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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36291	A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.; Polydoron	Done, John.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing D1857; ESTC R14930	35,703	226

for our sinnes to bee valiant in his defence to bee meeke humble to mortifie our carnall affections to endure afflictions patiently He that will duly waigh consider the great and intollerable sufferings of our Saviour par le menu as the French Phrase is viz. his blowes whippings scourgings the contumelies of the deryding and reioycing of his tormenters his griefe for the lamenting of his friends his burthen of the crosse his stretching nayling drinking vineger and galle his raylling spectators c. And withall consider his patience therein and lamblike endurance not opening his mouth to a murmur but in prayer that even for them were his grievous afflicters and then poyze thy ability to these endurances and thou must by force confesse him not onely God but thy wonderfull good God thy exceeding pittifull redeemer and stand confounded in thy weakenes saying Glory and immortall thankes bee to the Lambe that so tooke away the heavie burthen of our sinnes God his iustice is much to be feared for as he is the fountaine of all wisdome and our loving creator and father yet to show his detestation to willfull finners like a wise schoolemaster hee did not much afflict Adam and his seed so long as they stood but poore and weake man but when his justice mercie word and promisse tooke flesh and cloath'd it selfe in our durty garments then God to punish man and Adams fault showed forth the length of the Arme of his Iustice in our meeke and suffering inocent Saviour then did his anger burne nay flame against disobedience and that so extreamly tha● had hee not beene God also that beare the burthen thereof flesh nor humane spirit could have endured the thousand part of the torments hee suffered which patiently borne and suffered his iustice was satisfied and man restored directed by a new law which we are all bound to keepe heedfully and to take heed of rebellion heer eafter When I observe a cruell Carter yerke and slash but a poore over-toyld Iade or a hasty foole spurre him to the guts I cogitate then if our godlesse dainty gallants were but so pythagorized how they would wish they had lived better Hast thou a great estate and a great sparke of Promethian fire a larger capacity a quicker wit a more solid judgement a more penetrating understanding than many others art thou not deceived by thy selfe love c. then remember our Lords parrable of the Tallents to whom much is given of him much is required It is not the bare letter of sacred Scriptures men vary so much in as the sence therefore to sayle safely in such an immense and profound Sea of mysteries where the gusts of selfe conceit will bee puffing it is wise warynesse to waigh up the Anchor of faith and set sayle of Christian passage by the direction of the wisest and best experienced Masters Pilots who have made happy voyage before us and such are the Ancient Fathers As the Iewes used our Saviour so do Sectaries the Scriptures first they see and wonder then question traduce then turne them up down at last torture crucify them Reporters of disputations in these latter times resemble such Painters that make all the figures and houses according to their Country forme and fashion but a true relater should give every sillable his due by report however hee affect There is no Creature but loves themselves most and others to themselves else looke for no love in this lower world As addition and too apt Credulitie are motives to superstition so diminution and incredulitie is the way to Atheisme keepe therefore right in the apostolique path of faith Hee may according to holy Athanasius Creed be well held a Christian and Catholike that hold's and beleeves the Trinitie in vnitie and the Vnitie in Trinitie that is our mayne all other Circumstances should not in may opinion make Christians shed the others blood if the Divell were not too busie in the envious hearts of placeholders for wee ought not to doe evill that good may come thereof In all thou doest intend make God still thy chiefe materiall and end This life is worne away as a winter day which to the happy worldlings seemes faire and pleasant but is short and variable to the good and godly if afflicted it is foule and windie but the night of death brings them rest and a home in heaven when the wicked then lye without dores God is the Father of eternitie men and Angells Sonnes of Aevum all other Creatures subiects of Time FINIS Errata Page 34. line 4. for his read to a. p. 99. l. 13. for but r. both p. 102. l. 1. for russettings r. rustings p. 136. l. 15. for honest r. honestest p. 147 l. 1. leave out but p. 153. l. 1. for excellery r excellency

the Gallowes if imprisonment Inne him not by the way Humane understanding followes high science slowly but fooles and women quest with Quando He cannot justly be deemed dishonest that putteth supposition to the proofe though with charge but he that knowes a thing to bee false and for wicked gaine leades others to repentance therein is a knave A bold foole hath great advantage in quiet ouer a sober wiseman for the foole accounts an earthquake but the earth's Morice-dance Thunder the Cloudes Colique the warrs a may-game fighting at sharpe a sport till hee bee beaten to better respects Take him for one of the unworthies that cannot endure the prayse of another In abstruse things arguments are endlesse obedience is better than Sacrifice Base sloathfull minds never thinke themselues satisfied for small panes The word good fellow as it is now senced by the vulgan imports a drunkard in a man a light huswife in a woman In our youth the senses