of Scots was slain and the Howards Earls of Surrey have quartered the Scottish Armes ever since It is not good to tempt the fortune of a battle unless there be either an offer of a speciall advantage or otherwise cumpulsion of necessity It is a most dangerous thing for a Prince to hazard his estate in battel if he may by any other means make a good end for a small loss in battle changeth and altereth the minds of his Subjects The loss of a battel traineth with it a number of inconveniences to him that is vanquished Beasts as well as men do soon alter and bastardise their affections Beasts may teach us by their examples and condem us by their practise The image of the beast in the Revelation in his dissimulation in such as profess religion and practise infidelity they fain to be what they are not and their show not their truth procureth them the name of Christians Beauty is lively shining or glittering brightness resulting from effused good by Ideas seeds reasons shaddows stirring up our minds that by this good they may be united and made one Beauty is the perfection of the whole composition caused out of the Congruous Symetry measure order and manner of parts and that comeliness which proceeds from this beauty is called grace and from thence all fair things are gracious for grace and beauty are annexed together It was beauty first ministred occasion to art to find out knowledge of carving printing building to find out moulds prospectives rich furnitures and so many rare inventions Beauty is natures priviledge a dumb comment a silver fraud a still Rhetorick that perswades without speech a kingdom without a guard a Tyranny that Tyranizeth over Tyrants In beauty that of favour is preferred before that of colours and decent motion is more then that of favour Beauty is the gâ—ft of God but given to the evil also least the good should imagine of too great worth All bodily beauty is a congruence in the members joyned with a pleasing colour and where that is not there is evermore dislike either by reason of defect or superfluity Beauty is of two sorts one wherein dignity excelleth another wherein comeliness Beauty is the flower and blossome of vertue Beatitude is not attained unless it be affected Beatitude consists not in the knowledge of Divine things but in a Divine life for the Devills know more then men Beatitudo non est Divinorum cognito sed vita Divina Faire beginnings are no sound proofs of our proceedings and ending well how often hath a bashfull childhood ended in an impudency of youth a strict entrance in licentiousnes is early forwardness in A theisme A comely and graceful carriage and behavior is an ornament to the vertue of brave men but to weake spirits it serves but a vigor or naturall coverture to hide or qualifie their abject and low minds Pope Iohn the 14 th Christened the great Bell of Lateran after his own name he being the first that ever Christened Bells It sufficeth for a Christian to believe this was or that shall be let the means alone to him who concealeth the plainest works of nature from our apprehensions more beleife ought to be given to things vvhich appear impossible then to those which admit of likely-hood who would make a lye to be beleived delienates forth a seeming truth and not an impossibility The best rule which can be given for living in safety is alwayes to fain beleife yet alwayes to doubt men willingly believe that which they would have come to pass We honor God when we do believe him for thereby we give him the gloâ— of all his attributes How far a thing is dissonant and disagreeing from the guise and trade of the hearers so far shall it be out of their beleife King Edward the fourth in the second year of his reign was the first King of England that ever did exact mony of his subjects by vvay of benevolence In point of entering a breach there is a little or no difference between a strong town and a weake for the beseiged in either do wholly trust to their new and sudden works The obligation of a benefit hath wholy reverence unto the will of him that giveth Men are more dull in felling of a good turn then of an ill we have not so sensible and perfect feeling of health as we have of the least sickness Good turns or benefits are no longer wel taken then they may be recompenced when they grow greater then hope of requital instead of thankfulness they breed hatred and ill will Dangerous are too great benefits from a subject to a Prince both for themseves and the Prince when they have their minds capable only of merit and nothing of duty benefits are more easily forgotten then injuries All benefits lose much of their splendor both in the giver and receiver which bear with them an exprobative tearm of necessitie It is too much niceness in them to forbear the benefits they might make of the faculties of prophane hereticall persons they consider not they have more right to the good such persons can do then they that do it and challenge that good for their own The way to obtain any benefit is to devote it in our hearts to the glory of God