best countenance of truth is to be what we seeme To seeme what wee are not is player-like It is a passible vertue to speake well a praisable to do well the one resembles the shadow the other the body but wisely to hold ones peace makes a due Zenith The censure of others troubles not a well planted minde To contend with fooles is to be in the same parallell The blessing of God keepes company with vertuons actions but that Gods blessing many Rich-men bragge of is but eight in the hundred or worse Hee who lives poorely in rich havings is like him that 's a cold in a furr'd gowne the cause onely inward An understanding soule in a grosse body is like a good leg in a winter boote but a foolish spirit in a well featured body is like a mishapen spindle shanke in a bombasted stocking It is a rancke courteosie when a man is forc't to thanke for his owne againe He that thinkes too well of many for the most part betrayes himselfe to the borrower He that loves all alike loves none well and he that hates and suspects all loves himselfe too much What thou judiciously holdest lawdable in others seeke to make reall in thy selfe Those who prayse others thereby to bee commended themselves resemble horses when they knibble one another A palpable flatterer is like a horstealer that strokes the horse with sweete-gloves Whose ende is to get vp and ryde him out of his pasture Craft reqvires more witt than plaine honestie doth which makes knaves so nimble and officious A lyar without memory is like one has lost his purse to a reckonning A young vnthriftie heyre that is greene inward black outward is like a morning dreame wakes and finds all gone Hee that oversets his confidence upon false projects is like him that handes a loose haulser falls over-bord He that delights in doing brave evill as they call Swaggering c. is like him that sweares vildly in some learned language The first and last thing we should doe upon sleepe is to pray to and prayse God If the wine be good bee thou the more wary for if thou drinkest drunke thou defacest the Image of God in thee that is thy reason Hee that drinkes drunke Cudgels his owne braine To Swagger in drinke is to put a horrid Visour upon an il-favored face There is no cause why any man should bee proud bee they Lords Knights Gentlemen c. For if they consider themselves truely they are but Millers Cookes and Dungmen Millers in grinding their Meale Cookes in decocting it Dungmen by carying and expulsing excrements Hee may well clayme a boat-sons place in Barkleyes Shippe of fooles that befooles himselfe and he then blowes the whistle when hee proclaymes his vayne confidence The difference betwixt Fortitude desperate dareing it is betweene the Sunne and common Fyer the one produceth much good the other consumes and destroyes what is put into it and at last goes out it selfe A Gamester that depends his meanes on the hazard is like the weather about Michaelmasse now fayre then foule but in the adversitie of losse hee 's winters fowle way to a lender It is impossible thrivers by play should still prosper for their best is losse waste of time their thrift vndoing of others Ordinary play is an ungodly exercize for it is the whetsstone of anger the father of Blasphemous oathes the murtherer of many mens estates and the box an Iron-fac't bold pickpocket An honest playn-meaning man amongst Cheators is like one that sleeps on an Ant-hill A noted coward is like a Dogge running through a Towne with a bottle at his tayle Esteeme of thy selfe but justly as thou art and no more for the world will doubt thee in that and strive to make thee lesse It is a running plague to a horse when a hastie asse rides him You lame the nimble diligence of a Taverne when you come on the score Hee who offers any thing to sale diminisheth the estimation thereof If you 'l put a false friend on the Test offer to borrow mony of him and hee 'l like lead and copper fly away but his Silver shall still remaine his owne on the coppell of excuses A borrower is the veriest subject in a Kingdome if without a pawne a meere slave to censure He that goeth into a bawdihouse putteth one foote amongst theeves the other amongst murtherers A craftie fellow is somewayes proffitable to a wise man viz. makes him wary Drunkenesse looseth a mans reputation as a bad gamester doth his mony both commonly eyther laughing or quarrelling He that is drunke finds alwayes something in his way because his fantasie is full of figures He that is a true judge of himselfe acquits him from the censure of others Chymicall philosophers say Facilius est construere quà m destruere But fooles have experience to the contrary There is a sport in recounting witty jeasts which who so over-stretcheth becomes Buffone to the Auditory Hee that showes store of money amongst needie persons