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A44716	Epistolæ Ho-elianæ familiar letters domestic and forren divided into sundry sections, partly historicall, politicall, philosophicall, vpon emergent occasions / by James Howell.; Correspondence	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1650 (1650)	Wing H3072; ESTC R711	386,609	560

upon ones tail or muffling the face in the Hat or thrusting it in so●… hole or covering it with ones hand but with bended knee and an open confident face I fix my Eyes on the East part of the Church and Heaven I endeavour to apply evry tir●…le of the Service to my own Conscience and Occasions and I believe the want of this with the huddling up and careless reading of som Ministers with the commoness of it is the greatest cause that many do undervalue and take a Surfet of our public Service For the reading and singing Psalmes wheras most of them are either Petitions or Eucharisticall ejaculations I listen to them more attentively and make them mine own When I stand at the creed I think upon the custom they have in Poland and else-where for Gentlemen to draw their Swords all the while intimating therby that they will defend it with their lives and bloud And for the Decalog wheras others use to rise and sit I ever kneel at it in the humblest and trembling'st posture of all to crave remission for the breaches pass'd of any of Gods holy Commandments specially the week before and future grace to observe them I love a holy devout Sermon that first checks and then cheers the Conscience that begins with the Law and ends with the Gospell but I never prejudicat or censure any Preacher ●…aking him as I find him And now that we are not only Adulted but ancient Christians I beleeve the most acceptable Sacrifice we can send up to Heaven is prayer and praise and that Sermons are not so essentiall as either of them to the tru practice of devotion The rest of the holy Sabbath I sequester my body and mind as much as I can from worldly affairs Upon Monday morn as soon as the Cinq-ports are open I have a particular prayer of thanks that I am reprieved to the beginning of that week and evry day following I knock thrice at Heavens gate in the Morning in the Evening and at Night besides Prayers at Meals and som other occasionall ejaculations as upon the putting on of a clean Shirt washing my hands and at lighting of Candles which because they are sudden I do in the third person Tuesday morning I rise Winter and Summer as soon as I awake and send up a more particular sacrifice for som reasons and as I am dispos'd or have busines I go to bed again Upon Wensday night I always fast and perform also som extraordinary acts of Devotion as also upon Friday night and Saturday morning as soon as my senses are unlock'd I get up And in the Summer time I am oftentimes abroad in som privat field to attend the Sun-rising And as I pray thrice evry day so I fast thrice evry week at least I eat but one meal upon Wensdays Fridays and Saturdays in regard I am jealous with my self to have more infirmities to answer for than other Before I go to bed I make a scrutiny what peccant humors have reign'd in me that day and so I reconcile my self to my Creator and strike a tally in the Exchequer of Heaven for my quie●…us est ere I close my eyes and leave no burden upon my Conscience Before I presume to take the Holy Sacrament I use som extraordinary acts of Humiliation to prepare my self som days before and by doing som deeds of Charity and commonly I compose som new Prayers and divers of them written in my own bloud I use not to rush rashly into prayer without a trembling precedent Meditation and if any odd thoughts intervene and grow upon me I check my self and recommence and this is incident to long prayers which are more subject to mans weaknes and the devils malice I thank God I have this fruit of my forrain Travels that I can pray unto him evry day of the week in a severall Language and upon Sunday in seven which in Orisons of my own I punctually perform in my privat Pomeridian devotions Et sic aeternam contendo attingere vitam By these steps I strive to clime up to heaven and my soul prompts me I shall thither for ther is no object in the world delights me more than to cast up my eyes that way specially in a Star-light night and if my mind be overcast with any odd clouds of melancholly when I look up and behold that glorious Fabric which I hope shall be my Countrey heerafter ther are new spirits begot in me presently which make me scorn the World and the pleasures thereof considering the vanity of the one and the inanity of the other Thus my soul still moves East-ward as all the Heavenly bodies doe but I must tell you that as those bodies are over-master'd and snatch'd away to the West raptu primi mobilis by the generall motion of the tenth sphere so by those Epidemicall infirmities which are incident to man I am often snatch'd away a clean contrary cours yet my soul persists still in our own proper motion I am often at variance and angry with my self nor do I hold this anger to be any breach of charity when I consider That wheras my Creator intended this body of mine though ●… lump of Clay to be a Temple of his holy Spirit my affections should turn it often to a Brothell-house my passions to a Bedlam and my excesses to an Hospitall Being of a Lay profession I humbly conform to the Constitutions of the Church and my spirituall Superiors and I hold this obedience to be an acceptable Sacrifice to God Difference in opinion may work a disaffection in me but not a detestation I rather pity than hate Turk or Insidell for they are of the same metall and bear the same stamp as I do though the Inscriptions differ If I hate any 't is those Scismatics that puzzle the sweet peace of our Church so that I could bee content to see an Anabaptist go to Hell on a Brownists back Noble Knight now that I have thus eviscerated my self and dealt so clearly with you I desire by way of correspondence that you would tell me what way you take in your journey to Heaven for if my Brest lie so open to you 't is not sitting yours should bee shut up to mee therfore I pray let me hear from you when it may stand with your Convenience So I wish you your hearts desire here and Heaven hereafter because I am Yours in no vulgar way of friendship J. H. London 25 Iuly 1635. XXXIII To Simon Digby Esquire at Mosco the Emperor of Russia's Court. SIR I Received one of yours by Mr. Pickhurst and I am glad to find that the rough clime of Russia agrees so well with you so well as you write as the Catholic ayr of Madrid or the Imperiall ayr of Vienna where you had such honorable employments The greatest News we have heer is that we have a Bishop Lord Tresurer and 't is News indeed in these times though 't was no news you know in

