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death_n	bring_v	grace_n	sin_n	4,351	5	4.7240	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16739	A dialogue full of pithe and pleasure: betvveene three phylosophers: Antonio, Meandro, and Dinarco vpon the dignitie, or indignitie of man. Partly translated out of Italian, and partly set downe by way of obseruation. By Nicholas Breton, Gentleman.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1603 (1603)	STC 3646; ESTC S104777	26,456	38

all creatures to the seruice of man and man onely to the seruice of God Let vs conclude man to be the moste honourable creature and by due desert of commendation to be by many degrées set aboue them all Thus haue I shewed you mine opinion how man may iustly receiue his Tytle of Dignitie or Indignitie eyther by the gratious vse of that Reason by whiche hée dooth farre excéede all Creatures in commendation or by the abuse of that Reason that may make him the worst of all Creatures It is not a faire painted face a proude looke a craftie witte a smoothing tongue nor a scraping or a bribing hand that makes a man a woorthie Creature but an humble heart a modest eye a simple meaning a vertuous disposition a true tongue a liberall hand and a louing heart that makes man truly honourable Oh then let the Prince be gratious the Courtier vertuous the souldier mercifull the Lawier conscionable th● Merchant charitable the Farmer no Snudge the labourer painfull and the Begger thankfull and then will the Common-wealth of the worlde be such a kinde of heauen on the earth that the very Angelles of the heauen will commend the beautie of the world when thus only in man they shall sée the chiefe dignitie of a Creature for there will bee a day of chaunge ●he wealthy must leaue his treasure the faire must loose her beautie and the powerfull must come downe from his place and all be summond to appeare at one time and to one Court where as prisoners at a barre they shall answere to their Inditements and from whence deliuered eyther to comfort or execution and that eternall to either where account must be had of all and no partialitie be admitted where Conscience accuseth Truth confesseth and Iustice concludeth when if Mercy were not gratious Iudgement would be terrible where Faith is only blessed and dispaire onely accursed and then shall man sée his dishonour when the honour of all honours shall make him see his disgrace and receiue his chiefe honour when in mercy he receiues comfort of which honour is no man worthy but whom the honour of all worthinesse and worthinesse of all honour makes honourable by his worthinesse in him then the substance and summe of all honor and worthinesse that Iudge of all iustice that searcher and sounder of all truth that Lord of all mercy King of all grace and God of ●ll glory our Sauiour Christ I●sus let mans honour be sought and his worthinesse be s●ene for what more he is then in Christ he is a most dishonourable creature and what he is in him he is better then any creature Thus haue I shewne you in my opiniō how a man is the most worthy or vnworthy creature of the world of ●ither honour or commendation which if you studie neuer so much in the rules of nature you can neuer finde out but in the rules of grace you shall ●inde only discouered thinke then with your selues how glorious is the studie of the diuine comfort where reason only by grace beholdeth the bea●tie or deformitie the honour or dishonour of nature And now that you haue so well stored your mindes with the obseruations of experience betake your spirites to contempl●tion in matter of higher comfort that Reason the gouernour o● Nature may not loose the honour of his vertue nor Grace the gouernour of Reason may loose the maiestie of his glory for man being as he should be is as it were a god vnto man but as many a one is and should not be is worse then a beast and little lesse then a diuell vnto man For the Phisition that by his learned skill and honest care findes the gréefe of the diseased and doth spéedily bring him to health is he not a kinde of god vnto man that saues his life so neare death The Lawier that by his reading and knowledge findes the right of the distressed and by iustice deliuers him from his oppression is not such a Iudge a kind of god vpon the earth The Merchant tha● hath his debter in prison and seeing his misery in the vertue of charitie forgiueth the debt and setteth him at libertie is he not a kinde of god vnto man And first of all to be spoken of if the Prince finde an vnwilling offender with confession penitent yet by the lawe to death condemned and out of the maiestie of his mercy pardoneth the offence and fa●oureth the offender is he not worthy to be called a kinde of god vnto man If a man shall finde his neighbour assaulted and by théeues readie to be robbed spoyled and murthered if be by his valorous aduenture of his life doo not only defend him but be the death of his enemies and so for euer procure his safetie is he not a kinde of god vnto man If a rich man passing by a poore creature whom he seeth ly● in misery and pouertie if like the Samaritane he relieue him comfort him and neuer leaue him till he haue recouered him is he not in a kinde as it were a god vnto man If a learned and true Diuine fin●ing a sinner through the greatnes of his sinnes almos● in dispaire of mercy and so in daunger of damnation with preaching to him the true word of God and shewing him the booke for his warrant for that he preacheth if with such preaching to him prayer for him he doo deliuer him from that dangerous sinne of dispaire and by God● grace doo es●ablish that faith in him that bring him into the estate of the bless●d is he not a god vnto man But contrariwise if a Prince vpon a false information commaund his loyall subiect vnto death that hath by many good seruices deserued his gratious fauour is he not if he be a Tyrant halfe a diuel vnto man If a souldier for the gaine of a little mony betray the trust of his Captaine and make sale of his people is he not a kinde of diuell vnto man If a Lawier shall by extortion or bribery grieue the oppressed wrong the poore to pleasure the rich and pleade against his owne conscience to the vndooing of a simple creature is he not a kinde of diuell vnto man If a Phisition will in stead of a preseruatiue giue his patient a poysoned potion is he not a kinde of diuell vnto man And if a Merchant voyd of charitie cast his debter into prison and there beholding his misery without remorse of conscience lettes him perish without reliefe is hée not a kinde of diuell vnto man If a neighbour i● the cauy of his neighbours good séeke not only by himselfe but by all the meanes ●e can to spoyle him of all his goods yea and to depriue him of his li●e is not such a dogge a kinde of diuel vnto man If a rich man shall passe by a poore soule sicke sore lame and wounded and will not only like the Leuite runne from him or not so much as th● Priest say God helpe him but giuing