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A79881	Aurea Legenda, or Apothegms, sentences, and sayings of many wise and learned men, useful for all sorts of persons Collected out of many authors by Sa. Clark, sometimes pastor in B.F.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing C4488A; ESTC R223906	51,711	152

free from Sins and Distractions I pass from one Death to another yet I fear none I praise God I can Live and I dare Dye If God hath more Work for me to do here I am willing to do it tho my infirm Body be very weary Being asked whether Sickness Pain c. caused him to desire Death he answered no But I now do no good and I hinder others which might be better imployed if I were gone Why should any desire to Live but to do God service Now I cease from that I do not Live His usual saying was that he valued no man for his Gifts but for Humility under them Neither should he expect much from any man were his Parts never so great till he was broken with Afflictions and Temptations His Observation was that the humblest Preachers converted most Souls not the choicest Schollars whilst unbroken He sometimes said that it 's better to be an Humble Devil than a proud Angel Which tho a seeming Contradiction yet hath it much Truth in it He often said that he had rather pour Liquor into his Boots than into his Mouth between Meals The Rule which he gave to his Children was this When you are Youths chuse your own Callings when you are Men chuse your own Wives only take me along with you It may be an Old man may see further than you He used to say that a Preacher hath three Books to study First the Bible Second himself And thirdly the People That Preaching to his People was but one part of a Pastor's duty He was to live and dye in them as well as for and with them His counsel to young Preachers was that they should rather Preach one Sermon ten times over than to speak any thing new without Preparation Concerning himself he said that he never came off with less Comfort and worse Content to himself than when he was in appearance best provided And he gave this reason for it Not because he had used such diligence in preparing for that was his Duty but because he was then aptest to depend upon himself and to neglect his dependance upon God Of the antient Fathers his saying was that unless it were for their Polemical and Historical parts their Writings were more for Devotion and Affection than for their judgment and understanding Concerning the Times wherein he lived some things lay sadly upon his Spirit As 1. He complained that the Power of Godliness and Exercise of Love and Self-denial were much abated in these latter Days And he much bewailed the vast difference both in Garb and Practice between New and Old Professors 2. That the Indulgence which was shewed to tender Consciences was much abused to Profaneness whilst men of no Conscience most pleaded that Liberty of choosing their own Churches and Teachers when indeed on the Matter they abandoned all 3. That Liberty of prophecying which some pretended to was abused to meer Licentiousness and Confusion whilst some would have none and others all Prophets and Preachers 4. That in the Universities few could be called constant Students in those times but the most made a short work of it and Posted into the Pulpit before they understood their Grounds So that few were able to encounter with the growing Errors of those times 5. That in the Church men were in their extreams some pressing nothing but the Law others Preaching nothing but the Gospel and Christ 6. He complained of the want of Catechizing and instructing Youth in the Principles of Religion the want of which he saw by experience was a great occasion of the Peoples giddiness 7. But most of all he bewailed the readiness of many to side and to make Divisions And himself loved not either to use or to hear used dividing Names and Titles He observed that such as often changed their Principles and Faith professed usually fell from Scepticism to Atheism That so much Humility any man had so much Grace and worth he had and no more That nothing was to be accounted good in or to any man but that which was his proper Fruit and done by vertue of his Calling from a Principle of God and for God That the best man hath no security from any one Sin or fall or Temptation any further or longer than he is held up by God's hand and Christ's Mediation That God doth oftentimes leave us to own Satan's suggestions for our own because we do not own God in his holy Motions and breathings That it 's just with God to deny us the Comfort of our Graces when we deny him the Glory of them In himself he observed that what he forgot in the Week-days would unseasonably press in on the Lord's Day so that he could if he durst contrive more Worldly businesses upon the Lord's Day than he could dispatch all the week after That he found no greater Enemy than Discouragement which he called the Child of Pride and unbelief He used to say that some Duties which were