A
Looking-glasse
for
the
Sovle
.
MOst
necessary
and
behoouefull
it
is
for
euery
good
Christian
humbly
and
heartily
to
beseech
God
for
his
Sonne
Christ
his
sake
,
the
honour
of
his
glorious
Name
,
our
dutie
towards
the
Church
,
and
the
comfort
of
our
Soules
,
that
wee
may
seriously
consider
the
termes
of
our
present
estate
wherein
we
stand
,
and
weigh
our selues
in
a
Christian
ballance
,
taking
for
our
counterpoyze
the
Iudgements
of
God
.
Let
vs
take
heede
in
time
that
the
word
Tekel
,
written
You
haue
beene
poyzed
in
the
Ballance
,
and
found
of
too
light
waight
.
Let
vs
remember
that
we
are
in
the
waine
,
and
the
date
of
our
Pilgrimage
is
well-neare
expired
.
Now
therefore
it
behooueth
vs
to
looke
to
our
Countrey
;
our
forces
languish
,
our
senses
impaire
,
our
bodies
droope
,
and
on
euery
side
the
ruinous
Cottage
of
our
faint
and
feeble
flesh
threatneth
fall
.
Hauing
then
so
many
harbingers
of
death
for
to
premonish
vs
of
our
end
,
O
let
vs
then
with
all
care
indeauour
our selues
to
be
prepared
for
so
dreadfull
a
stranger
.
The
young
may
die
quickely
,
but
the
old
cannot
liue
long
;
young
mens
liues
may
by
casualties
be
abridged
,
but
the
old
mens
can
by
no
phisicke
be
long
adiourned
:
If
then
green
years
ought
to
be
mindfull
of
the
graue
,
the
thoughts
of
seere
Age
,
must
continually
dwell
in
the
same
:
Whereby
we
may
see
that
old
and
yong
of
what
estate
and
condition
soeuer
,
are
seriously
to
prouide
for
the
intertainment
of
so
feareful
a
stranger
.
The
prerogatiue
of
Infancy
is
innocency
,
of
Childehoode
reuerence
,
of
Man-hoode
maturity
,
and
of
Age
wisedome
:
the
chiefe
properties
of
wisedome
are
to
be
mindfull
of
things
past
,
carefull
of
things
present
,
and
prouident
of
things
to
come
.
Let
vs
vse
then
the
priuiledge
of
Natures
tallent
to
the
benefit
of
our
Soules
,
and
indeauour
hereafter
to
be
wise
,
and
delight
in
well-doing
,
and
watchfull
in
foresight
of
future
harmes
:
for
to
continue
our
course
in
seruice
of
the
world
we
haue
little
cause
,
seeing
it
yeeldeth
but
an
vnhappy
welcome
,
a
churlish
entertainement
,
and
doth
abandon
vs
with
an
vnfortunate
farewell
.
Who
then
would
sowe
in
such
a
flinty
field
,
where
we
shall
reape
nothing
but
a
crop
of
cares
,
and
affliction
of
spirit
,
rewarding
our
labours
with
remorse
,
and
affording
vs
for
gaine
eternall
dammage
?
It
is
now
more
then
a
seasonable
time
to
alter
the
course
of
so
vnthriuing
a
husbandry
,
and
enter
into
the
field
of
Gods
Church
,
in
which
sowing
the
seeds
of
repentant
sorrow
,
and
watering
them
with
the
teares
of
humble
contrition
,
we
may
haue
a
more
beneficiall
haruest
,
and
gather
the
fruits
of
euerlasting
comfort
.
Let
vs
remember
that
our
spring
is
spent
,
our
Sommer
ouer-past
,
and
wee
are
now
arriued
at
the
fall
of
the
leafe
.
And
that
S.
Augustine
saith
,
Though
our
louing
Lord
beare
long
with
offenders
,
be
not
careles
,
for
the
longer
he
staieth
,
not
finding
amendment
,
the
sorer
will
he
scourge
when
he
commeth
to
iudgement
,
and
his
patience
in
long
expecting
is
onely
to
lend
vs
respite
to
repent
,
and
not
any
way
to
inlarge
our
leasure
to
sinne
.
He
that
is
tossed
with
variety
of
stormes
,
and
cannot
come
to
his
desired
port
,
maketh
not
much
way
,
but
is
turmoiled
;
So
he
that
hath
passed
many
yeares
,
and
purchased
little
profit
,
hath
had
a
long
being
but
a
short
life
:
for
life
is
more
to
be
measured
,
by
goodnesse
then
number
of
daies
,
seeing
most
men
by
many
daies
doe
but
procure
many
deaths
;
and
others
in
short
space
of
time
doe
attaine
the
life
of
infinite
Ages
.
