~------~E~P-l~S~T.=.~y~J~L~.------~--~--2~ A this blow willl;;ve in your noble Yentti•ns a perpetual! fcime, and that their late irrefolution {hall make them ever capable ofall better counfdl ; and have his workc (like fome great Eclipfe) many years after. How happy were it for Yeniu,if as lhc is every yea re married to the Sea, fo lbe were ~nee throughly efpoufed ro C:hri~ ! In the meane time, le\ me perfwade you to graufie us at home With the pubhcauon of that your exquifite Polemicall difcnurfe; wheretoour conference wnh M. Al•Majler gave fo happy an occalion: You {hall hereby cleare many truths, and fatisfie all Readers: yea, I doubt not, but an adverfary (not too perverfe) lhall ~cknowledge the Truthsviaory and yours. It was wholefome counfcll ofa lather, thatmthe nmeof an herelie every man lhould write. Perhaps, you complaine of the inundations of FrAn<firti,bow many have been di~couraged f~om bene~ ringthe world,by thisconB ccitof multitude! Indeed we all wnre1and wh1le we wnre,cneouto( number. How wdl might many be fpared, evenofrhofe that complain< oftoo many~ whofc im. portunare babling cloyes the world, without ufe. To my Lord, the Earle of Ejfox. E P t s T. V I I I. <.Ati'lliftfor hiiTra'lltls. My Lord, both myduty and promife make my Letters your debt; and, ifnei. ther ofthefe,my thirll: ofyour good.You lhall never bur need good counfdl; moll: in travdl : Then arc both our dangers greater, and our hopes. C I need not totell you the eyes ofthe world arc much upon you, for your own fake, for yc;mr farhers: only let your eyes be upon itagaine, to obferve it,to farisfie it,and in fome cafes to contemne it. As your graces, fo your weakndfes, will be the fooner fpird, by how .much you are more noted. The higher ~ny building is, the more it rcquirescJCquifit proportion: which in fome low and rude piles, is needldfe. If your verrues{hallbe eminent like your fathers,you cannot fO:hide your lelfe,but the world will fee you, and force upon you applaufe and admiration,in fpite ofmoddly : but if you 01all come010rt in thefe, your f.uhers perfe&ion 01111 be your blemilh. Thinke, now, that more eyes areupon you, thenat home: offorraincrs; ofyour owne: thtirs to obferve, ours roexpe&. For, now weaccounryouin theSchoole of wifcdome: whence ifyou returne not bmer, you lhall worfe; with the l >lfe of your time, of D our hopes, For, I knBw nor how natural! it is to us to looke for alteration in travdl; and, with the change ofaire and land,to pref~ppofe a change in the perfon.Now you are(through both your yeares and rravdl) in the forge ofyour hopes. We alllooke (norwithout ddire and apprecarioo) in what lhape you will come fonh. Think ir not cnough,that you fce,or can fay you have feen !\range things ofnarure,or evenr: iris a vaineand dead rravdl, that rells in the eye,orrhetongue. All is bur lvll, unlelfc your bulic mind lhall from the body that it fees, draw fonb fomc quinrclfence of obfer. varion, wherewith toinforme, a~d inrichir fdfe. Tbere is nothing cmquite the coil: and labour ofrravdl, butthe game of w1fdome. How many have we fctne and pi· ried,which hwe brought nothing from forrain counrrie•,bur milluprn cl , th!S,or exoric~ll gdlures, or ne:v games, or affeaed lifpings, or the dil<afes of the place,or E (wh1ch ts worll)rhe VICes~Thde men have at once wandered from their counrr'e,& from themf~lves:and fo.meot them(roo ealiero inllance)oave kft God behind them; or perhaps,mll:ead of111m,have afrer a loofc and filthy hfe brought home fome idle Puppet in abox, whereon to fpend their devotion. Let their wrack warne you: and I er their follies be entertained by you, with more detelbrion rhen piri<. I know your h ~nour too wdl ro feare you: your young yeares have been fo gracioufly prevemed wnh ~~veta~gne antidotes of truth and holy inll:ruaion,that this infeaion dcfpaires of prcvadmg. Your very blood gives you argumeor of f,fety :yet good counfell is not unfeafonable, evenwhe.re danger is not fufpe&ed.For Gods_fak<,my Lord,whatfoever you game,lofe nothmg oft.he trurh1remit nothingofyour love and piety to God; of your favour and zeale to rel1gion,As fure as th<re is a God, you were trained up in the true knowledgeofhim. If either Angdl, er Devil!, or Iefuit 01ould fuggell: the comrary,
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