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Show .. No CROSS, No CROWN. . Vo1. ~~ !! ~+ . Jh !d l#p/fJiays ,a th< Krng ' That "• 668 10 lJiHt. He would fay,,Tbat Kmt{; 0!'lt 1· ' tnefs, and be converfible .~y I • fhould be Juft, and mtx Sweetne s w~r cis are like tbe Splttn, tbot never ~ Good Men. Tb.r t1Je Treafurujhof.~,~ Teaching Princes thereby to fpaJe ap. • Jwells but it malus other Paru rm · his EHemy before he was Emperor, their Subje8s. ~eeti~g abe :~J~fl ~:~ore Jd fear: Intima_rjn~g, thu h~ving he cry'd out to htm,, 1\ow 1 ° uld rather ufe ~t to do htm Good. . . Ppwer to Revenge htmfel\f<Dw~ntonfnu~ a Good M~n (the Chnlhans § XLI. ~atCUD ~Ute U . S n lo; WupiT~Lat nis Tutor's Death, ()[his Time felt it) comid"~ed htsendeted it unfuirable ·ra his C0nd~tio~, anfwering thofe that wo~ fi bvejhr !d jhew bim[elf a Man, before be be • Let him a/on~, fays he, 1~ 1 1 ;. Wire at lhe Infrigari~n of his Courtiers,, Prince. He refufed to Dtvorce ~s I mujl divorce the £ml!_ire too; for ]he though ~eputed Nlught; a~~~ed~r~~ding his Te0dernefs. He did nothln~ brongbtlt: Refufing t~em, {i 1 i his Friends, and would fay, It. u in the Government Without con u t "i . e of Many: than Many -the lt1znd 1110rc Jufl that One foouttj~~~~ {Tle ~3:1&peior . f~r his Dominions were of One .• H~ was mo~eh 'OfO~:Jed having comm;nded his own Paffions by greater wahm than Wit out. n · · l he was fit to Rule thofe a circumfpe8: Co.ffkrm~ty to ~~~o:~c!t\~~~ps~;'ings, as followeth : Of t!Y of other Men. a e orne q d b Gentle and .ft1etk, and to rrfrazn Grand-father Verus, I have ~arne b 1F, ~t and Memory of bilnthat begot me, from all Altger and Paj]ion. .rom~ b ~ I obf~rvtd bis Mee!mefr, his SlMme-Faced'!efs and M~n-!t~e he,j/Tb;~gr wb~eh after a dUe Examinar~on Con/lmrcy, Wlt~out wavermg, 111 ~ od R j. te from all vanity be earned trnd Deliberation ht bad determd'D.. 't ~w H; Laborioufnefr and .Affiduity: bbn]c/f in Matter of Hono'M ll1l h 'gb'?o~ghtto Jtty tending to any Common His Rcadinefr to f.:tr ba:Y. j;n 1 ~ ~thajte Uve ~~ Tout b. Hi~ moderate Good : Hof!J he z a J'a.M_ ~om Q caftans tU an ordinary .1Uan. -- Of my condcfcendmg tR t~er e; Bou~tiful and to forbear, not "Only to do, bur Mother, to be .e.lglousan ;.,1/«itha S~areDier, and tofiyal . to intend any t:v~l. .JTo tonant mwJ:lth _ Of my Grand-Father, bo1b filch £xafs ar 'H tnCl ent to reat ~ . • 4 et 111( good and nb7t to frequent c.nbli~k Stj~~:t jn:ug1~~!:r~~s;bi~ :1:,~, if upon fur;~ Occll,{id· Teachcrr at ome ' an ., over the Study of Rhetonck an tJIIS 1 were at ex._cel}ivt ~argei.a I gqve I did nor ujt tD wtrlk abollt t}Je Poetry, and of E1eg:J.nt eat ngjge. Ji b Tbingr 1 !'earned to write f:~~;n,.7iho~na~;'J{n~}~o::; c~~fb£~},=,'/,!i.