THE
EVNVCH'S
Conuersion
.
Acts
8.26.27.28
.
&c.
26.
Then
the
Angel
of
the
Lord
spake
vnto
Philip
,
saying
,
Arise
,
and
goe
toward
the
South
:
vnto
the
way
that
goeth
downe
from
Ierusalem
vnto
Gaza
,
which
is
waste
.
27.
And
he
arose
and
went
on
:
and
beholde
,
a
certaine
Eunuch
of
Aethiopia
,
Candaces
the
Queene
of
the
Aethiopians
chiefe
gouernour
,
who
had
the
rule
of
all
her
treasure
,
and
came
to
Ierusalem
to
worship
.
28.
And
as
he
returned
sitting
in
his
chariot
,
he
read
Esaias
the
Prophet
.
&c.
AS
we
may
cleerly
see
and
behold
with
the
eyes
of
our
bodies
the
power
and
goodness
of
God
,
in
the
creation
of
the
worlde
by
his
Sonne
,
by
whom
hee
made
the
world
.
Hebr.
1.2
.
So
may
wee
with
the
eyes
of
our
soules
,
much
more
cleerely
see
&
behold
,
his
more
powerfull
omnipotencie
and
goodnes
,
in
the
recreating
,
and
new
making
thereof
,
by
the
same
his
Sonne
;
by
whom
he
remade
,
that
is
to
say
,
he
redeemed
the
world
.
Iohn
.
3.16
.
In
the
former
,
Dixit
&
formata
sunt
omnia
,
Hee
spake
the
word
,
and
all
things
were
formed
;
in
the
later
,
passus
est
Christus
,
&
reformata
sunt
omnia
,
Christ
suffered
,
&
all
things
were
made
anew
and
reformed
.
In
the
former
,
hee
shewed
digitum
potentiae
,
the
finger
of
his
power
;
in
the
later
,
hee
shewed
manum
misericordiae
,
his
whole
hand
of
mercy
.
In
the
former
,
he
breathed
into
the
world
the
breath
of
life
:
in
the
later
,
it
pleased
him
that
his
Sonne
should
expirare
,
should
breathe
out
his
owne
breath
,
and
lay
downe
his
owne
life
for
the
world
,
that
so
it
might
haue
eternall
life
.
Thereby
verefying
vnto
vs
,
the
comfortable
trueth
of
that
assertion
,
which
reuerend
and
Christian
antiquity
hath
from
age
,
to
age
,
commended
vnto
vs
;
to
wit
,
that
God
hath
shewed
himselfe
more
glorious
in
redeeming
,
than
in
making
the
world
and
mankinde
.
Now
,
that
this
great
work
of
mercy
wrought
by
God
,
in
the
person
of
Christ
,
for
the
saluation
of
man
,
might
bee
made
knowne
to
all
men
;
it
pleased
God
to
make
that
great
persecution
mentioned
in
the
beginning
of
this
chapter
,
to
be
a
very
effectuall
meanes
.
For
whereas
the
godly
and
faithfull
beleeuers
in
Christ
,
were
all
gathered
together
in
Hierusalem
,
as
it
were
so
many
Bees
in
one
Hiue
;
God
beeing
pleased
that
the
hony
&
sweetness
of
his
sauing
truth
,
and
the
knowledge
of
his
Sonne
,
should
be
no
longer
shut
vppe
in
that
one
Hiue
,
but
should
bee
imparted
to
others
,
both
men
and
nations
,
suffered
them
to
be
scattered
and
dispersed
,
in
similitudinem
granorum
seminis
,
vt
ex
ipsis
magna
seges
fidei
multiplicaretur
,
that
so
,
of
their
sowing
the
seedes
of
faith
,
&
of
the
knowledge
of
Christ
,
there
might
follow
a
great
haruest
of
beleeuers
vnto
God
.
Which
thing
did
accordingly
fal
out
,
Nam
vt
ex
grano
spica
,
as
of
one
graine
commeth
a
whole
eare
,
and
sometimes
many
eares
of
corne
:
so
was
it
in
them
,
for
many
times
one
of
their
Sermons
did
beget
and
bring
forth
a
multitude
of
faithfull
beleeuers
.
Among
those
faithfull
beleeuers
,
which
by
reason
of
this
great
persecution
,
were
driuen
from
Ierusalem
,
&
beeing
scattered
abroad
,
went
to
and
fro
,
preaching
the
word
,
as
appeareth
in
the
fourth
&
fift
verses
of
this
chapter
,
Philip
was
one
:
not
that
Philippe
which
was
one
of
the
twelue
Apostles
,
for
they
all
as
appeareth
in
the
first
verse
of
this
chapter
,
stayed
still
at
Ierusalem
;
but
it
was
that
Philip
which
is
the
second
in
the
Catalogue
of
the
seauen
Deacons
,
Act.
6.5
.
And
this
Philip
,
after
that
hee
had
preached
,
and
conuerted
the
City
of
Samaria
,
as
it
is
set
downe
in
the
former
part
of
this
chapter
,
was
imploied
and
vsed
as
you
see
in
the
wordes
of
my
Text
,
for
the
conuersion
of
this
Eunuch
.
The
maine
scope
&
principall
drift
of
the
Spirit
of
God
in
this
Scripture
,
and
history
,
which
I
haue
read
vnto
you
,
is
to
shew
and
shaddow
out
vnto
vs
,
the
large
extent
of
the
doctrine
of
the
Gospel
,
&
the
kingdom
of
Christ
,
and
how
the
same
is
by
the
counsell
and
mercifull
purpose
of
God
,
to
be
propagated
&
extended
to
the
vtmost
borders
of
the
earth
.
And
therefore
in
this
present
history
,
which
I
haue
chosen
at
this
time
to
treat
of
,
you
may
bee
pleased
to
beholde
,
how
God
vouchsafed
to
poure
vpon
the
head
of
this
Honorable
Eunuch
,
the
precious
ointment
of
the
sauing
knowledge
of
Christ
:
that
like
as
the
sweete
and
precious
oyntment
that
was
powred
on
the
head
of
Aaron
,
ran
downe
from
his
head
,
and
beard
,
to
the
skirts
of
his
garments
;
so
also
this
fragrant
and
sweete
oyntment
,
might
stream
downe
,
and
flowe
to
the
skirts
as
it
were
of
his
cloathing
,
to
the
vtmost
borders
of
his
Countrie
;
and
first
to
open
to
him
the
fountaine
of
life
,
and
to
let
him
drinke
thereof
;
and
then
by
him
,
as
it
were
by
a
conduit
pipe
,
to
deriue
and
conuey
the
sweete
streames
and
waters
therof
,
to
his
countrie-men
that
dwelt
a
farre
off
,
euen
to
the
people
and
inhabitants
of
Aethiopia
.
Which
thing
came
accordingly
to
passe
:
for
he
,
being
conuerted
,
conuerted
many
brethren
,
and
as
wee
receiue
it
by
tradition
,
brought
many
of
his
owne
nation
to
the
knowledge
of
Christ
.
The
chiefe
and
principall
points
which
I
obserue
in
this
Scripture
,
and
whereof
I
purpose
by
Gods
assistance
to
speake
at
this
time
,
are
these
:
-
1.
An
Angel
disposeth
of
Philip
,
&
assigneth
him
a
place
for
his
employment
.
ver.
26.
-
2.
Who
,
&
what
he
was
,
to
whom
,
by
the
direction
of
the
Angell
,
Philip
was
sent
.
First
,
hee
was
of
Aethiopia
.
Secondly
,
hee
was
an
honourable
Personage
chiefe
Gouernor
to
the
Queen
of
that
countries
,
and
had
the
rule
of
all
,
her
treasure
.
Thirdly
,
he
came
or
he
trauelled
to
Ierusalem
to
worship
.
ver.
27.
-
3.
In
the
third
place
,
wee
will
consider
how
this
noble
Eunuch
was
busied
&
emploied
in
his
returne
homeward
:
as
hee
returned
sitting
in
his
chariot
,
he
read
Esaias
the
Prophet
.
ver.
28.
-
4.
The
fourth
thing
that
I
intend
to
speake
of
,
is
Philips
performance
of
that
duty
,
and
seruice
,
to
which
he
was
appointed
.
ver.
30.
-
5.
Fiftly
and
lastly
,
the
effectes
which
his
owne
reading
and
Philips
preaching
of
Christ
,
wrought
in
this
Eunuch
;
&
they
are
three
:
first
,
he
beleeued
:
secondly
,
hee
was
baptised
:
and
thirdly
,
after
he
beleeued
and
was
baptised
,
he
went
homeward
reioycing
.
In
the
first
place
,
in
that
an
Angel
is
appointed
by
God
,
to
warne
Philip
to
hasten
and
meete
the
Eunuch
for
his
conuersion
,
it
may
teach
vs
,
how
gratious
and
mercifull
God
is
to
the
sons
of
men
;
who
for
their
sakes
&
for
their
good
,
will
haue
his
Angels
to
bee
seruiceable
and
helpfull
vnto
them
.
By
the
help
of
Angels
,
Lot
was
deliuered
,
and
preserued
in
the
destruction
of
Sodome
.
ver.
19.
An
Angel
of
God
went
before
the
hoast
of
Israel
and
behinde
the
hoast
,
and
did
deliuer
them
,
&
defend
them
from
the
Egyptians
.
Exod.
14.19
.
An
Angell
of
the
Lord
opened
the
prison
doores
by
night
,
and
brought
forth
the
Apostles
,
and
set
them
at
libertie
.
Acts
5.19
.
An
Angel
directed
Cornelius
to
send
for
Peter
:
and
here
an
Angel
is
sent
to
warne
Philip
to
ioyne
himselfe
to
the
Chariot
of
this
Eunuch
,
and
to
expound
the
Scripture
vnto
him
.
So
true
is
that
of
the
Apostle
Saint
Paul
,
Angels
are
ministring
spirits
,
sent
forth
to
minister
for
their
sakes
which
shall
be
heires
of
saluation
.
Heb.
1.
last
.
Happy
are
they
,
who
by
the
blessing
of
God
,
doe
make
a
wise
and
gracious
vse
of
the
ministration
of
Angels
;
who
by
the
cleannesse
of
their
life
,
and
holy
conuersation
,
make
glad
those
holy
and
blessed
spirits
,
which
are
beholders
and
eye-witnesses
of
all
their
actions
;
and
by
their
vnfained
repentance
,
giue
them
cause
of
reioycing
:
For
there
is
ioy
in
the
presence
of
the
Angels
of
God
,
for
a
sinner
that
conuerteth
.
Luke
15.10
.
Which
thing
if
wee
shall
doe
,
then
shall
those
Angels
which
reioyce
in
our
wel-dooing
,
and
are
by
Gods
appointment
content
to
loue
vs
,
and
to
minister
vnto
vs
heere
in
sterquilinio
mundi
,
in
this
dunghill
of
the
world
,
much
more
honour
and
loue
vs
,
in
aula
coeli
,
in
the
Palace
and
kingdome
of
heauen
;
and
beeing
glad
of
our
conuersion
in
this
life
,
will
bee
more
glad
of
our
assumption
and
saluation
in
heauen
.
1.
In
the
second
or
next
place
,
we
haue
to
consider
the
person
,
to
whom
by
the
direction
of
the
Angel
,
Philip
was
sent
;
and
hee
is
here
said
,
first
,
to
be
a
man
of
Aethiopia
.
If
any
man
shall
wonder
how
any
sparke
of
the
knowledge
&
true
worship
of
God
,
should
giue
light
,
&
shine
in
Aethiopia
,
by
the
light
whereof
this
great
and
noble
man
might
attaine
to
any
glimse
of
the
knowledge
of
God
,
and
thereby
bee
brought
to
desire
to
performe
any
seruice
and
worship
to
him
,
and
that
in
the
place
principallie
appointed
thereunto
;
namely
,
in
his
holy
Temple
,
at
Ierusalem
;
especially
seeing
that
howsoeuer
the
Commission
of
preaching
the
Gospel
to
all
Nations
,
though
it
were
giuen
&
sealed
to
the
Apostles
and
Disciples
,
yet
it
was
not
yet
sped
,
or
as
yet
executed
:
If
any
man
,
I
say
,
shall
wonder
hereat
;
he
must
knowe
,
that
although
the
light
of
the
Gospell
did
not
as
yet
shine
,
either
in
Aethiopia
,
or
in
the
remote
and
vtmost
kingdoms
of
the
earth
:
yet
besides
that
knowledge
which
men
might
haue
by
nature
,
and
by
the
beholding
of
the
creatures
,
and
the
frame
of
the
world
;
the
light
of
the
law
,
and
the
knowledge
of
God
,
did
in
some
proportion
,
either
more
or
lesse
,
shine
or
shimmer
foorth
to
all
Nations
,
singulis
generum
,
though
not
generibus
singulorum
,
as
the
Schoole
speaketh
:
to
some
of
all
Nations
,
though
not
to
all
particulars
of
euerie
Nation
.
God
hath
not
left
himselfe
without
witnesses
in
any
place
;
but
hath
left
in
all
the
Nations
of
the
world
,
some
prints
&
footsteps
of
his
knowledge
,
of
his
power
,
and
goodnes
.
And
although
it
might
be
said
,
in
regard
of
the
eminencie
thereof
,
that
in
Iurie
God
was
well
known
,
&
that
his
tabernacle
was
in
Salem
;
yet
was
he
knowne
in
other
Nations
also
,
and
he
made
his
Name
glorious
in
all
the
quarters
of
the
world
.
The
prayer
or
wish
of
Noah
,
that
Iaphet
might
dwell
in
the
Tents
of
Shem
,
was
in
some
measure
in
all
succeeding
ages
,
heard
,
and
granted
.
Gedeons
fleece
was
not
onely
and
alone
watered
,
but
the
whole
threshing
floore
:
the
Land
of
Iury
was
not
alone
bedeawed
&
moistned
,
with
the
heauenly
deaw
of
the
knowledge
of
God
,
but
the
whole
earth
,
with
the
Nations
that
were
farre
remooued
,
euen
to
the
vtmost
bounds
thereof
.
Some
part
of
this
heauenly
deaw
,
might
light
vpon
this
Eunuch's
head
;
and
with
some
part
of
this
holy
oyntment
,
his
heart
might
be
anointed
.
The
bookes
of
Moses
,
and
of
the
Prophets
,
came
into
the
hands
,
and
Schooles
of
many
of
the
Gentiles
:
&
not
onely
Plato
,
and
many
other
of
the
more
intelligent
,
&
better
sort
of
Philosophers
,
but
Poets
also
,
as
Iustine
Martyr
writeth
,
saw
them
:
&
became
as
he
speaketh
,
Fures
Mosis
,
&
Prophetarum
,
theeues
of
Moses
,
and
of
the
Prophets
.
And
,
howsoeuer
the
Apostle
Saint
Paul
affirmeth
in
the
ninth
to
the
Romans
,
that
to
the
Israelites
pertaineth
the
adoption
,
and
the
glory
,
and
the
couenants
,
and
the
giuing
of
the
law
,
and
the
seruice
of
God
;
yet
did
it
also
please
the
Lord
,
that
the
knowledge
of
his
law
,
and
the
manner
of
his
holy
worship
and
seruice
,
should
in
some
degree
and
proportion
,
and
that
many
times
by
diuerse
accidents
and
strange
meanes
,
bee
deriued
and
communicated
in
all
ages
,
to
Heathen
men
and
Gentiles
.
So
in
the
old
Testament
,
by
reason
of
the
two
great
Captiuities
of
the
Israelits
,
the
one
into
Egypt
,
the
other
into
Babylon
,
the
knowledge
of
God
was
spred
in
those
Nations
:
and
from
thence
,
both
the
Grecians
and
the
Romans
,
fetcht
a
great
part
of
their
best
,
and
most
mysticall
,
and
diuiner
kinde
of
learning
.
And
though
the
Israelites
spoyled
the
Egyptians
of
their
iewels
,
and
other
costly
raiments
,
yet
the
Egyptians
spoyled
the
Israelites
,
of
a
far
more
precious
iewell
,
euen
the
knowledge
of
the
true
God
.
Thus
you
see
,
how
by
all
,
or
by
some
of
these
meanes
,
some
glimse
,
or
portion
of
the
knowledge
of
GOD
,
might
come
into
Aethiopia
.
To
conclude
this
point
.
It
was
promised
to
Abraham
,
it
was
prayed
for
by
Salomon
,
it
was
prophesied
by
Esay
,
&
fore-told
by
Dauid
,
that
strange
Nations
should
knowe
the
Lord
,
and
should
be
made
his
sonnes
,
and
worship
him
in
his
holy
Temple
.
It
was
promised
to
Abraham
,
In
thy
seed
shall
all
the
Nations
of
the
earth
be
blessed
.
Gene.
26.4
.
It
was
prayed
for
by
Salomon
(
and
mark
I
pray
you
,
how
Salomons
prayer
reacheth
,
and
fitteth
the
person
of
this
Eunuch
)
Touching
the
Stranger
,
saith
Salomon
,
that
is
not
of
thy
people
Israel
,
who
shall
come
out
of
a
far
Country
,
for
thy
Names
sake
,
and
shal
come
&
pray
in
this
House
,
(
meaning
the
Temple
)
heare
thou
in
Heauen
,
and
doe
according
to
all
that
the
Stranger
calleth
for
vnto
thee
.
3
Kings
,
8.41.42.43
.
It
was
prophesied
by
Esay
,
The
Gentiles
shall
walke
in
thy
light
,
and
Kings
at
the
brightnes
of
thy
rising
vp
:
thy
sonnes
shall
come
from
far
.
Esay
60.3.4
.
And
Dauid
more
plainly
and
particularly
,
pointeth
at
this
Eunuch's
Country
,
&
saith
;
Aethiopia
shal
haste
to
stretch
her
hand
to
God
.
Psal.
68.31
.
2
Secondly
,
he
is
said
to
haue
been
an
honourable
Personage
;
chiefe
Gouernour
and
Treasurer
to
the
Queene
of
that
Country
of
Aethiopia
.
This
sheweth
,
that
Nobilitie
may
stand
with
Christianity
;
and
that
honour
and
greatnes
,
riches
&
wealth
,
doe
not
in
themselues
hinder
men
,
either
from
the
knowledge
,
or
from
the
worship
and
seruice
of
God
.
Although
Saint
Paul
saith
,
1
Cor.
1.26
.
that
not
many
noble
men
,
not
manie
mighty
men
,
not
many
wise
men
after
the
flesh
,
are
called
:
yet
he
doth
not
exclude
all
noble
men
,
all
mightie
men
all
wise
men
after
the
flesh
,
from
beeing
called
to
the
knowledge
and
seruice
of
God
.
For
if
all
things
come
to
passe
by
the
direction
and
appointment
of
God
;
so
that
without
him
,
not
a
sparrow
lighteth
on
the
ground
.
Math.
10.29
.
If
euery
good
gift
come
from
aboue
,
from
the
Father
of
lights
,
Iam.
1.17
.
If
preferment
come
neither
from
the
East
,
nor
from
the
West
,
but
it
is
God
that
maketh
lowe
,
and
maketh
high
,
Psal.
75.6.7
,
Then
to
sit
at
the
stearn
of
Common-wealths
,
and
to
guide
Kingdoms
,
to
be
borne
of
royall
bloud
,
&
to
come
from
the
loynes
of
Princes
,
to
sit
on
seates
of
iudgement
,
&
from
thence
to
minister
iustice
to
the
people
,
to
be
aduanced
to
the
highest
,
or
to
the
subordinate
and
inferior
places
of
power
,
and
authoritie
,
to
be
rich
,
and
to
haue
this
worlds
goods
in
great
abundance
;
euen
all
of
these
,
and
the
like
,
they
come
not
by
chance
,
nor
happen
at
aduenture
;
nor
is
it
Catch
that
catch
may
,
among
the
sonnes
of
men
:
but
it
is
the
prouidence
&
hand
of
God
,
that
dispenseth
them
at
his
owne
pleasure
,
many
times
to
them
,
to
whom
,
with
them
,
he
giueth
grace
to
vse
them
to
his
glory
,
to
the
protection
&
defence
of
his
Church
,
and
to
the
behoofe
and
comfort
of
his
Saints
and
seruants
.
