The
high
way
to
Heauen
.
Cap.
I.
He
that
in
Heauen
will
tast
the
fruits
of
Diuinitie
:
must
first
learne
to
know
himselfe
in
the
schole
of
Humilitie
.
HVmilitie
,
is
a
vertue
springing
from
the
feare
of
GOD
,
the
mother
of
meekenesse
,
and
sister
of
Deuotion
,
without
which
no
man
can
attaine
to
the
knowledge
and
feeling
of
his
owne
miserie
in
Adam
,
&
felicitie
in
Christ
.
A
Bird
except
hir
wings
be
moued
downwards
cannot
flye
vp
to
the
top
of
an
hill
:
nor
man
,
except
the
affections
of
his
heart
,
be
humbled
downwards
,
mount
vp
to
the
Tower
of
diuine
vnderstanding
.
And
therefore
that
godly
father
Saint
Augustine
compareth
Heauen
to
a
faire
stately
Pal
lace
with
a
little
dore
,
wherat
no
man
can
enter
except
he
stoupe
very
low
.
As
who
should
saye
,
God
reiecteth
the
proud
,
but
giueth
grace
to
the
humble
and
lowly
.
The
true
wisdome
of
a
Christian
,
consisteth
especially
The
ioyes
of
Heauen
are
prepared
,
not
for
Cap.
II.
Of
our
lothsome
deformetie
through
Adams
fall
.
A
Naturall
man
consisteth
of
three
parts
,
the
Spirit
or
immortall
Soule
,
indued
with
reason
,
will
,
and
deuine
vnderstanding
:
Cap.
III.
Of
the
miserie
of
Adams
posteritie
,
and
vanitie
of
the
world
.
FOr-asmuch
as
of
all
other
vices
,
that
old
rooted
infection
of
Pride
,
Vaineglory
and
Presumption
,
is
most
vniuersally
grafted
in
man
:
there
is
nothing
more
necessary
to
suppresse
and
subdue
his
haughty
affections
,
then
continuall
remembraunce
what
he
is
,
from
whence
he
came
,
What
is
Man
?
Telluris
invtile
pondus
,
an
vnprofitable
So
Man
was
earth
,
hee
is
earth
,
and
to
earth
hee
shall
bee
turned
againe
.
Thou
hast
fashioned
mee
of
mould
and
earth
(
sayth
Iob
)
and
I
am
become
like
dust
&
ashes
.
O
homo
(
saith
Chrisostome
)
What
is
Man
?
his
matter
is
base
slime
&
clay
,
his
nature
,
weake
&
feeble
,
his
birth
paine
&
sorrow
,
his
life
,
vayne
and
miserable
:
his
state
,
slippery
&
vncertaine
,
his
time
short
&
tedious
,
his
sins
horrible
&
filthy
,
&
his
end
grieuous
&
lothsome
.
What
is
Man
?
A
mirrour
of
misery
:
a
play
of
fortune
,
and
a
pray
of
death
:
he
is
borne
weeping
and
wayling
,
to
shew
his
wretchednesse
:
hee
liueth
laughing
and
toying
,
to
beewray
his
folly
:
and
dyeth
sighing
and
sobbing
,
to
declare
his
weake
infirmitie
.
What
is
Man
?
Apuleius
a
Philosopher
,
and
scholler
to
Plato
,
describeth
him
in
this
wise
:
Men
,
What
is
the
state
of
Man
?
Saint
Barnard
describeth
What
is
the
World
?
A
vale
of
misery
,
a
sincke
of
sinne
,
a
mould
of
mischiefe
,
a
denne
of
theeues
,
a
What
is
the
world
?
hir
mirth
is
but
sorrow
,
hir
pleasure
but
payne
,
hir
wisedome
but
folishnesse
,
and
hir
wealth
but
misery
:
where
nothing
is
to
bee
looked
for
,
but
euen
a
rancke
of
troubles
,
one
following
in
anothers
necke
.
A
great
trauaile
is
created
for
all
men
(
sayth
Iesus
the
sonne
of
Sirach
)
Adam
,
when
his
children
did
one
kill
another
.
Abraham
,
when
he
wandred
into
a
strange
country
.
Iob
,
when
he
saw
the
spoile
,
and
hauocke
of
his
goods
,
the
destruction
of
his
children
,
and
his
owne
body
tormented
with
botches
and
sores
.
Ioseph
,
felt
his
part
of
miserie
,
beeing
sould
by
his
brethren
,
and
imprisoned
without
cause
.
Noah
felt
his
part
of
miserie
beeing
persecuted
by
the
wicked
.
Lazarus
was
both
sicke
,
sore
,
hungry
,
&
thirsty
.
Father
Iacob
complayned
,
that
his
daies
were
few
and
euill
.
Dauid
said
,
hee
was
a
worme
and
no
man
.
Solomon
was
weary
of
his
life
,
beecause
all
hee
saw
vnder
the
Sunne
was
nothing
but
vanitie
,
miserie
and
vexation
of
minde
.
Father
Ierome
complayned
,
that
Sathan
sought
to
ouer
throw
him
,
and
that
his
weake
flesh
was
ready
to
consent
The
prophet
Ieremy
,
cursed
the
day
of
his
birth
.
Ionas
said
,
it
was
better
for
him
to
dye
then
to
liue
.
Chrisostome
called
the
daies
of
his
life
,
the
daies
of
his
sorrow
.
Nazianzen
wept
that
his
mother
had
brought
him
forth
to
see
such
miserable
daies
.
Such
trauayle
hath
God
giuen
vnto
men
vnder
the
Sunne
,
to
be
exercised
therein
.
Cap.
IIII.
Of
the
race
of
mans
life
:
And
certenty
of
death
.
AND
as
the
daies
of
this
our
painefull
pilgrimage
are
vaine
and
miserable
:
so
are
they
short
and
tedious
.
The
one
foote
no
sooner
on
the
ground
,
but
the
other
is
ready
to
step
into
the
graue
.
Man
that
is
borne
of
a
woman
(
saith
Iob
)
hath
but
a
short
time
to
liue
,
and
is
full
of
miserie
,
hee
springeth
as
a
flower
,
vadeth
like
a
shadow
,
and
neuer
continueth
in
one
state
.
The
life
of
man
is
aptly
compared
to
a
vapour
,
to
the
trace
of
a
cloude
,
to
a
ship
passing
ouer
the
waues
of
the
Sea
,
tossed
&
beaten
with
tempest
:
to
a
bird
that
flieth
in
the
Aire
:
or
a
shaft
,
that
is
shot
at
a
marke
,
and
neuer
staieth
till
it
light
on
the
ground
:
Euen
so
man
,
as
soone
as
hee
is
borne
doth
begin
immediatly
to
draw
to
his
end
.
