THE
LIFE
OF
FAITH
.
By
SAMVEL
WARD
Preacher
of
Ipswich
.
The
second
Edition
,
corrected
and
amended
.
LONDON
Printed
by
Augustine
Mathewes
,
for
Iohn
Marriot
and
Iohn
Grismand
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
their
Shops
in
Saint
Dunstons
Church-yard
,
and
in
Pauls
Alley
at
the
Signe
of
the
Gunne
,
1621.
TO
THE
HONOR
AND
VSE
OF
THE
RIGHT
HONORABLE
THOMAS
EARLE
of
Suffolke
,
Lord
of
Walden
,
Knight
of
the
Honorable
Order
of
the
Garter
,
one
of
his
Maiesties
most
Honorable
Priuy
Counsell
.
THis
Manual
,
I
first
consecrate
to
your
Honor.
The
greatest
greatnesse
hath
no
greater
honour
belonging
to
it
,
then
to
bee
an
Abrech
,
to
Persons
,
Books
,
and
causes
of
this
nature
.
Such
Cedars
haue
their
spreadth
and
talenesse
to
shelter
such
Fowles
of
the
Heauen
vnder
their
shadowe
:
And
Faith
is
content
in
this
vallie
of
vnbeliefe
to
receiue
defence
and
countenance
:
where
it
rather
giueth
both
.
As
Christ
in
that
olde
Allegorie
of
Christopher
seemes
to
be
supported
by
him
,
whome
in
truth
hee
supporteth
.
And
verely
such
Bookes
as
haue
life
in
them
giue
a
longer
life
to
their
Patrons
,
then
the
stateliest
Buildings
and
largest
Moniments
.
Principally
I
Dedicate
,
and
Deuote
it
to
your
vse
;
Charitie
beganne
at
home
.
I
first
meditated
,
collected
,
and
scribled
them
for
mine
owne
benefit
,
carryed
them
about
me
with
Antoninus
his
title
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Notes
for
my selfe
.
That
which
with
all
my
might
in
seeking
I
haue
sought
to
attaine
,
is
the
truth
and
effect
of
that
which
many
thinges
promise
,
but
Faith
is
only
able
to
performe
.
Fulnesse
of
ioy
and
constancie
of
content
in
the
middest
of
the
chaunges
,
wane
,
eclypses
,
and
fuls
of
all
externall
things
,
and
that
one
day
aswell
as
another
throughout
the
course
of
a
mans
life
in
that
latitude
and
extent
whereof
this
life
is
capable
.
To
cry
out
,
I
haue
found
it
,
I
haue
found
it
,
might
sauour
of
vanity
and
arrogancy
:
Altogether
to
deny
it
were
an
iniurie
to
the
truth
of
Gods
Spirit
,
Word
,
and
Grace
.
Such
as
haue
found
out
Sayling
by
the
Compasse
,
the
Art
of
Printing
,
or
should
one
man
discouer
a
speedier
passage
to
the
Indies
,
or
meete
with
a
speciall
Cordiall
in
Physicke
,
or
any
lesse
profitable
secret
,
should
he
not
iustly
be
sensured
as
enuious
and
iniurious
to
let
such
an
one
die
with
himselfe
.
What
a
sacriledge
were
it
then
to
engrosse
such
a
true
Elixar
of
Spirituall
life
,
as
vpon
some
proofe
,
I
am
sure
these
prescripts
containe
.
The
substance
therefore
of
them
,
I
imparted
first
ot
my
Flocke
in
Sermons
.
Nextly
,
considering
how
much
I
stood
obliged
to
your
Lordshippe
,
and
what
speciall
vse
you
might
haue
of
them
,
I
translated
,
and
copied
them
out
in
the
forme
wherein
now
I
humbly
commend
,
and
earnestly
recommend
them
to
your
serious
perusall
and
thorow
triall
.
If
vpon
both
,
good
shall
bee
thought
the
better
,
the
more
communicated
,
others
shall
accompt
themselues
beholding
to
your
Honor
,
as
the
principall
occasion
of
publication
.
More
I
would
say
,
but
I
feare
to
spoile
the
elegancie
of
Augustine
his
Preface
to
Romanian
,
Lib.
1.
contra
Academicos
.
by
englishing
of
it
:
Wherein
is
the
summe
of
what
I
would
say
.
Whither
referring
your
Lordship
,
I
rest
,
and
continue
as
euer
I
haue
done
since
my
reference
without
intermission
,
publikely
,
and
priuatly
to
pray
to
the
Lord
of
Lords
that
you
may
finde
all
fauour
in
the
eyes
of
God
and
man
,
and
that
all
true
happinesse
may
be
multiplyed
vpon
you
,
and
yours
in
this
life
,
and
a
better
.
Your
Lordships
in
the
Lord
SAMVEL
WARD
.
The
Contents
of
this
BOOKE
.
-
THe
Iust
shall
liue
by
his
Faith
.
Page
.
1
-
Christ
the
Fountaine
,
and
Faith
the
meane
of
Life
.
6
-
The
third
kind
of
the
Life
of
Faith
.
page
12
-
The
vse
of
Faith
.
16
-
The
first
vse
of
Faith
ot
new-borne
Babes
,
24
-
The
vse
of
Faith
to
young
men
in
Christianity
.
34
-
An
inforcement
of
the
former
vse
,
with
a
reproofe
of
the
neglect
and
disuse
of
Faith
.
43
-
The
vse
of
Faith
to
a
growne
Christian
.
51
-
An
obiection
answered
,
and
passage
made
to
the
life
of
Sanctification
.
60
-
How
Faith
Sanctifies
and
Mortifies
.
67
-
How
Faith
Viuifies
.
78
-
How
Faith
vpholds
life
in
Affliction
.
86
-
An
Epistle
to
the
Reader
pressing
the
vse
of
Faith
.
100
THE
LIFE
OF
FAITH
.
CHAP.
I.
The
Iust
shall
liue
by
his
Faith
.
THE
basest
life
excels
the
best
meere
being
,
as
much
as
Adam
,
the
redde
lumpe
of
earth
whereof
hee
was
made
.
The
liuing
Dog
,
the
dead
Lyon
.
Betweene
life
and
life
what
a
breadth
of
difference
is
there
?
from
the
Mushrome
to
the
Angels
how
many
kindes
of
life
?
Yea
,
in
one
and
the
same
kind
how
many
degrees
?
The
bondslaue
hath
a
life
as
well
as
the
King
,
the
sicke
man
as
the
whole
;
but
such
,
as
in
comparison
may
rather
bee
termed
a
death
.
One
best
there
is
in
euery
kind
as
it
approcheth
neerest
to
that
Fountaine
of
Life
and
Being
,
with
whom
to
be
,
and
to
be
most
happy
is
all
one
.
Poore
Man
hath
,
or
rather
had
a
certaine
pitch
and
period
of
happy
life
,
consisting
in
the
Image
and
fauour
of
his
Creator
,
from
which
hauing
once
fallen
,
it
would
pittie
one
to
see
how
lamely
and
blindly
he
reaspires
thereunto
.
The
most
part
groaping
as
the
Sodomites
after
Lots
dore
,
the
blinde
misguiding
the
blinde
in
the
common
Labyrinth
of
error
;
each
one
imagining
he
hath
found
the
way
,
and
so
tells
his
dreame
to
his
neighbour
for
a
truth
.
The
Couetous
when
he
hath
gotté
goods
,
as
if
he
had
gotten
the
true
Good
,
applaudes
his
soule
,
as
if
it
were
the
soule
of
some
Swine
,
Soule
thou
hast
many
goods
,
now
,
&c.
The
Voluptuous
when
he
hath
satiate
himselfe
with
the
huske
of
pleasure
,
cries
out
hee
hath
liued
the
onely
royall
and
Iouiall
life
.
The
Ambitious
when
hee
hath
climbed
the
pitch
and
slipperie
hill
of
Honour
,
builds
his
nest
in
the
starres
,
thinkes
himselfe
in
the
skie
and
highest
sphere
of
happinesse
.
Alas
,
alas
,
doe
not
all
these
know
they
are
in
the
Chambers
of
death
?
Dead
whilest
they
are
aliue
,
no
better
then
walking
ghosts
in
the
shapes
of
liuing
men
:
seeking
and
placing
a
spirituall
and
heauenly
Iewell
,
in
earthly
pelfe
,
in
watery
Pleasures
,
in
ayerie
Honours
,
which
being
all
dead
,
cannot
affoord
that
life
which
they
haue
not
themselues
.
Verily
,
if
one
liue
an
hundreth
yeeres
,
beget
children
,
plant
and
build
,
and
see
no
other
good
but
such
as
these
,
the
vntimely
byrth
is
better
then
he
.
What
then
?
Is
this
tree
of
life
not
to
be
recouered
,
no
where
to
be
found
againe
,
yes
doubtlesse
,
though
there
be
many
by-pathes
,
there
is
a
Way
;
though
many
errors
,
there
is
a
Truth
;
though
many
deathes
,
there
is
a
Life
.
And
behold
,
oh
man
that
standest
vpon
the
waies
,
inquiring
after
life
.
He
that
is
the
Way
,
Truth
and
Life
that
came
from
heauen
to
vanquish
death
,
and
by
his
death
hath
brought
thee
to
life
againe
,
who
onely
hath
the
words
of
life
,
Hee
hath
shewed
thee
the
true
way
to
life
.
Hath
he
not
twise
or
thrise
shewed
thee
in
this
liuely
Oracle
of
his
,
Heb.
2
4.
The
Iust
shall
liue
by
Faith
.
Yea
,
Rom.
1.
17.
but
if
a
man
like
to
our selues
might
come
from
the
dead
that
hath
made
proofe
of
this
way
and
life
,
Gal
3.
11.
and
would
speake
of
his
own
experience
:
Heb.
10.
38.
would
we
heare
?
Behold
Paul
,
slaine
by
the
Law
,
reuiued
by
the
Gospell
,
what
doe
wee
thinke
of
him
?
Did
he
not
from
the
time
of
his
conuersion
to
the
time
of
his
dissolution
,
enioy
a
constant
tenour
of
ioy
;
liue
,
if
euer
any
,
comfortably
,
happily
:
And
doth
not
hee
tell
vs
,
euen
while
he
liued
in
the
flesh
,
that
he
liued
by
the
Faith
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
Gal.
2.
20
,
Surely
he
must
needs
be
blessed
that
liueth
by
the
same
faith
with
Bloffed
Paul
.
Come
therefore
,
you
which
desire
to
see
good
dayes
and
lay
holde
on
the
waies
of
life
.
Beleeue
and
liue
.
CHAP.
II.
Christ
the
Fountaine
,
and
Faith
the
meane
of
Life
.
WHat
then
?
Commit
we
sacriledge
against
Christ
in
deifying
of
Faith
?
Rob
we
the
Lord
to
adorne
the
seruant
with
his
diuine
honours
?
God
forbid
.
Let
that
be
giuen
to
Christ
which
is
Christs
,
and
that
to
Faith
which
is
Faiths
.
Let
the
power
of
life
and
death
be
intirely
reserued
euer
ascribed
to
the
Lord
of
life
,
the
well
of
life
,
the
light
and
life
of
the
World
,
the
breath
of
our
nosthrils
,
the
life
of
our
liues
.
Thy
body
,
oh
man
!
hath
it
soule
which
enliues
it
,
and
so
hath
thy
soule
its
soule
whereby
it
liues
,
and
that
is
Christ
the
quickning
spirit
.
Take
away
the
soule
from
the
body
,
and
earth
becomes
earth
;
seuer
Christ
and
the
soule
,
what
is
it
but
a
dead
carrion
?
Elementary
bodies
lighten
and
darken
,
coole
and
warme
,
die
and
reuiue
as
the
Sunne
presents
or
absents
it selfe
from
them
,
Christ
is
to
our
soules
the
Sunne
of
righteousnesse
:
Sin
parts
vs
;
Faith
reunites
vs
:
And
so
wee
liue
primarily
and
properly
by
Christ
as
by
the
soule
:
by
Faith
,
secondarily
,
as
by
the
spirits
,
the
bond
of
soule
and
body
:
by
a
personall
and
speciall
faith
appropriating
Christ
to
the
beleeuer
,
as
the
leg
or
arme
liues
by
proper
sinews
,
arteries
and
nerues
,
Chrysost.
in
1
Cor.
1.
10.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
vniting
it
to
the
liuer
,
heart
and
head
,
such
an
one
as
Paul
had
in
Christ
that
dyed
for
him
,
whereby
hee
ingrosseth
the
common
God
to
himselfe
,
as
if
his
and
no
bodies
else
.
Thus
saith
hee
himselfe
that
is
the
Truth
and
the
Life
,
Iohn
11.
25.
I
am
the
Life
and
Resurrection
of
the
World
,
hee
that
beleeueth
in
mee
,
though
hee
be
dead
,
yet
shall
he
liue
and
not
die
.
And
this
is
the
testimony
of
those
three
heauenly
and
earthly
witnesses
.
1
Iohn
5.
God
gaue
life
to
the
Sonne
,
And
he
that
hath
the
Sonne
hath
Life
.
And
he
that
hath
Faith
hath
the
Son
.
So
that
whateuer
we
lend
to
Faith
,
it
redoundes
to
the
honor
of
Christ
;
neither
haue
we
any
sinister
intent
to
praise
the
wombe
or
the
paps
of
Faith
,
but
to
cast
all
vpon
Christ
who
giues
and
works
this
Faith
in
vs
,
vivisies
and
nourishes
it
,
yea
iustifies
the
imperfection
thereof
by
the
perfection
of
his
merit
.
Nay
,
let
Faith
knowe
that
if
shee
should
waxe
arrogant
towards
her
Lord
,
or
insolent
ouer
her
fellow
seruants
,
she
should
Lucifer-like
fall
from
her
dignity
,
and
in
so
doing
,
of
the
best
of
graces
,
become
the
worst
of
vices
.
Verily
,
what
hath
the
habite
of
Faith
in
it selfe
considered
better
or
equall
with
loue
?
Is
it
not
a
poorer
and
meaner
Act
to
beleeue
then
to
loue
:
more
like
a
beggarly
receiuing
,
then
a
working
and
deseruing
hand
?
Haile
then
oh
Faith
freely
graced
,
graciously
exalted
aboue
all
Christs
Handmaides
.
Thy
Lord
hath
looked
vpon
thy
meane
estate
,
because
that
hauing
nothing
of
thine
owne
,
as
other
Vertues
haue
,
whence
thou
mightest
take
occasion
to
reioyce
,
thou
mightest
the
better
exclude
that
hatefull
Law
of
boasting
,
the
more
humbly
and
frankely
reflect
all
vpon
thy
Lord
:
who
willingly
emptied
himselfe
that
he
might
fill
thee
with
honour
,
whiles
hee
sayes
to
the
cured
of
the
Palsey
Goe
thy
way
thy
Faith
hath
saued
thee
.
