A
MOST
sweet
Comfort
for
an
afflicted
Conscience
.
It
is
thus
written
,
Prouerbs
,
18.
14.
The
Spirit
of
a
man
susteineth
his
infirmitie
:
But
a
wounded
Spirite
who
can
beare
?
THis
Scripture
is
not
onely
worthy
to
be
grauen
in
steel
with
the
pen
of
an
Adamant
,
and
in
letters
of
gold
;
but
also
to
be
written
and
registred
by
the
singer
of
God
his
spirit
in
the
table
of
our
harts
.
Which
sentence
briefely
speaketh
thus
much
vnto
vs
,
that
what
trouble
befalleth
a
man
(
his
minde
vnappalled
)
hee
will
indifferently
beare
it
out
;
but
if
the
spirit
of
a
man
be
once
troubled
and
dismayed
,
hee
cannot
tell
how
to
be
deliuered
.
And
no
maruell
,
for
if
the
mind
of
man
be
the
fountaine
of
comforts
,
which
ministreth
comfort
vnto
him
in
all
other
troubles
;
and
if
it
become
comfortles
,
what
shall
comfort
it
?
If
it
be
void
of
helpe
,
where
shall
it
bee
helped
?
If
the
eye
which
is
the
light
of
the
body
be
darknes
,
how
great
is
that
darkenes
?
If
the
salt
which
sauoureth
all
things
be
vnsauourie
,
for
what
is
it
good
?
If
the
minde
which
susteineth
all
troubles
bee
troubled
,
howe
intollerable
is
that
trouble
?
To
shew
this
the
better
,
we
will
first
declare
how
great
a
punishment
of
GOD
this
wound
of
Conscience
is
:
Secondly
wee
will
teach
howe
this
trouble
of
minde
may
be
preuented
and
auoyded
:
Lastly
we
will
set
down
how
Gods
children
faling
in
some
measure
into
this
affliction
of
spirit
may
bee
recouered
out
of
it
.
For
the
first
,
the
grieuousnes
of
this
malladie
is
seene
,
either
by
some
due
consideration
of
the
persons
that
haue
felt
it
;
or
by
some
wife
comparison
made
betweene
this
griefe
of
minde
,
and
other
outwarde
griefes
incident
vnto
a
man
.
The
persons
in
whom
we
may
consider
this
wounded
spirit
,
are
either
meerely
naturall
men
,
or
such
as
bee
renued
by
the
spirit
of
GOD
:
The
men
meerely
naturall
,
are
either
the
Heathen
such
as
neuer
knew
God
in
Christ
or
carnall
professors
such
as
haue
not
professed
Christianitie
aright
.
If
wee
looke
among
the
Heathen
,
how
many
of
them
haue
willingly
gone
vnder
pouertie
,
and
haue
been
content
to
vnburden
themselues
of
al
worldly
treasures
?
Howe
haue
some
of
them
(
their
mindes
beeing
vnappalled
)
suffred
imprisonment
,
exile
,
&
extreame
tortures
of
bodies
;
rather
than
they
woulde
betray
Countries
?
Howe
many
of
them
hauing
deuoured
many
iniuries
,
and
borne
outwarde
troubles
,
with
some
ease
and
with
no
resistance
,
whilst
their
mindes
were
at
liberty
?
And
yet
looke
not
into
the
meanest
,
but
the
best
and
most
excellent
men
among
them
,
euen
their
wisest
Philosophers
sweete
Orators
and
exquisite
Poets
,
who
in
bearing
and
forbearing
thought
the
chiefest
point
of
vertue
to
consist
;
and
yee
shall
see
when
some
great
distresse
of
minde
did
wound
them
,
some
woulde
make
an
ende
of
it
by
preparing
a
Cup
of
deadly
poyson
;
some
woulde
violently
and
voluntarily
run
on
the
enemies
pikes
;
some
woulde
throwe
downe
themselues
from
hye
Mountaines
;
some
would
not
sticke
to
stab
most
monstrously
their
owne
bodies
with
Daggers
;
or
such
like
instruments
of
death
:
all
which
men
woulde
seeme
to
haue
great
courage
in
susteining
many
harmes
,
so
long
as
their
mindes
were
not
ouermastred
.
But
when
the
diuine
and
supreame
Essence
(
which
they
acknowledged
)
did
by
his
power
crosse
and
ouerturne
their
witty
deuises
and
headstrong
attempts
,
so
as
without
hope
of
remedie
they
were
hampered
in
pensiuenes
and
sorow
of
minde
,
then
beeing
not
able
to
turne
themselues
vnder
so
heauy
a
burthen
,
they
shrunke
down
and
by
violent
death
woulde
ridde
themselues
of
that
disquietnes
and
impatiencie
of
their
troubled
mindes
.
But
let
vs
come
nearer
;
and
whether
wee
behold
the
Papists
,
or
the
Familie
of
loue
,
or
the
common
sort
of
Christians
,
wee
shall
see
they
will
passe
quietly
through
many
afflictions
,
whether
for
that
they
haue
a
spirite
of
slumbring
or
numbers
cast
vppon
them
;
or
whether
because
they
haue
brawned
themselues
through
some
senceles
blockishnes
,
as
men
hewen
out
of
hard
Oakes
,
or
grauen
out
of
marble
stones
I
know
not
.
But
yet
when
the
Lord
shall
let
loose
the
cordes
of
their
consciences
,
and
shall
set
before
their
faces
their
sinnes
committed
;
see
what
a
fearfull
end
they
haue
,
whilst
some
of
them
by
hanging
themselues
,
some
by
casting
themselues
into
the
water
,
some
by
cutting
their
owne
throates
haue
rid
themselues
out
of
this
intollerable
griefe
.
Nowe
wherein
is
the
difference
that
some
dye
so
sencelesly
,
and
some
dispatch
them selues
so
violently
?
Surely
the
one
feeling
no
sinne
,
depart
like
brutish
Hogs
;
the
other
surcharged
with
sinne
,
dye
like
barking
Dogs
.
But
let
vs
come
to
the
children
of
God
,
who
haue
in
some
degree
felt
this
wound
of
minde
;
and
it
will
appeare
both
in
the
members
and
in
the
heade
,
of
all
burthens
to
bee
a
thing
most
intollerable
to
susteine
a
wounded
Conscience
.
And
to
begin
with
,
let
vs
set
in
the
first
ranke
Iob
,
that
man
of
God
commended
vnto
vs
by
the
holy
Ghost
for
a
myrrour
of
patience
,
who
although
for
his
riches
hee
was
the
wealthiest
man
in
the
land
of
Huz
;
for
his
authoritie
,
might
haue
made
afraid
a
great
multitude
;
and
for
his
substance
,
was
the
greatest
of
all
the
men
in
the
East
:
Yet
when
the
Shabeans
violently
tooke
away
his
cattell
;
when
the
fier
of
God
falling
from
heauen
burnt
vp
his
sheepe
and
his
seruaunts
;
when
the
Chaldeans
had
taken
away
his
Cammels
;
when
a
great
winde
smote
down
his
house
vpon
his
children
;
although
indeed
he
rent
his
garments
,
which
was
not
so
much
for
impatiencie
,
as
to
shewe
that
he
was
not
vnsensible
in
these
euils
:
Yet
it
is
saide
that
hee
worshipped
and
blessed
the
name
of
the
Lorde
,
saying
:
Naked
came
I
out
of
my
mothers
wombe
,
and
naked
shall
I
retur●e
thither
againe
:
The
Lord
giueth
and
the
Lord
taketh
away
,
Blessed
be
the
name
of
the
Lord
.
Howbeit
beholde
when
at
the
strange
conference
of
his
comfortles
friends
,
his
minde
began
to
be
agast
,
which
was
not
so
in
all
his
former
tryall
:
when
his
conscience
began
to
be
troubled
;
when
he
saw
the
Lord
fasten
on
him
sharp
arrowes
,
and
to
set
him
vp
as
as
a
Butte
to
shoote
at
;
when
hee
thought
God
caused
him
to
possesse
the
sinnes
of
his
youth
;
this
glorious
patterne
of
patience
coulde
not
beare
his
griefe
:
he
is
heauy
,
&
now
may
commende
to
all
the
Image
of
a
wounded
spirite
,
that
shall
come
after
.
Dauid
,
a
man
chosen
according
to
the
Lords
owne
hart
;
Ezekiah
,
a
pure
worshiper
of
God
,
and
carefull
restorer
of
pure
Religion
;
Ieremiah
,
the
Prophet
of
the
Lorde
,
sanctified
and
ordained
to
that
Office
before
hee
was
formed
in
his
mothers
wombe
,
were
rare
and
singular
in
the
graces
&
fauour
of
God
:
yet
when
they
felt
this
wound
piercing
them
with
griefe
of
hart
,
they
wer
as
Sparrows
mourning
;
as
Cranes
chattering
;
as
Pellicans
casting
out
fearefull
cries
;
they
thought
themselues
as
in
the
graues
;
they
wished
to
haue
dwelt
solitarily
;
they
were
as
bottels
parched
in
the
smoke
;
they
were
as
Doues
mourning
,
not
able
without
sighes
and
grones
to
vtter
their
words
;
their
harts
cloue
to
the
dust
,
and
their
tongues
to
the
roofe
of
their
mouths
.
But
aboue
all
;
(
if
these
were
not
sufficient
to
perswade
vs
in
this
doctrine
)
there
remaineth
one
example
,
whom
we
affirme
to
be
the
perfect
anatomie
of
an
afflicted
Conscience
.
This
is
the
Lord
&
Sauior
IESVS
CHRIST
the
Image
of
the
father
,
the
head
of
the
body
,
the
myrror
of
all
graces
,
the
wisedome
,
righteousnes
,
holines
,
and
redemption
of
all
the
Saintes
;
who
susteined
the
Crosse
euen
from
his
youth
vpward
:
and
besides
pouerty
,
basenes
,
hunger
,
did
willingly
goe
vnder
the
great
trouble
of
contempt
and
reproch
,
and
that
among
them
where
he
shuld
haue
had
a
right
deserued
honor
,
in
respect
of
the
Doctrine
he
taught
them
,
and
in
regard
of
the
manifolde
myracles
wroght
among
them
;
as
the
healing
of
the
sicke
,
the
giuing
sight
to
the
blinde
,
the
restoring
of
life
to
the
deade
:
This
vnkindnes
neuertheles
,
did
so
much
strike
him
,
as
at
what
time
hee
was
set
as
a
Sacrifice
for
al
,
when
he
was
to
beare
our
infirmities
,
&
carry
our
sorrowes
,
at
what
time
hee
was
plagued
and
smitten
of
God
,
humbled
and
wounded
for
our
transgressions
,
when
hee
should
be
broken
,
for
our
iniquities
,
&
the
chastisement
of
our
peace
was
vpon
him
,
then
he
cryed
out
;
My
soule
is
heauie
euen
vnto
the
death
:
Then
hee
prayeth
,
Lord
if
it
be
possible
,
let
this
Cup
passe
from
mee
:
But
how
prayeth
hee
?
euen
with
sweating
;
howe
sweateth
hee
?
euen
droppes
of
blood
;
how
long
prayeth
hee
?
Three
times
:
when
ends
his
agony
?
not
vntill
he
was
dead
:
What
saide
hee
beeing
ready
to
depart
?
My
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
mee
.
Was
this
for
his
humane
death
as
some
haue
imagined
?
No
,
no
,
wicked
men
haue
died
without
complaint
,
whose
patience
them
might
seeme
to
exceede
his
;
it
was
his
suffering
in
his
humane
Spirite
,
which
incountred
with
the
wrath
of
God
,
his
Godhead
suppressing
it self
for
a
while
:
he
suffred
indeede
many
torments
in
body
,
but
the
wrath
of
God
did
much
more
lye
vpon
his
soule
.
If
this
consideration
of
an
afflicted
spirit
in
these
examples
doe
not
sufficiently
shew
;
what
a
grieuous
thing
it
is
to
susteine
a
wounded
Conscience
:
Let
us
proceede
to
the
comparing
of
this
with
other
euills
,
which
fall
into
the
nature
of
men
.
There
is
no
sickenes
,
but
Phisicke
prouideth
for
it
a
remedy
;
there
is
no
sore
but
Chirurgery
will
affoorde
it
a
salue
;
Friendship
helpeth
pouertie
;
There
is
no
imprisonment
,
but
there
is
hope
of
libertie
;
Suite
and
fauour
recouer
a
man
from
banishment
;
Authoritie
and
time
weare
away
reproch
:
But
what
Phisicke
cureth
?
what
Chirurgerie
salueth
?
what
riches
,
ransome
,
what
countenance
beareth
out
?
what
authoritie
asswageth
?
what
assault
dismaieth
a
troubled
Conscience
?
All
these
banded
togeather
in
league
,
(
though
they
wold
conspire
a
confederacie
)
cannot
help
this
one
distresse
of
a
troubled
minde
;
And
yet
this
one
comforte
of
a
quiete
minde
,
doth
wonderfully
cure
,
and
comfortably
asswage
al
other
griefes
whatsoeuer
.
For
if
our
assistance
were
as
an
host
of
armed
souldiers
;
If
our
friends
were
the
Princes
and
all
the
Gouernours
of
the
earth
;
If
our
possessions
wer
as
long
as
betweene
the
East
and
the
west
;
If
our
meate
wer
as
Manna
from
heauen
;
If
our
apparrell
were
as
costly
as
the
Ephod
of
Aaron
;
If
euery
day
were
as
glorious
as
the
day
of
Christs
resurrection
;
yet
if
our
mindes
bee
appalled
with
the
iudgement
of
God
,
these
thinges
would
little
comfort
vs
.
Let
experience
speake
;
If
a
troubled
minde
impayreth
not
health
,
dryeth
not
vp
the
blood
,
consumeth
not
the
marrowe
,
pineth
not
away
the
flesh
,
consumeth
not
the
bones
;
if
it
maketh
not
al
pleasures
painfull
,
and
shortneth
not
the
life
;
surely
no
wisedome
can
councell
it
,
no
councell
can
aduise
it
,
no
aduise
can
asswage
it
,
no
asswagement
can
cure
it
,
no
eloquence
can
perswade
it
,
no
power
can
ouercome
it
,
no
Scepter
affray
it
,
nor
inchaunter
can
inchant
it
.
And
yet
on
the
contrary
,
if
a
man
languish
in
sickenes
,
so
his
hart
be
whole
,
and
is
perswaded
of
the
health
of
his
soule
,
his
sickenes
doth
not
grieue
him
:
If
a
man
bee
reproched
,
so
he
be
precious
in
the
sight
of
God
and
his
Angels
,
what
losse
hath
hee
?
If
a
man
be
bannished
,
and
yet
doubteth
not
that
heauen
is
his
Country
,
and
that
hee
is
a
Citizen
among
the
Saints
,
it
doth
not
appall
him
:
If
a
man
be
in
trouble
of
minde
,
and
findeth
peace
of
conscience
,
hee
will
quietly
digest
his
trouble
.
But
if
the
minde
bee
troubled
,
who
dareth
meete
with
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
of
Hoasts
?
who
can
put
to
silence
the
voyce
of
desperation
?
who
will
step
out
and
make
agreement
with
the
hills
to
spare
vs
,
who
dare
make
a
couenant
with
the
diuell
that
hee
would
not
lay
claime
vnto
vs
:
If
then
a
good
conscience
helpeth
all
euills
,
and
all
other
benefites
in
this
life
cannot
helpe
a
troubled
conscience
;
wee
see
it
true
in
proofe
,
which
here
is
in
prouerbe
;
The
Spirit
of
a
man
will
susteine
his
infirmitie
:
But
a
wounded
Spirit
,
Who
can
beare
it
?
