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A77662 A paradox usefull for the times. Browne, Edward. 1642 (1642) Wing B5103; Thomason E126_21; ESTC R21739 6,693 10

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we live Is it not reported for certaine That the Kings favourites and the Lordly Gentlemen did intend to bring up a Tyrannicall jurisdiction over the Commons of England Scotland and Ireland as it is in France did they not attempt it by Monopolies Projects exaction in Courts of justice and other wayes was this well done No sure it was very ill Did not the Lordly Bishops and imperious Clergy seek to Lord it over Gods Inheritance so to eat the honey of the poore labouring Bee to make themselves fat like idle Drones was this well done Surely no It was very ill Againe It is said That some would have an Aristocraticall government in this Island that hath been so many yeares a free Monarchy thereby to make the Prince a Subject to his Nobles and the Commons slaves to many imperious Lords will this bewell Surely no but very ill for I had rather be subject to one Royall King and his officers then be under so many distinct Lords and their favourites as I here it is beyond the Sea where they are inforced to pay for their owne meat and drinke and be exacted of all their labour which would be as grievous to an ingenuous spirit as the Aegyptian bondage Againe there is of late sprung up a strange kinde of Pharisaicall Teachers who though in words they despise the kingdome of Antichrist yet their deeds establish it And because they would make people beleeve that all they utter is by the Spirit they scorne the words of Christ at the close of their Sermons give God thanks that they have forgotten the Lords Prayer and because they would seeme to excell the Law and the Prophets they expunge the fifth Commandement out of the Decalogue and that you may see they have a Revelation above the Apostles they cancell the 5. Article in their Creed And thus they preach chusing a Text from whence they draw an observation as far from it as the East is from VVest Another he railes non-sense against the Booke of Common-Prayer for its well composed repetitions and never considers his own vain babling another is angry that Cheapside Crosse hath more gold than he hath in his purse another like Diogenes in a Tub b●bbles he knowes not what and because the Church hath been used by Papists he is afraid to come into it c. Are these things well done surely no. Wherein we shew our folly and contemning light we walk in darknesse so that we know not whether wee goe nor what to doe for these differences raised the bloody rebellion in Ireland and doth now threaten destruction to this Kingdome But God is the same God still hee can and will when he sees best bring out of all these evills much good in a well composed Monarchicall government By this all men may learne wisdome and grave Senators understanding and out of all this darknesse of error and blindnesse we may walke in the cleare light and so shine Brighter and brighter till it be perfect day that so the Lord may continue to be unto us a good and a gracious God and we may continue to be unto him a chosen generation a royall Priesthood a holy Nation a peculiar people even his own pleasant plant Thirdly and lastly That good doth daily spring out of evill I would prove by many Presidents but I will only instance in my selfe For I have lately made two Books the one entituled Annuall world and sacred Poems the other A rare pattern of justice and mercy with a Meteor a Star which I thought was a good work and is so approved in it selfe by many judicious and learned men but my ends was bad for I did them for by respects and not chiefly for the glory of God which I will illustrate in this fable following It is by Poets reported that Phaeton the too adventrous son of Sob and Clymene having with much intreaty obtained of his Father Phoebus the guiding of his Chariot for one day and being utterly unable to performe such an enterprise let the horses raines slip and had thereby almost set the whole world on fire scorching Aethiopia and many other places till at length Jupiter perceiving his boldnesse and fearing to be burnt himselfe struck him with a Thunderbolt and he fell into the River Eridanus now called Po or Padus which fable as it doth lively represent the picture of inconsiderate and ambitious men in generall so in particular it is verified in me for notwithstanding the grave advice of my late judicious loving Master Sir James Cambell and other my friends who wish● me to surcease my fruitlesse labour in making Bookes especially now in this paper-age wherein many strive to vent the froth of their inventions into the Presse so that lying and scandalous Pamphlets fly about the City in every corner and prove vendible ware whereas solid and learned mens workes are nothing regarded And for mee to trouble my selfe in making Bookes who never came within the view of double topt Parnassus I meane the two Universities of this Island and never proceeded beyond the Rudiments of learning I meane the Grammer it could not chuse but prove a fruitlesse labour Yet having for some small time conversed with Star-crowned Vrania that soul-ravishing and heavenly Muse I could not rest satisfied with a little taste of her divine Nactor till I had so intoxicated my sences that in a frantique humour I have set the frame of heaven in a combustion for I have stated the Sun Moon and Stars upon such improper objects as may cause amazement to the beholders Therefore it is no wonder if with the said Phaeton or rather with foolish Icarus if I with the wings of a vaine hope and as you may thinke an unadvised pride striving to ascend into a Bright firmament of favour am cast down into an ocean of contempt and disdaine Herein was my folly and thus to obtaine Bright I have walked in darknesse But yet to vindicate my reputation in this particular these Books may not unfitly be compared to those holy waters Ezekiel saw flow out of the Sanctuary which from a shallow Forde no deeper then his ancles became a River impassable and I my selfe may not unfitly be compared to kinde hearted Leander a young man in Abidos who for the love of Ero a beautifull Damsell of Sestos did oftentimes in the night swim over the narrow Sea of Hellespont it being between those two Townes to obtain the society of his Love But at length one night the Sea being rough he was drowned so I in like manner have oftentimes waded over these waters but at the first I only drencht my foot as is to be seen in Libro Amoris and by many chearefull perambulatious and loving welcomes I had free and easie accesse to my love at the next time those Poeticall waters flowed up to my ancles as appeareth in sacred Poems and with much alacrity I oft visited her but then these divine waters began to flow up