The
yong
mans
gleanings
.
GATHERED
OVT
OF
DIVERS
MOST
ZEalous
and
Deuout
Fathers
,
and
now
published
for
the
benefit
of
euerie
Christian
Man
,
which
wisheth
good
successe
to
his
soule
at
the
later
day
.
Containing
these
foure
Subiects
.
-
1
Of
the
Mortality
of
Man
.
-
2
The
Poore
Mans
Harbour
.
-
3
The
Mirror
of
Vaine-glory
.
-
4
Saint
Barnards
Sermon
on
the
passion
of
Christ
.
Whereunto
is
adioyned
a
most
sweete
and
comfortable
hymne
,
expressing
the
euerlasting
Ioy
of
a
Glorified
Soule
.
By
R.
B.
Gent.
AT
LONDON
Printed
by
Iohn
Beale
,
for
Beniamin
Lightfoote
:
and
are
to
bee
sold
at
the
Corner
shoppe
at
Graies
Inne
Lane
end
in
Holborne
1614.
TO
THE
CHRISTIAN
READER
.
CHristian
Reader
(
in
the
absence
of
the
Authour
)
I
was
moued
to
write
something
in
his
behalfe
,
to
demonstrate
the
zeale
and
entire
affection
he
beareth
to
the
Church
in
generall
,
and
to
the
comfort
of
thy
soule
in
particular
.
But
so
well
were
his
deuout
intentions
by
these
his
succinct
labors
expressed
,
as
I
tooke
it
needelesse
to
set
a
portall
before
a
Building
of
it selfe
so
meriting
,
or
a
proeme
before
a
labour
so
well
deseruing
.
Great
it
is
not
,
but
it
comprehends
so
much
(
I
dare
say
)
of
spirituall
consolation
for
refreshing
the
soule
deiected
,
and
motiue
meditations
to
rouse
the
secure
and
carnall
soule
,
in
the
sleepe
of
sinne
belulled
,
as
an
ampler
Treatise
may
well
yeeld
to
so
compendious
a
volume
.
Brieflie
I
may
speake
so
much
of
it
,
as
Cicero
spoke
of
that
sententious
work
of
his
entituled
de
Oratore
:
Est
non
magnus
verum
aureolus
Libellus
.
Vse
it
to
thy
comfort
,
&
giue
thanks
to
the
Lord
,
whose
hand
is
not
onely
the
beginner
,
but
perfecter
of
euery
good
worke
that
he
in
his
due
time
may
bring
thee
to
those
ineffable
Ioyes
in
reall
fruition
,
which
whilest
thou
liuest
here
thou
onely
enioyes
by
contemplation
.
Thus
recommending
these
meditations
to
thy
deuout
consideration
,
Thy selfe
to
the
father
of
all
spiritual
comforts
,
whose
mercie
euer
shadow
thee
vnder
the
wings
of
his
protection
,
I
rest
Thy
soules
well-wisher
,
R.
B.
Workes
that
now
adaies
goe
to
print
:
are
put
to
a
double
presse
,
Censure
and
Errors
:
for
thy
censure
I
hope
it
will
bee
charitable
;
for
these
errors
let
them
be
excusable
.
This
age
like
a
fauourable
Iurie
,
acquites
all
errors
:
onely
they
are
put
to
their
booke
,
and
that
saues
them
.
Errata
.
Page
19.
l.
13.
for
despirable
reade
despicable
.
p.
83.
l.
14.
for
imployed
reade
implied
.
p.
87.
l.
18.
for
pilgrimation
reade
peregrination
▪
and
l.
27.
for
shllatory
reade
sallatory
.
OF
THE
MORTALITIE
OF
MAN
.
WHat
art
thou
(
O
Man
)
and
from
whence
hadst
thou
thy
beginning
?
What
matter
art
thou
made
of
,
that
thou
promisest
to
thy selfe
length
of
daies
:
or
to
thy
posterity
continuance
.
I
haue
read
the
truest
computer
of
Times
,
and
the
best
Arithmetician
that
euer
breathed
,
and
he
reduceth
thy
dayes
into
a
short
number
:
The
daies
of
Man
are
threescore
and
ten
.
That
reuerend
Patriarch
Iacob
,
(
though
he
had
liued
a
long
and
prosperous
time
)
yet
he
confesseth
his
daies
to
be
few
and
euill
:
the
life
of
Man
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
is
as
the
grasse
that
soone
withereth
:
it
is
as
swift
as
a
Dromedarie
,
continuing
not
,
but
passing
from
this
pilgrimage
of
earth
,
aimeth
at
the
centre
,
to
which
all
flesh
is
limitted
,
this
earthly
mansion
from
whence
we
had
our
Beginning
;
Homo
abhumo
natus
.
Man
is
borne
of
the
earth
,
from
whence
he
had
his
birth
,
and
shall
conclude
the
date
and
period
of
his
daies
.
What
is
it
to
enioy
honour
vpon
earth
,
or
to
be
graced
by
the
royall
aspect
of
Potentates
,
their
maiestie
cannot
authorise
thy
sinnes
,
nor
exempt
thee
from
the
iudgement
of
the
Almighty
.
It
is
not
the
King
,
but
the
King
of
Kings
shall
iudge
,
who
holdeth
his
iron
rod
in
his
hand
,
to
be
auenged
of
him
that
worketh
wickednesse
before
him
.
He
cannot
endure
the
waies
of
the
vnrighteous
,
but
will
either
looke
vpon
thee
,
with
the
eyes
of
his
mercie
,
or
giue
thee
the
wages
of
sinne
,
to
liue
with
reprobates
and
sinners
in
the
neuer
quenched
fire
of
his
wrath
,
there
to
be
punished
eternally
.
But
remember
thy
mortality
,
be
not
puffed
vp
with
a
selfe
conceipt
of
thine
owne
excellence
:
The
Swanne
may
not
be
more
ashamed
of
her
blacke
feete
,
then
thou
of
the
vlcers
and
blemishes
of
thy
soule
distained
with
all
impurities
.
It
was
the
Phylosophers
saying
:
It
were
better
not
to
be
,
then
to
be
miserable
,
thy
being
is
most
miserable
,
thy
state
lamentable
,
and
thy
case
irreparable
:
if
thou
meditate
not
of
thy
creator
,
acknowledge
thy
redeemer
,
and
haue
recourse
vnto
thy
mercifull
protector
:
who
preserueth
thee
daily
with
his
grace
,
reuewing
in
thee
his
Image
,
quite
defaced
and
abolished
by
reason
of
thy
transgressions
.
Wherefore
as
there
is
noe
moment
nor
article
of
time
,
wherein
thou
stands
not
in
need
of
his
prouidence
,
so
ought
there
to
be
no
time
omitted
wherein
thou
should
not
ascribe
all
praise
,
and
gloie
to
his
excellence
.
He
created
thee
being
nothing
,
he
recreated
thee
being
worse
then
nothing
,
and
he
preuents
thee
with
his
grace
,
that
art
like
to
fal
againe
to
nothing
.
O
consider
wherein
thou
hast
offended
,
and
how
many
and
sundry
times
thou
hast
beene
pardoned
for
the
selfe
same
sinne
:
let
thine
eyes
therefore
be
dissolued
into
an
ocean
of
teares
,
crauing
remission
with
entire
contrition
.
It
is
recorded
that
the
teares
of
the
vine
will
cure
the
leprosie
:
teares
of
hearty
and
vnfained
repentance
will
cure
the
leprosie
of
sinne
,
restore
thee
to
the
Throne
of
grace
,
and
in
the
end
conduct
thee
to
the
Kingdome
of
glory
.
Thou
art
farre
transplanted
from
thy
natiue
Country
:
in
a
desolate
and
remote
place
:
farre
from
comfort
or
hope
of
rest
,
till
this
Tabernacle
of
sinne
shall
be
dissolued
,
this
roabe
of
flesh
shall
be
diuided
from
that
spirituall
stole
of
purity
,
whereby
thou
may
ascend
the
pallaces
of
eternall
glorie
.
There
is
none
that
liueth
in
exile
,
but
would
haue
the
censure
of
Banishment
reuoked
:
thou
art
in
a
place
of
exile
an
inhabitant
with
Wolues
and
Tigers
:
for
better
were
it
(
saith
Diogenes
)
to
liue
with
Wolues
,
Tigers
,
and
all
sauage
Beasts
of
the
Mountaines
,
then
with
Sycophants
,
flatterers
and
such
tame
beasts
in
the
Citie
.
Thou
art
inuironed
with
many
sharpe
encounters
inuaded
with
many
turbulent
passions
,
thought
▪
feare
,
desire
,
and
the
like
:
all
which
as
so
many
waspes
doe
continually
infest
and
annoy
thee
.
Thou
art
trauelling
a
dangerous
way
,
where
many
obiects
seeme
to
seduce
thee
from
the
high-roadeway
,
to
the
flourishing
by-paths
of
vanity
,
being
neuer
lesse
secure
,
then
when
thou
seemest
most
secure
.
Thou
art
sailing
betwixt
two
perilous
rockes
,
two
calamitous
shelfs
,
Scilla
and
Charybdis
,
Presumption
and
Despaire
.
Thou
hadst
need
of
an
expert
and
vigilant
Pilote
to
direct
thee
,
a
faithfull
friend
to
comfort
thee
,
and
a
prepared
minde
within
thee
:
thou
fishest
in
a
troubled
streame
,
and
many
things
I
could
caution
thee
of
,
which
not
foreseene
may
endanger
shipwracke
to
thy
crasie
and
surcharged
Barke
.
Oppose
not
thy selfe
to
all
extremes
,
but
fix
the
Anchor
:
it
would
hold
against
all
tempests
,
and
prouide
a
repose
in
time
for
thy
poore
vessell
,
least
vanquished
and
oppressed
with
violence
of
Billowes
,
and
extremity
of
aduerse
waues
,
shee
be
enforced
to
split
,
loosing
both
thy selfe
and
thy
fraight
:
spread
not
thy
sailes
too
broad
for
the
windes
(
thy
violent
affections
)
are
most
forced
,
when
thy
sayles
,
(
thy
ambitious
thoughts
)
are
most
extended
.
Ballace
it
light
,
least
it
sinke
with
her
Burden
:
It
is
better
to
loose
the
fraight
then
the
Merchant
:
and
the
Phylosopher
Mymus
chused
rather
to
lose
his
gold
then
himselfe
.
Enter
not
thy
Barke
with
any
prophane
man
:
if
his
company
doe
not
ruinate
thee
,
it
may
well
depraue
thee
:
and
when
Bias
came
into
any
shippe
or
vessell
with
a
wicked
man
,
where
he
was
in
danger
of
shipwrack
,
he
would
neuer
suffer
the
prophane
man
to
pray
,
saying
,
take
heede
least
the
Gods
heare
thee
,
for
then
wee
can
expect
for
no
mercie
.
But
aboue
all
let
the
sterne
(
the
principall
Organs
and
faculties
of
the
soule
)
bee
euer
with
all
vigilancie
attended
,
wisely
gouernened
,
and
industriouslie
employed
.
Thou
art
to
saile
by
Syrens
(
those
three
daughters
of
Achelous
and
Callyope
)
a
naturall
euitation
of
that
which
is
good
,
a
naturall
inclination
to
that
which
is
euill
,
and
a
naturall
deprauation
of
the
will
:
reiect
the
pernicious
embraces
of
sinne
and
impietie
,
stop
thine
eares
to
the
Syrens
melodie
,
and
reduce
thy
thoughts
to
that
retired
harbour
of
tranquilitie
,
a
sincere
and
secure
conscience
:
it
is
a
Christians
brasen
wall
,
it
makes
vs
secure
of
things
past
,
it
aduertiseth
vs
of
things
present
,
and
prepareth
it selfe
for
things
to
come
:
No
Monument
so
glorious
,
no
statue
so
specious
:
for
what
will
curious
Sepulchers
auaile
vs
,
when
infamie
perpetuates
the
memorie
of
vs
.
Vita
mortuorum
in
Memoria
viuentium
posita
est
.
And
vertue
liueth
after
death
;
The
Ancient
Patriarchs
returned
to
the
sepulchers
of
their
Auncestours
,
but
that
had
beene
but
little
,
if
their
vertues
had
not
equalled
their
auncestors
.
Desirest
thou
to
haue
the
excellencie
of
this
painted
world
,
the
beautie
of
this
earthlie
Theatre
charactred
and
displaied
to
thee
in
her
colors
?
Thou
shalt
see
in
her
many
seeming
flourishes
of
happinesse
,
many
faire
promises
of
a
continuated
eminence
:
but
shee
failes
in
her
performance
:
her
fruits
are
but
flowers
,
and
her
haruest
soone
tipe
,
and
soone
rotten
.
Sodoms
apples
were
faire
to
the
eye
,
touch
them
,
&
they
turne
to
dust
.
Painted
Sepulchers
shew
much
beautie
,
and
seeme
as
if
they
would
outliue
time
,
yet
continuance
defaceth
them
,
remaining
memorable
in
nothing
,
saue
that
they
were
once
memorable
.
Starres
fixed
shine
the
brightest
:
fix
thy
thoughts
vpon
the
morning
Sun
of
righteousnesse
,
and
like
the
Sun
,
thou
shalt
shine
more
bright
at
thy
setting
,
then
at
thy
rising
,
at
thy
death
then
thy
birth
,
let
thy
mind
be
established
on
that
which
can
suffice
it
:
no
terrestriall
respect
of
earths
vanitie
,
but
an
expectance
of
heauens
eternitie
,
to
receaue
that
Crowne
for
which
it
was
created
,
and
not
the
wages
of
sinne
,
for
which
shee
was
not
ordained
.
Thou
hast
many
difficulties
to
passe
in
this
wildernesse
,
ere
thou
can
see
the
Land
of
promise
;
Thou
must
thirst
,
hunger
,
and
wander
;
thirst
,
but
for
the
well
of
life
;
hunger
,
but
for
the
staffe
of
spirituall
Bread
;
wander
but
at
last
(
with
the
good
Shunamite
,
)
to
returne
from
the
mountaines
of
Gilboa
,
to
the
vale
of
Bethlem
,
the
poole
of
Bethesda
:
to
the
vale
of
Bethlem
,
where
thou
may
repose
,
to
the
poole
of
Bethesda
,
where
thou
may
take
repast
:
yet
must
thou
not
murmure
in
this
long
peregrination
:
Thou
art
but
as
thy
forefathers
haue
beene
:
if
afflicted
,
so
was
thy
master
Christ
:
if
tempted
,
so
was
he
:
if
persecuted
,
behold
the
whole
Colledge
of
those
blessed
Apostles
,
making
their
whole
life
a
persecution
,
a
very
martyrdome
to
propagate
their
masters
glorie
,
and
to
performe
that
worke
for
which
they
were
sent
.
Thou
must
not
make
profit
of
thy
profession
with
Magus
,
nor
make
sale
of
thy
conscience
with
Demas
,
nor
sell
thy
Sauiour
with
Iudas
.
Thou
art
inuested
with
Christs
owne
Garment
,
endewed
with
more
especiall
priuiledges
,
and
prerogatiues
then
many
of
thy
brethren
,
boast
not
of
that
thou
hast
receaued
,
he
that
did
giue
them
thee
,
can
take
them
from
thee
,
and
make
thee
naked
,
that
was
once
garnished
with
such
singular
ornaments
,
bestowing
them
on
others
that
shall
better
vse
them
,
since
whilst
thou
hadst
them
,
thou
didst
abuse
them
.
Enuie
not
anothers
gifts
,
but
rather
thanke
God
for
his
ample
benefits
extended
vpon
thy
brother
:
that
pernicious
vice
of
enuie
is
the
corrupter
of
many
singular
vertues
:
and
to
describe
her
more
perspicuously
,
heare
the
ancient
fathers
how
they
decypher
this
vniuersall
contagion
of
the
world
.
Enuie
consumes
all
vertues
:
by
enuie
was
Christ
crucified
,
the
historie
whereof
is
mentioned
vnto
thee
,
enuie
and
malice
aboue
all
other
vices
inebriate
the
soule
.
Where
there
is
enuie
,
there
can
be
no
Brotherly
loue
.
Who
enuieth
loueth
not
:
the
law
of
the
Diuell
is
in
him
,
because
the
diuell
by
enuie
fell
.
Therefore
enuie
is
knowne
by
this
,
that
shee
is
neuer
in
charitie
.
For
by
enuie
was
Christ
crucified
,
and
consequently
who
enuieth
his
brother
,
crucifieth
Christ
.
Aug:
Enuie
alwaies
followeth
vertue
:
he
is
a
valiant
man
that
can
conquer
enuie
with
humility
.
Hier:
Hee
is
sure
an
enuious
man
that
taketh
pleasure
in
seeing
another
mans
dammage
or
punishment
:
Ambros
:
the
error
of
enuie
doth
not
onely
inuade
the
Synagogues
of
the
impious
,
but
the
cels
of
the
religious
.
Euseb.
Enuie
manifesteth
that
we
haue
not
the
loue
of
God
in
vs
.
Effrem
.
It
is
a
rare
thing
to
want
enuie
in
prosperitie
.
Iosephus
:
where
the
good
man
profiteth
,
there
the
enuious
repineth
:
as
the
Poet
saith
:
Inuidus
alterius
,
&c.
Isidorus
.
Here
thou
feest
enuie
dismasked
:
who
euer
with
Ctesyphon
kicketh
against
the
Moles
heeles
:
there
is
no
vertue
can
passe
vncensured
:
no
exquisite
worke
vnreproued
:
necesse
est
quôd
Momum
aut
Mimum
habet
,
qui
vertutem
amat
.
But
run
thou
a
religious
course
inclining
neither
on
the
right
hand
,
nor
on
the
left
:
on
the
right
hand
thou
may
be
too
precise
in
being
too
regular
,
on
the
left
hand
,
insuccessiue
,
being
too
sinister
.
The
Goulden
mediocritie
,
is
as
good
a
way
,
and
as
secure
as
the
Phylosophers
Galaxia
,
their
milke
way
:
here
is
true
consolation
in
spirit
:
for
the
righteous
bee
glad
and
reioyce
in
it
:
walke
in
this
way
,
and
the
suggestions
of
Satan
shall
not
seduce
thee
,
for
thou
art
in
the
way
that
leadeth
vnto
life
,
not
intangled
in
the
Brakes
of
this
world
,
but
expecting
the
glorious
possession
of
those
Ioyes
aboue
.
Continue
in
perfect
charity
with
thy
brother
,
it
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
fulfilling
and
perfecting
of
the
Law
:
it
reconciles
vs
vnto
God
,
appeaseth
his
indignation
conceiued
against
vs
,
and
assures
vs
of
the
performance
of
his
promise
,
made
vnto
vs
in
his
sonne
.
By
the
loue
of
God
is
the
loue
to
our
Neighbour
ingendred
,
by
the
loue
to
our
Neighbour
,
is
the
loue
of
God
nourished
:
here
is
a
mutuall
and
reciprocall
loue
:
a
threefold
Cord
is
hardly
broken
.
But
thou
obiectest
thou
hast
felt
the
heauy
hand
of
God
,
thou
hast
tasted
of
the
bitter
cup
,
and
drunke
deepe
of
the
Cup
of
affliction
:
what
then
?
where
is
thy
conclusion
?
doest
thou
reason
hence
that
thou
art
depriued
of
the
fauour
of
God
,
and
excluded
from
his
sheepfold
?
