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A74632	Herbert's remains, or, sundry pieces of that sweet singer of the temple, Mr George Herbert, sometime orator of the University of Cambridg. Now exposed to publick light.	Herbert, George, 1593-1633.; Oley, Barnabas, 1602-1686.	1652 (1652)	Thomason E1279_1	88,323	339

of Noblemens cloaths He is a great Necromancer for he asks counsell of the Dead i.e. books A man is known to be mortal by two things Sleep and Lust Love without end hath no end says the Spaniard meaning if it were not begun on particular ends it would last Stay a while that we may make an end the sooner Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers To seek these things is lost labour Geese in an oyle pot fat Hogs among Jews and Wine in a fishing net Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest Marry your daughters betimes lest they marry themselves Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer Here is a talk of the Turk and the Pope but my next neighbour doth me more harm then either of them both Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists and 30000 Witches We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth but you married men laugh till your hearts ake The Divell never assailes a man except he find him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God There is no body will go to hell for company Much money makes a Countrey poor for it sets a dearer price on every thing The vertue of a coward is suspition A man's destiny is alwayes dark Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature Money wants no followers Your thoughts close and your countenance loose Whatever is made by the hand of man by the hand of man may be overturned FINIS The Authour's PRAYER before SERMON O Almighty and ever-living Lord God! Majesty and Power and Brightnesse and Glory How shall we dare to appear before thy face who are contrary to thee in all we call thee for we are darknesse and weaknesse and filthinesse and shame Misery and sin fill our days yet art thou our Creatour and we thy work Thy hands both made us and also made us Lords of all thy creatures giving us one world in our selves and another to serve us then did'st thou place us in Paradise and wert proceeding still on in thy Favours untill we interrupted thy Counsels disappointed thy Purposes and sold our God our glorious our gracious God for an apple O write it O brand it in our foreheads for ever for an apple once we lost our God and still lose him for no more for money for meat for diet But thou Lord art patience and pity and sweetnesse and love therefore we sons of men are not consumed Thou hast exalted thy mercy above all things and hast made our salvation not our punishment thy glory so that then where sin abounded not death but grace super abounded accordingly when we had sinned beyond any help in heaven or earth then thou saidest Lo I come then did the Lord of life unable of himselfe to die contrive to do it He took flesh he wept he died for his enemies he died even for those that derided him then and still despise him Blessed Saviour many waters could not quench thy love nor no pit overwhelme it But though the streams of thy bloud were currant through darknesse grave and hell yet by these thy conflicts and seemingly hazards didst thou arise triumphant and therein mad'st us victorious Neither doth thy love yet stay here for this word of thy rich peace and reconciliation thou hast committed not to Thunder or Angels but to silly and sinfull men even to me pardoning my sins and bidding me go feed the people of thy love Blessed be the God of Heaven and Earth who onely doth wondrous things Awake therefore my Lute and my Viol awake all my powers to glorifie thee We praise thee we blesse thee we magnifie thee for ever And now O Lord in the power of thy Victories and in the wayes of thy Ordinances and in the truth of thy Love Lo we stand here beseeching thee to blesse thy word wher-ever spoken this day throughout the universall Church O make it a word of power and peace to convert those who are not yet thine and to confirme those that are particularly blesse it in this thy own Kingdom which thou hast made a Land of light a store-house of thy treasures and mercies O let not our foolish and unworthy hearts rob us of the continuance of this thy sweet love but pardon our sins and perfect what thou hast begun Ride on Lord because of the word of truth and meeknesse and righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things Especially blesse this portion here assembled together with thy unworthy Servant speaking unto them Lord Jesu teach thou me that I may teach them Sanctifie and inable all my powers that in their full strength they may deliver thy message reverently readily faithfully fruitfully O make thy word a swift word passing from the ear to the heart from the heart to the life and conversation that as the rain returns not empty so neither may thy word but accomplish that for which it is given O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do so for thy blessed Son's sake in whose sweet and pleasing words we say Our Father c. BLessed be God! and the Father of all mercy who continueth to pour his benefits upon us Thou hast elected us thou hast called us thou hast justified us sanctified and glorified us Thou wast born for us and thou livedst and diedst for us Thou hast given us the blessings of this life and of a better O Lord thy blessings hang in clusters they come trooping upon us they break forth like mighty waters on every side And now Lord thou hast fed us with the bread of life so man did eat Angel's food O Lord besse it O Lord make it health and strength unto us still striving prospering so long within us untill our obedience reach thy measure of thy love who hast done for us as much as may be Grant this dear Father for thy Son's sake our only Saviour To whom with thee and the Holy Ghost three Persons but one most glorious incomprehensible God be ascribed all Honour and Glory and Praise ever Amen Mr G. HERBERT To Master N.F. upon the Translation of VALDESSO MY dear and deserving Brother your Valdesso I now return with many thanks and some notes in which perhaps you will disover some care which I forbear not in the midst of my griefes first for your sake because I would do nothing negligently that you commit unto me secondly for the Authour's sake whom I conceive to have been a true servant of God and to such and all that is theirs I owe

