Command and obedience are the bodie and soule of humane societie , the head and foote of an establish't Empire , Pars 1. Command sits as Soueraigne and hath three Scepters , by which it rules , Authoritie , Courage , Sufficiencie .

Obedience , as ' ewere the subiect , and beares vp it's allegiance with three pillars , necessitie , profit , willingnesse . Sometimes command growes impetuous and rough , and then 't is no more Soneraigntie but Tyrannie — . Againe , Obedience , vpon distast , is apt to murmure , and growes mutinous , and so 't is no more a subiect , but a Rebell ; where they kisse mutually , there is both strength and safetie ; but where they scold and iarre , all growes to ruine and combustion . And this holds not onely in matters Ciuill , but in those more sacred . Command from heauen presupposes in vs an obedience no lesse of necessitie , than will , and in God , insallibilitie both of power , and incouragement . Faintnesse of resolution , or excuse , in his high designements , are but the Teltales of a perfunctory zeale , howeuer they pretend to bashfulnesse , or humilitie . Ier. 1. I cannot speake Lord , or , I am vnworthy , were but course apologies of those that vsed them , when God had either matter for their emploiment , or time ; And the Quis ego Domine ? Rom. 1. Exod. 3. of Moses , here , finds so little of approbation , that it meetes a checke ; the Text will tell you in what heate and tumult , with an — Accensus furor Iehonae the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses , and it should seeme , Cap. 4.4 . in such violence , that Abulensis , after much trauerse , Tost . in cap. 4. Exod. and dispute makes that tergiuersation of his little lesse than a mortall sinne , & some of the Hebrewes haue strangely punish't it , with the losse of Canaan , perswading vs , the maine reason why he came not thither , was his backwardnesse in obeying this — proficiscere , Goe . Perer. in Exod. But that 's a Thalmudicall and wilde fancie , fitter for such giddy enrolements than the eares of a learned throng . And as Moses may not but obey when God layes his command on him , so hee must not goe without it . Matthew must be called from his receipt of custome ; Mat. 9 9. Gal. 1.5 . & he is not honor'd with a true Apostleship , who wants his — vocatus sicut Aaron . That of God to the Pseudo-prophets , was a fearefull Irony , — I sent them not , Ier. 14. but they ranne — , voluntaries ( it should seeme ) find here neither countenance , nor entertaine ment , but whom God hath prest and sealed to this great warfare ; yet the other , notwithstanding , in the field , and seasoned once in battell , the retrait is more dangerous , than the aduenture .

We finde Esay more actiue and forward than any of the Prophets , Esay cap. 6. & yet that spontaneousnesse not chid ; who ( as if he would anticipate the care and choise of God in his owne affaires ) makes a hasty tender of his seruice , Esay cap. 5 with an — Ecce ego , Esay cap. 8 mitte me ; yet , he had his former convulsions , and pangs too of feare , and diffidence ; Woe is me , Esay cap. 5 for I am a man of polluted lips . But see how God hammers and workes what he intends to file , either in person , Esay cap. 7 or by substitute ? an Altar must be the Forge , and a Seraphin the workeman , who with his tongs ready , and his coale burning , shall both touch those iniquities , and purge them , and then , and not till then , heere am I , Lord , send me . As therefore to stand still , when God sends out his proficiscere , argues a rustie and sullen lazinesse , so to runne when he sends not , arrogancie , and presumption . That zeale is best qualified , which hath the patience to expect God's summons , and then the boldnesse to doe his errand .

