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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40678	Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing F2451; ESTC R7395	42,203	158

this Motion and all that follow I humbly lay down at their feet who have Power and Place to reform who may either trample upon it or take it up as their wisedomes shall see just occasion XXIII Try and Trust IT was wisely requested by the children of the Captivity Dan. 1. And warily granted by the Kings Chamberlain unto them that by way of tryall they should feed on pulse for ten dayes and then an inspection to be made on their countenances whether the Lillies therein did look as white and Roses as red as before that so their Bill of their Fare might be either changed or continued as they saw just occasion Let such new practices as are to be brought into our Church be for a time candidates and probationers on their good Behaviour to see how the temper of the people will fit them and they fadge with it before they be publickly enjoined Let them be like St. Paul's Deacons 1 Tim. 3.10 first be proved then be used if found blamelesse I cannot therefore but commend the discretiō of such States-men who knowing the Directory to be but a stranger and considering the great inclination the generality of our Nation had to the Common-prayer made their Temporary Act to stand in force but for 3 years XXIV Alike but contrary I Observe in Scripture that Power to do some deeds is a sufficient Authority to do them Thus Sampson's Power to pluck down the two Fundamental Pillars of Dagon's Temple was authority enough for him to doe it Eliah's Power to make fire to come at his call on the two Captains was authority enough to do it because such deeds were above the strength stature standard of human proportion However hence it doth not follow that it is lawfull for a private man with Axes and Hammers to beat down a Christian Church because Sampson pluckt down Dagon's Temple nor doth it follow that men may burn their brethren with fagot and fire because Eliah called for fire from heaven These being acts not miraculous but mischievous no might from heaven but meer malice from Hell required for the atchieving thereof Here it is hard to say which of these two things have done most mischief in England Publick persons having Private soules and Narrow hearts consulting their own ease and advantage or private persons having vast designes to invade publick imployments This is most sure that betwixt them both they have almost undone the most flourishing Church and State in the Christian world XXV Chasma Phasma HOw bluntly and abruptly doth the seventy third Psalm begin Truly God is good unto Israel even to such as are of a clean heart Truly is a Term of continuation not inception of a Speech The Head or Top of this Psalm seems lost or cut off and the Neck only remaining in the room thereof But know that this Psalm hath two Moyeties one Vnwritten made only in the Tyring-house of David's heart The other Written visible on the Theatre beginning as is aforesaid Thomas Aquinas sitting silent in a musing posture at the Table of the King of France at last brake forth into these words Conclusum est contra Manichaeos It is concluded against the Manichees which speech though Non-sense to the persons in the place at the best Independent without any connexion to the discourse at Table had it 's necessary Coherence in the mind of that great Schoolman David newly awaking in this Psalm out of the sweet slumber of his Meditation openeth his eyes with the good hand-sell of these words Truly God is good to Israel even to such as are of a clean heart A Maxim of undoubted Truth and a firm Anchor to those who have been tossed in the Tempest of these times XXVI Share and Share-like CHes-Shire hath formerly been called Chief of men Indeed no County in England of the same greatnesse or if you will rather of the same littlenesse can produce so many families of ancient Gentry Now let it break the stomacks but not the hearts abate the Pride not destroy the Courage of the inhabitants of this Shire that they miscarried in their late undertakings not so much by any defect in them as default in others If ten men together be to lift a log all must jointly {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is heave up their parts or rather their Counterparts together But if nine of them fail it is not only uncivil but unjust that one man should be expected to be a Gyant to do ten men's work Ches-Shire is Ches-Shire and so I hope will ever be but it is not all England and valour it self may be pressed down to death under the weight of multitude The Ld Bacon would have rewards given to those men who in the Quest of natural experiments * make probable mistakes both because they are industrious therein and because their aberrations may prove instructions to others after them and to speak plainly an ingenuous Miss is of more credit then a Bungling casual Hit On the same account let Cheshire have a Reward of honour the whole Kingdome faring the better for this Countie 's faring the worse XXVII Natale solum dulcedine e. c. I Must confess my self born in Northhamptonshire and if that worthy Countie esteem me no disgrace to it I esteem it an honour to me The English of the Common people therein lying in the very heart of the Land is generally very good And yet they have an odde Phrase not so usual in other places They used to say when at Cudgel playes such tame were far better then our wild Battels one gave his Adversary such a sound blow as that he knew not whether to stand or to fall that he SETTLED him at a blow The Relicts and Stump my Pen dares write no worse of the long Parliament pretended they would Settle the Church and State but surely had they continued it had been done in the Dialect of Northamptonshire They would so have settled us we should neither have known how to have stood or on which side to have fallen XXVIII Seasonable prevention WHen the famine in Egypt had lasted so long the Estates of the people were so exhausted by buying corn of the King that their money failing they were forced to sell their cattle unto Ioseph Gen. 47.17 and this maintained them with bread for one year more But the famine lasting longer and their stock of cattle being wholly spent they then sold all their Lands and after that their Persons to Ioseph as Agent for Pharaoh so that the King of Egypt became Proprietary of the bodies of all the people in his Land Gen. 47.23 Then Ioseph said unto the people Behold I have bought you this day and your Land for Pharaoh If our Taxes had continued longer they could not have continued longer I mean the Nation was so impoverished that the money so much was hoarded up or transported by military Grandees could not have been paid in Specie Indeed we began

