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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58938	A Seasonable prospect for the view and consideration of Christians being a brief representation of the lives and conversations of infidels and heathens, in our age, as to religion and morality : together with some reflections thereupon, in relation to us who profess Christianity : to which is now added many of the wise and vertuous sayings of the ancient heathens / by a gentleman.	Gentleman.	1691 (1691)	Wing S2239A_VARIANT; ESTC R34065	38,938	60

Infidels and Heathens to the producing of commendable and virtuous Actions and Conversations And shall not the holy Religion of the ever Blessed Jesus brought down from Heaven to us by the Son of God in which was fully manifested to the World the divine Love and Goodness a Religion exceeding in worth and goodness all the Religions that ever were in the World delivering to us the sublimest and best Precepts for the happy regulation of our Lives the greatest and highest encouragements for the animating us thereto from the example of our Lord and Master by assuring to us the divine Assistances of the holy Spirit to be our aid and comfort in our Christian course and warefare and by bringing Life and Immortality to light setting open the Gate of Heaven and assuring to us as our reward an immortal Crown of Glory in the highest Heaven And notwithstanding all this shall our Lives and Conversations come short of these Mahometans and Heathens who have had none of these aids to whom these glad tidings of Salvation never came shall our Conversations come short of these who we believe come short of Heaven What a sad thing is it to consider therefore That Christians very many of them may go to School and learn of Infidels and Heathens to reform their Lives and Manners To see them who profess Christianity this best Religion in the World to be given up to a Reprobate mind to Stupidity to Carelesness and Neglect of all Religion and Vertue as if they had wholly divested themselves of their Reason and lost all sense of God and Goodness Alas it is to no purpose to talk like Christians and live worse than Infidels this was it as a great Man observed that made the Philosopher to say That there was nothing more glorious than a Christian in Discourse nothing more miserable in his Actions Certainly Christians especially reformed Christians should be distinguished from Heathens not only by their Faith their Profession and Discourses but by their Manners their Lives and Conversations which should be much better than those of Infidels and Heathens I shall conclude in the words of the Pious and Learned Pudeat Pudeat illos nomine tenus Christianos qui ad hanc rem Ethnici rectius sapuerunt May it shame may it shame those who call themselves Christians to consider that very Heathens have lived better and more Christian lives than they And as a late worthy Divine of our own expresseth it What man then deserves the name of a Christian that notwithstanding all the means of Grace which God affords doth strive to make himself equal with a Beast that basely uses his noble part that is like a Feather shaken with the Wind and lies down at the Feet of every Pleasure and cannot sustain the load of the least Grief that vexes and frets at every Cross as if the Devil ruled the World and trembles at death as a Child doth at a Friend with a Vizard on God expects sure that we Christians should be men of another sort and that Philosophy or Heathenism should not beget more lusty and vigorous Souls than Christianity can And as another speaks It is an abominable thing to belye the Truth even in words but the lye of Life is the most pernicious of all others With what face can we then exclaim against the baseness of a lying Tongue when our whole Practice and Conversation is but one continued lye all through viz. Our Profession Christian our Conversations Heathen yea worse than Heathen And let us with Seriousness and sorrow consider therefore may not the Heathens say to us as it is related the Heathens in America did to the Spaniards Qualis iste Deus quiae tam impuros sceleratos filios habet What kind of God is he who hath such impure and wicked Sons Almighty God who shewest to them that be in Error the Light of thy Truth to the intent that they may return into the way of Righteousness Grant unto all them that are admitted into the Fellowship of Christ's Religion that they may esehew those things that are contrary to their Profession and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen AN APPENDIX Now as an Attendant to the foregoing Discourse why may I not add and not improperly some choice and excellent Discourses and Sayings of the Ancient Wise Heathens Collected some from the Authors themselves others from the Discourses of our Protestant Divines viz. 1. Of Knowledge and Wisdom SEneca saith There is a world of things to be studied and learned therefore we should discharge the mind of things unnecessary to make way for greater matters Our danger is the being mistaken in things not in words and in consounding of Good and Evil. Man is endued with a reasonable Soul and the Knowledge of things is very suitable and pleasant to it Musick is not more pleasant to the Ear nor Beauty and Proportion to the Sight than Knowledge to the mind of Man Those that have the greatest Reputation for Wisdom and Understanding are ignorant and blind and what they do see is very darkly and with much Imperfection those that know most know very little The Fountain and Original of all mischief is that we live not according to Reason but Opinion But I will do nothing saith Seneca out of Opinion but all things out of Conscience It is saith he the bounty of nature that we live but of Philosophy that we live well which is in truth a greater benefit than Life it self Where is a rambling head saith he there is a certain sign of a sickly Mind or Humour 'T is a good Argument of a well composed mind when a man loves home and to keep company with himself Not a few there are that provided they may save their Bodies never care what becomes of their Souls Many Books and much Acquaintance brings a man to a Levity of Disposition and a liking of Change And what 's the body better for meat that will not stay with it And this wise Heathen goes on thus Wisdom delights in Openness and Simplicity in the forming of our lives rather than in the Niceties of the Schools which at best do but bring in Pleasure without Profit Wisdom and Vertue requires a Tutor though we can easily learn to be vitious without a Master Assure your self saith he That no man gives a better account of his time than he that makes it his Study to make himself better and to this end observe thy self as thy greatest Enemy so shalt thou become thy greatest Friend Aristotle being demanded What was the fruit of all his Study and Philosophy as to himself Answered To do those things out of a natural Willingness that others do by Compulsion Let this truth be confessed and remain for ever That they who are well instructed easily become good men In his Book De Legibus And he gave sometimes this advice to his Scholars That when they took notice