ELIAH'S
WISH
.
1
KINGS
19.
4
,
It
is
now
enough
O
Lord
,
take
my
soule
,
for
I
am
no
better
then
my
Fathers
.
THere
are
no
thoughts
more
wholsome
then
those
of
death
,
not
any
lesse
frequently
possessing
the
mindes
of
men
;
wee
thinke
of
death
as
the
Athenians
did
treate
of
peace
,
neuer
but
when
we
are
in
blacks
:
As
they
which
aduenture
to
the
Indies
take
not
so
much
into
their
considerations
how
many
shippes
haue
beene
swallowed
in
the
waues
,
as
what
some
few
haue
gotten
by
the
voyage
:
So
it
is
with
vs
,
we
seldome
meditate
of
the
Millions
dead
before
vs
,
but
of
the
small
Remainder
suruiuing
with
vs
.
They
report
that
the
birds
of
Norway
flye
faster
then
the
fowles
of
any
other
Countrey
,
not
because
nature
hath
giuen
more
nimblenesse
or
agility
to
their
wings
,
but
by
an
instinct
they
know
the
dayes
in
that
Climate
to
bee
very
short
,
not
aboue
three
houres
long
,
and
therefore
they
make
more
haste
vnto
their
nests
:
Strange
that
birds
should
make
such
vse
of
their
obseruation
,
and
wee
practically
knowing
the
shortnesse
of
our
liues
,
yet
make
no
haste
to
our
home
,
the
house
appointed
for
all
liuing
:
This
The
Storke
knoweth
her
appointed
time
,
but
my
people
know
not
the
Judgement
of
the
Lord
:
And
by
another
,
he
wisheth
their
vnderstandings
were
not
so
deordinate
as
to
forget
their
last
end
.
It
is
now
enough
,
O
Lord
,
take
away
my
soule
,
for
I
am
no
better
then
my
Fathers
,
and
you
haue
life
portrayed
to
life
.
Elias
was
the
first
man
,
vnto
whom
God
resigned
his
key
of
life
,
and
gaue
him
power
to
raise
the
dead
.
Elias
was
the
sole
man
,
whom
God
honoured
with
a
Charriot
for
his
conueiance
into
the
other
world
.
Elias
was
the
second
man
elected
to
represent
heauenly
glory
vpon
earth
,
at
the
transfiguration
of
our
Lord
Jesus
,
and
this
man
whilst
hee
was
in
this
life
,
was
weary
of
his
life
,
and
puts
vp
a
Supplication
to
almighty
God
to
take
it
from
him
.
The
words
containe
a
Prayer
;
Good
is
the
proper
obiect
of
prayer
,
we
may
deprecate
euill
,
but
pray
onely
for
that
which
is
good
.
This
prayer
is
for
death
,
which
in
it selfe
is
neither
good
nor
euill
.
That
we
may
the
better
conceiue
the
true
scope
,
it
is
fit
that
wee
should
take
into
our
considerations
these
three
particulars
.
-
1
The
motiues
preceding
and
producing
the
Prayer
.
-
2
The
Arguments
enforcing
the
Prayer
.
-
3
The
third
and
last
,
The
Prayer
it selfe
.
A
question
will
be
asked
in
the
Porch
&
entrance
,
is
Elias
in
earnest
?
would
he
liue
or
dye
?
If
he
would
liue
,
why
doth
he
beg
death
?
If
dye
,
why
did
he
shun
death
by
flying
into
the
wilder
nesse
?
One
Executioner
from
Jesabell
would
haue
giuen
him
his
longing
.
The
satisfaction
is
easy
:
It
is
some
comfort
when
a
man
is
ouercome
,
that
hee
bee
conquered
by
a
noble
enemy
Aeneae
magni
dextra
cadis
—
Dauid
was
vnwilling
to
dye
by
the
fury
and
malice
of
Saul
,
contented
to
receiue
it
by
the
hands
of
his
friend
Jonathan
.
If
there
bee
iniquity
found
in
mee
,
kill
mee
thy selfe
,
but
bring
mee
not
to
tby
father
.
As
Moses
rod
lying
vpon
the
Ground
had
the
shape
,
and
poyson
of
a
serpent
,
but
in
his
owne
hand
it
lost
that
affrighting
figure
,
and
venemous
quality
:
so
death
from
Jezabell
was
an
vgly
serpent
in
Elias
apprehension
,
but
from
the
hand
of
God
a
Caduceus
a
wand
to
waft
him
into
a
better
life
:
The
hands
of
the
spouse
are
fall
of
Rings
beset
with
Iemmes
,
the
Berill
,
and
the
Hyacinth
:
God
his
hands
are
full
of
blessings
,
Jt
is
now
enough
.
The
Expositors
do
vary
,
finding
not
only
seueral
but
contrary
motiues
:
some
make
it
the
euaporation
of
a
discontented
minde
,
the
weaknesse
of
a
frayle
man
:
others
attribute
it
to
the
deuotion
of
an
holy
man
,
I
will
strike
these
seuerall
flints
,
each
of
them
may
afford
a
sparke
to
enlighten
our
text
.
Chrysostome
in
his
Rhetoricall
way
demands
:
First
,
that
no
prerogatiue
of
greatnes
,
no
profession
of
holynesse
exempt
men
from
common
infirmities
:
where
is
that
Heretike
Pelagius
belching
out
this
contagious
poyson
,
that
a
man
may
attayne
such
perfection
as
to
bee
free
from
all
weaknesse
,
and
when
hee
prayes
for
forgiuenesse
of
sinne
,
it
is
rather
humiliter
then
veraciter
?
Let
him
looke
vpon
Elias
and
bee
confounded
.