The
godly
Patriarks
,
who
liued
in
the
first
age
Adam
liued
930.
yeeres
.
Seth
,
912.
Enoch
905.
Kenan
910.
Mahelael
,
895.
Iarard
,
962.
Methuselah
,
969.
Lameth
,
777.
Noah
,
950.
and
they
dyed
,
saith
the
text
.
Abraham
,
the
Father
of
the
faithfull
:
Dauid
,
a
man
according
to
Gods
owne
heart
:
Iohn
Baptist
,
of
whom
our
Sauiour
Christ
saith
,
there
hath
not
risen
a
greater
among
the
children
of
women
:
yet
they
dyed
.
All
the
Prophets
,
Apostles
,
&
godly
Martirs
wer
greatly
in
Gods
fauour
;
yet
they
dyed
.
Rich
and
poore
,
wise
men
&
fooles
,
learned
and
vnlearned
,
godly
and
vngodly
:
all
must
follow
the
daunce
of
death
.
Many
are
gone
before
,
the
rest
must
follow
after
.
Wyse
Solomon
:
Rich
Iob
:
Strong
Sampson
:
&
faire
Absolon
,
haue
trode
the
path
of
al
flesh
.
Great
Alexander
conquered
the
whole
world
:
yet
could
finde
no
weapon
to
conquere
death
.
The
stiffest
steele
yeldeth
to
the
hammer
:
the
strongest
Oke
to
the
Axe
:
and
the
stoutest
hart
vnto
nature
.
And
as
death
is
a
thing
of
all
other
most
certaine
and
sure
:
so
is
the
time
most
vncertaine
and
doubtfull
.
The
Lord
in
his
woord
hath
reuealed
vnto
man
many
notable
lessons
,
touching
the
knowledge
of
his
will
,
yet
not
the
day
of
his
death
,
knowing
that
as
the
course
of
his
life
is
the
race
vnto
death
,
so
is
death
the
gate
to
eternall
life
.
So
though
our
Bodies
layd
shal
bee
to
rot
in
loathsome
graue
:
Yet
afterwards
in
glorious
state
more
beauty
they
shall
haue
.
When
Death
hath
held
them
downe
a
while
anone
they
shall
arise
,
Eternally
in
ioy
to
liue
with
Christ
aboue
the
skies
.
Cap.
V.
The
defence
of
a
Christian
souldier
.
FOr-asmuch
as
our
enemyes
,
the
children
of
the
worlde
,
are
more
subtile
,
crafty
,
and
politike
in
theyr
generation
,
then
the
children
of
God
,
able
to
deceaue
if
it
were
possible
,
euen
the
very
elect
.
Sathan
can
transforme
himselfe
into
an
Angell
of
light
.
Pharohs
sorcerers
Simon
Magus
could
by
sorcery
flye
in
the
ayre
,
turne
stones
into
bread
,
make
serpents
of
brasse
,
sikles
to
reape
come
with
out
handes
:
images
of
stone
to
laugh
,
and
dogs
to
sing
.
And
our
enemyes
beeing
so
many
in
number
as
which
way
so
euer
wee
turne
vs
,
wee
bee
sure
to
haue
some
of
them
ready
to
encounter
vs
:
at
our
right
hand
the
world
the
flesh
and
the
diuell
watch
to
entice
vs
to
our
vtter
destruction
,
at
our
left
hand
Aduersitie
,
Pouertie
,
and
Affliction
of
body
is
ready
to
cast
vs
downe
into
the
dungeon
of
dispaire
:
beehinde
vs
our
sinnes
are
at
hand
to
bewray
vs
,
within
vs
our
owne
consciences
belayeth
to
accuse
vs
:
before
vs
are
Gods
iudgements
ready
to
condemne
vs
,
and
hell
mouth
open
to
deuour
vs
.
To
resist
these
Tirannies
,
it
standeth
vs
in
hand
to
bee
strongly
armed
with
the
brest
plate
of
Equitie
,
the
shield
of
vndoubted
Faith
in
Christ
,
the
helmet
of
assured
Hope
and
Faith
in
Christ
Iesus
,
alwayes
ready
to
doe
our
best
,
and
trusting
in
him
to
doe
the
rest
.
Cap.
VI.
Hee
that
in
Heauen
will
come
to
ioy
with
Christ
,
must
first
trauaile
with
patience
vnder
the
crosse
of
Christ
.
AS
the
Israelits
could
not
come
to
the
land
of
promise
,
but
Belzebub
,
Glutton
and
a
companion
of
the
wicked
,
how
can
the
Seruants
looke
for
better
entertainment
?
All
the
Apostles
and
godly
Martirs
suffered
with
patience
the
troubles
and
persecutions
of
their
time
,
to
obtaine
the
kingdome
of
Heauen
.
Esay
had
his
carkas
cut
a
sunder
with
a
wodden
Lyons
.
Ieremy
and
Steuen
stoned
to
death
.
Iohn
Baptist
and
Paul
beheaded
.
The
three
Israelits
(
Sidrach
,
Misach
and
Abednago
)
committed
to
the
flaming
fire
.
Thomas
preaching
the
Gospell
in
Iudea
,
was
slaine
with
a
dart
.
And
Simon
Zelotes
preaching
in
Britaine
,
was
there
crucified
.
But
these
valiaunt
and
victorious
conquerours
were
well
assured
,
that
prosperitie
and
aduersity
,
life
and
death
,
are
all
Gods
giftes
to
trye
the
harts
of
men
.
Ignatius
(
scholler
to
Iohn
and
Bishop
of
Antioch
)
beeing
condemned
to
dye
for
the
Gospell
,
in
his
greatest
torments
,
did
valiauntly
comfort
himselfe
saying
,
Iam
incipio
esse
Discipulus
Christi
,
now
begin
I
to
bee
the
disciple
of
Christ
.
It
is
written
how
a
certayne
Pagan
tormenting
a
Christian
,
asked
him
in
disdayne
,
What
profit
hee
receiued
by
his
Christ
,
who
answered
,
That
I
patiently
doe
suffer
thy
tiranny
,
and
willingly
pardon
thee
without
reuenge
.
For
as
a
noble
mans
seruant
is
knowne
by
his
Maisters
cognisaunce
,
so
is
a
faithfull
Christian
by
bearing
his
crosse
with
patience
.
Cap.
VII
.
Of
true
Repentance
with
hir
inseperable
furniture
.
