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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77669	A map of the microcosme, or, A morall description of man newly compiled into essayes / by H. Browne.	Browne, H. (Humphry)	1642 (1642)	Wing B5115; ESTC R232470	35,011	208

were concentricke to his heart Truth is alwayes one and the same thing in her selfe though in the apprehension of others she lies sicke ready to dye without a confessor shee doth not like the Chameleon Chamaeleon prae metu colores mutat Gesnerus put on divers colours for no palsey fears assault her she seekes no corners but may looke Caesar in the face when falshood dares looke no man but like the Owle hates the light setting Euripide● light by Truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The night is the theeves and the day Truthes though sometimes shee loses it Truth is a fixed starre not a planet and all people love it lucentem not reaarguentem light is good but yet to sore eyes very offensive hony though sweet is to wounds smarting Truth is alwayes wholesome but to most distasteful as they write of some beasts who have fel in aure the gall in the eare the hearing of Truth galls them nothing being more bitter to them and better for them Sweet Syren sounds is the harmony whereof their souls consist they stomacke truth and the rough phrase of reproofe but their stomackes can digest smooth fables and concoct errors Sed quid opus teneras Persius S●t 1. mord●ci radere vero Auriculas Sharpe biting Satyrs of reprehension offend delicate eares It was Agathons Dilemma if I please thee I shall not tell the truth and if I tell the truth I shall not please thee but procure enmity Veritas odium parit Ter. As the beautifull Nymphs are said to have brought forth the ill favoured Fawnes and Satyrs so beautifull and glorious truth brings forth hatred enmity and many foule deformities Aliena vitia quisque reprehendi Quintilian l. 2. Orat. c. 5. mavult quam sua Every man had rather other mens vices were reproved then his owne Truth like that bloudy water sweet and potable to the Hebrwes saith Iosephus but sowre and not potable with the Egyptians Truth in the universall subratione veri is hated of none but in the particular sub ratione contrarii so it is usually hated of all The bright rayes of this Sun that never setteth reflecting on a wise man who hath learned that heavenly precept 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 illuminate his understanding with a greater light of wisedome but in the breast of fooles they kindle a fire of ire and enmity Quint●lian gave Vespasian this commendation Patientissimus veri which few men in these dayes deserve being so bad for as the Poet Rari quippe boni numero Iuven. Sat. 13. vix sunt totidem quot The barum portae vel divitis ostia Nili good men are so rare that they are scarce so many in number as the gates of Thebes or mouthes of rich Nilus which were but seven Ep●minondas a Theban was so severe and strict a lover of truth Vt ne joco quidem mentitus Alex. ab Alex. sit that he abhorred a lye even in jest I would have all men put on this armour of proofe and then they need not feare wounding Truth like Medusa's head will turne their adversaries into stones and againe like Orpheus his pipe it moves the stones and gives life unto the dead Let this glorious light then which ●hines brightest between ●wo clouds Malice Er●our be thy Cynosura and ●oad-starre to guide thy ●oul the mother of truth ●nd thy tongue the Midwife An Invective against ignorant Mechanickes who presume to prate in Churches and Conventicles HOW now goodman cobler have I carch● you stitching together the Ends of tub sermons to the end your hollownesse might sound forth an alarum to the supposed Saints of God who wear Christs colours but fight under the Devils banner Doe you deeme your self and your ignorant adherents to be all in Aule and to be the Sole Elect at the Last Be not deecived God is not mocked Are you so light-headed as to thinke your selfe a light of the Church and the onely starre which points the way to Christ Certaine I am if there were no brighter starres and more shining lights in this heaven upon earth our Church now truly mili●ant then thou art wee should all walke in darknesse and in the shadow of death we should soon suffer shipwracke on the ●raggy clists of utter perdition in the Euxine sea of ignorance if we should be as Load-stones turning to you as our Pole-starre if you will bee a Starre you shall bee a Dogge-starre whose influence is so bad that it hinders the purgation of any malignant humours and begets more If I must grant you some light you are at the best but an Ignis fatuus of blinde zeale seduced your selfe and seducing others You are indeed but a noysome vapour elevated above your selfe so that all the world may thinke you to bee as you are besides your selfe You are a worse plague unto our Land then ever was any thing unto Aegypt and therefore I will say with the Poet Ditalem avertite pestem You are the very Hydra of our ills and you doe endeavour to make this Land Lernam malorum a