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A50263	A very useful manual, or, The young mans companion containing plain and easy directions for spelling, reading, and uniting English, with easy rules, for their attaining to writing, and arithmetick, and the Englishing of the Latin Bible without a tutor, likewise the plotting and measuring of land, globes, steeples, walls, barrels, timber, stone, boards, glass, &c. ... : and several other considerable and necessary matters, intended for the good of all, and for promoting love to one another : as by the table annexed particularly appears / collected by William Mather.	Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695.	1681 (1681)	Wing M1286; ESTC R36919	124,932	462

His plainness in Apparel Singularity His proper Speech Rudeness His Scripture-Language Canting His Sobriety a cheat for Custom His being at a Word a decoy for Trade His Industry Worldly-mindedness His Hospitality Flesh-pleasingness In short such true Christians have been imprisoned because they cannot take up Arms and also for fear they should and if they answer their Adversaries they say it's Nonsense or Equivocation so that his Virtues are accounted Vice by such Professors as delight only in the form of Godliness more than the power thereof After this manner the Papist used to disapprove of the Sobriety of the Waldenses of whom Reinerius a Popish Author so writeth Now the Protestants of the National Church make use of the name of these suffering Waldenses to help to plead for their antiquity equal with the Papists that is from the Apo●●●s time which makes them never the truer●●ristians considering the great Apostasie that first spoiled the simplicity of Truth and keeping up the Heathenish Learning and Traditions of men Col. 2.8 20. Yet did God here and there raise Witnesses for the Truth in all this dark night who for the most part were persecuted by them that upheld the shell of Religion or outward Ceremonies and neglected the substance God's spirits teaching in their hearts as at this day So that if this good Spirit of God was but truly obeyed it would lead people to be Witnesses in measure of the Saints condition recorded in the holy Scripture experimentally for imitation of the Saints practices before God's Spirit lead in each heart has been and is the door of Apostasie Man in his own Strength and Wisdom hath been too apt to do and act as to Worship that which God doth not require or command him Deut. 5.32 Isa 1.12 That the Lord said Matth. 15.9 But in vain they do worship me teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of men Now Reader if thy desire is to be truly led to build upon no other Foundation besides the Rock Christ Jesus mark well these Scriptures following and the Lord give thee an obedient Heart viz. For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unri●●teousness of men who hold the Truth in unrighteousness Because that which may be known in God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them But unto every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ for as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lye and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide We have also a more sure Word of Prophesie whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the Day-Star arise in your hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 Rom. 1.18 19.8.14.10.6 7 8. Heb. 8.10 12. Eph. 4.7 At that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto Babes Matth. 11.25 1 Cor. 1.27 29. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise and God hath chosen the weak things of the World to confound the things which are mighty That no flesh should glory in his presence 1 Cor. 4.18 19. Let no man deceive himself If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a fool that he may be wise For the Wisdom of this World is foolishness with God c. These things are as a sealed Book to all the Wit Learning Study and mans reason until he come to bow his mind to the measure ●●●e Spirit or Grace of God in his own heart ●●om whence these Scriptures with others were given forth For the Scripture is given by Inspiration of God c. 2 Tim. 3.16 For what knoweth the things of a man save the Spirit of a man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God But he that is spiritual discerneth all things c. 1 Cor. 2.11 14 15. For to be carnally minded is Death but to be spiritually minded is Life and Peace Rom. 8.6 Gal. 5.16.6.5 This I say then walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the Lusts of the Flesh For every man shall bear his own burthen James 4.17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin Prov. 18.10 The Name of the Lord is a strong Tower the Righteous runneth into it and is safe Veritati adhaereto Stick to the Truth Vniformity in Religion how attainable according to true Christianity and also something of the fruits of Imposition upon Conscience