Domini
est
terra
,
et
plenitudo
eius
,
The
earth
is
the
Lords
,
and
the
fulnesse
thereof
;
whether
it
be
the
fulnesse
of
soueraigne
authoritie
&
princely
dignitie
,
or
the
fulness
of
honor
,
&
worldly
prosperity
,
or
the
fulnesse
of
wealth
,
of
riches
,
or
temporall
abundance
:
all
these
,
and
the
like
,
as
they
come
from
God
,
and
are
in
themselues
,
rich
graces
,
excellent
ornaments
,
and
euident
arguments
of
Gods
gracious
goodnes
and
fauour
to
them
,
whom
before
,
&
aboue
others
,
hee
there-with
blesseth
:
so
are
they
also
,
if
in
the
vse
of
them
,
they
be
sanctified
to
the
owners
of
them
excellent
means
of
doing
good
,
and
of
glorifying
God
,
in
the
gracious
vse
,
and
imployment
of
them
.
He
was
a
noble
man
,
he
was
chiefe
Treasurer
to
a
Queene
,
a
verie
great
man
in
his
country
,
&
yet
he
was
also
the
seruant
of
God
.
Nay
,
as
he
was
so
are
all
such
as
are
noble
,
&
great
,
and
rich
men
,
in
that
they
are
noble
,
&
great
&
rich
,
the
better
fitted
,
and
the
more
bound
to
be
the
seruants
of
God
.
The
better
fitted
.
For
gold
&
siluer
are
metals
far
more
fit
to
be
wrought
,
and
to
haue
precious
stones
set
&
placed
in
them
,
than
lead
,
or
iron
:
so
are
the
mindes
of
noble
,
and
great
,
and
rich
men
,
for
the
most
part
more
fit
to
receiue
into
them
,
the
rich
and
precious
graces
&
the
gifts
of
God
,
than
those
that
are
vulgar
men
,
&
of
meane
condition
.
And
as
they
are
for
the
most
part
better
fitted
than
others
;
so
are
they
more
bound
than
others
,
to
the
seruice
,
and
worship
of
God
.
In
a
ciuill
life
this
is
the
greatest
confort
,
Meus
sum
,
I
am
mine
owne
man
,
and
at
liberty
:
but
in
a
Christian
life
this
is
the
greatest
comfort
,
euen
of
the
most
noble
and
greatest
persons
,
Non
sum
meus
,
I
am
not
mine
owne
man
,
but
Iesus
Christs
,
who
hath
bought
mee
with
a
price
,
and
hath
therefore
bound
mee
,
to
glorifie
and
to
serue
him
.
It
is
a
true
saying
,
that
Maior
must
be
Melior
;
the
greater
must
be
the
better
:
and
to
whom
God
giueth
most
,
at
his
hands
he
wil
require
most
.
As
therefore
mortall
men
,
are
most
bound
to
honour
God
most
,
because
they
are
the
excellentest
of
all
mortall
creatures
:
so
those
amongst
mortall
men
,
who
are
noble
,
or
rich
,
or
great
men
,
either
by
birth
,
or
by
imployment
,
or
by
their
endeauours
in
the
places
where
they
liue
,
are
most
bound
to
serue
God
most
,
because
they
are
most
excellent
among
mortall
men
.
Nobilitas
ad
virtutem
obligat
,
nobilitie
bindes
men
as
it
were
in
an
obligation
,
to
be
vertuous
:
and
he
that
hath
lost
his
vertue
,
hath
broken
his
bond
,
hath
lost
his
nobilitie
,
argentum
suum
in
scoriam
conuertit
;
hee
hath
changed
his
siluer
into
drosse
.
The
chiefest
honour
of
a
Noble
,
or
great
man
,
is
vertue
:
and
the
chiefest
vertue
,
is
religion
;
without
the
which
,
how
great
soeuer
hee
bee
at
home
,
or
abroad
,
and
how
noble
soeuer
he
may
seeme
in
his
owne
eyes
,
yet
is
hee
base
,
and
vile
in
the
eyes
of
God
.
In
the
second
of
Ieremie
,
after
that
the
people
had
forsaken
God
,
the
Prophet
saith
,
They
haue
changed
their
glory
,
for
that
which
doth
not
profit
:
as
though
the
glory
of
a
people
,
were
indeed
the
seruice
of
the
true
God
;
and
the
ceasing
so
to
serue
him
,
were
the
ceasing
,
or
loosing
of
their
glory
.
The
feare
of
the
Lord
,
saith
the
wise
sonne
of
Sirach
,
in
his
first
chapter
,
is
a
glory
to
a
man
,
and
a
ioyfull
crowne
vnto
his
head
.
A
King
may
be
a
King
:
but
if
hee
want
this
feare
,
he
is
a
King
,
but
without
a
crowne
.
A
noble
man
may
be
noble
:
but
without
this
feare
,
he
shall
want
his
glory
.
A
great
man
may
be
great
,
either
in
his
own
,
or
other
mens
eyes
:
but
if
he
want
the
feare
of
God
,
his
greatnes
is
but
as
the
swelling
of
a
bladder
puft
vp
with
wind
,
which
shal
quickly
vanish
,
and
come
to
nothing
.
A
rich
man
may
be
rich
,
and
may
abound
&
euen
wallow
in
wealth
:
yet
if
he
be
not
rich
in
the
Lord
,
&
walke
not
in
his
feare
,
his
riches
are
but
as
the
varnish
vpon
a
rotten
post
:
hee
is
painted
indeed
with
gold
,
but
his
root
is
rottennesse
,
his
life
is
sinful
,
and
his
end
inglorious
.
For
the
richest
crowne
,
and
chiefest
glory
to
great
men
,
in
what
kinde
soeuer
they
be
great
,
is
the
fear
and
worship
of
God
:
their
greatest
prerogatiue
is
to
be
of
the
houshold
of
faith
:
their
greatest
freedom
is
to
be
the
seruants
of
God
:
their
greatest
nobilitie
is
their
new
birth
in
Christ
:
and
their
greatest
riches
,
are
the
gifts
and
graces
of
Gods
Spirit
in
them
.
At
the
top
of
the
scepter
,
and
of
all
greatnes
,
sits
Honor
,
and
at
the
foote
of
the
scepter
,
and
of
all
greatnes
,
sits
Care
;
not
onely
the
care
of
performing
such
duties
as
belong
to
the
places
of
such
as
are
any
way
great
,
but
especially
the
care
of
seruing
and
fearing
God
,
from
whom
they
haue
their
greatnesse
:
without
which
care
,
honour
is
but
as
a
bundle
of
painted
flowers
,
that
yeeld
no
true
sweetnesse
;
and
greatnesse
is
but
as
a
bunch
vpon
the
back
of
a
deformed
creature
,
which
makes
him
the
more
misshapen
,
and
lothsome
in
the
eyes
of
God
.
Dauids
glory
,
was
the
Lord.
Thou
,
O
Lord
(
saith
hee
)
art
my
buckler
,
the
lifter
vp
of
my
head
,
and
my
glory
.
Psal.
3.3
.
And
Theodosius
the
Emperor
hold
it
a
greater
honour
vnto
himselfe
that
he
was
Membrum
Ecclesiae
,
than
that
he
was
Caput
Imperij
;
that
hee
was
a
member
of
the
Church
,
and
thereby
the
seruant
of
God
,
than
that
hee
was
the
head
,
and
Commaunder
of
the
whole
Empire
.
And
I
am
verely
perswaded
,
that
our
most
Christian
and
princely
Theodosius
,
doth
more
reioyce
,
and
dooth
herein
take
more
comfort
,
that
hee
is
Defensor
fidei
,
Defender
of
the
true
,
ancient
,
truly
Catholique
&
Apostolique
saith
,
than
that
he
is
Magnae
Britaniae
Rex
,
the
sole
Monarch
,
&
great
Commander
of
Great
Britaine
.
And
surely
heerin
consisteth
our
happiness
,
&
for
this
we
haue
great
cause
to
praise
GOD
,
for
that
our
noblest
plants
,
both
root
,
&
branches
,
planted
by
the
Lords
owne
right
hand
,
in
the
best
&
fattest
grounds
of
our
country
,
who
haue
the
best
title
&
greatest
interest
among
vs
to
true
nobility
&
greatnes
,
doe
like
vnto
the
fruitfull
trees
of
Paradise
,
bring
foorth
among
vs
,
not
onely
much
hope
,
but
much
fruite
also
of
holinesse
,
and
religious
pietie
,
to
the
glory
of
God
that
heere
hath
planted
them
.
And
as
they
for
their
parts
,
so
it
is
farther
also
to
be
wished
,
that
all
they
which
are
great
,
in
a
subordinate
,
and
inferiour
degree
of
greatnesse
vnto
them
,
the
greater
they
are
,
the
more
they
also
would
acknowledge
themselues
bound
,
&
the
more
they
would
striue
to
worship
and
serue
God
,
who
hath
made
them
great
;
that
so
it
might
be
truly
saide
in
our
Church
,
&
this
Common-wealth
,
that
not
onely
Terra
dat
fructum
suum
,
the
earth
brings
forth
her
increase
,
when
poore
men
doe
gladly
serue
God
,
but
also
that
euen
Coeli
enarrant
gloriam
Dei
,
&
astra
matutina
laudant
eum
:
that
is
,
the
heauens
set
forth
the
glory
of
God
,
and
the
morning
stars
praise
him
;
when
our
greatest
Grandoes
,
our
noblest
,
&
our
chiefest
great-ones
,
are
carefull
to
serue
,
and
to
feare
the
Lord
.
And
here
me
thinkes
,
I
haue
a
very
fit
and
iust
occasion
offered
me
,
without
straining
,
or
offering
violence
to
my
Text
,
to
speake
vnto
you
Right
Honourable
,
whether
you
sit
on
the
one
,
or
the
other
bench
,
and
to
you
Right
Worshipfull
,
wheresoeuer
you
are
seated
,
and
howsoeuer
you
be
ranked
,
that
heare
me
this
day
,
euen
to
as
many
of
you
,
as
either
for
your
honour
,
your
office
,
or
your
wealth
,
haue
prime
and
principall
places
in
this
our
Common-wealth
;
and
first
,
by
the
example
of
this
honourable
&
rich
Eunuch
,
to
tel
you
for
your
comforth
,
that
your
greatnesse
and
plentie
,
may
stand
with
the
seruice
of
God
,
&
Christianity
;
and
next
,
for
your
better
remembring
thereof
,
to
put
you
all
in
minde
,
that
by
how
much
the
more
God
hath
beene
bountifull
to
you
aboue
other
men
,
by
so
much
the
more
you
ought
and
are
bound
aboue
other
men
,
to
be
dutifull
,
and
seruiceable
vnto
him
,
because
that
from
the
sea
of
his
bounty
,
you
haue
receiued
all
your
waters
,
from
the
torch-light
of
his
goodnesse
,
you
haue
lighted
all
your
candles
,
from
the
fountaine
of
his
fauour
,
you
haue
filled
all
your
pitchers
,
and
from
the
Mine
of
his
treasures
,
you
haue
receiued
all
your
riches
.
And
therefore
let
mee
speake
vnto
you
,
that
are
mighty
&
rich
,
and
great
men
in
this
assembly
,
as
Dauid
did
to
the
great
men
in
his
time
,
Psal.
29.1.1
.
Giue
vnto
the
Lord
,
O
yee
mighty
,
giue
vnto
the
Lord
,
glory
,
and
strength
,
giue
vnto
the
Lord
,
the
glory
due
vnto
his
name
.
Now
seeing
you
cannot
giue
any
actuall
and
reall
seruice
,
any
actuall
&
reall
workes
of
bounty
,
or
requitall
,
to
the
person
of
God
himselfe
,
both
for
that
he
is
in
heauen
,
and
needeth
nothing
that
is
yours
;
yet
doe
them
to
the
support
of
Gods
trueth
,
and
the
furtherance
of
religion
,
do
them
to
the
maintenance
of
study
,
and
increase
of
learning
,
doe
them
to
Christs
needy
Saints
and
poore
children
;
and
then
know
it
,
&
remember
it
to
your
confort
,
that
what
you
doe
to
them
,
you
doe
to
Christ
himselfe
,
Matth.
25.40
.
who
will
not
leaue
you
vnrewarded
.
Dauid
,
when
he
could
not
be
kind
,
nor
shew
his
loue
to
Ionathan
his
dearest
friend
,
he
shewed
it
to
poore
and
lame
Mephibosheth
the
sonne
of
Ionathan
:
so
seeing
you
cannot
shew
kindnesse
to
your
Lord
and
Sauiour
,
Iesus
himselfe
,
shew
it
to
his
lame
Mephibosheth's
,
his
lame
,
his
poore
,
his
indigent
,
and
needy
Saints
,
and
seruants
.
Some
write
,
that
although
the
gold
,
myrrh
,
and
frankincense
,
which
were
offered
by
the
Wise
men
,
to
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
were
not
receiued
by
him
into
his
owne
hands
,
because
hee
was
an
Infant
,
but
into
the
hands
of
his
Mother
;
that
yet
neuerthelesse
,
he
gaue
vnto
the
Wise
men
that
offered
him
those
gifts
,
Pro
auro
fidem
,
pro
myrrha
spem
,
pro
thure
charitatem
:
for
the
gift
of
golde
,
the
vertue
of
faith
;
for
the
gift
of
myrrh
,
the
vertue
of
hope
;
&
for
the
gift
of
frankincense
,
the
vertue
of
charity
.
And
why
may
not
we
likewise
say
,
that
although
those
temporal
blessings
,
which
by
honourable
,
or
rich
,
or
great
men
,
are
offered
to
Iesus
Christ
himselfe
,
in
his
poore
members
,
or
are
bestowed
to
pious
and
good
vses
,
that
though
they
bee
receiued
onely
by
the
hand
of
their
Mother
,
the
Church
;
yet
for
all
that
,
Christ
Iesus
himselfe
will
gratiously
and
plentifully
,
reward
the
giuers
of
them
.
3
The
third
,
or
the
next
thing
,
which
I
noted
in
the
person
of
this
noble
Eunuch
is
,
that
hee
came
from
his
owne
Countrie
to
Ierusalem
,
to
worship
.
He
might
haue
stayed
at
home
,
and
so
haue
saued
himselfe
a
great
iourney
,
hee
might
haue
sacrificed
to
the
Gods
of
his
owne
Nation
,
and
there
haue
had
other
Noblemen
of
his
owne
ranke
,
to
associate
him
.
Hee
might
haue
worshipped
in
Meroe
,
the
chiefe
and
Metropolitan
Citie
of
Aethiopia
,
and
needed
not
to
trauell
so
far
as
Ierusalem
,
the
chiefe
and
mother
Citie
of
Iudaea
.
But
he
could
not
so
satisfie
himself
,
the
Spirit
of
God
wrought
another
effect
in
him
:
and
that
light
of
knowledge
,
which
he
had
by
the
operation
of
the
same
Spirit
,
which
now
had
changed
him
into
another
man
,
did
to
affect
him
,
and
worke
with
him
,
that
now
no
Country
but
the
Countrie
of
Iudaea
,
no
Hill
but
the
Hill
of
Sion
,
no
Place
but
the
Temple
,
no
Citie
but
the
Citie
of
Ierusalem
,
no
God
but
the
God
of
Israel
,
could
containe
the
large
extent
of
his
deuotion
,
could
fill
the
desires
of
his
heart
,
and
satisfie
his
soule
with
comfort
.
It
was
not
contentment
enough
for
him
,
to
wish
with
the
Prophet
Dauid
,
O
that
I
might
ascend
into
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
and
come
againe
vnto
Ierusalem
,
there
to
pay
my
vowes
to
the
Almighty
,
and
so
to
goe
thither
in
conceit
onely
.
It
did
not
sufficiently
content
him
,
with
the
Prophet
Daniel
,
to
set
open
those
his
windowes
which
were
towards
the
holy
Citie
,
and
looking
towarde
Ierusalem
,
to
direct
his
prayers
to
the
Almighty
.
It
could
not
sufficiently
content
him
,
to
make
a
proxie
,
to
send
giftes
,
and
to
visit
Ierusalem
by
his
deputie
:
but
though
the
iourney
were
long
,
the
way
dangerous
,
and
the
expences
great
;
yet
would
hee
vndertake
the
iourney
,
and
goe
his
owne
selfe
in
person
thither
.
Hee
went
vp
to
Ierusalem
to
worship
.
And
although
it
could
not
choose
,
but
prooue
a
matter
of
hatred
at
the
least
,
if
not
of
danger
,
and
disgrace
,
to
this
noble
Eunuch
,
to
entertaine
a
new
forme
of
Gods
worshippe
,
different
from
that
which
was
vsed
by
his
owne
Nation
,
to
renounce
the
superstitions
of
his
Countie-men
,
to
single
himselfe
from
the
multitude
,
and
to
refuse
to
communicate
with
his
Ancestors
and
forefathers
,
their
heathenish
and
idolatrous
seruing
of
God
:
Yet
did
hee
more
esteeme
the
fauour
of
God
,
then
he
feared
the
malice
,
or
disgrace
of
men
:
and
therefore
the
reuerence
and
loue
which
he
did
bear
inwardly
in
his
heart
towards
the
law
,
and
truth
of
God
,
and
his
holy
worship
,
hee
shewed
it
outwardly
in
his
actions
,
&
openly
professed
the
same
before
men
:
Hee
went
vp
to
Ierusalem
to
worship
.
An
excellent
example
,
and
worthie
imitation
,
not
onely
of
great
men
,
and
noble
personages
,
but
of
all
men
,
of
what
degree
,
or
calling
soeuer
they
be
;
In
the
matter
of
religion
,
and
the
seruice
and
worship
of
God
,
not
to
tie
themselues
to
tread
in
the
steps
of
others
,
not
to
bee
swayed
by
a
multitude
,
nor
to
follow
their
Ancestors
and
Forefathers
in
their
errours
and
superstitions
;
but
most
humbly
and
most
willingly
,
to
embrace
the
true
knowledge
,
and
sincere
worshippe
of
God
,
whensoeuer
,
and
by
whom
soeuer
it
is
truly
taught
,
and
brought
vnto
them
.
A
lesson
not
vnfit
for
these
times
,
and
this
Age
,
wherein
wee
liue
,
in
which
our
aduersaries
the
Papists
do
so
commonly
vrge
,
and
so
strongly
inforce
the
example
of
our
Ancestours
and
Forefathers
,
against
vs
;
thereby
concluding
,
that
because
they
were
borne
and
brought
vp
liued
,
&
died
(
as
they
speake
)
in
the
Romish
religion
,
that
therefore
we
ought
not
to
dissent
from
them
;
and
that
without
the
blot
&
imputation
of
Schism
and
heresie
,
wee
●ay
in
no
wise
separate
our selues
from
their
communion
,
or
professe
any
other
faith
,
than
that
which
they
professed
.
And
to
speake
a
truth
,
I
am
hereof
verely
perswaded
,
that
by
this
,
as
by
their
most
powerfull
and
potent
charme
,
they
doe
bewitch
,
and
enchant
more
soules
,
especially
,
of
the
weaker
sort
,
than
by
all
their
other
sorceries
whatsoever
:
and
by
this
,
as
by
their
strongest
argument
,
they
do
much
preuaile
,
and
draw
many
from
Iewry
to
Italy
,
from
Ierusalem
to
Rome
,
from
Christ
to
Antichrist
.
By
this
motiue
especially
,
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
heere
in
this
our
Land
(
as
it
may
bee
obserued
)
great
and
whole
Families
,
great
and
whole
Kindreds
almost
,
haue
been
,
and
doe
continue
Popish
,
because
their
Ancestors
and
Forefathers
were
so
before
them
,
and
because
it
were
great
presumption
in
them
,
as
they
are
made
beleeue
,
to
thinke
themselues
wiser
,
than
They
were
.
