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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36291	A miscellania of morall, theologicall and philosophicall sentances [sic] worthy observation.; Polydoron	Done, John.; Donne, John, 1604-1662.	1650 (1650)	Wing D1857; ESTC R14930	35,703	226

with thinking too much of her invisibilities A busy headed tradesman stock't hath a hive of bees in his pate but turnd broker or Serjant varlet a nest of waspes in his scull and his mace is the sting It was properly similizd of him that sayed passions in a foole were like ordinance broke loose in a storme at sea for they ruine themselves commonly without great helpe and a cholericke and undisswasable man approues it Some Trades man made Scavenger stroakes up his stockeings carefully picks motes from his clothes discourses of reformation then made Constable extraordinarily cherisheth his beard and getts a humme of state but being Churchwarden acknowledgeth himselfe to bee one of the worshipfull and picks quarrells with any glazier in the parish Wee are slaves to the elements and faine to give the fire food before hee will warme us or cuit our meat entreat the ayre with voice and instruments before hee will speake us musicke beare and embrace the water ere hee will clense or quench our thirst manure the earth ere hee will bring us sustenance and they to God are but his Serving Creatures for the fire is his Chamberlaine the aire his musician the water his bason the Earth his footestoole All things obey their ordinance in Nature but Man and hee seduced by his will and vaine Appetites many times turnes rebell But when hee returnes and becomes true subject the Cittisens of Heaven rejoyce The honest informers I know are bookes for they crave nothing but unclasping and turning ouer Wise Sir Thomas Moore laught a man should thinke himselfe better then his neighbour because the cloth of his gowne was a finer threed and Democritus I thinke would breake his spleene if hee lived now to heare a man should be wiser then his neighbour by five hundred pounds A Goosquill scribe to some fat Saducae or storvling wrangling Pharisae thinks himselfe more knowing and wise then Albumazer the Heavens notary that sommond the revolutions but and you unty the string of this barmie youths pride hee will blot out his corke and spend all his witt in frothy scoffs The blacke dogge of New-gate I thinke is but the Genius of envy at Court of subtilltie in the Citty and of knaverie in the Country and shakes his loose haires in most houses once a yeare but is not visible but by effect to sence That which a man hath attained unto through the dilligence and industrie of honest endevours is shott free from care of others heart knawing envye Yet it is wisdome to bee wary of their malice It matters not what the person is that speakes or acts to good purpose but what the matter deed and speach is When a fellow braggs of his swift and farre riding in a day c. I inwardly prayse the horse and when I see an Heyre prowd of his ancesters leavings I likewise cōmend the purchassers if they well achieved it Most folke are more care full to preserue their cloathes from dust and spotts then their soules from guilt and bodies from surfeits Povertie is not amisse to a minde not rich in gouernment but a true wiseman esteemes not worldly wealth to bee right riches All earthly and corporall contentments doe but ranke us amongst our fellow Antes for the whole terrestriall globe is but as an Ant-hill to God and wee the pissmires Warre is a horrible Monster which were better drownd when borne as the ancient Lawes of some Countries was to hide natures defects then bred up and cherisht by ambitious Princes as it is to vex the world with roaring Warre the child of injury is prodigall beyond ordination it is pride in a soldiers mouth offence in a civill eare a Tygar and furious beast when assaylant a goodly man whē defendant a monster to heaven a comaedie to euill spirits a tragedie to the good Angells where men are verbs Active and passive and the slayne death's windfalls Noble Persons should resemble starrs in the Firmament the higher they are the lesse in pride they should seeme To prayse and disprayse one person upon every sleight occasion is like writing and rubbing out in a Tablebooke To be ouer curious in trifles is like a Tobacco seller that discourseth the whitnesse of the ash rysing in the pipe c. Wee ought not to bee proud of that anothers true disprayse can blemish or tread out Words are vagabonds where the perswaded hath an ill opinion of the perswader Prosperitie Court Law the Citty and a play-house have all the quallitie or gift to teach folks to bee shamelesse So speake of all men and to all men as they would all bee thy enemies and shame thee to their power for men are various and by nature affect the left hand in censure of others it is not what thy witt and understanding is that God respecteth for hee gave it thee as thy Talent but what thou doest with it for of that hee meanes to take account The principall cause as the Spāiard thinks the Duch man fell from the Romane Church was that they denyed the Cup to the Laietie Conceive that an other mans intention Couered however is most part for his owne ends and affects therein most his owne good however hee will seeme to be thine Contradiction is the ruine and death of a lye Take no part with people affected to the disprayse of others for thou knowest not thy turne amongst them but avoyd them and the subject whereon they worke in thine owne condition A common weale resembles a Shippe the King the master the Councellors and officers the pylot and mariners the ordinary subjects the passengers good-lawes the compasse afaire wind and sea roome God his blessing and yeares of plenty Those wretches which fore-doe themselves for worldly afflictions and troubles are like the flownders that leape out of the frying-pan into the fire The greevous difference is the one is momentary and terminate but the other everlasting to similize it more neerer let us conceave a man bitt with fleas in his bed who should therefore throw himselfe for ease into a cauldron of scalding oyle or amongst a tubb of Snakes Youth health and Riches makes a well furnisht Pallace of this world but age sicknesse and povertie a prison of this life but a good mind expects delivery with patience A Student is with his thoughts as an Artificer with his fingers A flatterer is fodder to a foole Where the reason is subjected and forced to follow the will the actions runne in a Kind of madnesse God saw it was not good for man to live alone and therefore made him a helper viz. woman Wherefore in consequence a woman ought not onely to bee a companion but also a helper Covetousnesse sensuallitie and opinion are the three Divells stirres most men to motion Care not for mens thoughts of thy workes if thy operations bee good for their cogitations and thoughts are not thy works but thy workes is the good thou shouldst bee constant in As Conjurers when they call up

