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A ministers mite cast into the stocke of a weake memory: helpt by rules and experiments. VVith a winter night schoole tutoring discourse to generous youth.
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Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.
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Wing J681CA; Thomason E1361_1; ESTC R209182
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the true Center in the Worlds circumference Ph. Where was vertue in the midst betwixt two extreames as a Shippc betwixt two Rocks Pu. When Christ was crucified on the Crosse betwixt two Thieves and as the Scotch Buchanan descanted when in Italy hee saw him pictured betwixt Fryer Francis and Fryer Dominick and when Peter slept betwixt a quaternion of Souldiers in Herods Prison where the Angel was his Goale-deliverer as also Paul and Silas in the like case at Philippos and Queene Elizabeth when shee was tanquam ovis as a sheepe betwixt her Sister and Gardiner designed for the slaughter in Caesars case when hee was stabbed by Bodkins in the midst of the Senate and John Scotus Erigona with Penknives in the midst of his Schollars Ph. Where is the Earth higher then the Heavens Pu. In Christs humaine nature exalted above the visible Heavens and above invisible Angells glorified as that true body tooke from Earthly Adam Ph. Where did the Earth water the Heavens Pu. When Mary Magdalen an earthly sinfull woman did wash the heavenly feet of Christ her eyes being the Basin and Ewer and her haire the Towell Ph. What waters ascend to Heaven Pu. The teares of penitent sinners wronged Widdowes and Orphanes Ph. At what Feast were most Guests fed with the least meate Pu. When five thousand were fed in the Desart with five Loaves and two Fishes Ph. Where did the Hauke and the Partridge the Hound and the Hare the Wolfe and the Lambe the Elephant and the Unicorne and all creatures now opposite live lodge and love together Pu. Not onely before mans fall but in Noahs Arke a Type of the Unity of the Church Ph. Where did the Lyon roare the Asse bray the Wolfe howle the Cock crow the Nightingale sing so loud that all the World heard them the Fox and the Fowmart smell so strong that all the World felt them yet unheard unfelt in all parts of the Earth Pu. In the same Noahs Arke Ph. Why was Cham saved in the Arke being a wicked man Pu. To shew Gods generall Providence over all and his bounty to all in the common blessing of Preservation as still hee givea foode to all flesh who live move and have their being in him Secondly that hee and his Posterity might bee a whip and corrective Rod to the sinning Posterity of Sem and Japhet as the seed of Moab and Amon and Ashur were to the Israelites the Turkes to sinning Europe the Imperialists lately to the Palatinate and Arminianized Germany the bloody Kerne to our Peccant Colonies in Ireland and perhaps Gog and Magog Turke and Pope ere long unto us armed already against us by our crying sinnes Regnant in our yet deformed Reformation Ph. What are the swiftest thinges of Inanimates in their motions Pu. An Arrow out of a Bow a Bullet out of a Gun or Mortar-piece Ph. What of Fishes Pu. The Dolphin and those Fishes which are sayd to fly so long as their finnes are wet in Lapland Finland and other parts in the Mediteranean Sea Ph. What of Beasts Pu. The Horse the Hart the Hare the Grey-hound and Dromedaries on which its thought those wise men rode from the East to worship Christ Ph. Who of men Pu. The Jewish Hazaell the Pagans Atlanta and our Irish Kernes who by turnes will runne a Deere to death on the Mountaines they being wilder and vilder themselves then the worst Rascalls Ph. What of Naturalls in their motion Pu. The Sunne the great Peripatetick running dayly his course through the Heavens and in a short space through all the signes of the Zodiack darting also his beames in a trice upon the Earth Ph. What is the swiftest thing in man Pu. In his body his tongue most swift and voluble in motion and as unwearied chiefely oyled in Lawyers and heated in women and the thoughts of his heart as swift as lightning Ph. What of Birds Pu. The Hauke the Eagle and the Swallow but of all these the influence of grace on the heart and soule the motions of the spirit and the reflections and dartings of the spirit of man by the spirit of grace in mentall and ejaculatory prayer as was sayd of the Monkes of Aegypt and Lybia in their darted devotions are swifter then all those in a trice piercing the clouds and having accesse unto and successe with the God of Heaven without any froathy formalities or verball vaniloquies or lip-laboured