A
FVNERAL
SERMON
.
PSAL.
146.4
.
His
breath
goeth
forth
,
he
returneth
to
his
earth
,
in
that
very
day
his
thoughts
perish
.
THis
Psalme
,
and
the
rest
to
the
end
,
are
much-what
of
one
kinde
,
both
for
manner
and
matter
,
and
something
may
be
said
not
unusefully
from
both
.
Their
method
or
manner
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
circular
praying
the
Lord
;
like
the
heavens
they
move
in
a
circle
,
and
have
recourse
to
the
same
point
;
at
Hallelujah
is
the
beginning
,
and
at
Hallelujah
is
the
ending
.
And
this
may
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
circular
doctrine
or
instruction
,
that
after
this
manner
wee
looke
up
to
God
in
all
our
designes
,
not
as
first
disposer
or
mover
onely
,
but
as
founder
and
finisher
,
α
and
ω
,
first
efficient
,
and
supreme
end
,
to
whom
all
our
strength
and
service
refers
and
bowes
,
like
the
sheaves
of
Iacobs
sonnes
to
the
sheafe
of
Ioseph
.
Againe
,
the
matter
of
these
five
last
Psalmes
,
the
whole
of
them
is
but
Hallelujah
;
praise
ye
the
Lord
,
runneth
like
the
bloud
in
the
veines
,
quite
thorow
them
.
And
why
may
not
this
instruct
us
too
,
even
wherein
is
every
good
mans
duty
,
to
praise
God
thorowly
,
and
perpetually
?
The
Lord
our
God
,
the
keeper
of
Israel
,
neither
sleepeth
,
nor
slumbreth
;
and
his
Angels
,
or
Seraphims
cease
not
to
sing
,
Holy
,
Holy
;
and
Satan
and
his
Angels
are
ever
in
circuit
to
devoure
us
,
and
our
indevotion
to
good
is
ever
stealing
on
us
;
therefore
we
should
not
content
our selves
with
good
beginnings
,
like
the
Church
of
Ephesus
,
nor
presume
of
mercy
at
the
end
,
and
be
starke
dead
in
the
middle
,
like
the
Church
of
Sardis
;
we
should
not
rest
in
this
,
that
we
lift
up
our
lips
sometime
to
the
Lord
in
the
morning
,
or
end
in
the
evening
in
our
accustomed
devotions
,
unlesse
the
heart
and
matter
of
our
day
,
our
life
be
well
bestowed
:
according
to
our
modell
here
,
wee
should
bee
enwoven
and
wrought
quite
thorow
;
our
maine
bent
should
be
a
Hallelujah
to
praise
the
Lord
with
all
our
might
,
as
David
did
with
all
Israel
at
the
bringing
home
of
the
Arke
,
being
very
sensible
whensoever
we
cease
to
bee
of
service
to
the
Lord
,
as
David
was
grieved
for
the
breach
in
Vzzah
,
and
therefore
called
it
Perez-Vzzah
,
1
Chron.
13.
Now
the
Psalme
in
hand
is
first
Eucharisticall
,
a
vow
of
perpetuall
praise
to
the
Lord
,
in
the
two
first
verses
.
Secondly
,
Paraineticall
;
it
exhorts
to
it
upon
maine
reason
in
the
residue
of
the
Psalme
.
Praise
yee
the
Lord
.
Praise
the
Lord
O
my
soule
:
While
I
live
I
will
praise
the
Lord
;
while
I
have
any
being
;
that
is
,
O
my
minde
or
understanding
meditate
thou
on
God
,
know
him
ô
my
will
or
inmost
affection
,
my
very
heart-root
bee
thou
set
for
God
,
yea
,
and
that
not
for
a
mood
or
humour
onely
,
sed
quum
adhuc
ego
sum
;
while
I
live
,
while
I
have
any
being
,
I
shall
praise
the
Lord
thorow
all
times
,
places
,
and
occasions
.
Here
is
the
man
after
God
his
owne
make
;
So
let
us
awaken
our selves
,
so
speake
,
and
so
doe
,
Iames
the
second
.
Especially
we
who
succeed
the
Psalmist
in
office
,
so
should
we
foretaste
,
&
pre-digest
the
heavenly
gift
,
and
the
powers
of
the
world
to
come
,
and
speake
of
our
God
out
of
experience
,
or
out
of
a
sense
of
that
peace
and
grace
which
wee
preach
;
and
this
is
Clarigatio
,
as
the
Roman
heralds
use
to
speake
,
an
Hallelujah
,
a
denouncing
warre
against
hell
and
sinne
,
with
a
shrill
and
piercing
sound
.
Againe
,
the
Psalme
is
exhortative
,
pressed
with
good
reason
.
The
summe
is
this
;
Sticke
close
to
the
Lord
by
faith
and
love
,
for
fruitlesse
and
vaine
is
all
other
confidence
in
comparison
;
in
God
there
is
much
good-will
and
goodnesse
,
in
God
there
is
infinite
abilitie
and
power
,
in
God
there
is
eternall
being
,
hee
rules
for
ever
,
as
wee
see
from
the
fifth
verse
to
the
end
.
But
humane
succour
that
must
faile
us
needs
,
sometime
in
will
,
sometime
in
power
,
ever
in
duration
,
as
in
the
third
and
fourth
verses
,
Put
not
your
trust
in
Princes
,
nor
in
the
sonne
of
man
in
whom
there
is
no
helpe
:
His
breath
goeth
forth
,
&c.
Indeed
,
Christ
is
the
Prince
of
peace
,
happy
are
we
that
have
him
our
hope
,
for
as
he
is
the
sonne
of
man
,
the
branch
of
David
;
so
he
is
germen
Iehovae
,
the
seed
of
Iehovah
,
Esa.
4.2
.
The
Lord
our
righteousnesse
,
Ierem.
23.5
.
Ex
homine
,
non
per
hominem
,
borne
of
a
woman
,
but
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
the
fullnesse
of
the
Godhead
dwelleth
in
him
personally
,
that
the
helpe
of
Christ
,
is
the
helpe
of
God
.
But
meere
sons
of
men
;
every
second
cause
whatsoever
is
no
salvation
,
no
solid
helpe
,
no
merit
or
efficacy
to
build
upon
.
The
grace
of
a
Prince
is
a
shade
under
which
all
flesh
is
glad
to
feed
,
Dan.
4.
and
Seneca
wondereth
how
Polybius
could
weepe
,
Propitio
Caesare
,
being
in
grace
with
Caesar
:
yet
put
not
your
trust
in
Princes
,
not
in
the
ingenious
(
as
the
word
signifieth
)
or
magnificent
?
No
:
Then
the
Psalmist
takes
off
our
trust
from
all
the
world
,
and
there
is
not
that
thing
in
it
which
is
to
be
trusted
and
celebrated
for
ever
,
because
nothing
in
the
world
is
for
ever
,
and
God
his
Deputies
in
office
,
are
filii
hominis
,
in
essence
like
other
men
:
and
so
the
best
humane
confidence
is
but
pons
sublicius
,
a
woodden
bridge
,
very
ready
to
sinke
under
us
;
yea
,
scipio
arundincus
,
as
he
said
of
the
King
of
Egypt
,
a
broken
reed
,
perillous
to
be
trusted
on
,
when
the
waves
of
death
,
and
judgement
,
and
spirituall
distresses
arise
and
swell
;
and
therefore
Hallelujah
,
praise
God
,
and
doe
not
deifie
or
propose
to
your
hearts
a
rest
in
the
creature
,
for
it
is
all
mutable
.
His
breath
goeth
forth
,
he
returneth
to
the
earth
,
in
that
very
day
his
thoughts
perish
.
Here
a
treble
note
of
humane
imbecillity
:
First
,
from
that
which
is
the
forme
or
the
fountaine
of
lively
being
;
Spiritus
exit
,
His
spirit
,
or
his
breath
goeth
forth
:
Secondly
,
from
the
matter
that
he
is
made
of
;
Et
revertetur
in
terram
s●…am
,
and
he
shall
returne
into
his
earth
:
Thirdly
,
from
the
effects
that
he
purposeth
or
produceth
;
In
illo
die
pertbunt
omnes
cogitationes
corum
,
in
that
very
day
his
thoughts
perish
.
The
word
spirit
is
sometime
taken
substantially
for
the
soule
,
Lord
Iesus
receive
my
spirit
,
Acts
7.
And
the
spirit
returneth
to
God
that
gave
it
,
Eccles.
12.
So
Saint
Ierome
and
others
take
this
place
,
his
soule
goeth
forth
according
to
that
,
as
her
soule
was
going
forth
or
departing
,
Gen.
35.18
.
Againe
,
it
is
used
effectually
for
breath
or
respiration
;
Aufer
spiritum
,
Take
away
their
breath
,
and
they
die
,
Psal.
104.29
.
And
the
body
without
the
spirit
is
dead
,
that
is
,
without
breath
,
Iames
2.
For
compare
breath
to
a
massie
body
,
and
such
is
the
rarity
of
it
,
or
thinnesse
,
that
it
seemes
to
bee
a
spirit
or
spirituall
;
and
consider
it
with
the
soule
,
and
such
is
the
use
of
it
,
that
it
seemes
no
lesse
to
informe
the
body
,
than
the
spirit
it selfe
,
by
which
it
is
.
But
the
argument
is
good
however
the
word
be
taken
:
say
our
very
essence
,
and
forme
,
and
soule
is
fleeting
as
a
Pilgrim
,
and
ready
to
passe
from
its
Inne
,
to
goe
forth
of
the
body
,
therefore
Hallelujah
,
fasten
mainly
upon
Jehovah
,
because
man
is
very
soone
out
of
being
,
so
soone
done
,
his
soule
goeth
forth
.
Againe
,
what
a
brittlenesse
is
this
?
if
we
say
a
breath
,
an
aiery
substance
,
so
thinne
and
vanishing
it
is
,
that
it
is
scarce
visible
,
if
we
say
a
breath
,
it
is
a
tye
which
combines
soule
and
body
,
and
props
up
even
Princes
from
mouldring
into
ashes
.
Beside
the
Heavens
and
the
Elements
,
God
made
man
for
his
glory
,
a
creature
able
to
conceive
him
,
and
to
speake
and
declare
his
excellencie
,
and
by
those
two
rich
donatives
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
understanding
and
speech
;
the
Lord
put
man
in
a
state
of
perfection
,
denied
to
all
other
creatures
below
,
namely
,
to
be
admitted
into
the
immediate
presence
of
God
,
and
most
especially
to
behold
and
publish
his
glory
,
and
so
a
soule
understanding
and
reasonable
;
animus
aeterna
mente
delibatus
,
(
as
the
Oratour
speaketh
)
a
spirit
breathed
into
man
by
the
immediate
act
of
God
himselfe
;
it
is
such
a
dowry
wherein
man
is
farre
nobler
and
better
than
the
very
heavens
,
and
therefore
man
had
need
of
somewhat
to
abate
the
rising
thoughts
of
the
soule
,
and
the
Lord
hath
given
us
therefore
Stimulum
in
carne
,
a
mortality
in
the
body
to
buffet
us
;
His
breath
goeth
forth
.
Yea
,
there
is
the
deaths
head
,
the
mortality
of
man
indeed
,
that
a
very
breath
is
as
much
as
his
being
is
worth
:
Our
soule
that
spiraculum
vitarum
,
the
Lord
inspired
it
,
not
into
Adams
eye
or
eare
,
or
mouth
,
but
into
his
nostrills
,
which
may
shew
to
man
his
imbecillity
,
Cujus
anima
in
naribus
,
whose
soule
is
in
his
nostrills
,
and
dependeth
upon
a
breath
as
it
were
,
for
the
very
soule
must
away
,
if
but
breath
expires
,
soule
and
breath
goe
forth
both
together
.
Now
heare
yee
this
,
all
ye
People
,
ponder
it
high
and
low
,
your
Castle
is
built
upon
a
verie
aire
,
the
subsistence
is
in
flatu
narium
,
in
a
blast
,
that
is
out
in
the
twinckling
of
an
eye
;
Wherefore
David
maketh
a
question
,
saying
,
Domine
,
quid
est
homo
?
Lord
,
what
is
man
?
Hee
answereth
himselfe
also
;
Man
is
a
vanishing
shadow
,
Psal.
144.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
A
shadow
of
smoake
,
or
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
dreame
of
a
shadow
rather
(
as
the
Poet
speaketh
.
)
And
blessed
therefore
are
the
poore
in
spirit
,
this
advantage
have
all
afflicted
ones
,
that
they
have
checks
enough
to
call
them
home
,
to
make
them
see
they
be
but
men
:
The
curtaine
of
honour
,
profit
,
or
pleasure
,
hard
it
is
and
rare
to
draw
that
aside
,
when
it
is
spread
over
us
,
man
in
honour
understandeth
not
,
Psal.
49.
To
great
ones
therefore
be
it
spoken
,
the
Psalme
intendeth
it
to
verie
Princes
,
His
br●…th
goeth
forth
.
And
breathlesse
man
,
who
before
amazed
the
bruit
creature
by
the
majestie
of
his
eye
,
no
better
is
hee
to
the
eye
now
,
than
the
dust
and
gravell
,
and
chill
clay
under
our
shooe
:
—
Iacet
ingens
littore
truncus
,
Avulsumque
humeris
caput
,
&
sine
nomine
corpus
.
The
Poet
speakes
of
King
Priam.
Now
cease
from
the
man
whose
breath
is
in
his
nostrils
,
Isay
2.
Ten
thousand
graves
,
and
wormes
,
and
passing-bels
,
cannot
give
us
a
truer
touch
.
Waldus
,
a
rich
Merchant
of
Lyons
,
seeing
a
man
on
the
sudden
breathe
his
last
in
the
streets
:
So
was
hee
taken
with
it
,
that
as
suddenly
he
turned
his
old
course
,
fell
to
study
the
Scriptures
,
and
became
in
earnest
a
Preacher
,
and
Founder
of
the
Christians
called
Waldenses
:
Yee
see
what
a
point
this
is
,
and
of
what
use
,
his
breath
goeth
forth
.