What
is
the
body
without
the
Soule
,
but
a
corrupt
carkasse
?
And
what
is
the
Soule
without
God
,
but
a
Sepulchre
of
sinne
?
If
God
be
the
way
,
the
truth
,
and
the
life
,
he
that
goeth
without
him
strayeth
,
he
that
liueth
without
him
dieth
,
and
he
that
is
not
taught
by
him
erreth
,
Well
said
S.
Augustine
,
God
is
our
true
and
chiefe
life
,
reuolting
from
whom
is
falling
,
to
whom
returning
is
rising
,
in
whom
staying
is
sure
standing
.
God
is
he
,
from
whom
to
depart
is
to
dye
,
in
whom
to
dwell
is
to
liue
.
Be
not
therefore
like
to
those
that
beginne
not
to
liue
,
vntill
they
be
ready
to
dye
;
and
after
a
foes
desert
,
come
to
craue
of
God
a
friendly
entertainment
.
Some
thinke
to
snatch
heauen
in
a
moment
,
which
the
best
could
scarce
doe
in
the
continuance
of
many
yeares
:
and
when
they
haue
glutted
themselues
with
many
delights
,
they
would
iumpe
from
Diues
dyet
to
Lazarus
Crowne
,
and
from
the
seruice
of
Sathan
,
to
the
sollace
of
Saints
;
But
let
them
be
wel
assured
,
that
God
is
not
so
pennurious
of
friends
,
as
to
hold
himselfe
&
kingdome
saleable
for
the
reuersion
&
refuse
of
their
liues
,
who
haue
sacrificed
the
principall
part
thereof
to
his
enemies
,
and
their
owne
brutish
appetites
,
then
onely
ceasing
to
offend
,
when
ability
of
offending
is
taken
away
.
And
true
it
is
a
Theefe
may
be
saued
vpon
the
Crosse
,
and
mercy
found
at
the
last
gaspe
:
But
well
said
S.
Augustine
,
Though
with
God
it
be
possible
,
yet
is
it
scarce
credible
,
that
his
death
should
finde
fauour
,
whose
whole
life
hath
earned
wrath
;
And
that
his
Repentance
should
be
accepted
that
more
for
feare
of
Hell
,
and
loue
of
himselfe
,
then
for
the
loue
of
God
cryeth
for
mercie
.
Wherefore
let
vs
make
no
longer
delay
,
but
being
so
nigh
the
breaking
vp
of
our
mortall
house
,
take
time
before
extreamity
,
to
appease
Gods
iustice
.
Though
wee
haue
suffered
the
bud
to
be
blasted
,
and
the
flower
to
fade
,
and
though
wee
haue
permitted
the
fruit
to
perish
,
and
the
body
of
the
Tree
to
decay
,
yet
let
vs
keepe
life
in
the
roote
,
for
feare
lest
the
whole
become
fewell
for
hell
fire
:
for
surely
wheresoeuer
the
Tree
falleth
,
there
shall
it
be
,
whether
to
the
South
or
North
,
Hell
or
Heauen
.
Such
sap
as
it
yeeldeth
,
such
fruit
shall
it
euer
beare
.
And
now
seeing
wee
are
left
vnto
the
remisals
of
our
wearish
and
dying
dayes
,
the
remainder
whereof
as
it
cannot
be
long
,
so
it
doth
warne
vs
speedily
to
returne
,
and
to
ransome
our
former
losses
,
that
against
the
approaching
of
our
desolution
and
period
of
our
course
,
we
may
not
be
vnprouided
of
such
appurtenances
as
are
behoouefull
in
such
a
perillous
and
perplexed
a
iourney
.
Death
in
it selfe
is
very
fearefull
,
but
much
more
terrible
in
respect
of
the
iudgement
it
summoneth
vs
vnto
.
If
we
were
laid
on
our
departing
Bed
,
burdened
with
the
load
of
our
former
trespasses
,
and
goared
with
the
sting
and
pricke
of
a
festered
conscience
,
if
we
felt
the
crampe
of
death
wresting
our
heart-strings
,
and
ready
to
make
the
ruefull
diuorce
betweene
body
and
Soule
.
