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A30926	Flores intellectuales, or, Select notions, sentences, and observations collected out of several authors, and made publick, especially for the use of young scholars, entring into the ministry / by Matthew Barker ...	Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698.	1691 (1691)	Wing B774; ESTC R13711	68,681	154

Man but Fortune-corrupted him A good Caution to Prelats 96. It is recorded of one Theobrotus some say Cleombrotus that reading Plato's Book of the Immortality of the Soul he threw himself down a Precipice to be in another World 97. I find I have inserted in my Paper-book an Epitaph upon the Tomb of the Earl of Warwick in whose Death the Family was extinct Within this Marble doth Entombed lye Not one but all a Noble Family A Pearle of such a price that soon about Possession of it Heaven and Earth fell out Both could not have it so they did devise This fatal Salvo to divide the prize Heaven shares the Soul and Earth his Body takes Thus we lose all while Earth and Heaven part stakes But Heaven not brooking that the Earth should share In the least Atom of a piece so rare Intends to sue out by a new revize His Habeas Corpus at the grand Assize 98. Some Philosophers thought that Good and Evil were distinguisht only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By mens Laws not by Nature 99. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Socrates Execution of Justice is the Healer of Wickedness 100. The Rabbins say of the Law Non est unica literula in Lege in quam non sunt magni suspensi montes There is not a Letter of the Law upon which are not hanging great Mountains things of great weight THE Fourth Century 1. ARistotle thought that men were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made good by Destiny rather than Discipline And that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Vertue is not to be attained only by Instruction as some other Philosophers thought 2. The World is call'd in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signisies to cease because it is ceasing towards its end and period 3. It was objected to the Jews Messiam suam tardigradum esse That the Messiah they lookt for was slow-paced and long a coming In which sence some interpret that place Psal 89.50 51. Remember O Lord the reproach of thy Servants wherewith they have reproached the Footsteps of thine Anointed And the word for Footsteps in the LXX is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Heinsius renders Tarditatem Slowness 4. Christ is thought to be Baptized in a Year of Jubilee which was the thirtieth Jubilee after Israels coming into Canaan and about the thirtieth year of Christs Life who came to proclaim a Year of Jubilee in his Publick Ministry 5. The Heathen observed this Order in their Sacrifices First to appease their angry and adverse Gods before they sacrificed to those that were kind and propitious Gyrald 6. Some sins as Drunkenness and Fornication c. proceed much from the Constitution of the Body but some more immediately from the evil Habit of the Mind as Pride and Covetousness and Envy c. and therefore are more sinful than the other 7. Mors Senibus in foribus est Juvenibus in insidiis Death is before the old Mans face but lies in Ambush to young Men. Candid are Candidati Mortis The gray-headed are the Candidates of Death Young men are taken away old men go away 8. One of the Ancients brings in Satan thus saying to God Domine sit hic meus perculpam qui noluit esse tuus per gratiam Let this man be mine through his Sin who would not be thine by Grace 9. Dionysius ordered one that was a great Flatterer of him to be set at his Table in great State attended with Musick and plenty of Provision before him and a Sword hanging by a small Thred over his Head whereby the King would convince the Man of the Circumstances that attended his high Estate to cure his Flattery 10. Dei Conniventia non est coecitas Calvin Because God for a while conniveth or winks at Sinners it 's no argument that he is blind and doth not see them 11. Some observe that after David had sinn'd in Numbring the People God calls him plain David 1 Sam. 24.12 But when he was purposing to build God an House he calls him his Servant David 2 Sam. 7.5 12. The Herauld which hath on him his Coat of Arms is respected and feared so did the Creatures all fear and do Homage to Man while he had Gods Image upon him 13. Pliny writes of the Pome-Citron it is alwayes bearing when some of its Fruit falls off other is springing up and other ripe A fit Emblem of Christs Church that will be upheld by a succession of Converts in every Age. 14. Homer calls the Grave 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Place of no delight 15. Quicquid nocet aliquo bono nos privat Whatever hurts us deprives us of some good 16. When any one dyed the Romans would say Vale nos te ordine quem Natura permiseris cuncti sequemur Farewell we shall all follow thee as the Order Nature shall permit 17. The Aethiopians were wont to choose the fairest Men for their King And Absalom's Beauty might the more draw the People to him but a wicked Heart lodged under it 18. Anima dispersa fit minor The dispersion of the He art amongst many Objects weakens it which made David Pray Vnite my Heart Psal 86.11 19. Julius Casar would be pictur'd standing