The Saints Honey Comb, Title page – Errata
THE SAINTS HONY-COMB, FULL OF DIVINE TRUTHS, Touching both Chriſtian belief, AND A Chriſtians life, In two Centuries.
By RICHARD GOVE.
foreign.
Iſocrat. ad Demonicum.
LONDON, Printed for Richard Royſton at the Angel in Ivy-lane, 1652.
TO ALL Thoſe that be deſirous in a plain and pleaſing way, to underſtand, and remember Divine Truths for their Souls good: Eſpecially to thoſe that be ſuch within the Pariſh of South-Tavistock in Devon, where he was born; in the Pariſh of Henton St. George in Somerſet, where he lately lived; & in the Pariſh of Eaſt-Coker in the ſame County, where he now liveth, R. Gove Being deſirous to further his own and heir account in the day of the Lord Jeſus, Dedicateth theſe plain, and pleaſing Expreſſions of Divine Truths following.
TO THE Well-affected READER WHETHER LEARNED OR UNLEARNED
READER, My purpoſe and project is in this enſuing Treatiſe to perſonate a ſingle, though not a ſingular Bee. And therefore if I have not flowen through all the fair and flowry fields of the works of antient and modern Divines, and others, to gather the materials of spiritual Hony for thee, thou muſt remember it is but one ſingle Bee hath attempted it, and what one Bee can do that? Next, the Bee (be it one or more) ſucks not from every flower (he lights on) all that the flower may yield, but onelyonly that which is for his preſent uſe: and ſo have I done too; and after all my labourProv. 16. 24. I have at last made but theſe two Honycombs as yet, which I here preſent thee.
But the Bee cannot be idle, if the ſeaſon and weather permit, no more ſhall I, especially if I underſtand that this my first preſent unto thee in this kind, be kindly accepted.
I know if thou art one whoſe ſtomach is already full, with better Hony of thine own making, theſe two plain Hony-combs will not down with thee, for thou knowestProv. 27. 7. who ſaith it, that the full ſtomach loatheth the Hony-comb. And thereforeHieron. Apolog. ad Pammach. to thee I have no more to ſay, but what St. Hierom did in a caſe not much unlike; Aut profer meliores epulas, et me convivo utere, aut qualicun que noſtra caenula contentus eſto. Except I may with thy leave adde that paſſage of St. Gregory, who fearing (what I now fear) concerning the learned Reader of ſome of his works, perſwades him yet to read them howſoever, though inartificially, and rudely penned. Nam ſaepenumero inter quotidianas Greg. Mag. in praefat. ad ſuas in Ezechi…lem Homilias.delitias, etiam viliores cibi ſuaviter ſapiunt, &c. For oftentimes they that are fed with delicates, do find better tast, and receive greater contentment in the homely, and country fare of others, than in the continual uſance of their own ſo exquiſitely dreſſed cates, and delicates, or at leaſt have thereby their ſtomachs whetted, to return again with more eagerneſs of appetite, to their own better furniſhed tables.
But if thou art ſome poor hungry ſoul,Jejunus ſtomachus rar… vulgaria t…mnit. Horat. Prov. 27. 7. which hast none, or no better fare of thine own (for whom this especially is intended) I know this will down with thanks; for to the hungry ſoul every bitter thing is ſweet.
Howſoever whether it pleaſe, or diſpleaſe, here it is, the Bee hath done his part, do thou do thine. And this thou wilt the better do▪ if thou turn Bee too, and ſelect out of theſe enſuing expreſſions what thou conceiveſt may beſt conduce to thy preſent or future good, if all pleaſe not, or in thy conceit may not be profitable that way.
Lector vale.
Apes ſis, non Aranea,
Verbum ſapienti,
Apes ſine aculeo non mellificat,
ERRATA.
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