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Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.
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Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.
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can you now see said the Duke yea I thanke God and St. Alban saith the begger Then tell me saith the Duke what colour is my Gowne of the begger readily told him the colour and what colour is such a mans Gowne the begger told him presently and so also of many others Then said the Duke goe you counterfeit Knave if you had been borne blinde and could never see till now how come you so suddenly to know this difference of colours and thereupon instead of an Almes he caused him to be whipt openly up and downe the Towne Iesuiticall juggeling When the House at Black-fryers in London fell and had killed about a hundred Persons and wounded above as many more who were Roman Catholicks met there to heare a Popish Priest preach which was in the yeare 1623. upon a Sabbath day and the fifth of November the Powder Treason day according to the Romish account the Jesuits presently published a Booke wherein they set forth this accident with all the Circumstances as a Judgement of God fallen upon a company of Hereticall Protestants and Puritans as they were met together in a Conventicle All this was that the poore deluded people might not come to the knowledge of this remarkable Judgement lest it should startle them in their profession of Popery and that it might confirme them in their indignation against the Protestant Religion and thus they make lyes their refuge A remarkable Judgement upon a wicked Counsellour It was a very remarkable peece of Divine Justice which befell the Lord Hastings by whose advice Richard the third put to death the Earle of Rivers and Grey with others at Pomfret in the North without either tryall of Law or any offence given It pleased God that this very Hastings who counselled the Tyrant to take away the heads of these Noble-men thus unjustly lost his owne head the very same day and houre in the Tower of London in the same lawlesse manner and by the command of the same lawlesse monster What cast Lucifer out of Heaven and Adam out of Paradice God saith one had three Sons Lucifer Adam and Christ The first aspired to be like God in power and was therefore throwne downe from Heaven The second to be like him in knowledge and was therefore deservedly driven out of Eden The third did altogether imitate and follow him in his mercy and by so doing obtained an everlasting inheâ—itance The worlds Hypocrisie Omnia religiosa nunâ— ridentur He that makes Conscience of his wayes is accounted one of God Almighties Fooles we are all in effect become Comedians in Religion and while we act in gesture and voyce Theologicall vertues in all the courses of our lives we renounce our persons and the parts we play Stay the Bells the man is alive yet and like to plague you worse While Martin Luther was yet living some Popish Priests published a Booke in Italian relating the strange and fearefull manner of his death thus the story lyes A stupendious and rare Miracle which God ever to be praised shewed about the filthy death of Martin Luther a man damned both in body and soule so that it conduced to the glory of Jesus Christ and the amendment and comfort of godly men When Martin Luther was sick he desired the Lords Body to be communicated to him which he receiving dyed presently when he saw that he must dye he requested that his body might be set upon the Altar and be adored with Divine worship but God to put an end to his horrible errours by a great Miracle warned the people to abstaine from that impiety which Luther invented for when his body was laid in the Grave suddenly so great a stir terror arose as if the foundations of the earth were shaken together whereupon all the Funerall trembling were astonished and after a while lifting up their eyes beheld the sacred Host appearing in the aire wherefore with great devotion of heart they placed the most sacred Host upon the holy Altar whereupon the fearefull noyse ceased but in the night following a loud noyse and ratling much shriller then the former was heard about Luthers Sepulcher which awaked all the City terrified them and almost killed them with astonishment In the morning when they opened the Sepulcher they found neither his body nor the bones nor any of the cloaths but there came a sulphurous stinke out thereof which almost over-came the standers by By this Miracle many were so amazed that they amended their lives for the honour of the Christian Faith and the glory of Jesus Christ A faire confutation of a foule Lye When this Lye came printed into Germany Luther confuted it with his owne hand after this manner I Martin Luther doe professe and witnesse under my owne hand that I on the one and twentieth day of March received this Figment full of anger and fury concerning my death and that I read it with a joyfull minde and cheerfull countenance and but that I detest the Blasphemy which ascribeth an impudent Lye to the Divine Majesty for the other passages I cannot but with great joy of heart laugh at Satans the Popes and their complices hatred against me God turne their hearts from their Diabolicall maliciousnesse but if God decree not to heare my prayers for their sin unto death the Lord grant that they may fill up the measure of their sins and solace themselves to the full with their Libells full fraught with such like Lyes God is not alwaies alike present with his most faithfull Servants A very eminent Preacher of this Land being on a time at a Noble-mans house in the Country was intreated to preach on a weeke day at a Lecture then kept at that place which he did but was so extreamly bound and straitned in his spirit that he had almost no utterance nor inlargement at all wherewith he was exceedingly dejected in the after-noone he rode away from that place to another Towne not farre off in company with an eminent Divine who had heard him that day all the way as they rode he did nothing but complain of Gods hand in straitning him that day more then ever but preaching the same Sermon the next day God so assisted him that he never had more enlargement Vpon a Gentlewoman that well deserved it She that now takes her rest within this Tombe Had Rachels face and Leahs fruitfull wombe Abigals wisdome Lidya's faithfull heart With Martha's care and Maries better part Luthers constancy to the Truth Martin Luther was ever constant in knowne truth from the confession whereof he could never be removed with threats or promises so that when upon a time one Papist demanded of another Why doe you not stop the mans mouth with Gold and Silver the other answered This German beast careth not for money Heavinesse may endure for a night but joy commeth in the morning There lived lately at Tilbury in Essex one Master Vere elder Brother to the late Lord Vere this Gentleman fell