REpentance
is
an
inward
sorrow
Contricion
of
hart
,
the
second
Confession
of
mouth
,
the
third
Reformacion
of
life
.
Like
as
a
man
feeling
his
body
infected
,
first
doth
acknowledge
his
disease
:
Secondly
seeketh
to
the
Phisition
for
remedy
:
Thirdly
beeing
cured
,
is
carefull
to
keepe
himselfe
from
future
griefe
by
keeping
good
dyet
.
So
is
it
the
duty
of
euery
good
Christian
,
feeling
his
soule
infected
with
sinne
,
first
by
earnest
repentaunce
to
acknowledge
the
same
before
God
:
secondly
by
humble
and
deuout
prayer
to
seeke
vnto
Christ
for
pardon
:
thirdly
by
restrayning
of
his
affections
,
prone
to
euill
,
to
keepe
him
from
falling
againe
.
So
when
a
faithfull
Christian
feeling
his
conscience
burthened
with
sinne
,
doth
humbly
bewaile
and
confesse
the
same
with
teares
trickling
downe
his
cheekes
,
with
groning
and
sobbing
vnto
God
for
mercie
,
beeing
easely
wonne
and
intreated
,
straite
followerh
pardon
in
Christ
,
comfort
of
conscience
,
and
quietnesse
of
minde
.
In
such
manner
the
Prophet
Dauid
confessed
Mary
Magdalen
fell
downe
behinde
Iesus
and
lamented
pitefully
:
Peter
remembring
the
words
of
Christ
after
hee
had
forsworne
him
,
went
out
and
wept
bitterly
.
Thus
whersoeuer
true
repentaunce
goeth
beefore
with
hir
inseperable
furniture
(
as
humble
Confession
,
Faithfull
prayer
,
and
amendment
of
Life
)
the
Remission
of
sins
doth
follow
after
.
And
wher
th
ackowledging
of
sins
leadeth
not
the
way
,
there
the
gates
of
Gods
mercy
are
alwaies
shut
.
Cap.
VIII
.
Of
true
Fasting
.
FAsting
serueth
to
three
We
ought
to
fast
;
saith
Saint
Ambrose
,
to
keepe
our
bodies
from
surfeting
,
&
our
soules
from
sinning
.
The
diseases
of
the
minde
,
saith
Saint
Ierome
,
are
healed
with
praying
,
&
the
lusts
of
the
body
with
fasting
For
euen
as
a
wanton
pampred
horse
doth
striue
to
cast
his
rider
,
so
doth
a
wanton
pampred
body
by
nature
resist
against
vertue
.
It
is
good
to
fast
,
saide
Saint
Ambrose
,
but
better
to
giue
Almes
.
When
the
lustes
of
the
flesh
are
mortefied
,
our
wronged
brother
satisfied
,
and
our
needie
neighbour
reliued
:
then
God
with
our
fast
is
well
pleased
.
Saint
Augustine
in
his
Sermon
in
the
Wildernesse
,
saith
,
The
sick
for
lack
of
stomack
fast
,
the
Poore
,
for
want
of
meate
:
The
couetous
chuffe
to
spare
his
pursse
,
the
Glotton
,
more
to
eate
:
The
Apish
Ipocrite
for
praise
,
a
good
man
for
his
Soule
health
alwaies
.
Cap.
IX
.
A
briefe
exhortation
to
Christian
Religion
.
AS
the
wise
men
of
the
East
did
offer
vnto
Christ
their
Gold
,
Frankencense
,
and
Mirh
:
so
the
most
precious
thing
that
wee
can
present
vnto
him
is
,
the
Gold
of
Faith
&
sure
Hope
,
the
Frankencence
of
Zeale
and
true
Deuotion
,
and
the
Mirh
of
Vertue
and
Charitable
liuing
.
To
honour
him
with
due
obedience
,
and
depend
wholy
vpon
his
prouidence
,
ioyning
alwayes
practise
with
knowledge
,
deedes
with
words
,
keeping
with
hearing
,
walking
with
talking
and
expressing
with
professing
,
knowing
that
not
the
hearers
of
the
word
,
but
the
doers
therof
shal
be
saued
.
Not
euery
one
that
cryeth
Lord
,
Lord
,
shall
enter
into
the
kingdome
of
Heauen
,
but
hee
that
doth
the
will
of
my
Father
which
is
in
Heauen
.
If
yee
vnderstand
these
things
,
saith
our
Sauiour
,
Hee
that
heareth
the
word
willingly
,
vnderstandeth
it
rightly
,
beleeueth
it
faithfully
,
applieth
it
profitably
,
and
keepeth
it
diligently
,
shall
ioy
with
Christ
assuredly
And
thus
is
Religion
or
godlynesse
,
the
ground
of
conscience
and
true
deuotion
.
Iohn
heard
a
voyce
from
Heauen
saying
,
Blessed
are
the
dead
which
dye
in
the
Lord
,
euen
so
saith
the
spirit
,
that
they
rest
from
theyr
labours
,
and
their
works
follow
them
.
And
hee
that
will
dye
in
the
Lord
,
must
first
bee
carefull
to
liue
in
the
Lord
It
is
an
infallible
rule
:
Qualis
vita
,
Finis
ita
,
to
him
that
liueth
vertuously
,
God
doth
alwaies
giue
grace
to
die
faithfully
.
A
ioyfull
death
followeth
a
charitable
life
,
and
a
happy
life
insueth
such
a
death
.
So
he
that
liueth
to
die
well
,
shal
assuredly
die
to
liue
better
:
such
as
liue
like
Wolues
,
doe
often
dye
like
Swine
.
And
commonly
after
a
dissolute
life
(
without
feare
of
death
)
followeth
a
desperate
death
without
hope
of
life
.
And
it
agreeth
with
all
equitie
right
and
reason
,
that
such
as
in
lewde
behauiour
haue
passed
their
time
,
shall
by
rigour
of
iustice
receaue
their
end
.
Cap.
X.
An
Exhortation
to
continue
patient
in
Aduersitie
.
IT
is
required
in
a
true
Christian
to
bee
strongly
armed
Elias
in
the
wildernesse
,
Iohn
Baptist
in
the
desart
,
and
Peter
in
prison
(
with
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
)
whose
commendacions
by
Christ
himselfe
are
very
great
,
not
onely
for
leauing
their
parents
,
friends
&
country
,
to
follow
him
,
neither
for
their
godly
kinde
of
liuing
,
but
by
continuing
constant
vnto
the
end
.
You
haue
bidden
with
mee
,
sayth
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
in
my
temptation
,
and
I
will
giue
you
a
kingdome
.
