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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

of Light which turn themselves backward into one another as the VVheel in Ezekiel that could go on every side though Babel hath contrived another meaning about it but a blind one without a Spirit 〈◊〉 the meer Soul is not co●…oreal but in its Tin●…ure a Body groweth whether it be a heavenly or a ●…ellish Body and yet is not a Body which can be com●…rehended outwardly but a virtual Body the divine ●…ody Christ's heavenly Body the heavenly ●…lesh which he giveth us to eat in his ●…estament But the outward Spirit it the Soul do not hinder it but let it in bringeth its Imagi●…tion into and spoil●… it o that another strange ●…mage cometh to be in 〈◊〉 Spirit in the ●…incture acco●…ding to the contents 〈◊〉 L●…st as the covetous come to be a Wolf the ●…ous a Dog the proud a Ho●…se Peacock or other 〈◊〉 also Toads Adders Serpents a●…d other Worms and creeping things Now ●…ods Sp●…rit receiveth not their Images so long as they continu●… such Of the Propagation of Soul viz. how it cometh into a Child in the Mother 's Womb. THe VVoman hath gotten the Matrix viz. the Tincture of Venus or Tincture of Light and the Man hath the Tincture of Fire which you may perceiv●… by the eager Imagination of both towards one another For the S●…d in the Essence eagerly seeketh ●…he Life the Man 's in the VVoman●… in Ve●…us and the VVoman's in the Fire in the original of Life For they must now propagate as Beasts do in two Seeds the Man soweth Soul and the woman Spirit and being sown in an earthly Field it is also brought forth after the manner of all Beasts Nevertheless all the three Principles are in the Seed but the inward cannot be by known the outward for in the Seed the Soul is not living but when the two Tinctures come together then it is a whole Essence for the Soul is essential in the Seed and in the Conception it becometh Substantial Thus the S●…ul cometh not at all into the Body or is breathed into it from without but the three Principles have each of them its own Artificer one working Fire in the centre and the other maketh VVater 〈◊〉 the Tincture and the third maketh the earthly MisteryMagnum and yet it is no new thing but the very Seed of Man and VVoman and is only conceived in the mixture and so only a Twig g●…eth out of the Tree The Soul is not every time new created and breathed in but is propagated after a human manner as a Branch groweth out of a Tree as I may better render it as a man 〈◊〉 or sow●…th Seed and so a Spirit and Body groweth out of it And this is only the difference that the three Principles are alwayes in str●…fe about Man each would fain have him So that many times a wonderful Turba is brought in while yet he remains in the Seed But if the Parents both ●…ather and Mother have their Souls cloathed with Christ's ●…lesh and divine ●…ssentiallity then it cannot be for Christ saith A good Tree cannot bring for●…h evil Fruit yet the Turba in time ca●… enter in with the Reason So also an evil Tree cannot bring sorth good 〈◊〉 that is if both the Parents be evil and held captiv●… by the Devil then an evil Soul is sown but the Principles cannot yet judge it nor the Turba neither it i●… indeed an evil Chi●…d ●…t if it turn it may with th●… Imagination e●…ter into the VVord of the Lord. Consider this ve evil Parents ye gather Money for your Children get them good Souls that is more necessary for them How and where the Soul is seated in man also of its Illumination THe Soul is in God conceived in the Heart and the VVord which conceived it was in the Heart viz. in the centre and so it continueth in the Figure and in the Seat as it was comprehended by the Fiat an●… so it is still at this day It dwelleth in three Principles but the Heart is its original it is the inward ●…ire in the Heart in the inward Blood in the Heart and the Spirit of it which hath a glance from the Fire is in the Tincture for it is cloathed with the Tincture and burneth in the Heart The Soul is indeed seated in the inward Principle but it ruleth even in the outward viz. in the Stars and Elements and if it be not an Ape and suffer it self to be captivated it hath power enough to rule them and if the Soul demerse it self into God the outward must be obedient to it The outward Essence reacheth not the inward into the Soul but only by the Imagination There is nothing else in this world no 〈◊〉 ●…or Sword that can touch the Soul or put it to death but only the Imagination that is its Poyson for it originally proceedeth from the Imagination and 〈◊〉 in it eternally The Soul is thus enlightned it is in this world and ●…lso in God here in this Life it is a Servant of God's wonders which it should open with one Eye and with the other bring them into the beginning before God and set and cast all its doings into God's will and by no means say of any