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A63127	Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing T2121; ESTC R219723	79,230	213

How many men have damned their souls that they might dye rich and to that end like overflowing Rivers have growne great by the ruins of their Countrey upon this account chiefly that they may go out of the world wealthy when Scypio's moderation and abstinence have reared him up a more glorious Monument then his Conquests 10 Philostratus being imployed by Ptolomy in building that famous Pharos neer Alexandria engraved in the solid and durable Marble his own name and in plaister over it the Kings that his in time being worne off his own might be seen to perpetuity Sin imprinteth in my fancy favourable and specious conceits of it but there are characters in my conscience of another tenour which will abide there when the other are vanisht and no more to be remembred 11 William Wickham being appoynted by King Edward in building a stately Church wrote in in the windows This work made William Wickham for which being charged by the King as assuming the honour of that work to himself as the author being onely overseet he answered that He meant not he made the work but that the worke made him being before but beggarly and then in great credit Lord when we read in thy Word that we must work out our own Salvation thy meaning is not that our Salvation should be the effect of our work but our work the evidence of thy Salvation 12 The Empresse Maud being closely beset by her enemies neere Winchester caused her selfe to be put into a Coffin and as one dead was safely conveighed through their Troupes Evill concupiscences beset my soul with an almost impossibility of escaping but the way to avoid them is by becoming dead to sin not to live any longer therein 13 They tell of a Tree in Japan that flourisheth and is fruitfull if kept in a dry earth but with moysture which causeth other trees to flourish withereth Such is the sincere Christian to whom the crosse is a crutch affliction raiseth up his affection and the heate of persecution makes his graces flourish and fruitfull but the gentle showers of prosperity decayeth his greennesse and usually makes his graces torpid if not livelesse 14 Among the Turks every one is of some Trade the Grand Seignior himself though Lord of so many Countries yet daily imployes himselfe in some chosen Occupation because even Adam in Paradise was by divine appointment not left idle An huge condemnation to those of our times who think it a disgrace to be ingaged in any profitable imployment whereby they may promote the common good and their own being almost all onely of the trade of that Assirian whose Motto was Ede bibe lude 15 Herbert in his travells tells of Fowle which if you shoote some the rest fly not away but render themselves an easie prey to him that will kill them How many such foolish men are there whom others harmes make not wary but are intangled in the same fetters of lust and misery wherein they have seen others and themselves have been formerly ensnared 16 The River Tigris passing through the Lake Arethusa mingleth not his waters with it but retaines its tast and colour different from that of the Lake Such should the Christian be though conversing in the world yet reserving the savour of Godlinesse and colour of religious profession unallayed 17 The Virgins of Miletus through an unkind Melancholy being their own executioners and that mischief much encreasing there was a Law made that those so dying should be carryed naked exposed to view through the City upon which that evill ceased modesty and the shame of being so laid open though after death prevailing more then all other considerations could How sad is it that among us professing Christianity there should be of the shamefacer sex straining healths through their Smocks c. and prostituting that vertue which by the heathen was estimated at so high a rate 18 The Hircanians do use to banquet under the falls of their Rivers as in the shade which are so steep that they shoote over their heads It often is that wretched sinners riot it under the guilt of those sinnes that a tender conscienced person would tremble to think of 19 They have Trunks in India called Sampatans through which they shoot arrows so invenomed that if they prick the skin it is very dangerous but if they draw bloud it is irrecoverably deadly The first motions to sin arising from that root of bitternesse appeare never without sad effects but Lord let them never draw bloud by consent from my will that their deadly venome should seize my vitalls 20 Demetrius King of Syria being taken prisoner by the King of Parthia and by him marryed to his own sister and with all desirable things entertained oft attempted and at laft effected an escape into his own Countrey Lord with what enjoyments soever I am derained from thee yet let the desire of my soule be to thy name and to the remembrance of thee and at last let me obtaine an happy escape to thee 21 Maud the Empresse being besieged by the forces of King Stephen in Oxford when the snow covered the ground made her escape thence by arraying her self and followers in white sheets Lord I am besieged by thy justice and the guilt of sin compasseth me about on every side but Oh cloath me with the white Robe of thy Sons Righteousnesse that I may escape the execution of thy vengeance 22 Sixtus Quintus being a great abettor of the Spanish Faction when a Cardinall was the greatest enemy of it when chosen Pope the Papall dignity not being compatible with the Spanish greatnesse in Italy Lord how far soever I abetted the reigne of sin in my heart before I received thy Spirit of adoption yet now let me ever be a zealous opposer of it the Kingdome of sin being so inconsistent with the dignity of a son 23 The Papists say that their pictures of the Virgin Mary are exactly like her being begun by Angels and finished by Saint Luke though 't is to be seen that in them the Painters have used their wonted liberty not two of them being in all things alike and one of them of no small fame representing a blackmore Nay there was a fellow of them that like Apelles with his Hellen from the beauties of severall courtisans before him drew the picture of this Virgine How safe and to our credit is it to continue in the truth for the children of the father of lyes at one time or other will shew their cloven feet and to our shame discover their breed 24 Though the Northern people have made many irresistible irruptions into the South like a torrent bearing all before them yet 't is observed that they never obtained any durable Empire the Southern wit being an overmatch for the Northern strength If concupiscence break forth and hurry into sin exercising some sudden acts of tyranny yet let it not get any stable dominion let the efficacy of thy grace

