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<P><HI>M&V;LT&V;M in PARVO:</HI> Or, Some u&s;eful SAYINGS, IN VERSE and PROSE, COLLECTED By a Lover of Virtue and Good|ne&s;s in Whom&s;oever.</P>
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<L>The Heart of him that is upright,</L>
<L>In Heavenly knowledge takes delight.</L>
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<Q><P>I will delight my &s;elf in THY Statutes.</P></Q>
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<L>If thou would'&s;t true Wi&s;dom win,</L>
<L>Then thou mu&s;t retire within.</L>
</LG>
<Q><P>That which may be known of GOD is manife&s;t in them,</P> <BIBL><HI>Rom. 3.19.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Samuel Man&s;hip</HI> at the Black Bull in <HI>Cornhill,</HI> 1687.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>M&V;LT&V;M in PARVO:</HI> Or, &s;ome U&s;eful SAYINGS, IN VERSE and PROSE, &amp;c.</HEAD>
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<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L><HI>TO work aright, O LORD, in&s;truct thou me,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That in THY Sight I may approved be:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then &s;hall my Soul have Re&s;t and Peace for ever,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In THEE, which neither Death nor Hell can &s;ever.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>IT matters not, how I appear to Man,</L>
<L>A Witne&s;s in my Soul there is, that can</L>
<L>This record to the FATHER bear that I</L>
<L>Seek not Mans prai&s;e, but Immortality:</L>
<L>That &s;o a Crown of Re&s;t I may receive,</L>
<L>Which Mortals have not in their Power to give.</L>
</LG>
<Q><HI>If I yet plea&s;ed Men, I &s;hould not be the Servant of Chri&s;t.</HI></Q>
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<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>THo' all the World my Actions di&s;commend,</L>
<L>I am at Peace, when Con&s;cience is my friend.</L>
</LG>
<Q>And herein do I exerci&s;e my &s;elf, to have alwaies a Con&s;cience void of offence, towards GOD and towards Man.</Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>THe Glories of our Birth and State</L>
<L>Are Shadows, not Sub&s;tantial things;</L>
<L>There is no Armour again&s;t &s;ate,</L>
<L>Death laies his Icy-hand on Kings;</L>
<L>Scepter and Crown mu&s;t tumble down,</L>
<L>And in the Du&s;t be equal made</L>
<L>With the poor crooked Sythe and Spade;</L>
<L>All heads mu&s;t come to the cold Tomb</L>
<L>Only the actions of the Ju&s;t</L>
<L>Smell &s;weet and blo&s;&s;om in the Du&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Vivit po&s;t funera virtus, <HI>Virtue lives after Death.</HI></Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>ALL outward Honour is a Painted fable,</L>
<L>The humble Man is truly honourable;</L>
<L>Of virtues all there's none more wi&s;ht by me,</L>
<L>Than that which graces all, Humility.</L>
</LG>
<Q>The greater thou art, the more humble thy &s;elf.</Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="6" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>HOnour thy Parents to prolong thy end,</L>
<L>With them, tho' for a Truth, do not contend;</L>
<L>Tho' all &s;hould Truth defend, do thon lo&s;e rather</L>
<L>The Truth a while, than lo&s;e their Loves for ever.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Honour thy Father, and forget not the Sorrows of thy Mother, <BIBL><HI>Eccl. 7.27.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="7" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>AS GODS dear See d, to learn give heed,</L>
<L>That when thy Head is hoary;</L>
<L>Wi&s;dom may be a Crown to thee</L>
<L>Tran&s;cending Earthly Glory.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thy Peace and Re&s;t, from GODS own Brea&s;t,</L>
<L>Then Death, nor Hell, &s;hall &s;ever:</L>
<L>But thou &s;hall &s;ee, thy Joys &s;hall be</L>
<L>Amen in HIM for ever.</L>
</LG>
<Q>The Wi&s;e in Heart &s;hall inherit Glory, but &s;hame &s;hall be the Promotion of Fools, <BIBL><HI>Prov. 3.35.</HI></BIBL></Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="8" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>TRue virtue is a Coat of Mail,</L>
<L>'Gain&s;t which no Weapons can prevail.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Virtus vera nobilitas.</HI></L>
<L>Virtue is true Nobility.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="9" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>TRuth oppre&s;t we often &s;ee,</L>
<L>But quite &s;uppre&s;t it cannot be.</L>
</LG>
<Q>He left not him&s;elf without a Witne&s;s, <BIBL><HI>Acts 14.17.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<DIV3 N="10" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>THink that is ju&s;t, 'tis not enough to do,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s thy very Thoughts are upright too;</L>
<L>If well thou do'&s;t, and well intend,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt be Crowned in the End.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Be thou faithful unto Death, that thou mai&s;t re|ceive a Crown of Life.</Q>
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<DIV3 N="11" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>THE &s;ure&s;t Riches he &s;hall gain,</L>
<L>Who alwaies Faithful doth remain.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Tutum prae&s;idium integritas. <HI>Hone&s;ty is the be&s;t Policy.</HI></Q>
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<DIV3 N="12" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>A Ble&s;&s;ing will with him abide,</L>
