A DISSECTION OF THE BRAIN. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE ASSIZES IN LINCOLN ANNO 1640. By Michael Wigmore Rector of THORESWAY in Lincolnshire, and sometimes Fellow of Oriel-Colledge in Oxenford. Ponit personam amici qui induit judicis. Tull. Off. l. 3. LONDON: Printed by A. N. for WILLIAM LEAKE, and are to be sold at his Shop in Chancery-Lane near the Rolls. 1641. To the right Reverend Father in God, JOHN Lord Bishop of LINCO●N, etc. Right Reverend and thrice Honourable AS tending to its proper place, this small piece begs your Lordship's Patronage being delivered in your jurisdiction. Your lustre danteth in the attempt: The sweetness of your disposition gives encouragement. The matter doth deserve your protection, being justice inviolated, like Virgo, placed in the Zodiac between those two signs of Leo and Libra, those two supporters of courage and Equity: The publication hath taken wing, being borne up with other men's desires, The Author doth lie prostrate before you, Let thy Servant be a Servant 1 Sam. 25. 41. To wash the feet of the Servants of my Lord, MICHAEL WIGMORE. Ad Lectorem. QUisquis haec legit, ubi pariter certus est, pergat mecum, ubi pariter haesitat, quaerat mecum, ubi errorem suum cognoscit, redeat ad me, ubi meum, revocetur. Aug. A DISSECTION OF THE BRAIN. A Sermon Preached at LINCOLN-Assises. ESAY 9 15. The Ancient and Honourable, He is the head. RIght Honourable▪ etc. If I be not mistaken in mine▪ apprehension, I am here to be your ghostly Father, That before you give the Charge to the Country from our Sovereign Lord the King, I should give you your Charge from him that's King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; And now we as Ambassadors for Christ, as 2 Cor. 5. 20. though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christ's stead, that ye be reconciled unto God. Yet so, that as the precious ointment, which being poured Psal. 13▪ 2. upon the head, it may run down unto the beard, and so along to the skirts of the garment▪ we being all the members of that Body, whose Legs and Thighs are of iron and Dan. 2. 31. brass for patience and industry in labour and travail, whose Sides of silver for sincerity and loyalty, whose Head of gold for perfection and purity; within the circumference of whose pre-eminence are the Brains, the Counsellors of Justice, and Judgement, which only do reflect upon this present occasion, as The Ancient and Honourable He is the Head. But before we ascend that stately Pharus, or do discover Division. those inward Cells, we must first take a general view of the Body, Then help on with those Robes of gravity as they lie folded up in those two pleats, the one of Age, and the other of Honour, and so lead you through those cooler vaults and regions; And first of the first in the Body politic. After that God had made the whole world, inso many First part. Of the Body politic. different and repugnant natures, Then like a curious and exquisite workman, that's most admired in his least pieces, and shows his greatest Art in the smallest bulk, he doth contract them into one little model, and doth unite them all in man: In whose soul he hath seated his own image in a Trinity of Faculties, and an Unity of Essence, which beautisies the Head with two greater lights, and a many other, to discern of more Objects, then is the number of the stars in the firmament; His bones lie covered over with their flesh, as rocks lie hidden in the bowels of their earth, about his liver is a sea of blood, dispersed over all this little world, with a many flexible veins and rivers: He hath growth, and sense, and understanding, The lives of Plants, of Beasts, of Angels; And if we do but look into his heart, there shall we find, as sleeping in their dens, the roaring Lion, and the subtle Fox, the ravening Wolf, the Goat, the Swine, with all the Town-heard of the beasts of Ephesus, which being 1 Cor. 15. 32. roused, do break forth in passion: As in the Creation the whole world was in man, so in the Redemption the whole world was one man: Et omnis in Christo unus homo, Knit together by joints and bands, and like that multitude Col. 2. 19 Acts 4. 32. in the fourth of the Acts, That had but one heart, and one soul. Plato would have the Universe the World to be Dei statue, the portraiture of God, and Saint Gregory would have a Christian Commonwealth, to be Corpus unitum compage membrorum; so to grow up into him in all things, which is the Head, even Christ. Then, as it is in the natural body, if one part suffered, the 1 Cor. 12. 