never so much earnest businesse must be at leisure to Dye prepared or unprepared Luke 12.18,19,20 368. The loss of Evill is great gain The Mortification of the Old men is the Fortification of the New Rom. 8.13 369. Pray and Prosper Aske and receive Beg and speed but Nothing crave Nothing have Matth. 7.7 Jam. 4.2 370. The Supremacy of Reason must not be counter-byassed by the Popularity of the Senses 371. If poore sinners would but be more dutifull assuredly they would be lesse doubtfull 2 Cor. 9.7 Chap. 8.12 372. Where the water is parcel'd out into so many Rivolets the Main current starves See Luke 10.41,42 Psal 37.4 Psal 73.25 373. They that rage against the wayes of GODS Providence do but throw scalding Water to Windeward See Job 9.4 Cha. 33.13 1 Cor. 10.22 374 Self-love is the quench coal of Brotherly-love and Self-wil is the break neck of Self-denial Phil. 2.4,21 Mat. 24.12 2 Tim. 3.2,3,4 375 Tart Reprehension from a kind Friend is like Limmon and Sugar sharp and sweet see Prov. 27.5,6 Psal 141.5 376 Patiently hear Admonition Many that have lived Fearless have died Earless 377 The Conquest of one Bosome Foe is worth many Tears and much Time and Labour 378. Dispatch Dispatch make what haste we can possible Night will bring us home 1 Cor. 7.29 c. 379 'T is a mercifull Tyranny to wrack sinne and shew no favour to a Destroyer 380 Two hungry meales make the third a Glutton two gluttonous meales make the third a starveling 381 When we fight against God with his Own Mercies we beat our selves with our Own Sinnes 382 Our land is like Gydeons Fleece Judg. 6.38 and yet our hearts quite contrary are like Gideons Fleece verse 40. 383 The poor man is thus farre happy beyond others in that he hath nothing to loose Se Job 1.21 1 Tim. 9.7 314. From Creatures we must neither beg nor buy Commendation nor yet feare Condemnation 385. Good drinke makes good blood I but how Just as good Water makes good Pottage 386. The Devill commonly cozens us by perswading us we cozen him 387. A good mans Tongue many time shâ—edly sets an ill Dogs Teeth of work ex inopinato 388. He who is both prudent and innocent shall neither deceive nor be deceived See Mat. 10.16 389 The Highest greatest and richest are but Gods Beggers we all do live by his love 390. Wee must learn to promise with Vnderstanding and Discretion to perform with Love and Affection 391. Weeping Eyes are not to be wincked at nor yet to be looked upon with dry Eyes See Luke 7.38 Chap. 22.62 392. The World is the Booke of the Creature The Word is the Booke of the Creator too see Psalme 19.1.7 393. 'T is humane to suffer ill Divine to do good Patience and Love will go through both 394 A Schollar of great Reading and small Parts lives upon Collections and Exhibitions from Friends 395 He who makes great Promises and small Performances must expect great shame and small Thanks 396 Many abuse good will and turn a sacred Priviledge into a privie Sacriledge 397 Better do well and fare ill then do ill and fare worse Did not I tell you so before 398 This World is for labour and appetite the Next is for rest and satisfaction Be patient then a while 399 Teach without Envy Learn without Shame then thou art both wise and humble 400 Where Love hath ingress Thanks hath egress and where Grace hath progress Sin hath regress 401 Affection without Knowledge is Heat without Light like a close hot Oven 402 Knowledge without Affection is Light without Heat like a frosty Moon shine 403 Let it be thy firm Resolution to get thy full Absolution before thy finall Dissolution Mat. 5.25 see 228. 