The Schooleman in his 2a. 2ae . 185. question , Aqui. 2 a. 2ae . qu. 185. art. 1. being to deale of religious persons , straines not the Myter from his discourse , but moderates the quaere by diuiding it , and thinkes to take away all scruple by making two , whether it be lawfull to desire Ecclesiasticall honour ( Episcopall hee Epithites ) or to refuse it being enioyned ? Greg. de Val. in loc. Aqui. dist. 10. q. 3. par. 2. Gregorie de Valentia ( his Amanuensis here ) turnes the perspectiue from the obiect vpon the Agent , viewing as well the partie desiring as the thing desired , where , though hee descrie height of sufficiency in personall endowments : Quaer . 1 one Cap-A-Pe , in all points canonicall . yet he allowes not a baite for his eager appetite to feed on ; a disopinion'd vnder-valued man may not desire it for the dignity , nor he that 's fortunetroden for the reuenue . Be the person otherwise ne're so compleatly accommodated , yet the irregularity in his appetite strangles his other eminencies , and so he is ( at once ) vnworthy , and vncapable . Reason and conscience , will betroth Honours to desert , which yet they diuorce from the immodesty and heate of the desire ; for , if super-intendencie be in the appetite more than the office , 't is presumption . Aquinas doth censur't so , a common practise of the Gentiles , reproou'd in the Disciples ; Aquinas vt sup. Ye know their Princes loue to dominere , Mat. 20. if the honour be superiour , 't is ambition , and so meerely pharisaicall , — They loue the vppermost roomes at feasts , and chiefe seats at Synagogues , Matth. 23. If the reuenue , it allies to couetousnesse , Matth. 23. and differs from the sinne of Simon Magus thus , he proffer'd money for the gifts , these couet the gifts for the money .

On the other side , to reiect the Ephod wherewith authority would inuest thee , checkes doubly the refuser , Quaer . 2 in waies of charity , humility . Charity seekes no more her own , Aquin. & Greg. vt sup. than her neighbours good ; now the charity we owe vnto our selues , prompts vs to search out — Otium sanctum ( as Augustine phrases it ) a holy vacancie from these publike cures , but that to the Church bindes vs to vndergoe . — Negotium iustum , the imposition of any iust employment , Aug. 19. de Ciuil . Dei cap. 19. — quam sarcinam si nullus imponit , intuendae vacandum est veritati , si autem imponitur , sustinenda est propter charitatis necessitatem , the Father in his 19. de Ciuil . Dei . cap. 19. Againe , humility tie's vs in obedience to Superiours , so that as often as we disobey them we doe oppugneit , and this ( in respect of God ) is not meeknesse , but pertinacy , — Tunc ante Dei oculos vera est humilitas , cum ad respuendum hoc quod vtiliter subire praecipitur , Magn Gregor. 1. pa●s Past . cap. 6. pertinax non est — , Gregory 1. part of his Pastorals 6. Chapter .

To auoide then all occasions of publike seruice for the Church , vnder a pretence of humility or reclusenesse , speakes ( too broadly ) the delinquent , refractarie . Your Anchoret that digges his graue in speculation meerely , and your Moale that is earth'd wholy in an affected solitarinesse , are not liable so properly to obscurity , as death ; such elaboratnes tends not to perfection , but disease ; & we finde an Apoplexy , and sleepe , no lesse on their endeauours than in their name ; all knowledge is dusted with them , and 't is no more a nurserie of vertues , but a Tombe . And ( indeed ) such Silkewormes spin themselues into Flies , disanimate , heartlesse Flies , life neither for Church , nor Common-wealth . The Laurell and honour of all secular designes is the execution , and the happinesse of those sacred ones is not intail'd barely to the knowledge of them , but to the fac & vines . And that , not at home onely , in thy particular intendments , but abroad also in thy seruices for the Church ; so that he that retraits at any Alarum or summons of his God , for the common affaires of the Church , to hugge and enioy himselfe in his solitary ends , runnes himselfe on the shelues of a rough censure , that of the Father to his Dracontius , Athan. in Epist. ad Drac . Episc. fugient . pars 2. editio vltima . — Vereor ne dum propter te fugis , propter alios sis in periculo apud Dominum . To stand by , and giue aime onely , whil'st others shoote , and thou thy selfe no markman , proclaimes thy lazinesse , if not thy impotency . What a nothing is thy arme ? thy bowe ? thy shaft ? if not practised , not bent , not drawne vp ? or if so glorious a marke , the Church ? why not leueld at ? either she must be vnworthy of thy trauell , or thine of her . If therefore this thy Mother implore thy aide ( so Augustine counsels his Eudoxius ) on the one side , August . Epist. 81. hand not with ambition ; on the other , leane not to a lazie refusall , weigh not thine owne idlenesse with the necessities and greatnesse of her burthens , to which ( whiles she is in trauell ) if no good men will administer their helpe , Certè quomodo nasecremini non inueniretis ; God must then inuent new waies for our new birth : the Father in his 81. Epistle ad Edoxium .