Hence
forth
cals
hee
thee
no
more
seruant
or
friend
,
but
stiles
thee
as
Adam
his
Spouse
,
Chauah
,
the
Mother
of
all
Liuing
:
Counts
it
no
iniurie
to
diuide
his
praises
with
thee
,
likes
it
well
that
thou
which
doest
nothing
but
by
him
,
shouldest
bee
said
to
doe
all
things
which
he
doth
:
To
purifie
the
heart
,
Act.
15.
9.
to
ouer
come
the
world
,
1
Ioh.
5.
4.
to
saue
men
,
&c.
1
Pet.
1.
9.
And
è
contra
,
hee
to
doe
nothing
without
thee
,
which
yet
does
all
of
himselfe
.
Hee
could
worke
no
Miracles
in
Capernaum
because
they
had
no
Faith
.
So
glorious
and
wonderfull
things
are
spoken
of
thee
:
(
I
had
almost
said
)
so
omnipotent
is
thy
strength
which
hast
said
to
the
Sunne
and
Moone
,
Stand
yee
still
;
yea
if
but
as
big
as
the
least
graine
,
canst
say
to
the
greatest
Mountaines
,
Remoue
.
What
can
God
doe
which
Faith
cannot
doe
if
requisite
to
bee
done
?
Questionlesse
,
Iustifying
Faith
is
not
beneath
miraculous
in
the
sphere
of
it
owne
actiuitie
,
and
where
it
hath
the
warrant
of
Gods
Word
.
It
's
not
a
lesser
power
then
these
,
to
say
,
Thy
Sinnes
are
forgiuen
thee
,
thy
person
is
accepted
of
God
,
what-euer
thou
askest
thou
shalt
haue
,
&c.
Wherefore
we
need
not
doubt
vnder
Christ
without
feare
of
Praemunire
,
or
offence
to
his
Crowne
and
Dignity
,
to
affirme
of
Faith
,
That
it
is
Gods
arme
and
power
to
the
enliuing
and
sauing
of
euery
beleeuer
,
as
it
is
written
,
The
Iust
shall
liue
by
Faith
.
CHAP.
III.
The
third
kinde
of
the
Life
of
Faith
.
BVt
least
wee
seeme
to
speake
swelling
thinges
,
whiles
we
soare
in
the
Cloud
of
generalities
,
let
vs
descend
to
some
solide
particulars
.
Three
thinges
there
are
whence
commeth
Death
to
the
Soule
of
Man
,
Sinne
with
the
guilt
thereof
giues
the
first
deadly
blow
,
exposing
it
to
the
wrath
of
God
who
is
a
Consuming
fire
,
whose
anger
is
the
messenger
of
Death
,
whence
came
the
first
Thunderbolt
striking
thorough
the
Soule
,
that
sentence
of
God
to
Adam
,
Thou
shalt
dye
;
And
such
as
Nathans
to
Dauid
,
Thou
hast
sinned
and
art
the
childe
of
Death
.
The
second
,
is
the
spott
and
corruption
of
sinne
deprauing
,
yea
,
deading
all
the
faculties
of
man
to
spirituall
actions
,
which
made
Paul
cry
out
,
That
which
I
would
doe
,
I
doe
not
;
And
wretched
man
that
I
am
,
who
shall
deliuer
me
from
this
body
of
Death
.
Thirdly
,
that
swarme
of
plagues
and
army
of
punishments
,
in
the
re-reward
wherof
comes
first
a
second
death
.
All
which
made
Iob
cry
out
,
Iob
3.
20.
Why
is
light
giuen
to
him
that
is
in
misery
,
and
life
vnto
the
bitter
in
soule
?
which
long
for
death
more
then
for
treasures
;
and
ioy
when
they
can
finde
the
graue
.
Were
it
not
for
these
three
,
man
might
liue
,
fare
,
and
doe
well
,
but
sin
hauing
entred
into
the
World
,
brought
in
Death
with
it
,
which
reigneth
and
triumpheth
ouer
the
sonnes
of
Adam
with
this
three-forked
Scepter
,
of
Guilt
,
of
Corruption
,
of
Punishment
.
Here
comes
in
Faith
with
a
three
fould
Antidote
,
brings
vs
to
the
Tree
of
Life
,
whose
fruit
and
whose
leaues
heale
vs
of
the
sting
and
deadly
poyson
of
Sinne
:
working
in
vs
a
three-fold
life
opposite
to
the
forenamed
deaths
.
The
first
is
the
life
of
righteousnesse
,
discharging
vs
from
the
sentence
of
death
,
restoring
the
light
of
Gods
countenance
appeased
in
Christ
our
surty
:
which
made
Dauid
cry
out
,
Psal.
32.
Blessed
is
the
man
whose
sinne
is
couered
.
The
second
is
the
life
of
the
Spirit
,
or
new
life
,
regenerating
&
reuiuing
euery
faculty
,
&
quickning
vs
to
euery
good
worke
;
which
maks
Paul
glory
,
that
he
is
able
to
do
al
things
through
Christ
inabling
him
.
Phil.
3
The
third
,
is
the
life
of
ioy
and
comfort
,
cheering
the
soule
in
the
middest
of
all
trials
and
tribulations
;
which
made
Iob
in
the
valley
of
death
exult
and
trust
in
his
liuing
Redeemer
,
and
Paul
insult
ouer
all
kinde
of
Calamities
as
more
then
Conquerour
,
Romaines
8.
In
these
three
,
being
contained
what-euer
accomplisheth
the
life
of
the
soule
:
may
not
Faith
well
be
said
to
supply
abundantly
all
things
pertaining
to
life
and
godlinesse
?
But
what
doe
I
treating
of
the
kindes
of
life
?
what
should
I
blot
paper
and
tyre
my
Reader
in
writing
of
the
kinds
of
Faith
,
the
degrees
of
Faith
,
or
any
other
motions
of
Faith
:
things
so
well
known
of
those
that
know
any
thing
of
Christ
?
That
nothing
so
much
vexeth
me
to
see
so
much
spoken
and
written
of
faith
,
so
little
done
by
it
,
the
Theory
of
it
so
throughly
canuased
and
cleered
in
Controuersies
and
Sermons
,
and
the
practise
of
it
so
obscured
and
disgraced
in
the
liues
of
Christians
.
CHAP.
IIII.
The
vse
of
Faith
.
OH
Faith
when
I
read
of
thee
,
when
I
meditate
of
thee
,
when
I
feele
any
part
of
thy
vertue
,
I
finde
thee
to
be
a
wonder-worker
,
I
conceiue
nothing
but
high
and
stately
things
of
thee
.
When
I
looke
into
the
World
and
vpon
the
liues
euen
of
such
as
call
themselues
beleeuers
especially
of
the
common
sort
,
I
begin
to
question
my
thoughts
for
dreames
,
and
to
say
;
Faith
,
thou
art
but
a
name
,
a
sound
,
a
meere
word
,
no
powerfull
thing
.
Why
are
many
of
thy
followers
so
dead
,
so
mopish
,
so
melancholly
?
why
are
worldly
men
as
merry
,
as
iocund
as
they
?
Yea
,
why
are
many
ciuill
men
as
righteous
as
they
?
whence
should
this
wrong
and
disparagement
proceed
?
Is
thy
Vertue
exhaust
,
thy
strength
decayed
in
this
old
age
of
the
World
?
or
is
it
because
men
know
thee
not
?
verily
neither
of
these
.
No
drugge
,
no
herbe
so
commonly
extolled
,
so
famously
knowne
.
Paul
of
old
,
Luther
of
late
,
with
infinite
moe
,
euery
Catechisme
haue
blazoned
the
name
,
described
the
nature
,
set
out
the
properties
and
effects
to
the
full
.
Only
the
miserie
is
,
the
World
either
knowes
not
the
vse
,
or
forgets
the
practise
of
it
.
There
wants
a
practicall
Luther
which
should
deale
by
Faith
,
as
Socrates
by
Phylosophie
,
who
brought
it
out
of
the
Skies
and
Bookes
into
Cities
and
Houses
,
taught
and
vrged
the
familiar
and
quotidian
vse
of
it
.
Doth
not
all
the
praise
,
beautie
,
and
lustre
of
Faith
,
as
well
;
or
more
then
of
other
vertues
consist
in
action
and
not
in
motion
?
Is
not
the
gaine
and
benefit
of
it
in
sense
and
feeling
,
not
in
knowledge
or
discourse
?
Is
not
the
throne
and
seat
of
it
rather
in
the
heart
then
in
the
head
?
Who
knowes
not
there
is
a
Doctrinall
speculation
and
discourse
of
Faith
easily
by
reading
and
hearing
attained
,
such
in
one
as
Schollers
,
that
neuer
went
out
of
their
Studies
and
schooles
haue
,
of
remote
Countries
,
of
their
commodious
situation
,
pleasant
riuers
,
high
mountains
,
costly
buildings
,
rich
mines
,
iewels
,
and
al
other
commodities
:
which
,
what
a
frigid
and
ieiune
contemplation
is
it
,
in
comparison
of
that
delight
and
benefit
which
the
Merchant
and
Trauiler
enioyeth
by
a
reall
sight
and
fruition
of
them
?
What
is
the
notionall
sweetnesse
of
honey
or
sugar
to
the
experimentall
taste
of
them
?
And
yet
this
Aery
,
windie
stuffe
is
all
,
the
World
at
this
day
cares
for
and
hunts
after
.
The
Schoole-men
and
Casuists
,
what
doe
they
but
languish
into
vselesse
,
needlesse
,
and
endlesse
questions
,
spending
their
thoughts
about
this
magnificent
vertue
in
cold
and
bloudlesse
subtleties
of
the
subiect
,
obiect
,
kindes
,
&c.
Preachers
for
the
most
part
inuring
themselues
to
declaime
in
praise
of
some
morall
vertue
,
and
to
inueigh
against
some
vice
of
the
times
,
happily
sometimes
finde
leisure
to
weaue
a
curious
spiders
webbe
in
commendation
of
Faith
,
rarely
shewing
or
pressing
the
life
,
and
vse
of
it
.
In
a
word
,
will
you
see
the
fashion
of
the
World
.
The
Schooles
disputes
of
it
,
the
Pulpit
Preacheth
of
it
,
Profession
talkes
of
it
,
prophane
men
sweare
by
it
,
two
or
three
,
few
or
none
liue
by
it
.
I
met
with
a
story
of
an
ancient
Hebrew
,
a
reuerend
Rabby
,
who
that
he
might
the
more
liuely
conuince
the
people
in
his
times
of
their
neglect
of
practise
of
this
excellent
Grace
,
put
himself
into
the
habit
of
a
Mountebanke
or
trauelling
Aqua-vitae-man
,
and
made
Proclamation
of
a
soueraigne
cordiall
Water
of
Life
he
had
to
sell
:
being
called
in
and
demaunded
the
shew
of
it
;
Turned
them
to
the
Bible
,
the
Fountaine
of
Life
,
and
to
seuerall
places
of
it
,
as
the
thirtie
foure
Psalme
,
&c.
intimating
,
that
if
they
would
make
vse
and
daily
drinke
of
the
water
they
had
,
they
might
(
as
it
should
seeme
hee
did
)
liue
farre
better
,
and
more
comfortably
then
vsually
they
did
.
And
indeede
,
why
is
there
such
a
price
put
into
the
hands
of
fooles
that
know
not
the
worth
and
improuement
of
it
?
As
secrets
and
misteries
in
good
Artisens
,
that
haue
sometimes
a
faculty
whereby
they
can
earne
tenne
or
twenty
shillings
the
day
,
and
might
liue
as
well
as
landed
men
;
but
then
they
haue
another
boone
withall
,
they
loue
idlenesse
,
pastime
and
good
fellowship
,
and
so
liue
like
beggars
:
or
as
land
and
money
in
the
hands
of
those
(
whom
we
therefore
aptly
call
misers
)
to
Haue
and
to
Hold
,
but
neuer
make
good
vse
of
it
:
Who
may
well
be
said
to
vse
the
World
,
as
if
they
vsed
it
not
,
for
they
put
it
foorth
to
vse
,
or
locke
it
from
themselues
and
others
;
goe
basely
,
fare
hardly
,
liue
in
debt
to
backe
and
belly
,
as
if
they
knew
not
it
would
buy
them
good
meate
and
good
cloathes
,
and
other
necessaries
and
conueniences
for
their
liues
.
It
is
possible
a
man
may
haue
a
toole
,
a
medecine
,
or
an
engine
,
and
not
haue
the
skill
or
strength
to
vse
it
.
It
is
possible
a
man
may
haue
a
gift
of
God
,
and
not
the
gift
to
vse
it
throughly
,
else
needed
not
Paul
call
on
Timothy
to
stirre
vp
the
gift
that
was
in
him
.
Among
all
the
gifts
of
God
there
is
none
more
vsefull
then
Faith
:
others
are
profitable
for
some
few
things
,
this
is
for
this
life
and
the
life
to
come
,
for
all
parts
and
purposes
of
our
liues
,
in
the
vse
of
it
manifold
and
rich
euery
manner
of
way
.
CHAP.
V.
The
first
vse
of
Faith
to
new-borne
Babes
.
AND
first
,
let
me
beginne
with
thee
that
art
beginning
to
liue
this
life
,
thou
Embryo
that
art
in
hatching
,
that
hast
so
much
life
,
as
to
know
thy selfe
dead
in
sinne
,
and
to
desire
to
liue
in
Christ
,
(
for
what
should
I
cast
away
speech
vpon
scelets
and
skulles
,
carnall
men
I
meane
meere
Strangers
to
this
life
of
Faith
,
I
expect
not
reading
should
put
life
and
spirit
into
them
,
onely
I
pray
for
such
that
they
may
heare
Gods
voyce
in
the
Ministerie
,
and
liue
:
)
but
as
for
thee
whom
the
Law
hath
wounded
,
and
the
Gospell
is
healing
,
who
art
euen
at
the
byrth
,
and
stickest
betweene
the
knees
,
onely
wantest
power
to
come
into
the
light
;
who
liuest
but
feelest
not
thy
life
,
holdest
Christ
but
with
benummed
hands
;
beleeuest
,
but
canst
not
yet
beleeue
thou
hast
Faith
:
What
is
the
matter
thou
art
still
ensnarled
in
the
cords
of
death
?
Why
loosest
thou
not
thy
handkerchiefes
and
commest
out
of
thy
Graue
,
and
walkest
chearefully
in
the
Land
of
the
liuing
?
Suffer
Faith
to
doe
her
perfect
worke
in
thee
,
to
forme
Christ
in
thee
,
suffer
not
thy selfe
alwaies
to
bee
detained
in
the
throwes
and
throbs
of
feare
and
doubt
.
The
Common
causes
of
this
slownesse
of
beleefe
and
snares
of
Death
,
I
obserue
in
most
to
be
one
of
these
three
.