Our
Saviour
hid
himselfe
from
the
unsought
honours
of
the
Jewes
:
and
so
should
we
,
had
we
learned
but
this
,
we
would
withdraw
sure
from
the
perillous
dignities
and
delights
of
the
times
.
But
as
Iulius
Caesar
,
the
same
morning
hee
went
out
to
sue
for
the
Priesthood
,
saluting
his
mother
said
,
Domum
nisi
Pontificem
se
non
reversurum
,
That
he
would
never
come
home
but
high
Priest
:
So
(
my
brethren
in
the
Ministerie
)
doe
not
some
of
us
in
pursuit
of
honour
,
take
leave
of
our
charge
,
which
should
be
as
our
mother
deare
unto
us
;
but
we
goe
out
,
as
resolved
not
to
come
to
residence
without
an
high
Priesthood
;
for
we
never
thinke
on
it
,
that
our
spirit
hath
but
this
to
shew
for
its
residence
in
the
world
,
a
breath
,
and
if
the
Lord
dash
that
,
we
die
,
if
he
take
away
his
finger
,
we
fall
away
like
water
:
Now
therefore
,
that
we
may
all
grow
to
more
sinceritie
,
let
us
,
I
pray
you
,
accustome
our
eares
and
eyes
to
man
dying
,
it
would
certainly
loosen
us
much
from
this
world
,
to
see
,
and
to
feele
,
and
to
handle
this
truth
,
as
it
were
,
his
spirit
,
his
breath
goeth
●orth
.
And
this
for
the
substance
of
the
act
,
the
going
forth
of
the
spirit
,
yee
see
what
it
meaneth
.
See
we
now
the
continuednesse
,
Exit
,
it
goeth
;
as
if
it
were
now
presently
in
its
passe
to
shew
this
,
that
Homo
vivens
contin●…
è
moritur
,
That
by
the
verie
act
of
living
wee
are
dying
,
that
life
is
a
continued
death
,
our
candle
lightens
,
consumes
and
dies
:
as
in
the
passing
of
an
houre-glasse
,
everie
minute
some
sand
falleth
,
and
the
glasse
once
turned
,
no
creature
can
intreat
the
sands
to
stay
,
till
they
are
drawen
out
:
So
is
our
life
,
it
shortens
and
dies
everie
minute
,
and
we
cannot
beg
a
minute
of
time
backe
,
and
that
we
call
death
,
is
but
the
terme
of
it
,
or
consummation
;
Vita
ultimo
die
finitur
,
omni
perit
,
saith
Seneca
:
Many
be
our
partiall
or
pettie
deaths
,
sorrow
,
sicknesse
,
mishap
,
but
death
is
inclosed
in
the
bowels
of
our
life
,
and
is
essentiall
with
it
.
Spiritus
exit
:
His
spirit
goeth
forth
.
Lycurgus
said
,
that
according
to
the
threefold
age
of
man
,
a
threefold
salutation
might
bee
used
,
you
are
welcome
,
or
you
come
in
a
good
houre
;
God
keepe
you
,
or
stand
in
a
good
houre
;
God
speed
you
,
or
goe
in
a
good
houre
:
to
shew
that
from
the
age
of
fiftie
and
forward
,
we
are
taking
our
leave
,
our
spirit
is
going
forth
,
but
so
fraile
and
fluid
is
life
,
that
at
all
ages
&
times
we
may
be
bid
,
God
speed
,
we
may
have
our
Vale
,
or
goe
in
a
good
houre
.
For
once
imbarqued
,
we
are
going
to
the
Port.
The
going
out
of
the
Cradle
is
the
entring
into
the
grave
,
to
have
a
beginning
and
to
be
borne
,
is
to
breed
or
be
in
travell
,
yea
to
bee
darted
,
or
put
in
a
slight
to
an
end
;
Therefore
Thales
was
wont
to
say
,
that
there
is
no
difference
betweene
life
and
death
,
and
being
thereupon
demanded
,
Tu
ergo
quid
non
moreris
?
Why
doest
not
thou
dye
then
?
Because
,
saith
he
,
there
is
no
difference
:
So
that
if
we
seeke
the
act
of
living
,
our
hearts
,
if
we
be
wise
,
should
be
established
against
dying
,
because
life
and
death
are
essentiall
to
one
another
,
or
include
one
another
,
and
it
is
as
naturall
to
dye
,
as
to
live
,
and
in
themselves
therefore
to
be
regarded
both
alike
:
Quid
ergo
novi
,
si
mortalis
natus
moriatur
?
Let
it
not
bee
strange
to
us
,
that
we
should
die
,
being
borne
dying
or
mortall
.
His
spirit
goeth
forth
:
Exit
.
And
to
us
that
bee
Ministers
in
the
Gospell
of
Jesus
Christ
,
let
this
word
bee
to
us
a
remembrance
,
like
Bezaleel
and
Aholibah
,
by
the
grace
that
is
given
us
,
we
are
master-builders
,
but
of
the
Lords
Tabernacles
,
or
Church
militant
on
the
earth
,
and
wee
are
gentle
among
you
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
even
as
a
Nurse
cherisheth
her
children
,
affectionately
desirous
of
you
,
1
Thess.
3.
even
so
with
piteous
heart●
looke
wee
upon
our
charge
,
for
they
be
earthly
tabernacles
,
dying
men
and
women
:
their
soule
and
spirit
stand
upon
their
lips
as
it
were
:
It
goeth
forth
;
Spiritus
exit
.
O
let
us
tender
them
therefore
,
and
apply
our
present
speedy
releefe
,
lest
they
fall
out
of
our
hands
,
before
we
have
dispenced
them
the
bread
of
life
,
of
which
Christ
hath
made
us
overseers
and
stewards
,
and
as
upon
the
bed
of
our
languishing
,
we
would
not
have
a
loftie
or
profound
,
but
a
gracious
word
come
to
us
;
so
seeing
wee
deale
with
such
,
whose
living
is
a
continued
dying
,
let
us
seeke
that
our
divinitie
may
be
as
profitable
as
may
be
to
save
:
Salus
populi
suprema
lex
esto
.
Now
I
come
to
the
libertie
of
the
spirit
,
that
it
recedes
inviolate
;
1.
In
Act
,
it
goeth
:
2.
In
essence
,
it
goeth
forth
.
Our
spirit
is
free
in
the
Act
,
it
is
not
haled
,
not
snatched
out
,
as
it
were
,
it
goeth
forth
.
A
soule
in
life
sealed
to
eternitie
by
the
first
fruits
of
the
spirit
hath
its
good
issue
,
its
free
passing
,
its
hopes
even
in
death
:
for
let
this
breath
fade
,
fidelis
Deus
,
God
who
cannot
lye
,
because
he
hath
said
it
,
be
we
sure
he
will
stand
nigh
us
in
that
exigencie
,
and
begin
to
helpe
where
man
leaveth
,
not
suffering
his
to
be
tempted
above
that
they
are
able
,
1
Cor.
10.
The
holy
Spirit
,
whose
name
is
the
Comforter
,
will
not
omit
and
leave
off
his
owne
act
or
office
in
the
great
needs
of
death
.
Hence
good
Hilarion
having
served
the
Lord
Christ
seventie
yeares
,
checkes
his
soule
that
it
was
so
loth
at
the
last
to
part
,
to
goe
forth
,
saying
,
Egredere
,
ô
anima
mea
,
egredere
;
Goe
forth
,
my
soule
,
goe
forth
:
And
devout
Simeon
sueth
for
a
manumission
,
Lord
,
now
lettest
thou
thy
servant
depart
in
peace
,
according
to
thy
word
:
And
this
is
the
freedome
of
the
act
,
the
Spirit
goeth
forth
;
it
yeelds
,
yea
it
goes
and
passes
freely
,
that
is
,
it
taketh
up
,
or
embraceth
the
Crosse
of
Christ
,
as
he
commandeth
us
to
doe
.
But
is
the
act
at
our
will
and
libertie
?
not
simply
,
we
may
not
projicore
animam
,
thrust
or
cast
forth
our
breath
or
spirit
,
Spiritus
Exit
,
it
goeth
forth
,
strive
wee
must
to
cast
the
world
out
of
us
,
we
may
not
cast
our selves
out
of
the
world
.
Saint
Paul
dareth
not
dissolve
himselfe
,
though
he
could
wish
to
be
dissolved
,
God
must
part
that
which
he
joynes
,
God
giveth
,
and
God
taketh
away
;
and
if
God
say
as
he
doth
to
Lazarus
,
Exi
foras
,
come
forth
,
with
faithfull
Steven
we
must
resigne
our
Spirit
,
and
all
into
his
hands
.
When
God
biddeth
us
yoke
,
he
is
the
wisest
man
that
yeeldeth
his
necke
most
willingly
;
when
our
grand
Captaine
recalls
us
,
we
must
take
the
retreit
in
good
part
,
but
it
is
heathenish
to
force
out
the
soule
,
for
when
the
misdeeming
flesh
amidst
our
disasters
,
will
not
listen
with
patience
for
God
his
call
,
but
rather
shake
off
the
thought
of
divine
providence
quite
,
then
are
wee
ready
to
curse
God
and
die
,
and
that
is
probably
,
to
leape
e
fumo
in
stammam
,
out
of
the
sinne
of
selfe-murder
into
hell
;
no
,
but
God
will
have
our
spirits
to
passe
forth
upon
good
termes
.
Spiritus
exit
,
the
spirit
goeth
forth
.
Secondly
,
the
spirit
goeth
free
or
inviolate
in
essence
,
death
is
not
the
end
,
but
the
out-going
of
the
soule
,
a
transmigration
or
journey
from
one
place
to
another
.
It
goeth
forth
,
so
the
character
of
our
weaknesse
we
see
in
the
issue
,
it
is
an
argument
of
our
eternity
,
for
man
indeed
is
perishing
,
but
so
is
not
his
spirit
,
Non
simul
perit
anima
,
&
animal
.
The
Phaenix
goes
forth
,
or
out
of
his
ashes
,
the
spirit
returneth
to
God
that
gave
it
,
Eccles.
12.
that
is
,
it
abides
still
,
and
as
in
the
body
it
pleased
God
to
inclose
the
soule
for
a
season
,
so
it
may
as
well
exist
elsewhere
without
it
,
if
God
will
,
for
it
hath
no
rise
at
all
from
the
clay
,
yea
,
it
beares
in
it
immortality
,
an
image
of
that
brest
whence
it
is
breathed
.
The
separate
and
very
abstract
acts
of
the
spirit
,
even
while
it
is
in
the
body
,
the
wondrous
visions
of
the
Lord
to
his
Prophets
,
usually
when
their
bodies
were
bound
up
in
sleepe
;
Saint
Paul
his
rapture
when
he
knew
not
whether
he
was
in
the
bodie
or
out
of
it
:
the
admirable
inventions
and
arts
of
men
manifest
the
soules-selfe-consisting
.
Not
Socrates
,
and
Cato
,
and
the
civilized
heathen
onely
,
but
the
very
savage
beleeve
this
,
and
so
entertaine
death
,
Vt
exitum
,
non
ut
exitium
,
as
a
dissolution
,
not
as
a
destruction
,
Spiritus
exit
,
his
spirit
goeth
forth
.
But
we
know
saith
the
Apostle
,
2
Cor.
5.
we
are
sure
God
the
Father
,
Sonne
,
and
Holy
Ghost
,
doth
no
create
,
redeeme
,
and
regenerate
man
for
the
meere
use
of
a
wretched
short
life
;
and
who
can
imagine
,
so
monstrously
,
that
of
all
men
the
good
and
righteous
,
and
of
all
creatures
man
,
for
whom
the
rest
are
made
,
and
who
hath
the
use
or
soveraignty
of
all
,
yet
by
farre
that
he
should
be
the
most
vile
and
miserable
of
all
?
but
sure
it
were
so
,
if
in
this
life
onely
we
had
hope
,
seeing
there
be
no
lower
creatures
that
are
capable
of
sorrow
,
and
terrours
of
conscience
,
and
feares
of
death
,
and
conceit
of
future
judgement
,
yea
,
not
so
subject
to
bodily
disease
.
But
account
mee
not
dead
said
the
holy
martyr
,
for
I
shall
certainely
live
and
never
die
.
And
the
martyrs
,
so
vigorous
(
as
we
see
)
amidst
the
ruines
and
destructions
of
the
body
,
had
something
in
them
surely
more
than
dust
:
A
Philosopher
,
Hermes
Trismegistus
,
dying
,
said
;
Mourne
not
for
me
as
if
I
were
dead
,
for
I
returne
to
the
happiest
City
.
Above
all
Jesus
Christ
giveth
us
an
expresse
watch-word
,
Nothing
is
able
to
kill
the
soule
,
Mat.
10.
And
Martin
Luther
going
to
give
up
his
account
before
the
Emperour
,
received
this
Eccho
from
the
people
,
feare
not
them
that
cannot
kill
the
soule
.
Mundus
minetur
,
aestuet
,
Death
by
all
its
pyoning
takes
but
a
fort
of
clay
;
Animus
ad
sedes
suas
&
cognata
sydera
recurrit
,
the
spirit
as
new
hatched
goeth
forth
to
live
still
,
like
as
the
light
issuing
from
the
Sunne
,
dieth
not
at
Suns●…ing
,
but
goeth
some
whither
else
with
the
Sunne
;
so
life
that
issues
from
the
soule
,
goes
with
its
owne
principle
,
and
abides
with
it
;
so
Saint
Iohn
the
divine
,
to
be
better
enabled
to
his
banishment
,
he
had
a
vision
of
this
by
speciall
privilege
,
a
sight
of
the
immortall
safe
subsistence
of
the
soule
after
death
,
under
the
altar
the
custody
of
Christ
Jesus
,
Rev.
6.9
And
thence
is
Saint
Pauls
,
Ne
contristemini
,
sorrow
not
as
hopelesse
men
,
1
Thess.
