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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

us 8. Because at death vows are to no purpose we ought to make and accomplish them during Life the occasion of well-doing is not alwayes prefent Though the seasons be ordered as well as the Days and Nights yet it is not so with Life because the moments thereof succeed one to another without having so much as one assured 9. The meer necessity of dying doth perswade Wisemen to work out their own Salvation while it is day without standing in need of any other Clock to mark the hours of their work 10. Wise men do never sorrow for their Life past because they live only to die And though the time to come be not theirs yet they dispose of it before hand to their own advantage in the resolution they are alwayes to imploy it well 11. Life hath nothing that is its own but death all the Goods which it injoyeth are imaginary because they subsist only in the Fancy And seeing that subsistence depends of Time and Fortune if This take away from us the use of it That can limit the continuance thereof 12. He is happy upon the account of Justice who seeth himself die in doing of his duty the Race of this Life how painful soever it be becometh pleasant when we run it happily 13. To live but for one day is to live a whole Age provided we spend that day to good purpose A thousand years of Life are reckoned only by the last moment which doth finish it because that alone must Crown all the former 14. There is nothing so dreadful at Death as the remembrance of a long Life because as we must give an account of all our days past seeing they are present with God either to justify or condemn them so the doubt of our happiness or misery keeps our Souls on the Rack 15. We cannot go but once from Time to Eternity it is a journey that hath no returning and seeing that all Wise men prepare themselves to make it as soon as they are capable of reason he must needs be quite deprived of reason who is surprised at the hour of retreat 16. As the Pilgrim doth accomplish his vow when he puts himself on the way to make his Pilgrimage so we begin to go about our Mission as soon as we are born in the Path which we hold it is enough that Reason be our Lantern and Duty our Guide to keep us from going astray without measuring the paces of our Race 17. Although we do but pass away here below yet every man may work out his own Salvation here in passing All consists in the imploying well the Time allowed us without being solicitous for more or less a good life is alwayes long though it should last but for one moment 18. Endeavour every day to dosome good work to the end you may injoy what is past as you do what is present The Wise man never searcheth in vain for his Repose is in his Memory 19. Seeing that the Way which we are to hold in our Life is marked out let us go on cheerfully and consider that the more painful it be it is the safer provided that Patience be our Guide 20. Know that Death is the reward of the just and the punishment of the Wicked because Those when they die may lawfully hope for the Crown of their labours but These for the chastisement of their crime CHAP. XV. That the Wise man waiteth for Death without either wishing or fearing it 1. HE that wisheth for Death hath cause to fear it because the guilt of his desire prepareth his punishment as we are born here below by a secret Order of Providence so this alone can sound our retreat and of all the miseries which can befall us Desperation is the greatest 2. We should never fear the Evils which we cannot avoid because Fear is a new Evill far more painfull than that which we are to incurre and if in these encounters Nature overcome Reason we ought to implore the help of Grace because it triumpheth alwayes 3. Death frights none but the Wicked not but that the Godly do fear it but their Hope being stronger than their Fear the one is diminished by the growth of the other 4. Wise Christians do never dispute with Providence they undergo the laws thereof without repining and how rigorous soever they be seeing there is more glory in suffering than in complaining they beg for Constancy in their distresses rather than for Comfort 5. They that have a love to Life know not what they love For if it be a Good the imaginary propriety and uncertain usage thereof make us sensibly know the contempt we ought to have of it 6. A good Life is always long how short soever it be and seeing the greatest Heroes reckon their years by their Heroick acts the wise Christian ought to keep an account of his age by the Good he doth 7. Although we be born here below unwitting to us we have liberty to live here as we please but seeing that we must give an account of our Life we ought to be good husbands of Time for it conducts us to Eternity 8. Life may be justly compared to a Dream because we live in a continual dotage taking the false Good for the reall and the way of Vice for the path of Vertue 9. Know that the