The
best
Purchase
,
for
which
the
Spiritual
Marchant-aduenturer
selleth
all
that
he
hath
.
Mat.
13
CHAP.
I.
Of
the
purport
and
necessary
vse
of
this
Parable
.
THese
two
Parables
,
as
Pharao
his
twoo
dreames
of
the
seauen
fatte
kine
,
&
seauen
eares
of
corne
,
It
is
wonderfull
how
the
world
is
greedie
of
the
world
,
striuing
for
it
as
beggars
for
a
doale
;
preying
vpon
it
,
These
raue
with
Rachel
,
Giue
me
children
,
●r
else
I
die
:
Giue
me
worldely
riches
,
Happy
are
the
people
who
are
in
such
a
case
,
whose
sheepe
bring
forth
thousands
,
&
ten
thousands
in
their
streets
&c.
which
the
Singer
of
Israel
mendeth
with
his
harpe
,
trebbling
and
quauering
melodiously
in
this
manner
;
Yea
happy
are
the
people
who
haue
the
Lord
Iehouah
for
their
God
.
Now
,
Iohn
Baptist
too
,
what
shal
we
doe
?
setteth
vs
(
as
it
were
)
in
the
kings
hie
way
that
leadeth
vnto
heauen
,
that
guides
vs
to
a
treasure
of
incomparable
value
,
to
a
Pearle
,
and
Purchase
of
the
greatest
price
and
profite
whatsoeuer
.
Hitherto
our
Sauiour
hath
spent
much
speech
,
about
the
preaching
of
the
Gospel
,
which
else-where
hee
termeth
,
The
Gospel
of
the
kingdome
,
and
in
this
place
,
The
Kingdome
of
heauen
,
because
it
is
the
key
that
openeth
heauen
doore
,
and
the
right
path
that
brings
vs
to
heauen
:
sampling
it
to
triuiall
and
trifling
things
,
that
are
of
common
vse
,
in
certain
former
speciall
Parables
,
as
to
Corne
,
Leauen
,
Mustard
seed
,
and
a
Field
,
in
the
which
,
with
good
wheat
,
tares
and
darnell
,
and
other
wild
weedes
did
spring
vp
and
grow
together
.
Now
,
because
these
meane
comparisons
should
not
cause
vs
deeme
the
Gospel
to
bee
meane
,
he
matcheth
it
heere
with
matters
of
most
moment
with
a
Treasure
,
with
a
Pearle
of
inestimable
riches
;
to
reforme
our
iudgement
in
spiritual
cases
,
that
we
shuld
set
more
highly
by
them
then
we
doe
,
as
there
is
good
reason
why
.
Dauid
was
so
highly
conceited
of
the
scriptures
,
as
defining
them
,
great
spoyles
for
value
,
and
thousands
of
gold
and
siluer
,
yea
all
manner
of
riches
,
the
hony
,
&
the
hony
combe
for
sweetenes
;
and
when
he
endeth
to
define
,
he
beginneth
to
admire
,
Wonderfull
are
thy
testimonies
,
I
haue
seene
an
end
of
all
perfection
,
but
thy
commandement
is
exceeding
broade
,
vnderstanding
infinite
.
Psalme
107
This
doctrine
is
more
than
necessary
for
these
dangerous
dayes
,
wherein
the
greater
sorte
abhorreth
this
meate
,
and
their
souls
(
as
saith
the
Psalmograph
)
is
at
deaths
doore
.
The
Diuell
,
the
Bel-wether
of
the
Polititians
of
our
time
,
resembleth
in
conditions
,
The
cluish
disposition
of
these
the
diuell●
darlings
,
the
kingly
Prophet
hath
narrowly
obserued
,
thus
portraying
,
and
desciphering
it
oriently
in
colours
,
They
are
like
vnto
deafe●●
Adders
,
stopping
their
eares
,
refusing
to
heare
the
voyce
of
the
charmer
,
charme
he
neuer
so
wisely●●
for
as
the
Aspe
setting
one
eare
to
the
ground
and
with
his
taile
couering
the
other
,
A
huntsman
chasing
&
pursuing
a
deere
〈◊〉
laboureth
not
so
much
,
The
Lord
deliuer
vs
from
the
snare
of
this
hunter
,
and
from
his
noysome
pestilence
.
But
his
schoole
is
very
great
,
his
mischiefe
horrible
,
and
the
occasions
hereof
are
many
.
The
Pharises
and
glorious
hypocrites
of
our
age
,
a
viperous
generation
,
painted
and
spotted
brauely
without
,
like
to
vipers
skins
,
but
inward
,
like
vipers
full
of
rancke
corruption
,
do
derrogate
much
from
the
dignitie
of
the
word
,
and
debase
the
Pearle
and
Treasure
ouermuch
;
The
Saduces
,
Epicures
,
the
briars
,
and
thistles
of
Lebanon
.
The
wisedome
of
these
men
fancieth
not
so
much
that
wisedome
of
the
spirite
,
it
is
thought
but
simple
in
comparison
of
theirs
.
They
suppose
themselues
able
,
with
the
rowling
of
an
eie
,
and
as
it
were
,
with
a
breath
,
to
attain
to
a
sufficiencie
of
knowledge
thereof
.
Once
reading
cursorilie
of
the
Bible
is
enough
with
them
,
and
by
a
part
,
they
coniecture
of
the
whole
,
and
therefore
they
seeke
after
another
Schoole-master
,
and
a
deeper
wisedome
,
then
the
wisedome
of
Gods
spirite
.
But
little
do
these
know
,
what
a
librarie
of
learning
,
&
store
of
al
wisedome
is
to
be
had
out
of
the
blessed
Bible
:
nay
,
how
many
sundry
points
,
both
of
Doctrine
&
Maners
,
are
couched
and
contained
vnder
one
period
and
sentence
of
the
Scripture
.
As
those
that
are
Wine-drawers
,
This
I
dare
avouch
,
that
no
booke
of
humane
eloquence
,
hath
euer
beene
so
pathetically
and
perfitly
penned
,
so
garnished
with
ornaments
and
figures
of
Rhetorick
,
of
such
a
subtile
wisedome
of
perswading
(
as
I
may
so
say
)
of
such
a
grace
in
setting
forth
one
thing
,
such
sundrie
kinds
of
waies
.
There
is
none
who
hath
sufficiently
bin
taught
out
of
this
book
,
or
hath
learned
Christ
enough
:
That
which
is
there
contained
,
we
know
but
in
part
,
many
things
the
spirite
hath
reserued
to
himselfe
,
and
kept
shut
from
vs
,
that
we
might
be
his
schollers
vnto
the
end
of
the
world
.
The
earth
is
not
clothed
with
such
sundry
sortes
of
plantes
,
fruites
,
and
sweete
hearbs
,
as
the
Lordes
Eden
and
garden
of
Scripture
is
adorned
and
set
forth
with
most
comfortable
constructions
.
In
sorting
and
matching
mans
●earning
with
this
,
it
is
to
compare
the
barren
mountains
of
Belboa
,
with
the
fruitfullest
Paradise
of
the
whole
world
.
A
Pearle
is
not
knowne
of
what
valew
it
is
,
I
counsaile
therefore
our
vnwisely
wise
men
,
The
third
sort
of
people
,
These
are
trees
without
fruite
,
twice
dead
,
and
plucked
vp
by
the
roots
:
for
as
the
open
strumpet
,
who
without
any
difference
,
admitteth
all
companions
alike
that
come
vnto
her
,
is
alwaies
barren
,
and
without
fruite
of
womb
:
So
the
Romish
strumpet
admitting
into
the
lapp●
and
bosome
of
the
Church
,
a
confused
chaos
of
very
rascall
rudiments
,
no
maruaile
it
is
that
they
are
barren
of
grace
,
and
the
immortall
seede
of
Gods
most
holy
word
cannot
regenerate
and
better
their
affections
.
The
fourth
and
last
enemie
,
Nimshi
,
who
marched
furiously
:
who
aduance
their
cruelty
aboue
the
starres
,
Aegyptians
,
Anna
by
●eninna
,
Elias
by
Achab
,
Amos
by
Amasiah
,
the
latter
church
of
God
by
Lucian
,
Iulian
,
Porphiri
,
and
such
like
.
Cain
may
not
brooke
Abel
,
because
he
sacrificed
:
nor
the
brethren
Ioseph
,
because
he
diuinely
dreamed
:
nor
Saul
Dauid
,
because
he
sweetly
singed
:
nor
Demetrius
Paul
,
because
he
so
plainely
preached
.
As
dogs
cannot
abide
the
sound
of
bells
,
Wherefore
to
withstand
such
temptations
as
do
grow
vpon
these
occasions
,
that
neither
hypocrisie
may
blind
vs
,
or
superstition
deceiue
vs
,
the
pleasures
of
sinne
allure
vs
,
or
any
worldly
feare
affright
vs
;
the
Holyghost
to
great
purpose
compareth
his
worde
to
things
of
cheefest
choice
,
the
subiect
,
matter
,
and
end
of
our
desires
,
fitting
himselfe
to
our
distempered
minds
,
as
the
good
Phisitian
to
diseased
bodies
.
The
Phisitian
perceiuing
his
pained
patient
,
And
herein
I
seem
to
see
the
tender
affection
of
our
louing
father
in
his
stile
and
course
of
writing
,
And
because
we
are
as
greedy
of
worldly
treasure
,
as
Absalon
of
a
Kingdome
,
And
I
may
not
vnfitly
liken
him
to
an
excellent
experienced
angler
,
Sithens
therfore
the
word
is
of
that
worth
,
I
hope
for
the
gaining
it
we
will
easily
swallow
vp
such
former
hookes
,
as
are
laide
to
catch
those
that
haue
a
loue
heereof
mentioned
before
:
and
wil
be
so
wise
to
esteeme
it
as
we
should
,
and
embrace
and
honour
the
louing
kindnes
of
our
God
,
who
hath
opened
vnto
vs
the
treasures
of
his
house
,
and
hath
powred
out
the
riches
of
his
mercies
on
vs
.
Seemed
it
not
to
be
grace
enough
that
we
were
so
created
after
his
owne
image
in
righteousnesse
,
and
holinesse
?
In
the
whole
mappe
of
Scripture
fixe
we
our
eies
on
Nabucad-nezzar
,
only
the
anotomy
of
mans
life
,
without
knowlege
of
Gods
word
.
He
dreaming
a
dreame
which
none
of
his
dowty
Doctors
could
vnfold
,
how
moodie
and
melancholy
was
the
man
vpon
it
?
into
what
a
furie
and
extasie
was
he
driuen
,
This
is
the
instrument
which
God
hath
v●ed
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
,
wherby
it
hath
pleased
him
to
work
our
saluation
,
as
the
parable
of
the
vine
sufficiently
insinuateth
,
to
the
pruning
,
trimming
,
&
dressing
wherof
,
there
were
labourers
successiuely
,
from
the
first
hower
,
to
the
last
,
sent
into
the
same
.
It
is
one
of
the
first
arguments
of
the
Lords
furie
,
Else-where
denouncing
vengeaunce
against
vnrighteousnes
,
Herevnto
answereth
this
denuntiation
of
the
Lordes
iudgement
:
The
people
of
Israel
shall
be
without
God
,
without
Priest
,
without
Law
:
Marke
how
he
confoundeth
them
,
and
makes
them
both
one
,
to
be
without
a
priest
,
and
to
be
without
a
God
,
as
they
are
indeed
.
For
,
Homo
sine
doctore
,
est
vt
coecus
sine
ductore
;
A
man
without
a
teacher
,
is
like
the
blinde
without
a
leader
:
like
sheep
without
a
shepheard
,
subiect
to
the
wolfe
,
easily
to
be
wurrowed
,
like
a
ship
without
a
pilot
,
splitten
of
rockes
,
Syrtes
and
sandes
,
easily
ouerwhelmed
.
Let
a
man
be
neuer
so
grieuously
sicke
,
Be
the
handy-crafts
man
and
artificer
very
beggarly
,
CHAP.
II.
That
the
word
of
God
,
is
all
kinde
of
Treasure
.
AS
Iob
saith
of
wisedome
,
It
is
not
t●
be
valewed
with
the
wedge
of
gold
o●
Ophyr
,
nor
with
the
precious
Onyx
,
nor
the
Saphire
:
The
Gold
nor
the
Cristall
is
not
equall
vnto
it
,
it
shall
not
be
exchaunged
for
plate
of
fin
gold
.
No
mention
shall
be
made
of
the
Corrall
o●
of
the
gabish
,
for
it
is
more
precious
then
pearles
The
Topaz
of
Aethiopia
shal
not
be
equall
vnt●
it
,
neither
shall
it
be
valewed
with
the
wedge
o●
pure
gold
.
The
name
of
a
treasure
containeth
vnde●
it
,
whatsoeuer
is
to
be
named
:
and
when
w●
haue
named
all
,
in
comparison
of
the
word
,
〈◊〉
is
like
a
candle
set
before
the
Sunne
which
vanisheth
before
it
,
and
like
a
stope
of
water
to
the
huge
Ocean
sea
,
which
is
nothing
vnt●
it
.
The
place
wherin
this
Treasure
is
,
is
heauen
,
so
that
our
conuersation
must
be
heauenly
(
as
the
Apostle
teacheth
vs
)
if
we
will
attain●
vnto
it
:
The
Lord
high
Treasurer
is
the
sp●●rit
of
God
,
and
his
Vnder-treasurers
,
wh●
haue
also
keyes
thereof
,
are
his
able
ministers
of
the
new
Testament
,
If
the
King
should
send
a
general
pardon
,
To
him
that
faithfully
runneth
his
race
,
A
Treasure
properlie
,
is
a
store
of
al
prouision
,
seruing
,
not
only
as
a
supplie
for
present
wants
,
but
for
al
future
haps
,
and
necessities
whatsoeuer
.
The
word
is
this
Treasure
,
is
respect
of
Christ
,
the
obiect
,
subiect
,
and
argument
of
the
word
:
In
whom
all
treasures
of
wisedome
,
and
knowledge
of
his
father
are
hidden
.
In
whom
the
fulnesse
of
the
Godhead
bodily
doth
dwell
,
who
is
made
to
vs
of
God
his
Father
,
wisedome
,
righteousnesse
,
sanctification
,
and
redemption
.
The
bread
of
life
,
whom
whosoeuer
eateth
,
he
shall
hunger
no
more
.
The
water
of
life
,
which
doth
away
the
thirst
,
of
our
drie
and
droughtie
soules
.
The
light
of
the
world
,
which
whosoeuer
followeth
shall
neuer
walke
in
darknesse
.
The
doore
by
which
we
haue
passage
,
quietus
est
,
and
neede
not
looke
after
the
gold
of
Ophyr
,
or
the
mines
of
India
.
But
with
gladsome
hearts
may
take
vp
this
Antheme
and
dittie
of
Dauid
,
The
Lord
is
my
Shepheard
,
therefore
I
can
want
nothing
.
He
shal
bring
me
to
the
green
pasturs
,
and
leade
me
forth
to
the
waters
of
comfort
.
And
breake
out
with
the
Apostle
into
this
sentence
of
thankesgiuing
.
Blessed
be
God
the
Father
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
who
hath
blessed
vs
with
all
spirituall
blessings
in
Iesu
Christ
.
Let
God
do
so
&
more
to
me
(
for
I
willingly
sweare
so
deepely
in
so
deuout
a
cause
)
if
from
hence
,
as
from
a
fountain
,
from
a
root
,
He
that
drinkes
of
this
water
shall
thirst
no
more
.
The
word
of
God
raiseth
vppe
the
dead
,
regenerateth
the
liuing
,
healeth
the
sicke
,
and
preserueth
the
whole
:
delighteth
the
godly
,
reclaimeth
the
wicked
,
lightneth
the
blinde
,
warmeth
the
cold
,
comforteth
the
sad
,
and
confirmeth
the
desperate
.
The
want
of
this
,
is
the
high
way
that
leadeth
to
the
chambers
of
death
,
and
deadly
misfortune
.
For
from
hence
onely
proceede
vaine
hope
,
trembling
feare
,
consuming
care
,
furious
lust
,
boiling
couetousnes
,
fretting
enuy
,
&
fuming
anger
,
&
the
whole
black
gard
,
rablement
&
retinue
of
malignant
mischiefs
,
of
impotent
affections
the
carbuncles
,
boils
&
botches
of
our
soules
.
Infinite
are
the
attributes
to
expresse
his
properties
,
which
are
giuen
to
the
word
:
It
is
called
Light
,
Bread
,
Wine
,
Medcine
,
a
Sword
,
a
Hammer
,
a
fire
,
Seede
.
Light
,
because
with
his
orient
brightnesse
it
illuminateth
our
mindes
,
informing
them
,
and
induing
them
with
heauenly
wisedome
.
Bread
,
because
it
sustaineth
our
hungry
soules
,
A
Sword
,
that
it
diuideth
betweene
the
soule
and
the
marrow
,
A
Hammer
,
because
it
battreth
and
mollifieth
our
hard
and
stony
consciences
.
A
Fire
,
because
it
kindleth
the
spirite
,
and
the
loue
of
God
within
vs
.
And
Seede
,
because
,
it
being
sowed
in
the
furrowes
of
our
heartes
,
by
the
spirit
of
God
our
husbandman
,
it
is
of
verie
great
increase
and
cast
,
in
some
,
an
hundred
,
in
some
,
threescore
,
in
othersome
,
thirty
fold
.
Since
then
the
vse
heereof
is
so
great
and
manifold
,
and
extendeth
it selfe
so
farre
,
why
worketh
it
not
these
wholsome
effects
in
our
●●nfull
consciences
?
why
is
it
still
as
a
dead
letter
vnto
vs
,
as
bitter
to
our
taste
,
as
is
the
very
gall
,
or
the
water
of
worme-wood
,
and
we
can
not
digest
it
?
If
Gods
word
be
a
light
,
why
walke
wee
not
in
this
light
,
but
groape
at
noone
day
,
&
●●t
stil
in
palpable
and
damnable
darkenesse
of
horrible
ignorance
?
If
it
be
Bread
,
why
doe
we
not
as
the
Angel
sayde
to
Iohn
,
Take
this
booke
and
eate
it
?
If
it
be
Wine
,
why
do
we
not
powre
out
,
take
our
fil
of
it
,
and
make
our
hearts
cheereful
and
merry
with
it
?
If
it
be
Medicine
,
why
do
we
not
bind
it
to
our
blisters
and
wounds
,
to
drawe
out
the
rancor
and
corruption
of
them
,
and
to
make
vs
whole
?
Since
it
is
a
Sword
,
why
do
we
not
with
it
cut
the
cordes
of
vanitie
,
and
cart-ropes
of
iniquitie
,
and
hew
all
the
bondes
of
vngodlinesse
asunder
?
If
it
be
a
Hammer
,
why
doth
not
the
noise
of
it
grate
thine
care
,
and
the
power
of
it
breake
thy
heart
;
If
it
be
Fire
,
why
doth
it
not
take
holde
of
sin
,
&
consume
our
wickednes
like
stubble
and
melt
all
the
vngodly
of
the
earth
like
drosse
?
and
inflame
and
lighten
al
our
heart
with
Gods
loue
?
If
it
be
Seede
,
why
commeth
it
not
vpp●●
and
take
deepe
roote
in
vs
?
but
we
are
stil
as
waste
ground
,
which
hath
not
beene
sowed
at
all
?
The
raine
is
alone
which
descendeth
vpon
the
corne
,
and
vpon
the
thornes
,
Goe
to
then
,
now
tell
me
,
what
is
it
that
thou
wantest
?
and
,
tel
me
whether
this
be
not
a
treasure
,
and
a
store-house
,
to
furnish
euery
want
.
Doost
thou
hunt
after
honour
,
The
Lord
is
my
portion
.
Moses
before
him
preferreth
Christs
rebuke
before
●he
coffers
and
riches
of
Aegypt
,
They
which
seeke
the
Lord
,
shall
want
nothing
that
is
good
.
Answerable
wherunto
is
this
Aphorisme
of
our
Sauiour
,
First
seeke
the
kingdome
of
God
,
and
this
shall
be
the
Porter
that
shall
bring
in
all
your
liuing
,
all
other
things
shall
be
put
into
your
mouthes
.
If
ignorance
doth
trouble
thee
,
here
thou
maist
haue
knowledge
:
if
heauinesse
,
comfort
:
if
doubt
,
counsaile
:
if
feare
,
hope
:
if
dispaire
,
encoragement
:
if
temptation
,
protection
.
The
latter
Dauid
with
these
small
smooth
stones
,
I
did
hide
(
saieth
he
)
thy
Lawe
within
my
heart
,
that
I
might
not
sinne
against
thee
.
There
is
no
age
,
or
sexe
,
or
condition
of
persons
,
that
hath
not
a
great
benefite
,
and
treasure
of
the
word
.
It
is
a
rule
for
the
yong
man
to
square
his
life
,
and
for
the
old
man
to
order
his
death
.
Since
therfore
we
so
diligently
read
books
of
humane
learning
,
from
whence
we
obserue
nothing
,
but
either
common-wealth
discipline
,
or
gouernement
of
health
,
or
precepts
oeconomicall
,
or
points
of
husbandrie
,
or
inuentions
of
trades
,
or
allurements
vnto
pleasures
:
how
much
more
ought
our
whole
studie
be
set
vpon
Gods
law
,
by
which
God
himselfe
speaketh
face
to
face
vnto
vs
,
by
which
the
mind
is
exceedingly
comforted
,
disquiet
thoughts
dispelled
,
the
whole
man
enabled
,
beyond
all
imagination
to
euery
good
worke
?
Be
thou
of
what
mould
and
constitution
that
may
be
,
here
is
argument
and
reading
for
thy
turne
.
