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A02536 Epistles. The third and last volume containing two decades / by Ioseph Hall ... Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. 1611 (1611) STC 12663.4; ESTC S4691 58,643 256

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you looke beside encouragements of suffering Beholde in this how much you are happier then your many predecessors Those haue found friends or wiues or children the most dangerous of al tempters Suggestions of weakenes when they com masked with loue are more powerfull to hurt But you all your manie friendes in the valour of their Christian loue wish rather a blessed Martyr then a liuing and prosperous reuolter yea your deare wife worthy of this honour to be the wife of a Martyr preferres your faith to her affection and in a courage beyond hir Sex contemnes the worst miserie of your losse professing she woulde redeeme your life with hirs but that she would not redeeme it with your yeildance and while shee lookes vppon those manie pawns of your chast loue your hopefull Children wishes rather to see them fatherlesse then their Father vnfaithfull The greatest part of your sufferings are hers She beares them with a cheerefull resolution She diuides with you in your sorrowes in your patience she shall not bee diuided in your glory For vs we shall accompanie you with our Prayers and followe you with our thankefull commemorations vowing to Write your name in red Letters in the Kalenders of our hearts and to Register it in the monuments of perpetual Records as an example to all posteritie The memoriall of the iust shal bee blessed EPIST. X. To all Readers ¶ Containing Rules of good aduise for our Christian and ciuill carriage I Grant Breuitie where it is neyther obscure nor defectiue is very pleasing euen to the daintist iudgments No maruaile therefore if most men desire much good coūsel in a narrow room as some affect to haue great personages drawne in little Tablets or as we see worlds of Countreyes described in the compasse of small Mappes Neither do I vnwillingly yeild to sollowe them for both the powers of good aduice are the stronger when they are thus vnited and breuitie makes counsell more portable for memorie and readier for vse Take these therefore for more which as I would faine practise so am I willing to commend Let vs begin with him who is the first and last Informe your selfe aright concerning God without whome in vaine do we know all things Bee acquainted with that Sauiour of yours which paid so much for you on earth and now sues for you in heauen without whom wee haue nothing to doe with God nor he with vs. Adore him in your thoughts trust him with your selfe Renew your sight of him euerie day and his of you Ouer-look these earthly things when you do at any time cast your eyes vppon heauen thinke there dwels my Sauiour there I shall be Call your selfe to often reckonings cast vp your debts paiments graces wants expences imploiments yeeld not to thinke your set Deuotions troublesome Take not easie denialles from your selfe yea giue peremptory denials to your selfe Hee can neuer bee good that flatters himselfe hold nature to her allowaunce and let your wil stand at curtesy happy is that man which hath obtained to be the Maister of his owne heart Thinke all Gods outward fauors and prouisions the best for you your own abilities and actions the meanest Suffer not your minde to bee either a Drudge or a wanton exercise it euer but ouerlay it not In al your businesses look throgh the world at God whatsoeuer is your leuell let him bee your scope Euery day take a view of your last and thinke either it is this or may be Offer not your selfe either to honour or labour let them both seeke you Care you onely to be woorthy and you cannot hide you from God so frame your self to the time companie that you may neyther serue it nor sullenly neglect it and yeeld● so far as you may neither betray goodnesse nor countenance euil Let your words bee few and digested It is a shame for the tongue to cry the heart mercie much more to cast it selfe vpon the vncertaine pardon of others eares There are but two things which a Christian is charged to buy and not to sell Time and Truth both so precious that we must purchase them at anie rate So vse your friends as those which should be perpetuall may bee chaungeable while you are within yourselfe there is no daunger but thoughts once vttered must stande to hazard Do not hear from your selfe what you would be loath to hear from