As
the
Curtezan
Lais
sayd
,
Philosophers
knockt
at
her
gate
as
well
as
others
:
so
the
best
of
men
are
ouertaken
:
To
goe
no
further
then
our
patterne
.
The
seer
is
fallen
blinde
,
the
guide
hath
lost
his
way
,
the
charmer
is
stung
by
the
serpent
,
the
man
of
God
becomes
a
man
of
passion
,
fayling
in
the
common
Rules
of
ordinary
goodnesse
and
wisdome
,
for
good
and
wise
men
may
pray
for
better
times
then
those
they
liue
in
;
but
beare
with
patience
all
sinister
and
sad
euents
;
whereas
our
great
Prophet
whines
and
repines
,
denoyd
of
hope
that
any
alteration
should
better
his
condition
,
&
because
the
would
will
not
be
guided
by
the
Polestarre
of
his
direction
,
hee
will
stay
no
longer
in
it
:
Oh
lett
the
weakenesse
of
a
Saint
be
our
warning
;
greene
wood
will
warpe
and
shrinke
,
if
seasoned
tymber
hold
not
out
,
and
slender
tressells
must
giue
way
when
strong
pillers
bend
vnder
the
burden
:
Especially
it
behooueth
vs
,
which
is
the
next
poynt
of
instruction
,
neuer
to
bee
so
deiected
at
the
view
of
our
fraylety
as
to
forbeare
our
resorting
to
God
in
prayer
.
St.
Iames
to
encourage
Christians
to
that
holy
duty
brings
in
this
very
example
,
Elias
was
a
man
subiect
to
the
like
passions
as
wee
are
:
Elias
body
was
a
clod
of
earth
as
ours
is
,
his
minde
obnoxious
to
the
same
perturbations
,
yet
he
prayed
,
so
let
vs
:
for
God
is
not
the
God
of
Elias
onely
,
but
a
God
rich
in
mercy
to
all
that
call
vpon
him
.
So
I
passe
to
the
second
motiue
as
the
prayer
proceedes
from
a
Zealous
deuotion
.
Caietan
his
Glosse
is
that
he
was
more
The
children
of
Israel
haue
forsaken
thy
Couenant
,
throwne
downe
thy
Altar
,
slayne
thy
Prophets
,
I
,
euen
I
am
left
alone
,
and
they
seeke
to
take
away
my
life
.
By
which
it
is
probable
his
feare
and
care
was
cheefely
for
the
honour
of
God
,
least
in
the
ouerthrow
of
his
Person
after
so
signall
a
victory
and
noble
Conquest
and
triumph
ouer
Idolatry
,
the
Orthodoxe
Religion
might
suffer
some
reproach
or
diminution
.
Elias
was
the
liuely
patterne
of
Heroike
Zeale
;
Chrysostomes
opinion
is
that
soone
after
God
tooke
away
Elias
,
lest
his
Zeale
should
destroy
this
inferiour
Globe
:
he
was
so
seuere
against
sinne
that
hee
tooke
no
compassion
of
the
sinners
;
so
the
God
of
mercy
least
fire
and
stubble
should
dwell
together
,
he
remoued
him
to
the
Company
of
blessed
and
holy
spirits
where
he
might
see
all
good
&
no
euill
.
St.
Paul
seemes
to
taxe
Elias
&
he
doth
it
with
a
Notandum
,
ye
not
what
the
Scripture
saith
of
Elias
,
that
he
made
intercession
to
God
agaynst
Israel
?
Good
men
pray
for
sinners
not
agaynst
them
:
Abraham
prayed
for
the
wicked
Sodomites
,
and
doth
Elias
pray
against
the
Idolatrous
Jsraelits
?
Ieremy
prayed
assiduously
for
his
nation
till
hee
was
forbidden
to
pray
any
more
;
and
did
Elias
pray
for
the
vexation
of
his
country
?
The
Husbandman
in
the
Parable
entreateth
his
Master
to
spare
the
vnfruitefull
tree
,
doth
Elias
wish
the
destruction
of
men
?
vndoubtedly
holy
men
haue
mercifull
not
cruell
bowells
,
when
they
call
for
punishments
,
they
are
medicines
,
not
execrations
,
but
predictions
either
by
outward
afflictions
to
procure
their
conuersion
,
or
by
death
to
intercept
the
progresse
of
sin
,
or
by
some
wholsome
example
to
terrifie
others
from
the
like
offence
.
So
Elias
did
,
and
so
he
might
pray
against
Jsrael
.
And
it
is
no
maruell
he
praied
agaynst
them
,
for
he
bends
his
Zeale
agaynst
himselfe
:
rather
then
he
would
liue
to
see
his
God
dishonoured
,
hee
is
willing
to
resigne
his
pretious
life
:
This
should
bee
the
affection
of
all
Gods
Seruants
,
to
hold
nothing
so
deare
as
the
honour
of
theyr
Master
.
Let
me
parallell
this
story
with
another
like
it
,
of
St.
Chrysostome
.
Elias
was
persecuted
by
Iezabell
a
Queene
,
Chrysostome
by
Eudoxia
an
Empresse
,
Iohn
Baptists
head
:
what
if
I
bee
stoned
to
death
?
Stephen
the
Proto-martyr
passed
to
heauen
through
a
showre
of
stones
:
Suppose
my
Bishoppricke
be
taken
away
,
I
will
remember
Job
:
Naked
came
I
out
of
my
Mothers
wombe
,
and
naked
I
will
returne
.
Memorable
is
that
in
Josephus
,
when
Titus
had
taken
and
To
conclude
this
second
motiue
,
lett
vs
alwayes
haue
that
preparation
of
mind
in
the
phrase
of
Tertullian
to
retaliate
bloud
Now
proceede
wee
from
the
Motiues
forerunning
the
Prayer
,
to
the
Reasons
attending
vpon
it
.