Art
thou
of
a
graue
and
seuere
disposition
and
doth
nothing
but
a
sad
and
austeare
stile
delight
thee
?
here
is
law
agreeable
●o
thy
humour
.
Is
thy
heart
so
obdurate
,
as
nothing
but
iudgement
,
and
terror
can
soften
●●●
repaire
vnto
the
Prophets
,
whose
dreadful
comminations
are
hammers
and
thunderboltes
,
and
as
scepters
of
yron
to
beate
them
vnto
powder
.
Art
thou
light
hearted
and
of
a
iocund
,
and
delightsome
nature
?
heere
is
psalmodie
and
harmonie
for
thy
fancie
.
Art
thou
philosophically
and
grauely
bent
,
and
delightest
thou
to
heare
concise
,
and
curious
sentences
?
Iob
,
Ecclesiastes
,
the
prouerbes
of
Salomon
,
and
there
are
quicke
inuentions
sutable
to
thy
vaine
.
Last
of
all
,
art
thou
nice
and
curious
in
thy
reading
,
and
doth
nothing
but
Chronicles
and
antiquitie
affect
thee
?
there
are
none
such
braue
antiquaries
as
the
pen-men
of
the
Scripture
,
the
admirable
actuaries
&
historians
of
all
times
.
Thus
euery
kind
of
way
whither
soeuer
we
turne
our selues
,
and
name
what
we
will
,
we
haue
here
a
tresure
to
beare
out
al
our
wants
.
So
as
it
seemeth
not
vnlike
a
princes
armory
,
What
is
worldly
treasure
which
we
esteem
so
much
,
but
base
and
vile
in
comparison
of
this
which
we
esteem
so
little
?
Paul
not
being
able
to
find
out
with
himselfe
a
worser
thing
to
which
he
might
compare
it
,
likeneth
it
to
dung
.
And
if
I
should
leade
you
with
a
long
discourse
,
and
recite
of
particulars
,
I
must
brand
them
on
the
foreheads
with
Salomons
make
,
Vanitie
of
vanities
and
all
is
vanitie
.
There
is
nothing
earthly
,
stable
and
permanent
:
The
word
of
God
only
endureth
for
euer
.
Our
life
passeth
away
swiftly
like
a
post
,
●ur
youth
wax
soon
old
,
fortune
often
frow●eth
,
and
riches
ebbe
and
flow
,
The
people
that
calleth
thee
blessed
,
deceiueth
thee
saith
the
Prophet
Isai
,
Trust
not
this
flattering
and
deceitfull
world
,
which
will
kill
thee
with
culling
thee
,
as
Ioab
did
Amasa
,
and
Iahel
did
Sisopa
.
It
wil
promise
thee
one
thing
,
and
giue
thee
another
thing
,
as
Laban
,
who
promised
Rachel
vnto
Iacob
,
What
did
all
the
treasure
and
pleasure
of
Aegypt
availe
to
help
Pharao
,
when
as
in
the
height
and
top
of
his
gallantnesse
,
Nabucad-nezzar
had
trussed
vppe
much
treasure
,
and
had
brought
in
the
wealth
of
the
whole
world
,
into
his
exchequor
and
treasurie
at
Babylon
,
he
stalked
in
his
galleries
,
and
crowed
pertly
like
a
cocke
vppon
his
dunghill
:
Is
not
this
great
Babel
which
I
haue
built
,
for
the
honour
of
my
kingdome
?
But
his
comb
was
soone
cut
,
he
soared
vp
so
high
in
the
lightnesse
of
his
mind
,
euen
as
the
bird
by
the
lightnesse
of
her
feathers
,
but
he
was
made
come
downe
with
mischiefe
enough
,
and
of
the
other
side
brought
as
low
,
driuen
from
his
court
and
courtly
retinue
,
and
dieted
,
couched
,
and
driuen
among
beastes
.
Baltasar
braued
it
passingly
for
a
time
and
who
but
Baltasar
?
but
this
lustinesse
lasted
not
,
Most
miserable
therefore
and
wofull
is
their
estate
,
who
preferre
this
earthly
which
is
so
fraile
and
fickle
,
before
the
celestial
treasure
of
the
worde
which
abideth
for
euer
:
wherevnto
shall
I
liken
such
a
generation
?
They
are
like
vnto
dogges
,
If
thou
fearest
that
thy
corne
will
foist
in
lower
ground
,
to
preuent
such
mishap
,
Such
is
the
treasure
which
the
world
yeeldeth
vs
,
Bagge
vp
therefore
such
money
as
is
currant
,
and
will
be
sure
to
goe
for
payment
it
the
resurrection
of
the
iust
.
We
are
here
trauellers
and
pilgrims
vpon
earth
,
and
haue
no
certaine
dwelling
place
As
trauellers
cannot
carry
any
great
burde●
with
them
,
neither
is
it
wisedome
to
bestow
●●st
there
,
where
ye
may
not
abide
,
so
to
rake
up
treasure
here
,
from
whence
we
must
al
depart
,
and
to
burden
our selues
with
heauy
leades
of
worldly
possessions
in
our
trauell
towardes
heauen
,
is
both
importable
and
absurde
.
Looke
not
thou
for
water
to
be
yeelded
to
thee
out
of
the
flintie
stone
,
Let
the
glutton
in
hell
,
from
the
liuing
to
the
●●ad
?
heare
Moses
,
&
the
Prophets
:
to
whom
〈◊〉
we
shall
haue
diligent
accesse
,
we
do
not
〈◊〉
our
hands
in
a
beggars
wallet
,
but
into
a
●●ore-house
,
and
treasurie
of
wealth
which
〈◊〉
neuer
be
spent
.
The
holy
Scriptures
are
like
a
deepe
well
,
Let
the
Poets
therefore
stand
vpon
thei●
numbers
,
odes
,
and
verses
,
and
draw
them
from
their
fained
and
farre
fet
fountaines
Helicon
,
Castalio
,
Parnassus
,
and
such
like
:
w●
haue
the
word
from
heauen
,
published
to
th●
church
vpon
the
mountaines
.
Sinai
,
Sion
,
an●
Hierusalem
.
Let
the
Heathens
hunt
after
thei●
idle
imaginations
,
and
run
into
the
holes
an●
caues
of
the
earth
,
to
their
worm
eaten
oakes
to
their
paltrie
pillers
;
for
their
oracles
are
directions
in
all
their
proceedings
,
we
insteed●
of
these
broken
reedes
,
doe
wholly
rest
ou●
selues
vpon
the
sure
foundation
of
the
word●
which
standeth
fast
for
euer
.
Pithagoras
may
parley
as
long
as
he
please●
with
owles
,
and
with
Eagles
.
Apollonius
Thy●
aneus
may
listen
till
he
list
after
the
chirping
and
piping
of
birdes
:
we
lend
our
eares
alone
●o
the
God
of
heauen
,
the
creator
of
al
things
,
by
Moses
,
the
Prophets
,
his
sonne
Christ
,
and
●he
Apostles
speaking
vnto
vs
.
Let
worldlings
delight
them selues
still
if
●hey
will
,
in
their
foolish
wisedome
,
or
wise
●oolishnes
,
or
continue
blinded
in
their
rude
,
●nd
grosse
ignorance
,
or
gape
still
for
gold
,
●he
very
garbage
of
the
earth
and
with
wretched
Esau
,
hunt
for
venison
abroad
,
we
shall
●unt
with
blessed
Iacob
for
a
blessing
at
home
,
●e
shall
lay
vp
treasure
for
our selues
in
heaven
,
we
shall
climbe
the
mountaine
of
this
worldly
wisedome
,
and
treade
it
vnder
feete
:
whereby
we
shall
behold
as
in
a
cleere
re●●on
,
the
secret
mysterie
of
al
heauenly
wisedome
,
and
all
the
spiritual
treasure
of
saluation
;
which
grace
,
the
Lord
giue
vs
.
CHAP.
III.
That
the
word
of
God
,
is
a
Pearle
of
great
price
.
MOses
the
law-giuer
to
the
Lordes
people
,
being
to
set
foorth
Gods
preceptes
vnto
them
,
that
they
might
be
the
more
zealous
of
them
,
he
putteth
this
peremptorie
preamble
vnto
them
.
These
wordes
which
I
commaund
thee
this
day
,
shall
be
in
thine
heart
,
and
thou
shalt
rehearse
them
continually
to
thy
children
,
and
shalt
talk
of
them
when
thou
tariesT
in
thine
house
,
&
as
thou
walkest
by
the
way
,
and
when
thou
liest
down
,
and
when
thou
risest
vp
.
And
thou
shalt
bind
them
for
a
signe
vpon
thine
hand
,
and
they
shall
be
as
frontlets
between
thine
eyes
,
also
thou
shalt
write
them
vpon
the
postes
of
thine
house
,
and
vpon
thy
gates
.
Thus
he
trimmes
his
matter
with
sundry
ornaments
and
circumstances
of
art
,
Here
is
a
muster
of
circumstaunces
together
,
marching
and
following
in
very
strange
array
:
euery
seuerall
worde
is
the
edge
of
a
sharp
sword
,
and
the
main
blow
of
a
beetle
,
to
driue
this
wedge
through
our
knottie
blockish
consciences
.
A
man
would
haue
thought
he
had
vsed
force
enough
,
and
made
his
matter
sure
with
the
first
onset
,
in
commanding
,
that
this
word
should
be
within
our
heart
,
which
is
a
casket
&
offer
sufficient
to
keep
it
safe
enough
.
For
that
is
a
castle
and
fortresse
that
repelleth
the
batterie
of
sinne
.
Wherefore
Dauid
saith
,
I
haue
hidden
thy
commaundements
in
my
heart
,
that
I
should
not
sinne
against
thee
.
But
not
so
satisfied
,
he
requireth
further
,
that
we
rehearse
his
precepts
to
our
children
,
and
that
as
a
Nightingale
,
who
hath
got
a
pleasant
note
,
is
alwaies
harping
and
chirping
vpon
it
,
we
should
alwaies
dilate
and
descant
vppon
them
,
when
we
come
into
the
house
.
But
,
albeit
domesticall
study
and
quiet
,
much
furthereth
meditation
,
yet
a
further
aske
and
labour
is
enioyned
vs
,
namely
,
that
whilest
we
are
in
our
iourney
,
and
the
outward
feete
of
our
bodies
runne
their
waies
,
●he
inward
feet
of
the
mind
and
soule
should
●unne
with
Dauid
,
the
waies
of
Gods
commandements
.
And
yet
as
though
this
worke
thus
en●yned
vs
,
were
not
enough
for
vs
,
he
commandeth
moreouer
,
that
couching
and
lying
●owne
,
our
minds
should
watch
and
waite
●erevpon
.
This
seemeth
to
be
such
a
hard
●eece
of
seruice
,
as
the
like
wherof
,
no
master
●seth
to
lay
vpon
his
seruant
,
who
among
vs
●o
so
abridge
their
seruants
of
their
naturall
●est
,
as
to
exact
and
claime
that
time
which
is
●ue
to
rest
,
to
be
spent
in
our
affaires
.
One
would
thinke
now
he
could
goe
no
further
,
but
that
he
must
here
stop
and
set
vp
his
rest
:
but
behold
,
assoone
as
we
are
out
of
our
sleepe
,
and
do
cast
vp
our
eies
,
he
setteth
worke
enough
before
vs
.
For
to
helpe
our
memories
that
are
weake
and
slipperie
,
he
willeth
vs
to
weare
them
as
rings
vppon
our
fingers
,
and
bind
them
as
signets
vpon
our
hands
,
and
yet
as
though
the
hand
were
too
farre
distant
,
and
remooued
from
the
heart
,
and
for
all
this
helpe
and
good
meane
,
might
be
forgetfull
,
he
prouideth
that
his
precepts
should
be
the
obiect
of
our
senses
,
in
setting
them
as
frontlets
betweene
our
eies
,
which
may
alwaies
rub
and
quicken
vp
our
memories
.
And
yet
there
wants
this
clause
to
make
ful
the
period
.
Thou
shalt
write
them
vpon
the
posts
of
thine
house
,
and
vpon
thy
gates
,
that
thy
studs
,
gates
,
and
portals
,
at
thy
ingresse
,
and
egresse
,
may
be
publike
preachers
to
thee
.
Now
thou
,
It
is
to
much
purpose
that
the
word
is
sampled
and
patterned
to
a
pearl
,
and
a
manifold
and
comfortable
vse
we
haue
hereof
,
and
it
liuely
setteth
forth
the
dignitie
,
nature
,
and
excellencie
of
the
word
.
This
Pearl
is
the
omnipotent
and
eternal
word
of
God
,
properly
so
called
,
for
sundry
good
respects
,
whether
we
consider
the
subiect
,
matter
,
or
form
,
manner
,
and
operation
of
the
pearle
.
For
the
matter
of
it
,
The
fruit
of
the
womb
is
of
the
dew
of
the
morning
.
The
forme
of
the
pearle
is
orient
and
glistering
,
and
exceeding
beautifull
,
wherein
it
hath
a
notable
agreement
with
this
word
,
as
the
same
father
in
the
same
place
thus
witnesseth
,
Verbum
Domini
lucidum
candore
veritatis
,
&
solidum
firmitate
aeternitatis
,
&
vndique
sui
simile
pulchritudine
diuinitatis
.
The
word
of
God
shineth
through
the
brightnesse
of
the
veritie
,
it
is
firm
and
sound
through
the
solidity
of
eternity
,
and
it
is
in
al
parts
alike
in
the
beautie
of
diuinitie
.
The
vertue
and
operation
of
the
pearle
is
great
,
and
for
diuers
vses
is
exceeding
medicinable
,
among
other
,
to
remedie
the
panting
of
the
heart
,
to
quicken
,
comfort
,
and
restore
the
vitall
spirits
,
to
depell
and
driue
away
the
giddinesse
,
dizzinesse
,
and
swimming
of
the
head
.
Now
how
all
these
conspire
in
one
in
Christ
,
and
are
compleate
in
him
,
and
are
brought
to
passe
in
vs
by
feeling
experience
,
by
the
operation
of
the
word
,
it
is
as
cleer
and
apparant
as
the
Sunne
.
This
was
that
which
was
Dauids
comfort
,
and
quickened
him
in
the
midst
of
his
trouble
.
The
want
of
this
,
This
is
that
aqua
vitae
,
which
doth
,
the
word
of
life
,
saying
:
Lord
,
whither
shall
we
goe
?
thou
hast
the
words
of
eternall
life
.
And
Christ
calleth
it
life
.
This
is
life
eternall
,
to
know
thee
the
true
God
,
and
him
whom
thou
hast
sent
,
Iesus
Christ
.
There
is
no
sinner
so
swallowed
vp
of
sinne
,
so
dead
and
buried
in
it
,
whome
the
woorde
can
not
quicken
and
rayse
vp
againe
.
It
cried
out
to
the
drie
and
dead
bones
in
the
field
,
and
loe
they
were
knit
together
,
Lazarus
who
had
lien
foure
daies
in
his
graue
,
was
quickned
by
this
word
.
As
the
bodie
liueth
by
his
bodily
food
,
What
man
is
so
desperately
and
irrecouerably
sicke
,
Let
the
Poets
boast
of
Orpheus
as
they
please
,
who
with
musicke
tamed
sauage
beasts
:
of
this
we
are
most
sure
,
that
Gods
worde
hath
reclaymed
and
altered
beastly
minds
,
Paul
very
expressely
laieth
out
so
much
,
whenas
portraying
out
our
counterfeit
,
as
it
was
,
without
Christ
,
after
whose
glorious
image
we
haue
bin
perfected
and
transformed
,
he
indigestly
shadoweth
vs
out
with
a
blacke
coale
in
this
mishappen
manner
.
We
our selues
also
were
in
times
past
vnwise
,
disobedient
,
deceiued
,
seruing
the
lustes
,
and
diuers
pleasures
,
liuing
in
maliciousnesse
and
enuy
,
hatefull
,
and
hating
one
another
.
Likewise
,
leading
vs
along
with
a
rehearsall
of
sundrie
enormities
which
we
rifely
committed
,
he
inferreth
therevpon
,
that
this
was
our
estate
,
but
the
case
is
altred
with
vs
,
we
are
washed
,
sanctified
,
and
iustified
,
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
Iesus
,
and
by
the
spirit
of
God
.
Be
we
neuer
so
profound
and
deeply
wise
in
humane
wisedome
,
it
may
beseeme
vs
well
to
seeke
after
this
wisedome
,
as
a
Pearle
of
greater
price
and
vertue
than
the
other
.
Solomon
,
the
wisest
that
euer
was
,
saw
verie
manifestly
,
that
wheresoeuer
the
vncreated
wisedome
of
God
spake
,
excellent
things
,
euen
things
seemely
for
Princes
.
And
although
some
places
are
shallow
enough
for
the
lambe
to
wade
in
,
yet
there
be
some
deep
enough
to
drowne
the
very
elephant
:
of
the
which
we
may
say
with
the
holy
Apostle
,
Oh
the
deepenesse
of
the
counsailes
and
wisedome
of
God!
how
vnsearchable
are
thy
wayes
,
and
thy
paths
past
finding
out
?
One
Plato
is
woorth
a
thousand
vulgar
men
,
the
Scriptures
surpasse
all
the
writings
in
the
world
.
Loe
,
thou
that
arte
so
highly
conceited
of
thy selfe
,
and
thinkest
thou
canst
see
farre
beyond
the
Moone
,
imagining
that
a
Preacher
can
speake
nothing
vnto
thee
,
but
that
thou
knewest
before
,
or
that
he
is
not
able
to
stirre
thy
affections
,
Nabuchadnezzar
hadde
a
vision
of
a
tree
,
Paul
was
a
choice
man
,
If
the
Spirit
openeth
not
the
doore
of
thy
●ppes
,
thou
speakest
like
a
Parrot
,
Trust
mee
,
there
is
no
estate
of
life
more
miserable
,
than
to
remaine
in
ignorance
of
the
word
,
and
no
estate
happier
,
than
to
haue
the
knowledge
of
it
.
What
say
I
of
this
Pearle
?
●hat
it
easeth
panting
hearts
,
dizzie
heads
,
and
theereth
vitall
spirits
,
this
word
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
it
is
all
in
all
vnto
vs
.
If
Saul
be
madde
thorow
melancholy
,
This
charmed
the
very
diuell
,
and
made
him
swell
,
he
did
burst
when
he
did
set
vpon
our
Sauiour
,
putting
him
to
shame
,
This
curbled
,
and
so
ratled
the
ruffians
that
were
sent
from
the
Scribes
and
hie
Priests
,
It
exhorteth
,
it
threatneth
,
it
inciteth
,
it
reclaymeth
,
it
instructeth
,
it
conuinceth
,
it
singeth
,
it
mourneth
it
praieth
,
it
detesteth
,
it
commendeth
,
it
disalloweth
,
it
recounteth
things
past
,
foretelleth
things
to
come
,
it
singeth
of
mercy
,
and
discourseth
of
iudgement
.
It
bendeth
euery
way
like
to
soft
waxe
,
to
bend
our
stubborne
consciences
.
Paul
in
this
especially
commendeth
his
Timothie
,
Thrice
happy
was
the
state
and
gouernement
of
Israel
,
The
Lorde
is
my
life
and
my
saluation
,
whome
then
shall
I
feare
?
The
Lorde
is
the
strength
of
my
life
,
of
whome
then
shall
I
be
afraide
?
What
if
hostes
of
men
beset
me
?
yet
shal
I
not
feare
:
and
though
there
rise
vp
war
against
me
,
yet
shall
I
put
my
trust
in
thee
.
And
with
Daniels
consortes
shew
our
heroicall
and
inuincible
stomackes
,
with
faithfull
heartes
,
saying
,
Beholde
the
God
whome
we
worship
,
he
shall
deliuer
vs
out
of
the
fiery
furnace
.
And
wyth
peerelesse
Paul
,
commune
the
case
,
and
challenge
all
aduersary
power
into
the
field
,
and
expostulate
thus
with
them
,
Who
shal
seperate
vs
from
the
loue
of
God
which
is
in
Christ
Iesus
our
Lorde
?
And
wyth
hym
,
when
wee
haue
seene
all
that
they
can
doe
,
be
of
this
courage
and
resolution
with
our selues
,
that
nothing
shal
be
able
to
sunder
and
diuorse
vs
from
the
fauor
of
the
Lord
.
But
all
this
while
heere
is
but
one
Pearle
spoken
of
,
to
which
the
word
of
the
kingdom
●s
compared
.
And
not
without
good
cause
:
For
there
is
but
one
at
one
time
ingendred
in
●he
fish
,
and
it
seemeth
,
that
the
name
that
is
giuen
vnto
the
Pearle
,
which
is
called
,
Vnio
,
expresseth
this
his
nature
,
which
signifieth
One.
In
this
it
hath
a
fitte
allusion
vnto
Christ
,
who
is
our
sole
and
alone
mediator
,
and
hath
no
other
,
either
Angel
or
Saint
to
share
,
and
partake
wyth
hym
.
There
is
but
one
Mediator
betweene
God
and
man
,
the
man
Christ
Iesus
:
Neither
is
there
saluation
in
any
other
else
:
For
there
is
no
name
vnder
heauen
whereby
we
must
be
saued
,
but
the
name
of
Iesus
:
For
whither
elso
shall
we
goe
?
Lorde
thou
hast
the
wordes
of
eternall
life
.
As
all
the
light
and
brightnes
of
the
starres
proceede
from
one
Sunne
,
As
Pharao
sayd
to
Ioseph
(
which
name
in
the
Egyptian
language
is
a
Sauior
)
I
am
Pharao
,
and
without
thee
shal
no
man
stirre
his
hand
,
or
his
foote
,
in
all
the
land
of
Egypt
.