Againe
,
in
all
other
afflictions
we
may
haue
some
comfort
against
sinne
;
this
is
euer
accompanied
with
sinne
.
A
man
may
be
sick
,
reproched
,
imprisoned
,
and
banished
;
&
yet
in
all
these
haue
a
cleare
conscience
,
his
owne
hart
telling
him
that
there
is
no
speciall
cause
of
these
crosses
in
him
,
but
that
hee
may
suffer
them
for
the
triall
of
his
faith
,
or
for
righteousnes
sake
and
well
dooing
:
But
when
the
Spirite
is
wounded
,
there
is
a
guiltines
of
sinne
;
and
where
a
mans
spirite
is
troubled
,
hee
suspecteth
all
his
wayes
,
hee
feareth
all
his
sin
,
he
knowes
not
what
sin
to
begin
with
,
it
breeds
such
hurly burly
in
him
,
that
when
it
is
day
hee
wisheth
for
night
;
when
it
is
night
,
he
would
haue
it
day
:
his
meate
doth
not
nourish
him
;
his
sleep
often
forsaketh
him
;
his
dreames
are
feareful
vnto
him
:
If
he
speaketh
,
he
is
little
eased
;
if
he
keepeth
silence
,
hee
boyleth
in
disquietnes
of
hart
;
the
light
doth
not
comfort
him
,
the
darkenesse
doth
grieue
him
.
To
prosecute
our
comparisons
;
where
all
other
euills
are
more
intolerable
,
because
they
bee
temporall
,
and
pursue
vs
but
to
death
:
this
beeing
not
cured
endeth
not
in
death
,
but
becommeth
eternall
.
For
euen
the
heathen
men
thought
that
death
was
the
end
of
all
misery
:
the
perswasion
whereof
made
them
(
beeing
in
some
misery
)
to
make
an
end
of
themselues
,
and
hasten
their
owne
death
,
as
Sathan
doth
make
many
nowe
a
daies
,
who
are
ignorant
of
hell
,
which
is
a
place
of
farre
greater
paines
than
any
they
can
suffer
in
this
worlde
whatsoeuer
.
Howe
be
it
a
tormented
conscience
,
if
before
it
was
begun
,
is
now
continued
;
or
if
it
was
not
before
,
now
beginneth
and
neuer
endeth
world
without
ende
.
For
though
true
it
is
,
that
sickenes
,
pouerty
,
imprisonment
,
or
bannishment
,
haue
ended
their
terme
in
death
;
yet
a
wounded
heart
which
was
temporall
in
this
life
,
is
nowe
eternall
after
this
life
:
that
which
before
death
was
in
hope
recouerable
,
is
after
death
,
made
both
vncurable
&
vnrecouerable
.
It
is
good
therefore
to
consider
,
if
euen
in
this
life
the
torment
of
conscience
be
so
fearefull
;
how
much
more
grieuous
is
it
to
susteine
it
in
hell
?
where
that
is
infinite
,
which
here
is
finite
;
where
that
is
vnmeasurable
,
which
here
is
measurable
;
where
is
the
sea
of
sorrowe
,
whereof
this
is
but
a
droppe
;
where
is
the
flame
of
that
fire
,
whereof
this
is
lesse
then
a
sparke
.
But
to
shut
vp
this
argument
:
Some
there
haue
beene
,
who
thorowe
out
all
their
life
time
,
haue
been
free
from
all
other
troubles
,
so
as
either
they
felt
them
not
all
,
or
else
in
very
small
measure
;
and
by
that
meanes
neuer
knewe
what
outward
trouble
meant
.
As
for
example
,
some
men
there
haue
been
,
who
for
sicknesse
neuer
knew
the
head-ache
;
for
pouertie
,
neuer
knewe
what
want
meant
;
who
for
discredite
,
were
neuer
euill
spoken
of
;
who
euer
put
from
them
the
euill
daye
of
the
Lorde
;
who
haue
made
a
league
with
death
as
it
were
,
&
a
couenant
with
hell
;
who
thought
they
could
crucifie
anie
crosse
,
rather
than
come
vnder
anie
Crosse
:
yet
they
could
neuer
escape
a
wounded
conscience
,
either
in
this
life
,
or
in
the
life
to
come
.
True
it
is
,
that
Gods
Children
doo
often
escape
it
,
but
the
wicked
,
and
such
as
are
borne
vnto
it
,
as
to
their
sure
inheritance
;
the
more
they
flie
from
it
,
the
more
it
pursueth
them
.
If
we
haue
transgressed
the
Ciuill
Lawes
,
the
Iudge
by
bribes
may
be
corrupted
;
if
a
man
haue
committed
some
capitall
offence
,
by
flying
the
Countrey
hee
maye
escape
the
Magistrates
hands
:
but
our
Consciences
telling
vs
that
wee
haue
sinned
against
God
;
what
bribe
shall
wee
offer
?
or
whether
shall
wee
flie
?
whether
shall
we
goe
from
his
spirite
?
whether
shall
wee
flie
from
hys
presence
?
If
we
ascend
into
heauen
,
is
not
hee
there
?
If
we
flie
to
the
vtmost
parts
of
the
sea
,
is
hee
not
there
also
?
There
needeth
no
Paritor
to
summon
vs
,
there
needes
no
Baylie
arraunt
to
fetche
vs
,
there
needes
no
accuser
to
come
in
agaynst
vs
:
sinne
will
arrest
vs
,
and
lieth
at
the
Doore
,
our
owne
Conscience
will
impanell
a
Quest
against
vs
;
our
owne
heartes
will
giue
in
Euidence
agaynst
vs
,
and
our
owne
iniquitie
will
pleade
vs
to
be
guiltie
to
our
owne
faces
?
Now
let
vs
shew
how
we
may
preuent
it
,
and
by
what
means
Gods
children
falling
into
some
degrees
of
it
,
(
for
if
it
rage
in
extremitie
,
it
is
an
euil
vnrecouerable
)
may
safely
and
quietly
bee
deliuered
from
it
.
And
here
a
iust
complaint
is
to
be
taken
vp
,
and
it
is
a
wonder
to
be
marked
(
if
we
may
wonder
at
GODS
workes
)
that
we
see
so
manie
carefull
and
watchfull
to
auoyd
other
troubles
,
and
so
few
or
none
take
anie
paines
to
escape
the
troble
of
mind
,
which
is
so
greeuous
.
We
see
men
louing
health
and
loathing
sicknes
,
in
diet
temperat
,
in
sleep
moderate
,
in
Phisick
expert
,
skilfull
to
purge
,
and
to
auoyde
such
corrupt
humours
,
which
in
time
maye
breed
(
thogh
presently
they
doo
not
bring
)
forth
sicknes
:
yet
to
auoyde
the
diseases
of
the
soule
,
no
man
abateth
his
sleepe
,
no
man
abridgeth
his
diet
,
no
man
prepareth
Phisicke
for
it
;
no
man
knoweth
when
to
be
ful
,
and
when
to
be
emptie
;
how
to
want
,
and
how
to
abound
.
Others
carried
away
with
the
loue
of
riches
,
and
verie
nigh
to
fall
into
pouertie
,
will
not
sticke
to
rise
early
,
to
take
sleep
lately
,
to
fare
hardly
,
to
teare
&
taw
their
flesh
in
labour
by
lande
and
by
water
,
in
faire
&
soule
weather
,
by
rockes
and
by
sands
,
from
far
&
from
nere
:
and
yet
to
fall
into
spirituall
decaies
,
to
auoyd
the
pouertie
of
conscience
,
no
man
taketh
such
paines
;
as
though
saluation
and
peace
of
mind
,
were
not
a
thing
worthy
the
labouring
for
.
Some
ambitiously
hunting
after
honor
,
&
not
easilye
digesting
reproaches
,
behaue
themselues
neither
sluggishly
nor
sleepely
;
but
are
actiue
in
euerie
attempt
,
by
loue
and
by
counsell
,
by
prudence
and
prowesse
,
by
wit
and
by
practise
,
by
labour
and
learning
,
by
cunning
and
diligence
to
become
famous
,
and
to
shun
a
ciuill
reproach
:
yet
to
bee
glorious
in
the
sight
of
God
and
his
Angells
,
to
fall
before
the
heauens
,
and
in
the
presence
of
the
Almightie
to
bee
couered
with
shame
and
confusion
of
conscience
,
we
make
none
accompt
,
as
they
who
neyther
vse
anye
meanes
to
obteyne
the
one
,
nor
auoyde
those
Occasions
which
maye
bring
the
other
.
Others
verie
vnwilling
to
come
within
the
reache
and
daunger
of
the
Lawe
,
that
they
may
by
reading
get
experience
howe
to
escape
imprisonment
of
bodye
,
or
confiscation
of
goods
,
wyll
be
painfull
in
penall
statutes
,
skilful
in
euery
branch
of
the
ciuill
law
;
and
especially
will
labour
to
keepe
themselues
from
treasons
,
murthers
,
fellonies
,
and
such
like
offences
of
life
and
death
:
yet
where
the
Lord
God
threateneth
the
seazure
both
of
soule
&
bodie
,
the
attaching
of
our
soules
,
the
confiscating
of
our
consciences
,
the
banishing
of
vs
from
heauen
,
the
hanging
of
vs
in
hell
,
the
suspending
of
our
saluation
,
the
adiudging
of
vs
to
condemnation
for
the
breache
of
his
Commaundements
;
few
men
sercheth
his
eternall
Lawe
,
few
men
careth
for
the
Gospell
:
neither
the
sentence
of
euerlasting
diuorsement
from
the
Lord
,
neither
the
couenant
of
reconciliation
is
esteemed
of
vs
.
And
to
reache
our
Complaint
one
Degree
farther
.
The
more
we
seek
outward
pleasures
to
auoyde
the
inward
trouble
of
minde
,
the
more
we
hast
and
runne
into
it
;
and
wee
speedely
plunge
our selues
in
a
wounded
spirite
or
wee
be
a
ware
.
Who
posteth
more
to
becom
rich
,
than
the
merchant
man
?
who
hopeth
lesse
to
become
pore
,
than
hee
that
aduentureth
great
treasures
?
who
hazardeth
his
goods
,
who
putteth
in
ieoperdie
of
his
life
;
and
yet
suddenly
he
either
rusheth
vpon
the
rocke
of
hardnesse
of
heart
,
or
else
is
swallowed
vp
of
the
gulphe
of
a
despairing
mind
:
from
which
happely
he
cannot
be
deliuered
with
a
ship
full
of
golde
.
Woful
proofe
hath
confirmed
,
how
some
men
(
whollie
set
on
plesures
,
such
as
could
not
away
to
be
sad
,
and
hedged
vp
alwaies
of
godly
sorrowe
)
haue
had
their
tables
made
snares
;
and
euen
theyr
excesse
of
pleasures
,
hath
brought
excesse
of
sorrowes
:
and
whilest
they
laboured
to
put
the
euill
daye
farre
from
them
;
they
haue
vsed
follyes
that
haue
beene
the
most
bitter
and
speedie
hang-men
of
their
fearfull
trembling
consciences
.
There
be
some
of
another
sort
,
who
neuer
dreaming
of
a
troubled
minde
,
haue
had
their
harts
set
on
nothing
but
howe
they
might
get
some
great
fame
and
renowme
;
&
therfore
haue
slipt
into
such
vaineglorious
attempts
,
and
foule
flatteries
,
as
they
haue
not
onely
lost
the
peace
of
their
Consciences
,
but
also
fallen
most
deeply
into
reprochfull
shame
,
which
they
sought
to
shun
.
Now
therefore
as
the
peace
of
conscience
and
ioy
of
minde
is
such
a
treasure
,
as
the
eye
hath
not
seene
,
the
eare
hath
not
heard
,
nor
the
tung
expressed
;
but
passeth
al
vnderstanding
:
&
as
they
only
knowe
what
the
peace
of
minde
meaneth
,
that
feele
it
;
so
they
alone
can
in
trueth
speake
of
a
troubled
minde
,
that
haue
tasted
of
it
by
experience
.
But
let
vs
shew
what
way
is
to
be
vsed
to
keepe
vs
from
this
wound
of
the
spirit
.
It
is
the
vse
of
Phisicke
,
as
to
cure
vs
of
diseases
when
wee
are
faln
into
them
;
so
to
preserue
vs
from
sicknes
before
it
hath
taken
hold
of
vs
:
it
is
the
power
of
the
Word
,
as
to
asswage
the
trouble
of
Conscience
,
when
it
doth
once
presse
vs
;
so
to
preuent
it
before
it
hath
ouertaken
vs
.
It
is
a
chiefe
point
of
worldly
wisedome
,
not
to
tarie
for
the
vse
of
phisicke
vntil
we
be
deadly
sick
;
but
to
bee
acquainted
wyth
Gods
mercifull
preseruation
to
defend
vs
from
it
;
likewise
it
is
a
chiefe
pollicie
of
a
godly
Christian
,
not
only
to
seek
comfort
when
the
agonie
is
vpon
him
;
but
also
to
vse
all
good
helpes
to
meet
with
it
before
it
comes
.
And
if
we
condemn
them
of
folly
,
who
will
not
as
well
labor
to
keep
themselues
out
of
debt
;
as
to
pay
the
debt
when
they
owe
it
:
so
it
is
a
madnes
not
to
bee
circumspect
to
auoyd
all
occasions
,
which
maye
bring
trouble
of
mind
vpon
them
;
as
wee
would
bee
prouident
to
enter
euerie
good
waye
which
maye
drawe
vs
out
of
this
trouble
,
when
wee
haue
once
entred
into
it
.
These
remedies
preseruatiue
;
are
first
the
searching
of
our
sinnes
,
&
the
examining
of
our
faith
.
The
examining
of
our
sins
,
is
either
the
due
acknowledging
of
our
sinnes
,
or
the
true
sense
and
feeling
of
our
sinnes
.
The
acknowledging
of
our
sinnes
,
is
eyther
of
those
that
bee
past
,
whether
wee
haue
vnfeinedlye
repented
vs
of
them
:
or
of
those
which
bee
present
,
whether
wee
be
truely
greued
for
them
.
Thirdly
of
those
secret
corruptions
,
which
in
the
course
of
our
life
are
likely
to
come
,
whether
wee
are
reuerently
afraide
of
them
;
and
resolue
to
suppresse
them
with
all
our
indeuour
.
Concerning
sinnes
past
,
we
must
call
to
minde
the
sinnes
done
of
old
,
in
our
youth
,
in
our
middle
age
,
in
our
olde
age
;
&
iudging
our selues
we
maye
not
bee
iudged
of
the
Lorde
;
that
accusing
of
our selues
,
sathan
haue
no
occasion
to
accuse
;
&
throwing
down
our selues
before
the
Lord
,
he
may
lift
vs
vp
.
For
manie
going
quietly
away
,
and
sleeping
in
carnall
securitie
(
notwithstanding
the
sins
of
their
youth
)
neglecting
to
make
conscience
of
their
sinnes
done
long
ago
;
sodainly
haue
falne
into
such
horrour
of
minde
,
that
(
the
violent
remembrance
of
all
their
sins
surcharging
them
)
they
haue
been
ouerwhelmed
.
