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
upon the Hills which is congealed in the Night So many are religious only in the Sun-shine of the Churches Prosperity 29. Chrysostom was called by Cyricius Bishop of Calcedon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because he woulâ— not bend by any bad Compliances 30. Otho Bishop of Ments shut up a number of poor People in a Barn and then seâ— it on fire and when they cryed out he 〈◊〉 sport said Heark how the Mice do squeak Buâ— afterwards was so followed with Mice in hiâ— Chamber that he built a Tower on the Riâ—ver Rhine to free himself and yet they followed him thither 31. About the same time of the Year thaâ— the Jews Crucisied Christ was Jerusalem destroyed by the Romans 32. What proportion is there betwixt thâ— short Pleasure of Eve in eating the forbiddeâ— Fruit and the Calamities that flowed froâ— it 33. It s said that Diagoras turned Atheist bâ— observing a Man to escape and prosper thaâ— had forsworn himself about some Money bâ— intrusted in his hand 34. The Primitive Christians in their dayâ— of solemn Humiliation would lye prostrate upon the ground which they calle◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 35. Hilarion a good young Man said tâ— his Body Ego te aselle faciam ut non Calcitre◠〈◊〉 will use the Ass so as he shall not Kick. He means he would keep his Body in subjection 36. There were two sorts of Proselytes Thâ— Profelytes of the Convenant that were Circumcised and Conformed to all the Jewish Worship and the Proselytes of the Gate who observed only the seven Precepts of Noâ—ah four whereof were required to be observed by the Converted Gentiles Acts 15.20 37. The practice of the Primitive Church in laying aside something for the poor every First Day when they came together to Worship is thought to be grounded upon that Commandment of God to the Jews never to come up before the Lord empty 38. Levi had his Name from a Hebrew word signifying to joyn not only because the Levites were joyned to the Priests in the Service of the Sanctuary but because they were â—nstruments to joyn God and the People together in the offering of those Sacrifices that made their Peace with God And Leah called her Son Levi because saith she Now will my Husband be joyned to me And we know God saith he was an Husband to Israel Jer. â—1 32 And Plato styled a Priest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Maker of Peace betwixt God and Man 39. The Tribe of Levi was appointed for the Priesthood not only out of respect to Moses who came from Levi but because of the Zeal they shew'd for God against Idolatry in the Case of the golden Calf whereof we read Exod. 32.26 which may teach Ministers still to be zealous against Idolatry who name themselves of the Tribe of Levi. 40. God said to the Serpent Vpon thy Belly thou shalt goe Gen. 3.14 And the Hebâ— word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may signifie the Breast which before in the Serpent was Erect and it did not go upon it And may denote the dejection of the Angels that fell from their Original dignity and uprightness 41. Manna that was sent from Heaven to be Food to the Israelites was not known to them that they said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is this So Christ when he came down as Living Bread from Heaven was not known to the Jews but they said Who is this 42. Alexander the Great that could contemn Death in the Field yet fear'd it much when he lay sick in Babylon and as Plutarch saith used Diviners and many superstitious Essays to save his Life 43. The sensitive Soul in a Beast performs the same material Acts which man doth by Reason So a Moral Principle in the Heathen did the same things materially which true Grace doth in a Christian 44. Austin saith of the Damned That they are Mortui vitae and viventes morti Dead to Life and alive to Death 45. The Load-stone will draw more strongly when set in Iron So Heaven attracts men more strongly by the Fear of Hell 46. A Stone hath a natural inclination to the Centre tho hindred in its motion so have the Saints to perfection of Grace thô hindred by Sin and Temptations 47. No Israclite would willingly expose himself to be stung of the siery Serpent tho there was a Brazen Serpent provided for his healing So we ought not willingly expose our selves to Sin because God hath provided a Remedy in Christ against it 48. Julius Firmicius saith of the Heathen Ab ipsis dris erudiuntur ad injustitiam They are taught wickedness from their Gods and derive an Authority for it from Heaven 49. Christ hath done greater things by his Sufferings as Man than by his Power as God The effects of his Death being greater than â—he works of Creation or Providence 50. Pharaoh and his Hosts were drowned in â—he Red Sea but the Infernal Pharaoh and his Hosts are drowned and destroyed in the Blood â—f Christ 51. The Roman Generals after a Victory â—rst entred the City privately and then â—ublickly in a solemn Triumph So the Saints that