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Selected sentences out of sacred antiquitie, conducing to the establishment of faith and good manners. Gathered by W. Wynne
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Wynne, William, fl. 1616-1624.
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SELECTED SENTENCES OVT OF SACRED ANTIQVITIE CONDVCING TO the establishment of Faith and good Manners Gathered by W. WYNNE LONDON Printed by E. A. for Nathaniell Butter 1624. TO The Right Honorable Sir HENRY HOWARD Knight of the Hon Order of the Bath Lord Matrauers Sonne and Heyre apparant of the most Hon the Earle of Arundell Lord High Marshall of England Right Hon YOVR Thrice-noble Brother and my most honored Lord and Patron being now a Celestiall Courtier and crowned with immortall Glory among the Princes in Paradise hath left your Lordship behind him not onely to enioy his Honourable titles and fortunes heere vpon earth but withall to tread the pathes of his exemplar Virtue and Noblenesse where through you may finally arriue to the height of his felicitie in Heauen My true deuotion beeing tyed to the perpetuall memory of his Honorable name and therein also to your Lordship as the succeeding heyre to all his most worthy attributes and rights doth justly exact from mee some tribute or token of my bounden Dutie which I thus humbly present vnder these few memorials gathered out of Sacred Antiquitie not presuming thereby to adde any thing by way of supply to those perfections you haue already attained but rather very humbly crauing your fauorable Countenance Honorable protection of them to the benefit of some others meanlier instructed who thereupon may peraduenture bee the easilier induced to peruse them For if your Lordship deigne to patronize them who will altogether dispise them Such therefore as they are I dedicate and consecrate together with my selfe to be for euer Humbly at your Lordships seruice and commandment William Wynne To all my beneuolent Friends and fauourable Readers GReat Workes of Penne proceed from much reading like experience yet the greatest are easily brought to pithie abridgement contayning the sinewes and marrow of that bigge Body and by compendious regularity are fitter for memory easier for price and more portable for vse This briefe Collection aymes at no outward practice not comming from inward vertue to enable religious Constancy of minde that in conuersation of life it may bring forth fruits of Pietie and Ciuilitie There is no Sentence without waight Exercise of one will draw on an easie habit to the rest which as I wish to all so I commend to all desiring that the endeauour may passe with good Construction and the vse to both issues of inward Deuotion and outward Practise W. W. SELECTED SENTENCES OVT of Sacred Antiquitie conducing to the establishment of Faith and good Manners A loue principium GOD is all in all to you If you hunger hee is Bread if you thirst hee is Drinke if you sit in darknesse hee is Light if you be naked hee is a garment of Immortalitie August 2. God is the true and chiefest life in whom from whom and by whom all thinges created are blessed and made good Ibid. 3. It is God from whom to bee auerted is to fall to whom to bee conuerted is to arise in whom to abide is to stand fast from whom to depart is to dye to whom to returne is to reuiue It is God whom no man leeseth but he that is deceiued no man seeketh but hee that is taught no man findeth but hee that is cleane August 4. There is no refuge from God displeased but to God pleased Ibid. 5. God is neuer wanting yet farre from his Enemies thoughts neither when he is farre off is hee wanting for where hee is not by Grace he is there by Iustice God is euery where present and can hardly be found we pursue him standing but are vnable to apprehend him Greg. 6. As there is no Time wherein wee enioy not the benefits of Gods mercy and goodnesse so should there bee no moment without remembrance of his presence for all Time wherein God is not remembred wee must reckon as vtterly lost August 7. God is all an eye for he seeth all hee is all a hand for he worketh all hee is all a foote for he is euery where 8. Whatsoeuer is besides GOD is neither sweet nor sauory whatsoeuer my Lord God will giue mee let him take it all againe from me and giue mee himselfe Aug. 9. Farre bee it from thee O LORD that in thy Tabernacle the Rich should be preferred before the Poore or the Noble before the Ignoble seeing thou madest chorse of the worlds weaklings to confound the strong and potent 10. Affection makes