of whom we ask it by this means shall God both pleasure his servant and honour himself whereas if the scope of our desires be carnall we may be sure either to fail of our sute or of a blessing A Benefit that is upbraided becometh burthensome and odious and is not thankfully accepted Commemoratio est quasi exprobatio Benefits are alwayes willingly received but the benefactors are not alwayes willingly beheld The obligation which remains sowers the sweet of the benefit received All birds build their nests towards the East It is a thing that ordinarily daunteth and casteth down the heart of a man when he is privy to the baseness of his birth and knoweth some defect blemish or imperfection in his parents That birth detracts from the merit of great actions which obliges to greater In the 12 th year of William the Conquerour Lanfranke Arch-Bishop af Canterbury in a councill holden at London removed certain Bishops-See from small townes as Kirtor Wells Shirburne Dorchester and Liâ—chfield to townes of more eminency as to Chichester Exeter Bath Salisbury Lincolne and Coventry In the 10 th year of Hendry the first Ely-Bishoprick was founded and Cambridge-Shire taken from the See of Lincolne and annexed to it one Harvie was the first Bishop In the first year of Richard the first Hugh Pudsey Bishop of Durham for a great sum of money was created Earl of the same place the King saying he had made a young Earl of an old Bishop Bishops were first chosen to avoid dissention of equality In the two and 20. th year of King Henry the second it was sufficiently proved that all the Bishops of Scotland were subject to the Arch-Bishop of York
neer bordered upon vice and leaning to it but by the reins of prudence may be restrained and kept in the right way so there is no nature so neer a-kin to vertue but may be corrupted by ill usage Therefore it is good to contemplate the affections of men as they are attended with good or ill and search how far they may be hurtful or valuable least we immoderately praise some and do unjustly undervalue others All living creatures by a secret instigation affect to be most doing of that thing in which they are best able Angels Angels when they appear are conceived to cloath themselves with the Elements Of all Creations that are so near us as Angels be God hath shut up the knowledge of them most from us in Scripture and no man yet hath given a satisfying reason for it Some hold that they be one of the three Invisibles to wit God Angels and the Soul of man all which the eye hath never seen their simple existence Angels are simple and abstract Intelligences and Substances altogether without bodies Antiquity Any man whatsoever may erre in matters of Antiquity The study of Antiquity is a fair knowledge which is most precious for the adoring of humane life and strong at least in pleading for humane oftentation The Order of Dignity is to be respected before the Order of Antiquity Apparel Apparel was first instituted by God for three causes first to hide our nakedness and shameful parts Next to make us more comely And lastly to preserve us from the injuries of heat and cold Apprehension Apprehension gives life to crosses The efficacy of Gods marvellous works is not in the acts themselves but in our apprehension Some are overcome with those motives which others have contemned for weak Appetite Our Appetite must be curbed our passions moderated and so estranged from the World that in the loss of Parents or Children Nature may not forget Grace Whosoever slackens the reins of his sensual appetite will soon grow unfit for the calling of God The concubisciple and irascible appetite are as the two twists of a Rope mutually mixt one with another both twining about the heart both good if they be moderate both pernicious if they be exorbitant If the Appetite will not obey let the moving faculty over-rule her and let her resist and compel her to do otherwise Forms God hath not appointed to every time and place those Forms which are simply best in themselves but those that are best to them to whom they are appointed which we may neither alter till he begin nor recal when he hath altered Apostacy An Apostate is an opposer of the Faith he once professed and is worse then he that opposeth that which he never profest Arts. The Fame of all eminent Arts is stained by the multitude of Artificers and the unskilfulness of them most of them being unable to do what they promise and seeking their commendation onely in the vain name of such an Art Art Military is despised in time of rest and quiet and Peace esteemeth alike of the Coward and the Couragious Practise brings or breeds Art and Art obtaineth Grace Beauty is more beholding to Art then Nature and stronger provocations proceed from outward Ornaments then such as Nature hath provided Art can never attain to Natures perfection imitate it never so near though our esteem prefers it and seeing it gets a little by emulation attribute much more unto it The practise of every Art is referred to the use or profit and thereby judged Art will