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FRancis the first,* 1.1 King of France, questioned Budeus (a good Scholler of his time) that if all the Volumes in the World were doomed to the fire, what one would he have, his answer was; Plutarch's works; because they had the
impression of all sciences; And Thomas Aquinas chose rather to have Saint Chrysostome on Saint Matthews Gospel then the huge City of Paris; Here now was a couple of Schollers choice;* 1.2 But if the like Quaere were put to a sincere downright Christian, his reply would be, Epistolam Creatoris ad Creaturas, the Epistle of the Creator to the Creature; i. e. the book of holy writ; not Lipsius de Constantia, not Seneca de tranquillitate animi, nor Boethius de consolatione animae, would he make choice of, but the holy Scriptures, knowing very well, that in them he shall find the way to everlasting life.
James Con∣nyers Serm. ut S. Pauls, 1635.
Sint Scripturae divinae semper, in manibus, &c. Chrysost. in Psal. 95.