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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68047	The Figure of three, or, A Patterne of good counsell gathered for the delight of the well disposed.		1636 (1636)	STC 10865.5; ESTC S883	6,479	22

THE FIGVRE of THREE OR A Patterne of good COVNSELL Gathered for the Delight of the well disposed LONDON Printed for R. B. and are to be sold in S. Laurence lane at the signe of the BIBLE 1636. THE FIGVRE OF THREE OR A PATTERNE OF GOOD COVNSELL THE Knowledge of God is three-fold Generall Speciall and Singular Generall as the Philosophers Speciall as of the Christians and Singular as of them that are blessed The sweetnesse of this Name JESVS consists in three things It is honey to the mouth Melodie to the Eare and joy to the Heart All men are busied about one of these three ●hings Honesty Profit or Pleasure Three abominable sayings of all Epi●ures there is no pleasure after death a ●engeance on him that careth for to mor●ow neither feare the latter day nor wish ●●r it Three things doe study to unite with Pride Power 〈◊〉 Riches All Idols had their originall of three things Superstition wicked Imagination and Flattery Three things to bee considered in the creation of the world Who made it by what he made it wherefore he made it If wee aske who made it Why there is no Author more excellent than God If by what he made it Why no Art of more force then the Word of God If wherefore he made it Why no cause better than this that good should be created of God who is good A good life consist●th 〈◊〉 these things to eschew evill to doe goodnesse and to persevere in godlinesse to the end Three benefits which we haue receive● ought to move us daily and hourely t● giv● God great thankes our Creation ou● Redemption our Justification Three guides to Poverty Gluttonie Sloth and Whoredome Hope is very good for three causes I● is a remedy in adversity wiping tear● from the eyes for Hope onely doth s●●staine th●m whom injurious Fortune do●● most oppresse It nourisheth life promising better successe to morrow It leaveth not a man at his death but exalteth his heart unto immortality Three things not any way to be tolerated a long tongue in a Fooles head a loose life in a godly Professor a proud Heart and a beggers purse Three things be never silent where they be Money in the purse Wantonnesse in the heart Griefe in sicknesse Three sorts of men are evermore very slothfull they that sit long at Dinner they that lye long in Bed when they should rise to their labour and they that come to the Church when the doores are shut up Three things which seldome can bee seene a Broker that never made a lye a Collier which never was blacke and two Hils neere together without a valley A man is most grieved at three things especially To see the Adversities of his Children to heare of the losse of his goods and to see the prosperity of his heaviest enemies We should not be carefull nor curious in three things of good order in another mans house of the divine government of the Almighty nor in the Counsels of great Estates Three causes why men love one another One loveth because he is loved another because he is advanced to honor the third for that he expects a benefit from the hand of him whom he so loveth Three proud creatures a Knave sitting in a Chaire a que●ne riding in a Chariot a r●mping louse in a scabbed Head Three sorts of men are for the most part extreme babblers Barbers Bath-keepers and Victuallers and the reason is this because they deale with Mariners Souldiers and many other calling themselves travellers and are indeed extreame vagrant fellowes reciting many strange tales whereby being as it were infected with their very talke they become in the end great Babblers Three things necessary for the increase of Corne good Seed good ground and Gods blessing Three things in the night which doe importune us to sleepe Darknesse for men desirous to sleepe doe seeke for the darkest places Cold for in winter men sleepe more soundly than in Summer and those that are cold of complexion will sleepe longer than others that are not Moysture for according to all Philosophy moist vapours arise from the Stomacke ascend up into the braine and provoke sleepe Three things are sayd to be very bitter Gall Griefe and Death Three things which Women can doe all at once Spin Weepe and Prattle Three things which for the uncertainty of that which may happen men cannot safely give any counsell to undertake them that is a Wife to travell by Sea to follow the Warres Hope doth comfort three sorts of men of whom all others are past hope him whom the Physicians have given over him that is bound and cast into a deepe dungeon and him that hath suffered shipwracke being tossed with waves yet hope perswades to cast his armes abroad Three things chiefly to be remembred Gods ben fits whereby we are ever to give thankes our sins that we may be sorry for them and our death that we may be carefull to live well Three things manifest GODS Judgements Corporall punishment the sting of an evill Conscience the torments of Hell-fire There bee three things that the bodie is most addicted unto and as it were coveteth Good cheare Sleepe and Merry or pleasant talke and company Also there be three outward properties of the Persons in the Trinity the Father sends and is not sent the Sonne is sent to be made a sacrifice and the Holy Ghost is sent to sanctifie our mindes There be also in our Saviour Jesus Christ three things worthily to be wondred at the examples of his life whereby he edified the envions his words of wisedome whereby