whets a borrower to cut his courteosies purse or a theefe to steale it Fayned excuses in a friend are like false dice with a gamester He that still talkes for his owne endes should bee worne by his Auditors as woemen weare fringe or lace about the tayle peece Drinking frindship is but drunken kindnesse That is an idle tale that neyther profits the teller nor hearer but a pernitious one that benefits the teller and hurts the hearer Hee that over-feeds his sences doth like him that feasts his enemies Hee that hath good businesse to doe and wants meanes to effect it is like a shippe ryding vpon her Anchor in the wast of victualls It is vanity to put more confidence vpon this life than on a winde at Sea but it is wisedome to have tackling ready for all changes Fooles are like the Sea waves flying from the breath of good counsell We are apt to conceipt of our selves farre beyond the worlds esteeme and to finde repentance too late with his servant had I wist That poverty is justly contemptible which is purchassed by following vice but that not shāefully gotten by acquiring vertuous sence Who give themselves to be the companions of vice in the end become the slaves of it When thou findest thy selfe apt to frailty make the passion of our Lord Iesus Christ thy Looking glasse It is wisedome to be stayed by the advice of many wise man rather than to run with thy fantasie in the field of opinion Things out of the common course of trade neede have an extraordinarie investigator He that gives himselfe to ebriety becomes the servant of letcherie and at last is attended on with povertie Meditation of holinesse is as glowing Cinders but hearty prayer a flame reaching heaven or Elias his fierie Chariot If every one would mend but one wee should have the golden age againe Auxilliarie Souldiers may bee compared to gamesters the Cheefetaines the Setters the common Souldiers the Monies which for honour
Mercury and Saturne Actaeon pursued by his houndes will suffer diverse expositions for it may aenigmatize a lover chased and devoured by his thoughts but more properly one given as the phrase is to good fellowship and whose followers devoures his estate The history of Phaeton Iason c. haue golden expositions also but the Pedagogues teach the children all they can as the old crowes put the wormes into the young ones mouthes As sayeth Erasmus without tasting them themselves It is blame and shame enough to plainely deny an unconsiderate and unconscionable demander his requests Give a drunkard that hath learned to reele of the tapspinning Mearmaide and a divell bomm-eRuffian the wall in any case for the one needes it the other in right should haue wall on all sides of him viz. Newgate Hee that rowzeth vp a fierce wrath against women and scolds is like him that draweth his sword upon offensive schoole-boyes No man can say of himselfe he is good if he enters into due consideration of what he knowes by his desires but he may justly say and boldly affirme Man was good if hee lookes into the unspotted puritie and suffering of our Saviour Iesus Christ and reckon his good thereby That man may have some hope of himselfe that sees Penetration compunction with sorrow and shame standing within him with dejected countenances and frowne upon his sinnes but he that hath no consideration therein is in a desperate case A man rich and highly favoured is like a Sun Diall regarded so long as his prosperitie shineth on him but poore no more look't on than the Diall is the Sun being in a Cloud so by man hee is regarded as regarded but by the Sunne of Heauen as his heart is so he is respected be his estate poore or rich I haue heard many seafareing men pray for diverse windes as their way was bound North South East West which Lucian in his dialogues laughs at husbandmen for raine and at the same time travellers for faire wether so in all a confusion As if the Sunne Winde and Raine were to bee fitted to the measure of our sensuall occasions so doth selfe-loue blind most men when indeed the Sunne Wind and Raine are God his Creatures not ours but by sufferance of his goodnesse and however it blowes shines or raines wee ought to bee content and thankfull not grutch at Heauen with Mistris minkes riding to Ware but reverence so great creatures however to our endes contrary To desire of another any thing without valuable consideration is foolish selfe-love and childish craving It is honourable to ayd honest investigation for though not suddainly obtain'd yet the intent was noble but if found profitable with every one praysable When we winke at a friends faults our judgment turnes like vineger the spirituall part inward and is last distill'd in a worthy minds accusation or wonds A drunkard is a mad man for the tirne but a mad man is alwayes drunke When we meditate or act