To
my
worthy
Friend
Master
I.
R.
SIr
,
I
know
you
doe
now
feele
what
it
is
to
bee
a
Father
;
and
therefore
to
barre
you
altogether
from
lamenting
&
sorrowing
in
such
an
Accident
as
this
[
The
death
of
your
beloued
Sonne
]
were
as
vnreasonable
,
as
to
chide
a
Man
,
for
shewing
himselfe
sensible
,
when
a
Tooth
is
drawne
,
or
a
Leg
or
an
Arme
is
sawd
off
from
his
body
.
For
if
I
should
perswade
you
that
these
may
bee
taken
from
you
without
feeling
,
or
paine
,
you
would
say
,
I
plaid
the
Mountebanke
.
For
mine
owne
part
,
I
was
at
the
first
vnlookt
for
word
of
[
Dead
]
like
Niobe
,
Lapideus
factus
,
Cold
at
the
heart
;
and
hauing
recollected
my selfe
,
found
I
was
a
sharer
in
your
losse
,
and
could
not
temper
mine
Eyes
from
running
ouer
as
for
a
Kinsman
of
mine
own
.
(
For
why
should
not
I
haue
an
interest
,
nay
a
kind
of
affinity
with
His
Sonne
,
who
vouchsafed
to
bee
so
kind
a
nourisher
of
My
Daughter
?
)
Had
you
lost
him
new-borne
,
and
but
saluting
the
world
;
Or
a
Youngling
first
bestriding
his
Hobby-horse
,
or
driuing
his
Top
,
or
new
learning
the
way
to
Schoole
;
the
parting
had
not
beene
so
bitter
.
We
doe
somewhat
easily
shake
hands
with
greene
and
slight
Acquaintances
.
But
he
was
Solidus
Adolescens
,
A
growne
Man
,
arriued
halfe
way
to
the
Solslice
of
his
Age
;
Strong
,
actiue
,
well
shaped
,
well-graced
,
faire-demeanord
,
studious
,
of
an
honest
and
vertuous
disposition
,
yeelding
not
onely
the
blossomes
,
but
the
fruits
of
a
good
education
.
Graue
,
with
the
first
appearing
Downe
vpon
his
Chinne
,
yet
without
any
grumnesse
or
sowrenesse
of
manners
.
His
by-studies
and
delights
manly
and
generous
,
seruing
either
to
enable
him
for
the
seruice
of
his
Prince
&
Country
;
As
the
exercise
of
Ames
and
Hardiment
.
19.
l.
1.
—
Adde
virilia
,
quod
speciosius
Arma
,
Non
est
qui
tractet
.
His
manly
Armes
none
beares
with
better
grace
.
Or
by
imparting
their
delight
to
others
,
to
make
the
Vser
thereof
welcome
.
As
Musicke
,
Dancing
,
History
,
Faire-writing
,
&c.
To
his
God
he
was
religious
and
deuout
,
early
remembring
his
Creator
,
wearing
the
Threshold
of
his
House
,
&
sitting
attentiue
at
the
feete
of
this
Ministers
.
To
his
Father
and
Mother
obseruant
and
dutifull
;
To
his
Kinred
louing
;
To
his
Elders
reuerent
;
To
his
Equals
facile
and
sociable
;
To
All
courteous
and
pleasing
;
Which
turnd
Mens
eyes
and
regards
vpon
him
,
and
made
him
accepted
and
desired
,
both
of
one
and
other
.
And
for
the
maine
Studie
,
whereunto
hee
had
addicted
himselfe
,
he
was
by
your
conduct
&
trayning
so
good
a
proficient
therein
,
for
notion
and
vnderstanding
of
the
passages
,
if
not
for
dexterity
of
Acting
(
which
is
acquired
by
Time
and
vse
)
that
he
was
in
a
manner
fitted
and
prepared
to
haue
put
his
shoulders
vnder
your
burthen
,
and
by
inheriting
at
once
both
your
place
and
toyles
,
to
haue
giuen
your
yeeres
at
length
their
deserued
Vacation
.
But
Man
that
is
borne
of
a
Woman
,
hath
but
a
short
time
to
liue
.