You
haue
heard
of
some
,
as
of
St.
Paul
,
eloquently
pleading
without
any
Aduocate
to
saue
his
life
,
before
Felix
,
Fesius
,
and
Agrippa
,
and
by
an
Appeale
taking
truce
with
death
:
But
here
is
one
in
the
Text
pleading
for
death
,
and
finding
Reasons
why
he
should
liue
no
longer
.
His
Arguments
are
in
number
two
.
The
first
is
drawne
from
the
satiety
of
life
:
It
is
now
enough
,
as
if
hee
should
say
thus
in
effect
:
I
haue
liued
long
enough
to
my selfe
,
long
enough
to
my
Countrey
.
First
,
to
my selfe
,
it
pleased
thy
diuine
goodnesse
,
by
making
mee
an
instrument
of
thy
glory
to
aduance
my
owne
,
so
as
I
shall
leaue
an
high
reputation
and
a
venerable
name
to
all
posterity
:
and
for
my
Countrey
,
such
thy
mercy
,
by
my
meanes
they
enioyed
much
good
;
spirituall
good
,
I
reclaimed
them
,
(
although
they
bee
now
relapsed
)
from
Idolatry
to
the
Seruice
of
thee
their
true
and
onely
God
:
I
was
the
Reformer
of
their
corrupted
manners
;
my
rugged
Robes
and
hairy
Habit
condemned
their
proud
attyre
;
my
austere
and
strict
life
,
taught
them
to
amend
their
loose
and
licentious
conuersations
:
As
a
retyred
Heremite
I
sequestred
my selfe
from
humane
society
,
to
let
them
see
't
was
lesse
dangerous
to
dwell
among
brutes
then
beastiall
men
.
And
for
good
temporall
,
I
turned
their
drought
into
Raine
,
and
their
famine
into
Plenty
,
hauing
in
my
whole
course
equalled
,
nay
,
transcended
the
period
of
Mortality
,
It
is
now
enough
O
Lord
.
His
second
Argument
is
drawne
from
the
common
law
of
nature
:
I
am
no
better
then
my
Fathers
,
my
Ancesters
in
time
,
my
Predecessors
in
profession
are
all
arriued
at
their
wished
Port
;
why
shouldst
thou
prolong
my
dayes
by
miracle
,
sometimes
appointing
the
Rauens
(
those
vncleane
birds
by
thy
law
)
and
vnnaturall
in
their
kinde
,
to
be
my
Caters
,
as
at
the
brooke
Carith
?
Sometimes
by
multiplication
of
the
old
store
,
or
by
creation
of
new
prouision
,
turne
meale
barrels
into
Granaries
,
and
cruets
of
oyle
into
Fountaines
,
as
at
the
Widdowes
of
Sareptah
.
I
desire
not
the
producing
of
my
misery
,
the
preseruation
of
my
life
by
extraordinary
wayes
,
let
me
passe
O
Lord
the
common
way
of
all
my
Fathers
,
For
J
am
no
better
then
my
Fathers
.
Obserue
in
Elias
Arguments
,
his
method
,
and
modesty
,
how
orderly
hee
rankes
his
Reasons
:
There
goes
a
sufficit
before
tolle
animam
:
Hee
doth
not
aske
death
of
God
vntill
hee
hath
performed
great
seruice
vnto
the
Lord
in
his
life
;
for
it
is
a
preposterous
course
to
demand
wages
before
the
worke
bee
done
:
Rest
comes
after
labour
,
no
Souldier
lookes
for
a
donatiue
vntill
the
warre
bee
ouerpast
;
no
Marriner
cals
for
a
faire
winde
vntill
his
vessell
bee
full
fraught
:
It
is
no
matter
how
long
or
how
short
our
liues
be
,
but
how
good
.
The
Morall
man
saw
this
;
Life
is
long
enough
if
full
of
good
:
St.
Austins
similitude
expresseth
this
well
,
The
Sunne
and
Moone
those
Fountaines
of
light
,
and
guides
of
time
,
fulfill
their
courses
in
a
short
season
.
The
dimmer
Plannets
are
a
longer
while
wheeling
about
.
The
Scripture
compares
our
life
to
Hearbes
and
Flowers
,
A
Flower
is
Res
-
Spectaculi
,
-
Spiraculi
:
Delighting
our
eyes
with
various
colours
,
pleasing
our
sense
with
sweete
sauours
,
but
withall
of
a
fading
substance
:
Say
they
escape
the
browsing
mouth
of
the
beast
,
the
pruning
knife
,
the
plucking
hand
,
the
nipping
ayre
,
the
violent
winde
;
they
will
wither
of
themselues
.
Of
such
mettall
are
wee
made
:
Imagine
wee
could
be
free
from
Asaes
Gowt
,
Naamans
Leprosie
,
Jorams
Iliaca
passio
,
Jobs
vnsauory
breath
,
Hezekiabs
botch
,
Lazarus
biles
,
the
woman
of
Syrophenissa's
dysentery
,
Publius
Feuer
,
and
all
diseases
whereof
the
body
of
man
is
a
Lazaretto
,
and
Receptacle
;
Galen
found
in
one
little
part
of
the
eye
an
hundred
seuerall
infirmities
:
could
all
these
be
auoyded
,
yet
our
bodies
of
their
owne
accord
would
moulder
into
earth
from
whence
they
came
.