good things wee onely live but when wee eate drinke spend time vainly and sleep wee are dying Stage-playes and pleasures are but wakeing dreames All things are ordayned to prayse God the Metalline stands brightly fixt for his glory the vegetable springs up and spreads his flowers and fruits as in sacrifice the Animalls suffer and labour and therein shew us our duty And we were worse then them all if wee doe neglect withall humiliation to still laude and thanke his bounteous goodnesse to whom hee hath onely given a reasonable and discoursive soule The more we shew our understanding with humilitie and prayer unto God the better hee loves us the more wee shew our wit to Criticall man the more hee disesteemes us Iudgment pearceth into the cause and streatcheth with th' extension of a thing Conceit hath taken but a superficiall eye and a small circulation Art thou crossed and unhappie in thy worldly dedesires and workes why thinke with thy selfe art thou better then thy Captaine and Master Iesus Christ was not hee crossed even to the suffering a most bitter death upon the crosse despised c. And as his great grandsiere David by the mothers side was throwne out of the world as a broken potshard Hold thy selfe then up in God who is not onely the Creator but preserver of all his workes and if thou beest one of his thou neede not feare but that thou art in the eye of his providence And examine thy selfe closly if thine owne courses are not the cause of thy affliction a hundred witnesses to one thou wilt find it so It discovers an earthly soule where the discourse is most of morceaux friands as the French call dainty dishes for wee should eate to live not live to eate A large complement ushers a close craft an honest meaning gives due respects It is easie to make men beleeve they are better than they be but you may flatter some women beyond the knowledge of themselves An ingratefull nature hath great cause to feare necessity for it is but just he be the most despised wretch may bee if hee relapse in his best his thoughts bestinke his memory Make no secret contracts or close businesse with a weake braynd man for lookers on will judge thee crafty by his weakenesse how sincerely soever thou dealest It is a misery in a free spirit to depend on others so unstable are most men in these times wherefore with Paracelsus Ne sit alterius qui suus esse potest The best answer to an ignorant denier of principles is silence and to an obstreperous arrogant a cudgell or laughter Alchymie is the knowledge of things hidden in nature the revelation thereof the gift of God It is worth a large smile to observe how in things darkely discovered every one through selfe love thinks themselves cunning Seest thou that the world runnes not on thy side give over the world then and goe upon Gods side that is despise the desires of it which is but cherishment of this frayle and fading body but if thou changest then to God his side thou shalt at last finde a perpetuall way of blisse when thy soule is got free of his prison It is worth the observing in a knowing man to see how one unknowing Alchymist presumes upon the ignorance of his brother To condemne good and Authentique Authors to uphold a selfe loved argument or opinion showes a reprobate ignorance Keepe not company with him is servant to his servants and they servants to vice basenesse ignorance You can hardly finde a rich Gentle weake unthrift but his house is lyned with Queanes and Knaves diggon Shew no inward excellencie to an ignorant for he is apt to contemne that where of hee is uncapable The science of hidden Philosophie may bee true but most of the Artists the world knowes false A mettall-monging Alchimist is but a hors-keeper to a coyner however hee curries his tromperie but if he rides on the jade himselfe his iorney by odds reaches to
evill spirits provide before for the safetie of their persons so if by course of argument thou art forc't to contradict the evill spirit of any man bee sure of thine owne safety too for many are no better then evill spiritts and kinds of Divells It is a care every man ought heedfully to looke unto what company hee keepes for evill base and ignorant company are like copper which if thou mixe thy selfe with it wil alaye thy reputation as gold and silver is alayed therewith by the gold-smiths In thy Election and choice let not thy affection shame thy judgment but so choose that thy Iudgment may bee commended in thy election The rayling mouth of an envious villaine against the good is the divell 's baggpipes Answere arguments with reason if reason will not bee heard or approved then answere them with silence Remember alwaies that practize or action takes more deepe impression with men then precept or discourse which Diogenes well knew when hee tombled his tubb