THE
RANSOME
OF
TIME
BEING
CAPTIVE
.
THE
FIRST
CHAPTER
.
What
a
pretious
iewell
Time
is
?
IT
is
the
stile
and
manner
of
holy
scriptures
deliuery
(
that
whensoever
it
teacheth
or
admonisheth
〈◊〉
ought
)
which
is
very
notable
,
〈◊〉
of
great
importance
,
it
prepare●●
vs
with
the
fore
sending
of
some
marvailous
and
extraordinary
vision
or
figure
,
which
may
invite
and
rayse
serious
attention
,
which
may
awaken
and
sprightly
quicken
our
mindes
,
and
hold
them
in
suspence
and
admiration
,
as
ordinarily
is
read
in
the
kookes
of
the
Prophets
,
and
especially
in
the
Apocalypse
of
S.
Iohn
the
Euangelist
;
Redeeme
thy
time
,
for
thy
daies
are
euill
)
shall
be
the
Theme
and
ground
of
this
our
treatise
and
exhortation
.
He
then
further
sayth
that
he
sawan
Angell
goodly
,
mighty
,
and
powerfull
to
apprehension
,
to
come
downe
from
heaven
,
environed
with
a
Cloud
;
who
brought
with
him
on
his
head
in
liew
of
à
Diadem
Heavens
Rainebow
;
his
face
was
resplendant
as
is
the
Sunne
at
full
Noone
,
with
his
irradiations
,
his
glistering
beames
:
his
Feete
were
like
Columnes
or
great
pillars
of
purely
bright-burning
fire
.
In
his
hand
he
held
a
booke
opened
,
and
treading
on
the
Sea
with
his
right
foote
,
and
on
the
earth
with
his
left
foote
,
so
loudly
strained
he
his
voice
,
and
in
such
à
manner
,
that
he
seemed
not
vnlike
a
Lion
,
when
he
roareth
:
and
pointing
at
Heauen
with
his
fore-finger
sware
,
by
him
who
liveth
,
and
shall
live
for
ever
and
ever
;
him
who
created
heauen
,
earth
,
and
sea
and
whatsoever
is
in
them
contained
,
that
after
the
dayes
of
the
seaventh
Angell
,
time
should
cease
for
ever
and
ever
,
that
time
should
haue
no
being
at
all
.
To
declare
breifly
the
mysteries
which
herein
are
comprised
.
This
Angell
according
to
the
exposition
of
many
Authors
,
is
Christ
our
Lord
,
the
Angell
of
the
great
,
high
and
,
mighty
Counsaile
,
or
is
One
of
the
most
blessed
Angells
,
who
representeth
his
person
who
hath
from
him
the
office
of
his
Legate
or
Embassadour
;
descended
From
heaven
,
for
apparantly
,
most
visibly
he
is
to
come
downe
from
thence
in
a
resplendent
,
a
cleerly-bright
,
and
most
glorious
Cloud
,
with
great
and
mighty
power
to
giue
Iudgment
on
all
the
world
.
Yet
observe
also
that
his
being
covered
in
a
cloud
doth
signifie
the
confusion
,
the
strange
conturbation
which
in
those
last
daies
will
appeare
,
as
well
in
the
time
of
the
raigne
and
fearefull
persecution
of
Antichrist
,
as
also
when
there
shall
appeare
,
such
terrible
,
such
horrible
,
such
dreadfull
signes
which
are
to
fall
out
,
and
evidently
to
be
shewen
before
the
vniversall
iudgment
,
the
day
of
doome
;
when
as
the
fearful
presence
of
the
Iudge
is
from
moment
to
moment
looked
for
.
The
Rainebow
is
the
Embleme
or
signe
of
peace
.
The
Fire
,
of
Anger
,
fury
,
and
chastisment
.
And
in
the
two
vttermost
boundes
of
humane
body
,
which
are
the
Feete
and
heade
(
the
beginning
and
ending
thereof
)
are
delineated
the
two
severall
commings
of
Christ
to
the
world
,
whereof
the
first
was
of
mercy
to
make
peace
betweene
God
ad
Man
,
and
hence
is
it
that
for
deuise
he
beareth
on
his
head
the
Rainebow
of
Heauen
,
for
signe
that
the
waters
of
the
Deluge
,
the
afflictions
and
fore-passed
chastisements
were
ceased
.
And
in
the
other
he
shall
come
as
a
iudge
;
and
hence
is
it
that
he
is
delineated
with
Feete
of
fire
,
which
signifie
inflexible
,
implacable
rigour
,
and
terrible
anger
.
Ignis
ante
ipsum
praecedet
said
David
,
The
Forme
and
figure
of
Colum●es
import
the
mighty
power
which
hee
will
extend
in
the
rigid
execution
of
his
iudgement
and
iustice
.
The
Open
booke
in
his
hand
doth
give
vs
to
vnderstand
the
eternall
sapience
,
eternall
wisdome
which
he
hathas
God
,
by
vertue
whereof
the
office
of
a
iudge
is
his
proper
attribute
and
the
fulnes
of
science
,
of
knowledge
,
of
wisedome
,
which
he
hath
as
man
to
discerne
and
discusse
the
reall
grounds
of
things
,
the
demeanor
and
desert
of
all
the
sonnes
of
Adam
,
and
the
decreed
rate
of
the
Divine
law
according
to
the
which
they
are
to
be
adiudged
.
The
placing
one
foote
on
the
Sea
,
and
the
other
on
the
Land
is
as
much
as
to
say
that
he
surroundeth
,
that
he
comprehendeth
the
Sea
and
land
,
the
land
and
Sea
:
and
that
there
is
not
ought
which
can
be
exempt
from
his
hands
,
The
roaring
not
vnlike
to
that
of
a
Lion
,
doth
declare
the
strange
anger
,
and
inexpressible
irefull
countenance
of
the
iudge
,
when
he
shall
pronounce
the
heauy
,
and
most
dolefull
,
direfull
sentence
of
the
condemned
.
And
the
so
Solemne
oath
doth
expresse
the
infallible
certainty
,
which
shall
be
in
the
full
accomplishment
,
and
compleat
execution
of
that
,
which
hee
declareth
,
he
pronounceth
,
he
preacheth
to
mankinde
:
that
in
the
dayes
of
the
seauenth
Angell
when
as
that
dreadfull
trumpet
shall
be
heard
,
and
horridly
resound
,
which
shall
summon
to
iudgement
all
the
offspring
of
Adam
,
time
for
euer
and
euer
shall
cease
,
shal
be
consumed
,
shall
haue
its
full
and
vttermost
bound
and
last
end
,
and
that
eternally
,
that
everlastingly
it
shall
be
wanting
to
them
,
who
oportunely
did
not
benefit
themselves
by
it
,
but
deferred
their
well
doing
when
as
they
possessed
this
Time
,
vnto
the
last
period
,
the
vttermost
day
of
their
lives
.