-
First
,
Immoderate
aggrauation
of
sinne
.
-
Secondly
,
Foolish
and
proud
humilitie
.
-
Thirdly
,
Preposterous
desire
of
Sanctification
before
Iustification
.
First
,
Thou
wouldest
beleeue
,
but
thou
hast
beene
a
sinner
.
Whom
came
Christ
to
saue
but
sinners
?
And
whom
doth
hee
iustifie
but
the
vngodly
?
Oh!
but
thy
sinnes
are
Scarlet
,
crying
,
scandalous
sinnes
.
Said
I
not
all
things
are
possible
to
Faith
,
onely
if
thou
canst
beleeue
.
Are
not
all
faults
easily
pardonable
to
an
infinite
mercy
,
which
exceedes
Mans
,
as
Heauen
doth
Earth
;
which
can
redilier
forgiue
seuenfie
,
then
Man
seuen
offences
.
Well
did
Mar●●●s
answere
the
Diuell
,
himselfe
obiecting
his
former
life
to
him
,
that
euen
his
might
bee
pardoned
if
hee
could
beleeue
.
Did
not
Christ
take
the
flesh
of
Rahab
and
Bathsheba
,
and
did
hee
refuse
to
take
their
sinnes
vpon
him
?
Did
not
his
blood
wash
Dauids
bloody
sinne
as
white
as
snow
?
Doth
not
he
delight
to
forgiue
much
,
that
hee
may
binde
to
loue
much
?
Shall
not
his
fauour
abound
to
the
sense
of
thy
Faith
,
where
sinne
hath
abounded
to
the
wounding
of
thy
heart
?
But
thou
art
an
olde
habituate
sinner
.
As
if
Christ
came
from
Heauen
to
cure
onely
small
fearres
,
greene
cuttes
,
and
not
deepe
inuetorate
woundes
,
diseases
of
eight
,
of
twelue
,
of
eight
and
thirty
yeares
olde
:
to
cast
out
single
Diuels
,
and
not
Legions
also
?
Oh
then
take
heede
thou
adde
not
to
thy
great
and
many
sinnes
,
a
greater
then
all
:
Cains
sinne
,
which
was
greater
in
infidelitie
then
in
fratricide
.
All
thy
help
is
to
looke
of
thy selfe
an
obiect
of
confusion
,
and
to
looke
vpon
Christ
an
obiect
of
consolation
:
And
then
how
fiery
and
deadly
so
euer
thy
sting
bee
,
by
meere
looking
(
a
strange
cure
I
confesse
,
yet
most
approued
)
that
is
,
by
sole
beleeuing
thou
shalt
be
cured
and
liue
.
Secondly
,
But
forsooth
thou
wilt
be
more
mannerly
then
so
with
Peter
thou
wilt
not
suffer
Christs
precious
hands
to
wash
thy
foule
feete
.
Take
heede
thy
modesty
turne
not
into
pertinacy
,
lest
he
swear
in
his
anger
thou
shalt
haue
no
part
in
him
,
if
thou
stubbornly
refuse
his
gratious
offer
:
he
liked
well
the
humility
of
that
Cananitish
that
bore
the
terme
of
dogge
,
but
better
her
confidence
,
that
would
not
be
said
nay
of
the
crums
of
his
table
.
And
shalt
thou
not
tenne
times
,
more
honour
him
and
please
him
,
in
trusting
his
mercy
and
sealing
to
his
truth
,
then
in
fearing
his
iustice
and
dreading
his
power
?
Take
heede
of
pride
in
the
clothes
of
humilitie
.
Bee
not
deceiued
,
It
is
pride
and
high
pride
,
not
to
come
when
thou
art
called
.
Faith
is
obedience
,
and
obedience
is
more
acceptable
then
curtesie
&
complement
.
The
sooner
thou
commest
the
better
welcome
.
It
is
rudenesse
and
not
good
manners
not
to
do
as
thou
art
bidden
to
doe
,
yea
,
so
often
and
earnestly
charged
to
doe
.
To
doe
the
worke
of
God
is
to
beleeue
in
him
whom
he
hath
sealed
and
sent
to
be
thy
Sauiour
.
Ioh.
6.
Thirdly
,
Oh!
but
thou
wouldest
faine
first
repent
,
amend
and
doe
some
good
workes
,
and
then
thou
wouldest
bee
bold
to
come
.
That
is
,
thou
thinkest
thou
shalt
not
be
welcome
vnlesse
thou
come
with
thy
cost
.
Thou
wouldest
accept
of
a
pardon
if
thou
mightst
pay
for
it
:
but
his
are
free
,
and
he
bids
thee
come
and
buy
without
siluer
,
or
else
he
saies
,
thou
and
thy
money
perish
.
Thou
wouldest
goe
the
old
and
naturall
way
to
worke
.
What
shall
I
doe
to
inherit
euerlasting
life
,
but
that
is
now
farre-done
and
impassable
through
our
infirmity
:
Besides
,
before
thou
canst
walke
or
worke
,
thou
must
be
aliue
.
Did
Christ
indent
with
Zacheus
for
Restitution
and
almes
?
or
Paul
bid
the
Iaylour
first
repent
,
become
a
new
man
,
and
then
beleeue
?
No
they
knew
that
the
one
would
voluntarily
,
necessarily
,
together
,
&
immediately
follow
or
rather
accompany
the
other
.
Wherefore
swim
out
of
these
weedes
,
lay
hold
on
the
Rocke
,
and
to
facilitate
thy
birth
by
the
Act
of
beleeuing
,
set
beefore
thy
eyes
Christs
freedome
to
all
suitors
in
the
time
of
his
flesh
,
repelling
none
that
truely
desired
the
price
of
his
blood
:
And
especially
,
Gods
esteeme
of
Faith
aboue
all
other
Graces
,
Deeds
,
or
Acts
of
thine
.
Study
,
striue
,
endeauor
to
beleeue
,
as
thou
doest
in
a
difficult
point
to
conceiue
.
Pray
for
a
faculty
and
for
the
act
of
beleeuing
.
Be
not
euer
beleeuing
,
and
neuer
a
beleeuer
;
euer
beginning
to
liue
,
and
neuer
liuing
.
Liue
to
day
,
to
day
is
Saluation
offered
,
steppe
from
death
to
life
,
and
write
this
day
thy
birth
day
,
and
number
from
hence
the
dayes
of
thy
life
,
in
which
of
a
Childe
of
perdition
,
thou
are
made
the
sonne
of
GOD
through
Faith
,
and
so
made
foreuer
.
Doest
thou
beleeue
this
with
thy
whole
heart
?
Driue
on
the
Charriot
of
thy
life
with
ioy
and
reioycing
till
thou
come
to
the
marke
.
But
what
signe
shall
I
haue
of
the
truth
of
my
Faith
?
May
it
not
bee
presumption
if
without
repentance
and
sanctitie
?
How
shall
I
be
sure
it
is
not
that
vaine
and
dead
Faith
Saint
Iames
speaketh
of
?
At
the
first
,
it
shall
suffice
to
finde
and
feele
a
change
of
the
minde
,
an
vnfained
purpose
,
desire
,
and
resolution
of
new
vniuersall
obedience
,
which
is
contemporary
with
Faith
,
though
the
younger
and
a
second
brother
in
order
of
Nature
:
which
where
it
is
,
sufficeth
to
warrant
Faith
,
and
to
embolden
the
confidence
in
the
first
act
of
conuersion
.
Zacheus
,
the
Iaylor
,
and
all
new
Conuerts
had
not
any
more
,
could
haue
no
experience
of
amendment
of
life
,
and
yet
relyed
vpon
the
word
Beleeue
,
and
thou
shalt
bee
saued
.
CHAP.
VI.
The
vse
of
Faith
to
young
men
in
Christianity
.
PVT
off
now
thy
sackcloth
and
ashes
,
put
on
the
garments
of
ioy
and
gladnesse
.
Let
not
white
raiment
be
wanting
,
nor
oyle
to
thy
head
.
Liue
I
say
,
liue
to
day
,
liue
to
morrow
,
liue
oh
Christian
for
euer
.
Not
for
one
or
a
fewe
dayes
,
But
all
the
dayes
of
thy
life
.
This
thou
mayst
doe
,
if
thou
wilt
learne
to
vse
thy
Faith
,
not
as
men
vse
Wedding
apparell
,
for
a
weeke
or
two
after
Marriage
,
and
then
lay
it
vp
for
high
and
solemne
dayes
onely
.
This
indeed
is
the
fashion
of
beleeuers
at
their
first
conuersion
:
beeing
iustified
,
to
haue
peace
and
ioy
in
beleeuing
the
remission
of
their
sinnes
,
and
for
a
while
to
bee
glad
of
their
estate
;
but
then
to
neglect
and
determinate
the
vse
of
Faith
,
as
if
it
had
now
done
all
it
should
or
could
doe
:
except
till
they
relapse
againe
into
some
foule
sinne
,
then
to
recouer
life
againe
,
vsing
it
as
Vsquebath
and
strong
Waters
for
swones
and
heart
qualmes
onely
,
not
being
acquainted
with
a
dayly
and
quotidian
improuement
of
it
:
which
ought
to
bee
as
constant
and
continuate
as
is
the
vse
of
Fire
and
Water
,
of
Salt
,
of
Bread
,
or
Wine
,
or
whateuer
is
more
ordinary
and
necessary
then
other
:
such
as
no
part
of
our
liues
may
well
be
without
.
Serues
Faith
for
entrance
and
beginnings
,
and
not
for
proceedings
and
encreasings
.
Are
we
not
nourished
by
the
same
Elements
of
which
wee
consist
?
Is
Faith
the
Midwife
and
breeder
of
ioy
and
peace
,
and
not
the
Nurse
and
Foster-mother
of
them
.
Cherishing
and
feeding
thee
till
thou
come
to
a
full
and
perfect
age
in
Christ
?
Is
not
the
fruit
of
it
sweeter
in
the
eare
then
in
the
blade
?
Hearken
therefore
to
mee
,
oh
thou
of
little
Faith
,
and
lesse
vse
of
it
.
Doest
thou
desire
to
haue
a
continuall
feast
,
to
reioyce
alwaies
in
the
Lord
?
I
know
thou
desirest
it
with
all
thy
soule
.
Let
me
prescribe
a
Dyet
,
a
daily
dyet
without
omission
,
strictly
to
bee
kept
,
(
The
Lord
giue
thee
and
mee
grace
to
obserue
it
)
Looke
how
duly
thou
refreshest
thy
bodyly
spirites
by
vse
of
repast
,
or
recreations
;
so
often
at
the
least
bee
sure
to
cheere
vp
thy
Soule
by
the
vse
of
thy
Faith
.
Let
thy
soule
haue
two
or
three
walkes
a
day
vp
to
Mount
Tabor
,
that
is
,
into
some
retyred
place
of
Meditation
and
Prayer
,
such
as
Isaaks
Field
,
Gornelius
his
Leaded
,
Dauids
Closet
,
&c.
But
what
is
there
to
be
done
?
I
answere
,
Still
make
vse
of
thy
Faith
.
But
what
is
that
you
call
vsing
of
Faith
?
I
now
come
to
the
point
,
to
the
chiefe
misterie
of
Spirituall
life
.
Shore
vp
thy
soule
in
this
Mount
to
conuerse
with
Christ
.
Looke
what
promises
and
priuiledges
thou
doest
habitually
beleeue
,
now
actually
think
of
them
,
rowle
them
vnder
thy
tongue
,
Chew
on
them
till
thou
feele
some
sweetnesse
in
the
palate
of
thy
soule
.
View
them
ioyusly
,
seuerally
:
Sometimes
muse
of
one
,
sometimes
of
another
more
deepely
,
and
lest
(
as
Patients
oft
doe
in
Physicions
Billes
)
thou
still
complaine
of
obscurity
:
thus
doe
,
thinke
with
thy selfe
how
excellent
a
thing
it
is
to
haue
all
thy
debts
cancelled
,
how
sweet
a
thing
to
haue
God
appeased
,
how
glorious
a
thing
to
bee
the
sonne
of
God
,
how
happy
and
safe
a
condition
for
thee
to
bee
sure
thy
perseuerance
and
saluation
,
how
pleasant
a
state
to
bee
●●●●●
of
the
fiere
of
death
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
how
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
of
glory
.
Feastmakers
in
ancient
time
had
speciall
officers
that
cheered
vp
their
guests
,
they
thought
it
not
enough
to
set
store
of
meate
beefore
them
,
but
one
must
come
in
and
say
,
Fall
too
and
be
merry
,
Let
vs
eate
and
drinke
,
It
is
a
good
time
,
&c.
Thus
say
thou
to
thy selfe
,
as
Paul
to
the
Corinths
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
Let
us
feast
and
bee
merry
.
Christ
hath
made
vs
Holy-dayes
,
our
Paschall
Lambe
is
slaine
,
Haue
any
more
cause
to
bee
merry
?
With
these
Soliloquies
mingle
some
Eiaculations
to
heauen
,
for
grace
and
ayde
:
And
leaue
not
,
descend
not
this
Mount
till
thou
findest
and
feelest
thy
soule
in
some
cheerely
plight
,
reuiued
and
warmed
with
these
spirituall
Flagons
of
Wine
,
in
the
strength
whereof
thou
mayest
walke
all
the
day
following
.
This
is
that
which
the
Sp●●se
calles
,
Walking
into
the
Gardens
and
eating
of
the
fruits
,
&c.
which
in
plaine
termes
,
I
call
,
vsing
of
Faith
,
and
liuing
by
Faith
.
Which
if
thou
wilt
duely
inure
thy selfe
vnto
,
thou
wilt
not
maruell
why
I
called
it
,
Ascending
Mount
Tabor
:
thou
wilt
say
thy selfe
,
vpon
good
proofe
,
It
is
good
to
be
here
,
dayly
to
be
here
,
often
to
come
hither
.
This
is
that
exercise
of
Faith
,
which
paul
inioynes
Timothy
,
and
calles
stirring
vp
,
or
in
kindling
.
Fire
in
the
Embers
vnstirred
,
glowes
not
,
heats
not
the
house
;
Sugar
in
the
cup
vnstirred
sweetens
not
the
Wine
.
And
in
such
it
is
all
one
not
to
haue
Faith
,
and
not
to
vse
it
.
It
may
well
bee
said
of
Money-hoorders
,
they
haue
no
quicksiluer
,
no
currant
money
,
they
haue
no
more
that
which
they
haue
,
then
that
which
they
haue
not
.
And
so
of
such
beleeuers
as
doe
not
thus
vse
their
Faith
,
they
haue
no
liuely
Faith
,
They
were
almost
(
for
matter
of
feeling
,
and
for
present
benefit
and
comfort
)
be
without
Faith
.
A
man
is
little
the
better
for
a
sleeping
habit
.