vs doe many thinges with respect to bodily neerenesse But to offend the Creator of body and soule without respect wee sticke not 11. I had rather bee blamed of any then praised of a Flatterer for a louer of Truth is neuer afraid of a fault-finder but a Flatterer both erres himselfe and confirmes others in their errours Aug. 12. Nothing so easily Corrupts the minde as Flatterie yea more hurt doth the tongue of a Flatterer then the sword of a Persecutor Hier. 13. Ambition is a foolish Disease a secret Poyson a lurking Plague a worker of Deceit the mother of Hypocrisie the begetter of Enuy the spring of Vice the moath of Holinesse the blinder of Hearts breeding diseases of remedies and turning medicines into malladies Ibid. 14. The Ambition of power depriued an Angell of his Felicitie the appetite of knowledge robbed Man of his Immortalitie Ibid. 15. Eus was not beguiled with the Apple nor did shee forget the Commandement but the Ambition of promised Honour beguiled her Ibid. 16. Ambition is the Ape of Charitie Charitie suffreth for Eternall thinges Ambition for Earthly Charitie is benigne to the poore Ambition to the rich Charitie sustaines all for veritie Ambition for vanitie both of them beleeue all but after a farre different manner Pet. Rauen. 17. That is euer lost with much Lament which is possest with much Loue. 18. There bee two Loues which build vp two Cities the loue of God builds vp Hierusalem the loue of the world Babilon Let euery one aske but of himselfe what hee loues and hee shall soone finde of which Citie hee is August 19. The labours of Louers are neuer painefull but pleasant as those of Huntsmen Faulconers Fishers for in that wee loue either we labour not at all or wee loue our Labour Ibid. 20. They are happy that haue all they would haue and wish for no more then what they should haue 21. Peace is not sought that Warre may come thereof but warre is made that peace may ensue Bee you therefore peaceable in Warre that you may the better reduce those to Peace against whom you haue gotten victorie 22. If the cause of Combate bee good the end can neuer bee ill Bern. 23. To bee a Souldier is no fault but to bee a Souldier for booties sake is a sinne Aug. 24. No lesse doe they sinne who blaspheme CHRIST raigning in Heauen then did they who Crucified him walking vpon Earth 25. The roote of all good is Charitie the roote of all euill Cupiditie these two can neuer be together for
haue knowledge being ignorant is rash who denyes that knowledge hee hath is vnthankfull 134. An Olde mans discourse should not onely bee weightie and graue but withall short or not very long Aug. 135. An Old man heareth the messengers of Death and will not beleeue them the messengers are three Casualtie Sicknesse and old Age it selfe Casualtie propounds thinges vncertaine Sicknesse thinges sorrowfull old Age thinges certaine Casualtie shewes death lurking Sicknesse death appearing old Age death present From vncertaintie of Death proceeds feare from paine of Sicknesse griefe and from the certaintie of old Age should come not obstinacy and stiffenesse but Mortification and Humilitie Hug. 136. The patience to say nothing the oportunitie of speaking and the contempt of worldly wealth are the chiefe foundations of Vertue 137. As it becomes not a Bishop to sell that hand hee layeth vpon others so the ordayned Minister must neither set his Tongue nor his Pen to sale 138. When a Bishop purchaseth vndue Order with money whereby his inward man is cast off his Body receiueth honour and his Soule loseth honestie Ambrose 139. Euery one is so much the more vnwise inwardly as hee striueth to bee thought wise outwardly Greg. 140. If a Rich man proud bee scarce tollerable who will suffer an insolent Begger Aug. 141. Pride precipitateth from the highest Heauen to the deepest pit of Hell Humilitie exalteth from below to aboue an Angell fell from Heauen into Hell Man from Earth ascendeth to Heauen Bern. 142. The vicious for the most part loue such as are like themselues onely one proud body can neuer indure another Inno. 143. Present feare begets eternall securitie now feare God aboue all thinges that you need not be affraid of Man 144. Let Man vnderstand that GOD is a Physitian and tribulation a Medicine to Saluation not a preparatiue to Damnation 145. In the Furnace Strawe burneth Gold purifieth the one consumeth to ashes the other is purged of drosse and corruption the Furnace is the World the Gold is the lust the Fire is Tribulation the cunning workman is GOD What the workman willeth I doe where and when hee appoints I suffer