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A30926	Flores intellectuales, or, Select notions, sentences, and observations collected out of several authors, and made publick, especially for the use of young scholars, entring into the ministry / by Matthew Barker ...	Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1691 (1691)	Wing B774; ESTC R13711	68,681	154

Flores Intellectuales OR Select Notions SENTENCES AND Observations COLLECTED Out of several Authors and made publick especially for the Use of young Scholars entring into the Ministry By MATTHEW BARKER Minister of the Gospel in London Jesus saith unto them Have ye understood all these things they say unto him Yea Lord then says he unto them Therefore every Scribe instructed to the Kingdom of Heaven is like an Housholder who bringeth forth out of his Treasure things new and old Mat. 13.51 52. LONDON Printed by J. Astwood for Iohn Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey 1691. TO THE READER I Little Intended God knows to bring these scraps of Learning to the Market for publick sale most whereof have lain by me for many Years as thinking them too juvenile for Publick Notice in this Critical Age For in my younger dayes to help my Memory I kept by me a paper-Paper-Book wherein I inserted some of those things which did occurr to me in my Reading as most remarkable and which I had a desire to treasure in my Memory And a while since acquainting a young Student in Philosoyhy and Divinity what I had done he earnestly solicited me that they might be made publick as that which might be of use especially to the younger sort of Schollars whose minds have not yet been exercised with graver Studies which first put it into my mind to put them to the Press And I now expose them as I find them in my Paper-Book extracted now out of one Author then out of another and now written at one time then at another now a passage in Humanity then in Divinity now of Poetry then of History now out of the Scriptures then out of Expositors now in Philology then is Philosophy I mingled all together without observing any method and my Pen like the Bee skipt from Flower to Flower So that the Reader must take them as he finds them and make the best use of them he can It may be he may find some things that may add to his Knowledge and be pleasing to his Mind as they were to mine own and as the Bee he may gather some Honey out of these Flowers All the Method I have used is only to parcel them into several Centuries and distinguish them by Figures one from another And what is found in them of Language that none but Schollars understand I have for the most part put into English And sometimes I find in my Paper-Book I have quoted the Author of what I have remarked and sometimes not And I cannot well recollect whence I had some Notions and Sayings which I put into my Paper-book above thirty Years agoe and being thus put together are like a Chain of Gold or String of Pearls I call them in the Title Intellectual Flowers and we know 't is proper and pleasant to have many distinct Flowers tyed together in a Nose-gay though of several sorts and gathered out of several Gardens And if any will censure them as a Rhapsody I confess they may be so styled yet I am not the first who hath exposed Rhapsodies to publick view taking the word in a more general sense And hath not Solomon himself lead the way to such a kind of Writing in his Book of Proverbs which are set down for the most part without any Method or dependance one upon another And we know the old saying Varietas delectat Variety Delights and if the Reader finds nothing else he will find that in these Papers And this I hope may be some Apology for my present Adventure which else may be censured as pedantick and singular Flores Intellectuales The First Century 1. SApienti quisquis abstulerit divitias tamen omnia sua sibi relinquet Seneca Take from the Wise Man his Riches yet you leave him all his own things he accounting only Bona Animi the good things of the Mind his own things 2. A Deo fuit quod vixi quod bene vixi a meipso Senec. That I live is from God but that I have lived well is from my self By which we may see out of what School proceeded the Pelagian Free-will 3. The Orator said to Vespasian Nec quicquam in te mutaverit amplitudo Fortunae nisi ut tantundem passi ut velis The greatness of thy Fortune hath made no change upon thee but to make thee able to do what good thou wilt by equallizing his Fortune to his large Heart 4. The Scythians were wont to weep at the Birth of their Children and to Feast at the Death of their Parents 5. It is reported of the Catinenses that they made a stately Monument for the remembrance of two Sons who when the House was on fire carried their aged Parents forth upon their