4.
Yea
,
bee
we
nured
to
a
certaine
faith
,
and
frequent
thought
of
this
,
and
a
fairer
flower
the
booke
of
God
yeeldeth
not
,
than
the
immortality
of
Saints
in
blisse
.
Hence
the
great
patience
of
the
Saints
,
hence
the
challenge
of
death
,
Vbi
mors
victoria
,
O
death
thou
wilt
take
away
our
breath
;
Alas
how
small
a
losse
,
seeing
no
death
can
divide
us
from
Christ
,
Rom.
8.38
.
and
spiritus
exit
,
seeing
the
spirit
doth
but
migrare
,
it
goeth
untouched
in
essence
,
and
inviolate
.
The
maine
issue
of
this
first
point
is
,
that
seeing
our
breath
,
our
spirit
goeth
forth
,
that
wee
make
sure
provision
therefore
of
some
harbour
or
sanctuary
,
that
we
get
us
into
the
Arke
before
the
fl●ud
,
that
we
gather
our
Manna
,
and
prepare
to
our
eternall
Sabbath
now
in
the
Even
of
this
life
,
Qui
laborat
in
vesp●re
Sabbati
,
vesce
ur
in
Sabbato
,
say
the
Rabbines
,
and
what
an
exceeding
strength
will
it
be
to
us
when
we
are
weake
in
minde
and
body
,
that
our
spirit
is
to
passe
safely
and
comfortably
,
that
we
have
a
refuge
,
a
terminus
ad
quem
for
our
spirit
;
so
let
us
forecast
for
it
by
a
true
apprehension
and
faith
of
the
loves
and
promises
of
God
in
Christ
Jesus
.
O
my
Dove
that
art
in
the
clefts
of
the
rock
,
saith
our
Saviour
,
Cant.
2.14
.
The
wounds
of
Christ
,
are
the
clefts
of
the
rocke
,
therein
let
us
cove&r
hide
us
over
soule
and
body
,
let
us
make
sure
of
a
rightfull
hold
in
that
rocke
of
our
salvation
,
through
faith
and
repentance
,
and
so
our
spirits
will
grow
acquainted
with
the
peace
of
conscience
,
and
the
joyes
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
the
sense
and
hopes
of
the
promised
recompence
,
and
so
shall
also
we
be
well
composed
and
fortified
for
our
migration
or
passage
,
even
that
our
spirit
goeth
forth
of
an
earthly
vessell
,
but
into
an
eternall
and
blessed
receptacle
.
I
come
to
the
second
branch
of
the
text
:
the
second
note
of
mans
imbecillity
from
the
matter
that
he
is
made
of
:
Et
revertetur
in
terram
suam
,
and
he
returneth
to
his
earth
.
He
returneth
:
The
body
of
man
before
his
fall
was
beautifull
and
amiable
in
the
eye
of
God
,
and
awfull
in
the
eye
of
the
creature
,
and
exacts
in
its
owne
temper
,
and
immortall
by
privilege
sealed
in
the
tree
of
life
;
but
since
that
sinne
came
into
the
world
,
the
body
of
man
incloseth
a
death
,
a
selfe-ruining
,
beside
outward
violence
,
and
perills
of
contagion
,
none
of
which
were
incident
to
his
pure
estate
;
so
man
returnes
to
his
earth
without
contradiction
,
hee
hath
no
helpe
for
it
.
The
spirit
which
holdeth
up
the
elements
together
in
a
body
,
when
that
goeth
forth
,
each
of
them
fall
backe
to
their
owne
principles
;
earth
goeth
to
its
earth
,
according
to
God
his
ordinance
,
dust
thou
art
,
and
to
dust
thou
shalt
returne
,
Gen.
3.
Nicodemus
thought
it
strange
,
but
in
this
sense
it
is
true
,
we
re-enter
the
bowels
of
our
mother
.
The
sonne
of
Syrach
calleth
the
earth
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
mother
of
us
all
,
Ecclus.
40.
So
Brutus
wisely
tooke
the
Oracle
,
when
being
warned
to
kisse
his
mother
,
kissed
the
earth
.
His
earth
.
Earth
we
see
goeth
,
very
nigh
us
,
it
is
our
earth
,
not
onely
the
matter
or
rocke
out
of
which
wee
are
hewen
,
but
the
matter
whereof
wee
consist
,
our
ingredient
,
and
co-essentiall
with
us
,
that
I
may
say
with
the
Prophet
Ieremy
,
O
earth
,
earth
,
earth
,
heare
the
word
of
the
Lord
.
Trim
wee
never
so
nicely
,
we
are
earth
,
Lutea
progenies
,
an
off-spring
of
earth
,
yea
,
pulvinaria
,
as
the
Romans
stiled
their
Temples
,
vessels
or
beds
made
up
or
stuft
with
dust
,
and
shall
we
dote
upon
our
earth
?
Shall
we
suffer
our
immorta●…
spirit
to
goe
out
like
a
starveling
,
and
over-care
for
what
●…cernes
the
bodie
,
and
over-decke
the
daughter
of
ro●…ennesse
?
know
we
not
that
our
very
make
is
such
,
that
earth
,
that
the
chambers
of
death
stand
like
the
houses
of
the
Roman
Tribunes
,
wide
open
for
us
night
and
day
,
and
very
usually
man
sleepeth
,
and
never
riseth
againe
,
and
walketh
,
but
never
returneth
againe
,
unlesse
it
be
into
his
earth
.
The
men
of
Anathoh
said
to
the
Prophet
Ieremie
,
Prophesie
not
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
,
that
thou
dye
not
,
Ier.
11.
But
to
you
,
my
fellow-labourers
,
I
say
,
prophesie
in
the
feare
of
God
;
for
we
shall
die
,
because
we
shall
be
dissolved
,
and
returne
to
our
earth
,
wee
know
not
how
soone
,
and
if
this
doth
not
quicken
,
our
account
being
so
nigh
at
hand
,
what
will
?
And
of
all
Gods
Officers
,
we
his
especiall
Embassadours
,
how
shall
wee
turne
us
on
the
bed
of
death
,
if
we
have
betrayed
the
immediate
worke
and
businesse
of
our
Soveraigne
?
The
Indian
Priests
or
Brachmanes
,
so
verie
separate
were
they
from
the
body
,
that
they
are
said
,
Interrâ
esse
,
&
non
in
terrâ
esse
;
To
be
,
and
not
to
bee
on
the
earth
:
A
Minister
of
Christ
his
Gospell
much
rather
hee
should
bee
unglued
,
and
abstracted
from
this
earth
,
the
body
,
like
a
starre
already
fixed
in
Heaven
:
But
wee
care
what
wee
can
for
our
body
,
and
so
tender
it
oft
times
,
that
wee
forget
our
God
,
and
yet
neverthelesse
wee
shall
returne
to
our
earth
;
and
when
our
turne
commeth
,
what
a
crowne
of
rejoycing
should
it
be
,
to
thinke
that
we
have
wasted
in
body
,
by
winning
soules
,
and
have
truly
sought
to
turne
men
to
God
,
though
it
turne
us
into
the
earth
,
stantem
&
praedicantem
mori
?
But
beside
counsell
,
the
Lord
hath
comfort
for
this
point
in
the
issue
,
namely
,
that
thus
God
ordaineth
by
his
returne
into
earth
,
to
refine
and
turne
our
vile
bodies
,
to
bee
like
the
glorious
bodie
of
Jesus
Christ
:
Hee
that
was
wrapt
up
into
the
third
Heavens
,
and
knew
what
he
saith
,
S.
Paul
speakes
it
,
Yea
(
saith
hee
)
as
the
corne
liveth
not
except
it
die
,
and
be
cast
into
the
earth
,
so
wee
are
not
clarified
,
not
made
blessed
bodies
,
but
by
a
returne
into
the
earth
.
So
then
with
an
Eagles
eye
by
faith
,
pierce
wee
thorow
,
and
looke
beyond
the
grave
,
and
wee
shall
discerne
and
see
an
incomparable
light
of
grace
,
to
which
the
Lord
worketh
our
returne
into
earth
,
our
verie
dissolution
.
But
if
the
spirit
of
him
that
raised
Jesus
from
the
dead
be
in
you
,
he
that
raised
Christ
from
the
dead
,
shall
quicken
also
your
mortall
bodies
,
by
,
or
because
of
the
Spirit
that
dwelleth
in
you
,
Rom.
8.11
.
our
earth
is
Christs
body
,
know
ye
not
that
your
bodies
are
the
members
of
Christ
,
1
Cor.
6.
Dead
and
withered
as
we
be
,
wee
are
still
united
to
Christ
,
it
is
not
death
that
can
separate
us
from
him
,
for
I
am
perswaded
,
that
neither
death
nor
life
,
&c.
Rom.
8.
and
by
vertue
of
this
mysticall
conjunction
with
Christ
,
even
according
to
our
whole
man
,
doubt
we
nothing
,
but
our
first
resurrection
by
the
same
spirit
,
is
an
earnest
and
certaine
pledge
of
a
better
resurrection
;
for
that
same
quickening
spirit
of
Christ
,
which
now
dwelleth
in
us
,
and
uniteth
us
to
him
,
it
is
hee
that
made
our
bodies
out
of
the
earth
at
first
,
yea
,
which
made
the
earth
it selfe
,
and
the
whole
world
out
of
nothing
;
and
therefore
hee
can
and
will
,
as
hee
hath
witnessed
,
fetch
our
bodies
backe
from
the
earth
to
which
they
are
returned
,
and
that
because
they
are
yet
the
members
of
Christ
Jesus
though
the
same
spirit
,
and
his
owne
temples
God
will
surely
reare
them
up
againe
,
yea
,
though
they
lye
in
the
dust
,
and
the
latter
temples
shall
have
farre
more
beautie
than
the
former
,
according
to
his
word
.
I
proceed
to
the
third
and
last
note
of
humane
weaknesse
from
the
effects
,
that
which
man
purposeth
or
produceth
:
In
illo
die
peribunt
omnes
cogitationes
eorum
,
In
that
verie
day
his
thoughts
perish
:
The
night
commeth
that
no
man
can
worke
,
Iohn
9.4
.
The
dead
are
out
of
office
;
so
it
is
of
our
nature
,
to
leave
our
humane
purposes
crackt
and
broken
in
the
verie
midst
,
my
dayes
are
past
,
my
enterprises
are
broken
off
,
Iob
8.
In
that
verie
day
our
life
is
defined
to
bee
a
vapour
that
appeares
a
little
time
,
and
then
vanisheth
,
Iam.
4.
My
dayes
are
a
span
long
,
saith
David
,
Fecisti
dies
meos
palmarios
,
Psal.
39.
and
wee
are
but
as
yesterday
,
Iob
8.
So
though
we
make
a
bustle
for
a
life
time
in
this
world
,
that
is
all
our
projects
go
not
on
into
another
world
,
and
life
is
such
a
minute
,
such
a
drop
of
the
bucket
,
Gutta
è
situla
,
as
the
Prophet
speaketh
,
that
our
terrene
thoughts
perish
all
in
that
ve-day
that
they
were
hatched
,
as
it
were
.
Alexander
had
not
elbow-roome
,
not
space
enough
in
the
world
for
his
thoughts
.
Xerxes
had
such
thoughts
against
Greece
,
that
he
undertaketh
an
expedition
so
huge
and
great
,
that
seas
and
mountaines
are
even
spurned
out
of
his
way
.
And
Iulian
madly
projects
a
finall
and
utter
extirpation
of
all
Christendome
:
Vast
and
high
thoughts
all
,
yet
a
bubble
,
no
sooner
up
than
deaded
,
dasht
that
verie
day
that
they
were
conceived
,
as
it
were
.
The
Parable
of
that
certaine
rich
man
,
Luke
12.
sheweth
how
verie
perishing
is
the
figure
and
thought
of
this
world
,
and
it
is
well
shadowed
at
the
Coronation
of
the
Popes
,
when
hee
that
is
new
called
passeth
on
,
the
Master
of
the
Ceremonies
holds
up
an
handfull
of
flax
at
the
end
of
a
dry
reed
,
and
setting
fire
to
it
,
saith
aloud
,
Pater
sancte
,
sic
transit
gloria
mundi
;
Holy
Father
,
so
passes
the
worlds
glorie
:
Fortuna
vitrea
,
It
is
a
glassie
condition
,
as
that
noble
Lady
,
the
Lady
Iane
Gray
admonished
the
Lieutenant
at
her
death
,
now
let
us
not
bee
too
eager
on
it
therefore
,
but
keepe
in
,
and
limit
our
terrene
thoughts
and
purposes
,
yea
let
us
trample
the
Moone
,
the
world
under
our
feet
,
give
it
the
lowest
place
in
our
affections
,
as
the
Lord
represents
it
in
the
twelfth
of
the
Revelation
.
Everie
Christian
man
like
young
Hannibal
,
tactis
sacris
,
hee
voweth
no
lesse
in
baptisme
,
se
cum
primum
posset
hostem
fore
,
even
to
hate
the
world
in
comparison
,
and
not
to
spend
a
thought
for
it
,
if
it
lay
in
his
way
to
God
and
his
grace
.
But
,
by
thoughts
,
not
only
the
worldly
,
but
the
verie
quintessence
,
or
most
excellent
effects
of
the
minde
of
man
,
are
meant
;
namely
,
that
all
which
is
not
above
humanitie
is
most
perishing
.
The
best
humane
good
is
the
rich
furniture
of
Wisdome
,
Arts
,
and
Sciences
;
and
,
Let
not
the
wise
glorie
in
his
wisdome
,
saith
the
Lord
,
Esay
9.
and
,
God
knoweth
the
thoughts
of
the
wise
are
but
vaine
,
1
Cor.
3.
uneffectuall
to
salvation
:
should
any
creature
swell
or
presume
on
this
good
?
The
depths
of
the
Schooles
or
State
,
what
are
they
?
