[ 1618] Murmuring at Gods doings, the pre∣judice thereof.
IT is reported of Caesar,* 1.1 That having prepared a great Feast for his Nobles and Friends of all degrees, it so falling out, that the day was extream foul, t••at nothing could be done to the honour of the meeting with comfort, he was much displeased, and so far enraged at present, that he willed all them that had bowes, to shoot up their arrowes at Iupiter (then their chief god) as in defiance of him for that rainy weather;* 1.2 Which when they accordingly did, th•• arrows fell short of Heaven, and full upon their own heads, so that many of them were very sorely wounded: Even so do our muttering and murmuring words, either for this or that which God sendeth, they hurt not him at all, but return upon our own pates, and wound both deeply and dangerously.