LIUES
BREVITY
,
AND
DEATHES
DEBILITY
.
ISAIAH
26.
VERS.
19.
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
;
with
my
dead
body
shall
they
arise
:
awake
and
sing
yee
that
dwell
in
the
dust
;
for
thy
dew
is
as
the
dew
of
Herbes
,
and
the
earth
shall
cast
out
the
dead
.
IT
would
have
brought
much
ease
and
comfort
to
our
sorrowfull
hearts
,
if
we
had
only
heard
of
this
sad
accident
,
(
the
death
I
mean
of
this
so
noble
a
Plant
,
this
Honourable
young
Gentleman
)
and
not
beene
Eye-witnesses
of
the
same
.
And
that
the
same
Countrie
which
received
his
last
breath
,
had
likewise
imbraced
his
honourable
Ashes
:
his
living
presence
how
welcome
would
it
have
been
unto
us
?
But
comming
thus
amongst
us
shrouded
under
the
blacke
mantle
of
death
!
we
tremble
at
it
:
For
this
is
one
of
the
miseries
of
man
(
when
death
seizeth
on
him
)
that
he
that
was
neerest
unto
him
in
affection
;
then
desireth
to
bee
farthest
from
him
in
action
:
and
that
living
face
,
that
affoorded
greatest
joy
;
when
once
dead
,
carrieth
with
it
greatest
terrour
,
neither
can
the
conclusion
of
all
this
sad
Catastrophe
,
but
adde
vineger
to
our
bleeding
wound
,
that
whilst
we
were
seriously
bethinking
with
our selves
,
in
what
sort
wee
may
best
expresse
the
inward
griefe
and
trouble
of
mindes
for
this
our
losse
,
in
doing
all
the
honour
that
possibly
wee
could
unto
him
,
in
this
his
Funerall
obsequies
:
Lo
,
the
tediousnesse
of
the
way
,
and
terriblenesse
of
the
disease
,
had
so
shattered
and
crushed
that
tender
,
and
delicate
body
of
his
comming
along
to
us
,
riding
in
that
dolfull
Chariot
of
death
;
that
no
sooner
had
a
few
teares
given
him
a
sad
welcome
,
but
we
were
enforced
to
give
his
body
to
the
earth
,
and
we
to
him
a
sorrowfull
Adieu
.
But
in
all
this
,
patience
must
possesse
our
soules
:
And
seeing
he
is
now
already
entred
into
the
house
of
his
age
,
and
sweetly
sleepeth
upon
his
bed
of
honour
,
amongst
the
rest
of
his
noble
.
Ancestors
:
let
us
I
pray
you
turne
our
thoughts
awhile
from
him
,
and
looke
a
little
upon
the
hand
of
God
;
in
doing
this
to
him
:
and
with
him
in
cutting
off
(
as
it
were
with
one
stroake
)
the
name
and
glory
of
so
renowned
a
family
amongst
us
.
To
that
end
it
must
be
remembred
,
as
a
thing
not
wholy
past
the
memory
of
man
:
how
the
Grand-father
of
this
young
Gentleman
(
of
high
repute
)
joyning
himselfe
in
marriage
with
a
Right
Worshipfull
family
in
this
County
,
left
that
former
feate
and
dwelling
of
that
ancient
family
of
his
owne
in
Sussex
,
and
building
up
his
name
amongst
us
,
by
his
noble
and
vertuous
demeanour
,
became
a
grace
and
ornament
,
both
to
this
obscure
Village
wherein
wee
now
live
,
as
also
to
the
whole
Countrie
round
about
.
And
so
like
a
glorious
starre
shining
long
amongst
us
,
at
length
yeelded
to
nature
in
his
old
age
and
fulnesse
of
dayes
:
Him
a
blessed
Sonne
succeeded
,
an
Heire
to
his
Fathers
Lands
,
and
an
inheritour
of
his
Fathers
best
and
choysest
vertues
:
Prov.
3.16
Such
being
the
ornaments
and
rich
endowments
of
his
minde
,
that
had
the
right
hand
of
wisedome
beene
as
bountifull
to
him
,
as
her
left
hand
was
:
we
questionlesse
should
have
deemed
him
borne
to
be
admired
.
But
(
alas
)
he
dyed
in
the
middest
of
his
dayes
,
and
chiefest
of
his
Honours
.
Last
of
all
,
this
hopefull
young
Gentleman
,
in
time
,
followed
:
a
Phoenix
in
our
daies
,
but
crushed
in
the
shell
:
a
pleasant
Flower
,
but
killed
in
the
Spring
;
a
noble
plant
,
but
of
yesterdayes
continuance
,
and
sent
for
a
time
amongst
us
,
only
to
be
loved
,
desired
,
and
lamented
.
Here
you
see
are
three
generations
onely
;
and
those
three
are
al
:
for
with
this
latter
,
the
fountaine
dried
,
and
with
his
death
the
name
of
the
Lewkenors
in
Suffolke
,
is
quite
extinguished
.
A
lamentable
thing
to
behold
so
flourishing
a
Caedar
so
suddainely
to
fade
,
and
within
the
memory
of
man
,
so
worthy
a
family
to
be
both
begun
and
ended
.
1
Cor.
29
15
Iob.
8.9.14
.
&
14.1.11
But
here
wee
see
the
fraile
condition
of
all
humaine
flesh
:
A
Breath
:
a
Bubble
:
the
house
of
the
spider
;
frailer
then
the
grasse
,
and
more
uncertaine
then
the
flower
of
the
field
:
according
to
that
1
Pet.
1.14
.
All
flesh
is
grasse
,
&c.
1
Pro.
1.14
And
heere
againe
wee
see
what
the
houses
and
habitations
of
the
mighty
are
if
the
angry
breath
of
God
bloweth
on
them
:
today
mine
,
to
morrow
thine
,
&
the
next
day
God
knoweth
whose
.
Here
,
lastly
we
see
the
reason
why
Solomon
the
wise
,
making
choyce
of
the
rarest
and
chiefest
flowers
here
below
,
most
delightfull
to
the
heart
of
man
(
as
Honours
,
Riches
,
large
Fields
,
faire
Possessions
,
young
yeares
,
and
youthful
daies
,
intending
with
the
same
(
as
it
seemeth
)
a
wreath
or
garland
,
to
adorne
his
Crowne
and
Scepter
)
whilst
he
houldeth
them
in
his
hand
,
he
loatheth
them
,
and
casting
them
from
him
,
he
cryeth
out
as
he
doth
;
Eccles.
1.2
Eccl.
1.2
.
Vanity
of
vanities
all
is
vanity
.
And
no
marvell
,
for
all
these
cannot
keep
off
the
stroake
of
death
,
or
preserve
a
man
from
the
power
of
the
grave
.
Psal
49.15
Oh
that
all
sorts
of
men
,
of
what
degree
so
ever
,
high
or
low
,
that
ever
heard
of
this
Gentlemans
untimely
death
,
would
likewise
harken
to
him
,
whilst
with
deaths
dreaded
Trumpet
set
to
his
pale
(
yet
blessed
)
lips
,
he
thus
calleth
to
them
.
First
my
honourable
friends
and
equals
,
my
sociats
and
companions
:
Loe
here
in
me
you
see
your selves
:
my
lot
to
day
;
Psal.
52.7
Iob
30.25
Pro.
31.30
Jere.
9.23
Eccl.
1●
.
10
yours
perhaps
to
morrow
:
trust
not
(
I
beseech
you
)
in
Riches
,
Beauty
,
Strength
,
or
in
the
morning
of
your
Age
:
for
they
are
things
more
brittle
then
Ice
.
I
had
them
al
,
and
loe
yee
see
how
suddenly
I
have
lost
them
.
I
leaned
a
little
too
hard
on
them
:
and
see
like
an
Egyptian-reed
;
2
King
.
36
6
how
trecherous
in
the
end
I
found
them
.
Sweete
companions
are
they
in
the
time
of
health
;
Iob
16.2
but
miserable
comforters
at
the
houre
of
death
.
Ioh.
16.33
Hasten
therefore
your
peace
with
God
,
and
as
soone
as
may
bee
make
him
your
friend
:
so
when
all
things
else
doe
faile
you
,
hee
will
not
forsake
you
:
for
he
hath
said
it
(
and
by
ioyful
experience
I
have
found
it
)
I
will
not
faile
thee
,
nor
forsake
thee
.
Yea
,
Josu.
1.5
Heb.
13.6
when
all
friends
leave
you
,
then
will
he
be
nearest
to
you
.
Holding
you
by
the
right
hand
,
and
saying
:
Isa
41.13
,
14.
Feare
not
,
feare
not
,
thou
worme
,
Iacob
,
I
will
helpe
thee
saith
the
Lord
,
thy
redeemer
,
the
holy
one
of
Israel
.
And
you
my
loving
friends
,
men
of
lower
ranke
,
Psal.
146
3
,
4
,
5
my
sorrowfull
neighbous
and
the
rest
,
to
you
I
onely
say
:
Trust
not
in
man
,
nor
in
the
sonne
of
man
:
2
Chro.
32.8
Ier.
17.5
neither
build
your
hope
upon
the
arme
of
flesh
:
for
the
greatest
Prince
his
breath
is
in
his
nostrils
,
and
when
he
dyeth
his
thoughts
perish
.
Had
you
trusted
more
in
God
,
and
lesse
in
mee
;
God
it
may
bee
,
would
have
trusted
you
longer
with
me
:
but
you
robbing
him
of
his
right
,
he
hath
justly
deprived
you
of
your
comfort
.
He
onely
is
the
blessed
man
:
Jer.
17.7
,
8
That
trusteth
in
the
Lord
,
and
whose
hope
the
Lord
is
.
For
hee
shall
be
as
a
tree
planted
by
the
waters
,
that
spreadeth
her
rootes
by
the
river
,
and
shall
not
see
when
heate
commeth
,
but
his
leafe
shall
bee
greene
,
and
shall
not
faile
in
the
yeare
of
drought
,
neither
shall
cease
from
yeelding
fruit
.
These
with
many
other
;
the
like
necessary
,
and
profitable
instructions
,
this
sweet
young
Gentleman
with
his
dying
breath
,
proclaimeth
to
us
:
the
which
for
brevities
sake
I
am
inforced
to
omit
,
leaving
them
wholy
to
the
due
consideration
of
every
Christian
:
And
come
now
to
take
the
short
survey
of
his
life
and
death
,
full
of
grace
and
exceeding
commendable
.
The
which
before
I
can
with
any
convenience
doe
,
I
must
here
stay
a
while
and
answere
a
maine
Objection
,
which
like
another
wounded
Amasa
lying
tumbling
in
our
way
,
2
Sam.
20
12
hindreth
us
from
prosecuting
our
intended
course
with
that
cheerefulnesse
that
otherwise
we
might
.
Obiection
.
The
Objection
ariseth
altogether
from
Gods
dealing
with
this
Honourable
,
and
Religious
family
,
in
thus
cutting
off
the
name
and
posterity
thereof
.
Pro.
12.7
For
Wisedome
saith
.
Prov.
12.7
.
The
wicked
are
overthrowne
,
and
are
not
:
but
the
house
of
the
righteous
shall
stand
.
Psal.
112.2
,
3
And
David
saith
,
Psal
112.2
,
3.
His
seed
shall
be
mighty
upon
earth
:
the
generation
of
the
upright
shall
be
blessed
.
Wealth
and
riches
shall
be
in
his
house
:
and
his
righteousnesse
endureth
for
ever
.
And
Eliphaz
saith
,
Iob.
22.
ver.
23.24
.
If
thou
returne
to
the
Almighty
,
Iob.
22.23
24.
and
shalt
put
away
iniquity
farre
from
thy
Tabernacles
.
Then
shalt
thou
lay
up
Gold
as
dust
,
and
the
Gold
of
Ophir
as
the
stones
of
the
brookes
:
Yea
the
Almighty
shall
be
thy
defence
:
and
thou
shalt
have
plenty
of
Silver
.
But
heere
wee
see
the
quite
contrary
:
for
in
stead
of
gathering
here
is
scattering
:
in
stead
of
building
up
,
heere
is
pulling
downe
:
in
stead
of
plenty
,
here
is
scarcity
:
in
stead
of
fulnesse
here
is
emptines
.
Againe
wee
read
in
holy
writ
of
a
reward
of
the
rightuous
,
Math.
6.
Yea
here
in
this
life
,
Math.
19.29
.
They
shall
receive
an
hundred
fold
.
And
is
this
the
reward
of
the
righteous
,
1
Cor.
3
to
have
their
names
written
in
the
dust
,
and
their
glorious
Lampe
quite
put
out
?
what
is
become
of
all
the
Prayers
,
Almes
,
and
many
pious
and
charitable
actions
,
performed
by
his
honourable
Ancestors
?
their
gracing
of
true
Religion
with
a
most
holy
life
and
conversation
?
what
is
all
come
to
this
?
All
lost
and
gone
?
For
answere
of
all
these
,
Answere
first
it
must
be
held
as
an
infalliable
ground
:
a
truth
without
all
contradiction
which
the
preacher
delivereth
.
Ecles
.
2.16
As
the
wise
man
dyeth
,
so
dyeth
the
foole
:
neither
,
Is
love
and
hatred
to
be
discerned
by
any
outward
thing
whatsoever
.
Ecles
.
9.2
Secondly
,
that
as
there
are
periods
of
Kingdomes
:
so
are
there
of
private
and
particular
families
.
It
was
a
question
,
that
Pompey
once
propounded
to
a
certain
Philosopher
,
a
sage
wise
man
of
those
times
(
having
lately
before
received
by
Caesar
an
unrecoverable
losse
and
overthrow
)
why
Caesar
having
so
bad
a
cause
in
hand
,
and
himselfe
so
good
;
yet
Caesar
should
so
mightily
prevaile
as
he
did
,
and
he
fall
in
his
righteous
cause
more
and
more
under
his
adversaries
victorious
sword
?
My
Lord
(
answered
he
)
Sunt
periodi
Regnorum
there
are
periods
of
Kingdomes
;
and
it
is
probable
that
the
period
of
the
Roman
State
is
come
to
an
end
;
and
that
the
manner
of
the
present
government
wil
suddenly
be
changed
;
as
not
long
after
it
came
to
passe
.
And
so
may
I
truely
say
by
experience
of
particular
families
that
they
have
their
periods
and
one
family
passeth
,
and
another
commeth
in
the
place
thereof
.
Shew
me
else
what
is
become
not
onely
of
those
holy
families
of
which
we
have
such
honourable
mention
in
holy
writ
:
but
also
of
those
families
of
whom
Heathen
records
speake
so
honourably
?
The
Syrgij
,
Appij
,
Fabij
,
Valerij
,
Bruti
,
and
the
like
,
that
stood
so
much
upon
their
Gentility
,
and
eminents
of
blood
,
contemning
all
others
,
as
Novi
homines
,
new
upstarts
in
comparison
of
themselves
?
If
Families
have
not
their
periods
:
when
we
see
it
hourely
before
our
eyes
,
this
family
cut
off
,
and
another
comming
in
the
place
thereof
:
one
ending
and
another
beginning
:
so
that
what
is
come
to
this
,
is
befalne
to
millions
before
;
neither
is
it
a
new
thing
under
the
Sunne
.
Eccles.
1.9
Thirdly
,
it
must
be
remembred
,
that
Almighty
God
passeth
none
of
his
promises
,
but
upon
a
twofold
condition
.
-
1.
His
Glory
:
then
-
2.
The
good
of
the
party
.
Now
God
alwayes
glorifies
himselfe
two
wayes
:
-
1.
In
his
Mercy
.
-
2.
In
his
Justice
.
First
,
in
his
mercy
,
in
showring
downe
his
richest
blessings
upon
the
House
and
Family
of
the
righteous
man
;
Pal
85.10
so
that
within
the
wals
therof
,
mercy
and
truth
do
daily
meete
,
righteousnesse
and
peace
do
kisse
and
imbrace
one
another
.
Yea
,
those
that
by
continuance
in
well
doing
,
seeke
glory
,
and
honour
,
and
immortality
:
Eternall
life
is
(
sayth
the
Apostle
.
)
Glory
and
honour
,
Rom.
2.10
and
peace
,
to
the
Iew
first
,
and
also
to
the
Greek
.
Secondly
,
in
Justice
in
visiting
of
sinne
with
an
unpartiall
eye
;
not
onely
on
the
Fathers
,
but
likewise
on
their
children
:
yea
oftimes
so
hotly
,
that
the
Father
sinneth
,
Jer.
31.22
and
the
child
suffereth
.
The
Fathers
eat
sower
grapes
:
&
the
childrens
teeth
are
iustly
set
on
edge
.
Secondly
,
for
the
good
of
the
party
.
And
here
it
must
be
remembred
,
that
it
is
a
thing
most
usuall
with
God
our
heavenly
Father
(
intending
the
good
of
his
servants
:
partly
for
their
bodies
,
but
principally
for
their
soules
)
in
disposing
of
these
outward
things
,
for
speciall
reasons
best
knowne
unto
himselfe
,
to
seeme
after
a
sort
to
crosse
his
own
word
and
promise
made
unto
them
.
So
that
whereas
hee
promiseth
health
,
they
meete
with
sicknesse
,
length
of
dayes
,
shortnesse
of
Life
:
the
Sunne
shine
of
prosperity
,
and
behold
they
meete
the
sad
and
gloomy
dayes
of
adversity
:
yea
,
it
is
ordinary
with
him
to
dispose
of
all
sublunary
blessings
,
as
Queene
Hester
for
a
time
bestowed
her
chiefest
favours
,
not
upon
them
shee
loved
best
;
but
upon
him
shee
hated
most
.
For
whereas
Mordecay
,
her
Uncle
,
and
other
her
kindred
,
and
neerest
alliance
were
seldome
named
,
or
it
may
be
hardly
looked
on
,
(
as
may
without
wronging
the
text
,
Hest.
2.10
20
not
unprobably
be
gathered
)
Haman
that
cruel
Tyger
,
and
bloody
enemy
to
her
stock
and
Nation
,
hath
in
the
meane
while
,
what
heart
could
wish
;
and
all
the
honour
done
him
,
which
so
mighty
a
Princesse
could
possibly
bestow
uppon
one
that
was
her
vassall
and
inferiour
.
Or
like
olde
Isaac's
dealing
with
his
two
sonnes
,
Esau
and
Iacob
,
making
on
a
Lord
,
and
cockering
him
under
his
Wing
:
and
the
other
(
the
true
heire
of
the
promise
)
he
turneth
out
of
his
doores
with
his
staffe
in
his
hand
,
to
seeke
him
a
service
,
Gen.
28.1
,
2
,
3.
upon
which
hee
might
afterwards
live
by
the
sweate
of
his
browes
.
Many
more
instances
of
Gods
dealing
with
his
children
in
this
kinde
I
could
produce
,
which
for
brevity
sake
I
doe
heere
omit
:
onely
I
could
wish
wee
finding
Almighty
God
walking
in
this
ordinary
way
and
course
of
his
,
that
wee
should
not
by
our
uncharitable
surmises
,
and
rash
conclusions
,
eyther
too
rigidly
censure
his
righteous
actions
;
or
measure
at
all
his
blessed
steppes
,
by
the
rule
and
compasse
of
our
shallow
reach
;
remembring
that
there
are
Arcana
Providentiae
,
secrets
and
mysteries
of
Divine
providence
,
into
which
,
with
the
strength
of
our
dazled
eye
,
wee
are
no
way
able
at
all
to
pierce
.
So
that
we
may
thinke
,
yea
,
verily
beleeve
this
or
that
to
be
the
true
cause
and
reason
of
this
,
or
the
like
heavy
accident
,
and
yet
be
nothing
so
,
but
a
meere
phantasie
of
our
owne
.
And
truely
this
have
others
done
before
us
,
(
standing
upon
Record
in
holy
writ
)
who
verily
beleeved
they
had
as
sure
a
ground
to
walke
upon
;
and
as
much
reason
to
judge
in
divers
cases
,
as
we
possibly
can
haue
,
and
yet
when
matters
came
to
scanning
,
were
miserably
deceived
.
For
instance
,
to
take
2.
or
3.
examples
(
amongst
many
)
who
would
not
have
judged
the
blindnesse
of
that
poore
man
,
Iohn
.
9
who
wanting
sight
from
his
birth
,
and
never
beholding
the
Sun
walking
in
his
strength
,
had
bin
either
for
his
owne
,
or
the
sin
of
his
parents
?
and
this
was
the
opinion
of
most
,
as
may
appeare
by
the
Disciples
words
after
.
Ioh.
9.2
,
3
Master
,
who
did
sin
,
this
man
,
or
his
parents
,
that
he
was
borne
blind
?
But
Christ
tels
another
reason
in
the
verse
following
.
Neither
this
man
,
nor
his
parents
:
but
the
true
cause
(
saith
hee
)
is
this
:
that
the
workes
of
God
should
be
made
manifest
in
him
.
Or
secondly
,
who
would
not
have
thought
that
the
true
reason
,
why
Almighty
God
shortned
(
as
hee
did
)
the
dayes
and
life
of
that
young
noble
Prince
,
the
hope
of
the
ten
Tribes
,
and
honor
of
the
house
of
Ieroboam
,
had
beene
the
fiercenesse
of
his
wrath
bent
against
that
ungodly
Family
,
for
the
horrible
abhominations
daily
therein
committed
;
but
it
is
not
the
reason
,
that
is
alleadged
by
the
Prophet
,
but
it
is
the
goodnesse
of
the
vertuous
Prince
(
as
hee
affirmeth
)
that
occasioneth
his
untimely
death
:
For
so
saith
the
Prophet
Ahijah
to
the
wife
of
Ieroboam
,
masking
her self
in
the
weeds
of
another
.
