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A88914	Logoi eukairoi, essayes and observations theologicall & morall. Wherein many of the humours and diseases of the age are discovered, and characteriz'd: divers cautions and directions præscribed for the avoidance of their infection, and the promotion of their cure. Together with some meditations & prayers adjoyn'd, serving to the same purpose. / By a student in theologie.	Master, William, 1627-1684.	1654 (1654)	Wing M1060A; Thomason E1496_1; ESTC R208626	31,102	128

and thinke they shall Take much by converting the originall sense into their owne worse words Some think borrowed collections of the Terra filius's and Prevaricators wit worth printing and yet after percolation through their braines the Fresh-Man himselfe scarce thinks them worthy his former Humme and stampe Some have wit of their owne at will but can they think they have therefore the readers patience and his peny so too or that the trifles they adore must exact worship from all men else Some write to please fools and let wiser heades passe what sentence they will on their works they applaud themselves at home and are acquitted by their Peeres and I would that some who thinke better of what they doe could attest it unto our experience Some thinke to make amends for what they have erred before by a second edition or The other Part of the same but can they hope when they have frayed the Bird far away by the first stone they shall hit it with the third or the fourth Some out of modesty conceale their names and yet they leave markes enough in their Bookes to be descryed or if they doe not they hope the difficult discovery may advance their reputation Some fancie they shall have much credit for a Greeke word here and there interposed but who knoweth how often they consult the Book to accent right Some pitty the Readers ignorance and I would they did not more betray their owne How sollicitous are many of the readers profit and when they come to a speciall sentence they Digit it streight and that must make amends for the tedium of the former page whereas in a booke that deserves printing there is scarce a Categorematicall word but as well deserves a marke Some are at their journeyes end soone and when they lye at the lowest staire of invention they thinke it impossible to ascend higher Some write out of serious designes and yet I wish they did not administer occasion to others of an other temper Some tell us a sad story how much the Age is injured by the losse of some of their works and yet how little do they help us to believe it by what they have saved Some fancy they inrich the Age with choice secrets and yet see as farre into a Milstone as into their own hearts Some thinke they can never benefit us enough but meethinks since St Iohn wrote so short a history of what he might have filled the world with books they might contract themselves to a lesser bulke Some labour after moderation betwene parties and yet I wonder they then put so much viniger in their inke Or can others thinke to reforme the vices of the Age by laughing as them only and so committing a greater themselves However there are some that endeavour to doe that little good they can and when that is joyned with humility and discretion I hugely accept it a few there are able to do much and Oh that the world would suffer them The Reader also has his vanities too many to be noted in this hast Some sterile braines envy others men discoveries if they meete with a thought published which they Lock'd up as the jewel of their owne invention they presently in a lamentable tone cry out They are robd they are robd yet they weare so hard a pavement on their brains that t is not easy to think how any thing could be pick'd thence Some like Alexander in his youth are ill at ease that so much is acted before they come on the stage and feare there will be no part left for them and yet it would puzzle a Diviner too choose out any one for which they are fit Some fall into Iulius Caesars passion that anothey Man riseth to high fame at their yeares but do they thinke the Ballcourts the Tavernes or worse places the ready way to doe wonders in print Some let writing books alone and read to benefit themselves but do they hope to be nourished with the bare sight or tast of their meat Some are so taken with an Authour that they loose themselves and are ready at every close to exclaime {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He must be more then man that thus speaketh and yet the person it may be has Wormes good store in his brains and my thinks it should discourage their idolatry that those who see so overmuch in others are reputed to have very little in themselves Some plaine hearts light on a profitable treatise like it well and could be edified by it but that it is not nam'd a Sermon Or it may be they say t is pitty there were not more Scripture in it when t is but too oft there to be quoted Some have their eyes turn'd yellow at the sight of thinges so much above their heavy heads and yet their tongues are nimble enough to say such pregnant parts are often void of grace Lastly some few read books without uncharitable reflections on the Authour and are glad to be profited though they know not by whom God increase their number Caution THe ingenius Reader is desir'd to distinguish between Authors and believe I mean no disparagement to such as are above my reach Impossible be it for any to think I would seem to be without vanityes my selfe I se a world within me and should be glad any would discover more and I assure him amongst other writers and readers I have not spared my selfe Nay I shall confesse to thee that I have been so farre gone in one that I have been forced to my prayers that I might count all things dung and drosse in comparison of Christ and his Scriptures And I petition my more Serious Reader he will not think I induldge a light satyricall veine in that this subject hath carryed mee so far in these unstudied thoughts I shall indeavour to make him amends in what followeth Concerning forcible Impressions AS there is a supernaturall illumination whereby a child of God perceives the things which others see but perceive not and a spirituall opening of the heart cordially to imbrace the things which float onely in the surface of other mens brains or but undulate their affections at best so also are there different impressions of an inferiour nature which the same trueth maketh on diverse subjects yea and many times on the same subject at diverse seasons There may be such a conspiracy of circumstances some times discernible sometimes not so disposing a man that at one time such an observation or such a discourse may be as gratefull to him as the coole waters of the well of Bethlehem were to David which at another time the same man can relish no more then Job did the white of an egge The words of the wise I know Solomon saith are like goads and nailes fastened by the masters of the Assemblies and yet these pierce deeper when they meete with an object so softened for impression 't is not the least part

