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A42258
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Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.
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Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.
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1651
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Wing G2150A; ESTC R24265
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while the Lord and his cause doe suffer A good Conscience preferr'd before worldly glory Flavianus Clemens one of Domitians Courtiers was so much in favour with that Emperour as he intended to make his Son his Successor in the Empire but this good Flavianus rather then he would breake the Peace of his Conscience in the matter of his Religion he was content to beare the turning of this great love the Emperour bore him into as great hatred so as he hated him to death and oppressed his whole House Honours change manners Two Schollers that were long brought up together agreed that which of them came first to preferment should help the other one of them came afterward to be a Bishop the other seeing himselfe forgotten or at least neglected came to the Bishop desiring him to remember his promise the Bishop made as if he knew him not not know me replyed the other I am such a one Oa said the Bishop 't is no marvaile I shouâ—d not knowyou for to tell you true I scarce know my selfe A good help for the Pope at a dead lift A Fryer Minorite wrote a Booke to prove that the Pope might be Excommunicate as well as any other man to which purpose he used this Dilemma either the Pope is a Brother or he is not a Brother if he be a Brother then 't is certaine he may be Excommunicate by a Brother if he be not a Brother why doth he say Our Father at which the Pope was very much troubled but a merry Courtier that waited on him said That it was an easie matter to avoyd the Fryers Dilemma the Pope desired to know how Why Sir said the Courtier Vos nunquam dicite Pater Noster solutum est argumentum Let your Holinesse never say the Lords Prayer and there 's an end of an old Song The sinfull examples of great men are of dangerous consequence in the world Austin in his Confessions speaking of Poeticall Fictions saith that the Devill drew men on cunningly to wickednesse by them for whereas the Poets feigned such and such men who were sometimes famous in the world to be gods and did cry them up for Deities and attributed to thâ—m filthy lusts and wicked uncleannesse it came to passe that such as delighted in such wayes would blesse themselves in this that they did not imitate base men but the coelestiall gods Thus the Devil gets Sinne countenanced in the world by the examples of great ones the meaner sort thinking themselves safe if they have but men of eminency for their patterne A fit Meditation for every man Franciscus Xaverius writing to John the third King of Portugall gave him this wholsome counsell That he would every day for a quarter of an houre meditate upon that Divine sentence Wbat shall it profit a man to win the world and lose his owne soule And that he would seeke of God the right understanding of it and that he would make it the close of all his prayers the repetition of these words What shall it profit a man c. A Miracle in our dayes Mistris Hony-wood of Kent an ancient and religious Gentle-woman being in great distresse of Conscience for want of assurance oft crying out that she was certainly damn'd one day as she was in conference with some godly Divines who laboured what they could to comfort her and satisfie her spirit she still persisted in her dispairing expressions when the Ministers were about to depart she called for a cup of Wine for them which being brought she dranke to one of them a Glasse of the Wine and as soone as she had done in an extreame passion she threw the Venice Glasse against the ground saying As sure as this Glasse will breake so surely am I damned the Glasse rebounded from the ground without any harme which one of the Ministers suddenly caught in his hand and said Behold a Miracle from Heaven to confute your unbeleefe tempt God no more tempt God no more both the Gentlewoman and all the company were mightily amazed at this strange accident and all glorified God for what was done and the Gentlewoman through the Grace of God received much comfort and lived and dyed full of peace and assurance This hapned in King James his time and the whole Story was related to him in a Sermon immediately after it was done and so also was it related by another Preacher at Pauls Crosse Kings never want Laws to doe what they list Cambyses desirous to marry his owne sister asked his Magi whether it were lawfull or no for him to doe so They answered that indeed they had no Law for the Brother to marry the Sister but they had another Law whereby it was lawful for the Kings of Persia to doe what they listed The Churches treasure Saint Laurence the Martyr being demanded by Galienus the Tyrant where he had bestowed the Treasure of the Church he told him that within three dayes he would resolve him in the meane time he gathered together a great number of poore Christians saying that these were the riches of the Church He that serves God by a Proxy shall goe to Heaven by an Atturny There was a Merchant that seldome or never went to Church himselfe but used to send his Wife to pray for them both it hapned that they both dyed much about the same time and comming to Heaven Gates Saint Peter let the Woman only in saying That as she went to Church for both so she should be received into Heaven for both A sinfull life followed with a wofull death One Hermanus a great Courtier in the Kingdome of Bohemia being at point of death did most lamentably cry out That he had spent more time in the Palace then in the Temple and that he had added to the ryotousnesse and vices of the Court which he should have sought to have reformed and so dyed to the horrour of those that were about him A Bishops blessing not worth a halfe penny There was a poore blinde man that sate begging by the High-way who hearing that a Bishop was comming the old man bestirr'd himself with great expectation of a bountiful reward from his Lordship crying Good my Lord good my Lord bestow some small peece of silver upon this poore blinde man for Gods sake my Lord one halfe penny to this blinde man but on rode the Bishop and not a farthing could the poore man get who perceiving that the Bishop was past he cryed to him that if he would give him no mony he would yet give him his blessing the Bishops blessing in old time was a goodly matter which the Bishop hearing turned his Horse and went back to the blinde man bidding him kneele downe and he would give him his blessing which was to lay his hand upon his head and pray God to blesse him the blinde man fell upon his knees but instantly starts up againe and said 'T was no great matter whether he did blesse him or no for he