God
forbid
:
these
afflictions
doe
rather
approue
and
testifie
his
exceeding
loue
towards
thee
:
whom
I
loue
saith
the
Lord
,
those
I
chastice
and
correct
:
he
is
not
a
father
,
where
thou
art
not
a
sonne
,
nor
is
he
a
sonne
that
is
incorrigible
:
he
must
bow
his
necke
vnto
the
yoke
,
and
presse
his
shoulders
with
the
Burden
,
he
must
not
argue
that
the
burden
is
heauie
,
or
the
yoke
not
easie
:
but
with
all
patience
sustaine
all
,
and
support
all
,
that
God
may
be
glorified
in
all
.
This
resolution
will
arme
thee
with
a
serious
preparation
against
all
difficulties
,
calling
to
minde
,
how
the
Apostler
(
after
the
death
and
passion
of
Christ
Iesus
)
were
as
a
puissant
armie
constant
amidst
all
tribulations
.
Their
afflictions
,
their
stripes
,
their
imprisonments
,
were
experiments
to
trie
them
not
affrightments
to
dismay
them
:
By
them
they
were
proued
and
in
their
resolution
approued
,
because
they
fought
valiantly
the
Lords
Battell
,
to
increase
the
number
of
the
faithfull
,
to
breake
the
bread
of
life
,
to
such
as
were
appointed
vnto
saluation
:
weakning
the
power
of
Antichrist
,
and
discomfiting
sinne
.
Fight
thus
(
deere
Christian
)
and
thou
shalt
raign
where
those
victorious
champions
raigne
already
:
the
vale
of
this
earthly
habitation
shall
be
dissolued
,
and
thy
spirituall
Temple
renewed
,
to
supplant
the
whole
body
of
sinne
,
and
to
receiue
a
glorious
diadem
of
eternitie
,
by
subiecting
thy selfe
to
the
materiall
sword
,
to
be
nourished
with
that
spirituall
foode
of
Gods
word
vnto
eternall
life
:
for
whosoeuer
will
raigne
with
Christ
,
must
likewise
suffer
with
Christ
.
He
was
crucified
that
we
might
be
saued
,
and
shall
we
be
exempted
from
that
which
he
suffered
?
No
,
rather
let
vs
put
on
the
complete
Armour
of
righteousnesse
,
with
slings
in
our
hands
to
wound
that
malicious
Goliah
,
that
terrible
Philistine
in
the
head
:
that
is
,
vtterly
to
discomfit
him
:
that
we
who
haue
receiued
so
glorious
an
inuestiture
,
the
speciall
indowments
of
his
Grace
,
may
by
the
operation
of
his
spirit
effectually
working
in
vs
arriue
at
the
Kingdome
of
glorie
.
That
what
is
here
inchoate
,
may
be
there
consummate
;
of
Christ
we
are
called
Christians
:
if
we
be
Christians
of
Christ
,
we
should
follow
Christ
:
that
ascending
with
him
to
the
Crosse
on
Mount
Caluarie
,
we
may
likewise
ascend
with
him
to
his
Throne
exalted
with
maiestie
.
THE
POORE
MANS
HARBOVR
.
IN
thy
affliction
haue
I
heard
thee
and
in
the
bitternesse
of
thy
sorrowes
haue
I
attended
thee
:
for
thou
descendedst
down
as
it
were
into
the
graue
,
&
buried
thy
honour
in
the
dust
.
But
who
euer
hath
cried
vpon
me
,
that
I
haue
not
heard
,
or
craued
my
helpe
,
whom
I
haue
not
aided
?
Art
thou
poore
,
and
sicke
,
and
hungry
,
and
naked
,
crying
for
almes
yet
art
not
rewarded
,
for
one
crum
yet
art
not
satisfied
?
why
,
what
of
this
?
if
thou
bee
poore
,
so
was
Lazarus
:
if
sicke
,
hungry
,
and
naked
,
so
was
he
:
if
despised
,
so
was
hee
:
character
what
miseries
soeuer
thy
miserable
state
is
afflicted
with
,
and
thou
shalt
see
them
personated
(
in
more
ample
sort
)
in
disconsolate
Lazarus
;
yet
was
not
he
comforted
?
were
not
his
rags
turned
to
robes
,
his
hunger
to
festiuall
honour
,
his
pensiue
affliction
,
to
extensiue
consolation
?
he
was
abandoned
of
Diues
,
contemned
of
Diues
,
nay
reproued
and
shamefully
iniured
by
the
seruants
of
Diues
;
yet
behold
the
exchange
:
Lazarus
is
exalted
,
Diues
tormented
,
Lazarus
comforted
,
Diues
afflicted
:
Lazarus
in
Abrahams
bosome
,
in
ioy
for
euer
,
Diues
in
the
fire
of
hell
,
to
be
deliuered
neuer
▪
O
what
subiect
of
ioy
and
comfort
,
what
argument
of
diuine
consolation
is
this
vnto
a
poore
distressed
soule
,
that
trauels
vpon
the
pilgrimage
of
earth
,
hungry
,
naked
,
and
despised
?
But
there
is
a
greater
occasion
then
this
for
him
to
pull
vp
his
courage
,
to
solace
his
depressed
minde
;
and
that
is
the
very
promise
of
God
himselfe
past
(
and
that
by
a
constitution
irreuocable
)
to
the
poore
and
afflicted
spirit
.
I
looke
to
him
saith
the
Lord
by
the
mouth
of
his
Prophet
Esay
,
that
is
poore
,
that
is
broken
in
spirit
,
and
that
trembleth
at
my
words
.
Here
the
Lord
professeth
himselfe
a
patron
to
the
poore
,
their
strength
and
mighty
defence
in
the
time
of
their
necessity
.
He
is
none
of
our
time-obseruing
friends
,
our
state
affectors
,
that
rather
patronise
our
errors
(
to
insinuate
themselues
in
to
the
vnstedy
affections
not
of
vs
,
but
of
our
patrimonies
)
so
long
professing
amitie
till
our
estate
(
the
adulterate
oyle
of
their
pretended
friendshippe
)
be
extinguished
.
These
are
good
Mammonists
augmenting
their
meanes
by
indirect
courses
:
running
euer
on
the
Byas
of
Adulation
,
till
that
clawing
humour
worke
to
their
vnhappie
friend
remedilesse
desolation
.
But
God
is
faithfull
:
and
whom
he
once
loueth
,
he
loueth
vnto
the
end
.
How
happie
art
thou
(
poore
pilgrim
)
of
such
a
louer
,
that
erects
thy
drowping
head
,
directs
thy
erring
feet
,
supports
thy
declining
faith
,
and
placeth
thee
in
the
retired
harbor
of
all
spirituall
comforts
,
ministring
these
and
the
like
solaces
vnto
thee
.
Wipe
thy
eyes
(
poore
harborlesse
soule
)
complaine
not
of
times
iniquitie
,
descant
not
of
thy
penury
,
relate
no
more
of
thy
miserie
:
I
haue
heard
thy
voice
,
and
am
come
to
comfort
thee
,
I
haue
put
all
thy
teares
vp
in
a
Bottell
,
and
they
shall
remaine
as
testimonies
against
those
obdurate
and
impenitent
,
those
remorcelesse
and
vncharitable
Nabals
that
haue
stopped
their
eares
to
thy
cries
,
their
eyes
to
thy
teares
:
solace
thy selfe
in
me
,
for
I
will
receaue
thee
into
my
protection
:
I
will
shelter
thee
vnder
the
wings
of
my
mercie
,
so
as
no
violence
shall
oppresse
thee
,
no
ensewing
miserie
afflict
thee
,
no
pouerty
dismay
thee
:
for
why
?
I
am
rich
in
mercy
,
and
will
enrich
thee
with
the
comforts
of
my
diuine
spirit
.
Who
euer
called
vpon
me
,
and
I
heard
him
not
,
or
powred
his
prayers
vnto
me
and
I
relieued
him
not
?
Thy
pouerty
is
no
barre
in
my
Court
to
hinder
thy
expedition
:
Thou
beggest
and
surest
informa
pauperis
,
yet
thou
shalt
finde
a
Solicitour
that
will
not
neglect
thy
affaires
:
He
it
is
that
created
thee
(
as
well
as
the
mighty
ones
of
this
world
)
and
he
will
not
suffer
his
Image
,
his
similitude
,
his
Impression
to
be
rased
,
defaced
or
contemned
.
It
is
I
that
haue
seene
thee
exposed
to
all
the
miseries
of
earth
,
and
I
considered
thy
patience
:
for
which
haue
I
accepted
thy
prayers
which
(
like
sweet
and
redolent
persumes
)
ascended
vp
vnto
my
nostrels
.
Be
comforted
,
be
comforted
:
the
extent
of
thy
afflictions
is
almost
expired
,
the
date
of
thy
sorrowes
extended
,
and
the
period
of
thy
miseries
consummate
.
I
will
cloth
thee
with
the
Garments
of
eternity
:
Thou
shalt
dwell
in
the
mansions
of
my
glorious
City
,
and
for
thy
pouerty
,
receaue
the
rich
ornaments
of
a
celestiall
inheritour
:
and
herein
shall
thy
ioyes
be
redoubled
,
for
thou
that
liued
desperable
in
the
eyes
of
men
,
shalt
Triumph
amongst
the
quires
of
Angels
,
being
incorporated
in
the
glorious
society
of
all
those
heaunly
Cittizens
which
raigne
with
me
eternally
.
There
shalt
thou
haue
for
these
poore
rags
,
Garments
that
shall
neuer
be
worne
.
There
thou
shalt
feede
on
spirituall
Manna
,
and
Mella
,
there
shall
be
no
hunger
,
but
eternall
feasting
,
no
sorrow
,
but
perpetuall
reioycing
,
no
discord
,
but
mindes
generally
vniting
:
where
fulnesse
shall
not
breede
lothing
,
nor
others
glorie
in
thee
repining
,
nor
lights
perpetuitie
obscuring
,
nor
times
eternitie
ending
:
for
there
will
I
be
all
vnto
all
,
to
shew
my
glory
more
euidently
towards
all
.
Thus
will
that
father
of
all
comfort
,
comfort
thee
with
his
diuine
consolations
:
thus
will
he
in
the
very
middest
of
thy
anguishes
,
miraculously
,
infuse
&
instill
into
thy
distressed
soule
,
these
&
the
like
spirituall
refections
:
he
will
annoint
thee
with
the
oyle
of
Gilead
,
&
put
vpon
thee
a
new
raiment
,
and
on
thy
finger
will
he
put
a
ring
of
pure
Gold
,
with
the
seale
of
Armes
on
it
:
with
the
seale
of
thy
election
,
predestined
to
eternall
life
.
O
meditate
of
this
,
and
the
like
diuine
comforts
,
and
the
perturbations
,
billowes
and
afflictions
of
this
life
,
will
be
lightly
esteemed
in
comparison
of
that
exceeding
measure
,
and
quantity
aboue
all
measure
,
of
spirituall
Treasures
,
reserued
for
thee
in
heauen
.
Alasse
thou
liuest
here
(
that
I
may
vse
the
Greeke
phrase
)
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
In
the
very
penetrals
and
cauernes
of
the
earth
:
farre
remoued
from
thy
centre
,
farre
transplanted
from
thy
natiue
Countrie
.
O
then
be
not
so
enthralled
with
this
masse
of
corruption
,
so
captiuated
by
sinne
and
Sathan
,
so
deluded
by
the
vaine
flourishes
of
earths
vanities
:
eleuate
thy
spirit
,
erect
thy
minde
,
liue
not
so
long
in
this
dangerous
Clymate
,
as
thou
forget
to
returne
into
thy
Countrie
.
Thou
hast
an
excellent
motiue
(
poore
hunger-starued
soule
)
not
to
desire
thy
abode
or
residence
vpon
earth
:
sith
thou
feelest
within
thee
nought
but
biting
hunger
,
and
without
thee
,
nought
but
hard
hearts
,
that
consume
their
daies
in
chambering
and
wantonnesse
,
in
securitie
and
carelesnesse
,
respectlesse
(
heauen
knowes
)
of
their
chiefest
good
,
the
aduancement
of
Gods
glorie
,
the
feare
of
his
name
,
reuerence
to
his
ministers
,
or
any
worke
which
might
tend
to
the
edification
of
faith
or
manners
.
Hinc
illae
lachrimae
;
hence
comes
our
cause
of
lamenting
,
hence
the
true
and
efficient
motiues
of
sorrowing
:
But
thou
(
pore
man
)
that
art
sequestred
as
it
were
out
of
the
world
,
not
as
much
as
obserued
with
the
eie
of
popular
respect
,
seeing
thy
owne
contempt
of
one
side
,
and
the
impiety
of
this
enormious
Age
of
the
other
side
,
hast
reason
with
Paul
not
onely
to
desire
thy
dissolution
,
but
euen
in
the
meditation
of
it
to
conceaue
especiall
comfort
,
and
delight
.
For
the
world
what
is
it
,
But
a
cage
of
vncleane
Birds
,
a
masse
of
indigestion
,
an
indisposed
frame
of
pollution
,
a
sink
of
corruption
?
True
was
it
,
that
that
Dominican
Frier
obserued
:
There
was
in
the
world
at
the
first
(
saith
he
)
conscientia
,
but
that
was
altered
presently
and
turned
to
scientia
,
and
that
too
(
by
the
foolish
stupidity
of
these
times
)
is
changed
into
mere
Entia
,
a
poore
Being
indeed
,
when
we
know
not
the
essentiall
cause
of
our
Being
:
but
ledde
away
with
either
singular
conceipt
of
our
ignorant
knowledge
or
besotted
with
the
present
obiects
presented
and
represented
to
vs
:
which
so
auert
and
distract
the
intellectuall
eye
of
our
vnderstanding
,
or
so
enthralled
and
engaged
as
it
were
to
priuate
profit
,
like
the
worldly
statist
,
or
with
the
itch
of
honour
like
the
Ambitious
Artist
,
or
with
the
dispersing
of
our
victories
in
forraine
prouinces
with
the
insulting
Martialist
:
that
we
forget
(
for
a
little
worldly
gaine
)
the
Gayne
and
treasure
of
Eternitie
:
for
a
puffe
or
blast
of
vaine
glory
or
ambitious
honour
,
the
Honour
of
God
,
and
sacred
ministers
:
for
a
soone
perishing
fame
,
the
fame
and
reputation
which
wee
ought
to
purchase
of
our
heauenly
father
.
Deere
pilgrim
,
thou
seest
these
transitorie
and
temporarie
delights
,
how
soone
they
fade
:
how
short
their
continuance
is
:
for
thou
canst
see
further
then
one
in
higher
place
can
see
.
We
make
the
Argument
infallible
:
for
demonstration
proues
it
:
a
man
may
see
more
piercingly
into
the
beauty
of
the
firmament
within
some
hollow
place
or
pit
,
then
he
can
vpon
the
euen
superficies
of
the
earth
.
Thou
art
placed
in
this
pit
;
retired
from
the
world
:
inferiour
in
order
,
bereft
of
the
cloude
of
honour
,
nay
exempted
of
all
inconueniences
which
might
any
way
seeme
to
darken
the
eye
of
thy
vnderstanding
,
here
thou
seest
the
piecolored
flagges
of
vanity
displaied
,
the
poore
Ostrich
robbed
of
her
taile
,
to
fanne
a
Ladies
face
.
The
sillie
wormes
disbowelled
to
cloath
a
case
of
corruption
with
a
silken
couer
.
Nec
atriora
sane
vidimus
peccata
,
quam
ea
quae
sunt
sericea
;
Silken
sins
goe
with
a
priuiledge
:
they
haue
a
good
couer
for
deformiti
,
this
I
know
(
simple
soule
)
thou
seest
and
admirest
.
Then
thou
goes
further
,
and
thou
sees
seeming
sanctitie
put
on
the
roabes
of
holinesse
:
furnisht
with
a
little
lippe
labour
to
mumble
a
few
key
cold
deuotion-lesse
prayers
,
making
his
lippes
goe
as
if
possessed
with
some
spirit
,
as
indeed
he
is
,
for
no
spirit
more
execrable
then
hypocrisie
:
there
thou
seest
halting
instice
;
a
Magistrate
that
goes
on
stilts
to
saue
his
footecloth
,
hee
ouerperes
a
whole
multitude
,
but
taking
so
great
paines
vpon
his
artificiall
legges
,
he
must
be
annointed
;
there
s
no
remedy
,
hee
will
grow
stiffe
else
:
it
is
a
golden
potion
must
restore
him
his
sence
of
hearing
which
was
welnigh
perished
:
applie
but
this
receipt
to
his
pulse
;
and
the
vertue
is
admirable
,
it
s
better
then
Eare-salue
it
will
restore
him
the
faculty
of
hearing
instantlie
.
There
thou
seest
a
great
patron
of
iniuries
,
that
has
erected
two
Sanctuaries
,
dedicated
to
two
contrary
Soueraignesses
:
Vertue
,
and
Vice
;
Vertue
for
her
name
,
Vice
for
her
Nature
:
many
such
professors
of
vertue
(
poore
beggar
)
I
know
thou
findest
,
that
can
make
externall
show
or
appearance
of
vertue
,
but
hath
vice
to
be
vertues
riuall
:
vertues
building
is
easie
to
be
discerned
:
there
s
no
superficiall
cost
to
beautifie
her
Temple
:
shee
hath
a
good
inside
and
a
bare
outside
:
vice
her
opponent
boasts
(
and
truely
so
shee
may
)
of
curious
edifices
,
rare
deuises
,
monuments
of
more
honour
and
celebritie
then
poore
vertue
and
all
her
posterity
euer
attained
to
,
in
the
one
the
worlds
map
is
rightly
charactred
:
in
the
other
,
there
is
representation
of
a
more
glorious
pallace
.
But
I
will
proceed
further
:
they
haue
beene
characterised
too
often
to
bee
now
vnknowne
.
Now
thou
hast
seene
all
this
(
poore
pilgrim
)
ragged
vertue
,
and
roabed
vice
:
thou
canst
not
be
deceaued
in
their
Colors
.
The
purple
whore
is
easie
to
be
discerned
,
me
thinkes
thou
should
glorie
much
in
thy
ragges
:
seeing
vertue
no
better
clad
:
one
better
habilimented
with
rents
then
rints
.
God
hath
done
well
for
thee
to
giue
thee
so
faire
a
patterne
to
imitate
:
nor
is
it
disparagement
to
be
her
attendant
with
thine
owne
Garment
:
without
adorning
thy
outside
to
grace
so
faire
an
inside
,
for
vertue
is
depictured
the
best
when
hee
is
garnished
the
least
.
Thus
,
thus
consider
what
thou
art
,
and
whom
thou
resemblest
:
not
one
vndeseruing
because
of
thy
wants
:
for
the
exquisitest
deseruings
are
for
most
part
the
vnworthiliest
recompenced
:
But
the
verie
Idea
of
imparaleld
goodnesse
,
Vertue
her selfe
,
shee
is
naked
,
so
art
thou
:
harborlesse
so
art
thou
:
in
her selfe
deseruing
,
yet
desertlesly
esteemed
,
and
so
art
thou
:
your
fortunes
seeme
equall
:
doe
but
match
her
in
the
mindes
proprieties
,
and
thy
reward
shal
be
by
so
much
more
eminent
,
in
regard
thy
estate
was
here
depressed
.