This
Examination
then
dooth
rightlye
proceede
,
when
it
doth
reach
to
the
errors
of
this
life
,
&
to
the
sins
of
our
youth
;
because
many
men
(
euen
from
their
childhood
,
by
a
ciuill
righteous
life
)
hauing
escaped
grose
sins
wherewith
the
world
could
neuer
charge
them
,
haue
not
withstanding
caried
the
burthen
of
more
secret
sins
done
in
their
youth
.
Dauid
Psal.
25.
7.
prayeth
the
Lord
,
not
to
remember
the
sinnes
of
his
youth
;
Iob
(
23.
6.
)
the
man
of
God
(
confessing
that
the
Lord
writeth
bitter
things
against
him
)
saith
,
he
made
him
to
possesse
the
iniquities
of
his
youth
.
What
,
shall
wee
think
that
Dauid
or
Iob
wer
giuen
to
notorious
wickednes
in
their
youth
?
No
,
they
knewe
they
were
subiect
to
youthful
wantonnes
and
vnstaiednes
of
their
affections
;
which
thogh
it
did
not
burst
out
,
yet
it
made
them
lesse
carefull
to
glorifie
GOD
;
which
loosenes
,
is
the
way
to
leaudnes
;
which
weakenes
,
the
waye
to
strange
vanities
;
which
wantonnes
,
the
waye
to
open
wickednes
,
is
euen
in
the
best
of
Gods
children
in
the
dayes
of
their
youth
:
which
beeing
afterwards
in
the
time
of
their
regeneration
,
brought
(
as
it
were
)
to
iudgement
,
and
layde
before
their
consciences
,
doth
cause
them
to
repent
.
But
here
is
a
thing
to
bee
blushed
at
,
which
maketh
mens
eares
to
tingle
when
they
heare
;
that
manie
men
(
farre
no
doubt
from
thys
true
repentance
)
can
largely
indeed
discourse
of
theyr
sinnes
done
in
theyr
youth
;
but
in
such
a
brauerie
,
with
such
boastings
,
and
pleasing
themselues
in
the
remembraunce
of
them
;
as
besides
that
they
prouoke
others
to
sinne
;
they
likewise
set
them selues
a
flatter
backe-byas
against
Repentaunce
:
and
in
stead
of
this
Christian
examination
,
they
seeme
to
renue
the
decayed
colours
of
their
olde
sinnes
,
with
the
fresh
suite
of
their
second
plesures
conceiued
in
them
.
But
alas
what
pleasure
haue
they
in
those
things
,
whereof
they
haue
no
profit
?
what
profit
haue
they
in
those
thinges
whereof
they
should
bee
ashamed
?
neither
in
this
strein
can
we
forget
the
madnes
of
them
,
who
may
seeme
to
step
one
degree
farther
towardes
this
examination
of
sin
,
than
did
the
former
;
by
thinking
that
the
leauing
of
sinne
,
and
repenting
of
sinne
is
all
one
.
Against
this
,
both
daily
experience
and
the
word
of
God
doth
sufficiently
declare
.
Iosephs
bretheren
(
Iacob
hys
sonnes
)
who
deuised
euill
against
their
brother
,
put
him
into
the
pit
,
and
sold
him
vnto
strangers
;
did
cease
from
this
crueltie
:
but
yet
are
not
read
to
haue
remembered
their
sins
with
anie
remorce
,
vntil
thirteene
yeres
after
the
sinne
was
committed
,
as
we
may
see
in
the
processe
of
the
Historie
.
Dauid
had
left
hys
sinnes
of
murther
and
adulterie
(
as
thinking
all
quiet
and
well
)
the
space
of
a
whole
yere
;
after
which
time
(
being
admonished
by
the
Prophet
Nathan
)
hee
repented
of
it
.
And
experience
hath
tried
in
manie
,
that
though
they
left
their
sinnes
manie
yeares
agoe
,
hauing
had
some
working
of
God
in
them
;
yet
because
they
repented
not
truly
for
them
,
they
haue
rebounded
on
them
with
terrible
sights
and
fearfull
visions
,
to
humble
them
;
&
to
bring
them
to
serious
examination
of
them
,
being
done
and
left
long
since
.
Examples
whereof
wee
need
not
fetch
from
farre
,
seeing
so
manie
preachers
(
which
are
acquainted
with
fearfull
spirits
)
will
giue
witnes
hereof
.
The
frute
of
which
amazed
mindes
for
sinnes
alreadie
left
,
is
ours
,
to
beware
of
sinnes
which
are
to
come
.
And
that
other
mens
harmes
might
teach
vs
blessed
wisdome
;
let
vs
labor
not
onely
to
leaue
sin
,
which
one
may
doo
for
profite
,
for
feare
,
for
prayers
,
or
for
werisomnes
,
but
also
to
repent
of
it
for
conscience
sake
.
This
Examination
of
sins
past
,
must
bee
partly
of
those
that
wee
committed
before
our
calling
,
&
partly
of
those
which
were
done
after
our
calling
.
Euerie
man
(
especially
hauing
his
reason
reformed
by
the
Word
of
God
)
wil
grant
an
examination
of
the
life
,
before
our
true
knowledge
of
God
in
Christ
,
to
be
most
needfull
.
But
it
may
be
some
will
thinke
that
wee
need
not
be
so
precise
in
the
searching
of
those
sins
,
which
were
after
our
knowledge
;
but
seeing
of
all
other
sinnes
these
byte
sorest
and
pierce
deepest
,
for
that
they
are
aggrauated
with
all
the
menaces
of
God
going
before
and
after
sinne
.
Sinne
is
then
most
sinfull
,
when
after
we
know
the
truth
,
after
we
haue
ben
deliuered
from
sin
,
after
we
haue
been
inlightened
wyth
the
grace
of
God
,
wee
haue
falne
into
it
:
I
thinke
that
examination
most
specialy
ought
to
be
had
of
those
sins
.
Wherfore
to
it
erate
our
former
examples
in
a
new
matter
,
as
we
maye
see
the
former
kinde
of
examining
;
first
for
sinnes
before
our
calling
,
in
the
sonnes
of
Iacob
;
so
wee
haue
a
patterne
of
the
latter
in
the
practise
of
the
Prophet
Dauid
,
who
at
the
hearing
of
his
sin
was
so
troubled
in
spirit
,
that
he
could
not
rest
though
the
Prophet
tolde
him
his
sinnes
were
forgiuen
him
,
but
still
he
was
disquieted
,
as
though
hee
found
no
comfort
in
hys
spirite
.
For
as
it
fareth
with
sores
,
it
commeth
to
pas
with
sinnes
:
we
are
loath
to
haue
our
wounds
often
grated
vpon
,
we
cannot
so
well
away
to
haue
our
sores
rifled
,
seared
,
lanced
;
but
to
be
fed
with
healing
salue
:
so
we
are
hardly
brought
to
haue
our
Consciences
grownd
,
or
our
sins
ransacked
,
sifted
,
searched
,
&
ripped
vp
;
but
could
stil
haue
them
playstered
with
sweete
promises
,
and
bathed
in
the
mercies
of
God
:
whereas
it
is
farre
safer
before
incarnatiue
and
healing
Medicines
,
to
vse
corrosiue
and
mundifying
waters
,
without
which
though
some
sores
may
seem
to
cloase
and
skin
vp
apace
;
yet
they
proue
worse
,
and
be
rotten
still
at
the
coare
;
they
haue
aboue
a
thin
skin
,
&
vnderneath
rotten
flesh
.
In
like
manner
,
wee
would
cloake
,
we
wold
hide
and
couer
our
sinnes
,
as
it
were
with
a
curtaine
;
but
it
is
more
sound
Chirurgerie
to
pricke
and
pierce
our
Consciences
with
the
burning
yron
of
the
law
;
and
to
cleanse
the
wound
of
the
Soule
by
sharpe
threatenings
,
least
that
skinne
being
pulled
ouer
the
Conscience
for
a
while
,
wee
lament
the
rotten
corruption
,
which
remaines
vncured
vnderneath
,
and
so
we
be
constrained
to
crie
out
of
our
sinnes
openly
.
As
it
is
a
follye
then
to
dissemble
our
soares
whilst
they
be
curable
,
and
after
to
make
them
knowen
when
they
be
vncurable
;
so
it
is
a
great
follye
to
dissemble
our
sinnes
whilest
they
may
be
remedied
,
and
so
after
be
constrained
to
blaze
them
all
abroade
when
they
are
remedilesse
.
But
of
this
by
the
waye
,
because
wee
shall
more
largely
touch
it
in
the
last
part
to
come
.
It
is
sufficient
to
commit
sinne
before
knowledge
,
but
after
some
good
light
of
the
spirit
to
sin
,
breedeth
eyther
hardnes
of
heart
,
or
a
troubled
spirite
;
both
which
wee
shall
auoyd
,
if
in
truth
we
be
careful
to
watch
ouer
our
affections
,
and
beware
least
after
our
deliuerie
we
fall
into
sinne
againe
.
Seuerall
men
subiect
to
seuerall
sinnes
,
haue
their
seueral
checkes
in
their
consciences
:
some
are
ouercom
with
wrath
,
and
yet
after
theyr
moodie
fit
they
can
tell
,
that
the
wrath
of
man
dooth
not
accomplish
the
righteousnes
of
God
;
some
are
subiect
to
lust
,
and
after
they
saye
,
that
mans
life
hath
another
ende
;
some
slip
deeply
into
worldlines
,
and
yet
they
bee
often
weakened
with
most
terrible
checkes
of
conscience
.
Wel
,
blessed
are
they
whose
hearts
be
truly
grieued
;
&
let
them
beware
that
make
a
daliance
with
sinne
:
for
either
hardnesse
of
heart
will
ouertake
them
,
or
a
troubled
conscience
will
quite
confound
them
.
Whereby
it
comes
to
pas
,
that
many
spending
their
bodyes
on
lust
,
lament
that
euer
they
haue
so
abused
then
strength
;
many
giu'n
too
much
to
the
pleasures
of
thys
life
,
haue
griefe
comming
vppon
them
,
to
remember
howe
they
haue
spent
Gods
graces
,
banished
his
good
giftes
,
and
misspent
their
time
;
or
else
,
if
they
haue
not
this
grief
,
they
fall
into
voluptuousnes
,
and
drawe
such
a
skin
vpon
their
harts
,
as
will
cause
the
strongest
denouncement
of
Gods
iudgements
to
rebound
,
bee
they
driuen
on
neuer
so
hard
.
And
sure
it
is
the
sinne
of
this
world
,
that
men
beeing
controuled
in
their
consciences
,
whilest
they
are
a
praying
,
&
feele
a
secrete
charge
said
vppon
them
,
to
beware
of
guile
in
buying
and
selling
;
either
haue
theyr
checkes
,
and
so
grow
to
be
prophane
;
or
els
afterward
they
are
wonderfully
wounded
,
that
they
haue
beene
so
worldlye
,
so
greatly
pursuing
earthly
and
vaine
things
;
so
coldlye
purchasing
heauenlye
and
permanent
things
.
Thus
,
euen
our
priuy
thoughts
(
not
profited
)
are
breeders
of
farther
trouble
.
Now
the
remedie
against
this
is
,
willingly
and
wittingly
not
to
cherish
anie
sinne
,
to
with
that
the
Ministers
should
touch
our
most
priuie
and
secret
sinnes
,
to
bee
glad
priuately
to
be
admonished
,
to
profite
by
our
Enemyes
when
they
doo
reproach
vs
:
and
rather
desire
(
in
such
a
case
)
to
be
humbled
,
than
suffer
our selues
to
be
flattered
.
This
trying
of
our selues
must
yet
stretch
it self
farther
,
not
onely
to
the
committing
of
euill
,
but
also
to
the
omitting
of
good
.
As
when
(
after
some
good
working
of
the
spirite
,
and
feeling
thereof
)
we
begin
a
fight
and
conflict
with
our
consciences
:
thogh
I
must
pray
,
I
must
haue
time
also
to
prouide
for
my
familie
▪
if
I
go
to
heare
the
word
of
God
,
surely
I
shall
bee
in
danger
to
loose
this
profite
;
if
I
thus
attend
vpon
the
exercises
of
religion
,
I
shall
be
cut
short
in
the
vse
of
my
plesures
.
Wherefore
it
shall
be
good
to
search
our
heartes
,
both
in
the
careles
not
vsing
of
the
meanes
;
but
also
in
the
negligent
watching
ouer
the
frutes
of
the
meanes
:
saying
to
our selues
in
this
manner
;
I
haue
heard
a
Sermon
,
but
(
alas
)
without
anie
feeling
or
working
vpon
my
affections
;
I
haue
bin
praying
,
but
with
no
power
of
the
spirit
;
I
haue
receceyued
the
Sacrament
,
but
without
those
ioyes
glorious
&
vnspeakeable
,
which
I
was
woont
to
taste
of
it
;
I
sawe
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
executed
,
but
without
anie
feare
of
sinne
at
all
in
my selfe
,
or
compassion
of
the
member
censured
.
And
heere
I
dare
from
my
owne
obseruation
assuredly
affirm
,
that
outwarde
sins
haue
not
beene
at
some
times
so
grieuous
to
Gods
Children
;
as
that
they
haue
some
tymes
vsed
very
good
meanes
with
little
reuerence
&
lesse
frute
.
And
no
maruell
,
we
shal
see
many
men
at
some
times
,
not
so
much
grieued
for
the
sicknesse
it selfe
,
as
for
that
they
haue
willingly
neglected
the
meanes
,
which
might
haue
preserued
their
health
,
or
abused
the
Phisicke
that
might
haue
restored
their
health
to
them
againe
:
in
like
manner
(
I
saye
)
it
fareth
with
them
,
who
eyther
vnreuerentlye
haue
refused
the
meanes
,
which
shoulde
keepe
theyr
soules
from
surfetting
,
or
else
vnthankfullye
haue
abused
those
helpes
,
which
might
haue
recouered
them
again
.
From
hence
it
commeth
,
that
some
are
much
grieued
for
not
vsing
their
good
giftes
to
the
benefit
of
Gods
Church
;
as
others
are
troubled
for
abusing
their
good
gifts
to
the
hurt
of
Gods
Church
:
as
we
shall
see
a
rich
man
somtimes
humbled
for
not
giuing
money
to
the
poore
,
which
hee
might
haue
done
;
as
also
for
heaping
vp
riches
falsly
,
that
hee
ought
not
to
haue
done
.
And
thus
,
manie
(
hauing
receaued
good
giftes
and
graces
from
the
Lord
)
are
seasoned
and
sanctified
by
afflictions
;
wherby
they
are
taught
to
put
their
gifts
in
vre
,
and
to
offer
their
seruice
to
Christ
:
and
others
are
feare
●o
hide
their
gifts
,
which
cannot
bee
without
some
decay
of
Gods
glory
,
without
offence
to
the
weake
,
without
the
losse
of
manie
soules
,
which
otherwise
might
bee
wonne
to
the
Gospell
,
and
without
strengthening
the
hand
of
the
Aduersarie
to
slander
our
darke
and
dumbe
profession
.
All
which
things
will
in
the
end
bring
terror
gf
mind
:
because
if
the
Lord
cannot
work
vpon
vs
by
taking
away
goods
,
credit
,
wife
,
children
,
or
such
like
,
to
bring
vs
to
Repentance
;
he
will
surely
whippe
our
naked
consciences
,
hee
will
enter
euen
into
our
very
entrayles
,
and
pierce
our
secrete
bowells
.
As
wee
must
examine
our selues
thus
for
sinne
past
and
present
;
so
must
wee
vse
this
practise
in
sinnes
that
are
to
come
:
and
this
is
verie
needfull
;
for
were
it
so
,
that
our
life
and
conuersation
were
such
,
as
neither
before
nor
after
our
calling
,
any
man
could
iustlye
accuse
vs
:
Yet
the
hidden
corruption
of
our
nature
,
may
threaten
some
haynous
downefall
in
time
to
come
.