<L>That hath true Virtue for his Guide.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Ble&s;&s;ings are upon the Head of the Ju&s;t, <BIBL><HI>Pro. 10.6.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<DIV3 N="13" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>NO Temper more Mans life doth ble&s;s,</L>
<L>Than &s;imple prudent harmle&s;ne&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Hugo Grotius, <HI>a Man of Univer&s;al Learning and profound Policy, &s;aid,</HI> I would give all my Learning and Honour, for the plain Integrity and harmle&s;s Innocency of <HI>Jean Vtrick.</HI></Q>
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<DIV3 N="14" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>ABove thy Knowledg do not ri&s;e,</L>
<L>But with Sobriety be wi&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Quae &s;upra nos, nihil ad nos. Tho&s;e things that are above us, are nothing to us.</Q>
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<DIV3 TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>WHat matter is it, Man, for thee to know</L>
<L>The rea&s;on, why the Sea doth Ebb and Flow;</L>
<L>Or what cour&s;e the variable Moon doth &s;teer,</L>
<L>Or how the Sun doth run throughout the year;</L>
<L>It is thy Wi&s;dom, and would better plea&s;e,</L>
<L>To fear thy MAKER, than to know all the&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<Q>The fear of the LORD is the in&s;truction of Wi&s;|dom, <BIBL><HI>Prov. 15.33.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<LG>
<L>HE that Commands him&s;elf is more a Prince,</L>
<L>Than he who Nations keeps in Awe;</L>
<L>And they that yield to what their Souls convince,</L>
<L>Shall never need another Law.</L>
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<Q>The word is nigh thee, in thy Mouth, and in thy Heart, to obey it and do it. <BIBL><HI>Ro. 10.8. Deu. 30.14.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<LG>
<L>HE's &s;till him&s;elf, when company is gone,</L>
<L>Too well employ'd ever to be alone;</L>
<L>He takes no thought to be ob&s;erv'd or &s;een,</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t all his Acts are eccho'd from within.</L>
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<LG>
<L><HI>Ama te ne&s;ciri &amp; pro nihilo reputari;</HI></L>
<L>Love to be unknown and nothing accounted.</L>
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<LG>
<L>HE dares not wi&s;h, nor his own fate propound,</L>
<L>But if GOD &s;end, reads love in every wound;</L>
<L>And would not lo&s;e, for all the joys of &s;en&s;e,</L>
<L>The inward comfort of Obedience.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Remember <HI>Abraham,</HI> the Father of all the Faithful.</Q>
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<DIV3 N="19" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>Who with their pre&s;ent State are not content,</L>
<L>Oft wor&s;er find for their ju&s;t puni&s;hment.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>The Murmuring</HI> I&s;raelites <HI>are a dreadful Monitor.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Content's the Crown of Earthly Happine&s;s.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>OPinion is the rate of things,</L>
<L>rom whence our peace doth flow;</L>
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<L>I have a better fate than Kings,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e I think it &s;o.</L>
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<Q>Animus omnia facit. <HI>The mind does all.</HI></Q>
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<DIV3 N="21" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>WHen all the &s;tormy World doth roar,</L>
<L>How unconcern'd am I:</L>
<L>I cannot fear to tumble lower,</L>
<L>Who never would be high.</L>
</LG>
<Q>The lowlie&s;t mind is &s;afe&s;t.</Q>
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<DIV3 N="22" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>HAppy that Soul that is content alone,</L>
<L>And needs no entertainment, but its own.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Nunquam minus &s;olus, quam cum &s;olus;</HI></L>
<L>Never le&s;s alone, than when alone.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV3 N="23" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>AT length this &s;ecret I have learn'd,</L>
<L>Who will be happy mu&s;t be unconcern'd;</L>
<L>Mu&s;t all their Comfort in their bo&s;om wear,</L>
<L>And &s;eek their Trea&s;ure, and their Power there.</L>
</LG>
<Q>We have this Trea&s;ure in Earthen Ve&s;&s;els, <BIBL><HI>2 Cor. 4.7.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<LG>
<L>FLy Tales and Rumours, le&s;t of News</L>
<L>The Inventer thou be thought,</L>
<L>For Silence &s;eldom hurts a man,</L>
<L>But Speech much harm hath wrought.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Vir &s;apit, qui pauca loquitur:</HI></L>
<L>That man is wi&s;e that &s;peaks little.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>AGain&s;t thy Friend with force of Words,</L>
<L>Strive not in any wi&s;e;</L>
<L>Sometimes of Words (which are but Wind)</L>
<L>Great Controver&s;ies ri&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Beati pacifici; <HI>Ble&s;&s;ed are the Peace-makers.</HI></Q>
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<DIV3 N="26" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>WHat faults thou find'&s;t in other men</L>
<L>Let not be found in thee,</L>
<L>Great &s;hame in him that Vice reproves,</L>
<L>Him&s;elf not to be free.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Tis bad, when Vice corrects Sin.</Q>
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<DIV3 N="27" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>TO carp at others words, let not thy Wit be ill apply'd,</L>