404 Vp and be doing and prosper More die of the Lazies then of Labour and Travail See 1 Chr. 22.16 405 A Brow of Brass and a Neck of Iron procures an Heaven of Brass and an Earth of Iron Jer. 3.3 406. Others Falls are not our Foot-stools or stumbling-blocks but rather our Looking glasses 407. Say not God hath thrown such an one by as an useless pot-sheard for The Lord knoweth who are his 2 Tim. 2.19 408. Despise none for their Weaknesse despair of none for their Wickednesse Our times are in Gods hand Psal 31.15 409. God will not endure to see Pride stamp on Peace Violence kick Mercy nor Rigour over-master Love 410. To bid carnall Security still Conscience is but to set a Sleeper to Rock the Cradle 411. Under-value not the Poore we cannot want the Dust-man the Dung-hill raker the Chimney-sweeper nor the Gold-finder 412. He that acts meerly from a principle of Power Policy and Self-will shall surely fall by his own Contrivances Job 5.12,13 413. It does me more good then my Victuals to see but the Devil miss of his Ayme and befoole himself Job 5.12,13,14,15 414 Wee should not thinke so much upon what others do as upon what our selves ought to do John 21.21,22 415. Brasse and Steele have slaine their thousands of Bodies but Gold and Silver their tenne thousands of Souls 416 Bad men indeed I confess have some good thoughts I but good men have more bad thoughts 417 Many hold forth so long that at last I fear they will hardly hold out to the last 418 They say Deeds are male and Words female but I am sure Thoughts are doubtfull 419 That whereon we lay out much unless we are compleat fools we lay up safe Mat. 13.44 420 Ply well the Twig while it is green If Youth be sick of the Will-nots Old-age will die of the Cannots 421 Fierie Furie and key-cold Charity opens the doors to a Luke-warm Christianitie 422 I have told you often enough of it That The poore in purse are for Communitie The poore in spirit are for Vnitie 423 One Vnion in Heaven is worth more then all the Gems Pearls Diamonds and Diadems on Earth 424 Fellow-members mutually sympathize but the whole Body condoles the sick Heart 425 Brotherly-love is no looser The Head is beholding to the Feet and the Belly is the Hands best Pay-master see the 72. Aph. 426. Mans Performances must learn to borrow strength of Gods Promises John 16.23 James 1.5 427. 'T is more tolerable and safe to suffer the greatest Injury then to do the least 2 Thes 1.6,7 428. Let us be thankfull for what we have and we shall the better obtain of God what we have not 429. The Lord will blesse that Basket and that Store out of the which we do relieve the Poore Luke 6.38 Eccles 11.1,2 430. Wealthy I would be for Live I may but Honest I will be for Dye I must Jer. 17.9,10,11 431. When we want Comforts then we are mad for Anger but when we have them then we are mad for Joy 432. Neither Creator nor creature would hurt us if we would but be true to our own Soules 1 Pet. 3.13 433. We can never part with too much for Him who
's no Church without its spots He 's a Nathanael credit me and I 'le Avouch when he wrote these there was no guile Possest his heart Come shew thy self to be A Friend to Church and I 'le be so to thee But if thou hast a place for wonder fit Give it the CHURCH and COMMON WEALTH of WIT. C. F. M.A. Authoris Amicus ad Lectorem MUch Profit Wisdome Learning in Few Words Small this Cheap this Usefull Tract affords On any Page vouchsafe to cast thine Eye And if thou canst not like it cast it by How e're despise not this Sententiâ—… Schoole Least thou be sentenc'd a Censorious Foole. Reader what-ever if thou honest be It merits to keep Company with thee Will. Bodham To his Ingenous Friend Mr. Nathanael Church on his Pocket-Companion VVHil'st thou was toss't upon the waving Main Me-thought Noes Ark was floating once again Thy Friends on Land were troubled much for thee To prove their Churches visibility Now if I want thy good society Thy book mean while shall my Companion be Where whiles thy Hand speaks to mine Eye so here Mine eye becomes thy Hands Interpreter If great Bookes be great evils thou haâ—… shâ—wn A remedy Thine's but a little one Since Coyn's grown scant 't was wisely done by thee To keep our Pockets from vacuity Tho. Ford. Author ad Patrem jam 17. annos defunctum WEll I 'le drop one Encomiasticke rather Then by a Clownish silence robb my Father Lest if by me that name be vilifi'd I 'me named sacriligious parricide Though Him to praise there needs no Paines or Skill Of whom his very Foes could not speake ill Here needs no Florishes go cunning Pates Goe sleep His own workes praise him in the Gates Nay all the Rhetorick I can devise Is but to multiply Tautologies His Theologick Miscellanies can Him studious prove to know both GOD and MAN His Coffer long agoe is dead and rotten The Good mans Treasure must not be forgotten His Christian letters most eleborate Now out of print I 'de buy at any Rate Meane while I will be thankefull not repine My Fathers Gold and Silver both are Mine N. C. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 H. C. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Pocket-cOmpanion 1. THings unkown we neither desire nor feare 2. 'T is extraordinary Wickedness to think Nothing to be wicked 3. Some Hearers are like the Aire only hot when the Sun shineth See Mat. 13. four sorts of hearers 4. Short Time hath long Wings and flies away swiftly 5. We may well spare our Thoughts from things impossible and unprofitable 6. That Soul that is most watchfull it least sinfull Matth. 26.41 Rev. 16.15 7. We can fathom from a Giants Heart to his Mouth not a Dissemblers see Jer. 12.2 8. Gods Mercies are as the Fountain not as the Land-flood viz. constant not uncertain and beneficiall not prejudiciall 9. Milk not drawn putrifies Riches not used rust See James 5.2,3 see Matth. 6.19,20 10. We are like the Aire dark of our selves Grace make us light see 2 Cor. 4 6. 11. Prophane Teachers like Mercuriall statues direct Others not Themselves Rom. 2. v. 1. and v. 17. to 24. 12. This little Time is between too vast Eternities consider Psal 90. and Psal 102.24 to the end 13. If two whistle the Dog still comes to Him that hath the Bone note Sauls words 1 Sam. 22.7 14. The Hawke flies highest but the Hen is the better dish see Prov. 15.33 Tast the next Aphorism 15. The Wicked have often the greatest preferment but the Godly are alwaies most profitable Hest 6. and 7. Chapters 16. The shadow of Fame is sometimes long sometimes short As in Joseph Job Jacob Nebnehadnezer Dan. 4. 17. Much Grace makes a little Heaven here truth of Grace makes sure of Heaven hereafter 18. A Dispensation to sin is nothing so good as a Disposition against sin Compare Saul with Paul Study Rom. 7.14 to the end 19. The more the Church suffers here the Enemy shall suffer hereafter Micah 7,8,9,10 Prov. 24.15.16,17,18 20. C ham escaped drowing by Water yet was drowned in sin Gen. 9.18 to 28. 21. Distempered Affections make our Griefs exceed our Crosses Gen. 30.1 Matth. 2.18 Jonah 4.9 22. That which is a Burthen within is like to be a Blemish without Psalm 38.4,11 Rom. 6.21 23. Sin often prevailes against the godly but their Resolution still revives Psalm 39.1 Psalm 17.3 24. Heavines and Fear very much hinder good duties Psalm 69 3. Prov. 29.25 1 Sam. 26.19 Psalm 40.12 25. In out distempers or ill company or solitariness Sathan watches see Aphorism 278. 26. Diabolicall thoughts are as dust blowne the fault is not in the Eyes 2 Cor. 12.7,8,9 Rom. 7.17 27. What Satan suggests that Melancholly keepes As in the despaire of Cain Saul Judas c. 28. They never prosper whom Gods Children do pray against Exo. 17.11 Isa 54.17 29. GOD washes with blood We with teares Luke 7.38 Revel 1.5 Zach. 13.1 30. None do believe because they are worthy to believe Ephes 28. Heb. 12.2 31. 'T is better to beare Scoffes than to dissemble Holiness Marke 8.38 Rom. 1.16 Jer 20.7,8,9 Heb. 11.36 32. We have more comfort of what we give than of what we get Psal 39.6 Eccles 2.18,19 Psalm 41.1,2,3,4 Acts 20.35 33. Men are ashamed to make satisfaction who shamed not to sin Job 31.33 1 Sam. 15.9,11,15,30 34. A true Convert pursueth Sin to Victory 2. Tim. 4.7 Rom. 12.21 1 John 5.4 35. The World is unstable being round the New-Jerusalem is firme being foure-square Revel 21.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 36. We call that chance or mischance which comes between the Purpose and the End 37. We are secure amongst Friends But watchfull amongst Enemies Psal 30.6 Neh. 7.3 38. Breath is not the life yet we live with it workes save not yet we are saved with them 39. Christ obeyed for satisfaction we obey for Gratulation Rom. 5.19 1 Thes 5 18. 