oft in mens Mouths as easy he found very difficult to him As 1. To deny himself in all his Selfs was a Work to be learning whilst he lived 2. To live only by Faith and a bare Promise without a Pawn is a great work 3. To give all to Free-Grace and to Christ alone is a mighty Work 4. To love where we meet with unlovingness and Contempt is no easie matter 5. To do ones proper Work without some present Pay and Countenance from God and Man is a hard Task 6. That it 's a far harder work to adopt other mens Comforts than their Sorrows and to hold ones self exalted in anothers Exaltation 7. That to dye in cold Blood and to be active in it as an act of Obedience is the work of a Christian indeed In his last Sickness upon sundry Occasions he thus vented himself It 's a hard thing to think ill of our selves and well of God at the same time It 's a hard thing for a Child of God to forgive himself some Faults even when God hath forgiven them It 's hard to retain holy Thoughts long and to confine them to another Man's Prayers We know but little of Christ's Love till all be perfected and spread before us in Heaven His advice to his Wife was that if she married again she should remember her own Observation which was this that second Husbands are usually very Uxorious and second Wives very prevalent Therefore said he take heed that you do no ill Offices by estranging your Husband from his former Children or Kindred For you shall draw upon him a great Sin and judgment if you kill natural affections towards them His advice to his Children was First For your Souls Trifle not in the main Point Your Souls are immortal You have to deal with an infinite Majesty You go upon Life and Death therefore here be serious Do all to God in a serious manner When you think of him speak of him Pray to him any way make your addresses

to Honour Moderation preserves us in it Men come down by Domineering Haste undoeth that which a just delay ripeneth It was his excellent Motto Nolo Minor me timeat despiciatve Major My Inferiours shall not fear my Superiors shall not despise me Humility shuns Honour and is the way to it The purest Gold is most Ductile It 's commonly a good Blade that bends well The Reed that bends and is whole is better than the strong Oak that not bending breaks There is no such prevalent Workman as Sedulity and Diligence A man would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees and gentle Augmentations Patience Diligence and Moderation are the common steps to Excellency It 's for Omnipotence to do mighty things in a Moment But by degrees to grow to greatness is the course he hath left for man We make our selves more injuries than are offered us and the apprehension of wrong doth more harm than the smartest part of the wrong it self It 's the Wise man's Glory and the States-mans Prudence to pass by offences A Fool struck Cato in the Bath and when he was sorry for it Cato had forgot it For saith Seneca Melius putavit non agnoscere quam ignoscere Light injuries are made none by not regarding which with a pursuing revenge grow both to height and burden and live to mischief us when they might die to secure us The upper Region is most composed The Wisest men rage the least knowing that Observation and Resentment do but provoke and encourage the Malice which neglect and silence deads and dissipates Discontent is the greatest Weakness of a generous Soul which is always so intent upon it's unhappiness that it forgets it's Remedies Faction can be as little spared in a Monarchy as an Eye or an Ear as through which the Prince hath a cleerer apprehension of his own and other's affairs than he can have when his Followers are all agreed But when Factions are carried too high and too Violent it 's a sign of Weakness in Princes and tends much to the Prejudice of their Authority and Business Queen Elizabeth had a happy time of it if it were but for this That her Favourers Divisions were her support For thereby she attained the knowledge of all things that happened So as no Suit or Design passed the Royal assent before she understood as much of Reason as Enemies or Friends could bring for or against it The Lord Willoughby in Queen Elizabeths days having taken a Spanish Genet designed for a Present to that King and being offered either a Thousand pound or a Hundred pound a year in exchange for it He nobly answered If it had been a Commander he would freely have released him but being only a Horse he saw no reason why he could not keep a good Horse as well as the King of Spain himself It 's a right noble Spirit not to be so stupid as not to resent nor so unworthy as to retain a sense of Injuries To have the Courage to observe an affront is to be even with an Adversary To have the Patience to forgive it is to be above him Sr. Henry Wotton as he was travelling to Rome asked his Host at Siena a Man well versed in men and Business what Rules he would give him for his Port Conduct and Carriage There is one short remembrance said he will carry you safe through