An
anchor
pitched
in
the
aire
,
a
wall
of
breath
about
us
,
which
if
the
Lord
but
push
at
us
,
are
gone
verso
pollice
,
with
a
wet
finger
(
as
they
say
)
and
when
the
darts
of
temptation
,
and
the
furie
of
disease
,
and
the
fearefull
wan
lookes
of
death
and
judgement
come
to
us
,
in
that
verie
day
these
thoughts
perish
.
O
fallacem
hominum
spem
!
ô
inanes
nostras
contentiones
!
Thus
the
Oratour
laments
the
death
of
his
learned
Hortensius
.
But
ô
the
buckler
of
faith
,
the
helmet
of
salvation
!
at
other
times
we
may
talke
,
and
say
our
wits
have
made
us
,
at
the
evill
houre
nothing
but
God
can
ease
us
,
no
skill
can
cure
us
but
of
God
his
mercie
in
Christ
Jesus
:
and
Luther
therfore
said
well
,
that
men
were
best
Christians
in
death
,
because
when
learning
,
policie
,
friends
,
and
breath
,
and
all
goe
from
us
,
if
we
be
wise
,
we
then
goe
from
our selves
,
our
owne
abilities
,
and
with
all
our
strength
and
might
,
rest
and
repose
on
God
,
and
his
especiall
favour
and
mercie
in
Christ
Jesus
revealed
in
the
word
;
againe
,
it
is
a
comfort
at
this
verie
day
,
that
In
illo
die
peribunt
omnes
cogitationes
eorum
,
the
Devill
and
the
world
league
,
and
set
in
together
,
and
worke
their
spleene
out
against
the
Church
of
Christ
,
and
even
plow
it
up
before
them
,
fierce
and
cruell
be
their
thoughts
,
but
they
are
fraile
:
the
Holy
Ghost
resembleth
them
to
grasse
on
the
house
tops
,
Psal.
129.
one
would
thinke
they
were
good
corne
by
their
growing
,
they
are
vile
grasse
,
and
such
as
is
without
blessing
.
Iulians
thoughts
against
the
Church
,
were
nubiculae
citò
transiturae
,
clouds
soone
over
,
as
Athanasius
prophesied
,
They
gave
up
the
ghost
in
one
day
as
it
were
.
The
end
of
the
upright
God
sets
a
marke
upon
it
,
that
it
is
peace
,
Psal.
37.
but
the
union
of
his
enemies
God
will
disjoynt
it
,
and
they
shall
walke
,
as
wee
hope
at
this
day
,
in
Baal-perizin
,
in
the
valley
of
division
,
1
Chron.
14.
Counsels
against
God
shall
not
stand
,
not
laste
,
not
a
day
in
comparison
,
In
that
very
day
his
thoughts
perish
.
But
are
the
thoughts
of
men
so
perishing
,
it
is
matter
of
advice
then
that
we
redeeme
the
spanne
of
time
wee
have
,
husband
it
well
,
and
on
good
thoughts
,
and
to
good
purposes
,
and
there
be
thoughts
,
as
wee
see
in
Maries
choice
,
which
shall
not
perish
with
our
dayes
,
and
of
which
no
time
shall
bereave
us
.
Blessed
are
they
that
die
in
the
Lord
,
they
rest
from
their
labours
,
and
their
workes
follow
them
,
Rev.
14.
The
thoughts
of
Gods
worship
,
good
workes
have
their
abiding
fruit
for
ever
,
and
when
all
faile
us
they
follow
,
goe
along
with
us
after
death
in
their
reward
and
crowne
,
but
the
bent
of
our
hearts
if
it
be
on
by
matters
,
we
may
say
,
what
is
this
we
doe
?
what
fruit
will
this
afford
us
in
or
after
death
,
In
that
very
day
our
thoughts
are
cut
off
and
perish
.
Our
dayes
are
a
declining
shadow
,
Psal.
102.
and
the
shadow
declines
and
lengthens
,
as
the
Sunne
goeth
off
or
on
us
:
when
it
is
direct
or
meridian
short
is
our
shadow
,
and
stretched
out
at
even
,
when
the
light
of
Christ
is
far
from
us
,
then
according
to
the
mold
of
our
owne
blinde
thoughts
,
our
shadow
lengthens
,
for
life
is
our
shadow
,
Iob
14.
but
then
we
thinke
of
death
as
farre
removed
,
In
hoc
enim
fallimur
quod
mortem
prospicimus
,
saith
Seneca
.
Now
let
our
eyes
be
truly
inlightened
,
and
all
those
thoughts
perish
,
and
we
perceive
life
sliding
swifter
away
than
a
Weavers
shuttle
,
Iob
7.
and
so
the
Lord
is
said
to
shorten
our
dayes
,
Psal.
89.
not
that
he
cuts
off
,
or
depriveth
us
of
that
time
,
which
hee
had
determined
,
but
of
that
which
our
owne
thoughts
have
minted
:
And
,
ô
we
vaine
and
blinde
,
that
thinke
thus
,
as
if
wee
were
at
a
fee
with
death
,
and
never
to
be
removed
.
Nullius
vita
non
spectat
in
crastinum
,
saith
Seneca
,
wee
thinke
all
,
to
morrow
we
shall
live
,
and
we
shall
live
better
to
morrow
,
and
the
life
we
forge
and
fancie
to
us
,
failes
us
,
even
before
we
thinke
on
it
;
In
that
verie
day
his
thoughts
perish
.
Be
we
therefore
advised
to
fasten
on
the
present
time
,
to
repent
to
day
,
and
beleeve
to
day
,
let
us
provoke
our
hearts
to
good
purposes
,
and
to
day
let
us
put
our
hands
to
practise
them
.
But
there
be
who
thinke
or
dreame
,
rather
of
future
expiations
or
satisfactions
to
be
made
after
death
,
of
a
release
after
a
time
in
hellish
durance
:
but
these
are
groundlesse
perishing
thoughts
.
It
is
for
men
once
to
dye
,
but
after
death
commeth
judgement
,
Heb.
9.27
.
Therefore
the
tree
of
our
life
,
while
it
hath
a
standing
,
let
it
bend
to
God-ward
,
and
then
we
shall
both
stand
and
fall
to
our
owne
Lord
and
Master
,
and
let
us
seeke
presently
to
bee
reconciled
to
God
,
through
the
pretious
purgation
of
our
soules
,
which
is
through
faith
in
Christ
his
bloud
,
and
then
wee
shall
never
be
confounded
,
our
thoughts
shall
not
perish
,
or
bee
made
void
,
Praeveniendus
ergo
dies
est
,
qui
praevenire
consuevit
,
saith
S.
Austen
:
wee
must
trim
our
lamps
betime
with
the
oyle
of
faith
,
and
love
,
and
prevent
the
day
of
death
,
lest
it
prevent
us
,
our
eternitie
of
woe
or
blisse
,
wee
should
not
hazard
it
to
after-thoughts
,
and
to
second
plots
,
yea
,
surely
it
cannot
be
mended
afterward
:
the
watchlesse
virgins
,
because
unprovided
then
,
were
undone
for
ever
;
and
though
sorrowing
learnt
them
wit
,
they
had
no
time
to
practise
it
:
In
that
verie
day
his
thoughts
perish
.
And
to
you
especially
(
my
Brethren
in
the
Ministerie
)
let
me
speake
in
the
words
of
S.
Paul
;
As
we
have
opportunitie
let
us
die
good
,
Gal.
6.10
.
let
us
be
doing
good
while
wee
may
:
—
Dum
superest
Lachesi
quod
torqueat
:
—
Should
such
as
wee
cast
in
our
thoughts
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
to
serve
our selves
or
the
times
for
a
season
,
and
thinke
then
afterward
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
to
serve
the
Lord
in
his
Vineyard
,
perhaps
at
even
,
but
when
our
carnall
thoughts
have
reached
up
to
their
ends
:
alas
,
while
wee
so
thinke
,
while
our
thoughts
are
in
our
hearts
,
our
thoughts
may
perish
,
the
hand
of
Justice
may
write
bitter
things
against
us
in
that
verie
moment
;
high
is
our
race
,
and
life
is
perishing
,
heavenly
be
our
thoughts
;
let
us
take
that
good
of
our
high
calling
at
the
first
opportunitie
,
the
world
should
stoope
to
it
;
for
the
fashion
of
the
world
passeth
away
,
but
the
Crowne
is
uncorruptible
which
God
reserveth
for
us
,
if
wee
finish
our
course
,
with
a
conscience
of
his
ordinance
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
with
feare
and
trembling
.
The
Atticke
Oratours
(
saith
Quintilian
)
are
,
Eloquentiae
,
quadam
frugalitate
contenti
,
ac
semper
manum
intra
pallium
continentes
;
just
so
,
many
of
us
doe
thinke
with
Nicodemus
,
we
can
plead
for
God
in
sober
silence
,
husbanding
both
our
professing
and
preaching
of
Christ
Jesus
for
feare
of
the
Jewes
,
lest
we
should
run
into
suspition
with
great
ones
,
and
hazard
our
stocke
of
worldly
favours
.
The
argument
of
my
Text
is
good
to
raise
our
diligence
,
namely
that
we
may
bee
called
to
dye
,
in
the
midst
of
our
ambitious
and
terrene
thoughts
,
and
so
to
dye
before
wee
have
begun
to
live
,
and
so
we
may
live
and
dye
in
vaine
,
and
without
Use
:
a
wretched
mishap
especially
in
a
most
spirituall
and
heavenly
calling
,
a
Prophet
,
a
Seer
of
the
Lord
to
perish
before
hee
hath
done
any
good
,
a
worthlesse
case
,
and
most
to
be
feared
.
To
conclude
,
heare
we
the
words
of
our
Savior
to
his
Apostles
,
What
I
say
unto
all
,
I
say
unto
you
,
Watch
,
Mat.
26.
and
heare
what
Salomon
saith
,
Whatsoever
thy
hand
findeth
to
doe
,
doe
it
,
for
there
is
no
worke
,
no
device
nor
wisdome
in
the
grave
,
whither
thou
goest
,
Eccles.
9.10
.
In
that
verie
day
his
thoughts
perish
.
FINIS
.
A
FVNERAL
SERMON
.
PSAL.
51.17
.
A
broken
and
a
contrite
heart
O
God
,
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
AS
all
civill
bodies
or
common-wealths
,
so
that
of
the
Jewes
was
made
up
of
three
diverse
parts
:
the
rich
,
the
middle
sort
,
the
poore
;
and
so
their
oblations
were
diverse
,
from
the
herd
,
the
flock
,
the
fowles
of
the
aire
;
and
diverse
often
was
their
end
and
acceptation
:
he
in
the
impurity
of
his
heart
killeth
an
oxe
,
or
sacrificeth
a
kid
,
Decollat
canem
,
saith
the
Prophet
,
is
as
if
he
cut
off
a
dogs
necke
,
so
little
is
the
Lord
affected
to
the
worship
wee
doe
him
in
meere
ceremony
;
but
the
honest
contrite
soule
,
the
poore
in
spirit
,
that
comes
trembling
with
his
paire
of
turtle
doves
,
repentance
and
faith
,
to
this
man
will
I
looke
saith
the
Lord
,
Es.
66.
The
poore
service
we
doe
him
,
if
it
be
in
spirit
,
and
in
truth
,
he
takes
delight
in
it
,
wherefore
David
here
at
the
15.
verse
,
praying
for
ability
to
praise
,
or
worship
the
Lord
aright
,
sets
it
out
;
First
,
by
negation
,
even
what
it
is
not
in
comparison
;
thou
desirest
not
sacrifice
,
thou
delightest
not
in
burnt
offerings
:
Secondly
,
hee
positively
concludes
what
indeed
that
is
,
which
indeed
God
wills
,
and
likes
;
the
sacrifices
of
God
are
the
contrite
spirit
,
A
broken
and
a
contrite
heart
O
God
,
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
Not
that
the
Jewish
rights
were
not
Gods
ordinances
,
or
were
then
in
abrogation
,
in
sepultura
,
in
their
buriall
;
but
because
these
outward
forms
or
performances
did
never
satisfie
not
please
the
Lord
without
the
sacrifice
and
service
of
the
heart
,
a
lip-devotion
,
a
deed
done
,
an
heartlesse
manner
of
worship
is
not
that
which
delights
the
Lord
,
or
profits
us
;
yea
,
if
there
be
no
heart
,
no
soule
in
it
,
it
is
a
shining
sinne
,
it
is
abominable
,
as
if
we
blest
an
Idoll
,
as
if
a
Jew
had
offered
swines
bloud
,
The
sacrifice
of
the
wicked
is
an
abomination
to
the
Lord
,
Pro.
21.27
.
But
a
cup
of
cold
water
,
saith
our
Saviour
,
and
the
least
sparke
of
zeale
out
of
a
true
heart
,
though
mixt
with
much
infirmity
,
yet
goeth
not
away
unregarded
;
this
,
when
the
widow
,
good
soule
,
came
in
with
her
mite
,
the
Lord
calls
his
disciples
to
see
,
as
in
admiration
of
her
bounty
:
and
David
here
upon
Nathans
rebuke
,
a
contrite
sinner
presents
the
Lord
with
his
offering
,
even
such
he
had
,
a
broken
heart
;
and
goeth
away
well
perswaded
or
satisfied
concerning
Gods
acceptance
,
O
God
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
You
may
see
there
is
a
double
use
of
that
I
am
to
say
:
First
,
Preparatory
,
like
the
Lords
Epistle
to
the
Church
of
Laodicea
,
that
the
luke-warme
indifferent
Christian
,
who
sayes
he
is
rich
,
and
needs
nothing
,
may
see
he
is
poore
indeed
,
and
so
become
poore
in
spirit
.
Secondly
,
Principall
,
like
the
other
Epistle
of
comfort
to
the
Church
of
Smyrna
,
a
Church
of
a
broken
heart
we
see
,
and
much
humbled
,
but
very
rich
,
therefore
according
to
the
grace
of
Gods
acceptation
.