So
may
it
be
sayde
of
Christ
,
that
wythout
him
wee
are
able
to
do
nothing
of
our selues
:
One
sunne
alone
chaceth
away
the
foggy
darkenes
of
the
night
;
Since
then
one
Pearle
supplieth
all
our
wants
,
what
neede
we
more
than
one
?
Augustine
by
a
plausible
and
plaine
similitude
thus
dilateth
vpon
this
poynt
,
But
the
learned
Schoole-man
Gregory
paraphraseth
pathetically
and
properly
vppon
this
poynt
:
Dauid
,
Daniel
,
Amos
,
Peter
,
Paul
,
Mathew
,
and
mine
eyes
of
faith
are
fully
fixed
on
them
.
He
inspireth
the
yong
harper
,
and
he
maketh
him
a
Psalmist
.
He
breatheth
vpon
the
babe
,
and
hee
is
wiser
than
the
aged
,
and
is
made
their
Iudge
.
He
giueth
the
simple
shepheard
and
heardsman
in
the
field
,
the
wisedome
of
his
Spirite
,
and
he
becoms
a
famous
shepheard
and
prophet
of
the
people
.
He
calleth
the
fisherman
,
and
immediately
hee
angleth
and
fisheth
for
men
,
and
with
his
nets
draweth
thousands
at
once
from
the
bottomles
pitte
of
eternall
destruction
,
to
the
highest
top
of
their
eternall
saluation
.
He
enlightneth
the
persecutor
,
and
he
prooues
a
passing
Preacher
of
an
erratical
and
wandring
starre
,
a
fixed
starre
,
keeping
his
station
,
a
starre
that
is
in
the
right
hand
of
Christ
.
He
reclaymeth
the
customer
,
and
●he
impure
Publicane
,
and
loe
,
he
becomes
a
blessed
actuary
and
penne-man
of
a
Gospel
.
Since
therfore
all
riches
and
graces
of
god
doe
streame
from
one
fountayne
,
since
one
●oote
ingendreth
and
bringeth
forth
all
fruit
,
since
one
and
the
same
spirite
is
the
craftes●an
of
al
trades
,
and
the
founder
of
al
knowledge
;
were
it
not
better
for
vs
to
be
acquainted
with
this
on
〈◊〉
which
is
the
porter
that
brin
●eth
in
al
our
exp●r
,
then
to
runne
to
vnderings
,
inferi●
vp
〈◊〉
base
creatures
,
which
shall
●euer
be
able
to
supply
our
necessities
?
What
maruell
is
it
that
this
one
spirit
shuld
worke
all
things
in
vs
,
Be
perswaded
therefore
to
make
purchase
of
this
Pearle
,
whatsoeuer
it
dooth
cost
thee
beeing
that
which
Christ
calleth
,
the
hidde●
Manna
,
and
Peter
,
the
ioy
vnspeakeable
,
and
Dauid
,
the
fountaine
and
wel
of
all
pleasures
,
and
which
in
this
parable
is
set
at
a
high
rate
.
This
the
diuell
laboureth
especially
to
depriue
vs
of
,
knowing
in
his
subtilty
,
that
it
is
o●
that
woorth
.
For
,
as
pyrats
on
the
seas
principaly
do
bend
their
force
●●●inst
those
ship●
which
they
knowe
to
bee
〈◊〉
with
gold●
pearle
,
The
Spirite
here
in
a
subtile
kinde
of
wisedome
(
as
I
may
so
say
)
to
win
vs
to
the
word
,
suteth
himselfe
in
his
forme
and
frame
of
speech
to
our
fancies
,
and
affections
:
The
hope
and
expectation
of
gaine
set
before
vs
,
rowseth
vs
vppe
,
plucketh
vs
by
the
eares
,
and
causeth
vs
to
stirre
,
and
abide
all
aduentures
,
He
that
eateth
,
eateth
in
hope
:
and
he
that
thresheth
,
thresheth
in
hope
.
The
hope
of
a
good
haruest
hartneth
the
husbandman
all
the
yeere
long
,
to
all
tedious
toyle
and
turmoyle
of
his
body
.
The
souldier
giueth
a
hardy
onset
,
and
dreadeth
no
danger
,
vpon
the
comforte
hee
conceiueth
of
a
conquest
,
of
sharing
out
the
●poyle
,
and
of
a
bountifull
booty
at
the
last
.
The
Huntes-man
,
for
the
loue
he
beareth
to
his
game
,
in
expectation
of
his
sport
rangeth
about
,
and
vnder-goeth
all
wrathfull
spite
of
●ny
colde
and
tempestuous
weather
:
finally
,
●here
is
nothing
,
of
which
we
haue
any
hope
,
which
is
not
as
a
spurre
to
pricke
vs
forwarde
vnto
any
attempt
,
whereby
we
may
atchieue
〈◊〉
.
Dauid
,
What
shal
bee
giuen
to
the
man
that
ouercommeth
him
?
And
when
aunswere
was
returned
,
that
the
King
woulde
bestowe
great
treasure
vpon
him
,
and
giue
his
daughter
in
marriage
vnto
him
,
and
woulde
make
him
free
denison
in
the
land
of
Israel
:
Dauid
had
enough
,
the
hope
of
this
reward
foorthwith
gaue
him
boldenesse
and
stomacke
enough
to
fight
hand
to
hand
with
him
.
Nowe
,
if
it
shall
be
asked
what
that
man
shall
haue
that
shall
ouercome
the
spirituall
Giant
,
the
world
,
and
the
flesh
:
wee
answere
,
that
treasure
at
his
pleasure
shal
be
giuen
him
,
he
shall
haue
a
Pearle
of
incomparable
price
bestowed
vpon
him
.
And
we
send
him
yet
further
vnto
Esay
the
prophet
,
who
more
at
large
acquainteth
him
with
the
kings
minde
,
heerein
giuing
him
to
know
,
That
the
eie
hath
not
seene
,
the
eare
hath
not
heard
,
neither
hath
the
heart
of
man
conceiued
the
things
that
God
hath
prepared
for
them
that
loue
him
.
Whenas
God
would
breede
in
the
breasts
of
the
Israelitos
,
The
treasure
and
pearle
that
is
heere
named
,
is
as
much
as
our
sense
is
able
to
conceiue
:
but
yet
it
sufficiently
defineth
not
vnto
vs
the
riches
of
Gods
kingdom
.
In
a
word
,
It
is
the
manner
of
our
subtile
merchants
,
Christ
demeaneth
himselfe
in
that
affection
towards
vs
as
the
father
towards
his
child
,
Seuior
magister
,
a
rougher
Schoolemaister
to
dull
and
carelesse
schollers
.
Therefore
,
to
hearten
vs
the
better
heereunto
,
he
sheweth
vs
a
Pearle
;
for
which
(
if
we
be
wise
)
we
shal
be
willing
to
step
forward
to
this
schoole
,
to
attayne
to
all
knowledge
.
The
respect
of
the
reward
minisheth
(
saith
Gregory
)
the
rigor
of
the
rodde
.
When
the
Assyrian
souldiers
behelde
the
comely
beauty
and
feature
of
Iudith
,
Here
in
this
life
by
our
entire
and
duetiful
conformity
to
the
word
,
we
presently
do
possesse
a
treasure
and
pearle
of
peculiar
passing
price
:
but
after
all
this
life
,
all
endlesse
felicitie
,
whenas
at
his
glorious
comming
in
the
clowdes
,
he
shall
change
our
base
bodies
,
and
make
them
like
his
owne
glorious
body
,
CHAP.
IIII.
That
the
word
of
God
is
a
Treasure
that
is
hidden
:
and
wherefore
it
is
so
called
.
THE
worde
of
God
is
not
simply
compared
to
a
Treasure
,
but
to
such
which
is
hidden
and
is
digged
out
of
the
ground
.
It
is
hidden
,
because
the
mysteries
thereof
are
not
open
vnto
all
,
but
onely
to
such
,
to
whom
the
Sonne
hath
reuealed
them
.
I
giue
thee
thankes
,
O
Father
,
Lord
of
heauen
and
earth
,
because
thou
hast
hid
these
things
from
the
wise
,
and
men
of
vnderstanding
,
and
opened
them
vnto
babes
,
euen
so
,
O
Father
,
because
it
is
thy
will
and
pleasure
.
Whenas
Peter
made
that
maine
,
and
fundamentall
confession
of
Christ
,
Thou
art
Christ
,
the
Sonne
of
the
liuing
God
:
Christ
told
him
flatly
,
that
it
was
the
quicknesse
and
nimblenes
of
his
wit
,
that
found
out
this
matter
,
he
could
not
see
so
farre
with
a
carnall
eie
,
but
it
was
the
eie
of
faith
that
reached
so
far
,
and
the
good
will
of
his
father
that
did
make
it
knowne
vnto
him
.
It
is
not
in
the
power
of
the
fleshly
man
(
saith
the
blessed
Apostle
)
to
comprehend
in
his
conceit
the
things
that
are
of
God
.
Baruch
would
not
giue
the
aduenture
to
go
against
Sisara
,
Paul
was
greatly
booke-learned
,
As
God
is
vnsearchable
,
so
are
his
giftes
:
the
running
head
of
man
,
hath
attained
vnto
many
and
very
mightie
mysteries
,
and
hath
disclosed
many
things
,
which
hath
long
laien
in
darknesse
:
but
yet
his
ignoance
is
far
greater
then
his
knowledge
,
a
few
things
in
comparison
of
those
that
are
hidden
,
are
reuealed
vnto
him
.
Whenas
Croesus
willed
Thales
to
define
what
God
was
,
he
required
time
for
it
,
and
when
the
time
was
come
,
he
did
stil
put
off
his
answere
vnto
further
time
,
and
continually
being
called
,
redoubled
that
time
:
for
the
more
he
meditated
,
the
more
he
was
confounded
,
he
could
not
attaine
vnto
it
.
So
,
to
set
downe
the
Treasure
of
Gods
kingdome
,
and
to
comprehend
the
riches
of
his
grace
,
the
more
we
scan
them
,
the
more
we
demurre
of
them
,
it
is
like
an
intricate
Laborinth
,
out
of
which
we
cannot
get
,
it
is
a
secret
hidden
from
our
eies
.
If
the
bodily
paine
be
sometimes
so
great
,
It
happeneth
with
vs
whenas
we
would
comprice
in
our
carnall
imaginations
,
Some
thinke
that
Coelum
,
which
is
called
heauen
,
commeth
of
Coelo
,
which
is
to
engraue
:
and
so
it
may
well
,
for
we
see
how
it
is
carued
,
graued
,
and
adorned
,
round
about
with
glistering
and
orient
starres
.
But
I
subscribe
to
them
,
who
thinke
that
Coelum
is
taken
à
coelo
,
which
is
to
couer
,
hide
,
and
conceale
,
because
the
treasure
laide
vp
for
vs
in
heauen
is
couered
,
concealed
,
which
cannot
be
spoken
,
which
are
not
possible
for
a
man
to
vtter
:
for
indeed
,
mans
tongue
in
such
kinds
of
cases
,
stammereth
,
and
cleaueth
to
the
roofe
of
his
mouth
,
so
disable
it
is
to
vnfold
diuine
misteries
.
So
that
our
chiefest
commendation
of
them
,
is
our
silence
of
them
.
My
secretes
are
to
my selfe
.
God
his
wondrous
workes
so
exceede
all
number
,
measure
,
and
proportion
,
as
it
is
more
commendable
to
conceale
them
with
a
godly
admiration
,
then
to
prie
into
them
with
a
curious
inquisition
.
Set
a
round
bowle
or
globe
in
any
place
which
is
of
that
quantitie
that
may
fill
the
place
,
and
will
that
vast
substance
thinke
you
be
dragged
out
of
the
narrow
,
and
strait
passages
of
the
doore
of
that
place
?
there
is
no
reason
so
to
thinke
,
the
spirituall
ioyes
of
heauen
are
of
that
huge
capacitie
and
substance
,
Cui
magno
nihil
est
magnum
,
The
Queen
of
the
South
comming
from
farre
to
heare
Salomons
wisedome
,
Christ
informing
Nicodemus
but
in
the
rudiments
of
religion
,
so
God
loued
the
worlde
that
he
gaue
his
onely
begotten
Sonne
,
this
first
word
so
putteth
vs
to
a
non
plus
.
For
how
did
he
loue
it
?
he
loued
it
,
but
so
,
as
cannot
be
expressed
.
And
he
cannot
speake
otherwise
,
because
hee
knoweth
Gods
loue
to
be
vnspeakable
.
The
blessed
Apostle
entreating
of
the
passion
,
Consider
him
who
hath
suffered
such
shame
for
you
.
But
Paul
,
what
was
this
shame
?
why
rippest
thou
not
vp
his
stripes
and
his
blowes
,
his
mockes
and
his
mowes
:
the
crowne
,
the
nailes
,
the
speare
,
the
crosse
?
because
howsoeuer
they
were
liuely
and
sensible
,
yet
were
not
sufficiently
explicable
and
intelligible
.
We
will
you
likewise
to
consider
of
the
word
,
as
of
a
Treasure
,
and
a
Pearle
of
great
price
.
If
further
,
we
would
know
the
vttermost
of
his
worth
,
the
spirit
answereth
here
,
that
it
is
hidden
from
vs
,
it
is
more
then
any
is
able
to
declare
.
The
treasure
of
inward
heauenly
inspiration
,
the
pleasure
of
diuine
celestiall
consolation
,
the
crowne
of
glorie
laide
vp
as
a
reward
of
our
bitter
persecution
,
and
finally
,
God
our
father
his
most
gracious
compassion
,
by
the
tongue
of
men
or
Angels
cannot
be
spoken
of
,
they
are
hidden
mysteries
,
that
are
too
deep
for
vs
.
This
Treasure
is
hidden
,
because
it
hath
neede
of
spirituall
Reuelation
:
It
is
not
so
hidden
,
but
that
whatsoeuer
is
needful
to
saluation
is
opened
vnto
vs
.
God
dealeth
not
as
Poets
,
and
Philosophers
with
the
truth
,
who
with
the
darke
clowdes
of
their
fabulous
inuentions
,
haue
so
eclipsed
and
obscured
the
cleere
light
therof
,
as
the
minds
of
the
readers
are
confounded
with
them
,
and
can
giue
no
iudgement
of
it
.
Gods
spirit
hath
not
so
mocked
&
dallied
with
vs
,
as
to
set
actuaries
and
penne-men
a
worke
to
engrosse
such
books
,
which
being
so
perplexed
,
can
minister
no
instruction
&
comfort
vnto
vs
:
in
this
kind
of
vaine
may
Apollo
please
himselfe
.
is
a
light
that
shineth
vnto
vs
out
of
a
darke
place
.
This
booke
howsoeuer
it
is
sealed
vp
by
the
Lion
that
is
of
the
tribe
of
Iudah
,
is
broken
open
to
vs
.
Howsoeuer
heretofore
,
If
Pharao
be
nothing
skilfull
in
his
dream
,
let
him
send
for
Ioseph
,
who
is
able
to
interprete
it
.
If
Nabuchad-nazzar
his
vision
doth
perplex
him
,
Ananias
will
informe
and
acquaint
Saul
what
he
ought
to
do
.
The
Aethiopian
Queenes
Chamberlaine
vnderstandeth
what
he
readeth
by
the
helpe
of
Phillip
.
So
,
But
aboue
all
,
This
treasure
is
not
so
hidden
from
vs
,
as
the
enemy
would
perswade
vs
,
who
prate
,
I
know
not
of
what
Cimmerian
darkenes
,
and
obscurity
vnsearchable
,
euery
where
obuious
and
occurrent
in
the
Scriptures
.
The
wilie
tempter
herein
resembleth
him
,
But
doate
ye
not
(
beloued
)
vppon
such
a
vaine
&
deceiuable
dreame
,
the
idle
thought
,
and
inuention
of
mans
brayne
,
The
commandement
of
the
Lord
is
pure
,
and
giueth
light
vnto
the
eyes
:
The
testimonie
of
the
Lord
is
sure
,
and
giueth
wisedome
vnto
the
simple
.
Socrates
,
a
Pagan
and
heathenish
man
,
attributeth
to
the
light
of
nature
,
thus
much
,
as
what
questions
he
shal
moue
plainly
in
good
order
,
albeit
his
Scholler
shal
be
dul
and
grose
headed
,
he
wil
vndertake
,
shall
aptly
and
naturally
be
assoyled
by
him
.
And
shal
the
Philosopher
,
in
humane
matters
accomplish
this
much
,
and
shall
not
Gods
spirit
,
the
Spirit
of
al
trueth
,
the
light
of
our
blindenes
,
our
al
sufficient
Schoolemaister
,
the
ioy
of
our
hearts
,
the
breath
of
our
nostrils
be
aequiualent
,
and
comparable
vnto
him
.
So
long
as
wee
heare
any
mention
to
bee
made
of
Gods
hidden
oracles
let
vs
haue
before
our
eyes
,
The
Scriptures
are
the
harder
,
The
difficultie
of
the
scriptures
which
falleth
much
into
our
reading
,
is
hurtfull
vnto
none
,
but
to
such
as
are
peruerse
;
for
it
is
expedient
for
the
godly
euery
way
:
It
stirreth
them
vp
to
study
,
the
better
to
attayne
vnto
it
:
It
kindleth
in
them
a
desire
to
vnderstand
:
It
addeth
spirite
and
life
vnto
the
praiers
which
the
Saints
make
to
God
for
the
comprehending
of
it
.
Moreouer
,
this
maketh
them
not
to
disdayne
to
aske
counsaile
of
the
learned
,
and
so
thereby
their
pride
is
notably
repressed
,
mutuall
loue
and
charitie
singularly
preserued
.
Chrysostome
,
See
we
not
how
the
Lord
hath
set
the
Sun
in
the
firmament
of
heauen
,
For
,
The
sunne
giueth
light
to
the
whole
world
alike
,
In
the
Winter
season
,
God
indeede
doth
blinde
the
wicked
,
but
he
blindeh
them
negatiuely
;
namely
,
to
recusant
and
obstinate
sinners
he
dooth
not
communicate
the
light
of
his
spirite
;
and
for
this
cause
(
as
Iob
sayth
)
They
doe
groape
at
noone
day
.
Whenas
men
wilfully
do
hide
themselues
from
God
,
God
,
not
vnwillingly
dooth
hide
his
word
from
them
.
This
hiding
is
euer
in
the
creature
onely
,
and
not
in
the
Creator
.
He
would
haue
cured
Babylon
,
but
she
would
not
,
therefore
he
must
leaue
her
.
The
word
must
haue
a
fit
subiect
to
work
vpon
,
or
else
,
no
maruel
though
it
be
preached
in
vaine
;
and
is
as
a
sword
hidden
in
a
scabbard
,
and
seemeth
a
dead
and
hidden
letter
to
vs
.
The
plow-man
,
In
euery
action
naturall
and
spiritual
,
these
two
things
chiefly
are
regarded
,
the
agent
,
&
the
patient
.
In
the
agent
,
there
must
be
power
and
abilitie
of
action
:
and
in
the
patient
,
conformable
disposition
to
entertayne
the
action
.
The
Smyth
must
first
make
his
yrons
fit
and
pliable
by
the
fire
,
Depart
not
thou
from
God
,
hide
not
the
selfe
from
him
,
let
no
fault
be
in
thee
,
and
God
will
not
forsake
thee
,
or
hide
his
word
from
thee
,
but
he
will
open
this
his
measure
〈◊〉
thee
.
As
the
Sun
by
his
departure
from
the
earth
,
is
the
cause
of
the
congelation
of
the
earth
,
not
directly
,
but
indirectly
:
so
God
,
Therfore
since
this
treasure
is
hidden
from
them
.
I
maruel
not
they
esteem
it
so
little
,
and
make
no
seeking
for
it
:
Ignoti
nullique
cupido
,
who
lusteth
&
loueth
that
which
he
did
neuer
know
?
A
base
fellow
by
the
high
way
often
beardeth
and
braueth
his
better
,
Taste
therfore
,
and
see
how
sweete
the
Lord
is
,
This
treasure
moreouer
,
may
be
said
to
be
hidden
,
because
vnto
such
as
are
dispensers
of
it
,
Last
of
all
,
this
treasure
may
be
said
to
be
hidden
,
because
the
estate
and
possession
of
this
treasure
which
the
word
affoordeth
,
is
as
yet
whilst
we
soiorn
in
this
miserable
world
,
detained
and
hidden
from
vs
:
Dum
est
spes
,
not
estres
,
saith
Augustine
.
This
treasure
and
pearle
we
haue
yet
b
ut
in
hope
,
is
hidden
in
Christ
,
but
when
Christ
which
is
our
life
shall
appears
,
then
shall
we
also
appeare
with
him
in
glorie
.
Therefore
the
Apostle
defineth
faith
,
which
is
the
hand
which
reacheth
vs
this
glory
,
the
substance
of
things
hoped
for
,
and
the
euidence
of
things
that
are
not
seene
.
Now
as
this
treasure
is
neuer
the
lesse
worth
,
albeit
the
hauing
of
it
,
is
yet
denied
vs
,
and
the
vnspeakable
wealth
and
worth
therof
,
is
as
yet
hidden
from
vs
,
euen
so
it
is
with
our
soules
and
bodies
,
that
are
grafted
in
Christ
Iesus
by
a
true
and
liuely
faith
,
albeit
those
ioyes
which
we
vndoubtedly
look
for
,
are
yet
shut
from
our
eies
.
