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A treatyce of Moral philosophy containing the sayinges of the wise

Wherein you maye see the worthye and pithye sayinges of ye Philosophers, Emperors, kinges, and oratours, of their liues, their aunswers, of what lignage they came of, and of what cou[n]trey they were, whose worthy and notable preseptes, counsailes parables and semblables doth hereafter folow: First gathered and englished by Willia[m] Baldwin, after that, twise augmented by Thomas Paulfreyman ... & now once againe enlarged by the first aucthor
  
  

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The summe of all.

[Faith is a stedfastnes and truth of thinges]

Faith is a stedfastnes and truth of thinges,
spoken and couenaunted of god or man,
a right faith in god, with it alway bringes
inuincible power, that mightily can
withstand the assaultes of cruell sathan,
for he that is faithfull and true in al thing,
hath mightier seruauntes then lord or king.