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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

things 558. Worldly honours and greatnesse their vanity to be considered 571. Men in the midst of their worldly contrivances prevented by death 646. Worldly-minded men little think of Heaven and why so 663. The vanity of Worldly greatnesse 667. The danger of trusting to Worldly greatnesse in time of distresse 6. Dulnesse and drowsinesse in the service or Worship of God reproved 173. The anger or Wrath of God best appeased when the Sinner appeareth with Christ in his arms 99. Y. THe folly of Youth discovered and reproved 187. The time of Youth to be given up to God 250. Youth to be catechized 422. Youth to be seasoned with grace not giving the least way to the Devil 507. Z. ZEal and Knowledg must go hand in hand together 15. Zeal in Gods service made the Worlds derision 51. Zeal Anabaptistical condemned 179. Preposterous Zeal reproved 197. Want of Zeal in the Cause of God reproved 251. Men to be Zealous in God's Cause 252. To be Zealous for the honour of Jesus Christ as he is the eternal Son of God 379. The danger of immoderate Zeal against those of another Judgment And how so 385. The Zeal of Heathens of their false gods condemning that of Christians to their true God 411. Virgil. Eclog. 3. In praefat Reg. Aluredi ad leges suas Sr. H. Spelman in concil Aul. Gellius in noct Attic. Psalm 119. Is. Bargrave Parliament-Serm 1624. Apoc. 1. 8. Pont. Diaconus in vita ejus ut est vid●re in ●p praefixâ operibus ex edit Sim. Goulartij House of mourning or Fun. Se●m●ns Quae sensu volvuntur vota diurno Tempore nocturno reddit amica quies Claud. Conr. Zvingeri Theat hum Vitae Paul De Wann Serm. de Tempt Speculum Exemplorum Peccati mortificatio Diaboli flagellum Sedul Hybern Mart. ab 〈◊〉 Norvarri Concilia in ●ap de oratione horis canonicis In Dialogo ad Luciferium Non vox sed votum c. Esay 6. 5. 5. Psalm 4. 1. 2. Aver Metaph. Thales Miles Foelix criminibus nullus erit diu Ausonius Plin. nat hist. lib. 8. cap. 11. Sir Rob. Dallington's Aphorisms Ingens mole sua c. Plin. nat hist. Lib. 8. Chap. 25. Experientia docet Militem privatum non solum debere esse volentem c. Zenoph Cyropaed Lib. 2. Iean Bodin de la Republique Justitia Remp. firmat Ant. Bonfinius Lib. 3. rerum Hungar. Jer 22. 15. Lib. 7. Chap. 28. I. White Serm. at St. Paul●s London 1612. Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus Ovid. Psal. 50●●5 Rich. Holdsworth Serm. at St. Pauls Lon. 1624. Videmus D●um per Christum c. Fulgent D. Staughtons Sermon Haud ullas portabit opes Acherontis ad undas Propert. Matth. 4. Mark 8. 36. B. White Serm at St. Pauls London 1617 Exigu● percussus fulminis ictu Fortior ut possit cladibus esse suis. Ovid. ep Deu● 21. 7. Eph. ●●dal Ser. at Mercers Chappel London 1642. Pa●●m te poscimus omnes Tho. Fuller Holy State ubi virtus discretionis perditur c. Greg. lib. 3. moral Rich Stainihurst de rebus Hybern Rom. 6. 12. Jos. Shute Sermon at S. Mary Wolnoth L●mbards●●eet London 1619. Iohn 14. 2. R. Skinner Serm. at Court 1626. Via divine via 〈◊〉 R. Stock Serm. at Alhallowes Breads●● Lon. 1616. Rev. 6. 10. Psal. 125. 3 Tempus 〈◊〉 tempus opportunum Edw. Wilkison Serm. at St. Pauls Lond. 1639. D. Price Serm. at Christ-Church Lond. 1620. 1 Joh. 3. 20. 1 Cor. 2. 11. Plutarch in vitâ Alexandri Jos. Shure Serm. at St. Pauls Lond. 1619. Act. 20. Nihil in vitae durabile non opes non honores non potentia c. Const. Minos Annal. Com. in Matth. chap. 13. Boys Postills Terras Astr●● reliquit Luk. 18. ● Plutarch in Apophth●gm Ant in Melissa p. 2. Serm. 33. T. Westfield Serm. at St. 〈…〉 Lond. 1641. Psal. 120. Numb 13. Iohn Boys 〈◊〉 Mar. Luth. in loc com de Christo. Plus vident oculi qu●m oculus Joh. I. 1● Th. Gataker's Parley with Princes Nulla fides pi●tasque viris c. Th. Ga●aker's True Contentment in God's way a Sermon 1619. Job 1. 21. 〈◊〉 tellus domus c. Hora● c●● 2. 3. 〈…〉 Evang. Eccles. 8. 11. Th. Gataker's Appeal from Princes to God Carcer ejus est cor ejus Bernard Eustath in Homeri Iliad● Th Gataker's Gain of godlinesse Seneca de benefic Virtutibus a●rum vilius Horat. B. Hall occasionall Meditat. Vilius argentum est auro Horat. B. Hall ut antea In promptu causa est c. Ovid. Variam semper dant otia mentem Lucan Serm. in divites 〈◊〉 I. Boys Sermont 〈…〉 Bedae hist. lib. 3. cap. 6. Jam. 2. 16. R. Holdsworth Serm. at S. Peter po●r Lond. 1630. Verbis non solvendum est quidquam Terence I● lib. de 〈◊〉 I●d D. Featly Clavis mystica Divide impara Machiav Mark 3. 24. Plinius 〈…〉 Sueton hist. Xyphilinus house of mourning Discite in hoc mundo supra mundum esse c. Ambros. lib. de Virg. Lib. 1. epist. 15. ad Atticum Preface to the B. of Winchest Serm. Res tua tunc agitur c. In lib. Antiquit. 1 King 3. 26. Cuspinianus Christ. ●onse cae Quadrag●s●ma Delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi Plutarch in Convi Diogen Laert in Vita Psal. 55. Sine caede sanguine pauci Descendunt Reges sicca morte Tyranni Juvenal Ammian Marcellin D. Featly Sermons Et quae non fecimus ipsi vix ea nostra voco Xenoph. cyro 〈◊〉 lib. 3. D. Featly ut antea Si Christum discis satis est 〈◊〉 ●aetera n●scis Plinii nat hist. lib 8. cap. 17. Rob. Dallington's Aphorisms Nec ●nim lex justior ulla est c. Ovid. Lud. ● Granada meditat Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est Virg. Macrob. Sat. lib. 2. cap. 4. D. King lect on Jonah Th. Mouffe●'s Insector Fuller's Holy State Clem Alexan. Paedog lib. 2. cap. 12. Mich. Jemin Com. on Prov. Deipnosoph lib. 13. Mich. Jermin ut ante● Ingratus vir ●●lium est perforatum Lucianus Mich. Jermin ut antea Quae vera sunt loqui virum ingenuum decet Ephes. 4. 25. Pag. 1874. edit ult Th. Plummer a Serm. at St. Paul's Lond. 1616. Natura pauci● contenta Iovis omnia plena Virgil. Prov. 13. 25. Numb 23. Joh. Downham 's Warfare Solum non Coelum amatur Rhemig Rhe● Plutarch de cohibenda ir● Je●●m Burrough 's Heart divisions 〈…〉 R. Prior. A Serm. at the Funer of B● Smith 1632. Vive memor lethi hoc quod loquor inde est Persius Plin. nat hist. lib. 10. cap. 20. Play●er's Serm. Mat. 12. 43. Ovid. Metam Gabr. Inchinus de quat novissimis Si nunquam moreretur c. Bern. 〈◊〉 ●52 Aristot. 〈…〉 Gal. 5. 15. Sueton in vita Cl. Nero. Wal● Soul's ornament a Serm. 1616. Magna tamen spes est in bonitate Dei Ovid. epist. Theodoret. hist. lib. 6. cap. 22. Joh. Williams B. Lincoln Serm. at a Fast Westm. 162● Gen. 22. 12. Numb

