Conclusion of the Life of Julian, from “Speed's Historie.” Edit. 1632.
“But now one errour, his apostacie, disroabing him of
all his morall vertues, leaves him an object naked to the
vulgar eie, but a monster of men, and marke of infamie.
I holde it therefore fitting no lesse the use, than the justice,
of a story, to doe him (as I have done) all his right:
since in him we learne thatt all those admirable endowments
of nature, embellished with all the morall and
internall graces that art could adde, are not the base of
holinesse, without divine grace: nor dalliaunce of fortune
and fulnesse of empire (that made this man wanton and
forgettfull) is the center of security and happinesse, without
heavenly protection: since from the sense of sacred
piety hee fell to pagan superstition: for many are called,
but few are chosen; and in the seat of Presumptuous
Majesty hee felt the rod of Divine Revenge.”