<L>Le&s;t by thine own Example taught, another thee deride.</L>
</LG>
<Q>He that keepeth his Tongue, keepeth his Soul from troubles, <BIBL><HI>Prov. 21.23.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<DIV3 N="28" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>IF with a Stranger thou di&s;cour&s;e, fir&s;t learn</L>
<L>By &s;tricte&s;t ob&s;ervation to di&s;cern,</L>
<L>If he be wi&s;er than thy &s;elf: if &s;o,</L>
<L>Be dumb, and rather choo&s;e by him to know;</L>
<L>But if perchance thy &s;elf the wi&s;er be,</L>
<L>Then do thou &s;peak, that he may learn by thee.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Refrain not to &s;peak, when there is an opportunity to do good, <BIBL><HI>Eccl. 4.23.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<DIV3 N="29" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>SAge Coun&s;el from thy Servants mouth</L>
<L>Di&s;dain not to re&s;pect,</L>
<L>Nor any man's advice, that may</L>
<L>Thy proper good effect.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Fas e&s;t &amp; ab ho&s;te doceri.</Q>
<Q>'Tis fit to learn even of an Enemy.</Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="30" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>IN all thy actions have a care,</L>
<L>That no un&s;eemline&s;s appear.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Ab&s;tain from all appearance of Evil.</Q>
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<DIV3 N="31" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>A Thankful heart hath earn'd one favour twice:</L>
<L>But he that is ungrateful wants no vice.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Si ingratum dixeris, omnia dixeris.</HI></L>
<L>Say a Man's ungrateful, and you &s;ay all.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV3 N="32" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>LET not Anger cau&s;e thee to reveal,</L>
<L>What Love and Friend&s;hip caus'd thee to conceal.</L>
</LG>
<Q>A Tale-bearer revealeth &s;ecrets: but he that ii of a faithful Spirit, concealeth a matter, <BIBL><HI>Prov. 11.13.</HI></BIBL></Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="33" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>ONce reconcil'd rip not up the wrongs of former daies,</L>
<L>Old Sores to rub, and Wrath to move, a wicked Mind bewrays.</L>
</LG>
<Q>He that ruleth his Tongue &s;hall live without &s;trife; and he that hateth babbling &s;hall have le&s;s Evil, <BIBL><HI>Eccl. 19.6.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="34" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>BY Slanders we arrive to high Renown,</L>
<L>The greate&s;t cro&s;&s;es win the greate&s;t Crown.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Many are the troubles of the Righteous, but the LORD delivers them out of all, <BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 34.19.</HI></BIBL></Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="35" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>TAke well what e're &s;hall fall, tho' bad it be,</L>
<L>Take it for good, and 'twill be &s;o to thee.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Quod &s;is, e&s;&s;e velis. <HI>Will to be, what thou art.</HI></Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="36" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>THat's Friend&s;hip, and true Love indeed,</L>
<L>Which firmly bides in time of need.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur;</HI></L>
<L>A &s;ure Friend is known in a doubtful matter.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="37" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>SUre is that knot which true Religion ties;</L>
<L>And Love that's rightly grounded never dies.</L>
</LG>
<Q>Witne&s;s <HI>Jonathan</HI> and <HI>David.</HI></Q>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="38" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>HE that enjoys a Patient mind,</L>
<L>Can Comfort in Afflictions find.</L>
<L>It gently &s;weetens every Bitter Cup,</L>
<L>And calms tempe&s;tuous &s;torms, when they are up.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>In Patience po&s;&s;e&s;s ye your Souls.</HI></L>
<L>Prudens qui patiens;</L>
<L><HI>He is wi&s;e that is patient.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="39" TYPE="saying">
<PB N="10" REF="13">
<LG>
<L>BE well advi&s;'d and wary Councel take,</L>
<L>E're thou do&s;t any re&s;olution make.</L>
<L><HI>Deliberandum e&s;t diu, quod &s;tatuendum e&s;t &s;emel.</HI></L>
<L>Con&s;ider long of that, which is but once to be done.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="40" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>TO gather Wealth through Fraud do not pre&s;ume,</L>
<L>A little evil got doth often much con&s;ume.</L>
<L><HI>Male parta male dilabuntur.</HI> Ill got, ill &s;pent.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="41" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>SPare not, nor &s;pend too much, be this thy Care,</L>
<L>Spare thou to &s;pend, and only &s;pend to Spare:</L>
<L>Who &s;pends too much may want and &s;o complain,</L>
<L>But he &s;pends be&s;t, that &s;pares to &s;pend again.</L>
<L><HI>Prodigality and Coveteou&s;ne&s;s are both to be abhorr'd.</HI></L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="42" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>SPare for no co&s;t when time &s;hall &s;erve,</L>
<L>And cau&s;e require the &s;ame;</L>
<L>For what is better &s;pent than &s;par'd,</L>
<L>Adds to an hone&s;t name.</L>
<L><HI>Fac &s;umptum propere,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
<L>Be not &s;paring, when need requires.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="43" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>USe what thou ha&s;t in doing good,</L>
