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A07448	Wits common wealth The second part. A treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies, and sentences, generally vsefull. But more particularly published, for the vse of schooles. By F.M. Master of Arts of bot Vniuersities.; Palladis tamia	Meres, Francis, 1565-1647.; N. L. (Nicholas Ling), fl. 1580-1607. Politeuphuia.	1634 (1634)	STC 17835; ESTC S121517	258,252	788

imperfecti As no man can measure the winde or weigh the fire so no man can attaine vnto the vnsearchable iudgements of the Lord. Euen as one standing vpon the shoare doth see the Sea and yet doth not see the breadth and depth of it so the Angels and all the other elect which bee in Heauen doe see God really yet they cannot comprehend either the depth of his greatnesse or the altitude of his et●nitie Lodouicus Granatensis lib. 1. Duc●s peccatorum Euen as there can be found nothing more bright and visible then the Sunne yet nothing is lesse seene then it by reason of the excellency of his brightnesse and the weakenesse of our sight so there is nothing in it selfe more intelligible then God yet there is nothing in this life lesse vnderstood then he for the same reasons Ibidem As the Painter when he depainted the funeral solemnity of a certaine Kings Daughter pourtrayed her kinsfolks with heauy countenances and her Mother more sorrowfull then the rest but when he came to delineate the Father he did couer his face with an artificiall shadow signifying thereby that his Art did here faile him so when we speake of God and the deepe mysteries of his di●●nitie vnder awe of admiration wee are to lay our hands on our mouthes and to adore him with ineffable and chast silence Ibidem God is not the Authour of sinne AS the Sunne which is made to illustrate and enlighten things cannot obscure and darken them so God who is righteousnesse it selfe cannot doe vniusily Origines lib. 3. contra Celsum As the wicked doe naughtily entreate the goodnesse of God so God doth vse to good ends the euill workes of the vngodly Eusebius Emissenus hom 4. de Epiphania As the Smith is not the cause why the iron rusteth nor the progenitour of a liuely body is the cause of the filth and blemishes it afterwards gathereth so neither God although he make and order all things is the cause of any sin and wickednesse in them Mercurius Trismegistus in Pymandro As it belongeth vnto God being only good to bee the cause of euery good worke so it is vnmeete and incongruous that hee should be supposed the authour of any euill Fulgentius lib. 1. As a Master that would try his ser●ant whether he be good or bad setteth in place where hee may come to sweet meats money now if this seruant dee take any his Master compelled him not to ill but laid open his bad disposition so also God giuing vnto men occasion to sin if they will sinne he doth not make them to sin but manifesteth the maliciousnesse of their hearts Chrisostomus homil 46. operis imperfecti As the Sun is not hurtfull although it seemeth so vnto weake and bleare eyes and as hony is not bitter to the tast albeit sicke folke deeme it so so God ●s not euill nor carelesse of mens actionsi● albeit wicked and reprobate men thinke him so Chrisost. hom 7. in Ioan. As it is no wonderfull thing to make a golden Bracelet of gold but it is admirable to make pure gold of base lead so to make good of good is a thing of no such wonder but to extract vertue out of vice this is diuine God out of the wickednesse of the vngodly done against the righteous doth extract their profit yea out of our owne faultes hee doth produce our welfare for by it he worketh in vs contrition and by his fauour wee bring forth the fruits of repentance Pintus in Eze. cap. 38. The patience and long animity of God AS God patiently suffered Ionas to bee swallowed of the Whale not that he should perish but that he being cast vp againe might more submit himselfe vnder the mighty hand of God and more glorifie him so God from the beginning hath beene patient in suffering man to bee swallowed vp of that great Whale who was the authour of preuarication not that hee should finally perish but that he might prepare him to seeke for that saluation of which Ionas was a signe Irenaeus lib. 3. contra haereses cap. 22. An houshoulder doth not suddainly cast forth a faithfull seruant but desireth him to stay so the Lord long suffereth if any one hath beene faithfull vnto him August sermone 146. in Lucam As Cities and Common-wealths doe nourish hangmen and executioners of iustice by whom ●hey may exceute offenders and malefactors not praysing the office of the hangman but tolerating his ministry for necessary vses so God the great magistrate and justicer of this world doth suffer tyrants and oppressors as certaine hangmen that by them he may take vengeance of vngodly men and afterwards deliuereth the tyrants vnto torment so God punished the Children of Israell by the Assyrians Theodoretus ser. 6. de Gracarum affectionum curation● Gods Prouidence AS a King when he would keepe any man safe from danger placeth