And
that
the
Angell
published
the
Edict
with
so
many
and
such
like
circumstances
and
ceremonyes
,
that
time
should
haue
its
end
once
for
ever
and
ever
and
when
this
is
to
take
effect
,
it
is
for
that
we
be
informed
,
and
begiven
fully
to
vnderstand
of
what
price
,
value
,
and
great
esteeme
it
is
,
and
what
greate
benefit
God
imparteth
to
vs
,
bestoweth
on
vs
,
to
make
vs
Lords
thereof
,
the
whole
course
of
our
dayes
,
of
our
life
,
and
contrary
wise
what
a
great
punishment
it
is
that
he
subtract
it
from
any
one
,
as
being
altogether
vnworthy
of
it
,
it
being
ill
employed
:
And
to
know
how
precious
time
is
it
would
suffice
to
contemplate
that
in
an
instant
the
infinite
eternity
of
Glory
may
therein
be
acquired
,
since
that
man
may
gaine
it
in
so
litle
a
space
.
And
hence
is
it
that
the
Holy
Ghost
adviseth
vs
to
conserue
time
,
Behold
,
observe
well
the
guifts
bestowed
on
thee
;
thou
possessest
dayly
harvest
,
and
hence
each
day
is
fruite
.
And
in
an
other
Psalme
Prophet
saith
Anticipauerunt
vigilias
oculi
mei
.
My
eyes
haue
anticipated
,
S.
Laurence
Iustinian
considering
what
time
is
,
S.
Bernard
saith
that
there
is
not
any
thing
,
S.
Bernards
wordes
.
Oh!
if
this
merchandise
(
sayth
the
blessed
S.
Bernardin
of
Siena
)
of
time
could
be
saleable
in
hell
,
Marcus
Cato
Censorius
that
three
thinges
he
declined
,
yea
exceedingly
abhorred
;
The
first
to
deliver
to
the
discretion
of
womankinde
,
what
he
would
not
each
one
should
know
.
The
second
to
make
any
iourney
by
water
,
when
commodiously
he
might
goe
by
Land
.
And
the
third
was
that
negligently
and
through
his
owne
fault
any
day
should
passe
without
having
well
emploied
the
time
thereof
.
Plinius
the
elder
on
a
day
seeing
one
of
his
nephewes
to
walke
vp
and
downe
,
although
seeming
by
him
donne
for
his
recreation
,
chidd
him
and
sharply
reprehended
him
saying
:
you
might
well
haue
aright
known
the
price
of
time
;
you
need
not
haue
lost
these
howers
.
Sertorius
the
Proconsull
,
The
end
of
the
first
Capter
.
THE
SECOND
CHAPTER
.
That
we
are
Lords
of
time
,
and
for
what
end
God
bestowed
it
on
vs
,
and
in
what
manner
it
should
be
employed
.
ALL
other
thinges
(
sayth
the
blessed
Laurentius
Iustinian
and
Seneca
before
delivered
the
selfe
same
,
are
alienes
,
strangers
,
not
appertaining
to
vs
as
our
owne
,
they
are
not
ours
,
time
is
that
which
we
challenge
as
ours
,
time
is
that
which
is
our
proper
owne
and
we
Lords
thereof
;
for
that
it
lyeth
in
vs
to
employ
it
as
we
desire
,
and
will
our selues
.
And
it
is
not
a
small
grace
,
favour
,
and
benefit
where
with
we
are
endowed
,
that
he
giveth
vs
freely
for
our
owne
so
pretious
a
iewell
,
&
especially
giving
vs
so
much
,
that
though
the
greatest
extent
of
time
is
very
short
,
saith
Seneca
,
it
is
not
a
litle
which
we
retaine
,
possesse
;
and
without
all
reason
doth
human
kinde
complaine
of
lifes
brevity
,
its
shortnes
,
it
s
soonerun
race
;
they
should
rather
reflect
on
time
lost
,
what
time
is
carelesly
cast
away
,
lamentably
consumed
;
let
here
be
the
●eate
of
their
whisperings
,
their
murmures
,
their
indiscreetly
placed
Complaints
.
Ah!
life
is
long
enough
to
operate
,
to
wo●ke
atchieument
,
prais-worthy
,
and
of
singular
note
,
if
it
so
bee
that
it
be
well
distributed
,
well
dispensed
.
God
almighty
yea
even
with
the
Angells
themselues
was
so
reserved
herein
,
that
he
gaue
them
for
their
boundes
Instants
of
time
,
and
prefixed
times
of
well
or
ill
deserving
.
He
gave
them
short
spaces
,
and
moments
which
some
say
were
two
,
or
three
,
and
those
,
who
goe
farthest
doe
assigne
but
foure
(
true
it
is
that
it
sufficed
in
respect
of
their
guiftes
and
perfection
of
their
nature
)
but
to
man
who
is
slow
,
inconstant
,
and
most
variable
,
God
giveth
time
of
life
and
many
yeares
,
and
ages
.
But
he
was
not
endowed
,
and
enlarged
there
with
to
live
sluggishly
,
not
to
runn
over
it
,
not
to
consume
it
in
sports
,
delights
,
iests
,
laughters
,
pastimes
,
and
corporall
entertainments
,
and
much
lesse
in
sinnes
;
but
it
was
to
be
seriously
employed
in
good-workes
,
in
well-doeing
,
and
iust
and
lawfull
exercises
,
and
in
taking
paine
,
labouring
in
his
vyneyard
,
gaining
by
labour
,
and
sweat
of
thy
browes
thy
daily
pay
,
Saint
Paul
)
which
shall
be
possessed
,
shall
be
compleatly
enioyed
in
heaven
.
And
by
the
way
it
is
worth
our
observation
to
note
how
he
giveth
it
the
name
of
waight
,
for
that
with
its
waight
and
greatnes
it
easeth
and
maketh
light
all
the
difficulties
,
greifes
,
and
anxieties
of
this
world
,
and
that
which
in
this
world
maketh
vs
waighe
most
,
to
suffer
,
beare
,
and
endure
,
compared
with
it
,
is
of
no
more
waight
then
a
straw
,
is
as
light
as
a
fly
.
And
even
so
the
waight
of
reward
put
in
one
balance
maketh
light
,
lifteth
vp
to
the
very
height
the
other
scale
of
tribulations
;
even
as
a
great
waight
put
into
a
scale
ouerturneth
the
other
,
in
which
there
was
one
onely
straw
.
Answereable
to
which
the
same
Apostle
hath
deliuered
in
another
place
,
S.
Iohn
Euangelist
his
wordes
,
Laurentius
Iustinianus
)
that
we
should
lament
,
the
right
hand
way
.
Dionysius
Cassius
writeth
that
in
a
Citty
of
Italy
was
found
an
auncient
sepulcher
,
S.
Barlaan
and
Iosaphat
recounteth
,
that
Iosaphat
demanding
of
Barlaam
what
where
his
yeares
,
of
what
age
he
was
,
had
deliuered
to
him
this
answere
;
I
am
(
if
I
deceiue
not
my self
)
forty
and
fiue
yeares
old
,
to
many
there
are
runne
,
since
I
was
borne
:
What
is
your
answere
,
I
vnderstand
you
not
(
said
Iosaphat
)
for
to
my
eye
,
to
my
coniecture
you
are
aboue
seuenty
?
if
so
that
you
account
strictly
from
the
time
of
my
natiuity
,
you
say
right
well
,
and
you
erre
not
ought
,
for
I
am
aboue
seuenty
;
but
I
can
no
wayes
admitt
,
they
be
reckoned
more
,
for
they
seeme
not
to
me
at
all
yeares
of
life
,
nor
can
the
rest
which
I
haue
misspent
in
the
vanities
of
the
world
be
accounted
of
For
as
at
that
time
being
slaue
to
sinne
,
I
liuing
at
pleasure
,
at
full
swinge
of
sensuality
of
my
body
,
and
outward
man
,
I
was
then
vndoubtedly
a
dead
man
without
life
according
to
the
inward
man
,
so
farre
forth
that
I
cannot
call
them
,
enstile
them
vnder
the
title
of
yeares
of
life
,
which
were
of
death
,
I
liued
not
then
:
But
after
that
by
the
grace
of
our
Lord
I
was
crucified
and
dead
to
the
world
,
likewise
the
world
to
me
,
and
that
I
haue
despoiled
my selfe
of
the
old
man
,
and
quite
cast
him
of
,
now
I
liue
no
more
sensually
nor
to
please
the
body
the
spirits
enemy
,
but
onely
for
Iesus
Christ
,
and
such
my
yeares
liued
in
I
call
yeares
of
life
,
of
health
,
safety
and
saluation
.