for religious Opinions Humbly submitted to the consideration of Superiours By William Mather WHereas it is professed by all the Professors of Christianity at this day that the way and manner of their Religions or Opinions is according and not contrary to the Scripture of Truth Now to create peace amongst all the Churches and to unite in harmless Love that they may all build only upon the Rock Christ Jesus Mat. 7.25 If it shall please God so to open the Eyes of the Magistrates in every place by his Grace in their hearts the sure foundation Eph. 2.8 to so order it That the Minister or Teacher in each Congregation for Worship shall read the holy Scriptures only unto their hearers all waiting upon God in his fear to worship him in Spirit and in Truth John 4.24 So that if any thing be revealed by Gods Spirit by way of Interpretation Edification or Prayer to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace 1 Cor. 14.30 31 32. So will God be in the midst of those that are thus gathered together in his Name Matth. 18.20 so as none in Man's Wisdom speak but only as God's Spirit shall give utterance though it be through the least Member accounted of in the Church 1 Pet. 4.10 ●or what confusion and b●●●shed hath come upon the World for several ages by reason of mans setting up ways of Worship Articles of faith c. when our Saviour hath already done it Matth. the 5 6 and 7. Ch. c. For when an Arch-bishop required Joh. Fox the Author of the Book of Martyrs to subscribe to Articles of Faith he pulled out his Greek Testament saying I will subscribe unto nothing but this So that none except Jews and Atheists but will subscribe to God's Book according to the primitive practice of the Saints to worship God in Spirit And for this Liberty of prophesying and Interpretation of the Scriptures only by the same Spirit that gave them forth the ancient Fathers so called have pleaded for as Jacobus Acontius After I have alledged saith

in any of the Magicians could foresee the great dryness of the Earth which God was pleased to send this Year 1681 to shew how soon he can blast all if people turn not from the evil of their ways that Hay in less than six weeks time rose from ten shillings a Load to forty in some places and came to be plentiful before the Summer was ended therefore in God alone let us trust and in no Art of the Egyptians for the Devil was a lyar from the beginning and saith G. Abbot late Archbishop of Canterbury so called in a description of the World p. 115 116 for in India and all the Eastern parts so especially in this Country their Noblemen and Priests and very many people do give themselves to all Arts of Divination here were the great Sooth-sayers Enchanters and Wisemen as they call them here were the first Astrologians which are so described and derided in the Scripture it is thought that a great reason whereof these Chaldeans were expert in the laudable knowledge of Astronomy was partly because the Country is so plain that being without hills they might more fully and easily discover the whole face of the Heaven and partly because the old Fathers which lived so long not only before but in some good part also after the flood of Noah did dwell in or near to these parts and they by observation of their own did find out and discover many things of the Heavenly Bodies which they delivered as from hand to hand to their posterity but as Corruption doth stain the best things so in process of time the true Astronomy was defiled with superstitious Rules of Astrology which caused the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah so bitterly to inveigh against them And then in their fabulosity they would report that they had in their Records Observations for 2500 years which must needs be a very great untruth unless we will qualifie it as some have done expounding their year not of the revolution of the Sun but of the Moon whose course is ended in the space of a Month Quid enim iniquius quam ut oderint homines quod ignorant etiamsires meretur odium Tertul. Apologet The Lord frustrated the tokens of the Stars and maketh Diviners mad that turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish Isa 44.24 25. Fortune telling by the Lines in the Hand an Egyptian Folly THE Astrologers pretend that they can prognosticate of the future happiness or unhappiness of Nations and also peoples good and evil fortune by the Stars or Host of Heaven which the Heathen worshipped as Gods And they also hold that the Bodies of Men Beasts Hearbs Mettals c. are under the Planets Government and that we are to advise or take Counsel of them according to their Astrological Aphorisms when we gather Hearbs go to War c. 2 Sam. 5.19 Can they yet say that they do not adore or worship the Host of Heaven as the Heathen did 2 Kin. 17.16.21.3 Act. 7.42 When the Lord hath said Jer. 10.2 Learn not the way of the Heathen c. And do not the Astrologers also run into Egyptian-darkness by telling