never so much earnest businesse must be at leisure to Dye prepared or unprepared Luke 12.18,19,20 368. The loss of Evill is great gain The Mortification of the Old men is the Fortification of the New Rom. 8.13 369. Pray and Prosper Aske and receive Beg and speed but Nothing crave Nothing have Matth. 7.7 Jam. 4.2 370. The Supremacy of Reason must not be counter-byassed by the Popularity of the Senses 371. If poore sinners would but be more dutifull assuredly they would be lesse doubtfull 2 Cor. 9.7 Chap. 8.12 372. Where the water is parcel'd out into so many Rivolets the Main current starves See Luke 10.41,42 Psal 37.4 Psal 73.25 373. They that rage against the wayes of GODS Providence do but throw scalding Water to Windeward See Job 9.4 Cha. 33.13 1 Cor. 10.22 374 Self-love is the quench coal of Brotherly-love and Self-wil is the break neck of Self-denial Phil. 2.4,21 Mat. 24.12 2 Tim. 3.2,3,4 375 Tart Reprehension from a kind Friend is like Limmon and Sugar sharp and sweet see Prov. 27.5,6 Psal 141.5 376 Patiently hear Admonition Many that have lived Fearless have died Earless 377 The Conquest of one Bosome Foe is worth many Tears and much Time and Labour 378. Dispatch Dispatch make what haste we can possible Night will bring us home 1 Cor. 7.29 c. 379 'T is a mercifull Tyranny to wrack sinne and shew no favour to a Destroyer 380 Two hungry meales make the third a Glutton two gluttonous meales make the third a starveling 381 When we fight against God with his Own Mercies we beat our selves with our Own Sinnes 382 Our land is like Gydeons Fleece Judg. 6.38 and yet our hearts quite contrary are like Gideons Fleece verse 40. 383 The poor man is thus farre happy beyond others in that he hath nothing to loose Se Job 1.21 1 Tim. 9.7 314. From Creatures we must neither beg nor buy Commendation nor yet feare Condemnation 385. Good drinke makes good blood I but how Just as good Water makes good Pottage 386. The Devill commonly cozens us by perswading us we cozen him 387. A good mans Tongue many time shâ—edly sets an ill Dogs Teeth of work ex inopinato 388. He who is both prudent and innocent shall neither deceive nor be deceived See Mat. 10.16 389 The Highest greatest and richest are but Gods Beggers we all do live by his love 390. Wee must learn to promise with Vnderstanding and Discretion to perform with Love and Affection 391. Weeping Eyes are not to be wincked at nor yet to be looked upon with dry Eyes See Luke 7.38 Chap. 22.62 392. The World is the Booke of the Creature The Word is the Booke of the Creator too see Psalme 19.1.7 393. 'T is humane to suffer ill Divine to do good Patience and Love will go through both 394 A Schollar of great Reading and small Parts lives upon Collections and Exhibitions from Friends 395 He who makes great Promises and small Performances must expect great shame and small Thanks 396 Many abuse good will and turn a sacred Priviledge into a privie Sacriledge 397 Better do well and fare ill then do ill and fare worse Did not I tell you so before 398 This World is for labour and appetite the Next is for rest and satisfaction Be patient then a while 399 Teach without Envy Learn without Shame then thou art both wise and humble 400 Where Love hath ingress Thanks hath egress and where Grace hath progress Sin hath regress 401 Affection without Knowledge is Heat without Light like a close hot Oven 402 Knowledge without Affection is Light without Heat like a frosty Moon shine 403 Let it be thy firm Resolution to get thy full Absolution before thy finall Dissolution Mat. 5.25 see 228. 404 Vp and be doing and prosper More die of the Lazies then of Labour and Travail See 1 Chr. 22.16 405 A Brow of Brass and a Neck of Iron procures an Heaven of Brass and an Earth of Iron Jer. 3.3 406. Others Falls are not our Foot-stools or stumbling-blocks but rather our Looking glasses 407. Say not God hath thrown such an one by as an useless pot-sheard for The Lord knoweth who are his 2 Tim. 2.19 408. Despise none for their Weaknesse despair of none for their Wickednesse Our times are in Gods hand Psal 31.15 409. God will not endure to see Pride stamp on Peace Violence kick Mercy nor Rigour over-master Love 410. To bid carnall Security still Conscience is but to set a Sleeper to Rock the Cradle 411. Under-value not the Poore we cannot want the Dust-man the Dung-hill raker the Chimney-sweeper nor the