hee instructed the ignorant and the marvels of his glory whereby he did convert the unbeleevers Gold as the Learned write thereof hath three outragious properties for first it is the Sna●e for our soules the hooke of Death and the Bait of sinne It is great gaine and also wonderfull pleasure for these three sorts of men to tell lyes Poets Painters and Astronomers All men should suffer these three evils with patience necessary evils such as can neither be altered amended or hindred Accidentall evils which have happened unto us by our owne evill courses and such evils as we have justly deserved As after men behold a Rainebow they are put in mind of three speciall things of the anger of God when he destroyed the world with water whereof the 〈◊〉 colour is a witnesse of the mercy of God who will never us● that punishment againe o● the latter judgement and burning of the world with fire and that doth the red 〈◊〉 fiery colour thereof represent Three things make most men very sorrowfull that he must needes die that he knowes not the time or day when and tha● after death he knowes not where he shal bee Three things there be that are sayd to undoe a man to deferre and prolong hi● businesse to meddle with other mens matters to reject the good Counsell of hi● friend Three things there be very necessary for a sort

God is to have true confidence in his mercy Whosoever will retaine a Lawyer and lawfully seeke his owne right must be furnished with these three pockets In the first pocket hee must have his Declaration and Certificate wherewith hee may shew his Right in the second pocket he must have store of Red-ruddockes in the third pocket hee must have patience although the Law proceed against him Three things will not prove well without beating a Walnut-tree an Asse and a Woman Three trades of life that may travell without Pasports Pedlers Tinkers and Minstrels Three things bite sore an old Dog an hungry Flye and an unconscionable Vsurer The Holy Ghost doth governe three things in every godly person the mind the heart and the wil it doth inlighten the minde with the light of the holy Word it doth kindle the heart that it may conceive what it is that best pleaseth God It doth move the will to be willing to doe whatsoever God willeth in his VVord The Holy Ghost doth confirme three things in us Faith Hope and Love The proud Heart is destitute of three good things It is hardned and wanteth Godlinesse it is void of Contrition it is dry wanting the deaw of spirituall grace A guilty Conscience wo●●eth in man three miracles It maketh the heaven and the earth though never so spatious to be narrower than a mouse hole It causeth even the strongest heart to be afraid at the wagging of every leafe It stirreth up it selfe like a thousand witnesses A man must keepe his minde from these three things Anger because it fretteth Hatred because it consumeth Glory because it puffeth up with pride The Judge must have respect into three things the law the guilty and the people A gentle mind is of three sorts milde to suffer ready to forgive willing to helpe A VVise man repenteth these three things That he hath gone by Sea when he might have gone by land that he hath revealed his secrets that he hath let one day passe wherein he hath not done some good and vertuous thing Three sorts of women to be forsaken an old woman wanton a Maide full of Sleepe and a wife full of words Three things to be pittied a house full of motherlesse children an honest man wrongfully accused an old man left comfortlesse Three kind of people be much spited at but daily prosper that is the informing Lawyer the usuring Broker and the mercilesse Sergeant Three kinde of people fill Cities and Townes full of Vanity that is the Poet the Player and the Pander Three kind of people be seldome without company that is the Vsurer without riotous gentlemen the faire woman without wanton customers and the liberall man without shamelesse beggers Three pleasures may be well banish'd out of cities that is common bowling allies publike stage-plaies and begging musicke There be three kinde of people that be counted mad viz. a rich VViddow that marrieth an unthrifty Courtier an old man to please his child makes himselfe a begger and he that gives trust to a drunken woman There bee three Plagues none worse that is to marry a foole to hire a slut and to serve a knave Aristotle affirmeth that a man can never yeeld thanks enough unto three our God our parents and our masters Three vertues worthy commendations in a woman Sobriety silence and chastity VVee salute three sorts of people where we meete them our betters of necessity our equals of our owne will our inferiours of our meere vertue Gluttony doth hurt many three manner of wayes It maketh the body deformed it breedeth infirmities it causeth them to be insatiable like brute beasts Three kinds of people are jealous such as be evill of condition themselves such as have faire wives old men that marry young girles There are three trades which are chiefly maintained in most places that is Bakers Brewers and Butchers Three kinde of things can never be suppressed that is the pride of women the folly of young Heires and the Jealousie of old wives Labour is good for three things It occupieth the minde and drives away fantasies it helpeth the body in digestion i● increaseth the substance It is not good to brag of three things that thou hast good wine a faire wife and plenty of money A man may doe three things without teaching laugh weepe and sleepe Men may lawfully fight in defence of these three the Law the Prince and the Countrey FJNJS