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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51388	The Urim of conscience to which the author has had recourse for plain answers, in his own particular case (as every man living ought to do in his) to four questions of great weight and importance, viz. 1. who and what art thou? 2. where hast thous been? 3. where art thou now going? 4. whither art thou going? : together with three select prayers for private families / by Sir Samuel Morland.	Morland, Samuel, Sir, 1625-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2785; ESTC R26850	73,650	220

watchful and diligent was that old Serpent to wait for the coming of another King whom he might incense and so bring the Isratlites under Slavery and Bondage When Moses was deputed immediately by God for their Deliverance what diabolical Artifices did he use to help the Magicians to counterfeit some of his Miracles and so to harden the heart of Pharaoh and the hearts of all his Servants When the distressed Israelites were got out of that King's Dominions How ready was he upon all occasions to improve to the utmost the sullen Nature and unthankful Disposition of that People so as to provoke God in the Wilderness by their frequent Murmurings and Complaints for the space of forty Years When they had got possession of the Promised Land How quickly did he bring them acquainted with Baal and Ashtaroth and the rest of the false Gods of the Nations round about them whom Joshua had not yet extirpated And thus they continued their Rebellion and brought upon themselves many severe Judgments and were very often subject to the Will and Pleasure of their Enemies till at last a great part of them were carried away Captive to Babylon with their Wives and Children and others of them expos'd to the Sword Pestilence and Famine When our Saviour was born in Bethlehem How subtilly and maliciously did he prompt that cruel Tyrant Herod in his Rage and Anger to murther for his sake all the Male-Children in those parts from two years old and under Reflection But here I must entreat the Reader 's patience to permit me a while to make a pause For certainly had that Enemy of throughly understood the Mysteries of Man's Redemption by the coming of the blessed JESUS he had neither incensed Herod to make so cruel a Slaughter in Bethlehem or inspired the Jews with such vehement Rage and Passion to urge Pilate against his own Inclination to give Sentence for his Crucifixion which must of necessity prove so fatal to himself and his Kingdom of Darkness When the blessed Jesus was gone to Heaven and had given Commission to his Apostles to act in their several Provinces and to disperse the Gospel throughout all Nations How did the Devil animate and enrage the Heathen Idolaters and Savage Barbarians to treat them with all manner of Cruelties And it s almost incredible how many Thousands or rather Millions suffer'd Martyrdom for the sake of the Gospel during the Reign of Nero Domitian Trajan and the rest of the persecuting Emperors no less than thirty three Roman Bishops successively are said to have been put to Death with great Cruelties Now in all those Proceedings both of the Jews and Heathens against the Christians the Devil's Malice was sufficiently evident and notorious But I must needs confess that his great Master-piece of Malice and Revenge was shown in After-ages in sowing Discords and Divisions in the Church of Christ and in animating Christians against Christians of which to this very day we have sad and woful Experience I am loth to mention any Particulars for fear of giving Offence to the several and respective Parties but leave every good Man to his own Observations and Reflections and to his private Prayers to the God and Father of Mercies for Unity Peace and Concord in his holy Catholick and Apostolick Church and for the blessed Communion of all his Saints and chosen Servants during their Pilgrimage in this Valley of Tears and that he will be graciously pleas'd in his due time to purge out of his Church all manner of Sin and Wickedness which now rules and reigns amongst us What are those Follies and Vanities nay What are those gross and enormous Impieties which are not at this day to be found within the Pale of the Church and amongst those who name the Name and are in outward appearance Professors of the Gospel of Christ Jesus Here dwell Atheism Infidelity Pride and Vain-glory Dissimulation and Hypocrisy with Hatred Malice and Envy Here you you may find the Poor oppressed by Men of Might and innocent Lambs made a Prey to ravenous Wolves Here we have too often presented to our Eyes most doleful and lamentable Objects and have one Ear filled with Slanders Reproaches Calumnies Oaths Blasphemies and horrid Curses and the other