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A97248
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A divine miscellany full of delightful and profitable variety, or, The pious mans recreation, in a garden of sweet flowers and fruits divided into four parts / by Richard Younge of Roxwel in Essex.
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Younge, Richard.
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1665
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Wing Y150; ESTC R43833
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from above and that made the difference Pride and folly are two vices that ever go together Plato being demanded how he knew a Wise man answered when being rebuked he would not be angry◠and being praised he would not be proud I am not worthy saies the Senturian I am vile saith Job in Understanding I am not a man says Agur I have done exceeding foolishly saith David I am the greatest of sinners says Paul It is the Believers Motto the least of Saints the greatest of sinners But the carnal mans Motto is I thank God I am not as other men Of the two to be a Pharisee is worse then to be a Publican To be proud of good Endowments is worse then to have neither pride nor good Endowments The first Adam was for self advancement but the second Adam is for self debasement A proud person thinks every thing too much that is done by him and every thing too little that is done for him though he not seldom falls short of his expectation like Neanthus who handling the Harp of Orpheus expected to make the Trees dance whereas by his confused jangling thereon he caused the Doggs to barke at him A proud heart as it loves none but it self so it is beloved by none but by it self No Vice gets a man so many Enemies as this Vice not th◠humble a lone but one proud man hates another even your self loves humility in all but your self as if you did wish well to all souls but your own Nothing gains love and credit both with God and man like humility nothing hatred and scorn like pride Would we have God our Friend or our Enemy we may For he resisteth the proud and giveth Grace to the humble James 4.6 1 Pet. 5.5 God and pride cannot dwell in the same heart that could not dewll in the same Heaven 〈◊〉 Looking-glass will make a Fool proud but an Hour-glass will make a wise man humble The highest Mountans are always the barenest Grounds Such as have their thoughts high and their Fortunes low live always a pensive life And the reason why we want our desires is because our desires want reason Yee ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts James 4.3 VVe read that Epaminondus a Thebane Captain the day after a great Victory and Triumph went drooping and hanging down his head and being asked why he did so answered Yesterday I felt my self too much tickled with pride and vain glory therefore I correct my self for it to day The like did Hezekiah after his heart had been listed up he humbled himself 2 Chron. 32. And so ought we Pambo espying a certain woman Flawnting it in very sumptuous Apparel fell a weeping and being asked why he wept Answered For two causes One the destruction of this woman Another because I who profess my self a Christian do not so much study to please God by my innocency of life as this woman does to please the Devil and men with her vanities But let rotten Posts be Gilded and decayed Beauties Painted Verty like a pretious Diamond needs no varnish Certainly if the polutions of our Birth the miseries of our Life and the putrifaction of us soon ensuing our death were well considered and laid to heart it would make us truely humble SECT VII Five Allegories or the Analagie between Man and a House a City a Common-wealth the whole World 1. MAn's Body is like a House his Soul is the Master his greater Bones are the Beams or Maintimber his Ribs are Laths dawbed over with Flesh and plaistred with Skin his Mouth is the Door his Throat th◠Entry his Heart the great Chamber and his Head the Chappel both full of curious Art and wherein Conscience as Chaplain is ever resident His Midriff is a large Partition 'twixt the great Chamber and the spacious Hall his Belly is the Kitchin his Stomack the Pot where the meat is sometimes but half sod for want of heat his Teeth are the Kitchin knives his Spleen is a Vessel which Nature provides to receive the scum that rises from the Pot his Lungs are the Bellowes that respire in every Office quickning every Fire his Nose is the Chimney whereby is vented such fumes as the Bellows send up his Bowels or Conduits of excrement are the Sink to drain away all noisome filth and keep the Kitchin clean his Brain is the Studie his Eye like Crystal Windows are clear and bright to let in all Objects and let out the sight his Senses are the Servants having every one a several Office c. Or 2. Man is like a City his Skin is the Walls his Eves and Ears the Factors and Merchants his Hands the Tradesmen his Legs the Porters his Mouth the Gate his Teeth the Portcullis his Appetite the Cator his Stomach the Larther or Kitchin Digestion the Cook Expulsion the Scavenger his Soul the Church Conscience the Preacher Reason and Experience are the Common-council Memory is the Recorder Vnderstanding the Governor his Senses are the Officers Fortitude the Souldiers Words the shot his Brain is the State-house and his Heart the Cittadel or Castle Or 3. Man may be likened to a Kingdom or Common-wealth his Head resembles the Prince his Heart the Privy council in which Understanding sits as President his Eyes are the Watchmen and Intelligencers his Ears the Judges commutative Justice the Law custom and experience the Jury-men or Free-holders the Joynts resemble Concord and good Order the Sinews Money his Arms and Hands the Souldiers and Trades-men his Feet the Merchants his Tongue the Pleaders Conscience the Preachers the Affections are Inferiour Officers the Senses Servants the Belly like Idle persons Truth is or should be Treasurer Reason Religion Lord Chancellor Memory Master of the Roles c. Or 4. Man the Microcosme or little world is much like the great World or Universe his Flesh resembles the Earth his Bones the hard Rocks and Stones his Spirits the Minerals his Hair the Grass his Breath is like the Air natural heat the Fire Blood the Water his Liver the Sea his Veins the Rivers his face the Firmament his Eyes those two great lights of Sun and Moon his Sinews the Treasure and Wealth his five Senses the Sinkports his Soul the Monarch his Heart the Queen or Empress his Head the Court or Senate-house his Brains the Council or Senate his Reason the President his Will the Law c. Or if you will thus Magistrates are the Arms of the world Counsellors the Brains Lawyers the Tongues the Rich the Stomachs the Poor the Backs Merchants the Feet Officers the Hands and Divines the Hearts c. His Youth resembles the Spring his Man-hood Summer his Middle-age Autumne his Old-age Winter and the like between the four humours in Man's body and the four Quarters of the year The little World man is so the Compendium and Abridgment of all creatures that whatsoever is imprinted with Capital Letters in