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.

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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.
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Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.
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[London] :: Printed by Henrie Denham dwelling in Pater Noster Rowe, being the assigne of William Seres,
1581.
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Conduct of life -- Early works to 1900.
Spiritual life -- Modern period, 1500-.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00935.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.

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The tenth Honicombe, yeelding most whoalsome dehortations from vice and vitious life.

81 BE not wanton nor light in thy behauiour, least thy ma∣ners being marked, thou reape shame and rebuke.

82 Be not a couerer of an offence, where the offender falleth wil∣fullie, but open his fault that he may be reproued.

83 Be not seditious and giuen to discord and strife, least thou be counted a mainteiner of mis∣chiefe.

84 Be not vainglorious and con∣fident in thy foolishnesse, for such

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a one is like a shee Beare robbed of her whelps.

85 Be not a rewarder of euill for good: for if thou so do, euill shall not depart from thy house.

86 Be not a iustifier of the vn∣godlie, nor a condemner of the innocent: for both these doth the Lord abhorre.

87 Be not delighted in sinne and wickednesse: for that is to bring destruction & euerlasting death to thine owne soule.

88 Be not froward of heart, least thou thereby obteine no good: neither beare thou a double tong in thy mouth.

89 Be not wilfull in thine owne opinion, neither defend thou ob∣stinatelie that which is not right.

90 Be not wise in thine own con∣ceipte, least in so doing thou be counted a foole among the dis∣créete.

91 Be not married to thine owne fansie, and like not so well of thy

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selfe, as to haue other in con∣tempt.

92 Be not hastie to be reuenged vpon thine enimie, but bridle thy raging lust for a time with rea∣son.

93 Be not stubborne and revelli∣ous against a magistrate, least thou heape coles of fire vpon thine head.

94 Be not presumptuous, and of an haughtie heart: for the end of pride is shame and confusion.

95 Be not a listener after newes, nor a raiser vp of reports, least thou become a common scorne.

96 Be not a laughter at other mens miseries: for thine estate is subiect to the like wretched∣nesse and calamitie.

97 Be not a grudger against God, if he afflict thée: but pati∣entlie beare all tribulations and sorowes.

98 Be not suspicious where there is no appearance, and though there be, yet be not too rash in

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thy iudgement.

99 Be not liberall of another mans, least thereby thou growe out of credit with thy friends.

100 Be not a deceiuer of the sim∣ple, nor guilefull in thy dea∣lings: for that is the waie to lose loue and fauour.

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