He
commeth
vp
like
a
Flower
,
and
is
cropt
off
.
He
is
pluckt
from
the
Stalke
as
an
unripe
Grape
;
and
shaken
downe
as
the
winde
shaketh
downe
the
Oliue
blossomes
.
I
know
,
you
are
not
Stoicall
,
without
affections
;
[
*
](A17458-e11250-b)
*
Chancer
.
for
pitty
renneth
soone
in
Gentle
heart
.
And
therefore
I
blame
you
not
to
melt
,
yea
,
to
ake
,
and
be
sore
of
such
a
wound
and
mayme
as
this
.
This
is
not
a
slea-bite
,
or
a
scratch
with
a
pinne
;
nor
a
forraigne
hurt
a
great
way
distant
,
but
Domestike
and
Concerning
.
If
David
thought
his
sorrow
iustifiable
for
his
Sonne
that
was
a
Rebell
,
and
almost
a
Parricide
;
your
sorrow
cannot
but
be
iust
for
so
towardly
,
so
deare
,
so
precious
a
Sonne
:
A
right
Beniamin
,
the
Sonne
of
your
Right
hand
,
the
Staffe
and
Prop
of
your
old
Age.
Aegritudinem
doloremque
animi
moderatum
improbari
non
oportet
.
One
must
not
be
shent
for
moderate
sorrow
and
griefe
of
minde
.
But
yet
you
must
take
heed
of
making
your
Griefe
vniust
,
by
exceeding
a
iust
and
regular
measure
in
it
.
As
we
must
not
be
doloris
expertes
,
indolent
and
void
of
sorrow
,
for
that
's
inhumane
:
So
neither
may
we
be
perditè
dolentes
,
immeasurable
,
obstinate
,
desperate
grieuers
,
for
that
's
vn-christian
.
Teares
turne
backe
to
drowne
the
heart
.
Iobs
Friends
said
not
a
word
to
him
for
the
first
seuen
daies
,
but
let
passion
haue
his
course
,
and
tire
it selfe
,
themselues
sitting
sad
and
silent
by
him
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
you
must
not
stay
it
too
long
;
for
then
it
playes
the
Tyrant
,
and
killes
and
slayes
without
mercy
.
Worldly
sorrow
causeth
death
and
disease
.
It
's
like
a
foraigne
power
call'd
in
,
to
the
Ayde
of
a
distressed
Kingdome
,
which
cannot
be
got
out
againe
,
but
proues
a
worse
enemy
then
that
it
came
to
expell
.
You
haue
already
plaid
the
part
of
a
louing
Father
,
wept
the
Teares
of
Nature
;
you
must
now
change
your
Copy
,
withdraw
your
finger
from
the
sore
,
and
play
the
part
of
a
wise
and
constant
man
:
And
that
is
,
either
to
preuent
a
mischiefe
when
it
is
approching
;
or
if
it
happen
,
to
amend
it
,
and
labour
to
make
it
as
little
as
may
be
:
According
to
the
old
precept
,
Bona
quàm
maxima
facere
,
mala
contrahere
atque
imminuere
.
Extend
and
inlarge
any
Good
to
the
vtmost
,
But
because
generally
all
succours
faile
vs
in
aduersity
;
passion
sending
vp
such
Fogs
,
that
the
vnderstanding
is
blinded
,
(
though
we
haue
beene
(
in
our
owne
wel-faring
)
neuer
so
able
,
to
minister
words
of
comfort
to
others
in
their
distresses
)
giue
me
leaue
at
this
Time
,
to
take
you
by
the
hand
,
and
onely
to
set
you
in
the
way
to
the
doore
of
Consolation
.
Multa
etiam
ab
Olitore
,
recte
atque
in
loco
proferri
possunt
.
Eu'n
an
Herb-wife
sometimes
may
Things
right
,
and
to
the
purpose
say
.
CONSIDERATION
.
I.
FIrst
,
call
to
your
remembrance
that
great
Statute
,
That
all
must
once
dye
.
And
that
doome
for
sinne
,
Dust
thou
art
,
and
into
Dust
thou
shalt
returne
.