stultiloquies either with a booke or without a booke Ph. Who was borne as a man dyed as a Lambe rose as a Lyon and ascended into Heaven as an Eagle Pu. Every meane Christian can tell you it was Christ the Sonne of God Ph. How many kindes of Sonnes hath God Pu. Sonnes by Creation as the Angels Sonnes by Adoption as the Elect and onely one Sonne by Nature Christ our Emanuell God with us Ph. Who were Types and Figures of Christ Pu. Of Types personall Isaack was a Figure of his Birth Joseph of his betraying Sampson of his Death Jonas of his Resurrection Enoch and Elias of his Ascention Solomon of his Wisdome Noah and Abraham of his active obedience Melchisedech of his Priesthood David of his Kingly and Propheticall Office Ph. What were his Reall Types Pu. The Manna from Heaven the Rock in the Widernesse the scape Goate the Propitiatory the Sanctuary the Sanctum Sanctorum and the bloody oblations of Sheepe Goats Bullocks and Turtle Doves Ph. What things were reserved in the Arke Pu. The Booke of the Law the pot of Manna and the Rod of Aaron which alwayes budded Ph. How oft was the Temple of the Jewes polluted by the Gentiles Pu. By the Babilonians by Antiochus and by the Romans when Pompey made it a stable for his Horses Ph. What three Languages were honored and sanctified by Pilates writing them upon Christs Crosse Pu. The Greeke the Hebrew and the Latine These not onely flourished when one of the Ancients was called a trilinguist but in later times as the Aegyptians were robbed of their Jewels the Pagans of their Arts and Sciences to the use of the Sanctuary so for the same purpose these tongues of late have beene wonderously adorned spread and polished the Greeke by Budaeus Turnebus our late Seapula and the French Stevens the Hebrew by Drusius Buxendorffius Martinius and our Broughton and the Latine by Erasmus Agricola and others rubbing the rust from it as it was overspread with such Barbarisme as some Levellers ayme at now by the inundations of the Gothes and Vandals over Italy and else where Ph. But to proceed who was wiser dreaming then her Husband waking Pu. Pilates Wife forwarning him not to meddle with the King of the Jewes Ph. Now wee reflex on medling what are Medlars Pu. Chiefly without guifts and calling as Vzziah medled with the Arke which belonged to the Levites to touch and Vzzah with the Office of the Priests for which he was as leprous as most ungifted and uncalled medlars since for such I onely stigmatize whether in
reason of often motion bee more pure then the waterish blood of Fishes or grosser bloods of Beasts Thirdly of Birds the wilde of Teale Duck Mallard Pheasant Partridge rather then the tame though as the Fryer sayd who desired but the legge of a Capon and the wing of a Goose with the braines of a Woodcock neither comes amisse Fourthly for flesh Veales Muttons Pigs Rabbets and these of purer bloods and lighter digestion then Beeves Porkes Bulls or such as dainty Dames call the grosser Butchers ware Fiftly of wild Venisons Hares Deere Stags Roe-Bucks rather those which are hunted then shot with Peeces and kild as many Innocents by clublaw Sixtly of all kinde of flesh rather that which is roast which dries up the humidities then what is sodde whose strength goes into the broath Seventhly the often eating of Raisins of the Sunne Candid Ginger Coriander prepared Chestnuts and all Stypticks Eighthly the often mistication and clawing of white frankincense called Olybanum the anointing of the head with that which is called the Philosophers Oyle the speedy expulsion of all excrements from the braine by the nose from the body by the draught or by urim often frication and rubbing of the head with a Scarlet or Linnen cloth moderately warm'd as also the oft washing the head with the sweetest Hearbes and the feete with the decoction of Fennell the leaves of Laurell and Camomile with the use of Buglesse how ever it be taken Ninthly moderate exercise before meate as a preparative to a supping or dining stomack and after meate as a digestive with washing the hands chiefely in Rose-water which washing though some scoffe it before meat to bee Pharisaicall though after meate Phisicall yet neither before nor after even Fish and Oysters may bee thought slovinnicall and intrinching on Gorbianus and Gorbiana hee and shee slovens though indeed above all these prescribed Sepe recordari medicamine fortius omni No Paracelsians Gallenists supplyings Helpe memory so much as * Vsus Magister aerris Morat exercizings Lectio lecta placet decies repitita placebit Vsus ars decuit quod sapit omnis homo Ten times repeating what doth please being read Rivets all readings in the weakest head With art use