upon a Globe with a Sword in one Hand and a Book in the other with this Inscription to it Ex utroque Caesar A Caesar in Learning and in War 20. In Conversion God works upon men as Objects and then worketh by them as Instruments 21. Aegypt was watered with Mans Foot Canaan with Rain from Heaven Which may represent the difference betwixt the Moral Virtues of the Heathen and the Graces of true Christians 22. Vriah carried from David a Letter to Joab which contained his own Death in it though he did not know it So a Man may carry in his Heart some secret sin which may prove the Death of his Soul and yet he not know it 23. God shewed Man by his own Example that he must first labour before he enters into Rest 24. One asked Bernard a reason why he Preached so much better to day than yesterday answered Hodiè Christus herè Bernardus It was only Bernard Preach'd yesterday but to day Christ Preached in me 25. If the Heathen made Esculapius a God for finding out the Medicinal Virtues of Herbs how much more is he to be acknowledg'd as God who made these Herbs and put this Virtue into them As Lactantius pleads with the Heathen 26. Let Man and Beast Fast and Cry to God said the King of Nineveh The Beast would cry for want of Fodder 27. Absalom made Joab come to him by seting his Field on fire And in the dayes of Christ Pain Sicknesses and Diseases brought many to him So many are brought home to God and Christ by Distresses and Afflictions 28. There is a certain River in Peru which runs only in the day time by the Sun dissolving the Snow

as to be so 58. Dulcia non meruit qui non gustavit amara is an old Proverb He deserves not sweet whonever tasted of bitter 59. Scriptura quò magis legitur eò magis dulcescit Basil The more the Scripture is read the sweeter it is 60. Multò honestius est à veritate vinci quam Erroris trtumphos agere Dr. Tully It is more honourable to be Conquered by Truth than to triumph in Error 61. A natural Cannot will excuse a man but not a Moral As a man that hath Power to do this and that good and yet cannot obtain of himself to be willing to do it as to give Alms to the Poor to help a man in distress to hear the Word this is a moral Cannot 62. The Impotency that is come upon Man ●y the Fall is especially in his Will If he was able truly to will that which is good he would know more and live better If men ●ave no power to come to Christ except the Father draw them it is because they have ●ot power to be willing And the defect in ●ans Obedience ariseth from the defect of his Will And even in the regenerate the Will ●s sanctified but in part and so commands ●ot with that strength in the Soul as else it ●ould do Non ex toto imperat quia non ex ●to vult as Augustin speaks concerning the Will And when the Apostle Paul saith To ●ill is present with me but how to do I find not 〈◊〉 was chiefly because his Will was sanctified ●ut in part 63. The Law condemns men for every cannot in our Duty but the Gospel for our Wi●● not And mans Conscience doth not condem● a man for his Natural but his Moral cannot which is the same with his will not Mr. Truman 64. There is both a good and an evil cannot A good cannot as in Joseph How can 〈◊〉 do this Wickedness and in the Apostle Paul We can do nothing against the Truth but for th● Truth And an evil cannot when a man cannot do good and cannot but do that which is evil Can a Black-moor change his skin Jer. 13.23 65. No man can be confuted of Error but by some Truth that he holds contrary to it 66. The Heathen were careful to preserw the Mysteries of their Religion wherein they worshipt their Gods from Prophanation An● therefore appointed a Cryer to proclaim t● the People 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Holy things are fo● holy Persons And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pr●cul hinc procul ite prophani Let prophane Persons be gone Although their gods were br● Idols and their Mysteries the Inventions o● men How much more should the Mysterie● of the true Religion in the Worship of th● true God and of his own Institution be kep● sacred 67. The Platonists say of the Soul of Man that it had lost its wings which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereby it is fallen down to the Earth And Plato represents the present state of the Soul to a man fallen into a subterraneous Cave with his Back towards a Light set up behind him and so bound that he cannot turn his Face to the Light whereby he sees only the Shadows of things before him and takes them for Substances 68. De nihilo nihil in nihilum nil posse reverti was a famous Axiom among the old Philosophers Nothing can come out of nothing and nothing can turn to nothing 69. The Philosophers that held the Souls Immortality did generally hold its praeexistence And that neither the Souls of Men or Beasts are generated or corrupted but were all educed out of the first matter in the beginning of the Creation and pass'd out of one body into another 70. And some of them held the World to be a wise understanding Animal that Order'd and govern'd it self after the best Manner And this they call'd God And that the Chaos out of which this World was made was the ruins of a preceding World 71. The Epicurean Atheists argued against a Supreme Deity making the World because they said there were many Faults and Defects in the Creation As Lucretius saith