Beloued
,
we
are
now
the
sonnes
of
God
,
but
yet
it
doth
not
appeare
what
we
shall
be
,
and
we
know
that
when
he
shall
appeare
,
we
shall
be
like
him
,
and
we
shall
see
him
as
he
is
:
which
time
the
Lord
hasten
,
that
we
may
receiue
that
inheritance
with
the
faithful
,
which
the
Father
of
olde
hath
prepared
,
the
Son
of
late
hath
purchased
,
and
the
holy
Spirit
hath
consigned
,
which
as
yet
is
hidden
from
vs
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
this
Merchant-man
his
taske
,
imposed
vpon
him
for
the
attayning
vnto
this
Treasure
,
and
Pearle
of
great
price
.
THings
of
excellencie
,
are
not
had
without
difficultie
:
Gold
and
Pearle
grow
not
,
as
the
ordinarie
fruites
of
the
earth
,
in
the
outward
face
of
it
,
but
they
lie
hidden
in
the
entrals
therof
,
and
with
hard
deluing
,
and
tedious
turmoyling
must
be
found
out
of
vs
.
Our
Euangelicall
Merchant
in
this
place
,
got
not
vp
these
goods
by
gazing
about
him
,
in
an
idle
speculation
:
but
he
buckled
himself
to
the
ordinary
means
of
attaining
therevnto
by
industruous
operation
.
He
found
this
treasure
as
it
is
in
the
first
,
and
he
sought
these
good
pearles
as
it
is
inserted
in
the
latter
of
these
parables
.
Wherefore
in
this
man
,
ech
man
may
see
the
nature
of
his
taske
that
expect
this
mans
waies
.
He
must
not
stretch
himselfe
vpon
his
bed
,
and
fold
his
armes
to
sleep
:
he
must
not
keepe
his
tabernacle
,
or
stand
in
the
market
place
,
but
he
must
gird
vp
his
reynes
,
put
his
sandalls
vpon
his
feet
,
he
hath
a
painfull
pilgrimage
&
chargeable
voiage
;
he
must
haue
the
feet
of
an
Hind
,
and
the
wings
of
a
Doue
,
I
know
that
God
hath
opened
vnto
some
,
the
treasures
of
his
grace
,
who
haue
bin
carelesse
enogh
of
it
,
as
little
,
or
not
at
al
inquiring
after
it
,
clocking
like
a
hen
,
&
putting
out
his
hand
vnto
a
wicked
&
gain-saying
people
as
to
Mathew
the
Publicane
,
I
was
found
of
them
who
neuer
sought
me
.
Thereby
manifesting
,
that
the
riches
of
his
goodnesse
without
our
merites
,
depend
vpon
his
mercies
:
yet
vnto
such
,
to
whom
he
giueth
this
particular
grace
,
he
requireth
their
diligence
for
their
better
furtherance
;
and
that
we
should
vse
his
appointed
meanes
to
attaine
vnto
that
end
he
hath
propounded
vnto
vs
.
That
our
eies
should
not
be
euill
,
because
he
is
good
,
nor
our
pains
and
carefulnes
be
in
the
rereward
,
because
his
louing
kindnes
is
in
the
foreward
.
Seek
the
Lord
while
he
is
to
be
found
,
call
vpon
him
whilst
he
is
nigh
.
Answerable
wherevnto
is
that
of
Amos
the
Prophet
,
seeke
the
Lord
,
and
your
soules
shall
liue
,
whom
our
Sauiour
Christ
answereth
like
the
Eccho
,
seeke
,
and
ye
shall
find
,
knocke
,
and
it
shall
be
opened
vnto
you
:
It
was
a
law
before
the
law
,
The
first
Adam
was
not
seated
in
the
garden
of
Eden
,
Blessed
are
the
dead
that
die
in
the
Lord
,
they
rest
from
their
labours
,
and
their
workes
follow
them
Iob
calleth
our
life
a
warfare
,
that
a
man
is
borne
to
trauaile
,
as
the
sparkes
flie
vpwards
;
yea
,
as
we
may
so
say
,
Iacob
his
life
,
These
twentie
yeeres
haul
I
been
in
thy
house
,
I
was
in
the
day
consumed
with
heate
,
and
with
frost
in
the
night
,
and
the
sleep
departed
from
mine
eies
.
Seemeth
this
a
hard
thing
?
it
cannot
be
but
that
hard
things
must
be
gotten
hardly
.
As
euery
thing
hath
his
end
,
so
there
are
meanes
which
we
must
vse
,
which
may
bring
vs
to
this
end
.
He
that
will
be
cured
of
a
most
grieuous
disease
,
must
not
refuse
such
phisick
as
best
serueth
therevnto
.
The
fruitlesse
fig-tree
that
hath
nothing
but
leaues
,
Be
our
labour
neuer
so
sower
to
vs
,
yet
it
giueth
a
great
sweetnes
and
pleasure
to
those
things
which
we
bring
in
by
labour
.
Wherfore
that
may
be
argument
enough
vnto
vs
,
if
there
were
nothing
else
to
minister
encouragement
,
to
be
painefull
and
industrious
in
all
godly
enterprises
.
Do
not
all
things
seem
sweete
and
delitious
vnto
him
,
whose
life
is
most
laborsome
?
I
refer
you
to
the
husbandman
,
and
day-labourer
heerein
,
whose
diet
and
quiet
,
through
worke
and
wearinesse
,
is
more
toothsome
and
delightsome
,
than
his
that
surffeteth
himselfe
with
ease
,
cowcheth
on
soft
pallets
,
stalketh
and
strowteth
sluggishly
enough
in
his
orchardes
and
galleries
,
and
pampereth
himselfe
with
his
new
deuised
dishes
.
He
that
neuer
laboureth
,
can
neuer
recreate
,
and
refresh
himself
with
ease
.
The
pauement
is
a
pallet
more
pleasurable
to
the
laborer
,
than
the
field
bedde
of
dowlne
is
to
the
lordly
loyterer
.
A
course
and
grose
diet
batleth
,
and
better
goeth
downe
with
the
pesant
,
sweating
at
the
plough
,
than
the
finest
foode
doth
with
the
curious
Courtier
sweating
in
his
bedde
,
or
in
his
drowsie
chayre
by
the
fire
side
.
Suruey
the
common
course
of
all
creaturs
vnder
heauen
,
and
wee
shall
finde
that
their
condition
and
nature
is
such
,
as
directly
crosseth
and
ouerthwarteth
all
securitie
.
The
heauens
,
the
planets
,
The
earth
neuer
resteth
,
but
yeerely
yeeldeth
his
natural
encrease
,
Gold
,
siluer
,
and
mettalls
of
all
maner
,
doe
fret
and
canker
,
through
disuse
,
being
vnoccupied
.
Euery
thing
generally
in
his
naturally
vse
,
thriueth
,
and
for
want
thereof
,
perisheth
.
The
horse
,
and
other
cattell
,
through
want
of
trauel
,
are
seebler
in
the
feete
,
and
vnfitter
to
trauell
.
The
bird
that
lieth
,
is
not
in
such
danger
,
but
sitting
stil
,
is
shot
at
with
an
arrow
.
The
souldier
that
is
the
greatest
sluggard
,
is
the
greatest
coward
,
and
thus
we
may
extend
and
drawe
out
our
discourse
with
innumerable
particulars
.
Wherfore
,
since
the
case
standeth
thus
,
Awake
thou
that
sleepest
,
and
stand
vp
from
the
dead
,
and
Christ
shall
giue
thee
life
,
idlenesse
being
nothing
but
a
paynted
toombe
and
sepulchre
,
which
burieth
vs
quicke
.
We
heare
heere
of
a
great
purchase
,
of
a
Treasure
,
I
my selfe
wil
awake
right
earely
.
Now
,
euen
now
,
Call
afterknowledge
,
and
crie
for
vnderstanding
,
seeke
for
her
as
siluer
,
and
search
for
her
as
treasure
,
and
this
wil
be
the
issue
,
We
shall
vnderstand
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
and
finde
the
knowledge
of
our
God
.
Shall
Iacob
for
the
loue
that
he
did
be
are
vnto
Rachel
,
serue
two
prentise-hoods
,
Dauid
,
not
to
suffer
our
eies
to
sleep
,
or
our
eie
liddes
to
slumber
,
or
the
temples
of
our
,
head
to
take
any
rest
,
vntill
we
find
the
temple
of
the
Lord
,
the
habitation
of
the
mighty
God
of
Iacob
:
we
shall
shake
off
the
sluggards
sicknes
,
who
euer
finds
some
fault
or
other
with
the
season
of
the
yeare
,
which
is
,
either
too
hot
,
If
a
man
should
offer
thee
a
huge
heap
of
mony
,
runne
we
therfore
with
Dauid
,
the
way
of
Gods
commandements
,
and
let
our
whole
labour
be
imployed
therevpon
.
Hypocrates
saith
of
the
art
of
Phisick
,
that
the
study
of
it
is
long
,
the
experience
of
it
doubtfull
,
and
our
life
but
short
,
which
he
said
not
to
discourage
any
from
this
laudable
profession
,
but
to
incite
vs
to
follow
after
it
,
with
a
more
earnest
contention
:
the
like
may
be
said
of
our
diuine
study
,
the
phisick
of
the
soule
,
to
animate
vs
to
all
painfull
labour
in
this
businesse
,
for
the
obtaining
of
this
true
treasure
and
inestimable
iewell
that
is
set
before
vs
.
Salomon
spent
double
more
time
in
building
his
own
house
,
If
we
would
but
consider
and
weigh
with
our selues
how
we
run
vpon
the
score
,
into
what
a
deep
debt
with
God
and
arrerages
,
we
are
falne
:
the
palpable
and
damnable
security
we
take
in
maters
of
religion
,
cannot
but
seem
admirable
.
The
Romane
Emperour
Augustus
,
hearing
how
a
noble-man
of
Rome
was
behind
hand
,
&
yet
for
al
that
took
his
sleep
kindly
,
&
snorted
of
both
eares
,
spending
no
thoght
of
acquittancing
of
any
of
it
,
was
very
desirous
●o
buy
the
couch
and
pallet
that
he
slept
on
;
for
he
could
but
muze
mainly
at
the
matter
,
now
a
man
in
such
deep
debt
,
should
take
such
deep
rest
.
If
we
would
bethinke
our
selues
,
what
bonds
of
duty
we
haue
broken
and
forfeited
to
God
,
our
country
,
and
our
houshold
,
&
chiefly
to
those
of
the
houshold
of
faith
:
it
is
not
possible
that
we
should
passe
away
our
time
in
such
dalliance
,
pastime
,
and
pleasure
,
as
we
do
,
a
great
audite
being
nigh
at
hand
;
Wee
haue
goue
through
the
world
,
and
beholde
it
sitteth
still
;
and
is
at
rest
:
What
will
Gods
answer
herunto
be
but
this
,
that
their
security
shal
yeeld
them
●●tle
safety
?
Peace
,
peace
,
all
things
are
well
,
then
shall
come
soda●●
destruction
vpon
them
,
as
trauaile
vpon
a
woman
labouring
with
childe
,
and
they
shall
not
escape
it
.
Was
this
security
the
downfall
of
Sodome
,
and
her
sister
Gomorha
,
The
whip
and
burthen
belongeth
to
the
Asse
,
correction
and
worke
vnto
the
seruant
,
send
him
to
labour
that
he
goe
not
idle
for
idlanesse
bringeth
much
euil
,
yea
,
it
is
indeed
the
roote
of
all
euill
,
and
the
spawne
of
al
sin
.
I
passed
by
the
field
of
the
slouthfull
,
(
saith
Salomon
)
and
by
the
vinyard
of
the
man
destitute
of
vnderstanding
,
and
lo
,
it
was
all
growne
ouer
with
thornes
,
and
nettles
had
couered
the
face
therof
.
He
beheld
and
consideredit
wel
,
&
receiued
instruction
by
it
,
that
a
little
sleepe
brought
in
a
great
deale
of
pouerty
,
and
a
little
slumber
a
great
deale
of
necessitie
:
Corruptions
and
vices
spring
vp
in
the
bodies
and
soules
of
the
wicked
,
as
thornes
and
briars
in
the
fields
of
the
slouth-full
.
The
running
streame
giueth
pure
and
wholsome
fishes
,
The
land
that
is
layd
,
and
is
vnoccupyed
,
If
thou
wouldst
haue
thy
soule
empty
of
alvnclean
thoughts
,
replenish
&
fulfil
it
with
all
godly
motions
,
and
so
no
wickednes
shall
be
able
to
enter
in
.
For
as
the
glasse
violl
that
●s
already
full
of
water
,
Nature
teacheth
thee
with
thy
two
hands
to
worke
,
as
it
doth
the
bird
with
her
two
wings
to
flie
.
Behold
how
painfully
the
worldly
man
seeketh
after
wealth
learne
of
him
to
seek
for
the
true
wealth
indeed
,
and
expresse
thou
his
diligence
and
thou
shalt
attaine
vnto
it
.
Be
not
slow
and
slack
in
Gods
seruice
,
Thou
canst
not
without
labour
with
thy
stope
and
bucket
draw
water
out
of
a
well
:
There
are
many
main
motiues
,
and
inducements
to
this
duty
.
As
the
respect
of
our
natural
infirme
condition
,
being
in
it selfe
such
,
as
without
this
treasure
of
the
word
of
God
,
which
ministreth
present
help
to
all
our
necessities
we
are
not
able
in
this
present
life
tesustaine
our selues
,
much
lesse
to
prouide
for
our
better
estate
in
the
life
that
is
to
come
.
The
promises
of
God
are
pithy
and
plausible
perswasions
herevnto
,
by
which
he
assureth
vs
his
assistance
and
direction
in
al
our
proceedings
,
if
so
be
laboriously
we
shall
inquire
and
seeke
after
him
.
Moreouer
,
the
presidents
and
examples
of
the
faithful
,
are
as
good
orators
as
we
need
to
haue
to
pleade
this
assertion
.
Nicodemus
a
Pharisee
euery
inch
of
him
,
of
a
very
cursed
sect
,
sought
late
for
this
treasure
,
and
came
to
Christ
by
night
to
disturb
him
in
his
sleepe
,
sculking
in
the
dark
,
and
like
vnto
the
night-Owle
,
not
daring
to
behold
the
Sun
at
noon
day
,
politickely
temporizing
and
playing
with
both
hands
:
yet
was
he
not
repulsed
,
but
he
found
this
treasure
which
was
hidden
from
his
knowledge
,
Mary
Magdalen
the
harlot
,
the
publicane
in
the
temple
,
the
thiefe
vpon
the
crosse
,
inquired
after
him
whom
their
soules
loued
,
and
their
labour
was
not
lost
,
buthey
enioyed
their
desires
.
Aske
and
haue
:
seeke
,
and
find
:
knocke
,
and
it
shall
be
opened
vnto
you
.
Wherefore
,
seeke
for
knowledge
as
for
treasure
,
and
for
heauenly
wisedome
,
as
for
the
wedge
of
gold
of
Ophyr
,
the
Corall
,
the
babish
,
CHAP.
VI.
Of
the
gladnesse
of
this
Euangelicall
Merchant
,
vpon
the
finding
of
this
treasure
and
Pearle
of
great
price
:
vnder
which
,
the
ioy
which
the
Saints
of
God
do
feele
,
by
the
power
of
his
word
,
typically
is
shadowed
.
THe
word
of
God
is
not
in
nature
vnlike
vnto
a
Fishermans
hooke
,
It
is
like
vnto
fire
,
It
seemeth
therefore
that
he
hadde
a
great
ghesse
of
the
price
of
this
pearle
,
of
the
value
,
worth
,
and
worthinesse
of
this
treasure
.
For
there
is
none
who
taketh
pleasure
in
any
vnknowne
thing
:
for
,
the
sensible
experience
that
we
haue
of
a
thing
,
is
that
which
breedeth
in
vs
our
loue
vnto
a
thing
.
And
truely
(
deare
christian
)
I
will
lay
my
soule
vpon
it
,
that
if
thou
shalt
but
taste
how
sweete
the
Lorde
is
,
and
come
vnto
Gods
worde
in
godly
sincerity
,
wythout
politike
partiality
,
thou
wilt
bee
so
satisfied
with
the
fulnesse
of
that
ioy
,
as
nothing
else
,
in
comparison
of
this
,
shall
be
able
to
delight
thee
.
It
is
naught
,
it
can
not
be
woorth
the
money
,
but
when
hee
hath
bought
it
,
hee
boasteth
of
his
penyworths
,
and
wonderfully
extolleth
it
,
and
sayth
it
is
farre
better
than
his
money
.
It
fareth
with
vs
,
As
one
nayle
or
wedge
is
driuen
out
with
another
,
Wherefore
,
such
who
are
affrighted
and
dismayed
within
themselues
at
the
preaching
of
the
word
,
haue
not
yet
learned
Christ
,
or
vnderstoode
what
is
the
nature
and
operation
of
the
word
.
The
name
of
the
gospel
desciphereth
plainely
the
nature
of
the
Gospel
:
It
is
called
Euangelium
,
which
signifieth
Bonum
nuntium
,
that
is
,
a
glad
message
,
and
tydings
of
great
ioy
.
Beholde
(
sayth
Christ
his
heauenly
harbenger
Gabriel
,
I
bring
you
tidings
of
great
ioy
which
shall
be
vnto
all
the
people
.
Beholde
what
ioy
this
is
,
it
is
not
a
slender
and
light
kind
of
ioy
appertaining
vnto
some
few
;
but
it
is
a
great
and
vniuersall
ioy
belonging
vnto
all
.
This
ioy
(
in
some
sorte
)
is
familiarly
layde
open
,
vnder
the
plaine
similitudes
of
haruest
men
,
and
of
souldiers
,
at
the
end
of
their
haruest
,
&
at
the
diuiding
of
their
booties
,
They
haue
reioyced
before
thee
according
to
the
ioy
of
haruest
,
and
as
men
reioyce
when
they
diuide
a
spoyle
.
And
what
is
the
subiect
occasion
of
this
ioy
,
the
Prophet
there
telleth
thee
.
The
yoake
of
their
burden
,
the
staffe
of
their
shoulder
,
the
rodde
of
their
oppressor
hast
thou
broken
,
as
in
the
day
of
Midian
.
The
Turke
taketh
a
great
company
of
prisoners
,
and
putteth
them
to
his
gallies
,
Yet
let
vs
further
presse
this
sweete
and
comfortable
doctrine
,
by
making
this
the
case
.
Or
,
The
longing
expectation
which
our
Fathers
had
of
this
,
Abraham
did
see
Christ
,
but
a
farre
off
,
and
greatly
reioyced
;
wee
haue
him
nigh
at
hand
,
and
possesse
him
in
deede
,
whom
they
had
but
in
hope
,
and
therefore
wee
haue
argument
of
greater
ioy
than
they
.
If
Solomon
so
reioyced
,
and
hauing
seene
the
louing
kindnesse
of
the
Lord
in
the
midst
of
the
temple
.
The
Easterne
Magicians
,
If
greate
mirth
and
melody
was
in
the
fathers
house
,
If
Iohn
the
Baptist
leapt
in
his
mothers
wombe
,
Finely
saith
Chrysologus
,
A
great
difference
is
to
bee
putt
betweene
this
ioy
,
which
this
merchant
conceiued
to
himselfe
,
vppon
this
happy
hauing
of
this
treasure
,
and
that
which
he
had
before
of
his
worldly
treasure
,
whether
bequeathed
vnto
him
by
his
friends
,
or
brought
in
by
his
carefull
industry
.
For
worldely
ioy
is
counterfet
,
and
mixed
with
much
mourning
.
And
of
this
the
Prophet
Esay
thus
speaketh
:
Al
that
were
merry
of
heart
doe
mourne
:
the
myrth
of
the
tabrets
ceaseth
,
the
noise
of
them
that
reioyce
endeth
,
the
ioy
of
the
harpe
ceaseth
.
The
fickle
ioy
of
this
worlde
,
All
worldly
merriment
is
but
meere
madnes
,
I
sayde
of
laughter
,
thou
arte
madde
,
and
of
ioy
,
what
is
it
that
thou
doest
(
sayeth
the
wisedome
of
Solomon
.
)
The
insufficiency
of
worldly
ioy
,
the
mutable
and
changeable
condition
of
it
:
and
of
the
contrary
side
,
the
soliditie
and
stabilitie
of
the
ioy
that
is
spirituall
,
Isaac
.
Ismael
wandring
in
the
wildernesse
of
Bersheba
,
fainted
in
his
iourney
,
his
water
in
his
bottle
was
spent
,
and
he
grew
thirsty
,
almost
vnto
the
death
.
But
Isaac
that
was
the
sonne
of
the
free
woman
,
borne
after
the
spirite
,
and
not
after
the
flesh
,
neuer
was
in
want
,
The
Manna
of
the
Israelites
,
Leane
not
thou
therefore
vppon
the
broken
staffe
and
rod
of
Aegypt
,
which
will
deceiue
thee
,
put
not
thy
trust
in
any
helpe
of
man
,
set
not
thy
minde
vpon
earthly
things
,
but
rest
vpon
god
as
the
anchor
of
thy
soule
,
and
thy
certayne
stay
and
refuge
in
al
thy
extremities
.
It
is
not
in
the
nature
of
earthly
ioy
,
If
wee
knew
but
the
ende
of
worldely
delights
,
which
maketh
vs
such
shew
of
sweetnesse
in
the
beginning
,
we
could
neuer
fancie
them
.
It
is
short
that
delighteth
,
and
eternall
that
tormenteth
.
There
bee
some
vlcers
that
breede
vnder
the
skinne
,
The
bird
that
is
inclosed
in
the
net
,
The
ioy
that
the
world
yeeldeth
,
In
the
presence
of
God
,
is
the
fulnesse
of
all
ioy
,
and
without
him
there
is
nothing
but
heauines
.
