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A63127	Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing T2121; ESTC R219723	79,230	213

excusable fault for they have not water in those Deserts wherewith to do it If the poor Indian be an irreligious prophane unmortified sinner he will be in some respect or comparatively excusable the Fountaine opened for sin and for uncleannesse being set far off from him but what Apology will be found for such in our Western world where that fountaine is Prae manibus 62 There is a Poole in Comogena that sends forth a mud that burneth and is not to be quenched but with earth Lord my heart emits burning desires after worldly things which will be quenched in the grave at last Oh that the consideration of my latter end might do it now 63 The same yeare that Saguntum was destroyed by Hanniball a child was borne there which forthwith returned back againe into his mothers womb Lord the miseries undergone by us in this vale of teares might make us of his mind who faid that they were happiest who were never borne and they next which dyed soonest but if it be thy will that they shall be suffered by us yet let them by thy grace be sanctified to us that what is necessary may yet be profitable and what cannot be avoided may yet be the better by patience endured 64 They tell of an huge golden Idoll among the East-Indians borne in a massy chariot drawn by foure Elephants in procession under the wheels of which many persons somtimes to the number of five hundred at once put themselves and are so squeezed to death at which times also many cut off gobbets of their flesh and offer them to the Idoll slaying themselves at length in like devotion Hey me that such should be the effects of a blind zeale to a blinder Deity and that we should shrink from the service of the living God for feare of the losse of profit or credit yea that those our lusts so peremptorily required should not be cut off in devotion to him 65 You may behold the Aegyptian temples on the outside glorious with all possible magnificence but within no other Deity then some vile Cat or other such contemptible creature So is it with the outward pomp of Papisticall devotion yea and with the hypocriticall formalities of an onely ourside Religion wherein nothing is more solemne then the furniture of ceremonies nothing lesse then the devotion of hearts 66 At Segelmesse a City in Numidia they have no Fleas a priviledge they much boast of but are miserably infested with scorpions Wicked men think they are greatly happy in being free from the precisenesse and troublesome limitations which the godly comply with a poore priviledge if compared with those scorpions assured guilt and terror of conscience which every act of sin brings along with it 67 Captaine Saris sailing to Japan divers of the Japanenses by a Religion the Jesuits had taught them fell down on their knees to the pictures of Venus and Cupid in the Captaines Cabbin supposing them to be the Images of Jesus and his Mother this the Jesuits will excuse and say though the object be erroneous yet the worship was good the intention being aright directed Lord if my charity have been mistaken thinking I have relieved the truly necessitous when I have given to a sturdy vag bond yet accept I pray thee the sincerity of my intentions to do good to thy distressed members and for the time to come let my mistakes be on the right hand like those who instead of being Hosts to strangers entertained Angels unawares 68 There is a Well formerly dedicated to Jupiter Ammon which is very warme in the dawning of the day but cooleth as the Sun gets to his height and after recovers its warmth as the Sun beams decline from it So is it with the heat of spirituall zeal of pious souls which the Sunshine of prosperity usually makes languid and well were it if it could be againe recovered as that declineth 69 A certain Merchant travelling through the Lybian Deserts being oppressed with thirst gave ten thousand Duckets for a Cup of water How sensible are men of their bodily wants and how expensive in supplying them but how many would dye eternally through the spirituall thirst of water of life before they would be at the thousandth part of that cost for supply 70 The Indian King of Mexico in his Coronation was cloathed with a garment painted with Skulls and dead mens bones those rude people intending to admonish him in his new Soveraignty of his own mortality And how well were it if with us of more knowledge there would be more remembrance of those chambers of death where the pomps and vanities of this world shall passe but a long reckoning shall remaine to be accounted for 71 The Isle of Saint Thomas upon the coast of Africk is so excessively hot that European bodyes are not able to walke there and the earth perpetually drie there being neither Rivers nor raines but in the mid'st of the Isle there is a mountaine stored with Wood over which a cloud continually hangeth that distilleth so large a dew upon these trees as runneth downe thence so plenrifully as supplyeth the thirst of men and beasts and plants Lord this heart of mine is as a barren and thirsty land where no water is and the heat of inordinate desires so rageth that resolutions of well doing are languid and the exercises of thy grace faint But Oh let the cloud of thy presence be upon the mount of my retirement that from thence may flow plentifull distillations of thy grace for the remedying this barrenness and relieving this faintnesse I will run the way of thy Commandements when thou shalt enlarge my heart 72 A certaine person falling into the hands of the Indian Caniballs being sicke and faint was by them dismissed without farther harme as being judged by them unwholsome food How often is it that those very things which we lament and trouble us by God wise and gracious dispensation become preservations to us 73 The Commons of England being very importunate with Edward the Fourth to make War in France he consented to satisfie their importunity though willing rather to enjoy the fruit of his Wars and toiles and spend the rest of his dayes in peace Therefore he rakes with him a dozen of far Capon-earing Burgesses who had been the most zealous for that expedition these he imployes in all Military services to lye in the open fields stand whole nights upon the Guards causes their Quarters to be beaten up with frequent Alarmes which was so intollerable to those fat paunches accustomed to lye on their soft Downes and that could hardly sit on a Sessions Bench without their nods that a treaty being motioned by King Lewis none were so forward to presse the acceptance of his offers and hasten their returne into England as they and when there to excuse so little done by the King with so great preparations Lord how shall I be able to keep way with the Horsemen if I cannot hold out

