2.
Sam
3.
vers.
38.
And
the
King
said
to
his
Seruants
,
Know
ye
not
that
a
Prince
and
a
great
Man
is
fallen
this
day
in
Israel
?
ABNER
is
dead
,
DAVID
the
King
is
become
a
mourner
;
hee
followed
the
Beare
of
Abner
to
the
Graue
:
When
hee
came
to
the
Sepulchre
,
hee
lift
vp
his
voyce
and
wept
:
He
bemoned
his
death
to
the
people
▪
hee
refused
his
meate
till
the
Sunne
was
downe
.
And
in
this
Verse
he
pleadeth
the
cause
of
his
griefe
to
his
Seruantes
,
and
makes
them
sensible
of
his
losse
:
Know
ye
not
that
there
is
&c.
See
how
artificiall
sorrow
is
,
in
telling
of
her
owne
tale
:
heere
is
not
a
word
in
this
speach
of
the
Kinges
,
but
it
hath
the
taste
and
the
relish
of
the
greiued
heart
where
it
grew
.
1
It
is
not
a
feare
,
or
danger
,
or
some
infirmitie
of
his
friend
,
that
mooueth
him
,
but
a
fall
;
a
fall
as
low
as
the
Earth
,
and
as
deepe
as
the
Graue
.
2
It
is
not
the
fall
of
any
artificiall
structare
or
composition
,
but
of
a
man
;
a
Man
is
fallen
.
Heere
is
the
dissolution
of
a
little
World
,
a
pile
of
the
curiousest
Architecture
,
and
the
maister
peece
of
the
most
skilfull
builder
.
Consult
not
herein
the
practise
of
humane
inhumanitie
,
which
holdeth
the
life
of
man
cheape
,
and
vnderualueth
so
rare
a
creature
with
low-priz'd
estimation
,
but
consult
Nature
:
Hoc
natura
prescribit
,
vt
homo
homini
quicunque
fit
ob
eam
ipsam
Causam
tantum
quod
homo
sit
consultam
velit
:
This
(
sayth
Cicero
)
is
the
document
of
Nature
,
that
a
man
should
seeke
the
good
of
a
man
,
euen
for
this
alone
,
because
he
is
a
man
.
3
This
man
for
whom
Dauid
makes
this
moane
,
is
none
of
them
that
are
wearie
of
the
light
because
God
doth
humble
them
;
and
being
vile
,
and
sitting
with
the
Dogges
of
the
flocke
,
hunt
after
death
:
But
,
a
great
man
is
fallen
:
great
in
the
proofe
of
his
vertue
in
the
aduenture
of
his
person
,
in
his
aduancement
to
be
the
fauorite
of
a
King
;
in
his
imployment
to
be
one
of
the
supporters
of
a
mightie
Kingdome
,
a
Prince
and
a
great
man
,
that
is
,
a
principall
great
man
in
Israel
.
4
Hee
is
fallen
in
Israel
,
and
it
is
so
much
blood
let
out
of
Israels
veynes
,
some
of
that
locke
cut
off
wherein
Sampsons
strength
lay
:
and
Israel
being
the
enuie
of
all
the
Kingdomes
of
the
world
,
the
Archers
shooting
at
it
,
and
greeuing
it
,
as
old
Iaacob
said
of
Ioseph
:
If
it
had
been
sowen
with
the
seede
of
valiant
men
,
it
could
haue
set
them
all
on
worke
to
keepe
violent
intruders
from
inuasion
and
assault
.
Therefore
Israel
had
a
great
losse
in
the
death
of
Abner
.
5
All
this
not
a
griefe
of
auncient
times
,
as
Hecuba
sayd
of
Troy
,
Troia
i
am
vetus
est
malum
:
Troy
is
an
old
greife
,
but
it
is
a
fresh
woe
instantly
pressing
,
and
oppressing
the
sence
:
for
he
is
fallen
To
day
.
6
Doe
you
not
kn〈…〉
this
?
saith
Dauid
:
had
you
an
hope
of
his
person
,
and
haue
you
no
greife
for
his
death
?
Could
your
glad
eares
receiue
the
tydinges
of
his
ioyning
with
our
forces
,
and
do
you
with
dry
eyes
see
him
,
by
death
,
disioyned
from
vs
againe
?
Thus
doth
Dauid
keepe
a
scoare
of
his
owne
losses
.
Beholde
,
heere
is
Abner
a
Prince
;
yet
he
is
fallen
:
a
Great
man
,
yet
a
man
,
fallen
in
Israel
:
for
Death
hath
left
no
place
priuiledged
,
no
person
free
.
I
will
confine
my
present
Discourse
to
these
three
perticular
poyntes
.
-
1
I
obserue
a
difference
betweene
man
and
man
,
in
this
title
ginen
to
Abner
:
a
great
man
.
-
2
I
finde
the
greatest
,
subiect
to
mortalitie
:
is
fallen
.
-
3
I
note
in
Dauid
a
desire
,
that
notise
be
taken
of
this
losse
:
Doe
you
not
know
?
1.
Of
the
difference
betweene
man
and
man
.
This
is
not
in
respect
of
the
maker
:
for
God
hath
not
made
some
men
himfelfe
,
and
deuolued
the
rest
to
inferiour
iournimen
vnder
him
:
but
we
are
all
alike
beholding
to
him
for
our
creation
:
not
in
respect
of
the
matter
;
for
we
were
all
,
digged
out
of
the
same
Pitte
.
But
the
difference
is
in
the
vse
,
&
seruice
of
men
,
and
that
is
directed
in
all
well
menaged
States
,
by
their
manners
and
merites
.
Tullies
rule
of
a
mans
Fortune
;
that
is
,
of
his
condition
of
life
,
is
this
:
Suis
ea
cuique
fingitur
moribus
:
It
is
such
as
his
behauiour
and
carriage
makes
it
.
