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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96039	Wisdome and innocence, or prudence and simplicity in the examples of the serpent and the dove, propounded to our imitation. By Tho. Vane doctor in divinity and physick.	Vane, Thomas, fl. 1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing V89; Thomason E1406_1; ESTC R209492	46,642	189

the demeanour of other men obscuring and extenuating their good but receiving the news of their evils with joy and reporting and augmenting them with uncharitable cruelty and falshood In which case King Philip of Macedon his practice is worthy our strictest imitation who was wont to say That he was much beholding to the Athenians for that they speaking evill of him were a great cause of making him a good man for saith he I doe daily enforce my self both by word and deed to prove them lyars Ismaels deriding his brother Isaack is called in Scripture a persecution and though they were but Children that mocked the Prophet Elizeus calling him bald-head yet God severely punished them by sending two Bears amongst them which destroyed two and forty To reproach any with either their naturall or accidentall infirmities is a note of pride and insolence whereby men triumph over others and are inwardly tickled with delight in themselves while they conceive themselves free from those things they object against others But as they deal with their brethren so God will deal with them who as Solomon saith Will scorn the scorners and give grace to the meek Some there are indeed who speak fair and praise much but it is but to deceive and hurt like the Spider that weaveth a curious web out of her own mouth to catch poor flyes entangled in her snare and so they differ not in the end but in the way of doing evill like Sampsons Foxes who though their headsstood contrary ways yet they were tyed together by the tayls And this is more contrary to simplicity than the rest of the vices of the tongue for simplicity signifies freedome from folds and doublings Simplex quasi sine plicis say the Grammarians but in such deceitfull words there is nothing but doubleness Judas his nayl master his kiss and treason Jaacobs voice and Esau's hands suit not well together it is like the practice of the Panther who by the sweetness of his breath inticeth passengers to draw near him and when they are come within his reach devours them so doth a deceitfull man by fair words and shews of friendship invite men to trust him and then deceives them Against this practice the Prophet David doth most bitterly exclaim saying Psal 54.13 If mine enemy had reproached me I could have born it and if he that hated me had spoken great things against me I could perhaps have hid my self from him but it was thou that wert of mine own mind my guide and my acquaintance who did eat pleasant meat together with me wee walked with consent in the house of God then follows Let death come upon them and let them goe down quick into hell for wickednesse is in their dwellings and in the middest of them I find nothing more frequently nor more vehemently reproved in Scripture than the abuse of the tongue from whence we may gather both the frequency and hainousnesse of the fault which is intimated by the Psalmist where he saith The sons of men their teeth are weapons and darts and their tongue a sharp sword And again Psal 57.5 They have whetted their tongues like a sword they have bent their bow 63.4 a bitter thing that they might shoot secretly at the spotlesse And therefore he prayeth 119. 2. Deliver my soul O Lord from unjust lips and from a deceitfull tongue S. Jerome also affirmeth the same saying So great an itch towards this evill hath invaded the minds of men that they that have forsaken all other vices doe yet as it were into a forreign snare fall into this Therefore as he counselleth Never calumniate or detract from any one and study rather to adorn your own life than carp at an others And remember the promise made by the Prophet David Psal 33.14 What man is he that desireth life and longeth to see good dayes restrain thy tongue from evill and thy lips that they speak no guile CHAP. III. THe third part of our privative Simplicity consisteth in the meeknesse and unconquerablenesse of the heart by anger hatred envy desire of revenge and the like wherein we imitate the simplicity of the Dove in wanting of a gall Against wrath hatred and all ill will the Church doth teach us to pray and the Dove to practice Whosoever is angry with his brother Math. 5.22 shall be guilty of judgement saith our Saviour and he that hateth him 1 Joh. 3.15 is a man-slayer saith St. Iohn And S. Iames If you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts Jam. 3.14 boast not Can they then be simple as Doves whose fiery spirits like the flint are no sooner struck against the steel of a hard and contumelious word but presently they sparkle fire in the eyes of him that strook it O no for as the Apostle saith Jam. 1.20 The wrath of man doth not work the justice of God Yea some there are whose least thwart in their desire doth boyl up their blood to such a height and heat of fury that nothing but the cold haud of death can quench or allay it as it is reported of Mathias King of Hungary who sitting one day at dinner accompanied with Ambassadours from the King of France called for Figs and receiving answer that there were none immediatly fell into such a rage that it drove him into an Apoplexie who never spake word after but as if his Soul had been angry with his own body also forsook it the next day and dyed And therefore surely it was wittily feigned of the Poets that Prometheus lacking clay to finish his man was forced to patch it up with parts taken from sundry beasts and amongst the rest did put the heart of a furious Lion into the brest of man Or can he be simple as the Dove whose env●ous heart with-holds his eyes from looking aright upon any happy man whose ears can bear the burden of no mans praise who contrary to the nature of all other plagues is plagued with others well being making happinesse the ground of his unhappinesse and good news the cause of his sorrow whose favour none can win but by being miserable like Porpises which play and rejoyce in a storm but are struck with a silent sadnesse in fair weather Cain envied the acceptation of his brother Abel Rachel the fruitfulnesse of her sister Leah and Saul the successe of his servant David And it is reported of Themistocles that all sleep was banisht from his eyes through his extreme envy at the glory of Miltiades Thus doth the envious heart work upon it self with inbred stings like the mountain Aetna which consumes its own bowels with inward burnings Or can they have any interest in this Dove-like simplicity who for some small and private injury yea many times for the truth for that is often the mother of hatred do prosecute each other with such deadly cruelty and such blood-thirsty revenge as neither friendship kindred nor Religion can conquer nor