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A11616	Omnibus & singulis Affording matter profitable for all men, necessarie for euery man; alluding to a fathers aduice or last will to his sonne. Now published for the vse of all men, and particularly of those that doe inhabit Great Brittaine and Ireland.	Scot, Patrick.	1619 (1619)	STC 21858.5; ESTC S119563	36,236	124

* Act. 9.15 Paul of a Persecutor become an Elect Vessel and faithful Preacher of the Gospell when hee will exalt the humble x Sam. 16.11 little Dauid shal be taken from the sheepe and bee made both King y Sam. 16.13 and Prophet z Gen. 41.24 humble Ioseph from the Prison and preferred to bee Pharoes High Steward a Dan. 5.26 Daniel from the Lions Den and clothed with Purple When he will execute Iustice b Gen. 19.24 Sodom is deuoured with Fire and Brimstone c Matt. 27.45 Lento gradu ad vindictam sui procedit Deus tarditatemque supplicij grauitate compensat Lips c. 13. lib. 15. Proper eleg 25. lib. 2. Iudas hanging himselfe confessed that hee had betrayed the Innocent d Euseb hist Eccles Iulian the Apostata tearing out his bowels in the horrour of his Conscience cryes out Vicisti tandem Galilaee When hee will humble the proud Idolatrous e Dan. 4.45 Nabuchadnezar shall eate grasse amongst the beasts of the field the basest of GODS Creatures shall make hard-hearted Pharao f Exod. 9.27 send for Moses and confesse the true God Finally in all his works of Power Mercy Iustice out of the fierie Furnace g Dan. 3.25 Shedrach Meshach Abednego shall proclayme his Glorie Thus you see that Gods Workes declare that hee is God Powerfull Mercifull and Iust and that the meanest of these Workes are of force eyther by the least dramme of Grace to conuert the most obstinate Atheist to the true knowledge of God or in Iustice to confound him SECT II. ALthough I doe not allow the h Diuina mysteria credenda non curiosè scrutanda Amor. de Diuinis Myst curious searching of diuine Mysteries not reuealed for admitting that in Natures schoole wee are taught to boult out the Truth by Logicall reason i Neque ad loquendum de Deo lingua sufficit neque ad percipiendum intellectus praeualet magis ergo glorificare nos conuenit Deum quod talis est qui intellectum transcendit cognitionis initium superat August yet in Gods Schoole it is quite contrarie hee is the best Scholler that reasons least and assents most conceiues so far as humane frailties will permit beleeues and admires the rest God louing better a credulous heart then a curious head yet because your dutie towards God consisteth chiefly in the ardent desire to know God which is the surest testimonie of your loue towards God and of Gods loue towards you there is a more speciall knowledge required of you which is that you indeuour your selfe ●o know him so farre as hee hath reuealed himselfe in ●he Scriptures called his Word as proceeding from ●is Spirit to bring you to his knowledge hee hath manifested himselfe in the Scriptures by three sorts of k Dionysius de Diuinis nominibus names The first are these that ●ignifie his Essence The second the persons ●n the Essence The third his essentiall Works The names that denote Gods Essence are fiue IEHOVACH EHEIECH ●ACH KVRIOS THEOS l Non habet aetatem aeternita● aut aliquando finem quae nescit originem Cyprian Mart. Arnob. lib. 1. aduers Gent. Tertul. lib. 2 de Car. Christ Iehouach signifieth eter●all being of himselfe with●ut beginning and end Almightie both in promising and performing The second name is Eheiech of that same Roote o● Iehoua signifying that I am that I am or I will be that I will bee m Exod. 3.14 Eheiech Asher Eheiech n Psal 21.12 15 16 17. The third name Iach which is Lord is ascribed to God when any notable deliuerance or benefit comes to passe according to his former promise The fourth name is o Iohn 21.7 12 15 16 17. Kurios vsed oft in the New Testament when it is absolutely giuen to God it answereth the Hebrew name Iehouah for God is so Lord tha● he is of himselfe Lord and of all others The fift name is Theos 〈◊〉 God It is deriued from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because p Deus est intellectualis Sphera cutus centrū vbique circumferentia verò nusquam Aug. he runnes thorow and compasseth all things when it is properly taken it signifieth the eternall Essence of God being aboue all things q Prouida illa mens quae coelum hoc quotidiè voluit