others In al good thinges giue your eye and eare the ful scope for they let into the minde restraine the tongue for it is a spender fewe men haue repented them of silence In all serious matters take counsel of daies nights and friends let leasure ripen your purposes neither hope to gain ought by suddennesse The first thoughtes may be confident the second are wiser Serue honestie euer though without apparant wages she wil pay sure if slow As in apparell so in actions know not what is good but what becomes you how manie warrantable acts haue mishapen the Authors Excuse not your owne ill aggrauate not others and if you loue peace auoide Censures comparisons contradictions out of good men chuse acquaintance of acquaintance friends of friends familiars after probacion admit them af●e● admittance cha●ge them not Age commendeth friendship Do not alwayes your best it is neither wise nor safe for a man euer to stand vpon the top of his strength If you would be aboue the expectation of others 〈…〉 your selfe 〈…〉 after your p●●●● not after your minde 〈◊〉 To where you may deny except vpon Confidence of de●●●● or hope to require Eyther frequent ●●li●s or complaints are wearisome to any friende Rather smother your griefes and wantes a● you may then be either querulous or importunate Let not your face belye your heart nor alwaies tell tales out of it he is fit to liue amongst frends or enimies that can be ingenuously close Giue freely sell thriftily Change seldome your place neuer your state either 〈…〉 conueniences or swallow them rather theen you should run from your selfe to auoide them In al your reckonings for the world cast vp some crosses that appeare not either those will come or may Let your suspicions bee charitable your trust fearfull your censures sure Giue way to the anger of the great The Thunder and Cannon will abide no fence As in throngs we are affraid of losse so while the world comes vpon you look wel to your soule There is more danger in good then in euil I fear the number of these my rules for Precepts are wont as nayles to driue out one another but these intended to scatter amongest many and I was loath that anie guest should complain of a niggardly hand Daintie Dishes are woont to be sparingly serued out homely ones supply in their bignesse what they want in their worth FINIS Index Expurg Homil. in 1. Cor. 7. De bono coniugij cap. 19. De bono coniug c. 9. c. 16.
EPISTLES THE THIRD AND LAST VOLVME CONTAINING two Decades By IOSEPH HALL Doctor of Diuinitie LONDON Printed for E. Edgar and A. Garbrand at the Wind-mill in Pauls Church yard 1611. TO THE MOST HIGH AND EXCELLENT PRINCE HENRIE Prince of Wales all happinesse Most Gracious Prince LET mee not whiles I desire to be dutifull seeme importunate in my dedications I now bring to your Highnesse these my last and perhaps most materiall Letters wherein if I mistake not as how easily are wee deceiued in our owne the pleasure of the varietie shall striue with the importance of matter There is no worldly thing I confesse whereof I am more ambitious then of your Highnesses contentment which that you place in goodnesse is not more your glory then our ioy Do so still and heauen and earth shall agree to blesse you and vs in you For me after this my officious boldnesse I shall betake myselfe in silence to some greater worke wherein I may approue my seruice to the Church and to your Highnes as her second ioy and care My heart shall be alwaies and vpon al opportunities my tong and pen shall no lesse gladly bee deuoted to my gracious Master as one Who reioyce to be your Highnesses though vnworthy yet faithfull and obsequious Seruant IOS HALL THE SVMME OF THE SEVERALL EPISTLES DECAD V. EP. I. TO my Lord Bishop of Bath and Wels. Discoursing of the causes and means of the increase of Popery 1. EP. II. To my Lord B. of Worcester Shewing the differences of the present Church from the Apostolicall and needlesnesse of our conformity thereto in all things 21. EP. III. To my Lady MARY DENNY Containing the discription of a Christian and his differences from the worldling 33. EP. IIII. To my L. HONORIA HAY. Discoursing of the necessity of Baptisme and the estate of those which necessarily want it 43. EP. V. To Sir RICHARD LEA since deceased Discoursing of the comfortable remedies of all afflictions 57. EP. VI. To Master PETER MOVLIN Preacher of the Church at Paris Discoursing of the late French occurrents and what vse God expects to be made of them 69. EP. VII To M. THOMAS SVTTON Exciting him and in him all others