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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

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

Paradice that is out of Incorruptibilitie or tree of life into Corruptibilitie and death As by ill enclined will man fell and was depraved so by God his good enclined will man may rise and be saved God could easiler performe the power of his will by his owne Essence then by any under or subordinate power and because no man can see him and live he appearing in his pure Essentialitie hee therefore Clowded himselfe under the flesh of the Holy Virgin I have noted many carefull to stoppe the wast of fire and but carelesse in the wast of their time the ravenous consumer of the most precious Iewell viz Salvation Mans Soule is a sparke of the pure Fire circuits God his Seate strucke into the Tinder of the flesh by the will of the great Creatour and life disposer which if here contaminated by variation and sensualitie cannot approach to his puritie till purged but obaying God his will and acting to their power the precepts given by his Sonne it becomes a glorious Essence and shall resuscitate and illustrate the body into the same spirituall substance When I heare in some great Cittie many Clocks strike neare together I then judge the howers are neare true telling so when I see reade and heare the unitie of many ancient and moderne judgements agree in Conformitie I deeme their exposition and declaration to bee next the truth in all science The best manner of meanes for us to know our owne soules and immateriall matter whereof it was made is to come neare unto God by fasting prayer humillitie good deeds and for that which is his seate and circuites his glorious Majestie is of the same substance and if worldlings knew their Ignorance they would not bee so bold with their follie God his seate as sayeth a Philosopher is in the purest of pure and invisible Fire which he by his gracious free Spirit onely hath distributed to man in his first infusion of life whereby man is Microcosmos with reverence be it spoken to the Deitie and as in the Threds of a Spiders webbe the Spider being centrall the least touch in circumference gives notion so all the actions of man are by infinite wayes perceptible unto God and hee nearer unto us then wee to ourselves I conceive Heaven to bee repleatly filled with all spirituall delights as the best and most excellent musicke composed with a Homonimall Congruence of well chosen Chordes and ayerie with the precedents tones The ende whereto wee were Created was to serve love and honour God who doth by blessed soules still encrease his kingdome in lieu of those delapsed Angels once fell Seeke to bee one of those Citizens by good and holy life When thou prayest to God conceive thou speakest to the whole Trinitie when by addition of Father then to thy Creator when to the Sonne then to thy Redeemer when to the holy Ghost then to thy Sanctifier So thanke thy Creator through thy Saviour by thy Sanctifier and so in all thou thankest God for all Prayer is a speaking to God in which let us regard what it were for a poore distressed worthlesse person to come before the presence of some great Prince or Potentate of a Kingdome and so stretch or enlarge thy conceit how then before the king of all Potentates Coelestiall and Terrestriall what a reverence and awfull respect ought to bee used No fashion or words can expresse it but an humble heart and minde voyde of all earthly cogitations is the best oblation if done with all sinceritie Pictures of sancteous histories are but notes of divine actions in humane characters Hee that doth not beleeve the Credo or Symbolum Apostolorum hath little to doe with the Pater-noster The Pater-noster denotes hee is our Father by Christ qui es in Coelis that is above all things in place power and glory Sanctificetur nomen tuum the dutie of our acknowledgement and due thankes to his goodnesse Aedveniat regnum tuum that all things and wee are in and under his regiment and so desire to bee Fiat voluntas tua that we as we ought do lay downe all our affections and interrests under his will and dispose Sicut in Coelo in Terra that we may bee as obedient to his heasts and Commandements here as his heavenly host high blessed is there The rest are all plaine particular petitions for our private good The ancient use of praying on both knees signifies in my judgement that wee should offer up all our actions and strength to God for a man in so kneeling disableth himselfe of the possture to act is unpassible and as fixt to that hee came from and to which he must returne The lifting up of the hands denotes hee is before a dreadfull judge craves mercie showes the cheefe actors of evill and wronges and the receivers of many benefits But the standing up when the Creed is pronounced denotes we should bee ready to justifie stand too and maintaine those Canons of our Faith against all Turkes Iewes and Infidells There is a Circle drawne about the list of mans libertie and by God prescribed out of which if any exorbitantly goe they fall into the Divels lash who haunts there as the whippe of God his just justice whereby wee see many punished in this life and by straying out of the fold fall into the wolfes jawes The stars and second causes predominate but upon and in our earthly part and humours for the Soule of man was inspired by God and hee is above all therefore accidents are but as stumbling blocks which wise men sees and stepps ouer but fooles as sayth Salomon goe in the darke And the Kingly Prophet David prayed saying Set up thy selfe above the heavens and thy glory O God above all the earth and so in my opinion Sapiens dominabitur Astris Wee many times idlely blame Fortune a meere imagination or Idea when our owne follies and improvidence is the reall cause of disasters For suppose a tyle fall's on the head and hurts Why fortune therefore you might have kept at home but you must by necessitie goe that way blame the necessitie then Fortune is a figment to expresse chaunce by unto which we are all subiect When stormes inundations Thunders and Lightnings Earthquakes Circuite us wee then aptly confesse our selves under Creatures and that with terror and miserable feare but by forgetfullnesse wee againe clime aboue Ela nay further into Gods closset to his foresight and predestination The Chaos of all things may bee compared unto the flint and iron the striker God the lint or tinder corporall substance the sparkes life or soule In speaking to God by prayer although thou canst not give the reverence is due yet give what thou owest and canst duely Let thy breath first laud him in his goodnesse secondly crave mercy for thy offences thirdly give him thankes for thy received benefits fourthly humbly crave the preservation of thy estate here and life of blisse to come It is not the