But
if
this
were
an
vniuersall
,
absolute
,
and
certaine
truth
,
that
fathers
must
be
patterns
,
and
rules
for
their
children
to
serue
God
by
,
so
that
in
no
wise
they
may
differ
from
them
,
in
matters
of
Gods
worship
;
then
how
is
it
that
our
Sauiour
saith
,
in
the
14.
of
Luke
the
26.
that
He
,
that
will
not
leaue
his
father
,
and
his
mother
,
for
Christs
sake
,
should
not
be
his
disciple
.
When
all
the
Tribes
reuolted
together
,
saith
Tobit
,
and
the
house
of
my
father
Nepththali
,
sacrificed
to
the
heifer
Baal
,
I
alone
went
often
to
Ierusalem
,
at
the
feasts
,
as
it
was
ordained
vnto
all
the
people
of
Israel
.
Tobit
1.5.6
Gedeon
was
commanded
by
the
Lord
,
to
throwe
downe
the
Altar
of
Baal
which
his
father
had
made
,
and
to
cut
downe
the
Groue
that
was
by
it
.
Iudg.
6.25
.
And
some
of
the
Kings
of
Iuda
are
commended
,
because
they
walked
not
in
the
Idolatrie
of
their
Forefathers
.
Saint
Paul
was
the
sonne
of
a
Pharisie
,
and
the
scholler
of
a
Pharisie
,
&
yet
neither
Father
,
nor
Master
,
could
make
him
continue
in
the
superstition
of
the
Pharisies
,
after
that
hee
was
once
illuminated
,
and
instructed
in
the
truth
.
It
is
a
wise
,
and
and
a
godly
speech
of
Seneca
,
Epist.
117.
when
wee
cannot
dissentire
salua
gratia
,
nor
consentire
salua
conscientia
,
when
wee
cannot
dissent
from
others
,
without
their
displeasure
,
nor
consent
vnto
them
,
without
wounding
or
offending
our
owne
conscience
,
Let
vs
preferre
conscience
before
fauour
.
And
it
is
a
golden
rule
,
which
Diuines
haue
resolued
on
,
and
deliuered
,
Where
God
and
man
speake
both
one
thing
,
there
harken
vnto
both
:
but
where
God
speaketh
one
thing
,
and
man
another
,
there
harken
to
God
.
It
is
a
most
Christian
,
and
worthy
answere
,
fitting
this
present
purpose
,
worthy
of
all
your
attention
and
obseruation
,
which
was
giuen
by
Valentinian
the
Emperour
,
to
Symmachus
,
which
is
recorded
in
the
fift
booke
of
Saint
Ambrose
his
Epist.
Symmachus
a
heathen
man
,
and
in
all
likelihood
,
an
excellent
Oratour
,
such
a
one
as
was
Tertullus
,
of
whom
there
is
mention
,
Acts
24.
hauing
penned
an
eloquent
speech
,
the
scope
and
purpose
whereof
,
was
,
to
perswade
the
Emperour
that
embraced
the
Christian
religion
himselfe
,
and
was
resolued
to
haue
the
same
receiued
,
and
professed
in
his
Empire
,
that
he
would
bee
pleased
,
to
permit
the
ancient
Citie
of
Rome
,
to
hold
her
olde
forme
,
and
to
keepe
and
vse
the
olde
manner
of
seruing
her
heathenish
Gods
;
thus
he
tuned
his
pipes
,
and
thus
he
bespake
the
Emperour
.
Regard
saith
Rome
mine
age
,
which
haue
now
stood
a
thousand
yeares
,
and
shall
I
now
at
the
last
,
be
checked
and
controuled
,
in
my
olde
dayes
?
This
religion
which
wee
now
seeke
for
,
&
sue
for
at
thy
hands
,
O
Emperor
,
was
that
,
which
won
to
Rome
the
soueraignty
of
the
earth
,
which
repelled
and
beat
back
that
cruell
Hannibal
,
from
scaling
of
our
walls
,
which
preserued
our
goodly
Capitoll
out
of
the
French
mens
hands
:
And
now
it
were
a
reproach
after
so
long
time
,
&
so
many
Ages
,
to
haue
it
quite
reuersed
.
Much
more
was
spoken
,
all
very
suiteable
and
like
,
if
you
marke
it
,
to
the
discourses
,
and
speeches
of
our
Papists
:
but
for
an
vp-shoot
,
and
for
a
concluding
argument
,
that
was
at
last
brought
in
,
that
his
owne
Father
before
him
,
had
suffered
them
to
enioy
that
forme
and
manner
of
seruing
their
Gods
,
and
neuer
disallowed
it
,
and
therefore
it
was
his
part
to
permit
it
so
likewise
.
But
the
worthie
Emperour
,
as
Ambrose
saith
,
in
his
funerall
Sermon
vpon
him
,
beeing
resolutely
addicted
to
the
defence
,
and
maintenance
of
Christs
glory
,
made
this
answere
;
Let
Rome
my
Mother
intreate
any
thing
else
at
my
hands
,
and
aske
what
else
she
will
of
me
:
I
owe
vnto
her
I
confesse
a
very
great
dutie
,
and
affection
,
because
she
is
my
Mother
,
but
I
doe
owe
a
greater
to
God
my
Father
,
who
is
the
author
of
my
saluation
.
This
was
a
worthie
answere
,
of
a
worthie
Prince
:
from
whence
wee
may
learne
this
instruction
,
In
matters
which
concerne
the
glory
and
seruice
of
God
,
not
to
stand
vpon
the
will
or
words
of
men
,
but
onely
on
this
only
point
,
Sic
dicit
Dominus
,
thus
saith
the
Lord
,
and
with
thankfulnesse
to
receiue
his
trueth
,
whensoeuer
it
is
brought
vnto
vs
.
And
surely
,
if
our
ancient
Fathers
,
the
olde
and
first
Christened
Gentiles
,
of
this
our
Iland
of
Great
Britanne
,
&
other
faithlesse
at
the
first
,
and
Heathenish
Kingdomes
,
had
not
held
this
rule
,
and
kept
this
course
,
when
it
pleased
God
in
great
mercy
,
that
the
Gospell
of
his
Sonne
Christ
,
and
his
sauing
truth
was
first
brought
vnto
them
;
then
might
they
,
and
we
,
still
haue
remained
in
our
ignorance
and
infidelitie
;
then
should
they
,
and
wee
,
haue
continued
aliens
from
the
common-wealth
of
Israel
,
strangers
to
the
couenants
of
grace
,
bondslaues
to
sin
and
Satan
,
not
onely
depriued
of
that
glorious
name
,
by
which
we
are
called
Christians
,
of
Christ
,
but
also
debarred
from
hauing
any
part
or
portion
in
that
great
worke
of
mercy
,
and
redemption
,
which
was
wrought
by
Christ
.
For
,
they
might
haue
replied
to
them
,
that
were
the
first
messengers
and
preachers
,
which
first
brought
vnto
them
the
glad
tidings
of
the
Gospell
,
and
haue
saide
vnto
them
,
as
the
Athenians
did
to
Saint
Paul
,
Act.
17.18
.
What
will
this
babbler
say
?
hee
seemeth
to
bee
a
setter
forth
of
strange
gods
,
in
that
he
preacheth
vnto
vs
Iesus
,
and
the
resurrection
.
They
might
haue
said
vnto
them
,
Our
Fathers
worshipt
the
Queene
of
heauen
,
they
beleeued
on
Iupiter
,
and
Apollo
,
they
sacrificed
to
Mars
and
Venus
,
they
worshipped
the
Moone
,
and
the
Starres
,
and
so
did
their
Fathers
,
and
great
Grandfathers
and
Ancestors
,
some
thousands
of
yeares
before
them
:
and
shall
we
now
begin
to
listen
to
a
new
and
vp-start
Religion
;
and
renouncing
those
ancient
Gods
,
that
they
so
long
serued
,
controll
their
iudgement
,
and
so
admit
of
a
new-found
doctrine
,
&
worship
new-found
Gods
?
But
it
pleased
God
to
mooue
their
hearts
,
to
receiue
with
meeknesse
that
truth
;
and
so
by
succession
,
to
deriue
vnto
vs
that
truth
,
which
was
,
and
is
able
,
to
saue
both
theirs
,
and
our
soules
.
You
see
,
Right
honourable
,
Right
worshipfull
,
and
beloued
in
the
louer
of
your
soules
,
Christ
Iesus
,
to
what
issue
this
point
is
brought
,
and
what
it
is
that
I
ayme
at
:
namely
,
that
as
this
noble
Eunuch
renounced
the
Idolatry
of
his
Country
,
and
the
superstitions
of
his
Ancestors
and
Forefathers
;
not
suffering
them
to
be
a
rule
,
or
making
them
a
president
to
himselfe
,
either
for
his
faith
,
or
for
his
manner
of
seruing
God
,
but
went
vp
to
Ierusalem
,
there
to
worship
him
in
his
holy
Temple
:
so
it
is
the
duty
of
all
men
,
to
renounce
all
false
&
superstitious
worship
of
God
,
and
to
entertaine
his
holy
truth
,
whensoeuer
,
and
by
whomsoeuer
it
is
reuealed
,
and
brought
vnto
them
,
how
many
soeuer
,
or
how
mighty
soeuer
,
or
how
neere
or
deere
soeuer
they
be
vnto
them
,
that
do
discountenance
and
withstand
the
same
.
Now
,
although
this
be
a
most
vndoubted
truth
,
and
that
our
Aduersaries
doe
knowe
it
in
their
consciences
so
to
be
,
yet
doe
they
neuer
giue
ouer
to
obiect
,
and
with
a
full
mouth
to
exclaime
against
vs
,
filling
the
ayre
,
and
the
eares
of
men
,
with
these
,
and
the
like
frequent
questions
,
&
demaunds
;
What
?
were
all
our
Ancestors
and
Forefathers
deceiued
?
liued
they
all
in
error
?
did
they
all
of
them
misse
,
and
mistake
the
meanes
which
leade
vnto
saluation
,
and
by
consequent
did
they
all
misse
the
end
?
Did
so
many
millions
of
them
perish
,
and
were
they
all
damned
?
In
answer
of
which
their
demands
,
which
they
so
willingly
and
frequently
make
,
and
by
which
they
haue
inthralled
many
soules
,
especially
of
the
simpler
sort
,
and
such
as
are
vnlearned
,
carying
them
away
captiue
,
and
making
them
bondslaues
to
the
man
of
sinne
,
the
Antichrist
of
Rome
,
I
will
lay
downe
these
three
propositions
.
1.
Proposition
.
First
:
They
were
not
all
Papists
that
liued
in
the
time
of
Popery
;
and
so
by
consequent
,
all
our
Ancestors
and
Forefathers
were
not
Papists
.
Secondly
:
They
did
not
all
die
Papists
that
in
their
life
time
were
Papists
.
Thirdly
:
Some
that
both
liued
,
and
died
Papists
in
many
points
,
yet
holding
the
principall
,
and
fundamentall
parts
of
Gods
blessed
,
and
holy
truth
,
might
be
,
and
were
also
saued
.
And
first
,
not
to
speake
of
the
first
six
or
seauen
hundred
yeeres
after
Christ
,
which
were
the
purer
times
of
the
primitiue
Church
,
in
which
neither
the
name
of
Pope
,
nor
the
doctrine
and
points
of
Popery
,
as
now
they
are
held
,
had
any
beeing
or
footing
in
the
Church
:
if
we
shall
descend
to
the
lower
and
later
ages
and
times
,
wherein
Popery
,
or
the
religion
of
Rome
,
grew
strong
,
and
held
her
head
at
the
highest
;
wee
shall
finde
,
if
with
a
single
eye
and
without
partialitie
wee
enquire
thereinto
,
that
as
in
the
former
times
,
so
in
all
succeeding
ages
&
times
,
euen
to
this
of
ours
,
there
was
a
Church
of
our
Religion
.
And
although
the
Professors
therof
could
not
possesse
whole
Nations
,
or
Countries
,
or
Cities
,
wherin
they
might
freely
&
openly
professe
their
faith
,
by
reason
of
the
great
height
&
tyranny
of
the
church
of
Rome
,
which
not
onely
obscured
them
,
but
did
also
cruelly
persecute
them
:
Yet
were
there
few
Nations
,
few
Countries
,
few
Citties
,
wherein
there
were
not
some
from
time
to
time
,
yea
and
that
also
in
the
very
bosome
and
midst
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
that
did
learnedly
and
zealously
,
and
with
the
losse
many
times
of
their
liues
,
professe
the
same
.
If
any
man
shall
heere
call
vpon
vs
to
make
a
particular
and
precise
bed-roll
or
catalogue
of
their
names
,
and
aske
vs
who
they
were
that
so
haue
done
:
I
answere
,
that
besides
all
those
which
liuing
in
former
ages
,
and
in
the
times
of
Popery
,
who
either
could
not
,
by
reason
they
were
vnlearned
,
be
known
publiquely
,
&
to
the
world
,
but
onely
to
God
,
and
to
their
owne
consciences
,
to
bee
professors
of
our
Religion
;
or
if
they
were
learned
,
did
yet
commit
nothing
to
writing
,
wherby
the
same
might
be
known
of
them
:
I
say
besides
all
those
,
whose
number
no
doubt
was
infinite
,
great
is
the
number
of
those
godly
and
learned
men
,
of
those
faithfull
witnesses
,
which
from
time
to
time
,
both
by
writing
,
by
preaching
,
and
by
dying
,
haue
shewed
to
the
world
,
that
they
groned
vnder
the
burthen
of
Popery
,
that
they
wished
a
reformation
,
and
that
they
were
of
our
Church
,
and
professed
our
Religion
.
The
names
of
which
men
,
with
the
times
in
which
they
liued
,
together
with
those
passages
,
and
parts
of
their
bookes
and
writings
,
in
which
they
witnesse
that
which
I
haue
affirmed
of
them
,
are
collected
together
,
and
set
downe
by
many
learned
men
of
our
part
;
and
therefore
I
will
spare
my selfe
the
labour
of
naming
them
vnto
you
at
this
time
.
If
any
man
shall
further
except
and
say
,
They
are
but
few
that
are
named
,
in
comparison
of
the
rest
;
&
that
their
number
is
small
:
let
such
a
one
know
,
that
the
number
is
not
small
;
and
if
it
were
,
yet
that
it
is
no
maruell
that
so
few
are
named
:
it
is
rather
a
maruell
that
so
many
are
named
;
seeing
that
the
Church
of
Rome
hath
in
all
ages
&
times
,
so
earnestly
laboured
to
blot
out
,
and
to
deface
the
memory
of
all
,
both
men
,
and
matters
,
which
might
speake
for
vs
,
or
beare
witnesse
vnto
vs
.
For
,
if
at
this
day
,
our
Aduersaries
wipe
our
very
names
out
of
bookes
,
and
command
that
no
man
shall
name
vs
but
in
contempt
;
wee
may
well
assure
our selues
,
that
their
Ancestors
haue
done
the
like
in
former
ages
,
to
the
men
of
our
Religion
:
and
hence
it
commeth
,
that
so
few
are
mentioned
and
named
in
ancient
stories
.
The
practice
of
the
Papists
at
this
day
with
vs
,
defacing
our
names
,
belying
our
opinions
,
burying
our
memory
corrupting
our
books
,
suppressing
the
truth
of
things
,
purging
and
razing
all
manner
of
Euidence
,
by
that
diuelish
deuice
of
their
Indices
expurgatorij
,
their
purging
tables
,
maketh
vs
assure
our selues
,
that
in
the
same
manner
our
Ancestors
were
vsed
.
And
this
is
a
principall
reason
why
wee
yeeld
not
so
perfect
a
catalogue
as
else
we
might
doe
.
2.
Proposition
.
My
second
proposition
which
I
deliuered
,
was
this
;
that
They
did
not
all
die
Papists
,
which
in
their
life
time
,
and
in
outward
profession
were
Papists
.
For
,
seeing
it
pleaseth
God
sometimes
,
euen
at
the
eleuenth
howre
,
to
call
men
to
the
knowledge
of
himself
,
and
to
repentance
;
and
seeing
Gods
mercy
is
not
bounded
,
or
confined
to
any
times
;
but
that
as
hee
will
haue
mercy
,
on
whom
he
wil
haue
mercy
;
so
also
hee
will
shew
mercy
,
at
what
time
it
pleaseth
him
to
shew
mercie
;
Who
can
tell
but
that
many
of
our
Ancestors
and
forefathers
,
being
touched
in
conscience
,
and
renouncing
themselues
,
and
all
humane
satisfactions
,
haue
at
the
time
of
their
dissolution
,
&
the
approching
of
death
,
changed
their
mindes
;
and
so
in
that
faith
and
religion
which
wee
professe
,
yeelded
vp
their
soules
into
the
hands
of
God
.
A
thing
the
more
probable
,
and
like
to
bee
true
,
because
in
these
our
dayes
,
many
Papists
haue
bin
by
most
certaine
and
true
experience
,
obserued
to
haue
done
,
and
to
do
the
like
:
who
in
articulo
mortis
,
beeing
at
the
brink
and
point
of
death
,
haue
been
content
,
not
onely
to
suspect
,
and
feare
,
but
to
renounce
their
own
merits
,
and
their
owne
works
,
to
disclaime
the
whole
body
of
humane
satisfactions
,
and
to
cleaue
onely
and
alone
,
to
the
mercie
of
God
in
Christ
,
for
their
saluation
;
and
so
,
though
they
liued
Papists
,
haue
died
Protestants
.
And
no
maruaile
though
many
Papists
haue
so
done
,
and
do
so
daily
:
for
alas
,
what
comfort
or
consolation
can
a
wounded
conscience
,
and
a
soule
laden
with
sinne
,
now
ready
to
depart
the
world
,
and
to
appeare
before
the
maiestie
of
GOD
(
in
whose
presence
the
Cherubins
are
polluted
,
the
Angels
are
vnholy
,
and
the
heauens
are
vncleane
)
there
to
answere
the
iustice
of
God
,
and
to
giue
an
account
for
all
things
that
it
hath
done
in
the
bodie
;
I
say
what
comfort
or
consolation
can
such
a
sinfull
and
dying
soule
finde
,
in
reflecting
it selfe
vpon
it selfe
,
in
the
works
of
it
owne
hands
,
in
the
worth
of
it
owne
merites
,
in
the
fruites
of
it
owne
labours
,
in
crosses
,
crucifixes
,
Saints
,
Agnus
Dei's
,
blessed
graines
,
holy
reliques
,
pilgrimages
,
extreame
vnction
,
dirges
,
trentalls
,
masses
,
in
Priests
absolutions
,
in
Bishops
blessings
,
in
Popes
pardons
,
or
in
all
,
or
any
of
these
,
or
other
the
trash
&
trumpery
of
Rome
?
Will
such
Figge-leaues
couer
our
shame
?
will
such
sacrifices
satisfie
for
sinne
?
or
can
such
stubble
and
strawe
endure
the
fierie
triall
of
Gods
iustice
,
and
yet
not
be
consumed
?