<L>But &s;ee thou make no wa&s;t;</L>
<L>Who vainly &s;pend their own and want,</L>
<L>Seek other Mens at la&s;t.</L>
<L><HI>Better to prevent, than repent.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB N="11" REF="13">
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="44" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>THings needful then they cannot want,</L>
<L>That cutb their vain de&s;ires:</L>
<L>And mea&s;ure their expence with what</L>
<L>Nece&s;&s;ity requires.</L>
<L><HI>Natura paucis contenta.</HI></L>
<L>Nature is Content with &s;ew things.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="45" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>ONe &s;pecial note of ble&s;&s;edne&s;s,</L>
<L>Is riches to deny;</L>
<L>Which who&s;o covets to ingro&s;s,</L>
<L>Lives alwaies beggerly.</L>
<L><HI>Avarus &s;emper eget.</HI></L>
<L>A Covetous Man is alwaies in want.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="46" TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>THe Worlds a &s;nare, I find, unto an hone&s;t mind,</L>
<L>And O how few there be, who from that &s;nare are free!</L>
<L>From which LORD &s;ave all thine which tru&s;t in THEE.</L>
<L>No Tongue, nor Pen, unle&s;s the heart be pure,</L>
<L>Availeth any thing, nor can procure</L>
<L>Peace to the Soul, Ah! nothing ever can,</L>
<L>Without a good Life, make a happy Man;</L>
<L>Then, Soul of mine, &s;ince this mu&s;t needs be true,</L>
<L>See that thou labour all Sin to &s;ubdue.</L>
<L>What &s;ignifie good Words, unle&s;s they ri&s;e</L>
<L>From Love? 'tis Love alone that makes us wi&s;e;</L>
<L>Soul, love thy GOD, let it be &s;een in this,</L>
<L>Thou never <HI>Think,</HI> nor <HI>Speak,</HI> nor <HI>Do Ami&s;s.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<PB N="12" REF="14">
<HEAD>Say, &mdash; Soul of Mine;</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>HAs not thy experience prov'd,</L>
<L>What ev'r thou ha&s;t over-lov'd,</L>
<L>Thou thereby ha&s;t injur'd been,</L>
<L>Ha&s;t thou not thy error &s;een?</L>
<L>Is there any thing below</L>
<L>GOD him&s;elf, that thou can&s;t bow,</L>
<L>Or bend thy Mind to with delight,</L>
<L>And be approved in his &s;ight?</L>
<L>Approv'd in his &s;ight, who is?</L>
<L>That &s;o fondly acts ami&s;s?</L>
<L>Then tell me, is't not time for thee</L>
<L>By experience Wi&s;e to be?</L>
<L>What Joy or Comfort can&s;t thou find,</L>
<L>In things uncertain as the Wind,</L>
<L>No Joy, but in a prudent Mind?</L>
<L>A prudent Mind can never be,</L>
<L>Injurious I am &s;ure to thee;</L>
<L>Why then, my Soul, come bid adiew,</L>
<L>To all that comes within thy view:</L>
<L>Seeming Comforts but not true.</L>
<L>Look upon them as they are,</L>
<L>Do not let them prove a Snare:</L>
<L>Soul, bid all empty Joys be gone,</L>
<L>And joy thou in thy GOD alone.</L>
<L>Thy GOD alone the Author is</L>
<L>Of everla&s;ting Joy and Bli&s;s:</L>
<L>Thy GOD alone can give thee this.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="48" TYPE="saying">
<PB N="13" REF="14">
<LG>
<L>TRoubles here attend us mu&s;t,</L>
<L>Until we return to Du&s;t;</L>
<L>They'r intended for our good,</L>
<L>Were they rightly under&s;tood.</L>
<L>By experience this I find,</L>
<L>They cannot hurt a prudent Mind;</L>
<L>Then, Soul of mine, do not be</L>
<L>Vext, when Troubles come on thee,</L>
<L>HE that &s;ends them, HE can be&s;t</L>
<L>Remove them and give ea&s;e, and re&s;t.</L>
<L>Re&s;t thou contented with thy lot,</L>
<L>Good is GODS will, is it not?</L>
<L>Troubles here and exerci&s;e</L>
<L>Are good for thee to make thee wi&s;e;</L>
<L>Heavier they &s;hall not be,</L>
<L>Than thy GOD &s;ees good for thee.</L>
<L>Good I am &s;ure for thee it is,</L>
<L>To reckon, nothing comes ami&s;s:</L>
<L>Be content, and thou &s;hall &s;ee,</L>
<L>Nothing comes ami&s;s to thee.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="49" TYPE="saying">
<HEAD>Judge Hales <HI>on Changes and Troubles,</HI> Contemp. p. 380.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>PEace, way ward Soul, let not tho&s;e various &s;torms,</L>
<L>Which hourly fill the World with fre&s;h Alarms,</L>
<L>Invade thy Peace, nor di&s;compo&s;e that re&s;t,</L>
<L>Which thou mai&s;t keep untouch'd within thy Brea&s;t.</L>
<PB N="14" REF="15">
<L>Amid&s;t tho&s;e Whirl-winds, if thou keep but free</L>
<L>Thy intercour&s;e betwixt thy GOD and thee;</L>
<L>This Region lyes above the&s;e &s;torms, and know</L>
<L>Thy thoughts are Earthly, and they creep too low;</L>
<L>If the&s;e can reach thee, or acce&s;s can find,</L>
<L>To bring, or rai&s;e, like tempe&s;ts in thy mind.</L>
<L>But yet in the&s;e di&s;orders &s;omething lies,</L>
<L>That's worth thy notice, out of which the wi&s;e</L>
<L>May trace, and find that ju&s;t and powerful hand,</L>
<L>That &s;ecretly, but &s;urely, doth command.</L>
<L>And manage the&s;e di&s;tempers with that skill,</L>
<L>That while they &s;eem to cro&s;s, they act, his Will.</L>
<L>Ob&s;erve that Silver thred, that &s;teers and bends</L>
<L>The wor&s;t of all di&s;orders to &s;uch ends,</L>
<L>That &s;peak his Ju&s;tice, Goodne&s;s, Providence,</L>
<L>Who clo&s;ely guides it by his Influence;</L>
<L>And tho' the&s;e Storms be loud, yet li&s;ten well,</L>
<L>There is another Me&s;&s;age that they tell.</L>
<L>This World is not thy Country, 'tis thy Way:</L>
<L>Too much Contentment would invite thy &s;tay</L>
<L>Too long upon thy journey, make it &s;trange,</L>
<L>Unwelcome news, to think upon a change.</L>
<L>Whereas this tugged entertainment &s;end</L>
<L>Thy thoughts before thee, to thy journies end;</L>
<L>Chides thy de&s;ires homeward, and tells thee plain,</L>
<L>To think of re&s;ting here, it is but vain.</L>