backs So they say the Stork called in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from her natural kindness will do to her aged Parents 6. So they say also of her That she will leave one of her young ones in a way of gratitude to that House where she brought them forth In quâ indulata est 7. Christ came to destroy the Devil when he had taken greatest possession of the World And the Jewish Sacrifices were at the lowest when Christ came to abolish them 8. Some Men will magna loqui but not magna vivere speak high but live low 9. Luke the Evangelist calls Christ's suffering on the Cross 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 23.48 It being the greatest sight that ever was seen And so it is still to Faith 10. Perpetuum est quod habet causam perpetuantem Nothing is perpetual that has not a perpetuating cause So that Earthly Comforts cannot be perpetual 11. Exceptio non tollit sed firmat regulam An Exception from a Rule confirms the Rule it self 12. Deus humanum dicit God speaking to Men in Scripture he speaks as a Man And doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Paul told the Corinthians he did when he spake of their false Teachers and in a Figure transferred what he said to them to Apollos and Caephas and himself 1 Cor. 4.6 13. Basil calls an Hypocrite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a Sacrilegious Person who profaneth holy things and robs God of his Glory 14. The Scripture calls a sit Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homo opportunus a Man fit to serve the present opportunity Exod. 16.21 15. Ideò scribuntur omnes libri ut emendetur unus All Books are written to amend one Book which is the Book of Conscience 16. Lucrum in arcâ facit damnum in Conscientia Gain put into the Chest doth often bring Damage to the Conscience 17. The Grave is called Man's long home 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The House of Eternity Eccles 12.5 as then past into an eternal state 18. To alter one letter of the Law is no less a sin than to set the World on fire say the Jewish Rabbins 19. Quos necessitas cogit defendit Any action is justified that is done of necessity 20. Vix queritur

making two and no more one flesh And against God the Son taking the Members of Christ and making them the Members of an Harlot And against the Holy Ghost in defiling his Temple 83. God cannot but hate Sin because it hath destroyed his Image both in the fallen Angels and Men. As when the People of Antioch broke down the Image of Priscilla the Wife of Theodosius because he exacted of them a new Tribute he sent an Army against them to revenge it And will not then the destroying God's Image in Man much more provoke God to wrath 84. When we read in the Evangelist That after Christ was Crucified and gave up the Ghost upon the piercing of his Side with a Spear there came out Water and Blood we must not understand it that they came forth together but one after the other distinctly for the Apostle Joh. 1.5 8. makes the Water and Blood two distinct Witnesses and they signifie two distinct things the Expiation of Sin and the Sanctification of our Natures And therein we may observe a double Miracle One is That his Blood should run out so freely after he was dead which we know is not so with other Men And the other That the Blood and Water should come forth distinctly and not mingle with one another Martinius 85. As the Mind of a wise Man will not be satisfied without solid Reason so neither will his Heart be satisfied with out a substantial Good 86. As there was such a despising of the Law of Moses for which there was no mercy to be had nor attonement made Heb. 10.26 so there may be such a contempt of the Gospel which may make a Sinner's case desperate as in the case of Capernaum Corazin Bethsaida c. But this is known to God rather than to Man yet we have notice of it Heb. 6.6 10.26 87. Though our Saviour Christ was Sanctified from the Womb and his Humane Nature was from the first united to the Divine yet when he entred on his publick Ministry he had the Gifts of the Holy Ghost bestowed upon him which he had not before which are meant by the Holy Ghost coming down upon him at his Baptism and whereupon he is said Luke 4.1 to be full of the Holy Ghost 88. These Gifts of the Holy Ghost were sometime in a Conjunction with Sanctifying Grace as in the holy Prophets Apostles and our Saviour And sometimes not as in Balaam and Judas and many others who will plead them at the last day as our Saviour speaks Mat. 7.22 And as they had Gifts without Grace so there may be Grace without these Gifts as the Jewish Rabbins say the Jewish Church was without them all the time under the Second Temple which was about Four hundred Years In which time it was thought the Apocryphal Books