1
King
.
21
13.
Get
thee
to
thine
owne
house
,
and
when
thy
feete
enter
into
the
City
,
the
childe
shall
dye
,
and
all
Israel
shall
mourne
for
him
,
and
bury
him
:
for
he
onely
of
Ieroboam
shall
come
to
the
grave
,
because
in
him
is
found
some
good
thing
toward
the
Lord
God
in
the
house
of
Ieroboam
.
Lastly
,
who
would
not
have
thought
but
some
one
or
other
sinne
committed
by
himselfe
,
or
some
of
his
Ancestors
,
had
been
the
cause
why
Iosiah
the
mirrour
of
Kings
,
fell
in
battaile
in
the
flower
of
his
dayes
by
the
sword
of
Pharao
Necho
,
King
of
Egypt
.
True
it
is
,
that
sin
was
one
cause
,
and
a
maine
one
,
for
sin
causeth
every
calamity
,
(
as
the
distemper
of
humours
,
every
ordinary
Ague
)
but
this
was
not
the
true
cause
,
2
Chro.
35.25
and
end
that
God
aymed
at
,
in
his
suddaine
death
:
but
that
by
this
means
he
being
the
sooner
freed
from
trouble
and
vexation
of
heart
,
might
enter
his
grave
in
peace
,
Isay
.
57.1
and
might
not
see
the
evill
to
come
.
From
all
which
examples
,
two
things
by
the
way
offer
themselves
unto
us
,
worthy
of
our
due
consideration
.
The
first
is
,
that
men
in
censuring
Gods
heavy
chastisements
,
lightning
on
the
backs
of
the
righteous
,
do
usually
misse
the
true
,
and
right
end
,
in
inflicting
of
the
same
,
taking
them
as
fiery
Scorpions
of
his
wrath
;
when
as
they
are
indeede
,
the
fruites
of
his
Fatherly
affection
toward
them
.
2
That
when
Almighty
God
performeth
not
his
promise
to
his
children
,
in
regard
of
outward
blessings
;
then
his
usuall
manner
is
to
provide
Heb.
11.
Better
things
for
them
.
For
instance
,
when
he
denieth
them
this
outward
trash
,
and
transitory
riches
,
to
give
them
Riches
never
fading
,
but
alwaies
blossoming
.
Hee
denieth
them
outward
comfort
,
and
filleth
their
soules
with
glee
and
mirth
.
They
weepe
for
a
time
,
and
laugh
eternally
.
Lastly
,
hence
we
may
learne
,
to
be
very
wary
how
wee
doe
rashly
passe
our
Verdicts
in
cases
of
this
nature
,
for
feare
,
least
missing
Gods
ayme
,
wee
overshoot
our selues
,
and
highly
offend
.
But
above
all
,
that
we
take
heed
of
playing
the
Cantharides
or
stinking
flye
,
where
wee
see
the
least
skinne
off
,
there
to
bee
sucking
and
opening
agayne
the
skars
and
blemishes
,
that
were
long
since
healed
with
the
blood
of
Christ
:
Crying
out
with
those
clamorous
Iewes
,
Men
of
Israel
,
Act
21.28
these
be
the
men
:
so
wee
,
these
are
the
sinnes
;
that
have
procured
wrath
,
and
undone
this
Family
.
Nay
brethren
,
let
us
rather
hearken
to
Davids
blessing
,
Psalm
.
41.1.2
.
Blessed
is
the
man
that
considereth
wisely
of
the
poore
,
the
Lord
shall
deliver
him
in
the
time
of
trouble
.
Colo.
3.14
.
And
to
that
sweete
counsell
,
that
the
Apostle
giveth
,
Above
all
things
my
brethren
(
sayth
hee
)
let
us
put
on
love
,
which
is
the
bond
of
perfectnesse
.
So
shall
wee
with
her
faire
mantle
,
not
onely
cover
a
multitude
of
sinnes
:
but
construe
things
in
a
better
sense
,
1
Peter
4
drawing
our
conclusions
,
not
from
hatred
,
but
from
a
far
milder
Roote
:
namely
From
the
loue
of
God
,
-
1.
To
this
young
Gentleman
himselfe
.
-
2.
In
him
,
to
us
all
.
-
1
-
1
To
him
.
-
1
-
1.
In
taking
this
noble
plant
,
from
the
evil
to
come
.
-
1.
Of
sinne
.
Isay
57.1
-
2
Of
punishment
.
-
2
-
2.
In
providing
for
him
a
Richer
,
and
more
noble
inheritance
,
even
the
sure
mercies
of
David
.
Isay
55.3
.
Isay
55.3
-
2
-
2.
To
us
all
;
if
fairely
we
can
draw
honie
out
of
the
Eater
;
and
wholsome
instruction
out
of
the
dead
carkasse
of
this
dead
Lyon
:
as
God
grant
wee
may
.
Fourthly
,
it
must
bee
remembred
,
that
though
the
name
of
the
Family
in
Suffolke
,
bee
quite
extinguished
,
yet
that
the
Family
it selfe
is
not
(
blessed
bee
the
name
of
God
)
utterly
destroyed
.
It
is
falne
here
;
but
it
flourisheth
elsewhere
.
For
amongst
many
other
outward
blessings
,
wherewith
Almighty
God
marvailously
enriched
the
Grand-father
of
this
young
Gentleman
,
he
added
that
of
Iosephs
;
Gen
49
25
namely
,
Vbertatem
uberum
&
vulvae
:
the
blessing
of
the
breasts
,
and
of
the
wombe
:
So
that
hee
had
Numerosam
prolem
,
plenty
of
children
,
two
Sonnes
,
and
seaven
daughters
,
a
goodly
off
spring
;
and
which
increaseth
more
the
blessing
,
not
one
of
them
but
was
the
choisest
shaft
of
a
thousand
.
Certainly
,
Psal.
126.
he
need
not
be
a
shamed
:
For
he
might
speak
boldly
with
his
Enemy
in
the
gate
.
Now
in
the
younger
sonne
of
that
honourable
Knight
(
younger
)
I
meane
,
then
his
Brother
,
but
deserving
indeede
the
Elders
place
in
any
Family
of
his
degree
)
is
the
ancient
and
Worshipfull
name
of
this
Family
still
continued
:
and
beeing
rich
in
Sonnes
,
with
the
Favour
of
the
Almighty
is
like
,
for
many
ages
so
to
bee
.
And
besides
,
it
is
the
masculine
,
and
manly
blood
of
the
Lukenors
onely
heere
in
Suffolke
;
which
by
the
untimely
fall
of
this
flourishing
branch
,
is
thus
perished
as
wee
see
,
and
quite
dryed
up
:
otherwise
much
of
that
honourable
blood
runneth
yet
along
(
although
in
a
milder
straine
)
through
the
pure
veines
of
those
three
truely
vertuous
Sisters
,
no
waies
inferiour
to
those
daughters
of
Zelophehad
:
yea
,
Num.
27.1
besides
these
,
there
is
a
little
Ruth
left
,
a
pledge
of
his
love
to
his
deare
wife
,
and
now
sorrowfull
widow
,
who
,
although
a
daughter
,
yet
by
the
pious
and
religious
education
of
that
wise
and
vertuous
Gentlewoman
(
her
mother
)
wee
are
to
hope
,
will
in
Gods
good
time
,
build
up
againe
this
decayed
and
shattered
family
of
Elimelech
.
Fiftly
,
and
lastly
,
to
close
up
all
in
a
word
,
we
must
not
be
ignorant
,
how
that
most
of
the
richest
promises
which
our
heavenly
father
hath
in
his
great
love
and
free
mercy
made
to
his
dearest
children
,
are
not
usually
and
ordinarily
fulfilled
here
in
this
life
.
Sometimes
they
are
,
but
commonly
they
are
not
:
and
if
they
be
,
yet
but
in
part
,
for
the
full
recompence
is
reserved
till
afterwards
.
1
Cor.
15.
And
if
it
were
not
so
,
of
all
others
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
we
are
most
miserable
,
as
the
truth
is
,
they
had
bin
.
Their
holinesse
and
piety
being
accompted
no
better
then
madnesse
and
folly
,
and
their
whole
religion
,
Exitiabilem
superstitionem
,
unde
cuncta
atrocia
et
pudenda
confluunt
:
A
damnable
superstition
;
and
the
mother
of
all
villany
.
And
that
we
may
see
this
yet
the
better
,
let
us
,
I
pray
you
,
look
a
little
into
the
lives
of
some
few
(
omitting
multitudes
)
of
the
choysest
servants
of
God
,
and
see
their
reward
heere
in
this
world
.
And
first
Iohn
the
Baptist
,
a
great
Prophet
,
and
one
of
a
most
austere
life
,
and
unspotted
conversation
,
the
fore-runner
and
bright
morning
starre
,
making
way
for
the
Sunne
of
righteousnesse
arising
in
his
full
strength
:
what
was
the
reward
he
reaped
for
all
his
preaching
,
and
paines
taking
in
the
Church
of
God
,
his
thundring
out
of
judgements
against
the
wicked
,
without
all
partiality
,
and
promising
mercies
to
the
true
penitent
and
afflicted
soule
?
surely
to
have
his
head
struck
off
from
his
shoulders
at
the
command
of
an
arrant
strumpet
,
and
his
body
to
be
cast
forth
as
dung
upon
the
earth
:
onely
here
was
his
comfort
,
Mat.
10.40
that
at
the
last
he
should
not
loose
the
reward
of
a
Prophet
,
Mat.
10.40
.
Againe
what
was
the
reward
of
them
of
whom
we
have
such
honourable
mention
[
](A08482-e13660-b)a
a
Heb.
11.38
whose
names
deserve
golden
letters
,
persons
of
whom
the
world
was
not
worthy
,
surely
after
all
their
fruites
of
a
lively
faith
,
their
love
,
their
zeale
,
their
constant
confession
of
the
name
of
Christ
;
was
it
not
to
be
tryed
with
cruell
mockings
,
and
scourgings
,
to
be
tortured
and
horribly
tormented
,
to
be
sawne
assunder
&
slaine
with
the
Sword
?
Only
here
was
their
comfort
,
that
in
the
end
they
should
obtaine
a
ioyfull
resurrection
.
What
lastly
was
that
reward
of
that
good
Emperour
Hen.
7.
after
hee
had
with
a
deale
of
care
and
trouble
,
not
onely
reformed
many
disorders
and
abuses
in
the
Church
and
publicke
state
,
but
also
had
mightily
daunted
and
brought
under
,
the
haughty
courage
of
the
Guelph's
faction
.
But
at
last
,
to
be
poysoned
(
at
the
receiving
of
the
blessed
Sacrament
)
with
an
invenomed
Host
,
which
a
traiterous
&
detestable
monke
of
the
order
of
St.
Dominicke
gave
unto
him
:
the
which
Fact
of
this
bloody
Monster
,
as
it
ought
of
every
Loyall
heart
to
bee
abhorred
and
detested
,
so
ought
the
Patience
,
and
assured
confidence
of
this
most
Christian
Emperour
,
to
be
highly
Magnified
,
and
to
the
Heavens
extolled
:
who
as
the
story
saith
,
finding
the
poyson
(
immediately
uppon
the
receite
thereof
)
working
in
his
bowels
,
and
thereupon
death
approaching
,
commanded
instantly
the
Villaine
to
bee
brought
before
him
;
and
thus
without
all
passion
spake
unto
him
:
Tu
calicem
vitae
invertisti
mihi
in
mortem
:
quare
o
Domine
fuge
celeriter
;
nam
si
inimici
,
&c.
O
fayth
hee
,
thou
hast
turned
to
me
,
the
cup
of
Life
,
into
the
cup
of
Death
:
Wherefore
flye
;
for
if
our
Friends
lay
hold
on
you
,
you
are
sure
to
dye
a
most
miserable
death
:
and
repent
you
.
Ego
enim
moriar
secundum
voluntatem
Domini
:
tu
vas
ira
fuisti
,
&c.
It
is
the
will
of
God
,
that
I
should
die
this
kinde
of
death
;
but
thou
hast
beene
the
Vessel
of
his
wrath
unto
me
,
&c.
By
all
which
examples
(
omitting
thousands
)
it
appeareth
plainely
,
that
the
principall
reward
is
reserved
till
afterward
:
and
hitherto
serve
these
and
the
like
comfortable
promises
.
Rev.
2.10
Be
faithfull
unto
Death
;
and
I
will
give
thee
a
Crowne
of
Life
.
And
againe
,
To
him
that
overcommeth
,
will
I
grant
to
fit
with
mee
in
my
throne
,
even
as
I
overcame
,
and
sit
with
my
Father
in
his
throne
.
And
Chap.
22.12
.
Behold
,
I
come
shortly
,
and
my
Reward
is
with
me
.
Rom.
2.6
And
,
Who
will
render
to
every
man
according
to
his
workes
.
The
trueth
of
all
which
,
apprehended
by
a
lively
Faith
,
maketh
the
blessed
Apostle
Paul
,
to
cry
out
with
that
plerophory
,
and
full
assurance
that
he
doth
.
2
Tim.
4.7
,
2
Tim.
4.7.8
8
Certamen
illud
praeclarum
decertavi
,
cursum
consūmavi
,
fidem
servavi
.
Hactenus
,
&c.
I
have
fought
a
good
fight
,
I
have
finished
my
course
,
I
have
kept
the
faith
.
Hence
forth
there
is
laid
up
for
me
a
Crowne
of
righteousnesse
,
which
the
Lord
the
righteous
Iudge
shall
give
mee
at
that
day
:
And
not
to
mee
onely
,
but
to
them
that
love
his
appearance
.
And
to
that
end
our
blessed
and
gratious
father
dayly
giveth
to
all
those
that
are
his
chosen
sonnes
and
servants
,
not
onely
the
eye
and
hand
of
faith
,
whereby
they
both
see
and
also
apprehend
the
pretious
promises
of
blisse
and
happinesse
made
to
them
,
but
withall
he
giveth
them
the
sure
Anchor
of
hope
:
by
which
(
it
being
fastned
upon
that
mighty
rocke
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
)
they
stay
themselves
with
an
assured
expectation
of
the
fulfilling
and
fruition
of
them
,
either
heere
,
or
in
heaven
;
in
this
life
,
or
that
to
come
.
And
for
the
further
clearing
the
truth
of
this
,
I
shal
not
offend
(
I
trust
)
if
I
shew
unto
you
how
neare
the
Heathens
come
to
us
in
this
poynt
,
by
relating
unto
you
a
story
which
I
have
formerly
read
in
one
of
their
writers
;
who
though
a
Heathen
,
Plutarch
.
consolat
:
ad
Apolonium
.
yet
of
honourable
esteeme
to
this
day
amongst
us
.
The
story
then
in
a
word
is
this
.
Upon
a
time
(
saith
hee
)
a
complaint
was
sent
from
the
Ilands
of
the
Blessed
,
to
the
judges
of
the
Superiour
Courts
,
about
certaine
persons
sent
thither
,
who
formerly
had
lived
impiously
;
humbly
intreating
,
that
this
abuse
thus
offered
to
them
,
might
speedily
be
redressed
,
whereupon
these
unpertiall
judges
taking
the
businesse
into
their
serious
considerations
,
found
not
only
the
complaint
to
be
true
,
but
withall
the
reason
and
cause
thereof
:
which
was
,
that
judgment
and
sentence
was
passed
upon
men
heere
below
in
their
life
time
.
Whereupon
it
oft
fell
out
,
that
many
persons
cloathed
with
honourable
carkasses
,
riches
,
nobility
,
and
other
like
dignities
and
advancements
,
brought
many
witnesses
with
them
,
who
solemnely
swore
in
their
behalfe
,
that
they
deserved
to
bee
sent
into
the
Ilands
of
the
Blessed
;
when
the
trueth
was
,
they
deserved
the
contrary
:
to
avoide
which
inconveniency
,
it
was
decreed
by
an
eternal
doome
,
that
for
time
to
come
,
no
judgement
should
bee
passed
untill
after
death
;
and
that
by
Spirits
only
,
who
alone
doe
see
and
plainely
perceive
the
spirits
and
naked
soules
of
such
,
upon
whom
their
Sentence
and
Uerdict
was
to
passe
.
That
so
of
what
estate
and
condition
soever
they
were
,
they
might
receive
according
unto
their
workes
.
By
all
which
,
it
plainely
appeareth
how
farre
the
Divine
eye
of
this
naturall
man
led
him
;
surely
unto
the
true
finding
out
of
a
Divine
and
heavenly
truth
,
which
is
,
that
neither
definitive
sentence
is
to
bee
passed
upon
any
heere
below
,
nor
that
any
whatsoever
shall
receive
his
full
reward
of
that
hee
hath
done
,
whether
it
bee
good
or
bad
,
till
after
this
Life
.
And
so
much
in
way
of
answer
to
the
Objection
.
And
now
a
word
or
two
of
his
Life
and
Death
.
Neither
must
it
be
imagined
,
that
intreating
of
the
same
,
I
intend
any
large
Discourse
of
him
,
as
of
one
going
to
his
grave
in
a
full
age
,
Iob.
5.26
as
a
ricke
of
corne
comming
in
due
season
into
the
Barne
(
and
the
glasse
of
his
life
being
fully
runne
,
)
but
I
must
measure
my selfe
,
by
that
short
life
of
his
;
a
minute
,
a
shaddow
,
yea
,
the
dreame
of
a
shaddow
quite
vanished
and
gone
,
before
one
can
scarce
tell
twenty
.
For
if
the
holy
Prophet
David
living
the
age
of
threescore
yeares
and
ten
,
compareth
his
life
unto
a
shaddow
.
Psal.
108.28
Psalme
one
hundred
and
eight
,
verse
twenty
eight
.
I
am
gone
like
a
shaddow
(
sayth
he
)
that
declineth
,
and
am
tossed
up
and
downe
like
a
Grashopper
.
Then
surely
the
Life
of
this
young
Gentleman
,
scarce
attayning
to
one
of
the
three
,
cannot
bee
so
much
as
a
shaddow
,
but
must
needs
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
the
meere
dreame
of
a
shaddow
,
of
no
long
continuance
.
According
to
which
,
my
purpose
is
to
abreviate
and
shorten
my
Discourse
without
multiplying
many
words
,
or
telling
you
wonders
and
strange
miracles
:
shewing
you
rather
what
hee
was
like
to
have
beene
,
then
what
hee
was
;
and
by
a
small
taste
,
giving
you
to
understand
how
pretious
this
Wine
would
have
beene
,
had
it
by
age
and
continuance
beene
throughly
purified
and
refined
.
Briefly
then
wil
I
shew
unto
you
,
his
honest
,
devout
,
holy
and
Christian
Life
,
and
condition
,
was
somewhat
above
the
ordinary
garbe
and
fashion
of
Gentle-men
of
his
age
and
quallity
,
which
may
appeare
not
onely
by
Religion
truely
implanted
in
his
breast
,
but
by
many
morrall
Uertues
and
Uertuous
morallities
;
like
so
many
sparkling
Diamonds
,
spreading
their
light
abroad
,
and
shining
clearely
in
his
path
of
Life
.
And
first
for
his
Religion
,
my
onely
desire
is
,
that
all
may
know
that
(
which
he
himselfe
would
by
no
meanes
hide
)
that
the
religion
he
imbraced
,
was
the
Protestant-religion
,
which
himselfe
suckt
in
with
the
milke
of
his
Nurse
:
and
which
most
of
his
Ancestors
these
many
ages
constantly
professed
.
And
as
with
his
mouth
he
confessed
unto
salvation
,
Rom.
10.10
.
So
with
his
heart
he
beleeved
unto
righteousnesse
:
neither
crossing
,
much
lesse
condemning
by
his
contrary
course
,
the
blessed
way
wherein
his
Fathers
formerly
walked
:
but
upholding
rather
,
and
continuing
their
honourable
memory
,
by
his
owne
vertuous
life
and
conversation
;
as
may
appeare
by
divers
instances
,
which
I
will
rather
number
,
then
insist
long
upon
.
And
first
,
his
exceeding
great
delight
that
he
had
in
those
holy
exercises
of
Prayer
,
and
reading
of
the
Word
,
morning
and
evening
in
the
family
where
he
lived
,
from
which
hee
seldome
exempted
himselfe
,
except
it
were
upon
urgent
occasion
.
Secondly
,
his
high
esteeme
that
he
had
,
as
of
private
prayers
,
so
of
publicke
,
giving
precedency
to
the
same
,
before
the
other
,
as
having
more
pretious
promises
annexed
to
them
.
Thirdly
,
his
Assiduous
and
dilligent
resorting
to
the
publicke
preaching
of
the
word
of
God
;
wheresoever
wisedome
was
pleased
to
open
the
gates
of
her
faire
beautifull
Temple
unto
him
.
Fourthly
,
his
religious
and
Christian
behaviour
,
when
hee
was
present
at
the
Church
;
not
carrying
of
himselfe
as
a
severe
censurer
,
but
as
a
devout
Auditor
,
not
as
though
Almighty
God
was
beholding
to
him
(
as
most
imagine
)
for
his
bodily
presence
,
but
as
one
infinitely
indebted
to
him
for
his
divine
and
sacred
ordinance
.