infest the whole and like a breach made in the walls of a city besieged they will let in the enemy to destroy it Nay though there should be a Kingdom of Saints if differences and distractions get within that Kingdome they will like the worm in Ionah's Gourd eat up all the happinesse of it in one night Not to continue angry THe English by command from William the Conquerour alwaies raked up their fires and put out their candles when the Curfew-bell was rung some part of which laudable custome of those times remaineth yet in the ringing of our eight or nine a clock bell Let it then mind us thus much that the Sun go not down upon our wrath let it not carry newes to the Antipodes in another world of our revengefull nature but rather quench all sparks of anger rake up all heat of passion that may arise within us The great State of Heaven WHen Cyneas the Ambassadour of Pyrrhus after his return from Rome was asked by his Master What he thought of the City and State He answered and said That it seemed to him to be Respublica Regum a State of none but great Statesmen and a Common-wealth of Kings Such is Heaven no other than a Parliament of Emperours a Common-wealth of Kings every humble faithfull soul in that Kingdom is Co-heir with Christ hath a Robe of honour and a Scepter of power and a Throne of majesty and a Crown of glory Every man to be active in his place HE is not worthy to be a Member of a State by whom the State is no whit bettered The Romans well understood this when they instituted their Censors to enquire into every mans course of life and to note them carbone nigro with a character of infamy that could not give some good a●count of their life It is a thing pittifull to consider how many there are in this Land of ours whose glory is their shame the very drones and cumber-grounds of their country the Chronicle of whose life was long since summed up by the Poet Nos numerus sumus fruges consumere nati no better than cyphers if you respect the good they do But let them know that God will have no mutes in his Grammer no blanks in his Almanack no dumb showes on his Stage no false lights in his House no loyterers in his Vineyard How to get into Heaven AS Socrates told a lazy fellow that would fain go up to the top of Olympus but that it was so far off Why said he walk but as far every day as thou dost about thine own house and in so many daies thou shalt be sure to be at Olympus Thus let but a man employ every day so many serious thoughts upon the excellent glory of the life to come as he now employeth daily on his necessary affairs in the world nay as he looseth daily on vanities and impertinencies and his heart will be at Heaven in a very short space The strength of Imagination demonstrated IMagination the work of phancy hath produced reall effects sad and serious examples of this truth may be produced but a merry one by the way A Gentleman having led a company of children beyond their usuall journey they began to be weary and joyntly cryed to him to carry them which because of their multitude he could not do but told them he would provide them horses to ride on then cutting little wands out of the hedge as n●gs for them and a great stake as a gelding for himself thus mounted phancy put mettall into their leggs and they came cheerfully home The heavenly Conquerour the happy Conquerour IN the severall Kingdomes of the world there are severall Orders of Knights as of Malta of the Garter of the golden fleece of S. Iohn of Ierusalem of S. Saviour of S. Iames of the Holy Ghost and divers others and most of these have been found 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 white-liver'd Souldiers carpet-Knights that either never drew sword nor saw battle or fled from their colours But in the Kingdom of Christ there is found but onely one sort of Knights and that 's the Order of S. Vincent such as stood their ground such as never returned from battle without the spoil of their ghostly enemies such whose Motto was here below Vincenti dabitur and now they are more than conquerours in heaven above Ignorance of Gods minde will not excuse at the last THe people of Siena having wilfully rebelled against Charles the fifth their Emperour sent their Ambassador to excuse it who when he could find no other excuse thought in a jest to put it off thus What saith he shall not we of Siena be excused seeing we are known to be fools To whom the Emperour's Agent replyed Even that shall excuse you but upon the condition which is fit for fooles that is to be kept and bound in chains Thus shall it be with those that sit under plentifull means of grace rich Gospell-dispensations so that it is but opening the casements of their hearts and the light of Gods countenance will fully shine upon them yet remain unfruitfull barren empty-saplesse livelesse christians and think that ignorance shall at the last excuse them Preposterous Zeal reproved WE chuse the best Lawyers for our causes the best Physicians for our bodies but to supply the defect of our souls to guide our judgment and conscience aright in the waies of God we trust we know not whom The