THE
SPLENDOUR
OF
THE
SPOVSE
.
CANT.
2.2
.
As
the
Lily
among
Thornes
,
so
is
my
Love
among
the
Daughters
.
I
Have
gleaned
at
this
time
in
Solomons
Field
,
and
that
parcell
of
his
called
the
Canticles
,
a
Song
of
Songs
,
by
way
of
eminency
;
for
though
there
be
many
other
sacred
Songs
,
as
that
of
Moses
,
of
Deborah
and
Barak
,
There
is
in
the
Text
something
positive
,
something
comparative
,
the
positive
part
is
,
that
the
Church
is
Christ
his
Love
,
the
other
are
Daughters
,
the
comparative
part
takes
up
the
rest
of
the
words
.
The
positive
part
shewes
the
sweet
stile
and
title
which
Christ
gives
to
his
Church
;
He
calls
Her
Love
,
and
with
a
happy
appropriation
,
my
Love
,
which
is
a
terme
both
of
propriety
and
possession
.
Others
which
are
not
the
Church
are
called
by
the
name
of
Daughters
,
by
which
are
meant
either
Forraine
Congregations
,
or
such
as
live
within
the
pale
of
the
visible
Church
,
yet
belong
not
to
him
,
therefore
he
forbeares
to
challenge
his
interest
in
them
,
and
leaves
them
,
to
a
common
appellation
,
the
Daughters
,
not
my
Daughters
.
The
comparative
part
hath
these
things
obvious
to
every
eye
:
First
the
subjects
of
this
resemblance
,
the
Church
is
like
the
Lilly
,
the
others
are
like
Thornes
.
Secondly
,
the
scituation
of
the
resembled
parties
.
The
Church
is
like
the
Lilly
among
the
Thornes
.
The
stile
which
Christ
gives
his
Church
is
Love
.
It
comes
nearest
his
owne
nature
,
for
God
is
love
,
it
best
resembleth
his
benefits
done
for
her
,
amor
ab
amando
,
non
honorando
,
saith
Saint
Bernard
,
and
he
gives
these
reasons
for
it
,
una
utriusque
haereditas
,
una
domus
,
una
mensa
,
unus
etiam
thorus
,
and
there
is
no
fitter
a
union
of
these
then
love
.
The
originall
then
of
the
Churches
blisse
is
Christ
his
love
towards
her
.
The
first
spring
of
election
is
love
.
In
amore
haec
insunt
omnia
,
all
is
from
love
.
There
neither
is
nor
can
be
any
in
her
to
move
him
to
love
her
,
much
lesse
to
deserve
his
love
,
not
her
beauty
,
she
acknowledgeth
her selfe
black
,
no
Miriam
more
leprous
,
Lord
thou
knowest
that
I
love
thee
.
O
then
let
us
pitch
and
settle
our
affections
upon
him
,
who
is
as
Saint
Bernard
saith
,
verè
amans
&
amabilis
,
one
most
truly
loving
us
,
and
most
worthy
to
be
beloved
of
us
:
the
Apostle
pronounceth
an
extreame
Anathema
to
him
that
failes
in
the
retribution
of
it
.
If
any
man
love
not
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
Anathema
Maranatha
,
and
it
should
be
a
double
engagement
of
our
obedience
and
thanke
:
and
let
us
not
onely
with
the
inward
man
love
him
;
but
with
the
outward
also
honour
and
confesse
him
,
who
pleads
for
us
before
his
Father
in
heaven
:
't
is
but
a
dead
heart
that
hath
a
dumbe
voyce
when
Christ
his
cause
is
in
question
:
Canes
latrare
possunt
pro
Dominis
,
&
non
vis
me
latrare
pro
Christo
?
The
word
is
rendred
Vicina
,
my
neighbour
,
adjoyning
Inhabitant
.
Themistocles
having
a
house
to
sell
,
commended
it
,
that
it
had
bonum
vicinum
,
a
good
neighbour
;
the
Churches
blisse
is
,
that
Christ
is
pleased
to
dwell
with
them
,
yea
in
them
,
and
make
a
resolution
as
in
the
Psalme
,
Here
will
I
dwell
,
for
I
have
a
delight
therein
:
and
not
onely
vicina
,
but
proxima
,
my
nearest
one
,
both
for
counsell
and
comfort
,
he
revealeth
his
secrets
to
them
,
and
is
ready
at
all
assayes
to
helpe
them
,
yea
amica
my
friend
,
as
Abraham
was
called
the
friend
of
God
,
Jac.