reuoluit solem ducit reducit fruges promit recondit causas vicis●itudines omnes rerum peperit quas mirantur homines aut quae sunt nec quicquam in hoc grandi Machina geritur turbatur miscetur speccatum excipio cuius non causa a prima illa causa Lips lib. 1. de Constan c. 4. giuing Life and Light to all Creatures preseruing and gouerning them in their wonderful frame and order God seeing all and in all places The names that signifie the persons in the Essence are chiefly one r Sacramentum hoc venerādum non scrutandum quomodo pluralitas sit in vnitate vnitas in pluralitate scrutare hoc temeritas est credere pietas nosc● verò vita aeterna Ber. Elohim signifieth the mightie Iudges It is a name of the plurall number to expresse the Trinitie of persons in the vnity of Essence To this purpose the Holy Ghost begins the Bible with this plurall Name of God ioyned with a Verbe of the singular Number as Elohim bara dij creauit the mightie Gods or all the three Persons in the Godhead created When you heare of this Name Elohim consider that in one Diuine Essence there are three distinct Persons that God is Iehouach Elohim The Names that signifie Gods Essentiall Works are fiue El Schaddai Adonai Helion Abba f Exod. 24.6 Psal 24.8 El is as much to say a● the strong God sheweth that God is not onely strong and strength it selfe but tha● it is hee that giueth al● strength to his Creatures By this Name Schaddai which is Omnipotent God stiled himselfe vsually to the Patriarks calling himselfe El Schaddai the strong God Almightie this Name belongeth onely to God and to no other Creature Adonai my Lord is found one hundred thirtie foure times in the old Testament by this Name wee challenge God to be our God with Thomas say Thou art my Lord and my God t Luke 1.32 Helion which signifieth most High was giuen vnto God by Gabriel telling the Virgin Mary that the Child that should be borne of her should bee the Sonne of the most High u Mar. 14.36 Rom. 8.15 Abba a Syriake name signifying Father by it remember what you receiue from God proceedeth from a fatherly loue that you owe him againe filiall obedience x Sacra Dei nomina quasi pignora amoris misericordiae omnipotentiae eius sunt Aug. de Dei Misericord cap. 7. All these sacred Names of God are as pledges and remembrances of Gods omnipotency and loue towards you and of your dutie towards him As the true knowledge of God is the

EPISTLE Dedicatorie OMNIBVS ET SINGVLIS I Do in all dutifull obseruāce present vnto the bar of your Mighty High Gracious Reuerend Honourable Worshipfull and Fauourable Censure these ●ll digested labours of some few idle houres In doing whereof encouraged by the confidence I haue in your powerfull Patrocinie I haue made choice rather to expose my Apprentice-like skill in the structure of such an Architect my presumption in the Title and Dedication to base detracting * Detractio est stultorum thesaurus quem ●n lingua-gerunt Auson Zoylus or enuious * nu dia non in alio quàm in degeneri minuto ieiuno animo sibi domicillum parat Val. Max. Momus then either the Learned should want this Widdowes Symboll of my good will more fit to inlarge their Libraries then knowledge or the Ignorant be defrauded of the benefit that with small paines they may reape by perusing of so easie a taske I haue rather approoued the Greeke Prouerbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by confining the Matter within so small precinct then followed those that dayly lose themselues in the Wildernesse of Bookes that are sent abroad * Venialis fit apud aures vestras veritatis asperitas Sidon Apoll. tending rather to shew the Authors skill in refined and affected Phrases in light Subiects their Spirit of Contention in indeterminable Controuersies their vnchristian disposition in Worme-wood tasting Satyrisme then to preferre substance before shaddow loue of truth before vnprofitable ambiguities or charitable Iudgement before accursed scandall * Palaton Homerum vomentem exprimebat Poetas verò reuquos quae ille eieciss●t absorbentes Ciel Rhod. l. 11. cap. 44. What I haue borrowed ●n this Treatise I haue done ●t Lege talionis those that I haue made vse of hauing formerly beene beholding to others and haue restored it again with the interes● of thankfulnesse But lest I should doe lik● vnto those that vnaduisedly did build the Gates bigger then the Citie I humbly take my leaue and shall eue● remaine A