with deep Sighs sorrowful Groans mournful Complaints and bitter Lamentations Here we may observe Men of almost all Ranks and Degrees instead of seeking first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness and that one thing necessary The Salvation of their Souls build themselves stately Houses upon sandy Foundations and propose to themselves that which is never to be had in this World true Content and Happiness but still make gross Mistakes and never accomplish their Designs Not unlike Arches of greater and lesser Circles all which seem to eneline some more some less towards a straight Line but none of them can truly agree or ever be co-incident with any part of it Here we may find ambitious Men climbing and twisting themselves up by a Spiral Line to the top of Honour and suddenly falling headlong down by a Perpendicular Here likewise we may observe the Covetous Man whom the Lord abhors hoarding up Gold and Silver in his rusty Coffer that so he may lay Field to Field Arable to Pasture and Tenement to Lordship till he be left alone within a vast circumference of which his Purse was the Diameter and his contracted and shrunk-up Soul the Center and it sometimes happens that our Saviour's Item Thou Fool this night c. becomes his Doom and he leaves behind him that Wealth which he never truly enjoyed to purchase an Equipage for some dissolute and prodigal Heir to ride post to Hell A friendly Caution to those who study the Perpetual-Motion THE young Mechanick has no sooner learned the plain Operations of Arithmetick and galloped over the first six Books of Euclid had the sight of a Pendulum-Clock wrought a few strokes with his own hand at a Pump or forcing Engine and seen how a Water-wheel turns about the Lantern-wheel of a Corn-mill but the very first thing he sets upon is the Perpetual-Motion not at all doubting but in a short time to triumph over the old Rules of Staticks and Ordinances of Hydrostaticks by making one Pound weight descending six foot perpendicularly in the space of a Minute to raise up the weight of two pound to as great or greater perpendicular height in the same space of time and with the strength of a Child of 8 or 10 years old to force up 4 or 500 Tun of Water in an hours space to any given height above its own Superficies and by this means to drain or drown whole Countries To erect Corn-mills in all standing Pools with many such Projects and thereby to gain to himself immortal Fame and a princely Fortune till at last having spent his Patrimony and wasted his precious time he unfortunately meets with an Ordinance of the Almighty Maker called an Equilibrium which pronounces the poor

Projector 's doom and then he sits down in great sadness and melancholly to lament his Ignorance and Folly I have in former days been visited by several of those Mathematical Enthusiasts some of whom were near Neighbours others came as I remember 60 or 80 Miles from their Habitations with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their mouths desiring me to join with them in Praise and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for hiding those Mysteries from the learned Philosophers of the World and revealing them to such ignorant and unskilful Persons as they acknowledged themselves to be and of so mean Capacities As likewise to enter into Indentures with them for their Assigning over to me a large proportion of their endless and unknown Gains and Profits and this usually happened at such times when the Sun was got up to the Summer solstice and the Worm of vain Imagination wrought within the Dura and Pia Mater of those poor Engineers till such time as having revealed to me their Secret of Secrets I had prevailed with them by evincing Arguments and Ocular Demonstrations having had my self sufficient Experience of such vain Attempts to quit their Pretensions of doing Wonders and to repair to their own Homes and follow their several respective Occupations Another Caution concerning the Philosopher's STONE THE Well-wisher to Chimistry has no sooner pawn'd the best part of his small Substance to purchase his Glasses Melting-pots and other Utensils and built up his Chymical Furnace but he boldly undertakes without fear or wit the Transmutation of Mettals and hopes by safe and regular steps and degrees to come in due time to pro●ection But after a tedious progress the poor Philosopher finds he has been rolling Sysiphus his Stone and instead of turning his brass Pots and copper Saucepans into Golden Vessels he has only made an unlucky Transmutation of his silver Tankard and gilt Cup into a wooden Can and earthen Pipkin and out of a new Suit of Cloths extracted an old thread-bare Coat and Breeches pieced and patcht and torn all to rags The Religious and Moral Hypocrite with the