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Show .. N.CW8rials of H4cipfa fato jampropmqum_, .Armin;, .,A.dhuc moneblf.5, cum labortbH4 vitte Longis faN(cepf, fttculi~ pertaJm Faftidioji, pertinacts, ingrati, . Indigniore p~trte fra&us & /anguem, Me/iort fofpes; ilia millibU~ .multiJ Monflrata ptr te regna tpt114 ardcm, Et nunc p~tterno.Jidm additum t.emp!o 1Jeum precaris, Det gregi fuo lucem. . l/ic quanto{atis eft 9 hac det ejfe con- . . te,ntum: ~ 7Jet non fqquentes fua reperta 1Jo. Uores: ~. Det con[onantes [emper omnium lin- ~ . gutU, ,:.Aut corda J~tltem : prttpotente vi \. fiammte Caligino[tu. litium fuget Jorde,: . Ut (piret unum tot a civit M Cbrifti, Vitami terris approbet, fidem cCE/o. ?JiJ. we all follow what is .here fo well expre{f; that is,. humbly fubmit tqJplain Scripture, nut boldly enquire in~o things · 1/~YeVe/ltltd; ttJOY.e . CXtre,i[# ,OH7: c_hartty I ant) le[s qlf.arr.d about,ipinions ;-, w~tlk i11 finferity of-hr~~Yt, before GiJd , .. Ana.inup· rt.ghtnefs of conver(ation .. kf>{flfe. ~e~; . ( ert ainly tt w-o.uld be much ,bttter ptth Chriftendom~·.-tha.n· it u. at.t.bif day. BH~, the e:reat fau{t .u·, ~'Jhtt,t men . ..M} o#.t thetr t Set Dr.Ham- :1:.JtAl upon a [f~' ' flr .jidr ;\ an~·< ftkdy not 1~ond1 T rea· to improvll thA··Co,nmon ·'ir.Jiths to the dtrlc of ~un- Aavancement ofP(ace mu:l·~ Ch~trit] t' amem~ s. - .. • ]ill' But mort ofthu hereafter. 'Among our fiuthor' s jirft works, above i1 mention' a hu De Re.publica Bacav. of which Himfelf JPea~s in an Eptft/e /o Thua~ nus, An. 161 ~. thm: ' . An. x~ 10• *This Book of our Common-wealdt "" Grot. f.pift. I fendtoyqu, that have framed together ad ]ac. Allf. not the French Hifl:orie ond y , but the ThuanurH. Hifl:orie of the whole World, with fuch variety of matter, and fuch elegance of fiile, that no man could ever have expected the like from one a~ greateA: leifare, Bu~ I fend you a .flender work if you look upon the matter ' containing ., not the affatrs of all mankind, no nor of fome great K\ngdome, but of one Nation included within narrow bounds : nor all the affairs of th)s, but a breviate onely of the Government. Plainly, here is nothing for .yott .to love , nothing to praife; betides a mind like yours , <V(ZJ. mofi affe8: ionate to ,my Country, and not addiC\ ed to 1lnnovation, Le.mbrace that faying of Thucydides : Thaf Jcheme of ljo'Ciernment .w/Jieh every o'ne .. p~th re" ived, it: u g.ood for him to pre(erve4 That's your care in a grea~ Kingdome , ours in a. litele Commoh--Y.realth. Your \~morta:hMtork , though tit may pleafe ~11 by th.o- .antient elegance of wo'rds, fll.Q:~arlety Q£ ma~te~ , y¢t doth it not deferve better· of die Readers jn any refpeet, ·than ;hat it makes;-them both good men~ and good. Subjects. We\alfo will •· · · be |
