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A compendious and patheticall retractation for book-making very usefull for these distracted times / by Edward Browne.
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Browne, Edward.
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1643
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Wing B5101; ESTC R25303
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A COMPENDIOVS AND PATHETICALL RETRACTATION FOR Book-Making Very usefull for these Distracted Times By Edward Browne sometime servant to Sir Iames Cambell Knight and Alderman of London Eccles. 9.10 Whatsoever thy hand shall find to do do it with all thy might for there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdome in the grave whither thou goest London Printed in the Yeare MDCXLIII A Compendious and Patheticall Retractation for Booke-making SAlomon saith There is no new thing under the Sun for the thing which hath been is that which shall be and the thing which is done is that which shall be done Eccles. 1.9 Yet the Apostle Saint Paul saith That all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 Which contradiction between the wisest of men and divinest Apostle next S. Iohn according to my understanding may be thus reconciled To earthly minded men there is no new thing in this terrestriall Globe except God work a miracle and create a new heaven and a new earth which the heavenly minded man lookes after 2 Pet. 3.15 Whence it is that God saith by the Prophet Ezechiel 3.15 That he will make them a new heart and a new spirit yea a new creature according to the meaning of that in the 2 Cor. 5.17 Therefore our Saviour saith That such a man will bring out of his treasure things new and old In consideration whereof I having little learning but what I have gathered from moderne and ancient Writers have been bold to turn many of their divine Doctrines and histoâ—icaâ—l Narrations into a new mould and made thereof An Annuall world And not content therewith I made a new heaven and placed therein the Sun Moon and a Star of such refulgent lustre that it darkened the eyes of many earthly minded men Whereupon there arose such a cloudy mist out of my seeming grosse ignorance that those heavenly illuminations were wrapt up in a cloud of selfe-conceit The meaning whereof is more plainly thus I having in my private devotions conversed with many rare mens workes framed a Booke of briefe Meditations upon all the Holy dayes in the yeare according to our Church Liturgie which I intuled An Annuall world or the world in the yeare and therein shewed how those dayes may fitly have a correspondence with the seven Planets fixed Stars and Elements fit for private devotion Which work I compared to the Sun for as Sol illuminat Mundum so those Festivities enlighten and stirre up the devotion of all true zealous godly men Whereto I annexed briefe Poeticall Meditations upon the Day in generall and all the Dayes in the Week which Booke I compared to the Moone for I do humbly acknowledge some expressions therein are borrowed from the radient Sun of divine Du Bartas his Weekly Dayes But before these I had fixed a Star intituled Liber Amoris in a seeming bright firmament of favour which was transformed into a Meteor of discontent whereupon arose flashes of lightening with terrible thunder from the countenance gesture and tongues of some maliciously instigated and others malignantly affected to my honest endeavours Wherefore seeing the best of men such as the Prophet David a man after Gods owne heart doth acknowledge That sometime he spake unadvisedly with his lips And Austine Origen and other learned men have made large Volumes of Retractations which formerly they had spoke or writ I that have little learning and no way qualified with such spirituall gifts as those men were may not think it any disparagement to make recantation of what I have done publiquely amisse And therefore first I confesse it was not wisely done in me to seeke the favour and good will of a young Damsell to be my wife by making good Books But for that folly I have lost two or three hundred pounds besides other worldly goods which otherwise I might have had by the favour of great personages Yet as I was foolish in that so I know I did not amisse to shew my honest intentions and industrious endeavours in the good or well spending of spare time Secondly the matter of my Books consist in Divinity Morality and Fancie For my Divinity though it is not so exquisitely performed as by a learned quill it might have beene yet it shews the devotion of my soule which was disesteemed by some maliciously affected to my honest endeavours and such malignant parties at this time do abundantly multiply and oppose themselves against all good order in Church and Common-wealth Secondly for the Morality in my Meteor I do acknowledge it seems to be too satyrically ridged in the applicatory part therof privatly exhibited but if you would be pleased to coÌ„sider the occasion as wel as the thing you shall not finde it altogether so fault-worthy In publishing the Abstract of all Sir Iames his Legacies I do acknowledge that I have given my Lady and the Executours just cause to be offended especially my Lady who forewarned me to do the same And because that it may come to the hands of some who know them not and therefore may imagine that there was some great strife betweene my late judicious Master and his vertuous Lady because he therein hath bequeathed her little more then what was agreed upon at the time of their Matrimoniall Contract which some say is a great disgrace to them both But I would intreat them to be pleased to consider That though therein my Master seemed to be over just yet with the plentiful overplus of his estate he hath shewed himself to be so truly charitable that what is defective in the one may be supplied in the other And therefore in the opinion of all godly judicious learned men such a famous Testament ought not to be smothered in oblivion to stirre up all rich mens hearts to make this their president for them to follow according to my Paterne of Iustice and Mercy and Apologie for his charitable Legacies though I doubt not of the performance thereof by the worshipfull Executours yet I feare they may be overswayed by others that seek to expulse me out of the service where I have been imployed in the most troublesome businesse above the space of a yeare and in a close manner disgrace me for revealing the secrets of the Executours whose actions ought to be so even and equall without partiallity that they may endure the triall of the most nicest and sharpest Satyricall quill And therefore I think my late honoured Master knew well what he did when he left no Overseer but God and consciences of the Executours in the disposall of those Legacies for he knew my spirit was such that if I was so bold with him on whom my livelihood and welfare in this world did depend and whose goodnesse towards me then I had as little cause to suspect as I have of my Ladies now having tasted thereof in such a measure as my printed labours and manuscripts declare I would not feare his Executors though never so potent Then why should I fear