The imitation or following of Christ, and the contemning of worldly vanities wherevnto, as springing out of the same roote, we haue adioyned another pretie treatise, entituled, The perpetuall reioyce of the godly, euen in this lyfe.
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The imitation or following of Christ, and the contemning of worldly vanities wherevnto, as springing out of the same roote, we haue adioyned another pretie treatise, entituled, The perpetuall reioyce of the godly, euen in this lyfe.
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Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham,
[1658]
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Jesus Christ -- Meditations.
Meditations.
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"The imitation or following of Christ, and the contemning of worldly vanities wherevnto, as springing out of the same roote, we haue adioyned another pretie treatise, entituled, The perpetuall reioyce of the godly, euen in this lyfe." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68815.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Against yll speakers. The .xxxiij. Chapter.
LORDE.
SOnne, if any shall haue an euill opinion of thée, or shall speake euyll of thée, doe not thou take the same grieuously: but rather thinke woorse of thine owne self than he doth, and beléeue no man to be more weake than thy self. If thou wilt go the secret way of vertue of the mind, yu shalt not great∣ly estéeme flying words. It is no small wyse∣dome to kéepe silence in aduersitye, and to turne thy mynde vnto me, and nothing to bée troubled wyth the iudgement of the worlde. Peace must not stay vpon the saying of men, wyth whome whether thou be well or yll re∣ported, thou art not for that cause another man. In mée, in mée I saye, true glory and true peace doth consist: & the same shall enioy it plentifully, that neither coueteth to please men, nor yet feareth to displease them. All vnquietnesse of mynde, and distracting of the senses, doth surely procéede from inordynate loue and vayne feare.
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The fickle iudgments of men are little to be accoūted of