THE
PRENTISES
PRACTISE
IN
GODLInesse
,
and
his
true
freedome
.
Diuided
into
ten
Chapters
.
Written
by
B.
P.
PROVERBS
17.2
.
A
discreet
Seruant
shall
haue
more
rule
then
the
Sonnes
that
haue
no
wisedome
,
and
shall
haue
like
heritage
with
the
Brethren
.
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TO
THE
RELIGIOVSly
disposed
and
vertuous
yong
men
,
the
Apprentises
of
the
City
of
London
,
all
happines
both
in
this
life
and
in
the
life
to
come
.
PYthagoras
the
Philosopher
expressing
the
double
course
of
mans
life
by
the
letter
Y
,
intimateth
that
which
our
Sauiour
Christ
hath
more
plainly
set
downe
concerning
the
double
way
;
whereof
one
hath
a
strait
passage
and
narrow
gate
at
the
first
,
which
few
do
embrace
;
but
in
the
end
thereof
,
there
is
great
comfort
and
rest
,
for
it
guideth
the
passenger
vnto
eternall
happinesse
and
saluation
:
The
other
is
wide
and
spacious
at
the
beginning
,
wherby
many
trauaile
,
but
in
the
end
they
find
great
trouble
and
straitnesse
,
for
it
leadeth
vnto
euerlasting
woe
and
destruction
.
Both
these
waies
are
set
before
our
eies
as
life
and
death
;
for
we
may
not
be
idle
,
but
of
necessity
must
walke
,
seeing
our
life
is
a
pilgrimage
,
and
choose
either
to
trauell
the
narrow
way
vnto
life
,
or
to
runne
the
broad
way
vnto
death
.
The
way
of
life
,
is
a
religious
profession
,
a
vertuous
and
conscionable
carriage
,
when
wee
giue
vnto
God
,
that
which
is
Gods
;
and
to
Cesar
,
our
Magistrates
and
Masters
,
that
which
belongeth
vnto
them
.
The
gate
of
this
way
is
narrow
,
and
the
passage
strait
:
for
the
liberties
of
flesh
and
blood
must
be
restrained
,
our
affections
bridled
,
and
the
whole
man
captiuated
vnder
the
yoke
of
the
obedience
of
Iesus
Christ
,
as
also
such
whom
we
are
to
obey
&
serue
vnder
him
.
The
way
of
death
,
is
a
sinfull
and
licentious
life
,
when
we
serue
sin
and
Satan
,
and
make
no
conscience
of
obedience
neither
towards
god
not
man
.
The
gate
of
this
way
in
the
beginning
is
broad
,
and
the
passage
easie
,
giuing
liberty
&
full
head
to
our
youthy
affections
and
lusts
of
the
flesh
,
but
the
end
is
vtter
perdition
and
straitnes
.
Wherfore
let
euery
yong
man
,
beholding
these
two
waies
,
choose
that
which
leadeth
vnto
eternall
life
in
heauen
,
by
a
sanctified
life
for
a
time
on
earth
,
walking
sincerely
with
him
who
is
the
Way
,
the
Truth
and
the
Life
.
To
this
end
I
haue
penned
this
insuing
.
Tractate
,
which
,
welbeloued
Brethren
,
I
haue
commended
vnto
your
fauourable
acceptance
,
that
therin
you
might
see
which
is
the
narrow
way
,
the
way
of
life
,
&
learne
how
to
trauell
therein
,
neither
let
that
diuellish
prouerb
,
a
yong
Saint
an
old
Diuel
,
direct
your
course
,
but
endeuor
being
yong
to
be
Saints
of
God
,
&
to
dedicate
your
youth
to
him
and
his
seruice
onely
,
who
vndoubtedly
will
giue
you
constancie
to
perseuere
,
that
you
may
become
Old
Saints
on
earth
,
and
at
last
a
ioyfull
end
,
that
you
may
be
Blessed
Saints
in
heauen
,
&
liue
with
him
for
euermore
:
to
whose
gracious
&
mercifull
protection
,
in
the
meane
time
I
commend
you
all
.
Amen
.
Your
euer
louing
Brother
,
B.
P.
The
Epistle
to
the
Reader
.
CHristian
and
Charitable
Reader
,
many
are
the
discouragements
that
the
children
of
God
receiue
at
the
hands
of
wicked
men
,
in
this
iron
and
declining
age
of
the
world
,
from
the
sincere
embracing
of
the
Gospell
,
or
shewing
forth
the
fruits
of
sanctification
,
in
this
crooked
and
sinfull
generation
,
but
much
more
from
publishing
any
holy
Treatise
,
tending
to
this
purpose
:
to
omit
the
bookes
that
are
written
,
not
of
vertue
and
verity
,
but
of
vilenes
and
vanity
,
which
many
offer
now
a
daies
,
as
so
many
Sacrifices
to
the
diuell
(
by
the
which
as
with
so
many
cups
of
poison
,
he
infecteth
the
hearts
of
millions
of
people
)
what
great
delight
the
enemy
of
mankind
taketh
herein
,
he
that
can
see
any
thing
,
may
easily
discerne
by
the
cursed
instruments
which
he
raiseth
vp
from
time
to
time
;
as
his
children
the
Papists
,
whom
wee
had
thought
(
long
agen
)
had
beene
dead
in
their
nests
,
yet
now
like
serpents
hauing
cast
their
coates
,
begin
to
lift
vp
their
heads
out
of
their
holes
winth
fresh
and
new
coloured
heresie
,
and
with
their
poysoned
pennes
(
as
a
holy
man
of
God
saith
)
haue
defiled
not
inke
and
paper
,
but
heauen
and
earth
with
their
detestable
and
satanicall
wickednesse
.
But
to
let
them
sinke
in
their
sin
,
til
they
come
to
the
bottome
of
hell
,
which
is
of
old
for
them
prepared
;
who
sees
not
the
whole
world
is
rocked
asleep
in
the
cradle
of
security
,
wallowing
in
their
sins
like
fishes
in
the
sea
?
so
that
we
may
take
vp
that
complaint
which
the
Lord
proclaimed
from
heauen
in
the
daies
of
Hosea
,
saying
,
The
Lord
hath
a
controuersie
with
the
world
,
because
there
is
no
truth
,
mercy
,
nor
knowledge
of
God
,
but
by
swearing
,
and
lying
,
and
stealing
,
and
whoring
they
breake
out
,
and
bloud
toucheth
bloud
:
and
being
thus
frozen
in
their
dregs
,
hauing
made
a
league
with
death
,
&
a
couenant
with
hell
it selfe
,
they
are
of
the
same
minde
with
these
people
of
whom
we
spake
,
saying
,
Yet
let
no
man
rebuke
or
reproue
another
:
for
the
people
are
as
they
that
rebuke
the
Priest
;
not
onely
despising
instruction
,
and
refusing
admonition
,
but
they
murmure
at
Moses
and
Aron
,
and
are
ready
to
stone
Caleb
and
Ioshua
,
the
two
Captaines
of
the
Lords
host
,
and
we
are
become
their
enemies
for
telling
them
the
truth
.
Howbeit
,
when
the
eies
of
mercifull
men
are
set
vpon
them
,
&
labouring
to
saue
their
soules
from
being
condemned
with
the
world
,
beseeching
them
to
breake
vp
the
fallow
ground
of
their
hearts
that
the
Lord
might
raine
righteousnes
vpon
them
,
they
are
ready
to
giue
them
Steuens
reward
for
his
sweet
Apology
,
Acts
7.
and
though
they
haue
not
the
authority
of
the
Magistrate
,
yet
with
the
vnruly
euill
of
the
tongue
,
they
assemble
themselues
(
as
the
Prophet
Ieremy
speaketh
)
saying
;
Come
,
let
vs
smite
them
:
but
how
,
with
swords
or
staues
?
no
surely
,
but
with
the
cursed
weapon
of
the
tongue
,
according
to
the
custome
of
al
wicked
men
from
time
to
time
,
with
reprochings
&
reuilings
,
&
with
their
venemous
arrowes
,
as
much
as
in
them
lies
,
to
shut
and
pierce
thorow
the
hearts
of
the
Saints
of
God
,
with
that
odious
and
damnable
name
of
Hypocrite
and
dissembler
,
so
that
we
may
say
with
the
Prophet
Ieremy
:
We
are
in
derision
dayly
,
euery
one
mocketh
vs
:
and
as
he
saith
else
where
;
Woe
is
me
that
my
mother
hath
borne
me
a
contentious
man
,
whomall
the
world
hateth
.
Yea
surely
so
far
may
we
be
from
stirring
one
another
vp
in
this
kinde
,
that
wee
may
weep
and
sigh
in
secret
,
as
diuers
of
the
Saints
of
God
haue
done
,
&
wish
with
this
Prophet
,
Oh
that
my
head
were
full
of
water
,
and
mine
eies
a
fountaine
of
teares
,
Ier.
9.1.2
.
that
I
might
weep
day
and
night
for
the
slaine
of
the
daughters
of
my
people
!
Oh
that
I
had
in
the
wildernesse
a
cottage
of
waifaring
men
!
Yea
surely
if
the
wil
of
the
Lord
were
,
we
could
wish
with
the
Prophet
,
that
we
had
the
wings
of
a
Doue
,
that
wee
might
flie
to
the
vttermost
parts
of
the
earth
,
that
we
might
be
out
of
the
reach
&
rage
of
the
wicked
men
;
but
such
is
the
zeale
of
the
glory
of
God
,
wherwith
his
children
are
inflamed
,
&
such
is
the
nature
of
faith
,
wherewith
their
hearts
are
touched
,
together
with
the
large
promises
wherewith
they
are
allured
,
that
in
despight
of
diuels
or
men
,
they
haue
alwaies
made
conscience
of
this
duty
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
in
the
scriptures
wee
haue
so
many
examples
of
this
kinde
.
It
was
Peters
commission
that
when
he
was
conuerted
,
hee
must
strengthen
his
brethren
.
The
woman
of
Samaria
,
when
Christ
came
to
her
conscience
she
hideth
it
not
vnder
a
bushell
,
but
runneth
into
the
city
with
open
proclamation
,
saying
to
her
neighbours
:
Come
,
see
a
man
that
told
mee
all
that
euer
I
did
.
Yea
wee
finde
that
this
hath
alwaies
beene
so
precisely
obserued
that
the
children
of
God
haue
neuer
neglected
it
in
the
time
of
greatest
affliction
that
euer
they
did
vndergoe
;
onely
two
shall
suffice
in
stead
of
many
:
whereof
the
first
is
in
the
Lamentations
,
where
the
Church
speaketh
after
this
manner
:
Haue
you
no
regard
all
you
that
passe
by
this
way
,
Lament.
1
12.
to
behold
and
see
where
there
is
any
sorrow
like
vnto
my
sorrow
,
which
is
done
vnto
me
,
wherewith
the
Lord
hath
afflicted
mee
in
the
day
of
his
fierce
wrath
?
Wherein
wee
see
the
perpetuity
of
the
loue
of
the
children
of
God
towards
their
Brethren
,
that
euen
when
they
were
at
deaths
doore
they
called
vpon
their
neighbours
to
make
vse
of
the
iudgements
of
GOD
.
Answerable
to
this
,
is
that
famous
example
of
the
Theefe
on
the
Crosse
,
who
notwithstanding
the
dolour
and
paine
wherein
he
languished
,
yet
perceiuing
the
desperate
and
fearefull
estate
of
his
fellow
that
hee
was
in
,
sharply
reproueth
him
,
and
vseth
diuers
arguments
and
reasons
to
moue
him
to
lay
hold
of
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
as
he
had
done
before
he
died
.
These
examples
no
doubt
together
with
the
reasons
aboue
specified
,
mooued
this
new
conuert
(
being
also
unportuned
by
diuers
of
his
acquaintance
)
to
publish
this
litle
Treatise
,
as
a
fruit
of
his
thankfulnesse
,
like
Dauid
that
would
not
offer
a
sacrifice
of
that
which
cost
him
nothing
;
and
yet
hath
(
as
it
seemeth
to
me
)
some
blush
or
resemblance
,
with
that
zeale
wherewith
the
holy
Prophet
Dauid
was
inflamed
,
when
hauing
receiued
special
benefits
from
the
Lord
,
he
hath
these
words
:
Psalm.
66.
Oh
come
hither
all
you
that
feare
God
,
and
I
will
tell
you
what
the
Lord
hath
done
for
my
soule
:
making
open
proclamation
as
it
were
vpon
the
Theater
of
the
world
,
or
as
he
speaketh
,
when
hauing
felt
that
sweetnesse
,
of
the
which
this
author
had
a
tast
,
he
laboureth
presently
to
impart
it
to
others
,
saying
,
taste
and
see
how
gracious
the
Lord
is
,
Psalm.
34.
blessed
is
the
man
that
trusteth
in
him
;
euer
vsing
a
borrowed
speech
familiar
to
our
senses
,
taken
from
the
fashion
of
Merchants
,
who
hauing
brought
some
rare
and
costly
commodity
from
beyond
the
seas
,
are
wont
to
permit
a
taste
,
and
giue
a
sight
,
to
the
end
the
buyer
may
be
the
more
induced
to
accept
of
the
same
.
And
truely
this
is
the
practise
of
this
new
conuerted
Prentise
,
who
hauing
lien
a
long
time
sleeping
in
security
,
esteeming
highly
of
the
things
of
this
vaine
world
,
till
it
pleased
the
Lord
in
mercy
to
looke
vpon
him
the
scales
falling
from
his
eies
,
Cant.
2.8
.
so
that
hee
perceiued
the
Lord
comming
vnto
him
,
skipping
ouer
hilles
,
and
leaping
ouer
mountaines
(
meaning
his
sinnes
,
as
may
appeare
by
that
we
read
in
Rom
8.
as
one
awaked
out
of
a
dreame
,
he
maruailed
and
reioiced
greatly
at
his
wonderful
deliuerance
,
and
being
desirous
to
make
many
partakers
of
his
happinesse
,
he
taketh
his
penne
and
writeth
this
little
Treatise
and
Labor
of
loue
,
consisting
in
(
foure
)
speciall
heads
,
as
appeareth
in
the
first
leafe
of
this
booke
,
concerning
the
manner
of
it
you
are
not
to
expect
much
painted
eloquence
,
filed
phrases
,
figures
,
allusions
,
which
haue
little
vse
more
then
to
tickle
the
eares
;
but
euen
with
all
humility
and
meeknes
,
out
of
his
own
experience
,
wisheth
comfort
by
the
comfort
wherwith
he
was
comforted
,
of
God
.
Heere
I
remember
part
of
a
story
in
Samuel
,
where
it
is
thus
written
:
1
Sam.
17.8
And
Eliab
his
eldest
brother
heard
when
he
spake
vnto
than
and
was
very
angry
with
Dauid
,
and
said
,
why
commest
thou
down
hither
,
&
with
whom
hast
thou
left
the
sheep
?
I
know
thy
pride
&
the
malice
of
thine
heart
.
,
&c.
Euen
so
I
feare
mee
,
there
be
many
Eliabs
senior
to
the
yong
seruant
of
God
Dauid
,
that
will
not
onely
impute
this
worke
to
pride
of
heart
,
but
wil
aske
,
With
whom
hast
thou
left
thy
sheep
?
that
is
,
how
hee
hath
discharged
his
duty
to
his
master
,
iudging
it
a
matter
vnlawfull
for
him
to
meddle
withall
,
because
hee
shall
offer
iniury
to
his
master
in
the
practise
hereof
.
For
answere
whereunto
,
we
are
to
obserue
a
difference
according
to
the
nature
and
quality
of
the
place
and
calling
;
Some
seruice
perhaps
will
warrant
that
,
which
others
do
vtterly
deny
them
:
for
art
thou
an
artificer
and
of
an
occupation
?
thou
hast
not
this
liberty
without
extraordinary
allowance
of
thy
master
.
On
the
contrary
,
is
hee
a
trades
man
,
and
vsing
trafficke
?
then
the
most
and
chiefest
of
his
businesse
is
in
receiuing
and
deliuering
of
commodities
,
in
the
which
much
vacant
time
is
idly
spent
:
and
happy
are
you
,
and
blest
of
God
,
that
haue
such
a
seruant
;
you
may
be
sure
to
be
wel
&
faithfully
dealt
withal
in
the
charge
commited
vnto
him
,
when
others
are
wickedly
abused
.
But
if
this
suffice
not
,
know
you
that
hee
had
extraordinary
allowance
of
his
kind
and
fauourable
master
.
Moreouer
,
I
am
of
that
priuity
and
acquaintance
with
him
,
that
I
may
protest
in
the
sight
of
God
,
and
before
men
,
that
this
vertuous
Prentise
,
and
sanctified
yong
man
,
hath
vsed
of
his
owne
vertuous
disposition
,
to
rise
two
or
three
houres
in
the
morning
,
before
he
was
imploied
in
his
masters
affaires
,
which
as
it
was
a
thing
commendable
,
proceeding
from
a
good
inclination
:
so
surely
now
is
it
much
more
praise
worthy
,
being
found
in
the
way
of
righteousnesse
,
because
the
teachers
therof
are
highly
to
be
commended
,
so
that
we
are
not
alwaies
to
reproue
and
contemne
seruants
in
this
kinde
,
lest
in
so
doing
we
giue
a
hard
censure
of
Dauid
himselfe
,
(
of
whom
we
spake
euen
now
.
)
But
happily
you
will
reply
and
say
,
that
Dauid
came
in
zeale
of
Gods
glory
,
to
take
the
shame
from
Israel
,
which
was
much
dishonored
by
the
vncircumcised
Philistine
,
a
fearefull
,
great
and
huge
monster
.
In
nature
I
answere
that
,
Goliah
neuer
blasphemed
the
Lord
of
hosts
more
then
wee
,
nor
euer
had
more
fingers
and
toes
of
deformity
,
I
meane
Papists
and
Atheists
,
which
are
in
indeed
the
weapons
&
naturall
liues
of
our
spirituall
Goliah
,
so
that
the
cause
then
of
both
being
not
much
vnlike
,
the
answere
that
followeth
shall
not
vnfitly
be
applied
,
though
not
in
the
same
measure
of
grace
,
wisedome
and
modesty
,
yet
in
the
same
nature
of
zeale
,
truth
and
sincerity
:
answer
with
him
in
the
29.
verse
:
Graue
Fathers
,
masters
and
superiors
,
what
haue
I
done
,
is
there
not
cause
?
But
if
this
Apology
seeme
vnsufficient
,
obserue
with
me
breefly
the
benefit
that
commeth
hereby
,
and
the
fault
considered
will
easily
be
wiped
away
.
In
the
first
place
then
it
bringeth
a
comfort
to
the
Church
of
God
,
when
they
shall
see
the
prophesies
fulfilled
,
and
those
promises
performed
which
long
since
was
declared
to
fall
out
in
the
latter
age
of
the
world
,
Esay
.
11.9
.
that
the
earth
shall
bee
filled
with
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
,
Ioel.
8.
as
the
sea
is
couered
with
with
waters
.
Againe
,
Your
daughters
shall
prophesie
,
your
old
men
shal
dreame
dreames
&
your
yong
men
shal
see
visions
.
Psalm.
8.
And
also
vpon
the
seruants
will
I
powre
out
my
spirit
.
Againe
,
Out
of
the
mouth
of
Babes
hast
thou
ordained
strength
,
because
of
their
enemies
.
Notwithstanding
these
prophesies
,
I
grant
,
chiefly
fulfilled
at
the
comming
of
Christ
,
yet
in
respect
of
the
perpetuity
of
it
,
it
is
to
remaine
vntill
the
number
of
the
elect
be
accomplished
;
yea
,
and
wee
that
are
now
liuing
haue
seene
the
extraordinary
power
and
operation
of
it
,
if
wee
consider
since
the
time
of
Luther
,
how
the
Angell
flying
from
the
middest
of
heauen
,
Reuel
.
14.6
hauing
an
euerlasting
Gospell
in
his
mouth
to
preach
to
the
nations
that
dwell
vpon
the
earth
,
saying
with
a
loud
voice
:
Feare
GOD
,
giue
glory
to
him
:
an
vnspeakeable
and
peculiar
fauour
of
GOD
,
as
our
Sauiour
Christ
sayeth
;
Blessed
are
the
eies
that
see
those
things
which
you
see
,
and
the
eares
that
heare
those
things
which
you
heare
;
being
the
onely
meanes
to
bring
vs
into
the
fauour
of
God
and
men
,
that
it
may
bee
sayed
of
vs
,
Cant.
6.9
.
as
it
was
of
his
owne
spouse
:
Who
is
this
that
loeketh
forth
as
the
morning
,
faire
as
the
Moone
,
pure
as
the
Sunne
,
terrible
as
an
armie
with
banners
?
Yea
then
we
shall
bee
pretious
to
the
Lord
,
who
so
toucheth
vs
,
toucheth
the
apple
of
his
eie
,
and
hee
will
say
to
our
enemies
:
Cant.
3.5
I
charge
you
O
you
daughters
of
Ierusalem
,
by
the
Roe
,
&
by
the
Hindes
of
the
field
,
that
you
stirre
not
vp
nor
waken
my
beloued
vntill
shee
please
.
Yea
then
shall
wee
be
set
as
a
seale
vpon
his
heart
,
and
as
a
signet
vpon
his
arme
:
for
loue
is
stronger
then
death
:
Ielosie
is
cruell
as
the
graue
,
the
coales
thereof
are
fiery
coles
,
and
a
vehement
flame
:
much
water
cannot
quen●r
loue
,
neither
can
the
flouds
drowne
it
.
If
a
man
would
giue
al
the
substance
of
his
house
for
loue
the
world
would
greatly
contemne
it
.
Cant.
8.1
Secondly
,
it
much
aduanceth
,
declareth
,
and
setteth
forth
the
power
of
the
Gospell
;
when
men
are
made
of
Lions
,
Lambs
,
their
natures
being
changed
,
that
they
come
willingly
in
the
day
of
assembly
,
the
loue
of
God
constraining
them
and
the
blessing
of
God
vpon
them
,
causing
their
sonnes
to
bee
as
the
plants
growing
vp
in
their
youthes
,
&
their
daughters
as
the
corner
stones
grauen
aft
r
the
manner
of
Apelles
,
&c.
So
that
other
nations
being
our
Iudges
are
forced
to
say
of
vs
:
Psal.
144.7
Happy
are
the
people
that
are
in
such
a
case
,
yea
blessed
are
the
people
whose
God
is
the
Lord
Iehoua
.
Thirdly
,
it
is
exceeding
comfortable
;
and
no
lesse
honorable
to
the
graue
fathers
,
and
faithfull
learned
preachers
of
our
age
,
when
they
shall
see
the
blessing
of
God
vpon
their
labours
,
&
their
children
which
they
haue
begotten
into
the
faith
by
the
word
of
truth
:
Psalm.
127
like
arrowes
in
the
hand
of
the
strong
man
,
and
are
not
ashamed
to
speake
before
their
enemies
in
the
gate
.
So
that
they
haue
no
neede
of
the
approbation
of
men
,
or
letters
of
recommendations
their
Epistles
being
written
not
with
inke
&
paper
,
but
in
the
hearts
of
their
children
,
and
shineth
in
the
world
to
the
praise
and
glory
of
God
.
Lastly
a
notable
motiue
&
prouocation
to
incite
and
stir
vp
the
minds
of
those
that
are
too
slacke
and
negligent
in
this
kinde
,
and
may
also
be
vsed
as
a
whetstone
to
sharpen
and
set
an
edge
vpon
finer
wits
,
that
so
all
the
members
of
Christ
both
learned
and
vnlearned
,
may
meet
and
ioine
foot
to
foot
,
and
shoulder
to
shoulder
,
opposing
themselues
against
their
great
&
common
aduersary
,
and
being
directed
by
one
spirit
,
may
vtter
their
voices
both
by
praier
&
by
preaching
,
that
we
may
cause
the
kingdome
of
Antichrist
to
fall
downe
like
the
walles
of
Iericho
;
that
so
,
if
it
be
the
Lords
will
,
we
that
are
now
liuing
may
see
that
with
the
eies
of
our
bodies
,
which
Saint
Iohn
saw
so
long
since
with
the
eies
of
his
spirit
,
and
so
with
holy
reioycing
and
gladnesse
of
heart
,
we
may
say
with
blessed
Saint
Iohn
;
It
is
fallen
,
it
is
fallen
,
great
Babylon
,
and
is
become
a
cage
of
vncleane
birds
.
Now
if
any
shall
aske
of
me
,
who
are
you
,
and
what
is
your
name
,
whose
iudgement
the
reader
should
so
much
reuerence
?
In
this
behalfe
,
I
answere
:
If
I
were
one
of
learning
and
estimation
,
perhaps
I
might
cary
thee
away
not
vsing
any
great
reason
or
demonstration
.
On
the
contrary
,
if
of
no
note
and
quality
,
thou
wouldest
hardly
be
brought
to
embrace
it
,
though
I
bring
strong
and
forceable
arguments
and
reasons
.
I
refer
thee
therefore
to
the
booke
it selfe
,
which
is
able
to
commend
it selfe
,
to
the
conscience
of
any
indifferent
reader
,
whose
eares
being
sanctified
trieth
words
,
as
the
mouth
tasteth
meat
.
Onely
this
I
will
say
with
the
Aapostle
Iames
;
Iob.
34.3
.
Haue
not
the
faith
in
respect
of
persons
:
and
then
I
dare
assure
my selfe
the
Lord
shall
haue
glory
,
and
his
chīldren
comfort
.
The
which
vpon
the
knees
of
my
soule
,
I
craue
of
his
goodnes
,
and
that
he
will
increase
in
the
hearts
of
his
Saints
sauing
faith
,
and
with
faith
vertue
,
and
with
vertue
,
knowledge
,
and
with
knowledge
temperance
,
and
with
temperance
patience
,
and
with
patience
godlinesse
,
and
with
godlinesse
brotherlie
kindnesse
,
and
with
brotherlie
kindnesse
loue
,
that
you
may
make
your
calling
and
election
sure
,
so
that
you
may
neuer
fall
.
By
him
that
praieth
daily
for
the
peace
of
Sion
,
and
longeth
to
see
Ierusalem
in
her
pefect
beautie
.
T.
R.
The
contents
of
the
Chapters
following
in
this
Booke
.
-
CHAP.
1.
Of
Gods
graces
and
benefits
,
in
free
mercy
bestowed
vpon
man
,
that
thereby
hee
may
be
moued
to
serue
his
diuine
maiesty
.
fol.
1.
2.
3.
-
CHAP.
2.
Of
the
infinit
and
vnspeakable
benefit
of
Christs
death
,
&
m●ns
great
ingratitude
notwithstanding
,
which
all
things
whatsoeuer
in
their
kinde
condemne
.
fol.
4.5.6
.
-
CHAP.
3.
Of
the
most
miserable
estate
of
the
Reprobate
both
in
this
world
and
in
the
world
to
come
,
as
also
of
the
most
blessed
&
happy
condition
,
heere
and
hence
,
of
those
who
feare
God
.
fol.
11.
12.
-
CHAP.
4.
Of
mans
foolish
and
fearefull
delay
of
praier
and
true
repentance
,
till
the
vncerten
houre
of
death
and
sudden
departure
.
fol.
19.
20.
-
CHAP.
5.
Of
Gods
manifold
and
good
meanes
to
bring
vs
to
repentance
and
reconciliation
with
him
,
if
we
haue
any
sparke
of
grace
in
vs
,
28.
-
CHAP.
6.
Of
three
excellent
meanes
of
good
gouernement
.
fol.
38.
39.
-
CHAP.
7.
Of
the
good
meanes
to
awake
vs
out
of
the
sleep
of
sinne
,
and
to
quicken
vs
to
a
new
conuersation
.
fol.
47.
48.
-
CHAP.
8.
Of
mans
lamentable
frailty
and
weaknesse
euer
to
bee
suspected
,
and
the
desire
hee
should
haue
to
be
reconciled
with
God
in
Christ
.
fol.
53.
54.
-
CHAP.
9.
Of
true
repentance
&
the
notable
benefit
therof
fol.
59.
60.
-
CHAP.
10.
of
the
excellent
good
,
and
profit
of
afflictions
to
Gods
true
children
.
fol.
67.
