¶
Foure
Sermons
vpon
the
seuen
chiefe
vertues
or
principall
effectes
of
faith
,
and
the
doctrine
of
election
:
wherein
euerie
man
may
learne
,
whether
he
be
Gods
childe
or
no.
Preached
at
Malden
in
Essex
by
Master
George
Gifford
,
penned
from
his
mouth
,
and
corrected
and
giuen
to
the
Countesse
of
Sussex
,
for
a
Newyeeres
gift
.
Iames
2.
18.
Shewe
mee
thy
faith
by
thy
workes
.
Jmprinted
at
Lon
don
for
Tobie
Cooke
at
the
Tigers
head
in
Paules
Churchyard
.
1582.
¶
To
the
right
honorable
and
my
very
good
Lady
,
the
Lady
Frauncis
,
Countesse
of
Sussex
,
R.
I.
her
most
humble
and
faithfull
seruant
in
Christ
,
wisheth
all
health
and
godlinesse
,
long
to
continue
with
increase
of
vertue
and
zeale
in
religion
.
I
Haue
long
time
wished
(
Right
Honorable
)
that
I
might
in
some
sort
be
able
,
if
not
to
recompence
which
in
deed
I
shal
neuer
,
yet
at
the
least
to
shewe
some
token
of
a
grateful
minde
,
for
all
the
ancient
kindnes
,
&
louing
fauour
,
which
I
haue
found
at
your
hands
:
this
hath
caused
mee
to
foreslip
no
occasion
,
wherby
I
might
haue
somwhat
to
present
you
withall
,
which
might
tend
to
your
soules
health
:
for
concerning
the
thinges
which
pertaine
to
the
body
,
as
honours
,
dignities
and
riches
,
the
high
Lorde
of
Lords
hath
giuenyou
so
much
,
that
though
I
woulde
neuer
so
faine
,
yet
I
cannot
benefite
you
in
them
:
hauing
therefore
of
late
a
kinsman
at
home
with
me
,
who
being
,
somewhat
of
a
readie
hande
,
hath
taken
from
the
mouth
of
our
Preacher
,
certaine
of
the
Sermons
which
hee
hath
preached
,
whiche
beeing
againe
ouerseene
and
corrected
,
I
thought
it
my
dutie
,
to
offer
them
vnto
your
honor
,
as
a
taste
of
those
fruites
wherewith
the
Lorde
doth
feede
vs
in
the
Countrie
.
Beeing
a
great
deale
the
more
bold
to
doe
it
,
because
I
know
they
bee
such
as
ye
haue
long
time
shewed
a
loue
to
taste
of
:
&
I
trust
these
shal
also
come
vnto
you
as
ripe
and
timely
fruites
of
pleasant
and
delightsome
taste
,
although
they
be
set
before
you
in
no
golden
or
siluer
plate
,
but
as
it
were
in
a
woodden
platter
:
for
the
holie
Apostle
Saint
Paule
saieth
,
that
this
treasure
is
brought
in
earthen
vessels
.
I
beseech
your
honour
therefore
to
accept
of
my
poore
good
will
,
and
to
take
this
my
small
gifte
in
good
part
:
which
nothing
doubting
of
,
I
pray
God
to
multiplie
his
blessings
and
gracesvpon
you
,
to
his
glorie
,
and
your
euerlasting
comfort
.
Amen
.
Your
honours
in
Christ
,
Richard
Iosua
Senior
.
To
the
godly
Reader
.
COnsidering
that
for
a
Christian
,
being
sicke
in
soule
,
and
desiring
to
bee
made
sounde
,
sorrowfull
in
spirit
,
&
crauing
comfort
,
vnquiet
in
minde
,
and
seeking
to
be
at
rest
,
wounded
in
conscience
,
and
woulde
bee
in
safetie
,
tormented
in
thought
,
and
longeth
for
releife
,
hauing
offended
God
,
and
therefore
is
punished
,
visited
with
affliction
,
and
faine
would
be
deliuered
,
there
is
no
other
salue
but
the
worde
of
God
:
And
knowing
also
,
that
it
is
the
dutie
of
euery
good
christian
in
his
calling
to
seeke
,
and
thirst
after
the
aduancement
,
and
increase
of
the
kingdome
of
Christ
,
&
the
ouerthrowe
&
vtter
confusion
of
blindnesse
,
errour
,
popery
,
superstition
,
and
to
bee
short
,
of
all
the
power
of
Antichrist
:
I
haue
thought
it
my
dutie
the
rather
(
Gentle
Reader
)
to
request
here
vnto
,
by
sundrie
godly
men
my
friends
,
the
Preacher
hereof
to
publish
this
booke
containing
sundrie
points
of
doctrine
tending
to
the
comfort
of
the
godly
,
&
the
assurance
of
their
saluation
:
as
also
diuers
confutations
of
sects
and
heresies
,
which
to
him
that
readeth
it
with
a
well
disposed
minde
,
shall
be
no
lesse
profitable
,
then
it
is
briefe
.
Maruel
not
at
the
shortnesse
of
it
:
the
cause
thereof
is
this
,
that
the
repetition
in
the
beginning
of
euery
sermon
,
to
auoid
tediousnesse
,
is
omitted
.
Looke
not
for
(
I
pray
thee
)
finesse
of
speeche
,
or
eloquence
in
the
reading
hereof
:
but
way
the
matter
deepely
,
and
applie
it
to
thy selfe
effectually
,
that
thou
mayest
reape
profite
hereout
,
to
thy
soules
health
,
and
comfort
,
the
which
God
graunt
thee
,
for
his
Sonne
Iesus
Christ
his
sake
.
Amen
.
Thine
in
Christ
,
Richard
Iosua
Iunior
.
The
first
Sermon
vpon
the
first
Chapter
of
the
second
Epistle
of
Saint
Peter
.
1
Simon
Peter
a
seruant
and
an
Apostle
of
Iesus
Christe
,
to
you
which
haue
obtained
like
precious
faith
with
vs
by
the
righteousnes
of
our
God
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
.
2
Grace
&
peace
be
multiplied
to
you
,
through
the
acknowledging
of
god
and
of
our
Lord
Iesus
.
3
According
as
his
diuine
power
hath
giuen
vnto
vs
all
things
that
pertaine
vnto
life
and
Godlinesse
,
through
the
acknowledging
of
him
,
that
hath
called
vs
vnto
glory
and
vertue
.
4
Whereby
most
great
and
precious
promises
are
giuen
vnto
vs
,
that
by
them
yee
should
bee
partakers
of
the
diuine
nature
,
in
that
yee
flee
the
corruption
which
is
in
the
world
through
lust
.
BEfore
we
begin
to
handle
or
intreate
of
the
wordes
of
this
text
,
it
shall
not
be
amisse
to
note
to
whom
&
when
this
Epistle
was
written
.
Concerning
the
first
of
these
,
it
appeareth
by
the
third
chap.
and
1.
ver.
that
it
was
written
vnto
the
same
that
the
former
Epistle
was
.
For
thus
he
speaketh
.
This
second
Epistle
I
write
vnto
you
,
beloued
,
in
which
I
stirre
vp
your
sincere
minde
,
by
putting
you
in
remembrance
:
now
these
were
the
Iewes
which
were
scattered
abroade
in
the
dispersion
through
diuers
countries
,
as
it
is
expressed
in
the
first
chap.
of
the
former
Epistle
:
for
the
Iewes
were
specially
his
charge
,
as
the
care
of
the
Gentiles
was
committed
vnto
Paul
.
Galathians
the
2.
chapter
,
7.
and
8.
verses
.
The
wordes
are
these
:
when
they
sawe
that
the
Gospell
of
the
vncircumcision
was
committed
to
mee
,
as
the
Gospell
ouer
the
circumcision
was
vnto
Peter
:
for
he
was
mightie
by
Peter
in
the
Apostlship
,
ouer
the
circumcision
,
was
also
mightie
by
me
towards
the
Gentiles
.
For
the
2.
this
Epistle
was
written
by
Peter
in
his
extreme
age
,
when
he
had
euen
finished
his
course
,
and
was
readie
to
lay
downe
his
tabernacle
,
as
he
speaketh
here
in
the
14.
vers
.
As
for
the
occasions
which
moued
him
to
write
,
they
shall
appeare
in
the
particular
handling
of
the
matters
.
1
Now
let
vs
come
to
the
wordes
of
the
text
,
the
1.
verse
hath
two
members
:
In
the
former
he
setteth
foorth
his
own
dignitie
,
that
he
is
not
only
a
seruant
of
God
,
but
a
principall
seruant
,
and
one
which
commeth
vnto
them
as
the
Ambassadour
of
god
,
to
the
end
they
might
knowe
that
they
had
to
doe
with
God
,
and
not
with
men
,
and
so
submit
themselues
to
the
doctrine
&
message
which
he
brought
:
for
whatsoeuer
God
spake
by
the
Apostles
,
he
so
guided
their
tong
&
pen
by
his
spirite
,
that
nothing
which
they
spake
or
wrote
,
was
their
own
,
but
altogether
his
.
In
the
second
member
,
he
setteth
forth
the
dignity
which
those
to
whom
he
writ
had
with
himselfe
:
in
these
wordes
,
To
those
which
haue
obtained
the
like
precious
faith
with
vs
:
as
if
he
should
say
,
although
I
be
aboue
you
in
the
Apostolik
dignitie
and
function
,
yet
you
are
equal
with
me
&
with
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
in
the
chiefe
and
principall
dignitie
,
&
in
that
wherein
all
happines
doth
consist
,
euen
our
precious
faith
.
Here
it
may
bee
demaunded
,
howe
Saint
Peter
can
ascribe
vnto
them
a
faith
equall
or
like
precious
with
his
owne
,
seeing
he
did
so
farre
excell
them
in
giftes
and
graces
,
as
in
knowledge
,
&
strength
of
faith
.
The
answer
is
easie
inough
,
namely
,
that
this
comparison
is
not
made
in
the
measure
&
quantity
of
faith
,
for
therin
some
haue
excelled
others
farre
,
because
God
doth
not
giue
his
gifts
to
all
alike
:
but
in
the
effect
,
which
is
the
apprehending
of
Christ
with
al
his
merits
,
which
the
weak
faith
doth
as
wel
as
the
strong
,
and
therefore
in
this
respect
is
equally
precious
.
This
I
speake
,
not
to
make
any
slouthfull
,
when
as
the
Scriptures
do
pricke
vs
forwarde
so
much
to
seeke
increase
of
faith
,
but
for
the
comfort
and
hartening
of
the
weake
,
which
feeling
their
infirmitie
and
weaknes
of
faith
,
if
it
were
not
for
this
which
the
Apostle
speaketh
,
might
doubt
whether
they
were
partakers
of
the
same
happinesse
with
them
;
now
hearing
this
,
they
may
be
wel
assured
,
al
though
their
faith
should
be
but
as
a
grain
of
mustard
seed
,
yet
if
it
bee
true
faith
,
it
coupleth
them
to
Christe
,
and
maketh
them
partakers
of
redemption
,
to
haue
their
sinnes
washed
away
in
his
blood
of
righteousnes
,
to
be
couered
with
his
obedience
of
life
,
to
be
heires
of
the
kingdome
of
glorie
,
as
wel
as
the
faith
of
Peter
,
or
any
other
.
Vnto
this
is
also
ioyned
that
wherin
the
stablenes
of
this
their
faith
doth
stande
,
as
vpon
a
sure
foundation
,
euen
the
righteousnesse
of
God
and
of
our
Sauiour
Iesus
Christe
.
And
indeede
the
building
of
faith
is
so
waightie
,
and
the
frame
so
heauie
,
that
it
can
stande
vpon
no
other
foundation
but
this
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
righteousnesse
,
faithfulnesse
,
or
truth
of
God
which
cannot
lie
.
For
if
we
would
perswade
a
man
to
beleeue
by
this
reason
,
that
the
thing
which
wee
speake
,
is
that
which
hath
been
taught
by
diuers
men
of
great
learning
&
singular
godlines
:
yet
because
we
know
that
al
men
are
lyers
,
except
wee
bee
sure
that
the
things
which
they
speak
,
be
those
which
God
hath
spoken
,
wee
shall
still
wauer
,
and
our
faith
shal
be
no
faith
,
which
alone
can
rest
in
the
authoritie
of
God
,
and
not
of
men
.
2
The
seconde
verse
conteineth
his
salutation
,
euen
that
which
is
common
to
him
with
Paul
&
the
other
Apostles
:
wishing
grace
and
peace
,
to
those
vnto
whom
they
write
.
And
this
they
do
,
because
it
is
the
chiefe
scope
and
principal
ende
of
their
ministerie
,
to
bring
men
againe
into
Gods
fauour
,
&
to
be
reconciled
vnto
him
.
Of
this
thing
speaketh
S.
Paul
,
2.
Cor.
5.
chap.
ver.
18.
saying
.
All
things
are
of
God
which
hath
reconciled
vs
to
himself
by
Iesus
Christ
.
And
hath
giuen
vnto
vs
the
ministerie
of
reconciliation
,
for
God
was
in
Christe
and
reconciled
the
worlde
to
himselfe
,
not
imputing
their
sinnes
vnto
them
:
and
hath
committed
to
vs
the
word
of
reconciliation
.
Now
thé
are
we
Ambassadors
for
Christ
,
as
though
God
did
beseeche
you
through
vs
,
wee
pray
you
in
Christe
his
steede
,
that
you
bee
reconciled
to
God
.
This
beeing
the
chiefe
end
of
their
trauell
,
causeth
them
so
earnestly
to
wish
it
for
the
people
:
and
to
bee
so
serious
,
not
only
in
teaching
them
this
generally
,
but
also
pointing
out
as
it
were
with
the
finger
,
the
way
to
the
same
:
and
that
not
onelie
in
their
doctrine
,
but
also
in
their
liues
.
Whosoeuer
digresseth
or
casteth
his
eyes
aside
from
this
marke
&
ende
of
his
ministerie
,
ceaseth
to
bee
the
Minister
of
Christe
.
As
for
example
,
If
hee
preach
the
Gospell
to
purchase
renowme
,
estimation
,
wealth
of
case
,
to
himselfe
,
and
not
to
seeke
this
reconciliation
betweene
God
and
men
,
and
to
haue
grace
and
peace
multiplied
vppon
them
,
he
may
wel
sometimes
preach
the
truth
,
but
not
truly
.
Likewise
,
those
parentes
whiche
set
foorth
their
children
to
learning
,
with
this
minde
:
My
sonne
shall
liue
an
easie
and
merie
life
,
hee
shal
get
some
liuings
,
promotions
,
&
dignities
in
the
Church
:
do
lay
a
corrupt
and
rotten
foundation
,
&
haue
not
learned
this
doctrine
of
the
Apostle
,
and
therefore
the
building
folowes
agreeably
for
the
most
,
when
they
come
to
haue
learning
,
not
forgetting
this
lesson
which
they
learned
of
their
fathers
,
doe
become
greedie
cathers
of
benefices
and
promotions
,
rather
then
carefull
feeders
of
the
flocke
of
Christ
.
But
here
it
may
be
obiected
,
how
the
Apostle
can
wish
that
grace
which
is
the
free
fauour
of
God
,
should
be
multiplied
vpon
them
,
seeing
that
Gods
loue
&
fauor
doth
not
increase
nor
diminishe
,
but
hee
loueth
and
fauoureth
alwayes
alike
,
being
subiect
to
no
alteration
or
change
.
This
may
wel
be
answered
,
that
Sainte
Peter
doeth
not
speake
heere
of
grace
,
as
it
is
in
it selfe
in
God
towardes
men
:
but
of
their
feeling
the
same
,
which
groweth
by
degrees
from
lesse
to
greater
,
and
because
it
is
a
thing
so
precious
,
the
Apostle
wisheth
that
it
may
be
multiplied
vpon
them
.
Hee
expresseth
the
meane
to
be
the
knowledge
&
acknowledging
of
God
,
and
of
Iesus
Christ
our
Lord
.
3
According
as
his
diuine
power
hath
giuen
vnto
vs
al
things
that
perteine
vnto
life
&
godlines
,
through
the
acknowledging
of
him
that
hath
called
vs
vnto
glory
and
vertue
.
This
is
fitly
ioyned
to
the
former
verse
,
to
shewe
that
the
aboundance
of
grace
and
peace
is
not
without
cause
required
at
our
handes
,
as
if
the
Apostle
shoulde
say
,
You
are
not
to
content
nor
to
satisfie
your selues
with
a
scant
measure
of
Gods
giftes
and
graces
,
seeing
that
there
is
offred
vnto
you
,
&
set
forth
in
Christ
,
vnto
whom
you
may
resort
as
to
a
storehouse
fully
furnished
with
all
treasures
,
all
things
which
partain
to
life
and
godlinesse
.
Secondly
,
we
haue
to
obserue
in
this
verse
,
when
hee
saith
that
all
thinges
are
giuen
vnto
vs
by
his
diuine
power
,
that
here
is
nothing
left
in
the
worke
of
our
saluation
vnto
our selues
:
so
that
it
must
needes
follow
,
that
these
which
defend
free
will
,
doe
not
speake
with
the
same
spirite
which
the
Apostle
doth
here
.
For
setting
forth
a
contrary
doctrine
to
this
it
must
needes
proceed
from
a
contrary
spirite
.
The
Apostle
doth
not
say
heere
,
that
all
those
thinges
which
wee
want
,
through
the
weakenesse
of
our
nature
,
shal
be
supplied
,
but
to
shewe
that
there
is
nothing
in
vs
at
all
,
but
that
wee
are
quite
stript
of
all
things
which
pertaine
to
life
and
godlinesse
,
Hee
speaketh
not
of
repairing
or
helping
in
some
parte
,
but
of
a
whole
and
free
gifte
in
euerie
part
:
when
he
saith
whithout
exception
that
all
thinges
are
giuen
vnto
vs
by
the
diuine
power
,
which
pertaine
vnto
life
,
and
godlines
:
and
so
this
doctrine
doth
chalenge
all
the
praise
and
glory
of
our
saluation
to
God
alone
.
Thirdly
,
it
may
be
demanded
why
the
Apostle
shoulde
say
that
all
thinges
are
giuen
vnto
vs
by
the
diuine
power
or
Godhead
of
our
Sauiour
Christe
,
when
it
is
manifest
that
wee
ferche
all
thinges
from
his
manhood
:
and
therefore
hee
saith
in
the
6.
chap.
of
S.
