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A01562 Practique theories: or, Votiue speculations vpon Abrahams entertainment of the three angels Sarah, and Hagars contention. Isaacs Marriage with Rebekah. Iohn Baptists natiuity or birth decollation or beheading. S. Peters calling. confession. denyall. repentance. vpon Sauls cruely. Pauls conuersion. By Iohn Gaule. Gaule, John, 1604?-1687. 1630 (1630) STC 11690; ESTC S118745 112,147 433

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PRACTIQVE THEORIES OR Votiue Speculations VPON Abrahams entertainment of the three Angels Sarah and Hagars Contention Isaacs Marriage with Rebekah Iohn Baptists Natiuity or birth Iohn Baptists Decollation or beheading S. Peters Calling S. Peters Confession S. Peters Denyall S. Peters Repentance Vpon Sauls Cruelty Vpon Pauls Conuersion By IOHN GAVLE LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for Robert Allot and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Blacke Beare 1630. To the right Honourable Robert Earle of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlaine of England long Honour vpon earth and in Heauen Glory euerlasting Most Honourable Lord A Tendrell planted in your soyle yea graffed in your Garden watered with your dew cherished with your Sunne after some smal growth is notwithstanding an vnhappy Remoual bold to returne you Fruit. Once was it when I had a perswasiue Faith in a destination to your Lordships Seruice neuerthelesse cannot the iniurious Distance and discontinuance of Time and Place other cause I trust is none for bid mine vtmost deuotion thereunto In a weake manifestation whereof I now presume to sacrifice this simple Offring of mine to your honourable Name Confessing it worthlesse beseeching that it may bee bettered by your Worth So please it your good Lordship together with my Duty to take notice of mine Endeauours herein You shal see summed vp in their seuerals An old hospitaller kindly entertaining his new kinde of Guests they hearfully accepting their but needles cheare Two of one sex agreeing onely to be Mothers and yet as Mothers most disagreeing A couple comming together to nature and the promise with a yoke so wisely orderly vndergone that it prooues not a more necessary then delectable yoke A man borne a Prophet and more then a Prophet a Prophet dying a man and viler then a man A Disciple taught his duty confessing what he was taught denying what he confessed Recanting what he denyed The wicked grassation of a Tyrant and Saints admired translation All is I confesse vnworthy your Lordships Name or Notice as being but a small thing and occasionall Time I hope and fauour may bring it as well to a Method as to a volume Should I now commemorate your Noble Auncestours and religious predicate your own vertues hopefull Progeny it would be but to light a Candle to your Sunne I cannot speake but as the world knowes vnder your desert Better were I to say nothing then not accordingly Besides I would be loath to loade your Lordships Modesty which I know can content you with the conscience of your Worth Let the World that hath known your Cost Care Toyle Hazard praise you it shall be mine to pray for you That to your owne Merits Honours terrestriall may be repayed you and for the onely merits of Christ Glory celestial vouchsafed you So vowes Your Honours most humbly deuoted Seruant IOHN GAVLE Ad minùs vulgarem seu literatiorem paulò quàm pro linguâ vernaculâ Lectorem DEus bone quàm multifariae nefariae penè dixerim Mortalium hae Mentes Adeo in contraria eunt Homines studia vt hic illi huic ille non vultu sanè quàm Sententiâ diss●milior In dijudicandis semper ne vnus quidem qui non est alius Quasi discernere non esset nisi dissentire ne nullum videatur solum illius erit Arbitrium Solum inquam aut diuersum peruersum immò malum De industriâ facit id est Malitiâ vt in deterius semper vergat trutina Vt vt erit Meritum nigrum solummodo addit Calculum Ne non intelligeret quod non condemnaret Ingenium quò quidem acrius eò acutius Nec solidum vllum putat praeter rigidum illud Indicium Verum enimvero priusquam morosa haec sternutantia nutantia rogo illa aut vaga paulisper vide Capita Nunquam minus sacra istiusmodi chara quam cum conueniunt conueniunt Est enim sensu forte consensu nequaquam quod accedunt Hic illius huius ille semper refragatur Sententiae Dat vnus Album alius Nigrum profert Et cui hic Calculum duntaxat aut Limam ille vnguem omnimodo Lituram Candidè interpretatur hic totum hic nihil non cauillatur Alius adprobat quod alius damnat Nec eidem de eodem datur semper idem sentire Breui dicam et planè Iudicant plerunque homines pro occasione affectu opinione pro ratione rarò aut cum delectu Censent plerique omnes prout est temperamentum corporis potius quam animi iudicium Pro examine haud determinant et consideratione sed pro impetu certe libidine Estque hoc modo pro arbitrio arbitrium O varias nec non vagas van as ergo imquas Mentium has Lances Heu quâ temeritate vacillat quâue iniuriâ vergit animi illa statera Vnum sunt ne nescias Bonum et Verum Quorsum iam de illis aliud atque aliud Iudicium Numsimul variè datur constituere et verè Levitas profecto illa anim● et temeritas mentis non perspicacitas non acumen Futilis est fallaxque illa mentis vnibra quâ è plebe quilibet malè consulit malè iudicat Simplex tantùm et solida illa Mens animi discretivam dico rationis facultatem Non tantum Bona à Malis sed etiam tolerabilibus Neque Vera â Falsis tantùm sed et probabilibus perbelle nouit distinguere prudens Rationis facultas Quae omnia malè admiscet a●t ineptius secernit caecus opinionis sensus Nostis nostis vos auriti magis et vt nil dicam de bardâ prorsus et nesciâ examinis turbâ vos quam pro plebe literariâ magis oculati Nostis inquam Multum in multis excaecatum Prudentiae huius nempe disceptatricis Oculum Fatuatum item Gustum aut Palatum Facem extinctam Lancem iniquam obtusum Aculeum et hebetatum valde Acumen Ecaeteris animi dotibus seu Dei Opt-Max donis ista ipsâ acie homines minus valemus Pollet aliquis intellectus capacitate memoriae tenacitate ingenij dexteritate sermonis item elegantiâ Iudicij haud ita acumine Quisque tamen heu quanta est hominum licentia modestè parum immo proteruè nimis hanc Trutinam praesumit sibi Librandi etiam illam arrogat libertatem Ab imis subsellijs quàm petulanter summum scandit Tribunal vel mediocriter doctus iamque primus ille arbiter Quum non aut quod non satis capit carpit nimis Eius enim est dum non aduertere praeiudicare Attentionem fortasse desideras ecce ecce Iudiciolum Scalpere tantum nouit ipse et quaerit Limam Gnomonem accipit et Regulam artis licet expers nec non operis ignarꝰ Sed heus tu te enim alloquor Mime aut M●me Quid tibi Graculo cum hâc chordâ Asino vt aiunt cum hâc Lyrâ Tali cum Speculo perspectiuo scilicet