40. Our waies are direct and streight when both Ends agree with the Middle 41. There is a thirst of Emptinesse and another of Desire the first Gods people have no more but in this life 42. Secret sins are seeds that will sprout if they be not timely nipt Psal 19.12,13 See Aph. 281. 43. To look to our selves AND to our Enemies is the only way to be safe 1 Pet. 5.8 44. A well-contented low estate is the best Preferment See Prov. 15.33 and Chapter 30 7,8,9 45. A large Conscience all the life â—ime will prove an heavy Consciâ—nce on the death-bed 46. Condemn not in Generall for one fault nor yet justifie the Particular Prov. 24.16 Matth. 18,15,16,17 Levit. 19.17 47. We are commanded to take up the Crosse not by base courses to shun it Math. 16.24 48. A man by wisedome gets an Estate but cannot leave wisedome with his Estate Eccles 2.18.19 49. If God break our Ships and give us boards we may swim to shoare Acts 24.47 see Job 1.21 and Chap. 42.11 50. The end of the
wicked is Hell not the end of their aime but of their course Prov. 14,12 and 16,25 51. Every Lust streigthens us the removall gives us liberty Rom. 6.12.14,16 and Chap. 8 2. 52. Those which be ever drinking without Thirst shall ever thirst without Drinking Isa 65.11 to the 15. 53. GOD judges certainly a priore Man charitably a posteriore Prov. 16.1,2 Psal 139 all 2 Sam. 12.18 and 1 Kings 3.26,27 54. We may be weake wise both at once as the Coney the Pismire and Chicken see Psal 104.18 Prov. 6.6,7,8 Ch. 30.25,26 Reade and do Matth. 23.37 55. The wicked are like a wheele unstable creaking and at last burned Psal 83.13 56. Beasts have a bodily presence to eate Christians to edefie Psal 104.14 28. Psal 145.15,16 Col. 4.6 1 Tim. 1.4 Eph. 4.29 30. 57. Christ refused the Worlds Preferment and then Angels came unto him Matth. 4 8,9,10,11 58. The more we subdue the Canaanites out lusts the more we enjoy Canaan our rest see Judg. 2.22,23 and so of the Gibeonites Josh 9.27 59. The deceitfull Trades-man workes on the ignorance or Need of the Buyer Docet experientia rerum 60. To do good to the godly and and ungodly is not only a Curtesie but a bounded Duty Matth. 5.44 Gal. 6.10 Rom. 12. End so 61. In things indifferent or doubtfull we are to look what is meet to be done and then to doe it 62. Those Gifts do bind us most that come from a free Giver Hos 14.4 8. Psal 116.7,8,12 63. If Injuries be our Enemies let Forgivenesse be our Weapon Rom. 12.21 Matth. 6.14,15 64. It is well when the End of our Passion is the Beginning of our Repentance 2 Kings 5.11,12,13,14 Naamans case and Peters Mark 14.71,72 65. The Favours that Forgetfulnesse doth hide Thankfulnesse layes open to Review Psal 103.2,34,5,6,7 66. Violent Affections to Gaine bring violent Afflictions at the losse See Matth. 19.22 James 5.1,2,3,4,5 Prov. 38. 1 Tim. 6.9,10 67. Hell tormeneth only the bad the Usurer torments the good Rev. 21.8 and Chap. 22.15 Psalm 15.5 Neh. 5.9 10. see Prov. 28.8 Read Ezeck 8. 68. An ill-favoured Snake is a better Companion than a well-favoured Harlot For an Harlot is the Eve of a Serpent 69 'T is not comely to step from the Cradle of ignorance to the Chaire of censure Job 32.6,7 70. T is better to be uncomfortably conscionable than unconscionably comfortable Psal 37.16 Prov. 15.15,16,17 Chap. 16.8 71. We should pray that Ministers may have life in their Doctrine and Doctrine in their life Ephes 6.18 19. 1 Cor. 2,4,5 1 Tim. 3.1 to the 8. vers 72. The Hand by feeding the Body gives nourishment unto it self 1 Cor. 12.14 to 27. verse Epes 4 28. and Aph. 438. 73. 'T is an happy Wed lock to marry in Dispositions as well as in Bodies 2 Cor. 6.14 74. Our corrupt nature desires not so much good things as new things Athenean like Acts 17.19 to 22. 75. GOD layes the Reines on Natures necke but pulls not the Bit out of her mouth Eccles 1,2,3,11,12 compared with verse 1. 76. We read often that the Devill is a Lyar but seldome that he is a Swearer We are too apt to beleeve the Devil will out an Oath saies one 77. We should alway set God before us and our selves alwaies before him see Psalm 16.8 and Psal 139 all Isa 29.15 78. 