The
Approbation
.
OVr
lawes
disable
those
,
that
are
vnder
Couert-baron
,
from
disposing
by
Will
and
Testament
any
temporall
estate
.
But
no
law
prohibiteth
any
possessor
of
morall
and
spirituall
riches
,
to
impart
them
vnto
others
,
either
in
life
by
communicating
,
or
in
death
by
bequeathing
.
The
reason
is
,
for
that
corruptible
riches
,
euen
to
those
who
haue
capacity
of
alienating
them
,
bring
onely
a
ciuill
propriety
,
but
no
morall
&
vertous
influence
for
the
wel
dispensing
,
or
bestowing
them
:
whereas
vertue
and
grace
haue
power
beyond
all
empeachment
of
sex
or
other
debility
,
to
enable
and
instruct
the
possessor
to
employ
the
same
vnquestionably
for
the
inward
inriching
of
others
.
This
truly
rich
bequeather
,
taking
that
care
for
the
prouiding
an
euerlasting
portion
for
her
hoped
issue
,
which
too
many
parents
bend
wholly
vpon
earthly
inheritance
,
by
her
death
already
hath
giuen
vnto
her
Testament
that
life
and
strength
,
whereof
the
Scripture
speaketh
,
A
Testament
is
of
force
after
death
:
Wherefore
vpon
the
very
first
view
,
I
willingly
not
onely
subscribed
my
Approbat
for
the
registering
this
Will
,
among
the
most
publique
Monuments
,
(
the
rather
worthy
,
because
proceeding
from
the
weaker
sex
)
but
also
,
as
bound
to
do
right
vnto
knowne
vertue
,
vndertooke
the
care
of
the
publication
thereof
,
my selfe
hauing
heretofore
bin
no
stranger
to
the
Testators
education
and
eminent
vertues
.
Whereof
,
I
here
beheld
reflection
cleere
enough
,
though
perhaps
not
so
particularly
euident
to
those
that
take
knowledge
of
them
onely
by
this
Abstract
.
In
her
zealous
affection
to
the
holy
Ministry
,
thereto
dedicating
,
(
if
by
sex
capable
)
her
yet
scarce
budding
first
fruits
,
I
saw
the
lineaments
of
her
owne
parentage
:
She
being
the
onely
off-spring
deriued
from
a
reuerend
Grandfather
,
Doctor
Chaderton
,
sometime
Master
of
Queens
Colledge
in
Cambridge
,
and
publique
Professor
of
Diuinity
in
that
Vniuersitie
,
afterward
Lord
Bishop
,
first
of
Chester
,
and
thence
of
Lincolne
:
by
and
vnder
whom
shee
was
from
her
tender
yeeres
carefully
nurtured
,
as
in
those
accomplishments
of
knowledge
in
Languages
,
History
,
and
some
Arts
,
so
principally
in
studies
of
piety
.
And
thus
hauing
from
a
childe
knowne
the
holy
Scriptures
,
which
made
her
wife
vnto
saluation
through
faith
in
Christ
,
how
well
she
continued
in
those
things
,
which
shee
had
learned
,
appeareth
,
as
otherwise
to
those
that
knew
her
,
so
here
to
all
by
the
frequent
and
pertinent
application
of
them
in
these
instructions
.
In
her
prosecution
of
the
duty
of
obedience
vnto
Parents
I
view
the
deepe
impression
,
long
since
,
when
shee
was
not
aboue
six
yeeres
old
,
made
in
her
minde
by
the
last
words
of
her
owne
Mother
,
charging
her
vpon
her
blessing
to
shew
all
obedience
and
reuerence
to
her
Father
(
Sir
Richard
Brooke
)
and
to
her
reuerend
Grandfather
.
In
the
whole
course
of
her
pen
,
I
obserue
her
piety
and
humility
:
these
her
lines
scarce
shewing
one
sparke
of
the
elementary
fire
of
her
secular
learning
:
this
her
candle
being
rather
lighted
from
the
lampe
of
the
Sanctuary
.
In
her
commission
of
the
office
of
an
Ouerseer
to
her
husband
,
what
eies
cannot
behold
the
flames
of
her
true
and
vnspotted
loue
toward
her
dearest
,
who
enioyed
her
about
the
space
of
six
yeeres
and
a
halfe
,
being
all
that
while
both
an
impartiall
witnesse
of
her
vertues
,
and
an
happy
partner
of
those
blessings
both
transitory
and
spirituall
,
wherewith
shee
was
endowed
.
Beside
the
domestique
cares
pertaining
to
a
wife
,
the
former
part
of
those
yeeres
were
imployed
by
her
in
the
studies
of
morality
and
history
,
the
better
by
the
helpe
of
forraine
languages
,
not
without
a
taste
and
faculty
in
Poetry
:
Wherein
some
essay
shee
hath
left
,
ingenious
,
but
chaste
and
modest
like
the
Author
.
Of
all
which
knowledge
shee
was
very
sparing
in
her
discourses
,
as
possessing
it
rather
to
hide
,
than
to
boast
of
.
Among
those
her
eminencies
deseruing
our
memory
,
was
her
owne
most
ready
memory
,
enabling
her
vpon
the
first
rehearsall
to
repeat
aboue
forty
lines
in
English
or
Latine
:
a
gift
the
more
happy
by
her
imployment
of
it
in
carrying
away
an
entire
Sermon
,
so
that
shee
could
(
almost
following
the
steps
of
the
words
,
or
phrase
)
write
it
downe
in
her
Chamber
.
The
latter
yeeres
of
her
life
shee
addicted
to
no
other
studies
than
Diuinity
,
whereof
some
imperfect
notes
remaine
,
but
principally
this
small
Treatise
found
in
her
Deske
vnfinished
,
by
reason
either
of
some
troubles
befalling
her
about
a
moneth
before
her
end
,
or
of
preuention
by
mis-reckoning
the
time
of
her
going
with
this
her
first
(
now
also
last
)
Childe
:
which
Treatise
,
intended
for
her
childe
,
shee
so
leaving
,
recommended
the
same
to
her
husband
by
her
letter
to
him
,
written
and
subscribed
by
her
owne
hand
,
as
hereafter
followeth
.
The
many
blessings
,
shee
enioyed
,
were
not
without
some
seasoning
of
afflictions
,
which
,
by
the
good
vse
shee
made
of
them
,
bred
in
her
a
constant
temper
of
patience
,
and
more
than
womanly
fortitude
:
especially
in
her
latter
time
,
when
as
the
course
of
her
life
was
a
perpetuall
meditation
of
death
,
amounting
almost
to
a
propheticall
sense
of
her
dissolution
,
euen
then
when
she
had
not
finished
the
27.
yeere
of
her
age
,
nor
was
oppressed
by
any
disease
,
or
danger
,
other
than
the
common
lot
of
child-birth
,
within
some
moneths
approaching
.
Accordingly
when
she
first
felt
her selfe
quicke
with
childe
(
as
then
trauelling
with
death
it selfe
)
shee
secretly
tooke
order
for
the
buying
a
new
winding
sheet
:
thus
preparing
and
consecrating
her selfe
to
him
,
who
rested
in
a
new
Sepulcher
wherein
was
neuer
man
yet
layd
.
And
about
that
time
,
vndauntedly
looking
death
in
the
face
,
priuatly
in
her
Closet
betweene
God
and
her
,
shee
wrote
these
pious
Meditations
;
whereof
her selfe
strangely
speaketh
to
her
owne
bowels
in
this
manner
,
It
may
seeme
strange
to
thee
to
receiue
these
lines
from
a
mother
,
that
died
when
thou
wert
borne
.
October
12.
1622.
In
Cambridge-shire
shee
was
made
a
mother
of
a
daughter
,
whom
shortly
after
,
being
baptized
and
brought
vnto
her
,
shee
blessed
,
and
gaue
God
thankes
that
her selfe
had
liued
to
see
it
a
Christian
:
and
then
instantly
called
for
her
winding
sheet
to
bee
brought
forth
and
laied
vpon
her
.
So
hauing
patiently
borne
for
some
nine
daies
a
violent
feuer
,
&
giuing
a
comfortable
testimony
of
her
godly
resolution
,
she
ended
her
prayers
,
speech
,
and
life
together
,
rendring
her
soule
into
the
hand
of
her
Redeemer
,
and
leauing
behinde
her
vnto
the
world
a
sweet
perfume
of
good
name
,
and
to
her
onely
childe
(
besides
a
competent
inheritance
)
this
Manuell
,
being
a
deputed
Mother
for
instruction
,
and
for
solace
a
twinne-like
sister
,
issuing
from
the
same
Parent
,
and
seeing
the
light
about
the
same
time
.
Which
composure
because
it
commeth
forth
imperfect
from
the
pen
,
doth
the
more
expect
to
bee
supplied
and
made
vp
by
practise
and
execution
.
Sic
approbauit
Tho.
Goad
.
TO
MY
TRVLY
louing
,
and
most
dearly
loued
Husband
,
Tourell
Iocelin
.
MINE
owne
deare
loue
,
I
no
sooner
conceiued
an
hope
,
that
I
should
bee
made
a
mother
by
thee
,
but
with
it
entred
the
consideration
of
a
mothers
duty
,
and
shortly
after
followed
the
apprehension
of
danger
that
might
preuent
mee
from
executing
that
care
I
so
exceedingly
desired
,
I
meane
in
religious
training
our
Childe
.
And
in
truth
death
appearing
in
this
shape
,
was
doubly
terrible
vnto
mee
.
First
,
in
respect
of
the
painfulnesse
of
that
kinde
of
death
,
and
next
of
the
losse
my
little
one
should
have
in
wanting
me
.
But
I
thanke
God
,
these
feares
were
cured
with
the
remembrance
that
all
things
worke
together
for
the
best
to
those
that
loue
God
,
and
a
certaine
assurance
that
hee
will
giue
me
patience
according
to
my
paine
.
Yet
still
I
thought
there
was
some
good
office
I
might
doe
for
my
Childe
more
than
only
to
bring
it
forth
(
though
it
should
please
God
to
take
mee
)
when
I
considered
our
frailty
,
our
apt
inclination
to
sin
,
the
Deuils
subtiltie
,
and
the
worlds
deceitfulnesse
,
against
these
how
much
desired
I
to
admonish
it
?
But
still
it
came
into
my
minde
that
death
might
depriue
me
of
time
if
I
should
neglect
the
present
.
I
knew
not
what
to
doe
:
I
thought
of
writing
,
but
then
mine
owne
weaknes
appeared
so
manifestly
,
that
I
was
ashamed
,
and
durst
not
vndertake
it
.
But
when
I
could
find
no
other
means
to
expresse
my
motherly
zeale
,
I
encouraged
my selfe
with
these
reasons
.
First
,
that
I
wrote
to
a
Childe
,
and
though
I
were
but
a
woman
,
yet
to
a
childs
iudgement
,
what
I
vnderstood
might
serue
for
a
foundation
to
a
better
learning
.
Againe
,
I
considered
it
was
to
my
owne
,
and
in
priuate
sort
,
and
my
loue
to
my
owne
might
excuse
my
errours
.
And
lastly
,
but
chiefly
,
I
comforted
my selfe
,
that
my
intent
was
good
,
and
that
I
was
well
assured
God
is
the
prosperer
of
good
purposes
.
Thus
resolued
,
I
writ
this
ensuing
Letter
to
our
little
one
,
to
whom
I
could
not
finde
a
fitter
hand
to
conuey
it
than
thine
owne
,
which
maist
with
authority
see
the
performance
of
this
my
little
legacy
,
of
which
my
Childe
is
Executor
.
And
(
deare
loue
)
as
thou
must
be
the
ouerseer
,
for
Gods
sake
,
when
it
shal
faile
in
duty
to
God
,
or
to
the
world
,
let
not
thy
indulgence
winke
at
such
folly
,
but
seuerely
correct
it
:
and
that
thy
trouble
may
bee
little
when
it
comes
to
yeeres
,
take
the
more
care
when
it
is
young
.