Omnibus
vna
manet
nox
,
Fit
calcanda
semel
via
lethi
.
One
darksome
night
awaits
each
liuing
wight
,
And
Deaths
high-way
must
once
be
trod
(
despight
.
)
Nascimur
,
&
morimur
,
is
euery
ones
Motto
;
Wee
are
all
borne
mortall
.
What
maruell
to
see
that
cut
asunder
which
may
bee
cut
asunder
?
That
melted
which
is
fusible
and
apt
to
melt
?
That
burnt
which
is
combustible
?
The
Sonne
die
as
well
as
the
Father
,
being
borne
vnder
the
same
Condition
of
Mortality
,
that
the
Father
was
?
All
vnions
in
this
world
must
be
dissolued
:
Fathers
and
Children
must
bee
seuered
;
Friends
&
Friends
,
Husbands
&
Wiues
,
as
they
had
a
Time
to
come
together
,
so
they
must
haue
a
Time
to
part
asunder
.
Sic
Natura
postulat
,
nec
graue
putandum
,
fieri
quod
necesse
est
.
So
Nature
craues
,
nor
thinke
it
much
to
see
,
The
Thing
so
done
,
that
needs
so
done
must
be
.
CONSIDERATION
.
2.
SEcondly
,
consider
that
it
is
the
case
of
others
with
you
.
If
you
had
beene
the
first
,
or
onely
Father
that
had
lost
a
Sonne
,
and
no
other
had
drunk
of
this
Cup
before
you
;
then
you
had
some
Colour
to
complaine
,
and
to
continue
and
spin
out
your
laments
.
But
the
worme
is
spred
euen
vnder
Royall
Branches
;
Kings
and
Princes
are
depriued
of
their
Children
,
as
well
as
meaner
men
;
yea
those
Children
,
that
should
keepe
their
Kingdome
from
staggering
.
Histories
are
full
of
instances
;
Whence
you
(
that
are
so
conuersant
in
those
readings
)
can
easily
store
your selfe
;
let
it
bee
inough
for
me
to
reach
you
onely
three
or
foure
familiar
Ones
,
within
the
reach
&
l●en
of
our
owne
memory
.
That
Noble
Lord
of
the
North
lost
three
of
his
Sonnes
,
In
florentissima
aetate
,
in
the
very
bloome
of
youth
,
and
lustihood
:
One
,
before
his
aged
Eyes
,
by
the
ruggednesse
of
an
vnbroken
Horse
;
and
Two
together
out
of
a
Boate
passing
ouer
a
rough
Ferry
.
You
know
,
but
a
little
since
,
A
worthy
Knight
of
our
Country
lost
one
of
his
Sons
,
a
lusty
yong
Gentleman
,
in
our
owne
Riuer
,
his
Horse
leaping
with
his
Rider
,
plum
ouer
the
Boates
side
.
A
Noble
Gentlewoman
,
our
neighbour
,
after
the
losse
of
a
deare
and
excellent
Husband
,
lost
in
the
Circle
of
a
few
yeeres
,
sixe
of
her
Children
,
all
growne
Men
and
Women
,
three
faire
Daughters
,
and
three
braue
Sonnes
;
the
yongest
in
a
Tempest
of
Bullets
,
at
the
assault
of
an
vnfortunate
Iland
.
The
Prince
Palatines
losse
of
his
First-borne
Sonne
,
by
the
vnlucky
running
of
a
Ship
with
full
saile
ouer
his
Barge
,
is
fresh
in
all
minds
.
Perishing
by
misfortune
is
a
greater
Cut
,
then
leauing
the
world
by
Gods
Visitation
.
So
that
your
case
being
common
with
others
,
and
more
easie
then
diuers
others
,
That
may
stifle
some
sighs
,
and
calme
a
many
repining
complaints
.
Inter
arma
&
lituos
,
Am.
Mar.
lib.
26.
c.
13.
conditionis
aequatio
leuiorafacit
pericula
.
Euen
among
weapons
and
sounding
Trumpets
,
the
equality
of
Condition
makes
the
danger
lighter
,
and
lesse
sensible
.
