A
SERMON
PREAched
in
Paules
Church
in
London
.
Ioh.
3.1
,
2
,
3.
Beholde
,
what
maner
of
loue
the
Father
hath
giuen
vnto
vs
,
that
we
should
be
called
the
Sonnes
of
God
:
for
this
cause
the
worlde
knoweth
not
you
,
because
it
knoweth
not
him
.
Dearely
beloued
,
now
are
we
the
sonnes
of
God
,
but
yet
it
doeth
not
appeare
what
we
shall
be
:
and
we
know
that
when
hee
shall
appeare
,
we
shall
be
like
him
:
for
wee
shall
see
him
as
he
is
.
And
euery
man
that
hath
this
hope
in
him
,
purgeth
himselfe
,
euen
as
he
is
pure
.
COnsidering
(
right
honorable
and
déerely
beloued
in
our
blessed
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
)
the
heauie
hande
of
GOD
,
which
for
our
sinnes
hath
,
and
yet
doeth
lye
heauie
vpon
vs
,
both
in
Citie
and
in
Countrie
:
whereby
so
many
as
haue
either
sence
of
their
owne
sinnes
in
particular
,
or
of
the
sinnes
of
other
ingenerall
,
or
a
féeling
of
their
owne
afflictions
,
or
a
sympathie
&
fellow
touch
of
the
common
calamitie
,
haue
their
heads
&
their
harts
cast
downe
with
an
extraordinary
griefe
and
sorrow
.
Being
called
to
supply
this
place
(
being
the
meanest
and
weakest
of
all
others
:
)
I
haue
thought
it
not
amisse
for
the
raysing
vp
(
so
farre
as
in
me
lyeth
)
of
distressed
hearts
and
mindes
,
to
handle
in
your
honorable
audience
,
this
parcell
of
Scripture
,
which
ministreth
vnto
vs
plentiful
matter
of
singular
consolation
&
comfort
:
Herein
imitating
the
example
of
our
blessed
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
by
whose
tender
compassion
,
to
all
them
that
are
distressed
,
calling
them
vnto
him
,
Come
vnto
me
all
yee
that
labour
and
are
heauie
loaden
,
and
I
will
refresh
you
,
was
fulfilled
as
S.
Matthew
recordeth
,
that
prophecie
of
Esay
concerning
him
:
A
bruised
read
shall
he
not
breake
,
and
smoking
flax
shall
he
not
quench
.
Hauing
also
for
my
warrant
the
commandement
of
almightie
God
,
vnto
the
Prophet
Esay
,
who
vnto
the
rest
of
Gods
Prophets
,
from
the
Lord
speaketh
thus
:
Comfort
ye
,
comfort
ye
my
people
saith
your
God
:
Speake
comfortablie
vnto
Ierusalem
,
and
crie
vnto
her
,
that
her
warefare
is
accomplished
,
that
her
iniquitie
is
pardoned
,
and
that
she
hath
receiued
double
from
the
Lord
,
for
al
her
sinnes
.
Besides
,
when
the
Lord
chalengeth
the
Shepheards
of
Israel
by
his
Prophet
Ezechiel
,
tongue
of
the
learned
,
to
knowe
to
minister
a
worde
in
due
season
,
to
him
that
is
wearie
:
and
you
yeelding
me
your
wonted
honorable
patience
and
attention
,
I
will
endeuour
(
as
the
time
wil
permit
)
to
propose
the
instructions
&
comforts
of
this
scripture
,
vnto
your
godly
considerations
.
To
procéede
therein
orderly
,
I
will
deuide
the
whole
into
two
generall
parts
,
euen
as
it
naturally
deuideth
it selfe
.
The
first
part
concerneth
the
high
prerogatiue
and
dignitie
whereunto
we
who
beléeue
in
Christ
,
and
of
him
are
called
Christians
,
are
aduanced
:
namely
to
bee
called
,
or
to
be
the
Sonnes
of
God
,
proposed
first
in
the
first
verse
,
with
a
note
of
admiration
:
Beholde
what
loue
the
Father
hath
giuen
vnto
vs
,
that
wee
should
be
called
the
sonnes
of
God
:
And
repeated
againe
in
the
2.
verse
,
with
an
examplification
of
the
time
:
Deerely
beloued
,
now
are
we
the
Sonnes
of
God
,
signifying
by
this
particle
,
Now
the
present
interest
that
we
haue
in
this
our
high
preferment
,
though
the
manifestation
thereof
in
perfection
remayneth
till
the
appearance
of
the
Lorde
Iesus
,
at
whose
appearance
it
shall
be
made
most
euident
:
for
that
then
,
We
shall
be
like
him
,
and
see
him
as
hee
is
,
as
he
inferreth
in
the
seconde
parte
of
this
latter
verse
.
And
for
the
further
confirmation
of
this
poynte
,
that
we
are
the
sons
of
Gods
The
Apostle
sheweth
,
both
the
Fountain
from
whence
this
great
mercie
floweth
vnto
vs
:
to
wit
,
from
the
loue
of
God
:
Secondly
,
the
meanes
whereby
this
his
great
loue
was
procured
vnto
vs
:
which
is
his
méere
grace
and
frée
gift
,
thorowe
Iesus
Christ
.
For
the
Apostle
sayeth
,
he
hath
giuen
vs
,
for
so
the
word
signifyeth
,
and
so
it
is
to
be
read
.
But
because
there
is
no
truth
so
plaine
but
that
argumentation
may
be
maintained
against
it
,
and
quarrells
picked
at
it
:
our
Apostle
answereth
two
obiections
which
might
be
obiected
against
the
trueth
of
this
comfortable
assertion
:
the
one
taken
from
the
euil
intreatie
that
we
haue
in
this
world
.
For
a
man
woulde
thinke
since
wee
are
the
sonnes
of
God
,
who
made
the
worlde
,
the
heauen
,
the
earth
,
and
al
the
fulnesse
thereof
,
that
the
worlde
should
know
vs
to
be
such
,
and
for
our
fathers
sake
make
much
of
vs
.
But
there
is
no
such
matter
:
for
the
worlde
,
as
our
Sauiour
hath
fore-tolde
vs
,
careth
for
it
owne
:
and
as
for
Gods
children
,
because
they
are
not
of
the
world
,
it
respecteth
not
them
.
To
this
the
Apostle
answereth
in
the
latter
ende
of
the
first
verse
,
that
the
cause
of
the
want
of
better
entertainment
at
the
worldes
hand
,
is
,
because
they
know
not
the
Father
:
as
if
hee
should
saie
,
let
it
neuer
trouble
you
that
are
Gods
sonnes
,
that
the
world
know
you
not
,
and
make
no
account
of
you
,
for
it
knoweth
not
the
Father
that
made
it
,
nor
the
naturall
sonne
of
the
Father
,
by
whom
he
made
it
,
as
this
our
Apostle
testifyeth
:
He
was
in
the
world
,
and
the
world
was
made
by
him
,
but
the
world
knewe
him
not
,
therefore
no
maruell
though
it
knoweth
not
vs
that
are
but
his
adopted
Sonnes
.
The
second
obiection
is
taken
from
a
consideration
of
our
present
estate
,
in
regard
of
our selues
,
to
whom
no
such
outward
royaltie
appeareth
,
as
wee
thinke
appertaineth
to
the
sonnes
of
so
high
a
Maiestie
:
whereunto
the
Apostle
aunswereth
,
First
by
a
concession
in
the
second
clause
or
comma
of
the
second
verse
graunting
it
to
bee
so
,
that
indeede
yet
it
appeareth
not
,
what
wee
shal
be
:
Secondly
,
by
a
certain
declaration
of
the
appoynted
time
,
when
we
shall
receiue
the
perfection
of
this
dignitie
,
which
is
when
he
shall
appeare
,
that
is
,
when
Iesus
Christ
in
whom
our
life
is
hid
,
shall
come
to
iudge
the
quicke
&
the
dead
:
them
our
excellencie
which
lyeth
now
buried
as
it
were
with
so
great
ignominie
,
shall
be
manifested
to
our
endlesse
ioy
&
comfort
.
These
obiections
thus
aunswered
,
whereby
the
trueth
of
this
principle
remayneth
inuincible
,
that
wee
are
the
sonnes
of
God
:
The
Apostle
procéedeth
to
the
duetie
which
wee
ought
to
performe
in
respect
of
so
great
a
prerogatiue
,
which
is
the
second
generall
parte
of
my
text
,
and
contained
in
the
third
verse
,
in
these
words
:
And
euery
man
that
hath
this
hope
in
him
purgeth
himselfe
,
euen
as
he
is
pure
:
Wherein
first
he
sheweth
,
that
wee
are
vncleane
of
our selues
,
as
being
conceiued
in
sin
,
&
borne
in
iniquitie
,
hauing
added
therunto
infinite
thousand
transgressions
of
our
owne
,
both
in
thought
,
worde
and
déede
,
and
therefore
haue
néede
to
be
purged
.
