A very excellent and learned discourse touching the tranquilitie and contentation of the minde : conteining sundry notable instructions and firme consolations most necessarie for all sortes of afflicted persons in these latter dayes (1592)
L'Espine, Jean de, 1506?-1597 · Cambridge : Printed by John Legate · leaf 266
nd: and next vnto that, to the helpe and comfort of our bre-thren, whom weoughtto cherifhandrelieue,whenfoeueroc-cafion is orfcrecL Which ifweperforme, wee fhallneuerfpendourtime.in fruitlcs and iuperRuous things. And thus much fuf-flcethto hauefpoken of thefe three fortes ofpleafures, and forthe… … T is reported that the Philofopher Eu-clide, beeing requiredof a very impor-tunate fellowe to ffeafye his opinion ofmany things touching the goddes, an-fevered, that hee knewe nothing of ailthat was demanded, but onely this s thatthe goddes hated and abhorred fuch atwere curious and bufie…
Puritans
Internet Archive · Princeton University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