I
will
yet
draw
nerer
thee
,
thou
art
here
placed
in
a
desolate
forrest
,
farre
remoued
from
any
either
internall
or
externall
comfort
,
saue
that
continuall
feast
(
a
sincere
conscience
:
)
Thou
art
without
friends
,
and
no
desert
more
solitarie
no
forrest
greater
,
then
to
be
depriued
of
friends
:
and
in
this
vncouth
promontorie
there
bee
many
sauage
Beasts
which
seeke
to
pray
vpon
thee
,
or
at
least
to
triumph
ouer
thee
:
and
wouldst
thou
not
willingly
retire
thy selfe
,
and
purchase
thy
owne
safety
by
a
sequestred
life
?
or
if
not
,
Semel
mori
melius
est
,
quam
semper
moriendo
viuere
.
Alasse
(
deere
christian
pilgrim
)
thou
art
in
this
state
:
this
desert
is
the
world
replenished
with
sauage
beasts
,
with
which
thou
art
enuironed
:
some
lyon
like
contemne
thee
for
thy
pouerty
,
others
deride
thee
without
remorse
had
to
thy
deiected
fortunes
:
But
all
triumph
ouer
thee
(
being
made
as
Heluius
pertinax
was
entitled
)
Pila
fortunae
,
fortunes
ball
:
tossed
into
euery
hazard
,
subiected
to
euery
calumnie
,
being
indeed
made
the
very
stale
of
disgrace
:
yet
in
all
these
occurrents
(
if
thou
make
right
vse
of
thy
pouertie
)
thou
remaines
free
from
any
perturbation
whatsoeuer
:
their
pride
makes
the
more
humble
:
their
ambition
worketh
in
thee
mortification
:
their
contemning
thee
breedeth
in
thee
a
contempt
of
the
world
,
relinquishing
the
garish
obiects
of
vanitie
to
reape
the
haruest
of
heauens
glorie
.
I
will
now
descend
and
that
briefly
to
the
discourse
of
such
as
conceiued
more
entire
ioy
and
rest
in
their
soules
,
by
abandoning
the
world
,
giuing
their
goods
vnto
the
poore
,
nay
such
as
voluntarilie
became
poore
,
that
they
might
follow
Christ
,
then
if
they
had
possessed
the
inestimable
treasures
of
the
whole
Earth
.
The
reason
that
induced
me
hereunto
was
:
forasmuch
as
I
know
examples
be
of
more
force
then
precepts
,
the
exact
and
as
it
were
liuely
description
thereof
imprints
in
our
mindes
an
ardent
desire
of
imitating
such
whose
wel
disposed
liues
made
their
ends
glorious
Reade
but
the
sacred
ordinances
and
lawes
of
God
;
Thou
shalt
see
the
Apostles
contemning
all
priuate
respects
whatsoeuer
to
tast
the
sweetenesse
of
the
inestable
loue
of
Christ
:
here
thou
shalt
see
one
called
from
the
receipt
of
custome
,
a
place
of
profit
,
to
follow
him
,
who
had
as
little
appearance
of
externall
happinesse
as
might
be
:
streight
thou
shalt
behold
another
(
conuerted
from
an
Arch-persecutour
of
Christians
)
one
that
flourished
in
the
height
of
honour
and
was
chosen
for
a
patron
of
infidelitie
,
despise
honour
and
her
superficiall
flourishes
,
and
consecrate
himselfe
to
the
supportance
of
truth
:
here
another
(
euen
now
a
Rabbi
a
great
Doctor
of
the
Law
,
and
one
in
especiall
esteeme
with
the
multitude
for
Christs
sake
)
become
contemptible
to
tast
the
sweetenesse
of
Christs
loue
in
it selfe
inexplicable
.
Zacheus
for
this
loue
willingly
became
poore
,
duiding
his
goods
to
the
poore
,
and
making
restitution
for
what
he
had
iniuriously
taken
:
for
this
loue
,
and
for
this
incomparable
sweetenesse
did
the
stones
wherewith
blessed
Stephen
was
stoned
seeme
sweete
vnto
him
:
for
this
did
Saint
Laurence
tast
the
Torments
of
the
Gridiron
with
especiall
sweetnesse
:
this
moued
Andrew
to
goe
pleasantly
vnto
the
Crosse
,
that
hee
might
hasten
vnto
the
diuine
sweetnes
:
for
this
Bartholomew
willingly
sustained
death
,
Iohn
drunke
poison
,
&
Peter
(
as
one
made
drunk
,
with
the
apprehension
of
that
supernal
sweetenesse
,
)
cried
out
,
let
vs
build
here
three
Tabernacles
,
let
vs
soiorne
here
,
let
vs
remaine
here
,
since
we
need
nothing
that
is
necessary
for
our
comfort
so
long
as
we
abide
here
.
O
then
deere
christian
if
the
surueigh
of
these
glorious
professors
preuaile
any
thing
with
thee
to
distast
the
bitter
and
vnsauory
affections
of
this
transitory
life
:
make
vse
of
thine
owne
pouerty
:
thou
hast
no
reason
to
stand
all
the
day
idle
,
but
to
haue
recourse
to
the
spirituall
vineyard
.
It
is
hard
for
a
rich
man
to
enter
into
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
for
why
?
he
must
take
leaue
of
his
friends
and
fauorites
,
of
his
reuenewes
and
possessions
,
there
be
many
things
oppose
themselues
to
his
intended
resolution
.
But
thou
that
carriest
all
thy
prefserments
about
with
thee
,
hauing
nothing
at
home
but
bare
wals
,
appendices
of
ruine
,
thou
that
canst
not
yeeld
nature
her
necessaries
,
being
made
a
very
spectacle
to
triumphing
fortune
:
one
as
exposed
to
the
inconueniences
of
times
occurrents
,
so
depriued
of
those
externall
Blessings
,
by
which
we
onely
seeme
to
be
and
haue
our
wellbeing
:
art
rid
of
these
maine
impediments
which
vse
to
hinder
the
worldling
from
the
prosecution
of
such
affaires
as
might
yeeld
more
perfect
and
accomplished
content
,
then
all
the
semblances
of
fortune
,
and
prosperous
successe
.
O
how
hard
hath
the
abandoning
of
the
world
seemed
to
such
as
haue
planted
their
affections
already
vpon
this
terrestriall
foundation
.
They
could
willingly
serue
Christ
,
if
they
might
reserue
(
likewise
)
some
retired
howers
of
seruice
&
deuotion
to
Mammon
:
but
wholly
to
giue
vp
their
interest
in
earth
and
earthly
possessions
,
neuer
more
to
call
themselues
masters
of
their
ample
and
commodious
inheritances
:
O
it
is
an
hard
lesson
,
such
a
bitter
potion
had
neede
of
some
sweete
pill
to
season
it
.
Thou
now
seest
the
high
roade-way
that
leades
thee
to
a
port
of
secure
rest
:
hold
on
(
deere
pilgrim
)
and
faint
not
in
thy
Iourney
:
thou
art
now
towards
a
rich
inheritance
,
and
shalt
possesse
those
true
essentiall
and
reall
ioyes
which
with
such
feruencie
thou
hast
desired
.
But
yet
ere
I
leaue
thee
in
this
Harbour
,
let
me
expostulate
the
cause
with
thee
,
&
aske
thee
,
why
thou
art
deiected
?
why
so
sorrowfull
?
thou
sustainest
disgrace
and
art
called
impudent
Beggar
;
Beggar
?
alasse
what
is
that
?
who
is
not
?
doe
we
not
(
euen
the
best
of
vs
)
beg
from
day
to
day
for
our
diurnall
sustenance
?
included
in
that
particle
:
Giue
vs
this
day
our
daily
bread
:
but
thou
art
impudent
;
with
farre
more
impudence
are
we
branded
,
that
are
euer
begging
,
yet
neuer
satisfied
:
nay
more
,
presuming
to
haue
what
we
neede
without
asking
:
and
for
thee
(
poore
soule
)
necessitie
pleades
thy
cause
excusable
.
Egenti
viro
pudor
nequaquam
est
vitilis
.
A
shamefast
Beggar
neuer
gained
by
his
profession
.
Grieue
not
thy selfe
then
at
the
strange
language
of
the
hard
harted
miser
:
his
owne
words
shall
condemne
him
when
he
appeares
(
as
of
necessitie
he
must
)
before
the
Tribunall
of
Gods
iudgement
:
it
s
not
then
the
awfull
regard
of
his
authoritie
(
for
he
is
then
degraded
)
nor
the
aboundance
of
his
wealth
(
for
of
that
hee
is
depriued
)
nor
the
generall
respect
had
to
his
person
(
for
then
he
is
disualewed
)
that
shall
answere
for
his
neglect
:
Thy
hunger
shall
witnesse
against
him
,
thy
afflictions
shall
condemne
him
,
and
those
many
Iniuries
(
which
with
such
patience
thou
in
this
life
sustained
)
shall
be
recorded
in
those
monumentall
leaues
of
eternitie
,
and
proclaime
him
Guiltie
:
for
doubt
it
not
(
poore
wretch
)
though
there
bee
none
now
to
comfort
thee
,
but
such
as
laugh
at
thy
miseries
,
when
thou
shalt
be
let
out
of
this
poore
prison
of
flesh
,
and
transported
to
thy
natiue
countrey
,
there
will
be
an
Aduocate
that
will
pleade
thy
cause
freely
,
and
doe
thee
right
speedily
.
The
euill
Iudge
in
the
Gospell
was
rather
moued
by
the
widdowes
importunity
,
then
her
causes
equity
to
doe
her
right
.
But
this
Iudge
will
discusse
thy
cause
,
neither
drawne
by
importunacie
,
nor
awed
by
authority
,
nor
subiected
to
partialitie
:
he
it
is
that
is
Iudge
of
heauen
&
earth
,
extending
the
Heauens
like
a
Curtaine
,
and
in
mercie
expressing
his
affections
to
the
Children
of
Men.
Before
this
Iudge
shalt
thou
appeare
,
and
hee
that
oppressed
thee
:
he
to
tast
the
rigour
and
seuerity
of
iustice
,
thou
to
remain
in
the
comfortable
embrace
of
his
mercie
:
he
to
reape
the
fruits
of
his
own
works
,
to
condemnation
,
thou
to
conceiue
the
sweete
and
amiable
tast
of
eternall
consolation
.
O
what
difference
then
betwixt
thy
miserie
,
and
his
earthly
happinesse
?
where
is
then
that
great
attendance
?
those
many
superficiall
ceremonies
of
obsequiousnesse
?
vanisht
,
vanisht
:
his
afflictions
more
violent
,
in
asmuch
his
comforts
in
this
life
were
more
eminent
.
O
if
the
Great
ones
of
this
world
would
consider
this
:
how
little
would
they
esteeme
the
insubstantiall
flourishes
of
this
world
?
how
attentiuely
would
they
obserue
the
dimensions
of
their
life
,
least
the
labyrinth
of
sinne
should
ensnare
them
,
the
affections
of
earths
vanitie
surprise
them
:
or
the
gay
colors
of
mundane
allurements
captiuate
them
.
But
sinne
is
now
mounted
,
her
throne
is
erected
,
and
who
dare
censure
so
generall
a
profession
?
as
rare
is
it
to
finde
vice
without
a
champion
,
as
to
finde
hospitality
in
an
ancient
house
,
sanctitie
in
a
Monasterie
,
religion
in
a
house
of
prostitution
.
A
man
may
see
feasts
solemnised
,
but
the
halt
,
lame
▪
and
blind
,
seldome
or
neuer
inuited
;
resembling
those
sensuall
meetings
of
Penelopes
wooers
,
which
Emneus
in
Homer
so
exactly
describes
,
opifices
Vates
,
Medicus
seu
etiam
poeta
qui
cantando
oblectet
,
hi
sane
vocati
sunt
in
orbe
:
Egentem
vero
et
Medicum
qui
sibimet
est
in
commodo
nullus
vocat
.
None
cals
the
beggar
:
his
rags
are
not
fit
for
festiuall
solemnities
:
alasse
poore
man
,
then
must
hee
feede
(
like
Democritus
)
vpon
the
smell
of
dainties
,
full
seruices
are
not
for
a
weake
stomacke
,
and
yet
me
thinkes
(
poore
Soule
)
thou
deseruest
better
entertainement
.
Thy
Image
should
not
be
so
lightned
.
Thy
naturall
Garment
is
of
as
pure
stuffe
,
and
as
curious
as
the
perfumedst
Gallant
of
them
all
:
and
should
the
couer
of
our
shame
so
much
transport
our
affections
,
that
without
respect
vnto
the
image
of
our
Sauiour
,
we
should
disualue
the
instrument
,
and
so
ouerprise
the
couer
▪
O
no
,
let
vs
not
so
obscure
our
iudgements
:
let
vs
rather
haue
recourse
to
our
beginning
,
and
then
conceiue
the
especiallest
motiues
wherein
we
haue
cause
to
glorie
.
Sure
Nature
seemes
as
if
in
the
beginning
shee
hated
all
other
ornaments
then
such
as
were
natiue
:
being
at
the
first
a
raiment
to
her selfe
,
and
sufficient
in
her selfe
against
the
inclemencie
of
heate
,
the
violence
of
cold
,
&
all
distemperatures
whatsoeuer
:
But
when
man
lost
himselfe
,
he
desired
to
shroude
himselfe
against
the
violent
assaults
of
a
troubled
conscience
.
Hence
then
wee
glorie
in
our
shame
:
for
by
these
externall
habits
are
we
put
in
minde
of
those
primitiue
graces
of
which
wee
are
depriued
.
In
this
then
(
sillie
Beggar
)
may
thou
likewise
be
comforted
:
Thou
seest
thine
owne
nakednesse
,
and
acknowledgest
thy
sinne
:
But
the
fine
creatures
of
this
world
imitate
the
Pagan
Idolators
,
they
hang
vales
ouer
their
deformities
;
making
their
worst
part
the
most
precious
.
Pore
vessell
of
corruption
what
needes
all
this
brauery
?
what
makes
thee
set
out
thy
enemy
so
gorgeouslie
?
she
seeks
thy
ruine
,
laies
continual
battery
at
the
fortresse
at
the
fortresse
of
thy
soule
,
enuirons
thee
with
hostile
and
fatall
affections
,
and
yet
thou
pamperest
her
vp
still
,
strengthning
thy
owne
forces
against
thee
.
O
madnesse
!
O
exceeding
phrensie
,
doest
thou
not
(
or
is
it
wilfull
blindnesse
)
perceiue
with
what
violence
this
morsell
of
flesh
which
thou
bringst
vp
and
nourishest
so
carefully
,
suggesteth
into
thy
minde
poison
?
making
the
labour
of
an
incurable
contagion
,
euen
the
lethargie
of
thy
soule
;
and
wilt
thou
cherish
yet
this
Snake
in
thine
owne
Bosome
?
wilt
thou
raise
so
glorious
an
Image
for
so
corrupt
a
Trunke
?
Surcease
,
surcease
:
Thou
hast
plaid
too
long
with
this
inchantresse
:
it
is
now
high
time
to
purchase
thy
liberty
.
After
Calypso
had
so
long
time
detained
Vlisses
in
miserable
seruitude
,
at
last
sought
meanes
for
his
deliuerie
.
These
bosome
enemies
are
most
dangerous
,
they
know
our
constitution
,
and
can
transforme
themselues
vnto
the
distinct
habit
of
euery
affection
,
to
shadow
their
designes
more
couertly
;
they
assume
that
forme
which
best
concords
with
our
Nature
.
This
thou
seest
(
poore
man
)
and
in
this
art
thou
eased
:
for
this
enemie
of
thine
,
thy
flesh
,
receiues
more
hard
entertainement
at
thy
hands
.
Thou
keepst
her
from
rebelling
,
and
strengthens
thy
spirit
by
her
weakning
.
In
this
then
hast
thou
aduantage
of
the
flesh-pampering
Epicure
,
&
therein
showes
pregnant
testimonie
of
thy
expert
iudgement
;
for
who
would
preferre
the
rinde
before
the
pith
,
the
Barke
before
the
medull
,
or
core
before
the
sap
?
But
these
doe
so
,
disesteeming
the
internall
ornaments
of
the
minde
,
the
best
graces
that
a
Christian
soule
can
appropriate
to
her selfe
,
exalt
the
outward
(
which
God
wot
)
like
a
painted
Sepulcher
,
or
Sodoms
apples
be
no
sooner
touched
then
to
ashes
conuerted
▪
Beautie
,
a
flourishing
vanity
that
soone
fadeth
:
externall
pompe
,
honour
and
magnificence
lesse
then
bare
Beings
,
for
soone
they
decline
and
haue
no
being
.
Time-obseruing
worse
then
either
,
making
of
times
an
oilie
Tongue
the
ruine
of
the
owner
.
These
are
the
scopes
are
aimed
at
:
and
yet
what
greater
vanitie
,
than
the
possession
of
such
extrinsecall
shadowes
?
I
haue
oftimes
seene
it
,
and
the
frequencie
of
it
hath
welnigh
made
it
a
position
,
those
which
suddenly
stept
to
honour
,
by
their
vnexpected
risings
,
made
their
fall
shortly
to
be
expected
:
Nor
did
their
memorie
die
with
their
fall
:
the
merit
of
their
honour
was
cald
in
question
after
their
death
,
howsoeuer
ill
in
them
that
cald
it
in
question
,
taking
the
Cynicks
precept
for
an
especiall
caueat
in
all
my
Actions
:
in
Sepulchra
Mortuorum
leuius
calcare
.
But
of
this
digression
too
much
:
I
haue
retired
my selfe
too
long
from
thee
(
poore
brother
)
yet
I
perceiue
my
former
motiues
of
consolation
haue
preuailed
a
little
with
thee
,
which
I
will
succinctlie
conclude
with
this
finall
comfort
,
that
this
might
minister
no
lesse
solace
in
the
end
than
the
precedent
comforts
in
the
beginning
.
I
haue
prepared
this
harbour
for
thee
(
poore
pilgrim
,
)
and
would
haue
thee
as
one
carefull
of
thy
weale
,
to
retire
thy selfe
here
,
against
the
turbulent
stormes
of
all
afflictions
:
that
though
the
pompe
of
this
world
seeme
to
perswade
thee
to
a
kind
of
despaire
in
thine
owne
estate
:
yet
flying
to
this
harbour
,
the
holes
of
the
rocke
(
Christ
Iesus
)
thou
maist
finde
eternall
comfort
:
intuere
rupem
et
erige
ratem
.
This
rocke
shall
defend
thee
from
all
aduerse
oppositions
either
of
world
the
flesh
or
the
Diuell
:
hauing
thy
habitation
so
firmely
planted
vpon
those
future
ioies
,
that
the
miseries
of
this
world
may
seeme
small
in
comparison
,
in
regard
of
that
exceeding
measure
of
consolations
prepared
for
thee
in
that
Sanctuary
of
Eternitie
:
where
no
disturbance
can
surprise
thee
,
no
pouerty
afflict
thee
,
no
care
depresse
thee
:
Tranquillam
sedem
tenes
et
in
ea
sola
glorieris
.