Foolish
Semele
,
great
was
thy
folly
(
and
thou
art
worthily
taxed
,
&
branded
with
a
marke
of
folly
and
dangerous
indiscretion
,
euen
by
Poets
themselues
)
for
desiring
that
Iupiter
would
in
the
selfe-same
manner
visit
thee
at
his
next
comming
,
in
which
hee
vsed
to
visite
Iuno
:
by
which
meanes
it
came
to
passe
,
that
thou
wast
not
onely
amazed
at
his
brightnes
,
but
also
by
the
lightning
and
thunder
which
attended
him
,
when
he
was
in
his
maiestie
,
wast
burnt
vp
quick
,
&
quite
consumed
:
So
may
I
truly
say
,
and
it
is
no
poeticall
fiction
,
but
an
vndoubted
truth
,
which
I
am
about
to
vtter
to
all
proud
Papists
,
proud
Pharisees
,
and
Iusticiaries
whatsoeuer
,
which
gird
themselues
with
their
owne
righteousnesse
,
and
arme
themselues
with
their
owne
good
deseruings
and
merites
,
as
it
were
with
armour
of
proofe
,
and
coats
of
steele
:
Foolish
Papist
,
great
is
thy
folly
,
&
thou
art
woorthily
taxed
,
and
branded
with
a
marke
of
folly
,
and
dangerous
indiscretion
,
who
puffed
vp
with
the
winde
of
thine
owne
worth
,
and
being
tickled
in
thine
own
heart
,
with
the
wanton
conceit
of
I
wot
not
what
proportionable
agreement
,
between
thine
owne
proper
inherent
righteousnes
,
and
the
iustice
of
God
,
darest
to
meet
God
in
the
face
,
and
to
confront
his
very
iustice
;
and
art
so
indifferent
,
that
thou
doost
not
much
reckon
,
or
greatly
regard
,
whether
God
,
that
is
the
Lord
of
glory
,
do
come
vnto
thee
in
maiestie
,
or
in
mercie
,
in
the
Law
,
or
in
the
Gospel
,
in
equitie
and
iustice
,
or
in
pitie
and
compassion
,
to
iudge
thy
good
works
,
in
some
of
you
,
works
of
Supererogation
;
and
to
giue
sentence
of
thy
righteousnesse
,
which
in
many
of
you
so
aboundeth
,
that
as
you
beleeue
,
and
teach
others
,
they
may
reserue
enough
for
themselues
,
and
yet
spare
some
for
others
,
to
make
them
also
righteous
.
And
what
maruaile
is
it
,
if
beeing
but
dust
and
ashes
,
sinfull
flesh
,
yea
stubble
and
straw
,
fuell
quickly
kindled
,
his
maiestie
amaze
thee
,
and
the
fire
of
his
iustice
and
iudgement
,
doe
fearfully
consume
thee
?
Beloued
in
the
Lord
,
it
is
dangerous
building
on
the
sand
.
They
build
on
the
sand
,
that
make
flesh
their
arme
;
that
put
any
confidence
in
their
owne
works
.
It
is
safe
building
on
a
Rock
:
they
build
on
a
rock
,
which
build
on
Christ
;
The
Rock
is
Christ
.
And
,
as
Extra
Arcam
,
without
the
Arke
,
the
Doue
found
no
rest
for
the
soale
of
her
foote
:
so
likewise
,
Extra
Christum
,
without
Christ
,
the
soule
of
a
sinner
can
finde
no
comfort
.
And
bee
it
spoken
to
the
glory
of
God
,
and
to
the
honour
of
that
truth
,
and
that
religion
which
wee
professe
,
This
is
that
powerful
motiue
,
and
the
very
true
cause
,
why
so
many
that
are
professed
Papists
in
their
life
,
doe
notwithstanding
at
the
approaching
of
death
,
and
the
very
point
of
their
dissolution
,
die
Protestants
,
renouncing
themselues
wholly
,
&
laying
fast
hold
onely
vpon
Christ
.
I
will
trouble
you
but
with
two
instances
or
examples
for
the
clearing
of
this
point
:
the
one
,
ancient
;
the
other
,
moderne
,
and
of
later
time
.
When
Stephen
Gardiner
Bishop
of
Winchester
lay
sicke
,
Doctor
Day
,
Bishop
of
Chichester
,
comming
to
visite
him
,
began
to
comfort
him
,
repeating
to
him
some
such
places
of
Scripture
,
as
did
expresse
and
import
the
free
iustification
of
repentant
sinners
,
in
the
bloud
of
Christ
.
Whereunto
Winchester
replyed
;
What
,
my
Lord
(
quoth
hee
)
will
you
open
that
gap
now
?
then
farewel
all
together
:
To
mee
,
and
such
other
in
my
case
,
you
may
speake
it
;
but
,
open
this
window
vnto
the
people
,
and
then
farewell
all
together
.
When
those
two
vnholy
and
trayterous
Priests
,
Watson
,
and
Clark
,
suffered
condigne
punishment
for
the
treasonable
practices
whereof
they
were
conuicted
at
Winchester
,
some
few
yeeres
since
;
the
one
of
them
immediatly
,
before
hee
was
ready
to
ascend
the
ladder
,
disposing
himselfe
to
priuate
prayer
,
was
by
two
verie
reuerend
and
eminent
men
of
our
Church
(
as
one
of
them
hath
diuerse
times
related
it
in
my
hearing
)
ouer-heard
to
haue
vsed
these
or
the
like
words
;
O
Lord
(
said
he
)
I
haue
not
any
thing
to
offer
vp
vnto
thee
,
that
is
woorthy
thy
acceptance
:
I
haue
nothing
but
a
corruptible
carcasse
,
and
a
sinfull
soule
to
present
vnto
thee
.
At
his
vttering
of
which
words
,
one
of
those
reuerend
Diuines
calling
to
the
other
;
Harken
,
I
pray
you
,
harken
(
said
hee
)
how
hee
disableth
himselfe
,
and
renounceth
his
owne
merits
.
Which
words
when
the
Priest
heard
,
hee
breaking
off
the
course
of
his
prayer
,
made
this
reply
to
those
graue
Diuines
;
Though
(
said
hee
)
I
haue
no
merits
to
offer
vp
vnto
God
,
yet
it
may
be
that
many
other
of
our
religion
haue
merits
,
which
both
they
may
offer
vnto
God
,
and
for
which
,
his
Maiestie
may
be
graciously
pleased
to
be
mercifull
vnto
them
.
See
,
I
pray
you
,
how
the
truth
of
God
preuailed
with
both
these
men
,
when
their
end
drew
neere
,
and
when
death
approached
:
&
obserue
,
I
pray
you
farther
,
how
they
did
in
some
sort
,
disclaiming
all
confidence
in
themselues
,
and
their
owne
merites
,
beare
witnesse
to
the
truth
of
God
,
for
the
free
iustification
of
sinners
onely
by
Christ
.
But
whether
or
not
,
by
their
farther
answeres
and
replies
,
they
laboured
to
hide
that
truth
,
and
to
put
out
that
candle
after
it
was
lighted
in
them
,
I
take
not
vpon
mee
to
iudge
,
but
doe
leaue
that
to
God
.
3.
Proposition
.
My
third
proposition
which
I
deliuered
,
by
occasion
of
our
Aduersaries
demands
,
was
this
;
All
our
Ancestors
perished
not
;
neither
were
all
our
Forefathers
,
that
liued
in
the
time
of
Popery
,
damned
.
For
first
,
some
of
them
,
which
both
liued
and
died
Papists
,
in
many
points
;
yet
holding
the
principall
and
fundamentall
parts
,
of
Gods
blessed
and
holy
truth
,
might
be
,
and
were
also
(
as
in
the
iudgement
of
charity
,
we
may
well
thinke
)
partakers
of
saluation
.
Secondly
,
it
is
one
thing
to
hold
an
error
obstinately
,
and
wilfully
,
ioyning
the
holding
and
professing
therof
,
with
the
hatred
and
persecution
of
the
truth
:
and
another
thing
to
erre
ignorantly
,
being
seduced
by
such
as
are
Pastors
and
Teachers
,
with
a
minde
notwithstanding
alway
ready
to
embrace
the
trueth
,
whensoeuer
men
shall
bee
further
enlightened
:
And
in
this
later
kinde
,
many
of
our
Ancestors
and
Forefathers
erred
,
carrying
a
minde
alwaies
ready
,
and
willing
to
be
taught
,
though
the
streame
of
the
Times
carried
them
away
.
Now
as
of
the
former
sort
of
these
our
Ancestours
,
and
Forefathers
,
which
not
onely
erred
in
the
capitall
&
fundamentall
parts
of
Gods
truth
,
but
erred
wilfully
,
and
obstinately
,
hating
&
presecuting
the
truth
vnto
their
death
,
we
say
,
as
Saint
Paul
saith
,
They
perished
,
because
they
receiued
not
the
loue
of
the
truth
,
that
they
might
be
saued
.
2.
Thes.
2.10
:
So
in
respect
of
the
later
sort
of
them
,
we
are
farre
from
pronouncing
the
Sentence
of
damnation
against
them
:
we
are
not
the
Authors
of
any
such
vncharitable
,
and
peremptorie
assertions
,
we
vtterly
disclaime
all
such
black
,
and
bloody
conclusions
.
Genesis
37.33
.
Iacob
seeing
the
coat
of
Ioseph
rent
,
torne
,
and
bloody
,
cryed
out
and
said
,
that
Fera
pessima
deuorauit
eum
,
Some
euill
beast
hath
deuoured
him
;
yet
God
prouided
for
Ioseph
,
and
he
was
safe
:
So
although
the
religion
of
our
Forefathers
,
like
the
garment
of
Ioseph
,
seemeth
rent
,
torne
,
and
bloody
vnto
vs
,
and
we
in
probability
may
cry
and
say
,
that
Fera
pessima
deuorauit
eos
,
yet
wee
must
not
rashly
condemne
them
;
because
God
hath
as
wel
extraordinary
means
to
saue
,
as
ordinary
.
True
it
is
,
that
many
of
our
Forefathers
relied
vpon
the
opinion
of
merrit
;
and
therefore
were
like
to
the
brethren
of
Ioseph
,
who
tooke
money
in
their
sacks
,
when
they
went
to
Egypt
for
corne
.
But
as
Ioseph
returned
them
their
money
againe
,
and
gaue
them
corne
for
nothing
:
so
who
can
tell
,
but
that
God
,
giuing
them
grace
at
the
last
,
to
change
their
opinions
,
&
refusing
their
merits
,
yet
gaue
them
corn
for
nothing
,
accepting
them
in
his
beloued
;
and
Christ
,
as
Ioseph
receiuing
them
as
his
brethren
into
eternall
life
.
As
in
charity
wee
are
forbidden
to
thinke
,
that
none
of
the
Israelites
entred
into
heauen
,
who
entred
not
into
the
holy
Land
,
or
into
the
Land
of
Canaan
,
but
died
in
the
Wildernesse
:
so
wee
are
not
to
thinke
,
that
all
those
our
Forefathers
perished
,
which
liued
in
the
time
of
ignorance
:
but
that
,
as
many
among
vs
,
liuing
in
the
light
of
the
Gospell
,
descend
notwithstanding
,
into
the
darknesse
of
hell
;
so
there
were
many
liuing
in
the
darknes
of
Poperie
,
who
ascended
vp
to
the
place
of
light
,
to
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
and
were
partakers
of
eternall
blessednesse
.
To
conclude
this
point
:
Let
vs
not
rashly
enter
into
the
iudgements
of
God
:
for
he
saith
,
I
will
haue
mercy
on
whom
I
will
haue
mercy
.
Sometimes
God
refuseth
the
father
,
and
chooseth
the
sonne
;
as
in
Salomon
to
build
the
Temple
,
and
not
Dauid
:
Sometimes
hee
sheweth
his
iudgements
on
the
sonnes
,
and
mercy
on
the
father
;
as
in
the
children
of
Iob
:
Sometimes
he
cutteth
off
both
the
father
,
and
the
sonnes
;
as
he
did
Elie
&
his
children
:
Sometimes
hee
saueth
both
the
father
and
his
children
;
as
Noah
and
his
children
in
the
Arke
:
and
this
hee
doth
,
to
the
end
that
be
we
fathers
,
or
be
we
children
,
be
wee
many
,
or
be
we
few
,
we
should
learne
to
submit
our selues
to
him
,
and
rather
be
carefull
to
obtaine
our
owne
saluation
,
than
to
bee
curious
in
the
disputing
of
the
saluation
of
others
.
I
will
close
and
shut
vp
this
point
,
with
a
saying
of
Ciprian
,
in
his
3.
Epi.
If
any
that
went
before
vs
,
either
of
ignorance
,
or
of
simplicity
,
hath
not
obserued
that
which
the
Lord
commanded
,
his
simplicity
through
the
Lords
indulgence
may
bee
pardoned
;
but
we
,
whom
the
Lord
hath
taught
,
and
instructed
,
cannot
be
pardoned
.
3
In
the
third
place
of
my
first
generall
diuision
,
I
thought
it
fit
,
that
we
should
consider
how
this
noble
Eunuch
was
busied
,
&
imployed
in
his
return
homewarde
:
and
that
is
set
downe
in
the
28.
verse
.
And
as
he
returned
sitting
in
his
chariot
,
he
read
Esaias
the
Prophet
.
The
Lord
hauing
touched
the
heart
of
this
noble
Eunuch
,
and
finding
that
hee
desired
to
taste
of
the
bread
of
life
,
resolued
in
great
mercy
to
feede
him
plentifully
therwith
:
and
finding
him
to
haue
a
holy
thirst
after
the
water
of
life
,
was
pleased
to
set
open
vnto
him
,
the
very
fountaine
,
or
conduits
thereof
,
and
prouided
that
hee
should
bee
fed
,
with
the
very
marow
,
and
fatness
of
his
holy
truth
,
and
that
hee
should
drinke
de
torrente
voluptatis
,
at
the
very
well-head
,
the
water
of
life
,
and
the
sweet
wine
of
the
sauing
knowledge
of
his
Son
Christ
.
He
prouided
in
his
gratious
prouidence
,
that
the
booke
of
the
Prophesie
of
Esay
,
should
come
to
his
hands
:
which
he
ioyfully
receiued
,
reuerently
accounted
of
,
making
it
(
as
Alexander
did
Homer
)
his
companion
in
his
iourney
,
and
diligently
read
the
same
.
He
read
Esaias
the
Prophet
.
And
what
followed
thereof
?
The
Lord
,
who
,
as
the
blessed
Virgin
speaketh
,
filleth
the
hungry
with
good
things
,
did
fill
his
hungry
soule
with
the
best
things
,
and
verefied
in
him
that
saying
of
Salomon
,
Non
perdet
Dominus
animam
iusti
fame
,
The
Lord
will
not
famish
the
soule
of
a
righteous
man
with
hunger
,
but
will
feed
it
:
for
he
fed
him
with
the
richest
,
and
most
precious
cates
and
iunkets
of
his
most
holy
and
heauenly
truth
.
Neither
did
it
only
please
God
that
the
Booke
and
Prophesie
of
Esay
should
onely
and
alone
come
to
the
hands
and
sight
of
this
noble
Personage
:
but
heerein
also
did
Gods
gratious
goodnesse
and
rich
mercy
plainly
appeare
vnto
him
,
in
that
not
by
chance
,
or
at
aduenture
,
but
by
the
prouidence
of
God
,
his
hand
was
turned
,
and
his
eye
directed
to
the
reading
of
such
a
part
and
portion
of
that
Prophesie
,
as
contained
in
it
the
summe
and
substance
of
the
Gospell
;
and
from
whence
,
Philip
might
haue
a
good
ground
,
and
take
iust
occasion
,
beginning
(
as
hee
did
)
at
that
Scripture
,
to
open
and
expound
vnto
him
the
whole
mystery
of
Gods
mercy
in
Christ
,
and
mans
saluation
by
Christ
.
The
words
of
the
place
he
read
,
are
these
,
ver.
32.
and
33.
Hee
was
led
as
a
sheep
to
the
slaughter
,
&c.
In
which
words
,
the
Prophet
sheweth
the
manner
and
order
which
it
pleased
God
to
vse
in
the
redeeming
of
his
Church
;
namely
,
by
the
death
of
Christ
,
as
of
a
Lambe
slaine
as
a
propitiatory
sacrifice
for
the
sinnes
of
mankinde
.
That
as
a
sheepe
he
was
led
to
the
slaughter
,
and
like
a
lambe
dumbe
before
his
shearer
,
hee
opened
not
his
mouth
;
&c.
Whereby
is
signified
,
that
he
willingly
offered
vp
himselfe
,
as
a
voluntary
sacrifice
,
or
free-will
offering
for
mans
redemption
vnto
God
.
More
briefly
&
in
a
word
,
for
I
purpose
not
at
this
time
to
make
any
stay
in
the
interpretation
of
these
wordes
in
my
Text
(
howsoeuer
they
be
most
worthy
to
bee
largely
entreated
of
)
more
briefly
I
say
,
and
in
a
word
,
In
these
words
of
Esay
,
which
the
Ennuch
was
now
in
reading
,
when
Philip
came
and
spake
vnto
him
,
two
things
especially
are
mystically
and
prophetically
deliuered
,
concerning
the
person
of
Christ
:
the
first
,
his
Humiliation
and
Passion
;
the
second
,
his
Exaltation
,
or
Glorification
,
and
that
not
for
himselfe
onely
,
but
for
vs
also
.
Which
words
beeing
a
prophesie
,
or
prediction
of
a
thing
then
to
come
when
they
were
written
by
Esay
,
are
in
effect
repeated
by
Saint
Paul
,
who
speaketh
thereof
,
as
of
a
thing
done
&
past
,
and
now
performed
:
Hee
was
deliuered
to
death
for
our
sinnes
,
and
is
risen
againe
for
our
iustification
.
Romans
,
4.25
.
And
both
of
these
appeare
most
plainely
,
in
the
53.
of
Esay
,
through
that
whole
chapter
.
Of
this
argument
or
of
this
matter
,
Esay
speaketh
as
a
Prophet
,
Saint
Paul
as
an
Euangelist
:
the
one
speaketh
de
futuro
,
the
other
de
praeterito
;
the
one
of
that
which
should
come
to
passe
,
the
other
of
that
which
is
come
to
passe
:
and
yet
which
is
worthy
your
marking
,
Esay
,
though
he
speak
thereof
as
of
a
thing
long
to
come
,
yet
hee
speaketh
of
it
in
the
Preterperfect-tense
,
or
in
the
time
past
,
to
shew
the
certainty
thereof
.
You
see
how
this
noble
Eunuch
was
busied
:
and
you
see
also
what
end
the
Lord
made
,
and
what
course
hee
tooke
with
him
.
He
went
vp
to
Ierusalem
to
worship
,
and
in
his
returne
hee
read
the
Prophet
Esay
:
and
it
pleased
God
that
being
so
busied
and
imployed
,
the
foundation
and
ground-work
of
the
sauing
truth
,
and
knowledge
of
God
in
Christ
,
should
be
laid
and
built
in
his
soule
to
his
eternall
comfort
and
saluation
,
Iesus
Christ
beeing
the
chiefe
corner-stone
of
that
holie
and
blessed
building
.
Tu
vade
&
fac
similiter
,
Goe
thou
and
doe
the
like
,
goe
thou
whosoeuer
thou
art
that
hearest
me
this
day
,
and
doe
the
like
,
goe
vp
to
Ierusalem
,
that
is
,
worship
God
in
his
holy
Temple
,
reade
the
Prophesie
of
Esay
,
or
some
other
part
of
the
booke
of
God
,
reade
it
when
thou
art
at
home
,
reade
it
when
thou
art
abroad
,
reade
it
earely
,
reade
it
late
,
reade
it
with
reuerence
,
reade
it
with
diligence
,
reade
it
with
an
humble
minde
,
reade
it
with
an
hungry
appetite
,
reade
it
with
a
deuout
desire
to
vnderstand
it
;
to
conclude
,
reade
it
with
the
like
mind
with
which
this
noble
Eunuch
read
it
,
and
thou
shalt
be
partaker
of
the
like
blessing
.
And
although
it
bee
not
enough
,
onely
to
reade
the
booke
,
or
worde
of
God
,
but
that
there
bee
more
required
at
our
hands
,
euen
to
beleeue
it
,
and
to
frame
our
liues
according
to
the
prescript
forme
and
rules
thereof
;
yet
shall
wee
finde
by
Gods
blessing
,
that
the
frequent
and
diligent
reading
thereof
,
shall
be
in
good
time
the
beginning
of
better
things
vnto
vs
.