{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ESSAYES AND OBSERVATIONS Theologicall Morall Wherein Many of the humours and diseases of the Age are discovered and characteriz'd divers cautions and directions praescribed for the avoidance of their infection and the promotion of their cure Together with some Meditations Prayers adjoyn'd serving to the same purpose By a Student in Theologie JOB 32. v. 7 8 10. I said Dayes should speake and multitude of yeares should teach wisedome But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding I also will shew mine opinion LONDON Printed by R. W. for R. Davis in Oxon. 1654. To the lively Patternes of reall Christianity his honoured Parents I Have great cause to feare the liquor I have expressed from these unripe grapes may disrelish in your experienced and judicious Palates and that what I now designe as an humble testimony of my duty and observance I may my selfe ere long condemn to the flames as a libell and indignity to the relation I am honoured with from you Yet having thus adventured the usage of the World which certainly is grown in all respects more peevish ill-natur'd of late then formerly I knew not how to scruple my approach to your gates whither if to any place proscribed Candor and Humanity has retired Were I to limne out the exact pourtraicture of that charity Christian prudence and moderation to which I chiefely purpos'd to do homage in these sheetes I should place no other Archetype before my eyes but your selves But I shall pray for an Apelles for that piece in the meāe time may it please you to illustrate these obscure shaddowes with your gratious radiation and acceptance Your To the indifferent Reader I Hold it very unnecessary to make an apology for coming forth in print if the book do not that for the Author 't is past the power of his Epistle Neither have I altogether so much charity beyond discretion as to believe the utmost of all excuses writers make for them selves and thinke I have some cause to suspect that what some say Their widdow 's mite is not to be contemned That a desire to doe good according to that little a man has ought favourably to be accepted That they durst not hide their single talent though they acknowledge how small that is and the like may have more of form in them then of trueth divers times that if these modest mejosies were converted into the plain sense of their secret thoughts they would salute the Readers eare in another style I shall not therefore provoke my Reader to passe the same sentence on me which I have on others but shall freely acknowledge that a Cacoethes scribendi had some mixture with my more justifiable inducements to this work which if thou desirest furthar to be satisfied in take this account Having often in the diversion of my studies For I must tell thee they are much of another nature occasionally glanced upon some such considerations a long time as lightly passed from them I began at length to question whether I were not injurious to my Genius or rather a superiour benevolence to bury such thoughts in their conception Musing a while hereon I found at length that what was so easily represented was not as easily recalled and that I had cause to suspect that possibly whilst I laboured with more intention to gather grapes of thornes I might loose figges ready to drop into my mouth Hereupon I used more providence for the future and as I had such a thought suggested I presently committed it to paper At length upon a review I conceited them such for I will not conceale this weaknesse from thee as might perhaps not without some profit be sent to the Presse and so I gave them my Inprimantur Thus Reader thou hadst my designes and my motives thereunto in their true colours I confesse I had rather be accounted a foole than an hypocrite and yet rather be accounted a hypocrite than be one That I subjoyn'd a caution now and then was because I feared divers in this age to resemble the Thornes David mentioned at his last that cannot be taken with bare hands but the man that toucheth them must be fenced with iron c and if the courteous Reader think the like wanting in other places I desire his charity to believe them understood And now if I can perceive that these few notions procure any Christian the least advantage as I pray God they may I shall not be quite disanimated either by the harsh censure from others which I expect or the condemnatory sentence of rashnesse precocity which I am more sure of from my selfe but shall think it a businesse not wholly to be repēted of that another has been benefitted though by my indiscretion Lastly if this hope faile me yet I hope not I have one more in reserve and that is to be edifyed my selfe by hearing and seeing my Book laught at which that thou may'st the more freely do if thou thinkest it deserves it I shall not tell thee my name but am Thy Servant Apremunition for the Reader IT 's reported that the harvest Pythagoras reaped of his long study was Nil admirari a freedome from wonder I dare not boast of the progresse of mine yet according to what I have made I find the contrary wonders increase The more I looke into my self the more I looke abroad I discover the more thinges that provoke my admiration and the same things when not strange to me yet upon further in sight cease not to be wōderfull and therefore Reader I desire thee not to wonder if when thou thinkest not the discoveries new the exordium of some of my Observations be It seems strange to me or I wonder ERRATA THe mistakes of the Presses for more than one was made use of for expedition sake which seem most likely to endanger the sense are here corrected As for smaller ones it was thought fit rather to leave them to the Readers candor than discourage him with a whole page of Errata's In the Essayes Pag. 17. lin. 5. for all r. at p. 18. l. 1. for their r. the Galatians account p. 25. l. 3. for lightest r highest p 30. l. 1 r. effected p. 65. l. 1● r. God grant p. 58. l. 12. after that r as I have heard p. 67. l. 21. r. haven p. 69. l. 24. r. A Kempis p. 106. l 18. for strange r. stale In the Meditations Advert for the eyes r their eyes pag. 3. l. 13. for not them r. n● man ESAYES AND OBSERVATIONS Some few of the Vanities and Absurdityes in VVriters and Readers I Have often wondered what in the world should perswade so many to write Bookes if you say their eyes are not open to discerne their owne weaknesses and the ill successe of others I wonder the more how they can see to write in the darke Some present us with daintyes at anothers cost