to early and chearefull beneficence shewing the necessity and benefit of good workes 77. EP. VIII To E. B. Dedicated to Sir GEORGE GORING Remedies against dulnes and hartlesnesse in our callings and encouragements to chearefulnesse in labour 91. EP. IX To S. H. I. Discussing this Question Whether a man and wife after some yeares mutuall and louing fruition of each other may vpon consent whether for secular or religious causes vowe and performe a perpetuall separation from each others bed and absolutely renounce all carnall knowledge of each other for euer 101 EP. X. To M. WILLIAM KNIGHT Incouraging him to persist in the holy calling of the ministery which vpon conceit of his insufficiency and want of affection he seemed inclining to forsake and change 115 DECAD VI. EP. I. TO my Lord DENNY A particular account how our dayes are or should be spent both common and holy 1 EP. II. To M. T. S. Dedicated to Sir FVLKE GREVILL Discoursing how wee may vse the world without danger 13 EP. III. To S. GEORGE FLEETVVOOD Of the remedies of sinne and motiues to auoide it 21 EP. IIII. To M. Doctor MILBVRNE Discoursing how farre and wherein Popery destroieth the foundation 31. EP. V. Written long since to I. W. Disswading from separation and shortly oppugning the grounds of that errour 41. EP. VI. To Master I. B. A complaint of the mis-education of our Gentry 65 EP. VII To Master IONAS REIGES BERGIVS in Zeland Written some whiles since concerning some new opinions then broaced in the Churches of Holland and vnder the name of Arminius then liuing perswading all great wits to a studie and care of the common Peace of the Church and disswading from al affectation of singularity 75 EP. VIII To W. I. condemned for murder Effectually preparing him and vnder his name whatsoeuer Malefactor for his death 83. EP. IX To Master IOHN MOLE of a long time now prisoner vnder the Inquisition at Rome Exciting him to his wonted constancie and incouraging him to Martyrdome 93. EP. X. To all Readers Containing Rules of good aduice for our Christian and ciuill carriage 107. Errata DECAD V. PAge 3. line 11. read setlednes for seelednes p. 12. l. 16. read their for they p. 14. l. 4. r. stales for stalls p. 17. l. 13. r. great oppugnation for Great oppugnation p. 23. l. 15. r. person for persons p. 27. l. 19. r. Fastes for Facts p. 28. vlt r. concluding for concluding p. 37. l. 9 r. ingrosses for ingrosse p. 44. l. 2. read heard for hard p. 72. l. 10. r. Duels for Doels p. 72. l. 20. r. Cotton for Cotten p. 74. l. 12. r. holy for wholy p. 84. penult r. death-bed for dead bed p. 92. l. 4. r. more weake for more weaker p. 98. 7. r. our price for our pride p. 104. l. 12. r. then euer forthen neuer p. 110. l. 1. r. matrimoniall for matrimonicall p. 115. l. 8. r. I am not more for I am more p 116. l. r. 20 appose vs for oppose vs DECAD VI. PAge 39. l. 6. r. Judges for Iudge p. 66. l. 19. r. Ruffians for ruffianlike p. 73. l. 5. r. glad for gald p. 87. l. 20. r. let for lets p. 110. l. 12. r. yeeld for yeelds p. 112. l. 11. r. probation for prouation The fifth Decade EPISTLE I. To my Lord Bishop of Bathe and Wels. EP. I. Discoursing of the causes and means of the increase of Popery BY what meanes the Romish religion hath in these latter times preuailed so much ouer the world Right Reuerend and honourable is a consideration both weighty and vse-full for hence may we frame our selues either to preuent or imitate them To imitate them in what wee may or preuent them in what they should not I meddle not with the meanes of their first risings the munificence of Christian Princes the honest deuotions of wel-meaning Contributers the diuision of the Christian world the busie indeauours of forward Princes for the recouery of the holy land with neglect of their owne the ambitious insinuations of that sea the same and large dominiō of those seuen hils the compacted indulgence and conniuence of some treacherous of other timorous rulers the shameles flattery of parasites the rude ignorance of Times or if there be any other of this kinde My thoughts and wordes shall be spent vpon the present and latest age All the world knowes how that pretended chayre of Peter tottered and cracked some threescore yeares agoe threatning a speedy ruine to her fearefull vsurper How is it that still it stands and seemes now to boast of some setlednesse Certainely if hell had not contriued a new support the Angell had long since saide It is fallen it is fallen and the Merchants Alas Alas the great Citie The brood of that lame