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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$many affaults,perfecutions,and mileries,which fright men: and the vanity & imbecility of our nature is {ucb,that it {uffereth it felfe to be eafily caried away with all winds;If thou threefold great, and moft merciful Lord) workelt not chat in vs which thov commandeft, ifthou thy felfe doeft not bring vs vatothy Sonne. For otherwife wee cannot come vn- Iohn 6.65. tohim. And if he giveth vs not acceffe to the ehrone of thy grace, weecan by no meanes approach voto it, as alfoif thy holy fpirit doth not condud vs in all truth, and doth not beare witnel{e thereof in our hearts that thou art our Father, it is aot in our po- wer,tocry 46/4, Father. Mayitpleafetheethen, thou that art the onely God, three perfons in one Eifence, Father, Sonne, and holy Ghoft : according to thy merciful] pros Rom.8.13, miles, to purifie my heart, by taith, todwelland remaine with mee thy poore creature, to 1ohn 14.23. preferucand keepe my {pirit from being feduced by errors,my foule for affecting any otber thing, then thy good will, pleafure, andholy word, and my heart trom defiring any other butthee; which art thefoucraigne good, which art my all inall, and my gboundant pore tion, that having, and loving thee, | may defpife this world,forlake and renounce all va. nities, talteand favour the delights and pleafures of thy hovfe, loving nothing but in thee, and for the loue of thee, and attending the moit happy and bletfed houre, wherein I thallno more walke by faith, bat by fight , in the contemplation of thy face. Werke Coney fo (Ob my mot mercifull God) that daily increaling in faith, I may attaine to the mear Eohef 4.13. fore of a perfect Chriltian, in that admirable day of the reftoring of all chings, to receive 2 Lim.z, 5 theincorruptible crowne of righteoufnelleand glory, and atthy right band to feele the ® 4% | fulneife of ioy and gladneffe, Amen, ce 5. Meditations and Prayers touching God tke Father, moft paiffant Creator of heasenandearth. Godin the Articles of our faith, is defcribed vnto vs, by his workes to bee the fame, which his word revealeth himto bee, Tothat ende, that the knowledge which we ought to have of him, fhould not bee avaine apprebenfion: andthat wee fhould plainely fee, that wee have good caufe, to put our trultio him, asalfothat wee may the better bee dif- ecrocd from thofe people, which doe not truely know God, Then this is the proper guife of the faithfull, co knew God, as heeis : thatis, in one effence, and nevertheleflein three perfons (the Father, the Sanng,and the holy Ghoft) and hee that doeth notacknowledge the Father, knoweth not what the Sonnac is; and he that knoweth not the Sonne,knoweth not the Father: and he that beleeueth not io the holy Ghoft, neither knoweth the Father nor the Sonne,and fois altogether ignorant of the Deitic. But although that God is our tather, as we cal him in the Lords prayer,yet we are but children by adoption, receised,and adopted forthe laue of his onely and eternall Sonne ; eternally begotten by the father,andin whom heis wel pleafed, T hen in this divine effence pfl.2.7- the firit perton is called Father,to fhew vs,that ourfaith is grounded only in God,although Math: 3.17. this true and onely Deity which we adore,and wherein we beleeue,is the Fatber,the Sonne andthe boly Gho(t:who in thefe three pesfons working together, manifetted himfelfe vnto the world,by foure molt diuine and {upernaturall workes,thatis,the creation of the world, the redemption of man,thé gathering together and preferuation of the Church, and the admirable gifts and benefits beftowed vpon the fame,fpecially the remiflion of finnes,and life everlafting. What great advantage is it vato vs,to know this true God, tor that by this knowledge we may fay with Saint Pas, T hatallthings are ours, becaule we are Chrille, and Chrilt Gods,which isthe Father of our Lord Iefus Chrilt, hesis alfocalled moft puif. is conioined with truch and tultice. Then weare happy, whole faith is not grounded vpon eo P > the wifedomeof men, but onthe power of God,whichis faluation to all that beleeuesLike. 5 Co, 2.5; wife he is thecreatour;For who ishe({aith Z/zy)that hath mealuredthe waters with bis fill, Efay 40,12; and compa(ied the heavens with his {panne?_ whois he that bath comprehended the dult &¢; ofthe earth ina meafuse,and weighed the mountaines ina weight, and thehillesina bal- lance? Who hathinftructed the Spirit of the Lord,or was his Countellor, ortaugbt bim ? Al nations before him are as nothing,aad they are acounted to bim Ieffe then nothing,and vanitic, 1 o whomthen will youliken God? or whatlimilitude wil you fet vp vato him? lift vp your eies on high, and behold who bath created thefethings, and bringeth out their ar- mies by numbers, and calleth them all by names; by the gteatneffe of bis power, ee | mighty$

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