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A77141 The counsels of wisdom or, a collection of the maxims of Solomon. Most necessary for a man wisely to behave himself. With reflections on those maxims. Rendred into English by T.D.; Conseils de la sagesse. English. Boutauld, Michel, 1604-1689.; T. D. 1683 (1683) Wing B3860C; ESTC R223605 79,015 217

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loved be less perfect and less precious it is nevertheless properest for you and best made to your humour The sweetnesses of friendship come not from the Nobility of a Man nor his knowledge nor the beauty of his mind but from the conformity of his heart to yours You cannot be more ill clad then by a gaudy and rich suit too big for you and that sits not well neither can you be more ill beloved then by a man that nature has not made for you Moreover there is no new Garment that does not incommode the body nor new acquaintance that does not torment and wound the spirit The reserves and ceremonies continue a long time and these are the grand affairs at the beginnings of friendship In a word whosoever can cease to love a first Friend is unworthy to have a second and whosoever can let a good and a true friendship die shall never have another which may be immortal XI MAXIM Do good to thy Friend before thou die Eccl. 14. PARAPHRASE DO not stay till the hour of death to do good to your Friend Love makes companions not heirs It does not offer what it looseth and what it is constrained to leave but it renders that common which it possesseth The time of its liberality is the time of its life 'T is avarice or necessity that gives at death and which makes Testaments In doing well do not make reproaches and when In bonis non des querelam in omni dato non des tristitiam verbi mali Eccl. 18. you oblige a Friend by any favour let your countenance and your words oblige yet more The sadness of the giver offends him who receives and changeth the good done into displeasure Denial oftentimes ought to be excused because it may come from inability But ● sad consent and trouble cannot but be very odious because it can come from nothing but covetousness or want of affection When you have occasion to help your Friends have always three things open your Hands your Countenance and your Heart To do a kindness with speed is to do it twice But to do it in a civil and courteous manner is to do it more then an hundred times In like manner let that Ne dicas amico tuo Vade reverte cras dabo tibi Prov. 3. never happen as to say to a Friend Come again to morrow and I will give it you A favour delay'd is scarce more worth then denial and it is not given from the day that one can give it one gives but at halves It seems as if by this delay you did seek time to find means to do nothing at least you demonstrate that you do not oblige with pleasure Joy is ready and every thing that pleaseth it is suddenly done XII MAXIM Change not a Friend for any good by no means Eccl. 7. PARAPHRASE MOlest not your Friend who defers the payment of what he owes you It is better to have your money a little too late then loose so dear a friendship too soon To lend by affection is to employ your money well but to loose a Friend to recover it is to loose more then that 's worth REFLECTION SInce you are in haste to be paid conceive that he is more strained to perform it and know that it is not so painful to an honest man to want money as 't is to owe it Be content that he 's afflicted and disturbed don 't render him shamefull by speaking to him of that affair Those who have a little true friendship blush at the calling to mind the debt of a Friend Since you have much courage and much love do you your self blush at the remembrance thereof To hold ones peace thereupon is not to be generous enough perfect kindnes is quite to forget it XIII MAXIM Loose thy money for thy Brother and thy Friend and let it not rust under a stone to be lost Eccl. 29. PARAPHRASE HAzard your money by lending it t● your Brother or your Friend An● know that it is always more honourable an● more safe then it would be in a hidden Treasure and shut up under stones REFLECTION YOu ought to believe it lost assoon as it is useless to your Friends When they come to ask a favour of you be you ready to offer it fear no other danger but that of deliberating too long and have no other displeasure then for not having prevented them and for not being happy enough to guess that they had need of you Have herein the Maxim of that ancient Hero who being advised by his Treasurer that there was no more left and that his liberalities had exhausted it made him this heroic answer You deceive your selfe said he There remains to me all that I have given it is mine more then ever since 't is in the hands of my Friends Hoc habeo quodcunque dedi XIV MAXIM Who so discovereth secrets looseth his credit and shall never find a Friend to his mind Eccl. 27. PARAPHRASE TO reveal the secrets of one Friend is to loose many An unfaithful man shall never be loved of any body and those who have made him tell it shall be first that shall fear and hate him REFLECTION IN affairs of friendship aswell as in those of State the least and lightest indiscretions of the Tongue are irremissible crimes Their Secret is a Religious order who have no pardon for faults nor pity for ponitents They punish those faults after the most terrible manner and most to be feared of a man who hath any thing of sentiment or an heart Which is That they