Fiftly
,
his
love
and
hearty
affection
to
all
good
Christians
in
general
,
as
fellow
heires
and
copartners
with
him
in
that
rich
inheritance
.
Sixtly
,
his
reverent
regard
that
he
had
of
such
ministers
as
he
knew
to
be
faithfull
and
diligent
in
their
places
:
honouring
the
Elder
as
Fathers
,
1
Tim.
5.1
and
the
younger
as
Brethren
.
Seventhly
,
in
avoyding
(
what
he
could
)
the
Society
of
wicked
and
deboished
persons
,
or
if
hee
were
by
occasion
driven
amongst
them
,
then
in
the
speedy
freeing
himselfe
from
them
,
as
soone
as
conveniently
he
could
,
without
giving
offence
or
shew
of
incivility
.
And
thus
could
I
goe
on
in
numbring
many
more
;
but
I
will
stay
a
while
:
And
the
reason
is
,
for
that
me
thinkes
I
heare
some
of
the
spider-catching
rowt
,
whose
religion
principally
consisteth
in
searching
the
lives
of
those
in
whom
they
see
any
eminency
(
above
themselves
)
thus
secretly
,
and
underhand
whispering
together
.
This
that
hath
beene
spoken
already
of
the
vertuous
life
of
this
young
Gentleman
,
is
something
,
but
no
great
matter
:
for
we
looked
for
farre
greater
things
then
those
,
and
more
flourishing
fruites
of
his
Faith
.
Just
Naaman
like
.
What
no
more
but
this
,
wash
in
Jordan
seven
times
,
and
be
cleane
?
I
had
thought
(
saith
he
)
he
would
have
surely
come
out
,
and
called
on
the
name
of
his
God
;
and
have
stroaked
his
hand
upon
the
place
,
&
so
have
recovered
the
Leprosie
,
2
King
.
5.
verse
10.11
.
Now
to
answere
such
as
these
,
in
a
word
or
two
,
as
persons
not
deserving
many
.
First
,
it
cannot
be
denyed
by
the
most
malicious
detractour
,
but
that
the
things
before
mentioned
(
if
there
were
no
more
)
doe
sufficiently
manifest
,
that
this
Gentlemans
faith
was
not
vaine
,
Iam.
1.26
nor
his
religion
verball
.
Secondly
,
it
must
be
considered
,
that
circumstances
doe
usually
much
alter
the
state
of
the
question
,
in
things
(
otherwise
)
of
the
same
nature
and
condition
,
for
instance
:
A
River
to
have
the
springs
open
,
and
the
waters
running
with
a
full
streame
,
when
the
time
of
the
yeare
serveth
fit
,
and
all
other
streams
are
likewise
full
,
is
no
great
matter
,
nor
is
much
regarded
:
but
to
have
a
River
like
to
Nilus
in
Egypt
,
when
all
other
Rivers
are
flattest
,
then
to
rise
most
,
and
swell
,
is
a
matter
of
great
admiration
;
and
calleth
for
the
cleere
eye
of
the
naturalist
to
find
out
the
true
cause
thereof
.
Againe
,
for
a
Tree
to
flourish
in
the
Spring
,
and
bee
fruitfull
in
Summer
,
when
all
other
Trees
besides
have
on
their
best
and
richest
Robes
,
is
not
worth
the
mentioning
:
but
for
a
tree
in
the
dead
of
winter
,
when
all
other
trees
do
fade
and
cast
their
leaves
:
then
to
hold
her
colour
,
her
sap
,
and
fruitfulnesse
,
is
a
glorious
sight
;
and
carrieth
with
it
〈◊〉
a
kind
of
wonderment
and
admiration
.
And
so
for
a
young
Gentleman
,
being
under
the
Ferula
of
a
sharp
Tutor
,
or
the
frowne
of
a
severe
Father
:
his
whole
living
depending
upon
his
fathers
love
:
for
him
to
walke
smoothly
(
and
it
may
be
religiously
)
is
a
commendable
thing
:
and
yet
not
greatly
to
bee
trusted
;
seeing
it
may
spring
from
a
bitter
roote
,
and
to
bee
done
to
a
sinister
end
.
But
for
this
young
gentleman
,
having
no
Father
to
threaten
,
or
Master
to
be
controled
;
borne
unto
a
great
estate
,
and
part
thereof
already
in
his
owne
possessions
:
being
in
the
lust
and
vigour
of
his
youth
,
and
living
in
a
royotous
and
licentious
Age
:
For
him
(
I
say
)
to
walke
as
formerly
I
have
shewed
,
cannot
,
(
I
trow
)
considering
these
and
many
other
the
like
circumstances
,
but
be
judged
of
him
that
hath
the
least
sparke
of
charity
in
his
breast
,
as
the
fruites
of
a
religious
heart
,
and
worthily
deserving
highest
praise
.
But
leaving
these
,
and
so
returne
backe
againe
where
first
I
met
this
clamorous
generation
,
I
will
adde
unto
the
former
fruits
of
faith
,
foure
other
noble
and
commendable
vertues
.
The
first
whereof
was
,
his
humble
and
courtious
carriage
,
and
demeanor
towards
all
,
even
those
of
the
meanest
and
lowest
degree
,
not
looking
on
them
,
as
the
fashion
of
the
Gallants
of
our
Age
is
(
as
upon
dogges
)
not
upon
men
and
women
;
of
the
same
nature
,
flesh
and
blood
,
reasonable
soules
,
wrought
and
framed
after
the
same
glorious
Image
;
but
whatsoever
he
was
,
he
had
a
courtious
welcome
from
him
,
the
hat
gently
vailed
,
and
the
hand
of
respect
and
love
reached
forth
unto
him
:
Shewing
herein
not
onely
a
fruit
of
the
Spirit
Galathians
●
.
22
.
but
himselfe
a
right
Gentleman
;
seeing
that
Humility
or
Courtisie
is
Soror
nobilitatis
:
the
Sister
of
Nobility
:
and
as
one
of
the
ancients
further
speaketh
,
Mater
nostrae
philosophiae
;
the
breader
and
mother
of
Christians
Philosophy
,
or
rather
true
wisedome
and
religion
.
The
second
was
his
modesty
,
appearing
not
only
in
his
maidenlie
countenance
,
but
in
his
whole
carriage
and
conversation
an
excellent
vertue
in
him
,
and
much
to
bee
desired
in
these
impudent
daies
of
ours
,
wherein
blushing
is
helde
the
essentiall
marke
of
a
base
and
ignoble
Spirit
:
and
an
whores
fore-head
is
reputed
the
onely
rare
feature
and
especiall
grace
:
Phil.
4.5
whereas
St.
Paul
in
the
4.
of
the
Phil.
5.
teacheth
the
Phillipians
another
lesson
,
willing
them
to
cloath
themselves
,
as
with
other
vertues
,
so
(
saith
hee
)
with
modestie
.
And
an
ancient
Father
saith
,
that
modesty
is
Ornamentum
nobilium
,
&
nobilitas
ignobilium
:
the
noble
mans
beauty
,
and
the
poore
mans
dignity
.
Yea
,
the
Lacedemonian
state
,
and
Common-wealth
,
received
it
as
a
Maxime
and
maine
principle
from
Lycurgus
their
Law-giver
,
that
aboue
all
things
,
they
should
accustome
their
youth
to
bashfulnesse
and
modesty
.
He
onely
by
the
light
of
nature
finding
,
that
which
daily
experience
teacheth
us
:
that
impudency
and
boldnesse
in
youth
,
is
an
evill
signe
,
and
the
breeder
of
much
vice
and
vanity
.
The
third
Uertue
was
his
temperance
,
fit
to
bee
joyned
with
the
former
,
not
onely
for
that
modesty
and
temperance
(
as
the
heathen
could
say
,
)
in
eodem
choro
sunt
)
are
companions
in
the
same
ranke
:
but
for
that
the
Apostle
describeth
them
as
loving
sisters
,
daughters
of
the
same
Spirit
,
walking
hand
in
hand
together
.
Gal.
5.
Now
this
temperance
of
his
appeared
(
as
in
other
things
)
so
likewise
in
these
two
.
First
,
in
his
ordinary
habit
&
attire
,
which
although
it
were
farre
from
basenesse
,
so
was
it
usually
much
lower
then
the
highth
of
his
meanes
,
he
rather
respecting
that
indumentum
fidej
,
the
inward
cloathing
of
the
mind
,
then
the
outward
cloathing
of
the
body
,
and
himselfe
to
be
an
ornament
to
his
cloathes
,
rather
then
his
cloathes
to
be
an
ornament
to
him
.
Secondly
,
it
appeared
in
keeping
himselfe
free
from
three
raging
sinnes
,
over-flowing
the
bankes
of
Modesty
and
Temperance
in
this
age
of
ours
,
viz.
-
1.
Swearing
,
or
blasphemy
.
-
2.
Ebriety
,
or
Drunkennesse
.
-
3.
Venery
,
or
uncleannesse
.
In
regard
of
all
which
three
,
his
innocent
and
spotlesse
life
,
was
such
,
as
the
blackest
tongue
can
no
way
soyle
or
blemish
his
blessed
memory
.
Yea
,
let
it
bee
written
in
Cedar
tables
,
or
in
golden
letters
upon
his
Tombe
or
Hearse
,
to
his
eternall
and
immortall
prayse
,
that
when
these
sinnes
most
raged
,
then
was
not
hee
with
them
,
the
least
way
touched
;
but
like
a
blessed
River
,
kept
himselfe
in
his
pure
streame
,
from
beeing
infected
with
this
brackish
and
over-flowing
Ocean
,
which
to
too
many
are
over-whelmed
in
,
in
these
our
sinfull
dayes
,
and
perilous
times
.
The
fourth
and
last
Uertue
of
his
(
wherewith
I
will
bound
my
discourse
this
way
)
was
his
liberall
and
bountifull
disposition
,
witnessed
both
by
many
charitable
actions
of
his
,
to
divers
whom
hee
knew
stood
in
need
of
his
present
helpe
:
as
also
by
many
worthy
and
cheereful
promises
of
his
future
helpe
&
favour
,
both
to
his
tenants
,
and
also
his
poorest
neighbours
.
The
consideration
whereof
,
together
with
his
hopeful
life
begun
,
&
so
untimely
ended
,
causeth
this
generall
sorrow
which
wee
see
in
all
,
especially
in
those
formerly
mentioned
:
it
beeing
a
received
opinion
(
as
well
it
might
)
that
through
the
Almighties
helpe
,
he
would
suddainly
have
raysed
agayne
the
name
and
honour
of
his
ancient
Family
:
not
suffering
his
Fathers
house
to
stand
,
(
as
most
of
our
Gentlemens
houses
do
now
a
dayes
)
like
a
paynted
Mercury
in
the
way
,
to
tell
the
Travailer
whose
formerly
it
was
:
Or
else
like
a
wracke
upon
the
Sea
,
to
discover
onely
where
that
noble
Lady
Hospitality
fatally
perished
.
And
this
shall
serue
to
bee
spoken
of
the
first
act
of
his
Life
:
I
wil
now
come
to
the
second
,
and
therein
speake
a
word
or
two
of
his
Death
(
the
which
being
briefly
done
)
I
wil
then
draw
the
Curtayn
,
and
so
conclude
this
sorrowful
Sceane
.
In
the
very
entrance
whereof
,
me-thinkes
I
find
a
wonderful
correspondency
and
agreement
,
betwixt
his
,
and
the
death
of
other
of
his
next
and
honourable
friends
:
as
for
example
,
-
1.
His
Death
was
paynefull
,
and
somewhat
contagious
,
occasioned
by
the
small
poxe
,
a
disease
fatall
to
that
Family
.
-
2.
His
death
was
suddain
,
&
very
dolorous
.
-
3.
His
Death
was
ful
of
Piety
,
and
exceeding
Religious
.
-
1.
In
the
first
,
you
have
the
Death
of
his
grand
father
,
and
grand-mother
.
-
2.
In
the
second
the
death
of
his
Father
.
-
3.
And
in
the
last
,
the
death
of
all
three
:
or
if
you
will
,
the
death
of
the
Righteous
.
So
that
a
man
may
safely
say
,
of
his
Life
and
death
,
compared
with
theirs
,
as
that
holy
King
David
long
since
spake
of
Sauls
and
Ionathans
(
the
Father
and
the
sonne
)
2
Sam.
1.
2
Sam.
1
They
were
lovely
and
pleasant
in
their
lives
,
and
in
their
deaths
they
were
not
divided
.
But
leaving
this
,
and
looking
yet
more
narrowly
into
his
Christian
end
:
wee
cannot
(
if
wee
doe
but
hearken
to
the
credible
report
of
those
who
were
continually
with
him
,
from
the
beginning
of
his
sicknesse
,
to
the
delivering
up
of
his
last
breath
,
)
but
take
special
notice
amongst
many
other
,
of
these
two
things
right
commendable
in
him
:
-
1.
His
admirable
patience
.
-
2.
His
true
and
hearty
repentance
.
The
one
,
in
induring
;
the
other
in
desiring
:
the
one
in
performing
;
the
other
in
promising
.
And
first
for
his
Patience
,
it
was
such
,
that
considering
the
tendernesse
of
his
Age
,
the
frailty
of
Youth
,
and
want
of
experience
in
sicknesse
,
that
(
as
it
is
generally
reported
)
it
was
a
matter
of
great
admiration
to
all
about
him
.
For
however
our
heavenly
Father
gave
way
(
as
it
seemeth
)
to
the
disease
to
fanne
and
winnow
him
,
as
Corne
is
fann'd
and
winnowed
to
the
utter-most
:
yet
did
he
in
the
meane
while
so
support
and
stay
him
with
the
hand
of
his
Mercy
,
that
neyther
his
hope
lost
her
hold
,
or
his
faith
failed
.
So
that
howsoever
the
outward
man
suffered
,
yet
the
inward
man
was
renewed
daily
.
2
Cor.
4.16
.
2
Cor.
4.16
How
ever
his
body
was
not
his
owne
,
being
under
the
hand
of
a
sharpe
Chyrurgion
,
Luke
.
21.1
yet
in
patience
he
did
possesse
his
soule
:
of
all
which
hee
gave
sufficient
testimony
,
both
by
his
milde
and
sweete
behaviour
;
as
also
by
his
comfortable
words
,
and
Christian
language
.
For
here
were
no
impatient
speeches
,
no
murmurring
and
repining
,
no
crying
out
upon
the
disease
:
no
accusing
of
secondary
causes
,
but
a
patient
silence
,
interrupted
,
now
and
then
,
with
short
prayers
,
and
Divine
ejaculations
:
wherein
he
craved
at
the
hands
of
God
,
eyther
mitigation
of
his
payne
,
or
supply
of
strength
,
eyther
to
be
eased
,
or
graciously
to
be
supported
.
And
heere
wee
have
an
Embleme
or
a
patterne
of
true
Magnanimity
appearing
plainely
in
this
,
that
when
the
stormes
of
temptation
and
trouble
raged
most
,
and
these
sharpe
cutting
winds
blew
lowdest
;
yet
hee
carryed
himselfe
,
so
close
under
the
shield
of
Faith
,
that
hee
was
not
at
all
daunted
,
or
driven
from
that
obedience
which
hee
did
owe
to
God
;
or
his
duty
towards
his
neighbour
.
The
which
,
as
it
is
a
noble
and
excellent
vertue
and
quality
of
the
spirit
;
so
was
it
(
questionlesse
and
without
doubt
)
much
holpen
:
-
1.
By
the
true
sight
hee
had
of
sinne
.
-
2.
By
the
true
sence
and
feeling
of
the
Love
of
God
towards
him
.
And
first
for
sinne
,
if
a
man
doe
but
seriously
(
as
I
doubt
not
,
but
this
Gentleman
did
)
weigh
and
ponder
in
his
heart
,
both
the
number
of
his
sinnes
(
being
indeede
without
number
)
as
also
the
nature
of
them
,
not
onely
crossing
,
but
also
,
violating
the
pure
Law
of
an
infinite
God
,
and
so
deserving
an
infinite
punishment
:
hee
surely
cannot
but
with
a
patient
and
contented
mind
beare
and
indure
these
short
and
light
afflictions
:
how
ever
bitter
for
a
time
,
yet
bringing
with
them
in
the
end
,
the
sweete
fruites
of
righteousnesse
:
Crying
with
the
Church
,
Micah
7.9
.
Mich.
7.9
I
will
beare
the
indignation
of
the
Lord
,
because
I
have
sinned
against
him
.
And
Lam.
3.22
.
Lam.
3.22
It
is
the
Lords
mercy
that
I
am
not
consumed
.
And
agayne
,
Patior
domine
quia
peccavi
,
&
patior
ut
non
peccarem
:
(
as
a
holy
man
speaketh
)
I
know
sweete
God
,
that
I
suffer
for
that
I
have
sinned
.
And
agayne
,
I
know
that
I
suffer
,
that
I
might
not
sinne
.
These
are
the
files
,
whereby
thou
doest
labour
to
scowre
my
heart
,
and
cleanse
me
from
my
sinnes
:
and
this
is
the
Gall
and
Worme-wood
wherewith
thou
doest
strive
to
weane
me
from
the
pleasant
pappes
of
this
world
,
and
make
me
wholy
distaste
the
pleasure
of
this
wicked
and
sinfull
life
.
The
second
is
,
the
sence
and
feeling
of
the
love
of
God
,
which
questionlesse
,
had
a
mayne
and
principall
stroake
in
putting
this
Gentle-man
on
(
as
hee
did
)
to
drinke
so
willingly
of
this
bitter
cup.
For
,
as
soone
as
ever
the
love
of
God
doth
but
once
diffuse
,
and
shed
it selfe
abroad
into
the
hearts
of
any
his
faithfull
servants
,
then
presently
such
abundance
of
heavenly
strength
,
and
vigor
,
joy
,
and
comfort
doth
enter
with
it
,
that
hee
feeleth
not
at
all
the
burthen
of
affliction
;
or
if
hee
doe
,
hee
findeth
it
very
light
.
Hee
feareth
not
the
fiery
tryall
,
for
well
hee
knoweth
,
that
though
the
hardest
commeth
;
yet
will
it
in
the
end
worke
out
for
his
good
,
as
a
Fatherly
correction
,
no
finall
destruction
:
yea
,
triumphing
in
a
glorious
manner
,
hee
saith
to
Death
:
Where
is
thy
sting
;
or
what
hast
thou
to
separate
me
from
the
love
of
God
?
1
Cor.
15
Rom.
8.35
Ioh
5.22
For
as
for
destruction
,
I
laugh
at
it
,
neither
doe
I
feare
the
Beast
of
the
field
.
Iob.
5.22
.
And
hence
is
it
,
that
Daniel
was
so
couragious
and
bold
for
the
service
of
God
,
Dan.
6.10
that
he
durst
open
his
window
at
the
time
of
prayer
,
though
the
denne
was
open
to
swallow
him
,
and
the
hungry
Lyons
ready
to
devoure
him
.
Hence
againe
was
it
,
that
the
three
children
with
such
magnanimity
and
spirit
so
slighted
the
Tyrants
ungodly
command
,
saying
as
they
did
.
Dan
3
16.
Wee
are
not
carefull
to
answere
thee
in
this
matter
,
neither
doe
wee
care
what
thou
canst
doe
unto
us
:
For
our
God
whom
wee
serve
is
able
to
deliver
us
,
and
hee
will
deliver
us
out
of
thine
hand
:
Dan.
3.16
But
how
ever
assure
thy selfe
ô
King
,
wee
will
not
serve
thy
gods
,
nor
worship
thy
golden
Image
which
thou
hast
set
up
.
Lastly
,
hence
was
it
,
that
those
most
noble
confessors
Dionysia
and
Victorianus
so
constantly
,
and
with
such
an
undaunted
courage
,
indured
those
unmercifull
torments
and
scorching
flames
of
Martyrdome
.
The
one
crying
out
,
De
Deo
sum
secura
,
cruciate
ut
libet
.
I
am
sure
of
Christ
,
a
fig
for
your
torments
.
The
other
,
securus
sum
de
Christo
Domino
me●●haec
dicite
regi
vestro
,
&c.
I
am
resolved
of
the
love
of
Christ
my
Lord
and
my
God
:
and
therefore
tell
your
King
from
me
,
that
I
weigh
not
his
torments
a
rush
.
If
then
the
love
of
God
was
so
strong
in
these
,
no
marvaile
then
,
that
this
young
Gentleman
feeling
the
same
in
his
tender
heart
,
so
patiently
and
with
such
contented
mind
,
passed
through
not
onely
the
bitter
Symptomes
of
his
cruell
malady
,
but
also
through
the
shadow
of
death
it selfe
:
For
Love
(
saith
the
Church
,
Cant.
8.6
,
7.
speaking
by
her
owne
experience
)
is
so
strong
,
that
death
it selfe
cannot
quell
it
,
nor
all
the
water
in
the
Ocean
quite
drowne
it
.
But
leaving
this
,
let
us
come
to
the
second
,
namely
,
his
true
and
hearty
repentance
.
For
the
cleere
demonstration
whereof
,
it
must
bee
considered
how
the
Spirit
of
God
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
mentioning
true
repentance
,
doth
commonly
use
two
words
in
themselves
very
significant
and
full
of
divine
expression
.
