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 thirde booke entituled of Theologie Philosophicall
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The thirde booke entituled of Theologie Philosophicall
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The summe of all.
[God is a substaunce for euer durable.]
God is a substaunce for euer durable.Eterne, omnipotent, mercifull and iust.
VVhiche guideth all thinges, in order cōuenable.
a god in whome eche man ought for to trust.
who for praier giueth grace, to mortifie our luste:
In whose feare, and loue, all that shall endure:
Shall after this life of better life be sure.
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The summe of all.
[Man that consisteth of body and of soule]
Man that consisteth of body and of souleIs gods good creature, specially made
to know his maker, also to controll
Such lustes in fleshe, as elements perswade.
a beaste, if that his life be beastly trade,
an earthly God, if void, of hope and hate
he liue content, and know his owne estate.
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The summe of all.
[Of all the good creatures of goddes creating]
Of all the good creatures of goddes creatingmost pure and precious is the soule of man,
a perfect substaunce at no time abating
which with the body, the passions suffer can.
In vertue ioyous, in vice both woe and waune,
which after death shall receiue the rewarde
of woorkes, which in life time it moste did regarde.
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The summe of all.
[Life whiche chaineth the body and soule in one]
Life whiche chaineth the body and soule in oneis fraile and vaine, more slipper then the slyme:
heapt full of cares, but quiet hath it none,
ordainde of God a prison for a time
to plague and purge the body & soule fro cryme:
which whoso spendeth vertuously & well
Shall after it, in ioyes and glory dwell.
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The summe of all.
[the worlde is a region, diuers and variable]
the worlde is a region, diuers and variableof god created in the beginning
to containe his creatures of kindes innumerable:
wherein eche one should liue by his winning.
whose many pleasures are cause of great sinning
wherfore all that gladly, as vaine dooe them hate,
Shal after this worlde haue permanent estate.
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The summe of all.
[death the dissoluer of eche mortall bodye]
death the dissoluer of eche mortall bodye,driueth all againe to their fyrst matter dust:
whyche whyle we liue, should put vs in memorye
from whence we came and hence, to what we must:
fearefull to the euill, but ioyfull to the iust.
who after thys lyfe, through death transitorie,
for deathles lyfe, ioyned with ioy, do truste,
whose lyfe by death, is leade to greater glorie.
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