thing in this This is mine I am Lord of this for it lyeth if it say so All is God's thou art a Servant and shouldst walk in Love and Humility towards God and thy Brother for thy Brother's Soul is a fellow-Member with thy Soul thy Brother's joy in Heaven with God is also thy Joy his Wonders are also thy Wonders For in Heaven God is all in all he ●…deth all the holy Ghost is the Life of all there is meer Jo●… there is no Sorrow there all is Go●…'s one rejoyceth at the Power Brightness and Beauty of another there is no Malice nor Envy for all that remaineth in Death Hell. O how cheerful is the Soul when its a●…ish sourcè of Fire tasteth God's Light how exceeding courteous it is O how it boweth it self before God. Whether is the Soul of a new-born Child without Sin HOw can a Soul be born pure it cannot be it bringeth the Turba with it into the World an●…●…s ●…ful in the Mother's ●…omb Yet the Soul is not wholly forsaken of God so far as ●…he Father and Mother are ho est and in God for it cometh from the Soul of the 〈◊〉 and Mother And although a Child dye in the Mothers womb without Baptism yet it is baptized with the Spirit of the ●…ather and of the Mother viz. with the holy Ghost which dwelleth in them and the Turba is destroyed in Death for the Faith's part passeth through to God. But the matter is far otherwise with wicked Parents if the Child dye in the Mother's Womb the Soul of it falleth into the Turba and reacheth not od to Eternity it also knoweth nothing of him but it is a Life according to the Essence and Property of the Parents And yet it doth not

and Jupiter as also Mars by reason of their great Orb cir●…umference cannot do it because they stand so high above and far distant from the Sun. The other Planets are peculiar Bodies of their own which have a Corporeal Propriety of themselves and are not bound to any fixed place but only to their Circles Orb or Sphere wherein they run their Course but the Sun is not such a Body but is only a place or Locality kindled by the Light of God. Understand the place where the Sun is is such a place as you may chuse or suppose any where above the Earth And if God should kindle the Light by the Heat then the whole World would be such a meer Sun for the same Power where the Sun standeth is every where all over and before the time of Wrath it was every where all over the place of this World as light as the Sun is now bu●… not so intolerable For that Heat was not so great as in the Sun and therefore the Light also was very meek So that man should not dare to say that the Sun is an open Gate of the L●…ght of God but is as the light in a man's Eye whereas also the place of the Eye belongs to the Body but the Light is distinct from the Body The Stars are 〈◊〉 Powers of the seven Spirits of God for when the 〈◊〉 of God was kindled by the Devil in this world then the ●…ole House of this world in Nature or the outermost Birth or Geniture was as it were benumed or chilled in Death from whence the Earth and Stones came to be The Stars are arisen or proceeded out of the kindled House of God's wrath for the whole House is ●…enumed in Death as the Earth is whence the Stars also subsist in Wrath and Love. Before the times of the created Heavens ●…he Stars and Elements and 〈◊〉 the creation of Angels there was no such Wra●…h of God no Death no Devil no Earth nor Stones neither any Stars but the Dei●…y generated it self very meekly and lovingly and formed ●…gured and framed it self in Ideas Shapes and Images which were incorporated 〈◊〉 to the qualifying or fountain Spirits in the generating Of the Earth c. THe Earth is come from the corrupt Saliter of the outermost Birth or Geniture For on the first Day God drove together or compacted the corrupt Saliter which came to be so in the kindling of ●…he Wrath. In this driving 〈◊〉 or compaction of the corrupt wrath S●…liter was King Luc●…r also as an impotent Prin●…e together with ●…is A●…ls driven into the hole of the WrathSaliter into that place where the outward half dead Comprehensibility is generated which is the place or space in upon above the Earth up to the nature Goddess the Moon So far reacheth their extent now ●…ill the last Day and then they will get a House in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where the Earth now is and 〈◊〉 that is in the 〈◊〉 Birth in the Darkness and this will be called the ●…urning H●…ll For Nature w●… very 〈◊〉 and thin or transparent and all stood meerly in Power and was in a very pleasant ho●… temper But as soon as 〈◊〉 Fight began in Nature with 〈◊〉 proud Devil Nature got a two-fold Source and the outer most Birth or Geniture in Nature was kindled in the wra●… Fire which is called the Wrath of God or the Burning Hel●… But Now when this was done the Deep became clear an●… with the hidd●…n or concealed Heaven th●… Light was seperate from the Darkness and the Globe of the Earth in the