Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A32913
|
More cheap riches, or, Heavenly aphorismes viz. a third, or rather true first part of the pocket companion compleated : being 300 golden sayings more / faithfully copied out of the manuscripts of Mr. H.C. (that eminent and faithful servant of God, many years agoe deceased) by N.C.
|
Church, Nathanaell.
|
1660
(1660)
|
Wing C3991; ESTC R37674
|
15,757
|
83
|
More Cheap Riches OR HEAVENLY APHORISMES VIZ. A Third or rather true First Part of the POCKET COMPANION Compleated Being 300 Golden Sayings more Faithfully Copied out of the Manuscripts of Mr. H.C. that eminent and faithful Servant of God many years agoe Deceased By N. C. Master of Arts of Emanuel Colledg in Cambridg Zach. 4.10 For who hath despised the Day of small things c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 et inest sua gratia parvus LONDON Printed by D.M. for J. Rothwell at the Fountain in Cheapside 1660. Friendly Readers IF you be so to your own Souls I shall neither care nor question whether you be so to me or no. Let not I pray the Plainness nor the Commonness of some of these Heavenly Aphorismes render null the Total Are you Learned and knowing men then you know that aâ—â— know not all of these Non omnia noscimus Omnes Neither are your selves unconcerned herein you may be reminded of what you do know to do it Etiam sapientissimus est commonefaciendus Is a Master-piece expected that every man likes we must please the best not the most Haud pluribus placendum sed purioribus Is not this Piece ingenious enough or sufficiently quaint and curious What will you put up no Coyn but mill'd Pieces Nor eate wholsome Food because the Dishes are not bedect with Flowrs or adorned with Orange and Lymond Pieles Jeanus rarò stomachus vulgaria temnit Are there some small Defaults or Imperfections in Writer or Printer 'T is as honorable to pardon as comfortable to be pardoned Humanum est errare Divinum ignoscere If you have a ripe cordial Pippin or Pearmain that is a little perished in one or two places will you throw it wholly away I trow not no more then eat it wholly but you 'l chew the Best and eschew the Worst Et sorte tuâ contentus Et. sic hîc Are the Phrases too homely for these our critical Times Here is more Wisdome then Words The best is at the Bottom like sugered Wine Potiora latent quam patent Is it needless in this bookish Age to cast in these Mites into the Treasury Why They are of the Remains of an eminent and godly man whom whosoever knew shall require none Encomiastick no more then the Work needs an Apologetick Quippe Opus Authorem plaudat Author opus Besides these 300 make up his 200 Golden Sayings compleat 500 in all of his own besides the 300 Silver ones of mine Whereby he that hath an honest wise diligent heart may make haste to be rich and yet be innocent yea be the more innocent and wise too Prudens ut Serpens innoxius utque Columba Well Shall they all be counted such ordinary and common Notions that some that are extraordinary amongst them shall not make superabundant satisfaction in Lieu of the rest Verily any man of a modest Wit and moderate Spirit shall find some special benefit by every fift Aphorism of them or else I have misplaced some against my will Si non his utere mecum Thus hoping friends that you will be civil in your Demands and praying That you may not need to be hired to do your selves a Courtesie I must embolden my self to encourage you to bestow a Groat or Six pence upon your own or any of your poor Friends Souls who probably will be glad of it after you have read it if you be rich enough to spare it them withal assuring you that if you practice it you shall never repent the Price thereof and that if you accept of what is best in it you shall not need to except against what is worst thereing Furthermore expect not great things but respect what good things ye find here and in short I shall if the LORD give Life and Leave pacifie your Inquisitive Appetites with an Obrizâ more industriously Elaborate Despise not the Day of small things and then you shall see greater things then these with him in the Gospel John 1. last and with Your Friend without Guile whether you be your own or no NAT. CHURCH From my Chamber in Cambridge 1659. HEAVENLY APHORISMES 1. A Good Book is to be read or heard with great Attention 2. A wicked Man is the Devils Looking-glasse wherein he sees his own Image reflected 3. The greatest Favours have been shewn to the Saints most humbled 4. The Absence of God is the Desire of the Wicked here and the Curse of the Damned hereafter 5. Good Motions to the Reprobate are as Sparks to the Water soon quenched 6. Graces must be still evermore tried and repaired 2 Tim. 1.6 2 Cor. 13.5 7. Those that let their Virtues decay without Fear shall die without Favour Ezek. 33.12 13. 