The
Remedie
of
Reason
:
Not
so
comfortable
for
matter
,
as
compendious
for
memorie
.
Wherein
the
ignorant
may
gather
instruction
,
the
learned
confirmation
,
all
men
consolation
.
By
Charles
Gibbon
.
Be
readie
alwaies
to
giue
an
answer
to
euerie
man
that
asketh
you
a
Reason
of
the
hope
that
is
in
you
,
&c.
1.
Peter
3.15
,
16.
If
any
man
think
that
he
knoweth
any
thing
,
he
knoweth
nothing
yet
as
he
ought
to
knowe
.
1.
Cor.
8.2
.
Imprinted
at
London
by
Thomas
Orwin
.
1589.
To
the
right
Worshipfull
Sir
Robert
Iarmin
Knight
:
And
to
the
Worshipfull
Master
Henrie
Blagge
Esquier
:
perfect
fruition
of
infinite
felicitie
.
SAlomon
,
that
most
renowmed
and
royal
King
,
waying
the
wretchednes
of
this
world
by
the
weight
of
his
wonderfull
wisedome
,
could
no
lesse
but
redouble
his
words
,
and
saie
:
Vanitas
vanitatum
,
vanitas
vanitatum
,
&
omnia
vanitas
.
Which
seeing
it
is
so
(
Right
Worshipfull
)
it
behoueth
euery
one
of
vs
,
not
so
much
to
auoid
the
causes
that
maie
prouoke
vs
to
vanitie
,
as
to
practise
all
the
meanes
that
may
procure
vs
to
pietie
;
and
to
walke
with
such
foresight
in
this
terrestriall
pilgrimage
,
as
wee
may
haue
fruition
of
felicitie
in
the
coelestiall
Paradise
;
according
to
the
counsell
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
who
willeth
vs
first
to
seeke
the
kingdome
of
GOD
and
his
righteousnes
;
Your
Worships
to
command
,
Charles
Gibbon
.
❧
To
the
Christian
and
curteous
Reader
.
HE
that
doth
publish
a
matter
to
the
iudgment
of
many
,
the
same
requireth
to
be
done
,
not
lightlie
but
deliberatlie
;
considering
it
is
subiect
to
sundrie
Censures
,
and
in
reading
and
iudging
all
are
not
Candidi
Lectores
.
In
regard
whereof
,
(
good
Christian
Reader
)
I
haue
published
my
paines
to
thy
profite
,
and
presented
the
liking
of
it
to
thy
looking
ouer
,
hauing
(
as
nigh
as
I
may
)
not
onelie
cut
off
all
such
occasions
,
as
might
cause
cauillation
;
but
also
ministred
such
matter
as
concernes
our
consolation
:
and
although
it
bee
not
polished
preciselie
for
the
expectation
of
the
curious
,
yet
it
is
finished
plainlie
for
the
information
of
the
simple
.
Now
it
may
bee
,
there
bee
many
that
will
vse
obiections
against
the
triple
forme
of
this
treatise
;
because
no
Arte
hath
reduced
all
things
(
and
rightly
)
to
Dicotomies
.
True
;
but
wisedome
may
contriue
much
compendiously
,
and
yet
profitablie
:
besides
although
I
haue
framed
it
as
an
easie
enterance
for
the
erudition
of
the
ignorant
,
J
haue
not
excluded
what
may
further
be
added
by
the
consideration
of
the
learned
:
and
albeit
much
more
might
be
inserted
in
many
places
for
prolixitie
,
yet
much
lesse
I
feare
me
is
obserued
of
the
most
part
for
their
vtilitie
.
Some
will
require
a
more
direct
placing
of
thinges
in
their
order
.
Certes
that
is
well
placed
that
is
well
applied
;
and
those
that
do
more
respect
the
manner
of
placing
than
the
matter
it selfe
,
may
be
noted
in
the
number
of
those
,
who
would
haue
the
Psalmes
of
Dauid
to
precede
,
and
not
to
follow
the
booke
of
Iob
;
making
a
scrupulous
question
without
cause
,
when
wee
all
knowe
they
are
both
included
in
the
Scriptures
,
&
containe
comfortable
matter
for
our
saluation
.
Some
will
not
like
so
many
diuers
sorts
of
sundrie
things
congest
together
in
one
heape
,
other
will
require
more
perspicuitie
,
some
one
thing
,
some
another
.
Insomuch
,
as
he
that
expecteth
to
please
the
opinions
of
all
people
,
must
either
refraine
from
open
publication
of
any
thing
,
or
referre
himselfe
to
their
generall
dispositions
in
iudgement
:
and
this
is
the
common
successe
of
acceptance
;
many
will
commend
it
,
most
will
mislike
it
,
fewe
will
followe
it
.
But
as
my
meaning
was
to
profite
the
simple
by
the
setting
foorth
of
it
,
so
I
shall
perswade
the
godlie
to
a
good
liking
of
it
:
and
as
for
the
froward
I
will
not
refell
their
foolish
questions
in
disputation
about
it
,
knowing
what
the
Apostle
Paule
saith
,
that
foolish
and
vnlearned
questions
ingender
strife
.
So
,
Vale.
Bury
S.
Edmond
.
Yours
in
the
Lord
,
Charles
Gibbon
.