grea●… Wheel of Nature was roled or turned once about and th●… p●…ssed the time of one Revolution or of one Day In the duration of the second Day began the sharp 〈◊〉 tion and the incomprehensible 〈◊〉 between the Wra●…h an●… the Love or Light was made And so King Lucifer sirmly strongly or fast bolted up into the House of Darkness and wa●… reserved to the final Judgment And so also the Water of Life was separated from the Water of Death yet in that manner as that they hang to gether in this time of the World as Body and Soul and 〈◊〉 neither of them comprehend the other the Firmament is th●…●…liff or gulf between Time and Eternity But that God calleth it Heaven and maketh a division of the Waters gives us to understand that Heaven is in the world and the world is not in Heaven the VVater above the Firmament is in Heaven and the VVater under the Firmament is the external material Water the palpable water is Death and the impalpable is the Life Moses saith God created Heaven and Earth and all Creatures in six days and rested on the seventh yet God needed no Rest for he hath wrought from Eternit●… and he is a meer working Power and Virtue the understanding li●…th ●…idden in those Words could not 〈◊〉 ●…ve made all his Works in one day Neither can we properly say there was any Day before the Sun was for in the Deep there is but one day in all Therefore the meaning lieth hidden 〈◊〉 understandeth by each days workings the manifestation of the seven Properites for 〈◊〉 saith In the beginning God created H●… and ●…arth This visible World is sprung from the spiritual World and is only an Effluence of the seven Properties for it proceedeth out of the six working Properties but in the seventh that is in Paradise it is in rest and that ●…s the eternal Sabboth of Rest wherein the divine ●…ower and Virtue resteth for the seventh day was the ●…rue Paradise understand it spiritually That is the Tincture of the divine Power and Virtue ●…hich is a temperament this pi●…rced through Properties and wrought in the seventh that is in the substance of all the other Now it may be asked Why did not God bolt up the Devil instantly and then he had not done so much Mischief Answer This was Gods purpose and that must stand which is he would re-edifie out the corrupted Nature of the Earth or build again to himself an ange●…ical Host or Army viz. a true Body which should subsist eternally in God It was not God's intention at all to let the Devil have the whole ●…arth for an eternal dwelling-House but only the death and fierceness of the Earth which the Devil had brought into it Now if he should have instantly left it to the Devil for an eternal dwelling House then out of that place a new Body could not have been built Now what Sin had that space place or room committed against God that it should stand in eternal shame Sure none and therefore that was unequal to be so Also the purpose of God was to make a curious excellent Host or Army out of the Earth and all manner of Images Ideas and ●…orms for in and upon that all should spring and generate themselves a new as we see in Minerals Oars Stones Trees Herbs and Grass and all manner of Beasts after a heavenly

change it for hollown●… for wrinkles and stains Now then O now then c. Those Eyes which so many so much did admire And with strange Affections set many on Fire Shut up in that Darkness which Age will constrain Shall never see Mortal no never aga●…n Now then O now then c Those Lips whereon Beauty so fully discloses The colour and sweetness of Rubies and Roses Instea●… of that here will a gashliness weare And none shall believe what Perfection was there Now then O now then c. Thy Teeth that stood firmly like Pearls in a row Shall rotten and scatter'd disorderly grow That gate and those gestures that win thee such grace VVill turn to a feeble and staggering pace Now then O now then c. By these Imperfections old Age will prevail Thy Marrow thy Sinnews and Spirits will fail And nothing is left thee when those are once spent To give or thy self or another content Now then O now then c. That Lust which thy Youth can so hardly fore-go VVill leave thee and leave thee Repe●…tance and Wo And then in thy ●…olly no joy canst thou have Nor hope other rest then a comfortless Grave Now then O now then c. For next shall thy Breath be quite taken away Thy ●…esh turn'd to Dust and that Dust turn'd to Clay And those that thou hast loved and share of thy store Shall leave thee forget thee and mind thee no more Now then O now then c. And yet if in time thou remember not this The slenderest part of thy Sorrow it is Thy Soul to a torture more fearful shall wend Hath ever and ever and never an end Now then O now then if safety thou love Mind thou O mind thou thy Maker above A Passage taken out of Witber's Motto WHat if America's large tract of Ground And all those Isles adjoyning lately found VVhich we more truly