humour of such cannot be better resembled than to the distempered appetite of girles that have the green-sicknesse their parents provide for them wholsome diet and they get into a corner and eat chalk and coales and such like trash So they that may have in the Church grave and sound instructions for the comfort of their souls in Conventicles feed upon the raw and indigested meditations of some ignorant tradesman The danger of Stage-plaies ZEuxis the curious Painter painted a boy holding a dish full of grapes in his hand done so livelily that the birds being deceived flew to peck the grapes But Zeuxis in an ingenious choler was angry with his own workmanship Had I said he made the boy as lively as the grapes the birds would have been afraid to touch them Thus two things are set out to us in Stage-plaies some grave sentences prudent counsells and punishments of vitious examples and with these desperate oaths lustfull talk and riotous acts are so personated to the life that Wantons are tickled with delight and feed their palats upon them It seems the goodnesse is not pourtraied out with equall accents of livelinesse as the wicked things are otherwise men would be deterred from vitious courses with seeing the wofull successe that followes after But the main is wanton speeches on Stages are the devills ordinance to beget badnesse But it is a a question whether the pious speeches spoken there be Gods

the King having gotten a wound by a poysoned Dagger she sets her mouth to the wound to such out the poyson venturing her own life to preserve her Husbands Such is the strength of a true Christians love to Christ that were it to suck poyson out of Christs wounds it would be contented so to do as when Christ his Church his cause his people are smitten and wounded by the poysonous tongues of blasphemers the rayling tongues of licentious libertines the hellish fiery tongues of a rebellious generation and a good Christian is willing to draw it all upon himselfe to take it off from Christ and that Christ may have the glory he careth not what he undergoeth Self-tryall smoothes the way to all other tryals BIlney a Martyr in Q. Maries dayes tryed his finger by himselfe in the Candle before he tried his whole body in the fire at the stake If thou hast run with the footman faith God by the mouth of the Prophe● and they have wearied thee then how canst thou match thy self with Horses Jer. 12. 5 How shall our faith abide the ●iery triall by others if it have never been put to the fiery trial by our selves How shall that faith try a match with horsemen smile at torments stare a disguised death in the face that never yet tried a match with footmen that never tried it selfe in private that never strugled with naturall corruptions Surely selfe tryal will pave the way smooth to all other tryals And that man will never abide to be tryed at a bar or stake that is loath to be tryed in his Closet or his Chamber Adversity seeks God IT is reported that when on a time the City of Constantinople was shaken with a terrible Earthquake many Houses were overthrown and with the fall many people perished The whole City is hereupon so amazed and every one so remembred to think on God that they fall to their publique devotions the Churches were thwack'd full with people all men for a while were much amended Justice commutative and distributive both advanced the poor relieved Justice exalted Lawes executed no fraud in bargaining it was become a very holy place but when God held his hand from punishing they held their hearts from praying when his wrath ceased their Religion ceased also And was it not alike in the civill Wars of France after the putting forth of that Act or Edict Ianuary 1561. and in the second and third years of those Wars such as were of the Religion then groaning under the heavy cross of poverty oppression and war how devout were they towards God very carefull in their waies glad to hear any preach the Word and glad to receive the Sacrament any way but when the third peace was concluded which seemed a very sound peace and the Rod was now thought to be removed afar off such carelesn●sse and security overgrew the hearts of all and in the Protestants there was so cold a zeal Tanta erat Religiosorum taediosa curiositas c. and that within less then two years that a Sermon plainly made with good grounds of Divinity was not thought to be worth the hearing unlesse it were spiced with Eloquence or flourished over with courtly expressions Nomine mutato d● nobis fabula The case is ours witnesse that Marian persecution when so many of the dear children of God mounted like Elias to heaven in fiery Chariots What prayers were made within the Land and without and what coldnesse benummed some hot ones of that time not long after Call to mind that miraculous year of 88. How did the piety of our Land exceed at that time young and old then came together into the Courts of the Lord Sabbaths were then sanctified week-dayes well spent How did the people flock to Church It might have been written in golden letters over every Church-door in the Land Cor unum via una such was the unity such was the uniformity of their devotions at that time but with the cold of the winter their devotion grew cold too and many moneths had not passed but as in few things some were the better so in many things a great deal worse To come yet downwards Anno 1625. to omit others The chief City of our Kingdom being struck with the plague of Pestilence seemed no other then a dreadful dungeon to her own a very Golgotha to others What then The King commands a Nineveh-like humiliation with what eagerness were those fasts devoured What loud cryes did beat on all sides of the Gates of Heaven and with what inexpectable unconceivable