Gold-finder 412. He that acts meerly from a principle of Power Policy and Self-will shall surely fall by his own Contrivances Job 5.12,13 413. It does me more good then my Victuals to see but the Devil miss of his Ayme and befoole himself Job 5.12,13,14,15 414 Wee should not thinke so much upon what others do as upon what our selves ought to do John 21.21,22 415. Brasse and Steele have slaine their thousands of Bodies but Gold and Silver their tenne thousands of Souls 416 Bad men indeed I confess have some good thoughts I but good men have more bad thoughts 417 Many hold forth so long that at last I fear they will hardly hold out to the last 418 They say Deeds are male and Words female but I am sure Thoughts are doubtfull 419 That whereon we lay out much unless we are compleat fools we lay up safe Mat. 13.44 420 Ply well the Twig while it is green If Youth be sick of the Will-nots Old-age will die of the Cannots 421 Fierie Furie and key-cold Charity opens the doors to a Luke-warm Christianitie 422 I have told you often enough of it That The poore in purse are for Communitie The poore in spirit are for Vnitie 423 One Vnion in Heaven is worth more then all the Gems Pearls Diamonds and Diadems on Earth 424 fellow-Fellow-members mutually sympathize but the whole Body condoles the sick Heart 425 Brotherly-love is no looser The Head is beholding to the Feet and the Belly is the Hands best Pay-master see the 72. Aph. 426. Mans Performances must learn to borrow strength of Gods Promises John 16.23 James 1.5 427. 'T is more tolerable and safe to suffer the greatest Injury then to do the least 2 Thes 1.6,7 428. Let us be thankfull for what we have and we shall the better obtain of God what we have not 429. The Lord will blesse that Basket and that Store out of the which we do relieve the Poore Luke 6.38 Eccles 11.1,2 430. Wealthy I would be for Live I may but Honest I will be for Dye I must Jer. 17.9,10,11 431. When we want Comforts then we are mad for Anger but when we have them then we are mad for Joy 432. Neither Creator nor creature would hurt us if we would but be true to our own Soules 1 Pet. 3.13 433. We can never part with too much for Him who
Cheap Riches OR A Pocket-Companion Made of Five hundred Proverbial Aphorismes c. as the next ensuinge page will more particularly notifie Prov. 20 14. Naught Naught saith the Buyer but when he is gone away then he boasts Chap. 3 14. For the Merchandize of it is better than the merchandize of Silver and the Gaine thereof than fine Gold By Nathanaell Church London Printed by S. G. to be sold at the Beare and Fountain in Cheap-side 1657. The Contents of the Booke 200 Golden sayings by Henery Church 300 Silver sayings and the Conscionable Polititian by Nathanaell Church To the Honourable William Pen Vice-Admirall to the English Navy whom God preserve and prosper Honored Sir YOur favourable Expressions of tender Charity to me have neither been few nor small the Commemoration whereof might well command your unworthy Servant into a better and larger Testimony of your noble Generosity my humble Acknowledgement But I must act now not according to your meritorious Worth but my slender Ability 'T is pitty that Good-Will should loose any thing but what is not worth a Keeping much lesse then should well-doâ—… passe thanklesse on Earth which goes not rewardlesse in Heaven Sir I cannot crowd your Beneficence into an Epistle nor Gods miraculous Memorials into the most voluminous Folio 'T is not unknown what a anguishing Distemper persecuted me from Country to City banished me from shore and almost from my Self gave me many Months Chase at Sea emptied me of comfort fill'd me with Complaints In so much as a Pining Body and a repining Soule the Lord forgive me were mine inseparable Companions for a long time But I will be discontented at nothing but my own Discontent Ever since I was your Honours Weak and Worthlesse Chaplain in the Lyon Centurion Fairfax Triumph and the James I wanted nothing but Thankefulness nor could I complain of any thing but my ownVnbeliefe I was among you in fear weakness and much trembling that I may borrow Pauls words 1 Cor. 2.3 though I cannot utter them in that more spirituall sense that He doth But I may well sing to God Psal 103.1,2,3,4,5 verses and I pray God make my Life which he hath graciously lengthned a Comment upon the whole Psalm When I