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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

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 Minister of the Gospel in London Jesus saith unto them Have ye understood all these things they say unto him Yea Lord then says he unto them Therefore every Scribe instructed to the Kingdom of Heaven is like an Housholder who bringeth forth out of his Treasure things new and old Mat. 13.51 52. LONDON Printed by J. Astwood for Iohn Dunton at the Raven in the Poultrey 1691. TO THE READER I Little Intended God knows to bring these scraps of Learning to the Market for publick sale most whereof have lain by me for many Years as thinking them too juvenile for Publick Notice in this Critical Age For in my younger dayes to help my Memory I kept by me a Paper-Book wherein I inserted some of those things which did occurr to me in my Reading as most remarkable and which I had a desire to treasure in my Memory And a while since acquainting a young Student in Philosoyhy and Divinity what I had done he earnestly solicited me that they might be made publick as that which might be of use especially to the younger sort of Schollars whose minds have not yet been exercised with graver Studies which first put it into my mind to put them to the Press And I now expose them as I find them in my Paper-Book extracted now out of one Author then out of another and now written at one time then at another now a passage in Humanity then in Divinity now of Poetry then of History now out of the Scriptures then out of Expositors now in Philology then is Philosophy I mingled all together without observing any method and my Pen like the Bee skipt from Flower to Flower So that the Reader must take them as he finds them and make the best use of them he can It may be he may find some things that may add to his Knowledge and be pleasing to his Mind as they were to mine own and as the Bee he may gather some Honey out of these Flowers All the Method I have used is only to parcel them into several Centuries and distinguish them by Figures one from another And what is found in them of Language that none but Schollars understand I have for the most part put into English And sometimes I find in my Paper-Book I have quoted the Author of what I have remarked and sometimes not And I cannot well recollect whence I had some Notions and Sayings which I put into my Paper-book above thirty Years agoe and being thus put together are like a Chain of Gold or String of Pearls I call them in the Title Intellectual Flowers and we know 't is proper and pleasant to have many distinct Flowers tyed together in a Nose-gay though of several sorts and gathered out of several Gardens And if any will censure them as a Rhapsody I confess they may be so styled yet I am not the first who hath exposed Rhapsodies to publick view taking the word in a more general sense And hath not Solomon himself lead the way to such a kind of Writing in his Book of Proverbs which are set down for the most part without any Method or dependance one upon another And we know the old saying Varietas delectat Variety Delights and if the Reader finds nothing else he will find that in these Papers And this I hope may be some Apology for my present Adventure which else may be censured as pedantick and singular Flores Intellectuales The First Century 1. SApienti quisquis abstulerit divitias tamen omnia sua sibi relinquet Seneca Take from the Wise Man his Riches yet you leave him all his own things he accounting only Bona Animi the good things of the Mind his own things 2. A Deo fuit quod vixi quod bene vixi a meipso Senec. That I live is from God but that I have lived well is from my self By which we may see out of what School proceeded the Pelagian Free-will 3. The Orator said to Vespasian Nec quicquam in te mutaverit amplitudo Fortunae nisi ut tantundem passi ut velis The greatness of thy Fortune hath made no change upon thee but to make thee able to do what good thou wilt by equallizing his Fortune to his large Heart 4. The Scythians were wont to weep at the Birth of their Children and to Feast at the Death of their Parents 5. It is reported of the Catinenses that they made a stately Monument for the remembrance of two Sons who when the House was on fire carried their aged Parents forth upon their backs So they say the Stork called in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from her natural kindness will do to her aged Parents 6. So they say also of her That she will leave one of her young ones in a way of gratitude to that House where she brought them forth In quâ indulata est 7. Christ came to destroy the Devil when he had taken greatest possession of the World And the Jewish Sacrifices were at the lowest when Christ came to abolish them 8. Some Men will magna loqui but not magna vivere speak high but live low 9. Luke the Evangelist calls Christ's suffering on the Cross 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luk. 