'T is an heavy loss to lose our Prayers either the Act or Event Prov. 15.8 Psal 109.7 79. God will not in trouble shelter the prophane man under his wings Psalme 32.6,7,10,11 80. The falls of Professors bring griefe to the godly and scorne to the wicked Exod. 32.21 81. In Slaunders we should be moved more for the sin against God then for our own hurt and so in all other mischiefs 82. Gods Favour makes us set light by the worlds Frowns see Psal 109.28 John 16.33 83. 'T is devillish to be evill in good company 't is gracious to be good in evill company Isa 26.10 1. Pet. 2.7,8 Phil. 2.15 84. An humble heart contempt of the world are hardly gotten in Prosperity Job 21.7 to 16. Prov. 1.32 85. A feigned Obedience in Life brings but a feigned Comfort in Death Job 8.13 and Chap. 20.5 86. Those which can be content to be wicked shall to their Discontent be counted wicked Gen. 4.12.14 87. Men may sin in Jest yet at last be punished in Earnest Prov. 10.23 Chap. 26.18,19 with Chap. 16.25 88. We should never forget Gods Water-workes in 88. nor the Devils Fire-workes Nov. 5. 89. He that willingly defames me unwillingly adds to my Reward Mat. 5.11,12 Heb. 11.26 90. The Crane winds up heavy things the Power of GOD raises up grosse sinners Acts 9. all 91. Our Wives may be lesse faire or Witty than others yet we love them better because they are our own 92. A cursed person using a cursed meanes cannot alwaies prevaile As in Haman Saul Achitophell 93. Our wealth is but a passe to keep us from begging vagrant-like in our journey see Gen 28.20 c. 94. The last end of our thoughts should be thoughts of our last end Deut. 32.29 Psalm 394. 95. 'T is better humbly to confesse Evills than proudly to boast of our Goodness Math. 23.12 Luke 18.10 â—o 14. 96. What the broken heart seekes that the mercifull heart findes and that is Mercy Psal 51.1.17 Matth. 57. 97. When God is our object then the world is our abject 1 Iohn 2.15,16,17 Matth. 6.33 98. Sinfull pleasures will come to nothing whether they have a being or not See Heb. 11.25 99. There is more pleasure to subdue our lusts than to fulfill them See Rom. 8.1,2,7,8 100. Those that speak so much of Luck and Fortune have not been instructed in Gods providence 101. We observe Injuries let us observe our selves how we beare the â—ame Prov. 16.32 Chap. 24.29 Ro. 12.18 c. 102. I will look on others Vertues when I the more hate mine own Vices Phil. 2,3,4 1 Pet. 3,3,4,5,6 103. An heart full of Goodnesse is worth many heads full of knowledge 1 Cor. 8.1 Chap. 13. all Iames 4.17 104. The being of sin in us brings Death the reigning of sin in us brings â—he second death Rom. 5.12,21 105. I like that Policy that studies more to grow good than great See Prov. 11.23 Ier. 45.5 106. I am miserable without a Friend and know not my Friend without misery Job 16.2 Prov. 17.17 107. Wicked men are so preserveâ— from Evils as they are reserved for Evils Jer. 12.1,2,3 Job 21.30 108. First let us make Conscience and then let us make Prayers Psalm 66.18 Iob 11.13,14,15 109. The desire of Grace is Gracâ— to desire see Prov. 11.23 Mat. 5.6 Isa 26.8,9 110. Bad Company that have nâ— grace hurts the good that have somâ— corruption to work unpon 111. To do no good workes or else to trust in workes done are our Rocks to split us See Aporisme 293. 112. Because our Life is so miserable t is a comfort we are
works the will Phil. 2.12 2 Cor. 3.5 303. 'T is the Devils May-game to set a mans Judgement and Practice together by the Ears See 2 Tim. 2.26 and Jam. 4.17 304 There is no place too holy for God but there is a place too high for him the proud heart see Isa 66.1.2 and ch 57.15 with Psal 138.6 305 Sweet Rarities are difficults Roses are armed with Prickles Honey is engarison'd with Bees 306 One Grain of reall Honesty will outballance many Mountains of shifting Subtilty 307 Those are the best Books that do not bribe us from but send us to the Scriptures Isa 8.20 308 As God loves a cheerfull giver so he Himself loves to give cheerfully Ja. 1.5 with 2 Cor. 9.7 309 Many are rich without Money and merry without Laughter and honourable without Applause James 2.5 Prov. 14.13 2 Cor. 5.12 Rom. 2.29 310 As too much Learning makes a man mad so too little makes him a Fool. Ponder that Acts 26.24 with Prov. 1.5 311 A droppe of Gods Blood is enough to sweeten an whole Ocean of sin and sorrow 1 John 1.7 Rev. 1.5 Heb. 9.13,14 312 He makes a good market of a bad Commoditie who vanquishes discourtesies with kindness Matth. 