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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01638	A golden chaine of divine aphorismes written by John Gerhard Doctor of Divinitie and superintendent of Heldburg. Translated by Ralph Winterton fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge; Loci communes theologici. English	Gerhard, Johann, 1582-1637.; Winterton, Ralph, 1600-1636.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1632 (1632)	STC 11769; ESTC S103039	111,208	568

THE MARROW OF DIVINITIE Thomas or Harris A Golden Chaine of diuine sentenses Written By Iohn Gerhard Doctor of Diuinitie and Superintendent of Heldburg Buy the trueth Prov. 23.23 LONDON Printed 〈…〉 1632 〈…〉 A GOLDEN CHAINE OF DIVINE APHORISMES Written By JOHN GERHARD Doctor of Divinitie and Superintendent of Heldburg TRANSLATED BY RALPH WINTERTON Fellow of Kings Colledge in CAMBRIDGE Printed by the printers to the Vniversitie 1632. TO The Right Worshipfull his most worthy friend and Benefactour Sir John Hanburie of Kelmersh in Northamptonshire Together with his Sonne and heire Edward Hanburie Esquire Mary his daughter Lady to Sir Miles Sandys of Brimsfield in Glocestersh and all that are descended from them Gerhards Interpreter wisheth what Temporall happinesse this world can afford and Eternall happinesse in the world to come SIR FRom me perhaps you expected Physicall Aphorismes rules and directions for health as from a Physician rather then Theologicall Aphorismes doctrines of salvation as from a Divine And I confesse considering my Profession it had been more proper for me to have sent over such unto you But such is the nature and condition of man whilest he lives here below under the clouds that no Profession can Priviledge him from storms and tempests and from injuries of weather Insomuch that even Physicians themselves many times become Patients The Great world is a Theatre in which are Acted nothing but Tragedies of humane miseries Every man hath his Intrat as soon as he is born He Acts if I may call it Acting and not rather Suffering all his life He findes no Exit till he descends into the chambers of death to put off his dresse I may truely call The Great world The Common school of Patience and every Societie a Private and every Person in each Societie being a Little world within himself an Epitome or Module of the Great To School we must to learn Patience And where should a man learn Christian Patience but in the School of Christ And where is that but in the Scripture and Books of Devotion I for one have been so exercised in a World of Sufferings that it hath driven me to the School of Christ to learn Patience and according to the counsell of the Apostle In all estates to be content and troubled at nothing whatsoever can happen to me from without considering that nothing comes to passe without a divine Providence Apollonius as Philostratus reports being asked if he did not tremble at the sight of the Tyrant made this answer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God which hath given him a terrible Countenance hath given also unto me an undaunted Heart And it is the saying of Saint Chrysostome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is not so much the nature of Things as the weaknesse of Persons Troubles happen alike to all but all are not alike troubled Fire is one and the same for Nature but for Effect it is not alwaies the same It consumes wood and cole but it purifies gold and silver The Sunne softens wax and hardens clay The Light is comfortable to the sound but troublesome to the diseased The saying of Apollonius I may apply thus unto my self Though God hath suffered storms and tempests to arise and to be stirred up against me yet he hath not suffered me to be removed or cast down Though Fortune frown upon me yet I thank God having a chearfull heart I can smile upon her And the saying of Saint Chrysostome I may thus apply Though troubles have come upon me yet I thank God who hath given me Patience I have not been troubled But amongst many crosses nothing hath more afflicted me then the death of him who truely honoured you in his life and was truely beloved by you to his death my deare brother Francis Winterton late one of her Majesties Privie Chamber Vnhappy man But shall I call him unhappy in his death who was most happy in his life That I cannot He that lived well certainly could not but die well Shall I call him unhappy because he died in a strange Countrie Nay rather happy in this because he died for his Countrie Shall I call him unhappy in this because he is taken from me This were to love my self more then him and to envie his happinesse Or shall I grieve that I my self was not with him to take care for him for things necessarie in time of life and for his funeralls after death He wanted neither comfort in life nor honourable buriall after death Ever let my tongue be tyed and my hand dried up If I do not as a poore scholar serve him with both who was so carefull for him I mean that most Heroicall worthie with the splendour of whose Titles and Greatnesse I dare not presume to set a lustre on so small a work as this but shall ever admire and proclaim his Vertues Goodnes who of his innate and noble disposition loved all his followers in generall as his fellow-souldiers and my brother in speciall who to his power provided for all as for his own familie but made much of him in health as a faithfull servant took care for him before his death as for a friend lamented for him a● his death as for a brother and after death saw him honourably buried as a souldier I will not then lament his death who is translated to a better life Neither will I weep for him that is in joy Nor put on mourning clothes for him that is clothed with immortalitie If it was any unhappinesse for him to die it is his friends not his I wept for him when he was alive and then he seemed to me to die when I left him on shipboard at Graves-end The next news I heare he lies buried at Custrin in Silesia Whom sea and land and death hath parted I hope blessed Eternitie shall at length bring together again So I leave him and return to you Sir I hope you will pardon this digression or rather count it no digression at all to speak of him whom I know you dearely loved But I was speaking of my troubles for which still I finde a Remedie in the Sanctuarie For my manner is when troubles seize upon me presently to retire my self into my studie and take in hand some book of devotion So presently after I parted from my brother I took in hand Drexelius his Enchiridion of Eternitie And since upon a new occasion offered I renewed my acquaintance with Doctor Gerhard It were fit that I should present my service unto you my self in mine own person considering my many obligations to you and your kinde invitations of me But being otherwise hindred I have sent Gerhard in my place who dedicates himself and his best service to honour you and your progenie Concerning whom I may truely say thus much If you make him your Counsellour and Companion you shall never be without a walking Library So full is he of Scripture Fathers and Schoolmen Concerning my self I can say no more but