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truth_n	according_a	know_v	word_n	2,143	5	3.8658	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68870	The phœnix of these late times: or the life of Mr. Henry Welby, Esq . who lived at his house in Grub-street forty foure yeares, and in that space, was never seene by any, aged 84. Shewing the first occasion, and the reasons thereof. Whose portracture, you may behold, as it was taken at his death. With epitaphs and elegies of the late deceased gentleman, who lyeth buried in S. Giles Church neere Criple gate, London.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1637 (1637)	STC 25226.5; ESTC S103493	14,021	52

temperate for there is nothing in the world better than Moderation for by it the assaults of the flesh are subdued and the fruits of a good life are retained it is rich in losses confident in perills prudent in assaults and happy in it selfe It is the property of Justice not to violate the right of any man and it is the Appendix of Temperance to offend no man He cannot praise Temperance who proposeth his chiefe felicity in Voluptuousnesse and pleasure because it is the grand enemy to riot and excesse Solon telleth us that it plucketh a man from all grosse affections and carnall appetites and letteth him not exceede either in foolish reioycing nor ungodly sorrowing for the pride of the flesh is to be curbed and restrained with the sharpe Bit of Abstinence As no man can be temperate unlesse withall he be prudent so no man can be held to be truely valiant unlesse withall he be temperate Nay more Justice cannot subsist without it because it is the chiefe point of a iust man to keepe his soule free from all perturbation I conclude with that of Plotinus Temperance is the Mother of all duty and honesty These three vertues we have strived to illustrate vnto your view but how all these accidents meete in one subiect is the Argument now in hand Abstinence is a vertue found in one man but scarcely in another solitude and retyrednesse of life in few not in many and Temperance and Continence may be imbraced by some not by all yet all these eminent lines meete in this one Center as the circumstances following shall make apparently manifest This noble and vertuous Gentleman Mr. Henry Welby borne in Lincolne-shire was the eldest sonne of his Father and the inheritor of a faire revenue amounting to a thousand pounds by the yeere and upward first metriculated in the Vniversity and after made a Student in one of the Innes of Court where being accommodated with all the parts of a Gentleman hee after retyred himselfe into the Countrey and matched nobly unto his good liking but thinking with himselfe that the world could not possibly be contained within this Island and that England was but the least peece and member of the whole body of the Vniverse hee as many or the most of our young gentlemen doe had a great minde to travell as well to profit him in experience as benefit himselfe in language and to that purpose spent some few yeares in the Low Countryes Germany France and Italy making the best use of his time and not like some phantasticke heads learne onely to drinke with the Dutch-men complemant with the French-men some aiming onely to fetch Venus from Venice others studying to steale Matchievel out of Florence and generally bringing home fashions rather than faith and many more vices rather than vertues Others also by the change of the aire have tooke their advantage to change their religion which is quite averse to the old Proverbe Coelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt such as crosse the seas and travell from one Province unto another though they receive new aire yet keepe their old mindes yet this was verified in him who well knew no errour to bee so dangerous as that which is committed in Religion because therein and in the constant profession thereof subsisteth our perpetuall happinesse and ever-during felicity for truth is the medicine to a troubled spirit but if erroniously taught it turneth into mortiferous poyson The ancient Fathers have given their especiall markes by which the true religion may be knowne First that it serveth the true and onely God Secondly that it serveth him according to his word And thirdly that it reconcileth that man unto him which unfeignedly followeth it it is like an even square or ballance the rule and Canon by which wee are to direct our lives and the very touch-stone which discerneth truth from falshood moreover as vices border upon vertues so superstition reflecteth upon religion which Religion doth linke and unite us to serve one God with willingnesse and unanimity it is the guide and conduct of all other vertues and they who doe not exercise themselves therein therby to resist and oppose all false and erronious opinions are but like those foolish and unexpert souldiers who goe to warre without weapons now if all men as this Gentleman would but study the truth and strive to persevere therein the voluptuous man would therein seeke his pleasure the gormundizer his surfeit the proud man his ostent the avaritious man his wealth the ambitious man his glory for it is the onely mediocrity that can fill the vacuum and emptinesse of the heart and sate and satisfie the desire it serveth also for a skilfull Pilot to direct us the way to heaven when as the contrary is that blinde guide which leadeth us the broad and spacious passage to hell Briefly those men may be truely tearmed religious who refusing the vaine and transitory pleasures of the world wholly set their thoughts and mindes on divine contemplations and so much for his religion Now courage and courtesie are the two principal decorements that adorne a gentleman in neither of which he was any way deficient For the first as he was ever farre from giving any distaste so hee was never knowne to take any affront for valour consisteth not in hazarding a mans person without feare but to put on a noble resolution in a iust cause neither could this gentleman beare himselfe so innocuously in his youth but that he hath beene inforc't to make proofe of his valor in the field in which he still came off with honour and advantage but never boasting when he had the better but still sparing when he might have spoiled holding this maxime that to conquer is naturall but to pitty heavenly and it is the property of true courage to out-face danger conquer by custome and end with honour it contemneth all perills despiseth calamities and conquers death Quemcunque magnanimum videris miserum neges None that is magnanimous can be miserable Bias holding warre with Iphicrates King of Athens and by the disaster of Warre being round invironed by his enemies and his souldiers thronging about him and asking very timorously what hee would advise them in that extremity to doe with a bold and undaunted courage answered them againe Leave me and seeke your owne safeties if you be so minded and make report to those that are alive that your Generall dyed with courage fighting and I will tell to the dead that you escaped from death basely and cowardly flying But from his courage I come to his courtesie It is a true saying as a Tree is knowne by its Fruit the Gold by the Touch and a Bell by the Sound so is a mans Birth by his bounty his honour by his humility and his calling by his courtesie which not onely draweth unto us the love of strangers but the liking of our owne Country-men Mildnesse and Courtesie are the Characters of