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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49605	Ethice christiana, or, The school of wisdom wherein the grounds of moral philosophy are demonstrated to comply with the principles of Christian religion, by a mixt exercise of grace and vertu / written originally in French ... by M. De la Serre ; and done into English by J.A.	La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600-1665.; Alardis, James.	1664 (1664)	Wing L457; ESTC R24425	37,313	130

be ended seeing the grief thereof is continual and the reward imaginary 19. Do not lull your self asleep in the success of your wicked designes the justice of God is so much the more rigorous as it appeareth slow and if you do not prevent it by correcting your self first you shall never be able to shun it 20. Learn to admire the mercy of God that giveth your heart leave every moment to justify it self before him seeing the least of the sighs thereof can expiate the crimes of it 21. Establish unto your self a way of living wherein Honour may be your object and Reason your guide and be not slack in your duty this is the only means to find repose in the troubles of the World and to enjoy a calme amidst the storm whereby we are continually agitated 22. Every body loveth life and yet no body learns to live all the world dyeth and yet there is none that knoweth rightly how to dy This Science ought to be the only study of the Wiseman seeing it alone can sufficiently instruct us in the Art of working out our own Salvation 23. A Soul deprived of Grace is alwayes in Alarum being continually disturbed with the horrour of the crimes it hath committed and it may be said truly of it that it is a blind thing walking along the brink of a precipice 24. Imagine the disquiet of a sick-man in the heat of a continual Feaver He hath no rest night nor day feeling himself by little and little consumed by a secret fire which burneth him without being perceived devoureth him without being known and at last reduceth him to ashes without giving the least moment of intermission to his painful burnings 25. This poor afflicted man is the true picture of a guilty Soul which seeing it self buried in a body tormented with a continual agony feels it self already burning in apprehension in those Eternal Fires which are destined for the punishment thereof No wonder if his disquiet be great seeing every moment may be the last of his life and the first of the just vengeance of an angry God CHAP. III. That we ought to draw our consolation against the miseries which befall us from the consideration of the Original whence they are derived 1. COmplain not of the Crosses which are inflicted by the Divine Majesty they are presents sent from Heaven your patience will shortly make you know the value of them 2. Complaints are unseemly in the mouth of a Malefactor if you can do no other thing but provoke God do not augment the number of your offences in murmuring against his justice 3. You must know that God doth commonly afflict his Elect in strowing under their feet those Roses wherewith his head was crowned therefore seeing he hath been a sharer in them his Elect can have no part in his glory but by right of that succession 4. What cause have you to complain of the justice of God seeing his very rigours are the effects of his compassion he punisheth you in this World to the end that he may shew mercy to you in the next in his vengeance he constraineth you to admire his Bounty 5. In all your afflictions let Reason prevent Time in comforting you and be indebted to none but your self for the healing of your pain seeing you may find the remedy in your submissive Spirit 6. He that complains of the evill that he suffers must needs have forgotten the evil he hath done if he doth remember it his complaint passeth for a new crime greater then any that went before 7. As often as Heaven punisheth you do reason to justice in suffering without murmuring the chast sement which it inflicteth upon you silence and Submission do alwayes appease the wrath of God 8. There is no greater misery then to complain of those miseries that happen unto you because in murmuring against Justice which punisheth you you constrain it to augment the force thereof and to fall more heavily upon you by reason of this last crime which you commit 9. A heart filled with God doth never sigh but for joy amidst the greatest afflictions so that seeing he loveth much more then he suffereth the excess of his love doth so vehemently moderate that of his pain that by little and little he loseth the feeling thereof 10 Consider that you are the cause of your own afflictions to the end that punishing your self by the sorrow which you ought to have for them this sorrow may be your first comfort 11. How unhappy are the favorites of Fortune to follow the blind in their blindness suppose she should lead them a pleasant way yet that is no other then the way to their grave where they shall find the thorns of all those Roses which they have trampled upon 12. In all your calamities look up to the hand that smites you before you complain of the stroke it hath given you God doth never punish us in Time but to make us afraid of his vengeance in Eternity 13. The Time of afflictions is of short continuance in respect of that Eternity of glory which is to succeed it the evill of our sufferings soon passeth away but the good of our constancy ought never to have an end 14. Generous spirits have alwayes carried a respect and reverence toward the unfortunate knowing that they are sick persons who should at least be comforted if they cannot be cured 15. Never refuse comfort to an afflicted person to the end that God may repay it you when you stand in need of it As all the evils are punished in this world so is all the good recompensed 16. Flee not from the unfortunate seeing that to morrow you may be of their number but render to them what you would expect from others if you were in their condition The afflicted have no enemies seeing their misery maketh truce with all those who have proclaimed war against them 17. If it be true that the Object hath influence upon the Power or Faculty there is no afflicted person which may not receive abundance of consolation in the apprehension of a crucified Saviour never was any frustrated that came to him in sincerity 18. Be not weary in suffering as the Rose fadeth the prickles thereof become blunt it is not a small comfort to you in your crosses that you can reckon the houres thereof Those evils that must needs take an end are never of long continuance 19. O how happy a thing it is to grow old in affliction He that dyeth upon the Cross carrieth his death so far into the second Life which he hopeth for that he feeleth himself reviving according to the measure that he feeleth himself dying 20. The livery of the unfortunate is the livery of the Predestinate and it may be truly said that their silent constancy is continually working at those Crowns which are appointed to be the reward of their labours 21. They that rejoyce at the miseries of others prepare their own punishment after they have

