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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88553	The life of Adam. Written in Italian by Giovanno Francesco Loredano, a Venetian noble-man. And renderd into English by J.S.; L'Adamo. English	Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.; J. S.	1659 (1659)	Wing L3067; Thomason E1909_1; ESTC R209952	36,489	95

THE LIFE OF ADAM Written in Italian BY GIOVANNO FRANCESCO LOREDANO A Venetian Noble-man AND RENDERD INTO ENGLISH By J. S. LONDON Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his Shop at the Prince's Armes in S. Paul's Church-yard 1659. TO THE INCOMPARABLE LADY THE LADY S. B. Madam YOur Incomparable Beauty and exemplary Vertue so justly intitle you to the services of all those whose happinesse it is to know you that your interest in this Dedication is rendred unquestionable coming from him who may without vanity professe himselfe best acquainted with the Power of the one Sublimity of the other Nor let any judge the concealment of your Name to proceed from other than the experience of your exact Modesty which declineth all publique applauds together with a consciousnesse of the vast disproportion which this triviall Present beareth either to your Merit or my Duty And for its subject as being the History of the First of Men it could not make a more proper or more honourable Addresse than to the Best of Women In which quality you shall ever be acknowledged and obsequiously admired by Madam Your most constant and most devoted Servant T. S. TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD PIETRO MICHIELE My Lord I Have readd and readd again the ADAM of the most Ilustrious Lord Gio Francesco with excessive delight O what Witt O what a happy hand he had But it was necessary it should be no lesse for the making of an Adam nor is it fit that any one should write the life of the first Man but one of the first Writers of the Age. The alteration of the style in some places hindred not but that without seing the name of the Author I should easily have known this Work for his I hold it not fit that because Adam used to cover himselfe with leaves he should therfore be deckt in flowers All dresses become not all matters a History extracted out of holy Writt is not to be trimmed like Playes and Romances Noble Loredano was desirous to give us not only the history but together with it also the true manner of writing it Doth your Lordship require my thought of it Adam in my opinion will receive no lesse grace from these lines then from the ruddy earth of which he was formed yea somuch the greater inasmuch as then he was a sinner mortall and here he is revived sanctifyed immortall We must needs acknowledge him very ingratefull that will not render perpetuall applauds to that pen that hath so learnedly in this Treatise eternized our Common father My Lord. I remaine of your most Illustrious Lordship The most partiall Servant Nicoló Crasso Reader I Have at length more to gratify friends than to comply with any humour of appearing in publique exposed to thy veiw these indigested productions of a few vacant hours after the approvall of some esteemed competently judicious shall not go about to court thee into a liking hereof but freely remit that to thy censure without any solicitude how thou receivest it which was not so much intended to please thee as to satisfie others whose power over me could onely have induced mee to this publication Farewell J. S. THE LIFE OF ADAM BEhold O Ambitious man thy first originall Thy pride and statelinesse which contendeth for reverence with the soveraign power of God came from a vile masse of clay And thou o Sensuall man that debasest thy selfe in adoring a face so much the more unworthy of Love by how much the more unchaste consider how thou renderest thy self odious in the eys of that God that condescended to give thee a beeing and contemptible to that divine hand which hath vouchsafed to form thee of Nothing God had with Idea's suitable to his own omnipotence compiled the machine of Heaven and of the World The Chaos retained no longer either confusion or darknesse The Elements though proud of their variety of qualities united themselves for the conservation of the Whole The Sun and Moon received light and did impart it Hearbs Plants Birds and the sensitive appetite and which procure pain and torment perceiving himselfe to excell in beauty above all things created with an infused knowledge that inabled him to understand all sciences knowing perfectly the nature of all Plants Stones Herbs and animalls and understanding the vertue and properties of the heavens elements and stars perceiving himself finally to have the scepter of dominion over all creatures possessing the World and Paradise after he had a good space beheld the Heavens with admiration of that cognition he threw himselfe at the feet of his Creatour and thus began to thank and praise him O Lord I did not returne thanks for so many gifts because I would not diminish them seeing contemplation cannot arrive to comprehend them By how much the more is the admiration by so much the greater is the silence What tongue although made by God can worthily extoll the workes of God the greatnesse of God the gifts of God Of what expressions shall I make use to praise that God which hath been pleased to communicate his Divinity Lord I ought not to praise thee because all praise would fall short of that Omnipotence which is the more incomprehensible whilst that a mouth so much obliged confesseth it selfe uncapable to sing thy wonders He that attempts to commend thee O Lord either knowes Thee not or else is unworthy to know thee To say that thou art greater then the greatest is the most that my voyce can expresse but yet the least that thy greatnesse can admit The greatest attributes that my judgement can invent would not expresse the Soveraignty of that God that is greater than all things I would make thee an oblation of my being but I know not what to offer thee that is not thine and that I have not received from thy bounty who hast pleased with an incomprehensible benignity to make a gift of my selfe to my selfe That part therfore of my selfe over which thou hast granted me dominion and superintendency even that I offer thee Disdain it not ô Lord because it conserves the impression of thy image I cannot offer to thee any thing greater then the resemblance of thy selfe The excesse of thy liberality permits me so much for otherwise I cannot dispose of the aire that gives me breath And as I am what thou wast pleased to make me so I will be what with thy commands thou art willing I should be God willingly lent his car to the words of Adam for being the workmanship of his own hands he could not but love him and loving him hearkened to him with such a tenderness as a father hearkens to the voice of his children And thus in all likelyhood he answered him Adam I rejoyce in the inclinations of thy heart and I forbore to prescribe man any other lawes than those of the will to delight my selfe in the affections of man See here the Fishes Birds and other animalls formed to be