-
Lastly
,
two
praiers
annexed
to
bee
said
in
a
priuate
family
both
morning
and
euening
.
printer's device. Ornament of a lion's face over a shield and two owls. McKerrow number 215Β.
The
Prentises
practise
in
godlines
,
and
his
true
freedome
.
CHAP.
1.
IT
was
a
notable
saying
(
my
deere
and
welbeloued
brethren
in
Christ
)
whosoeuer
was
the
Author
,
That
there
is
nothing
great
on
earth
but
Man
,
and
nothing
great
in
man
but
his
soule
;
and
therefore
as
all
creatures
admire
and
serue
,
and
benifit
man
the
wonder
of
the
world
;
so
should
man
himselfe
also
admire
and
tender
,
and
seeke
the
behoofe
&
aduancement
of
his
soule
the
wonder
of
wonders
:
for
this
is
our
glory
,
our
crowne
,
our
perfection
,
our
very
life
;
saue
this
and
saue
all
.
But
I
know
not
how
it
comes
to
passe
:
This
which
should
bee
our
cheefe
and
onely
care
,
the
most
part
of
men
cast
behind
their
backes
;
and
they
that
are
taken
to
husband
other
matters
well
and
prudently
,
in
this
are
so
vnthrifty
and
ill
husbands
,
that
they
set
all
at
six
and
seuen
,
and
suffer
that
onely
pretious
thing
(
which
ouerballanceth
the
whole
world
)
to
go
to
irrecouerable
wracke
and
ruine
.
So
that
the
Lords
prophets
of
our
time
,
haue
euen
as
iust
cause
as
euer
Ieremie
had
,
to
take
vp
that
sad
complaint
:
Ier.
12.
The
earth
is
fallen
to
vtter
desolation
,
for
that
there
is
no
man
that
considereth
in
his
heart
,
no
man
that
pondereth
aright
his
owne
estate
:
Iere.
12.
But
Atheisme
and
prophanenes
,
and
secure
licentiousnes
,
haue
gotten
such
sway
,
that
scarse
any
man
beleeues
God
to
be
God
,
scarse
any
man
thinks
hee
hath
a
soule
to
saue
,
they
laugh
,
they
make
merrie
,
they
feast
,
they
frolick
,
they
sing
care
away
all
the
day
long
,
as
if
heauen
were
but
a
dreame
,
hell
but
a
fable
,
the
soule
an
idle
title
of
a
thing
which
is
not
,
and
themselues
sent
hither
to
no
other
end
but
to
sport
and
play
,
and
follow
the
lusts
and
vanities
of
their
wicked
hearts
.
The
Lord
hath
planted
vs
in
a
good
soile
,
he
hath
put
fresh
earth
about
vs
,
he
hath
prunde
vs
,
and
set
a
ditch
and
a
wall
to
incircle
&
fence
vs
,
and
now
he
longeth
for
the
first
ripe
fruits
,
and
we
are
all
become
like
the
summer
gatherings
,
there
is
not
a
cluster
to
present
vnto
him
.
And
therfore
many
a
time
ere
this
,
but
that
some
good
vinedresser
hath
entreated
wee
may
stand
yet
one
yeare
longer
,
there
had
beene
set
to
vs
a
hatchet
&
a
fire
(
an
vnquenchable
fire
)
the
iust
reward
of
such
vnprofitable
trees
,
as
doe
but
cumber
the
ground
wherein
they
grow
.
O
my
brethren
,
that
we
would
be
once
but
so
wise
as
to
see
our
folly
,
&
the
fearefull
danger
wee
stand
in
by
meanes
thereof
.
Hath
God
created
vs
in
his
owne
Image
,
that
we
should
thus
vilely
&
continually
deface
his
glorious
likenes
?
Hath
Christ
redeemed
vs
from
the
power
of
the
Diuel
with
no
lesse
price
than
his
owne
hart
bloud
,
that
voluntarily
wee
should
cast
our selues
into
the
bondage
of
Satan
?
Hath
he
by
offering
vp
himselfe
for
vs
,
purged
vs
from
sin
,
that
we
should
afresh
run
headlong
to
vncleannes
?
Hath
he
therefore
made
vs
heires
of
heauen
,
that
through
our
owne
default
we
should
be
firebrands
of
hell
?
Hath
hee
therefore
saued
our
soules
,
that
we
should
negligently
&
wilfully
cast
away
soules
and
bodies
for
euer
.
Where
is
our
zeale
to
God-ward
?
where
is
our
reuerent
feare
of
his
maiesty
?
wher
is
our
Christianity
?
where
is
our
faith
and
godlines
?
where
is
our
thankes
we
giue
to
the
Lord
for
his
so
innumerable
benefits
?
where
is
our
seruice
&
obedience
we
yeeld
to
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
for
his
sauing
health
?
nay
where
is
our
very
reason
wherein
wee
differ
from
bruit
beasts
,
who
by
nature
are
lead
to
desire
and
follow
things
profitable
to
them
,
&
to
shun
the
hurtfull
:
and
yet
we
hauing
the
direction
of
reason
,
&
the
illumination
of
grace
besides
,
haue
no
desire
of
euerlasting
profit
,
nor
feare
of
endlesse
destruction
?
What
if
God
should
instantly
send
forth
the
decree
of
his
wrath
vpon
vs
to
roote
vs
out
of
the
Land
of
the
liuing
,
and
would
receiue
no
intercession
or
atonement
for
vs
,
as
he
threatned
his
owne
people
when
they
had
prouoked
him
to
wrath
,
that
though
Noe
,
Iob
and
Daniel
should
beg
for
them
,
yet
he
would
not
heare
them
,
nor
should
his
affection
bee
towards
such
a
people
?
Oh
my
brethren
,
if
this
should
bee
to
vs
,
it
had
been
good
for
vs
we
had
neuer
beene
borne
,
yea
the
vnreasonable
beasts
and
senselesse
creatures
,
the
most
vgly
things
of
nature
were
in
happier
case
then
wee
:
for
they
haue
no
reckoning
to
make
when
their
life
is
gone
out
of
them
,
or
their
substance
dissolued
,
but
then
beginneth
our
wofull
audit
,
then
our
debts
and
arrerages
shal
be
produced
against
vs
,
then
shall
wee
heare
that
heauy
sentence
,
Bind
him
hand
and
foote
,
and
cast
him
into
vtter
darknes
,
whence
he
shal
not
come
out
till
he
haue
paid
the
vttermost
farthing
.
But
the
Lord
in
mercy
hath
yet
spared
vs
(
though
it
be
not
long
since
that
he
made
the
graue
to
open
his
widest
mouth
vpon
vs
)
it
is
yet
called
to
day
,
his
eie
is
yet
ready
to
pitie
vs
,
&
his
eares
are
open
to
heare
vs
;
let
vs
not
harden
our
hearts
and
prouoke
him
as
wee
haue
done
with
our
wickednes
and
impenitencie
,
but
let
vs
both
soundly
and
sodainly
conuert
to
him
,
and
he
will
receiue
vs
&
imbrace
vs
,
and
his
fierce
wrath
shall
be
turned
from
vs
.
Oh
how
well
it
becomes
a
man
(
saith
the
wise
Hebrew
)
when
he
is
reproued
,
Eccles.
20
4.
to
shew
repentance
,
for
so
shall
hee
escape
wilfull
sinne
.
Consider
what
I
say
,
&
the
Lord
giue
you
and
me
vnderstanding
in
all
things
.
And
now
let
vs
enter
into
some
larger
discourse
of
this
matter
,
that
we
may
the
better
see
our
vanitie
and
follie
in
going
on
in
our
sins
,
and
putting
off
our
repentance
and
conuersion
(
as
we
doe
)
from
day
to
day
,
and
from
time
to
time
,
to
the
high
displeasure
of
almightie
God
,
and
the
feareful
hazarding
of
our
owne
saluation
.
And
because
I
speake
to
such
as
are
(
many
)
of
liberall
education
,
&
(
all
)
of
good
capacitie
,
and
apprehension
,
I
will
tie
my selfe
to
some
order
in
the
handling
hereof
,
not
that
I
would
seeme
to
take
scholarship
vpon
me
,
which
I
do
freely
confesse
I
haue
not
,
but
for
that
I
haue
in
other
matters
found
the
profit
of
order
,
both
to
the
writer
,
and
to
him
that
readeth
.
First
therefore
I
beseech
you
,
as
you
loue
and
tender
your
owne
soules
(
which
I
doe
now
loue
also
,
euer
since
I
began
to
loue
mine
owne
)
consider
with
me
not
slightly
,
but
euen
with
a
deepe
&
earnest
thought
,
the
tremblable
estate
of
a
man
vnconuerted
,
and
the
dangerous
inconueniences
we
runne
into
,
by
our
impenitencie
and
obstinate
persisting
in
our
wicked
waies
.
And
I
trust
(
by
the
cooperation
of
Gods
grace
)
though
euery
inconuenience
seuerallie
cannot
moue
vs
,
yet
all
of
them
iointly
together
shall
affect
our
harts
and
stirre
vs
vp
to
some
more
care
&
conscience
of
being
that
which
wee
would
be
called
.
CHAP.
2.
ALmightie
GOD
,
in
the
creation
assigned
to
euery
thing
in
the
world
some
particular
end
,
and
impressed
in
their
nature
,
an
appetite
and
desire
to
that
end
continually
,
as
to
the
very
point
and
scope
of
their
being
:
As
we
see
birds
make
their
nests
,
and
breed
vp
their
yong
:
beasts
skuffle
for
their
fodder
&
pastorage
:
Fishes
flote
vp
and
downe
the
riuers
;
Trees
beare
fruit
;
Flowers
send
forth
sweet
odours
,
herbes
their
secret
vertues
;
Fire
aspires
vpward
with
all
his
might
;
Earth
hath
no
rest
till
it
come
into
his
proper
region
:
Waters
post
vpon
the
necke
one
of
another
,
to
the
bosome
of
the
maine
;
Aire
pusheth
it selfe
into
euery
open
voidnes
vnder
heauen
.
This
is
cleare
in
our
owne
obseruation
,
and
experience
:
and
shall
wee
thinke
that
man
(
the
most
noble
creature
)
(
for
whose
comming
all
this
pompe
and
shew
was
set
in
order
,
as
for
their
Lord
and
King
)
was
made
in
vaine
,
and
had
not
his
peculiar
end
appointed
him
also
proportionally
to
the
noblenes
of
his
quality
and
condition
?
Yes
doubtles
,
that
God
that
can
neuer
erre
nor
ouersee
in
his
workes
,
allotted
vnto
man
the
worship
and
seruice
of
his
maker
in
this
world
,
and
the
enioying
of
the
same
his
makers
glory
for
euer
in
the
world
to
come
,
as
his
maine
obiect
and
aiming
point
,
whereto
he
ought
to
tend
and
referre
himselfe
all
his
daies
.
Now
for
man
to
swarue
from
this
end
,
and
to
serue
the
Diuell
,
the
world
and
his
sensuall
lusts
;
and
being
made
for
heauen
,
to
follow
the
direct
line
that
leads
to
hel
,
is
to
shew
himselfe
more
base
and
degenerate
,
then
the
most
base
and
brutish
creatures
in
the
world
,
and
to
be
condemded
&
cried
out
vpon
by
them
continually
:
for
they
keep
to
this
day
without
digression
,
their
proper
ends
and
assignements
,
enioined
them
by
their
maker
in
the
creation
:
onely
man
is
irregular
,
man
alone
powres
out
himselfe
,
into
all
kinde
of
riot
and
disorder
.
Oh
my
brethren
turne
againe
,
and
consider
sadly
of
this
point
;
Shal
the
little
Bee
and
the
Emmet
so
carefully
do
Gods
worke
,
and
fulfill
the
taske
which
hee
hath
set
them
?
shal
the
senselesse
stone
,
being
forced
to
mount
vpward
against
his
inclination
,
sinke
and
descend
againe
as
fast
,
till
it
come
to
the
center
which
is
his
home
and
end
?
and
shall
man
(
the
Image
of
God
)
runne
bias
from
his
end
,
and
do
euery
other
thing
more
then
the
worke
prescribed
vnto
him
?
shal
they
(
silly
reasōlesse
things
)
keep
a
direct
course
without
any
voluntary
swaruing
,
and
yet
haue
no
tutor
or
remembrancer
?
And
shall
we
euen
wilfully
stray
and
vary
,
hauing
our
owne
hearts
filled
full
of
vnderstanding
&
iudgement
,
&
being
so
many
waies
called
vpon
,
and
pulled
by
the
sleeue
,
as
it
were
,
beside
?
Gen
6.
Shall
God
take
ioy
of
all
other
creatures
,
&
onely
repent
that
he
made
man
?
what
a
shame
of
shames
is
this
to
vs
?
we
read
in
the
prone
and
groueling
faces
of
beastes
that
they
were
made
but
for
the
earth
vpon
which
they
pore
:
And
do
we
not
likewise
in
our
owne
erect
and
loftie
countenances
,
that
our
end
is
heauen
,
and
heauenly
things
,
as
our
vpright
shape
,
and
high-raised
looks
tend
thitherward
continually
.
But
what
shal
I
say
?
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*
Iames
4.
to
him
that
knoweth
to
do
well
,
and
doth
it
not
,
to
him
it
is
sinne
,
yea
finne
with
a
witnes
.
Againe
,
where
as
man
hauing
by
his
wilfull
fall
and
disobedience
lost
those
excellent
powers
and
priuiledges
,
wherewith
at
the
first
he
was
endued
;
and
enthralled
himselfe
for
euer
to
sinne
,
death
and
hell
;
as
it
was
forethreatned
he
should
,
if
hee
did
tast
of
the
forbidden
tree
:
it
pleased
the
Lord
,
out
of
his
vnutterable
loue
to
his
choisest
peece
of
workmanship
,
to
send
his
owne
euerlasting
Son
out
of
his
bosome
to
pay
downe
the
inestimable
ransome
of
his
innocent
bloud
for
him
;
&
in
stead
of
the
earthly
paradise
which
he
had
lost
,
to
giue
him
heauen
(
the
seat
of
his
owne
Maiestie
,
and
the
habitation
of
this
Angels
and
purest
spirits
)
for
his
inheritance
,
conditionally
,
that
for
his
freedome
and
bounty
he
should
serue
the
same
his
Lord
in
holines
&
righteousnesse
before
him
all
the
daies
of
his
life
.
And
surely
if
any
Alien
being
by
endenization
made
a
member
of
the
same
body
with
the
naturall
children
and
inheritable
to
the
common
liberties
and
commodities
,
doe
willingly
acknowledge
himselfe
bound
and
answerable
to
the
publike
lawes
of
that
country
wherein
he
is
denized
;
much
more
ought
we
that
are
forrainers
and
slaues
by
birth
,
being
infranchised
and
made
free
denizens
of
heauen
,
and
fellow
citizens
with
the
Saints
of
God
;
much
more
(
I
say
)
ought
we
in
lue
of
this
so
beneficiall
legitimation
to
conforme
our selues
to
the
obedience
of
the
heauenly
lawes
,
and
ready
to
execute
the
most
iust
charges
which
our
God
and
king
hath
imposed
vpon
vs
.
Ignorance
of
these
lawes
,
none
of
vs
can
pretend
;
both
because
they
are
so
short
,
and
compendious
(
for
God
deliuered
them
at
first
but
in
ten
words
,
and
our
Sauiour
hath
since
abridged
those
ten
into
two
,
comprising
notwithstanding
in
that
Epitome
the
very
end
of
all
law
and
equity
)
and
also
because
wee
of
all
places
of
the
land
are
by
Gods
ministers
,
the
pastors
of
our
soules
,
so
plainely
and
carefully
taught
them
from
time
to
time
,
as
afterward
shall
be
shewed
.
Now
then
for
vs
(
the
premisses
waighed
)
to
cary
ourselues
towards
this
most
gracious
Lord
in
such
a
disloiall
fashion
,
to
shake
off
the
yoke
of
his
precepts
,
and
kicke
al
his
commandements
aside
one
after
onother
,
when
they
lie
in
the
way
of
our
profit
or
our
pleasure
,
and
to
go
on
with
a
bold
face
and
a
high
hand
,
multiplying
sinne
vpon
sinne
,
without
any
mind
of
turning
to
better
waies
,
til
we
be
wrapt
with
age
,
or
pined
with
sicknes
,
or
worne
out
with
sinne
,
that
euen
sin
her selfe
castes
vs
off
,
as
vnseruiceable
:
what
rebellion
or
ingratitude
can
there
be
comparable
to
this
?
O
my
brethren
,
is
this
to
serue
God
in
holinesse
and
righteousnesse
,
not
one
,
but
all
the
daies
of
our
life
,
from
the
first
to
the
last
?
Is
this
the
state
of
life
we
hope
to
go
to
heauen
in
?
haue
the
vnsanctified
any
title
of
the
inheritance
of
the
Saints
?
or
the
children
of
the
Diuell
,
to
the
blessed
freedome
of
the
Sonnes
of
God
?
Is
their
part
in
the
saluation
of
Christ
,
that
dayly
and
hourely
crucifie
him
afresh
,
&
in
a
iolly
scoffing
brauery
,
deride
his
passion
,
as
if
his
backe
were
broad
enough
to
beare
all
their
filth
?
Do
we
looke
that
the
Lord
should
performe
the
grant
when
wee
faile
in
the
condition
?
is
not
our
breach
of
couenant
with
him
a
frustrating
of
his
indentment
with
vs
?
Beleeue
it
my
brethren
,
beleeue
it
,
whilest
wee
remaine
in
our
sins
,
the
Lords
grant
remaines
void
;
we
cannot
claime
the
benefite
of
one
drop
of
Christs
bloud
,
nor
of
the
least
part
of
his
merits
:
the
shaken
sword
of
the
Cherubin
hangeth
ouer
vs
,
we
stand
banished
from
the
paradise
of
Gods
fauor
,
and
liable
to
the
seuerest
penalty
of
those
his
lawes
which
we
haue
violated
;
onely
so
long
as
that
penalty
is
not
inflicted
,
so
long
doth
the
Lord
expect
if
at
any
time
wee
will
renue
our
couenant
by
repentance
,
and
so
escape
out
of
the
snare
of
the
Diuell
,
of
whom
we
are
holden
captiue
to
do
his
pleasure
.
Moreouer
,
when
we
were
sprinkled
in
the
holy
Lauer
of
Baptisme
(
which
is
as
it
were
the
wombe
of
the
Church
)
where
our
regeneration
or
new
birth
was
first
set
a
foot
,
we
vowed
a
vow
to
God
,
which
ought
of
all
Christians
to
be
most
holily
obserued
;
that
wee
would
perfect
that
newe
birth
of
ours
euery
day
more
and
more
by
beleeuing
his
word
,
obeying
his
commandements
,
mortifying
our
flesh
,
compressing
our
lusts
,
resisting
the
diuel
,
renouncing
the
world
&
fighting
manfully
vnder
his
banner
against
all
opposition
,
that
finaly
hauing
finished
our
course
we
might
receiue
the
crowne
of
life
,
which
he
hath
promised
to
them
that
continue
faithfull
vnto
the
death
.
Now
our
impenitencie
&
weltring
in
sinne
,
is
not
onely
a
not
fostring
,
but
a
very
killing
of
our
spirituall
nature
in
the
first
seede
or
kernell
;
a
breaking
of
our
vowe
to
God
;
nay
a
very
denying
of
God
and
his
word
,
an
abiect
yeelding
vs
to
his
and
our
enemies
,
a
cowardly
running
away
from
the
spirituall
battell
at
the
first
stroke
striking
;
a
wilfull
losing
of
our
immortall
garland
,
and
an
occasion
to
make
Christ
(
the
great
captaine
and
finisher
of
our
faith
)
vtterly
to
casheere
vs
out
of
his
band
,
as
hauing
in
vs
no
sparkle
of
that
generosity
and
braue-mindednes
,
which
ought
to
be
in
such
as
weare
his
colours
,
and
beare
armes
vnder
his
standard
.
The
wisedome
of
the
world
is
,
to
retaine
to
the
strongest
part
:
and
methinkes
we
hauing
beene
bred
vp
vnder
the
worlds
wing
,
should
by
this
time
haue
taken
out
that
point
of
wisedome
,
and
retaine
to
Gods
side
:
for
his
is
the
strongest
and
surest
side
.
O
my
brethren
,
looke
backe
to
your
Baptisme
,
and
learne
to
amend
.
Let
not
the
royall
Character
which
God
hath
set
vpon
vs
by
the
ministery
of
his
Church
be
any
longer
thus
vilely
blurd
and
defaced
by
our
enormous
sinnes
.
Let
vs
not
breake
our
vow
to
God
,
lest
he
binde
fast
his
curse
to
vs
:
Leaue
not
the
Lord
of
hosts
,
to
whom
we
haue
giuen
our
names
,
and
those
powerfull
legions
of
his
blessed
Angels
(
our
consederates
and
guarders
in
his
quarrel
)
to
ioine
with
the
Diuell
,
whom
we
haue
defied
,
&
with
the
world
,
&
sin
and
the
flesh
,
(
a
sort
of
cowardly
rebels
)
which
will
themselues
cut
our
throates
when
we
least
suspect
them
.
But
let
vs
newdeep
our selues
in
the
water
of
contrition
,
and
that
will
fetch
againe
the
primitiue
colour
,
which
was
put
vpon
vs
in
the
day
of
our
Baptisme
.
Ouer
and
beside
all
this
,
whereas
the
patience
and
bountifulnesse
,
and
long
suffering
of
our
God
,
in
sparing
vs
so
many
yeares
,
and
waiting
for
our
amendment
(
though
in
the
meane
time
wee
force
him
to
complaine
that
he
is
pressed
vnder
our
sinnes
as
a
cart
is
pressed
vnder
a
hard
load
of
sheues
)
I
say
,
whereas
this
gracious
patience
of
his
should
leade
vs
to
repentance
;
we
by
continuing
in
sinne
,
do
abuse
his
patience
,
and
heape
vp
greater
wrath
vpon
our
heads
,
against
the
day
of
wrath
,
and
declaration
of
the
iust
iudgement
of
God
,
which
will
suddainely
ouertake
vs
.
God
is
prouoked
(
saith
the
Psalmist
)
euery
day
:
heere
is
forbearance
:
but
what
followeth
?
2.
if
a
man
wil
not
turne
(
after
all
Gods
waiting
)
them
he
wil
whet
his
sword
,
&
bend
his
bow
,
&
make
ready
his
arrows
against
such
prouokers
.
When
we
see
wrath
in
a
mans
face
,
it
is
an
argument
that
he
will
strike
,
&
we
are
wont
to
shun
&
giue
backe
from
him
.
Let
vs
take
heed
,
Gods
face
lookes
very
angerly
,
we
haue
dared
him
so
long
,
and
put
him
so
to
it
,
that
he
cannot
hold
his
fingers
,
he
must
needes
breake
out
into
blowes
:
And
the
blowes
of
his
anger
are
no
light
stripes
,
but
euen
deaths
wounds
,
as
all
the
Land
from
Dan
to
Beersheba
,
will
beare
witnes
.
O
then
my
Brethren
,
if
this
Lion
roare
,
who
wil
not
tremble
&
crouch
before
him
?
if
he
knit
his
browes
that
measureth
heauen
with
his
span
and
waigheth
the
mountaines
in
a
ballance
,
&
cleaueth
the
rockes
with
his
voice
,
who
dares
looke
him
in
the
face
,
who
shal
be
able
to
abide
his
frownes
?
were
we
as
huge
and
strong
as
Behemoth
or
Leuiathan
,
hee
will
spurne
vs
as
a
chip
,
and
trample
vs
vnder
his
feete
as
the
mire
in
the
streetes
,
if
we
incense
his
maiesty
,
or
stirre
vp
his
wrath
and
iealousie
against
vs
.
Apoc.
The
Kings
,
and
great
men
,
and
stout
Captaines
and
Warriours
,
hide
themselues
in
caues
,
and
in
holes
of
the
earth
from
the
feare
of
the
Lord
when
he
riseth
vp
to
be
auenged
of
sinners
.
O
what
shall
the
shrub
in
the
wildernes
do
,
when
the
Okes
of
Bashan
,
and
the
Cedars
of
Libanus
are
thus
shaken
!
how
dare
such
silly
wormes
and
grashoppers
as
we
,
confront
the
almighty
,
and
prouoke
him
yearly
&
hourely
with
new
and
new
sinnes
,
(
neuer
once
renuing
our
repentance
)
at
the
blasting
of
the
breath
of
whose
displeasure
the
hilles
melt
,
and
the
foundations
of
the
world
shake
and
are
remoued
?
Though
he
haue
worne
one
rod
of
pestilence
to
the
stumps
vpon
vs
,
and
throwne
it
by
,
standing
and
looking
at
our
behauiour
after
it
,
he
can
call
for
another
and
another
if
our
great
hearts
be
not
come
downe
,
&
repentance
&
a
change
appearing
in
our
liues
;
or
he
hath
famine
swords
wild
beastes
,
bedlem
waters
,
treasures
of
snow
and
haile
,
lightnings
,
thunderbolts
&c.
or
he
hath
feuers
,
palsies
,
gouts
,
choliks
,
cankers
wolfes
,
tympanies
,
&c.
to
scourge
presumptuous
sinners
that
wil
not
be
warned
:
his
store
house
is
neuer
vnfurnished
with
rods
,
and
scorpions
too
,
if
we
put
him
to
it
.
Surely
my
Brethren
we
are
transformed
with
Nebuchadnezar
into
beasts
,
and
the
hearts
and
vnderstandings
of
men
taken
from
vs
,
if
this
consideration
moue
vs
not
to
abominate
our
sins
,
and
cease
from
our
prouocations
,
wherewith
we
haue
prouoked
this
God
of
anger
against
vs
,
especially
when
he
hath
put
vp
so
many
abuses
and
villanies
of
ours
all
our
life
hitherto
,
wee
iustly
deseruing
euery
moment
to
be
rooted
out
,
and
hee
being
able
many
thousand
waies
to
haue
executed
the
sentence
of
our
destruction
vpon
vs
.
CHAP.
3.
THat
which
hath
beene
said
in
the
former
chapter
,
might
suffice
to
worke
in
vs
a
mind
of
repentance
,
and
a
change
of
life
,
if
we
caried
in
euery
of
our
breasts
a
meeke
and
docible
heart
;
but
because
the
greater
number
(
which
farre
exceedes
the
better
)
haue
their
essentiall
part
of
a
harder
kind
of
temper
,
we
must
beat
vpon
them
with
more
strokes
,
&
prosecute
this
matter
with
further
declaration
.
As
the
weldoing
of
a
man
after
he
is
reconciled
to
God
,
fils
him
full
of
inward
peace
and
comfort
and
makes
him
cheereful
and
confident
in
all
the
cumbers
and
euils
of
life
;
so
it
is
the
property
of
sinne
to
discomfort
and
torment
the
sinner
,
to
wound
his
conscience
,
to
fill
his
soule
full
of
terrour
and
perplexity
,
and
to
aggrauate
euery
little
outward
aduersity
.
Isay
.
There
is
no
peace
saith
my
God
,
to
the
wicked
;
but
terrour
and
trembling
is
in
all
their
life
.
They
are
possessed
with
a
spirit
of
vnrest
,
and
held
in
in
bondage
vnder
euery
oppression
of
their
owne
conceites
.
For
as
they
that
feare
God
,
need
feare
nothing
so
they
that
feare
not
him
can
not
choose
but
feare
all
things
.
*
The
vngodlie
flie
(
saith
Salomon
)
when
none
pursueth
him
,
but
the
righteous
is
confident
as
a
Lion
.
And
Moses
in
Leuit.
amongst
other
euils
threatned
to
the
transgressors
of
Gods
commandements
alleageth
this
:
The
wagging
of
a
leafe
shall
make
them
afraid
,
they
shall
flee
as
if
a
sword
did
chase
them
,
and
they
shall
fall
no
man
pursuing
them
.