Since
they
are
Flowers
,
vse
wee
them
like
Flowers
,
which
last
long
if
they
bee
distilled
into
sweete
waters
:
distill
wee
our
liues
into
holy
and
vertuous
Actions
;
distill
them
into
the
works
of
Piety
;
distill
them
into
the
workes
of
Charity
,
this
is
the
way
to
make
a
short
life
last
long
;
no
Babylonian
Tower
,
no
Aegyptian
Pyramis
,
no
Rhodian
Colossus
,
no
Mausolian
Tombe
,
no
Triumphall
Arche
,
no
life-counterfeiting
Statua
,
can
giue
such
life
of
memory
,
as
a
life
it selfe
transacted
in
worthy
designes
,
for
,
Glorious
(
sayes
the
Wiseman
)
is
the
fruite
of
In
the
second
Argument
take
notice
of
his
modesty
,
he
esteemes
himselfe
(
though
wonderfully
qualified
)
no
better
then
his
Fathers
:
If
some
small
portion
of
Elias
modesty
were
left
in
the
world
,
any
blush
of
vertuous
bashfulnesse
,
the
vile
would
not
,
in
the
Prophets
phrase
,
presume
aboue
the
Honourable
,
nor
the
vpstart
so
highly
disdaine
their
Ancesters
,
preferring
the
false
and
fading
beauty
of
recent
opinions
,
before
the
amiable
wrinkles
in
the
face
of
aged
truth
.
St.
Paul
says
he
serued
God
from
his
elders
and
progenitors
;
All
vertues
Morall
and
Diuine
haue
beene
by
our
Ancestors
most
fully
exemplified
:
when
a
Poet
would
encourage
a
young
Sparke
to
noble
vndertakings
,
hee
doth
it
by
this
very
way
:
Te
Pater
Aeneas
,
&
auunculus
excitet
Hector
.
Let
thy
father
Aeneas
and
thy
vncle
Hector
bee
thy
Guides
.
Would
you
learne
faith
and
confidence
in
God
?
thinke
vpon
your
Predecessor
Abraham
the
Father
of
the
faithfull
;
Desire
you
to
leade
a
pure
,
chaste
life
?
thinke
vpon
your
Predecessor
Joseph
;
Would
you
meekly
sustaine
afflictions
of
minde
,
and
tormenting
diseases
of
body
?
thinke
vpon
your
Predecessor
Iob
;
would
you
bee
zealous
in
the
cause
of
God
,
and
his
Orthodox
truth
?
thinke
vpon
your
Predecessor
Elias
.
The
Wisemen
of
the
East
had
but
one
Starre
to
guide
them
vnto
our
Sauiours
cradle
,
but
we
so
many
of
our
Predecessors
,
as
haue
led
holy
and
Regular
liues
;
so
many
Starres
enlightning
our
way
,
so
many
Loadstones
to
draw
vs
vnto
goodnesse
;
our
Ancestors
hauing
runne
their
Race
,
resigned
the
torches
of
their
life
,
and
Sicut
cursores
vitai
lampada
tradunt
.
Lucret
.
withall
left
vs
the
lampes
and
lights
of
their
example
.
2.
It
is
very
good
and
wholsome
for
them
also
,
who
spend
their
dayes
in
sinne
and
vanity
to
reflect
their
eye
vpon
theyr
Predecessors
:
Let
the
couetous
ayming
at
wealth
,
and
doing
no
good
with
it
,
thinke
vpon
his
Predecessor
Nabal
,
who
tenne
dayes
together
lay
as
a
block
without
sence
,
motion
,
or
shew
of
life
.
Let
the
Ambitious
aspirer
thinke
vpon
his
Predecessor
Absolon
meeting
with
a
tree
in
the
forrest
,
which
heard
not
his
fathers
Caueat
for
his
life
,
but
became
the
Reuenger
of
his
ingratitude
,
and
the
fatall
instrument
of
his
destruction
.
Let
the
Lasciuious
wanton
wallowing
in
sensuall
delights
,
thinke
of
his
Predecessor
Zimri
dying
in
the
act
of
his
sinne
:
Let
the
Capacious
Funnell
,
able
to
do
as
much
alone
,
as
Zerxes
multitudinous
Army
,
dry
vp
an
Hellespont
,
thinke
vpon
his
Predecessor
Balthazar
perishing
in
his
carowsing
Bowles
:
Let
the
vayne-glorious
boaster
,
proud
of
what
is
not
his
own
,
think
of
his
predecessor
worm-eaten
Herode
cut
off
in
the
midst
of
his
glorious
Harangue
.
And
let
all
true
Repentant
sinners
thinke
on
theyr
Predecessor
Dauid
,
whose
bed
swamme
in
teares
,
and
of
the
three
sillables
reconciling
his
angry
God
vnto
him
;
of
his
Predecessor
Peter
,
recouering
more
grace
by
weeping
,
then
hee
lost
by
sinning
;
of
his
Predecessor
Mary
Magdalen
,
who
became
a
Lebete
Phiala
,
of
a
Cauldron
seething
and
boyling
in
lust
,
a
Christall
viall
of
pure
Chastity
.
And
let
all
disconsolate
soules
flying
with
Elias
for
shelten
to
the
Iunipertree
,
thinke
of
their
Predecessor
Jesus
,
who
dyed
on
the
tree
:
vnder
his
Crosse
is
the
true
shade
;
Oh
good
,
and
desirable
is
the
shadow
Bona
&
desiderabilis
vmbra
sub
alis
tuis
,
Iesu
vbi
tutum
fugtentibus
refugium
,
gratum
fessis
refrigersum
.
Bern.
Hom.
2.
super
Missus
est
.
Quantum
libet
$otis
anxietatum
pate
res
vita
praesentis
.
Propinet
afflictio
,
parua
toleramus
,
si
recordamur
quid
biberit
ad
patibulum
qui
inuitat
ad
celum
.