23.48 It being the greatest sight that ever was seen And so it is still to Faith 10. Perpetuum est quod habet causam perpetuantem Nothing is perpetual that has not a perpetuating cause So that Earthly Comforts cannot be perpetual 11. Exceptio non tollit sed firmat regulam An Exception from a Rule confirms the Rule it self 12. Deus humanum dicit God speaking to Men in Scripture he speaks as a Man And doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Paul told the Corinthians he did when he spake of their false Teachers and in a Figure transferred what he said to them to Apollos and Caephas and himself 1 Cor. 4.6 13. Basil calls an Hypocrite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a Sacrilegious Person who profaneth holy things and robs God of his Glory 14. The Scripture calls a sit Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homo opportunus a Man fit to serve the present opportunity Exod. 16.21 15. Ideò scribuntur omnes libri ut emendetur unus All Books are written to amend one Book which is the Book of Conscience 16. Lucrum in arcâ facit damnum in Conscientia Gain put into the Chest doth often bring Damage to the Conscience 17. The Grave is called Man's long home 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The House of Eternity Eccles 12.5 as then past into an eternal state 18. To alter one letter of the Law is no less a sin than to set the World on fire say the Jewish Rabbins 19. Quos necessitas cogit defendit Any action is justified that is done of necessity 20. Vix queritur

his meeting at an Inn a certain Atheistical Scholar who derided the Opinion of those that thought God was on Earth as well as in Heaven saying The Heaven of Heavens are the Lords and he is not present upon Earth but was suddenly taken with a great torment in his Bowels whereby he cryed out O God O God and so was self-convicted 62. A Servant will be gone if he hath not present wages but the Son stays in hope of the Inheritance as our Saviour speaks The Servant abideth not alwayes but the Son abideth alwayes Jon 6.8 63. Socrates reports of one Theodorus in Julians time who being put to torment that he sweat Blood there appeared 'to him a young man with a white soft Cloth wiping his Face after which he felt no more pain 64. In Heaven saith Austin there is felix securitas and secura foelicitas felix aeternitas and aeterna foelicitas happy Security and secure Happiness happy Eternity and eternal Happiness 65. The Angels are subservient to Christ as Mediator which was represented to Jacob when he saw the Angels ascending and descending upon a Ladder which was a Figure of Christs Mediation 66. Bede tells a Story of a certain dying man who having lived wickedly was admonisht to repent No saith he I will not appear so great a Coward And hereupon an Evil Angel appeared to him and presented him a great Volume of the Sins of his Life and driving him to despair carried him away 67. The Historian reports of Julian the Apostate that he caused all the Meat and Drink in a certain Town to be consecrated to an Idol that the Christians there might be starved 68. Want of Necessaries exposeth men to Temptations The Devil tempted Christ when he was hungry 69. It 's said of Cicero the great Oratour when he came to die cryed out O me minimè sapientem I am destitute of all Wisdom 70. Who would not willingly have John's Banishment for Johns Raptures and Revelations and Jacobs hard Pillow for Jacobs Vision 71. If a Man sometimes cannot stand before his own Conscience how can he stand before Gods Tribunal 72. Issachar and Naphtali were two weak Tribes and were joyned with Judah a strong Tribe So the Church of God is weak but is joyned with Christ the Lion of the Tribe of Judah 73. If the Light of Starrs fails for want of Ministers call'd Stars let us look more to Jesus Christ the Sun of Righteousness 74. Plato reports of Thales a great Philosopher and Astronomer that walked looking up to Heaven and fell into a Well Our Contemplation of heavenly things should not make us careless of our Conversation here below among men 75. Per vulnera viscera Through Christs wounds we may see the Bowels of his Compassion to Sinners 76. Sin is call'd a Body of Death yet it is full of Life 77. Amo Christum plus quam meos plus qudm mea plus quam me Bernard I love Christ more than my Relations than my Goods than my self 78. I have read of one Chilion a Dutch Schoolmaster who being perswaded to recant and save his Life for the sake of his Wife and poor Children answered If the whole Earth was turned into a Globe of Gold and all mine own I would part with it rather than with my Wife and Children and yet these I can part with for the sake of Jesus Christ The like was said by George Carpenter as Mr. Fox relates Part II. p. 113. 