You see then our Moses may not hastily thrust himselfe vpon those weighty designes without authority and commission from his God , and yet once summon'd , not recoile ; but thus hauing his Congedeleere and warrant from aboue , wee must now account him in the place of God , God indeed , with a — sicut — the Text tels vs so , thrice tels vs so , God to Aaron , God to Israel , God to Pharaoh . Exod. 3.4 , 5. 'T were then too high a sacriledge to rob him of any title or prerogatiue , which should waite on the greatnesse of such a person . Let 's giue him ( what all ages haue ) Eminency of place , Office , their attendants , Honour , Reuenue . I shall dwell my houre with the two first , with the latter only , in Transitu , and vpon the by , they being inuolued in the two former . And that I may punctually go on , I will touch first ( where I should ) with the Eminency — Goe . —

Which as it was sacred in the first instaulement , Eminen . 1. par. so in the propagation most honourable to the times of Heathens . For Tertullian ( speaking of the magnificence and pompe which attended their superstitions ) tels vs , Tert. de Coron. militis cap. 10. that their doores , and Hoasts , and Altars , and dead , and ( what glorifies all ) their Priests were crown'd : in his Corona militis cap. 10. And the first crowne which the Romanes vsed , was their spicea Corona , giuen as a religious ensigne in honour of their Priests , — Honosque is , non nisi vita finitur , Plin. lib. 3. cap. 2. & exules etiam , captosque comitatur — sayes my Histostorian , nought but death could terminate this honour , which was their companion both in exile , and captinity . They wore the name of Aruales Sacerdotes , Alex. ab . Alex. lib. 1. cap. 26. first instituted by Romulus , and Acca Laurentia , his Nurse , who , of her twelue Sonnes hauing lost one , he himselfe made vp the number with that title . But here 's not all , — Terminorum sacrorum , & finium , iurgijs terminandis praeerant , & interueniebant , they were the peace-makers of the time , and sate as Arbitrators in matters of contestation betweene man and man , Plin. vt sup. as the great Naturalist in the 18. booke of his History , 2. chapter . And who fitter for such a morall office than the Priest ? an honour which these worst of times allow him , though with some turbulency , and indignation : Numb. 16.3 . Moses and Aaron , you take too much vpon you , was the crie of a Iew once , so 't is now , who would manacle and confine them onely to an Ecclesiasticke power , and deuest them quite of any ciuill authority , though Moses here had both . But 't was not without some shew of mysterie , that in the robes of Aaron ( I instance now in him , lest perchance they should cauill with his brother Moses ) there was a crowne set vpon the Myter , Exod. 29.6 . moralizing a possible coniunction at least of Minister and Magistrate in one person . And Chytraeus hath a patheticall obseruation from the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 — deuide aright , 2 Tim. 2. Chyt . de ordin . minist. pag. 506. that the Metaphor was first taken from the manner of cutting or deuiding the members of the host , Leuit. 7. where the fat and kidneies were burnt as a sacrifice to God , but the breast and the shoulder were giuen to the Priests : the Allegorie carries with it both weight and maiesty , here 's a breast for counsell , and a shoulder for supportation in matters of gouernment . And no doubt in times of old ( euen these of the Fathers ) the Sacerdotall power , was at a great height , in equall scale with that of their honour , Si Regum fulgori & principum Diademati inserius est quam si plumbi metallum ad auri fulgorem compares , Ambr. ibid. which was so eminent , that Saint Ambrose rankes not the Myter with the Diadem , but in a zealous Hyperbole ( pardon the Epithite ) preferres it , and makes this comparatiuely to the other as a sparkle to a flame , or dull Lead to burnisht Gold , in his de dignitate Sacerdotali cap. 2.