Sid.
Apollinar
.
lib.
9.
Epist.
4.
vnder
thy
wings
Lord
Jesus
;
there
is
the
safe
Sanctuary
to
flye
vnto
,
the
most
comfortable
refreshing
of
all
sinne
and
sorrow
;
whatsoeuer
cups
of
affliction
this
life
propines
vnto
vs
is
nothing
to
the
bitter
draughts
hee
dranke
vpon
the
Crosse
who
inuites
to
heauen
:
Let
vs
all
thinke
of
our
Predecessor
treading
the
Paths
of
death
before
vs
;
wee
haue
erred
with
our
Fathers
,
wee
are
Pilgrimes
and
strangers
vpon
earth
as
all
our
Fathers
were
,
wee
must
dye
as
our
Fathers
did
;
For
we
are
no
better
then
our
Fathers
.
The
third
and
last
part
is
,
the
prayer
it selfe
,
Tolle
animam
;
out
of
it
there
doe
naturally
flow
these
two
Corallaries
.
The
first
,
that
life
is
no
such
Iewell
,
but
a
good
man
may
finde
time
and
cause
to
bee
weary
of
it
,
or
else
Elias
had
neuer
beene
at
tolle
animam
.
The
second
,
that
there
is
a
more
blessed
life
after
this
life
,
or
else
Elias
could
not
haue
bene
so
mad
as
prodigally
to
cast
away
his
life
present
.
To
the
first
Life
may
be
considered
two
wayes
:
First
,
as
God
at
first
gaue
it
:
Secondly
,
as
wee
now
enioy
it
.
The
life
which
God
gaue
had
fiue
prerogatiues
;
two
without
man
;
three
within
him
;
without
him
God
and
his
blessed
Angels
to
protect
him
;
besides
,
Paradise
the
pleasing
seate
of
his
Habitation
:
Within
him
,
Knowledge
,
Righteousnesse
,
and
Immortality
;
his
knowledge
exceeding
ours
in
three
particulars
.
First
,
in
amplitude
and
extent
,
reaching
to
God
,
the
creatures
,
and
himselfe
.
Secondly
,
in
the
excellent
manner
,
not
as
we
by
coniecturall
probability
deriued
from
effects
,
but
by
euident
demonstration
out
of
the
causes
.
Thirdly
,
for
duration
or
continuance
;
ours
is
gotten
with
difficulty
and
easily
lost
,
either
by
discontinued
intermission
and
cessation
,
or
the
braine
and
fancy
may
be
distempered
,
as
in
a
Phrensy
,
or
the
memory
dulled
as
in
a
Lethargy
.
Secondly
,
man
was
created
Righteous
,
that
Righteousnesse
was
the
rectitude
and
integrity
of
the
whole
man
,
whereby
his
soule
was
obedient
vnto
God
,
his
body
to
the
soule
.
This
was
the
Crowne
and
Diadem
of
mans
life
.
Thou
hast
Crowned
him
with
glory
and
worshippe
,
adorned
him
with
grace
and
holinesse
:
An
happy
life
was
that
,
wherein
Methusalem
liuing
almost
a
thousand
yeeres
should
not
haue
offended
once
;
whereas
now
the
most
righteous
man
fals
seauen
times
,
that
is
,
often-times
a
day
.
Lastly
,
that
was
a
kinde
of
Immortall
life
;
a
thing
is
said
to
be
incorruptible
three
wayes
:
First
,
in
respect
of
the
matter
,
either
which
it
hath
not
,
as
the
Angels
are
immortall
,
those
pure
and
immateriall
substances
;
or
in
respect
of
the
matter
which
it
hath
,
as
the
Heauens
,
the
matter
whereof
they
are
made
,
being
insusceptible
of
any
forme
but
one
.
Secondly
,
in
regard
of
the
forme
;
so
the
body
of
Adam
was
immortall
as
the
widdowes
oyle
lasted
in
the
cruse
without
diminution
,
so
might
his
body
haue
endured
without
corruption
,
and
that
by
the
third
the
efficient
cause
,
not
by
any
inherent
quality
,
or
disposition
in
the
body
,
but
by
a
supernaturall
dowry
of
the
soule
.
God
endewed
the
first
soule
with
such
a
powerfull
vertue
,
as
enabled
it
to
preserue
the
body
whereto
it
was
vnited
,
from
corruption
,
as
a
Candle
enlightens
the
lanthorne
wherein
it
is
contained
:
So
the
blessednesse
of
the
soule
reflecting
vpon
the
body
should
haue
kept
it
in
perpetuall
vigour
and
health
.
That
was
a
free
,
noble
,
innocent
,
liuely
life
;
But
man
being
in
Honour
,
forgot
his
God
,
and
lost
this
life
.
What
is
the
life
we
now
enioy
?
take
a
short
view
,
of
the
seuerall
ages
,
of
the
seuerall
estates
,
of
the
inseparable
adiuncts
of
our
life
,
and
you
will
finde
meerely
to
liue
is
no
great
happinesse
.
First
,
an
Infant
,
that
's
a
life
of
pitty
,
Man
in
his
best
estate
is
altogether
vanity
.
Lastly
,
an
old
man
,
that
's
a
life
of
death
:
The
Apostles
word
is
of
Abraham
&
Sarah
,
when
they
were
old
,
they
were
as
dead
;
the
head
is
gray
,
the
face
withered
,
the
skinne
wrinkled
,
the
limmes
stiffe
,
the
stomacke
weake
,
the
memory
frayle
,
the
body
crooked
,
the
vitall
powers
decayed
,
the
spirits
spent
;
this
is
the
life
in
ages
;
what
is
it
in
callings
?
