Isaias
.26
.
Chap.
verse
.
13.
13
O
Lorde
our
God
,
other
Lordes
beside
thee
haue
ruled
vs
,
but
we
will
remember
thee
onely
and
thy
name
.
14
The
dead
shal
not
lyue
,
neyther
shal
the
dead
arise
,
bicause
thou
hast
visited
and
scattered
them
and
destroyed
all
their
memorie
.
15
Thou
hast
increased
the
nation
,
O
Lorde
:
thou
hast
increased
the
nation
,
thou
art
made
glorious
:
thou
hast
enlarged
all
the
coastes
of
the
earth
.
16
Lorde
in
trouble
haue
they
visited
thee
:
they
poured
out
a
prayer
when
thy
chastening
was
vpon
them
.
17
Like
as
a
woman
with
childe
that
draweth
nere
to
the
trauaile
is
in
sorrowe
,
and
cryeth
in
her
paines
,
so
haue
we
beene
in
thy
sight
O
Lorde
.
18
We
haue
conceyued
,
we
haue
borne
in
paine
as
though
we
shuld
haue
brought
winde
:
there
was
no
helpe
in
the
forth
neyther
did
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
,
worlde
fall
.
19
Thy
deade
men
shall
liue
:
euen
with
my
bodye
shall
they
rise
,
awake
and
sing
ye
that
dwell
in
dust
:
for
thy
dewe
is
as
the
dew
of
herbes
and
the
earth
shall
cast
out
the
dead
.
20
Come
my
people
enter
thou
into
thy
chambers
,
and
shut
thy
dores
after
thee
hide
thy selfe
for
a
verie
little
while
vntill
the
indignation
passe
ouer
.
For
loe
the
Lorde
commeth
out
of
his
place
to
visite
the
iniquitie
of
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
vpon
them
:
and
the
earth
shall
disclose
her
bloude
,
and
shall
no
more
hide
her
slayne
.
A
SERMON
PREACHED
by
Iohn
knoxe
.
AS
THE
CONninge
Maryner
beinge
Maister
,
hauing
his
ship
tossed
with
vehement
tempest
,
and
windes
contrarious
,
is
compelled
oft
to
trauerse
,
leaste
that
eyther
by
too
much
resisting
to
the
violence
of
the
waues
,
his
vessell
might
be
ouerwhelmed
,
or
by
to
much
libertie
graunted
,
to
be
carried
whither
the
furie
of
the
tempest
would
,
his
ship
should
be
driuen
vpon
the
shore
,
&
so
make
shipwrack
:
Euen
so
doth
our
prophet
Isaiah
in
thys
texte
which
presentely
ye
haue
heard
read
.
For
he
foreseing
the
gret
desolation
that
was
decreed
in
the
counsell
of
the
eternal
,
against
Ierusalem
and
Iudah
,
to
weete
,
that
the
whole
people
that
bare
the
name
of
GOD
should
be
dispersed
,
These
are
the
chiefest
poyntes
which
by
the
grace
of
God
,
we
intende
more
largely
at
thy●
present
to
entreate
.
First
the
Prophet
sayth
:
O
Lord
our
God
,
This
no
doubte
,
is
the
beginning
of
the
dolorous
complaint
in
the
which
he
first
complayneth
of
the
vniuste
tirannye
that
the
poore
afflicted
Israelites
sustayned
,
during
the
time
of
their
captiuitie
.
True
it
is
that
the
Prophet
was
gathered
to
his
Fathers
in
peace
,
before
that
this
extremitie
apprechended
the
people
.
For
a
hundreth
yeare
after
his
deceasse
,
was
not
the
people
lead
away
captiue
,
yet
he
foreseing
the
assurance
of
the
calamitie
,
did
before
hande
endite
vnto
them
the
complaynt
that
after
they
shoulde
make
.
But
at
the
firste
sight
it
appeareth
that
the
complaint
hath
small
waight
.
For
what
newe
thing
was
it
that
other
Lordes
than
GOD
in
hys
owne
person
ruled
them
,
seeing
that
suche
had
bene
their
regiment
from
the
beginning
.
For
who
knoweth
not
that
Moyses
,
Aaron
,
&
Iosua
,
the
Iudges
,
Samuell
,
Dauid
,
and
other
godly
rulers
,
were
men
,
and
not
God
.
And
so
other
Lordes
than
God
,
ruled
them
in
their
gretest
prosperitie
.
For
the
better
vnderstanding
of
this
complaynte
,
and
of
the
minde
of
the
Prophete
,
we
must
first
obserue
from
whence
al
authoritie
and
dominion
floweth
▪
And
secondly
,
to
what
ende
powers
are
appointed
of
God
.
The
which
two
poynts
being
discussed
,
we
shall
the
better
vnderstande
,
what
Lordes
,
and
what
authority
rules
beside
God
,
and
who
are
they
in
whom
God
and
his
mercifull
presence
rules
.
The
firste
is
resolued
to
vs
by
the
words
of
the
apostle
,
saying
,
There
is
no
power
but
of
God
.
Dauid
bringeth
in
the
eternall
God
speaking
to
Iudges
and
rulers
,
The
end
and
cause
then
,
why
God
prynteth
in
the
weake
and
feble
flesh
of
man
this
Image
of
his
own
power
&
maiesty
,
is
not
to
puffe
vp
flesh
in
opinion
of
it selfe
,
neyther
yet
that
the
heart
of
him
that
is
exalted
aboue
others
,
shall
be
lifted
vp
by
presumption
and
pryde
,
and
so
despise
others
,
but
that
he
shal
consider
that
he
is
appoynted
Lieutenaunt
to
one
,
whose
eyes
continually
watch
vpon
him
,
to
see
and
examine
howe
he
behaueth
himself
in
his
office
,
Of
which
words
it
is
euident
that
the
sword
of
God
is
not
committed
to
the
hande
of
man
,
to
vse
as
it
pleaseth
him
,
but
only
to
punishe
vice
,
and
maintayne
vertue
,
that
men
may
liue
in
such
societie
,
as
before
God
is
acceptable
.
And
this
is
the
very
and
onely
cause
why
God
hath
appoynted
powers
in
this
earth
.
For
such
is
the
furious
rage
of
mans
corrupt
nature
,
that
vnles
seuere
punishment
were
appointed
and
put
in
execution
vpon
malefactours
,
better
it
were
that
man
shoulde
liue
among
brute
and
wilde
beastes
,
than
among
men
.
But
at
this
presente
I
dare
not
enter
into
the
description
of
this
common
place
,
for
so
shuld
I
not
satisfie
the
text
,
which
by
gods
grace
I
purpose
to
absolue
.
This
onely
by
the
way
I
would
,
that
such
as
are
placed
in
authoritie
shoulde
consider
,
whether
they
raygne
and
rule
by
God
,
so
that
God
ruleth
them
,
or
if
they
rule
without
,
besides
and
against
God
,
of
whom
our
Prophet
here
doth
complayne
.
If
any
lust
to
take
trial
of
this
poynt
,
Thesame
is
repeated
to
Iosua
The
first
thing
then
that
god
craueth
of
him
that
is
called
to
the
honor
of
a
king
,
The
second
is
an
vpright
and
willing
minde
to
put
in
execution
suche
things
as
God
commaundeth
in
his
lawe
,
without
declyning
eyther
to
the
right
,
or
left
hande
.
Kings
then
haue
not
an
absolute
power
to
do
in
their
regiment
what
pleaseth
them
,
O
if
Kings
and
Princes
shuld
consider
what
accompt
shall
be
craued
of
them
,
as
well
of
their
ignoraunce
and
misknoweledge
of
Gods
will
,
as
for
the
neglecting
of
their
office
But
nowe
to
returne
to
the
words
of
the
Prophet
.
In
the
person
of
the
whole
people
he
doth
complayne
vnto
God
,
that
the
Babilonians
(
whom
he
calleth
other
Lordes
besydes
God
,
both
bycause
of
their
ignoraunce
of
God
,
and
by
reason
of
their
crueltie
and
inhumanitie
)
hadde
long
ruled
ouer
them
in
all
rigor
,
without
pitie
or
cōcompassion
had
vpon
the
aunciente
men
,
and
famous
matrones
.
For
they
being
mortall
enimies
of
the
people
of
God
,
sought
by
all
meanes
to
aggrauate
their
yoke
,
yea
,
vtterlye
to
haue
exterminate
the
memorie
of
them
and
of
their
religion
,
from
the
face
of
the
earth
.
After
the
first
part
of
this
dolorous
complaynt
,
the
Prophete
declareth
the
protestation
of
the
people
,
saying
,
neuerthelesse
,
onely
in
thee
shall
we
remember
thy
name
(
others
reade
it
,
Put
wee
wyll
remember
thee
onelye
and
thy
name
)
But
in
the
Hebrew
there
is
no
Coniunction
copulatiue
in
that
sentence
.