our Gallants had soone taken up their fashion of wearing Muffs a mode unagreeing with our temperate Climate so as the weaker Sex imbrace it more for ostentation then need and unbecoming the masculine Sex who should be men of action and ready prim'd to execution which made me wonder that we being so extreamly self-lovers and selfe-conceited should so far value others inventions as so unbecomingly to be their Apes and that the fashions of every Countrey should have so many followers those onely of the Kingdome of Heaven excepted 137 There is a fountaine in Dodone which extinguisheth lighted firebrands put into it but lighteth those that are extinct Lord if I come to thy word fraught with carnall wisdome I go blinder away then I came Therefore let my mind be darke as to the consultations of flesh and bloud without fire as to worldly desires that it may be enlightned by thy counsells and enkindled with an holy zeal to thy service 138 They say that a great part of the Land of Aegypt was Sea but by the earth which Nilus brings down with it and sends abroad in its overflowings is now become firme land and exceeding fruitfull Lord this heart of mine was all Sea estuating with raging passions and productive of innumerable monstrous desires but by thy grace it is now in some part good soile Oh let this Sea diminish daily and this good ground grow every day more and more fruitfull 139 Our Countriman saith That he observed in his travells in Italy that where our Lord Christ hath one votary the Virgin Mary hath twenty much more frequent Altars and enriched Temples and services more abundantly repeated So taking is superstition that whereas true Religion being of divine appointment hath but rare and calmly affected applycants humane inventions hath Tritum atrium many and zealous devotoes Bring thy son say the Abiezrites to Joash that he may dye because he hath throwne downe the Alter of Baal We heard no such thing before spoken of when Gods Alters were said desolate 140 There is a tree called Pacovere in Brazil which beareth fruit at a certaine time very plentifully but never save that once How many such are there who at some fit have appeared gallantly upon a Religious account but have been never after heard of as engaged in any godly designe that like Hushai have stept in to play their part but are never mentioned more But Lord let my soule be like the Orange tree full of successive fruit and let not the tree fall but so as that it may beat downe some of the Devills buildings with it 141 There is a people in the South of Africa which though they have twenty wives a piece or more yet bury their children assoone as borne not being willing to be combred with their education Our teeming hearts are Instar viginti incredibly fruitfull of corrupt thoughts but though they will conceive and bring forth 't is our prudence to stifle them in the birth for they cannot be brought up without not our trouble onely but our ruine 142 The Tiger they say when hungrey is a very valiant creature not dreading any enemy but when full will flee from a dog Many have there been very daring and undaunted in the ingaging in and patrocination of good workes when their estates were mean but when they have been warme with wealth and well furred with large revenues any feeble opposition hath quelled their courages 143 In the time of Dionisius that Sicilian Tyrant the Sea was fresh for an whole day in the Bay of Siracusa Lord my heart hath a naturall saltnesse not one drop is to be fetched thence but hath an originall unsavourinesse But Oh thou that art able wouldest cure that otherwise incurable disease speake the word and thy servant shall be made whole smite thou the Rock of my heart with the Rod of thy word that thence may flow the living spring of divine charity 144 Isocrates is said to sell one Oration of his for twenty Talents Surely Learning is not so much degenerated as the price is fallen but if the inticing words which mans wisdome teacheth be at so deare a rate how precious should those volumes be of which Lord thy holy Spirit is the inditer 145 A certaine Samian named Elpis on the African shore met a Lion ☞ from whom flying and recovering the next tree the beast draws neere making shews that he had a bone in his throat with many supplicant postures requires his help who at length perswaded to descend and performing the office desired had thanks returned him by the Lion with a constant tribute of the beasts he caught during all the time of his abode in that coast 'T is not rare to find high flowne persons like this Lion submissive to and supplicating the help of those of meaner consideration in their necessities but it is rare to find such imitating this Lion in their gratitude 146 There is a beast called Catoblepas whose eyes whosoever sees dyes immediately but yet according to its name having an heavy head looks alwayes downward and so being seldome seen is lesse pernicious How virulent and ragefull are those instruments of Satan and whither would not their malice extend its selfe but that the divine Providence hath so ordered it that those curst Cowes should have short hornes 147 The Sea-Tortoises being delighted with the morning Sun so long please themselves in that injoyment that their shell being dried with the heat of the Sun they cannot merg themselves when they would but floating above the water become an easie prey to them that designe the carching them The soul that too long and unretiringly beslows its selfe on the pleasures of this world will find its selfe in no capacity to engage in spirituall affaires but at hand to be taken captive by the Devill at his will and in a promptnesse to be debauched by every temptation 148 'T is observed the Storks which in great numbers come in Summer and depart in Winter are never perceived when they come though that they are come be apparent The infusions of grace in those piously educated though the time when may many times not be discovered yet the being of it if it be will be manifest and by the effects of it evident 149 Histories tell us and my selfe have known that where Wood hath been grub'd Fountains have sprung up where before there were none If we would but pluck up those inordinate desires which waste our estates in vaine superfluities what abundance would there be of profitable conveniences to supply others 150 Agesilausbeing desired by one to heare a man that exactly counterfeited the Nightingale answered it would not need for he had often heard the Nightingale her selfe When we are called upon to heare the determinations of Counsels and Fathers and to observe the practice of Antiquitie which it were well if we did exactly imitate the truth it might be replyed It were not amifse but that we have God himselfe