The diamond of deuotion cut and squared into sixe seuerall points: namelie, 1 The footpath to felicitie. 1 2 A guide to godlines. 81 3 The schoole of skill. 181 4 A swarme of bees. 209 5 A plant of pleasure. 245 6 A groue of graces. 283 Full of manie fruitfull lessons, auaileable to the leading of a godlie and reformed life: by Abraham Fleming.

The second Blossome conteining A thankesgiuing for the benefit of our creation.

WE praise and magnifie thée O eternall GOD, for thy great mercie, in that it hath plea∣sed thée, among all the workes of thine hands, to make vs the most excellent and noblest examples of thy iustice, wisedome, and goodnes. We glorifie thée also for that im∣mortall essence, the principall part of our nature, euen our reasonable soule, which although it be not properlie comprehended in place, yet is it resident in cur bodies, and there dwelleth as in a mansion house, not onelie to minister life to all the members and parts of our bodies, and to make the instru∣ments thereof méete and fitlie ser∣uing for the actions wherevnto they are apointed, but also to beare the chiefe office in the gouernement of our life, and that not onlie about the duties incident and belonging

to this earthlie and transitorie life, but also to stir and quicken vs vp to the seruice and worship of thée our most mercifull Creator.

And as we praise thée for crea∣ting vs like to thine owne image, not onlie in the outward frame of our bodies, wherin thy glorie doth appeare: but also in the inward shape of the soule, which is the proper seate of thy likenesse: so do we magnifie thée for all the graces and blessings wherewith it hath pleased thée to beautifie, adorne, and enrich the one and the other. Beséeching thée to voutsafe vs the direction of thy spirit, that we may, during the time of our iournie in the wildernesse of this world, em∣ploie and vse them to that princi∣pall end whereto they were besto∣wed vpon vs, namelie, to the bene∣fite of our brethren, and the setting foorth of thine eternall glorie: through Iesus Christ our onlie mediator and ad∣uocate,

Amen.