If
we
lay
panting
for
breath
,
and
swimming
in
a
cold
&
fatall
sweat
,
wearied
with
strugling
against
our
deadly
pangs
.
How
much
would
wee
giue
for
an
houre
of
repentance
?
At
what
rate
would
we
value
a
daies
contrition
?
Then
worlds
would
be
worthlesse
in
respect
of
a
little
respite
,
a
short
truce
would
seeme
more
pretious
then
all
the
treasures
of
Empiers
,
nothing
would
be
so
much
esteemed
as
a
trice
of
time
,
which
now
by
moneths
and
yeares
,
is
lauishly
spent
.
How
deepe
it
would
wound
our
hearts
,
when
looking
back
into
our
liues
,
we
consider
so
many
faults
committed
and
not
repented
of
,
many
good
workes
omitted
and
not
recouered
,
our
seruice
to
God
promised
,
and
not
performed
.
How
inconsolable
were
our
case
,
our
friends
being
fled
,
our
senses
frighted
,
our
thoughts
amazed
,
and
our
memory
decayed
,
our
whole
mindes
agast
,
and
no
part
able
to
performe
that
it
should
,
but
onely
our
guilty
consciences
pestered
with
Sinne
,
that
would
continually
vpbraid
vs
with
most
bitter
accusation
.
What
would
wee
thinke
when
stripped
out
of
our
mortall
weede
,
and
turned
out
of
the
seruice
&
house-roome
of
this
world
,
we
were
forced
to
enter
into
vncouth
and
strange
pathes
;
and
with
vnknowne
,
strange
,
and
ougly
company
,
be
convented
before
a
most
seuere
Iudge
,
carrying
in
our
consciences
our
iudgement
written
,
and
a
perfect
register
of
our
misdeeds
,
when
wee
should
see
him
prepared
to
passe
sentence
vpon
vs
,
against
whom
wee
haue
grieuously
transgressed
;
and
the
same
to
be
our
Vmper
,
whom
by
many
offences
we
haue
vrged
to
be
our
aduersary
,
when
not
onely
the
Diuells
but
Angels
should
plead
against
vs
;
and
our selues
maugre
our
wills
should
be
our
sharpest
appeachers
:
What
should
we
doe
in
these
dreadful
exigents
,
when
we
saw
that
gastly
Dungeon
,
and
huge
gulfe
of
Hell
,
breaking
out
with
most
dreadfull
flames
?
when
wee
should
see
the
weeping
,
howling
,
and
gnashing
of
teeth
,
the
rage
of
hellish
Monsters
,
the
horrour
of
the
place
,
the
rigour
of
the
paine
,
the
terrour
of
the
company
,
and
eternity
of
the
punishment
,
wee
would
not
thinke
it
time
to
delay
such
weighty
matters
,
and
idly
to
play
away
the
time
allotted
to
preuent
those
intollerable
punishments
.
And
would
we
then
thinke
it
secure
to
nurse
in
our
bosomes
as
many
Serpents
as
sinnes
,
or
to
foster
in
our
Soules
so
many
malitious
accusers
,
as
mortall
faults
,
would
we
not
thinke
one
life
too
little
to
doe
pennance
for
so
many
Sinnes
?
Why
then
doe
we
not
deuote
thesmall
remnant
of
our
time
,
and
surplussage
of
our
daies
to
make
Attonement
with
God
by
the
blood
of
Iesus
Christ
?
What
haue
wee
gotten
by
being
so
long
a
customer
to
the
world
,
but
false
ware
,
sutable
to
the
shoppe
of
such
a
Marchant
,
whose
trafficke
is
toyle
,
&
wealth
is
trash
;
and
whose
gaine
is
misery
?
What
interest
haue
we
got
that
may
equal
our
detrements
in
grace
and
vertue
?
Or
what
could
wee
finde
in
a
Vale
of
teares
proportionable
to
the
fauour
of
God
,
with
the
losse
whereof
we
were
contented
to
buy
it
?
Let
vs
not
still
be
inueagled
with
the
passions
of
youth
,
which
make
a
partial
estimate
of
things
,
setting
no
difference
betweene
currant
and
counterfeit
.
But
let
such
passions
either
now
be
worne
out
of
force
by
tract
of
time
,
or
fall
into
reproofe
by
the
triall
of
folly
.
