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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00935	The diamond of deuotion cut and squared into sixe seuerall points: namelie, 1 The footpath to felicitie. 1 2 A guide to godlines. 81 3 The schoole of skill. 181 4 A swarme of bees. 209 5 A plant of pleasure. 245 6 A groue of graces. 283 Full of manie fruitfull lessons, auaileable to the leading of a godlie and reformed life: by Abraham Fleming.	Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607. Footepath of faith, leading the highwaie to heaven. Selections.	1581 (1581)	STC 11041; ESTC S102282	82,454	300

there is shame and confusion but where lowlines is there is wisedome Yrcke and loath the follies of the flesh for the end of them is euerlasting confusion Yéeld not thy selfe into the hands of thine enimies for they séeke nothing but to sucke thy bloud Youthfull arraie is vnséemelie for the aged but grauitie maketh youth louelie and gratious Zealouslie mainteine the truth yea before a Iudge for truth will preuaile and get the victorie Zeale in a good cause is commendable and praiseworthie O happie is he that hath such a zeale Zealouslie to follow the commandements of God and trulie to loue his lawe is life euerlasting FINIS A Referendarie to the Premisses THough praise it be to fight in feeld With valiant magnanimitie Yet till thy foe be forst to yeeld As prisoner in captiuitie Thou canst not vaunt of victorie Subdue the band rebellious So shalt thou be victorious Againe in running of a race We see by plaine experience That he which hath the swiftest pace And gets the gole by diligence Receiues a winners recompence The rest with running weried are slenderlie considered Euen so this Schoole of godlie skill In order Alphabeticall To Scholers wanting wit and will Is nothing beneficiall Because they are the principall Requird in each capacitie Bring these and reape commoditie A swarme of Bees VVith their honie and Honicombes Gathered out of the sweete and odoriferous Garden of Gods Word Heerein such lessons are to be learned as concerne the whole course of our life both towards God and man being in number two hundred whereof some persuade vs to vertue and godlinesse othersome dissuade vs from vice and wickednesse BY ABRAHAM FLEMING Ecclesiasticus 11. 3. ¶ The Bee is but small among fowles yet doth her fruit passe in sweetenesse AT LONDON Printed by Henrie Denham Anno Dom. 1581. The Preface to the Christian Reader WE see that Bees being a sociable creature that is apt for companie flee together in swarmes and assembled vnder one hiue discharge the dutie wherevnto they are ordeined namelie to make Honie The benefite of this labouring and diligent creature is so necessarie that such as haue knowne and tasted by due proofe and experience the fruite of their trauell and the sweetenesse of their worke will be hardlie persuaded to neglect the fostering of them for feare of losing so singular commodities as they do yeeld Euen so this swarme of Bees which I not by the sound of a basen but by the painefulnesse of my pen haue gathered together out of the pleasant garden of Gods most holie word where I found them scattered heere and there among the fragrant flowres and sweete beds of wholesome hearbes making most comfortable Honie and offering thee a tast thereof are not lightlie to be esteemed considering that the issue and euent of their trauell well ordered and vsed is so beneficiall as nothing more if anie thing like For their Honie hath this vertue that to such as eate it and digest it throughlie it giueth a regenerated mind a sanctified soule a circumcised hart a mortified bodie and all good things that man can imagine or deuise of which spirituall graces who so hath once possession his conscience will tell him what it is to taste to sucke to eate and thoroughlie to digest Honie made by such a swarme of Bees These Bees followe one another orderlie and decentlie without desire of first or highest place out of one garden they gathered it in one hiue they made it and for all godlie disposed peoples feeding heere they leaue it in their Honicombes There is none that hauing wit will finde fault with water of the cleerest fountaine with floure of the finest wheate with a garment of the costliest silke with a ring of the purest golde with a iewell of the highest price For it is the nature of man to couet the verie best things yea and to obteine them if they may be gotten for anie monie Heere thou hast a swarme of Bees making most excellent Honie sweete pleasant and whoalsome It differeth from ordinarie Honie because the Bees that made it are extraordinarie and the flowers whereout they suckt it grew in no common garden it is offered vnto thee gratis no gaine