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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87570	A ministers mite cast into the stocke of a weake memory: helpt by rules and experiments. VVith a winter night schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth.	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1650 (1650)	Wing J681CA; Thomason E1361_1; ESTC R209182	21,533	64

no impression in egregious folly calling on their hearers to remember their Sermons when they cannot remēber them themselves or lastly the fowles of the ayr picke up the uncovered seeds as soone as they be sowen and therfore as when gold and plate is stoln men cry Theeves theeves those who presently forget what they heare may cry the Divel the Divel Pr. These rules I did dictate unto you as removalls of the Remoraes and obstructions both to youth and to yeares in remembring of Sermons and you doe well to remember them and yet you have not repeated all Pu. Indeed Sir I finde what you told me that my memory was like a Sive or a Riddle which leakes out the pure water and keeps in the dirt and drosse I can remember toyes and tales and Ballads and bables better then solid matter as weake stomackes be more fild oft with wind then with good meat and as a childs pocket is sild with trash and pibble stones rather then with gold and good things Yet now I call to minde some other Rules you prescribed to my memory Pr. Tanaom aliquaudo let us further heare them Pu. I must as a main helpe to memory meditare of what I heare or read meditation chewing the cud digesting all mentall cares and turning them in succum sanguinem into bloud and nutriment Ps 1.3 For want of meditation the word heard or read takes no more impression then a serpents way over a stone an Eagle in the ayre or a ship in the sea like the sands which run in an houre-glasse out in one houre as they run in in another that running out at one eare which comes in at another Secondly you prescribed me conference which brings much to light as the repercussions of steele and flint bring forth fire and as laying of sticke to sticke and coale to coale both keepe in fires and as beggars every one of them bringing severall scraps make a beggars feast so it is when hearers meet and confer notes not of Randalls Aristippus or Aristotle but of Sacred Scripture and Sermons Thirdly noting and quoting by penning principall heads of Sermons and after recollecting and examining them as the noble Bereaus did Acts 11. is a tryed help to memory that being most tenatiously revited and infixed which is done by most circumstances one circumstance like links in a golden chaine drawing on another pull one the rest follow Fourthly Hearts must bee free from cares griefes sorrow feare boyling anger and all passions perturbations and regnant lusts which fill the mind as puddle waters fill the Vessells and keepe out the Rosa solis and the true Aqua vita of the Word it being hard to see any face reflexed fayre in a lentulent and troubled water Fifthly it s both a triall of a sincere heart and love to the Word and a helpe to the memorative faculty to give the word heard the prime and first place in the thoughts and cogitations of the heart In our first morning wakings when the mind is most cleared and the braine least clouded then a heart opening to the Word as the Marygold to the Sunne brings a great stocke to the treasury of Knowledge and to the Magazine of Memory Sixthly as usur promtos facit use makes perfect use legges and have legges the child first creeps and then goes so use memory and have memory Augustine by often preaching prosited and by prositing preached and Miloes shoulders not by any increased strength but by dayly constant exercise bore a Calfe till it grew to a ponderous Bull. And in the Art of Memory those yong Tirees who have begun at first to lodge but seven or eight wordes in a chamber which they ever bear as an Idea in their mindes in few dayes by degrees have lodged thirty forty fifty or sixty not onely wordes but sentences in the upper middle and lower places of the said chamber devided into severall Continents and its probable that Seneca Cyrus Hortonsius Portius Latro and our Doctour Fuller with others famoused for memory attainned their perfections by such degrees prescribed Seventhly it brings no small adjument to memory presently ere any action be intervenient to strike whilst the Iron is hot and to set the Seale whilst the Waxe is soft in writing downe what ere wee can remember as soone as ever it is heard for though writing by characters or at large be more gainefull as communicable to others yet it so takes away or duls the edge of affection in a ducerted course turning the care into a pen that for to heat devotion its more powerfull to heare attentively and to write what wee receive retentively after wee have pondered what wee heard Eightly you told mee for remembring other Classicall Authours whether divine or humane it was most profitable to extract the very marrow and quintessence of them into short Epitomes and Abridgements as some have abridged Calvins Institutions and some Master Rogers his Directories as Lucius Florus Livies History Ninthly some to remember some Authour have transcribed him wholly as Demosthenes writ out Thucidides eight times Tenthly some have read over an Authour very often as Cyprian did Tertullian and Alphonsus the Bible foureteene times as it s sayd in one yeare Eleaventhly others have committed to memory whole bookes or parcells of them as some the booke of the Psalmes some yonger Boyes and Girles in our Times all the Epistles of St. Paul Twelfthly some have extracted out of the Bible all the Promises as Mistresse Alice Fenuick some all the parallell places as Junius some all that mainely confute Popery as Pelargus in his Jesuitismus and the zealous Father of Sir James Ware in Ireland Thirteenthly others have ripened their Judgements and strengthned their Memories by translating Authours as Calvins Institutions and his Comments on Job Pareus his Comments on the Revelations Musculus and Peter Martyrs Common places Philemon Holland Plutarks Lives and Morralls Plinny Suetonius not suffered to bee Tranquillus our Tapsell Gesners History with others which Plebeians read rather then understand in our English tongue Fourteenthly others have incorporated other Authours into their owne stiles and moulded them into their memories by a neere imitation of them as Theocritus in this kinde imitated Hesiod Virgil Homer our Laureat Spencer and the Latine Lucan Virgil Doctour Hall Seneca Gesner Pliuny our late Aeobanus Hessus and our Draiton and Daniell Ovid and Coquier Lipsius in his Politicall Aphorismes Fifteenthly its advantagious to memory to take the opportunity of the morning which is sayd to bee Musis amica ever a friend to the Muses studies and serious recollections after a full and free repast in a dinner chiefly night studies being as prejudiciall to the braine as to the body Sixteenthly you acquainted mee also with some helpes in dyet as amongst the rest such a moderate use of mine as Paul prescribes to his Timothy 1 Tim. 5. and the Mother of Solomon to her Lamuel Prov. 31. 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