The
best
men
seeke
Honour
;
and
they
seeke
it
best
,
euen
in
the
merrite
of
their
owne
worth
;
not
in
the
groundlesse
opinion
of
an
vndiscerning
multitude
,
and
therefore
they
make
their
liues
presidents
of
liuing
to
others
,
and
their
whole
comportsment
exemplary
,
deseruing
well
:
Some
for
aduice
,
others
for
execution
:
Some
for
Artes
,
some
for
the
Tongues
,
some
for
the
Sword
,
some
for
the
Compasse
,
some
in
the
Chambers
of
Princes
,
some
in
the
Field
making
merite
still
,
the
true
lustre
of
their
greatnes
.
Paulum
sepaltae
distat
inertiae
celata
virtus
:
Vertue
that
commeth
not
abroade
,
is
little
better
then
vnseen●
vnskilfulnesse
:
which
the
Poet
sp●ke
not
to
encourage
men
to
put
all
their
Vertue
vpon
the
Stage
,
and
to
set
it
alwayes
in
the
common
eye
,
with
base
prostitution
;
for
this
is
an
ambitious
begging
of
popular
ayer
:
But
he
admonisheth
to
keepe
Vertue
in
breath
with
exercise
,
to
giue
it
life
in
action
,
and
not
suffer
it
to
keepe
house
too
much
,
or
to
rust
with
rest
and
idlenesse
.
Thus
shall
not
a
man
trust
to
hereditary
Dignitie
,
and
spend
vpon
that
stocke
of
Honour
which
his
noble
ancestors
haue
left
him
:
neither
shall
hee
basely
purchase
precedence
and
priority
with
the
Penny
,
nor
diue
by
cunning
insinuation
into
the
fauour
of
Princes
by
flattering
their
amisses
:
All
these
are
the
Balles
of
Fortune
,
racketed
vpon
high
;
but
not
abyding
there
,
but
falling
downe
againe
:
These
spring
tides
haue
their
neapes
▪
these
are
very
Meteors
,
making
a
portentose
shew
of
light
awhile
,
but
soone
put
out
:
For
when
this
Curtayne
of
Greatnes
drawne
betweene
them
and
the
deceiued
eyes
of
men
,
shall
be
withdrawen
;
when
this
ouer-guilding
with
false
Honour
shall
begin
to
weare
off
,
and
their
vnworthinesse
looke
like
it selfe
,
stript
and
naked
:
When
they
shall
vnlearne
the
art
of
Seeming
,
shall
it
not
then
be
sayd
vnto
them
.
What
fruite
haue
you
now
of
these
thinges
where
of
you
are
ashamed
?
Ler
Honour
then
follow
Vertue
:
and
let
Vertue
be
content
with
it selfe
.
S.
Augustines
rule
is
,
Gloria
nostra
est
testimonium
Conscientiae
nosirae
:
Our
glorie
is
in
the
testimonie
of
our
owne
Conscience
.
The
first
Adam
sought
Honour
,
and
it
fledde
from
him
:
The
second
Adam
fledde
from
Honour
,
and
it
ouertoke
him
.
The
vse
of
this
instruction
is
this
,
to
prouoke
euery
of
you
(
according
to
the
measure
of
Gods
endowment
of
Grace
)
to
stirre
vp
in
your selues
those
faire
partes
of
Vertue
and
goodnes
,
by
which
your
God
may
be
most
glorified
in
his
creature
,
your
Countrie
may
haue
the
benefite
of
your
seruice
,
your
King
the
vse
of
your
Vertue
,
and
all
men
the
example
of
it
.
Seneca
sayth
,
Recie
facii
fecisse
merces
est
:
To
haue
done
well
,
is
the
reward
of
well
doing
:
therefore
if
Riches
buy
away
,
or
Fauoure
giue
away
from
you
your
wel-deserued
Honoures
;
yet
God
hath
promised
to
be
your
portion
,
and
exceeding
great
reward
.
It
will
be
a
great
euidence
against
you
,
that
you
neuer
loued
Vertue
and
goodnes
truely
,
if
you
do
neglect
them
when
you
see
your selues
neglected
:
for
Honourable
actions
are
not
to
be
vndertaken
in
regarde
of
the
honour
which
we
gayne
by
them
,
but
that
God
may
be
honoured
by
vs
in
them
.
Our
Sauiour
hath
enformed
vs
,
that
they
which
seeke
the
prayse
of
men
,
haue
their
rewarde
heere
.
I
will
conclude
this
first
poynt
with
the
saying
of
S.
Chrisostome
,
Hon●●
verus
est
in
virtute
animi
:
True
honour
is
in
the
vertue
of
the
minde
:
and
for
all
other
that
goe
for
honours
heere
,
let
vs
say
with
the
same
learned
father
Honores
non
sunt
im●
ministeria
:
They
are
not
Honours
,
but
meere
seruices
.
2
Though
I
haue
found
as
much
difference
betweene
man
and
man
,
as
betweene
high
and
low
,
rich
and
poore
,
great
and
small
;
yet
I
haue
set
mine
eye
in
the
second
place
,
vpon
the
mortaliue
of
Great
Men
,
because
my
Text
saith
,
A
great
man
is
fallen
.
It
hath
cost
the
liues
of
the
greatest
to
exemplifie
this
to
vs
from
Adam
,
the
Father
of
vs
all
;
by
whose
disobedience
Sinne
came
into
the
world
,
and
by
Sinne
,
Death
,
euen
to
this
moment
of
time
wherein
thousands
are
breathing
their
last
in
sundry
places
,
and
by
sundry
sorts
of
death
.
Where
be
those
great
ones
,
euen
the
greatest
of
the
Sonnes
of
men
,
which
haue
ouerrunne
Kingdomes
&
people
▪
with
an
inundation
of
power
,
and
taught
the
Earth
to
groane
,
and
tremble
vnder
the
burthen
of
their
Armes
?
Did
not
God
blow
vpon
them
,
and
they
withered
?
And
did
not
the
whire
wind
take
them
away
as
stuble
.
Esa.
40.
24.