And
beleeue
it
most
assuredly
that
all
they
who
are
in
sinne
,
and
obey
the
deuill
,
and
passe
away
,
I
say
consume
their
liues
in
delights
,
and
vaine
concupiscences
,
are
dead
and
buried
,
vtterly
lost
;
for
that
sinne
is
death
of
the
soule
as
Saint
Paul
affirmeth
.
S.
Ierome
in
his
exposition
on
the
third
chapter
of
the
Prophet
Aggaeus
deliuereth
.
Titus
Vespasian
,
that
being
at
supper
one
day
,
when
hee
called
to
minde
,
that
he
had
donne
no
good
office
for
any
one
,
that
he
had
not
been
to
any
beneficial
,
to
all
the
standers
by
,
to
each
one
present
,
with
resentment
,
with
sensiblenes
,
and
not
without
greife
he
breathed
forth
these
words
.
O
my
friends
how
much
I
am
perplexed
,
and
afflicted
that
I
haue
passed
of
this
day
vnproffitably
,
that
I
haue
lost
this
day
.
Let
the
Christian
obserue
well
,
let
him
know
that
the
day
which
hee
hath
ill
passed
,
hath
ill
spent
let
him
account
it
not
his
,
that
in
it
he
hath
no
propriety
at
all
.
And
that
this
is
euident
Seneca
witnesseth
in
these
wordes
;
that
many
there
are
who
leaue
to
liue
,
before
they
begin
to
liue
.
Time
was
benignely
bestowed
on
vs
,
saith
that
famous
Doctor
Thomas
de
Kempis
,
to
spend
it
well
,
Ludouicus
Blosius
among
other
aduertisements
,
The
end
of
the
second
Chapter
.
THE
THIRD
CHAPTER
.
How
God
abbr●uiateth
,
shortneth
,
yea
taketh
away
time
when
there
is
great
want
thereof
to
him
whosoeuer
,
who
tooke
no
care
thereof
when
be
possessed
it
,
nor
sought
he
ought
to
make
good
vse
thereof
according
to
his
duety
and
power
.
ALthough
that
solemne
oath
of
the
Angell
,
(
of
which
we
haue
spoken
of
in
the
first
Chapter
)
that
a
day
will
come
when
as
time
shall
haue
his
end
,
that
the
day
of
vniuersall
iudgement
for
all
in
generall
shall
be
accomplished
,
shall
haue
it's
conclusion
,
after
which
there
is
no
time
to
deserue
well
or
ill
,
nor
to
doe
pennance
which
may
be
of
any
profit
,
and
for
any
each
man
in
particular
in
the
last
day
,
last
period
of
his
life
,
in
which
he
will
hope
,
and
there
will
be
his
particular
iudgement
:
Not
withstanding
it
is
much
to
be
feared
,
and
to
be
seriously
considered
that
customarily
God
Almighty
vseth
,
for
chastisement
,
and
deserued
punishment
to
bereaue
a
negligent
and
altogether
carelesse
sinner
of
time
,
to
shorten
his
life
,
because
he
doth
not
auaile
himself
of
time
,
as
he
ought
seeing
that
it
is
spent
ill
.
So
teacheth
the
glorious
S.
Bernardine
of
Siena
,
Apocalypse
;
Sinon
vigilau●ris
,
V●ian
ad
te
tanquam
fur
,
If
thou
watch
not
I
will
come
to
thee
vnawares
like
a
Theife
.
Hence
is
it
that
God
Almighty
threatneth
a
careles
sinner
,
whose
manner
was
to
post
of
his
conuersion
and
pennance
from
day
to
day
,
it
seeming
to
him
that
he
had
time
,
I
and
euen
time
more
then
was
sufficient
,
very
aboundant
,
and
he
thus
deliuereth
himselfe
:
Be
not
too
negligent
,
be
not
careles
,
play
not
with
time
,
mocke
it
not
,
nor
value
it
for
thine
owne
surely
,
and
certainely
,
nor
at
thy
extent
,
nor
so
much
at
thy
command
,
as
thou
imaginest
,
as
thou
dreamest
;
awake
,
sleepe
not
I
say
,
stand
on
thy
guard
,
least
death
come
on
thee
as
a
theife
is
wont
to
doe
when
he
entendeth
to
robbe
,
and
that
by
a
suddaine
assault
it
reduce
thee
into
a
miserable
exigent
,
and
all
this
without
that
thou
know
the
houre
of
its
approach
.
A
theife
commeth
to
doe
mischeife
,
and
taketh
the
goods
which
are
not
well
looked
vnto
,
not
carefully
preserued
,
and
with
such
diligence
which
is
required
,
whiche
they
deserue
,
and
such
like
is
time
in
the
house
of
a
sinner
.
And
hence
iustly
our
Lord
abridgeth
him
thereof
,
for
that
he
doth
not
spend
it
in
such
sort
that
thereby
he
may
gaine
,
and
exchange
,
and
make
himself
very
rich
and
happy
.
And
answerable
to
this
our
Lord
saith
by
his
Euangelist
S.
Matthew
:
To
him
that
hath
,
more
shall
be
giuen
;
from
him
who
hath
not
,
shall
be
taken
away
,
what
he
had
or
seemed
to
possesse
.
The
iust
man
esteemeth
time
his
owne
,
and
is
thereof
Lord
,
and
Maister
,
for
that
hee
well
knoweth
the
vse
thereof
;
and
to
this
he
who
is
maister
of
time
,
more
time
shall
be
afforded
him
at
the
period
of
his
life
,
more
space
to
recollect
himselfe
,
to
examine
,
discusse
,
and
purifie
his
conscience
;
and
he
shall
haue
aboundance
,
he
shall
be
supplied
with
fulnes
,
all
plenty
will
be
bestowed
on
him
as
compleate
indulgency
,
plentifull
grace
,
and
infinite
glory
,
and
he
is
not
Lord
of
time
,
who
whilst
he
liueth
doth
not
vse
it
carefully
and
tenderly
;
hence
when
as
thus
deceiued
by
the
deuill
,
with
his
dilation
,
with
his
deferring
this
amendment
,
he
thinketh
that
yet
he
hath
time
,
he
shall
be
found
by
God
his
iust
iudgement
to
be
depriued
thereof
,
space
of
repentance
will
be
wanting
vnto
him
,
either
by
suddaine
death
,
or
by
some
vnhappy
chance
,
or
other
:
all
hitherto
are
the
wordes
of
the
glorious
S.