First
,
in
prouiding
it
a
nurse
:
O
make
choise
,
not
so
much
for
her
complexion
,
as
for
her
milde
and
honest
disposition
:
Likewise
if
the
child
be
to
remain
long
abroad
after
waining
,
as
neere
as
may
be
,
chuse
a
house
where
it
may
not
learne
to
sweare
,
or
speak
scurrilous
words
.
I
know
I
may
be
thought
too
scrupulous
in
this
:
but
I
am
sure
thou
shalt
finde
it
a
hard
matter
to
breake
a
childe
of
that
it
learnes
so
young
.
It
will
be
a
great
while
ere
it
will
bee
thought
old
enough
to
bee
beaten
for
euill
words
,
and
by
that
time
it
will
bee
so
perfect
in
imperfections
,
that
blowes
will
not
mend
it
.
And
when
some
charitable
body
reproues
or
corrects
it
for
these
faults
,
let
no
body
pitty
it
with
the
losse
of
the
mother
.
Next
,
good
sweet
heart
,
keepe
it
not
from
schoole
,
but
let
it
learne
betimes
:
if
it
be
a
son
,
I
doubt
not
but
thou
wilt
dedicate
it
to
the
Lord
as
his
Minister
,
if
he
wil
please
of
his
mercy
to
giue
him
grace
and
capacity
for
that
great
work
.
If
it
be
a
daughter
,
I
hope
my
mother
Brook
(
if
thou
desirest
her
)
will
take
it
among
hers
,
and
let
them
all
learne
one
lesson
.
I
desire
her
bringing
vp
may
bee
learning
the
Bible
,
as
my
sisters
doe
,
good
houswifery
,
writing
,
and
good
workes
:
other
learning
a
woman
needs
not
:
though
I
admire
it
in
those
whom
God
hath
blest
with
discretion
,
yet
I
desired
not
much
in
my
owne
,
hauing
seene
that
sometimes
women
haue
greater
portions
of
learning
,
than
wisdome
,
which
is
of
no
better
vse
to
them
than
a
maine
saile
to
a
flye-boat
,
which
runs
in
vnder
water
.
But
where
learning
and
wisdome
meet
in
a
vertuous
disposed
woman
,
she
is
the
fittest
closet
for
all
goodness
.
Shee
is
like
a
well-ballanced
ship
that
may
beare
all
her
saile
.
Shee
is-Indeed
,
I
should
but
shame
my selfe
,
if
I
should
goe
about
to
praise
her
more
.
But
,
my
deare
,
though
she
have
all
this
in
her
,
she
will
hardly
make
a
poore
mans
wife
:
Yet
I
leave
it
to
thy
will
.
If
thou
desirest
a
learned
daughter
,
I
pray
God
giue
her
a
wife
and
religious
heart
,
that
she
may
vse
it
to
his
glory
thy
comfort
,
and
her
owne
saluation
.
But
how
soeuer
thou
disposest
of
her
education
,
I
pray
thee
labour
by
all
meanes
to
teach
her
true
humility
,
though
I
much
desire
it
may
be
as
humble
if
it
bee
a
son
as
a
daughter
;
yet
in
a
daughter
I
more
feare
that
vice
;
Pride
being
now
rather
accounted
a
vertue
in
our
sex
worthy
praise
,
than
a
vice
fit
for
reproofe
.
Many
Parents
reade
lectures
of
it
to
their
children
how
necessary
it
is
,
and
they
haue
principles
that
must
not
bee
disputed
against
.
As
first
,
looke
how
much
you
esteeme
your selfe
,
others
wil
esteeme
of
you
.
Again
,
what
you
giue
to
others
,
you
derogate
from
your selfe
.
And
many
more
of
these
kinds
.
I
haue
heard
men
accounted
wise
that
haue
maintained
this
kinde
of
pride
vnder
the
name
of
generous
knowing
or
vnderstanding
themselues
:
But
I
am
sure
that
hee
that
truly
knowes
himself
shall
know
so
much
euill
by
himselfe
,
that
hee
shall
haue
small
reason
to
think
himselfe
better
than
another
man
.
Dearest
,
I
am
so
feareful
to
bring
thee
a
proud
high
minded
child
,
that
,
though
I
know
thy
care
will
need
no
spur
,
yet
I
cannot
but
desire
thee
to
double
thy
watchfulnesse
ouer
this
vice
,
it
is
such
a
crafty
insinuating
deuill
,
it
will
enter
little
children
in
the
likenesse
of
wit
,
with
which
their
parents
are
delighted
,
and
that
is
sweet
nourishment
to
it
.
I
pray
thee
deare
heart
,
delight
not
to
haue
a
bold
childe
:
modesty
&
humilitie
are
the
sweetest
ground-works
of
all
vertue
.
Let
not
thy
seruants
giue
it
any
other
title
than
the
Christen-name
,
till
it
haue
discretion
to
vnderstand
how
to
respect
others
.
And
I
pray
thee
be
not
profuse
in
the
expence
of
clothes
vpon
it
.
Mee
thinkes
it
is
a
vaine
delight
in
parents
to
bestow
that
cost
vpon
one
childe
which
would
serue
two
or
three
.
If
they
haue
not
children
enow
of
their
owne
to
imploy
so
much
cost
vpon
,
Pauper
vbiqueiacet
.
Thus
,
Deare
,
thou
seest
my
beleefe
,
if
thou
canst
teach
thy
little
one
humility
,
it
must
needs
make
thee
a
glad
father
.
But
I
know
thou
wonderest
by
this
time
what
the
cause
should
bee
that
we
two
continually
vnclasping
our
hearts
one
to
the
other
,
I
should
reserue
this
to
writing
.
When
thou
thinkest
thus
,
deare
,
remember
how
grieuous
it
was
to
thee
but
to
heare
mee
say
,
I
may
die
,
and
thou
wilt
confesse
this
would
haue
beene
an
vnpleasant
discourse
to
thee
,
and
thou
knowest
I
neuer
durst
displease
thee
willingly
,
so
much
I
loue
thee
.
All
I
now
desire
is
,
that
the
vnexpectednesse
of
it
make
it
not
more
grieuous
to
thee
.
But
I
know
thou
art
a
Christian
,
and
therefore
will
not
doubt
of
thy
patience
.
And
though
I
thus
write
to
thee
,
as
heartily
desiring
to
be
religiously
prepared
to
die
,
yet
,
my
deare
,
I
despaire
not
of
life
,
nay
,
I
hope
and
daily
pray
for
it
,
if
so
God
will
be
pleased
.
Nor
shall
I
thinke
this
labour
lost
,
though
I
doe
liue
:
for
I
will
make
it
my
owne
looking-glasse
,
wherein
to
see
when
I
am
too
seuere
,
when
too
remisse
,
and
in
my
childes
fault
through
this
glasse
to
discerne
mine
owne
errors
.
And
I
hope
God
will
so
giue
me
his
grace
,
that
I
shall
more
skilfully
act
than
apprehend
a
mothers
duty
.
My
deare
,
thou
knowest
me
so
well
,
I
shall
not
need
to
tell
thee
,
I
haue
written
honest
thoughts
in
a
disordered
fashion
,
not
obseruing
method
.
For
thou
knowest
how
short
I
am
of
learning
and
naturall
endowments
to
take
such
a
course
in
writing
.
Or
if
that
strong
affection
of
thine
have
hid
my
weaknesse
from
thy
sight
,
I
now
professe
seriously
my
owne
ignorance
:
and
though
I
did
not
,
this
following
Treatise
would
bewray
it
:
But
I
send
it
onely
to
the
eies
of
a
most
louing
Husband
,
and
of
a
childe
exceedingly
beloued
,
to
whom
I
hope
it
will
not
be
altogether
vnprofitable
.
Thus
humbly
desiring
God
to
giue
thee
all
comfort
in
this
life
,
and
happinesse
in
the
life
to
come
,
I
leaue
thee
and
thine
to
his
most
gracious
protection
.
Thine
inuiolable
,
Eliza.
Iocelin
.
THE
MOTHERS
LEGACIE
to
her
vnborne
CHILDE
.
HAuing
long
,
often
and
earnestly
desired
of
God
,
that
I
might
bee
a
mother
to
one
of
his
children
,
and
the
time
now
drawing
on
,
which
I
hope
hee
hath
appointed
to
giue
thee
vnto
mee
:
It
drew
mee
into
a
consideration
both
wherefore
I
so
earnestly
desired
thee
,
and
(
hauing
found
that
the
true
cause
was
to
make
thee
happy
)
how
I
might
compasse
this
happinesse
for
thee
.
I
knew
it
consisted
not
in
honour
,
wealth
,
strength
of
body
or
friends
(
though
all
these
are
great
blessings
)
therefore
it
had
beene
a
weake
request
to
desire
thee
onely
for
an
heire
to
my
fortune
.
No
,
I
neuer
aimed
at
so
poore
an
inheritance
for
thee
,
as
the
whole
world
:
Neither
would
I
haue
begged
of
God
so
much
paine
,
as
I
know
I
must
endure
,
to
haue
only
possest
thee
with
earthly
riches
,
of
which
to
day
thou
maist
bee
a
great
man
,
tomorrow
a
poore
begger
.
Nor
did
an
hope
to
dandle
thy
infancy
moue
mee
to
desire
thee
.
For
I
know
all
the
delight
a
Parent
can
take
in
a
childe
is
hony
mingled
with
gall
.
But
the
true
reason
that
I
haue
so
often
kneeled
to
God
for
thee
,
is
,
that
thou
mightest
bee
an
inheritour
of
the
Kingdome
of
Heauen
.
To
which
end
I
humbly
beseech
Almightie
God
thou
maiest
bend
all
thy
actions
,
and
(
if
it
bee
his
blessed
will
)
giue
thee
so
plentifull
a
measure
of
his
grace
,
that
thou
maiesty
serue
him
as
his
Minister
,
if
he
make
thee
a
man
.
It
is
true
that
this
age
holds
it
a
most
contemptible
office
,
fit
only
for
poore
mens
children
,
younger
brothers
,
and
such
as
haue
no
other
meanes
to
liue
.
But
for
Gods
sake
bee
not
discouraged
with
these
vaine
speeches
;
but
fortifie
your selfe
with
remembring
of
how
great
worth
the
winning
of
one
soule
is
in
Gods
sight
,
and
you
shall
quickly
finde
how
great
a
place
it
is
to
be
a
Priest
vnto
the
liuing
God
.
If
it
will
please
him
to
moue
your
heart
with
his
holy
Spirit
,
it
will
glow
and
burne
with
zeale
to
doe
him
seruice
.
The
Lord
open
thy
lips
,
that
thy
mouth
may
shew
forth
his
praise
.
If
I
had
skill
to
write
,
I
would
write
all
I
apprehend
of
the
happy
estate
of
true
labouring
Ministers
:
but
I
may
plainly
say
that
of
all
men
they
by
their
calling
are
the
most
truly
happy
;
they
are
familiar
with
God
,
they
labour
in
his
Vineyard
,
and
they
are
so
beloued
of
him
,
that
hee
giues
them
abundance
of
knowledge
.
Oh
bee
one
of
them
,
let
not
the
scorne
of
euill
men
hinderthee
.
Look
how
GOD
hath
prouided
for
thee
sufficient
meanes
;
thou
needest
not
hinder
thy
study
to
looke
out
for
liuing
,
as
the
Israelites
hindred
their
worke
to
looke
for
straw
:
If
thou
beest
not
content
with
this
,
thou
wilt
not
bee
with
more
;
GOD
deliuer
thee
from
couetousnesse
.
