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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56983	Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Warwick, Arthur, 1604?-1633. Spare minutes, or, Resolved meditations and premeditated resolutions.	1677 (1677)	Wing Q94; ESTC R6261	74,920	244

impudent nor boast of it lest thou seem insolent Every mans vanity ought to be his greatest shame and every mans folly ought to be his greatest secret CHAP. XXIII IF thou be ignorant endeavour to get knowledg least thou be beaten with stripes if thou hast attain'd knowledg put it in practice least thou be beaten with many stripes Better not to know what we should practise then not to practise what we know and less danger dwell's in unaffected ignorance then unactive knowledg CHAP. XXIV TAke heed thou harbour not that vice call'd Envy least anothers happiness be thy torment and God's blessing becom thy Curse vertue corrupted with vain-glory turn's Pride Pride poyson'd with malice becoms Envy joyn therfore Humility with thy Vertu and Pride shall have no footing and Envy shall find no entrance CHAP. XXV IF thy endeavour cannot prevent a Vice let thy Repentance lament it the more thou remembrest it without heart's grief the deeper it is rooted in thy heart take heed it please thee not especially in cold blood Thy pleasure in it makes it fruitfull and her fruit is thy destruction CHAP. XXVI THe two knowledges of God and thy self are the high way to thy Salvation that breeds in thee a filial love this a filial fear The ignorance of thy self is the begining of all sin and the ignorance of God is the perfection of all evil CHAP. XXVII RAther do nothing to the purpose then be idle that the Devil may find thee doing the Bird that sits is easily shot when fliers ' scape the Fowler idleness is the dead Sea that swallow's all Vertues and the Self-made Sepulcher of a living man the idle man is the Devils hireling whose livery is rags whose diet and wages are famin and diseases CHAP. XXVIII BE not so mad as to alter that Countenance which thy Creatour made thee Remember it was the work of his Hands if it be bad how dar'st thou mend it If it be good why dost thou mend it art thou asham'd of his work and proud of thy own he made thy face to be known by why desirest thou to be known by another it is a shame to adulterate modesty but more to adulterate nature Lay by thy art and blush not to appear what he blushes not to make thee It is better to be his Picture than thy own CHAP. XXIX LEt the ground of all thy Religious actions be obedience examine not why it is commanded but observe it because it is commanded True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions CHAP. XXX IF thou wouldst buy an inheritance in Heaven advise not with thy Purs least in the mean while thou lose thy purchase The Widow bought as much for two mites as Zaccheus did for half his estate the prize of that purchase is what thou hast and is not lost for what thou hast not if thou desire to have it CHHP. XXXI WIth the same height of desire thou hast sinn'd with the like depth of sorrow thou must repent thou that hast sinn'd to day deferr not thy repentance till to morrow he that hath promised pardon to thy Repentance hath not promised life till thou repent CHAP. XXXII TAke heed how thou receivest prais from men from good men neither avoid it nor glory in it From evil men neither desire it nor expect it To be praised of them that are evil or for that which is evil is equal dishonour He is happy in his worth who is praised by the good and imitated by the bad CHAP. XXXIII PRoportion thy chatity to the strength of thy estate least God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift least in seeking applause thou lose thy Reward Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a close mouth CHAP. XXXIV DOst thou want things necessary Grumble not perchance it was a necessary thing thou should'st want Endeavour lawfully to supply it if God bless not thy endeavour bless him that knoweth what is fittest for thee Thou art Gods Patient Prescribe not thy Physician CHAP. XXXV IF anothers death or thy own depend upon thy confession if thou canst say nothing if thou must say the Truth it is better thou lose thy life than God his Honour it is as easie for him to give thee life being condemn'd as repentance having sinn'd it is more wisdom to yeeld thy Body than hazard thy Soul CHAP. XXXVI CLoath not thy language either with Obscurity or affectation in the one thou discover'st too much darkness in the other too much lightness He that speaks from the understanding to the understanding is the best interpreter CHAP. XXXVII IF thou expectest death as a friend prepare to entertain it If thou expectest death as an enemy prepare to overcom it Death has no advantage but when it coms a stranger CHAP. XXXVIII FEar nothing but what thy industry may prevent Be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided then to be secure when there is a possibility to be depriv'd