And
else
where
directing
his
speech
to
the
same
men
:
The
Lord
(
saith
hee
)
shall
giue
thee
a
trembling
heart
,
and
dazeling
eies
,
and
sorowe
of
mind
;
Thy
life
shall
hang
before
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
feare
both
night
and
day
,
and
shalt
haue
none
assurance
of
thy
life
:
In
the
morning
thou
shalt
say
,
would
God
it
were
euening
,
&
at
euening
thou
shalt
say
,
wold
God
it
were
morning
:
for
the
feare
of
thine
heart
which
thou
shalt
feare
,
and
for
the
sight
of
thine
eies
,
which
thou
shalt
see
.
A
miserable
state
of
all
those
men
of
reprobate
mindes
,
which
haue
sold
themselues
to
worke
wickednes
vpon
the
earth
,
and
cast
the
feare
of
the
Lord
behinde
them
;
they
dread
euen
the
safest
things
,
and
the
more
they
offend
the
more
they
feare
,
their
whole
life
is
a
butchery
of
themselues
,
and
all
their
daies
as
the
daies
of
a
prisoner
that
is
condemned
.
They
thinke
euery
little
cracke
to
be
the
voice
of
ruine
,
and
euery
idle
sound
,
the
forerunner
of
destruction
.
The
beames
of
their
chambers
seeme
to
deceiue
them
,
and
the
walles
and
rafters
to
lay
hold
vpon
them
,
their
own
shadow
is
suspected
to
betray
them
and
the
stones
of
the
street
to
conspire
against
them
;
wheresoeuer
they
go
they
thinke
they
are
descried
,
and
Gods
executions
are
out
to
take
them
,
as
a
man
that
is
far
in
debt
,
thinkes
in
euery
window
stands
a
creditor
to
obserue
him
,
and
almost
euery
one
he
meets
to
be
a
Sergeant
to
arrest
him
.
There
lodgeth
in
the
middest
of
them
a
domesticall
fury
,
which
eftsoones
breaketh
off
their
beginning
rest
,
and
scourgeth
them
(
as
one
speaketh
)
with
silent
lashes
,
which
are
not
heard
of
the
neerest
about
them
.
If
they
be
not
yet
punished
,
they
looke
that
they
shall
be
.
If
they
bee
,
the
present
feeling
of
euill
induceth
still
feare
of
worse
,
when
one
peril
is
past
,
they
thinke
another
is
behinde
;
and
when
that
is
escaped
yet
a
greater
is
to
come
:
so
still
the
first
feare
is
inherited
by
the
second
,
and
the
second
by
the
third
,
and
one
by
another
,
that
they
cannot
recouer
any
sparkle
of
confidence
,
nor
promise
themselues
one
minute
of
security
.
What
they
deserue
,
that
they
expect
euer
,
and
to
expect
paine
,
is
many
times
more
painful
then
to
indure
paine
;
euery
thing
is
against
them
,
for
they
are
against
themselues
;
whatsoeuer
is
spoken
or
read
,
they
feare
it
is
spoken
and
read
of
them
:
when
any
thing
is
faulted
,
their
owne
fault
presently
comes
in
their
way
.
Euerie
nod
and
winck
they
imagine
,
notes
something
concerning
them
,
they
are
their
own
accuser
,
their
owne
witnes
,
their
owne
iudge
,
their
owne
hangman
,
they
find
no
place
to
fly
vnto
,
for
their
conscience
still
pursueth
them
,
&
themselues
of
themselues
are
wounded
and
thrust
thorow
.
Aske
of
the
daies
of
old
,
and
they
will
speake
it
,
&
the
yeares
of
passed
generations
,
and
they
will
confirme
it
,
that
those
terrors
&
discomforts
are
the
fruits
of
sin
:
inquire
of
Caine
,
Baltazar
,
Saul
,
Iudas
,
Nero
,
Iulian
,
and
they
will
all
cry
with
one
voice
,
that
the
pangues
,
prickings
,
vnrests
,
and
frights
appropriate
to
all
wicked
impenitent
persons
,
are
(
as
it
were
)
certaine
flashes
of
the
flames
of
hell
fire
.
But
what
need
we
raise
vp
such
a
cloud
of
ancient
deceassed
witnesses
to
confirme
the
point
we
haue
in
hand
?
speake
any
wicked
man
amongst
vs
(
and
let
his
tongue
be
a
true
embassador
)
whether
hee
feele
not
in
himselfe
some
measure
of
this
forlornnes
,
whether
his
hart
bee
not
often
as
cold
as
a
stone
in
his
bellie
,
&
all
his
strength
as
water
powred
out
vpon
the
earth
.
And
though
he
strengthen
himselfe
and
striue
neuer
so
to
expell
from
his
minde
this
vncheerefulnes
and
dastardly
faintnes
,
borrowing
many
times
of
the
bodie
the
solace
&
delight
of
some
counterfeit
pleasures
,
whereby
he
may
seeme
to
haue
some
peace
(
like
the
sick
man
,
who
in
his
sleepe
feeleth
not
his
paine
)
yet
after
that
short
and
sower
mingled
sweetnes
he
returnes
to
the
chaine
of
his
old
bondage
,
&
his
wonted
gripings
seaze
afresh
vpon
him
.
O
my
brethren
,
this
biting
memory
of
sinne
,
this
worme
of
conscience
which
will
not
bee
bribed
,
this
pale
hartlesnes
that
seazeth
vpon
vs
when
the
offence
is
committed
,
makes
the
most
obdurate
sinner
somtimes
to
relent
and
condemne
his
owne
doings
;
and
to
say
to
himselfe
,
Sure
,
to
do
well
is
farre
better
.
This
makes
the
most
impudent
adulterer
to
think
sometimes
the
chast
married
bed
to
yeeld
more
contented
rest
,
then
the
wanton
couch
of
the
strange
woman
.
This
makes
the
drunkard
sometimes
to
thinke
the
moderate
vse
of
Gods
creatures
with
thankesgiuing
,
to
bee
much
better
both
for
body
and
soule
,
then
his
vaine
and
beastly
excesses
.
This
makes
the
murtherer
and
furious
man
sometimes
to
preferre
peace
and
gentlenes
before
the
bloudy
hand
or
the
quarrelling
tongue
.
This
makes
the
spitefull
wretch
,
to
thinke
him
that
loueth
and
benefiteth
another
,
to
be
more
blessed
and
beloued
of
God
,
then
hee
that
with
a
lowring
brow
plotteth
and
practiseth
for
his
neighbours
hurt
.
This
makes
the
deceitfull
tradesman
to
thinke
sometimes
one
wel
gotten
groat
in
trueth
and
conscience
,
to
be
greater
riches
then
many
pounds
of
wicked
thrift
.
This
makes
the
couetous
oppressor
to
thinke
sometimes
the
liberall
Almoner
and
good
housekeeper
to
bee
more
acceptable
to
God
&
makes
then
the
greedy
churle
that
makes
the
poore
offer
to
his
box
,
and
wrings
pence
out
of
the
hirelings
wages
.
O
why
should
wee
delight
in
euill
when
the
Authors
themselues
are
displeased
at
it
,
and
assure
vs
that
vpon
the
reckoning
there
is
nothing
but
terrour
and
discomfort
to
bee
gained
by
it
?
And
why
should
we
not
loue
wel
doing
,
when
the
very
enemies
therof
commend
it
?
as
being
the
ground
of
a
quiet
conscience
,
and
that
is
like
a
continuall
feast
,
where
there
is
mirth
and
cheare
all
the
day
long
.
O
my
brethren
,
it
is
the
inward
purenes
of
the
heart
that
neuer
makes
vs
change
colour
:
it
is
innocencie
that
neuer
galles
the
mind
,
neuer
pricks
the
inward
parts
:
it
is
seasonable
repentance
that
breedes
that
internall
glee
,
which
is
a
certaine
taste
of
the
future
felicity
,
and
a
beginning
of
the
ioyes
of
heauen
in
vs
,
and
that
which
maketh
vs
feele
incredible
pleasures
amidst
the
most
greuous
troubles
&
miseries
of
this
life
.
Once
(
saith
a
godly
writer
)
man
was
in
paradise
:
Now
paradise
is
in
man
,
and
that
is
the
ioy
of
a
good
conscience
:
which
makes
him
confident
and
secure
and
resolute
at
all
times
;
so
that
though
the
heauen
should
melt
,
and
the
earth
be
remoued
,
yet
he
is
vnshaken
,
for
he
knoweth
in
whom
he
hath
beleeued
,
and
if
the
Lord
be
God
,
he
shall
not
miscary
.
Wouldest
thou
haue
this
security
,
this
peace
,
this
boldnes
?
wouldest
thou
liue
this
blessed
life
?
wouldest
thou
bee
without
frights
,
without
checks
,
without
prickings
in
thy
hart
?
then
fly
from
sinne
,
abandon
all
that
may
offend
the
Maiesty
of
GOD
,
worke
out
your
saluation
with
feare
and
trembling
,
seek
the
Lord
,
cal
vpon
him
,
trust
in
him
,
thanke
him
,
sweare
not
by
his
sacred
name
;
prophane
not
his
sabbaths
,
kil
not
,
quarell
not
,
hate
not
in
thy
heart
,
let
not
the
sunne
go
downe
vpon
thy
wrath
;
defile
not
thy
body
through
lust
;
cosen
not
,
oppresse
not
,
slander
not
,
couet
not
another
mans
,
labour
to
say
truely
both
now
and
to
your
liues
end
,
that
thou
maist
say
with
the
blessed
Apostle
,
Acts.
24.
I
haue
endeauoured
to
walke
in
all
good
conscience
alwaies
,
both
towards
God
and
towards
men
;
and
that
same
peace
of
God
which
passeth
all
vnderstanding
,
shall
keepe
your
hearts
and
mindes
in
Christ
Iesus
.
But
if
you
let
go
the
raines
to
your
old
licentiousnes
,
and
bee
more
wicked
to
day
,
then
yesterday
,
&
to
morrow
,
then
to
day
;
if
you
say
to
the
good
motions
of
Gods
spirit
,
as
the
false
friend
in
Salomon
to
his
neighbour
,
Go
,
and
come
againe
to
morrow
:
or
as
Festus
to
Paul
,
when
I
haue
a
conuenient
time
,
I
will
heare
further
of
you
:
and
so
passe
along
your
daies
in
all
iollity
&
voidnes
of
care
(
your
things
seeming
to
be
in
peace
because
the
strong
man
hath
full
possession
of
all
)
yet
when
the
lease
of
your
life
shal
be
expired
,
and
the
parting
houre
is
come
vpon
you
,
then
your
sin
which
slept
before
the
dore
,
shall
start
vp
&
lie
heauy
vpon
your
soule
and
conscience
;
and
then
howsoeuer
the
Lord
may
haue
suffered
you
to
thriue
,
and
grow
great
in
the
world
,
yet
you
shal
find
that
it
is
not
your
soft
beds
,
nor
your
pretious
waters
,
nor
your
sweet
musick
,
nor
your
pleasant
company
,
nor
your
sealed
bags
,
nor
your
rich
purchases
nor
your
statutes
and
euidences
can
ease
your
minde
,
or
buy
you
this
peace
,
this
blessing
,
this
inestimable
treasure
,
which
a
religious
life
might
haue
purchased
before
.
Beyond
all
this
,
whilest
we
remain
impenitent
,
GOD
heareth
not
our
prayers
.
Psal.
66.
If
I
incline
my
heart
to
any
wickednesse
,
the
Lord
will
not
heare
me
:
Prou.
15.
the
sacrifice
of
the
wicked
is
abomination
to
the
Lord
,
nay
their
very
prayer
is
turned
into
sinne
.
And
what
comfort
can
wee
looke
for
in
the
troubles
and
dangers
incident
to
our
life
,
when
that
which
should
bee
our
refuge
&
shelter
to
resort
to
,
encreaseth
our
danger
,
and
in
stead
of
bearing
of
the
storme
,
falles
downe
like
a
ruinous
house
vpon
our
heads
?
we
are
besides
out
of
the
compasse
of
Christs
intercession
,
he
excepts
worldings
&
wicked
ones
by
name
out
or
his
prayers
:
And
if
he
will
not
plead
our
cause
,
who
dares
speake
for
vs
?
if
wee
bee
out
of
his
protection
,
where
is
our
assurance
?
any
desperate
villanie
,
may
strick
his
dagger
to
our
heart
:
the
Diuell
may
teare
vs
in
peeces
,
and
carry
vs
to
hell
,
there
is
none
to
succour
vs
.
Moreouer
whilest
we
take
part
with
sinne
against
God
,
all
the
creatures
take
Gods
part
against
vs
:
the
horse
hath
his
heeles
ready
to
strike
out
our
breath
,
the
bull
hath
his
hornes
ready
to
goare
vs
,
the
boare
his
tuskes
to
haunch
vs
,
the
dog
his
phangs
to
pull
out
our
throates
,
the
tiles
ouer
our
heads
are
prest
to
braine
vs
,
the
fly
in
our
cup
to
choake
vs
,
our
owne
knife
is
ready
to
glance
into
our
flesh
,
euery
thing
else
is
ready
to
worke
mischiefe
to
vs
,
euery
little
iob
vnder
our
feete
to
giue
vs
a
brusing
fall
,
and
they
doe
onely
wait
while
the
word
be
giuen
them
,
and
they
wil
instantly
accomplish
their
charge
.
Besides
,
so
long
as
we
continue
to
worke
euill
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
and
doe
not
turne
vnto
him
with
all
our
harts
,
and
thinke
vpon
his
commandements
to
doe
them
,
nothing
shall
be
succesfull
vnto
vs
;
Mal.
2.2
.
God
will
curse
our
blessings
,
&
our
waies
shall
not
prosper
,
wee
shall
bee
cursed
in
the
citie
,
and
cursed
in
the
field
;
cursed
shall
our
basket
be
&
our
dough
;
cursed
shall
be
the
fruit
of
our
bodie
,
Deut.
28
and
the
fruit
of
our
land
;
and
the
encrease
of
our
cattell
;
cursed
shall
wee
be
when
wee
go
our
,
and
cursed
also
when
wee
come
in
.
The
Lord
shall
send
vpon
vs
cursing
,
and
trouble
,
and
shame
,
in
all
that
wee
set
our
hand
to
doe
.
Marke
yet
further
how
particularly
the
Lord
goeth
on
with
his
threatnings
.
Thou
shalt
betroth
a
wife
,
and
another
man
shall
lie
with
her
,
thou
shalt
build
a
house
,
&
shalt
not
dwell
therein
,
thou
shalt
plant
a
vineyard
,
and
shall
not
eate
the
fruit
thereof
.
The
stranger
that
is
among
you
shall
clime
vp
aboue
on
high
,
&
thou
shalt
come
beneath
alowe
,
he
shall
be
thy
head
,
and
thou
shalt
bee
the
taile
.
Thou
shalt
bee
contemned
in
thine
owne
country
.
Thou
shalt
neuer
but
suffer
wrong
&
violence
alwaies
,
so
that
thou
shalt
be
euen
mad
for
the
sight
which
thine
eies
shall
see
:
things
shall
go
so
crosse
notwithstanding
all
thy
prouidence
and
industrie
,
that
it
shall
make
thee
at
thy
wits
end
to
thinke
of
it
.
O
my
Brethren
who
would
continue
in
sinne
one
houre
longer
,
that
seeth
himselfe
hemd
in
on
euerie
side
with
so
many
curses
and
iudgements
,
as
it
were
so
many
armies
of
the
Lord
fighting
directly
against
him
?
who
would
lay
his
eies
together
,
before
he
had
made
his
peace
with
God
,
and
once
for
euer
bid
defiance
to
his
former
sins
?
who
would
liue
this
wretched
life
ful
of
vexation
and
terrour
,
and
cursing
;
forlorne
of
God
and
his
creatures
,
&
destitute
of
all
succours
,
without
any
care
to
redresse
it
,
till
he
be
come
to
shake
hands
with
it
,
when
he
may
presently
redresse
it
by
present
reconciliation
with
God
;
when
by
casting
off
sinne
in
this
houre
,
he
may
in
this
houre
cast
off
al
these
curses
and
miseries
accompanying
sinne
,
and
so
both
liue
a
blessed
life
all
his
time
,
and
close
vp
his
daies
with
a
blessed
death
,
which
shall
be
the
beginning
of
eternall
life
?
what
foolish
bodie
wouldly
forty
or
fifty
yeares
mortally
languishing
of
some
disease
,
refusing
to
be
cured
all
his
best
time
and
seeking
helpe
onely
in
his
last
worst
time
,
when
the
cure
is
doubt
full
,
by
reason
nature
is
decayed
,
or
if
he
recouer
,
yet
he
cannot
enioy
his
health
aboue
a
day
or
a
weeke
,
or
a
month
,
and
then
giue
ouer
life
&
all
?
But
ten
thousand
times
worse
infatuated
are
they
that
would
lie
the
whole
age
of
a
man
in
a
mortall
languishment
of
soule
(
as
it
were
bedred
by
reason
of
sinne
)
and
neuer
take
the
physick
of
repentance
,
till
they
lie
gasping
for
breath
,
when
it
is
vncertaine
whether
they
shall
then
haue
leasure
to
repent
,
or
if
they
repent
,
whether
it
will
be
of
force
and
able
to
fetch
life
in
the
soule
being
so
farre
gone
in
that
desperate
consumption
:
or
if
they
recouer
and
liue
the
true
life
,
(
which
rarely
happens
)
they
liue
in
a
sort
too
late
both
to
themselues
and
others
.
CHAP.
4.
THey
haue
euer
proued
vnprofitable
in
religion
that
haue
held
too
much
of
that
truantly
rule
the
way
to
well
doing
is
neuer
too
late
.
Eccles.
Therefore
Salomon
calles
vpon
yong
men
to
remember
their
Creator
in
their
yong
daies
,
as
if
well
doing
were
neuer
too
soone
.
Heb.
3.13
.
And
the
Apostle
exhorteth
the
Hebrues
to
call
one
vpon
another
,
to
turne
to
God
.
whilest
it
is
called
to
day
;
not
to
make
it
a
morrowes
worke
:
his
reason
is
Lest
any
of
you
be
hardned
through
the
deceitfulnes
of
sinne
.
See
heere
then
one
maine
danger
of
dwelling
in
our
sinnes
,
and
putting
off
our
amendment
from
one
day
to
another
:
the
longer
we
continue
in
sinne
,
the
more
we
are
hardened
in
sinne
,
so
that
at
length
wee
cannot
repent
,
no
though
wee
seeke
it
with
teares
,
as
Esau
did
.
It
is
as
easie
to
temper
the
flint
stone
betweene
our
fingers
,
and
to
make
it
soft
and
pliable
for
sealing
;
as
to
supple
our
stonie
hearts
,
and
fit
them
to
receiue
the
impression
of
grace
:
you
thinke
you
can
repent
when
you
will
,
and
apprehend
the
mercies
of
God
when
your
owne
leasure
serues
you
;
but
you
are
deceiued
,
it
is
not
in
man
to
order
his
waies
,
nor
to
returne
into
the
right
path
,
being
mislead
.
Sinne
is
cunning
and
will
make
you
beleeue
you
may
come
and
goe
without
entanglement
or
restraint
;
especially
whilest
you
haue
day
light
enough
before
you
.
But
trust
not
this
fleering
Iahel
,
for
if
you
vse
to
turne
in
to
sleepe
in
her
tent
,
and
tast
of
her
milke
and
butter
which
she
can
set
in
a
Lordly
dish
,
she
wil
(
when
you
suspect
least
)
nayle
your
head
to
the
ground
,
that
it
shall
be
impossible
to
get
loose
from
her
.
Iudg.
16.
This
Dalila
hath
a
crue
of
Philistines
ready
in
a
corner
,
when
she
hath
shorne
the
lockes
of
your
strength
vpon
her
lap
,
to
come
vpon
you
and
bind
you
with
fetters
,
and
put
out
your
eies
,
that
you
shall
neither
haue
power
to
start
,
nor
yet
see
the
meanes
to
make
an
escape
.
In
your
youth
she
will
teach
you
to
excuse
your
mistreadings
,
with
,
It
is
the
time
:
and
when
that
excuse
is
out
of
fashion
by
reason
of
more
yeares
puld
ouer
your
heads
,
then
she
will
reach
you
another
Apologie
,
It
hath
beene
my
custome
,
and
I
cannot
leane
it
:
and
then
followeth
hardnes
of
heart
that
you
cannot
repent
(
the
greatest
iudgement
that
God
bringeth
vpon
a
man
or
woman
in
this
world
)
for
then
we
are
past
hope
,
God
hath
decreed
our
destruction
,
and
all
the
prayers
and
suffrages
of
the
faithfull
(
which
are
of
great
force
)
will
doe
vs
no
good
.
God
wil
answere
as
hee
did
to
Ieremie
:
Doe
not
intreat
noe
for
them
,
Ier.
7.16
.
&
14.11
.
make
no
intercession
to
doe
them
good
,
for
I
wil
in
no
wise
heare
you
,
I
haue
thrust
them
out
of
my
sight
,
&
I
haue
decreed
to
destroy
them
.
Yet
you
may
preuent
this
iudgement
:
yet
your
custome
of
euil
is
not
so
strong
but
you
may
breake
it
:
yet
you
may
cast
off
a
litle
and
a
little
by
good
custome
,
that
which
you
haue
got
at
times
by
euill
custome
:
yet
your
hearts
are
tender
&
flexible
,
deferre
not
the
new
moulding
of
them
,
til
they
be
growne
peruerse
and
incorrigible
;
lay
hold
of
offered
grace
,
whilest
the
accepted
time
&
the
day
of
saluation
lasts
Remember
,
he
that
promiseth
mercie
to
the
penitent
,
hath
not
promised
repentance
to
the
presumer
vpon
mercy
,
nor
one
day
of
life
to
the
delayer
of
repentance
.
But
you
are
yong
and
healthy
:
what
then
?
therefore
you
are
not
like
to
die
?
do
not
lambes
skinnes
come
to
be
sold
as
well
as
sheepes
skinnes
?
Doe
we
not
see
and
heare
,
where
euer
we
go
,
that
men
and
women
die
,
that
were
neither
sicke
nor
old
?
wee
may
say
we
will
go
to
morrow
to
such
a
place
,
to
see
such
a
commodity
,
to
receiue
such
a
summe
of
money
,
to
make
merry
&c.
and
yet
before
this
next
euening
may
heare
that
voice
;
Foole
,
to
preuent
thy
bargainings
,
thy
talkings
,
thy
merriments
&c.
this
night
before
the
morrow
,
thy
soule
shall
be
taken
from
thee
.
Aske
but
that
one
street
which
leadeth
from
the
City
to
the
common
iudgement
hall
,
how
many
times
her
stones
haue
beene
bestained
with
the
reeking
gore
of
murdered
men
,
since
the
beginning
of
this
last
terme
;
and
tell
me
whether
life
be
so
sure
a
thing
when
so
many
sound
bodies
haue
groand
their
last
in
a
peaceable
well
gouerned
City
,
within
the
compasse
of
one
terme
,
and
the
limits
of
one
street
:
and
how
knowest
thou
whether
thy
time
be
not
as
short
as
theirs
seeing
(
as
I
said
afore
)
not
onely
wicked
men
vpon
earth
but
all
the
Diuels
in
hell
,
&
all
the
creatures
in
the
world
are
armed
against
thee
,
whilest
thou
remainest
impenitent
and
weltrest
in
thy
sinnes
.
Thou
knowest
how
short
warning
Esay
.
38.1
.
Ezekias
had
:
Put
thy
house
in
order
,
for
thou
shalt
die
and
not
liue
.
Numb.
20.25
.
And
Aron
:
Bring
Aron
and
Eleazar
his
sonne
vp
into
mount
Hor
,
and
cause
him
to
put
off
his
garments
,
and
put
them
vpon
his
sonne
,
and
then
he
shall
die
immediately
vpon
the
top
of
the
mount
.
What
if
the
like
warning
were
giuen
thee
?
where
is
thy
repentance
then
become
?
where
are
thy
good
purposes
for
hereafter
?
Then
thou
wilt
cry
out
;
if
I
had
knowne
my
time
had
beene
so
short
,
Ifs
at
deaths
aproch
vaine
&
foolish
.
I
would
long
ere
this
haue
reformed
my
waies
:
If
it
were
now
to
begin
my
life
,
I
would
take
another
course
.
In
what
sanctimony
and
vprightnes
would
I
walke
before
God
&
man
?
O
that
the
Lord
would
spare
me
a
little
before
I
goe
away
from
hence
,
and
be
no
more
seene
!
O
that
he
would
allowe
me
but
one
moneth
or
one
weekes
respite
to
bewaile
my
sinnes
and
sue
for
mercy
!
Wouldst
thou
then
be
a
new
man
?
be
so
now
;
Wouldst
thou
then
seeke
Gods
fauour
?
seeke
it
now
.
Wouldst
thou
then
amend
all
faults
?
amend
them
now
.
Why
doest
thou
not
preuent
those
ifs
and
conditions
,
which
will
then
bee
but
foolish
thoughts
?
why
doest
thou
not
that
this
day
,
nay
day
by
day
all
thy
life
long
,
which
thou
wouldest
doe
at
such
an
extremity
seeing
thou
knowest
not
which
will
be
thy
last
day
?
why
doest
thou
not
doubt
al
thy
daies
&
endeuour
to
be
such
a
one
al
thy
life
,
as
thou
wouldest
be
at
the
point
of
death
?
But
put
case
thou
knewest
thy
life
would
be
lengthned
out
to
some
forty
or
fifty
yeares
more
,
and
that
thou
wert
assured
not
to
dy
the
vtmost
expiration
of
those
yeares
:
be
like
then
thou
wouldst
nothing
but
follow
thy
lustes
the
while
,
and
thinke
the
last
yeare
soone
enough
to
reforme
thee
.
But
blind
fooles
they
are
,
that
are
thus
conceited
:
if
thou
canst
not
with
the
straining
of
all
thy
sinewes
pull
vp
a
yong
tree
of
two
or
three
yeares
planting
,
how
wilt
thou
hope
to
pull
it
vp
,
when
the
spurs
of
the
rootes
are
fastened
deep
on
euery
side
,
and
the
boughes
are
like
to
the
couering
of
a
tent
ouer
thy
head
?
Assay
to
root
out
but
one
vice
now
,
whilest
it
is
fresh
and
greene
and
thou
shalt
finde
it
a
matter
of
some
paines
and
difficulty
:
and
will
it
be
easier
,
thinkest
thou
,
seuen
yeares
hence
,
when
the
custome
of
it
is
growne
to
a
habit
or
as
it
were
another
nature
,
and
the
generation
therof
multiplied
to
an
hundred
&
to
a
thousand
?
Say
a
man
were
now
to
carry
a
basket
of
stones
from
London
Bridge
to
Islington
,
&
setting
forward
about
the
stoopes
with
the
basket
on
his
shoulder
,
feeling
the
waight
thereof
to
pinch
and
wring
him
,
should
presently
(
like
a
true
louer
of
his
ease
)
set
it
downe
againe
till
another
time
,
and
euery
day
the
while
,
come
and
put
in
more
stones
,
till
it
were
heape
full
and
running
ouer
;
would
you
thinke
the
basket
would
be
lighter
at
last
for
these
daily
additions
,
or
this
man
likelier
to
cary
it
through
then
,
being
grown
rustie
with
many
yeares
sloth
,
when
it
made
him
shrug
to
stand
vnder
it
in
the
beginning
,
while
his
strength
was
fresh
?
No
,
no
my
deere
brethren
)
the
longer
we
continue
in
sinne
the
fuller
and
heauier
growes
the
basket
,
and
the
vnweldier
wee
grow
that
must
be
the
porters
.
Come
,
come
,
vp
with
it
,
carry
it
you
must
,
and
it
will
neuer
be
lighter
,
nor
you
better
able
to
beare
it
,
then
you
be
at
this
present
;
straine
your selues
for
a
furlong
or
two
,
though
it
sit
vneasie
at
first
,
you
shall
finde
it
lighter
after
a
little
vse
.