Iohn
,
verse
46.
I
am
the
bread
of
life
:
and
againe
in
the
54.
verse
of
that
same
chapter
,
Hee
that
eateth
my
flesh
,
and
drinketh
my
blood
I
will
raise
him
vp
in
the
last
day
:
For
my
fleshe
is
meate
indeede
,
and
my
blood
is
drink
indeed
:
by
this
it
is
manifest
,
that
life
is
giuen
vnto
the
worlde
,
by
the
manhood
of
Christe
.
The
answere
is
easie
,
that
Christe
in
his
manhoode
is
a
creature
,
and
therefore
hath
nothing
of
his
owne
,
but
whatsoeuer
is
in
him
,
as
to
bee
the
life
of
the
worlde
,
and
the
light
of
men
,
and
to
haue
in
him
al
the
treasures
of
wisdom
:
This
commeth
from
the
diuine
nature
,
which
dwelleth
in
him
bodily
,
as
Saint
Paule
speaketh
.
Nowe
the
cause
why
all
these
are
put
into
the
manhoode
of
Christe
,
is
that
from
thence
wee
maye
bee
partakers
of
them
:
for
solong
as
they
haue
residence
onely
in
God
,
wee
are
so
farre
remoued
from
him
that
by
no
meanes
wee
can
approche
or
come
neere
vnto
him
to
drawe
out
of
him
any
drop
of
the
same
.
Therefore
though
all
things
bee
giuen
vs
by
this
meanes
,
that
GOD
hath
put
them
into
the
fleshe
of
Christ
,
and
so
is
come
downe
neere
vnto
vs
,
that
wee
may
lay
fast
hold
of
him
:
yet
neuerthelesse
because
the
proprietie
of
them
remaineth
still
in
the
diuine
nature
,
the
gifte
of
them
is
heere
ascribed
vnto
the
power
thereof
.
Fourthly
,
we
are
to
note
in
this
verse
,
that
the
Apostle
doeth
briefly
set
downe
the
ende
and
summe
of
religion
,
and
of
all
these
giftes
,
when
he
saith
,
which
pertaine
to
life
and
godlinesse
:
for
in
these
two
wordes
,
vnto
which
the
other
two
do
answere
,
which
are
set
downe
in
the
latter
ende
of
the
verse
,
glorie
and
vertue
,
all
those
giftes
are
contained
.
For
that
which
hee
expressed
first
by
life
,
heere
by
glorie
,
that
which
before
he
called
godlinesse
,
here
he
calleth
vertue
:
they
are
as
much
as
to
say
,
eternall
felicitie
,
and
life
with
glorie
,
and
the
way
which
we
must
passe
through
to
the
same
,
which
is
godlines
and
vertue
.
Here
we
are
to
take
great
heede
,
that
wee
doe
not
seuer
or
sunder
those
thinges
which
the
Lorde
himselfe
hath
so
neerely
coupled
and
linked
together
.
And
this
admonition
is
so
much
the
more
necessarie
,
because
there
are
very
many
carnall
professors
and
beastly
abusers
of
christianity
,
which
doe
seeme
very
willingly
and
gladly
to
imbrace
the
promises
of
the
Gospell
,
concerning
redemption
and
eternall
life
purchased
in
Christe
Iesus
:
and
they
make
great
boast
that
they
looke
for
their
parte
in
the
same
as
well
as
any
other
,
&
yet
they
looke
nothing
at
al
to
this
godlines
and
vertue
,
through
which
we
must
passe
vn
to
it
,
for
God
hath
not
called
vs
,
but
as
hee
saith
heere
,
to
glorie
and
vertue
,
so
that
whom
soeuer
the
Lorde
hath
called
to
know
him
aright
,
and
so
to
be
made
heires
of
eternall
glorie
,
he
hath
also
garnished
them
with
vertues
and
graces
of
the
spirite
of
sanctification
.
Vntill
such
time
therefore
,
as
there
shall
rise
vp
a
new
Peter
,
which
with
contrary
pen
shal
write
a
newe
and
contrary
gospell
,
these
men
shall
neuer
assure
them selues
,
nor
yet
perswade
others
that
they
shall
euer
come
to
the
kingdome
of
God
,
seeing
they
goe
a
quite
contrarie
way
.
4
Whereby
most
great
and
precious
promises
are
giuen
vnto
vs
,
&c.
Now
hee
sheweth
by
what
meanes
or
by
what
instruments
the
diuine
power
doeth
bestow
those
giftes
vpon
vs
,
and
the
same
are
as
hee
calleth
them
,
most
great
and
precious
promises
which
are
giuen
vnto
vs
,
whereby
we
are
called
to
glorie
and
vertue
,
as
hee
speaketh
in
the
former
verse
:
these
are
called
most
great
&
precious
,
because
the
things
which
are
offered
vnto
vs
in
the
gospel
of
Christ
,
for
greatnes
&
dignity
are
incomparable
.
For
what
can
we
seeke
out
to
match
with
this
that
here
is
offered
vnto
vs
:
namely
the
remission
of
our
sins
in
the
blood
of
his
sonne
,
deliuerance
&
freedom
from
the
thraldom
of
Satan
&
power
of
darknes
,
that
of
damned
creatutes
&
children
of
his
wrath
,
he
hath
giuen
vs
this
high
dignity
to
be
his
sonnes
&
daughters
:
&
as
S.
Iohn
saith
,
Reue.
I.
Christ
hath
washed
vs
in
his
blood
,
and
made
vs
kinges
and
priests
to
god
his
father
:
what
a
change
is
this
,
from
the
lowest
misery
,
euen
in
the
gulf
of
hel
,
to
be
lifted
vp
,
to
the
highest
dignitie
,
to
be
glorified
with
God
in
the
kingdom
of
heuen
?
Because
therfore
these
things
are
the
greatest
&
most
honorable
,
S.
Peter
calleth
the
promises
of
the
gospel
,
most
great
&
precious
.
But
wherfore
doeth
the
apostle
ascribe
all
to
the
doctrine
of
the
gospel
?
for
when
he
saith
,
that
by
these
we
are
made
partakers
of
the
diuine
nature
,
hee
includeth
all
,
because
it
is
by
the
gospel
that
we
are
called
home
to
the
Lord
:
for
although
hee
vtter
his
will
vnto
vs
in
his
law
,
yet
therin
hee
sheweth
himselfe
none
otherwise
vnto
vs
,
but
as
a
seuere
iudge
,
we
can
see
nothing
there
,
but
the
dreadful
curse
,
&
vengeance
of
eternall
fire
:
his
brightnes
appeareth
therein
,
but
we
be
not
able
to
beholde
the
same
,
but
are
daseled
with
the
sight
therof
,
amazed
&
confounded
so
that
we
cannot
but
runne
from
him
,
bicause
there
is
nothing
but
that
which
is
terrible
.
Contrariwise
,
in
the
Gospel
,
he
hath
reuealed
himselfe
in
the
face
of
his
sonne
,
where
hee
sheweth
an
exceeding
glory
,
but
with
such
fatherly
loue
,
&
pitie
,
such
abundance
of
mercie
,
and
sweete
allurements
,
by
which
he
calleth
vs
and
draweth
vs
to
himself
:
that
here
wee
are
able
to
looke
vpon
him
with
open
face
,
and
heere
his
countenance
is
so
cheereful
,
that
the
soule
which
hath
once
,
with
the
eye
of
faith
seene
but
a
glimse
thereof
,
is
so
inflamed
and
rauished
with
desire
of
a
neerer
and
fuller
sight
▪
that
it
can
neuer
bee
satisfied
.
For
this
cause
Saint
Paule
making
comparison
betweene
the
ministerie
of
the
Lawe
and
the
ministerie
of
the
Gospell
.
2.
Corinthians
,
3.
Termeth
that
the
ministration
of
death
,
and
the
letter
which
killeth
:
and
this
the
ministration
of
the
spirit
which
giueth
life
.
Which
by
the
way
also
is
to
bee
obserued
,
because
there
be
among
vs
at
this
day
many
frantike
braines
:
namely
those
of
the
Family
of
loue
,
which
call
the
true
&
sound
interpreting
of
the
word
,
the
literal
sense
,
or
the
letter
which
killeth
,
&
their
owne
grosse
and
foolish
allegories
the
spirite
:
not
knowing
that
S.
Peter
speaketh
of
the
difference
betweene
the
Lawe
,
and
the
Gospel
.
Here
also
appeareth
of
what
price
and
dignitie
the
gospel
is
:
for
who
can
set
foorth
the
worthinesse
of
this
,
when
he
saith
,
that
by
these
promises
we
are
made
partakers
of
the
diuine
nature
we
were
indeed
at
the
first
created
after
the
Image
of
God
,
and
so
partakers
of
his
nature
:
but
we
lost
all
this
with
our
first
parents
,
&
in
steede
thereof
we
were
made
partakers
of
the
diuelish
nature
,
bearing
his
Image
and
fulfilling
:
his
lustes
.
Nowe
by
faith
in
the
Gospel
,
this
image
is
restored
and
built
vp
in
vs
againe
,
whilest
we
receiue
the
spirite
of
sanctification
ioyned
with
the
same
.
If
men
did
know
this
first
,
that
all
happinesse
in
men
is
to
be
made
partakers
of
the
nature
of
God
,
&
to
communicate
with
him
:
and
then
that
this
is
wrought
only
by
the
Gospel
:
men
woulde
not
so
lothsomely
despise
it
,
and
preferre
euery
light
commoditie
,
and
trifling
pleasure
before
it
:
men
woulde
not
seeke
to
disgrace
&
slander
it
:
men
would
not
be
so
soone
wearie
in
hearing
of
it
,
nor
thinke
euery
houre
ten
while
they
bee
at
it
.
Finally
men
,
vnlesse
they
were
mad
men
,
would
not
as
they
do
now
almost
euery
where
,
thinke
them selues
best
at
ease
when
it
is
furthest
from
them
:
for
who
would
willingly
throwe
himselfe
headlong
to
destruction
;
who
would
so
play
the
mad
beastes
,
as
to
thrust
God
from
them
,
&
refuse
to
bee
made
partakers
of
his
heauenly
nature
?
which
al
they
doe
,
that
haue
as
yet
felt
no
sweetnesse
in
the
Gospell
,
or
at
least
haue
so
little
tasted
it
that
it
can
scarse
obtaine
colde
lone
at
their
hands
.
But
there
needeth
somwhat
to
be
said
vpon
the
phrase
of
spech
which
S.
Peter
vseth
,
for
it
is
somewhat
hard
to
some
,
&
as
it
was
in
old
time
fouly
abused
by
heretikes
,
so
is
it
wickedly
at
this
day
peruerted
by
the
louely
Familie
,
which
holding
this
doctrine
that
men
are
deified
,
and
God
is
hominified
,
as
their
language
is
,
meaning
that
the
very
essence
and
substance
of
God
,
is
transsused
into
men
,
and
his
substance
&
theirs
mingled
together
,
take
great
holde
of
this
,
that
the
Apostle
saith
,
wee
are
made
partakers
of
the
diuine
nature
.
But
you
shal
see
that
euery
simple
man
may
easily
confute
them
:
if
we
aske
what
the
nature
of
an
horse
is
,
wil
a
man
answere
that
he
is
made
of
the
earth
:
then
a
horse
and
a
man
are
both
of
one
nature
,
for
man
is
also
made
of
the
earth
:
it
is
manifest
them
,
that
none
is
so
foolish
but
hee
will
confesse
,
that
when
we
speake
of
the
nature
of
any
thing
,
we
meane
not
the
substance
,
but
the
qualities
&
properties
:
euen
so
in
this
place
we
must
needs
graunt
,
that
by
the
diuine
nature
in
this
place
is
nothing
els
ment
,
but
that
there
should
be
such
a
nature
and
such
qualities
in
men
,
as
may
carrye
a
resemblance
of
the
diuine
nature
:
as
for
example
,
god
is
holy
,
wee
must
bee
holy
,
he
is
pure
,
good
,
iust
,
gracious
,
bountiful
,
louing
,
&
merciful
,
all
these
and
such
like
must
be
also
in
vs
:
we
shal
also
come
to
be
partakers
of
life
,
of
glory
,
of
ioye
,
of
happinesse
,
and
eternitie
,
and
so
in
a
neerer
sorte
to
bee
partakers
of
the
diuine
nature
.
What
are
all
those
now
the
better
,
which
haue
so
receiued
the
precious
promises
,
that
their
qualities
are
euen
as
agreeable
to
the
nature
of
GOD
,
as
light
is
with
darkenesse
,
or
Heauen
with
Hell
,
or
Christe
with
Beliall
:
Sith
so
manie
shamefull
and
beastly
sinnes
,
flowe
and
raigne
in
them
,
which
are
so
many
partakinges
of
the
Diuelishe
nature
,
let
them
for
shame
denye
that
they
haue
ought
wherein
they
communicate
with
GOD
,
in
anye
thing
sauing
a
bare
profession
.
Then
what
is
it
which
maketh
a
good
man
;
The
promises
of
the
Gospell
.
What
is
it
which
bringeth
life
and
saluation
?
The
Gospel
.
Who
are
they
which
haue
imbraced
the
promises
,
&
haue
the
true
and
liuely
faith
:
The
holy
.
Who
are
they
whom
God
hath
called
to
life
eternall
,
to
bee
those
whome
hee
loueth
as
children
,
bearing
his
Image
;
The
pure
and
vndefiled
.
in
the
last
clause
of
this
verse
he
sheweth
his
meaning
very
plainly
,
In
that
,
saieth
hee
yee
flie
the
corruptions
which
are
in
the
world
through
lust
,
this
is
the
way
to
bee
made
partakers
of
the
diuine
nature
,
for
as
corruptions
and
filthie
defilinges
the
more
they
cleaue
vnto
vs
,
the
more
they
separate
vs
from
the
Lord
,
so
contrariwise
the
more
a
man
doeth
flie
and
eschewe
them
,
so
much
the
neerer
hee
doeth
approch
vnto
God
,
who
is
the
fountaine
of
all
puritie
.
We
are
here
to
note
that
S.
Peter
maketh
al
corruption
and
naughtinesse
in
the
worlde
to
spring
out
of
concupiscence
,
or
as
it
is
vsually
translated
,
lust
:
where
wee
must
learne
first
,
what
this
concupiscence
or
lust
is
,
which
is
heere
saide
to
bee
as
it
were
the
seate
of
sinne
,
and
indeede
it
is
the
roote
and
fountaine
,
out
of
which
groweth
&
floweth
al
euill
that
is
committed
in
the
world
,
either
in
thought
,
worde
,
or
deede
:
to
be
short
,
this
is
that
which
is
forbidden
in
the
tenth
commandement
,
when
he
saith
,
Thou
shalt
not
couer
:
at
least
so
much
of
it
is
forbidden
there
,
as
pertaineth
to
the
second
table
,
that
is
the
roote
&
fountaine
of
all
euil
against
men
,
for
there
is
nothing
recited
in
the
same
last
commandement
,
but
towarde
men
:
&
when
our
Sauiour
Christ
setteth
foorth
the
summe
of
the
first
table
,
hee
saith
it
is
to
loue
the
Lorde
with
all
the
heart
,
with
al
the
soule
,
&c.
Now
where
the
whole
hart
is
required
,
there
concupiscence
must
needs
be
forbidden
:
but
ye
wil
say
,
what
is
it
;
wherin
doth
it
consist
?
It
is
not
in
deeds
,
words
,
nor
thoughts
,
but
a
more
close
&
inward
sicknes
,
bred
as
they
say
,
in
the
bones
,
the
natural
blot
&
spot
of
originall
sinne
,
which
we
haue
by
inheritance
,
from
our
first
parents
,
&
bring
with
vs
out
of
our
mothers
womb
,
out
of
which
al
euil
thoughts
&
desires
do
arise
in
vs
.
S.
Iames
in
the
first
chap.
of
his
Epistle
maketh
it
the
wombe
&
mother
which
conceiueth
&
bringeth
forth
sinne
:
Let
no
man
(
saith
hee
)
when
he
is
tempted
,
say
,
I
am
tempted
of
God
,
for
God
cannot
be
tempted
with
euill
,
neither
tempteth
he
any
man
,
but
euery
one
is
tempted
when
he
is
drawne
away
by
his
own
concupiscence
,
&
is
entised
:
them
lust
when
it
hath
conceiued
,
bringeth
forth
sinne
,
&
sinne
when
it
is
finished
bringeth
forth
death
.
The
first
thing
we
haue
here
to
note
in
this
doctrine
is
this
:
that
all
corruption
is
of
our selues
,
not
comming
from
any
outward
cause
:
it
is
true
that
Satan
is
an
instrument
,
&
as
it
were
the
bellowes
to
stirre
and
kindle
in
vs
the
lustes
of
sinne
,
and
beareth
a
very
great
stroke
in
the
matter
:
but
if
it
were
not
for
this
concupiscence
that
is
in
vs
,
hee
coulde
not
bring
his
matters
to
passe
,
the
prouocations
and
alurementes
of
wicked
men
,
are
so
many
meanes
to
driue
vs
and
draw
vs
into
sinne
,
but
yet
the
cause
is
in
our selues
.
A
chiefe
point
to
bee
obserued
that
wee
may
learne
to
condemne
our selues
when
wee
haue
done
amisse
,
and
not
after
the
maner
of
men
,
which
looke
when
they
haue
faulted
howe
they
may
disburthen
themselues
,
and
be
discharged
of
the
blame
,
and
therefore
they
will
either
crie
out
of
the
Diuell
,
as
though
hee
,
as
they
say
,
ought
them
a
shame
,
or
els
they
will
say
,
woe
worth
such
or
suche
that
euer
I
knew
them
,
if
it
had
not
been
for
them
,
I
should
not
haue
done
thus
.
The
Prophete
Dauid
when
hee
had
committed
murther
and
adultery
,
being
reprooued
by
Nathan
,
although
hee
knewe
rightwel
that
the
Diuel
was
a
great
furtherer
in
the
matter
:
likewise
hee
might
haue
thought
vpon
the
fonde
dealing
of
the
woman
,
which
so
indiscretly
washed
her selfe
in
such
a
place
as
others
might
see
her
:
yet
hee
letteth
these
goe
,
and
to
the
ende
hee
may
wholy
and
fully
condemne
himself
,
he
looketh
home
to
the
welspring
of
all
this
foule
and
beastly
sinne
,
and
saith
,
Beholde
I
was
borne
in
wickednesse
,
and
in
sinne
hath
my
mother
conceiued
mee
:
as
if
he
shoulde
say
,
O
Lorde
,
I
cannot
seeke
any
way
to
be
excused
,
for
all
this
rebellion
against
thee
,
is
conceiued
and
bred
in
mine
owne
corrupt
brest
,
I
brought
the
roote
of
it
from
my
mothers
wombe
.