The
minde
of
the
Prophete
is
playne
,
to
wit
,
that
not
withstanding
the
long
sustayned
affliction
,
the
people
of
God
declyned
not
to
a
false
and
vayne
religion
,
but
remembred
God
that
sometime
appeared
to
them
in
his
mercifull
presence
,
which
albeit
then
they
saw
not
,
yet
would
they
still
remember
his
name
,
that
is
,
they
would
cal
to
minde
the
doctrine
and
promise
which
sometimes
they
hard
,
albeit
in
their
prosperity
,
they
did
not
sufficiently
glorifie
God
,
who
so
mercifully
ruled
in
the
midst
of
them
.
The
temptation
no
doubt
of
the
whole
Isralites
was
gret
in
those
dayes
.
They
were
caryed
captiues
from
the
land
of
Canaan
,
which
was
to
them
the
gage
&
pledge
of
Gods
fauour
towardes
them
.
For
it
was
the
inheritaunce
that
God
promised
to
Abraham
&
to
his
seede
for
euer
.
The
league
&
couenant
of
Gods
protection
appeared
to
haue
beene
broken
.
They
lamentably
complayne
that
they
sawe
not
their
accustomed
signes
of
Gods
merciful
presence
.
The
true
prophets
were
fewe
,
&
the
abhominations
vsed
in
Babylon
were
exceding
many
.
And
so
it
might
haue
apered
to
them
,
that
in
vayne
it
was
,
that
they
were
called
the
posteritie
of
Abraham
,
or
that
euer
they
had
receyued
law
or
form
of
right
religion
from
god
.
That
we
may
the
better
fele
it
in
our selues
,
the
temptation
,
I
say
,
was
euen
such
,
as
if
God
shuld
vtterly
destroy
al
order
&
policy
that
this
day
is
within
his
church
,
that
the
true
preaching
of
the
worde
should
be
suppressed
.
The
right
vse
of
sacraments
abolished
,
Idolatry
&
papistical
abhomination
erected
vp
again
.
And
therwith
,
that
our
bodies
should
be
taken
prisoners
by
Turks
or
other
manifest
enimies
of
God
&
of
al
Godlynesse
▪
Such
I
say
was
their
temptation
.
How
notable
then
is
this
their
confession
that
in
bondage
they
make
,
to
wit
,
that
they
wil
remember
God
onely
,
albeit
he
hath
appeared
to
turne
his
face
from
them
,
they
will
remember
hys
name
,
and
will
cal
to
minde
the
deliuerance
promised
.
Hereof
haue
we
to
consider
what
is
our
duetie
,
if
God
bring
vs
(
as
for
oure
offences
and
vnthankfulnesse
iustely
he
may
)
to
the
like
extremitie
.
This
confession
is
not
the
fayre
flattering
wordes
of
hypocrites
,
lying
and
bathing
in
their
pleasures
,
but
it
is
the
mightye
operation
of
the
spirite
of
God
,
who
leaueth
not
his
owne
destitute
of
some
comfort
in
their
most
desperate
calamities
.
This
people
entreated
as
we
haue
heard
,
was
the
onely
people
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
,
to
whom
God
was
rightly
knowen
,
among
them
onely
were
his
lawes
,
statuts
,
ordinaunces
,
and
sacrifices
vsed
,
and
put
in
practise
.
They
onely
inuocated
his
name
,
and
to
them
alone
,
had
he
promised
his
protection
and
assistance
.
What
then
shoulde
be
the
cause
,
that
he
shoulde
giue
them
ouer
into
this
great
reproche
,
and
bring
them
into
suche
extremitie
,
as
his
owne
name
in
them
shoulde
be
blasphemed
.
The
Prophet
,
Ezekiell
,
that
saw
this
horrible
destruction
forespoke
by
Isaiah
put
in
iust
execution
,
giueth
an
aunswere
,
in
these
wordes
.
Hereof
,
it
is
euident
,
that
their
stubborne
disobedience
vnto
God
and
vnto
the
voyces
of
hys
Prophetes
,
was
the
cause
of
their
destruction
.
Nowe
haue
we
to
take
heede
how
we
should
vse
the
good
lawes
of
God
,
that
is
,
his
mercifull
will
reuealed
vnto
vs
in
his
worde
,
and
that
order
of
iustice
,
that
by
him
for
the
comforte
of
man
is
established
among
men
.
It
is
no
doubt
,
but
that
obedience
,
is
the
moste
acceptable
sacrifice
vnto
God
,
and
that
which
aboue
all
things
he
requireth
,
that
when
he
manifesteth
himselfe
by
hys
worde
,
that
men
follow
according
to
their
vocation
and
commaundement
.
Now
so
it
is
,
that
God
by
that
great
pastor
out
Lorde
Lesus
,
nowe
manifestly
in
his
worde
calleth
vs
from
all
impietie
,
aswell
of
body
,
as
of
minde
;
to
holynesse
of
life
,
and
to
his
spirituall
seruice
.
And
for
this
purpose
,
he
hath
erected
the
throne
of
his
mercy
among
vs
the
true
preaching
of
his
word
,
together
with
the
right
administration
of
his
sacramet
,
but
what
is
our
obedience
.
Let
euery
man
examine
his
owne
conscience
,
and
consider
what
statuts
and
lawes
we
woulde
haue
to
be
giuen
vnto
vs
.
Wouldst
thou
O
Scotland
haue
a
King
to
raigne
ouer
thee
in
iustice
,
equitie
,
and
mercy
?
Subiect
thou
thy selfe
to
the
Lorde
thy
God
,
obey
his
commaundements
,
and
magnifie
thou
that
word
that
calleth
vnto
thee
.
This
is
the
way
,
walke
into
it
,
and
if
thou
wilt
not
,
If
these
calamities
,
I
saye
,
apprehend
vs
so
that
we
see
nothing
,
but
the
oppression
of
good
men
,
and
of
all
godlynesse
,
and
wicked
men
without
God
,
to
raigne
aboue
vs
:
Let
vs
accuse
and
condempne
our selues
,
as
the
onely
cause
of
oure
owne
miseries
.
For
if
we
had
heard
the
voyce
of
the
Lord
our
God
,
&
giuen
vpright
obedience
vnto
the
same
,
God
should
haue
blessed
vs
,
he
shoulde
haue
multiplyed
oure
peace
,
and
shoulde
haue
rewarded
our
obedience
before
the
eyes
of
the
worlde
.
But
nowe
let
vs
heare
what
the
Prophet
sayth
further
.
The
dead
shall
not
liue
,
From
this
.14
.
verse
vnto
the
end
of
the
.19
.
it
apeareh
that
the
Prophet
obserueth
no
order
,
yea
,
that
he
speaketh
thinges
directly
repugning
one
to
another
.
For
first
he
sayth
the
dead
shal
not
liue
.
After
,
he
affirmeth
,
thy
dead
men
shall
lyue
.
Who
,
I
say
,
woulde
not
thinke
,
that
these
are
thinges
not
onely
spoken
forth
of
good
order
and
purpose
,
but
also
manifestly
repugning
one
to
another
.
For
,
to
liue
,
and
not
to
liue
,
to
be
so
destroyed
that
no
memoriall
remaineth
.
And
to
be
so
increased
,
that
the
coastes
of
the
earth
shal
be
replenished
,
seme
to
importe
playne
contradiction
.
For
remouing
of
this
doubt
,
and
for
better
vnderstanding
of
the
Prophetes
minde
,
we
must
vnderstand
that
the
Prophet
had
to
doe
with
diuers
forts
of
men
.
He
had
to
do
with
the
coniured
&
manifest
enimies
of
Gods
people
,
the
Caldes
or
Babilonians
,
euen
suche
as
professe
Christ
Iesus
,
haue
to
doe
with
the
Turke
and
Sarazens
.
He
had
to
doe
with
the
sede
of
Abraham
,
wherof
there
were
three
sorts
.
The
tenne
tribes
all
degenerate
from
the
true
worshipping
,
and
corrupted
with
Idolatry
,
as
this
daye
,
are
our
pestilent
papistes
in
al
realmes
and
nations
.
There
rested
onely
the
tribe
of
Iuda
and
Ierusalem
,
where
the
forme
of
true
religion
was
obserued
,
the
lawe
taught
,
and
ordinaunces
of
god
outwardly
kept
,
but
yet
there
were
in
that
body
(
I
meane
in
the
bosome
of
the
visible
Church
)
a
great
number
that
were
hipocrits
,
as
this
day
yet
are
among
vs
,
that
doe
professe
the
Lorde
Iesus
and
haue
refused
papistrie
,
not
a
fewe
that
were
lycentious
lyuers
,
some
that
had
tourned
their
backe
to
God
,
that
is
had
forsaken
al
true
religion
,
and
some
that
liued
a
most
abhominable
life
,
And
first
after
the
first
part
of
the
complaint
of
the
afflicted
,
as
we
haue
heard
,
in
vehemencie
of
spirite
he
bursteth
forth
against
all
the
proude
enimies
of
Gods
people
,
all
such
as
trouble
them
,
and
against
all
such
as
mocke
and
forsake
God
,
and
sayth
:
the
dead
shal
not
liue
.