mercies were they answered Suddainly those many thousands were brought down to one poor unite not a number then was all the fasting and mourning turnd into joy and laughter To come yet lower to this very year this very day How hath the Sword devoured and whilst it did so how did the people unite and associate but when it seemed to be but a little sheath'd what remisness what divisions were found amongst us It is so and it is not well that it is so It is a reproach to some No Penny no Pater-noster it is a shame to us No Plague no Pater-noster no punishment no prayer Carnall and spirituall men their difference in doing good AN Organ or any other wind-instrument maketh no Musick til there be breath put into it but a stringed Instrument as the Lute or Viol yeeldeth a pleasant sound even with the rouch of a finger And thus a carnal man that is dead in sins and trespasses must have a new life breathed into him by the blessed spirit of God before he be able to set forth the praises of his Maker whereas one that is spiritualized one that is furnished with the graces of the spirit doth good and receiveth good upon the least touch of the spirit is a Trumpet of Gods glory upon the least occasion that can possibly be offered Faith makes us partakers of every good thing in Gods Ordinances LOok but on a Conduit that is full of water now a man that would fill his vessel must bring it to the Conduit set it near the Cock but yet that is not enough if that be all and he do no more he may go home again with an empty vessel and therefore he that would fill his vessell when he hath brought it to the Conduit and set it under the Cock he must also turn the Cock and then the water runs forth and fills his vessel So Christ is the Conduit of all grace and goodnesse the Fountain of living waters he that would be spiritually filled must come to him his Ordinances the Word and Sacraments are the Cocks of this Conduit so that a man that would be filled must not onely go to Christ but to Christ in his Ordinances and that is not enough neither when he is come to them he must turn them But how must that be done the Well is deep and I

to be as tickle as Eli's stool from which he may easily break his neck that he must drink wormwood in a cup of gold and lie in a bed of Ivory upon a pillow of thorns so that he may well say of his glory as one said of his roab O nobilem magis quam felicem pannum or as Pope Urban said of his Rochet That he wondered it should be so heavy being made of such light stuff Prayer turning Earth into Heaven IT is said of Archimedes that famous Mathematician of Syracuse who having by his Art framed a curious Instrument that if he could but have told how to fix it it would have raised the very foundations of the whole Earth Such an Instrument is Prayer which if it be set upon God and fixed in Heaven it will fetch Earth up to Heaven change earthly thoughts into heavenly conceptions turn flesh into spirit metamorphose nature into grace and earth into heaven To passe by the offences of our Brethren DAvid was deaf to the railings of his enemies and as a dumb man in whose mouth were no reproofs Socrates when he was abused in a Comedy laughed at it when Polyargus not able to bear such an indignity went and hanged himself Augustus sleighted the Satyrs and bitter invectives which the Pasquills of that time invented against him and when the Senate would have further informed him of them he would not hear them Thus the manlier any man is the milder and readier he is to passe by an offence as not knowing of it or not troubled at it an argument that there is much of God in him if he do it from a right principle who bears with our infirmities and forgives our trespasses beseeching us to be reconciled When any provoke us we use to say We will be eeven with him but there is a way whereby we may not onely be even but above him and that is forgive him We must see and not see wink at small faults especially Qui nescit dissimulare nescit vivere may with some grains of allowance passe current He that cannot dissemble is not fit to live Kingdomes and Common-wealths their successions from God THe Romans closing in with that permanent errour of Mankind to mistake the Instruments and secundary Agents in Gods purposes for the main Efficient were wont variously to distinguish the derivation of their Empire as by force so Iulius Caesar was invested by the Senates election so Tiberius by the Souldiers so Severus and by Inheritance so Octavius Augustus But most true it is that to what means soever they imputed their Emperours were it Birth or Election Conquest or Usurpation 't is God who gives the Title to Kingdoms and Commonweales by the first and it is he also that directs and permits it by the last The whole Heart to be given to God SOme great King or Potentate having a mind to visit his Imperiall City the Harbinger is ordered to go before and mark out a house suitable to his Retinue and finding one the Master of that house desireth to have but some small chamber wherein to lodge his wife and children It is denyed Then he intreats the benefit of some by-place to set up a Trunk or two full of richer goods then ordinary No saies the Harbinger it cannot be for if your house were as big again as it is it would be little enough to entertain the King and all his royall train Now so it is that every mans body is a Temple of God and his heart the sanctum sanctorum of that Temple His Ministers are sent out into the world to inform us that Christ is comming to lodge there and that we must clear the rooms that this great King of glory may enter in O saies the Old man carnall yet but in part renewed give me leave to love my wife and children No it cannot be having wife and children he must be as