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A ministers mite cast into the stocke of a weake memory: helpt by rules and experiments. VVith a winter night schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth.
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Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.
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reason of often motion bee more pure then the waterish blood of Fishes or grosser bloods of Beasts Thirdly of Birds the wilde of Teale Duck Mallard Pheasant Partridge rather then the tame though as the Fryer sayd who desired but the legge of a Capon and the wing of a Goose with the braines of a Woodcock neither comes amisse Fourthly for flesh Veales Muttons Pigs Rabbets and these of purer bloods and lighter digestion then Beeves Porkes Bulls or such as dainty Dames call the grosser Butchers ware Fiftly of wild Venisons Hares Deere Stags Roe-Bucks rather those which are hunted then shot with Peeces and kild as many Innocents by clublaw Sixtly of all kinde of flesh rather that which is roast which dries up the humidities then what is sodde whose strength goes into the broath Seventhly the often eating of Raisins of the Sunne Candid Ginger Coriander prepared Chestnuts and all Stypticks Eighthly the often mistication and clawing of white frankincense called Olybanum the anointing of the head with that which is called the Philosophers Oyle the speedy expulsion of all excrements from the braine by the nose from the body by the draught or by urim often frication and rubbing of the head with a Scarlet or Linnen cloth moderately warm'd as also the oft washing the head with the sweetest Hearbes and the feete with the decoction of Fennell the leaves of Laurell and Camomile with the use of Buglesse how ever it be taken Ninthly moderate exercise before meate as a preparative to a supping or dining stomack and after meate as a digestive with washing the hands chiefely in Rose-water which washing though some scoffe it before meat to bee Pharisaicall though after meate Phisicall yet neither before nor after even Fish and Oysters may bee thought slovinnicall and intrinching on Gorbianus and Gorbiana hee and shee slovens though indeed above all these prescribed Sepe recordari medicamine fortius omni No Paracelsians Gallenists supplyings Helpe memory so much as * Vsus Magister aerris Morat exercizings Lectio lecta placet decies repitita placebit Vsus ars decuit quod sapit omnis homo Ten times repeating what doth please being read Rivets all readings in the weakest head With art use right commixt makes rich supplies Of what man needes to cure all maladies Pr. Who usually have the weakest memories Pu. Old men by reason of the too much drynesse Children by reason of too much moysture in their braines Drunkards by too much in their bellies which not only rots the Livers of such wicked livers as Raines and Mildewes rot the Livers of Hares Deere Sheepe and Rabbits But as thick fogges from an Irish bogge ascend from the lower Region of their bellies to the upper Region of their clouded and dulled braines withall sick men by the commotions of their spirits and distemper of their heads especially timerous and fearfull ones whose heads are in their trembling hearts and hearts in their heeles have seldome so good memories as the sound and couragious neither have the melancholy in their thickned blood and clouded spirits so strong memories as the sanguine in their purified bloods and spirits Pr. What things are obnoxious to memory besides these wee have already discussed Pu. The greedy gulphing of all raw fruites with the use of Vinegar or Wine aegar is as farre short of sweete Wines Malmsie Muscadines Greeke Wines Canary Sacks and Vivium Cos for memory as Eringoes and hot Drugges are short of cold Lettice steeped Rew Tobacco and Agnus Castus for Chastity Withall the too much ingurgitations of meates and drinks in our Gluttons and Hellicons Hogs of Epicurus his stye drowne both their mindes and memories in Hogsheads as the Duke of Clarence once in a Butt of Sack Much sleepe also like a Dormouse or the Beast Colus after Rut and the Mauritanian Asses after their Hemlocks stupisies the memorative faculties so doe also all meats which are grosse and of hard digestion chiefly the immoderate use of Venus which dulls the braine spends spoyls and soyls the vitall and animall spirits and shortens life as we know in the Cock sparrow the quaile and other salatious Creatures withall no lesse obnoxious to memory are all sharpe vaporous liquids from Onions Garlicks Mustard seed as also our too cold and moyst Cucumbers water Cresses and Sorrells Lastly