Secondly
,
that
this
worke
of
clensing
or
purging
,
belongeth
generally
to
euery
one
that
hath
this
hope
without
exception
:
Thirdly
,
how
farre
forth
we
ought
to
labour
and
to
proceede
the
rein
:
namely
,
not
to
giue
ouer
,
vntil
we
haue
obtained
to
be
pure
as
he
is
pure
:
which
because
we
can
neuer
attaine
to
in
this
corruptible
life
,
wherein
sinne
hangeth
so
fast
on
,
and
sticketh
so
hard
vnto
vs
,
So
that
the
summe
of
the
whole
is
,
that
God
of
his
méere
loue
to
vs-warde
in
Iesus
Christ
,
hath
adopted
vs
in
and
thorow
him
,
to
be
his
sonnes
and
daughters
:
and
that
this
is
not
a
preferment
of
hereafter
onely
to
be
,
but
a
present
prerogatiue
and
dignitie
how-euer
the
world
doth
not
so
acknowledge
vs
,
nor
the
excellencie
therof
séemeth
as
yet
so
apparant
to
our selues
:
Now
to
handle
euery
part
and
poynt
in
his
owne
order
,
so
farre
forth
as
the
time
will
permit
:
we
haue
first
to
consider
more
at
large
of
this
our
high
calling
and
prerogatiue
,
and
therein
to
obserue
howe
by
other
places
of
Scripture
,
both
it
is
confirmed
and
also
amplifyed
.
This
our
Euangelist
testifyeth
:
That
so
many
as
receiued
Iesus
Christ
,
to
them
he
gaue
this
prerogatiue
,
to
be
the
sonnes
of
God
,
euen
to
them
that
beleeue
in
his
name
.
The
Apostle
S.
Paule
sayeth
,
Ye
are
all
the
sonnes
of
God
by
faith
in
Iesus
Christ
.
And
2.
Cor.
6.
he
alleageth
the
testimonie
of
God
himselfe
out
of
the
Prophet
Esay
:
I
will
be
your
God
,
and
you
shall
be
my
Sonnes
and
daughters
,
saith
the
Lord
Almightie
.
Our
blessed
Lord
and
Sauiour
when
he
teacheth
vs
in
the
6.
of
Matthew
to
pray
thus
:
O
our
Father
which
art
in
Heauen
,
thereby
plainely
signifyeth
vnto
vs
,
that
we
are
Gods
children
,
which
●hing
also
the
holy
spirit
of
God
testifyeth
&
witnesseth
vnto
our
spirits
,
in
emboldning
vs
to
crie
Abba
Father
:
So
that
if
wee
beleeue
these
Scriptures
which
are
so
plaine
and
pregnant
in
this
behalfe
,
wee
neede
make
no
doubt
of
this
great
mercie
of
God
vnto
vs
,
in
making
vs
to
be
his
sonnes
.
But
not
onely
thus
simplie
and
positiuely
the
Scripture
setteth
downe
,
that
we
are
the
Sonnes
of
God
:
but
it
amplifyeth
the
same
by
gradation
vnto
the
highest
degrée
.
In
the
4.
Galatians
,
at
the
7.
verse
,
the
Apostle
amplifyeth
it
:
First
,
reiecting
or
renouncing
vtterly
that
seruile
estate
wherin
we
once
were
:
saying
,
Wherefore
thou
art
no
more
a
seruant
:
and
then
peremptorily
setting
it
downe
,
but
a
sonne
.
There-upon
hee
ariseth
a
steppe
further
,
If
thou
be
a
sonne
,
thou
art
also
the
heire
of
God
thorow
Christ
:
And
most
swéetely
in
the
8.
to
the
Ron.
17.
he
reasoneth
thus
:
If
we
be
children
,
we
are
also
heires
,
which
is
one
steppe
higher
,
heires
of
God
,
a
second
step
higher
,
and
ioynt
heires
with
Christ
,
which
is
the
highest
steppe
in
the
ladder
of
Iacob
.
And
this
high
prerogatiue
of
bein●
not
onely
a
son
,
but
an
heire
of
God
,
&
a
heire
annexed
with
Christ
,
is
else-where
often
set
forth
:
as
where
it
is
said
,
We
shal
raigne
with
Christ
,
as
2.
Tim.
12.
if
we
suffer
with
him
,
wee
shall
also
raigne
with
him
:
And
where
it
is
said
that
we
shal
inherit
the
kingdome
,
as
Luke
12.32
.
Feare
not
little
flocke
,
for
it
is
your
fathers
pleasure
to
giue
you
the
kingdome
.
And
Mat.
25.
Come
ye
blessed
of
my
father
,
possesse
the
kingdome
prepared
for
you
from
before
the
foundations
of
the
Worlde
:
And
to
his
Disciples
:
Luc.
21.29
.
I
appoynt
you
a
kingdome
as
my
Father
appoynted
me
:
and
more
generally
to
all
:
Reue.
3.21
.
To
him
that
ouercommeth
,
will
I
graunt
to
sitte
with
me
in
my
throne
,
euen
as
I
ouercame
and
sitte
with
my
Father
in
his
Throne
.
The
Kingdome
of
Heauen
is
Gauell-kinde
Lande
,
where-in
all
the
sonnes
are
indifferently
heires
:
yea
,
where
the
daughters
haue
like
portion
with
the
Sonnes
,
which
both
magnifyeth
highly
the
mercie
of
God
,
and
ministreth
consolation
and
comfort
to
him
or
her
that
is
most
base
and
despised
in
this
worlde
,
when
they
consider
that
the
time
wil
come
,
when
with
the
best
they
shall
be
fellow
heires
,
and
be
set
on
a
Throne
together
with
them
.
And
the
more
comfort
it
shall
minister
vnto
al
,
and
make
this
our
aduancement
to
be
the
Sonnes
of
God
,
beyond
all
measure
glorious
,
if
wee
consider
what
maner
of
kingdome
it
is
whereof
we
are
made
the
vndoubted
heires
:
It
is
the
kingdome
of
Heauen
(
beloued
)
whereof
God
maketh
all
his
sonnes
and
daughters
heires
.
that
kingdome
,
by
excellencie
,
as
a
kingdome
that
surpasseth
all
kingdomes
.
S.
Peter
calleth
it
an
inheritance
,
immortall
,
inuisible
,
vndefiled
,
neuer
fading
,
reserued
in
heauen
for
vs
:
The
authour
of
the
Epistle
vnto
the
Hebrewes
,
calleth
it
a
kingdome
which
cannot
be
shaken
:
Ierusalem
,
where
the
foundations
of
the
walls
are
said
,
to
bee
garnished
with
pretious
stones
:
The
gates
of
the
Citie
to
bee
of
Pearle
,
the
streetes
of
the
Citie
to
be
pure
golde
:
expressing
by
these
things
which
are
of
the
greatest
price
and
excellencie
with
vs
,
the
beautie
and
the
glorie
of
that
kingdome
which
cannot
be
expressed
:
The
ioyes
of
this
Kingdome
are
such
,
as
eye
hath
not
séene
,
eare
hath
not
heard
,
&
which
the
hart
of
man
is
not
able
to
conceiue
,
for
we
shal
there
receiue
that
crowne
of
glory
,
which
shall
neuer
fade
:
Yea
,
as
S.
Paule
calleth
it
,
a
far
most
excellent
,
and
an
eternall
waight
of
glorie
.
Heth
,
Esaus
wifes
,
the
companie
of
innumerable
Angels
,
For
none
vncleane
thing
shall
enter
in
at
the
gates
of
this
citie
to
deminish
the
ioyes
,
or
to
pollute
the
glorie
thereof
.
The
exercise
of
Gods
children
in
this
Citie
,
shall
not
bee
Plough
or
Cart
,
or
planting
or
grafting
,
or
buying
and
selling
,
and
traffiquing
by
Sea
or
by
Lande
:
it
shall
not
be
Hauking
or
Hunting
,
much
lesse
dicing
and
carding
,
or
any
such
other
like
profane
recreations
,
but
it
shall
be
a
continuall
singing
of
Allelu-iah
,
prayse
and
glorie
and
wisedome
,
and
thankes
,
and
honour
and
power
and
might
,
bee
vnto
our
God
for
euermore
.
No
diseases
,
either
plague
or
pestilence
shall
be
in
this
kingdome
:
no
infirmities
either
in
bodie
or
in
soule
,
shall
eclipse
the
ioyes
and
the
glorie
thereof
:
For
all
teares
shall
there
be
wiped
from
all
faces
,
Stephen
,
seeing
the
heauens
open
,
behelde
the
glorie
of
God
,
and
Iesus
standing
at
his
right
hand
:
Or
as
S.
Paule
,
transported
into
the
third
heauen
,
saw
&
heard
things
ineffable
.
So
it
would
please
God
to
open
the
eies
of
our
vnderstanding
and
mindes
,
whereby
we
might
haue
,
if
not
a
perfect
sight
,
yet
a
glimpse
of
this
heauenly
kingdome
,
that
so
wee
might
be
throughly
rauished
with
a
loue
and
a
desire
thereof
.
If
in
our
greatest
heauines
,
the
newes
of
some
great
inheritance
,
that
is
befalne
vs
,
or
of
some
smaller
matter
,
lifteth
vp
our
heads
,
and
driueth
all
sorrowes
from
our
hearts
:
should
not
this
newes
which
is
brought
vnto
vs
of
such
a
glorious
kingdome
in
the
middest
of
all
our
extremities
and
distresses
,
reliue
our
dead
spirits
,
&
raise
vp
our
heads
that
hang
downe
?
What
should
be
the
cause
that
we
should
be
so
much
addicted
to
the
one
,
and
so
litle
affected
to
the
other
?