I
desire
thee
that
though
thou
takest
a
spirituall
calling
,
thou
wilt
not
seeke
after
the
liuings
of
the
Church
,
nor
promotions
,
though
I
honour
them
as
I
haue
great
cause
,
but
I
would
haue
thee
so
truly
an
humble
and
zealous
Minister
,
that
thy
onely
end
should
bee
to
doe
God
seruice
,
without
desire
of
any
thing
to
thy selfe
,
saue
the
Kingdome
of
Heauen
.
Yet
as
I
would
not
haue
thee
seeke
these
things
,
so
I
would
haue
thee
as
carefull
not
to
neglect
Gods
blessings
,
but
with
all
thankfulnesse
to
receiue
what
hee
bestowes
,
and
to
bee
a
carefull
steward
,
distributing
it
to
those
that
haue
need
.
I
could
not
chuse
but
manifest
this
desire
in
writing
,
lest
it
should
please
God
to
depriue
mee
of
time
to
speake
.
And
if
thou
beest
a
daughter
,
thou
maist
perhaps
thinke
I
haue
lost
my
labour
;
but
reade
on
,
and
thou
shalt
see
my
loue
and
care
of
thee
and
thy
saluation
is
as
great
,
as
if
thou
wert
a
sonne
,
and
my
feare
greater
.
It
may
peraduenture
when
thou
comest
to
some
discretion
,
appeare
strange
to
thee
to
receiue
these
lines
from
a
Mother
that
died
when
thou
wert
borne
,
but
when
thou
seest
men
purchase
land
,
and
store
vp
treasure
for
their
vnborne
babes
,
wonder
not
at
mee
that
I
am
carefull
for
thy
saluation
,
being
such
an
eternall
portion
:
and
not
knowing
whether
I
shall
liue
to
instruct
thee
when
thou
art
borne
,
let
mee
not
bee
blamed
though
I
write
to
thee
before
.
Who
would
not
condemne
mee
if
I
should
bee
carelesse
of
thy
body
while
it
is
within
me
?
Sure
a
farre
greater
care
belongs
to
thy
soule
,
to
both
these
cares
I
will
endeuour
my selfe
so
long
as
I
liue
.
Againe
,
I
may
perhaps
bee
wondred
at
for
writing
in
this
kinde
,
considering
there
are
so
many
excellent
bookes
,
whose
least
note
is
worth
all
my
meditations
.
I
confesse
it
,
and
thus
excuse
my selfe
.
I
write
not
to
the
world
,
but
to
mine
own
childe
,
who
it
may
be
,
will
more
profit
by
a
few
weake
instructions
comming
from
a
dead
mother
(
who
cannot
euery
day
praise
or
reproue
it
as
it
deserues
)
than
by
farre
better
from
much
more
learned
.
These
things
considered
,
neither
the
true
knowledge
of
mine
owne
weaknesse
,
nor
the
feare
this
may
come
to
the
worlds
eie
,
and
bring
scorne
vpon
my
graue
,
can
stay
my
hand
from
expressing
how
much
I
couet
thy
saluation
.
Therefore
,
deare
childe
,
reade
here
my
loue
,
and
if
God
take
mee
from
thee
,
bee
obedient
to
these
instructions
,
as
thou
oughtest
to
bee
vnto
mee
,
I
haue
learnt
them
,
out
of
Gods
Word
,
I
beseech
him
that
they
may
be
profitable
to
thee
.
(
1
)
The
first
charge
I
giue
thee
,
I
learned
of
Solomon
,
Eccles.
12.
1.
Remember
thy
Creator
in
the
dayes
of
thy
youth
.
It
is
an
excellent
beginning
,
and
a
fit
lesson
for
a
childe
.
Looke
with
what
the
Vessell
is
first
seasoned
,
it
retaines
the
taste
:
and
if
thou
beginnest
to
remember
to
serue
GOD
when
thou
art
young
,
before
the
world
,
the
flesh
,
and
the
deuill
take
hold
on
thee
,
God
will
loue
thee
,
and
send
his
holy
Spirit
to
take
possession
of
thee
,
who
shall
resist
those
enemies
,
and
not
suffer
them
to
hurt
thee
.
To
moue
thy
heart
to
remember
thy
Creator
betimes
,
meditate
vpon
the
benefits
thou
continually
receiuest
:
First
,
how
hee
hath
created
thee
when
thou
wert
nothing
,
redeemed
thee
being
worse
than
nought
,
and
now
of
meere
grace
he
hath
giuen
thee
his
holy
Spirit
,
sanctifying
thee
to
an
eternall
Kingdome
.
Thou
canst
not
possibly
vnderstand
how
great
these
mercies
are
,
but
straight
thy
soule
must
cry
,
What
shall
I
doe
for
so
gracious
a
God
?
All
the
powers
of
my
soule
and
bodie
will
I
giue
to
his
seruice
,
my
first
thoughts
will
I
dedicate
to
him
,
like
Abels
sacrifice
I
will
present
to
him
the
first
fruits
of
my
youth
;
In
the
strength
of
my
age
will
I
fall
downe
before
him
,
and
if
I
liue
to
old
age
,
that
weaknesse
will
not
let
my
knees
bow
,
nor
my
hands
bee
lifted
vp
,
yet
shall
my
heart
meditate
on
his
goodnesse
night
and
day
,
and
my
tongue
shall
be
alwaies
telling
of
his
maruellous
works
.
When
thou
hast
thus
remembred
the
infinite
mercies
of
God
,
it
behoues
thee
to
settle
thy selfe
to
a
constant
seruice
of
him
,
to
order
thy
thoughts
,
words
and
actions
to
his
glory
,
and
to
couenant
with
thy selfe
that
thou
wilt
not
breake
thy
promises
to
God
.
That
thou
maist
the
more
easily
performe
these
duties
,
marke
I
pray
thee
these
following
rules
for
ordering
thy
life
,
and
God
will
blesse
thee
and
all
thy
good
endeuours
.
(
2
)
At
thy
first
waking
in
the
morning
,
be
carefull
of
thy selfe
,
that
thou
harbor
in
thy
braine
no
vaine
or
vnprofitable
,
but
of
all
no
vngodly
fancy
to
hinder
thy
morning
sacrifice
,
but
straight
frame
thy selfe
to
meditate
on
the
mercies
of
God
,
the
maliciousnesse
of
the
deuill
,
and
thine
owne
weaknesse
.
Thine
owne
weaknesse
is
apparant
to
thee
:
for
euen
but
now
thine
eyes
were
closed
,
thou
couldst
not
see
to
defend
thy selfe
,
thy
strength
was
gone
,
so
that
thou
wert
not
able
to
resist
the
weakest
creature
,
a
gnat
or
a
flea
might
glut
themselues
with
thy
bloud
.
The
Deuils
malice
is
as
easily
perceiued
,
for
euen
now
hee
lies
lurking
ready
to
catch
euery
good
motion
from
thy
heart
,
suggesting
things
more
delightfull
to
thy
fancy
,
and
perswading
thee
to
deferre
thy
seruice
of
God
though
but
for
a
little
while
.
But
bee
warned
and
armed
against
his
tentations
;
for
bee
assured
if
thou
once
yeeld
to
neglect
praying
to
God
,
but
one
halfe
houre
,
when
that
time
comes
thou
shalt
finde
thy selfe
farre
more
vnapt
,
and
thy
heart
more
dull
to
pray
than
before
:
whereas
if
thou
disposest
thy selfe
to
pray
,
though
thou
beest
heauy
and
vncheerefull
in
it
,
yet
God
,
who
searches
the
heart
,
and
sees
thy
desire
to
pray
,
though
thou
canst
not
,
will
enlighten
thee
and
prepare
thy
heart
against
the
next
time
,
that
thou
shalt
finde
comfort
.
Therefore
,
take
heed
the
Deuill
deceiue
you
not
,
for
you
see
his
malice
is
not
small
that
seekes
to
cousen
you
of
all
happinesse
present
and
to
come
:
For
bee
assured
you
can
take
no
true
ioy
in
earthly
pleasures
,
no
longer
than
you
seeke
after
heauenly
.
Hauing
thus
discerned
the
infinite
malice
of
the
Deuill
,
and
your
owne
exceeding
weaknesse
,
how
doe
you
thinke
you
were
preserued
from
his
snares
while
you
slept
?
or
doe
you
thinke
hee
onely
besets
you
when
you
are
awake
?
No
,
bee
not
deceiued
,
hee
is
not
so
faire
an
enemy
:
his
hate
is
such
to
you
,
that
if
hee
could
hee
would
teare
your
body
and
drag
your
soule
to
hell
while
you
slept
.
Alas
,
all
this
hee
might
haue
done
,
your
strength
was
small
to
resist
him
.
Now
you
must
needs
confesse
who
it
is
that
is
only
able
to
preserue
you
,
that
it
is
God
,
and
that
it
is
his
mercy
,
not
your
desert
,
that
you
are
preserued
:
and
gather
to
your selfe
a
strong
resolution
with
all
your
force
to
serue
him
all
the
day
,
and
to
resist
all
the
tentations
of
the
deuill
.
Then
being
thorowly
awake
(
for
sure
God
likes
not
sleeping
prayer
)
begin
to
giue
God
thankes
,
and
to
desire
the
continuance
of
his
mercy
towards
thee
in
these
words
,
till
thou
canst
finde
such
as
may
better
expresse
thine
owne
soule
.
O
eternall
God
,
gracious
from
the
beginning
,
and
mercifull
to
the
latter
ending
of
the
world
,
I
giue
thee
humble
thankes
,
that
according
to
thine
abundant
goodnesse
,
thou
hast
graciously
defended
mee
this
night
from
all
dangers
that
might
haue
happened
vnto
mee
.
I
beseech
thee
continue
this
thy
fauourable
goodnesse
toward
mee
,
and
so
grant
mee
thy
grace
,
that
in
all
my
thoughts
,
words
,
and
actions
I
may
seeke
thy
glory
,
and
euermore
so
liue
in
thy
feare
,
that
I
may
die
in
thy
fauour
,
for
thy
Sonne
my
onely
Sauiours
sake
.
Amen
.
(
3
)
Hauing
thus
inuited
God
into
your
soule
,
take
heed
you
offend
not
against
so
great
and
glorious
a
guest
:
Thinke
if
thou
seest
a
superiour
entertained
with
such
obseruance
of
the
Master
,
such
diligence
in
the
seruants
,
such
a
generall
care
that
all
things
may
giue
a
testimony
of
his
welcome
,
O
thinke
,
sinfull
soule
,
what
care
oughtest
thou
to
haue
when
the
liuing
God
vouchsafes
to
dwell
in
thee
:
Oh
watch
,
Oh
be
wary
.
Doe
not
(
my
deare
Childe
)
Oh
,
not
wilfully
offend
him
,
for
hardly
are
presumptuous
sinnes
forgiuen
:
but
if
out
of
weaknesse
thou
offend
against
him
,
runne
straight
before
hee
can
bee
gone
,
for
hee
is
mercifull
,
and
will
stay
a
while
after
thou
hast
sinned
to
expect
thy
repentance
:
but
if
thou
doest
not
make
haste
,
then
the
deuill
,
who
will
not
delay
to
seeke
thy
destruction
,
hee
will
accuse
thee
,
mocking
thy
impietie
,
and
God
will
leaue
thee
,
being
more
offended
at
thy
neglect
,
or
rather
contempt
of
his
mercy
,
than
at
thy
first
offence
.
Therefore
runne
quickly
esteeme
no
sin
small
,
but
what
member
soeuer
caused
thee
to
offend
him
,
bring
it
before
him
,
and
let
it
assist
thee
chiefly
in
thy
repentance
.
If
thine
eye
teach
thee
wantonnesse
,
couetousnesse
,
or
the
like
,
let
them
powre
forth
teares
to
purchase
thee
a
pardon
.
If
thy
tongue
haue
offended
toward
God
or
thy
neighbour
,
bring
it
with
shame
and
sorrow
to
confesse
in
priuate
,
what
it
was
not
ashamed
to
glory
of
in
publike
.