Nequaquam nobis divinitùs esse paratam Naturam rerum tantâ stat praedita Culpâ That Nature was not framed by a divine hand it is so ful● of Faults And they instance in poysonous Herbs and hurtfull Beasts and that a part of the World is not habitable Whereby they manifested their Ignorance and Arrogance both together 72. Yet these Philosophers held a multiplicity of aethereal gods and that they concerned not themselves with Mankind and that their Happiness lay in Omnium vocat tone munerum in a Freedom from all charge of Business as Judging it inconsistent with the Happiness of a Deity to be Curiosus rerum Inspector and Negotii plenus to be a curious Inspector and full of Business 73. They said that this notion of a Deity was injurious to Civil Government by setting up a Fear of God in mens Minds above the Fear of Princes And so Hobbs And it enslaved and debased men As the Epicurean Poet tells us of them who affirm any Deity ruling the World Efficiunt animos humiles formidine Divûm Depressosque premunt ad terram They debase and depress mens Minds by the Fear of a Deity and so deserved ill of Mankind 74. Aristotle said of Anaxagoras That he would never acknowledge that things were acted and moved by an Eternal Mind but when he could find out no other Cause to impute things to which forc'd him to acknowledge a Deity 75. The Philosophers speak much of Plastick Nature the forming Vertue that is in Nature which they say is as if the Stones and Timber had in themselves the Art of the Artificer to frame themselves into an House And we acknowledge with them such a Plastick Nature if they set it not up as God Whom we must acknowledge to be above Nature and that Natura naturans that giveth motion and Laws to Nature And therefore Aristotle doth well in joyning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 together a Mind working with Nature 76. Those Philosophers that made things superiour as the Heavens the Souls of men and their very gods also such as they were to be formed out of Corporeal matter they Invert the System of the Universe saith Dr. Cudworth who treats largely of things of this Nature in his Intellectual System 77. It was a pretty Notion of some of the Heathen that Love and Chaos were the first Principles of all things Chaos was the matter and Love formed All things out of it And that Jupiter was turn'd all into Love when he made the World Pherecides Syrus The Creation sprang from Infinite Goodness and Love and all the Good of it is but the Heat of this Infinite eternal Fire of Love Baxter 78. Plato speaks more distinctly and truly That infinite Goodness infinite Wisdom and infinite active Power were the three Archical hypostases as he calls them

that produced All things And much more truly than the Valentinians in their notion of 30 Aeons springing from one Supreme Being whom they styled Bythos or Bathos which signifies Depth by whom all things were made 79. The Manichees the Marcionites and the Persian Magi they all held two Supreme Principles in the Universe And that all Good did spring from One and all Evil from the other and were still opposing one another but the good Principle was predominant And Plutarch calls them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of two contrary Trades Others said That Evil sprang from the imperfection of the first matter out of which all things came 80. Socrates affirming the Heathen Deities to be no Gods the Athenians thought he denyed a Deity and put him to death And they banisht Protagoras and burnt his Book for one passage in it I have nothing to say concerning the Gods whether they be or be not which shew'd how forcible the belief of a Deity was upon their Minds 81. But Plato said truly that in every Age there were some sick of the Atheistick Disease and therefore there were Atheists before Democritus or Leucippus And there is too much of this Disease in our present Age. And some endeavour to be Atheists said Plato that they may be more Vicious and some that they may be thought wiser than the rest of Mankind who all generally own a Deity 82. Empedocles saith of the Souls of Men in their present State that they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wanderers Strangers and Fugitives from God A sad State 83. Celsus styles his Book against Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Hierocles wrote a Book against Christianity and call'd it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Lover of Truth How often do we find specious Titles to wicked Books 84. Some Philosophers call'd the World Deum explicatum God unfolded and the Creatures radios deitatis the Beams of the Godhead And the Idea's of all things are in God saith Orpheus and he is Sun Moon and Stars and all things upon that Account And the several Gods they Worshipt were but to set forth the same God in the universality of his Dominion and in the several Perfections of his Being as Minerva which signifies his Wisdom and Hercules his Strength and Neptune his Dominion over the Sea and Juno over the Air and Ceres over Corn Bacchus over Wine and Vulcan over Fire and Mars over War c. As the same Object in a Polyedrous glass appears manifold so the same God was variously represented by them But they might have done all this prudentiore compendio in a more wise Compendium in serving one God saith Austin 85. The Jews out of their Enmity