Our desires begetts our cares and our courses our fortunes or the accidents befalls us meeting with others in the same passages which wee wrongfully attribute to destiny for all things with us comes from our selves or by our selues I meane mundanely therefore when thou hearest a man complaine of fortune consider his courses with himselfe and others The Philosophers stone is like the northwest passage lockt up in strechio D'avies but not so cold in seeking Things profferd and easie to come by diminish themselves in reputation price for how full of pangs and dotage is a wayling lover for it may bee some browne bessie But let a beautie fall a weeping overpressed with the sicke passion she favours in our thoughts something Turnbull A man poore yet rich in knowledge undertaking to worke some excellerie in this helpelesse age is like a Merchant that intends some rich Sea voyage without a Barke Victuals or Men The wiser fort of humane judgements doe not accept forme for matter but matter for forme otherwise our Sophisters would bee taken for wise men who are yet but Prentises therein A constant and wise considering Spirit giveth onely place to mens humours not to variation in truth A bold talking braggart is like the torrent running from a Mill troubles the eare and eye fruitlessly with what he hath done and seene but angle him of his knowledge and you may perhaps catch a Gudgeon The true correction of an ill tongued man or woman is to bid them speake as they have found and knowne and not more or lesse and forfit for untruths He that converseth amongst ill tongued people is like him that walkes amongst thorns and to contend with them is to tread on Snakes and Adders Conversation with earthly Company and terrestriall things is but groueling upon this surface of our great Mole-hill the earth but when wee in our ayerie discourses lift our selves higher let us take heed wee put not our mouths too peremptorily into heaven Natur 's Instruments wherewith she so wisely and wonderfully workes in the Vniverse as we see are the Sunne Moone and Starres Influencies motions upon in and with the Elements and seeds But God omnipotent works his will by his unspeakable power and word by Angels Nature and all things to whom bee all praise It is no more iniustice in almightie God to kill and destroy evill men then in one makes glasses and disliking his workmanship therein breakes them into the fornace againe When extreames oppresse thee consider wisely thy courses and search well into thy selfe and actions if thou beest not the cause of them thy selfe and through the perversnesse of thine owne will before thou blamest Fortune or that wee call Destinie the one a word or figment the other a course of occasion or chaunce Cast the eye of thy imagination as a stranger upon thy outward actions course and behaviour amongst people and thou maiest find that thy selfelove hath covered many things they secretly blame in thee and which thou oughtest tacitly to amend and discerne in thy selfe Seest thou thy store small and meanes weake bee content then with small things thanke God for that thou hast despaire not of enough and doe thy endeavour honestly and say Deus providebit When thou art tempted by that sensuall or substill Spirit thy will to eate of the forbidden fruit that is to cōmit any evill act eyther fleshly or mentally pray to God seeing thy weaknesse or nakednesse and cast thee downe at the foote of his mercy seate laying hold upon the merits of his Sonne our Saviour and mediatour Iesus Christ and say with the Psalmist If thou O great God shouldest looke on all that is done amisse who can endure thy Iustice O consider that we are but dust and seeing there is mercy and compassion with thee pardon my frayleties and keepe mee from presumptuous sinning and suffer me not to be led into temptation but deliver me from all evills Wee passe our time here with great care of our present being and the conversation thereof but God bee mercifull for the most part of men little looke to the future which is perdurable O let us note and remember what the wise man sayeth viz. As the tree falles so it lyes Goe not to a covetous man with any request too soone in the morning for his covetousnesse is up before himselfe and hee before thee but stay till the afternoone then hee 'le bee drunke upon some borrowers purse Musicke breathd by a gentleman is a juell or earing in others hearing in a begger or fidler it is a wallet in the eyes of others thoughts Wee neede not goe any further then the consideration of our selves who are by Moses in Genesis said to be Gods Image to prove or as it were see the Trinitie in Vnitie and Vnitie in Trinity for is not Deus pater anima Mundi is not Filius mens aut velle Dei patris and is not spiritus Sanctus operatio gratia Dei deus