never give him any more the occasion to fall again XV. MAXIM If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend fear not for there may be a Reconciliation Eccl. 22. PARAPHRASE IF being in an ill humour you have happen'd to say ought to your Friend in cross terms or have inconsiderately injured him but that signifies nothing fear not for reconciliation is not difficult In like manner if during a fl●sh of anger you draw a Ad amicum si produxeris gladium non desperes sword against him despair not of re-establishing your friendship Man is indulgent toward the passions of his Brother when they are blind and carry away the reason There needs but one word of regret or one tear to wash away the memory of a bloudy quarrel That which is dangerous Excepto convitio improperio superbia Mysterii revelatione plaga dolosa in omnibus effugiet amicus and renders anger for ever irreconcilable is to cast in the teeth of a Friend any thing that reflects on the honour of his House or to upbraid him with the services you have done him or of any pleasure that he shall have received or to testify any contempt of him or to appear proud in his presence or in fine to declare his secrets or to betray him in any business where he puts confidence in you All that makes him
over hearts when they have seen the sweetnesses of humility joyned to the force of their wit and mingled with the splendor of their triumphs and glorious actions When you are in Companies where 't is rare to find a man who knows himself and speaks modestly and humbly be ye humble but take heed that you are not so by affectation and vanity Do not boast nor blame your self observe the Laws of Wisdom say not of your self neither good nor evil Do not you consider your self as a more imperfect man then others but as a Nothing of which there is nothing to say and of which you must never talk Do not ask one to slander you have only a care of being offended when one does and endeavor to be humble enough to desire one should do it Praise not those who ought to be blamed content your self to condemn no body When you meet scandalous persons instead of contemning them learn from them how much you ought to be slighted your self and look on them as a mirrour which discover to you an important truth The shadow which you see at your feet whilst the Sun casts its eyes on you and enlightens you what is it other then a figure which represents your body such as it is at night black and dark and such as it should always have been if this Star had never appeared The miserable wretches that you find in this World whilst that God sheds on you his blessings and that he heaps on you happiness and wealth What are they but an hideous picture where you are represented such as you would be if it pleased Divine Providence to abandon you Say then you who are rich and happy and who want nothing when you see on the straw a Begger cover'd with sores and diseases dying of hunger and cold say Behold my shadow there is what I should be had it not been for the particular goodness and care which God hath had of me You who are wise and devout when you hear the scandalous life of an infamous sinner spoken off say likewise There is my shadow 't is that I should have been and this that I should be from this day if my Sun withdrew its Light and if his Grace forso●k me It is true that the life of this Person is scandalous and horrible but it is your Image Humble your selves and adore the mercy of God who hath done great things in you X. MAXIM There shall'no evil happen to the just Prov. 12 PARAPHRASE THe just and devout man enjoys always inward rest There shall be no accident which hinders him from keeping himself in his duty and order or excites him to disorderly motions Fear and sadness are storms which mount not to the region where he is elevated by grace The noises shall Eccho thither but Peace shall never leave him and whilst his Soul shall be peaceful in matters little to him that his fortune were troubled or his affairs disordered REFLECTION ACcustom your self to look on all that happens without astonishment and without fear When affliction happens fret not against God and quit not your design of being eternally faithful to him Bear chastisement with respect and humility and let not your courage and your vertue abate under the pain Remember that God chastiseth those that are dear to him as a Father never finds a Son more lovely then when he receives correction humbly and respectfully So likewise doth man never please his Creator more then when he is humble obedient and faithful in adversity There is no Man that endures not No true Christian that endures not with patience No true Saint that endures not with pleasure The beginning of holiness is to be calm and modest under the hand of God when he afflicts us The perfection of it is to be happy thereby and to feel what the Apostles tyed when that Ibant gaudentes à conspectu Concilit quod digni habiti sunt pro nomine Jesu contumeliam pati going from before their Judges charged with outrages and affronts they gloried therein holily and marched through the streets as in triumph amongst the reproaches of Christ There is without doubt the highest Estate of spiritual life and I can say which the holy Fathers that it is to see that which is the most admirable to behold in the new and powerful grace of the incarnate word To see a man who in the midst of poverty and the ruines of his house enjoy in his Soul an heavenly rest and hath no other complaints