may a Desert call Then any of the World 's more civil pale VVhat then if there the VVilderness do lie To which the VVoman and her Son must flie To 'scape the Dragon's fury and there ' bide Till Europe's thankless Nations full of Pride And all A●…ominations scourged are VVith Barbarisin as their Neighbours were The Verses before are these The Eastern Kingdoms had their Times to flourish The Greeci●…n Empire rising saw them perish That fell and then the Roman Pride began Now scourged by the Race of Ottoman VVho live in Sin are all but Thieves to Heaven And Earth they steal from God and take unsiven Good men they rob and such as live upright And being Bastards share the free man's right They 're all as Owners in the Owner's stead And like to Dogs devour the Childrens Bread. Lord what I have let me enjoy in thee And thee in it or else take it from me DIVINE POEMS selected from the Works of Francis Quarls I care not so my Kernel relish well How slender be the Substance of my Shell My heart being virtuous let my Face be wane I am to God I only seem to man. MEDITATION HOw great 's the Love of God unto his Creature Or is his Wisdom or his Mercy greater I know not whether O! th'exceeding love Of highest God that from his Throne above VVill send the brightness of his Grace to those That grope in Darkness and his Grace oppose VVhat thing is Man that God's regard is such Or why should Heaven love rechless man so much VVhy what are men but quickned lumps of Earth A feast for VVorms a buble full of Mirth A Looking glass for grief a ●…ash a Minit A p●…inted Tomb with putrifaction in it A map of Death a burthen of a Song A VVinters dust a VVorm of five Foot long Begot in Sin in darkness nourisht born In sorrow naked shiftless and forlorn His first Voice heard is crying for Relief Alas he comes into a world of Grief His Age is sinful and his Youth is vain His Life 's a punishment his Death 's a pain Death respects Kings and ●…eggars both alike Uncertain when but certain she will strike Death is a minute full of suddain Sorrow Then live to day as thou mayst dye to morrow The VVorld's a body each Man a member is To add some measure to the publick bliss VVisdom is sold for sweet Pleasures for Pain VVho lives but to himself he lives in vain Man in himself 's a little VVorld alone His Soul 's the Court or high imperial Throne VVherein as Empress sits the Understanding Gently directing yet with awe commanding Her hand-maids will affections Maids of Honour All following close and duly waiting on her But Sin that alwayes envied man's condition VVithin this Kingdom raised up Division Vouchsafe Lord in this little VVorld of mine To reign that I may reign with thee in thine Heathen Godds THe Egyptians God did implore Godd Assus the Chal●…eans did adore ●…ibel to the devouring Dragon seeks The Arabians A●…aroth Juno the Greeks The name of B●…llus the Assyrians hallow The Tr●…yjons Vesta Corinth wi●…e Apollo The Arginians Sacrifice unto the Sun ●…o light-foot Mercury bows Macedon To Godd Volumus lovers bend their Knee To Pavor those that faint and fearful be VVho pray for Health and Strength to Murcia those And to Victoria they that fear to lose To Muta they that fear a woman's Tongue To great Lucina Women great with young To Esculapis they that live opprest And such to Quies that desire rest Implore those Godds that list to howl and bark They bow to Dagon Dagon to the Ark But he to whom the Seal of Mercy 's given Adores Jehovah the great God of Heaven Mortality CAn he be Fair that withers at a blast Or he be Strong that airy Breath can cast Can he be VVise that knows not how to live Or he be Rich that nothing hath to give Can he be Young that 's feeble weak and wane So fair strong wise so rich so young is Man. VVhy brag'st thou then thou worm of five Foot long Th' art neither fair strong wise nor rich nor youn●… Like to the Damask Rose you see Or like the blossom on a Tree Or like the dainty Flower in May Or like the morning to the day Or like the Sun or like the shade Or like the Gourd which Jonas had Even such is man whose Thred is spun Drawn out and cut and so is done The Rose withers the blossom blasteth The Flower fades the morning hasteth The Sun sets the Shadow flyes The Gourd consumes and Man he dyes Like to the blaze of fond delight Or like a Morning clear and bright Or like a Frost or like a Shower Or like the pride of Babel's Tower Or like the Hour that guides the Time Or like the Beauty in her prime Even such is man whose glory lends His Life a blaze or two and ends Delights vanish the Morn o'er-casteth The rosts breaks the Shower hasteth The Tower falls the Hour spends The Beauty fades and man's Life ends Of