Bernardine
.
And
hence
is
it
that
so
often
our
Lord
doth
admonish
vs
to
watch
,
S.
Bernardine
of
Siena
recounteth
a
most
fearefull
and
maruailous
accident
which
happened
in
his
time
amongst
the
Catalonians
next
neighbours
to
the
Kingdome
of
Valencia
.
A
youth
arriued
to
eighteene
yeares
old
had
been
most
disobedient
to
his
parents
,
and
altogether
disordered
,
who
oftentimes
bare
no
reguard
of
them
,
tendred
no
duety
;
for
punishment
of
such
his
misdemeanour
God
Almighty
subtracting
his
assistance
from
him
,
he
became
a
great
robber
,
for
which
he
was
hanged
in
the
same
Towne
where
he
was
bred
,
and
being
their
hung
on
a
gibet
,
and
dead
,
and
in
the
presence
of
all
the
people
there
assembled
was●●eene
his
beard
to
grow
,
and
that
in
like
manner
the
haire
of
his
head
grew
,
that
there
hee
was
seene
to
haue
a
wrinckled
face
;
also
his
head
was
all
ouer
gray
,
and
in
semblance
,
in
countenance
,
he
was
not
vnlike
to
be
of
the
age
of
fourescore
and
tenne
yeares
,
which
made
them
all
admire
,
yea
and
affrighted
them
;
the
Bishop
of
the
Diocesse
being
informed
hereof
,
commanded
that
all
the
people
should
poure
forth
their
feruent
prayers
,
he
in
like
manner
doeing
the
same
,
desiring
of
God
Almighty
if
it
were
his
divine
will
and
pleasure
to
reveale
this
mystery
.
A
while
after
he
craving
silence
and
audience
,
and
speaking
with
a
loud
voice
deliuered
thus
much
:
Now
yee
see
(
my
sonnes
)
that
this
youth
died
at
eighitene
yeares
old
,
and
here
he
seemeth
in
his
countenance
to
be
fourescore
and
tenne
yeares
old
,
Hence
vnderstand
that
which
God
Almighty
is
pleased
to
teach
vs
,
which
is
,
that
really
according
to
the
course
of
nature
he
had
to
liue
to
the
yeares
of
fourescore
&
tenne
,
and
so
many
had
he
runne
,
had
he
been
obedient
to
his
parents
,
but
in
regard
of
his
sinnes
,
and
disobedience
God
Almighty
hath
permitted
him
to
dye
a
violent
death
,
cutting
of
so
much
time
of
his
life
,
as
is
betweene
eighteene
years
and
fourescoure
and
tenne
;
and
that
all
the
world
might
hereof
take
expresse
notice
,
it
was
his
diuine
will
to
worke
this
miracle
.
Sainct
Hierome
,
Other
deliuer
the
self-same
according
to
what
we
discourse
in
other
wordes
:
I
feare
my
Lord
:
I
feare
my
Lord
that
for
my
demerits
,
my
sinnes
,
and
for
that
I
haue
so
ill
spent
my
tyme
,
that
thou
wilst
shorten
my
life
,
which
punishment
thou
didst
therefore
inflict
on
some
;
and
hence
is
it
that
I
humbly
craue
of
thee
that
thou
take
me
not
away
inseasonably
,
in
the
middest
of
my
yeares
and
daies
,
but
that
I
may
runne
them
out
,
accomplish
them
which
thou
determinedst
of
,
had
I
been
correspondent
to
my
duety
.
The
holy
and
most
patient
Iob
sayeth
in
like
manner
of
a
sinner
:
Antequam
dies
impleatur
peribit
,
&c.
Before
that
his
time
shall
be
run
,
he
shall
dye
,
and
his
hand
is
to
become
arid
,
dry
;
to
fade
,
to
perish
euen
as
a
branch
of
a
vine
in
his
first
blooming
shall
be
withered
;
which
is
as
much
as
to
say
,
that
in
greene
yeares
before
a
full
age
run
he
shall
dye
,
and
that
his
life
shall
be
shortened
and
shall
be
cut
of
in
the
midst
of
his
dayes
,
as
the
dayes
of
an
vnworthy
and
vniust
possessor
.
And
besides
that
it
is
a
great
punishement
here
in
the
world
,
to
come
it
will
be
greiueous
and
of
great
torment
to
the
condemned
the
remembrance
of
the
time
they
had
,
and
let
slippe
without
makeing
vse
thereof
,
and
to
see
that
they
failed
thereof
which
was
to
be
well
employed
,
as
for
a
better
time
.
It
is
read
in
the
booke
of
the
seauen
guifts
,
that
a
Monke
of
Claraual
deuoute
,
and
of
a
good
and
tender
conscience
on
a
time
persisting
a
longer
time
in
his
prayers
then
was
his
custome
,
heard
a
dolorous
sad
yea
and
most
lamentable
voice
,
as
euen
of
one
who
miserably
plained
,
sighed
,
and
breathed
forth
grones
,
and
the
religious
earnestly
beseeching
God
Almighty
with
feruent
teares
,
that
the
meaning
thereof
might
be
declared
vnto
him
,
the
voice
which
he
heard
answered
him
:
I
am
the
soule
of
such
an
one
a
sinner
(
calling
himselfe
by
his
owne
name
)
and
I
lament
my
misfortune
and
condemnation
,
and
among
all
the
torments
I
poore
wretch
in
this
my
miserable
estate
suffer
,
which
doth
not
torment
me
alone
but
also
the
rest
of
my
company
most
extremely
,
and
mooueth
bitter
greifes
,
woefull
weeping
and
lamentations
,
is
the
remembrance
of
the
grace
and
mercy
,
which
our
Lord
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
hath
offered
,
of
which
we
haue
made
no
account
,
no
reckoning
at
all
;
as
also
the
memory
of
time
which
we
haue
lost
,
yea
and
to
too
ill
employed
alas
!
being
made
capable
to
gaine
in
so
short
a
space
so
much
mercy
,
S.
Bernard
in
one
of
his
sermons
entitled
,
of
the
Fallacyes
and
wyles
of
this
present
life
,
sheweth
,
how
it
ensnareth
,
entrappeth
and
deceiueth
sinners
,
one
while
vnder
the
persuasion
that
it
is
long
,
that
they
may
a
great
space
run
on
and
deferre
their
pennance
;
in
such
manner
doth
it
winne
them
,
so
ouercome
are
they
by
this
meanes
that
they
neuer
make
vse
thereof
,
that
they
neuer
doe
pennance
;
and
otherwhile
making
the
same
short
,
very
breife
,
And
hence
doe
many
sinners
dye
whether
they
will
or
noe
,
for
that
the
world
conceiueth
,
that
it
is
for
accidents
or
in
dispositions
occulte
,
hidden
,
or
for
manifest
occasions
,
notwithstanding
that
those
dayes
which
they
passed
in
sinne
,
were
not
(
as
we
haue
already
said
)
truely
good
,
were
not
well
spent
,
nor
the
life
candide
and
sincere
,
but
shadowed
,
and
alas
!
painted
,
I
wis
.
Hence
is
it
that
in
holy
scripture
sinners
are
valued
as
dead
.
The
end
of
the
third
Chapter
.