Hence
maist
thou
conceiue
perfect
ioy
:
and
ruminate
of
those
internall
and
etternall
comforts
which
are
promised
thee
if
thou
beare
vp
thy selfe
in
thy
aduersities
:
the
bosome
of
Abraham
is
open
vnto
thee
,
and
all
patient
men
that
destitute
of
mundan
succour
,
retire
to
the
sacred
bowels
of
Christs
compassions
:
no
affliction
so
great
which
Time
will
not
allay
:
no
discomfort
so
exceeding
which
the
exceeding
comforts
of
Christs
passions
cannot
mitigate
.
Time
is
a
perfecter
of
all
things
,
saith
the
worldling
:
but
if
this
time
be
not
employed
in
the
exercise
of
Christs
passions
,
the
distast
of
times
continuance
affoords
no
lesse
bitternesse
,
then
the
increment
of
afflictions
.
The
tempests
are
well
calmed
:
thou
maist
sayle
without
an
aduerse
encounter
of
turbulent
affections
.
Thy
Pilote
is
skilfull
,
for
the
windes
and
seas
obey
him
:
he
is
mercifull
,
for
hee
neuer
forsooke
the
poore
mariner
nor
distressed
seafaring
man
,
till
he
be
arriued
at
his
port
and
expected
Harbour
.
THE
MIRROR
OF
VAINE
GLORIE
.
WHerein
art
thou
proude
O
Man
?
or
whereto
doest
thou
exalt
thy selfe
?
art
thou
composed
of
more
then
humane
substance
,
that
thou
shouldst
glory
in
thy
feature
?
Thou
admirest
thine
owne
wisdome
,
and
reposest
more
confidence
in
thy
smooth
wit
and
acute
conceipt
,
then
Mammons
statist
.
Why
(
foole
)
art
thou
wise
in
thine
own
Imagination
,
&
yet
directest
not
thy
waies
to
the
square
of
wisdome
?
Thou
art
wise
because
thou
canst
deceiue
:
O
spirituall
follie
!
how
vnhappie
was
Achitophel
in
this
wisdome
?
how
improuident
&
imprudent
was
Haman
to
erect
a
Scaffold
for
himselfe
?
Thou
desirest
some
attendants
(
not
so
much
to
serue
thee
,
as
to
looke
vpon
thee
)
for
thou
esteemes
not
so
much
a
seruiceable
fashion
as
thine
owne
admiration
.
How
foolish
art
thou
to
thinke
the
world
should
terme
thee
wise
that
art
so
phranticke
?
purge
,
purge
,
thou
hast
a
maladie
within
thee
will
consume
thee
:
Thou
breakest
the
Lepers
Law
:
they
were
enioined
to
cry
I
am
vncleane
,
I
am
vncleane
.
But
thou
that
laborest
of
a
more
lothsome
leprosie
,
will
not
confesse
thy
shame
:
not
one
figge
leafe
to
couer
thy
nakednesse
.
Sin
now
goes
with
a
protection
,
who
dare
reprēd
her
?
Nemo
hercule
,
Nemo
.
None
,
none
.
Sinnes
grow
habillements
of
Nature
in
which
we
most
glory
:
that
which
shames
vs
most
,
in
that
we
shine
most
,
boasting
of
our
vices
,
as
if
motiues
of
respect
.
All
sinnes
passe
with
impunitie
:
for
who
will
throw
the
first
stone
?
what
place
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
exempted
?
Sinne
flies
for
Sanctuarie
into
Sancturaies
:
what
Time
dispenst
with
,
wherein
the
Creature
can
say
,
I
haue
desisted
from
sinne
,
&
done
that
for
which
I
was
created
?
in
what
place
doth
not
vanity
represent
her selfe
?
Not
onely
in
the
faire
Structures
(
wherein
we
glorie
)
to
leaue
so
beautifull
mansions
,
monuments
of
our
care
and
prouidence
to
our
posteritie
;
but
euen
in
our
Beds
of
earth
,
our
Graues
,
and
Sepulchers
.
Shebna
was
carefull
of
this
,
and
yet
his
intentions
were
frustrate
:
for
he
built
his
sepulcher
in
one
country
,
and
was
buried
in
another
.
Alasse
,
why
glorie
we
so
much
in
the
couer
of
corruption
?
Tombes
are
not
made
so
much
for
the
dead
as
for
the
liuing
:
and
the
life
of
the
dead
consists
in
the
memorie
of
the
liuing
.
All
that
was
writ
ouer
that
great
Pompey
was
this
:
Hic
situs
est
magnus
.
Alasse
poore
Greatnesse
,
when
an
ambicious
and
incircumscribed
spirit
can
be
confined
within
so
straite
a
circumference
!
It
was
Innocontius
question
to
describe
humane
frailtie
.
Dic
mihi
vas
cinerum
,
quid
prodest
flos
facierum
.
Thou
hast
beene
present
I
know
it
,
sometime
at
the
buriall
of
thy
friend
,
or
neighbour
,
where
thou
sawest
the
character
or
embleame
,
of
all
the
sonns
of
Adam
:
and
yet
thou
art
returned
from
his
graue
,
this
good
commemoration
of
thy
mortallity
,
(
as
from
the
Centaures
banket
)
more
obdurate
in
heart
,
remorceles
of
sinne
,
senceles
of
shame
,
then
before
thou
saw
thy
dead
friend
interred
,
O
conceaue
remorce
and
liue
:
let
not
the
publicanes
and
sinners
condemne
thee
,
let
not
pagans
outstripp
thee
.
Thou
liuest
in
the
light
of
the
Gospell
:
many
preachers
are
sent
thee
,
(
take
the
opportunate
time
,
)
now
is
the
haruest
,
labor
to
bring
thy
sheaues
with
thee
.
Qui
arat
,
arat
vt
metet
,
qui
pugnat
,
pugnat
vt
vineat
.
So
sow
,
that
that
thou
may
reape
plenteously
;
so
fight
that
thou
may
bee
crowned
after
victorie
atchieued
.
Cast
but
thine
eie
(
deare
Christian
)
vpon
all
the
waies
&
bypaths
,
which
seem
to
lead
vs
to
mundane
felicitie
:
thou
shalt
finde
nothing
but
intricate
waies
,
vnfrequented
labyrinths
,
which
menace
ruine
to
the
passenger
.
Aditus
prospicitur
,
reditum
non
patitur
;
easie
is
it
for
thee
to
enter
,
but
to
come
forth
difficult
.
The
world
is
like
Polyphemus
caue
:
entring
once
into
the
pleasures
of
earths
vanitie
,
thou
art
so
enchained
,
so
ensnared
to
the
delights
and
inordinate
affections
,
which
like
merrie
Sirens
,
doe
so
solicit
thee
,
as
thou
canst
hardly
exempt
thy selfe
from
their
serpentine
embraces
.
Holy
Athanasius
saw
in
his
sleepe
(
for
so
the
vision
appeared
)
the
whole
world
encompassed
about
with
snares
and
nets
:
its
true
;
what
profession
but
exceedingly
tempted
,
if
not
seduced
?
auarice
,
as
sure
an
attendant
vppon
age
,
as
sensuality
vpon
youth
.
Church
vsurie
,
Simoniacall
patrons
,
making
sale
of
the
precious
things
of
Gods
temple
,
and
who
remaines
there
to
whipp
them
out
?
Vsurie
(
as
in
it selfe
a
legall
sinne
,
because
suffred
)
,
growes
tyrannicall
:
shee
cries
not
with
the
false
mother
,
neither
thine
nor
mine
,
but
diuide
it
:
but
shee
erects
a
Monopolie
for
her selfe
,
and
will
engrosse
a
grocerie
of
soules
,
to
enrich
the
pallace
of
her
father
Mammon
▪
O
poore
decrepit
sowle
,
thou
that
art
stepping
into
the
wombe
of
thy
mother
,
and
carriest
deaths
head
about
thee
,
consider
thy
creation
,
acknowledge
thy
composition
,
weake
by
creation
but
weaker
by
times
reuolution
,
Seusim
sine
sensu
seuescimus
.
O
gather
spirituall
riches
,
prouide
thee
a
skripp
that
shall
neuer
bee
worne
,
but
continue
euer
.
The
rich
man
in
the
Gospell
gathered
much
,
possessed
much
,
enlarged
his
Granars
,
and
promist
to
himselfe
securitie
with
a
retired
adue
from
the
world
,
now
soule
take
thy
ease
;
but
his
Epiphonema
was
answered
with
a
Threnodia
;
Thou
foole
this
night
shall
thy
soule
bee
taken
away
.
Alas
so
soone
?
this
was
the
first
night
(
it
seemes
)
of
his
rest
,
and
must
it
be
his
last
too
?
yes
:
Esay
answereth
him
,
There
is
no
rest
to
the
vngodly
:
hee
is
euer
in
discontent
,
seeking
to
quench
his
hydropticke
thirst
with
getting
,
but
is
neuer
satisfied
.
They
which
should
bee
Gods
Amners
to
distribute
to
the
necessity
of
the
Saints
,
are
oppressors
,
beeing
as
sponges
which
sucke
vp
the
laborious
gaines
of
the
poore
.
Let
there
not
bee
a
begger
in
Israell
(
saith
God
to
Moses
)
but
these
regraters
,
which
exhaust
and
consume
the
meanes
of
the
poore
,
make
many
beggars
in
Israell
.
But
the
Lord
shall
come
in
thunder
,
and
roote
them
from
the
face
of
the
earth
,
hee
shall
raze
doune
their
buildings
▪
and
make
their
dwelling
with
Ostriches
.
For
the
Lords
delight
is
in
the
poore
that
humbles
himselfe
beefore
him
:
his
horne
shall
bee
exalted
with
honour
:
but
for
the
mighty
oppressors
that
grinde
the
face
of
the
poore
,
the
Lord
will
chastice
them
in
his
fury
,
and
be
auenged
of
them
in
his
mightie
displeasure
.
O
if
the
rich
man
knew
(
being
Gods
dispensour
)
how
soone
the
sythe
of
humane
frailety
will
cut
him
short
,
hee
would
not
promise
to
himselfe
length
of
daies
,
but
with
all
integrity
of
heart
,
feruencie
of
spirit
,
and
humility
of
minde
fall
downe
before
the
Throne
of
Gods
merie
:
Sicut
Apes
flores
quaesitant
,
ita
Sancti
misericordiam
Dei
.
The
Saints
of
God
and
such
as
are
consecrate
to
him
,
will
seeke
the
mercie
of
God
,
and
with
teares
of
entire
compassion
turne
to
the
Lord
,
that
it
would
please
him
to
turne
from
their
sinnes
.
They
will
not
protract
the
time
,
nor
take
day
with
their
sinnes
,
but
with
hearty
contrition
,
speedy
conuersion
and
firme
resolution
not
to
commit
the
like
sinnes
again
,
they
purchase
their
atonement
with
God
,
leauing
off
sinne
before
sinne
leaue
them
.
For
what
is
it
when
the
Organs
and
naturall
faculties
of
the
bodie
through
their
debilitie
haue
lost
all
power
of
sinning
,
then
to
surcease
from
sinne
?
No
,
reserue
the
heate
of
the
day
for
the
Lords
vineyard
,
let
not
him
haue
the
afterlings
.
The
first
fruits
were
in
ancient
time
giuen
to
the
Priests
,
and
wilt
thou
detaine
thy
first
fruits
from
him
which
is
the
head
Priest
?
O
dedicate
thy
labors
vnto
him
,
and
be
conuerted
euen
in
the
maturitie
of
thy
time
.
Thou
art
now
able
to
cope
with
Antichrist
:
to
morrow
it
may
be
thou
shalt
be
lesse
able
.
A
valiant
captaine
(
in
the
siege
of
any
Citty
or
fortresse
)
will
apprehend
euery
aduantage
and
occasion
of
attaining
his
purpose
:
he
will
not
intermit
any
time
,
but
with
all
alacritie
prosecute
the
charge
he
hath
in
hand
,
that
his
deportments
may
purchase
him
glory
:
Sub
vexillo
meret
,
&
moeret
si
non
mereat
.
Thou
art
in
the
same
case
:
in
a
straite
siege
,
beleagred
with
impetuous
and
violent
enemies
.
The
world
besiegeth
thee
on
euerie
side
,
&
by
those
5.
Gates
or
breaches
,
viz.
thy
fiue
corporall
sences
,
eye
,
eare
,
tast
,
smell
,
and
touch
,
he
woundeth
thy
soule
as
with
most
venemous
Arrowes
:
so
as
death
entreth
in
at
the
verie
window
of
thy
soule
.
Ismaell
plaies
with
thee
,
and
deludes
thee
:
the
flesh
whom
thou
pamperedst
rebels
against
thee
:
thy
verie
housholds
sinnes
begin
to
wrastle
with
thee
:
and
Grauis
lucta
Graue
est
periculum
contra
domesticum
hostem
pugnare
,
saith
Barnard
.
Thou
must
wrastle
with
sinne
conspiring
within
thee
,
with
the
flesh
which
enuirons
thee
,
and
the
voluptuous
affections
of
worlds
vanitie
that
seeke
to
surprise
thee
.
Show
thy selfe
resolute
in
this
encounter
,
fight
a
good
fight
,
and
with
the
complete
Armour
of
a
spirituall
warriour
raze
downe
the
tyrannicall
kingdome
of
Antichrist
.
Thou
must
passe
many
difficulties
ere
thou
canst
obtain
the
victorie
.
Those
Cyanea
saxa
:
those
rockes
of
perill
temptations
of
euery
kinde
:
but
perseuerance
will
make
thy
victorie
most
eminent
.
The
yong
man
must
needes
take
leaue
of
his
friends
,
before
he
can
follow
Christ
.
But
thou
must
abandon
friends
,
estate
,
possessions
,
and
all
encombrances
,
that
thou
may
be
thought
a
worthy
follower
of
Christ
.
Qui
Christum
sequi
petit
,
equum
est
vt
omnia
relinquat
,
quo
Christum
arctius
teneat
.
Riches
were
best
demonstrated
by
the
Romane
word
Impedimenta
:
hinderances
indeed
for
our
heauenly
expedition
:
we
should
vse
them
in
necessarie
respects
,
not
to
adore
them
:
if
the
price
of
gold
had
not
beene
knowne
,
Baals
golden
calfe
had
not
beene
erected
.
It
is
a
cause
of
much
false
Adoration
:
and
many
I
am
perswaded
(
yet
timerous
in
perswasion
)
worship
the
idoll
in
their
chest
,
more
then
their
Messias
in
his
Temple
.
O
prophanation
of
Times
!
when
an
externall
appearance
of
tempting
vanitie
,
can
seduce
an
Intellectuall
soule
from
her
Creator
,
with
the
desire
of
a
bare
mettall
ordained
for
the
vse
of
his
creature
.
We
are
wise
and
vnderstanding
in
chymicke
labours
,
and
are
profoundlie
read
in
minerals
:
But
that
onely
and
principall
good
,
the
select
treasure
of
the
minde
is
as
farre
estranged
from
our
reading
,
as
Demas
heart
was
from
any
thing
,
saue
what
tasted
of
the
world
.
We
can
talke
of
eccentricke
lines
,
bodies
,
motions
,
temperatures
,
&
affections
:
but
which
amongst
vs
seekes
to
season
the
ill
disposed
temper
of
our
minde
?
O
pittie
and
great
pitty
it
is
to
neglect
so
diuine
a
substance
:
let
the
Philosophers
idle
axiome
alone
:
the
body
should
take
her
temperature
from
the
soule
,
and
not
the
soule
from
the
body
.
Corpus
Ancilla
est
vt
pareat
,
non
domina
vt
imperet
.
Confusion
of
Gouernors
spoile
euerie
well
gouerned
state
:
and
those
kingdomes
be
most
happy
where
there
be
not
the
most
but
the
best
Kings
.
Thou
hast
a
monarchy
(
and
that
s
the
best
kinde
of
Gouernement
)
within
thy selfe
:
O
dispose
then
of
thy
affections
like
a
Prince
:
be
inuested
with
a
roabe
worthy
an
Emperor
,
the
pure
stole
of
integrity
,
thy
thoughts
must
be
eleuate
,
not
depressed
downe
to
this
earthly
centre
.
It
is
reported
that
the
Emperour
Augustus
could
see
as
well
by
night
as
day
;
thy
eyes
should
be
so
;
not
obscured
or
darkned
with
the
night
of
error
,
but
euer
tralucent
,
that
if
there
were
windowes
in
thy
heart
,
the
splendor
of
thy
internall
man
might
show
her
owne
dignity
.
But
especially
let
me
caution
thee
in
this
:
that
thou
be
open
handed
,
and
bountifully
hearted
to
thy
neeedfull
brother
:
it
will
make
thee
see
more
cleerely
into
the
prouidence
of
God
,
and
excite
thee
to
an
acknowledgement
of
his
mercies
;
euer
meditating
of
his
bounty
in
bestowing
,
and
thy
immerrited
seruice
in
deseruing
:
It
will
inflame
in
thee
a
perfect
and
exact
measure
of
charity
,
to
giue
freely
,
because
thou
hast
receiued
more
amply
.
An
affectionate
charitie
is
approued
by
God
and
man
:
making
our selues
in
distributiue
iustice
Christians
,
and
imitating
the
inimitable
patterne
of
Christ
,
who
sustained
the
weak
,
supported
the
needy
,
relieued
the
hungry
,
being
all
to
all
,
that
he
might
show
his
glory
towards
all
:
his
humility
may
asswage
our
pride
,
and
caution
vs
to
be
humble
here
,
that
wee
may
be
exalted
elsewhere
.
His
penurie
may
taxe
vs
of
excesse
,
that
liue
in
Epicureal
riot
,
consuming
our
daies
in
security
and
carelesse
prophanation
of
God
and
his
sacred
ministers
;
neither
vsing
reuerence
to
them
nor
him
:
for
in
contemning
them
,
wee
contemne
him
(
as
he
the
father
of
verity
hath
spoken
.
)
O
deere
christian
!
we
haue
too
long
dallied
with
sinne
,
too
long
delaied
the
time
of
our
conuersion
:
Turne
,
turne
from
thy
euill
waies
:
least
thou
be
cut
downe
in
his
fury
:
the
vials
of
his
wrath
haue
beene
long
in
diffusing
,
but
so
much
longer
the
stroke
is
delaied
,
so
much
it
returnes
more
violent
.
O
let
vs
relinquish
earths
vanitie
,
and
plant
our
affections
vpon
heauens
beauty
;
why
should
we
loue
such
things
as
breede
lothing
:
hauing
bitternesse
in
their
tast
,
and
producing
no
fruits
,
but
the
distastfull
weedes
of
repentance
?
Who
so
is
bewitched
or
captiuated
with
the
pie-coloured
vanities
of
this
world
,
deserues
a
pie
colord
coate
to
describe
the
foole
in
his
follies
.
Learne
to
be
wise
in
spirituall
affaires
,
that
the
commerce
which
thou
hast
had
with
the
factors
of
vanity
,
may
be
now
disualued
,
hauing
reference
to
the
maine
price
of
thy
redemption
working
out
thy
saluation
with
feare
and
trembling
.
