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Misselanies, or, Fifty years gathering out of sundry authors in prose and verse being the studious readings, painful collections, and some of them are the composings of the writer and publisher heerof / John Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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the world The Jews out of envy layd hold on him and with a kind of hypocrisie and outward humility rather seeming then being Saints trampled him under foot and mard his cause I whipt him to appease their fury and the people being about to mutiny I condemnd him to the death of the Cross A little before he breathed his last he desired of God that he would forgive those his Enemies which had nayled him to the Cross At his death there were many prodigious signes both in Heaven and Earth the Sunne was darkned the Graves were opened and the dead arose After hee was dead a foolish Jew thrust a speare into his side shewing the hatred in his death which the Jews bore unto him in his life Contraries never did agree nor ever will be brought to any conformity Michael and the Dragon the Ark and Dagon Nehemiah and Sanballat God and Belial Cain and Abel Jacob and Esau Isaac and Ishmael John and Cerinthus fire and water good and bad vice and vertue light and darkness Amongst all these there never was is or ever will be any unity or friendship eyther in Heaven in Earth in the City in the Church in the Bath in the Family in the Womb or in the World Four of mans best friends have brought forth four wicked Daughters the first friend is Vertue and shee hath beene the mother of Envy The second is Peace and shee brought Idleness into the World The third is Truth and shee hath brought forth a wicked Brat called Hatred The fourth is Familiarity and shee hath brought amongst us a forgetfull proud sawcy Knave called Contempt Although a Coward will not willingly stand the brunt shock and hazard of a Battell yet every one that runs from danger is not a Coward he that flies may returne and fight hee that dies cannot Jacob fled from Esau Moses from Pharaoh Elias from Jezabel and Saint Paul scaped away when he was let down in a Basket from the Walls of Damascus The vertue of Fortitude is alwayes between two extreams Daring and Dreading David who killed a Lion and a Bear who vanquished and slew the Giant Goliah who brought 200. foreskins of the Philistins to King Saul who was valiant and victoriously glorious and renowned yet hee fled from Saul to Achish King of Gath 1. Sam. 21. 10. 13. He also did flie from the fury of the sword of his disobedient and rebellious son Absolon 2. Sam. 17. 21. 22. also he fled at other times Christ who conquered sin death and hell fled into AEgypt Matth. 2. 14. And Christ doth counseil such as are persecuted in one City to flie into another Matth. 10. 23. The tongue is double walled fenced and intrenched with teeth gummes and lips which are rampiers and bulwarks the two eyes are centinells and the eares doe lie perdue which shews that we should hear and see twice as much as we speak There hath beene many a man ruined by too much talking but very few have received any great damage by being silent the tongues chiefe office should bee to pray and to prayse God but it is a treacherous retestable part for the tongue of any man to pray or wish the damnation of his owne body and soule as too many Roarers doe every day and houre with impious execrations as God damn sink renounce consume forsake confound c. The tongue of man was not created for such damnable purposes it was a custome amongst the ancient Romans to learne first to bee silent and secondly to speake but there are a generation of tautallogicall tongue men who do neither know how to speake or when to hold their peace A wise mans tongue is in his heart but a fools heart is in his tongue Eccl. 21. For he that doth nothing but talke doth talk nothing To speak against the Truth is the Divels Rhetorick and to talke against Reason is vain babling and prating more fit for a Parrot then a man Salomons counsell is Let thy words be few Eccles. 5. 1. Jesus the son of Syrach sayth Make not much babling when thou prayest Eccl. 7. 14. Christ the son of God wiser then Salomon or the son of Syrach he counsels us to use no vain Repetitions when we pray Matth. 6. If Tyrants should sit and devise tortures strange torments to inflict upon men there can bâ—â— none more cruell and grievous then to binde â— Wise man in a Chayre and let a Foole talke him to Death The confidence and diffidence of Men the keeping or breaking of Oaths there are many various Relations in divers Histories which shewes the mutability of men In the space of nine months those Peers and People that swore obedience to King Henry the sixth forsook him and swore the like to King Edward â—â—â— fourth and the same Peers and People received Henry for their King again and expulst Edward and shortly after that the same Peers and People fell from Henry again and crowned Edward within the time of half a year â—â—e Parliament Proclaymed Henry to be their lawfull King and Edward an usurper and also that with another Proclamation the same men Proclaymed Henry an usurper and Edward their lawfull King By this it may be perceived that it is vain to trust in man The Arian Heretiques denied the Eternity of Christ and that there was a time when Christ was not But all faithfull true beleeving Christians doe know Christ to bee Eternall and Coequall with the Father for Christ is the wisdome of God the Father therefore Eternall For it is Blasphemy in the highest degree to hold the opinion of Arius for if Christ at any time had been from God the Father then had the wisedome of God been also absent from God for Christ is the wisdom of the Father Though a Priest or Preacher do live a licentious life yet if his Doctrine be good it is our safest way to receive it The Prophet Eliah did thankfully accept that food which God sent him by a Raven If a Fountain of wholesome clear water be adorned â—â—â—h spowts in the shapes of Dragons Serpents Crocodiles Basilisks Cockatrices or any other hideous forms of monstrous Creatures yet the water that passeth through the sayd spowts is the same pure as the Fountain not a jot the worse As our manifold sinnes doe extreamly cry to God for Vengeance so our miserable estate and condition should always incite and move us uncessantly to cry for mercy When the Israelites had as God commanded them marched seven times about the Jericho then at the blowing of their Trumpets the Walls fell down so the Apostles with the blasts of their mouths with a few Disciples were the golden Trumpets that promulgated and propagated the Gospel which ransacked the Câ—â—â—â— Idolatry which was then as big as the whole world which made the barbarous Heathen and unbelieving Infidells subjects to Christs Church and Philosophy a Hand-mayd The Prophets and Sibils that Prophesied of Christ were many of them strangers one to
