Cheap Riches OR A Pocket-Companion Made of Five hundred Proverbial Aphorismes c. as the next ensuinge page will more particularly notifie Prov. 20 14. Naught Naught saith the Buyer but when he is gone away then he boasts Chap. 3 14. For the Merchandize of it is better than the merchandize of Silver and the Gaine thereof than fine Gold By Nathanaell Church London Printed by S. G. to be sold at the Beare and Fountain in Cheap-side 1657. The Contents of the Booke 200 Golden sayings by Henery Church 300 Silver sayings and the Conscionable Polititian by Nathanaell Church To the Honourable William Pen Vice-Admirall to the English Navy whom God preserve and prosper Honored Sir YOur favourable Expressions of tender Charity to me have neither been few nor small the Commemoration whereof might well command your unworthy Servant into a better and larger Testimony of your noble Generosity my humble Acknowledgement But I must act now not according to your meritorious Worth but my slender Ability 'T is pitty that Good-Will should loose any thing but what is not worth a Keeping much lesse then should well-doâ—… passe thanklesse on Earth which goes not rewardlesse in Heaven Sir I cannot crowd your Beneficence into an Epistle nor Gods miraculous Memorials into the most voluminous Folio 'T is not unknown what a anguishing Distemper persecuted me from Country to City banished me from shore and almost from my Self gave me many Months Chase at Sea emptied me of comfort fill'd me with Complaints In so much as a Pining Body and a repining Soule the Lord forgive me were mine inseparable Companions for a long time But I will be discontented at nothing but my own Discontent Ever since I was your Honours Weak and Worthlesse Chaplain in the Lyon Centurion Fairfax Triumph and the James I wanted nothing but Thankefulness nor could I complain of any thing but my ownVnbeliefe I was among you in fear weakness and much trembling that I may borrow Pauls words 1 Cor. 2.3 though I cannot utter them in that more spirituall sense that He doth But I may well sing to God Psal 103.1,2,3,4,5 verses and I pray God make my Life which he hath graciously lengthned a Comment upon the whole Psalm When I think of my Restoratives for Soul and Bodie that Counsell Encouragement and Comfort which your prudent Head your tender Eye your honest heart your liberall Hand your faithfull Tongue administred unto me I say from the soul of a Nathanael For my Life I cannot thanke you too much nor GOD enough And indeed while I am telling you stories of your own Kind-heartednesse me-thinks I heare you reply on this poor crooked Stoper look up higher to the LIVING GOD say to that the same CELESTIAL EXCELLENTISSIMO What shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7.20 What shal I render to the Lord for All his benefits towards me Ps 116. â—… I have tryed many helps for my Recovery but all to no purpose Now I feel and find that the Lords way is in the Sea and his Path in the mighty waters and his foote-steps are not knowne Psal 77. â—… To this good and great God from whose Ocean you borrow your streams of Bounty I recommend your Honour and all yours both by Sea and Land humbly desiring him to bind up your Soul in the Bundle of Life to let the Blessing of Him that was ready to perish come upon you as Job 9.3 The LORD Register you into the Number of those whose Bowels yearn to the distressed wh se Hands open to the Afflicted and whom None is able to reward but He who hath Most and deserves All yet is contented with a little in sincerity in whom I rest Your Honours often engaged And still indebted Nathanael Church Prevention to the Reader FRiends doe not thinke that these brief Sentences were drawn out of those Texts of Scripture quoted after them For the Sayings were written some Years before any Quotations were made And those places of Scripture were only set down to shew how near these rationall Maximes come to divine Verity and how nigh Kin Faith and Reason are I Call my Fathers Golden sayings and my own Silver because his have the Priority not only of Time but also of Estimate and besides mine Excell his in Nothing but Number as Children do the Parents and as Stars do the Sun and Moon As for my own Sentences they have little or nothing in them that I have begg'd or borrowed Nay I fear it will be said that they have too much of my Self in them But though they are like the Cobweb spun out of my own Bowels yet some of them well applyed may stench a bleeding Conscience They are most of them common Notions but never the worse for that For the Sun the Day the Ayre the Fire the Water the Earth and the Gospel are not the worse for being coÌ„mon but the better Boni proprium est esse coÌ„mune T is proper to that which is good to be common And that which does good to many is more excellâ—… and more divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aristot then that that does good to one only They are Trilineals or three lines a piece most of them and so more portable for the Memory They are Pentad's or just five in a Page so that a man though streightned in Time notwithstanding may read to a Period presently carry a Theam to think on with him as an Antidote against worse thoughts The very blank Spaces between them will prove advantagious to one that has any Good-husbandry for there he may interscribe any other compendious Apothegme at Pleasure and Leisure As for my failings I hope they will prove either but ordinary or but few But I could wish this were the worst use I had made of my Pen I hope 't is not the best And he that every day doth mend Shall sure be perfect in the end Much good may they do thee Who ever thou art Friend or Foe so saies He who is in his Prayers to God for thee Thine whether thou wilt or no N. C. To the Reader READER Th' hast here a little Cabinet Or Jewels rare a precious Ring be set With richest Stones a Nose-gay that doth yeeld A sweet and fragrant Smell Each common Field Hath not such Flowers as these To tell thee true Here 's nothing doth accost thee but what 's new These are not Forreign Proverbs Englished Nâ— sure they are all Brittains born and breed READER thou l't say having read th' Adages The Author's MASTER OF THE SENTENCES Edw Hicks M.A. utriusque Academiae To the Reader REeader Th' hast here a birth which as I gather For it 's conception ows to Son and Father An Issue which for'ts Mid wifery doth stand Mixtly indebted both to Sea and Land A lawful Prize But o the Devil of Gain One Pocket now two Churches can contain Well Yet beware thou how thy Censure blots The Author ther