When
Iob
was
out
of
taste
with
his
life
,
he
wisht
that
he
had
gone
immediatly
from
the
wombe
to
the
Graue
:
for
sayth
hee
,
I
should
haue
slept
then
,
and
been
at
rest
,
with
the
Kinges
and
Counsay
lours
of
the
Earth
,
which
haue
builded
them selues
desolate
places
:
or
with
the
Princes
that
had
gold
,
and
haue
filled
their
houses
with
siluer
.
Iob
3.
13.
Dignitie
,
friends
,
followers
,
wealth
,
plentie
,
the
best
supporters
that
euer
the
world
could
find
(
of
temporall
happines
)
giue
way
when
Death
commeth
.
The
Centution
sayth
to
his
seruant
Goe
,
and
he
goeth
:
Death
sayth
to
the
Centurion
Come
,
and
he
commeth
.
Deaths
Nettes
are
not
Cobwebbes
to
take
none
but
small
Flyes
,
nor
Snares
for
none
but
small
Birdes
:
If
great
Men
should
not
die
,
small
men
should
not
liue
.
Vnrestrayned
geatnes
growes
saluage
:
but
the
thought
of
Death
,
makes
it
come
to
hand
,
and
become
tame
.
All
the
life
of
some
,
is
a
rize
from
one
aduancement
to
another
,
till
they
haue
lost
themselues
in
their
owne
greatnes
:
but
they
shall
fall
euen
from
the
greatest
.
It
was
so
decreed
in
Paradice
,
when
wee
were
all
yet
in
the
loynes
of
our
first
Parents
,
before
there
was
any
such
difference
betweene
vs
in
dignitie
:
For
out
of
it
wert
thou
taken
,
because
thou
art
Dust
,
and
to
Dust
shalt
thou
returne
.
Gen.
3.
19.
Dust
is
our
first
and
last
.
The
most
neat
,
&
the
most
cutious
amongst
vs
,
shall
not
brush
off
this
dust
,
till
we
rise
againe
,
euen
till
our
mortall
do
put
on
immortalitie
.
Reu.
6.
8.
S.
Iohn
looked
,
and
behold
,
a
pale
Horse
,
&
his
name
that
sate
vpon
him
is
Death
.
Death
is
an
Horseman
(
you
see
)
to
shew
his
speede
:
and
his
Horse
is
pale
,
which
is
the
complexion
of
departing
and
dying
men
.
This
ryder
hath
ouertaken
Abner
,
a
Great
man
in
Israel
.
This
filles
the
eyes
of
Dauid
full
of
teares
,
till
they
runne
ouer
.
1
The
vse
of
this
obseruation
is
to
vnderstand
,
that
Princes
haue
their
sorrowes
.
Luctus
(
sayth
Tully
)
est
agritudo
ex
eius
qui
charus
est
acerbo
interitu
:
Mourning
is
a
sorrow
conceiued
at
the
death
of
a
deare
Friend
.
In
this
,
griefe
is
impartiall
,
the
friendes
of
Kinges
are
as
mortall
,
as
the
friendes
of
Subiectes
.
It
is
not
in
the
Cotages
of
the
poore
,
or
vnder
the
roofe
of
the
Widow
only
,
in
the
Hospitals
of
the
diseased
onely
▪
or
in
the
darke
Dungeons
of
the
imprisoned
:
but
in
the
Palaces
of
Princes
,
in
the
Bed-chambers
of
Kinges
;
nay
in
their
bosomes
,
and
the
inmost
conclaues
of
their
breastes
:
Luctus
et
vltrices
posuere
cubilia
curae
:
Sorrow
and
sad
vnrest
haue
taken
vp
their
lodging
.
Abner
dyeth
in
the
nonage
of
King
Dauides
soueraigntie
;
a
limbe
of
strength
vntimely
lopt
from
the
body
of
his
greatnes
.
And
I
am
this
day
weake
(
sayth
hee
)
and
newly
annoynted
King
.
Dauid
is
exercised
in
these
sorrowes
:
for
in
the
next
Chapter
,
he
mourneth
for
Ishbosheth
the
Sonne
of
Saul
,
whom
some
,
presuming
to
please
the
King
,
did
murther
in
his
bedd
:
but
he
calleth
the
executioners
wicked
men
:
he
chargeth
them
with
murther
,
murther
of
a
righteous
Person
,
and
that
done
vpon
him
in
his
owne
House
,
which
should
haue
been
to
him
a
Sanctuarie
of
peace
:
and
vpon
his
owne
Bedd
,
where
he
promiseth
himselfe
rest
.
The
B●●●
should
indeed
represent
the
Graue
,
and
sleepe
Death
:
but
to
make
a
Slaughter
house
of
his
Chamber
,
and
a
Beare
of
his
Bedd
,
was
the
worke
of
men
of
blood
:
and
Dauid
could
doe
no
lesse
out
of
his
griefe
for
Ishbosbeth
,
and
his
iustice
vpon
them
,
but
require
his
blood
at
their
handes
,
and
take
them
from
the
earth
.
Dauids
Child
be
gotten
of
Bathsheba
,
and
Absolon
hi●
Sonne
dying
,
were
to
much
cut
out
of
his
owne
flesh
:
and
(
if
Mors
take
name
a
Morsu
,
Death
from
byting
)
they
were
two
morsels
bitten
cut
of
Dauids
owne
loynes
.
This
Dauid
a
King
may
doe
:
hee
may
loue
his
Friendes
whilest
they
liue
,
and
aduance
them
to
honour
:
he
may
hugg
them
in
the
bosome
of
his
best
fauoures
,
and
engirde
them
in
the
cincture
of
his
royall
embracements
:
He
may
beweepe
them
when
they
are
dead
,
&
shed
his
sorrowes
in
teares
vpon
the
earth
for
them
:
But
to
adiourne
Death
,
or
prolong
Life
▪
to
fill
the
emptie
Veines
of
his
friendes
with
liuely
blood
,
or
their
dryed
Boanes
with
marrow
:
to
open
the
eares
which
Death
hath
shut
,
or
to
light
againe
the
Candles
which
Death
hath
put
out
,
or
to
redeeme
their
life
from
the
power
of
the
Graue
;
In
all
these
thinges
,
Diuid
is
no
King
.