temporizing Turn-coat propose to themselves great Content and Happiness and value themselves extreamly by their skillful Addresses in winnowing with every Wind and sailing with every point of the Compass and which is yet more they very much please themselves in deceiving and abusing Persons of all Qualities Ages and Sexes as well the Great and Wise as the Ignorant and Foolish looking upon this as a noble practice and worthy of Men of Learning and Parts And thus they appear a long time in Masquerade and Disguise till by some Accident they are discovered and then they become to all Parties more hateful and odious than Toads or Serpents The Rich Glutton whose God is his Belly and thinks there 's no other Heaven than his Pantry and Kitchin does very seldom leave off to gorge his Paunch with dainty Dishes and costly Meats the Expence whereof would satisfy many hungry Souls till by his Intemperance a Surfeit ends his Days and his loathsom Carkass becomes a Feast for the greedy Worms The Drunkard no sooner sits down in a Tavern or Ale-house with his boon Companions but thinks himself in Paradise O how he hugs and blesses himself to see his beloved Nectar poured out and sparkle in the Glass And thus he goes on from Morning till Midnight till the Wine enflame him but in the end he often finds that it bites him like an Adder and stings him like a Scorpion The Voluptuous Man makes bold Adventures fights desperate Duels and compasses Sea and Land to gain a few Prostitutes which for a time he esteems as Birds of Paradise and every fresh Beauty a Phoenix till he learns by woful experience that they are indeed much worse than fading Flowers And yet notwithstanding all hazards being once infected with the Plague and Leprosy of Fornication and Adultery unless it pleases God to open his Eyes and convince him of his folly and madness he seldom forbears hunting after his accursed pleasure till rottenness enter into his Bones and a dart strike him through the Liver The Theif and Robber is not without his Designs to repair his broken Fortune or at least to better his Condition and at last to live with great content and happiness with his wicked Associates and lewd Strumpets This Person upon his first admittance into the Brother-hood no sooner meets with a few lucky Hits and rich Prizes but thinks himself a great Prince and all the Inhabitants of the neighbouring Counties his Subjects and Vassals and bound by their Allegiance to supply him with what Gold Silver and Jewels he pleases to call for in his progress But alass how often do we see this bright Sun suffer a total E●clipse at high Noon and the miserable Wretch hous'd in a loathsom Prison fast bound with Fetters massy Chains and manicles of Iron and having received his just Sentence of Condemnation from the mouth of the Judge see him to be dragg'd from his subterraneous Dungeon to the dreadful place of Execution The Extortioner that Antropophagus swallows like a Cormorant and digests like an Ostritch the Pawns and Pledges which he so greedily snatches out of the hands and sometimes pull'd from off the Backs of Necessitous and indigent Persons This is he who drives away the Widows Ox and the Ass of the Fatherless And being attended with his respective Officers puts in execution his fatal Judgments and at one Morcel devours Cottages and Enclosures together with the Bodies of the Owners Farms Fields and Pastures with all their Stocks and Effects Tenements and Lordships with Gardens Orchards Coach-Houses Stables Barns Out-houses and all their Appurtenances always watching for the Windfalls of prodigal Heirs and decayed Fortunes as Eagles do after the dead Carkasses of broken Armies never considering That unless God have mercy upon his Soul he does but heap up Treasures against the Day of Wrath and Vengeance There is yet behind another Generation of Men who promise themselves above all others to please their sensual Appetites with the true Gusto of Worldly Pleasures having hardned each other in their Opinions and Belief That there is no God Angels or Spirits or any Real Subsistences of Departed Souls No Heaven to reward the Righteous nor a Hell to punish Sinners The Fools of old Times said only in their Hearts There is no God and so kept their Opinion to themselves but the Fools of this last Age are more bold and pronounce it openly with their Mouths O foolish Atheists Who has bewitch't you to outdo the Pagans Turks and Infidels Yea and the very Devils themselves who believe and tremble while you make merry and turn all to Ridicule by denying the Divine Existence of which the Heaven above and the Earth beneath with the Sea and all that therein is to the least Mite or Grain of Sand that can possibly be discerned by the best of Microscopes do bear evident testimony Would you but