<L>Makes thee to &s;et an equal e&s;timate</L>
<L>On this uncertain World, and a ju&s;t rate</L>
<L>On that to come, it bids thee wait and &s;tay,</L>
<L>Until thy MASTER call, ond then with joy</L>
<L>To entertain it: Such a Change as this</L>
<L>Renders thy lo&s;s, thy gain; improves thy bli&s;s.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="saying">
<PB N="15" REF="15">
<HEAD>Judge <HI>Hales</HI> Contempl. p. 121.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>LET him that will a&s;cend the tottering Seat</L>
<L>Of Courtly Grandeur, and become as great</L>
<L>As are his mounting wi&s;hes; as for me,</L>
<L>Let &s;weet Repo&s;e and Re&s;t my Portion be;</L>
<L>Give me &s;ome mean ob&s;cure Rece&s;s, a Sphere</L>
<L>Out of the Road of Bu&s;ine&s;s, or the fear</L>
<L>Of falling lower; where I &s;weetly may</L>
<L>My &s;elf and dear Retirement &s;till enjoy.</L>
<L>Let not my Life or Name be known unto</L>
<L>The Grandees of the Times, to&s;t to and fro</L>
<L>By Cen&s;ures or Applau&s;e, but let my Age</L>
<L>Slide gently by, not over-thwart, the Stage</L>
<L>Of Publick Action, unheard, un&s;een,</L>
<L>And unconcern'd, as if I ne'r had been.</L>
<L>And thus whil&s;t I &s;hall pa&s;s my &s;ilent daies</L>
<L>In &s;hady privacy, free from the noi&s;e</L>
<L>And bu&s;tles of the World; then &s;hall I</L>
<L>A good Old Innocent Plebeian die.</L>
<L>Death is a mere Surprize, a very Snare</L>
<L>To him that makes it his lifes greate&s;t care</L>
<L>To be a Publick Pageant, known to all,</L>
<L>But unacquainted with him&s;elf, doth fall.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="saying">
<LG>
<L>There's no &s;uch thing as Plea&s;ure here,</L>
<L>'Tis all a perfect Cheat,</L>
<L>Which doth but &s;hine and di&s;appear;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Charm is but Deceit:</L>
<L>Th' Experienc'd Prince then rea&s;on had,</L>
<L>Who &s;aid of Plea&s;ure, it is mad.</L>
<L><HI>I &s;aid of Laughter, it is mad, and of Mirth, what doth it. Eccl.</HI> 2.2.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="saying">
<PB N="16" REF="16">
<HEAD>On Man's Mortality.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>LIKE as the Damask Ro&s;e you &s;ee,</L>
<L>Or like the Blo&s;&s;om on the Tree,</L>
<L>Or like the dainty Flower in May,</L>
<L>Or like the Morning to the Day,</L>
<L>Or like the Sun, or like the Shade,</L>
<L>Or like the <HI>Gourd</HI> which <HI>Jonas</HI> had.</L>
<L>Even &s;uch is Man who&s;e Thred is Spun,</L>
<L>Drawn out and cut, and &s;o is done.</L>
<L>The Ro&s;e withers, the Blo&s;&s;om bla&s;teth,</L>
<L>The Flower fades, the Morning ha&s;teth,</L>
<L>The Sun &s;ets, the Shadow flies,</L>
<L>The <HI>Gourd</HI> con&s;umes, and Man he dies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like to the Gra&s;s that's newly &s;prung,</L>
<L>Or like a Tale that's new begun,</L>
<L>Or like the Bird that's here to day,</L>
<L>Or like the Pearly dew of May,</L>
<L>Or like an Hour, or like a Span,</L>
<L>Or like the Singing of a Swan.</L>
<L>Even &s;uch is Man who lives by Breath,</L>
<L>Is here, now there, in Life and Death:</L>
<L>The Gra&s;s withers, the Tale is ended,</L>
<L>The Bird is flown, the Dew's a&s;cended,</L>
<L>The Hour is &s;hort, the Span not long,</L>
<L>The Swan's near Death, Man's life is done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like to the Bubble in the Brook,</L>
<L>Or in a Gla&s;s much like a look,</L>
<L>Or like the Shuttle in Weavers hand,</L>
<L>Or like the Writing on the Sand,</L>
<PB N="17" REF="16">
<L>Or like a Thought, or like a Dream,</L>
<L>Or like the gliding of the Stream:</L>
<L>Even &s;uch is Man who lives by Breath,</L>
<L>Is here, now there, in Life and Death.</L>
<L>The Bubble's out, the Look's forgot,</L>
<L>The Shuttle's flung, the Writing's blot,</L>
<L>The Thought is pa&s;t, the Dream is gone,</L>
<L>The Water glides, Man's Life is done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like to an Arrow from the Bow,</L>
<L>Or like &s;wift cour&s;e of Watery flow,</L>
<L>Or like the time 'twixt Flood and Ebb,</L>
<L>Or like the Spider's tender Webb,</L>
<L>Or like a Race, or like a Goal,</L>
<L>Or like the dealing of a Dole:</L>
<L>Even &s;uch is Man, who&s;e brittle State</L>
<L>Is alwaies &s;ubject unto Fate.</L>
<L>The Arrow's &s;hot, the Flood &s;oon &s;pent,</L>
<L>The Time no Time, the Webb's &s;oon rent,</L>
<L>The Race &s;oon run, the Goal &s;oon won,</L>
<L>The Dole &s;oon dealt, Man's life is done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like to the Lightning from the Skie,</L>
<L>Or like the Po&s;t that quick doth hie,</L>
<L>Or like a Quaver in &s;hort Song,</L>
<L>Or like a Journy three daies long,</L>
<L>Or like the Pear, or like the Plum,</L>
<L>Or like the Snow when Summer's come:</L>
<L>Even &s;uch is Man who heaps up &s;orrow,</L>
<L>Lives but this day, and dies to morrow.</L>
<L>The Lightning's pa&s;t, the Po&s;t mu&s;t go,</L>
<L>The Song is &s;hort, the Journy's &s;o,</L>
<PB N="18" REF="17">
<L>The Pear doth rot, the Plumb doth fall,</L>
<L>The Snow di&s;&s;olves, and &s;o mu&s;t all.</L>
</LG>
<Q>It is appointed for all men once to die; and after that the Judgment.</Q>
<LG>
<L><HI>Memor e&s;to brevis aevi:</HI></L>
<L>Be thou mindful of thy &s;hort Life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>FArewel, poor World, I mu&s;t be gon,</L>
<L>Thou art no home, no re&s;t for me:</L>
<L>I'le take my Staff, and travel on,</L>
<L>'Till I a better World may &s;ee.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>Now we de&s;ire a better Country, that is an Heaven|ly, for we look for another City which hath Founda|tions, who&s;e Builder and Maker is GOD.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>HElp me my GOD, O let me find</L>
