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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

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 VERTUE Written Originally in French by the Exqu●●●●e ●en M. DE LA SERRE And done into English by J. A. LONDON Printed by D. M. for Henry Marsh at the sign of the Princes Armes in Chancery Lane 1664. TO THE Right Noble and Excellent PRINCE JAMES Duke of MONMOVTH c. AND His most Illustrious Consort ANNE c. May it please your Highness THE Deity which attended your Cradle being most affectionately fond of your Glory and Happiness doth yet officiously pursue the care of your Illustrious Person and the Conduct of your Affairs Often hath she appeared to your Highness in broken reflexes and imperfect sight vayled and weakned by your Infant years but now she represents her self to you in her most August and Divine Form and Image and gives you her Hand inviting your Adult Age to the due exercise of your Heroical vertues And O Dea Certe I cannot doubt therefore but your Highness will readily own these Features of such an excellent and indulgent Tutress which she hath commanded to be drawn to publick view and inscribed to your Name as wherein she hath placed the resembling veneration of her great self These sentences the first fruits of a foraign growth I doe most humbly offer to your Highness as an earnest of the full Increase which the universal world shall certainly pay to your arrived and Compleated Felicity the Progress and perfection whereof is and shall ever be my most assiduous and earnest prayer And Madam having had the good Fortune to be a Servant in that Honorable Family where your Highness had your first Education My Inclinations being more particularly devoted to your Highness service I have presumed also to dedicate this Translation of Christian Moralls to your most Noble Duke and most Vertuous self before whose happy time the world is pregnant in their desires and expectations of some eminent effects of whatsoever can be taught in the School of Honor and Wisdom I hope your Highness will be pleased to accept of this small Endeavour of mine as a Testimony of the Dutiful Respects that are born you By Your Graces most humbly Devoted Servant in all Obedience James Alardis TO The Noble READER FOr to such only did the Author direct his Original and such cheifly will find themselves concerned in it There is nothing mean in the whole Discourse for it is above that Region There are some Exercises appropriate only to great spirits and vindicated to be so by their sole competence thereunto yet if any man dare try his ability we are not so nice or curious of his adventure Only thus much the world may be now informed that it hath passed Ten Impressions in France lodged altogether in Gentlemens hands and might have sooner spoke English but that it scorned our late Democracy as a most profane brute and indocible Herd There are many things which we have vainly and ridiculously learned from the French Nations but we justly own them nothing but this Treatise for the fashion of wisdome is altogether immutable and invariable and upon that score leaves us eternally obliged We promise much but whether we now injure the Renowned Author or the Equal Reader let the perusal determine IMPRIMATUR Ex Aed Lamb. Dec. 14. 1663. Geo. Stradling S. T. P. Rev. in Christo Patr. D. Gilb. Archi. Cant. à Sac. Domest TO THE READER EXpect not in these leaves to finde The trifles of an airy minde No froliques of a jovial Pen No Words for children here but men Not Wit but Wisdome that best thing Prefer'd by Israel's mighty King Wisdome that double-guild's a Crowne And make 's a man's best part his owne He that observe's these rules ha's found That solid Rule that certain ground That constant and unerring Guide Shall hold him up what ' ere betide For though the world's tempestuous sea Should roare and very angry bee Mount up it's foaming waves on high And with it's waters dare the sky Though ev'ry gust destruction breath And every billow threaten death Where Wisdom shall the wary Pilot be Thou canst not shipwrack in the deepest Sea T. F. THE TABLE CHAP. I. THat we ought to have God for the Object of all our Actions Page 1. CHAP. II. That in this Life we can find no true case but in peace of Conscience Page 9. CHAP. III. That we ought to draw our consolation against the miscries which be fall us from the consideration of the Original whence they are derived Page 16. CHAP. IV. That true glory doth only consist in living vertnously Page 26. CHAP. V. That Integrity and upright dealing only maketh a vertuous man Page 33. CHAP. VI. That in what condition soever we be we ought therein to seek for our Repose and Salvation Page 49. CHAP. VII That he that knoweth how to live well is the most learned man in the World Page 48. CHAP. VIII That Moderation in Riches is more to be desired then Excess because it is more profitable Page 56. CHAP. IX That our Salvation and Repose depend of the knowledg of our selves Page 63. CHAP. X. That we ought to derive our Nobility from our selves as well as from our Ancestors Page 70. 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 Page 76. CHAP XII That the Good we do in this World is of greater value than the Goods we possess in it Page 83. CHAP. XIII If we we would léave the World chearfully we must dis-engage our selves from it ere we leave it Page 89. CHAP. XIV That the World is a Theatre where every man acteth his Part in Time for an Eternity Page 95. CHAP. XV. That the Wise man waiteth for Death without either wishing or fearing it Page 101. Books sold by Henry Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery-Lane 1. A Compendious Chronicle of Portugal from Alfonso the first King to Alfonso the sixth now Reigning together with a Cosmographical Description of the Dominions of Portugal by J. D. Gent. 8. 2. The useful Book for Gentlemen and Travellers being an exact Description of the several Countries and Shires of England by Edw. Leigh Esq 8. 3. Blood for Blood or Murther revenged in 35 Tragical Histories some whereof have been the sad Product of our Times 8. 4. Royal History compleated in the Life of his Sacred Majesty Charles II. James Duke of York and Henry Duke of Gloucester with their Restauration happily concluded by his Grace the Duke of Albemarle Fol. 5. Rumps Looking-Glass or a Collection of such Pieces of Drollery as were prepared by several Witts to purge the Rump 4. 6. The Faithful Lapidary being a History of all pretious Stones very useful for Gentlemen Merchants and others 40. 7. A short view of the Life and Actions of the Illustrious