Where
is
now
thy
God
?
If
God
bee
not
with
vs
,
But
of
this
ioy
,
which
is
the
true
ioy
indeede
,
which
the
gospell
doth
begette
in
the
heartes
of
those
that
loue
it
,
can
none
better
speake
,
than
such
,
who
haue
had
a
liuely
feeling
of
the
same
,
whereof
in
holy
page
wee
haue
innumerable
examples
.
Vertue
commeth
out
of
euery
parte
of
this
,
as
out
of
the
fringe
and
garment
of
Christ
.
For
as
Christ
with
fiue
loaues
and
two
fishes
fed
fiue
thousand
men
;
A
sinner
can
no
sooner
resigne
his
sinfull
life
,
and
betake
himselfe
to
a
christian
godlie
course
,
but
a
straunge
metamorphosis
and
change
immediately
is
to
be
seene
in
him
,
and
the
inward
effects
of
the
blessed
word
of
god
wil
soone
be
espied
,
by
his
outward
glad
affects
.
As
Haman
was
so
exceeding
ioyfull
when
he
was
bidden
to
the
banquet
to
the
King
,
As
heate
that
is
hid
vnder
a
thicke
cloude
,
There
be
diuerse
kinds
of
houses
builded
,
two
chambers
,
or
three
chambers
high
,
like
the
Arke
of
Noah
;
and
in
such
,
that
noyse
which
is
made
in
the
higher
roome
descendeth
to
the
lower
,
and
is
easily
heard
in
it
.
The
inward
man
is
much
of
this
making
,
standing
vpon
two
lofts
,
in
the
vpper
roome
lodgeth
his
vnderstanding
and
will
,
and
belowe
cowch
his
sensuall
and
brutish
affections
and
grosser
motions
that
are
carnall
,
and
beastly
:
and
these
twoo
distinct
pauilions
are
so
compact
,
and
conioyned
together
,
and
there
is
such
a
combination
betwixt
them
,
as
let
there
be
any
stir
more
than
is
ordinary
in
the
higher
roome
,
they
that
dwell
beneath
are
made
partakers
of
it
.
If
God
his
loue
be
earnest
in
motion
in
the
inward
and
spirituall
man
,
it
is
woonderfull
howe
the
outwarde
and
carnall
man
is
possessed
with
it
.
They
goe
hand
in
hand
together
,
like
vnto
twoo
Twinnes
,
sampling
and
fulfilling
this
Aphorisme
of
the
Prophet
Dauid
,
My
heart
,
and
my
flesh
,
reioyced
in
the
euerliuing
God
.
Psalme
eightie
foure
.
If
as
yet
thorough
want
of
knowledge
of
the
word
of
God
,
thou
hast
had
no
feeling
of
the
ioyfull
effects
of
it
:
do
but
taste
and
feele
how
sweete
the
Lord
is
,
and
thou
shalt
soone
perceiue
it
.
The
ignorance
of
it
,
is
the
only
maine
cause
of
our
generall
loathing
of
it
.
Gregorie
shewing
the
oddes
that
is
betwixt
both
kinds
of
ioy
,
that
which
the
world
yeeldeth
,
&
that
which
the
word
offereth
,
passing
elegantly
discourseth
in
this
wise
.
Bodily
pleasures
,
whenas
they
are
wanting
vs
,
as
most
desired
of
vs
,
and
being
fulfilled
with
them
,
we
are
soone
glutted
and
surfeited
with
them
.
But
spiritual
ioy
,
the
more
we
are
without
it
,
the
lesse
we
esteem
to
haue
it
,
but
the
more
we
haue
it
,
the
greater
affection
and
pleasure
we
haue
in
it
.
In
earthly
delights
our
appetites
onely
please
vs
,
which
being
fully
to
our
desires
serued
,
they
presently
do
displease
vs
.
In
heauenly
things
our
appetites
only
faile
vs
,
and
the
sole
experience
and
feeling
that
we
haue
of
them
,
onely
doth
affect
vs
.
In
the
other
,
our
appetite
doth
ingender
fulnesse
,
and
fulnesse
breedeth
fulsomnesse
:
but
in
these
,
our
desires
beget
fulnesse
,
and
fulnesse
increaseth
continually
more
delightsomnes
.
The
more
the
sweetnesse
of
this
ioy
is
perceiued
,
the
more
ardently
it
is
loued
,
the
beter
it
is
known
of
vs
.
A
sottish
country
man
obscurely
mewed
vp
al
his
before
,
How
great
is
thy
goodnesse
which
thou
hast
layde
vp
for
them
that
feare
thee
,
and
done
to
them
that
trust
in
thee
,
euen
before
the
sonnes
of
men
?
As
the
Lord
of
old
,
when
his
Israelites
wandred
through
the
waste
wildernesse
,
toward
his
promised
land
of
Canaan
,
which
abounded
with
milke
and
honny
,
prouided
Manna
,
a
celestial
diet
for
them
,
and
fed
them
with
the
bread
of
heanen
:
so
,
for
vs
who
are
trauellers
,
as
all
our
fathers
were
in
the
wildernesse
of
this
world
,
the
Lord
hath
likewise
giuen
vs
Angels
food
,
the
word
of
God
,
the
spirtuall
Manna
,
whereby
we
liue
for
euer
.
Now
as
the
former
rellised
most
pleasauntly
in
their
mouthes
,
and
contained
all
toothsome
and
delightsome
taste
in
it
;
which
all
other
his
sweete
creatures
ioyntly
or
seuerally
coulde
affoorde
vnto
vs
:
So
this
Manna
and
diet
of
our
soules
is
instead
of
al
delights
,
and
dainties
vnto
vs
,
and
is
like
a
perfume
which
hath
odour
for
euery
one
.
This
the
spouse
sensibly
did
taste
and
feel
in
the
presence
of
her
bride-groom
,
he
would
kisse
her
with
the
kisses
of
his
mouth
,
inasmuch
,
as
her
loue
is
better
then
wine
,
and
because
of
his
sweete
oyntments
,
for
which
the
virgins
loued
her
.
Of
this
ioy
our
Sauior
Christ
speaketh
in
his
generall
proclamation
,
Come
vnto
me
alye
that
trauail
,
and
are
heauy
laden
,
and
I
will
refresh
you
.
Such
therefore
,
as
make
that
the
argument
of
their
sorrow
,
which
should
be
vnto
them
an
occasion
of
great
ioy
,
who
are
grieued
and
disquieted
at
the
preaching
of
the
word
,
who
entertaine
a
preacher
with
no
other
congee
,
then
Achab
did
Elias
,
saying
vnto
him
,
Durus
est
hic
sermo
:
This
is
a
hard
saying
,
and
who
is
able
to
abide
it
?
Such
,
I
say
,
But
we
cannot
be
ignorant
,
how
vntoothsome
and
vnwholsome
this
spiritual
diet
is
,
to
the
stomacks
,
and
affections
of
the
greater
sort
,
who
are
grossely
minded
.
The
wicked
,
A
kettle
of
water
set
on
the
fire
,
Wherefore
,
as
Iohn
wept
vntill
the
booke
was
opened
,
Therefore
be
like
vnto
this
learned
Lapidary
,
and
learne
out
the
valew
and
price
of
this
pearle
,
and
thou
shalt
soone
find
ioy
in
it
.
It
is
a
memorable
example
that
Socrates
in
his
ecclesiasticall
hystory
,
setteth
downe
of
a
certaine
Abbot
,
who
dieting
himselfe
with
bread
that
was
of
a
grosse
and
course
graine
,
CHAP.
VII
.
¶
By
the
example
of
this
Marchant
,
who
did
hide
his
Treasure
,
the
necessitie
,
not
onely
of
the
hearing
of
the
word
,
but
also
,
of
the
faithfull
hiding
it
in
our
hearts
,
is
manifestly
euicted
.
FOrasmuch
as
this
Ieweller
,
when
he
lighted
vpon
this
Treasure
,
was
as
carefull
in
keeping
it
,
as
hee
was
ioyfull
in
hauing
it
,
which
he
euidently
shewed
in
his
prouident
hiding
of
it
:
it
is
argument
enough
to
conclude
the
necessity
,
not
only
of
the
reading
and
hearing
of
the
word
,
but
also
of
the
industrous
preseruing
it
in
our
harts
.
Without
this
,
the
immortal
seed
of
gods
word
,
We
must
not
be
trewants
in
the
Church
of
God
,
as
Schollers
in
the
schoole
,
or
be
idle
in
the
church
,
as
children
in
the
market
,
who
neither
buy
,
nor
sel
;
but
we
must
heare
,
mark
,
and
hide
vp
that
which
is
taught
vs
.
As
the
yron
steel
,
If
there
were
a
lettice
,
into
which
we
might
but
peepe
into
the
hidden
heart
of
man
,
we
should
soone
perceiue
how
few
of
those
many
,
to
whom
this
treasure
of
Gods
grace
is
offered
,
and
who
come
vnto
the
word
,
come
in
this
good
spirit
to
this
good
&
godly
end
,
to
benefit
themselues
by
it
,
to
hide
it
with
this
good
Merchant
,
in
the
secret
closet
of
his
heart
.
Some
come
like
Somners
,
and
hollow
hearted
;
Othersome
heare
,
to
please
their
itching
eares
,
and
obserue
only
figures
and
colours
of
Rhetorike
,
conceited
inuention
,
histrionical
discoursing
a
fine
phrase
or
two
,
&
that
they
carry
with
them
.
Others
are
new-fangled
,
Some
come
to
scoffe
,
others
for
their
fancie
,
But
the
good
sort
of
hearers
,
as
bees
out
of
floures
gather
hony
out
of
the
flowers
of
the
word
:
The
godly
heare
the
Preacher
,
as
the
patient
the
physitian
,
If
we
knew
what
rubs
doe
lie
in
our
way
,
to
keepe
vs
from
the
heedefull
hearing
of
the
worde
,
and
the
hiding
,
and
laying
it
vp
as
wee
should
,
what
thornes
,
what
tares
,
what
tetters
do
spring
vp
,
to
choake
and
stifle
the
towardly
growth
of
the
good
seede
of
the
worde
in
vnsetled
heartes
,
more
then
the
necessitie
of
this
point
would
be
confirmed
,
and
apparant
vnto
vs
.
The
brackish
water
of
the
sea
,
though
it
be
not
good
for
drinker
,
The
word
of
God
that
is
preached
in
our
eares
,
is
by
the
diuell
taken
out
of
our
hearts
,
Mens
hearts
,
are
like
vnto
the
high
way
,
There
is
also
hard
ground
,
But
the
thorne
that
pricketh
and
choaketh
this
good
seede
,
that
it
cannot
abide
,
and
bee
hidden
in
our
harts
,
is
the
wealth
of
this
world
,
which
wee
will
haue
,
wee
are
so
set
vpon
it
,
though
we
pierce
our selues
through
with
innumerable
sorrowes
.
Like
desperate
lewde
boies
hat
wil
venture
to
go
through
a
quick
.
Moses
seeth
a
burning
bush
,
Quid
facis
Oenone
?
quid
arenae
semina
mandas
?
Non
profecturis
littora
bobus
aras
.
Take
not
in
hand
to
sowe
such
land
,
as
is
but
sandy
flore
:
It
quites
not
cost
,
it
's
labour
loft
,
to
plow
vp
Ocean
shore
.
The
good
ground
are
they
,
The
good
mans
hart
is
the
arke
of
the
couenant
,
It
is
a
fooles
heart
that
is
like
a
broken
pitcher
that
holdeth
no
water
:
or
like
a
spend-thriftes
purse
that
holdeth
no
money
:
of
a
giddy
and
changeable
disposition
,
as
leaues
of
trees
,
shaking
euery
way
with
eucry
puffe
of
winde
;
turning
round
about
,
as
the
doore
vpon
the
hinges
;
and
as
a
tennis
ball
that
is
tossed
to
and
fro
,
and
not
suffred
to
rest
vpon
the
ground
.
In
the
olde
Canons
,
such
beasts
as
did
not
ruminate
and
chew
the
cudde
(
as
swine
,
Therefore
,
that
you
may
not
heare
the
word
in
vaine
,
the
best
counsaile
that
may
be
giuen
you
,
is
this
,
to
record
and
write
in
the
tables
of
your
hearts
,
such
lessons
as
you
doe
learne
.
You
must
follow
the
Angels
counsaile
to
Ezechiel
,
Sonne
of
man
,
eate
this
rowle
that
I
giue
thee
,
cause
thy
belly
to
eate
,
and
fill
thy
bowelles
with
this
rowle
.
The
like
charge
did
the
Angell
giue
to
Iohn
,
that
hee
should
eate
and
digest
the
booke
.
These
men
labour
of
a
daungerous
disease
,
I
therefore
feare
much
their
eternal
death
,
who
loathe
and
leaue
the
diet
of
the
soule
,
which
onely
preserueth
the
life
of
the
soule
.
And
the
prophet
Dauid
seemeth
to
conclude
so
much
,
and
to
make
it
an
infallible
and
irrefragable
consequence
.
They
are
next
vnto
deaths
doore
.
Is
there
possible
any
good
to
be
had
in
the
onely
hearing
and
reading
of
the
word
,
without
any
further
heede
thereunto
?
Can
the
henne
hatch
chickins
of
those
egs
,
There
is
nothing
more
forcible
and
effectuall
then
fire
,
Gods
word
is
the
fire
of
the
spirite
,
Wherefore
,
be
perswaded
to
followe
this
course
which
reason
aduiseth
thee
,
and
the
practise
and
examples
of
the
better
sort
at
all
times
,
haue
animated
and
incited
thee
vnto
.
Christes
Disciples
were
led
by
this
rule
,
The
Virgin
Mary
is
a
woman
twice
or
thrice
noted
for
this
,
The
men
of
Berea
are
registred
in
the
chronicles
of
the
spirite
for
this
,
So
Dauid
vsed
this
,
for
thus
he
speaketh
of
himselfe
,
saying
:
I
haue
hidden
thy
commandement
within
my
heart
,
that
I
should
not
sinne
against
thee
.
There
is
this
marke
of
difference
between
Iacob
and
his
sonnes
,
when
Ioseph
discouered
his
dreame
vnto
them
;
his
brethren
vouchsafed
,
not
to
giue
hi
audience
,
but
the
text
saith
,
the
saying
.
As
spicery
yeeldeth
thee
more
forcible
smell
,
Wherfore
this
our
Marchant-Ieweller
is
wise
,
who
hideth
his
treasure
assoone
as
he
findeth
it
.
And
he
doth
but
that
which
is
of
common
practise
.
The
Captain
or
Lieftenant
,
If
we
shall
be
thus
prouident
for
the
safegard
of
this
treasure
,
which
the
enemy
so
subtily
endeuoureth
to
haue
from
vs
,
and
keep
that
thus
carefully
,
which
our
generall
commander
,
the
Lord
of
Hostes
hath
committed
to
our
trust
,
and
of
which
he
wil
one
day
take
a
streight
account
of
vs
,
we
shall
like
loyall
subiects
discharge
our
duties
wel
,
and
shal
be
very
highly
rewarded
of
him
for
it
.
Let
the
example
of
Ezechias
be
a
fair
warning
to
vs
,
As
those
that
do
lay
seige
to
any
great
place
,
We
see
how
euery
Princes
exchequer
is
strictly
kept
,
As
Ladies
fasten
their
pearles
to
golden
This
wee
shall
doe
,
if
wee
shall
continue
as
wee
beginne
in
the
spirite
.
If
,
as
we
heare
,
we
mark
and
lay
vp
,
that
which
we
haue
heard
:
if
we
resort
vnto
sermons
,
not
for
carnall
respects
,
but
for
the
glorie
of
God
,
to
receiue
comfort
from
them
,
if
our
treasure
shal
be
where
the
hart
is
,
as
the
heart
is
where
the
treasure
is
.
Be
not
therfore
slacke
,
and
remisse
in
this
duty
,
for
if
it
be
not
continued
and
wel
kept
,
it
will
be
gone
from
thee
.
Such
as
keep
it
not
when
they
haue
it
,
It
is
labor
lost
to
plant
a
vineyard
,
Blessed
are
they
that
heare
the
word
and
keep
it
,
CHAP.
VIII
.
That
this
heauenly
Treasure
,
is
to
be
preferred
and
esteemed
of
vs
,
aboue
all
earthly
riches
.
COmparisons
betweene
heauenly
and
earthly
riches
,
are
both
odious
and
dangerous
.
There
is
as
great
difference
and
ods
between
them
,
as
between
light
and
darknes
,
righteousnes
and
vnrighteousnes
:
God
,
and
Belial
.
He
that
seeth
a
Phisitian
to
make
good
account
of
such
hearbs
and
simples
,
We
haue
hitherto
bin
too
erroneously
led
with
an
obiect
opinion
of
dueties
of
religion
.
The
lustes
of
the
flesh
haue
bin
more
set
by
,
then
the
lawes
of
the
spirit
;
this
present
euill
world
,
more
then
Gods
most
blessed
word
:
and
momentany
vanity
,
more
then
endles
felicity
.
The
base
brat
of
the
bond-woman
,
too
presumptuously
lordeth
the
son
of
the
free-woman
;
a
deadly
debate
and
dispute
there
is
about
Moses
his
body
,
between
the
Angell
and
the
diuell
,
not
that
each
of
them
might
haue
part
,
but
which
of
them
should
haue
al.
And
thus
whilst
the
strife
is
endles
between
them
,
we
are
put
to
our
dumps
and
doubts
within
our selues
,
with
the
damsell
that
hath
many
sutors
comming
to
her
,
and
knoweth
not
whom
to
chuse
.
This
Gospel
like
a
Gold-smith
is
in
the
right
,
and
his
imitation
is
our
best
direction
.
His
cunning
serueth
him
to
make
chiefest
choyce
of
that
which
we
chiefly
do
debase
:
and
for
the
gaine
of
godlynes
,
which
we
esteeme
of
least
,
to
barter
away
as
beggarly
trash
,
all
worldly
kind
of
wealth
which
we
set
by
so
much
.
This
man
,
for
the
gain
of
his
golden
mine
,
and
for
the
purchase
of
this
matchles
pearle
,
giueth
ouer
all
,
whether
it
was
bequeathed
vnto
him
by
legacy
,
or
coffered
vp
since
,
by
foreseeing
industry
,
whatsoeuer
it
was
,
it
was
morgaged
,
and
sold
for
the
purchase
of
piety
.
And
surely
,
herein
his
choice
is
very
good
,
and
cannot
be
reproued
.
Is
it
not
good
reason
,
when
offer
is
made
to
him
of
the
wedge
of
gold
,
at
the
same
rate
which
the
foyl
and
rayes
are
set
at
,
which
this
mettall
casteth
,
and
the
true
pearle
indeede
standeth
him
in
no
more
,
then
that
would
do
which
is
counterfeit
&
of
glasse
,
that
he
shuld
more
esteeme
of
the
one
then
the
other
?
the
treasures
of
Gods
kingdome
are
offred
vnto
him
at
the
same
charge
that
he
bought
his
worldly
wealth
:
true
pearle
is
as
cheap
as
the
dung
of
the
earth
vnto
him
:
I
maruell
not
therefore
,
that
be
accounted
other
things
as
lost
,
to
win
and
weare
this
inestimable
iewell
.
The
rudest
poorest
peasant
,
If
God
doth
put
vpon
vs
the
persons
of
Agamemnon
,
and
will
make
vs
kings
for
euer
,
haue
we
reason
still
to
beare
the
image
of
Thersites
,
and
to
liue
as
seruile
slaues
and
caitiues
for
euer
?
See
we
not
how
Cleargy
men
do
resigne
and
giue
vp
their
meane
and
smaller
liuings
,
What
esteemed
Saul
the
losse
of
his
asses
,
Dauid
no
more
followed
his
ewes
bigge
with
yoong
,
The
Baptist
hunted
not
for
honour
of
the
world
,
Mathew
being
called
to
the
chaire
Apostolike
,
Zacheus
preferred
the
vsury
of
godlinesse
,
Moses
would
no
longer
abase
himselfe
to
keepe
Iethro
his
sheepe
,
when
his
heauenly
father
imposed
vpon
his
shoulders
a
charge
of
greater
weight
,
euen
the
keeping
of
his
people
.
One
thing
that
was
necessary
Mary
more
setteth
by
,
which
was
spiritual
,
He
that
laboureth
for
the
world
,
God
is
in
vs
,
God
is
with
vs
,
and
wee
are
with
God
,
in
our
godly
exercises
:
whenas
we
are
in
prayer
,
wee
talke
with
God
:
when
we
sitte
at
the
Preachers
feete
,
God
speaketh
vnto
vs
.
What
a
blessing
is
this
?
what
is
dust
and
ashes
,
When
this
Ieweller
sawe
the
beautie
and
riches
of
Gods
house
,
He
that
hath
a
taste
of
the
good
spirite
,
of
the
ioyes
that
are
to
come
in
an
other
life
,
letteth
fall
the
loue
of
the
worlde
from
him
,
as
Elias
rapt
to
heauen
,
In
the
beginning
of
the
creation
God
him selfe
diuided
light
and
darkenesse
asunder
,
The
first
thing
that
God
willed
,
It
pleased
Christ
,
We
are
willed
to
lay
vp
this
treasure
,
which
is
heauenly
;
but
that
which
is
earthly
,
is
not
to
be
kept
for
times
that
are
to
come
,
which
wee
may
neuer
see
.