GLEANINGS OR A Collection of some Memorable passages BOTH Antient and Moderne Many in relation to the late WARRE Varietas delectat LONDON Printed by R I. and to bee sold by William Raybould at the Unicorn in Pauls Church-yard neer the little North Doore 1651. To the Reader Reader THe Heart of man is unconfined in all its sublunary objects and it is like to His Vnderstanding which cannot be satisfied The more the Heart possesseth the more by Nature it desireth And the more we understand the greater is our indeavour to increase that Vnderstanding That which only gives most satisfaction either to the Heart or to the Vnderstanding is Variety The variety of Objects doth delight the Eye and the variety of Knowledge doth transport the Mind and in the contemplation of it doth nobly affect it though it can no way absolutely content it I have therefore indeavoured in this Book to give thee abundance of Delight by giving thee abundance of Variety Thou shalt find in one peice a Collection of the most acute sayings of all variety of men from the Scepter to the spade And that not taken from the repeated Traditions of outworn Antiquity but the greatest part collected from several passages even in our Age and Memory where thou shalt find many of them to be Divine many Morall some Satyricall but all Remarkable Witty and Profitable and which is presumed will give thee far better satisfaction both in the Novelty and the choycenesse of it then any Book which in this nature hath hitherto been extant Robert Groves GLEANINGS OR A Collection of some memorable passages Neither prosperity nor adversity should make us to deny CHRIST THeodoret reports of one Hormisda a Noble man in the King of Persia's Court who because hee would not deny Christ he was put into ragged clothes deprived of his honours and set to keep the Camels After a long time the King seeing him in that base condition and remembring his former fortunes hee pityed him and caused him to be brought into the Palace and to be cloathed againe like a Nobleman and then perswades him to deny Christ whereupon the Christian presently rends his silken clothes and sayes If for these you think to have mee deny my faith take them againe and so hee was cast out with scorne Death to be much remembred The Egyptians in the middest of their Feasts used to have the Anatomy of a dead man set before them as a memorandum to the guests of their mortality And therefore are Church-yards and places of buriall adjoyned to Churches and the most publike places that men women and children by the continuall beholding of skuls bones graves and burialls might be put in mind of their end A brave act of Clemency Augustus Caesar understanding of a conspiracy that L. Cinna plotted against him which was to murder him as he was at Sacrifice Augustus sent for him and before all his friends expostulated the matter with him but Cinna having nothing to say for himselfe the Emperour said thus to him That life which once I gave thee as an Enemy I now give thee as a Traytor and Parricide let true friendship from this day be between us and let us strive which of us two have the better faith and whether I have given thee life or thou received it with greater confidence A good Law against Projectors The Thurians had a Law That whosoever went about to abolish an old Law or establish a new should present himselfe with a rope about his neck before the people that if his invention were not approved he might presently be strangled The glory of the World a meer Fable When Augustus Caesar who had been Emperour fifty yeeres and lived in much pompe and glory was to dye he saw all that he had enjoyed to be but a meer Fable for thus hee said to them that were about him Have not I seemed to have acted my part sufficiently in this Fable of the World Annon personam meam in hoc mundi Fabula satis commode egisse videor valete ergo plaudite Justice how to be qualified The Graecians placed Justice betwixt Leo and Libra to signifie That as there must be indifferency in determining so there ought to be courage in executing And the Aegyptians resembled Justice to a blind man without hands blind that he might not respect the person of any man and without hands that he should not receive bribes An example of excellent Justice A Citizen of Comun in the Dukedome of Farrara being cast into prison upon suspition of Murder his wife could get no promise of his deliverance unlesse shee would give the Captaine whose prisoner hee was 200. Ducats and yeeld her body to his pleasure which with the consent of her husband she did but after the Captain had his desire he notwithstanding put him to death The Duke Gonzala hearing of it commanded the Captaine to restore the 200. Ducats to the Widow with an addition of 700 Crownes then he enjoyned him to marry her presently And lastly before hee could enjoy his new wife the Duke caused him to be hang'd for his Treachery The rare piety of the young L. Harington It is recorded of that young but truly Noble Lord Harington that he prayed not onely twice a day in secret but twice with his servants likewise in his chamber besides the joyning at the appointed times of Prayer in the Family hee meditated every day upon such Sermons as he had lateliest heard every Lords day morning he would repeat the Sermons that he had heard the Sabbath before and at night those he heard that day Two learned Fryers Two Fryers disputing how many Worlds God made One of them affirmed that there were ten worlds quoting that Text in Luke Annon decem facti sunt mundi The other looking into the Text replyed Sed ubi sunt novem The Devill rebukes sinne Seneca in his Writings inveighs very bitterly against covetous desires and worldly-mindednesse and yet in the space of foure yeers hee gathered together so many millions of Sesterces that they amounted to the sum of 2343750. 1. of our money as Mr. Brierwood hath cast it up But three Kings in Christendome Maximilian the Emperour was wont to say that there were but three Kings in his time first the King of Spaine who was a King of men because he used his Subjects as men not like beasts Secondly the King of France who was King of Asses for the immoderate exactions hee took of them And thirdly himselfe who was a King of Kings because his people would doe what they listed Basils brave resolution When Valens the Emperour sent his Officer to Basilius seeking to turne him from the Faith he first offered him great preferments but Basil rejected them with scorne Offer these things saies he to children Then hee falls to grievous threatnings Threaten saies he your purple Gallants that give themselves to their pleasures False worke false wages The Emperour Charles the Fourth