Who
reckes
his
life
,
or
dreads
death
,
when
in
the
whirle
and
Din
of
warre
,
hee
seeth
not
onely
his
fellow-Soldiers
knockt
downe
beside
him
,
but
a
many
valiant
yong
Nobles
,
resolute
and
hardy
Knights
,
and
Commanders
,
that
erewhile
cleft
the
crowdes
,
and
hewed
themselues
a
way
thorow
the
thickest
Rankes
of
the
Enemy
,
fallen
to
ground
also
,
and
lying
breathles
among
Thousands
of
other
dead
bodies
?
What
a
Rowe
might
bee
presented
of
weeping
Fathers
and
Mothers
for
their
Sonnes
,
accomplisht
(
at
their
no
small
charge
)
with
learning
and
breeding
,
sodainely
hurried
out
of
the
world
vpon
a
Sword
or
Rapiers
point
,
in
desperate
quarrels
,
or
Challenges
and
Duells
,
within
the
compasse
of
halfe
Your
Time
?
Age
,
desine
;
intuonsque
aliorum
miserias
,
Tua
lenius
feres
.
Goe
to
,
giue
ouer
,
and
by
view
Of
others
Griefes
,
your
owne
subdue
.
CONSIDERATION
.
3.
THirdly
,
the
impossibility
of
recouering
your
losse
.
Optimum
est
obliuisci
,
quodrecuperari
non
potest
.
The
best
salue
for
an
irrecouerable
losse
,
is
Obliuion
.
Non
placet
istud
factum
,
Terent.
Adelph
.
Act.
4.5.8
si
possem
mutare
;
nunc
cum
non
queo
,
aequo
animo
fero
.
This
fact
likes
me
not
,
if
I
knew
how
to
help
it
;
now
that
I
cannot
,
what
remedy
but
patience
?
If
your
Sonne
were
to
bee
bought
and
brought
to
life
againe
at
a
set
price
of
sorrow
,
I
beleeue
,
you
would
bid
frankly
for
him
.
But
,
The
Graue
returnes
no
Men.
You
shall
goe
to
him
,
he
shall
not
come
againe
to
you
.
And
therefore
to
sit
day
by
day
with
folded
armes
,
and
dropping
eyes
,
&
a
heart
heauy
as
lead
,
for
the
Losse
cannot
possibly
be
regayned
;
as
it
is
vnprofitable
to
the
bemoaned
,
so
't
is
a
hurt
to
the
bemoaner
;
yea
of
one
harme
to
make
Two
.
Nay
it
is
to
resist
the
high
and
heauenly
Will
,
and
to
bee
found
Striuers
against
God
:
In
which
number
,
I
know
,
you
would
be
loth
to
be
ranked
.
You
haue
not
so
learned
Christ
.
CONSIDERATION
.
4.
FOurthly
,
Time
it selfe
may
minister
some
Physicke
to
your
Affliction
.
A
Prisoners
Irons
seeme
not
so
heauy
to
him
the
second
day
,
as
the
first
.
No
griefe
hath
so
much
violence
in
the
continuation
,
as
in
the
first
Accesse
.
Take
the
simplest
Country-Mother
,
the
weakest
Nurse
of
a
Village
,
that
wrings
her
hands
,
and
teares
her
haire
,
&
laues
the
Ground
(
on
which
she
wallowes
)
with
eye-water
,
and
takes
on
neuer
so
impotently
for
her
departed
Child
;
and
the
space
of
a
few
dayes
will
slake
the
rage
of
her
sorrow
,
and
anon
bury
it
in
vtter
forgetfulnesse
.
That
which
Time
worketh
in
the
ignorant
,
shall
not
Time
and
Reason
together
effect
as
easily
in
the
wise
?
CONSIDERATION
5.
Fiftly
,
But
you
will
say
,
your
Son
might
haue
liu'd
longer
.
And
hee
might
as
well
haue
dyed
sooner
.
Who
can
shew
me
a
Lease
of
his
life
vnder
Seale
for
one
houre
?
Why
may
not
euery
day
proue
our
last
day
?
Some
are
suffocated
in
the
wombe
;
others
crowz'd
to
death
in
the
Birth
.