were written and therefore not written by Divine Inspiration which was then ceas'd 89. If Conscience be not our Ruler it will be our Tormentor for whatever Faculty of the Soul or Member of the Body offends the guilt of the Offence runs into the Conscience and settleth there as all the Filth of the City runs into the Common-shore as of Jerusalem into the Brook Kidron 90. When Christ ascended on high saith the Apostle Eph. 4.8 He gave Gifts to Men. The Psalmist saith Psal 68.18 Thou hast received Gifts for men some read it from Men to entreat his Favour and testifie their Submission as Captives will do to the Conqueror The Septuagint read it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gifts in Man in his Humane Nature Which various reading ariseth from the various use of the Preposition Be for the Hebrew in the Psalm is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 91. Regnum auspicandum à clementiâ is a Rule in State-Policy The Foundation of a Government is to be layd in Clemency So did David in his shewing favour to Shimei who had cursed him But Rehoboam beginning his Kingdom otherwise stumbled at the Threshold and entangled his Reign And the rising Government of our present Protestant King and Queen seems to be directed by this Rule 92. The Apostle calls his Ministry a Warfare for the Perils that attended it and Opposition of Enemies to it 2 Cor. 10.4 And so speaks to Timothy That thou mayest war a good warfare 1 Tim. 1.18 And so said Luther Quid aliud est praedicare quam mundi furorem incurrere To Preach the Gospel is to encounter the Worlds Fury Let young Ministers consider it and prepare for it and let the People consider the Apostle's Question Who goeth a warfare at his own charge 1 Cor. 9.7 93. Some receive the Truth as an Inmate not as a Ruler or Judge Who made thee a Judge and Ruler over us said the Sodomites to Lot Act. 7.27 And though they receive the Truth as lucentem yet not as redarguentem They love the light of Truth but cannot bear its scorching heat 94. The Pythagoreans styled the Mind of Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Holder of the Reins As that supreme faculty which is to bridle and restrain inordinate Passions and to guide Man and the whole course of his walking and conversation 95. In some Coasts of Arabia the odorifierous Spices do so perfume the Air that Swine cannot live there So Men of a swinish temper who love to wallow in the mire of sin and wickedness delight not to live where serious Piety and true Godliness are profess'd and practis'd which are the best Perfume of any place 96. Though Jus and Vis are words that are made of the same letters yet we often see that the one doth exclude the other and Justice and Right are shut out by Force and Power and Might overcoming Right 97. Many Men instead of preparing to leave the World are still employing themselves about settling in the World and so are as Seneca speaks semper victuri always about to live rather than indeed living 98. The Life of a Christian in this World is a Life of Faith not of Vision or Fruition But Faith though in a lower degree supplies the room of Fruition as it is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Subsistence of things hoped for and of Vision as it is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 99. Tertullian comforts the Christians that had suffered Losses in their Estate for the sake of Religion saying Negotiatio est aliquid amittere ut majora Lucretis or Lucremini ad Martyres It is good Trading to lose something for the gain of greater things 100. Every Man ought to consider his ways in a threefold respect 1. With respect to his Ultimate End 2. With respect to the Rule of God's Law 3. With respect to his Final Account and the Judgment to come But I shall add no more of these Intellectual Flowers though I have many more ready gathered lest they be too many to be bound up together in a small Book of a Shilling price And I think the Buyer of it hath enough already for his Money FINIS Books Printed for John Dunton at the Black Raven in the Poultrey ☞ THere is newly publish'd Early Religion or a Discourse of the Duty and Interest of Youth With some Advices to Parents and Aged People to promote it in their several Capacities The Second Edition much enlarged By Timothy Rogers M. A. Price bound 1 s. * ⁎ * The Life and Death of the Reverend Mr. John Eli●● who was the First Preacher of the Gospel to the Indians in America with an account of the wonderful success which the Gospel has had amongst the Heathen in that part of the World and of the many strange Customs of the Pagan Indians in New-England written by Cotton Mather the second Edition carefully corrected Both Printed for John Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey Price bound 1 s.