~t;d~nl;~:~ Jo: Reconciled, and we~1 ba,e agamt Wlreek unto me again. To obfervt ca~e· '" any of them wou" e content 0 Jfj . d d 1 to be ofjtnded wub fully tht fever a/ Dij}ofitions of my rzen r, tb:r a:: c.Jrried away uith the Idiots, no~ 'fnreafo!''i,b/1 'T{~~r:~: a~d4~nets of Philofophers. To Lovd vbulgTar Op~n;~dsr'uftice t a=d to be Kind and Loving to all them of my Houf~ anb t e rut ' h S ilnd it Wal be tbat put me mr e p,jlmily, I /~arne//.7.~':/ ::Eq~~l Cvoe~u~~n-Wealrh, adminiflred h:t Jufiicc fir Conceit an eJJr ~"Ki h . jho ld b egarded notbmg more ab:nEtb~a~~~ ::j ~eif.tr~~~~i'.'it:rt;)'~J rb/ SubJefu. Ar Jor G~;~' 0j;~ {;;j,;~rr,;,n;b,;:·I ~;~~: i,~~!nJ~1~:1.~i bif.ko'::~~~~~~ ~;Pg[;}:f ;'(:}.;'4 0 tbat even now that I r»tU not {et ~arta er, an 1 :J' d M . nd rbat Life, that I :ny felf (in thai Jid not obferve tbof~ inwar AJ.~:~itionr Sllggejlionr; yea, and almofl plain_ and apparenJ ~njlru:;o~~ ~':/the Natllre of oj God) tear the only Caufe of tt. --- t Jal u erpn. l . B:~d thPt tf;at tchith if Good, that tt U to be dtfired; and of thaf tvl)IC'J U . IT. 'wbo. ; 1 U OdiouJ IZIJd Sbmiufu!: 11'bo know moreover, tbat thu TranfgrC.Cof,rtili• f oe1!er be b:beH :'~eKi.;,{:fo~· ~:/~j~beija'::e ~i:fn:nta~t~~t;, b:: ?rincipl~ ~~;~"cat I,;,£~ be burt by ~ny of tbefe, fince, it;, not in dbc6r .P,J.[f:J. ;;:;d, tnt ;11, 11, an) Thi!1lthnt is reproachful, 1r vt angry an ' '"11JI• . bif, VoL. I. No CROSS, No CROWN. him rcbo, by NtJtltre, is fo near unto 1111? · For {1)6 art all/ orn to be Felloy;; 1668. Wo1~!;:cn, ar 1be Feet, tbt Handr, and tbt E;e·Lidr; or the Rowr of upper ~ 1md under Teeth: For Jkch therefore robe tn Op'pofirion, Ungainjl Nature.- Chap.XIX. He faith, ' It is high Time for thee to underlhnd the True Nature. both • of the World, whereof thou art 3 Parr, and of th:J.t Lord and Ciover- . 'nour of the World, from whom, as a Channel from the Spring, thou thy ' felf djdft flow. And that there is but a certain Limit of Time: appoimed unto thee, which if thou foalt nor make ufe of, to calm and allay the mm1y Dijlemperr of thy Soul, i't will pafs away, anJ -thou witb it, and never o{ter f'et11rn. --Do, Soul, do, abufe, and contemn thy felf yet a While, , and . the Time for thee to Repent thy ftf/, will be at an End. Every Man'r Hap~ pinefs depends ftom bimfe/f; bur behold, thy Life u almofl at an End, wbiljl; not regarding thy felf ar thou ougbujl, tho~ dojl make thy Happinefr to conjifl in the So~lr and Co!lctits of otbtr Men. Tho11 mufl alfo take Heed of anat'ber Kind of Wandering; for they are idle in their AOionr, UJbo toil and Ia· bo11r in their Life, and bdve no certain Scope, to which ttJ dir_eO aU their )Jlo• tionr and De[tru. Ar fur Life and Death, Honour :1nd Difhonour, Labour and Pleafure, Riches and Poverty, oU tbefe Thi11gr happen unto .Men indeed; both Good and Bad equally, but ar Things, u•hich of themfelver are neither Good nor Bad, ./uc(u~jt oj thel!!fe!ves neither Shameful nor Praift·worthy. Confider the Nature of all Worll!y Vijible Things; of thofe ej}ecioUy, which tither enfnare by