Loyall Subiect A tr● honourer of my Sup●riours and of ve●tue in all men P. S. A FATHER HIS EPISTLE Or Introduction to the insuing Treatise to his SONNE I Doe find by the Law Falcidia if the Child committeth any fault for want of Education the Father was punished That I should not bee lyable to that and a more supreme Law I haue from your Infancy been carefull to haue you sufficiently grounded in these Rudiments that doe concerne both your Spirituall and Ciuill conuersation But now in regard of your more riper Age the time approching that you must act those things vpon the stage of the World that either hath or shall now be taught you for discharge of the dutie I owe you and inabling you in those seruices your Maker Prince and Country challengeth of you J doe send you this MANVSCRIPT which I did write for my owne priuate vse and now bestow it vpon you as the greatest and without doubt the best portion I am able to giue you It doth shortly contayne the knowledge of God as hee hath reuealed himselfe in the Scriptures The way to serue him aright I meane in the highest perfection that the * Mortalis conditio non patitur hominem ab omni maculo purit Lact. l. 6. de ve 10 Cultu corrupt nature of the sonnes of Adam is able to vndergoe And secondly such Precepts and Counsels as may by the carefull obseruation of the first part with great facilitie bring you to the knowledge of your selfe in the seuerall duties that are required of a * O terque quaterque beatus tu de cuius culmine datur amicis laetitia posteris gloria vegetis alacri●us exemplum desidibus pig●●s incitament●● Sidon Apol. lib. 4. Epist 4. perfect man Receiue it then with such an heart as I giue it you remember that there is nothing more odious then fruitlesse old age and that no tree beares fruit in Autumne but that which blossometh in the Spring to the end your Age may bee profitable and loden with fruit indeuour that your youth may be studious and flowred with the blossomes of Learning and Obseruation Thus charging you by the * Vitiosi sunt oculi qui lucem reformidant percaeci qui non vident parentibus non obedire impietas est non agnoscere insania Senec. lib. 3. de Benef. Fatherly authoritie I haue ouer you you diligently peruse in your life and conuersation carefully practise those things that are in this Treatise set downe I commend you to his Grace whose Mercies are neuer wanting to them that put their trust in him Iunij XVIIII M. D.C.XIX The Contents 1. CLeobulus Deum Consule 2. Chilon Nosce teipsum 3. Thales Vide cui associaris 4. Periander Iram tempera 5. Bias Benè vixit qui paucis contentus 6. Pitacus Ne quid nimis 7. Solon Respice finem OMNIBVS ET SINGVLIS Affording matter profitable for all Men and necessarie for euery Man SECT I. FOr * Stirpe sublata aut non sunt reliqua aut si sunt sine emolumento sunt quia sine Capite nihil constat Saluian l. 6. de Prouid laying the first foundation of Religion without which al other grounds are to no effect a Per visibiles visibilium formas peruenitur ad inuisibiles visibilium causas ascensus praestatur ad inuisibiles substa●tias ea●um dignoscendanaturas Coel. Rhod. lib. 25. That there is a GOD Omnipotent Mercifull and Iust Gods Works doe sufficiently demonstrate c Gen. 1.1 If he build it is a World if he be angrie for the sinnes of the World d Gen. 7.17 hee sends a Deluge If hee will shew the loue hee beares to the World e Matt. 2.1 he sends his Sonne f Matt. 27.57 and suffers him to dye vpon the Crosse to saue the World If hee will reward the godly it is with g Luke 23.43 Paradise when hee armes the * 2. King 6.17 Angels march vpon the head of his Troupes h Exod. 17.6 the Elements are the Marshals of his Campe the Rocks remooue from their Centre and follow to giue it Water i Exod. 13.21 the Cloudes guide by day and Pillars of fire by night k Exod. 14.19 the Sea opens to giue them passage l Iosh 10.12 and the Sun stayes to end their victories To inlarge the wonderfulnesse of his Works m Num. 22.28 Balaams Asse shall speake and reprooue his Master n Iohn 2.9 Waters turne into Wine the o Matt. 9.22 dead are raised to life p Matt. 20.24 the Blind see q Matt. 9.29 the Deafe beare r Mark 2.12 the Lame goe ſ Matt. 14.19 and thousands of people are fedde with some few Loaues and Fish If hee will shew Mercie t Matt. 27.75 Peter after that he had denyed Christ shall weepe bitterly u Iohn 21.15 and be made Pastor of his sheepe