5. end Luke 6.35,36,37 313 To recollect stale in juries and bear in mind sowre Grudges is devillish childish see Pro. 19.11 ch 24.29 314 The least glimpse of Gods Fvaour casts a thick darkness upon all terristriall glory Psal 4. Hab. end 315 How often can we do that in the face of God which he would blush to speak of to a fellow-sinner Psal 90.8 Psal 69.5 Psal 56.8 316 The bed-rid Patient is Gods Prisoner the covetous Tarry at home the Devils in golden Fetters 317 An ill Conscience beats the Hypocrite with sand-bags mortally but yet imperceptibly 318 An Infant is in affect rasa tabula a blanck-book you may as yet write in it what you please Gen. 18.19 Deut. 6 7. Prov. 22.6 319 'T is more tolerable to be a lavish Prodigall then to be a slavish Pinch-paunch Eccles 5. the 3 last and ch 6. the 2 first 320 We cannot alwayes tell what 's a clock in a mans Breast by the Dyall of his Face Fronti nulla Fides Jer. 17.9.10 1 Sam. 16 7. 321 'T is miraculous for the Dead to Live again but much more for the Life of the world to die 322. What our prudence cannot cunningly for-goe our patience must quietly undergoe 323. Shew me the man that is favrurable to Others and severe to Himself and if I do not love Him hate Me. 324 Both are a like absurd words out of season and works out of Reason Eccl. 3.1.7.10 325 Those that open the Eyes of the blind must hide Themselves that the Sun of Righteousness may be seen 326 He who takes Reproof most willingly least deserves it of any man see Prov. 98. 28.23 327 Where Folly is the seed shame is the fruit and where Lust is the work sorrow is the wages Rom. 6.21,23 328 When Peter looks upon the Sunne of Righteousness it makes his Eyes water abundantly Luk. 22.61.62 329 Our least sinnes out-vie our greatest sufferings Gods least Mercies excell our greatest Praises 330 Gods Word makes Children like the Aged and keeps the Aged from being like Children see Psalm 119.99.100 331 Humane Learning Moon-like hath its blemishes its changes and shines but with a borrowed lights 1 Cor. 4.7 332 Till Conversion our hearts are but meer blotting paper and our Thoughts but wild scriblings 333 He that feeds the Wolf kills the Sheep say the Jews and he that spares a Lust stabs a Soul may we say 334 God is the Heart-maker Heart-searcher Heart-mender Heart-keeper and Heart-satisfier Psal 51.10 Jer. 17.10 Ps 4.6 335 Many are so extream pievish against humane learning that they have unlearnt all humanitie 336 The unbeliever dies of constraint as a prest man the Believers dies of choice like a true Voluntier 337 The world is full of Promises but those Promises are empty per formances 338 We must not adventure to put off Repentance till we put on Immortalitie see 2 Cor. 6.2 339 Our Memories are meere Sives they will neither retain the Flower nor yet part with the Bran. 340 The blind man eats many a Fly Go to then Blunderers beware Belzebub 2 Cor. 4.4 341 They that will not submissively bow to CHRIST shall irrecoverably be broken by Him 342 They that will not see the KING of Kings golden Scepter shall surely feel his Iron Rod Psalm 2. all 343 The Art of prevention is every way better and safer then the Art of invention See Aph. 241. 