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Show - . .. (Jfthe . .(ld~~ncem~ntofLfdrning: . mtention, bur T._4fllJII'4 Aliud ttgt~D~ becaufe of the Na turall hatred of the min de aga.~nll: neceffity and Con ilraint.Many other.Axiomes there are touchino.thc Mapagiog ofExtrtifo and tllflome: which bei~gfo Condueled,dotb pr~oue indeed another nature:but being gouerned by chance,doth comoly prooue but an ape of nature,&. bringeth forth that which-is lame and Gounterfette- . So if wee fuoulde handle h1oke1 and fluditt andl 1 what influence and operation they hauc vpon man .. ner~,are there notdiuer:s precepts of greate caution •ud dir~etion appettaining thereunto-! did not one ofthe_fathersin. grcate indignati(ln call P~efjvinNm DemonNm,bccaufe it increafeth temptations, pertur-· bations and Yainc opi~ions~ls not the opinion of i~ . · rijlotltworthyto be regarded wherein he fairh,.That yoiig.Jncn arc no.fitte auditors of MoraJ.·Philofophy, becaufe they-are not fetled from the b0y ling heate oftheiraffcctions,nor atte1npered with Time and experience? and doth it not hereof cotne that thofe .excc:Jlent books and difi:ourfes of the aunciente· . writers,( whereby they haue perf waded vnto vertue ~oft effeCtually ,by reprefenting her ia flate and .MJ~· , -. t.~fi;y,andpop_uler opinion1 againft vertue in their ParA~ . Ji!et Coatet,fitt to be fcorned and derided,) are offo · . 1ttdeetfect to~ards honefl:yoflife, becaufe they are , · not red & reuol ued by me· in their mature and feded· re~res,?ut confined al~oft tO boyes & begipnerSfBUt . Js lt 11:ot _true alfo tliat m~ch lelfe, young men,ar.e ~~~!~ o~ M!l~~!~·~!.P~~~cy,till they htla~e· beehn 1:· . -· ~.~~ug. t . . . -The fecondhoo'<! 69 .r4 chtougbly feafoned in religion & Morality,leaH their ~gemcmes be corrup~ed ,and made apt to thinkc tbat ~here are~~o true Differences of things, but acCPtding. to vtiltty andfonunt, as the verfe defcribcs it• 'hPjpmim tt F'!lix fttlu~ •r:irt~s v~catu,.: And Againe l:lkmtcttll pnltum foelerzs tnlzt ,H tc diadem.s: which thC Poets do lpeak fatyrically,and in indignation on ver- IICS behalle;B u~ books of p~Uic!e·doe fpeake it feri- · oufly, and pofittuely ,for fo tt pleafeth Machiau,u to ~~[.fl"h41 ifC4for had he we ouerthrowne ,he won/de htttlt . r m.ore odious then tuer Wdd Catilint ; as if there had ·•IJ:·IC noc difference but in fOrtune, between a very fi!!J_of lufl & hloud,. and tht mojl txcellet {Pirit(his am~ ·- refer~ed) oftheworld?Ar,ain is there nota Cau~ Jikewifc to be giuen of tl1.e doctrines of Morali~ befclues (fome kin des of the) leall:e they make ·-t.coo precife ,_arrogat:, incopatible, as Cicero faith ~-Wii!J MArco Catone.H~ ~ana quttvidemur.diuina & · ·~•-..: ipfius fcitfJte ejfe prop1ia: tfU4 notuzunq,tam rtqui..;;. ,~~,fNnt omnitt,nOIJ ~tnatura fod aMagijlro?Many ~. ..........· omes &. aduifes there are touching thofe· ·.w.te~cs & effetts., which fiudies doe infufe & infiil, ._ttnaners: And folikewifeis there touching_e the .-.r.v:an tbofe other points of Company~ fatne)lawes~ rcfr, which we recited in. the besinning_ itl': • ..,jr. ...·t :: t..a ofMorality. ~ · . . rme:re is .a kind of C v ~ -r v ! :B of theM I N xv, that RJJ:va,more accurate & elaborate c be the refi &: ....,.ftAI't this ground: That the 1ninds-. of all~ men FJ011[le titnes in a fiatC-IJ;lOie perlite) and~ at o-. · ~---·- ----·- ----· - -~ -·-- -- ~-- th.etl ). .q 1 f |