ipse in potentia actu Compare then our bodies to the great world our bodies and flesh shall turne to dust or earth so shall the world to his pristine Chaos our soules shall endure for ever God is eternall our minds affects this or that God the Son came downe was incarnate showed and taught his Fathers will miraculously suffered descended rose againe and ascended into his first place The mind of man circuits but still it returnes the mind conclusively as the Soule and mind setts the spirit to organize in the body to act so the Holy spirit proceedes from the Father and Sonne in the motion of the universe to effect and act his minde and will Wherefore with Anaxagoras all things are in all things Anima Mens spiritus One in that all who is three in parts or persons who moves this all making all things obay and serve this one God as his instruments or organons wherefore Plato sayed well Caput eius est Coelum oculus eius
Paradice that is out of Incorruptibilitie or tree of life into Corruptibilitie and death As by ill enclined will man fell and was depraved so by God his good enclined will man may rise and be saved God could easiler performe the power of his will by his owne Essence then by any under or subordinate power and because no man can see him and live he appearing in his pure Essentialitie hee therefore Clowded himselfe under the flesh of the Holy Virgin I have noted many carefull to stoppe the wast of fire and but carelesse in the wast of their time the ravenous consumer of the most precious Iewell viz Salvation Mans Soule is a sparke of the pure Fire circuits God his Seate strucke into the Tinder of the flesh by the will of the great Creatour and life disposer which if here contaminated by variation and sensualitie cannot approach to his puritie till purged but obaying God his will and acting to their power the precepts given by his Sonne it becomes a glorious Essence and shall resuscitate and illustrate the body into the same spirituall substance When I heare in some great Cittie many Clocks strike neare together I then judge the howers are neare true telling so when I see reade and heare the unitie of many ancient and moderne judgements agree in Conformitie I deeme their exposition and declaration to bee next the truth in all science The best manner of meanes for us to know our owne soules and immateriall matter whereof it was made is to come neare unto God by fasting prayer humillitie good deeds and for that which is his seate and circuites his glorious Majestie is of the same substance and if worldlings knew their Ignorance they would not bee so bold with their follie God his seate as sayeth a Philosopher is in the purest of pure and invisible Fire which he by his gracious free Spirit onely hath distributed to man in his first infusion of life whereby man is Microcosmos with reverence be it spoken to the Deitie and as in the Threds of a Spiders webbe the Spider being centrall the least touch in circumference gives notion so all the actions of man are by infinite wayes perceptible unto God and hee nearer unto us then wee to ourselves I conceive Heaven to bee repleatly filled with all spirituall delights as the best and most excellent musicke composed with a Homonimall Congruence of well chosen Chordes and ayerie with the precedents tones The ende whereto wee were Created was to serve love and honour God who doth by blessed soules still encrease his kingdome in lieu of those delapsed Angels once fell Seeke to bee one of those Citizens by good and holy life When thou prayest to God conceive thou speakest to the whole Trinitie when by addition of Father then to thy Creator when to the Sonne then to thy Redeemer when to the holy Ghost then to thy Sanctifier So thanke thy Creator through thy Saviour by thy Sanctifier and so in all thou thankest God for all Prayer is a speaking to God in which let us regard what it were for a poore distressed worthlesse person to come before the presence of some great Prince or Potentate of a Kingdome and so stretch or enlarge thy conceit how then before the king of all Potentates Coelestiall and Terrestriall what a reverence and awfull respect ought to bee used No fashion or words can expresse it but an humble heart and minde voyde of all earthly cogitations is the best oblation if done with all sinceritie Pictures of sancteous histories are but notes of divine actions in humane characters Hee that doth not beleeve the Credo or Symbolum Apostolorum hath little to doe with the Pater-noster The Pater-noster denotes hee is our Father by Christ qui es in Coelis that is above all things in place power and glory Sanctificetur nomen tuum the dutie of our acknowledgement and due thankes to his goodnesse Aedveniat regnum tuum that all things and wee are in and under his regiment and so