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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

hearts that are alwayes disquieted in their expectation 10. All the World doth breath after nothing so much as Glory and no body taketh pains to acquire the true Glory the contempt of worldly honours is most safe a man cannot deserve them but in shunning them 11. Purity of Conscience is the fountain of true Glory and it is in vain for wicked men to run after the Crowns thereof God for their sakes changeth the nature of these Crowns seeing they cover them with infamy instead of adorning them with honour 12. In this World every man is the Artist of his own Glory but to the end that this work may be the better effected he must be for a long time Vertues Apprentice seeing she alone is able to make him Master 13. True Glory is the effect of a vertuous life and good works are so many glorious actions Care not for the verdict which the World may pass on them your own judgement ought to give you the first approbation of them and your conscience the last crown 14. It is not enough to live honorably the Morals of Jesus Christ are far different from those of the World for these teach us the love of our selves but our Saviour the contempt and because Example is more powerful then Precept he doth perswade us to it by his own Practice 15. We may well seek for Glory in Combats but we can only find it in the victory we obtain over our Passions Suppose you could gain Battels take Cities and conquer Kingdoms and Provinces yet you must triumph over your self if you would beare the title of a true Worthie 16. The World hath her Persons of honour but I doe pitie them with all their Glory they adorn themselves with many specious Titles and they forget that of Miserable which doth properly belong unto them they muster up all their qualities and remember not that of their perishing nature which blemisheth all the rest 17. If you desire to acquire true Glory let the Glory of God be your object The World hath nothing to give but false honours and if you would be of the number of true Heroes let your ambition extend only to the conquest of Heaven all those that have busied themselves in conquering the Earth have been constrain'd at their death to content themselves with seven foot 18. After that the Rival of Cesar had made his conquest there could hardly be found so much room as to write upon his grave Here lies Pompey This sheweth that the vanity of the Glory of the greatest men is altogether nothing 19. True Glory hath no original in nature the fountain thereof cometh from above and as Eternity is the object of it Eternity ought to serve also for the reward thereof 20. Covet no other quality but that of an Honest man seeing that alone is able to accomplish your Glory he that liveth well liveth gloriously the quiet of his Conscience is the honour of his life as well as the happiness thereof 21. It will not be asked at the houre of death if the honors you have received have been great but rather if the works you have done have been good True Glory lyes in the contempt of the Glory of the World 22. As all things created returne to their Original the World seeth all that Glory die which it bred and if you draw not from Heaven those thoughts of that Honour which you profess you shall ere long be ashamed to survive it seeing you shall be a witness of the ruine thereof 23. The contempt we ought to have of the honors of this life is never known but at the houre of death but seeing that knowledg is unprofitable we must then prevent it by doing that to day which we would have done to morrow 24. Time surpriseth the wisest men although it be alwayes present you may well heare a Clock or carry a Watch in your pocket but it is to no purpose seeing you do not profit by he counsell they give you which is that Time passeth away as well as the Glory we have acquired in it CHAP. V. That Integrity and upright dealing only maketh a vertuous man 1. WHether you be rich or great or happy all these qualities can make no impression capable to gain Reputation Integrity only can give that and without this title of honour a man is nothing but a meer shadow 2. You are very glad to purchase with money the most eminent dignities and Offices But after examination of your Conscience if you find your self incapable to discharge them you do but expose your self in publick view upon an Altar there to serve for the sacrifice 3. Men of Integrity are the true Heroes of their Age because they have their souls filled with true Glory and seeing it is impossible for a man to live with honour unless he live without reproach labour therefore in all your actions to make your duty here below your first object and last reward 4. What doth it availe you to possess large Offices and to receive great Honours if being incapable of the one you render your self unworthy of the other your Office gains respect whereas your person deserves contempt as if your Livery were more to be esteemed than your self 5. Suppose your were served in State and had your Ushers marching before you c. Yet all the honor or disgrace that encompasseth you do proceed from your good or bad reputation and whatsoever pompe doth accompany you your way of living produceth either your esteem or contempt 6. A Righteous man carrieth his ranke about with him all his words and actions are stirred up by an honest boldness and that is it that draweth respect and esteem by a secret vertue whereof the first cause is never known seeing it is above nature 7. The first enquiry that is made after your manners serves instead of a Judge of your life This doth oblige you to give proof of your vertues betimes that the esteem of your person may take the deeper impression because publick Fame renders it self the soveraign Umpire of your reputation 8. The respects that are rendered to a man of a corrupt life do cover him rather with infamy then glory so that when he challengeth respect in regard of his Authority he receiveth nothing but forced acknowledgements which do shamefully reproach his soveraignty yea upon the very Throne of his Empire 9. Seeing vertuous actions are valued according to the reputation of him who performs them they must needs be built on a solid foundation lest they be attributed to chance and Fortune have all the glory Every one in this world is worth so much as he maketh himself to be worth 10. It is Uprightness and Integrity alone that doth distinguish us from one another all other qualities are strangers to us seeing they follow us but to the grave but this alone can exempt us from it 11. Frame unto your self certain wages of Honour which can be filled by no other but your self