Thou
seest
the
race
thou
must
of
necessity
run
,
not
the
race
of
lasciuious
prodigals
,
whose
exorbitance
makes
their
house
die
in
infamy
,
nor
the
race
of
the
Auaricious
Miser
,
that
treasures
vp
vengeance
for
himselfe
and
his
posterity
,
making
the
issue
of
his
loines
the
heires
of
shame
,
nor
the
race
of
adulterers
that
wast
their
estate
in
the
brothels
of
licentious
delights
:
but
the
christian
race
,
making
thy
beginning
a
hopefull
proeme
of
a
successiue
end
:
thy
end
a
happy
concluder
of
so
faire
beginnings
.
Runne
thus
and
thou
shalt
obtaine
,
not
a
temporall
reward
,
but
the
crowne
of
eternitie
:
that
God
(
who
reclaimed
thee
from
thy
sinne
,
may
be
glorified
in
thy
members
,
consecrated
to
holinesse
and
integrity
▪
Meditate
of
this
,
contemplate
this
,
exercise
the
faculties
of
thy
soule
in
these
,
and
the
like
spirituall
meditations
:
so
shall
the
deceipts
of
Sathan
be
diuerted
,
the
gracious
operations
of
Gods
spirit
renewed
:
and
the
promises
of
God
to
thee
performed
in
supernall
Syon
.
A
SERMON
of
Saint
Barnard
vpon
the
passion
of
the
Lord
.
LEt
vs
celebrate
(
deere
christians
)
with
diuine
honours
,
Iesus
of
Nazareth
,
by
the
Iewes
innocently
condemned
,
by
the
Gentiles
crucified
.
Let
vs
that
are
Christians
worshippe
with
all
reuerence
,
embrace
with
all
feruentnesse
,
and
imitate
with
all
faithfulnesse
(
as
it
is
meet
,
comfortable
and
glorious
)
the
infirmities
of
our
Sauiour
:
for
these
sufferings
be
those
instruments
,
by
which
the
omnipotent
power
and
inscrutable
wisdome
of
God
hath
wrought
wonderfully
and
powerfully
the
restauration
of
the
whole
world
.
For
Christ
our
Lord
hath
so
wrought
for
vs
,
that
he
became
lesse
then
Angels
,
to
make
vs
equall
vnto
Angels
;
And
who
will
not
humble
himselfe
for
Christs
sake
?
Christ
our
Lord
was
crucified
for
our
sinnes
,
and
hath
sweetened
the
bitternesse
of
the
Crosse
,
to
such
as
loue
his
Crosse.
He
died
,
and
destroied
death
,
that
through
him
we
might
liue
:
and
who
will
not
loue
Christ
our
Lord
?
who
will
thinke
much
to
suffer
for
Christ
?
Christ
by
the
ignonimie
of
his
Crosse
,
passed
to
the
glorie
of
heauenly
excellence
,
and
all
power
in
heauen
and
in
earth
is
giuen
vnto
him
(
by
God
his
father
)
for
his
reuerence
:
All
the
Angels
of
God
doe
worshippe
him
,
and
in
the
Name
of
Iesus
let
euery
knee
bow
of
things
heauenly
,
earthly
,
or
whatsoeuer
is
vnder
the
earth
;
wherein
(
O
Christian
)
canst
thou
glory
,
saue
in
the
Name
of
our
Lord
God
crucified
,
and
in
the
name
of
Christ
,
which
is
aboue
all
names
,
in
which
whosoeuer
is
blessed
,
shall
be
blessed
vpon
earth
?
Glorie
in
the
Name
of
the
Sonne
your
redeemer
,
and
ascribe
honour
to
your
Sauiour
,
who
hath
done
great
things
for
vs
,
and
magnifie
his
name
with
me
,
saying
:
we
worship
thee
O
Christ
thou
king
of
Israell
,
and
of
all
Nations
,
King
of
Kings
,
Lord
of
the
whole
earth
,
God
of
Sabboath
,
the
most
sure
strength
of
the
omnipotent
God
.
We
worshippe
thee
that
art
the
precious
price
of
our
redemption
,
the
peace
offring
,
who
(
alone
)
by
the
inestimable
sweetenesse
of
thy
perfumes
,
hast
moued
thy
father
whose
dwelling
is
on
high
,
to
behold
the
things
which
are
on
earth
,
appeasing
his
indignation
conceiued
against
vs
.
We
declare
thy
mercies
O
Christ
,
and
we
vtter
the
remembrance
of
thy
sweetenesse
in
aboundance
.
We
offer
vnto
thee
(
O
Christ
)
the
sacrifice
of
praise
,
for
the
multitude
of
thy
goodnesse
,
showen
vnto
vs
,
of
a
depraued
seede
,
wicked
and
rebellious
children
.
For
when
wee
were
thy
enemies
(
O
Lord
)
and
death
had
entred
vpon
all
flesh
,
to
which
all
the
seede
of
Adam
became
subiect
,
by
the
condition
of
our
originall
sinne
,
thou
remembredst
thy
mercie
,
and
lookedst
downe
from
thy
high
habitation
vpon
this
vale
of
teares
and
miserie
.
Thou
sawest
the
affliction
of
thy
people
,
and
being
inwardly
touched
with
the
sweetenesse
of
charitie
,
thou
conferredst
the
thoughts
of
peace
and
redemption
vpon
vs
,
and
when
thou
was
the
sonne
of
God
,
very
God
,
coeternall
and
consubstantiall
with
God
the
father
,
&
God
the
holy
Ghost
,
inhabiting
an
inaccessible
light
,
and
supporting
all
things
with
the
word
of
thy
strength
;
thou
disdainedst
not
to
bow
downe
thy
maiesty
to
this
fraile
prison
of
our
mortality
,
whereby
thou
mightest
both
tast
,
swallow
down
our
miserie
,
and
aduance
vs
to
thy
glory
.
It
had
beene
but
little
to
thy
charity
,
to
finish
the
worke
of
our
saluation
,
by
deputing
the
consummation
thereof
to
some
Cherubin
or
Seraphin
,
or
one
of
thy
Angels
:
but
thou
vouchsafedst
thy self
to
come
vnto
vs
,
being
commanded
by
thy
father
,
whose
exceeding
charity
we
haue
tried
in
thee
.
Thou
camest
(
I
say
)
not
by
changing
thy
place
,
but
by
exhibiting
thy
presence
vnto
vs
,
by
taking
vpon
thee
our
flesh
.
Thou
camest
from
the
royall
throne
of
supreme
glory
,
into
the
wombe
of
a
Virgin
,
humble
and
abiect
in
her
owne
eyes
,
sealed
with
the
religious
vow
of
virgins
continence
,
in
whose
sacred
wombe
the
ineffable
power
alone
of
the
holy
spirit
,
made
thee
to
be
conceiued
,
and
to
be
borne
in
the
Nature
of
true
humanity
,
so
as
the
occasion
of
thy
birth
did
neither
impaire
in
thee
the
power
of
thy
maiestie
,
nor
in
thy
mother
the
purenesse
of
her
virginitie
.
O
amiable
and
admirable
humility
,
that
being
God
of
infinite
glorie
,
became
as
a
contemptible
worme
of
miserie
!
Thou
being
God
of
all
,
became
a
seruant
vnto
all
.
It
seemed
too
little
in
thy
sight
to
be
our
Lord
and
father
,
but
thou
vouchsafest
likewise
to
be
our
brother
,
and
thou
Lord
of
the
whole
earth
,
standing
in
neede
of
nothing
,
from
the
beginning
of
thy
Natiuitie
,
refusedst
not
to
tast
the
inconueniences
of
pouertie
.
For
as
the
Scripture
saith
,
thou
hadst
not
when
thou
wast
borne
anie
place
in
an
Inne
,
nor
cradle
,
which
might
receaue
thee
in
thy
tender
infancie
:
but
in
the
base
crib
of
a
filthy
stable
.
Thou
which
containest
the
whole
earth
in
thy selfe
,
art
wrapped
vp
in
swathling
clouts
,
and
placed
in
a
desperable
repose
.
Hence
is
it
,
that
thy
mother
tooke
thee
from
amongst
the
brute
beasts
.
Take
comfort
,
take
comfort
ye
that
liue
in
pouertie
,
because
God
liues
with
you
in
your
pouertie
,
hee
lies
not
in
delicious
beds
,
nor
is
hee
found
in
the
waies
of
such
as
liue
in
their
delights
.
To
what
end
dost
thou
reioice
,
(
O
rich
man
)
being
but
clay
,
wallowing
in
thy
gorgeous
and
trim
bed
,
since
the
King
of
Kings
chused
rather
to
honour
the
straw
beds
of
the
poore
with
his
humble
repose
?
Why
dost
thou
disdaine
hard
straw
,
when
a
tender
infant
in
whose
hand
are
all
things
,
preferred
the
hard
litter
of
beasts
before
thy
silkes
and
fethers
?
But
this
thy
tender
and
weake
infancie
(
O
Christ
)
was
not
secure
from
the
sword
of
the
persecutors
:
for
whilest
thou
yet
suckt
hanging
at
thy
mothers
brest
,
an
Angell
appeared
vnto
Ioseph
in
his
sleepe
,
saying
:
Arise
▪
and
take
the
child
,
and
flie
into
Aegipt
,
and
abide
there
till
I
shall
tell
thee
;
for
it
will
come
to
passe
that
Herod
will
seeke
the
child
to
kill
it
&c.
Now
from
this
time
(
O
good
Iesus
)
thou
beginnest
to
suffer
sharpe
things
:
for
thou
sufferedst
not
only
this
vexation
in
thine
owne
infancie
,
but
)
the
death
of
those
little
ones
,
many
thousands
whereof
by
the
cruelty
of
Herod
were
put
to
death
,
being
rest
from
their
mothers
brests
.
Hauing
past
thine
infancie
,
thou
gauest
vnto
vs
an
example
of
professing
the
truth
with
all
humility
:
for
thou
satest
not
with
the
counsell
of
vanitie
,
but
in
the
midst
of
Doctors
,
questioning
,
and
hearing
them
:
although
thou
wast
the
Lord
of
knowledge
,
and
the
wisedome
of
God
thy
Father
.
But
thou
wast
likewise
an
example
of
obedience
vnto
vs
,
when
as
thou
being
Gouernour
of
the
whole
world
subiected
thy selfe
humblely
vnto
the
will
of
thy
parents
.
When
the
grouth
of
a
stronger
age
came
,
so
as
thou
wast
to
apply
thy selfe
to
more
weightie
affaires
,
thou
wentest
forth
to
finish
the
saluation
of
thy
people
:
as
a
mighty
Giant
to
run
the
race
of
all
our
misery
.
And
that
thou
mightest
(
in
humane
resemblance
)
frame
thy selfe
like
vnto
thy
brethren
,
thou
the
innocent
lambe
of
God
,
(
neuer
defiled
with
the
lest
staine
of
sinne
)
camest
vnto
thy
seruant
baptizing
penitent
sinners
,
as
if
thou
hadst
beene
a
sinner
,
desiring
that
thou
mightest
bee
baptized
:
but
hee
baptized
not
thee
in
the
water
,
but
the
water
in
thee
,
sanctifying
them
,
that
they
might
sanctifie
vs
,
by
thy
sanctifying
spirit
working
in
vs
.
From
Baptisme
by
the
strength
of
thy
spirit
,
thou
wentest
into
the
desert
,
giuing
vs
an
example
of
solitary
life
in
thee
.
Thou
sufferedst
patiently
solitarines
and
fasting
,
for
the
space
of
40.
daies
,
bitternesse
of
hunger
,
temptations
and
illusions
,
to
the
end
thou
mightest
make
all
these
things
more
tollerable
vnto
vs
.
At
last
thou
camest
to
the
lost
sheepe
of
Israell
,
shewing
openly
the
lampe
of
thy
diuine
word
to
illuminate
all
the
world
,
declaring
thy
kingdome
to
all
such
as
obeyed
thy
word
,
and
followed
thy
precepts
;
confirming
with
signes
,
and
shewing
the
power
of
thy
diuinity
to
all
that
were
sicke
,
doing
all
things
to
all
men
freely
,
which
might
conduce
to
the
saluation
of
sinners
,
to
the
end
thou
mightst
profit
all
.
But
the
fooles
heart
is
darkened
(
O
Lord
)
and
he
hath
throwne
thy
commandements
behind
him
,
neuer
harkening
vnto
all
those
wonderfull
workes
which
thou
hast
wrought
amongst
them
:
except
a
few
very
noble
and
stout
champions
,
which
thou
hast
elected
out
of
the
weake
and
abiect
things
of
the
world
,
that
by
them
thou
mightst
wonderfully
discomfit
the
strong
and
mighty
.
Neither
haue
they
alone
bin
vnthankefull
vnto
thee
for
thy
benefits
:
but
(
O
Lord
of
Lords
)
they
haue
reproched
thee
,
and
done
vnto
thee
whatsoeuer
it
liked
them
:
for
what
said
they
when
thou
didst
those
workes
of
God
which
none
else
could
doe
?
This
man
is
not
of
God
:
in
the
Prince
of
diuels
he
throwes
out
diuels
,
he
hath
a
diuell
,
he
seduceth
the
people
,
hee
is
a
glutton
and
a
bibber
of
wine
,
a
friend
of
Publicanes
and
sinners
.
Why
weepest
thou
?
why
sighest
thou
(
O
man
)
when
thou
art
iniuriously
reproched
?
dost
thou
not
heare
how
many
rebukes
fell
vpon
thy
Lord
and
Sauiour
for
thy
sake
?
If
they
call
the
master
of
the
household
Belzebub
,
how
much
more
his
household
seruants
?
But
(
O
good
Iesus
)
whilest
they
spake
these
and
the
like
blasphemies
,
stoning
thee
sometimes
with
stones
,
thou
sufferedst
all
things
patiently
,
and
thou
becamest
as
if
thou
hadst
not
heard
,
hauing
no
rebukes
in
thy
mouth
.
Lastly
they
set
thy
iust
and
vndefiled
blood
)
betraied
by
thy
disciple
a
sonne
of
perdition
)
at
the
price
of
thirtie
pieces
of
filuer
,
that
they
might
take
away
thy
life
without
a
cause
.
Albeit
the
trechery
of
that
wicked
betraier
was
not
hid
from
thee
,
when
in
the
supper
where
thou
washedst
thy
Disciples
feete
,
kneeling
downe
on
thy
knees
before
him
,
thou
vouchsafedst
to
handle
,
wash
▪
and
wipe
his
cursed
feete
(
swift
to
sheede
blood
)
with
thy
most
holy
hands
.
Wherefore
then
(
O
thou
dust
&
ashes
)
art
thou
yet
so
proud
?
doth
pride
yet
lift
thee
vp
?
doth
impatience
yet
vox
thee
▪
Behold
thy
Iesus
,
the
creator
of
all
things
,
the
fearefull
Iudge
of
the
quick
and
the
dead
,
the
very
parerne
of
humility
and
mercie
,
kneeling
before
the
feete
of
a
man
,
and
that
man
a
traitour
.
Learne
,
because
hee
is
meeke
and
humble
in
heart
,
and
bee
ashamed
of
thy
pride
,
and
blush
at
thy
patience
.
This
was
also
(
O
Lord
)
an
especiall
token
of
thy
mildnesse
,
when
thou
wouldest
not
discouer
that
disloyall
wretch
in
the
middest
of
his
brethren
,
nor
publiquely
confound
him
;
onely
bidding
him
doe
that
hee
would
doe
quickely
.
In
all
these
his
malice
ceased
not
towards
thee
,
but
going
forth
hee
perfects
his
mischeeuous
purpose
.
O
Lucifer
,
how
fellest
thou
from
heauen
,
that
shined
before
so
brightly
in
heauen
,
thou
that
once
appearedst
glorious
in
the
delicious
borders
of
Paradise
,
fellow
Cittizen
with
the
Angels
in
Heauen
,
and
a
guest
at
the
table
of
the
diuine
word
:
how
art
thou
now
reckoned
among
the
children
of
darkenesse
?
thou
that
wast
nourished
with
spices
,
wherefore
doest
thou
embrace
filthines
?
Now
is
thy
familie
(
O
Christ
)
purified
,
when
hee
went
into
the
world
,
leauing
the
Angelicall
society
which
in
heauen
remained
.
Now
is
that
happy
companie
made
drunke
with
the
plentifull
inundation
of
thy
diuine
oracles
,
hauing
casten
him
out
whom
thou
knewest
to
bee
vnworthy
of
the
infusion
of
so
pure
a
liquor
.
When
thou
hadst
giuen
a
commandement
of
charity
and
wholsome
patience
,
and
hadst
disposed
of
thy
Fathers
Kingdome
vnto
thy
brethren
:
thou
wentest
aside
with
them
,
towards
the
place
knowne
to
thy
Betrayer
:
knowing
all
things
that
would
come
vpon
thee
.
There
thou
wast
not
ashamed
to
confesse
in
the
hearing
of
thy
Apostles
,
the
sadnes
of
thy
soule
by
the
imminencie
of
thy
passion
which
voluntarily
thou
assumedst
,
as
also
other
things
which
then
thou
sufferedst
,
saying
:
Now
is
my
soule
heauie
euen
vnto
death
.
Also
kneeling
vpon
the
ground
thou
fellest
flat
vpon
thy
face
,
praying
in
thine
agony
,
and
saying
:
O
Father
(
if
it
be
possible
)
let
this
cuppe
passe
from
me
.
And
that
bloody
sweat
did
most
euidently
expresse
the
sorrowes
of
thy
hart
,
which
al
the
time
of
thy
prayer
trickled
downe
droppe
by
droppe
vppon
the
ground
.
O
my
Lord
Iesus
,
whence
comes
this
thy
sorrowfull
supplication
?
didst
thou
not
voluntarily
offer
thy
selfe
a
sacrifice
vnto
thy
father
?
euen
so
Lord
.
But
we
suppose
that
thou
tooke
this
vpon
thee
,
for
the
comfort
of
thy
weake
and
disconsolate
members
,
least
peraduenture
some
should
despaire
if
at
any
time
the
fraile
flesh
seeme
to
murmure
,
when
the
spirit
is
ready
to
repell
any
tentation
.
Surely
thou
didst
it
to
this
end
,
that
we
might
haue
continuall
motiues
of
loue
&
thankfulnes
towards
thee
,
hauing
expressed
the
naturall
infirmity
of
our
flesh
by
these
tokens
in
thee
.
By
which
we
are
taught
,
that
thou
hast
truely
borne
our
infirmities
,
&
hast
passed
the
pricking
thornes
of
thy
passions
not
without
a
sensible
feeling
of
them
.
For
that
voice
seemed
not
to
be
the
voice
of
the
spirit
but
of
the
flesh
,
in
that
thou
addest
,
the
spirit
is
truely
ready
,
but
the
flesh
is
weake
.