desire to bee Fiat voluntas tua that we as we ought do lay downe all our affections and interrests under his will and dispose Sicut in Coelo in Terra that we may bee as obedient to his heasts and Commandements here as his heavenly host high blessed is there The rest are all plaine particular petitions for our private good The ancient use of praying on both knees signifies in my judgement that wee should offer up all our actions and strength to God for a man in so kneeling disableth himselfe of the possture to act is unpassible and as fixt to that hee came from and to which he must returne The lifting up of the hands denotes hee is before a dreadfull judge craves mercie showes the cheefe actors of evill and wronges and the receivers of many benefits But the standing up when the Creed is pronounced denotes we should bee ready to justifie stand too and maintaine those Canons of our Faith against all Turkes Iewes and Infidells There is a Circle drawne about the list of mans libertie and by God prescribed out of which if any exorbitantly goe they fall into the Divels lash who haunts there as the whippe of God his just justice whereby wee see many punished in this life and by straying out of the fold fall into the wolfes jawes The stars and second causes predominate but upon and in our earthly part and humours for the Soule of man was inspired by God and hee is above all therefore accidents are but as stumbling blocks which wise men sees and stepps ouer but fooles as sayth Salomon goe in the darke And the Kingly Prophet David prayed saying Set up thy selfe above the heavens and thy glory O God above all the earth and so in my opinion Sapiens dominabitur Astris Wee many times idlely blame Fortune a meere imagination or Idea when our owne follies and improvidence is the reall cause of disasters For suppose a tyle fall's on the head and hurts Why fortune therefore you might have kept at home but you must by necessitie goe that way blame the necessitie then Fortune is a figment to expresse chaunce by unto which we are all subiect When stormes inundations Thunders and Lightnings Earthquakes Circuite us wee then aptly confesse our selves under Creatures and that with terror and miserable feare but by forgetfullnesse wee againe clime aboue Ela nay further into Gods closset to his foresight and predestination The Chaos of all things may bee compared unto the flint and iron the striker God the lint or tinder corporall substance the sparkes life or soule In speaking to God by prayer although thou canst not give the reverence is due yet give what thou owest and canst duely Let thy breath first laud him in his goodnesse secondly crave mercy for thy offences thirdly give him thankes for thy received benefits fourthly humbly crave the preservation of thy estate here and life of blisse to come It is not the
mouth or lip-labour God respects so much as the heart or mind in an intelligent orator yet the resurrection of the body denotes that our prayers should not bee meerely mentall but conjoyned with corporall action for shall wee not with Saint Paul hope to see God even with the same eyes Lift them up towards Syon hill then bend the knees reach up the handes offer the calves of the lipps make all thy powers powre forth the prayse of him that made thee Meere worldlings in Iudgement are blind in censuring divine mysteries for did not Festus and the learned Athenians deeme Saint Pauls preaching foolishnesse but an over stupid devotion ladeth out of the lighter of the fantasie more into the Arke of the Church then shee should carry but Sectaries would throw the Churches treasure over boord All our life heere is but an entertayning of vanities what good doth capps and reuerences really any man The satisfaction of appetits is but the uncouering of our wants heaping of Riches but as ill servants that will runne to others from us and lagge behinde us nothing heere permanent or true happinesse let us therefore bee carefull to purchasse by prayer and good deedes treasure for heaven that wee may have wherewith to satisfie our reckoning there with the great Host who hath forgiven us one score already and therefore let us not presume too much on the next When I consider the weakenesse of our humane nature I wonder mankind can bee proud for wee cannot subsist a little time without the props of meat and drinke sleepe rest c. which the Angells and spirits need not nor use but when I cogitate our frayltie and vanitie I breath with the Prophet David Lord what is man that thou shouldst be mindfull of him The best use of dreames is to cogitate that as by fullnesse or coldnesse of the stomacke Crudities causeth fearefull apparitions to the wakeing and working fantasie and as good and temperate heate digestion and humours cause pleasant and delightfull passages