conquer enter Heaven first privately at Death and at the Resurrection shall have a publick Entrance before Men and Angels 52. The Eunuch mentioned Acts 8. was probably well instructed in the Jews Religion yet reading a plain Prophecy of Christ in the 53. of Isai understood it not which shewed the great Ignorance of Christ and the Prophecies of him in those times 53. When God works upon men he begin first with the Mind Reason and Consciences of men and so brings over the inferious Faculties the Senses and the whole man to himself But the Devil begins at the Sense and the Inferiour Faculties to corrupt the Superiour and possess them for himself Aâ— he did with our first Parents 54. Knowledge that is only for Speculation needs only to be floating in the Mind but that which is for Practice needs to bâ— well digested believed and rooted in the Heart 55. True Faith excludes not Doubting but refusal 56. The Jews when they admitted Proselytes would ask them If they could for sake Father Mother Countrey Kindred Honsâ— and Land to follow the true God and thâ— true Religion which some think Christ alludes to in the Gospel when he speaks oâ— leaving all to follow him 57. Julian the Apostate gave this Account of the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have read it known it rejected it 58. Many of those that Crucified Christ found Mercy and were Pardon'd but not any who Crucifie him to themselves again The former might do it out of Ignorance but the latter sin against Light and Knowledge having further means of knowing Christ to be the Messiah by his Resurrection from the dead and pouring out the Spirit upon his Ascension and the Illumination received upon their minds 59. It is not only the Gospel that works that Reformation that is found in many Christians but what it hath in common with
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 Austiâ— 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 Tâ—â—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
Jesus propter Jesum was Austin's Complaint of old i.e. Few seek Christ for himself 21. Bellarmin affirmeth That Grace may be lost that is true veritate essentiae which is Grace essentially true but not veritate firmae soliditatis that is Confirmed Grace 22. Prima monachi virtus est contemnere hominum judicia The first virtue of a religious Man is to disregard the Judgments and Censures of Men. And if thou seekest Blessedness Disce contemnere contemni learn to despise and to be despised Hieron 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idleness is the Mother of Poverty Ignatius ad Smyrn 24. If we ask a Catechumen what it is to cat the Flesh and drink the Blood of Christ Nescit quid dicis he knows not what we say being not yet acquainted with the Mysteries of Christianity Aug. 25. Antaeus wrestling with Hercules got new strength by falling on the Earth So a Christian may renew his strength by falling at the Feet of God 26. O foelix culpa quae talem meruit redemptorem As one said of Adam's sin which occasion'd the coming of so great a Redeemer 27. Christ said of the Penny that was shewn him Whose Image and Superscription hath it They said Caesars Then render to Caesar the things that are Casar's So we may say of the Soul of Man 28. Vxor fulget radiis mariti is a Saying in the Civil Law The Wife shines with the beams of her Husband Much more is it true of Christ and the Church 29. Suetonius reports of Nero That he ran up and down in horror of Conscience saying Have I neither Friend nor Enemy that will slay me A just Judgment upon him for his persecuting and killing the Christians 30. Quis placere potest populo cui placet virtus He that is pleas'd with Vertue will hardly please the People 31. Maxima peccantium poena est peccatum Sin is its own greatest punishment 32. Vbi Deus ibi Coelum Where God is there is Heaven 33. O quot amores habent qui unum non habent How many Loves have they who want the Love of God! Aug. 34. We ought to love God not only merito suo but commodo nostro For our own good as well as God's deserving it 35. Schola Crucis Schola Lucis was a Saying of Luther The School of the Cross is a School of Light and Instruction 36. Where Gold grows no good Plant will prosper Grace will not thrive in a covetous Heart 37. Mors aurem vellens Vivite ait venio Death twitcheth Men by the Ear saying I come Live 38. Christus hominem portavit in coelum Deum misit in terras Christ carried up Humane Nature to Heaven and sent down God that is the Holy Ghost upon Earth 39. Si debeo totum me pro me facto quid pro me refecto said August If I owe my whole self to God for making me how much more for making me again 40. When the Grecians were once delivered by Flaminius in a great straight the Army shouted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Saviour A Saviour with so loud a cry that the Birds in the Air fell down astonisht How much more should we cry 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with highest Joy and Exaltation to Jesus Christ As