This
is
a
good
lession
for
vs
to
learne
:
for
so
long
as
wee
doe
not
knowe
it
,
but
like
partial
and
corrupt
Iudges
go
about
to
excuse
our selues
,
&
to
rid
our
hands
of
that
we
haue
committed
,
we
shal
neuer
come
to
any
sincere
repentance
.
Further
,
weare
here
to
obserue
in
this
place
that
al
corruption
comming
from
this
lust
,
if
wee
will
repent
indeede
,
wee
must
begin
heere
.
For
if
they
bee
changed
onely
in
their
outwarde
deedes
and
wordes
,
and
this
inward
sicknes
not
healed
,
they
haue
gained
nothing
,
no
more
than
a
man
which
would
destroy
a
tree
,
and
doth
no
more
then
loppe
&
shred
of
certaine
boughes
and
twigges
,
leauing
the
stumpe
and
roote
behynde
:
for
so
long
as
this
doth
liue
in
them
,
they
may
well
seeme
in
the
eyes
of
men
,
to
bee
very
great
conuerts
,
if
they
bee
ignorant
idiots
,
are
become
suche
as
haue
gotten
some
skill
and
knowledge
:
from
drunkardes
,
ruffians
,
adulterers
,
and
suche
like
,
they
become
sober
and
modest
,
and
of
good
behauiour
:
as
this
may
bee
done
before
men
,
and
yet
the
hart
nothing
altered
before
God
:
for
there
bee
many
causes
which
may
mooue
men
to
seeme
outwardlye
to
bee
godly
,
when
the
hearte
within
is
fraught
with
loathsome
lustes
,
and
full
of
rotten
corruptions
,
whiche
make
men
still
altogether
abhominable
before
God
.
To
bee
short
therefore
a
man
shall
neuet
rightly
iudge
of
him selfe
whether
hee
haue
repented
,
vnlesse
hee
looke
to
the
bottome
of
this
sore
,
that
it
may
be
healed
.
The
greatest
multitude
of
men
,
being
as
blind
as
beetles
in
this
point
,
imagine
that
repentance
,
is
a
very
light
&
easie
thing
,
which
they
can
haue
when
they
list
:
when
a
man
of
wisdome
saith
this
,
that
here
lieth
so
deep
a
matter
,
that
heere
be
rootes
which
are
hard
to
be
pulled
vp
,
hee
is
moued
to
bee
the
more
carefull
,
least
he
deceiue
himselfe
.
Looke
therefore
euery
man
to
his
thoughts
,
for
by
them
is
the
trial
made
:
if
the
thoughts
be
changed
,
&
the
inward
desires
altered
,
so
that
of
prophane
and
worldly
,
they
are
become
holy
and
heauenly
:
then
hee
may
boldly
say
,
I
haue
a
newe
hearte
,
and
there
is
a
right
spirite
renued
in
mee
,
I
haue
repented
,
I
haue
not
plaide
the
hypocrite
,
I
feele
an
vpright
heart
toward
God
,
I
feele
the
corrupt
fountaine
stopped
,
so
that
the
filthy
matter
,
and
stinking
mudde
doeth
not
boyle
foorth
as
it
did
.
It
may
also
bee
demaunded
heere
,
whether
this
iuste
bee
not
a
sinne
or
a
corruption
of
it selfe
,
because
S.
Peter
saith
,
that
corruption
resteth
in
it
.
The
place
which
I
alleadged
out
of
the
51.
Psalme
,
doeth
prooue
it
to
bee
a
sinne
:
also
it
may
bee
proued
out
of
the
fifth
to
the
Romans
,
Where
Saint
Paule
proueth
that
infants
haue
sinne
,
because
they
are
subiect
to
death
,
which
is
the
reward
of
sinne
,
although
as
hee
saith
,
they
sinne
not
after
the
similitude
of
the
transgression
of
Adam
.
Therefore
if
wee
had
none
other
but
this
,
it
were
enough
to
condemne
vs
,
and
vtterly
to
cast
vs
away
.
Let
vs
neuer
cease
therefore
,
vntill
wee
feele
a
change
in
our selues
,
euen
in
this
secrete
infection
,
for
otherwise
wee
shall
neuer
bee
able
to
flie
the
corruptions
whiche
are
in
the
world
,
or
as
Saint
Iames
speaketh
in
the
first
Chapter
of
his
Epistle
,
to
keepe
our selues
vnspotted
of
the
worlde
,
so
long
as
wee
carie
the
corrupt
world
in
our
own
brest
:
neither
shal
our
religion
be
pure
,
for
thus
it
is
saide
,
if
any
man
among
you
seemeth
religious
and
refraineth
not
his
tongue
,
but
deceiueth
his
owne
hearte
,
this
mans
religion
is
vaine
.
Pure
religion
and
vndefiled
before
God
,
euen
the
father
is
this
,
to
visite
the
fatherlesse
and
widowes
in
their
distresse
,
and
to
keepe
himselfe
vnspotted
of
the
worlde
.
The
seconde
Sermon
vpon
the
5.
6.
and
7.
verses
.
5
Therfore
giue
euen
al
diligence
thervnto
,
ioyne
moreouer
vertue
with
your
faith
:
&
with
vertue
knowledge
:
6
And
with
knowledge
,
temperaunce
:
and
with
temperaunce
,
patience
:
and
with
patience
,
godlines
:
7
And
with
godlines
,
brotherly
kindenesse
:
and
with
brotherly
kindnes
,
loue
.
ANd
hereunto
giue
al
diligence
,
&c.
He
hath
declared
in
the
former
verses
,
among
other
chief
matters
:
this
one
especiallv
,
to
howe
great
holinesse
and
purenesse
through
sanctification
,
we
be
called
:
which
was
chiefly
expressed
in
these
wordes
,
that
by
them
yee
may
bee
made
partakers
of
the
diuine
nature
,
in
that
yee
flie
the
corruption
which
is
in
the
worlde
through
lust
:
vnto
this
now
he
ioyneth
an
exhortation
,
requiring
at
their
handes
not
only
to
put
to
their
diligence
,
but
also
,
as
hee
saith
,
euen
all
diligence
,
For
as
it
is
the
greatest
and
chiefest
thing
which
we
are
to
looke
after
,
so
there
is
required
at
our
handes
,
to
giue
our
principal
care
and
studie
thereunto
:
this
equitie
must
easily
be
graunted
,
that
if
we
cannot
obteine
or
get
the
thinges
of
this
life
,
which
are
small
in
comparison
,
vnlesse
wee
put
to
our
diligence
,
for
God
will
haue
it
to
bee
so
,
that
then
of
good
right
▪
looke
howe
much
heauenly
things
exceede
in
dignitie
,
the
earthly
,
so
much
must
the
care
and
diligence
bestowed
vpon
them
exceed
.
How
far
almost
are
all
men
from
this
doctrine
both
in
practise
and
iudgement
:
first
,
when
we
see
the
exceeding
trauel
&
paines
which
they
sticke
not
willingly
to
bestowe
,
in
getting
the
beggerly
trash
of
this
world
,
either
riches
or
honours
:
they
wil
ryde
and
run
,
early
and
late
by
night
and
by
day
,
by
sea
and
by
land
,
winter
and
sommen
,
wearing
out
their
bodies
,
almost
pine
and
sterue
themselues
with
hunger
and
bearing
their
braines
with
as
great
diligence
as
can
be
possible
:
but
when
it
commeth
to
these
things
which
S.
Peter
speaketh
,
as
things
of
no
price
,
they
pass
by
them
,
in
such
wise
,
that
they
are
here
euen
as
slouthfull
and
carelesse
,
as
they
are
diligent
in
the
other
.
For
iudgement
in
this
behalfe
,
if
a
man
talke
with
these
worldly
men
,
they
wil
shew
their
minde
and
opinion
,
aske
them
why
they
bee
so
careful
for
these
worldly
things
,
their
an
swere
is
readie
,
wee
shal
otherwise
come
short
of
them
,
and
go
without
them
:
&
why
do
ye
not
seeke
as
fast
for
heauenly
thinges
,
they
be
the
greatest
:
they
be
in
deede
the
greatest
,
but
we
commit
that
to
God
,
wee
wil
not
meddle
with
that
.
Thus
they
shift
off
the
care
of
godlines
,
as
though
god
did
not
require
it
at
their
hands
:
neuer
hearing
of
this
which
S.
Peter
requireth
:
wee
must
take
heede
of
this
,
giuing
eare
to
god
,
who
teacheth
vs
this
lesson
by
the
holy
Apostle
:
for
if
we
let
this
passe
,
we
are
most
miserable
:
here
also
when
wee
are
warned
to
giue
al
diligence
,
appeareth
plainely
howe
harde
a
thing
it
is
to
flie
from
corrupt
lustes
:
for
if
it
were
an
easie
thing
to
be
done
lesse
diligence
might
serue
:
but
sinne
cleaueth
neere
and
sticketh
fast
in
vs
,
&
is
not
easily
shaken
of
:
it
is
deepely
rooted
,
so
that
vnlesse
we
digge
very
deepe
,
wee
are
sure
to
leaue
the
rootes
stil
behinde
,
which
wil
growe
&
spring
againe
as
fast
as
before
,
yea
oftentimes
seeming
to
bee
dead
,
they
sodeinly
reuiue
:
so
that
wee
are
set
a
worke
while
we
liue
heere
without
any
intermission
,
to
be
still
toyling
to
pul
vp
these
weedes
,
the
ground
is
so
ranke
,
that
in
a
very
short
time
it
will
bee
wholy
ouergrowne
.
Therefore
such
as
despise
the
meanes
which
God
hath
appointed
,
or
vse
them
ouer
negligently
,
must
needes
haue
their
heart
ouer
growne
with
these
stinking
weeds
of
lust
and
concupiscence
:
and
so
if
euer
there
be
any
good
seed
in
them
,
as
good
motions
or
inclinations
to
feare
God
,
they
are
by
and
by
choked
,
so
that
they
can
bring
foorth
no
fruite
,
or
at
least
no
ripe
and
timely
fruite
.
But
heere
may
be
obiected
,
that
this
agreeth
not
with
the
former
saying
,
that
the
diuine
power
hath
giuen
vs
al
thinges
which
pertaine
to
life
and
godlinesse
,
there
hee
ascribeth
all
to
God
,
and
taketh
all
from
vs
,
heere
he
seemeth
to
giue
somewhat
vnto
our
diligence
,
and
so
to
establishe
freewill
in
vs
.
We
must
answere
here
that
God
worketh
al
in
al
,
&
alone
striketh
the
stroke
,
yet
he
doeth
not
worke
in
vs
,
as
the
carpenter
or
Mason
worketh
vpon
the
log
and
the
stone
,
which
haue
no
feeling
of
that
which
is
done
vpon
them
,
and
therfore
nothing
of
them
is
required
:
but
we
haue
a
wil
in
vs
&
reason
,
which
of
them selues
beeing
corrupt
,
doe
nothing
but
hinder
this
worke
,
vntill
suche
time
as
god
hath
fashioned
them
anew
;
we
haue
appetites
&
affections
in
vs
,
but
of
them selues
meere
rebels
:
these
he
●…eth
and
subdueth
.
So
that
this
worke
of
God
in
vs
,
is
not
without
a
feeling
of
it
,
for
hee
moueth
vs
to
wil
,
to
desire
,
to
sorow
,
to
reioyce
,
&
such
like
,
so
that
our
diligence
is
required
,
because
he
worketh
in
none
but
he
doth
make
them
diligent
;
heere
is
stil
then
that
which
God
doth
bestow
vpon
vs
▪
and
not
that
which
we
haue
of
ourselues
.
By
this
place
al
those
are
answered
,
which
cloke
and
defende
themselues
in
then
naughtinesse
and
slouth
in
the
seruice
of
God
,
after
this
manner
:
we
haue
that
which
God
hath
giuen
vs
,
all
men
are
not
alike
godlye
,
euerie
man
cannot
doe
as
you
doe
:
when
their
own
heart
and
conscience
doeth
tell
euery
of
them
the
contrary
,
saying
,
thou
art
carelesse
,
and
negligent
,
thou
hast
as
much
as
thou
desirest
:
for
God
doth
increase
all
gifts
and
graces
in
those
which
vse
al
diligence
in
seeking
after
him
.
Let
vs
learne
therefore
,
brethren
,
to
put
in
practise
al
those
thinges
which
are
heere
taught
,
to
giue
greater
diligence
,
and
so
beate
our
braine
more
earnestly
about
heauenly
thinges
,
then
about
these
earthly
,
to
labour
&
trauell
more
for
godlines
,
then
for
treasures
and
riches
.
Which
if
we
do
,
we
shall
feele
increase
of
strength
to
cast
out
corrupt
lusts
,
although
not
so
much
as
faine
we
would
,
yet
God
being
true
wee
shall
haue
so
much
that
wee
cannot
faile
nor
misse
of
our
desire
.
It
foloweth
,
ioyne
moreouer
vertue
with
your
faith
,
&c.
Saint
Peter
knoweth
what
babes
we
be
,
how
vnable
to
guide
our
steppes
in
the
pathes
of
godlines
,
and
that
maketh
him
not
onlie
to
mooue
and
persuade
to
godlines
,
but
euen
as
it
were
taking
vs
by
the
hande
,
and
teaching
vs
howe
to
treade
euery
steppe
,
hee
rehearseth
particulerlye
the
thinges
wherein
wee
are
to
trauell
,
when
he
saith
,
Ioyne
moreouer
with
your
faith
,
vertue
,
with
vertue
knowledge
,
with
knowledge
,
temperaunce
,
with
temperaunce
,
patience
,
with
patience
,
godlines
,
and
with
godlinesse
,
brotherly
kindenesse
,
and
with
brotherly
kindnesse
loue
.
Faith
heere
is
set
in
the
first
place
,
vnto
which
all
the
other
must
beeioyned
,
because
without
it
wee
cannot
by
any
meanes
please
God
,
it
doth
iustifie
vs
be
fore
god
alone
,
but
yet
it
doth
not
go
alone
,
neither
is
it
dead
and
fruitlesse
,
for
these
things
do
accompany
the
same
.
In
the
next
place
therefore
,
he
coupleth
vnto
this
,
vertue
,
which
is
generally
put
for
all
the
fruites
of
faith
,
and
all
the
duties
of
a
godly
life
.
These
cannot
bee
wanting
,
but
by
and
by
it
must
needs
folow
,
that
the
faith
is
a
dead
faith
,
not
able
to
iustifie
vs
before
God
,
nor
to
giue
life
:
it
cannot
indeede
bee
rightly
termed
any
other
then
a
shadowe
or
dumbe
picture
of
faith
,
whiche
may
carie
some
shewe
and
colour
of
that
which
it
resembleth
.
Euen
as
wee
see
some
painter
so
skilful
,
that
he
can
cast
such
colours
in
painting
fire
,
that
at
the
first
blush
it
might
make
a
man
iudge
it
to
be
fire
in
deede
:
but
if
a
man
holde
his
hand
to
it
,
to
feele
for
some
heate
,
and
to
make
triall
by
the
effectes
,
a
childe
will
be
able
to
iudge
easily
,
that
it
is
but
a
dead
image
,
because
the
effectes
are
wanting
.
Euen
so
there
be
very
many
men
,
as
cunning
as
any
painter
,
to
make
a
shew
of
faith
,
through
great
bragges
and
vaunts
,
that
God
is
their
God
,
&
that
they
al
put
their
whole
trust
in
him
,
that
they
looke
to
be
saued
as
well
as
the
best
,
yea
though
but
a
few
,
yet
they
hope
to
bee
of
the
number
of
those
.
Let
vs
looke
therefore
that
we
be
not
deceiued
here
,
let
not
the
outwarde
appearaunce
beguile
vs
,
but
let
vs
come
to
the
true
triall
,
if
there
be
as
much
vertue
in
their
life
,
as
there
was
heate
in
the
foresaide
fire
,
then
knowe
that
it
is
euen
as
good
a
faith
,
as
that
is
a
fire
.
For
yee
maye
as
well
separate
fire
from
the
heate
thereof
,
as
faith
from
good
and
godly
vertues
,
which
are
the
fruits
therof-What
shal
then
bee
saide
of
all
those
from
whom
do
flow
so
many
filthie
sins
,
that
scarce
at
any
time
doeth
appeare
in
them
,
so
much
as
a
shadowe
of
vertue
?
they
cannot
deceiue
any
wise
man
,
much
lesse
shall
they
bee
able
to
deceiue
God
,
Let
euery
one
therefore
take
heede
that
hee
deceiue
not
himselfe
,
to
thinke
that
he
is
richly
indued
with
faith
,
when
hee
is
so
poore
in
vertue
,
for
if
the
latter
abound
,
wee
are
sure
the
former
doth
also
abounde
.
For
wee
must
trie
our
faith
by
our
vertues
.
Next
he
willeth
to
ioyne
knowledge
vnto
vertue
.
These
three
are
general
,
faith
,
vertue
,
&
knowledge
,
and
are
so
lincked
together
,
that
they
cannot
be
sundered
.
For
faith
is
not
a
blind
fantasie
whiche
man
doeth
imagine
of
his
owne
braine
,
but
it
is
begun
in
the
right
knowledge
of
Gods
will
,
and
increaseth
and
groweth
by
the
same
:
it
is
also
the
rule
and
square
to
measure
and
guide
al
vertue
by
:
for
we
must
not
thinke
,
that
that
is
good
which
seemeth
so
vnto
our
reason
,
but
that
which
God
in
his
reuealed
will
hath
called
good
:
vnlesse
therefore
vertue
did
growe
in
vs
,
wee
cannot
haue
it
,
before
wee
become
skilfull
,
and
haue
learned
it
out
of
the
woorde
of
God
.
For
this
cause
the
Apostle
mouing
these
excellent
men
to
increase
in
godlinesse
,
sheweth
them
the
way
,
when
hee
willeth
them
to
increase
in
knoweledge
.
