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A79881	Aurea Legenda, or Apothegms, sentences, and sayings of many wise and learned men, useful for all sorts of persons Collected out of many authors by Sa. Clark, sometimes pastor in B.F.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing C4488A; ESTC R223906	51,711	152

Commander and chief Controuler of all his Desires and doings Conscience is a most Celestial gift It is so of God and in Man that it is a kind of middle thing between God and Man less than God and yet above man It may be called our God in the sense that Moses was called Pharaoh's God having Power to controul and avenge our disobedience with greater plagues than ever Moses brought upon Egypt Many seek for knowledge few care for Conscience yet is Conscience got with more ease and kept with more advantage than all our Science Keep Conscience pure and it will keep thee in Peace Let men the World and the Devils do their worst they cannot hurt him that hath a good Conscience saith Bernard A good Conscience is the Paradise that God walks in the Throne that Christ sits upon the Temple that the holy Spirit dwels in the Golden-pot wherein is kept the hidden Manna c. Conscience is the Book of Books the ancientest piece of Scripture in the world The first Tables of God's own hewing and Hand-writing in the Heart of Man for whose sake all other Books since yea the Scripture it self was afterwards written on purpose to Comment upon it This is the Book that every man should be well versed in To study other Books will make thee a Schollar but to study this will make thee a Christian Peace of Conscience is worth our utmost endeavour It will make a man sleep without a Pillow yea without a Bed Hence it was that Jacob took such good rest upon a Stone That Peter loaden with Iron Chains could sleep so sweetly tho for ought he knew he was to dye the next day That Mr Philpot and his fellow Prisoners could rouse as merrily in the Straw in the B B of London's Colehouse as if they had been upon Down Beds in a Pallace It is a Feast with any Food tho never so course and slender It made those blessed Martyrs in the Reign of Severus the Emperor of whom Eusebius writes that after long and hard imprisonment being released for a time they appeared to the People as those that came è Myrothecia non Ergastulo rather out of Shops from among sweet Oyntments than out of filthy Prisons They were brought forth saith he rejoycing in their Torments and carrying in their Countenances a certain Divine aspect This inward peace of Conscience made the Prophet Isay cheerfully to submit himself to the Saw Jeremiah to be stoned Paul to the Sword Peter to the Cross Lawrence to the Grid-iron c. Prov. 28. 1. The righteous is bold as a Lyon Conscintia pura semper secura A good Conscience hath a secure Confidence and he that hath it sits Noah-like mediis tranquillus in undis Quiet in the greatest Combustions Freed if not from the common Destruction yet from the common Distraction For he knows whom he hath trusted and is sure that neither Life nor Dèath nor things Present nor things to come can ever sunder him from God's love in Christ Rom. 8. 38 39. Tho Saul could not be merry without a Fidler Ahab without Naboth's Vineyard Nor Haman without Mordecai's curtesie Yet he that hath a good Conscience can be merry without all these Yea as the Lilly is fresh beautiful and looks pleasantly tho among Thorns So can such an one exult in the midst of troubles St. Paul tho no man out of Hell ever suffered more then he yet did he not only Glory in Tribulations but Over-abounded exceedingly with joy 2 Cor. 7. 4. There are four quiet Consciences and never a one of them good First The ignorant Conscience which with the blind Man swallows many a Fly and know's it not Ephe. 4. 18 19. Secondly The Conscience that was never yet well awakened The sleeping Conscience But Sin lyes at the Door His Bones are full of the Sin of his youth which shall lye down with him in the Dust Job 20. 11. This is worse than a troubled Conscience Here the strong Man armed keepeth possession and therefore all things are at Peace Luke 11. 21. Thirdly The deluded Conscience that Dreams of nothing but Visions of Peace Lam. 2. 14. being deluded by Satan and his Instruments as Ahab was by his false Prophets 1 Kin. 22. 21 22. Most men are in this condition Zech. 1. 11. Behold all the Earth sits still and is at rest Zeph. 1. 11. I will punish the men that are setled on their Lees c. These dye like Lambs and are accounted happy Jer. 51. 40. Fourthly The obdurate Conscience These Treasure up wrath against the day of Wrath Rom. 2. 5. Job 36. 13. There is no greater a Plague than such a Conscience David before he was smitten either by God's hand or by the Prophet's reproof his own sanctified Conscience did the Office of a faithful Monitor and houshold Chaplain For his Heart presently mis-gave him 1 Chron. 21. 8. 