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A64184	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.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing T483A; ESTC R27535	17,565	42

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 b●● none more cruell and grievous then to binde ● 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 ●●● 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 ●●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 ●●●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 C●●●● 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

on them for their false unnaturall selling of their Brother Joseph Conscience is twice 500 Witnesses And as Conscience is a Law to guide us and a Witnesse to accuse us so it is an impartiall Judge to condemn us if we be faulty and to acquit us if we be clear and innocent if Cain had appealed from the sharp judgement seat of his own Conscience to the high Tribunall of Gods mercy then instead of destroying desperation he had found Remission and Salvation The Centurion humbly did acknowledge himselfe to bee so unworthy a Sinner that he was not worthy Jesus should come under his Roofe that meek and faithfull acknowledgement caused Christ in compassion to cure his sick servant for there was never any sinners that by penitent appealing from the rigorous sentences of their own Consciences to the Throne of Grace but their appeals procured their pardons as appeareth in the sacred Stories of David Manasses Mary Magdalen and other penitent and blessed Souls Thus though we flatter our selves in our follies yet our Consciences will neither bee brib'd nor flatter'd Conscience being a just Law a true Accuser and an upright incorrupt Judge it followeth in the last place that it is a terrible Executioner who with a Vermin called the Worme os Conscience doth continually gnaw the souls of impenitent sinners for though there may be some fruitlesse shaddow of painted pleasure in the conceiving of sinne yet that conception is presently check'd reprov'd grudg'd and grumbled at by the Conscience but when the soul is delivered of this impious Imp then the Worm gnaws most tormentingly for instance of this there needs no more proofs then the accursed case of Judas who after he had conceived and brought forth the damnable Treason of betraying his gracious and innocent Master his Conscience so tormented him that hee thought Hell would yield him more ease and lesse terrour and therefore hee despairing hang'd himselfe to be freed from the horror of the continuall sting of a gnawing Conscience It is a perpetuall torture that will never suffer a sinner to take rest till such time as by true Repentance and amendment of life he be clensed from his former transgressions if hee bee waking or sleeping it frets and galls him with bitter remorse or affrights and scares him with fearfull dreams wheresoever he goes it make● hell to seem in his sight and Gods judgemen● against him it makes him afraid of Tree●● Bushes and Shaddows nay himselfe is afrai● of nothing or that is worth nothing his own shaddow for sinne is the only food that do●● nourish and feed the Worm of Conscience 〈◊〉 as the celestiall Bread of Life is the food of ev●●ry faithfull soul and terrestriall food maintai●● the life and vigor of the body so is sinne t●● onely life and nourishment of the Worme● Conscience He that will have the Worme● leave gnawing let him avoid and hate sin a●● then the Worm will dye with famine But the joy and contentment of a cleare guiltlesse conscience is such an inward p●●● which few attain to and none doe or can expresse but such as enjoy it A good Conscience wil acquit a man when all the world condemns him There is no true Recreation or all Recreations can yeeld so great content or any content at all without a good Conscience It is so voyd of Earthly cares and Worldly perturbations that as the Wise man sayd Proverb 15. It is a continuall Banquet and St. John in his first Epistle doth call it the Heart saving If the heart reprehend us not wee have a great confidence in God St. Paul in the first to the Corinths chap. 1. sayth that our glory is the testimony of a good Conscience for if men judge and think never so hardly of us yet if our Consciences doe not accuse us before God we are at peace within our selves because the peace of God is in every good man or womans Conscience And thus I have ●hewed in part what Power and Command Conscience hath over all our thoughts words works and lives from our births to our death ●nd at our departure and last gasp Great Kings and mighty Lords Magistrates ●nd Governors of Common-wealths they doe ●e most and hear most with the eyes and ears ●f other men themselves have no knowledge ●f mens actions unlesse their Officers and In●●●ument doe certifie and informe them how ●atters and businesses do passe under their go●●rnments and they judge no further then exterior or outward proofs doth manifest unto them and yet for all their testimonies and evidences they so often erre in their judgements But Conscience beareth sway over our outsides and insides both it governes rules approves reprooves clears and punisheth all our interiour and exteriour thoughts words and actions as is before declared for Conscience is clear sighted and sees all Conscience hath sundry divisions and definitions for we use to say that such as do rake scrape and ravenously devour mens lives and livelyhoods in joyning house to house land to land eyther by oppression extortion fraud or force they care not how so they have it Some men will say that all such Caterpillers have large Consciences and some are in the mind that they have no Conscience at all To put a medium or mean betwixt these two extreams of too large or large Conscience and no Conscience let every man examine himselfe and they will quickly find that each of them hath a Conscience though not visible yet invisible that will tell him how it is with him eyther well or ill according as he hath used his Conscience Every mans Conscience is an accusing book which shall be opened at the last day Revelat. 20. 12. The Conscience of unjust men is in continuall fear but a righteous mans Conscience makes him bold as a Lion Wisdom 7. 10. and Prov. 28. 1. He that doth any thing against his Conscience is condemned Rom. 14. 20. He that hath a contented quiet Conscience is rich whether hee be in a sufficient estate or in worldly necessity but hee that hath a troubled Conscience is discontented in robes of Royalty and formented amidst his greatest pleasures and delicious fare and banquetting for his very Table is a share unto him He that makes his belly his God his kitchin his Church his Cooke the Priest and his Sacrifices the lushious delicate Dishes let his teeth gnaw earchly dainties never sog reedily gluttonous the worme of Conscience is feasting and gnawing him within that all his pleasures are painfull perplexities unto him for A wounded Conscience who can beare Earth and earthly minded Dives made no account of poore Lazarus nor had any compassion on him whilest he lived And Heaven made lesse esteeme of Dives when he was dead for the Glutton would not give a few crummes to releeve and save the life of the poore Begger who was received into Glory so the other was denied one small drop of cold water in his grievous torments and greatest necessity