79. A man that was drowning at Sea saw a Rain-bow but said Quid mihi proderit haec Iris si ego peream What will this profit me that it is a token God will not drown the World if I be drowned 80. It is sad to see the Mountain of the House of the Lord to be a Mountain of Bether which signisies Division 81. Quicquid in omni genere summum id Hebraei divinum appellant That is the Jews express by the Name of God whatever is excellent in its Kind As the Cities of God Trees of God Mountains of God c. 82. There is a Well in Persia that it is a Capital crime for any to drink of but the King and his Eldest Son But the Well of Life lyes open to all 83. Magnates Magnetes Great men are Load-stones whom all are apt to follow 84. It is said in the Syriack-Ritual that when Christ came to be Baptized of John he should say to Christ as it is rendred in the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I cannot commit such a Rape upon the Honour of Christ as by Baptizing him to seem to preferr my self before him 85. Multi taedio investigandae veritatis ad proximos divertunt Errores Many turn aside to the Error that is next rather than be at the pains to find out the Truth Minut. Felix And so make good that saying of an Heathen Omnes malumus credere quam judicare We will rather believe than judge 86. It was a Custom among the Molossians that he that came and prostrated himself before the King with the Kings Son in his Arms should be pardoned any Offence The Moral of this is easie 87. God is said Ex. 34.6 to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Dual Number which the Rabbins say denotes Gods Patience both to the righteous and the wicked 88. Herodotus in his Second Book makes mention of a Statue set up for Senacherib in one of the Temples of Egypt with this Inscription on it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that looks upon me let him learn to be religious who for his Irreligion came to an untimely death 89. There was no certain measure set for the first Fruits under the Law He that gave one of 40. was accounted a Man of a good Eye but he that gave but one of 60. was counted a Man of an evil Eye Maimonid 90. The Hebrews say of the Ransom Money under the Law which was half a Shekel which all were to pay alike for the Ransom of their Souls that if a poor Man had it not to give he must sell his Cloaths or his Bed rather than not pay it The application is easie 91. Bellarmine at his death prayed that God would deal with him Non ut aestimator meriti but as Largitor veniae As a Sin-pardoning God 92. The Jews had some of them a superstitious opinion of Fringes in their Garments that they would be a defence to them from evil Spirits And some of their Rabbins told them that if they well observed the Law of Fringes they should be counted worthy to see the Majesty of God Blind Superstition 93. In the dayes of Trajan the Emperour arose a certain false Christ and call'd himself Bar-chocab the Son of a Star but afterward being slain in Battel the Jews call'd him Bar-Cazab The Son of a Lye 94. Gnabhar Zeman Gnabhar Corban say the Rabbins The Offering is past if the Season for it is past 95. One said of Gardiner Bishop of Winchester Nature made him a worthy

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 woul● not bend by any bad Compliances 30. Otho Bishop of Ments shut up a number of poor People in a Barn and then se● it on fire and when they cryed out he 〈◊〉 sport said Heark how the Mice do squeak Bu● afterwards was so followed with Mice in hi● Chamber that he built a Tower on the Ri●ver Rhine to free himself and yet they followed him thither 31. About the same time of the Year tha● the Jews Crucisied Christ was Jerusalem destroyed by the Romans 32. What proportion is there betwixt th● short Pleasure of Eve in eating the forbidde● Fruit and the Calamities that flowed fro● it 33. It s said that Diagoras turned Atheist b● observing a Man to escape and prosper tha● had forsworn himself about some Money b● intrusted in his hand 34. The Primitive Christians in their day● of solemn Humiliation would lye prostrate upon the ground which they calle● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 35. Hilarion a good young Man said t● 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 Th● 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 No●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 ●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. ●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 Heb● 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 ●he works of Creation or Providence 50. Pharaoh and his Hosts were drowned in ●he Red Sea but the Infernal Pharaoh and his Hosts are drowned and destroyed in the Blood ●f Christ 51. The Roman Generals after a Victory ●rst entred the City privately and then ●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 A● 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 b● 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 Hons● and Land to follow the true God and th● true Religion which some think Christ alludes to in the Gospel when he speaks o● 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