8. Some men are in bondage to Sin and some to Opinion both are under Vassalage 9. The weight of Cares and Pleasures clogges the Soul the weight of Afflictions presses the Mind 10. Those that are old in Knowledge should be old in Gravity and Sobriety See 1 Cor. 13.11 11. The chief cause of the Wickedness of Youth is want of timely and prudent Correction Prov. 13.24 19.18 23.13 14. 12. Many are discontent at their estates because they see their own Discommodities not others Psal 37.1 16. 13. A Christians Care in all Companies should be either to do good or receive good Gal. 6.10 Heb. 13.16 14. The causes of distraction in Prayer is because our Mindes are at other times too much estranged from God 15. We should observe where we profit most in Conference and there often to Visit Mal. 3.16 16. The Remembrance of Death will beat down High-mindednesse and Earthly-mindednesse Psal 39.5 Psal 49 6 7 c. 17. We should labour to get Heavenly Wisdome and having gotten it well to imploy it Prov. 4.5 with Luk. 12.48 18. The Truth of Grace manifestly appears by the growth of Grace Isa 22.3 Phil. 1.6 19. Let us labour for Conscience for the Devil hath great Knowledge and Science Therefore called Daemon 20. We should first be Good and then we should labour to do Good like God himself Psal 119.68 21. Worldly Men desire Worldly Comfort but the truly Religious desire Spiritual comfort Psal 4 6 7. 22. Private Prayer is a note of Sincerity if it be done sincerely from a sincere Heart Prov. 15.8 29. Prov. 21.27 23. Known Hypocrites be hated of God and Man of Man for making a shew of God for having but a shew 24 The World cannot abide Zeal and God rejects Luke-warmness Rev. 3.16 Let us consider which to follow 1 King 18.21 25. Every Accusation is not a Condemnation as in Job Daniel Christ c. 26. A Man must be convicted by Law before he be put from the Sacrament 27. Many Professors have fallen but an humble Man I never heard of to be an Apostate See Prov. 28.14 1 Cor. 10.12 28. We carry corruption about us the best of us therefore we should be content to bear any Crosse or Trouble Micah 7.9 29. Those that
are good or bad by this if we are more apt to pray read heaer c. then our Anger Joy Sorrow and Care is good else away with these Affections fight against them 87. An heavenly Affection and an heavenly Conversation make a man fit for Salvation 88. He that commits his weightiest Affairs to God by humble fervent Prayer is very like to speed or else the more patiently to bear his Cross 89. The Preservation of a wicked man is but a Reservation unless he repent 90. There is as much Difference between a sound Christian and a meer Worldling as there is between a glass of cold water and a glass of Aqua vitae 91. There is nothing so sure as God and his Promises 92. The cause of Distraction in Prayer is because our Mindes at other times are too much estranged from God the remedy is to walk more closely with God in Affection then shall we pray with less Distraction 93. It is necessary to bid one another Take heed 94. If two men walk in a Room they see no Motes except the Sun do shine and then they espy many so before the Holy Ghost do shine into our Hearts we see not our sinfulness and manifold Corruptions 95. Pride and Wantonness Envy and Covetousness are four Diseases in a carnal mans Eyes 96. Some men are feasted and made much of a little before they are destroyed as Haman Amnon Belshazzar c. 97. The way to get Compassion is deeply to meditate on the Distresses of Others and go to visit them 98. Some cry out of shew yet come short of Hypocrites that have shew these both want soundness 99. The Reason that there is such a general Coldness in Religion is because there is so little holy Conference 100. Humility lets other Graces into our soul take away Humility and farewel all Life of Grace 101. The Thoughts of our blessed God do surmount other Thoughts as God Himself surmounts other Things 102. This Life is miserable the godly see their spiritual Miseries wicked men see onely bodily Miseries 103. A through Change in Heart and Life and Fruitfulnesse in Grace gives a good Evidence of Sincerity 104. When we meditate