THE
FOVRTH
CHAPTER
.
That
euen
now
whilst
we
haue
time
it
concerneth
vs
to
take
paines
with
feruency
,
and
speed
,
and
that
we
ought
to
employ
it
well
.
IF
time
be
so
precious
,
and
that
it
was
giuen
vs
to
operate
well
,
and
to
labour
in
the
vineyard
of
our
Lord
all
the
day
to
the
setting
of
the
Sunne
,
and
that
if
so
that
we
auaile
not
our selues
thereof
,
it
wil
be
taken
from
vs
,
that
we
shall
be
vtterly
depriued
thereof
,
and
that
it
so
fall
out
that
it
will
faile
vs
when
we
most
desire
it
and
haue
most
neede
thereof
,
it
will
stand
with
good
reason
that
we
employ
it
well
and
that
we
be
very
solicitous
thereof
,
and
that
we
make
all
hast
to
labour
and
to
trafficke
therein
to
make
right
and
ready
vse
thereof
:
And
euen
so
doth
Ecclesiasticus
aduise
vs
,
The
seauen
fruitefull
,
and
most
plentifull
years
(
figured
,
Saint
Basilius
reaccounteth
)
a
marvailous
craft
of
a
small
bird
(
which
according
to
the
reference
of
Elianus
is
the
Partridge
)
who
seeing
à
fowler
approach
nigh
the
places
where
his
young
one
's
were
in
their
nest
,
Sainct
Austine
)
wherein
speake
I
ill
,
th●t
there
bee
no
dilation
herein
,
that
this
euen
now
day
,
be
the
day
?
this
being
the
safest
,
the
most
secure
,
hence
the
best
?
so
that
obserue
thy
will
I
speake
with
more
reason
then
doe
you
,
for
you
are
not
maister
of
any
time
but
of
this
present
day
,
what
say
I
?
no
,
alas
no
,
you
are
not
Lord
of
all
the
day
,
you
command
onely
presents
moments
,
or
rather
instants
of
time
,
and
well
so
.
As
nigh
as
thou
canst
,
let
all
thy
life
be
good
;
wherefore
desirest
thou
that
it
be
amended
,
&
become
good
by
peice-meales
,
and
as
litle
at
once
as
thou
canst
possible
?
Thou
desirest
that
thy
fare
be
all
good
,
that
thy
wife
be
good
,
thy
house
likewise
,
thy
garments
decent
,
thy
stockins
yea
●uen
thy
shoes
;
dost
thou
make
more
esteeme
of
thy
shoes
,
then
of
thy
soule
?
art
thou
so
void
of
consideration
and
iudg●ment
?
hitherto
are
the
words
of
glorious
Sainct
Austine
.
saint
Ierome
his
sentence
,
and
to
confirme
what
he
hath
deliuered
the
parable
of
the
figg
tree
is
opposite
,
All
things
(
sayeth
Salomon
)
haue
their
determinate
and
precise
time
,
Euangelist
S.
Iohn
in
his
Apocalypse
did
see
(
which
euer
more
and
at
all
times
bare
fruite
,
The
end
of
the
fourth
Chapter
.
THE
FIFTH
CHAPTER
.
How
iustly
the
sluggish
deserue
reprehension
,
and
who
are
so
called
.
AMong
all
men
(
saith
Seneca
)
those
cheifely
yea
and
onely
are
to
be
accounted
idle
,
Seraphick
Father
S.
Francis
in
one
of
his
rules
calleth
it
the
enemy
of
the
soule
:
and
the
glorious
Augustine
sayeth
,
S.
Chrysostome
professeth
that
idlenes
is
a
part
of
vice
,
O
my
God
,
and
my
Lord
,
true
Samaritan
,
and
true
wat●h
,
and
protector
of
soules
,
and
bodyes
,
resuscitate
in
me
,
raise
a
new
in
me
thy
grace
newly
enable
me
herewith
,
and
grant
vnto
thy
seruant
,
so
much
mercy
,
that
indulgently
thou
permit
not
,
that
I
euer
be
in
the
desert
idle
;
to
these
his
feruent
acclamations
is
answered
from
one
of
heauen
from
some
one
or
other
appointed
messenger
of
God
:
Anthony
desirest
thou
indeed
,
in
earnest
,
really
to
please
God
?
then
doe
thou
pray
,
and
when
so
that
thy
spirits
in
prayer
are
enfeebled
are
become
weake
,
then
labour
,
let
thy
hands
worke
and
euermore
entertaine
thy self
in
some
what
or
other
,
doe
but
thy
endeauour
,
so
will
the
diuine
fauour
neuer
be
wanting
vnto
thee
.
It
was
the
sentence
,
the
iudgement
of
the
Fathers
,
who
liued
in
Egipt
,
Dionysius
Carthusianus
,
declaring
those
words
of
Saint
Iob
,
Saint
Ambrose
,
Zenon
Cl●ticus
à
faire
conditioned
,
The
Saint
Prier
Gill
brother
of
our
holy
order
falling
into
admiration
,
and
compassionating
with
himself
vpon
contemplation
of
these
idle
persons
,
who
so
much
and
beyond
measure
passe
their
time
without
fruite
and
hearts-greife
thus
deliuereth
himselfe
.
The
idle
,
the
sluggish
man
looseth
this
,
yea
and
the
other
world
,
happy
is
that
man
who
employeth
his
time
,
and
passeth
his
life
,
and
his
forces
,
his
full
strength
,
his
vttermost
ability
in
the
seruice
of
God
;
Tell
mee
if
there
were
giuen
vnto
thee
à
fountaine
which
were
to
runne
oile
or
wine
one
entire
day
in
thy
house
wouldst
thou
consume
thy
time
being
à
poore
man
in
play
,
in
loitering
,
or
in
seeking
of
barrells
,
or
other
neate
vessells
whatsoeuer
wherin
to
keepe
it
,
thy
end
,
thy
scope
being
to
be
rich
?
vndoubtedly
if
thou
wert
not
simple
yea
and
sottishly
such
,
thou
wouldst
make
vse
of
such
like
afterwards
soe
did
the
wise
widow
(
of
whom
is
made
mention
in
the
fourth
booke
of
the
Kings
)
in
carefully
taking
and
reseruing
the
oyle
which
the
Prophet
Elizeus
,
The
end
of
the
fifth
Chapter
.
THE
SIXTH
CHAPTER
.
How
the
body
doth
captiuat
that
time
which
is
designed
for
the
soule
,
and
thereby
exalteth
it selfe
.
AFter
the
sinne
of
our
Auncestors
did
the
bodye
rebell
against
the
soule
,
so
much
preuailed
it
as
that
the
body
(
as
the
seruant
or
slaue
Agar
did
to
her
Lady
and
Mistris
)
laid
aside
all
respect
and
duety
,
in
so
much
as
it
might
seeme
that
the
body
was
the
m●stris
,
the
soule
slaue
alas
!
and
that
all
the
course
of
this
life
was
and
is
onely
for
the
body
,
and
for
it's
daintines
,
it
's
nicenes
,
and
it's
recreation
and
to
accomplish
it's
appetits
and
ouerweaning
desires
▪
in
so
much
as
that
the
poore
soule
takes
it
as
à
great
fauour
,
that
the
body
grants
it
that
time
which
is
required
and
by
her
challenged
.