I may not follow the Father in his priestly Panegiricke , 't is too high , and borders too much on the discipline of the triple crowne , such a crowne as ne're yet girt the temples of King or Priest , but of him that tramples on the necke of both ; let such insolence inuade the right of Potentates , and spurne their Crownes and Scepters in the dust , whil'st we seate our Aaron at the becke of Moses , but the people too at that of Aaron : Let the Priesthood doe obeysance , and kisse the feet of Soueraignty ; but let not the Laity turne the heele , and kicke against the sacrednesse of Priesthood . S. Augustine vpon these words of God to Moses , — Tu eris illi in ijs quae ad Deum . — Hee shall be to thee in stead of a mouth , Exod. 4.16 . and thou shalt be to him in stead of God , seemes entranc'd awhile , and bringing them to the ballance , and weighing precisely euery scruple , cries out , Aug. lib. 2. Exod. 10. quaest. Magnum Sacramentum cuius figuram gerat , as if Moses were a medium betweene God and Aaron , and Aaron betweene Moses and the people . The morall is plaine , Soueraignty stands betweene God and the Priesthood , and the Priesthood betweene Soueraignty and the people . Howeuer the Ceremonies due to either heretofore , in matters of Instaulement , stood not at such enmity as we can say they differ'd , they were both anoynted , and both crown'd ; and though the authority were vnequall in respect of place , yet not of employment , Yee are full of power by the spirit of the Lord , Micah . 3.8 . And Elisha could once tell the King , He should know there was a Prophet in Israel , 2 King . 5.8 . And in matters of preseruation God was as zealous for the safety of these as them , — Touch not mine anointed , and doe my Prophets no harme , Psal. 105.

But let not my zeale to the Priest dispriuiledge my alleagiance to my King . I speake not this to set vp Moses in competition with Pharaoh , or riuall the dignity of the Priesthood with that of Soueraignty ; but to mind you in what lustre it sometimes shin'd , & how the times now conspire to cloud that glory .

The dayes haue beene , when the Laicke was ambitious , not onely of the title of a Priest , but the office : for Eusebius examples in many of them , who thrusting vpon Bishops of primitiue times , Statim concionandi munus obierunt , in his lib. 6. cap. 15. And Tertullian ( speaking of the insolencies and taunts which the Laity then put vpon the Priesthood ) tells vs that they iustified their malice & iniuries to the Priest , by vsurping the name , or prophaning rather , Te●t . lib. de Monog . cap. 12. — Quum extollimur & inflamur aduersus clerum , tunc omnes Sacerdotes , quia Sacerdotes nos Deo , & Patri fecit , quum ad peraequationem disciplinae Sacerdotalis prouocamur , deponimus infulas , & pares sumus ; in his booke de Monogamia , cap. 12.

It should seeme then the office and name past honourably through all ages , euen those of Infidels , though the person were sometimes exposed to the persecutions of the time , and suffered vnder the blasphemies of vnchristian tongues ; but now the very title growes barbarous , and he thinkes he hath wittily discountenanced the greatnes of the calling , that can baffle the professour with the name of Priest . But these , whil'st they intend to wound , they honour vs , and wee account them no scarres , but glories . Let such children mocke on the Prophet , the euent ( I beleeue ) will proue as horrid as that of old , will you tremble to heare it spoken ? you may reade it then , and look pale too , in 2 King . 2.24 .

May it please you now , Office 2. turne your eyes from the dignity , and reflect vpon the office . The office , a taske indeed , such a one as should rather prouoke our endeauours , than appetites . If any man desire the office of a Bishop ( let 's awhile leaue the word Priest , and fasten vpon this , the authority may beare it out the better ) desires a good worke , 1 Tim. 3.1 . 1 Tim. 3.1 . Lib. 19. Ciuit. Dei cap. 19. Quia nomen operis est , non honoris ( as Augustine glosses it ) 't is a name of worke , not honour ; a worke no lesse fearefull , than laborious , no where better figur'd than by Moses , here , to Pharaoh , repriuing Israel from Egypt , from which 't is scarce any way differenc'd , but in the difficulty , and therein it exceeds the type ; difficulty worthy the trauells of the best , were not those labours shoulder'd and thrust on by vaine-glory . Greg. de Val. in 2 a. 2ae . disp. 10. q. 3. part. 2. Istaec cathedra cupientem se , & audacter expetentem , non requirit , sed ornatum , sed eruditum — . So Valentia vpon Aquine . — This chaire of Moses is no seat of ambition , but desert , it hates either an intruder , or pursuer ; He that gaines it by couetousnesse , or bold desire , doth not possesse , but inuade it , and 't is not so much his by right of inheritance , as vsurpation .