of Heaven let us stay and rest our Thoughts there being loath to let them sink to Earth again 105. Our Hearts should be so set upon God that we should break through All impediments to come unto Him 106. It is better to obey doubtfully then to disobey doubtfully 107. We hate Punishment because it is contrary to our Nature but love Sin which is contrary to Gods Nature by this we may try our selves whether we love best God or our selves 108. Spiritual Pride causes the Lord to withhold his Graces from us 109 Ministers are to be reverenced in the Hearts of men for their Holiness not for their Silks nor Titles nor great Livings 110. The best Man in the Parish is not the richese Man but the holiest Man 111. We are to put difference between Reproofs to amend and Reproaches to shame 112. The Conscience of a wicked Worldling we know not how it pricks Him no more then we do the Shoe that wrings his Foot or the Tingling in the Ear which none but a mans Self hears 113. He that makes haste to be Holy hath an holy Hastiness 114. T is a matter of Commendation to have Knowledge and Speculation 't is a matter concerns Salvation to have good Conscience and Conversation 115. God reserves his Consolations till we need them as we keep Aqua vitae 116. We can hardly speak of Godâ— Essence unlesse we name some of his Properties also as holy great good blessed c. 117. The World is a very dangerous Enemy it makes of a Professor a Demas nay a Judas if it conquer 118. The godly are jealous of Themselves and suffer Others to try them the ungodly do neither 119. Then are our Prayers good when we begin begging in the sense of our Wants and end in finding Gods Mercy 120. To pray and hope for to love and long for the Appearing of Christ is the Property of a Saint 121. Ignorance of God is accompanied with Unthankfulnesse how can he be truly thankful that knows not God 122. We are to labour to have a share in Gods Mercy then All His Attributes are for us else they are against us 123. Love endeavours to enjoy the thing beloved here is Comfort if once we can find God loves us there will be Enjoyment 124. Often Prayer with God and seldom company with wicked men is the onely way to thrive 125. The strong are to pray for the weak that they fail not the weak are to pray for the strong that they fall not 126. The Justice of God takes place when his Mercy is abused 127. Some men act the part of two men in profane Company they would not be thought to be religious in religious Company they would not be thought to be profane 128. Virtue stands between two Extremes 129. Hypocrites have no Approbation of themselves for want of Sincerity nor of others because of Inconstancy for they break out One time or Other 130. There is Mercy to be shewed both in Giving and Forgiving and for Giving 131. There is a Love of Mercy of God to us and a Love of Duty of us to Him 1â—2 Wrangling Persons are offensive to whomsoever they jar withall to the learned they are a Grief to the ignorant a Snare to the indifferent a Trouble of Conscience 133. A good Affection makes a good Construction 134. We must love bad men with a love of good will wishing their good we must love good men with a love of Approbation approving their Courses and desiring their Company 135. When men look on Eternity then they begin to be wise 136. 'T is the Property of Love to descend rather then to ascend 137. There is Knowledge in the Brain but saving Knowledge is joyned with Care and Conscience for example most know Gods Name should not be taken in vain but few know this with Care and Conscience 138. Inward Sincerity and outward Integrity must go together 139. If we read the Scripture without distinctions we do as they that walk in the dark they know not whether they go for example God hears not Sinners John 9. We must distinguish Sinners penitent and impenitent and so in divers Other things 140. We are to take Counsel lest we neglecting it do smart 141. The Children of God have more joy then Worldlings Psal 4.3 last 142. The invisible God hath an invisible secret Curse for the Wicked and an invisible secret blessing for the Godly which we see not with the Eye 143. Vnfeigned Thankfulness is the Property of a Saint Psal 145.10 144. God hath given us Understanding and Affections to help these he gives Instruction and Exhortation Instruction breeds cleer Understanding Exhortation breeds good Affections 145. Learning lives and Virtue shines Folly beggs and Ignorance pines 146. Christs Word should dwell in us