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Show · · Ofthe Adu.anCement of Learning; that J011r fori11Tit Jho rd J be /o bad,as to know theft t hm;;, J better than I; It pleafed God likevyife to vfe the cu · tiofttie of thi) Emperour, as an tndu<;ement to ~he eace of his Chtir'h in . thofe dayes t ~or hatung · . fhrift in veneration, not as a G~d or .Sat~tour ,~ut ~s a \Vonder or noueltie.~ and hatung h1s P!Clure tn h.ts Gallerie, matched with t..Apollon.ru (wnh whom tn . his vaine imagination, bethought he had Come ~onfonnitie) yet it ferued· the turne t9 all~y. the bttter hatred of thofe times aoainfi the Chrtfhan ~natl)e: · fo as the Church had pea~e during his t.ime, a ad ~or · his goucrnement ci:1ile~ al~hough he dtd not atta ~~.e to that of Traians, In glorte of Arme:;, or perfeclton of Iufiice :·Net in de!eruing of the we ale of the SubieCl:J he did exceede hitn. For Traitrne erected many famot1s monutnen~s and bu~ldings : infotnuch as Ct'njlantinethe Great, tn e1nulauon was w.oont to call him Parietari4, Wall flower, becaufe his narne was vppon [o many walles : but his buildings and workes were more of glorie and tryumph, than vfe ~nd necefsitie: But Adrian fpent his whole Raigne, which was peaceable in a perambulation,or Suruey of the Romane Empire, giuing order and making afsignation>wherehewent for reedifyingof Cities, , , Townes,and Forts decayed: and for cutting <:'f Riuer~, and fireatnes: and for making Bridges and pa( .. fages)and for pollicing ~fCities, an~ CommonaltiesJ with new ordinances and conflitutions : and graunting new ,Franchifes and incorporations : fo that his whole time was a very reftauration of all the · . · ·· - · · · . lapfes, . \ / .. . . .The ftrjl130o~. -. 31 lap[es amd decayes of fornles:times. . , .Antunitu Pi~ru, who fucceeded hitn, was a Prince excellently learned; and bad rhe Patient and fubtile ·.witte of a Schoole man: info1nuch as in common fpeech, (which leaues no v~rt1:1e vntaxed) hce was called cymini. SeE! or, a caruer, or a diuiderof Gomine f eede, which i~ one of the leaft fee des: fuch a .patience hee had and feded fpirite, to enter into the leafi arid mofi exaa differences of c'au[es :a fruit I · no doubt of the exceeding tranquillitie, and fereni-tie of his minde: which -~eing no wayes charged or incombred, either with {¢ares, remorfes, or fcru .. ples, but hauing been noted for a man of.the pur eft goodneffe without all fiaion or affetlation, that .hath· raigned or liued : made his· minde cont~ tinually prefent and en tier: he like wife approached a degree' ~eerer vnto C hriftiariitie,, and became as ,cA6.rippa fa~ d vnto S. Paule, H alfe a Chrijlian ;· hol- ( · .ding their Religi<>n and Law in good opinion: and . not only ceafing perfecution, but giuing way to the aduancen1ent of chrifiians. . Tr here fucceeded him the firfi Pitti fratres, the -two adoptiue ~ret·hren, Lucitu commodus "J7ereu, Sonne to Eluu Ver1u) who delighted much in the fof. ter kind of !earning: and was wont to <tall the Poet· Martiall his virgil!: and .l..tarcuj Aurelius Antoninus, where·of the ijuer, who obfc.ured his colleague, and: fi1ruiued him long, \Vas ·named the Philofopher: wlio as he excelled all the refi in leatnipg, fo he ex-· ~e~ed . them !ikew ife.in perfeCtion of all ro~all vfr~ l 4 - - tues; , / . |