A
small
wedge
,
though
it
cannot
cleaue
great
logges
,
and
such
as
bee
hard
and
knotty
;
yet
may
it
,
and
doth
it
often
serue
,
to
make
way
for
greater
and
stronger
wedges
,
by
which
they
may
bee
clouen
:
So
your
often
reading
of
the
word
only
,
may
make
way
in
you
,
to
some
greater
&
more
powerful
operation
of
Gods
Spirit
,
by
which
your
knotty
and
hard
hearts
may
bee
clouen
asunder
,
and
so
made
woode
fit
for
sacrifice
,
fit
to
be
laid
and
vsed
vpon
the
Lords
Altar
.
I
knowe
right
well
,
that
Cathedram
habet
in
coelo
qui
docet
corda
in
terris
;
that
he
hath
his
seat
in
heauen
,
which
teacheth
mens
hearts
on
earth
:
That
it
is
our
Sauiour
Christ
that
opened
the
vnderstanding
of
his
disciples
,
that
they
might
vnderstand
the
Scriptures
.
Luke
24.45
:
That
of
him
,
and
of
him
onely
it
is
said
,
Reuel.
5.9
.
Thou
art
worthy
to
take
the
booke
and
to
open
the
seales
thereof
:
That
he
and
he
onely
,
hath
the
key
of
of
Dauid
,
which
openeth
and
no
man
shutteth
,
and
shutteth
,
and
no
man
openeth
.
Reuel
.
3.7
:
And
therefore
except
hee
open
the
doore
of
the
Scriptures
,
they
shall
be
shut
vnto
you
,
notwithstanding
you
doe
often
reade
them
.
Yet
if
you
doe
often
reade
them
,
you
do
stare
in
via
,
qua
transit
Dominus
,
you
doe
stand
in
the
way
by
which
the
Lord
passeth
:
and
if
you
doe
but
stand
in
the
way
by
which
the
Lord
often
passeth
,
it
may
be
he
will
at
one
time
or
other
,
turne
in
vnto
you
,
as
he
did
to
Abraham
,
&
Lot
,
as
they
stood
in
the
way
by
which
he
passed
.
And
as
the
Prophet
Elisha
turned
into
the
the
house
of
the
Shunamite
,
when
she
had
prepared
a
chamber
for
him
,
and
a
bed
,
and
a
table
,
and
a
stoole
,
4.
King
.
4.10.11
:
So
I
say
,
if
the
Lord
shall
see
that
you
stand
in
the
way
by
which
he
passeth
,
and
that
by
your
often
reading
his
most
sacred
word
,
you
haue
prepared
a
chamber
in
your
hearts
,
with
conuenient
furniture
therein
to
receiue
him
,
and
to
entertaine
him
,
it
may
be
he
will
turne
in
vnto
you
,
and
so
open
vnto
you
the
hidden
mysteries
of
those
Scriptures
which
you
read
,
to
your
euerlasting
comfort
,
And
as
here
to
this
noble
Eunuch
,
after
he
had
worshipped
God
,
at
Ierusalem
,
and
was
now
in
his
returne
home-warde
,
reading
of
the
Prophet
Esay
,
the
Lord
sent
Philip
;
who
ioyned
himselfe
to
his
Chariot
,
expounded
that
Scripture
,
and
preached
Iesus
vnto
him
,
baptized
him
,
and
so
left
him
a
most
faithful
,
and
most
ioyfull
seruant
and
professor
of
Christ
:
So
if
we
frequently
reade
the
worde
,
and
meditate
therein
,
though
therein
wee
meete
with
many
things
we
vnderstand
not
,
the
Lord
in
his
good
time
will
send
some
Philip
that
shall
ioyne
himselfe
vnto
vs
,
some
godly
and
faithfull
Pastor
and
Minister
,
that
shall
open
and
expound
either
priuately
,
or
publickly
,
so
much
thereof
vnto
vs
,
as
shal
beget
a
liuely
and
true
faith
in
vs
,
and
shall
bee
needfull
and
helpfull
to
our
saluation
.
But
here
exception
may
be
taken
,
and
it
may
bee
obiected
,
that
as
hee
read
the
Prophesie
of
Esay
,
but
vnderstood
it
not
,
and
Legere
,
&
non
intelligere
,
negligere
est
;
so
,
to
reade
,
as
wee
doe
not
vnderstand
,
is
but
in
vaine
,
&
lost
labour
.
The
answer
may
be
,
that
although
the
Prophet
Esay
hath
the
same
place
,
and
bee
the
same
in
respect
of
other
Prophets
,
as
Saint
Iohn
is
in
respect
of
the
other
Euangelists
,
like
an
Eagle
that
flieth
an
high
pitch
,
and
soareth
,
and
pearcheth
aboue
the
other
birds
;
that
is
,
bee
full
of
high
and
heauenly
mysteries
,
which
the
eye
of
reason
,
&
naturall
vnderstanding
cannot
pierce
,
or
attaine
vnto
;
Yet
are
there
many
things
both
in
Esay
,
and
so
also
in
the
whole
bodie
and
all
the
seuerall
parts
of
the
holy
Scripture
,
that
are
plaine
and
easie
to
be
vnderstood
,
in
which
are
contained
and
expressed
,
the
power
,
the
wisedome
,
the
goodnesse
of
God
,
together
with
that
dutie
and
obedience
,
that
feare
and
reuerence
,
which
all
creatures
doe
owe
and
ought
to
performe
to
his
most
heauenly
Maiesty
,
as
also
such
things
as
inuite
men
to
faith
,
and
exhort
to
holinesse
of
life
.
And
these
things
,
and
the
like
,
this
Eunuch
did
,
without
doubt
,
both
often
read
,
and
well
vnderstood
.
Howsoeuer
;
he
doth
most
freely
&
ingenuously
confess
,
that
he
could
not
vnderstand
that
place
or
passage
of
the
Prophet
which
he
then
read
,
which
was
prophetically
and
mystically
deliuered
concerning
the
person
of
Christ
,
and
the
saluation
of
mankinde
by
his
death
and
passion
:
which
is
indeed
a
mysterie
,
which
no
eye
but
the
eye
of
faith
,
can
pearce
and
looke
into
.
And
from
hence
we
may
learne
this
point
of
Christian
wisedom
;
Not
to
neglect
,
or
carelesly
to
passe
by
,
those
parts
and
passages
of
holy
Scripture
,
which
when
we
read
,
wee
doe
not
vnderstand
:
as
if
they
either
appertained
not
vnto
vs
,
or
it
concerned
vs
not
at
all
,
to
search
out
the
sense
and
meaning
thereof
;
whereas
by
often
reading
,
searious
meditating
,
and
frequent
and
deuout
praying
,
wee
might
many
times
with
comfort
vnderstand
the
same
.
Chrysostome
vpon
the
16.
of
Luke
hath
this
saying
;
Etiamsi
non
intelligas
illic
recondita
,
&c.
Although
thou
vnderstand
not
the
mysteries
that
are
hidden
in
the
Scripture
;
yet
of
the
very
reading
of
them
great
holinesse
groweth
.
And
Ierom
in
his
fourth
booke
vpon
Esay
,
and
eleuenth
chapter
,
saith
,
Frequenter
euenit
,
&c.
It
commeth
often
to
passe
,
that
lay
men
beeing
ignorant
of
the
mysticall
sense
,
are
yet
fed
with
the
plaine
and
simple
reading
of
the
Scriptures
.
To
this
exhortation
of
mine
for
the
frequent
reading
of
holy
Scripture
,
and
by
the
example
of
this
noble
Eunuch
for
the
reading
of
them
,
though
perhaps
some
part
of
them
be
not
vnderstood
by
vs
,
to
this
exhortation
(
I
say
)
giue
me
leaue
I
pray
you
,
before
I
shut
vp
this
poynt
,
to
adde
or
vse
a
reprehension
also
.
I
loue
not
,
I
confesse
,
to
be
ful
of
reprehensions
;
I
delight
not
in
publick
reproofes
;
neither
take
I
pleasure
in
searching
the
wounds
,
or
ripping
vp
the
soares
and
faults
of
others
:
and
yet
that
woe
which
the
Prophet
Esay
denounceth
against
them
,
that
call
good
euill
,
and
euill
good
,
maketh
mee
afraid
to
acquire
offenders
;
and
maketh
mee
also
bold
to
call
error
by
it
owne
name
,
and
to
tell
them
plainly
which
misse
the
right
path
,
that
they
are
out
of
the
way
,
and
are
deceiued
.
Let
not
my
meaning
be
misconstrued
:
neither
let
that
which
is
well
meant
,
be
ill
taken
.
The
testimonie
of
mine
owne
conscience
shall
sufficiently
witnesse
,
to
my selfe
,
my
good
meaning
:
and
the
iudgement
of
charitie
,
should
hold
you
from
misconceiuing
or
misreporting
of
that
,
which
shall
be
by
mee
truely
and
charitablie
deliuered
.
There
is
vtterly
a
fault
among
vs
;
to
wit
,
the
great
neglect
of
reading
the
word
of
GOD
,
both
priuatly
in
houses
,
and
publiquely
also
in
the
Church
and
congregation
.
The
matter
were
not
so
great
,
and
the
fault
were
lesse
,
if
it
were
onely
to
be
found
in
priuat
houses
,
and
had
not
also
set
foote
within
the
Sanctuarie
.
And
pitty
it
is
,
that
Lay-men
onely
are
not
heerein
faultie
;
but
some
of
them
also
,
who
are
Pastors
,
and
Ministers
of
Gods
Church
.
It
is
the
custome
and
practice
of
many
Ministers
,
who
are
otherwise
some
of
them
,
zealous
,
&
good
men
,
In
the
time
appointed
to
diuine
seruice
,
in
the
Church
and
publick
Congregation
,
to
curtall
and
shorten
,
and
sometime
to
omit
the
reading
of
such
parts
and
portions
of
holy
Scripture
,
as
are
appointed
to
be
read
publiquely
in
the
Church
;
And
in
stead
thereof
,
after
a
few
prayers
,
&
sometime
none
at
all
,
to
sing
a
Psalme
,
and
so
presently
to
goe
to
their
Sermons
;
as
if
preaching
were
onely
necessary
,
and
there
were
either
none
,
or
very
small
vse
,
either
of
publique
reading
,
or
publique
praying
,
in
the
publique
Congregation
:
Whereas
these
ought
to
be
ioyned
,
and
to
goe
together
;
first
,
in
respect
of
God
himselfe
,
who
is
in
some
degree
as
well
glorified
in
the
reading
,
as
in
the
expounding
of
his
holy
word
.
Secondly
,
in
respect
of
that
decent
and
comely
order
,
established
in
our
Church
.
And
thirdly
,
in
respect
of
the
profit
which
commeth
therof
;
in
that
,
reading
and
praying
going
before
,
in
Gods
house
,
which
by
an
excellencie
is
called
the
House
of
prayer
,
they
make
preaching
,
which
followeth
after
,
more
fruitfull
vnto
vs
.
And
surely
,
I
thinke
,
the
greatest
cause
why
preaching
dooth
so
little
good
,
is
for
that
we
are
now
adaies
so
little
acquainted
with
publique
reading
,
and
praying
in
the
Church
.
And
therefore
it
were
not
amisse
,
that
many
men
,
if
they
will
needs
be
mincing
,
and
shortning
,
and
curtalling
,
would
mince
,
and
curtall
,
and
shorten
their
Sermons
;
that
so
the
Lyturgie
,
and
manner
of
seruing
of
God
in
the
Church
,
which
consisteth
as
well
in
reading
,
and
praying
,
as
it
doth
in
preaching
,
might
haue
it
due
time
,
and
due
respect
among
vs
.
And
as
some
Ministers
are
heerein
faulty
:
so
are
many
men
and
women
,
their
Auditors
,
very
much
to
be
blamed
,
who
thinke
they
come
time
enough
to
the
Church
,
if
they
come
but
to
the
beginning
of
the
Sermon
;
making
little
account
of
ioyning
with
the
Congregation
in
praying
:
which
both
in
nature
,
in
time
,
and
in
order
,
should
goe
before
preaching
.
And
as
for
hearing
the
Scriptures
read
,
the
chapters
,
the
first
,
and
second
lessons
,
the
Epistles
,
and
Gospels
;
they
think
that
,
a
matter
not
onely
needlesse
,
but
some
,
seeing
it
so
omitted
by
their
owne
and
other
Pastors
,
hold
it
to
be
a
matter
of
needlesse
formality
;
and
some
,
of
superstition
.
I
am
no
Patron
of
an
vnlearned
Ministery
;
neither
come
I
hither
to
plead
the
cause
of
such
as
are
ignorant
and
onely
reading
Ministers
;
if
the
Land
could
be
without
them
,
it
were
no
matter
if
there
were
none
of
them
:
but
as
I
blesse
God
for
those
places
which
are
already
furnished
;
so
do
I
with
my
soule
wish
to
all
places
&
Parishes
that
want
them
,
such
Pastors
and
Ministers
,
as
know
how
to
diuide
the
word
of
God
aright
,
to
breake
the
childrens
bread
,
&
to
giue
to
euery
of
them
his
portion
in
due
season
.
I
am
no
enemy
to
preaching
;
which
I
acknowledge
to
be
the
ordinary
and
most
effectuall
meanes
of
mans
saluation
:
I
enuy
not
to
the
people
of
God
,
the
blessed
benefit
and
fruit
of
preaching
;
but
yet
withall
,
and
together
with
preaching
,
I
wish
also
that
publique
praying
,
and
frequent
reading
of
Gods
word
,
were
more
vsed
than
they
are
.
For
although
preaching
be
a
more
excellent
way
to
winne
soules
to
God
,
and
although
the
word
preached
,
be
incomparably
a
more
effectuall
and
powerfull
meanes
,
for
our
new
birth
,
&
conuersion
to
God
,
than
it
is
when
it
is
onely
read
,
and
not
opened
,
and
expounded
vnto
vs
;
yet
hath
the
bare
reading
,
and
hearing
thereof
,
when
it
is
read
,
many
excellent
vses
,
and
doth
many
times
leaue
a
blessing
behind
it
.
Wee
must
so
preferre
or
commend
the
preaching
of
the
word
,
before
the
bare
reading
thereof
,
that
we
doe
not
disgrace
the
one
,
in
commending
the
other
.
Wee
prefer
preaching
before
reading
,
not
as
if
wee
preferred
a
good
thing
before
that
which
is
euill
;
but
as
a
thing
which
is
more
good
,
to
a
good
thing
,
that
is
lesse
good
:
for
both
of
them
are
good
.
They
are
therefore
too
blame
,
that
in
praysing
the
one
,
labour
to
disparage
the
other
;
for
by
both
of
them
the
soule
may
be
edified
.
Faith
commeth
by
hearing
,
hearing
by
the
word
of
God
;
which
whether
it
be
read
,
or
preached
,
neuer
worketh
in
vaine
;
but
like
fire
,
taketh
hold
of
all
matter
which
is
apt
to
nourish
it
,
&
to
be
inflamed
by
it
.
Christ
commaundeth
vs
to
search
the
Scriptures
;
not
because
they
stand
vpon
the
Preachers
authority
,
or
warrant
,
but
for
that
themselues
in
their
owne
heauenly
strength
,
beare
witnes
,
and
haue
a
cleere
and
powerful
record
of
him
.
And
that
testimony
of
Dauid
in
the
119.
Psalme
,
Thy
word
,
O
Lord
,
is
a
lanthorne
to
my
feet
,
and
a
light
to
my
steppes
,
is
not
to
be
limited
and
restrained
onely
to
the
word
when
it
is
preached
and
expounded
,
but
is
verefied
also
of
the
word
of
God
in
generall
:
and
therefore
of
it
also
,
euen
then
when
it
is
but
read
by
vs
,
or
vnto
vs
.
It
is
with
the
Scriptures
as
with
sweet
Spices
;
they
smell
most
sweetly
when
they
are
beaten
,
or
grated
,
or
pounded
in
a
morter
:
yet
are
they
not
voyd
of
all
sweetnes
,
when
they
are
but
gently
rubbed
,
and
bruised
,
or
handled
with
the
hand
:
so
though
they
are
indeed
most
sweet
&
fragrant
when
they
are
diuided
,
and
expounded
by
preaching
,
yet
must
we
not
deny
them
simply
to
haue
any
sweetnes
or
fragancie
in
them
,
when
they
are
but
read
vnto
vs
.
For
Gods
truth
is
in
the
Scriptures
,
not
as
the
kernell
is
in
the
nut
,
which
by
no
meanes
can
be
come-by
till
the
shell
be
broken
,
for
some
parts
thereof
haue
no
shell
at
all
:
they
are
plaine
;
&
the
sweet
kernell
,
the
true
sense
of
them
,
may
be
tasted
,
or
attained
vnto
,
by
the
serious
and
diligent
reading
of
them
onely
;
although
some
other
parts
thereof
be
inuolued
,
and
wrapped
about
with
shells
of
difficulty
and
obscuritie
,
which
must
be
broken
by
learned
exposition
and
interpretation
.
If
it
be
obiected
,
that
this
our
Eunuch
could
not
vnderstand
what
hee
read
(
for
,
saith
hee
,
How
should
I
vnderderstand
without
an
Interpreter
,
or
vnlesse
I
had
a
guide
?
)
so
ignorant
men
can
take
little
profit
in
reading
,
or
hearing
the
word
read
,
vnlesse
it
be
expounded
vnto
them
:
My
answer
thereunto
is
,
that
though
he
vnderstood
not
that
part
,
or
those
words
of
the
Prophet
Esay
,
which
he
then
read
,
which
did
indeed
containe
in
them
such
a
mysterie
,
as
no
eye
but
the
eye
of
faith
could
pearce
into
,
as
I
said
before
;
yet
might
hee
vnderstand
many
other
parts
of
that
prophecie
:
and
so
his
bare
or
onely
reading
therof
,
was
not
in
vaine
,
or
vnprofitable
vnto
him
.
And
farther
I
answer
,
that
there
is
great
difference
between
such
as
haue
neuer
heard
of
Christ
,
of
faith
,
or
of
the
word
of
God
(
such
as
are
heathen
people
&
Infidels
,
who
indeed
without
an
Interpreter
cannot
much
profit
by
reading
)
and
between
such
,
who
beeing
borne
of
Christian
Parents
,
haue
(
as
it
were
)
suckt
religion
with
the
milke
of
their
mothers
;
and
therefore
by
continual
exhortation
of
their
Parents
,
and
by
their
good
example
,
by
beeing
catechised
in
the
principles
of
Christian
religion
,
and
in
some
sort
instructed
euen
of
children
,
as
they
are
among
vs
,
Gods
Name
be
therefore
glorified
;
I
say
betweene
Infidell
and
heathen
people
,
and
vs
,
the
case
is
diuerse
:
for
wee
may
euen
by
reading
onely
of
the
Scriptures
,
or
hearing
them
read
,
in
some
measure
profit
in
the
knowledge
of
the
truth
.
To
conclude
this
point
,
against
their
exceptions
that
speake
against
reading
,
without
learned
exposition
;
it
is
most
certaine
,
that
Scripture
read
,
and
Scripture
expounded
,
chapters
read
,
and
chapters
expounded
,
sentences
read
,
and
sentences
preached
on
,
&
expounded
,
haue
all
of
them
,
one
and
the
same
passage
to
the
soule
,
outwardly
by
the
sense
of
hearing
,
and
inwardly
by
the
assent
of
the
iudgement
and
vnderstanding
:
the
text
is
one
and
the
same
,
that
is
,
the
word
of
God
;
the
Schoolemaster
is
the
same
,
the
Spirit
of
instruction
;
the
meanes
the
same
,
that
is
,
attention
;
the
helps
the
same
,
which
are
godly
motions
;
the
fruite
the
same
,
that
is
,
peace
of
conscience
;
and
the
end
,
though
not
in
degree
,
yet
in
some
proportion
,
the
same
,
that
is
,
edification
.
4
In
the
fourth
place
,
I
am
now
to
speake
of
Philips
performance
of
that
duty
,
and
seruice
,
to
which
he
was
appointed
by
the
Angell
:
ver.