having none Then he desires to enjoy the pleasures of the world That 's denyed too he must use this world as if he used it not not that the use of these things is prohibited not that the comfortable enjoyment of our dearest relations is any way to be infringed but the extraordinary affection to them when they come into competition with the love that we owe unto God For he will have the whole heart the whole minde the whole soul and all little enough to entertain him and the graces of his holy Spirit which are attendant on him Nec mihi nec tibi sed dividatur was the voice of a strange woman and such is that of this present world But God will take nothing to halfs he will have the whole heart or nothing The good Christians comfort in time of the Churches trouble MArtin Luther perceiving the cause of the Church to go backward puts pen to paper and writes to the Elector of Saxony where amongst other expressions this was one Sciat Celsitudo tua mhil dubitet c. Let your Highnesse be sure that the Church's businesse is far otherwise ordered in Heaven than it is by the Emperour and States at Norimberg And Gaudeo quod Christus Dominus est c. I am glad that Christ is King for otherwise I had been utterly out of heart and hope saith holy Myconius in a letter to Calvin upon the view of the Church's enemies Thus it staggers many a good Christian at this day to see Sion in the dust the Church under foot the hedge of government and discipline broken down all the wild beasts of Heresie and Schism crept in such as labour to root out true Religion to dethrone Christ and to set up the idle fancies and enthusiasticall conceits of their own phanatick brains some crying out against the Church with those Edomites Down with it down with it even to the very ground others casting dirt upon her harml●sse ceremonies But let the Churches friends rest assured that God sees and smiles and looks and laughs at them all that the great counsell of the Lord shall stand when all 's done that Christ shall reigne in the midst of his enemies and that the stone cut out of the mountains without hands shall bring down the golden Image with a vengeance and make it like the chaff of the summer floor Dan. 2. 35. The sad condition of People under Tyrannicall Government IT was a just complaint of Draco's Lawes in Lacedemonia that their execution was as sanguin as their character for they were written in bloody letters And the Romans lamented the cruelty of those Tribunalls where the cheap proscription of lives made the Iudgement-seat little differ from a Shambles A Man made Offender for a word Poor Men sold for shooes Or as the Turks at this day sell heads so many for an Asper Such is the condition of People under Tyrannicall government under

be entertained therein SCipio being made General of the Romane Army was to name his Questor or ●r●asurer for the Wars whom he thought fit it being a place in those daies as is now in these of great importance One that looked upon himself to have a special interest in Scipio's favour becomes an earnest suiter for it but by the delay mistrusting he should be answered in the Negative importun'd him one day for an answer Think not unkindnesse in me said Scipio that I delay you thus For I have been as earnest with a friend of mine to take it and cannot as yet prevail with him Intimating hereby that high preferments offices of charge and Conscience are fittest for such as shun them modestly rather then such as seek them greedily And without all doubt he that hunteth after any place or dignity whether in Church or Commonweal that doth omnem movere lapidem leave no stone unmoved no means unattempted no Friend unsolicited doth but declare himself as one byass'd to his own not the publique Interest and so a Man unfitting whereas he that lyes dormant till Preferment awaken him that humbly carrieth an inferiour condition till he hear the Governours voice Friend sit up higher Luk. 14. 10. is the onely Man fit to be entrusted Prayer and endeavour to be joyned together THe Pagans in their fabulous Legend have a story of Hercules whom for his strength they counted a God how a Carter forsooth had overthrown his Cart and sate in the way crying Help Hercules O Hercules help me At last Hercules or one in his likenesse came to him and laid on him with a good cudgel saying Ah thou silly lazy Fellow callest thou to me for help and dost nothing thy self Arise and set to thy shoulder and heave thy part then pray to me for help and I will do the rest Thus in the matter of Prayer unto God we must do somewhat on our parts It is not as we say lying in a ditch and crying out God help us that will●bring us out Shall a Scholler pray to God to make him learned and never go to his book Shall a Husbandman pray for a good Harvest and throw his Plow into the h●dg No no as a reverend B. said once in a Sermon before Q. Elizabeth It is not a Praying to God but a tempting of God to beg his blessing without doing our endeavour also Men to be ready to die for Christ. IT is reported of an able Minist●r now with God that riding with an intimate Friend by Tyburn which he had not know or not observed before demanded what that was and answer being made This is Tyburn where many Malefactors have lost their lives he stopped his horse and uttered these words with great affection O what a shame is it that so many thousands should die here for the satisfaction of their ●usts and so few be found willing to lay down their lives for Christ Why should not we in a good cause and upon a good call be ready to be hanged for Iesus Christ it would be everlasting honour and it is a thousand times better to dye for Christ to be hanged to be burnt then to dye in our beds And most true it is that it were every way more