him in his palace that not onely the wals of the King but also the eyes of the King may defend him from his enemies then the which guard none can be saser so the heauenly King by the same prouidence doth defend his Lodouicus Granatensis lib. 1. Ducis Peccatorum As the Sun doth not onely illuminate Heauen the Sea and the Earth but shineth also thorow a window or a little ●reuice and doth cast light into the inmost place of the house so the diuine prouidence doth not only preserue great things but also respecteth the very least that are in the Earth Clemens Alexand●mus lib. 7. stromatum As wee know that there are men in a Ship that directly sayles into an hauen although we 〈◊〉 none of them by reason of the right guidance of it so we know that God is the gouernour of all things by his prouidence albeit we cannot see him with our carnall eyes Theophilus Antiothe●us lib. 1. ad Antolycum As an house decayeth without an inhabiter as a Ship perisheth without a Pylot and as the body dyeth being forsaken of the soule so all things goe to wracke and ruine without the diuine prouidence Lactantius lib. 3. cap. 20. As a Wagoner directeth his chariot and a Pylot his Ship so God guideth all his creatures Philo. lib. de Sommijs As we know that there is a soule in a mans body by the motion of the body albeit the soule be inuisible so God by his prouidence and ordering of all things is apprehended although by no eye hee can be discerned Theophilus Antiochenus lib. 1. ad Antolycum As an Eagle caryeth her young ones vpon her wings and as a mother carieth her child in her armes so God supporteth his Deuteron cap. 1. cap. 32. As God respecteth a little bird of the Sea called Alcyon that in the midst of winter he sendeth a calme for fourteene dayes which the Mariners call Alcyo● dayes till she hath hatched and fledged her young ones that the waues of the Sea may not trouble her nor destroy her brood so the diuine prouidence regardeth men in all their actions

pars simil ex lib. 25. Plin. cap. 4. As Christs coate was without wem so his life was without crime As without the Sunne there should be continuall night so without Christ there should bee euerlasting destruction Clemens Alexandrinus ad Gentes As an Husband-man doth cast his seede not in this corner and in that corner of his land but casteth it euery where throughout his whole land to Christ commendeth the doctrine of piety to rich and poore learned and ignorant to the strong and weake albeit hee knoweth what successe it shall haue Chrysostom Hom. 45. in● Matthew As the soule is the life of the bodie so Christ is the life of the soule Petrus Chrysologus sermone 19. As at the comming of the Diuell all Nations mourned so at the comming of the Lord Iesus all people reioyced Arnobius in Psal. 46. As an aduocate pleading for an offender taketh vpon himselfe the cause and faults of him whom hee patronizeth as if they were his owne when notwithstanding hee is guiltlesse so Christ being without sinne tooke vp●n him our transgressions and suffered ●r them as if they had beene his owne Chrysostome Sermone aduersus haereti●s tom 5. As in a red hote sword there are ●ctions and perfections of two natures ●e yron cuts and the fire burnes so 〈◊〉 Christ there is two Natures his Di●nity and Humanitie and both haue ●eir actions and perfections Damas●●● lib. 3. cap. 15. de fide As the Vnicorne by touching poy●ned water with his Horne maketh 〈◊〉 wholesome whereupon Naturalists ●y that before hee drinkes he put●eth his Horne into the water so Christ●y ●y his Humanitie hath made the poy●ned waters wholesome and hath ●urified our soules from infection Ia●obus de Valentia in Psalmum 42. As Gold and a Pearle make one Ring 〈◊〉 God and man make one Christ. Themistocles hauing offended Philip●he ●he King of Macedonia and could no ●ay appease his anger meeting his ●oung Sonne Alexander tooke him in ●is armes and met Philip in the face Philip seeing the smyling countenaun●● of the childe was well pleased wit● Themistocles euen so if through th● manifold sinnes and heynous offences● thou prouoke the heauy displeasure 〈◊〉 thy God insomuch as thou shalt tremb● for horrour take his only begotten an● wel beloued Sonne Iesus in thine armes● and then hee neither can nor willi● angry with thee It is written that the blood of ● Lambe doth appease the cruell rage 〈◊〉 a fierce Lyon so the blood of the in● maculate Lambe Christ doth pacifie th● wrath of God When the Brethren of Ioseph h●● sold him to the Ismaelites to pacifie the● Father Iacob they brought his Coate 〈◊〉 to bee bloudyed so if wee will appea●● God our Father wee must bring v●● him the bloody Garment of his Son●● The Adamant though it be so ha●● that nothing can bruse it yet if t●● warme blood of a Goate be powred vp● on it it bursteth so although the hea● of the Atheis● and vnbeleeuer bee 〈◊〉 hard that neither reward nor reueng● can mollifie it so stoute that no persw●sion can breake it yet if the grace of God purchased by the blood of Christ doe but once touch it it renteth in sunder and is conforced to a acknoledge an omnipotent