against Christ sought to Eclipse the glory of his Miracles the Truth whereof they could not deny And sometimes they said he had a Devil and wrought them by his Power and again that he learned the right pronunciation of the Name Jehova which they called Nomen Tetragammaton and wore it upon his Thigh and by Virtue of that did work Miracles As they fabled That the Name Jehovah was written upon Moses his Rod by which he wrought so many Miracles And the Heathen boasted of their Apollonius Tianeus that he did as great Miracles as our Saviour did Whereas this Apolonius was a known Magician and Impostor 86. Though the Devil is a Liar from the beginning yet hath sometimes spoken truth He made a true Confession of Christ That he was the Son of the living God And when one was sent to the Clarian Oracle to know who of the Gods was Supream The Devil answered in the Oracle according to truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is Declare Jehovah to be the Supream God for he is meant by Jao Macrobious But in this God over-ruled the Devil 87. The Egyptians had an Opinion That the Souls of Evil Men at death pass'd into the Bodies of Brute Beasts but of Good Men into Celestial Bodies But was it not a better Opinion of the Indian Brachmans asserting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Death is a Birth into a true Life which is Life indeed 88. These Egyptians also put the Image of Sphinx at their Temple-door which was made partly in the form of a Man and partly of a Lion who gave his Answers in Riddles Which either shewed that there were hidden Mysteries in their Religion not to be search'd into Or that their Gods which they worshipped were to be both lov'd and fear'd signified by the Man and Lion 89. And upon the Temple of Sais in Egypt there was this strange Inscription 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is I am all that hath been is and shall be and no mortal Man ever took off my bleness the Universality and Eternity of the Being of God And the Altar they dedicated to Isis the Goddess had this Inscription Tibi una quae es omnia O thou that art One and All things to thee is this Altar 90. Plato gives an account of Socrates his Prayer one part whereof was That his External Condition may be such as may be most suitable to a good mind 91. Plutarch tells a strange story often quoted by other Authors That in the times of Tiberius when Christ died certain Mariners as they sailed heard a voice from shore bidding them when they came to a place call'd Palodes to cry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The grea● Pan is dead Which they did and there was heard a great howling of Devils As knowing the death of Christ would destroy their Kingdom By which Pan is meant Christ 92. The Egyptians Hieroglyphick of God was a winged Globe and a Serpent coming out of it The Globe to signifie his Eternity the Wings his active Power through the ●niverse and the Serpent his Wisdom And they call'd the first Principle of all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unknown darkness As the Altar at Athens had this Inscription To the unknown God Act. 17.23 93. In Furipides there are these devotional Verses which in English run thus Thou self-sprung Being that dost all infold And in thine Arms Heavens whirling Fabrick hold Who art encircled with resplendent Light And yet lyest mantled o're in shady night About whom the exultant starry Fires Dance nimbly round in everlasting Gyres 94. Heraclitus held both the Pre-existence and Immortality of Souls as appears by his saying thus My Soul is looking out at the Crannies of my Body as its Prison towards its native Region from whence it descended And speaking of his Labours saith he I have had my labours as Hercules for I have conquered the Riches Honours and Pleasures of the World I have conquer'd Flattery Cowardice Grief Anger Fear and am now Master of my self 95. When one Aristodemus said If God be so magnificent and glorious a Being he needs not any Worship and Service Socrates replied Seeing God is such a Being you have more need to adore and worship him 96. Diogenes seeing a Woman very devout toward an Image that

Solomon in the Type and to Christ in the Antitype Where the Psalmist speaks to Solomon to ride on in his Majesty with Truth Meekness and Righteousness which are as the four Horses that did draw his Chariot And in these four doth Christ ride forth in setting up his Kingdom in the World 62. When Mutius Scaevola that stout Roman kill'd another by a mistake instead of Porcenna the King and then said He was sorry he mist the King it was not Murther for he intended to slay Porcenna that fought against the Romans And as Error Personae did not make Jacob's Marriage with Leah void nor Isaac's Blessing to Jacob nor Joshua's Covenant with the Gibeonites so neither did it make Scaevola liable or justly eclipse the Honour of his bold Adventure for his Countrey in slaying another instead of the King So that Acts are not only to be denominated from the Objects but the Intention of the Mind 63. When the Grecians had taken Troy and were returning home triumphantly in Ships one Nauplius in a revenge stole out in the Night and set a Beacon on fire upon a Rock in the Sea which the Grecians sailing to thinking it to be an Harbour split their Ships upon the Rock So oftentimes by mistakes Men run into