glorious to die for Christ then to live without him such was the Christian temper of the blessed Apostle that he was not onely willing to be bound but to dye for the Lord Jesus And after him those Primitive Christians How ambitious were they of Martyrdome in the cause of Christ And of late in the times of that Marian persecution How many cheerfully and willingly laid down their lives mounting Eliah-like to Heaven in Fiery Charriots And so must every good Christian be ready to do to dye for Christ willingly to endure the Crosse and not to shrink back for any torment whatsoever The generality of Men not enduring to hear of Death DOctor Rudd then B. of S. Davids preaching before Q. Elizab. An. 1596. on Psalm 90. vers 12. O teach us to number our dayes c. fell upon some sacred and mystical Numbers as three for the Trinity three times three for the Heavenly Hierarchy seven for the Sabbath and at last upon seven times nine for the grand Climacterical year but the Q. perceiving whitherto it tended began to be much troubled in her mind which the B. discovering betook himself to treat of some more plausible Numbers as of the Number 666 to prove the Pope to be Antichrist and of the fatal number 88 blessing God for hers and the Kingdoms deliverance not doubting but that she would passe her Climacterical year also Sermon being ended the Q. as the manner was opened the VVindow but she was so far from giving him thanks that she said plainly He should have kept his Arithmetick for himself and so went away for the time discontented though upon second thoughts she was pacified And thus it is that the generality of Men and Women cannot endure to hear of Death or to entertain any thoughts of their latter end you shall have them cry out upon the miseries of this wretched life and yet when Death appears be it but in the bare apprehension thereof they do as little Children who all the day complain but when the Medicine is brought them are nothing sick at all or as they who all the week run up and down the house with pain of their teeth and seeing the Barber come to pull them out feel no more torment Wit how to make a right use thereof IN the Levitical Law there are directions for the usage of a Captive taken to Wife When thou goest forth to ward against thy Enemies and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thy hands and thou hast taken them Captive And seest amongst the Captives a beautifull Woman and hast a desire unto her that thou wouldst have her to thy Wife Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house and she shall shave her head and pare her nails And she shall put the rayment of her Captivity from of● her and shall remain in thy house and bewail her Father and Mother a full moneth and after that thou shalt go in unto her and be her husband and she shall be thy Wife Thus by way of Allusion this Captive-Woman is Witt as yet unsanctified Witt without VVisdome Wit as they say Whither wilt thou When speeches are witty whilest the behaviour is wicked when deeds are incongruities whilest words are Apothegms VVhat must then be done shave the hair pare the nails take off the abuse of Witt pare off such evils as usually are concomitant 1. Blasphemy as in jesting with the sacred Scriptures 2. Lasciviousnesse as in wanton discourses 3. Insolence as in trampling on Men of weaker parts 4. Contention as in making Policy to eat ou● Piety this being done Wit is become Wisdome then marry her and use

be carefull in the censure of others 232. Men not to be censurers one of another 365. To be favourable in the censure of others 477. The danger of introducing uselesse Ceremonies in the Church 168. Ceremonials and circumstantials in Religion not to be much contended for 93. Why God delivered the Law with such Majestick Ceremonies 93. The Romanists errour in the point of antiquity of Ceremonies 151. Ceremonies in the Church not to be cause of separation 440. It is Man not God that changeth 117. Charity to the poor to be reall not verball 8. The Charity of former times abused by these times 198. Charity mistaken 239. To be well ordered 561. 674. To be Charitable Christians and why so 262. To be charitable to the poor and needy 300. Why it is that we must be charitable to all Men 342. Charity rewarded to the full 373. Men to be carefull of what they promise unto God in matter of Charity 494. Charity attended by the certainty of reward 529. Children of God must have Gods qualities 9. Why God suffereth the dearest of his children to want these outward things 301. A true child of God half in Heaven whilest he is upon Earth 317. Being delivered out of the bondage of Satan made more careful for the future 318. Children to be brought up in the fear of God 48. 461. 481. To be well principled 57. To be begged of God by prayer 289. Childrens Christian instruction the great benefit thereof 312. How it is that Children are very hardly drawn from their naturall inclinations 336. Children to be ready to relieve their Parents necessities 460. To have Children Male and Female Gods great blessing 467. Children to submit to their Parents correction 481. Children to set their hands to all honest employments 482. To be fruitfull in children a great blessing of God 496. Wicked children a great grief to their Parents 576. Not to repine at a great charge of Children 592. Christ voluntarily engaging himself to take away the sins of the World 569. Men to be ready to dye for Christ 578. The comfortable sight of Christ Iesus crucified to the poor Repentant sinner 634. The excellency of Christ Iesus 640. Christ the Saints wonder and admiration 663. Christs watchfulnesse over his people for good 664. Christ a ●ure pay-master 666. Christ fully revealed in the New Testament 6. Christs Victory over Sathan 24. Christ and the good Christian are companions inseparable 18. Christ is the true Christians All in all 63. How Christs sufferings are made ours 69. Wisdome of Christ above all other wisdome even to admiration 102. Christ in all his excellencies to be the Christians object 142. S. Augustines Judgment of the time of Christs birth 157. Christ compared to an Eagle 174. All have not the same measure of Christ 175. The excellencies of Christ are theirs that are in him 185. Nothing but Christ to be esteemed as of any worth 195. Christ is the proper food of the Soul To make Christ our Lord and Master 224. Christ the onely object of the devout Soul 273. Christ nothing but love all over 299. Christ the eternall Son of God properly and significantly called The Word Ioh. 1. 