and euerlasting Iehouah Astrologers say that the Sun passeth through these three signes Leo Virgo and Libra so the Sonne of righteousnesse Christ Iesus in the Law came as a Lyon threatning and destroying in the time of grace hee came into the lap of a Virgine in great humilitie and at the day of iudgemene he will come in Libra to giue to euery one according as hee hath deserued As Theseus being giuded by Ariadnes threed which shee tyed at the entrance into Dedalus Labyrinth escaped all the danger and errour of it euen so wee must make Christ the doore by which wee must enter into the Labyrinth of all our affaires and tye Ra●abs threed at this entrance and follow it all the way that so we may bee safe and goe in and out and find pasture As the life of Christ is the life of life so the death of Christ is the death death It is reported that the Lybard vseth a strange kind of policie to the Ape He lyeth down vpon the ground as though he were starke dead which the Apes seeing come altogether and in despight skip vpon him This the Libard beareth patiently till he thinks they haue wearied themselues with their sporting Then sodainly he likewise leapes vp catckes one in his mouth and in each foote one which immediately he killeth and denoureth so Christ being laid in the dust the Diuell insulted ouer him and trampled vpon him but hee like a liuely Libard started vp on Easter day astonished the Souldiours set to keepe him which were the Diuels Apes and made them lyelike dead men As blind Sampson by his death killed the Phlistins when they were playing the Apes in mocking and mowing at him so Christ by his death destroyed the Diuell Scaliger writeth that the Chamelion when hee espies a Serpent taking shade vnder a tree climes vp into that tree and le ts downe a thread breathed out of his mouth as small as a Spiders threed at the end whereof there is a little drop as ●leare as any pearle which falling vpon ●he S●rpents head kils him so Christ●liming ●liming vp into the tree of his Crosse ●ets downe a threed of blood issuing out ●f his side like Rahabs red threed hang●●g out of her window the least drop ●hereof being so pretious and so peere●●sse falling vpon the Serpent head kils ●im The wild Bull of all things cannot ●●ide any red colour therefore the hun●●r for the nonce standing before a Tree ●uts on a red garment whom when the ●ull sees hee runnes hard at him as ●ard as he can driue but the Hunter ●●ipping aside the Buls hornes sticke ●st in the Tree as when Dauid slipped ●side Sauls speare stucke fast in the wal● 〈◊〉 Christ standing before the Tree of his ●rosse puts on a red garment dipt and ●yed in his own blood as one that com●eth with red garments from Bozr● ●erefore the Diuell and his Angels like ●ild Bulles of Bazan runne at him but ●ee shifting for himselfe their Hornes ●●cke fast in his Crosse as Abraham●●am ●am by his Hornes strucke fast in the briers thus is the Diuell caught and killed A Dragon indeed kils an Elephant yet so as the Elephant falling downe kils the Dragon with him an Elephant kils Eliazar yet so as Eliazar falling down kils the Elephant with him so the Deuil killing Christ was killed of him When Mahomet the second of that name besieged Belgrade in S●ruia one of his Captaines at length got vp vpō the wall of the Citie with Banner displaied A noble Bohemian espying this ran to the Captaine and clasping him fal●● about the middle asked one Capif●ran●● standing beneath whether it would be any danger of damnation to his soule if he should

best way to kill a materia●l serpent is to k●l him in the head so the best way to kil the spiritual serpent is to kill him in the head that is to kill sin in the beginning Ve●erabilis Beda Kill a cockatrice when he is an egge and he will not bite thee so kill sinne in the beginning and it will not hurt thee As foxes are to bee killed when they are cub so sinne is to be beaten downe when it is growing As the Babylonians children were to bee dashed against the stones so sin is to be nipped in the bud Psal. 137. Pride AS violent waters are prone to often eruptions becomming shalowest within their ordinary channels so proud persons are euermore capable of higher dignities though not well able to exercise their present meane offices As winds blow most fiercely when they are about to cease so men when they are most proude as Pope Iulius and Cardinall Woolsey then they are nearest to destruction As God is angry at them that imitate the thunder and lightning and doth cast them into hell as hee cast Salmoneus so hee doth disdaine the proud and loftie minded who emulate his greatnesse but doe not expresse his goodnesse Plut. in Moral If thou wilt put any good thing into bladders thou must first remoue the winde and aire out of them so thou must take all pride and swelling out of his mind whom thou meanest to teach Ibidem As the Cedar tree is vnfruitfull and 〈◊〉 so proude man is vnfruitfull and obstinate Basilius in Psal. 28. As a blind man may be easily discerned of all so may a proude man that knowes not the Lord for the beginning of pride is