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Show · Of the .J.iutiniemenlof LeaYningl . Which is Ddt a falfe Imitation of diuine /oue. J;ot ·melior Sophift.t, "U11o ..,a humAtJ.rm vitam ,that Loue tcachetll a man to C::arry himfelfe better , then the s ophijJ oi! Pr. .ece;tcr ~which he caiieth Left h11nded. be •. caufe tyith all hiS ru&s & preceptiOs he cannot form '2 man fo Dtxttri1ujly ,nor witb that facility to prize himfclf & gouern himfelf as Joue ca do: So certainlv if a mas mind be truly inflamd with charity it doth w~rk · bimfcidainlymto~eterpcrfeCl:io then al the Doctrin 'Of 1narafi~e Call doe, Which is but a fophiff in com11 .paJiCOl!l of the other .Nay furder as Xt no phon obfer. :Vcd nuefytbk:JU other affeCI:ions though they rai~ the minde,yc:t they doe it by "difiorting ,and vncom. • Jineife of extilfies or excelfes; but <?nely L<>ue doth exaltitht mind, and neuertheie1fe;at the fame inftant .doth fettle and Compofe it. so in all other cxcellen. eyes though they: aduance nature yet they are fubietl to E.itcclfc •. Onely Charity admitteth noe Exctf!i; for foe we tee, afpiring to be like God in power, the :Angells ~fgrdfed and fel: A{ctt~dt~m, & no .ftmiliJ ~/iijfong: By.afpir.imge to be 11l{e God in knowledge mantranfgkeffed(andfeU. EritiJ jicaJ Dii Jcienttsbg. NN11J&mA1ut~~; Bur hyafpiringtoa.limilitudeofGod in ~G.tte1fe or loue, neyther Man nor Angell ~et tranfgrcifed orthalJ tt'anfgrcffe. For vnto thatttnJ . itation wee ~re called , Diligite inimico~ veffros; Ben6{4citt -tit qNi .otitn~~~t 'll~s a ~ or.tte pro ptrfo; .IJflllllifttis d- Calumnillntihli4 'VOS 'VI fit is flii pt~t~i1 veftn 9111 is &4/i, eft , .IJNi folt-m foum oriri flcll taper . . ~u · ___ 77Jeficon dhoof<.t. . 8z. ,: . ,.,, & m alos, & pluit futer iujlos & iniu.fl ~~. So in the platfourme oft he diuine Nature it {elf, the heathc igion fpeaketh thus,Optimus M4Xi1J1us,an~ the fa~ d fcriptures thus,M i{ericcrd14 tius foE er omni.r oper" • · Wherefore I doe conclude this part of Morall lctaowledge concerning ~he Culture and Regiment ofth~ cliJ..ind, wherin if any tnan confidering the parts rher .. hich I haue enutnerated,doe iudge,that tny la .. is but·to Colleet into an Art or ScJece,that which ,.-win pretertnitted byorhers, asn1acrerof cqmo11 'I lTJri tJ:ptritncejle iudgeth well: But as P hilott4~ ~ted with Demofthenes: you may not n~~trttAile( A -WA· fiS)thAI Demo{lbtnts ttnd I doedtjftr,for hetdrink~ tr,4nd ~drinkewine: and like as \vee readc of -._IIIDt:J·c :nte parable .ofi tht two gates o/ Jlttp~ ~tMtt·~ '~i!fom,U port-t,qum~m t~!Ur4 fe~tNr 1 ,.,., .. ~'1,,. v~ris focilu datur exit111 vmbru: C4Pdtnti ptr{et1~ nittns Eleph~nt1, 4 aa ttrlum mill Mill infomnia 111411~1. . wee putori (obriety and attenuon,welhall afure Maxitne in knowledge: that the more· Mt~~~. •• " •• Liquor( t~(Wine) is the tnore vaporous)and llra~ucr gate ofluo,Jt'J fendeth foorthe the falfer we haue n~w concluded, That generaU f4rl of p hiiiJopby,e 2 which tD11Jempl41etb m~~ fo: ~~~(J'" hie eo•fifllth 1/ hodye· AUJ ,{f;trttt, maye further n ore , that there , ZZI |