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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16275	The six bookes of a common-weale. VVritten by I. Bodin a famous lawyer, and a man of great experience in matters of state. Out of the French and Latine copies, done into English, by Richard Knolles; Six livres de la République. English	Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596.; Knolles, Richard, 1550?-1610.	1606 (1606)	STC 3193; ESTC S107090	572,231	831

effectus carnem sibi parere cogit ac suis legibus obsequi Nutrimenta igitur spiritus sunt divina lectio orationes assiduae sermo doctrinae His alitur cibis his convalescit his victor efficitur Quod quia non facitis nolite conqueri de infirmitate carnis Nolite dicere quia volumus sed non poss●mus Super Levit. Hom. 9. b Hom. For reading of Scriptures c I meane in respect of terrible representations For I know well from the learnedst Physitions that that humour is originally settled in the spleene But from thence arise cloudes of Melancholike vapours which annoy the heart and passing up to the braine counterfets terrible obiects to the Phantasie and polluting both the substance and the spirits of the braine causeth it without externall occasion or object to forge monstrous fictions and terrible to the conceite which the judgment taking as they are presented by the disordered Instrument delivers to the heart which by reason of the Sympathy betweene the braine and the heart the thoughts and affections and having no judgement of discretion in it selfe but giving credit to the mistaken report of the braine is affected proportionably with terrour sadnesse and feare d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ephes. 6.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Cor. 2.11 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Revel 2.24 e Haec est ratio cur aliqui timent non timenda cur in suspiciones mirabiles falsissimas cadunt ita ut credant se aliquan●o quaeri ad mortem vel ad incarceratione● vel spoliationem inde fugiunt nemine persequente trepidantes timore ubi non est ti●or Cognovitalem tempore meo qui ingeniosissimus erat peritus valdè in medicinâ qui tandem fugit in nemora occulta nec ultrà comparuit Gerson de passionibus animae Consid. 20. f Let a melancholy person upon the sudden heare or see some fearefull thing the strength of his imagination is such that hee will presently fasten the thing upon himselfe As if hee see or heare that a man hath hanged himselfe or is possessed of a Divell it presently comes to his minde that hee must doe so to himselfe or that hee is or at least shall bee possessed In like manner upon relation of fearefull things presently his phantasie workes and hee imagineth that the thing is already or shall befall him Perkins Cases of Conscience cap. 12. sect 2. g Sic aliquis existimabat se gallum more galli cantabat Alius murilegum sub lectis mures quaerebat Alius imaginans se habere cornua in fronte verecundabatur quotiescunque videbat se inspici frontem tegebat Alius imaginans se notari de insectione leprae vel de morbo caduco omnes fugiebat trepidabat aspectus sermones Alius imaginans se habere pedes ferreos calcabat validissimè super terram Alius ambulare non audebat phantasians pedes suos esse vitreos Gerson loco suprà citato h Non Siculae dapes c. Not all King Denis dainty fare Can pleasing taste for them prepare No song of Birds no musicks sound Can lullaby to sleepe propound When any comes with a troubled conscience for sinne wee ought wisely to discerne whether they bee meanely grieved with a generall sight of their sinne or whether they be extremely throwne downe with the burthen of particular sinnes if so they bee then it is good at the first to shew that no sinne is so great but in Christ it is pardonable and that there is mercy with God that hee might bee feared so on the otherside shewing the mercy to come from God but so as they are nothing fit to receive mercy unlesse they feele their particular and pricking sinnes But if their sorrow bee more confessed in generall things then it is good to humble them more and more to give them a terrour of Gods justice for particular sinnes for experience doth teach that this is the best way to obtaine sound comfort both to see our sinne and to bee humbled to see our sinne That beeing throughly throwne downe wee may directly seeke Christ and keepe no stay untill we have found comfort in him who then is most ready to free us from our sinne and to comfort us with his spirit when wee are most cast downe with our sins and most feare them Greeneham In his Grave counsels pag. 6. k Id quidem aud●o dicere clariorem Evangelij Christi doctrinam nulli unquam populo ante propositam esse quam sit ca quam nos quotidiè audimus in Ecclesijs nostris Si profectò non ba●eremus aliquid aliud ●om sub Coelo exceptá hac tam clará verb●lace ea debet nos vel sola consolari Quis est qui non gaudet recreatur cum ex tenebris educit ut in lucemistam solare● At nos qui aliquando submersi jacuimus in tenebra● longè borribilissimis multò clariorum lucem babemus Solem nimirùm illum Iustitia Rolloc in Iohan. cap. 6. pag. 389. l Per ignorantiae malum à nescientibus innumerabilia perpetrantur mala Aug. Tom. 7. pag. 2. lib. 6. contra sulia Palag m Those that have no minde at all to heare or reade the Word if at any time through the remorse of their conscience which accuseth them they feele any inward griefe sorrow or heavinesse for their sins for so much as they want the salve and comfort of Gods Word which they doe despise it will bee unto them rather a mean to bring them to utter desperation then otherwise Hom. of Repentance pag. 2. n How wisely graciously and necessarily then did King Iames direct for profitable catecheticall teaching in the after-noone upon the Lords Day in all Parish-Churches throughout the Kingdom heare the words So farre are these directions f●om abating that his Maiesty dot● expect at our hands that it should increase the number of Sermons by renewing upon every Sunday in the ater-noone in all parish-Parish-Churches throughout the Kingdome that primitive and most profitable exposition of the Catechisme wherewith the people yea very children may bee timely seasoned and instructed in all the heads of Christian Religion The which kind of teaching to our amendment bee it spoken is more diligently observed in all the Reformed Churches of Europe then of late it hath been here in England I find his Majesty much moved with this neglect and resolved if wee that are his Bishops doe not see a reformation hereof which Ierust wee shall to recommend it to the care of the Civill Magistrates c. Reasons of the Kings directions for preaching and Preachers As I received them by authority from the hand of a publike Register Is it not strange and lamentable that for all this Princely and pious earnestnesse this soule-murdering neglect should yet every day grow greater and grosser o Cast thy selfe downe Destroy thy selfe Mat. 4.6 Fall downe and worship mee Then which I thinke there was never more abhorred injection v. ● p I