Which
hath
made
men
of
verie
good
report
and
conuersation
hang
downe
their
heads
,
and
feare
their
secret
hypocrisie
;
as
that
which
may
breake
foorth
to
the
shame
of
all
their
former
life
in
time
to
come
.
But
because
we
forgate
to
speak
of
them
,
that
in
the
examining
of
their
liues
past
,
are
much
grieued
for
the
want
of
sinceritie
,
and
priuie
vainglorie
in
themselues
;
let
vs
beware
we
go
to
the
searching
of
our
hearts
in
sinne
.
To
come
to
speake
somewhat
of
those
men
troubled
for
this
priuie
pride
,
they
are
touched
or
not
touched
.
If
the
veyle
of
sinne
was
great
in
them
,
that
it
hid
Christ
from
them
;
it
is
the
good
will
of
god
,
that
by
this
sight
of
their
most
secret
sinnes
they
shuld
come
to
see
the
righteousnes
that
is
in
Christ
Iesus
;
and
so
they
shall
be
kept
the
better
from
being
Iusticiarie
Pharisies
:
for
when
beeing
a
long
time
well
brought
vp
,
&
leading
a
ciuill
life
,
the
Diuell
would
perswade
vs
of
some
inherent
righteousnes
in
vs
;
It
is
the
wisedome
of
God
to
touch
vs
with
the
conscience
of
most
hidden
corruptions
,
as
allso
to
make
knowen
vnto
vs
,
that
euen
from
our
birth
there
was
a
secret
feede
of
sinne
in
vs
,
which
(
without
the
Lord
watching
ouer
vs
)
woulde
surely
haue
broken
forth
to
his
dishonor
.
As
for
them
which
haue
had
some
woorking
in
them
,
and
yet
are
often
plunged
in
sore
distresses
;
this
trouble
commeth
to
them
for
two
especiall
causes
;
either
for
some
hypocrisie
,
which
they
did
more
in
showe
than
in
truth
;
wherefore
the
Lorde
bringeth
them
backe
agayne
to
see
their
corrupt
proceedings
,
&
that
they
may
knowe
that
al
their
religion
is
but
hipocrisie
,
and
all
their
righteousnes
to
bee
but
vnrighteousnes
:
or
for
the
abusing
of
their
knowledge
,
in
that
they
made
it
but
a
mask
to
iuggle
in
,
and
that
they
made
theyr
affections
to
fight
with
their
owne
iudgments
.
Wee
must
remedie
this
,
by
not
thinking
of
our selues
aboue
that
that
is
meete
,
and
by
labouring
to
embrace
the
truth
.
And
here
let
vs
note
,
that
many
of
gods
Children
accuse
themselues
of
hypocrisie
,
when
indeede
they
offend
not
in
it
.
And
yet
this
accusation
ariseth
from
some
fault
:
for
though
they
haue
done
things
in
truth
,
yet
becaus
they
stroue
not
to
see
their
secrete
corruptions
,
in
some
other
matters
;
they
susteine
this
troubled
minde
.
So
that
there
is
nothing
harder
than
to
sift
and
serch
our
owne
hearts
at
the
bottome
,
whether
we
respect
our
sins
past
or
present
,
whether
we
we
looke
to
our
priuy
pride
,
hidden
wants
,
or
secret
corruptions
.
And
to
retourne
from
whence
wee
were
digressed
,
to
the
examination
of
our
heartes
.
In
sinnes
to
come
,
let
vs
obserue
that
in
Gods
children
there
is
such
a
iealousie
,
that
they
tremble
at
the
verie
first
motions
and
quake
at
the
least
occasion
to
sinne
,
although
because
vice
will
sit
in
residence
very
nere
vnto
vertue
;
there
may
be
in
them
somtime
too
much
scrupulousnes
:
this
feare
causeth
the
dearest
of
the
Saintes
of
God
to
reason
on
this
sort
;
O
Lord
,
I
see
how
many
excellent
men
in
gifts
,
and
constant
in
profession
for
a
long
time
,
whose
end
hath
not
answered
their
Beginnings
;
whose
death
was
not
like
to
their
liues
.
This
is
true
,
whether
we
looke
into
the
word
or
into
the
world
:
and
it
is
a
thing
that
maye
much
humble
vs
.
For
though
we
maye
remember
what
wee
haue
been
,
and
knowe
what
wee
are
;
yet
who
can
tell
what
may
come
vnto
him
heereafter
.
Oh
that
the
serious
meditation
heereof
,
would
dwell
long
vpon
our
consciences
:
that
with
a
holie
iealozie
wee
might
preuent
that
sin
that
is
to
come
.
But
alas
,
there
bee
some
wayne
people
,
whych
thinke
it
no
masterie
to
offer
themselues
to
masking
,
minstrelsie
and
dauncing
,
nor
to
runne
into
quarrells
,
braules
and
contentions
;
as
though
they
had
theyr
eares
,
theyr
eyes
,
theyr
hands
and
theyr
feete
in
their
owne
power
,
and
at
commaundement
to
vse
&
gouerne
as
themselues
list
.
Howbeit
,
GODS
Children
better
fenced
with
hys
grace
,
than
those
bolde
buzzardes
,
are
afrayde
of
these
occasions
;
as
knowing
full
well
,
that
theyr
eyes
maye
soone
bee
prouoked
to
lust
,
their
eares
maye
quicklye
listen
vnto
vnchast
delightes
,
their
handes
maye
sodainely
strike
a
deadly
blowe
,
and
their
feete
may
easely
be
snared
in
the
spreaded
nettes
of
carnall
pleasures
.
Beware
O
man
,
bee
circumspect
O
Woman
,
that
thou
prostitute
not
thy selfe
to
too
much
libertie
:
for
althogh
in
comming
to
such
lasciuious
&
contentious
places
thou
diddest
purpose
none
euill
,
yet
for
thy
ventring
with
out
warrant
,
thou
mayst
bee
ouer
thy
shooes
in
sinne
,
and
plunged
in
some
wicked
attempts
ouer
head
and
cares
,
ere
thou
beest
aware
.
And
yet
because
vice
is
so
confine
vnto
vertue
,
beware
also
of
superstition
:
for
still
the
enemie
laboureth
to
make
thee
too
hardie
in
sinne
,
or
else
he
will
cause
thee
to
be
too
fearfull
and
superstitious
;
eyther
hee
will
puffe
thee
vp
with
presumption
,
or
assault
thee
with
desperation
.
To
these
tentations
our
nature
is
very
appliable
:
first
to
presumption
,
as
maye
appeare
by
our
common
speech
;
tush
,
the
Preacher
is
but
a
man
as
I
am
,
I
am
sure
he
hath
infirmities
as
others
haue
;
wee
are
no
Angels
,
our
nature
is
corrupt
,
we
are
but
men
,
I
am
sure
you
would
not
haue
vs
Gods
.
Thus
the
diuell
commeth
to
tempt
;
but
he
apparelleth
himselfe
in
another
sute
when
hee
commeth
to
accuse
:
and
then
of
a
flye
he
maketh
an
elephant
,
of
the
very
smallest
pricke
of
a
pin
a
gloabe
of
the
whole
earth
,
of
a
moal-hill
a
mountain
:
&
presseth
silly
soules
with
fear
&
terror
,
that
they
know
not
how
to
winde
themselues
.
If
he
cannot
bring
them
to
make
conscience
where
they
shuld
make
conscience
,
hee
will
labour
to
bring
them
to
make
conscience
where
they
need
make
no
conscience
.
He
careth
not
whether
thou
be
remisse
or
superstitious
,
so
thou
be
one
of
them
.
If
he
cannot
get
you
to
follow
the
epicurisme
of
the
world
,
as
Libertines
in
diet
and
apparell
;
hee
wil
make
you
so
precise
,
as
to
thinke
it
a
hainous
sinne
,
to
eare
one
bit
of
meate
,
or
to
weare
one
ragge
of
cloath
more
than
for
necessity
.
How
needfull
therefore
it
is
to
saile
with
an
euen
course
,
we
may
coniecture
by
other
thinges
which
will
bewraye
the
corruption
of
our
nature
.
In
the
time
of
a
plague
we
shall
see
some
will
be
so
bold
,
that
without
anie
lawfull
calling
or
godly
warraunt
,
they
will
rush
into
places
infected
;
and
then
falling
sicke
,
their
conscience
pricks
them
for
their
tempting
of
God
by
an
vnaduised
boldnes
in
the
instaunt
moment
of
theyr
death
.
Others
plunged
as
deeply
in
a
quite
contrarie
extremitye
,
are
too
fearefull
when
they
doo
but
heare
of
sickenesse
;
and
for
very
feare
haue
been
brought
to
deaths
dore
onely
by
imagining
themselues
to
haue
been
infected
,
when
they
haue
beene
most
free
,
who
oftentimes
haue
euen
died
,
and
that
without
anie
naturall
cause
that
euer
could
be
knowen
,
but
onely
through
immoderate
fear
&
the
iudgement
of
God
comming
vpon
them
for
their
infidelitie
and
vnbeliefe
.
Thus
it
is
with
vs
in
Christianitie
,
in
that
as
well
the
oppressing
our selues
with
too
much
feare
to
be
ouercome
,
as
the
carnall
securitie
,
in
not
fearing
to
bee
ouercome
,
maye
bring
sinne
vpon
vs
.
God
his
children
must
labor
for
a
measure
,
and
that
must
be
sought
for
in
the
Word
,
which
wyll
teach
them
how
they
shall
neither
decline
on
the
right
hand
,
nor
on
the
left
;
but
wil
guide
them
in
the
narrowe
way
,
showing
in
euery
thing
what
is
the
vertue
,
what
is
the
vice
;
what
is
the
meane
,
what
is
the
extreame
.
Among
manie
Examples
,
let
vs
consider
of
zeale
,
a
most
precious
vertue
in
Christianitie
,
so
long
as
it
is
free
from
the
extremities
.
If
we
be
cold
in
zeale
,
it
is
a
sinne
on
the
left
hand
:
if
we
bee
zealous
without
knowledge
,
it
is
preposterous
,
and
becommeth
a
sinne
on
the
right
hand
.
But
can
wee
not
come
to
some
perfection
?
No
,
if
you
vnderstand
it
for
an
absolute
vnspottednes
;
albeit
to
that
perfection
which
the
Scripture
taketh
for
soundnesse
,
truth
,
and
sinceritie
of
hart
,
which
is
voyd
of
careles
remissenes
,
we
may
come
.
Neither
doth
the
lord
deal
with
vs
after
our
sins
,
nor
reward
vs
after
our
iniquities
:
in
whole
eies
the
most
glorious
actions
of
men
,
are
but
as
waters
flowing
purely
from
the
Conduit
,
but
defiled
by
passing
through
a
filthy
chanell
:
Wherefore
although
wee
haue
our
imperfections
,
let
vs
not
seeke
to
be
more
righteous
than
we
can
be
;
saying
for
euerie
errour
of
this
life
,
Oh
,
I
am
none
of
Gods
hys
sonnes
,
I
am
none
of
hys
daughters
:
for
I
cannot
find
that
perfection
in
me
,
which
is
to
be
required
.
But
let
vs
comfort
our selues
in
the
truth
of
our
hearts
,
and
singlenes
of
our
desires
to
serue
God
,
because
he
is
God
;
and
so
wee
shall
bee
accepted
of
God
.
I
speake
this
to
this
end
,
that
poore
soules
might
haue
confort
,
&
know
that
if
they
abhor
sinne
as
sinne
,
if
they
examine
themselues
for
it
,
if
they
feare
to
fall
into
it
;
the
Lord
will
not
pursue
them
with
the
rigor
of
his
lawe
,
but
wil
giue
them
the
sweetnesse
of
his
promises
;
they
are
no
more
vnder
the
curse
,
but
vnder
grace
.
But
farther
to
inforce
our
Exhortation
,
to
auoyde
too
scrupulous
feare
,
which
hindereth
the
true
examination
of
our
heartes
:
let
vs
thinke
that
it
happeneth
in
the
spirituall
conflict
as
in
ciuill
war
.
Wee
read
that
manie
Citties
being
in
great
securitie
,
haue
sodainly
both
been
assaulted
&
ouerthrowen
;
as
also
,
how
some
Countries
(
too
much
negligent
in
the
meanes
)
thorough
an
excessiue
fearefulnes
,
haue
incouraged
theyr
Enemies
with
more
greedie
violence
to
pray
vpon
them
.
With
such
kinde
of
stratagems
our
aduersarie
the
diuell
beeing
well
acquainted
,
doth
often
practise
this
pollicie
.
If
hee
see
vs
without
all
fear
too
quietly
to
rest
in
our selues
,
he
thinketh
his
assault
must
needes
be
the
stronger
,
because
our
assistaunce
is
the
weaker
.
Againe
,
if
he
descrieth
in
vs
a
cowardly
fear
and
fainting
of
heart
,
before
wee
once
begin
to
ioyne
battaile
with
him
;
hee
will
set
vppon
our
immoderate
feare
,
and
as
villainously
as
sodenly
stab
vs
to
the
heart
,
&
make
a
present
spoyle
of
vs
.
Common
practise
dooth
farther
teach
vs
,
that
when
we
can
heare
the
word
without
all
trembling
at
God
hys
iudgements
,
when
wee
can
pray
without
all
feare
before
the
Maiestie
of
God
,
when
wee
can
come
to
the
Discipline
of
the
Church
without
all
reuerence
of
the
ordinance
of
the
Lorde
;
all
is
in
vaine
.
Againe
,
let
vs
heare
with
too
much
trembling
,
&
wee
shall
learne
nothing
;
let
vs
pray
with
too
seruil
a
fear
,
&
our
worshipping
of
God
will
be
(
without
all
comfort
)
vnchearfull
.
Thus
if
we
neither
lessen
sinne
,
that
is
sinne
indeed
;
neither
make
sinne
of
that
which
is
not
sinne
:
in
●●uth
it
is
good
to
proceed
to
this
threefolde
examination
and
to
laye
the
edge
of
this
doctrin
nere
our
affections
,
because
manie
will
be
found
in
this
ripenes
of
knowledge
and
hardnes
of
conscience
to
speake
,
dispute
and
declare
of
all
these
things
very
skilfully
,
with
flickring
in
the
circumference
of
the
brain
,
and
not
sitting
at
the
ground
of
the
hart
,
doo
seale
vp
a
more
iust
sentence
of
condemnation
against
them
.
To
help
this
euil
we
must
meditate
deeply
of
the
Law
&
the
Gospell
,
together
with
the
appurtenances
of
them
both
,
that
finding
our selues
farre
from
Gods
blessings
by
the
law
,
&
seing
our
selues
ouer
to
the
curses
due
to
the
breakers
of
the
Lawe
,
wee
maye
raise
vp
some
sense
of
sin
in
our selues
.
Yet
herein
we
must
not
stay
our
foote
but
goe
a
farther
stryde
:
for
whereas
manie
by
a
diligent
view
of
the
lawe
,
haue
come
to
the
sense
of
sinne
in
themselues
,
and
saw
plainly
their
own
condemnation
;
yet
because
they
labored
not
to
see
their
guiltinesse
acquited
by
the
remission
in
Christ
,
they
plunged
themselues
into
a
bottomles
sea
of
sorrowes
.