Now
two
things
were
of
great
regard
in
the
legall
sacrifices
or
oblations
,
the
subject
,
and
the
manner
;
a
lambe
,
or
a
dove
:
there
is
the
thing
,
and
both
without
blemish
;
not
the
refuse
,
not
the
reversion
,
there
is
the
quality
.
The
burden
of
the
word
of
the
Lord
came
downe
against
Iudah
,
because
the
table
was
come
into
contempt
;
and
if
you
offer
the
blinde
,
saith
he
,
for
sacrifice
,
is
it
not
evill
?
and
if
you
offer
the
lame
and
sicke
,
is
it
not
evill
?
carry
these
to
your
Prince
,
and
can
he
be
pleased
with
you
,
and
can
he
accept
your
persons
saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
,
Malac.
1.
The
greatest
man
alive
,
let
him
come
to
the
Table
of
the
Lord
to
receive
of
his
visible
and
invisible
word
,
with
an
unwasht
,
irreverent
,
and
dead
heart
,
and
the
very
Sacrament
and
word
he
taketh
are
his
judgements
for
not
discerning
,
and
because
of
his
contempt
;
wherefore
King
David
offereth
like
himselfe
,
that
is
,
according
to
Gods
owne
heart
:
First
,
for
the
materialls
,
his
heart
:
Secondly
,
for
the
forme
and
qualification
,
his
heart
broken
and
contrite
.
That
very
Caruncula
,
that
little
flesh
,
or
part
of
the
body
,
the
heart
,
some
from
the
triangular
figure
of
that
observe
a
seat
,
and
receptacle
not
of
the
round
world
,
but
of
the
blessed
Trinity
,
yea
,
and
some
gather
this
same
doctrine
from
the
letters
of
the
word
Cor.
But
the
heart
,
it
meaneth
more
spiritually
,
and
first
,
the
understanding
,
in
which
Saint
Paul
saith
,
Cor
excaecatum
,
a
blinded
heart
,
Rom.
1.
And
David
sayes
,
The
foole
hath
said
in
his
heart
;
in
corde
suo
that
is
,
in
his
unhallowed
,
unbroken
understanding
.
Secondly
,
the
heart
is
the
conscience
,
so
Davids
heart
smote
him
.
Thirdly
,
it
is
the
desiring
part
of
the
soule
,
Quid
est
cor
tuum
,
nisi
voluntas
tua
,
saith
Saint
Bernard
;
Love
the
Lord
with
all
thy
heart
;
and
out
of
the
abundance
of
the
heart
,
&c.
Vbi
thesaurus
,
ibi
cor
,
our
affections
,
our
wills
live
with
our
treasure
,
Vbi
ancant
,
non
ubi
animant
.
Fourthly
,
the
heart
is
the
complete
soule
quite
through
;
With
the
heart
we
beleeve
,
Rom.
1.
with
the
act
of
the
understanding
,
conceiving
;
and
with
the
armes
of
the
will
and
affiance
;
consenting
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Acts
15.
God
which
searcheth
the
heart
,
that
is
,
the
thoughts
,
the
conscience
,
the
affections
,
the
whole
depth
of
the
soule
,
a
thing
,
which
neither
the
sight
of
man
can
reach
,
nor
the
law
of
man
can
censure
.
This
is
the
subject
of
Davids
sacrifice
,
the
matter
,
but
without
forme
,
and
void
as
it
was
in
the
beginning
;
the
manner
or
information
,
the
due
trimming
to
the
Lords
Altar
,
followes
in
these
words
,
[
Broken
and
con●rite
]
and
to
take
them
and
apply
them
to
the
subject
in
order
.
First
,
the
understanding
,
yea
,
Nathan
uses
this
method
with
David
,
by
the
parable
of
the
Ewe
lambe
,
2
Sam.
12.
First
of
all
he
convinces
the
judgement
,
breaketh
that
,
maketh
David
plyable
to
understand
himselfe
,
for
the
judgement
unbroken
approves
of
sinne
,
thus
David
makes
no
matter
of
numbring
the
people
,
so
did
pride
hood-winke
reason
;
upon
his
confession
he
confesses
he
did
very
foolishly
,
or
without
any
true
understanding
.
S.
Paul
so
understood
,
as
if
he
did
well
to
persecute
the
saith
of
Christ
,
but
upon
his
repentance
his
judgement
altered
,
I
did
it
ignorantly
,
saith
he
,
and
I
am
the
least
of
the
Apostles
,
not
worthy
to
be
so
called
,
yea
,
an
abortive
,
or
one
borne
out
of
time
,
because
I
did
persecute
the
Church
of
God
.
Surely
,
the
reason
why
wee
so
rarely
repent
in
truth
is
,
because
we
allow
sinne
in
our
judgement
,
our
minde
dislikes
it
not
,
and
we
have
no
apprehension
of
the
danger
of
it
,
that
it
is
so
deadly
,
and
therefore
we
refuse
the
Physicke
of
contrition
,
because
we
conceive
that
,
as
a
thing
more
than
needs
:
we
consider
not
,
that
God
is
as
well
just
as
mercifull
,
and
cannot
possibly
be
served
without
repentance
,
and
therefore
this
holy
informing
,
it
deales
first
at
the
understanding
;
as
in
the
case
of
comfort
,
namely
,
against
the
feares
of
death
,
faith
cheeres
up
the
heart
by
meditation
,
or
minding
it
of
the
blessed
promises
,
that
the
judgement
rectified
,
and
made
to
understand
death
inwardly
,
as
it
is
without
the
larvae
,
the
shapes
it
appeareth
in
to
ignorants
and
Infidels
,
we
may
be
so
resolved
,
and
setled
,
and
not
to
be
amazed
for
death
;
even
so
in
the
case
of
renovation
,
the
Lord
alters
and
breaks
the
imaginations
of
the
heart
,
first
of
all
layeth
open
to
our
eye
the
heinousnesse
of
our
sinfull
estate
in
generall
,
and
then
commeth
home
to
us
,
that
we
relent
in
particular
.
Yea
,
contrition
giveth
the
minde
,
the
understanding
a
right
reflection
,
that
it
sees
it selfe
rightly
without
the
vaile
,
and
scales
of
superficiall
proud
blinde
Science
.
The
contrite
heart
feeleth
how
heavy
the
wings
of
depraved
reason
are
,
and
how
it
hovers
like
Noahs
Raven
,
Super
profundum
,
sine
fundo
;
and
like
the
earth
receives
the
light
onely
in
superficie
,
in
the
surface
of
it
,
and
in
things
divine
,
how
it
builds
rather
upon
negation
to
know
what
the
truth
is
not
,
than
what
it
is
;
how
uncapable
,
yea
,
averse
it
is
since
the
fall
from
the
right
scanning
of
truth
,
that
the
very
Philosophers
,
the
best
or
wisest
heathen
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
,
They
became
vaine
in
their
imaginations
of
God
,
Rom.
1.
and
indeed
the
naturall
man
judgeth
of
divine
truths
but
according
to
his
owne
senses
,
receives
no
more
in
religion
than
he
can
shew
reason
for
,
not
reason
of
the
word
or
divine
authority
,
but
reason
of
nature
,
or
demonstration
:
So
the
things
of
God
which
are
spiritually
discerned
,
or
with
a
contrite
eye
,
carry
a
kinde
of
contrariety
to
him
,
and
the
undoubted
knowledge
or
perswasion
of
Gods
gospell
,
is
not
to
be
had
in
the
worldly
wise
,
who
doe
not
,
who
will
not
so
farre
renounce
their
conceited
knowledge
,
and
subdue
their
imaginations
,
as
farre
as
they
exalt
themselves
against
the
word
,
or
have
repugnance
to
Gods
knowledge
.
Now
in
the
works
of
repentance
or
contrition
,
when
the
Lord
puts
a
holy
light
into
the
heart
,
this
eye
of
the
soule
,
he
makes
it
simple
and
submisse
,
The
Law
of
the
Lord
is
pure
,
making
wise
the
simple
,
Psal.
19.
So
that
reason
it
comes
to
conclude
with
Iewell
,
the
peerelesse
Bishop
,
Gratias
ago
Deo
,
quod
ignorantiam
meam
non
ignoro
,
God
I
thanke
thee
,
that
I
am
not
ignorant
of
my
ignorance
.
But
faith
,
when
it
winnes
upon
us
first
,
it
finds
reason
sitting
like
Iezabel
painting
her
face
,
dressing
her
head
,
and
looking
out
at
the
window
,
till
contrition
,
which
like
the
Baptist
,
ushers
the
way
of
the
Lord
,
calleth
to
our
thoughts
,
and
sayes
with
Iehu
,
throw
her
downe
,
and
if
they
yeeld
not
,
but
advance
themselves
against
God
too
,
it
sayes
of
them
also
,
as
Edom
said
of
Israel
,
Downe
with
them
,
downe
with
them
,
even
to
the
ground
.
Contrition
,
it
breaketh
the
understanding
,
maketh
it
teachable
,
and
glad
of
Gods
wayes
;
as
they
that
were
stung
with
the
fiery
serpents
,
were
glad
to
looke
to
the
brazen
serpent
;
so
the
broken
soule
with
earnest
expectation
,
erecto
capite
,
waiteth
for
the
manifestation
of
Christ
and
his
grace
;
Omne
humidum
facilè
alieno
termino
.
But
take
a
man
,
when
the
sunne
of
much
prosperity
,
and
the
like
temptations
,
exhale
,
and
draw
out
this
holy
moisture
of
contrition
,
and
the
Lord
of
life
,
the
Sonne
of
God
,
though
he
then
approve
himselfe
ne're
so
much
before
him
by
word
,
and
works
,
yet
like
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
seeing
,
hee
will
not
perceive
,
and
learning
,
he
will
not
understand
;
let
the
Lord
sing
of
mercy
,
and
he
needs
it
not
,
or
of
judgement
,
and
he
feareth
it
not
:
I
referre
you
to
Saint
Austen
,
the
third
booke
of
his
Confess
.
the
fifth
chapter
,
yea
,
let
common
experience
speake
,
if
many
an
impenitent
heart
preacheth
not
,
talketh
not
,
disputeth
not
subtilly
of
the
doctrines
of
God
,
and
hath
no
right
knowledge
of
them
,
nor
acknowledging
,
but
is
even
made
up
,
and
mixt
,
of
doubtings
,
unbeleefe
,
and
errour
?
and
Where
is
the
disputer
of
this
world
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
1
Cor.
1.
Contrariwise
,
as
Abraham
went
to
offer
his
onely
sonne
upon
the
mount
of
Moriah
,
and
never
once
advised
with
naturall
reason
,
he
left
his
servants
at
the
foot
of
the
hill
,
lest
by
their
clamours
and
disswasions
he
might
be
disturbed
in
his
sacrifice
;
so
the
contrite
broken
heart
,
the
mind
thus
qualified
of
God
,
obeyeth
the
call
of
God
,
subdueth
it selfe
,
and
becommeth
a
slave
to
his
word
;
Da
quod
jubes
,
&
jube
quod
vis
,
Gods
commands
are
not
grievous
to
him
,
but
he
is
ready
wheresoever
he
sees
,
thus
saith
the
Lord
,
to
intrust
himselfe
to
the
word
.
Say
unto
his
soule
,
that
man
was
by
the
breath
of
the
Lord
,
and
the
world
was
by
his
word
at
the
beginning
,
he
stands
not
with
Galen
,
to
censure
Moses
for
want
of
demonstration
:
say
unto
him
,
that
God
Almighty
was
incarnate
,
and
the
mother
a
Virgin
delivered
of
her
Maker
;
he
learnes
not
to
dispute
where
the
Cherubins
are
said
to
vaile
,
but
saith
with
the
Centurion
,
Domine
dic
verbum
,
&
sanabitur
servus
tuus
,
the
contrite
understanding
taketh
the
Lord
at
his
word
,
though
hee
seeth
not
his
owne
reason
for
it
,
he
followes
the
word
of
God
in
all
formes
,
Vt
aqua
sequitur
sulcantem
digitum
.
And
as
one
said
,
having
read
the
writings
of
Heraclitus
,
the
things
I
know
,
and
the
things
I
know
not
,
omnia
fortia
,
&
generosa
;
so
he
of
Gods
Scriptures
,
they
be
celestiall
,
and
good
all
;
and
what
he
cannot
fadome
,
he
adoreth
,
and
saith
,
O
the
depths
of
Gods
counsells
!
in
summe
,
he
hath
all
divinity
in
praeparatione
animi
,
in
a
readinesse
to
submit
to
the
word
,
as
it
shall
bee
revealed
to
him
,
and
ever
saith
,
Now
faith
arise
,
and
sleeping
hope
awake
,
awake
my
glory
,
and
though
reason
would
comprehend
nothing
,
beleeveth
all
.
Agrippina
the
mother
of
Nero
said
,
o
ccidar
modo
imperet
;
but
the
faith
of
the
contrite
minde
saith
,
imperabo
modò
occidat
,
I
will
trust
the
Lord
,
though
he
kill
me
:
with
Abraham
,
against
hope
,
hee
beleeves
in
hope
,
and
offers
himselfe
in
sacrifice
to
the
Lord
by
an
holy
violence
upon
his
carnall
reasonings
:
he
seeketh
to
bring
every
thought
in
captivity
to
the
obedience
of
Christ
,
and
he
reckoneth
of
all
science
,
how
subtil
soever
,
but
as
drosse
,
compared
to
the
excellencie
of
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
our
Saviour
:
yea
,
that
sweet
and
pretious
name
,
(
with
Ignatius
the
martyr
)
he
hath
such
a
dear
impression
of
it
,
that
it
seemeth
riveted
,
and
graven
,
In
tabulis
cordis
,
in
the
tables
of
his
heart
or
understanding
,
for
now
hee
sees
well
,
and
sayes
with
Themistocles
,
periissem
nisi
periissem
,
I
had
utterly
perished
,
if
with
the
prodigall
,
by
remorse
and
contrition
,
I
had
not
beene
rein'd
in
to
see
my
foule
mistakings
,
and
so
to
seeke
and
returne
to
God
my
mercifull
father
in
Christ
Jesus
.
