Ufe your Profperity with Caution and Prudence. Undisciplin'd Wit can make a Jest of any thing. Vain and idle Courses are accompanied with Shame. Value more a good Confcience than Commenda tion. Wilful Impenitency is the greatest Self-Murder. Wine frequently unlocks a Man's Secrets. Want of Thought makes Men impertinent. When Grace is once loft, Men Sin by wholesale. Your Memories Store with the choicest Treasure. Your gracious Maker in your Youth remember. Youth seldom rides well 'till Age holds the Bridle... Your Tongue and your Heart ought to agree. Zeal in a good Cause is very commendable. Zeno would have all Men of Parts be humble. Zeal for Religion cannot warrant Cruelty. Zeal is blind if not accompanied with Know ledge. Ecclefiafticus i. 1, &c. All Wisdom cometh ' from the Lord, and is with him for ever. Wha * can number the Sand of the Sea, and the Drops * of Rain, and the Days of Eternity? Who cam • find out the Height of Heaven, and the Breadth ' of the Earth, and the Deep, and Wisdom? • Wisdom hath been created before all things, and • the Understanding of Prudence from everlasting. • The Word of God most high is the Fountain of Wisdom, and her Ways are everlasting Commandments. The Fear of the Lord is Honour, ' and Glory, and Gladness, and a Crown of rejoicing. The Fear of the Lord is a Crown ' of Wisdom, making Peace and perfect Health to flourish, both which are the Gifts of God; and * it enlargeth their rejoicing that love him. 6 Some Sayings of King CHARLES I. during bis Confinement. F I I had asked my Revenues, my Power of the Militia, or any one of my Kingdoms, it had been no Wonder to have been denied in those things; but to deny me the ghostly Comfort of my Chaplains seems a greater Rigour and Barbarity, than is used by the severest Judges to the greatest Malefactors, who, though the Rigour of the Law deprives them of worldly Comforts, yet the Mercies of Religion allow them the Benefit of their Clergy, as not aiming at once to destroy their Bodies and damn their Souls. One of the greatest Faults some Men found with the Common Prayer, was, because it taught them to pray so often for me, to which Petitions they had not Loyalty enough to say Amen, nor Charity enough to forbear Reproaches, and even curfing, instead of blessing me. Deliver me, O Lord. from the combined Strength of those who have so much of the Serpent's Subtilty, that they forget the Dove's Innocency. I wish they may bring the Ship safe to Shore, when they have thrown me over-board; though it be strange that Mariners have no other means to appease the Storm themselves have raised, but by throwing the pilot over-board. As it is one of the most convincing Arguments that there is a God, while his Power fets Bounds to the raging of the Sea, so 'tis no less that he restrains the Madness of the People: Nor doth any thing more portend God's Displeasure against a Nation, than when he suffers the Confluence and Clamours of the Vulgar, to pass all the Boundaries of Laws and Reverence to Authority. Crowna Crowns have their Compass, Length of Days their Date, Triumphs their Tombs, Felicity her Fate: taker; But Knowledge makes the King most like his Queen Elizabeth said in Prison, The Skill of a Pilot is best known in a Tempest; the Valour of a Captain, in Battle, and the Worth of a Christian, in Time of Tryal. A MEDITATION when awake in the Night. W HILE Night in folemn Triumph reigns, Afcend, my Soul, the heav'nly Plains; Thy Flight to these gay Regions take, The Grace of God is a kind of heav'nly Dew. without the continual Supply of which, our Souls F5 are tion. in your Wilful Inpeniency is the greated belanan mpass, Length of Days Felicity her Fate: n Earth make none Par he King most like his Prison, The Skill of a empeft; the Valour of e Worth of a Christian, Ecclefiaficat i. 1, &c. Al Wilon cumh * from the Lord, and is with him forever Win "can number the Sand of the Sant of Rain, and the Days of Fema find out the Height of Heaven, and the Int of the Earth, and the Dep. zz Vinal • Wildom hath been created seriore al sangs and the Underkanding of Prodence inn eerating The Word of God makingas che femmes of Wildom, and her Ways are ev 'mandments. The Fear of the * and Glory, and Giainen, me joking, The Fear of the Los Crow of Wisdom, naang leaceans were fou Bourich, both which are the Ginto it enlargeth their rejoicing that mean awake in the Night. olemn Triumph reigns, t thy Way reams, y Strains rehearse: above, ortal things. kind of heav'nly Dew. ly of which, our Souls 15 |