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
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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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![helpe vnto the good of thofe that loue thee, becaufe thoa loued{t them firft,and that thou me wildome inthe SanCtuarie of thy holy Word to vnderftand the miferable end of sbte Fen i who forfaking and leaving thy Wayes, thallat thelaft wring out, and drinkethe dregs of worldly delights, and that in trufting and deligbtiag onely in thee (oh God moft high,and the onely good of my foule) 1 may {peedily mount vp on thy holy Mountaine, andte the reft of the Bleffed. 6. (Meditations and Prayers, that Iefas Chtiff is the Senne of God, and our Lord and Saniour. The Creation of the World, conioyned with the Providence, fuflice,and Wifedome of che Lord is the firlt te{timonie which is propounded vnto vs of Godia the Articles of our Faith, to the end wee fhould adore him, and put our truftinhim : But there is another en fuing it, whichis mach more admirable,and which reprefenteth vnto vs his extreme boun- tie, goodne(fe, and infinite power ; that is, the worke of our Redemption, for to redeeme, and quicken a creature that waslolt, and to redeeme him with fo great aprice, as the pre- cious Bloud of the eternall Sonne of God, and not onely to deliver him out of captiuities and from Death, butalforo giue bias life Eternall, is fo greata Worke, and fo fingular a bee nefit, that notongue can expreffeit, nor no heartis fafticientto comprehendit. Man (as the Scripture faith) wascreated good and righteous; but heecontinved not in that happy ..4 eltate: for, that following his owneinuentions, difcourfes, andthe euillcounfellot the ~~ : Diuell, he terned from kis God; and by that meanes fell into decay, making both himfelfe and his Pofteritie culpable of death and eternall damnation , for Death and all the Citati- ons which hee ferueth vponvs, that is, allthe aduerfities which bappen vato vs in this world aretherewardsof finne. And our deltruction proceedeth from oar lelucs, becable our firft Father abufing his owne free-will , becamea {laue to Sathan , and by that meanes drew vponhimfelfe and all his Pofteritic, the iuft vengeance of God. Whata change and pitifall alteration was it, when the] mage of God in man was {odisfigured ? andthatio | noble a creature became vile, miferable, fullof {inne and filthineffe? For although Adam was created and made of the duftof the earth , yet the Spirit of God had {wallowed vp in him that matter of cerreltriall corruption, if he had aot fiaaed, and all Mankind had been exempted.from weakne(le and putrifaction, whereas now by nature heis nothing elfe but duftaod filth, endowed with a heart altogether peruer{e ftom his Iofaucie, which is the caufe that he hathneedeof regeneration, not of mortall feed (as Saint Peter faith) but of f+ Pet. 1.23. immortall, that is, by the Word of God which ligeth & endareth for euer,which teaching ae IRS vsto beleeue the Deitie; fora true obiect and fore foundation of our faith , giveth vs lefus wakes a Chritt the fecond perfon of this Deitie one in effence, For bel seuing in him,we beleeuc is Col.z.15. God, becaufe Chrilt is God over all,ble(fed foreuer(as the Apoftle iaith andof whom 14o7- Heb.1,253. fes and all the Prophets {pake, and to whem they direct vs, as hee is the fubfiltantimage of theiouvilible God, And the brightnes of bis glory,and theingraued forme of his perfon, by whem alfo the Father {pake,and hath madeall things, and whichis more this divine word,tooke our Daturevpon bim,and made himfelfe Fmsanzel, that is;God withvs, and was manifelt in the flefh. Whereupon Saint Pau/ teachethvs,that other foundation cao , ¢,, % no mao lay,then that whichis laid,which is lefos Cbrift : faying further;that he eltcemed qpig ce not to Know any thing among the faithfoll fave lefus Chriftjand him crucified: Not that he would notalfo acknowledge God the Fatherjandthe holy Ghoft, but becaulein the fe- cond perfon of this vofpeakable Trinitie, we know him wholly, andehat without Chrift we cannot know what the father is, nor haue accetle tohis vnaccetlable light: Ifthe Sonne doth not give vs an entrance thereinto withall aifurance. Butwemutinote;sthat thisgrace, (withafaving knowledge, to know thelivuingaad etermall God, thatis,to ac. a ig beed knowledgehim by Chritt and by bimtocallypon him confesfing hitn to bevery God 5 1017-32-45 and very man,and the onely mediatour betweene God and man, isagift proper to thofe that arefaithfall and elect childrea of God, Foragaioft this tracb,the diuell hath atal times x Tim.s_4) railed vp falfe Prophets,to darken and extenuate this faving kuowledgeof Chritt in the world,according to the prophelie of Simseox,faying;Bebold this childis appoiated for the Luke >. 24. falland rifjog of many in Hrael,and for a ligne which fhall be {pokenagaiat. r bay eee Rege ! at 3% Rom, 6, 23¢ Ole. 13+ 9e Gen.6.5,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30335103_1055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
