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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$efficacie,by the which all things are {obiected vnto him. Forthen attaining to Chrift(the perpetuall and infinite light) we (hall ce that great God faceto face,and fhall know bim,as hee hath knowen vs,to bee filled with his glorie,without want of any outwardthing that we can with or defire, beeau{e then wee fhall fully eaioy our mercifull Lord,the foueraigne good,and thereward of the ele¢t,the Scepter and Diadem of theirornament,and the per petuallioy inuvironing their heads,as with a crowne of vidtorie,in vofpeakeable peace,and continuing forever. Thou art (O Lord God) thislight,in whofe lighe wee thall fee light; that is,thee in thy felfe,in fuch fore, that in thine owneiplendor beeing madeall light, wee fhall bave the fight of thy brightneffe ; in thefame toknow thy tructh and tby glorie, to know I fay the power of the Father,the wifdome of the Sonne,and the vertue of the holy Ghoft,in one Trinitie,of one infeparable and intireeffence, Which knowledge is of fuch worth, that in it con/i(teth all the feliciticof the Angels,;and ofthe Saints,the only guerdon of life eternall,the glorie of the bleffed Spitits,their perpetual] comfort,the seward of their travels, the recompence of their labors, theirrich reft,in a beautiful peace,and interior and : exterior gladneffe, in the Paradife of God,in his holy citie, which aboundeth with blefled. neffe and delight for ever. Therefore (O moft coequall and coeternal perfons in one Trinitie) I befeech thee with all my foule, with all my miod,and with all my {trength,that thou wilt be pleafed,to fuffer my heart te comfort and reioyce it felfe all the daies of my life, with firme aflurance, one day tofee thy glorie,when the gate of heauen hall bee opened voto mee, to enter into the joy of my Lord and my Redeemer. Behold me poore begger, which knock at thy doore (O moft great Father) andthou haft faid, Touch boldly the entrie into my boule, knocke at my doore,andit fhall be opened vato thee, Now, feeing that my profoundett thoughts, the found of my voice, and the teares of mine eyes, knockeand beate at ¢heporch of thy San@tuarie, and that all my affections, my vowes, and my delires are prefented vnto thee andia thy prefence. Turnenot (O mercitull God) thy amiable facefrom mee , and with- and thy feruant,though he bea poore finner. But rather beningly heare my praier, and lend mee thy comfortable hand, that it may defend mee from the Ainking puddle of the world,and that bauing efcaped from fuch a gulfe, I may cemeto thee in life everlafting, May it pleafethee(O Father of the elect) toilluminate my ignorant youth, and defpife not my crooked age, but caufethy holy meditations toreioyce my bones, and renew my yeares, like the roiall Eagle, that with a moft bappie fight, | may reft in thy holy Tabernacle, Amen. 15, 4 Prayer te bee [aid by houfebelders in the morning. Our ayde and beginning is inthe name of God which bath made heanen and earth, O Lord God our Father, altogether good, altogether wife, and altogether powerfull, Creator and Moderator of all things, weethy poore children and feruants, by the grace which it hath pleafeth eheeto thew vs in lefus Chrift our Saviour,humblie proffrated here beforethy face,giue theethanksfor allthy benefits, {pecially for that it bath pleafedtheeto fo ffer vs to paffe over the lalt night vader thy protection and fafegard, to live vntill this day. Wee confetfe,that being miferable {inners conceived and borne in iniquitie and cors roption,and naturally inuelopedwith darkneffe,ignorance,and errour,we are not worthie nor capable to prefent our felues,nor to lift vp our eies vnto thee(O molt bigh God)which art all righteoufnes and light. But according tothy great goodne(le, thou haft madevsa way to thetbrone of thy grace and mercie,by the thedding of the blood of our Lord Jefus Chrilt chy beloued Sonne,whom wee belecue in his word, (which the holy Ghoft confirs meth in our hearts)took fleth of the ble(fed virgin AZary,died onthe crofle for fatisfaQion of oor fins,& rofe again in glorie for our iuftification and eternal bliffe. We acknowledge, foueraigne Father,that itis a great effect of thy benignitie that wee which are ynwortby to live vpon the earth, becaufe of the hereditarie vice of Adaw, & which by our offences have deférued to be caft into che bottomlespit of hel,haue this good & benefitto fee the bright- nes of the day & of the Sun,theria to behold the works of thy hands,and heereon earth to inioy the benefits of this world, which thou be(towelt vpon vs, But,O Lord,for as much as that by thy abiidant liberality thou beftowelt thefe benefits comonly onal men,& chat the . Sunne i a Je “—_, 42$

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