2 Sam. 24 10. Bee-Masters tell us that those are the best Hives that make the greatest noise Sure it is that that is the best Conscience that suffers not a man to sleep in Sin David's heart smote him for numbring the People It was for his own for a small for a secret Sin For failing in the manner only For he knew that a man might as well dye of an in ward bleeding as of an outward Wound The good Soul is often afflicted for it's failings in those Duties which others applaud and extoll A good and a peaceable Conscience saith Bernard est lectus Animae The Bed on which the Soul takes sweet repose Behold the Considence of a good Conscience towards God 1 Pet. 3. 21. when it is parling with God by Prayer and bold intercession It dares plead with God as Jeremy did Righteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee Yet let me talk with thee of thy Judgments c. Jer. 12. 1. And interrogates as St. Paul Rom. 8. 33 34 35. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifies Who is he that Condemns c And expostulates with God as David often did When God seems to be asleep he will awaken him When to delay he will quicken him When to have lost his wonted kindness he will find it for him In pure Water the Face may be seen not so in muddy So in a pure Conscience Gods Face may be seen and no where else in the Earth As Faith makes the Conscience good before God so Purity makes it good before men The unlearned man with a good Conscience saith St. Austin will go to Heaven when thou with all thy Learning shalt be cast into Hell Surgunt indocti rapiunt Regnum Coelorum c. Faith looks to Promises Fear to threats Hope to futures Obedience to Duties Repentance to Sins c. But Conscience looks to all A good Conscience will stand a Man instead when he appears before the great Tribunal of God where Courage dares not shew it's Face nor Eloquence open

with his Part in Paris for his Part in Paridise Cardinal Wolsey rode through London with twenty Sumpter Mules Caused his Cardinals Hat when it was first sent him from Rome to be set upon a Cupboard in Westminster-Abbey with Tapers round about it so that the greatest Duke in the Land must make curtesie unto it yea to his empty Seat when he was away He had as great yearly Revenues as all the Bishops and Deans in this Kingdom put together And for his Houshold Attendants he had one Earl nine Barons a great number of Knights and Esquires and of others of an inferior Rank four Hundred at the least He used to wear Shooes of Silver and guilt beset with Pearls and precious Stones When none other would lift up Hildebrand into ' St. Peter's Chair he got up himself For who said he can judg better of my fitness than my self Harden thy Forehead said Calvus to Vatinius and say boldly that thou deservest the Praetorship better than Cato Cyprian and St. Austin say That Pride in Apparel is worse than Whoredom For that Whoredom only corrupts Chastity but this corrupts Nature Humility is the Ornament of Angels and Pride the deformity of Devils If Heaven will not keep in a Proud Angel it will keep out a Proud Soul In all Conditions of highness we should take heed of High-mindedness It 's said of Nazianzen that he was high in his Works but lowly in his Thoughts Anger is a Leprosie breaking out of a burning as Levit. 13. 5. It renders a man unfit for all Civil Society A man's unruly Passions make him like unto the torrid Zone too hot for any to live neer him The Dog-days continue with him all the year long and he is fit only to live alone as Dragons and wild Beasts do Weakness disposes a man to Anger because such men are most tender to feel an injury most suspitious to fear it and most interpreting to over-judg it All which being Circumstances of aggravation to encrease a wrong are likewise means to add degrees and heat unto our Passions Anger begins in Rashness abounds in Transgression and ends in Repentance Anger saith Seneca is the foulest fiercest and maddest affection of all others The angry Person discovers it by his Words by his Looks by his Actions His Words are wild and many times thrust forward so many at once and in such haste as puts the man to silence as we see in a Crowd hastning to get out of an House at once stops up the Passage so that they stick in the Door The looks of an angry man are sometimes furiously red and sometimes gastly Pale His Lips tremble His Teeth grin His Hair stare He swells like a Toad He glows like a Devil c. So that for the time that it Continues it is the foulest and maddest of the Affections As we see in Achitophel who being enraged that his Counsel was rejected went home and hanged himself The Heathens in their Sacrifices to Apollo offered Ivy to him to shew that Learning could not Prosper and grow unless it were supported by the Civil Magistrate Sure none will follow Vertuous studies when Equal rewards shall cease from Vertuous men Great is the sweetness even of Humane Learning to those who have gotten but a taste of it as it was to Pythagoras and Plato who travelled far for it To Julian the Apostate who preferred the study of it before all Pastimes whatsoever To Marcus Aurelius the Emperor who said he would not leave the Knowledge he might learn in one hour for all the Gold that he Possessed To Alphonsus King of Arragon who preferred his study in the Mathematicks before the Empire of Germany when it was offered to him He professed that he would rather part with all his Jewels than his Books yea all his Kingdoms rather