30.
And
Philip
came
thither
,
and
heard
him
read
the
Prophet
Esaias
.
And
,
ver.
35.
Hee
opened
his
mouth
,
and
began
at
the
same
Scripture
,
and
preached
vnto
him
Iesus
.
In
which
words
,
wee
may
obserue
three
circumstances
.
1.
First
,
Gods
ordinance
;
who
was
pleased
to
vse
the
preaching
of
Philip
,
and
not
the
helpe
of
the
Angel
,
for
this
Eunuch's
conuersion
.
2.
Secondly
,
I
obserue
Philips
readinesse
,
and
godly
discretion
;
who
tooke
the
present
occasion
,
beginning
at
that
Scripture
which
the
Eunuch
then
read
,
of
opening
his
mouth
,
and
preaching
vnto
him
.
3.
Thirdly
,
I
consider
what
it
was
that
he
spake
and
vttered
when
he
opened
his
mouth
.
Hee
preached
vnto
him
Iesus
.
For
the
first
;
Philip
opened
his
mouth
and
preached
Iesus
.
Not
the
Angel
,
but
Philip.
In
the
building
of
the
Church
,
it
pleaseth
God
to
preferre
the
seruice
of
men
before
the
seruice
of
Angels
;
and
to
chuse
,
that
his
holy
and
heauenlie
truth
,
contained
in
his
word
,
should
rather
be
manifested
&
made
knowne
by
earthly
and
sinfull
men
,
than
by
celestiall
and
holy
Angels
.
And
therefore
,
although
our
Sauiour
had
the
Angels
at
commaund
,
so
that
he
could
haue
commaunded
and
imployed
whole
legions
of
them
,
if
he
had
listed
,
in
that
seruice
;
yet
in
the
busines
of
preaching
his
Gospel
,
and
the
divulgation
of
his
holy
and
sauing
truth
vnto
the
sonnes
of
men
,
he
chose
rather
to
vse
the
help
and
ministery
of
men
,
than
of
Angels
;
of
his
Disciples
and
Apostles
,
than
of
those
holy
and
blessed
spirits
.
Paul
was
conuerted
,
not
by
the
instruction
and
ministery
of
an
Angel
,
but
by
the
preaching
of
Ananias
.
Cornelius
was
wonne
to
the
faith
,
not
by
an
Angel
,
but
by
the
preaching
of
Peter
.
The
whole
world
afterwards
was
brought
to
beleeue
in
Christ
,
not
by
Angels
,
but
by
men
.
And
here
this
noble
Eunuch
is
conuerted
,
not
by
the
Angel
,
but
by
the
preaching
of
Philip.
Philip
opened
his
mouth
,
&c.
A
reason
whereof
may
be
this
:
As
our
Redemption
was
to
be
wrought
,
and
was
performed
,
onely
in
the
nature
of
man
,
and
not
of
Angels
;
no
more
was
the
preaching
of
the
said
Redemption
to
be
declared
by
an
Angel
,
or
any
other
creature
,
saue
onelie
by
man
.
And
this
reason
the
Apostle
seemeth
to
vse
,
2
Cor.
5.18
.
when
hee
saith
,
All
things
are
of
God
,
which
hath
reconciled
vs
vnto
himselfe
by
Iesus
Christ
,
and
hath
giuen
vnto
vs
the
ministery
of
reconciliation
.
From
hence
we
may
&
must
learne
this
lesson
:
Seeing
it
is
the
proper
and
peculiar
dutie
of
the
Minister
to
expound
Scripture
,
That
although
it
be
most
true
,
that
God
who
is
almightie
,
and
therefore
can
doe
all
things
,
and
that
in
such
sort
,
and
after
such
manner
as
he
listeth
,
either
by
order
,
or
by
miracle
,
by
means
,
or
without
means
;
Yet
in
the
course
of
our
conuersion
,
&
the
work
of
our
regeneration
,
we
must
not
expect
when
God
will
send
an
angel
from
heauen
to
instruct
vs
,
or
when
hee
will
immediatly
and
miraculously
call
vs
,
and
worke
our
conuersion
vnto
him
;
but
must
content
our selues
,
&
make
our
best
vse
of
those
meanes
,
which
God
in
mercy
offereth
vs
,
by
the
ministery
and
preaching
of
such
,
as
he
hath
by
his
owne
dispensation
&
holy
designment
,
appointed
to
waite
vpon
his
Altar
,
to
attend
his
seruice
and
by
preaching
of
his
word
,
to
beget
sonnes
and
daughters
vnto
him
.
And
therefore
,
if
wee
desire
either
to
knowe
,
or
to
beleeue
in
God
,
wee
must
attaine
to
that
knowledge
,
and
to
that
faith
,
by
the
onely
effectuall
meanes
of
the
word
of
God
,
and
by
the
Ministerie
and
help
of
such
men
,
as
God
hath
set
aparte
for
the
worke
of
the
Ministerie
,
and
for
the
gathering
together
of
the
Saints
,
which
is
the
institution
and
holy
ordinance
of
God
himselfe
.
For
this
is
Gods
own
appointment
,
and
his
owne
holy
ordinance
,
That
as
children
should
expect
&
receiue
,
from
their
corporall
Parents
and
Fathers
of
their
bodies
,
such
corporall
foode
as
is
needful
for
the
nourishment
of
their
bodies
;
So
they
should
likewise
expect
,
and
receiue
from
their
Pastors
and
spirituall
Fathers
,
such
as
are
appointed
by
God
to
beget
them
in
Christ
through
the
Gospell
,
such
spirituall
food
of
knowledge
,
&
instruction
,
as
is
needfull
for
the
spiritual
nourishment
of
their
soules
,
and
consciences
.
And
this
was
the
manner
and
custome
,
in
former
and
ancient
times
,
they
were
wont
to
go
to
the
Prophets
,
and
men
of
God
,
for
resolution
of
their
doubts
,
and
for
comfort
in
their
heauinesse
.
For
resolution
in
their
doubts
.
The
Priests
lippes
should
preserue
knowledge
,
and
they
should
seek
the
law
at
his
mouth
,
Mala.
2.7
.
So
doth
the
Eunuch
,
in
this
place
,
desire
Philip
that
he
would
tell
him
the
meaning
of
these
words
of
the
Prophet
,
which
without
an
interpreter
or
a
guide
,
he
acknowledgeth
that
he
could
not
vnderstand
.
For
comfort
in
their
heauiness
.
One
example
for
many
,
The
Shunamite
trauelled
to
mount
Carmell
,
to
Elisha
the
Prophet
,
when
her
soule
was
full
of
heauinesse
for
the
death
of
her
onely
sonne
;
and
shee
was
comforted
.
4.
King
.
4.
The
reason
,
why
both
in
former
,
and
later
times
,
and
indeed
why
in
all
times
,
men
and
women
should
repaire
to
the
Prophets
&
Ministers
of
God
,
both
for
the
resolution
of
their
doubts
,
and
for
comfort
in
their
heauinesse
,
is
,
because
They
haue
,
or
should
haue
,
a
tongue
of
the
learned
,
and
should
knowe
to
minister
a
word
in
due
time
to
him
that
is
wearie
:
They
haue
,
or
should
haue
the
balm
of
Gilead
,
wherewith
the
sores
,
and
wounds
of
Gods
people
should
be
cured
,
and
healed
:
They
haue
,
or
should
haue
in
store
Vinum
merentibus
,
the
wine
of
comfort
and
consolation
,
for
them
that
mourne
and
are
heauie
hearted
.
And
therefore
to
end
this
point
,
my
exhortation
shall
bee
this
vnto
you
;
When
you
read
any
thing
that
is
hard
,
which
you
desire
to
vnderstand
,
but
cannot
:
When
any
great
&
grieuous
crosse
&
calamity
befalleth
you
,
and
you
are
ignorant
of
the
meanes
,
and
knowe
not
how
to
be
eased
:
When
you
groane
vnder
the
burthen
of
your
sinnes
,
and
finde
the
hand
of
God
heauy
vpon
you
,
so
that
you
find
not
in
your selues
,
the
grounds
of
sound
comfort
:
When
any
great
and
violent
temptation
which
you
cannot
encounter
,
taketh
fast
holde
vpon
you
,
so
that
you
finde
it
too
strong
for
you
:
To
conclude
,
when
feare
and
anguish
afflict
your
soules
,
&
your
consciences
be
troubled
,
so
that
you
know
not
how
to
lay
your selues
downe
in
peace
:
Then
desire
some
Philip
that
hee
will
come
&
sit
with
you
,
desire
some
of
Gods
learned
and
faithfull
Ministers
,
that
they
will
abide
with
you
,
and
conferre
with
you
,
that
so
they
may
resolue
your
doubts
,
and
ease
your
griefes
.
But
heere
I
might
take
vp
a
iust
complaint
,
and
lament
the
state
of
these
times
,
wherein
there
is
so
little
,
or
almost
no
vse
at
all
of
conference
,
either
in
secular
learning
,
wherein
men
are
loath
to
conferre
with
such
as
are
more
learned
then
themselues
,
least
they
should
bewray
their
owne
ignorance
;
or
in
points
of
faith
,
and
cases
of
conscience
,
with
Gods
Ministers
,
least
they
should
thereby
discouer
to
them
their
errors
,
and
imperfections
.
But
this
complaint
may
sooner
bee
made
,
than
it
can
bee
remedied
.
The
second
thing
I
noted
in
these
later
words
,
is
Philips
readinesse
,
and
his
godly
discretion
:
his
readinesse
,
in
that
hee
presently
followed
the
direction
and
appointment
of
the
Spirit
,
in
respect
whereof
,
it
is
here
said
,
that
he
came
to
his
chariot
.
His
godly
discretion
,
in
that
hee
tooke
the
present
occasion
,
and
began
at
that
very
Scripture
which
the
Eunuch
then
read
,
and
preached
Christ
vnto
him
.
From
hence
,
we
that
are
Ministers
,
may
learne
this
lesson
;
To
take
all
occasions
that
are
offered
vnto
vs
,
speedily
to
doe
good
,
to
cut-off
long
and
vnnecessarie
prefaces
,
and
discourses
,
and
to
go
roundly
and
directly
to
the
matter
,
not
to
holde
our
Auditors
in
the
Church
porch
,
when
wee
should
bring
them
into
the
Church
it selfe
,
not
to
stay
them
in
atrio
templi
,
in
the
outwarde
court
of
the
Temple
,
but
speedily
to
leade
them
in
sanctum
sanctorum
,
into
the
holiest
of
holies
,
where
the
Mercy
seate
standeth
;
not
to
lead
them
along
,
by
tedious
&
wearisome
paths
,
but
to
bring
them
the
straightest
&
nearest
way
to
Christ
,
to
take
all
opportunities
of
doing
them
good
.
And
you
also
that
are
Auditours
,
may
from
hence
learne
,
with
the
like
alacritie
and
speed
,
to
heare
,
and
to
receiue
those
good
tidings
and
doctrines
which
are
preached
vnto
you
,
and
to
striue
euen
at
the
first
hearing
of
them
,
to
embrace
and
lay
hold
of
them
,
with
the
hand
of
faith
,
as
here
this
Eunuch
did
.
The
third
thing
I
noted
in
these
later
words
,
is
,
what
it
was
that
he
vttered
and
spake
,
when
hee
opened
his
mouth
:
He
preached
vnto
him
Iesus
.
In
these
wordes
I
obserue
two
things
:
first
,
here
is
not
set
downe
at
large
the
Sermon
which
Philip
made
to
this
Eunuch
,
neither
are
the
words
of
that
discourse
which
Philip
had
with
him
at
that
time
,
here
mentioned
.
Indeede
it
is
true
,
that
all
the
Sermons
and
exhortations
of
the
Apostles
,
and
disciples
of
Christ
,
are
not
verbatim
,
word
for
word
,
set
downe
in
the
Scripture
,
but
onely
per
summa
capita
,
the
chiefe
points
only
;
and
such
generall
and
chiefe
heads
,
as
the
Spirit
of
God
thought
meete
,
they
are
remembred
,
and
set
downe
vnto
vs
.
Paul
and
Silas
preached
to
the
keeper
of
the
prison
,
and
to
all
his
househould
,
the
word
of
the
Lord
,
Act.
16.32
.
but
his
Sermon
is
not
set
down
at
large
:
but
the
summe
and
substance
of
it
,
is
set
downe
in
the
verse
going
before
,
namely
,
the
30.
verse
,
Beleeue
in
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
and
thou
shalt
be
saued
,
and
thine
houshould
.
In
the
2.
of
the
Acts
,
when
they
mocked
,
and
saide
that
the
Apostles
were
full
of
new
wine
,
what
time
they
being
full
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
beganne
to
speake
with
diuers
tongues
;
Peter
,
when
he
had
reprooued
them
,
and
instructed
them
what
they
should
think
of
that
miracle
,
and
exhorted
them
to
haue
a
care
of
themselues
,
and
their
owne
soules
,
so
that
they
began
to
be
pricked
in
their
hearts
,
and
said
,
Men
and
brethren
,
what
shall
we
doe
;
then
he
said
vnto
them
,
Amend
your
liues
,
and
be
baptized
euery
one
of
you
,
in
the
name
of
Iesus
Christ
,
for
the
remission
of
sins
.
And
then
it
followeth
,
verse
40.
And
with
many
other
words
he
besought
and
exhorted
them
:
Which
many
other
words
,
are
not
set
downe
in
that
place
,
or
there
mentioned
;
yet
the
summe
and
substance
,
the
principall
scope
of
them
,
and
the
maine
drift
of
Saint
Peter
,
is
set
downe
and
contained
in
these
few
words
which
go
immediately
before
,
Amend
your
liues
,
and
bee
baptized
euery
one
of
you
,
in
the
name
of
Iesus
Christ
for
the
remission
of
sinnes
.
And
so
in
this
place
it
is
saide
,
that
Philip
preached
to
this
Eunuch
:
the
words
of
which
Sermon
,
with
all
the
parts
and
passages
thereof
,
are
not
set
down
;
as
may
be
euidently
discerned
,
in
that
no
mention
being
made
in
this
chapter
of
baptisme
,
or
of
water
,
yet
this
noble
Eunuch
when
hee
saw
water
,
saide
to
Philip
;
See
,
here
is
water
,
what
doth
hinder
me
to
be
baptized
.
And
yet
this
proueth
not
the
Scriptures
to
be
maimed
,
or
vnperfect
,
as
our
Aduersaries
would
willingly
haue
the
world
beleeue
;
forasmuch
as
there
is
so
much
set
downe
in
Scripture
,
as
is
any
way
needfull
and
necessarie
for
our
saluation
.
So
that
although
we
haue
not
all
the
Sermons
,
which
the
Prophets
,
&
Apostles
of
Christ
preached
,
word
by
word
,
and
at
large
set
downe
and
deliuered
vnto
vs
in
Gods
booke
:
yet
it
may
and
ought
to
suffice
vs
to
know
,
that
God
in
his
wisedome
hath
so
disposed
,
that
so
much
of
their
heauenly
discourses
and
Sermons
is
set
downe
vnto
vs
,
as
might
serue
to
direct
vs
in
the
knowledge
and
worship
of
God
,
and
might
further
Gods
glorie
in
vs
,
and
our
saluation
.
And
therefore
there
is
no
cause
at
all
,
why
wee
should
listen
to
the
enchantments
of
Rome
,
or
giue
any
care
of
credite
and
beleefe
,
to
our
Aduersaries
the
Papists
,
when
they
tell
vs
,
that
in
som
things
the
Scriptures
come
short
,
in
some
things
they
are
silent
and
say
nothing
,
in
many
things
they
are
doubtfull
and
vncertaine
,
and
in
most
things
hard
,
and
full
of
obscurity
.
With
all
which
,
and
many
more
the
like
imputations
,
and
slanders
,
they
doe
loade
the
sacred
Scriptures
,
onely
to
this
ende
,
to
make
way
for
their
owne
deuises
,
and
to
establish
their
vnwritten
traditions
;
which
they
are
not
ashamed
to
match
and
equall
with
the
word
of
God
.
But
let
vs
learne
,
as
it
becommeth
vs
,
to
put
as
great
difference
between
the
sacred
and
written
word
of
God
,
and
the
vnwritten
doctrines
and
traditions
of
men
,
as
there
is
betweene
golde
and
brasse
,
betweene
siluer
and
the
dust
of
the
earth
.
And
howsoeuer
there
was
a
time
,
wherein
our
Forefathers
and
Ancetors
were
gulled
,
and
deceiued
with
the
fopperies
,
and
delusions
of
vnwritten
verities
and
traditions
,
yet
let
not
vs
be
so
deluded
.
For
want
of
bread
made
of
wheat
,
men
are
content
to
eat
bread
made
of
rie
;
&
for
want
of
bread
made
of
rie
,
to
eate
oaten-cakes
:
but
yet
it
doth
not
follow
,
that
the
one
is
as
wholesome
as
the
other
;
and
when
you
may
haue
of
the
best
,
that
you
should
choose
the
worst
.
So
it
is
betweene
the
word
of
God
,
and
traditions
of
men
:
when
bread
of
wheate
,
that
is
,
the
worde
of
God
,
was
kept
away
from
our
fathers
,
in
an
vnknowne
tongue
,
then
was
bread
of
rie
and
oates
sauorie
to
their
hungry
soules
;
for
the
soule
is
like
the
stomacke
,
it
must
be
fed
,
and
it
euermore
desireth
somewhat
that
belongeth
to
religion
and
saluation
:
but
now
seeing
bread
of
pure
wheat
,
that
is
,
the
word
of
God
,
is
by
Gods
mercy
set
before
vs
,
let
vs
not
inuentis
frugibus
glandibus
vesci
,
eate
acornes
when
we
may
eate
wheate
;
and
forsaking
the
holy
and
wholesome
written
word
of
God
,
basely
feede
vpon
the
vnsauorie
,
vnwholsome
,
vnwritten
traditions
,
of
inconstant
,
and
corruptible
men
.
But
rather
as
it
is
said
,
Act.
19.
Paul
I
know
,
and
Iesus
I
know
,
but
who
are
yee
?
So
let
vs
say
to
Traditions
,
the
olde
Testament
wee
knowe
,
and
the
new
Testament
wee
knowe
,
but
who
are
yee
?
We
know
the
olde
Testament
,
and
the
new
;
the
Law
and
the
Gospell
to
be
those
two
dugges
or
breasts
,
which
yeeld
milke
sufficient
for
the
nourishment
of
any
that
are
babes
,
and
children
in
Christ
.
We
know
the
olde
Testament
,
&
the
new
,
the
Law
and
the
Gospell
,
to
be
those
two
pence
,
spoken
of
,
Luke
10.35
.
which
are
able
to
pay
for
,
and
to
discharge
any
surgerie
,
and
physicke
,
which
our
sicke
soules
may
need
,
and
to
heale
all
the
wounds
,
all
the
sinnes
and
transgressions
thereof
.
We
know
the
olde
Testament
and
the
new
,
the
Law
and
the
Gospell
,
to
be
those
two
swordes
,
spoken
of
,
Luk.
22.38
.
of
which
our
Sauiour
there
said
,
They
are
enough
:
for
indeed
they
are
enough
,
both
for
the
assaulting
of
whatsoeuer
enemies
,
and
for
the
defence
of
our selues
.
And
therfore
,
let
them
speake
as
gloriously
as
they
can
of
their
vnwritten
traditions
,
and
magnifie
them
as
they
list
;
we
will
onely
build
our
faith
vpon
the
holy
and
written
worde
of
God
:
this
shall
bee
our
onely
guide
in
matters
of
faith
,
Sic
dicit
Dominus
,
thus
saith
the
Lord
.