MISSELANIES Or fifty Years GATHERINGS Out of Sundry Authors in Prose and Verse Being the studious Readings painful Collections and some of them are the Composings of the Writer and Publisher heerof To the Reader All these things heer collected are not mine But divers Grapes make but one sort of Wine So I from many Learned Authours took The Various Matters Printed in this Book What 's not mine own by me shall not be Father'd The most part I in 50. Years have gather'd Some things are very good pick out the best Good Wits compil'd them and I wrote the Rest If thou dost buy it it will quit thy cost Read it and all thy labour is not lost JOHN TAYLOR LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1652. MISSELANIES A Christians Crosses do begin his Glory but not end his Misery The Crosses figure is the letter Tau it is the last and lowest letter in the Hebrew Alphabet it is an Emblem or mark of Humility and all that were not marked with that mark were slain by the Angel Ex. 9. 4. Adam was not created an Infant he was made of full strength and vigour as at 40 or 50 yeares of age of perfect stature with an able body fit for Generation because he was to be the common Father by whom Mankind should be propagated his soul was furnished with all naturall Sciences he was the first Doctour to whom all Mankinde was to goe to Schoole to learn of him as of a Master the secrets of Nature the Inventions of Art the knowledge of God and the mysteries of Faith Inveterate and dispitefull malicious Enemies have oftentimes seemed to be reconciled but it hath been for the plotting contriving or attempting some perfidious and mischievous actions but they seldom or never did combine for any love which they bare either to the persons Manners Laws or Conditions of each other For the Heathen Nations had divers severall damnable gods and detestable Religions and by reason of their diversities of opinions they hated one another deadly with implacable and irreconcileable hatred yet in wickedness they could joyn and agree together against the true God and his Church as all times Ages and Histories have found and declared and most excellently hath the Kingly Prophet and Propheticall Psalmist described the doings and qualities of these various people in the 83. Psalm where he saith that Edomites Moabites Ishmalites Ammonites Amalekites Gebalites the Philistims Tirrians and Assyrians Ephraim against Manesses Manasses against Ephraim and in the New Testament there are described the sundry Opinions and disagreements of Saduces Pharisees Herodians Libertines Cilicians Cirenians Alexandrians and Asians Herod against Pilate Pilate against Herod yet all friends from the teeth outward and all agree against God against the Lords annoynted Christ and his Church this they have done this they doe and this they will doe in all Ages and Generations and if we have but common sence and reason we may perceive that those times which we now live in and Sectaries of these times may parrellel the worst of times Sin is of the Devils Creation The wicked mans Recreation The Fools immitation the Courts Ambition the Cities surfet and the Countries poyson Divinity hath opposed and threatned it Morality hath condemned it Epigrams hath Jeefd it Satyrs have whip'd it and if we do not truly Repent it God will justly Judge it Books and Epistles or Letters if they treat of Vertue they are not only good but the best company a man can keep but they are the wisest Counsellors for direction of mens lives and actions they have no fearfull hearts or hearts to fear they have no blushing faces or faces to blush they dare boldly call Nero a bloudy Tyrant Midas a covetous Asse Sardanapalus a lascivious Effeminate foole Heliogabalus a wastfull profuse Whoremaster and Messalina an insatiate and imperious Strumpet for Books do never alter their intended purpose nor breake off their discourse in hope of favour or fear of mens anger or displeasure A man that loves me well and a friend that is firme unto me they are both rare in these daies but if I were put to my choise which of those I would first lose or part withall then I would leave my Lover and keep my Friend For he that loves may not alwayes be a friend but it is certain that he that is a Friend alwaies loves God in pardoning of a sinner shews his great mercy his not pardoning is no injustice for if I do forgive one Debter and sue another I have shewed kindness to one and no wrong to the other Let us doe our best to doe our best and if power be not able let good endeavour not be idle let us be as wise as the unjust Steward if we cannot pay all that we owe let us pay all that we are able for God is so gracious that with him our good wills are taken for good deeds Our first miseries came by Eating and our Saviour suffered 40 daies fasting for it then as our Parents did eat themselves and us soul-sick so we must fast for our souls health for as eating with delight expulst us out of the Paradise Terrestriall so fasting and contrition must be our punishment and practise and helps to bring us to the Heavenly Jerusalem the Prodigall by fasting said I dye with hunger and that hunger made him say I will go to my Father c. The Epicures belly is his God his Kitchin is his Church his Priest is his Cooke his Sacrifices are his lushious Dishes and delicate Sauces his Prayers Graces Psalms Hymns and Anthems are prophane speeches obscean Rimes Baudy Songs lascivious Tunes and foul impieties Earth made no account of poor Lazarus when he was alive and Heaven made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dives when he was dead for the misery of the one ended when the torments of the other began When the Devill had taken all Job's earthly goods insomuch that to the appearance of men he had nothing left him but extream poverty Botches and Scabs some may suppose that the Devill was kind in leaving him his Wife but the subtile Serpent had a further aime then to leave Job's Wife to be a helper or comfort unto him he saw that all that had been done to his body or children or estate could not make him impatient to blaspheam and he knew that the Law was that the Blaspheamer was to be stoned to death therefore he left his Wife to vex him and to tempt him to curse God and die whereby he had not only lost his life by the Law but also hazzarded his soule to the Devill for his impatiency and blasphemy This is the Devils kindness to leave a man a wicked Wife to worke his confusion Though Churches have the Names of Saints yet they are the houses of the Lord they are dedicated or given to God therefore they are Gods houses Bethel was the house of God Gen. 28. Judg. 18. And before the Temple was built when Davids son was dead