Learne
to
be
ashamed
to
commit
sinne
,
but
,
being
committed
,
hope
not
to
hide
it
from
God
by
any
other
meanes
,
than
by
hearty
repentance
:
so
indeed
thou
maist
winne
his
mercy
to
couer
thy
transgression
,
and
in
his
Sonnes
passion
he
will
bury
thine
offences
,
so
as
hee
will
hide
them
from
himselfe
:
but
then
thou
must
delay
no
time
,
goe
quickly
,
get
thee
alone
,
weare
thy
knees
,
wring
thy
hands
,
beat
thy
breast
,
know
as
little
measure
in
thy
sorrow
,
as
thou
didst
in
thy
sinne
.
The
Lord
will
not
despise
a
contrite
heart
,
and
though
hee
let
thee
kneele
long
,
hee
will
haue
mercy
at
the
last
.
Learne
of
Iacob
to
wrestle
with
God
,
and
to
cry
with
a
feruent
spirit
,
I
will
not
let
thee
goe
vnlesse
thou
blesse
me
.
Our
Sauiour
saith
,
The
Kingdome
of
Heauen
suffereth
violence
,
and
the
violent
take
it
by
force
.
(
4
)
Thus
you
see
,
it
must
be
an
eager
,
not
a
slothfull
course
,
that
must
bring
you
to
Heauen
.
Take
heed
therefore
that
you
auoid
all
the
kinds
of
this
sinne
.
Whatsoeuer
you
goe
about
,
doe
it
with
cheerefulnesse
.
Be
ashamed
of
idlenesse
,
as
thou
art
a
man
,
but
tremble
at
it
,
as
thou
art
a
Christian
.
For
bee
sure
the
deuill
neuer
is
so
happy
in
his
tentations
,
as
when
hee
emploies
them
on
a
slothfull
man
,
who
cannot
endure
to
take
so
much
paines
as
to
resist
him
.
Solomon
promises
no
other
patrimony
to
a
sluggard
but
pouerty
.
GOD
hates
the
slothfull
.
Witnesse
the
fiue
foolish
Virgins
,
and
the
vnprofitable
seruant
,
Matth.
25.
The
one
Christ
would
not
know
;
the
other
is
branded
with
two
shamefull
markes
,
euill
and
slothfull
,
and
his
talent
taken
from
him
.
What
more
wretched
estate
can
there
be
in
the
world
?
first
to
bee
hated
of
God
as
an
idle
Drone
,
not
fit
for
his
seruice
:
then
through
extreme
pouerty
to
bee
contemned
of
all
the
world
.
Oh
then
at
no
hand
yeeld
thy
youth
to
sloth
,
but
so
soone
as
thou
hast
made
thy
prayer
to
God
,
prepare
to
rise
,
and
rising
vse
this
Prayer
.
In
thy
Name
,
Oh
blessed
Sauiour
,
I
arise
,
who
with
the
Father
,
and
the
holy
Spirit
,
created
mee
,
and
with
thine
own
most
precious
bloud
hast
redeemed
mee
.
I
beseech
thee
this
day
,
to
gouerne
,
keepe
,
and
blesse
mee
:
lead
mee
forth
in
euery
good
way
,
therein
direct
and
confirme
mee
,
and
after
this
fraile
and
miserable
life
,
bring
mee
to
that
blessed
life
which
hath
no
end
,
for
thy
great
merit
and
mercies
sake
.
Amen
.
(
5
)
Thou
art
no
sooner
broke
out
of
the
armes
of
sloth
,
but
pride
steps
in
diligently
,
waiting
to
furnish
thee
with
any
vaine
toy
in
thy
attire
.
And
though
I
beleeue
there
are
diuers
sorts
of
pride
more
pestilent
to
the
soule
than
this
of
apparell
,
yet
this
is
enough
dangerous
,
and
I
am
sure
betraies
a
mans
folly
more
than
any
other
.
Is
it
not
a
monstrous
thing
to
see
a
man
,
whom
God
hath
created
of
an
excellent
forme
,
each
part
answering
the
due
proportion
of
another
,
should
by
a
fantasticall
habit
make
himselfe
so
vgly
,
that
one
cannot
finde
amongst
all
Gods
creatures
any
thing
like
him
?
One
man
,
though
not
resembling
another
in
shape
or
face
,
yet
for
his
rationall
soule
is
like
another
:
but
these
fashionists
haue
(
I
feare
)
changed
their
reasonable
soules
for
proud
soules
without
reason
:
could
they
else
deforme
and
transforme
themselues
by
these
new fangled
fashions
,
and
apish
behauiour
;
crindging
,
shrugging
,
starting
,
and
playing
the
fantastiques
euery
way
.
So
that
they
may
truly
say
when
they
are
fashionable
,
that
they
are
not
like
other
men
:
and
I
beleeue
wife
men
will
not
be
sorry
for
it
.
For
who
would
be
like
them
?
I
desire
thee
for
Gods
sake
shunne
this
vanitie
,
whether
thou
bee
sonne
or
daughter
.
If
a
daughter
,
I
confesse
thy
taske
is
harder
because
thou
art
weaker
,
and
thy
temptations
to
this
vice
greater
,
for
thou
shalt
see
those
whom
perhaps
thou
wilt
thinke
lesse
able
,
exalted
farre
aboue
thee
in
this
kinde
,
and
it
may
bee
thou
wilt
desire
to
bee
like
them
,
if
not
to
out-goe
them
.
But
beleeue
and
remember
that
I
tell
thee
,
the
end
of
all
these
vanities
is
bitter
as
gall
.
Oh
the
remembrance
of
mis-spent
time
,
when
thou
shalt
grow
in
yeeres
,
and
haue
attained
no
other
knowledge
,
than
to
dresse
thy selfe
.
When
thou
shalt
see
halfe
,
perhaps
all
,
thy
time
spent
,
and
that
of
all
thou
hast
sowed
,
thou
hast
nothing
to
reape
but
repentance
,
late
repentance
,
how
wilt
thou
grieue
?
How
wilt
thou
accuse
one
folly
for
bringing
in
another
?
and
in
thy
memory
cast
ouer
the
cause
of
each
misfortune
which
hath
befallen
thee
,
till
passing
from
one
to
another
,
at
last
thou
findest
thy
corrupt
will
to
bee
the
first
cause
,
and
then
thou
wilt
with
griefe
enough
perceiue
,
that
if
thou
hadst
serued
God
when
thou
seruedst
thy
fond
desires
,
thou
hadst
now
had
peace
of
heart
.
The
God
of
mercy
giue
thee
grace
to
remember
him
in
the
dayes
of
thy
youth
.
Mistake
me
not
,
nor
giue
your selfe
leaue
to
take
too
much
liberty
with
saying
,
My
mother
was
too
strict
.
No
,
I
am
not
,
for
I
giue
you
leaue
to
follow
modest
fashions
,
but
not
to
be
a
beginner
of
fashions
:
nor
would
I
haue
you
follow
it
till
it
bee
generall
;
so
that
in
not
doing
as
others
doe
,
you
might
appeare
more
singular
than
wise
:
but
in
one
word
,
this
is
all
I
desire
,
that
you
will
not
set
your
heart
on
such
fooleries
,
and
you
shall
see
that
this
modest
carriage
will
win
you
reputation
and
loue
with
the
wise
and
vertuous
sort
.
And
once
againe
,
remember
how
many
houres
maist
thou
giue
to
God
,
which
if
thou
spendest
in
these
vanities
,
thou
shalt
neuer
bee
able
to
make
account
of
.
If
thou
dost
but
endeuour
to
doe
well
,
God
will
accept
the
will
for
the
deed
,
but
if
thou
wilfully
spend
the
morning
of
thy
time
in
these
vanities
,
God
will
not
bee
put
off
with
such
reckonings
,
but
punishments
will
follow
,
such
as
I
pray
God
thou
maist
not
pull
vpon
thee
.
Yet
alas
,
this
is
but
one
sort
of
pride
,
and
so
farre
from
being
accounted
a
vice
,
that
,
if
the
time
mends
not
before
you
come
to
vnderstanding
,
you
will
heare
a
well
drest
woman
,
(
for
that
is
the
stile
of
honour
)
more
commended
than
a
wife
or
honest
,
or
religious
woman
.
And
it
may
bee
,
this
may
moue
you
to
follow
their
idlenes
:
but
when
you
haue
any
such
desire
,
draw
your selfe
to
consider
what
manner
of
persons
the
commended
and
commenders
are
,
and
you
shall
finde
them
all
of
one
batch
,
such
as
being
vaine
themselues
,
applaud
it
in
others
.
But
if
you
will
desire
praise
,
follow
the
example
of
those
religious
women
,
whose
vertuous
fames
time
hath
not
power
to
raze
out
:
as
deuout
Anna
,
who
serued
the
Lord
with
fasting
and
prayer
,
Luke
2.
Iust
Elizabeth
,
who
serued
God
without
reproofe
:
Religious
Ester
,
who
taught
her
Maids
to
fast
and
pray
,
Est.
4.
15
,
and
the
chaste
Susanna
,
whose
story
,
I
hope
,
the
strictest
will
allow
for
a
worthy
example
.
I
am
so
fearefull
that
thou
shouldst
fall
into
this
sinne
,
that
I
could
spend
my
little
time
of
life
in
exhorting
thee
from
it
.
I
know
it
is
the
most
dangerous
subtill
sinne
that
can
steale
the
heart
of
man
,
it
will
alter
shapes
as
oft
as
the
Camelion
doth
colours
,
it
will
fit
it selfe
to
all
dispositions
,
and
(
which
is
most
strange
)
it
will
so
disguise
it selfe
,
that
he
must
be
cunning
who
discernes
it
from
humilitie
,
nay
it
may
lie
in
thine
owne
heart
,
and
it
thou
beest
not
a
diligent
searcher
of
thy selfe
,
thou
shalt
not
know
it
:
but
it
thou
watch
well
thou
shalt
take
it
,
for
it
hath
one
property
that
cannot
change
,
as
the
common
people
beleeue
the
Deuill
cannot
alter
the
shape
of
one
foot
.
It
is
true
of
pride
,
that
though
it
bee
changed
into
that
Angell
of
light
,
Humility
,
yet
thou
maist
know
it
by
selfe-loue
;
if
thou
findest
that
within
thee
,
be
sure
pride
is
not
farre
off
.
For
humility
will
make
thee
seeme
vile
in
thine
owne
eyes
,
it
will
make
thee
see
thine
owne
faults
,
and
confesse
them
to
bee
greater
than
other
mens
;
so
that
thou
wilt
respect
euery
man
aboue
thy selfe
.
But
the
rules
of
selfe-conceit
are
iust
contrary
,
they
stand
on
tiptoes
,
reckning
their
vertues
like
the
proud
Pharisie
,
scorning
to
be
like
other
men
.
Shunne
it
for
thy
soules
sake
,
for
if
thou
entertaine
it
,
it
is
such
a
shamelesse
flatterer
,
that
it
will
make
thee
beleeue
thou
art
greater
,
wiser
,
learneder
than
all
the
company
,
when
indeed
,
thou
wilt
proue
thy selfe
the
greatest
foole
of
them
,
wearying
them
all
with
thy
vaine
talke
.
Solomon
saith
,
Pride
goeth
before
destruction
,
Prou.
16.
18.
And
a
high
minde
before
the
fall
.
And
our
blessed
Sauiour
,
the
true
patterne
of
humility
,
exhorts
vs
to
learne
of
him
that
was
lowly
and
meek
in
heart
,
Mat.
11.
29.
And
if
we
doe
so
,
he
promises
we
shall
find
rest
vnto
our
soules
.
Neither
want
there
curses
,
threatning
,
where
perswasions
will
not
serue
.
Whosoeuer
exalteth
himselfe
shall
bee
humbled
,
Luke
14.
11.
Reade
the
holy
Scriptures
often
and
diligently
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
continuall
threatnings
against
pride
,
punishment
of
pride
,
and
warnings
from
pride
.