And
lastly
,
this
contrite
understanding
is
the
onely
Irenaeus
,
he
delights
in
peace
,
and
therefore
goeth
on
warily
,
and
timorously
,
and
feareth
to
frame
out
articles
of
faith
,
from
the
mould
of
his
reason
,
much
lesse
to
frame
out
oppositions
against
manifest
truths
of
Scripture
,
or
to
thrust
out
publike
positions
,
from
any
private
dispositions
,
ludere
cum
Deo
;
yea
hee
dares
not
let
himselfe
bee
deceived
with
any
hate
,
or
evill
opinion
of
good
,
wheresoever
it
is
professed
,
lest
he
commeth
in
the
end
to
deceive
himselfe
with
a
delight
or
good
opinion
of
evill
.
In
summe
,
he
minds
,
and
is
taken
up
most
of
all
,
how
,
or
by
what
meanes
he
may
confound
the
devill
,
rather
than
how
to
confute
his
gainesayers
,
and
bewaile
the
time
,
that
ever
the
simplicity
of
beleeving
,
should
lose
it selfe
in
the
Labyrinths
of
beleefe
,
and
that
the
word
should
be
tam
ferax
religionum
,
so
fruitfull
of
opinions
,
and
so
barren
of
piety
,
as
Lipsius
once
spake
;
and
this
is
to
be
transformed
by
the
renewing
of
the
minde
,
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
,
this
is
contrition
,
in
spiritu
mentis
,
in
the
spirit
of
our
minde
,
in
the
understanding
.
The
second
seat
of
contrition
,
is
the
Conscience
:
the
nimming
away
of
the
skirts
of
Sauls
garment
,
and
a
rash
wish
for
the
waters
of
Bethlem
;
if
these
smote
David
to
the
heart
,
his
conscience
,
if
it
was
of
so
tender
a
touch
,
surely
his
presumptuous
fact
in
numbring
the
people
,
and
this
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
especially
this
scarlet
,
or
double-dyed
sinne
,
of
which
the
Prophet
Nathan
rebukt
him
,
the
conscience
of
this
heinous
sinne
melts
him
away
like
water
,
as
wee
see
in
this
Psalme
:
a
Psalme
we
may
all
take
up
,
as
Gregorie
Nazianzene
did
the
Lamentations
of
Ieremie
,
to
make
us
weepe
for
our
sins
and
transgressions
.
But
conscience
is
a
part
of
the
practicke
understanding
,
as
Gods
Deputy
sitting
within
to
judge
,
to
see
,
and
censure
us
together
with
God
:
it
is
a
certaine
secret
feeling
,
or
knowledge
of
our
deeds
,
which
leaveth
behinde
it
,
or
imprints
the
motions
of
joy
,
or
sorrow
,
hope
or
feare
,
confidence
or
shame
;
it
is
an
inward
key
,
which
unlocketh
and
openeth
the
doores
and
barres
of
our
hearts
,
that
the
grieved
spirit
commeth
forth
,
like
good
Lot
out
of
the
house
of
sinne
,
and
sayes
to
the
man
of
Sodome
,
O
deale
not
so
wickedly
.
Now
as
the
great
Turke
permits
every
one
to
live
in
his
owne
religion
,
so
they
pay
him
in
his
tribute
;
so
the
conscience
hardned
or
seared
,
permits
the
appetites
to
their
pleasure
,
so
it
may
partake
;
it
neglects
the
soule
,
to
please
the
sense
;
it
prevaricates
,
and
willfully
suppresses
the
true
verdict
or
testimonie
,
and
is
idle
,
and
doth
not
its
office
,
but
luls
us
asleepe
in
our
sinne
,
and
layes
the
raines
on
the
necks
of
our
wilde
and
untamed
lusts
.
Cor
dilatatum
,
a
spacious
loose
heart
,
a
Chiverell
conscience
;
and
indeed
,
when
the
minde
is
in
meere
darknesse
,
as
in
the
state
of
unregeneration
,
or
when
it
is
overflowed
or
dimmed
with
the
dampe
of
some
temptation
,
or
wasting
sinne
,
as
it
may
befall
the
godly
,
no
marvell
then
if
this
particular
knowledge
bee
darkenesse
too
,
and
our
inward
thoughts
cease
from
their
accusing
for
a
season
;
for
the
soule
,
it
hath
not
now
an
actuall
or
exercised
sense
and
light
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
,
to
discerne
the
proportions
of
good
and
evill
;
being
possessed
with
a
spirit
of
slumber
in
any
measure
,
so
farre
it
is
no
rightfull
Judge
,
no
more
than
the
blinde
man
is
of
colours
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
conscience
without
science
,
a
heart
like
Nabals
,
benum'd
and
senslesse
.
And
the
manner
or
growth
of
it
is
thus
;
Originall
sinne
sends
out
actuall
,
and
they
leave
a
straine
,
a
disposition
to
sinne
so
againe
,
and
sinning
so
againe
,
slight
impressions
of
evill
become
radicate
,
and
habituall
,
till
the
callum
,
the
crust
,
deadnesse
or
security
in
sinne
comes
over
the
soule
;
the
buds
of
infirmity
steale
to
the
twigs
of
negligence
,
and
they
to
the
tyranny
of
custome
,
and
then
audacious
and
grand
sinnes
plead
prescription
,
and
like
a
stout
tenant
take
no
warning
;
and
this
is
nervus
ferreus
,
the
iron
sinew
,
the
heart
of
adamant
.
When
Camels
,
grosse
sinnes
passe
,
and
digest
without
remorse
,
and
this
our
Church
in
her
Letany
deprecates
most
Christianly
,
From
hardnesse
of
heart
,
and
contempt
of
thy
word
and
commandements
,
good
Lord
deliver
us
.
Now
the
contrite
conscience
is
the
very
contrary
,
and
that
it
may
have
its
beginning
thus
;
as
Ioab
would
not
be
moved
to
come
to
Absalom
till
his
fields
were
set
on
fire
;
so
we
oft-times
,
we
have
no
heart
,
no
perceiving
of
our
estate
towards
God
,
till
affliction
,
like
fire
ceaseth
upon
us
,
till
with
Manasses
our
chaine
,
or
with
Hezekiah
our
bed
of
sicknesse
,
or
with
Mauritius
death
of
wife
and
children
rouze
and
startle
us
,
and
wring
forth
a
holy
confession
,
Iustus
est
Deus
,
&
justa
sunt
judicia
ejus
.
For
thus
the
good
Shepherd
oft-times
sends
after
his
sheepe
,
poverty
,
persecution
,
sicknesse
,
and
the
like
,
to
hurry
them
backe
when
they
goe
astray
from
him
;
and
the
heart
,
indeed
the
conscience
,
is
in
a
very
ill
case
,
which
ffliction
cannot
mollifie
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
sayes
the
Apostle
,
Heb.
5.8
.
the
sonnes
of
God
learne
obedience
by
the
things
they
suffer
,
and
for
this
wee
may
learne
to
take
well
the
Lords
castigations
,
kisse
the
rod
as
often
as
it
betides
us
.
Againe
,
we
must
not
thinke
much
to
wait
at
the
posts
of
Gods
house
continually
,
to
listen
,
as
David
did
,
to
his
word
in
the
mouth
of
Nathan
,
his
word
in
the
ministery
of
it
,
God
useth
to
blesse
it
,
and
to
put
forth
his
spirit
with
it
,
that
with
David
,
our
heart
smiteth
us
,
we
tremble
with
Foelix
,
we
melt
with
Iosiah
,
we
are
pierced
to
the
quicke
,
like
those
thousands
at
S.
Peters
Sermon
;
and
we
are
rifled
,
and
convinced
in
our
consciences
,
like
those
in
the
1
Cor.
14.
Without
the
Law
sin
is
dead
,
Rom.
7.
It
is
not
acknowledged
;
the
word
is
Gladius
Domini
,
the
sword
of
the
Lord
,
Heb.
4.
It
opens
our
sinnes
to
our
eyes
,
and
Malleus
Domini
,
the
Lords
hammer
to
breake
our
stony
heart
,
Ierem.
23.
Wherefore
Moses
and
Aaron
being
called
by
the
Lord
in
the
wildernesse
before
the
burning
mount
,
he
commanded
them
his
word
,
and
Law
not
to
be
supprest
in
secrecie
,
but
to
be
pitched
up
in
the
eye
of
all
the
world
,
even
that
the
presumptuous
heart
might
looke
on
it
,
as
Christ
did
on
Hierusalem
,
with
weeping
eyes
,
to
see
how
short
he
comes
of
that
hee
should
,
and
that
the
dissembling
heart
might
have
his
paintings
and
colours
,
his
faces
of
sanctitie
,
thawed
all
by
the
fire
of
Gods
justice
:
The
Word
of
the
Lord
is
spirit
and
life
,
a
sacred
perspective
it
is
,
wee
may
behold
in
it
our
sins
of
thought
,
desire
,
and
deed
,
and
thereupon
see
how
the
host
of
heaven
,
with
chariots
of
fire
,
march
in
array
,
ready
prest
to
charge
;
the
curse
of
God
,
how
ready
it
is
to
light
on
us
.
A
sight
for
which
Davids
heart
becommeth
so
intenerate
,
that
hee
a
King
,
commits
a
Psalme
to
bee
sung
here
in
the
Church
,
wherein
his
owne
capitall
sins
should
be
blazed
to
all
posteritie
by
his
owne
confession
,
a
sight
for
which
S.
Austen
needs
would
,
that
this
verie
Psalme
should
bee
set
over
his
bed
night
and
day
,
that
with
teares
hee
might
read
over
his
transgressions
,
a
roll
wherof
he
hath
left
in
his
owne
Confessions
,
which
is
admirable
to
the
Reader
.
And
Conscience
indeed
is
a
sleeping
Lion
,
it
will
awaken
,
in
the
evill
houre
we
shall
finde
it
,
our
owne
heart
then
seeks
occasions
against
us
,
as
Iob
speakes
;
and
let
not
him
thinke
,
who
hath
not
yet
the
sting
of
his
sinne
,
that
he
hath
not
offended
;
it
watches
the
conscience
,
till
the
time
of
most
advantage
;
but
the
Lord
,
by
this
conscience
of
sinne
,
awakens
those
to
life
,
that
are
his
;
by
this
sensiblenesse
,
or
accusing
of
the
heart
,
he
doth
much
in
our
calling
to
grace
,
and
in
our
continuing
in
it
;
for
the
contrite
,
or
wounded
conscience
,
dealeth
not
with
our
evill
motions
,
as
Darius
did
with
Alexander
,
suffer
them
to
passe
,
or
come
over
the
heart
,
as
he
did
the
Hellespont
,
till
they
beare
all
before
them
;
but
like
Pharaoh
,
that
killed
the
infants
of
Israel
,
lest
they
should
overgrow
his
Countrey
:
So
the
truly
broken
,
and
tender
heart
growes
daily
verie
conscientious
of
everie
the
least
sin
,
and
taketh
care
therefore
of
the
serpents
in
the
shell
,
Allidere
parvulos
ad
petram
,
to
crush
the
verie
occasions
of
sin
,
and
with
S.
Paul
,
it
shaketh
of
the
vipers
from
the
fingers
ends
,
at
the
first
motion
of
evill
,
lest
suggestion
beget
delight
,
and
that
multiply
from
action
into
custome
,
like
the
fish
that
swim
downe
the
streames
of
Jordan
,
in
mare
mortuum
,
into
the
dead
sea
.
Yea
,
and
in
the
midst
of
all
our
prosperities
&
pleasures
,
it
is
the
qualitie
of
a
contrite
conscience
,
ever
and
anon
to
send
us
downe
an
holy
feare
,
as
it
were
a
bucket
into
the
bottome
of
our
hearts
,
to
taste
the
waters
,
whether
or
no
they
bee
still
,
sweet
,
and
cleere
,
and
so
to
preserve
us
from
relapsing
,
or
reciduation
;
I
will
put
my
feare
into
their
hearts
,
that
they
shall
not
depart
from
me
,
saith
the
Lord
,
Ier.
32.
The
third
thing
which
partakes
this
contrition
or
breaking
,
is
the
will
and
affections
;
O
Lord
,
create
in
me
a
cleane
heart
,
vers.
10.
which
is
as
if
hee
had
said
;
O
Lord
,
inable
me
to
breake
my
will
and
affections
from
frowardnesse
and
perversenesse
against
thy
will
,
to
which
I
am
bound
by
the
cords
of
thy
word
:
will
and
affections
,
these
are
the
horse
and
mule
,
that
must
bee
hold
in
,
or
broken
by
the
bit
and
bridle
,
as
David
speaketh
,
yea
,
the
horse
may
cast
his
rider
,
and
himselfe
stand
upright
still
;
but
affections
indanger
not
the
soule
,
but
by
ruining
themselves
,
as
Pharaohs
horse
,
and
the
riders
also
were
drowned
in
the
red
sea
:
affections
,
these
are
the
intestine
foes
,
the
Jebusites
which
fight
still
within
our
borders
,
yea
,
which
rush
in
upon
us
oft
times
amidst
our
best
devotions
.
S.
Hierom
in
the
wildernesse
,
among
all
his
mortifications
,
had
enough
to
doe
to
breake
them
;
and
S.
Basil
complaines
,
that
when
hee
had
forsaken
the
societie
of
men
,
he
could
not
forsake
his
owne
affections
,
his
owne
heart
haunted
him
,
and
pursued
him
still
:
But
Ismael
the
sonne
of
Agar
the
bond-woman
,
when
he
would
be
oppressing
the
sonne
of
the
free
,
he
was
thrust
out
of
Abrahams
house
:
The
Father
of
the
faithfull
gives
us
even
in
this
a
patterne
,
namely
,
that
we
breake
with
those
affections
,
which
hinder
our
holy
purposes
,
that
wee
banish
them
,
and
binde
them
to
their
obedience
and
good
behaviour
;
and
this
it
is
to
sacrifice
our
affections
,
or
to
separate
them
to
the
Lord
,
when
wee
set
them
apart
from
their
old
excesses
,
and
this
is
Sacrificium
vivum
,
as
the
Apostle
cals
it
,
the
living
sacrifice
of
a
broken
heart
or
affection
,
a
sacrifice
that
liveth
the
better
after
it
is
offered
.
