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A81217	Peters patern or The perfect path to worldly happiness. As it was delivered in a funeral sermon preached at the interrment of Mr. Hugh Peters lately deceased, by I.C. translator of Pineda upon Job, and one of the triers.	J. C.; Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing C784; Thomason E995_11; ESTC R207807	10,387	15

required that he should be stored with Impudence even as a Woodmongers Wharf is stored with Faggots and Sea-coal The uses of it are these two first to encourage you to the most desperate enterprises and secondly to make you scorn the reproaches of those that reprove ye As for example my beloved If you see one of your enemies seated in a warm living and that your heart pant and thirst after the same you ought then to put on your night-cap of devotion and your garment of hypocrisie and go unto your superiors and say Yonder is a man who is not of the Congregation of Professors who is planted in a rich Living he is a scandalous and disaffected person and I am more worthy than he pray put me into his place If men therefore rebuke you and call you accuser and devil then ought you to make use of your gift of impudence and laugh at them all Thus did holy Nye throw out unrighteous Juxon out of his Parsonage of Fullham Thus our brother Marshall became possessed of his fat Living in the Land of Essex This emboldned our departed brother to hold forth in the Pulpit of White-Hall where so many learned as the heathen call them had been before him What cared they for the reproaches of men for their hearts were seared with the hot Iron of impudence finding themselves at ease and filled with joy This likewise emboldened the poor Spaniard as we find in the book of our dear Gusman Book 1. c. 7. First to begg money and then without bidding sit down cheek by jowl with the Ambassador for saith he in the last verse He was carried away with bravadoes and an impudent behaviour The next Vertue we are to make use of is the gift of Nonsence for perhaps thou maist not be a Scholar nor one of the number of the learned and it may concern thee to talk two hours together thou oughtest therefore to be well furnished with Nonsence that thou maist be enabled to go through with thy work to which purpose often repetitions and telling of tales do very much conduce as when our departed brother told the story of his being in heaven and hell and the tale of Puss in her Majesty The next gift is that of Lying which may be very profitable to thee and whereof thou maist make a very great advantage for if thou art bid to preach for the benefit of thy Rulers if then thou art furnished with soul cozening doctrine If then thou hast the right art of lying and wheedling the people by telling them that the cause thou speakest of is the onely true cause and that God will certainly own them in their obedience to it then there will arise unto thee a very great emolument With these arts our deceased brother furnished the Parliament with Basons Rings and Bodkins Thus he by telling them that Ireland was a place that flowed with milk and honey and where broad cloath of twelve shillings a yard grew upon the trees inticed the souldiers over against the publike enemy Thus we read in the forementioned Chapter of Gusman How the same Spaniard by relating the nobleness of his family though he were but a Coblers son in Cordova and by boasting of several great actions which he never did got of the said Ambassador both money and his dinner We find also Mr. Sterry practising this gift when he to ingratiate himself with his new Master our late Protector he assured him that his father was sitting at the right hand of God when most Divines do affirm the contrary The next thing requisite for a man that will make ye but use of his time is the gift of accusing and slandring knowest thou not O Man that slanders are like the defilement of printers ink easily laid on but hard to rub off If then thou seekest to work any one into disfavor with his Superiors that thou maist obtain thy desired end make thy first shot at him with the pot-guns of slander for the disgrace thou throwest upon him throws him out and tosses thee into the haven of thy wishes Thus our deceased brother never left accusing unsanctified Lawd till his head had satisfied his wrath and the benevolences which the Professors bestowed on him out of his worldly profits had appeased the hunger of his almost famished purse Thus the brethren likewise accused the Lord Craven being of the race of Ishmael and got his estate Thy next gift is Ignorance For thou must know that there are few wise men in authority Thinkest thou then O foolish Galathian that any man will advance such a one as is more cunning than himself no thou must at least pretend ignorance and if after such advancement thou dost grow wiser than thy brethren then I say make use of thy time saith blessed Machiavel in his Book of the Right Path to preferment Let every man counterfeit that humor which he finds most advantagious to his designs Therefore neither our deceased brother nor any of his faithful brethren the Tryers would advance those whom the heathen called the grave learned and wise but the meanest of the people that were of the simplest and weakest capacities There came a learned man and one of the weak brethren and contended for a place saith our deceased brother to him that was learned What is Faith who answered him discreetly according to the learning of the Schools then he demanded the same question of the other who replyed that Faith was a sweet lullaby in the lap of Jesus Christ at which words our deceased brother lifting up his hands to heaven cryed Blessed be the Lord who hath revealed these things unto the simple Friend thou according to thy deserts shalt have the Living The next thing important is the gift of Cozening For you know my beloved the common people are a simple sort of creatures who must be deluded into their own good Now their good is the good and safety of their Governors Do we not deceive Children whom we would give Physick unto by anointing the brim of the Cup with hony So do we sweeten the bitter purges which are the peoples Taxes and Impositian with the delicate allurements of Liberty and Religion So our late Reverend Lord Oliver of blessed memory for whom our dear Brother the Lord reward his Soul hath pump'd full often as you may read in our dear Sister Brisco's book of Divine truths so I say he by cousening every body that he dealt with by the right management or the seasonable taking and breaking of his oaths and protestations became a Monarch Thus did the devout Lazarillo cousen the Priest his Master of his bread I shall give you his own words l. 1. c. 3. v. 11. I pray my beloved turn to the place and mark it for 't is a very pretious Text. Saith he as I was musing how to get victuals and feeding upon the sight of the Chest wherein my Masters bread was locked there came a Tinker to the dore with