preparation to Death doth mitigate the fear thereof as the continuall thoughts of it taketh away the horrour and as Experience cannot chuse but be profitable to you so the profit you shall receive by it will far surpass the pains you shall take for it 10. If you would forsake Life without sorrow enjoy it without being tyed to it we should never think but of finishing our journey so much the rather because we cannot stay by the way 11. This Interval of dayes and nights whereof our Life is composed lets us see by the Image of Sleep that it is so confounded with Death that it is but one and the same thing 12. Nature causeth us to be born like unto Posts in this World where every man carrieth the sealed Letter of his Destiny directing to Death and seeing Time leadeth us thither if we do not go it will pull us This obligeth us to follow our Fate with that submission which becometh a creature 13. Seeing we do not live but to die and that we do not die but to live again let us drive the Trade of the Vertuous man because he alone can find at the end of his Course that Eternity which he waits for 14. He that liveth only to live doth deprive himself of Hope which is the sole Good of Life What would become of us in the miseries wherein we are if we did not pretend to Eternal happiness seeing our Souls can never die 15. Life is not otherwise considerable than by the good use we make of it though you should live a whole Age abounding with Riches and Happiness if the last moment do not justify all the former you may be reckoned in the number of the most miserable men in the World 16. Every body wisheth to live long not considering that a long life is a long receit of Time bestowed on us seeing that we must give an account of the imployment of our dayes The felicity of our Life depends of the happiness of our Death 17. Consider that every Age seeth die all that it hath seen born and that it draweth along with it all that hath appeared like it in the World without hope of returning because the years whereof it is composed are never twice counted 18. As soon as a man hath attained to the years of Reason he liveth long enough if he live but one day provided that one day be well spent The rest of the Time which is allowed us turneth to our reproach rather than our advantage if we do not spend it to good purpose 19. When we wish for Death we manifest our Cowardise more than our Courage because this fails us through want of resolution to endure the memory of what is past the trouble of what is present and the fear of what is to come whereof the only Hope of Eternity can sufficiently instruct us 20. Know that the Life of Great Men is a path strewed with Roses whereof the Thorns are at the end For after they have smelled the sweet odour of Those they must needs feel the sting of These 21. There is none but God and Vertue that can prolong the Life of Man God in adding to it that which is to come and Vertue in recalling what is past by the satisfaction we injoy in having spent it well 22. He that loveth Life in his miseries to suffer them constantly hath cause to fear Death because in suffering new torments it taketh away from him the means to acquire new Crowns 23. Live only to die if you would live without reproach he that thinks on that which is to come doth not sorrow for what is past and enjoyeth what is present without disquiet FINIS

us to remove both Heaven and Earth in quest of our repose if both of them faile us in the end so that we be not able to find it and if the Earth remain to us it serveth for a tomb to our hopes aswell as to our selves 18. We must of necessity work in the Lords Vineyard if at the end of the day we would receive our wages all other employments are unprofitable as well as our sorrow for the mispending of time seeing the want thereof renders us incapable to repaire our losses 19 Whatsoever Actions you do here below all the recompense that the World can give you for them cannot enrich you and if you do not take your aime beyond Time all the houres thereof are fatall to you seeing every moment may sound your retreat but such a retreat as hath no returne 20. Undervalue all things here below seeing all that you set your eye upon changeth countenance with you and let your apprehension be continually filled with this truth that only the good which we do in this life is the sole consolation which remains unto us at our death 21. Know then that Good hath this property it replenisheth with joy the heart of him who exerciseth himself in the practice thereof and although a man should never expect any other reward yet the good it self is alwaies our Glory our Happiness and our Prize 22. Our Actions are only rendered considerable by their Object and End and although the event of them be happy yet if their Object be not just and lawful both shame and loss are inseparable companions to their success 23. It is not enough not to do evill we do it alwayes when we cease from doing of good We must diligently worke