The French Academie. Fvlly discovrsed and finished in foure bookes. I. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, etc. 4. Christian philosophie ... This fourth part neuer before published in English / All written by the first author Peter de la Primavday.

La Primaudaye, Pierre de, approximately 1545- Académie françoise. English

Date:: 1618

Credit: The French Academie. Fvlly discovrsed and finished in foure bookes. I. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, etc. 4. Christian philosophie ... This fourth part neuer before published in English / All written by the first author Peter de la Primavday. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$2, The fearesand diffrufts of the elett deprine them not of true faith. i \ Weemuttalfo vnderfland, thatthe faith of the ele ceafeth not to bee true faith, al- Wi though they feele doubts, feares, and diftrufts in themfelues. Forit they take nota pleas Wii fure in {och corruptions, to entertaine and mainetaine them, but are grieved thereat, aod feeke to with{tand them, witha defireto encreafe as much as they can in the affurance of their faluation in [efus Chrilt, I¢isanother evident combat betweene the fpirit and the fleth, betweene faith and diftruft, and betweene the will and the deede(as Saint Pan/iaith) Roma1$.24 , and where faith hath refidents,and is fealed in the hearts of the children of God, although eo it beaffailed, by allchofe Qormesand affaults of finne, wherewith they are Millinaeioped. i | Therefore alfo, in feeking to farmount foch imperfections, while they hope for the diuine Rom.8.24.27 Wii promiles which they {ee not, they patiently attend, faith the Apofile, vatill {ach time as Hi | they become conquerers inall thingsthrough him that loueththem. If we confider the ; courle of Dauids life. Thereisno mirror of faith (in allthe whole Scriptures) more nos ¥ | table, nor more evident to be feene, then in bim: and yet never any faithtull Coriffian | wasmore affailed with feares and doubts then hee. What complaints did bee make : fay- i ing , Will the Lord abjent himfelfe for ewer? And will hee foew no more fauonr Is bis mercy cleane ? fal 77.75% : : | gone for ewer? Doth his prem/e faile for ener more ? HathGod forgotten to bee mercsfnll? Hath “Pages me hee [owe up bis tender merciesin difpleafures ?. And for conclution, bee vieth {peeches like a th | man in difpaire, faying, Aud I (aid thisis my death. And yet he was not viterly voide of ig = faith otherwife hee would not hauebegunnethe Plalmethus , (Vy voice came to God when Hi ba 1 cried, inthe day of my tribulation I fought the Lord, and ceafed not sm the night, my foulerefufed yi | comfort, did thinke upon God, and was troubled, I prated, and my /pirit was full of angusfa.NN here+ at by we learne, thateuen then, when the vehemency of bis forrowes and avguifhes, and | a the infirmities of his Beh, conftrained him to (igh, mourne,and fo bitterly to complaine: | mM | faith made him to remember his error, and to correct bis faule, in {uch manoer that | to hedereGed his praiersto God, and affuredly called him his Lord, in whom hee boped | : for fuccour. Wherein he obferued a good method, oppofing his hope in Gad againtt_ his i | troubles,and by a holy invocation moderated thegreatneile ot his anguithes, which after. le ward hee bewailed, For when theafflictions of our flefh begiane to mooue vs, and that Its wee cannot eafily reftraine them, but tothe contrarie are by them led out of the botnds | ad of reafon, itis convenient for vs at the firlt corepreile and keepethem downe.. SoDaud | th making Faitha Rampier againft murmuring, bridied hisfenfes thatehey might not exceed i ity meature,in fuch fore chat all the complaints which heemade in that Plalme,are but frewes it, of this griefe, and difpaire, which alfailed the hope bee badinGod, and of the combat ) thy whcih he fuftained againtt fuch temptations. : | toy The Apoflles alfo arenoted in the Gofpelto baue had a weake and obicure faith tou- yy yeh 17.23 } hh ching their vnder{tandings, before the telarrection of lefus Chrift, and yet much’ weaker Luke 45. tit in heart, when the Lord was apprehended by the tewes, and they forfooke bim, one of Math 26,314 Mol | themvtterly denyinghim, Yet wee fay not, that they were without faith ia that cheir fo © * . sah & bee preat weakenelle,no more then when they were in the Shipina great tempelt, they cried Nam ea | vnto Chrift, laying, Save vs wee perifr; aud heecalled them not Infidels, nor vinfaithtull, Matth.8.25. the | bot men oflittle taich, and tearetull : and hearingthem granted their delire, As it is writ. ae ten, A brafed Reade (all be not breake, and the fmoaking flaxe foall be not quench. But ra y- i. Jar 1] ther (a pporting the weake, hee wili givethem graceto encreafe the gifts of the Spirit: natth.12.20, | we and to wase Gronger and ftronger in faith (faith the Apoitle) as inthe perion of his Hh wo Apoftles, hee bath taught vs to pray voto God, that hee will be pleafed to encreafe faith Mi iy inves, Thewifdomeotthe molt perfect Chriltian is {till more and more to profitand e0- a4 say i ith creafein knowlegge of holinetfeand righteouineffe. Knowing that in all {pirituall blef- ¢ ake 27.5. Hl f cb fings there is buta beginning, and animperfection in the forwardett and molt compleat Hit | Mi Chriftians berein thislife. Butthe perfection whereunto we mouft alpire, andthe accom: Hi f plifhing of our vocation-cannot be periedt, till wee enter into heaven. Inthe meanetime, | i ' to turne vs out of the way, and fo (hake and weaken our hope, the Divell cafleth his Grie | dartsin our faces, which wee muttrepulfe, and feeke to quench vpon the fhicld of Faith, Ephefs.s 6. { (as Saine Pau/ faith) with theliuing water of the holy Gboft, thatchey enter not into our Lehn 4.10. be j hearts, For what affaults and combats foeverthe Divels maketh againft vs, fo long as he | i poifetfeth not the heart, where faith is feated, he is driven owt, in fush manacrs wk Yi ak i QuBts iM$

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