PETERS PATERN OR The perfect PATH to Worldly Happiness As it was delivered in a Funeral Sermon preached at the interrment of Mr. Hugh Peters lately Deceased By I. C. Translator of Pineda upon Job and one of the Triers Gusman Lib. 1 2. Verse 4. Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas London Printed in the Year 1659. After they had sang the two first staves of the tenth hymn of Larners twelve Songs of Sion to the tune of The Knave of Clubs the Parson proceeded in his Text as followeth GUSMAN lib. 2. Chap. 3. Verse 26. The latter part of the words Let us while we live make use of our time for a mans life is ended in a day BELOVED THe scope of this reverent Divine is in these words to hold forth unto us the excellencie of human wit and policy in this self-seering and deceitfull world And indeed I hope I have not made a wrong choice of my Text not knowing any one whereon I could better ground the praises of our departed brother here before us you all knowing how great a Disciple of our Author he was being indeed the very pattern and exemplar of his Godly and Religious life But now to explain the words aright we shall deal with them as joyners do with court-Cupboards and round Tables first pull them asunder and then put them together againe I use this comparison that you may know me to be man of trade that is to say one that trades in the word or if you will have it otherwise a holder forth according to the last and most sanctifi'd institution First then you have an exhortation in these words Let us Secondly the time given us to make use thereof while we live Thirdly the thing to which we are exhorted that is to make use of our time and lastly the supreme reason of this exhortation for a mans life is ended in a day Let us while we live make use of our time for a mans life is ended in a day First then of the first that is to say of the words Let us But here you must give me leave to excuse the great abuses that have been put upon these two poor innocent monosyllables I confesse they have been crumm'd thicker than Habakkuks brown loaf into the porridge of the Caveleers commonly call'd the Common Prayer Book when they cry Let us pray Let us kneel But believe it my beloved I have now rebaptized them and wash'd them cleaner from that prophanation than ever tripes were scowr'd from their filth by the nicest Huswife in Field Lane Now being thus purifi'd you will find Let us to signifie sometimes as much as hinder us not Quixot the 12. verse 8. Hinder me not fair Dulcina from the enjoyment of your sweet Company that is Let me enjoy your sweet Company sometimes as much as to say Suffer us saith the reverent Buscon chap. 7. verse 5. to his Master in great affliction Suffer us not to be starv'd to death that is Let us not be starved c. Yet it is not meant here as in those places by way of petition but is a kind of rousing up of the spirits to a certain action As when the Carrmen would heave a great load into their Carts they exhort one another by crying hey boys or as when the Coachman would have his horses to goe faster than ordinary he incourages them by saying stirr up in which sence our learned Gusman uses this expression Let us in this place as it were a word of incitement or stirring us up to any undertaking Some when they use these words in this signification do clap one another on the back which adds a greater emphasis to them But he goes on Let us saith he while we live And here you are to understand two things what is meant by Wee and secondly what is meant by the words in general while we live Note then that Wee is a particle of distinction which shews you that there is another sort of men to whom our deer Gusman doth deny the precious comforts held forth in this verse for my beloved I would not have you think that when he spake this he had piggs in his belly as Calvin in his comments upon this place doth erroniously conjecture By Wee then is meant the godly such as I and you are whom the Lord hath chosen to the conjoyments of this World The other sort of men here imply'd are all those who professe to be our enemies men that would cut off our ears with the paring shovels of their malice and whip our backs with the scourges of their fury for did not the word intimate this distinction our deceased brother had not used so many pious and painful endeavours to advance some men and destroy others that is to advance his own godly partie and destroy his wicked foes Let us saith he while we live that is while we are in power while we live in authority or be in favour with those that Govern whether it be a single person or a Commonwealth or if you will have it otherwise while we are in a thriving condition while men think us Godly and Faithful and consequently trust us with preferments of profit I say when the Lord shall put such opportunities and abilities into our hands Then my Brethren Let us make use of our time Let us take hold of them with both hands and hold them as fast as a Mastiff holds a Sow by the ear Let us make use of our time that is Let us use all indeavours ways plots means manners tricks and policies whether lawful or un lawful to raise and advance our own ends whether they be only honourable or profitable or both And when we have attained that which we seek Let us use the same inventions that the ungodly may not gain them from us and thence take an occasion to triumph over us The fathers of the order of Industry at the Council held at Biscay in the year 1590 made a decree that every one should keep his own and get what he could from another I speak this that I may not leave you altogether without authority in the explanation of my Text but of this more anon We shall now proceed to the reason of the words For a mans life is ended in a day As much as to say the life of man is very short For whereas it was formerly above an ell and a nail long it is now no longer than a span How vast a while did Methuselah live to enjoy the pains and labours of his youth But no sooner had our deer Brother Mr. Peters got an Estate a little Chariot and an Onesimus or two to wait on him thinking to comfort himself with the blessings of the creature but he was snatch'd away from us ev'n as a boy snatches a pippin out of an apple-womans basket Some in regard of the shortnesse thereof have compared the life of man unto a Lilly but I am clearly of opinion that it was