-
1.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
-
2.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
The
first
whereof
signifieth
an
after
wit
.
The
other
an
after
sorrow
.
By
the
one
,
understanding
a
poore
penitent
looking
backe
upon
his
former
course
of
life
,
and
then
finding
how
he
hath
beene
guld
by
Sathan
,
deluded
by
the
World
,
and
beguiled
by
the
deceitfulnesse
of
his
owne
heart
;
he
cryeth
out
Heu
miser
!
quot
mala
feci
?
Alas
wretch
that
I
am
!
What
evill
have
I
done
?
and
thereupon
looketh
for
time
to
come
more
narrowly
to
himselfe
.
By
the
other
setting
forth
a
sorrowfull
creature
striking
on
his
thigh
,
grievously
vexed
for
his
sinnes
past
,
asking
pardon
,
and
promising
a
new
life
.
In
the
first
of
these
we
have
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Iame.
3.17
That
wisedome
from
above
.
Iames
3.17
.
In
the
second
we
have
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
sorrow
toward
God
;
and
in
both
together
(
mixed
with
faith
)
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
that
repentance
never
to
be
repented
of
,
2
Cor.
7.10
2.
Cor.
7.10
.
An
example
of
both
these
meeting
together
in
one
,
wee
have
in
this
young
Gentleman
,
as
may
appeare
plainly
by
the
circumstances
following
.
The
first
was
his
speedy
and
timely
casting
off
the
world
upon
the
first
arrest
of
his
sicknesse
,
together
with
the
vaine
pleasures
and
delights
thereof
;
speaking
by
his
practise
unto
her
,
as
that
Heathen
Philosopher
spake
unto
his
rich
treasure
,
when
hee
was
about
to
cast
it
into
the
Sea
:
Abite
a
me
pessimae
voluptates
,
ego
vos
mergam
,
ne
mergar
a
vobis
.
Away
from
me
ye
bewitching
pleasures
,
I
will
drown
you
,
that
you
drowne
not
mee
:
or
rather
as
they
are
fore-told
to
speake
to
their
Idols
,
Isa.
30.22
throwing
them
away
with
a
kinde
of
detestation
.
Isa.
30.22
.
Apage
cuique
eorum
,
&c.
Away
,
get
you
hence
fawning
world
.
Thou
painted
Iezabel
,
and
flattering
Harlot
,
now
doe
I
see
the
conquest
of
thee
in
Christ
is
exceeding
easie
;
my
blessed
master
telleth
me
that
he
hath
already
overcome
thee
:
Ioh
16.33
willing
me
to
be
of
good
cheere
,
and
so
I
am
:
My
soule
magnifying
the
Lord
,
and
greatly
rejoycing
in
God
my
Saviour
,
being
fully
resolved
that
I
at
the
last
in
him
shall
obtaine
the
like
noble
victory
over
thee
,
that
this
young
Gentleman
hath
done
before
me
.
The
second
was
,
the
exact
surveigh
that
he
tooke
of
his
former
life
,
wherein
however
(
blessed
bee
God
)
he
found
not
those
Damnabilia
peccata
,
as
St.
Augustine
calleth
them
,
from
which
(
saith
the
holy
Father
)
youthfull
age
is
seldome
free
;
yet
those
that
hee
found
(
although
they
were
but
aberrations
onely
,
and
no
impieties
,
delicta
non
facinora
:
weaknesses
and
infirmities
;
no
flagicious
offences
;
yet
was
he
much
troubled
at
the
sight
of
them
;
oft
crying
out
with
righteous
Iob
:
Paenitet
me
:
and
with
that
holy
Prophet
David
Psal.
45.7
.
peccatum
pueritiae
mea
ne
recorderis
Domine
.
Lord
remember
not
the
sinnes
of
my
youth
.
Observe
next
his
carefull
providing
of
his
Viaticum
or
things
necessary
for
his
departure
;
his
preparing
and
fitting
of
his
Lampe
with
oyle
,
and
patient
expecting
of
the
Bridgroomes
call
.
In
all
which
(
as
is
the
generall
report
)
his
care
was
more
then
ordinary
:
neither
was
there
any
one
thing
in
Heaven
or
Earth
,
which
he
so
much
desired
,
as
he
did
that
full
assurance
of
his
reconciliation
with
God
,
&
to
understand
what
that
love
of
Christ
was
,
that
passeth
all
understanding
;
not
that
hee
doubted
at
all
thereof
,
for
he
found
the
beginnings
and
fruits
of
the
same
(
as
formerly
I
have
shewed
)
already
in
his
soule
,
mightily
cheering
up
,
and
comforting
thereof
:
onely
he
desired
yet
more
,
that
hee
might
at
the
length
be
filled
with
the
fulnesse
of
God
.
Eph.
7.19
.
Eph.
7.19
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
like
the
little
infant
that
having
but
once
tasted
of
the
milke
of
the
mother
,
is
never
contented
,
but
mourneth
,
and
cryeth
until
it
be
fully
satisfied
,
and
the
belly
filled
therewith
:
or
like
the
hunted
Stagge
in
Summer-time
,
who
finding
a
pleasant
streame
,
having
once
tasted
of
it
,
is
never
satisfied
untill
hee
hath
sounded
the
bottome
,
and
duckt
himselfe
overhead
and
eares
therein
:
or
rather
like
that
faire
Bride
,
(
the
Church
I
meane
)
Cant.
2.6
.
Cant.
2.6
.
who
thinketh
her selfe
never
sure
of
her
spouse
and
love
,
untill
his
Left
hand
bee
under
her
head
,
and
his
right
hand
doth
imbrace
her
.
Life
hee
simply
desired
not
,
and
death
hee
slavishly
feared
not
,
for
he
knew
right
well
that
which
came
first
,
should
bee
his
gayne
and
great
advantage
.
And
because
for
want
of
sleepe
,
and
the
malignant
,
and
fiery
working
of
his
Disease
,
hee
feared
much
,
least
any
disorderly
,
impatient
,
or
prophane
speeches
should
passe
from
him
,
to
the
dishonour
of
Almighty
God
,
and
griefe
,
and
sorrow
of
his
Friends
about
him
:
His
request
therefore
was
hourely
to
God
,
for
Christs
sake
,
to
set
a
watch
before
his
mouth
,
and
to
keep
the
doore
of
his
lips
.
And
if
at
any
time
it
hapned
(
as
seldome
it
did
)
that
his
braine
beeing
somewhat
over-heated
,
he
a
little
swarved
from
the
right
rule
,
and
so
forgot
himselfe
:
his
manner
was
,
after
the
violence
of
the
fit
was
over
,
(
upon
inquire
made
,
and
the
truth
thereof
found
)
humbly
to
beg
pardon
for
the
same
,
&
with
teares
to
bewaile
it
.
All
the
time
of
this
sharpe
tryall
,
and
visitation
of
his
,
was
,
for
the
most
part
,
daily
spent
,
eyther
in
holy
conference
with
such
graue
Divines
as
were
continually
about
him
for
his
soules
health
,
or
in
hearty
prayers
presented
before
the
throne
of
grace
,
and
powred
into
the
golden
Censure
of
the
sonne
of
God
;
wherein
earnest
request
was
made
unto
the
Father
,
that
though
this
young
souldier
of
his
,
were
thus
strongly
assaulted
,
yet
that
hee
might
so
keepe
himselfe
upon
the
legs
of
his
Faith
,
that
hee
might
neyther
be
foyled
,
Ioh.
23.10
nor
yet
led
into
temptation
,
and
that
though
hee
were
tryed
unto
the
full
,
yet
that
hee
might
in
the
end
come
out
like
pure
Gold
.
Iob
23.10
.
Neyther
did
this
blessed
servant
of
God
,
hold
it
sufficient
to
have
others
pray
for
him
,
except
he
likewise
performed
the
same
duty
himselfe
;
remembring
well
,
that
hee
that
hath
but
once
drunke
a
full
draught
of
the
River
of
Grace
,
it
cannot
be
,
Iohn
7.38
but
out
of
his
belly
must
needes
flow
rivers
of
water
of
Life
.
The
which
prayers
of
his
,
were
delivered
with
such
contrition
of
heart
,
such
Faith
resting
it selfe
upon
the
promises
of
God
,
such
patient
and
humble
submission
of
himselfe
to
the
will
of
his
gracious
Father
:
that
it
was
an
admiration
to
all
about
him
,
to
behold
so
tender
a
plant
to
bring
foorth
such
delicate
and
precious
fruite
.
And
thus
while
his
body
is
here
below
,
his
soule
is
seeking
after
things
above
:
his
body
a
prisoner
laden
with
gyves
and
fetters
of
his
disease
,
his
soule
is
at
liberty
,
soaring
up
on
high
,
and
sweetly
conversing
with
that
blessed
society
in
Heavenly
places
.
The
which
it
did
divers
dayes
together
going
and
comming
,
till
at
last
(
like
another
Noahs
Dove
)
it
quite
left
his
troubled
Arke
,
and
this
tempestuous
World
,
mounting
up
a
loft
above
all
earthly
things
,
and
seated
it selfe
uppon
the
pleasant
Mount
Syon
,
Vbi
moritur
omnis
necessitas
:
Vbi
oritur
summa
faelicitas
:
where
all
want
ceaseth
;
and
all
blisse
increaseth
:
even
that
place
where
are
those
fragrant
and
delightful
fields
,
replenished
with
all
the
trees
of
Myrrhe
,
Frankincense
,
and
Alloes
,
with
sweete
beds
full
of
the
richest
and
chiefest
spices
,
Cant.
4.12
,
13.
where
he
dayly
feedeth
,
and
so
shall
doe
till
that
blessed
day
breake
,
and
all
shadowes
flye
away
.
Cant
4.6
And
thus
have
I
as
briefly
as
I
could
,
without
either
wringing
or
churning
(
being
loath
to
lye
for
him
,
as
a
man
lyeth
for
his
friend
,
Pro.
30.33
Iob
13.9
.
)
set
forth
to
you
,
the
Life
and
Death
of
this
young
Gentleman
.
The
which
the
more
I
thinke
of
,
the
more
I
cannot
but
highly
commend
that
true
honour
of
Wedlocke
,
and
mirrour
of
widow-hood
,
the
noble
and
vertuous
Lady
(
his
sorrowfull
mother
)
for
her
religious
and
Christian
educating
of
him
,
all
his
young
and
tender
yeares
;
dropping
then
grace
into
his
heart
,
and
filling
the
same
with
Heavenly
liquor
,
the
pleasant
scent
thereof
,
never
left
him
unto
the
last
houre
and
minute
of
his
life
.
Her
extraordinary
care
this
way
,
I
shall
not
neede
at
large
to
relate
unto
you
,
sith
the
whole
Country
round
about
,
can
sufficiently
witnesse
the
same
,
to
her
immortall
praise
;
onely
this
I
will
say
,
that
if
the
holy
Scripture
(
as
wee
know
it
doth
)
maketh
such
honourable
mention
of
Bersheba
,
and
Evnice
for
their
diligence
in
teaching
their
Sonnes
,
Solomon
and
Timothy
,
in
their
tender
age
,
the
trade
of
their
way
.
And
againe
if
holy
Augustine
ascribeth
to
his
mother
Monacha
her
teares
and
prayers
(
next
under
God
)
the
ground
of
all
the
good
,
that
after
so
many
wandrings
and
wanton
actions
of
his
,
at
length
appeared
in
him
.
And
lastly
,
if
Cornelia
be
so
highly
remembred
in
the
Roman
story
,
for
bringing
up
those
famous
Gracchi
her
sonnes
so
carefully
as
she
did
in
their
infancy
and
growing
yeares
,
making
her
the
mother
not
onely
of
their
naturall
lives
,
but
also
of
their
vertuous
living
,
and
Heroicke
demeanour
:
I
cannot
see
why
his
worthy
Lady
should
not
have
the
like
honour
,
and
high
respect
at
the
hands
of
all
,
for
the
religious
care
over
this
her
sonne
,
from
his
birth
to
his
last
breath
.
And
therefore
being
so
,
however
Almighty
God
,
for
causes
best
knowne
to
himselfe
hath
thus
(
as
we
see
)
taken
away
the
subject
of
her
desired
and
chiefest
care
,
not
suffering
her
lippes
scarce
to
tast
the
fruite
of
that
which
she
with
a
deale
of
paines
had
so
many
yeares
together
carefully
sowne
:
yet
may
she
herein
comfort
her selfe
,
that
neither
was
her
labour
spent
upon
a
barren
or
unfruitfull
soyle
,
neither
is
her
blessed
sonne
lost
,
whom
Heaven
hath
found
,
but
is
there
,
whether
wee
are
daily
travailing
;
resting
himselfe
under
the
tree
of
life
,
and
satisfying
his
soule
with
endlesse
pleasure
:
To
which
most
sacred
place
,
the
Lord
in
his
good
time
for
his
Christs
sake
bring
us
all
,
Amen
.
And
thus
have
I
at
the
length
finished
the
first
part
,
of
this
my
intended
discourse
,
wherein
(
I
must
needs
confesse
)
the
unfained
love
I
did
alwaies
beare
to
this
noble
plant
,
hath
,
I
know
not
how
,
put
words
into
my
mouth
,
and
thrust
me
on
to
a
unwilling
tediousnesse
.
Leaving
him
therefore
in
the
armes
of
Christ
,
I
wil
now
with
what
speed
I
can
proceed
to
the
handling
of
that
portion
of
Scripture
:
whereof
(
by
Gods
gratious
assistance
)
I
minde
to
treate
of
,
the
latter
part
of
the
time
allotted
me
.
And
this
you
shall
finde
written
Isa.
26.19
.
The
words
are
these
.
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
:
even
with
my
body
shall
they
rise
.
Awake
,
and
sing
,
yee
that
dwell
in
dust
:
The
text
.
for
thy
dewe
is
as
the
dewe
of
Hearbes
,
and
the
earth
shall
cast
out
the
dead
.
FOr
the
more
orderly
handling
of
which
words
,
my
purpose
is
to
observe
this
order
.
First
,
to
speake
something
of
the
Chapter
in
generall
.
Secondly
,
having
once
cleered
the
Text
,
to
take
it
in
peeces
,
and
to
speak
of
every
perticular
part
by
it selfe
.
Now
,
in
speaking
of
the
Chapter
in
generall
,
I
will
,
First
,
briefly
touch
the
manner
,
that
the
prophet
useth
in
indighting
of
it
.
Secondly
,
speake
a
word
or
two
of
the
matter
or
subject
thereof
.
And
first
for
the
manner
:
it
is
not
the
same
with
most
of
the
former
Chapters
;
but
is
expressed
and
set
downe
in
a
differing
stile
,
they
in
prose
and
this
in
verse
:
For
in
all
the
former
Chapters
(
save
onely
the
first
)
wee
finde
(
as
hee
that
hath
the
least
skill
in
the
Text
knoweth
)
the
holy
Prophet
delivering
his
matter
in
prose
;
however
,
full
of
divine
trops
,
and
heavenly
expressions
.
And
in
this
Chapter
together
with
the
first
,
wee
finde
him
so
possessed
,
and
rapt
up
with
the
unspeakable
love
of
God
toward
his
Church
,
that
hee
thinketh
the
highest
straine
low
enough
to
expresse
the
same
.
And
therefore
delivereth
his
minde
,
not
after
his
wonted
manner
in
plainnesse
of
speech
,
but
in
a
high
and
stately
verse
:
that
so
divine
consolations
might
come
like
the
sweetest
Nectar
,
carried
along
in
Golden
pipes
to
the
hearts
of
his
hearers
:
For
things
delivered
in
verse
,
First
,
worke
better
on
the
fantasie
,
then
such
as
are
delivered
in
prose
.
Secondly
,
come
neetlier
,
and
more
richly
apparrelled
unto
the
understanding
.
Lastly
,
take
a
great
deale
surer
hold
upon
the
memory
.
And
therefore
the
blessed
servants
of
God
,
and
holy
Prophets
and
Prophetesses
,
Exod.
15.1
&c.
Iudges
.
5.1
&c.
1
Sam.
2.1
Moses
and
David
;
Debora
and
Anna
,
&c.
when
they
would
preach
and
set
forth
to
the
World
those
Magnalia
Dei
,
those
wonderfull
deliverances
and
favours
of
GOD
to
his
Church
:
that
they
might
take
the
deeper
impression
in
the
hearts
of
all
,
expressed
them
in
sacred
Verse
,
whence
questionlesse
,
those
Sybills
likewise
:
and
those
ancient
Law-givers
in
elder
dayes
,
borrowed
their
mould
,
and
patterne
in
penning
their
Lawes
,
and
propheticall
conjectures
in
Verse
,
not
in
Prose
.
The
greater
shame
therfore
it
is
,
for
many
in
these
dayes
of
ours
,
to
abuse
that
divine
gift
as
they
doe
:
fitting
Davids
Harpe
to
every
fidling
tune
:
and
abusing
the
Bowles
of
the
Temple
,
to
the
service
of
Bacchus
,
and
drinking
healths
to
Abaddon
.
But
leaving
the
manner
,
let
us
come
unto
the
matter
,
or
subject
,
of
this
heavenly
song
,
from
the
1.
verse
to
the
end
of
the
19.
In
all
which
is
contained
much
variety
,
and
matter
of
great
discourse
:
For
there
wee
have
to
mention
some
two
or
three
things
,
amongst
others
very
remarkeable
.
First
,
a
discription
of
the
true
Church
of
God
:
namely
:
-
1.
A
City
full
of
power
.
-
2.
Citizens
full
of
piety
.
-
3.
City
,
and
Citizens
,
full
of
all
felicity
.
Secondly
,
wee
have
spirituall
boastings
.
-
1.
Of
the
faith
of
the
children
of
God
.
-
2.
Of
the
holy
use
that
they
made
of
their
afflictions
above
wicked
and
prophane
worldlings
.
Lastly
,
a
spirituall
cordiall
,
or
rather
unspeakable
comfort
,
afforded
to
all
the
true
children
and
servants
of
God
,
that
the
Lord
will
when
time
seemeth
fittest
,
deliver
not
onely
them
,
but
theirs
,
not
from
light
afflictions
,
but
from
the
greatest
:
yea
the
whole
Israel
of
GOD
out
of
all
his
tribulations
.
Psal
25.22
And
this
latter
,
is
that
which
the
Prophet
principally
delivereth
in
this
19.
Verse
(
which
I
have
read
unto
you
)
:
The
true
meaning
whereof
,
that
we
may
finde
out
the
better
;
it
must
bee
remembred
that
the
Children
of
God
;
members
of
the
true
Church
,
apprehending
by
the
eye
of
faith
,
that
great
tryall
and
sore
affliction
,
namely
the
Babilonian
Captivity
,
so
universally
proclaymed
,
by
all
the
holy
Prophets
of
the
Lord
now
approaching
,
and
neare
at
hand
,
were
at
this
time
in
great
dolour
and
perplexity
of
minde
:
And
blame
them
not
;
for
what
one
outward
triall
can
be
imagined
,
of
a
more
cutting
and
corrosiving
nature
,
to
the
heart
of
man
,
then
Captivity
is
?
sith
by
the
meanes
thereof
;
a
man
is
usually
at
once
deprived
of
all
his
joy
;
and
of
a
free-man
turned
to
be
a
slave
:
Those
dulcia
arva
and
native
soile
,
where
first
hee
tooke
his
breath
,
hee
seeth
no
more
:
and
if
hee
doth
,
it
is
with
an
heavy
heart
;
yea
,
Riches
,
Wealth
,
Honour
,
together
with
religion
(
dearer
then
his
life
)
are
straight-way
lost
,
whilst
hee
himselfe
like
the
basest
abject
,
imbraceth
the
feete
of
the
proud
and
disdainefull
conquerour
.
The
horrid
sight
whereof
,
putteth
the
Prophet
Ieremy
into
such
a
bitter
passion
,
that
he
cryeth
out
,
as
you
may
see
,
Ier.
14.22
.
Ier.
14.22
Viscera
mea
:
Viscera
doleo
,
&c.
My
Bowels
,
my
Bowels
:
I
am
pained
at
the
very
heart
,
I
cannot
hold
my
peace
,
because
thou
hast
heard
ô
my
soule
the
sound
of
the
Trumpet
,
and
alarum
of
Warre
.
And
our
Prophet
Isay
likewise
,
as
may
appeare
by
those
his
words
Chap
22.4
.
Looke
away
from
mee
I
beseech
you
,
for
I
will
weepe
bitterly
,
labour
not
to
comfort
mee
,
Isa.
22.4
because
of
the
sp●●ling
of
the
daughter
of
my
people
.
If
then
such
mighty
and
valiant
Captaines
as
these
,
beganne
at
the
sight
thereof
to
quake
and
tremble
;
what
shall
we
then
say
of
the
common
Souldiers
?
certainely
,
their
feare
must
needs
be
Panical
,
and
they
exceeding
affrighted
.
To
help
and
cure
which
,
it
pleased
Almighty
God
,
not
onely
to
inspire
the
breast
of
this
sanctified
and
holy
Prophet
of
his
,
with
the
cleere
light
and
understanding
of
his
diterminate
Counsel
,
and
decree
herein
:
but
also
to
fill
his
pen
with
sweet
and
comfortable
predictions
,
all
tending
this
way
;
that
this
great
affliction
and
tryall
of
theirs
,
should
onely
bee
but
for
a
time
,
and
that
after
the
space
of
70
yeares
,
they
should
shake
off
the
yoak
of
captivity
and
bondage
from
off
their
shoulders
;
now
for
that
this
was
a
thing
hard
to
be
beleeved
,
and
altogether
impossible
in
their
weak
conceits
,
as
may
appeare
by
their
words
.