That
to
such
her
miserable
state
shee
hath
drawen
on
her selfe
by
sinne
,
disgrace
and
abasement
,
in
so
much
as
shee
may
call
out
to
God
repeating
her
tribulations
,
her
miseries
in
those
wordes
whieh
Hierusalem
in
the
Lamentations
vsed
,
Vide
Domine
&
considera
,
&c.
Behold
Lord
and
consider
how
I
haue
been
come
to
be
abject
,
since
that
my
seruant
,
yea
my
slaue
doth
so
vilify
me
,
&
more
offereth
outrages
against
mee
.
And
in
such
manner
doth
the
body
draw
on
great
burthen
on
the
soule
which
it
doth
extremely
wrong
,
&
doth
raise
and
exalt
it selfe
with
what
is
not
agreable
,
rather
contrary
to
all
reason
,
and
iustice
,
and
it
is
bound
to
returne
to
the
soule
what
properly
belongeth
vnto
it
,
vnder
paine
,
vnder
amerce
,
that
when
the
soule
hath
as
also
the
body
each
of
them
,
both
of
them
may
be
lost
without
any
redemption
or
any
safety
.
And
to
giue
life
to
what
hath
been
deliuered
,
as
also
what
is
to
follow
what
better
doctrine
can
be
set
downe
then
that
which
the
glorious
Bernard
,
hath
in
à
sermon
of
the
comming
of
our
Lord
,
All
things
haue
their
time
,
permit
,
Saint
Bernard
:
And
those
who
vsurpe
the
time
belonging
vnto
the
soule
for
the
vse
of
the
body
,
and
well
like
of
this
,
please
themselues
herewith
,
neglect
that
;
yea
tread
it
vndet
their
foote
,
our
Lord
threatneth
to
punish
sharply
by
the
words
of
holy
Iob
in
his
foure
and
twentith
Chapter
,
They
shall
from
coole
snowy
water
passe
to
an
excessiue
heate
,
to
the
end
that
their
paines
,
their
sufferances
may
be
the
more
dolourous
and
sharpe
,
farr
the
more
intensiue
and
the
reason
hereof
shall
bee
,
Pauit
enim
sterilem
,
&c.
for
that
they
fed
,
and
with
many
curiosities
and
dainties
entertained
the
barren
,
and
they
did
take
no
care
,
no
respect
of
the
widow
.
By
barren
is
meant
the
body
,
for
the
more
they
nicelyvse
it
,
and
cherish
it
,
and
deck
it
,
it
will
returne
and
bring
forth
no
meritorious
fruite
for
the
acquisition
of
eternall
life
,
of
euerlasting
saluation
;
it
is
to
vse
with
much
curiosity
and
nicenesse
à
block
,
à
dry
sticke
.
The
Widdow
is
here
an
Embleme
of
the
soule
,
for
that
there
is
not
à
widdow
so
distressed
,
nor
so
solitary
&
comfortles
,
as
is
it
vnder
the
roofe
of
à
sinner
.
Sinners
attend
,
and
well
obserue
(
for
hereon
I
treat
no
further
)
for
the
loue
of
IESVS-CHRIST
marke
seriously
and
maturely
and
all
yee
whosoeuer
doe
abridge
your
soules
of
time
for
your
bodyes
,
&
vndoe
the
soule
by
the
molestation
it
bringeth
to
it
,
and
dayly
afflicteth
it
,
with
all
the
losse
possible
,
for
that
on
the
soules
good
,
&
safety
dependeth
all
whatsoeuer
happines
the
body
can
be
capeable
of
,
and
from
the
glory
of
the
soule
doth
redound
that
in
them
which
they
hope
for
,
who
are
to
enioy
i●
for
euer
and
euer
.
The
end
of
the
sixth
Chapter
.
THE
SEAVENTH
CHAPTER
.
That
lawfully
secular
people
may
vse
some
entertainements
of
mirth
,
solace
,
and
pastime
to
recreate
their
spirits
.
FOr
so
much
as
(
as
saith
S.
Iob
)
our
body
is
not
composed
of
brasse
or
steele
,
Saint
Ambrose
,
)
that
they
loose
not
their
grauity
altogether
whilst
they
are
in
their
pastimes
,
The
Lacedemonians
tooke
great
care
that
none
breathing
should
loose
their
time
,
Lodouicus
Blosius
relateth
that
the
sister
of
S.
Cosme
&
Damian
was
fififteene
daies
in
purgatory
,
The
end
of
the
seauenth
Chapter
.
THE
EIGHTH
CHAPTER
.
That
it
is
lawfull
also
yea
euen
necessary
,
that
spirituall
men
vse
some
conuenient
exercise
,
which
may
tend
for
an
intermission
,
recreation
&
solace
.
THere
were
certaine
Hereticks
who
moued
by
the
words
of
the
Euangelist
.
Saint
Luck
,
these
words
being
ill
apprehended
by
them
,
they
brought
into
the
Church
à
false
and
new
doctrine
,
teaching
that
dayly
&
nightly
,
one
was
neuer
to
cease
from
praying
,
&
therein
they
should
passe
their
time
so
continually
as
that
they
were
to
doe
nothing
else
,
without
any
intermission
,
&
that
à
man
should
not
employ
himself
at
all
to
any
thing
whatsoeuer
else
.
But
with
expresse
grounds
of
reason
these
hereticks
were
condemned
,
and
excommunicated
,
cutt
of
from
the
Church
,
for
it
is
insupportable
and
impossible
,
to
our
weake
nature
to
pray
alwaies
,
as
they
deliuered
,
nor
is
that
the
iudgement
and
sense
of
holy
Church
,
nor
hath
the
high
&
profound
Trueth
taught
any
such
doctrine
.
And
what
in
those
words
are
taught
vs
it
is
expedient
yee
pray
alwaies
:
and
in
those
of
the
Apostle
,
Pray
without
intermission
,
Expedient
to
pray
euermore
,
propounded
)
who
by
her
simple
importunity
and
perseuerance
therein
came
to
obtaine
of
the
Iudge
,
that
which
shee
so
earnestly
petitioned
for
,
and
this
is
confirmed
by
the
example
of
the
Church
,
which
prayed
without
intermission
for
the
Apostle
S.
Peter
,
Dionysins
Carthusianus
,
S.
Ierome
in
his
rule
,
giue
no
way
,
no
entrance
to
idle
,
and
wandring
thoughts
,
for
if
once
they
begin
to
be
Maisters
of
thee
,
thou
shalt
euidently
finde
à
change
to
very
great
prejudice
.