Is
it
because
the
kingdome
wee
bring
you
tidings
of
,
is
an
heauenly
,
and
not
an
earthly
kingdome
?
Doe
wee
not
in
the
Fable
,
iustly
condemne
Aesops
Cocke
of
méere
folly
,
for
preferring
a
Barlie
corne
to
a
pretious
Pearle
?
And
is
not
Esau
iustly
called
by
the
authour
of
the
Epistle
to
the
Hebrewes
,
by
fyer
be
consumed
with
all
the
workes
therein
.
And
yet
who
hath
a
lease
of
his
life
,
or
an
assurance
to
hold
his
good
til
then
?
How
many
thousands
of
our
brethren
within
some
fewe
wéekes
,
by
their
spéedie
death
,
hath
left
vnto
vs
a
president
of
this
our
fickle
and
vncertaine
state
?
many
of
them
leauing
their
substance
not
an
inheritance
for
their
babes
,
but
a
praye
&
a
spoyle
to
strangers
,
to
waste
and
to
deuoure
.
Blessed
therefore
be
God
the
Father
of
our
Lord
Iesus
,
who
according
to
his
aboundant
mercie
,
hath
begotten
vs
to
a
liuely
hope
,
by
the
resurrection
of
Iesus
Christ
from
the
dead
,
To
an
inheritance
,
not
mortal
,
but
immortall
,
inuisible
,
vndesiled
,
neuer
fading
,
reserued
not
on
earth
,
but
in
heauen
for
vs
,
Which
are
kept
by
the
power
of
God
thorow
faith
vnto
saluation
,
which
is
prepated
to
bee
shewed
in
the
last
time
.
Thus
we
haue
séene
how
euery
maner
of
waye
,
this
our
heauenly
enheritance
excelleth
all
earthly
kingdomes
,
and
thereby
,
to
how
great
a
dignitie
it
is
that
we
are
exalted
vnto
,
in
that
we
are
made
the
sonnes
of
God
,
and
heires
of
that
euerlasting
kingdome
of
glorie
.
And
the
consideration
hereof
ministreth
great
comfort
vnto
vs
,
in
regards
of
our
deare
friends
deceased
:
for
that
we
know
,
that
so
many
of
them
as
dyed
in
the
faith
of
Christ
,
they
haue
receiued
the
possession
of
this
kingdome
,
enfranchized
with
a
more
glorious
fréedome
,
then
all
the
fréedomes
of
the
world
,
and
haue
gotten
the
victorie
of
Satan
,
sinne
and
Hell
,
Iohn
:
Write
,
blessed
are
the
dead
that
die
in
the
Lord
,
for
they
rest
from
their
labours
.
For
ourselues
,
whom
God
in
mercie
hath
yet
passed
by
,
and
granted
to
liue
to
sée
this
day
,
we
may
hereby
receiue
this
comfort
,
that
we
being
his
children
this
visitation
,
if
it
shall
please
him
to
laye
it
vpon
vs
,
as
he
hath
done
vpon
many
of
our
brethren
better
then
wee
,
shall
not
tende
vnto
our
destruction
,
but
to
the
giuing
of
vs
season
and
liuerie
as
it
were
,
and
full
possession
of
this
our
heauenly
inheritance
.
But
you
will
say
vnto
me
,
Is
there
then
no
note
of
God
his
displeasure
and
anger
in
this
sicknesse
?
Is
it
not
an
heauie
iudgement
of
God
,
which
our
sinnes
haue
drawne
downe
vpon
vs
?
Yes
verilie
,
manifest
notes
of
God
his
iust
conceiued
wrath
and
fearefull
iudgements
appeareth
in
this
visitation
:
and
that
as
to
the
bad
,
so
to
the
good
:
as
to
them
that
are
dead
,
so
to
vs
that
remaine
aliue
.
A
feareful
iudgement
it
is
to
the
wicked
and
reprobate
,
if
there
be
any
such
that
haue
departed
:
who
,
as
they
liued
not
in
the
feare
,
so
died
,
not
in
the
fauour
of
God
.
For
this
sudden
cutting
them
off
,
sheweth
that
their
sinnes
were
ripe
and
growne
to
a
full
height
,
and
that
they
are
now
gathered
as
it
were
in
bundles
to
be
throwne
into
hell
fyer
.
A
fearefull
iudgement
also
it
is
,
euen
to
God
his
owne
children
that
are
departed
:
the
guilt
and
eternall
punishment
of
whose
sinnes
,
though
they
bee
forgiuen
in
Christ
,
and
they
receiued
to
mercie
through
him
:
yet
God
by
this
extraordinarie
and
sharpe
,
though
temporall
affliction
,
would
shew
that
hee
was
highly
displeased
,
both
with
them
and
with
vs
for
our
sinnes
,
and
that
therefore
he
hath
taken
them
away
,
the
most
of
them
in
the
prime
and
middest
of
their
daies
,
from
further
enioying
the
blessing
of
long
life
,
which
also
he
promiseth
vnto
them
that
truely
doe
loue
and
honour
him
.
A
fearefull
iudgement
it
is
vpon
vs
that
are
remaining
:
for
what
is
this
deuiding
,
in
so
vncomfortable
a
maner
,
of
the
husband
from
the
wife
,
of
the
wife
from
the
husband
,
of
parents
from
their
children
,
&
children
from
their
parents
,
of
friend
from
friend
,
and
acquaintance
from
acquaintance
?
but
as
it
were
a
torturing
and
deuiding
of
the
same
bodie
,
into
diuerse
pieces
:
when
the
husband
dieth
,
the
wife
hath
lost
her
head
,
when
the
wife
dieth
,
the
husband
hath
lost
his
right
hand
:
When
the
parents
die
,
the
children
haue
lost
the
eye
,
to
guide
them
:
when
the
children
die
,
the
parents
haue
lost
the
sight
that
should
comfort
them
:
when
a
brother
dieth
,
the
brother
hath
lost
parte
of
his
owne
flesh
and
bones
:
when
a
friend
dieth
,
his
friend
hath
lost
(
as
the
Philosopher
calleth
him
)
alter
idem
,
another
himselfe
:
Besides
,
the
calamities
which
befal
the
common
states
as
not
onely
whole
families
to
be
desolated
,
but
Cities
and
Townes
to
be
dispeopled
:
the
number
of
poore
Widowes
and
Orphanes
to
bee
encreased
,
trades
and
occupations
to
be
ceased
,
yea
,
tillage
it selfe
to
be
decaied
,
whereby
sore
famine
is
threatned
.
It
passeth
my
reach
,
beloued
,
to
sounde
the
depth
of
God
his
fearefull
iudgement
in
this
behalfe
:
for
this
breach
made
vpon
so
many
thousands
of
the
people
,
is
as
it
were
a
breach
made
in
the
wall
of
a
citie
,
whereby
the
enemie
entreth
and
possesseth
the
same
.
What
then
remaineth
,
but
that
wee
turne
from
our
sinnes
,
that
God
may
turne
from
his
wrathfull
indignation
?
A
naturall
Father
,
though
hee
loue
his
sonne
well
,
wil
not
leaue
chastising
him
till
hee
hath
left
offending
:
and
if
in
the
time
of
his
chastisement
,
hee
sheweth
himselfe
stubborne
,
and
to
haue
an
obstinate
minde
to
continue
in
his
naughtines
,
he
wil
lay
on
more
heauie
stripes
,
and
his
soule
shall
not
spare
for
his
murmuring
:
we
haue
a
most
tender
and
mercifull
Father
,
gratious
and
abounding
in
all
compassion
towardes
vs
,
we
haue
offended
him
in
most
grieuous
&
feareful
maner
.
It
grieueth
my
hart
,
O
London
,
to
thinke
vpon
,
much
more
to
rehearse
the
horrible
sinnes
committed
in
thée
:
for
,
consider
whether
as
against
Ierusalem
,
God
may
not
complaine
thus
against
thée
?
In
thee
they
haue
despised
Father
and
Mother
:
In
thee
they
haue
oppressed
the
stranger
:
In
thee
they
haue
vexed
the
fatherlesse
and
the
Widdow
:
Thou
hast
despised
mine
holy
things
,
and
polluted
my
Sabboth
.
In
thee
are
men
to
carie
tales
to
shead
bloud
:
In
thee
are
they
that
eate
vpon
the
Mountaines
,
as
Popish
recusants
:
In
the
middest
of
thee
they
commit
abhominations
:
as
incest
,
and
adulterie
:
In
thee
are
they
that
take
gifts
to
shed
bloud
.
Thou
hast
taken
the
vsurie
and
the
increase
,
and
thou
hast
defrauded
thy
neighbour
by
extortion
.
And
would
to
God
that
this
bitter
complaint
were
all
,
and
that
it
might
be
onely
against
thée
;
But
against
thée
O
England
in
generall
,
doth
God
thus
complaine
,
with
a
Bill
containing
the
same
,
and
more
&
more
grieuous
accusations
both
against
Courte
and
Countrie
,
against
Church
and
common
weale
:
as
of
blasphemie
,
of
drunkennes
,
of
pride
&
couetousnesse
,
of
horrible
Witchcraft
&
sorcery
,
of
immeasurable
briberie
:
of
buying
&
selling
offices
in
the
common
weale
:
of
buying
&
selling
dignities
in
the
Church
:
of
insatiable
auarice
&
ambition
in
both
:
in
the
one
,
of
heaping
offices
to
offices
,
in
the
other
,
of
laying
benefices
to
benefices
,
in
neither
a
care
or
conscience
to
performe
the
dutie
to
the
common
good
,
but
to
their
owne
gaine
and
commodities
.