<L>That noble Fortitude of mind,</L>
<L>Not to be &s;hak'd with every puff of Wind!</L>
<L>With every puff of Wind let me</L>
<L>Be driven nearer unto THEE;</L>
<L>El&s;e, Holy GOD, How can I happy be?</L>
<L>How can I happy be indeed,</L>
<L>'Till joyned to that Holy Seed,</L>
<L>That makes man happy when he has mo&s;t need?</L>
<L>Need, LORD, thou knows I have of THEE</L>
<L>To kill the Root of Sin in me,</L>
<L>LORD, let the Root of Sin con&s;umed be:</L>
<L>Con&s;umed be, de&s;troyed quite,</L>
<L>That Spotle&s;s I may in THY &s;ight</L>
<L>Appear, and THOU in me mai'&s;t take delight.</L>
</LG>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prose sayings">
<PB N="19" REF="17">
<HEAD>SOME USEFUL SAYINGS IN PROSE.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="miscellaneous sayings">
<P N="1">1. THE Fear of the LORD is the fir&s;t &s;tep to be accepted of HIM, and true Wi&s;dom ob|taineth HIS Love.</P>
<P N="2">2. Ble&s;&s;ed is that Soul that heareth the LORD &s;peaking in her, and receiveth from HIS Mouth the Word of Comfort.</P>
<P N="3">3. Ble&s;&s;ed are tho&s;e Ears that hearken only to the Divine Voice, and li&s;ten not to the Allure|ments of the World.</P>
<P N="4">4. He that hath little Under&s;tanding, and fear|eth GOD, is better than he that is exceeding Wi&s;e, and tran&s;gre&s;&s;eth the Law of the mo&s;t HIGH.</P>
<P N="5">5. He that intends to attain to the more inward &amp; Spiritual things of Religion, mu&s;t, with JESUS, depart from the multitude and pre&s;s of People.</P>
<P N="6">6. 'Twas Sir <HI>Henry Wotton's</HI> Motto, after all his Travels and Emba&s;&s;ies, <HI>I have at length learn'd, That the greate&s;t Wi&s;dom is got by a quiet retirement.</HI></P>
<P>Let it be our care to live here, as we ought; con|tented with the Condition Providence allots us; whatever we may meet with in the way, we &s;hall be Happy in the end: Which the Wi&s;e con&s;iders.</P>
<PB N="20" REF="18">
<P N="7">7. Learn to overcome thy &s;elf in all things, for the Love of thy CREATOR.</P>
<P N="8">8. If thou &s;pend the Day profitably, thou wilt have cau&s;e to rejoyce in the Evening.</P>
<P N="9">9. Simple Obedience is to be preferred before all Worldly Wi&s;dom.</P>
<P N="10">10. The Glory of a good Man is the Te&s;timony of a good Con&s;cience; have That and thou wilt have inward Peace in the mid&s;t of many troubles.</P>
<P N="11">11. To do alwaies well and to have low thoughts of thy &s;elf, is a &s;ign of an Humble Soul.</P>
<P N="12">12 They that follow Sen&s;uality, &s;tain their own Con&s;ciences and lo&s;e the favour of GOD.</P>
<P N="13">13. Withdraw thy &s;elf violently from that, to which nature is viciou&s;ly inclin'd.</P>
<P N="14">14. They that avoid not &s;mall faults, by little and little fall into greater.</P>
<P N="15">15. They that live at liberty and ea&s;e, &s;hall ever live in di&s;quiet.</P>
<P N="16">16. True quietne&s;s of Heart is got by re&s;i&s;ting our Pa&s;&s;ions, not by obeying them.</P>
<P N="17">17. Remember alwaies thy end, and how that lo&s;t time never returns.</P>
<P N="18">18. If we engage into a large Acquaintance, and various Familiarities, we &s;et open our Gates to the Invaders of mo&s;t of our time.</P>
<P N="19">19. Time fruitle&s;ly pa&s;&s;ed away, will in the end cau&s;e an aking Heart.</P>
<P N="20">20. Defile not thy Mouth with Swearing; nei|ther u&s;e thy &s;elf to the Naming of the <HI>Holy</HI> ONE.</P>
<P N="21">21. Let the Name of GOD be &s;paring in your Mouth, but abundantly in your Heart.</P>
<PB N="21" REF="18">
<P N="22">22. The Jews of Old accounted the Name JEHOVAH &s;o Sacred, that they dur&s;t not ut|ter it; the High Prie&s;t alone, and that in the Tem|ple only, but once in the Year at their Solemn Fea&s;t, while he ble&s;&s;ed the People, might have leave to mention it, for others it was Death, <HI>Buxt. Lex.</HI></P>
<P N="23">23. It is a mark of &s;olly and ill nature to hate reproof.</P>
<P N="24">24. Sin and Sorrow are un&s;eparable Compani|ons, thou can&s;t not let in the one, and &s;hut out the other; he that &s;wims in Sin, mu&s;t &s;ink in Sorrow.</P>
<P N="25">25. Corrupt Examples may &s;way with weak minds, but the wi&s;e in heart will regard and con|&s;ider their own Duty.</P>
<P N="26">26. Oppo&s;e no Man willfully, neither follow any in evil Cour&s;es.</P>
<P N="27">27. The clean Soul of a Chri&s;tian is the Hou&s;e of GOD, and al&s;o the Hou&s;e of Prayer, who&s;e Body is his Temple.</P>
<P N="28">28. There are &s;ome that Pray often, yet are not heard to &s;peak much. There are many that make long Prayers, yet Pray not at all&mdash;acceptably.</P>
<P N="29">29. Prayer is a more Spiritual and Secret thing in the Sanctified, than is under&s;tood by mo&s;t.</P>
<P N="30">30. Religion (however pull'd &s;everal waies) is of it &s;elf a quiet and &s;trifele&s;s thing; Holy indeed, but Harmle&s;s, and Divine: yet &s;till &s;hining forth in much Plainne&s;s and Simplicity. Be you of that Religion which gives Glory to GOD on High, on Earth Peace, and Good-will towards Men.</P>
<P N="31">31. True Religion is not to fill Heads with Notions and Opinions, but to Sow in the mind
<PB N="22" REF="19">the Seed of Virtue, to direct how to Govern Pa&s;&s;ions, and to de&s;troy &s;elf-will.</P>
<P N="32">32. Virtue and Goodne&s;s ought to be owned in all Parties and Opinions, and if the&s;e were practi&s;ed it would reconcile all Men to each o|ther.</P>
<P N="33">33. Ob&s;tinacy is an Advantage to our Ene|mies, a Trouble to our Friends, and the a&s;&s;ured overthrow of our Selves.</P>
<P N="34">34. So gracious is Providence, that every Man has a Light &s;et up within him&s;elf for a Guide.</P>
<P N="35">35. Cordially e&s;pou&s;e all Virtue, con&s;tantly de|cline and hate all Vice.</P>