Others
haue
passed
these
degrees
,
and
hithertoo
haue
made
these
steppes
to
auoyd
this
wound
of
Conscience
;
and
yet
haue
come
also
too
short
,
and
missed
of
the
marke
:
who
because
of
the
sence
of
sinnes
pardoned
by
the
death
of
Christ
,
they
felt
not
also
the
vertue
of
his
passion
crucifiyng
sinne
in
them
,
but
sawe
that
with
the
remission
of
sinne
was
not
ioyned
the
mortification
of
sin
;
and
feared
that
there
was
no
forgiuenes
for
them
,
but
still
languishing
with
sorow
,
they
thought
them-selues
to
stand
charged
with
their
former
guiltines
.
Yea
,
that
which
is
more
,
for
that
such
men
haue
not
beene
instructed
,
nor
surely
haue
beene
grounded
in
the
Doctrine
of
Christes
death
and
resurrection
;
it
is
for
that
they
sawe
not
as
well
power
flowing
from
his
death
to
slay
sinne
in
them
,
as
vertue
to
pardon
sin
in
them
;
for
that
they
felt
not
as
well
strength
to
Sanctification
,
streaming
from
the
rising
againe
of
Christ
,
as
they
were
perswaded
of
iustification
&
righteousnes
therein
.
They
haue
lyne
still
bleeding
at
the
heart
,
in
such
sort
as
the
wound
of
griefs
could
hardlye
or
neuer
bee
staunched
.
Wherefore
let
vs
strengthen
our
weake
soules
wyth
thys
seuen-fold
coard
of
consolation
,
agaynst
these
bitter
assaultes
:
let
vs
first
labour
to
know
sinne
,
then
to
sorrowe
for
sinne
,
after
to
feele
our
sinnes
in
Christ
forgiuen
,
further
to
looke
for
power
to
crucifie
the
same
,
then
to
lay
holde
on
iustification
by
his
resurrection
;
and
lastly
,
hope
for
strength
to
proceed
from
thence
,
to
further
vs
in
sanctification
and
holines
of
life
,
euen
vnto
the
end
.
And
thus
much
briefly
for
the
second
thing
which
wee
matched
in
companie
with
the
examination
of
sinne
,
euen
the
tryall
of
faith
:
both
which
rightly
vsed
,
shall
in
some
measure
sauegard
vs
from
the
trouble
of
an
afflicted
minde
.
Now
let
vs
hasten
to
the
third
part
of
our
Deuision
;
to
shew
how
Gods
children
being
fallen
into
this
wound
of
spirit
,
may
be
holpe
out
of
it
:
which
(
God
willing
)
wee
will
also
performe
,
after
we
haue
aunswered
a
necessarie
obiection
;
which
(
in
the
former
part
)
might
seeme
to
encounter
against
vs
.
There
is
no
man
but
will
graunt
,
that
Dauid
,
Iob
,
and
others
of
the
Saints
of
God
,
had
a
sight
of
their
sinnes
,
a
sorow
for
their
sinnes
,
a
taste
of
the
remission
of
their
sinnes
;
and
yet
how
commeth
it
to
pas
,
that
these
men
were
so
troubled
in
minde
?
To
this
I
answere
,
that
their
trouble
so
befell
them
,
either
for
falling
in
some
of
these
former
things
;
or
els
they
were
rather
afflicted
for
tryall
of
their
faith
,
than
for
persecuting
of
sinne
in
them
.
And
therefore
be
it
alwayes
prouided
,
that
wee
thinke
not
euerie
conflict
of
Conscience
,
continually
or
chiefely
to
bee
for
the
pursuing
of
our
sinnes
:
but
sometimes
and
principally
,
that
it
commeth
for
the
trial
of
our
faith
:
and
yet
secondarily
or
lesse
principally
,
for
the
scorging
of
sinne
,
as
wee
may
see
in
Iob.
Whereuppon
let
all
men
bee
admonished
,
when
they
see
good
men
thus
humbled
and
throwen
down
in
mind
,
to
laye
their
handes
on
theyr
mouthes
from
saying
;
Surely
these
men
are
but
hipocrites
,
doubtles
these
men
be
great
sinners
,
the
Lord
hath
found
out
their
iniquitie
,
the
Lord
hath
discouered
their
hypocrisie
.
For
good
reason
there
is
,
that
such
silence
should
be
vsed
:
for
the
Lorde
maye
as
well
make
triall
of
their
faith
,
as
take
punishment
of
theyr
sinnes
.
For
if
such
affliction
should
alwaies
and
chieflye
be
sent
for
sinne
,
then
it
shuld
follow
that
all
others
as
they
exceeded
them
in
sin
,
should
also
exceed
them
in
the
punnishment
of
sinne
.
But
now
comming
to
the
saluing
of
this
soare
,
I
shall
seeme
verie
straunge
in
my
cure
:
and
so
much
the
more
to
bee
wondered
at
,
by
how
much
in
manner
of
proceeding
I
discent
from
the
most
sort
of
men
herein
.
I
am
not
ignoraunt
,
that
manie
visiting
afflicted
Consciences
,
crye
still
;
Oh
comfort
them
,
oh
speake
ioyfull
and
comfortable
things
vnto
them
.
Yea
,
there
bee
some
,
and
those
most
excellently
learned
,
who
in
such
cases
are
full
of
these
and
such
lyke
speeches
.
Why
art
thou
so
heauie
my
brother
?
Why
art
thou
so
cast
downe
my
sister
?
Bee
of
good
cheere
:
take
it
not
so
greeuously
.
What
is
there
that
you
should
feare
?
God
is
mercifull
,
Christ
is
a
Sauiour
.
These
bee
speeches
of
good
comfort
indeed
:
but
they
often
doo
the
poore
soules
as
much
good
herein
,
as
if
they
should
powre
cold
water
into
their
bosomes
;
when
as
without
farther
searching
of
their
soares
,
they
may
as
well
minister
a
maladie
as
a
medicine
:
for
as
nutritiue
and
cordiall
medicines
are
not
good
for
euerie
sicke
person
,
especially
when
the
bodye
needeth
rather
a
strong
purgation
,
than
a
matter
restoratiue
;
and
as
incarnatiue
medicines
for
the
time
allaye
the
payne
of
the
patient
;
but
after
the
greefe
becommeth
more
greuous
:
so
the
comfortable
applying
of
Gods
promises
are
not
so
profitable
for
euerie
one
that
is
humbled
,
especiallye
when
their
soules
are
rather
to
be
cast
downe
,
than
as
yet
to
bee
raised
vp
:
so
the
sugred
consolations
may
for
a
time
ouer-heale
the
conscience
,
and
abate
some
present
greefe
,
but
so
as
afterwardes
the
smart
will
be
the
sorer
,
&
the
grief
may
grow
the
greater
:
whereof
insueth
this
effect
,
that
comfort
seemeth
to
cure
for
a
while
;
but
throgh
want
of
wisdome
in
the
right
discerning
of
the
cause
,
wee
minister
one
medicine
for
another
;
and
so
for
want
of
skil
the
latter
fitte
grindeth
them
sorer
than
the
former
.
Some
there
be
,
who
without
precept
and
practise
wil
be
theyr
owne
Phisitions
:
and
these
,
so
soone
as
the
fit
commeth
vpon
them
,
thinke
it
the
best
to
chastise
and
to
chase
awaye
their
sorrowe
,
by
drinking
at
tauernes
,
by
minstrelsie
,
in
merrie
companie
,
by
purging
melancholy
,
in
phisicke
,
all
which
seeme
to
weare
away
the
paine
for
a
while
,
but
yet
after
it
byteth
more
deeplye
,
when
the
burning
feauer
of
the
spirit
shaketh
them
wyth
a
seconde
recourse
,
and
for
that
before
they
were
not
truly
searched
,
purged
,
seared
and
launced
,
it
commeth
to
passe
that
the
seconde
relaps
is
more
dangerous
than
the
first
.
To
come
to
our
purpose
wee
must
knowe
,
that
all
griefes
are
either
confused
or
distinct
:
and
sure
it
is
that
the
minde
is
appalled
eyther
for
some
cause
verye
well
knowen
to
vs
as
certaine
,
or
for
something
vnknowen
to
vs
and
vncertaine
.
To
them
which
are
troubled
with
such
blinde
griefes
,
whereof
they
can
see
no
reason
,
as
often
it
happeneth
to
Gods
Children
;
who
either
neuer
knew
God
,
or
had
but
a
general
knowledge
of
him
.
I
answere
,
that
as
I
denie
no
Phisicke
to
bee
ministred
,
if
it
in
part
proceed
from
a
naturall
cause
,
so
I
require
the
word
especially
to
shew
the
principall
and
originall
cause
to
begin
in
the
soule
.
And
this
I
doo
the
rather
,
because
I
would
haue
wisedome
both
in
considering
the
state
of
the
bodie
if
need
so
require
;
and
in
looking
chiefly
to
the
soul
,
which
so
few
thinke
of
.
If
a
man
troubled
in
conscience
come
to
a
Minister
,
it
may
be
he
will
looke
all
to
the
soule
and
nothing
all
to
the
bodie
;
if
hee
commeth
to
a
Phisition
,
hee
onely
considereth
of
the
bodie
,
&
neglecteth
the
soul
:
for
my
part
,
I
would
neuer
haue
the
Phisitions
counsell
seuered
,
nor
the
Ministers
labour
neglected
;
because
the
soule
and
bodie
dwelling
together
,
it
is
conuenient
,
that
as
the
soule
should
be
cured
by
the
word
,
by
prayer
,
and
by
fasting
,
by
threatening
,
or
by
comforting
;
so
the
bodye
also
should
bee
brought
into
some
temperature
,
by
Physicke
,
by
purging
,
by
dyet
,
by
restoring
,
by
musike
,
and
by
such
like
meanes
;
prouyding
alwayes
that
it
bee
styll
done
so
in
the
feare
of
God
,
and
wisedome
of
his
spirite
,
as
we
thinke
not
by
these
ordinarie
meanes
to
smoother
or
smoake
out
our
troubles
;
but
as
purposing
to
vse
them
as
preparatiues
,
whereby
both
our
soules
and
bodyes
may
bee
made
more
capable
of
the
spirituall
meanes
to
follow
after
.
As
we
require
these
things
to
bee
the
matter
of
our
Ministerie
in
such
a
perplexitie
;
so
I
would
wish
the
persons
ministring
to
be
men
learned
and
of
sounde
iudgement
,
wise
,
and
of
Godlye
experience
,
meeke
and
of
most
louing
spirites
:
for
when
the
troubled
patient
shal
be
perswaded
of
our
knowledge
and
discretion
,
and
therewithall
shall
perceiue
vs
to
come
in
tender
and
louyng
affections
,
I
thinke
an
enteraunce
is
in
a
manner
made
,
and
all
preiudice
is
taken
away
,
so
as
wee
may
the
more
freely
woorke
vppon
the
greeued
Conscience
;
first
bringing
them
to
the
sight
of
sinne
,
as
to
some
cause
of
their
trouble
.
Heerein
wee
must
labour
to
put
awaye
all
confusion
and
blindnesse
of
sorrowe
,
endeuoring
by
wisedome
to
bring
the
parts
wounded
to
some
certaine
obiect
&
matter
of
their
trouble
;
and
so
drawe
out
of
them
the
confession
of
some
especiall
,
secrete
and
seuerall
sinne
;
I
say
secrete
and
seuerall
sinnes
,
because
I
know
,
how
manie
(
through
a
palpable
blindnes
or
disordered
discerning
of
sinne
)
talke
nothing
so
much
as
of
sinne
;
and
yet
they
eyther
discrie
seuerall
sinnes
,
or
they
will
not
bee
brought
to
acknowledge
theyr
secrete
sinnes
:
whereof
the
one
proceedeth
of
the
ignorance
of
the
Lawe
of
God
,
the
other
of
selfe
loue
,
which
maketh
vs
loath
in
our
trauel
of
mind
to
shame
our selues
.
Now
that
the
confession
of
perticular
sinnes
is
requisite
,
it
maye
appeare
by
the
two
and
thirtieth
Psalme
,
wherein
(
beeing
a
Psalme
of
instruction
,
concerning
the
forgiuenesse
of
sinnes
)
the
Prophet
(
by
his
owne
experience
)
teacheth
vs
,
that
hee
could
finde
no
reliefe
of
hys
sicknes
,
vntill
he
had
remembred
,
and
made
confession
of
his
sinnes
.
What
,
shal
we
thinke
that
the
Prophet
of
God
(
taught
so
wonderfully
by
the
word
and
by
the
spirite
)
did
not
see
his
sinnes
before
?
Be
it
farre
from
vs
.
Rather
let
vs
know
that
he
had
not
seuerally
and
perticularlye
ripped
vp
hys
sinnes
before
the
Lorde
,
in
a
seuerall
confession
of
them
.
Which
things
the
Lord
knoweth
farre
better
than
wee
our selues
:
yet
such
kinde
of
sacrifice
is
most
acceptable
vnto
him
.
Now
if
in
this
trouble
the
persons
humbled
can
not
come
to
the
perticular
sight
of
sinne
in
themselues
,
it
is
good
to
vse
the
help
of
other
vnto
whom
they
maye
offer
their
hearts
to
bee
gaged
and
searched
,
and
their
liues
to
bee
examined
more
deeply
by
hearing
the
seuerall
Articles
of
the
law
laid
open
before
them
;
wherby
they
may
square
the
whole
course
of
their
actions
.
For
(
as
we
said
before
)
the
grosest
hypocrite
will
generally
complaine
of
sinne
;
and
yet
deale
wyth
them
in
perticular
poynts
of
perticular
precepts
,
&
proue
them
in
applying
of
things
to
bee
done
or
vndone
to
their
owne
consciences
;
and
wee
shall
see
manie
of
these
poore
soules
tossed
too
and
fro
,
now
floting
in
ioies
,
now
plunged
in
sorrowes
,
not
able
to
distinguish
one
sin
from
another
.
Now
when
we
see
the
wound
of
the
spirit
arise
of
any
known
sin
,
it
is
eyther
for
some
sinne
alreadie
committed
,
wherein
wee
lie
;
or
els
for
some
sinne
as
yet
not
committed
,
whereunto
wee
are
tempted
.
For
the
former
.
It
pleaseth
God
oftentimes
to
bring
old
sinnes
to
minde
,
when
wee
not
truely
repented
of
them
before
;
that
so
(
as
it
were
)
representing
them
to
vs
afresh
,
we
might
fal
into
a
more
misliking
of
them
.
And
yet
herein
is
not
all
,
to
mislike
our selues
for
some
perticulars
,
although
it
bee
good
to
bee
occupied
about
some
speciall
sinnes
:
for
as
it
is
not
enough
for
the
auoyding
of
hypocrisie
,
to
see
some
generally
:
so
it
is
not
enough
to
eschue
the
deceauablenes
of
the
heart
,
euer
to
bee
poaring
busily
in
one
perticuler
,
and
to
be
forgetfull
of
the
great
and
generall
sinnes
.
And
let
vs
learne
by
the
perticulers
to
passe
by
the
generalls
.
When
anye
such
one
sinne
then
dooth
pursue
thee
,
rest
not
onelye
therein
,
but
saye
thus
rather
to
thy selfe
;
Oh
Lord
,
is
thys
one
sinne
so
grieuous
?
and
dooth
my
God
punnish
thys
one
sinne
so
soarely
?
Howe
great
then
should
be
my
punishment
,
if
thou
shouldest
(
O
Lord
)
so
deale
with
mee
for
al
my
other
sinnes
I
haue
committed
?