be discovered if it be often used when that would be made seen which is not it must be curiously done if any good be expected Three things are sought in every Artist that is to say Nature Skill and Practise his Nature to be judged of by his Wits his Skill by his Knowledge and his practise by Use Edward the third brought Artisicers for mahing Cloth from Gaunt The strength of a battel consisteth in the Artillery and Shot Aristoeracy Aristocracy is a form of a Common-Weal wherein the less part of the Citizens with Soveraign Power command over all the rest Unthankful attempts are alwayes rewarded with grief and disgrace Harmless counsels are good for the innocent but in open and manifest villanies there is no hopes of safety but in audacious attempts Foul attempts are begun with danger and sometimes accomplished with reward Changes are the aptest times for greatest attempts delayes then are dangerous and soft quiet dealing draweth more evil then rashly hazarding All but Athiests however they let themselves loose yet in some things find themselves restrained and shew to others that they have a conscience Every thing hath a quantity that it cannot exceed and hath a power to attain to it from the generative causes whereof the thing it self is produced by which power if it be not hindered it dilateth it self gradually in time till it come to the fulness where it either resteth or declineth again as it grew up the manner of Augmentation proceedeth from the qualities that Nature hath infused into every thing and neither from matter or form Evil were as good not seen as not avoided To fore-know and not to avoid evil is but an aggravation of judgement Equal Authority where there is the self same power is commonly pernicious to all actions it being impossible to chuse two minds of so equal a temper that they shall not have some motions of dissenting It is the hard condition of Authority that when the multitude fare will they plaud themselves when ill they repine against their Governors Authority cannot fail of opposition though it be never so mildly swayed Soveraignty abused is a great spur to outrage The conceit of Authority in great Persons many times lies in the way of their own safety whiles it will not let them stoope to the ordinary course of nature There is no passion that doth eclipse the light of reason or sooner corrupt the sincerity of a good judgement then that of anger neither is there any motion that pleaseth it self in its own actions or followeth them with greater heat in the execution and if the truth chance to shew it self and convince a false pretended cause as the author of that passion it often times redoubleth the rage even against truth and innocencie The punishment of banishing offenders was first broght into this Island by Edward the Confessor Liberal modesty is decent but clounish bashfulness is disgraceful That no man should be too much discouraged for the baseness of his propagation even the base son of man may be lawfully begotten of God King Hnery the second was supposed to be begotten of Maud the Emâ—irsse some time before by â—tephen of Bloys before shee was married to Geffery Plantagenek Duke of Anjoy In the fifth year of Henry the eight was a battel fought neer Floddon-Feild between James the fifth King of Scoâ—s and the Kings Leivtenant of the North the Earle of Surrey in which the King
who with the beginning of the Popes of Rome was Primate of all Scotland and all the Isles of the same The 10. th year of William Rufus the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury being Primate of Ireland consecrated Malchus Bishop of Waterford which place was mada a Bishops-See at the same time In the 6. year of William the Conquerour it was decreed at a Synod holden at Windsor that the Arch-Bishop of York should be subject to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and that the Arch-Bishop of York with all the Bishops of his Province should come to such a place as the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury should appoint to hold a Counsell at It is no true Bishop that desireth rather to be Lordly himself then profitable to others Leo the fourth Pope of Rome made a decree that a Bishop should not be condemned but by 72. witnesses The good Bishops of Rome continued almost 300. years the first of them was named Limus Blood is hot sweet temperate a red humor prepared in the meseraick veins and made of the most temperate parts of the Chilus in the Liver whose office is to nourish the whole body to give it strength and colour being dispersed by the veins through every part of it and from it spirits are first begotten in the heart which afterwards by the Arteries are communicated to all the other parts The force and power which lyeth in the blood the spirits and in the whole body is that which causeth the diversity of passions by reason that the passible part growing out of the flesh as from a root doth bud and bring forth with it a quality proves semblable The bodies misgriefes proceed from the soul and if the mind be