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A63127	Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing T2121; ESTC R219723	79,230	213

making an Oration to the people of Athens which was generally by them applauded said to a friend that stood by What unhandsomess hath slipt from me that this evil people so much approve of 45 Reading of a Book which treated of horseman-ship I found this Tetrastick If a Colt have four white feet keep him not a day If he have three white feet put him soon away If he have two white feet send him to thy friend If he have one white foot keep him to his lives end I could not devise the reason why the odds of white should be so great odds in the choice or what a black or white foot should conduce to the goodnesse of the horse but sometime after I had a gelding an able horse indeed but for that cause only not approved because he had three white feet for the white foot before was much more brittle and hoof-bound and far lesse than the other that was black so that he was never hard travelled but he complained of it whence I concluded that whitenesse in the hoof did either cause or argue brittleness and other faults besides There is no such Doctor as experience how much is the doctrine of Assurance inveighed against as an inlet to licentiousness as if that soul must be bold to sin that had certainty to be saved whereas to the soul that hath had experience of this affair there is nothing then the contrary more manifest for that Spirit which seals the soul to the day of redemption seals it by the impression of its own holinesse upon it begetting thereby in it an opposition to sin so as that if there were no hell to fear yet sin would be resisted as that which is contrary to that holy principle and destructive to this new creature yea this Spirit acts the soul to God as its highest and chiefest good for which cause it presseth after him with all acts of duty and serviceablenesse whereby it may more enjoy him and dreads sin more than death as being that which separates it from his God whom he loves and prizeth above life it self 46 The heart of Oake grows from the top to the bottom of the Tree as appears when if the upper part of a young Oak be cut off there will be heart to be seen but at the lower end not any Our zeal for wayes of worship or ought else should have its original upwards beginning in conviction of the judgement from cleer and apparent evidence of truth whereas that which is not according to knowledg is like a mettal'd horse but head-strong or like strong purges in unskilfull hands rather likely to kill then cure 47 When I observe how many sparks of fire may be stricken out of a little shiver of a Flint I have been ready to think that a Paradoxical expression as cold as a stone and have wondered it should not burn ones fingers but I considered that fire is generated or manifested but by contrition by which yet other is extinguished There are many persons of such meek and calm tempers that you would think they had no fire for you shall not discover any heat but let them be opposed in matters of Religion or otherwise 't is like the rubbing of a dry stick till it inflame by that opposition they gather heat and shew more sire then could possibly be imagined 48 At a Sermon I saw a person so earnest to write it that he left his devotion before the prayer was done to provide tackling ready for the purpose but as though he had been a Clock wound up for one hour assoon as the glasse was out his fit was over though the discourse were continued a little longer and more pertinent and usefull then the former part The Apostle saith The Spirit of the Prophets is subject to the Prophets so as that they are not impulst into disorder and confusion and as that is a preposterous worship wherein one service leaps over the back of another so is that a pursy devotion the pulses whereof are numbred exactly with the sands of the glasse and they have a carnall Religion who think not dayes and nights too tedious at Cards or a Tavern but would have been sadly put to it had they been Pauls Auditors when he preacht till midnight 49 Two Merchant ships met at Sea with 16 sail of Turks men of war against whom though it were impossible to make such resistance as to come off yet they were resolved to sell their lives at a dear rate therefore with utmost height of courage they fought them for a while which the enemy seeing and observing their resolution such as that their prize would not equall their losse they drew off and left them In that contest which our souls have with our spiritual enemyes he that fights most resolved comes off best weak resistance incourageth the assault and he that parlyes is like Eve in Paradise more than half lost the surest way to overcome is to resist stedfastly in the faith 50 Some English Merchants being in Africk and hunting there the wild Bore they had one in chase and almost tyred him so that he manifestly gave out when a lesser but a fresh one was difloged from the adjoyning thickets and joyned himselfe with the former by whose company he was so animated that he assumed new courage and strength so that he escaped the hunters hands We read in Acts 2.42 That the new Converts continued in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship not so much to shew their complyance to Christian discipline as to be fortified with that consociation Mal. 3.16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another The People of God in their troubles are not a little animated by the assistancy of fellow-sufferers Paul when he saw the Brethren took courage Acts 28.18 51 I was in a place where a story was painted in the windows it was very rare and curious but me-thought the workmanship did not make amends for the harm it did in darkning the windows whose principall use is to give light There are many Ceremonies which have a fine appearance when they are used in divine worship but me-thinks they make not amends for the harm they do in distracting the mind from that inward intention so principally required in divine adoration having a tendency rather as a Noble person said of a great Ladyes singing Mattens that it heightned or destroyed he knew not whether all the hearers devotion to delight the carnall then raise the affections of the inward man 52 Looking upon a Spinster I observed that if the Flax be drawn out too fine it breaks and is uselesse if too grossely it is gouty and unhandsome but the mean as the strength of the Flax will bear is best to the sight and for use The handling of any subject too finely is seldome profitably and too rudely is tedious and disgustfull but as the strength of the subject will bear like Bird-lime at a due rate takes most and holds