2.
Reg.
5.
7.
When
the
King
of
Israel
receiued
Letters
conteining
a
request
that
he
would
heale
the
Leprosie
of
Naaman
,
hee
answered
them
with
the
rending
of
his
cloathes
,
saying
:
Am
I
God
,
to
kill
and
to
giue
I
fo
,
that
he
doth
send
to
mee
,
that
I
should
heale
a
man
from
〈…〉
Leprosie
?
In
a
lesse
matter
in
the
next
Chapter
,
when
a
Woman
in
the
Famine
of
Samaria
,
cryed
,
Helpe
my
Lord
,
O
king
.
The
King
of
Israel
sayd
:
Seeing
the
Lord
doth
not
succoure
thee
,
how
should
I
helpe
thee
with
the
Barne
or
the
Winepresse
?
Kings
then
haue
their
winges
clipt
:
God
wil
haue
them
knowne
to
be
but
men
:
the
Winde
blowes
on
them
,
the
Sunne
heates
them
,
the
raine
doth
wet
them
:
griefe
and
care
is
as
ordinary
a
guest
with
them
,
as
with
their
meanest
Subiectes
:
their
great
Friendes
fall
also
like
other
men
:
Mors
aequo
pulsat
pede
,
it
goes
with
an
euen
foote
,
and
carryeth
an
indifferent
hand
,
and
leaues
Kinges
that
onely
remedy
,
to
sitte
downe
and
weepe
ouer
their
dead
,
as
Dauid
heere
doth
ouer
Abner
.
It
is
not
long
since
our
eyes
saw
the
fall
of
Maiestie
,
the
death
of
the
great
Lady
of
these
Realmes
,
the
Soueraigne
of
all
the
honest
hearts
vnder
these
her
dotninions
,
the
wonder
of
her
sexe
,
deseruing
better
of
her
people
,
then
we
haue
words
to
expresse
;
as
much
aboue
my
prayse
,
as
I
was
beneath
her
greatnes
,
the
holy
Annoynted
seru
〈…〉
of
God
,
hath
not
she
read
vs
a
lecture
of
Mortality
,
and
shewed
vs
our
of
what
Pitt
Princes
are
digged
?
I
would
my
words
could
go
so
neare
the
hearts
of
the
greatest
in
this
assemblie
,
as
to
perswade
them
to
lay
thus
much
to
heart
,
and
to
make
it
their
Philosophy
and
best
learning
,
to
learne
to
die
.
This
meditation
were
enough
to
kill
the
Moath
in
their
Garments
,
and
to
scoure
off
the
Rust
from
their
Gold
,
and
to
set
their
imprisoned
Money
at
liberty
:
it
were
enough
to
cloath
the
naked
,
to
feede
the
hungry
,
to
comfort
the
oppressed
,
to
make
Rich
men
liue
to
God
,
&
not
to
themselues
,
or
to
regard
themselues
chiefly
for
a
common
good
.
It
were
enough
to
distaste
to
men
that
auxious
and
solicitous
impropriation
of
all
their
respectes
vnto
themselues
,
and
to
enlarge
their
hoartes
to
the
pursuite
of
the
good
of
their
brethren
.
This
meditation
were
enough
to
reare
vp
Temples
to
God
,
Colledges
for
Artes
and
Learning
.
Hospitals
for
the
poore
and
diseased
:
for
there
is
nothing
that
killes
Charitie
and
Good
▪
workes
sooner
,
then
hope
of
long
life
.
I
beseech
you
,
if
your
eare
be
open
,
to
entertaine
this
needful
instruction
,
let
it
be
tenible
in
your
remembrance
also
,
that
whilst
you
liue
,
you
may
do
good
to
all
:
and
that
when
you
die
,
your
workes
may
follow
you
:
not
the
merite
of
your
workes
;
for
,
your
well
doing
extendeth
not
to
God
.
This
were
condignitie
on
your
part
:
but
the
reward
of
your
workes
:
for
God
rewardeth
abundantly
those
that
do
well
:
this
is
gratuitie
on
Gods
part
.
It
is
sayd
of
them
that
die
,
thus
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Their
owne
workes
follow
them
,
that
they
might
not
depende
hopefully
on
the
workes
of
other
men
,
much
lesse
vpon
their
multiplyed
reiterations
of
prayers
for
them
.
It
is
also
sayd
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
which
signifieth
immediatly
following
,
and
therefore
no
stay
by
the
way
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
euen
with
themselues
.
It
is
the
reproch
of
Protestants
,
and
the
shame
of
our
Professours
at
this
day
:
It
is
spoken
of
in
Gath
,
and
it
is
proclaimed
in
the
streetes
of
Ask●lon
;
the
Church
of
Roome
doth
iustly
charge
vs
with
it
:
Good
workes
liue
in
exile
from
vs
:
encroachments
vpon
our
Church-reuenewes
,
and
bequeathments
of
Dying
men
to
holy
vses
,
euen
for
the
maintenance
of
good
Artes
and
learning
:
The
reentries
of
the
Laye
vpon
the
rentes
of
God
,
are
frequent
:
the
Church
hath
not
the
ouerflowings
now
of
the
fullest
Cuppe
:
it
is
honour
enough
to
them
,
that
inuade
not
these
consecrate
and
hallowed
Beneuolences
,
that
make
a
conscience
of
this
gripple
seasure
,
and
vnrighteous
intrusion
,
though
they
giue
nothing
themselues
.
But
let
me
speake
it
to
the
eare
of
Greatnesse
;
and
let
the
heart
that
keepeth
house
there
,
tremble
at
it
.
Hinc
colligendum
est
qua
paena
mulctandus
sit
qui
aliena
diripit
si
inferni
damnatione
percu●itur
qui
propria
non
largitur
▪
Hence
we
may
conceiue
,
how
they
shall
smart
for
their
direptions
,
who
inuade
the
goodes
of
other
men
,
when
hee
shal
be
punished
with
infernall
damnation
,
who
gaue
not
that
which
was
his
owne
:
It
is
the
speach
of
S
Gregorie
writing
vpon
the
Parable
of
the
Rich
man
.