to make to those that visit him nor to the Angels who contemplate him but those of St. Paul when he suffered superabundo gaudio joy overwhelms me it surpasseth my peins and my strength Other Saints have had no other thoughts they have always spoken of the times of affliction as of the most happy and most desireable It is by afflictions that on Earth we resemble our Crucified Saviour that we equal the Martyrs in Heaven that we surpass the Angels in death To die and to suffer are the consummation of Divine charity and this was the highest sublimity of the glory of the Word made man when he finished love on the Cross amongst the pains of death that he cried out consummatum est The Angels cannot arrive at this good fortune your devout Soul may Aspire thereto whilst you are mortal and capable of suffering It is not enough to imitate the Angels and to love Do that which to them is unimitable love in suffering and dying At least maintain your selves in this Condition by patience That whilst sickness and poverty or other miseries overwhelm you let not your heart sink under its pressures and suffer not that the disturbances and persecutions in the World should shake you and bereave you of any of your inward repose Above all have a particular Non contristabit justum qu●d ei acciderit care of not letting your self be troubled by those pains who have their first rise within our selves and who are born of our corruptions as are melanchollies and scrupulous fears and the other torments of a weak and a fearful imagination The most part of these hidden miseries within us and incurable by humane industry are no other thing then an inward night of thick clouds where the Devil forms Spectres and Visions to affright us Be not amused nor so much alarm'd as to dispute or fight with these chimerical monsters Wait only in patience the coming of the morning which destroy them all without noise and make known the mistake of your fear and disquiets I speak of the Wisdom of God which after these sorts of obscurities he implants in holy Souls Wisdom is the first Ray of the light of Glory and the true dawning of the day of Eternity It is this Aurora that disperseth all the dreams Doctrinam quasi ante lucernam omnibus illumino Eccl. 24. fancies and ignorances in the Imagination of Man who shall re-establish reason in its force
and in its Empire which renders truths apparent which makes duty and vertue loved which reimplants courage makes a coherence between the light and our hopes and which appears on our Horizon but to tell us that the Sun comes to us assuredly and that we are of the number of the Predestinated who shall see him Far be it from you to abate by secret persecutions Non contristabit justum quidquid ei acciderit or by the ordinary accidents of fortune to be troubled or disturbed trouble not your selves either at your sins or unforeseen relapses When you happen to fall into any fault do not amuse your selves to cry and complain as a Child fallen into the mire Withdraw your self gently and help your self in stretching your hand to mercy who offers you his Weep but hope hate your malice and infirmity which have rendred you a sinner hut adore the Wisdom of God who can draw his glory out of that shameful and reproachful estate that you are in Learn that the most Divine action of his power and love is to change into good the evil that you have done Whilst that you blush to see your self contemplate with admiration the designs of Love and Grace that his Providence considers of occasioned by your fault Fear his justice and flee it but never avoid it but by running to his goodness Be ye touched with compunction without being dejected be you resolved to govern your self better for time to come without being impatient or despairing from what is past Although true contrition bursts the heart it has yet somwhat of sweetness that bears it up and which makes it known and distinguisheth it from a false repentance The two marks most certain that we are in that condition God would have have us are Tranquility and Humility Assure your self that every affair where there is too much earnestness although it be the most Holy is done without intention to please God All inspiration that causes disorder in you comes not from the Holy Spirit All grief for sin which carries you to despair comes infallibly from the Devil All mortification that renders you disobedient and proud is the Council of your enemy All humility which makes you fear that there is no pardon for you and that God despiseth your tears is false and deceitful it leads you to impenitence and the death of the proud and reprobates Treat your selves the most meanly and with the most severity you can Humble your self and confess that Holiness is above your courage and that you are one of the most slack and ungrateful of men but have not the humility of the damned and say not that Salvation is above your might Pray to God to give what he commands from you and then offer your self to Him and pray Him to command all that he please ARTICLE II. MAXIMS For the Conduct of the Wit FIRST MAXIM Buy the Truth and sell it not also Wisdom and Instruction and Understanding Prov. 23. PARAPHRASE ENdeavour to purchase but take good heed you sell not that which is more worth than all the gold and silver in the World Buy truth but don't rid your self of Wisdom part not these two vertues possess both the one and the other Let Truth be in your words and Wisdom in your thoughts when that you judge