26. rest would grieve with it, And if the least finger were but out of joint, the Eye would be ready to shed a tear, the Heart would ache, the Head be sorry, the Tongue to complain, the Legs and Feet to run for help: Then would we Gal. 6. 2. bear one another's burdens, as every stone in a material building, et portat, et portatur ab altero; Then would each one keep Court at home where every Sense should be an Agent, and every Faculty should be an officer; Patience his Counsellor, Truth his Attorney, Peace his Solicitor, Sensus Communis his Common-pleas, a Tender-conscience his Court of Chancery, whose Judge should be Charity, whose Seal of Office, the Holy-Ghost in the likeness of a Dove. This were to bring a Vine out of Egypt, to make her Psal. 8. 8 etc. boughs like the goodly Cedars, and they that should devour it, should root up that plant, who saith unto us, you are the branches; This were to flourish like the Tree in Daniel, Dan. 4. the height whereof did reach unto the Heavens, And he that should but lop a limb from off it, should hear a voice crying unto him as Aeneas once, Polydorus ego, when He plucked a bough from the Myrtle tree, I am Jesus whom Act. 9 5. thou persecutest, parce pias scelerare manus. He that united the earth and the heavens, and all other creatures to make them one world; He that contracted all contrarieties, and did compose them all in one man; He that hath squared us as living stones to grow up into one holy Temple, The King of Salem, the King of Peace, would have us all as a City of Unity, as the boughs of one stock, as the branches of one Vine, as the members of one body, under one Head, which is Christ Jesus. But as it was with Abraham and Lot affluxerunt divitiae Diseases of this body. Ch●ysost. & discinditur concordia, as Wealth increased, Amity decreased, and we are here fallen all in pieces, as if we had been but cemented together, with some fusile and melting matter, now dissolved by the fire of Contention. S. Augustine tells us of a brutish custom in Caesaria of Mauritania, that on certain days of the year, the people gathered themselves together, and (as if they had been all enraged with madness) Fathers, and Children, and neighbours with others, threw stones with such violence, one against another, as that not a few were murdered with it: A fit resemblance of this Campus Martius in these dog-days of strife and contention; When we shall find five in one house, L●● 12 52. 53. three against two, and two against three, the Father divided against the Son, and the Mother against the Daughter, their hearts reaking with passion within them, as if they had sucked the Dragons in the Desert; and like that vast and untamed Element foaming out their own shame. Some come hither 〈◊〉 13. l●ke the Mermaid and the Dolphin, who take their pastime in troubled waters, and with Abner call fight sport, let 2 Sam. 2. 14. the young men arise and play before us: Others, for as small provocations as Ionas had to be angry with his God, only jonah 4. 6. 8. a blast of wind, a shadow, like those that run to Surgeons and Physicians, for every trifle, a Pimple or a Wart, whereas the Physician and the Lawyer should be for necessity, and not for wantonness. Envy comes swelling hither like a Toad, waiting a time to disgorge itself, and goes a way again like the Wasp, which leaves his sting, and his strength behind him; The proud man striving with a stronger than himself, as Milo rending an Oak in sunder, is caught so fast in the clest by the fingers, that he becomes a prey to his Enemy; But loudest of all is the cry of Oppression, who comes in like Nero in the Tragedy, Fortuna nostra cuncta permittit mihi, And where the Foxes doth prove too scanty, he'll inch it out with the Lion's skin, to grind the faces of the poor, to devour the widow's houses, and that peradventure with as much equity, as he that laid claim to Tully's learning, because he married his Executrix. Saint Paul would have such Harmony between us, as 1 Cor. 12. is amongst the members of the body; and Saint Augustine would have every man to be as a several letter in the same sentence, Quilibet (inquit) in Civitate sit una litera in Sermone; Were this accord kept in humane Society, Then each foul word would be a Barbarism, and he that should but wrong his neighbour, should be as one that is sick of a frenzy, biting and wounding his own flesh; But here we find such discord and dissension, such scratching and tearing one of another, as if we would choose the Bramble for our King, to put our trust under his shadow. Jud. 9 15. It was a custom amongst the Persians (to make them feel the smart of Anarchy) that at the death of every Emperor their laws did sleep for five days, and every man in that interstitium did what was good in his own eyes; whether would the swinge of our passions fling us, were we not bounded with Authority, which limiteth our turbulent perturbations? (as God once spoke unto the Sea) hither unto shalt thou go and no further: But the rapacity Job 38. 