It
is
a
rare
portion
,
saith
Salomon
,
and
that
which
GOD
giues
onely
to
such
as
are
good
in
his
eyes
,
to
make
vse
of
wealth
,
to
eate
,
drinke
,
and
bee
merry
:
it
is
a
much
rarer
to
vse
Faith
.
What
is
a
man
the
better
for
a
Locke
if
he
haue
not
the
Key
to
vse
it
withall
?
It
is
not
a
Trade
,
but
a
Trade
well
followed
.
It
is
not
Land
,
but
Land
well
tilled
that
maintaines
men
.
Oh
that
this
did
as
clearely
appeare
to
the
world
in
the
matter
of
Faith
,
as
it
doth
in
all
other
habits
,
graces
,
giftes
,
vertues
and
good
things
whatsoeuer
,
that
the
principall
beauty
and
benefit
of
them
consists
in
vse
,
fruition
and
action
,
not
the
bare
profession
,
yea
the
very
increase
and
perfection
of
them
.
Vse
limbes
and
haue
limbes
,
the
more
thou
doest
,
the
more
thou
mayest
.
The
oftner
the
liberall
man
giues
Almes
and
does
good
turnes
,
the
more
his
liberality
growes
,
and
shines
.
Vse
will
breed
perfectnesse
,
and
through
disuse
things
perish
,
and
come
to
nothing
;
as
the
Plowsheare
laid
vp
,
rusts
and
consumes
;
imployed
,
glisters
,
doth
good
and
lasts
the
longer
.
Let
any
man
diligently
and
throughly
improue
,
and
great
will
be
his
faith
and
great
the
ioy
it
will
bring
in
.
CHAP.
VII
.
An
inforcement
of
the
former
vse
,
with
a
reproofe
of
the
neglect
and
disuse
of
Faith
.
WHerefore
I
say
again
,
Liue
by
Faith
,
againe
I
say
,
alwaies
liue
by
it
,
reioyce
alwaies
through
Faith
in
the
Lord
.
I
dare
boldly
say
,
It
is
thy
fault
and
neglect
of
this
exercise
,
if
thou
suffer
either
thy
own
melancholly
humor
,
or
Satan
to
interrupt
thy
mirth
and
spirituall
alacritie
,
and
to
detaine
thee
in
dumps
and
pensiuenesse
at
any
time
.
What
if
thou
beest
of
a
sad
constitution
,
of
a
darke
complexion
?
Is
not
Faith
able
to
rectifie
nature
?
is
it
not
stronger
then
any
ellebore
.
Doct.
Bright
of
Melanch
.
Doth
not
an
experienced
both
Diuine
and
Phisition
worthily
preferre
one
dramme
of
it
before
all
the
Drugges
in
the
Apothecaries
shop
for
this
effect
?
Hath
it
not
soueraigne
vertue
in
it
to
excerebrate
all
cares
,
expectorate
all
feares
and
griefes
,
euacuate
the
minde
of
all
ill
thoughts
and
passions
,
to
exhilerate
the
whose
man
?
But
what
good
doth
it
any
to
haue
a
Cordiall
by
him
,
if
he
vse
it
not
?
to
weare
a
sword
souldier
like
by
the
side
,
and
not
to
draw
it
forth
vpon
an
assault
?
when
a
dump
ouer-takes
thee
,
if
thou
wouldest
say
to
thy
soule
in
a
word
or
two
;
Soule
,
why
art
thou
disquieted
?
know
and
consider
in
whom
thou
beleeuest
?
would
it
not
presently
returne
to
it
rest
againe
?
would
not
the
Master
rebuke
the
Windes
and
Stormes
and
calme
thy
minde
presently
?
Hath
not
euery
man
something
or
other
wherewithall
hee
vseth
to
put
away
dumps
to
driue
away
the
ill
spirit
as
Dauid
with
his
Harp
:
some
with
merry
company
,
some
with
a
cup
of
sack
,
most
with
a
pipe
of
Tobacco
,
without
which
they
scarce
ride
or
goe
,
if
they
misse
it
a
day
together
,
they
are
troubled
with
rhumes
,
dulnesse
of
spirits
,
they
that
liue
in
Fennes
and
ill
ayres
,
dare
not
stirre
out
without
a
morning
draught
of
some
strong
liquor
.
Poore
silly
smoaky
helps
,
in
comparison
of
the
least
taste
,
(
but
for
dishonouring
of
Faith
,
I
would
say
)
whiffe
,
or
draught
of
Faith
.
Oh!
that
wise
Christians
would
as
often
take
the
one
,
as
idle
Guls
doe
the
other
?
would
not
the
drawing
in
of
sweete
ayer
from
the
pretious
promises
breede
excellent
blood
and
cheerely
spirits
;
It
is
a
mystery
in
bodily
health
that
to
keepe
the
arteries
and
the
nosthrils
,
veines
,
and
other
passages
to
the
head
,
heart
,
and
liuer
,
cleere
and
free
from
colds
and
obstructions
,
maintaines
a
healthfull
and
cheerefull
temper
.
The
Pipe
of
Faith
is
the
same
to
the
soule
.
Hee
that
is
Astmaticall
,
narrow
breathed
or
straight
breasted
in
his
Faith
,
cannot
bee
but
lumpish
and
melancholly
.
Wherefore
as
thou
louest
thy
mirth
aboue
all
other
,
tend
this
vitall
artery
aboue
all
keepings
,
keepe
thy
Faith
and
it
will
keepe
thy
ioy
:
It
will
keepe
it
an
euen
euerflowing
current
,
without
ebbe
and
flowe
,
clouds
and
eclipses
,
turning
euer
vpon
the
hinges
of
heauenly
and
solid
mirth
.
And
indeed
,
how
or
why
should
it
be
otherwise
?
Doe
not
Christians
consider
how
vnseemely
it
is
for
them
,
to
goe
drooping
,
hanging
the
head
?
Is
any
so
simple
to
think
because
hee
is
a
Christian
that
hee
should
affect
a
sad
carriage
,
a
deiected
look
,
a
demure
countenance
like
an
image
?
Away
with
such
Monkish
hypocrisie
.
How
doth
it
become
the
Righteous
to
reioyce
?
Do
they
not
consider
how
they
wrong
themselues
of
the
maine
benefit
of
their
Iustification
?
what
is
a
Christian
but
his
mirth
?
wherein
doth
the
kingdom
of
Heauen
consist
but
in
Ioy
?
Doe
they
not
see
how
they
offend
standers
by
and
beholders
?
Is
not
heauinesse
a
check
that
driues
away
and
mirth
as
a
lure
that
wins
to
the
liking
of
their
profession
?
Men
wonder
to
see
a
rich
man
that
hath
the
world
at
will
,
all
things
at
hearts
desire
,
to
be
but
in
a
fit
of
heauinesse
.
What
,
say
they
,
should
hee
ayle
?
The
Irish
aske
such
,
what
they
meane
to
die
?
but
I
wonder
a
thousand
times
more
to
see
one
that
hath
Christ
to
friend
,
that
beleeues
God
to
be
his
shepheard
,
that
knowes
all
must
worke
for
the
best
,
to
bee
at
any
time
out
of
tune
or
out
of
sorts
.
For
a
N●abal
to
be
all
a
mort
like
a
stone
,
it
is
no
newes
to
me
;
but
to
see
Nehemiahs
countenance
changed
,
there
must
needs
be
some
extraordinary
cause
:
should
such
a
man
as
he
feare
,
or
carke
,
or
grieue
?
What
if
it
doe
not
yet
appeare
what
thou
shalt
bee
?
Is
a
yong
Ward
prouder
and
gladder
(
in
his
minority
)
of
an
vncertaine
reuersion
,
then
a
yeoman
of
his
present
estate
?
And
is
not
Faith
an
Hypostasis
and
euidence
to
thee
of
an
infallible
inheritance
?
Canst
thou
bee
sad
,
which
mayest
say
,
not
to
thy
belly
,
but
to
thy
soule
,
Thou
hast
,
not
many
goods
,
but
fulnesse
of
all
treasures
,
layd
vp
,
not
in
the
earth
,
where
moath
and
canker
and
theeues
may
come
,
but
in
heauenly
places
,
out
of
the
Deuils
reach
,
and
that
not
for
many
yeares
,
but
for
euer
and
euer
,
neuer
to
bee
taken
from
thy
soule
,
nor
thy
soule
from
them
.
Oh
thou
vaine
man
!
shew
mee
thy
Faith
by
thy
ioy
:
if
thou
liuest
dumpishly
,
and
yet
say
thou
liuest
by
Faith
,
I
wil
as
soone
beleeue
thee
as
him
,
that
shall
say
hee
hath
the
Phylosophers
stone
,
and
liues
like
a
beggar
,
If
it
were
euer
well
with
thy
Faith
,
could
it
euer
bee
amisse
with
thee
:
should
not
the
temper
of
thy
body
follow
the
temper
of
thy
soule
,
and
the
temper
of
thy
soule
,
the
temper
of
thy
Faith
?
The
body
may
incline
thy
soule
,
but
the
soule
commands
the
body
,
and
Faith
is
the
Lord
of
them
both
.
According
to
thy
Faith
,
so
be
it
vnto
thee
,
so
will
it
be
with
thee
.
Vse
thy
Faith
and
haue
ioy
:
encrease
thy
Faith
,
encrease
thy
ioy
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
The
vse
of
Faith
to
a
growne
Christian.
NAy
Christian
,
now
I
haue
gotten
thee
hither
,
I
must
draw
thee
yet
a
pegge
higher
,
and
tel
thee
,
it
is
a
small
thing
for
thee
to
come
to
an
ordinary
pitch
of
cheerefulnesse
,
except
thy
ioyes
exceedes
the
mirth
of
a
worldling
,
yea
of
a
professed
Epicure
in
the
qualitie
and
quantitie
of
it
.
If
thy
mirth
bee
not
a
sweeter
and
more
rauishing
mirth
of
an
higher
kinde
,
of
a
more
pure
defecate
nature
,
of
a
more
constant
tenure
,
then
any
Carnall
man
what
euer
,
thou
disparagest
Faith
,
thou
art
very
little
and
yong
in
the
Kingdome
of
Heauen
,
which
consists
not
in
meates
and
drinkes
,
but
in
ioy
vnspeakeable
and
glorious
,
in
the
ioy
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
And
must
not
that
needes
bee
another
manner
of
ioy
then
euer
entred
into
the
heart
of
a
naturall
man
,
then
euer
a
Sardanapalus
tasted
of
?
Yes
vndoubtedly
.
So
must
bee
construed
that
text
,
1.
Cor.
2.
not
of
the
ioyes
of
Heauen
,
which
here
the
spirituall
man
himselfe
cannot
tell
what
they
shall
be
,
but
of
the
Gospels
ioy
,
of
the
Wine
and
Fatlings
already
prepared
and
now
reuealed
to
the
beleeuer
by
the
Spirit
:
which
if
the
carnall
man
scorne
and
scoffe
at
,
thou
canst
no
more
helpe
him
or
prooue
to
him
,
then
a
seeing
man
to
a
blinde
man
that
hee
sees
orient
rich
colours
.
It
is
enough
for
thee
to
secretly
feele
and
enioy
it
.
Only
it
ought
in
thy
life
so
to
be
expressed
;
yea
,
so
to
shine
in
thy
forehead
,
so
to
be
read
in
the
very
face
of
thee
,
that
their
teeth
may
be
set
on
edge
,
and
that
they
may
enquire
,
what
is
thy
beloued
aboue
other
beloueds
?
what
is
that
makes
this
man
thus
merry
in
all
estates
?
Thus
let
them
enuy
at
thine
,
let
not
thy
soule
descend
to
theirs
.
Are
not
the
gleanings
of
Ephraim
better
then
the
vintage
of
Abiezer
?
Shouldest
thou
that
hast
tasted
of
the
grapes
of
Canaan
,
long
after
the
Onions
and
Garlick
of
Aegypt
?
Is
Pharphar
like
vnto
Iordan
?
hast
not
thou
Riuers
of
water
euer
flowing
out
of
thy
belly
?
and
wilt
thou
stoope
to
their
puddle
waters
,
to
their
stolne
waters
,
blousing
,
carding
,
dicing
,
whoring
,
&c.
which
should
not
thy
soule
altogether
lothe
and
abhor
,
after
the
taste
of
Faiths
Nectar
and
Ambrosia
.
But
euen
their
ordinary
and
lawfull
delights
,
the
wine
and
oyle
,
musicke
,
hunting
,
hawking
&c.
to
these
God
allowes
thee
to
stoope
for
thy
bodies
sake
,
as
the
Eagle
to
the
prey
,
or
as
Gideous
souldiers
to
soope
thy
handfull
,
not
to
swill
thy
belly
full
.
If
Plato
could
tell
the
Musitians
,
that
Phylosophers
could
dine
and
sup
without
them
,
How
much
more
easie
is
it
for
Saint
Augustine
to
weane
himselfe
from
the
childish
rattles
and
may
games
of
carnall
delights
,
to
bee
merry
without
the
Fiddle
.
Good
leaue
hast
thou
,
yea
,
right
and
title
to
vse
all
externall
recreations
,
wherof
before
thou
wert
but
an
vsurper
,
but
vse
them
aright
as
if
thou
vsedst
them
not
,
knowing
how
to
put
thy
knife
to
thy
throat
,
and
how
to
be
without
them
:
to
bee
as
one
that
liueth
not
by
them
but
by
Faith
.
Were
it
not
odious
to
see
a
man
that
hath
a
spouse
peerelesse
for
beautie
,
to
liue
with
a
deformed
blouse
?
to
see
one
professing
some
liberall
Science
,
to
liue
by
some
base
manuall
trade
?
no
better
fight
is
it
to
see
a
Christian
vpholding
his
ioy
by
course
and
earthly
pleasures
,
that
hath
more
noble
and
generous
,
yea
,
Angelicall
delights
;
then
which
,
what
hath
heauen
better
but
in
degree
only
,
and
manner
of
fruition
?
what
hath
this
world
comparable
?
Alas
poore
Phylosophers
,
when
I
read
your
Treatises
of
Tranquillitie
of
mind
,
of
consolation
,
of
remedies
against
both
Fortunes
,
though
in
some
things
you
come
neere
the
kingdome
of
Heauen
,
yet
how
dull
are
your
comforts
to
one
of
ours
?
the
highest
of
yours
to
the
lowest
of
ours
?
Had
you
but
through
a
creuis
or
Lettice
seene
the
things
which
the
eie
of
Faith
seeth
with
open
face
,
how
would
you
in
comparison
of
Christianisme
haue
loathed
your
Stoicisme
and
Epicurisme
?
