two other waies beside which waies there is no third to be looked for These two waies as they differ in description as they varie in compas as they are vnlike in proportion so the walkers in these two waies are contrarie in disposition diuers in qualitie nothing like inclined These two waies manie hundred yeares past were signified and set foorth by a prophane Philosopher in a letter of the crosse rowe namelie Y wherein we may sée with what wisedome that heathen man weighed the waies of worldlings cutting his letter in two parts the one toward the left hand broade ample large and wide because of the multitudes which it receiueth the other toward the right narrowe and streight for that they are but few in number which treade in it and yet roome enough remaining and more indéede than is like to be occupied the more to be lamented 3 Of these two waies spake he in whome the thrée principall and soueraigne callings were crowned I meane Christ King Priest and Prophet For he tendering from time to time the sicklie soule of man and séeing by the mysterie of his diuinitie the manifold miseries wherein he was wrapped like a fish in a net besides the danger of damnation whereinto he was like had not the grace of God preuented him deseruedlie to runne did not onlie by preaching but also by working miracles séeke to laie a plaister to his festered sore but he refused the helping hand of the Physician the more pitie he had so little grace This Christ the expresse image of his father noted these two waies no doubt to singular purpose when he gaue vs this lesson worthie the learning saieng Enter in at the narowe waie for wide is the waie and broade is the gate that leadeth to destruction and manie they be that walke in it but narowe is the waie and streight is the gate that leadeth to life and few they be that go in at it because it is the footepath to felicitie 4 In this wide waie walke the wicked whome no counsell no admonition no preaching no teaching no denouncing of Gods iudgements can reuoke whose happines and felicitie séemeth vnto them so much the more perfect as they excéede in heaping sinne vpon sinne and make no conscience of their inordinate liuing naie who is in better case who in greater credite who more supported than he that glorieth in his filthines and counteth it no shame to beare about him euen in his forhead the notes markes and prints of his

Lord when I am cited to appeare before the Sathanicall synagogue which presumptuouslie call the professours of thy Gospell to a reckoning of their religion O be thou mine assistant Make them ashamed of their malicious imaginations and in their owne snares let them be intangled ouerwhelme them in the pit which they haue prepared for others so shall I magnifie thy heauenlie power Increase in them the spirit of wilfull blindnesse because they haue not béene harbourers of thy faithfull ministers and because they haue contemptuoustie withstoode thy word which is the liquor of life Neuerthelesse if it be thy pleasure such as féele anie remorse of conscience and be sorie for their obstinacie vouchsafe to receiue them into thy fauour that they may be witnesses of thine vnspeakeable mercie God the father God the sonne and God the holie Ghost heare my praier and let my crie be considered for thine owne sake and for thy sonnes sake O God looke downe from aloft and shew thy louing kindnesse to all people The eight Flowre called a spirituall Song conteining 1 The chiefest comfort in this life 2 The meanes whereby to obteine blessednesse 3 The cause of a quiet conscience and how it is come by 4 An exhortation to glorifie GOD. F. 1 AMid so manie miseries depending on our life Behold a comfort namelie this with sinne to be at strife 2 Resisting of concupiscence subduing fleshlie lust Are meanes to come to blessednesse enioied of the iust 3 Hereof the true tranquillitie remaining in the minde According to her qualitie doth flourish in her kind Most mightie Ioue be praisd whose grace doth compasse this For no deserts of ours whose liues are dailie lead amis 4 Land we his holie name as doth vs best become Exalt him in his holinesse O nations all and some Make all your mirth and glee on him alone to rest In him reioice and clap your hands oblations such are best Nothing so much becoms a Christian than deth this Grant vs the same O gratious God that liuest aloft in blis The ninth Flowre called a holie Hymne conteining 1 A petition for repentance and remission of finnes 2 A deliuerance from our enimies 3 An inuocation vpon God for