The
proud
Giants
shall
not
arise
.
Thou
hast
scattered
them
and
destroyed
their
memoriall
.
In
which
wordes
he
fighteth
against
the
present
temptation
,
and
dolorous
estate
of
Gods
people
,
and
against
the
insolent
pride
of
suche
as
oppressed
them
,
as
the
Prophet
should
say
.
O
ye
troublers
of
Gods
people
,
howsoeuer
it
appeareth
to
you
in
this
your
bloudy
rage
,
that
God
regardeth
not
your
crueltie
,
not
considereth
not
what
violence
ye
doe
to
his
pore
afflicted
,
yet
shal
ye
be
visited
,
yea
,
your
carcases
shal
fal
and
lye
as
stinking
carions
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
,
ye
shal
fal
without
hope
of
life
,
or
of
a
blessed
resurrection
.
Yea
,
howsoeuer
ye
gather
your
substance
&
augment
families
,
ye
shal
be
so
scattered
,
that
ye
shal
leaue
no
memoriall
of
you
to
the
posterities
to
come
,
but
that
which
shal
be
execrable
and
odious
.
Hereof
haue
the
tirauntes
their
admonition
,
&
the
aflicted
church
inestimable
comfort
.
The
tiraunts
that
now
doe
oppresse
,
shal
receiue
the
same
end
that
they
which
haue
passed
before
,
that
is
,
they
shal
dye
and
fal
with
shame
without
hope
of
resurrection
as
is
aforesayd
,
not
that
they
shall
not
arise
to
their
owne
confusion
&
iust
condempnation
,
but
that
they
shal
not
recouer
power
to
trouble
the
seruants
of
God
,
neyther
yet
shal
the
wicked
arise
as
Dauid
sayth
,
in
the
councell
of
the
iust
.
Now
haue
the
wicked
their
councels
,
their
thrones
,
&
finally
handeling
for
the
most
part
of
al
things
that
are
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
,
but
the
pore
seruants
of
God
are
reputed
vnworthy
of
mens
presence
,
yea
they
are
more
vile
before
these
proude
tyraunts
,
than
is
very
dirt
and
mire
that
is
troden
vnder
fote
.
But
in
that
glorious
resurrection
,
this
estate
shal
be
changed
.
For
then
shal
such
as
now
by
their
abhominable
liuing
and
crueltie
,
Let
vs
therefore
in
these
apparant
calamities
(
and
maruell
not
that
I
say
calamities
apparant
,
for
he
that
seeth
not
a
fier
begonne
,
that
shal
burne
more
than
we
loke
for
,
vnlesse
God
of
his
mercye
quench
it
,
is
moore
than
blinde
.
)
Yet
I
say
,
let
vs
not
be
discouraged
,
but
with
vnfained
repentance
,
let
vs
retourne
to
the
Lorde
our
God
,
let
vs
accuse
and
condemne
our
former
negligence
,
and
stedfastly
depende
vpon
his
promised
deliuerance
,
and
so
shal
our
temporal
sorrowes
,
be
conuerted
into
ioye
euerlasting
,
the
doubt
that
might
be
moued
concerning
the
destruction
of
those
whome
God
exalteth
,
shall
be
discussed
if
time
wil
suffer
,
after
that
we
haue
passed
throughout
the
text
.
Now
procedeth
the
Prophet
and
sayth
.
Thou
hast
increased
the
nations
,
Lorde
in
trouble
.
In
these
wordes
the
Prophet
giueth
consolation
to
the
afflicted
,
assuring
them
that
howe
horrible
soeuer
that
desolation
shoulde
be
,
yet
shoulde
the
seede
of
Abraham
be
so
multiplyed
,
that
it
should
replenish
the
coasts
of
the
earth
.
Yea
,
that
God
should
be
more
glorified
in
their
dispersion
,
than
he
was
during
the
time
of
their
prosperity
:
This
promise
no
doubt
was
incredible
when
it
was
made
.
For
who
coulde
haue
bene
persuaded
that
the
destruction
of
Ierusalem
,
should
haue
bene
the
meanes
,
wherby
the
nation
of
the
Iewes
shoulde
haue
bene
increased
,
seing
that
muche
rather
it
appeared
that
the
ouerthrow
of
Ierusalem
,
shoulde
haue
beene
the
verie
abolishing
of
the
seede
of
Ahraham
.
But
we
muste
consider
to
what
ende
it
was
that
God
reuealed
himselfe
to
Abraham
,
and
what
is
contayned
in
the
promise
of
the
multiplication
of
his
seede
,
and
of
the
benediction
promised
therto
.
First
God
reuealed
himselfe
to
Abraham
,
and
that
by
the
meanes
of
his
word
,
to
let
al
flesh
after
vnderstande
,
that
without
God
first
cal
man
,
and
reueale
himselfe
vnto
him
,
that
flesh
can
doe
nothing
but
rebell
against
God
.
For
I
pray
you
,
for
what
purpose
was
it
,
that
Daniel
And
when
the
king
after
,
puffed
vp
in
pride
by
the
counsell
of
his
wicked
nobilitie
,
would
make
an
Image
,
before
the
which
he
would
that
al
tongues
and
nations
subiect
to
him
should
make
adoration
,
&
that
Sydrack
,
Misacke
and
Abednago
,
woulde
not
obey
his
vniust
commaundement
,
&
so
were
cast
in
the
flaming
furnace
of
fyre
,
and
yet
by
Godes
Angels
were
so
preserued
,
that
no
smell
of
fier
remayned
in
their
persons
nor
garments
:
this
same
king
giueth
a
more
notable
confession
,
saying
,
the
Lord
God
of
Sydrack
,
Misack
&
Abednago
is
to
be
praysed
,
who
hath
sent
his
Angels
and
deliuered
his
worshippers
,
that
put
their
trust
in
him
,
who
haue
done
against
the
kings
commaundement
,
who
haue
rather
giuen
their
owne
bodyes
to
torment
,
Thus
we
se
how
God
began
euen
almoste
in
the
beginning
of
their
captiuitye
,
to
notifie
his
name
,
to
multiply
his
knowledge
,
&
set
forth
aswel
his
power
,
as
his
wisedome
&
true
worshipping
,
by
those
that
were
taken
prisoners
,
yea
that
were
dispised
and
of
all
men
contempned
.
so
that
the
name
&
feare
of
the
God
of
Abraham
,
was
neuer
before
notified
to
so
many
realmes
&
nations
.
This
wonderous
worke
of
God
proceeded
from
one
Empire
to
another
.
For
Daniel
being
promoted
to
great
honor
by
Darius
king
of
Perses
and
Medes
,
falleth
into
a
desperat
daunger
.
For
he
was
committed
to
prison
among
Lyons
,
This
knowledge
was
yet
further
increased
in
the
dayes
of
Cyrus
,
who
giuing
freedome
to
the
captiues
to
returne
to
their
owne
natyue
cuntry
,
giueth
this
confession
.
Thus
sayth
Cyrus
the
king
of
Persians
,
all
the
kingdomes
of
the
earth
hath
the
Lorde
God
of
heauen
giuen
vnto
me
,
Wherefore
deare
brethren
,
we
haue
no
small
consolation
,
if
the
estate
of
all
thinges
be
this
daye
rightly
considered
,
we
see
in
what
furie
and
rage
the
worlde
for
the
moste
parte
is
nowe
raised
against
the
pore
Church
of
Iesus
Christ
,
vnto
the
which
,
he
hath
proclaymed
liberty
after
this
feareful
bondage
of
that
spirituall
Babylon
,
in
the
which
we
haue
beene
holden
captiues
of
longer
space
,
than
Israell
was
prisoner
in
Babylon
it selfe
.
For
if
we
shall
consider
vpon
the
one
parte
the
multitude
of
those
that
liue
without
God
:
and
vpon
the
other
parte
,
the
blinde
rage
of
the
pestilent
papistes
,
what
shal
we
think
of
the
small
number
of
them
that
do
professe
Christ
Iesus
,
but
that
they
are
as
a
poore
sheepe
already
seazed
in
the
clawes
of
the
Lyon
,
yea
,
that
they
&
the
true
religion
which
they
professe
,
shall
in
a
moment
vtterly
be
consumed
.
But
against
this
fearefull
temptation
,
let
vs
be
armed
with
the
promise
of
our
god
,
to
wit
,
that
he
wil
be
the
protector
of
his
church
,
yea
that
he
will
multiply
it
,
euen
when
to
mans
iudgement
,
it
appeareth
vtterly
to
be
exterminate
.