not first satisfied the body can never be cured The corruptable body suppresseth the soul and the earthly mansion keeps down the mind that is much occupied Mans soul though it be immortal dyeth a kind of death it is called immortall because it can never leave to be living and sensitive and the body is mortall because it may be destitute of life and left quite dead in in self but the death of the soul is when God leaveth it and the death of the body is when the soul leaveth it so that the death of both is when the soul being left of God leaveth the body Labienus of Rome was the first on whom the punishment of burning bookes or writings was excluded upon Bookes are living Ideas of the Authors mind Something it is to have a fame go of a man yet words are as fame soon blown over when Libera scripta manet Books out live men Boldness or Valour is not terrified with a mans own danger but to fear in the behalf of others is humanity Boldness and fear are commonly misplaced in the best hearts when we should tremble we are confident and when we shoud be assured we tremble A cold and moist brain is an insepetable companion of folly Brevity although it breed difficulty yet it carrieth great gravity Brevity when it is neither obscure nor defective is very pleasing even to the choycest judgements Brevity makes counsell more portable for memory and easier for use The Brownists say they did not make a new Church but mended an old The Brownists seperate for these four causes or points A hateful Prelacie a devised ministery a confused communion and an intermixture of errors The Brownists charge Episcopacie with four heresies first their Canons secondly sin uncensured thirdly their Hyrarchy fourthly their Service book The agreement of brothers is rare by how much nature hath more endeared them by so much are their quarrells more frequent and dangerous Butidius a man well qualified and if he had taken a right course a man likely to have come to honourable preferment over much haste pricked forwards and at the first went about to out-go his equalls then his Superiors and at last of all to fly above his own hopes which hath been the overthrow of good men who contemning that which by a little patience is had with security hasten to that which gotten before his time breedeth their ruine and destruction Buying and selling of men and women which was used in England untill the third year of Henry the first was then prohibited In the third year of Henry the first by a Synod holden at London it was decreed that all burialls should be in their own Parish because the Priest should lose his â—ees The care of burialls the pomp of funeralls and magnificent Tombs are rather solaces to the living then furtherances to the dead A Canon is that which in a universal counsell is established Innocent the fourth was the first Pope that caused Cardinalls to wear red hats and to ride with trappings A Canteed containeth a hundred Townships Nothing cometh to pass without an efficient cause There be three sorts of causes naturall voluntary and casual Nothing is ended or begun without a Precedent cause that cause can hardly rise again and recover grace which hath been once foyled It is a sign of a desperate cause to make Satan our Counsellor or our refuge Although a man have a good cause he may fail in obtaining his right by Law unless he follow it earnestly defend it stoutly and spend freely Those things are casual whose act is not premeditated by any Agent It is the weakness of good natures to give so much advantage to an enemy Whaâ— would malice rather have then the vexation of them whom it persecuets We cannot better please an adversary then by hurting our selves this is no other then to humor envies to serve the turn of those that maligne us and to draw on that malice whereof we are weary whereas carelessness puts ill will out of countenance and makes it withdraw it self in a rage as that which doth but shame the Author without the hurt of the patient in causless wrong the best remedy is contempt In the first year of Richard the first the City of London received their Charter of freedom and to chuse twenty six Aldermen and out of that numto chuse a Major to rule the rest also two Bayliffs or Sheriffs whereas from the Conquest they were governed by Port-greeves In the 21. year of Henry the third the King at a Parliament at Westminster comfirmed the great Charter The 26. of Edward the first the great Charter was confirmed and at the same time it was enacted that the King should not charge the Subjects with any taxes or tullages but by Parliament It was also confirmed again in the 27. year of his raigne with these words added Salvo jure Coronae nostrae Edward the third confirmed the great Charter in the 15. year of his raigne The Duke of Orleans the French Kings brother challenged King Henry the fourth to meet him with 100. Knights compleatly armed against the like number and the vanquished to be ransomed at the victors pleasure A substantiall change is above the reach of all infernall powers and is proper to the