mouth or lip-labour God respects so much as the heart or mind in an intelligent orator yet the resurrection of the body denotes that our prayers should not bee meerely mentall but conjoyned with corporall action for shall wee not with Saint Paul hope to see God even with the same eyes Lift them up towards Syon hill then bend the knees reach up the handes offer the calves of the lipps make all thy powers powre forth the prayse of him that made thee Meere worldlings in Iudgement are blind in censuring divine mysteries for did not Festus and the learned Athenians deeme Saint Pauls preaching foolishnesse but an over stupid devotion ladeth out of the lighter of the fantasie more into the Arke of the Church then shee should carry but Sectaries would throw the Churches treasure over boord All our life heere is but an entertayning of vanities what good doth capps and reuerences really any man The satisfaction of appetits is but the uncouering of our wants heaping of Riches but as ill servants that will runne to others from us and lagge behinde us nothing heere permanent or true happinesse let us therefore bee carefull to purchasse by prayer and good deedes treasure for heaven that wee may have wherewith to satisfie our reckoning there with the great Host who hath forgiven us one score already and therefore let us not presume too much on the next When I consider the weakenesse of our humane nature I wonder mankind can bee proud for wee cannot subsist a little time without the props of meat and drinke sleepe rest c. which the Angells and spirits need not nor use but when I cogitate our frayltie and vanitie I breath with the Prophet David Lord what is man that thou shouldst be mindfull of him The best use of dreames is to cogitate that as by fullnesse or coldnesse of the stomacke Crudities causeth fearefull apparitions to the wakeing and working fantasie and as good and temperate heate digestion and humours cause pleasant and delightfull passages yet all but shaddowes and vanish like darknesse from the Sunne when we rise So when the soule is freed from this terrestreietie which clowdeth the judgment and reason then the evill workes cōmitted essentially casteth the soule most really amongest those are indeed evill not in apparition but deformed Divells indeed And the good vertuous deeds amongst the blessed pleasures of holy spirits and Angells Wherefore let us take heed wee goe not to the bed of our grave with a stomacke over-charged with Sinnes It much matters not what Religion a foole or a knave is of for their babling is but vaine prating and the tree is best knowne by the fruit Dis the god of Mony now laughs out right because his wares are in more esteeme amongst fooles then vertue and Stultorum plena sunt omnia Th' Almighty God is the Soule of the universe and the rayes of his splendour is the quintessence in every thing bee it Minerall vegetable or Animall therefore in whatsoever genus or region an investigating Philosopher would grow intelligent in that let him seeke the quintessence which is his Moone or else hee laboureth in vaine and gathereth leaves in steede of fruites and seedes for no man can truely meliorate any thing beyond his naturall perfection but by multiplying his quintessentiall part Quintessence is not as Spageriques mistake it separation of pure from impure but must be taken from both the thinne and thicke the spirituall and corporall It is within all things non secundùm locum et partes sed secundùm virtutem et actionem naturalem What is it to mee what is in the Sunne Moone Starrs whether they are worlds or whatsoever Containing when there is a law set downe for me viz. to serue their Creator and mine on this earth whereto I am fixt by that upper ordinance who made them and all But what I can lawfully finde heere he hath given me leave thereby to prayse him and helpe my selfe What thou speakest i. e. cogitates within thy selfe know God onely hears that sees without the eye heares without the eare and made thee both interiourly and exteriourly But what thou doest outward either by action or wordes spirits and men both good and badde see and judg of Cave Not by eating drinking or sleeping doth the soule live c. but those additions helps her to sustaine the bodies ponder and grossnesse When thou tellest another any thing thinke hee is thy enemy present in his rotation of thought or may bee so futurely Man blessed by God with a good understanding may be compared to those feathered Fowles who lose their plumage in molting time so may man his grace in the heat of sensualities and yet by repentance recover but he that is swallowed up by vice is as the Fowle taken kild and plum'd by Cooke ruffian the Divell God is the Spirit of Spirits the Lord of Lords King of Kings to be worshipped in Spirit and truth Angels Spirits Potestares Powers Sunne Moone Starres Firmament Fire Ayre Waters Earth the faculties of his hand and the universe his Instruments Man his Spirit is a sparke of that flame a droppe of that Sea a moate in that sunne his soule with her powers are his Spirits faculties his body is the organon God made man and the whole world to his glory prayse and use yet without his needing them as we doe neede viz. garments houses c. God is within all things but not included without all things but not excluded There are some of opinion that each man hath a double Genious a good Angel and a bad as they please to tearme them which I hold no other but the Animall spirit and the intellectuall The Animall desireth the bodies contentment the intellectuall the soules if the Animall hath the domination the man is given to mundane lights which perish with the life if the intellectuall hath the predominance the soule rejoyceth in spiritual pleasure and affects things good and eternall Every mans conversation for the most part showes who carieth the bridle of the will how and when Those that worke on Natures terminations resemble them who swallow the nut shell and all for the kernels sake for no man can further reach the determinate ordination of God in his handmaide Natures house then by exuberation of the seeds for as sayeth the Philosopher Species in Speciem non transmutation nisi reducantur ad primam materiam and that ordinately digested doth in Philosophie worke beyond Natures Creatures wee see wherefore let no man despise or condemne that he knoweth not God almighty being the fountaine of all wisedome as wee call excellent Sapiens cannot be without the poore riveret of reason which hee hath given to man As our Saviour suffered the afflictions of humane nature as hunger thirst sorrow feare anger weeping abstinence paines c. So ought wee in soule and life to imitate him to our powers viz. to abstayne from Ebrietie to avoyd vayne mirth and to greeve