Faith, Truth, Humility, Love or Cha- rity, Patience, Diligence, Liberality, CHAP. VI. Of Vice in general; and pur- ticularly of Pride, Ambition, Envy or Malice, Wrath or Anger, Sloth or Idleness, Covetousness, Gluttony and Drunkenness, Uncleanness, Lying and Deceit, Flattery and Backbiting, Swear- ing, Folly and Ignorance. Of Repen- CHAP. VII. Containing a Century of Di- vine and Moral (but short and weighty) Sayings or Sentences, chiefly collected from the most noted Authors before named, and put into an Alphabetical CHAP. VIII. Giving a brief Account (ac- cording to Hiftory) what the Authors were, and of fome Remarkable Paffages in the Lives of feveral of them, and in what Time of the World they lived; Be- Whereunto is added,, An APOLOGY for this Book, and those Beople, who neither in former Ages had, nor at this Day have the Holy Scriptures afforded to them. N. B. The Several Things treated of in this Collection, are in the fame Order in the Book, as in the Contents; by obferving which, the Reader may turn to any One Thing as readily as by a Table, Their Opinion of, or concerning God, his P HILOSOPHY is to find out. and know the Truth both of Divine and Humane Things, Juftice, Piety, and Religion; yea, the whole Company of Vertues never depart from her: She teacheth us to adore and ferve God, and to love Men. Seneca. The World was Created by the Divine Providence of God. Ariftotle. B The The Order of all Things that are vifible in this World, declare, that there muft needs be one principat Cause and Beginning, which we call GOD; and alfo that the fame Order cannot be without Providence, and one perpetual Governor. Ariftippus. That is God, which lacketh Beginning 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 Preferver, a Saviour, and a Deliverer. Plato. There is a God that doth Rule and Govern all Things, who maintaineth the Courfe of the Seas, the Changes of Times, the Alteration and Order of Things, belonging both to Sea and Land; and who plainly feeth both the Lives and Doings of all Men. Cicero There is a Living God, who only Knoweth, who only Remembreth, who Forefeeth, Governeth, and Moderateth all Things, and He it is that Liveth for Ever. Cicero, Let all Men in this be truly perfwaded, That God is the Governor and 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 alfo 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 higheft, and the middlemost ; there is no Place or Being without God. Ibid. pas God is one Heavenly Luminary, or Light, and Father of all Things, only Wife, Invifible, yet Intelligible. Ibid. God is an Infinite, Self-moving Mind; this Divine Infinite Mind, is the Efficient Caufe of all Creatures; L |