Thou
shalt
finde
no
sinne
so
heauily
punished
as
this
:
it
made
Deuils
of
Angels
,
a
beast
of
great
Nabuchodonezzar
,
dogs
meat
of
Iezabel
,
and
I
will
conclude
with
a
good
mans
saying
,
If
all
the
sinnes
reigning
in
the
world
were
burnt
to
ashes
,
euen
the
ashes
of
pride
would
bee
able
to
reduce
them
all
againe
.
I
know
in
fewer
words
there
might
much
more
haue
beene
said
against
this
sinne
,
but
I
know
not
who
will
say
so
much
to
thee
when
I
am
gone
.
Therefore
I
desire
thou
maist
bee
taught
these
my
instructions
when
thou
art
young
,
that
this
foule
sinne
may
be
weeded
out
before
it
take
deepe
root
in
thy
heart
.
I
will
returne
now
to
my
first
purpose
,
which
is
to
set
thee
downe
one
day
for
a
patterne
,
how
I
would
haue
thee
spend
all
the
dayes
of
thy
life
.
(
6
)
Therefore
auoiding
all
manner
of
pride
,
make
thy selfe
decently
ready
,
which
being
done
,
retire
to
a
place
alone
,
where
humbling
thy selfe
vpon
thy
knees
,
againe
renew
thy
prayers
,
humbly
confessing
,
and
earnestly
desiring
forgiuenesse
for
all
thy
sinnes
,
and
vse
Doctor
Smiths
morning
prayer
,
than
which
I
know
not
a
better
,
nor
euer
did
I
finde
more
comfort
in
any
.
In
aduising
you
to
a
set
forme
of
prayer
,
I
doe
not
prohibit
conceiued
Prayer
,
but
humbly
beg
of
God
to
giue
you
grace
to
pray
often
out
of
your
owne
meditations
according
to
his
will
.
But
when
it
shall
please
God
to
call
you
to
the
charge
of
a
family
,
I
will
not
direct
,
but
deliuer
my
opinion
,
that
then
a
set
forme
of
prayer
is
most
necessary
:
my
reason
is
,
that
your
seruants
being
vsed
to
it
,
are
alwayes
ready
to
goe
along
with
you
in
their
hearts
,
word
for
word
,
as
you
pray
,
and
continuance
makes
them
to
vnderstand
euery
word
,
which
must
needs
cause
greater
deuotion
,
and
giue
more
life
to
the
prayers
.
(
7
)
When
you
haue
finished
your
priuate
prayer
,
be
sure
that
you
absent
not
your selfe
from
publike
prayer
,
if
it
bee
vsed
in
the
house
where
you
liue
:
which
ended
,
goe
and
vse
any
lawfull
creation
,
either
for
thy
profit
or
pleasure
,
and
from
all
these
exercises
reserue
a
time
to
fit
downe
to
some
good
study
,
but
vse
that
most
that
may
make
thee
greatest
,
Diuinitie
.
It
will
make
thee
greater
,
richer
,
happier
than
the
greatest
Kingdome
of
the
earth
,
though
thou
couldst
possesse
it
.
If
any
man
serue
me
,
saith
Christ
,
him
will
my
father
honor
;
If
Mordecay
were
thought
so
highly
honoured
by
Ahasuerus
for
a
little
gay
trapping
,
what
shall
be
done
to
him
whom
God
will
honour
?
Therefore
if
thou
desirest
honour
,
serue
the
Lord
,
and
thou
art
sure
of
it
.
If
riches
bee
thy
aime
,
Saint
Paul
assures
thee
,
that
Godlinesse
is
great
gaine
.
If
thou
couet
pleasure
,
set
Dauids
delight
before
thine
eies
,
I
haue
had
more
delight
in
thy
testimonies
than
in
all
manner
of
riches
,
Psal.
119.
And
in
the
92.
Psalme
hee
saith
,
Thou
Lord
hast
made
mee
glad
by
thy
workes
.
In
the
4.
Psalme
,
Thou
hast
giuen
mee
more
ioy
of
heart
,
&c.
and
reading
the
91.
Psalme
,
thou
shalt
see
what
manner
of
blessings
they
are
that
God
makes
his
children
merry
withall
.
And
when
thou
hast
once
fixt
thy
heart
to
this
study
,
it
will
be
so
sweet
,
that
the
more
thou
learnest
,
the
more
thou
wilt
desire
,
and
the
more
thou
desirest
,
the
more
God
will
loue
thee
.
Thou
wilt
study
so
well
in
priuate
,
and
practise
it
in
all
thy
actions
publikely
,
thou
wilt
weigh
thy
thoughts
so
euen
,
that
thy
words
shall
not
bee
light
,
and
a
few
lines
I
will
vse
to
perswade
thee
to
bee
aduised
in
thy
words
.
(
8
)
Though
it
is
as
much
to
say
,
Remember
thy
Creator
when
thou
speakest
,
as
if
I
could
vse
all
the
exhortations
,
and
tell
thee
all
the
perils
that
belong
to
speech
,
yet
so
apt
are
wee
to
forget
God
in
our
foolish
talke
,
that
sometimes
wee
by
our
discourse
would
make
Gods
of
our selues
.
Therefore
it
will
not
bee
amisse
to
receiue
a
few
instructions
,
though
weake
,
from
mee
for
ordering
thy
speech
.
The
morning
I
haue
dedicated
to
meditation
,
praier
,
good
studies
,
and
honest
recreation
.
The
noone
time
is
most
vsed
for
discourse
,
it
being
all
a
man
can
doe
while
hee
eats
,
and
it
is
a
time
wherein
a
man
ought
to
bee
carefull
of
his
speech
,
hauing
before
him
Gods
good
blessings
to
refresh
his
body
,
and
honest
company
to
recreate
his
minde
,
and
therefore
ought
to
bee
no
way
offensiue
in
his
speech
either
to
God
or
good
men
.
But
most
especially
take
heed
that
neither
heedlesnesse
nor
earnestnesse
in
thy
discourse
,
cause
thee
to
take
Gods
holy
Name
in
vaine
,
but
alwaies
speake
of
him
with
reuerence
and
vnderstanding
.
Next
,
let
not
thy
neighbour
suffer
in
thy
speech
,
but
bee
rather
silent
than
speake
ill
of
any
man
,
though
hee
deserue
it
.
And
that
thou
maist
doe
thus
,
obserue
this
rule
;
whensoeuer
thou
hearest
one
ill
spoken
of
,
before
thou
second
it
,
examine
thine
owne
heart
,
and
it
is
ods
but
thou
maist
finde
in
thy selfe
either
the
same
fault
,
or
a
worse
than
that
hee
is
accused
for
.
So
thou
shalt
bee
forced
either
to
mend
thy selfe
,
or
not
to
condemne
him
.
Also
shunne
multiplicity
of
words
,
and
what
thou
speakest
,
bee
sure
to
vnderstand
fully
,
for
it
is
a
grating
to
the
eare
to
heare
a
man
talke
at
randome
.
If
thou
desirest
to
better
thy selfe
,
modestly
aske
a
question
of
those
whom
thou
seest
to
haue
knowledge
to
resolue
thee
,
and
bee
lesse
ashamed
to
confesse
thy
ignorance
,
than
by
holding
a
foolish
argument
,
to
betray
it
.
And
euer
auoid
that
scornfull
fashion
of
questioning
a
man
,
who
,
thou
knowest
,
cannot
make
thee
a
satisfying
answer
:
neither
make
a
scorne
of
his
ignorance
,
for
bee
assured
hee
knowes
something
that
thou
dost
not
know
.
If
God
haue
giuen
thee
a
ready
wit
,
take
heed
thou
abuse
it
not
.
At
no
time
maintaine
arguments
against
the
truth
,
especially
in
sacred
or
morall
matter
:
for
it
is
hard
to
doe
it
,
without
offending
the
God
of
truth
;
and
by
it
thou
maist
harme
thy
weake
brother
,
but
the
greatest
harme
will
bee
thine
owne
when
thou
commest
to
giue
account
for
thy
idle
words
.
In
thy
mirth
shun
such
iesting
as
may
make
thee
offensiue
,
scoffing
becomes
not
a
Christian.
Prise
not
therefore
the
froth
of
an
idle
wit
,
before
the
faith
of
a
vertuous
friend
.
And
I
pray
thee
,
asthou
wouldest
haue
blessings
multiplied
vpon
thee
,
let
no
speech
passe
from
thee
that
may
grieue
chaste
eares
.
How
hatefull
is
obscene
speech
in
rude
people
?
But
it
makes
one
of
gentle
birth
odious
to
all
honest
company
.
Solomon
saies
,
A
wise
man
conceales
k
nowledge
,
but
the
heart
of
a
foole
publisbeth
foolishnesse
,
Prou.
12.
23.
and
hee
that
keepeth
his
mouth
,
keepeth
his
life
,
13.
3.
and
in
the
14.
5.
The
lips
of
the
wife
preserue
them
.
To
conclude
,
let
thy
tongue
and
thy
heart
goe
together
,
hate
dissimulation
and
lying
,
and
God
will
loue
thee
,
which
I
humbly
beg
of
him
.
(
9
)
If
thou
keepe
thy
thoughts
holy
,
and
thy
words
pure
,
I
shall
not
need
to
feare
,
but
all
thy
actions
will
bee
honest
.
But
my
feare
thou
shouldest
know
the
way
,
and
yet
goe
aside
,
will
not
suffer
my
counsell
to
leaue
thee
alone
,
till
thou
come
to
thy
iournies
end
.
First
then
bee
careful
when
thou
art
alone
,
that
thou
doe
nothing
that
thou
wouldest
not
doe
if
men
saw
thee
:
remember
that
Gods
eye
is
alwayes
open
,
and
thine
owne
conscience
will
bee
witnesse
enough
against
thee
.
Next
bee
sure
that
no
action
of
thine
may
bee
a
scandall
to
thy
profession
,
I
meane
to
the
profession
of
the
true
Religion
.
This
indeed
is
as
much
as
to
say
to
thee
,
Eschew
euill
.
For
there
is
not
the
least
sinne
thou
canst
doe
,
but
the
enemies
of
truth
will
bee
glad
to
say
,
Loe
,
this
is
one
of
them
that
professes
God
in
his
mouth
,
but
see
what
his
life
is
.
Therefore
a
great
care
ought
a
Christian
to
haue
,
especially
those
whom
God
hath
set
as
lights
in
his
Church
.
Whatsoeuer
thou
art
about
to
doe
,
examine
it
by
Gods
Commandements
:
if
it
bee
agreeable
to
them
,
goe
on
cheerefully
,
and
though
the
end
answer
not
thy
hopes
,
neuer
grieue
nor
grudge
,
but
bee
glad
that
Gods
will
is
performed
,
and
let
thy
trust
in
him
assure
thee
,
that
all
things
worke
together
for
the
best
to
them
that
loue
GOD.
And
though
it
appeare
a
crosse
,
be
assured
it
is
a
blessing
.
Therefore
make
right
vse
of
it
;
examine
thy selfe
what
sinne
thou
hast
committed
that
may
challenge
that
punishment
,
repent
of
it
,
and
reconcile
God
vnto
thee
,
bearing
thy
Crosse
with
patience
,
and
doubt
not
hee
that
depriued
thee
of
thy
hope
to
try
thee
,
will
(
if
thou
beare
it
well
)
giue
thee
as
great
or
a
greater
blessing
than
thou
hopest
for
.
But
if
thou
shalt
finde
that
thy
attempts
will
not
endure
that
triall
,
breake
from
them
,
and
tell
the
Deuill
in
plaine
termes
thou
hast
a
light
to
discerne
his
snares
by
,
and
therefore
scornest
to
be
his
slaue
.