And
yet
wee
doe
not
contemne
the
voyce
of
Antiquitie
,
wee
scorne
not
either
the
writings
or
opinions
of
the
Fathers
,
but
gladly
vse
them
,
and
reuerently
esteeme
of
them
,
and
giue
vnto
them
,
as
much
credit
,
as
themselues
desire
should
bee
giuen
vnto
them
:
that
is
,
as
farre
forth
as
they
agree
with
Gods
word
,
wee
reuerence
them
,
and
subscribe
vnto
them
,
&
no
further
;
because
we
dare
not
vnder
their
banner
fight
against
God
,
or
vnder
their
countenance
out-face
his
truth
.
This
is
a
good
rule
,
In
the
writings
of
the
Fathers
,
that
which
is
prooued
out
of
the
Scriptures
,
is
Vox
Dei
,
the
voyce
of
God
;
that
which
is
probably
spoken
and
deliuered
,
is
Vox
hominis
,
the
voyce
of
man
;
that
which
is
affirmed
falsly
,
is
Vox
serpentis
,
the
voyce
of
the
Serpent
.
And
as
wee
are
to
stop
our
ears
,
&
to
deny
all
consent
to
that
which
is
falsely
deliuered
;
so
are
wee
not
to
open
our
eares
,
or
to
giue
any
farther
consent
,
to
those
things
which
are
probably
deliuered
in
the
case
of
Religion
,
and
matters
of
Faith
,
than
as
they
may
bee
either
directly
prooued
,
or
necessarily
,
and
strongly
collected
,
and
deduced
,
out
of
the
written
word
of
God
.
In
the
3.
of
King
.
1.
when
contention
was
between
Adoniah
and
Salomon
,
who
should
bee
King
after
Dauid
;
with
Adoniah
stoode
Abiathar
the
Priest
,
and
Ioab
the
Captaine
;
with
Salomon
stood
Zadock
the
Priest
,
and
the
mighty
men
,
which
were
with
Dauid
:
Here
were
Priests
,
against
Priests
;
mighty
men
,
against
mighty
men
:
Bathsheba
the
mother
of
Salomon
seeing
this
contention
knew
not
what
to
doe
.
Nathan
the
Prophet
therefore
said
vnto
her
,
Come
I
wil
giue
thee
counsell
to
saue
thy
life
,
and
the
life
of
thy
sonne
Salomon
:
so
hee
willed
her
to
goe
to
Dauid
the
King
,
and
of
himselfe
to
learne
his
pleasure
in
that
businesse
.
Thus
the
case
standeth
with
Relion
at
this
day
;
Adoniah
standeth
against
Salomon
,
Antichrist
against
Christ
;
Ioab
the
Captaine
,
and
Abiathar
the
Priest
are
on
the
one
side
,
and
Zadock
the
Priest
,
and
the
mighty
men
of
Dauid
on
the
other
side
,
mighty
men
against
mighty
men
,
Priests
against
Priests
,
great
men
on
both
sides
.
You
therefore
,
like
Bathsheba
are
diuided
in
your
opinions
,
and
distracted
in
your
iudgement
:
harken
therefore
to
Nathan
the
Prophet
,
who
doth
giue
you
counsell
to
saue
your
liues
,
and
the
liues
of
your
sons
and
daughters
;
In
these
matters
of
controuersie
,
in
these
matters
of
faith
,
goe
to
Dauid
himselfe
,
goe
to
God
himselfe
,
looke
and
obserue
what
he
hath
set
downe
in
his
holy
word
,
and
what
hee
hath
decreed
touching
matters
of
faith
,
&
and
hold
that
fast
;
and
as
for
vnwritten
traditions
,
and
vnwritten
verities
,
let
them
passe
,
for
they
are
not
of
necessitie
to
be
beleeued
,
they
binde
not
your
consciences
.
He
preached
vnto
him
Iesus
.
Secondly
,
by
occasion
of
these
words
,
I
obserue
,
that
the
summe
and
substance
of
Philips
Sermon
to
this
Eunuch
,
is
contained
in
this
one
word
,
Iesus
.
It
is
most
true
indeed
,
that
the
sum
and
substance
,
the
marrow
and
pith
,
the
power
and
life
of
all
our
Sermons
and
preaching
vnto
you
,
is
grounded
and
contained
in
this
one
word
Iesus
,
the
second
person
in
Trinitie
,
the
Son
of
God
.
For
,
as
all
the
lines
which
either
are
,
or
may
be
drawn
in
a
round
or
circular
figure
,
though
they
be
infinit
,
yet
all
of
them
haue
terminum
suum
in
centro
,
they
all
meet
,
and
are
terminated
in
the
middle
point
or
center
of
the
circle
:
so
all
the
lines
and
rules
of
faith
,
and
of
religion
,
and
all
the
parts
of
Gods
holy
&
diuine
truth
,
though
they
be
otherwise
,
and
in
themselues
,
infinite
;
yet
all
of
them
haue
terminum
suum
in
centro
,
they
all
meet
,
and
are
terminated
in
Christ
Iesus
,
who
is
the
very
center
and
foundation
of
all
truth
.
And
as
all
the
Axioms
&
precepts
of
euery
Art
and
Science
,
if
they
be
rightly
and
duly
deliuered
,
haue
relationem
ad
subiectum
,
a
true
dependence
,
or
necessary
reference
to
the
Subiect
of
euery
the
said
Arts
&
Sciences
:
so
all
the
axioms
of
pietie
and
godlinesse
,
all
the
precepts
and
rules
of
religion
,
and
all
the
directions
and
counsels
which
in
our
Sermons
and
preaching
either
are
,
or
can
be
deliuered
vnto
you
,
they
haue
all
of
them
relationem
ad
subiectum
,
a
most
direct
aspect
,
and
necessary
reference
to
Iesus
Christ
,
who
is
primum
et
primarium
subiectum
Euangelij
,
the
first
and
primarie
subiect
of
the
Gospel
.
Saint
Paul
,
as
he
esteemed
to
know
nothing
saue
Iesus
Christ
,
and
him
crucified
,
1
Cor.
2.2
.
&
as
he
reioyced
in
nothing
else
but
onely
in
the
crosse
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
whereby
the
world
was
crucified
to
him
,
and
he
to
the
world
,
Gala.
6.14
:
so
in
substance
and
in
effect
,
he
preached
nothing
but
Iesus
Christ
,
and
him
crucified
.
Super
hanc
Petram
,
vpon
this
Rock
,
that
is
,
vpon
Christ
,
The
Rock
is
Christ
,
saith
S.
Paul
,
1
Cor.
10.4
.
Vpon
this
Rock
,
I
say
,
did
it
please
God
not
onto
build
his
whole
Church
,
but
also
euery
particular
,
euery
true
and
liuing
member
of
his
Church
.
Wee
are
Gods
labourers
,
saith
S.
Paul
,
and
you
are
Gods
building
:
and
according
to
the
grace
of
God
giuen
vnto
vs
,
some
of
vs
as
skilfull
Master-builders
,
others
lesse
skilfull
,
wee
lay
the
foundation
,
that
is
,
wee
build
you
vpon
Christ
.
For
other
foundation
can
no
man
lay
than
that
which
is
laid
,
which
is
Iesus
Christ
,
1
Cor.
3.11
.
Who
is
rightlie
tearmed
a
foundation
,
because
he
supporteth
and
beareth
vp
all
the
building
.
As
in
a
great
house
or
building
,
the
roofe
thereof
is
supported
and
borne
vp
by
the
walls
,
the
walls
by
the
beames
and
timber
thereof
;
and
both
roofe
,
and
walls
,
and
beames
,
&
timber
,
and
all
other
parts
,
are
borne
vp
and
supported
by
the
foundation
:
so
in
the
spirituall
building
vp
of
our
soules
into
a
holy
temple
to
God
,
the
roofe
,
the
walls
,
the
beames
,
and
timber
of
that
building
,
our
faith
,
our
hope
,
our
adoption
,
the
remission
of
our
sinnes
,
and
lastly
,
the
beautifull
&
glorious
roofe
and
couering
of
all
this
building
,
to
wit
,
the
decking
,
the
couering
,
and
crowning
of
our
soules
with
saluation
in
heauen
,
euen
all
of
these
,
are
supported
and
borne
vp
by
the
foundation
,
which
is
Christ
,
Iesus
.
Excellent
,
and
to
this
purpose
most
pregnant
,
is
the
beginning
of
the
first
chapter
of
the
Epistle
to
the
Ephesians
;
where
the
Apostle
most
plainly
sheweth
,
that
our
election
,
our
adoption
,
our
redemption
,
the
remission
of
our
sinnes
,
and
our
benediction
and
blessing
in
spirituall
gifts
and
graces
,
that
all
of
these
are
founded
and
grounded
vpon
the
person
of
Christ
.
For
our
election
;
Blessed
be
GOD
,
that
hath
chosen
vs
in
Christ
before
the
foundation
of
the
world
.
ver.
4.
For
our
adoption
;
to
be
adopted
through
Iesus
Christ
vnto
himselfe
.
v.
5.
For
our
redemption
;
by
whom
wee
haue
redemption
.
ver.
7.
For
the
remission
of
our
sinnes
;
by
whose
bloud
wee
haue
the
forgiuenesse
of
our
sinnes
.
ver.
7.
For
our
benediction
and
blessing
in
spirituall
gifts
&
graces
;
Blessed
be
God
,
which
hath
blessed
vs
in
all
spirituall
blessings
in
heauenly
things
in
Christ
.
ver.
3.
Christ
is
made
vnto
vs
,
saith
the
same
Apostle
,
wisedome
,
and
righteousnes
,
and
sanctification
,
&
redemption
.
1
Cor.
1.30
.
Runne
(
if
you
please
)
through
the
whole
volume
of
Gods
booke
,
take
a
view
and
suruey
of
the
whole
summe
and
substance
of
our
saluation
,
and
of
all
those
spirituall
graces
that
further
the
same
;
and
you
shall
finde
all
and
euery
of
them
,
wholly
and
onely
in
the
person
of
Christ
.
If
wee
seeke
for
innocencie
,
it
is
to
be
found
in
his
Natiuitie
.
If
for
purity
,
it
is
to
be
found
in
his
Conception
.
If
for
freedom
from
the
Curse
,
it
is
to
be
found
in
his
Crosse
.
If
for
satisfaction
,
it
is
to
be
found
in
his
Sacrifice
.
If
for
absolution
,
it
is
in
his
Condemnation
.
If
for
purgation
,
it
is
in
his
Bloud
.
If
for
redemption
,
it
is
in
his
Passion
.
If
for
mortification
,
it
is
in
his
Buriall
.
If
for
newnesse
of
life
,
it
is
in
his
Resurrection
.
If
for
an
inheritance
in
heauen
,
it
is
in
his
Ascension
.
If
for
security
and
safety
at
the
day
of
Iudgement
,
to
him
the
Father
hath
committed
all
iudgement
.
Lastly
,
if
for
saluation
,
it
is
in
Christ
;
in
whom
who-soeuer
beleeueth
,
shall
not
perish
,
but
haue
euerlasting
life
.
In
Christ
,
by
Christ
,
for
Christ
,
through
Christ
;
so
runneth
the
whole
current
and
streame
of
the
holy
Scriptures
.
So
doe
we
confirme
and
strengthen
our
faith
;
so
doe
we
back
and
fortifie
all
our
hopes
;
so
doe
wee
season
and
sweeten
all
our
comforts
;
so
doe
wee
intermix
and
conclude
all
our
prayers
.
5
In
the
fift
or
last
place
,
we
haue
to
consider
the
effects
which
this
Eunuch's
own
reading
,
and
Philips
preaching
of
Iesus
,
wrought
in
him
.
And
they
are
three
:
1.
He
beleeued
.
2.
He
was
baptised
.
3.
He
reioyced
;
or
he
went
on
his
way
reioycing
.
That
he
beleeued
appeareth
by
his
answer
to
Philip
:
for
when
Philip
told
him
,
that
If
he
belieued
he
might
bee
baptised
;
hee
answered
and
said
,
I
belieue
that
Iesus
Christ
is
the
sonne
of
GOD
.
ver.
37.
Prima
vox
Christiani
,
est
Credo
.
The
first
word
that
euer
any
Christian
man
or
woman
speaketh
,
or
vttereth
as
a
Christian
,
is
,
Credo
,
I
beleeue
:
and
till
that
word
,
with
the
matter
and
substance
thereof
be
bred
,
and
begotten
in
the
soule
,
and
brought
foorth
&
vttered
by
the
mouth
&
tongue
of
man
,
no
man
is
or
can
be
rightly
tearmed
a
Christian
man
.
Till
such
time
as
we
belieue
,
Christ
is
not
formed
in
vs
:
and
till
such
time
as
Christ
be
formed
in
vs
,
we
haue
no
part
or
portion
in
him
;
wee
haue
no
title
to
the
couenant
of
God
;
we
haue
no
interest
in
the
promises
of
grace
;
we
can
lay
no
claime
to
Gods
mercy
.
Oleum
misericordiae
,
nisi
in
vase
fiduciae
,
Deus
non
ponit
.
Ber.
in
vigilia
natalis
do
.
Ser.
5.
Fides
est
porta
aurea
,
per
quam
Rex
gloriae
mentem
nostram
ingreditur
,
Faith
is
that
goulden
gate
,
by
which
the
King
of
glory
entreth
into
our
soules
.
By
this
gate
it
was
that
the
King
of
glorie
entred
into
the
heart
and
soule
of
this
noble
Eunuch
:
and
if
euer
hee
enter
into
vs
,
and
our
soules
,
by
this
gate
he
must
enter
.
Let
me
therefore
vse
the
words
of
Dauid
vnto
you
,
Lift
vp
your
heads
,
ye
gates
;
&
be
ye
lift
vp
ye
euerlasting
doors
,
and
the
King
of
glory
shall
come
in
.
1.
Effect
;
Hee
beleeued
.
Faithfull
and
blessed
Prince
,
faithfull
and
blessed
Eunuch
!
great
in
thy
birth
,
and
thy
nobility
,
but
farre
greater
in
thy
regeneration
and
new
birth
in
Christ
;
great
in
the
fauour
&
countenance
of
thy
Queene
and
Mistris
,
beeing
her
chiefe
Steward
,
but
farre
greater
in
the
fauour
and
countenance
of
thy
heauenly
King
,
thy
Master
and
Sauiour
;
great
in
the
imployments
of
thy
place
and
office
,
as
beeing
chiefe
ruler
and
disposer
of
a
Queenes
treasure
,
but
farre
greater
in
beeing
of
of
Christs
familie
,
&
entrusted
with
the
treasures
of
heauen
;
How
doest
thou
,
as
one
placed
in
some
high
and
eminent
seate
aboue
vs
,
and
aduanced
to
the
highest
honour
,
&
now
made
a
Saint
in
heauen
,
preach
vnto
vs
silly
creatures
on
the
earth
!
and
how
powerfully
dost
thou
schoole
vs
,
and
teach
vs
by
thy
example
,
to
goe
vp
to
Ierusalem
to
worship
God
,
to
reade
,
not
Esay
the
Prophet
onely
,
but
euen
the
whole
booke
of
God!
that
so
vsing
those
,
and
all
such
other
gratious
means
which
God
offereth
vnto
vs
,
for
the
illumination
of
our
darke
hearts
,
by
faith
,
as
thou
here
diddest
,
we
might
also
with
thee
in
time
be
enriched
with
that
precious
and
inestimable
treasure
of
a
true
faith
;
That
so
as
the
Spirit
of
God
witnesseth
of
thee
,
that
thou
diddest
beleeue
that
Iesus
Christ
was
the
Son
of
God
;
so
the
same
Spirit
might
beare
witnesse
to
our
spirits
,
that
wee
also
beleeue
.
But
herein
especially
doth
he
school
vs
;
and
in
schooling
vs
,
reproue
vs
;
and
in
reproouing
vs
,
shame
vs
.
For
first
,
if
hee
that
had
so
fewe
meanes
,
to
leade
him
to
the
knowledge
and
worshippe
of
God
,
doe
yet
notwithstanding
out-goe
vs
in
his
seruice
and
worship
,
who
doe
abound
with
all
gratious
and
needfull
helpes
that
may
leade
vs
thereunto
,
how
can
it
but
be
a
shame
vnto
vs
?
Secondly
,
if
he
that
dwelt
so
farre
off
,
as
Aethiopia
was
from
Ierusalem
,
refused
not
to
vndertake
so
long
&
so
tedious
a
iourney
,
to
trauell
thither
,
there
to
worship
God
;
How
can
it
choose
but
be
a
shame
to
vs
,
who
will
many
of
vs
,
scarce
goe
out
of
doores
,
or
wet
our
foote
in
trauelling
to
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
to
heare
his
word
,
and
to
worship
him
in
his
holy
Temple
?
Thirdly
,
if
he
,
at
one
only
Sermon
of
Philip
,
were
brought
to
knowe
,
and
to
beleeue
in
Christ
;
what
a
shame
is
it
for
vs
,
that
after
so
many
yeares
enioying
the
word
of
God
pulickely
taught
and
expounded
vnto
vs
,
and
after
so
many
and
almost
infinite
Sermons
that
haue
bin
preached
amongst
vs
,
there
should
yet
be
so
many
of
vs
,
that
are
not
wonne
to
the
seruice
of
God
,
and
faith
in
Christ
!
The
Lord
our
God
as
much
desireth
our
good
,
as
hee
did
the
good
of
this
Eunuch
:
The
word
of
God
is
as
mighty
in
operation
now
,
as
in
former
times
:
the
Spirit
of
God
worketh
with
the
word
preached
,
effectually
now
as
in
former
times
.
The
industrie
,
and
desire
of
Gods
Ministers
,
though
they
be
not
equall
to
the
Apostles
,
and
first
Fathers
of
the
Faith
,
who
because
the
Church
was
then
newly
to
bee
planted
,
had
Primitias
spiritus
sancti
,
the
first
fruits
,
and
the
more
eminent
and
powerfull
graces
of
Gods
Spirit
;
yet
are
they
such
,
as
might
in
some
degree
of
proportion
,
serue
to
beget
faith
now
,
as
in
former
times
:
and
yet
for
all
this
,
they
are
but
few
,
in
comparison
of
the
multitude
,
that
profite
in
faith
,
&
godlinesse
by
our
labours
.
The
cause
why
we
cannot
write
vpon
the
water
,
is
not
the
want
of
skill
,
nor
the
fault
of
the
pen
;
but
the
vnfitnesse
and
indisposition
of
the
water
:
So
the
reason
why
Gods
Spirit
preuaileth
not
in
vs
,
is
neither
any
default
in
God
,
or
defect
in
his
Spirit
,
or
weakenesse
in
his
word
,
or
disability
in
his
Ministers
;
but
onely
in
men
and
women
themselues
,
who
are
not
disposed
,
&
fitted
to
receiue
such
stamps
,
and
impressions
,
as
they
all
would
otherwise
imprint
,
and
leaue
in
them
.
For
surely
,
were
men
so
willing
,
&
so
prepared
,
as
this
noble
Eunuch
was
,
to
entertaine
the
Lord
Iesus
in
their
hearts
,
and
to
receiue
him
into
their
soules
by
faith
,
when
we
preach
him
vnto
them
,
then
would
our
preaching
bring
forth
in
them
the
like
precious
effect
;
and
many
more
of
them
,
than
now
doe
,
would
by
our
preaching
of
Iesus
vnto
them
,
be
brought
with
this
Eunuch
to
beleeue
in
him
,
and
to
bee
his
seruants
.
But
alas
,
the
more
is
the
pitie
,
many
of
vs
may
truly
say
,
with
Peter
,
We
haue
launched
out
into
the
deep
,
and
haue
let
fal
our
nets
to
make
a
draught
,
we
haue
trauelled
all
the
night
,
and
laboured
hard
,
and
yet
haue
taken
nothing
.
Many
of
vs
,
like
candles
,
doe
waste
and
consume
our selues
,
by
studying
,
and
preaching
,
to
giue
you
light
;
and
yet
many
of
you
,
for
all
that
,
doe
still
continue
,
and
remaine
in
darknes
.
