Rous - Houston-Packer Collection BV4647.J68 R69 1619

THE A.itTE 'r ... --- oeginnings, thou mufr a1fo know, in what mannerand order the Dotlrineand.Art of felicitie ·doth prefen't it felfe v,nto thee. It -will f).rfi: " offerto.tby knowledge and meditation , the lamenra– ble face ofhumanemiferie, fo that thy fl~lh perchance · will fear~ to~oeon , halfe . - I , defpaitiiig, how thou canfi ' ,..uercome through fo great mi erie vnto felicitie, .But fear not ; the beginning and the end -are contrarie. Thy naturall eftate is ·in~ d~ede very miferahle; And this Doctrine doth not ~make it to be fo; but iliewes it to beefo. Thecorrupti– on of nature ·made thee mi– ferable , and.hid thy mi~-- rie ., ----------~------------ ~

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