This
promise
hath
our
God
performed
in
the
multiplication
of
Abrahams
seede
,
in
preseruation
of
it
when
Sathan
labored
vtterly
to
haue
destroied
it
,
in
deliuerance
of
the
same
as
we
haue
heard
from
Babilon
.
He
hath
sent
his
sonne
Christ
Iesus
clad
in
our
flesh
,
who
hath
tasted
of
all
our
infirmities
,
(
sinne
except
)
who
hath
promised
to
be
with
vs
to
the
ende
of
the
worlde
.
He
hath
further
kept
promise
in
publication
,
yea
in
the
restitution
of
his
gloryous
gospell
.
Shall
we
then
thinke
that
he
will
leaue
his
church
destitute
in
this
moste
daungerous
age
?
Onely
lee
vs
sticke
to
his
truth
and
studye
to
conforme
our
lyues
to
the
same
,
and
he
shall
multiply
his
knowledge
and
increase
his
people
,
but
now
let
vs
heare
what
the
Prophet
sayth
more
.
Lorde
in
trouble
haue
they
visited
thee
,
The
Prophet
meaneth
that
such
as
in
the
time
of
quietnesse
did
not
rightly
regard
God
nor
his
iudgements
,
were
compelled
by
sharpe
corrections
to
seeke
God
,
yea
by
cryes
and
dolorous
complayntes
,
to
visit
him
.
True
it
is
that
suche
obedience
deserueth
small
praise
before
men
,
for
who
can
prayse
or
accept
that
in
good
parte
which
commeth
as
it
were
of
mere
compulsion
.
And
yet
rare
it
is
that
any
of
Gods
children
doe
giue
vnsayned
obedience
vntill
the
hande
of
God
turne
them
.
For
if
quietnesse
and
prosperitie
make
them
not
vtterly
to
forget
their
duety
both
towardes
God
and
man
,
as
Dauid
for
a
season
,
yet
it
maketh
them
carelesse
,
insolent
,
and
in
manye
things
vnmindeful
of
those
things
that
God
chiefly
craueth
of
them
,
which
imperfection
espied
,
and
the
daunger
that
thereof
might
ensewe
,
our
heauenly
father
visiteth
the
sinnes
of
his
children
,
but
in
the
rodde
of
his
mercye
,
by
the
which
they
are
moued
to
retourne
to
their
God
,
to
accuse
their
former
negligence
,
and
to
promise
better
obedience
in
all
times
therafter
,
But
yet
for
the
better
understanding
of
the
Prophetes
minde
,
we
may
consider
how
God
doth
visit
man
,
and
howe
man
doth
visit
God
,
and
what
difference
there
is
,
betwixt
the
visitation
of
God
vpon
the
reprobate
,
and
his
visitation
vpon
the
chosen
.
God
sometymes
visiteth
the
reprobate
in
his
hote
displeasure
,
pouring
vpon
them
his
plagues
for
their
long
rebellion
,
as
we
haue
heard
before
,
that
he
visited
the
proud
,
and
destroyed
their
memorie
.
Other
tymes
,
God
is
sayde
to
visit
his
people
being
in
affliction
,
to
whome
he
sendeth
comforte
or
promise
of
deliuerance
,
as
he
did
visit
the
seede
of
Abraham
,
being
oppressed
in
Egipt
:
and
Zacharie
sayth
,
that
God
had
visited
his
people
and
sent
vnto
them
hope
of
deliueraunce
,
when
Iohn
the
Baptist
,
was
borne
.
But
of
none
of
these
visitations
speaketh
our
Prophet
here
,
but
of
that
onely
which
we
haue
already
touched
,
to
wit
,
when
that
God
layeth
his
correction
vpon
his
owne
children
,
to
call
them
from
the
venemous
beastes
of
this
corrupt
worlde
,
that
they
sucke
not
in
ouer
greate
haboundance
,
the
poyson
therof
,
&
doth
as
it
were
,
weane
them
,
from
their
mothers
paps
,
that
they
may
learne
to
receyue
other
norishment
.
True
it
is
that
this
weaning
(
or
spaning
as
we
terme
it
)
from
worldly
pleasure
,
is
a
thing
straunge
to
the
flesh
,
and
yet
it
is
a
thing
so
necessary
to
Gods
children
,
that
onlesse
they
be
weaned
from
the
pleasures
of
the
world
,
they
can
neuer
feede
vpon
that
delectable
milke
of
Gods
eternall
veritie
.
For
the
corruption
of
the
one
doth
eyther
hinder
the
other
to
be
receyued
,
or
else
so
trobleth
the
whole
powers
of
man
,
that
the
soule
can
neuer
so
digest
the
truth
of
God
,
as
that
he
ought
to
doe
.
Albeit
this
appeareth
harde
,
yet
it
is
most
euident
.
For
what
liquor
can
we
receyue
from
the
breasts
of
the
world
,
but
that
which
is
in
the
worlde
,
and
what
that
is
,
the
Apostle
Iohn
teacheth
,
Now
so
it
is
that
willingly
fleshe
can
neuer
refuse
these
forenamed
,
but
rather
still
delyghteth
it selfe
in
euery
one
of
them
,
yea
,
in
them
all
as
the
examples
are
but
to
euident
.
It
behoueth
therefore
that
God
himself
shal
violently
pul
his
children
from
these
venemous
breasts
,
that
when
they
lacke
the
liquor
&
poyson
of
the
one
▪
they
may
visit
him
and
learne
to
be
nourished
of
him
.
Oh
if
the
eies
of
worldly
Princes
shoulde
be
opened
,
that
they
might
see
with
what
humor
and
lyquor
their
soules
are
fed
,
while
that
their
whole
delight
consisteth
in
pryde
,
ambition
,
and
lustes
of
the
stinking
flesh
.
We
vnderstande
then
how
God
doth
visite
men
,
aswell
by
his
seuere
iudgementes
,
as
by
his
mercifull
visitation
of
deliuerance
from
trouble
or
by
bringing
trouble
vpon
his
chosen
for
their
humiliation
.
And
now
it
res●●th
to
vnderstand
howe
man
visiteth
God
:
man
doth
visite
God
,
when
he
appeareth
in
his
presence
,
be
it
to
the
hearing
of
his
worde
,
or
to
the
participation
of
his
sacramentes
,
as
the
people
of
Israell
,
besides
the
obseruation
of
their
Sabothes
and
dayly
oblations
were
commaunded
thrice
a
yeare
to
present
them selues
before
the
presence
of
the
tabernacle
,
and
as
we
doe
,
as
often
as
we
present
our selues
to
the
hearing
of
the
worde
.
For
there
is
the
fotestole
,
yea
,
there
is
the
face
and
throne
of
God
himself
,
whersoeuer
the
gospell
of
Iesus
Christ
is
truely
preached
,
and
his
sacraments
rightly
ministred
.
But
men
maye
on
this
sort
visite
God
hipocritically
,
for
they
maye
come
for
the
fashion
,
they
maye
heare
with
deafe
eares
,
yea
they
may
vnderstand
,
and
yet
neuer
determyne
with
themselues
to
obey
that
,
which
God
requyreth
.
And
let
such
men
be
assured
that
he
(
who
searcheth
the
secrets
of
hearts
)
wil
be
auenged
of
al
such
.
For
nothing
can
be
to
God
more
odyous
,
than
to
mock
him
in
is
owne
presence
.
Let
euery
man
therefore
examine
himselfe
,
with
what
minde
,
and
what
purpose
,
he
commeth
to
heare
the
worde
of
God
,
yea
with
what
care
he
heareth
it
,
and
what
testimonie
his
heart
giueth
vnto
him
,
when
that
God
commaundeth
vertue
,
and
forbiddeth
impietie
.
Repinest
thou
when
God
requireth
obedience
?
Thou
hearest
to
thine
owne
condempnation
.
Mockest
thou
at
Gods
threatenings
?
Thou
shalt
feele
the
weight
and
truth
of
them
,
albeit
to
late
,
when
flesh
&
bloude
cannot
deliuer
thee
from
his
hande
.
But
the
visitation
(
wherof
our
Prophet
speaketh
,
)
is
only
proper
to
the
sonnes
of
God
,
who
in
the
tyme
when
God
taketh
from
them
the
pleasures
of
the
world
,
or
sheweth
his
angry
countenaunce
vnto
them
,
haue
their
recourse
vnto
him
,
and
confessing
their
former
negligence
with
troubled
hearts
cry
for
his
mercy
.
This
visitation
is
not
proper
to
all
afflicted
,
but
appertaineth
onely
to
Gods
children
.
For
the
reprobate
can
neuer
haue
accesse
to
Goddes
mercye
in
time
of
their
tribulation
,
and
that
bicause
they
abuse
as
well
his
long
pacience
,
as
the
manifolde
benefits
they
receiue
from
his
handes
.