when Tully found an Altar at Siracuse with this Inscription upon it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he said he had not a Latin word to express the meaning of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tam magnum est quod uno verbo Latino exprimi non potest How much less can we with words express the greatness of the Salvation it self 41. The Angels sung at the World's Creation and when Christ came into the World to restore it 42. The Romans having built the Temple of Peace they consulted the Oracle of Apollo how long it should stand It was answered Till a Virgin shall bring forth a Son which they judging impossible thought it should stand for ever 43. The Scorpion hath that Oyl in his Body which will heal the Wound he giveth by his Sting So the Word of God will both wound and heal 44. The Egyptians worship'd the Crocodile out of fear because he did them hurt and they worship'd a certain Water-Rat call'd Ichneumon because it devour'd the young breed of the Crocodile 45. It 's said of the Dutch Peterent Coelum Belgae si navibus peti possit They are such Sailers that they would get to Heaven if they could come thither by Ships 46. Argoland King of Sargossa in Arragon seeing many poor People waiting for Alms at Charlemain's Table asked who they were They answered They were poor Christians And thereupon refused to be baptized saying He would not serve such a Master who maintained his Servants no better 47. De minutis non curat lex is a Rule in Law but not in God's Law which condemneth the least sin 48. It was an arrogant Saying of Zabarel about a Problem in Philosophy Hoc ego primus vidi I am the first that found this out Knowledge puffeth up 49. Naturalists say of the Cypress-Tree Pulchra est sublimis sed fructu caret It looks fair and grows high but wants Fruit. A fit Emblem of an Hypocrite 50. The King of Morocco reading St. Paul's Epistles said he liked them well but did not like Paul for changing his Religion To change from worse to better is no dishonour 51. Philosophers divide the Soul of Man into two parts the Sensitive part and the Rational part the one they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Rational and Irrational part of Man 52. The Turks write upon the Cover of their Alchoran in Arabick words Nemo tangat cum nisi mundus Let no unclean Person touch it How much more respect should we have to the Bible the true Word of God 53. Benedictio ut ab homine est solum optativa à Deo operativa Men bless by wishing a Blessing but God by bestowing it 54. Sabina a Roman Matron being condemned to die for her Religion fell in travel and cried out And one said to her If you cry out thus now what will you do when you come to the Stake She answered Now I cry out because I feel the fruit of Sin but then I shall be in comfort as suffering and dying for my Saviour 55. Paulus Aemilius being to fight with Perses King of Macedonia would not give over sacrificing to Hercules till he saw some Tokens of Victory This may teach Christians to persevere in Prayer 56. It 's reported of Domitius Calderinus that he would usually say when he went to Mass Eamus ad communem errorem Let 's go to the Common Cheat. So Religion is upheld in many by Custom not by Principle 57. Valerius speaking of the City of Rome saith of it Omnia post religionem ponenda civitas nostra duxit Our City accounts all things to be subordinate to Religion And Numa is said to begin all he
the Light of Nature and the Power of the Law and the Insluence of Example and Love to Reputation may influence Men in it 60. We make a right Use of Ordinances when we are by them quicken'd and strengthned to all the Duties of Religion but many rest in the meer using them 61. Tactus est fundamentum vitae sensitivae Feeling is the Foundation of the sensitive Life so is inward sense and feeling of the spiritual Life 62. Totus Mundus exercet histrioniam The whole World is as a Stage-play or a piece of Pageantry a Shew a Fashion a Phancy without substance and reality and the Phoenomena in Mens Brains are more than the Phoenomena in the Heavens 63. It is not safe to remove or move Foundations 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 64. Peter Martyr said he being seventeen Dayes at Bucer's House He every day rose from his Table either doctior aut melior more Pious or more Learned 65. Rei cujusque perfectio est in adhaesione ad suum principium Aug. Every thing hath its most perfect Existence in the Principle out of which it springs 66. He that is a lover of others will multiply his own Comforts by it for he will rejoyce in other Mens good as his own For Love maketh Union 67. It is better to love than be beloved for the one may be a sign of Grace which the other is not 68. Seeing subordinate respects may be had to our selves in our serving God it makes it hard to know whether we make God our ultimate end 69. Old Jacob dying said I have waited for thy Salvation Old Simeon dying said I have seen thy Salvation Wherein we may see the difference betwixt