right commixt makes rich supplies Of what man needes to cure all maladies Pr. Who usually have the weakest memories Pu. Old men by reason of the too much drynesse Children by reason of too much moysture in their braines Drunkards by too much in their bellies which not only rots the Livers of such wicked livers as Raines and Mildewes rot the Livers of Hares Deere Sheepe and Rabbits But as thick fogges from an Irish bogge ascend from the lower Region of their bellies to the upper Region of their clouded and dulled braines withall sick men by the commotions of their spirits and distemper of their heads especially timerous and fearfull ones whose heads are in their trembling hearts and hearts in their heeles have seldome so good memories as the sound and couragious neither have the melancholy in their thickned blood and clouded spirits so strong memories as the sanguine in their purified bloods and spirits Pr. What things are obnoxious to memory besides these wee have already discussed Pu. The greedy gulphing of all raw fruites with the use of Vinegar or Wine aegar is as farre short of sweete Wines Malmsie Muscadines Greeke Wines Canary Sacks and Vivium Cos for memory as Eringoes and hot Drugges are short of cold Lettice steeped Rew Tobacco and Agnus Castus for Chastity Withall the too much ingurgitations of meates and drinks in our Gluttons and Hellicons Hogs of Epicurus his stye drowne both their mindes and memories in Hogsheads as the Duke of Clarence once in a Butt of Sack Much sleepe also like a Dormouse or the Beast Colus after Rut and the Mauritanian Asses after their Hemlocks stupisies the memorative faculties so doe also all meats which are grosse and of hard digestion chiefly the immoderate use of Venus which dulls the braine spends spoyls and soyls the vitall and animall spirits and shortens life as we know in the Cock sparrow the quaile and other salatious Creatures withall no lesse obnoxious to memory are all sharpe vaporous liquids from Onions Garlicks Mustard seed as also our too cold and moyst Cucumbers water Cresses and Sorrells Lastly many things accidentally hurt memory as the corrupting of it when the species of things past are forgotten as also the diminution of it by accidentall passions sicknesses and diseases or the ablation of it utterly lost by the wounding of the braine or some part of it hence besides many brain-sicke Heretickes whose brains had need be purged with Helibore chiefely our new Seekers beyond the moone for some fift Gospell like that once of the Carmalites as though the Religion of the Prophets and Apostles were imperfect wee have some other Fantasticks called men of crackt and crazy brains Pr. Hence we have so many learned and famoused men in Authours quite losing their memory and turning as oblivious as the Ostridge which forgets her eggs which she hath hid in the sands upon severall occasions as Bambo the King of the Gothes by a draught of poyson administred unto him by Heringius his successor Gregory Trapezuntius by old age forgetting all letters both Greeke and Latine which was also the case of Francis Barbarus the learned Venetian and of Orbilius the great Gramarian and some by a cold Palsie as Lycosthenes Anno Dens 1555. who lost his memory as Nabuchaanezzar lost his Reason for seven years and after recovered it some by long sicknesse as Messala Corvinus after a long sicknesse forgetting his owne name as those nominated with others are recorded more largely by Solinus cap. 7. Polihist Pliny lib. 7. hist cap. 24. Sabellicus lib. 10. cap. 9. Volaterau lib. 21. Authrop and Valerius lib. 1. cap. 8. Therefore the summe of all this is that all hearers of the Word all students in humanity and Divinity should by frequent and fervent prayer be Petitioners to the Throne of Grace to the giver of all gifts both generall and speciall common and sanctified that he who gave wisedome to Solomon tongues to the Apostles inspirations to the Prophets a mouth unto Aaron the door of utterance unto Paul eloquence to Apollo and gifts unto men when he ascended up unto heaven Eph. 4.12 would in mercy bestow his spirit upon them not onely to enlighten their understandings as the Sunne doth the aire and to open their eyes Acts 26.18 as he did the Disciples Acts 24 and their hearts as he did Lidiaes Acts 16. and to lead them into all Truth Joh. 16.13 but to strengthen their memories according to his promise Joh. 14.26 as he did the memories of his Disciples Joh. 2.22 and of his Virgin Mother who hid all his words in her heart Luke 2.51 without this influence of Grace on our hearings and readings as the fruite of prayer all the means for memory prescribed be but in vaine 1