Man
liues
eyther
single
,
and
that
is
a
free
life
but
vncomfortable
,
or
he
takes
a
Nabal
,
Pilat
was
as
vnkind
a
husband
as
an
vnrighteous
Iudge
,
denying
his
wife
the
life
of
our
blessed
Sauiour
.
This
life
is
eyther
priuate
or
publike
,
the
priuate
is
simply
the
best
;
Joseph
saw
it
when
hee
aduised
his
brethren
rather
to
continew
Shepheards
,
then
to
stay
with
him
in
Pharoahs
Court
:
Old
Barzillay
found
it
refusing
Dauid
his
courteous
offer
,
and
would
not
exchange
his
priuate
Roguel
for
tumultuary
Jerusalem
.
The
Oracle
accounted
him
the
most
hapy
man
of
his
time
,
who
liuing
vntill
hee
was
purely
old
;
neuer
did
see
any
house
but
his
owne
.
Whether
we
eate
the
bread
of
carefull
industry
,
or
the
sweete
vnswet-for
bread
of
an
vnacquired
patrimony
in
the
most
retired
,
quiet
,
plentifull
condition
,
something
still
falles
out
verifying
that
of
our
Sauiour
,
Sufficient
to
the
day
is
the
sorrow
of
it
.
The
publike
life
is
eyther
in
Church
or
Common
wealth
:
The
Churchman
whether
in
Chayre
or
cure
leades
a
laborious
,
an
enuious
,
a
dangerous
life
,
his
labour
neuer
at
an
end
.
Dauid
tunes
his
Harp
to
driue
away
Sauls
Melancholy
,
and
hee
darts
his
Iauelin
at
him
;
a
liuely
Emblem
of
the
Pastor
&
most
people
.
When
Elias
prayers
haue
procured
a
blessing
from
heauen
,
his
best
reward
is
a
Caue
in
the
wildernesse
.
St
Augustine
wept
when
hee
tooke
holy
Orders
,
&
they
were
Prognosticating
teares
forerunning
his
infinite
paynes
in
washing
Blackmores
,
whose
sowles
were
more
tawny
then
their
hides
;
His
perpetual
bickerings
and
encounters
with
Hereticks
,
for
such
was
God
his
especiall
prouidence
,
that
hee
and
Pelagius
should
come
into
the
world
much
about
one
yeare
,
that
the
Antidote
might
be
contemporall
to
the
poyson
;
His
wearisome
employment
in
determining
secular
causes
,
for
then
very
good
Christians
beleeued
their
suites
,
could
not
be
happily
ended
,
vnlesse
they
came
through
the
cleare
and
sinceare
hands
of
vpright
Church-men
.
T
was
a
graue
witty
conceyt
of
one
of
the
Pope
Vrbans
,
who
putting
his
Rochet
on
,
wondred
that
being
made
of
so
light
stuffe
it
was
so
ponderous
&
weighty
:
Aboue
all
,
affrighting
is
that
speech
of
Chrysostome
:
Of
all
men
(
sayes
hee
)
I
could
wish
,
there
were
no
day
of
iudgement
,
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of
Honour
and
dignity
,
a
vaste
corps
of
trouble
and
vexation
.
Let
all
Histories
Kill
mee
Lord
,
and
I
will
accompt
it
for
a
fauour
.
Augustus
had
relinquished
his
Soueraignty
,
as
soone
as
he
obtained
it
,
but
for
the
pride
of
his
wife
Liuia
.
Dioclesian
did
surrender
it
,
and
turning
Gardiner
,
found
his
Plants
more
pliable
then
his
people
:
and
Charles
the
fifth
,
enioyed
more
sweete
repose
in
a
Monastery
then
in
a
Monarchy
.
As
in
Supreme
,
so
in
subordinate
Gouernors
,
Hee
that
with
care
and
conscience
doth
execute
the
duties
of
his
place
,
although
hee
liue
vpon
drowsie
Poppies
,
and
stupifying
Mandragora's
,
shall
hardly
get
time
for
secure
rest
,
but
bee
like
the
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Drusus
.
Roman
who
in
all
his
life
had
neuer
leasure
to
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Holiday
.
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11.
24.
Pethahiahs
who
are
at
the
Kings
hand
in
matters
concerning
the
People
,
did
it
become
modesty
to
rifle
your
secret
thoughts
,
you
haue
your
share
in
Elias
his
prayer
,
when
iust
commands
are
more
questioned
then
obeyed
,
and
sincere
Actions
meete
with
sinister
interpretations
;
when
common
and
easie
burthens
are
not
borne
with
dutifull
chearefulnesse
,
nor
publike
cares
sweetened
with
benigne
acceptance
;
nay
when
all
possible
endeauour
that
people
may
lead
godly
,
quiet
,
and
peaceable
liues
,
is
performed
,
and
requited
with
murmuring
instead
of
blessing
,
is
not
this
enough
to
produce
Elias
Wish
?
Euen
the
poore
beasts
when
they
are
weary
make
haste
The
Adiuncts
of
life
are
two
-
Sinne
,
-
Misery
.
In
my
priuate
meditations
vpon
this
Point
,
I
purposed
to
describe
vnto
you
the
Actions
wherewith
the
sinfull
life
of
man
is
distained
,
but
when
I
surueyed
the
liues
of
wicked
men
,
so
many
sinnes
presented
themselues
,
that
I
knew
not
where
to
ranke
them
,
so
vgly
in
shape
as
I
durst
not
looke
vpon
them
;
and
when
I
considered
the
liues
of
the
best
,
and
the
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a
Aug
veh
laudabili
.