If
this
carnal
security
be
but
an
vngrounded
presumption
of
the
mercy
of
God
,
and
the
flattring
hope
of
his
assistance
at
the
last
plunge
,
but
the
ordinary
Lure
of
the
Diuell
to
reclaime
Sinners
from
the
pursuite
of
vertue
,
(
as
it
is
with
many
)
it
were
too
palpable
a
collusion
to
mislead
sound
sensible
people
,
howsoeuer
it
preuaile
with
sicke
and
infected
Iudgements
.
For
who
would
relye
eternal
affaires
vpon
the
gliding
slipperinesse
,
and
running
streame
of
our
vncertain
life
?
Or
who
but
of
distempered
wits
,
would
offer
fraud
,
to
the
decipherer
of
al
thoughts
?
With
whom
dissemble
wee
may
to
our
costs
,
but
to
deceiue
him
it
is
vnpossiible
.
Shal
wee
esteeme
it
cunning
to
rob
the
time
from
him
&
bestow
it
on
his
enemies
?
who
keepeth
a
talle
of
the
lest
minutes
of
our
life
,
and
will
examine
in
the
end
,
how
each
moment
hath
beene
imployed
.
It
is
a
preposterous
pollicy
,
in
any
wise
conceit
,
to
fight
against
God
,
till
our
weapons
be
blunted
,
our
forces
consumed
,
our
limbs
impotent
,
and
our
best
time
spent
;
and
when
we
fall
for
faintnes
,
and
haue
fought
our selues
almost
dead
,
to
presume
of
his
mercie
;
The
wounds
of
his
sacred
Bodie
so
often
rubbed
and
renued
by
our
sinnes
,
and
euery
parcell
of
our
owne
so
sundry
wayes
abused
,
being
so
many
whetstones
to
edge
and
exasperate
his
reuenge
against
vs
;
why
should
we
then
presume
of
mercy
?
It
were
a
strange
peece
of
Art
,
and
a
very
exorbitant
course
while
the
Ship
is
sound
,
the
Pylot
well
,
the
Sailers
strong
,
and
the
Gale
forcible
,
to
lye
idly
at
Roade
,
burning
so
seasonable
weather
;
and
when
the
Ship
leaketh
,
the
Pylot
is
sick
,
the
Marriners
faint
,
the
storme
boysterous
,
and
the
Sea
a
turmoile
of
outragious
surges
;
to
hoise
vp
sailes
and
set
out
for
a
farre
voyage
into
a
strange
Countrey
.
Such
is
the
skill
of
these
euening
Repenters
,
who
though
in
the
soundnesse
of
health
,
and
perfect
vse
of
reason
,
they
cannot
endeauour
to
cut
the
Cables
,
and
weigh
the
Anchors
that
withhold
them
from
God
.
Neuertheles
,
they
feed
themselues
with
a
strong
perswasion
,
that
when
their
senses
are
astonied
,
their
wits
distracted
,
their
vnderstanding
dusked
,
and
both
body
and
mind
racked
,
&
tormented
with
the
throbs
and
gripes
of
a
mortall
sicknesse
.
Then
forsooth
they
will
thinke
of
the
weightiest
matters
,
and
become
sodaine
Saints
,
when
they
are
scarce
able
to
behaue
themselues
like
reasonable
creatures
.
If
neither
the
Cannon
,
Ciuill
,
nor
Common
Law
alloweth
that
a
man
perisht
in
iudgement
shall
make
any
Testament
or
bequest
of
his
temporall
substance
,
being
then
thoughtto
be
lesse
then
a
man
:
How
can
he
that
is
turmoiled
with
inward
garboiles
of
an
vnsetled
Conscience
,
distrained
with
the
wringing
fits
of
his
dying
flesh
,
maimed
in
all
his
abilities
,
and
circled
in
with
so
strange
incumbrances
,
bethought
of
due
discretion
to
dispose
of
his
chiefest
treasure
(
which
is
his
Soule
)
and
to
dispatch
the
whole
mannaging
of
eternity
,
and
the
treasures
of
heauen
in
so
short
a
space
of
time
.
No
,
no
,
they
that
loiter
in
seed
time
,
and
beginne
onely
to
sowe
when
others
reape
,
they
that
will
ryot
out
their
health
,
and
cast
their
accounts
when
they
can
scarce
speake
,
they
that
doe
slumber
out
the
day
,
and
enter
their
iourney
,
when
the
light
doth
faile
them
;
let
them
thanke
their
owne
folly
if
they
dye
in
debt
,
and
eternall
beggary
,
and
fall
headlong
into
the
lapse
of
euerlasting
perdition
.
Let
such
hearken
vnto
S.