bore the dominion but in our age the understanding should It is a poore back-biting stinking shift to caluminate authentique Authorities and Authors but plaine Roguerie to decurte or mispoint their writings Aproud man of all others should not be penurious for it engenders his hatred and due contempt Study reade practise and doe what can be to obtaine knowledge yet you shall finde an Ignorant will contemne all rather then lose the opinion of himselfe I am many times forc't by the lawes of hospitalitie to endure the hearing of goodmen calumniated but I beare it the easier because the servants of vice doe it In argument strive not too violently with an Obstinate for as staires mounts us to a chamber so must you graduate him An unlearned disputant is troublesome company but if angred very evill society ' and a sponge for defamatory intelligence Bookes are the best companions can bee for they keepe their passions inward and you neede not be troubled with them longer then you list or will A good booke should be read three times first to set his method secondly his matter thirdly to gather his instruction Anothers oppinion of thee concerns thee not so much as thine of thy selfe in which thou shouldest not bee partiall I never tooke a quicke answerer to have a great understanding for small things are sooner contracted then great We haue three things to doe in this world though some say but two viz. to avoide evill to doe good and things necessarie or indifferent Seest thou thy poverty and improsperitie makes enemies of thy former thought friends Faint not therefore for they were but outward friends not in ward and are like dogges that follow the meate not the men A prejudicate conce● workes like Yeast in a weake judgment Never trouble your selfe with anothers immagination or what hee speakes o● thee in secret for it is no● worth thy understanding unlesse hee durst speake it openly Hee that backbites other let him take care hee weare cleane linnen himselfe and keepe no company with women and doggs Point not at an others spots with foule fingers When I behold a man bravely accoutred a Lacedaemonian euen to the shoulders I thinke of Adams nakednesse and smile to see how For-like the world esteemes us more for the case then the carkase Passions are of diverse natures and choler the most unruly and untunable to all gentle societie which if you can command you are master of the captaine Disprayse by a foole Queane or Knave may stick like burs for the time but they pearce no further then the outside of the stookings and garments and are rather an honest mans comendation There 's secret poyson to the soule lurking in the bottome of great bowles of wine Men for the most part shake hands with sobrietie in the third cup of wine women in the second children in the first Bacchus and Venus are neere friends yet will Bacchus breake Venus her glasse when hee is much drunke A coniurer without learning showes his divell is but an asse or the spirit hee workes by an ignorant slave Drunkenesse is the gate to all vice or a paire of spectacles to see the Divell and his workes by Life cannot dye that which wee vulgarly call death is but dissolution of partes God his fire is life which may bee removed but cannot be extinguished That pleasure which is modest moderate and permanent is most to bee desired and highest to bee found A robust breeding makes a rough spirit and condition and is apter to anger then reformation There 's no telling a bred Seaman his errors aboordship or a drunkard hee is so when hee is so A voluptuous man will be master of his word that is hee will rather command it then it shall force him but a just man is a servant to his promise They are the proud indeed who overpasse the bounds of their calling and parts to challendge respect of others Our Appetites are Danaus daughters and our bodies their Tubbs Good objects stay and helpe the wandering of our mindes hence the Historicall use of pictures and holy Images are not unprofitable though Devotion sometimes overshoots the marke The cleanest of our clay houses have many durty corners which like Sluts wee loue not to looke upon till wee are chidden by affliction Men in Ancient time fought to preferre vertue vertuous men now silkewormes doung hath gotten the upper place A Flye with a candle does as a Foole with a fray and mony A Poet hath advantage of a true Historian for hee can fashion men as they should bee with invention onely the other ought to report them truely as hee finds them in many records Vaine boasting of knowledge showes emptinesse therein or vaine glory thereof He that steepes his Iest in his owne laughter is like him that swallowes his spettle but uncomely Ancient Heralds did denote the qualitie of deserts pretily and properly when they gave the field Sables to gownmen a field Gules to deserving Soldiers Argent and Or to men favoured in Courts of great Princes c. But now they sell monsters and cruell beasts to one another Few men weare in their coate Armours Lambes Doves and such harmlesse creatures but ravenous devouring and horrible beasts and birds which denotes that Pride is cruell and this invention is a child be got by warre A Serjant at law will endure the discharge of a great peece as stoutly as the proudest souldier of us all Sleepe of the body is the Image of its death and dreaming showes the soule is neither at home or needs sleepe A translator of bookes is but as one that deales anothers bread to all about him A translator an Anagrammatist are both in a narrow roome or entry cannot bestirre their witts if they deale truely Vulgar and meane witted people that meddle with the affaires of mighty Potentates resemble clownes and russettings in a Stage-play when they presume to sit in the play kings seat A students wife precizely fine and faire denotes her husband hath oft