One
is
snatcht
away
in
the
Cradle
:
Another
mow'd
off
in
his
May
of
youth
;
being
onely
shewne
to
the
world
like
a
curious
picture
finisht
,
and
straight
the
Curtaine
drawne
and
remou'd
away
againe
.
It
s
the
priuiledge
but
of
few
,
to
step
down
vpon
the
Griece
of
Old
Age.
Our
life
,
from
the
first
houre
to
the
last
,
gallops
on
towards
death
:
And
who
seeth
not
,
with
what
speed
it
conquers
euen
the
longest
way
in
this
iourney
?
If
Time
then
be
the
thing
you
stand
on
for
your
Sonne
,
how
small
a
matter
of
Oddes
is
a
little
more
or
lesse
Time
in
so
fugitiue
and
swift
a
Race
?
It
's
scarce
discernable
.
A
Cart
full
of
Prisoners
are
brought
to
execution
;
what
skills
it
which
is
first
,
or
third
,
or
sixt
,
or
tenth
,
or
sixteenth
?
All
must
dye
.
What
gets
hee
that
is
delayed
till
the
afternoone
,
aboue
him
that
was
executed
in
the
morning
?
Perhaps
to
be
superafflicted
with
longer
expectance
and
pre-apprehension
;
sighing
that
his
turne
had
not
beene
with
the
formost
.
(
But
the
Prisoner
may
not
appoint
his
owne
course
,
that
is
in
the
Iudge
or
the
Sheriffe
to
dispose
of
.
)
The
whole
world
is
but
a
Cart
of
condemned
persons
:
God
culls
out
euery
day
some
and
some
for
Execution
.
This
very
Minute
a
Slaue
dyes
,
foredone
with
toyle
and
hardship
.
Instantly
,
a
King
or
great
Lord
mounts
the
Scaffold
.
By
and
by
a
Mechanick
,
a
Rusticke
,
a
Pesant
,
a
Milk-maid
,
a
Cow-heard
,
a
Schoole-boy
,
or
Girle
,
suffer
.
Straight
after
,
a
Royall
Lady
or
Princesse
stoopes
her
faire
Neck
to
the
Blocke
.
Anon
,
a
fresh
,
louely
,
actiue
,
vigorous
Youth
,
a
beauteous
young
Damsell
(
Ornaments
to
the
world
)
are
presented
to
the
Axe
.
Behold
now
,
a
feeble
old
man
is
led
vp
,
hauing
scarce
life
inough
left
,
to
be
kild
,
&c.
The
oldest
of
these
hath
not
liu'd
a
minute
ouer
his
Time
,
nor
the
youngest
a
minute
vnder
:
for
neither
might
the
one
budge
any
sooner
without
summons
&
order
;
nor
the
other
tarry
any
longer
,
being
call'd
away
.
But
you
will
say
,
He
had
no
cause
to
complaine
,
that
was
respited
to
Old
Age
,
which
brings
with
it
a
saciety
of
liuing
.
Nor
You
,
by
the
same
reason
.
For
when
God
hath
decreed
,
I
shall
liue
no
longer
,
This
(
fall
it
when
it
will
)
is
my
Old
Age.
Wee
are
not
Caruers
of
our
owne
Times
.
Hee
onely
that
predestinated
the
houre
of
our
Birth
from
all
Eternity
,
hath
power
to
decree
the
houre
of
our
Death
.
You
neither
could
cause
your
Child
to
bee
borne
sooner
,
or
to
dye
later
.
Times
Maker
knowes
the
fittest
Times
for
all
his
purposes
.
He
hath
not
appointed
all
to
liue
the
same
terme
of
yeeres
.
Some
goe
before
,
The
Husbandman
reapes
not
all
his
Akers
at
once
,
but
one
sooner
,
another
later
,
as
they
are
sooner
or
later
ripe
.
Let
God
alone
,
hee
knowes
(
better
then
any
Farmer
)
the
number
and
condition
of
his
Akers
,
&
where
he
findes
one
forward
,
turn'd
white
betimes
,
(
though
but
the
other
day
greene
,
and
in
the
blade
)
there
he
puts
in
his
Sickle
,
and
carries
it
into
the
Heauenly
Barne
:
A
Place
of
safety
.