than that little Learning he had attained unto St. Hierom got his skill in the Hebrew with the peril of his Life and that in his old Age and yet accounted it a good Bargain He went by stealth in the Night to the Jew that taught him For if it had been known the other Jews would have been the Death of them both Pythagoras lived in a Cave for a whole year together that being sequestred from the Society of men he might the better meditate upon the abstruser parts of Philosophy He used also with a Thread to tye the hair of his Head to a Beam over him that so when he did but nod by reason of Sleep he might be awaked thereby Alphonsus King of Sicity called his Books his best Counsellors for that they would tell him the Truth when none else durst Julius Caesar wrote his own Acts and modestly called them not Histories but Commentaries He would be carved standing upon a Globe of the World having in one Hand a Book and in the other a Sword with this Motto Ex utroque Caesar Cleopatra Queen of Egypt gave Answers her self to the Ambassadors of the Aethiopians Arabians Hebrews Syrians Medes Parthians in their own Languages And could tune her Tongue like an Instrument of many strings saith Plutarch to whatsoever Dialect she listed The Emperor Trajan highly esteemed Learning in Pliny and others whom he Prized and preferred no less than did Antoninus the Philosopher who was not ashamed even after he was made Emperor to resort daily to his Doctor And when he came to Athens and was admitted into that University he granted to it large Priviledges did the Students great Honours and founded many Lectures with a liberal Allowance of maintenance to them Aeneas Silvius afterwards Pope was wont to say of Learning that Popular men should esteem it as Silver Noble-men as Gold and Princes as Pearls How much Plato preferred Books before Money well appeared when he gave for three Books thirty Thousand Florens Of Ruchline it is storied that he gave the Jew a Crown an hour that read Hebrew to him at Rome Cleanthus parted with all he had for Learning Sigismond the Emperor in his old Age applied himself to learn Latine and he much bewailed the matter at the Council of Constance that neither he nor any of his great Courtiers or Counsellors were able to answer a forraign Ambassador in the Latine Tongue Julian the Lawyer used to say that when he had one foot in the Grave he would have the other in the Schools Queen Elizabeth was wont to qualifie the tediousness of her affairs with the sweet Recreation of Letters She either read or wrote something every Day She translated Boetius his Books De Consolatione into handsome English She answered several Ambassadors in their several Languages The Lady Jane Grey for her Age was learned to a Miracle The famous Olympia Fulva Morata of Ferrara in Italy publickly and with great Commendation Professed the Greek and Latine Tongues at Heidleberg in the Palatinate Anno Christi 1554. Such as write any tender matter to their Friends should remember the Motto of a very Wise man who wrote upon the Mantle of his Chimney where he used to keep a good Fire Optimus Secretariorum This is the best keeper of Secrets I will conclude all with an Hymn Composed by Sr. Henry Wotton after his recovery from a fit of Sickness Oh Thou great Power in whom I move For whom I Live to whom I Dye Behold me through thy Beams of Love Whilst on this Couch of Tears I lye And cleanse my sordid Soul within By thy Christ's Blood the Bath of Sin No hallowed Oyls no Grains I need No Rags of Saints no purging Fire One Rosie drop from David's seed Was worlds of Seas to quench thine Ire Oh precious Ransom which once Paid That Consummatum est was said And said by him that said no more But seal'd it by his sacred Breath Thou then that hast dispung'd my score And dying wast the Death of Death Be to me now on thee I call My Life my Strength my Joy my All. FINIS

could not be a true-hearted Subject It 's an excellent Character of great Men In honore sine tumore To be lifted up with Honour but not to be puffed up with Pride Sr. Henry Wotton directed that this only should be written on his plain Marble Hic jacet hujus sententiae Primus Auctor Disputandi Pruritus fit Ecclesiarum Scabies Nomen aliàs Quaere Choice Examples Apothegms and Sayings of very Wise men A Lexander the Great when Antipater made great Complaints to him of his Mother replyed knowest thou not that she with one Tear will blot out all thy Complaints Much more available with God are the Tears of his Servants which as precious Liquor he preserveth in his Bottles Agis King of Sparta thus answered a wicked man that ask'd him Quis Spartanorum est Optimus Who of the Spartans is the best Qui tui dissimilimus Even he that is most unlike unto thee Lysander's saying was Vbi Leonina pellis non sufficit assumenda Vulpina Where a Lyon's skin will not serve a Foxes skin must eke it out When the Grecians boasted of their seven liberal Arts the Romans told them that they had two Arts worth all their seven namely the Arts of Commanding and Obeying Tacitus tells us that these are somewhat difficult at the First but being studied and Practised they become as easie as they are safe and useful Two Parthian