And
that
the
fiend
find
thee
not
idle
,
take
this
course
.
when
thou
dost
not
contemplate
,
entertaine
thy selfe
in
some
litle
handy
worke
or
other
,
as
namely
make
à
litle
basket
of
rushes
,
or
of
curious
fine
Osiers
,
one
while
digg
in
à
garden
,
make
the
earth
fine
,
set
it
in
comely
order
,
and
by
line
make
all
your
bancks
and
garden
quadrats
euen
;
sow
therein
diuets
sorts
of
pulse
,
plants
&
flowers
,
looke
to
them
,
&
take
care
that
by
watering
them
in
their
due
times
they
be
succoured
,
and
whilst
the
litle
seeds
sprout
vp
,
and
appeare
as
grown
,
pull
vp
by
the
rootes
the
weedes
,
and
you
may
if
you
like
well
plant
some
trees
,
from
which
you
may
in
their
due
season
gather
sauory
and
looked
for
fruite
;
make
bee-hiues
to
which
the
labourious
bees
may
make
their
recourse
,
and
there
liue
,
and
make
their
honycombes
:
make
netts
to
catch
fish
,
draw
pictures
,
paint
,
or
limme
,
for
he
who
attendeth
to
nothing
,
is
à
Sea
of
thoughts
,
is
full
of
imaginations
,
and
hence
is
it
that
the
Monkes
of
Egipt
receiue
not
any
one
,
who
knoweth
not
at
all
any
workmansipp
,
not
that
thereby
they
may
get
their
meate
,
drinke
and
cloth
,
but
for
their
soules
sake
,
and
that
hence
they
acquit
themselues
of
idlenes
,
and
that
through
the
variety
of
such
like
entertainements
he
may
become
more
feruent
,
and
as
it
were
greedy
in
feruour
of
spirituall
exercise
of
prayer
,
and
contemplation
,
which
practise
as
we
are
weake
cannot
be
continuall
,
cannot
alas
!
be
incessant
.
And
writing
to
Demetrius
he
thus
deliuered
himselfe
:
The
end
of
the
Eighth
Chapter
.
THE
NINTH
CHAPTER
.
Of
the
meanes
to
redeeme
time
,
where
shal
be
giuen
to
vnderstand
more
expresly
who
are
they
,
and
of
what
condition
they
are
who
lose
it
.
The
Apostle
Saint
Paul
among
other
doctrines
,
exhortations
and
counsailes
that
he
giueth
to
the
Ephesians
,
and
vnder
them
to
all
Christian
people
,
after
that
hee
had
admonished
them
that
they
should
beware
of
Luxury
and
couetousnes
,
and
of
all
other
workes
of
darkenes
,
and
that
they
converse
not
,
Videte
quomodo
cautè
ambuletis
,
&c.
You
haue
well
seene
already
how
many
dangers
there
are
and
traps
,
snares
,
impediments
&
ambushes
in
the
way
to
heauen
,
and
how
many
theeues
,
pirats
and
enimies
;
hence
well
obserue
,
and
take
tender
&
most
solicitous
care
how
you
trauaile
,
stand
on
your
guard
prudently
,
and
that
with
very
great
sollicitude
and
cautelousnes
,
with
watch
and
circumspection
that
you
miserably
fall
not
into
their
hands
;
Runne
not
the
course
of
fooles
,
but
entertaine
the
discretion
of
the
wise
,
discreete
,
prudent
,
subtle
,
and
sound
solid
men
,
that
well
know
what
to
doe
;
and
hee
following
his
intent
and
continuing
his
discourse
sayeth
:
Redimentes
tempus
,
&c.
Redeeming
time
,
for
the
dayes
are
ill
,
Saint
Ierom's
(
the
later
shal
be
explaned
in
the
following
Chapter
)
time
vnto
men
that
they
might
therein
serue
him
,
and
that
they
might
employ
themselues
in
good
workes
and
meritorious
(
which
is
at
large
read
in
the
second
Chapter
)
hence
appeareth
it
,
that
they
loose
time
,
when
so
they
employ
it
ill
,
and
vnworthily
,
as
in
bad
workes
(
which
is
the
true
losse
most
culpable
,
most
to
be
blamed
and
most
to
be
deplored
)
and
euen
so
hath
,
time
to
be
redeemed
,
to
be
ransomed
by
the
doing
of
good
workes
;
and
then
à
man
buyeth
&
redeemeth
it
and
maketh
it
his
owne
proper
,
which
was
formerly
detained
,
impawned
,
engaged
,
nay
sold.
The
second
declaration
is
this
:
Many
times
God
Almighty
doth
shorten
,
and
cutt
of
sinners
from
daies
and
time
,
which
according
to
the
course
of
nature
they
were
to
runne
,
had
they
been
good
(
as
the
third
Chapter
sheweth
)
so
that
the
just
,
the
vertuous
,
and
who
so
employeth
his
time
well
,
redeemeth
it
,
ransometh
it
,
for
he
doth
recover
and
re-assume
that
part
of
time
,
and
space
of
life
,
that
though
he
were
à
sinner
,
God
Almighty
as
à
just
judge
will
acquitt
him
,
and
it
so
happily
falleth
out
,
that
he
liveth
to
his
full
yeares
destined
him
,
and
dyeth
enioying
à
long
course
of
life
and
many
years
.
The
third
exposition
is
,
that
he
ransometh
time
,
who
parteth
with
parcell
thereof
from
wordly
affaires
to
offer
it
vp
to
God
,
and
in
serious
applying
himselfe
to
God
,
and
to
enjoying
of
inward
comfort
of
his
soule
,
and
that
seeming
to
doe
nothing
he
employeth
it
in
an
holy
vacancy
from
worldly
addictions
,
according
to
the
example
of
S.
Mary
Magdalene
.
Saint
Austine
,
is
this
:
Whensoeuer
any
one
moueth
à
suite
in
Lawe
,
à
plea
against
thy
estate
,
loose
some
what
to
winne
time
to
serue
God
,
and
cutt
of
the
time
which
thou
wert
to
loose
in
thy
suites
and
that
which
thou
thinkest
that
thou
loosest
,
thou
winnest
,
and
it
is
the
price
and
valiew
with
which
thou
art
made
Maister
of
time
,
who
hath
any
thing
to
be
depriued
of
for
gaine
,
in
which
he
sayth
that
God
gaue
and
to
buy
:
for
if
so
thou
goe
into
the
market
,
and
buy-est
bread
or
wine
or
oile
,
or
other
merchandise
;
thou
partest
from
one
thinge
,
receiuest
another
,
leauest
thy
money
,
partest
from
it
,
and
makest
good
thy
commerce
and
traffique
,
for
this
is
the
manner
of
buyng
and
selling
,
of
traffique
;
Then
if
thou
shalt
giue
nothing
,
nor
haue
lesse
then
thou
hadst
before
,
and
yet
shouldst
possesse
more
,
either
it
must
be
that
thou
hast
found
it
,
or
that
thou
art
heire
of
it
,
or
that
it
was
giuen
vnto
thee
in
curtesy
;
but
when
so
that
thou
giuest
and
partest
with
one
thing
for
an
other
,
and
dost
giue
out
from
thy
house
in
barter
for
some
what
that
is
necessary
for
thee
,
then
dost
thou
traffick
;
and
that
which
thou
possessest
,
is
what
thou
boughtest
,
and
what
thou
partedst
with
,
and
hast
not
,
is
the
price
where
with
thou
boughtest
it
.
The
divine
Chrysostome
declareth
it
in
this
following
manner
:
Saint
Paul
the
Apostle
aduiseth
,
Sicut
exhibuistis
membra
vestra
&c.
Euen
as
to
this
very
instant
you
employed
and
yeilded
vp
your
bodyes
,
senses
,
and
the
parts
of
your
body
to
serue
vncleanenes
and
iniquity
on
iniquity
,
make
even
now
a
turne
about
,
yea
and
turne
à
new
leafe
and
spend
all
your
time
on
the
seruice
of
iustice
and
vertue
to
sanctification
.
Before
these
wordes
the
Apostle
deliuered
.