Beloved
,
as
in
a
common
fire
,
when
the
flames
take
hold
of
our
houses
,
we
instantly
run
to
the
rivers
,
to
the
water
,
to
quench
it
:
so
our
hearts
within
,
our
affections
naturally
being
set
on
fire
with
hell
,
as
S.
Iames
speaketh
,
what
should
we
doe
,
but
flye
to
the
river
of
contrition
and
repentance
?
This
Red
sea
of
remorsefull
sorrow
,
our
spirituall
Pharaoh
drownes
in
it
,
with
all
his
armies
of
vicious
lusts
,
here
they
perish
together
:
And
as
in
a
common
siege
,
when
the
enemies
reares
up
workes
or
edifices
to
the
wals
of
a
Citie
,
and
from
thence
shoots
,
and
hurles
fire
into
it
,
a
chiefe
remedy
is
to
dig
secret
wayes
and
passages
for
water
under
the
earth
unto
those
fabricks
,
that
so
their
foundation
may
weaken
,
&
fall
;
so
a
tower
of
Babel
,
of
inordinate
affections
,
being
set
up
against
our
soule
,
and
therein
the
Archers
of
Satan
,
Pride
,
Lust
,
Avarice
,
and
the
like
,
shooting
the
fire
of
sin
into
our
hearts
,
let
us
with
the
Magdalene
derive
thither
even
thorow
the
secret
veines
of
our
hearts
,
flouds
of
contrition
and
repentance
,
for
this
shakes
the
verie
ground-worke
of
Satans
holds
:
the
gates
of
the
rivers
shall
be
opened
,
and
the
palace
shall
be
dissolved
;
that
I
may
speake
in
the
words
of
the
Prophet
Nahum
2.6
.
O
poenitentiae
lachryma
rutulantior
auro
,
splendidior
Sole
,
saith
Anselme
,
O
Contrition
,
more
radiant
than
gold
,
more
shining
than
the
Sun
,
respicis
avaritiam
,
horres
luxuriam
,
and
so
forth
;
thou
hatest
covetousnesse
,
thou
abhorrest
luxurie
,
thou
breakest
the
power
and
yoke
of
evill
affections
:
Thou
art
the
axe
laid
to
the
root
of
the
heart
,
thou
art
the
Catholicon
,
the
universall
medicine
,
that
workes
upon
everie
peccant
humour
,
thou
makest
us
ready
to
part
with
all
bad
desires
in
obedience
to
the
Lords
command
:
for
this
godly
contrition
is
a
distaste
of
sin
as
sin
,
and
so
it
is
impartiall
against
whatsoever
comes
,
as
a
transgression
against
God
.
I
have
refrained
my
feet
from
everie
evill
way
,
that
I
may
keepe
thy
word
,
Psal.
119.101
.
Worldly
sorrow
hideth
our
ill
affections
,
restraineth
open
breakings
out
,
and
that
's
all
:
Like
the
cold
aire
,
it
doth
but
drive
the
disease
of
sin
inward
,
Abscondit
vitia
,
non
abscindit
;
But
godly
sorrow
,
or
contrition
enters
and
searches
,
it
cancels
and
sacrifices
the
evill
that
is
in
our
most
covert
,
and
retired
inclining
,
and
withall
it
cals
out
repentance
,
it
is
not
content
to
sigh
in
secret
,
it
cals
the
heart
,
the
affection
into
the
eye
,
to
weepe
for
sinne
with
S.
Peter
,
and
into
the
mouth
to
confesse
it
with
King
David
,
yea
,
and
into
the
hands
to
break
it
off
by
good
workes
,
the
offices
of
pietie
and
pitie
:
Poros
aperit
cordis
,
saith
S.
Gregorie
:
And
the
contrite
affection
is
of
all
the
openest
,
the
easiest
to
commiserate
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
so
well
it
is
acquainted
with
its
owne
evill
,
that
who
is
ill
affected
with
sinne
and
miserie
,
that
melts
not
?
And
so
respective
is
it
to
Gods
ire
and
displeasure
,
which
it
hath
weighed
and
tasted
,
that
the
least
symptome
,
or
signe
of
it
,
upon
it selfe
or
others
,
dissolves
it
into
feare
and
trembling
,
and
this
is
the
circumcision
of
the
heart
,
the
breaking
or
contrition
of
the
will
and
affections
.
Fourthly
,
to
summe
up
all
together
,
the
heart
meaneth
no
lesse
here
,
than
the
soule
complete
,
or
quite
thorow
,
Contriti
cordis
holocaustum
,
saith
S.
Cyprian
:
The
perfect
heart
,
Psal.
101.
Not
perfection
in
everie
part
,
but
perfection
of
all
the
parts
,
Integritas
animi
.
Create
in
me
a
cleane
heart
,
saith
David
:
before
,
as
in
the
first
creation
,
God
made
man
perfect
in
all
members
and
parts
:
so
in
the
second
,
in
regeneration
,
it
is
a
new
birth
,
or
breaking
of
all
the
powers
of
the
soule
in
some
good
measure
,
and
say
not
thou
art
contrite
,
or
renued
in
the
eye
of
the
soule
,
in
thy
understanding
and
conscience
,
unlesse
it
goe
also
to
thy
bowels
,
to
thy
will
and
affections
;
the
good
heart
is
a
broken
,
but
not
a
divided
heart
;
their
heart
is
divided
,
now
shall
they
be
found
faulty
,
Hos.
10.2
.
the
Lord
liketh
not
to
have
his
right
parted
with
the
naturall
mother
,
he
will
part
with
his
right
rather
;
reason
must
become
a
captive
,
and
conscience
an
accuser
;
will
and
affections
flexible
,
and
laid
downe
at
the
feet
of
the
Lord
;
the
heart
contrite
,
is
the
soule
affected
throughly
,
the
word
signifieth
a
grinding
to
powder
,
as
of
the
corne
betweene
the
milstones
.
And
great
reason
and
ground
is
there
for
this
;
the
Lord
besides
his
law
delivered
on
the
mount
,
made
us
in
Eden
a
new
and
everlasting
covenant
,
even
that
his
holy
sonne
,
the
essentiall
image
of
his
person
,
should
come
in
our
nature
,
by
the
price
of
redemption
paid
in
his
bloud
,
to
reconcile
us
to
God
;
so
did
the
mighty
God
make
a
holy
and
speciall
league
with
his
mortall
foe
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
saith
the
Apostle
,
meerely
for
the
good
pleasure
of
his
grace
,
and
bound
himselfe
by
as
free
promise
,
to
make
the
faithfull
,
his
Church
,
a
joynture
of
all
the
joyes
of
heaven
;
yet
we
rebell
against
the
most
high
,
and
lightly
regard
his
counsels
;
if
we
looke
up
to
heaven
,
we
see
the
seat
indeed
of
a
tender
Father
,
but
infinitely
have
we
sinned
against
him
and
it
;
if
wee
gaspe
in
our
trouble
for
the
comfort
of
Christ
his
merits
,
the
Redeemer
of
the
world
,
wee
see
how
vilely
our
owne
evill
words
and
deeds
crucifie
him
daily
,
and
put
him
to
open
shame
,
grieving
his
spirit
,
quenching
his
gifts
and
abusing
his
very
grace
.
Now
the
Adamant
softens
when
warme
bloud
is
shed
on
it
;
and
the
bloud
of
the
Lord
Jesus
so
graciously
effused
on
us
,
and
for
us
,
the
riches
of
this
goodnesse
should
lead
us
to
remorse
,
and
to
repent
of
our
sinnes
,
even
in
love
of
the
Lord
for
his
mercies
,
yea
,
no
slight
affection
,
no
cursory
Lord
have
mercie
upon
us
,
should
suffice
us
;
with
Ieremy
we
should
call
for
a
cottage
in
the
wildernesse
,
and
then
broken
to
water
,
wash
with
teares
the
day
wherein
wee
were
borne
.
And
,
O
that
the
precious
balmes
,
the
mercies
of
our
Lord
Jesus
,
the
sense
of
what
he
hath
done
and
suffered
for
us
,
should
not
mollifie
us
,
and
make
us
relent
;
yea
,
let
us
bee
sicke
with
his
love
,
the
loves
of
Christ
constraine
,
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
,
2
Cor.
5.
And
if
before
time
we
have
served
and
loved
the
Lord
,
even
for
feare
of
wrath
;
henceforth
let
us
feare
God
for
love
,
and
repent
,
and
sorrow
for
our
sinnes
in
love
,
and
so
our
contrition
will
become
entire
,
and
of
the
whole
heart
,
because
the
love
of
God
is
absolute
,
and
infinite
.
Now
there
bee
who
make
a
trade
,
yea
,
a
sport
and
a
merriment
of
their
sinnes
,
who
can
count
,
and
chronicle
their
dissolutenesse
with
delight
,
so
farre
they
be
from
contrition
and
remorse
,
and
they
no
doubt
will
laugh
in
their
●leeves
to
heare
of
this
bruising
and
maceration
of
spirit
;
and
let
the
deceived
world
take
these
for
godly
people
,
jolly
fellowes
,
they
shall
die
like
men
,
like
the
beasts
that
perish
:
the
Lord
gave
strength
to
the
horse
,
and
clothed
his
necke
with
thunder
,
saith
Iob
,
he
mockes
at
feare
,
and
beleeves
not
the
sound
of
the
trumpet
,
yet
if
the
quiver
of
the
Lord
rattle
against
him
,
he
is
afraid
as
a
grashopper
.
Obdurate
godlesse
spirits
,
whose
hearts
like
Prometheus
,
grow
fat
and
stupid
in
the
night
of
their
ignorance
,
there
is
a
day
when
the
Vulture
of
feare
,
and
heavinesse
of
heart
shall
seaze
and
gnaw
upon
them
,
death
shall
feed
upon
the
ungodly
,
Psal.
49.
and
when
they
come
indeed
in
sight
of
death
,
and
the
fatall
anchor
beginnes
to
fall
,
that
can
never
be
weighed
againe
,
and
the
lusty
saylers
,
the
senses
,
that
rowed
them
over
the
streames
of
carnall
pleasures
,
stand
amazed
,
and
faile
,
and
the
waves
of
horror
swell
and
breake
upon
the
crackt
vessell
,
and
the
unwise
Pilot
reason
as
at
the
end
of
his
wits
,
cryeth
out
with
him
in
Seneca
,
Huc
ego
quemadmodum
vens
,
Lord
how
may
this
be
?
yea
,
their
owne
heart
and
conscience
then
amidst
their
other
evills
,
shall
returne
upon
them
like
the
Raven
,
in
blacke
and
sable
weeds
,
with
the
law
,
the
curse
,
and
all
the
aberrations
of
life
in
his
mouth
,
and
what
tongue
can
tell
their
sorrow
?
Like
as
the
chased
Deere
,
recovering
about
the
end
of
the
day
some
little
breathing
,
stands
and
listens
unto
the
cries
of
them
that
seeke
his
bloud
,
and
seeing
the
way
stopt
,
pants
,
and
shuts
his
fearef●ll
eyes
,
and
finding
his
legs
faile
him
at
last
,
lies
downe
,
despaires
,
and
dies
;
so
they
oft-times
,
and
amidst
their
agonie
,
faine
would
give
a
thousand
Rammes
,
and
a
thousand
Rivers
of
oyle
,
and
the
fruit
of
their
body
,
the
choicest
goods
they
have
,
to
be
assoyled
from
the
sinne
of
their
soule
.
O
consider
we
this
,
that
we
doe
not
quite
forget
God
;
without
contrition
and
repentance
the
Lord
wee
see
is
a
consuming
fire
,
and
the
impenitent
sooner
or
later
,
have
there
no
peace
,
their
hell
,
even
upon
earth
:
and
if
so
,
in
the
first
day
,
at
the
day
of
death
at
least
,
what
shall
we
say
to
the
day
of
revelation
,
the
day
of
the
generall
judgement
.
Surely
Kings
shall
repine
then
at
the
beggers
joy
,
and
mighty
Emperours
shall
say
with
Theodosius
,
how
much
better
is
it
to
have
beene
the
true
member
of
Christ
his
Church
,
than
the
head
of
an
Empire
?
For
the
Angels
shall
bee
seene
then
to
gather
up
the
scattered
peeces
of
every
contrite
and
broken
heart
,
and
to
draw
out
to
their
encouragement
the
teares
of
repentance
,
which
the
Lord
had
treasured
,
or
put
up
into
his
bottle
,
and
to
take
quite
from
them
the
cup
of
trembling
,
and
to
reach
it
forth
into
the
hands
of
all
impenitents
,
and
remorselesse
sinners
;
and
so
I
have
done
with
the
sacrifice
,
The
broken
and
contrite
hear●
;
and
proceed
to
the
second
branch
of
the
text
,
the
Lords
gentle
acceptance
,
O
God
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
If
in
the
conscience
of
sin
,
the
broken
heart
tremble
to
appeare
before
the
Lord
,
and
though
humbled
,
yet
feareth
lest
God
should
not
accept
of
him
,
behold
his
Cordiall
,
God
will
not
despise
him
:
Not
despise
him
?