CHAP. XXXIX LEt not the necessity of Gods decree discourage thee to pray or dishearten thy prayers doe thou thy duty and God will do his pleasure if thy prayers make not him sound that is sick they will return and confirm thy health that art sound If the end of thy prayer be to obtain thy request thou confinest him that is infinite if thou hast done well because thou wert commanded thou hast thy reward in that thou hast obeyed Gods pleasure is the end of our prayers CHAP. XL. MArry not too young and when thou art too old marry not least thou be fond in the one or thou dote in the other and repent for both let thy liking ripen before thou love let thy Love advise before thou choos and let thy choice be fixt before thou marry Remember that the whole happiness or unhappiness of thy life depends upon this one Act. Remember nothing but death can dissolve this knot He that weds in haste repents ofttimes by leisure And he that repents him of his own act either is or was a fool by confession CHAP. XLI IF God hath sent thee a Cross take it up and follow him use it wisely least it be unprofitable Bear it patiently least it be intolerable Behold in it Gods anger against sin and his love towards thee in punishing the one and chastening the other if it be light sleight it not if heavy murmur not Not to be sensible of a judgement is the symptom of a hardned heart and to be displeas'd at his pleasure is a sign of a rebellious will CHAP. XLII IF thou desirest to be magnanimous undertake nothing rashly and fear nothing thou undertak'st Fear nothing but infamy Dare any thing but injury the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous CHAP. XLIII PRactise in health to bear sickness and endeavour in the strength of thy life to

transport thee not beyond the common pitch and shew thee not the Magazin of high invention return thee to thy wanton Bed and there conclude thy self more fit to wear thy Mistresses Favour then Apollos Bayes CHAP. LV. IF thou art rich strive to command thy money lest she command thee if thou know how to use her she is thy Servant if not thou art her Slave CHAP. LVI BRing thy daughter a husband of her own Religion and of no hereditary disease Let his wisdom outweigh his wealth Let his parentage excell his person and let his years exceed hers Let thy prayers recommend the rest to providence if he prove thou hast found a Son if not thou hast lost a Daughter CHAP. LVII SO use Prosperity that Adversity may not abuse thee if in the one Security admits no fears in the other Despair will afford no hopes He that in Prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance CHAP. LVIII IF thy faith have no doubts thou hast just cause to doubt thy faith and if thy doubts have no hope thou hast just reason to fear despair When there fore thy doubts shal exercise thy faith keep thy hopes firm to qualifie thy doubts So shall thy Faith be secured from doubts So shall thy doubts be preserved from despaire CHAP. LIX IF thou desire to be truly valiant fear to do any injury He that fears not to do evill is always afraid to suffer evill He that never fears is desperate And he that fears always is a Coward He is the true valiant man that dares nothing but what he may and fears nothing but what he ought CHAP. LX. ANger may repast with thee for an hour but not repose for a night The continuance of Anger is Hatred the continuance of Hatred turns Malice That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two Suns CHAP. LXI IF thou standest guilty of oppression or wrongfully possest of anothers Right see thou make Restitution before thou givest an Alms if otherwise what art thou but a Thief and makest God thy Receiver CHAP. LXII WHen thou pray'st for spirituall Graces let thy prayer be absolute When for temporall Blessings add a Clause of Gods pleasure in both with Faith and Humiliation So shalt thou undoubtedly receive what thou desirest or more or better Never prayer rightly made was made unheard or heard ungranted CHAP. LXIII HEe that gives all though but little gives much because God looks not to the quantity of the Gift but to the quality of the Giver He that desires to give more then he can hath equall'd his Gift to his desire and hath given more then he hath CHAP. LXIV BEe not too greedy in desiring Riches nor too eager in seeking them nor too covetous in keeping them nor too passionate in losing them the first will possess thy soul of discontent The second will dispossess thy body of Rest The third will possess thy wealth of thee The last will dispossess thee of thy self He that is too violent in the concupiscible will be as violent in the irascible CHAP. LXV BE not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom As it was gotten so leave it by degrees Danger attends upon too sudden Alterations He that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruin'd by the fall But he that takes it down Brick by Brick may live to build a better CHAP. LXVI IF thou desire that inestimable Grace of saving Faith detest