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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

there is shame and confusion but where lowlines is there is wisedome Yrcke and loath the follies of the flesh for the end of them is euerlasting confusion Yéeld not thy selfe into the hands of thine enimies for they séeke nothing but to sucke thy bloud Youthfull arraie is vnséemelie for the aged but grauitie maketh youth louelie and gratious Zealouslie mainteine the truth yea before a Iudge for truth will preuaile and get the victorie Zeale in a good cause is commendable and praiseworthie O happie is he that hath such a zeale Zealouslie to follow the commandements of God and trulie to loue his lawe is life euerlasting FINIS A Referendarie to the Premisses THough praise it be to fight in feeld With valiant magnanimitie Yet till thy foe be forst to yeeld As prisoner in captiuitie Thou canst not vaunt of victorie Subdue the band rebellious So shalt thou be victorious Againe in running of a race We see by plaine experience That he which hath the swiftest pace And gets the gole by diligence Receiues a winners recompence The rest with running weried are slenderlie considered Euen so this Schoole of godlie skill In order Alphabeticall To Scholers wanting wit and will Is nothing beneficiall Because they are the principall Requird in each capacitie Bring these and reape commoditie A swarme of Bees VVith their honie and Honicombes Gathered out of the sweete and odoriferous Garden of Gods Word Heerein such lessons are to be learned as concerne the whole course of our life both towards God and man being in number two hundred whereof some persuade vs to vertue and godlinesse othersome dissuade vs from vice and wickednesse BY ABRAHAM FLEMING Ecclesiasticus 11. 3. ¶ The Bee is but small among fowles yet doth her fruit passe in sweetenesse AT LONDON Printed by Henrie Denham Anno Dom. 1581. The Preface to the Christian Reader WE see that Bees being a sociable creature that is apt for companie flee together in swarmes and assembled vnder one hiue discharge the dutie wherevnto they are ordeined namelie to make Honie The benefite of this labouring and diligent creature is so necessarie that such as haue knowne and tasted by due proofe and experience the fruite of their trauell and the sweetenesse of their worke will be hardlie persuaded to neglect the fostering of them for feare of losing so singular commodities as they do yeeld Euen so this swarme of Bees which I not by the sound of a basen but by the painefulnesse of my pen haue gathered together out of the pleasant garden of Gods most holie word where I found them scattered heere and there among the fragrant flowres and sweete beds of wholesome hearbes making most comfortable Honie and offering thee a tast thereof are not lightlie to be esteemed considering that the issue and euent of their trauell well ordered and vsed is so beneficiall as nothing more if anie thing like For their Honie hath this vertue that to such as eate it and digest it throughlie it giueth a regenerated mind a sanctified soule a circumcised hart a mortified bodie and all good things that man can imagine or deuise of which spirituall graces who so hath once possession his conscience will tell him what it is to taste to sucke to eate and thoroughlie to digest Honie made by such a swarme of Bees These Bees followe one another orderlie and decentlie without desire of first or highest place out of one garden they gathered it in one hiue they made it and for all godlie disposed peoples feeding heere they leaue it in their Honicombes There is none that hauing wit will finde fault with water of the cleerest fountaine with floure of the finest wheate with a garment of the costliest silke with a ring of the purest golde with a iewell of the highest price For it is the nature of man to couet the verie best things yea and to obteine them if they may be gotten for anie monie Heere thou hast a swarme of Bees making most excellent Honie sweete pleasant and whoalsome It differeth from ordinarie Honie because the Bees that made it are extraordinarie and the flowers whereout they suckt it grew in no common garden it is offered vnto thee gratis no gaine looked for but onelie thy good will in receiuing it and thy diligence in vsing it Make much therefore of these Bees and open thy mouth wide that thy throte swallowing their sweete Honie may distribute the same to all thine inward partes and that the outward and inward man may be reformed Abraham Fleming A SVVARME of Bees The first Honicombe yeelding most wholesome exhortations vnto vertue and vertuous life 1 BE mercifull and faithfull binde these two iewels about thy neck and write them in the tables of thine heart 2 Be ioifull in the Lord thy God with all thine heart and leane not vpon thine owne will 3 Be obedient to the lawe of the Lord honour him with thy substance and with thy firstlings 4 Be a searcher after wisedome and an inquirer after vnderstanding and knowledge 5 Be wise so shalt thou haue honour in possession but shame is the promotion that fooles shall haue 6 Be a louer of wisdome she shall beautifie thy head with manifold graces and garnish thée with a crowne of glorie 7 Be conuersant with the righteous for their path shineth as the light that is brighter brighter 8 Be carefull to kéepe thine owne counsell in a matter of weight for therein consisteth the safetie of thy soule 9 Be obedient to the voice of thy teachers and harken vnto them that infourme thée 10 Be circumspect in choosing thy waie so shalt thou escape misfortune and danger 11 Be thou a drinker of the water of thine owne well and of the riuers that run out of thine owne spring 12 Be bountifull let thy welles flowe abroade that there may be riuers of waters in the stréetes 13 Be thou contented with thine own prouision and be glad with the wife of thy youth 14 Be glad with thy yong wife let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe let her breasts alwaie satisfie thée 15 Be wise warie in thy waies for the Lord séeth thy footesteps and pondereth all thy goings 16 Be carefull to saue thy selfe as a Doe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler 17 Be prouident in Summer what shall serue thée in winter least thou haue not to supplie thy want 18 Be obedient to thy fathers commandement and forsake not the lawe of thy mother 19 Be at defiance with a wicked and naughtie woman for her house is the high waie to hell 20 Be temperate in thy diet for gluttonie and gormondising is vninéete for a man The second Honicombe yeelding most wholesome exhortations to vertue and vertuous life 21 BE true and trustie to thy friend so shall he be bold to commit the secrets of his soule into thy hands 22 Be conuersant with the wise and with such as be of

