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A61113	A discovrse of divers petitions of high concernment and great consequence delivered by the authour into the hands of King James, of famous memory, and into the hands of our gracious King Charles : and divers other letters delivered unto some great peers of the land and divers knights and ladies and others of great worth and quality : a treatise of melancholie and the strange effects thereof : with some directions for the comforting of poor afflicted soules and wounded consciences : and some directions for the curing and reclaiming surious mad men and some rare inventions in case of great extremity to feed them and preserve them from famishing and to procure them to speak : which it pleased the God of wisdom to enable me to finde out in the long time of fifty years experience and observation / by John Spencer, gentleman.	Spencer, John, Gentleman.	1641 (1641)	Wing S4953; ESTC R19173	61,728	130

feare of God with good works I beseech you in the feare of God deck your selfe with these rich jewels of faith and repentance humilitie patience fasting and prayer and good works that so you may be like the Kings Daughter glorious within and this will make you amiable in the sight of God and glorious in the eies of his Saints and remember you are the Daughter of a religious Ladie and the Wife of an ancient Knight and the Mother of two Sons and therefore you must give them good example of wisdome and sobrietie for godlinesse is great gaine if we can be contented with that we have and God hath blessed you with a rich portion of outward beauty and comelinesse and therefore do not deface that incomparable worke of God with such base trash and trumperie for you shall never enter into the Kingdome of Heaven into the companie of glorious Saints with that trumperie on your back and gaudes on your head Consider what I say and the Lord give you grace to repent of your sins before you go hence and be no more seen Amen Amen From him that doth desire your endlesse happinesse Iohn Spencer Good Brother I Am desirous to heare if my Father Winne have paid the fifty pounds unto Sir Milss Fleetwood and also to admonish you as I take it of your unseasonable payment of one hundred pounds upon the Sabbath day morning before Harborough Faire alas was that a fit time to tell money and to make your Accompts with men when you should accompt with God was that a fit time to rumble in your Chest for your money-bags when you should have ransackt your heart for your sins must not the Lord of Sabboths needs be highly offended to see the service of men preferred before his divine Service and more care had for the buying of Oxen than for the keeping of his holy Sabbath must not the Lord needs visit for such sins nay hath he not already visited although in great mercy for was not your dear and onely son within a few dayes after closed up in a Chest and there found by his mother speechlesse and near his last breathing had not the Lord in judgement remembred mercy and restored life when we deserved death and if you did not already make use of it I beseech you in the feare of God assure your selfe that in that judgement the Lord would have you take notice of that particular sinne for if you remember when I was with you at Arlsen I told you before I heard of this that you must thinke that there was something amisse that the Lord would have reformed when he threatened such fearefull judgement to this effect And therefore I beseech you bewaile that grievous sinne and as Iob made a Covenant with his eyes so doe you make a Covenant with your hands never to abuse them so againe with telling money upon the Sabbath day And remember it was Balaams ever to be lamented error still to pursue the wages of iniquity although the Angell threatened him with a drawing sword but let his fearefull end teach us with wisedome to returne in time and repent of our sinnes and make our peace with our God before we goe hence and be no more seene and to say truth these dayes and dangerous times requires a continuall preparation for our last departure when so many wise and strong are taken away and their honour laid in the dust and we must looke also for our changing we know not how soone and therefore good brother let us walke circumspectly as the children of the light and such as are risen with Christ setting our affections on things that are above and not on things that are on the earth for our life is hid with Christ in God When Christ which is our life shall appeare then shall we appeare with him in glory In the meane time let us be diligent to exhort and admonish one another and to edefie one another in our holy faith that so we may grow from grace to grace and strength to strength till we become perfect men in Christ Amen Lord Jesus Amen Your loving Brother and the Lords unworthy Creature John Spencer Staughton More Novemb. 7. 1616. A Copy of a Letter to the prisoners at Bedford with a Booke of common Prayer and M. Dods exposition upon the Commandements bound up together with bosses and claspes BRethren my hearts desire and prayer to God for you poore prisoners is that your soules might be saved For I beare you record that in these places you endure many times hunger cold and much misery together with the fearefull expectation of the Judges comming and the sentence of death yet if God doth not worke in your hearts true repentance and sanctifie these afflictions unto you it will be but as a forerunner of the appearing before that dreadfull Iudge that will pronounce that fearefull sentence of damnation against the wicked of Goe ye cursed into hell fire and these yron chaines a shadow of those everlasting chaines of darknesse wherein the wicked shall be for ever tormented and therefore that I might be a meanes through Gods mercy to further you in that holy worke of true repentance I have procured these two bookes to be bound up together for your better use in this place of restraint the one commended and commanded by the publique authority for the publique service of God the other the worke of a reverend Preacher an excellent exposition of the Commandements both being undertaken in the feare of God and diligently used may be a blessed meanes to further you in the way of repentance and to set your feet into the way of peace First therefore pray earnestly to God to give you understanding hearts and then read and then pray and read againe and the Lord of heaven so blesse you in reading and praying that you may truly repent you of all your sinnes before you goe hence and be no more seene Amen Stoughton Moore 1624. From him that wisheth your everlasting happinesse LEt me intreat you in the feare of God that one of you that is best affected and best inabled to read Prayers and the Psalmes for Morning and Evening Prayer according to the order that is appointed in the booke of common Prayer and then instead of the Chapters which you should read in the Bible if you had it read every morning and evening a portion of the Commandements as is appointed for the day of the month that so the booke of the Psalmes and the exposition of the Commandements may be read over once every moneth and upon every Sabbath day I would have you besides the ordinary portion appointed for that day of the month read the exposition of the fourth Commandement halfe at morning prayer and halfe at evening prayer Let one read distinctly and reverently and let the rest heare diligently and devoutly I doe humbly desire the honourable Court of Parliament to take that to their consideration that every prison