filthy sinke of all evils therefore you deserve to sinke and not swim The Church of God is an Arke and you are one of the uncleane beasts in it O touch not the Church with your unhallowed and foule hands Atlas is the pillar of the Poets Empyreall Palace A childe must not take Atlas his burden upon his owne shoulders for then hee will be sure to fall under it Neither should you take the weigh●y calling of the Ministery upon you being not called thereunto You being unlearned ought to reach none If you offer to lead the learned your attempt is as much as if the blind should presume to lead him that can see if you endeavor to lead the unlearned into the way of truth it is as much as if the blind should offer to lead the blind thē the consequent will be you will both fall into the ditch together Therefore I will say unto you as Saint Paul unto women You are not to speake in the Church You by your pernicious aire and feculent doctrines strive to defile the silver streames of learning and to poyson the pure fountaine of truth and sound religion Your Commentaries upon the sacred Bible are like to an handfull of filthy ordure fetcht from Augaeus Stable and cast in the face of beauties fairest table yet you would faine bee called Seer though you are most blinde for to bee ignorant of ones ignorance is a double blindenesse Are you so well read in the booke of life as that you can like a Boanarges or sonne of thunder denounce damnation to those that are not of your blinde Sect And like a Barnabas or sonne of consolation can you promise absolution to your selves You are not skild I am sure in divlne Astrolabe neither can you take with the Iacobs staffe of your pretended purity the height of any sta●●e in the firmament of Grace you are not able to knocke downe one starre and place another You and all of your mad Sect are seedsters of schisme and debate You raile against the Common-prayer Booke because it was used and abused in the time of Popery you may as well acknowledge Christ not to bee the Sonne of the living God because the Divell said it and because the Papists weare cloathes you may if you will goe naked and then you will be as naked of cloathes as of reason As the Chinois whippe their gods if they displease them so you whip any godly men wounding them with your tongues which have poyson of aspes under them Though a Bishop bee a lamp of our land a pillar of the Church erected by divine hand and a Trophey built unto al● the vertues yet if any word of his be an apage to you and the cogitations of his heart bee excentricke to yours yours being excentricke to the holy Scripture you cry downe with him downe with him even to the ground This is your blindenesse like the foolish blinde Beldam Harpastes in Seneca you impute your blindenesse wherewith you are overcast unto the place where you are and not unto your selfe The light of the Gospel was never clearer in England then now it is But now 〈◊〉 constrained to confesse the clearer the light is the blinder are the Owles I would to God there were an order taken with all Green teachers that steppe into the Pulpit without order being never ripened by the resplendent ●eames of saving know●edge to perfection If I have too much vinegar ●n my inke or if rude phrase hath defiled and defaced my stile with barbarisme Pray pardon me for in this argument To bee Barbarian is most eloquent FINIS

darknesse in their understandings The spectacles of adulation make the least letter of a great shew and sometimes a cypher to be mistaken for a figure Hee is rotten at Core like a Sodome apple Hee is of a bad course good discourse Bonus videri nonesse cupit Hee is an apparent friend but a reall foe Of all such friends wee may say as Aristotle frequently sayd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O friends no friend These friends run away as Mice from a decaying house or like the Nightingall Aelian var. hist l. 1. cap. 11. they are voyce and nothing else singing onely in the Summer It was the Scythians proverb Vbi amici ibi opes but now the proverb may be inverted Vbi opes ibi am●ci where riches are there these fained friends will be continually A Brain-sick Man A Brain-sicke man is one divisus inse divisus ab omnibus aliis whose speculative beams of knowledge both direct towards others and reflected on himselfe are very much darkned by the foggy mists of privative and corruptive ignorance The optick nerves of his soule are so weak that hee cannot discerne between white blacke hee would make a very bad painter yet his brain is strangely si●ke of crotchets and toyish inventions Caecus amor sui doth so possesse him that Pygmalion like hee falles in love with an Image of his owne carving and being besides himselfe hee becomes an idle Idoll to himselfe His onely joyes are in his owne toyes like the Fisherman in Theocritus who satisfied his hunger with dreames of gold hee is full of complacencie and affected with singularity He thinkes all Constitutions but Cyphers and visible nothing if his consent be not the figure which makes the number Hee beholds himselfe i● a multiplying glasse and