For
beleeue
mee
,
my
childe
,
if
thou
shalt
out
of
any
worldly
respect
doe
a
dishonest
act
,
it
may
bee
thou
maist
thriue
in
it
a
while
,
but
the
end
is
miserable
.
Oh
the
burthen
of
a
wounded
conscience
who
can
beare
?
If
thou
seest
others
thriue
&
grow
great
in
such
courses
,
reade
the
73.
Psalme
;
there
thou
shalt
see
Dauid
himselfe
confesses
his
foot
had
wel-nigh
slipt
when
hee
saw
the
prosperity
of
the
wicked
.
Hee
describes
all
their
felicities
,
but
at
the
last
when
hee
went
into
the
Sanctuary
,
hee
found
what
their
end
was
,
how
they
were
set
in
slippery
places
,
&c.
and
then
hee
cries
,
Whom
haue
I
in
Heauen
but
thee
?
And
I
haue
desired
none
in
the
earth
with
thee
.
Alas
,
all
their
labour
is
but
to
build
a
paper
house
vpon
the
sand
,
which
though
it
bee
neuer
so
glorious
to
looke
vpon
,
a
small
tempest
will
shatter
it
.
When
if
thou
lay
the
foundation
of
thy
happinesse
vpon
Christ
the
rocke
of
thy
saluation
,
and
build
it
with
zealous
seruice
of
him
according
to
truth
,
then
though
the
flouds
beat
against
it
,
and
huge
tempests
threaten
it
,
thou
needest
not
feare
,
for
thy
wals
will
stand
fast
,
and
thy
foundations
will
secure
thee
.
It
were
enough
to
perswade
any
man
to
bee
honest
if
hee
would
consider
the
day
of
affliction
,
and
store
vp
the
comfort
of
a
quiet
conscience
against
it
came
:
for
onely
that
discernes
the
patient
Iob
from
despairing
Caine.
Caine
hideously
cries
out
,
his
punishment
is
greater
than
hee
can
beare
.
Iob
sighs
forth
,
Loe
though
hee
slay
mee
,
yet
will
I
trust
in
him
.
Indeed
,
till
affliction
comes
,
the
worser
sort
of
men
appeare
to
bee
the
happiest
,
but
then
the
chaffe
is
soone
knowne
from
the
wheat
:
the
good
man
knowes
his
crosse
is
good
for
him
,
beares
it
patiently
;
and
casts
his
care
on
Christ
,
his
heart
knowes
no
repining
,
nor
his
tongue
other
complaining
,
but
Shall
I
receiue
good
from
God
and
not
euill
?
On
the
contrary
,
when
affliction
fals
vpon
those
who
haue
laid
their
foundation
on
the
sand
,
alas
,
they
haue
no
comfort
,
they
are
either
ashamed
or
besotted
,
they
cannot
finde
God
,
nay
they
will
not
seeke
him
:
but
in
stead
of
seeking
counsell
from
him
,
they
are
not
ashamed
(
with
forsaken
Saul
)
to
implore
the
Deuill
.
What
doe
they
lesse
that
seeke
after
Witches
for
lost
goods
,
cure
for
themselues
,
their
children
,
or
cattell
?
I
hope
there
are
but
few
of
these
:
but
I
know
where
God
is
once
forsaken
,
man
is
apt
to
fall
into
the
depth
of
sinne
.
It
is
grace
,
meere
grace
,
that
preserues
Gods
children
from
these
dangerous
fals
,
of
which
grace
I
beseech
Almighty
God
make
vs
all
partakers
.
And
to
conclude
,
how
I
would
haue
thee
square
thine
actions
,
whatsoeuer
thou
doest
,
remember
that
thou
art
in
the
presence
of
God
,
(
who
will
expect
an
account
from
thee
)
so
thou
wilt
not
dare
to
doe
euill
,
and
thou
wilt
doe
well
cheerefully
,
because
thou
art
sure
it
pleases
the
Lord
,
who
fees
thy
willingnesse
,
and
will
not
leaue
thee
vnrewarded
.
The
vices
most
reigning
in
these
times
I
must
particularly
aduise
thee
to
shun
:
first
,
swearing
.
For
Gods
sake
,
let
your
communication
be
yea
,
yea
,
and
nay
,
nay
,
for
what
is
more
(
saith
Christ
)
commeth
of
euill
.
Keepe
not
company
with
a
swearer
,
lest
custome
make
thee
forget
how
great
the
sin
is
,
and
so
by
little
and
little
thou
maist
get
thy selfe
a
habit
of
it
.
Reproue
it
in
thy
friend
,
if
hee
will
brooke
reproofe
:
but
it
is
to
no
end
to
reproue
a
scorner
:
Rebuke
not
a
scorner
lest
hee
hate
thee
,
but
rebuke
a
wife
man
,
and
he
will
loue
thee
,
Prou.
9.
8.
Alwayes
keepe
a
watch
before
thine
owne
lips
,
and
remember
that
thou
needest
not
sweare
if
thou
doest
not
accustome
thy selfe
to
lie
.
For
if
thou
vsest
to
tell
truths
,
thy
word
will
bee
as
currant
as
thy
oath
.
I
hope
thy
calling
(
if
God
hath
made
thee
a
man
)
will
bee
of
authority
to
reproue
this
vice
in
others
,
and
not
to
delight
in
it
thy selfe
.
If
thou
beest
a
Daughter
,
remember
thou
art
a
Maid
,
and
such
ought
thy
modesty
to
bee
,
that
thou
shouldest
scarce
speak
,
but
when
thou
answerest
:
thou
art
young
,
speake
if
need
bee
,
and
yet
scarcely
when
thou
art
twice
asked
,
Eccles.
32.
8.
Whatsoeuer
thou
bee
,
thou
hast
a
calling
,
which
thou
must
not
dishonour
:
thou
art
a
Christian
,
and
Christ
commaunds
thou
shalt
not
sweare
at
all
,
Mat.
5.
34.
The
next
vice
too
too
common
in
this
age
is
Drunkennesse
,
which
is
the
high
way
to
hell
:
a
man
may
trauell
in
it
from
sinne
to
sinne
,
till
the
Deuill
shew
him
hee
can
goe
no
further
,
as
a
Traueller
from
Inne
to
Inne
,
till
hee
come
to
his
iourneyes
end
.
Oh
thinke
how
filthy
is
that
sinne
that
makes
a
man
a
beast
all
his
life
,
and
a
Deuill
at
his
death
.
Solomon
askes
,
To
whom
is
woe
?
to
whom
is
sorrow
?
to
whom
is
strife
?
to
wbom
is
murmuring
?
to
whom
are
wounds
without
cause
?
and
to
whom
is
rednesse
of
the
eies
?
And
in
the
next
verse
answers
,
Euen
to
them
that
tarry
long
at
the
Wine
,
and
to
the
end
of
the
Chapter
,
sets
forth
the
miseries
occasioned
by
this
vice
,
Prou.
23.
That
thou
maist
auoid
this
sinne
,
be
carefull
in
the
choise
of
thy
friends
,
for
it
is
they
that
will
betray
thee
to
this
sinne
.
Neuer
make
choice
of
a
Drunkard
to
thy
companion
,
much
lesse
thy
friend
.
For
our
Kingdome
hath
of
late
afforded
more
examples
of
those
who
haue
beene
slaine
by
their
friends
in
a
drunken
quarrell
,
than
those
that
haue
fallen
by
the
enemies
sword
:
and
how
vnfit
is
hee
to
bee
a
friend
,
that
when
thou
shalt
haue
need
of
his
counsell
,
will
haue
his
head
,
instead
of
wisdome
,
fild
with
wine
,
and
adde
rather
griefe
than
comfort
to
thy
necessities
?
And
againe
,
what
secret
thou
shalt
trust
him
with
,
thou
maist
bee
sure
shall
be
vomited
forth
,
and
all
thy
comfort
must
bee
,
He
did
it
vnwillingly
,
when
hee
knew
not
what
hee
did
.
Thus
thou
seest
to
bee
a
Drunkard
,
is
to
bee
a
man
vnfit
for
Gods
seruice
,
or
good
mens
company
.
I
beseech
God
giue
thee
grace
to
detest
it
.
Next
,
I
must
exhort
thee
from
a
sinne
,
that
I
cannot
name
,
thou
must
search
thine
owne
heart
for
it
.
It
is
thy
darling
sin
,
that
which
to
enioy
,
thou
couldst
resist
all
others
,
at
least
thou
thinkest
so
.
But
doe
not
harbour
it
,
search
diligently
for
it
in
thine
owne
nature
,
and
when
thou
hast
found
it
,
cast
it
headlong
from
thee
.
It
is
thy
soules
subtill
betraier
,
and
all
thy
other
sins
depend
vpon
it
.
There
is
not
so
much
danger
in
all
the
rest
that
thou
contendest
with
,
as
in
this
one
,
that
thou
art
loth
to
call
a
sinne
.
Thy
other
sinnes
are
like
a
rebellious
multitude
in
a
common
wealth
,
which
wanting
a
head
,
doe
little
harme
.
This
is
their
head
,
cut
it
off
,
and
thou
shalt
see
all
thy
other
sins
dispersed
,
as
an
army
of
fearfull
Rebels
,
when
they
heare
their
great
leaders
head
hath
kist
the
blocke
.
(
10
)
When
thou
hast
spent
the
day
in
religious
and
honest
exercises
,
in
the
euening
returne
againe
to
some
good
meditation
or
study
,
which
conclude
with
prayer
,
commending
thy selfe
to
God
,
and
so
shalt
thou
ioyfully
goe
to
thy
supper
;
which
done
,
and
the
time
of
rest
come
,
as
thou
begannest
in
the
morning
,
so
shut
vp
the
day
with
humble
thanksgiuing
for
all
the
benefits
that
day
receiued
,
hearty
repentance
for
all
thy
sinnes
committed
,
naming
and
bewailing
them
.
For
thou
knowest
not
if
thou
repentest
not
to
night
,
whether
thou
shalt
liue
to
repent
tomorrow
.
And
though
thou
wert
sure
of
it
,
yet
the
oftner
thou
makest
euen
thy
accounts
with
God
,
thy
sleepes
will
bee
the
sounder
,
and
thou
shalt
awake
with
a
heart
full
of
ioy
,
and
ready
to
serue
the
Lord
.
Last
,
commit
thy selfe
,
and
all
that
is
thine
,
to
God
in
zealous
Prayer
,
vsing
Doctor
Smiths
euening
prayer
,
as
his
morning
:
both
which
though
they
be
for
a
family
,
yet
are
they
easily
reduced
to
a
priuate
mans
prayer
.
So
going
to
bed
,
take
thy
rest
,
beginning
and
ending
in
him
who
is
both
first
and
last
.
Thus
spend
the
six
dayes
thou
hast
to
labour
in
,
that
thou
maist
bee
ready
to
celebrate
the
Sabbath
,
to
which
there
belongs
another
Remember
.
(
11
)
Remember
that
thou
keep
holy
the
Sabbath
day
.
This
duty
so
often
and
earnestly
commanded
by
GOD
himselfe
in
the
old
Testament
,
so
confirmed
to
vs
in
the
new
,
by
the
Resurrection
of
our
Sauiour
,
in
memory
whereof
it
is
called
the
Lords
day
,
and
perpetually
celebrated
by
the
Church
,
yet
in
these
dayes
,
as
if
wee
neither
had
part
in
the
creation
,
nor
redemption
of
the
world
,
too
many
keepe
no
Sabbath
,
or
at
the
most
but
a
shadow
of
a
Sabbath
.
Where
almost
can
wee
finde
one
that
will
lose
a
good
bargaine
rather
than
make
it
on
the
Lords
day
?
Or
that
will
bridle
his
owne
desires
to
sanctifie
that
day
?