Be
faithfull
saith
our
Sauiour
to
the
end
,
&
I
will
giue
you
a
crowne
of
life
.
He
that
ouer-commeth
shall
possesse
all
things
,
and
I
will
bee
his
God
,
and
hee
shall
be
my
Sonne
,
and
shall
eate
of
the
tree
of
life
,
but
he
that
taketh
the
plough
in
hand
and
looketh
backe
,
is
vnmeet
for
the
kingdome
of
Heauen
.
Not
euery
one
that
worketh
in
the
vineyard
,
but
he
that
coutinueth
till
night
,
hath
the
pennie
not
euery
one
that
fighteth
,
but
hee
that
getteth
the
victory
,
hath
the
crowne
of
triumph
:
not
euery
one
that
beginneth
well
&
doth
good
for
a
time
,
but
he
that
endureth
to
the
end
shal
be
saued
.
Happy
and
blessed
is
hee
whom
the
father
of
mercy
indueth
with
his
interior
grace
,
so
to
work
,
runne
,
and
perseuer
,
as
in
the
end
he
may
say
with
the
Apostle
,
I
haue
fought
a
good
fight
,
and
got
the
victory
:
I
haue
finished
my
course
and
woone
the
price
:
Christ
is
to
mee
life
,
and
death
to
mee
aduantage
.
Cap.
XI
.
A
comfortable
consolation
to
the
faithfull
children
of
Christ
.
PLuck
vp
thy
hart
&
reioyce
,
little
poore
dispised
flock
,
for
the
Lorde
hath
heard
the
voice
of
thy
weeping
,
whose
will
and
pleasure
is
to
giue
thee
a
kingdome
;
Great
are
the
troubles
of
the
Righteous
,
but
the
Lord
is
the
defender
of
the
righteous
cause
,
&
wildeliuer
them
out
of
all
.
Euen
as
a
Father
pittyeth
his
owne
sonne
,
so
is
our
God
mercifull
vnto
them
that
feare
him
.
I
haue
beene
young
,
and
now
am
olde
,
saith
Dauid
,
yet
saw
I
neuer
the
righteous
forsaken
,
nor
his
children
begge
their
breade
.
Rather
then
Elias
shall
perish
for
foode
,
God
will
prepare
the
Rauens
to
seede
him
.
Rather
then
Sampson
shall
decay
for
drincke
,
God
will
bring
water
out
of
an
Asses
law
to
refresh
him
.
Rather
then
Israell
shall
sterue
,
the
Lord
will
raine
Manna
from
Heauen
:
&
rather
then
his
people
shall
faint
with
thirst
,
the
Lord
will
turne
a
great
Rocke
into
a
mightie
fountaine
.
Yea
rather
then
harmeshal
come
to
any
one
of
his
chosen
,
he
wil
set
his
Angels
to
preserue
them
The
mountaines
shall
moue
&
the
hils
shall
fall
downe
,
but
my
louing
kindnesse
shall
neuer
bee
remoued
not
fall
away
from
my
elect
,
faith
the
Lord
:
whom
the
Lord
loueth
he
chasteneth
,
&
yet
delighteth
in
him
,
as
a
Father
in
his
sonne
,
because
thou
wast
beloued
of
God
(
saith
the
Angell
to
Tobias
)
it
was
necessary
that
temptation
shold
try
thee
.
Like
the
heards
man
,
when
any
of
his
flock
is
vnruly
&
straieth
from
his
fellowes
,
sendeth
forth
his
dog
not
of
malice
,
to
hurt
or
deuoure
him
,
but
of
loue
to
saue
&
reforme
him
▪
euen
so
our
sauiour
Christ
(
being
our
heauenly
shepheard
,
when
his
sheepe
goeth
astray
&
offend
him
:
he
sendeth
out
his
dog
of
tribulation
,
not
of
enuie
to
destroy
or
harme
them
,
but
of
fauour
to
correct
and
amend
them
.
Euen
as
Moses
by
striking
the
hard
stonie
rocke
with
his
rod
brought
forth
plentie
of
water
,
euen
so
God
by
striking
the
hard
stony
hart
of
man
with
affliction
bringeth
sorth
teares
of
contrition
.
And
as
in
the
goldsmithes
forge
,
the
gold
is
fined
,
&
the
coales
burned
:
so
in
the
forge
of
temptation
&
trouble
,
the
faithfull
are
tryed
,
whilst
the
wicked
are
hardned
&
consumed
yea
,
euen
as
the
seede
that
is
cast
vpon
the
land
,
vnlesse
it
endure
the
coldnes
of
raine
,
frost
&
snow
,
can
bring
forth
no
fruite
,
no
more
can
a
man
,
vnlesse
hee
beare
the
crosse
of
Christ
by
tribulation
and
aduersitie
,
bring
forth
true
fruits
of
the
Gospell
.
Cap.
XII
.
Of
the
ioyfull
state
of
Gods
children
,
after
the
last
Iudgeent
.
AS
the
world
had
a
beginning
so
shal
it
haue
an
ending
.
The
Heauens
shall
passe
away
in
maner
of
a
tempest
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
the
element
also
shall
melt
with
heate
,
&
the
earth
shal
be
consumed
with
fire
,
but
the
Lord
will
create
new
,
and
the
former
shall
not
be
remembred
.
And
as
we
are
now
clothed
with
the
image
of
Adams
corruptible
body
,
subiect
to
death
&
misery
,
so
shall
we
then
bee
clothed
with
the
image
of
Christs
glorious
body
,
changed
into
perfection
and
sinceritie
.
When
Christ
shall
appeare
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
we
shal
be
like
vnto
him
,
&
see
him
as
he
is
,
&
though
wee
shall
not
then
,
as
now
,
bee
maintained
with
earthly
or
elementall
foode
,
but
as
the
Angells
of
Heauen
,
yet
our
bodies
of
the
same
humane
nature
,
shape
and
fashion
,
of
flesh
&
bones
with
all
parts
and
members
of
a
man
,
as
in
this
lise
,
not
altered
in
substance
,
but
changed
in
property
.
Behold
my
hands
and
my
feete
(
saith
our
sauiour
to
his
disciples
)
for
it
is
euen
I
my selfe
,
handle
mee
and
see
,
for
a
spirit
hath
not
flesh
and
bones
as
ye
see
mee
haue
.
