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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42258	Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre.	Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.	1651 (1651)	Wing G2150A; ESTC R24265	68,241	186

would become of the Bishop I feare me he would to Hell too at which the Bishop being confounded went his way Bishop Wrens unsufferable insolency When Wren was Bishop of Norwich and had put downe all after-noone Sermons on Lords dayes in his Diocesse it hapned that the Earles of Bedford and Doncaster with three or foure Lords more were invited to the Baptizing of the Lord Brooks Childe at Dallam in Suffolke which was to be in the after-noone on the Lords day the Noble-men earnestly desired Master Ash Houshold Chaplaine to the Lord Brcoks to preach which through great importunity he did this presently comming to the Bishops eares he sends his Apparitor with a Citation for Master Ash to appeare before him with whom the Lord Brooks went along to the Bishop whom they found sitting in state like a great Lord or Demy Pope they desired to know his Lordships pleasure to which the Bishop answered That his Chaplaine had openly affronted him in his Diocesse in daring to preach therein without his speciall License and that on the Lords day after-noone when he had expresly prohibited all Sermons within his Jurisdiction telling Master Ash that he would make him an example to all others my Lord Brooks told the Bishop That it was by the earnest intreaty of those Lords and his owne command that his Chaplaine then preached and that he hoped there was no cause of offence in the matter to which the Bishop replyed That my Lord Brook did very ill to offer to maintaine his Chaplaine in this saying that no Lord in England should affront him in his Diocesse in such a manner if he did his Majesty should know of it and that he would make his Chaplaine an example Hereupon he presently proceedeth against Master Ash in his owne Court with all violence no mediation of Lords o● friends could pacifie him till at last the Earle of Don●aster told him That he would complaine of him to the King if he would not cease prosecuting Master Ash since he preached by the Lord Brooks command and at his and oth●r Lords intreaty hereupon the Bishop leaving the Chaplain falls upon the Church-wardens fines them forty shillings a man injoynes them publick Pennance in the Church to aske God and the Bishop forgivenesse and to confesse that their pennance was just O pride O tyranny The Doctor could not pray without b●oke When the Religious Lord Vere was suddenly struck with deaths arrow at Sir Henry Vanes Table at White-Hall as he sate at Dinn●r and carried from thence into a Withdrawing Chamber where he dyed a Grand Doctor of Divinity one of the Kings Chaplaines being there present was upon this unexpected occasion desired to kneele downe and pray with the Company the Doctor hereupon calls for a Common-prayer Booke and answer being made that there was none present he replyed that he could not pray without a Book whereupon a Knight there present tooke him by the Gowne and forced him to kneele downe telling him that my Lord was dying and he must needs say some Prayer or other upon this he begins Our Father which art in heaven for other prayer could he say none which the Knight hearing bade him hold his peace for my Lord was dead and he was but a dead Divine who knew not how to pray He that stopt other mens mouthes had at last his own ●●…pt with a vengeance Thomas Arundell Arch-Bishop of Canterbury a grievous persecutor of Gods people and a great suspender and silencer of his Ministers who occupying his tongue braines and Episcopall power to stop the mouthes and tye up the tongues of Gods Ministers and hinder the preaching and course of Gods Word was by Gods just Judgement so s●●icken in his tongue that it swelled so bigge he could neither swallow nor speake for some dayes before his death and so he was starved choked and killed by this strange tumour of his tongue A true Slave There was not long since in the Towne of Ipswich an old man who was so extreamly base and miserable that he lived in a most sordid manner not allowing himselfe convenient necessaries either for back or belly but would walke Horses at Innes begge his victuals up and downe the Towne and weare such old rotten Canvase Jackets and Breeches as the Sea-men threw away when this wretch was dead his two Sonnes who were newly come from Sea knowing that their Father had money though he would never part with a farthing to them fell a ransaking the house and at last they found what they lookt for though the quantity farre exceeded their expectation the neighbours that came into the house with them stood amazed to see so much money in such a mans house the two Sons leapt up and downe for joy and one clapping the other on the back said Faith sirrah was not this a true Slave Cardinall Pools answer to a Figure-f●inger One that pretended skill in judiciall Astrologie came to Cardinall Poole telling him that he had been calculating of his Nativity the Cardinall askt him What he meant by his nativity The Astrologer answered his Birth under what Planet he was borne and what Fortunes would befall him which he said he had gathered from the Starres and Coelestiall houses Tush replyed the Cardinall I have been borne againe since then How to deale with crafty sinners The Lot when it was directed against Achan first it fell upon the Tribe secondly it fell upon the Family Thirdly upon the Houshold and lastly upon the person of Achan he hid his sinne ever till it lighted upon him So the crafty sinner is not moved when the threatning is given out generally against the Nation neither when it is given out against the City where he dwels nor when it comes to his Family till in particular it come to his Person and till it be said to him Thou art the man Sin is a shamelesse thing yee may spit seven times in the face of it before it blush A covetous man is like a Christmas Box The covetous man is like a Christmas Box whatsoever is put into it cannot be taken out till it be broken he soaketh up the waters of riches like a Spunge and till death doth come and squeeze him with his Iron graspe he will not yeeld one drop of that which he hath received 'T is hard to know a mans disposition till he be out of check 'T is said of Tiberius that whilst August●● rul'd he was no wayes tainted in his reputation and that whiles Drusus and Germanicus were alive he feigned those vertues which he had not to maintaine a good opinion of himselfe in the hearts of the people but after he had got himselfe out of the reach of contradiction and controulment there was no fact in which he was not faulty no crime to which he was not accessary Love me a little and love me long 'T was a witty reason of Diogenes why he askt a half penny of the thrifty man and a pound of the