Christian Souldier take such occasions to harden himselfe and to further his exercises of Mortification CHAP. XXXVI The Parson Blessing THe Countrey Parson wonders that Blessing the people is in so little use with his brethren whereas he thinks it not onely a grave and reverend thing but a beneficial also Those who use it not do so either out of niceness because they like the salutations and complements and formes of worldly language better which conformity and fashionableness is so exceeding unbefitting a Minister that it deserves reproof not refutation Or else because they think it empty and superfluous But that which the Apostles used so diligently in their writings nay which our Saviour himselfe used Marke 10.16 cannot bee vain and superfluous But this was not proper to Christ or the Apostles only no more then to be a spirituall Father was appropriated to them And if temporall Fathers blesse their children how much more may and ought Spirituall Fathers Besides the Priests of the old Testament were commanded to Blesse the people and the forme thereof is prescribed Numb 6. Now as the Apostle argues in another case if the Ministration of condemnation did bless how shall not the ministration of the spirit exceed in blessing The fruit of this blessing good Hannah found and received with great joy 1 Sam. 1.18 though it came from a man disallowed by God for it was not the person but Priesthood that blessed so that even ill Priests may blesse Neither have the Ministers power of Blessing only but also of cursing So in the old Testament Elisha cursed the children 2 Kin. 2.24 which though our Saviour reproved as unfitting for his particular who was to shew all humility before his Passion yet he allows in his Apostles And therfore St Peter used that fearfull imprecation to Simon Magus Act. 8. Thy mony perish with thee and the event confirmed it So did St Paul 2 Tim. 4.14 and 1 Tim. 1.20 Speaking of Alexander the Copper-smith who had withstood his preaching The Lord faith he reward him according to his works And again of Hymeneus and Alexander he saith he had delivered them to Satan that they might learn not to Blaspheme The formes both of Blessing cursing are expounded in the Common-Prayer-book the one in The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. and The Peace of God c. The other in generall in the Commination Now blessing differs from prayer in assurance because it is not performed by way of request but of confidence and power effectually applying Gods favour to the blessed by the interesting of that dignity wherewith God hath invested the Priest and ingaging of Gods own power and institution for a blessing The neglect of this duty in Ministers themselves hath made the people also neglect it so that they are so far from craving this benefit from their ghostly Father that they oftentimes goe out of church before he hath blessed them In the time of Popery the Priests Benedicite and his holy water were over highly valued and now we are fallen to the clean contrary even from superstition to coldnes and Atheism But the Parson first values the gift in himself and then teacheth his parish to value it And it is observable that if a Minister talke with a great man in the ordinary course of complementing language he shall be esteemed as ordinary complementers but if he often interpose a Blessing when the other gives him just opportunity by speaking any good this unusuall form begets a reverence and makes him esteemed according to his Profession The same is to be observed in writing Letters also To conclude if all men are to blesse upon occasion as appears Rom. 12.14 how much more those who are spiritual Fathers CHAP. XXXVII Concerning detraction THe Countrey Parson perceiving that most when they are at leasure make others faults their entertainment and discourse and that even some good men think so they speak truth they may disclose anothers fault finds it somwhat difficult how to proceed in this point For if he absolutely shut up mens mouths and forbid all disclosing of faults many an evill may not only be but also spread in his Parish without any remedy which cannot be applyed without notice to the dishonor of God and the infection of his flock and the discomfort dicredit hinderance of the Pastor On the other side if it be unlawful to open faults no benefit or advantage can make it lawfull for we must not do evill that good may come of it Now the Parson taking this point to task which is so exceeding useful and hath taken so deep roote that it seems the very life and substance of Conversation hath proceeded thus far in the discussing of it Faults are either notorious or private Again notorious faults are either such as are made known by common fame and of these those that know them may talk so they do it not with sport but commiseration or else such as have passed judgment been corrected either by whipping or imprisoning or the like Of these also men may talk and more they may discover them to those that know them not because infamy is a part of the sentence against malefactours which the Law intends as is evident by those which are branded for rogues that they may be known or put into the stocks that they may be looked upon But some may say though the Law allow this the Gospel doth not which hath so much advanced Charity and ranked backbiters among the generation of the wicked Rom. 1.30 But this is easily answered As the executioner is not uncharitable that takes away the life of the condemned except besides his office he add a tincture of private malice in the joy and hast of acting his part so neither is he that defames him whom the Law would have defamed except he also do it out of rancour For in infamy all are executioners and the Law gives a malefactour to all to be defamed And as malefactors may lose forfeit their goods or life so may they their good name and the possession thereof which before therr offence and Judgment they had in all mens brests for all are honest till the contrary be proved Besides it concerns the Common-Wealth that Rogues should be known and Charity to the publick hath the precedence of private charity So that it is so far from being a fault to discover such offenders that it is a duty rather which may do much good and save much harme Neverthelesse if the punished delinquent shall be much troubled for his sins and turne quite another man doubtlesse then also mens affections and words must turne and forbear to speak of that which even God himself hath forgotten FINIS JACULA PRUDENTUM OR Outlandish PROVERBS SENTENCES c. SELECTED By Mr George Herbert Late Orator of the Universitie of CAMBRIDG LONDON Printed by T. Maxcy for T. Garthwait at the little North door of St Paul's 1651. Jacula Prudentum OLD men