Charity IN loving God if I neglect my Neighbour My love hath lost his proof and I my labour My Zeal my Faith my Hope that never fails me If Charity be wanting nought avails me Lord in my Soul a Spirit of Love create me And I will love my Brother if he hate me In Temptation ARt thou oppos'd to thine unequal Foe March bravely on thy General bids thee go Th' art Heaven 's Champion to maintain his right Who calls thee forth will give thee strength to fight God seeks by conquest thy renown for he Will win enough fight thou or faint or flee In Slander IF Winter fortunes nip thy Summer Friends And tip their Tongues with Censure that offends Thy tender Name dispaire not but be wise Know Heaven selecteth whom the World denyes Of Death ME thinks I see that nimble aged Si●…e Pass swiftly by with ●…eet unapt to tire Upon his Head an Hour glass he wears And in his wrinkled hand a Sythe he bears Both instruments to take the Lives from men Th' one shews with what the other sheweth when Me-thinks I see my dearest Friends lament With sighs and tears and woful drysiment My tender VVife and Children standing by Dewing the Bed whereupon I l●…e Me-thinks I hear a Voice in secret say The Glass is run and thou must dye to day Deceitful World. WHat is the World a great exchange of Ware VVherein all sorts and Sexes cheapening are The Flesh the Devil sit and cry What lack ye VVhen most they fawn they most intend to rack ye The VVares are cups of Joys and beds of Pleasure Plenty of choice down weight and flowing measure A Soul 's the price but they give time to pay Upon the death-bed on the dying Day Hard is the Bargain and unjust the Measure VVhen as the Price so much out-lasts the Pleasure The Joys that are on Earth's are Counterfeits If ought be true 't is this they 're true Deceits They daily dip within thy Dish and cry Who hath betray'd thee Master It is I. Hell Torments ALl words come short t' express the pains of those That rage in Hell enwrapt in endless woes VVhere time no end and plagues find no exemption VVhere cryes admit no help nor place redemption VVhere wretched Souls to Tortures bound shall be Serving a world of Years and not be free There 's nothing heard but yells and suddain cryes VVhere Fire never slacks nor worm e●…er dyes But where this Hell is plac't my muse stop there Lord shew me what it is but never where In Hell no Life in Heaven no Death there is In Earth both Life and Death both bal and bliss In Heaven 's all Life no end nor new supplying In Hell 's all Death and yet there is no dying Farth like a partial Ambodexter doth Prepare for Death or Life prepares for both Christ's Death ANd am I here and my Redeemer gone Can he be dead and is not my Life done VVas he tormented in excess of measure And do I live yet and yet live in pleasure Alas could Sinners find out ne'er a one More fit then thee for them to spit upon Did thy Cheeks en●…ertain a Traytors lips VVas thy dear Body scourg'd and torn with VVhips Till that the guiltless Blood came trickling after And did thy fainting Brows shoot Blood and VVater VVert thou Lord hang'd upon the cursed Tree O world of grief and was all this for me Burst forth my T●…ars into a world of Sorrow And let my Nights of gr●…f find ne'er a Morrow Heaven's Glory WHen I behold and well advise upon The wise man's Speech There 's nought beneath the Sun But Vanity my Soul rebels within And loathes the Danghil prison she is in But when I look to New Jerusalem VVherein's reserved my Crown my Diadem O! what a Heaven of bliss my Soul enjoyes On suddain wrapt into that Heaven of Joyes VVhere ravisht in the depth of meditation She well discerns with Eye of Contemplation The glory of God in his imperial Seat Full strong in Might in Majesty compleat VVhere troops of Powers Virtues Cherubims Angels arch-Angels Saints and Sera phims Are chaunting Praises to their heavenly King VVhere Hallelujah they forever Sing Whoever smelt the breath of morning Flowers New sweetned with the dash of twi-light Showers Or pounded Amber or the flowering Thyme Or purple Violets in the proudest prime Or swelling Clusters from the Cypress Tree So sweet's my Love aye far more sweet is he Dismount you Quire of Angels come With men your Joyes divide Heaven ne'er shew'd so sweet a Groom Nor Earth so fair a Bride Hark Hark I hear that thrice Coelestial voice VVherein my Spirits wrapt with Joys rejoyce A Voice that tells me my Beloved's mie I know the Musick by the Majestie ●…ehold he comes 't is not my blemisht Face Can slack the swiftness of his winged pace Behold he comes his Trumpet doth proclaim He comes with speed a truer Love ne'er came The Imperfections of my present state Come forth my Joy what bold affron●… of Fear Can fright thy Soul and I thy Champion here 'T is I that calls 't is I thy Bride-groom calls thee Betide it me whatever it befalls thee The Winter of thy sharp Afdiction's go●… VVhy fear●…st thou Cold and art so near the Son. Heaven only knows the Bliss my Soul enjoyes T'and Earths too dull to apprend such Joyes Then let thy Breath like ●…aggons of strong wine Relieve and comfort this poor Heart of