Behold
,
Ezek.
37.11
.
(
say
they
)
Our
bones
are
dry
,
our
hope
is
gone
&
we
are
cleane
cut
off
:
we
find
not
only
the
Prophet
Ezekel
in
the
forenamed
chapter
;
but
our
Prophet
Isay
in
the
verse
that
I
have
read
,
labouring
from
God
to
settle
&
stablish
their
wavering
and
doubtfull
hearts
in
the
truth
thereof
,
both
by
a
strange
vision
,
as
also
by
an
invincible
argument
taken
from
the
Resurrection
of
the
dead
.
The
which
,
as
it
is
a
mayne
principle
in
true
Christian
Religion
,
beeing
an
Article
of
our
Faith
,
a
Maxime
in
Divinity
,
imbraced
of
all
the
whole
Society
of
Gods
faithfull
servants
;
so
beeing
certaynly
beleeved
,
and
by
the
arme
of
Faith
imbraced
,
as
an
infallible
and
undoubted
truth
,
it
will
so
strengthen
and
cheere
up
the
heart
of
him
that
is
the
servant
of
God
,
that
hee
shall
neyther
feare
the
most
fierce
and
fiery
tryals
:
nor
yet
question
any
of
the
promises
of
Almighty
God
,
how
difficult
,
&
even
impossible
soever
they
appeare
to
a
carnall
eye
.
For
instance
:
whence
was
it
that
Abraham
,
that
blessed
Patriarcke
,
with
such
constant
Resolution
expected
,
that
in
time
hee
should
imbrace
a
sonne
,
how
ever
the
course
of
nature
cryed
loud
against
it
:
Rom.
4.17
was
it
not
(
as
it
is
playne
,
Rom.
4.17
.
)
for
that
hee
that
promised
,
was
Hee
that
raised
the
dead
,
and
calleth
things
that
are
not
,
as
though
they
were
!
Whence
agayne
was
it
,
that
holy
Iob
,
that
meeke
and
humble
servant
of
Christ
,
with
such
admired
patience
indured
the
stripping
of
all
his
goods
;
the
losse
of
his
children
,
and
the
remooving
of
his
hope
from
him
like
a
Tree
:
was
it
not
(
as
hee
himselfe
acknowledgeth
,
Chapter
19.
Iob.
19.15.26
.
verse
15.26
.
)
For
that
hee
was
resolved
that
his
Redeemer
lived
,
and
that
at
the
latter
day
,
hee
should
see
God
in
his
flesh
?
Whence
,
(
lastly
)
was
it
,
that
Moses
esteemed
the
reproach
of
Christ
,
greater
then
all
the
treasures
of
Aegypt
:
was
it
not
the
fight
hee
had
.
Heb.
11
Hebrewes
the
eleventh
Chapter
:
of
him
that
was
Invissible
,
and
assured
hope
of
the
recompence
of
reward
,
after
this
life
.
No
marvaile
then
,
that
our
Prophet
(
as
I
said
)
laboured
to
settle
the
minds
of
this
dejected
people
,
with
an
argument
taken
from
the
same
:
It
being
full
of
comfort
,
as
also
forcible
to
perswade
;
drawne
(
as
you
see
)
a
maiore
ad
minus
,
from
the
greater
to
the
lesse
:
The
nature
of
which
,
that
we
may
finde
out
the
better
,
wee
will
in
this
verse
consider
these
two
things
.
-
1.
A
Consolation
.
-
2.
A
Reason
.
First
,
the
Consolation
,
is
no
other
then
a
joyfull
conclusion
,
taken
and
drawne
(
as
formerly
was
shewed
)
from
the
resurrection
of
the
dead
;
in
these
words
:
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
,
even
with
my
body
shall
they
arise
:
awake
and
sing
yee
inhabitants
of
the
dust
.
The
reason
is
laid
downe
in
way
of
Fortification
,
or
strengthning
of
the
consolation
,
in
these
words
.
For
thy
dewe
is
as
the
dewe
of
hearbes
,
and
the
earth
shall
give
up
her
dead
.
In
the
Consolation
we
finde
,
-
1.
That
there
is
a
resurrection
of
the
dead
.
-
2.
The
manner
of
the
same
.
In
speaking
of
the
first
,
wee
will
observe
two
things
:
1.
The
truth
of
this
Article
;
that
there
is
a
Resurrection
.
2.
The
quality
of
the
persons
that
are
sayd
to
arise
,
in
these
words
:
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
.
For
the
manner
of
the
Resurrection
,
we
find
it
,
-
1.
Very
beautifull
.
-
2.
Very
Joyfull
.
The
first
in
these
words
,
With
my
body
shall
they
arise
.
The
second
,
set
foorth
by
a
kinde
of
Rethoricall
passage
or
Apostrophe
,
or
turning
of
his
speech
to
the
Dead
,
willing
them
to
awake
and
sing
.
Secondly
,
the
reason
is
no
other
then
a
forceable
argument
taken
and
drawne
from
the
vertue
and
power
of
the
Resurrection
of
Christ
,
which
in
the
end
wil
be
the
same
to
the
dead
,
that
the
Dew
is
to
the
hearbes
,
filling
and
inforcing
the
earth
to
cast
up
her
dead
.
Of
all
these
things
in
order
,
and
very
briefly
.
And
first
of
the
consolation
in
generall
:
that
there
is
a
Resurrection
of
the
dead
,
in
these
words
:
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
,
&c.
The
which
as
it
is
a
comfortable
proposition
,
so
it
is
delivered
by
him
,
not
(
as
Tully
delivered
his
conclusions
of
the
contempt
of
Death
)
faintly
and
doubtfully
,
but
with
great
confidence
&
fulnesse
of
assurance
.
And
iustly
,
whether
wee
consider
the
universallity
of
this
truth
,
it
being
constantly
imbraced
of
the
whole
Church
of
God
,
throughout
all
ages
:
but
likewise
the
antiquity
of
the
same
,
it
beeing
infolded
in
that
first
,
and
gracious
promise
made
to
Adam
our
Father
in
assuring
him
,
Gene.
3.15
.
That
the
seede
of
the
woman
should
breake
the
Serpents
head
.
And
hence
it
was
,
that
Heva
the
Mother
of
us
,
Gen.
3.15
and
all
the
living
,
having
brought
forth
Seth
,
speaketh
(
as
she
doth
)
Gen.
4.25
.
Gen.
4.25
Reposuit
mihi
Deus
Semen
alterum
,
&c.
Oh
(
saith
she
)
God
hath
given
me
another
Abel
:
He
hath
kept
him
for
a
time
,
and
now
at
length
hath
restored
him
to
me
againe
.
The
like
divine
consolation
,
possessed
(
questionlesse
)
the
beleeving
heart
,
not
onely
of
Abraham
,
but
of
all
the
holy
Patriarches
besides
,
as
may
appeare
both
by
their
servent
and
longing
desire
after
the
Messiah
,
whom
they
knew
,
was
ordained
by
the
Father
to
be
the
Resurrection
and
the
life
:
as
also
,
by
the
honourable
testimony
,
that
the
Author
of
the
Epistle
to
the
Hebrewes
giveth
of
their
faith
herein
.
Cap.
11.13
.
Heb.
11.13
.
when
he
saith
that
They
all
dyed
in
the
Faith
,
not
having
the
promises
,
but
having
seene
them
a
farre
off
,
and
were
perswaded
of
them
,
and
imbraced
them
;
and
confessed
that
they
were
strangers
and
pilgrimes
on
the
earth
,
And
therefore
(
saith
hee
)
verse
16.
God
is
not
ashamed
to
be
called
their
God
:
for
he
hath
prepared
for
them
a
City
.
This
was
likewise
the
comfortable
doctrine
,
Exod
,
3.6
which
Christ
our
blessed
Saviour
preached
in
the
bush
to
Moses
Exod
3.6
,
as
himselfe
averreth
.
Mat
22.31.32
.
Mat.
22.31
,
32.
when
he
thus
spake
unto
him
.
I
am
the
God
of
Abraham
,
and
the
God
of
Isaac
,
and
the
God
of
Iacob
.
This
was
that
which
the
Apostle
Paul
in
all
his
writings
published
,
affirming
withall
,
both
before
the
governour
Faelix
,
and
that
honourable
assembly
.
Act.
24.15.16
.
Act.
24.15
,
16
That
it
was
a
maine
principle
which
put
him
on
to
have
a
pure
conscience
towards
God
,
and
towards
men
,
and
to
account
(
as
he
telleth
the
Phillippians
Chap.
3.7
,
8.
Phil.
3.7.8
)
those
things
that
were
advantage
to
him
,
but
as
losses
,
so
that
hee
might
attaine
the
resurrection
of
the
dead
.
Yea
,
the
holy
Scriptures
are
not
onely
plentifull
in
Testimonies
proving
the
truth
thereof
;
but
in
examples
likewise
,
of
persons
dead
,
and
some
of
them
rotting
in
their
graves
,
who
have
by
the
power
of
Almighty
God
beene
perfectly
restored
to
life
again
;
my
labour
therfore
in
further
proving
the
truth
therof
,
may
(
I
doubt
not
)
be
the
better
spared
;
especially
considering
it
is
an
Article
of
our
faith
,
universally
received
,
of
the
whole
Church
of
God
,
at
all
times
and
ages
:
Deu.
29.18
notwithstanding
,
if
there
be
any
here
,
in
whose
wicked
heart
,
there
is
yet
the
root
of
Gall
and
Wormewood
;
so
that
when
hee
heareth
this
,
hee
blesseth
himselfe
in
his
froward
and
wicked
course
,
as
though
there
were
no
such
resurrection
,
or
further
reckoning
to
bee
expected
.
Let
such
a
one
(
if
the
booke
of
God
will
not
give
him
satisfaction
)
looke
abroad
into
the
large
volumne
of
Nature
,
where
questionlesse
(
if
his
eye
bee
not
too
much
dimmed
with
the
fog
and
mist
of
Athisme
and
prophaines
)
he
shall
be
sure
to
finde
the
infinite
wisedome
and
power
of
Almighty
God
,
in
ordering
and
disposing
by
the
hand
of
providence
many
other
things
,
(
not
unlike
in
nature
,
but
altogether
is
impossible
to
the
judgement
of
man
as
this
is
)
to
their
severall
ends
,
which
according
to
his
eternall
decree
at
the
first
he
had
determined
.
For
instance
:
there
shall
he
finde
the
glorious
Lampe
of
the
World
,
(
the
Sunne
I
meane
)
in
the
evening
going
downe
,
having
his
beautifull
eye
closed
with
the
shaddow
of
the
night
;
and
himselfe
quite
covered
over
,
with
the
thicke
and
black
mantle
of
the
same
,
as
with
his
winding
sheete
;
and
shrowded
in
darkenesse
,
continuing
for
a
time
,
untill
his
Creator
mindfull
of
his
covenant
(
the
morning
approaching
)
raiseth
him
up
againe
in
such
a
glorious
manner
,
that
loe
he
commeth
forth
,
Psal.
19.15
.
Psal.
19.15
Like
a
Bridgroome
out
of
his
chamber
,
and
reioyceth
like
a
strong
man
to
runne
a
race
.
There
likewise
shall
he
see
the
Moone
wasting
and
wayning
away
,
untill
at
length
shee
seemeth
quite
lost
and
gone
;
but
within
a
few
dayes
after
,
he
shall
see
her
againe
,
filling
her
hornes
with
light
,
and
the
Heavens
with
brightnesse
:
There
shall
hee
behold
the
infant
buried
certaine
moneths
in
the
wombe
of
his
Mother
;
but
in
the
end
,
comming
forth
upon
the
stage
of
the
World
a
glorious
Creature
,
Cor.
15
and
richly
adorned
with
the
Image
of
the
Creator
.
There
lastly
shall
hee
see
,
the
Corne
not
quickned
except
it
dye
,
nor
the
trees
and
plants
of
the
earth
flourishing
,
untill
first
they
have
endured
a
Winters
death
.
But
if
neither
the
Booke
of
God
,
nor
yet
of
Nature
,
can
give
such
a
cavelling
,
and
Athiesticall
wretch
as
this
is
satisfaction
;
I
for
mine
owne
part
shall
give
him
over
to
the
seate
of
Justice
,
to
bee
answered
as
they
were
,
Nehem.
13.2
.
rather
verbere
quam
verbo
,
Neh.
13.2
with
the
fist
of
the
Magistrate
;
then
with
any
dispute
or
force
of
argument
.
And
so
I
come
to
the
persons
that
shall
arise
in
these
words
.
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
.
FOr
the
further
cleering
of
which
words
two
questions
must
of
necessity
be
answered
.
The
first
is
,
whether
these
words
doe
not
crosse
those
in
the
14
ver.
before
going
?
For
there
it
is
said
,
Thy
dead
men
shall
not
live
:
And
here
it
is
said
,
That
they
shall
live
:
and
that
They
shall
arise
:
Now
betweene
live
and
not
live
,
not
rise
,
and
arise
,
a
man
would
thinke
were
a
plaine
contradiction
.
The
second
question
,
is
,
why
the
Spirit
of
God
termeth
them
,
the
Prophets
dead
men
,
and
not
dead
men
in
generall
,
in
these
words
.
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
.
To
answere
both
in
order
.
First
we
are
to
know
,
that
there
is
no
contradiction
,
no
saying
,
nor
unsaying
,
betweene
the
words
of
my
Text
,
and
those
formerly
delivered
in
the
14.
verse
:
For
whereas
our
Prophet
saith
in
the
14
verse
.
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
:
or
as
some
will
have
it
:
They
are
dead
,
shal
they
not
live
,
&
c
?
or
as
others
,
Hi
mortuj
non
vivent
,
such
dead
men
as
these
shall
not
live
.
He
poynteth
out
questionlesse
wicked
and
ungodly
persons
formely
mentioned
in
this
Chapter
:
Such
as
our
Saviour
Christ
aimeth
at
,
Mat.
8.22
Mat.
8
22.
when
hee
willeth
that
officious
Disciple
to
suffer
,
The
dead
to
bury
their
dead
.
And
on
the
other
side
by
the
word
(
Thy
)
(
a
plaine
note
of
difference
and
distinction
in
these
words
of
my
Text
)
our
Prophet
doubtlesse
notes
out
a
special
,
and
chosen
company
differing
from
the
rest
,
Rev.
20.6
over
whom
death
hath
no
power
:
but
they
shall
live
eternally
.
In
a
word
.
First
by
those
in
the
14
verse
:
Not
living
:
Not
arising
!
Rom.
6.21
our
Prophet
understandeth
persons
dying
in
their
sinnes
.
Secondly
,
those
in
my
Text
:
Living
and
Arising
,
Rev.
14.13
hee
understandeth
persons
dying
in
the
Lord
.
And
verily
wicked
men
dying
in
their
sinnes
,
neither
are
partakers
of
the
first
Resurrection
;
neither
doth
their
Resurrection
,
deserve
at
all
so
honourable
a
denomination
:
For
as
the
Death
of
the
righteous
,
cannot
properly
be
said
to
bee
a
death
:
it
being
(
as
one
saith
wel
)
Occasio
vitae
,
non
deletio
:
a
further
living
,
not
an
utter
quenching
of
the
Lampe
thereof
:
so
on
the
other
side
,
the
resurrection
of
the
wicked
cannot
(
as
I
have
said
)
properly
be
called
a
Resurrection
,
it
being
a
meere
precipitation
;
and
casting
headlong
of
an
unbeleeving
catiffe
,
into
the
devouring
jawes
of
the
second
death
,
and
fatall
gulfe
of
eternall
destruction
.
Both
in
deed
,
good
and
bad
,
him
that
serveth
God
,
and
him
that
serveth
him
not
,
shall
be
raised
up
at
the
latter
day
:
and
yet
their
resurrection
shall
much
differ
.
Whether
we
consider
,
-
1.
Either
the
manner
of
the
Resurrection
.
-
2.
The
end
of
the
same
.
And
first
for
the
manner
.
The
Childe
of
God
is
raised
up
by
the
hand
of
mercy
,
the
wicked
man
and
reprobate
,
by
the
hand
of
Justice
:
the
one
by
the
vertue
of
the
death
and
resurrection
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
piercing
into
his
grave
;
even
as
you
see
the
Sun
and
showers
in
the
spring
,
sweetly
soaking
and
sinking
downe
into
the
roote
of
the
plant
,
causing
in
it
immediately
to
bud
and
blossome
forth
.
The
other
,
by
the
arme
and
power
of
Almighty
God
,
who
shall
then
judge
both
the
quicke
and
the
dead
;
and
who
shall
quoit
him
out
of
his
grave
,
like
a
raging
and
horrible
tempest
that
casteth
up
both
stones
and
dirt
.
Secondly
,
the
one
ariseth
like
a
miserable
Captive
in
the
fetters
of
the
second
death
:
the
other
,
like
a
Free-man
,
in
the
garments
of
Glory
:
the
one
commeth
forth
like
a
condemned
person
,
having
the
wrath
of
God
like
a
cruell
Goaler
,
hanging
on
his
arme
,
and
hayling
him
from
his
grave
,
as
from
a
stinking
Dungeon
,
unto
the
place
of
execution
:
the
other
,
commeth
forth
like
a
Bridgroome
richly
apparelled
,
to
meete
his
beloved
spouse
:
or
like
a
banished
man
who
is
now
arrived
upon
his
native
soile
.
Secondly
,
as
they
differ
in
the
manner
,
so
likewise
doe
they
differ
in
the
end
of
their
resurrection
:
the
one
to
bee
graciously
rewarded
,
the
other
to
bee
grievously
tormented
:
the
one
to
receive
the
reward
of
the
righteous
,
the
other
to
receive
the
doome
of
the
wicked
:
the
one
to
be
received
into
their
Masters
joy
,
the
other
to
bee
clapt
up
in
the
prison
of
woe
:
the
one
,
lastly
,
to
make
good
that
dreadfull
sentence
passed
upon
Adam
,
Genesis
2.17
.
In
the
day
that
thou
eatest
thereof
thou
shalt
surely
Gen.
2.17
dye
the
death
.
The
other
to
fulfill
that
blessed
promise
made
by
Christ
to
the
faithfull
,
Ioh.
11.15
Iohn
the
eleventh
,
verse
fifteenth
:
I
am
the
Resurrection
and
the
life
.
For
till
then
,
wee
shall
not
cleerely
see
the
fruite
,
either
of
that
undoing
sinne
of
Adam
,
or
of
that
eternall
sacrifice
,
which
Christ
(
the
righteous
)
presented
to
the
Father
,
when
hee
was
pleased
(
in
his
infinite
mercy
)
to
dye
for
our
sinnes
,
and
rise
againe
for
our
justification
:
then
it
plainely
appeares
,
First
,
what
the
second
death
meaneth
,
and
who
they
are
,
that
are
truely
cursed
.
Secondly
,
what
eternall
life
is
,
and
who
they
are
that
are
truely
blessed
.
Thirdly
,
what
Christ
did
for
us
,
and
that
he
dyed
not
in
vaine
,
where
with
these
eyes
of
ours
,
we
shall
see
millions
cloathed
with
glory
and
immortality
,
and
of
poore
men
made
rich
,
of
beggers
,
Princes
.
By
all
which
,
it
is
most
cleere
and
evident
,
that
godlesse
persons
(
sonnes
of
Belial
)
have
no
reason
at
all
to
looke
for
the
Resurrection
day
,
but
with
Faelix
,
Acts
twenty
foure
,
verse
the
second
,
Acts
24.2
to
tremble
at
it
,
sith
to
them
it
will
bee
a
day
of
Darknesse
,
and
not
light
:
yea
,
very
darknesse
,
and
no
brightnesse
in
it
.
For
however
they
shall
escape
the
pound
of
the
Grave
:
yet
the
second
death
,
shall
like
a
cruell
Wolfe
,
eagerly
pursue
them
,
overtake
them
,
and
quite
master
them
;
so
that
their
freedome
from
death
,
shall
bee
no
other
benefit
to
them
,
then
if
a
man
fled
from
a
Lyon
,
and
a
Beare
met
him
:
or
entring
the
house
,
and
leaning
his
hand
on
the
Wall
,
and
a
Serpent
bit
him
.
To
the
children
of
God
(
onely
)
it
wil
bee
a
joyfull
day
:
their
marriage
day
:
a
day
of
great
solemnity
:
A
day
wherein
their
redemption
draweth
neere
?
A
day
wherein
their
vild
bodies
shal
be
made
like
the
glorious
body
of
the
Sonne
of
God
(
as
wee
shall
see
afterward
more
plainely
.
)
The
second
question
is
,
why
the
spirit
of
God
calleth
these
dead
men
,
the
Prophets
dead
men
,
in
saying
,
Thy
dead
men
shall
live
.
To
which
I
answere
diversly
:
As
first
,
for
that
these
persons
formerly
were
his
proper
and
peculiar
charge
,
and
he
set
over
them
,
not
onely
as
a
watchman
to
informe
them
,
Eze.
3.17
Isa.
40.11
Jer.
33.5
Ioh.