Let
vs
learne
to
haue
a
sense
both
of
generall
and
of
perticular
sinnes
,
least
in
tyme
our
griefe
passe
away
wythout
frute
;
whilest
that
beeing
not
displeafed
as
well
wyth
one
sinne
,
as
with
another
;
we
either
looke
too
superficially
to
generall
,
and
not
to
perticulars
;
or
els
too
superstitiously
obserue
perticulers
and
not
the
generals
.
Concerning
those
sinnes
whereunto
we
are
tempted
;
as
when
a
man
is
mooued
to
think
blasphemously
of
God
the
Father
,
or
to
doubt
whether
there
be
a
Christ
or
no
,
or
to
imagine
grosely
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
or
to
deny
God
,
or
to
doubt
of
the
Trinitie
;
to
be
mooued
to
murther
,
adultrie
,
or
such
like
:
in
which
temptations
he
feeleth
Gods
spirit
to
check
him
for
them
,
so
as
he
knoweth
not
in
thys
case
what
to
doo
,
for
that
on
the
one
side
he
dares
not
listen
willingly
to
these
fearefull
and
monstrous
temptations
;
and
on
the
other
side
,
he
feareth
least
in
time
by
long
sute
he
might
fall
into
them
,
or
at
the
least
yeeld
,
for
that
he
seeth
not
how
to
be
deliuered
from
them
.
I
suppose
these
motions
are
not
so
much
to
bee
disputed
with
,
as
we
by
them
are
to
be
prouoked
to
more
instant
and
zealous
praier
.
Surely
these
are
dangerous
temptations
,
and
therefore
are
not
to
bee
kept
cloase
;
which
our
nature
will
easely
encline
vnto
:
but
perticularly
are
to
bee
confessed
of
vs
.
For
the
diuel
will
come
somtime
to
thee
,
to
keepe
thee
still
in
a
generall
acknowledging
of
thy
sinne
,
and
vrge
on
this
manner
;
Surely
thou
must
needes
doo
this
sinne
,
thou
seest
thou
canst
haue
no
ease
,
vntill
thou
hast
assented
,
thou
art
ordained
to
it
:
the
reason
why
thou
art
thus
incessantly
tempted
,
is
because
thou
doost
not
take
thy
pleasure
.
Go
too
,
delay
not
,
denie
God
,
beleeue
not
his
word
:
it
is
but
a
pollicie
to
keepe
men
in
awe
,
Religion
is
no
such
matter
as
men
make
it
.
Thus
for
feare
of
yeelding
on
the
one
hande
,
and
for
shame
of
disclosing
the
tentations
on
the
other
hande
;
many
men
haue
pined
away
,
and
almost
haue
beene
ouercome
by
them
.
If
we
should
disclose
this
(
say
these
men
)
what
would
people
say
of
vs
?
They
would
count
vs
Atheists
,
they
would
thinke
vs
the
wickedst
men
in
the
worlde
.
Well
for
our
instruction
and
consolation
herein
;
Let
vs
learn
that
these
kind
of
tentations
,
are
either
corrections
for
some
sinnes
past
,
or
the
punishment
of
sins
present
,
or
forewarners
of
some
sin
to
come
.
Wee
shall
see
many
tempted
to
adultery
,
who
now
(
no
doubt
)
cannot
bee
be
brought
to
commit
it
;
and
yet
because
in
their
youth
they
haue
committed
it
,
and
&
not
repented
of
it
,
it
coms
to
them
againe
.
The
like
may
bee
obserued
in
theft
,
in
gluttony
,
and
in
other
tentations
,
which
are
not
so
much
sent
vnto
vs
,
presently
to
ouercome
vs
,
as
to
put
vs
in
mind
,
that
hertofore
we
hauing
bin
ouercome
with
them
,
should
now
repent
for
them
.
Sometime
a
man
shall
lye
in
some
sin
,
wherof
when
he
will
not
bee
admonished
,
neither
by
the
priuate
nor
publike
meanes
,
&
then
some
strange
tentation
shall
fall
vpon
him
,
differing
from
that
wherein
he
presently
lyeth
,
to
admonish
him
of
that
other
sinne
.
As
when
a
worldling
shal
be
tempted
to
adulterie
,
a
thing
which
hee
hath
no
desire
to
do
,
yet
it
is
to
make
him
look
to
his
worldlines
,
whereof
he
hath
so
strong
and
through
a
lyking
.
Whereas
if
then
he
will
not
bee
awaken
,
he
may
sodainely
fall
into
that
too
,
and
so
by
the
punishment
of
GOD
in
punishing
one
sinne
with
another
,
both
his
sinnes
shall
bee
to
his
great
shame
laid
open
,
and
one
sin
shall
make
knowne
another
.
Sometime
also
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
one
shall
bee
tempted
with
such
a
sinne
,
as
neither
heretofore
,
nor
presently
hee
hath
giuen
any
liking
or
entertaignement
vnto
,
and
yet
the
Lord
by
it
may
forewarne
him
how
hee
may
fall
into
it
hereafter
,
as
also
to
shew
that
hee
hath
stoode
all
his
former
life
,
rather
by
the
grace
of
god
,
than
by
the
strength
of
flesh
and
blood
.
Wherefore
when
thou
art
moued
to
doubt
of
God
and
of
Christ
,
of
the
word
or
of
iustification
,
doo
not
so
much
stande
woondring
at
these
strong
tentations
,
as
thinke
with
thy selfe
that
it
is
the
mercie
of
God
by
them
,
to
cause
thee
better
to
discerne
of
those
tentations
in
others
▪
Wherefore
thou
shouldest
haue
obserued
with
feare
&
trembling
howe
they
make
the
first
entry
into
a
mans
heart
,
howe
they
gather
strength
,
howe
they
agree
with
our
corrupt
nature
,
in
what
degrees
they
come
to
some
growth
,
how
the
spirite
of
God
dooth
resist
them
,
what
bee
the
meanes
best
to
preuaile
against
them
.
And
thus
if
thou
make
thy
profite
by
them
,
thou
shalt
so
woonderfully
search
and
descrie
by
seuerall
veines
,
the
body
,
age
and
sleight
of
these
tentations
in
others
,
by
an
holy
experience
which
GOD
hath
taught
thee
in
others
,
that
besides
thou
shalt
lay
foorth
mens
secrete
corruptions
,
as
if
thou
wast
in
their
bosomes
,
thou
shalt
be
able
by
the
seed
of
sorrowe
in
thy selfe
,
to
beget
an
vnspeakeable
ioy
in
others
,
who
in
time
may
bee
tempted
to
sin
as
thou
nowe
art
.
Thinke
moreouer
and
besides
,
that
such
is
the
efficacie
of
sinne
,
that
they
who
are
nowe
no
Papistes
,
Heretiques
,
Adulterers
,
or
Theeues
,
may
for
their
secure
contemning
and
passing
ouer
these
tentations
sent
vnto
them
sodainely
,
shortly
after
fall
into
them
,
because
they
woulde
not
seeke
to
make
some
vse
of
them
,
nor
confesse
before
the
Lorde
both
their
pronenesse
and
worthinesse
to
fall
into
them
.
But
if
wee
will
humble
our selues
in
such
tentations
,
and
learne
by
them
meekely
to
discerne
the
corruption
of
our
hearts
,
we
shall
not
only
presently
deliuer
our selues
from
imminent
perill
,
but
bee
also
further
enhabled
to
assist
others
hereafter
,
in
the
like
danger
.
But
some
wil
oppose
against
these
things
which
wee
haue
deliuered
:
Doo
you
thinke
it
a
remedie
to
cast
downe
them
that
bee
already
humbled
?
this
is
rather
to
bee
a
Butcher
than
a
builder
of
a
mans
conscience
.
To
whom
I
answere
,
that
I
desire
Preachers
to
be
Builders
,
and
not
Butchers
;
and
it
is
one
thing
generally
to
apply
,
and
another
perticular
to
lay
the
medicine
vnto
the
wound
.
It
is
good
to
begin
with
searching
first
,
to
purge
the
sore
by
the
vineger
of
the
Lawe
,
and
after
to
supple
it
with
the
oyle
of
the
Gospell
.
Both
which
must
bee
done
in
wisedome
,
vsing
them
to
some
in
greater
,
to
some
in
lesser
measure
.
For
as
some
hauing
nothing
but
a
decay
of
nature
,
and
no
mortall
humor
,
neede
rather
restoratiue
,
than
purging
medicines
:
So
some
rather
troubled
for
spirituall
wants
,
than
for
grosse
sinnes
,
needes
not
so
much
the
threatninges
of
the
Lawe
,
as
the
sweete
promises
of
the
Gospell
.
But
if
the
body
,
thorough
some
extraordinary
repletion
hath
gotten
some
great
surfet
,
not
so
much
to
the
weakening
of
nature
,
as
to
the
threatning
of
imminent
death
,
and
therfore
requireth
rather
some
strong
purgation
than
comfortable
and
cordiall
medecines
:
then
the
soule
also
being
brought
to
some
extraordinary
sinne
is
rather
to
bee
boared
and
pierced
with
the
denouncing
of
Gods
iudgement
than
otherwise
.
But
because
wee
woulde
deale
more
plainely
&
lesse
confusedly
,
it
is
good
in
our
accesse
to
the
afflicted
consciences
,
to
lay
these
two
grounds
.
First
,
we
must
perswade
the
persons
humbled
,
that
their
sins
are
pardonable
&
their
soules
curable
:
And
after
,
that
this
visitation
is
not
so
much
a
signe
of
Gods
wrath
and
anger
,
as
a
seale
of
his
loue
and
fauour
,
in
that
it
is
not
either
blind
or
barren
,
but
plentiful
in
good
effects
,
and
fruitefull
in
Godly
issues
.
The
former
howe
needefull
it
is
,
the
experience
of
so
many
as
haue
beene
throwne
downe
,
is
a
sufficient
witnes
,
who
haue
had
this
as
a
tagge
tyed
in
their
tentations
:
The
Lord
wil
surely
make
an
end
of
them
in
some
strange
and
vnknown
tentation
.
Wherein
they
are
not
vnlike
vnto
men
fallen
into
some
dangerous
disease
,
who
thinking
to
bee
without
the
fadome
of
the
Phisitians
skill
,
and
not
to
bee
within
the
compasse
of
thinges
recouerable
,
adde
a
second
and
sorer
griefe
vnto
their
former
.
Wherefore
as
these
men
seeme
to
bee
halfe
healed
,
when
any
man
of
knowledg
can
bee
brought
,
who
by
experience
hath
cured
the
like
malladie
in
like
degrees
in
others
.
So
then
the
fearefull
soules
are
not
a
little
by
hope
refreshed
and
strengthned
to
looke
for
some
ease
,
when
they
see
none
other
tentation
hath
ouertaken
them
,
than
such
as
hauing
fallen
into
the
nature
of
man
,
haue
found
mercie
at
the
handes
of
God
that
hee
might
bee
feared
.
This
ground
worke
framed
,
it
is
good
to
build
vp
and
repaire
the
decayed
ioy
of
the
minde
,
partly
by
the
Law
,
to
make
a
preparatiue
for
these
ioyes
;
if
the
minde
not
truly
humbled
,
is
not
fit
truly
to
be
comforted
:
and
partly
by
the
gospel
,
if
the
conscience
kindly
throwen
down
,
is
become
a
fit
subiect
to
apply
the
promises
of
Iesus
Christ
vnto
it
.
And
here
againe
,
to
answere
them
that
denie
the
law
wholly
or
at
all
to
bee
vsed
,
when
we
wold
breed
comfort
in
one
.
I
demand
,
whether
if
it
be
necessary
to
maintaine
the
righteousnes
of
Christ
,
it
bee
not
also
as
necessarie
to
preserue
the
righteousnes
of
the
Law
?
Seing
the
righteousnes
of
the
Law
,
of
vs
not
fulfilled
,
wyll
drawe
vs
vnto
the
righteousnes
of
Christ
to
vs
imputed
.
And
sith
the
righteousnes
of
Christ
to
vs
imputed
,
is
neuer
throughly
and
truly
esteemed
,
vntil
we
see
the
righteousnes
of
the
law
of
vs
to
be
vnperformed
.
Again
,
if
our
Sauior
Christ
did
fore shew
his
Disciples
,
that
the
first
worke
of
the
holy
Ghost
at
his
comming
,
should
bee
to
conuict
the
world
of
sinne
,
to
make
men
know
,
that
without
Iesus
Christ
ther
is
nothing
but
sinne
;
and
then
,
that
he
shuld
rebuke
the
World
of
righteousnes
,
that
they
might
see
Christ
died
not
for
his
owne
,
but
the
sins
of
others
.
I
see
not
why
it
should
not
be
very
conuenient
,
first
to
lay
open
the
righteousnes
of
the
law
,
that
men
maye
see
their
sins
;
and
then
the
righteousnes
of
Christ
;
that
men
may
see
their
sinnes
discharged
in
him
.
Besides
,
wher
the
Lord
saith
by
his
Prophet
,
At
what
time
soeuer
a
sinner
dooth
repent
of
his
sins
from
the
bottom
of
his
hart
,
I
will
put
all
his
wickednes
out
of
my
remembrance
:
that
it
may
well
be
gathered
there
must
be
a
sound
sorrow
for
sin
going
before
,
and
then
the
true
ioy
of
sinnes
pardoned
,
may
the
more
frely
be
looked
for
afterward
.
Moreouer
,
seeing
al
the
promises
of
God
in
the
gospel
are
commended
vnto
vs
vnder
the
title
&
tenor
of
restoring
sight
to
the
blind
,
hearing
to
the
deafe
,
strength
to
the
lame
,
health
to
the
sicke
,
and
life
to
the
dead
;
it
is
manifest
,
not
onely
that
there
is
no
disease
of
the
soule
that
Christ
cannot
heale
:
but
also
that
wee
must
first
finde
our selues
blinde
,
deafe
,
dumbe
,
lame
,
sicke
&
dead
,
before
he
wil
meddle
with
vs
;
because
they
that
are
whole
need
not
the
Phisition
,
and
he
came
to
call
sinners
,
not
the
Righteous
to
repentance
.
Now
,
to
doo
this
in
wisedome
,
by
neither
pressing
the
conscience
too
seuerely
,
nor
releasing
the
conscience
more
vnaduisedly
,
it
shal
be
the
safe
way
,
to
vse
the
wel
tempered
speech
of
the
Apostle
to
the
sorcerer
;
Repent
,
if
it
be
possible
,
thy
sinnes
may
bee
forgiuen
thee
.
Where
hee
dooth
not
wholly
discourage
him
,
because
it
may
bee
his
sins
may
be
pardoned
;
neither
yet
too
boldly
incourage
him
,
that
without
repentance
,
he
sheweth
it
altogether
impossible
to
be
pardoned
.
And
that
we
be
not
too
preposterous
in
our
consolations
,
let
vs
bee
warned
by
the
blasphemous
speeches
of
the
detestable
Arrian
,
who
of
late
yeares
was
put
to
deth
at
Norwich
.
This
hellish
heretique
,
a
little
before
he
shuld
be
executed
,
afforded
a
few
whorish
tears
asking
whether
he
might
bee
saued
in
Christ
or
no
?
When
one
told
him
,
that
if
he
truely
repented
,
he
shuld
surely
not
perrish
:
hee
brake
out
most
monstrously
into
this
speech
:
Nay
is
your
Christ
so
easily
to
be
intreated
indeede
,
as
you
say
?
Then
I
defie
him
&
care
not
for
him
.
