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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88553	The life of Adam. Written in Italian by Giovanno Francesco Loredano, a Venetian noble-man. And renderd into English by J.S.; L'Adamo. English	Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.; J. S.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3067; Thomason E1909_1; ESTC R209952	36,489	95

the true foundation of all humane societies The Laws of Adam were all directed to the union and conservation of the people to the correction and direction of manners to the maintainance of obedience and fidelity towards the Prince and to the acknowledgments and devotions towards God Yet Adam would not divest himselfe of the gift received from God Almighty of the universall Empire over all things created so that he reserved to himselfe the reformation alteration and interpretation of his Laws He knew very well that all garments and all meates agreed not to men of all ages The beginnings augmentations and declinations of a disease are not cured with the same remedies With the alterations of times there 's a necessity of varying the institutions Adam divided those primitive people into many Cantons or Corporations to each of which he assigned for Super-intendent one of his sons both because he would ease himselfe of so many imployments as also because he would perpetuate the sole command in his owne line It is then no marvail that this desire is innate in the minds of the Greatest since it is an evill that hath extracted its originall from the first Man of the World Though the command was parted amongst his sons he neverthelesse reserved the Supremacy of all to himselfe partly to restraine the licentiousnesse of his sons and partly that he might not seeme to dispise that gift of the universall Empire received from God which is the most desirable in the world He that renounceth Command confesseth himselfe for the most part either unable to exercise it or unworthy to retaine it In his latter days Adam understood the progresse of his sonne Cain He had news that he lived in the Orientall parts and that he had built a Citty calling it by the name of his son Enoch But he rejoiced not knowing very well that building of Cittyes could only proceed from a soul very timerous or excessively ambitious Adam considered by his owne example how dangerous it was for one to hide himselfe He knew full well that the nature of Cain was tyrannicall and enclined to extort the goods and wealth of others and bent upon the murther and destruction of people No lesse then a Citty is sufficient to secure a wicked man All these considerations disquieted the mind of Adam so that his long life was but a daily death He grieved to see that the more men increased in number the more they multiplyed in vice That justice was abandoned of those in particular who ought most to love it That goodnesse was only known for an imaginary thing That Avarice was the first of mans affections That Luxury accompanyed by the most infamous debaucheryes tryumphed in all hearts upon which occasion it is more then probable that he many times with more then ordinary sentiments supplicated his divine Majesty to take him out of this torrent of the world wherin there was nothing but Sin and Misery Adam was ready to pay the last debt to nature having now seen the seventh generation when he called to him all his sonns and daughters which were many in number and taught them what they were to do for the service of God and salvation of their soules Children saith he the time is approaching that I must pay the Earth its tribute These hoary haires tell me that I am in the Winter of my life These limbs that can no longer sustaine themselves that I must shortly fall Thus my fin hath resolved and thus That God hath decreed which commandeth that all things returne to their principles Before therfore that I depart from you I will leave you in testimony of my affection all those records that conduce to the good either of your soules or bodyes Nor think that my words are overswayed by my affections since he that speakes is a dying Father My Children above all other things remember to love one only God Trine in person and One in essence You are obleiged to this not only by your duty but by your interest He either is no man or deserves not that name who consecrates not all his affections to that God who hath given him a beeing and that daily communicates to him temporall and spirituall blessings and who allwayes appropriates punishments to vice and rewards to virtue Know that he requires sole adoration and for this very thing I foresee that he will showre down miseryes upon my posterity yea blind progeny an infinite of miseries foolish posterity that shall so far dote as to adore the things which thou thy selfe hast formed The Idolatry I say that shall come into the world shall snatch the thunderbolts out of Gods hands and violently force his mercy to the punishment of infinite generations As also lasciviousnesse dishonesty and luxurie These Children are sinns that will constrain the fire to forsake its sphere not only to chastise sinners but also to root out the memory of them Keep your selves my Sonns keep your selves from Anger which is an undomable passion that hurries the hands to imbrue themselves in the blood of innocency it selfe And these homocides how displeasing they are to God is evinced in the example of your brother Cain Though the blood of the slain be not polluted yet it contaminates the hands and consciences of the murtherer And to shew how execrable a thing murther is note That even he is culpable that kills those who implore death Corne and Cattle and other the more esteemed sorts of things you ought not to steal no nor covet for from this is ingendered that cursed serpent of Envy which hath been the cheif cause of all humane misadventures See that ye do not too much flatter the inordinate appetites of your senses with a complacenciall indulgence for they will lead you into a thousand cursed sinns The senses are for the more part fallacious guides negligent sentinels and the ruiners of the soul These teach you pride the first of all sinns and a crime so execrable that it hath polluted heaven with its filthinesse They teach you covetousnesse which is an insatiable desire that depraving faith and goodnesse openeth a door to all wickednesse They teach you Luxury which is a furious passion that perverting the reason makes man rebell against himselfe They teach you Superfluous Gluttony which is a concatenation of a thousand Vices This transports the will fomenteth love and hatred extinguisheth the memory distracteth the understanding and is the high way to all evills In short he that obeyes his senses cannot be a lover of God The senses affect only their owne delight and many times rave giving credit to themselves alone My sonnes the mercy of God which will have his Advertisement precede his Chastisements illuminating your souls commands that I denounce your miseries The vengeance of Heaven my Children shall set open the Abysse and shall drown the earth the waters shall surmount the Hills fishes shall possesse the places of birds in brief all mankind except a small number of