the Old Testament and New 70. There is a threefold Knowledge of Christ Ex Lege ex Evangelio ex Visione By the Law the Gospel and by Vision 71. The Buttersly slutters about Flowers but gets no Honey as the Bee doth So many compass Christ about with an Outward Profession but derive no Grace from him 72. Anaxagoras said he was born Coelum Solem intueri But a Christian is to look higher than the visible Heavens 73. We should not employ our Time and Studies about Minutiae Argutiae little things and critical things which Elian calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Consumptions of Time 74. Jonathan by tasting Honey had his Eyes enlightned So the best Knowledge of spiriritual things is by tasting 75. All other Waters may fail us but that which came out of the Rock sollow'd the Israelites it did descend into Valleys and climb up Hills as the Chaldean Paraphrase tells us 76. Unsanctified Learning is like Quicksilver not kill'd which turns to Poyson 77. Christ is compared to a great Rock in a weary Land Isa 32.1 He bore the heat that we might sit in the shade 78. Death brings all Men together as the King and Pawns are put together in the Bag when the Chess-game is over 79. An Old Disciple is like an ancient Oak that keeps its sap to the last 80. Hieron said of Paula a Noble Woman that she was Sanctitate quam genere Nobilior More Noble by her Holiness than her Birth 81. Horace sets forth the Degeneracy of Mankind in a few pitthy words Aetas parentum pejor Avis tulit nos nequiores The Fathers worse than Grandfathers and their Children worse than both 82. Augustus had a Daughter call'd Julia who grew so vicious that he would not own her for his Daughter but rather as an Imposthume broken out of his side 83. Earl Morton put this Epitaph upon John Knox his Tomb. Here lyeth the Body of that Man who in his life-time never feared the face of any Man 84. Those Fruits of the Earth that run up much into Leaves and Stalk will dye at the root So some Mens Religion runs up all into Talk and Profession but have no root of Life within Religion is the best Armour but the worst Cloak 85. Painters lay first a good ground-Colour before they flourish But many Men will flourish in Profession and have not laid a Foundation 86. Under the Law there was a Sea of Water for the Priests to wash in and Lavers for the Sacrifices Our Persons and our best Sacrifices need washing in the Blood of Christ 87. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ill savours will drive away Bees and smoak Doves as Naturalists write Let us take heed of that which may drive away from us the Holy Spirit 88. Autumns Witherings tell us that the Sun is gone back So when Professors wither it shews Christ the Sun of Righteousness is withdrawn 89. It was a saying of Peter Moulin When the Papists did forbid our Bibles and persecute us for reading them we were then zealous to read them but now we have free liberty to read them we lay them aside like Old Almanacks 90. Alexander asked King Porus his Prisoner How he would be used he answered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like a King So let Christians and the Children of God live like themselves 91. Julian the Apostate did forbear Persecuting the Christians Non ex Clementiâ sed ex Invidiâ Not out of Kindness but Envy because he saw the more they were persecuted the more they encreased as the Historian writes 92. We ought to make use of our Judgment and Reason in our Enquiries and Endeavours in Matters of Religion All which the Papists take away by their Implicit Faith 93. Christ first made an Oblation of his Will to his Fathers Will and then offered up himself a Sacrifice As in Psal 40. Lo I come to do thy Will O God! and Not my Will but thine be done 94. There are two Words used in the 53d of Isa to set forth Christs bearing our Iniquity the one is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the other is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The one signifies the lifting up the Burden upon the Back the other the strong bearing it Both are true of Christ 95. The Wine mixt with Myrrh offer'd to Christ upon the Cross was usually give◠to stupisie the Sense and to mitigate the Pain as some say but Christ refused it he was supported under his Pain by other means and was willing to suffer to the utmost for out sakes 96. The Satisfaction Christ made for our Sin was not only Ex pacto but Ex merito by reason of the intrinsick Value that was i◠his Obedience 97. Severus the Emperor said when he came to dye Omnia fui nihil profuit I have been all things and yet profited by nothing But he never was a good Christian 98. I have somewhere read of Olympus an Arrian Bishop denying the Trinity was struck dead with three Thunderbolts from Heaven 99. Austin thought that in the day of Judgment every Man should behold all the Actions of his Life Vno mentis Intuitu with one glance of his Mind A good Caution to all Men. 100. When Jacob found Laban's Countenance to frown upon him he then thought of