Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61120	Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...	Spencer, John, d. 1680.; Fuller, Thomas, (1608-1661)	1658 (1658)	Wing S4960; ESTC R16985	1,028,106	735

whereof hath been a great inlet to Idlenesse negligence and ignorance in the study of Divinity Blessednesse of the Poor in spirit in the matter of Hearing Gods Word IT is fabled that when Iuno on a day had proclaimed a great Reward to him that brought her the best present there came in a Physitian a Poet a Merchant a Philosopher and a Beggar The Physitian presented a hidden secret of Nature a prescript able to make an old Man young again The Poet an Encomiastick Ode of her bird the Peacock The Merchant a rare hallow Iewell to hang at her ear The Philosopher a book of strange Mysteries The poor quaking Beggar onely a bended knee saying I have nothing that is worth acceptance Accipe meipsum Take my self Thus it is that many come unto God in the hearing of his Word with prescripts of their own they have receipts enow already they care for no more Others like the Poet come to admire Peacocks the gawdy Popinjayes and Fashionists of the time all to be dawb'd with gold and silver Feathers Others like the Merchant present Jewels but they are hallow they come with criticall or hypocritical humours like Carps to bite the net and wound the Fisher not to be taken Some like the Philosopher bring a book with them which they read without minding the Preacher saying They can find more Learning there then he can teach them But blessed are the poor in spirit that like the Beggar give themselves to God Iuno gave the reward to him and God gives the blessing to these It is a poor Reverently devoted heart that carries away the comfort Godlinesse in the humble dust of adoration that shall be lifted up by the hand of Mercy Christ to be our Example and Pattern of Imitation in life and death ST Hierome having read the life and death of Hilarion one that lived most Christianly and dyed most comfortably folded up the book saying Well Hilarion shall be the Champion that I will follow his good life shall be my Example and his godly death my President How much more then should each of us first read with diligence the life and death of Iesus Christ and then propound him to our selves as the most absolute pattern for our Imitation resolving by the Grace of God that Christ shall be the copy after which we will write the pattern which we will follow in all things that he hath left within the sphear of our Activity so also in that necessary duty of Preparation for death He did so Iob. 14. and we must do so For as in shooting there is a deliberate draught of the bow a good aym taken before the loose be given so if ever we look for comfort in death we must look at death through the preparation for it The greatest of things wrought by God without means AS when Gedeon was to fight with the Midianites pretending that his Army was but a few How many hast thou saith the Lord So many thousand They are too many The Lord will not have them all but commands them to be reduced to one half and yet there were too many the Lord would not work by them they were too strong At last he comes to make choyce of them by lapping in the water then they came to three hundred Men to fight against three hundred thousand For it is said they covered the Earth like Grashoppers And now the Lord begins to work by these Men. And how doth he work by Weapons No but with a few broken pitchers in their hands and they had the day of it the Midianites be delivered up into their hands as a prey This was a wonderful act of the great God who not tyed to means wrought out Victory by his own arm It is true that means and second causes he hath much honoured in the World and commands them to be used but when he comes to effect great things such as was the Redemption of Mankind by Christ such as shall be the Resurrection of the dead at the last day then such means and causes as seek to set him forward he rejects them and works not by them but the clean contrary The greater stench the bodies have sustained in the grave shall work it unto greater sweetnesse and the greater weaknesse it had the greater strength shall accrew unto it and wondrous puissance shall God work unto that part that lacked honour according to his blessed dispensation in all things Not to be Angry with our Brother A Railing Fellow fell very foul upon Pericles a Man of a Civil and Socraticaâ— spirit and he left him not all the day long but continued till he had brought him to his own doors in the Evening somewhat late at Night He all this while not returning one unbeseeming word commanded one of his Servants with a Torch to light the brawler home to his house Thus did he by the dim light of Nature And therefore if a brother offend us upon ignorance let us neglect it if upon infirmity forget it if upon malice forbear it upon what