344 'T is not the going into the Fornance but the coming out which demonstrates the Mettall 345 Where the Remedie is worse then the Disease questionless there the Physitian is a FOOL 346 Where the Remedie is worse then the Disease it is better being sick then well 2 King 1.6 347 Choak Lust in the Embryo Better stamp upon an Egge then look upon a reigning Basilisk 348 'T is but a merciless compassion to preserve that which will utterly destroy our selves 349 Remember Time past consider Time present and fore-stall Time future Rev. 2.5 350 If we make Mercy fewel for Lust certainly Lust will make Vs â—ewel for Hell Rom. 2.4,5 351 There are many that have â—reat parts and yet are very Fooles â—or want of good Hearts 352 He who robs God of his first â—…uits forfeits the whole Crop to the â—evil Mal. 1.14 and ch 3.10 353 Doe nothing without Foreâ—…ght or Fore-cast A little wariness â—…events much weariness 354 Backward nor forward are some good A Churle is a Lurch and a Nabal is a Laban 355 They who doe good againâ—… their Will doubtless would as faiâ—… do Evill with their Will 356 A good Hand-maid makes a good House-wife and a good Manservant makes a good Master 357 He had need be extraordinary Patient who has the Devil for hiâ— Doctor see 2 Reg 1.1,2 c. 358 Many Heathens by education prove Christians by conversation anâ— many Christians by education provâ— Heathens by conversation 359 Men would be mute concerning their ability if they did but consider their mutabilitie 360 Life is a puffe God is our Pay-master Let us do good according to our own Abilitie and our Neighbours Necessitie Gal. 6.10 361 One Default makes a thing imperfect but all good Circumstances go to make it perfect 362 To forbear doing ill for want of Skill and not of Will is the Innocencie of a Fool. 363 Many a sufficient Workman is well given and yet his Labour and Pains is ill taken 364 To do no ill makes not a perfect good Man but to do no good makes an absolute evill Man 365. If we shew Mercy when wee can best spare it God will return it when we most need it Gal. 6.9,10 366. Believe not thy own Unbelief 'T is an ill Disease where the Physitian is a Murtherer Read 2 Kings 1.2 to the 7. Verse 367. He that hath
parted with All that ever he had for Vs Phil. 2.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He emptied or Evacuated Himself 434 Say not in thy heart God is mercifull therefore I may be sinfull but God is mercifull therefore I must be thankefull 435. A little that is good is as much as I desire and more then I deserve or else I am a very lyar to say so See Prov. 30.8 Psal 37.16 Gen 32.10 436 God will not beat his Children for nothing much less wil he beat them to nothing Psalm 107.17 and Jer. 10.24 437 We are greedie of Benefits when we want them and yet we are ungratefull when we have obtained them see 456. 438 As those that will not work must not eat so those that may not eat cannot work Prov. 16.25 and a Thes 3.10 see Aph. 72. 339 The young Storke nourishes the old one and Children should not altogether die in the Parents debt 440 Many times as the Cat serves the Mouse even so the greater Thiefe leads the less to execution 441 The melancholly Soul fights with shadowes and beats himself with his own weapons 442 That which breaks out in the Body or Skin commonly went in first at the Head Docet experientia rerum 443 True Riches by distribution feel no diminution but by Communication get an Augmentation 444 'T is an ill Disease that hides it self and a soar beaten Child that dares not Cry Get that without book 445 To fast and watch and pray and then relapse again is to wash our Hands and snuff the Candle 446. One Calling is enough at once The deepest Engineers are not alwaies the richest Men. 447. One would think the Head should lay to heart what the Hand layes out of the Store-house Luke 14.28 448. There is no Patience in Hell but we may be sure that there is an Hell in Impatience Ephes 4.26,27 449. The whole world is full of Gods glory And yet our Wicked Hearts are empty of his grace 450 Commit thy way to GOD and submit thy Will and he will compose thy Affections and dispose thy Actions Psal 37.3 Prov. 16.3 451. What an Heaven would it be to our Souls if we were but halfe so unwilling to sin as God is to punish Lam. 3.33 452. So grosse is our folly that We take more paines to be miserable then we need to do to be happy Isa 55.1,2 453. Except Sin be seperate from our Souls it will seperate our Souls from our Bodies and both from God Isa 59.2 Ezek. 18.4 454. What loades of Offences and Provocations does the Lord beare long before ever he complains Isa 43.24 Amos 2.13 455. We are naturally more taken with a grain of seeming Pleasure then a mountain of reall Profit 456 We do contemptuously under value Mercies in the enjoyment but highly prize them at the removal see the 437. 