Better
smart
once
,
then
ake
euer
;
set
about
it
&
despaire
not
of
the
successe
,
by
consideration
of
the
difficulty
:
pray
God
both
humbly
and
continually
to
impart
vnto
you
his
holy
spirit
,
and
to
shed
it
out
in
your
hearts
,
through
Iesus
Christ
,
that
you
may
compresse
your
owne
affections
,
and
by
his
strength
ouercome
all
impediments
,
&
walke
more
in
all
holy
obedience
before
him
only
be
not
your
owne
foe
,
feed
not
that
same
humour
of
lingring
,
let
not
loose
the
raines
to
your
corrupt
affections
,
which
cry
stil
,
a
little
more
sleep
,
a
little
more
slumber
:
For
the
holy
Ghost
doth
not
assist
cowards
and
sluggards
,
&
such
as
fit
idly
with
their
armes
folded
together
;
but
those
that
labour
and
endeuour
earnestly
to
tame
their
naturall
wickednes
,
and
to
crosse
the
swing
of
their
lusts
,
those
he
deemeth
worthy
his
aide
,
and
they
in
him
,
shall
be
more
then
conquerors
.
Set
your
hand
to
Gods
hand
,
&
the
worke
will
be
nothing
.
The
violent
and
resolute
,
that
breake
thorow
all
opposition
,
they
and
no
other
take
heauen
by
maine
force
.
But
say
that
the
Black-moore
could
change
his
skin
,
and
the
Leopard
his
spots
,
and
that
you
hauing
learned
all
daies
of
your
life
to
do
euill
,
could
at
the
last
repent
and
doe
wel
;
yet
what
an
vnthankfull
&
vnbeseeming
thing
were
it
to
spend
your
youthful
daies
in
the
pleasures
of
the
world
,
&
the
seruice
of
the
Diuell
,
&
then
to
bring
your
crooked
&
worne
daies
to
offer
to
the
Lord
?
To
call
the
Diuell
and
the
world
to
the
feast
and
full
dishes
,
and
let
God
stand
at
dore
waiting
(
among
the
beggers
)
for
the
reuersion
&
scraps
?
The
Lord
himselfe
is
driuen
to
complaine
of
this
base
measure
by
his
Prophet
:
When
ye
bring
the
blind
for
sacrifices
,
you
say
it
is
not
euill
,
and
when
ye
bring
the
lame
and
sick
,
ye
say
it
is
good
enough
for
God
.
Offer
it
now
to
thy
Prince
;
will
he
be
content
with
thee
,
or
accept
thy
person
,
saith
the
Lord
of
hostes
?
Repent
and
be
ashamed
of
this
ingratitude
,
play
not
the
harlots
with
God
:
let
none
haue
the
maidenhead
of
your
youth
,
but
your
deere
Lord
&
husband
:
Let
none
enioy
the
flower
and
beauty
of
your
time
,
but
hee
that
bought
you
with
his
precious
bloud
;
you
are
his
,
giue
him
his
owne
,
let
him
haue
it
new
and
faire
,
not
when
it
is
mangled
&
misused
that
one
cannot
but
blush
in
the
presenting
of
it
.
Cast
your selues
into
his
embracement
in
your
youth
&
health
whilest
you
haue
something
to
commend
you
,
&
his
armes
are
open
to
receiue
you
;
stay
not
looking
for
a
better
match
,
this
is
the
best
that
euer
you
shall
light
on
;
take
it
whilest
it
is
offred
,
you
shall
neuer
repent
you
of
your
earlie
bestowing
.
Hereafter
perhaps
God
will
hold
you
vnworthy
of
his
loue
,
as
hertofore
you
held
him
vnworthy
of
yours
;
and
scorne
you
in
your
old
age
and
sicknes
,
as
you
set
not
by
him
in
your
health
and
youth
.
The
fiue
virgins
for
lingring
but
one
houre
and
that
in
their
youth
and
prime
,
were
shut
out
of
the
marriage
chamber
,
and
had
this
answere
to
their
knocking
,
I
know
you
not
,
you
are
no
friends
nor
guests
of
mine
.
And
shall
we
thinke
the
Lord
will
open
vnto
vs
,
and
giue
vs
a
cheerful
welcome
,
lingring
not
houres
but
yeares
,
and
prostituting
our
virginity
and
prime
to
the
world
&
the
Diuell
,
Gods
sworne
enemies
?
Yet
the
the
doore
is
open
,
you
may
fill
your
lamps
with
oile
,
and
be
wise
by
their
harmes
.
But
if
you
put
it
to
hereafter
,
the
gates
will
be
shut
,
and
all
your
knocking
will
be
but
so
many
fruitles
strokes
,
rebounding
vpon
your
owne
hearts
.
Lastly
,
whilest
we
lie
soaking
in
sin
and
returne
euery
day
to
our
old
vomit
;
we
do
pile
vp
more
and
more
wood
for
our
owne
burning
.
I
meane
,
we
do
increase
our
accounts
against
that
firy
day
of
wrath
,
which
will
come
vpon
as
a
theefe
in
the
night
,
in
which
the
heauens
shall
passe
away
with
a
noise
,
and
the
element
shall
melt
with
heat
,
and
the
earth
with
the
workes
that
are
therein
shall
be
consumed
;
then
shall
all
the
thoughts
of
our
hearts
be
discouered
,
and
an
account
required
of
euery
idle
word
that
we
haue
spoken
;
So
strict
shall
that
iudgment
be
.
Where
wil
the
vngodly
and
sinner
appeare
,
when
the
righteous
shall
scarse
be
saued
?
whither
will
they
turne
them
when
they
shall
see
the
Lambe
turned
into
a
Lion
,
their
Sauiour
their
Iudge
,
and
their
Iudge
their
witnesse
,
against
whose
testimony
,
there
is
no
excepting
;
they
will
wish
mountaines
lay
on
them
to
keep
them
from
that
meeting
:
what
will
these
differers
of
repentance
being
preuented
and
cast
behind
by
their
owne
negligence
,
answer
for
themselues
in
that
great
appearance
,
before
the
awfull
Maiestie
that
sits
vpon
the
throne
?
with
what
confusion
and
shame
shal
they
stand
,
when
he
shal
say
vnto
them
,
I
sent
you
into
the
world
to
doe
my
will
,
and
you
haue
done
your
owne
wils
?
I
allowed
you
time
and
meanes
to
repent
,
you
despised
both
time
&
meanes
and
repented
not
:
I
gaue
you
many
good
motions
in
your
hearts
to
make
you
returne
vnto
me
:
and
you
put
me
off
still
after
so
long
waiting
,
with
,
What
we
will
amend
;
Did
you
thinke
I
would
pardon
you
at
last
?
How
could
you
then
in
common
gratitude
displease
so
gratious
a
Lord
?
Did
you
thinke
I
would
not
pardon
you
?
what
madnes
besotted
you
that
you
durst
offend
me
without
hope
of
pardon
?
I
will
now
verefie
my
words
which
I
spake
by
my
messengers
,
which
I
sent
vnto
you
;
Because
you
haue
hardened
your
hearts
against
me
,
you
shal
not
enter
into
my
rest
:
Goe
ye
cursed
into
euerlasting
fire
prepared
for
the
Diuell
and
his
Angels
.
O
how
shall
these
impenitent
lingerers
then
take
on
,
howling
and
rauing
,
and
cursing
the
day
of
their
natiuity
,
that
the
aire
shal
be
euen
crazed
with
their
hideous
and
gastly
clamours
!
And
what
a
comfort
will
it
be
to
the
godly
,
both
yong
men
and
yong
maides
that
haue
haue
serued
God
betimes
,
and
takem
paines
to
mortifie
their
lusts
,
to
see
the
Lord
at
length
proceed
in
iustice
against
the
carelesse
wicked
ones
,
which
haue
liued
in
all
pleasures
and
ease
in
this
life
,
when
they
themselues
haue
beene
afflicted
and
maligned
and
derided
,
for
the
profession
of
the
Gospel
of
Iesus
Christ
?
O
my
Brethren
and
Sisters
,
when
the
Lord
in
that
day
shall
haue
done
to
you
all
the
good
that
he
hath
promised
,
and
shal
haue
made
you
Kings
and
Queenes
to
raigne
with
him
and
his
roiall
Son
for
euer
then
it
shal
be
no
griefe
nor
offence
of
mind
vnto
you
,
that
you
haue
not
powred
out
your selues
into
all
excesse
of
riot
&
committed
sinne
with
greedinesse
,
as
the
prophane
and
vngodlie
doe
.
Then
it
shall
not
repent
you
that
you
haue
consecrated
the
flower
of
your
youth
to
GOD
,
who
is
so
bountifull
a
rewarder
of
them
that
seek
him
.
What
hurt
shall
it
be
then
vnto
you
that
you
haue
shunned
this
lust
,
&
that
follie
:
this
vice
and
that
wantonnes
,
which
you
might
haue
committed
,
&
whereunto
you
haue
beene
tempted
▪
what
need
you
then
stomack
at
it
that
you
haue
beene
termed
modest
fooles
and
precisians
,
and
such
other
names
of
disgrace
by
the
godlesse
multitude
,
whom
you
see
damned
by
a
iust
sentence
,
&
haled
away
to
endlesse
torments
before
your
face
?
where
they
shall
beg
that
one
of
you
may
be
sent
to
dip
but
the
tip
of
your
finger
in
water
,
to
coole
their
tongue
in
the
middest
of
the
flames
,
&
shall
not
obtaine
it
;
who
would
not
rather
mourne
for
his
sinnes
now
,
and
forsake
them
now
,
and
change
his
course
now
,
though
it
be
with
some
vnease
and
wrastling
at
the
first
,
then
to
wish
hee
had
done
so
afterward
when
it
is
too
late
?
and
to
lament
and
roare
in
that
remedilesse
horrour
and
despaire
for
euer
:
bearing
a
part
in
that
dolefull
morning
and
euening
musicke
of
the
wicked
in
Hell
,
We
haue
wearied
our selues
in
the
waies
of
wickednes
and
destruction
,
Wisd.
5.
and
we
haue
gone
thorow
dangerous
pathes
,
but
we
haue
not
knowne
the
waie
of
the
Lord
.
What
hath
pride
profited
vs
,
or
what
benefite
hath
the
pompe
of
riches
brought
vs
?
All
these
things
are
passed
away
with
a
shadow
,
and
as
a
post
that
rideth
mainly
by
:
we
haue
had
the
righteous
in
derision
,
and
in
a
parable
of
reproch
:
We
fooles
thought
their
life
madnes
,
and
their
end
without
honour
:
But
loe
,
they
are
counted
among
the
children
of
GOD
,
and
their
portion
is
among
the
Saints
.
So
haue
we
erred
in
our
imaginations
,
and
the
sunne
of
vndestanding
hath
not
risen
vpon
vs
.
Now
wee
know
,
when
it
hurts
vs
to
know
;
now
wee
vnderstand
,
when
ignorance
were
a
blessing
.
To
conclude
this
Chapterr
and
this
first
part
of
my
Treatise
,
whatsoeuer
you
haue
beene
in
the
yeares
past
,
be
new
men
now
,
I
will
not
giue
you
respite
till
next
yeare
,
nor
next
moneth
,
nor
next
morrow
,
but
euen
this
day
,
this
night
,
this
houre
in
which
thou
art
admonished
,
amend
:
remember
the
name
of
the
Lord
is
I
AM
for
euer
;
and
he
likes
notthen
that
are
alwaies
,
I
wil
be
,
repentance
is
neuer
too
soone
,
so
long
as
the
sin
is
gone
before
.
Youth
is
the
Spring
,
Age
is
the
Haruest
:
in
one
we
sowe
,
in
the
other
wee
reape
,
if
in
our
youth
we
sowe
the
seed
of
vertue
and
obedience
,
we
shall
in
our
age
reap
the
fruits
of
ioy
,
peace
and
perseuerance
to
euerlasting
life
,
if
the
tares
of
vice
and
licentiousnes
,
it
will
be
hard
if
euer
the
haruest
bee
other
than
vnprofitable
bundles
,
which
will
but
kindle
the
vnquenceable
fire
of
hell
vpon
our
heades
.
Let
your
creation
,
or
your
redemption
or
vow
in
Baptisme
,
or
the
power
and
patience
of
the
Lord
,
or
the
terrours
of
conscience
,
or
Gods
reiecting
of
our
praiers
,
or
Christs
denying
you
his
intercession
,
or
the
fighting
of
the
creatures
against
you
,
or
the
Lords
curse
vpon
your
blessings
;
or
the
hardening
of
your
harts
by
custome
of
sin
,
or
the
vncertainty
of
your
death
,
or
the
difficulty
of
late
repentance
,
or
the
base
&
vnbeseeming
measure
offred
to
God
,
or
the
increasing
of
your
accounts
,
or
the
strictnes
of
the
last
iudgement
,
or
hell
fire
it selfe
,
or
all
these
together
,
rouse
and
startle
you
from
your
bed
of
sloth
,
and
cause
you
to
reforme
your
liues
renounce
the
world
&
worldly
wickednes
,
and
to
honour
the
Lord
your
God
,
or
euer
he
take
is
light
from
you
,
&
or
euer
your
feet
stumble
in
the
darke
mountaines
,
lest
while
you
looke
for
the
light
he
turn
it
into
the
blacknes
of
the
shadow
of
death
.
But
if
you
will
not
heare
me
that
giue
you
seasonable
warning
,
my
very
heart
shall
mourne
in
secret
for
your
stubbornnes
,
&
mine
eyes
shall
weep
and
raine
down
teares
,
because
the
Lords
people
are
sold
vnto
sin
,
&
the
children
of
my
mother
are
caried
captiue
to
destruction
.
THE
SECOND
PART
.
CHAP.
5.
HAVING
spoken
of
the
mischeefes
&
dangers
which
we
stand
liable
to
,
so
long
as
we
are
vnconuerted
;
Consider
with
me
next
the
meanes
which
the
Lord
hath
ordained
for
our
conuersion
;
that
if
wee
haue
a
mind
of
returning
we
may
make
vse
of
them
and
not
negligently
passe
them
ouer
without
any
fruit
,
as
our
fashion
hath
beene
in
former
times
.
Almightie
GOD
hath
giuen
vs
first
our
life
&
being
in
this
world
,
he
hath
made
vs
men
,
Gods
benefits
.
and
breathed
in
vs
a
reasonable
soule
,
whereas
when
the
clay
was
in
his
hand
,
hee
might
haue
moulded
vs
into
any
other
shape
;
hath
giuen
vs
our
senses
,
&
distributed
all
our
limmes
,
according
to
their
proper
and
seuerall
functions
:
he
hath
put
all
the
creatures
in
subiection
vnder
our
feet
:
so
that
from
the
glorious
Sunne
in
the
firmament
to
the
little
Emmet
that
creepeth
vpon
the
dust
,
euery
thing
doth
vs
seruice
.
He
hath
preserued
vs
hitherto
all
our
life
long
from
innumerable
dangers
,
whereinto
others
haue
fallen
,
and
whereinto
we
had
fallen
if
his
gracious
hand
had
not
vpholden
vs
:
And
(
which
passeth
all
this
)
he
hath
by
the
death
and
sufferings
of
his
owne
Son
redeemed
vs
from
the
mouth
of
hel
,
into
which
else
we
euery
mothers
sonne
of
vs
irrecouerably
were
fallen
.
Now
saith
the
Apostle
,
this
bountifulnes
of
God
leadeth
vs
to
repentance
.
Therefore
hath
he
bestowed
all
these
benefits
vpon
vs
,
and
promised
many
moe
,
thereby
to
stir
vs
vp
to
abandon
vicious
life
,
and
to
betake
our selues
to
his
holy
&
blessed
seruice
.
Trie
mee
faith
the
Lord
,
Mal.
3.10
.
whether
I
will
not
open
the
windows
of
heauen
&
powre
you
out
blessings
without
measure
if
you
will
returne
vnto
me
.
O
my
Brethren
,
if
your
hearts
be
not
sauage
,
how
can
it
be
but
this
kindnes
of
so
great
a
Maiesty
,
should
binde
vs
to
him
for
euer
?
what
beastly
ingratitude
is
it
to
turne
so
many
comforts
and
good
things
,
as
he
hath
giuen
vs
(
that
we
might
be
the
better
able
to
serue
him
)
to
the
dishonor
and
iniury
of
so
louing
a
giuer
by
vsing
them
to
serue
vs
in
sinne
?
our
dogs
are
not
so
vngratefull
to
their
masters
;
the
Lions
and
Beares
haue
shewed
more
courtesie
&
thankfulnesse
to
their
benefactors
.
That
he
hath
spred
our
table
with
full
dishes
,
and
made
our
cup
to
ouerflow
;
that
he
hath
allowed
vs
warme
clothing
by
day
,
and
a
well
fethered
nest
to
couch
in
at
night
,
&
bodily
health
to
make
these
things
sweeter
and
better
tasted
to
vs
,
are
bounties
that
we
can
neuer
deserue
while
we
liue
with
all
the
obedience
we
are
able
to
performe
.
But
that
GOD
for
man
should
become
man
,
and
that
God
for
man
should
die
in
the
flesh
,
and
sustaine
so
many
shamefull
indignities
and
intollerable
paines
in
accomplishing
the
worke
of
our
redemption
;
this
onely
,
this
wholly
&
this
more
then
all
things
doth
challenge
vnto
it
euen
by
speciall
desert
,
all
our
life
,
all
our
labour
,
all
our
seruice
and
al
our
loue
.
That
a
man
frankly
giueth
his
goods
to
another
,
is
a
token
of
no
small
bountie
;
but
to
bestow
his
owne
life
for
another
,
and
that
not
for
friends
but
for
enemies
,
as
the
Sonne
of
God
did
,
when
he
died
for
vs
,
it
is
an
incomparable
and
an
vnconceiueable
bountie
,
the
Angels
of
heauen
do
wonder
at
it
,
and
desire
,
(
as
Peter
saith
)
contiually
to
behold
and
looke
into
it
:
and
surely
if
this
bountie
and
gratiousnes
of
our
God
,
cannot
win
vs
to
cleanse
our
waies
and
forsake
our
sinnes
,
all
the
dewes
of
grace
are
quite
and
cleane
dried
vp
in
our
hearts
,
and
there
is
no
hope
that
any
thing
will
win
vs
.
But
it
will
fall
out
by
vs
,
as
Esdras
in
his
second
booke
and
9.
chapter
grauely
denounceth
against
some
like
vs
.
Such
as
in
their
life
haue
receiued
benefits
from
the
Lord
,
and
haue
not
regarded
to
know
him
;
but
haue
abhorred
his
law
whilest
they
were
yet
in
libertie
,
and
when
they
had
yet
leisure
of
amendment
,
and
would
not
vnderstand
,
but
despised
it
:
they
must
be
taught
after
death
by
paine
what
it
is
,
to
recompence
euill
for
good
.
Another
good
meanes
to
bring
vs
to
repentance
is
,
the
consideration
of
Gods
iudgements
executed
vpon
sinners
in
all
ages
,
whom
God
hath
made
examples
for
our
admonition
,
on
whom
the
ends
of
the
worlde
are
come
.
The
Angels
for
one
sinne
were
throwne
out
of
heauen
.
Adam
for
one
sinne
cast
out
of
Paradise
,
and
all
his
posterity
after
him
condemned
to
perpetuall
miserie
.
Lots
wife
for
one
sinne
turned
into
a
pillar
of
salt
.
Moses
and
Aaron
for
one
sinne
debarred
from
entering
the
Land
of
Canaan
.
Michel
for
one
sinne
plagued
with
barrennesse
.
The
whole
tribe
of
Beniamin
for
one
sin
rooted
out
.
Threescore
&
tenne
thousand
Israelites
for
one
sinne
of
Dauids
,
in
three
dayes
consumed
with
pestilence
.
Ananias
&
Sapphira
for
one
struck
dead
in
the
place
.
And
yet
thou
after
many
thousand
sinnes
,
criest
still
God
is
mercifull
,
and
presumest
that
thy
part
in
that
mercy
will
be
as
great
as
the
thiefes
vpon
the
Crosse
.
God
is
mercifull
,
I
deny
it
not
:
So
the
Physician
is
skilfull
,
and
yet
giues
ouer
his
patient
sometimes
,
because
he
sees
him
to
be
incurable
.
If
thou
be
damned
,
it
is
not
because
the
Lord
wants
mercie
,
but
because
by
deferring
repentance
thy
heart
is
deaded
,
and
thou
art
past
recouerie
.
Tell
me
not
of
the
thiefe
vpon
the
Crosse
,
for
of
two
theeues
one
was
damned
.
It
was
a
miracle
,
and
miracles
were
no
miracles
if
they
were
common
.
All
the
Scriptures
thorow
there
is
not
one
such
another
example
to
be
found
:
and
therefore
for
thee
presumptuously
to
goe
on
in
thy
sins
vpon
this
shaddow
of
hope
,
is
all
one
,
as
if
som
good
fellow
should
hope
his
horse
would
speake
English
,
because
once
Balaams
Asse
vttered
plainely
the
language
of
Moab
.
Surely
these
be
they
that
destroy
themselues
with
the
workes
of
their
owne
hands
(
as
Salomon
saith
)
calling
iniquitie
vnto
them
both
with
hands
&
words
,
&
when
they
think
they
haue
a
friend
of
it
,
they
come
to
naught
.
But
what
should
I
speake
of
ancient
iudgements
,
when
those
that
haue
beene
executed
at
our
owne
doores
,
haue
not
wrought
vpon
our
hearts
?
To
omit
all
other
,
what
are
wee
the
better
for
that
dreadfull
pestilence
so
lately
amongst
vs
,
when
Death
like
a
mercilesse
tyrant
thrust
all
out
of
doores
both
old
and
young
before
him
,
as
if
he
would
take
possession
of
our
houses
one
after
another
,
till
hee
had
seazed
the
whole
Citie
into
his
owne
vse
?
O
my
brethren
,
those
that
be
not
blinde
may
see
,
there
is
not
one
sinne
lesse
this
yeare
,
then
was
the
last
.
In
the
Church
there
is
as
much
carelessnesse
and
contempt
of
Gods
word
:
In
the
streetes
as
much
pride
:
In
the
shops
as
much
lying
and
swearing
:
In
the
Tauernes
as
much
drunkennesse
and
excesse
(
notwithstanding
his
Maiesties
act
of
restraint
)
In
other
places
as
much
filthinesse
,
and
as
little
conscience
and
deuotion
as
euer
there
was
before
,
so
that
the
Lord
may
complaine
of
vs
as
he
did
of
old
:
I
haue
smitten
them
,
and
they
haue
not
sorrowed
;
I
haue
corrected
them
for
amendment
,
and
they
are
worse
and
worse
.
The
Lord
grant
we
be
not
cast
off
(
as
a
father
casts
off
his
vnthrifty
sonne
,
when
no
meanes
will
reclaime
him
)
and
that
the
remouing
of
his
plague
from
vs
(
seeing
wee
are
not
bettered
by
it
)
be
not
a
kinde
of
cruell
pity
:
and
a
giuing
vs
vp
to
our
owne
hearts
lust
till
our
iniquity
be
full
,
that
wee
may
then
fall
by
an
vtter
destruction
,
chastening
in
the
meane
time
the
countries
round
about
vs
,
as
hauing
some
hope
:
of
their
turning
and
amendment
.
Let
vs
therefore
with
all
speed
humble
our selues
vnder
Gods
mighty
hand
,
and
make
a
godly
vse
of
his
iudgments
that
euery
litle
chastisment
of
his
may
driue
vs
to
a
lothing
&
forsaking
of
our
former
euil
waies
;
that
we
may
stand
in
awe
and
not
sinne
:
for
our
God
is
a
iealous
God
,
and
a
consuming
fire
,
so
shall
he
smel
a
sauour
of
rest
,
and
receiue
an
attonement
for
the
land
;
so
shall
the
light
of
his
countenance
be
lifted
vp
vpon
vs
,
and
so
shal
it
go
well
with
vs
and
with
our
children
after
vs
in
their
generations
.
The
word
preached
Gods
Ministers
.
Another
very
direct
meanes
to
this
end
,
is
the
preaching
of
Gods
word
&
the
voice
of
his
Prophets
&
ministers
,
rising
vp
early
,
&
premonishing
vs
of
our
danger
,
&
shewing
vs
the
way
wherin
we
should
walk
.
Therfore
the
Lord
when
he
sent
the
Prophet
Ieremie
to
the
people
of
Israel
and
Iuda
,
he
bade
him
proclaime
a
fast
,
and
tell
them
what
he
had
threatned
against
them
:
Ier.
36.
Because
(
saith
the
Lord
)
it
may
be
when
they
heare
the
euill
that
I
purpose
to
bring
vpon
them
,
they
will
returne
from
their
wickednesse
,
and
so
by
that
meanes
I
may
forgiue
them
their
sinnes
,
and
receiue
them
to
fauour
.
This
is
the
manna
that
came
downe
from
heauen
,
this
is
the
immortall
seed
by
which
so
many
are
borne
to
God
.
How
great
cause
haue
wee
to
blesse
the
Lord
that
it
hath
pleased
him
so
to
dispose
of
vs
,
that
wee
should
be
borne
and
bred
in
such
a
time
,
and
among
such
a
people
,
as
professe
the
faith
of
Iesus
Christ
,
and
are
daily
taught
and
instructed
both
to
beleeue
and
liue
accordingly
?
Our
Fathers
longed
to
see
these
dayes
,
and
could
not
see
them
;
we
feare
no
burning
nor
imprisonment
for
professing
the
doctrine
of
Christ
,
wee
neede
not
crosse
the
seas
to
seeke
instruction
,
wee
may
in
a
blessed
freedome
of
minde
and
body
approch
to
Gods
altars
,
and
sit
at
the
feete
of
the
Lords
Prophets
,
and
heare
those
heauenly
comforts
and
directions
from
their
mouthes
.
Neuer
was
London
so
well
supplied
with
godly
reuerend
Ministers
,
since
the
first
stone
of
her
walles
was
layd
,
then
in
this
very
day
.
The
Lord
Iesus
continue
and
encrease
the
number
.
But
what
account
make
we
of
these
meanes
?
we
can
content
our selues
to
sit
an
houre
in
the
Church
to
heare
Gods
word
taught
,
not
for
conscience
but
for
fashion
,
as
our
deedes
make
plaine
.
For
where
almost
is
he
or
she
that
hath
left
any
one
deere
sin
this
seauen
yeares
,
though
twice
seauen
yeares
they
haue
heard
it
condemned
?
nay
,
(
which
is
strange
)
vpon
the
monday
we
commit
those
very
sinnes
which
vpon
the
Sabbath
day
before
were
to
our
faces
most
particularly
reprooued
,
which
were
enough
to
discourage
vtterly
those
men
of
God
in
the
worke
of
their
ministerie
,
they
taking
such
paines
,
watching
for
vs
,
when
we
sleep
,
studying
and
spending
their
spirits
to
bring
vs
to
repentance
,
and
we
(
like
wretches
)
making
small
account
of
it
,
and
profiting
little
in
godlinesse
by
it
:
but
that
the
Lord
hath
sayd
,
his
word
shal
neuer
goe
forth
in
vaine
;
but
either
it
shall
lift
vs
vp
higher
to
his
courts
in
heauen
,
or
sinke
vs
downe
deeper
into
the
pit
of
hell
.
And
the
labours
of
his
Ministers
shall
be
as
highly
rewarded
for
leauing
the
gracelesse
ones
without
excuse
,
as
for
conuerting
a
weake
soule
from
going
astray
.
A
Seruaunt
when
hee
is
commaunded
to
do
any
thing
by
his
Master
,
will
feare
to
looke
his
Master
in
the
face
,
or
to
come
in
his
way
if
hee
neglect
it
,
and
doe
it
not
.
How
dare
wee
then
hauing
sate
in
the
Church
,
and
there
heard
(
out
of
the
Pulpit
the
seate
of
Gods
Oracles
)
sin
forbidden
,
repentance
enioyned
,
our
negligence
taxed
,
not
once
,
but
continually
from
time
to
time
,
with
precept
vpon
precept
,
line
vpon
line
:
I
say
,
how
dare
we
presse
so
boldly
without
any
awe
or
reuerence
into
the
presence
of
God
(
the
great
Master
of
all
Masters
in
the
world
)
Sabbath
after
Sabbath
,
and
yet
guilty
to
our selues
in
the
meane
time
of
so
great
disobedience
?
vnlesse
wee
come
thither
in
an
insolent
fashion
to
stout
and
out-face
the
Lord
;
or
to
laugh
in
our
sleeues
at
his
weaknesse
that
will
be
borne
in
hand
with
a
cunning
semblance
,
and
as
well
pleased
as
if
the
deede
were
performed
.