11. of these Orbs are slacked by the course of the higher Spheres, Nature never yet framed an heart, but where there was a brain to cool it; and the Ancient and Honourable He is the Head, which beckons me unto my second Close, the Torse, that wreath of Or and Argent, in those Appellatives of Age and Honour. It was an inviolable custom with the Romans, never The second part: 1. Of the Ancient. 1. Their Gravity. to give sentence but sitting, in token that Judgement ought to proceed from a stayed and well settled mind; And 'tis an observation in Philosophy, That nimius calor agitationem efficit, cognitio quietem & stabilitatem requirit: The Brain that must disperse those former sums had need to be of a strong constitution, Et tunc mentis oculi vident perspicatius, cum corporis oculi deflorescunt: Greatest Atchivements are not managed so much by strength as they are by wisdom; whence the Sanhedrim amongst the Numb. 11. 16. Jews was of the Elders of the people, as the Senate with the Romans had its nomination a Senio from Old-age. It's often found, that the lustre of the mind looking forth through the countenance of Man, doth dart such a terror upon the Beholder, that the Headsman let his sword drop from his hand, when He beheld the face of Marius; And in the hottest eommotions of the People, Even then when sedition hath been staring mad, the grave aspect of some reverend Personage hath so becalmed, and allayed the fury, as that Madness ●ath been turned into shame Tum pietate Gravem, ac meritis si fortè virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant, Ille regit dictis animos & pectora mulcet. If so, then well may the wrinkled brow become the seat of Command and Power, whose furrows have been sown with the seeds of Virtue— Et Seges est ubi Troia fuit; Whose despised Characters of Age do bear the Escutcheons, and forefronts of wisdom, which only waxeth young and fresh with years; And in whose visage only doth appear a Transfiguration o● Fear and Exod 34 30. Reverence, as Moses after his Conference with God, the people were afraid to look upon him. As Authority dazzleth with its splendour, being a Medal 2 Their Maturity. Dan. 7 9 Ecclus. 25. 6. cast in his mould, who bears the name of the Ancient of Days, so is Experience the Crown of Old men, which ripens the understanding of the Aged, And makes them speak as the Oracles of God; No man when he hath tasted Luk. 5. 39 Old wine desireth new, for the Old is better, and Certiora sunt judicia senum, qui d●● res easdem cogitarunt, & sursum ac deorsum volutarunt. The prerogative of Infancy, is Innocence; of childhood, wantonness; of manhood, valour; of old-age, discretion: Roses that are fresh are more pleasant in the flower, yet being dry give a sweeter sent, And it was Antigonus his judgement of Pyrrhus, Magnum futurum si senesceret; The Spring indeed is lovely for its hopes, B●t the Autumn only is for fruit, which bringeth that maturity with it, as maketh wisdom a skilful Pilot; The hoary Head is a Crown of glory, if it be found Prov. 16. 31. in the way of truth. And where should we seek for Righteousness and 3. Their sincerity. Judgement, if not under these Winter colours? 'Tis true that the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the wo●ds of the Exod 23. 8. righteous; But when our forces begin to languish, when our senses wax dull and dim, when the ruinous Cottage of our feeble flesh is decayed, and threatneth a final fall, then when like Aaron in the Camp o● Israel, we stand between the living and the dead; Then when the Eccles. 12. 3. Keepers of the house do tremble, and the strong men do bow themselves; Then to lad ourselves with thick lay; Potest Hab. 2. 6. quicquam esse absurdius, quàm quo minus vitae restat, eo pl●● viatici quaerere? In the 13 of Genesis at the second verse, where it is said that Abraham was rich, the Hebrew gives it that he was heavy, which shows that Riches are but a Burden, and like those Mathematical showers, which in the twilight seem to be gold, yet when the light comes prove lime and sand: But a wise man's eyes ar● in his head; And Eccles. 