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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45432	Daily thoughts, or, A miscellany of meditations holy & humane by Jos. Henshaw.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1651 (1651)	Wing H57; ESTC R25711	25,049	128

DAILY THOUGHTS OR A MISCELLANY OF MEDITATIONS Holy Humane The third Edition much enlarged By Jos Henshaw Dr of Divinity LONDON Printed by W. H. for T. A. and are to be sold by G.B. at his shop in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street 1651. TO The READER IT is not out of desire of being known nor out of a desire to bee thought to know that I doe commend this small Tract to the world but to take up the roome of worse thoughts in thy head and of worse Bookes in thy hands it is the work of younger yeares and the fruit of idle times not of a serious study and no otherwise do I publish it to view though I am perswaded it would conduce much to the peace of the Church if Bookes of this nature were more in use it were to bee wished that inferiours would imploy their time rather in holy Meditation of those truths which are already received in the Church than in making themselves or shewing themselves able to defend them not that I would commend an ignorant devotion to any or desire men to know lesse good but more to practice that good which they know nor turne Religion into disputation but turne their disputation into action and obedience they shall finde in the last day that it is holinesse not knowledge I doe not say holinesse without knowledge that must bring them to Heaven Supremo illi judici non scripta approbanda sed facta not the disputer but the doer of Gods will shall be justified men while they spend their time in disputing what they should doe they too often neglect to doe even those things which are without dispute in this Book if there be little paines yet there is no hurt nay it is thy owne fault if there rise not some good to thee from it which if thou second with practice will bring thee to an eternall good which I wish thee IOS HENSHAW Daily Thoughts MAke the Word of God the Rule and God himselfe the Paterne of all thy actions contemplate God and thy selfe what He is what Hee requires thee to be like Him in a degree though not a perfection in a perfection of sincerity though not of degrees Do nothing against thy word and let thy word be regulated by God's Word do not ill for company nor good onely for company LEt thy talke not bee much and that profitable be sparing of oaths and promises and performe both shun jests in holy things and abhorre lies though in jest speake to the capacities but not to the humors of men so frame thy talke as one that is going shortly to give an account of his words detract from no man but thy selfe speake well of all men till thou knowest otherwise and where thou canst not speake well be silent meditate often upon the shortnesse of thy life and be carefull so to imploy it as that thou doest not make thy account long measure the length of it as the Scripture doth by a Bubble and a Shadow and a Flower light and vanishing but yet to comfort thy self in this present state with the remembrance of the future that if this life which thou hast bee short yet that which thou hopest for is eternall My life is like a Bubble but a blast At first God breath'd into me and I live And like a Bubble I doe daily wast and am like water powr'd into a sive Lord since I am thy bubble when I die Like to a bubble let me ascend on high Or if you will my life is like a Flower And like a Flower for a while I stand I am and am not in an other ●owre For I am gather'd by the owner's hand Since I am so why am I so corrupt That do not know how soon I shal be pluckt But of all Flowers most of all me thinks Resembled in the Marigold am I And like the Marigold that wakes and winks Still as it sees the Sun am borne and die But her 's my comfort with that flower when The Sun appeareth I shall blow agen AFfect not to set out thy selfe to the world nor to thy selfe speake not thine owne praise nor greedily heare it from others nor too easily beleeve it spend thy time rather in pressing forward to what thou shouldst be then in idly contemplating or contenting thy selfe with what thou art thinke meanely of thy selfe and that thought will both make thee modest for he that suspects himselfe is not bold and eager in the pursuite of that goodnesse or knowledge wherein thou supposest thy self defective be ready rather to give then to take an applause and if thou art apt to thinke thou deservest well check it with thinking how many deserve better LEt thy thoughts be such to thy selfe that if it should be suddenly ask'd what thou think'st on thou mightest not blush to tell stifle sinne in the first warmth and quickning before it shape too farre a twig may be pluckt up with one hand which the whole body cannot wag when it is a tree even evill thoughts are evill and though yet they bee not yet cherished will spread into evill actions BE not easily provoked and easily be friends give no occasion of exceptions thy self and doe not easily take exceptions at others and be ready to make satisfaction to those that have just exceptions against thee it is a greater vertue to forgive one injury than to do many courtesies because it is harder and it is harder because more against nature for many a man will doe for another that will not suffer for him therefore it is a greater perfection to bee contented to suffer than to be willing to do unlesse it be to do for those of whom wee have suffered for our enemies which is the highest AFfect the company of those who are abler then thy selfe and desire rather to partake of others sufficiency than to publish thine owne in meaner company thou maiest bee admired more but in this thou shalt profit more it is better to learne wisdome from those that are wise then to be thought wise by those that are ignorant be studious rather of being able then of being so accounted not to picke up thy knowledge especially thy opinions from other mens discourse but with paines and industry rather to search out the knowledge of truth thy selfe then lazily to take it up from others IN Religion examine but not broach opinions ever incline to Antiquity and suspect novelty in middle things ever submit to the Authority thou livest under and let the Churches opinion be thine MEasure not equity and right by friends and profit nor do wrong either to get or to doe a courtesie not upbraid others with the kindnesses thou doest for them nor forget the kindnesses which others doe for thee be sparing of receiving a curtesie where it is an ingagement and of doing one where it is dishonourable BE not wilfull nor wavering not change but upon good reason not obstinate against reason not beleeve every