of things know them and deceive not your self When that you speak lye not and deceive those that hear you Think wisely and speak sincerely In one word aspire to the highest and happiest estate that the Wit of man may be raised unto Have the courage to believe nothing nor to say any thing that is untrue Be wise and be sincere Veritatem eme noli vendere sapientiam REFLECTION IT is a precious Grace the grace of being sincere and not to yield to the violences of injustice nor to its flatteries when it would engage us to tell a lye and betray our Consciences Many have bought this Grace by their own blood and have given for it what hath been most dear to them in the World And if you have it not as yet spare nothing to purchase it at any rate That which you shall give is infinitely less worth then it Fear not to dye but fear to live with the reputation of a man without Word and who loves the Truth less th●n a mortal life and a miserable fortune Eme veritatem Grave that Maxime in your heart that a wise Prince writ with his finger on the lips os his Son Rather dye then lye Hate a lye more then death and although Verbum mondox detestabitur in Company men call it the most innocent sin and in the Palace the most necessary yet do you call it the most shameful to nature the most intollerable to a man of honour and Conscience Since that you bear in Non decet principem verbum mentiens Prov. 17. your Soul the Image of the Truth of God Take that for you that Solomon said to the Kings that whatsoever ornament you can give to a lye it is very indecent in your mouths Conscendam ero similis Altissimo It becomes none but the proud Angel who chose it for his character and who began by it when he would render himself the horrour of nature and transform himself into a Devil The first proposition he made to the Angels in Paradice Nequaquam morte morieris eritis sicut Dit Gen. 3. was a lye The first word he spake on earth was another lye that he made to the Man The first thought he had at his entrance into Hell and the first design he took there to revenge himself on God was to lye eternally And the first promise that he made himself to comfort him in his pains that all Men should lie also and that he would find a means to spread his sin and his own corruption as far as the sin of the first Man An enterprize alas wherein he has been too lucky and wherein he succeeds this day six thousand years Who is the Man that lies not Children do in the Cradle The Philosophers and holy Men in the Schools of Wisdom and even on the Throne of Truth Men do it in every condition and every age Among all those who have sinned in Adam and who have been able to speak there is not one who has not livd and who hath not born on his tongue this Image of the Devil Leave it not upon yours Tear away all the remains Remove à te os pravum detrahentia labra sint procul à te Prov. 4. Viam pravam os bilingu● detestor Pro. 8. of this unhappy inclination detest this fatal sin Politicians make it their study many make it their pastime and others their trade Make you of it what all great Men have the abominations of your heart look upon it as the unworthiest crime and the most infamous accident which can happen to a noble Soul But if it be shameful to lye and
his friends REFLECTION THere are but these two Lights that are faithful and that we may be able to to follow safely amidst the darknesses which surround us The greatest Wits have gone astray in following themselves The meanest and most ignorant have never done it in following the Gospel When one hearkens to his own prudence for enlightned asmuch as can be one often fails of being happy in his attempts But in the hearkening to the council of friends one is always praise worthy Fortune may trouble the success of our actions wisely managed and with council but it cannot rob us of the honour of it It is success enough in a design to acquire the glory of having acted discreetly therein and the reputation of being wise IX MAXIM When he speaketh fair believe him not for there are seven abominations in his heart Proverb 26. PARAPHRASE WHen there is danger for Consciences in a City and that there runs any noise of a new contagious Doctrine don't leave your self to be deceived by its sweetness nor its lustre Distrust words that please you and devotions that astonish you much more A devout voice a pale and a dejected countenance a simple and a reformed habit mysterious words mortifications exemplary and too apparent are vails proper to cover the poison of Hell when they are brought into company and distributed to the curious REFLECTION THe primitive Christians were excused when they suffered themselves to be deceived by appearances of holiness and perhaps we could excuse some innocent women this day when we see them admire the look of an Hypocrite that counterfeits the Reformer But since one has known by six hundred years experience that the archest Hereticks and Anti-christs of each age have begun their life of Seducers by a life of Alms and fasting and by an extatick Devotion there can happen nothing more shameful to Men of Wit and Judgment then to take a dogmatist or a cheat for a Prophet and although he preach manifestly against the Church of God to believe nevertheless that he comes from Heaven because he does Alms makes long Prayers and hath the secret of painting modesty on his countenance Ne credideris ei saith Solomon who ever he be that meddles with Divine mysteries were he one come out of the Caves and