WHen I consider in what estate Man was crea∣ted, I cannot but thinke of his folly; who, through a false hope of knowing good and euill, lost the e∣nough of good hee had, and found too much euil. This makes mee call to
Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English.
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- Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English.
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minde the vaine ambi∣tion of those, who seeke to prie into that vnreuealed (and there∣fore inscrutable) know∣ledge of the Deity: vp∣pon whom GOD loo∣king down, saies in a piti∣full derision (as hee did to Adam) Beholde, the men are become as one of vs. This meditati∣on stretcheth-out it selfe, and biddes mee also con∣sider the arrogancie of those, who scorne to erre, or to bee repre∣hended for their errours, not-withstanding that they see Man to haue er∣red
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in the state of Inno∣cencie. I will therefore seeke to knowe my selfe (the next and surest way to knowe GOD) and by an humble Confes∣sion, begge Remission of my faults. I say, I will confesse them vnto God; not boast of them to Man.