2.23
.
He
need
feare
no
enemy
who
hath
God
to
his
friend
:
yet
the
originall
word
goes
further
,
for
it
is
taken
from
feeding
or
conversing
together
,
and
expresseth
that
inward
familiarity
and
union
that
is
betwixt
them
.
It
must
teach
us
all
,
by
no
meanes
to
estrange
our selves
from
Christ
,
but
to
keepe
a
correspondence
with
him
,
to
cherish
our
familiarity
,
friendship
,
to
preserve
our
union
,
that
we
professing
him
to
be
ours
,
he
may
confesse
us
to
be
his
,
as
he
doth
his
Church
here
,
My
love
,
which
is
a
terme
both
of
propriety
,
and
of
possession
.
Of
propriety
,
he
claimes
a
speciall
interest
in
his
Church
,
and
he
hath
a
true
right
in
us
all
,
both
by
making
us
his
at
the
first
,
and
by
buying
us
againe
,
when
we
had
made
away
our selves
:
his
deare
purchase
we
are
,
therefore
let
us
not
alienate
our selves
from
him
,
either
in
our
affection
,
for
he
is
the
proper
and
adaequate
object
of
our
love
,
minus
east
è
te
amat
,
By
the
Daughters
are
meant
either
forraigne
Congregations
,
as
the
Daughter
of
Babylon
,
De
side
rerum
invisibilium
,
if
that
worke
be
his
,
the
more
inward
enemies
the
more
hurtfull
.
Saint
Bernard
descanting
of
the
Churches
complaint
of
her
bitternesse
,
saith
she
was
amara
prius
in
nece
martyrum
,
amarior
postea
in
conflictu
haereticorum
,
amarissima
in
moribus
domesticorum
:
bitter
first
in
the
death
of
her
Martyrs
,
more
bitter
in
succeeding
ages
in
her
concertation
with
Heretikes
,
most
bitter
in
these
last
times
in
the
corrupt
manners
of
them
of
her
owne
houshold
.
So
I
returne
from
the
Goats
to
the
Sheepe
,
the
Church
of
Christ
here
compared
to
a
Lily
,
for
as
the
Lily
doth
open
her selfe
to
receive
the
bright
rayes
and
influences
of
the
shining
Sunne
:
so
doth
the
Church
open
her
heart
and
affections
to
admit
the
heat
and
spirituall
vigour
of
that
Sunne
of
righteousnesse
;
and
againe
as
the
Lily
shuts
and
closeth
her selfe
for
her
custody
and
safety
so
doth
the
Church
contract
and
collect
herselfe
close
together
in
a
holy
care
and
vigilancy
to
preserve
her selfe
from
the
rage
and
violence
of
temptations
:
and
further
as
the
Lily
is
alwayes
greene
,
and
changeth
not
her
hew
:
so
ought
the
Christian
to
be
constant
and
immutable
in
holy
duties
.
I
will
not
presse
the
comparison
too
farre
,
onely
touch
the
choyce
and
most
usefull
parts
of
the
resemblance
.
Saint
Bernard
observes
two
speciall
qualities
wherein
the
Church
doth
resemble
the
Lily
,
propter
candorem
&
odorem
,
the
whitenesse
in
colour
and
the
sweetnesse
of
smell
.
1.
Whitenes
,
that
is
purity
,
&
integrity
of
conscience
,
Innocentiam
profitetur
qui
Christum
profitetur
,
as
Erasmus
,
Christianity
is
a
profession
composed
of
innocency
.
Saint
Benard
observes
that
a
Christian
of
all
beasts
is
resembled
to
the
Lambe
,
of
all
birds
to
the
Dove
,
of
all
trees
to
the
Vine
,
of
all
flowers
to
the
Lily
,
because
the
morall
predominant
quality
of
them
all
is
innocency
,
and
this
whitenesse
is
the
genuine
colour
of
our
wedding
garment
in
heaven
,
and
in
this
life
on
earth
,
for
the
Saints
above
are
described
so
clad
,
Rev.
7.9
.
And
holy
David
sets
them
out
in
the
same
habit
,
Psa.
24.
He
that
hath
cleane
hands
and
a
pure
heart
,
and
here
below
our
true
cognisance
is
purity
and
uprightnesse
of
heart
,
joyned
with
hands
as
white
as
snow
in
Salmon
,
for
innocency
,
that
no
injustice
may
cleave
unto
our
fingers
,
then
shall
we
be
like
Christ
our
Master
,
in
whom
was
no
fault
found
nor
guile
in
his
mouth
,
and
the
issue
shall
be
happy
,
we
shall
have
peace
at
the
last
.
