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england_n	earl_n	lord_n	viscount_n	6,197	5	12.0408	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43351	Miscellanea, or, A mixture of choyce observations and institutions, moral, and divine, composed for private use being the product of spare hours, and the meditations of J.H.	Henshaw, Joseph, 1603-1679.	1669 (1669)	Wing H1480; ESTC R4644	40,398	215

MISCELLANEA OR A MIXTURE OF Choyce Observations and Institutions MORAL and DIVINE Composed for Private use BEING The Product of spare hours and the Meditations of J. H. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed for Thomas Helder at the Sign of the Angel in Little-Brittain 1669. TO THE Right Honourable ARTHUR Lord Baron of Mount-Norris and Newport-Pagnel Vicount of Valentia Earl of Anglisey Lord Treasurer of his Majesties Navy Royal and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel of England and Ireland S. P. D. My Lord YOur known indulgence even of the meanest Essayes to the advance of Piety Peace and Prudence gives boldness to these imperfect lines to implore your Lordships Correction not that this Glow-worm means an addition of Light to so great a Sun or to instruct a person so transcendently qualified with all knowledge it only beggs the dew of your benigne aspect that it may live and if by its Glimmerings there may be an encrease of light to the darker World I have my reward however this Mite of my first endeavours owes its being to your Lordships favour upon whose Person Family and Concerns that all kind of Blessings may be multiplyed shall be the continued Intercession of him who prayes to be accepted Your Lordships very Servant in the service of Christ J. H. TO THE READER Reader THe Influence of the times giving more then wonted sp●r● hours I did Compose this small Treatise for private use But hoping this way to serve thee when other opportunities may be denyed I have published it Thou hast in it few and plain words I only beg it may not be read in haste but weighed before thou pass thy Censure and if it please and profit thee I have my end who am willing upon any Christian account to be Thy Servant J. H. July 1. 1669. BOoks Printed for Thomas Helder living at the Angel in Little Brittain De jure Vniformitatis Ecclesiasticae or three Books of the Rights belonging to an Uniformity in Churches In which the chief things of the Laws of Nature Nations and of the Divine Law concerning the Consistency of the Ecclesiastical Estate with the Civil are unfolded By Hugh Davis LL. B Late Fellow of New Colledge in Oxford and now Chaplain to the Lord Duke of Buckingham In Fol. Paradise Lost A Poem in ten Books The Author John Milton In Quarto Recreation for Ingenious Head-pieces or a Pleasant Grove for their wits to walk in Of Epigrams 700. Epitapths 200. Fancies a Number Fantasticks Abundance With their Addition Multiplication and Division Octavo ENCHIRIDION Containing Institutions DIVINE Contemplative Practical MORAL Ethical Oeconomical Political Written by Francis Quarles In Duodecimo MISCELLANEA OR A MIXTURE OF Choyce Observations CHAP. I. LEt God be the ALPHA and OMEGA of every day of every duty of every act and of every enterprise make him thy first morning thought when thou dost awake and thy last evening thought when thou liest down to sleep in all thy actions and undertakings eye his command implore his assistance and aime at his glory so shall thy labors prosper thy rest be peacefull thy life pious thy death blessed thy resurrection joyous and thy eternal Being glorious CHAP. II. VVHen thou prayest let thy words be few and endeavour rather a sence of thy own necessity and divine bounty then elegancy of phrase God that knoweth thy thoughts needs not thy Eloquence for his information and he that plentifully feedeth the young Ravens when they cry unto him will not deny his Child daily bread Never prayer rightly made but was heard never prayer was heard but was granted and he who hath proclaimed himself a God hearing prayer hath promised to teach thee to pray CHAP. III. SIn is a deceitful poyson fair in colour sweet in tast but deadly in operation look not upon it with delight lest it hurt thee tast it not lest it wound thee feed not on it lest it kill thee and as thy Saviours blood is thy only cure so thy sorrow for it is the best cordial and thy greatest comfort for so often as thou rememberest thy sins past without grief so often thou repeatest those sins for not grieving he that will not mourn for the evil he hath done gives earnest for the evil he intends to do Nothing can asswage that fire which sin hath made but the water which repentance hath drawn and more joy is promised to repentance then to innocency consider when thou sinnest heaven is grieved and canst thou rejoyce hell rejoyceth and canst thou be merrie thy best friends are provoked to turn thine enemies and thy worst enemies are espoused for thy friends how then comes sin to please thee when it displeaseth God thy Father when it profits thee so little and hurts thee so much it wounds thy soul it decays thy health it impairs thy estate it intailes a curse upon thy children unto the fourth generation in short it will exclude thee from all felicity it will involve thee in all misery and for ever ruine thee Oh therefore sin not CHAP. IV. BEfore the undertaking of any designe weigh well the glory and advantage of it with the danger and disgrace that may ensue if the glory outweigh the danger it is cowardise to forbear it if the danger outweigh the glory it is rashness to attempt it if the ballance stand equally poised let thy own genious cast it if thou doubt the lawfulness of thy action commend it in thy devotion to divine blessing if it be lawful thou shalt find thine heart encouraged by thy Prayer if unlawful thy Prayer will be discouraged by thy heart that action is not warrantable that either blusheth to beg a blessing or having succeeded dares not return thanksgiving CHAP. V. FLatter not thy self in thy faith towards God if thou wantest charity to thy neighbour and think not thou hast charity to thy neighbour if thou want'st faith towards God where these two are not together they are both wanting and both dead if once divided In thy faith 't is not whether it be strong or weak but whether it be true God hath not promised eternal life to him that believeth much but to him that believeth 't is not the eldest shall have the whole inheritance Gods children are all coheirs In thy charity 't is not how much nor to whom but with what heart thou givest he that giveth all he hath and yet retaineth a secret desire of keeping part though he hath parted with all hath given nothing at all God loveth a cheerful giver Not to give to the poor is to take from him and to deny God the loan of what he hath given thee and of what is in his power to take from thee not to feed the hungry when thou hast it is the utmost of thy power to kill him that therefore thou mayst avoyd both sacriledge and murther be charitable and remember there is no soyl so fruitful as the poor mans back and belly What thou givest