And
as
we
shal
be
new
men
,
so
shall
we
haue
new
sences
,
to
vnderstand
things
,
not
as
they
seeme
.
but
as
they
are
in
deed
,
&
behold
the
diuine
Maiestie
of
God
,
face
to
face
:
the
fruition
of
whose
glorious
presence
,
as
the
originall
fountaine
from
whence
all
wisedome
,
gladnesse
,
ioy
,
vertue
and
true
felicitie
proceede
,
shall
so
rauish
,
content
and
satisfie
euery
member
,
power
and
sence
of
both
bodie
and
minde
,
with
such
full
perfection
of
pleasure
and
delight
,
as
neither
eye
hath
seene
,
eare
hath
heard
,
tongue
can
expresse
,
nor
any
hart
of
man
imagine
,
in
comparison
wherof
all
the
desired
and
gladsome
pleasures
of
this
world
are
but
fayned
shewes
and
darke
shadowes
.
And
as
our
sauiour
Christ
laid
aside
part
of
the
Maiestie
,
tooke
vpon
him
the
forme
of
a
seruant
,
&
hauing
performed
due
obedience
&
subiection
,
vnto
his
father
is
now
aduanced
to
the
highest
dominion
,
and
crowned
with
honor
&
glory
,
so
that
all
knees
shall
bow
vnto
him
.
So
after
the
last
day
when
he
hath
performed
the
office
of
a
Meditor
,
he
shall
yeeld
vp
into
the
hands
of
his
Father
,
both
the
kingdome
,
name
and
crowne
of
glory
,
that
God
may
bee
all
in
all
,
to
whose
heauenly
mansion
the
God
of
all
glory
bring
vs
for
his
Sonne
Christ
his
sake
.
AMEN
.
A
most
godly
and
comfortable
Praier
,
in
time
of
Aduersitie
.
O
Eternall
and
most
louing
Father
,
thou
GOD
of
mercie
&
iudgement
,
to
whom
all
things
in
Heauen
&
earth
doe
bow
&
obey
,
at
the
continuance
of
whose
glorious
Maiestie
the
wohle
world
doth
tremble
&
quake
,
who
hath
fashioned
Man
of
slime
and
earth
,
couered
him
in
his
mothers
womb
,
and
deliuered
him
from
death
and
hell
.
To
thee
our
heauenly
Father
,
I
humbly
bow
the
knees
of
myne
heart
,
beseeching
thy
Fatherly
goodnesse
in
Iesus
Christ
to
heare
mee
,
poore
wretched
childe
of
Adam
,
begotten
and
borne
in
sinne
,
disquieted
with
troubles
,
wrapt
in
aduersitie
,
and
oppressed
with
miserie
yet
by
thy
secret
purpose
pertaine
to
thy
kingdome
.
A
Sheep
of
thy
fold
by
election
and
calling
,
though
vnrulie
:
A
seruant
of
thy
household
,
by
obedience
&
dutie
,
though
vnprofitable
:
A
sonne
of
thy
famely
by
adoption
and
grace
,
though
vnworthie
.
I
will
call
mine
owne
waies
to
remembrance
,
confesse
mine
iniquities
against
my selfe
,
&
powre
out
my
complaint
beefore
thee
.
Giue
eare
to
my
praier
O
Lord
,
consider
my
distresse
,
and
pardon
the
voice
of
my
humble
desires
let
the
words
of
my
mouth
,
and
the
meditations
of
my
hart
,
be
alwaies
acceptable
in
thy
sight
,
O
Lord
my
strength
and
my
reedemer
.
I
haue
sinned
grieuously
,
O
mercifull
God
,
against
heauen
and
before
thee
,
&
now
My
hart
is
broken
with
sorrowes
,
my
life
waxen
olde
with
heauinesse
,
&
my
yeeres
with
mourning
.
How
long
wilt
thou
be
angry
with
thy
seruant
O
Lord
?
how
long
shall
I
seeke
counsaile
in
my
soule
,
and
be
so
vexed
in
my
spirit
?
how
long
shall
I
poore
sorrowfull
wretch
,
bee
tossed
with
these
troublesome
floods
of
mortaletie
,
bewailing
the
tediousnesse
of
this
my
irkesome
pilgrimage
?
The
infant
ouercommeth
his
mother
with
crying
,
the
childe
his
father
with
weeping
,
and
the
seruant
his
maister
with
submission
,
and
wilt
thou
be
no
more
intreated
o
Lord
?
wher
are
thy
tender
mercies
which
haue
beene
euer
of
old
?
our
fathers
hoped
in
thee
and
were
deliuered
,
they
put
their
trust
in
thee
an
I
were
not
confounded
.
Thou
art
the
Father
of
the
fatherlesse
,
and
the
helper
of
the
friendles
:
thou
hast
alwaies
hard
the
humble
desires
of
the
poore
,
and
thou
preparest
their
hartes
to
call
vpon
thee
,
and
thine
eares
harken
therevnto
:
thou
deliuerest
them
from
wrong
,
and
right
deere
is
their
blood
in
thy
sight
.
Why
art
thou
so
full
of
heauinesse
then
,
O
my
soule
?
and
why
art
thou
so
disquieted
within
me
?
O
put
thy
trust
in
God
,
for
I
will
yet
giue
him
thanks
,
which
is
the
helpe
of
my
countenaunce
,
and
my
God
,
yea
though
hee
kill
mee
,
yet
will
I
trust
in
him
:
I
will
sing
vnto
the
Lord
so
long
as
I
liue
,
and
will
praise
my
God
so
long
as
I
haue
any
being
.
He
hath
chastened
and
corrected
mee
,
but
not
giuen
me
ouer
vnto
death
:
and
therefore
my
hart
daunceth
sor
ioy
:
my
flesh
shall
rest
in
hope
,
and
in
my
song
will
I
praise
him
.
I
will
honor
him
with
due
obedience
,
serue
him
with
feare
,
and
reioyce
vnto
him
with
reuerence
.
Rebuke
me
not
in
thine
anger
O
Lord
,
neither
doe
thou
chasten
mee
in
thy
heauie
displeasure
:
forsake
me
not
in
mine
old
age
,
when
my
strength
faileth
me
:
but
comfort
my
heauinesse
,
pittie
my
misery
,
and
relieue
my
necessitie
.
Clense
mee
from
my
secret
faults
,
and
pardon
the
sinnes
of
my
youth
.
Graunt
mee
a
new
hart
,
a
new
minde
,
a
new
spirit
,
and
a
new
life
:
and
I
wil
offer
vnto
thee
the
sacrifice
of
thanksgiuing
,
and
reioyce
in
my
saluation
,
O
thou
most
highest
.
An
Exhortacion
to
continew
all
Subiects
in
their
dew
obedience
,
together
with
the
reward
of
a
faithful
subiect
to
his
Prince
.