that insatiable vice of damnable Covetousness it is impossible one heart though never so double should lodge both Faith possesses thee of what thou hast not Covetousness dispossesses thee of what thou hast Thou canst not serve God unless Mammon serve thee CHAP. XLVII BEware of him that is slow to Anger Anger when it is long in coming is the stronger when it comes and the longer kept Abused patience turns to fury When Fancy is the ground of passion that understanding which composes the Fancy qualifies the passion But when judgement is the ground the Memory is the Recorder CHAP. LXVIII HE that professes himself thy open enemy arms thee against the evill he means thee but he that dissembles himself thy secret Friend strikes beyond Caution and wounds above Cure From the first thou maist deliver thy self From the last good Lord deliver thee CHAP. LXIX IF thou hast wrong'd thy brother in thought reconcile thee to him in thought if thou hast offended him in words let thy reconciliation be in words if thou hast trespassed against him in deeds by deeds be reconciled to him That Reconciliation is most kindly which is most in kind CHAP. LXX NOt to give to the poor is to take from him Not to feed the hungry if thou hast it is the utmost of thy power to kill him That therefore thou maist avoid both Sacriledg and Murther Be Charitable CHAP. LXXI SO often as thou remembrest thy sins without Grief so often thou repecaest those sins by thy not grieving He that will not mourn for the Evill which he hath done gives earnest for the Evill he means to do Nothing can asswage that fire which Sin hath made but onely that Water which Repentance hath drawn CHAP. LXXII LOok well before thou leap into the chair of Honour The higher thou climbest the lower thou fallest unlesh Vertue preserve thee if Gold or Favour advance thee thy Honour is pinn'd upon the wheel of Fortune When the wheele shall turn thy Honour falls and thou remain'st an everlasting Monument of thy own ambitious folly CHAP. LXXIII WE are born with our temptations Nature somtimes presses us to evill somtimes provokes us unto good therefore thou givest her more then her due thou nourishest an enemy if less then is fufficient thou destroyest a friend Moderation will prevent both CHAP. LXXIV IF thou scorn not to serve Luxury in thy Youth Chastity will scorn thy service in thy Age and that the Will of thy green years thought no Vice in the acting the necessity of thy gray hairs makes no Vertue in the forbearing Where there is no Conflict there can be no Conquest where there is no Conquest there is no Crown CHAP. LXXV THou didst nothing towards thy own Creation for thou wert created for thy Creators glory Thou must do somthing towards thy own Redemption for thou wert redeemed for thy own good He that made thee without thee will not save thee without thee CHAP. LXXVI WHen thy tongue and heart agree not in confession that confession is not agreeable to Gods pleasure He that confesses with his tongue and wants confession in his heart is either a vain man on an Hypocrite He that hath confession in his heart and wants it in his tongue is either a proud man or a timerous CHAP. LXXVII GOld is Caesars Treasure Man is Gods Thy Gold hath Caesars image and thou hast Gods Give therefore those things unto Caesar which are Caesars and unto God which are Gods CHAP. LXXVIII IN the Commission of evill fear no

last seldom fail'es being grounded upon Evidence CHAP. XCVIII IF thou art cal'd to the Dignity of a Commander dignify thy place by thy Commands and that thou maist be the more perfect in commanding others practice upon thy self Remember thou art a servant to the publick weal and therefore forget all private respects either of kin or friend Remember thou art a Champion for a Kingdom forget therefore all private affections either of Love or Hate He that would do his Countrey right must not be too sensible of a personall wrong CHAP. XCIX IT is the part of a wise Commander to read Books not so much as Men nor men so much as Nations He that can discern the inclinations conditions and passions of a Kingdom gain 's his Prince a great advantage both in Peace and Warr. CHAP. C. ANd you most High and Mighty Princes of this lower World who at this intricate and vatious game of Warr vie Kingdoms and win Crowns and by the death of your renowned Subjects gain the lives of your bold-hearted Enemies Know there is a Quo Warranto Whereto you are to give account of vour Eye-Glorious actions according to the righteous rules of Sacred Justice How warrantable it is to rend imperiall Crowns from off the Soveraign heads of their too weak possessours or to snatch Scepters from out the conquer'd hand of heaven-anointed Majesty and by your vast ambitions still to enlarge your large Dominions with Kingdoms ravisht from their naturall Princes judge you O let your brave designs and well-weighed actions be as just as ye are glorious and consider that all your Warrs whose ends are not to defend your own Possessions or to recover