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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	word_n	world_n	wrath_n	276	4	7.0164	4	false

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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

and walking openly in the sight of the whole World make it the witness of your life although it be the judge thereof the approbation of the World is necessary here below for the establishment of your repose 12. Do not desire to appear an Honest man unless you be truly such your hypocrisy will stain your reputation with a new blemish which can never be blotted out you may endeavour to hide it but in vaine for He who inlighters the darkest corners of your heart will manifest the wickedness thereof by a publick vengeance 13. The wise Christian hath no other Looking glass then that of his Conscience seeing it is such a one as cannot flatter it represents him such as he ought to be who should next to his own satisfaction labour to please all men 14. Let your behaviour be adorned with such Integrity as may purchase credit to your words and esteem to your actions to the end that prepossessing the minds of men to your own advantage you may find friends in all places and admirers at all times 15. Consider that every one is Master of his own Honour and Salvation seeing the one and the other do depend of us and because uprightness is the foundation of both we may enjoy with it the repose which it gives us in expectation of that which it maketh us hope for 16. You may well project a thousand designes and execute them too and that happily by your ordinary tricks and subtilties but I declare unto you in Gods name that his just Providence shall cause your misery to rise out of their success and shall draw your disquiet from that very repose whereof as you believed you had laid the solid grounds 17. He that deceiveth others first deceiveth himself and it is bad policy to establish a commerce whereof our ruin is the object and our damnation the end 18. The deceitful man is quickly known and immediately cryed down and this discredit breeding contempt and contempt hatred he doth but breath in an Aire infected with reproaches cast justly upon him 19. The Vertuous man makes himself known and beloved both at once and without any other charm then that of Vertue he subdueth to himself all hearts that are worthy of his Conquest 20. Let Honour regulate your interest to the end that your only interest may be to preserve your Honour and believe it to live without reproach is the only paradise here below 21. Be not proud of those advantages Nature hath bestowed on you they are goods whereof in passing by you have but the use Vertue alone is a glorious succession which taketh its aime beyond Time 22. Carry your heart upon your lips that from the Concord of your words and actions you may draw a Harmony which may charme all the World There is nothing sweeter to a man than to survive himself in making the memory of his life past to be honorable before his death 23. Be alwayes jealous of your Honour and carefull of your Salvation and seeing the Honour of the World is nothing but a Chimaera seek for your Reputation in Vertue because Vertue alone can make your Reputation Eternal CHAP. VI. That in what condition soever we be we ought therein to seek for our Repose and Salvation 1. EVery man is the Work-man of of his own Repose in this World and Christian Morals being the study of all Wisemen make them at last so expert in learning to obey the laws that Providence imposeth upon them that they pass their life without disquiet and wait for death without fear 2. When you are tyed in that condition which hath been the object of your choice let your dutie be the only Compass that regulates your actions to the end that you may live without reproach and die without sorrow 3. Consider not the morall vertues which you practice upon the account of acquiring the esteem of the World it is a deceitful Fame which will perish with you you must live like a Christian if you desire to die like a Christian 4. Labour to settle your self in that Condition whereunto you are called according to the rules of Conscience as well as those of Honour and do not confound the one with the other the Glory of God and the Honour of the World have their Objects quite different 5. Consider that every man carrieth his Heaven or his Hell about with him according to the good or bad imploying of his life and seeing Life hath no returning you do continually work either your own Salvation or Destruction 6. Why do you disquiet your self in that bondage to which you are reduced seeing the chains thereof cannot be broken your disquiet makes new bonds to enthral you the more because it augments the grief without shortning the terme thereof 7. If God hath called you to a solitary life make it your Heaven lest it be your first Hell there is no chain so harsh which Time and Necessity will not sweeten as well as Reason or Death 8. He is very happy in his misfortune that doth support it patiently Constancy is continually at work in making the Crown of our sufferings and the Science of suffering without repining is one of the greatest perfections of a Christian life 9. He that consults with submission the Oracle of Heaven before he make choice of his condition on earth a never in disquiet although he find himself engaged because since that Providence hath made the bonds of it it makes the bondage thereof so pleasant that he hath greater occasion of thankfulness then of complaint 10. When a man is inlightned only with the light of humane Prudence he cannot go far without stumbling he must make use of another Lantern the light whereof is never extinguished and he must alwayes look up to Heaven to the end that he may not go astray here on Earth 11. Think not to find the Repose of your condition in the success of your affairs that is too weak a foundation to build upon for seeing that they change countenance every houre they can make you unhappy every moment 12. It is not enough to be at ease in your condition this Ease is ill grounded unless your Conscience give it you and he that is acquainted with the imploying of your time is as skilfull as your self in knowing the happiness and miseries of your life 13. There are few that will say they are happy although they have cause to be so because being over-swayed by their ambition which is alwayes unsatiable they must needs be always disquieted 14. They may call themselves truly happy who desires no other fortune but what God is pleased to send them And being disposed to receive Good and Evill with an equal cheerfulness considering the hand whence they are sent Time that changeth always never changeth to them 15. In what condition soever you be consider that from all Eternity God hath designed out that place for you and if you doe not discharge it instead of possessing

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