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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01449	A booke of angling, or fishing Wherein is shewed, by conference with scriptures, the agreement betweene the fishermen, fishes, fishing of both natures temporall, and spirtuall. By Samuel Gardiner Doctor of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1606 (1606)	STC 11572; ESTC S115164	72,270	172

is a foolish creature altogether indocible So as by the sir-name of a fish they vnderstood a man of absolute follie among the Aegyptians If wee giue man his right Ephe. 2.11 12. Psal 32.9 Of the folly of man as he is without God And of true wisdome Isa● 1.3 1. Cor. 1.20 3.19 as hee is without God hee is as foolish as the fish For the horse and Mule without vnderstanding to whome Dauid compareth him by the iudgement of God in the mouth of the Prophet is of better vnderstanding than hee The Oxe knoweth his owner and the Asse his masters cribbe but Israel hath not known my people hath not vnderstood I grant they haue the wisedome of the worlde which the spirite of God calleth foolishnesse Exod. 1.10 The wisedome of the world is foolishnesse with God Pharoah saide Let vs worke wisely when hee wrought most foolishly The Apostle maketh a great enquirie after the wise and would faine finde him out 1. Cor. 1.20 Where is the wise where is the cribe where is the disputer of this world hath not God made the wisedome of this world foolishnes Christ calleth such Wizards Dizzards wise without vnderstanding Matth. 11.25 when as he saith I giue thee thanks O Father Lord of heauen and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and men of vnderstanding and hast opened them vnto babes And the wisest of men the Sonne of man only excepted calleth them starke fooles Prou. 1.22 saying O yee foolish how long will yee loue foolishnesse Hee is no more to be admired that can make much matter by inuention of wit of a slender subiect than the shoomaker is that can make a great shoe for a little foote How can they be wise whose whole cogitations and actions are foolishnesse For there is no true wisdom but that which is heauenly which is the word of God or Christ the sonne of God the onely subiect and argument of the worde who is made vnto vs by God his Father Wisedome Righteousnesse 1. Cor. 1.30 Col. 2.3 Sanctification and Redemption In whom are hid all the treasures of wisedome and knowledge But this wisdome is of little woorth with those who in the eyes of the world seeme of most worthe who stoppe their eares with waxe when this wisedome is spoken off and thinke themselues wiser than any of their teachers But they are but wise after a sort Luk 16.8 in their generation as Christ distinguisheth wherein indeed they haue eyes as broade as the Moone and haue a priuiledge aboue their betters But such aduantage hath the Owle of a man whose sight is better in the night-time than a mans In deedes of darknesse such Owles faces are better sighted than the children of light So is the Catte cunninger than a man to beguile a Mowse in wilie craftinesse the rudest rusticke easilie circumuenteth the greatest Scholler But hee is but an Asse in the shape of a man who hath not learned Christ and whose bringing vp hath not beene in Gods Schoole That is Moses iudgement when hee sayth Keepe the ordinances and Lawes which I haue taught you Deut. 4 6. for that is your wisedome and your vnderstanding in the sight of the people which shall heare all these ordinances shall say Only this people is wise and of vnderstanding When Saul started from the wisedome of the worde Psal 78.57 like a broken bowe he was but a sotte for it and Samuel doubted not to befoole him to his face saying in broad words 1. Sam. 13.13 Thou hast done foolishly Salomon I assure you left his wisedome behinde him when by marriage of strange women he worshipped strange gods doing as foolishly as I heard of any as the consequent thereof euen to the common calamitie of his Countrie it being beside the scandall of example 1. King 11.1.2.3.4.5.14.23 25 26.31 c. Ierem. 8.9 the ocasion of the rupture and mangling of his monarchie too lamentably confirmed Ieremy wondered how he should be a wise man that is not a Gods-man saying How doe ye say we are wise yee haue reiected the word of the Lord and what wisedome is in you As Ezechiel calleth them Ezech. 