REFLECTION.
KEep this Treasure carefully; and if there remains in your Soul, any remembrance of its Heavenly extraction, and any stroaks
The counsels of wisdom: or, a collection of the maxims of Solomon. Most necessary for a man wisely to behave himself. With reflections on those maxims. Rendred into English by T.D.
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- The counsels of wisdom: or, a collection of the maxims of Solomon. Most necessary for a man wisely to behave himself. With reflections on those maxims. Rendred into English by T.D.
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- London :: printed for Sam. Smith, bookseller at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Churchyard,
- 1683.
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- Conduct of life
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of its resemblance with God, never live without friendship.
It sufficeth even to live, To know that there is in us a necessity to love. For as our Souls are created after the Image of the Crea∣tor, they must of necessity, have a goodness which drives them, as it were to go out of themselves, and that all their substance should be no other thing then a Divine and an im∣material flame, which raiseth it self towards Heaven, and who in aspiring to God, seeks another heart then its own, as a Companion and an help, to be assisted in its elevations, and to arrive more easily at its soveraign hap∣piness.
Each spirit is but the one half of ano∣ther. Not that these are divided in the ma∣king, and two made of one: But they are formed with a proportion and a sympathy, which inspires them with desire, and gives them power to joyn themselves, and to act so by their intimate communications that they become as one. But before all may be accomplished, there are formed in the Soul of Man, much anguish and doleful melan∣cholly, and several sorts of distempers and miseries, because it is the Image of God, the eternal felicity of which consists in this, that neither of those persons is ever alone.
One part of a wise Mans skill, is to know, that the most of the miseries of our mind,
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come from inward solitude; and that their remedy is a true friendship. Amicus fidelis medicamentum vitae.