Which
with
longer
standing
might
haue
spilt
&
shed
,
or
beene
wansled
,
and
come
to
nothing
.
Long
lasting
,
euen
to
the
frostiest
old
Age
is
not
the
matter
,
Esa.
65.
for
there
may
bee
a
Child
of
a
hundred
yeeres
old
,
that
yet
is
not
ready
for
Heauen
.
God
hath
reserued
to
himselfe
alone
,
the
sight
of
the
running
out
of
the
Glasse
.
Man
knoweth
not
his
Time
and
End
:
but
vnperceiuingly
slides
into
it
,
as
the
Fish
into
the
Net
,
or
the
Bird
into
the
Snare
,
God
pushing
on
meanes
,
to
vs
vndreamt
of
,
and
vnsuspected
,
to
serue
his
Decree
.
It
is
with
men
in
the
world
,
as
with
the
Vessels
in
a
Potters
Shop
.
There
are
of
all
sorts
,
sizes
,
and
fashions
.
That
which
to
day
is
whole
,
&
handsome
,
and
vsefull
:
to
morrow
,
with
a
knocke
,
or
a
fall
,
may
bee
broken
to
sheards
.
Your
Vessell
was
sheene
and
new
,
of
a
firme
making
,
likely
to
haue
lasted
many
a
faire
yeere
,
euen
till
it
had
flawed
and
moudred
away
of
it selfe
;
but
it
stood
in
harmes-way
,
disease
and
sicknesse
gaue
it
a
knocke
,
and
a
cracke
,
which
could
not
bee
soldred
.
And
indeed
,
the
sleekest
,
the
sweetest
,
the
trimmest
Dish
of
China
,
is
but
a
China
Dish
;
handle
it
,
or
set
it
vp
as
charily
as
you
can
deuise
.
Wee
would
haue
our
Candle
burne
downe
into
the
socket
;
but
God
hath
a
wind
to
blow
it
out
,
sometimes
as
soone
as
lighted
;
or
a
Thiefe
to
consume
it
with
guttering
,
ere
any
Eye
heed
it
.
Few
of
our
liuing
Candles
(
not
one
amongst
a
Thousand
)
last
burning
to
the
last
Inch.
Hee
that
numbreth
all
our
Times
and
houres
,
hath
numbred
your
Sonnes
also
,
and
set
him
his
day
,
beyond
which
he
could
not
passe
.
Honour
him
with
free
yeelding
this
preeminence
to
him
,
and
let
it
stop
your
mouth
,
and
stoope
your
heart
.
I
held
my
peace
,
because
thou
didst
it
.
It
is
the
Lord
,
let
him
doe
whatsoeuer
he
pleaseth
.
He
giueth
,
he
taketh
,
blessed
be
the
Name
of
the
Lord
.
But
he
doth
nothing
but
for
the
best
to
them
that
loue
him
.
Many
times
Life
is
not
so
much
taken
away
,
as
Death
giuen
for
a
speciall
Fauour
.
Iust
and
Mercifull
men
are
taken
away
from
the
Euils
to
come
.
Righteous
Abel
,
the
second
Sonne
of
the
sole
Emperour
of
the
whole
Earth
,
was
cut
off
in
his
Youth
.
The
Eternall
Son
of
God
himselfe
died
a
young
Man
.
Our
Estimate
of
Life
is
wrong
,
and
false
;
quite
odde
and
different
from
Gods
.
We
measure
it
like
Canuas
,
by
the
Ell
;
God
like
Gold
,
by
the
Graine
.
Our
Examen
is
by
the
Tale
,
so
many
Scores
;
Gods
by
the
Touch
,
so
vertuous
,
so
exemplary
,
of
such
an
Allay
.
Now
,
God
hauing
thus
qualified
Your
Sonne
with
Grace
,
made
him
early
ready
for
Heauen
;
hee
had
attain'd
his
due
,
and
true
Seniority
,
and
could
not
complaine
that
hee
lackt
Time
,
or
had
liu'd
too
little
while
.
in
Transtat
.
of
Pers.
Action
,
not
Time
,
does
number
Age.