Ambassadors were sent to Rome whereof the one was troubled with the Megrim and the other with the Gout whereupon Cato said That that Ambassy had neither Head nor Foot Alexander the Great used to say that his hungry Dinner was his Suppers Sawce Pythagoras said That in two things we resemble God 1. In telling the Truth 2. In bestowing Benefits It was the prayer of an Heathen that God would give what he knew would be good for him tho not asked in particular and keep Evil from him tho desired In Mr. Farrel's time who had been so much oppofed and threat'ned in reforming Geneva and some other Cities they coyned Medals with this Posie on the one side Lux post tenebras Light after long Darkness And on the other side Deus noster pugnat pro nobis Our God fights for us Mr. Hooper when he was B B. of Worcester took for his Arms a Lamb in a flaming Bush incircled with the Raies of the Sun beams which may thus be Blazoned The Lamb signified an innocent Christian and the burning Bush the Fire of Persecution And the Sun-beams the Glory and Beauty of the innocent Christian in those sufferings Duarenus saith of such as come to the University That the first Year they are Doctors in their own conceit at least The next Year they come to be Masters The third Year they are content to be Bachelors And the fourth Schollars Horace the Poet had blear and Watry Eyes and Virgil used to sigh much whereupon Augustus Caesar sitting between them said that he sat inter Suspiria Lachrymas Between Sighs and Tears Sabellic Diogenes being asked why men used to give to the Blind and Lame but not unto Philosophers Answered because they think that themselves may one day come to be Blind or Lame But never hope to be Philosophers So mens Affections being Blind and Lame and their Phantasies vainly bent must needs delight in vain and frothy Pamphlets which feed their Humours but cannot brook such as would Purge them out One of Terence his Comedies called Eunuchus was valued at eight Thousand pieces of Silver which made two Hundred Crowns This was more than all Tullie's Orations and all his learned works were prized at Ex Aelii Donati praef in Terentium But said a Wise man the choice of Books should be as the choice of Physicians Medicus non jucundior sed utilior eligitur A man will have a Physician rather for his Profit that can do him good than for his Pleasure that will feed him with fine Words It was wise Counsel which Crates gave unto the Thebans If he which hath wronged thee be Weaker than thy self pardon him For it 's no Honour for a man to strive against a Child Nor for a Rich man to go to Law with a Beggar If he be more Mighty than thou art pardon thy self For thou shalt never gain any thing by going to Law with a Mighty man And if he be thine Equal pardon both thy self and him For you shall both live by the loss and shall hardly know who is the Gainer And therefore strive with no Man But if it be Possible as much as in you is Live peaceably with all men Heb. 12. 14. I once saw painted on a Table saith Beza where a Noble man had this Posie By my Sword I defend you all The Clergy-man By my Prayers I preserve you all The Country-man by my Labour I feed you all Lastly the Lawyer By my Policy I devour you all Daniel Heinsius History-Professor at Leiden Secretary and Library-Keeper of that University and appointed Notary in the Synod of Dort said at last Alas As to humane Learning I may use Solomon 's Expressions that which is crooked cannot be made strait Me thinks said he I could bid the World farewel and immure my self among my Books and look forth no more if this were a Lawful Course but shut the Doors upon me and as in the lap of Eternity among those Divine Souls imploy my self with sweet Content and Pitty the Rich and great ones that know not this Happiness Sure then it is a high delight indeed which is enjoyed in the true lap of Eternity Sr. Christopher Hatton a little before his Death advised his Relations to be serious in the search after the Will of God in his Holy word For said he it is deservedly accounted a Piece of excellent knowledge for a Man to understand the Law of the Land and the Customs of his own Country How much more to know the Statutes of Heaven and the Laws of Eternity Those immutable and eternal Laws of Justice and Righteousness To know the Will and Pleasure of the great Monarch and universal King of the World I have seen an end of all Perfection But thy Commandments O God are exceeding broad Could a man by a vast and imperious Mind and a Heart as large as the Sand upon the Sea-shore command all the knowledge of Art and Nature of Words and Things could he attain to be a Master in all Languages and sound the depth of all Arts and Sciences Could he Discourse the Interest of all States the Intrigues of Courts the Reasons of all Civil Laws and Constitutions and give an account of all Histories and yet not know the Author of his Being and the Preserver of his Life his Soveraign and his Judg His surest Refuge in troubles His best Friend and worst Enemy the Support of his Life and the Hope of his Death his future Happiness and his Portion for ever he doth but Sapienter descendere in Infernum with a great deal of Wisdom