Nowe
if
wee
marke
well
,
what
manner
of
men
they
were
to
whome
hee
wrote
,
namelye
,
no
babes
nor
youngelinges
in
the
Gospel
,
for
hee
saide
they
had
obteined
like
precious
faith
with
him
,
and
after
warde
in
this
Chapter
hee
saieth
,
they
did
knowe
and
were
stablished
in
the
present
truth
:
wee
shall
easily
perceiue
howe
this
may
stop
the
mouthes
of
many
,
which
holde
blinde
errors
.
First
of
al
of
those
,
which
affirme
that
ignorance
is
the
mother
of
deuotion
,
if
godlinesse
and
vertue
be
the
true
deuotion
,
then
it
must
needes
folowe
,
that
their
doctrine
is
false
and
diuelishe
,
seeing
we
are
charged
to
ioine
vnto
our
vertue
knowledge
:
it
is
true
if
they
mean
Popishe
deuotion
,
for
they
coulde
neuer
haue
kept
men
in
awe
,
to
be
zealous
of
their
religion
,
and
to
seeke
for
that
at
the
handes
of
men
,
which
God
alone
doeth
giue
,
vnlesse
they
had
kept
them
in
blindnesse
and
ignorance
:
and
therefore
they
tooke
a
wise
way
,
to
keepe
the
people
from
knowing
the
worde
,
which
so
soone
as
it
brake
foorth
againe
,
disclosed
all
their
falshood
and
treacherye
,
in
so
muche
that
neither
good
nor
bad
almost
,
haue
any
deuotion
vnto
them
.
Secondly
of
those
,
which
although
they
bee
not
rancke
Papistes
,
yet
haue
in
them
still
a
smacke
and
sauour
of
Popish
principles
:
and
therfore
like
fooles
,
are
also
enemies
vnto
knowledge
.
For
thus
they
speake
,
it
were
no
matter
if
there
were
lesse
preaching
,
I
thinke
the
people
bee
the
woorse
for
it
,
there
is
knowledge
euen
enough
,
what
should
laye
men
bee
troubled
to
learne
,
or
to
seeke
for
the
knoweledge
of
the
Scriptures
let
them
tende
their
woorke
,
and
looke
to
their
occupations
,
and
learne
to
bee
quiet
,
and
to
deale
honestlye
:
against
these
poore
blinde
beastes
,
(
for
I
may
vse
no
gentle
speeche
)
wee
are
to
reason
out
of
this
place
:
first
that
all
men
,
knowe
they
neuer
so
muche
,
are
heere
commaunded
to
increase
in
knowledge
,
to
the
ende
they
may
increase
in
faith
and
godlinesse
.
Secondly
,
let
them
consider
to
what
manner
of
menne
Saint
Peter
wrote
,
namelye
,
to
poore
and
riche
men
,
women
and
children
,
to
al
sortes
,
and
to
bee
short
,
to
as
manie
as
woulde
haue
Faith
and
vertue
,
and
so
come
to
life
and
glorye
,
and
therefore
as
well
the
poore
ploughman
,
as
the
greate
Clarke
is
commanded
to
increase
his
knowledge
out
of
Gods
booke
:
Thirdlye
,
they
muche
ouershoote
them selues
,
when
they
woulde
beare
them
in
hande
,
that
knowledge
,
whiche
is
the
guider
of
vertue
,
shoulde
bee
the
cause
of
vice
:
Naye
,
if
wee
wipe
our
eyes
,
and
looke
better
to
the
matter
,
wee
shall
see
,
that
there
is
a
sloodde
of
ignoraunce
,
whiche
hath
almost
ouer
whelmed
all
,
and
in
many
whiche
seeme
to
know
very
muche
,
if
they
were
sounded
to
the
bottome
,
there
should
be
found
in
them
grosse
ignorance
,
and
palpable
darknes
:
and
so
in
deede
the
true
cause
of
al
foule
sinnes
,
which
abound
at
this
day
among
vs
,
and
flowe
euen
as
a
swelling
Sea
,
is
the
want
of
true
knowledge
.
This
ignoraunce
hath
taken
such
roote
,
that
all
they
which
haue
made
proofe
,
will
confesse
with
mee
,
that
our
time
is
like
the
time
of
the
prophete
Esaie
,
28.
who
hauing
laboured
himselfe
as
it
were
out
of
breathe
in
teaching
,
and
seeing
so
smal
profiting
,
beeing
commaunded
of
the
Lorde
stil
to
go
to
his
businesse
,
bursteth
foorth
into
these
speeches
:
whom
shall
I
teache
knowledge
?
whome
shall
I
make
for
to
vnderstande
?
them
that
are
wained
from
the
milke
,
and
drawne
from
the
brestes
?
for
precept
must
bee
vppon
precept
,
precept
vppon
precept
,
line
vnto
line
,
line
vnto
line
,
a
litle
here
,
and
a
litle
there
.
And
in
an
other
place
,
hee
saith
,
the
woorde
of
the
Lorde
was
like
a
sealed
booke
,
if
hee
come
to
o●e
,
saying
,
Reade
this
I
pray
you
,
he
make●h
answere
,
I
cannot
reade
,
to
another
that
can
reade
,
hee
answereth
,
I
cannot
,
for
it
is
sealed
.
Furthermore
,
let
these
seely
creatures
learne
of
this
place
to
bee
ashamed
of
that
,
wherein
they
seeme
after
a
sorte
to
glorie
,
when
they
vse
to
saye
,
as
they
thinke
in
defence
of
themselues
,
wee
be
without
skil
,
wee
haue
no
knowledge
,
wee
bee
poore
honest
men
,
wee
haue
no
learning
:
it
is
as
much
as
to
say
,
we
haue
no
faith
,
we
haue
no
vertue
,
wee
haue
no
godlinesse
:
for
wee
bee
plainely
taught
heere
that
faith
,
vertue
,
and
knowledge
,
must
increase
and
growe
vpp
together
.
Let
vs
al
print
this
lesson
deepely
in
our
mindes
,
that
it
may
driue
vs
to
make
haste
to
come
out
of
our
ignorance
,
and
to
seeke
apace
after
knowledge
.
Let
vs
take
heede
of
flattering
our selues
as
some
other
doe
,
whiche
hauing
gotten
some
skil
,
or
at
leaste
thinke
that
they
haue
sette
very
light
by
the
publike
teaching
of
the
word
,
they
do
excuse
them
sel●es
after
this
sort
,
I
thanke
God
,
I
am
not
of
the
ignorant
sorte
,
nor
of
the
meanest
iudgement
,
I
know
somewhat
,
let
them
hunte
after
preaching
that
neede
,
it
is
very
good
for
them
,
as
for
mee
,
I
am
sufficiently
acquainted
with
the
matter
alreadie
:
this
kinde
of
men
are
harde
too
deale
withall
,
because
they
bee
wise
in
their
owne
conceite
,
and
not
in
the
Lorde
,
for
if
they
had
once
but
euen
a
litle
tasted
of
true
knowledge
,
of
the
sweetnesse
and
power
therof
,
they
woulde
neuer
haue
enough
of
the
first
sponeful
,
if
they
had
an
healthful
stomacke
,
they
could
neuer
be
brought
so
soone
to
loath
,
&
as
it
were
to
vomit
vp
againe
,
so
wholesome
sustenaunce
.
But
let
vs
learne
heere
,
that
when
our
knowledge
is
growne
to
bee
neuer
so
great
,
because
we
knowe
but
in
part
,
and
we
know
nothing
as
we
ought
to
know
,
as
Saynte
Paule
saith
,
euen
then
wee
are
to
giue
all
diligence
,
to
ioyne
to
our
vertue
,
knowledge
,
vnlesse
when
wee
haue
begunne
and
proceeded
so
farre
,
wee
minde
to
fal
backe
againe
.
This
place
doth
plainly
set
foorth
the
woeful
and
miserable
state
of
those
whiche
b●e
without
teaching
,
or
haue
it
in
so
scanty
a
measure
,
that
they
come
almost
to
no
vnderstanding
:
they
are
meerie
and
thinke
all
is
wel
,
and
thinke
themselues
best
,
when
they
are
least
dealt
withall
,
but
iudge
righteous
iudgement
,
whiche
the
Lorde
by
his
Apostle
teacheth
vs
to
iudge
,
and
wee
shall
see
,
that
their
myrth
is
nothing
els
,
but
a
madde
laughter
,
euen
in
the
middest
of
feareful
and
horrible
destruction
.
Vnto
knowledge
ioyne
temperaunce
,
&c.
Or
continence
,
for
so
the
worde
whiche
Saint
Peter
vseth
,
may
be
translated
.
But
what
doth
he
meane
,
hauing
bidden
vs
to
ioyne
vertue
,
to
faith
;
Againe
as
though
he
had
forgotten
himself
,
to
expresse
certaine
seueral
kindes
of
vertues
,
which
he
wil
haue
vs
to
ioyne
to
the
former
,
when
as
indeed
,
the
worde
Vertue
conteineth
them
al.
We
may
not
thinke
but
that
hee
is
very
wel
aduised
,
and
that
he
knoweth
with
whom
he
hath
to
doe
,
what
babes
and
children
wee
are
which
must
not
haue
meat
set
before
vs
in
grosse
to
bee
our
owne
Caruers
,
but
it
must
bee
mynced
too
our
handes
,
wee
must
also
bee
fedde
as
it
were
by
spoonfuls
.
For
this
cause
he
did
not
content
himselfe
to
exhort
in
general
vnto
vertue
,
but
also
to
name
and
pointe
vs
out
certaine
chiefe
branches
,
which
wee
must
especially
labour
about
,
for
vnlesse
God
shoulde
deale
with
vs
in
this
wise
,
so
vaine
are
wee
,
that
we
should
wander
and
roue
,
as
it
were
in
a
wide
fielde
,
and
neuer
come
nigh
the
mark
or
at
least
in
looking
after
some
one
vertue
or
other
,
forget
and
let
goe
,
the
chiefe
and
principal
.
For
wee
see
many
that
can
rowle
in
their
mouth
the
name
of
vertue
and
godlinesse
,
and
nothing
almost
but
vertue
,
vertue
,
as
though
they
woulde
persuade
men
,
that
their
garden
did
growe
ful
of
such
hearbes
,
but
when
wee
come
to
this
particuler
examination
,
to
looke
for
this
vertue
and
that
,
in
steed
of
these
sweete
hearbes
,
wee
shall
finde
nothinge
but
stinking
weedes
.
Heere
is
a
great
parte
of
our
diligence
and
wisedome
,
therefore
,
that
when
wee
studie
for
vertue
and
godlinesse
,
and
when
we
cal
vpon
the
Lord
for
gifts
,
we
search
out
euery
part
,
and
branche
,
least
wee
be
ouerseene
in
some
special
pointe
,
and
leaste
while
wee
seeke
to
increase
one
vertue
,
another
decay
in
vs
,
for
that
shal
come
to
passe
,
if
we
cast
not
our
eies
diligently
on
euery
side
,
and
so
oftentimes
wee
rather
loose
then
gaine
,
rather
go
backwarde
then
forwarde
.
Out
of
the
negligence
in
this
point
of
doctrine
,
or
for
want
of
knowledge
in
it
,
men
grow
into
securitie
,
&
a
very
litle
contenteth
them
,
yea
though
it
be
but
euen
some
shew
of
vertue
,
and
slouthfully
they
shuffle
of
the
matter
:
a
thing
greatly
to
be
taken
heed
vnto
.
Because
,
out
of
al
question
,
it
is
that
which
hath
caused
diuers
forwarde
men
,
in
continuance
of
time
as
it
were
gathering
rust
,
to
become
slacke
:
if
wee
haue
desire
therefore
to
continue
,
let
vs
learne
to
put
this
lesson
in
practise
.
But
why
doth
he
wil
vs
to
ioyne
temperance
or
continence
with
knowledge
,
it
should
seeme
that
he
had
no
regarde
of
anie
affinitie
in
matching
these
thinges
together
,
for
temperance
is
conuersant
about
pleasures
and
delightes
:
Yes
verily
,
wee
shal
plainely
see
,
that
there
is
great
cause
for
which
he
ioyneth
,
euery
one
of
these
vertues
together
.
And
first
to
beginne
with
this
,
ye
are
to
note
that
continencie
is
not
conuersant
alone
,
about
the
delights
of
the
bodie
,
but
also
of
the
mind
:
so
that
in
seeking
knowledge
,
which
we
must
doe
very
eagerly
,
we
are
to
take
heede
of
these
extreemes
which
are
contrary
to
a
continent
mind
,
eyther
to
bee
so
wauering
,
that
euery
puffe
do
driue
vs
from
the
manifest
truth
,
or
els
on
the
other
side
to
be
so
stiffe
,
&
so
wilfully
wedded
to
our
owne
iudgement
,
that
wee
wil
stande
in
defence
of
that
which
we
haue
once
liked
,
and
not
admit
any
reason
to
the
contrarie
:
both
these
are
contrary
to
a
continent
mind
:
and
both
of
them
enemies
to
true
knowledge
.
Therefore
we
are
warned
heere
in
our
diligent
searche
for
knowledge
,
to
take
heede
that
when
wee
haue
learned
the
truth
,
wee
continue
stedfast
and
vnmoueable
in
it
,
not
to
bee
tossed
to
and
fro
,
as
some
vnstable
mindes
are
,
who
when
they
haue
beene
taught
the
truthe
,
the
least
doubt
that
is
raised
against
it
,
causeth
them
by
&
by
to
shake
,
&
to
feare
whether
they
be
in
the
righte
way
or
no
,
also
wee
must
take
heede
of
that
stiffenesse
,
which
causeth
some
to
speake
when
it
were
better
for
them
too
heare
:
&
to
be
heard
aloft
,
when
a
lower
voyce
might
serue
them
better
:
far
from
the
counsel
of
S.
Iames
who
willeth
vs
to
be
swift
to
heare
,
and
slow
to
speake
.
Let
vs
be
sure
our
knowledge
be
wel
grounded
,
before
we
setle
our selues
to
continewe
in
it
:
least
in
steede
of
heaping
vp
golde
,
wee
fil
our
chests
with
nothing
but
drosse
.
Also
wee
must
beware
,
that
wee
bend
our
studie
for
the
knowledge
of
these
pointes
which
serue
to
increase
godlines
,
and
true
edifying
.
For
many
seeke
for
knowledge
,
but
their
vayne
braine
,
doth
carie
them
to
seeke
after
curious
questions
,
and
too
let
passe
those
thinges
,
which
shoulde
doe
them
most
good
:
and
this
is
a
sore
and
grieuous
sicknesse
in
men
,
as
the
questions
they
commonly
moue
,
doe
shewe
.
Hee
addeth
,
To
temperance
ioyne
patience
.
This
also
may
seeme
to
bee
somewhat
strange
,
but
if
wee
looke
well
vnto
it
,
we
then
shal
perceiue
the
meaning
more
plainely
:
patience
is
not
only
requisite
in
those
which
haue
receiued
the
profession
of
the
Gospel
,
to
beare
and
indure
al
persecutions
&
afflictions
,
which
oftentimes
are
so
raging
,
that
(
except
wee
haue
our
hartes
wel
staied
,
and
seasoned
with
patience
)
wee
shal
be
driuen
to
forsake
,
and
to
forswere
our
knoweledge
:
but
also
it
is
very
requisite
to
be
wel
armed
and
fenced
with
it
,
when
we
shal
haue
to
do
with
those
which
are
absurd
and
grosse
,
and
therefore
it
is
as
a
dagger
to
a
mans
hearte
,
to
heare
al
their
blockish
reasons
against
the
worde
,
to
see
howe
senselesse
they
are
,
when
the
plaine
truth
is
laide
before
them
:
Likewise
their
spiteful
raylinges
,
and
fleeting
mockes
,
which
they
will
vse
:
their
bolde
abusing
of
Gods
worde
,
their
arrogant
presumption
,
which
causeth
them
to
prattle
very
fast
,
euen
they
knowe
not
what
:
or
eles
wee
shall
be
hurled
hither
and
thither
vpon
rockes
,
and
make
shipwracke
of
our
mildenesse
:
and
so
marre
and
disgrace
the
good
cause
,
which
wee
haue
in
hande
.
For
wicked
men
will
iudge
al
to
proceed
of
rancour
&
anger
,
and
ascribe
all
to
choller
,
and
so
by
this
meanes
there
is
procured
some
dishonor
to
God
:
who
should
greatly
be
honored
if
we
could
meekely
(
as
the
Apostle
willeth
)
instruct
those
which
are
contrarie
minded
,
proouing
if
God
at
any
time
wil
giue
them
repentance
,
to
come
out
of
the
snare
of
the
Diuel
of
whome
they
be
holden
captiue
,
to
do
his
wil
:
&
so
to
stop
their
mouthes
,
that
they
cannot
be
able
to
answere
.
The
want
of
this
vertue
oftentimes
bringeth
greate
inconuenience
,
to
the
conference
of
brethren
,
which
should
bring
togither
(
as
it
were
into
one
heape
)
whatsoeuer
euery
one
hath
gleaned
by
himself
,
that
so
the
one
might
supply
the
want
of
the
other
:
but
the
impatience
of
some
is
such
,
that
great
inconuenience
doth
growe
thereby
.
To
conclude
this
matter
,
seing
troubles
are
alotted
vnto
vs
,
&
sufferings
for
the
truth
,
&
that
we
are
subiect
to
so
many
reproches
,
railings
,
taunts
,
&
mocks
,
at
the
hands
of
absurd
&
euil
men
:
who
soeuer
looketh
to
walke
in
the
way
of
knowledge
,
he
must
seeke
to
possesse
his
soule
in
patience
.
It
folowith
,
with
patience
godlines
,
&c.
A
man
may
demand
what
maner
of
order
is
here
vsed
,
in
willing
vs
to
ioyne
godlines
to
patience
,
&
then
to
godlines
,
brotherly
kindnesse
:
is
not
godlines
the
whole
or
the
general
,
&
these
branches
,
are
members
of
it
?