And
herein
,
God
appealeth
to
the
consciences
of
you
all
,
that
he
slandereth
not
the
state
:
neither
doeth
this
bill
of
complaint
tend
to
the
disparagement
of
our
late
blessed
Soueraigne
deceased
,
in
whose
times
these
abhominations
sprang
and
grew
vp
,
and
increased
to
such
an
height
.
For
,
be
it
farre
from
me
,
that
I
should
let
a
sillable
fall
to
the
dishonour
of
her
being
dead
whom
(
as
dutie
bound
with
my
soule
)
I
honoured
being
aliue
.
The
like
enormities
to
these
,
fell
out
in
the
raigne
of
good
and
vertuous
kings
:
Yea
,
in
their
raigne
who
were
most
renowned
of
al
the
rest
:
as
of
Ezechiah
and
Josias
,
as
appeareth
by
the
complaint
of
the
Prophets
,
who
prophecied
in
their
daies
.
It
was
in
the
daies
of
Ezechiah
,
that
Esaiah
the
Prophet
thus
complayneth
.
In
that
daye
did
the
Lorde
God
of
Hostes
,
call
vnto
weeping
and
mourning
,
&
to
baldnesse
,
and
to
a
girding
of
Sackecloth
,
and
beholde
,
ioy
and
gladnesse
,
killing
of
Sheepe
&
slaying
of
Oxen
,
eating
&
drinking
,
to
morrow
we
shall
die
.
It
was
in
the
time
of
Ezechiah
,
when
Micah
the
Prophet
thus
complaineth
.
cap.
7.
ver.
2.4
The
good
man
is
perished
out
of
the
earth
and
there
is
none
righteous
among
men
,
the
best
of
them
is
as
a
bryer
,
and
the
most
righteous
,
sharper
then
a
thorne
hedge
.
It
was
in
the
time
of
Josiah
,
Jere.
cap
,
3.
vers.
6.
&
10.
That
God
commanded
Ieremie
thus
to
vp-braide
Iudah
.
The
rebellious
Israel
hath
iustifyed
her selfe
more
then
the
rebellious
Iudah
,
for
they
haue
not
returned
vnto
me
with
all
their
hart
,
but
fainedly
saith
the
Lord
:
and
therefore
he
biddeth
him
.
Iere.
5.1.3.4.5
&c.
To
runne
to
and
fro
in
the
streetes
of
Ierusalem
,
and
to
aske
and
to
enquire
if
he
could
finde
a
man
that
executeth
iustice
and
iudgement
,
and
seeketh
the
truth
,
&
he
would
spare
it
.
And
he
got
him
to
the
poore
men
,
&
alas
they
were
then
,
as
for
the
most
part
they
are
now
,
Ignorant
and
foolish
,
they
knew
not
the
waye
of
the
Lord
nor
the
iudgement
of
their
God
.
He
went
to
the
great
men
,
and
they
were
such
,
as
for
the
most
part
they
are
nowe
,
they
made
great
profession
,
but
they
also
had
altogether
broke
the
yoke
,
&
burst
the
bands
,
that
is
,
they
would
not
be
ordered
by
the
Law
of
God
.
It
was
in
the
time
of
Iosiah
,
that
Zephaniah
the
Prophet
complaineth
thus
,
men
in
Ierusalem
frozen
in
their
dregs
,
&
say
in
their
hearts
,
the
Lord
will
neither
do
good
nor
euill
:
nay
thus
more
generally
in
the
2.
cap.
1.
2
,
Woe
be
to
the
polluted
,
to
the
robbing
Citie
,
she
heard
not
the
voice
,
shee
receiued
not
correction
,
she
trusted
not
in
the
Lord
,
she
drewe
not
neere
to
her
God
.
And
particularly
,
as
it
were
by
name
,
in
the
3.
verse
.
Her
Princes
within
her
are
as
Lyons
,
her
Iudges
as
Wolues
in
the
Euening
,
which
leaue
not
the
bones
to
the
morning
:
her
Prophets
are
light
and
wicked
persons
,
her
Priests
haue
polluted
the
Sanctuarie
;
and
wrested
the
Law
.
And
yet
all
these
corruptions
whereof
they
thus
bitterly
complaine
,
and
for
which
they
were
not
accused
for
slandring
of
the
state
,
were
no
stayne
to
their
memoriall
.
For
that
they
laboured
and
endeuoured
to
their
vtmost
,
to
haue
reformed
them
,
as
their
histories
sufficiently
doe
shewe
,
and
therefore
are
Chronicled
to
haue
done
vprightly
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
.
In
like
manner
,
who
is
ignorant
of
the
godly
zeale
of
Quéene
Elizabeth
,
for
the
true
worship
and
seruice
of
God
for
suppressing
of
vice
,
both
in
Church
&
common
weale
,
and
maintenance
of
vertue
?
so
that
her
Throne
shee
left
and
resigned
to
Noble
King
IAMES
,
vnstained
of
these
abhominations
:
the
guilt
thereof
to
cleaue
to
them
and
their
posteritie
,
who
were
the
causers
of
them
.
But
as
Ioab
and
the
sonnes
of
Zeruiah
were
to
hard
for
Dauid
:
and
Sebna
was
a
Patron
of
vngodlines
vnder
Ezechias
,
and
the
Princes
,
the
Iudges
,
the
Prophets
,
the
Priestes
corrupt
vnder
Iosiah
:
and
yet
none
of
these
good
Kings
bore
the
blame
of
their
euill
counsellours
:
And
nowe
,
what
could
our
gratious
God
and
heauenly
Father
do
lesse
,
then
,
first
taking
her
to
his
mercie
(
whom
we
were
vnworthie
longer
to
haue
)
to
take
the
rodde
into
his
owne
hand
,
to
beat
vs
for
our
sinnes
,
to
correct
vs
for
our
iniquities
,
&
to
prooue
,
if
his
owne
chastisement
would
effect
our
amendment
?
Let
vs
therefore
euerie
one
of
vs
,
in
the
feare
of
God
,
who
stand
in
awe
of
his
iudgements
,
turne
from
his
owne
euil
waies
,
and
from
the
wickednesse
that
is
in
his
handes
,
as
did
the
Niniuites
.
cease
to
do
euill
,
and
learne
to
do
well
:
Let
euery
man
plough
vp
his
fallow
ground
,
&
sowe
no
more
among
thornes
.
Let
euery
man
cast
away
the
abhominations
of
his
eies
and
of
his
heart
:
yea
,
renting
our
harts
and
not
our
garments
.
Oh
let
it
be
far
from
vs
,
that
this
complaint
that
the
Prophet
Ieremie
taketh
vp
against
Ierusalem
,
should
be
taken
vp
against
vs
.
O
Lord
,
thou
hast
stricken
them
,
but
they
haue
not
sorrowed
,
thou
hast
consumed
them
,
but
they
haue
refused
correction
,
they
haue
made
their
faces
harder
then
a
stone
,
and
haue
refused
to
returne
.
For
if
notwithstanding
these
iudgements
of
God
,
we
continue
still
in
those
sins
which
haue
thus
sore
kindled
his
wrath
,
if
in
this
day
of
our
visitation
,
wherein
the
Lorde
calleth
to
wéeping
&
mourning
,
to
sackcloth
&
ashes
,
we
fal
to
eating
&
drinking
,
that
is
,
to
our
wonted
gluttonie
&
drunkennes
,
&
other
abhominations
:
Let
vs
assure
our selues
that
the
wrath
of
God
will
still
burne
,
and
his
arme
be
stretched
out
still
,
vntil
hee
hath
laide
our
land
waste
,
and
this
Citie
without
an
inhabitant
.
As
therefore
it
standeth
euery
man
vpon
to
mend
one
,
so
to
you
right
honorable
,
and
your
worshipful
assistants
,
it
belongeth
to
reforme
them
that
will
not
reforme
themselues
,
and
betimes
to
cut
off
all
the
workers
of
iniquitie
from
the
Citie
of
the
Lord
.
And
for
a
more
generall
redresse
of
all
abuses
and
corruptions
,
both
in
our
Church
and
common
weale
:
we
ought
earnestly
and
continually
,
to
pray
vnto
almightie
God
,
to
put
into
the
heart
of
our
most
Noble
and
blessed
Soueraigne
,
the
kings
Maiestie
,
both
constantly
to
withstand
all
oppositions
of
men
,
of
corrupt
mindes
,
and
to
hasten
as
he
hath
most
zealouslie
begun
the
full
amendment
of
whatsoeuer
is
amisse
:
euen
to
the
making
of
a
couenant
betwixt
God
and
his
people
,
that
they
shall
séeke
the
Lorde
,
and
that
whosoeuer
will
not
séeke
the
Lord
God
of
Israell
,
that
he
be
slaine
,
whether
hee
bee
great
or
small
,
man
or
woman
,
as
did
Asa
King
of
Iudah
.