Cyprians
lesson
,
who
saith
,
Let
the
grieuousnes
of
our
sinne
,
be
the
measure
of
our
sorrow
:
let
a
deepe
wound
haue
a
diligent
cure
,
let
no
mans
contrition
be
lesse
then
his
crime
.
Thinke
wee
that
our
Lord
,
can
so
soone
be
appeased
,
whom
with
perditious
words
we
haue
offended
?
No
,
wee
must
fall
prostrate
on
the
ground
,
humbling
our selues
in
Sackclothe
and
Ashes
,
and
hauing
forced
our
stomackes
with
the
surfet
of
the
Diuell
,
wee
must
now
desire
to
fast
from
all
earthly
foode
,
applying
our selues
to
good
works
instead
of
offences
,
and
in
singlenesse
of
heart
effect
our
Christian
duties
,
to
auoide
the
death
of
our
Soules
,
that
Christ
may
receiue
that
which
the
persecuter
would
haue
spoyled
.
Euery
short
sigh
will
not
be
a
sufficient
satisfaction
,
nor
euery
knocke
a
warrant
to
get
in
,
many
cry
Lord
,
Lord
,
and
are
not
accepted
,
the
foolish
Virgins
knocked
,
and
were
not
admitted
,
Iudas
had
some
sorrow
,
and
yet
died
desperate
:
forslowe
not
the
time
saith
the
Holy
Ghost
to
be
conuerted
to
God
,
linger
not
off
from
day
to
day
,
for
sodainely
will
his
wrath
come
,
and
in
his
reuenge
,
hee
will
destroy
thee
.
Let
vs
not
soiourne
long
in
sinnefull
security
,
nor
passe
ouer
Repentance
till
feare
inforce
vs
to
it
,
let
vs
frame
our
premises
,
as
wee
would
finde
our
conclusion
,
and
indeauor
to
liue
,
as
wee
desire
to
dye
.
Shall
we
offer
the
maine
crop
to
the
diuell
,
and
set
God
to
gleane
the
remainder
of
the
haruest
,
or
gorge
the
diuell
with
the
fairest
fruits
,
&
turne
God
to
feede
on
the
filthy
scraps
of
his
leauings
?
How
great
a
folly
were
it
,
when
a
man
pyneth
away
in
perillous
languor
,
to
prouide
gorgious
Apparell
,
and
take
order
for
the
rearing
of
stately
buildings
,
and
neuer
thinke
of
his
owne
recouery
,
but
let
the
disease
take
roote
in
him
?
Chrysostome
saith
,
When
mans
Soule
hath
surfeited
in
all
kinde
of
sinne
,
and
is
drenched
in
manifold
diseases
,
they
pamper
the
body
,
with
all
possible
delight
:
Where
as
the
Soule
should
haue
the
soueraignty
,
and
the
body
follow
the
sway
of
her
directions
;
but
seruile
sences
and
lawlesse
appetites
,
rule
her
as
superiour
,
and
so
make
her
as
a
Vassall
,
or
seruile
in
her
owne
dominions
.
What
is
there
(
saith
S.
Augustine
)
in
thy
meanest
necessaries
,
that
thou
wouldest
not
haue
good
;
Thou
wouldst
haue
a
good
house
,
good
furniture
,
good
apparell
,
good
fare
,
good
cattell
,
and
not
so
little
as
thy
Hose
and
Shooes
,
but
thou
wouldst
haue
it
good
,
onely
thy
Life
and
poore
Soule
;
thy
principall
charge
,
&
of
other
things
the
most
worthiest
,
thou
art
content
should
be
nought
,
by
cankering
and
rusting
in
all
kinde
of
euill
.
Oh
vnspeakeable
blindnes
,
to
preferre
our
shooes
before
our
Soules
,
refusing
to
weare
an
vnseemely
shooe
,
and
not
caring
to
carry
an
vgly
Soule
!
Alas
,
let
vs
not
set
so
light
by
that
which
God
prized
so
high
,
let
vs
not
rate
our selues
at
so
base
a
worth
,
being
bought
to
so
peerelesse
a
dignity
.
The
Soule
is
such
,
that
all
the
gold
in
the
world
,
nor
any
thing
lesse
worth
then
the
body
,
bloud
and
death
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
was
able
to
buy
it
.