To
the
Reuerend
Lo.
Bishops
and
the
Clergie
.
FOR-asmuch
as
your
ecclesiasticall
office
is
giuen
you
from
God
,
as
the
next
principall
members
(
vnder
the
head
)
to
gouerne
the
Common
wealth
of
this
misticall
bodie
:
and
that
there
is
required
at
your
hands
an
extraordinarie
dutie
touching
the
function
of
the
Soule
.
Let
mee
entreate
you
to
be
as
vigilant
as
the
fiue
wise
Virgins
,
hauing
Oyle
alwaies
in
your
Lamps
,
against
the
Bridegrome
comes
forth
of
his
chamber
.
Your
office
is
the
Soule
of
the
Laitie
,
the
heart
of
gouernement
,
&
the
verie
Epitome
of
all
obedience
.
From
you
as
the
Moone
boroweth
hir
light
of
the
Sunne
,
all
inferiour
Ministers
take
their
order
of
perfection
.
Let
then
your
doctrine
be
pure
&
stedfast
like
Moyses
bush
,
that
alwaies
burned
but
neuer
cousumed
:
your
preaching
in
season
,
and
out
of
season
,
and
your
conuersation
as
spotlesse
as
the
sacrifice
of
Turtles
.
You
best
know
what
plentie
of
Manna
hath
rained
in
Israel
,
&
how
many
Homers
ful
euery
man
ought
to
gather
:
Be
not
any
of
you
the
first
that
gather
more
then
is
commanded
,
&
in
mistrust
of
Gods
benefits
infect
the
whole
land
with
the
vice
of
Auarice
.
You
ought
rather
to
be
like
Pellicans
in
the
wildernesse
,
who
in
tender
loue
,
peck
the
blood
from
their
breast
to
feed
their
yong
ones
.
You
see
with
your
visible
eies
how
wonderfull
almightie
God
,
hath
alwaies
preserued
the
Queenes
Maiestie
,
from
the
snares
of
hir
manifold
enemies
.
And
in
you
pr●ncipally
lies
the
sacrifice
of
thancks
giuing
,
it
is
you
that
ought
to
daunce
before
the
tabernacle
,
&
to
goe
with
the
people
to
the
Arke
Flie
not
to
Tharsis
,
when
you
are
sent
to
Niniue
,
least
deuouring
distruction
attend
you
:
nor
with
the
Man
of
God
goe
not
out
of
the
way
,
least
a
Lion
teare
you
in
peeces
.
But
still
be
conuersant
with
the
Lord
,
that
your
saces
may
shine
with
So
shall
yee
stand
like
mount
Synay
,
neuer
to
be
remoued
:
and
your
golden
candlesticke
shine
in
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
.
Remember
the
charge
your
maister
Christ
gaue
to
his
seruant
Peter
,
binding
him
three
times
,
aboue
all
things
by
his
feruent
loue
,
and
the
deere
affection
he
bare
to
his
Maister
to
feede
his
sheep
:
to
bee
with
Paul
,
the
faithfull
Ambassadors
of
Iesus
Christ
,
as
though
God
did
beseech
you
through
vs
:
we
pray
you
in
Christs
steed
,
that
ye
be
reconciled
to
God
.
With
Paul
like
Christ
Iesus
.
Let
vs
therefore
,
as
many
as
be
perfect
,
be
thus
mindded
,
if
ye
be
otherwise
,
God
shall
reueale
,
euen
the
same
vnto
you
.
Yee
are
,
most
Reuerent
,
the
salt
of
the
earth
,
Thus
vnworthie
to
counsaile
so
graue
aduisements
,
as
if
the
body
should
instruct
the
Soule
,
I
onely
like
a
trauailer
in
his
pilgrimage
,
seeing
a
King
goe
out
of
his
way
,
tell
him
there
is
a
better
,
a
more
perfect
and
a
straighter
:
So
referring
you
to
your
Masters
reward
,
who
hates
a
hidden
talent
,
I
beseech
that
God
,
who
guideth
Israell
by
day
Amen
.
To
the
true
Nobilitie
of
this
Realme
.
TO
ye
,
Right
Honorable
,
that
are
the
props
&
supporters
of
a
kingdome
,
that
like
Atlas
should
beare
the
waight
of
Heauen
on
your
shoulders
,
giue
me
leaue
to
stretch
forth
the
Artires
of
my
hart
,
&
as
in
a
tempestious
time
,
in
peace
vnite
you
together
like
one
body
,
obedient
to
one
principall
head
.
In
that
worthie
member
,
the
Hart
,
the
monarch
seate
of
our
Microcosmos
,
should
be
your
residence
,
with
in
whose
center
as
in
a
Princes
Court
,
are
diuers
receptacles
for
you
to
inhabit
in
.
Then
as
branches
extending
from
the
lofty
Ceder
,
being
fed
by
one
roote
,
doe
notwithstanding
cherish
one
another
with
their
naturall
sap.
So
like
the
true
stocke
of
Nobilitie
,
discended
from
your
worthie
ancestors
,
be
you
combined
in
a
coniunction
of
vnseperable
aide
,
that
the
body
of
the
tree
,
may
be
comforted
in
so
happy
an
issue
,
&
in
the
proudest
blast
of
conspiracy
,
keepe
you
stil
vnremouable
.
Be
ye
like
faithfull
Mardocheus
,
spotles
in
your
waies
,
when
The
florishing
state
of
Rome
was
deuoured
by
that
Monster
,
and
all
tranquilitie
swallowed
at
a
bit
by
that
hedius
Leuiathan
.
It
is
like
the
blinde
Mole
,
that
louing
still
to
bee
mischieuously
labouring
,
tosseth
vp
hir
owne
destruction
.
Let
then
,
Right
Honorable
,
that
acceptable
sacrifice
of
your
harts
be
offred
to
our
gratious
Soueraigne
,
which
far
exceeds
the
externall
offices
of
fained
affection
,
who
with
an
eye
of
vigilance
,
will
,
no
doubt
,
regard
your
vertues
:
and
like
the
cheerefull
comfort
of
the
Sunne
,
with
hir
blessed
countenance
,
make
your
yong
blossomes
come
to
pleasant
fruit
,
and
bring
the
fruit
by
comfortable
warmth
to
full
maturetie
.
By
this
meanes
,
shall
your
Phenix
liue
still
&
you
be
made
most
happie
in
hir
fresh
renuing
.
God
so
direct
your
harts
to
worke
in
you
vnfained
loyaltie
to
hir
sacred
Maiestie
,
and
deadly
hatred
to
selfe
deuouring
treason
:
Amen
.