yet all but shaddowes and vanish like darknesse from the Sunne when we rise So when the soule is freed from this terrestreietie which clowdeth the judgment and reason then the evill workes cōmitted essentially casteth the soule most really amongest those are indeed evill not in apparition but deformed Divells indeed And the good vertuous deeds amongst the blessed pleasures of holy spirits and Angells Wherefore let us take heed wee goe not to the bed of our grave with a stomacke over-charged with Sinnes It much matters not what Religion a foole or a knave is of for their babling is but vaine prating and the tree is best knowne by the fruit Dis the god of Mony now laughs out right because his wares are in more esteeme amongst fooles then vertue and Stultorum plena sunt omnia Th' Almighty God is the Soule of the universe and the rayes of his splendour is the quintessence in every thing bee it Minerall vegetable or Animall therefore in whatsoever genus or region an investigating Philosopher would grow intelligent in that let him seeke the quintessence which is his Moone or else hee laboureth in vaine and gathereth leaves in steede of fruites and seedes for no man can truely meliorate any thing beyond his naturall perfection but by multiplying his quintessentiall part Quintessence is not as Spageriques mistake it separation of pure from impure but must be taken from both the thinne and thicke the spirituall and corporall It is within all things non secundùm locum et partes sed secundùm virtutem et actionem naturalem What is it to mee what is in the Sunne Moone Starrs whether they are worlds or whatsoever Containing when there is a law set downe for me viz. to serue their Creator and mine on this earth whereto I am fixt by that upper ordinance who made them and all But what I can lawfully finde heere he hath given me leave thereby to prayse him and helpe my selfe What thou speakest i. e. cogitates within thy selfe know God onely hears that sees without the eye heares without the eare and made thee both interiourly and exteriourly But what thou doest outward either by action or wordes spirits and men both good and badde see and judg of Cave Not by eating drinking or sleeping doth the soule live c. but those additions helps her to sustaine the bodies ponder and grossnesse When thou tellest another any thing thinke hee is thy enemy present in his rotation of thought or may bee so futurely Man blessed by God with a good understanding may be compared to those feathered Fowles who lose their plumage in molting time so may man his grace in the heat of sensualities and yet by repentance recover but he that is swallowed up by vice is as the Fowle taken kild and plum'd by Cooke ruffian the Divell God is the Spirit of Spirits the Lord of Lords King of Kings to be worshipped in Spirit and truth Angels Spirits Potestares Powers Sunne Moone Starres Firmament Fire Ayre Waters Earth the faculties of his hand and the universe his Instruments Man his Spirit is a sparke of that flame a droppe of that Sea a moate in that sunne his soule with her powers are his Spirits faculties his body is the organon God made man and the whole world to his glory prayse and use yet without his needing them as we doe neede viz. garments houses c. God is within all things but not included without all things but not excluded There are some of opinion that each man hath a double Genious a good Angel and a bad as they please to tearme them which I hold no other but the Animall spirit and the intellectuall The Animall desireth the bodies contentment the intellectuall the soules if the Animall hath the domination the man is given to mundane lights which perish with the life if the intellectuall hath the predominance the soule rejoyceth in spiritual pleasure and affects things good and eternall Every mans conversation for the most part showes who carieth the bridle of the will how and when Those that worke on Natures terminations resemble them who swallow the nut shell and all for the kernels sake for no man can further reach the determinate ordination of God in his handmaide Natures house then by exuberation of the seeds for as sayeth the Philosopher Species in Speciem non transmutation nisi reducantur ad primam materiam and that ordinately digested doth in Philosophie worke beyond Natures Creatures wee see wherefore let no man despise or condemne that he knoweth not God almighty being the fountaine of all wisedome as wee call excellent Sapiens cannot be without the poore riveret of reason which hee hath given to man As our Saviour suffered the afflictions of humane nature as hunger thirst sorrow feare anger weeping abstinence paines c. So ought wee in soule and life to imitate him to our powers viz. to abstayne from Ebrietie to avoyd vayne mirth and to greeve