<P N="36">36. To be humble to Superiors, is Duty; to Equals Civility; to Inferiors Courte&s;ie; to all Safety.</P>
<P N="37">37. It is to be Ob&s;erv'd, that the Poor Man &s;ings at his Plow, while the Rich Man frets in his Palace: This &s;hews, that 'tis the mind not the for|tune that makes us happy.</P>
<P N="38">38. Art thou de&s;irous of a Kingdom, &s;aies the Philo&s;opher, I will pre&s;ently &s;hew thee one: <HI>Rule wi&s;ely over thy Self.</HI></P>
<P N="39">39. The Glory of the Aged is their Experi|tence and their Wi&s;dom, the Glory of a young Man is his Mode&s;ty and Submi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="40">40. He that is a Companion of Riotous Men, &s;hameth his Father and di&s;honoureth his Mo|her.</P>
<P N="41">41. 'Tis not for young Men to drink Wine, nor for lovers of Virtue to be Drinkers of &s;trong Drink.</P>
<P N="42">42. Be not a Companion with Wine bibbers, nor with Riotous eaters of Fle&s;h, <HI>Prov.</HI> 23.20.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="19">
<P N="43">43. He that will be lavi&s;h in his Superfluities, will afterwards find him&s;elf unavoidably &s;traitned in his nece&s;&s;ities.</P>
<P N="44">44. Con&s;cience once emba&s;ed, the Heart once polluted by vicious Cour&s;es, is not ea&s;ily recovered to the true Fear of the LORD.</P>
<P N="45">45. Youth &s;hould be a Pattern for Virtue, not a Priviledg for Vice: Therefore let thy Virtues be Grave, whil&s;t thy Years are Green.</P>
<P N="46">46. Be meek and courteous to all, yet choo&s;e only the Virtuous and Harmle&s;s for your Com|panions. The <HI>Dove</HI> flocks not with <HI>Ravens.</HI></P>
<P N="47">47. Let thy Speech be &s;ober and &s;eldom: To know how to be &s;ilent, is a great advantage to &s;peak well; and he that knows not how to do the one, knows not the other.</P>
<P N="48">48. Who heareth much and &s;peaketh little, may be&s;t di&s;cern Fal&s;hood from Truth.</P>
<P N="49">49. We ought alwaies to keep a Bridle at our Mouths, even in Religious and Holy Occa&s;ions; becau&s;e it is hard to fall into arguing, without of|fence to GOD and our Neighbour.</P>
<P N="50">50. Let thy Speech be &s;hort, comprehending much in few Words. For long Di&s;cour&s;es, Am|plifications, and Repetitions, are a &s;ign of O&s;ten|tation in the Speaker, tedious and irk&s;om, and of no real good, to the Hearer. Even in a good cau&s;e, or on a good &s;ubject, a man may &s;ay too much.</P>
<P N="51">51. The beginning of &s;trife, is as when one let|teth out Water; therefore leave off Contention before it be medled with, <HI>Prov.</HI> 17.4.</P>
<PB N="24" REF="20">
<P N="52">52. Silence is a Guard of the Con&s;cience, a Bri|dle from In&s;olence, and a &s;ign of Innocence, and pre&s;erves from many Evils.</P>
<P N="53">53. They that turn an others words to a wor&s;e end than was intended, &s;hews an evil mind; and are far from doing therein as they would be done unto.</P>
<P N="54">54. There is more de&s;ireablene&s;s in Meekne&s;s and Innocency, than in all the Mountains of Prey or Self exaltation.</P>
<P N="55">55. A virtuous Man is more Patient in Adver|&s;ity, than a Vicious in Pro&s;perity.</P>
<P N="56">56. I will learn contentment by con&s;idering o|thers wants and my own enjoyments, and not learn di&s;content from others enjoyments and my own wants.</P>
<P N="57">57. A Rich Worldling is rather to be pitied for what he wants, than envied for what he has.</P>
<P N="58">58. Un&s;atiable de&s;ires in Temporals, make a man poor in Spirituals.</P>
<P N="59">59. How little &s;oever the thing be, if it be in|ordinately loved, it defileth the Soul, and hindreth the injoyment of the chiefe&s;t Good.</P>
<P N="60">60. There is nothing in the World conduceth more to the Compo&s;ure and Tranquility of the Mind, than the &s;erenity and clearne&s;s of the Con|&s;cience; keep but That &s;afe and untainted, the Mind will enjoy a Calm and Tranquility in the mid&s;t of all the Storms of the World. And altho the Waves beat, and the Sea works, and the Winds blow; the Mind that hath a quiet and clear Con|&s;cience within, will be as &s;table and as &s;afe from Perturbation as a Rock in the mid&s;t of a tempe&s;tu|ous
<PB N="25" REF="20">Sea, and will be a <HI>Go&s;hen</HI> too, and within it &s;elf, when the re&s;t of the World without is like an <HI>Egypt</HI> for Confu&s;ion and Darkne&s;s, <HI>Judge Hales</HI> Contempl. 373.</P>
<P N="61">61. Whatever thou do&s;t hazard or lo&s;e, keep the Integrity of thy Con&s;cience, both before troubles come and under them; it is a Jewel will make thee Rich in the mid&s;t of Poverty, a Sun that will give thee Light in the mid&s;t of Darkne&s;s, a Fortre&s;s that will keep thee &s;afe in the greate&s;t Dan|ger, and that is never to be taken from thee, un|le&s;s thou thy &s;elf betray it and deliver it up. p. 374.</P>
<P N="62">62. Many words do not &s;atisfie the Soul, but a good Life comforteth the Mind, and a pure Con|&s;cience giveth great a&s;&s;urance in the &s;ight of GOD.</P>
<P N="63">63. He that keeps the Law of GOD and ab|&s;tains from the impurity of the World, that is, the good Man, the ju&s;t Liver; he is the Apo&s;tles true Jew and Circum&s;ition.</P>
<P N="64">64. The Cur&s;e of the LORD is in the Hou&s;e of the Wicked, but HE ble&s;&s;eth the Habitation of the Ju&s;t.</P>
<P N="65">65. Who&s;o feareth the LORD, it &s;hall go well with him at the la&s;t; and he &s;hall find fa|vour in the day of his Death.</P>
<P N="66">66. If I choo&s;e the LORD for my Portion, then Mercy and Goodne&s;s &s;hall follow me whil&s;t I live, and Glory and everla&s;ting happine&s;s &s;hall be my Portion when I die.</P>
<P N="67">67. Let rea&s;on go before every Enterpri&s;e: And Coun&s;el before every Action.</P>