That
the
spirit
was
ready
to
thy
passion
thou
euidently
demonstrated
,
when
thou
ran
of
thine
owne
accord
to
meet
thy
betraier
&
such
men
as
were
giuen
to
shed
blood
attending
him
,
seeking
to
take
away
thy
life
with
lanternes
and
Torches
and
weapons
vpon
the
Night
:
and
least
they
should
receiue
any
notice
by
the
Captaine
of
this
impiety
,
thou
manifested
thy selfe
:
for
thou
turnedst
not
away
from
that
cruell
Beast
comming
to
kisse
thy
most
holy
mouth
,
but
affably
gaue
thy
mouth
(
wherein
was
neuer
deceipt
found
)
vnto
his
mouth
which
abounded
with
all
malice
.
O
Innocent
lambe
of
God
,
what
hast
thou
to
doe
with
that
wolfe
?
what
concord
betwixt
thee
and
Belial
?
but
this
was
O
Lord
thy
great
mercy
,
to
exhibit
all
such
things
as
might
any
way
mollifie
the
pertinacie
of
a
depraued
heart
:
for
(
as
one
not
al
together
vnmindfull
of
ancient
friendshippe
)
thou
admonished
him
saying
;
my
friend
to
what
end
camest
thou
?
and
willing
(
as
it
seemes
)
to
wound
the
heart
of
this
impious
Traitour
,
with
the
horror
of
his
sinne
,
thou
said
:
Iudas
doest
thou
betray
the
sonne
of
man
with
a
kisse
?
and
behold
the
Philistins
are
vpon
thee
Sampson
.
Neither
didst
thou
driue
them
from
thee
intending
to
smite
them
at
the
houre
of
thy
apprehension
,
with
thy
right
hand
,
no
not
in
defence
of
thy selfe
,
that
the
foolish
presumption
of
man
may
know
that
they
can
doe
nothing
against
thee
,
but
so
much
onely
as
is
permitted
by
thee
.
But
who
can
heare
without
weeping
how
they
laid
their
murdering
hands
vpon
thee
,
tying
thy
innocent
hands
with
cords
,
sweet
Iesus
,
who
like
a
most
meek
lambe
speaking
nothing
,
was
carried
after
the
manner
of
a
theefe
,
contumeliously
to
the
slaughter
.
Neither
ceasedst
thou
then
(
O
Christ
)
to
shew
thy
mercy
vpon
thy
Enemies
,
&
to
diffuse
the
honiecombe
of
thy
sweetnesse
vpon
them
,
reprouing
the
zeale
of
thy
defendor
,
and
withholding
him
from
hurting
such
as
haled
thee
.
Their
furie
was
cursed
because
wilfull
,
being
neither
moued
by
the
maiesty
of
thy
miracles
,
nor
the
greatnes
of
thy
benefits
.
Thou
wast
brought
before
a
counsell
of
wicked
head-priests
consulting
against
thee
;
and
confessing
the
truth
(
as
was
seemelie
)
thou
wast
adiudged
to
death
for
thy
blasphemie
.
O
louing
Lord
,
how
many
vnworthy
things
hast
thou
suffered
of
thine
owne
Nation
?
men
of
polluted
lips
beslubbring
with
their
spittle
▪
thy
amiable
countenance
,
on
which
the
Angels
haue
desired
to
looke
,
replenishing
the
whole
Courts
of
heauen
with
ioy
;
and
vnto
which
all
the
rich
men
in
the
world
shall
make
intercession
:
beating
it
with
their
sacrilegious
hands
,
and
blindfolding
thee
in
derision
:
and
being
Lord
of
all
creatures
buffetted
thee
as
a
seruant
most
contemptuous
of
all
others
.
But
let
vs
now
come
to
their
deliuering
vp
of
thy
soule
,
to
be
swallowed
vp
by
vncircumcised
flesh
.
They
lead
thee
bound
before
Pilate
,
requiring
that
thou
maist
be
crucified
which
knewest
no
sinne
,
&
that
a
murderer
might
bee
let
loose
vnto
them
,
lesse
esteeming
of
a
lambe
then
a
wolfe
;
of
gold
,
then
clay
.
O
vnworthy
and
vnhappy
merchandise
!
neither
was
that
wicked
Pilate
ignorant
,
how
all
these
things
were
done
through
enuie
against
thee
;
yet
for
all
that
,
he
proceeded
rashly
in
iudgement
against
thee
,
filling
thy
soule
with
much
bitternesse
without
a
cause
;
He
suffered
thee
to
be
mocked
,
commanding
thee
to
stand
in
the
sight
of
thy
mockers
;
nor
spared
he
to
teare
thy
pure
virgin-skinne
with
most
sharpe
scourgings
,
cruelly
inflicting
stripes
vpon
stripes
,
and
wounds
vpon
wounds
.
O
thou
deere
child
of
God
,
what
hast
thou
committed
,
that
should
deserue
so
great
bitternesse
,
so
great
reproch
?
Surely
nothing
.
It
is
I
,
it
is
I
,
wicked
man
that
I
am
,
that
was
the
cause
of
thy
death
.
I
(
O
Lord
)
haue
eaten
the
sower
grape
,
and
thy
teeth
are
on
edge
,
paying
for
that
which
thou
neuer
tooke
.
And
yet
the
impiety
of
the
trecherous
Iewes
is
not
satisfied
with
all
these
indignities
done
against
thee
:
but
thou
art
now
at
last
deliuered
ouer
into
the
hands
of
vncircumcised
souldiers
to
be
put
to
a
most
shamefull
death
.
It
seemed
but
a
little
matter
for
those
sacrilegious
miscreants
to
crucifie
thee
,
but
they
must
also
vex
thy
soule
with
reproches
.
For
what
saith
the
Scripture
of
them
.
Then
all
the
people
gathered
together
,
and
taking
his
owne
garments
from
him
,
they
put
vpon
him
a
purple
coate
,
and
they
cloathed
him
with
a
skarlet
robe
,
and
winding
a
crowne
of
thornes
they
put
it
vpon
his
head
,
and
a
reede
in
his
right
hand
,
and
bowing
vnto
him
they
mocked
him
saying
,
Haile
,
King
of
the
Iewes
:
and
they
buffetted
him
and
spit
vpon
him
,
and
taking
the
reede
in
their
hands
they
smote
him
on
the
Head
,
and
after
they
had
mocked
him
,
they
put
his
owne
garments
vpon
him
,
to
crucifie
him
bearing
his
owne
crosse
;
and
they
led
him
to
Golgotha
,
giuing
him
wine
to
drinke
mixed
with
mirrhe
and
gall
:
and
when
he
had
tasted
of
it
,
he
would
not
drinke
:
then
they
crucified
him
,
and
two
theeues
with
him
,
the
one
of
the
right
hand
,
and
the
other
of
the
left
,
and
Iesus
in
the
middest
.
And
Iesus
said
:
Father
forgiue
them
,
for
they
know
not
what
they
doe
.
Afterwards
Iesus
knowing
that
all
things
might
be
done
,
that
the
Scripture
might
be
fulfilled
,
said
,
I
thirst
:
and
one
amongst
them
running
tooke
a
spunge
and
filled
it
with
vinegar
,
and
put
it
vpon
a
reede
and
gaue
him
it
to
drinke
:
assoone
as
he
had
receiued
the
vinegar
he
said
,
It
is
finished
:
and
crying
with
a
loud
voice
he
said
,
Father
into
thy
hands
I
commend
my
spirit
,
and
bowing
downe
his
head
he
gaue
vp
the
ghost
.
Then
one
of
the
Souldiers
opened
his
side
with
a
speare
:
and
presently
their
issued
out
water
and
blood
for
the
redemption
of
man
.
Awake
O
my
soule
,
shake
of
the
dust
of
sinne
,
and
fixe
thy
contemplation
vpon
this
memorable
patterne
of
Humanitie
,
whom
thou
seest
presented
vnto
thee
in
this
glasse
of
Gods
word
.
Behold
O
my
soule
,
who
it
is
that
cometh
in
vnto
thee
,
hauing
the
image
of
a
King
,
and
yet
reproched
by
his
most
despicable
seruants
▪
treading
vpon
Crownes
,
and
yet
his
Crowne
is
a
vexation
vnto
him
,
wounding
his
beautifull
head
with
a
thousand
pricks
:
hee
is
clothed
with
roiall
purple
,
but
in
it
hee
is
rather
despised
then
honoured
:
hee
caries
a
Scepter
in
his
hand
,
but
with
it
his
reuerend
head
is
wounded
:
they
worshippe
him
with
bended
knees
,
and
call
him
King
,
but
presently
they
besmere
his
amiable
face
with
spitting
,
dishonouring
his
cheekes
and
venerable
aspect
with
their
fists
.
See
O
my
soule
,
how
this
man
is
afflicted
and
contemned
of
all
sides
.
Hee
bowes
himselfe
vnder
the
burthen
of
his
Crosse
,
&
bearing
that
ignominie
which
was
proper
vnto
thee
,
where
being
brought
vnto
the
place
of
execution
,
his
thirst
is
quenched
with
mirrhe
and
vineger
vpon
the
Crosse
,
saying
:
Father
pardon
&c.
What
kinde
of
man
is
this
,
who
in
all
his
sufferings
doth
not
once
open
his
mouth
,
or
vtter
one
word
of
complaint
,
or
excuse
,
or
of
threat
,
or
of
curse
against
those
reuiling
doggs
:
but
concludes
with
such
mild
wordes
of
blessing
,
as
haue
not
bin
heard
before
.
O
my
soule
,
when
hast
thou
seene
any
one
more
mercifull
?
what
can
be
more
curteous
then
this
man
?
Behold
him
with
more
attention
,
how
worthy
he
is
of
admiration
,
and
most
tender
compassion
.
Looke
at
him
naked
,
and
torne
with
whips
,
betwixt
two
theeues
ignominiously
nailed
vpon
the
Crosse
,
quenching
his
thirst
with
vinegar
,
and
after
his
death
wounded
in
the
side
with
a
speare
,
sending
out
plentifull
riuers
of
blood
from
those
woundes
in
his
handes
,
&
feete
,
and
side
.
O
my
eies
abound
with
teares
,
and
O
my
soule
bee
thou
dissolued
with
the
fire
of
compassion
,
in
condoling
so
mercifull
a
man
,
whom
thou
seest
amidst
so
great
biternesse
to
bee
afflicted
with
sorrowes
.
And
now
(
O
my
soule
)
thou
hast
seene
his
infirmicies
,
and
thou
dost
pitty
him
:
now
thou
hast
looked
vpon
his
maiesty
,
and
thou
dost
admire
him
:
for
what
saith
the
Scripture
;
From
the
sixth
hower
vnto
the
ninth
hower
there
was
darkenesse
vpon
the
whole
earth
:
and
the
Sunne
was
darkened
,
and
the
vaile
of
the
Temple
rent
asunder
from
the
toppe
euen
to
the
bottom
,
and
there
was
an
Earth-quake
,
and
the
rockes
cloue
,
and
the
graues
opened
,
and
many
bodies
of
the
Saints
which
were
dead
arose
.
Who
is
this
,
with
whom
both
Heauen
and
Earth
doe
suffer
,
and
whose
death
doth
raise
men
from
death
?
Know
O
my
soule
,
know
that
this
is
the
Lord
God
,
Iesus
Christ
thy
Sauiour
,
the
onely
begotten
sonne
of
God
,
very
God
,
&
very
man
:
who
of
all
men
vnder
the
Sunne
,
was
onely
found
to
be
without
sinne
,
and
behold
how
hee
is
accompted
amongst
the
wicked
,
and
esteemed
as
one
of
the
Lepars
,
or
as
an
abortiue
birth
throwne
from
his
mothers
wombe
.
So
is
hee
throwne
from
the
wombe
of
his
Mother
,
the
vnhappy
Synagogue
.
Hee
that
was
the
fairest
amongst
the
children
of
men
,
how
deformed
is
hee
made
?
hee
was
wounded
for
our
iniquities
,
and
broken
for
our
sinnes
:
he
was
made
a
burnt
Sacrifice
of
sweete
incense
vnto
thee
O
Father
of
eternall
glorie
,
to
pacifie
thy
wrath
conceaued
against
vs
,
and
to
place
vs
in
the
celestiall
mansions
of
glorie
.
Behold
(
O
holy
Father
)
from
thy
Sanctuarie
,
and
from
thy
high
habitation
,
behold
this
our
holy
sacrifice
,
which
our
Head-priest
offereth
vnto
thee
,
thy
holy
Sonne
,
and
our
Lord
Iesus
offering
himselfe
vp
for
our
sinnes
:
and
mercifully
doe
away
the
multitude
of
our
transgressions
.
Behold
the
voice
of
the
blood
of
our
Iesus
crieth
vnto
thee
from
the
Crosse.
For
what
(
O
Lord
)
what
is
it
that
hangeth
thereon
?
hee
hangeth
euen
now
,
because
things
past
are
as
things
present
before
thee
.
Take
knowledge
(
O
Father
)
vnto
the
coat
of
thy
true
sonne
Ioseph
:
Behold
a
sauage
beast
hath
deuoured
him
,
and
trampled
vppon
his
garment
in
his
furie
,
staining
his
bewtie
with
the
effusion
of
his
blood
:
behold
he
hath
made
pittifull
rents
in
it
This
O
Lord
is
the
garment
which
thy
inocent
son
left
in
the
hands
of
that
Aegiptian
harlot
,
thinking
it
better
to
lose
his
coate
,
then
his
honour
,
and
chusing
rather
to
be
spoiled
of
the
garment
of
his
flesh
,
and
to
descend
into
the
prison
of
death
,
then
for
the
glorie
of
the
world
to
harken
vnto
the
voice
of
the
Adultresse
:
to
that
voice
I
say
,
where
it
was
said
vnto
him
:
All
this
will
I
giue
thee
if
thou
wilt
fall
downe
before
me
and
worship
me
,
which
was
as
if
he
shold
haue
slept
with
the
Adultresse
.
And
now
,
O
my
Lord
,
we
know
that
this
thy
sonne
liueth
,
and
is
Gouernour
ouer
all
Aegypt
,
and
in
euerie
place
of
thy
dominion
:
for
hee
is
aduanced
from
the
prison
of
death
and
of
Hell
,
to
thy
Empire
,
and
attaining
a
Crowne
of
immortallity
,
hath
changed
the
garment
of
his
flesh
,
to
reflourish
within
the
immortality
of
the
spirit
,
where
thou
hast
receiued
him
with
much
honour
.
For
hee
hath
subiected
the
empire
of
Pharoh
vnto
him
,
and
hath
triumphantly
ascended
Heauen
by
his
owne
proper
maiesty
:
&
behold
,
he
is
crowned
with
glorie
and
honour
,
when
hee
sitteth
at
the
right
hand
of
thy
maiesty
,
mediating
for
vs
;
for
hee
is
our
flesh
,
and
our
brother
.
Behold
(
O
Lord
)
the
face
of
thy
Christ
,
who
became
obedient
vnto
thee
euen
vnto
death
:
nor
let
the
scars
of
his
woundes
euer
depart
from
thy
sight
,
that
thou
maiest
remember
the
satisfaction
thou
hast
receiued
for
our
sinnes
.
I
would
O
Lord
thou
wouldst
but
weigh
our
sins
in
a
balance
,
by
which
we
haue
deserued
thy
wrath
,
and
the
calamity
which
thy
sonne
suffred
to
appease
thy
wrath
.
Surely
more
forcible
and
more
worthy
would
the
cause
appeare
to
show
thy
mercie
vpon
vs
,
then
by
reason
of
our
sinnes
to
powre
downe
the
viols
of
thy
Ire
vpon
vs
.
Let
euery
tongue
(
O
father
)
giue
thankes
vnto
thee
for
the
exceeding
aboundance
of
thy
loue
,
in
not
sparing
thy
onely
begotten
Sonne
:
but
giuing
him
ouer
vnto
death
for
vs
;
that
we
might
haue
him
as
a
faithfull
Aduocate
before
thee
in
Heauen
for
vs
.
And
thou
O
Lord
Iesus
,
most
mighty
&
most
zealous
of
mans
saluation
,
what
thanks
shall
I
giue
vnto
thee
,
that
I
may
giue
thankes
worthie
,
being
but
dust
and
the
workemanship
of
thy
hands
?
for
what
couldest
thou
doe
for
my
saluation
,
and
hast
not
done
it
?
from
the
sole
of
thy
foot
to
the
crowne
of
thy
head
,
thou
hast
plunged
thy selfe
wholly
into
the
waters
of
thy
passion
,
that
thou
mightest
draw
me
wholly
from
them
:
and
these
passions
haue
entred
euen
vnto
thy
soule
.
For
thou
subiectedst
thy
soule
to
death
and
desolation
,
to
preserue
my
soule
from
death
and
perdition
:
and
behold
thou
hast
bound
me
in
a
double
bond
vnto
thee
.
First
in
that
thou
hast
giuen
thy
life
for
mee
;
and
secondlie
because
my
soule
was
giuen
by
thee
,
twice
vnto
me
,
once
in
my
creation
,
and
once
in
my
recreation
;
wherefore
I
haue
nothing
that
is
fitter
to
giue
thee
then
my
soule
,
which
I
had
of
thee
,
for
if
I
should
in
recompence
of
thy
mercy
giue
vnto
thee
the
Heauen
,
the
earth
,
and
all
the
excellency
thereof
,
yet
surely
could
not
I
attaine
to
the
measure
of
that
I
owe
thee
:
sith
that
which
I
owe
,
and
that
which
is
possible
for
mee
to
giue
is
thy
gift
,
without
which
I
haue
nothing
to
giue
.
Thou
art
to
be
loued
(
O
my
Lord
)
with
all
my
heart
,
with
all
my
soule
;
with
all
my
strength
:
and
thy
imitable
footsteps
are
to
be
followed
by
me
,
because
thou
vouchsafedst
to
die
for
me
:
and
how
can
this
be
done
in
me
,
but
by
thee
?
let
my
soule
cleaue
vnto
thee
,
because
all
my
power
dependeth
on
thee
.
And
now
O
Lord
my
redeemer
,
I
worship
thee
as
the
true
God
:
I
put
my
trust
in
thee
,
I
hope
in
thee
,
and
with
my
vtmost
desires
doe
I
sigh
after
thee
:
helpe
my
many
imperfections
.
I
incline
my selfe
wholly
vnto
the
glorious
signals
of
thy
passion
,
wherein
thou
hast
perfected
my
saluation
.
In
thy
name
O
Christ
,
doe
I
reuerence
the
royall
Banner
of
thy
victorious
Crosse.
O
Christ
with
all
humility
doe
I
adore
and
glorifie
the
remembrance
of
thy
thornie
crowne
,
thy
red-skarlet
nailes
besmeared
with
blood
,
thy
lance
drenched
in
thy
sacred
side
,
thy
wounds
,
thy
blood
,
thy
death
,
thy
buriall
,
thy
glorious
and
victorious
resurrection
and
glorification
.
For
the
breath
of
life
breatheth
to
mee
in
all
these
:
by
these
liuely
and
redolent
odors
raise
my
spirit
O
Lord
,
from
the
death
of
sinne
:
By
the
power
of
these
preserue
me
from
the
subtilties
of
Sathan
,
that
the
yoke
of
thy
commandements
may
be
vnto
me
easie
,
and
the
burden
of
thy
Crosse
(
which
thou
commandest
me
to
beare
after
thee
)
may
be
light
:
for
what
is
my
strength
,
that
(
according
to
thy
commandement
)
I
might
be
able
with
an
inuincible
spirit
to
sustaine
so
manifold
afflictions
in
the
world
.
