Faith, Truth, Humility, Love or Chaa

rity, Patience, Diligence, Liberality,

Speech, Temperance, Chastity, Liberiye

and Praise

..

p. 69.

CHAP. VI. Of Vice in general; and para

sticularly of Pride, Ambition, Envy or

Malice, Wrath or Anger, Sloth or

Idleness, Covetousness, Gluttony and

Drunkennefs, Uncleanness, Lying and

Deceit, Flattery and Backbiting, swear-

ing, Folly and Ignorance. Of Repen-

tance, and the value of Time. p. 113.

CHAP. VII. Containing a Century of Di-

vine and Moral (but short and weighty)

Sayings or Sentences, chiefly colle&ted

from the most noted Authors before

named, and put into an Alphabetical

Order.

pigo.

CHAP. VIII. Giving abrief Account (ac-

'

cording to History) what the Authors

were, and of some Remarkable Passages

in the Lives of several of them, and in

that Time of the World they lived; Be-

ginning, and more largely Treating of

that Wise Philosopher Socrates. p. 157.

Where-

Whereunto is added,

AM APOLOGY for this Book, and those

Beople, who neither in former Ages

had, nor at this Day have the Holy
- Scriptures afforded to them..

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N.B. The Several Things treated

-of in this Collection, are in the fame

Order in the Book, as in the Contents;

by observing which, the Reader may
turn to any One Thing as readily is
by & Table.

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G E N TILE Divinity and Morality

DEMONSTRATED.

CH A P. I. Their Opinion of, or concerning God; his | Works, Power, Onniscience, and Omni

presence : Alfos of Fear, Prayer, and Worship due to Him from all Men.

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HILOSOPHY is to find out. and know the Truth both of

Divine and Humane Things, Justice, Piety, and Religion; yea, the whole Company of Vertues never depart from her: She teacheth us to adore and serve God, and to love Men. Seneca

The World was created by the Divine Providence of God. Aristotle.

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The Order of all Things that are visible in this World, declare, that there must needs be one principal Cause and Beginning, which we call God; and also that the fame Order cannot be without Providence, and one perpetual Governor. Aristippus.

That is God, which lacketh Begina ning and Ending; which God, being made of none, hath by his own Power created all Things. Hermes.

He only is to be known and taken for a God, who is not only a Creator, but also a Comforter, a Preserver, a Saviour, and a Deliverer. Plato.

There is a God that doth Rute and Govern all Things, who maintaineth the Course of the Seas, the Changes of Times, the Alteration and Order of Things, belonging both to Seg and Land; and who plaînly Feeth both the Lives and Doings of all Men. Cicero.

There is a Living God, who only Knoweth, who only Remembreth, who Foreseeth, Governeth, and Moderateth all Things, and He it is that Liveth for Ever. Cicero.

Let all Men in this be truly, perIwaded, That God is the Governor

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and Moderator of all Things; and that all Things are done by his Power and Appointment, or permitted in his Wife Providence; and that He it is, who moft clearly Beholdeth every Man, both what he doth, and what he admitteth in himself, and with what-Mind and Godliness he doth love and favour Religion ; and that he hath- also a regard both of Wicked and Ungodly Men.

There is but one God, and He is Glorious for ever: He is called, He who knoweth Hearts. Thales.

It is a Man's Duty to believe of the Divinity, that it is, and that it is in fuch a manner, as to Mankind, that it overlooks them, and neglects them not. Pythagoras.

God himself inhabits the lowest, and highest, and the middlemost; there is no Place or Being without God. Ibid.is i God is one Heavenly Luminary, or Light, and Father of all Things, only Wife, Invisible; yet Intelligible. Ibid.

God is an Infinite, Self-moving Mind; this Divine Infinite Mind, is the efficient Cause of all Creatures;

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