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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67735	Apples of gold from the tree of life with pictures of silver precious and pleasant, or such other pearls, as are added to the third impression, of The victory of patience ... / by R. Younge Florilegus.	Younge, Richard.	1654 (1654)	Wing Y137; ESTC R629	17,451	20

to have his life secured for long by one foot of retrait When Modestus the Emperours Lieutenant threatned to kill Bazill he answered If that be all I fear nor yea your Master cannot more pleasure me then in sending me unto my Heavenly Father to whom I now live and to whom I desire to hasten And another time being threatned with bonds banishment confiscation cruell torture death c. He bad him fright babies with such bug-bears his life might be taken away but not his comfort his head but not his Crowne Yea quoth he had I a thousand lives I would lay them all down for my Saviours sake who hath done abundantly more for me Iohn Ardely profest to Bonner when he told him of burning and how ill he could indure it That if he had as many lives as he had haires on his head he would lose them all in the fire before he would lose his Christ Gordius the Martyr said It is to my losse if ye bate me any thing of my sufferings Origen was so earnest to suffer with his father when he was but sixteen years of age that if his mother had not kept his clothes from him he would have ran to the place where he suffered to professe himselfe a Christian and to have suffered with him which was a common thing with the Martyrs making all hast least they should misse of that noble entertainment Austin observed That though there were many thousands put to death for professing Christ yet they were never the fewer for being slaine and the like is affirmed by Luther The more we are cut down by the Sword of persecution the more still we are saies Turtullian of the Christians in his time Yea the sufferings of one begat many to the love of the truth We read that Cicilia a poor Virgin by her gracious behaviour in her Martyrdome was the meanes of converting four hundred to Christ Whence Master Iohn Lindsay a friend to Bishop Bettoune upon the burning of Master Patrick Hamilton said to him My Lord if you burn any more let them be burnt in hollow Cellars for the smoak of Master Hamilton hath infected as many as it blew upon Master Knox in his History of Scotland Bilneyes Confession converted Latimer Instine Martyr beholding the piety of Christians in life and their constancy in suffering such great things so cheerfully at their death gathered that it was the true Religion which they profest saying Surely these men have more in them then the men of the world they have other principles and thereupon came to embrace the truth Adrianus seeing the Martyrs suffer such grievous things asked why they would indure such misery when they might by retracting free themselves To which one of them alledgeth that Text Eye hath not seen nor eare heard c. 1 Cor. 2. 9. The naming whereof and seeing them suffer so cheerfully did so convert him that afterwards he became a Martyr too The more the Pharisees of old and their Successors the Prelates of late opposed the truth the more it prevailed The Reformation in Germany was much furthered by the Papists opposition yea when two Kings amongst many others wrote against Luther viz. Henry the eighth of England and Ludovicus of Hungary this Kingly Title being entred into the controversie making men more curious to examine the matter stirred up a general inclination towards Luthers opinion Faninus an Italian Martyr being asked why he was so merry at his death sith Christ himselfe was so sorrowfull answered That Christ sustained in his soul all the sorrows and conflicts of hell and death due to us but by his sufferings and the assistance of his Spirit we are delivered from the guilt of sinne which is the sting of all troubles and from sorrow and fear both of death and hell Yea even in the very act of suffering God gives courage with the one hand and holds out a crown with the other 2 Cor. 1. 5. and 12. 10. Many will do something for God that will suffer little or nothing for him The King of Navarre told Beza He would launch no farther into the Sea then he might be sure to return safe to the Haven though he shewed some countenance to Religion yet he would be sure to save himself Constantius the Emperour called together all his Officers and Servants pretending to keep and promote onely such as would sacrifice to the Idols and they that refused should be banished so they dividing themselves he kept and promoted onely the Christians who had sleighted both his commands and threats telling the rest they were Traytors to God and therefore could not be loyall to him Before these dayes came said Mr. Bradsord Mattyr how many thought themselves and so were taken to be good and faithfull Christians true Beleevers Gods dear Children but now we see whose they are for to whom we obey his servants we are c. Rom. 6. 16. In the Palatinate scarce one Professor of twenty stood out but fell to Popery as fast as leaves in Autumn They were the Rich among the Christians that soonest shrunk from Christ in the persecution under D●cius Pamachius an Heathen could say to the Pope Make me a Bishop and I le be a Christian Aygolandus the better to make his peace with Charles the Great would become a Christian and be Baptized but when he came to the Court where he saw at a Table in a room thirty poor people in meane habites and at ordinary fare which the Emperour told him were the Servants of God he replyed That if God kept his servants so poorely he would be none of his servant It were good we would examine our selves whether we have taken up goodnesse upon love to it or upon some sinister ends David thought it not so happy to be a King in his owne house as a door-keeper in Gods house Solomon did prefer the Title of Eclesiastes that is a soul reconciled to the Church before the Title of the King of Ierusalem Theodosius the Emp●rour preferred the Title of Membrum Ecclesiae before that of Caput Imperii professing he had rather be a Saint and no King then a King and no Saint And Godly Constantine rejoyced more in being the servant of Christ then in being Emperour of the whole world Ignatius said He had rather be a Martyr then a Monarch Nor did he ever like himselfe till he was thus tryed for when he heard his bones crash between the wild Beasts teeth he said Now I begin to be a Christian Queene Ann Bolane the Mother of Queene Elizabeth when she was to be beheaded in the Tower thus remembred her thanks to the King Of a private Gentlewoman said she he made me a Marquesse of a Marquesse a Queene and now having left no higher degree of earthly honour for me he hath made me a Martyr Persecutors saith Bernard are but our Fathers Goldsmiths working to add Pearles to the Crownes of the Saints Even the greater sinners may punish the lesse and

