M. Hardinge. The .14. Diuision.
Yet it is not meante by them, that the people be keapte wholy from the Scripture, so as they reade no parte of it at al. As the whole in their opiniō is to strōge a meate for their weake stomakes: so much of it they may right holesomely receiue and brooke, as that whiche perteineth to pietie,* 1.1 and necessary knowledge of a Christian man. VVherein they woulde the examples of the Olde Holy Fathers to be fo∣lowed. S. Augustine hath gathered togeather into one booke, al that maketh for good life out of the Scriptures, whiche booke he intituled Speculū: that is to say, a Myrrour or a lookinge glasse, as Possi∣donius witnesseth in his life. S. Basile hath set foorth the like argument almost in his fourescoare mo∣ral rules perteininge altogeather to good manners. S. Cyprian also hath doone the like in his three Bookes Ad Quirinū. Suche godly Bookes they thinke to be very profitable for the simple people to reade.