saw all which his Pupil did and the Pupil soon after felt something from his Tutor Many things have been done in Hugger mugger in our Age prophane persons conceited that their privacy protected them from divine inspection Some say with the wicked in the Psalm Tush shall the Lord see But know that Revelat. 4.6 before the Throne there was a sea of glasse like unto Chrystall This is Gods Omnisciency Sea there is the largenesse Crystall there is the purenesse thereof In this glasse all persons and practices are plainly represented to Gods sight so that such who sin in secret shall suffer openly XLVIII Best race GOd hath two grand Attributes first Optimus that he is the best of Beeings Secondly Maximus that he is the greatest of Essences It may justly seem strange that all men naturally are ambitious with the Apostles Luk. 22.24 to contest and contend for the latter who shall be accounted for the greatest Outward greatnesse having no reality in it self but founded merely in outward account and reputation of others But as for his goodnesse they give it a goe-by no whit endeavouring the imitation thereof whereas indeed greatnesse without goodnesse is not only uselesse but also dangerous and destructive both to him that hath it and those who are about him This is a fruit of Adam's fall and floweth from Original corruption Oh! for the future let us change this our Ambition into holy Emulation and fairly run a race of grace who shall outstrip others in goodnesse In which race strive lawfully to gain the Victory supplant not those that run before thee Iustle not those who are even with thee Hinder not those who come behind thee XLIX Feed the Lambs WHat may be the cause why so much cloth so soon changeth colour It is because it was never wet WADDED which giveth the fixation to a colour and setteth it in the cloth What may be the reason why so many now a-daies are carried about with every wind of Doctrine even to scoure every point in the Compass round about Surely it is because they were never well CATECHIZED in the principles of Religion O for the Ancient and Primitive Ordinance of Catechizing every youth can preach but he must be a man indeed who can profitably catechize Indeed Sermons are like whole Ioints for men to manage but Catechizing is Mince-meat shred into Questions and Answers fit for children to eat and easie for them to digest whilst the Minister may also for the Edification of those of riper years enlarge and dilate himself on both as he seeth just occasion L. Name and thing THere is a new word Coyned within few moneths called FANATICKS which by the close stickling thereof seemeth well cut out and proportioned to signifie what is meant thereby even the Sectaries of our Age Some most forcedly will have it Hebrew derived from the word to see or face one importing such whose Piety consisteth chiefly in Visage looks outward shewes Others will have it Gerek from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to shew and appear their Meteor Pietie consisting onely in short blazing the forerunner of their extinction But most certainly the word is Latin from Fanum a Temple and FANATICI were such who living in or attending thereabouts were frighted with Spectra or Apparitions which they either saw or fancied themselves to have seen These People in their fits and wild raptures pretended to strange predictions ut fanaticus oestro Percussus Bellonatuo divinat ingens Omen habes inquit magni clarique triumphi Juven. Sat. 4. Ut mala quem scabies morbus regius urget Aut fanaticus error Hor. in Poet It will be said we have already more then a Good many Nick-names of parties already which doth but inflame the difference and make the breach the wider betwixt us 'T is confess't but withall it is promised that when they withdraw the thing we will substract the name Let them leave off their wild Fancies inconsistent with Scripture Antiquity and Reason it self and then we will endeavour to burie the FANATICK and all other names in perpetuall oblivion FINIS Mixt Contemplations On these Times I. All afore A Deare Friend of mine now I hope with God was much troubled with an impertinent and importunate fellow desirous to tel him his fortune For things to come said my friend I desire not to know them but am contented to attend Divine Providence Tell me if you can some remarkable passages of my life past But the Cunning Man was nothing for the Preter-Tense where his falshood might be discovered but all for the Future counting himself therin without the reach of confutation There are in our age a Generation of People who are the best of Prophets and worst of Historians Daniel and the Revelation are as easie to them as the Ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer They pretend exactly to know the time of Christs actuall Reign on Earth of the Ruine of the Romish Anti-Christ yea of the day of judgment it self But these Oracles are struck quite dumbe if demanded any thing concerning the time past About the coming of the Children of Israel out of Egypt and Babylon the originall increase and Ruine of the 4. Monarchies Of these and the like they can give no more account then the Child in the Cradle They are all for things to come but have gotten through a great Cold of Ignorance such a CREEKE in their Neck they cannot look backward on what was behind them II. True Text False Gloss. A Husband-man Anabaptistically inclined in a pleasant humour came to his Minister and told him with much chearfulnesse that this very Seeds-time the words of the Apostle 1 Cor. 9.10 were fulfilled that he that ploweth may plow in hope Being desired further to explaine himself I meane said he we husbandmen now plow in hope that a harvest we shall never pay Tithes but be eased from that Antichristian yoke for the time to come It seemeth he had received such intelligence from some of his own party who reported what they desired He might plow in hope to reach his nine parts but in dispaire to have the tenth especially since God hath blessed us with so wise a Parliament consisting not only of Men chosen but of Persons truely the Choice of the Nation who will be as if not more tender of the Churches right then their own interest They have read how Pharaoh King of Egypt Gen. 47.22 would in no case alienate the Lands of the Priests The very Gypsies who generally have no good name condemned for crafty Cheaters and Cozeners were conscientiously precise in this particular and they would not take away what was given to their God in his Ministers III. Foul-mouth Stopt AMbitious Absalom endeavoured to bring a scandal on his Fathers Government complaining `the Petitioners who repaired to his Court for Justice were slighted and neglected 2 Sam. 15.3 See thy matters are good and right but there is no man