present help 4 A dep●ecation against the aduersaries of Gods truth L. 1 A Penitent heart O God thou wilt not despise O teach me thy statutes that I may sée my sinne Be fauourable vnto me whose iniquities are gone ouer my head O heale my sores and vlcers which stinke in thy sight 2 Rise vp thou holie one of Israell like a Giant in triumph and rescue me from the irruptions and inrushings of mine enimies According to thy greatnesse deliuer me O set me frée from the furiousnesse of my foes from the furiousnesse of my mortall and deadlie foes Horrible are the mischéefes which they haue imagined against me but thou which art omnipotent wilt ouerwhelme them in their maliciousnesse 3 As for me I will be confident vpon thy prouidence will I depend vpon an assured hope of thy heauenlie helpe will I attend O Lord. Make no long tarieng O my King and my God for vpon thée onlie doth the anchor of my saluation rest thou art my health and my safetie Forsake me not in the time of néede least mine enimies taking courage against me scorne at me in their pride and saie where is thy God 4 Let not the enimies of thy truth beare vp their bristles against thée and contemptuouslie cast thy glorie to the ground O Lord destroie both them and their deuises Euen as the Sunne consumeth snowe and as waxe wasteth in the fornace so let them be put to silence in the rigour of thy wrath and iudgement Make them like vnto Sodom and like vnto Gomorrha make them like vnto Pentapolis and Babylon that they may knowe thou liuest which art Lord ouer all Inlarge their torments far aboue the torments wherwith they haue persecuted thy people deale with them according to thine own pleasure Not my will but thy will be fulfilled O father according to thine owne decrée deale with them either in mercie or in iudgement Giue them proofes of thine omnipotencie that they may knowe thée which sittest aboue whose eies sée their deuises and art able to reuenge thine owne cause The tenth Flowre called a spirituall Song conteining 1 An exhortation to praise the Lord. 2 That all states and degrees ought to stoope before him and do him reuerence 3 Wherein our mirth and melodie should consist 4 That all creatures must magnifie Gods Maiestie E. 1 ATtend ye nations giue eare O learne to laud the Lord Behold his wondrous works and praise his name with one accord 2 Rich poore weake strong old folke yong approch and praises sing All people dwelling in the world to God oblations bring High potentates and all estates the king that crowne doth weare And subiects sworne to loialtie the Prince of Princes feare 3 Make all your mirth aud melodie his honour to resound Feare him in truth and faithfulnesse whose blessings do abound Let euerie thing lift vp their voice and laud his holie name 4 Each creature drawing vital breth extoll and praise the same Magnificent and wonderfull yea onlie God is hee In these his works before our eies his puissance we may see No time therefore let vs omit in publishing his praise Giue glorie oh heauen oh earth and sea to him which liues alwaies The eleuenth Flowre called a holie Hymne conteining 1 A petition to God vnder a continued allegorie for a renewed life 2 The weedes of the heart 3 The good and wholesome hearbes of the soule M. 1 AS siluer is purged from drosse by the force of the fire so by thy mercie O Lord GOD let me be purged from mine offences and sinnes Be fauourable vnto me an vnfruitefull bough of old Adams rotten and putrified stocke O water thou me with thy sanctifieng spirit Raine downe from heauen vpon me I beséech thee O let the drops of thy grace fall vpon me that I may bud and beare blossoms As for the wéedes of wickednesse and sinne let them wither and die in me that I may leade an vpright life in thy sight and glorious presence Husband me in such wise O Lord that I may fructifie and increase abundantlie that I may bring foorth thirtie sixtie and an hundred fold according to thy good pleasure A riuer of pleasantnesse be thou vnto me whereby I may be filled full of sap and flourish continuallie like the gréene Baie trée Make my leaues neuer to wither or vade let not the Sunne scortch or drie them to the losse of their beautifull colour and séemelinesse From all stormes and tempests shéeld and ouershadowe me that my roote may be replenished with pith and my branches spread abroade Let not the blustering blasts of winter do me anie harme but as my lips and my tongue gratte in me a desire and delight to speake the truth iustlie vprightlie and Christianlie Lighten thou my waies and