Oh
howe
good
a
thing
had
it
been
not
to
haue
cast
this
pretious
stone
to
this
swine
?
Oh
how
safe
had
it
bin
to
haue
dealt
more
bitterly
,
and
dwelt
more
vehemently
on
the
conscience
of
this
caytise
?
Now
to
attaine
some
discretion
in
curing
this
wounded
spirite
,
wee
must
learne
wisely
to
iudge
,
both
of
the
person
afflicted
,
and
of
the
nature
of
his
affliction
.
First
,
we
must
note
whether
it
be
a
man
or
a
woman
,
becaus
we
may
vrge
more
carefully
the
vse
of
the
law
to
a
man
,
as
hauing
the
stronger
vessell
.
And
as
Sathan
knew
the
woman
to
be
most
easie
and
frameable
to
be
wrought
vppon
,
at
his
first
temptation
:
so
is
hee
not
ignoraunt
that
shee
is
the
weaker
partie
to
susteine
an
accusation
.
Then
let
vs
consider
,
whether
they
that
are
thus
humbled
haue
knowledge
or
no
?
Because
,
if
they
haue
none
,
they
thinke
trouble
of
minde
to
be
so
strange
a
thing
,
as
neuer
any
before
it
:
if
they
haue
knowledge
,
then
Sathan
is
readie
to
accuse
them
of
sins
agaynst
the
holye
Ghost
,
as
though
anie
sin
done
against
knowledge
,
were
a
sinne
of
presumption
.
Farther
,
we
are
to
enquire
,
how
strong
or
weake
they
are
,
that
if
they
be
not
sufficiently
wounded
to
touch
them
with
some
deep
sense
of
sinne
.
Also
we
must
be
circumspect
,
to
finde
out
whether
by
nature
they
are
more
fearfull
or
melancholy
,
or
no
?
As
also
,
whether
they
be
vsuall
sinners
,
or
haue
faln
once
of
infirmitie
,
that
so
vppon
their
disposition
and
inclination
we
may
builde
our
speech
the
better
.
To
these
it
is
good
to
adde
this
consideration
of
the
persons
,
age
,
estate
and
ability
;
as
if
the
partie
bee
troubled
for
worldlinesse
,
whether
hee
bee
not
a
great
housholder
:
if
he
complaine
of
vncleannesse
,
whether
he
be
not
a
yong-man
&
vnmaried
:
if
he
be
humbled
with
couetousnesse
,
whether
he
be
not
old
,
because
diuers
countries
,
callings
,
ages
,
conditions
and
estates
of
men
,
haue
their
diuers
and
peculiar
sinnes
,
which
wee
must
rightly
discerne
.
Howbeit
of
what
sex
soeuer
they
are
man
or
woman
of
what
complexion
soeuer
they
are
,
of
what
knowledge
to
discerne
sin
,
in
what
degree
of
committing
sinne
,
of
what
age
,
authority
,
wealth
,
estate
,
or
condition
so
euer
they
are
,
it
is
good
to
marke
that
there
bee
many
,
who
are
more
troubled
for
vexation
and
disquietnes
of
the
mind
being
distempered
,
than
for
the
vilenes
and
horriblenes
of
their
sin
committed
;
who
are
wounded
more
with
the
feare
of
shame
,
with
the
feare
of
beeing
madd
,
or
with
the
feare
of
running
out
of
their
wittes
,
than
with
the
conscience
of
sinne
.
Which
thing
if
we
finde
in
them
,
it
is
our
parts
to
trauell
with
them
,
that
they
make
a
lesse
matter
of
the
outward
shame
,
and
more
Conscience
of
the
inward
sins
.
Neither
must
wee
here
forget
to
distinguish
between
our
speech
vsed
to
the
humbled
in
the
time
of
theyr
extreame
agonie
,
and
those
words
wee
vse
the
fit
beeing
past
;
because
the
first
requyreth
more
comfort
,
the
latter
more
admonishment
:
for
than
wee
maye
wisely
admonish
them
to
beware
of
sin
,
which
procured
their
woe
.
In
thys
threatening
time
,
it
is
also
expedient
to
exhort
them
,
that
vntill
they
shuld
find
greater
power
in
regeneration
,
they
would
ty
themselues
to
some
holy
orders
,
&
godly
vowes
,
whereby
they
may
either
be
furthred
in
mortifying
some
speciall
sinne
;
which
for
that
they
could
finde
no
power
against
it
,
did
most
grieue
them
;
or
strengthened
in
some
speciall
grace
,
the
want
whereof
did
also
wound
them
.
But
before
we
launch
deeper
into
this
sea
of
perticular
tentations
,
and
begyn
to
sounde
the
daungerous
passages
of
natural
corruptions
,
and
originall
sinne
,
the
troublesome
froath
whereof
,
doth
almost
ouerwhelme
manie
poore
pilgrimes
;
it
shall
be
good
to
giue
this
caution
,
that
both
in
this
and
in
the
former
troubles
,
men
would
bee
still
againe
admonished
,
patiently
to
bear
with
a
wounded
spirit
,
howbeit
it
fall
out
so
,
that
they
be
somwhat
pettish
;
seeing
the
holye
Ghost
speaketh
so
fauorably
of
them
,
saying
;
A
wounded
Spirit
who
can
bear
?
And
surely
our
practise
in
other
things
,
by
the
lawe
of
equitie
,
maye
vrge
thys
at
our
hands
.
For
if
men
by
the
light
of
reason
can
see
it
to
bee
a
duetie
conuenient
,
not
furiously
to
control
,
but
meekely
to
suffer
,
and
wisely
to
put
vp
the
vnaduised
speeches
of
a
man
distempered
in
braine
,
by
reason
of
some
burning
ague
,
or
such
like
violent
and
vehement
sickenes
:
we
may
easily
gather
by
the
same
rule
of
reason
not
so
seuerely
to
censure
the
impatient
speeches
of
him
,
who
by
reason
of
some
parching
Feuer
of
the
spirite
is
disquieted
in
all
partes
of
his
minde
,
and
hath
all
the
veynes
of
his
heart
(
as
it
were
)
in
a
spirituall
agony
vexed
.
Wherefore
both
vnsauorie
for
want
of
Godly
wisedome
,
and
vncharitable
for
want
of
Christian
loue
,
are
their
murmuring
obtrectations
which
say
.
What
,
Is
this
the
Godly
man
?
Is
this
hee
that
is
so
troubled
for
his
sinnes
.
Why
!
see
how
pettish
he
is
,
nothing
can
please
him
:
no
body
can
satisfie
him
.
Consider
,
O
man
,
if
thou
canst
beare
with
a
fraile
body
that
thou
must
much
more
beare
with
a
fraile
minde
.
Consider
that
this
his
pettishnes
dooth
more
wound
him
at
the
heart
,
than
any
iniury
thou
couldst
presse
him
with
.
And
therefore
seeing
he
afflicteth
his
owne
soule
for
it
,
thou
needest
not
adde
any
thing
to
his
affliction
,
and
to
exasperate
his
most
grieuous
smart
.
Consider
that
it
is
a
blessed
thing
mercifully
to
bethinke
vs
of
the
poore
and
needy
&
that
to
rub
a
fresh
wound
,
and
to
streine
a
bleeding
sore
,
is
nothing
els
,
but
with
Iobs
friendes
to
bring
a
newe
torment
,
where
ther
is
no
need
of
it
.
If
the
wise
father
doth
rather
pitie
than
rebuke
his
childe
,
when
by
reason
of
sicknes
the
appetite
is
not
easely
pleased
:
so
,
if
we
purpose
to
doo
anie
good
with
an
afflicted
minde
,
wee
must
not
bee
austere
in
reprehending
euerie
infirmitie
,
but
pitifull
in
considering
of
each
tender
frailtie
.
Neither
doo
I
speake
this
to
nourish
pettishnesse
,
but
would
haue
them
to
labour
for
patience
,
and
to
seeke
for
peace
;
which
though
they
finde
not
at
the
first
,
yet
by
praier
they
must
wayt
on
the
Lord
,
and
say
;
Lord
,
because
there
is
mercie
that
thou
maist
bee
feared
:
I
will
wait
vppon
thee
,
as
the
eye
of
the
seruant
wayteth
vppon
the
hand
of
his
Master
.
I
will
condemne
my selfe
of
follie
,
and
saie
,
Oh
my
soule
,
whie
art
thou
so
heauie
?
Whie
art
thou
cast
down
within
mee
?
Still
trust
in
the
Lorde
,
for
he
is
thy
health
and
thy
saluation
.
FINIS
.
A
Letter
from
M.
Robert
Greeneham
to
a
frend
of
his
,
against
hardnesse
of
heart
.
I
Beseech
God
the
father
of
Iesus
Christ
,
giue
mee
his
holy
spirite
in
writing
to
giue
aduice
,
and
you
in
reading
to
receiue
it
,
Amen
.
Since
the
time
I
receiued
M.
S.
his
letter
,
wherein
hee
declared
his
carefull
compassion
ouer
your
estate
,
I
haue
beene
not
a
little
grieued
because
of
my
manifolde
distractions
with
the
like
occurrances
and
other
waighty
affayres
,
I
haue
beene
hindred
hitherto
from
wrighting
vnto
you
,
and
albeit
euen
still
I
am
euen
in
the
same
case
,
yet
conscience
towardes
God
,
&
compassion
&
loue
towards
you
,
forceth
me
to
ouercom
lets
which
hardly
I
could
otherwise
preuaile
against
:
and
albeit
I
cannot
write
as
I
woulde
,
yet
of
that
which
I
shall
write
proceeding
from
the
forenamed
groundes
,
I
looke
for
some
blessing
from
God
through
Iesus
Christ
,
if
you
will
not
too
much
faint
in
faith
,
and
yeelde
to
the
aduersary
,
yea
,
if
you
will
but
hope
so
well
of
your selfe
,
as
in
the
feare
of
God
I
doo
write
it
I
hope
of
you
.
First
,
whereas
it
seemeth
you
are
sometimes
grieued
,
because
you
tarried
not
still
at
Cambridge
according
to
mine
aduise
,
you
must
knowe
I
aduised
it
not
as
a
thing
necessary
,
but
more
conuenient
as
I
then
supposed
,
but
that
I
aduised
you
to
obaye
your
father
,
if
his
pleasure
still
continued
to
haue
you
home
,
whereunto
you
yeelding
,
I
canot
see
how
you
offended
,
it
beeing
your
Fathers
pleasure
you
should
so
doo
:
and
who
knoweth
whether
beeing
here
you
might
not
haue
bin
as
much
troubled
,
there
beeing
no
priuiledge
for
persons
and
places
.
In
such
cases
who
knoweth
whether
it
be
the
Lordes
pleasure
,
for
the
ensample
and
instruction
(
&
I
hope
the
consolation
)
of
others
in
the
ende
.
And
albeit
you
will
nowe
thinke
that
heere
you
were
nearer
the
the
more
&
stronger
means
,
yet
knowe
you
and
bee
perswaded
,
that
God
can
&
doth
in
such
cases
worke
by
fewer
and
weaker
according
to
his
good
pleasure
:
Besides
,
it
is
in
our
corrupt
nature
to
make
much
of
such
meanes
as
wee
cannot
haue
,
and
not
so
to
esteeme
those
which
God
dooth
offer
vs
as
wee
should
;
I
beseech
you
therefore
in
the
name
of
Iesus
Christ
,
humbly
to
praise
God
for
those
meanes
he
offereth
in
mercie
vnto
you
,
and
to
vse
them
in
faith
accordingly
;
and
so
God
shall
blesse
you
by
them
.
And
then
by
such
conference
as
you
may
haue
from
hence
,
wherein
if
I
may
stand
you
in
any
steede
,
rather
for
the
good
opinion
you
haue
of
me
,
then
for
any
great
matter
I
am
able
to
performe
,
I
shal
be
ready
to
offer
any
office
of
loue
vnto
you
as
God
shall
inable
mee
,
and
so
farre
foorth
as
I
shall
bee
at
any
time
instructed
in
your
perticular
estate
.
In
some
letters
sent
from
you
by
conuenient
messengers
,
I
perceiue
that
you
ar
afflicted
with
the
blindenes
of
your
minde
,
and
hardnes
of
your
heart
,
which
cannot
be
mooued
either
with
the
promises
of
Gods
mercies
,
or
feare
of
his
iudgements
;
nor
affected
with
the
loue
and
delight
of
the
thinges
which
bee
good
,
nor
with
the
hatred
and
loathing
of
the
euill
:
great
cause
you
haue
of
griefe
I
confesse
,
but
no
cause
of
dispaire
dare
I
graunt
,
because
I
am
perswaded
that
your
perswation
is
somewhat
false
,
partly
for
want
of
a
sounde
iudgement
of
your
estate
,
and
partly
for
some
defect
of
faith
somwhat
through
your
owne
default
.
First
therefore
know
you
for
certainty
,
that
this
is
no
other
tentation
,
than
such
as
diuers
of
Gods
children
haue
been
humbled
with
,
&
afterward
haue
had
a
good
issue
out
of
it
:
&
if
it
please
God
to
moue
ye
to
credit
me
,
my selfe
haue
known
others
,
as
deeply
this
way
plunged
,
as
you
can
be
.
Remember
therefore
,
God
is
faithfull
,
who
wil
not
suffer
you
to
be
tempted
aboue
that
you
shal
be
able
to
bear
.
And
farther
yet
to
confirme
you
,
the
holy
scriptures
do
shew
,
that
this
way
god
heretofore
hath
humbled
his
own
people
:
in
whose
person
the
prophet
Esaye
lamentably
complaineth
,
Esa.
3.
15.
O
Lorde
looke
downe
from
heauen
,
behold
from
thy
dwelling
place
of
thy
holines
,
and
of
thy
glorie
.
Where
is
thy
zeale
&
thy
strength
,
the
multitude
of
thy
mercies
,
and
of
thy
compassions
?
They
are
restrained
from
me
.
And
afterwards
;
O
Lord
why
hast
thou
made
vs
to
erre
from
thy
waies
,
and
hardened
our
hearts
from
thy
feare
?
And
in
the
next
chapt
.
We
haue
been
alas
an
vnclean
thing
,
&
all
our
righteousnes
is
as
filthy
cloutes
:
and
we
all
doo
fade
as
a
lease
,
and
our
iniquities
as
the
winde
doth
take
vs
away
:
and
there
is
none
that
calleth
vpon
thy
name
,
neither
that
stirreth
vp
himself
to
take
hold
on
thee
for
thou
hast
hid
thy
face
from
vs
,
&
consumed
vs
because
of
our
iniquities
.
And
before
59
chap.
5.
We
grope
for
the
wal
like
the
blinde
,
and
we
grope
as
one
without
eyes
,
we
rore
like
beares
,
and
mourne
lyke
doues
.
So
complaineth
Ezechias
in
the
bitternes
of
hys
soule
;
Like
a
crane
or
a
swallowe
so
did
I
chatter
,
I
did
mourn
as
a
doue
:
and
when
Dauid
crieth
,
Create
in
me
O
God
a
cleane
hart
,
renue
in
me
a
right
spirit
.
Restore
to
me
the
ioy
of
my
saluation
,
establish
me
with
thy
fre
spirit
:
doth
he
not
count
his
hart
vnclean
,
his
spirit
croked
,
the
ioy
of
his
saluation
lost
,
&
himselfe
subiect
to
the
spirit
of
bondage
;
so
that
wanting
the
spirit
of
libertie
or
adoption
,
he
could
nether
cry
Abba
Father
,
nor
haue
anye
power
against
sin
.