13.3 foolish Prophets and denounceth a woe as bitter as worme-wood to such as take not their text from Gods mouth but broach their owne fancies so folly is with them and they haue no lesse woe that are wise in their owne conceits onely The Turkes and wise to the world and not to Godward Though it bee a rascall religion that the Turkes professe yet they haue that grace as they command that religion by the leuell of their actions For their Professor of the Lawe standeth vp and in his charge especiall commandeth that before they beginne to sit in counsell they consult of nothing derogatorie to religion insinuating religion to the foundation of all wisedome Heathenish men to drawe on the popular applause to those Lawes which they should propound to them did beare the people in hand that they were grounded vppon the rules of Diuinitie and that they were warranted by their owne Gods Numa in a generall assembly at Rome Of Aegria and Numa Iuuen. Sad. 3. metam l. 15. sab 1. 44. liu 1. ab v●b condit Plutar. in Numa Solon Ly●urgus Minos Cha●ondas Osyrus Zamolxis alleaged that hee had conference with the Nymph Aegeria in the scrowle of those statutes that he then set out Solon suggested direction of authority from Minerua in like case Lycur gus of Lacedemon pleaded his commission from Apollo Minos in Creete sayd he came from Iupiter Charondas of Carthage tooke counsell of Saturne as he suggested Osyrus of Aegypt with Mercurie Zamolxis of Sythia with Vesta And the people of those times vpon such supposals yeelded became obedient vnto them wherein they plainly distrusted their own wisedome and thought it the best wisedome to anchor themselues vpon heauenly wisedome wherein they were misled with the blindnesse of those times ignorance as a hand-kerchiefe couering their eyes But sure we are Exod. 19.16 18 20.1 2 3. c. and 31.18 that Moses had his lawes deliuered him from God vpon the mountaine Sinai which haue beene since confirmed vnto vs by the oracles of Prophets and by Christ the Law-giuer and life of them himselfe To this beare all the Apostles witnesse and the Martyrs haue set their redde waxe thereunto Wherefore stultorum omnia sunt plaena The worlde runnes quicke with fooles the children thereof sauouring and fanouring nothing lesse than Gods worde the wisedome of the spirit For if wee take a suruey of mens natures wee may place them all in one of these 3. 3. Ranks or classes ranckes and classes 1. First of such as are simple by nature and of shallowe capacitie who are made to dwell in their home-borne stoliditie by such as are about them of a peruerse subtiltie These doe not so much as wet

their crownes take vp Isaiah his saying All our workes thou hast wrought for vs o Lord and that worthie peace of Anthony Psa 115.1 with the melodious musician of Israel Not vnto vs o Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name bee the prayse for thy louing kindnes Isay 1.3 and thy truth sake Let vs not bee worse than the oxe who knoweth his owner and the Asse who knoweth his masters cribbe Be wee farre from kissing our owne handes and turning our backs to the sanctuary or our face from the mercie seat Ezec. 8.16 But let Zacharies Epiphonema goe with such a blessing Grace Grace bee vnto it And let vs say this grace ouer it prayse Reue. 5.13 honour glorie bee to him that sitteth on the throne and to the Lambe As all riuers runne into the Ocean sea from whence they came so that if thou knowest not the way to the sea take a riuer that will shew it thee so let this blessing among all other blessings bee attributed vnto God from whence it first came For what do we hold that hold not in Capite 1. Cor. 4.7 And what hast thou saith the blessed Apostle Paul that thou hast not receiued The fisherman annot discernce of what sorts his fish are while his nette is in the water so the spiritual angler in the sea of this world cannot iudge of mens hearts c. 4. The fisherman that hath a great draught in his nette can not discerne of what sortes they are which are good which are bad while the net is yet in the water so the preacher in the sea of this world cannot iudge of the affections of his hearers or of the state wherin they stand either for saluation or damnation For it is God alone that hath a throne in the hart of man that possesseth the reines and searcheth the very secrets of his thoughts man can but iudge by outward appearance we must leaue them to God for their inward inclinations And hee will diue into the depth of them It is no running behind the tree with Adam Gen. 3.8 18.10 38.14.15 