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A96707
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Spicilegium, or, A glean of mixtling by John Winter, minister of East Dearham in Norfolke.
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Winter, John, 1621?-1698?
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continue it with his grace bread and royall dainties Napthali as wild as a Buck a Hinde let loose Joseph a fruitfull bough and Benjamin like a younger brother is design'd to ravine as a Wolf Plâ—to though deserving better for his learned pains for his supercilious deportment and lofty carriage Brus was by Antisthenes dub'd a Horse And Diogenes for his snarling humour not canonized but canonized and made a Dog by Patent The Prophet amazed at the cruelty and violence of the world compared men to the fishes in the sea where the great make a pastime of devouring the small Yea he likens the poor and helpless to silly fishes and the Mighty and rapacious partly to Anglers Hab. 1.14 and partly to men fishing with a drag-net thereby shewing that there is a Generation which will still be catching either by hook or crook by fraud or force and that all is fish that cometh into their net Such men as these the Psalmist frequently termeth Lyons and the Lamb of God who saith false prophets are wolves in sheeps clothing Mal. 7.15 Luk. 13.32 called Herod the tyrant a fox Thus Man who sometimes was in honour forfeiting his primitive innocent understanding is by serpentine craft become like unto the beasts that perish And now may we say with David Psal 8. Lord what is man that thou art mindfull of him Lord what is man Lord what is he not He is any thing but what thou once madest him and what he should be He is the mirrour of frailty times pride and spoil fortunes laughing-stock the picture of inconstancy and the tennis-ball of envy and calamity A worme he is and no man Corruption is our father and the worm our mother Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away like a shadow So Homer's heroick Iliads are brought within the compass of a nutshell the great world into the little world and the little world into nothing O then love not the world nor the things of the world The world is a riddle which destroyeth them who bend their minds to unfold it or their hearts to infold it It is too great and yet too small for a man's affections too great for his head and his hands too little for his heart more than enough to trouble a quiet soul but nothing sufficient to quiet a troubled spirit That man alone reapeth content within it who is content without it 1 Joh. 2.17 The world passeth away and the lusts thereof but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever Mores sequuntur humores Manners follow the Humours Phlegme I Have no quarrell with the work of God God forbid nor nor am I out of homour with the humours though alternis vicibus they often put me out of humour I look upon phlegme as an allay to choler and know that fire and water as well in the body naturall as in the body politick are very good servants though bad masters And as 〈◊〉 it is on all hands confessed that the blood is the chariot of life so it must be granted that a modicum of phlegme is instead of oyl to make the wheels run merrily But omne nimium vertitur in vitium too much is alwayes bad and the old world perished by a deluge Where phlegme prevaileth above all the rest there is good ground made fenn and bogs each thought is like a Pout or muddy Eel the recovery beyond the reach of Dutch devices and the improvement of such bottomless parts enough to break mean undertakers It is true Art will do much but the water will have the course And it is not worth the pains and cost to make sluces to the sea or to bray a fool in a mortar Prov. 27.22 This soft effeminate lazy humour is apt to invade men's spirits with insensible approaches and like the tide to environ them before they be aware And then over shooes over boots This humour may well take the gout and the dropsy for companions and it often doth so And though it deserveth not their patronage it hath need of great persons to uphold it otherwise it maketh them beggers Yet a little sleep Prov. 6.10 a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep So shall thy poverty come as one that that travelleth and thy want as an armed man Whoso is overcome with this disease is buried alive unprofitable to others uncomfortable to himself He is intomb'd in his house as the dead in their graves so that a man may epitaph over his door as the Philosopher did upon Vacia's Lazines Hic situs est c. Here lieth the body of such a person or he may write as in pestilentiall places Lord have mercy upon us Lord let not this waterflood of Sloth overwhelm us neither let the deep of negligence swallow us up Choler NEver was there so great a superfluity of water but there hath been or may be as great a drought As the world once for sin was drenched so once for all it shall be scorched In the mean time the little world of Man is frequently impaired by this domestick fire of choler which when it is too little doth not warme the house when too great it consumeth both the Inhabitant and hazard's the neighbours Igne quid utilius Ovid. Tris si quis tamèn urere tecta Caeperit audaces instruit igne manus What more usefull and yet what more dangerous than fire A drop of water cannot possibly do any considerable harm to any But one spark of fire neglected may do very much to many Choler and fire are like a false rumour and an evil report getting strength by every wind and laying hold upon all that is near it A cholerick breast is a tynderbox apt to catch any fire having a happy use when it stands right under the sparks of grace and is subservient to a holy indignation But is then unfortunate when it is inflamed with balls of wild fire cast in by the grand Spirit of discord or by the busy hands of Malecontented spirits He had need be vigilant against his undermining Enemy and against all adventitious Incendiaries who hath such a Magazin of Gunpowder within his own bosome Eph. 4.26 Be angry but sin not is a most divine lesson but a nice distinction for a man's practise to hit on And therefore the Authour having sometimes been a persecuter of the Church gave this rule that men should be zealously affected alwayes in a good thing Gal. 4.18 He is no good disputant who transferreth his quarrell from things to persons and leave 's the question to revile the opponent And choler will quickly do this and more That child deserveth to smart and bleed who spits in his fathers or mothers face because some of his brethren did him wrong And yet God help us nothing is at this day more common amongst us Witness those frequent petulant and pestilent oppositions against all Laws and injunctions of the King