I
beseech
you
,
as
you
tender
the
happines
of
your
beloued
soules
,
let
the
remembrance
of
the
ende
,
kindle
in
you
an
holy
ambition
,
which
may
mount
your
eyes
&
hoapes
to
a
more
loftie
apprehention
of
that
wealth
which
wasteth
not
,
of
that
honour
which
commeth
not
into
dust
,
of
that
happinesse
which
neuer
can
be
vnhappied
againe
:
and
for
these
thinges
,
facite
de
damno
lucrum
of
that
which
idly
oftentimes
leawdly
is
mis-spent
,
make
friendes
:
Ventres
pauperum
horrea
diuitum
,
Lay
vp
,
if
not
your
Haruest
,
yet
at
least
the
Gleanings
,
in
these
Barnes
:
And
if
you
giue
charge
for
them
,
as
Boaz
did
for
Ruth
,
that
they
may
gleane
among
the
Sheaues
,
the
bowels
of
the
poore
will
blesse
you
,
and
they
that
are
ready
to
perish
,
will
pray
for
your
increase
.
2
Dauid
teacheth
vs
a
second
vse
of
this
Doctrine
of
Princes
mortalitie
.
Psal.
146.
Trust
no
in
Princes
&c.
A
King
is
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
quase
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Let
Let
them
goe
to
him
for
Iudgement
,
and
in
his
rest
&
peace
let
them
seeke
rest
▪
but
to
fasten
dependance
vpon
Great
men
,
is
to
forget
the
Lord
of
Hoastes
:
they
that
sow
their
hope
vpon
this
ground
,
reape
no
better
Haruest
then
that
vpon
the
house
toppe
.
I
will
conclude
this
poynt
,
with
that
Isay
.
31.
1.
Woe
be
to
them
that
goe
downe
into
Egypt
for
helpe
.
&c.
The
Egyptians
are
men
,
not
God
:
their
Horses
flesh
,
and
not
spirit
;
and
when
the
Lord
shall
stretch
out
his
hand
,
their
helpers
shall
fayle
,
&c.
3
I
note
in
this
fall
of
so
Great
a
man
the
losse
which
the
State
where
he
liueth
,
hath
of
him
:
the
King
he
loofeth
Abners
seruice
.
I
am
newly
annoynted
King
,
and
the
sonnes
of
Zeruiah
.
&c.
The
people
generally
shall
want
his
direction
and
ouersight
.
It
is
one
of
the
Roddes
;
rather
it
is
one
of
the
Scorpions
wherewith
God
did
vse
to
scourge
the
disobedient
;
He
calleth
it
The
breaking
of
the
pride
of
their
power
.
Leuit.
26.
19.
Ier●mie
in
his
Lament.
bringes
in
Ierusalem
thus
,
complayning
.
1.
Lament.
15.
The
Lord
hath
troden
vnder
foote
all
my
valiant
men
in
the
middest
of
me●
:
For
those
thinges
I
weepe
:
mine
eye
,
euen
mine
eye
,
easteth
out
water
.
Lamen
4.
2.
The
noble
men
of
Zion
comparable
to
fine
gold
,
how
are
they
esteemed
as
earthen
Pi●chers
,
euen
the
worke
of
the
hands
of
the
Potter
?
What
are
the
Walles
about
our
strongest
Townes
,
but
heapes
of
Stone
and
congestions
of
Earth
?
Theopompus
in
Plutarch
to
one
that
shewed
him
the
Walles
of
his
Cittie
,
asking
him
if
they
were
not
goodly
and
strong
?
aunswered
well
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
no
,
if
your
Cittie
hold
none
but
Women
.
Our
Shippes
are
but
walles
of
Wood
;
our
Ordinance
but
the
messengers
of
Death
:
and
there
must
be
some
to
sende
these
messengers
abroade
.
Indeed
all
our
defence
,
our
strongest
Bulwarkes
and
Propugnacles
of
our
land
,
what
are
they
without
the
ministerie
and
seruice
of
Men
,
but
as
Shaftes
and
Arrowes
hunge
vp
against
the
wall
?
And
what
are
Men
,
without
order
and
Discipline
,
but
as
droues
of
wilde
Beastes
?
So
did
disordered
Confusion
fashion
the
vnschoold
minoritie
of
the
world
,
euen
then
when
the
Romane
Empire
like
a
young
budd
of
greatnesse
,
was
first
Inoculate
in
the
ranckstocke
of
vndisciplin'd
tymes
:
So
sayth
a
learned
Romane
.
Disciplina
militaris
acriter
retenta
,
&c.
Millitarie
Discipline
seueerely
retained
,
made
Rome
spread
ouer
Towne
and
Countrey
,
Land
and
Sea
,
and
bredd
the
Empire
of
all
the
Earth
,
in
the
poore
Cottage
of
Romulus
.
And
was
not
all
this
performed
by
the
vertue
of
men
of
action
,
and
vndertaking
,
such
as
are
called
Great
men
?
Philip
of
Macedon
had
wont
to
call
the
Athenians
an
happie
people
,
because
they
had
such
store
of
Great
Men
of
worth
,
as
yeerely
to
choose
tenne
fitt
to
be
Leaders
;
whereas
he
had
in
all
his
time
,
found
none
but
Parmenio
,
worthy
to
take
charge
vnder
him
.
But
now
I
begin
to
see
how
I
do
idle
the
time
,
to
shew
you
how
great
a
misse
a
State
may
haue
of
Worthy
men
,
and
to
endeare
to
you
men
of
action
.
For
we
haue
put
off
our
Armour
,
and
our
Swordes
and
Sheildes
hang
vp
rather
as
Monuments
of
old
,
then
Instrumentes
of
new
Warre●tour
Ships
are
double
moor'd
,
our
Men
of
Warre
haue
wasted
ouer
welcome
peace
into
our
borders
;
Abner
hath
leaue
to
die
,
and
men
of
action
could
neuer
haue
been
better
spared
:
Smooth
and
euen
is
the
face
and
outside
of
all
things
amongst
vs
.