hee that appoints mee to endure knowes when I shall bee pure though the strawe burne and set mee on fire yet when it is turned to ashes I shall bee cleane without spot or staine 146. Our LORD saith Forgiue and you shall bee forgiuen say not with your tongue you forgiue and differ with your heart for God knowes what you say and thinke together Man heares what you say but GOD sees what you thinke It is much better to forgiue heartily and say nothing then to carry a faire golden mouth and a false froward heart Aug. 147. So mercifull is our Lord IESVS that hee would haue pardoned Iudas if hee had but craued pardon and hoped for CHRISTS mercy Ambr. 148. O Man thou canst not bee without sinne and if alwayes thou wilt bee forgiuen all then forgiue alwayes how much thou wilt bee forgiuen so much forgiue how often thou wilt bee forgiuen so often forgiue yea and because thou wouldest bee forgiuen all forgiue all I say O man conceiue that in forgiuing others thou forgiuest thy selfe Chrysost 149. Truth is both sweet and bitter sweet when it spareth bitter when it cureth Aug. 150. What booteth a cleane Body with a corrupt Minde an humble Wife is better then a proud Virgin 151. What is the Mindes virginitie entire Faith strong Hope and perfect Charitie Aug. 152. Virginitie surpasseth the condition of humane nature by which men are made like vnto Angels yet greater is the victory of Virgins then of Angels for Angels liue without Flesh but Virgins triumph in Flesh 153. Virginitie is the Sister of Angels the Conquest of Lusts the Queene of Vertues the Treasure of Goodnesse Cyprian 154. Vertue the more it contemneth the more it is esteemed It is great Vertue to striue with Prosperitie and great Prosperitie not to bee ouercome by it 155. The minde can neuer enioy the kingdome of Vertue vnlesse it first shake off the yoake of Vice Aug. 156. There is no such persuasion to Vertue as often to remember the vglinesse of Sinne. Chrys 157. There is nothing well-done vnwillingly though the thing done bee neuer so good 158. If you steale not because you are affraid to bee seene yet inwardly in your heart you haue stolne and are to bee held guiltie thereof though you take nothing away Bern. 159. When you will you cannot because when you might you would not so as through an ill will past you haue lost a good beeing present Aug. 160. With GOD who knoweth all thinges before they be done a resolued will to doe well or ill is reckoned for the deed done Aug. 161. His braine is taken away whom GOD intendeth to punish least hee should by prouidence auert the intended plague 162. He that makes an vndiscreet Vow is foolish and hee that keepes it is impious Hier. 163. Alwayes breake vnlawfull Promises and change vngodly Vowes 164. What good you haue vowed freely that you are bound to performe justly Bern. 165. A greedy Couetous man who deuoureth all like Hell would haue none left aliue but himselfe that hee might possesse all Aug. 166. When God rewardeth Merites hee crowneth nothing but his owne Guifts in the merite you doe nothing in the worke you worke alone your Crowne is of God your worke of your selfe yet not without Gods assistance Aug. 167. Many good things doth God in Man which man doth not for Man doth nothing which God doth not that Man may doe it Ibid. 168. All our merites are in such manner the guifts of God that Man is for the same more indebted to God then God to Man Bern. 169. Merite and Grace are at this oddes that Grace will neuer enter where Merite takes the vpperhand Bern. 170. I know well that by no vertue no merite he shall euer bee saued who by the Passion of CHRIST is neuer moued Aug. 184. Whensoeuer Ideuoutly remember and meditate the Passion of CHRIST I shall be safe Ibid. 172. Not any one vpon earth is so rich as hee desireth nothing but God and he is the Almes-man of CHRIST that is out of loue with the world Aug. 173. Among thirtie thousand men scarse one of those shall repent truly who driue of Repentance to the last cast 174. Hee is farre enough from Faith that deferreth his repentance till his Death Greg. 175. Repentance should not bee late not compelled not fained not desperate 176. In a sound man Penance is sound in a sicke man it is sicke and in a dead man it is dead 177. Reckon from Adam to the last Iust man and you shall find none to bee saued but by very hard and rough wayes 178. Alwayes in your heart eschew ill Company and when you cannot auoyde them conuerse very warily amongst them 179. The vertue of the Sacraments is not abated by the viciousnesse of the Priest 180. I had rather vndergoe