Seeing
therefore
this
danger
,
in
which
thou
maist
easily
bee
entrapped
by
the
Deuils
subtilty
,
and
following
the
multitude
;
I
cannot
but
with
all
my
power
exhort
thee
,
carefully
to
keepe
the
Sabbath
,
to
which
end
I
pray
thee
marke
well
the
fourth
Commaundement
,
Remember
that
thou
keepe
holy
the
Sabbath
day
,
six
dayes
shalt
thou
labour
,
and
doe
all
that
thou
hast
to
doe
,
but
the
seuenth
is
the
Sabbath
of
the
Lord
thy
God
,
in
it
thou
shalt
doe
no
manner
of
worke
,
thou
,
nor
thy
sonne
,
nor
thy
daughter
,
thy
man
seruant
,
nor
thy
maid-seruant
,
nor
thy
cattle
that
is
within
thy
gates
:
For
in
six
dayes
the
Lord
made
Heauen
and
Earth
,
the
Sea
,
and
all
that
is
therein
,
and
rested
the
seuenth
day
,
wherefore
the
Lord
blessed
the
seuenth
day
and
hallowed
it
.
If
thou
wilt
bee
won
to
the
due
obseruation
of
this
day
as
an
obedient
seruant
,
see
God
commands
,
Remember
that
thou
keepe
holy
the
Sabbath
day
.
If
as
a
louing
and
dutifull
sonne
,
see
how
GOD
perswades
thee
,
by
equity
,
grounded
vpon
his
owne
bounty
to
thee
:
Hee
hath
giuen
thee
six
dayes
to
doe
thine
owne
workes
,
and
hee
requires
but
one
of
thee
.
What
canst
thou
say
for
thy selfe
,
why
thou
shouldest
not
wholly
that
day
giue
thy selfe
to
his
seruice
?
Lastly
,
if
thou
wilt
learne
how
to
serue
him
as
a
good
Scholler
,
he
teaches
thee
an
admirable
way
,
both
by
rule
and
example
.
First
,
by
rule
,
Thou
shalt
doe
no
manner
of
worke
in
it
:
then
by
example
,
He
made
the
whole
world
in
six
dayes
,
and
hee
rested
the
seuenth
,
wherefore
hee
blessed
it
.
Seeing
God
thus
commands
thee
by
his
power
,
perswades
thee
in
his
mercy
,
and
teaches
thee
both
by
rule
,
and
his
owne
most
gratious
example
,
how
canst
thou
bee
so
deuoid
of
grace
,
nay
of
reason
,
as
not
to
obey
so
iust
a
Master
?
so
mercifull
a
Father
?
so
gracious
a
Teacher
?
If
thou
make
not
a
conscience
of
keeping
this
day
,
howsoeuer
a
dull
security
may
possesse
thee
to
flatter
thy selfe
,
thou
indeed
makest
conscience
of
nothing
.
For
I
am
perswaded
,
if
thou
canst
dispence
with
thy selfe
to
prophane
this
day
,
either
for
thy
profit
or
pleasure
,
thou
wilt
not
sticke
vpon
the
like
occasion
to
breake
all
the
rest
of
the
Commandements
one
after
another
.
Therefore
for
Christs
sake
bee
watchfull
that
the
Deuill
deceiue
you
not
,
nor
none
of
his
instruments
draw
thee
away
from
this
dayes
duty
,
Hee
is
alwaies
busie
and
ready
at
hand
to
draw
thee
away
from
God
,
but
this
day
without
doubt
hee
doubles
all
his
forces
,
hee
will
prouoke
thine
eies
to
sleepe
,
hee
will
send
heauinesse
and
dulnesse
to
thy
heart
,
and
perhaps
paine
to
thy
body
,
if
he
can
so
much
preuaile
:
any
sleight
,
any
tricke
to
stay
thee
from
Gods
house
,
and
from
the
Congregation
of
his
people
,
hee
will
surely
vse
,
nay
hee
will
sometimes
doe
it
with
religious
pretences
,
as
to
pray
at
home
,
reade
a
Sermon
,
study
the
Scripture
,
and
to
spend
the
time
in
such
Christian
exercises
,
as
are
infinitely
good
at
other
times
.
But
I
once
heard
a
religious
Preacher
affirme
(
and
I
beleeued
him
)
that
those
who
had
ability
of
body
to
goe
to
Church
,
and
yet
out
of
any
euill
disposition
(
for
good
it
can
hardly
bee
)
absented
themselues
,
though
they
prayed
,
they
were
not
heard
.
It
behoues
thee
by
how
much
greater
his
practises
are
against
thee
that
day
,
so
much
the
more
to
fortifie
thy selfe
against
him
:
at
no
hand
let
him
stay
thee
from
the
Church
,
there
GOD
hath
promised
to
bee
present
,
and
there
hee
is
.
Darest
thou
then
,
silly
wretch
,
absent
thy selfe
from
him
?
I
know
,
thou
darest
not
.
Goe
then
with
a
heart
prepared
to
pray
by
prayer
,
and
going
meditate
on
Gods
great
mercies
in
the
creation
of
the
world
,
his
greater
mercy
in
redeeming
it
,
and
mingle
with
thy
meditation
prayers
,
that
may
apply
these
great
blessings
to
thy selfe
.
So
approach
and
enter
,
with
reuerent
and
feruent
zeale
,
the
house
of
GOD
,
and
throwing
away
all
thoughts
,
but
such
as
may
further
the
good
worke
thou
art
about
,
bend
thy
knees
and
heart
to
God
,
desiring
of
him
his
holy
Spirit
,
that
thou
maist
ioine
with
the
Congregation
in
zealous
prayer
,
and
earnest
attention
to
his
word
preached
.
And
though
perhaps
thou
hearest
a
Minister
preach
,
as
thou
thinkest
,
weakly
,
yet
giue
him
thine
attention
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
that
hee
will
deliuer
something
profitable
to
thy
soule
,
either
that
thou
hast
not
heard
before
,
or
not
marked
,
or
forgotten
,
or
not
well
put
in
practise
.
And
it
is
fit
thou
shouldest
bee
often
put
in
minde
of
those
things
concerning
thy
saluation
.
Thus
if
thou
spend
thy
time
at
Church
,
thou
wilt
bee
ready
to
giue
thy selfe
to
meditate
of
the
holy
Word
thou
hast
heard
,
without
which
truly
hearing
profiteth
little
.
For
it
is
with
the
soule
as
with
the
body
,
though
meat
bee
neuer
so
wholsome
,
and
the
appetite
neuer
so
great
,
yet
if
any
ill
disposition
in
the
stomacke
hinder
digestion
,
it
turnes
not
to
nourishment
,
but
rather
proues
more
dangerous
.
So
the
Word
if
after
hearing
it
bee
not
digested
by
meditation
,
it
is
not
nourishing
to
the
soule
.
Therefore
let
the
time
thou
hast
to
bee
absent
from
Church
,
bee
spent
in
praising
God
,
praying
to
God
,
and
applying
to
thy selfe
what
thou
hast
heard
.
If
thou
hast
heard
a
sinne
reproued
that
thou
art
guilty
of
,
take
it
for
a
warning
,
doe
it
no
more
.
If
thou
hearest
of
a
good
action
which
thou
hast
ouerslipt
,
striue
to
recouer
time
,
and
resolue
to
put
it
in
act
.
Thus
by
practising
what
thou
hearest
,
thou
shalt
binde
it
to
thy
memory
,
and
by
making
it
thine
owne
,
make
thy selfe
most
happy
.
Learne
of
Isaiah
,
the
true
obseruation
of
the
Sabbath
:
If
thou
turne
away
thy
foot
from
the
Sabbath
,
from
doing
thy
will
on
my
holy
day
,
and
call
the
Sabbath
a
delight
to
consecrate
it
as
glorious
to
the
Lord
,
and
shalt
honour
him
,
not
doing
thy
owne
wayes
,
nor
seeking
thine
owne
will
,
nor
speaking
a
vaine
word
:
Then
shalt
thou
delight
in
the
Lord
,
and
I
will
cause
thee
to
mount
vpon
the
high
places
of
the
earth
,
and
feed
thee
with
the
heritage
of
Iacob
thy
father
,
for
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
hath
spoken
it
,
Isaiah
58.13
.
It
is
a
wonder
to
see
how
often
God
hath
commanded
this
one
Commandement
,
and
yet
how
slacke
we
are
to
keepe
it
.
Exod.
31.
from
the
12.
verse
,
is
all
commanding
this
:
againe
in
the
34.21
.
and
diuers
places
more
.
Learne
then
to
prepare
thy
heart
early
for
this
day
,
which
if
thou
obseruest
well
,
God
will
blesse
thee
and
thy
labours
all
the
weeke
.
Thus
farre
I
haue
endeuoured
to
exhort
thee
to
thy
duty
towards
God
.
(
12
)
Of
which
the
honour
due
to
thy
Parents
is
such
a
part
as
cannot
bee
separated
;
for
God
commands
it
,
Honour
thy
father
and
thy
mother
,
it
is
the
first
Commandement
of
the
second
table
,
as
,
Thou
shal
haue
none
other
Gods
but
mee
,
is
of
the
first
:
Idolatry
being
the
greatest
sin
against
God
,
and
disobedience
to
parents
,
being
the
ring-leader
in
sinnes
against
man
,
wee
are
first
warned
of
them
,
as
if
in
case
we
should
fall
into
them
,
it
were
too
late
to
auoid
the
other
.
For
if
wee
once
become
in
heart
Idolaters
,
it
will
be
no
hard
matter
to
be
a
bower
down
to
an
Image
,
to
abuse
Gods
holy
Name
,
and
to
prophane
his
Sabbath
:
So
if
wee
dare
disobey
good
Parents
,
at
that
breach
,
theft
,
murther
,
adultery
,
falsenesse
,
couetousnesse
easily
enter
.
Nay
,
I
dare
say
,
if
thou
breakest
either
of
these
Commandements
,
thou
breakest
all
of
the
first
and
second
Table
:
for
as
thou
canst
not
bee
idolatrous
without
breaking
all
the
rest
,
so
thou
canst
not
bee
a
disobedient
childe
,
but
thou
art
a
murderer
,
a
double
one
:
first
of
nature
in
thy selfe
,
which
if
thy
wicked
purposes
doe
not
smother
,
will
of
her selfe
breake
forth
into
that
duty
.
For
an
example
,
the
story
of
AEneas
Ihewes
how
much
it
was
obserued
by
them
that
receiued
not
the
Commandement
from
Gods
owne
mouth
,
as
did
the
Iewes
,
yet
he
exposed
himselfe
to
all
dangers
rather
than
hee
would
forsake
his
father
.
Secondly
,
thou
art
a
murtherer
of
thy
father
,
who
hauing
stored
vp
all
his
ioy
in
thee
,
hath
by
thy
disobedience
his
gray
head
brought
with
sorrow
to
the
graue
;
which
God
forbid
.
And
what
difference
,
shall
I
say
,
is
there
betweene
a
disobedient
childe
,
and
an
adulterer
?
the
one
forsakes
her
,
by
whom
he
giueth
being
vnto
others
;
the
other
despiseth
those
from
whom
hee
had
his
owne
being
.
Truly
this
is
a
fearefull
adultery
,
and
sinne
is
a
crafty
strumpet
,
she
will
allure
thee
and
delude
thee
.
Againe
,
in
being
disobedient
thou
art
a
theefe
,
an
impudent
theefe
,
for
thou
doest
not
onely
secretly
steale
,
but
openly
detaine
the
honour
,
reuerence
and
obedient
duty
,
which
all
the
world
can
witnesse
is
thy
fathers
.
And
how
wilt
thou
auoid
being
a
false
witnesse
?
will
not
one
sinne
draw
on
another
?
Wilt
not
thou
bee
ready
to
excuse
thy
vnnaturall
obstinacy
,
by
throwing
calumnious
aspersions
on
thy
parents
,
giuing
thy
tongue
leaue
to
lie
against
thy
conscience
?
And
lastly
(
Oh
horrible
)
how
easie
a
step
is
it
to
couet
what
thou
thinkest
thy
parents
life
too
long
detaines
from
thee
?