the greatest severities were he as saith St. Paul an Angel descended out of Paradise were he as sait● Saint Cyprian a Martyr stretched on a wheel and suffering for the Name of the Saviour all the pains of a cruel and infamous death ●f from the top of this wheel he witnesseth that there rests in his Soul any thoughts or opinions contrary to the sentiments of the Church he is an Apostate and a Reprobate You are one your self if you render your self his disciple he damns himself in dying the death of the Saints and you damn your self in hearkening to this Martyr of Jesus Christ Net perveni●● ad Christi pramia qui relinquit Ecclesiam Christi Si occisus pro nomine Christi fuerit ab unitate divis●s coronari in morte non poterit Whosoever believes not the Church is out of the Church and whosoever dies out of the Church although he die between the hands of Tyrants dies out of the number of the Predestinated ones he hath no portion among the Elect of the Son of God Alienus est profanus est host is est habere non potest Deum Patrem qui Ecclesiam von habet M●trem In one word Fili mi saith the Wise man Si te lactaverin● pec●atores ut acquies●as eis Whatsoever sweetness and whiteness there is in the Milk take heed of taking of it when they are poisoners that give it It would be an horrible phrenzie if because you are counselled to beware of this Milk so dangerous that you should desire to taste it and if in the same hour you should do it in despight to those charitable persons who prayed you not to do it and who would oppose this unhappy design 'T is nevertheless the strange and in conceivable fancy or the strange Devil of many Assoon as the Church declares to them that there is the poison of Hell mixed in any Doctrine and by an holy charity adviseth them 〈◊〉 ●●nounce and to avoid those who teach it from thence forth they feel themselves drawn thither ward and there they run as to a precious Doctrine worthy to be known and maintain'd in despight to the Holy Spirit of God and in despight of all those who persecute and condemn it Be you not of their number but reflect young man as you are that its time for you to be wise since you judge it is time to speak of holy things and that you say your sentiments thereon in company and in the Schools At least respect the dignity of your Soul formed after the Image of the Wisdom and of the Holiness of God and profane it not so shamefully as to be willing to take for his Gospel or his Philosophy all the novelties that fools are pleased daily to invent and propose in their discourses X. MAXIM He that walketh uprightly walketh sure but he that perverteth his ways shall be known Prov. 10. PARAPHRASE HE that walks plainly and sees where he will go marcheth with assurance but he who counterfeits or wipes out his steps shall be known In hiding his crafts one hides not himself Dissemblers and deceivers bear in their faces the character of their Genius It is sufficient to see a Traitor to make you distrust him and fear him Life is found in the public ways of righteousness and fidelity but crooked and hidden paths lead to death REFLECTION TAke good heed of entring into any of these paths and of following the company who walk in those dark and by-roads Banish from you craft dissimulation and lies have no vail upon your heart and engage it not in the intrigues of dangerous affairs and criminal parties where there is need of being cover'd Be you glad that nothing hinders it from being seen and remember that the fairest and most excellent of things have no better policy to gain men and ●o merit their esteem and friendship then to shew themselves If there be beauty in your Soul it cannot have too much day and you ought to assure your self that one will have so much the more respect and love for you as you shall have of freedom and sincerity It is true that silence is necessary on many occasions but you must always be sincere and courteous You ought to retain some thoughts but disguise none There are ways of holding ones peace without shutting up the heart of being discreet without being dull and silent of hiding some truths without covering them with lies of being faithful to his friends without deceiving others and without betraying his Conscience In fine it is a great advantage to thrive in the World and to have the reputation of telling nothing which ought to be secret or was false XI MAXIM
to loved of those who ought to obey you Whatsoever name of Prince Lord or Magistrate that you bear in a Province or City believe this That you shall not have any power nor be really the Master of any thing but when you shall be the Master of Hearts But observe that to be beloved of the people the first lesson is in loving them love nothing but their persons seek nothing else by your goodness towards them but the pleasure of obliging them without interest and the honour of loving them sincerely and that without hope That of feigning love is a wicked trade and by acting the part of a friend on the stage of the World by promises and comical civilities A Man learns nothing but to deceive and betray himself In the art of gaining hearts the great secret is to love naturally and that without art without reflection it self and if I might so say without vertue Love is so much the more powerful over the will and so much the more vertuous and more admirable as it doth without vertue the good it doth and follow nothing but its instinct the nature Divine charity it self is not perfect but when it is transformed