God knoweth mans heart and his affections Augustine Zach. 4.10 nor hiding our selues vnder a tente with Sarah nor couering our selues with a vaile with Thamar nor cleanly wiping of our mouthes with the harlot in the Prouerbs or any halting or dissembling with God For he is Totus oculus as Augustine saith altogeather eye and his seuen eyes as Zacharie saith run ouer the whole world Hee that conceiued to himselfe that God was purblind and that he might daze the eyes of Gods knowledge argued his own folly hath this flout for his labour Psal 94.8.9.10.11 O you foole when will you vnderstād He that made the eye shal he not see The Lord knoweth the thoughts of mē that they are but vain It was as absurdly said as might be of the 2. old fornicators that assaulted Susanna Dan. 13.20 Behold the Gardē dores are shut that no man can see vs For neither a partition walle of stone or any secret pauilion or the darkenes of the night can couer or keepe our misdeedes from Gods knowledge seeing it reacheth to the very intendments of the hearte Psal 44.21 which Dauid elegantly witnesseth saying If we haue forgotten the name of our God and holden vp our handes to any strange God shall not God search it out for hee knoweth the very secrets of the heart In an other place as nothing doubting of the omniscience of God he layeth downe his thoughts at the feet of God to vndergoe his tryall Psal 139.23 Trie me O God and seeke the ground of my heart prooue me and examine my thoughts In the fourth part of that Psalme Psal 139.2 hee speaketh sweetly in this wise Thou art about my path and about my bed and spiest out all my wayes For loe there is not a word in my tongue but thou Lord knowest it altogether when the Apostles were to surrogate an Apostle to make vppe the twelue in the roome of Iudas that had made defection and wrought his owne destruction and they pricked and presented two Barsabas and Matthias they called vpon God that they might make election of the best by his direction Acts. 1.22.23.24 as the searcher of the heartes Thou Lord which knowest the heartes of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen As Iob giueth to God all power so hee giueth all knowledge vnto him euen of the inner imagination of mans mind Iob. 42.2 I know that thou canst doe all thinges and that there is no thought hid from thee So doth Ieremie Iere. 17.9 The heart is dece●tfull Reue. 1.14 and wicked aboue all thinges who can know it I the Lord search the heart and trie the reynes In this respect the spirite giueth him fierie eyes which search thoroughly as they goe His eyes were as a flame of fire wherfore they serue to giue him light in the night season and to make day and night alike vnto him according to that which Dauid saith Psal 139. ● 7.8.11.12 If I say the darknes shall hide me then shall my night be turned to day yea the darkenes is no darknesse with thee but the night is as cleere as the day the darknes and light to thee are both alike wherefore no fisherman may sooner bee mistaken in his fish while they are in his nette in the water than we may be and are of the condicions of men while wee haue them but in the compasse of our nettes in this present world VVe should not measure the Church by the line of our affections by the plentie and prosperitie of the times Examples Iere. 44.18.19 Gen. 39.20 1. Sam. 21. 22. 23. 24. Acts of the Apostles and other Chuch stovies Reue. 13.7 Some measure the Church by the line of their affections by the plentie and prosperitie of the times which was the dotage of the old Israelites in Ieremies time prating thus vnto him since wee left off to burne incense to the Queen of heauen to poure out drinke offerings vnto her we haue had scarcenesse of all thinges and haue been consumed by the sword by famine And when we burnt incēse to the queen of heauē powredout drink offring vnto her did wee make her cakes to make her glad and poure out drinke offerings vnto her without our husbands But was Ioseph the worse because he was imprisoned or Dauid the worse because hee was banished or the Church the worse because it hath been so long persecuted and of barbarous tyrants so cruelly intreated It is the badge of the beast that hee shall giue warre to the Saintes Iudg. 20.25 Prosperitie c. no true marke of the Church and vanquish them The Israelites whom we doubted not were the Church of God had twice very vnhappie speed in their warres waged with the Beniamites Haue not the Turkes