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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12819	Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English.	Stafford, Anthony.; Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606.	1612 (1612)	STC 23127; ESTC S1001	32,969	235

man of good members Christ sayes that the body is more worth then the raiment but some of our Gallants make them clothes more worth then their bodies With me it shall not be a good argument to say I will weare this because it becomes me but I will weare this because it becomes a man and he that speakes to my clothes and not to me shall bee answered by my clothes and not by me 19 Some are neuer well but when they are vnpacking their bosomes with wordes and whispering their thoughts in the eares of their reputed friends at length thorough the perfidiousnes of som fals brother they are brought either to die shamefull deaths or to liue the like liues If therfore I find my tongue to be so laxatiue as that it cannot holde but must needes bewray me I will locke my secrets deepe in my hart if my tongue vnlocke my heart I will bite it and beate my heart for not tying my tongue I will not doe GOD so great a dishonour as to demy-deifie Man in making him priuy to my heart and thoughts 20 Nothing giues vs delight in this world but Beauty We take pleasure in beholding heauē when it is faire and cleere but when it is ouer-cast our minds are clouded and our bodies ill disposed Wee loue Vesta better when her face is smooth and her colours fresh than when her beauty is blasted and her visage wrinkled For in Summer euery man lies with vpon his first mother nuzzles himselfe in her lap and playes with her dainties whereas in the Winter euery mā keeps his house and yet if that be not neate and sweete we loath that too One and the samething being young delights beeing old displeases I wil therfore ioy in nothing more thā in Beauty nor admire any thing more than her yet since she is such an Inchantresse my bodily eye shall neuer beholde her but withall my spirituall eye shal be fixt vpon hir Maker who made her to feede the sense not to bewitch the soule who left her vs to make vs conceiue how much more excellent is that inconceiueable fairness of the celestiall Canaan In a word shee is but a corruptible type of an incorruptible treasure And as Christ shal consume Antichrist with the brightnes of his glory so shall the blasing beauty of the other world blast the fading fairness of this 21 More then many there are to whom Superstition dictates that it is pleasing to GOD to weare squalid and vncleane clothes and that the wellfare of the soule consists in the foule keeping of the bodie Others there are whom Hypocrisie leades the same way They both erre the former by not knowing the Scriptures the later by transgressing against thē for Christ commands vs not to looke soure as the Hypocrites who disfigure their faces that they may seeme vnto men to fast I will therefore wash my handes and face and anoint my head that my head my bee anoynted with the oyle of gladnes And since I cannot endure to see the lodging of my body durty I will much more haue a care to keepe the chamber of my soule cleane When my soule is sadde my countenance shal be merrie neither wil I so much care to cast vp mine eyes to heauen as to lift vp my heart to God not so much respecting the throne as the inthron'd 22 Many there are who neuer serue God but whē hee serues their turne Hence it comes to passe that the Sea-man mutters against him when he hath not a good winde the Plough-mā when he hath badde weather All this proceedes from nothing but the imprudency of man which accuseth the Prouidence of God of Improuidency Before there was any raine at al what did God then Did hee not send a mist vp from the earth which watered all the earth Hee will not haue his power tied to any ordinary meane but will shew vs what hee is by what he can doe When therefore mine owne meanes faile me I will relie vpon God who is as able to giue mee something as to make me of nothing to keepe me to the last as to make me at the first 23 He that striues to please the intoxicated multitude labours as much in vaine as he that sought to put the winds in a bagge And the reason is because it is impossible to please the godly and vngodly the judicial and the vnjudiciall the sensible the senselesse both at once Neyther Christ nor his fore-runner could please them For Iohn came neyther eating nor drinking and they said He had a diuell The Sonne of Man came eating and drinking and they said Behold a glutton and a drinker of wine a friend to Publicans and sinners I will therefore take my Sauiours counsel seeke to iustifie my iudgement to the children of VVisedome of whom she is iustified and not to fooles by whom shee is daily crucified 24 As many haue hungry stomackes but few disgesting so many haue apprehending wits but few iudging Hence it comes to passe that some are wise in words fools in actions For my part I had rather it should be said that I am one of the iudgements of the town then that I am one of the wits of the towne 25 Diuers men propound vnto themselues diuers ends One makes honor his end another riches a third hunts after both a fourth seeks to purchase to himselfe the name and fame of a Schollar a fift of a Souldier c. As for me I wil make the honor of God mine end So shall I be sure that mine end shall not be dishonourable 26 I haue often wonder'd with my selfe to thinke that Schollars are the most poore of all others notwithstanding that they haue the best wits of all others And my wonder neuer left mee till I considered that they car'd not for the things of this world which the Mothe Canker could corrupt but laid vp their treasures in the other world whereas they who knew nothing but the things of this world carkt and car'd most for the world Some say that because Salomon vs'd the riches hee had so ill therfore God would neuer since blesse Schollars with them But that is false for wee see Kings Philosophers and Diuines I wil beseech God to giue mee an estate equally distant from abundance and penury So shall I neuer rise so high as presumption nor fall so low as despaire yet of the two I had rather haue nothing than know nothing that my body should want than my soule 27 The Hermits are reprehended for sequestring themselues from the world and it is the opinion of many reuerend Diuines that hee is most valiant who grapples with the enemy that is who talkes face to face with the wicked Yet too much relying vpon this Maxime hath brought many into the iawes of danger but hath fetcht few out To be a good man in the middest of Sodome to bee abstemious in Germany to bee chaste in Italy all these