into the nature of the charitable person and that it is become his inclination and its weight Futhermore let clemency be inseparable from your person and let it enter into all your Councils Be severe in words and actions when you must be so but then have you another tongue and other hands besides your own Imploy not your hands but when you must distribute favours and let not your tongue serve you but to pronounce edicts of mercy and love Take not those for enemies who are sincerely afflicted for having displeased you And when its necessary to punish any guilty person do not give him time if possible to repent before your face and have recourse to your goodness If his tears and his grief prevent you believe that you have lost the rights of your anger and endeavour to imitate the Master of Kings and Judges who cannot punish sinners but in the time that they are proud and who doth not make the misery of any one to continue eternally but because they love eternally their malice II. MAXIM Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life Prov. 4. PARAPHRASE LEt your greatest care and your chief business be to keep your Heart because it is the first spring of life When that finds it self in disorder the rest must necessarily be so also and nothing in your person nor your house can be happy whilst your heart is not Govern your passions and lusts and do not follow them Distrust your own will because it is your own enemy and that it seeks no other thing by its impatient desires and disorderly inclinations then to beget in you intestin wars and to see there confusion despair and death Keep all that in chains and let them be as so many rebellious prisonners committed to the Conduct of your reason REFLECTION THe Passions are a very wise invention of nature who was willing to give man extraordinary forces on occasions where he ought to act strongly for the repelling a dangerous evil or acquireing any good of which the conquest is painfull When these invisible fires are lighted in the veines a man is more then himselfe and he then does nothing but what seems miraculous There goes out of his heated bloud sparks and I know not what points of flame as stings which enter into the heart and by unforeseen motions push it on to bold attempts Hee runs where vehemency carries him finding nothing difficult being able to believe nothing to be invincible nor more powerfull and strong then the fire of which he feels him selfe animated The mischief is that these forces shut up in man are contrary to him These are seditious and cruel domesticks At least if they are not kept chained alwayes hee is lost if they are not his slaves he must of necessity be their victime The Passions knit to the heart of man by the eternall wisdome are as Lyons or as horses of great price fastned to the Chariot of a Conquerour When that our spirit exempt from crime without dependance on interest Master of its desires Conqueror of the world Image of the greatness and of the Majesty of God comes to appear there on drawn by them into glory and immortality there is not in nature a statelier spectacle nor more worthy to be contemplated nor admired by Angels But when it happens during the triumph that the horses break their bits they carry away their guides by force from their Master and there can be nothing seen more sad and disastrous they drag along with them all the triumph into precipices And this conqueror which the people gatherd together admired and contemplated is no more any thing but the sport of a Troop of furies and a sad example of the weakness of the vertues of the man and the vanity of his greatness The Passions are from God the excess which happens is of the sin of the first Man The work was holy pure when it went ou● from the hands of the Creator But the fire of hell is set thereto and our teares had not been able to quench it although wee had never ceased to weep since it was lighted The evil has lasted neer six hundred yeers already and continues to this very day and it is thence that all the mischiefs that betide us form themselves Our spirit sent from Heaven into this lower world Corpus mortis Caro peccati enters into an house built of earth into a body composed of a corruptible matter of dirt filled with the stings of sin and of death The vapours of this corruption form within us a thick dark and tempestuous cloud which covers us with horrour and obscurity Our passions wrapt up in this Cloud they heat themselves and there take fire and goe out thence like lightning and whirlwinds These turbulent fires drive on the Imagination the imagination being driven and carried away carries with it the thoughts and the will of the soul The immortal soul follows motion and goes where heat and fury leads it It takes d●signs and conceives blindly inconsiderate opinions foolish and deceitfull hopes and impetuous desires It runs and hazards it self and its headlong rashness stops not its selfe but when in the end it is arrived to its unhappyness lost in an abiss of crimes and teares The worst of it is that when it finds it selfe there it is ashamed to retire thence It falls there by folly and it abides there by Pride Man coverd with darkness and filled with errours plunged in filth and loaden with chains tyed by stubborness to his customes and his ignorance is a sad spectacle for Heaven who contemplate● with pitty this image of God in so deplorable a condition During the estate of innocence the passions raised not themselves but by the