the World nothing but this Keep your thoughts close and your Countenance loose Seneca said That the good things of Prosperity are to be wished and the good things of Adversity to be admired Prosperity said my Lord Bacon is the blessing of the Old Testament and Adversity of the New We are consecrated by Dangers to Services and we know not what we can do until we have seen all we can fear The common People saith one are like Rivers which seldom grow so impetuous as to transcend the bounds of Obedience but upon the Over-flowing of a general Oppression Good Husbandry may as well stand with great Honour as Breadth may may consist with Height Of Edward Earl of Darby it is recorded That when he was buried no Trades-man could demand the Payment of a Groat that he owed him Nor a Neighbour the restitution of a Penny he had wronged him Sr. William Fitz-Williams a brave Soldier used to say That he durst never adventure upon War with Men till he had made his Peace with God That a good Conscience breeds great Resolutions and the innocent Soul is impregnable Six things are recorded of him 1. That he never made the Aged the Young or the Weak the Objects of his Rage that could not be so of his Fears 2. That he never basely killed in cold Blood them that had nobly escaped his Sword in Hot. 3. That he never led the Soldiers without pay or quartered in the Country without Money 4. That tho he was second to none that acted in the War such was his Valour yet he was the first that spake for Peace such his sweet Disposition 5. That he would never suffer a Clergy-Man should be abused A Church to be violated or the Dead to be un-buried 6. That he would never force an Enemy unto necessity always saying Let us disarm them of their best Weapons Despair Not fight an Enemy before he had Skirmished him Nor undertake a Design before he Consulted his God his Council his Friends his Map and his History Sr. Walter Mildmay coming to the Court after he had founded his Colledge Emanuel in Cambridg Queen Elizabeth said to him Sr. Walter I hear that you have erected a Puritan Foundation No Madam said he far be it from me to Countenance any thing contrary to your Established Laws But I have set an Acron which when it comes to be an Oak God alone knows what will be the Fruit of it The middle Region of the Air is coolest as most distant from the direct Beams that warm the Highest and the reflexed that heat the lowest The mean man that is as much below the Favour of the Court as above the Business of the Country is the most happy and Composed man This being the utmost of a knowing Man's wish in England That he were as much out of the reach of Contempt as to be above a Constable and as much out of the Compass of trouble as to be below a Justice There is a Glory in the obscurity of worthy Men who as the Sun which they equal as well in common Influence as Lustre are most looked on when Eclipsed Cloths for necessity warm Cloths for Health cleanly for Decency lasting for Strength was the Maxim and Practice of Judg Manwood insomuch as Queen Elizabeth called him her Good-man Judg. Tullies Offices a Book which Boys read and men understand was so esteemed by the Lord Burleigh that to his dying Day he always carried it about him either in his Bosom or in his Pocket as a complete Piece that like Aristotle's Rhetorick would make both

and tranquillity which springs from a good Conscience gives a sweet relish and satisfaction to the Soul which no Throne by it's own Vertue can afford Publick Faith the Laws of Nations and natural Equity ought to be sacred and inviolable Bonds which in all Ages and in all Nations ought most Religiously to be observed Princes are ordinarily the Rules of their Subjects actions And are as the Primum Mobile to all their Motions Their great Examples are imitated and followed by the People Each one sees observes and strives to follow their Prince as their Guide If the Prince be virtuous the People are of that Inclination If wicked and Vicious the Subject are apt Schollars to such a bad Lesson The Lives of glorious Princes ought to be as unspotted as the purest Christal For certain it is if a Prince lose his Honour that loss is irreparable for ever The Crimes of private Persons may be concealed in the obscurity of their quality and buried in Oblivion as well as their Memory But the Actions of Princes whether good or bad survive to Posterity The Sun shines as well on the wicked as the good God pardoneth more often than he punisheth His Clemency spreadeth more Universally than his Justice A seasonable act of Justice and thereby an Effusion of a little Blood sometimes prevents an inundation of Misery and takes away the cause of ample Pardons and unlimited Clemency The King of the Bees hath they say no Sting which teacheth Princes not to be transported with the Violence of their Passions and to meditate rather on Clemency as more Natural than on Rigours which Nature declines Of all Wars the Defensive is most just and Glorious That right which permits of