O
my
brethren
,
tremble
to
dally
in
this
sort
with
the
Almighty
:
if
hee
speake
,
let
his
seruants
heare
:
if
hee
command
,
deferre
not
to
doe
it
:
receiue
it
not
as
the
word
of
man
,
but
as
it
is
indeede
the
word
of
God
.
Pray
aforehand
that
you
may
feele
the
vertue
and
power
of
it
in
your
heart
,
renuing
and
changing
your
willes
and
affections
:
let
the
feete
of
them
be
beautifull
that
bring
this
tidings
of
peace
and
good
things
vnto
you
:
They
are
the
Embassadours
of
the
euerliuing
God
,
and
disposers
of
his
secrets
:
they
are
our
Fathers
in
Christ
,
by
whom
wee
are
new
begotten
to
eternall
life
.
The
Lord
hath
giuen
them
power
out
of
his
word
to
pronounce
his
sentence
,
so
that
what
they
binde
on
earth
is
bound
in
heauen
:
and
what
they
loose
on
earth
is
loosed
in
heauen
.
Let
vs
haue
them
in
singular
loue
&
reuerence
for
their
works
sake
.
The
contempt
of
their
persons
is
a
notable
policie
of
the
diuell
,
to
make
their
teaching
be
contemned
also
.
Let
vs
shew
our
thankfulnesse
to
God
for
them
,
in
obeying
those
things
which
they
command
vs
in
his
name
.
They
haue
called
vpon
vs
long
enough
for
amendment
;
let
them
now
haue
cause
to
commend
vs
that
wee
haue
amended
.
Let
our
hearing
be
at
length
a
ioy
to
them
,
lest
their
sorrow
be
hereafter
a
witnesse
against
vs
:
One
Ionah
conuerted
Niniueh
,
what
a
shame
is
it
to
vs
that
so
many
Ionahs
should
doe
no
good
in
London
?
Another
meanes
to
set
vs
forward
in
the
way
of
repentance
,
Good
bookes
&
conference
.
is
the
reading
of
good
bookes
,
&
mutuall
conference
,
and
exhortation
one
of
another
.
These
doe
both
after
one
sort
bob
vs
continually
on
the
elbowe
,
and
euen
importune
vs
to
well
doing
,
and
would
worke
some
good
effect
if
we
were
not
negligent
&
carelesse
in
the
vsing
of
them
.
But
so
it
is
,
how
much
time
doe
we
spend
idlely
in
doing
nothing
,
or
vnthriftily
in
doing
naught
,
neuer
taking
a
good
booke
in
our
hands
all
the
weeke
long
,
though
we
haue
choice
of
manie
,
and
our
trades
will
beare
it
;
or
if
wee
begin
,
it
growes
irksom
straight
before
wee
haue
turned
one
leafe
ouer
;
or
if
we
haue
the
patience
to
goe
thorow
to
the
end
(
slightly
enough
;
)
wee
cast
it
in
a
corner
to
be
moulded
and
moath-eaten
,
and
are
as
much
the
better
as
he
that
hath
lookt
in
a
glasse
is
,
after
his
backe
is
turned
:
because
we
doe
not
stirre
vp
and
whet
our
remembrance
by
a
second
more
aduised
reading
,
esteeming
our
olde
bookes
as
olde
friends
,
which
must
euer
now
and
then
be
visited
,
that
acquaintance
may
be
renewed
and
not
lost
.
So
for
our
mutuall
exhorting
one
another
,
how
vnequally
haue
we
performed
it
?
sparing
them
too
much
with
whom
we
are
inward
;
and
reprouing
them
too
tartly
whom
we
like
not
so
well
:
and
perhaps
thinking
scorne
to
be
admonished
our selues
by
any
.
How
many
times
when
we
haue
met
together
for
our
comforts
,
and
to
the
edifying
one
of
another
in
godlinesse
,
haue
wee
burst
out
into
prophane
and
idle
talke
,
letting
our
mouth
loose
to
all
vanity
,
that
should
haue
vttered
gracious
words
,
giuing
proofe
of
the
inward
sanctification
of
our
hearts
:
so
slie
is
the
diuel
(
the
perpetual
enemie
of
all
good
things
)
when
wee
goe
about
to
diminish
his
kingdome
;
to
rob
vs
from
our selues
,
and
diuert
our
best
thoughts
another
way
.
I
speake
this
the
rather
,
that
all
those
that
are
the
professors
of
the
Gospell
,
might
vse
these
means
here
after
with
more
care
and
conscience
,
lest
they
be
ouer-reacht
by
this
slight
of
Sathan
:
and
set
a
watch
before
their
mouth
,
and
keepe
the
doore
of
their
lips
,
that
they
giue
no
example
of
lightnesse
or
vanity
to
them
that
are
new
conuerts
,
nor
vnto
any
other
:
but
carying
themselues
as
paterns
vnto
them
,
in
word
,
in
conuersation
,
in
faith
,
in
spirit
,
in
loue
and
in
purenesse
,
that
euen
those
that
are
backwardest
in
religion
,
may
be
drawne
by
their
integrity
to
repentance
from
the
corruptions
of
the
world
.
For
vertue
shewes
so
well
in
whomsoeuer
it
is
,
that
it
stirres
vp
a
meruailous
loue
and
desire
of
it
in
them
that
behold
it
.
But
if
neither
Gods
benefits
,
nor
his
iudgements
,
nor
his
word
,
nor
godly
bookes
,
nor
the
good
counsell
and
admonition
and
examples
of
our
brethren
(
who
are
more
carefull
of
our
saluation
then
we
our selues
)
will
preuaile
with
vs
,
let
the
shortnes
and
vncertainty
of
our
owne
life
make
vs
looke
about
vs
.
For
what
is
our
life
but
a
vapour
,
a
flower
,
a
flash
,
a
shadow
,
a
dreame
,
vanity
,
nothing
?
Haue
you
euer
obserued
the
bubbles
which
boyes
blow
vp
in
a
shell
of
sope-water
,
how
some
being
swollen
to
a
determinate
quantity
,
breake
immediatly
in
the
shell
?
some
the
wind
whisleth
vp
aloft
into
the
aire
,
and
are
dissolued
there
:
some
flie
alowe
by
ground
,
till
at
length
they
dash
against
the
ground
,
and
come
to
nothing
.
Such
things
are
men
and
women
,
when
you
see
a
thousand
of
them
walking
the
streetes
,
imagine
you
see
a
thousand
belles
or
bubbles
of
water
wandering
vp
and
downe
:
some
a
high
aboue
all
their
fellowes
(
as
the
gale
fauours
them
)
some
in
a
lower
region
,
and
with
a
thought
as
high
as
the
highest
:
some
beneath
that
lownes
,
and
some
as
low
as
the
pauement
.
Now
stand
still
a
little
and
marke
them
,
and
you
shall
see
some
times
one
striking
out
another
,
sometimes
tenne
,
or
twenty
,
or
thirty
popping
out
of
themselues
,
and
instantly
so
many
more
(
some
of
the
highest
,
some
of
the
lowest
,
some
of
the
meane
ones
one
amongst
another
)
so
that
anon
you
cannot
see
one
of
the
olde
men
or
bubbles
left
,
but
all
are
new
men
or
new
bubbles
(
call
them
which
you
will
,
for
all
is
one
)
blowne
vp
in
the
places
of
the
former
.
If
this
be
our
best
firmenesse
,
if
our
mettall
be
thus
full
of
flawes
,
if
our
life
be
but
a
moment
,
and
yet
vpon
that
moment
depends
eternitie
of
weale
or
woe
in
the
life
to
come
:
who
would
not
take
opportunitie
by
the
foretop
,
and
make
hay
(
as
the
saying
is
)
while
the
sunne
shines
?
who
would
put
off
his
amendment
till
to
morrow
,
when
he
knowes
not
what
a
day
may
bring
forth
?
Man
knoweth
not
his
end
(
saith
the
wisest
among
men
)
but
euen
as
the
fishes
be
taken
with
the
hooke
,
and
the
birdes
be
sodainly
intrapped
with
the
snate
,
so
are
the
children
of
men
preuented
with
the
euill
day
when
it
comes
vpon
them
sodainly
.
When
the
tree
falleth
,
whether
toward
the
North
or
South
,
there
it
lieth
:
and
in
the
same
state
you
die
,
you
shall
be
iudged
.
Learne
therefore
to
number
your
dayes
,
and
consider
seriously
of
your
latter
end
,
that
you
may
repent
betimes
,
for
that
is
wisedome
;
and
depart
from
euill
,
for
that
is
vnderstanding
.
Or
if
you
scorne
all
other
schoole-masters
,
learne
of
the
diuell
one
rule
of
policy
;
He
knowing
his
time
to
be
short
,
will
doe
what
mischiefe
he
can
,
you
knowing
your
time
to
be
short
,
doe
you
what
good
you
can
.
CHAP.
6
THere
remaines
yet
three
other
means
,
which
I
cannot
ouerpasse
without
making
mention
of
them
.
The
first
is
the
care
of
masters
,
Godly
carefull
Masters
.
and
the
discipline
of
a
well
gouerned
house
,
which
may
set
straight
the
manners
of
a
yong
man
,
and
restraine
him
from
those
vices
,
whereto
by
reason
of
his
age
,
or
the
corruption
of
the
place
,
he
is
inclined
:
For
the
prouerbe
holdeth
for
the
most
part
true
;
LIKE
MASTER
,
LIKE
MAN
.
If
Abraham
feare
God
,
his
seruants
and
houshold
will
bee
religious
.
If
Herod
scorne
Christ
,
his
captaines
&
courtiers
wil
deride
him
also
.
In
the
History
of
the
Apostles
Acts
,
when
any
housholder
was
conuerted
to
the
faith
of
Christ
,
you
shall
finde
it
said
;
The
man
beleeued
and
all
his
houshold
,
shewing
,
that
as
they
were
swaied
before
of
an
Idolatrous
master
,
to
superstition
:
so
now
they
are
swaied
by
a
Christian
master
to
the
true
worship
and
seruice
of
God
.
Here
therefore
I
thinke
it
not
amisse
to
shew
the
duty
of
a
Master
in
some
measure
as
God
shal
enable
me
;
not
that
I
would
take
vpon
me
to
teach
my
elders
and
betters
(
yet
let
none
disdaine
to
learne
of
yong
ones
,
seeing
euen
our
cradle
sometimes
may
teach
vs
wisedome
;
for
out
of
the
mouthes
of
babes
and
sucklings
hath
the
Lord
ordained
strength
)
but
to
the
end
that
we
that
are
yet
seruants
and
prentises
may
know
how
to
cary
and
behaue
our selues
,
when
it
shall
please
the
Lord
,
to
lay
such
a
charge
vpon
vs
.
First
,
(
my
Brethren
)
when
the
Lord
shall
call
vs
to
this
waightie
charge
,
that
we
come
to
be
rulers
of
families
,
and
that
we
keep
seruants
,
it
behooueth
vs
,
nay
,
we
are
bound
in
duty
to
God
,
to
haue
as
great
a
care
of
their
saluation
as
of
our
owne
,
and
to
see
they
do
their
faithfull
seruice
to
God
,
as
we
will
looke
that
they
should
faithfully
serue
vs
:
For
assuredly
that
seruant
that
is
not
faithfull
to
GOD
,
can
neuer
bee
faithfull
to
his
master
;
but
he
that
serues
GOD
with
a
good
conscience
,
wil
serue
his
master
with
a
good
conscience
.
The
awe
&
presence
of
his
master
to
ouereie
and
chide
him
needes
not
,
for
his
owne
heart
will
check
him
,
They
doe
best
serue
their
Masters
,
that
haue
learned
first
to
serue
God
.
and
the
feare
of
God
will
keep
him
from
vntrustines
.
You
may
find
a
kind
of
pick-thanke
officiousnes
in
seruants
of
another
making
;
but
there
is
no
seruice
like
his
that
serues
man
for
conscience
toward
God
.
And
beside
our
duty
to
God
,
and
desire
of
faithful
seruice
to
our selues
,
the
care
we
should
haue
of
our
childrens
godly
education
,
that
they
be
not
corrupted
,
shold
double
our
care
to
keep
godly
seruants
:
for
the
liberal
disposition
of
a
child
is
easily
spilt
with
the
leaud
manners
of
a
seruant
.
Hence
it
commeth
that
almost
their
first
words
are
ribauldrie
and
feareful
othes
,
and
that
they
learne
to
blaspheme
God
before
they
can
plainely
speake
GOD
;
yea
sometime
they
proue
twofold
more
the
children
of
Satan
then
their
Tutors
were
:
For
a
new
vessell
will
keep
the
tatch
of
the
first
seasoning
a
long
time
after
.
Cause
them
therefore
to
frequent
the
holy
exercise
of
religion
,
as
Preaching
,
Catechising
,
Praier
,
Sacraments
&c.
Bring
them
with
you
,
where
they
may
be
instructed
in
the
waies
of
the
Lord
to
doe
righteousnesse
,
especially
on
the
Sabbath
day
:
because
that
is
a
day
appointed
and
set
apart
of
God
himselfe
for
his
worship
and
seruice
,
wherein
he
wil
haue
our
seruant
as
free
as
our selues
,
and
to
the
end
we
may
prepare
them
the
better
to
the
sanctifying
of
the
Lords
day
,
we
are
to
call
them
vp
betimes
in
the
morning
,
to
praier
,
wherein
first
we
are
to
thanke
the
Lord
,
for
all
his
mercies
to
such
vnworthy
wretches
,
and
namely
for
the
rest
and
preseruation
the
night
past
:
Then
to
beseech
his
Maiestie
that
hee
would
so
prepare
and
fit
our
hearts
to
the
profitable
retaining
of
his
most
holy
and
blessed
word
,
and
so
direct
the
mouthes
of
his
ministers
that
day
in
the
vttering
of
it
,
that
it
may
be
a
comfortable
sauour
of
life
and
saluation
to
vs
,
and
not
a
sauour
of
death
vnto
destruction
.
And
hauing
ended
this
duty
by
7.
in
the
morning
,
we
may
if
wee
will
directly
goe
where
there
shall
bee
a
Sermon
vntill
eight
so
comming
home
we
are
to
goe
to
our
owne
Parish
Church
,
both
in
the
forenoone
,
and
in
the
afternoone
;
and
after
that
to
some
Lecture
as
there
be
diuers
(
blessed
bee
GOD
)
in
diuers
parts
of
the
City
.
And
hauing
thus
spent
the
day
till
six
at
night
,
we
are
not
to
content
our selues
there
,
thinking
we
haue
done
by
this
time
a
work
of
supererogation
;
but
to
come
directly
from
the
Lecture
to
our
houses
,
and
call
our
seruants
together
,
to
praiers
to
almighty
God
,
that
it
would
please
his
Maiestie
to
giue
a
blessing
vpon
that
which
we
haue
heard
,
that
wee
may
auoide
the
sinnes
,
execute
the
good
duties
,
feare
the
threatnings
,
and
lay
vp
the
comforts
from
the
mouth
of
his
ministers
plainely
shewed
and
laid
down
vnto
vs
.
And
hauing
ended
praiers
for
that
instant
,
we
are
to
examine
euery
one
of
them
particularly
what
lessons
they
haue
learned
at
Church
,
and
what
vses
they
were
taught
of
those
lessons
:
and
hauing
done
that
,
to
giue
them
a
generall
exhortation
,
incouraging
them
to
goe
forward
in
godlinesse
,
which
hath
promises
of
this
life
,
and
of
that
which
is
to
come
,
and
so
to
make
an
end
for
that
time
,
with
singing
a
Psalm
of
thankesgiuing
.
NOW
as
we
are
to
performe
these
duties
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
so
we
haue
our
duties
to
performe
on
the
weeke
daies
also
:
For
it
is
not
enough
for
any
man
to
giue
his
family
victuals
,
and
prouision
one
day
in
the
weeke
,
and
let
them
fast
all
the
rest
of
the
weeke
after
,
for
so
he
should
soone
make
a
leane
houshold
;
but
we
must
deale
with
our
seruants
in
Spiritual
things
,
as
we
deale
with
them
in
Corporall
things
;
that
is
,
as
wee
allow
them
meat
and
drinke
sufficiently
all
the
weeke
daies
,
and
on
the
Sabbath
day
they
haue
extraordinary
dishes
:
So
although
we
haue
beene
carefull
to
pray
and
instruct
them
in
religion
on
the
Sabbath
day
:
yet
we
must
looke
we
do
our
duties
in
the
weeke
daies
also
,
although
not
like
vnto
the
Sabbath
:
for
the
Lord
doth
not
require
it
at
our
hands
.
This
discipline
and
good
order
if
wee
would
carefully
inure
our
Prentises
to
,
seuen
or
eight
yeares
together
till
their
first
youth
(
the
age
which
is
set
vpon
the
very
pinacle
of
temptations
)
be
past
ouer
,
methinkes
it
were
enough
to
kill
all
the
weedes
of
vices
in
them
,
&
to
make
euen
Atheists
religious
,
and
grow
into
a
habit
of
sanctimony
and
godlinesse
.
Here
I
thinke
it
needfull
for
euery
one
of
vs
,
(
as
we
are
yet
seruants
)
to
know
our
duties
also
;
that
wee
may
demeane
our selues
,
agreeably
to
our
present
condition
.
Seruants
duty
.
First
then
wee
are
to
follow
the
counsel
of
the
Apostle
,
to
be
obedient
vnto
our
bodily
masters
with
feare
and
trembling
,
because
they
be
(
in
their
places
)
vnto
vs
as
God
,
God
hath
set
them
ouer
vs
in
his
own
stead
;
and
therefore
we
ought
not
onely
to
carry
a
reuerend
estimation
of
them
,
counting
them
worthy
of
all
honor
,
but
to
performe
our
duty
and
seruice
vnto
them
,
not
to
the
eie
as
men
pleasers
,
but
as
the
seruants
of
Christ
,
doing
the
will
of
God
himselfe
singlie
and
from
the
heart
,
labouring
continually
to
please
them
,
and
submitting
our selues
to
them
in
all
things
,
as
the
holy
Ghost
commandeth
.
But
this
must
not
be
vnderstood
absolutely
,
but
with
an
exception
;
So
they
bee
lawfull
things
.
For
if
a
master
command
his
seruant
to
speake
a
lie
,
or
to
sweare
his
commodities
cost
so
much
,
when
they
cost
much
lesse
,
or
to
breake
the
Lords
Sabbath
;
in
such
a
case
we
ought
rather
to
obey
God
then
man
:
but
in
all
iust
and
lawfull
impositions
(
not
crossing
their
roiall
commandement
)
we
are
to
conforme
our selues
in
all
duty
and
obedience
to
them
,
yea
not
only
to
the
good
and
courteous
,
but
euen
to
the
froward
&
sower
.
For
this
is
thankworthy
,
saith
Saint
Peter
,
if
a
seruant
for
conscience
toward
GOD
endure
smart
,
suffering
wrongfully
.
But
it
is
a
great
fault
in
vs
that
are
seruants
,
that
if
correction
be
giuen
vs
(
though
with
iustice
and
discretion
)
we
will
say
most
commonly
wee
deserue
it
not
.
This
is
not
the
saying
of
the
holy
Ghost
:
For
(
saith
he
)
what
praise
is
it
for
a
seruant
to
be
buffeted
for
his
faults
?
but
and
if
yee
fault
not
,
and
yet
suffer
hard
vsage
and
take
it
patiently
,
then
is
there
thanke
with
God
.
And
herein
what
better
satisfaction
or
quieting
of
our
mindes
can
we
desire
,
then
the
example
of
our
Sauiour
himselfe
,
who
neuer
sinned
,
neither
was
there
guile
found
in
his
mouth
,
yet
he
was
reuiled
,
and
reuiled
not
againe
,
he
suffered
beyond
all
degrees
of
patience
,
&
opened
not
his
mouth
;
but
committed
reuenge
to
him
that
iudgeth
righteously
,
euen
to
God
his
Father
:
So
ought
wee
(
my
Brethren
)
when
our
masters
bee
out
of
reason
,
and
offer
vs
extreame
measure
,
to
put
it
vp
and
endure
it
patiently
,
knowing
that
they
also
haue
a
master
in
Heauen
,
who
beholdeth
with
an
equall
eie
both
vs
and
them
;
and
not
to
answer
,
Sir
I
deserue
it
not
:
For
if
correction
should
not
bee
giuen
to
the
most
of
vs
till
wee
confesse
we
deserue
it
,
it
should
neuer
be
giuen
vs
.
Heere
I
cannot
keepe
silence
,
but
I
must
needes
make
known
how
good
and
gratious
the
Lord
hath
shewed
himselfe
in
this
case
to
mee
his
most
vnworthy
seruant
,
and
the
rather
to
cause
all
other
Prentises
to
thinke
themselues
not
miserable
but
most
happy
,
when
the
Lord
hath
set
ouer
them
such
matters
,
as
giue
them
deserued
correction
with
wisedome
&
discretion
:
For
certainly
(
my
Brethren
)
had
not
I
had
such
a
master
,
(
whose
care
and
diligence
hath
beene
so
great
ouer
me
,
in
restraining
mee
from
that
scope
&
liberty
,
which
my
wretched
and
vntamed
nature
did
desire
)
it
had
beene
better
a
thousand
times
I
had
neuer
beene
borne
:
For
my
bringing
vp
from
my
childhood
,
vntill
the
time
I
came
to
my
master
,
was
most
miserable
and
wretched
,
by
reason
of
my
sinnes
and
the
ignorance
wherein
I
liued
,
as
the
case
of
too
too
many
is
in
these
daies
:
yea
and
since
I
came
to
be
a
Prentise
(
vntill
of
late
time
)
my
life
was
most
odious
and
abominable
both
in
the
sight
of
GOD
and
Man
.
But
blessed
bee
the
name
of
the
Lord
,
who
hath
giuen
me
a
good
master
,
to
hold
me
backe
,
that
I
could
not
be
so
wicked
as
I
would
,
and
hath
now
also
in
some
measure
opened
mine
eies
,
(
which
haue
beene
a
long
time
kept
shut
)
that
I
might
see
how
to
wind
my
feet
out
of
the
snare
of
Satan
.
Therefore
my
deere
Brethren
(
vnto
all
those
I
speake
that
desire
to
bee
partakers
of
the
heauenly
ioyes
in
the
life
to
come
)
shew
yourselues
obedient
to
your
masters
,
and
submit
your selues
vnder
the
yoake
,
yea
although
it
bee
irksome
to
the
flesh
:
for
you
knowe
nor
the
great
profit
and
rewarde
that
commeth
thereby
.
Vngodlinesse
of
Prentises
.
But
certainly
(
in
griefe
I
speake
it
)
Prentises
for
the
most
part
were
neuer
so
leaudly
and
so
wickedly
giuen
,
neuer
so
vaine
and
so
licentious
,
neuer
so
full
of
scoffing
and
derision
,
neuer
so
insolent
and
contemptuous
of
God
and
good
men
,
as
they
be
in
these
dayes
.
For
we
are
so
apt
to
be
corrupted
,
and
(
being
corrupted
)
to
corrupt
,
partly
by
reason
of
our
nature
,
and
partly
of
the
place
,
that
vnlesse
our
Masters
be
the
more
circumspect
in
bringing
of
vs
vp
,
the
soules
of
many
thousand
Prentises
will
be
required
at
their
hands
;
impunitie
boldening
vs
in
sinne
,
and
sinne
deceitfully
hardening
our
hearts
,
that
all
thought
of
repentance
is
put
away
from
vs
;
or
if
any
shall
friendly
remember
vs
,
his
best
thanke
is
a
mock
for
his
labour
.
When
inquisition
shall
be
made
for
bloud
of
soules
,
I
would
euery
one
could
stand
forth
,
&
say
,
Not
guiltie
,
but
the
Prentises
themselues
.
But
I
feare
greatly
that
the
Masters
will
be
to
blame
in
that
day
also
,
and
be
put
to
their
shifts
for
a
currant
answer
,
when
they
shall
find
none
.
For
(
without
offence
to
any
man
,
I
will
speake
a
little
)
where
is
that
Master
almost
that
questions
with
his
seruants
about
any
religion
at
all
?
It
may
be
sometimes
he
will
send
them
to
Church
;
but
when
they
returne
,
what
doth
he
aske
them
of
their
learning
or
profiting
there
?
vnlesse
perhaps
once
at
the
hundreds
end
hee
vouchsafe
to
knowe
the
chapter
and
verse
of
the
Text
,
which
(
betweene
the
Church-doore
and
home
)
euen
a
Parrot
wold
be
taught
to
pronounce
.
Let
him
send
any
of
his
people
of
some
worldly
businesse
,
and
hee
will
be
sure
to
aske
him
how
he
sped
,
and
nothing
will
he
leaue
vnasked
to
vnderstand
the
effect
of
the
errand
hee
sent
him
about
:
but
for
Gods
businesse
and
soule
matters
be
they
performed
negligently
,
or
not
done
at
all
,
it
mattereth
not
;
he
is
sure
no
account
will
be
required
of
any
such
thing
all
the
time
of
his
prentiship
.
And
this
is
the
reason
that
seruants
depart
as
ignorant
after
they
haue
serued
seuen
or
eight
yeares
seruice
,
as
they
were
when
they
came
first
(
not
of
their
trades
)
I
meane
of
that
which
is
more
worth
then
all
the
trades
in
the
worlde
.
For
a
man
shall
profit
much
to
know
God
.
The
true
knowledge
of
God
will
bring
more
sound
profit
in
one
day
to
a
man
,
then
the
best
trade
in
London
will
doe
in
seuen
yeares
.
For
godlinesse
is
profitable
vnto
all
things
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
as
hauing
the
blessings
of
this
life
,
and
of
that
which
is
to
come
.
Howbeit
,
some
there
be
in
London
that
I
knowe
(
and
more
I
doubt
not
that
I
knowe
not
)
which
vse
good
orders
in
their
houses
,
to
the
generall
good
of
their
families
(
and
I
desire
the
Lord
to
increase
their
number
)
But
a
hundred
to
one
neuer
spent
any
time
with
their
seruants
,
in
the
exercises
of
religion
,
no
not
so
much
as
to
call
them
to
prayers
either
morning
or
euening
once
in
a
yeare
,
whereas
they
are
bound
(
in
duty
to
God
)
to
do
it
euery
morning
&
euening
;
and
although
there
were
no
commandement
from
God
,
nor
president
in
this
kind
,
yet
very
necessity
and
the
sloth
of
youth
should
constraine
vs
;
&
surely
if
masters
would
care
as
they
should
,
to
traine
vp
their
housholds
in
the
feare
of
god
,
&
in
the
practise
of
good
things
it
could
not
be
that
London
should
harbor
so
many
vngodly
Prentises
,
or
that
diuers
men
shold
complain
(
as
they
do
)
of
seruants
leaudnes
,
that
they
cannot
thriue
in
the
world
;
for
they
haue
good
meanes
of
getting
,
but
is
spent
they
cannot
tell
how
so
soone
as
it
is
gotten
:
Alas
,
how
can
it
be
any
otherwise
?
if
their
seruants
be
not
taught
the
feare
of
GOD
,
and
to
keep
a
good
conscience
,
how
is
it
possible
that
euer
they
should
haue
any
true
seruice
at
their
hands
?
But
some
will
say
againe
,
this
is
not
so
:
for
by
experience
I
can
speake
this
of
a
truth
,
that
for
mine
own
part
I
neuer
instructed
my
folks
in
all
my
life
in
any
religion
at
all
:
No
,
I
neuer
heard
them
so
much
as
to
read
a
chapter
,
and
yet
I
thanke
God
,
he
hath
blessed
me
with
good
seruants
.
For
I
finde
my
riches
to
increase
,
and
I
thriue
well
,
and
therefore
it
is
not
the
bringing
of
them
vp
in
religion
,
that
makes
a
man
come
forward
in
the
world
;
but
if
his
fortune
be
good
,
wealth
with
come
on
.