True
it
is
that
this
worde
is
often
vsed
,
generally
to
comprehende
al
goodnesse
,
but
in
this
place
,
it
comprehendeth
but
the
first
table
of
the
lawe
,
wherein
wee
are
willed
to
bee
deuout
or
zealous
:
a
very
necessarie
caueat
to
beware
that
we
doe
not
become
so
patient
,
that
we
forget
to
be
zealous
in
the
Lords
quarrel
:
it
is
as
if
Saint
Peter
should
haue
said
:
I
woulde
not
haue
you
so
meeke
,
as
to
beare
and
put
vp
al
,
I
woulde
haue
you
withal
to
bee
hotte
in
Gods
quarrell
,
forget
not
that
.
For
many
vnder
a
colour
of
a
meeke
patience
,
doe
couer
the
want
of
religion
,
for
if
God
bee
dishonored
,
his
trueth
defaced
,
his
seruants
slaundered
,
they
can
heare
and
see
,
and
yet
bee
as
meeke
as
a
Lambe
:
but
if
themselues
bee
touched
yee
shal
see
them
playe
the
Lions
,
and
of
luke
warme
to
become
fire
hot
,
this
therefore
is
no
patience
which
wanteth
godlinesse
.
Wee
must
learne
then
,
both
with
patience
,
and
meeknes
,
to
deale
in
the
Lords
matters
,
&
also
with
feruent
zeale
:
least
in
steed
of
this
excellent
vertue
of
patience
,
which
was
commended
vnto
vs
,
there
be
nothing
but
a
prophane
vngodlines
&
an
irreligious
mildnesse
,
in
which
at
this
day
moe
do
offend
,
then
through
impatience
:
for
these
Athiests
haue
this
as
an
excuse
very
readily
.
Are
we
not
commanded
to
be
gentle
and
soft
?
Is
it
not
our
duetie
to
maintaine
loue
,
and
charitie
with
our
neighbours
?
Indeede
they
bee
great
swearers
,
and
somtime
they
vse
to
speake
against
gods
worde
,
if
they
be
awry
,
I
think
they
shal
answere
for
themselues
,
if
we
should
gainesay
,
or
seeme
to
reprooue
them
,
they
woulde
not
take
it
wel
,
therefore
I
thinke
good
not
to
disquiet
them
.
Heere
is
nowe
wonderfull
patience
,
these
are
verye
godlye
and
charitable
persons
,
yea
euen
a
treacherie
towardes
GOD
and
men
.
For
is
there
any
of
them
,
which
being
slaundered
with
some
foule
crime
,
whereby
they
should
receiue
great
iniurie
,
or
bee
spitefully
rayled
vppon
,
if
some
of
their
neere
friendes
sitte
by
and
holde
their
tongues
,
when
they
know
they
be
iniuried
,
that
cannot
by
and
by
feele
&
say
,
this
was
cold
friendship
,
that
they
could
not
haue
dealt
so
vnlouingly
towardes
their
friendes
,
by
whome
soeuer
they
should
haue
heard
them
so
abused
,
they
could
not
haue
held
their
tongues
?
Then
belike
God
nor
his
truth
are
none
of
their
deare
friends
,
that
they
can
put
vp
such
iniurie
done
towards
him
.
There
is
plentie
of
this
patience
in
all
places
,
but
godlinesse
cannot
bee
suffered
to
come
neere
,
for
he
is
a
breake
peace
and
a
very
vnpleasant
felow
,
hee
is
ouer
rough
and
precise
,
and
ouer
captious
,
there
was
good
neighbourhood
and
friendshippe
before
he
came
,
they
could
be
merie
together
,
and
bee
in
vnitie
,
without
anye
iarre
:
had
it
not
bene
better
to
vse
gentlenesse
and
patience
,
then
to
haue
this
broyle
?
for
there
is
nothing
better
then
loue
,
and
where
that
is
not
,
there
is
nothing
good
.
O
miserable
daies
!
this
is
the
good
loue
now
among
men
,
that
they
cannot
loue
one
another
,
but
they
must
hate
God
,
to
haue
peace
and
concorde
with
men
to
bee
at
ods
with
God
,
for
mens
sake
,
to
put
vp
the
dishonoring
of
his
name
,
not
to
continue
in
patience
,
vnlesse
godlinesse
bee
wanting
.
The
vngodly
world
,
and
lewde
nature
that
is
in
men
,
taketh
occasion
to
accuse
godly
zeale
,
vnder
this
pretence
:
and
to
finde
fault
with
the
preaching
of
the
worde
,
because
,
say
they
,
it
setteth
men
at
strife
.
But
we
must
learne
in
this
place
to
ioine
godlinesse
with
our
patience
,
for
otherwise
we
shal
be
found
to
be
nothing
els
but
irreligious
and
prophane
dogges
:
although
wee
pretende
loue
neuer
somuch
.
The
time
wil
not
suffer
to
handle
the
rest
,
which
remaineth
in
this
text
.
Let
vs
remember
that
which
hath
beene
said
,
&
giue
all
diligence
to
pursue
these
excellent
vertues
,
that
so
wee
may
approue
our selues
to
be
right
Christians
,
and
looke
for
the
blessed
hope
promised
in
Iesu
Christ
.
The
third
Sermon
.
7
And
with
godlines
,
brotherly
kindnes
,
and
with
brotherly
kindnes
,
loue
.
8
For
if
these
things
be
with
you
and
abound
,
they
will
make
you
that
ye
shal
not
be
idle
,
nor
vnfruitful
,
in
the
knowledge
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
.
9
For
he
that
hath
not
these
thinges
it
blind
and
seeth
not
a
farre
of
,
and
hath
forgotten
that
he
was
purged
from
his
olde
sinnes
.
ANd
with
godlinesse
brotherly
kindnes
,
&c.
Wee
haue
heard
already
,
that
with
our
faith
must
be
ioyned
vertue
or
godly
deedes
,
which
it
cannot
be
without
,
if
it
be
a
true
faith
:
with
vertue
wee
are
commaunded
to
ioyne
knowledge
,
which
may
bee
a
guide
thereunto
,
our
knowledge
must
goe
with
temperance
,
with
this
must
come
patience
,
&
therevnto
must
be
ioined
godlines
.
There
remaine
yet
two
branches
of
these
special
vertues
,
about
which
wee
are
to
trauell
:
the
first
of
these
is
brotherly
loue
or
kindenesse
,
which
must
be
yoked
with
godlines
:
as
I
said
,
that
this
godlines
he
speaketh
of
,
is
referred
to
the
first
table
of
the
law
,
respecting
God
and
his
religion
,
that
wee
bee
sound
and
zelous
in
the
same
,
and
not
as
those
which
are
for
al
times
,
and
al
religions
,
and
therefore
care
not
what
bee
saide
against
religion
,
beeing
very
belliegods
and
Atheists
:
so
this
is
referred
to
the
seconde
table
,
shewing
what
wee
owe
vnto
men
.
This
is
very
fitly
,
and
necessarily
added
,
for
as
there
bee
many
,
which
regarding
men
onely
,
howe
to
please
,
and
not
to
grieue
or
offende
them
,
altogether
forgetting
their
dutie
towards
the
Lord
God
,
and
wholy
shutting
him
out
,
as
thogh
their
chief
care
should
be
of
men
,
let
pas
godlines
:
so
there
bee
some
that
offend
on
the
other
side
,
which
looking
alwaies
so
high
,
as
to
haue
respect
to
the
Lord
,
and
his
trueth
,
to
bee
earnest
and
firie
in
that
,
ouerlooke
men
,
forgetting
the
dueties
which
they
owe
vnto
them
:
the
holye
Apostle
meeteth
with
this
mischief
,
and
telleth
vs
that
we
must
so
loue
God
,
that
we
also
loue
men
:
ioyne
,
saith
hee
,
to
your
godlinesse
,
brotherly
kindnesse
:
for
vnlesse
this
be
ioyned
,
and
goe
with
our
zeale
of
Gods
worde
,
it
is
no
true
godlinesse
,
although
wee
bee
neuer
so
sounde
in
iudgement
and
seeme
to
be
as
hotte
as
Moyses
or
Elias
,
yea
euen
to
be
swallowed
vp
with
burning
zeale
:
for
it
doeth
not
proceede
from
Gods
spirite
,
who
doeth
also
worke
the
loue
towardes
men
wheresoeuer
hee
goeth
:
but
it
doeth
proceede
of
some
corrupt
cause
,
as
of
vaineglorie
,
or
selfe
loue
,
and
such
like
,
and
deserueth
not
indeede
to
bee
called
godly
deuotion
,
no
more
then
the
true
faith
can
be
without
vertue
,
or
deserueth
to
be
called
ought
,
saue
a
shadowe
,
or
Image
of
faith
,
if
it
bee
without
good
workes
:
but
it
is
a
bitternesse
,
which
resembleth
the
true
zeale
,
which
doth
euermore
carrie
with
it
,
a
loue
,
and
care
towardes
men
.
True
it
is
that
to
be
zealous
in
spirite
,
is
a
singular
and
speciall
gift
of
God
,
and
they
which
be
without
it
are
but
brutish
,
&
senslesse
creatures
,
not
knowing
God
,
nor
howe
precious
his
glory
is
:
yet
this
must
be
lo●ed
vnto
in
euerie
one
of
vs
,
whether
we
beare
a
lo●ing
affection
toward
our
brethren
or
no
:
for
if
we
loue
God
,
we
must
needs
loue
men
,
which
beare
his
Image
.
If
we
delight
in
the
worde
of
God
,
this
is
one
chiefe
point
of
doctrine
which
is
taught
in
it
,
that
we
be
louing
and
kind
vnto
men
.
Therefore
as
Saint
Paule
1.
Cor.
13.
sheweth
,
that
very
excellent
giftes
doe
not
profite
without
loue
,
so
likewise
in
this
place
wee
be
taught
,
that
if
wee
woulde
seeme
to
bee
godly
,
and
haue
not
loue
,
it
is
nothing
worth
.
Let
euery
man
therefore
lay
this
doctrine
to
his
hearte
:
that
hee
must
be
earnest
in
the
causes
of
the
Lorde
,
zealous
in
religion
,
preferring
God
and
his
truth
,
before
all
men
,
whosoeuer
,
and
whatsoeuer
they
be
:
but
yet
withal
that
he
must
looke
downe
vnto
men
,
rendring
vnto
them
their
due
also
,
this
doing
hee
may
beholde
hee
is
in
the
right
way
.
Vnto
this
brotherly
loue
wee
bee
charged
to
ioyne
loue
.
It
may
bee
heere
demanded
againe
,
what
manner
of
speeche
this
is
,
which
the
Apostle
doeth
vse
,
for
is
not
brotherly
kindnesse
or
brotherly
loue
,
as
the
word
doth
signifie
,
and
loue
al
one
;
We
must
bee
farre
from
thinking
Saint
Peter
to
deale
with
so
little
heede
,
as
to
wil
vs
to
ioyne
the
very
same
thing
to
the
same
:
wee
must
therefore
seeke
a
difference
betweene
these
two
.
We
may
take
this
difference
,
either
that
the
first
of
these
doth
expresse
what
wee
owe
towards
the
Godly
,
who
be
chiefly
called
the
brethren
,
and
the
latter
what
we
owe
vnto
all
,
both
good
and
bad
:
or
els
the
former
,
doth
signifie
the
inwarde
affection
of
loue
,
and
the
latter
,
the
outward
practise
of
the
same
:
for
the
doctrine
in
both
these
,
is
needful
to
be
opened
.
If
we
take
then
the
former
sense
,
we
be
willed
to
ioine
with
our
loue
towards
the
godly
and
faithful
brethren
(
whom
we
ought
chiefly
,
and
more
dearely
to
fauour
,
)
a
loue
also
which
may
reache
euen
ouer
al
,
good
and
bad
,
friend
and
foe
,
This
Saint
Paule
teacheth
when
he
willeth
vs
to
do
good
to
all
men
,
but
especially
to
them
which
are
of
the
householde
of
faith
.
So
that
we
must
acknowledge
our selues
bounde
,
in
some
sort
,
euen
to
the
wicked
:
according
as
our
Sauiour
doth
teach
,
Math.
5.
Blesse
them
which
curse
you
,
pray
for
them
whiche
hate
and
persecute
you
:
and
Saint
Paul
saith
,
Rom.
12.
If
thine
enemie
hunger
,
feede
him
:
if
he
thirst
,
giue
him
drinke
.
Well
then
,
although
this
bee
very
harde
to
mans
nature
,
yet
the
Lorde
doeth
streightly
require
it
at
our
hands
:
and
so
that
if
this
bee
wanting
,
wee
doe
but
deceiue
our selues
.
If
we
take
it
in
the
latter
sense
,
the
first
worde
to
signifie
the
inward
affection
of
loue
,
the
other
,
the
outward
practise
:
then
we
haue
heere
a
notable
point
to
be
obserued
,
not
to
ouershoote
our selues
in
our
loue
,
in
iudging
it
to
be
right
,
&
sincere
,
when
it
is
halting
,
and
lame
:
for
many
when
they
heare
,
that
we
are
so
straightly
charged
,
for
to
loue
our
neighbours
,
&
that
with
out
the
same
,
there
is
nothing
good
in
vs
,
or
which
God
accepteth
:
looke
no
further
but
thus
,
whether
they
bear
any
grudge
or
euil
wil
in
their
mindes
,
&
if
they
can
say
I
hurt
no
man
,
nor
I
meane
no
hurt
to
any
,
they
persuade
themselues
that
this
is
an
excellent
loue
.
And
so
a
stone
meaning
no
hurt
may
bee
saide
to
loue
:
other
somwhat
wiser
,
do
not
only
looke
to
that
one
thing
,
whether
they
beare
euil
will
,
but
also
whether
they
haue
any
kind
of
affection
in
them
,
and
here
they
stay
,
when
they
shoulde
goeyet
this
step
further
,
to
see
that
this
kindnes
in
them
,
breaketh
foorth
into
good
and
charitable
deeds
:
for
there
may
be
some
louing
affection
in
a
man
,
and
yet
bring
foorth
but
slender
fruits
,
bicause
there
is
a
great
slouth
in
nature
,
which
hindreth
men
from
putting
their
loue
in
vre
,
for
loue
is
laboursome
and
paineful
as
Saint
Paule
setteth
it
forth
1.
Thes.
1.
when
he
saith
,
Your
laboring
loue
.
If
then
we
wil
loue
the
brethren
,
heere
is
the
touchstone
,
by
which
we
may
proue
our
loue
,
that
wee
spare
not
for
any
labour
or
cost
,
nor
yet
waxe
weery
:
because
loue
is
not
like
one
that
is
lazie
&
luskish
,
loytring
at
home
within
a
mans
brest
,
but
steppeth
abrod
and
is
verie
diligent
:
neither
doeth
it
preferre
euery
light
commodity
&
vaine
pleasure
,
before
the
benefite
of
the
brethren
.
Then
by
this
it
is
manifest
,
how
that
al
those
which
would
seeme
to
bee
godly
,
and
yet
haue
cast
away
the
care
ouer
their
brethren
,
at
the
least
thus
farre
,
that
they
wil
neither
trauel
,
nor
be
at
any
charge
,
for
other
mens
sake
:
whose
wealth
they
shold
procure
,
especially
of
the
soule
,
for
therein
lieth
the
chiefe
trial
of
loue
:
because
it
is
a
preposterous
thing
,
to
be
very
tender
ouer
the
bodie
,
a
rotten
carkasse
,
and
to
pitie
the
miserie
thereof
so
much
,
&
in
the
meane
while
,
not
to
care
for
that
,
that
is
more
precious
,
namely
the
soule
,
the
relieuing
and
healing
of
which
,
shal
be
the
happinesse
of
the
whole
man
for
euer
.
This
I
speake
because
wee
see
many
,
that
wil
bestowe
somewhat
vpon
the
reliefe
of
the
bodily
miserie
,
which
haue
no
pitie
vpon
mé
,
which
wander
in
blindnes
&
ignorance
,
whose
soules
are
famished
&
pined
,
for
want
of
foode
,
full
of
deadly
woundes
and
sores
,
which
are
not
salued
,
bounde
in
the
bands
,
and
chaines
of
sinne
,
holden
vnder
captiuitie
by
Satan
,
euen
readie
to
be
swallowed
vp
,
of
the
bottomlesse
gulfe
of
hell
:
the
cause
in
deede
is
,
that
they
haue
not
yet
learned
to
pitie
their
owne
soules
,
and
therefore
cannot
pitie
the
soules
of
their
brethren
:
for
if
they
did
know
the
spiritual
miserie
,
they
woulde
neither
spare
night
nor
day
in
trauelling
to
haue
it
eased
:
wheras
now
contrariwise
they
can
pull
backe
men
,
from
godlinesse
,
and
discourage
them
from
seeking
after
saluation
:
they
can
laugh
&
sport
themselues
in
their
owne
sinnes
,
and
in
the
sinnes
of
their
neighbours
,
as
though
there
were
no
miserie
therein
,
finally
,
being
cruel
murtherers
of
soules
,
would
neuertheles
,
gladly
be
deemed
charitable
:
But
their
bountifull
almes
,
doth
want
seasoning
.
Let
vs
learn
therefore
to
pitie
,
&
to
shewe
kindnes
to
the
bodily
necessitie
of
men
,
and
not
to
forget
especially
,
&
aboue
al
,
to
procure
with
al
diligence
,
as
much
as
lyeth
in
vs
,
the
saluation
of
their
soules
:
otherwise
we
can
neuer
be
saide
to
ioyne
loue
,
and
godlinesse
together
.
In
that
which
followeth
in
the
foure
nexte
verses
,
there
is
shewed
partly
the
great
,
and
singular
commodities
,
which
wee
shal
reape
,
if
wee
bee
garnished
with
these
foresaide
vertues
:
and
partly
the
discommodities
,
which
we
shal
finde
,
in
the
want
of
the
same
.
And
this
S.
Peter
setteth
forth
,
not
staying
in
the
bare
declaration
of
the
vertues
,
which
indeed
of
themselues
,
beeing
so
precious
&
excellent
shoulde
moue
vs
,
but
dealeth
with
vs
,
as
with
those
which
are
lumpish
,
and
dul
,
needing
many
spurres
,
to
bee
pricked
forwarde
withall
,
and
all
litle
enough
:
let
vs
bee
careful
therefore
to
take
heede
to
that
hee
saieth
.
If
these
things
be
with
you
,
&
abound
,
they
will
make
,
&c.