Let
not
our
eyes
,
ô
Lord
,
nor
the
eyes
of
our
vnborne
Children
and
Nephewes
,
euer
see
it
wrinckled
any
more
:
Let
vs
all
ioyne
in
prayer
alwayes
for
the
peace
of
our
Ierusalem
,
and
let
them
prosper
that
loue
it
.
Yet
by
the
faire
leaue
of
a
gentle
Peace
,
let
vs
consider
that
the
Sonnes
of
Zeruiah
may
be
too
hard
for
vs
,
and
therefore
let
not
Abner
die
without
sence
of
a
publique
losse
,
euen
without
an
vniuersall
condolement
of
the
State
wherein
he
liues
,
and
of
which
he
hath
deserued
well
.
But
this
is
my
third
,
and
last
Obseruation
:
For
Dauid
desireth
that
notice
be
taken
of
Abners
death
:
Kow
ye
not
.
Surely
the
righteous
perisheth
,
and
no
man
considereth
it
in
his
heart
.
Isay
.
57.
1.
It
is
not
possible
but
the
common
eye
doth
see
it
,
and
the
vnderstanding
doth
apprehende
such
sadd
accidents
:
but
men
keepe
such
things
as
much
as
they
may
,
from
the
heart
,
loath
to
entertaine
so
vnwelcome
a
guest
as
Griefe
is
.
Dauid
doth
not
put
them
in
minde
of
it
as
of
some
sadd
betiding
to
Abner
:
for
the
aduantage
of
the
death
of
the
Righteous
is
manifold
.
1
Rest
from
labours
:
For
it
is
most
true
which
S.
Bern.
sayth
:
Qui
in
labore
hominum
non
sunt
,
in
labore
profecto
Doemonum
erunt
:
They
that
labour
not
heere
amongst
men
,
shall
labour
hereafter
amongst
Diuels
.
2
They
are
taken
away
from
the
euill
to
come
,
as
choyce
stuffe
remooued
when
Fire
is
feared
;
So
doth
God
defend
his
chosen
,
from
the
conflagration
of
the
vnrighteous
.
3
They
are
translated
from
death
to
life
.
S.
Gregory
saith
,
Curramus
et
sequamur
Christum
,
non
sunt
hic
vera
solatia
,
sed
ibi
ponuntur
vbi
vera
vita
:
Let
vs
runne
and
follow
Christ
:
heere
are
no
true
comfortes
,
they
are
layde
vp
there
where
it
true
life
.
But
Dauids
end
in
this
bemoaning
of
Abner
is
,
to
teach
them
to
depende
vpon
God
,
not
on
man
;
and
to
encourage
euery
bold
hart
,
and
able
hand
amongst
them
,
to
auenge
the
workers
of
that
death
to
Abner
,
that
griefe
to
the
King
,
that
weakenes
to
the
Church
,
and
that
common
loste
to
all
Israel
.
It
is
our
great
fault
that
when
God
giueth
any
such
blow
to
our
State
,
the
smart
of
it
in
too
soone
past
,
and
their
memorie
buried
in
the
same
Graue
with
them
.
This
is
a
great
disheartning
of
Worthy
men
,
from
great
vnderrakinges
:
For
this
Land
hath
buried
,
in
our
memorie
,
of
Worthres
that
are
all
dead
,
their
actes
,
their
name
and
all
;
such
an
honourable
breed
,
as
huing
eyes
cannot
find
paragons
too
,
and
our
present
hopes
(
which
yet
are
our
franckest
promises
)
cannot
apprehend
:
Let
them
all
goe
with
this
honour
done
them
in
heauen
,
In
memoria
aeteina
erit
iustus
.
And
let
Learning
,
which
bath
the
best
eye
to
sec
Virtue
,
&
the
Honourablest
aff●ction
to
loue
it
and
the
longest
liued
meanes
to
immortalize
it
,
keepe
her
owne
cours
vpon
the
earth
:
Vignum
laude
virum
Musa
vstat
mori
:
And
let
their
owne
good
deedes
prayse
them
in
the
gates
.
They
that
trust
a
curious
pile
of
Stone
Piramids
,
Colosses
high-reard
Monumentes
ouer
,
their
low
layd
bodyes
in
the
losome
of
the
Earth
,
with
their
memories
,
doe
bue
deceiue
themselues
.
A
good
Name
is
a
pretious
Oyntment
powred
foorth
,
the
perfume
of
it
filleth
all
the
house
.
Thus
much
of
the
words
of
my
Text.
COncerning
this
occasion
of
meeting
,
let
me
also
borrow
your
patience
and
attention
.
Though
I
know
you
haue
saued
me
a
labour
in
the
application
:
and
your
vnderstandings
in
their
cleare
light
,
haue
seene
that
this
honorable
Knight
,
of
whom
there
is
now
but
thus
much
left
,
euen
a
morsell
fitte
for
the
Wormes
,
and
atenant
for
the
house
,
and
a
guest
for
the
bedd
in
the
darke
,
of
which
Iob
speaketh
,
Hee
hath
beene
my
Teate
,
the
Abner
,
the
Great
and
Worthie
man
whom
I
haue
personated
all
this
while
:
and
our
Sceane
lieth
in
our
Israel
,
and
that
this
fight
is
the
Catastiophe
of
our
Tragedy
.
Yet
I
beseech
you
,
let
mee
pay
the
debt
which
I
owe
to
his
loue
of
mee
,
and
the
duetie
which
I
acknowledge
tributarie
to
his
memory
,
at
least
to
say
to
you
of
him
as
David
did
of
his
Abner
:
Know
ye
not
that
a
great
.
&c.