These honors sawne onely vpon humble worths , men clad & harnessed with double eminencie , of life , of learning , those whose vertues haue aduanc'd them aboue the ordinary leuell and pitch of popularity . Yet to these neither without this proficiscere — to Moses , Goe . Clemens in his first Epistle , will perswade you : 't is the conclusion of Saint Peter . Augustine goes farther , Lib. 19. de Ciuit. Dei , cap. 19. — Locus superior sine quo populus regi non potest , etsi administretur vt decet , tamen indecenter appetitur — . Suppose the man worthy of this place of Eminencie , & comes home in matters of administration , yet he is to blame in those of appetite , Greg. de Val. vt supra . for the desire laies open his vnworthinesse , and the Schoolman will not flatter him , but concludes it plainely for a mortall sinne . And if we may guesse at the child by the patent , it best countenanceth leuity , or arogance , neuer read to be the proper seedes of any vertue . Notwithstanding this desire ( sometimes ) comes not within the compasse of presumption , if the worke be the obiect of our appetite , and not the honour , or , if the honour , not the reuenew , Part. 1. Pastor . cap. 8. — Appetere calsitudinem Episcopalem , non est semper praesumptio , sed appetere Episcopatum , ratione celsitudinis . appetit enim celsitudinem , supra dignitatem — Gregorie will haue it so . Howeuer , if it please you to glance on my former quotation from the Apostle , 1 Tim 3.1 . 't will not so much whet your appetite , as grauell it ; for first Beza limits the desire , If any man desire ? Beza in licum . and 't is not meant — de ambitu — of the appetite , or ambition to get the See , but de animo , of the earnest desire to benefit the Church , or admit the words will carry that interpretation , yet the commendation which is annexed truces with the worke , not the desire , — Bonum opus desider at — , not — benè desiderat — , though it be good what he desires , yet hee doth not well to desire it . Men vnworthy of what they sue for , onely because they sue for it . And this in Primitiue times hath occasioned in many no lesse a modestie than vnwillingnesse in those sacred vndertakings , when the Fathers , with a kind of reluctancie and feare , were towed on to these high imployments . Nay some , whether through maiestie of the place , or roughnesse of the times , or guilt of their owne weakenesse , haue panted and breath'd short in their desires to this great enterprise , and at length exchang'd the honour for an exile . Greg. Naz in praesat . Apol. Athan. in epist. ad Dracont . Epist. fug . vt Gloss. in prim . Euan. Marc. Nazianzen flies into Pontus ; Dracontius , into the skirts of Alexandria : and it is tradition'd me by Aquinas . ( and he quotes Saint Ierome for it ) that Saint Marke cut off his thumbe , Vt Sacerdotio reprobus haberetur — They are the Schoolemans owne words in his 2a. 2ae . quaest. 185. Artic. 1. But 't will not be amisse here to take Saint Ambrose — quamnis notandum — with vs ; that these things were done in the Churches great extremities , when he that was — primus in presbyterio , Part. 2. past . c. 3. was — primus in Martyrio . 'T would require the temper of a braue resolution , and a better zeale , to desire this Bonum opus , when 't was made the touchstone and furnace of mens faith and constancie , not only in leading others to the stake , but their own suffering where they were to be a voluntary Holocaust , and sacrifice to the Church , there to remaine a monument of their Religion , and others tyranny . 'T is true , Histories haue furnisht vs with examples of some which haue renounc'd an Empire , and ( which is strange ) a Popedome ; Dioclesian did one , and Celestinus , t'other . The times ( we may suppose ) were blustring , and the reuenewes thin at Rome , when the honor of the chaire , was at once not desir'd and scorn'd . No proiect now vnsifted , no stratagem vndig'd for ; no reach of policie vnfathom'd for the compassing of that great See , though by synister , though by diuellish attempt , nay , that 's the chiefe engine by which it works . Tiberius could once tell a Prince of the Celts , that Rome had a sword for her conquest , not an Apothecaries shop ; now they are both too little ; Sword , and poyson , and massacre , and Pistoll , and knife , and powder , for the purchase ( or at least the strengthening ) of the triple crowne .

And I would Machiauell had rendeuouz'd only in Iesuited Territories , and not knockt at the gates of Protestant Dominions ; 't is to be fear'd he hath Factors neerer home , those which not onely know the backdoores to the Staffe , and Myter , but are acquainted with the locke , which if they cannot force or picke by the finger of policie or greatnesse , they turne with that golden key which at once opens a way to a purchas'd honour , and a ruine .

Ambition whither wilt thou ? nay , where wilt thou not ? to the pinacle of the Temple for the glory of the world , though thou tumble for it to thy eternall ruine .