In
this
8.
verse
,
hee
beginneth
to
shew
the
commodities
which
shal
redounde
vnto
vs
,
if
wee
so
giue
our
diligence
,
that
wee
may
bee
richly
decked
with
these
graces
:
they
wil
make
you
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
that
yee
shal
not
bee
idle
,
nor
vnfruiteful
,
in
the
acknowledging
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christe
.
It
is
a
shameful
thing
,
when
GOD
hath
shewed
himselfe
vnto
vs
in
his
Sonne
,
hath
called
vs
into
his
seruice
,
out
of
miserable
bondage
,
for
vs
to
bee
ydle
,
and
vnfruiteful
:
If
the
Lorde
haue
planted
vs
,
if
he
haue
dressed
vs
,
then
,
as
it
is
also
said
by
our
sauiour
Christ
,
Iohn
15.
Herein
is
my
father
glorified
,
that
ye
goe
and
bring
foorth
much
fruite
.
Then
it
is
by
this
place
very
apparant
,
that
a
man
may
draw
out
a
sure
&
an
infallible
argument
,
against
all
those
whiche
are
idle
,
and
slouthful
in
the
profession
of
religion
,
and
as
they
say
key
colde
,
or
slack
in
the
worship
,
&
seruice
of
god
,
or
vnfruitful
in
good
workes
:
namely
,
that
they
are
graceles
,
voide
of
faith
&
those
vertues
which
doe
euer
accompany
the
same
:
for
when
Saint
Peter
saith
,
if
these
things
bee
with
you
,
they
wil
make
that
ye
shal
not
be
idle
,
nor
vnfruitful
,
it
foloweth
necessarily
,
that
such
as
bee
idle
,
which
ariseth
for
want
of
zeale
,
or
bee
vnfruitful
,
continuing
in
their
sinnes
,
it
is
,
because
they
did
neuer
yet
come
to
the
true
knowledge
of
Ch●ist
;
they
may
wel
bost
themselues
,
of
their
strong
faith
,
make
a
braue
shewe
of
their
skil
,
&
sine
wit
,
so
that
men
might
think
there
were
some
deepe
thing
in
them
,
&
that
they
shold
be
able
euen
to
iudge
,
&
giue
aright
verdit
,
in
al
matters
:
but
a
man
reading
but
euen
this
place
,
finding
them
ydle
,
and
vnfruitful
,
(
yea
euen
a
simple
man
)
shal
easily
sounde
them
to
the
bottome
,
and
say
of
them
,
that
they
haue
not
as
yet
knowne
or
learned
Christe
:
because
they
want
those
former
thinges
.
Wee
must
note
this
also
,
when
hee
saith
,
If
these
thinges
abounde
in
you
:
this
is
,
that
wee
should
not
content
our selues
,
with
a
scant
and
bare
measure
of
faith
,
of
vertue
,
of
knowledge
,
and
of
the
rest
,
as
he
setteth
them
downe
:
but
we
must
labour
to
haue
a
dayly
increase
,
for
that
must
bee
gathered
by
this
,
that
he
pricketh
forwarde
these
ripe
,
and
grounded
men
.
A
doctrine
most
necessary
to
be
vrged
,
because
if
men
haue
gone
two
,
or
three
steppes
,
or
haue
once
a
litle
begunne
,
to
labour
about
these
thinges
,
so
that
they
can
looke
backe
,
and
see
some
come
behinde
them
,
or
can
say
I
thanke
God
,
I
knowe
somewhat
.
I
hope
that
I
am
not
without
faith
,
somewhat
there
is
which
I
haue
done
,
that
I
would
be
loth
to
doe
againe
:
they
by
and
by
persuade
themselues
,
that
they
are
sufficiently
furnished
;
so
that
they
wil
not
sticke
to
say
,
I
trust
I
haue
that
which
shall
serue
the
turne
.
Naye
,
the
Apostle
telleth
vs
an
other
thing
heere
from
the
Lord
,
&
that
is
,
that
we
must
ouerflow
in
these
,
and
abounde
:
and
truth
it
is
,
that
these
men
which
thinke
they
bee
well
fraught
,
and
so
seeke
for
no
further
increase
of
store
,
haue
as
yet
nothing
,
for
if
they
had
once
founde
the
sweete
of
these
thinges
,
and
seene
withall
that
they
are
farre
behind
,
and
in
beggerly
need
,
they
would
neuer
content
themselues
with
so
little
:
for
who
is
hee
,
which
feeleth
increase
in
worldlye
treasure
,
that
wil
crie
hoe
,
and
say
,
I
haue
enough
?
Is
there
lesse
in
the
heauenly
treasures
to
drawe
men
to
like
them
,
than
in
the
earthy
?
Or
is
it
because
men
doe
not
knowe
them
?
Wee
must
learne
to
take
heede
of
such
therefore
,
as
woulde
beare
men
in
hande
,
that
it
is
sufficient
,
yea
,
that
it
is
the
best
of
al
,
for
men
to
content
themselues
with
some
ciuil
honestie
,
and
not
to
seeke
and
weerie
their
mindes
to
gaine
knowledge
.
But
these
were
neuer
as
yet
the
men
,
which
might
bee
right
called
the
schollers
of
Christe
,
much
lesse
wee
are
to
deeme
them
worthie
masters
,
or
teachers
of
others
,
when
they
goe
flat
contrary
to
the
holy
Apostle
of
Christe
,
who
willeth
to
seek
for
so
great
abundance
:
when
as
they
would
content
themselues
and
persuade
others
to
bee
contented
,
with
scant
a
shadowe
of
these
thinges
,
which
shoulde
bee
so
plentifully
founde
in
them
:
Notwithstanding
some
are
so
blinde
,
that
hauing
no
shadow
or
shewe
at
al
of
goodnesse
,
yet
thinke
they
bee
gone
farre
enough
.
In
the
next
verse
where
hee
saith
,
Hee
that
hath
not
these
thinges
,
is
blinde
,
and
seeth
not
a
farre
of
,
and
hath
forgotten
that
he
was
purged
from
his
olde
sinnes
:
hee
setteth
forth
the
discommodities
which
follow
the
want
of
these
vertues
.
And
this
hee
doth
,
because
some
man
wil
be
litle
mooued
to
heare
that
commoditie
which
hee
spake
of
,
and
wil
say
,
what
care
I
though
I
bee
idle
?
What
care
I
though
I
bee
vnfruitful
?
I
will
not
goe
about
to
be
better
than
other
men
,
what
should
I
labour
to
excel
those
which
are
wiser
then
I
;
If
then
they
wil
not
regard
this
,
that
these
vertues
wil
make
them
excellent
seruants
of
God
,
yet
let
them
consider
what
the
Apostle
maketh
them
without
the
same
,
where
hee
affirmeth
them
first
to
bee
blinde
,
(
a
very
miserable
thing
in
the
bodily
sight
,
muche
more
in
the
spirituall
,
which
hee
here
meaneth
:
)
when
God
hath
so
cleerely
reuealed
himself
in
the
face
of
his
sonne
,
in
the
knowledge
which
bringeth
saluation
,
that
the
God
of
this
worlde
,
as
Saint
Paule
speaketh
.
2.
Cor.
4.
should
so
blinde
their
minds
,
that
the
light
of
the
glorious
Gospel
of
Christe
,
which
is
the
image
of
God
,
shoulde
not
shine
vnto
them
.
Secondly
he
saith
,
they
cannot
see
a
farre
of
,
or
that
they
be
poreblinde
,
for
such
as
haue
the
beames
of
sight
scattering
or
spreading
a
sunder
,
so
soone
as
they
be
out
of
the
eye
,
can
see
wel
enough
iust
by
them
,
but
not
a
farre
of
,
to
these
S.
Peter
doth
compare
those
men
.
But
it
may
be
asked
what
he
meaneth
:
first
to
say
they
be
starke
blinde
,
&
afterward
to
attribute
some
sight
vnto
them
.
It
may
seeme
by
this
worde
,
that
hee
maketh
their
cause
not
so
euil
,
as
before
he
had
saide
it
was
:
yes
euen
as
euill
,
for
he
saith
as
much
in
this
worde
,
as
he
did
in
the
other
:
for
when
he
saith
,
They
cannot
see
a
farre
of
,
hee
taketh
from
them
al
sight
of
heauenly
thinges
,
which
are
remoued
from
vs
,
&
seene
only
by
faith
:
hee
doeth
not
denie
them
the
sight
of
those
things
which
are
at
hand
,
because
they
haue
a
good
and
a
sharpe
sight
in
the
thinges
of
this
worlde
,
for
the
most
part
,
better
then
they
which
can
see
a
far
of
.
But
what
are
these
quicke
wits
the
better
,
when
they
are
but
for
this
world
,
and
their
condition
no
better
then
that
of
the
poore
beast
,
(
yea
muche
worse
)
when
we
respect
the
misery
in
the
world
to
come
?
Let
not
this
therfore
cause
them
to
set
vp
their
bristles
,
that
they
can
see
so
wel
and
pearcingly
at
hande
,
(
that
is
,
in
earthly
thinges
)
when
as
they
are
as
blinde
as
beetles
in
things
a
far
of
,
that
is
to
say
,
in
heauenly
things
.
Heere
wee
must
seeke
to
haue
eyes
giuen
vs
of
god
,
with
which
wee
may
bee
able
to
see
beyonde
this
worlde
:
for
before
such
time
as
the
Lorde
hath
giuen
vs
some
glimmering
of
heauenly
things
,
wee
shal
neuer
couet
to
obteine
them
.
And
this
is
the
cause
that
these
poreblinde
men
neuer
passe
greatly
to
know
the
Gospel
of
Christe
.
Thirdly
he
saith
,
they
haue
forgotten
that
they
were
purged
from
their
olde
sinnes
:
as
hee
said
they
were
blind
,
so
nowe
he
saith
,
they
are
forgetful
:
and
this
forgetfulnesse
is
so
much
the
more
shameful
,
as
it
is
in
a
chiefe
&
principal
point
of
true
religion
.
But
where
shall
wee
find
the
man
,
which
if
he
be
examined
will
confesse
that
he
hath
forgotten
this
point
?
It
seemeth
none
doe
forget
it
,
because
the
very
wicked
will
seeme
to
set
al
vpon
this
score
,
that
their
sins
are
purged
,
and
that
maketh
them
sinne
so
franckly
.
But
if
we
vnderstande
the
Apostle
wel
,
we
shall
finde
very
many
whiche
haue
forgotten
this
point
.
Now
here
we
must
first
note
that
our
sinnes
are
said
to
bee
purged
,
when
there
is
satisfaction
made
for
them
by
redemption
in
the
blood
of
Christe
.
Secondly
that
they
are
said
to
be
purged
by
grace
of
sanctification
,
when
by
the
power
of
Gods
spirite
,
sinne
,
or
all
sinfull
affections
are
suppressed
and
killed
in
vs
:
so
then
there
is
a
purging
in
redemption
,
and
there
is
also
a
purging
by
sanctification
:
Nowe
if
they
haue
not
forgotten
so
much
,
but
that
they
can
prattle
of
the
purging
of
their
sins
,
by
redemption
,
yet
they
haue
forgotten
this
,
that
they
were
redeemed
to
the
ende
they
shoulde
no
longer
serue
sinne
but
purge
away
the
olde
leauen
:
But
beeing
without
those
former
graces
,
he
sayeth
they
haue
forgotten
this
,
not
meaning
thereby
that
they
had
euer
learned
it
,
for
if
they
had
,
yet
at
the
least
they
had
not
wel
learned
it
:
wee
may
see
by
this
howe
many
there
bee
,
which
are
starke
blinde
,
and
haue
forgotten
that
Christians
are
called
to
liue
in
righteousnesse
and
holinesse
of
life
.
If
we
looke
vpon
the
small
number
of
those
which
haue
a
care
to
seeke
after
the
Lord
,
and
howe
small
a
parte
of
them
doe
come
(
I
will
not
saye
to
abounde
,
)
but
to
haue
a
competent
measure
of
those
forenamed
vertues
.
Let
vs
come
alwayes
to
this
true
measure
,
and
not
bee
deceiued
neither
in
our selues
,
nor
in
other
.
Let
vs
bee
ashamed
if
we
be
carnal
,
to
take
vppon
vs
the
name
of
the
true
professours
:
let
vs
denie
vnto
them
the
honorable
name
of
Christians
,
which
are
but
filthie
swine
,
and
prophane
dogges
,
as
our
Sauiour
Christe
calleth
them
:
to
conclude
this
matter
,
none
are
allowed
to
bee
true
receiuers
of
the
Gospel
,
but
such
as
ioyne
vertue
with
their
faith
,
&
with
vertue
knowledge
,
and
so
temperance
,
patience
,
godlinesse
,
brotherly
kindenes
,
and
loue
,
and
such
as
also
doe
seeke
to
abound
in
them
:
the
rest
which
care
not
for
these
,
or
content
themselues
with
the
bare
shewe
of
them
,
although
they
would
seeme
to
be
worshippers
of
God
,
and
deuout
persons
,
yet
they
are
by
this
doctrine
of
the
Lord
wholy
shut
foorth
,
vntill
they
haue
learned
a
newe
lesson
.
Remember
that
this
is
the
doctrine
of
God
,
and
not
of
man
.
Remember
that
we
must
stand
and
dwell
vppon
it
,
not
for
a
day
,
or
two
,
while
wee
haue
hearde
it
,
but
all
our
life
long
to
bring
it
to
the
practise
,
it
is
plaine
and
cleere
,
none
can
be
excused
if
they
know
it
not
and
so
through
simplicitie
stand
vppon
the
common
faith
,
thinking
to
shroude
themselues
wel
vnder
the
shadow
of
the
multitude
:
but
when
God
hath
warned
them
,
who
wil
pitie
them
,
when
they
wil
not
be
warned
;
if
this
were
not
told
vs
,
and
that
by
God
him selfe
,
wee
might
thinke
,
as
men
doe
commonly
,
that
a
very
little
doth
content
the
Lord
,
that
no
great
things
are
required
at
the
handes
of
Christians
,
and
other
such
foolish
,
and
vaine
opinions
,
as
to
say
,
they
must
hope
wel
when
God
telleth
them
,
there
is
no
hope
,
vnlesse
they
walke
this
way
,
also
that
it
is
not
good
to
bee
ouer
precise
,
when
as
in
goodnes
a
man
cannot
proceede
too
far
,
nor
offer
too
muche
obedience
to
the
Lorde
.
To
make
an
ende
,
let
none
of
al
these
thinges
blinde
vs
,
because
they
blinde
some
,
which
stande
in
reputation
of
their
owne
wisdome
.
The
fourth
Sermon
.
10
Wherefore
brethren
,
giue
rather
diligence
to
make
your
calling
&
election
sure
:
for
if
ye
do
these
things
yee
shall
neuer
fall
.
11
For
by
this
meanes
an
entring
shall
be
ministred
vnto
you
abundantly
,
in
to
the
euerlasting
kingdom
of
our
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
.
JT
hath
beene
tolde
vnto
you
already
,
vppon
the
verses
which
goe
next
before
,
howe
that
Saint
Peter
regarding
how
dull
wee
are
and
backward
in
godlinesse
,
contented
not
himselfe
with
his
exhortation
which
he
maketh
,
but
setteth
downe
what
we
shall
gaine
if
we
follow
his
aduise
,
and
also
what
hurt
we
shall
sustaine
by
the
contrary
:
and
this
hath
partly
been
handeled
in
the
two
other
verses
,
&
partly
in
these
two
which
wee
haue
now
in
hand
:
where
indeed
he
doth
propounde
so
great
a
commodity
which
we
shal
gaine
,
if
wee
giue
all
diligence
to
pursue
the
former
things
,
as
is
almost
incomparable
:
euen
this
,
that
we
shal
come
to
the
assurance
,
that
wee
are
called
&
chosen
of
God
:
a
thing
so
necessary
for
vs
to
knowe
,
that
without
it
,
there
is
no
right
faith
,
no
frank
and
willing
obedience
,
no
sounde
ioy
.
For
although
without
this
,
men
seeme
to
beleeue
,
yet
is
it
but
a
wauering
fantasie
,
to
do
many
good
things
,
yet
they
proceed
but
from
a
seruile
minde
,
to
laugh
&
reioyce
,
yet
is
it
but
in
a
desperate
madnes
which
in
very
deed
is
greatly
to
be
wondered
at
,
howe
men
shoulde
bee
able
to
sport
themselues
,
&
yet
to
speak
in
their
consciences
after
this
maner
,
there
is
hel
,
and
eternal
flames
of
vengeance
prepared
for
sinners
,
and
I
am
not
sure
whether
I
shal
escape
or
not
:
this
desperate
and
brutish
securitie
shal
be
apparant
to
bee
the
more
mad
,
if
wee
compare
it
,
and
set
it
foorth
by
an
outward
comparison
.
Let
it
bee
thus
,
a
man
is
taken
in
a
robberie
or
murther
,
imprisoned
,
brought
before
the
Iudge
,
and
comdemned
,
by
sute
of
friendes
repriued
vntil
suche
time
as
they
maye
sue
for
to
get
him
a
pardon
:
in
the
meane
time
some
of
his
acquaintance
come
to
this
murtherer
,
and
will
him
to
be
of
good
cheere
,
&
merie
,
he
wil
answere
,
vnlesse
he
be
some
mad
and
desperate
ruffian
,
I
am
condemned
to
the
Gallowes
,
the
Iudge
hath
pronounced
the
sentence
of
death
vpon
mee
,
I
know
not
how
harde
a
thing
it
wil
bee
to
obteine
a
pardon
,
I
stand
in
great
doubt
,
and
for
this
cause
I
cannot
bee
merie
,
vnlesse
I
myghte
know
for
certaintie
that
I
should
escape
,
if
I
did
once
know
that
,
I
coulde
bee
as
mery
as
any
man
that
liueth
,
before
that
tyme
I
may
seeme
to
laughe
,
but
my
hearte
is
full
of
feare
and
sorrowe
.
And
is
it
not
thus
with
vs
all
,
are
wee
not
all
of
vs
giltie
,
and
alreadie
condemned
by
the
sentence
of
the
highest
Iudge
;
not
to
some
torment
of
one
day
,
or
shorte
continuance
,
but
to
the
fire
that
shal
neuer
be
quenched
?