2.
Odour
or
sweetnesse
,
the
fragrancy
of
the
Lily
is
admirable
in
pleasing
the
senses
,
and
with
the
sweet
smell
thereof
rejoycing
the
heart
,
so
let
there
be
in
spirituall
Lilies
the
odour
of
a
good
life
which
may
smell
sweet
in
the
nostrils
of
God
and
man
:
of
God
,
that
he
may
testifie
of
us
,
as
Isaac
did
of
Jacob
,
The
smell
of
my
sonne
is
as
the
smell
of
a
field
which
the
Lord
hath
blessed
.
First
,
in
aboundant
fertility
;
for
as
he
out
of
Pliny
,
Lilio
nihil
est
foecundius
,
nothing
is
more
fruitfull
then
the
Lily
,
nor
ought
to
be
then
a
Christian
,
who
should
be
like
those
sheep
whereof
every
one
beareth
twins
,
or
like
the
tree
of
life
,
Secondly
,
in
a
mature
and
seasonable
fructification
:
as
soone
as
the
Spring
comes
,
that
the
Sunne
yeelds
a
nourishing
heat
,
the
sweet
influences
of
the
Pleiades
are
loosed
,
the
earth
openeth
her
wombe
,
and
the
warm
showres
and
dewes
doe
distill
upon
it
,
that
it
is
the
time
of
vegetation
;
the
Lily
stayes
not
but
immediatly
begins
to
shoot
and
shew
her selfe
in
fruitfulnesse
:
so
must
spirituall
Lilies
doe
,
take
the
very
first
tender
and
offer
of
grace
,
and
readily
obey
the
motions
of
Gods
Spirit
:
when
Gods
voyce
speakes
as
in
the
27.
Psa.
seeke
ye
my
face
,
our
hearts
may
eccho
to
it
againe
.
Thy
face
Lord
will
I
seeke
,
Primitiae
Deo
,
the
first
fruits
are
fittest
for
the
oblation
of
the
Highest
,
the
first
borne
for
his
service
,
his
soule
desires
the
first
ripe
fruit
,
the
choycest
trees
of
Gods
Orchard
are
Palmes
and
Cedars
,
And
now
be
pleased
to
cast
but
your
eye
upon
the
Daughters
in
the
comparative
part
,
and
then
we
will
view
them
as
they
are
together
,
the
Lily
among
the
Thornes
.
They
are
like
the
Thornes
,
1.
For
their
noxious
quality
hurtfull
to
every
thing
that
toucheth
them
,
they
will
wound
and
teare
not
onely
the
garment
but
the
flesh
it selfe
:
I
will
teare
your
flesh
with
the
Thornes
of
the
wildernesse
:
2.
For
their
sterility
and
barrennesse
of
fruit
,
they
bring
forth
nothing
immediatly
profitable
unto
man
.
In
the
ninth
Chapter
of
Judges
,
there
is
mention
made
of
the
Olives
fatnesse
,
the
Fig-trees
sweetnesse
,
the
Vines
refreshing
and
chearing
,
yet
nothing
of
the
thorne
and
bramble
,
but
unparallelled
ambition
,
pride
,
dissention
,
that
ends
in
utter
ruine
,
and
destruction
,
yea
they
are
causes
of
barrennesse
in
others
,
they
make
the
best
soyle
and
the
most
fruitfull
Land
barren
so
are
evill
men
unprofitable
themselves
,
and
make
others
good
for
nothing
,
like
the
Pharises
who
compasse
Sea
and
Land
to
make
a
Pros●lite
,
As
the
Lily
among
Thornes
,
so
is
my
Love
among
the
Daughters
.
1.
Saint
Jerome
expounds
it
,
De
Ecclesia
Gentium
quae
velè
medio
remedio
infidelium
&
non
credentium
quasi
ex
spinis
emerserit
,
I
found
Israel
like
grapes
in
the
wildernesse
,
where
no
man
expected
them
,
yea
God
doth
finde
us
like
Lilyes
among
thornes
,
but
even
when
we
are
very
thornes
as
hurtfull
,
as
unfruitfull
,
as
fit
for
the
fire
as
they
,
till
God
of
thornes
make
us
Lilyes
,
therefore
let
us
glorifie
the
riches
of
his
grace
,
and
set
forrh
the
prayse
of
him
who
hath
changed
our
disposition
,
made
us
innocent
,
pleasing
to
himselfe
,
profitable
to
others
,
and
shall
be
one
day
transplanted
into
his
Celestiall
Paradise
.