Had
you
but
with
the
tip
of
your
tongue
,
tasted
of
Faiths
dainties
,
how
would
you
haue
magnified
Faith
aboue
all
your
Cardinall
vertues
?
you
that
so
composed
your
liues
by
ieiune
and
empty
contemplations
of
an
autarky
in
vertue
by
the
rules
of
nature
;
what
stately
liues
would
you
haue
led
and
liued
,
if
the
grace
and
hopes
of
the
Gospel
had
appeared
to
you
by
the
rules
of
Faith
?
As
for
you
Poets
of
the
lighter
and
pleasanter
veine
,
when
I
read
your
oades
and
sonnets
,
chaunting
out
your
choice
ioyes
and
loues
,
your
wishes
and
vowes
,
framing
a
conceited
happinesse
to
your selues
,
as
the
highest
you
could
imagine
or
desire
:
what
low
streines
and
meane
aire
do
I
reckon
them
,
in
comparison
,
of
our
Christian
and
diuine
hymnes
?
what
pittifull
subiects
for
such
sublimated
wits
?
what
difference
between
your
oaten
pipes
and
our
heauenly
harpes
?
Salomon
that
loued
both
these
loues
,
liued
both
liues
,
and
sung
songs
of
both
sorts
,
when
God
raised
his
muse
to
an
higher
tune
,
and
taught
it
to
sing
the
song
of
songs
,
how
despised
he
his
former
windy
vanities
in
comparison
of
his
new
spirituall
delicacies
.
Wherefore
,
O
Christian
,
that
hast
such
transcendent
obiects
of
thy
thoughts
aboue
al
other
men
,
why
shouldest
thou
not
euer
keepe
thy
soule
vpon
the
wing
,
euer
in
a
manner
bee
in
the
third
heauens
,
rowling
and
tumbling
thy
soule
in
these
beds
of
roses
:
I
meane
these
meditations
of
thy
Iustification
,
sanctification
and
saluation
through
Christ
,
without
which
,
why
should
one
day
passe
thee
?
why
any
one
part
of
a
day
?
why
should
not
thy
soule
haue
her
due
drinkes
,
breakfasts
,
meales
vndermeales
,
beuers
,
and
after-meales
,
as
well
as
thy
body
?
Thus
to
redeeme
time
,
thus
to
taske
and
tye
thy
soule
to
such
heauenly
round
of
worke
,
would
it
not
make
the
Mill
of
time
pleasant
,
the
yoke
of
businesse
easie
?
would
not
pretious
time
glide
swiftly
and
easily
away
like
a
boate
with
full
winde
and
tide
needing
no
oares
;
or
a
free
mettald
horse
needing
no
spurres
,
needing
no
idle
pastime
to
driue
it
before
thee
?
shall
it
not
be
a
pleasure
to
thee
to
want
other
pleasures
?
Thus
mayest
thou
make
all
thy
daies
Christ-tides
,
Easters
,
Whitsundaies
,
Birthdaies
,
and
Holydaies
:
not
enuying
Foelix
his
felicitie
,
Festus
his
festiuitie
,
nor
Diues
his
daily
purple
and
delicious
fare
:
but
liuing
a
life
kingly
and
Angelicall
,
in
comparison
of
the
vulgar
sort
.
CHAP.
IX
.
An
obiection
answered
,
and
passage
made
to
the
life
of
Sanctification
.
HAppily
thou
replyest
,
all
this
were
possible
and
easie
,
were
it
not
for
that
euen
amiddest
this
diligent
practise
of
Faith
,
euen
in
the
stricktest
watch
,
in
many
things
the
best
faileth
,
many
knowne
frailties
will
escape
,
and
more
escape
vnknowne
:
And
how
can
mirth
chuse
but
bee
damped
with
frequent
slips
?
The
answere
is
,
such
an
one
as
keepes
the
watch
of
his
God
,
and
pretermits
no
day
without
the
forementioned
duties
,
shall
seldom
or
neuer
fall
into
any
foule
slough
,
and
dash
the
ship
of
his
Faith
against
any
dangerous
Rocke
,
and
if
hee
doe
,
long
hee
cannot
lye
,
but
his
Faith
will
set
him
on
worke
to
goe
out
,
weepe
bitterly
,
and
make
his
peace
presently
with
his
Lord
,
and
Conscience
,
that
he
may
enioy
his
wonted
repasts
:
And
for
his
ordinary
infirmities
it
will
daily
fetch
him
out
a
pardon
of
course
,
washing
and
scouring
his
soule
euery
morning
and
eueuing
,
more
duely
then
any
Pharisie
his
face
or
hands
:
and
set
him
on
worke
euery
day
as
hee
runnes
into
arrerages
,
to
draw
the
redde
lines
of
Christs
Crosse
ouer
the
blacke
lines
of
Gods
Debt
Booke
.
And
what
if
as
an
All-seeing
God
hee
sees
our
violation
of
his
Lawe
,
and
knowes
better
then
our
owne
Consciences
euery
peccant
Act
of
ours
in
thought
,
word
,
or
deed
?
what
if
GOD
looke
vpon
the
Hand-writing
against
vs
?
Doth
hee
not
see
the
Billes
cancelled
with
the
Pretious
Blood
of
his
Sonne
and
our
Suretie
?
Which
for
matter
of
guilt
,
defilement
,
and
punishment
is
all
sufficient
to
expunge
,
couer
,
nullifie
,
abolish
,
and
wholly
to
take
away
our
sinnes
,
in
such
sort
that
he
neither
sees
,
will
see
,
nor
can
see
them
as
sinnes
and
debts
bearing
action
against
vs
,
obliging
vs
to
any
penalty
;
no
more
then
the
Creditor
who
though
hee
sees
the
Items
in
his
Booke
,
and
knowes
what
debts
haue
beene
,
yet
sees
them
crossed
,
cleared
:
And
what
thought
then
neede
the
Debtor
take
for
such
debts
?
Why
,
but
is
not
this
to
make
Faith
a
Pandar
to
sinne
?
And
to
make
good
the
Papists
and
Worldlings
slander
of
Solifidians
.
that
make
no
more
of
it
,
but
drinke
and
take
Tobacco
;
sinne
,
and
beleeue
;
get
a
pardon
of
the
olde
,
and
a
licence
for
the
new
.
Oh
peeuish
and
froward
Generation
to
whom
it
is
not
giuen
to
knowe
the
mysterie
of
Faith
,
which
is
of
the
nature
of
Soueraigne
mundifying
waters
,
which
so
wash
off
the
corruption
of
the
ulcer
,
that
they
coole
the
heate
,
and
stay
the
spread
of
the
infection
,
and
by
degrees
heale
the
same
:
And
of
Cordials
which
so
comfort
and
ease
the
heart
,
as
also
they
expell
the
noxious
humours
and
strengthen
nature
against
them
.
These
are
ministred
onely
to
prepared
bodies
,
these
pearles
are
not
for
Swine
,
this
Diuinity
wee
Preach
not
in
Gath
and
Askelon
to
vncircumcised
prophane
ones
that
will
turne
euery
good
thing
to
their
owne
destruction
:
But
this
belongs
to
the
sealed
Fountaine
,
to
the
Spouse
of
Christ
alone
:
which
when
shee
hath
washed
her
feete
how
loath
is
shee
to
foule
them
againe
?
When
shee
hath
appeased
her
Beloued
,
howe
doth
shee
adiure
her-selfe
and
others
by
the
Hyndes
and
Roes
,
not
to
awaken
and
offend
him
againe
?
The
Text
sayeth
,
Not
euery
hypocrite
,
euery
profligate
professor
of
Faith
that
liues
as
hee
listes
,
shall
liue
by
his
Faith
,
but
the
Iust
or
Righteous
?
Which
golden
sentence
is
indeede
ambiguously
enunciated
of
purpose
by
the
Holy
Ghost
that
it
may
either
way
bee
taken
,
The
Iust
by
his
Faith
,
shall
liue
:
Or
,
The
Iust
shall
liue
by
his
Faith
,
yet
so
as
it
hath
but
one
right
eare
to
bee
holden
by
,
and
that
is
onely
for
the
hand
of
the
Righteous
man
:
Implying
,
that
whosoeuer
beleeues
,
or
liues
by
his
Faith
,
is
also
and
must
of
necessity
bee
a
righteous
man
,
a
Iust
man
,
not
onely
imputatiuely
,
but
inherently
in
part
:
such
an
one
as
vnfainedly
loueth
righteousnesse
,
studieth
the
practise
of
it
,
denieth
and
hateth
all
vnrighteousnesse
,
endeuoureth
euery
day
to
bee
more
and
more
righteous
,
and
so
deserueth
the
denomination
of
righteous
.
So
that
looke
how
the
rationall
Soule
,
includeth
and
implyeth
the
animall
,
so
doth
Iustification
,
Sanctification
,
being
indiuiduall
.
CHAP.
X.
How
Faith
Sanctifies
and
Mortifies
.
SO
I
slide
into
the
second
part
or
kinde
of
Christian
life
,
consisting
in
holinesse
and
righteousnesse
,
which
I
shall
easily
demonstrate
not
onely
to
bee
an
indiuiduall
companion
,
but
a
naturall
and
necessary
effect
of
Faith
.
For
looke
how
the
strength
of
the
heart
breedes
,
not
onely
cheerefulnesse
but
actiuenesse
:
Motion
as
well
as
health
(
whence
it
is
that
life
,
is
put
for
liuelinesse
and
agility
)
driues
away
all
lassitude
,
hebetude
,
and
indisposition
,
brings
in
aptnesse
and
delight
to
stirre
:
the
like
doth
Faith
in
the
soule
:
which
may
as
the
former
in
the
body
,
for
a
time
stand
with
some
sleight
distempers
,
spots
of
the
skinne
,
atche
of
limbes
,
but
not
long
with
deadly
diseases
,
either
vanquishing
them
,
or
vanquished
by
them
.
This
noble
vse
of
Faith
will
excellently
appeare
in
both
the
parts
of
this
newe
life
,
Mortification
and
Viuification
:
And
in
each
of
these
,
two
manner
of
wayes
doth
Faith
produce
this
effect
;
partly
as
a
moouing
,
partly
as
a
procreant
cause
.
In
the
first
kinde
admirable
is
the
Pitho
&
Saada
of
Faith
aboue
all
the
Oratory
in
the
World
:
All
the
common
incentiues
taken
from
profitte
,
pleasure
and
honour
,
all
the
Topicke
places
of
Logicke
,
Figures
of
Rhetoricke
,
what
poore
and
weake
engines
are
they
to
the
irresistable
pe●arre
of
Faith
,
which
sayeth
,
but
Ephata
,
and
presently
our
Euerlasting
Gates
yeeld
and
stand
open
.
For
thus
it
goes
to
worke
with
vs
,
Hath
Christ
giuen
himselfe
for
thee
,
forgiuen
thee
so
many
debts
,
conferred
,
fauours
of
all
kindes
vpon
thee
,
and
what
hast
thou
to
retribute
?
If
thou
giue
all
thy
goods
to
the
poore
,
thy
body
to
the
fire
,
thy
soule
,
to
his
seruice
;
yea
were
euery
hayre
of
thine
head
a
man
or
Angell
,
were
not
all
short
of
recompence
?
Louest
thou
,
louest
thou
this
Sauiour
of
thine
,
and
darest
thou
,
or
wilt
thou
dare
to
venture
vpon
any
thing
displeasing
him
,
is
there
any
thing
too
good
,
too
heard
or
deare
for
him
?
Mary
,
if
thy
teares
will
washe
his
feete
,
wilt
thou
not
poure
them
out
?
Is
thine
haire
too
good
to
bee
the
towell
?
Is
there
any
Spicknard
too
costly
for
his
head
?
Ioseph
,
the
LORD
requireth
the
handsell
of
thy
Tombe
,
and
wilt
thou
deny
him
?
Zacheus
,
louest
thou
thy
wealth
aboue
his
honour
that
hath
saued
thee
?
Stephen
,
louest
thou
thy
life
aboue
thy
Master
?
Can
,
or
did
any
Beleeuer
giue
the
nay
to
these
melting
commaundes
or
commaunding
entreaties
of
Faith
,
will
it
take
the
repulse
?
Doth
it
not
constraine
and
extort
more
then
all
rackes
and
strapadoes
,
allure
more
then
all
wages
and
prizes
?
Doth
not
this
Magnes
as
easily
drawe
weighty
yron
as
other
Iet
doth
strawes
?
So
that
when
thou
wouldest
bee
sure
to
speed
and
obtaine
any
thing
of
thine
vntoward
heart
,
set
Faith
a
worke
to
make
the
motion
,
and
that
will
be
sure
to
speede
,
not
onely
by
this
perswading
facultie
,
but
also
by
a
Diuine
power
secretly
effecting
what
it
requires
,
conueying
into
the
heart
,
will
,
and
abilitie
vnto
the
deede
.
It
stands
not
without
doores
as
a
Mendicant
Flexanimous
perswader
,
but
enters
into
the
closets
of
the
heart
,
shootes
the
barres
,
vnlocks
the
boults
,
takes
away
all
reluctation
and
redaction
,
infuseth
a
plyable
willingnesse
:
of
woluish
and
dogged
,
makes
the
Will
Lambe-like
,
and
Doue-like
:
of
wilde
and
haggard
,
morigerous
and
mansuete
.
No
otherwise
then
the
medicine
curing
the
vicious
stomacke
,
and
restoring
it
to
health
,
makes
it
long
for
wholesome
meate
,
as
before
for
coales
and
ashes
.
All
this
it
doth
by
fetching
supernaturall
efficacie
from
the
death
and
life
of
Christ
;
yea
,
part
of
that
mighty
power
where
by
Christ
raised
himselfe
from
the
dead
,
cured
all
diseases
,
and
wrought
all
his
miracles
:
By
the
vertue
whereof
it
metamorphizeth
the
heart
of
man
,
creates
and
infuseth
new
principles
of
action
.
Make
triall
of
this
in
mortifying
the
flesh
to
sinne
,
and
quickning
thy
spirit
to
holinesse
.
For
example
,
complainest
thou
of
some
preualent
corruption
,
some
violent
passion
that
oft
carries
thee
headlong
against
thy
desire
and
resolution
,
as
Castrusius
to
Hierom
,
who
shall
helpe
mee
subdue
Nebuzardan
,
Goliah
,
Holofernes
,
my
raging
lustes
that
are
too
mighty
for
mee
?
Answere
thy selfe
as
Dauid
himselfe
to
the
like
:
Through
thee
O
Lord
shall
wee
doe
valiantly
,
ouer
Edom
shall
I
cast
my
shooe
,
&c.
yea
,
when
thou
hast
spent
all
thou
hast
vpon
other
Phisitions
,
tried
all
morall
conclusions
of
purposing
,
promising
,
resoluing
,
vowing
,
fasting
,
watching
,
selfe-reuenging
,
yet
get
thee
to
Christ
,
and
with
a
finger
of
Faith
,
touch
but
a
hem
of
his
garment
and
thou
shalt
feele
vertue
come
from
him
to
the
curing
of
thy
disease
.