prosper for a time Ezek. 7. I will bring the most wicked of the Heathen and they shall possesse their houses vers. 24. As in letting blood by Leeches the Physitian seekes the health of the Patient the Leech to be satisfied with his blood onely So when God works our good by evill instruments each further one and the same thing but God intends our preservation they our destruction He wills that as our chastisement which he hates as their wickednesse It is no argument that Christ is not in the Ship because tempests and stormes arise It is onely Heaven that is above all winds stormes and tempests nor hath God cast man out of Paradise for him to think to find out another Paradise in this world As Themistocles once said of his Son this boy can do more then any man in all Greece for the Athenians command the Grecians and I command the Athenians and my Wife commands me and my Son commands my wife So the Churches adversaries in some places may boast what their Father the Devill can do for he commands the Pope and the Pope commands the Iesuites and the Iesuites command such a King or Emperour Revel. 17. 12. 13. and that Emperour or King commands his Officers of State and they command the common people And yet to speak rightly even all these can do just nothing of themselves For he that sits in the Heavens laughing them to scorn commands all Denton the Smith of Welby in Cambridge-shire that could not burne for Christ was afterwards burned in his own house And Judge Hales being drawn for fear of death to do things against the Law and his Conscience did not long after drown himself He diminishes from his own contentment that seekes to add to it by unlawfulnesse Pope Adrian when he was to dye brake forth into this expression O my Soul whether art thou going thou shalt never be merry again When I first entered into Orders said Pope Quintus I had some good hope of my Salvation when I became a Cardinall I doubted of it but since I came to be Pope I do even dispair of it Surely said Cardinall Woolsie if I had been as carefull to serve God as I was to please men I had never been at this passe Gasper Olivianus a German Divine saies I never learned how great God was nor what the evill of sinne was to purpose untill this sicknesse taught me The Cross opens mens eyes as the tasting of Honey did Ionathans As Alloes kills Wormes in the Stomacke or as Frost and Cold destroyes Vermine so do bitter afflictions crawling lusts in the heart Aristippus sayes to Diogines If you would be content to please Dionisius you need not feed upon green Hearbs who replyed And if you would be content to feed upon green Hearbs you need not please Dionisius you need not flatter comply be base c. Austin before his conversion could not tell how to be without those delights he then found so much contentment in but after when his nature was changed when he had another Spirit put into him then he saies O how sweet is it to be without those former sweet delights Galiacius that Italian Marquesse that left all for Christ had no ill bargain of it whereas he that forsakes Christ to save his life and estate makes as good a match as Iudas did who sold his Salvation or the Pharisees who bought their damnation for thirty peices of Silver or Pope Sextus the fifth who sold his Soul to the Devil to injoy the glory and pleasure of the Popedome for seven years But our neglect is most in that wherein our care should be greatest The first thing that Caius did after he came to the Empire was to prefer Agrippa who had been imprisoned for wishing him Emperour Valentinian being put out of his Office by Iulian the Apostate for his Religion had after Iulian was slaine the Empire cast upon him Riches Honours Pleasures c. are so transitory that the same man the same day hath been both Crowned and beheaded Zerxes crowned his Steeresman in the morning and then tooke off his head in the afternoon And the like did Andronicus the Greeke Emperour by his Admirall Rofensis had a Cardinalls Hat sent him but his head was cut off before it came to him Babylon that bore her selfe bold upon her high Towers thick walles and twenty years provision laid in for a Siege was surprised by Cyrus Pope Alexander the sixth and Valentinian his Son prepared a Feast for divers Cardinalls and Senators purposing to poison them but by the providence of God they escaped and themselves alone were poisoned The Aire is never more quiet then before an Earthquake and usually when the wind lyes the great rain falls Bernard reports of Pope Eugenius that meeting with a poor but honest Bishop he secretly gave him certaine Jewels wherewith he might present him as the custome was for such to do so if God did not first furnish us with his graces and blessings we should have nothing where-with to honour him or do good to others Of thine own I give thee said Iustinian the Emperour borrowing it from the Psalmist If we have any thing that is good God is the giver of it If we doe any thing well he is the Author of it God is Alpha the fountaine from which all grace springs and Omega the sea to which all glory runs All blessings come from him like so many lines from the center to the circumference therefore we must return all praises to him like so many lines from the circumference to the center Rom. 11. 36. 1 Cor. 10. 31. His wisdome he communicates and his justice he distributes and his holinesse he imparrts and his mercy he bestowes c. 1 Cor. 1. 30 31. but his glory he will not give to another Isai. 42. 8. NOw this matter being ended and yet so much rooms left it will be no wrong to the Reader nor expence to me if I fill up the sheet with these four Allegories viz. The Analogie between man and a building a City a Common-Wealth the whole World 1. Mans body is like a House his soul is the Master his greater bones are the beams or main Timber his Ribs are Lathes dawbed over with flesh and playstered with skin his mouth is the Door his throat the Entry his heart the great Chamber and his head the Chappell both full of curious Art and wherein Conscience as Chaplaine is ever resident His Middriffe is a large Partition 'twixt the great Chamber and the spacious Hall his belly is the Kitchin his stomack the Pot where the meat is sometimes but half sod for want of heat his Teeth are the Kitchin knives his Spleen is a Vessell which nature provids to receive the scum tht rises from the Pot his Lungs are the Bellowes that respier in every Office quickening every Fire his Nose is the Chimney whereby is vented such fumes as the Bellowes send up his Bowels or