2.
Saint
Austin
understands
it
of
the
mixture
of
good
and
bad
in
the
visible
Church
,
Ber.
Sent.
there
be
three
places
,
heaven
,
hell
,
and
earth
,
&
each
of
these
hath
his
severall
Inhabitants
:
Heaven
hath
none
but
good
,
hell
none
but
bad
,
the
earth
hath
good
and
bad
mixed
together
.
Saint
Austin
seemes
to
apply
it
briefely
,
thus
.
Sardis
,
Mathew
and
Zachey
among
the
Publicanes
,
the
Centurion
among
the
Souldiers
,
Mary
Magdalene
among
the
harlots
.
Therefore
though
we
doe
gemere
as
he
saith
,
mourne
that
the
wayes
of
Sion
want
passengers
,
yet
let
us
not
mourne
as
Rachel
for
her
children
,
refusing
to
be
comforted
because
they
were
not
,
nor
sorrow
as
they
that
are
without
hope
.
Doubtlesse
many
shall
come
from
the
East
and
from
the
West
,
and
sit
downe
with
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
and
Jacob
in
that
blessed
Kingdome
above
,
though
we
be
not
privy
to
the
places
they
have
there
,
nor
to
their
going
thither
,
the
Church
herselfe
saith
,
in
admiration
of
her
encreased
number
,
who
hath
begotten
me
these
,
seeing
I
have
lost
my
children
,
De
nullo
pronuntiandum
est
.
2.
Quomodo
confor●as
?
How
dost
thou
strengthen
us
against
the
temptations
of
Satan
and
the
seductions
of
wicked
men
?
when
thou
tellest
us
thy
Church
is
and
continueth
a
Lily
though
amongst
never
so
many
thorns
,
she
is
(
as
I
have
already
said
)
in
a
speciall
manner
in
Christ
his
care
and
custody
,
in
his
hands
,
and
none
shall
be
able
to
plucke
her
thence
,
built
upon
a
rocke
,
and
remaines
like
mount
Sion
immoveable
.
3.
Quomodo
terres
?
How
dost
thou
affright
us
with
the
consideration
of
our
dangerous
and
militant
condition
here
on
earth
,
that
we
are
beset
with
thornes
,
plainly
in
Ezekiels
case
,
bryars
and
thornes
are
with
us
,
4.
That
which
is
opposite
to
the
scope
of
his
exposition
,
and
of
the
Text
it selfe
,
is
to
perswade
us
,
Tolerare
malos
,
to
be
content
to
beare
with
and
forbeare
them
that
be
evill
,
for
God
himselfe
hath
said
,
that
the
tares
shall
not
onely
be
,
but
grow
among
the
wheat
,
untill
the
Harvest
,
and
the
bad
shall
be
amongst
the
good
in
the
same
net
,
Aug.
tom
.
4.
de
Catech.
12.
rud.
untill
they
be
drawne
to
shoare
at
the
end
of
the
world
,
even
,
he
quem
nihil
frurorum
latet
,
who
knoweth
right
well
what
they
are
,
and
what
they
will
be
,
suffereth
them
not
onely
to
enjoy
being
,
but
well
being
,
all
manner
of
outward
blessings
,
causeth
his
Sun
to
shine
,
and
his
raine
to
raine
upon
them
,
yea
Christ
himselfe
in
the
dayes
of
his
flesh
endured
,
even
the
contradiction
of
sinners
,
so
that
all
those
furious
spirits
,
that
seeke
an
immediate
and
uttereradication
of
the
thorns
,
and
if
it
lay
in
their
power
,
would
command
fire
from
heaven
to
consume
them
,
doe
not
imitate
these
blessed
examples
,
show
a
great
deale
of
non-proficiency
in
Christianity
,
as
Saint
Austin
,
3.
Junius
thinks
it
spoken
of
the
excellency
&
dignity
of
the
Church
in
comparison
of
other
Congregations
,
Sancta
Ecclesia
Catholica
Romana
,
and
so
forth
,
and
Musselmanni
,
as
the
Turkes
title
themselves
true
beleevers
,
yet
are
they
all
thornes
to
the
pure
Lily
,
the
Church
.