2 14. maledictus quitran●f●●t terminos, Cursed is the state of that man, that removeth the Bounders of Nature; that when time hath filled from him the better part of his vital powers, still feeds himself with the Hope of life, and puts the Day of his death fare from him. And thus much of my first Epithet; Thus much in honour of the Aged. Yet let not the rigid censure of any so esteem of wisdom Secondly, Of the honourable. and policy, as ●f those gifts might not be shrouded under the shadows of fresher colours: The Romans did admit of a Senator, at the Age of twenty and five, and of a Consul at forty three, Daniel but young, yet judged the people, and joseph a man of tender age, was made a Father to Pharaoh and his family, — Tempora quippe virtutem non prima negant, non ultima donant. When Frederick the third refused to give Audience to two young men Ambassadors from Venice, If (said they) the State had known, that Caesar had regarded of wisdom by the grey head, and the long beard, they should have sent him a couple of Goats; For Honourable Age is not that which standeth in the length of time, nor that is measured by number of years, but wisdom is the grey hair unto man, and an unspotted life is Old age. Wisd. 489. So that as the workman in the Buckler of Minerva wrought in his own Name, with such dexterity as that it could not be taken out, without the dissolution of the whole frame, such is Prudence to Age and Honour. What is a scarlet Robe without it, but like rich Hang in a dark blind room, where there is neither light nor life to show them? The shadows of the fairest Ornaments do cast as black as the mourning weed; And the disgrace that attendeth basenesso is the selfsame in the Peer and the Peasant; but that (as the Ape) the higher he climbeth, by so much the more conspicuous is his shame. The scandalous proceed of men in Authority, which would have been covered in a common crowd, are then made eminent and blazing, like the Comet that's gazed at by every eye, yet knows not itself to be seen of any. Honour is a sign to show where Virtue dwelleth, and their minds are too narrow for a publick-weale, who think they are advanced for themselves, where He that is Luk. 22. 26. greatest should be least, and He that is Chiefest as him that serveth. And then where Age, Maturity, Sincerity, and Honour, is attended by discretion, where there is this Conjunction and Aspect, jupiter is Lord in that Ascent; that Body's governed by a lucky Planet, where the Ancient and Honourable He is the Head; and so much for the second strain; so much of the Garland and outward Ornament. I must now lead you about Mount Cephalon, there to The third part, Of the Head or Brain. behold the seats of Judgement; within whose Arches you shall find the Brain fostered by two mothers, like salomon's Harlots, Dura Mater, and Pia Mater, the one 1 Kings 3. severe to punish and correct, the other tender with the Bowels of Compassion; As the scarlet Robe that's faced with white doth signify ruborem in sontes & scelestos, & candorem in innocentes; And first of the first, the Dura Mater. As Diseases are bred in the Body, so are Corruptions 1. Dura Mater. in the state. Those which at first were not discerned, or might have been helped with a gentle purg●, being neglected, do grow to that height, as not to be cured but by loss of blood, and then (as Livy speaks of old Rome) Nec vitia nostra, nec remedia ferre possumus: For the prevention of which Malady we must deal with transgressions as men do with Serpents, He that finds a young Snake which never did hurt, yet kills it for the very Kind, nor shall thine eye take pity upon any to justify the Deut. 19 21. evil doer. The least trespass in the law levitical, were it but a Levit. 4. slip of Ignorance, yet was not purged without fire and blood, and in the Gospel, where Mercy aboundeth, He that looks upon a woman, He that calleth thou Fool, not a word, not a look, that shall pass unpunished; Frustra moritur Nero, si Otho vivit, In vain it were to cut off the great Thiefs, and to preserve the little ones for breed. There's not the least offence we can commit that can be less than the point of a thorn; yet not the least thorn in the Crown of Christ, which did not cost him a drop of blood, and as the smallest Coin, the Widow's Mite, is not without its valuation, but may be multiplied into a Talon, so in the great and general Assizes (the prototype of Justice and Judgement) we must not look to come forth Math. 5. 