Yea
,
deare
shall
he
be
in
Gods
sight
,
that
the
Sunne
may
not
burne
him
by
day
,
nor
the
Moone
by
night
:
For
as
in
the
Scripture
there
is
an
excesse
of
speech
,
when
more
is
spoken
than
is
understood
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
cast
out
the
beame
that
is
in
thine
owne
eye
:
So
there
is
also
a
defect
of
speech
,
when
more
is
understood
than
spoken
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
despise
not
prophecie
,
the
Apostle
meaneth
we
should
honour
that
gift
of
the
Holy
Ghost
much
:
So
here
the
words
must
be
understood
above
the
letter
,
and
meane
much
more
than
is
spoken
,
namely
,
that
God
will
highly
esteeme
,
and
comfort
,
and
revive
the
spirit
of
the
humble
;
for
Christ
his
sweet
allures
and
invitations
of
the
laden
and
contrite
heart
to
come
to
him
,
shew
that
it
is
no
despicable
matter
:
a
thing
to
be
despised
is
fruitlesse
,
and
of
small
use
,
but
this
oblation
of
David
is
of
exceeding
much
validitie
,
and
therefore
he
cals
it
first
,
A
sacrifice
;
an
offering
it
is
,
wherewith
if
we
approach
before
the
Lord
,
we
have
a
good
evidence
before
us
,
the
pledge
of
our
peace
,
and
remission
of
sins
,
because
God
hath
so
promised
to
accept
of
us
for
Christ
his
sake
.
Secondly
,
David
cals
it
Sacrificia
,
in
the
plurall
number
,
Sacrifices
,
because
a
penitent
heart
,
why
this
is
one
for
all
,
it
includes
and
summes
up
all
that
whatsoever
it
is
that
God
accepts
,
it
is
in
stead
of
all
,
no
single
sacrifice
.
Thirdly
,
the
Prophet
cals
it
Sacrificia
Dei
,
the
sacrifices
of
the
Lord
,
of
the
Lord
by
way
of
Emphasis
,
or
excellence
,
as
Nineveh
,
the
Citie
of
God
,
or
the
exceeding
great
Citie
,
Ionah
3.
and
the
trees
of
God
are
goodly
Cedars
,
Psal.
80.
and
Opera
Dei
,
the
works
of
God
,
or
which
God
approves
,
Iohn
6.
So
the
contri●e
heart
is
the
sacrifices
of
God
,
such
as
to
God
is
verie
pleasing
,
an
heart
that
repents
and
beleeves
in
Christs
bloud
,
and
seekes
mercie
for
the
same
;
yea
,
though
it
have
sinned
much
,
is
yet
such
a
worke
of
God
,
wherein
God
cannot
but
bee
well
pleased
.
From
the
heart
are
the
issues
of
life
and
death
,
it
rowles
the
lower
spheres
with
it
;
and
therefore
though
Davids
eyes
were
adulterous
,
his
hands
imbrued
,
and
his
verie
lips
sealed
up
with
his
sinnes
,
as
we
see
at
the
fifteenth
verse
.
Yet
no
sooner
doth
the
Lord
open
his
mouth
,
but
his
prayer
is
for
his
heart
and
spirit
;
for
till
God
give
us
grace
to
draine
that
fen
,
or
sinke
of
evill
,
which
is
in
our
heart
,
in
vaine
should
we
labour
about
our
words
,
or
deeds
.
And
therefore
Apollodorus
in
Plutarch
dreamed
,
that
his
body
being
cut
in
peeces
,
and
cast
into
a
seething
cauldron
,
his
heart
leapt
up
and
said
,
Ego
horum
tibi
causa
fui
,
I
was
the
cause
of
all
this
mischiefe
.
And
therefore
the
Pharisies
,
those
old
hypocrites
,
when
they
cleansed
but
the
outside
,
Christ
&
the
second
Elias
called
them
vipers
,
and
a
generation
of
vipers
,
and
bid
them
Mundare
priùs
quod
intùs
,
cleanse
within
first
,
or
be
sincere
at
heart
,
and
humble
that
;
for
till
contrition
come
to
the
heart
,
their
religion
like
a
mill
,
it
moved
not
without
the
wind
of
vaine
glorie
;
and
the
light
of
their
good
works
,
the
lampe
of
their
charitie
did
not
shine
,
and
burne
without
the
oyle
of
mans
praise
,
they
had
no
zeale
but
in
publike
,
and
in
the
corners
of
the
street
:
whereas
,
the
heart
once
well
affected
and
humbled
,
then
would
they
enter
their
closets
to
pray
,
and
seeke
in
their
devotions
not
their
owne
,
but
Gods
glorie
,
and
though
man
would
super-admire
,
or
deifie
them
for
any
their
good
deeds
,
yet
the
heart
well
toucht
with
a
sense
of
its
owne
infirmitie
,
it
would
retaine
its
humilitie
amidst
the
holiest
and
best
performances
,
it
would
give
backe
to
God
his
due
.
Of
such
behoofe
is
the
broken
heart
,
the
issue
of
it
is
sinceritie
,
and
that
is
the
soule
of
all
vertue
;
and
therefore
the
contrite
heart
is
,
as
wee
see
,
the
verie
center
wherein
the
lines
of
Gods
graces
meet
,
and
to
which
they
run
,
and
so
it
hath
Gods
speciall
love
and
acceptation
for
its
circumference
.
[
O
God
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
]
The
summons
of
death
went
out
against
Hezekiah
,
hee
retires
like
the
Sunne
in
his
diall
,
he
goeth
backe
to
the
Lord
,
hee
mournes
in
his
prayer
like
a
Dove
,
he
chatters
like
a
Crane
or
Swallow
,
and
I
have
heard
thy
prayers
,
I
have
seene
thy
teares
,
behold
,
saith
the
Lord
,
I
will
adde
unto
thy
dayes
fifteene
yeares
,
Isa.
38.
The
summons
of
death
,
the
threats
of
Gods
Law
and
Word
,
were
read
in
the
cares
of
Iosiah
the
King
,
and
his
heart
was
tender
,
hee
humbled
himselfe
before
the
Lord
,
hee
rent
his
clothes
,
hee
wept
sore
,
and
the
Lord
sent
Huldah
the
Prophetesse
,
to
assure
him
that
his
contrition
was
not
despised
,
and
he
should
bee
gathered
to
his
fathers
in
peace
,
2
King
.
22.19
.
The
summons
of
death
were
out
against
Nineveh
that
great
Citie
,
and
shee
relents
,
shee
fits
her
downe
in
sack-cloth
,
and
turnes
her
silkes
into
ashes
,
Peeres
and
people
,
none
excepted
,
come
downe
,
è
s●lio
in
solum
:
and
by
and
by
the
hand
of
vengeance
,
that
was
waved
over
them
,
is
taken
aside
,
and
the
writ
of
bloud
is
reversed
.
Surge
desperatio
,
vade
ad
Niniven
:
Now
rise
despaire
,
and
goe
to
Nineveh
:
Thinke
how
Nineveh
was
not
refused
,
though
the
cry
of
her
sins
went
up
to
Heaven
before
the
cry
of
her
teares
:
And
who
art
thou
then
that
sayest
with
Spira
,
I
cannot
be
saved
;
or
with
Cain
,
Major
iniquitas
,
Mine
iniquitie
is
greater
than
God
can
forgiue
?
Mentiris
,
Cain
;
Cain
,
thou
lyest
,
saith
Austen
,
thy
sinnes
bee
they
in
number
as
the
haires
of
thine
head
,
Gods
mercies
are
as
the
starres
of
Heaven
,
above
all
his
workes
:
Can
we
with
Elias
surround
our
sacrifice
with
water
,
our
prayers
and
devotions
with
holy
sorrow
,
for
the
wants
and
defects
of
our
devotions
;
yea
,
if
but
with
sorrow
for
not
sorrowing
so
heartily
,
so
earnestly
as
we
ought
,
the
Lord
will
not
despise
us
.
In
ipsius
praesentia
nunquam
supervacuae
mendicant
lachrymae
veniam
,
saith
S.
Cyprian
,
Never
did
teares
or
true
contrition
beg
before
the
Lord
in
vaine
:
Nec
unquam
patitur
repulsam
contriti
cordis
holocaustum
,
And
never
did
the
sacrifice
of
the
broken
heart
finde
repulse
at
the
hands
of
God
:
The
Israel
of
God
that
ever
is
fighting
with
Ammon
,
and
conflicting
to
the
verie
Sun-setting
,
and
the
man
of
God
that
still
holds
up
his
hands
and
prayes
,
life
and
victorie
is
layd
up
for
them
in
the
bosome
of
Jesus
Christ
our
Redeemer
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Col.
3.
And
now
let
him
be
hid
to
the
world
,
and
despised
,
that
the
verie
abjects
have
him
in
derision
,
his
light
shall
breake
forth
like
the
Sun
,
through
the
continuall
intercession
of
Christ
for
him
,
and
all
the
world
shall
see
,
that
God
will
not
despise
him
.
We
see
Gods
manner
or
method
,
Deducit
ad
inferos
&
reducit
,
When
he
brings
a
sinner
to
him
,
hee
leadeth
him
as
he
did
the
Israelites
,
thorow
a
perillous
wildernesse
into
Canaan
,
thorow
Hell
to
Heaven
,
by
mount
Sinai
to
mount
Sion
,
thorow
painfull
contrition
,
and
sorrow
,
and
sense
of
his
sinnes
and
corruptions
,
to
the
consolations
and
peace
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
so
that
being
well
experienced
in
the
miseries
of
his
sinfull
estate
,
he
shall
feare
to
returne
into
Aegypt
,
the
bitter
impression
and
sting
of
his
sins
,
which
still
remaineth
,
it
will
be
a
checke
to
him
from
looking
backe
againe
:
and
this
may
be
a
reason
of
Gods
dealing
with
us
,
why
hee
accepts
the
sacrifice
of
our
hearts
contrite
and
broken
.
But
now
if
we
shall
feare
to
venture
into
the
wayes
of
repentance
and
godlinesse
,
for
feare
of
losing
our
pleasures
,
and
being
cast
upon
the
paines
of
contrition
,
prayer
and
watching
,
we
see
the
vanitie
of
that
delusion
,
because
from
being
Benonies
sons
of
sorrow
,
the
Lord
maketh
us
to
bee
Benjamins
sons
of
his
owne
right
hand
.
From
a
deluge
of
contrition
to
rinse
us
,
we
come
to
enjoy
the
certificates
of
our
peace
,
like
his
heavenly
raine-bow
,
to
strengthen
us
.
In
sense
of
man
,
Iobs
contrition
was
ignis
foeno
,
like
the
fire
to
the
stubble
,
to
undoe
him
,
or
confound
him
;
but
in
truth
,
and
in
the
event
it
was
ignis
auro
,
like
fire
to
the
gold
,
to
refi●e
him
and
doe
him
good
:
For
his
corruption
we
see
assumeth
incorruption
,
and
this
vile
bodie
riseth
up
a
glorious
bodie
,
Gods
tender
mercie
a
little
bounded
in
for
his
triall
,
like
a
river
breaketh
forth
the
more
,
at
the
sluces
of
his
repentance
and
contrition
.
A
broken
and
a
contrite
heart
,
ô
God
,
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
Wherefore
,
seeing
the
heart
contrite
is
so
acceptable
an
offering
to
the
Lord
,
let
us
from
the
little
Spider
learne
here
to
begin
our
amendment
,
let
us
begin
to
mend
our
web
at
the
middle
,
our
contrition
let
us
seek
to
bring
it
to
the
heart
.
A
cursorie
confession
,
a
formall
fast
,
a
coat
of
sack-cloth
,
and
the
like
;
can
these
quench
the
flames
which
sinne
hath
blowne
and
kindled
?
Leave
off
renting
your
garments
,
saith
the
Prophet
,
and
learne
to
unharden
your
hearts
,
the
contrite
heart
is
the
oblation
that
God
will
not
despise
.
The
Romish
Votarie
or
Secluse
,
how
often
is
her
eye
cast
downe
and
heavie
,
when
her
heart
is
an
Aetna
of
vicious
affections
?
How
seemes
the
Jesuite
,
as
if
with
S.
Paul
he
were
crucified
to
the
world
,
and
the
world
to
him
,
when
his
spirit
is
with
Lucifer
in
the
clouds
,
contriving
combustions
of
State
?
How
broken
,
abject
,
and
vile
,
seeme
their
begging
Orders
,
being
men
of
another
mould
indeed
,
just
like
the
Comedians
,
who
play
and
act
the
siege
of
Troy
,
and
the
teares
,
of
Priam
,
without
all
sense
or
touch
of
that
griefe
at
the
heart
.
True
acceptable
contrition
runs
and
goes
in
another
straine
,
by
inward
smart
and
groanes
of
heart
and
spirit
:
it
prayes
,
it
vowes
,
it
powres
out
the
soule
before
the
Lord
,
Lam.
2.
Like
the
parched
earth
,
it
gaspes
towards
Heaven
,
as
if
it
would
devoure
the
clouds
,
it
wrestleth
with
the
Lord
like
Iacob
,
with
strong
supplications
it
repents
from
the
verie
heart
root
,
and
the
savour
of
this
incense
ascends
before
the
throne
of
the
Lord
,
and
returnes
not
without
a
blessing
,
yea
,
not
without
some
inward
pledge
in
the
issue
and
experience
of
Gods
mercie
and
remission
:
The
stroke
of
an
wholly
accusing
guiltie
heart
is
heavie
,
exiccat
ossa
,
Prov.
17.
but
the
joy
of
the
contrite
repenting
heart
is
incredible
,
it
is
sanitas
carnium
,
Prov.
14.
So
sweet
are
the
issues
of
the
contrite
heart
,
that
i●…
sense
thereof
Iob
feeleth
not
the
witnesse
of
man
against
him
,
because
God
would
witnesse
for
him
,
Iob.
31.
and
when
our
hearts
dare
indeed
witnesse
to
us
,
that
we
are
contrite
,
or
doe
un●einedly
repent
,
this
makes
glad
the
heart
,
and
is
a
continuall
Jubilee
,
because
it
is
the
co-witnesse
with
Gods
spirit
,
that
we
are
his
,
that
God
hath
accepted
us
.
A
broken
and
a
contrite
heart
,
ô
God
,
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
FINIS
.