For
God
will
not
be
reconciled
vnto
vs
,
And
thus
haue
I
shewed
vnto
you
,
right
Honorable
and
beloued
,
how
in
this
visitation
,
wee
may
receiue
both
singular
comfort
ouer
them
that
are
departed
,
and
for
our selues
who
yet
remaine
to
be
disposed
of
by
his
good
will
and
pleasure
,
and
also
perceiue
God
his
iust
displeasure
and
anger
against
vs
for
our
sinnes
.
It
remaineth
,
that
we
procéede
in
the
pursuit
of
God
his
mercie
to
vs
,
which
we
haue
shewed
to
haue
bene
excéeding
great
,
in
making
vs
to
be
his
Sonnes
:
and
shal
now
shew
to
be
excéeding
greater
,
in
considering
of
the
originall
and
fountaine
from
whence
this
so
vnspeakable
a
mercie
floweth
vnto
vs
.
For
the
verie
original
spring
,
is
the
loue
of
God
:
for
so
our
Apostle
affirmeth
:
Behold
what
loue
the
Father
hath
giuen
vnto
vs
:
Which
also
our
Sauiour
Christ
confirmeth
,
saying
:
So
God
loued
the
Worlde
,
and
that
not
an
ordinarie
,
but
an
extraordinarie
loue
,
for
so
the
wordes
importeth
,
and
which
the
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
which
our
Apostle
here
vseth
also
signifyeth
.
For
this
word
signifyeth
,
what
maner
:
with
an
admiration
:
so
that
the
text
is
to
be
read
:
thus
,
behold
what
maner
of
loue
the
Father
hath
giuen
vs
,
For
so
is
this
word
also
vsed
.
Mar.
13.1
.
What
maner
of
stones
,
and
what
maner
of
building
,
as
if
they
should
say
not
ordinarie
,
but
extraordinarie
stones
,
not
ordinarie
,
but
extraordinarie
buildings
are
here
.
So
in
the
8.
of
Matt.
27.
after
our
Sauiour
had
stilled
the
raging
of
the
Sea
,
the
men
marueiled
saying
:
What
maner
of
man
is
this
:
as
if
they
should
say
what
rare
and
singular
man
?
Such
a
loue
then
is
the
loue
of
God
,
whereby
hee
hath
chosen
vs
to
be
his
children
,
as
is
past
vnderstanding
,
as
is
extraordinarie
,
as
is
a
wonder
of
wonders
:
&
therefore
here
set
forth
by
two
words
of
wonderment
.
Beholde
,
what
maner
?
And
beloued
,
you
shall
the
better
beholde
and
consider
how
admirable
and
wonderful
a
loue
it
is
wherewith
God
hath
loued
vs
?
If
ye
obserue
first
on
whom
he
hath-bestowed
it
:
Secondly
,
in
what
sort
hee
hath
bestowed
it
:
And
thirdly
,
by
what
person
he
hath
effected
it
.
He
hath
bestowed
it
vpon
vs
,
and
hee
hath
bestowed
it
gratis
in
maner
of
a
gift
,
and
he
hath
effected
it
,
by
his
owne
onely
Sonne
our
blessed
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
whom
he
gaue
vnto
death
for
vs
.
For
the
first
,
it
is
said
that
he
gath
giuen
his
loue
to
vs
:
For
our selues
,
if
wee
had
bene
the
friendes
of
God
,
or
had
in
any
wise
deserued
any
small
matter
at
his
hand
,
the
loue
had
not
bene
so
great
,
as
louing
vs
that
had
loued
him
,
according
to
that
our
Sauiour
saith
of
our
maner
of
loue
one
towards
another
.
If
yee
loue
them
that
loue
you
,
what
rewarde
shall
ye
haue
?
doe
not
also
the
verie
Publicanes
and
most
notorious
sinners
thus
?
The
Iewes
tolde
our
Sauiour
,
that
the
Centurion
was
worthie
for
his
deserts
towarde
their
Nation
,
that
hee
should
heale
his
seruant
:
which
,
had
it
ben
true
,
the
benefite
bestowed
vpon
him
,
the
children
of
Gods
wrath
:
so
we
were
at
vtter
variance
or
defyance
with
him
,
Rom.
8.7
,
testifyeth
,
when
as
he
sayeth
:
The
wisdome
of
the
flesh
is
an
vtter
enemie
to
God
,
for
it
is
not
a
subiect
,
therefore
a
rebell
to
the
Law
of
God
,
neither
otherwise
can
be
.
In
that
therefore
God
through
Iesus
Christ
,
yéelded
on
his
part
to
loue
vs
,
we
continuing
our
disobedience
and
hatred
towards
him
:
how
great
must
that
his
loue
be
?
For
if
the
partie
wronged
shall
yéelde
vnto
him
that
doeth
the
wrong
,
and
shall
séeke
his
good
will
,
and
his
good
,
what
rare
loue
do
we
account
it
?
yea
,
so
rare
,
as
is
seldome
(
the
more
is
the
pittie
)
to
be
séene
among
vs
.
This
loue
of
God
therefore
in
this
poynt
,
is
a
rare
loue
,
and
excéeding
admirable
,
in
that
hee
loued
vs
,
being
his
enemies
,
and
sought
after
vs
,
when
wee
sought
not
after
him
,
according
to
that
he
saieth
by
the
Prophet
Esay
65.1
.
I
haue
offred
my selfe
to
be
found
of
them
that
asked
not
:
For
so
the
verbe
Passiue
there
vsed
,
is
to
bee
translated
.
Like
as
the
Apostle
Ro.
10.20
.
rendreth
it
.
I
haue
bene
made
manifest
:
For
otherwise
the
sence
of
the
first
comma
in
that
swéete
sentence
,
cannot
be
perceiued
.
I
offered
my selfe
(
saieth
God
)
to
bee
founde
of
them
that
asked
not
I
was
found
of
them
that
sought
mee
not
.
I
saide
behold
mee
,
beholde
me
,
to
a
Nation
that
called
not
vpon
my
name
:
And
as
by
the
ministerie
of
his
Prophets
in
former
time
,
so
by
our
Ministerie
now
,
doeth
he
still
seeke
after
vs
,
that
continue
still
our
enmitie
to
him
:
For
wee
are
the
embassadours
,
saith
the
Apostle
.
2.
Corinth.
5.20
.
for
Christ
,
as
though
God
did
beséech
you
thorow
vs
,
we
pray
you
in
Christ
stead
,
that
ye
bee
reconciled
vnto
God
:
The
greatnesse
therfore
of
God
his
loue
towards
vs
in
this
behalfe
,
doeth
the
Apostle
S.
Paule
highly
,
as
it
deserueth
renowne
:
Doubtlesse
,
saieth
he
for
a
righteous
man
,
one
can
scarcely
be
found
that
will
die
:
but
for
a
good
man
it
may
bee
one
dare
die
:
but
God
magnifieth
his
mercie
vnto
vs
,
that
when
we
were
his
enemies
,
Christ
dyed
for
vs
.
And
againe
,
when
wee
were
enemies
,
we
were
reconciled
vnto
him
by
the
death
of
his
Sonne
.
This
he
prosecuteth
in
many
words
in
the
2.
Ephes
.
but
especially
in
the
4.
verse
in
these
words
.
But
God
which
is
rich
in
mercie
thorow
his
great
loue
,
wherewith
he
loued
vs
,
euen
when
we
were
dead
in
sinnes
,
that
is
,
his
mortall
enemies
,
he
quickned
vs
together
in
Christ
.
Thus
wee
sée
,
how
in
this
respect
this
holy
Apostle
magnifyeth
the
greatnesse
of
Gods
loue
and
grace
,
the
exceeding
riches
of
his
grace
:
for
that
he
loued
vs
,
when
we
were
his
enemies
.
And
therefore
doe
wee
not
accounte
them
worthily
enemies
to
the
grace
of
God
,
who
doe
obscure
or
rather
denie
this
his
great
grace
,
operibus
praeuisis
,
by
workes
fore-séene
:
and
I
know
not
what
the
Lord
Iesus
himself
saw
no
such
workes
fore-séene
when
he
taught
vs
to
say
:
we
are
vnprofitable
seruants
,
we
haue
done
but
that
which
was
our
dutie
to
doe
.
This
our
Apostle
sawe
no
such
fore-séene
workes
,
and
there fore
he
renowneth
this
loue
of
GOD
,
4.
chap.
10.
Herein
is
loue
,
not
that
we
loued
God
,
but
that
hee
loued
vs
first
:
and
againe
,
in
the
19.
verse
:
We
loue
him
,
for
he
loued
vs
first
.
This
doctrine
then
teacheth
vs
,
that
by
grace
we
are
saued
,
and
therfore
not
by
works
alone
,
nor
by
grace
and
workes
together
:
for
workes
and
grace
cannot
goe
together
in
the
worke
of
iustifycation
,
for
so
the
Apostle
reasoneth
.
If
it
be
of
grace
,
it
is
no
more
of
works
,
or
else
were
grace
no
more
grace
:
but
if
it
be
of
workes
,
it
is
no
more
grace
,
or
else
were
worke
no
more
worke
:
Sequutur
iustifica●ū
non
praecaedunt
iustificandum
:
they
follow
him
that
is
iustifyed
,
they
goe
not
before
him
that
is
to
be
iustifyed
.