1. 326. Christ making himself and all that he hath over to the good of his Church and People 327. The great love of Christ to be at an high esteem and why so 344. Christ the true light 538. The joyfull coming of Christ Iesus in the flesh 365. The all-sufficient goodnesse of Christ Jesus 385. The inestimable value of Christ Iesus 407. Consideration of the Name of Christ to be a motive from sin 448. The necessity of being found with Christ's righteousnesse 472. Christ's wounds the onely hiding place of a Christian 490. Christ Iesus the good man's chief portion 505. The excellency of Christ's intercession 518. Christ freely discovering himself to all that truly seek him 535. Christ's humanity asserted 537. A true Christian to be a true picture of Christ 92. The worth of a true Christian 123. The best Christian is the best Artist 137. True Christians are fruitful Christians 326. As we are called Christians to bear up our selves like Christians 348. The weaknesse of a Christian without Christ 393. The good Christians Library 417. The Christians claim to Heaven what it is Christianity the best Nobility 592. Every one to strive for eminency in Christianity 664. The Churches distresse and comfort 582. Gods readinesse to maintain the cause of his Church 621. The bare enjoyment of Church-priviledges doth not make up a true Christian 639. God ordering all things for the good of his Church 641. The Churches fall the Churches rise 658. Christ ready to revenge himself upon the Enemies of his Church 663. Ruine of the Churches enemies to be desired 119. The fiery tryall on the Church of God 130. The Churche's enemies become the Churche's good 131. Spoylers of Church and State condemned 209. Men not repairing to the Church of God reproved 245. The sad condition of Church and State not to be sleighted 270. 424. Reverend and devout behaviour to be used in the Church of God 320. God looking upon his Church with a more especiall eye of Providence 328. Gods ends and Mans ends as to the persecution of his Church the vast difference betwixt them 345. The not laying of the Churches troubles to heart condemned 346. How it is tha War there may and must be in the Church of God but not contention 364. The Church of the Gospel its amplitude above that under the Law 437. The good Christians comfort in time of the Churches trouble 310. Church of God still on the decaying hand 6. The Churches Enemies in Gods hands 13. The Church robbed of her maintenance upon pretence of Reformation 17. Peace of the Chruch precious 32. Prayers and tears are the Weapons of the Church 52. The Churches complaint for want of maintenance 63. Order both in Church and State commanded and commended 101. Carelesse Church-men to be condemned 62. The Churche's conditions under the two Testaments 174. Church-spoylers condemned 201. God seeketh for his own People more especially in his own house the Church 227. The great danger of slighting Church-Assemblies 304. True comfort in God onely 647. A Caveat for unworthy Communicants 109. The danger of unworthy Communicating 111. Unworthy Communicants condemned 142. 151. 156. 164. A good Man tedious to bad Company 564. Godly Company the benefit thereof 539. How a Man should demean himself in bad Company 454. Ill Company to be avoided 45. 187. 437. A godly Man is bettered in evill Company 106. Man to be of Company or sociable 188. How to come off well in ill Company 190. Evil Company a great hindrance in the wayes of God 362. The confident Christian 243. Confes●ion of sins irksome to the Devil 676. The Laity abused by the Roman Clergy in Confession 587. Men by na●ure hardly brought to Confession of sin 661. Contempla●ion and action requisite for every good Christian 18. Gods

377. Riches the gr●at danger of them if not well used 401. The great danger that attends them 497. Very dangerous in getting of them 583. Riches honours c. the different use that is made of them 570. The uncer●ain comfort of Riches 601. Riches their uselesnesse in point of calamity 646. The dangerous use of Riches 651. Riches of Christ inexhaustible 652. A Rich Man had rather part with God then his gold 39. A Rich F●ol described 71. A vain Rich Man 125. A Rich Man is Gods Steward 129. Rich poor Men 165. The unprofitable Rich Man 242. Rich Men to consider their beginnings and be thankfull 334. The wicked Rich Man's sad condition at the time of death 376. Rich Men to be mindful of what they have received 456. How to be made truly rich and truly Honorable 463. An uncharitable Rich man no Heavenly-minded 482. Better to be honestly then hastily rich 496. A Rich Man pleading poverty condemned 531. Riot and excesse condemned 291. Rulers and Governors are the supporters of a Common-wealth 29. Rulers actions exemplary 32. Rulers sins hasten the ruine of a State 38. A good Prince or Ruler no advantage to a bad People 106. Rulers and Men in Authority subject to many failings in Government 405. Rulers Magistra●es c. to be men of publique spirits 651. S. SEven Sacraments of the Papists not of divine Institution 27. A special Sacrament-duty to blesse God for Christs death 76. Sacramental Bread and Wine how better then ordinary 104. How to receive benefit from the Word and Sacraments 149. How to ben●●●t by the Sacraments 152. Worldly thoughts to be set aside before the Sacrament 171. Sacramental Bread and Wine how differenced from others 267. The great danger of Sacriledge 51. 