terms soever forgive it as we would have God to forgive us It is a saying That every Man is either a Fool or a Physitian so every Christian is either a Mad-man or a Divine A Mad-man if he give his passions the rein a Divine if he qualifie them The Natural Mans blindnesse in Spirituall things WHen Xeuxes drew his Master-piece and Nicostratus fell into admiration of the rarenesse thereof highly commending the exquisitenesse of the work there stood by a rich Ignorant who would needs know what he had discovered worthy of so great applause To whom Nicostratus made this answer My Friend couldst thou but see with my eyes thou wouldst soon see cause enough to wonder as well as I do Thus it is that the dear Children of God have inexhaustible treasure even in the midst of their poverty transcendent dignity in the midst of their disgraces heighth of tranquillity in the very depth of tribulation their pulse and Locusts relish better then all the Gluttons delicious fare their Sheep-skins Goat-skins and Camels hair wear finer then all the Purple and soft rayment the Worlds hate makes them happier then all the applauses of the Capitol Now the sensual carnal Naturalist sees none of all this he perceives not the things of the spirit neither indeed can he for they are spiritually discerned no Man knowes them but he that hath them but had he spirituall sight were but the scales fallen off from his eyes as they did from S. Paul's at the time of his Conversion then he would clearly see and say as the same S. Paul did That though we suffer tribulation in all things yet we are not distressed we are brought into perplexities yet we are not forsaken Negligent Hearing of Gods Word condemned A Servant coming from Church praiseth the Sermon to his Master He asks him What was the

the Southwind of Prosperity blowing honours riches and preferment into his lap had need of a good Pilot the special Counsel of God to lead him and the extraordinary mercies of God to support him if ever he intend to arrive at the port of eternall blisse Whereas he that sets out whilest the North-wind of Adversity and trouble beats fiercely upon him minds his way rides through the storm well knowing that the way to Heaven is by the gates of Hell and that by many tribulations he must and shall at last enter into happinesse Every Wicked Man a curse to the place he lives in BIas the Philosopher being at Sea in a great Tempest with a number of odd fellowes some of them very rake-shames and naught they began as men in such a case usually do to call upon the gods which he perceiving comes to them and saith Sirs hold your peace lest the gods take notice that you are here and so not onely you but we also suffer for your sakes And it is observed that S. Iohn leap'd out of the Bath because Cerinthus was there his reason was leâ—t the Bath should fall for his sake onely being a wretched blasphemous Heretick Thus it is that a Wicked Man though he thinks he hurt no body but himself is a Plague and a curse to the place he lives in let him be never so Noble never so Honourable potent or wealthy if he be a prophane Man a lewd loose Libertine he engageth the place of his abode to the wrath of God and hastneth his Judgments thereon The Souls restlesnesse till it be united unto Christ. A Virgin being espoused to one that is shipt for the East-Indies or some such long-winded Voyage if she do indeed faithfully and unfeignedly affect him though she joy to read a letter or to see some token from him yet it is nothing in that kind that can give her contentment Nil mihi rescribas nothing will serve her turn but his presence O how she hearkens after the Ships for his return and joyes to think of that day wherein they shall be so fast knit together that nothing shall separate them but Death Thus the Christian Soul contracted to Christ may receive many favours and love-tokens from him such as are all the blessings she enjoyeth whether spiritual or temporal yet they cannot all of them give any true contentment but help rather to enflame her aâ—â—ection towards him and make her if she sincerely love him as she professâ—th and pretendeth to do the more earnestly and ardently to long for that day wherein she shall be inseparably linked unto him and everlastingly enjoy his personal presence which above all things she most earnestly desireth Partiality of affection in hearing Sermons condemned A Scholler coming to Paul's Church-yard asked a Book-seller Whether he had Abulensis Works and the Man said No but he had Tostatus which was as good The Scholler replyed Tostatus would do him no good unlesse he had Abulensis which indeed was the same book Alphonsus Tostatus being Episcopus Abulensis Bishop of Avila in Spain Thus it is with the partiall and prejudicate opinions and fancies of many Men and Women when they rather respect quis praedicat then quid praedicatur who preacheth then what is preached For if the self-same