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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$w/t ofGod, according toour vocations, and if wee pray vnto God togiuevs grace fo to dos* let vs certainely beleeue,. that all shofe:gooddefires and affections, which cannet pro. ceedebut from theholy Gholt, areasmany teftimonies and a{furances vato vs, that hee dwellethia vs,and by confequent,that we are children of God, as Saint Pan/teacheth vs, Rom.8.5.&c- where he maketh acomparifon betweene thofe that live according te the fpirit of God,and & 2-10. thofe that ligeafter the lofts of the fleth.For as weare the pofterity of Adam,and fo natural. generation, and foto be of the family of Chritt,when we dillike of our own infirmities,and {triving as much as we cap agaioft them,fecke to pleafe God. We know that hecommaun- deth vs to loge bien withallour hearts,withall our foules,and withallour flrengthe, butas we cannot know him herein this world, butin a part,and obicurely ,fo we lous him in part andthat very little, the perfection thercof is referued to bee performed in heaven: that whereunto wecan attaiue bere on earth,is that as wellin truth as in bumility we acknow- 41,4, ledge how imperfect weare in the duties of holinesand charity which God requireth at-.Cox. oor hauids,to whom it pleafeth him,fo to accomplith bis mercy impardoningvs,his powes in fu {taining and vpholding vs,and his promife in faving vs. The holineffe,love towards God, andthe obedience which weeowe voto him, are oftentimes fignified in the holy Scriptures, by thefeareof bis name; which Dawid calleth the beginning of wile? poty yo. dome, Therefore whofocuer feeleth fach loueand scuerence io himielfe towards | Gad,that he fearethto offead him, is one of the amber of his children. And we haue this feare in vs,when we are carefull to fly the occafions andinticements which moousvs vate finne,when wetake a pleafurein the commandementsofGod; andthat having offended Sete him by ignorance, vnawares,orby any other humane infirmity ,wefeele adifpleature & Pas: difliking the fame in ourhearts,with arefolution by Gods geaceto finneno more, There- fore Saint Jobn faith,whofoever is borne of God,finnethnot, thatis tofay, that although they hauecertaine vices and imperfections in them, neverthelefle, finne raigneth notin : _- them,neitber doe they willingly addi@ their mindes to doe euill;but to the contrary; feele * Iob..3:92 that combate in theirfoules, whichSaint Paa/ reprefenteth vntovsin hisowne perfon; difallowing and difliking that which they doe, becaufeit is not that which they would doe, wherein neuertheleffe,they have no occafion to excufe themfelues,butratherto figh, and Rom.7: 15 fall deliver mefrom the body of this deatb2and on the other lide, to feele the comfort which headdeth thereunto faying, J] thanke God through Iefus Chrilt our Lord, and for what ? becavfe faith he,thatalthoughin my fleth,in that inferiour part of my nature,and in the re. liques of eorruption, I ferue the law of finne,there is no condemnation tothem that are in Chritt lefas,which in their mindes,that is;in that part thereof which is regenerated, ferue che law of God,and fo walke not after the flefh,but after the Spirit. | eer Let vs therefore know,that when wefeeleany doubt in oar felues of our adoption, for. want of yeelding that obedience vnto God,which he requireth at ourhands, The Divell ishard by vs,tothake and make vs waver in faich,per{wading va,that we muff be faved by our workes,or at theleaft partly, andthereby make our felucs companions of the immacas Jate lambe;which taketh away thefinnes ofthe world. To which temptation let vs make anfwer and {ay.that we know well,thatthere is nothing ofourowne well doing, that can fabGift,toiufifie vs before God,that our good deedes extend not vatohim, andthat wee are molt great and grievous finners. But onthe otber fide, thatthe Gofpell teacheth vs, That.Chrilt came into the world tofaue finners,& that there ie no faluation but in him,& * that fecing we feele the affections of thefpirit in our felucs,we are of the{pirit, andabfol , Ty.-¢:,', Pfal, 16,2, be holy and cighteous,receiving ofvs thatdefireto walkeia his wayes,for a feruice agree. 727? ableand pleafing vnto him:and to befhort,that he accepteth his workes in-vs,and pardo- neth ours, If we perfeuere in this manner,to oppofe and with tand the temptations of the Divel, andto meditate vpon fo many notable dottrines of the holy Scriptares,therin for- tifying ourfelues by ardent and zealous praier vnto God, they are fo many certaine tefti- ‘monies to allure vsthat weatethe children of God.!tis true,that msny of the ele@,oftens times Gude themfelues,not to be onely luke warme, but alfo cold asice, in theeffects and. fruits of cheit regeneration, And thatthere isnone fo holy and welladuifed,which doth not flide;ftumble and goe altray,and fometiayes takes a great fall: but fach defaults and falles, d are$

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