Fortune
?
no
,
no
,
it
is
the
great
handy
work
of
GOD
in
some
mens
seruants
,
that
hunger
and
thirst
after
righteousnesse
,
and
seeke
more
for
saluation
then
their
masters
be
aware
of
,
(
or
else
their
poore
soules
might
be
cast
away
and
perish
for
euer
)
and
then
who
knowes
not
that
such
a
man
thriues
for
his
seruants
sake
,
as
Laban
did
for
Iacobs
,
and
as
Potiphar
did
for
Iosephs
?
Or
it
may
be
,
GOD
casts
his
blessings
into
thy
lap
(
euen
against
all
meanes
)
to
stirre
thee
vp
to
greater
thankfulnesse
and
care
to
serue
him
afterwards
,
or
else
to
leaue
thee
the
more
vnexcusable
in
his
great
iudgement
for
not
performing
such
duty
and
seruice
.
And
therefore
let
none
cast
surmises
of
excuse
to
colour
or
shift
out
the
matter
any
longer
,
but
wherein
it
appeareth
to
your
owne
consciences
,
you
haue
beene
negligent
,
make
amends
with
more
care
hereafter
:
aske
not
which
of
your
neighbours
doth
thus
and
thus
,
and
if
they
do
it
not
,
you
meane
not
to
begin
.
But
resolue
you
with
Ioshua
,
let
others
take
what
course
they
will
,
I
and
my
house
will
serue
the
Lord
.
Let
your
people
see
you
going
before
them
in
the
practise
of
euery
good
thing
,
and
in
the
abhorring
and
auoiding
of
euill
,
so
shal
they
first
feare
to
doe
that
which
you
hate
,
and
at
length
fall
in
loue
with
that
which
you
practise
.
It
shall
get
you
more
authority
and
respect
with
them
heere
,
and
increase
the
blessednes
of
your
own
soules
another
day
,
that
you
haue
been
the
meanes
(
through
the
blessing
of
God
)
to
saue
your
poore
prentises
soules
also
.
And
heere
I
shall
desire
my
worshipful
masters
of
this
City
(
to
whose
sight
this
little
handfull
of
papers
may
come
)
not
to
take
offence
at
any
thing
I
haue
spoken
out
of
zeale
and
heartie
meaning
,
nor
to
impute
it
to
arrogancie
in
me
,
that
I
haue
intermedled
in
their
offices
(
From
which
proud
sin
(
I
thank
my
God
)
I
am
free
)
but
if
it
be
iust
that
I
haue
saied
,
and
agreeable
to
Gods
word
,
that
they
will
not
disdaine
to
do
it
,
it
shall
not
only
be
no
disparagement
,
but
praise
and
honor
to
them
,
comfort
to
other
of
Gods
children
,
and
ioy
to
the
Angels
,
in
heauen
,
that
by
their
religious
care
,
their
seruants
are
made
Gods
seruants
with
them
,
and
there
is
such
a
towardly
and
hopefull
succession
to
stand
vp
after
them
,
that
as
the
Thessalonians
were
examples
of
godlines
to
those
of
Macedonia
:
so
Londoners
at
length
may
be
like
examples
of
piety
&
religiousnes
to
all
the
neighbor
townes
of
Great
Britaine
also
.
CHAP.
7.
THe
next
good
meanes
to
waken
vs
out
of
the
sleepe
of
sinne
,
and
to
quicken
vs
to
a
new
conuersation
,
is
the
sweete
consolation
and
ioy
which
God
giueth
vs
in
our
soules
and
consciences
of
his
seruice
,
after
we
haue
once
made
our
peace
with
him
by
sound
and
seasonable
repentance
.
This
is
the
peace
that
passeth
all
vnderstanding
;
this
is
the
earnest
of
our
inheritance
;
this
is
a
present
taste
or
say
of
the
ioyes
of
the
life
to
come
.
I
knowe
my
words
seeme
to
the
carnall
and
vnregenerate
a
fained
thing
,
as
the
womens
report
of
Christs
resurrection
did
at
first
to
the
Disciples
;
but
if
thou
wouldst
doe
as
they
did
,
neuer
leaue
till
in
thine
owne
person
thou
hast
tried
out
the
truth
of
this
matter
,
thou
shouldest
feele
within
thee
such
a
paradise
of
sweetnesse
,
as
thou
thy selfe
were
not
able
to
vtter
.
Thou
shouldest
see
with
what
confortable
cheere
Christ
would
offer
himself
vnto
thee
;
with
what
delicates
he
would
refresh
thy
soule
;
what
secret
affections
hee
would
inspire
into
thee
;
and
with
how
pleasant
a
cup
of
loue
he
would
make
thee
merrie
,
if
thou
wouldst
follow
his
pathes
,
forsaking
the
by-wayes
of
sinne
and
worldly
vanities
.
The
least
drop
of
this
diuine
sweetnesse
,
would
vtterly
distast
vnto
thee
all
the
pleasures
of
sinne
,
that
euen
the
remembrance
of
them
would
be
irksome
and
vnsauorie
.
For
mine
owne
part
,
I
haue
had
experience
of
this
which
I
say
.
For
(
to
my
shame
I
speake
it
)
I
haue
beene
as
leaud
and
as
wicked
a
fellow
as
euer
thou
hast
beene
whosoeuer
thou
art
:
and
one
that
hath
made
as
small
conscience
of
sinning
against
God
as
euer
thou
hast
done
,
either
in
swearing
,
or
lying
,
or
prophaning
the
Lords
Sabbath
,
or
in
deriding
the
deere
Saints
and
seruants
of
God
.
Nay
,
what
vice
would
I
haue
left
vnpractised
,
if
I
might
haue
come
to
the
knowledge
of
it
?
what
pleasure
,
or
vanitie
,
or
abomination
can
be
named
,
whereof
I
would
not
haue
had
,
not
a
dram
or
sip
,
but
a
drunken
carouse
,
if
the
Lord
by
good
meanes
had
not
restrained
me
from
such
effusion
of
beastlinesse
?
It
irketh
me
to
thinke
in
what
a
fearefull
state
I
liued
at
that
time
:
for
had
not
God
beene
very
mercifull
vnto
me
,
the
earth
might
haue
opened
,
and
swallowed
me
vp
quick
for
rebelling
against
his
great
Maiestie
,
being
Lord
of
heauen
and
earth
:
but
such
was
his
goodnesse
to
spare
me
,
and
such
was
his
patience
,
to
waite
for
my
repentance
:
for
euer
magnified
be
his
holy
name
therefore
.
For
this
cause
,
when
once
it
pleased
his
Maiestie
(
in
some
measure
)
to
giue
mee
a
sight
and
feeling
of
my
sinnes
,
through
the
preaching
of
his
word
(
which
I
had
a
long
time
heard
in
vaine
before
)
as
also
by
meanes
of
some
of
my
Brethren
in
Christ
Iesus
,
stirring
mee
vp
continually
with
such
like
admonitions
as
I
doe
now
stirre
vp
thee
,
I
consulted
not
with
flesh
&
bloud
,
but
presently
set
my selfe
to
resist
my
former
euill
inclinations
,
resoluing
and
endeuouring
euery
day
to
change
the
tenor
of
my
life
,
and
to
serue
God
in
better
manner
then
euer
I
had
done
before
,
giuing
small
regard
what
the
companions
of
my
leaudnesse
,
and
other
of
the
prophane
multitude
did
say
of
me
,
nor
what
deriding
termes
they
bestowed
vpon
men
:
for
I
saw
no
other
way
but
either
I
must
be
a
hell-hound
,
or
be
called
a
Puritan
.
And
therefore
I
chose
rather
to
suffer
reproch
with
the
children
of
God
,
and
to
abide
the
name
of
hypocrite
and
dissembler
,
&c.
then
to
be
a
varlet
with
euery
varlet
,
or
accounted
an
honest
fellow
amongst
the
prophane
.
And
so
continuing
in
this
course
,
and
framing
my selfe
to
liue
more
&
more
in
the
feare
of
God
,
shaking
off
my
olde
sinnes
,
I
felt
in
my selfe
in
short
time
such
a
sweete
and
comfortable
change
,
and
such
internall
heauenly
ioy
of
Gods
seruice
,
that
I
would
not
haue
exchanged
it
againe
for
all
the
choicest
delights
of
the
world
heaped
at
once
vpon
my
heart
.
And
surely
,
my
Brother
,
if
thou
wouldest
once
enter
into
this
resolution
(
as
I
haue
done
)
turning
from
dead
works
to
serue
the
liuing
God
;
thou
shouldest
see
what
a
banquet
of
celestiall
delicates
hee
would
set
before
thee
,
and
how
plentifully
hee
would
powre
forth
the
wine
of
his
consolations
vnto
thee
,
that
thou
mightest
say
,
as
Iudith
did
in
another
case
:
I
will
drinke
now
freely
O
my
Lord
;
Iudith
12.18
.
because
my
heart
is
merrie
this
day
more
then
euer
it
was
in
all
my
life
before
.
Only
for
this
shalt
thou
feele
sorrow
,
that
thou
hadst
not
sooner
embraced
the
meanes
of
thy
conuersion
,
that
the
sooner
thou
mightst
haue
beene
partaker
of
this
diuine
ioy
,
and
these
soules
rauishing
comforts
.
The
last
meanes
I
will
speake
of
,
is
,
the
consideration
of
the
ioyes
of
heauen
,
whereof
the
ioy
of
Gods
children
here
is
but
a
little
drop
or
spark
:
that
heauen
the
consummation
,
perfection
,
or
euerlasting
well-head
of
all
pleasures
that
can
be
seene
,
named
or
conceiued
:
seene
,
named
,
or
conceiued
,
said
I
?
nay
,
no
eye
hath
seene
,
no
eare
hath
heard
,
no
thought
hath
euer
comprehended
the
ioy
,
the
pleasure
the
felicity
,
the
glory
which
GOD
hath
layed
vp
in
the
life
eternall
for
them
that
serue
him
,
with
an
vpright
heart
in
this
world
.
The
Scriptures
doe
sometimes
resemble
heauen
to
a
Paradise
or
pleasant
field
;
sometimes
they
describe
it
by
a
goodly
Citie
;
sometimes
by
a
Kings
Court
;
but
what
are
these
but
worldly
descriptions
of
that
which
passeth
all
the
world
?
Go
out
into
the
most
delightfull
parts
of
the
Country
,
view
the
faire
hilles
,
the
flowrie
vallies
,
the
crystall
fountaines
,
the
cleere
riuers
,
sweet
woods
goodly
plaines
,
variety
of
fruites
,
melody
of
birds
&c.
and
all
this
is
nothing
to
it
.
Goe
into
the
Citie
,
suruay
the
stately
gates
,
firme
walles
,
beautiful
edifices
,
neat
streets
,
rich
houshold
stuffe
,
all
the
desirable
things
in
the
warehouses
and
Chests
of
Merchants
,
Goldsmiths
,
Iewellers
.
&c.
and
all
these
are
nothing
to
it
.
Goe
into
the
Court
,
note
the
multitude
of
suters
,
traine
of
attendants
;
magnificent
feasts
,
pompous
seruice
,
musical
Instruments
faire
Ladies
,
glistering
Courtiers
,
maskes
,
reuels
all
the
pleasures
of
a
King
;
and
all
these
are
nothing
to
it
.
Let
the
best
wit
in
the
world
bestow
his
vtmost
skill
to
set
out
all
the
delights
and
pleasures
of
the
sonnes
of
men
in
their
liueliest
colours
,
yet
all
his
expence
of
oratorie
will
scarse
giue
you
a
glimpse
of
this
.
Rack
your
owne
thoughts
vpon
the
tenters
,
shape
out
in
your
conceit
a
thousand
formes
of
pleasure
,
yet
all
these
are
scarse
a
shadow
of
it
.
And
thinke
what
a
kinde
of
blisse
that
is
which
passeth
all
companion
,
all
vtterance
,
all
conceite
of
the
wisest
humane
heart
.
Neither
is
this
for
a
day
,
or
a
moneth
,
or
for
terme
of
yeares
,
but
an
euerlasting
state
of
blessednes
,
vndeterminable
so
long
as
God
is
God
,
and
that
is
world
without
end
;
wee
want
a
word
to
expresse
it
.
And
shall
wee
let
slip
such
a
booty
through
our
negligence
,
or
wilfulnesse
,
or
sloth
,
or
inconsideratenes
?
If
wee
doe
carelesly
ouergoe
but
a
good
bargain
in
our
ordinarie
trades
,
which
might
yeeld
vs
a
few
crownes
profit
,
how
doth
it
vexe
and
chafe
vs
afterward
?
and
doe
we
thinke
such
a
losse
as
this
will
be
borne
with
ease
if
wee
once
ouergoe
it
,
when
it
might
earst
haue
beene
had
for
so
little
timely
paines
?
Beleeue
me
,
my
Brother
,
the
onely
losse
of
heauen
to
a
soule
able
to
apprehend
the
losse
,
is
a
sufficient
hell
,
if
the
Lord
had
appointed
no
other
torment
for
euill
doers
.
Come
,
come
,
stand
no
longer
in
thine
owne
light
,
see
thy
good
,
and
take
it
.
Why
wilt
thou
let
slip
the
opportunitie
which
nothing
in
the
world
can
purchase
thee
againe
?
Why
shouldest
thou
not
euen
in
this
houre
change
thy
life
,
and
make
an
end
of
wilfull
sinning
against
the
Lord
?
Is
it
for
that
thou
art
loth
to
forgoe
thy
olde
delights
,
thy
pleasant
companions
,
and
boon
societies
?
alas
,
what
are
those
sliding
base
delights
to
the
solide
and
noble
delights
I
spake
of
euen
now
?
or
thy
earthly
fellowships
,
to
the
societie
of
Angels
and
heauenly
spirits
?
Is
it
for
that
the
wayes
of
godlinesse
are
hard
and
painfull
,
and
laborious
?
Is
not
the
enioying
of
a
Kingdome
a
good
salue
for
that
sore
?
surely
if
all
the
paines
and
labours
of
all
men
in
the
world
were
layed
vpon
thy
shoulders
;
if
all
thy
life
were
nothing
but
weeping
and
lamentation
like
Ezekiels
booke
:
nay
,
if
thou
shouldest
for
a
time
endure
hell
fire
it selfe
,
that
afterward
when
Christ
commeth
in
his
glory
,
thou
mightst
be
reckoned
among
his
Saints
,
and
enioy
the
heritage
of
his
chosen
children
;
yet
were
not
all
thy
paines
and
sufferings
worthy
to
be
ballanced
with
the
participation
of
such
an
infinite
&
vnspeakable
waight
of
glory
.
But
to
the
vnwilling
euery
thing
is
an
excuse
.
For
the
seruice
of
God
is
easie
,
&
his
yoke
is
sweet
.
I
will
runne
the
way
of
thy
commandements
(
saith
the
kingly
Prophet
)
when
thou
shalt
enlarge
my
heart
.
And
againe
;
My
delight
is
in
thy
commandements
:
yea
they
are
the
ioy
and
reioycing
of
my
heart
.
What
doest
thou
feare
lest
thou
sholdst
fal
away
again
after
thou
hast
bin
once
inlightned
,
that
there
can
be
no
more
renuing
by
repentance
;
&
so
thy
last
end
should
be
worse
then
thy
beginning
?
care
thou
by
making
thine
election
sure
by
good
workes
,
pray
vnto
the
Lord
for
his
strength
and
assistance
,
and
feare
not
this
feare
,
for
it
will
bee
as
impossible
for
thee
(
being
once
regenerate
and
made
the
child
of
GOD
)
to
fall
finally
away
from
godlinesse
,
as
it
was
for
Ieremy
to
hold
his
peace
(
notwithstanding
his
resolution
of
silence
)
when
the
word
of
the
Lord
was
as
fire
or
gunpowder
in
his
heart
.
Doest
thou
doubt
whether
God
wil
performe
his
promise
?
then
neuer
take
vpon
thee
the
name
of
a
Christian
,
he
renders
vengeance
to
the
vngodly
,
why
should
we
doubt
whether
he
will
recompence
and
reward
weldoers
?
Thou
shalt
heare
thousands
complaine
of
the
falsehood
and
faithlesnesse
of
the
world
,
whom
thou
trustest
;
if
any
haue
complained
of
Gods
slacknesse
,
God
hath
driuen
him
out
of
his
owne
proofe
anon
after
to
recant
,
and
to
say
with
the
Prophet
,
This
is
my
weaknes
.
Doest
thou
feare
the
reproch
of
nicknames
and
ignominious
termes
,
which
the
new
conuerted
children
of
GOD
do
alwaies
light
on
?
art
thou
so
without
heart
,
and
so
very
a
coward
,
to
be
blowne
from
thy
profession
with
the
breath
of
a
prophane
mouth
?
haddest
thou
rather
keepe
credit
with
the
world
and
the
Diuell
by
weltring
in
sinne
,
then
serue
GOD
after
the
way
which
is
counted
discreditfull
by
the
godlesse
of
the
world
?
A
generous
horse
though
twenty
curres
come
out
barking
and
snarling
at
his
heeles
,
as
he
trotteth
along
the
streete
,
keepeth
on
his
pace
without
so
much
as
looking
backe
at
them
.
So
when
these
barkers
of
Gods
seruants
,
and
deriders
of
religion
and
good
things
,
step
forth
against
thee
,
to
hinder
thee
in
thy
course
of
a
new
conuersation
;
let
the
height
of
thy
mind
disdaine
to
regard
them
,
or
take
notice
of
them
;
thinke
they
are
but
the
Diuels
ban
dogs
,
hissed
on
by
him
to
make
thee
breake
thy
pace
in
the
waies
of
godlinesse
;
and
therefore
so
much
the
more
couragiously
goe
on
,
that
they
may
see
how
much
they
are
despised
.
If
all
this
cannot
moue
vs
,
we
haue
hard
and
foolish
hearts
;
and
I
can
say
no
more
but
we
may
go
forward
in
our
sotted
course
,
til
we
reap
the
fruit
of
our
ouer
weening
.
But
I
hope
better
things
of
you
(
my
brethren
)
and
such
things
as
accompany
the
feare
of
God
and
saluation
,
though
I
thus
speake
:
Suffer
not
(
I
beseech
you
for
Christ
Iesus
sake
)
my
hope
to
bee
in
vaine
.
THE
THIRD
PART
.
CHAP.
8
HERE
methinkes
I
heare
some
say
,
whose
willes
and
affections
the
Lord
hath
begun
to
renue
and
change
,
whom
yet
Satan
would
wrap
about
with
the
cords
of
their
owne
frailty
;
I
would
faine
repent
,
but
I
cannot
:
my
faith
is
so
weake
,
and
my
heart
so
hard
that
I
cannot
be
sory
for
my
sinnes
as
I
would
.
This
is
a
sweet
saying
(
my
Brethren
:
)
For
what
can
a
man
haue
more
then
to
feele
his
wants
?
for
otherwise
how
should
we
hunger
&
thirst
after
righteousnesse
:
and
vndoubtedly
,
he
that
hungers
thus
shall
be
satisfied
,
for
the
Lord
that
knoweth
what
we
want
better
then
we
our selues
,
lookes
not
so
much
to
the
outward
shew
of
repentance
,
as
to
the
inward
affections
of
the
heart
,
which
are
as
actions
in
his
sight
:
and
though
our
faith
and
repentance
bee
but
weake
,
yet
let
vs
know
this
assuredly
,
that
the
Lord
looketh
more
on
the
quality
,
then
on
the
quantitie
.
Is
a
weake
faith
no
faith
,
is
a
weake
repentance
no
repentance
?
nay
,
The
desire
of
reconciliation
with
God
in
Christ
(
saith
a
godly
writer
of
our
time
)
is
reconciliation
it selfe
:
the
desire
to
beleeue
is
faith
indeed
:
and
the
desire
to
repent
(
in
a
touched
heart
)
is
repentance
it selfe
,
not
in
the
owne
nature
,
but
in
Gods
acceptation
:
For
if
wee
being
touched
througly
for
our
sinnes
,
do
desire
to
haue
them
pardoned
and
to
bee
at
one
with
GOD
;
GOD
accepts
vs
as
reconciled
.
Only
our
desire
of
reconciliation
must
not
be
a
flash
but
constant
&
continued
.
Secondly
,
ernest
&
serious
,
though
not
alwaies
alike
,
yet
at
sometimes
so
,
that
we
may
say
with
the
Prophet
Dauid
;
My
soule
desireth
thee
,
O
Lord
,
as
the
thirsty
land
desireth
raine
,
or
the
chased
Hart
the
riuers
of
water
.
Thirdly
,
it
must
be
in
a
touched
heart
:
for
when
a
man
is
touched
in
conscience
,
the
heart
is
cast
downe
.
(
and
as
much
as
it
can
)
it
withdrawes
it selfe
from
GOD
:
For
this
cause
if
then
there
bee
any
spirituall
motions
whereby
the
heart
is
lift
vp
vnto
GOD
,
they
are
without
doubt
from
the
spirit
of
GOD
.
So
then
,
though
as
yet
thou
want
firme
and
liuely
grace
,
yet
art
thou
not
altogether
void
of
grace
,
if
thou
canst
vnsainedly
desire
it
,
thy
desire
is
the
seed
,
conception
or
bud
of
that
which
thou
wantest
.
Now
is
the
spring
time
of
the
ingrafted
word
,
or
the
immortal
seed
cast
into
the
furrows
of
thy
heart
;
wait
but
a
while
,
vsing
the
good
meanes
to
this
end
appointed
,
and
thou
shalt
see
the
leaues
,
blossomes
,
and
fruit
will
shortly
follow
after
.
Thus
fare
he
.
As
for
that
which
the
diuel
or
thine
owne
flesh
shall
suggest
to
mooue
thee
to
despaire
of
Gods
mercie
,
that
GOD
in
iustice
cannot
receiue
such
a
rebell
wretch
as
thou
hast
bin
,
aggrauating
euery
of
thy
least
sinnes
,
and
telling
thee
it
is
in
vaine
to
repent
:
thou
maiest
easily
beat
backe
that
temptation
.
T'
is
true
,
GOD
is
not
so
mercifull
,
to
vse
iniustice
,
so
he
is
not
so
iust
to
bee
vnmercifull
:
He
hath
suffered
mighty
and
maruailous
men
to
erre
,
that
we
by
their
example
might
haue
comfort
,
and
not
despaire
of
grace
and
pardon
.
In
holy
Scripture
who
is
more
commended
then
King
Dauid
,
who
was
both
a
King
&
a
Prophet
,
a
man
after
Gods
owne
heart
,
and
of
whose
stocke
the
Messias
came
?
But
into
how
many
and
grieuous
crimes
sell
so
worthy
a
man
?
yet
hearing
Nathan
pronounce
the
fearfull
threatnings
of
God
,
cried
out
,
I
haue
sinned
,
and
Nathan
said
;
But
the
Lord
hath
put
away
thy
sins
,
thou
shalt
not
die
.
Hast
thou
sinned
with
Dauid
?
repent
with
Dauid
,
and
thou
shalt
with
Dauid
finde
mercy
:
What
should
I
tell
thee
of
our
first
parents
,
of
Manasses
,
of
Zacheus
,
of
Mary
Magdalen
,
of
Peter
,
of
Paul
,
of
the
Theefe
on
the
crosse
?
all
which
had
beene
most
grieuous
sinners
vpon
earth
;
all
which
are
now
most
glorious
Saints
in
heauen
:
For
where
sin
aboundeth
,
there
grace
superaboundeth
;
and
therefore
let
not
the
multitude
nor
the
magnitude
of
thy
sinnes
dismay
thee
,
seeing
the
mercy
of
that
Lord
to
whom
thou
turnest
,
is
aboue
all
:
though
thy
sinnes
were
as
red
as
scarlet
,
yet
hee
will
make
them
as
white
as
snow
;
and
though
they
were
of
purple
hue
,
yet
he
will
make
them
as
white
as
the
purest
wooll
of
the
fleece
.
There
cannot
be
a
deeper
die
then
scarlet
,
it
is
a
thing
vnpossible
with
men
to
bring
a
scarlet
into
whit
;
yet
the
Lord
saith
,
if
we
will
but
talk
and
come
to
any
reason
with
him
,
he
will
make
our
sinnes
though
neuer
so
deep
ingraind
in
any
scarlet
or
bloudy
colur
,
to
turne
white
and
pure
,
as
innocencie
it selfe
.
Read
the
booke
of
Ionah
thorow
,
and
there
you
shall
see
the
propensity
of
Gods
nature
to
shew
mercy
,
liuely
set
forth
:
And
therefore
a
Father
affirmeth
the
offence
of
Iudas
to
be
greater
in
despairing
of
mercy
,
than
in
betraying
the
Sonne
of
God
,
and
Caine
to
haue
stirred
God
to
anger
,
more
through
desperation
of
pardon
then
by
the
murder
of
his
brother
Abel
:
many
which
nailed
Christ
to
the
crosse
,
being
conuerted
,
and
beleeuing
in
him
,
obtained
pardon
and
are
made
examples
to
man
,
that
hee
ought
in
no
wise
to
distrust
the
remission
of
his
wickednes
,
seing
the
murder
of
the
Lord
of
glory
is
forgiuen
to
the
penitent
.
Turne
then
vnto
him
,
and
a
present
pardon
is
made
ready
,
which
shall
be
signed
the
first
houre
of
thy
repentance
.
When
therefore
thou
feelest
in
thy
heart
a
sorrow
for
sin
,
and
a
feruent
desire
to
serue
God
,
cherish
it
,
and
take
the
opportunity
of
the
first
motion
:
Enter
presently
into
thy
chamber
,
or
into
some
other
secret
place
,
and
there
falling
on
thy
knees
beseech
the
Lord
,
that
as
he
hath
giuen
thee
a
detestation
of
sinne
,
and
a
minde
of
godlines
,
so
it
may
please
him
to
perfect
the
good
begun
by
him
:
to
accept
thy
will
,
and
pardon
thy
many
wants
and
weaknesse
,
in
&
for
the
al-sufficient
merits
of
Christ
Iesus
:
to
giue
thee
grace
that
thou
maiest
go
on
mourning
continually
for
thy
sinnes
;
and
yet
withall
to
reioice
in
his
sweet
mercies
:
to
put
his
feare
into
thy
heart
,
that
thou
maiest
neuer
more
depart
from
him
:
and
so
to
enkindle
thy
zeale
,
that
the
fire
thereof
may
burne
vp
and
consume
euery
day
more
and
more
thy
carnall
desires
and
natural
corruptions
.
Continue
this
course
of
praying
,
both
mornings
and
euenings
at
the
least
:
but
if
thou
canst
oftner
,
it
is
the
better
:
For
,
pray
continually
,
saith
the
Apostle
:
meaning
thou
shouldest
haue
alwaies
good
meditations
in
thy
mind
:
&
when
thou
goest
to
pray
,
striue
to
pray
in
the
spirit
,
framing
thy
petitions
according
to
the
feeling
of
thine
own
wants
,
or
Gods
mercies
towards
thee
(
not
that
I
disallow
of
set
praiers
,
for
I
reuerence
the
godly
authors
and
vsers
of
them
)
but
because
hee
that
hath
the
gift
of
extemporall
praying
,
is
not
so
easily
caried
away
with
vaine
distractions
which
Satan
prompts
vnto
him
,
(
his
minde
and
vnderstanding
being
wholly
bent
to
the
matter
in
hand
)
as
commonly
they
be
that
pray
in
the
booke
of
another
mans
conceiuing
.
And
if
thou
feele
thy selfe
somewhat
duller
sometimes
,
sound
forth
thy
voice
withall
,
it
will
help
much
to
the
awaking
of
thy
deuotion
,
as
by
mine
owne
experience
I
haue
many
times
found
.
But
take
heed
as
neere
as
thou
canst
,
that
thy
praiers
bee
out
of
the
hearing
of
others
,
lest
thou
get
the
imputation
of
hypocrisie
,
and
cause
thy
good
to
be
euill
spoken
of
.
And
for
the
further
increasing
of
thy
knowledge
,
vse
euery
morning
after
praiers
to
read
a
chapter
of
the
old
or
new
Testament
,
and
another
at
night
likewise
before
praiers
,
&
thou
shalt
find
it
by
the
blessing
of
GOD
in
short
time
to
haue
cleared
thine
vnderstanding
very
much
,
and
dispelled
the
mistes
of
thy
former
ignorance
.