many things accidentally hurt memory as the corrupting of it when the species of things past are forgotten as also the diminution of it by accidentall passions sicknesses and diseases or the ablation of it utterly lost by the wounding of the braine or some part of it hence besides many brain-sicke Heretickes whose brains had need be purged with Helibore chiefely our new Seekers beyond the moone for some fift Gospell like that once of the Carmalites as though the Religion of the Prophets and Apostles were imperfect wee have some other Fantasticks called men of crackt and crazy brains Pr. Hence we have so many learned and famoused men in Authours quite losing their memory and turning as oblivious as the Ostridge which forgets her eggs which she hath hid in the sands upon severall occasions as Bambo the King of the Gothes by a draught of poyson administred unto him by Heringius his successor Gregory Trapezuntius by old age forgetting all letters both Greeke and Latine which was also the case of Francis Barbarus the learned Venetian and of Orbilius the great Gramarian and some by a cold Palsie as Lycosthenes Anno Dens 1555. who lost his memory as Nabuchaanezzar lost his Reason for seven years and after recovered it some by long sicknesse as Messala Corvinus after a long sicknesse forgetting his owne name as those nominated with others are recorded more largely by Solinus cap. 7. Polihist Pliny lib. 7. hist cap. 24. Sabellicus lib. 10. cap. 9. Volaterau lib. 21. Authrop and Valerius lib. 1. cap. 8. Therefore the summe of all this is that all hearers of the Word all students in humanity and Divinity should by frequent and fervent prayer be Petitioners to the Throne of Grace to the giver of all gifts both generall and speciall common and sanctified that he who gave wisedome to Solomon tongues to the Apostles inspirations to the Prophets a mouth unto Aaron the door of utterance unto Paul eloquence to Apollo and gifts unto men when he ascended up unto heaven Eph. 4.12 would in mercy bestow his spirit upon them not onely to enlighten their understandings as the Sunne doth the aire and to open their eyes Acts 26.18 as he did the Disciples Acts 24 and their hearts as he did Lidiaes Acts 16. and to lead them into all Truth Joh. 16.13 but to strengthen their memories according to his promise Joh. 14.26 as he did the memories of his Disciples Joh. 2.22 and of his Virgin Mother who hid all his words in her heart Luke 2.51 without this influence of Grace on our hearings and readings as the fruite of prayer all the means for memory prescribed be but in vaine 1
A Ministers Mite Cast into the stocke of a weake MEMORY HELPT BY RULES AND Experiments With a winter Night schoole tutoring Discourse to Generous Youth LONDON Printed by T.H. and are to be sold by John Saywell at the Greyhound in Little Brittaine 1650. The Booke to the Buyer I Do not promise here for some few ponce In Schooles of Knowledge thou shal s so commence To be Pansóphós by this little booke Gnostick or Beauclarke if on it thou looke As with a Magazine and Treasury To furnish thy discourse and memory I no Philantist am Narcizzide else So far to be conceited of my selfe As though my Crows were Swans my mentall issues Phebus or Pallas darlings cloathd in Tissues Yet confidently this I do aver Such Rules and Cannons here prescribed are That for some triple part of one poore shilling Thou shalt have some few mites if thou beast willing Cast to the stock of thy memorative So much in knowledge and discourse to thrive That by short practise thou shalt in thy brain Learn'd notions read or heard more strong retaine This being but a Pinace of small worth To afraught ship ere long to be launcht forth The Brain-book to be cal'd most brains it will With subjects sacred secular so fill By the Lucubrations of Steven Hierome Ecclesiastes Grenewichensis Good Reader take notice of some few Errours escaped in the Printing Page 17. line 23. reade diverted Page 21. line 10. reade Vrine Page 23. line 15. reade Vinum A Ministers Mite Cast into the stocke of a weake Memory Helpt by Rules experiments With a winter nights schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth Preceptor COme neere my best of Pupills the flower of my School as besides your publick Lectures have dictated unto you many things in private for your profit in hearing and reading by remembring your eare more then your eye being the sence of Knowledge so as a triall of your wit to attaine and memory to retaine what I lately Dialoguized with you now play the pretty talking Eccho and before your father and your friends resonate our discussions and wherin your memory is short like some