with the Foot how shall I be able to stand in the day of battell when in the cause of thy truth there must be a resisting to bloud if I am nothing active in resisting of sin now am I like to abide in the Watch-tower whole nights that like the Disciples cannot watch one houre to prevent temptation Oh let me be therefore much in spirituall exercises now and in cutting off the right hands and plucking out of the right eyes of corrupt desires that I may be ready to deny the conveniences and preciousnesses of life when the emergences of thy interest shall call me to it 74 In the Province of Dariene in South America the mens heads are so hard that they will break a sword smitten on them Alas how many are there of such darkned understandings and seared consciences that those piercing discourses which have deeply penetrated others make on them no impressions but are returned back with scornes and scoffs or dasht in pieces without effect 75 Cardinall Campeius being sent by the Pope Legate into England about the divorce of Henry the eighth from the Lady Katherine Landing at Dover not in such equipage as was by Cardinall Woolsey thought meete for his dignity he sent him divers Mules and Muleters richly habited to furnish his train more pompously these passing with the said Cardinall through the City of London where all the Citizens arranged to expresse their devotion and his wel-come being disturbed by some accident fell a kicking and flinging so as down fell their Coffers broken upon the stones which were thought to containe precious treasures and rich apparell but instead thereof out flew old Bootes and Shooes broken Bridles and Girts to the solemne derision of the red Hats Lord to what purpose will it be to make a shew and but a shew of a long train of graces when my emptinesse shall be manifested at that generall assembly of men and Angells and my hypocrisie will make me but the more abundantly ashamed 77 There is a ground in some part of Italy into which what is driven is so fast detained as not to be pulled out Lord make my heart of such soile that the impressions of thy Word which alas have so often been like untimely fruit shaken off with every wind may be fixed past possibility of removall 78 The Ocean continually floweth into the Mediterranean Sea by the Straits of Gibraltar and the Euxine alwayes floweth into the same Sea by the Proponticke yet is there no appearance that the Mediterranean is more filled though no passage whereby it sends forth its waters is discovered nor seemeth the Euxine Sea any thing lessened though there appeare no supply of waters to it but by some small Rivers Many there be of large revenues but bare purses who yet are strait handed to acts of charity while others free to good works and of much meaner incomes are yet well stored with that which to those good ends they daily spend vaine expences by a private consumption wasteth the one while Gods blessing by a secret retribution returnes with interest what was laid out upon his account 79 Neere Assos there are stones which in few dayes not onely consume the flesh of dead bodies but the very bones too and there is an earth in Palestine of the same operation Lord let the mortification of this body of death in me be of the like speedy execution that those lusts which are more confirmed and seeme more durable may through the power of thy grace have a quick consumption 80 Julius Caesar having taken at Pharsalia and Thapsus the Cabinets of Pompey and Scypio his utter enemies wherein were many Letters from their partakers whereby the men and their designes against Caesar would have been discovered by a rarer example then our dayes have yeilded without once reading the inclosed Epistles caused them all to be immediately burned Lord that book wherein all even my most secret iniquities are written will by the accuser at that day be brought before thee but let thy mercy blot out that hand-writing with the bloud of thy Son that no charge may be framed there either to confound or shame me 80 'T is said of Agesilaus King of Sparto that He ruled his Countrey by obeying it gaining so far upon the Sphori and Senate by complying with what they desired that he might do what himselfe would Lord what freedom is it to be thy servant for I may then do what I will if I will do but what thou commandest in doing thy will I cannot do amisse but in serving thee serve my selfe 81 King Pirrhus being asked Whither Python or Cephesias were the best Fluteplayers answered that in his Judgement Polyperchan was the best Captaine intimating that it was not worth the enquiry who were best skil'd in those Arts which were so little pertinent Lord let me be offertedly ignorant of those things that are wicked and vaine well may the children of this world be wiser in those things of their generation then the children of Light The posterity of Cain are storied to be the first inventers of Arts they might be witty in that upon which they were wholly intent the pious seed had their aimes above they might well overlook what others saw whose eyes were fixt below but when God comes to reckon up the wits of the world those onely will be accounted witty that are so for heaven 82 Summers Henry the Eights Jester kept a Catologue of the indiscretions of the Court which the King desiring to see found his own name there for intrusting an Italian with some thousands of Crowns to buy Barbary Horses but saith the King How if he do returne and bring the Horses I gave him money for 't is then saith Summers onely the blotting out of your name and putting his in How often are we guilty of such improvidences wherein our successe is to be ascribed not to our wisdomes but others folly such successes are like wellfavoured children of an uncomely venter when though we dandle the babe yet we are ashamed of the mother whereas what is done uprightly and done prudently may like nature produce a monstrous birth but hath ever its excuse made for it though it may be blamed it can never be shamed 83 Polienclus a very fat man in an hot day perswading the Athenians in an Oration to make War with King Philip Phocian told the people they should do well to undertake it upon such a mans motion who was likely to do much with his Armor on his back that was in such a sweat with delivering an Oration We are ready to think we shall appeare much for God if we are concerned to resist unto bloud but how unlikely when we come so poorly off in our contention against any poor lust 84 Agesilaus being lame of one of his feete was wont to prevent the mocks of others by merrily jesting himselfe at his own infirmity Lord we are Mephibosheths lame in both our feet when we