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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02534	Epistles the first volume: Containing II. decads. By Ioseph Hall; Epistles. Vol. 1	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1608 (1608)	STC 12661.7; ESTC S103637	49,336	198

mouth It ioyes me yet to think that his pietie as it euer held friendship in heauen so now it wins him friends in this our other world Lo euen from our Iland inexpected deliuerance takes a long flight and blesseth him beyond hope yea rather from heauen by vs. That GOD whom hee serues will be knowen to those rude and scarce humane Christians for a protector of innocence a fauourer of truth a rewarder of Pietie The mercy of our gratious King the cōpassion of an honorable Councellor the loue of a true friend and which wrought all and set all on worke the grace of our good God shal now loose those bonds and giue a glad welcome to his libertie and a willing farewel to his distresse Hee shall I hope liue to acknowledge this in the meane time I do for him Those Russian affaires are not more worthie of your records then your loue to this friend is worthie of mine For neither cold this large Sea drowne or quench it nor time and absence which are wont to breed a lingring consumption of friendship abate the heat of that affection which his kindnesse bred religion nourished Both rarenesse and worth shall commend this true loue which to say true hath beene now long out of fashiō Neuer times yeilded more loue but not more subtle For euery man loues himselfe in another loues the estate in the person Hope of aduantage is the loadstone that drawes the yrō harts of men not vertue not desert No age afforded more Parasites fewer friends The most are friendly in sight seruiceable in expectation hollow in loue trustlesse in experience Yet now Buchinski see cōfesse thou hast found one friend which hath made thee many on whome while thou bestowedst much fauour thou hast lost none I cannot but thinke how welcome Libertie which tho late yet now at last hath lookt backe vpon him shall bee to the Cell of his affliction whē smiling vpon him shee shall lead him by the hand and like another Angel open the yron gates of his miserable captiuitie and from those hard Prestaues and sauage Christians carry him by the haire of the head into this paradise of God In the meane time I haue written to him as I could in a knowen language with an vnknowen hand that my poor Letters of gratulation might serue as humble attendants to greater For your work I wish it but such glad intertainment as the profit yea the delight of it deserues and feare nothing but that this long delay of publicatiō will make it scarce newes Wee are all growen Athenians and account a strange report like to a fish and a guest Those eyes and hands staid it which might do it best I cannot blame you if you thinke it more honored by the stay of his gratious perusall then it could be by the early acceptatiō of the world Euē the cast garments of Princes are pretious Others haue in part preuented you whose labors to yours are but as an Eccho to a long period by whom we heare the last sound of these stirs ignorant of the beginning They giue vs but a taste in their hand you lead vs to the open fountaine Let the Reader giue you but as much thank as you giue him satisfaction you shal desire no more Finally GOD giue vs as much good vse as knowledge of his iudgements the world helpe of your labors your selfe incouragement Buchinski libertie To STANISLAVS BVCHINSKI late Secretarie to DEMETRIVS Emp. of Russia EP. 7. Of the comfort of Imprisonment THe knowledge that the eie giues of the face alone is shallow vncertaine imperfect For what is it to see the vtmost skin or fauour of the visage changeable with disease changeable with passion The eare mee thinks doth both most clearely disclose the mindes of others and knit them faster to ours which as it is the sense of discipline so of friendship commaunding it euen to the absent and in the present cherishing it This thing we haue lately proued in your selfe most noble Stanislaus neerer examples wee might haue had better we could not How many how excellent things haue wee heard of you from our common friend tho most yours which haue easily won our beleefe our affections How oft how honourable mention hath hee made of your name how frequently how seruētly haue we wisht you both safety and libertie And now Lo where she comes as the Greekes say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 visites her forlorne Client Altho I would not doubt to say that this outwarde durance of the body hath seemed more harsh to the behoulders then to your selfe a wise man and which is more a Christian whose free soule in the greatest straights of the outer man flies ouer Seas and Lands whither it listeth neither can by any distance of place nor swelling of waues nor height of mountaines nor violence of enemies nor strong barres nor walles nor guards bee restrained from what place it selfe hath chosen Lo that enioyes God enioyes it self and his friends and so feedes it selfe with the pleasure of enioying them that it easily either forgers or contemnes all other things It is no Paradoxe to say that A wise Christian cannot bee emprisoned cannot bee banished Hee is euer at home euer free For both his libertie is within him and his home is vniuersall And what is it I beseech you for you haue tried that makes a prison Is it straitnesse of walls Then you haue as many fellowes as there are men For how is the soule of euerie man pent within these clay-walles of the body more close more obscure● whence shee may looke oft through the grates of her busie thoughts but is neuer released in substance till that God who gaue vs our Mittimus into this Gaole giue vs our Deliuerie with a Returne yee sonnes of Adam Thus either all men are prisoners or you are none Is it restraint How many especially of that other sexe in those your Easterne partes chamber vp themselues for state so as they neither see the Sunne nor others them How many superstitious men for deuotion How many obscure Aglai for ease and carelesnesse keepe themselues in their owne Cottage in their owne village neuer walke foorth so much as to the neighbour townes And what is your Russia to all her inhabitants but a large prison a wide Gally yea what other is the world to vs How can hee complaine of straitnes or restraint that roues all ouer the world and beyond it Tyranny may part the soule from the body cannot confine it to the bodie That which others do for ease deuotion state you doe for necessitie why not as willingly since you must do it Do but imagine the cause other your case is the same with theirs which both haue chosen and delight to keepe close yet hating the name of prisoners while they embrace the condition But why do I perswade you not to mislike that which I pray you may forsake I had rather you should bee