Minister of much reading in his Pulpit read the rest in your Notes Puer I thanke you Sir that I am so much in your Bookes as to afford mee the benefit of my Booke with Notes I note it as a speciall favour and amongst the rest of my studies I will study to deserve it Pr. Not to plucke the least feather out of the wings of Time what thing hath perfection but not period in Unity Pu. God ens ontium the thing of things the Alpha and Omega beginning of beginnings and end without end an Unity of Essence in a Trinity of Persons as one and the same light in the Sun Moone and Starres one and the same fire in three kindled stickes one and the same flame in three lighted candles one soule in man in three faculties so three persons in one God three in one a Trinity of persons in an unity of Essence in Triune Jehovah Elohim Pr. What things are sole and alone without Dualls or Pluralls besides this Triune God Pu. One humane nature one divine nature making one Messias as body and soule make one man one sole-justifying fayth one Christ one immortall spirit in man one true Church of Saints militant in earth one of saints and spirits triumphant in Heaven one Arke in the Sanctuary one of Noah types of one Church one sun one moone one way one truth one life one salvation one rocke to build on one Phaenix writ on one Baptism to beleevers not to bee reiterated in Cyprians errour and one Bible to be beleeved and rested on as the rest touchstone of all our facts and faith without building on the sands of Popes erring Councels Fathers Superstitions and Traditions bogging and sinking thousands of soules into that bottomlesse pit which sends forth Locusts of Jesuits Familists new Donatists Enthusiasts Swinckfeldians and all Hell hatcht Heretiques Pr. In what things for use may a wise modest and moderate man terminate and limit his will and desire in one Pu. In the prime place in one God crushing as the Arke did Dagon all Paganish Turkish and Popish deities one Christ weighing downe to hell all old and new Antichrists one Orthodoxe truth dissolving all errors and heresies as the sunne mists and clouds Pr. And what more Pu. One good horse is enough for a journey by Land one stauncht ship as a Sea-horse for the Sea one good Pilot for a ship one Pastour for my soule one Physitian for my body a Tutor for my learning a booke for my present reading Pr. What booke should that be as your choice delight besides the Bible Such as Homer was to Alexander Tertultian to Cyprian Quintus Curtius to Alphonsus and Livie to Prontisperge Pu. In History as you told me to bee confined unto one booke it should be Pliny or Diodovus Siculus or Gesner or all epomitizing Zuinglius In Morality Plutarchs Ethicks Picolomineus in positive Divinity Calvins Institutions or Polanus Syntagme or the workes of Zanchy or Gerauld for Logick Keckerman or Downam on Ramus for Rhetorick Vossius for common places Peter Martyr or Aretius or Musculus for Philosophy Zabarell for witty passages the French Stevens his translated World of Wonders or Boccace his Decamerou or the Queene of Navarres Novells or the Bee Hive of the Romish Church Pr. What Catechismes did I tell you were best to acquaint you with the Fundamentalls of Religion Pu. Vrsinus and Bastingius Catechismes which now speake English that of Mr. Ball and the Lancashire Ministers purposely compiled for Families those for brevity compiled by Mr. Perkins Egerton Burton chiesly the large Body of Divinity by the learned Primate deserving prime place and next to it in our tongue the Questions and Answers of Dr Babington on the Creed Lords Prayer and Ten Commandements Pr. What parents trayned up their children and families in the Rudiments of Religion in private as Origen and Didimus Alexandrinus in Alexandria Vrsinus in Belgia and others in publique Pu. Adam trayned so his sacrificing Abel Abraham his Isaac his soldiers and servants Joshua his houshold David his Job his Buthshebah her Solomon Helena her Constantine Macrina her nurse-child St. Basil Monicah her Augustine Auna her consecrated Samuel Euuice and Lois good Timothy with others who prooved excellent instruments of Gods glory in their times and great comforts to their Parents Pr. What is the heart and minde of a Childe nakedly in it selfe considered Pu. It s white paper fit to take any writing soft wax fit for any impression tabula vasa a playne board or stone fit for any carving or sculpture a new vessell fit for any seasoning with bad tarre and smelling oyles or sweet wines and white Cloth fit for any colour or tincture in dying Pr. But to reflex a little further on your Unities what onely one may content a wise man as a Sculler without a