26. of prison until we have paid the uttermost farthing: upon good grounds than doth that one word Noxa signify et culpam et paenam, since sin and punishment must go together. Authority the Prop of Government, Majestas Imperij, salutis tutela, the strength and fortress of a Commonwealth must be maintained with fear and severity, whereas Facility breeds Impunity, the Mother of Presumption and Contempt, and then, as a multitude of smaller drops swells up a Flood to overflow the Banks; so doth Indulgence and too much lenity breed such a general Aposteme in men's minds, that, being nourished by Licentiousness, It bounds to the height of all Impiety; Christ that was the Prince of Peace, chose as well some to be Sons of thunder, Esa 9 6. Mar. 3. 17. Act. 4. 36 as He had others for Consolation▪ and sometimes sharply to reprove and correct, is as a favour done to many, which like a Thunder bolt that strikes but one, yet fills with Horror the Hearts of All men. The World is now in its decrepit age, and were it not supported by those Crutches, the Staff of Beauty▪ and the Zach. 11. 10. Staff of Bonds, It would even sink with its own Burden. All the gross humours of former times are fallen down into the legs; And where the Bonds of Love and Duty fail, there must the Staff of Government supply, yet so, that as Valentinian the Emperor, first being married to Severa, and after that, enamoured on justina, maucht with Her too, and kept them both at once; So must it be with Severity and justice; Dura must remember that she's Mater, and that her sister Pia must dwell with her, as Rachel and Lea the wives of jacob, as Mary and Martha under one roof, as Mercy and Truth that met together, as Righteousness Psal 85. 10. and Peace that kissed each other; like Abraham going to Sacrifice his Son with the Sword of Justice in the one hand, and the fire of Charity in the other. When God appeared to Elias in Mount Horeb, He was 2 P●a Mater. 1 King. 19 12. not in the wind that did rend the Mountains, nor in the Earthquake, nor in the fire, but came unto him in a still soft voice; when He chastised Adam in Paradise, it was in the Gen. 3. 8. Evening, in the cool of the Day, and the Sun was but risen Gen. 19 23. 24. upon the Earth, when the Lord reigned upon Sodom and Gomorrha Brimston & Fire from the Lord out of Heaven: for who shall be able to stand before him walking like a Grant in his full strength? Amongst those thirteen divine Attributes, Exod. 34. 6. there was but one that named his power, but only two that concerned his justice, and All the rest were of Mercy Exod. 25. 40. and Goodness: As God spoke to Moses in the Mount, Fac ad similitudinem & exemplar, So must it be the charge of those that bear his Image and Superscription, look that thou do after thy pattern. He that made the whole Ios. 6. world in six-dayes, took seven days to destroy one City, and they that are his stamp and character, must not seek to be like unto him, either in the Arm of his power and strength, or in the Finger of his Miracles & Wonders, or in the Brains of his infinite Wisdom, but in his Bowels of Pity and Compassion. Exact and strict were the Rabbins of the Jews; in observing the properties of their Judges, as that they should be free from all blemish of Body, that they should be skilled in the seventy languages, that they should not be too fare stricken in years, that they should be men of Wisdom and Knowledge, amongst others, they would not admit of an Eunuch, because that such men were commonly cruel, nor of any but such as were Fathers of Children, which they thought to be a motive to Mercy. Men in Authority should be like the Planets quò altiores eo sedatiores, and not like Aristides that was too just. Phaeton the son of the Sun, riding in the Chariot of his Father, is a Mythology of all such, as sit in the Throne of him who saith, Vengeance is mine, and I will repay it, Rom 12. 19 Mal. 4. 2. Psal. Christ, he is the Sun of Righteousness, The Chariots of the Lord are twenty thousand, and they that rule them are Gods on earth, called the Children of the most high, styled with the title of the sons of God; And good luck have Psal. 45. 5. they with their honour, according to their worship and renown, to ride on because of the word of Truth: but not to be too busy with the spur, rather to make use of the reins then of the Whip, not to turn to the right hand or the left, not to stray from the path of the just, and in their Progress to keep the Road, not to mistake Plaeentia for Verona. Sylla that was surnamed Foelix, thought himself to be the more happy for the friendship that he held with Metellus named Pius., so let it be their Crown, their Glory; to remember those that are in Bonds, with the Heb. 13 3. Col. 3 12 Bowels of Piety, Kindness, Meekness; To be as their Father in Heaven is, Merciful; To look upon the wounded and afflicted, and to pity the friendless and oppressed; Yet not to respect the person of the poor, nor yet to honour the Levit. 