21.15
but
a
shepheard
to
feed
them
:
And
therefore
his
people
,
his
flocke
:
for
severall
congregations
,
are
so
many
Ministers
flockes
:
and
all
the
soules
therein
their
speciall
charge
:
to
them
they
are
in
trust
committed
:
and
at
their
hands
one
day
they
will
be
certainely
required
.
Eze.
3.18.19
,
&
33.8
Hence
was
it
,
that
the
Apostle
Paul
in
his
farewell
Sermon
,
so
earnestly
exhorteth
the
Elders
of
Ephesus
,
Act.
26.28
Act.
26.28
.
to
feede
the
flocke
of
Christ
.
Over
which
(
saith
he
)
the
Holy
Ghost
hath
made
you
overseers
.
And
the
Apostle
Peter
,
all
ministers
in
generall
.
1.
Pet.
5.13
.
assuring
them
withall
,
that
in
doing
so
,
When
the
great
shepheard
doth
appeare
,
they
shall
receive
a
Crowne
of
Glory
,
1
Pet.
5.13
that
fadeth
not
away
.
Secondly
,
they
are
said
to
be
his
dead
,
for
that
he
was
formerly
a
principal
instrument
,
and
meanes
,
for
the
conversion
of
their
soules
;
freedome
from
their
naturall
bondage
;
Act.
26.18
Rom
8.22
and
bringing
of
them
into
that
blessed
liberty
of
the
sonnes
of
God
.
So
that
now
they
are
his
dead
,
who
formerly
obtained
life
by
his
helpe
:
For
this
is
an
high
priviledge
and
prerogative
which
onely
belongeth
to
the
Ministers
of
the
Word
,
lawfully
called
;
as
was
Aaron
,
not
onely
to
be
the
Embassadors
of
the
sonne
of
God
,
Cor
3.9
.
but
his
fellow-workers
also
:
yea
Saviours
(
instrumentally
)
of
the
soules
of
men
:
the
which
doth
plainely
appeare
,
not
onely
by
that
wee
read
in
the
Prophesie
of
Obadiah
ver.
21.
where
he
fore-telleth
;
Obad.
v.
21
That
in
the
latter
dayes
Saviours
shall
come
up
upon
Mount
Syon
.
Tim.
14.16
But
by
the
exhortation
that
Saint
Paul
giveth
his
beloved
Timothy
:
willing
him
to
have
a
care
both
to
himselfe
,
and
to
his
doctrine
:
for
in
doing
so
,
(
saith
hee
)
thou
shalt
save
thy selfe
,
and
those
that
heare
thee
.
The
consideration
whereof
,
ought
not
onely
to
be
as
pretious
Wine
,
warming
of
our
breasts
,
but
a
spurre
and
goad
in
our
sides
,
that
are
the
Ministers
of
the
Word
,
putting
us
on
cheerefully
to
passe
through
the
miery
waies
of
scorne
and
contempt
,
which
we
dayly
meete
withall
,
as
wee
walke
along
,
carefully
performing
the
duties
of
our
calling
:
remembring
,
First
,
though
it
bee
heere
in
this
World
a
calling
much
contemned
,
yet
is
it
in
heaven
highly
honoured
.
Secondly
,
though
it
bee
a
calling
full
of
paines
,
yet
it
bringeth
in
the
end
unspeakable
comfort
.
Let
us
therefore
,
not
so
much
eye
the
labour
as
the
wages
:
the
present
worke
,
as
the
future
reward
.
Lastly
,
they
are
said
to
be
his
dead
,
for
that
he
had
not
yet
given
up
a
perfect
account
for
them
.
And
no
marvaile
,
for
the
Audit
day
was
not
yet
come
,
when
both
hee
and
his
people
must
appeare
face
to
face
before
that
glorious
Tribunall
,
of
that
dreadful
Judge
;
who
with
an
unpartiall
eare
,
will
heare
all
things
passed
betwixt
them
,
and
give
sentence
accordingly
:
For
death
sealeth
not
a
Minister
his
Quietus
est
,
neither
is
he
fully
discharged
of
his
flocke
and
cure
,
untill
that
day
,
wherein
the
Sonne
of
God
holding
his
general
Assizes
,
shall
require
at
his
hands
,
a
particular
account
,
both
for
himselfe
,
and
also
for
all
those
,
who
were
formerly
his
flocke
and
people
.
Heb.
13.19
.
Heb.
13.19
.
The
due
consideration
whereof
,
made
the
Apostle
Paul
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
to
preach
the
Gospell
with
that
assiduity
and
diligence
as
they
did
.
Col.
1.28
For
that
(
saith
he
,
Colos.
1.28
.
)
our
desire
is
to
present
every
man
perfect
in
Iesus
Christ
,
which
being
so
,
first
of
all
,
happy
and
blessed
is
that
man
,
whom
when
his
Master
commeth
,
shall
finde
so
doing
:
yea
,
happy
and
blessed
is
that
minister
,
Luk
12.36
and
painefull
labourer
in
the
Lord
,
who
having
worne
out
his
Age
and
strength
in
the
service
of
the
Church
,
and
like
a
pretious
lampe
consumed
himselfe
to
give
light
to
others
,
is
now
laid
up
in
peace
,
in
the
midst
of
a
number
of
his
neighbours
,
and
familiar
acquaintance
,
it
may
bee
,
by
his
meanes
,
brought
to
the
true
knowledge
and
understanding
both
of
God
and
themselves
:
what
a
blessed
sight
wil
it
be
,
when
that
day
is
come
,
and
that
dreadfull
voyce
,
Surgite
mortui
,
shall
shake
Heaven
and
earth
,
to
behold
both
him
,
and
al
those
ancient
friends
of
his
,
lively
leaping
out
of
their
graves
,
clothed
all
in
pure
robes
,
shining
and
glistering
as
the
light
.
Oh
who
can
expresse
the
joy
that
wil
be
then
,
at
this
their
meeting
againe
.
But
above
all
,
the
joyfullest
sight
will
be
,
to
behold
that
welcome
which
the
Son
of
God
will
then
give
him
,
with
that
Enge
serve
bone
&
fidelis
:
Wel
done
good
servant
and
faithfull
:
When
hee
upon
his
bended
knee
,
and
al
his
company
kneeling
round
about
him
,
shall
then
speake
unto
him
,
sitting
upon
his
glorious
Tribunall
.
Thou
Almighty
King
and
supreame
iudge
of
the
whole
World
.
Loe
here
I
am
,
and
the
children
that
thou
hast
given
unto
me
.
Isa
8.18
The
which
doubtlesse
will
be
a
sight
so
full
of
joy
,
that
my
tongue
is
not
able
to
expresse
the
same
:
my
desire
onely
is
,
that
into
that
or
the
like
assembly
,
my selfe
may
one
day
come
.
Secondly
,
as
the
estate
of
the
faithfull
labourer
wil
then
be
happy
,
so
on
the
other
side
,
Ezek.
11.16
,
17
the
condition
of
him
that
is
an
unfaithfull
labourer
,
will
questionlesse
prove
most
miserable
.
How
carefull
the
Elders
were
in
former
times
over
the
soules
of
such
as
were
committed
to
their
charge
,
may
appeare
by
one
example
,
which
may
serve
in
stead
of
many
:
of
St.
Iohn
,
Clemens
Alexandrinus
&
Sozomenus
.
the
blessed
Evangelist
,
(
standing
upon
record
in
Ecclesiasticall
stories
)
which
I
will
as
briefly
as
I
can
relate
unto
you
.
St.
Iohn
(
saith
the
story
)
after
the
death
of
the
Tyrant
(
meaning
as
I
take
it
Domitian
)
returning
out
of
the
I
le
of
Pathmos
,
and
comming
to
the
City
of
Ephesus
,
where
having
ordayned
Elders
,
and
dispatched
much
other
busines
concerning
the
Chrcuh
,
he
commeth
at
length
to
a
certaine
City
not
farre
of
,
whose
name
(
saith
the
Author
)
many
at
this
day
doe
well
remember
,
where
amongst
divers
others
there
assembled
,
he
espyed
a
certaine
young
man
,
mighty
in
body
,
and
of
a
beautifull
and
manly
countenance
:
whom
after
he
had
earnestly
beheld
,
the
blessed
Apostle
turning
himselfe
to
the
Bishop
of
the
place
,
after
this
manner
spake
unto
him
:
I
doe
heere
(
saith
hee
)
in
the
presence
of
Christ
and
his
Church
,
commit
this
man
unto
thee
to
be
trained
up
,
and
instructed
with
thy
greatest
diligence
.
And
so
immediately
after
,
the
Apostle
returned
againe
to
Ephesus
.
The
Bishop
receiving
the
young
man
thus
committed
to
his
charge
,
tooke
him
home
with
him
,
and
through
his
extraordinary
care
so
wrought
upon
him
,
that
within
a
short
time
,
hee
was
thought
fit
,
not
onely
to
bee
Baptized
,
but
to
have
a
certaine
cure
,
in
the
Lords
behalfe
committed
to
him
.
But
after
this
,
the
young
man
having
obtained
his
former
liberty
,
fel
into
company
againe
,
of
certaine
of
his
olde
ompanions
,
Idle
and
dissolute
persons
,
that
first
drew
him
to
their
riotous
feasts
and
banquets
;
and
after
that
to
the
perpetrating
and
committing
of
far
greater
mischiefes
and
wickednesse
:
So
that
now
he
is
not
onely
an
asociate
of
those
wretches
his
companions
,
in
the
committing
of
many
Murthers
,
Robberies
,
and
other
horrible
out-rages
:
but
by
reason
of
the
excellency
of
his
wit
,
manlinesse
of
heart
,
and
stoutnesse
of
courage
,
he
is
made
their
head
and
Captaine
.
In
the
meane
time
,
Saint
Iohn
comming
againe
into
those
parts
,
and
meeting
by
the
way
with
the
Bishop
before
specified
,
required
of
him
the
pledge
which
(
said
hee
)
in
the
presence
of
Christ
and
his
Congregation
,
I
left
in
thy
hands
to
keepe
:
The
Bishop
somewhat
amazed
,
supposing
hee
had
some
money
committed
to
his
custody
,
which
he
had
not
as
yet
received
,
knew
not
what
answer
he
should
make
unto
him
.
The
which
Saint
Iohn
perceiving
:
The
young
man
,
(
saith
he
)
and
soule
of
our
brother
,
committed
to
your
custody
,
is
the
pledge
that
I
require
:
The
Bishop
understanding
his
meaning
,
with
teares
running
downe
his
cheekes
,
thus
replyed
.
He
is
dead
(
saith
he
)
dead
unto
God
,
being
now
become
a
most
wicked
person
,
a
companion
of
theeves
and
villaines
,
and
haunting
these
mountaines
and
desarts
hard
by
.
At
the
hearing
whereof
,
the
blessed
Apostle
rending
his
Garments
,
with
great
lamentation
,
said
unto
him
:
I
have
left
a
good
keeper
of
my
brothers
soule
.
And
thereupon
desiring
instantly
a
horse
and
a
guide
,
rod
directly
to
the
place
where
this
damned
crue
haunted
,
where
being
presently
taken
by
some
of
that
company
,
hee
earnestly
requested
of
them
to
bee
brought
unto
their
Captaine
:
who
comming
to
him
armed
as
he
was
,
at
the
first
beganne
to
look
fiercely
on
him
;
but
immediately
comming
to
the
knowledge
who
hee
was
,
as
a
man
wholy
confounded
,
began
to
flye
and
run
from
him
.
But
the
old
man
followed
him
as
fast
as
he
might
,
forgetting
his
age
,
and
crying
,
My
Sonne
,
why
dost
thou
flye
from
thy
Father
?
an
armed
man
,
from
one
without
weapon
?
a
young
man
from
an
old
man
?
Have
pitty
on
mee
my
sonne
,
and
feare
not
,
for
there
is
yet
hope
of
salvation
:
I
will
make
an
answere
for
thee
unto
Christ
:
I
will
dye
for
thee
(
if
neede
be
)
as
Christ
hath
dyed
.
I
will
give
my
life
for
thee
.
Beleeve
mee
Christ
hath
sent
mee
.
The
yong
man
as
one
amazed
,
first
stood
still
,
and
then
casting
downe
his
weapons
,
trembling
,
and
bitterly
weeeping
,
imbraced
the
old
man
,
being
baptized
afresh
againe
,
through
aboundance
of
teares
running
downe
his
manly
cheekes
:
whom
after
the
Apostle
had
upon
his
knees
fervently
prayed
for
,
he
brought
back
unto
the
Congregation
;
to
which
,
after
some
time
of
humiliation
and
dayly
fastings
,
he
was
happily
at
length
restored
.
The
story
is
too
long
for
me
to
comment
upon
:
let
him
that
hath
an
eare
harken
what
venerable
antiquity
speaketh
:
I
come
now
to
the
second
thing
to
be
considered
in
my
Text
,
namely
the
manner
of
their
resurrection
:
the
which
is
described
by
the
blessed
Spirit
;
as
we
heard
to
be
:
-
1.
Very
Beautifull
.
-
2.
Exceeding
joyfull
.
And
first
,
beautifull
,
in
these
words
:
With
my
body
shall
they
arise
.
The
which
standing
(
as
they
doe
)
in
the
originall
,
carrie
with
them
a
doubtfull
construction
,
which
maketh
Interpreters
somwhat
to
vary
in
their
translations
:
For
that
which
some
translate
,
With
my
dead
body
shall
they
arise
:
others
turne
,
My
dead
bodies
,
or
my
dead
body
shall
arise
.
The
matter
is
not
great
in
in
which
sence
the
words
bee
taken
,
since
they
are
so
neere
a
kinne
,
and
carry
with
them
severall
conclusions
,
full
of
Divine
truth
and
sweete
consolation
.
First
,
then
,
if
we
take
the
word
as
the
ordinary
translation
hath
them
,
and
read
them
thus
,
With
my
dead
body
shall
they
arise
:
Then
must
we
take
the
Son
of
God
in
the
same
,
comforting
of
his
Church
,
together
with
the
severall
members
thereof
,
with
an
assured
hope
of
a
most
glorious
resurrection
.
So
that
however
,
the
brutish
and
ungodly
as
hee
fell
,
Num.
24.21
.
1
Cor.
10.
so
hee
shall
arise
,
and
having
his
bones
full
of
the
sinnes
of
his
youth
which
(
Iob
20.11
.
Iob.
20.11
.
)
lay
downe
with
him
in
the
dust
)
shall
come
forth
under
the
Tyranicall
command
of
the
second
death
,
the
resurrection
of
condemnation
:
yet
the
servant
of
God
,
Dan.
12.2
the
true
sonne
of
the
resurrection
,
Iohn
the
fift
,
Iohn
5.2
verse
the
second
:
However
his
body
was
sowne
in
weaknesse
,
yet
shall
it
rise
againe
in
power
,
and
putting
off
the
rotten
ragges
and
patched
mantle
of
corruption
,
1
Cor
15.47
shal
be
richly
cloathed
and
apparelled
with
the
pure
and
pretious
garments
of
salvation
:
Isa.
61.7
In
affirming
therefore
that
those
dead
bodies
shall
arise
with
his
glorious
body
,
he
intimateth
thus
much
:
That
when
that
day
of
refreshing
shal
come
from
the
presence
of
the
Lord
:
Aact
.
3.19
he
who
is
the
resurrection
and
the
life
,
shal
not
onely
remove
all
deformity
of
nature
,
but
worke
a
blessde
conformity
betweene
himselfe
who
is
the
head
,
1
Cor.
15.49
.
and
all
such
as
are
several
members
of
his
blessed
body
,
that
as
they
have
borne
the
Image
of
the
earthly
;
so
shal
they
then
beare
the
Image
of
the
heavenly
.
Then
sin
,
together
with
the
fruits
&
woeful
effects
thereof
shal
wholly
cease
;
and
howsoever
the
bodily
substance
shal
remain
,
yet
the
qualities
therof
,
shal
be
wholly
changed
.
So
that
for
sicknesse
there
shal
be
health
:
for
deformity
beauty
:
for
basenesse
glory
,
for
lumpishnesse
agility
:
yea
,
for
weaknesse
such
aboundance
of
strength
;
Zach
12
2
that
hee
that
is
feeblest
amongst
them
,
shall
be
as
David
,
and
the
house
of
David
,
as
Gods
,
and
as
the
Angell
of
the
Lord
before
them
.
For
as
by
death
our
naturall
infirmities
are
fully
cured
,
Eph.
4.3
so
in
the
resurrection
(
every
way
so
glorious
)
our
former
losses
shall
perfectly
be
restored
,
whilst
we
all
come
unto
a
perfect
man
,
unto
the
measure
of
the
stature
of
the
fulnesse
of
Christ
.
By
meanes
thereof
;
Isa.
65.4
Psal.
103.5
,
6
1
Cor.
13.9
we
shall
not
onely
obtaine
a
freedome
from
all
misery
,
but
a
fruition
of
all
good
.
Those
things
that
wee
doe
now
weakly
beleeve
,
we
shall
fully
imbrace
.
And
those
glorious
things
dayly
spoken
of
thee
,
thou
rich
inheritance
of
the
Saints
of
God
,
we
shall
both
see
and
taste
.
For
instance
,
then
we
shall
by
joyfull
experience
finde
:
1.
The
greatnesse
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
his
purchase
,
and
infinitenesse
of
his
love
:
that
he
that
knew
no
sinne
,
should
be
made
sinne
for
us
,
that
wee
might
be
made
(
2
Cor.
5.21
)
The
righteousnesse
of
God
.
2
Cor.
5.21
2.
What
those
robes
are
of
Christs
righteousnesse
,
and
how
pretious
those
Garments
are
of
our
Elder
Brother
;
which
the
blessed
Apostle
so
much
desired
.
Phil.
3.5
2
Tim.
4.8
1
Pet.
5.4
Phil.
3.5
.
together
with
the
misery
and
most
unhappy
condition
of
those
that
want
them
2.
Tim.
4.8
.
1.
Pet.
5.4
.
3.
What
the
Crowne
of
Immortality
and
Life
meaneth
:
and
whether
it
bee
worth
the
blood
of
so
many
Martyrs
and
holy
Confessors
as
have
beene
spilt
from
righteous
Abel
until
now
,
for
the
obtaining
of
it
.
4.
Lastly
,
what
a
glorified
body
is
,
and
the
dignity
and
excellency
of
the
same
;
when
our
bodies
shall
be
light
and
nimble
,
passing
up
and
downe
,
as
upon
the
wings
of
the
Winde
:
when
our
dayly
foode
shall
be
the
love
of
God
;
and
all
our
drinke
drawne
out
of
the
River
of
Celestiall
pleasures
;
when
our
bodies
shall
be
transparent
like
the
purest
Christall
:
and
our
soules
shining
through
the
same
,
like
so
many
sparkling
Diamonds
:
when
God
lastly
shall
bee
all
in
all
,
the
vaile
remooved
,
and
wee
for
ever
with
him
.
The
which
in
themselves
,
are
things
so
excellent
,
that
whilst
I
am
speaking
of
them
;
me
thinkes
I
heare
my
soule
thus
secretly
complaining
:
Heu
mihi
peregrinor
tandin
,
&c.
Alas
that
I
soiourne
in
Mesech
,
Psal.
120.5
Rev.
22
and
dwell
so
long
in
the
Tents
of
Kedar
.
Lord
Iesus
come
quickly
.
Secondly
,
if
we
take
the
words
as
some
translate
them
:
Cadavera
mea
resurgent
:
My
dead
Carcasses
shall
arise
:
then
questionlesse
(
in
calling
them
his
dead
carkasses
)
the
blessed
spirit
assureth
them
,
of
his
speciall
care
over
them
,
untill
the
day
and
time
of
their
resurrection
commeth
:
so
that
although
they
have
left
the
world
,
yet
are
they
not
quite
lost
,
but
when
they
are
not
,
then
are
they
his
dead
Carkasses
.
A
dead
Carkasse
,
though
of
the
dearest
friend
,
wee
see
usually
,
few
will
owne
.
A
memorable
example
(
amongst
many
others
)
wee
have
in
William
the
second
the
Conquerors
successor
,
who
being
fatally
killed
,
and
now
falne
to
the
earth
:
all
his
company
,
Nobles
,
and
others
,
instantly
forsooke
him
,
save
only
a
few
of
the
meanest
sort
,
who
laying
his
Princely
Corpes
uppon
a
homely
beere
,
drew
it
into
a
house
or
lodge
neare
at
hand
;
now
if
this
were
the
portion
of
so
mighty
a
Prince
,
whom
immediatly
before
,
so
glorious
a
troop
,
so
royally
attended
:
what
must
others
then
of
meaner
ranke
expect
and
and
looke
for
,
but
onely
with
deaths
closing
up
their
eyes
,
to
have
all
their
friends
excluded
,
and
no
sooner
gone
,
but
to
be
as
suddainely
forgotten
.
For
Oblivion
and
neglect
,
Psal.
87.8
are
the
two
handmaids
of
death
,
and
her
Kingdome
where
shee
principally
tyrannizeth
is
Terra
oblivionis
,
The
land
of
forgetfulnesse
:
when
as
David
therefore
would
expresse
the
worlds
ingratitude
,
in
the
highest
degree
toward
him
;
he
fetcheth
her
comparison
from
her
usuall
manner
in
forgetting
of
the
dead
.
Psal.
31.12
Psal.
31.12
.
I
am
forgotten
(
saith
he
)
like
a
dead
man
out
of
minde
.
