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Selected sentences out of sacred antiquitie, conducing to the establishment of faith and good manners. Gathered by W. Wynne
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Wynne, William, fl. 1616-1624.
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SELECTED SENTENCES OVT OF SACRED ANTIQVITIE CONDVCING TO the establishment of Faith and good Manners Gathered by W. WYNNE LONDON Printed by E. A. for Nathaniell Butter 1624. TO The Right Honorable Sir HENRY HOWARD Knight of the Hon Order of the Bath Lord Matrauers Sonne and Heyre apparant of the most Hon the Earle of Arundell Lord High Marshall of England Right Hon YOVR Thrice-noble Brother and my most honored Lord and Patron being now a Celestiall Courtier and crowned with immortall Glory among the Princes in Paradise hath left your Lordship behind him not onely to enioy his Honourable titles and fortunes heere vpon earth but withall to tread the pathes of his exemplar Virtue and Noblenesse where through you may finally arriue to the height of his felicitie in Heauen My true deuotion beeing tyed to the perpetuall memory of his Honorable name and therein also to your Lordship as the succeeding heyre to all his most worthy attributes and rights doth justly exact from mee some tribute or token of my bounden Dutie which I thus humbly present vnder these few memorials gathered out of Sacred Antiquitie not presuming thereby to adde any thing by way of supply to those perfections you haue already attained but rather very humbly crauing your fauorable Countenance Honorable protection of them to the benefit of some others meanlier instructed who thereupon may peraduenture bee the easilier induced to peruse them For if your Lordship deigne to patronize them who will altogether dispise them Such therefore as they are I dedicate and consecrate together with my selfe to be for euer Humbly at your Lordships seruice and commandment William Wynne To all my beneuolent Friends and fauourable Readers GReat Workes of Penne proceed from much reading like experience yet the greatest are easily brought to pithie abridgement contayning the sinewes and marrow of that bigge Body and by compendious regularity are fitter for memory easier for price and more portable for vse This briefe Collection aymes at no outward practice not comming from inward vertue to enable religious Constancy of minde that in conuersation of life it may bring forth fruits of Pietie and Ciuilitie There is no Sentence without waight Exercise of one will draw on an easie habit to the rest which as I wish to all so I commend to all desiring that the endeauour may passe with good Construction and the vse to both issues of inward Deuotion and outward Practise W. W. SELECTED SENTENCES OVT of Sacred Antiquitie conducing to the establishment of Faith and good Manners A loue principium GOD is all in all to you If you hunger hee is Bread if you thirst hee is Drinke if you sit in darknesse hee is Light if you be naked hee is a garment of Immortalitie August 2. God is the true and chiefest life in whom from whom and by whom all thinges created are blessed and made good Ibid. 3. It is God from whom to bee auerted is to fall to whom to bee conuerted is to arise in whom to abide is to stand fast from whom to depart is to dye to whom to returne is to reuiue It is God whom no man leeseth but he that is deceiued no man seeketh but hee that is taught no man findeth but hee that is cleane August 4. There is no refuge from God displeased but to God pleased Ibid. 5. God is neuer wanting yet farre from his Enemies thoughts neither when he is farre off is hee wanting for where hee is not by Grace he is there by Iustice God is euery where present and can hardly be found we pursue him standing but are vnable to apprehend him Greg. 6. As there is no Time wherein wee enioy not the benefits of Gods mercy and goodnesse so should there bee no moment without remembrance of his presence for all Time wherein God is not remembred wee must reckon as vtterly lost August 7. God is all an eye for he seeth all hee is all a hand for he worketh all hee is all a foote for he is euery where 8. Whatsoeuer is besides GOD is neither sweet nor sauory whatsoeuer my Lord God will giue mee let him take it all againe from me and giue mee himselfe Aug. 9. Farre bee it from thee O LORD that in thy Tabernacle the Rich should be preferred before the Poore or the Noble before the Ignoble seeing thou madest chorse of the worlds weaklings to confound the strong and potent 10. Affection makes vs doe many thinges with respect to bodily neerenesse But to offend the Creator of body and soule without respect wee sticke not 11. I had rather bee blamed of any then praised of a Flatterer for a louer of Truth is neuer afraid of a fault-finder but a Flatterer both erres himselfe and confirmes others in their errours Aug. 12. Nothing so easily Corrupts the minde as Flatterie yea more hurt doth the tongue of a Flatterer then the sword of a Persecutor Hier. 13. Ambition is a foolish Disease a secret Poyson a lurking Plague a worker of Deceit the mother of Hypocrisie the begetter of Enuy the spring of Vice the moath of Holinesse the blinder of Hearts breeding diseases of remedies and turning medicines into malladies Ibid. 14. The Ambition of power depriued an Angell of his Felicitie the appetite of knowledge robbed Man of his Immortalitie Ibid. 15. Eus was not beguiled with the Apple nor did shee forget the Commandement but the Ambition of promised Honour beguiled her Ibid. 16. Ambition is the Ape of Charitie Charitie suffreth for Eternall thinges Ambition for Earthly Charitie is benigne to the poore Ambition to the rich Charitie sustaines all for veritie Ambition for vanitie both of them beleeue all but after a farre different manner Pet. Rauen. 17. That is euer lost with much Lament which is possest with much Loue. 18. There bee two Loues which build vp two Cities the loue of God builds vp Hierusalem the loue of the world Babilon Let euery one aske but of himselfe what hee loues and hee shall soone finde of which Citie hee is August 19. The labours of Louers are neuer painefull but pleasant as those of Huntsmen Faulconers Fishers for in that wee loue either we labour not at all or wee loue our Labour Ibid. 20. They are happy that haue all they would haue and wish for no more then what they should haue 21. Peace is not sought that Warre may come thereof but warre is made that peace may ensue Bee you therefore peaceable in Warre that you may the better reduce those to Peace against whom you haue gotten victorie 22. If the cause of Combate bee good the end can neuer bee ill Bern. 23. To bee a Souldier is no fault but to bee a Souldier for booties sake is a sinne Aug. 24. No lesse doe they sinne who blaspheme CHRIST raigning in Heauen then did they who Crucified him walking vpon Earth 25. The roote of all good is Charitie the roote of all euill Cupiditie these two can neuer be together for