Mr. Phillips.
The proverbe is that building is a theife, because it makes us lay out more money then wee thought on; but pride is a theife and a whore too, for it robbes the maister of his wealth, and the mistress of her honesty.
fo. 8.
The drunkard makes his belly noe better then a bucking tubb, a vessell to poure into, and put out at.
Bona opera habent mercedem, non ratione facti, sed ratione pacti.
Non est refugium a Deo irato, nisi ad Deum placatum.
Synn is Adams legacy bequeathed to all his posteritie: nothing more common then to committ synn, and being committed to conceale it.
A concealed synn is tanquam serpens in sinu, gladius in corde, venenum in stommacho; it is like a soare of the body, the closer it is kept the more it festers.
Scelera quandoque possunt esse secreta, nunquam secura.
Confession must be festina, vera, et amara.
Confession of synne onely at the hour of death, is like a theifes confession at the gallowes, or a traytors at the racke, when they cannot choose.
Sine confessione justus est ingratus, et peccator mortuus.
The mercy of God is never to be despayred of, but still to be expected even inter pontem et fontem, jugulum et gladium.
Dissembled righteousnes is like smoake, which seemes to mount up to heaven, but never comes neare it.
Prayse is a kinde of paynt which makes every thing seeme better then it is. (Cha. Dauers.)
To prayse an unworthy man is as bad as to paint the face of an old woman. (Idem.)
Sorrowe is the punishment and remedy for synn; sic Deus quod pœnam dedit, medicinam fecit. (Augustine.)
fo. 8b.Mr. Munoes[32] of Peterhouse in Cambridge.
Primum querite regnum Dei, et omnia adjicientur vobis. Tullies brother, in a sort reprehending or discouraging his suit for the consulship, tells him that he must remember that he is novus, consulatum petit, and Romæ est; the Devill, perhaps least any should attempt to put this precept in practise, will terrifie us by shewinge vs our weakenes, and that greatnes. Terræ filius es; regnum quæris? Cœlum est, &c.
Sit modus amoris sine modo.
Beatus est, Domine, qui te amat propter te, amicum in te, et inimicum propter te.
Quere 3. (1.) Quere Deum et non aliud tanquam illum. (2.) non aliud præter illum. (3.) non aliud post illum.
Diuitiæ non sunt bonæ, quæ te faciant bonum, sed unde tu facias bonum.
Beda interpreted those letters, S. P. Q. R. written upon a gate in Rome, Stultus Populus Quœrit Romam, intimating they were but fooles that went thither for true relligion.
Yf Christ had thought well of wealth he would not have bin soe poore himselfe. He was pauper in ingressu, borne in a manger; in progressu, not a hole to hide his head in; in egressu, not a sheet of his owne to shroude him in.
The covetous persons like the seven leane kine that eate up the seven fatt, and yet remaine as ill favoured as before.
Yf thou carest not to liue in such a house as hell is, yett feare to dwell with such a companion as the Divel is.
fo. 9.Serchefeild of St. Johns in Oxford.[33]
Cursus celerimus, sæpe pessimus.
Sit opus in publico, intentio in occulto.
A dissembled Christian, like an intemperate patient, which can gladly heare his physicion discourse of his dyet and remedy, but will not endure to obserue them.
Minus prospere, qui nimis propere.