Sermon were preached by divers Men the Sermon should never be respected according to its worth but according to the fancy opinion and affection which they hear unto the deliverer because commonly they know no other difference but the names voyces and faces of their Teachers Sure it is that Christ made the best Sermons that ever were preached and yet they were not best liked because they liked not the Preacher Every Man to confesse that his own Sin is the cause though not alwaies the occasion of punishment IT is said of Prince Henry that delitiae generis humani that darling of Mankind as it was once said of Titus Vespasianus whose death was then to this Kingdom as so much of the best blood let out of the veins of Israel When it was told him That the sins of the People caused that affliction on him O no said he I have sins enow of mine own to cause that So should we all confesse though God take occasion by another Man's sin or by the neglect of another person to fire my house yet the cause is just that it should be so and that I my self have deserved it whatsoever the occasion be God had cause against the seventy thousand that dyed of the Plague though Davids sin were the occasion yet the meritorious cause was in them therefore whensoever it pleaseth God to lay his hand of anger upon us though another may be the occasion yet Ille ego qui feci let every Man in particular acknowledge that it is he that hath sinned and so justifie God in his sayings and clear him when he is judged Ministers of the Gospel to be of godly lives and conversations AS the Iews in their preparation to the Passeover did for four hours search out all leaven out of their houses and then for two hours cast it out and lastly cursed all the Leaven that they had not seen and could not find So let all the Priests of the Lords house all the Ministers of the Gospel of Iesus Christ be carefull to search to purge and to execrate all the leaven of wilful and reigning Sin and to oppose and mortifie the least sins that so they may be Priests after Gods own heart Stars in Gods right hand such as Greg. Nazianzene of whom Basil speaks that he did thunder in his doctrine and lighten in his conversations and that having an inward principle of the light of Holinesse in them from Christ they may shine out holily unto others not onely in the Pulpit and prayer but in the whole course of their life 's also The right use of humane Learning MAgnus a Roman Orator accused S. Hierome for bringing too many uncircumcised Greeks into the Temple and by that means defiling candorem Ecclesiae sordibus Ethnicorum the unstained candor of the Church of Christ with the impure sentences of Heathen Orators But the good Father with sufficient Reason doth clear himself from those aspersions And so it is to be desired that every one may do the like and not to shew themselves to be greater disciples of Nature then Schollers of Grace or to have studied more in the School of Humanity then in the University of Divinity because humane Learning is to be used not as the means to satisfie our stomach but as the sauce to provoke our appetite not to adde strength unto the Truth but ornament to our speech being as it were Trimming to a plain suit and garnish to a good dish of meat And indeed to speak the best of it It is but a learned kind of Ignorance which yet being guided and bridled by the Spirit of

continued the same language of Invectives and blasphemies against him The next Sessions being brought again to the barr the Judge asked him If his choler were any thing boyled away and spent but then he redoubled his railings yet he reprieved him again as loath to let him die in so uncharitable and desperate condition of Soul Before the third Assizes he sent for him to his Chamber in London and asked him If he were yet more pacified still nothing came from him but words of in veterate rancour Whereupon said the Judge God forgive thee I do and withall threw him a pardon Whereat he was so astonished that being hardly recovered from a swoon that he fell into he refused the pardon for his life unlesse the Judge would both pardon his Malice and admit him into his service He did so and found him so faithful that dying he gave him the greatest part of his Estate Here now was extream evill overcome with extraordinary goodnesse a conquest without blood the best of all Victories Love overcoming evil with good This is to be like God whose Image we beaâ— in our Creation and to whose Image we are restored in our Redemption Gods dwelling in the Humble spirit A Gentlewoman of more then ordinary quality and breeding being much troubled in mind and cast down in her Soul with the sad thoughts of spiritual desertion her husband with the assistance of others better experienced in such cases then himself did all that he could by prayers unto God and otherwise by perswasion to reduce her to the knowledge of Gods mercy and goodnesse