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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



" They did batten themselves, and suck out the Egyp- 

 tifin manners." — Burroughs on Hosea. London, 1C52, 

 vol. i. 172. 



" If this affliction that thou dost so riggle to get out of, 

 and thinkest thyself so miserable under it, had not be- 

 faliie. thee, thou mightest have /a/n into the pit, and been 

 "lost." — lb., 240. 



"They keep a rigllng and a stirre." — lb., 246. 



" Now I have no heart to pray ; vea, I must be haled to 

 it."— /&., 250. 



" Conscience hales them to duty." — lb., 463. 



" The i>f '■• of the feast himself came in." — lb., 258. 



" The English word lewd comes from loed, an old Saxon 

 •word, which signifieth one that is of a servile disposition, 

 of an under spirit," §-c. — lb., 277. 



" When afflictions come on the wicked they are all 

 Amort." — lb., 283. ; also vol. iv. 200. 



"Their hearts were put all a^ojr with their feasts." — 

 lb. 287. 



" When you hear oi Incomes of riches flowing in upon 

 you,"&e. — 76., 317, 



" To draw them aside from the clutter of the world." 



" They had some incklings of while thev were here." — 

 lb., 359." 



"You have/e/cAes because you meet with difficulties in 

 yonr way." — lb., 424. 



" Much adoe there is before our hearts can be gotten to 

 work towards God in good earnest." — lb., 443. 



" They are very hot about a very poore, sorry, cold 

 businesse." — lb., 452. 



" We lay it (a filthy garment), soaking a great while, 

 and a frosting many nights, the Jews have lyne a soaking 

 and frostning many hundred yeeres." — lb., 500. 



" Not long since . . . what sumptuous things and 

 fine knaclis had they, and all to set out a pompous super- 

 stitious way of worship." — lb., 412. 



" One that hathe beene acquainted with the free grace of 

 God in Christ, will serve God for himself without indent- 

 ing with Him : he will be willing to go into God's vine- 

 yard, and not indent for a penny a daj'." — lb., 206. 



," This is the reason that your Bride-well or Gaole- 

 birds seldome or never come to good; why? because 

 they have no bridle to keep them in; they have lost all 

 their honour, and they can loose no more." — lb., 215. ; 

 and vol. iv. 35. 



" The word that signifies detractor in the Hebrew is 

 Rachil, and some think our English word Rake-hell 

 comes from that word, one that makes no conscience to 

 speak falsely." — lb., ii. 44. 



" Those were a company of Promoters, Apparitors, and 

 Baylifs."— 76., ii. 47. 



" Many young men that have lived in good families, 

 and had good governors, then their sin was restrained ; 

 but afterward, when they come to live at their own hand, 

 then they break out, erumpunt then." — lb., 59. 



" You shall find them by their very gate, they walk 

 so peartley abroad. — lb., 112. 



" It is your fault you have bezelled it away." — lb., 212. 



" But presently lay in a wanzeing, languishing, sence- 

 less condition, and so died. — lb., 645. 



" There is a sullen dumpish sighing of spirit and de- 

 jection of soul that is as unpleasing to God as it is to 

 men."— Vol. iii. 168. 



" A wicked swearing deboist officer that hath a spight 

 against godly men in an arm}', will set them on the most 

 desperat service," &c. — lb., 257. 



" Tradesmen oppress their debtors, when they have 

 gotten poor men into their debts, then thej' will make 

 them that they shall buj' of them, and of none other, and 

 so will put off any of their braided ware to them, and 

 put it off at a deer rate." — Vol. iv. 314. . 



" You that have good voiages abroad." — lb. 328. 



"Oh! how ridged are they." — Burroughs on Hosea. 

 London, 1652, vol. iv. 301. 

 " He is severe and he is ridged." — lb., 170. 

 " Some, behave themselves so ridgedlg." — lb., 341. 

 " Roughues-s and ridgedness, and cruelty." — lb., 390. 



(Query. Do these last quotations suggest a 

 different origin of the word from the Latin rigidus, 

 from which rigid is usually derived ?) 



Proverbs and Sayings, ^c. — 



" The country proverb is Hear as hogs in harvest. . . . 

 When they are gotten into good shach, when they at 

 home call them and knock at the trough, the hogs will 

 lift up their heads out of the stubble and listen, but fall 

 to their shack again." — Giles Firmin, Bcal C'iristia}i,1670. 

 p. 11. 



" It is a terrible proverb, but I believe too true, ' Hell 

 is paved with the sculls of great scholars, and paled in 

 with the bones of rich men." — 76 , 30. 



" We say of a man, ♦ I will winter him and summer 

 him, eat a bushel of salt with him, before I can trust him 

 as a bosom friend.' . . . We say of some men, ' The}' aro 

 such subtle deceivers they will cheat a man though he 

 stand, and look on them." — lb., 242. 



" A short .':purt doth not tire me, the length and hard- 

 ness of the w^ay will at last tell me what leg 1 halt on." — 

 Anth. l\ckney's Sermon on Balm of Gilead, p. 65. 



" Death (if nothing before), will break many a knot of 

 good fellows." — A. Tuckney's Serm. Death Disarmed, p. Ii. 



" I am not so strait-laced or superstitious." — lb., 35. 



" It seemeth that he had his faith at his finger's ends." 

 —lb., 50. 



" A believer in the outlet of his life hath his out-gate 

 from all which in this life most troubled and wounded 

 him."— 76., 81. 



" They that ha.\e feathered their nests in the world," &c. 

 —76., 123. 



" He who in a course of mortification hath done the 

 greater will not stick at the lesse ; will not stick to part 

 Avith his dear life, who by the grace of Christ hath al- 

 ready parted with his dearer lust." — Jb., 137. 



" Too fierce we be against such as close not with our 

 notions. It was Bell, Book, and Candle once, 'tis not 

 much better now. . . We cannot all cut to a thread, there 

 will be some variation in the compasse ; but whilest we 

 aim at the white, the oddes is to be passed by without 

 bitterness." — Cupel's Remains, Prefatory Address. 



" Whilst we be so sharp in our contests,- Satan makes 

 his markets; Religion goes to wrack, our differences 

 widen." — 76. 



" He charged his servants to do what few men prac- 

 tice ; never to set in corn, nor to bring home cattle, but 

 to take as the market would afford." — 76. 



" It is an usuall thing when men are in the height of 

 their pride and their ruffe, like the wild asse's colt, to 

 scorn and condemn all that comes against them." — Bur- 

 roughs on Hosea,i. 13.; also, iii. 135. 



" We say, that which commeth from the heart, will go to 

 the heart." — 76., 16. 



f> " How many have j'ou known who have been willing 

 part with that which they had, and to put out, as it 

 were, to the wide world? — 76., 76. 



" You are exceedingly gulled with this argument many 

 times."— 76., 80. 



" I were as good hold my peace, sleepe in a whole skin, 

 and be quiet." — 76. 156. 



" God accounts those who have never so mnch know- 

 ledge, yet if it do not sanctifie the Heart so as to give 

 Him the glory, they are blinde, blinde as a beetle." — 76., 264. 



" Perhapsmany of you have been kind to your friends, 

 and made them, as we say." — lb., 267. 