Peoples Fortunes by the Lines or Marks in their Hands still going for Counsel Isa 30.1 to the Host of Heaven like the Heathen and Egyptians saying one Line in the hand is the Line of Saturn another part they call th● Mount of Jupiter another of Mars Sol Venus c. and so are leading People back into Egypt and taking the Heathen Gods for Leaders and Governers as if man was altogether in a brutish State and had nothing of God manifest in him Rom. 1.19 though in God he is to live move and have his Being and know him to govern his whole heart and Soul but not moved ruled and Governed by any of the heathen Gods yet the Lights in the firmament to separate the day from the night every Christian owns them in their places for signs and for seasons and for days and for years Gen. 1.14 as God hath placed them in in which they keep their places in dividing the day from the night c. though man hath not kept his place and we are not to fear them as having Dominion over us Jer. 10.2 but the Lord God only who made them and still to admire his wonderful works in the Creation But to be brief saith W. S. But if this Mount that is the Mount of Venus so called by him in the hand be infortunated by evil Lines or Lines from evil places and irregular figures shews a Lecherous person an Adulterer a poor base sordid wretch who shall spend his substance on Whores c. Now if the Fortune-teller gives this judgment on such a person by the Lines aforesaid and is really such a person will not this judgment by the Lines more harden his heart through this Idolatrous belief that he may have by these Lines aforesaid that may cause him to say this is my fortune I cannot help it God hath so made me c. and so remains in Darkness and Errour Oh! What will they make man to be whom God hath created in his Image 1 Cor. 11.7 A Beast nay of some men they liken to be created worse than a Beast to be born with such evil marks upon his hand these marks happen but to some say they but this blind belief happens to too many that believe that the Stars and the said marks in the hand shew the whole course of mens lives And further saith he Therefore it behoves the industrious and studious Artist not to determine all things at first sight that is of the hand for no man can attain the knowledge of all particulars at one Inspection but yearly to make new Observations as the person encreases in age See W. Salmon of Chiromancy who for proof quotes Job 37.7 by the new Translation viz. He sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know his work But in the old Translation I find it is With the force of the Rein he shutteth men up and all men may know his work mark the difference Now blessed be the Lord the living God that hath unvailed to many this gross Babylonish and Egyptian Spirit of Darkness that by its sensual Wisdom would draw people to trust to a Reed of Egypt Jer. 17.5 which turneth the truth of God into a lye and worshippeth and serveth the Creature forsaking the Creator which is blessed for ever Rom. 1.25 Behold you trust in lying words that cannot profit Jer. 7.8 Concerning a Soothsayer or Augurer that pretends to know things to come by the flying of Birds THe Rabbins speak in this wise He is a Soothsayer who will say because a morsel of Bread is falln out of his Mouth or his staff out of his hand or his Son called him back or a Crow croked unto him or a Goat passed by him or a Serpent was toward his Right hand or a Fox on his Left hand therefore he will

becos schel iaijn Maimon in sanhedrim c. 13. Mat. 27.34 As likewise they gave him a second cup in Derision when they took a sponge It Moses Kotsens in san hedrim and filled it with Vinegar and put it on a reed Mat. 27.48 Thirdly The manner of the Cross on which Christ was crucified was like this figure † his Hands nailed to each side and his Feet nailed together to the bottom of the Cross almost And Jesus said unto Thomas reach hither thy Finger and behold my Hands c. Joh. 20.27 Psal 22.16 Even so do many in this day Crucifie afresh the Son of God and put him to open shame Heb. 6.6 By resisting and doing despite unto his Spirit of Grace in their hearts wilfully running into evil whilst they profess Christianity committing the sins of Sodom Gen. 19.5 Crucifying in Sodom and Egypt spiritually c. Fourthly Sometimes in notorious offenders to augment the pains of those that they whip Eustathius item Athenaeus Lib. 4. they tied certain huckle bones Tholosan synt Jur. univers lib. 31. or plummets of Lead or sharp Thorns to the end of the Thongs and such Scourges the Greeks termed Flagra Taxillata in the Scripture they are termed Scorpions My Father hath chastised you with rods but I will correct you with scorpions 1 Kings 12.12 The manner of their stoning to death the rebellious Sons Witches c. THe Offender was led to a place without the Gates two Cubits high his Hands being bound from hence one of the Witnesses tumbled him by a stroke upon the Loins if that