And
from
this
evill
fashion
,
grew
that
ancient
and
usuall
custome
of
erecting
monument
over
the
dead
,
ut
ment●m
moneant
,
ad
defuncti
memoria
,
that
they
might
retaine
and
keepe
in
memory
persons
formerly
departed
:
the
consideration
whereof
,
as
it
cannot
questionlesse
,
but
much
trouble
the
dying
heart
,
even
of
the
dearest
servant
of
Christ
(
who
naturally
is
sociable
and
desiring
the
company
of
man
)
as
we
see
in
Ezechias
dolefull
complaint
Isa.
38.11
.
Isa.
38.11
I
shall
see
man
no
more
with
the
inhabitants
of
the
earth
:
So
ought
the
very
hearing
that
all
the
dead
bodies
of
the
Elect
,
are
the
Sonnes
of
God
,
his
dead
carkasses
,
and
peculiar
charge
,
mightily
to
cheere
up
their
dejected
soules
,
at
the
last
houre
and
period
of
their
lives
.
If
then
it
happeneth
(
as
oft
it
doth
)
that
these
or
the
like
Melancholly
thoughts
(
uppon
the
approach
of
Death
)
enter
thy
troubled
breast
,
and
thus
thou
secretly
musest
with
thy selfe
.
I
see
mine
houre
and
time
is
now
at
hand
,
when
I
must
away
,
and
suddainly
make
my
bed
in
darknesse
,
in
the
slimey
valley
;
whither
my
friends
will
not
care
to
come
,
and
mine
acquaintance
tremble
to
approach
:
where
my
onely
Comrade
must
bee
corruption
,
and
the
worme
my
chiefe
companion
.
Then
remember
,
that
being
Christs
in
thy
lifetime
,
thou
art
his
when
thou
art
dead
;
then
his
living
Temple
,
and
now
his
dead
carkasse
.
Neyther
doth
his
love
at
all
fayle
,
when
breath
fayleth
:
For
however
others
perhaps
will
loath
thee
:
yet
bee
sure
hee
will
not
leave
thee
;
but
closing
thy
dying
eyes
with
his
gracious
hand
;
will
go
along
with
thee
unto
thy
Grave
,
where
having
sowne
thee
like
precious
seed
,
will
not
forsake
thee
until
hee
shall
rayse
thee
in
a
most
glorious
manner
.
For
even
as
those
infernal
spirits
are
never
absent
from
the
Graves
and
tombes
of
Reprobates
,
prophaine
and
wicked
persons
;
but
there
they
are
tryumphing
over
them
,
as
their
spoyle
and
conquest
:
so
is
the
sonne
of
God
never
absent
(
by
his
Divine
presence
)
from
the
Graves
and
monuments
of
all
pious
and
Religious
persons
,
perfuming
them
with
the
odoriferous
savour
of
his
death
and
passion
;
and
so
preserving
of
them
,
that
not
a
bone
of
them
is
lost
.
The
which
being
so
,
Psal.
34
20.
when
that
time
commeth
,
and
dye
I
must
,
egredere
anima
mea
,
egredere
,
go
forth
my
soule
,
go
forth
,
feare
not
,
so
are
up
to
that
blessed
society
that
is
above
,
Heb.
12
:
22.23.24
that
company
of
angels
,
&
spirits
of
iust
&
perfect
men
;
&
to
Iesus
mediator
,
and
to
the
bloud
of
sprinkling
,
that
speaketh
better
things
then
the
bloud
of
Abel
.
As
for
my
dead
carkase
,
I
deliver
it
wholly
over
into
the
hands
of
my
blessed
Saviour
;
Tim.
1.12
being
well
assured
,
that
he
is
of
powerable
to
keep
that
which
is
thus
committed
to
him
.
Secondly
,
as
the
resurrection
of
the
elect
(
as
I
have
shewed
you
)
will
be
very
beautifull
,
so
againe
will
it
be
very
joyfull
;
as
may
appeare
by
the
words
following
,
wherein
they
are
willed
To
awake
and
sing
.
The
which
words
may
be
understood
,
either
.
First
,
as
a
rethoricall
passage
,
wherein
the
blessed
Spirit
turneth
his
speech
to
the
dead
bodies
,
willing
them
to
Awake
and
sing
.
Or
secondly
,
in
way
of
Prophesie
,
wherein
he
fore-telleth
,
as
an
addition
to
their
future
happinesse
,
that
they
shall
Awake
and
sing
.
If
then
we
take
the
words
in
the
first
sense
,
then
have
we
no
other
then
an
application
,
or
use
,
that
the
spirit
of
God
maketh
of
that
comfortable
Doctrine
formerly
declared
,
concerning
the
resurrection
of
the
dead
,
in
speaking
to
them
as
persons
living
,
and
willing
them
to
Awake
and
sing
:
many
the
like
passages
we
meete
withall
in
the
booke
of
God
,
where
we
finde
the
Holy
Ghost
speaking
to
things
unreasonable
,
as
though
they
were
reasonable
;
sencelesse
;
as
having
understanding
;
Isa.
1.21
Deut.
30
Isa.
41.1
Hos.
4.3
.
Jer.
2.12
dead
,
as
living
:
sometimes
calling
them
forth
to
bee
Judges
:
sometimes
to
bee
witnesses
,
somtimes
to
rejoyce
,
somtimes
to
mourne
;
somtimes
to
looke
boldly
,
somtimes
to
blush
and
be
ashamed
.
All
which
together
,
with
the
reason
why
the
blessed
Spirit
cloatheth
his
discourses
in
such
Retoricall
and
rich
attire
,
I
doe
willingly
omit
:
fearing
lest
through
teadiousnesse
I
might
bee
troublesome
.
And
yet
before
I
wholly
leave
this
poynt
,
and
come
unto
the
second
,
I
thinke
it
not
amisse
to
touch
one
necessarie
dutie
,
which
the
methode
that
the
holy
Ghost
here
observeth
,
affoordeth
to
us
,
in
making
(
as
I
said
)
so
excellent
an
use
of
those
comfortable
doctrines
formerly
delivered
.
For
whereas
in
the
words
preceding
,
he
assureth
the
bodies
of
Saints
Inhabiting
in
the
dust
,
that
they
shall
not
onely
a
rise
,
but
in
a
most
glorious
manner
;
and
that
till
then
,
they
are
under
the
wings
and
protection
of
a
most
gratious
keeper
:
so
in
these
words
,
he
turneh
himselfe
unto
them
,
and
maketh
this
blessed
use
of
all
,
willing
them
,
To
awake
and
sing
.
The
which
necessary
duty
,
as
it
rightly
concerneth
the
ministers
of
the
word
,
in
delivering
divine
truth
(
as
if
time
would
serve
me
I
might
easily
prove
)
so
likewise
doth
it
the
soule
of
every
Christian
,
man
,
or
woman
,
whensoever
they
heare
promises
or
threatnings
published
or
delivered
.
The
which
that
they
may
the
better
doe
,
a
necessary
thing
it
is
(
for
feare
of
making
false
constructions
)
to
harken
what
the
Conscience
,
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
treasure
of
the
soule
speaketh
:
For
beeing
the
concluding
part
of
the
understanding
,
it
will
easily
tell
a
man
how
his
case
standeth
,
either
by
accusing
or
excusing
,
absolving
or
condemning
.
For
instance
,
thou
art
a
wicked
and
ungodly
liver
;
and
thou
hearest
these
,
or
the
like
dreadfull
judgements
,
threatned
&
thundred
out
against
Adulterers
,
Swearers
,
impious
and
ungodly
livers
:
That
a
flying
booke
of
Curses
shall
enter
into
the
houses
of
such
persons
,
Zach.
5.3.4
Iob.
15.12
15.
Iob.
20.7
and
overthrow
them
quite
.
That
their
strength
shall
bee
famine
,
and
that
Brimstone
shall
bee
scattered
upon
their
Habitations
.
That
they
shall
perish
like
their
owne
Dunge
.
And
that
they
that
have
knowne
them
before
,
shall
say
,
where
are
they
?
Now
;
art
thou
desirous
to
know
,
whether
this
bee
the
portion
of
thy
cup
or
no
?
then
harken
to
thy
conscience
,
and
marke
well
her
words
,
for
questionlesse
upon
the
hearing
of
the
same
,
shee
will
thus
conclude
.
Zach.
10.3
Math.
7.6
But
thou
art
such
a
one
;
debauched
person
,
and
one
of
this
rout
,
and
brutish
crue
;
a
stinking
Goat
,
a
filthy
Swine
,
a
snarling
Dog
:
and
therefore
,
Phil.
3.2
all
those
heavy
judgements
,
and
woefull
plagues
,
are
due
to
thee
,
as
thy
lot
and
portion
.
One
the
other
side
,
thou
art
one
,
upon
whose
heart
the
Word
of
God
hath
wrought
effectually
;
so
that
now
thou
wholly
seekest
after
things
above
.
Thine
Eye
,
thy
Tongue
,
thy
Hand
,
thy
Pilgrimes
Weedes
;
namely
,
Mortification
and
a
new
Life
doe
plainly
shew
it
:
Many
promises
thou
daily
meetest
withall
,
like
delitious
Waters
,
dropping
out
of
the
Bucket
of
Iacob
,
Col.
3.12
.
&
5.1
Rom.
6.4
Cor.
4.10
the
which
thou
art
exceeding
desirous
to
know
whether
they
bee
thine
or
no
?
A
thing
that
thou
maist
easily
doe
,
if
thou
wilt
but
listen
what
thy
conscience
speaketh
,
which
upon
the
hearing
of
the
same
,
will
assuredly
after
this
sort
,
both
assume
and
reply
:
But
thou
my
deare
friend
,
my
yoake-fellow
and
companion
,
art
one
of
this
blessed
company
,
(
as
not
onely
my selfe
,
but
my
whole
life
and
conversation
doe
plainely
witnesse
)
therefore
these
promises
doe
belong
to
thee
.
Secondly
,
if
wee
take
the
words
,
in
the
future
tense
,
in
way
of
prediction
and
prophesies
(
as
well
wee
may
,
for
that
in
the
Hebrewe
language
,
the
Imparative
mood
and
future
tense
are
set
and
placed
,
the
one
usually
for
the
other
)
then
have
we
a
souveraigne
preservative
against
the
feare
and
sadnesse
of
death
,
in
that
the
spirit
of
God
assureth
these
inhabitants
of
the
dust
,
that
they
shall
Awake
and
sing
.
The
which
,
that
we
may
the
better
see
,
we
are
to
consider
:
First
,
who
the
persons
are
,
whom
he
termeth
,
Inhabitants
of
the
dust
.
Secondly
,
their
happy
estate
and
condition
at
the
latter
day
,
in
that
they
shal
Awake
and
sing
.
And
first
,
the
persons
,
that
are
termed
here
the
Inhabitant
of
the
dust
,
we
are
to
understand
no
other
then
those
formerly
mentioned
under
the
name
of
his
dead
:
variety
of
expression
setting
forth
the
selfe
same
persons
,
as
may
appeare
not
onely
by
the
word
(
Yee
)
as
putting
a
speciall
difference
betweene
them
and
others
;
but
also
,
for
that
though
that
all
,
good
&
bad
,
shal
awake
and
rise
,
yet
all
not
awake
&
sing
:
Isa.
65.13
but
the
greatest
company
shall
(
Isa.
65
13
)
Cry
for
sorrow
of
heart
,
and
howle
for
vexation
of
minde
.
Qu.
But
why
are
they
called
the
Inhabitants
of
the
dust
?
why
doth
not
the
blessed
Spirit
give
them
a
more
noble
denomination
?
not
rather
Gods
Iewels
?
Pros.
13.14
Isa.
35.10
Gods
Redeemed
?
Hos.
13.14
.
Gods
chosen
.
Esay
35.10
.
or
as
formerly
hee
did
,
his
dead
carkasses
,
but
inhabitants
of
the
dust
?
I
answer
.
First
,
generally
to
declare
and
manifest
the
mutability
of
all
humane
flesh
:
and
that
there
is
nothing
in
man
,
or
in
the
sonne
of
Man
,
whether
Riches
,
Honour
,
Beauty
,
strength
,
or
wit
,
yea
pure
Religion
,
(
farre
more
precious
then
them
all
)
that
can
hold
him
whom
death
will
have
,
or
latch
the
arrow
that
death
shooteth
.
This
is
that
David
affirmeth
,
Psal.
89.48
when
he
thus
speaketh
,
Psalme
89.48
.
What
man
is
he
that
liveth
,
and
shall
not
see
Death
?
shall
he
deliver
his
soule
from
the
power
of
the
grave
?
Secondly
,
and
more
particularly
,
the
reason
is
three
fold
.
Heb.
9.17
.
First
,
for
that
it
was
the
eternall
decree
and
counsell
of
Almighty
God
;
appoynted
to
man
upon
his
fall
,
Heb.
9.17
,
that
hee
should
once
dye
,
and
after
Death
,
should
come
to
judgement
.
Secondly
,
for
that
the
whole
seede
of
Adam
,
hath
Death
mixed
with
it
;
yea
,
the
tender
infant
sucketh
and
draweth
it
in
,
with
the
milke
of
the
mother
.
Thirdly
,
for
that
man
hath
a
certaine
inclination
to
Death
,
as
the
flower
hath
to
fade
,
or
the
tree
to
fall
.
Secondly
,
in
a
more
particular
,
and
speciall
manner
,
they
are
called
the
inhabitants
of
the
dust
.
First
,
to
teach
every
man
,
that
to
be
an
inhabitant
of
the
Dust
,
is
an
honourable
thing
,
when
,
namely
,
the
dead
corpes
of
Man
or
Woman
,
lyeth
not
as
dung
upon
the
earth
,
but
obtayneth
a
comely
,
a
decent
,
and
Christian
buriall
.
A
blessing
promised
to
Ezechiah
,
Iosiah
,
and
other
the
like
noble
Princes
:
and
the
contrary
againe
threatned
as
a
sore
judgement
agaynst
wicked
and
godlesse
persons
,
Iezabel
,
Zedechiah
,
Heb.
9.17
Ier.
3.4
and
other
of
the
like
sowre
Leaven
:
and
therefore
to
take
it
as
a
speciall
favour
of
God
,
to
have
not
onely
ours
,
but
the
bodies
of
our
Friends
to
bee
layd
up
decently
in
their
Graves
,
velut
preciosa
,
&
Deo
chara
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
choyce
gifts
,
deare
and
precious
unto
God
;
Where
dust
may
return
to
dust
,
as
the
spirit
formerly
did
to
God
,
that
gave
it
.
Secondly
,
to
admonish
all
,
but
principally
the
great
Men
,
and
Princes
of
the
earth
,
not
to
looke
too
much
(
with
proud
Haman
)
uppon
the
glory
of
their
Riches
,
their
trayne
and
followers
,
their
honors
,
and
high
promotions
,
their
greatnesse
,
and
swelling
titles
;
which
if
they
doe
,
will
so
flash
and
glister
in
their
eyes
,
that
they
shall
forget
themselves
,
as
also
the
liberall
hand
from
whence
all
these
things
did
come
.
But
rather
turning
their
backes
uppon
those
inchanting
gleames
and
lights
,
let
them
with
a
serious
looke
daily
view
their
original
and
birth
,
being
of
the
basest
Element
:
their
flesh
and
blood
common
with
the
meanest
servant
:
their
honourable
carkasses
wearing
away
to
their
first
Element
:
where
all
their
pompe
must
leave
them
,
and
they
inhabite
the
sad
and
dusty
valley
.
Thirdly
,
to
be
a
caveat
to
us
,
how
wee
scorne
our
poore
brethren
partakers
with
us
of
the
same
hope
,
and
of
the
same
houshold
of
Faith
;
Gal.
6.10
for
that
their
houses
are
farre
meaner
then
ours
,
and
their
cloathing
and
attire
much
baser
:
Act.
17.10
For
as
wee
are
come
all
of
one
blood
,
the
poore
and
the
Rich
,
the
Lord
&
the
slave
;
so
are
we
travailing
to
the
same
Land
,
where
(
there
is
no
remedy
)
but
we
must
dwell
together
,
and
where
our
houses
will
not
greatly
differ
:
the
out-side
of
the
Rich
mans
,
usually
much
gayer
,
but
the
inside
of
the
poore
mans
,
perhaps
much
sweeter
.
There
it
is
no
disgrace
for
the
Princes
Pallace
to
be
neere
the
Peasants
Cottage
;
or
the
lodging
of
the
poore
beggar
,
to
be
neere
unto
the
Misers
chamber
,
where
the
order
against
Cottages
and
Inmates
is
of
no
value
;
sith
new
Cottages
are
there
hourely
erected
,
&
hundreds
dwell
on
heapes
in
base
and
silly
Mansions
:
when
then
thy
heart
doth
begin
to
swel
in
pride
and
with
the
scornefull
thoughts
,
thou
hast
in
regard
of
thy
brothers
poore
estate
;
then
remember
that
it
wil
not
be
long
ere
thou
and
he
shal
be
both
alike
,
and
of
the
two
,
he
(
it
may
be
)
acknowledged
by
Divine
sentence
the
better
man
.
Remember
Dives
and
Lazarus
.
Secondly
,
wee
are
to
consider
the
severall
things
,
that
they
are
fore-told
to
do
;
and
these
are
First
,
Awake
.
Secondly
,
Sing
.
For
the
first
,
they
shall
awake
;
but
not
of
themselves
,
or
their
owne
power
:
but
by
the
dreadful
voyce
,
and
Almighty
breath
of
God
,
willing
them
and
us
to
Rise
up
from
the
dead
,
Rom
14.12
and
to
give
a
strict
account
of
what
we
in
all
our
life
time
have
done
:
(
of
which
I
intend
not
to
speak
:
)
this
onely
we
may
observe
,
that
Death
is
nothing
else
,
but
a
meere
sleepe
,
out
of
which
wee
shal
bee
one
day
awakened
:
thus
are
all
the
blessed
Patriarckes
,
and
holy
Prophets
,
and
Confessors
,
1
Cor.
15.18
.
dying
in
eldertimes
sayd
(
1
Cor.
15.18
.
)
to
sleepe
.
And
the
same
Apostle
writing
unto
the
Thessalonians
,
useth
this
as
an
argument
to
disswade
them
from
over
much
sorowing
,
as
persons
out
of
hope
for
them
that
were
departed
;
1
Thes.
4.13
for
that
they
did
but
sleepe
:
yea
,
holy
Stephen
,
though
his
death
were
violent
;
yet
saith
the
Spirit
of
God
:
Act.
7.60
.
soule
and
body
were
no
soner
parted
,
but
he
fel
a
sleepe
.
The
which
,
(
although
it
bee
a
truth
)
yet
wee
must
not
fondly
imagine
:
First
death
properly
to
be
asleepe
:
or
,
Secondly
,
when
the
bodie
is
dead
,
that
the
soule
sleepeth
.
For
first
of
all
,
death
cannot
properly
bee
asleepe
;
seeing
they
two
are
so
quite
contrary
;
the
one
a
friend
to
man
,
the
other
a
mortall
foe
:
the
one
naturall
,
the
other
accidentall
:
the
one
a
preserver
of
life
,
the
other
a
destroyer
of
the
same
.
Death
therefore
is
called
usually
by
the
name
of
sleepe
;
in
regard
onely
of
a
kinde
of
similitude
and
proportion
that
is
betwixt
them
.
For
instance
:
First
,
when
a
man
is
falne
asleepe
,
all
outward
labour
and
businesse
is
laid
aside
;
hee
thinketh
not
of
them
,
neither
doth
hee
at
all
desire
them
.
So
is
it
,
when
a
man
is
dead
,
hee
remembreth
no
more
the
worke
and
labour
of
his
hands
,
in
all
that
Pilgrimage
of
his
,
formerly
passed
.
Hee
knoweth
not
what
hee
hath
done
:
and
if
you
tell
him
,
hee
will
not
regard
.
Friend
or
foe
are
all
one
to
him
:
Iob.
14.21
neither
doth
he
care
,
whether
his
sonnes
be
honourable
,
or
of
low
degree
.
Secondly
,
when
sleepe
possesseth
a
man
,
paine
and
passion
,
feare
and
griefe
,
doth
not
so
molest
and
trouble
him
,
as
when
he
is
awake
.
Such
is
the
estate
of
man
when
once
dead
.
Is
he
a
prisoner
?
He
feareth
not
(
saith
Iob
)
the
voyce
of
the
oppressor
:
Iob.
13●
18
or
is
he
a
slave
?
hee
is
instantly
freed
from
his
cruell
master
.
All
the
threatnings
in
the
World
cannot
make
him
quake
,
neither
is
he
moved
at
all
with
the
angry
looke
of
the
cruell
Tyrant
.
Thirdly
,
when
a
man
is
once
a
sleepe
,
then
all
his
sences
are
retired
into
their
proper
places
,
and
all
the
members
of
his
body
cease
from
working
:
not
onely
resting
(
as
formerly
I
said
)
from
those
outward
labours
of
his
calling
,
but
even
from
working
the
workes
of
God
.
Ioh.
6.28
Even
so
it
is
with
him
,
who
is
once
dead
;
his
eye
is
no
more
lifted
up
to
Heaven
,
as
to
the
fountaine
head
of
life
and
goodnesse
:
his
knee
bendeth
it selfe
no
more
at
the
throne
of
grace
;
neither
doth
his
tongue
any
more
here
below
set
forth
the
praises
of
that
glorious
God
.