When
men
can
be
merie
therefore
and
laugh
euen
in
those
things
which
cause
this
destruction
,
and
yet
doe
feele
that
they
are
not
sure
to
escape
this
dreadfull
vengeance
,
is
it
not
a
mad
mirth
and
a
desperate
laughter
,
in
which
if
they
were
not
become
verye
sensles
blockes
,
they
shoulde
feele
many
gripings
at
the
hart
,
which
would
marre
al
their
myrth
,
yea
a
worme
that
gnaweth
in
suche
wise
,
that
they
can
haue
no
quiet
rest
,
nor
as
I
said
before
no
sound
ioy
.
If
we
were
not
therfore
more
then
desperate
and
mad
fooles
,
the
thought
of
hel
would
dampe
al
our
mirth
vntyl
such
time
as
we
be
sure
that
we
haue
escaped
it
.
This
then
which
the
Apostle
saith
heere
is
a
princely
commoditie
,
that
walking
the
way
which
he
hath
prescribed
,
we
shall
come
to
the
assurance
,
that
wee
are
the
called
and
chosen
of
the
Lord
.
But
it
may
be
demanded
how
this
can
agree
with
other
sayings
in
the
holy
scriptures
,
which
doe
plainly
teach
that
God
choseth
whom
he
will
of
his
owne
free
grace
,
for
which
S.
Paule
alleadgeth
out
of
Moses
,
that
God
will
haue
mercy
on
whomsoeuer
he
wil
haue
mercy
,
and
whom
he
wil
he
hardeneth
:
adding
ther
upon
that
it
is
neither
of
him
that
willeth
nor
yet
of
him
that
runneth
,
but
of
god
which
sheweth
mercy
:
againe
the
doctrine
of
Popery
is
,
that
God
doth
make
choise
,
conditionally
respecting
the
good
deeds
which
he
did
foresee
in
them
:
&
so
the
election
shold
depend
vpon
the
worthines
of
the
men
:
we
are
to
answere
that
this
place
hath
nothing
in
it
whiche
is
contrary
to
that
free
choise
which
God
maketh
without
respect
of
any
thinge
that
is
in
vs
,
for
he
could
finde
nothing
in
vs
that
might
any
way
moue
him
,
neither
doth
it
serue
at
al
for
to
proue
that
election
is
conditional
:
because
S.
Peter
doth
not
handle
in
this
place
,
wherevpon
election
is
founded
,
or
what
moued
god
to
make
choise
,
nor
to
shew
wherin
the
certaintie
&
stablenesse
of
election
doth
stand
:
but
his
meaning
is
,
to
teach
vs
how
we
shal
attaine
to
this
incomparable
treasure
,
to
bee
out
of
doubt
,
and
surely
resolued
in
our selues
,
not
by
fantasied
opinions
,
but
by
sure
&
substantial
proofe
,
that
we
be
chosen
of
God
,
and
therfore
cannot
perish
.
If
we
respect
the
vnchangeable
counsel
of
God
,
therein
doth
rest
alone
the
sure
foundation
of
election
,
because
God
which
cannot
bee
deceiued
,
nor
cannot
repent
,
or
change
,
hath
made
the
choise
,
therefore
those
whom
he
hath
chosen
,
can
neuer
perisht
but
if
we
regard
the
way
and
meanes
,
by
which
we
may
come
to
know
this
fauor
of
God
to
be
toward
vs
,
the
Lord
by
his
apostle
telleth
vs
,
that
this
is
the
way
,
euen
to
giue
al
diligence
&
study
,
to
be
richly
decked
with
his
graces
,
or
those
forenamed
vertues
,
for
by
these
wee
shall
vndoubtedly
know
,
because
if
we
haue
them
,
if
they
abound
in
vs
,
if
we
walk
in
them
,
we
shal
,
as
he
saith
,
neuer
fal
.
Let
vs
learn
therefore
first
this
,
that
election
in
it self
resteth
vpon
the
vnchangeable
purpose
&
counsel
of
God
.
Then
secondly
that
we
are
not
to
fetch
the
certentie
of
it
in
our selues
,
from
som
reuelation
,
neither
are
we
to
clime
vp
into
heauen
,
to
search
in
the
counsels
of
god
,
whether
our
names
be
in
the
book
of
life
.
But
we
are
to
fetch
our
warrant
from
within
our selues
,
and
that
from
the
fruits
of
the
spirite
,
which
indeed
although
it
be
out
of
our selues
,
yet
because
it
is
not
of
our selues
,
is
certain
&
infallible
.
If
ye
wil
vnderstand
this
more
plainely
,
first
I
say
,
it
is
out
of
our selues
,
or
from
within
our selues
because
wee
must
take
the
triall
,
whether
those
thinges
bee
in
vs
,
which
are
giuen
to
al
those
whome
God
doeth
choose
,
then
I
say
it
is
not
of
our selues
,
for
if
it
were
,
it
should
be
altogether
vncertaine
.
But
of
the
seale
of
God
wherwith
he
hath
sealed
vs
,
which
is
the
spirite
of
sanctification
:
now
mark
wel
I
pray
you
,
If
you
do
,
(
saith
S.
Peter
)
these
thinges
,
you
shal
neuer
fal
:
and
why
,
is
it
because
our
doings
are
so
perfect
and
sure
,
or
that
we
are
so
constant
of
our selues
;
no
not
so
,
but
by
these
vertues
we
know
that
we
are
sealed
with
Gods
spirite
,
whose
woorke
wee
feele
in
vs
:
wee
know
also
that
as
many
as
are
led
by
the
spirite
of
God
are
the
sonnes
of
God
.
Rom.
8.
From
hence
it
commeth
,
that
looke
howe
muche
more
a
man
feeleth
in
him selfe
the
increase
of
knowledge
,
the
increase
of
vertues
and
heauenly
desires
,
so
muche
more
sure
hee
is
,
that
hee
is
the
childe
of
God
,
and
as
the
one
increaseth
,
so
increaseth
also
the
other
.
Contrariwise
when
a
man
feeleth
within
him selfe
an
euil
conscience
,
feeleth
that
he
is
darkened
in
his
vnderstanding
,
ledde
by
the
lustes
of
sinne
:
hee
shall
in
spite
of
his
teeth
within
himselfe
,
sing
this
dolefull
song
,
I
knowe
not
whether
I
shal
bee
saued
or
not
:
and
looke
howe
the
other
may
say
I
knowe
I
shal
be
saued
,
because
God
hath
sealed
me
with
his
spirite
:
so
may
this
say
,
I
am
sure
to
bee
damned
continuing
in
this
case
,
because
I
haue
not
faith
,
but
onely
a
wauering
and
doubtfull
opinion
.
We
may
see
by
this
how
beneficial
they
are
,
and
merciful
to
their
owne
soules
,
which
with
al
their
power
day
&
night
giue
vp
themselues
to
seek
after
the
knowledge
and
obedience
of
the
Lords
wil
:
for
not
giuing
ouer
,
nor
waxing
wearie
,
they
shal
in
continuance
of
time
,
if
they
ply
it
hard
,
find
such
a
blessing
from
the
Lord
,
in
the
increase
of
faith
and
vertue
,
that
wil
cause
them
to
say
,
we
haue
not
lost
our
labor
.
On
the
other
side
wee
may
see
howe
vnkinde
and
cruel
they
are
to
themselues
,
which
through
idlenes
,
&
slouth
,
in
seeking
after
God
,
with
their
daily
and
continual
sinnes
,
doe
euen
as
it
were
cut
the
throte
of
their
faith
,
seeing
they
cannot
haue
truste
in
him
,
whome
they
doe
so
much
disobey
.
This
place
is
as
a
mightie
engine
to
ouerthrow
the
vanitie
of
sundrie
opinions
which
doe
reigne
in
men
.
As
first
of
al
in
those
whiche
crie
out
against
this
doctrine
,
as
a
thing
which
wil
make
men
carelesse
and
idle
in
the
seruice
of
God
,
and
stoppe
the
course
of
good
woorkes
,
I
beseech
you
marke
how
wel
these
great
wise
men
haue
profited
in
Gods
schoole
,
see
howe
they
agree
with
the
holy
Apostle
,
he
saith
wee
are
to
giue
al
our
studie
and
diligence
in
good
woorkes
to
come
to
the
sure
and
vndoubted
knowledge
,
that
we
be
chosen
vnto
life
:
they
say
quite
contrary
,
if
ye
wil
haue
men
careful
of
wel
doing
,
away
with
the
doctrine
of
election
,
for
it
will
marre
al
:
thus
the
wisedome
of
fleshe
doth
proudly
lift
vp
it selfe
euen
against
God
(
but
howe
foolishly
,
a
very
child
may
see
:
)
Doeth
that
thing
which
wee
cannot
come
to
the
knowledge
of
,
without
exceeding
care
of
godlinesse
,
abundance
of
vertue
,
and
plentie
of
all
good
woorkes
,
destroy
in
men
the
studie
and
care
of
good
workes
?
But
proud
fleshe
is
worthily
blind
.
Some
other
,
although
not
thus
bruitishly
blinded
,
yet
greatly
ouerseene
,
when
they
thinke
on
this
doctrine
,
which
is
set
vp
vnto
vs
as
the
mark
for
vs
to
aime
at
in
al
our
doings
,
and
the
trial
whether
we
haue
done
wel
or
not
:
I
meane
the
trial
in
this
respecte
,
and
when
a
man
hath
done
many
good
deedes
,
hee
shal
know
he
hath
not
done
them
wel
,
if
hee
yet
doubt
,
whether
hee
bee
one
of
Gods
chosen
,
for
howsoeuer
hee
passeth
it
ouer
,
yet
his
conscience
(
which
doth
in
some
sort
know
,
that
he
hath
not
dealt
but
for
vaine
glory
,
or
some
other
sinister
respect
)
wil
not
suffer
him
to
haue
this
faith
:
For
God
doth
not
woorke
so
darkely
by
his
spirite
in
men
,
but
that
they
may
learne
to
knowe
whether
it
bee
of
him
,
if
they
woulde
make
a
due
triall
:
because
wee
must
not
rest
in
the
outwarde
doeing
of
good
thinges
,
but
in
the
right
doing
.
Let
him
therefore
whiche
giueth
him selfe
to
doe
good
woorkes
,
(
and
yet
feeleth
not
this
,
which
Saint
Peter
saith
,
we
shal
)
suspect
that
his
doinges
are
mishapen
,
and
be
careful
to
fashion
them
after
the
rules
of
the
worde
.
A
thirde
sort
of
men
there
be
,
which
with
might
and
maine
wil
defende
this
doctrine
,
that
men
ought
to
be
sure
of
saluation
,
that
wee
cannot
more
honour
God
,
then
to
giue
ful
credite
to
his
promises
,
and
because
the
plaine
testimonie
of
the
scripture
compelleth
them
,
they
affirme
it
constantly
,
and
condemne
the
contrary
as
a
foule
errour
,
that
God
hath
chosen
men
,
and
men
come
to
feele
&
to
know
this
:
And
therefore
because
it
is
a
true
doctrine
,
they
say
also
that
they
themselues
are
sure
,
that
God
hath
chosen
them
,
but
when
they
take
not
the
way
to
become
sure
,
which
S.
Peter
here
hath
set
downe
,
but
goe
in
a
contrary
path
,
&
are
spotted
with
filthie
crimes
,
wee
may
boldly
say
,
they
be
lyers
:
for
although
they
bragge
with
their
tongues
of
that
that
they
should
bee
,
yet
there
is
a
byrde
in
their
brest
,
which
doth
sing
in
a
contrary
note
,
and
telleth
them
plainely
what
they
bee
.
Another
kinde
of
men
there
bee
,
which
in
no
case
can
be
persuaded
,
that
any
man
may
bee
sure
of
his
saluation
,
and
therfore
with
scoffs
they
aske
of
them
which
professe
the
word
,
when
God
tolde
them
so
?
If
it
were
a
thing
whiche
were
not
to
bee
,
or
coulde
not
be
knowne
,
then
the
Apostle
hath
greatly
ouershot
himselfe
,
in
telling
vs
howe
wee
shal
come
to
bee
sure
.
But
aske
a
question
of
them
,
whether
they
do
not
beleeue
in
God
,
euery
one
wil
answere
,
I
put
al
my
whole
trust
in
him
:
reason
then
a
little
further
and
tel
than
,
that
the
Scripture
which
cannot
lye
,
saith
,
That
al
which
trust
in
God
shal
be
saued
:
how
then
wil
they
ioyne
these
together
,
that
they
truste
in
GOD
,
and
yet
doubt
whether
they
shal
bee
saued
;
Can
God
deceiue
;
or
say
they
,
they
know
not
what
;
Vndoubtedly
if
they
did
know
that
they
haue
trust
,
they
shoulde
also
knowe
they
cannot
perish
.
But
let
vs
learne
by
this
the
miserie
of
our
time
:
in
which
men
doe
stil
thinke
this
doctrine
to
be
straunge
.
Nowe
let
vs
come
to
the
particuler
application
of
this
doctrine
,
in
which
euery
one
must
come
home
to
himselfe
,
remembring
first
,
that
suche
as
God
hath
called
home
to
himselfe
,
and
chosen
to
be
his
children
,
hee
doth
also
giue
vnto
them
true
faith
and
feeling
that
they
bee
his
elect
:
and
such
as
perceiue
no
suche
thinge
in
themselues
:
are
in
a
very
miserable
case
,
and
as
yet
we
may
say
forlorne
creatures
:
therfore
euerye
man
in
him selfe
must
aske
this
question
,
of
his
owne
soule
,
howe
goeth
the
matter
with
thee
?
Art
thou
sure
GOD
hath
chosen
thee
;
Doest
thou
feele
any
assurance
of
eternal
life
?
The
conscience
wil
answere
vprightlie
if
wee
be
not
negligent
to
make
inquirie
:
then
if
wee
finde
this
within
.
I
am
not
sure
,
for
I
doubt
and
stagger
:
wee
must
inquire
without
selues
thus
,
what
is
the
cause
,
God
is
faithfull
which
hath
promised
eternal
life
vnto
all
which
beleeue
:
our
heart
wil
make
answere
,
thou
regardest
not
the
feare
of
God
,
thou
art
ful
of
foule
sinnes
,
euill
lustes
doe
reigne
in
thee
,
thou
doest
not
studie
for
the
knowledge
of
Gods
word
,
thou
art
vnfruiful
and
barren
in
good
woorkes
,
therfore
thou
canst
not
say
,
I
am
led
by
the
spirite
of
God
,
and
therefore
sure
I
shal
be
saued
:
if
hee
bee
wise
hee
will
not
stay
heere
,
as
the
maner
of
fooles
is
,
saying
I
am
not
sure
indeede
,
neither
do
I
thinke
any
man
can
bee
,
I
commit
it
to
God
,
let
him
doe
with
mee
what
he
will
:
these
speeches
may
seeme
to
haue
some
wit
and
godlinesse
in
them
,
but
they
are
in
deede
diuelish
and
mad
,
because
God
hath
taught
vs
a
contrary
lesson
in
this
place
:
but
goe
this
steppe
further
,
may
I
come
to
this
assurance
?
&
which
is
the
way
?
The
Lorde
doth
answere
by
his
Apostle
,
thou
maiest
come
to
this
assurance
,
and
pointeth
him
out
the
way
:
euen
that
which
you
haue
hard
,
wherein
hee
must
painefully
trauel
and
goe
forwarde
,
not
for
a
gird
or
a
braide
,
and
waxe
idle
againe
,
but
still
labour
,
for
these
men
had
gone
a
great
way
and
yet
they
are
willed
to
proceede
still
,
if
the
Lorde
giue
not
this
assurance
,
wee
are
to
labour
so
much
the
more
,
and
to
bee
so
much
the
more
importunate
,
to
suspect
our
iudgement
,
and
to
seeke
for
knowledge
,
to
call
our selues
to
a
more
straite
account
,
to
set
a
watch
ouer
our
affections
too
see
with
what
mynde
wee
doe
things
,
to
foster
no
sin
willingly
in
vs
,
nor
to
bee
slacke
to
any
good
worke
which
God
hath
appointed
,
to
cal
and
cry
vnto
God
for
faith
,
and
his
spirite
to
guide
vs
,
to
vse
the
meanes
diligently
which
God
hath
appointed
,
as
the
hearing
,
searching
,
&
meditating
in
the
word
:
thus
in
time
(
for
it
is
wrought
in
men
by
degrees
,
&
they
neuer
come
to
the
ful
)
God
will
let
them
see
that
he
is
their
God
.
That
neither
life
nor
death
,
height
or
depth
,
thinges
present
or
things
to
come
,
Angels
,
Principalities
,
nor
powers
,
nor
any
creature
shall
separate
vs
from
his
loue
in
Christe
.
It
followeth
in
the
next
verse
,
For
by
this
meanes
an
entring
shal
be
ministred
vnto
you
abundantly
into
the
euerlasting
kingdome
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christe
.
This
is
a
confirmation
of
the
last
clause
of
the
former
sentence
,
where
he
saith
,
If
you
doe
these
thinges
,
you
shal
neuer
fall
:
and
why
?
because
you
shal
haue
a
great
entrance
into
the
eternal
kingdome
of
Christ
:
as
that
is
a
confirmation
of
the
other
,
where
he
saith
,
Make
your
calling
and
election
sure
,
as
the
reason
foloweth
there
,
Ye
shall
come
to
bee
sure
:
howe
?
because
he
which
proceedeth
so
far
that
he
knoweth
he
shal
neuer
fal
away
from
God
to
destruction
,
hee
is
,
(
as
it
must
needes
bee
,
)
sure
also
that
hee
is
chosen
:
for
hee
speaketh
not
here
of
euery
particuler
fal
into
sinne
,
which
is
the
moste
godly
:
but
saith
Saint
Peter
,
I
tell
you
if
you
doe
these
things
,
yee
shal
neuer
fall
,
not
because
there
is
any
such
stablenes
in
our selues
,
or
in
our
own
workes
,
but
wee
know
they
bee
the
fruites
of
Gods
spirite
in
vs
,
which
is
his
seale
,
set
vppon
none
but
those
whom
he
doth
mark
vp
to
life
eternal
,
&
he
is
vnchangeable
:
so
it
foloweth
here
,
ye
shal
not
fal
,
for
they
that
haue
a
rich
entrance
into
the
kingdome
of
Christe
,
which
is
euerlasting
,
so
that
Christe
doth
reigne
in
them
,
as
hee
doth
in
all
the
faithful
by
his
spirite
,
can
not
fal
,
vntil
the
power
of
Christe
faile
,
and
his
kingdome
come
to
an
end
.