kill him not the Witnesses lift up a stone being the weight of two men which chiefly the other Witness casteth upon him Paul fagius Deut. 17.7 if that kill him not all Israel throw stones upon him The hands of the Witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards the Hands of all the people Deut. 17.7 The manner of their strangling of such as lieth with another Man's Wife or that smiteth his Father or his Mother c THe Offender was put in dung up to the loins a Towel be●ng cast about his neck Paraphrast Chald. Ruth 1.17 Milkkotsi fol. 183. col 3. which two Executioners one on each side plucked to and fro until he was dead which they accounted the easiest kind of death Restitution for Goods stolen the Law of God IF the Theft whether Ox or Sheep were found alive upon a man he restored but double Exod. 22.4 But if they were killed or sold then five Oxen for an Ox and 4. Sheep ●or a Sheep Ex. 22.1 The Jews were so precise in this kind that if they had built an house with a Beam or piece of Timber unjustly gotten they would pull down the house and restore the same Beam or piece of Timber to the Owner David Nimchi From this the Prophet Habakkuk doth not much dissent The Stone shall cry out of the wall and the Beam out of the Timber shall answer it Hab. 2.11 Among the Jews he ought to be sold that was not of sufficient worth to make Restitution Exod. 22.3 And Augustine saith of Christians Aug. Epist 54. That he which doth not make restitution according to his ability never repented And Non remittetur peccatum nisi restituatur ablatum No doubt but that if this Law was practised in England we should not have so many Thieves for to be sold as slaves for stealing is more terrible than Death that are so desperate to cry A short Life and a sweet And so may have time to see their folly and may become new Creatures and steal no more rather to work with their hands Eph. 4.28 But if they become honest and not able to work they will be maintained by those that fear the Lord Deut. 28.48 Phylacteries that the Pharisees wore upon their Arms. THey made broad their Phylacteries and enlarged the borders of their Garments Mat. 23.5 It is said that they were parchment upon which was written some of the Law as the ten Commandments c. The Command was general Mos Kotensis praec offir 22. Ex. 13.9 It shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand and for a memorial between thine Eyes So that it was not the wearing of them which our Saviour did then condemn but the making of them broad whereby they would appear more holy than others some wore them on their fore-heads Because the Pharisees superstitiously conceited that by them as by Amulets Spells and Charms hanged about their necks themselves might be preserved from danger Hierom testifieth that the Pharisees had such a conceit of their Ornaments Chrysost Hier. in Mal. 2.3 in which place he compareth them to certain superstitious Women of his time The Priest under the Law wore white Garments Levit. 16.4 But the white cloathing of a Christian is a meek and a quiet Spirit c. 1 Peter 3.4 Rev. 19.8 4.4 18. See page 256. who carried up and down upon the like ground short sentences ou● of the new Testament and Reliques of the Cross the same superstition hath prevailed with many o● latter times who for th● same purpose hang the beginning of St. John about their necks and in the year of our Lord 692 certain Sorcerers were condemned for the lik● kind of Magick by the name of Phylacterians see T.G. civ Eccl. Rite lib. 2. ch 4. As Christian in the consecration of their Churches saith he make special choice of some particular Saints by whose names they call them as St. Peter Church St. Pauls St. Andrews c. so the Idolatrous Israelites consecrated their Groves unto particular Idols c. no good example to Christians howbeit the most high dwelleth no in Temples made with hands Isa 66.1 2. Act 7.48 17 24. Saith the Lord and to him will look even to him that is poor and of a contrite Spirit and trembleth at my word 1 Cor. 6.19 your Body is the temple of the Holy Ghost the Lord Supper Behold I stand at the door and knock i● any man hear my voice and open the door I will com● in unto him and will sup with him and he with me Rev. 3.20 Happy is he that opens his heart to the knocks or reproofs of Gods Grace shall overcome the evil and sit with God upon hi● Throne and live with Christ Jesus for ever and ever this is the plain truth open and free unto all the obedient of what Nation soever as Serjeant Jefferies well said in these words at the Tryal of Stephen Colledge viz. Truth is not confined to places nor Persons neither but applyed to all honest men be they Irish men or others Lastly Herods Temple which was the second Temple about 40 years in building was set on fire by Titus his Souldiers that it could not be quenched by the industry of man at the same time the Temple at Delphi being in chief request among the Heathen People Genebrard Chro.