438. Sacriledge never thrives 60. Sacriledge cursed with a curse 61. Sacriledge condemned by the example of Cyrus 70. 588. Sacriledg justly rewarded to take heed of it 311. Sacrilegious persons condemned 671. The safety of Gods people 480. A singular Saint is a pretious Saint 14. Saints in glory what they hear and see 189. Invocation of Saints and Angels condemned 554. Salvation is the Lords 172. No salvation but by the mercies of God in Christ Jesus 423. Sanctification not perfected all at once 94. Sanctification not wrought all at once And why so 144. Sanctification wrought by degrees 181. The Schismaticks abuse of Scripture 59. The excellency of the Scripture in its fulnesse 70. Scripture-knowledge the onely necessary knowledg 89. Speciall places of Scripture marked with Gods speciall authority 103. Harmony of the Scriptures 116. The excellent connexion of the Scriptures 138. The holy Scriptures not to be jested withall 145. The power of Gods Word the Scriptures 158. How to read the Scriptures and Books Apocryphall 160. The Scriptures Rhetorick 160. Manna the Heavenly food of Gods Word how to relish it 114. Severall varieties to be found in Scripture 220. The Scriptures are but a dead letter without the operation of the Spirit 220. The Papists abuse of Scripture by Traditions c. 223. Scripture-comforts the onely true comforts 264. Scripture-knowledge to be put in practice 266. 283. Excellency of the Scripture-phrase 280. The great usefulnesse of Scripture-phrase 282. Scriptures not to be plaid withall 302. True comfort onely in the Scriptures 325. The holy Scriptures to be made the rule of all our actions 373. To be valued above all other writings 436. How it is that so many deceive themselves in their not rightly searching the Scriptures 384. The Scriptures discovering sin and Satan in their colours 392. The Scriptures onely to be rested on 510. The Books of Scripture to be preserved above all other books 535. To blesse God for the revelation of himself in Scripture 537. To keep close to the Word of God especially in troublous times 549. And in seeking after Christ 643. Men and Women to be knowing in the Scriptures 605. The great danger of not keeping close to the Scriptures 625. The praise-worthiness of reading and enquiring into Scripture 653. Scholers not to be unthankful to the University that bred them 78. Scholers to mind their books 40. No personal Security to be had in the time of publique danger 9. 170. Security in time of danger condemned 101. The great danger of security in times of danger 116. God chastiseth his Childrens security 142. Carnal security reproved 249. Security the cause of all calamity 570. The Secrets of Gods Couns●ls not to be pry'd into 27. Dangerous to pry into Gods secrets and Counsels 162. Not to consult with Gods secrets but his r●●vealed Word 335. Curious inquisitors into Gods secrets deservedly punished 554. The Sectarian schismatical seducers to be avoided 629. Sectarian subti●ty Diabolicall delusion 630. The doctrine of seducers dangerous 227. Selfishnesse condemned 33. Self-praises condemned 35. Self-examination required 53. Self-tryal smooths the way to all other tryals 112. Self-conceited Men blame-worthy Men 129. Self-conceitednesse condemned as dangerous 151. The giving up our selves an acceptable sacrifice unto God 154. The folly and danger of self-conceitednesse 180. The benefit of Self-examination 207. The danger of self-confidence 275. Self-seeking Men reproved 277. 375. Men of self-ends condemned 278. How it is that the self-conceited vain-glorious Man deceives himself 336. Self-conceitednesse in matters of Religion condemned 340. How far Self-safety may be consulted 543. Self-denyall the excellency thereof 635. No Man a loser by giving himself up to God 645. Men to be careful in the choyce of servants 483. God hardly accepting of late service done him And why so 678. Men created for the service of God 652. Backwardnesse in the service of God reproved 398. No worldly thing must hinder the service of God 575. How it is that Men fail so much in the service of God 626. Service performed unto God must be personal 589. Service to God must be like Himself 58. Rash inconsiderate service of God condemned 340. Service of God is persect freedome 378. The Ministers repetition in Sermons warrantable 82. The difference betwixt Sermons preached and Sermons printed 110. 639. A Sermon preached many years before may be the means of Salvation many years af●er 115. A good Sermon not to be so much questioned as practised 183. A Sermon not done till it be practised 253. How to recover spirituall sight 82. Sicknesse immediately inflicted by God 506. Commendable Silence 332. 668. The Silent Christian is the sound Christian 23. Silence in the cause of Gods honour condemned 478. The Simonist discovered 627. Slandering of our brother the danger thereof 134. Slanders of Wicked Men not to be regarded 238. Slanderers discovered 286. Not to be ●econciled to God before we sleep is very dangerous 83. The great danger of sleeping out Sermons 552. The sloathfull Christian described 217. Sloathful●esse and luke-warmnesse in Religion fore-runners of evill to come 334. Spiritual sloath in the wayes of God reproved 398. Man to be a sociable communicative Creature 316. The different conditions of Men in