What
if
thou
hast
often
encountred
thy
enemie
,
and
receiued
the
foyle
,
relapsed
after
victorie
:
yet
cast
not
away
the
sheeld
of
Faith
,
but
with
the
Israelites
against
Beniamites
the
second
and
third
time
,
set
a
fresh
in
the
name
of
the
LORD
,
and
they
shall
flye
before
thee
.
Complainest
thou
with
Augustine
of
his
in-bred
,
hereditary
,
habituall
,
inueterate
vices
,
holding
thee
in
the
Adamantine
chaines
of
custome
,
against
which
thou
hast
often
resolued
,
and
resolued
,
modo
&
modo
,
now
I
will
leaue
them
,
and
now
I
will
forsake
them
,
why
should
I
not
as
well
as
such
and
such
,
as
Potitian
and
Victorinus
,
and
yet
they
keepe
thee
Prisoner
still
,
full
against
thy
will
and
endeauours
.
Find
out
the
cause
,
which
hee
had
reuealed
to
him
in
te
stas
&
non
stas
.
Thou
standest
vpon
thine
owne
feete
,
and
therefore
fallest
so
foulely
,
thou
wilt
like
a
childe
goe
alone
,
and
of
thy selfe
,
and
therefore
gettest
so
many
knocks
.
Dye
to
thy selfe
,
renounce
the
broken
reede
of
thine
owne
free-will
which
hath
so
often
deceiued
thee
:
and
put
all
thy
trust
in
the
grace
of
Christ
,
And
it
will
crucifie
the
olde
man
,
and
giue
him
his
Hoc
habet
,
his
deathes
wound
,
pierce
his
sides
,
and
breake
his
knees
in
peeces
.
Be
weake
in
thy selfe
and
strong
in
the
Lord
,
and
through
Faith
thou
shalt
bee
more
then
Conquerour
.
Leaue
tuggling
and
strugling
with
thy
sinne
,
and
fall
with
Iacob
to
wrestle
with
Christ
for
a
blessing
:
and
though
thy selfe
goe
limping
away
,
yet
shalt
thou
bee
a
Prince
with
God
,
and
bee
deliuered
from
Esaus
bondage
.
Yea
,
what
if
Satan
,
what
if
Legions
of
Principalities
,
and
powers
haue
long
held
possession
in
some
strong
fort
of
thy
heart
,
beginne
to
pleade
prescription
,
scorning
as
the
Iebusites
to
bee
eiected
out
of
their
impregnable
tower
:
hast
thou
Faith
,
and
canst
thou
beleeue
,
persist
in
resisting
and
hee
shall
flye
,
and
thou
shalt
see
him
fall
like
lightening
before
thee
.
Christ
raised
from
the
dead
,
not
onely
the
daughter
of
Iairus
which
was
yet
within
bed
,
not
layd
forth
:
nor
the
Sonne
of
the
Widdow
newely
carryed
out
of
the
Gate
to
buriall
,
but
Lazarus
that
had
foure
daies
lyen
in
the
graue
;
to
that
ende
,
sayeth
Augustine
,
That
such
as
haue
long
beene
dead
in
sinne
,
yea
such
as
vpon
whom
Satan
hath
rowled
the
stone
of
Custome
,
and
such
as
stinke
in
the
nostrilles
of
the
world
through
putrified
soares
of
sinnes
,
should
not
yet
despaire
,
but
know
that
which
falles
out
in
frequent
experience
,
Faith
can
cure
diseases
past
all
other
cures
and
hopes
.
Through
Faith
thou
shalt
roule
away
the
stone
from
the
Caue
of
Makpelah
,
and
take
out
the
fiue
Kings
that
haue
domineered
and
tyrannized
ouer
thee
,
set
thy
feete
in
the
neckes
of
them
and
triumph
ouer
them
.
CHAP.
XI
.
How
Faith
Viuifies
.
ANd
what
is
there
yet
further
,
thou
wouldest
haue
Faith
doe
for
thee
?
Oh
sayest
thou
!
it
is
not
enough
to
bee
healed
of
the
disease
,
vnlesse
thou
mayest
take
vp
thy
bedde
and
walke
;
yea
,
leape
and
skippe
as
the
Lame
restored
to
his
limmes
.
Oh!
that
I
could
finde
that
life
of
Grace
which
I
see
in
some
that
can
make
it
their
meate
and
drinke
to
doe
the
will
of
God
.
Though
I
be
not
pestered
and
mastered
with
any
reigning
corruption
,
yet
I
finde
my selfe
so
dull
and
vntoward
,
that
I
take
no
pleasure
in
my
life
.
Know
also
that
this
quickning
power
,
Faith
only
can
helpe
thee
withall
.
To
pray
,
to
meditate
,
to
haue
thy
conuersation
in
heauen
,
to
keepe
a
Sabbath
cherely
is
as
easie
to
thee
as
to
Iron
to
swimme
,
and
stones
to
ascend
vpward
,
but
nothing
is
impossible
to
Faith
:
it
can
naturalize
these
things
vnto
thee
,
metamorphize
thee
,
make
thee
a
new
creature
,
of
a
moule
of
the
earth
a
soule
of
heauen
,
of
a
snaile
a
dromedarie
:
such
a
change
as
the
Sunne
workes
in
the
vapour
,
when
of
an
earthy
heauy
substance
,
it
makes
it
light
and
aery
,
apt
to
ascend
into
the
middle
Region
.
Such
a
change
Cyprian
saith
hee
felt
in
his
conuersion
:
And
how
else
came
Dauid
to
that
high
delight
in
Gods
seruice
,
that
he
loued
the
Commandements
of
God
more
then
thousands
of
gold
and
siluer
,
the
honey
and
the
honey
combe
,
that
hee
rose
at
mid-night
to
meditate
in
them
.
The
selfe-same
duties
may
be
done
by
the
Ciuill
man
,
and
by
the
beleeuer
;
for
the
outside
and
deede
done
,
both
may
goe
to
Church
,
heare
a
Sermon
,
reade
a
Chapter
,
but
the
one
goes
as
the
Beare
to
the
stake
,
as
a
slaue
to
the
mill
,
and
the
dullard
to
schoole
,
in
comparison
of
the
other
who
hath
a
different
internall
principle
:
which
is
as
a
spring
and
oile
to
the
wheeles
,
that
makes
them
goe
smoothly
and
currantly
,
makes
the
yoake
light
and
easie
.
Esay
40.
31.
They
that
trust
in
the
Lord
shall
renue
their
strength
,
lift
vp
the
wing
as
the
Eagle
,
runne
and
not
bee
weary
,
walke
and
not
faint
.
Faith
it
is
that
fetcheth
sap
from
the
roote
Christ
,
that
makes
euery
tree
bring
forth
fruite
in
it
kinde
,
euery
Christian
in
his
owne
calling
.
What
else
made
Dauid
so
worthy
a
Souldier
?
what
taught
his
fingers
to
fight
,
so
that
a
bowe
of
steele
was
broken
in
his
hand
?
What
made
Paul
an
able
Minister
of
the
Gospell
,
gaue
him
the
doore
of
vtterance
,
made
his
tongue
as
the
penne
of
a
readie
writer
?
Hee
beleeued
,
therefore
hee
spake
.
What
made
Onesimus
of
a
false
eye-seruant
,
trusty
to
his
Master
,
as
to
the
Lord
?
The
like
might
bee
said
of
all
trades
and
sciences
.
Looke
what
a
full
treasurie
of
all
sorts
of
graces
Christ
hath
stored
vp
in
him
,
Faith
dreineth
and
deriueth
them
out
of
his
fulnesse
to
the
vse
of
euery
seuerall
Christian
,
euen
Grace
for
Grace
.
Faith
is
the
Conduit
Cocke
that
watereth
all
the
Herbes
and
flowres
in
the
Garden
.
All
which
the
more
I
consider
,
the
more
I
pitty
the
preposterous
care
and
vnhappy
trauell
of
many
well
affected
,
who
study
the
practise
of
this
and
that
vertue
,
neglecting
this
cardinall
and
radicall
vertue
;
As
if
men
should
water
all
the
branches
of
a
Tree
and
not
the
roote
:
Faine
would
they
abound
and
shine
in
patience
,
meeknesse
,
zeale
,
yet
establish
and
roote
not
themselues
in
Faith
,
that
should
maintaine
all
the
rest
,
are
ambitious
to
doe
good
workes
,
build
Hospitalles
,
giue
Almes
,
but
study
not
to
doe
the
worke
of
the
Father
:
And
what
is
the
worke
of
the
Father
,
but
to
beleeue
in
the
Sonne
whom
hee
hath
sealed
and
sent
into
the
world
to
bee
relyed
on
for
Saluation
;
which
worke
is
the
gratefullest
work
that
we
can
performe
,
and
which
will
make
gratefull
all
that
we
doe
besides
:
without
which
all
that
we
can
doe
will
not
please
him
.
What
cares
hee
for
thy
thousands
of
Rammes
,
thy
Riuers
of
Oyle
?
Hath
he
not
shewed
thee
,
Oh
man
,
that
he
that
trusteh
in
his
Sonne
honoureth
him
most
of
all
in
putting
to
his
Seale
that
hee
is
true
?
This
honour
if
thou
wouldest
doe
vnto
him
,
hee
would
honour
thee
with
all
other
graces
and
withhold
no
ornament
,
no
good
thing
from
thee
,
if
it
be
fit
for
thee
.
Meeke
thou
shalt
be
as
Moses
,
patients
as
Iob
,
zealous
as
Dauid
,
thy
soule
and
life
embroadered
with
all
kinde
of
shining
Graces
,
as
the
high
Priests
apparell
with
Iewels
Wherefore
adde
this
prescript
to
the
former
when
thou
art
on
the
toppe
of
Mount
Tabor
,
solacing
thy
soule
in
thy
Lord
,
and
his
fauour
through
Faith
:
feasting
and
banqueting
with
him
as
Ester
with
Ahasuerosh
.
Bethinke
thy selfe
what
suite
thou
hast
to
him
,
what
troublesome
enemy
thou
wouldest
bee
ridde
off
,
suppose
it
bee
some
potent
Haman
of
prid
,
make
but
thy
complaint
,
and
it
shall
bee
executed
and
crucified
before
thine
eyes
.
Consider
what
grace
thou
standest
in
neede
of
,
and
make
thy
petition
as
Achsah
to
Caleb
,
And
hee
shall
giue
thee
the
springs
aboue
and
the
springs
beneath
.
Iudg.
1.
14&
.
This
prescript
if
thou
wilt
dayly
obserue
,
some
daies
more
largely
and
feruently
,
as
the
Spirit
that
blowes
how
and
where
it
lists
shall
assist
,
and
as
occasion
shall
require
:
but
euery
day
some
what
more
or
lesse
;
though
I
will
not
promise
thee
thou
shalt
attaine
to
perfection
of
degrees
such
as
the
perfected
spirits
of
the
Iust
enioy
in
glory
:
because
here
thou
shalt
euer
beleeue
but
in
part
,
and
therefore
bee
holy
but
in
part
:
yet
this
I
dare
promise
,
as
thou
growest
from
Faith
to
faith
so
shalt
thou
grow
from
strength
to
strength
in
all
other
graces
,
till
by
degrees
thou
attaine
to
the
fulnesse
and
maturitie
of
Age
in
Christ
,
which
shall
make
thee
a
Saint
in
earth
,
alight
in
this
darke
world
,
and
make
thee
able
to
liue
in
holinesse
and
righteousnesse
all
the
dayes
of
thy
life
,
with
much
more
comfort
to
thy selfe
,
and
credit
to
the
Gospell
,
then
strangers
to
this
life
of
Faith
,
either
doe
,
or
imagine
may
be
done
.
CHAP.
XII
.
How
Faith
vpholds
life
in
Affliction
.
SAy
then
,
O
Christian
,
is
there
any
thing
yet
behinde
that
may
impeach
the
compleat
happinesse
of
a
beleeuers
life
,
speake
now
if
there
be
any
thing
that
hinders
it
,
which
Faith
cannot
helpe
?
Oh!
yes
saies
the
Flesh
(
which
euer
is
cowardly
and
loues
ease
)
though
a
man
be
neuer
so
iustified
and
sanctified
,
yet
may
he
liue
in
pouerty
,
in
crosses
,
yea
in
great
&
manifolde
pressures
,
and
what
a
life
can
there
bee
in
such
extremities
?
Oh
how
doth
Faith
heere
lift
vp
the
Crest
,
shine
and
triumph
aboue
Nature
,
Reason
and
all
Morall
Vertues
in
her
incomparable
valour
?
Being
in
all
these
not
as
they
,
onely
a
patient
perforce
,
or
a
meere
bearer
,
but
more
then
Conquerour
;
not
onely
,
not
daunted
,
but
reioycing
to
fall
into
manifold
trials
and
tentations
;
knowing
it selfe
to
bee
the
Adamant
,
that
nothing
will
breake
;
the
Palme
,
that
sinckes
not
vnder
the
waightiest
of
burthens
;
the
Oyle
,
that
euer
ouer-swims
the
greatest
quantity
of
water
you
can
powre
vpon
it
,
the
sheate
Anchor
,
that
holds
when
all
other
Tackling
breakes
.
Here
is
the
Crowne
and
Garland
of
Faith
.
Were
it
not
for
Conflicts
,
what
superexcellent
vse
were
then
of
Faith
?
Euery
Cock-boat
can
swim
in
a
Riuer
,
euery
sculler
saile
in
a
Calme
,
in
daily
and
ordinary
gusts
,
euery
man
of
a
patient
temper
or
cheerely
disposition
can
hold
vp
the
head
,
but
when
a
blacke
tempest
comes
,
a
tenth
waue
flowes
,
and
one
deepe
calls
another
,
nature
yeeldes
,
spirits
faint
,
heart
failes
:
then
to
stand
erect
,
then
to
liue
and
raigne
,
that
onely
can
Faith
doe
,
which
hath
the
Word
for
the
Compasse
,
and
Christ
at
the
helme
.
The
greatest
aduersities
that
are
,
are
but
the
exercise
,
yea
the
soile
and
luster
of
Faith
.
Man
gloryes
when
he
can
tame
Tygers
and
Lyons
,
thinks
himselfe
a
stately
king
when
hee
can
make
an
Elephant
bow
and
stoope
to
him
,
when
he
leads
a
Beare
on
the
Ring
,
or
can
handle
a
Serpent
without
hurt
;
but
what
a
small
conquest
is
this
to
that
of
Faith
?
When
it
makes
shame
,
pouertie
,
sickenesse
,
persecutions
,
banishment
,
yea
death
it selfe
,
not
onely
,
not
dreadfull
and
harmefull
,
but
tractable
and
seruiceable
?