mine For I am sick till time that dotli delay Our Marriage being our joyful marriage day CONCLUSION GAsp not for Honour wish no blasing Glory For these will perish in an Ages story Nor yet for power Power may be 〈◊〉 To Fools as well as thee that hast deserv'd Thirst not for L●…ds nor Money wish for non For Wealth is neither l●…sting nor our own Riches are fair Inti●…ements 〈◊〉 to deceive us They fl●…ter while we live and dying leave us Nor House nor Land nor measur'd heaps of Wealth Can render to a dying man his Heal●…h And what is Life a bubble ●…ull of Care Which prik't by Death straight e●…ters into Air. The Author's Dream Mr Sins are like the Hairs upon my Head And raise their Audit to as high a score In this they disfer these do daily shed But ah my Sins grow daily more and more If by my Hairs thou number out my Sins Heaven make me bold before the Day begins My Sins are like the Sands upon the Shore Which every Ebb lies open to the Eye In this they differ those are cover'd o'er With every Tide my Sins still open lie If thou wilt make my Head a Sea of Tears O! they will hide the Sins of all my Years My Sins are like the Stars within the Skies In view in number even as bright as great In this they differ these do set and rise But ah my Sins do rise and never set Shine Son of Glory and my Sins are gone Like twinkling Stars

before the ri●…ing Sun ESSAIES AND Religious Meditations OF Sir FRANCIS BACON Knight Attorney General to King JAMES the first Glory and Honour are the Spurs to Virtue As generally Mettel is more precious than Stone and yet a Diamond is more precious than Gold so generally in warmer Climates it hath beene noted the People are more Wise but in th●… Northren Climate the Wits of chief are greater Printed in the Year 1688. I. Of DEATH M●…n fear Death as Children fear to go in the dark and as that natural Fear in Children is inc●…eased ●…ith Tales so is the other Certainly the fear of Death is Contemplation of the cause of it yet the fear of it for it self is weak You shall read in some of the Fryers Books of Mortification That a man should think with himself what the the pain i●… if he have but his ●…ingers end pressed or tortured an●… thereby imagin what the pains of Death are when the whole Body is corrupted and dissolved when man●… times Death passeth wi●…h less pain then the torture of a Limb. ●…or the most Vital parts are not the quickest of sence Grones and Convulsions and a dis●…oloured Face and Friends weeping and Blacks and Obsequie●… and the like shew Death terrible It is worthy the observing that there is no Passion in the mind of Man so weak but masters the Fear of Death and therefore Death is no such Enemy when a man hath so many ●…ollowers about him that can win the combat of him Revenge triumphs over Death Love esteems it not Honour aspireth to it delivery from Ignominy chuseth it Grief flyeth to it Fear pre-occupateth it It is no less worthy to observe how little alteration in good Spirits the approaches of Death make but they are the same till the ●…ast It is as natural to dye as to be born and to a little Infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other II. Of CUNNING WE take Cunning for a sinister or crooked Wisdom and certainly there is a great difference between a Cunning Man and a Wi●…e Man not only in point of ●…onesty but in point of Ability There are some that are good Canvasses and Factious that are otherwise weak men Again it is one thing to understand Persons and another thing to understand Matters ●…or many are perfect in mens Humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of Business which is the Constitution of one that hath studied Men more then Books Such men are fitter for Practice then for Counsel and they are good but in their own alley turn them to new men and they have lost their aim Many are the differences between Cunning and Wisdom and it were a good deed to set them down for that nothing doth more hurt in State then that cunning men pass for wise III. Of Marriage and Single Life HE that ha●… VVife and Children hath given Hostages to ●…ortune for they are Impediments to great Enterprises either of Virtue or Mischief Certainly the best Works and of greatest Merit for the publick have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men which have sought Eternity in Memory and not in Posterity and which both in Affection and Means have married and endowed the publ ck Y●…t some there are that lead a single Life whose Thoughts do end with themselves and do account future times Impertinencies Nay there are some others that esteem VVife and Children but as B lls of Charges But the most ordinary cause of a single Life is Liberty especially in certain Self-pleasing and humorous Minds which are so sensible of every Restriction as they will go near to think their Girdles and Garters to be Bands and Shackles Unmarried men are best ●…riends best Masters not alwayes best subj●…cts for they are like to run away and almost all Fugitives are of that condition Certainly VVife and Children are a kind of Discipl●…ne of Humanity and single men are more Cruel and Hard-hearted good to make severe Inquisitors Grave Natures led by Custom and therefore constant are commonly loving Husbands Chaste women are often proud and froward as presuming upon the merit of their Chastity It is one of the best Bands both of Chastity and Obedience in the Wife if she think her Husband wise which she will never do if she find him jealous VVives are Young mens Mistresses Companions to middle Age and old mens Nurses So as a man may have a Quarrel to marry when he will but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the Question when a man should marry A Young man not yet an Elder man not at all But hear Quarles A woman's Rule should be of such a fashion Only to guide her Houshold and her Passion And her Obedience never's out of Season So long as either Husband lasts or Reason Ill thrives that hopeless Family that shows A Cock that 's silent and a Hen that crows I know not which live most unnatural Lives Obeying Husbands or commanding Wives IV. Of Parents and Children THe Joys of Parents are secret and so are their Griefs and Fears they cannot utter the one nor will they utter the other Children sweeten Labours but they make Misfortunes more b●…tter they increase the Cares of Life but they mittigate the remembrance of Death The Perpetuity by Generation is common to Beacts but Memory Me●…it and noble VVorks ar●… proper to men They that are the first raisers of their House are most indulgent towards their Children beholding them as the continuance not only of theirKind but of their VVork and so both Children and Creatures The dif●… of Affection in Parents towards their several Children is many times unequal and sometimes unworthy espec●…ally in the Mother as Solomon saith A wise Son rejoyceth the Father but an ungracious Son shames the Mother A man shall see where there is a House full of Children one or two of the eld●…st respected and the youngest made VVantons but in the middle some that are as it were forgotten who nevertheless prove the best The Illiberality of Parents in allowance towards their Children is an harmful Error makes them base acquaints them with Shifts makes them sort with mean company and makes them Surfeit more when they come to plenty And therefore the Proof is best ●…n men keep their Authority towards their Children but not their Purse V. Of Nobility NOw Nobility is but the act of Pow●…r but ancient Nobility is the act of Time. The first kaisers of ●…ortunes are commonly more V●…rtuous but less Innocent then their D●…endants For there is rarely rising but b●… commixture of good and evil Arts. But it is reason the Memory of their Virtues remain to their Post●… and their ●…aults dve with themselves Nobility of Birth commonly abateth Industry and he that is not industrous envieth him that is besides noble Perso●…s cannot go much h●…gher and he that 〈◊〉 at a 〈◊〉 when others rise can hardly forb●…ar ●…tions of Env●… On the other side

and Corruption For certainly Grapes as the Scripture saith will not be gathered of Thorns or Thistles neither can Justice yield her Fruit with swe●…ss among the Bryars and Brambles of catching and pulling Clerks and Ministers On the other side an antient Clerk ●…ilful in Presidents wary in proceeding and understanding in the business of the Court is an excellent Finger of a Court and doth many times point out the way of the Judge himself Lastly Judges ought above all 10 remember the Conclusion of the Roman twelve Tables Salus populi Supreama lex and to know that Laws exc●… they be in order to that end are but things Captious and Oracles not well inspired A●…d let no man weakly conceive that just Laws and true Pollicy have any antipathy I 〈◊〉 they are like the Spirits and Sinnews that one moves within the other Neither ought Judges to be so ignorant of their own Right as to think there is not left to them as a princip●…l 〈◊〉 o●… their O●…ice a wis use and application of Laws for 〈◊〉 m●…y remember what the Apostle saith of a greater L●… then theirs Nos Scimus Quia lex bona est Jude-Quia ●…a utatur legitime XXV Of Honour and Reputation THe winning of Honour is but the revealing of a man's Virtue and Word without disadvantage for some in their Actions do a●…ct Honour and 〈◊〉 which sort of men are commonly much talk●… of but inwardly little admired and some darken their Virtue in the shew of it so as they be undervalued in Opinion If a man perform that which hath not been attempted before or attempted and given over or hath been atchieved but not with so good Circumstance he shall purchase more Honour than by affecting a matter of greater difficulty or virtue wherein he is but a follower A man is an ill Husband