&c.
woe
denounced
vnto
the
most
laudable
life
of
men
,
that
the
whole
life
of
a
deuoutbSaint
was
but
sinne
and
barrennesse
;
I
stood
amazed
vntill
I
remembred
there
It
must
bee
so
that
there
is
another
life
,
for
here
they
liue
many
times
the
longest
liues
who
were
not
worthy
to
liue
at
all
,
Here
the
Israelites
make
the
brickes
,
and
the
Aegyptians
dwell
in
the
howses
;
Dauid
is
in
want
,
and
Nabal
abounds
;
Sion
is
Babylons
captiue
.
Hath
God
nothing
in
store
for
Joseph
but
the
stocks
?
for
Esay
but
a
saw
?
will
not
Elias
adorne
the
charriot
better
then
the
Iuniper
tree
?
will
not
Iohn
Baptists
head
become
a
Crowne
as
well
as
a
Platter
?
Surely
there
is
great
Retribution
for
the
Iust
,
there
is
fruite
for
the
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a
Maiora
illic
accipimus
qu●m
hi●
aut
operamur
aut
patimur
.
Ciprian
.
lib.
4.
Righteous
:
God
hath
Palmes
for
their
hands
,
Coronets
for
their
heads
,
white
Robes
for
their
bodyes
,
hee
will
wipe
all
teares
from
their
eyes
,
and
shew
them
his
goodnesse
in
the
land
of
the
liuing
.
Of
the
infinite
happines
in
that
celestiall
life
,
how
should
I
speake
?
Earthly
Ierusalem
was
portrayed
by
Ezechiel
vppon
a
Tile
,
so
St
Austin
wrote
two
and
twenty
bookes
of
the
City
of
God
,
how
can
I
bring
into
the
last
gasp
of
an
howre
,
the
vnity
,
the
plenty
,
the
Beauty
,
the
holynesse
,
the
felicity
thereof
?
when
he
himselfe
confessed
after
all
his
endeauour
,
all
that
can
be
said
is
but
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a
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a
Stilla
de
Mari
,
scintilla
do
foco
,
a
drop
to
the
Sea
,
and
a
sparke
to
a
fire
.
This
for
your
comfort
:
St.
John
found
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b
Reuel.
21.
twelue
gates
in
it
,
open
day
and
night
to
entertaine
departing
soules
,
repairing
thither
in
the
true
faith
,
accompanied
with
an
holy
conuersation
:
The
blessed
Angels
standing
Sentinels
for
their
guard
and
conduct
.
A
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c
Corcida
Grecian
at
his
death
thus
cheered
vp
himselfe
,
I
shall
goe
among
Philosophers
,
to
Pythagoras
;
among
Musitians
,
to
Olympus
;
among
Historians
,
to
Hecateus
;
among
Poets
,
to
Homer
:
a
poore
Heathenish
and
Pagan
comfort
,
like
Polyphemus
whistle
hanging
about
his
necke
when
his
eyes
were
boared
out
:
Meere
morall
vertue
may
finde
great
reward
on
earth
,
and
lesse
torment
in
hell
,
but
Nihil
bonum
sine
summo
tono
.
Ansel.
true
good
is
from
Christ
;
His
precious
blood
opened
Heauen
for
them
onely
which
beleeue
in
his
sauing
name
;
And
they
are
sure
to
goe
among
the
Patriarks
,
to
Abraham
,
Isaacke
,
and
Jacob
;
among
the
Prophets
,
to
Moses
and
Elias
;
among
the
Kings
,
to
Dauid
,
Hezekiah
,
and
Josias
;
among
the
Apostles
,
to
S.
Peter
,
and
S.
Paul
;
amongst
the
Martyrs
,
to
S.
Stephen
,
and
to
the
innumerable
society
of
Saints
,
and
Angels
,
whither
,
as
wee
ought
piously
to
beleeue
,
hee
is
transported
to
whom
wee
performe
these
sad
Obsequies
.
I
hope
there
is
no
Auditor
in
this
high
Assembly
so
vnequall
as
to
suppose
this
Text
chosen
as
a
iust
paralell
to
the
Honourable
party
deceased
;
for
alasse
,
they
agree
onely
in
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
as
Elias
,
so
he
was
a
man
subiect
to
many
infirmities
;
of
which
if
any
curious
eare
desire
to
heare
,
he
will
be
deceiued
.
I
do
not
remember
when
Dauid
made
Sauls
Epitaph
proclaiming
his
vertues
,
that
he
touched
any
of
his
errors
,
those
hee
washed
away
with
his
teares
,
and
the
God
of
mercy
hath
pardoned
;
what
God
hath
put
out
of
his
memory
,
ought
not
to
remaine
in
ours
:
Yet
I
say
confidently
because
truely
,
malice
it selfe
could
fasten
no
funereous
crime
vpon
his
life
.
As
when
a
tree
is
sallen
,
you
may
coniecture
what
breadth
it
bare
,
and
how
farre
it
spread
,
by
the
vacuity
&
emptinesse
of
the
place
where
it
stood
:
So
if
wee
consider
him
hewen
downe
by
death
,
as
a
Christian
,
as
a
Subiect
,
and
as
the
Father
of
a
Family
,
he
will
appeare
a
Cedar
and
no
Shrub
.
The
light
of
Starres
and
glittering
of
Diamonds
is
borrowed
from
the
Sunne
,
all
humane
titles
are
nothing
,
which
receiue
not
their
lustre
from
Piety
and
Religion
.
