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A pleasant new nosegay full of many godly and sweet flowers, lately gatheredA pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, lately gathered
A pleasant new nosegay full of many godly and sweet flowers, lately gathered by Theodore Basil.A pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, lately gathered by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1543printed for Ioha, 1543
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He may take them away again wham it pleaseth him. Therefore ought ⟨image 37⟩we not to be proud of them, but use them unto that end, for the which they were given us, ever remembering that if we use them well, there is a reward laid up for us in heaven if we do not, we shall receive the greater damnation. So that we have no cause to be proud of them, but rather the more humble, and lowly in heart. Finally in all your works, seem they never so good and perfect, yet think you, that they are now done with so much purity & cleanness of heart as they ought, & therefore ye must humbly grant your imperfection, & desire god to fulfil that which lacketh in you for his Son Jesus Christs sake. If on this wise ye behave your selves neighbours in all your works, ye must needs despise pride & embrace humility Yea if on this man ner ye judge of your selves, as I ⟨image 38⟩have here taught you, ye shall with out doubt be made unfeignedly hum ble, meek and lowly. But without this knowledge of your selves, know that ye can do none otherwise, but stand in your own conceit, brag of your qualities, glory in your acts, be proud of your gifts, & ever unthankful in the sight of God. S. Bernard saith,1 I know that no man is saved without the knowledge of him self, whereof doubtless Humility the mother of health springeth, and the fear of the LORD. For as the one is the beginning of wisdom▪ so is the other of health.
He maye take them awaye agayne whā it pleseth hym. Thefore ought ⟨image 37⟩we not to be proud of them, but vse them vnto that ende, for the which they were gyuē vs, euer remēbring that yf we vse them well, there is a rewarde layde vp for vs in heauen yf we do not, we shall receaue ye greter damnacion. So that we haue no cause to be proude of them, but rather the more humble, and lowly in herte. Finally in all your workes, seme they neuer so good and perfecte, yet thyncke you, yt they are nowe done wt so much purite & clennes of hert as they ought, & therfore ye muste humbly graunt your imperfecciō, & desyre god to fulfil that which lackethe in you for hys Sonne Iesus Christes sake. If on this wyse ye behaue your selues neyghbours in all your workes, ye muste nedes despyse pryde & enbrase humilite Yea if on this mā ner ye iudge of youre selues, as I