<P N="68">68. Tho a good Life hath but few daies, yet a good Name endures for ever.</P>
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<P N="69">69. What are the delights of the World to the Peace of my Con&s;cience? Rather let me be Poor with a good Heart, than rich with an evil Mind.</P>
<P N="70">70. How can Plea&s;ures content me, whil&s;t the Sting of them Poy&s;on me?</P>
<P N="71">71. Never think tho&s;e true hearted Friends to thee, that are fal&s;e to their own Con&s;ciences.</P>
<P N="72">72. A froward Man &s;oweth &s;trife: and a Whi&s;|perer &s;eperateth very Friends.</P>
<P N="73">73. They who &s;uffer their own Wills and Lu&s;ts to Rule, not only oppre&s;s others thereby, but &s;tifle and crucifie the Ju&s;t and Faithful witne&s;s in them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="74">74. There are no &s;uch Enemies without, as unruly Lu&s;ts and Pa&s;&s;ions within, therefore la|bour to overcome them all.</P>
<P N="75">75. Humility and Ab&s;tinence keeps the Body and Mind, in much evenne&s;s and tranquility; but Pride and Fulne&s;s are Pernitious to both.</P>
<P N="76">76. Afflictions are &s;ent for the good, even of good Men; and it is their fault if they have not that effect.</P>
<P N="77">77. Let thy Afflictions make thee humble, and thy deliverance therefrom the more increa&s;e thy humility.</P>
<P N="78">78. Follow Peace and Holine&s;s with all Men, not only with your Friends, but with your very Enemies; that you may be the Children of the HIGHEST, and of a good example to all Man|kind.</P>
<P N="79">79. Happy is he that &s;hall be exe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;'d in the&s;e things, and he that layeth them up in his Heart &s;hall become Wi&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>Something touching Exce&s;s, by Judge <HI>Hales.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe great folly of Mankind, is the un|ruline&s;s and want of Government of the Sen&s;ual Appetite or Lu&s;ts: Hence grows Intemperance and Exce&s;s in Eating and Drinking, unlawful and exorbitant Lu&s;ts: and the&s;e exorbitances break out into very fooli&s;h, vain, and imprudent actions, ex|hau&s;t the E&s;tate, wa&s;t and con&s;ume the Health; emba&s;e and impoveri&s;h the mind; de&s;troys the Reputation, and fills the World with much of that folly and di&s;order that is every where ob&s;ervable.</P>
<P>It was alwaies my care to u&s;e the Crea|tures with Temperance and Moderation;&mdash;Not to Luxury and Exce&s;s, to make provi|&s;ion for my Lu&s;ts, with Vain-glory or O&s;ten|tation, but for the convenient &s;upport of my Nature and Condition;&mdash;I looked not upon the Wine when it gave its colour in the Cup, nor gave my &s;elf over, either to Exce&s;s or Curio&s;ity in Meats or Drinks; I checked my &s;elf therein,&mdash;And &s;till remembred I had the Creatures under an account, and was ever careful to avoid exce&s;s or intemperance, be|cau&s;e every exce&s;&s;ive Cup or Meal was in dan|ger to leave me in arrear to my LORD.</P>
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<HEAD>A POSTSCRIPT, by <HI>J. P.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THOU &s;halt well con&s;ider in thine Heart, and remember all the Way that I have hitherto led thee, to try thee, and to prove thee, that thou mai&s;t in the following part of thy Life, know and ac|knowledg the GOD of all thy Mercies. <HI>Oct.</HI> 13. 1687.</P>
<P><HI>O LORD! Clean&s;e THO&V; me, and I &s;hall be clean;</HI> Purge <HI>and</HI> Purifie <HI>THO&V; me, that I may be as white as Snow, without &s;pot or wrinkle, or any &s;uch thing: This, this, is that my Soul hath long longed for; and now beg of THEE that it may be fully accompli&s;hed to THY Honour and Glory, henceforth even for ever and ever. Oh! hear, defer not I be&s;eech THEE, to forgive whatever has been ami&s;s in me; even for THY Great Names &s;ake; for THY Suffering</HI> Seeds <HI>&s;ake; and THY</HI> End|le&s;s, Infinite, <HI>and</HI> Incomprehen&s;ible Mercies <HI>Sake, which hath ever been extended towards all who have put their whole tru&s;t and confidence in THEE, as I do at this Day: Glory, Glory, for ever be to THEE, OTHO&V; mo&s;t</HI> HIGH! <HI>who wert, who art, and who art to come! GOD Ble&s;&s;ed for ever, and for evermore!</HI></P>
<CLOSER>Amen. <HI>and</HI> Amen. <DATELINE><DATE><HI>Octob.</HI> 19. 1687.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>This following was Writ the &s;ame day of the fore|going month, and &s;everal Copies &s;ent to my Friends and Acquaintance in and about <HI>Lon|don;</HI> and is here Printed for the Sake and Service of all concern'd therein.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dear People,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOu, who are from your Habitations, I am at this Moment, in &s;uffering for you; and am made, in that Love that is not of this World, to in|treat and be&s;eech you who have in any mea&s;ure ta&s;t|ed of the Good <HI>Word</HI> of GOD; to return every Individual of you to your own Homes, Tents, and Tabernacles: and there to wait in the &s;til|ne&s;s and &s;ilence of all fle&s;h, for the Re&s;urrection of that <HI>Life,</HI> and <HI>Power,</HI> which at pre&s;ent &s;eems to lye Dead; and as it were even Buried in mo&s;t. Oh! reject not, with&s;tand not, but be freely given up to the Coun&s;el and Advice herein given you, then will you reap the Benefit, and I the Reward of this my Love and Faithfulne&s;s towards you all.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>J. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q>Choo&s;e you whom ye will &s;erve: But as for me and mine, we are bound and ingaged to &s;erve the LORD, the great GOD only.</Q>
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