looked for but onelie thy good will in receiuing it and thy diligence in vsing it Make much therefore of these Bees and open thy mouth wide that thy throte swallowing their sweete Honie may distribute the same to all thine inward partes and that the outward and inward man may be reformed Abraham Fleming A SVVARME of Bees The first Honicombe yeelding most wholesome exhortations vnto vertue and vertuous life 1 BE mercifull and faithfull binde these two iewels about thy neck and write them in the tables of thine heart 2 Be ioifull in the Lord thy God with all thine heart and leane not vpon thine owne will 3 Be obedient to the lawe of the Lord honour him with thy substance and with thy firstlings 4 Be a searcher after wisedome and an inquirer after vnderstanding and knowledge 5 Be wise so shalt thou haue honour in possession but shame is the promotion that fooles shall haue 6 Be a louer of wisdome she shall beautifie thy head with manifold graces and garnish thée with a crowne of glorie 7 Be conuersant with the righteous for their path shineth as the light that is brighter brighter 8 Be carefull to kéepe thine owne counsell in a matter of weight for therein consisteth the safetie of thy soule 9 Be obedient to the voice of thy teachers and harken vnto them that infourme thée 10 Be circumspect in choosing thy waie so shalt thou escape misfortune and danger 11 Be thou a drinker of the water of thine owne well and of the riuers that run out of thine owne spring 12 Be bountifull let thy welles flowe abroade that there may be riuers of waters in the stréetes 13 Be thou contented with thine own prouision and be glad with the wife of thy youth 14 Be glad with thy yong wife let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe let her breasts alwaie satisfie thée 15 Be wise warie in thy waies for the Lord séeth thy footesteps and pondereth all thy goings 16 Be carefull to saue thy selfe as a Doe from the hand of the hunter and as a bird from the hand of the fowler 17 Be prouident in Summer what shall serue thée in winter least thou haue not to supplie thy want 18 Be obedient to thy fathers commandement and forsake not the lawe of thy mother 19 Be at defiance with a wicked and naughtie woman for her house is the high waie to hell 20 Be temperate in thy diet for gluttonie and gormondising is vninéete for a man The second Honicombe yeelding most wholesome exhortations to vertue and vertuous life 21 BE true and trustie to thy friend so shall he be bold to commit the secrets of his soule into thy hands 22 Be conuersant with the wise and with such as be of

mentall as with welth wisedome strength comlines possessions children knowledge vnderstanding faith honestie credit estimation and such like Consider of this excellent blessing be thankefull for it and giue God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie If thou haue a house to hide thy head in lodging fit for thy naturall nightes rest and quietnes cloathing to couer thy shame and nakednes sustenance to preserue thée aliue substance to mainteine thy house and familie Consider of this excellent blessing be thankefull for it and giue God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie The sixt Chapter 1 What we ought to do when God punisheth vs with aduersitie 2 Affliction in bodie and conscience with an exhortation to patience 3 Of what behauiour we should be in the alterat ion of our state 4 Considerations for him that is disfranchised either for some offence committed or otherwise 1 MOreouer if thou be punished of the Lord for thy sinne either in thy wife children or anie other thing that thou possessest despaire not therefore neither let diffidence or mistrust ransacke thy soule and drowne thée in disquietnes Consider of this fatherlie chastisement be thankefull for it and giue God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie 2 If thou be afflicted in thine owne bodie and pricked in conscience at the horrour of thy sinne cal to God for comfort beséech him to mitigate and asswage thine anguish and to set thée at libertie Let this be thy meditation dailie in patience pitch thy pauilion be thankefull for it and giue God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie 3 If thou wast once rich and now art poore once in plentie now in penurie once a maister now a seruant once a commander now an obeier once fauoured now forsaken once clothed now naked once a harbourer now harbourles once a man now a wretch Consider thy condition God can raise thée vp as he hath throwne thée downe murmur not at his chastisements for he punisheth his children in compassion like a Father and not with rigour like a Tyrant in anie case be thankefull and giue him the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie 4 If thou hauing bene sometimes a Citizen art now an alien be not therewithall discontented he can worke thy restitution by whose sufferance thou art fallen into that condition Consider whereof this alteration sprang either from some offence which purchased vnto thée this punishment or from a good cause as the quarell of Christ and his holie gospell the profession whereof hath brought thee into such extremitie O be ioiful and glad in this respect thy banishment is libertie thy heauines is comfort thy bitternes is swéetnes thy shame is fame thy dammage is aduantage thy losse is lucre thy death is life Consider this throughlie faint not vnder the crosse but praie vnto the Lord to arme thée with constancie and patience shewing thy selfe thankefull giuing vnto God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie The seuenth Chapter 1 The dutie of all such as beare office in a Common-wealth principallie towards God and consequentlie towards man 2 Admonitions for fathers of families and housholders concerning domesticall gouernement 3 Lessons for all estates and degrees 4 Exhortations vnto the rich and the poore 5 The peruerse state of the world 6 Of the waie of death and of such as walked therein 7 Of the waie of life and what is to be done of such as would walke in the same 1 FUrthermore if thou bearest office in the Common-wealth and hast autoritie to command by vertue of thy place praie to God to direct thy spirit by his spirit of equitie and iudgement that thy vocation may be so followed and discharged as that by thy sinceritie and vprightnes thou maist become a mirrour to all magistrates and officers Praie instantlie that this may so come to passe it is his speciall blessing be thankefull for it and giue God the glorie This is the footepath to felicitie 2 If thou be a housekéeper and hast hanging on thy hands wife children seruants and a familie first sée that God be sincerelie serued and then thou thy selfe honoured In the morning powre foorth thy praiers vnto God vnfeignedlie beséeching him to guide thée thy whole houshold in his faith feare and loue trulie and vprightlie to followe their functions and callings at their handiworke or other exercise whatsoeuer it be put them in minde of Gods goodnes and instill into their eares wholesome precepts of Christian knowledge At noone tide preparing to dinner laie before them in plaine speach according to their slender capacities the tender care and fatherlie loue of God in prouiding for them such foode as is requisite toward the supportation and maintenance of life wherevpon put them in minde to haue alwaies in their hearts a reguter of Gods care ouer his déere children whose bowels of compassion are so farre extended that he will not sée his people perish through penurie and want of necessarie prouision The like exercise also vse at supper and at euerie ordinarie and extraordinarie refection that as the externall elementarie sustance which entreth in at the mouth and goeth downe the stomach where after it is digested it is dispearsed by iust measure and proportion to the nourishment of all their bodilie members so their minds may be fed fat with the foode of the soule that is with spirituall exercises holy meditations godly thoughts Christian conuersation obedience whatsoeuer else is acceptable in the sight of God When the night approcheth by reason of the declining and shrinking of the Sunne to the westerne angle of the world call together like a good shepheard thy whole familie or flocke and thou among them as a perfect patterne of pietie knéeling downe with humilitie thanke God for the vse of the daie past for the luckie successe of your labours for his louing kindnes in preseruing you from perill and beséech him with integritie and holines of heart to make this night comfortable vnto you to ouershadowe you with the shield of safetie when you are asléepe that you may by no meanes be indangered but as you lie downe so you may rise vp the beloued of the Lord and the adopted children of your heauenlie Father Consider these circumstances and account them all Gods blessings ascribe nothing to thy selfe which art a lumpe of sin but attribute all vnto Gods prouidence which hath wrought all in all be thankefull for it and giue the glorie to his eternall name This is the footepath of faith which leadeth the high waie to heauen 3 To speake of all states and degrées of people generallie and inclusiuelie If thou be King or Quéene noble or vnnoble forren or frée maister or seruant rich or poore acknowledge thy selfe but dust and ashes be not proude in thine owne conceite glorie in nothing vaunt of nothing bragge of nothing remembring the saieng of Paule what hast thou that thou hast not receiued and that of Iob