Therefore
,
the
same
day
that
the
oblation
was
offred
,
The
Manna
that
putrified
and
swarmed
with
wormes
,
hatched
vp
by
the
Israelites
for
the
day
folowing
,
is
not
an
obscure
argument
of
the
iudgement
of
God
hanging
ouer
such
,
who
carke
and
prowle
so
miserably
for
this
world
.
The
great
Doctor
of
the
Gentiles
illuminated
round
about
him
,
Such
as
are
besotted
in
the
inward
man
,
It
is
wonderfull
how
this
worlde
runneth
a
madding
,
as
Samson
without
eies
,
The
prowling
and
coyle
that
continually
we
doe
keepe
,
to
bring
in
the
world
,
is
monstrous
to
beholde
:
as
though
we
were
made
to
gather
in
the
golde
,
and
immediately
to
die
.
What
woorth
is
that
of
which
men
labor
for
so
hardly
,
with
the
hard
sweat
,
and
bloud
of
our
browes
,
about
which
all
the
witte
and
whole
man
is
employed
.
I
see
the
shaddow
and
image
of
it
in
the
water
.
It
is
a
pastime
to
see
how
the
fishes
skudde
after
a
worme
or
a
crumme
of
bread
that
is
cast
into
the
water
,
what
a
strife
and
contention
is
between
them
for
it
:
this
the
fishes
themselues
doe
not
regarde
,
onely
those
that
stand
still
at
the
shore
side
,
doe
obserue
and
marke
it
well
.
It
is
no
sporting
matter
,
but
it
is
lamentable
to
consider
,
how
the
world
laboureth
,
of
the
disease
called
the
Woolfe
,
or
greedy
Worme
,
which
maketh
them
to
gape
,
with
mouthes
so
wide
for
euery
balld
baite
that
is
cast
before
them
:
so
as
,
All
these
things
will
I
giue
thee
.
If
a
beggar
be
called
to
a
halfe
peny
dole
,
If
a
poore
man
be
inuited
to
a
rich
mans
table
,
he
gladly
commeth
to
it
;
The
worlde
calleth
vs
to
labour
,
and
care
,
and
we
come
when
wee
are
called
:
but
God
calleth
vs
to
wealth
and
ease
,
and
we
will
not
heare
of
that
.
Ohorrible
contempt
!
The
respect
hereof
putteth
good
Micheas
to
his
muse
and
mourning
,
Woe
is
me
,
for
I
am
as
the
summer
gatherings
,
and
as
the
grapes
of
the
vintage
,
there
is
no
cluster
to
eate
.
But
if
thou
knewest
the
gift
of
God
,
If
the
Prince
shoulde
set
foorth
a
generall
proclamation
,
We
are
like
infants
and
sucking
children
,
If
thou
shouldst
see
the
Princes
pompous
court
,
What
is
the
inducement
mouing
hervnto
,
and
what
do
we
propound
&
promise
to
our selues
by
this
kind
of
proceeding
?
Doth
it
bring
in
the
best
riches
,
the
greatest
gain
with
it
?
I
would
to
God
it
did
not
the
contrary
,
and
import
greater
dammage
then
any
man
can
diuine
.
I
wish
from
my
soule
,
that
a
worldling
would
fasten
his
cies
on
two
things
:
What
is
his
losse
?
And
wherevpon
it
groweth
.
His
losse
is
God
.
The
cause
is
for
gold
,
for
greedinesse
of
his
gaine
,
for
the
sinke
of
sin
thou
loosest
thy
sweet
sauiour
:
who
is
not
affrighted
and
astonished
at
this
?
Truly
because
man
is
not
mooued
at
it
,
the
Lord
commandeth
the
senseles
elements
to
be
mooued
at
it
,
speaking
vnto
them
by
Ieremy
in
this
wise
.
O
ye
heauens
be
astonied
at
this
,
be
afrayde
,
and
vtterly
confounded
,
saith
the
Lord
.
But
what
is
the
matter
Lord
?
For
my
people
(
saith
he
)
hath
committed
two
euills
:
they
haue
forsaken
me
,
the
fountain
of
liuing
water
;
to
dig
them
pittes
,
euen
broken
pits
,
that
can
hold
no
water
:
That
is
,
their
thirsty
and
droughty
soules
,
they
haue
left
God
the
fountaine
of
eternall
life
,
which
would
haue
refreshed
and
fulfilled
their
soules
,
and
they
haue
runne
to
those
decayed
spoutes
,
and
broken
wells
,
as
treasures
transitorie
,
and
pleasures
that
are
carnall
,
which
are
vnable
to
extinguish
or
delay
,
but
rather
to
sharpen
and
prouoke
their
thirst
.
Thus
we
haue
altogether
lost
our
taste
,
since
the
first
tasting
of
the
fruit
forbidden
vs
.
Dauid
setteth
vs
out
in
our
colours
,
deceitful
on
the
wayghts
.
For
,
from
this
deceit
proceedeth
this
wrong
iudgement
that
we
haue
of
the
word
,
when
we
set
the
world
before
it
.
The
scales
are
false
and
deceiueable
two
waies
.
First
,
whenas
those
things
that
are
put
into
them
,
are
weighed
hastily
,
and
time
is
not
giuen
to
see
the
ful
weight
of
them
.
Or
els
,
whenas
one
part
of
the
ballance
or
weight
is
heauier
then
another
:
we
put
Gods
lawes
and
our
lustes
together
in
the
ballance
of
our
foule
,
and
we
are
too
hasty
and
rash
a
great
deale
,
in
taking
the
world
to
be
of
more
weight
and
substance
then
the
word
.
Again
,
one
part
of
the
ballance
is
too
heauy
:
the
heauinesse
of
the
world
weighing
vs
downe
,
and
weigheth
more
with
vs
,
then
the
treasure
of
Gods
spirite
:
If
we
would
discreetly
,
with
mature
aduice
consider
of
them
both
,
&
not
define
of
them
with
forestalled
affections
,
but
heare
what
God
and
the
world
can
say
indifferently
,
thy
voice
no
doubt
will
passe
on
Gods
side
,
and
this
treasure
shall
be
more
esteemed
of
thee
,
then
all
the
treasure
that
the
worlde
giueth
thee
.
We
fight
therfore
as
Paul
with
the
beasts
at
Ephesus
,
Such
mens
case
is
extreamely
miserable
,
CHAP.
IX
.
That
God
and
the
world
,
cannot
goe
together
.
THE
practise
of
this
Merchant
concludeth
this
point
,
whom
I
should
not
hold
wise
,
for
doing
away
the
world
for
the
purchase
of
heauen
,
if
heauen
and
this
world
might
be
enioyed
together
.
By
selling
therefore
one
,
for
the
buying
of
the
other
,
it
is
insinuated
,
that
he
was
not
able
to
keepe
them
both
together
.
There
be
many
states
and
gouernements
vpholden
&
ordered
by
sundry
constitutions
,
differing
each
from
other
,
yet
are
they
not
so
contrary
but
a
man
may
haue
his
freedome
in
diuers
of
them
together
:
but
God
lawes
,
and
mans
lawes
:
the
lustes
of
the
flesh
,
and
the
desires
of
the
spirit
:
the
Ark
of
the
Lord
,
and
the
Philistines
Dagon
:
God
and
Mammon
;
What
motions
and
commotions
are
in
the
ayre
,
between
lightning
and
thundring
:
heat
,
and
cold
,
without
reconcilement
euer
to
be
had
,
experience
often
sheweth
vs
.
Light
succeedeth
darknes
,
There
were
laws
and
statutes
in
this
behalf
enacted
,
that
cattell
shuld
not
be
permitted
to
ingender
with
those
of
diuers
kinds
,
that
our
fields
should
not
be
sowed
with
sundry
kinds
of
seed
,
A
weake
Oxe
and
a
strong
,
The
Scriptures
do
make
that
report
of
the
Samaritanes
,
Et
manu
committit
solaecismum
,
erreth
with
his
finger
:
with
such
doth
Elias
expostulate
the
case
,
&
thus
censureth
their
folly
:
How
long
will
ye
halte
between
two
opinions
?
if
God
be
God
,
worship
him
:
but
if
Baal
be
God
,
follow
after
him
.
The
Lords
iealousie
burneth
like
fire
against
such
deceitful
people
,
vtterly
to
consume
them
,
who
wil
be
vnited
,
and
wil
marry
themselues
vnto
these
two
contrary
commanding
husbands
,
hauing
espoused
vs
to
Christ
before
,
who
is
our
only
husband
.
For
thus
he
breaketh
out
into
this
deep
protestation
:
I
wil
cut
off
the
remnant
of
that
place
,
that
sweare
by
the
Lord
,
and
sweare
by
Malcham
.
Whenas
Pharao
could
permit
the
Hebrew
people
to
sacrifice
to
the
Lord
,
so
as
they
would
sacrifice
out
of
the
land
of
Aegypt
.
Ho
there
,
saith
Moses
,
The
Philistines
tooke
great
paines
hereabouts
,
to
couple
their
Dagon
,
The
Israelites
neuer
knew
what
heauenly
Manna
meant
,
The
stomack
that
is
distmpered
with
diseases
,
Whenas
Christ
vppon
his
entrance
into
the
temple
,
chaced
away
such
with
a
whip
of
cords
,
What
Courtier
would
not
think
himselfe
greatly
iniured
,
God
neuer
presented
himselfe
vnto
Moses
,
so
long
as
he
was
a
Courtier
in
Egypt
,
When
the
prophet
Elias
sawe
Gods
glory
and
maiesty
,
passing
by
before
him
,
he
couered
&
blinded
his
eies
with
his
mantle
:
whosoeuer
will
be
partaker
of
Gods
glorie
,
hee
must
close
vp
the
eies
of
his
earthly
affections
,
and
must
not
behold
the
vanity
of
the
world
.
He
will
not
dwell
in
the
stincking
cage
of
our
bodies
,
of
whom
it
is
written
,
Righteousnes
and
iudgement
is
the
habitation
of
his
seate
.
If
thou
hast
a
vessel
that
thou
wouldest
fil
with
any
liquor
,
As
hee
that
will
graffe
a
wilde
oliue
tree
,
Howe
shall
wee
sing
the
Lordes
song
in
a
strange
land
sayth
the
kingly
Prophet
?
The
world
and
heauen
are
as
strange
as
may
be
:
and
therefore
,
so
long
as
we
are
giuen
to
the
world
,
we
cannot
sing
vnto
the
Lord
in
our
hearts
.
If
wee
therefore
cannot
sing
,
Oh
let
vs
sigh
to
be
deliuered
from
it
,
that
wee
may
in
heauen
make
that
cheerefull
noyse
of
Haleluya
to
the
Lorde
:
and
in
the
meane
while
trebble
with
one
harpe
vpon
Dauids
dumpe
,
weeping
and
mourning
for
the
remembrance
of
Syon
.
Sarah
was
first
past
her
youthfull
yeeres
,
Euery
beast
was
to
be
killd
before
it
could
be
sacrificed
:
Iacob
was
called
Iacob
,
Seeing
God
,
to
teach
vs
,
that
wee
must
first
treade
the
world
vnder
feete
,
before
wee
can
see
this
presence
of
the
Lord
.
As
Daniel
first
destroyed
the
Idol
Bel
,
It
is
dangerous
to
ride
on
an
vntamed
colt
that
laboureth
to
cast
thee
:
The
spirite
and
the
world
are
as
a
paire
of
balaunces
and
scales
,
Or
they
are
like
an
houre
Glasse
,
Abraham
receiued
not
the
couenaunt
of
circumcision
,
before
he
went
from
Vr
,
As
the
tree
leaneth
,
so
it
falleth
,
If
thou
wilt
liue
to
God
,
the
worlde
must
not
sunder
thee
,
but
thou
must
be
so
vnited
and
knit
vnto
him
,
as
the
soule
to
the
bodie
,
the
beames
to
the
Sunne
,
the
braunches
and
armes
to
the
body
of
the
tree
.
The
glasse
that
is
obscured
and
dimmed
with
dust
,
Such
horses
as
are
put
to
grinde
in
the
mil
,
In
a
gentlemans
great
horse
,
Herod
was
first
dead
,
There
was
a
certayne
Musitian
,
who
of
such
schollers
,
who
were
initiated
,
and
taught
by
others
before
,
required
double
the
summ
of
mony
which
he
tooke
of
others
,
who
were
informed
but
by
himselfe
alone
:
and
his
reason
was
,
because
he
considered
,
that
double
the
labour
must
be
taken
with
them
:
first
,
in
rooting
out
their
former
balld
fashions
,
after
which
they
had
bin
taught
;
and
then
in
planting
and
fixing
in
their
mindes
,
his
owne
ordinary
compendious
course
quite
contrary
to
the
other
,
by
which
they
might
exactly
and
perfectly
be
taught
.
So
,
if
we
will
be
trained
vp
in
the
schoole
of
Christ
,
and
will
professe
our selues
his
scholers
:
Christ
must
needes
take
double
paines
with
vs
;
Hee
must
first
make
vs
to
forget
our
olde
lessons
,
which
our
former
badde
Schoolemaisters
,
the
worlde
,
the
flesh
,
and
the
diuell
had
before
taught
vs
,
and
then
to
take
out
new
,
which
his
holie
spirite
shall
put
into
our
hearts
,
which
tacheth
vs
all
wisedome
.
Augustus
taking
vppon
him
to
beautifie
his
Empire
,
and
to
leaue
Rome
made
of
marble
,
which
he
found
made
of
brick
,
acquainted
one
Apollonius
Thyanaeus
with
his
purpose
,
and
asked
his
direction
for
his
better
proceeding
:
the
Philosopher
thus
answered
him
,
that
if
hee
would
happily
atchieue
that
which
hee
professed
,
he
must
set
before
his
eyes
,
the
course
that
memorable
Musician
did
take
with
his
sonne
,
whom
he
would
not
instruct
himselfe
,
but
sent
vnto
an
vnlearned
Musician
to
be
taught
,
who
gaue
him
this
caueat
and
memento
,
onely
to
carry
away
with
him
,
and
he
should
speede
wel
enough
,
to
marke
wel
the
fingring
&
lessons
of
his
maister
,
and
doe
cleane
contrary
,
for
they
were
exceeding
naught
:
So
,
to
beautifie
and
adorne
our
soules
,
and
to
be
perfect
schollers
in
Gods
worde
,
it
is
meete
for
vs
to
be
taught
of
the
world
,
to
marke
but
the
worlds
fashions
,
and
to
doe
the
contrary
,
and
wee
shall
make
a
good
profession
,
forasmuch
as
the
word
with
this
present
euill
world
,
can
neuer
be
lincked
and
combined
together
.
The
condition
of
mans
minde
is
like
his
estate
,
The
pleasures
of
this
world
are
the
diuells
baits
,
that
he
layeth
for
our
soules
,
and
this
is
the
poyson
which
the
whore
of
Babylon
tempereth
and
seasoneth
in
sauory
meate
,
and
in
her
cup
of
gold
.
As
the
Moon
neuer
suffreth
an
eclips
,
Moreouer
,
Augustine
by
an
elegant
and
dainty
similitude
,
shaddoweth
and
setteth
foorth
the
nature
of
the
world
,
an
extream
and
irreconcileable
enemy
vnto
God
.
It
is
impossible
but
that
the
world
shuld
be
euery
way
like
it selfe
,
and
follow
his
own
nature
.
It
is
incident
to
the
flesh
,
to
fight
against
the
spirit
,
and
it
is
the
trick
of
the
world
to
be
at
ods
with
God
,
riches
and
righteousnes
wil
hardly
be
combined
.
A
vessell
cannot
but
retaine
the
sauour
of
that
liquor
that
is
in
it
.
He
that
will
loue
God
,
The
god
of
this
world
is
at
enmity
with
God
,
they
are
two
contrary
imperious
maisters
,
that
will
not
bee
serued
together
.
He
that
loueth
the
world
,
the
loue
of
the
father
is
not
in
him
.
Is
it
possible
to
performe
true
allegiance
to
thy
prince
,
If
we
liue
in
the
flesh
,
we
shall
die
.
But
if
we
shall
kill
the
deeds
of
the
flesh
with
the
sword
of
the
spirit
,
we
shal
liue
for
euer
.
Be
we
circumspect
therfore
,
and
let
vs
look
about
our selues
,
and
let
this
holy
Canon
be
alwaies
in
our
minds
:
If
ye
loue
God
,
hate
the
thing
that
is
euill
.
We
make
our
boast
of
God
all
the
day
long
,
Whenas
God
before
he
would
couenant
with
vs
,
would
we
should
be
circumcised
,
it
is
plaine
enough
that
his
mind
is
,
that
first
we
should
circumcise
the
outward
man
,
and
cut
off
with
the
knife
of
the
spirit
our
ingenerate
corruption
,
or
else
he
wil
not
haue
any
doings
with
vs
.
Themistocles
on
a
time
,
made
asolemne
sermon
to
the
people
of
Athens
,
giuing
them
to
know
that
he
could
acquaint
them
with
that
which
was
most
behooueful
and
needfull
for
their
estate
,
but
it
was
a
secret
and
not
to
be
blurted
out
&
published
vnto
all
,
but
only
to
be
priuatly
imparted
vnto
some
few
of
trust
;
such
whom
the
magistrats
in
this
case
should
depute
to
haue
audience
of
this
matter
.
Herevpon
with
the
general
consent
of
al
,
the
cause
was
referred
to
Aristides
his
hearing
,
authorised
by
them
to
determine
of
it
,
and
according
to
his
iudgement
to
approue
or
disallow
of
it
,
now
al
the
mystery
and
secrecy
was
this
,
that
it
was
meete
to
set
on
fire
the
whole
Grecian
Nauy
,
that
thereby
,
so
weakning
and
infeebling
their
power
,
the
Athenians
might
be
lords
and
commanders
of
all
Grecia
.
Aristides
repairing
to
the
Senate
with
his
newes
,
certified
the
bench
,
that
Themistocles
his
counsaile
was
most
profitable
,
but
therewithall
most
vnlawful
.
Thus
this
Pagan
may
condemne
vs
Christians
,
who
while
we
respect
wordly
gaine
too
much
,
do
esteem
of
the
gain
of
godlines
too
little
.
Euen
as
a
ring
that
is
vpon
one
finger
,
Wherefore
,
since
both
these
treasures
will
not
be
consorted
,
and
the
purchase
of
this
heauenly
and
hidden
treasure
,
exceedeth
by
infinite
degrees
,
all
the
riches
that
the
world
may
yeeld
vs
,
we
do
wel
,
if
with
this
Marchant
we
take
hold
of
this
excheat
,
whatsoeuer
it
doth
cost
vs
.
CHAP.
X.
¶
Of
the
necessitie
of
our
mortification
,
and
the
adiuration
of
all
our
worldly
lustes
,
vnder
the
person
and
example
of
this
Ieweller
,
who
made
a
simple
sale
of
all
that
he
had
for
the
purchase
of
this
Treasure
,
and
Pearle
of
great
price
,
euidently
euicted
.
ONE
thing
is
necessary
,
He
dodgeth
not
with
God
,
This
man
is
euery
christian
mans
looking-glasse
,
in
whom
we
may
behold
that
image
of
perfection
,
that
is
pleasing
vnto
God
,
and
by
which
we
may
see
how
to
reforme
such
blemishes
which
disguise
vs
so
much
,
and
make
vs
so
vnclean
and
laothsom
in
his
sight
.
We
are
reasonably
contented
to
part
stakes
with
God
,
and
willing
enough
with
the
false
mother
,
But
God
may
not
indure
such
paltring
at
our
hands
.
The
true
mother
may
not
abide
to
heare
of
the
mangling
of
her
child
;
and
Dauid
may
not
digest
such
barbarous
indignity
offered
to
his
seruants
,
and
God
may
not
suffer
him selfe
to
be
so
mocked
;
as
to
haue
his
glory
of
which
he
is
so
iealous
,
communicated
vnto
others
.
Very
many
we
find
,
howbeit
,
otherwise
of
very
proper
parts
,
&
induments
of
nature
,
who
halt
with
God
too
much
,
and
cannot
,
without
strugling
to
one
way
or
other
,
keep
in
the
right
way
:
we
are
as
the
graine
that
wanteth
measure
,
and
the
gold
that
will
not
hold
weight
.
There
is
in
euery
one
of
vs
,
somewhat
which
blemiseth
and
disgraceth
all
our
beauty
.
Many
,
albeit
they
are
of
chaste
behauior
,
of
very
ciuil
nature
,
and
(
as
by
outward
appearance
it
seemeth
)
of
religious
disposition
:
yet
are
their
minds
fixed
vpon
couetousnes
,
they
go
after
worldly
thoughts
,
and
incomber
themselues
with
Martha
about
many
things
.
There
was
death
in
the
pot
,
There
is
none
of
vs
,
who
doth
not
hucke
with
God
,
who
is
not
ready
for
some
excuse
or
other
;
we
ask
our
flesh
,
our
lusts
,
our
pleasures
leaue
,
and
if
they
consent
not
to
it
,
God
is
answered
as
Pharao
answered
Moses
,
Nabal
,
Dauid
,
Who
is
the
Lord
(
saith
Pharao
vnto
Moses
)
that
I
should
let
Israel
got
who
is
the
Lord
(
saith
the
stubborne
soule
)
that
I
should
let
my
sinfull
pleasures
go
?
Who
is
Dauid
,
and
who
is
the
sonne
of
Ishai
(
saith
Nabal
)
that
I
should
take
my
bread
,
my
water
my
flesh
,
which
I
haue
killed
for
my
shearers
,
and
giue
it
vnto
men
,
whom
I
know
not
whence
they
be
.
These
be
the
termes
wherer
vpon
we
do
stand
,
we
commune
the
case
in
this
wise
with
Nabal
,
who
is
Christ
the
sonne
of
Dauid
,
that
I
should
take
that
which
I
haue
deputed
to
my
pleasure
and
my
sin
,
and
giue
it
vnto
him
?