them very miserably and he himself as they write died in a poor Hostrey with one Laquay as he was going to Venice to a bank of money he had stor'd up there for a dead lift Your Lordship knows what success the King of Denmark had and our 6000 men under Sir Charles Morgan for while he thought to make new acquests he was in hazard to lose all that he had had not he had favorable Propositions tendred him Ther were never poor Christians perished more lamentably than those 6000 we sent under M. Hamilton for the assistance of the King of Sweden who did much but you know what became of him at last How disastrously the Prince Palatin himself fell and in what an ill conjuncture of time being upon the very point of being restor'd to his Country But now we have as bad news as any we had yet for the young Prince Palatin and his Brother Prince Rupert having got a jolly considerable Army in Holland to try their fortunes in Germany with the Swedes they had advanc'd as far as Munsterland and Westphalia and having lain before Lengua they were forc'd to raise the siege and one Generall Ha●…zfield pursuing them ther was a fore battell fought wherin Prince Rupert my Lord Craven and others were taken prisoners The Prince Palatin himself with Major King thinking to get over the Weser in a Coach the Water being deep and not sordable he sav'd himself by the help of a Willow and so went a foot all the way to Minden the Coach and the Coach-man being drown'd in the River Ther wer neer upon 2000 slain on the Palsgraves side and scarce the twentieth part so many on Ha●…zfields Major Gaeuts one of the chiefe Commanders was kil'd I am sorry I must write unto you this sad story yet to countervail ●…t somthing Saxen Weymar thrives well and is like to get B●…isac by help of the French forces All your frends here are well and remember your Lordship often but none more oft than Lond. 5 Iun. 1635. Your most humble and ready Servitor J. H. XXX To Sir Sackvill C. Knight SIR I Was as glad that you have lighted upon so excellent a Lady as if an Astronomer by his Optics had found out a new Star and if a wi●…e be the best or worst fortune of a man certai●… you are one of the fortunat'st men in this Island The greatest news I can write unto you is of a bloody Banquet that was lately at Liege wher a great faction was a somenting 'twixt the Imperialists and those that were devoted to France amongst whom one Ruelle a popular Bourgue-master was chief The Count of Warfuzée a vassall of the King of Spains having fled thither from Flanders for som offence to ingratiat himself again into the King of Spains favour invited the said Ruelle to a Feast and after brought him into a privat Chamber wher he had provided a ghostly-father to confess him and so som of the Souldiers whom he had provided before to guard the House dispatch'd the Bourgue-master The Town hearing this broke ●…nto the House cut to peeces the said Count with som of his Souldiers and dragg'd his body up and down the Streets You know such a fate befell Walstein in Germany of late yeers who having got all the Emperours Forces into his hands was found to have intelligence with the Swede therfore the Imperiall Ban was not onely pronounc'd against him but a reward promis'd to any that should dispatch him som of the Emperours Souldiers at a great Wedding in Egra of which Band of Souldiers Colonell Buttler an Irishman was chief broke into his lodging when ho was at dinner kill'd him with three Commanders more that were at Table with him and threw his body out at a Window into the streets I hear Buttler is made since Count of the Empire So humbly kissing your noble Ladies hand I rest Lond. 5 Iun. 1634. Your faithfull servitor J. H. XXXI To Dr. Duppa L. B. of Chichester his Highnes Tutor at St. Iames. My Lord IT is a welbecoming and very worthy work you are about not 〈◊〉 suffer Mr. Ben. Iohnson to go so silently to his grave or rot so su●…ly Being newly com to Town and understanding that your Iohnsonus Virbius was in the Presse upon the solicitation of Sir Thomas Hawkins I suddenly fell upon the ensuing Decastic which if your Lordship please may have room amongst the rest Upon my honoured Frend and F. Mr. Ben. Iohnson ANd is thy Glass run out is that Oyl spent Which light to such strong Sinewy labours lent Well Ben I now perceive that all the nine Though they their utmost forces should combine Cannot prevail 'gainst Nights three Daughters but One still must spin one wind the other cut Yet in despight of distaff clue and knife Thou in thy strenuous lines hast got a life Which like thy Bays shall flourish ev'ry age While ●…oc or bu●…kin shall ascend the Stage Sic vaticinatur Hoellus So I rest with many devoted respects to your Lordship as being Lond. 1 of May 1636. Your very humble Servitor J. H. XXXII To Sir Ed. B. Knight SIR I Receiv'd yours this Maunday-Thursday and wheras amongst other passages and high endearments of love you desire to know what method I observe in the exercise of my devotlons I thank you for your request which I have reason to believe doth proceed from an extraordinary respect unto me and I will deal with you herein as one should do with his Confessor T is true though ther be rules and rubrics in our Liturgy sufficient to guide evry one in the performance of all holy duties yet I beleeve evry one hath som mode and modell or formulary of his own specially for his privat cubicular devotions I will begin with the last day of the week and with the latter end of that day I mean Saturday evening on which I have fasted ever since I was a youth in Venice for being delivered from a very great danger This yeer I use som extraordinary acts of devotion to usher in the ensuing Sunday in Hymns and various prayers of my own penning before I go to bed On Sunday Morning I rise earlier than upon other dayes to prepare my self for the Sanctifying of it nor do I use Barber Tailor Shoo-maker or any other Mechanick that morning and whatsoever diversions or lets may hinder me the week before I never miss but in case of sicknes to repair to Gods holy House that day wher I com before prayers begin to make my self fitter for the work by some praevious Meditations and to take the whole Service along with me nor do I love to mingle speech with any in the interim about news or worldly negotiations In Gods holy House I prostrat my self in the humblest and decent'st way of genuflection I can imagin nor do I beleeve ther can be any excess of exterior humility in that place therfore I do not like those squatting unseemly bold postures