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A96075	Two brief meditations I. Of magnanimitie under crosses: II. of acquaintance with God. By E.W. Esquire.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1653 (1653)	Wing W1051; Wing W1045; Thomason E1461_1; ESTC R209610	86,203	147

taken not excluding reasons consult and when what wee ought and how to do what we ought precedes in our Designe what we do I know there are no actions of men but come under the tortures of censure and must pass the ordeal of detraction and commonly as raskal Cattle come not to the Shambles Non min●● p●riculum ex magna famā quam ex mala Tacit. annal 3 but goodly and fat so not the basest men and actions but the best and bravest hear worst and are most broken and dismembred on the wheel of prejudice 'T was a brave speech of the Emperor Manuel Quid virtute dignum unquam retribuit calumniosa interpretati● malignorum Nihil tam Sanctum quod non audeat tentare calumnia Nicet Tom. 1. What saith he of true and Noble tendency hath not by ill will been misnamed Nothing so sacred but calumny profanes and deturpates And the rise hereof is envy and that from those who neither can Improbi vel tacitis justorum moribus arguuntur In Psal 118. nor will imitate or excel that vertue they condemne they know in S. Ambrose his words there is no greater a blemish to their impure lives then the holy conversation of a Man that is exact with God and walks by the rule Some have the hap to be applauded for what deserves censure and disfavour Praelatio alterius sine alterius contumeliá non potest procedere quia necelectio fine reprobatione Tercul Apolog. 12. as was that ignorant Scholer of Hyppomachus the Musician who kept neither touch nor time yet was cryed up for a rare Artist Maximum erroris Argumentum quod ab ignara turba laudaretur but his Masterprotested that the praiseful clamors of the ignorant multitude palpably blemished him for Vertue is seldom the darling of popularities nor Art the favourite of Crowds Some men are fortunate all their lives but envy to be revenged on them gnawes on their bones and disquiets their ashes the famous Duke of Bedford Regent of France under King Henry the VI. was envied his Tomb by certain French Monsieurs who requested Lewis the XI to deface it saying It was a reproach to their Nation to have such an enemy so honourably Entom'b Holinshed p. 612. But the wise and brave King replyed What Honour shall it be to us or to you to break this Monument and to pul out of the ground the dead bones of him whom in his life neither my Father nor your Progenitors with all their Power Puissance and Friends were once able to make flee one foot backward but by his Strength Wit and Policy kept them all out of the principal Dominions of the Realm of France Wherefore I say God have his soul and let his body now lye in rest which when he was alive would have disquieted the proudest of us all A noble speech and an eternal honour to the mouth that spake it Lilia mixta rosis Some men are traduced when they are past answer Semper quidem vertutes sequitur invidia feriuntque summos fulgura montes S. Hieron Ep. 27. ad Eustochium and are indited of Crimes in this lower bench when they are acquitted in the High Court of Heaven from which there is no appeal and to reverse which no Writ of Error lyes but most see themselves miserable by the malice and inconstancy of those they have never enraged but rather deserved of Gabinius the famous Roman General prayes to be discharged his Office not for fear of the stab or poison of a discontented and irreligious Monk which befel King John of England and King Henry the IV. of France a cursed engine of Dispatch which God hath appointed Hell to revenge nor yet fearing the Votes of the Senate to exoffice him he was a brave man and they could not find a meeter person for that charge but meerly blaming the peoples inconstancyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Dion l. 36. p. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dion l. 75. p. 863. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dion l. 75. p. 863. An major in co fuit doctrina à diis daiae copia an malitiae quâ persequebantur illum aemulicrudclitac Tusc l. 5. For who saith he of sound mind will wish a life of Envy or desire Power where Events which no mortal eye can fore-see or hand prevent are the pledges of his fame or infamy where good fortune causeth envy and ill censure Severus put two brave Commanders Crispus and Laetus to death upon no other cause but Envy because they had better skill in Conduct then himself Quintillus Plautianus a chief and aged Roman Senator who lived peaceably and retired from Rome to avoid suspicion medled with nothing a man of great years and veneration yet was put to death by Severus meerly out of fear because he was an exemplary man Anacharsis the brave Scythian of whom Tully sayes That he knew not whether the Gods gave him the greater measure of Learning or his enemies of malice came to his end by the prosecution of envy Famous Narses General to the Emperour Justine a victorious Conqueror over all his Masters foes and a dread to the world had many domestick enemies that detracted from him and so highly accused him though without all colour of deserving such misusage that he left his Charge the Court yea and his Master too and in revenge brought the Lombards into Italy who wasted it Cardinal Pool after all his Legations in the Councel of Trent his observances of the Pope and Cardinal Fernese yea notwithstanding his noble nature Genteel demeanor cordial adhesion to the Court of Rome when the Pope died and there was a choice to be made was not chosen Pope for suspicion of Lutheranism as was pretended but rather for that they envied that one of so winning a nature should have the Chair Hist Councel Trent p. 298. Great Athanasius the hammer of Primitive Heresie whom the Arians Sozom. l. 4. c. 9. Theod. l. 1. c. 30 when they could not silence by Argument sought to ruine by defamation of him they invented that he was a Magician that he consulted with the Divel that he gulled the world with a Sanctimonious outside while his heart and life was wicked leacherous and what not which was odious whereas indeed he was a a man of men and God cleared up his fame to the brightness of noon day Browns Addition to the Annals p. 326. The great Favorite of Queen Elizabeths time the Earl of Essex had these shaking and burning fits of envy and glory a long time upon him he was in his Mistris favor as was never any of her Privy Councel before 23 years of age Knight of the Gartar Earl Marshal of England General of her Forces by Sea and Land fortunate in the love of them yet had he Envyers who so ill construed and misrepresented his actions that thereby he came to the block and drew many to death with him Famous

Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary to the Queen Knight of the Gartar and Chancellor of the Dutchy was a man of great wisdom and industry to promote his Mistris and the Nations Service yet was he so nibbled at by those Momusses his enemies whom he detected and by others whose parts he obscured and therefore incurred their revenge and disaffection that having spent his estate contracted many debts for service of the Publike lost his credit by non-payment of them and resting wholly unrecompensed at least to the proportion of his desert and labour his heart broke his enemies had their desire glorying in the obscurity of his Funerals which were at S. Pauls Church in the night time without any Funeral Solemnity or magnificent proceeding There are multitudes of instances of this nature as numerous almost as the fishes were in the Disciples net enough to overcharge this paper as they did that net but I pass them by concluding this with the dying lamentation of famous Queen Elizabeth who finding her selfe when she grew old and sickly slighted by her Courtiers as unfit for Goverment and applications covertly made to the rising Sun Browns Ann. Q. Eliz. p. 382 complained of her inconstant Favorites and false Courtiers in these words They have yoaken my neck Sapienti maju● periculum ab invidia quam navigarti à tempestate vel pralianti ab hostibus I have none now to trust mine Estate is turned topside turvey So true is that of Apollonius Tyanaeus Greater danger betides a wiseman from envy then a Sea man from a Tempest or a Souldier from his enraged foe Sometimes self-love made the Thessalian women murder Lais the beautiful Mistris of their youthful men that so they might be less despised sometime the tickle of popular giddiness Ad reprehendenda alia dicta facta ardet omnibus animus Salian de Ord. Religios eggs on to censure and pursues desperately what it hates but understands not things by ill will are ever represented worse then they are and so as may give some lovely blush to envyes meager deformity Secta Stoicorum licet apud imperitos male audiret tanquam nimis dura nullam benigniorem lenioremque esse nullum amantiorem hominum Senec. Clem. l. 2. c. 5. Seneca tells us that the Stoicks who were ill thought on by the ignorant as too rigid were the most gentle and loving Sect of men Good Lord that Satan should have such power in our passions as to make our eyes evil on good men and graceful actions yea so far to degenerate as to cross as much as in us lyes what God has crowned and will support to full growth Who would think that Fulvius the Roman should coin a scoff for every action of Antoninus and charge on him neglect of the Senatorian gravity in going amongst the Captives the day dedicated to Janus and letting them touch his garment whereby they were enfranchised and that he walked without his traine and Equipage of State Or that Cardinal Langi should acknowledge the Reformation of the Mass honest the liberty of meats convenient and the demand just to be disburthened of so many commandments of men History Counsel Trent p. 55. and yet cry out against Luther as a poor Monk and a not to be indured instrument in such a cause or that Saint Jerom should be forced to complaine that his detracting enemies were such Scribere disposui si vitam tamen dominus dederit si vituperatores mei saltem fugientem me inclusum persequi desierint In vita Malchi Monachi that they carped at his words and followed him with reproaches even when he both shunned all provocation of them and was a Recluse But that is true of Xenophon and Velleius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xenophon Paedag. Nunquam Eminentia invidiâ carent Vellcius lib 2. Great parts occasion great envies this Envy is the Gallowes that Hamons have for Mordecaies in this day of mourning the worlds Esaus plot revenge on Jacobs For as Caesar said in his Oration against Ariovistus Every thing that transcends the Vulgar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Dion l. 38. p. 84. is subject to dislike and emulation which breaks out into an array of Subjects against Governors and arives at the ruine of both Nor must it be strange to us thus to suffer for well doing since that good actions and brave men have been mistaken and misused ariseth from the good pleasure of God who by this designes their clarification and cals to wise men to look about them while these evils of Satans malice and mans envy surround them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epictetus the Divel is no Loyterer he is ever in his walk the perpetual motion to mischief is his and he trains up his Instruments to assiduity and ruining vigilancy in every Garden-plot of Vertue he brings up weeds over every clear Heaven in the soul he casts some dismal and unbeauteous cloud his ill will to man is in combate with the best actions though he fights against small and great vertues in us yet his main designe is to surprize mans King the Heart and if he miss that he fumes and projects revenge with great accurateness and when hee sees the Michael of Mercy with his Angellick Forces come to the rescue of man by him assaulted then hee retreats to his small games and turnes Adder hissing out his poison upon all occasions He hath not only Vinegar and Gall to imbitter the sufferings of good men but the poyson of Asps to blemish their best actions and most spotless intents Read we not in holy Writ of the Devotion of Hannah begging a man child of God and that not for Politick but Pious ends that she might consecrate him to God censured Drunkenness and that by a good man through 1 Sam. 1.14.17.28 his mistake And of Davids brethren miscalling his coming to the Army to be pride of heart when as indeed God led him thither the better to bring his pleasure about in the surprise of Goliah by his courage Is not Jobs Sanctity asserted Craft Job 1.9 10 11 and his Godlinesse Gaine by Satan who avers his love to God mercenary and his Zeal coolable upon withdrawing of Blessings on him and his Was not our Lord Jesus traduced for a Wine bibler Matth. 1.19.12.24 a friend of Publicans and sinners a deceiver Luke 11.15 one that cast out Divels by Beelzebub when as he in Superlative love and stupendious Charity came from the Region of Glory and out of the bosome of his Father to accomplish the Work of our Redemption and to endow us with his Grace and Glory who were and without him ever had been strangers to both and after he was ascended and left his Apostles to seminate the Gospel and to impregnate the believing world were they not accounted the very dregs of mankind Bablers Seducers enemies to Government when indeed they were to serve not rule to