If
not
all
the
treasures
of
the
world
,
nor
any
thing
that
wit
can
deuise
,
but
onely
Gods
owne
pretious
body
,
was
by
him
deemed
,
a
fit
repast
to
feede
it
;
If
not
all
the
creatures
of
the
world
,
nor
Millions
of
worlds
,
if
so
many
were
created
,
but
onely
the
illimitable
Maiesty
and
goodnesse
of
God
can
satisfie
the
desire
,
and
fill
of
the
capacity
of
it
,
who
but
one
of
lame
iudgement
or
peruerse
will
;
yea
,
who
but
of
incredulous
minde
,
and
pittilesse
spirit
,
could
set
more
by
his
olde
shoes
then
by
his
Soule
,
and
suffer
so
noble
a
Paragon
so
long
time
to
be
channelled
in
ordure
,
and
myred
in
sinne
.
If
wee
see
our
seruant
sicke
wee
allow
him
a
Phisition
,
if
our
Horse
be
diseased
,
we
send
for
a
Leach
,
nor
our
garment
torne
,
but
we
seeke
to
amend
it
;
and
yet
maligne
our
own
Soule
,
and
let
it
dye
for
want
of
Cure
,
and
being
mingled
with
so
many
vices
,
neuer
seek
meanes
to
restore
it
to
the
former
integritie
.
If
any
should
call
vs
Epicures
,
Atheists
,
or
Rebells
,
wee
should
take
it
a
reproach
and
thinke
it
a
most
disgracefull
and
approbrious
calumniation
,
yea
but
to
liue
Epicures
,
to
finne
like
Atheists
,
or
like
violent
Rebells
to
scorne
Gods
commandements
,
and
daily
with
damnable
wounds
barbarously
to
stabbe
in
our
vnfortunate
Soules
,
we
account
no
contumelie
,
but
rather
register
it
in
the
vaunt
of
our
chiefe
praises
.
O
yec
sonnes
of
Men
,
how
long
will
you
carry
this
carelesnesse
of
heart
,
following
Vanity
and
seeke
after
Lyes
?
how
long
will
Children
loue
the
follies
of
Infancy
,
and
sinners
run
wilfully
to
their
owne
ruine
and
destruction
?
You
keepe
your
Chickens
from
the
Kite
,
your
Lambs
from
the
Wolfe
;
you
will
not
suffer
a
Spider
in
your
bosome
;
nay
,
scarce
in
your
house
:
And
yet
nestle
in
your
Soule
so
many
Vipers
as
vices
,
and
suffer
it
to
be
long
chewed
with
the
poysoned
Iawes
and
Tuskes
of
the
Diuell
.
And
is
your
Soule
so
vaine
a
substance
,
as
to
be
had
in
so
little
estimation
?
Had
Christ
made
shipwracke
of
his
wisedome
?
Or
was
he
but
in
a
fit
of
passion
?
when
hee
became
a
wandering
Pilgrime
,
exiling
as
it
were
himselfe
from
the
comfort
of
his
godhead
,
and
passing
three
and
thirty
yeares
in
paine
&
penury
for
the
behoofe
of
our
Soules
?
Or
was
he
surprised
with
a
distempered
spirit
,
when
in
the
Tragedie
of
his
Passion
so
grieuously
in
flicted
,
&
patiently
endured
,
he
made
his
body
as
a
cloud
to
disolue
into
showers
of
most
innocent
blood
,
and
suffered
the
dearest
vaines
of
his
heart
to
be
launced
,
to
giue
full
issue
to
the
prize
of
our
Soules
redemption
.
But
if
(
as
indeed
)
Christ
did
not
ere
,
or
deeme
amisse
when
it
pleased
him
to
redeeme
vs
with
so
excessiue
a
ransome
.
Then
what
shall
we
deeme
of
our
most
monstrous
abuses
,
that
sell
our
Soules
to
the
Diuell
for
euery
vaine
delight
,
and
rather
venture
the
hazard
thereof
,
then
the
silly
pittance
of
worldly
pelfe
.
Oh
that
a
creature
of
so
incomparable
a
price
should
be
in
the
demaine
of
so
vnnaturall
keepers
;
and
that
which
in
it selfe
is
so
gratious
and
amiable
,
that
the
Angels
and
Saints
delight
to
behold
it
;
alas
,
if
the
care
of
our
owne
Soule
moue
vs
no
more
,
but
that
we
remaine
negligent
of
the
better
portion
of
our selues
,
let
vs
at
least
feare
to
doe
iniury
to
an
other
very
careful
&
iealous
ouer
it
,
who
will
neuer
indure
so
deepe
an
impeachment
of
his
interest
to
passe
vnreuenged
.