your dispossessions are but Princely injuries which none but heaven can right But where necessity strikes up her hard Alarms or wrong'd Religion beats her zealous Marches Go on and let both Swords and Stratagems proclaim a victory whose nois'd renown may fill the world with your eternall Glory The End of the first Century ENCHIRIDION The Second Book Cent. 2. CHAP. I. APromise is a child of the understanding and the understanding begets it the will brings it forth he that performs it delivers the mother he that brerks it murthers the child If he be begotten in the absence of the understanding it is a Bastard but the child must be kept If thou mistrust thy understanding promise not if thou hast promised break it not it is better to maintain a Bastard then to murther a child CHAP. II. CHarity is a naked child giving honey to a Bee without wings naked because excuseless and simple a child because tender and growing giving honey because honey is pleasant and comfortable to a Bee because a Bee is laborious and deserving without wings because helpless and wanting If thou deniest to such thou killest a Bee If thou giv'st to other than such thou preserv'st a Drone CHAP. III. BEfore thy undertaking of any design weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt if the glory ontweigh the danger it is cowardize to neglect it if the danger exceed the glory it is rashness to attempt it if the Balances stand poiz'd let thy own Genius cast them CHAP. IV. WOuldest thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake let thy devotion recommend it to divine blessing if it be lawfull thou shalt perceive thy heart encouraged by thy prayer if unlawfull thou shalt find thy prayer discourag'd by thy heart That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beggs blessing or having succeeded dares not present thanksgiving CHAP. V. IF evill men speak good or good men evill of thy conversation examin all thy actions and suspect thy self But if evill men speak evill of thee hold it as thy honour and by way of thankfulness love them but upon condition that they continue to hate thee CHAP. VI. IF thou hope to please all thy hopes are vain if thou fear to displease some thy fears are idle The way to please thy self is not to displease the best and the way to displease the best is to please the most if thou canst fashion thy self to please all thou shalt displease him that is All in All. CHAP. VII IF thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbour in vain thou professest thy love to God for by thy love to God the love to thy neighbour is begotten and by the love to thy neighbour thy love to God is nourisht CHAP. VIII THy ignorance in unrevealed Mysteries is the mother of a saving Faith and thy understanding in revealed Truths is the mother of a sacred Knowledge understand not therefore that thou maist believe but beleeve that thou maist understand understanding is the wages of a lively Faith and Faith is the reward of an humble ignorance CHAP. IX PRide is the ape of charity in shew not much unlike but somwhat fuller of action In seeking the one take heed thou light not upon the other they are two Paralells never but asunder charity feeds the poor so does pride charity builds an Hospitall so does pride in this thy differ charity gives her glory to God pride takes her glory from man CHAP. X. HAst thou lost thy money and dost thou mourn another lost it before thou hadst it be not troubled perchance if thou hadst not lost it now it had lost thee for ever think therefore what thou rather hast escaped then lost perhaps thou hadst not been so much thy own had not thy money beene so little thine CHAP. XI FLatter not thy self in thy faith to God if thou wantst charity for thy neighbour and think not thou hast charity for thy neighbour if thou wantest faith to God where they are not both together they are both wanting they are both dead if once divided CHAP. XII BE not too slow in the breaking of a sinfull custom a quick couragious resolution is better then a graduall deliberation in such a combate he is the bravest souldier that lay's about him without fear or wit Wit pleads fear disheartens he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neckthen five heads fell the Tree and the Branches are soon cut off CHAP. XII BE carefull rather of what thou do'st then of what thou hast for what thou hast is none of thine and will leave thee at thy death or thou the pleasure of it in thy sickness But what thou do'st is thine and will follow thee to thy grave and plead for thee or against thee at thy Resurrection CHAP. XIV IF thou enjoyest not the God of love thou canst not obtain the love of God neither untill then canst thou enjoy a desire to love God nor relish the love of God thy love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of Gods love to thee till he please to love thee thy love can never please him CHAP. XV. LEt not thy fancy be guided by thine eye nor let thy will be governed by thy fancy thine eye may be deceived in