Page images
PDF
EPUB

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

[blocks in formation]

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:
Of more than Earth, can Earth make none Par-

taker;

But Knowledge makes the King most like his
Maker.

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,
Angels and God are still awake :
The smiling Stars will light thy Way
To the joyful Realms of Day;
While drowsy Men with idle Themes,
Fantastick Joys and airy Dreams,
Are entertain'd, do thou converse
With Heav'n, and heav'nly Strains rehearse:
Visit the peaceful Climes above,
And thro' the Fields of Pleasure rove;
Forget the Scenes of Care and Strife,
And walk among the Trees of Life;
Taste the rich Fruits of Paradise,
And bathe in flowing Streams of Bliss;
Solac'd in those eternal Springs,
Lose ev'ry Thought of mortal things.

The Grace of God is a kind of heav'nly Dew. without the continual Supply of which, our Souls

F5

are

[ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors]
[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small]

tion.

in your

Wilful Inpeniency is the greated belanan
Wine frequently unlocks a Man's Secrets.
Want of Thought makes Men impennen.
When Grace is once loff, Men Sen by waveisie.
Your Memories Store with the chosen Tresiune
Your gracious Maker
Youth remem
Youth feldom rides weli til Agencie
Your Tongue and your Heart ought to agree.
Zeal in a good Caule is very commendare
Zens would have all Men of Pants be lice
Zeal for Religion cannot warrant Creins,
Zeal is blind if not accompanied
ledge.

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

[ocr errors]

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

[ocr errors]

awake in the Night.

olemn Triumph reigns,
the heav'nly Plains;
Regions take,
vake:

t thy Way
Day;
Ale Themes,

reams,
converse

y Strains rehearse:

above,
easure rove;
and Strife,
es of Life;
Paradise,
eams of Bliss;
rings,

ortal things.

kind of heav'nly Dew. ly of which, our Souls 15

« PreviousContinue »