Questionlesse
,
great
and
sundry
aduantages
hath
a
Christian
by
vertue
of
his
Faith
,
aboue
any
Naturian
or
Politique
by
all
his
reason
;
onely
,
heere
is
the
defect
of
Christians
that
they
want
skill
,
or
else
forget
to
holde
vp
their
shield
when
a
Dart
comes
suddenly
vpon
them
.
Like
him
that
was
robbed
by
a
Theefe
with
a
staffe
onely
in
his
hand
,
hauing
himselfe
a
Pistole
at
his
backe
ready
charged
,
but
surprised
vpon
the
sudden
,
altogether
vnmindefull
,
or
vnable
to
vse
it
.
And
if
a
man
hath
a
Target
that
is
impenetrable
,
what
is
hee
the
better
if
his
heart
or
Arte
faile
him
when
hee
should
defend
himselfe
by
it
?
This
makes
Christians
when
they
ayle
any
thing
,
with
Saul
to
runne
to
Endor
,
1
Sam.
28
7.
with
Asa
to
send
out
to
the
Physitians
,
2
Chr.
16.
12.
as
if
Faith
could
stand
them
in
no
steed
.
When
therefore
a
storme
rises
,
presently
runne
and
awaken
thy
sleeping
Faith
,
knocke
at
Faithes
doore
,
ho
Faith
,
helpe
at
a
pinch
,
now
doe
thy
office
,
and
Faith
will
presenly
ayde
and
releeue
thee
with
one
of
these
speciall
cordials
.
First
,
whereas
sense
and
reason
did
but
dimmely
and
cloudily
suggest
to
their
followers
certaine
broken
and
confused
opinions
,
little
better
then
dreames
of
destinie
and
prouidence
.
Faith
will
confidently
and
euidently
assure
thee
of
this
ground
of
comfort
,
that
the
least
ticke
befalles
thee
not
,
without
the
ouer-ruling
eye
and
hand
,
not
onely
of
a
wise
God
,
but
of
a
tender
Father
,
and
fellow-feeling
elder
brother
,
who
knowing
thy
mould
doth
more
exactly
measure
out
euery
Crosse
vnto
thee
,
then
the
carefullest
Apothecaries
do
their
Scruples
and
Drammes
of
dangerous
Physicke
.
Secondly
,
out
of
this
Principle
,
Faith
will
,
extract
these
infallible
conclusions
,
this
estate
is
not
the
Axe
of
Perdition
but
the
Pruning
Knife
of
Affliction
:
this
Cuppe
is
not
a
potion
banefull
,
but
medicinable
,
how
bitter
and
wringing
soeuer
.
Whateuer
befals
,
being
in
Christ
,
it
cannot
bend
to
thy
confusion
,
condemnation
or
vtter
vndoing
,
but
an
issue
shall
bee
giuen
out
of
it
.
What
terrible
noyse
soeuer
the
storme
shall
make
ouer
thy
head
,
it
shall
bee
but
as
Hailestones
vpon
the
Tiled
or
Leaded
House
that
rattle
more
then
hurt
.
Thou
art
kept
by
the
power
of
his
might
the
euill
one
shall
not
touch
thee
:
thou
art
in
safe
harbour
vnder
the
Rocke
Christ
,
and
mayest
know
in
whom
thou
hast
trusted
,
and
art
sure
neuer
to
be
confounded
.
If
it
be
sicknesse
or
pouerty
,
it
is
in
thy
Fathers
owne
hand
:
if
the
rodde
bee
in
some
malicious
enemies
hand
,
if
hee
turne
thee
ouer
to
a
seruant
to
scourge
thee
,
and
dresse
him
in
the
Diuels
habit
to
scare
thee
,
yea
though
Satan
himselfe
buffette
thee
,
yet
he
stands
by
,
lookes
on
,
will
moderate
and
number
the
stripes
:
the
Diuels
could
not
goe
one
inch
beyond
commission
in
the
Swine
:
hee
knowes
thy
strength
is
not
the
strength
of
Whales
or
stones
,
and
therefore
will
not
permit
them
to
lay
on
more
,
then
thou
shalt
well
beare
:
his
wisdome
&
grace
will
be
sufficient
for
thee
.
Hee
that
is
in
good
termes
with
a
Prince
,
feares
not
the
approach
of
Heraulds
or
Purseuants
:
he
that
is
out
of
debt
feares
not
Baylifes
or
Sergeants
,
but
imagines
they
come
vpon
some
good
Messages
.
Afflictions
are
scarrbugges
to
wicked
men
,
as
bushes
to
theeues
,
but
if
thou
bee
a
beleeuer
,
at
peace
with
GOD
in
Christ
,
they
lay
off
their
terrible
Vizard
,
and
come
with
an
amiable
,
countenance
.
GOD
thy
Father
hath
giuen
the
whole
Host
and
Army
of
afflictions
more
inuiolable
charge
then
Danids
,
Doe
the
younge
man
,
my
Sonne
Absolon
,
no
harme
.
Doe
my
annointed
no
harme
.
Thirdly
,
Faith
will
further
assure
that
he
hath
not
onely
giuen
them
a
prohibition
or
negatiue
commission
but
an
affirmatiue
iniuuction
to
doe
thee
all
good
that
may
be
:
he
hath
said
vnto
them
,
purge
,
refine
,
trye
,
exercise
,
breed
the
quiet
fruit
of
righteousnesse
,
giue
him
experience
of
his
faith
,
make
him
bring
forth
more
fruit
:
so
that
though
there
be
in
thy
Phisicke
some
maligne
or
poysonful
ingredients
,
yet
being
administred
by
him
that
knowes
thy
temper
and
disease
,
and
entirely
affects
thy
health
,
it
shall
bee
so
mingled
with
allaies
and
correctors
that
the
confection
shall
be
good
,
and
all
together
shall
and
must
worke
for
the
best
.
When
thou
feelest
thy
bowels
wring
,
or
(
as
in
a
Sea-sicknesse
)
are
dead
sicke
for
the
present
,
remember
thou
shalt
bee
the
better
many
daies
after
.
And
though
with
Iob
and
Dauid
thy
querulous
flesh
complaine
,
and
grunt
,
and
groane
,
yet
when
it
is
ouer
a
little
,
thou
shalt
bee
able
to
say
,
Oh
this
was
good
for
me
!
I
would
not
for
any
thing
but
I
had
borne
the
yoake
in
my
youth
,
that
I
may
liue
the
more
comfortably
in
age
:
Considering
that
sicke
thou
art
,
and
that
of
many
humours
,
thy
Father
should
not
loue
thee
,
if
he
should
feede
thee
with
sweete
meate
,
and
mingle
no
Aloes
with
them
:
much
folly
is
bound
vp
in
thy
back
,
and
if
thy
indulgent
father
should
forbeare
the
rodde
he
should
hate
and
not
loue
thee
.
Fourthly
,
Moreouer
Faith
will
reminde
thee
of
Christs
partnership
in
thy
affliction
,
and
of
thy
conformity
with
him
,
the
first
borne
,
onely
begotten
,
and
entirely
beloued
sonne
of
God
,
if
hee
that
was
without
sinne
,
yet
was
not
without
stripes
,
wilt
thou
looke
to
bee
a
cockered
Adoniah
?
And
what
if
the
Crosse
bee
heauy
,
and
thou
a
weake
Childe
,
yet
Christ
a
Gyant
at
one
end
,
beares
part
of
it
,
and
makes
it
light
and
easie
,
hee
is
quicke
of
feeling
,
when
Stephen
is
stoned
,
saith
,
Saul
why
persecutest
thou
mee
?
Besides
what
more
honourable
Badge
and
Cognisance
canst
thou
haue
of
thy
Sonship
,
then
this
resemblance
of
him
,
not
as
now
glorified
in
the
heauens
,
which
thou
must
stay
for
till
thou
come
there
,
but
as
in
the
way
to
glory
,
when
hee
despised
the
shame
,
suffered
the
Crowne
of
thornes
,
the
Scepter
of
Reed
,
the
spittings
,
buffetings
,
mockes
and
mowes
,
and
all
reproches
of
vile
sinners
,
the
piercing
of
the
Speare
,
and
shewed
himselfe
to
be
the
Sonne
of
God
,
not
by
descending
from
the
Crosse
but
by
enduring
the
Crosse
:
And
shall
I
not
(
saith
he
)
drinke
the
Cup
which
my
Father
hath
tempered
?
and
if
thou
wilt
bee
his
Disciple
,
the
first
lesson
in
his
Schoole
is
,
Christs
Crosse
,
Deny
thy selfe
,
take
it
vp
and
follow
him
,
And
glory
with
the
Martyrs
,
now
am
I
like
my
Lord
and
Master
.
Lastly
,
Faith
will
set
before
thee
as
before
him
the
infinite
recompence
of
rewarde
,
not
onely
renowne
in
this
World
,
which
yet
by
Faith
the
patience
,
not
onely
of
Iob
,
but
of
all
Martyrs
haue
obtained
,
but
that
farre
most
excellent
Hyperbolicall
weight
of
glory
:
Which
Paul
eying
,
counted
his
afflictions
(
which
to
vs
would
haue
beene
intollerable
)
light
and
momentany
,
not
worthy
the
naming
in
comparison
:
which
made
him
not
onely
,
not
weepe
and
howle
,
but
sing
in
the
Dungeon
,
and
reckon
it
a
speciall
fauour
and
honour
to
be
counted
not
onely
a
beleeuer
,
but
a
sufferer
for
Christ
.
And
God
forbid
,
that
a
beleeuer
should
glory
in
any
thing
so
much
as
in
the
Crosse
of
Christ
,
in
his
wounds
and
scarres
for
his
Lord
and
Master
:
As
that
worthy
Vincentius
sayd
to
the
Tyrant
,
Threaten
these
things
to
your
Courtiers
and
Carpet
Knights
;
Rackes
,
Strapadoes
,
torments
,
are
but
a
play
to
vs
,
we
Souldiers
chuse
to
bee
in
Christs
Garrison
,
rather
then
in
the
Court
,
in
the
Field
and
fore-front
of
the
battle
,
then
in
the
Pallaces
of
Princes
.
The
more
hazard
and
perill
,
the
more
glory
and
honour
.
And
what
else
desire
wee
but
to
dye
dayly
,
that
the
life
in
Christ
may
be
manifested
in
vs
?
Yea
,
in
the
very
instant
of
Death
,
Faith
helpes
the
beleeuer
to
liue
,
so
as
he
may
be
said
not
to
see
death
,
&
neuer
to
dye
,
(
but
that
requires
a
iust
Treatise
by
it selfe
.
)
Let
all
the
complaints
,
greeuances
,
wants
,
and
miseries
of
the
world
be
searched
and
gaged
;
the
bottome
will
bee
found
either
to
be
want
of
Faith
,
or
of
the
vse
and
practise
of
Faith
:
So
that
we
may
well
say
with
Augustine
,
to
any
christian
sinking
vnder
his
crosse
,
or
shrinking
at
his
enemy
,
Hast
thou
lost
thy
Faith
?
And
conclude
with
that
worthy
Ensigne-bearer
of
Christ
,
Many
are
the
troubles
of
the
Righteous
,
Foxe
in
14.
but
by
Faith
wee
stand
,
Apoc.
by
Faith
we
fight
,
by
Faith
we
ouercome
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
An
Epistle
to
the
Reader
pressing
the
vse
of
Faith
.
NOw
Reader
,
for
so
I
chuse
to
call
thee
in
a
Postcript
,
when
thou
hast
reade
the
Booke
,
rather
then
in
a
Preface
,
when
thou
maist
there
leaue
as
many
do
.
Giue
me
now
leaue
to
grapple
with
thee
,
and
minister
to
thee
an
Iutergatory
or
two
.
How
many
doest
thou
knowe
within
thy
conscience
,
liue
this
life
of
Faith
?
Many
thou
seest
liue
by
their
Lands
,
by
their
wits
,
by
their
shifts
:
but
how
many
by
their
Faith
?
For
the
want
of
this
vse
of
Faith
,
Doe
not
many
poore
christians
thinke
,
and
say
of
it
,
as
a
poore
labouring
countrey-man
sayd
to
his
neighbour
in
serious
priuate
talke
,
That
he
neuer
beleeued
there
was
any
such
summe
as
a
thousand
pounds
of
money
,
but
that
onely
rich
men
gaue
it
out
so
,
in
boasting
,
or
pollicy
to
excite
others
to
labour
:
so
saith
the
common
Protestant
,
out
of
doubt
there
is
no
such
sweetnesse
in
the
life
of
Faith
:
for
wee
see
not
beleeuers
so
cheerefull
and
contented
aboue
other
men
.
If
Attists
and
Trades-men
did
no
more
dayly
and
duely
follow
their
worke
,
then
most
Christians
doe
practise
their
Faith
,
would
they
not
be
starke
beggars
?
But
to
aske
thee
a
more
profitable
question
,
Leaue
iudgeing
of
others
,
and
answer
mee
in
good
serious
sooth
between
God
and
thy
soule
,
Hast
,
and
doest
thou
thy selfe
liue
by
thy
Faith
?
Let
mee
a
little
put
thee
to
it
,
prooue
and
examine
thy selfe
,
and
take
for
instance
this
present
weeke
or
day
past
wherein
thou
readest
this
little
Manuell
.
How
hast
thou
and
vsually
doest
thou
spend
the
day
?
what
thought
diddest
thou
awake
withall
?
what
was
thy
morning
draught
for
thy
soule
next
thy
heart
?
what
hath
cheered
and
made
thee
merry
in
priuate
and
in
company
?
whether
thy
sports
and
meales
,
more
then
thy
heauenly
ejaculations
?
Deale
plainely
,
not
with
me
and
this
booke
(
which
yet
shall
witnesse
against
thee
,
if
thou
refuse
to
practise
it
when
thou
hast
read
it
)
but
with
thy selfe
.
Hast
thou
,
or
hast
thou
not
challenged
some
time
more
or
lesse
,
halfe
,
or
quarter
of
houre
at
the
least
,
for
this
exercise
of
thy
Faith
;
hast
thou
not
troubled
thy selfe
about
the
many
things
,
that
this
one
onely
needefull
hath
beene
forgotten
(
that
which
only
should
be
called
worke
and
businesse
)
hast
thou
not
melted
the
day
,
yea
,
it
may
bee
the
weeke
,
or
moneth
past
,
and
made
thy
soule
wholly
to
fast
and
pine
for
want
of
these
refeshings
:
if
so
,
as
I
most
iustly
feare
it
in
most
of
my
Readers
,
how
much
more
in
such
as
are
vsually
no
readers
?
why
then
let
thy
heart
smite
thee
for
thy
folly
,
smite
thou
thy selfe
vpon
the
thigh
,
and
say
,
how
haue
I
liued
,
or
rather
not
liued
,
but
consumed
precious
dayes
in
time-eating
Vanities
?
How
comes
it
about
that
the
greatest
part
of
my
life
is
the
least
part
wherein
I
haue
liued
.