For
by
the
way
,
this
is
to
be
noted
,
that
though
workes
saue
vs
not
,
yet
we
are
the
workmanship
of
God
,
created
in
Christ
Iesus
vnto
good
works
,
for
to
glorifie
him
that
saued
vs
,
according
as
Zacharias
sayth
in
his
song
:
Wee
are
deliuered
from
the
hands
of
our
enemies
,
that
wee
might
serue
him
without
feare
,
all
the
dayes
of
our
life
in
holinesse
and
righteousnesse
before
him
.
And
the
grace
of
God
,
saieth
the
Apostle
vnto
Titus
,
that
bringeth
saluation
vnto
all
men
:
hath
appeared
and
teacheth
vs
,
that
we
should
denie
vngodlinesse
and
worldly
lusts
:
and
that
wee
should
liue
soberly
,
and
righteously
,
and
godly
,
in
this
present
world
.
And
our
Apostle
maketh
this
to
be
our
dutie
,
namely
,
to
purge
our selues
,
wherof
,
if
time
would
permit
,
to
come
to
the
handling
of
the
part
,
which
is
,
the
second
parte
of
our
text
,
we
would
by
the
grace
of
God
more
largely
speake
.
Secondly
,
this
doctrine
teacheth
vs
,
to
loue
one
another
:
which
lesson
,
this
our
Apostle
inferreth
vpon
the
loue
of
God
,
11.
verse
of
this
Chapter
:
Beloued
,
if
God
so
loued
vs
,
wee
ought
also
to
loue
one
another
.
We
are
taught
of
God
,
that
is
,
by
the
example
of
God
,
but
in
deede
and
in
truth
,
that
is
,
wee
ought
to
manifest
our
loue
vnto
all
,
by
dealing
faithfully
and
truely
with
all
men
,
and
to
them
that
are
in
want
,
by
ministring
vnto
their
necessitie
.
For
hereby
is
loue
proued
,
as
by
a
touch-stone
If
any
man
hath
this
worlds
goods
,
and
seeth
his
brother
want
,
and
shutteth
vp
his
compassion
from
him
,
how
dwelleth
the
loue
of
God
in
him
?
as
if
hee
should
saye
,
Such
a
man
neither
loueth
God
nor
man
:
And
beloued
,
now
is
the
time
if
euer
you
will
,
that
you
must
manifest
your
loue
to
God
by
tender
compassion
on
them
that
are
in
néede
.
I
néed
not
to
vtter
vnto
you
the
great
miserie
,
of
the
poore
of
this
Citie
,
and
of
the
Suburbs
thereof
:
the
want
of
the
Widdow
and
of
the
fatherlesse
,
and
of
the
poore
man
of
occupation
,
who
in
this
time
wanteth
woorke
,
and
therefore
wanteth
foode
for
him
and
his
familie
.
Their
crie
is
come
before
you
out
of
this
place
,
and
you
haue
most
honorably
and
charitably
considered
of
it
.
I
beséech
you
in
the
tender
bowels
of
the
Lord
Iesus
,
consider
of
it
still
,
for
the
sicknesse
thus
still
(
though
not
in
so
great
measure
,
the
Lord
be
euer
praised
for
it
)
continuing
,
&
the
Winter
so
hard
approching
,
and
none
or
litle
worke
,
as
they
say
,
stirring
,
the
number
of
the
poore
,
&
their
necessity
,
do
encrease
daily
:
your
liberality
therefore
must
also
encrease
,
Rather
then
the
poore
should
want
,
make
a
banke
for
the
poore
,
it
would
be
the
most
honorable
banke
that
euer
was
made
,
and
most
profitable
for
the
aduenturers
.
Let
him
that
hath
twentie
thousand
pound
,
cast
in
two
thousande
:
Let
him
that
hath
ten
thousand
pound
,
cast
in
a
thousand
:
Let
him
that
hath
a
thousand
,
cast
in
a
hundreth
,
let
him
that
hath
an
hundreth
,
cast
in
ten
.
I
know
I
shall
be
censured
by
many
to
speake
like
a
foole
,
but
I
regard
not
their
censure
.
For
this
proportion
is
not
like
to
his
that
saide
,
let
him
that
hath
two
coates
,
giue
one
to
him
that
hath
none
,
and
let
him
that
hath
meate
do
likewise
:
nor
like
vnto
his
that
said
,
Halfe
of
my
goods
I
giue
to
the
poore
:
Sell
all
that
thou
hast
and
giue
to
the
poore
:
that
sold
their
houses
and
possessions
,
and
brought
the
price
to
bee
distributed
to
them
that
wanted
:
hauing
but
two
mites
,
cast
them
into
this
banke
,
being
all
the
liuing
she
had
,
being
content
to
worke
for
more
.
Yet
as
the
meaning
of
these
sayings
,
and
examples
is
not
to
set
any
iust
rate
,
but
to
shew
that
charitie
must
ouer-flowe
in
time
of
common
necessitie
:
so
my
meaning
is
not
,
to
prescribe
vnto
your
wisedomes
,
either
a
iust
proportion
,
or
a
maner
of
taxing
:
but
to
shew
how
farreforth
in
liberalitie
,
euerie
one
without
compulsion
,
of
his
owne
willing
and
voluntarie
minde
(
for
Hilarem
da●orem
diligit
dominus
:
iust
and
the
vniust
,
causing
his
sunne
to
shine
,
&
his
raine
to
fall
on
them
indifferently
,
shall
not
wee
(
I
saye
)
by
his
example
,
learne
to
blesse
than
that
curse
vs
,
Let
vs
not
deceiue
our selues
in
boasting
that
wee
are
the
children
of
God
:
for
vnlesse
this
affection
in
some
measure
be
in
vs
,
we
are
no
sonnes
of
God
,
nor
God
any
Father
of
ours
.
But
to
procéede
in
magnifying
further
this
loue
of
God
:
the
Apostle
affirmeth
that
this
loue
which
is
bestowed
vpon
vs
,
is
in
maner
of
a
gift
,
gratis
:
For
he
hath
giuen
it
vs
.
Some
men
deserue
loue
for
some
good
turnes
or
deserts
that
they
haue
done
,
and
so
make
him
to
bee
a
friend
,
which
before
was
an
enemie
:
as
Iacob
won
Esau
:
dust
and
ashes
.
Not
Dauid
,
for
he
prayeth
:
Enter
not
into
iudgement
with
thy
seruant
,
O
Lord
.
Not
Iob
,
for
he
confesseth
:
If
hee
should
iustifie
himselfe
,
his
owne
mouth
would
condemne
him
.
God
hath
not
set
his
loue
to
sale
vnto
vs
:
for
if
he
had
,
whereby
should
or
could
we
haue
procured
it
?
should
we
haue
giuen
him
a
thousand
Rammes
(
to
vse
the
wordes
of
the
Prophet
Micah
)
or
ten
thousand
riuers
of
oyle
:
should
wee
haue
offered
him
the
fruit
of
the
bodie
for
the
sinnes
of
our
soule
?
All
the
beasts
of
the
field
are
mine
,
and
so
are
the
cattle
vpon
a
thousand
hilles
:
And
as
the
soule
of
the
fathers
is
mine
,
sayeth
the
Lorde
,
so
is
the
soule
of
the
sonnes
.
And
more
generally
:
The
earth
is
the
Lords
,
and
all
the
fulnesse
thereof
,
the
rounde
worlde
,
and
all
that
dwell
therein
.
The
string
whereupon
many
,
and
especially
the
Church
of
Rome
doeth
harpe
in
this
respect
,
is
our
righteousnes
:
but
what
our
righteousnes
is
,
Yea
al
our
righteousnesses
are
(
the
Prophet
Esay
telleth
vs
,
as
a
stained
cloth
,
which
lotheth
the
eyes
of
them
that
beholde
,
so
that
with
displeasure
and
detestation
they
turne
from
it
.
Our
righteousnesse
therefore
in
it selfe
considered
without
the
merit
of
Christ
,
by
whom
they
are
accepted
,
as
fruits
of
our
faith
,
they
are
too
much
stained
,
and
therefore
too
base
to
procure
the
aboundant
riches
of
the
loue
of
God
.
And
this
we
must
néedes
of
our selues
confesse
,
if
we
be
not
caried
away
with
too
great
a
selfe-loue
,
&
weening
of
our selues
:
for
euen
our
conscience
which
is
a
thousand
,
witnesses
,
witnesseth
against
vs
,
the
manifold
corruptions
which
cleaue
vnto
the
best
and
most
holy
worke
that
we
doe
.
The
trueth
therefore
of
this
doctrine
remayneth
inuinsible
,
and
néedeth
no
further
testimonie
of
any
man
,
that
,
that
eternall
loue
of
God
,
wherewith
hee
hath
so
loued
vs
,
as
to
make
vs
his
children
and
heires
,
is
,
of
his
frée
gift
bestowed
and
giuen
vnto
vs
,
according
as
our
Apostle
here
sayth
,
Behold
what
loue
the
father
hath
giuen
vnto
vs
,
that
wee
should
be
called
the
Sonnes
of
God
:
and
according
to
that
the
Apostle
saith
.
Gal.
3.22
.
The
promise
by
the
faith
of
Christ
Iesus
,
is
giuen
to
them
that
beleeue
:
for
this
one
worde
giuen
,
so
often
repeated
by
the
Apostle
,
if
there
were
no
further
argument
to
prooue
the
fréenes
of
God
his
loue
and
grace
towardes
vs
,
is
sufficient
to
stoppe
all
mouthes
,
that
open
themselues
to
the
derogation
thereof
.
