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PREFACE.

1 Cor. 4:
Though our outward man be corrupted, yet the man who is within is renewed from day to day.
Coloss. 3:
But now put away from you all, anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, and shameful speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another: Ex-

A certain philosopher, being asked when he had begun to philosophize, answered: When I began to know myself. Hence, man not knowing himself is seized by a blind love of self, which is called Φιλαυτία self-love, of which Augustine thus infers: To love oneself is to love a thief condemned to death. And if man is lost by loving himself, he is truly found by denying himself. The same elsewhere: Man, if you could see yourself, you would be displeased with yourself; but now, because you do not see yourself, you please yourself, and displease me.

Man who ignores God is ignored by God, and he who abandons the knowledge of God is abandoned by God. But ignorance of God is the source of all evils, the root of all crimes, through which all vices grow strong and increase; just as, on the contrary, from probity and innocence, to know and love the beginning of all things, God the creator of all, is the highest piety, the highest justice, the highest wisdom, and the highest happiness of man. But it pleases me here only to speak of the microcosm in the second Preface of our treatise, with Divine grace granting favor, concerning our Creator and Savior Jesus Christ. Also, in the third person of the Deity, we shall continue our discourse; from hence we shall return to the former: Man, by understanding himself, beholds and understands all things in himself, as in a certain deific mirror; through this, it is granted to us to draw and attain Divine beatitude and wisdom; for when we are properly known in both lights, according to spirit and nature, by Divine aid we enter the door opened in ourselves, and we open to God knocking before the door of the heart, and living according to the will of God, we have all things necessary, for both present and eternal wisdom and life. For not

put off the old man with his deeds, and putting on the new, who is renewed in the knowledge of God according to the image of Him who created him.

Ephes. 4: But you have not so learned Christ; if yet you have heard Him, and have been taught in Him, as is the truth in Jesus. Put away according to the former conversation the old man, who is corrupted according to the desires of error. But be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.