Are
my
feete
like
Hindes
feete
,
that
like
a
swift
courser
I
may
be
able
to
runne
ouer
the
thornes
and
difficulties
of
thy
passions
?
but
heare
my
voice
,
and
lay
thy
corsse
softly
vpon
thy
seruant
,
that
crosse
,
which
is
the
wood
of
life
to
them
that
lay
hold
vpon
it
:
my
hope
is
,
I
shall
runne
swiftlie
,
and
shall
carrie
as
constantlie
the
crosse
which
is
giuen
me
of
my
enemies
,
to
follow
thee
.
Lay
(
I
say
)
that
most
diuine
crosse
vpon
my
shoulders
,
the
breadth
whereof
is
charitie
,
the
length
eternitie
,
the
height
omnipotencie
,
and
the
depth
inscrutable
wisdome
,
replenished
with
maiestie
.
Naile
my
feete
and
my
hands
vnto
it
,
and
conforme
thy
seruant
,
O
Lord
,
whollie
vnto
thy
passion
.
Grant
vnto
me
O
Lord
,
that
I
may
abstaine
from
all
the
workes
of
the
flesh
,
which
thou
hatest
,
and
doe
those
workes
of
righteousnesse
which
thou
louest
,
and
in
both
to
seeke
thy
glorie
.
I
suppose
it
verie
expedient
that
my
left
hand
bee
nailed
vnto
the
crosse
with
the
nayle
of
temperance
,
my
right
hand
with
the
naile
of
vprightnesse
.
Grant
that
my
soule
may
continually
meditate
vpon
thy
law
,
fixing
all
her
cogitations
vpon
thee
:
and
fasten
thou
my
right
foote
to
the
same
wood
of
life
,
with
the
naile
of
wisdome
.
Grant
that
the
seeming
felicity
of
this
transitory
life
may
not
enfeeble
the
operation
of
my
spirit
with
a
sinister
sensualitie
,
nor
that
it
be
troubled
with
this
present
liues
infelicity
,
but
that
both
my
right
hand
and
left
may
be
fixed
vnto
the
crosse
with
the
naile
of
fortitude
;
and
that
some
appearance
of
the
thornes
which
were
platted
vpon
thy
head
,
may
be
resembled
in
me
,
giue
vnto
my
heart
I
beseech
thee
the
wholsome
compunction
of
repentance
,
&
compassion
of
anothers
miserie
,
&
the
pricke
of
feruent
zeale
which
may
be
founde
vpright
before
thee
and
to
turne
vnto
thee
in
my
affliction
,
whilest
my
head
is
crowned
with
this
threefold
wreath
of
thornes
.
I
desire
thee
also
to
reach
a
spunge
vnto
my
mouth
by
a
reede
,
and
to
minister
the
bitternesse
of
gall
vnto
my
tast
.
I
desire
also
that
by
thy
Scriptures
thou
wouldest
illuminate
my
reason
,
that
I
may
tast
and
see
how
this
flourishing
world
is
as
an
empty
spunge
,
and
all
the
concupiscenses
there
of
more
bitter
then
vinegar
.
So
(
my
father
)
may
that
Babilonian
Cuppe
diffused
vpon
the
whole
earth
seeme
bitter
vnto
me
:
not
able
with
her
fruitlesse
flourish
to
seduce
me
nor
with
her
false
sweetenesse
to
inebriate
me
,
as
shee
doth
those
who
call
darknesse
light
,
and
light
darkenesse
,
that
which
is
bitter
sweete
,
and
what
is
sweete
bitter
.
Thy
wine
mixed
with
mirrh
and
gall
is
suspicious
vnto
me
:
forasmuch
as
thou
wouldest
not
drinke
of
it
,
because
it
imploied
the
bitternesse
of
enuie
and
impiety
of
such
as
crucified
thee
.
Fashion
thy
seruant
,
O
Lord
,
after
thy
liuely
death
,
so
working
in
me
that
I
may
die
in
the
flesh
,
but
liue
in
the
righteousnesse
of
the
spirit
But
that
I
may
reioice
in
the
carrying
of
the
whole
image
of
Christ
crucified
,
expresse
in
me
a
similitude
of
that
which
▪
the
insatiate
malice
of
the
wicked
Iewes
exercised
against
thee
after
thy
death
:
let
thy
quicke
and
effectuall
word
more
piercing
then
the
sharpest
lance
,
reaching
euen
vnto
the
diuision
of
my
soule
wound
my
heart
:
and
produce
out
of
it
as
from
my
right
side
in
stead
of
blood
and
water
,
a
loue
(
O
Lord
)
vnto
thee
and
to
thy
brethren
:
finally
wrappe
my
spirit
in
the
pure
syndon
of
my
originall
stole
of
innocencie
,
that
I
may
rest
there
,
going
out
and
going
in
into
the
place
of
thy
admirable
Tabernacle
,
hiding
me
till
thy
furie
be
ouerpast
:
but
in
the
third
day
after
the
day
of
my
labour
,
the
day
of
punishment
,
early
in
the
first
sabbath
raise
me
(
thy
vnworthy
seruant
)
and
place
mee
perpetually
among
thy
children
,
that
in
my
flesh
I
may
see
thy
glorie
and
be
satisfied
with
the
light
of
thy
countenance
.
O
my
Sauiour
and
my
God
,
let
the
time
come
,
let
it
come
I
beseech
thee
,
that
what
I
now
beleeue
,
I
may
behold
with
reuealed
eyes
;
what
I
now
hope
for
,
I
may
at
last
obtaine
;
that
what
I
now
desire
vehemently
.
I
may
embrace
really
,
may
kisse
louingly
,
being
plunged
in
the
bottomlesse
sea
of
mercie
,
O
my
Sauiour
and
my
God
.
But
blesse
thou
my
Sauiour
O
my
soule
,
and
magnifie
his
name
.
O
how
good
&
sweet
art
thou
O
Lord
Iesus
vnto
the
soule
that
seeketh
thee
.
O
Iesus
the
redeemer
of
the
lost
,
the
sauiour
of
the
redeemed
,
the
hope
of
the
banished
,
the
strength
of
the
wearied
,
refreshing
to
the
distressed
,
&
comfort
to
the
desolate
,
a
sweete
repose
and
a
comfortable
to
the
sorrowfull
soule
,
running
O
Lord
speedily
after
thee
,
till
shee
oreget
thee
the
crowne
of
triumph
,
the
chiefest
marchandise
,
and
the
ioy
of
all
the
heauenly
Citizens
;
an
euer-flowing
fountaine
of
all
spirituall
graces
,
the
onely
child
of
God
,
and
the
great
God
:
Let
all
things
which
are
in
Heauen
aboue
or
in
earth
below
praise
thee
.
Great
art
thou
,
and
great
is
thy
name
O
thou
immortall
glorie
of
the
high
God
,
and
the
pure
maiestie
of
the
light
eternall
,
O
life
that
quicknest
all
things
;
O
light
that
enlightenest
all
things
,
O
light
that
illuminatest
euerie
light
,
and
conseruest
by
thy
eternall
splendor
:
Thousands
and
ten
thousands
of
lights
haue
shined
before
the
Throne
of
thy
maiestie
from
the
beginning
.
O
eternall
,
substantiall
and
inaccessible
,
cleere
and
delectable
streame
of
that
fountaine
,
hid
from
the
eies
of
all
mortall
men
,
whose
beginning
is
without
beginning
,
whose
bottome
is
without
bottome
,
whose
periodde
is
without
period
,
whose
circuit
is
incircumscrutable
,
whose
puritie
is
imperturbable
.
The
heart
of
the
Almightie
hath
sent
thee
(
O
my
soule
)
out
of
his
impenetrable
Abysse
.
O
life
,
from
thee
haue
wee
in
all
fullnesse
receiued
life
,
from
thy
light
haue
wee
receiued
light
:
thou
that
art
eternall
,
hast
made
vs
eternall
,
thou
that
art
boundlesse
,
hast
made
vs
boundlesse
,
making
vs
in
all
things
equall
to
thy selfe
.
For
thou
that
art
the
most
plentifull
fountaine
of
euery
perfect
gift
,
hast
vouchsafed
to
conuay
the
precious
Riuer
of
thy
seauen
fould
graces
into
our
hearts
,
to
enrich
vs
with
thy
secret
treasures
,
and
with
the
sweetenesse
thereof
to
allay
the
saltnesse
of
this
sea
,
(
that
is
)
of
our
infirmities
.
O
thou
Spring
of
the
oile
of
gladnesse
,
thou
riuer
of
pure
wine
,
thou
torrent
of
entire
zeale
,
the
holie
Spirit
our
comforter
,
beeing
sent
vnto
the
world
by
the
Father
and
thee
,
to
both
he
is
equall
in
dignity
of
essence
,
filleth
all
things
,
contayneth
al
things
,
being
spirit
of
the
spirit
of
thy
Father
,
one
of
both
,
as
the
indiuiduall
communion
vniting
both
:
a
soulder
vniting
,
a
coniunction
indissoluing
,
and
that
peace
which
passeth
all
vnderstanding
.
This
is
the
well
of
thy
comforts
,
O
Lord
,
by
which
thou
daily
supportest
,
and
with
pleasant
obiects
most
abundantly
refreshest
that
delicate
and
glorious
City
Hierusalem
is
aboue
:
where
those
glorious
and
flamie
Organs
doe
incessantly
sing
Hymnes
in
the
voice
of
exultation
and
feasting
,
with
the
desired
tunes
whereof
the
hungry
iawes
of
thy
people
in
the
daies
of
this
their
pilgrimation
craue
dayly
to
bee
refreshed
.
Suffer
(
O
Father
)
the
little
dogges
to
feede
on
the
crums
which
fall
from
their
masters
table
.
Send
out
your
dewe
O
Heauens
from
aboue
,
and
let
the
cloudes
raine
vpon
the
righteous
,
him
O
Lord
whom
thou
hast
made
zelous
of
thy
lawes
.
Purge
we
beseech
thee
O
Lord
with
the
sallatorie
of
thy
word
,
the
religious
first
fruits
of
thy
people
,
being
a
testimonie
of
our
solemne
celebration
of
this
time
:
renew
,
illuminate
,
inflame
,
inspire
,
confirme
,
and
vnite
the
hearts
of
all
beleeuers
vnto
thee
,
that
they
may
bee
one
,
tast
one
,
and
with
all
vnanimitie
require
,
apprehend
,
see
,
and
glorifie
thee
our
only
God
in
Sion
.
Let
glorie
,
thankes
,
honour
,
and
power
be
attributed
to
the
indiuiduall
Trinity
for
euermore
.
Amen
.
Quaedam
sententiae
,
eaeque
vere
Aureolae
,
ad
humanae
mentis
intimam
deuotionem
inflammandam
,
excerptae
.
Qui
de
se
humiliter
sentit
,
haec
legat
.
CHristus
qui
pro
nobis
passionem
sustulit
,
in
fructus
passionis
nos
promouebit
:
vt
sicut
spinarum
coronâ
tempora
eius
figebantur
,
gaudiorum
mercede
mentes
nostrae
illustrentur
.
Hic
viximus
in
dolore
,
illic
afficiemur
Honore
:
Honore
dei
,
qui
mundano
Honori
maxime
aduersatur
,
ille
enim
a
christianis
(
qui
sub
vexillo
suo
meruerunt
)
possidetur
,
Hic
autem
ab
Ethnicis
(
qui
eorum
famam
auxerunt
)
petitur
.
O
quam
incundum
est
in
domo
tua
(
domine
)
habitare
?
vbi
nullo
metu
,
nulla
cupiditate
,
nullo
motu
distrahimur
!
videntes
vero
faciem
tuam
meridiana
luce
multo
clariorem
laeitia
vultus
tuisatiamur
.
Hic
dilectus
est
meus
,
quem
quaerit
mens
mea
:
quaeret
nec
desistet
donec
cum
quaerendo
inueniet
.
A
MOST
DEVOVT
MEDITATION
of
Saint
Barnard
entreating
of
the
miserie
of
man
,
and
examination
of
the
last
Iudgement
.
TOuching
the
outward
man
,
I
descend
from
those
parents
,
who
(
ere
I
was
borne
)
made
me
forlorne
.
Sinners
beget
sinners
in
their
sinne
,
nourishing
them
from
sinne
vnto
sinne
:
miserable
man
hath
brought
his
miserable
issue
to
light
:
from
my
parents
I
haue
nothing
but
miserie
,
and
sinne
,
and
this
corruptible
body
which
I
carrie
about
with
me
.
And
to
them
I
hasten
who
are
departed
hence
by
the
death
of
their
Bodies
:
whose
Sepulchers
when
I
behold
,
I
finde
nothing
in
them
but
dust
and
wormes
,
filthines
,
and
horror
;
what
I
am
,
haue
they
been
:
and
what
they
are
,
I
shall
be
.
What
am
I
(
miserable
man
?
)
engendred
of
liquid
humour
,
at
the
time
of
my
conception
I
was
conceiued
of
humane
seed
:
which
seede
afterwards
growing
thicke
by
encreasing
little
by
little
,
became
flesh
:
whence
weeping
and
shriking
,
I
was
exposed
to
the
exile
of
this
world
:
and
behold
now
I
die
,
being
full
of
iniquities
and
abhominations
.
Euen
now
shall
I
bee
presented
before
a
fearefull
Iudge
,
that
will
take
an
exact
accompt
of
all
my
workes
.
Woe
is
me
wretch
that
I
am
;
when
that
day
shall
come
,
and
those
bookes
shall
be
opened
wherein
all
my
actions
and
cogitations
shal
be
reiected
in
the
presence
of
God
;
O
then
shall
I
stand
fearefull
before
the
Lord
in
iudgement
,
hanging
downe
my
head
and
confessing
my
shame
,
remembring
the
offences
I
haue
committed
,
and
the
sinceritie
of
a
pure
conscience
which
I
haue
defiled
:
and
when
it
shall
be
said
of
me
,
behold
the
man
and
his
workes
:
then
shall
I
set
before
mine
eyes
all
my
sinnes
,
and
transgressions
:
for
it
will
come
to
passe
(
by
a
certaine
diuine
instinct
)
that
all
our
workes
both
good
and
euill
,
shall
come
vnto
our
remembrance
,
and
by
the
piercing
sight
of
the
minde
shall
be
apprehended
by
a
wonderfull
quickenesse
:
to
the
end
knowledge
might
accuse
or
excuse
conscience
,
and
so
all
vniuersally
and
euery
one
distinctly
might
together
be
iudged
,
each
man
shall
giue
accompt
,
what
he
hath
done
of
all
,
to
all
,
how
ended
,
how
begunne
:
for
what
we
are
now
ashamed
to
confesse
priuately
,
shal
be
then
manifested
publikely
:
and
what
we
now
seeke
to
shadow
by
dissembling
,
shall
be
discussed
by
the
fire
of
reuenge
euer
burning
.
Swift
flaming
fire
shall
scorch
with
boundlesse
rage
:
and
by
how
much
longer
God
hath
expected
our
amendment
,
by
so
much
more
seuerely
will
he
punish
vs
,
because
we
were
negligent
.
Why
therefore
doe
we
so
greatly
desire
this
life
,
wherein
the
longer
we
liue
,
the
more
we
offend
:
for
by
how
much
our
life
is
longer
,
by
so
much
bee
our
offences
more
.
For
daily
are
euils
encreased
,
but
goodnes
diminished
:
daily
is
man
changed
,
by
prosperitie
and
aduersitie
,
yet
knoweth
not
he
when
he
shall
die
:
for
as
a
glittering
starre
coasting
swiftly
in
heauen
,
suddenly
vanisheth
:
or
as
a
sparke
of
fire
is
quickely
extinguished
,
and
turnes
to
ashes
:
so
soone
the
dissolution
of
mans
life
:
for
whilest
man
soiorneth
willingly
and
ioifully
in
this
world
,
&
promiseth
himselfe
to
liue
long
,
disposing
many
of
his
affairs
for
succeeding
times
,
suddenly
is
he
surprised
by
death
;
&
vnawares
is
his
soule
taken
from
his
body
:
yet
with
great
feare
and
vnmeasurable
griefe
is
his
soule
separated
from
his
body
.
For
the
Angels
come
to
take
it
,
and
bring
it
before
the
Tribunall
seat
of
that
fearefull
Iudge
:
where
remembring
his
euill
works
,
(
nay
his
most
impious
workes
)
which
he
hath
committed
night
or
day
,
he
trembleth
,
seeking
to
flie
from
them
,
and
to
take
truce
with
them
,
saying
:
Giue
me
one
houres
respite
.
Then
his
workes
(
as
if
speaking
together
)
shall
answer
him
and
say
:
Thou
madest
vs
,
we
are
thy
workes
,
we
will
not
leaue
thee
,
but
abide
euer
with
thee
,
and
attend
on
thee
to
thy
iudgement
:
his
vices
also
with
diuers
and
manifold
criminacions
shall
accuse
him
,
and
shall
finde
many
false
testimonies
against
him
,
albeit
one
were
sufficient
to
condemne
him
.
Nay
,
the
diuels
with
a
terrible
countenance
,
a
dreadfull
aspect
,
shall
terrifie
his
soule
,
persecuting
her
with
implacable
furie
,
seazing
on
her
so
terriblie
,
and
so
horriblie
,
as
they
seeme
willing
to
detaine
and
take
possession
of
her
,
if
there
were
none
to
deliuer
her
.
Then
the
soule
finding
her
eyes
shut
,
her
mouth
&
all
other
sences
corporal
by
which
she
vsed
to
be
delighted
,
in
these
outward
things
stopped
,
shall
returne
to
her
,
selfe
;
where
seeing
her selfe
desolate
&
naked
,
shee
shall
be
exceedingly
amazed
languishing
through
despaire
in
her self
,
&
falling
below
her selfe
.
And
because
shee
relinquished
the
loue
of
God
,
for
the
loue
of
this
world
,
and
the
satisfying
the
pleasures
of
the
flesh
,
shal
be
miserably
forsaken
of
God
,
in
that
hower
of
necessitie
,
and
shall
be
deliuered
ouer
to
the
diuels
to
bee
tormented
in
hell
.
So
shall
the
sinfull
soule
in
the
day
which
shee
knoweth
not
,
and
in
the
hower
of
which
shee
is
ignoant
,
bee
taken
away
by
death
,
separated
from
her
body
,
whence
shee
goeth
on
(
full
of
miserie
,
anguish
,
and
feare
)
where
hauing
no
excuse
which
shee
can
iustly
shew
for
her
sinne
:
shee
pineth
,
languisheth
,
and
growes
afraid
to
appeare
before
God
;
shee
is
surprised
with
great
horror
,
and
tossed
with
the
sundry
billowes
of
discomforting
passions
:
the
dissolution
of
the
flesh
enforcing
her
,
and
all
meanes
of
assistant
comforts
leauing
her
,
shee
considers
her
end
appproching
,
and
after
a
little
reuoluing
,
shee
findes
that
in
this
perpetuall
state
to
which
shee
hastens
,
there
is
no
changing
,
shee
plainely
considers
with
what
seuerity
the
eternall
Iudge
will
come
,
and
before
the
seuerity
of
such
iustice
what
reasons
can
shee
produce
to
quallifie
his
iustice
?
for
if
all
the
workes
(
which
shee
may
consider
in
her selfe
)
either
committed
or
omitted
had
bin
by
her
auoided
:
yet
shee
is
in
feare
,
there
will
such
workes
come
before
the
terrible
Iudge
which
she
neuer
apprehended
:
her
feare
encreaseth
when
shee
conceaueth
how
shee
could
in
no
wise
passe
the
waies
of
this
life
without
sinne
:
nor
that
parte
of
her
life
which
seemed
most
praise
worthie
could
be
exempted
of
guilt
,
without
recourse
had
to
Gods
mercie
.