But
yet
further
to
remooue
all
opinion
and
conceit
of
our
owne
worthinesse
,
and
to
set
foorth
the
loue
of
GOD
,
to
bee
beyond
all
measure
,
GOD
to
aunswere
the
vtmost
tittle
of
his
iustice
,
and
to
cancell
all
obligations
and
hand-writings
against
vs
for
our
sinnes
,
finding
nothing
in
vs
,
whereby
to
saue
vs
,
according
as
one
well
confesseth
to
him
:
Nihil
inuenis
vnde
salues
,
&
multum
inuenis
,
vnde
damnes
:
God
blessed
for
euer
,
to
take
on
him
our
nature
,
God
so
loued
the
world
,
that
hee
gaue
his
only
begotten
sonne
vnto
death
,
that
whosoeuer
should
beleeue
on
him
,
should
not
perish
,
but
haue
life
euerlasting
.
This
also
doeth
our
Apostle
renowne
,
in
the
fourth
Chapter
verse
10.
Herein
is
loue
,
not
that
wee
loued
God
,
but
that
hee
loued
vs
,
and
sent
his
onely
begotten
sonne
,
to
be
a
reconciliation
for
our
sinnes
:
Where
the
loue
of
God
is
set
in
the
first
place
,
for
the
cause
efficient
and
principall
,
his
sonne
sent
for
the
cause
materiall
,
and
to
be
a
reconciliation
for
our
sinnes
:
for
a
cause
finall
,
nothing
required
of
vs
,
but
that
we
beléeue
in
him
,
and
loue
one
another
for
him
,
as
he
hath
loued
vs
.
If
the
consideration
hereof
were
throughly
layed
to
hart
,
it
would
quickly
remooue
all
proud
opinion
of
our
owne
merit
,
which
is
thus
excluded
by
including
the
merit
of
Christ
,
as
alone
the
sufficient
sacrifice
propitiatorie
for
our
sinnes
:
and
it
would
swallow
vs
vp
with
an
admiration
of
the
excéeding
loue
of
God
toward
vs
:
The
height
,
the
depth
,
the
length
,
the
breadth
whereof
is
incomprehensible
,
and
make
vs
ashamed
of
our
owne
corruption
:
Gold
and
siluer
,
and
pretious
stones
being
of
no
valew
:
all
the
Sacrifices
and
ceremonies
of
the
old
Law
,
being
of
no
worth
:
his
blessed
and
glorious
Angels
being
insufficient
to
effect
our
ransome
,
whom
he
so
loued
:
he
spared
not
his
owne
onely
sonne
,
who
was
in
his
bosome
more
deare
vnto
him
,
than
the
signet
of
his
owne
right
hande
,
who
willingly
said
also
;
Loe
I
come
,
and
gaue
him
to
the
death
,
by
his
death
to
redéeme
,
Peter
,
We
were
not
redeemed
by
siluer
or
gold
,
as
of
a
Lambe
immaculate
,
and
without
spot
.
And
wee
,
in
the
meane
while
wretched
men
and
women
,
straine
at
euery
curtesie
,
and
thinke
euery
thing
too
much
we
do
in
loue
towards
our
brethren
,
whom
wee
should
not
onely
loue
by
supplying
their
wants
in
the
expence
of
our
goods
,
as
before
we
haue
shewed
,
but
also
loue
,
by
laying
downe
our
liues
for
them
,
by
the
expence
of
our
bloud
,
if
néede
so
require
:
as
our
Apostle
by
this
example
of
our
blessed
Sauiour
teacheth
vs
,
saying
:
here
in
is
loue
,
that
hee
laide
downe
his
life
for
vs
:
wee
ought
therefore
to
laye
downe
our
liues
for
the
brethren
.
1.
Ioh.
3.16
.
There
remayneth
in
this
clause
,
yet
one
worde
that
further
amplifyeth
this
loue
of
God
in
the
greatnes
thereof
vnto
vs
:
For
besides
that
,
it
hath
pleased
him
to
make
vs
,
euen
vs
that
were
his
enemies
to
be
his
sonnes
,
to
be
his
heires
and
ioynt
heires
with
his
owne
natural
sonne
:
of
such
an
inheritance
,
that
is
immortall
,
and
that
of
his
méere
loue
by
gift
,
not
deserued
by
vs
,
but
purchased
for
vs
,
by
the
pretious
death
and
passion
of
our
blessed
Lord
and
Sauiour
Christ
Iesus
,
he
vouchsafeth
for
the
further
assurance
of
our
faith
herein
,
&
confort
of
our
soules
to
cal
himself
our
father
,
for
adopting
vs
in
his
welbeloued
Son
,
I
wil
declare
thy
name
vnto
my
brethren
:
so
God
his
Father
,
the
Father
by
excellencie
,
disdaineth
not
to
cal
himselfe
our
Father
,
saying
:
bee
your
Father
,
and
ye
shall
be
my
sonnes
and
daughters
.
The
worde
Father
is
a
swéet
worde
,
and
serueth
to
be
obserued
for
many
vses
.
First
,
it
confirmeth
al
the
former
doctrine
of
GOD
his
louing
vs
fréely
:
for
as
the
childe
receiueth
nothing
but
from
his
Father
,
and
his
Father
bestoweth
all
things
vpon
him
fréely
,
in
regard
onely
,
that
he
is
his
Father
,
the
childe
deseruing
not
the
least
iotte
of
his
loue
:
So
God
being
our
Father
,
it
followeth
that
we
receiue
all
from
him
,
our
being
,
our
lyuing
,
our
mouing
,
Secondly
it
expresseth
more
sensibly
the
tender
mercie
and
compassion
of
our
good
God
vnto
vs
:
for
thereby
wee
vnderstand
that
he
tendreth
vs
as
a
Father
according
to
that
of
the
Prophet
:
Like
as
a
father
pittieth
his
owne
children
,
euen
so
the
Lord
hath
compassion
on
them
that
feare
him
.
Fatherly
and
Motherlie
loue
,
we
know
to
bee
verie
great
,
and
none
know
it
,
but
they
which
are
veri
Patres
,
Fathers
indéede
,
their
bowels
are
mooued
with
more
than
an
ordinarie
affection
toward
their
children
,
as
appeareth
by
the
example
of
the
harlot
,
whose
compassion
was
kindled
toward
her
childe
,
when
she
heard
sentence
giuen
,
Hos.
8.11
.
that
his
hart
is
turned
in
him
,
&
that
his
repentance
is
rouled
together
,
euen
as
a
fathers
doth
:
when
he
taketh
in
hand
to
punish
his
childe
,
he
will
beate
him
,
and
he
will
not
beate
him
,
loath
he
is
,
and
therefore
though
he
doeth
it
,
hee
doeth
it
vnwillingly
,
so
doeth
also
our
heauenly
Father
,
he
doth
not
punish
vs
with
his
heart
,
saieth
Ieremie
in
his
Lamentations
:
woman
should
forget
the
fruite
of
her
wombe
,
yet
would
not
forget
thee
,
for
I
am
the
Lord
and
am
not
changed
:
Therfore
the
Apostle
saieth
:
His
gifts
and
callings
are
without
repentance
:
And
the
Euangelist
sayeth
,
Iohn
13.1
.
Whome
hee
loueth
,
hee
loueth
vnto
the
ende
.
And
right
Honorable
and
beloued
,
there
is
not
a
greater
comfort
vnto
our
soules
and
consciences
,
in
this
our
present
heauinesse
and
distresse
,
than
this
:
to
consider
that
hee
is
our
Father
that
doeth
thus
correct
vs
,
who
though
he
be
iustlie
displeased
with
vs
,
and
his
wrath
fore kindled
against
vs
for
our
sinnes
:
yet
herein
he
sheweth
himselfe
to
be
infinitely
gratious
and
mercifull
vnto
vs
,
in
that
hee
hath
taken
the
rod
into
his
owne
hand
,
&
not
deliuered
it
into
their
handes
that
hate
vs
,
to
strike
vs
therewith
.
The
Spaniards
hath
often
hoped
to
haue
got
this
rod
into
their
hands
,
and
haue
as
it
were
snatched
,
to
haue
pulled
it
vnto
them
,
that
they
might
haue
bene
Gods
executioners
.
A
bloudie
day
had
that
bene
(
beloued
)
for
the
corps
,
whom
you
haue
séene
,
honorably
and
reuerently
in
peace
caried
to
their
graues
,
you
should
haue
séene
them
lying
waltering
in
their
bloud
:
in
the
middest
of
the
stréets
,
torne
with
their
Wyer
whips
,
dis-membred
with
their
long
Kniues
:
thrust
thorow
with
their
sharpe
swords
,
and
no
man
to
haue
buried
them
.
Malecontents
among
our selues
,
as
Papists
and
Athests
had
hoped
to
haue
got
this
rod
into
their
handes
:
and
as
by
often
Treasons
,
against
our
late
blessed
Soueraigne
,
so
by
stronge
conspiracies
against
our
now
most
gracious
and
vndoubted
King
,
whom
God
for
euer
kepe
,
from
out
of
their
handes
,
they
haue
attempted
it
.
