35$ The Counterfeit of Inherent Crnce. S e cT. VII. Orderly togovern their anions : Therefore Seneca faidwell, The other Artsare called Liberal, becaufe they are worth theBody ofa free and ingenuous man. but this is called Liberal, becaufe it makes a man fret, and fets hirá'at'liberty from his pallions and vices. All the Sciences lie inContemplation. and Specula- tion., but thisendeavorechto bring a man to the injoytnent offome goodmhicly is his end. The former were only invented Vt. Exetcitna i,sgensi, riotR media a;slmi, but this to be a medicineand cure of the foul. Hence when they com- pared all the Arts together, fometimes they 'refembled themvia field; Natural Philofophy they made the plants and roots that grew therein ; Logiek the hedge that inclofed the field ; but Moral Vertuewas the fruit growing thereon: At other times they compared them to an Egg; the yolkor fubüance, wasMo. rat Philofophy ; the (hell was Logiek. Thusfar they did Well, that they thought it snore excellent to reform a mans manners, to better his converfation, then to know the Motions ofthe Heavens,orto difpute fabulist Thereforethey called it themuuick of thefoul, as that which did tameand quiet mens'unrulypallions, and regulate their crooked lives ; and herein they will certainly at the day of judgement condemn many Chri(lians, who labor more for knowledge, and LOW to get skill and under[landing in chofe matters which haveapplaufe in the world, then to live foberly and righteoufly. Secondly, Howfoever Plato andother Heathens, have labored much in laying down Dodirines and Precepts to cure mens lives, yet Ar flarle bath the more general approbation, for defcribing of Ethical Doetrine; Indeed Plato bath more Divine matter in his works,but Ari/Iorle methodizeth it;therefore one laid, That all things lay confufed, till Ari/lorle came, whoput them into order. As the great Army of the Medes was confufed and tumultuous, till Cyoxares their General regulated them. Ye ohe Fathers, they generally were mofladdined toPlato, from whom allo they fucked irrforsecorruupt opinions, which their Chriflianity did not quite wafh away; and becaufe of their former lifeand opi. Mons, it is an ufual thing with them to call the Chrillian Donrine , and the Chriflian Religion, Philofophy : But afterwards Ari/lotle began tobe admired, whom Averroes called the Rule and Example, which Nature had found out, to demonflrate the ultimate perfe &ion of a man ; yea, Tome Popi(h Writers have thought him a glorified Saint in Heaven: But whatfoever excellent D ,elline he might propound tomake men civil, and externally vacuous, yet theChrifü- an ReligionBoth reveal a far more excellent and nobleway ; and therefore if we take Solsmons Proverbs,which we may call Solomana Ethicks ; how infinitelydoth he tranfcend Ariftotle, for though both may prefcribethe fame Moral duty, yet Solomon [till carrieth as out to God, and Pets up a fare light to direft our feet in a good and upright way. Thirdly,Thai whichwe call Ethicl¿.r,or moralPhilofophy,is a doeirine informing us how to regulate our anions, according to honelìy and righteoufnefs, that fir we might be happy : For alrhou_h Heathens miferably erred, and were con- founded, about what happinefs was, and the chiefeit good, yet they all con- cluded, therewas fach a thing, and that the way thereunto wasonely byver- toous anions : The nature of which they defiribed tobe inkeeping of an ex- cellent Mean, fo that a man do not fail in excel or defeel; and all this was to be done for verrues fake, out of love to it; as for example, theymade Tempe- rance a vertue, but when and how? even when a manhad gotan habit of this fobriety rooted in him; not exceffive in any things of pleafure, noryet defeetive in things convenient and neceffary ; and all this hedoth not for applaufe fake, or to ptefervehis health, but out ofa love to vertue : This therefore they preis, that heWho Would be happy, he mutt be a vituous man; and certainly, this may.feem an high point,that they held none vertuous,but fachwho did vertuous anions, for vertues fake : This laid down, it will be very profitable to know . wh'ether'thisbe notGrace : whether any men need todo any more : would it not
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