For
who
can
duely
consider
or
exactly
number
the
euils
wee
haue
committed
in
euery
moment
,
or
what
workes
wee
haue
neglected
?
for
as
sinne
is
the
committing
of
euill
,
so
is
sinne
the
forsaking
of
what
is
good
.
A
great
depriuall
of
sanctitie
(
sure
)
when
wee
neither
doe
good
,
nor
thinke
that
is
good
,
but
permit
our
hearts
to
wander
by
vaine
and
vnprofitable
things
.
It
is
to
difficult
a
thing
to
restraine
thy
heart
and
preserue
it
from
euery
vnlawfull
thought
.
It
is
also
a
matter
of
too
great
difficultie
to
imploy
our selues
in
terrene
affaires
without
sin
.
Wherefore
I
conclude
that
none
can
perfectly
comprehend
and
iudge
himselfe
,
but
being
occupied
with
many
cogitations
,
hee
must
of
necessity
remaine
in
something
ignorant
to
himselfe
,
as
not
knowing
what
hee
doth
altogether
tolerate
in
himselfe
:
wherefore
neare
his
end
,
hee
is
terrified
with
a
more
serious
and
retired
feare
,
because
that
albeit
hee
neuer
remembers
himselfe
to
haue
omitted
anything
which
hee
knew
,
yet
hee
fears
himselfe
to
haue
neglected
many
things
which
he
knew
not
.
A
Meditation
of
the
short
life
of
man
,
extracted
out
of
the
deuout
and
zealous
meditations
,
of
that
mellifluous
Father
Saint
Barnard
.
THe
daies
of
man
are
as
a
shadowe
vppon
earth
,
there
is
noe
stay
,
for
where
wee
seeme
to
stand
,
it
is
in
effect
nothing
.
Why
therefore
doth
man
so
heape
vp
treasure
vpon
earth
,
sith
hee
must
passe
without
delay
,
both
that
which
is
gathered
,
and
hee
that
gathereth
it
?
And
thou
(
O
man
)
what
fruit
dost
thou
expect
in
this
world
,
whose
fruit
is
destruction
,
and
whose
end
is
death
?
I
wish
thou
wouldest
bee
wise
,
and
vnderstand
,
and
discreetely
prouide
for
the
day
to
come
.
I
know
one
,
who
(
for
many
yeres
)
hath
liued
familiarly
with
thee
,
hath
sitten
at
thy
table
,
taken
meate
from
thy
hand
,
slept
in
thy
bosom
,
hath
conferred
with
thee
when
so
ere
hee
would
,
being
thy
seruant
by
way
of
inheritance
.
But
because
thou
hast
pampered
him
delicately
from
his
youth
vp
,
and
hast
spared
the
rod
,
hee
is
become
stif-necked
,
hee
hath
lifted
vp
his
heele
against
thy
head
,
and
hath
brought
thee
into
slauery
,
and
tyrannically
triumphs
ouer
thee
.
Peraduenture
thou
wilt
aske
mee
who
this
is
?
It
is
the
old
man
who
treadeth
vnderfoote
thy
spirit
:
who
little
or
nothing
esteemes
the
desires
of
this
earth
,
because
it
tasteth
of
nothing
but
the
distasts
of
the
flesh
.
This
man
was
blinde
,
deafe
,
dombe
,
&
inueterate
in
euill
from
his
natiuity
,
a
rebell
to
vertue
&
truth
,
an
enemy
to
the
Crosse
of
Christ
,
deriding
the
inocent
,
&
simple
man
,
&
walking
in
great
and
wonderfull
waies
,
far
aboue
his
apprehension
or
conceipt
.
His
pride
exceedes
his
strength
,
hee
reuerendeth
none
:
saying
in
the
foolishnes
of
his
heart
,
there
is
no
God
.
Hee
repineth
at
the
prosperity
of
others
,
hee
fattens
himselfe
with
the
aduersity
of
others
:
hee
is
fed
with
beastly
and
sensuall
cogitations
,
nor
is
he
wearied
with
them
▪
transgressing
securely
euen
to
the
end
:
hee
consumeth
and
scattereth
his
owne
estate
like
a
prodigall
,
hee
desireth
and
deuoureth
other
mens
estates
like
a
couetous
miser
:
vnder
pretence
of
dissimulation
hee
gathereth
to
himselfe
shame
and
ignominie
,
and
subtilely
prouoketh
the
wrath
of
God
.
This
man
was
wholy
borne
in
sinne
,
and
so
nourished
,
and
brought
vp
with
the
fiends
of
iniquity
,
the
children
of
death
,
vessels
of
wrath
,
created
for
dishonour
and
perdition
.
And
yet
this
man
being
such
(
as
you
heare
)
declareth
the
iudgements
of
God
,
and
taketh
the
testament
of
his
word
into
his
mouth
,
hee
hateth
instruction
,
hee
casteth
God
behind
his
backe
:
when
hee
sees
a
thiefe
hee
runs
with
him
,
and
deuideth
his
portion
among
adulterers
,
hee
asperceth
reproch
vpon
the
childe
of
his
owne
mother
,
and
heapeth
vp
the
treasure
of
ire
against
the
day
of
wrath
vpon
himselfe
,
hee
would
gladly
take
thy
inheritance
from
thee
,
and
quite
roote
thee
from
of
the
earth
.
And
thou
reuengest
not
so
great
an
iniury
done
against
thee
,
but
dissemblest
it
,
thou
speakest
not
one
hard
word
vnto
him
,
nor
shewest
any
discontent
in
thy
countenance
,
but
smilest
at
him
flattering
thee
,
playing
with
a
deceiuer
.
Thou
art
ignorant
how
it
is
Ismael
that
dallies
with
thee
.
Nor
is
this
play
of
his
to
bee
imputed
to
childishnes
;
simplicity
,
or
innocencie
,
for
it
is
the
very
illusion
of
the
soule
,
persecution
,
death
,
throwing
thee
headlong
into
the
ditch
hee
had
made
for
thee
.
Now
art
thou
become
altogeather
effeminate
,
now
art
thou
pressed
downe
with
the
yoake
of
most
miserable
bondage
,
being
trod
vnder
his
feete
miserablely
and
vildly
.
O
wreched
&
miserable
man
,
who
shall
deliuer
thee
from
the
bonds
of
this
enthrallement
?
let
the
Lord
arise
,
&
let
this
armed
man
fall
before
him
,
let
this
man
(
greatest
enemy
to
man
)
fal
,
&
be
confounded
,
since
he
is
a
contemner
of
God
,
a
worshipper
of
himselfe
,
&
his
own
illimited
affections
,
a
friend
to
the
world
,
&
a
seruant
to
the
diuel
.
How
doest
thou
thinke
of
it
?
if
thou
thinke
rightly
,
thou
wilt
say
with
me
,
he
is
guilty
of
death
,
let
him
be
crucified
.
Doe
not
therefore
dissemble
,
do
not
differre
,
do
not
spare
,
but
with
celerity
,
magnanimity
,
and
instancy
crucifie
this
man
.
But
so
,
as
with
the
Crosse
of
Christ
,
wherein
there
is
saluation
&
life
:
for
whosoeuer
shal
cal
on
Christ
intentiuely
,
&
incessantly
,
shall
presently
haue
his
crucified
old
man
,
inuiting
him
with
all
benignitie
:
and
Christ
answering
with
as
much
mercie
:
To
day
thou
shalt
be
with
mee
in
Paradice
.
O
the
exceeding
mercie
of
Christ
!
O
the
inopinate
saluation
of
the
wicked
,
made
righteous
by
Christ
!
So
gratefull
and
approoued
is
the
loue
of
God
,
so
admired
is
his
sweetenes
,
so
vnexpected
his
louingnes
,
so
immerited
his
mercifulnesse
,
that
whosoeuer
crieth
to
him
,
is
heard
of
him
,
for
the
Lord
is
mercifull
,
and
cals
to
minde
how
hee
made
him
.
O
how
great
is
the
mercie
of
God
,
how
ineffable
the
compassion
of
the
right
hand
of
the
almightie
?
yesterday
was
I
in
darkenesse
,
this
day
am
I
in
light
:
yesterday
in
the
mouth
of
a
Lion
most
bloodie
,
this
day
in
the
hand
of
my
mediatour
full
of
mercie
,
yesterday
in
the
gate
of
hell
to
be
tormented
for
euer
,
to
day
in
a
paradice
of
perpetuall
pleasure
.
But
what
doe
these
letters
of
admonition
profit
,
vnlesse
thou
wipe
from
thy
conscience
those
letters
or
characters
of
death
?
what
doe
these
writings
profit
,
what
doe
they
both
read
and
vnderstood
auaile
,
vnlesse
thou
both
reads
and
vnderstand
thy selfe
?
applie
thy selfe
therefore
to
inward
reading
,
that
thou
may
reade
,
conceaue
and
apprehend
thy selfe
:
so
reade
as
thou
may
loue
God
,
that
thou
may
fight
,
and
by
fighting
vanquish
the
world
,
and
all
thy
enemies
therein
:
that
thy
labour
may
bee
conuerted
into
rest
,
thy
lamenting
into
reioycing
,
and
after
the
darkenesse
of
this
life
ending
,
thou
may
see
the
rising
of
that
morning
sunne
of
righteousnesse
euer
shining
,
where
thou
may
likewise
see
that
meridian
sunne
of
eternitie
,
in
whom
thou
shalt
see
the
Bridegroome
with
his
bride
,
one
,
and
the
same
Lord
of
glorie
,
who
liueth
and
raigneth
for
euermore
.
A
Meditation
of
Saint
Barnard
wherein
he
describes
the
method
of
prayer
,
and
how
a
zealous
Christian
should
pray
.
HAue
mercie
on
me
(
O
Lord
)
for
I
sinne
there
the
most
,
where
I
ought
to
reforme
my selfe
the
most
for
in
the
priuate
Monastery
,
oft
times
whilest
I
pray
,
I
giue
not
attention
to
that
I
pray
:
I
pray
with
my
mouth
(
and
implies
thereby
a
lippe
labour
)
but
my
minde
is
wandring
abroade
,
and
therefore
am
worthily
depriued
of
the
fruite
of
my
prayer
:
in
bodie
I
am
inward
,
but
in
heart
outward
,
and
therefore
I
lose
the
benefit
of
my
speech
:
for
little
aualleth
it
vs
to
sing
onely
with
the
voice
without
the
pure
intention
of
our
heart
:
wherefore
it
is
great
peruersenesse
,
nay
,
great
madnesse
,
when
we
presume
to
talke
familiarly
with
God
in
our
prayer
,
being
of
so
exceeding
Maiestie
,
sencelessely
to
diuert
our
mindes
from
him
,
and
prostitute
our
hearts
to
I
know
not
what
folly
.
Great
madnes
is
it
likewise
(
&
greatly
to
bee
punished
)
when
vile
dust
and
ashes
composed
of
nought
but
sin
,
disdaineth
to
heare
the
creator
of
this
vniuerse
speaking
vnto
him
.
But
ineffable
is
the
humilitie
of
his
diuine
goodnesse
,
daily
beholding
vs
(
vnhappie
wretches
)
turning
our
eares
,
hardning
our
hearts
,
yet
vouchsafeth
he
incessantly
to
crie
vnto
vs
,
saying
,
returne
you
that
be
of
an
vncircumcised
heart
▪
behold
and
see
I
am
your
Lord
and
God
▪
God
speaketh
vnto
me
in
a
Psalme
,
and
I
vnto
him
,
neither
yet
when
I
say
the
Psame
doe
I
consider
whose
Psalme
it
is
:
therefore
doe
I
a
great
iniurie
vnto
God
,
when
I
desire
him
that
hee
would
heare
my
prayer
,
which
I
,
when
I
powre
it
before
him
,
doe
not
heare
my selfe
.
I
beseech
him
to
incline
his
eare
vnto
my
prayer
,
but
I
incline
mine
eare
neither
to
my selfe
,
nor
to
my
prayer
,
but
which
is
worse
,
by
meditating
of
vnprofitable
and
sensuall
affections
,
I
oppose
a
most
filthie
and
horrible
corruption
,
in
the
consideration
of
my
hearts
pollution
,
before
the
eies
of
his
all-seeing
Maiestie
.
A
verie
profitable
prayer
taken
out
of
Saint
Barnard
,
intreating
of
the
forme
and
manner
,
how
euerie
one
ought
to
consider
himselfe
,
no
lesse
sententious
then
zealous
.
IF
I
behold
not
my selfe
,
I
know
not
my selfe
:
but
if
I
behold
my selfe
,
I
shall
not
endure
my selfe
:
because
I
finde
so
manie
things
in
mee
noe
lesse
worthie
of
reprehension
,
then
confusion
and
shame
:
so
as
by
how
much
more
exactly
and
seriously
I
examine
my selfe
,
so
manie
more
abhominations
doe
I
finde
in
the
corners
of
my
heart
.
For
since
the
time
I
first
began
to
sinne
,
I
could
neuer
passe
one
day
without
sinne
,
neither
as
yet
doe
I
cease
from
sinne
,
but
from
day
to
day
adde
sinne
vpon
sinne
,
which
though
I
haue
them
before
mine
eyes
,
and
consider
the
exceeding
measure
of
them
,
yet
doe
I
not
lament
them
.
I
see
sinnes
in
mee
to
be
ashamed
of
,
yet
am
not
I
ashamed
:
I
behold
sinnes
to
be
sorrowed
for
in
me
,
yet
am
not
I
sorrowfull
:
which
is
an
euident
signe
and
token
of
death
and
damnation
,
for
that
member
which
feeleth
not
paine
is
dead
:
and
a
disease
insensible
,
is
incurable
.
I
am
sensuall
and
dissolute
,
neither
yet
doe
I
correct
my selfe
:
but
daily
reiterate
those
sinnes
which
before
I
confessed
,
neither
am
I
aware
of
the
ditch
,
into
which
(
miserable
soule
that
I
am
)
I
haue
fallen
,
or
made
another
to
fall
,
or
seene
him
falling
.
And
whereas
I
ought
to
deplore
my
sinnes
and
(
with
instancie
of
supplication
)
pray
for
remission
of
them
(
to
wit
)
for
the
euils
which
I
had
comitted
,
and
the
good
which
I
had
neglected
and
omitted
:
woe
is
me
,
I
did
the
quite
contrarie
,
for
first
I
grew
luke warme
,
and
after
chill-could
in
the
feruour
of
my
praier
,
and
now
I
remaine
key-could
,
without
any
sence
or
apprehension
of
sinne
:
and
therefore
cannot
bewaile
the
sinne
committed
by
mee
,
because
the
grace
of
teares
and
remorse
is
departed
farre
from
me
.
That
sinne
is
not
to
be
excused
.
Where
I
ought
to
haue
amended
my
sinnes
,
I
added
sinne
vpon
sinne
:
when
I
was
accused
of
them
▪
I
either
in
a
sort
excused
them
,
or
wholy
denied
them
,
or
which
is
worse
,
I
defended
them
,
and
with
impatience
answered
for
them
,
whereas
there
was
no
sinne
,
with
which
I
was
not
defiled
,
or
might
haue
beene
defiled
.
It
is
fit
therefore
,
that
all
occasion
of
delay
set
apart
,
I
promise
amendment
of
all
sides
,
or
by
whomsoeuer
I
am
accused
:
to
the
end
I
may
bee
deliuered
from
the
seruitude
of
sinne
by
me
committed
,
or
which
might
be
by
me
committed
.
Qui
ver
saturin
atrijs
Dei
,
oret
&
deploret
:
oret
,
vt
peccata
eius
remittantur
:
deploret
peccata
que
committuntur
:
speret
in
Deo
vt
possideat
Deum
in
quo
sperauit
.
Ibid
.
A
Glorious
Hymne
of
an
ancient
Father
,
expressing
the
Harmonious
vnion
of
the
heauenly
Citizens
.
SAcred
powers
vnited
euer
,
Which
no
discord
can
disseuer
,
So
enrich'd
by
the
heauenly
giuer
,
As
empouerishd
are
you
neuer
.
Concords
perfect
ioyes
vniting
,
To
melodious
feasts
inuiting
,
Where
all
obiects
be
delighting
,
Noe
darke
clouds
,
your
day
benighting
.
What
one
hath
is
not
so
priuate
,
But
his
friend
may
likewise
haue
it
,
And
suppose
he
should
not
craue
it
,
Yet
vnited
loues
receiue
it
.
There
's
no
light
that
moone
doth
borrow
,
All
's
one
day
,
there
's
no
morrow
,
Perfect
solace
free
from
sorrow
,
Yeere
by
yeere
contented
thorough
Noe
Ecclips
of
Sunne
or
Moone
,
Neither
of
their
lights
be
showen
,
Heauen
has
tapers
of
her
owne
,
Which
to
heauenly
saints
are
knowne
.
Fruites
so
mellow
,
full
of
pleasure
,
Sacred
mounts
repleate
with
treasure
,
Of
which
saints
haue
perfect
seasure
,
Reaping
them
at
their
best
leasure
.
There
the
Cedar
and
the
Pine
,
Fruitefull
Olyue
,
braunchie
Vine
,
Peacefull
Mirtle
,
Mirrhe
diuine
,
There
the
Rose
and
Eglantine
.
Euerie
flower
in
seemely
order
,
Stands
to
beautifie
her
border
,
More
then
Art
could
ere
afford
her
,
Since
diuinest
powers
haue
stord
her
.
There
loues
bird
sits
on
a
spray
,
Chaunting
out
her
roundelay
,
Glorious
soules
their
ioyes
display
,
Euerie
saint
keepes
holiday
.
Clad
they
be
in
goulden
clothing
,
Ophir
gould
to
that
is
nothing
,
Full
of
ioy
,
yet
without
lothing
,
Time-obseruing
without
soothing
.
There
the
Topaz
,
Emerald
,
And
the
Diamond
,
that
s
cald
The
worlds
beautie
:
Citties
walld
Round
with
gould
:
with
gemmes
empalld
.
There
is
that
Bethesdas
poole
,
Which
refresheth
euerie
soule
,
There
the
bookes
which
doe
enroule
Such
as
laugh
,
and
such
as
houle
.
None
must
in
that
campe
appeare
Conquerors
,
but
conquerd
heere
,
Such
as
past
their
daies
in
feare
,
To
be
cround
for
euer
there
.
Let
vs
fight
,
that
we
may
winne
,
Mastrie
ouer
death
and
sinne
,
That
after
life
we
may
begin
To
renew
our
life
with
him
.
Who
has
mercie
still
in
store
,
And
doth
liue
foreuermore
.
FINIS
.