of his Honour that entreth into any action the failing wherein will disgrace him more then the carrying of it through can honor him Honour hath three things in it the vantage ground to do good the approach to Kings and principal Persons and the raising of a man 's own Fortunes He that hath the best of these Intentions when he aspireth is an honest man and that Prince that can descern of Intentions in one that aspireth is a wise Prince Meditationes Sacra XXVI Of the Works of God and Man. GOd beheld all things which his Hands had made and lo they were all passing good But when man turned him about and took a view of the Works which his Hands had made he found all to be Vanity and vexation of Spirit wherefore if thou shalt work in the Works of God thy Sweat shall be as an Oyntment of Oders and thy Rest as the Sabboth of God. Thou shalt travel in the sweat of a good Conscience and shalt keep holy-day in the quietness and liberty of the sweetest Contemplations But if thou shalt aspire after the glorious Acts of men thy Works shall be accompanied with Compunction and Strife and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings and justly doth it come to thee O man that since thou which art God's work dost him no reason in yielding him well-pleasing Service even thine own Works should also reward thee with the like Fruit of Bitterness XXVII Of the Miracles of our Saviour He hath done all things well A true Confession and applause God the Word in the Mircacles which he wrought Now every Miracle is a new Creation and not according to the first Creation would do nothing which breathed not towards men Favour and Bounty Moses wrought Miracles and scourged the Egyptians with many Plague●… Elias wrought Miracles and shut up Heaven that no Rain should fall upon th●… Earth and again brought down ●…rom Heaven the ●…ire of God upon the Captains and their Bands Elisha wrought also and 〈◊〉 Bears out of the Desert to devour young Children Peter struck Ananias the sacrilidgious Hypocrite with present Death And Paul Elimas the Sorcerer with blindness But no such thing did Jesus the Spirit of God descended down upon him in the form of a Dove of whom he said You know not what Spirit you are of The Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit of a Dove those Servants of God were as the Oxen of God treading out the Corn and trampling the Straw down under their ●…eet but Jesus is the Lam●… of God without Wrath or Judgment All his Miracles were consumate about man's Body as his Doctrine respected the Soul of man The body of man needed these things Sustenance Defence from outward Wrongs and Medicine it was he that drew a multitude of Fishes into the N●…ts that he might give unto man mo●…e liberal Provision He turned Water a less 〈◊〉 ●…ishment of man●… Body into Wine a more worthy that glads the H●…art of man. He sentenced the ●…igg-Tree to wither for not doing its duty whereunto it was ordained which is to bear Fruit for mens Food he multiplyed the scarcity of a few Loaves and Fishes to a sufficiency to Victual an Host of People He rebuked the Winds that threatned destruction to the Sea-faring men ●…he restored motion to the Lame light to the 〈◊〉 speech to the Dumb health to the Sick cleannes●… to the Leprous a right Mind to those that are possessed and Life to the Dead No Miracle of his is to be found to have been of Judgment or Revenge but all of Goodness and Mercy and respecting man's Body for as touching Riches he did not vouchsafe to do any Miracle save only one that Tribute might be given to C●…r XXVIII Of the Innocency of the Dove and the Wisdom of the Serpent The Fool re●…iveth not the Word of Wisdom except thou discover to him what he hath in his Heart THerefore it behoveth him which aspireth to a goodness not retired or particular to himself b●… a fructifying and begetting Goodness which sho●… draw on others to know those Points which be cal●… the deeps of Satan that he may speak with Autho●… and true Insinuation Hence is the Precept Try●… things and hold fast that which is good which endur●… a discerning Election out of an Examination whence 〈◊〉 thing at all is excluded out of the same Fountain ariseth that direction Be you wise as Serpents and 〈◊〉 as Doves There are neither teeth nor stings nor venom nor wreathes and folds of Serpents which ought not to be all known and as far as Examination doth lead tryed neither let any man here fear Infection or Polution for the Sun entreth into Sinks and is not defiled Neither let any man think that herein he tempteth God for his diligence and generality of examination is commanded and God is sufficient to preserve you immaculate and pure XXIX Of the Exaltation of Charity I have rejoyced at the overthrow of him that hated me Or took Pleasure when Adversity did befall him THe detestation or renouncing of Job for a man to love again where he is loved it is the Charity