Also
let
me
wish
thee
to
read
sometimes
carefully
and
aduisedly
the
28
chapter
of
Deuteronomy
,
and
the
26
of
Leuiticus
,
because
they
bee
parts
of
Scripture
,
which
(
if
we
marke
them
well
)
will
help
much
to
containe
vs
in
the
doing
of
our
duties
.
When
thou
art
tempted
to
any
sinne
,
carry
not
in
the
place
,
but
goe
doe
something
else
,
till
the
temptation
be
slackt
.
Vndertake
no
waighty
busines
of
thine
owne
or
thy
masters
,
but
with
praier
before
,
that
God
would
guide
and
&
speed
thee
in
it
.
Thinke
not
that
thy
praying
will
lose
thee
thy
opportunity
:
For
time
is
neuer
lost
in
praying
vnto
him
that
doth
command
the
time
.
Whatsoeuer
hath
beene
vnto
thee
an
occasion
of
sinne
,
shun
it
as
thou
wouldest
shun
a
most
mortal
danger
.
Thinke
no
place
to
be
without
a
witnesse
of
thy
doings
:
for
a
great
part
of
wickednesse
is
left
vndone
,
if
some
body
be
by
when
one
is
about
to
commit
it
.
Frequent
the
company
of
the
godly
,
and
auoid
the
conuersation
of
the
wicked
and
prophane
:
for
continuall
conuersation
is
of
great
force
,
not
only
to
make
vs
embrace
the
vertues
,
but
oftentimes
also
,
euen
against
our
willes
to
imitate
the
vices
of
our
companions
.
Hence
it
commeth
,
that
we
are
alwayes
taken
for
such
as
those
are
,
with
whom
wee
doe
ordinarily
conuerse
,
according
to
the
prouerb
,
His
nature
in
his
mate
is
showen
,
Who
cannot
by
himselfe
be
knowen
.
Meditate
often
of
death
,
of
the
miseries
of
this
life
,
of
the
resurrection
,
the
iudgement
,
and
the
ioyes
of
the
life
to
come
:
rather
suffer
euill
then
doe
euill
to
any
;
but
neither
speake
euill
,
nor
listen
to
euill
speakers
.
Fall
not
easily
at
ods
with
any
,
but
continue
at
ods
with
none
.
Follow
thy
God
and
Sauiours
example
,
in
doing
well
vnto
all
men
,
and
endeuour
to
be
like
him
in
louing
thine
enemies
.
Finally
,
whatsoeuer
things
bee
of
good
report
,
or
honest
example
,
those
things
thinke
on
and
doe
,
and
the
God
of
peace
shall
be
with
thee
for
euer
.
These
things
howsoeuer
they
seeme
vnpleasant
,
and
abhorring
from
our
nature
,
especially
in
our
yong
yeares
;
yet
if
the
Lord
once
infuse
his
grace
into
our
hearts
,
and
renue
our
affections
by
the
working
of
his
spirit
,
they
will
seeme
sweet
and
easie
,
and
delightfull
;
and
we
shal
take
more
pleasure
in
doing
of
them
,
then
in
any
worldly
or
bodily
exercise
whatsoeuer
.
All
the
matter
is
at
first
,
after
a
little
vse
,
all
difficulty
vanisheth
.
At
the
first
leaping
into
the
water
,
middle
high
,
one
feeles
intollerable
cold
,
ready
to
take
away
the
breath
,
but
by
that
time
he
hath
waded
in
further
vp
to
the
necke
,
it
seemes
to
be
of
a
milder
temper
.
So
religion
and
Gods
seruice
seemes
harsh
and
tedious
at
the
first
entry
into
it
,
but
by
that
time
we
haue
beene
a
while
inured
to
the
practise
of
it
,
all
other
things
are
vnsauorie
to
vs
,
and
onely
in
this
there
is
heauenly
delectation
.
To
conclude
this
chapter
;
remember
that
our
feeling
of
the
want
of
grace
,
is
a
good
step
to
the
obtaining
of
grace
:
Our
desire
to
repent
,
is
the
seed
or
kernell
of
repentance
;
and
being
cherished
,
will
at
length
beare
ripe
fruites
of
a
sanctified
conuersation
.
That
,
howsoeuer
the
diuell
and
our
owne
flesh
mooue
vs
to
doubting
,
yet
God
willeth
not
the
death
of
a
sinner
,
that
doth
from
the
bottome
of
his
heart
turne
vnto
him
:
nor
shall
our
repentance
be
in
vaine
(
so
it
be
true
)
though
our
sinnes
were
as
many
(
for
number
)
as
the
drops
of
raine
,
and
as
bloudie
(
for
their
quality
)
as
skarlet
is
red
.
Gods
mercy
is
a
rich
mercy
,
and
his
pardon
is
absolute
,
without
limitation
or
exception
.
Finally
,
that
hearty
and
continuall
prayer
,
and
such
simple
rules
&
directions
as
I
haue
set
down
out
of
mine
owne
obseruation
&
experience
,
will
prooue
good
helpes
to
the
new
Proselytes
,
for
the
beginning
and
perfiting
of
their
repentance
.
CHAP.
9.
IF
any
aske
how
hee
shall
know
whether
his
repentance
be
true
or
no
;
I
answer
,
by
the
change
which
eft-soones
hee
shall
feele
wrought
in
his
whole
man
;
which
is
in
a
word
the
forsaking
his
former
sinnes
wherein
he
delighted
,
and
delighting
in
those
good
things
which
before
hee
despised
.
Without
this
change
there
is
no
repentance
.
Well
we
may
flatter
our selues
,
and
talke
of
repentance
;
but
we
are
yet
in
our
sins
,
and
the
Lords
decree
is
still
in
force
against
vs
.
Well
then
,
wilt
thou
be
,
not
almost
a
Christian
as
King
Agrippa
,
but
a
true
Israelite
indeede
,
like
Nathaniel
in
whom
was
no
guile
?
renounce
all
thy
olde
sinnes
,
and
receiue
in
their
places
the
vertues
opposite
to
them
,
and
this
shall
seale
vp
to
thy
conscience
that
thy
sinnes
are
forgiuen
for
his
names
sake
.
Hast
thou
beene
a
swearer
?
from
henceforth
feare
the
glorious
and
fearefull
name
of
the
Lord
,
&
thinke
not
of
it
but
with
singular
reuerence
;
because
his
owne
mouth
hath
said
it
,
He
wil
not
hold
him
guiltlesse
that
taketh
his
name
in
vaine
.
Answere
me
not
,
as
one
did
not
long
since
being
reproued
for
this
sinne
,
I
am
no
such
great
swearer
,
as
you
would
make
me
;
It
is
but
seldome
that
I
sweare
by
GOD
,
and
by
such
&
such
great
othes
:
for
commonly
the
greatest
othes
that
I
sweare
is
but
by
my
faith
or
troth
,
and
that
I
make
account
to
be
no
such
great
matter
,
and
I
pray
GOD
you
neuer
do
worse
,
and
then
you
shall
do
well
enough
.
But
make
thou
conscience
of
an
oth
aswell
little
as
great
:
for
the
Apostle
alloweth
of
no
oth
at
al
;
Swear
not
all
(
saith
he
)
neither
by
heauen
nor
by
earth
,
nor
any
oth
,
lest
you
fall
into
condemnation
.
But
(
as
our
Sauiour
saith
)
let
your
yea
be
yea
,
&
your
nay
nay
;
for
whatsoeuer
is
more
is
of
the
Diuell
O
but
saith
one
,
the
world
is
so
full
of
vnbeleefe
,
that
except
I
sweare
,
men
will
not
beleeue
me
,
yea
&
nay
is
nothing
now
a
daies
to
sell
my
commodities
by
,
if
I
sweare
not
I
shal
not
sell
.
Why
is
that
,
but
because
thou
hast
neuer
made
conscience
of
a
lie
,
but
added
an
oth
,
two
or
three
sometimes
to
make
a
lie
goe
currant
?
and
peraduenture
thy
customers
sometimes
knowing
that
thou
swearest
falsly
,
cannot
beleeue
thee
another
time
though
thou
sweare
truely
.
But
if
thou
wouldest
sell
thy
wares
,
take
the
counsell
of
the
Apostle
,
who
willeth
vs
to
cast
off
lying
,
and
euery
one
of
vs
to
speake
truth
to
his
neigbour
,
forasmuch
as
we
are
members
one
of
another
:
and
so
by
vsing
thy
tongue
to
speake
truth
,
thou
shalt
be
beleeued
sooner
vpon
thy
bare
word
,
then
vpon
thy
many
protestations
and
othes
.
Carnall
men
wil
sooner
suspect
thy
swearing
,
then
thy
plaine
saying
,
because
they
(
though
they
be
such
as
cary
a
forme
of
ciuil
honesty
)
wil
notwithstanding
not
stick
to
sweare
a
lie
themselues
to
win
some
aduantage
by
,
and
by
their
own
fashion
they
iudge
of
thine
.
So
then
swearing
is
a
sin
clothed
neither
with
pleasure
nor
profit
:
for
what
pleasure
is
there
in
a
prophane
frothy
word
,
spewed
out
of
the
wicked
abundance
of
the
heart
?
or
what
profit
,
when
the
thundring
out
of
six
or
seuen
othes
one
after
another
will
not
sell
a
yeard
of
stuffe
or
a
pound
waight
of
thy
commodities
?
so
little
account
is
made
of
them
.
Besides
,
in
much
swearing
is
oft
forswearing
,
as
it
is
seen
too
often
in
our
shops
euery
day
:
For
let
a
man
come
into
some
shops
to
cheapen
a
commodity
&
they
will
sweare
that
they
cannot
afford
it
at
such
a
price
,
and
that
they
will
keep
it
seuen
yeares
before
they
will
sell
it
so
,
and
yet
let
their
customers
back
be
no
sooner
turned
to
be
gone
,
but
presently
he
is
called
againe
,
and
his
money
taken
,
which
before
was
refused
with
so
many
othes
.
If
Seruants
will
thus
burden
their
consciences
for
their
masters
profit
,
(
&
many
against
their
masters
wils
)
what
will
they
do
for
themselues
?
who
shall
let
them
then
to
sweare
away
all
faith
,
truth
and
conscience
for
euer
?
to
sweare
their
soules
to
the
Diuel
,
that
they
shall
neuer
repent
;
and
to
sweare
a
plague
into
their
houses
,
which
shall
consume
the
very
timber
and
stones
of
it
?
O
my
Brethren
tremble
at
this
prouoking
sinne
:
tremble
to
bring
the
great
and
holy
name
of
the
Lord
for
a
witnesse
to
your
base
twelue
penny
lies
:
tremble
to
deale
so
saucily
with
the
omnipotent
Maiestie
that
can
send
a
deadly
thunderbolt
to
strike
you
presently
thorow
,
in
the
place
where
you
stand
.
Beare
with
a
vehement
speech
,
when
it
proceedes
out
of
a
loue
more
vehement
:
For
your
pretious
soules
sake
,
leaue
off
this
profitlesse
and
pleasurelesse
sinne
:
let
this
be
the
first
sinne
thou
fightest
against
,
and
when
thou
hast
got
the
victory
of
this
,
the
rest
of
thy
conquest
will
be
the
easier
.
Hast
thou
beene
a
prophaner
of
the
Sabbath
,
and
one
that
hath
made
no
conscience
of
going
to
Church
longer
then
thy
masters
eie
hath
been
vpon
thee
;
and
when
thou
hast
beene
there
,
hast
made
small
account
of
that
which
hath
beene
taught
,
but
either
hast
been
talking
,
or
sleeping
,
or
idly
,
or
wickedly
thinking
?
&c.
Henceforth
frequent
more
duely
the
the
holy
sanctuary
and
house
of
praier
;
prepare
thy selfe
aforehand
that
thou
maiest
reap
profit
of
the
things
which
thou
shalt
heare
;
intend
more
reuerently
and
deuoutly
to
Gods
worship
:
rob
not
the
Lord
of
the
day
which
he
hath
consecrated
to
the
glory
of
his
great
name
:
he
requireth
but
the
seuenth
,
six
are
ours
,
and
shal
we
not
afford
him
one
?
If
a
Father
hauing
called
his
children
together
should
tell
them
:
It
is
so
,
that
I
haue
cast
vp
my
accounts
,
and
I
find
my
estate
to
be
worth
seuen
thousand
pound
,
six
of
which
seuen
thousand
I
am
content
presently
to
part
with
among
you
,
and
the
one
thousand
see
you
vse
as
thriftily
and
carefully
to
my
behoof
,
as
you
would
the
six
thousand
to
your
owne
.
What
ingratitude
&
vnreuerence
were
it
to
so
bountifull
a
Father
,
for
these
children
hauing
gotten
the
seuen
thousand
pound
into
their
hands
,
to
turne
all
to
their
owne
vse
and
aduantage
,
neuer
respecting
their
kinde
Fathers
good
,
nor
his
charge
vnto
them
,
or
at
the
most
so
carelesly
,
that
it
may
appeare
there
is
but
little
religion
of
their
vow
in
them
?
The
Lord
who
is
our
heauenly
Father
hath
giuen
vs
six
daies
to
do
our
businesse
and
affaires
in
,
and
onely
one
day
he
hath
reserued
to
himselfe
,
appointing
vs
to
bestow
it
in
his
worship
and
seruice
,
because
that
day
is
his
delight
,
(
as
the
Prophet
saith
:
)
what
negligence
,
what
impiety
,
what
contempt
can
be
greater
,
then
for
vs
to
spend
the
whole
weeke
in
following
our
pleasures
or
our
drudgeries
,
&
when
the
holy
Sabbath
comes
,
to
intrude
into
our
heauenly
fathers
right
,
and
consume
that
also
in
the
carnall
workes
,
or
couetous
proiects
,
or
ordinary
exercises
of
the
weeke
before
;
what
intolerable
auarice
is
it
,
or
sacriledge
rather
,
hauing
so
bountiful
allowance
from
our
heauenly
father
,
not
to
be
content
,
vnlesse
we
may
seaze
his
peculiar
reseruation
into
our
hands
also
?
This
is
right
to
haue
thousands
of
sheepe
pasturing
vpon
our
owne
downes
,
and
yet
to
kill
the
poore
mans
onely
Lambe
,
that
slept
in
his
bosome
,
for
the
prouision
of
our
house
.
But
here
some
will
say
,
it
is
true
,
we
must
lay
away
all
worke
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
but
yet
to
sell
and
take
money
for
wares
in
the
shop
before
and
after
seruice
,
is
no
great
worke
,
and
therfore
as
good
do
that
as
stand
idle
.
No
,
I
deny
it
:
for
as
the
prouerbe
goeth
amongst
vs
,
Thou
hadst
better
be
idle
,
then
ill
occupied
;
so
they
were
better
stand
still
then
vent
their
commodities
:
they
be
both
sins
,
but
selling
of
ware
is
the
greater
,
how
little
soeuer
:
for
a
man
may
aswell
take
40.
pounds
that
day
as
one
penny
:
For
Gods
commandement
is
broken
in
both
.
In
the
16
of
Exodus
GOD
condemneth
the
Israelits
for
purposing
to
gather
Manna
on
the
Sabbath
day
:
what
easier
worke
could
there
be
then
this
?
nay
moreouer
it
was
to
be
done
between
fiue
and
six
a
clock
in
the
morning
,
when
they
might
haue
serued
GOD
all
the
day
after
:
and
they
needed
not
to
haue
gone
far
for
it
neither
,
but
onely
come
forth
of
their
doores
and
stoop
to
take
it
vp
.
But
(
marke
)
when
they
came
forth
they
found
nothing
.
Here
is
a
good
lesson
for
vs
to
learne
,
that
as
they
went
out
to
gather
Manna
on
the
Sabbath
day
,
and
found
nothing
:
so
the
gaines
that
is
gotten
by
selling
wares
on
the
Sabbath
day
is
,
iust
nothing
,
howsoeuer
men
are
blinded
and
thinke
the
contrary
,
for
GODS
curse
eates
it
vp
,
and
more
too
.
I
grant
we
are
not
tied
to
so
strict
an
obseruation
of
the
Sabbath
in
euery
respect
as
the
Iewes
were
:
yet
thus
farre
the
morall
part
of
the
precept
doth
oblige
vs
to
the
worlds
end
,
namely
,
to
do
no
workes
on
that
day
,
but
workes
of
holines
,
or
of
meere
necessity
:
but
men
now
a
daies
make
no
bones
to
step
ouer
any
of
Gods
lawes
,
when
they
bee
in
the
way
of
their
profit
:
and
yet
they
will
be
good
Christians
too
.
We
remember
that
day
to
pamper
our
belies
with
good
cheere
and
fine
clothes
,
and
to
take
our
pleasure
,
we
remember
to
keep
a
right
Epicures
Sabbath
:
but
to
heare
Gods
word
taught
,
to
lay
our
petitions
in
common
together
in
our
Churches
,
and
to
cal
our
families
together
when
wee
come
home
,
that
wee
may
bee
the
better
for
that
wee
haue
heard
,
which
is
the
right
christians
Sabbath
;
this
we
remember
,
vtterly
to
forget
.
I
am
perswaded
there
is
more
wickednesse
committed
both
by
Prentises
and
others
on
the
Lords
day
,
then
on
any
three
daies
in
the
weeke
beside
,
and
the
reason
is
,
because
men
for
the
most
part
will
see
that
their
seruants
shall
follow
the
businesse
of
their
trades
all
the
weeke
,
but
vpon
Gods
day
they
are
careles
of
them
,
and
suffer
them
to
do
what
they
list
themselues
.
That
is
the
day
of
their
recreation
:
For
as
Salomon
saith
,
it
is
a
pastime
to
a
foole
to
doe
euill
.
When
they
should
walke
to
the
Lecture
,
for
the
recreation
of
their
soules
,
the
masters
are
walkt
to
their
gardens
or
the
fields
for
their
bodily
pleasure
;
and
the
seruants
to
the
Tauerne
or
to
some
place
of
greater
corruption
to
the
endangering
of
their
soules
:
so
the
word
preached
to
them
in
the
day
time
before
,
is
no
better
then
the
seed
that
fell
vpon
stony
ground
,
because
for
want
of
due
rehearsal
afterward
(
which
is
as
it
were
the
depth
of
earth
)
it
withereth
away
and
comes
to
nothing
,
like
seed
cast
away
vpon
the
rock
where
it
cannot
take
root
.
And
in
this
point
the
irreligiousnes
of
Prentises
doth
farre
exceed
the
negligence
of
masters
:
For
it
is
too
apparant
that
many
seruants
would
seldome
or
neuer
come
to
Church
at
all
,
if
it
were
not
more
for
displeasing
their
masters
on
earth
,
then
for
displeasing
their
master
in
heauen
:
For
let
masters
vpon
occasion
bee
from
home
a
moneth
or
two
,
and
all
that
time
if
his
seruants
come
to
Church
in
the
forenoone
onely
,
they
thinke
they
are
meetly
well
in
the
fashion
:
but
commonly
you
shal
not
see
them
there
either
forenoone
or
afternoone
:
and
their
reason
is
,
their
masters
absence
is
the
time
of
their
liberty
,
and
they
may
not
suffer
such
good
daies
to
slip
away
without
fruit
.
If
you
aske
them
how
they
wil
answere
it
to
their
masters
at
their
comming
home
?
they
will
tell
you
,
they
hope
their
masters
knowledge
goeth
but
by
his
eie
.
If
you
aske
them
how
they
will
answer
it
to
GOD
,
that
seeth
and
iudgeth
the
most
secret
workes
?
they
make
a
pish
at
that
,
or
giue
you
some
grosse
flout
for
recompence
.
But
let
such
know
that
pouertie
and
shame
belongs
vnto
them
for
refusing
instruction
,
and
they
that
thinke
now
the
Lords
day
,
(
though
it
were
a
moneth
long
to
flie
away
as
one
minut
in
their
pleasures
,
shall
hereafter
thinke
one
minute
too
lag
,
and
passe
by
as
slowly
as
a
whole
yeare
in
their
paines
.
But
here
some
may
reply
,
Will
you
not
allow
vs
to
recreate
our selues
at
any
time
?
If
you
say
yes
:
then
I
pray
what
day
haue
we
that
be
prentises
to
take
our
recreation
in
but
the
Sunday
?
For
all
the
weeke
wee
are
kept
so
straight
that
we
cannot
so
much
as
get
out
to
speake
with
any
friend
.
And
as
for
keeping
our
Church
duely
,
howsoeuer
others
be
negligent
,
yet
it
is
well
knowne
in
our
parish
that
we
neuer
almost
misse
one
Sunday
in
the
yeare
,
but
wee
are
alwaies
at
Church
with
the
first
,
and
neuer
go
into
the
fields
or
to
any
merriment
vntil
euening
praier
be
done
,
and
then
I
hope
the
matter
is
not
so
hainous
as
you
make
it
.
Surely
if
you
were
such
diligent
goers
to
Church
,
as
you
say
you
are
,
it
could
not
be
but
you
should
heare
at
sometime
or
other
that
you
ought
not
to
prophane
or
mispend
one
houre
of
the
Sabbath
,
where
you
make
it
lawfull
to
spend
halfe
the
afternoone
in
merriment
and
pleasure
.
But
it
may
be
you
are
asleepe
when
you
should
heare
that
;
or
else
you
take
it
to
be
but
the
word
of
a
mortall
man
,
and
the
authority
thereof
to
vanish
with
the
speaking
.
But
a
day
will
come
when
you
shall
know
it
was
the
eternall
truth
of
the
GOD
of
heauen
,
which
his
ministers
deliuered
;
and
when
it
will
cut
your
heart
to
remember
that
you
did
heare
such
a
Preacher
in
such
a
yeare
,
in
such
a
moneth
,
in
such
a
day
▪
and
in
such
a
Church
,
denounce
the
fearefull
iudgements
of
God
against
such
a
sin
which
you
did
vse
,
and
wherein
(
for
a
little
pleasures
sake
)
you
did
obstinately
continue
to
your
owne
damnation
.
To
conclude
,
hast
thou
beene
a
drunkard
?
now
learne
sobriety
:
hast
thou
been
intemperate
?
now
embrace
chastity
:
hast
thou
beene
malicious
?
shew
charity
:
proud
?
be
humble
.
Finally
,
whatsoeuer
vice
thou
hast
addicted
thy selfe
to
,
recline
now
to
the
contrary
side
.
That
which
thou
doest
,
do
it
with
all
thy
power
in
the
present
time
,
euen
in
this
day
of
saluation
:
For
time
being
once
past
,
can
neuer
be
recalled
;
and
to
trust
vpon
time
to
come
is
as
much
as
if
we
shold
trust
vpon
a
broken
staffe
,
the
splinters
whereof
will
run
into
our
hand
;
or
venture
to
passe
so
dangerous
a
gulse
as
damnation
,
with
a
tottering
planck
(
delay
I
meane
)
which
hath
tilted
so
many
thousands
into
hell
before
vs
.
A
Morning
Praier
to
be
vsed
in
priuate
families
.
O
LORD
,
our
God
,
and
heauenly
Father
,
we
thy
vnworthy
children
do
heere
come
into
thy
most
holy
&
heauenly
presence
,
to
giue
thee
praise
and
glory
,
for
all
thy
great
mercies
and
manifold
blessings
towards
vs
:
especially
for
that
thou
hast
preserued
vs
this
night
past
from
all
the
dangers
and
feares
therof
,
hast
giuen
vs
quiet
rest
to
our
bodies
,
&
brought
vs
now
safely
to
the
beginning
of
this
day
,
and
doest
now
a
fresh
renue
all
thy
mercies
vpon
vs
,
as
the
Eagle
renueth
her
bill
,
giuing
vs
all
things
abundantly
to
enioy
;
as
food
,
raiment
,
health
,
peace
,
liberty
,
&
freedome
from
many
miseries
,
diseases
,
casualties
,
&
calamities
which
we
are
subiect
vnto
in
this
life
,
euery
minute
of
an
houre
:
and
not
onely
so
,
but
also
for
vouchsafing
vnto
vs
many
good
things
,
not
onely
for
necessity
,
but
euen
for
delight
also
.
But
aboue
all
(
deare
Father
)
we
praise
thy
name
for
the
blessings
of
a
better
life
,
specially
for
thy
most
holy
word
and
sacraments
,
and
all
the
good
we
enioy
thereby
;
for
the
continuance
of
the
Gospell
amongst
vs
;
for
the
death
of
thy
Sonne
&
all
that
happinesse
which
we
haue
thereby
;
also
because
thou
hast
chosen
vs
to
life
before
we
were
,
and
that
of
thy
meere
godnes
,
and
vndeserued
sauour
towards
vs
,
and
hast
called
vs
in
thine
appointed
time
,
iustified
vs
by
thy
grace
,
sanctified
vs
by
thy
Spirit
,
&
adopted
vs
to
be
thine
own
children
,
&
heirs
apparent
to
the
great
crown
.
O
Lord
open
our
eies
euery
day
more
&
more
,
to
see
&
consider
of
thy
great
and
maruellous
loue
to
vs
in
all
these
things
;
that
by
the
due
consideration
therof
,
our
hearts
may
be
drawen
yet
neerer
vnto
thee
,
euen
more
to
loue
thee
,
feare
thee
,
and
obey
thee
:
that
as
thou
art
enlarged
towards
vs
in
mercy
,
so
we
may
be
enlarged
towards
thee
in
thankesgiuing
:
and
as
thou
doest
abound
towards
vs
in
goodnes
so
we
may
abound
towards
thee
in
obedience
and
loue
.
And
sith
(
deere
Father
)
thou
art
neuer
weary
of
doing
vs
good
,
notwithstanding
al
our
vnworthines
and
naughtinesse
:
therefore
let
the
consideration
of
thy
great
mercy
and
fatherly
kindnesse
towards
vs
euen
as
it
were
force
our
hearts
,
and
compell
vs
to
come
into
thy
most
glorious
presence
with
new
songs
of
thankesgiuing
in
our
mouths
.
We
pray
thee
(
O
most
merciful
God
)
to
forgiue
vs
all
our
vnthankefulnes
,
vnkindnesse
,
prophanenesse
,
&
great
abusing
of
thy
mercies
,
and
specially
our
abuse
and
contempt
of
thy
Gospel
,
together
with
all
other
the
sinnes
of
our
life
,
which
we
confesse
are
innumerable
,
and
moe
than
can
be
reckoned
vp
,
both
in
omission
of
good
things
and
commission
of
euill
.
We
most
humbly
intreat
thee
to
set
them
all
ouer
to
the
reckoning
which
thy
son
Christ
hath
made
vp
for
them
vpon
his
crosse
,
and
neuer
to
lay
any
of
them
to
our
charge
,
but
freely
forget
all
,
and
forgiue
all
;
Naile
downe
all
our
sinnes
and
iniquities
to
the
Crosse
of
Christ
,
bury
them
in
his
death
,
bathe
them
in
his
bloud
,
hide
them
in
his
wounds
,
let
them
neuer
rise
vp
in
iudgement
against
vs
.
Set
vs
free
of
the
miseries
that
are
vpon
vs
for
sin
,
and
keep
backe
the
iudgements
to
come
,
both
of
soule
,
body
,
goods
,
and
good
name
.
Be
reconciled
vnto
vs
in
thy
deere
Sonne
,
concerning
all
matters
past
,
not
once
remembring
or
repeating
vnto
vs
our
old
and
abominable
iniquities
;
but
accept
vs
as
righteous
in
him
,
imputing
his
righteousnesse
to
vs
,
and
our
sinnes
to
him
.
Let
his
righteousnesse
satisfie
thy
iustice
for
all
our
vnrighteousnesse
,
his
obedience
for
our
disobedience
,
his
perfection
for
our
imperfection
.
Moreouer
,
we
humbly
beseech
thy
good
maiesty
to
giue
vs
the
true
sight
and
feeling
of
our
manifold
sinnes
,
that
we
may
not
be
blinded
in
them
through
delight
,
or
hardened
in
them
through
custome
as
the
reprobates
are
:
but
that
wee
may
be
euen
weary
of
them
,
and
much
grieued
for
them
labouring
and
striuing
by
all
possible
meanes
to
get
out
of
them
.
Good
Father
touch
our
hearts
with
true
repentance
for
all
sinne
.