For
we
must
note
,
that
the
force
of
the
reason
,
resteth
in
the
difference
which
is
betweene
the
kingdome
of
Christ
and
the
kingdomes
of
this
worlde
:
in
which
though
they
bee
neuer
so
mightie
,
&
ful
of
policie
and
wisedome
,
yet
they
should
come
to
and
ende
:
and
therefore
a
man
cannot
rightly
say
vnto
the
subiects
,
you
haue
a
mightie
Prince
,
who
is
bountifull
and
gracious
,
your
peace
therefore
and
happie
estate
shall
endure
for
euer
:
naye
,
the
mightie
may
bee
ouercome
,
if
not
by
men
,
at
leastwise
by
death
,
and
so
they
may
be
to
day
in
peace
and
good
estate
,
to
morowe
al
in
an
vprore
,
to
day
vnder
a
louing
and
gracious
Prince
,
to
morowe
vnder
a
fierce
tyrant
:
so
vncertaine
is
the
state
of
the
kingdom
of
this
worlde
:
but
in
the
kingdome
of
Christe
,
whose
power
is
aboue
al
,
and
can
neuer
come
to
an
ende
,
but
is
as
he
saith
here
,
eternal
,
it
is
farre
otherwise
,
because
his
state
is
vnchangeable
,
so
is
theirs
that
be
once
entred
thereinto
,
and
therefore
are
sure
they
can
neuer
fal
.
Whosoeuer
doth
but
euen
streightly
looke
ouer
these
words
of
the
apostle
,
if
he
haue
any
sight
at
al
,
he
must
needes
confesse
al
this
,
the
matter
is
so
cleere
,
that
we
can
but
maruel
how
it
should
come
to
passe
that
this
doctrine
of
the
Lord
,
set
foorth
by
his
apostle
,
should
finde
so
few
friendes
,
and
so
many
extreeme
enemies
:
but
indeed
men
which
are
lyers
,
doe
in
this
thing
confes
the
truth
,
that
they
feele
not
any
such
matter
,
&
therfore
cannot
abide
to
heare
that
al
true
godly
men
,
&
faithfull
Christians
haue
this
knowledge
in
themselues
:
but
let
vs
giue
eare
to
the
Apostle
,
who
telleth
vs
how
we
shal
com
to
haue
Christe
to
be
our
king
,
&
to
reigne
ouer
vs
,
namely
if
we
yeld
vp
our selues
to
the
gouernance
of
his
spirit
,
which
worketh
al
goodnes
in
our
hearts
,
subduing
and
vanquishing
al
the
rebels
which
we
beare
about
in
vs
.
Contrariwise
it
must
needs
be
graunted
,
the
such
as
are
beastly
Epicures
,
folowing
their
own
fleshly
mind
,
letting
lose
the
raines
,
&
giuing
the
swing
vnto
the
raging
lustes
of
the
fleshe
,
despising
the
knowledge
of
Gods
wil
,
&
therefore
regard
not
his
worde
:
though
with
full
mouth
they
cal
Christ
their
king
&
their
lord
:
yet
when
god
saith
here
by
his
apostle
,
that
the
entrance
into
his
kingdom
is
by
this
means
,
that
men
folow
after
vertue
,
knowledge
and
godlines
:
they
shew
that
they
be
none
of
his
subiects
,
being
altogether
void
of
his
spirit
,
but
the
bond
slaues
of
sin
and
Satan
,
whose
kingdome
they
vphold
,
with
tooth
&
naile
:
&
that
maketh
them
,
euen
as
those
which
are
of
another
Corporation
to
fight
against
the
truth
,
&
those
which
professe
it
:
deuising
al
the
colours
&
shifts
they
can
to
maintaine
sin
,
inuenting
al
the
slanders
that
may
be
to
discredite
the
godly
conuersation
of
such
as
folow
the
way
here
prescribed
:
condemning
them
as
ouer
precise
&
curious
,
if
they
do
but
looke
this
way
which
God
willeth
al
his
seruantes
to
walk
:
if
God
doe
open
their
eyes
,
to
see
but
euen
in
a
glimmering
,
that
whiche
he
doth
teach
in
this
place
,
they
woulde
be
ashamed
of
their
master
and
blush
at
that
,
which
now
they
boaste
&
brag
of
:
they
would
also
confesse
that
like
blinde
buzzards
and
madde
beasts
,
they
haue
fought
against
God
,
&
not
men
:
finally
it
would
make
them
change
their
waies
,
and
seeke
diligently
to
haue
the
witnes
within
themselues
,
that
they
bee
the
seruants
of
God
.
We
must
marke
wel
one
other
thing
which
is
here
spoken
,
to
wit
that
he
saith
an
entrance
shal
be
ministred
vnto
you
,
abundantly
or
richly
:
as
if
hee
should
say
,
when
ye
haue
labored
&
trauelled
,
to
bee
as
it
were
wel
soked
&
seasoned
in
godlines
,
&
plentifully
decked
with
al
graces
&
gifts
of
the
spirit
,
ye
shal
by
degrees
proceede
so
far
,
and
gaine
so
much
,
that
your
entrance
into
the
kingdom
of
Christ
shal
be
very
great
:
wherevpon
it
doth
folow
,
that
they
shal
be
past
danger
,
&
may
wel
warrant
themselues
,
of
sure
standing
in
asmuch
as
Christ
hath
not
onely
begun
to
reigne
in
them
,
and
to
bee
their
king
,
but
also
in
great
measure
and
mightily
.
But
doth
he
not
adde
this
one
worde
more
then
needeth
;
Is
it
not
enough
to
haue
an
entrance
,
vnlesse
wee
haue
a
riche
entrance
into
his
kingdome
;
doth
Christ
once
begin
to
reigne
in
a
man
,
and
to
driue
out
the
power
of
Satan
,
and
afterward
cast
him
of
againe
to
destruction
;
I
answere
that
this
word
is
not
added
in
vaine
,
for
wee
be
taught
thereby
to
take
heede
that
wee
content
not
our selues
with
some
litle
taste
and
smal
entrance
:
for
his
purpose
is
to
make
a
difference
betweene
suche
on
the
one
part
as
make
some
beginning
,
and
haue
some
good
desires
&
motions
in
them
,
and
do
taste
of
the
good
word
of
God
,
and
are
in
some
sort
lightned
,
but
ouercome
with
sinful
lustes
,
&
vaine
delights
of
the
flesh
,
they
slide
back
againe
sodenly
,
they
were
but
for
a
brunt
,
it
bringeth
foorth
no
ripe
fruite
in
them
,
neither
to
speake
properly
,
did
Christe
euer
reigne
in
them
:
and
such
on
the
other
part
as
proceede
vnto
the
deepe
rooting
out
of
sinne
,
&
sure
and
fast
planting
the
truth
in
their
heartes
,
going
forwarde
dayly
from
grace
to
grace
,
and
from
strength
to
strength
,
vntil
Christe
haue
set
vp
his
throne
in
them
,
and
beare
sway
,
to
the
ouerthrow
of
the
power
of
darknes
,
and
bereuing
the
Diuel
of
the
interest
hee
had
,
and
thrusting
him
from
the
possession
which
hee
helde
:
a
doctrine
which
must
needes
doe
vs
much
good
if
wee
bleeue
it
:
and
very
needefull
to
be
vrged
instantly
,
considering
the
nature
&
disposition
of
men
at
this
day
:
they
are
afraide
of
going
too
farre
in
vertue
and
knowledge
,
they
count
it
a
needlesse
thing
to
bee
admonished
or
taught
diligentlie
,
they
take
great
scorne
to
bee
counted
such
as
may
bee
amended
,
yea
and
that
which
is
more
,
when
as
they
haue
not
learned
the
first
pointe
of
a
Christian
scholler
,
they
will
seeme
perfect
:
so
farre
are
they
from
hauing
this
abundant
entring
into
the
kingome
of
Christe
.
Learne
heere
therefore
,
dearely
beloued
,
and
learne
it
wel
,
lay
sure
hold
therof
that
it
do
not
slip
from
you
,
for
God
teacheth
vs
heere
the
onely
way
to
life
and
happines
:
let
go
the
vaine
dreames
&
doltish
opinions
of
people
sotted
in
their
ignorance
,
which
are
so
far
blinded
by
the
malice
of
Satan
,
that
which
way
soeuer
they
goe
,
still
they
are
in
hope
of
eternal
glory
,
as
though
the
way
to
heauen
were
so
brode
that
a
man
could
not
goe
out
of
it
,
and
the
entrance
so
easie
,
that
he
may
enter
when
he
wil
:
for
this
is
the
diuinitie
of
our
time
:
howsoeuer
a
man
spend
his
time
in
ignorance
,
not
caring
for
,
nor
seeking
after
the
true
knowledge
of
god
,
howsoeuer
he
be
defiled
with
foule
&
beastly
sinnes
,
that
in
deed
there
be
nothing
in
him
but
pride
,
self
loue
,
vaine
glory
,
enuie
,
gluttony
,
the
lustes
of
adulterie
,
and
such
like
,
yea
,
so
farre
,
that
the
scripture
doeth
liken
him
to
a
swine
or
a
dogge
:
yet
if
as
they
say
,
hee
haue
God
in
his
minde
,
and
can
say
,
Lorde
haue
mercy
vpon
mee
,
they
thinke
this
is
all
that
can
bee
required
of
men
,
they
wil
not
sticke
to
acquite
al
suche
:
beeing
nothing
at
al
acquainted
with
that
,
which
God
telleth
in
this
place
by
his
Apostle
,
howe
farre
men
must
proceede
in
his
feare
before
they
can
wel
warrant
themselues
to
bee
in
good
case
.
For
ye
may
as
wel
ioyne
heauen
and
hell
together
,
fire
and
water
wil
assoone
agree
,
light
and
darkenesse
,
are
as
like
one
another
,
as
the
common
faith
is
to
that
whiche
wee
are
taught
in
this
place
.
But
I
wil
returne
to
applie
this
doctrine
to
the
godly
,
for
whom
it
is
written
:
howe
they
may
,
as
wee
vse
to
say
,
make
this
thing
dead
sure
:
for
there
is
many
a
godly
man
,
which
after
long
trauel
,
and
muche
care
to
please
God
,
is
yet
so
matched
with
stubborn
nature
so
deepely
infected
and
poysoned
with
sinne
,
that
he
is
compelled
,
although
he
haue
gained
muche
and
doeth
feele
the
power
of
Gods
spirit
in
him
,
sometimes
to
bee
in
doubt
,
and
to
thinke
his
labor
but
lost
,
because
hee
cannot
get
so
great
a
victorie
as
he
would
faine
:
let
not
this
man
be
dismaied
,
but
let
him
goe
forward
,
remembring
what
is
here
promised
:
the
more
hee
wanteth
,
the
more
let
him
striue
,
and
hee
shal
plainly
perceiue
,
that
God
regardeth
his
care
and
trauel
,
considereth
his
sighes
and
grones
,
and
wil
perfourme
all
his
desires
:
let
him
remember
that
these
men
whome
S.
Peter
wrote
vnto
,
had
obteined
the
precious
faith
,
did
knowe
and
were
established
in
the
present
truth
,
&
yet
they
were
not
so
far
but
that
they
may
bee
moued
to
make
their
election
sure
,
to
seeke
a
further
entrance
into
the
kingdom
of
Christ
:
&
so
to
continue
that
which
was
but
begun
.
We
ought
the
more
to
be
moued
herevnto
,
because
the
worlde
is
euer
full
of
fearful
examples
,
which
if
they
were
wel
considered
,
wold
make
a
mans
haire
to
stand
vpright
,
when
hee
shal
see
that
for
want
of
this
doctrine
,
or
at
the
least
the
not
practising
of
it
,
ther
be
many
which
seeme
not
only
to
haue
had
some
good
liking
of
the
truth
,
but
also
a
great
zeale
,
euen
to
suffer
some
what
for
the
same
,
which
are
become
euen
as
cold
as
yse
,
&
scarce
any
point
of
god
lines
left
in
them
:
yea
though
they
would
beare
men
in
hand
that
they
haue
,
like
good
schollers
proceeded
to
the
highest
fourme
,
yet
when
our
great
master
shal
pose
them
,
they
shal
not
be
alowed
to
sit
in
the
lowest
:
so
dangerous
a
thing
it
is
once
to
relent
or
slacken
our
care
,
vntil
wee
haue
gotten
this
ful
assurance
,
and
made
this
rich
entrance
into
the
kingdom
of
Christ
,
that
wee
feele
our selues
to
be
led
by
the
spirit
of
God
,
and
feele
it
,
not
by
any
vaine
conceit
of
our
owne
foolish
braine
,
nor
by
sensles
securitie
,
but
by
the
working
and
fruits
of
the
same
spirit
.
If
this
were
wel
weighed
,
men
woulde
not
content
themselues
with
so
litle
,
or
nothing
:
they
woulde
not
make
so
light
account
of
teaching
:
they
would
leaue
of
their
slanderous
and
reprochful
raylinges
:
they
would
not
like
filthie
swine
wallow
themselues
stil
in
the
filthie
mire
of
their
sins
:
they
would
not
prattle
so
much
of
this
,
that
al
are
sinners
,
and
therefore
thinke
al
are
alike
,
shuffeling
together
one
with
another
:
nay
God
wil
sunder
them
,
for
he
hath
taught
here
who
bee
godly
and
faithful
,
such
as
he
taketh
and
accepteth
for
his
children
:
and
who
bee
vngodly
Infidels
,
children
of
the
diuel
,
and
heires
of
hel
.
For
in
very
deede
,
though
al
bee
sinners
,
yet
they
greatly
differ
,
for
some
continue
in
their
sinnes
,
seducing
&
deceiuing
themselues
with
vaine
hope
of
Gods
mercy
:
some
do
repent
after
the
maner
here
prescribed
them
,
which
standeth
in
this
,
that
they
clense
themselues
more
and
more
from
al
filthines
of
the
fleshe
,
and
growe
in
al
vertues
and
graces
,
vntil
they
be
decked
in
their
soules
,
with
heauenly
ornaments
,
and
haue
yelded
vp
them selues
too
haue
Christe
raigne
in
them
.
As
for
the
common
repentance
,
to
crie
only
with
words
for
mercy
,
in
some
light
measure
to
be
greeued
,
to
feare
the
iudgementes
of
God
,
and
yet
the
soule
within
nothing
changed
,
nor
the
spirite
renued
,
nor
Christe
raigning
in
the
heart
:
it
doth
but
deceiue
all
which
trust
to
it
.
Most
true
it
is
,
that
what
time
soeuer
a
sinner
doth
repent
,
hee
is
forgiuen
:
but
this
is
as
like
to
that
repentance
,
which
is
here
by
S
,
Peter
described
,
as
we
say
,
an
Apple
is
to
an
Oyster
:
forif
wee
looke
wel
vnto
them
both
,
we
shal
finde
them
to
agree
in
very
fewe
thinges
,
and
those
euen
the
least
.
Let
vs
I
say
once
again
fasten
our
steppes
in
this
way
,
let
vs
goe
forward
,
and
not
so
much
as
loke
back
,
vntil
such
time
as
we
haue
by
our
owne
experience
,
proued
that
to
bee
true
which
is
taught
by
Saint
Peter
.
For
it
is
not
enough
to
beleeue
that
this
is
true
(
although
that
be
somwhat
)
vnles
wee
trie
it
to
bee
so
by
our selues
.
Hee
is
now
a
stark
foole
which
seeth
this
to
be
the
only
way
to
happines
,
and
for
slouth
wil
not
walke
in
it
:
as
though
the
kingdom
of
heauen
were
not
worth
the
trauelling
for
.
We
may
gather
also
in
this
place
,
if
wee
bee
not
sensles
▪
howe
great
enemies
they
be
to
the
saluation
of
men
:
which
would
vtterly
debar
them
of
the
worde
,
that
is
appointed
to
bee
the
instrument
by
which
god
worketh
al
these
good
things
in
his
seruants
:
for
without
the
(
as
it
may
be
easily
gathered
here
)
we
can
do
nothing
.
It
doth
also
appeare
,
that
those
are
in
a
miserable
case
,
whose
office
and
duetie
is
,
not
onlie
to
shewe
men
some
part
of
Gods
will
,
but
to
bring
them
thus
far
as
S.
Peter
doth
require
,
if
they
be
not
wel
furnished
,
and
haue
walked
first
this
way
themselues
:
for
how
shal
they
bring
other
men
,
to
that
,
which
themselues
haue
not
,
nor
knowe
not
;
It
doeth
appeare
also
that
God
hath
shewed
a
sore
iudgement
against
that
people
,
whiche
haue
suche
a
guide
as
cannot
shewe
them
this
way
:
which
is
the
onely
way
to
heauen
:
for
doubtlesse
it
is
more
then
if
he
shoulde
thunder
vpon
them
from
heauen
,
or
fire
their
houses
ouer
their
heads
:
especially
when
they
are
so
blind
,
that
they
see
not
the
plague
,
but
thinke
themselues
in
better
case
then
those
whome
God
doth
ouer
rule
by
his
word
.
But
woe
,
&
woe
againe
be
to
those
blinde
guides
,
&
shepheards
,
which
doe
not
feed
:
&
wretched
is
that
people
which
are
as
sheepe
with
,
out
a
shepheard
.
For
how
shall
they
euer
heare
of
these
things
;
We
can
but
pitie
their
misery
,
and
desire
the
Lord
to
send
redresse
,
in
so
lamentable
and
desperate
a
case
:
which
is
thought
to
be
nothing
.
because
indeed
the
most
men
know
nothing
:
for
had
they
but
knowne
what
god
requireth
in
that
man
whom
he
wil
saue
,
though
they
were
not
partakers
of
it
themselues
,
yet
they
would
consent
&
agree
to
the
doctrine
:
and
confesse
that
there
is
no
way
to
attain
eternal
life
,
but
by
so
sound
teaching
as
may
bring
people
to
the
things
here
required
.
But
I
wil
here
make
an
end
.
O
Lorde
graunt
,
that
this
doctrine
which
thou
hast
taught
vs
in
this
thy
holy
word
,
may
enter
into
vs
,
&
dwel
in
vs
for
euer
:
that
so
we
may
be
sure
of
thy
fauour
and
of
eternal
life
,
through
Iesus
Christe
thy
deare
sonne
our
Lorde
and
only
sauiour
.
Amen
.