For
as
the
same
Prophet
heretofore
sayth
,
let
the
wicked
obtaine
mercy
,
yet
shal
he
neuer
learne
wisedome
,
but
in
the
lande
of
righteousnesse
,
that
is
where
the
very
knowledge
of
God
aboundeth
,
he
will
doe
wickedly
,
which
is
a
cryme
aboue
all
others
abhominable
.
For
to
what
ende
is
it
that
God
erecteth
his
throne
among
vs
?
but
for
that
we
shoulde
feare
him
.
Why
doth
he
reueale
his
holy
will
vnto
vs
?
but
that
we
shoulde
obey
it
.
Why
doth
he
deliuer
vs
from
trouble
?
but
that
we
shuld
be
witnesses
vnto
the
world
,
that
he
is
gracious
,
and
mercifull
.
Nowe
when
that
men
hearing
their
duety
&
knowing
what
God
requireth
of
them
doe
malepertly
fight
against
al
equitie
and
iustice
,
what
I
pray
you
doe
they
else
but
make
manifest
warre
against
God
,
yea
when
they
haue
receiued
from
God
suche
deliuerance
,
that
they
cannot
deny
,
but
that
God
himselfe
hath
in
his
great
mercye
visited
them
,
and
yet
that
they
continew
wicked
euen
as
before
.
What
deserue
they
?
but
effectually
to
be
giuen
ouer
into
a
reprobate
sence
,
that
hedlong
they
may
runne
to
ruine
both
of
body
and
soule
.
It
is
almost
incredible
that
man
should
be
so
enraged
against
God
,
that
neyther
his
plagues
,
nor
yet
his
mercy
shewed
,
should
moue
them
to
repentaunce
,
but
bicause
the
scriptures
beareth
witnesse
of
the
one
,
and
the
other
.
Let
vs
cease
to
meruell
,
and
let
vs
firmely
beleue
that
such
things
as
haue
bene
,
are
euen
presently
before
our
eyes
,
albeit
,
manye
blinded
by
affection
can
not
see
them
.
Ahab
as
in
the
boke
of
the
kings
is
written
,
receyued
many
notable
benefits
of
the
hande
of
God
,
who
did
visit
him
in
diuers
sortes
,
some
tymes
by
his
plagues
,
sometimes
by
his
worde
,
and
sometymes
by
his
merciful
deliuerance
.
He
made
him
King
:
and
for
the
Idolatry
vsed
by
him
and
by
his
wife
,
he
plagued
whole
Israell
by
famyne
.
He
reuealed
to
him
his
will
and
true
religion
by
the
Prophet
Helias
,
he
gaue
vnto
him
sundry
deliuerances
,
but
one
moste
speciall
,
when
proude
Benhadab
came
to
besiege
Samaria
,
and
was
not
content
to
receiue
Ahabs
gold
,
siluer
,
sonnes
,
daughters
,
and
wyues
,
but
also
required
,
that
his
seruaunts
shoulde
haue
at
their
pleasure
whatsoeuer
was
delectable
in
Samaria
:
true
it
is
,
that
his
elders
,
and
people
willed
him
not
to
heare
the
proude
tirant
.
But
who
made
vnto
him
the
promise
of
deliuerance
?
and
who
appointed
and
put
his
armye
in
order
,
who
assured
him
of
victorie
.
The
Prophet
of
God
onely
,
who
assured
him
,
that
by
the
seruantes
of
the
Princes
of
the
prouinces
,
who
in
number
were
onely
232
he
should
deface
that
great
armie
,
in
the
which
there
were
.32
.
Kings
with
all
their
forces
:
As
the
Prophete
of
God
promised
,
so
it
came
to
passe
.
Victorie
was
obtained
,
not
once
only
,
but
twice
,
and
that
by
the
mercifull
visitation
of
the
Lorde
.
But
howe
did
Ahab
visite
God
againe
▪
for
his
great
benefit
receyued
.
Did
he
remoue
his
Idolatry
,
did
he
correct
his
Idolatrous
wife
Iesabel
?
No
we
find
no
such
thing
,
but
the
one
,
and
the
other
,
we
find
to
haue
continued
&
increased
informer
impietie
.
Lyke
as
a
woman
(
sayth
he
)
with
childe
that
draweth
neere
to
the
trauayle
,
Saluations
were
not
made
to
the
earth
,
neyther
,
This
is
the
seconde
parte
of
the
Prophets
complaint
,
in
the
which
he
in
the
person
of
Gods
people
complayneth
,
that
of
their
great
affliction
there
appeared
no
ende
.
This
same
similitude
is
vsed
by
our
master
Iesus
Christ
,
The
Prophet
first
fighteth
against
the
present
desperation
.
First
fighting
against
the
present
desperation
,
The
Prophere
here
pierseth
throughe
all
impedimentes
that
nature
coulde
obiect
.
And
by
the
victorie
of
faith
,
he
ouercommeth
,
not
onely
the
common
enimies
;
but
the
great
and
last
enimie
of
al
,
to
wit
,
death
it self
.
For
this
would
he
say
,
Lorde
I
see
nothing
to
thy
chosen
,
but
miserie
,
to
follow
miserie
,
and
one
affliction
to
succede
another
,
yea
in
the
ende
I
see
,
that
death
shal
deuour
thy
dearest
children
.
But
yet
,
O
Lorde
,
I
see
thy
promise
to
be
true
,
and
thy
loue
to
remaine
towards
thy
chosen
,
euen
when
death
appeareth
to
haue
deuoured
them
.
For
thy
deade
shall
liue
,
yea
not
onely
shall
they
liue
,
but
my
verie
dead
carcasse
shall
arise
.
And
so
I
see
honor
and
glory
to
succede
this
temporall
shame
.
I
see
ioye
permanent
to
come
after
trouble
,
order
to
spring
out
of
this
terrible
confusion
,
and
finallye
,
I
see
that
lyfe
shal
deuoure
death
,
so
that
death
shall
be
destroyed
,
and
so
thy
seruauntes
shall
haue
lyfe
.
This
I
say
is
the
victorie
of
faith
,
when
in
the
middest
of
deathe
throughout
the
light
of
Goddes
worde
the
afflicted
see
lyfe
:
Hipocrites
in
the
tyme
of
quietnesse
&
prosperitie
can
generally
confesse
that
God
is
true
in
his
promises
,
but
bring
them
to
the
extremitie
,
and
there
ceasseth
the
hipocrite
further
to
trust
in
God
than
he
seeth
naturall
meanes
whereby
God
vseth
to
worke
.
But
the
true
faithfull
,
when
all
hope
of
naturall
meanes
fayleth
,
then
flye
they
to
God
himselfe
,
and
to
the
truth
of
his
promise
,
who
is
aboue
nature
,
yea
whose
workes
are
not
so
subiect
to
the
ordinarie
course
of
nature
,
that
when
nature
fayloth
,
his
power
and
promise
fayle
also
therwith
.
Let
vs
further
observe
that
the
Prophete
here
speaketh
not
of
all
deade
in
generall
,
but
sayth
,
thy
dead
O
Lorde
shall
liue
.
In
which
wordes
he
maketh
difference
betwixt
those
that
dye
in
the
Lorde
,
and
those
that
dye
in
their
naturall
corruption
and
in
olde
Adam
.
Die
in
the
Lord
can
none
except
those
that
liue
in
him
(
I
meane
of
those
that
attaine
to
the
yeares
of
discretion
)
and
none
liue
in
him
,
except
those
that
with
the
Apostle
can
say
I
liue
,
not
I
but
Christ
Iesus
liueth
in
me
.
The
lyfe
that
now
I
liue
,
I
haue
by
the
faith
of
the
sonne
of
God
.
The
Prophet
transferreth
all
the
promises
of
God
to
him selfe
,
saying
,
Euen
my
dead
body
shal
arise
,
and
imediately
after
,
giueth
commaundement
&
charge
to
the
dwellers
in
the
dust
,
that
is
,
to
the
dead
carcasses
of
those
that
were
departed
(
for
the
spirit
and
soule
of
man
dwelleth
not
in
the
dust
)
that
they
should
awake
,
they
should
sing
and
reioyce
.
For
they
should
arise
and
spring
vp
from
the
earth
,
euen
as
the
herbes
doe
,
after
they
haue
receyued
the
dew
from
aboue
.
Tyme
will
not
suffer
that
these
particulars
be
so
largely
intreated
,
as
they
merit
,
&
as
I
gladly
would
,
And
therefore
let
vs
first
consider
,
that
the
Prophet
in
transferring
the
power
and
promise
of
God
to
him self
,
doth
not
vendicate
to
himself
,
any
perticular
prerogatiue
aboue
the
people
of
God
,
as
that
he
alone
should
liue
and
arise
,
and
not
they
also
.
But
he
doth
it
to
let
them
vnderstande
that
he
taught
a
doctrine
whereof
he
was
certayne
,
yea
and
whereof
they
shoulde
haue
experience
after
his
death
.