Let
vs
not
take
any
delight
or
pleasure
in
any
sinne
:
but
howsoeuer
we
fall
through
frailty
(
as
wee
fall
often
)
yet
let
vs
neuer
fall
finally
,
let
vs
neuer
lie
downe
in
sinne
,
nor
continue
in
sinne
;
but
let
vs
get
vpon
our
feet
againe
,
and
turne
to
thee
with
all
our
hearts
,
and
seeke
thee
whilest
thou
maiest
be
found
,
and
whilest
thou
dost
offer
grace
&
mercy
vnto
vs
.
O
Lord
increase
in
vs
that
true
and
liuely
faith
whereby
we
may
lay
sure
hold
on
thy
Sonne
Christ
,
and
rest
vpon
his
merits
altogether
.
Giue
vs
faith
assuredly
to
beleeue
all
the
great
and
precious
promises
made
in
the
Gospell
,
and
strengthen
vs
from
aboue
to
walke
and
abound
in
all
true
&
sound
fruits
of
faith
.
Let
vs
walke
not
after
the
flesh
,
but
after
the
spirit
.
Let
vs
feele
the
power
of
thy
Sons
death
killing
sinne
in
our
mortall
bodies
,
and
the
power
of
his
resurrection
,
raising
vs
vp
to
newnesse
of
life
.
Let
vs
grow
daily
in
the
sanctification
of
the
spirit
,
and
the
mortification
of
the
flesh
.
Let
vs
liue
holily
,
iustly
,
and
soberly
in
this
present
euill
world
,
shewing
forth
the
vertues
of
thee
in
al
our
particular
actions
;
that
we
may
adorne
our
most
holy
profession
,
and
shine
as
lights
in
the
middest
of
a
crooked
and
froward
generation
amongst
whom
we
liue
,
being
gainfull
to
all
by
our
liues
and
conuersations
,
and
offensiue
to
none
.
To
this
end
wee
pray
thee
fill
vs
with
thy
spirit
and
al
spiritual
graces
;
as
loue
,
wisedome
,
patience
,
contentment
,
meekenesse
,
humility
,
temperancy
,
chastity
,
kindnesse
and
affability
:
and
stirre
vs
vp
to
vse
praier
and
watchfulnesse
,
reading
and
meditation
in
thy
law
,
and
all
other
good
meanes
whereby
wee
may
grow
and
abound
in
all
heauenly
vertues
.
Blesse
vs
in
the
vse
of
the
meanes
,
from
day
to
day
;
make
vs
such
as
thou
wouldest
haue
vs
to
bee
,
and
such
as
we
desire
to
be
,
working
in
vs
both
will
and
deed
,
purpose
and
power
.
For
thou
O
Lord
art
all
in
all
,
thou
wilt
haue
mercy
vpon
whom
thou
wilt
haue
mercy
,
&
whom
thou
wilt
thou
hardenest
.
Haue
mercy
vpon
vs
therefore
(
deere
Father
)
and
neuer
leaue
vs
to
our selues
,
nor
to
our
owne
wils
,
lusts
,
and
desires
,
but
assist
vs
with
thy
good
spirit
,
that
we
may
continue
to
the
end
in
a
righteous
course
;
that
so
at
length
we
may
be
receiued
into
glory
,
and
be
partatakers
of
that
immortal
crown
which
thou
hast
laid
vp
for
all
that
loue
thee
and
truely
call
vpon
thee
.
Further
,
we
entreat
thee
,
O
heauenly
father
,
to
giue
vs
all
things
necessary
for
this
life
:
as
food
,
raiment
,
health
,
peace
,
liberty
,
and
such
freedome
from
those
manifold
miseries
which
we
lie
open
vnto
euery
day
,
as
thou
seest
meet
.
Blesse
vnto
vs
all
the
meanes
which
thou
hast
put
into
our
hands
,
for
the
sustenance
of
this
fraile
life
.
Blesse
our
stocke
&
store
,
corne
,
and
cattell
,
trades
and
occupations
,
and
all
the
workes
of
our
hands
:
for
thy
blessing
onely
maketh
rich
,
and
it
bringeth
no
sorrowes
with
it
.
Giue
vs
therefore
such
a
competency
and
sufficiency
of
these
outward
blessings
as
thou
in
thy
heauenvly
wisdome
seest
most
needfull
for
vs
.
Moreouer
,
we
humbly
beseech
thee
,
(
most
louing
Father
)
in
great
mercy
to
looke
downe
from
heauen
vpon
thy
whole
Church
,
and
euery
member
of
it
.
Be
fauourable
vnto
Sten
,
and
build
vp
the
wals
of
Ierusalem
.
Behold
with
the
eie
of
pity
,
the
great
ruines
and
desolations
of
thy
Church
.
Heale
vp
the
wounds
,
and
make
vp
the
breaches
thereof
in
all
Nations
.
Regard
it
as
thine
owne
flocke
,
tender
it
as
thine
owne
family
,
dresse
it
as
thine
owne
vinyeard
loue
it
as
thine
owne
spouse
.
Thinke
thoughts
of
peace
to
it
,
and
alwaies
looke
vpon
it
in
deep
compassion
.
Blesse
it
with
thy
grace
,
guide
it
with
thy
spirit
,
and
defend
it
alwaies
with
thy
mightie
power
:
scatter
the
deuices
,
confound
the
counsels
,
&
ouerthrow
the
forces
of
all
that
fight
against
it
.
Specially
we
intreat
thee
,
deere
father
,
to
set
thy self
against
that
Antichrist
of
Rome
,
that
man
of
perdition
which
setteth
himselfe
against
thee
,
and
against
all
thy
people
.
In
thine
appointed
time
we
pray
thee
giue
him
a
deadly
downe
fal
.
Beat
downe
all
his
power
and
authority
daily
more
and
more
:
giue
free
passage
to
thy
Gospell
in
all
kingdomes
,
that
Babylon
may
fall
and
neuer
rise
vp
againe
.
The
more
the
fauourites
&
adherents
of
Rome
labour
to
vphold
their
idolatrous
kingdome
,
the
more
let
it
fall
downe
,
euen
as
Dagon
before
the
presence
of
thine
Ark.
Powre
downe
the
vials
of
the
fulnesse
of
thy
wrath
vpon
the
kingdome
of
the
Beast
,
and
let
their
riches
,
wealth
,
credit
and
authority
,
drie
vp
euery
day
more
and
more
,
as
the
riuer
Euphrates
.
Let
it
pity
thee
,
O
Father
,
to
see
thine
owne
spouse
sit
as
a
deformed
and
forlorne
woman
heere
below
weeping
and
mourning
with
haire
about
her
necke
,
hauing
lost
all
her
beauty
and
comlinesse
:
cheere
her
vp
(
deere
Father
)
glad
her
with
the
ioy
of
thy
countenance
,
and
so
decke
her
and
trimme
her
vp
that
thou
maiest
delight
in
her
,
as
a
Bridegrome
in
his
Bride
.
Specially
we
in
treat
thee
to
haue
mercy
vpon
th●
Church
in
this
land
:
intend
good
vnto
vs
and
not
euill
:
giue
vs
not
ouer
into
the
hands
of
the
cruell
Spaniard
,
as
our
sinnes
haue
deserued
.
Scatter
we
pray
thee
,
O
Lord
,
the
deuices
&
breake
the
plots
of
all
such
as
haue
plotted
the
ouerthrow
and
vtter
subuersion
of
this
Church
and
common
wealth
.
Blesse
this
Church
more
&
more
,
with
the
continuance
of
true
Religion
amongst
vs
.
For
thy
great
names
sake
and
infinite
mercies
sake
deale
gratiously
and
fauourably
with
vs
and
our
posterity
.
Turne
from
vs
that
vengeance
which
is
due
to
vs
for
our
sinnes
.
For
thou
seest
how
iniquity
preuaileth
and
the
wicked
goe
away
with
the
goale
.
Atheisme
ouerspreadeth
euery
where
,
and
Poperie
seemeth
to
get
a
head
againe
.
Now
therefore
(
deere
Father
)
wee
most
humbly
beseech
thee
to
take
order
speedily
for
the
remedying
and
repressing
of
these
manifold
disorders
,
and
grieuous
enormities
that
are
amongst
vs
.
Be
intreated
of
thy
poore
children
to
be
good
to
this
English
nation
.
Heare
the
cries
of
thine
elect
:
heare
the
mourning
of
them
that
mourne
in
Sion
.
Let
the
cries
of
thy
children
crie
downe
all
the
cries
of
the
sinnes
of
the
land
,
and
be
reconciled
vnto
vs
in
the
multitude
of
thy
compassions
:
that
so
thou
maiest
still
continue
a
most
mercifull
protector
of
this
thine
English
vineyard
.
Wee
pray
thee
(
good
Father
)
shew
special
mercy
to
our
most
Noble
and
gratious
K.
Iames
thine
anointed
seruant
:
blesse
him
,
and
keep
him
in
all
his
waies
.
Blesse
his
gouernment
vnto
vs
.
Let
thine
Angels
encamp
about
him
,
and
let
thy
holy
hand
be
alwaies
ouer
him
,
keep
him
from
treasons
,
and
deliuer
him
from
the
treacheries
of
his
enemies
:
giue
him
to
see
what
belongeth
vnto
his
peace
,
and
giue
him
a
heart
earnestly
bent
to
set
vpon
the
practise
of
the
same
:
giue
him
al
graces
necessary
for
his
peace
,
and
necessary
for
his
saluation
:
continue
his
gouernement
peaceable
and
prosperous
amongst
vs
:
and
as
thou
hast
made
him
the
breath
of
our
nostrils
,
and
a
gratious
instrument
for
the
sauing
of
many
thousand
soules
,
so
let
his
owne
soule
be
saued
in
the
day
of
thy
Sonne
Christ
.
Blesse
his
Maiesties
most
honorable
priuy
Counsellors
,
and
giue
such
good
successe
vnto
all
their
Counsels
and
policies
in
matters
of
state
,
that
we
may
lead
a
quiet
and
peaceable
life
in
all
godlinesse
and
honesty
.
Blesse
all
the
Nobility
,
worke
in
them
a
care
to
glorifie
thy
name
in
their
places
,
make
them
faithfull
to
thee
,
and
faithful
to
the
Land
.
Direct
with
thy
good
spirit
all
such
as
beare
the
sword
of
Iustice
,
that
they
may
draw
it
out
to
punish
the
wicked
,
and
to
defend
the
godly
,
&
that
they
may
with
al
good
care
and
conscience
discharge
the
duties
of
their
places
.
Increase
the
number
of
faithfull
&
zealous
Ministers
in
this
Church
.
Send
thy
Gospell
to
those
places
where
it
is
not
,
&
blesse
it
where
it
is
.
Remember
them
in
thy
mercy
,
O
Lord
,
that
are
vnder
any
crosse
or
affliction
whatsoeuer
:
bee
comfortable
vnto
them
heale
vp
their
wounds
,
binde
vp
their
sores
,
put
all
their
teares
into
thy
bottle
,
and
make
their
bed
in
all
their
sorrowes
,
and
put
such
a
good
end
to
al
their
troubles
that
they
may
redound
to
thy
glory
,
and
the
furtherance
of
their
owne
saluation
.
In
the
meane
time
giue
them
patience
and
constancy
to
beare
whatsoeuer
it
shal
please
thy
merciful
hand
to
lay
vpon
them
.
Last
of
all
,
in
a
word
wee
pray
thee
blesse
Magistracie
,
Ministery
&
Commonalty
.
Blesse
all
thy
people
do
good
to
all
that
are
true
and
vpright
in
their
hearts
.
And
so
(
deere
father
)
we
do
commit
&
commend
our selues
,
our
soules
&
bodies
,
into
thy
hands
,
for
this
day
and
the
rest
of
our
life
,
praying
thee
to
take
care
and
charge
of
vs
;
keep
vs
from
all
euill
,
watch
ouer
vs
for
our
good
,
let
thine
Angels
encamp
about
vs
,
let
thy
holy
hand
be
ouer
vs
,
and
keep
vs
in
all
our
waies
,
that
we
may
liue
to
thy
praise
and
glory
here
in
earth
,
keeping
faith
and
a
good
conscience
in
all
our
actions
;
that
after
this
life
we
may
be
crowned
of
thee
for
euer
in
thy
kingdome
.
Grant
these
things
(
good
father
)
to
vs
here
present
,
and
to
all
thine
absent
;
praying
thee
in
speciall
fauour
to
remember
our
friends
and
kinsfolkes
in
the
flesh
,
all
our
good
neighbours
and
wel-willers
,
and
all
those
for
whom
we
are
bound
to
pray
by
nature
,
by
deserts
,
or
any
duty
whatsoeuer
,
for
Iesus
Christs
sake
our
onely
Mediator
;
to
whom
with
thee
and
the
holy
Ghost
,
be
giuen
all
praise
and
glory
,
both
now
and
for
euermore
.
Amen
.
An
Euening
prayer
to
be
vsed
in
priuate
families
.
O
Eternall
GOD
,
and
most
louing
&
deare
Father
,
we
thy
vnworthy
children
,
do
heere
fall
downe
at
the
foot
of
thy
great
maiesty
,
acknowledging
from
our
hearts
,
that
we
are
altogether
vnworthy
to
come
neere
thee
or
to
look
towards
thee
:
because
thou
art
a
God
of
infinit
glory
,
and
we
are
most
vile
,
and
abominable
sinners
,
such
as
were
conceiued
and
borne
in
sinne
and
corruption
,
such
as
haue
inherited
our
fathers
corruptions
,
and
also
haue
actually
transgressed
all
thy
holy
statutes
and
lawes
,
both
in
thought
,
words
,
&
deeds
,
before
we
knew
thee
:
&
since
,
secretly
and
openly
,
with
our selues
and
with
others
,
our
particular
sinnes
are
moe
than
can
be
numbred
:
for
who
knoweth
how
often
hee
offendeth
?
But
this
we
must
needes
confesse
against
our selues
,
that
our
hearts
are
full
of
pride
,
couetousnesse
,
and
the
loue
of
this
world
,
full
of
wrath
,
anger
,
and
impatiencie
,
full
of
lying
,
dissembling
,
and
deceiuing
,
full
of
vanity
,
hardnesse
,
and
prophanenesse
,
full
of
infidelity
,
distrust
,
and
selfe-loue
,
full
of
lust
,
vncleanenesse
,
and
all
abhominable
desires
:
yea
our
hearts
are
the
very
sinkes
of
sin
,
&
dunghils
of
all
filthines
.
And
besides
all
this
,
we
do
omit
the
good
things
we
should
doe
:
for
there
are
in
vs
great
wants
of
faith
,
of
loue
,
of
zeale
,
of
patience
,
of
contentment
,
&
of
euery
good
grace
;
so
as
thou
hast
iust
cause
to
proceed
to
sentence
of
iudgement
against
vs
,
as
most
damnable
transgressors
of
all
thy
holy
commandements
:
yea
such
as
are
sunke
in
our
rebellions
,
and
haue
many
times
&
often
committed
high
treason
against
thy
maiesty
,
&
therefore
thou
maiest
iustly
cast
vs
all
downe
into
hell
fire
,
there
to
be
tormented
with
Satan
,
and
his
Angels
for
euer
.
And
wee
haue
nothing
to
except
against
thy
maiesty
for
so
doing
:
sith
therin
thou
shouldest
deale
with
vs
but
according
to
equity
,
and
our
iust
deserts
.
Wherefore
deere
father
we
doe
appeale
from
thy
iustice
to
thy
mercy
,
most
humbly
intreating
thee
to
haue
mercy
vpon
vs
,
and
freely
to
forgiue
vs
all
our
sinnes
past
whatsoeuer
,
both
new
and
old
,
secret
and
open
,
knowen
and
vnknowen
,
and
that
for
Iesus
Christs
sake
,
our
onely
Mediator
.
And
wee
pray
thee
touch
our
hearts
with
true
griefe
,
and
vnfained
repentance
for
them
,
that
they
may
be
a
matter
of
continuall
sorrow
,
and
heart-smart
vnto
vs
,
so
as
nothing
may
greiue
vs
more
then
this
,
that
we
haue
offended
thee
being
our
speciall
friend
and
father
.
Giue
vs
therefore
(
deere
Father
)
euery
day
more
and
more
sight
and
feeling
of
our
sinnes
,
with
true
humiliation
vnder
the
same
.
Giue
vs
also
that
true
and
liuely
faith
,
wherby
we
may
lay
sure
hold
onthy
Son
Christ
,
and
all
his
merits
,
aplying
the
same
to
our
owne
soules
;
so
as
we
may
stand
fully
perswaded
that
whatsoeuer
hee
hath
done
vpon
the
crosse
,
he
hath
done
for
vs
particularly
as
well
as
for
others
.
Giue
vs
faith
(
good
Father
)
constantly
to
beleeue
al
the
sweet
promises
of
the
gospel
,
touching
remission
of
sinne
,
and
eternall
life
,
made
in
thy
Sonne
Christ
.
O
Lord
increase
our
faith
,
that
we
may
altogether
rest
vpon
thy
promises
,
which
are
all
,
yea
,
and
Amen
Yea
,
that
we
may
settle
our selues
,
and
all
that
we
haue
wholly
vpon
them
:
both
our
soules
,
bodies
,
goods
,
name
,
wiues
children
,
&
our
whole
estate
,
knowing
that
all
things
depend
vpon
thy
promises
,
power
,
and
prouidence
,
&
that
thy
word
doth
support
&
beare
vp
the
whole
order
of
nature
.
More
ouer
,
we
intreat
thee
,
O
Lord
,
to
strengthen
vs
from
aboue
to
walke
in
euery
good
way
,
and
to
bring
forth
the
fruits
of
true
faith
in
all
our
particular
actions
,
studying
to
please
thee
in
all
things
and
to
be
fruitfull
in
good
workes
,
that
we
may
shew
forth
vnto
all
men
by
our
good
conuersation
whose
children
wee
are
:
and
that
we
may
adorne
and
beautifie
our
most
holy
profession
by
walking
in
a
Christian
course
,
and
in
all
the
sound
fruits
and
practise
of
godlines
,
and
true
religion
.
To
this
end
wee
pray
thee
sanctifie
our
hearts
by
thy
spirit
yet
more
and
more
:
sanctifie
our
soules
and
bodies
,
and
all
our
corrupt
naturall
faculties
,
as
reason
,
vnderstanding
,
will
,
and
affections
,
so
as
they
may
be
fitted
for
thy
worship
and
seruice
,
taking
a
delight
and
pleasure
therein
.
Stirre
vs
vp
to
vse
praier
;
watchfulnesse
,
reading
and
meditation
in
thy
law
,
and
all
other
good
meanes
whereby
we
may
profit
in
grace
and
goodnesse
from
day
to
day
.
Blesse
vs
in
the
vse
of
the
meanes
,
that
we
may
daily
die
to
sin
,
and
liue
to
righteousnesse
:
draw
vs
yet
neerer
vnto
thee
:
help
vs
against
our
monifold
wants
.
Amend
our
great
imperfections
,
renue
vs
inwardly
more
and
more
,
repaire
the
ruines
of
our
hearts
,
aide
vs
against
the
remnants
of
sin
.
Enlarge
our
hearts
to
runne
the
way
of
thy
Commandements
,
direct
all
our
steps
in
thy
word
,
let
none
iniquity
haue
dominion
ouer
vs
.
Assist
vs
against
our
special
infirmities
,
and
master
sinnes
,
that
wee
may
get
the
victory
ouer
them
all
,
to
thy
glory
,
and
the
great
peace
and
comfort
of
our
owne
consciences
.
Strengthen
vs
,
good
father
,
by
thy
grace
and
holy
spirit
,
against
the
common
corruptions
of
the
world
,
as
pride
,
whoredome
,
couetousnesse
,
contempt
of
thy
Gospell
,
swearing
,
lying
,
dissembling
,
and
deceiuing
.
O
deere
Father
,
let
vs
not
be
ouer
come
of
these
filthy
vices
,
nor
any
other
sinfull
pleasures
,
and
fond
delights
,
wherwith
thousands
are
caried
headlong
to
destruction
.
Arme
our
soules
against
all
the
temptations
of
this
world
,
the
flesh
and
the
Diuell
:
that
we
may
ouercome
them
all
through
thy
help
,
and
keep
on
the
right
way
to
life
,
that
we
may
liue
in
thy
feare
,
and
die
in
thy
fauour
,
that
our
last
daies
may
be
our
best
daies
,
and
that
we
may
end
in
great
peace
of
conscience
.
Furthermore
,
deere
Father
,
we
intreat
thee
not
onely
for
ourselues
,
but
for
all
our
good
brethren
thy
deere
children
scattered
ouer
the
face
of
the
whole
earth
,
most
humbly
beseeching
thee
to
blesse
them
all
,
to
cheere
them
vp
,
and
glad
them
with
the
ioy
of
thy
countenance
both
now
and
alwaies
.
Guide
them
all
in
thy
feare
,
and
keep
them
from
euill
,
that
they
may
praise
thy
name
.
In
these
dangerous
daies
,
and
declining
times
,
we
pray
thee
,
O
Lord
,
raise
vp
nursing
fathers
and
nursing
mothers
vnto
thy
Church
.
Raise
vp
also
faithful
Pastors
,
that
thy
cause
may
be
caried
forward
,
truth
may
preuaile
,
Religion
may
prosper
,
thy
name
onely
may
be
set
vp
in
the
earth
,
thy
Sonnes
kingdome
aduanced
,
and
thy
will
accomplished
.
Set
thy selfe
against
all
aduersary
power
,
especially
that
of
Rome
,
Antichrist
,
Idolatry
,
and
Atheisme
:
curse
and
crosse
all
their
counsels
,
frustrate
their
deuises
,
scatter
their
forces
,
ouerthrow
their
armies
.
When
they
are
most
wise
,
let
them
be
most
foolish
:
when
they
are
most
strong
,
let
them
be
most
weake
.
Let
them
know
that
there
is
no
wisdom
nor
counsel
,
power
nor
policy
against
thee
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
Let
them
know
that
Israel
hath
a
God
,
&
that
thou
which
art
called
Iehouah
art
the
onely
ruler
ouer
all
the
world
.
Arise
therefore
O
most
mightie
God
,
and
maintaine
thine
owne
cause
against
all
thine
enemies
,
smite
thorow
all
their
loines
,
and
bow
downe
their
backes
,
yea
let
them
all
be
confounded
,
and
turned
backward
that
beare
ill
will
vnto
Sion
.
Let
the
patient
abiding
of
the
righteous
be
ioy
:
and
let
the
wicked
be
disappointed
of
their
hope
.
But
of
all
fauour
,
we
intreate
thee
O
Lord
,
to
shew
special
mercy
to
thy
Church
in
this
Land
wherein
we
liue
.
Continue
thy
Gospell
amongst
vs
yet
with
greater
successe
,
purge
thy
house
daily
more
&
more
,
take
away
all
things
that
offend
.
Let
this
Nation
still
bee
a
place
where
thy
name
may
bee
called
vpon
,
and
an
harbour
for
thy
Saints
.
Shew
mercy
to
our
posterity
,
deare
Father
,
and
haue
care
of
them
,
that
thy
Gospell
may
bee
left
vnto
them
as
a
most
holy
inheritance
.
Defend
vs
against
forren
inuasion
,
keep
out
Idolatry
and
Popery
from
amongst
vs
.
Turne
from
vs
those
plagues
which
our
sins
cry
for
.
For
the
sins
of
this
Land
are
exceeding
great
,
horrible
,
and
outragious
,
&
giue
thee
iust
cause
to
make
vs
spectacles
of
thy
vengeance
to
all
Nations
;
that
by
how
much
the
more
thou
hast
lifted
vs
vp
in
great
mercy
,
and
long
peace
by
so
much
the
more
thou
shouldest
presse
vs
downe
in
great
wrath
&
long
war
.
Therfore
deere
Father
,
we
most
humbly
intreat
thee
,
for
thy
great
names
sake
,
and
for
thy
infinit
mercies
sake
,
that
thou
wouldest
bee
reconciled
to
this
land
,
and
discharge
it
of
all
the
horrible
sins
thereof
.
Drowne
them
O
Lord
in
thy
infinit
mercy
through
Christ
,
as
it
were
in
a
bottomelesse
gulfe
,
that
they
may
neuer
rise
vp
in
iudgement
against
vs
.
For
although
our
sinnes
bee
exceeding
many
,
and
feareful
,
yet
thy
mercy
is
far
greater
.
For
thou
art
infinite
in
mercy
,
but
we
cannot
be
infinite
in
sinning
.
Giue
vs
not
ouer
into
the
hands
of
the
Idolaters
,
lest
they
should
blaspheme
thy
name
,
and
say
,
Where
is
their
God
in
whom
they
trusted
?
But
rather
,
deere
father
,
take
vs
into
thine
owne
hands
,
and
correct
vs
according
to
thy
wisedome
:
for
with
thee
is
mercy
,
&
deep
compassion
.
Moreouer
,
wee
most
heartily
beseech
thy
good
Maiesty
to
blesse
our
most
gratious
King
Iames
,
and
to
shew
much
mercy
to
him
in
all
things
.
Guide
him
in
thy
feare
,
and
keep
him
in
all
his
waies
,
working
in
his
soule
vnfeined
sorrow
for
sinne
,
true
faith
in
the
promises
,
&
a
great
care
to
please
thee
in
all
things
,
and
to
discharge
the
duty
of
his
high
place
,
in
all
zeale
of
thy
glory
,
and
faithfulnesse
towards
thy
Maiesty
:
that
as
thou
hast
crowned
him
heere
in
earth
,
so
hee
(
spending
his
daies
,
heere
below
in
thy
feare
)
may
after
this
life
be
crowned
of
thee
for
euer
in
the
Heauens
.
We
beseech
thee
also
to
blesse
his
Maiesties
most
honorable
priuie
Counsellors
.
Counsell
them
from
aboue
,
let
them
take
aduice
of
thee
in
all
things
:
that
they
may
both
consult
,
and
resolue
of
such
courses
as
may
be
most
for
thy
glory
,
the
good
of
the
Church
,
&
the
peace
of
this
our
Commonwealth
.
Blesse
the
Nobility
,
and
all
the
Magistrates
in
the
Land
,
giuing
them
all
grace
to
execute
iudgement
and
iustice
,
and
to
maintaine
truth
and
equity
.
Blesse
all
the
faithfull
Ministers
of
the
Gospell
,
increase
the
number
of
them
,
inincrease
thy
gifts
in
them
:
and
so
blesse
all
their
labours
in
their
seuerall
places
and
congregations
,
that
they
all
may
bee
instruments
of
thy
hand
to
inlarge
thy
Sonnes
kingdome
,
and
to
winne
many
vnto
thee
.
Comfort
the
comfortlesse
with
all
needfull
comforts
.
Forget
none
of
thine
that
are
in
trouble
:
but
as
their
afflictions
are
,
so
let
the
ioyes
and
comforts
of
thy
spirit
bee
vnto
them
:
and
so
sanctifie
vnto
all
thine
,
their
afflictions
and
troubles
,
that
they
may
tend
to
thy
glory
,
and
their
owne
good
.
Giue
vs
thankefull
hearts
for
all
thy
mercies
,
both
spirituall
and
corporall
:
for
thou
art
very
mercifull
vnto
vs
in
the
things
of
this
life
,
and
infinitely
more
mercifull
in
the
things
of
a
better
life
.
Let
vs
deeply
ponder
and
waigh
all
thy
particular
fauoures
towards
vs
:
that
by
the
due
consideration
thereof
,
our
hearts
may
bee
gained
yet
neerer
vnto
thee
,
and
that
therefore
wee
may
both
loue
and
obey
thee
,
because
thou
art
so
kind
and
louing
vnto
vs
:
that
euen
thy
loue
towards
vs
,
may
draw
our
loue
towards
thee
,
and
that
because
mercy
is
with
thee
,
thou
maiest
bee
feared
.
Grant
these
things
good
Father
,
and
all
other
needfull
graces
for
our
soules
or
bodies
,
or
any
of
thine
thorow
out
the
whole
world
,
for
Iesus
Christs
sake
,
in
whose
name
we
further
call
vpon
thee
as
he
hath
taught
vs
in
his
Gospel
,
saying
;
Our
Father
which
art
in
Heauen
.
&c.
FINIS
.