and to give an account of that Life whereof they have contemned the reputation 18. If your Name be not known by your Condition make it known by your Exemplary Life Vertue is a Balm whereof the sweet Odor is spread every where 19. We have no cause to call Nature Step-mother what inequality soever we finde betwixt the Noblemen and the Peasants since that by Birth and Death we have the same destiny And if there appear a great difference in their Life yet know that the different ways which they keep do meet at the Grave 20. If you draw Vanity from the outward qualities of the Body Time will make you know your Folly every day because it destroyeth the ground thereof every moment In ruining the subject that causeth it CHAP. XI That we ought to be dis-engaged from all things to the end That we may live without disquiet and die without sorrow 1. CAll not your self the Owner of the Goods you possess every moment reneweth unto you the favor of the use of them We have nothing that is our own but miseries and unhappiness 2. If your heart be fastned on any Object consider the perishing nature of it and seeing you cannot love it but as a transitory thing justifie your love by the necessity of its ruine 3. When we love any thing passionately we expose our selves anew to the view of Fortune which can wound us in as many parts as we are divided 4. The Covetous man whose heart is in his Treasures feels it pluckt out as often as they are diminished without considering that as streams return to their source so this Piece of Earth wherewith he is intrusted must be re-joyned to its whole 5. The Ambitious man who renders himself Imaginary Possessor of all the goods he wisheth believeth that he is robbed of them when he is prevented in acquiring them This lets us see that as we live in our Passions so we feel our selves dying with the causes of their Birth 6. All that you would love love it in God to the end that your Love may produce your Repose rather than your Trouble All the Affections which we contract in this World do nothing else but breed and die seeing every moment may be the first and last of their continuance 7. What an ingenious thing it is for a man to torment himself in being willing to die for every object he loveth Is it not enough to give up his heart to one love that is allowable and lawful without dividing it amongst a thousand other Passions to resent as many different torments 8. The Chains wherewith we are tyed here below are easie to be made and hard to be broken And if death alone restore us to liberty yet we lose it in recovering it seeing that commonly we carry the guilty remembrance of our pleasant Bondage to the Grave with us 9. A mans love towards himself is to be excused when his Salvation is the object thereof he is permitted to love himself in a lawful way yea with excess too using extraordinary endeavors to testifie the violence of that Love by the contempt of all other 10. Happy is that man who is altogether his own that he may give himself wholly to God Unhappy is he that after he hath given his heart to the World seeth himself constrained to leave it with the World not having so much power as to take it back 11. The Wisemans Love is never blinde because Reason which is nothing else but Light produceth it Whence it comes to pass that he loveth with pleasure drawing his delights from the Object of his Affections which are as harmless as himself 12. Every Body loveth Liberty yet every Body is engaged They that have no Master become Slaves to their own Passions and in this shameful Bondage they render themselves unworthy of compassion because they have no compassion on themselves 13. Seeing that Christian Perfection consists in the contempt of all things and in the dis-engagement from our Selves we must be our own to the end that we may give our selves Unless our hearts be emptied they shall never be filled with God 14. Every man goeth about his own business and we do always forget the most important which is that of our Salvation All others are unprofitable at the end of our days work seeing an account will not be required of them no not so much as of their success 15. I know very well that all our desires do divide our heart and it is so possessed with a continual longing after their object that it liveth out of its self for anothers sake But though it be divided during life it must needs be united in it self at last to die all alone for its self onely 16. Do not wait till Age draw you from the World but preventing Necessity by Reason triumph over your self before Time become your Conqueror 17. Consider that your Habits and Customs are as so many Bonds which strengthen themselves continually and seeing Nature doth much contribute thereunto all endeavors at last are too weak to break them without the help of Grace 18. O what a contentment it is to a man to be free to die and to be wholly his own at the hour of death The Objects of our Passions are as so many Chains which fasten us to the World when we are upon the point of departing from it We must bid them adieu betimes that we may make our retreat without sorrow 19. It is very hard for us to hinder our selves from being surprised by Time in those Affections that we contract here below because as the hour of our departure is uncertain and the hope that dieth after us deceiveth us too so we do not commonly forsee our mishap but when it is unavoidable 20. Dis-engage your self from your Children and after you have put them under the Protection of Providence it is enough to shew them the way wherein they should walk to work out their own salvation by going before them your self 21. Be not tied with your Dignities these are the Liveries of Fortune which she giveth and taketh away at her pleasure Content your self in that you deserve them seeing you must give an account of the use of them 22. Let not your heart finde any place in your Palaces to lodge its Affections there least the Chains thereof be too strong Do not establish your dwelling there all the steps of your walks are numbred and in going under the covert of the shady Allies in your Gardens you draw nearer your Grave 23. Every Man loveth his Repose and no body takes pains to acquire it It is not enough to be rich in this World and to taste of a thousand pleasures therein because these riches remain in the World and the pleasures pass away leaving us nothing but a troublesome remembrance and an unprofitable sorrow 24. It is not enough to live at Liberty we must die so and what tye soever we have here below the failing of