As
he
should
say
,
my
words
appeare
to
you
now
to
be
incredible
,
but
the
daye
shall
come
,
that
I
shal
be
taken
from
you
,
my
carcas
shall
be
inclosed
in
the
bosome
of
the
earth
,
and
therfore
shall
ye
be
ledde
away
captiues
to
Babylon
,
where
ye
shall
remayne
many
dayes
and
yeares
,
as
it
were
buryed
in
your
sepulchres
.
But
then
cal
to
minde
that
I
sayd
vnto
you
before
hand
that
my
body
shall
arise
.
Euen
so
shall
ye
rise
from
your
graues
out
of
Babylon
,
and
be
restored
to
your
owne
cuntry
and
citie
of
Ierusalem
.
This
I
doubt
not
,
is
the
true
meaning
of
the
Prophet
.
The
charge
that
he
giueth
to
the
dwellers
in
the
dust
,
is
to
expresse
the
power
of
Goddes
worde
.
Whereby
,
he
not
onely
giueth
life
where
death
appa●antly
had
preuayled
,
but
also
by
it
he
calleth
things
that
are
not
,
euen
as
if
they
were
.
Ture
it
is
that
the
Prophete
Isaiah
sawe
not
the
destruction
of
Ierusalem
,
much
lesse
could
he
se
the
restitution
of
it
with
his
corporall
eyes
,
but
he
leaueth
this
,
as
it
were
,
in
testament
with
them
,
that
when
they
were
in
the
extremitie
of
all
bondage
,
they
should
call
to
minde
what
the
Prophet
of
God
had
before
spoken
.
And
lest
that
his
doctrine
,
and
this
promise
of
God
made
vnto
them
by
his
mouth
,
shoulde
haue
bene
forgotten
(
as
we
are
euer
prone
and
ready
to
forget
Gods
promises
when
we
are
pressed
with
anye
sorrow
)
God
raysed
vp
vnto
them
in
the
midst
of
calamitie
his
Prophet
Ezechiell
,
vnto
whome
among
manye
other
visions
he
gaue
this
.
The
hande
of
the
Lorde
first
ledde
him
in
a
place
which
was
ful
of
dry
and
dispersed
bones
.
This
vision
I
say
,
giuen
to
the
Prophete
,
and
by
the
Prophete
preached
to
the
people
when
they
thought
that
God
had
vtterly
forgoten
them
,
compelled
them
more
diligently
to
aduert
,
what
the
former
Prophetes
had
spoken
.
It
is
no
doubt
,
but
they
caryed
with
them
both
the
prophecie
of
Isaiah
and
Ieremie
,
so
that
the
Prophete
Ezechiel
is
a
commentarie
to
these
wordes
of
Isaiah
,
where
he
sayth
,
thy
dead
O
Lorde
shall
liue
,
with
my
body
they
shall
arise
.
The
Prophet
bringeth
in
this
similitude
of
the
deawe
,
to
aunswere
vnto
that
part
of
their
fidelitie
,
who
can
beleue
no
further
of
Gods
promises
,
than
they
are
able
to
apprehende
by
naturall
iudgement
.
As
he
wold
say
,
think
ye
this
impossible
,
that
God
shall
giue
lyfe
vnto
you
and
bring
you
to
an
estate
of
a
common
wealth
agayne
,
after
that
ye
be
dead
,
and
as
it
were
rased
from
the
face
of
the
earth
.
But
why
doe
ye
not
consider
what
God
worketh
from
yeare
to
yeare
in
the
order
of
nature
,
sometimes
ye
see
the
face
of
the
earth
decked
and
beautified
with
herbes
,
floures
,
grasse
,
and
fruites
.
Againe
ye
see
the
same
vtterlye
taken
awaye
by
stormes
and
vehemencie
of
the
winter
.
What
doth
God
to
replenishe
the
earth
againe
,
and
to
restore
the
beauty
thereof
.
He
sendeth
downe
his
small
and
soft
dewe
,
the
droppes
whereof
in
their
descending
,
are
neyther
great
nor
visible
,
and
yet
thereby
are
the
pores
and
secrete
vaynes
of
the
earth
,
which
before
by
vehemencie
of
frost
and
colde
were
shut
vp
,
opened
againe
.
And
so
doth
the
earth
produce
againe
the
like
herbes
,
floures
,
and
fruits
.
Shal
ye
then
thinke
?
that
the
dew
of
Gods
heauenly
grace
shall
not
be
as
effectuall
in
you
to
whome
he
hath
made
his
promise
,
as
that
it
is
in
the
herbes
and
fruites
that
from
yeare
to
yeare
buddeth
forth
and
decayeth
?
if
ye
doe
so
the
Prophet
would
say
your
incredibility
is
inexcusable
,
bicause
ye
doe
neyther
rightlye
waighe
the
power
nor
the
promise
of
your
God
.
The
like
similitude
vseth
the
Apostle
Paule
against
such
as
called
the
resurrection
in
doubt
,
bicause
that
by
naturall
iudgement
they
coulde
not
apprehende
that
fleshe
once
putryfied
and
resolued
,
as
it
were
in
other
substance
shoulde
arise
againe
and
retourne
againe
to
the
same
substance
&
nature
.
Now
if
the
power
of
God
be
so
manifest
in
raysing
vp
of
the
fruits
of
the
earth
,
vnto
the
which
no
particuler
promise
is
made
by
god
,
what
shal
be
his
power
and
vertue
in
raysing
vp
of
our
bodyes
,
seeing
that
thereto
he
is
bound
by
the
solempne
promise
of
Iesus
Christ
his
eternall
wisdome
,
and
the
veritie
it selfe
that
can
not
lye
,
yea
,
seeing
that
the
members
must
once
comm●nicate
with
the
glorye
of
the
head
,
howe
shall
our
bodyes
which
are
flesh
of
his
flesh
and
bone
of
his
bones
he
stil
for
euer
in
corruption
,
Nowe
of
the
former
wordes
of
the
Prophet
we
haue
to
gather
this
comforte
,
that
if
at
anye
tyme
we
shal
see
the
face
of
the
church
with
in
this
realmeso
defaced
(
as
I
think
it
shall
be
soner
than
we
looke
for
)
when
we
shall
see
,
I
say
,
vertue
to
be
dispised
,
vice
to
be
mayntayned
,
the
veritie
of
God
to
be
impugned
,
lyes
and
mens
inuentions
,
holden
in
aucthoritie
,
and
finally
when
we
shall
see
the
true
religion
of
our
God
,
and
zelous
obseruers
of
the
same
,
to
be
troden
vnder
the
feete
of
suche
as
in
their
heart
saye
there
is
no
God
:
But
nowe
let
vs
heare
howe
the
Prophete
proceedeth
,
Come
(
sayth
he
,
)
thou
my
people
enter
within
thy
chambers
,
shut
thy
dore
after
thee
,
hide
thy selfe
a
very
little
while
vntil
the
indingnation
passe
ouer
.
Here
the
Prophet
bringeth
in
God
amiably
calling
vpon
his
people
to
come
to
himselfe
,
and
to
rest
with
him
vnto
suche
time
as
the
furie
&
sharpe
plagues
should
be
executed
vpon
the
wicked
and
inobedient
.
It
maye
appeare
at
the
first
sight
,
that
all
these
words
of
the
Prophet
in
the
person
of
God
calling
the
people
vnto
rest
,
are
spoken
in
vaine
.
For
we
neyther
finde
chambers
nor
rest
more
prepared
for
the
dearest
children
of
God
(
so
farre
as
mans
iudgement
can
discerne
)
than
there
was
for
the
rebellious
and
inobedient
.
For
such
as
fel
not
in
the
edge
of
the
sworde
,
or
dyed
not
of
pestilence
,
or
by
hunger
,
were
eyther
caryed
captiues
into
Babylon
,
or
else
departed
after
into
Egipt
,
so
that
none
of
Abrahams
feede
,
had
eyther
chamber
or
quiet
place
to
remayne
within
the
lande
of
Canaan
.
For
the
resolution
hereof
we
must
vnderstand
that
albert
the
chambers
whereunto
God
called
his
chosen
,
be
not
visible
.
Yet
notwithstanding
they
are
certaine
,
&
offer
vnto
Gods
children
quiet
habitation
in
spirite
,
howsoeuer
the
flesh
be
trauayled
and
tormented
.
The
chambers
are
then
Goddes
sure
promises
,
vnto
the
which
gods
people
is
commaunded
to
resorte
,
yea
within
the
which
they
are
cōinaunded
to
close
them selues
in
the
time
of
greatest
aduersitie
.
The
maner
of
speaking
is
borowed
from
that
iudgement
&
foresight
,
which
God
hath
printed
in
this
our
nature
.
For
whe
!
that
men
espie
great
tempestes
appearing
to
come
,
willingly
,
they
will
not
remayne
vncouered
vpon
the
fields
,
but
straight
way
,
they
will
drawe
them
to
their
houses
or
holdes
,
that
they
maye
escape
the
vehemency
of
the
same
.