Wee
must
remember
that
our
Soule
is
not
onely
a
part
of
vs
,
but
also
the
Temple
,
the
Paradice
and
Spouse
of
Almighty
God
,
by
him
in
Baptisme
garnished
,
stored
,
and
endowed
with
most
gratious
ornaments
.
And
how
(
thinke
ye
)
he
can
brooke
to
see
his
Temple
prophaned
,
and
turned
into
a
den
of
Diuels
;
his
Paradice
displanted
,
&
changed
into
a
wildernesse
of
Serpents
;
his
Spouse
defloured
,
and
become
an
Adulteresse
to
his
vtter
Enemie
?
If
Man
,
offering
such
vsage
to
one
of
meane
estate
,
for
feare
of
the
law
and
popular
shame
,
forbeareth
to
effect
the
same
;
shall
not
then
the
reuerend
Maiesty
of
God
,
and
the
vnabated
iustice
of
his
angry
sword
terrifie
vs
from
offring
the
like
to
his
owne
Spouse
,
shall
wee
thinke
God
either
so
impotent
,
that
hee
cannot
,
or
so
base
and
sottish
that
hee
will
not
,
or
so
weake
witted
that
hee
knoweth
not
how
for
to
wreake
himselfe
on
such
daring
offenders
?
Will
he
so
neglect
and
loose
his
honour
,
which
of
all
things
hee
claimeth
as
his
chiefe
peculiar
?
Will
he
that
for
the
Soules
sake
keepeth
a
reckoning
of
our
very
haires
,
which
are
but
the
excrements
of
our
earthly
weed
,
see
himselfe
so
much
wronged
in
the
principall
,
&
passe
by
it
without
demonstration
of
his
iust
indignation
.
Oh
let
vs
remember
that
the
Scripture
termeth
it
a
fearefull
thing
to
fall
into
the
hands
and
iustice
of
God
,
who
is
able
to
crush
the
proud
spirit
of
the
obstinate
,
and
make
his
enemies
his
foote-stoole
.
Let
vs
then
wrastle
no
longer
with
the
cries
of
our
owne
conscience
,
and
the
forcible
inspirations
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Let
vs
,
I
say
,
embrace
his
mercy
before
the
time
of
rigour
,
and
like
penitent
children
returne
to
the
obedience
of
his
will
,
lest
hee
debarre
vs
of
his
Kingdome
:
And
as
the
members
of
one
body
(
wherof
Christ
is
the
head
)
let
vs
liue
in
humble
obedience
of
the
Church
millitant
heere
on
earth
,
that
wee
may
atchieue
to
the
Church
triumphant
in
Heauen
;
knowing
that
wee
haue
beene
long
aliants
in
the
Tabernacles
of
sinners
,
and
straied
too
long
from
the
fold
of
Gods
flocke
.
Let
vs
now
turne
the
biace
of
our
hearts
towards
the
Sanctuary
of
Saluation
,
and
Citie
of
refuge
,
seeking
to
recompence
our
wandring
steps
troden
in
sinne
and
wickednesse
,
with
a
swift
gate
,
and
zealous
progresse
to
Christian
perfection
,
redeeming
the
time
because
the
daies
be
euil
.
The
fall
of
our
spring
is
past
,
and
the
streame
of
our
life
runneth
at
a
lowe
rate
or
ebbe
,
our
tyred
Ship
beginneth
to
leake
,
and
grateth
on
the
grauell
of
our
graue
;
it
is
high
time
for
vs
to
strike
saile
and
put
in
harbour
,
lest
remaining
in
the
scope
of
wicked
winds
and
weather
,
some
vnexpected
gulfe
and
sodaine
storme
,
dash
vs
vpon
the
Rock
of
eternall
ruine
.
Let
vs
tender
the
pittifull
estate
of
our
distressed
Soules
,
and
be
hereafter
more
feareful
of
Hell
,
and
more
desirous
of
Heauen
,
then
worldly
repose
,
that
at
the
great
day
of
our
Lord
,
Christ
Iesus
may
acknowledge
vs
to
be
his
;
and
that
our
Soules
and
bodies
may
inioy
the
fruition
of
his
most
glorious
death
and
passion
;
vnto
which
God
for
his
mercie
sake
,
say
yea
,
and
Amen
.
The
Conclusion
.