A
man
great
in
his
birth
and
descent
,
as
you
all
know
,
linked
by
mariage
in
a
most
Honorable
Familie
,
of
a
goodly
&
a
louely
personage
,
of
an
casie
and
affable
nature
where
his
discretion
found
it
fitt
to
be
so
:
of
a
daring
and
hardie
spirit
.
of
a
sterne
and
sower
aspect
against
the
enemies
of
his
Soueraigne
,
magnanimously
valiant
in
his
vndertakinges
,
wise
in
his
counsailes
,
speedy
and
resolute
in
his
executions
;
valuing
his
worthy
life
lesse
,
then
the
common
good
of
his
Countrey
:
Witnesse
that
aduentueous
expedition
of
his
,
Irish
seruice
;
where
he
wrote
his
volour
in
the
blood
of
the
opposites
,
and
filled
the
care
of
this
Kingdome
with
the
welcome
tydinges
of
his
victories
.
Hee
was
iudicious
in
the
finding
out
of
Virtue
,
magnificent
and
bounteous
in
the
reward
of
it
〈…〉
spare
in
speach
;
but
when
occasion
prompted
him
,
rather
performing
,
then
promising
his
fauoure
and
loue
,
where
he
saw
desert
.
Great
in
the
fauoure
of
the
late
Maiestie
of
this
Land
,
and
succeeding
in
his
loue
,
who
succeeded
in
her
greatnes
:
great
in
his
employment
and
office
of
trust
and
charge
:
and
(
for
which
he
forgate
not
his
duetie
to
God
in
all
humble
thankes
giuing
amongst
his
dying
meditations
)
very
fortunate
and
succesfull
:
great
in
the
loue
of
the
common
man
that
went
vnder
his
charge
;
for
the
eye
that
saw
him
,
blessed
him
;
and
euery
tongue
of
theirs
,
beare
witnesse
of
his
righteous
dealing
.
Great
in
his
estate
and
means
of
maintenance
;
for
like
a
Tree
planted
by
the
Riuers
of
waters
,
so
hee
grew
,
and
so
did
God
giue
him
a
plentifull
encrease
:
But
that
which
maketh
all
this
greatnesse
a
great
deale
greater
,
hee
had
an
vnderstanding
to
know
God
,
and
an
affection
to
loue
him
.
I
must
not
flatter
the
remembrance
of
flesh
and
blood
so
farre
,
as
to
exempt
him
from
offending
(
with
other
men
)
I
know
that
humanitie
and
infirmitie
are
indiuiduall
:
But
I
am
his
witnesse
,
that
he
looked
vpon
his
life
past
,
with
a
censorious
eye
:
hee
charged
himselfe
with
his
defaultinges
without
excuse
or
mittigation
of
his
sinnes
,
euen
with
detestation
of
his
vnthriftines
of
good
howers
,
and
sorrow
for
the
losse
of
so
pretious
minutes
,
that
should
hane
been
better
spent
,
and
with
most
serious
deprecation
of
Gods
wrath
.
It
pleased
him
in
my
attendaunce
vpon
his
honourable
Father
in
Law
into
Spayne
,
wherein
this
worthy
Knight
had
a
great
place
of
Commaund
and
Charge
:
it
pleased
him
in
this
expedition
,
to
take
knowledge
of
mee
,
and
often
to
vouchsafe
me
his
conference
:
and
being
desirous
to
sing
the
songe
of
the
Lord
in
a
strange
Land
,
he
receiued
at
my
hands
the
Sacrament
of
the
body
and
blood
of
Christ
,
accompanied
with
many
worthy
Knights
,
&
Gentlemen
of
qualitie
,
in
one
of
the
Harboroughs
of
that
Land
;
where
there
was
peace
for
our
persons
,
but
not
for
our
religion
:
Yea
,
many
wayes
he
testified
to
mee
,
his
loue
of
God
,
and
of
our
Religion
:
Hee
looked
iudicially
into
the
difference
betweene
vs
and
the
Church
of
Rome
,
touched
with
commiseration
of
the
darknes
wherein
they
lyued
,
and
wishing
encrease
of
zeale
amongst
vs
,
and
knowledge
with
them
.
After
his
returne
,
it
pleased
Almighty
God
by
his
last
Sicknes
,
to
put
him
in
minde
that
hee
must
set
his
House
in
order
:
For
he
must
die
.
This
he
maturely
regarded
;
and
after
the
setling
of
his
Estate
,
he
reserued
the
remaine
of
his
time
,
as
a
vacation
from
all
temporall
thoughts
,
and
consecrated
it
to
his
preparation
for
his
remooue
of
the
body
,
that
he
might
dwell
with
the
Lord
.
It
pleased
him
then
,
to
remember
his
acquaintaunce
,
with
mee
;
and
when
hee
had
dispatched
a
Messenger
with
his
Letters
to
mee
,
to
entreat
my
resort
to
him
,
I
preuented
expectation
:
for
the
vnwelcome
newes
of
his
dangerous
Sicknesse
,
was
to
mee
messenger
enough
to
call
vpon
mee
to
doe
so
Honourable
a
Friende
my
last
seruice
.
Hee
receiued
my
free
and
voluntarie
visitation
,
with
more
then
thankes
:
and
desirous
to
be
priuate
with
mee
,
to
this
purpose
he
bespake
mee
.
First
,
he
tolde
me
of
his
present
weaknes
,
and
appeared
to
mee
sensible
of
his
danger
of
death
,
and
therefore
protested
an
earnest
desire
to
spend
that
short
time
of
life
limitted
then
to
him
,
in
a
religious
preparation
for
that
end
.
Hee
began
at
the
acousing
of
his
former
leawd
life
(
so
he
was
pleased
to
call
it
,
with
a
sorrowfull
detestation
of
it
)
and
complayning
to
mee
of
his
present
infirmitie
,
which
had
so
weakened
his
memorie
&
vnderstanding
,
that
he
could
not
lay
him selfe
so
open
before
God
as
he
desired
,
nor
comprehend
in
fitte
wordes
his
suite
to
God
for
pardon
of
his
sinnes
,
and
the
assistance
of
his
holy
Grace
to
the
last
gaspe
,
as
he
wished
:
Hee
earnestly
desired
mee
to
conceiue
a
forme
of
confession
of
his
sinnes
to
God
,
and
a
Prayer
for
those
mercies
which
I
might
leaue
with
him
when
I
should
depare
from
him
.