And
if
they
feare
any
enimy
to
pursue
them
,
they
wil
shut
their
dores
,
to
the
ende
that
sodainely
the
enimie
shall
not
haue
entry
.
After
this
same
maner
God
speaketh
to
his
people
,
as
he
shoulde
saye
,
the
tempest
that
shall
come
vpon
this
whole
nation
shall
be
so
terrible
,
that
nothing
shall
appeare
but
extermination
to
come
vpon
the
whole
bodye
.
But
thou
my
people
,
thou
I
saye
,
that
hearest
my
worde
,
beleuest
the
same
,
and
tremblest
at
the
threatenings
of
my
Prophetes
,
now
when
the
world
doth
insolently
resist
,
let
such
I
say
,
enter
within
the
secrete
chamber
of
my
promises
.
Let
them
conteyne
themselues
quietly
there
,
yea
let
them
shut
the
dore
vpon
them
,
and
suffer
not
infidelitie
,
the
mortall
enimie
of
my
truth
and
of
my
people
that
depend
therupon
,
to
haue
free
entrie
to
trouble
(
yea
rather
to
murther
)
my
promise
.
And
so
shall
they
perceyue
that
my
indignation
shall
passe
,
and
that
such
as
depend
vpon
me
,
shall
be
saued
.
Thus
we
may
perceyue
the
meaning
of
the
Prophete
.
Whereof
we
haue
first
to
obserue
,
that
God
acknowledgeth
them
for
his
people
,
that
are
in
greatest
affliction
,
yea
such
as
are
reputed
vnworthy
of
mens
presence
,
are
yet
admitted
with
the
secrete
chamber
of
God
.
Let
no
man
thinke
that
fleshe
and
bloude
can
sodaynely
attayne
to
that
comfort
,
&
therfore
most
expedient
it
is
,
that
we
be
frequentlye
exercised
in
meditation
of
thesame
.
Easie
it
is
I
graunt
in
time
of
prosperitie
,
to
saye
and
to
thinke
,
that
God
is
our
God
,
and
that
we
are
his
people
.
But
when
he
hath
giuen
vs
ouer
in
the
handes
of
oure
enimies
,
and
tourned
(
as
it
were
)
his
back
vnto
vs
,
then
I
say
,
stil
to
reclayme
him
to
be
our
God
,
and
to
haue
this
assurance
that
we
are
his
people
,
procedeth
wholly
from
the
holy
spirite
of
God
,
This
doctrine
we
shall
not
think
straunge
,
if
we
shal
consider
how
sodainely
our
spirites
are
caryed
away
from
our
God
,
and
from
beleuing
his
promise
,
so
sone
as
anye
great
temptation
doth
apprehend
vs
,
then
begin
we
to
doubt
if
euer
we
beleued
Gods
promises
,
if
God
will
fullfill
them
to
vs
,
if
we
abide
in
his
fauour
,
if
he
regardeth
and
loketh
vpon
the
violence
and
iniurie
that
is
done
vnto
vs
,
and
a
multitude
of
suche
cogitations
,
which
before
lurked
quietlye
in
our
corrupted
heartes
,
burst
violently
forth
when
we
are
oppressed
with
any
desperate
calamitie
.
Against
the
which
,
this
is
the
remedie
,
once
to
apprehend
and
still
to
retayne
,
God
to
be
our
God
,
and
firmelye
to
beleue
,
that
we
are
his
people
whome
he
loueth
,
and
will
defende
,
not
onely
in
affliction
,
but
euen
in
the
middest
of
death
it selfe
.
Secondly
let
vs
obserue
,
that
the
iudgements
of
our
God
neuer
were
,
nor
yet
shall
be
so
vehement
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
,
but
that
there
hath
bene
and
shall
be
some
secrete
habitation
prepared
in
the
sanctuary
of
God
for
some
of
his
chosen
,
where
they
shall
be
preserued
vntill
the
indignation
passe
by
,
and
that
God
prepareth
a
tyme
,
that
they
maye
glorifie
him
againe
before
the
face
of
the
worlde
,
that
sometimes
despised
them
:
and
this
ought
to
be
vnto
vs
no
small
comfort
in
these
appearing
daungers
,
to
wit
,
that
we
be
surely
persuaded
that
howe
vehement
that
euer
the
tempest
shal
be
,
that
it
yet
shall
passe
ouer
,
and
some
of
vs
shall
be
preserued
to
glorifie
the
name
of
oure
God
as
is
aforesaide
.
Two
vices
lurke
in
this
our
nature
,
the
one
is
,
that
we
can
not
tremble
at
Gods
threatninges
before
that
the
plagues
apprehende
vs
,
albeit
that
we
see
cause
moste
iust
why
that
his
fierce
wrath
shuld
burne
as
a
deuouring
fire
.
The
other
is
,
that
when
calamities
before
pronounced
fal
vpon
vs
,
then
begin
we
to
sincke
downe
in
desperation
,
so
that
we
neuer
loke
for
any
comfortable
end
of
the
same
.
To
correct
this
our
mortall
infirmitie
in
time
of
quietnesse
,
we
ought
to
consider
what
is
the
iustice
of
our
God
,
and
howe
odious
sinne
is
.
And
aboue
all
other
,
how
odyous
Idolatry
is
in
his
presence
who
hath
forbidden
it
,
and
who
hath
so
seuerelye
punished
it
in
all
ages
from
the
beginning
.
And
in
the
tyme
of
our
affliction
we
ought
to
consider
,
what
haue
beene
the
wonderous
workes
of
our
God
in
preseruation
of
his
churche
,
when
it
hath
bene
in
vttermost
extremitie
.
For
neuer
shall
we
finde
the
church
humbled
vnder
the
hands
of
tirantes
and
cruellye
tormented
by
them
,
but
therewith
we
shall
finde
Goddes
iuste
vengeance
to
fall
vpon
the
cru●ell
persecuters
,
and
his
merciful
deliuerance
to
be
shewed
to
the
afflicted
▪
And
in
taking
of
this
tryall
,
we
shoulde
not
onely
cal
to
minde
the
histories
of
auncient
times
,
but
also
we
should
diligentlye
marke
what
notable
workes
God
hath
wrought
euen
in
this
our
age
,
aswell
vpon
the
one
,
as
vpon
the
other
.
We
ought
not
to
thinke
that
oure
God
beareth
lesse
loue
to
his
church
this
daye
,
than
that
he
hath
done
from
the
beginning
.
For
as
our
God
in
his
owne
nature
is
immutable
,
so
remayneth
his
loue
towardes
his
elect
,
alwaies
vnchangeable
This
sawe
that
notable
seruaunt
of
Iesus
Christ
Athanasius
,
Such
shall
be
the
ende
of
all
cruell
persecuters
,
their
raigne
shal
be
short
their
ende
miserable
,
&
their
name
shall
be
left
in
execratoni
to
Goddes
people
.
And
yet
shall
the
Church
of
God
remayne
to
Gods
glory
after
all
stormes
.
But
nowe
shortely
let
vs
come
to
the
laste
point
.
For
behold
saith
the
Prophet
,
The
Prophet
bringeth
forth
the
eternall
God
,
as
it
were
from
his
owne
place
and
habitation
,
and
therewith
sheweth
the
cause
of
his
comming
to
be
,
that
he
may
take
accompt
of
al
such
as
haue
wrought
wickedlye
,
for
that
he
meaneth
,
where
that
he
sayth
:
He
will
visite
the
iniquitie
of
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
vpon
them
.
And
lest
that
any
shoulde
think
that
the
wrong
doers
are
so
manye
that
they
can
not
be
called
vnto
accompt
,
he
giueth
vnto
the
earth
as
it
were
an
office
and
charge
to
beare
witnesse
against
al
those
that
haue
wrought
wickedly
,
and
chiefly
,
against
those
that
haue
shed
innocent
bloud
from
the
beginning
.
And
saith
,
that
the
earth
shall
disclose
her
bloude
,
and
shall
no
more
hide
her
slayne
men
.
Yf
the
tirants
of
the
earth
&
such
as
delight
in
shedding
of
bloude
should
be
persuaded
that
this
sentence
is
true
,
they
shoulde
not
so
furiouslye
come
to
their
owne
destruction
.
For
what
man
can
be
so
enraged
,
that
he
woulde
willingly
doe
euen
before
the
eyes
of
God
,
that
which
might
prouoke
his
maiestie
to
anger
.
Yea
prouoke
him
to
become
his
enimy
for
euer
,
if
that
he
vnderstode
how
fearful
a
thing
it
is
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
liuing
God
.
The
cause
then
of
this
blind
furie
of
the
world
,
is
the
ignorance
of
God
,
and
that
men
thinke
that
God
is
but
an
Idoll
,
and
that
there
is
no
knowledge
aboue
,
that
beholdeth
their
tirannie
,
neither
yet
iustice
that
will
,
nor
power
that
maye
represse
their
impietie
.