Humanum
dico
propter
vestram
infirmitatem
,
&c.
I
desire
to
perswade
you
,
and
to
propose
vnto
you
what
is
in
it selfe
nothing
estranged
from
man
&
his
nature
,
à
thing
feasible
yea
and
easy
to
be
donne
and
sufferable
,
notwithstanding
thy
frailty
and
weaknes
,
and
it
is
,
that
for
so
much
you
serue
not
justice
and
trueth
as
your
duty
is
,
and
you
ought
according
to
reason
,
at
the
least
I
require
it
at
your
hands
,
that
with
as
much
affect
,
attention
,
efficacy
,
and
fulnes
of
vigour
you
employ
your selues
in
the
seruice
of
God
and
in
true
obseruance
of
his
commandements
,
and
to
make
as
much
vse
of
time
and
houres
(
of
which
the
fruite
,
practise
,
and
entertainement
is
sanctification
,
for
by
such
workes
à
man
is
sanctified
,
and
is
truely
dedicated
and
deliuered
ouer
to
God
)
with
as
much
care
,
attention
and
sollicitude
as
you
spent
in
your
addictions
,
yea
and
giuing
your selues
ouer
to
serue
iniquities
and
sinne
,
for
from
hence
the
sinner
contracteth
nothing
on
himself
,
but
to
be
in
the
state
of
sinne
,
and
to
be
alas
!
à
sinner
and
wicked
,
and
to
be
so
enstyled
,
to
beare
such
domination
,
such
name
.
And
although
true
it
is
,
that
sanctification
doth
notably
exceed
,
farre
surmount
iniquity
,
vnrighteousnes
,
yet
should
I
be
some
what
acquieted
that
they
would
employ
so
much
earnestnes
,
so
most
vigilant
sollicitude
in
welldoeing
after
conuersion
;
as
they
haue
rendred
,
and
formerly
fully
placed
to
sinne
,
and
to
displease
the
Majesty
of
God
.
But
,
ô
pitty
!
although
bold
,
and
ill
placed
couragious
many
were
to
sinne
,
how
luck
warme
,
and
euen
cold
,
slacke
,
and
hee●●es
are
they
to
vndergoe
repentance
,
and
to
exercise
themselues
in
practise
of
vertue
?
A
sinner
maketh
no
difficulty
of
ought
to
give
himselfe
his
intended
delights
,
and
pleasures
,
to
obtaine
his
contents
,
and
fulnes
of
his
appetits
:
nothing
is
by
him
accounted
hard
to
acquire
:
and
if
so
be
that
you
question
him
,
can
you
suffer
and
endure
such
like
?
or
such
other
?
be
it
neuer
so
difficult
,
he
will
answere
to
all
,
yea
,
he
can
;
time
is
very
short
of
too
quick
speed
for
sinners
to
enjoy
the
fulnes
of
their
delights
,
but
to
employ
themselues
in
good-workes
,
they
account
the
time
long
;
masse
is
long
;
à
sermon
long
,
and
tedious
,
prayer
,
as
also
meditation
burthensome
,
and
fasting
very
painefull
;
cold
maketh
them
heartles
,
quelleth
their
spirits
;
and
heat
doth
euen
enfeeble
them
,
and
each
thing
whatsoeuer
seemeth
à
great
torment
,
or
heauy
burthen
;
euen
soe
as
(
to
conclude
this
Chapter
)
it
is
à
very
good
remedy
,
to
redeeme
time
,
to
employ
it
well
,
yea
and
with
à
like
agony
,
earnestnes
,
covetousnes
,
with
such
watch
,
diligence
,
and
expeditenes
,
and
mindfullnes
,
which
might
equalize
that
which
was
applyed
,
to
loose
time
,
and
to
haue
it
taken
prisoner
.
The
end
of
the
Ninth
Chapter
.
THE
TENTH
CHAPTER
.
How
it
is
to
be
vnderstood
,
that
the
daies
are
bad
,
and
how
since
so
it
is
,
that
they
are
to
be
redeemed
.
ALL
things
which
God
created
are
good
,
Saint
Chrysostome
,
and
Saint
Ierome
declare
.
S.
Austine
)
which
are
cause
that
the
dayes
are
evill
,
Saint
Paul
,
S.
Basill
:
S.
Iacob
,
answering
to
Pharaoh
,
who
questioned
of
him
how
old
he
was
)
are
one
hundred
and
thirty
,
few
,
and
those
bad
.
The
King
asked
of
him
,
how
many
are
the
yeares
thou
hast
lived
?
and
he
replyed
&c.
and
although
he
seemed
at
first
sight
that
he
answered
not
to
the
purpose
,
yet
hee
returned
an
admirable
answere
,
&
like
himselfe
,
à
Saint
,
and
discreete
,
&
as
à
wise
and
prudent
man
he
cutt
of
in
à
tacite
and
silent
way
,
the
question
which
was
asked
of
him
:
as
the
Maister
doth
with
his
scholler
,
when
he
demandeth
an
impertinent
question
,
his
meaning
to
Pharaoh
was
that
the
years
of
this
life
,
are
not
years
,
but
dayes
:
and
the
dayes
,
not
dayes
,
but
howers
,
and
the
howers
,
not
howers
,
but
moments
:
and
the
life
of
the
seruants
of
God
is
not
à
place
of
setling
in
this
world
,
but
à
journeying
,
a
travelling
from
place
to
place
;
à
pilgrimage
to
the
celestiall
Ierusalem
.
They
are
passengers
,
&
euen
as
such
like
,
they
make
vse
of
the
goods
and
commodities
of
the
world
;
and
hee
spake
further
that
his
yeares
were
few
,
although
he
were
an
hundred
and
thirty
;
for
that
those
his
,
yea
and
many
more
are
few
,
And
finally
he
enstyleth
his
daies
bad
for
the
many
dangers
and
corporall
&
spirituall
crosses
,
S.
Mathew
:
Bee
not
too
much
sollicitous
of
to
morrow
,
Viam
mandatorum
tuorum
cucurri
&c.
When
as
through
thy
great
mercy
(
my
Lord
,
my
God
)
thou
pleasedst
to
attract
mee
,
and
release
mee
from
sinne
,
and
misery
,
in
which
I
was
plunged
,
surprised
and
fast-held
so
long
,
and
in
the
breaking
the
chaines
wherewith
I
was
fast
tyed
,
refreshing
my
heart
with
the
water
,
the
liquor
more
precious
then
that
of
Angels
,
from
the
bounty
of
thy
all
Soueraigne
benignity
and
grace
comforting
it
,
consoling
it
therewith
;
I
began
(
that
I
might
redeeme
time
)
to
hasten
and
run
,
and
I
made
all
possible
speed
,
all
diligence
imaginable
,
without
getting
vnto
mee
,
or
purchasing
so
much
as
one
breathing
,
or
other
,
n●thy
way
for
the
way
of
thy
commandements
.
The
deuout
and
mysticall
Thaulerus
(
and
then
with
him
will
we
conclude
this
treatise
)
moueth
a
question
in
this
manner
how
a
man
may
redeeme
,
Gregory
Nissenus
sayed
)
if
so
that
wee
should
passe
all
our
time
in
prayer
,
The
end
of
the
tenth
and
last
Chapter
.
LAVS
DEO
TRINO-VN●
.