Thus
you
see
how
Gods
children
maie
be
blinded
in
minde
,
&
hardned
in
heart
for
a
time
,
so
that
they
feel
the
grace
of
the
holy
spirit
to
be
in
them
nere
perished
and
dead
.
Farther
to
releeue
the
infirmitie
of
your
iudgement
in
this
case
,
which
may
much
distres
you
,
know
that
there
bee
two
kindes
of
hardnes
of
heart
,
the
one
not
felt
,
the
other
felt
;
and
of
the
former
ther
be
two
sorts
,
the
first
(
which
is
most
fearefull
)
when
any
do
purposely
and
wilfully
resist
the
motions
of
Gods
spirit
,
&
means
of
their
saluation
;
of
which
the
Prophet
Zachary
speaketh
.
7.
11.
They
refused
to
harken
,
&
pulled
away
their
sholder
&
stopped
their
eares
that
they
shuld
not
heare
:
yea
,
they
made
their
hearts
as
an
adamant
stone
,
lest
they
should
hear
the
law
,
&
the
words
which
the
Lord
of
hosts
sent
in
his
spirit
by
the
ministery
of
the
former
Prophets
.
The
outragious
sin
of
these
men
,
the
Prophet
Esay
expresseth
in
their
owne
fearful
termes
,
28.
15.
We
haue
made
a
couenant
with
death
,
and
with
hell
we
are
at
agreement
:
though
a
scourge
run
ouer
&
passe
thorough
,
it
shall
not
come
at
vs
:
for
we
haue
made
falshood
our
refuge
,
&
vnder
vanitie
are
we
hidden
.
This
was
a
fearfull
estate
indeede
;
yet
for
all
that
no
man
can
saye
,
but
some
of
those
might
bee
,
and
were
afterward
conuerted
.
The
other
kinde
of
hardnes
of
hart
which
is
not
felt
nor
perceyued
,
or
is
perceiued
yet
not
felt
;
(
albeit
it
is
lesse
fearfull
,
yet
it
is
daungerous
enough
)
is
in
such
,
as
although
they
wilfully
resist
not
Gods
spirite
in
good
means
;
yet
securely
&
willingly
they
lye
in
sin
,
without
anie
remorse
of
it
,
or
true
taste
of
good
things
.
Such
was
Dauid
his
estate
for
the
space
of
a
yeare
before
Nathan
the
Prophet
came
to
reproue
him
,
&
rouse
him
from
his
lulled
sleepe
.
Both
these
kindes
I
am
perswaded
you
are
free
from
,
otherwise
th●n
in
temptation
,
Sathan
maye
sometimes
mooue
ye
therevnto
:
the
other
kind
of
hardnesse
of
heart
which
is
perceiued
&
felt
,
is
of
two
sorts
;
the
one
in
them
which
are
desirous
of
meanes
whereby
they
may
be
releeued
,
although
they
finde
smal
or
no
ease
at
all
in
themselues
for
a
time
.
Of
this
kinde
the
Prophet
Esay
(
in
the
name
of
some
of
Gods
people
)
complaineth
,
Esa.
63.
Such
was
Dauids
state
,
after
Nathan
reproued
him
&
gods
spirit
began
to
work
with
him
,
that
he
crieth
out
as
ye
heard
before
,
of
the
losse
of
Gods
graces
:
&
when
he
saith
,
that
God
will
accept
of
no
sacrifices
nor
petitions
,
without
a
contrite
hart
&
broken
spirit
,
he
sheweth
that
for
a
time
(
euen
after
the
prophet
had
reproued
him
)
he
w̄ated
both
.
This
is
your
case
,
&
therfore
you
are
in
the
state
of
saluation
;
for
Dauid
was
in
this
case
,
euen
after
hee
had
confessed
his
sin
,
as
my
trust
is
you
doo
:
&
was
certainly
perswaded
of
the
pardonablenesse
of
it
,
throgh
gods
mercie
,
althogh
he
was
farre
off
from
the
feeling
it
,
or
applying
to
his
wofull
conscience
:
his
state
was
good
,
and
very
wel
to
be
hoped
of
;
and
you
must
knowe
and
be
perswaded
,
that
those
things
which
are
written
of
Gods
saints
,
&
namely
of
Dauid
and
Peter
,
&
such
others
,
are
examples
for
vs
,
if
we
will
stay
our selues
vpon
the
word
of
God
in
the
mysterie
of
his
seruants
,
and
wait
vppon
the
Lords
good
time
,
til
he
come
neerer
vnto
vs
by
his
spirite
:
nerer
I
say
,
for
he
is
come
alreadie
vnto
you
;
or
it
may
be
he
neuer
went
from
you
;
because
to
be
greued
and
humbled
with
blindnes
of
minde
and
hardnes
of
heart
,
to
beleeue
certainly
the
trueth
of
God
is
promised
in
generall
,
&
to
reuerence
the
seruants
of
God
,
which
bring
the
glad
tidings
of
the
Gospel
;
&
praier
,
the
Sacrament
of
the
supper
,
&
the
companie
of
gods
children
,
contrarie
to
hope
,
vnder
hope
,
yea
without
any
present
feeling
:
all
this
is
a
certaine
argument
,
that
gods
spirit
is
with
such
,
and
therefore
with
you
.
This
estate
although
it
bee
verie
grieuous
,
yet
it
is
neuer
danger
us
,
much
lesse
is
it
fearfull
;
vnlesse
anie
bee
so
wilfull
,
that
they
persevere
and
continue
in
desperate
refusing
al
good
means
:
vnles
they
perseuere
I
say
,
for
through
the
subtill
sleight
of
the
spirituall
aduersarie
,
and
his
forceable
power
,
wherby
God
suffereth
him
sometime
for
a
season
to
winnow
them
as
wheate
,
they
are
so
bewitched
and
intoxicated
,
that
they
are
carried
by
violent
force
of
temptation
,
to
wexe
wearie
of
,
or
to
refuse
all
meanes
of
comfort
by
fittes
;
yea
,
almost
to
haue
no
desire
at
all
vnto
them
:
yea
,
sometimes
to
speake
verie
euill
of
them
.
But
all
this
is
but
temptation
,
and
therefore
God
will
bee
mercifull
vnto
them
for
Christ
his
sake
.
Thus
Iob
cursed
the
daye
of
his
birth
,
&
wished
to
be
strangled
;
Ieremie
almost
repented
that
euer
he
preached
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
:
both
scarcely
abstain
from
blasphemie
.
Dauid
moued
with
the
spirit
of
ambition
(
though
dutifully
admonished
)
wilfully
went
on
in
numbring
the
people
;
Peter
also
vaingloriouslye
presuming
of
his
owne
strength
,
being
most
wisely
&
effectualy
admonished
of
his
weaknes
euen
by
our
Lorde
Iesus
,
yet
wittingly
rusheth
as
the
horse
into
the
battel
,
&
then
verie
cowardlye
yeeldeth
,
yea
doubly
denieth
,
yea
strengthneth
his
sinne
with
a
threefold
coard
,
and
fastneth
it
with
banning
and
cursings
:
&
yet
all
these
obtained
mercie
most
bountifully
.
For
why
as
Satan
desired
to
winnowe
them
,
so
our
Lord
Iesus
praied
for
them
,
that
theyr
fayth
though
it
was
vehemently
assaulted
,
it
should
not
be
ouercome
;
although
it
was
battered
,
yet
that
if
should
not
bee
destroied
;
and
though
it
was
oppressed
,
yet
it
shuld
not
be
extinguished
.
And
here
bee
you
fully
perswaded
,
that
albe
it
Luk.
22.
31.
the
wordes
seeme
to
runne
as
belonging
but
to
Peter
;
vz.
I
haue
praid
for
thee
that
thy
faith
should
not
faile
,
yet
he
praied
for
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
yea
for
all
the
faithfull
.
For
first
he
saith
not
;
Simon
,
sathan
hath
desired
to
winow
thee
:
but
you
.
Why
then
saith
hee
,
I
haue
praied
for
thee
?
Verely
because
hee
should
more
greeuously
offend
than
the
rest
:
although
their
offence
was
verie
great
;
therefore
hys
:
and
our
most
blessed
Sauior
applyed
to
him
the
promise
,
but
not
appropriated
it
vnto
him
onely
,
and
restrained
it
from
the
rest
.
Compare
with
this
place
Iohn
.
17.
20.
&
you
shall
see
,
that
the
heauenlye
verity
affirmeth
;
that
he
praied
not
only
for
the
Apostles
,
but
for
all
those
that
shoulde
beleeue
through
their
word
:
yea
farther
,
Our
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
was
yesterdaye
,
is
to
day
,
&
shal
be
for
euer
.
And
as
the
fore-fathers
were
baptized
vnto
him
,
and
did
eate
his
flesh
and
drink
his
blood
;
so
was
his
praier
effectuall
euen
to
them
vnder
the
lawe
,
then
more
to
vs
vnder
grace
.
And
when
you
can
find
testimonie
in
your
hart
,
that
when
you
would
doo
well
,
euill
is
present
with
you
,
and
that
ye
doo
the
euil
you
would
not
;
then
do
not
you
it
,
but
sinne
in
you
,
when
it
leadeth
you
captiue
,
Rom.
7.
much
more
,
when
satan
works
with
al
buffeting
you
,
assure
you
GOD
hath
pity
on
you
,
that
the
vertue
of
his
power
shall
be
perfect
in
your
weaknes
.
If
you
beleeue
,
according
to
your
faith
it
shal
be
done
vnto
you
.
B●●●ou
will
say
,
you
cannot
be●●●●
that
this
vile
&
crooked
hardnes
of
your
hart
can
be
remitted
and
renued
▪
and
euen
this
was
the
second
point
which
in
the
former
part
of
my
Letter
I
gaue
you
to
vnderstand
was
the
cause
of
your
excessiue
distresse
.
I
beseech
you
,
and
I
charge
you
in
the
name
of
our
Lord
Iesus
,
that
you
will
not
willingly
lie
,
nor
offer
iniurie
to
Gods
spirite
,
nor
to
your self
who
hath
receiued
it
.
Tell
me
,
what
is
the
reason
why
you
thinke
you
haue
no
faith
?
Verely
because
you
haue
no
feeling
,
nor
any
other
fruites
thereof
,
as
you
thinke
.
Well
,
first
then
agree
with
me
herein
(
as
you
must
if
you
will
not
disagree
with
the
truth
)
that
feeling
is
but
an
effect
and
frute
of
faith
;
&
therefore
there
may
be
faith
without
feeling
,
aswell
as
the
cause
may
be
without
the
effect
,
and
the
tree
without
anie
appearance
of
frute
,
yea
,
of
sap
for
a
season
.
And
as
a
man
sore
wounded
and
diseased
,
may
for
a
season
be
depriued
almost
of
all
operations
of
the
naturall
life
to
the
outward
show
of
his
owne
indnment
and
feeling
;
so
may
a
spiritual
man
before
wounded
by
satan
,
and
diseased
by
the
present
sight
and
feeling
of
his
sinful
corruptions
,
speally
in
temptation
;
that
hee
may
think
,
yea
appeare
to
others
,
that
the
life
of
the
spirit
is
not
in
him
.
Thus
,
Peters
faith
did
not
wholly
faile
,
(
as
you
haue
heard
)
or
else
the
praier
of
our
Sauiour
preuailed
not
.
Thus
when
Dauid
in
the
one
and
fiftie
Psal.
the
twelueth
verse
,
declared
that
his
heart
was
vncleane
,
and
his
spirite
crooked
or
vnstable
;
and
in
the
fourteenth
verse
,
that
he
had
lost
the
ioy
of
his
saluation
,
and
the
spirit
of
libertie
,
or
adoption
:
yet
in
the
thirteenth
vearse
hee
prayeth
,
that
GOD
would
not
take
his
holie
spirit
from
him
:
therefore
hereby
it
appeared
hee
was
not
depriued
of
the
spirite
of
sanctification
.
Heere
seemeth
to
bee
repugnaunce
,
but
there
is
not
anie
:
hee
was
depriued
indeed
for
a
time
of
the
graces
of
the
sanctifiyng
spirite
,
but
not
of
the
holie
Ghost
wherwithall
hee
was
sanctified
;
which
graces
,
as
God
restored
vnto
him
,
so
I
am
perswaded
he
will
do
vnto
you
:
Yea
,
and
I
doubt
whether
you
are
depriued
of
them
;
but
onely
that
partly
melancholy
,
partly
Satan
working
therewith
,
make
you
doo
iniurie
to
your selfe
,
and
to
the
graces
of
the
Spirite
in
you
;
which
I
beseech
you
to
take
heed
of
.
But
the
messenger
cannot
staye
,
and
therefore
I
cannot
write
as
I
would
,
either
of
this
,
or
of
the
remedie
which
you
should
vse
;
which
hereafter
I
will
,
as
God
shall
enable
me
:
and
I
pray
you
let
me
vnderstand
(
as
I
requested
in
the
beginning
)
of
your
estate
in
perticular
somwhat
more
,
and
by
this
Bearer
if
you
can
;
becaus
he
is
of
your
acquaintance
,
and
will
bring
it
to
me
faithfully
.
Onely
I
doo
adde
now
vnto
you
,
that
I
haue
written
of
hardnes
of
heart
at
large
,
that
you
must
diligently
obserue
the
Woorde
Create
,
which
Dauid
vseth
in
the
one
and
fiftie
Psalme
;
declaring
that
he
had
no
feeling
of
his
hearte
.
To
this
,
ioyn
that
which
the
Prophet
Esay
speketh
in
the
person
of
God
,
57.
23.
I
create
the
frute
of
the
lips
to
be
peace
,
peace
,
to
him
that
is
far
off
as
to
him
that
is
nere
.
Therfore
in
faith
you
may
as
well
praye
,
with
hope
to
obtain
as
did
Dauid
:
therfore
say
with
him
often
,
and
with
Gods
people
,
Esay
64.
12.
O
Lord
,
thou
art
our
Father
:
we
indeed
are
claye
,
but
thou
art
our
maker
,
wee
are
the
worke
of
thy
hands
.
Knowe
also
,
God
can
cause
wolues
,
lions
,
&
leopards
,
to
dwell
louingly
with
lambes
,
calues
and
kids
:
and
that
that
is
vnpossible
to
men
,
is
possible
with
god
,
euen
to
cause
a
cable
to
go
throgh
a
needles
eie
,
that
is
,
to
change
the
hard
hart
of
the
vnbeleuing
couetous
man
;
much
more
yours
:
yea
knowe
that
all
things
are
possible
to
him
which
beleeueth
.
Cry
then
,
I
beleeue
,
O
Lord
help
my
vnbeliefe
:
&
I
dare
promise
ye
in
the
name
of
Iesus
Christ
,
that
you
shall
haue
your
heartes
desire
in
goodnes
.
Thus
abruptly
I
must
end
;
commending
you
to
God
and
the
word
of
his
grace
,
which
is
able
to
builde
you
vp
,
&
giue
you
the
right
of
inheritaunce
among
them
that
are
sanctified
.
The
verie
God
of
peace
sanctifie
you
throughout
,
that
your
whole
spirit
and
soul
and
body
may
bee
kept
blamelesse
vntill
the
comming
of
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
Faithfull
is
hee
which
hath
called
you
,
which
will
do
it
.
Amen
.
I
pray
you
pray
for
me
,
&
I
trust
as
I
haue
,
so
I
shal
pray
for
you
,
and
much
more
.
Yours
in
Christ
Iesus
to
vse
in
anie
need
.
R.
G.