But
yet
the
spirite
of
truth
doth
witnesse
,
the
contrary
,
affirming
,
that
as
the
eyes
of
the
Lorde
are
vpon
the
iust
,
We
haue
to
consider
what
moste
commonly
hath
beene
,
and
what
shal
be
the
condition
of
the
church
of
God
,
to
wit
,
that
it
is
not
onelye
hated
,
mocked
,
and
dispised
,
but
that
it
is
exposed
,
as
it
were
in
a
pray
,
vnto
the
furie
of
the
wicked
,
so
that
the
bloud
of
the
children
of
God
,
And
if
any
thinke
it
strange
that
such
as
liue
this
daye
,
can
be
giltie
of
the
bloude
that
was
shed
in
the
dayes
of
the
Apostles
.
Let
them
consider
that
the
veritie
it selfe
pronounced
,
that
all
the
bloude
that
was
shedde
from
the
dayes
of
Abel
vnto
the
dayes
of
Zacharie
should
come
vpon
that
vnthankefull
generation
,
that
heard
his
doctrine
,
and
refused
it
.
The
reason
is
euident
,
for
as
there
is
two
heads
and
and
captaines
that
rule
vpon
the
whole
worlde
,
to
wit
,
Iesus
Christ
,
the
Prince
of
iustice
and
peace
,
&
Sathan
,
called
the
Prince
of
the
worlde
,
so
are
they
but
two
armies
,
that
hath
continued
battaile
from
the
beginning
,
and
shall
fight
vnto
the
ende
.
The
quarell
is
one
which
the
armie
of
Iesus
Christ
susteine
,
which
the
reprobate
doe
persecute
,
to
wit
,
the
eternal
truth
of
the
eternall
God
,
and
the
image
of
Iesus
Christ
,
printed
in
his
elect
,
so
that
whosoeuer
in
any
age
persecuteth
any
one
member
of
Iesus
Christ
for
his
truth
sake
,
subscribeth
as
it
were
with
his
hande
,
the
persecution
of
all
that
haue
passed
before
him
.
And
this
ought
the
tirantes
of
this
age
deepely
to
consider
,
for
they
shal
be
giltye
not
only
of
the
bloud
shed
by
themselues
,
but
of
al
(
as
saide
is
)
that
hath
bene
shed
for
the
cause
of
Iesus
Christ
from
the
beginning
of
the
worlde
.
Let
the
faithfull
not
be
discouraged
although
they
be
appointed
as
shepe
to
the
slaughter
house
,
for
he
,
for
whose
sake
they
suffer
,
shal
not
forget
to
reuenge
their
cause
.
I
am
not
ignoraunt
that
fleshe
and
bloude
will
thinke
that
kinde
of
suporte
,
too
too
late
.
For
we
had
rather
be
preserued
stil
aliue
,
than
to
haue
our
bloud
to
be
reuenged
after
our
death
.
And
truely
if
our
felicitie
stoode
in
this
lyfe
,
or
if
death
temporall
should
bring
vnto
vs
anye
damage
,
our
desire
in
that
behalfe
were
not
to
be
dampned
.
But
seeing
that
death
is
common
to
al
,
and
that
this
temporall
lyfe
,
is
nothing
but
miserie
,
&
that
death
doth
fully
ioyne
vs
with
our
God
,
and
giueth
vnto
vs
the
possession
of
our
inheritaunce
,
why
shuld
we
think
it
straunge
to
leaue
this
worlde
and
goe
to
our
head
&
soueraigne
captayne
Iesus
Christ
?
Now
last
we
haue
to
obserue
this
maner
of
speaking
,
where
that
the
Prophet
sayth
.
The
earth
shall
disclose
her
bloud
.
In
which
wordes
,
the
Prophet
would
accuse
the
crueltie
of
those
that
dare
so
vnmercifully
ryue
from
the
breastes
of
the
earth
,
the
dearest
children
of
God
,
and
cruelly
cut
their
throts
in
her
bosome
,
who
is
by
God
appointed
the
common
mother
of
mankinde
,
so
that
she
vnwillingly
is
compelled
led
to
open
her
mouth
,
&
receyue
their
bloud
.
If
such
tirannie
were
vsed
against
any
naturall
woman
,
as
violently
to
pull
her
infant
from
her
breastes
,
cut
the
throte
of
it
in
her
own
bosome
,
and
compell
here
to
receyue
the
bloude
of
her
deare
childe
in
her
owne
mouth
,
al
nations
would
holde
the
fact
so
abhominable
,
that
the
like
had
neuer
beene
done
in
the
course
of
nature
.
And
no
lesse
wickednesse
commit
they
that
shedde
the
bloud
of
Gods
children
vpon
the
face
(
as
I
haue
saide
)
of
their
common
mother
the
earth
.
But
be
of
good
courage
(
O
little
&
dispised
flocke
of
Christ
Iesus
)
for
he
that
seeth
your
griefe
hath
power
to
reuenge
it
.
He
that
will
not
suffer
one
teare
of
yours
to
fal
,
but
that
shall
be
kept
and
reserued
in
his
bottle
,
till
the
fulnesse
thereof
be
poured
downe
from
heauen
vpon
th●se
that
caused
you
to
weepe
and
mourne
,
this
your
mercifull
God
(
I
saye
)
will
not
suffer
your
bloud
for
euer
to
be
couered
with
the
earth
,
naye
the
flaming
fiers
that
haue
licked
vp
the
bloude
of
any
of
our
brethren
,
the
earth
that
hath
beene
defiled
with
it
,
I
saye
with
the
bloude
of
Gods
children
,
for
otherwise
,
to
shed
the
bloud
of
the
cruel
bloudshedders
,
is
to
purge
the
land
from
bloud
,
and
as
it
were
to
sanctifie
it
.
The
earth
(
I
say
)
shal
purge
her selfe
of
it
and
shew
it
before
the
face
of
god
,
yea
the
beasts
,
foules
,
and
other
creatures
whatsoeuer
shall
be
compelled
to
render
that
which
iniustly
they
haue
receyued
,
be
it
flesh
,
bloude
,
or
bones
that
appartained
to
thy
children
O
Lorde
,
which
altogether
thou
shalt
glorifie
,
according
to
thy
promise
made
to
vs
in
Iesus
Christ
thy
sonne
,
to
whom
with
thee
and
the
holy
Ghost
be
honor
,
praise
,
and
glory
,
for
euer
and
euer
.
Amen
.
Let
vs
now
humble
our selues
in
the
presence
of
our
God
,
and
from
the
bottome
of
oure
heartes
,
let
vs
desire
him
to
assist
vs
with
the
power
of
his
holy
spirite
,
that
albeit
for
our
former
negligences
,
God
giue
vs
ouer
in
the
handes
of
other
than
suche
as
rule
in
his
feare
,
that
yet
he
let
vs
not
forget
his
mercy
,
and
that
glorious
name
,
that
hath
bene
proclaymed
amongst
vs
:
but
that
we
may
loke
throughout
the
dolorous
storme
of
his
present
displeasure
,
and
see
aswell
what
punishment
he
hath
appointed
for
the
cruell
tirants
,
as
what
rewarde
he
hath
layde
in
store
for
such
as
continue
in
his
feare
,
to
the
ende
:
that
it
would
further
please
him
to
assist
,
that
albeit
we
see
his
Church
so
diminished
,
that
it
shal
appeare
to
be
brought
,
as
it
were
,
to
vtter
extermination
,
that
yet
we
maye
be
assured
,
that
in
our
God
,
there
is
power
and
will
,
to
increase
the
number
of
his
chosen
,
euen
while
they
be
inlarged
,
to
the
vttermost
coastes
of
the
earth
.
Giue
vs
O
Lorde
,
hearts
to
visite
thee
in
time
of
our
affliction
.
And
that
albeit
we
see
none
ende
of
our
dolors
,
that
yet
our
faith
and
hope
maye
conduct
vs
to
the
assured
hope
of
that
ioyfull
resurrection
.
In
the
which
,
we
shal
possesse
the
fruite
of
that
,
for
the
which
nowe
we
trauaile
.
And
in
the
meane
season
,
graunt
vnto
vs
O
Lorde
,
to
repose
our selues
in
the
sanctuary
of
thy
promise
,
that
in
thee
,
we
may
finde
comforte
,
till
that
this
thy
great
indignation
(
begonne
amongst
vs
)
may
passe
ouer
,
and
thou
thy selfe
,
appeare
to
the
comfort
of
thy
afflicted
,
and
to
the
terrour
of
thine
enimies
.
Let
vs
pray
with
heart
&
mouth
.
Almighty
God
and
merciful
father
,
&c.
Lord
in
thy
hands
I
commend
my
spirit
.
Be
mercifull
to
thy
flocke
,
O
Lorde
,
and
at
thy
good
pleasure
,
put
ende
to
my
miserie
.
Iohn
Knoxe
.