the calling of a Christian Hast thou not béene obstinate of life rebellious and disobedient casting behinde thée the commandements of thy parents 3 Hast thou not béene a breaker of the holie Sabboth which God himselfe sanctified for the imitation of all men that with circumcised harts they should celebrate and solemnize the same Hast thou not applied that daie seuered to holie exercises to vaine pastimes for thine owne pleasure and recreation yea hast thou not spent it in beastlie behauiour as in Epicurisme bellie cheare sensualitie Gentilisme and otherwise than the precise vocation of a well reformed Christian requireth Hast thou not bene maliciouslie minded enuious mercilesse vncharitable couetous an extortioner a briber a ●surer a violent oppresser a defrauder of the poore a gréedie gatherer all which with thousands the like enormities tend to the violating of the lawe of God 4 Hast thou not bene wanton lewd lecherous bawdie in speach and communication a defiler of thy vessell an adulterus person led into sundrie lusts and concupiscences a tempter of maidens and wiues to naughtines an allurer of yong damsels to the violating of their virginitie a singer of light songs and sonets a teller of tales and stories of loue and what loue is a nice danser and such like all which tend to the peruerting of honestie and are as it were bellowes to blowe and kindle the fire of fleshlie lust and concupiscence Hast thou not bene a priuie pilferer an open ●rea●er a robber a theefe an vsurper of that which is not thine owne a challenger of another mans right a false dealer a seeker after filthie lucre and a shamelesse slaunderer which is a kinde of stealth most detestable Hast thou not coueted this and that as thou hast bene caried awaie with the violence of thy desires knowing that although it might make for thy profite yet it could not but turne to the damage of thy brother 5 Hast thou offended in these cases or art thou cleare If thou haue so walked that thy conscience can pleade faultles vngiltie betwixt thée and thine innocencie then maist thou boldlie beléeue that the grace of God is thy guide and gouernour then maist thou be assured that thou art in the verie footepath to felicitie passing into the land of promise Hierusalem the Lords citie not built with hands as subiect to ruine and corruption but eternall and euerlasting The fourth Chapter 1 None is voide of sinne no not one all haue transgressed and gone astraie 2 The mercie of God the cause of mans restitution after his fall 3 To what end Christ suffered torments in this world 4 None is able to fulfill the commandements of God and that God hath a regard to our infirmities 5 What he must do that would liue eternallie BUT alas what is he that hath not offended Is there anie man that is able to stand in triall of his innocencie 1 Our parents sinne stained vs and their transgression was deliuered to vs by line all descent how then can we comming of vnrighteous parents be inculpable and blamelesse children Truth it is A corrupt trée bringeth forth corrupt fruite and pitch defileth them that touch it 2 Neuerthelesse the mercie of God was such after the fall of Adam and Eue in Paradise that in the bloud of his sonne shed vpon the crosse in the open face of the world he wrought his restitution and placed him in the hope of saluation from whence before he fell 3 This did he to the end that by his death the force of sinne being broken and the power of Sathan crushed we might no longer wallowe in the mire of filthines like swine but reare vp our selues to heauen there to haue our harts fixed where he sitteth in whome the fulnes of our felicitie is reposed 4 And though the lawe of the Lord be so vpright and iust and our nature so corrupt and defiled that we haue no abilitie nor power of our selues to fulfill the commandements for we haue not so much as the least sparkle of sufficiencie in this consideration such is our pronenesse to do amisse yet the Lord God is so louing vnto vs that he holdeth himselfe contented with our weake working of his will for his sonnes sake in whome our want is supplied 5 Who so therefore is desirous to taste of the fruite of the trée of life and to drinke of the pleasant running riuers of rest who so I saie longeth after true happines and faine would sée good daies let him endeuour to the vttermost of his might to tame and bridle his wandering desires which if they be not brought vnder and constrained to grone vnder the yoke of subiection he shall haue his mind so bent vpon transitorie vanities and his wilso wedded to this wicked world that the light of his vnderstanding being put out he shall neuer finde the footepath of faith leading the high waie to heauen In this respect therefore let vs learne what is to be done The fift Chapter 1 The looking glasse of Gods word and the effects of the same 2 The dignitie of man in comparison of al other creatures 3 His state in the first Adam and his state in the second 4 The assaultes of Sathan notwithstanding our redemption and what we must do in temptation 5 Our duties towards God for his gratious giftes and benefites in prosperitie 1 THOU that wouldst treade the footepath to felicitie must take into thy hands the looking glasse of Gods word where thou shalt see in thy selfe all the staines and blemishes of sinne and shalt likewise finde in a readines swéete water to wash them awaie and to cleanse thée from all such filthines and pollusion 2 There thou shalt sée the dignitie of man in comparison of all other creatures he onelie being indued with reason and all other liuing things beside lead by lust Consider of this excellent blessing be thankfull for it and giue God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie 3 Againe let this be thy dailie meditation that through the fall of the first Adam thou becamest a castawaie but by the death of the second Adam thine attonement in his bloudshed being accomplished thou wast receiued againe into fauour Consider of this excellent blessing be thankefull for it and giue God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie 4 And though thy redemption be wrought by and through the innocent passion of Christ yet Sathan thy cankered enimie is assaulting thée afresh with newe traines and snares séeking to vndermine thée praie God to fortifie thy faith cast out thine anchor on the firme land of constancie crie for helpe at his hand whose helpe is in a readines repose all thy hope in him that hath care of thy safetie and is of power to confound thy ghostlie enimie Consider of this excellent blessing be thankefull for it and giue God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie 5 If thou be crowned with the graces and gifts of God either corporall or