Set
the
blessed
trumpet
of
the
Word
to
his
eare
,
and
hee
heareth
it
not
;
neither
is
there
in
him
any
ability
,
or
will
to
performe
the
least
religious
duty
.
For
the
living
,
they
are
they
that
praise
the
Lord
:
the
grave
doth
not
:
Isa.
38.18
,
19.
neither
doe
they
that
goe
downe
into
the
Pit
celebrate
his
truth
.
Isa.
38.18
,
19.
And
therefore
it
being
so
,
good
it
were
for
us
,
to
follow
that
which
our
blessed
Saviour
alwaies
practiced
,
namely
,
whilst
it
is
to
day
,
to
worke
the
workes
of
our
heavenly
Father
;
Iohn
,
19.4
seeing
the
night
commeth
fast
upon
us
,
when
no
man
can
worke
.
4.
Lastly
,
as
the
rising
of
the
Morning
Sunne
usually
expelleth
the
naturall
sleepe
,
and
lumpishnesse
of
the
night
:
so
at
the
appearing
of
the
Sunne
of
Righteousnesse
;
the
brightnesse
of
his
comming
shal
expell
,
and
chase
away
the
sleepe
of
death
,
and
put
an
end
to
that
drowsie
night
,
neyther
shall
we
sleepe
any
more
the
sleepe
thereof
.
Psal.
13.3
In
these
and
many
other
the
like
respects
,
is
Death
usually
stiled
by
the
name
of
sleepe
:
and
this
beeing
so
:
First
,
why
should
wee
tremble
at
it
,
seeing
it
is
the
same
to
the
childe
of
God
,
that
the
coole
shade
is
,
to
the
weary
travailer
;
Job
14.2
.
and
the
evening
rest
to
the
painefull
Labourer
.
Secondly
,
why
doe
wee
so
bitterly
weepe
and
mourne
(
as
persons
without
hope
)
for
our
Friends
departed
;
for
they
doe
but
sleepe
,
Thes.
4
13
and
one
day
assuredly
they
shal
be
awaked
?
Thirdly
,
why
doe
wee
not
make
more
account
of
Church-yards
,
and
places
of
buriall
,
then
wee
see
,
usually
is
done
;
seeing
that
they
are
the
Dormitories
and
sleeping
places
of
the
bodies
of
the
Saints
;
where
resting
for
a
time
,
they
shall
at
length
bee
awaked
againe
by
the
comming
of
their
Master
,
and
his
gracious
call
.
Secondly
,
wee
must
not
imagine
,
when
the
Body
is
dead
,
that
the
soule
sleepeth
(
an
ancient
,
yet
erronious
opinion
)
it
crossing
directly
the
word
of
God
in
many
places
:
as
namely
,
Eccles.
12.7
.
where
the
Preacher
speaking
of
the
death
and
dissolution
of
Man
;
hee
thus
expresseth
it
(
Dust
sayth
hee
)
returneth
unto
Dust
,
and
the
spirit
unto
God
that
gave
it
.
And
that
of
our
holy
and
blessed
Saviour
Christ
Iesus
to
the
Theefe
on
the
Crosse
,
Eccl.
12.7
Luke
the
twenty
third
,
verse
forty
three
,
Luk
23.43
To
day
thou
shalt
bee
with
me
in
Paradise
.
This
was
amongst
many
other
of
ancients
,
the
beliefe
of
holy
Policarpus
,
who
(
as
the
story
saith
)
when
he
was
to
enter
the
flaming
fire
in
the
defence
of
the
Christian
Faith
,
openly
professed
,
that
he
was
fully
resolved
,
Hodie
sese
representandum
in
Spiritu
,
coram
Domino
:
that
he
was
in
his
soule
that
very
day
to
appeare
in
the
presence
of
God
.
Ob.
If
it
be
so
,
(
may
one
say
)
why
doth
then
God
deale
so
hardly
with
the
body
above
the
soule
:
Psal.
139.15
.
For
are
they
not
both
the
worke
of
his
hands
?
The
one
made
in
secret
,
and
curiously
wrought
in
the
lowest
,
parts
of
the
earth
:
and
the
other
Creando
infunditur
,
&
infundendo
Creatur
:
like
the
most
pretious
oyle
infused
and
powred
out
of
the
tree
of
Life
.
And
besides
they
are
alwaies
loving
friends
,
sympathizing
,
and
taking
part
in
the
weale
and
woe
each
of
other
:
they
weepe
together
,
and
rejoyce
together
:
why
then
upon
their
parting
,
goeth
the
one
to
the
earth
;
the
other
to
heaven
?
the
one
to
a
dungeon
of
darknesse
,
the
other
to
a
Pallace
and
place
of
delight
?
An.
The
answere
whereunto
is
,
that
this
is
done
by
Almighty
God
in
singular
wisedome
,
in
these
three
respects
.
First
,
to
crosse
the
fond
and
childish
course
of
man
&
woman
,
whose
delight
wholly
is
as
(
we
dayly
see
)
in
pampring
and
cherishing
of
their
bodies
,
whilst
the
care
and
due
respect
that
they
owe
unto
their
soules
,
is
wholy
neglected
:
their
bodies
are
deliciously
stuffed
;
their
soules
are
miserably
starved
:
their
bodies
are
clothed
in
Silke
and
Tishue
;
their
soules
in
rags
and
tatters
:
their
bodies
are
presumed
with
the
most
odiferous
oyntments
;
their
soules
with
stinke
of
sin
,
and
blasted
with
the
breath
of
Hell
.
Secondly
,
that
the
body
might
in
time
be
wrought
and
framed
to
be
a
fit
companion
for
the
soule
,
which
since
the
fall
of
man
it
is
not
;
but
rather
(
as
I
have
shewed
you
before
)
a
let
,
and
oftimes
hindrance
unto
the
same
,
in
the
cheerefull
performance
of
many
necessary
and
Christian
duties
.
And
therfore
it
pleased
God
our
heavenly
Father
,
to
appoynt
the
earth
to
be
his
furnace
and
place
of
refyning
,
to
waste
and
weare
away
whatsoever
sinful
contagion
the
body
formerly
hath
contracted
;
so
that
the
soule
afterward
with
the
same
,
may
no
waies
be
incombred
.
Thirdly
,
that
they
being
thus
parted
,
Rev.
6
the
soule
might
earnestly
,
and
hourely
desire
(
as
the
rest
of
the
soules
doe
under
the
Altar
)
their
re-uniting
and
joyning
together
again
,
and
so
consequently
the
hastning
of
the
number
of
the
elect
,
and
second
comming
of
the
Sonne
of
God
to
judgement
.
And
thus
much
shall
serve
to
be
briefly
spoken
of
the
first
expression
of
the
joyfulnesse
of
their
resurrection
;
that
they
shall
Awake
.
I
come
now
unto
the
second
,
where
it
is
said
,
that
they
shal
Sing
:
And
questionlesse
so
they
shal
,
and
wee
all
shall
sing
with
them
,
whilst
the
blessed
Angels
shall
helpe
to
make
up
the
quire
:
And
good
reason
:
for
,
First
,
our
worke
is
quite
over
,
and
all
our
toyle
and
labour
ended
,
our
field
ploughed
,
and
our
vineyard
planted
;
the
Spring
is
come
,
and
the
voyce
of
the
Turtle
heard
in
our
land
;
Cant.
2.12
is
it
not
fit
then
that
wee
should
sing
a
Requiem
to
our
soules
.
2.
Our
warfare
is
at
an
end
,
our
enemies
destroyed
,
and
loe
our
victorious
Generall
is
mounted
now
on
high
,
upon
his
triumphant
Chariot
,
with
innumerable
troopes
of
Angels
,
and
celestiall
souldiers
upon
his
right
hand
,
and
upon
his
left
setting
forth
his
praise
,
shewing
his
noble
acts
,
and
singing
his
victory
:
what
soule
is
there
,
that
ever
reaped
comfort
from
the
same
,
that
instantly
will
not
joyne
it selfe
with
this
joyfull
assembly
,
and
beare
a
part
in
this
triumphant
song
,
Rev.
13.9.10
.
saying
with
the
rest
,
Blessing
,
honor
,
glory
,
and
power
,
be
unto
him
that
sitteth
on
the
Throne
,
and
unto
the
Lambe
for
ever
and
ever
.
For
thou
hast
redeemed
us
by
thy
blood
,
and
hast
made
us
unto
God
,
Kings
and
Priests
,
and
wee
shall
raigne
on
the
earth
.
3
It
is
the
marriage
day
,
wherein
the
espousals
betwixt
Christ
and
his
Church
so
long
deferred
,
shall
bee
fully
perfected
,
when
the
glorious
Bride
,
(
comming
forth
in
a
rich
mantle
al
of
white
,
which
her
beloved
spouse
long
before
bestowed
on
her
)
shall
be
married
to
her
husband
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
:
who
having
crowned
her
with
the
crowne
of
Glory
,
wil
take
her
into
the
Bride-chamber
neere
unto
himselfe
,
Psal.
45.
and
there
shee
shall
abide
for
ever
.
If
the
Spheres
(
as
some
will
have
the
)
doe
dayly
moove
in
a
most
melodious
sort
,
then
,
questionlesse
wil
they
utter
their
chiefest
&
most
delightful
tunes
,
and
like
so
many
roling
Cymbals
,
serve
that
Heavenly
Quire
.
Then
will
Heaven
and
Earth
bee
filled
with
Epithalamies
,
and
songs
of
Love
.
Then
shal
we
see
(
I
doubt
not
)
this
sweete
young
Gentleman
,
comming
forth
with
his
Laurell
on
his
head
,
Rev.
19.7
and
his
rich
Robe
on
his
backe
,
washed
in
the
Blood
of
the
Lambe
,
singing
Alleluiahs
unto
God
,
and
saying
with
the
rest
,
Let
us
be
glad
and
reioyce
,
and
give
honour
unto
him
,
for
the
Lambe
is
come
,
and
his
Wife
hath
made
her selfe
ready
.
The
consideration
whereof
,
ought
to
bee
another
maine
comfort
,
against
that
sadnesse
which
the
shadow
of
death
bringeth
with
it
,
when
a
darke
cloud
shall
oppresse
our
hearts
,
when
our
songes
shall
be
turned
into
heavy
sighes
,
and
all
our
mirth
into
dolefull
complaints
:
then
let
the
Childe
of
God
thus
thinke
with
himselfe
;
well
,
though
I
cannot
now
bee
merry
,
yet
the
time
is
comming
when
I
know
I
shall
,
now
I
am
sad
,
but
then
I
shall
sing
,
my
ship
being
entred
the
wished
Haven
,
and
this
boysterous
tempest
wholly
over
.
But
I
hasten
to
an
end
,
intending
as
briefly
as
I
can
,
to
close
up
all
with
the
reason
that
the
blessed
Spirit
yeeldeth
in
the
latter
end
of
the
verse
:
why
the
dead
carkasses
shall
not
onely
arise
,
but
in
so
beautifull
also
and
joyfull
a
sort
:
the
which
is
no
other
,
in
word
,
then
the
opperative
and
working
power
,
and
vertue
of
the
Resurrection
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
being
the
same
to
the
dead
,
that
the
dewe
and
sappe
in
the
spring
,
is
to
the
hearbes
and
grasse
of
the
field
.
All
the
Winter
long
(
experience
teacheth
us
)
when
snow
and
frost
covers
the
ground
,
the
grasse
and
plants
of
the
earth
appeare
as
dead
and
withered
,
untill
the
spring
commeth
,
when
a
pleasant
dew
armed
with
the
power
of
the
Sunne
,
not
only
mouldreth
and
prepareth
the
earth
,
but
soaking
downe
unto
the
rootes
of
the
plants
,
causeth
them
speedily
to
arise
and
grow
,
so
that
within
short
time
after
,
the
travailer
may
with
their
beauty
feede
his
eye
,
and
the
Labourer
with
the
Fruite
of
the
same
,
fill
his
lap
or
bosome
.
All
which
the
Spirit
of
God
(
in
saying
thy
Dew
is
as
the
Dew
of
Hearbes
,
and
the
Earth
shall
give
up
her
dead
)
intimateth
to
be
the
happy
condition
of
all
the
Elect
at
the
latter
day
.
So
that
how
ever
their
Bones
bee
drye
,
their
Beauty
lost
,
and
they
returned
agayne
to
Earth
and
Dust
,
yet
shall
the
fruite
and
benefite
of
the
Resurrection
of
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
like
an
heavenly
dew
,
or
rather
like
the
breath
of
GOD
himselfe
,
soake
downe
and
pierce
into
the
bottome
of
their
Graves
,
causing
them
to
arise
and
blosome
foorth
,
like
the
Rose
of
the
valley
,
and
Lilly
of
the
field
,
the
darlings
of
the
Spring
;
all
which
is
by
the
finger
of
God
.
Cant.
2.1
.
And
that
the
Resurrection
of
the
Lord
Iesus
shall
doe
all
this
;
Rom.
6
Iohn
.
6.4
1
Cor.
6.14
.
2.
Cor.
5.10
Ephes.
6.
Col.
6.4
may
appeare
both
by
multitude
of
places
of
Scripture
,
proving
the
trueth
hereof
,
as
also
by
so
many
exhortations
which
wee
usually
meete
withall
,
wherein
wee
are
earnestly
put
on
to
fit
and
prepare
our selves
for
so
high
a
dignity
and
preferment
amongst
others
,
1
Thes.
5.6.8
.
1.
Thessalon
.
5.
where
the
blessed
Apostle
willeth
us
,
Not
to
sleepe
as
others
doe
,
but
but
watch
and
bee
sober
,
putting
on
the
breast
plate
of
Faith
,
1
Pet.
3.14
and
Love
,
and
for
our
Helmet
,
the
hope
of
salvation
.
And
the
Apostle
St.
Peter
in
exhorting
us
(
in
his
1
Epistle
3.14
.
)
so
earnestly
as
hee
doth
;
that
seeing
wee
looke
for
such
things
to
bee
diligent
,
that
wee
may
be
found
of
him
in
peace
,
without
spot
or
blemish
.
Jud.
20.21
The
like
doth
the
holy
Apostle
Saint
Iude
,
in
the
twenteth
Chapter
,
and
the
twenteth
first
verse
of
his
Epistle
,
in
this
sort
,
Wherefore
my
beloved
,
keepe
your selves
in
the
love
of
God
,
looking
for
the
mercy
of
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
unto
eternall
Life
.
But
if
this
I
have
spoken
something
before
,
with
which
contenting
my selfe
,
I
will
in
a
word
or
two
and
that
very
briefly
,
shew
unto
you
,
the
reason
of
the
comparison
,
wherein
the
vertue
of
the
Resurrection
of
Christ
Iesus
is
compared
unto
that
dew
of
Hearbes
.
The
which
indeede
doth
most
excellently
demonstrate
and
expresse
the
nature
of
the
same
,
as
may
appeare
by
these
instances
following
.
First
,
the
Dew
descendeth
from
above
wholly
wrought
and
perfected
by
those
superiour
bodies
;
and
is
,
as
it
were
,
the
sweat
of
their
brows
:
such
surely
and
undoubtedly
,
is
the
vertue
of
the
Resurrection
of
Christ
,
a
Divine
and
caelestiall
Dew
,
pleasantly
distilling
and
dropping
downe
from
the
sacred
top
of
that
caelestiall
Hermon
at
all
times
;
but
then
chiefly
and
more
especially
,
when
hee
unlooseth
and
untyeth
the
sorrows
of
Death
;
it
beeing
unpossible
for
it
to
hold
him
.
Secondly
,
the
Dew
is
of
a
mollifying
and
softning
nature
(
as
I
sayd
before
)
fitting
the
plants
to
spring
,
and
the
earth
to
bring
foorth
:
such
is
the
Resurrection
of
our
blessed
Saviour
,
of
so
powerfull
and
working
a
nature
,
leading
things
on
,
in
so
sweete
and
excellent
an
order
,
to
their
several
ends
,
that
neither
the
hardnesse
and
stubbornnes
of
the
earth
,
the
drinesse
and
rottennesse
of
the
trees
,
nor
the
indisposition
of
the
dead
bodies
themselves
shall
hinder
,
but
that
the
earth
shall
cast
up
her
dead
.
Thirdly
,
the
dew
of
hearbes
is
not
onely
full
of
spirits
,
and
of
a
cheering
and
quickning
nature
,
but
likewise
sweete
and
pleasant
,
casting
foorth
a
most
odiferous
scent
and
savour
,
(
witnesse
our
Gardens
in
the
Spring
mornings
,
)
of
such
both
quickning
and
perfuming
nature
will
the
Resurrection
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
be
,
by
meanes
whereof
,
the
Bodies
of
the
Elect
shall
not
onely
bee
restored
to
life
againe
,
but
the
stinch
and
rotten
savours
of
the
Grave
being
remooved
,
they
shal
bee
so
sweetned
and
perfumed
with
the
odiferous
savours
of
the
same
,
that
all
their
Garments
shall
smell
of
Myrrhe
,
Alloes
,
and
Cassia
,
together
with
all
the
choisest
spices
of
the
Merchants
,
fitting
the
Ivory
pallace
whereinto
they
are
to
enter
,
and
where
they
are
to
rejoyce
for
evermore
.
Fourthly
,
the
Dew
is
of
a
most
beautifull
and
faire
aspect
,
gracing
much
the
flowers
,
with
her
christall
droppes
like
so
many
orient
pearles
,
dangling
on
the
severall
slippes
and
sprigs
thereof
:
so
surely
will
the
vertue
of
the
Resurrection
of
Christ
Iesus
bee
to
all
those
that
are
truely
his
,
at
his
second
comming
,
which
will
be
to
judgement
;
beautifying
and
adorning
them
in
a
more
rich
and
costly
manner
then
all
the
chaines
,
broaches
,
and
ornaments
on
the
earth
possibly
can
do
,
yea
past
the
apprehension
of
man
.
Sith
then
Brethren
it
is
so
,
and
the
sonne
of
God
hath
done
all
this
for
us
,
making
by
his
owne
Resurrection
ours
likewise
,
every
way
so
certaine
,
and
sure
,
and
every
way
so
joyfull
,
let
us
then
in
time
,
I
pray
you
,
make
sure
of
the
same
,
which
beleeve
me
,
we
may
easily
do
,
if
we
get
but
our
part
in
the
first
Resurrection
.
For
if
by
the
Resurrection
of
Christ
we
be
once
raysed
out
of
the
Grave
of
sinne
;
then
let
us
no
way
question
,
but
by
the
power
of
the
same
Resurrection
,
wee
shal
bee
likewise
raised
out
of
the
bed
and
grave
of
corruption
.
Hence
,
sayth
the
holy
Apostle
Paul
,
2.
Cor.
4.
verse
14.
Wee
know
that
he
that
raysed
up
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
:
shall
raise
us
up
also
by
Iesus
,
and
shall
present
us
with
you
:
and
blessed
and
happy
are
they
(
sayth
St.
Iohn
)
that
have
a
part
in
the
first
Resurrection
,
for
over
them
the
second
death
hath
no
part
.
And
this
likewise
will
appeare
plainly
unto
us
,
if
our
mindes
and
affections
be
not
,
with
the
blind
Mole
,
and
bruitish
Swine
,
grubling
here
below
;
but
with
the
nimble
and
pleasant
wings
of
the
Hawke
and
Eagle
soaring
daily
,
and
mounting
up
on
high
,
with
all
care
and
diligence
seeking
after
those
celestial
things
that
are
above
:
according
to
which
Rule
,
the
blessed
Apostle
leadeth
on
his
exhortation
Phil.
3.1
.
after
this
manner
:
If
you
be
risen
with
Christ
(
sayth
hee
)
then
seeke
those
things
that
are
above
:
as
though
hee
should
say
,
if
yee
bee
risen
with
Christ
,
then
ought
you
to
seeke
after
the
things
that
are
above
.
And
agayne
,
if
you
bee
risen
with
him
,
then
you
cannot
but
seeke
after
them
:
so
then
by
this
seeking
,
it
may
easily
appeare
whether
wee
be
risen
with
Christ
;
which
if
we
be
,
then
blessed
are
wee
;
for
the
second
death
shall
have
no
power
over
us
:
But
death
shal
be
to
us
the
beginning
of
Life
,
and
a
happy
passage
for
us
,
from
an
inferiour
Roome
,
to
an
higher
;
from
base
Iericho
,
to
that
beautifull
Ierusalem
that
is
above
:
whether
stormes
and
tempests
cannot
reach
;
and
where
the
morning
sunne
alwayes
shineth
;
where
Rivers
of
oyle
runne
gushing
up
and
downe
;
and
where
is
the
temple
of
the
living
God
,
and
of
the
Lambe
,
where
is
Paradice
,
in
which
is
no
Serpent
to
tempt
;
or
Death
with
his
arrow
to
kill
:
where
are
Riches
without
measure
,
and
glory
without
comparison
;
where
the
day
never
endeth
,
nor
comfort
fadeth
;
where
our
mourning
shall
quite
cease
,
and
wee
keepe
a
perpetuall
Sabboth
,
with
the
blessed
Angels
and
soules
of
the
Righteous
:
solacing
our selves
in
the
presence
of
the
blessed
Trinity
;
and
sitting
us
downe
at
the
right
hand
of
the
Father
,
where
are
pleasures
for
emore
.
Amen
.