a repulsion of force by force is as ancient as the Foundation of the World Nature it self inspires it the Laws permit it the Casuists dispute it but in Conclusion the best Divines Authorize it Great wounds in the more Noble parts endanger the Body and Dissensions in the Royal Family are commonly Destructive and fatal to the whole Line Youth is an Age wherein the acquisition of ill Habits are more facile than the infusions of good and Vertuous dispositions The Founders of Rome were Brethren and Twins Yet those that had lain together in one Womb could not sit quietly together in one Throne and nothing would serve until the Blood of the one was mingled in the Morter and laid in the Foundation of the Walls of that glorious City Silla and Marius never were in Peace nor could they rest while their Power was equal The Triumvirat a Composition of three of the choicest men could not continue long Anthony and Lepidus were forced to surrender to the Fortune of Augustus Marcus Aurelius with all his Philosophy and Wisdom found it an unsupportable burthen to bear Sail with the Factions of Lucius Verus his Colleague in the Empire Bassianus Caracalla was Voluntarily a Fratricide in his Brother Geta that he night raign alone Gallienus creating Odenate his Colleague hastened his own Death with the ruin of the Empire And in brief all Examples in this kind easily demonstrate that the admission of a Companion in the Throne is neither facile nor tollerable Humble Virtues are as commendable as aspiring and Tumultuous Honour and to raign in Peace with Justice is as Glorious as to Conquer triumphantly in War It is fit for a Prince to have the Theory of severity but not to Practise it if possibly he can avoid it The Oblivion of injuries is an Act every way more noble than Revenge A Prince who raigns without Honour cannot Live a moment without Danger He that scorns his own Life may easily become Master of another's He who maketh Friendship his Treasure may be liberal when he pleaseth without Danger of Profusion He hath true repose of Spirit who preserveth his Reason entire and neither lyeth down nor riseth up in fear It 's the usual fate of Great men seldom to be content with their present State They think that either their own merits are not rewarded enough or their Inferiors too much and so through discontent striving to be higher they fall lower It 's an excellent Point of skill in a Commander to know when his strength hath attained it's just bounds of Conquest and there stopping his Desires of gaining more to fix upon the good Government of what he hath already gotten It was Augustus his Lot after a long and honourable Raign to dye and yet Tum quidem Pauci luxêrunt postea Omnes Few mourned at his Death afterwards All. For Tiberius succeeded him who was as wicked as Augustus was good We must not live to eat but eat to live We should eat less than Nature desires and yet so much as to refresh nature and to make us fit for the service of God and Man Luk. 21. 34. Nature is content with a little Grace with less Aristotle saith that the Ass-Fish of all other Creatures hath his Heart in his Belly And Solinus observes that the Dolphin hath his Mouth almost in his Belly Such are our greedy Cormorants who as it were wear their Guts in their Heads and their Brains in their Bellies If you will be careful to please Dionysius you need not feed upon green Herbs said the Parasite to the Philosopher And if you can be content to feed upon green Herbs said the Philosopher to the Parasite you need not care to please Dionysius Spend-thrifts entomb their Ancestors in their Bowels They turn their Rents into Ruffs their Lands into Laces Hang their Patrimonies in their Ears as saith Seneca wear a pretty Grove Hang a handsome Farm on their Backs And thus they waste their substance with Riotous living as did that Prodigal Luke 16. 13. Tenuis mensa sanitatis Mater saith St. Chrysostom A slender Diet is the Mother of Health Augustus the Emperor never drank but thirce at one meal and lived till he was almost four-score years old Queen Elizabeth of blessed Memory did seldom Eat but of one sort of Meat at one Meal and rose ever with an Appetite and lived till she was about seventy years old King Edward her Brother called her by no other name than His sweet Sister Temperance They knew full well that much Meat much Malady Of the Lord of Worcester in Queen Elizabeths days it is recorded that his Father by his Temperance reached to the ninety seventh year of his Age because he did never Eat but one Meal a day and his Son's sparingness attained to eighty four because he never Eat but of one Dish at one Meal The Belly was the first Sword that the Devil drew against us and doth it still so that if we let out our Appetites it may cut our Throats For many more perish by intemperance than by Violence By surfeiting than by suffering Meat kills as many as the Musket Multitudes dig their own Graves with their Teeth The Board kills more than the Sword The Cardinal of Burbon would not part