lookes upon others with a simple vision Hee is the onely wise man in his owne conceit and it is not the least part of his Rhetoricke to perswade others to deeme him so too Hee wonders why all men doe not consult with him as an Oracle it being his greatest ambition to bee thought as well of others as hee is of himselfe Hee is light-headed and presumes so much of light that if himselfe were set our world would bee left without a Sunne overcast with worse then Aegyptian darknes when indeed hee is but a Mote or Glow-worme shining in some obscure village As one said of Molon the Dwarfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 qu●ntillus quantus How little is hee in himselfe how great to himselfe His braines are turned like the Fannes of a Winde-mill and his tongue moves like a Clacke The disquisition of a palpable truth is his Logicke himselfe being the opponent the answerer the Moderator Hee hath so little reason that hee mootes the reason why snow should bee white and not Jet This Naturall with all his Art cannot answer Natures Argument herein and therefore with Anaxagoras hee will hold the Snow to bee blacke whereby hee becomes continually opposed by the clouds which utter Arguments in abundance against him Copernicus his opinion of the earths circular motion makes his distempered and Moone-changing braine sicke of a Vertigo Nonsense and errours are so individuated in him that hee is as naked of reason as an Adamite of cloathes I beleeve hee hath been with Menippus as farre as the Moon his talke savours so much of lunacie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aul. Gell l. 1. c. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Blaterare optimus dicere ineptissimus Hee is best of all to babble most unapt to speake The concurrence of ignorance and arrogance doth smother the cleare light of his judgement and corrupts his braine the proper orbe of the Sunne Understanding Whereby his heaven in earth the Soule is moved irregularly opinion being the sole intelligence thereof hee waxes and wanes an hundred times in a minute as if hee had got in the change of the Moone Meere contradictions and Chimaera's of a restlesse braine are his Philosophy His troubled brain continutinually fooles him and at last he is lost in a distracted dreame A Scandalous Scholar A Scandalous Scholar is an able wicked man like Tullies Offices politicke but prophane witty not wise Hee is a meere Comaedian in Religion acting goodnesse in voyce and gesture only having all Theologicall and morall vertues but in tearmes alone as the Philosophers Materia prima It may be sayd of him as was of Galba Ingenium Galbae male habitat a good instrument is put into an evill case good wine is put in a bad vessell He is one wherein are drawne some lines and notes of able endowments but being not actuated by the resplendent beames of saving grace like a Sun-diall in a cloudy day hee is unheeded unregarded both of God who is an immortall man and of man who is a mortall God he is an Ignis fatuus a Comet which portends delusion to others confusion to himselfe With Caius Gracchus he seemes to defend the Treasury himselfe being the spoiler A Scholar should be Densior pars sui orbis a starre giving light to them that sit in darknesse sicke of a fatall Lethargie dispelling multitudes of opinions which like black clouds arising from the Mare mortuum of lunaticke braines mist the intellectuall faculty and like reverberated blasts whirle about the spirits being a Divine Hermes occupied in the interpretation of those things which transcend common capacity If ever he intends to kill that Python ignorance like heavens great spy the Sunne he must shine forth in integrity of life before all men he must be nothing inferiour to Phoenix who was the instructer of Achilles whom Pileus as Hom●● reporteth did not chuse meerly to be to his son a teacher of learning but an ensample of good living great learning without good living is but matter without form incompleat indeterminat nothing operative in goodnes the preaching of life is made more forcible by the good life of the preacher Citharisante Abbate tripudiant M●nachi When the Abbot gives the musicke of a good example the Monkes dance after him The goodliest harmony is when the Graces Muses meet together when practice preaching kisse each other Else like a Cothon or Laconian cup hee gives water of life to others and keeps the mud of mischiefe still in the bottome of his heart And whiles hee strives by his preaching to cut off one head-strong sin by his living as Hercules by the Hydra's head hee gives birth to two Doctrine is the light and a Religious life the Lanthorne and the light without the Lanthorne will be soone blown out by the winde of malice Like a crackt Bell this dissolute Preachers noise is heard farre enough but the flaw which is noted in his life marres his doctrine and offends those eares which otherwise would take pleasure in his teaching It is possible that such a one even by that discordous noyse may ring in others into the triumphant Church of heaven but there is ● Hall no remedy for