to her but all in vain she could not be drawn either to hear or read any thing that might work for her spiritual advantage At last her Husband by much importunity prevailed that he might read but one Chapter in the Bible unto her the Chapter was Esay 57. And when he came to the fiftâ—enth Vâ—rse in these words For thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth Eternity whâ—se name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones O sayes shee Is it so that God dwells with a contrite and humble Spirit then I am sure that he dwells with me For my Heart is broken into a thousand pieces O happy Text and happy time that ever I should hear such comfort and she was thereupon recovered Thus it may be very well concluded that God makes his dwelling in an Humble heart not with him that is proud and high-minded one that looks high and speaketh big words such shall be pulled down from their seats when the lowly and the meek shall be exalted and made a fit habitation for the high and mighty God to dwell in The quietnesse of Contentment THe wheels of the Charriot move but the Axletree stirs not the Circumference of the Heavens is carryed about the Earth but the Earth moves not out of its Center The Sails of a Mill move with the wind but the Mill it self stands still All Emblems of Contentment And thus it is that a Christian is like Noah in the Ark which though tossed with the waters he could sit and sing in it and a Soul that is gotten into the Ark of Contentment sings and sits quietly and sails above all the waves of trouble when it meets with motion and change in the Creatures round about on every side it stirs not nor is moved out of its place When the outward estate moves with the wind of Providence yet the Heart is setled through holy Contentment And when others like Quick silver shake and tremble through disquiet the Contented spirit can say with David O God my heart is fixed my heart is fixed Psal. 57. 7. The most silent Conscience will speak out at last IOhn the Baptist was called the Voice of Christ Vox clamantis the voice of him that cryes in the Wildernesse Herod did cut off his head Now Christ spake not many words to his apprehenders and accusers not many to the high Priest nor to the Judge Pilate but when he came before Heâ—od he spake never a word at all Among other reasons this is wittily given He spake not a word to Herod because Herod had taken away his Voice in beheading Iohn And how should he speak without a voice There may be a voice without speech but no speech without voice Now the tongue of the Soul is Conscience the voice with which she is best acquainted but men for the most part have tongue-tyed their Consciences taken away her voice and who shall controul them yet when God shall unâ—y those strings and unmuzzle their Consciences she will be heard and ten Consorts of Musick shall not drown her clamorous cryes Now it is that their Conscience is bound and they are loose but in the day of trouble themselves shall be bound and God shall let their Conscience loose It shall be hard for them with that frantick Musician to fall a â—uning their Viols when their house is on fire about their Ears When all the dores are shut up to the Voyces of men Conscience will speak within and that with a language loud enough to be heard easy enough to be understood Excellency of the Soul of man WHen God Almighty had in six dayes made that common-diall of the World the Light that Storehouse of his Justice and his Mercy the Firmament that Ferry of the World the Sea Mans workhouse the Earth Charriots of Light the Sun and Moon the aâ—ry Choristers the Fowles and Mans sâ—rvants the Beasts yet had he one more excellent piece to be made and that was Man a Microcosm even an Abstract of the whole to whom having fashioned a body proceeding by degrees of Perfection he lastly created a Soul And as the Family of Matri was singled out of the Tribe of Benjamin and Saul out of the Family of Matri being higher then the rest by the shoulders upwards So is the Soul singled out from the other Creatures far surpassing them all in Excellency whether we consider the efficient cause of its Creation Elohim the blessed Trinity being then in consultation or the material cause a quinta essentia noble and divine substance more excellent then the Heavens or the cause Formall made after the Image of God himself or lastly the cause Finall that it might be the Temple of God and the habitation of his blessed spirit The spirituall benefit of Poverty THe Naturalists such as write concerning the several Climates observe that such as live under the Frozen Zone in the Northern parts of the World if you bring them to the Southward they lose their stomachs and die quickly but those that live in the more Southern hot Climates bring them into the North and their stomachs mend and they are long lived Thus bring a

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