fruit of his Covetousnesse for being slaine in warre melted gold was poured downe his throat by the Parthians Julius Caesar enjoyed not long the fruit of his Ambition for he had 25. wounds given him in the Senate whereof he instantly dyed Heliogabalus enjoyed not long the fruit of his pleasure for he was slaine and thrown into a Jakes Dionysius did not long enjoy the fruit of his Sacriledge and Tyranny for he was glad to change his Scepter into a Feruler and turne Schoolemaster for his maintenance Achan spent not his wedge of gold nor wore his Babylonish garment but was soon stripped of both Ahah and Jezabell purchased a Vineyard with the blood of the owner but they presently watered it with their own blood Belshazzar had scarcely swallowed downe the Wine he carrowsed in the bowles of the Sanctuary when hee saw his doome written on the wall The rich man in the Gospel had no sooner said Soule eate and drink and be merry but he heard a voyce saying Thou foole this night shall thy soule be required The rich Glutton fared delicately and went bravely every day but the next newes you heare from him is of his being in Hell crying out that he is miserably tormented And Judas fitted a halter to hang himself with the same hands he took the money for betraying his Master How to pacifie Gods Wrath. Themistocles understanding that King Admetus was highly displeased with him hee gate up the Kings young sonne in his armes and so treated with the Father and thereby pacified his wrath So should wee come to the King of Heaven with his Sonne Christ in our armes The Devils cunning in leaving Jobs wife Gregory observes that the Divel taking from Job his children servants Cattell c. yet left him his wife which was not out of his forgetfulnesse carelesnesse or any love or pitty to Job but onely to vex and plague him and drive him to impatience and if it might be to despaire Calide cuncto diripuit calidius adjutricem reservavit And as another saith Cor malier is est tanquam gradus ad cor hominis Why Jupiter is preferred before the rest of the Gods In the dayes of old when all the Estates of the world were about to chuse some one of the Gods to be chiefe Ruler over all men The Priests would chuse Apollo for his wisdome The Souldiers Mars for his valour The Merchants Mercury for his negotiating The Physicians Esculapius for his cures But at last they all agreed to chuse Jupiter because he was the God that came downe into the world in a showre of Gold Godly men leave a blessing to their posterity Master Samuel Herne famous for his living preaching and writing rich onely in goodnesse and children as he lay upon his death-bed his wife made great moane and lamentation saying what should become of her little ones if God took her husband Peace Sweet-heart said hee That God who feedeth the Ravens will not starve the Hernes which speech of his proved propheticall for his children were all well provided for through Gods providence Of one that said the Crosse-row instead of a Prayer A devout but very ignorant Spaniard conceived that he ought to use other prayers in his private devotions besides the Pater-nosters and Ave-Maries but so simple was hee that he knew not how to pray otherwise onely every morning he would kneele downe and lifting up his eyes and hands to Heaven deliberately repeat all the Letters of the Alphabet which having done he added And now O good God said he put these Letters together that they may spell syllables that the syllables may make words and the words so joyned as that they may become such sence as may be most to thy glory and my good Dangerous delaying of Repentance Constantine had a conceit that because Baptisme washt away all sinnes he would not be baptized till his death-bed that so his soule might never lose the purity thereof but immediately mount to Heaven but sudden death preventing him he was not baptized at all as some say or onely by an Arrian Bishop as others affirme If any shall erroneously upon the same supposition put off their repentance to the last let them take heed lest it either prove none at all or none in effect Balaams wish One being asked whether he had rather be Croesus who was the richest but most vicious man in the world or Socrates who was one of the poorest but most honest answered that in his life he would chuse to be Croesus but in his death Socrates Most men are best in a low condition Pope Martin reported of himselfe that whilst he was a Monk and lived in the Cloyster he had some evidences for Heaven when he was a Cardinall hee began to feare and doubt but after he came to be Pope he utterly despaired How God will try men When one was brought before Tyberius who pretended right and title to a Crowne and Tyberius upon long examination could not detect the Imposter nor trap him in his tale at last he began to search the habit and shape of his body and not finding there the softnes and delicacy of a Prince but the brawninesse and servile fashion of a Mechanick he so startled the man with such an unexpected tryall as made him confesse the truth So God will deale with those that usurpe a title to his Kingdome and prevaricate his Name he wil not take them on their bare words or empty professions but will examine their hands and if he finde them hardned in the service of sin their owne hands shall stop their mouthes Saint Austines robbing of an Orchard made a hainous sin After Saint Austin was converted be began to be exceedingly troubled about the robbing of an Orchard which he did in his Childehood this act of his he aggravated against himselfe by many circumstances as First that he was not provoked to it by any need or want for saith he I had better at home Secondly that he did it in meere contempt of Justice out of a wicked minde Thirdly that it was more for the love of theft then of the fruit Fourthly that it was done at an unseasonable time in the dead of the night Fifthly that there was abundance of Apples at that time in their owne Orchard Sixtly that he drew in other boyes to joyne with him and so made them guilty with himself Lastly that when they had gotten as many as they could well carry away they did not eate them but threw them away to the Hogges A miraculous providence In the second year of Queene Mary at a place in Suffolke by the Sea side all of hard stone and pebble lying between the Townes of Orford and Alborough where never grasse grew nor any earth ever seen there chanced suddenly to spring up without any tillage or sowing so great abundance of Pease that the poor people thereabouts gathered above an hundred quarters in the month of August yet there remained some ripe