To
the
Ciuile
Maiestrates
,
the
Lord
Maior
and
the
Shrifes
of
London
:
and
other
inferiour
off●cers
.
THe
naturall
care
that
your
loyalties
haue
euer
borne
to
your
Soueraigne
,
since
your
first
florishing
time
,
both
in
peace
and
war
,
hath
in
ages
past
(
as
deedes
worth
registring
)
beene
recorded
:
yet
it
hath
bene
manifest
when
Princes
,
that
heeretofore
haue
grouerned
,
haue
held
the
raines
with
a
more
seuere
hand
,
then
in
our
time
(
God
be
thanked
)
yet
yee
haue
without
repining
willingly
sustained
,
as
giuing
place
to
time
,
to
fortune
,
or
both
.
And
as
in
all
dangerous
Commotions
,
you
haue
made
apparant
your
forward
loues
and
loyalties
,
to
hir
Maiestie
&
your
natiue
countrie
,
so
it
cannot
be
doubted
but
your
vigilant
care
,
confirmed
in
perfect
resolution
,
like
the
helping
hands
of
a
distressed
body
,
will
in
all
loue
,
when
occasion
shall
serue
,
minister
,
as
to
your selues
,
the
faithfull
assistance
of
all
your
powre
.
Wherein
you
shall
finde
our
Soueraigne
,
like
a
carefull
Mother
with
Hester
,
be
ready
to
offer
hir selfe
for
hir
people
,
&
with
Iudith
,
to
dread
no
daunger
to
preserue
hir
owne
nation
.
I
know
it
is
yet
extant
in
your
memories
,
how
carefull
shee
hath
beene
to
send
comfort
to
forreine
distressed
Christians
,
&
with
the
help
of
God
,
hath
deliuered
them
,
where
otherwise
,
like
a
flock
of
Lambes
,
not
able
to
defend
themselues
,
their
throtes
had
line
open
to
a
heard
of
sauage
Wolues
.
How
much
more
then
,
hir
highnesse
shewing
such
compassion
to
strangers
,
will
she
haue
especiall
regard
of
hir
naturall
people
,
and
in
most
especiall
to
you
that
are
,
by
often
apprelation
,
tried
to
be
of
hir
most
faithfull
,
loiall
&
deerest
subiects
.
The
tirants
Nero
,
Dioclesian
,
and
Phalaris
,
who
most
bloodely
diued
into
the
bowells
of
their
friends
and
subiects
,
being
Heathen
,
were
obeied
both
in
loue
&
feare
,
though
their
tiranny
extended
to
all
licentious
&
vnciuile
proceeding
.
How
much
more
then
ought
ye
,
hauing
a
most
Christian
Prince
to
gouerne
yee
,
that
tenders
the
pricking
of
your
finger
,
as
a
wound
neere
hir
owne
heart
,
to
prosecute
hir
Princely
affection
with
pure
integritie
.
I
vrge
not
this
,
as
though
your
loues
were
doubted
,
or
held
in
the
suspence
of
vnequal
ballance
,
but
as
remembring
you
of
that
which
cannot
be
to
often
mentioned
,
considering
the
danger
of
disloial
seducers
,
that
thinck
to
bribe
the
faithfull
harts
of
hir
Highnes
louing
subiects
(
as
the
Diuell
that
soweth
darnel
amongst
the
best
wheat
)
with
their
fals
shewes
&
deceitfull
practises
:
or
like
the
Crocodile
in
Nilus
,
that
weeps
like
a
child
,
till
she
alure
some
passengers
,
&
then
appearing
in
the
nature
of
hir
ougly
shape
,
extends
hir
hunger
bitten
paunch
,
&
presently
deuours
.
Of
such
pestiferous
natures
are
all
glozing
siccophants
that
guild
their
pretences
(
to
keepe
the
counterfait
vnspied
)
with
such
false
suggestions
,
carrying
no
shew
of
reason
or
truth
▪
but
like
the
Diuells
that
entred
into
the
heard
of
Swine
,
when
they
cannot
haue
liberty
or
licence
to
do
one
mischiefe
,
couet
to
enter
into
another
,
so
their
mallice
may
be
set
on
work
.
But
to
withstand
such
,
I
know
both
your
ciuile
pollicie
is
able
,
and
your
well
instructed
mindes
very
willing
.
Heerein
ye
ought
the
rather
to
be
throughly
confirmed
,
seeing
how
God
hath
from
the
beginning
of
hir
Maiesties
reigne
,
defended
hir
in
all
maner
of
enuious
assaults
,
and
layed
their
owne
euill
,
vpon
the
wickednesse
of
their
owne
heads
.
And
hir
Maiestie
is
throughly
perswaded
of
your
fidelitie
,
and
sound
incorruptible
loue
to
hir
Crowne
&
dignitie
:
&
that
you
will
hereafter
be
chary
to
discouer
to
hir
,
if
need
shal
be
(
as
god
forbid
)
any
mischief
lurking
like
the
poison
of
Aspis
,
vnder
their
lips
,
then
others
shold
by
wise
pollicie
inkindled
by
hir
tender
loue
,
bring
the
same
to
euident
light
.
And
as
in
a
late
proclamacion
she
promised
in
the
continuance
of
your
dutiful
&
seruent
affection
,
ye
shal
finde
hir
more
careful
of
your
welfare
,
then
hir
owne
;
more
desirous
of
your
preseruacion
than
hir
owne
:
&
that
no
perticuler
hurt
or
discontent
shal
be
wrongfully
imposed
vpon
you
:
but
she
in
hir
princely
nature
wil
be
redy
in
person
both
to
heare
it
&
to
right
it
.
I
know
that
in
some
forreine
countries
(
yet
in
Christendom
)
they
can
scarce
sustain
their
bodis
with
such
meat
&
drink
as
they
like
,
yet
is
necessary
for
them
,
&
with
such
other
things
as
the
nature
of
man
requires
,
but
as
yoked
with
a
domestical
seruiletie
,
they
are
constrained
to
pay
tribute
for
the
vse
of
them
,
&
giue
double
,
both
for
their
appetite
&
sustenance
.
God
forbid
(
as
thanks
be
to
God
it
is
not
)
that
the
subiects
of
England
should
be
oppressed
with
such
tedious
clogges
.