For
his
Religion
he
was
neither
superstitious
nor
factious
,
but
hee
serued
God
in
that
Way
which
Papists
call
Heresie
,
and
Nouellists
formality
,
a
true
member
of
the
English
Church
;
hee
thought
of
our
Church
as
Dauid
of
the
Tabernacle
,
that
it
was
very
amiable
;
he
embraced
her
holy
doctrine
,
reuerenced
her
comely
Orders
,
loued
her
painfull
Preachers
.
If
due
obseruation
of
Gods
Sabath
;
if
frequentation
of
Gods
house
,
attention
in
hearing
,
deuotion
in
prayer
;
if
an
eare
open
to
Reproofe
,
and
a
mind
willing
to
Reforme
what
hee
did
amisse
;
if
strong
paines
in
sicknesse
meekely
borne
,
bee
outward
signes
to
know
a
good
Christian
,
such
was
hee
:
I
adde
,
if
workes
of
Charity
and
Almesdeedes
which
Daniel
held
a
meanes
to
redeeme
sinne
,
and
St.
Paul
accounted
an
acceptable
Sacrifice
,
these
wanted
not
.
Hee
hath
to
the
bullding
of
an
Hospitall
in
the
place
of
his
birth
,
giuen
competent
maintenance
for
the
releefe
of
tenne
poore
people
to
the
worlds
end
.
That
Noble
Act
of
his
I
remember
with
ioy
.
He
was
the
first
Benefactor
to
the
Library
of
Syon
Colledge
,
Samuel
his
Ramath
,
where
by
the
pious
care
and
zealous
industry
of
that
graue
and
Reuerend
Diuine
,
M.
John
Symson
(
who
,
as
Camillus
was
called
a
second
Romulus
,
merits
the
title
of
a
second
Founder
(
maugre
the
opposition
of
an
enuious
Sanballat
)
a
most
Stately
roome
is
erected
for
the
benefit
of
the
worthy
Preachers
of
this
Honourable
City
of
London
,
but
wants
the
Furniture
of
bookes
.
Bookes
are
the
Riuers
of
Paradise
watering
the
earth
:
The
deaw
of
S.
Paul
himselfe
although
so
inspired
,
found
as
much
want
of
his
bookes
as
of
his
cloake
in
winter
.
To
ayme
at
Learning
without
bookes
is
with
the
Danaides
to
draw
water
in
a
siue
.
Nostrum
marsupium
charia
Al●xandrina
euacuarunt
.
Hieronim
.
purchasing
Alexandrian
Papers
;
and
with
Thomas
Aquinas
,
rather
haue
Chrysostome
vpon
St.
Mathew
,
then
the
huge
City
of
Paris
.
O
that
you
knew
the
sly
&
cruell
Arts
of
our
Aduersaries
in
corrupting
bookes
,
so
as
if
the
ancient
Fathers
were
now
aliue
,
they
could
not
know
their
owne
elaborate
workes
:
you
would
at
any
rate
purchase
true
and
ancient
Coppies
for
your
Preachers
,
that
from
them
you
might
receiue
true
and
ancient
doctrine
.
Remember
the
losse
at
Heidelbergh
,
and
seeke
to
repaire
it
by
following
his
Noble
example
,
who
in
this
particular
shewed
what
affection
hee
bare
to
Religion
and
Learning
.
As
a
subiect
hee
was
exemplary
,
in
this
age
wherein
liberty
is
made
an
Idoll
,
and
obedience
an
exile
;
infinite
occasions
of
State
,
ineuitably
requiring
priuate
supplyes
,
hee
was
neuer
wanting
to
his
duty
:
His
cleere
iudgment
informing
him
that
hee
must
not
bee
a
silly
Passenger
in
a
storme
at
sea
,
who
regards
more
his
owne
trifling
fardles
,
then
the
preseruation
of
the
ship
wherein
hee
goes
.
He
knew
well
that
iust
Princes
haue
power
to
tame
the
vnruly
,
and
meanes
to
guerdon
obedient
subiects
,
and
hee
found
it
.
For
modestly
and
humbly
carrying
his
inferior
condition
,
he
heard
the
Gouernors
voice
,
Friend
sit
vp
higher
,
and
the
Honour
conferred
vppon
him
in
his
life
accompanyes
him
to
his
herse
:
for
see
a
priuate
funerall
,
but
a
Priuatum
funus
,
fletus
publicus
.
Ambro.
in
funere
Saliri
.
publike
mourning
;
the
great
Officers
of
state
,
and
many
noble
Peeres
solemnising
his
farewell
.
As
a
father
of
a
family
God
gaue
him
many
felicities
,
a
noble
wife
,
equalling
her
Parentage
by
her
vertues
(
for
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a
Generosa
semina
in
ortus
exurgunt
suos
.
Sen:
Trag
:
generous
seedes
rise
according
to
their
planting
)
hopefull
children
,
the
pillers
of
his
house
,
a
fayre
Patrimony
encreased
by
his
industry
(
for
I
will
giue
you
no
false
coppy
of
him
.
)
Hee
was
no
prodicall
Otho
knowing
how
to
waste
not
how
to
bestow
;
but
a
Cato
,
of
whom
Plutarch
sayes
,
he
held
this
Perdere
scit
donare
nescit
.
Tacit.
for
a
Maxime
,
'T
was
onely
for
widowes
and
Orphans
to
suffer
any
diminution
in
their
estates
.
He
knew
that
frugality
is
the
pursebearer
to
bounty
,
and
prouidence
a
surer
sanctuary
against
want
and
debt
,
then
the
Temple
of
Diana
at
Ephesus
,
and
as
sure
a
way
to
preserue
possessions
in
ancient
names
,
as
the
Leuiticall
law
against
alienations
.
St
Bernard
preaching
Clare
vallis
,
among
many
commendations
giues
him
this
,
that
he
was
great
euen
in
little
matters
,
FJNJS
.