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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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1664
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Wing W3083B; ESTC R42990
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SPICILEGIVM OR A Glean of Mixtling By JOHN WINTER Minister of East Dearham in Norfolke JOH 6.12 Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost Antoni cupis Deo placere ora dùm orare nòn poteris manibus laâ—ora sempèr aliquid facito Aug. ad Fratres in Eremo â—erm 17. Paulùm sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus Hor. Car. l. 4. od 9. LONDON Printed by A. M. and are to be sold by Joseph Cranford at the Sign of the Gun in St Pauls Churchyard 1664. TO THE READER NEither in hope of reward nor expectation of thanks but in respect of my own duty I freely present these few papers to the pleasure of the casuall Reader craving his pardon lest haply for a moment I may divert his eyes from better employments or trouble his thoughts with less pertinent notions Poeticall license is on my side Scribimus indocti c. I will go no further with the verse because in those two words I am concluded I hold Socrates by his favour an Ethnick-haeretick for his criticall resolution not to write at all because he could not write so well as he would Socr. Schol. I rather comply with the Novatian Bishop Sisinnius but not in his haeresie who being asked why he bathed himself twice in a day answered because I cannot do it thrice And I have endeavoured this third time to do thus much because as yet I can do no more Whatsoever defects appear in the follong Discourse this I dare give under my hand that the Authour intended well to all parties to the King and subjects Church and State And I would to God that every tongue and pen at this day going within His Majesties Dominions the respective Excellencies of their parts only excepted were such as these of East Dearham Norff. Octob. 5. 1663. JOHN WINTER ORATIO FESTINATIO Prayer is good speed O Most glorious GOD and most gracious Father assist these my endeavours and compleat my labours For thy own sake crown thy own gifts for thy mercy sake pardon my offences I cannot do the good I would much less the good I should and the evill I would not that do I. But thou art a God who acceptest the will for the deed and grantest to thy servants both to will and to do of thy good pleasure O eternall Son and most blessed Saviour instruct and inable mee the least of thy Ministers and the greatest of sinners to do something relating to thy glory conducing to the good of thy Church and the discharge of my own duty For not onely my own heart by wofull experience but thy sacred Word telleth mee that without thee thy best servants can do nothing O blessed Spirit God of truth and comforter of thy Church strengthen mee in these my undertakings For thou art the same from all eternity and of old time holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost O Holy Blessed and Glorious Trinity three Persons and one God prompt and guide mee Sanctifie mee through thy truth thy Word is truth Thou bast put it in my heart to be inditing of good matters and now let mee freely speak the things I have made unto my heavenly King As thy servant David's tongue was the pen of a ready Writer so make my pen the tongue of a divine Oratour that the meditations of my heart the words of my mouth and the works of my hands may be ever acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my Redeemer Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man a little World THe Great GOD having made the Great World of other things was pleased to draw a Map of it in the dust And so he formed Adam and out of him Eve the work of the sixth day and a compendium of the labours of the other five And now behold a petty walking World the Coelestiall and Tertestriall Globes united in a little creature the line of whose life is but a span long Here is Heaven and Earth in a small volume soul and body constituâ—ing one individuall person the spirit being like a noble Guest in a homely Cottage a diamond immur'd in clay and a spark obscur'd in ashes In this divine creature shines this image of the Creator a trinity in unity understanding will and memory Praise thou the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits Nor ought we to pass by the corporeall fabrick without wonder As we must not admire the scabberd and despise the blade so we ought not to under value the scabberd which conteyns the blade David made this reflection upon his bodily structure I am fearfully Psal 139.13 and wonderfully made Os homini sublime dedit c. The erected figure of Man's building gives him a praeeminence above the groveling brutes teaching him to look towards heaven and to walk uprightly Howbeit set him not insult too much upon his mother nor forget whence the visible part of him was taken and whither it must return The four wrangling Brother-Elements in this mortall body by a discording concord hold out the slender thrid of our life untill ambitious praedominancy which spoileth all bodies naturall and politick confoundeth doe proportion and by fatall distempers relapseth us into our ancient Chaos In the mean time though but for a short time Man is a new and old Exchange of things What do ye lack Here is in this little pack of Wares all that ye can ask or think of treasures pleasures wisdom prudence folly madness health sickness joy grief hope despair riches poverty honour shame glory and misery I need not speak of the outside ornaments pride and bravery for they shew themselves Thus the saying of the dying Emperour Severus Ael Spar. may now by many a person justly be taken up Omnia fui nihil mihi prodest I have been all things and nothing profits me And that Man is not called a little world in vain the world of severall and antipathetick dispositions of men declare One is aiery and pleasant as a Lark and hath learned to sing as well falling as rising another is as chollerick as a Dog a third as meek as a Lamb a fourth as fierce as a Tyger a fifth as idle as an Ape and a sixth as filthy and sluggish as a Swine Old Israel's Jury of sons make good this verdict in the variety of hierogly phicall liveries put upon them by their dying prophetick father Reuben is water for his incontinency Gen. 49. and instability Simeon and Levi fire and sword instruments of cruelty Judah a Lyon Zabulon a haven for ships Issachar the picture of an English man in the late times of war or in the present diversity of opinions a strong Ass couching between two burthens Dan a Judge and a Serpent God blesse us from serpentine Judges any more in High Courts of Justice Gad a troop to overcome and to be overcome And the Lord deliver us from seeing any more of that Asher God