If vile and revengeful thoughts get room once in our hearts unlesse they be mortified with much contrition and holy sorrow they will shew themselves in sad effects notwithstanding all the bars that nature or reasn can lay upon them 71 I saw a Land-skip having Mountains and Trees and Castles and Groves which though particularly expressing that variety in a Landskip requisite yet those several things were so joyntly placed that together they represented a mans head Gods dealings with his people have such various aspects that they seem nothing lesse then to promote their benefit and appear nothing different from the distractions and confusions which befall other men yet are they by the divine providence so disposed that according to the Apostle they do co-operate to effect their good 72 I rode by a field which was very good ground but yet bear a pittyful crop not but that the Land was in very good heart and fit for an ample production but the husbandman presuming upon its strength had been wanting to give it that tillage as was requisite How many by too much confidence have miscarryed through presumption of their abilities ingaging in divine affairs with so cold preparation that they have come off poorly without that answer upon their spirits that might have been otherwise expected 73 I saw a vessel of water upon the ground and I observed it spread its self to every part to the searching of every cranny and filling of every crevice The new-birth is said to be by the water and the spirit the spirit in that birth being as water not only that it cleanseth the soul but that it diffuseth it self universally leaving not any part unsearched not any lust unmortified but ingaging the soul to cleanse from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit and perfecting holinesse in the fear of God 74 I had a Lamb whose Dam forsook it assoon as it was yeaned they brought it home and suckled it upon one of the Cows which in a few dayes grew as fond of it as of her own Calfe the Lamb grew up and applyed her self wholly to the Kine bleating after them if at any time she mist them and by no means associating her self with the sheep her natural companions When God made a Covenant with Abraham and his Seed he gives this as a reason Because he knew Abraham that he would teach his children and his household after him to keep the Commandements of the Lord Good education having so great an influence that it generally engageth men to a profession sometimes so introduceth grace that the time when conversion hath been wrought is not discovered and we may impute it somewhat to this cause that we find a series of religious persons in Davids family and some others Good cause to be perswaded that the faith which dwelt in the Grandmother Lais and Mother Eunice would be in the son Timothy also when from a child he had known the holy Scriptures 75 The beams of the Sun as they are scattered at large do not much heat when at the same time contracted in a burning-glasse they inflame combustible matter fitly placed The beams of Gospel light as they are diffused in publick preaching much affect not but if gathered together by recollection and applyed by serious consideration then is the soul like to take the holy fire of divine grace at them 76 I rode by a Garden where I saw store of grasse growing in the walks and other plants heaped one upon another in disorder which had a most ungratefull sight in that place which yet did not much amiss in the adjoyning field Those that have given their names to God they are his Garden and disorderly lusts raging there are much more provoking the eyes of divine glory then in those who are professedly profane the man without a wedding garment might have scap't at least without so severe an Animadversion if he had not intruded to that nuptiall feast 77 I had a Clove-Gilliflower of a very good sort which being set in a cold ground and not that care had of it that should have been the first and second years it bear Cloves but the third year only single white ones If the heart be planted with the generous purposes and the most noble resolutions yet will there be a forsaking of the first love and a degenerating into low and carnall complyances where there is not a constant culturage exercised and care had to keep up the bent of the soul and actuate grace for if the last things be not better then the first the latter end will be worse than the beginning 78 I saw two parcels of Cattel turned into one Close of ground where at their first meeting they shewed their distinction by their separation and hostility but after they had so entred common for a few dayes their opposition ceased and they mingled one with another without any difference There is nothing preserveth Faction like Separation a community in priviledges and preferments dissolves those distinctions and animosities which would have been still kept a foot by a diverse aspect The Pope in that great defection from him renewed in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth when he saw there was no likelihood of a present return yet kept his faction on foot by that Bull forbidding them any community with the Protestants in worship whereby that party was kept visible and entire which otherwise would have mouldred away and have been swallowed up of that which was more prevalent and they were preserved as Recusants that would have been lost as Papists 79 A Landskip having the particulars so disposed of as that together they represented a mans head being shew'd to many none apprehended it other then a Landskip as it seemed to be but being told that it was a mans head and seeing the reason of the representation and their fancy possest with it they could not apprehend it as any other When men unacquainted with the mystery of Godlinesse are conversant in the externall worship of God they are intent only upon the opus operatum and are taken up meerly with the outward performance but when the vail is taken off their hearts they then perceive there is a further design ordinances being so disposed by the divine grace that the result of them may be the inward man and the dedication of the affections of the heart to God 80 Being ingaged in a long and difficult employment and considering how much was yet to do I grew faint and half resolved to desert it but looking back and finding how many leaves were dispatched I took courage and resolved not to end till I had ended In my progress heavenward when I look forward and view those Legions of lusts from within to be fought with beside those oppositions from without which emerg daily and the many difficulties which on every side make that way strait I am even at a stand but when I turn mine eyes and behold how much the grace of God hath