A
day
of
horrour
and
confusion
,
a
blacke
and
dismall
day
beloued
,
would
that
haue
bene
,
for
then
,
whereas
now
you
kéepe
your
seates
of
honour
(
and
for
euer
may
you
kéepe
them
)
and
euerie
man
possesseth
his
house
and
home
in
peace
,
and
each
neighbour
ready
to
comfort
his
neighbour
,
and
all
may
come
with
safetie
to
this
place
,
and
to
other
places
of
Gods
worship
to
make
their
supplications
before
him
:
then
,
I
saye
,
ye
should
haue
séene
that
verefied
which
is
in
the
Prophecie
of
Esay
:
Nothing
but
oppression
and
violence
:
Children
presuming
against
the
ancient
,
and
the
vile
against
the
honorable
:
Ephraim
against
Manasses
,
and
Manasses
against
Ephraim
,
and
both
against
Iudah
.
The
Papist
against
the
Athest
,
&
the
Athest
against
the
Papist
,
&
both
against
the
true
Professour
.
You
should
haue
séene
then
,
your
houses
ransacked
,
your
wiues
and
your
daughters
dishonoured
,
your
swéete
children
and
babes
,
horriblie
murthered
,
and
euery
mans
sworde
imbrued
in
the
bloud
of
his
neighbour
.
Blesse
we
therefore
God
,
and
for
euer
blesse
wee
him
,
who
hath
not
giuen
vs
as
a
praye
vnto
our
enemies
handes
,
but
brought
vpon
their
owne
pates
,
the
destruction
&
mischiefe
they
deuised
for
others
.
Himselfe
reseruing
the
rod
of
our
correction
into
his
owne
hand
.
And
besides
,
which
also
magnifyeth
his
loue
excéedingly
,
taking
the
rod
to
beate
vs
with
,
which
is
a
more
gentle
and
fauorable
rod
,
Againe
,
the
Lord
like
a
pittifull
Father
(
for
how
shall
I
make
an
ende
to
speake
of
his
mercie
that
is
endlesse
)
vppon
the
onely
promise
of
amendment
,
haue
slacked
his
hand
,
Is
this
the
fast
that
I
haue
chosen
,
that
a
man
afflict
his
soule
for
a
day
,
and
hang
downe
his
head
like
a
Bull-rush
?
Remember
that
the
substance
of
true
fasting
,
is
to
loose
the
bands
of
wickednesse
,
to
let
the
oppressed
goe
free
,
to
take
off
the
heauie
burthen
,
and
to
breake
euery
yoke
,
To
deale
the
bread
to
the
hungrie
,
to
bring
the
poore
that
wandreth
into
thy
house
:
to
couer
the
naked
:
and
to
doe
such
other
workes
of
mercie
.
And
that
which
shall
best
please
the
Lord
(
right
honorable
)
is
,
if
by
the
sworde
of
your
authoritie
,
yee
shall
represse
the
insolencie
of
them
,
who
not
regarding
the
heauie
hand
of
God
,
continue
in
their
blasphemie
in
the
profanation
of
the
Sabaoth
,
in
their
drunkennes
,
and
in
such
other
detestable
sinnes
,
who
say
with
the
Epicure
:
Let
vs
eate
,
let
vs
drink
,
for
to
morrow
we
shal
die
:
who
make
a
pray
&
a
spoyle
to
themselues
in
this
heauy
time
of
sicknes
,
by
imbeazeling
of
the
goods
of
them
that
be
diseased
&
deceased
,
by
defrauding
of
the
widow
,
by
defeating
of
the
Orphanes
,
by
robbing
of
the
naturall
kindred
of
their
right
.
If
such
complaints
come
before
you
(
right
Honorable
)
as
I
feare
mee
,
many
will
:
deferre
not
to
do
iustice
:
for
if
you
do
,
the
Lord
will
sée
it
,
and
reuenge
it
:
but
if
yee
execute
the
iudgement
of
the
Widow
,
and
of
the
fatherlesse
:
If
you
defende
him
that
is
oppressed
,
from
the
hande
of
him
that
oppresseth
him
:
If
you
maintaine
the
right
,
and
punish
the
wrong
:
Then
you
shall
sée
that
God
,
who
hath
thus
gratiously
begunne
,
will
euery
day
more
and
more
slacke
his
hand
,
vntill
he
hath
remooued
this
euill
disease
from
you
:
then
you
shall
sée
that
hee
who
hath
wounded
you
will
heale
you
,
then
you
shall
sée
that
he
who
hath
in
his
anger
for
a
moment
visited
you
,
will
in
euerlasting
compassion
embrace
you
,
that
you
may
sée
this
your
Citie
againe
peopled
,
by
the
ioyfull
returne
of
your
fellow
citizens
,
that
are
here
and
there
dispersed
:
that
you
may
sée
those
seats
,
which
are
by
you
emptie
,
with
the
Honorable
&
graue
Iudges
of
the
Lande
,
&
with
your
worshipfull
brethren
replenished
:
that
you
may
sée
your
trades
and
traffiquing
which
is
now
dead
,
to
be
renewed
:
that
you
may
sée
your
Tearmes
and
Sessions
of
Lawe
,
no
more
omitted
:
that
to
conclude
,
you
may
sée
health
and
prosperitie
againe
within
your
walles
,
&
that
you
may
heare
the
voice
of
the
bridegrome
,
and
of
the
bride
,
and
the
noyse
of
mirth
and
reioysing
,
more
than
in
the
daies
of
good
Quéene
Elizabeth
.
Now
it
remaineth
,
that
hauing
thus
farre
forth
discoursed
of
that
high
dignitie
and
preferment
,
whereunto
we
are
aduanced
,
in
being
made
the
Sonnes
of
God
,
and
heires
of
God
,
&
ioynt-heires
with
Iesus
Christ
,
the
onely
begotten
and
naturall
Sonne
of
the
Father
of
such
a
celestiall
and
glorious
kingdome
,
and
hauing
considered
the
original
from
whence
so
great
mercy
floweth
vnto
vs
,
which
our
Apostle
sheweth
to
bee
the
méere
loue
of
God
,
which
loue
appeareth
to
be
loue
out
of
measure
,
Because
hee
hath
bestowed
it
vpon
vs
that
were
his
enemies
,
Because
he
hath
gratis
and
fréely
without
our
desert
giuen
it
vnto
vs
,
Because
he
hath
giuen
his
only
Sonne
to
death
,
to
answere
his
iustice
for
vs
,
Because
he
vouchsafeth
to
be
called
our
Father
,
and
more
then
our
Father
pittieth
vs
,
Correcting
vs
with
his
more
gentle
,
and
not
with
his
sharpest
rod
,
&
repenting
of
the
punishment
before
we
repent
vs
of
our
sinnes
:
It
remaineth
,
I
say
,
that
wee
procéede
to
the
answere
of
the
first
obiection
,
which
here
ensueth
:
For
this
cause
the
worlde
knoweth
you
not
,
because
it
knoweth
not
him
.
But
for
that
the
time
is
spent
:
I
must
leaue
the
consideration
thereof
,
vnto
your
godly
&
priuate
Meditations
,
which
I
may
the
more
safelie
doe
,
hauing
in
such
sort
conformed
this
holie
and
comfortable
doctrine
vnto
you
,
as
that
all
the
obiections
of
man
or
Deuill
,
shall
neuer
be
able
to
preuaile
against
it
.
And
now
,
thou
O
Lord
our
God
,
which
hast
in
this
wise
so
excéedingly
magnified
thy
mercies
vnto
vs
,
in
calling
vs
to
be
thy
children
:
and
hast
not
for
al
our
rebellions
against
thée
,
cast
vs
off
and
vtterlie
reiected
vs
,
but
chastized
vs
in
great
mercie
for
our
sinnes
,
and
corrected
vs
for
our
transgressions
;
we
beséech
thée
to
sanctifie
this
thy
fatherly
punishing
hande
vnto
vs
,
that
wee
may
make
right
vse
thereof
in
louing
thée
for
thy
mercie
,
and
fearing
thée
for
thy
iustice
:
That
for
the
time
of
our
life
that
remayneth
,
we
may
more
religiously
and
more
holily
walke
before
thee
in
all
godlinesse
of
life
and
conuersation
.
And
to
this
end
we
praye
thee
to
giue
a
blessing
to
the
ministerie
,
and
Preaching
of
thy
holy
worde
at
this
time
:
that
gratiously
pardoning
,
&
passing
by
whatsoeuer
weaknesse
and
infirmities
haue
bene
committed
in
the
speaking
&
hearing
hereof
,
thou
wouldest
please
to
make
it
effectuall
vnto
vs
,
for
the
glorifying
of
thy
name
,
for
the
edifying
of
our selues
in
faith
,
for
the
humbling
of
our
soules
by
repentance
,
for
the
reforming
of
our
liues
from
all
vngodlinesse
,
and
so
finally
for
the
turning
away
of
this
thy
feareful
Plague
and
punishment
,
and
for
the
purchasing
of
thy
wonted
fauours
,
and
blessings
onto
vs
,
and
that
for
Iesus
Christes
sake
our
onely
mediator
and
aduocate
.
To
whome
with
thee
and
the
holy
Ghost
three
Persons
one
true
euerliuing
and
euerlasting
God
,
be
rendred
all
praise
,
power
,
Dominion
and
thanksgiuing
both
now
and
for
euer
,
Amen
.