and Knight of the Parliament house and his Minister of great worth and of great parts also having spent much money in suites of Law in the high Commission Court I humbly intreated my Lord Mandevill that noble peace-maker to take into his consideration they being his neare neighbours who tooke great paines to order the businesse and end the suites and gat them into bands but they were both so resolute they brake their bands and refused the order and procured Commissions out of the high Commission Court to examine witnesses I think almost a fortnight together to their great charge and to make such misdemeanors appeare to that Court that some of their good friends thought would make them be fined a thousand pound at the least The Commission was sealed up and sent to Huntington to be returned into the high Commission Court I was sorry to see all our labour lost hopes frustrate yet it pleased God to put a conceit into my head and therefore I consulted with two that were nearly allyed to the Knight of the Parliament house and told them we must make an end either with the consent of the parties or without their consent for the first that the suit was impossible the second how could it be that I will tell you so we fell to writing first that all suites in law should cease secondly that thus much the Knight of the Parliament should give the Preacher for rearages for his tythes and then to prevent suites hereafter the Knight of the Parliament should give thus much a yeare for composition for his tythes When we had done I told them I will engage my selfe to be bound in this summe that the Minister shall stand to this and you shall doe the like to me That the Knight of the Parliament should doe the like we entred into bands and then sent for them and when they saw that we stood engaged for them and it was not their Act they consented to that end and entred into five hundred pound bonds a peece to stand to that end thus it pleased God to take off this tedious and dangerous businesse The other concerned my selfe in my old age a gentleman had made a scandalous report of me that I should send a Cart upon the Sabbath-day to remove certaine goods which was very false yet he made report of it to a noble friend of mine which answered very much for me and would not beleeve it used many meanes to vindicate my reputation but he would not be satisfied but gave credit to the report of some lewd malicious companions so in the end I grew so foolish that I sent him a challenge sent my man with it to meet me the next day by eight of the clocke in the morning upon such a Common betwixt two Woods to meet single and with single swords I came to the place at the time appointed and beat the ayre but he came not I rode to his gates to call him but he returned his answer in a kinde letter to me did acknowledge that he had done me wrong to give credit to the report of such lying and malicious knaves and that he would satisfie my noble friend how much I was wronged to this effect and afterwards we continued very loving friends during his life this I doe relate but would have no man follow this example except they will doe and so I hope we should have done As two knights in King Henry the eighths time as I take it that the one was Sir Iohn St. Iohn and the other Sir Henry Cromwell two valiant Knights and brave souldiers and contended for a peece of ground and spent more money in Law then they were willing and seeing it was unfit for souldiers to follow suites in Law they resolved to determine it with their swords and appointed a day to meet upon that ground and there met but considering better of it that their valour was well knowne and what a vaine thing it was for them to adventure their lives upon such a quarrell whereupon they grew to make offers each to other of the ground and contented who should give or take it a vaine example of two so noble and valiant Knights but I would now advise all men to take heed they be not put to that adventure for men to meet in the field the devill will put these conceits into their mind that it is not for your honour to appoint the field and not to fight and if they fight then it will be their dishonour to give over with this disadvātage thy enemy hath given thee more wounds then thou hast done him and so will urge them to fight still untill either one or both are slaine as was seene in the ever to be lamented example of Sir George Wharton and Sir Iames Steward that stood upon tearmes of honour and were both slain in the field A Copy of a Letter to my Cousin M. Bullie a grave Preacher in new England MY very louing Cousin seeing we can no longer enjoy your company in old England we would be glad to heare of your safe arrivall in new England and I feare in this little time you finde by experience that all things are not answerable to your expectation and likewise that your friends that did so earnestly desire your stay were not altogether mistaken when they told you that you should find many inconveniences in that place Well howsoever God the God of infinite wisedome that hath in his eternall Councell appointed us our going out and our comming in that hath in his providence thus directed and inclined your heart unto this course I trust also he will sanctifie both your prosperity and adversity in the fame that all shall worke together for the best to further you to that everlasting rest which he hath prepared for his children in the kingdome of heaven and therefore now let us be partakers of the truth in both and especially in the comfort of your freedome in the ordinances of God and in your publique exercises in the holy worshipping of him for that is the main thing that I desire to be satisfied in and whether you have yet setled any uniforme course to be generally practised for the sanctifying of the Sabbath and when you begin and end the same as also for prayer and reading the holy Scriptures preaching of the Word and singing of Psalmes with the manner of the administrations of the holy Sacraments and how far you doe still hold the order of the Church of England and wherein you differ from the same or if you have not yet established such a course but leave every Minister to order his peculiar Congregation to his own Rule whether you doe not finde great variety and differences in mens opinions in that way and what inconvenience and danger may grow thereby through sects and schismes that of necessity is like to fall thereon And thus good Cousin you see how bold I am to trouble you with so many