the ignorance of God bee easily knowne as being depriued of his greatest light Chrysost. hom de O●ia As the Ship that hath passed many waues and escaped many tempest a● the length shipwraking in the very hauen doth loose all the treasure contained so the proud Pharisie after that hee had vndergone the labours of fasting and had performed the exercise of many notable vertues though his pride and arrogancie made shipwracke of them all in the very hauen Idem hom de profectu Euangelij That body which hath lost a good temperature is subiect to diseases so that soule that hath lost humilitie is endangered with pride rashnesse weakenesse and foolishnesse Idem serm contra desperation●● superbiam As hee that is franticke knowes neither himselfe nor those things that are ●efore his feete so a proud man nei●her knowes himselfe nor any man a●out him ibidem As couetous men the more they re●iue the more they stand in neede of 〈◊〉 a proud man the more he is honou●ed the more honour he desireth Idem 〈◊〉 1. insecundum ad Thessalonicenses As they that are swelled are not in ●od health so they that are proude 〈◊〉 not in their right wits idem hom 17. in 1. Timoth. As in an heape of wheate the chaffe 〈◊〉 higher then the wheate not that it ●s worthier but because it is lighter ●nd being lighter it getteth the higher ●lace so in this life a proude man is ●●fted aboue an humble man not for his ●erite and vertue but for his vanity ●nd false opinion of himselfe and be●●g vaine of himselfe he preferreth him●●fe before those of whom he is ex●●●led in vertue Hector Pint. in ca. 15. Ezeach As pride is the beginning of all vices ●o it is the ruine of all vertues Isidorus They that are sicke of the dropsie by ●●ason of the grossenesse of the bodies seeme to bee in good estate notwithstanding they bee full of nothing b●● water and such euill humours whi●● in the end are the cause of their death● so they that are proud by reason 〈◊〉 their ouer-●eening conceus seeme● be in great reputation and credit wh●● before God they are most abominab●● and detestable Couetousnesse AS fire when there is more woo●● cast on burneth more fiercely● so couetousnesse the more wealth 〈◊〉 hath the more it desireth Lod. Gt●● lib. 2. ducis peccat●rum As drinke in a dropsie is the cause● greater thirst so riches in couetous me●● are the causes of greater auarice Ibid. As the hollow spoute receiueth mu●● water and yet retaineth nothing b●● aire so the couetous man gathere● much wealth and yet possesseth n●● thing but cares As the fish Polypus vseth great sk●● in taking of other fishes being other● wise a stupid and foolish creature many men are very wise for their owne ●●cre and gaine but in other things very blockish and bruite beasts As vultures doe smell three dayes before hand where any dead carkasses will fall and doe flie thither so greedy gapers after liuings doe many yeares before hand long for the death of the possessors Plin. lib. 10. cap. Couetousnesse is like the Serpent ●●daspis the more it sucks the more it is a thirst eating men aliue as the Cro●●dile and it is a vice of as dangerous ●●●urement as the place where the ●yrens sit and chaunt with their pre●●ditiall melody There is a certaine thorne among the Indians the iuice of which being ●rinkled into the eyes doeth bring ●indnesse to all liuing creatures so ●he dust of gold being cast into the eyes ●f men doth make them starke blind As Physitians ●●y that cold doth 〈◊〉 the bones the sinewes and the 〈◊〉 so Paul doeth say more briefly ●●cause he is the master of breuity that ●ouetonsnesse is the roote of all euill Chrysost. hom 75. Matth. As Bees fltocke vnto a hony deaw so couetous men hunte after the smell of gaine Plutarchus in Moralibus Meminit eius etiam Maximus sermone 12. As great fishes deuoure the small so couetous cormorants eate vp the poore Basilius hom 7. exameron As gluttons cannot spare any thing from their owne bellies so a couetous● man cannot spare anything from their owne purses Idem hom in ditescentes As the Sea is neuer seene without waues so the minds of couetous men are neuer without perturbations cares dangers trembling and feare Chryso Hom. 36. in Matth. As a moath doth corrupt a garment so doth couetousnesse eate and rust a wretched soule Idem hom 48. As the man of Chios sold his best wine to others and drunke the dead wine himselfe so doe couetous men they enioy the worst of their wealth and keepe the best for wormes moathe● and rust Plut. As an itchy scabby place standeth neede alwayes of friction and rubbing so the thirst of a couetous mind is neuer quenched idem As they that fall a sleepe through ●eauinesse dreame of sorrowful things ●o they that hunt after wealth and are ●ouetous doe dreame of vsury extor●on enhaunsing of rents and such ●●ke dishonest gripings Idem As adulterours loue other mens ●iues and contemne their owne so ●●me men are more delighted with ●●●rching after others mens goods then ●ith enioying their owne ibidem As the roote of a reede being beaten ●●all and laid vpon the roote of ferne ●oth bring forth a stem and also as ●he roote