out our own salvation without the intermission of one moment for that one moment may prove most fatal to us 24. Consider that in this World every man liveth as he pleaseth and although the manner of living and dying be quite different all must undergo the same judgement for an Eternity 25. If you desire to establish your repose firmly lay the foundation thereof upon your Salvation which ought to be the only scope of all your actions else they are to no purpose Suppose you were eminent in Honour and Riches this is as much as to enjoy a temperate Aire in the Country wherein you are but seeing you are alwayes upon your journey the change of the Climate will breed an alteration in the countenance of your Fortune and in the end you shall be only happy in remembring that you have been so 26. Consider that the vertuous actions of our life are as so many pictures of our good fortunes whereof the object being alwaies present renders us still happy So that the honest and vertuous man hath this advantage that he surviveth himself before his death seeing he enjoyeth the felicity of his life past by the pleasant remembrance thereof which abideth with him CHAP. II. That in this Life we can find no true ease but in peace of Conscience 1. YOu may well looke for Ease here below but you must give it to your self before you can find it it must be a piece of work of your own making seeing you cannot obtain it but only by the force of your own Industry 2. Suppose that Messengers bring you glad news every day and that your affairs are regulated by your wishes yet you cannot deny but that the remorse of Conscience hindereth your mind from enjoying that rest which it desireth 3. Consider that all sins carry their torment along with them and that God punisheth them in the Thought aswell as in the Will and that with a continual punishment seeing the remembrance of them is both the Torment and Executioner 4. The Sinner never taketh his Pastime with delight because the justice of God pursueth him alwayes to punish him without intermission and mingleth so many thorns among his Roses that the sighs of his heart do often belie the cheerfulness of his countenance 5. Imagine the greatness of the disturbance of a Malefactor fain would he flee from his punishment but the thoughts of his crimes do torment him incessantly so it is with the Sinner as God is every where so the Sinner feeleth his justice in every place which keepeth his soul upon the rack by the remembrance of his sin 6. Think not to find any delight yea in your very pleasures having your soul contaminated with the staines of your crimes God is pleased to change the nature of your contentments and to turne the subject of your consolation into that of your torment 7. Let the wicked man withhold no delightful thing from his Senses and let Voluptuousness be their nursing-mother her breasts are alwayes filled with bitterness to seed them seeing that by chastisements from above they find an unsavoury taste in the most delicious dishes 8. Trust not to the testimony of wicked men for God layeth his hand upon them to such an extremity as to make them insensible of his correction and as this stupidity is a marke of their reprobation so it witnesseth before hand the Eternity of the torments to which they are destined 9. Innocency carrieth alwayes Heaven with it and it is never found in any soul without communicating unto it the sweetness of that Repose which doth properly belong unto it it being the effect and Innocency the cause 10. Hell also followeth Sin unseparably so that Sin causeth its own torments in bringing them forth by reason of the necessity of justice which doth alwayes punish it 11. Know for a truth that the repose of the Conscience bringeth forth peace to the Soul and as both these together make up a Heaven upon Earth so there is no other Hell but that which consists in the privation of them 12. As often as you make a divorce from your Conscience you proclaime warr against your self and it is a warr wherein no Truce is to be looked for seeing justice gives none 13. Study to employ well the precious moments of your dayes if you would not die a Death which will admit no return to life again unless it be to make you the eternal object of the wrath of an angry God 14. O how unhappy is he at the hour of Death who hath mispent the time of his Life because as his sorrow for this fault is in vain so he feeleth himself instantly strucken with an evill both sudden and incurable 16. That God hath a love towards his creatures doth manifestly appear by the trouble they are in when he withdraweth his presence from them for they can find no rest but in him alone 17. There is no pleasure that can satisfy our mind or fill our heart because it is the property of our Envy to be irregular and from the satiety thereof there ariseth alwayes a new appetite 18. All that you do without consulting the Oracle of Heaven passeth for an improfitable labour whereof the pain abideth although the work