19 15. person of the Mighty; But in righteousness shalt thou judge thy Neighbour. And thus as Papyrius at the Gate of the Senate, I have set up the Image of Mercy, with another of justice standing by it. Sensus Communis is the next that doth present itself 3. Sensus communis. unto your view, sitting as a Judge in the Gates of the City, and taking the Appeals from all outward objects; yet (as being in the substance of the Brain) it is deprived of all sense and feeling. Nec unquam apprehendit objectum sub ratione jucundi vel molesti. Which bids Authority to be the like; and as it was the manner of the Thebans to portrait their Princes blind, and their judges assisting without hands; So not to censure by an outward appearance, nor yet to be corrupted in their ways. Nerva was wont to say of himself, Se nihil fec isse quò minus possit imperio deposito privatus tuto vivere. Prince's Examples are speaking laws, bidding (as Abime●ech sometimes) what ye see one do, do ye likewise. Those heretofore that sat at Stern, and ruled the Rudder of the Commonwealths had while they were in the seat of judgement, their solemn Habits to be furred with Ermines, which little Creature in the Hunting, finding the Mouth of its Cave to be bedirted, doth rather yield itself to be a prey, then to pollute its skin with filth and mud; An Emblem calling unto them in those words, Mallem mori quàm 〈◊〉, as Adam's skinny he wore declared his fall. Rewards and gifts are like an Incubus, which overlayes the judgement of the wise, whilst Avarice (an envious Philistim) comes with his earth to choke up Isaaks Gen 26. 1●. 20. 21. Well, and leaves us to the Springs of Eseck and Sitnah, none but the waters of strife and contention. This done, you shall have them (like Aethiopians that usually do paint their Angels black in favour of their own complexion) to run point-blank the Course of Equity, to dam up the passages of right and reason, and so to betake them to new quirks and queries, with those Astrologers that make good their motions by finding out strange Notions and Intentions, Eccentricks, Epicicles, and the like. The Lord our God is a God of Gods, a Great, Almighty, Deut 10. 7. and a terrible, regarding neither Persons nor Rewards, and those that are Minores Dij, when they pass sentence upon others, ought to be like Mathematicians, only conversing in Abstractions: Not to wear on them the Robes of justice as dead-men's Coffins are bestrewed with flowers, not to be speechless in the poor man's cause, as if necessity should have no law; not to be like the Idols of the Heathen, with eyes and ears that neither hear nor see; nor like the Griffin to floor their nests with gold, and then to censure for the Mighty, as if in case pro formâ pauperis, Bos in linguâ (as it is in the Proverb:) their tongues were hung up to the roof of their mouths, and their souls possessed with a dumb devil: Surdaster erat Marcus Crassus, sed illud pejus quod male audiebat: And 'tis the memorial of the just that shall be blessed when the name of the wicked shall r●t. It is a Criticism amongst the Gramarians, that Falsus in the passive, and not Fallens, doth signify a double and deceitful man, for that the mischief of his own lips doth at last fall upon his own pate, and whilst bee saith with himself. None sees me; but God He standeth in the Congregation of the Prince, and He will be a judge amongst the Gods, who lays his ear unto their whisper in their most secret consultations; Besides, Suspicion like a well-drawn Picture seems to look after them where ere they go. and not a servant, if a Favourite, but's thought to be a Postern for a Bribe. Lastly, they are deceived in their Hopes, with him who in his vain opinion Corpus putat esse quod umbra est, and prostitutes Desire to a Dream. When the Prophet in the sixth of Zacha▪ saw the Vision of the four Emperies, He asked of the Angel, Qui sunt isti? who told him, Isti sunt quatuor 〈◊〉. 6. 5. venti, To show that all the World's pomp and glory is but a puff, a blast, a breath. Corruption for a time may be concealed, and folded up in the large pleats of Honour; Great men may shine on high like glorious lights, as long as greatness is observed with fear; Yet at the last, when Death shall blow them out, their farewell shall be nasty, noisome, loathsome, like an ill savouring and stinking snuff, that gives offence to all that are about it. Let Foelix Act 24. 26. hope that money should be given, Justus will be a Act. 18. 