Be
not
deceiued
,
God
will
not
be
stinted
,
he
will
haue
all
,
or
nothing
at
all
of
thee
:
and
when
thou
giuest
all
,
thou
giuest
him
but
his
owne
.
Thou
dost
but
like
the
coppy
holder
that
payeth
his
rent
,
and
performeth
his
bounden
homage
and
seruice
vnto
his
Lord
,
the
diminution
of
any
iote
thereof
beeing
the
forfeit
of
thy
whole
coppy
.
This
is
a
slye
pollicie
of
the
diuell
,
to
haue
vs
dernie
christians
,
to
serue
GOD
by
halues
,
to
drawe
vs
on
to
some
duties
of
deuotion
,
that
whilst
we
doe
flatter
and
beguile
our selues
with
a
counterfeit
profession
,
he
may
cause
vs
priuilie
,
and
vnawares
,
to
fall
into
the
pit
of
his
destruction
.
Thus
he
playde
with
Herod
who
hauing
snarled
and
hooked
him
before
with
the
hooke
and
line
of
inordinate
lust
,
Iohn
Baptist
willingly
,
and
to
reforme
many
things
according
to
his
directions
.
As
along
as
the
diuell
hath
vs
vnder
his
line
,
and
hath
any
hold
of
vs
,
either
by
our
pride
,
by
our
vsurie
,
by
our
couetousnes
,
by
our
enuie
,
by
our
emulation
,
by
our
ambition
,
by
our
hatred
,
by
our
crueltie
,
by
any
kinde
of
sinne
,
he
will
so
sporte
with
vs
,
as
he
will
be
sure
of
vs
,
he
will
not
let
vs
goe
.
For
as
a
bird
,
if
she
be
limed
,
To
what
vse
is
it
to
rampire
vp
al
the
gates
of
the
citie
,
Christ
his
charge
to
those
that
will
be
followers
of
him
,
Take
my
yoake
vpon
you
.
He
nameth
not
any
parte
of
the
body
that
should
be
yoaked
aboue
other
,
the
head
,
the
necke
,
the
shoulders
or
such
like
;
but
the
whole
:
that
wee
should
not
thinke
that
we
haue
serued
God
well
,
by
myncing
him
a
pittance
,
vnles
he
hath
the
whole
.
Wherefore
Dauid
summoneth
al
his
parts
to
the
Lords
courtes
.
All
my
bones
(
saith
he
)
shall
say
,
Lord
who
is
like
vnto
thee
.
And
againe
,
Praise
the
Lord
O
my
soule
,
and
all
that
is
within
me
praise
his
holy
name
.
And
againe
,
I
haue
an
eye
vnto
all
thy
commaundements
,
and
all
false
wayes
I
vtterly
abhorre
.
The
diuell
is
an
importunate
suter
vnto
vs
,
to
haue
any
roome
,
or
tenement
within
vs
,
be
it
neuer
so
little
,
rather
then
he
would
be
vtterly
shut
out
.
When
as
Pharao
could
no
longer
holde
the
Isralites
in
durance
,
Or
let
vs
say
in
this
case
vnto
Satan
,
Esau
:
Iacob
haue
I
blessed
,
and
he
shall
be
blessed
:
we
haue
giuen
vp
all
to
God
already
,
and
he
shall
possesse
it
.
Yea
let
vs
say
to
God
as
Peter
said
to
Christ
when
Christ
would
wash
his
feete
:
Lord
,
not
my
feet
onely
,
but
my
hands
,
and
my
head
.
For
why
should
we
deny
him
any
thing
,
seeing
he
is
the
owner
of
euery
thing
we
haue
.
The
diuell
,
the
world
,
the
flesh
indeede
haue
no
more
right
in
vs
,
then
Achab
had
to
Naboth
his
vineyard
,
or
Herod
to
his
sister
.
If
we
giue
all
to
God
,
Sampson
could
not
be
so
absurdly
ignorant
of
Dalila
her
drift
,
As
the
Lord
is
Alpha
which
signifieth
the
beginning
:
Moses
asking
Pharao
,
when
he
should
pray
for
him
:
his
answere
was
to
morrow
;
And
why
not
to
day
Pharao
?
since
euery
day
is
Gods
,
and
he
cannot
be
serued
of
any
man
too
soone
.
How
doest
thou
know
,
that
thou
shalt
liue
vntill
to
morrowe
?
Thus
the
wicked
prescribe
God
his
time
,
whenas
euery
time
is
his
.
Lycurgus
making
lawes
for
the
Lacedemonians
,
propounded
them
vnto
them
to
be
obserued
of
them
,
vntill
he
should
returne
from
that
region
and
country
,
whither
immediatly
he
was
to
take
his
voyage
:
and
so
sayling
into
Creet
,
he
neuer
did
returne
,
but
there
dying
,
commaunded
his
bones
to
be
burned
,
and
the
ashes
of
them
to
be
throwne
into
the
sea
:
supposing
,
that
if
his
body
might
not
be
carried
ouer
,
his
lawes
and
ordinances
should
neuer
be
repealed
.
Such
a
tender
care
had
this
Gentile
Philosopher
of
the
zealous
and
continued
obseruation
of
good
lawes
:
which
care
of
his
,
taxeth
our
carelesnes
,
and
remisnes
in
keeping
the
commandements
of
our
God
:
seruing
him
by
fits
as
our
stomackes
serueth
vs
,
and
affording
him
what
we
may
spare
from
our
pleasure
and
our
sinnes
.
It
should
not
be
so
with
vs
,
but
we
should
take
that
course
which
this
Ieweller
by
his
practise
here
prescribeth
vs
,
who
resigneth
vp
all
that
he
had
in
the
world
,
that
he
might
buy
this
treasure
of
Gods
word
.
Let
vs
doe
the
like
:
As
thou
forsakest
father
,
and
mother
to
cleaue
to
thy
wife
:
so
forsake
father
,
and
mother
,
wife
and
al
,
be
it
neuer
so
neere
and
deere
vnto
thee
,
to
cleaue
to
God
.
To
sell
all
that
we
haue
,
is
to
renounce
the
lusts
of
the
flesh
,
and
of
the
minde
,
and
so
to
shake
off
the
world
,
which
inticeth
vs
to
wickednes
,
as
Ioseph
shaked
his
cloake
from
him
,
But
,
this
is
that
that
breaketh
off
the
bargaine
,
and
keepeth
vs
from
this
purchase
;
we
endure
well
enough
to
heare
of
the
pleasure
and
profit
of
this
purchase
,
but
we
like
not
the
couenants
,
we
are
loath
to
be
touched
in
our
worldly
state
,
or
to
alter
the
condition
of
our
life
;
the
doctrine
of
repentance
,
and
the
Gospel
of
Christ
teaching
vs
to
deny
all
vngodlinesse
,
and
worldly
vanity
:
and
to
liue
soberly
,
iustly
,
and
vprightly
,
in
this
world
,
is
grieuous
vnto
vs
,
The
children
of
Israel
hearing
of
the
fruitfulnes
of
the
promised
land
of
Canaan
,
that
the
eie
hath
not
seene
,
the
eare
hath
not
heard
,
neyther
can
the
heart
of
man
conctiue
the
things
that
God
hath
prepared
for
them
that
loue
him
:
men
I
say
,
heartned
with
such
consolation
,
they
take
stomacke
to
themselues
,
and
are
zealous
and
hot
in
spirit
after
it
,
to
winne
and
enioy
it
:
But
withall
,
vnderstanding
that
the
way
is
narrow
,
He
that
hath
earnest
occasion
of
speech
with
another
man
,
Therefore
when
hee
was
to
commune
with
Abraham
,
And
because
that
cares
are
the
daughters
of
riches
,
which
as
thornes
do
choake
the
good
seed
of
the
worde
,
in
worldly
minded
men
;
the
Lord
enacted
in
the
state
of
Israel
,
that
cleargy
men
,
As
also
it
was
a
constitution
among
them
,
Mortifie
we
therfore
all
our
worldly
lusts
,
and
slay
we
them
down
right
with
the
sword
of
the
spirit
.
Let
vs
not
imprison
in
the
bowels
of
our
soules
,
such
sinnes
as
we
like
best
,
and
keep
them
aliue
as
Saul
did
Agag
,
If
we
pitty
our
sins
as
Ely
did
his
sons
,
Oh
heauy
and
most
grieuous
is
that
commination
of
the
Lord
against
Achab
,
Benhadad
:
Because
(
saith
God
)
thou
hast
let
goe
out
of
thy
handes
a
man
whome
I
appointed
to
die
,
thy
life
shall
goe
for
his
life
.
The
like
sentence
is
gone
out
against
all
,
that
saue
aliue
that
sinne
they
should
destroy
,
they
shal
die
for
it
.
If
ye
liue
(
saith
Saint
Paul
)
after
the
flesh
,
ye
shall
die
;
but
if
ye
shall
mortifie
the
flesh
by
the
spirit
,
ye
shall
liue
.
Thus
Paul
maketh
two
men
of
one
:
the
one
the
outward
and
the
other
the
inward
man
:
both
which
are
vnited
in
one
,
yet
are
they
so
sundry
,
as
they
cannot
agree
in
one
,
but
the
generation
of
the
one
,
must
be
the
others
corruption
,
the
life
of
the
one
,
must
be
the
death
of
the
other
,
and
therefore
to
saue
and
keepe
aliue
the
one
,
we
must
needes
mortifie
and
put
to
death
the
other
.
What
a
good
match
we
shall
make
,
in
coping
away
the
pleasure
of
the
world
,
for
the
ioyes
of
heauen
:
at
that
generall
county
day
,
wherein
the
bookes
and
scrolles
of
consciences
shall
be
laid
open
,
plainly
will
appeare
,
at
what
time
all
those
things
that
we
haue
here
gathered
together
will
do
vs
no
good
,
where
no
manner
of
excuse
may
serue
our
turne
,
where
there
wil
be
no
place
of
any
refuge
for
vs
.
Here
there
haue
bin
found
some
places
of
small
succor
,
in
the
time
of
danger
.
Lot
.
Elias
could
shrowd
himself
in
Mount
Carmel
:
and
Ionas
could
go
downe
to
the
hatches
of
the
keele
,
that
he
might
flee
to
Tharsis
,
from
the
presence
of
the
Lord
.
But
in
the
iudgement
,
Tell
me
what
it
is
,
whereat
thou
shouldest
sticke
to
go
through
with
this
purchase
?
Or
what
it
is
that
thou
shouldst
desire
in
comparison
of
this
?
One
saith
riches
,
another
saith
honor
:
one
desireth
beauty
:
this
man
is
for
his
backe
,
and
this
man
for
his
belly
,
one
for
his
myrth
,
another
for
his
credite
,
another
for
his
pride
:
here
one
,
and
there
one
goeth
vp
higher
,
It
is
euen
as
the
shaking
of
an
oliue
tree
,
As
the
Sun
which
is
but
one
,
Wherfore
grudge
we
not
to
do
away
those
things
that
are
of
meanest
moment
,
for
those
of
greatest
substance
:
to
change
chaffe
with
wheat
,
drosse
with
gold
,
myre
for
pearl
,
earth
for
heauen
.
Know
we
not
how
that
pearles
and
pretious
stones
,
He
must
partake
with
God
in
his
life
,
that
will
share
with
him
in
glory
.
If
Christ
our
grand
Captaine
despised
the
world
,
and
renounced
al
,
to
do
his
fathers
will
it
appeareth
that
we
fight
not
vnder
his
standerd
,
and
are
not
his
souldiers
,
who
are
as
greedy
of
the
world
as
a
crow
is
of
carrion
,
and
who
can
sauour
nothing
but
the
things
of
this
world
.
There
be
many
with
Balaam
,
The
sheepe
,
otherwise
a
seely
creature
,
He
knoweth
the
woolfe
to
be
his
enemy
,
and
the
shepheards
curre
that
is
like
a
wolfe
,
for
to
be
his
friend
.
The
Lord
hath
giuen
vs
iudgement
and
discretion
,
if
we
would
vse
it
thereafter
,
to
leaue
the
euill
,
and
to
chuse
the
good
;
to
eschew
sinne
,
and
to
ensue
righteousnes
;
to
loath
the
earth
,
and
to
loue
heauen
.
The
birdes
of
the
ayre
naturally
are
disposed
,
CHAP.
XI
.
¶
That
all
our
endeuours
,
are
to
redound
to
the
glory
of
God
,
and
to
tend
only
to
a
spirituall
end
,
as
is
liuely
shadowed
in
the
example
of
this
Merchant
,
whose
bargain
of
sale
of
all
his
temporalls
,
was
onely
for
the
purchase
of
this
heauenly
Treasure
.
THis
Marchant
in
this
Chronicle
is
celebrated
and
renouned
,
for
this
three-fold
action
.
For
the
sale
of
his
substaunce
.
For
the
sale
of
al
his
substance
.
For
the
end
thereof
,
onely
for
a
heauenly
Purchase
.
The
two
first
must
waite
vppon
the
last
,
without
which
,
the
former
shall
be
done
in
vaine
.
Many
there
haue
bin
,
who
haue
renounced
their
worldly
right
,
&
simply
haue
surrendred
all
their
earthly
state
,
yet
neuer
were
accounted
in
the
assembly
of
Gods
people
,
neyther
shal
they
be
written
in
the
writings
of
the
house
of
Israel
.
It
is
not
the
action
that
God
respecteth
,
but
the
intention
,
and
end
of
the
action
that
he
only
beholdeth
.
God
loueth
not
Adiectiues
without
Aduerbs
,
Bonum
without
Benè
.
It
is
better
to
do
wel
then
to
do
good
:
for
a
man
may
trespasse
in
doing
good
,
if
he
doth
it
not
well
.
Pharises
in
praier
,
fasting
,
almes
,
duties
that
were
good
,
offended
in
that
they
did
them
not
wel
,
the
end
and
the
manner
marring
the
whole
matter
.
How
many
heathen
people
haue
gone
before
vs
,
in
a
seuere
conuersation
,
in
a
strickt
mortification
,
and
yet
haue
vtterly
lost
al
their
deuotion
,
because
it
hath
wanted
the
onely
vse
,
and
end
of
true
religion
?
They
wrought
,
but
yet
they
wrought
not
like
cunning
artificers
,
according
to
the
rule
,
which
is
to
do
that
which
is
good
in
good
order
.
To
forsake
our
wiues
,
to
neglect
our
children
,
to
dispise
our
frends
,
to
contemne
the
world
,
if
it
be
in
wordly
sort
,
and
it
doth
not
tend
to
an
heauenly
end
,
it
is
to
no
end
.
The
Romane
Curtius
,
the
Athanian
Codrus
,
the
Theban
Crates
,
and
others
,
the
famous
philosophers
of
the
Gentiles
,
Socrates
,
Diogenes
,
Bias
,
Thales
,
Milesius
,
Mucius
,
Scaeuola
,
Fabricius
,
Romanus
,
and
such
like
,
who
haue
martyred
themselues
,
offered
strange
violence
&
torture
to
their
bodies
,
haue
liued
priuate
austere
liues
,
scorned
worldly
wealth
,
&
haue
sequestred
themselues
aloofe
from
al
the
inticements
of
the
world
;
inasmuch
as
the
ends
of
their
actions
were
in
vaine
:
the
lyme
,
the
stone
,
the
timber
,
wanted
a
foundation
wherevpon
to
leane
,
all
their
whole
structure
and
building
tumbled
down
,
and
all
their
labors
and
endeuours
perished
.
The
manner
therefore
in
matters
of
Gods
seruice
,
If
thou
wouldest
bring
thy
actions
to
perfection
,
let
God
be
the
end
of
them
.
The
Mathematicians
hold
,
that
the
circular
figure
is
the
perfect
figure
,
because
that
in
a
circle
,
the
beginning
,
and
the
end
,
do
iump
and
meet
together
:
we
shal
be
perfit
christians
,
if
God
the
first
cause
and
beginning
of
all
:
of
whom
,
in
whom
,
and
by
whom
are
all
,
shal
be
the
consummation
and
end
of
all
:
if
we
shall
set
this
watchword
before
all
our
doings
,
whether
we
eate
or
drinke
,
or
whatsoeuer
else
we
do
,
we
do
all
to
the
glory
of
God
.
Haue
an
eie
therefore
to
the
end
of
euery
thing
,
that
thou
goest
about
,
that
thou
maist
not
do
amisse
.
Artificers
,
by
a
line
and
leaden
plummet
,
God
expresly
willeth
that
all
valuation
shall
be
according
to
the
shekell
of
the
sanctuary
:
Whatsoeuer
action
thou
giuest
thy self
vnto
,
A
fearefull
woe
shall
be
thundred
out
against
them
,
As
no
man
might
enter
into
the
court
of
King
Ahashuerosh
,
Christ
many
times
in
his
actions
,
if
thine
eye
be
simple
,
that
is
,
thy
end
,
and
intention
of
thine
action
,
set
before
thine
eye
.
These
two
I
hold
as
good
conclusions
.
First
,
that
all
our
sorrowes
for
our
sinnes
,
though
our
contrition
were
as
great
as
the
sea
,
if
it
be
only
for
the
feare
of
hell
,
and
not
for
Gods
loue
,
and
the
loue
of
heauen
,
can
do
vs
no
good
.
This
is
made
euident
by
a
paire
of
examples
of
Saul
,
and
Dauid
;
they
were
both
of
them
Kings
,
both
of
them
sinned
,
accepteth
no
persons
,
accepteth
Dauids
,
Honor
me
before
the
elders
of
my
people
,
and
before
Israel
:
So
Saul
might
haue
bin
safe
and
setled
in
his
kingdome
,
and
men
might
do
him
worship
,
little
did
Saul
esteeme
how
his
GOD
was
woorshipped
.
For
this
cause
Esau
went
without
his
blessing
,
The
second
proposition
is
as
plain
as
this
,
that
is
,
that
although
we
doe
conforme
our selues
to
the
Canons
of
his
word
,
and
doe
his
commandements
,
honor
his
name
,
auoid
prophane
swearing
,
sanctifie
his
Sabbaoth
,
and
come
as
nigh
to
the
perfect
obedience
of
his
law
,
as
possibly
we
can
,
if
with
this
Merchant
we
renounce
all
our
worldly
both
profits
and
pleasures
,
and
haue
not
the
intention
of
this
Merchant
in
our
minds
,
to
illustrate
Gods
glorie
,
and
let
our
end
be
God
;
God
will
not
blesse
or
fauour
these
our
doings
,
or
giue
them
enteraunce
and
passage
vnto
him
.
For
as
before
in
sinne
,
so
in
euery
good
worke
there
are
two
chiefe
respects
:
The
one
is
the
honour
which
redoundeth
vnto
God
:
The
second
is
the
profit
that
returneth
to
our selues
.
If
therfore
in
a
good
action
,
we
rather
haue
an
eie
to
our
priuate
aduantage
,
then
to
the
publike
praise
of
God
,
we
discouer
therby
our
worldly
minds
too
much
,
that
gold
more
then
God
,
the
world
aboue
the
word
is
esteemed
of
vs
.
Wherefore
let
vs
looke
,
that
as
we
serue
him
,
so
he
will
serue
vs
:
if
we
serue
him
with
the
worst
,
and
with
the
last
,
he
will
serue
vs
with
the
dregges
and
bottome
of
the
cup
of
his
wrath
,
The
end
before
God
is
of
more
valew
,
then
either
the
greatnesse
or
excellency
of
the
action
:
for
euery
action
shall
be
weighed
by
the
intention
,
and
respected
,
and
recompenced
according
to
the
end
.
This
the
subtile
serpent
knoweth
well
;
wherfore
,
as
he
broght
Adam
to
another
tree
,
When
he
cannot
strip
vs
of
such
excellent
works
,
as
the
Lord
worketh
in
vs
,
he
depraueth
them
,
by
disgracing
our
intentions
in
them
,
suggesting
,
that
they
were
wrought
to
some
priuate
worldly
end
.
For
thus
he
sophisticated
and
glosed
with
God
,
vpon
the
inclination
of
Iob
his
deuotion
:
for
,
vpon
the
commendation
of
Iob
his
disposition
,
which
God
had
made
vnto
him
,
how
that
he
was
a
iust
man
,
and
one
that
feared
God
:
Doth
Iob
serue
God
for
nought
?
Hast
thou
not
made
a
hedge
about
him
,
and
about
his
substance
,
and
about
all
that
he
hath
on
euery
side
?
Thou
hast
blessed
the
worke
of
his
hands
,
and
his
substance
is
increased
in
the
land
:
But
stretch
out
now
thy
hand
,
and
touch
that
he
hath
,
to
see
if
he
will
not
blaspheme
thee
to
thy
face
:
as
if
he
should
haue
saide
,
hee
worketh
on
the
surer
side
,
and
playeth
vpon
the
aduantage
;
his
gaine
is
his
godlinesse
,
but
touch
him
in
his
purse
,
and
crosse
him
awhile
in
his
estate
and
substance
,
and
the
case
will
soone
be
altered
with
him
,
and
Iob
I
will
warrant
you
,
will
not
proue
the
man
you
take
him
for
.
Thus
he
doth
like
Pioners
in
the
warres
,
Well
,
this
will
be
a
bone
,
wherewith
he
will
choake
vs
vpon
our
death
beddes
;
let
vs
deliuer
our selues
of
it
as
wee
can
:
whether
we
haue
serued
God
for
nought
,
is
the
question
propounded
to
vs
to
assoile
,
our
inclinations
and
inward
affections
,
at
that
time
wil
be
throughly
canuised
.