Oh
then
recouer
and
recollect
thy selfe
before
thou
goe
hence
,
and
be
no
more
.
Wilt
thou
dy
before
thou
hast
liued
,
as
Boyes
slubber
out
Bookes
before
they
learne
their
lesson
.
Oh
learne
to
liue
this
life
,
It
is
neuer
too
late
,
it
is
neuer
,
I
am
sure
,
too
soone
;
it
is
no
shame
to
learne
it
what
age
or
condition
soeuer
thou
bee
of
.
Bee
thou
Prince
,
Potentate
,
Nobleman
or
Gentleman
,
though
few
such
Readers
I
looke
for
:
remembring
well
what
Bradford
tels
the
Earle
of
Bedford
,
and
Augustine
tels
Romanian
,
whiles
hee
was
in
the
mouthes
of
all
men
,
most
honorable
,
most
munificent
,
most
fortunate
,
in
the
full
of
his
prosperitie
,
in
the
source
of
pleasures
in
the
toppe
of
greatnesse
,
&c.
who
durst
lispe
a
word
of
a
better
life
,
of
true
happinesse
,
or
what
boote
was
it
for
any
man
to
make
mention
of
any
such
matter
.
Yet
if
any
such
God
will
perswade
to
make
tryall
of
this
life
,
thou
which
saist
,
what
is
a
Gentleman
but
his
pleasure
?
shalt
then
tell
mee
,
as
Salomon
of
his
youth
such
gentry
is
but
vanity
;
true
pleasure
there
is
none
but
in
this
life
.
What
is
a
Christian
but
his
Faith
?
and
what
is
his
life
but
the
vse
of
his
Faith
?
Beest
thou
a
Scholler
,
a
Prophet
,
or
Sonne
of
the
Prophets
,
what
is
thy
worke
?
what
is
thy
scope
?
or
what
should
it
bee
in
thy selfe
and
others
,
but
this
life
of
Faith
?
What
is
Paul
or
Apolloes
but
such
as
by
whom
you
haue
beleeued
?
1.
Cor.
3.
What
euer
you
teach
,
before
you
haue
taught
this
you
were
as
good
Preache
to
the
stooles
and
stones
of
your
Churches
?
What
are
your
Auditors
but
dead
bones
,
and
skulles
,
till
they
,
beleeue
,
and
till
Christ
be
formed
in
them
.
Get
first
an
hold
whereon
you
may
fasten
your
Engines
to
drawe
them
to
vertues
and
good
workes
.
You
which
would
doe
that
in
soules
which
Elisha
did
in
bodies
,
raise
them
from
their
graues
:
Interpretors
one
of
a
thousand
get
the
tongue
of
the
learned
to
declare
their
righteousnesse
vnto
them
,
the
righteousnesse
I
say
of
Faith
:
shew
your selues
skilfull
workemen
,
such
as
haue
been
brought
vp
not
onely
in
moralls
of
the
heathen
,
subtilties
of
Scholemen
,
sentences
and
conceipts
of
Postilers
,
rosaries
,
destructories
,
Anthologies
,
but
in
the
wholesome
word
of
Faith
,
which
are
the
Arme
and
power
of
God
to
the
saluation
of
euery
beleeuer
.
Aboue
all
let
it
be
our
wisedome
to
liue
our selues
by
that
which
we
teach
others
to
liue
by
;
wee
that
haue
,
or
might
,
or
should
haue
more
Faith
then
common
Christians
,
is
it
not
a
shame
if
we
liue
not
more
happily
,
and
cheerefully
then
priuate
Christians
?
not
by
our
Liuings
wherein
the
Laity
hath
now
gotten
the
start
of
vs
for
the
most
part
,
but
by
our
Faith
,
wherein
wee
haue
the
aduantage
of
them
,
or
else
shame
be
it
to
vs
.
Is
it
not
a
shame
to
see
an
honor
of
a
thousand
pound
a
yeere
liue
as
meanely
as
a
poore
Farmer
,
a
Master
and
professor
of
an
Art
,
as
a
meane
practisioner
.
Yet
this
I
must
say
euen
to
the
meanest
tradsmen
and
poorest
people
,
this
life
belongs
not
to
such
onely
that
are
booke
learned
,
but
is
equally
obuious
and
open
(
as
the
Kings
high
way
)
to
all
sortes
of
Trauailers
to
Heauen
.
Honourable
liues
,
Pompous
liues
,
voluptuous
liues
,
poore
folkes
haue
small
hope
to
atteyne
vnto
:
but
a
true
happy
life
they
may
and
doe
liue
as
well
as
the
learnedest
Cleakes
and
greatest
Princes
,
if
they
get
the
gift
to
practise
that
,
which
,
such
for
the
most
part
doe
but
study
and
talke
of
.
To
conclude
,
what
euer
thou
art
,
or
who
euer
that
desirest
to
mend
thy
condition
,
to
better
thine
estate
,
to
multiply
thy
life
,
to
change
thy
few
and
euill
daies
of
thy
pilgrimage
,
into
good
and
many
:
behold
here
is
the
Art
of
liuing
well
and
liuing
long
.
Life
is
not
to
bee
numbred
by
the
houres
,
but
measured
by
cheerfulnesse
,
as
moneyes
not
by
tale
but
value
.
A
little
peece
of
gold
conteynes
a
great
many
peeces
of
siluer
.
Manhood
consists
not
in
the
bulke
of
the
bones
,
but
in
the
mettall
and
spirits
.
Is
not
one
weeke
of
an
healthy
man
,
better
,
then
a
yeere
of
a
crasie
;
one
Sun-shine
houre
,
then
a
gloomy
day
?
I
haue
often
mused
how
a
man
might
come
neerest
to
that
life
which
Adam
lost
,
and
recompence
in
this
latter
age
of
the
World
,
(
wherein
the
liues
of
men
are
so
contracted
)
the
longaeuity
of
those
that
liued
before
the
Floud
.
And
this
is
the
best
helpe
I
finde
:
To
liue
well
is
to
liue
twise
.
A
good
man
doubles
and
amplifies
his
dayes
:
one
may
speake
as
much
in
few
words
as
another
in
many
.
Persius
wrote
more
in
a
few
leaues
then
Marsus
in
large
volumes
.
One
day
led
by
the
rules
of
Faith
is
better
then
an
immortalitie
of
vanity
.
A
man
may
liue
to
as
good
content
to
himselfe
and
others
,
in
a
short
space
,
as
others
in
a
long
life
;
some
are
old
in
yeeres
tediously
drawne
out
,
others
in
howers
cheerfully
spent
,
some
haue
been
long
,
and
others
haue
liued
long
,
and
they
onely
are
such
as
haue
liued
this
life
;
of
whom
I
conclude
as
doth
the
story
of
the
Kings
,
Ieremiahs
Prophecie
,
touching
Zedekiah
vpon
his
aduancement
by
the
King
of
Babell
,
His
portion
was
a
continuall
portion
,
a
Kingly
portion
,
euery
day
a
certayne
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
,
such
I
say
it
is
,
or
might
be
,
if
Christians
might
be
perswaded
not
to
content
themselues
to
professe
or
thinke
they
haue
Faith
,
but
to
liue
by
their
Faith
:
A
needfull
Caueat
.
onely
before
I
part
with
thee
,
take
from
me
one
Caueat
,
one
aduise
,
one
request
,
and
so
an
end
.
First
,
take
heede
thou
mistakest
me
not
in
all
this
,
as
if
I
had
spoken
of
an
absolute
perfection
in
this
life
equall
to
vision
&
fruition
in
the
life
to
come
,
confounded
Heauen
with
earth
,
as
if
I
thought
my selfe
,
or
any
other
to
haue
comprehended
.
If
any
man
thinkes
hee
beleeues
any
thing
,
hee
beleeues
nothing
yet
as
hee
ought
to
beleeue
,
but
all
things
in
part
,
and
imperfectly
.
Wee
cannot
by
all
our
assiduousnesse
in
Reading
,
Prayer
,
and
Meditation
haue
Gods
Spirit
at
an
absolute
command
,
no
more
then
Mariners
the
winde
,
or
Husbandmen
the
showers
,
so
as
the
most
obseruant
beleeuer
hath
his
turbida
interualla
,
his
buffetings
,
lest
hee
bee
too
much
exalted
,
his
desertions
wherein
his
beloued
will
hide
himselfe
behinde
the
grates
,
not
to
bee
found
of
him
for
a
while
,
that
hee
seeke
him
more
eagerly
,
and
prise
his
presence
more
thankefully
,
more
heedefully
keepe
him
when
hee
hath
him
,
and
be
wholly
dependant
on
his
grace
;
yet
so
as
this
remaines
most
sure
and
certaine
,
that
the
constant
and
dayly
Practiser
of
his
faith
shall
constantly
,
and
congruously
bee
seconded
with
the
gusts
and
gales
of
his
spirit
,
the
onely
true
Zephirus
and
Fauonius
,
shall
haue
Satan
tyed
vp
from
long
and
frequent
molesting
him
,
shall
not
haue
such
tedious
absences
of
the
Spirit
,
such
vncertaine
fits
and
moodes
of
his
ioy
and
comfort
,
as
the
negligent
and
loose
beleeuer
,
but
a
more
stedfast
frame
and
tenor
of
ioy
,
then
any
other
kinde
of
man
in
the
world
that
takes
not
this
course
.
Prouided
that
thou
take
this
aduise
,
A
profitable
aduice
.
that
for
the
better
and
stronger
vse
of
this
Faith
,
thou
seele
vp
thy
senses
and
chaine
vp
thy
reason
.
Walking
by
sight
,
and
walking
by
Faith
are
opposite
things
:
and
therefore
as
men
fortifie
the
visuall
beames
of
one
eye
by
closing
the
other
;
so
must
thou
winke
and
close
vp
the
eye
of
thy
soule
to
all
worldly
things
,
that
thou
mayest
by
the
prospectiue
of
Faith
fixe
thy
spirituall
eye
vpon
heauenly
delights
:
not
that
thou
needest
goe
out
of
this
world
and
sequester
thy selfe
like
an
Eremite
into
Dennes
and
Caues
,
retired
from
all
societie
,
but
euen
in
the
middest
of
all
glistering
obiects
see
them
as
if
thou
sawest
them
not
;
that
is
without
being
deepely
affected
with
them
.
So
looked
Paul
from
off
the
things
that
are
seene
euen
in
the
middest
of
Rome
,
and
looked
vpon
things
which
were
not
seene
:
and
Moses
in
Pharaohs
Court
saw
him
that
was
inuisible
.
A
right
beleeuer
goes
through
the
world
,
as
a
man
whose
minde
is
in
a
deepe
study
:
or
as
one
that
hath
speciall
haste
of
some
weighty
businesse
,
goes
through
a
street
;
that
gazeth
on
nothing
,
heares
nothing
,
mindes
nothing
that
is
in
the
way
,
but
onely
that
which
his
head
is
taken
vp
withall
:
Our
conuersation
is
in
heauen
,
our
treasure
is
in
heauen
.
Oh!
that
all
our
thoughts
were
there
,
so
as
no
earthly
obiect
might
detaine
,
or
distract
them
,
no
more
then
must
needes
bee
in
our
callings
,
so
that
the
maine
bent
and
intention
of
all
that
is
within
vs
might
be
set
vpon
the
dayly
nourishing
of
our
Faith
.
For
which
purpose
I
make
this
parting
and
farewell
suite
vnto
thee
,
An
earnest
request
.
as
thou
meanest
to
receiue
any
good
by
this
Booke
.
That
thou
wouldest
euen
from
this
very
houre
wherein
thou
endest
the
reading
of
it
,
determine
and
couenant
,
betwixt
God
and
thy
soule
,
neuer
whilest
thou
liuest
on
the
face
of
this
earth
to
omit
one
day
(
God
enabling
thee
by
his
Spirit
)
wherein
thou
wilt
not
vindicate
and
redeeme
,
at
the
least
,
one
halfe
or
quarter
of
an
hower
,
either
twise
or
once
in
the
day
,
at
the
least
:
Wherein
all
other
affaires
layd
aside
,
thou
mayest
withdraw
thy selfe
apart
from
all
company
,
and
occasions
,
with
a
non
obstante
,
to
practise
the
exercise
formerly
prescribed
.
That
is
,
by
Prayer
,
Reading
,
and
Meditation
,
to
put
some
strength
and
life
into
thy
Faith
,
till
thou
hast
cheered
,
and
reuiued
,
and
warmed
thy
soule
therewithall
.
This
if
thou
shalt
inuiolably
obserue
,
the
strength
,
the
feeling
,
the
comfort
,
and
the
fruites
of
thy
Faith
will
by
little
and
little
insensibly
,
and
in
a
little
while
,
most
sensibly
thriue
and
growe
till
thou
commest
to
the
ripenesse
of
age
in
Christ
.
What
hurt
can
it
bee
to
thee
if
thou
shouldest
binde
thy selfe
by
vow
hereunto
,
or
if
thou
fearest
thy
strength
,
yet
by
full
purpose
thus
to
doe
all
and
euery
day
of
thy
life
:
that
so
in
the
Lees
and
Dregs
of
time
,
whiles
fleshly
Protestants
are
raysing
contention
about
matters
of
Faith
,
or
making
Sects
and
Schismes
in
the
Church
about
needelesse
trifles
,
thou
maist
edifie
thy selfe
in
thy
most
holy
Faith
and
whilest
thou
liuest
in
the
darke
wombe
of
this
world
,
liue
by
the
Nauell
of
Faith
till
thou
come
to
haue
thy
mouth
satiate
with
fulnesse
of
all
good
things
at
the
right
hand
of
God
.
When
,
as
Elizabeth
Folk
said
,
Faith
shal
cease
to
be
Faith
and
be
turned
into
fruition
,
and
wee
receiue
the
ende
of
our
Faith
,
the
saluation
of
our
soules
.
These
things
haue
I
written
that
your
ioy
may
be
full
.
The
Iust
shall
liue
by
his
Faith
.
According
to
thy
Faith
so
be
it
to
thee
.
Lord
increase
our
Faith
.
The
Bookeseller
to
the
Reader
.
GEntle
Reader
,
I
pray
thee
take
Notis
that
Master
Ward
,
hath
lately
published
a
most
Remarkable
Monument
,
of
the
Inuincible
Nauie
of
88.
&
the
vnmatchable
Powder
Treason
1605.
Necessary
to
be
had
in
the
House
of
euery
good
Christian
,
to
shew
Gods
louing
and
wonderfull
prouidence
,
ouer
this
Kingdome
,
when
the
Papists
twise
sought
their
vtter
ruine
&
subvertion
.
These
Monuments
are
to
be
sold
where
these
Bookes
are
sould
in
Saint
Dunstones
Church-yard
,
and
Pauls-Ally
.
Vale.
24
of
Ianuary
.
1621.
FINIS
.
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