17. man that worships God, whose house was joined to the Synagogue. Having thus brought you through the first Region, in 4. Phantasie. the next room doth Phantasie sit to judge each Species, where Imagination transforms them like unto Ixion's cloud, and runs them through a thousand several shapes, that so they might avoid the embracements of Error; which doth infer that saying in the Schools, Apprehensio objecti ab intellectu semper est sub ratione veri: And yet all wisdom cometh from the Lord (as Pallas was borne Ecclus. 1. 1. of the Brain of Jupiter) and as she was clad in complete Armour, so He that puts on the whole Armour of God, Eph. 6. 11. Wisd 5. 18. Job 31. 20. must put on Righteousness as a Breastplate, and true judgement in stead of an Helmet: so shall the loins of the naked bless him, the Tongues of the Poor be trumpets of his praise, and the Hearts of All men Honour him. When the King of Mexico comes first to the Crown, He taketh with it a solemn Oath, judicium se administraturum, effecturum ut Sol cursum teneat, Nubes pluant, rivi currant, terra producat fructus, etc. Meaning that justice Psal 45. 14 15. like the King's daughter, attended by those Virgins that be her followers, is never seen alone without her train, Deut. 27. Blessings in the City, and Blessings in the field, Blessings in the fruits, and Blessings in the flocks, Blessings within doors, and Blessings without; all these Blessings shall overtake her, when like an exquisite and cunning Organist shè toucheth truly, and according unto Art, when the Spirit of God shall be the blast that giveth Breath unto the Instrument, — justitiae soror Incorrupta fides nudaque veritas, And every one should be unto a judge as Tacitus speaks of Tiberius and Claudius, Nec Beneficio, vec injuria cognit●, Whence Cleon, being made a public Magistrate, and having assembled his acquaintance, disclaimed in the presence of them all, all former interest, all future friendship, and bids adieu to all inward Amity as most incompatible with his charge; For He puts off the person of a friend that undergoes that other of a judge. And if it be so in the Tents of Mesech, what must be done in the Dwellings of Jacob. Lucian observes it in Stage-players, that if a man misact a Servants part, it is a slip not worth the talking of; But if in Jupiter or Hercules, the fault is foul and doth disgrace the Scene. How much more than is his reproach and shame, that doth 〈◊〉, not an earthly Prince, but Him that is the King of Heaven and Earth, For the Judgement is Gods, saith Moses his servant, Deut. 1. 17. And though he be near unto Malefactors, about their Psal. 139. 2. paths, and about their beds, and understandeth the thoughts of their hearts, yet in the Cry of Sodom● and Gomorrha (to leave us an Example of his justice) I will go down (saith he) and see whether it be altogether so or no; Gen. 18 21. Ecclus. 11. 7. Then blame not before thou hast examined, understand first and then rebuke. Qui stat●it aliquid parte in audita altera, Aequum licet stat●erit, haud aequus fuit. In the Solemnities of former times, Linguas ultimam sacrificiorum partem in sacros ignes conijciebant, the Tongue was the last that made up the Sacrifice; Be ye likewise swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. jam 1. 19 It is a conceit that's grounded upon reason, That if God should assume a visible shape, he would take Light to be his Body, and Truth should be in stead of his Soul. Et dominus (as saith Tertull.) Non se consuetudinem, sed veritatem cognominavit; He then that bears the Image 1 Cor. 15. ●9. of the Earthy, must also bear the Image of the Heavenly: And give thou sentence with them O God, send out thy light, Psal. 43. 3. and thy Truth to lead them. Now as Joachim the high Priest charged the Inhabitants 5. The five senses. of Bethulia to guard the passages of the Mountains: so for the safeguard of this Citadel, we must fortify the Cinque-Ports of the senses, for there lies the way to the seat of judgement. First, for the Sight, the Optics do require, ut medium 1. The Sight sit recte dispositum & ut Organon sit benè ordinatum. If the glass in the spectacles be painted yellow, each object will appear in the same colour; and if the Eye be sick of the ●aundise, it infects all that look upon it; Counsel, jury, Witnesses, Officers, Corruption, like a Plague, will taint them all, and search like oil into every joint, till poison cramp the powers of the Soul, till Reason plead without Law or Equity, till Conscience be charmed into a deadly sleep, and till Religion connive itself stark blind, like the people Arimaspi in Sythia, that wink, and wink, so long with one eye, until at last they have winked it out, and then no marvel, when their Eye is evil, if Math. 6. 