Thus
thou
seeft
in
being
disobedient
thou
breakest
six
Commandements
,
from
which
outrage
,
I
beseech
Almighty
GOD
preserue
thee
,
and
giue
thee
grace
to
bee
obedient
to
him
,
and
to
thy
parents
.
I
am
sure
thou
hast
a
father
,
who
will
neuer
command
thee
any
thing
contrary
to
the
Commandements
of
God
.
Therefore
I
haue
no
need
to
speake
to
thee
,
how
farre
a
father
ought
to
bee
obeyed
:
but
humbly
desire
of
God
to
continue
him
in
his
good
desires
with
long
life
,
that
he
may
bring
thee
vp
in
the
feare
of
the
Lord
,
and
to
giue
thee
a
heart
ready
to
embrace
all
religious
learning
.
(
13
)
The
next
duty
equall
to
this
,
thou
must
performe
to
all
the
world
in
generall
,
Doe
to
all
men
as
thou
wouldst
they
should
doe
vnto
thee
.
This
is
the
commandement
our
Sauiour
giues
vs
;
Loue
one
another
:
by
this
wee
shall
bee
knowne
to
be
his
,
if
we
loue
one
another
,
as
hee
hath
loued
vs
.
Yet
of
all
that
is
commanded
vs
,
there
is
nothing
more
contrary
to
our
wicked
nature
than
this
louing
our
neighbour
as
our selues
.
Wee
can
with
ease
enuie
him
if
hee
be
rich
,
or
scorne
him
if
he
be
poore
;
but
loue
him
?
nay
the
Deuill
hath
more
craft
than
so
.
It
were
hard
for
him
if
men
should
once
begin
to
loue
one
another
:
therefore
hee
vseth
all
Art
to
stir
dissention
among
as
many
as
he
can
,
&
to
mix
loue
with
dissimulation
.
To
auoid
this
,
consider
well
that
God
is
the
Author
of
peace
and
loue
,
and
that
strifes
and
contentions
proceed
of
the
Deuill
.
Then
if
thou
beest
the
child
of
God
,
doe
the
workes
of
God
,
loue
thy
neighbour
as
he
hath
commanded
,
lest
thou
prouoke
our
blessed
Sauiour
,
when
hee
shall
see
,
that
marke
of
the
Deuill
,
malice
in
thee
,
to
say
as
once
to
the
vnbeleeuing
Iewes
,
You
are
of
your
father
the
deuill
,
and
the
lusts
of
your
father
will
you
doe
,
Ioh.
8.44
.
Oh
take
heed
thou
offend
not
God
thus
grieuously
,
that
hee
shall
disclaime
thee
as
none
of
his
,
because
thou
doest
not
loue
those
that
are
his
.
This
,
if
well
weighed
,
were
enough
to
make
euery
man
charitable
,
if
it
were
onely
for
feare
to
hate
whom
God
loued
.
But
to
beleeue
or
iudge
that
God
should
hate
where
thou
doest
,
were
such
an
impious
vncharitablenesse
as
a
good
Christian
must
needs
tremble
at
.
God
hath
giuen
thee
no
authoritie
to
iudge
any
man
,
but
he
hath
commanded
thee
to
loue
thine
enemie
;
Loue
your
enemies
,
blesse
them
that
curse
you
,
doe
good
to
them
that
hate
you
,
and
pray
for
them
that
hurt
and
persecute
you
,
that
you
may
be
the
children
of
your
father
which
is
in
heauen
,
Matth.
5.44
.
A
man
may
finde
wayes
enow
to
possesse
the
Deuill
of
his
soule
,
but
none
with
lesse
pleasure
to
himselfe
than
this
:
hee
may
sell
it
,
as
did
Iudas
,
to
satisfie
a
couetous
desire
;
hee
may
lose
it
,
as
does
many
a
lazie
man
his
worldly
estate
;
because
hee
will
not
trouble
himselfe
to
looke
ouer
an
account
of
his
fortune
,
hee
sinkes
ere
hee
thinkes
of
it
;
so
fares
it
with
a
negligent
Christian.
Thirdly
,
hee
may
pawne
it
,
like
a
foolish
vnthrift
,
who
pawnes
that
which
should
keepe
him
all
his
life
,
to
purchase
a
gay
toy
,
which
shall
serue
him
a
day
or
two
:
so
doth
hee
that
pawnes
that
rich
iewell
his
soule
,
to
the
griping
vsurer
the
Deuill
,
for
pleasure
;
haply
hee
meanes
one
day
to
redeeme
it
,
but
runnes
on
his
selfe-pleasing
course
till
the
vse
hath
deuoured
the
principall
,
and
his
vnmercifull
Creditor
hales
him
to
a
dungeon
,
where
he
has
time
for
euer
to
be
waile
,
not
only
his
present
misery
,
but
the
losse
of
infinite
happinesse
.
These
are
strange
enough
that
a
man
should
sell
eternitie
of
ioy
for
wealth
,
or
sleepe
away
the
time
wherein
hee
might
make
such
a
purchase
,
or
pawne
an
inestimable
treasure
for
things
not
worth
esteeme
.
But
yet
they
are
all
better
than
hee
that
giues
away
his
soule
for
nothing
,
as
doth
the
enuious
man
.
The
couetous
gets
riches
,
the
slothfull
ease
,
the
wanton
pleasure
,
but
this
hater
of
his
brother
gets
nothing
(
no
not
in
present
)
but
torment
,
fretting
and
vexation
:
he
is
not
the
fatter
for
his
meat
,
nor
doth
hee
rest
though
hee
sleepe
,
yet
he
for
whom
,
or
against
whom
hee
thus
toiles
his
spirit
,
haply
eats
,
sleepes
,
and
laughes
at
his
enuiers
folly
,
or
peraduenture
pitties
him
.
The
more
easily
to
auoid
this
sinne
,
consider
well
the
disprofits
of
it
.
Reade
in
the
first
Epistle
of
Saint
Iohn
3.
Chap.
14.
and
15.
Verses
,
and
in
the
4.
chap.
the
8.
and
the
20.
verses
:
reade
the
13.
of
the
first
to
the
Corinthians
;
there
Saint
Paul
shewes
that
without
charitie
euen
spirituall
graces
are
of
no
worth
.
As
the
want
of
it
brings
infinite
miserie
,
so
the
posession
infinite
ioy
.
By
Charitie
wee
performe
our
Sauiour
Christs
commandement
,
who
often
requires
this
of
vs
,
as
if
hee
should
say
,
I
haue
satisfied
my
father
for
all
the
commandements
that
you
haue
broke
.
Now
your
taske
is
easie
,
I
leaue
you
nothing
to
doe
,
but
to
loue
one
another
;
doe
this
and
you
doe
all
.
By
it
we
fulfill
the
Law
,
Rom.
13.
8.
and
10.
verses
.
By
it
wee
abide
in
the
light
,
1
Iob.
2.
10.
Is
it
possible
,
when
these
are
well
weighed
,
that
any
man
should
bee
so
mad
to
beare
an
vncharitable
heart
about
him
,
or
so
foole
hardy
to
harbour
a
spleene
that
shall
hazard
his
saluation
?
Can
wee
be
so
cruell
to
our selues
,
as
to
deny
Christ
one
commandement
?
For
all
his
loue
to
vs
,
he
requires
but
this
testimony
of
our
loue
to
him
,
which
we
cannot
choose
but
performe
if
we
doe
loue
him
.
Therefore
take
heed
if
thou
feele
any
malice
towards
thy
brother
,
bee
sure
thy
heart
is
not
vpright
toward
God
.
So
root
it
out
from
thy
heart
,
that
no
sting
of
it
bee
left
,
for
it
will
grow
faster
than
Ionahs
Gourd
.
Answer
mee
not
with
Flesh
and
bloud
cannot
doe
this
:
I
know
it
.
But
if
thou
desire
God
to
giue
thee
his
holy
Spirit
,
thou
shalt
bee
strong
to
suffer
,
and
ready
to
forgiue
.
Thou
must
not
in
any
thing
bee
subiect
to
the
flesh
,
for
the
wisdome
of
the
flesh
is
death
.
But
alwayes
make
thy
spirit
thy
guide
,
for
there
is
life
and
peace
.
The
deuill
would
desire
no
greater
aduantage
than
that
thou
wouldst
trust
thy
soule
to
the
discretion
of
thy
corrupt
flesh
,
he
would
soone
inueigle
that
to
betray
thee
.
But
when
thou
hast
put
thy selfe
vnder
the
spirit
,
submitting
thy
will
to
the
will
of
God
,
he
is
no
more
able
to
hurt
thee
.
The
next
excuse
I
would
take
from
thee
,
is
a
very
foolish
one
,
but
so
common
,
that
I
feare
you
may
happen
on
it
,
and
that
is
this
;
If
I
should
suffer
wrongs
patiently
,
what
will
become
of
my
reputation
?
what
will
the
world
say
?
Truly
if
you
remember
,
Christ
hath
suffred
more
for
you
,
than
it
is
possible
for
you
to
suffer
:
yet
hee
neuer
reuiled
any
of
his
enemies
,
nor
strake
his
persecutors
,
but
prayed
for
them
.
And
his
example
teaches
all
that
loue
him
to
doe
the
like
.
He
wils
you
to
turne
the
left
cheeke
to
him
that
smote
the
right
,
to
giue
to
him
that
takes
from
you
,
and
to
goe
with
him
that
compels
you
.
But
these
are
strange
rules
for
a
generous
spirit
in
these
times
,
nay
sure
if
I
be
strucke
I
must
strike
againe
,
else
I
am
a
coward
.
Indeed
as
for
giuing
,
if
it
were
to
one
that
would
desire
it
at
my
hands
,
I
had
rather
giue
a
fragment
of
my
right
than
goe
to
law
,
but
if
hee
will
not
sue
to
mee
,
I
le
spend
all
I
am
worth
ere
I
yeeld
:
Or
I
would
goe
out
of
my
doore
to
shew
a
man
his
way
,
but
I
would
faine
see
who
could
compell
mee
.
I
mary
,
this
is
of
the
right
straine
;
but
now
looke
with
a
considerate
eye
vpon
this
custome
of
the
world
,
and
the
former
Commandement
of
Christ
,
and
thou
shalt
finde
them
iust
opposite
.
Therefore
take
heed
,
and
let
it
bee
thy
chiefe
care
neuer
to
prize
thy
reputation
with
men
equall
to
the
saluation
of
thine
owne
soule
.
But
if
thou
desirest
to
keepe
thy
credit
vnblemished
,
serue
God
with
an
vpright
heart
,
and
doe
nothing
to
any
man
,
that
thou
wouldest
not
bee
content
hee
should
doe
vnto
thee
.
Open
thy
hand
to
the
poore
according
to
thy
abilitie
,
meddle
not
with
other
mens
occasions
,
but
where
thou
maist
doe
good
,
and
hast
a
calling
to
it
.
And
if
it
bee
in
thy
power
to
hurt
thine
enemy
,
let
it
passe
,
doe
him
good
if
thou
canst
,
and
boast
not
of
it
:
he
that
sees
thee
in
priuate
,
will
openly
reward
thee
.
Lastly
,
let
thy
heart
bee
kept
alwayes
in
awe
of
this
want
of
charity
,
by
continuall
remembring
that
thou
hast
of
thy
Sauiour
no
other
forme
of
praier
to
desire
forgiuenesse
for
thy selfe
,
than
that
wherein
thou
couenantest
to
forgiue
others
.
All
the
other
petitions
wee
present
vnto
God
absolutely
:
onely
this
is
conditionall
,
hee
forgiue
vs
as
wee
forgiue
others
.
Our
Sauiour
hath
taught
vs
no
other
way
to
desire
it
,
and
in
the
18.
of
Matthew
hee
shewes
God
will
no
otherwise
grant
it
.
Sine
fine
finis
.