Many
of
vs
,
like
busie
silke
wormes
,
weaue
out
our
owne
bowels
as
they
doe
in
making
of
silke
,
that
you
may
be
cloathed
in
silke
,
and
apparelled
with
the
precious
roabes
of
Christs
righteousnesse
;
and
yet
,
for
all
that
,
many
of
you
choose
rather
to
be
cloathed
with
your
owne
rags
,
&
with
the
garments
which
are
spotted
with
sin
,
and
stayned
and
defiled
with
iniquitie
.
What
can
the
husband-man
doe
more
,
than
till
his
land
,
and
sowe
his
seed
?
what
can
the
gardiner
do
more
to
his
figge-tree
,
than
ditch
round
about
it
,
and
dung
it
?
what
can
the
dresser
or
planter
of
a
vineyard
doe
more
for
it
,
than
place
it
in
a
fruitfull
hill
,
and
hedge
it
,
and
gather
out
the
stones
,
and
plant
it
with
the
best
plants
?
what
can
we
doe
more
,
than
preach
Iesus
vnto
you
?
Nullus
doctor
est
dator
boni
,
quod
docuerit
,
saith
Bar.
Wee
can
teach
you
good
things
,
we
cannot
giue
you
good
things
;
we
may
be
doctores
gratiae
,
but
not
datores
,
we
may
be
teachers
,
but
we
are
not
giuers
of
grace
.
The
Angel
in
the
5.
of
Iohn
,
did
but
stirre
the
waters
of
the
poole
Bethesda
,
and
troubled
the
waters
thereof
;
hee
thrust
no
man
into
the
poole
;
that
was
a
worke
to
be
performed
by
themselues
that
would
be
healed
:
Wee
that
are
the
Ministers
of
God
,
wee
open
and
expound
the
Scriptures
vnto
you
;
&
by
our
diuiding
the
word
of
God
,
and
expounding
the
same
vnto
you
,
wee
moue
,
and
we
stirre
the
water
of
life
that
floweth
in
them
:
you
must
be
carefull
to
step
into
them
your selues
,
&c.
And
surely
,
the
very
true
reason
,
why
after
so
much
stirring
and
troubling
of
these
waters
,
after
so
much
preaching
and
teaching
,
there
are
yet
so
many
,
both
men
and
women
,
that
lie
diseased
,
full
of
soares
&
sinnes
,
by
this
poole
,
and
by
these
waters
,
not
onely
for
the
space
of
38
yeeres
,
but
some
for
more
yeeres
,
and
all
their
whole
life
long
,
neuer
once
offering
to
step
in
,
much
lesse
to
thrust
themselues
thereinto
,
when
the
waters
therof
are
stirred
:
I
say
,
the
very
true
reason
hereof
,
is
either
their
infidelitie
that
they
cannot
,
or
their
lazinesse
&
idlenesse
that
they
will
not
,
or
their
pride
,
which
suffereth
them
not
,
to
humble
their
hearts
,
and
to
subiect
their
wills
,
to
the
will
and
word
of
God
.
They
consult
their
owne
sense
and
vnderstanding
,
and
suffer
themselues
to
be
caried
away
with
the
streame
of
their
own
naturall
reason
,
and
corrupt
affections
:
whereas
if
they
would
submit
themselues
,
&
captiuate
their
vnderstanding
and
their
willes
,
to
the
will
and
word
of
God
,
and
be
wholly
led
and
directed
thereby
,
they
might
,
as
here
this
noble
Eunuch
did
,
attaine
to
some
good
proportion
,
and
comfortable
measure
of
true
faith
.
But
that
which
the
Comicall
Poet
spake
of
hands
,
in
his
time
,
I
may
say
of
our
hearts
in
these
dayes
,
Corda
nostra
sunt
oculata
,
non
credunt
nisi
quod
vident
,
Our
hearts
are
full
of
eyes
,
they
beleeue
nothing
but
what
they
see
:
whereas
faith
hath
indeed
no
greater
enemy
than
sense
.
Gregorie
,
in
his
fourth
booke
of
Dialogues
and
first
chapter
,
compareth
him
that
will
not
belieue
Christ
,
or
his
Ministers
preaching
and
telling
him
of
the
ioyes
of
heauen
,
because
he
seeeth
them
not
,
vnto
a
child
borne
of
his
mother
in
a
darke
prison
,
and
there
brought
vp
,
whom
shee
telleth
that
abroad
there
is
great
light
,
a
Sunne
,
and
a
Moone
,
&
starres
,
men
,
beasts
,
trees
,
riuers
,
and
such
like
things
,
but
he
belieueth
none
of
these
,
because
hee
seeeth
none
of
these
;
which
things
,
howsoeuer
he
thinketh
they
are
not
,
yet
they
are
so
indeed
as
his
mother
informed
him
:
So
although
they
that
haue
no
faith
,
thinke
there
is
no
heauen
,
no
Christ
,
no
Angels
,
no
ioyes
,
because
they
themselues
are
included
and
shut
vp
in
a
darke
prison
of
ignorance
,
and
infidelitie
,
and
therefore
see
them
not
;
yet
it
doth
not
follow
,
but
that
it
is
so
,
and
our
Mother
the
Church
that
so
teacheth
vs
,
doth
not
lie
,
but
speakes
the
truth
,
and
happy
are
all
they
that
belieue
her
,
&c.
My
exhortation
,
for
concluding
this
point
,
shall
be
this
;
As
heere
you
see
,
how
this
nobleman
,
lent
not
onely
his
outward
eare
of
hearing
,
but
his
inward
eare
also
of
obeying
,
and
belieuing
,
to
that
which
Philip
preached
vnto
him
:
so
ought
wee
also
to
doe
,
as
often
as
wee
heare
the
word
preached
vnto
vs
,
&c.
And
if
it
happen
,
while
wee
are
so
busied
and
imployed
,
either
in
the
reading
,
or
in
the
hearing
of
Gods
word
preached
,
and
expounded
vnto
vs
,
that
wee
feele
any
good
motions
of
Gods
Spirit
mouing
vs
to
faith
,
let
vs
account
of
them
,
as
the
Wise
men
did
of
the
Starre
that
appeared
vnto
them
in
the
East
,
Math.
2.
And
as
they
followed
the
Starre
,
so
let
vs
follow
those
motions
and
inuitations
of
Gods
Spirit
to
faith
:
for
,
as
they
following
the
Star
,
were
brought
at
last
euen
to
the
house
where
Christ
was
;
so
if
wee
follow
the
motions
and
callings
of
Gods
holy
Spirit
,
they
will
bring
vs
at
the
last
,
to
the
house
and
place
where
hee
is
,
euen
to
the
kingdom
of
heauen
,
&c.
2.
Effect
;
Hee
was
baptised
.
First
,
he
beleeued
:
and
secondlie
,
or
after
he
had
professed
his
faith
,
and
belieued
,
he
was
baptised
.
This
is
Christs
owne
ordinance
to
his
Apostles
;
Goe
yee
into
all
the
world
,
and
preach
the
Gospell
to
euery
creature
:
Hee
that
shall
beleeue
,
&
be
baptised
,
shall
be
saued
.
Mark
16.15
.
So
was
it
in
this
Eunuch
:
Hee
first
beleeued
,
and
after
was
baptised
.
So
must
it
be
in
all
that
are
adulti
,
grown
to
full
age
,
or
come
to
yeeres
of
discretion
:
before
they
come
to
baptisme
,
they
must
openly
professe
their
faith
.
It
is
the
ordinance
of
Christ
himselfe
,
who
first
instituted
Baptisme
,
&
did
himselfe
first
sanctifie
the
element
of
water
,
to
that
holy
worke
or
businesse
,
that
water
should
be
vsed
in
Baptisme
:
To
signifie
thereby
,
that
as
water
cleanseth
the
outward
filthinesse
of
the
body
;
so
by
the
operation
of
Gods
Spirit
,
which
worketh
both
mightily
&
graciously
with
the
outward
element
of
water
,
and
with
the
word
,
the
originall
guilt
and
vncleannesse
of
our
soules
,
should
be
purged
and
cleansed
.
Vessels
vncleane
,
are
vnfit
to
haue
precious
liquors
put
into
them
:
they
be
therfore
first
to
be
cleansed
.
What
liquors
can
be
more
precious
than
the
graces
of
God
?
What
vessels
can
be
more
vncleane
,
than
our
vnregenerate
and
vnbaptised
soules
?
Wee
are
brought
to
Baptisme
therefore
,
to
be
cleansed
,
that
our
soules
may
be
made
the
fitter
to
receiue
graces
from
aboue
.
For
,
as
in
worldly
things
,
wee
cannot
be
partakers
of
them
,
vnlesse
we
be
borne
;
so
neither
can
we
be
partakers
of
spirituall
things
,
except
we
be
baptised
and
borne
anew
.
Wee
come
to
Baptisme
,
the
sonnes
of
Adam
,
sinners
,
and
accursed
:
wee
returne
from
Baptisme
,
the
sonnes
of
God
,
and
blessed
.
Saint
Peter
in
his
first
Epistle
,
third
chapter
,
and
later
part
of
the
chapter
,
compareth
Baptisme
to
the
Arke
;
yet
there
is
great
difference
:
for
,
that
creature
which
entred
into
the
Arke
a
Lion
,
was
nothing
altered
,
but
came
forth
a
Lion
;
that
creature
which
entred
into
the
Arke
a
Wolfe
,
was
nothing
altered
,
but
came
forth
a
Wolfe
;
that
bird
which
entred
into
the
Arke
a
Crowe
,
was
nothing
altered
,
but
came
forth
a
Crowe
,
&c.
But
it
is
far
otherwise
in
Baptisme
;
for
,
hee
that
before
Baptisme
,
entreth
into
the
Church
a
Lion
,
returneth
from
thence
,
after
Baptisme
,
a
Lambe
;
he
that
before
Baptisme
,
entereth
into
the
Church
a
Wolfe
,
returneth
from
thence
,
after
Baptisme
,
a
Kid
;
he
that
before
Baptisme
,
entereth
into
the
Church
a
Crowe
,
returneth
from
thence
,
after
Baptisme
,
a
Doue
.
So
this
Eunuch
,
came
from
home
,
a
stranger
to
the
couenant
of
grace
;
but
returned
home
,
a
sonne
,
and
of
the
houshold
of
faith
:
he
came
to
Ierusalem
an
Aethiopian
,
but
returned
a
true
Israelite
.
This
is
the
happy
fruit
,
and
blessed
benefit
,
which
redoundeth
to
all
,
both
men
,
and
Nations
,
to
whom
the
Lord
is
pleased
in
mercy
to
reueale
himselfe
,
in
the
power
and
might
of
his
word
,
and
in
the
grace
and
efficacie
of
this
Sacrament
:
by
which
,
as
by
a
stampe
,
or
marke
set
vpon
our
flesh
by
our
Sauiour
Christ
Iesus
his
owne
hand
and
institution
,
like
to
the
mark
of
Circumcision
,
which
was
set
vpon
the
flesh
of
Abraham
,
and
of
his
seede
,
wee
are
not
onely
distinguished
from
other
Infidels
,
and
heathen
people
,
but
are
also
knowne
and
acknowledged
by
God
himselfe
to
be
of
his
houshold
,
&
to
belong
to
his
couenant
.
But
as
for
others
which
haue
not
this
seale
or
mark
,
and
are
not
washed
in
this
Lauer
of
Regeneration
,
it
is
not
so
with
them
;
but
the
corruption
of
their
nature
,
and
the
filthinesse
&
guilt
of
sin
,
cleaue
as
close
to
their
soules
,
as
their
skin
doth
to
their
flesh
.
Many
excellent
things
are
spoken
of
Naaman
the
Syrian
;
that
hee
was
a
great
man
,
honourable
in
the
sight
of
his
Lord
,
mighty
and
valiant
:
yet
it
is
added
,
that
he
was
a
Leper
,
and
therefore
to
be
washed
:
So
although
many
excellent
things
may
be
spoken
,
either
of
the
nature
of
man
in
generall
,
or
of
many
excellent
men
in
particular
,
which
either
were
,
or
are
,
meere
naturall
men
,
vnbaptised
,
and
vnregenerat
;
yet
the
conclusion
must
be
,
It
is
a
Leper
,
and
they
all
are
Lepers
,
and
must
be
washed
in
the
water
of
Baptisme
.
And
till
such
time
as
they
be
so
cleansed
,
and
so
washed
,
the
Lord
seeeth
nothing
in
them
,
but
that
which
hee
disliketh
,
and
setteth
not
his
heart
or
his
loue
vpon
them
.
All
the
Patriarches
were
the
sonnes
of
Iacob
;
yet
he
loued
none
of
them
so
well
,
as
Ioseph
&
Beniamin
,
who
were
the
sonnes
of
Rachel
,
whom
hee
deerly
loued
:
So
,
all
men
are
the
sonnes
of
God
by
creation
,
but
hee
loueth
none
so
well
as
his
regenerate
and
baptised
sonnes
;
because
they
are
the
sonnes
of
Rachell
,
the
sonnes
of
his
Church
,
which
he
most
deerly
loueth
.
The
3.
effect
;
He
reioyced
,
or
hee
went
on
his
way
reioycing
.
The
doctrine
or
preaching
of
Christ
,
is
rightly
tearmed
Euangelium
;
a
ioyfull
Message
,
or
gladsome
tidings
.
So
spake
the
Angell
to
the
Shepheards
;
Be
not
afraid
,
for
behold
,
I
bring
you
tidings
of
great
ioy
,
that
shall
be
to
all
the
people
:
that
is
,
that
vnto
you
is
borne
this
day
,
in
the
Citie
of
Dauid
,
a
Sauiour
,
which
is
Christ
the
Lord
.
Luke
2.10.11
.
Which
most
heauenly
,
most
sweet
,
&
comfortable
doctrine
,
when
Philip
had
once
taught
,
and
preached
to
this
noble
Eunuch
,
it
was
no
maruell
though
as
a
man
full
of
gladnesse
,
he
went
on
his
way
reioycing
.
For
if
libertie
be
gratefull
to
him
that
hath
long
been
captiue
;
if
to
be
made
a
free-man
,
be
a
cause
of
ioy
and
reioycing
to
him
that
hath
long
been
a
bondslaue
;
if
to
be
eased
of
a
heauie
burden
;
if
to
be
cured
of
a
dangerous
disease
;
if
to
be
brought
foorth
of
a
darke
dungeon
into
the
cleere
light
;
to
conclude
,
if
to
be
raised
from
the
death
of
sinne
,
to
the
life
of
grace
,
and
to
haue
our
part
and
portion
in
the
communion
of
Saints
;
if
all
,
and
euery
of
these
,
be
blessings
much
to
be
esteemed
of
,
and
true
causes
of
reioycing
:
Then
,
to
be
brought
into
the
glorious
liberty
of
the
sonnes
of
God
;
to
be
made
the
Lords
Free-men
;
to
be
eased
of
the
heauy
burden
of
sinne
;
to
be
cured
of
the
infectious
diseases
which
arise
from
humane
corruption
;
to
be
enlightened
by
the
Spirit
of
God
;
to
liue
vnto
the
Lord
,
the
life
of
righteousnes
;
and
to
haue
our
names
written
in
the
booke
of
life
;
all
which
were
offered
and
exhibited
by
Philip
to
this
noble
Eunuch
,
in
his
preaching
of
Iesus
vnto
him
:
these
things
,
I
say
,
could
not
chuse
but
much
affect
him
,
and
be
great
causes
of
great
ioy
and
reioycing
vnto
him
.
And
as
Philips
preaching
of
Iesus
,
was
to
this
honorable
Eunuch
a
cause
of
much
reioycing
:
so
also
should
the
preaching
of
the
same
Iesus
,
be
a
cause
of
ioy
and
reioycing
to
as
many
of
vs
,
as
are
by
the
mercy
of
God
,
and
the
labour
of
his
faithfull
Ministers
,
made
the
happy
hearers
&
partakers
therof
.
For
,
looke
,
what
plenty
is
to
men
that
haue
long
liued
in
penury
;
what
health
is
to
men
that
haue
been
long
visited
&
wearied
with
sicknes
;
what
meat
is
to
them
that
haue
been
long
pinched
,
and
almost
starued
with
hunger
;
the
same
and
more
,
is
the
publishing
and
preaching
of
the
comfortable
assurance
of
Gods
loue
and
fauour
towards
vs
in
Christ
Iesus
.
In
whom
,
though
the
traytor
Iudas
found
no
excellency
aboue
the
value
of
thirty
peeces
of
siluer
;
yet
his
godly
and
faithfull
children
,
can
,
and
doe
finde
in
him
,
all
the
treasures
of
wisedome
,
of
iustification
,
of
redemption
,
and
saluation
.
When
Samson
in
the
time
of
his
extreame
thirsting
&
faintnes
(
euen
then
when
he
cried
out
and
said
,
Giue
me
water
,
or
I
die
for
thirst
)
had
tasted
of
that
water
which
God
miraculously
sent
vnto
him
,
his
spirit
came
againe
,
&
he
was
reuiued
.
Iudg.
15.19
.
When
Ionathan
had
tasted
a
little
hony
,
his
eyes
were
opened
,
his
spirits
comforted
,
and
his
body
strengthened
.
1.
Sa.
14.
Yet
neither
was
the
water
which
Samson
dranke
of
,
nor
the
hony
which
Ionathan
tasted
of
,
halfe
so
sweet
&
comfortable
to
them
,
as
the
preaching
of
Christ
Iesus
is
to
the
fainting
&
dying
soules
of
true
Beleeuers
.
Great
is
the
ioy
,
&
vnspeakable
are
the
comforts
which
the
preaching
of
Iesus
affordeth
to
the
children
of
men
:
the
sauour
of
which
comforts
is
sweeter
in
the
Church
of
GOD
,
than
the
sauour
of
Libanon
;
and
the
ioy
therof
,
like
vnto
the
dropping
of
milke
and
hony
vpon
their
soules
.
Samson
found
a
swarme
of
Bees
and
hony
in
a
dead
Lion
:
Hic
est
favus
qui
ex
ore
Leonis
mortui
exiuit
;
Out
of
the
mouth
,
out
of
the
word
,
out
of
the
preaching
of
Iesus
Christ
,
which
is
the
Lion
of
the
tribe
of
Iudah
,
which
was
dead
,
but
is
aliue
,
and
liueth
for
euer
,
commeth
such
sweetnes
as
cannot
be
vttered
or
conceiued
.
Nemo
nouit
,
nisi
qui
accipit
.
This
is
such
a
ioy
,
as
is
not
like
worldly
ioy
,
which
may
be
taken
away
.
Your
ioy
shall
no
man
take
from
you
.
Iohn
16.22
.
Christ
,
like
a
royall
King
,
neuer
entreth
any
citie
,
any
towne
,
any
village
,
any
priuat
house
,
or
into
the
soule
or
minde
of
any
priuate
man
,
but
hee
giueth
gifts
.
And
it
also
pleaseth
him
of
his
fulness
to
giue
to
his
Apostles
,
his
Disciples
,
his
Ministres
,
power
,
and
grace
also
,
&
to
make
them
able
whersoeuer
they
come
,
and
wheresoeuer
they
preach
him
,
and
publish
his
truth
(
as
heere
Philip
did
to
this
Eunuch
)
to
giue
great
gifts
to
the
sonnes
of
men
,
to
instruct
them
in
the
knowledge
of
God
;
and
so
to
fill
their
hearts
with
sweet
ioyes
&
heauenly
comforts
.
The
publishing
of
the
word
of
God
,
&
the
preaching
of
Iesus
Christ
,
is
(
as
Chrysostome
speaketh
,
in
his
5.
Homily
vpon
Gene.
)
a
casting
of
spirituall
treasures
into
the
laps
or
bosomes
of
men
.
The
L.
God
grant
,
that
my
preaching
of
Iesus
at
this
time
,
may
be
a
casting
or
sowing
of
such
spirituall
treasures
and
heauenly
seed
,
as
may
bring
forth
in
you
all
,
much
fruite
of
good
liuing
,
to
eternall
life
.
Amen
.