Dangers and then when they think all Danger is over 64. It is said of Jerom that he set a Death's-Head before him And I have read of some Anchorites That they would every day scrape up some of their Grave with their Nails to mind them of their Mortality Such voluntary Signs may be more allowed to stir up the Mind to Meditation than the Heart to Worship 65. Death considered as an Enemy of Nature so all Men hate it as the Wages of Sin so evil Men fear it as a Passage to Life and so good Men have desir'd it 66. He that first maketh Experiments ought to have Allowance given him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Greek Proverb So that they make not rash Experiments to do mischief 67. After the Captivity under the Second Temple the Holy Oyl failed and therefore the High Priest was not call'd by the Jews Unctus Jehovae but Vir multarum Vestium Not the anointed of the Lord but the man with many garments having five Garments more than the other Priests 68. The Priests under the Law did stand at the Altar but Christ our High Priest is sat down in Heaven being entred into his Rest and finisht his Work on Earth 69. The first Adam was the Father only of a Natural Life but Christ is the Father of Eternity of Everlasting Life He is called Isa 9.6 The Everlasting Father Heb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or The Father of Eternity 70. The Law saith the Apostle was not made for a righteous Man 1 Tim. 1.9 In the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It lyes not on him as a Curse as upon the Wicked 71. It is a known story yet it may be not to every Reader That Julian the Apostate having got a great Army one Lebanius an Heathen and one of Julian's old Schoolmasters asked a Christian Schoolmaster at Antioch What the Son of the Carpenter meaning Christ would do now He answered He would make a Sandipila or a Bier to carry Julian upon to his Grave And so the dead Corps of Julian was brought shortly after to Antioch 72. Celsus that great Enemy to Christianity upbraided the Christians That they set up such a Man as Christ to be their Captain and Saviour who lived a miserable Life and died a cursed Death Had they not saith he better have set up Jonah who brought Niniveh to Repentance or Daniel that was miraculously delivered out of the Lions Den c. or some of the Worthies among the Heathen as Hercules Epictetus or Anaxarchus c. Whom Origen doth smartly chastise and strenuously confute in his Book against him 73. Lot and his Company when they went out of Sodom were forbidden to look back Quia non est animo redeundum ad veterem vitam saith Austin lib. 16. de Civ Dei c. 30. Because we must not think of going back to our old sinful Life 74. Papias who lived near the Apostles time and an holy Man was the first we read of who asserted the Millennial Point of Christ's Reigning on Earth a Thousand Years Whom Cerinthus followed asserting these thousand Years to be enjoyed in sinful Pleasures and Prosperity Which turned off Austi● and many others from their Opinion 75. I have read of the People call'd Sicyonians that they would have no Epitaph written upon the Tombs of their Kings but only their Names that they might have no Honour but what did result from their Merits 76. There was a grievous Persecution of the Church in Cyprian's time under Aemilianus President of Egypt which he mentions in one of his Epistles saying of it Non advenissent fratribus haec mala si in unum fraternitas fuisset adunata The Brethren of the Church had not suffered these Evils had they been more united among themselves A good Argument for Unity 77. It 's reported of Marius a great Tyrant who was brought up a Smith and made Swords That one day he was made Emperor the next day Reigned and the third day was Slain by a common Souldier with a Sword of his own making So Man's Destruction is of himself 78. Among other Fallacies in Logick one is styled Fallacia non causae procausâ Such is that when Men accuse the Gospel as the cause of Divisions and Religion as the Cause of Melancholy and Piety with the free practice and profession of it to be the cause of publick Calamities as the Heathen imputed them to the Christians of old and so when Men will charge their sins upon God as Homer brings in the Gods thus saying of Men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men accuse the Gods and say all their Evils are from us 79. The Motion of the Heavens is Circular So ought the Souls of Men return to that God from whom they first did spring to make him their Centre who is their Principle As it is with God though he goes out of himself by External Operations T●●men undique in se redit saith Austin making all his Works to centre in his own glory 80. Si anima sit currus cave ne caro sit equus as one speaks pithily If the Soul be the Chariot let not the Flesh be the Horse that draws it 81. When Rome was belieged by the Gauls we read the Roman Matrous cut off their Hair to make the Men Bow-strings Which is more honourable than for Women to part with their Hair to make effeminate Perukes 82. The Sin of Drunkenness wherewith this Age aboundeth is as one saith of it A sin against all the Commandments for it unsits a Man for every Duty both to God and Men. And so Adultery saith the same Author is a Sin against God the Father considered as the Law-giver trangressing his Law of Marriage he