Pleafure, or for their IrkfomnefS are Dreadful; or for their outward Lufi:re and Shew, are in great Efteem and R£quefi:; how Vile and Contemptible, how Bafe :Jnd Corruptible, how deftitute of all True Life and Being they are. There H nothing more OJrttched than that Soult tobicb, in a Kind oj Circuir, compaffeth aU Things\ fenrching rotn the ver.y -Depthr of all the Earth, and, by all Sign~ and UnjeOurer, pryilig ihro the very Thoughts of otber Men's Souls; and yet of this it NOt ftnjibl~, Jbat it is fufficient for a Man to apply bimfe!f wholly, and cpn.fote nll hir Tboughtl and Caru to the Guidance of that Spirit which is within him, and truly and teally Serve Him. For even the lea /I Tbingr ought not to ht done r»itho111 Relation unto tbt End : And the EnJ of the Reafonable Creaturt iJ, To Follow and Obey Him who is the Reafon, as it were, and the Law of ibis Great City, and moft AncientCommon-Wea.lth. Philofophy doth conji_/1 in this, For a A-Ian to preferve that Spirit which ir within hun, from all Mnhner f. Contumelies and Jnjuries, and above all Paint and Pleafures; mver td t1 any Thing eitb'tr Kafhty, or Feignedly, or Hypocritically: He that i~ _fucb, is he furely ; indeed a very Ptieft and Minifter of God, well ac_quainrel and in good Corre{polfd.ence with Him ej}eci110y, that is feattd and- placed wit~ in bimfeif' To whom a!fo be Imps and prifmx/b bimfe!f; ntitber fpotted hy Pleafure, nor Ja11nteJ. by Pain ; frtt from anj Manner of W rang or Contumely. Let th:t 4!oO t!Jat ffJ fn fDu. to Rule over thee, find by thee; that he bath to do w11b a Man, an Aged. Man, a Sociable Man, a.Roman, a Prince, ami that hath ordered his Life, as one that txpeOetb, ns it were, no-thing but the Sound of the Trumpet, founding a Retre:J.t to depart out of this Life with all Readinefs. Never efteem of any Thing as profitable, which fbal1 ever conftrairi thee, either to break thy Faith, or to lofe thy Modelly ; to hate any Man, to fufpett, to curfe, to dill'emble, to luft after any Thing that requireth the Secret of Walls or Vails. But hi that preferrerh, before a/!Tbingr, His Rational Part and Spirit, and the Sacled Myfieries of Virtue which Hfue from it, be jhaO never m.mt either Solitude or ComptJny; and which is Chiefeft of all, He jha./1 live without either De fire· o~ Fear. If thou ]halt intend that which ir prejent, [o/Joroi11g the Rule of Right and Reafon, carefully, folidly, meekly J and jhalt not inttrmix any .other Bu/ inefs; but jhalt. jludy tbir, to preferve thy Spirir unpolluted' and Pure; and as one that were even now ready ro give up the Ghoft, lha!t cleave unto him, without either Hope or Fear or any Thing, in aU f!tmgs that thou £halt either do, or fpeak; contenting thy felf with Her~ICaiTrlltb, thou lh:1lt 1ive Happily; and frotn this thert's no Man ~bat can hm~er the1!'. Witbo11t Relation to God, thou ihalr never perform ar1ght ~ny Thtng Hu· Ddd man•• |