This
I
soone
satisfied
him
in
,
for
I
had
more
vse
herein
of
my
memorie
of
that
which
he
had
deliuered
to
mee
,
then
of
my
inuention
for
that
which
I
was
to
delyuer
to
him
:
His
sorrowes
had
the
true
face
of
woe
;
and
his
feeling
of
his
owne
griefe
for
finne
,
was
so
sensible
,
his
zeale
so
feruent
,
his
humiliation
made
him
so
deiected
,
that
I
saw
in
him
a
true
mirrour
and
president
of
repenting
in
good
earnest
.
O
let
mee
heare
the
tongue
speake
which
is
prompted
by
a
soule
truely
humbled
before
God
.
Hee
vsed
this
forme
of
Prayer
,
with
an
affection
sanctified
,
and
a
Spirit
wayned
from
this
world
:
And
this
done
,
he
desired
mee
now
to
supply
the
weakenes
of
his
memorie
,
by
calling
into
his
remembraunce
those
thinges
which
are
most
fitte
to
be
the
last
thoughts
of
a
dying
man
.
I
spared
not
my
best
endeuour
herein
,
and
entertained
him
with
all
the
comfortes
which
I
could
.
Hee
heard
mee
attentiuely
,
vnderstandingly
,
consentfully
,
and
beleeuingly
:
And
confessed
this
doctrine
of
Peace
,
which
passeth
all
vnderstanding
,
to
be
the
best
Phisicke
;
and
that
onely
which
now
he
desired
.
Thus
commending
him
to
my
earnest
Prayers
to
God
,
hee
dismissed
mee
,
pro
testing
that
he
had
much
cheared
and
refreshed
his
ouercharged
spirit
with
these
holy
exercises
;
hee
desired
mee
to
repaire
to
him
the
morning
following
betimes
:
this
I
did
gladly
,
and
full
of
hope
that
the
Lord
would
haue
mercy
on
vs
,
that
he
might
liue
.
When
I
came
,
hee
gaue
mee
a
louing
and
chearefull
welcome
,
and
then
desired
mee
not
to
depart
from
him
,
till
I
had
seene
the
last
of
him
.
Hee
told
mee
of
the
sorrowes
which
he
had
sustained
the
night
past
,
and
that
he
saw
no
possibilitie
of
life
beyonde
the
morning
following
,
he
found
such
decay
in
himselfe
:
then
I
vnderstood
how
in
the
night
past
,
he
had
called
vpon
God
,
and
what
good
watch
he
kept
,
that
if
at
midnight
,
or
at
the
dawning
,
God
had
sent
for
him
hence
,
hee
might
not
be
vnprouided
.
Hee
then
in
the
hearing
of
vs
all
present
,
made
his
confession
of
sinnes
,
and
prayers
to
God
so
earnestly
and
effectually
,
that
when
he
requested
vs
all
to
pray
to
God
for
him
,
hee
taught
vs
to
be
importunate
,
and
that
it
past
not
good
manners
to
take
no
nay
of
our
God
.
I
neuer
sowed
my
comfort
in
a
better
ground
;
for
I
began
to
reape
,
ere
I
had
done
sowing
.
Hee
heard
our
prayers
for
him
,
with
grea●
content
&
comfort
.
This
whole
day
was
spent
in
prayers
,
and
reading
of
those
things
to
him
which
might
best
endeare
to
him
the
ioyes
of
Heauen
:
and
when
he
felt
his
decay
more
sensible
,
he
desired
our
prayers
to
God
for
him
againe
,
as
loth
to
loose
the
aduantage
of
any
minute
of
that
short
time
of
his
life
:
and
after
vs
,
hee
sayd
the
Lords
Prayer
,
to
our
great
reioycing
in
his
zeale
,
who
grieued
so
much
for
his
weakenesse
;
and
hee
testified
to
vs
witnesses
,
the
Religion
and
Fayth
wherein
hee
died
.
I
desired
him
to
be
plaine
and
true
to
me
in
one
demaunde
:
I
shewed
him
how
those
that
are
in
miserie
(
as
Iob
speaketh
)
seeke
after
death
,
and
reioyce
when
they
can
finde
the
Graue
;
but
their
miserie
and
wearines
of
suffering
,
bringeth
foorth
in
them
these
defires
:
But
for
him
who
had
plentie
of
all
that
his
heart
could
wish
for
his
meanes
of
maintenance
,
greatnesse
in
his
place
,
honour
〈…〉
s
employments
〈…〉
ce
with
his
Soueraigne
,
loue
with
the
multitude
,
and
the
common
language
of
all
men
to
applaude
his
noble
desertes
of
the
state
in
which
hee
liued
:
I
enquired
therefore
if
hee
who
bad
so
many
prouocations
to
desire
to
liue
,
could
be
content
to
forsake
this
life
,
and
all
these
thinges
?
Hee
smiled
cheerefully
,
and
protested
that
hee
dyed
as
willingly
,
as
that
poore
man
mentioned
in
Iob
,
that
had
nothing
but
miserie
to
forsake
;
for
Heauen
was
his
hope
,
and
GOD
his
exceeding
great
reward
.
Shortly
after
,
hee
began
to
decay
more
and
more
,
and
slumbring
out
a
little
time
,
after
some
pange
and
strong
Conuulsions
,
hee
fell
into
this
last
sleepe
,
leauing
teares
in
euery
beholders
eye
,
and
deuiding
amongst
vs
his
friendes
and
followers
,
a
well
witnest
sorrow
:
and
leauing
this
body
of
clay
to
these
our
last
obsequies
.
Thus
leauing
him
with
God
;
and
to
God
commending
our selues
,
I
conclude
.
I
haue
but
planted
and
watered
,
the
Lord
giue
the
encrease
.
FINIS
.