think of my Restoratives for Soul and Bodie that Counsell Encouragement and Comfort which your prudent Head your tender Eye your honest heart your liberall Hand your faithfull Tongue administred unto me I say from the soul of a Nathanael For my Life I cannot thanke you too much nor GOD enough And indeed while I am telling you stories of your own Kind-heartednesse me-thinks I heare you reply on this poor crooked Stoper look up higher to the LIVING GOD say to that the same CELESTIAL EXCELLENTISSIMO What shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7.20 What shal I render to the Lord for All his benefits towards me Ps 116. â—… I have tryed many helps for my Recovery but all to no purpose Now I feel and find that the Lords way is in the Sea and his Path in the mighty waters and his foote-steps are not knowne Psal 77. â—… To this good and great God from whose Ocean you borrow your streams of Bounty I recommend your Honour and all yours both by Sea and Land humbly desiring him to bind up your Soul in the Bundle of Life to let the Blessing of Him that was ready to perish come upon you as Job 9.3 The LORD Register you into the Number of those whose Bowels yearn to the distressed wh se Hands open to the Afflicted and whom None is able to reward but He who hath Most and deserves All yet is contented with a little in sincerity in whom I rest Your Honours often engaged And still indebted Nathanael Church Prevention to the Reader FRiends doe not thinke that these brief Sentences were drawn out of those Texts of Scripture quoted after them For the Sayings were written some Years before any Quotations were made And those places of Scripture were only set down to shew how near these rationall Maximes come to divine Verity and how nigh Kin Faith and Reason are I Call my Fathers Golden sayings and my own Silver because his have the Priority not only of Time but also of Estimate and besides mine Excell his in Nothing but Number as Children do the Parents and as Stars do the Sun and Moon As for my own Sentences they have little or nothing in them that I have begg'd or borrowed Nay I fear it will be said that they have too much of my Self in them But though they are like the Cobweb spun out of my own Bowels yet some of them well applyed may stench a bleeding Conscience They are most of them common Notions but never the worse for that For the Sun the Day the Ayre the Fire the Water the Earth and the Gospel are not the worse for being coÌ„mon but the better Boni proprium est esse coÌ„mune T is proper to that which is good to be common And that which does good to many is more excellâ—… and more divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aristot then that that does good to one only They are Trilineals or three lines a piece most of them and so more portable for the Memory They are Pentad's or just five in a Page so that a man though streightned in Time notwithstanding may read to a Period presently carry a Theam to think on with him as an Antidote against worse thoughts The very blank Spaces between them will prove advantagious to one that has any Good-husbandry for there he may interscribe any other compendious Apothegme at Pleasure and Leisure As for my failings I hope they will prove either but ordinary or but few But I could wish this were the worst use I had made of my Pen I hope 't is not the best And he that every day doth mend Shall sure be perfect in the end Much good may they do thee Who ever thou art Friend or Foe so saies He who is in his Prayers to God for thee Thine whether thou wilt or no N. C. To the Reader READER Th' hast here a little Cabinet Or Jewels rare a precious Ring be set With richest Stones a Nose-gay that doth yeeld A sweet and fragrant Smell Each common Field Hath not such Flowers as these To tell thee true Here 's nothing doth accost thee but what 's new These are not Forreign Proverbs Englished Nâ— sure they are all Brittains born and breed READER thou l't say having read th' Adages The Author's MASTER OF THE SENTENCES Edw Hicks M.A. utriusque Academiae To the Reader REeader Th' hast here a birth which as I gather For it 's conception ows to Son and Father An Issue which for'ts Mid wifery doth stand Mixtly indebted both to Sea and Land A lawful Prize But o the Devil of Gain One Pocket now two Churches can contain Well Yet beware thou how thy Censure blots The Author ther