IF
God
the
Father
had
beene
the
indighter
heereof
,
God
the
Sonne
the
sender
,
and
God
the
holy
Ghost
the
Scribe
and
writer
of
the
same
;
If
he
had
dipped
his
pen
in
the
wounds
of
our
Sauiour
and
vsed
his
pretious
blood
in
liew
of
Inke
?
If
one
of
the
highest
Seraphins
had
beene
formed
into
some
visible
personage
,
and
come
in
most
solemne
embassage
for
to
deliuer
this
vnto
you
,
would
it
not
straine
your
hearts
and
enforce
your
thoughts
to
fulfill
the
contents
,
and
alter
your
courses
according
to
the
Tennor
of
it
;
Oh
I
beseech
you
let
it
take
a
proportionable
effect
,
knowing
that
the
Scripture
teacheth
vs
,
that
God
reuealeth
to
little
ones
,
that
which
he
oft
times
concealeth
from
the
wisest
Sages
,
and
his
truth
is
not
abased
by
the
meanes
of
the
speaker
,
for
if
men
should
be
silent
,
hee
would
cause
the
very
stones
to
cry
out
in
these
times
,
wherein
sin
and
wickednes
so
exceedingly
aboundeth
.
Wherefore
I
humbly
pray
and
exhort
you
,
for
to
surrender
your
Assents
that
we
may
yeeld
our selues
happie
Captiues
to
Gods
mercifull
inspirations
.
That
hee
may
in
the
temptations
of
our
three
ghostly
enemies
the
World
,
the
Flesh
,
and
the
Diuell
,
(
euen
for
his
Sonnes
sake
)
shrowd
vs
vnder
the
shadow
of
his
mercifull
wings
,
and
close
vp
the
day
of
our
life
with
a
cleare
Sun-set
;
that
leauing
all
darknesse
behinde
vs
,
and
carrying
in
our
consciences
the
light
of
grace
,
wee
may
escape
the
horrour
of
an
eternall
Night
,
and
passe
from
a
Mortall
day
,
to
an
euerlasting
Morrow
.
The
God
of
peace
who
hath
brought
againe
from
the
dead
our
Lord
Iesus
,
the
great
shepheard
of
the
sheepe
,
through
the
blood
of
the
euerlasting
couenant
,
make
vs
perfect
in
all
good
workes
to
doe
his
will
,
working
in
vs
that
which
is
pleasant
in
his
sight
,
through
Iesus
Christ
our
Lord
,
Amen
.
The
Prayer
.
WHat
was
I
Lord
?
what
am
I
?
what
shall
I
be
?
I
was
nothing
,
I
am
now
nothing
worth
,
and
am
(
without
thy
grace
)
in
hazard
to
be
worse
then
nothing
.
I
was
conceiued
in
originall
sinne
,
now
full
of
actuall
sinne
,
and
(
but
for
thy
goodnesse
)
may
hereafter
feele
the
eternall
smart
for
sinne
.
I
was
in
my
mother
a
loathsome
substance
.
I
am
in
the
world
a
sacke
of
corruption
,
and
I
shall
be
in
the
Graue
a
prey
for
vermine
:
when
I
was
nothing
I
was
without
hope
to
be
saued
,
or
feare
to
be
damned
:
I
am
now
(
if
I
looke
upon
my selfe
rightly
)
in
no
hope
of
the
one
,
and
in
manifest
danger
of
the
other
.
I
was
so
that
I
could
not
then
be
damned
;
and
now
such
are
my
sins
,
that
in
thy
instice
I
cannot
be
saued
:
But
I
know
(
sweet
Iesus
)
thy
grace
is
sufficient
for
me
.
Wherefore
I
humbly
beseech
thy
Maiestie
to
turne
from
me
those
plagues
which
my
sinnes
cry
out
for
.
I
confesse
(
oh
Sauiour
Iesus
)
that
my
sinnes
are
exceeding
many
,
and
fearefull
;
yet
thy
Mercie
is
farre
greater
,
for
thou
art
infinite
in
mercy
,
but
I
cannot
be
infinite
in
sinning
,
and
thy
righteousnes
is
more
for
mee
,
then
my
owne
unrighteousnesse
can
be
against
my selfe
.
I
beseech
thee
therefore
strengthen
my
weaknesse
,
correct
my
sinnefulnesse
,
direct
my
future
frailty
,
and
through
thy
pretious
Bloud
and
Passion
conuert
my
passed
euils
to
present
good
,
and
future
ioyes
in
thy
eternall
and
most
glorious
Kingdome
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.