If
it
be
referred
to
the
Daughrers
such
as
I
have
mentioned
,
that
live
within
the
pale
of
the
visible
Church
,
yet
are
not
the
peculiar
Spouse
of
Christ
.
The
truly
Christian
soule
as
farre
exceeds
them
,
as
the
Lily
doth
the
thornes
;
what
comparison
is
there
betwixt
the
gold
and
the
drosse
?
the
wine
and
the
lees
?
the
faithfull
Spouse
of
Christ
,
and
the
filthy
harlot
of
the
Devill
?
surely
one
little
spot
of
ground
Goshen
that
hath
light
in
it
,
is
worth
all
Aegypt
full
of
darknesse
,
grosse
and
palpable
.
Learne
we
highly
to
esteeme
these
Lilies
,
and
to
prize
these
choyce
jewels
,
and
in
whomsoever
we
see
true
grace
,
sanctity
and
justice
,
which
two
are
the
candour
and
odour
of
the
Lily
,
to
value
them
,
though
they
be
beset
with
never
so
many
thornes
of
infirmities
or
adversities
,
let
us
account
of
them
as
they
are
,
indeed
the
heires
of
heaven
,
the
nobles
of
the
world
,
for
Generosa
Christi
festa
,
nobilitat
viros
cui
quisquis
servit
ille
vere
est
nobilis
,
and
the
pledges
of
our
peace
,
it
may
be
the
fire
had
beene
before
this
time
sent
into
the
thornes
,
but
that
there
are
some
Lilies
amongst
them
to
be
preserved
,
and
for
their
sakes
God
doth
spare
the
thornes
so
long
.
Our
later
Divines
have
observed
many
other
reasons
and
respects
why
the
Church
may
be
said
to
be
a
Lily
among
the
thornes
:
I
will
onely
rub
some
few
of
their
eares
of
corne
,
and
leave
the
harvest
to
some
other
choyce
worke-man
his
gathering
.
A
Lily
among
thornes
.
4.
In
regard
of
the
multitude
of
afflictions
she
suffereth
in
this
life
,
for
the
Church
hath
ever
beene
like
Abrahams
Ram
held
in
a
thicket
of
adversity
,
Christianus
is
Crutianus
,
as
Luther
was
wont
to
say
,
a
man
of
crosses
.
The
servant
is
not
above
his
master
,
God
had
but
one
only
Son
,
and
he
was
sine
peccato
,
yet
not
sine
stagello
.
Aug.
in
Psa
.
31.
Luc.
9
23.
Beza
.
Therefore
let
us
take
up
our
Crosse
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
a
day
by
day
,
ut
dies
diem
sequitur
,
ita
crux
crucem
accipiat
every
day
we
must
expect
sufficient
travell
,
and
with
patience
let
us
possesse
our
soules
for
it
,
resolve
that
through
many
tribulation
and
afflict
on
s
,
we
must
enter
into
Gods
Kingdome
,
if
we
will
have
Christ
,
his
Crowne
of
glory
,
5.
In
regard
of
the
manifold
impediments
she
hath
to
hinder
her
spirituall
growth
,
namely
,
First
,
Satan
is
a
blacke
thorne
in
his
temptations
,
alwayes
pricking
and
wounding
the
children
of
God
,
yea
biting
at
the
very
root
of
the
Lily
,
like
the
worme
at
the
root
of
Jonahs
Gourd
,
and
the
Lily
would
as
soone
wither
as
that
Gourd
did
,
was
there
not
a
soveraigne
power
from
above
to
preserve
it
,
pray
we
then
unto
God
to
rebuke
Satan
in
all
his
assaults
,
that
our
Lily
may
flourish
in
despight
of
him
.
Secondly
,
naturall
corruption
which
God
hath
left
to
be
pricks
in
our
eyes
,
and
thornes
in
our
sides
.
Sa●nt
Paul
,
that
choyce
vessell
of
grace
complaines
of
them
,
Rom
7.
I
cary
about
me
a
body
of
sinne
and
death
,
he
calls
it
by
the
very
terme
in
my
Text
,
the
thorne
in
the
flesh
,
the
messenger
of
Satan
to
buffet
me
,
take
we
his
course
even
to
solicite
God
by
frequent
prayer
,
O
munde
,
munde
,
saith
St.
Austin
,
Fallax
&
proditor
,
impure
world
,
a
traitor
to
us
and
a
deceiver
of
us
.