457 Instead of conquering evil with goodness we repay evil for good unto God himself Isa 1.2 Deut. 32.5,6 458 God will assuredly answer our Prayers graciously if our lives and conversations answer them so 459 Christs Excellency is exalted farther above the Heavens then it is hence to the Heavens 460 The worst thinks himself better then he is and the best is worse then he thinks himself 461 The best work that ever we can perform in thought word and work is to reform All Isa 1.11.16 c. 462 Our most enlarged Prayers and Professions can no more satisfie GOD themselves then Thoughts and Words can pay Debts 463 In God not only We but also our Graces Comforts and Vertues do live move and exist Ioh. 15.5 464 We should shun such profits as purchase Gods displeasure and hate such pleasures as procure our Soules disprofit 465 GOD needs nothing that we have to felicitate Him no more then the Sun needs a Candle to see Day by 466. Never be weary of the godly Mans company In good society there should be no satiety Psal 16.3 467. The Lord Jesus hath more Compassion in store then all the World can make use of or stand in need of 468. The Soul is a Tree the Faculties are Branches the Thoughts are Buds the words are Leaves the Actions are Fruit. 469. That same Travailer that takes most heed to his Wayes makes best speede to his End Prov. 4.23,26 470. We cannot think too bad of our selves nor speake good enough of God Yet he prizes us we slight Him 471. The Lord is not only a God hearing Prayers but also Isa 65.24 preventing prayers 472. The Godly mans down-fall is his uprising the Wicked mans uprising is his down-fall Psal 37.23,24 Psal 73.18,19 473. Most men walk in the broad Way and yet every man thinks to enter in at the streight Gate Mat. 7.13 Prov. 16.25 474. There is no man living so Young that he should presume nor any so Old that he should despair of Mercy 475. I must pray for the Churches persecutors and so I do Lord forgive their sinnes and give them lesse Power and us more Patience 476 He that cheats Himself is a foolish Knave he that cheats the Devil is an honest Knave 477 Where is reall sinceritie in the Life there will be unwearied perseverance till Death Gal. 6.9 1 Cor. 15. last 478 That Eye will never endure to look the Sun in the face to which a Torch is tedious see Jer. 12.5 and Aph. next 479 How shall any behold a Consuming fire who cannot endure the sight of a Saint Psal 1.5 Heb. 12. last see John 5.35 480 'T is a royal shame when that vice is in a King that is intolerable in a Kingdome Deut. 18.10,11 1 Sam. 28.7 481. Magistrates and Ministers too oft like the Sea can tame others but not themselves Rom. 2.17 to 25. with verse 1,2,3 482. 'T is an unconceivable Advantage to let slip the Occasion of doing evill 1 Tim. 5.14 1 Thes 5.22 483. Be our Voyage long or short swift or slow prosperous or adverse We all anchor in the Earth See Job â—… 26. 484. Take but out the Water and ye shall find the Sea a Grave to bury thousands among Fish-Wormes 485. The Devill promises like a Merchant but he performes like a Man of War Matth. 4. Eph. 2.2 486. Those in high dignities like men upon perillous Precipices are more pittyable then envyable 487. A Venice glass may through carefull usage out last a piece of Silver Plate unlook'd unto 488. A small Boate many times out-lives a Tempest when an able Bottome makes an hole in the Sea 489. Many small Leakes may sinck the Ship and many small Sins may drown the Soul in Perdition 460. All carnall delights are Wine in the morning Beere at noone and Vinegar at night 491. Incendiaries want not VVoe but VVit When the House is on fire pray wher 's the Bellowes see Aphorism 495. 492. No sooner can any man get publique Approbation but base Envy fly-blowes his Reputation See to Eccl. 10.1 493. Every Foole can make a Foole but he is cunning indeed that can make a