The Greeke Philosopher will beg of the gods , that he may behold the Sunne so neere , as to comprehend the forme , Eudoxus . beautie , greatnesse of it , and afterwards he cares not if hee burne , as if there were no such Martyrdome , as what Ambition fires . Occidar modò imperet — , Tacit. Annals . was the resolution of Agrippina for her Nero ; but loe , how the euent crownes the vnsatiatenesse of her desires ? He gaines the kingdome , and first dig'd out those bowels which had fostered him , and then that heart which was the throne of such an aspiring thought ; cruelty shall I call it , or iustice , when the vaineglory of the mother was penanc'd with the vnnaturalnesse of the son . Thus loftie mindes ( furnisht with a strong hope of the successe of their designes ) haue embark't themselues into great actions , and proposing humane ends , as scales to their high thoughts , haue bin wafted into strange promotions , but after they haue ( a while ) spangl'd in that their firmament of honour , they become falling starres , and so the successe prooues as inglorious as the enterprise was bold , and desperate . We haue seldome met with any eminency that was sodaine and permanent : Those which in their dawne of Fortune breake so gloriously , meet with a storme at noone , or else a cloud at night . The Sunne that rises in a grey and sullen morne , sets clearest ; and indeed ambition is too hastie , and is hurried violently to the end it aimes at without cautelousnesse and circumspection to the meane ; but humilitie hath a calme and temperate pace , and stoopes it along in a gentle posture , yet at length attaines her marke , but slowly , as if it went vnwilling to honour , and slighted those proffers which others sue for . I enuie Scipio Africanus , and Marcus Portius ( you know whose 't is , Traianus to Plutarch ) more for contempt of offices . than the victories they haue wonne , because a conquerour for the most part is in Fortunes power , but the contempt of offices liu'd in prudence . Will you heare the paraphrase ? Tacitus giue 's it , Sapientibus cupido gloriae nouissima . exuitur — . Wisemen are so little in the drift of honor that they loath the sent , 't is the vanitie , they last put off , and there was a time when a modest refusall of them , was no by-way to them ; for this shadow once followed , flies , but fled , Chrys. Hom. 35. in Matth. followes — primatus fugientem desiderat , desideratum borret , saies the Father . 'T is a tricke of primacie to fawne where 't is not croocht too , but looke coy where it 's ouer courted , like some weather-cocks which in a constant and churlish wind beake fairely towards vs , but in a wanton blast , turne taile .

Hence it is that in matters of authoritie , and preheminence , pride hath for the most part the foile , humilitie the conquest , that stoopes basely to the title , or the profit , and looses either , This in a modest distance keepes a loofe , till worth inuite it , and at length gaines both ; so that it is in wayes of promotion , as in some water-works , where one Engine raises it to make it fall more violently , another beats it downe that it might mount higher . 1 Pet. 5.6 . The aduise then of S. Peter comes seasonably here , — Humble your selues vnder the mighty hand of God , that hee may exalt you in due time . The words are not without their strength of emphasis , here is an — humiliamini — erown'd with an — vt exaltet , humble your selues , that he may exalt , as if humilitie were so necessary a disposition to preferment , that without it God might not exalt . But soft , Impostor ; Thou which iugleft both with God and with the times , I call not that bumility which is typ'd in the downefall of the looke , or the affected crindge and posture of the bodie ; but the knee of the inward man , which the Wiseman of old called the character of an holy soule , leading noble harts slowly to the feasts of friends , but speedily to their succour in calamities ; So that true meekenesse is retinu'd with a double worth , charity , resolution ; Plato in Timaeo . And the Philosopher will tell you , 't is Avertue belongs to the couragious part of the soule , seated betweene two base extreames , Pusillanimity , Arrogance , No Buffone , and yet no Bafler , supporting sometimes iniuries , not our of cowardice , but Patience , allaying all tumults and instigations of the soule to reuenge or choller , not expos'd to any violence of passion , but as temperate in disposition , as setled ; no waue in her designe , nor tempest in her thought ; she is all calme , not a wind so rough as to moue a storme either in her minde or action . But there is a squint-eiea humilitie , which casts one way , and points another ; the looke is deiected , still groueling towards the earth , and with such a dresse of mortification , as if it desired no more of it , than would serue it for a graue ; when the thought measures out a Diocesse , or labours on some greater proiect , which gain'd the countenance is chear'd , the bodie droopes not , and he can now safely icst it with that old Abbot , Quaerebam prius claues monasterij , Quibus inuentis , nunc rectus incedo .