It
glues
our
wings
,
that
we
cannot
soare
upwards
,
and
as
he
that
hath
a
thorne
in
his
foot
is
utterly
unfit
for
travell
,
so
he
that
hath
these
thorns
of
worldly
cares
stick
in
his
soule
,
is
unmeet
for
his
journey
to
heaven
.
Let
us
therfore
pluck
out
this
thorne
,
and
if
riches
encrease
,
set
not
our
heart
upon
them
.
Thirdly
,
the
perverse
and
sinfull
conversation
of
wicked
men
,
which
are
thornes
in
our
way
to
heaven
,
the
sons
of
Belial
shall
be
as
thornes
thrust
away
,
Bern.
in
Cant.
Ser.
48.
the
bands
of
wicked
men
have
robbed
me
?
Saint
Bernard
is
seasonable
for
a
close
of
this
point
,
Si
Lilium
est
inter
spinas
videat
unaquisque
anima
quam
vigilem
solicit
ámque
esse
oporteat
super
custodia
sui
,
septa
undique
spinis
hinc
inde
aculeos
intendentibus
,
The
Church
is
like
a
Lily
beset
round
about
with
thornes
,
that
seeke
to
wound
and
teare
her
,
therefore
let
every
soule
be
watchfull
and
carefull
for
the
preservation
of
it selfe
,
that
neither
the
thorne
within
doe
impoison
her
,
nor
those
other
without
doe
pierce
her
to
hinder
her
growth
in
grace
here
,
or
to
deprive
her
of
glory
hereafter
.
6.
In
regard
of
the
small
number
of
those
that
are
the
true
members
of
the
Church
,
in
comparison
of
forreine
Congregations
without
,
and
false
brethren
within
,
one
Lily
many
thornes
.
Plures
mali
,
they
which
are
evill
,
Est
turba
semper
argumentum
pessimi
,
the
worse
goe
by
heapes
and
troopes
,
the
least
are
oftentimes
solitary
,
of
twenty
Kings
of
Israel
,
not
one
good
that
cleave
to
the
Lord
with
all
his
heart
,
of
sixe
hundred
thousand
Israelites
,
but
two
came
into
the
Land
of
Canaan
.
It
was
a
remarkeable
folly
and
punishment
of
Radbodus
King
of
Frisia
,
who
asking
whether
there
were
most
in
heaven
or
hell
,
and
was
answered
,
that
in
hell
was
the
greatest
number
,
withdrew
himselfe
from
holy
baptisme
,
and
professed
plainely
that
he
would
goe
to
hell
,
where
the
most
company
was
,
but
he
injoyed
his
madnes
and
contempt
of
Gods
Ordinance
but
a
short
space
,
for
the
third
day
after
,
he
dyed
suddenly
.
It
is
better
to
be
with
Noah
&
his
small
family
in
the
Arke
,
then
with
the
whole
world
to
be
drowned
in
the
deluge
,
to
be
planted
in
Gods
garden
with
the
Lily
,
then
to
be
throwne
into
the
fire
with
a
whole
wildernes
of
thorns
.
7.
Lastly
,
the
Church
is
as
the
Lily
among
thornes
in
respect
of
her
unity
and
their
divisions
and
distractions
,
being
torne
in
more
pieces
then
the
Prophet
Ahjiahs
garment
was
,
1
Kings
12.
for
that
was
onely
into
twelve
,
but
these
are
infinite
,
parted
into
as
many
severall
conventicles
are
there
be
men
of
deepely
corrupt
minds
,
who
doe
partes
facere
,
as
Saint
Augustin
saith
of
the
Donatists
,
and
gather
disciples
unto
themselves
,
Aug.
de
unitate
Ecclesiae
,
c.
3.
Daniel
,
●
.
yea
the
severall
Sects
that
are
in
one
Nation
,
these
hold
not
the
head
Christ
,
and
are
as
those
beasts
of
Daniel
,
diverse
one
from
another
,
yet
all
against
the
Church
,
as
the
enemies
to
the
Lily
,
and
folded
together
to
doe
more
mischiefe
,
as
the
thorns
are
,
omnis
pulchritudinis
forma
unitas
,
unity
is
the
forme
of
beauty
and
uniformity
is
the
forme
of
unity
,
where
there
is
cor
unum
,
and
viauna
,
one
heart
and
one
way
,
the
carriage
of
things
will
be
prosper●us
,
the
end
comfortable
.
I
will
close
then
with
that
prayer
of
Saint
Paul
for
the
Thessalonians
.
FINIS
.