Let
vs
proue
them
therefore
,
and
examine
them
before
,
Set
therefore
this
watch-woord
of
the
Apostle
before
thy
race
,
So
runne
that
thou
mayst
obtaine
:
Fasten
not
the
anchor
of
the
ship
of
thy
heart
,
vpon
the
daungerous
sea
of
the
loue
of
this
world
.
Gather
vp
thy
wits
,
and
set
downe
in
thine
accounts
,
how
much
thou
hast
deuoted
thy self
vnto
the
world
,
and
how
litle
vnto
God
.
It
is
with
vs
,
Good
workes
are
as
good
wine
,
but
done
in
a
bad
mind
,
we
mingle
worme-wood
and
gall
with
it
,
and
do
like
the
Iewes
,
who
tempered
gall
in
their
cup
of
drinke
,
that
they
gaue
to
Christ
.
The
diuell
recoyleth
and
goeth
backe
,
not
by
our
doing
good
,
but
by
our
doing
well
.
It
is
that
that
maketh
him
to
reel
,
as
the
rammes
hornes
did
the
huge
walles
of
Iericho
.
As
Ieremy
saith
,
Cursed
is
he
that
dooth
the
woorke
of
God
negligently
;
so
no
doubt
Gods
curse
shall
light
vpon
those
that
do
it
deceitfully
,
and
that
doe
it
not
with
a
faithfull
heart
.
But
there
are
hypocrites
among
true
christians
,
as
Saul
among
the
Prophets
.
But
the
glorie
of
God
,
which
should
be
the
end
of
euery
good
worke
,
is
the
touchstone
that
trieth
our
works
,
of
what
worth
they
are
,
whether
they
be
of
gold
,
or
any
other
baser
substance
.
Sichem
and
Emor
were
circumeised
aswell
as
Iacob
and
his
sonnes
,
their
substance
,
cattel
,
and
flockes
,
shal
be
ours
.
There
is
no
reckning
to
be
made
of
such
religion
,
which
is
grounded
on
a
carnal
intention
.
What
father
esteemeth
that
obedience
of
his
sonne
,
Whatsoeuer
good
we
do
,
whatsoeuer
euill
we
suffer
,
the
maine
motiue
thereof
must
be
the
honor
and
glory
of
his
name
:
So
our
Saviour
teacheth
vs
in
many
places
of
the
new
instrument
.
Blessed
are
they
that
suffer
persecution
for
righteousnesse
sake
.
Againe
,
ye
shal
be
brought
before
Kings
and
rulers
for
my
names
sake
.
Againe
,
he
that
looseth
his
life
for
my
sake
.
he
that
forsaketh
father
and
mother
for
my
sake
,
and
the
Gospel
.
God
wil
say
to
such
as
he
said
,
Abraham
,
I
will
be
thy
exceeding
great
reward
.
Wherefore
let
vs
say
to
God
as
Iacob
said
to
Esau
:
Let
my
Lord
go
before
his
seruant
,
and
I
will
follow
according
to
the
pace
of
the
cattell
which
are
before
me
,
and
as
the
children
be
able
to
endure
.
Let
God
goe
before
,
and
we
wil
trace
his
foote-steppes
,
as
he
shall
enable
vs
.
It
is
said
in
the
Iudges
,
What
ye
see
me
do
,
haste
and
do
the
like
:
So
,
whatsoeuer
we
see
Christ
do
,
let
his
example
be
our
imitation
,
who
made
Gods
glory
the
scope
and
drift
of
all
his
proceedings
.
Euery
handy-crafts-man
,
set
the
Lord
before
our
eies
,
and
we
shall
not
do
amisse
.
Therefore
God
would
that
the
two
Chorubins
,
with
stretched
out
wings
shuld
couer
the
mercie
seat
where
God
gaue
his
answers
;
As
Christ
willeth
the
Spouse
in
the
Canticles
that
Shee
would
set
him
as
a
seale
vnto
hir
heart
,
and
as
a
signet
vpon
her
arme
:
CHAP.
XII
.
An
Exhortation
to
the
loue
of
the
worde
,
and
the
spirituall
life
,
the
purport
of
the
premisses
.
IT
is
not
gold
,
but
drosse
,
not
hony
,
but
gall
,
not
credit
,
but
shame
,
not
life
,
but
death
,
not
good
,
but
euil
,
which
the
world
yeeldeth
vs
;
diuide
the
worlde
aright
with
the
sworde
of
truth
,
and
the
vanitie
of
it
will
soone
appeare
vnto
thee
.
But
thy
word
,
O
Lord
,
endureth
for
euer
in
heauen
.
the
word
of
the
kingdome
,
because
it
bringeth
vs
to
no
lesse
than
a
kingdome
.
It
is
,
the
word
of
life
,
which
giueth
life
vnto
all
creatures
.
the
starre
which
conducteth
vs
to
Christ
.
The
ladder
,
whose
toppe
reacheth
vp
to
heauen
.
The
water
,
which
purgeth
and
cleanseth
our
leprosie
.
The
manna
,
which
satisfieth
our
hungry
soules
.
The
booke
that
we
should
study
vpon
day
and
night
.
The
royall
and
celestiall
Testament
of
God
.
The
Oracles
of
his
Sanctuarie
.
This
is
the
pathway
that
leades
vnto
heauen
:
Luke
:
If
thou
wilt
enter
into
heauen
,
keep
the
commandements
.
So
saith
the
Spirit
,
Blessed
are
they
that
heare
the
word
of
God
,
and
keepe
it
.
So
saith
the
Angel
,
Blessed
are
they
that
keepe
the
words
of
this
booke
.
So
saieth
Solomon
,
Blessed
is
the
man
that
keepeth
the
Lawe
.
So
saieth
Isaiah
,
He
that
doth
this
,
is
blessed
.
Iames
,
The
doers
of
the
Lawe
are
iustified
.
And
to
this
giue
all
the
Scriptures
witnesse
,
if
we
wil
consider
them
.
Good
cause
therfore
haue
we
to
loue
this
Lawe
,
and
all
the
day
long
to
haue
our
study
in
it
.
Worldly
Lawyers
increase
daily
;
they
are
called
common
lawyers
,
because
they
are
too
common
,
and
they
are
not
weary
in
following
that
study
:
but
Gods
Law
,
which
speaketh
of
farre
better
things
,
and
promiseth
to
the
faithfull
professors
thereof
,
not
the
golde
of
Ophir
,
or
India
,
but
the
infinite
and
vnspeakeable
treasure
of
a
kingdome
,
lieth
open
in
the
windowe
,
or
shut
in
the
studie
,
altogether
neglected
,
or
retchlesly
regarded
.
Sommon
all
the
Law
giuers
,
and
conuent
them
together
,
and
lette
them
worship
their
politique
ordinances
and
statutes
as
they
list
,
they
must
not
bee
matched
and
consorted
with
this
Lawe
.
None
of
these
euer
durst
,
or
did
promise
vnto
any
that
were
keepers
thereof
,
the
recompence
of
a
kingdome
.
Mercurius
Trismegistius
gaue
Lawes
to
the
Aegyptians
,
Phoronaeus
to
the
Graecians
,
Solon
to
the
Athenians
,
Lycurgus
to
the
Lacedemonians
,
and
Numa
Pompilius
vnto
the
Romanes
;
yet
none
of
these
pricketh
them
with
that
praise
,
as
to
assigne
such
a
recompence
and
rewarde
vnto
them
:
Such
glory
hath
all
his
Saintes
,
saieth
the
Kingly
Prophet
.
As
one
of
the
least
of
the
captaines
of
the
sonnes
of
Gad
,
could
chace
away
a
hundred
,
and
the
greatest
a
thousand
:
so
one
of
Gods
books
,
exceedeth
a
thousand
of
humane
constitutions
.
Many
daughters
(
saith
King
Lemuel
)
haue
done
vertuously
,
but
thou
surmountest
all
:
so
many
writers
haue
written
learnedly
,
but
the
actuaries
of
the
scriptures
haue
gone
beyond
them
all
.
Wheras
others
of
Gods
blessings
,
as
food
,
light
,
and
life
,
are
communicated
to
others
of
his
creatures
,
as
to
birds
,
beasts
,
and
fishes
;
this
priuiledge
of
the
word
,
as
a
preheminence
and
prerogatiue
royall
aboue
all
other
creatures
,
he
hath
appropriated
only
to
man
.
And
this
is
argument
pregnant
to
perswade
vs
to
the
loue
of
the
word
.
As
man
is
most
happy
by
his
hauing
the
word
,
so
had
he
bin
of
all
most
miserable
,
if
he
had
bin
destitute
altogether
of
this
word
.
For
what
comfort
(
saith
Tobias
)
can
I
haue
now
I
sit
in
darknes
?
so
,
what
comfort
could
we
haue
had
whilst
we
sate
in
darknesse
,
and
in
the
shadow
of
death
,
whilst
we
were
without
knowledge
and
hope
of
our
saluation
;
aliants
from
the
common
wealth
of
Israel
,
Whenas
God
would
checke
the
ingratitude
of
his
people
,
he
calleth
to
mind
his
benefits
done
vnto
them
,
and
as
the
chiefest
among
others
,
His
word
hath
bin
the
badge
and
cognisance
of
his
people
,
the
hedge
and
partition
,
whereby
they
haue
bin
distinguished
from
all
other
people
.
So
singeth
the
melodious
musition
of
Israel
,
He
hath
not
done
so
to
any
other
nation
,
neither
haue
any
people
such
knowledge
of
his
laws
.
This
is
that
one
thing
that
is
necessary
(
as
Christ
said
to
Martha
)
howsoeuer
many
other
vnnecessary
things
are
preferred
before
it
,
Herein
we
resemble
and
imitate
such
porters
,
Or
they
are
like
the
rauen
,
As
in
desperate
diseases
,
The
Sun
worketh
diuersly
,
as
we
see
,
The
word
of
God
is
one
,
but
we
are
not
one
that
are
hearers
of
the
word
,
to
some
,
it
is
a
sauour
of
life
vnto
life
:
and
to
others
,
it
is
a
sauour
of
death
vnto
death
.
We
are
first
to
be
sundred
from
our
deerest
kinred
,
rather
then
to
be
separated
from
the
word
.
Hierome
hath
a
zealous
saying
to
that
purpose
,
in
a
letter
vnto
Heliodore
:
All
the
whole
world
will
follow
after
him
,
and
the
diuel
shal
be
left
,
as
Rachel
,
without
children
.
Let
vs
but
take
that
course
in
this
matter
of
debate
,
that
is
between
worldlings
,
and
Gods
people
,
about
the
best
purchase
,
that
the
two
harlots
tooke
when
they
iangled
and
could
not
agree
betweene
themselues
,
A
rude
man
treadeth
vpon
simples
of
very
good
account
,
Oh
if
we
did
know
(
as
Christ
said
to
the
woman
of
Samaria
)
who
it
is
that
speaketh
to
vs
.
If
we
would
compare
both
these
liues
together
,
the
spirituall
,
and
the
temporall
;
the
word
and
the
world
,
and
lay
them
on
euen
ballances
,
we
should
find
the
world
too
deceitfull
on
the
weights
,
and
the
things
of
this
world
,
we
should
see
to
be
lighter
then
vanity
it selfe
.
In
politike
affaires
,
and
matters
temporal
,
we
will
trie
before
we
trust
,
our
eies
shall
be
our
iudges
,
and
our
knowledge
and
experience
shall
witnes
with
vs
of
the
goodnes
of
a
thing
.
Grasiers
trie
their
bullocks
.
This
was
the
folly
of
the
frantick
Farmer
,
The
channells
and
riuers
of
the
pleasures
of
the
world
,
do
all
of
them
runne
into
the
sea
of
death
.
The
house
of
this
harlot
is
the
way
vnto
the
graue
which
goeth
down
to
the
chamber
of
death
.
Wisedom
setteth
out
the
conditions
of
the
soule
of
the
vertuous
and
wise
,
that
she
considereth
a
field
,
and
buyeth
it
.
First
she
considered
with
her self
that
it
was
good
,
and
,
because
it
was
good
,
she
bought
it
.
So
we
reade
of
our
Ieweller
,
how
first
he
found
a
field
,
and
before
he
bought
it
,
how
he
departed
home
,
and
tooke
time
to
make
sale
of
al
that
he
had
,
to
make
purchase
of
that
field
.
The
rich
glutton
that
pransed
in
his
purple
,
The
world
seruethh
vs
as
an
Inne-keeper
doth
his
guests
,
If
the
dignitie
of
a
Bishop
be
imposed
vpon
thee
,
consider
the
charge
and
the
shot
of
it
,
be
perswaded
that
thou
must
reckon
with
God
,
for
innumerable
soules
committed
to
thy
care
;
and
if
thou
beest
bound
,
to
pay
deerly
for
thy
dignitie
,
be
first
well
aduised
before
thou
takest
it
vpon
thee
.
Likewise
,
when
the
pleasure
of
sinne
flattereth
thee
,
and
a
harlot
doth
intice
thee
,
consider
how
rigorous
a
rate
thine
host
hath
set
vpon
this
vild
and
sinfull
flesh
,
which
thou
must
needes
pay
,
euen
the
tortures
of
hel
,
and
the
lake
that
euer
burneth
both
thy
body
and
thy
soule
.
This
respect
&
consideration
before
had
,
What
prisoner
that
is
fast
shutte
vp
in
prison
,
To
be
blinde
in
soule
,
and
to
be
ignorant
of
Gods
word
,
is
a
farre
more
horrible
and
palpable
blindnes
than
that
which
the
Lorde
in
iudgement
did
bring
vpon
the
land
of
Egypt
,
For
whereas
man
consisteth
of
two
parts
,
the
body
and
the
soule
,
how
farre
the
soule
doth
exceede
the
body
,
it
is
not
so
easie
for
vs
to
define
.
But
this
is
most
manifest
,
that
the
body
,
if
it
might
be
sundred
from
the
soule
,
litle
differeth
from
the
bodies
of
bruit
beasts
:
&
if
that
the
soule
might
be
singled
from
the
body
,
it
would
be
but
little
inferior
vnto
angelicall
spirites
.
Whatsoeuer
ornament
,
If
the
body
be
diseased
,
how
many
Physitians
are
sent
for
to
succor
it
?
if
in
want
,
what
cares
do
we
take
to
supply
it
?
if
in
danger
,
we
runne
through
thicke
and
thinne
to
shunne
it
:
but
the
deadly
disease
,
the
wofull
want
,
the
extreamest
danger
that
can
be
of
the
soule
,
is
not
respected
of
vs
.
Whereas
the
soule
is
the
Mistris
,
and
the
body
but
the
chamber-mayde
:
whereas
the
soule
is
the
rider
,
and
the
body
but
the
beast
that
beareth
the
rider
:
loe
,
the
minion
mayd
is
graced
,
and
her
Mistris
despised
:
the
simpler
iade
is
stroaked
,
and
the
rider
is
thrown
off
,
and
cast
vnto
the
ground
.
The
body
is
but
the
garment
,
&
couerlet
of
the
soule
.
It
is
meere
madnesse
for
any
to
spoyle
his
body
,
that
he
might
not
spoyle
his
garment
:
so
is
it
for
vs
to
saue
the
body
,
to
destroy
the
soule
.
If
all
outward
things
be
ordayned
for
the
body
,
and
the
body
bee
created
for
the
soule
,
and
the
soule
for
God
:
is
it
not
grose
and
absurde
follie
,
to
busie
our selues
wholly
about
those
things
that
are
to
this
end
,
and
to
neglect
the
maine
poynt
of
all
,
which
is
the
end
it selfe
?
To
prouide
such
stuffe
as
may
sette
vp
a
house
,
and
neuer
to
goe
in
hand
with
the
house
.
To
get
many
bookes
,
and
to
procure
vs
many
teachers
,
and
yet
to
make
no
vse
of
these
bookes
and
teachers
?
To
goe
to
warre
,
and
to
be
carefull
to
haue
a
fine
scabard
enamelld
&
embossed
with
pearle
,
&
with
gold
,
and
not
to
care
for
the
matter
of
the
blade
,
whether
it
be
of
yron
,
or
of
lead
,
or
of
any
other
base
and
impure
substances
?
The
bodie
is
the
subiect
,
and
as
it
were
the
case
,
&
sheath
of
the
soule
,
wherein
the
soule
is
hidden
:
it
is
a
franticke
fashion
therefore
,
to
be
so
curious
and
nice
about
the
pleasures
of
the
body
,
and
to
be
so
carelesse
,
and
vnwise
for
the
treasure
of
the
soule
.
Let
vs
lay
them
both
together
,
and
weigh
them
in
the
ballaunce
of
iudgement
and
discretion
,
and
the
disproportion
that
will
appeare
betweene
them
,
will
conuince
in
our
election
,
our
too
too
blinde
and
preiudicate
affections
.
If
no
tongue
be
able
to
vnfold
the
preheminence
and
dignitie
royall
,
that
the
soule
dooth
carry
aboue
the
body
:
I
thinke
that
much
lesse
the
glory
of
Gods
Saintes
in
the
life
that
is
to
come
,
how
much
it
exceedeth
and
excelleth
all
the
glory
that
this
present
world
affordeth
,
is
able
to
be
expressed
.
For
how
can
both
themselues
admitt
a
iust
comparison
,
whenas
one
is
momentanie
,
subiect
to
all
vanitie
,
the
other
eternall
,
comprehending
all
felicitie
?
The
Philosophers
of
the
Gentiles
prying
into
the
nature
and
condition
of
this
life
,
but
with
the
eye
of
humane
reason
,
found
matter
enough
of
discontentment
with
it
,
inasmuch
as
Seneca
is
of
that
minde
as
hee
thinketh
that
no
man
would
vouchsafe
to
take
vppon
him
this
life
,
if
first
he
might
be
certified
of
the
estate
and
maner
of
it
.
Silenus
,
another
of
that
sect
saith
plainely
,
that
the
best
thing
,
in
his
conceit
is
,
not
to
be
borne
,
and
that
the
next
to
that
is
,
to
die
.
Stories
do
speake
of
a
people
in
Thracia
,
who
entertaine
their
infants
,
when
they
are
borne
into
the
worlde
,
with
teares
and
great
lamenting
,
and
doe
celebrate
their
funeralles
with
all
melody
and
triumphing
.
And
I
marud
not
at
it
,
why
the
heathen
sorte
should
be
so
conceited
of
this
life
,
since
the
deere
Saints
of
God
,
Iob
and
Ieremy
were
so
malcontented
with
it
.
Giue
me
a
man
,
in
whome
all
the
fauours
of
this
worlde
shall
conspire
,
who
is
in
the
faunt
,
and
liueth
as
hee
list
:
anotomize
his
lfe
,
&
giue
a
right
iudgement
of
al
the
pleasures
and
wishes
he
enioyeth
,
&
tel
me
what
they
are
.
Is
hee
in
honour
and
estimation
amongmen
,
and
dooth
the
worlde
applaude
him
?
What
is
this
to
him
in
the
rigorous
iudgment
,
whenas
he
shall
not
be
tryed
by
his
country
,
but
his
conscience
:
not
by
other
mens
sayings
,
but
by
his
owne
doings
?
If
all
the
world
commend
thee
,
and
thy
God
condemne
thee
,
what
will
this
auayle
thee
?
Be
therefore
like
those
that
runne
a
race
,
who
do
stand
herein
to
their
iudgement
onely
,
who
will
rewarde
them
for
their
running
.
Call
only
vpon
God
,
as
the
blinde
man
by
the
way
side
of
Iericho
called
vpon
Christ
,
Is
he
in
great
honor
and
preferment
in
the
world
?
then
is
he
in
greatest
dooings
?
as
the
highest
trees
are
most
of
all
in
danger
in
the
violence
of
a
winde
:
Is
he
comely
and
beautifull
to
behold
?
Beauty
is
nothing
but
the
shadow
of
the
fa●e
,
&
like
the
outward
color
of
a
picture
,
whch
is
soone
put
out
,
a
little
spot
deformeth
the
one
,
and
a
little
sicknes
doth
take
away
the
other
.
The
beauty
of
Gods
creatures
should
serue
as
spectacles
,
by
them
to
behold
the
glory
of
the
Creator
.
If
wee
make
not
this
godly
vse
of
it
,
we
shal
do
like
young
children
,
who
beholding
onely
a
picture
in
a
booke
,
wholy
neglect
the
lessons
in
the
booke
.
Is
he
sumptuously
and
richly
arrayed
,
he
need
not
boast
of
that
,
for
his
robes
do
but
serue
him
as
ragges
,
to
couer
his
nakednesse
.
He
that
braggeth
of
that
which
is
but
the
couer
of
his
shame
,
doth
like
the
prisoner
,
that
is
rescued
from
the
gallowes
,
who
braggeth
of
his
rope
:
or
as
the
spittle
man
and
Proctor
by
the
way
,
that
is
prowd
of
the
filthy
and
corrupt
clowtes
,
wherewith
he
wrappeth
and
bindeth
vp
his
sores
.
Such
as
as
boast
of
their
brauery
,
Hath
he
riches
at
his
desire
,
so
as
he
hath
substance
enough
for
his
babes
?
what
is
the
matter
and
substance
of
riches
,
but
the
very
vapours
and
exhalations
of
the
earth
?
It
auaileth
nothing
to
vertue
and
godlines
,
to
make
a
man
more
wise
,
more
humble
,
more
temperate
,
more
patient
.
How
little
the
Lord
doth
esteem
of
riches
,
Is
he
a
man
ful
of
mirth
?
I
saide
of
laughter
,
thou
art
madde
,
and
of
ioy
,
what
is
it
that
thou
doest
?
It
is
like
the
mirth
of
the
madde
man
,
FINIS
.