23. their whole Body be full of Darkness. For the Hearing, it is observed by Saint Origen, that the 2. The Hearing. Levit. 14. 14. right ear, in the cleansing of the Leper, was the first that was touched with the blood of the Sacrifice, as a means to purify the rest of his actions, Auris prima mortis janua, prima aperiatur & vitae, And Nature (after the fashion of the head) hath likewise planted two ears in the Heart, that whatsoever enters at the one, might also be received by the other, Then he that hath ears to hear let him Math. 13. 9 hear. For the smelling, suavis odor lucri, Yet as Pliny of the 3. The Smelling herb Ariana, though it be of an excellent sent, it hath in every leaf a little Serpent, whose sting brings present Death to all that touch it. He that plucketh up the bounders of the Law, He that breaketh an Hedge a Serpent Eccle●. 10. 8. shall by't him. The Heart is seated in the Centre of the Breast, with a 45. Of Touching and Tasting. curious net of Nerves and Veins, spread from thence over all the Body; And as the Spider in the midst of her web, feeling the least touch that shakes her work: So should the Soul shrink, and retire, at the least taste, and touch of sin, Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1 Thes. 5. 22. I have done with the senses external, and internal, there now remains no more to be seen, but only the retentive strength of the Memory, which lies in the hindermost Region of the Brain, and in the last part of my discourse. Memoria est Aerarium anima, It is the Storehouse 6. Memoria. and Chequer of the soul: And albeit Humility and Charity, with the Aspect of such a light appearing at this time, in this Meridian, tells me that is but needless labour, Yet let not my Lords be angry, If with the poor Widow in the Gen. 18. Gospel I cast my mites into the Treasury. To remember you in the words of Solomon, that the eyes Prov. 15. 3. of the Lord are in every place to behold the evil and the good; could we take Darkness for a Mask, and the Night for a covering to our secrets; could we climb up into the top of Carmel, or dive into the bottom of the Sea, could we dig down into the neithermost Hell, and hid our actions in the ashes of Tophet, yet all our thoughts, our words, our ways, our reins, our bones, our mother's wombs, All things are naked in his sight; then think (with trembling) what a madness it is, to shun the sight of a silly man, and not to fear the presence of the Lord, Et quis fur auderet furari, si sciret à Judice s● videri. To remember you that you shall die like men, That the Psal 82. 7. Dan. 2. golden head hath a foot of clay, That the fair colours of pomp and power, shall in a short time starve and vanish. To remember you of that unconsolable Night, in the which you shall lie struggling with Death, not able to remove a little phlegm t●at's ready to choke up your vital spirits; when all your senses shall be aghast, your fantasy affrighted, your thoughts amazed, and yourselves slighted by your Dearest Friends, in strongest consultation for the spoil, when you most need their help & comfort. To remember you that mighty men shall likewise be mightily Wisd. 6. 6. tormented, gored with the ●ing of a wounded conscience, and called to account for every Soul that hath been murdered, perjured, poisoned with misinterpretation of the Law. To remember you of that great white Throne, from Rev. 20. 11. 12. whose presence the Heavens and the Earth did seek and could not find a place to hid them. To remember you of that ghastly Dragon, and that huge gulf of Fire and Brimstone, of that full flood of the wrath of the Lord, A fire which as nothing doth feed it: so it consumeth nothing that it burneth. A place affording nothing but Horror, Tormenting Devils, burning Souls, Roaring and lamenting with woe, and alas, weeping, and howling, an gnashing of teeth. And now in the Name of him that is able to reach the strongest by the meanest, & send wise Solomon to School the Raven, that I may conclude in the words of Saint Paul, I charge you before God and our Lord Jesus Christ, and 1 Tim. 5. 21. before all his Elected Angels, That ye observe and do these things without preferring one before another, and doing nothing by partiality. That so unto him who can keep you from falling, to Judas 24. 26. present you faultless before his presence, All Glory, and Majesty, Dominion, and Power, be given both now and for evermore, AMEN. FINIS. May 29. 1641. Imprimatur THO. WYKES.