This
as
one
feruent
in
affection
,
aduising
(
wher
I
know
notwithstanding
,
there
is
a
setled
vnitie
of
loue
)
euen
as
you
hope
to
haue
your
soules
lift
vp
on
high
,
and
your
coffers
enriched
on
earth
:
as
yee
looke
to
haue
your
warehouses
filled
with
Gods
blessings
,
to
haue
your
wine
good
,
and
your
oyle
fat
:
so
once
againe
I
stir
you
vp
,
like
a
flame
that
is
quickned
with
blowing
,
to
loue
God
,
obey
your
Prince
,
and
be
carefull
for
your
country
,
so
shall
hir
proudest
enemie
die
at
your
feete
,
and
ye
bee
made
worthie
instruments
(
like
a
tower
of
Marble
)
to
defend
hir
sacred
Maiestie
,
whom
God
continue
long
in
all
ioy
full
health
and
prosporous
life
:
Amen
.
To
the
true
and
faithfull
priuate
subiect
.
AND
now
beloued
countrimen
to
you
in
generall
,
that
carry
with
you
the
full
currant
of
affection
,
the
swiftest
streame
of
deepe
guiding
loue
,
not
to
bee
reuerted
or
turned
backe
by
the
vehement
opposition
of
my
resisting
winde
.
To
you
,
as
to
the
open
marke
,
wherto
my
hart
leauells
hir
pretended
aime
(
being
the
vpshot
of
mine
exhortacion
)
I
send
this
louing
and
friendly
counsell
.
Like
to
a
strong
Cittie
fenced
about
with
impregnable
walls
:
so
ought
you
to
be
in
time
of
domestical
rebellion
or
forreine
inuasion
.
For
you
are
the
main
battaile
,
the
strength
&
trust
of
your
country
:
&
to
you
belong
a
chief
trust
in
this
required
preseruation
.
Euen
as
hir
highnesse
may
wel
be
compared
to
the
apple
of
our
eye
,
of
which
naturally
(
by
reason
it
is
tender
vnto
vs
)
we
haue
a
diligent
care
:
so
ought
you
to
ioyne
your
whole
body
of
defence
,
both
armes
,
legs
,
feete
,
and
hart
,
to
protect
hir
royall
person
,
without
secret
grudging
,
priuate
muttering
,
or
vnnaturall
controuersie
.
You
ought
to
be
like
stedfast
Rocks
in
the
Sea
,
readie
to
front
euery
storme
,
and
to
withstand
(
without
remouing
)
the
most
bitter
blast
,
that
either
winter
or
foule
weather
affords
.
I
know
my
most
louing
countrymen
,
that
you
well
perceiue
the
Princely
care
of
hir
Maiestie
towards
you
hir
louing
subiects
,
&
the
honourable
disposition
&
noble
industrie
of
hir
vigilent
counsell
.
Of
which
Honourable
society
,
although
now
vntimely
decessed
,
I
cannot
but
call
to
minde
that
Right
Honorable
and
most
worthely
to
bee
remembred
,
the
late
Lord
Burgley
,
and
Lord
high
Treasurer
of
England
.
Whose
fame
may
not
bee
sealed
vp
with
the
leaden
hand
of
Obliuion
,
who
whilest
he
liued
shewed
himselfe
one
of
the
most
faithfull
,
carefull
,
and
wise
councellours
that
euer
liued
in
any
kingdome
of
Christendome
.
He
was
the
Beacon
that
discouered
forrein
mallice
,
and
home-bred
mischiefe
,
the
neuer
fayling
watch-tower
of
the
common-wealth
,
the
hart
of
lustice
,
bearing
vp
the
ballance
of
weightie
causes
with
an
euen
hand
,
and
cutting
downe
with
the
sharp
sword
of
preuencion
the
children
of
rebellion
at
home
,
&
the
enuious
intencion
of
the
Enemie
abroad
.
For
causes
in
common
triall
,
I
call
heauen
to
witnes
,
I
speake
but
what
I
know
,
as
he
was
Iudicial
,
wary
&
circumspect
,
so
was
he
vpright
,
discreet
,
and
pittifull
,
not
leaning
to
any
side
either
for
fauour
or
gift
,
but
with
an
impartiall
eye
iudging
all
things
according
to
the
equitie
of
the
cause
.
Would
many
branches
like
to
that
tree
from
whence
it
sprang
might
from
that
stocke
spread
their
vertue
,
in
this
hir
Maiesties
garden
of
happie
gouernment
.
In
which
ranke
of
true
Nobilitie
,
diligent
watch-men
,
and
graue
Councellers
,
I
may
not
omit
that
Right
Honorable
and
milde
condicioned
Lord
the
Earle
of
Nottingham
,
whose
true
loyaltie
to
hir
Maiestie
,
neuer
spotted
with
the
least
mistrust
,
may
keepe
euen
wing
with
the
rest
of
that
Honorable
societie
,
whose
true
shew
of
a
vertuous
and
noble
minde
,
is
daily
made
apparant
by
his
exceeding
bountie
towards
the
poore
and
needie
.
The
fruit
whereof
is
Eternall
saluacion
.
And
that
Reuerent
and
carefull
Gentleman
,
Sir
Iohn
Popham
Knight
,
Lord
chiefe
Iustice
of
England
,
being
another
of
the
body
of
the
Counsell
,
whose
Honorable
forwardnesse
,
with
great
discreation
hath
ben
often
proued
in
your
Maiesties
serious
affaires
(
as
in
calming
the
Realme
with
quiet
,
that
hath
ben
hertofore
tempestuously
troubled
with
blody
murtherers
&
felonious
robbers
:
but
now
,
God
be
thanked
,
by
his
diligent
&
wise
gouernment
well
reformed
,
whose
exceeding
loue
to
his
Prince
&
country
,
hath
ben
often
made
apparant
by
his
laborious
indeuours
.
To
conclude
,
I
beeseech
God
in
his
infinite
mercy
,
stirre
vp
in
you
deere
affecting
loue
to
hir
Maiestie
,
who
for
the
comfort
of
his
chosen
,
and
maintenance
of
his
truth
,
hath
defended
hir
highnes
this
44
yeers
,
our
most
merciful
gouernes
:
Mercie
hath
alwaies
sitten
at
hir
Maiesties
right
hand
,
&
houered
about
hir
like
a
continual
handmaid
.
Mercie
is
the
wedding
ring
,
that
like
an
vnspotted
Virgin
hath
married
hir
to
our
Sauiour
Christ
:
&
setled
hir
Highnes
,
the
faithful
president
of
his
true
Church
,
wherin
long
may
hir
Maiestie
continue
many
happie
&
peacefull
daies
,
to
the
great
glory
of
God
,
&
to
the
exceeding
comfort
of
all
vs
hir
faithfull
&
louing
subiects
.
Amen
.