The
Heathens
haue
noted
it
for
a
blessing
,
to
dye
young
.
And
againe
:
—
Nec
illi
,
Quem
Diuum
Pater
atque
hominum
,
quem
Phoebus
Amabat
ante
omnes
,
sera
licuit
gaudere
senecta
.
Nor
might
he
(
here
)
liue
to
be
old
as
other
,
Whom
Ioue
and
Phoebus
tendred
as
their
brother
.
Cleobis
and
Biton
,
And
when
newes
hereof
was
brought
to
their
Mother
,
as
of
a
great
misfortune
:
No
(
saith
she
)
I
will
neuer
count
my selfe
vnfortunate
,
that
was
the
Mother
of
such
Sonnes
,
as
the
gods
haue
guerdon'd
with
immortality
for
their
pious
Act.
Shall
a
Pagan
Mother
,
hauing
no
other
light
but
that
of
duske
nature
,
count
it
for
a
Diuine
Fauour
,
that
her
excellent
Sonnes
haue
early
quit
this
life
and
world
;
and
a
Christian
Father
inlightned
with
the
Raies
of
the
Sacred
Truth
breathed
from
the
Holy
Ghost
,
pule
,
and
repine
,
and
looke
sowre
vpon
Heauen
,
and
God
,
when
in
mercy
he
hath
done
for
ours
,
not
what
's
most
pleasing
to
vs
,
but
what
's
most
fit
and
commodious
for
both
?
If
wee
bee
truely
penitent
for
our
sinnes
,
and
can
perswade
our
hearts
of
our
right
and
interest
in
the
blood
and
merits
of
Christ
Iesus
,
what
need
we
doubt
of
Gods
Fauour
?
Hath
he
not
told
vs
in
his
Word
assur'd
vs
,
proou'd
,
demonstrated
to
vs
,
that
he
loues
vs
;
yea
better
then
we
can
loue
our selues
?
Charior
est
illis
homo
,
quàm
sibi
.
And
will
such
a
Cause
produce
any
other
then
beneficiall
,
and
friendly
effects
?
Was
it
not
in
loue
vnspeakable
,
that
he
gaue
his
own
Son
to
Vs
?
and
can
it
bee
but
in
like
loue
,
that
hee
takes
our
Sonnes
and
Daughters
vnto
him
?
O
thinke
of
it
;
and
thinke
withall
,
whether
such
a
loue
,
from
Him
so
great
,
to
Vs
so
base
,
be
not
worthy
re-louing
,
aboue
Sonnes
,
Daughters
,
Wines
,
Friends
,
Wealth
,
Lands
,
or
whatsoeuer
else
the
World
holds
most
deare
?
May
we
not
,
hauing
this
left
vs
(
the
loue
of
God
in
Christ
)
fit
vs
downe
as
blessed
Men
and
Women
,
with
cheerefull
hearts
and
faces
,
though
all
things
else
be
torne
from
vs
?
This
is
the
miraculous
Philosophers
Stone
,
that
turnes
any
Metall
it
touches
,
into
Gold
.
This
turnes
Crosses
into
Comforts
,
Losses
into
Thrifts
,
Sorrows
into
Smiles
,
Wounds
into
Medicines
,
and
Death
it selfe
of
our selues
,
or
ours
,
into
superlatiue
Aduantage
and
Blisse
.
CONSIDERATION
6.
GOd
may
intend
herein
the
Fathers
tryall
,
as
well
as
the
Childs
Benefit
.
You
your selfe
haue
sometimes
giuen
one
of
your
little
Ones
an
Apple
,
and
askt
it
againe
immediately
,
to
try
his
loue
.
So
God
giues
vs
deare
Pledges
,
and
anon
requires
them
from
vs
againe
,
to
make
proofe
which
wee
loue
better
,
our
Children
or
Him
.
Was
't
not
inough
,
that
God
(
who
could
haue
with-held
that
blessing
of
marriage
)
gaue
you
such
a
Sonne
,
vnlesse
hee
would
bargaine
with
you
to
let
him
liue
forty
yeeres
beyond
you
?
would
you
rather
bee
childlesse
,
then
the
Father
of
such
a
Sonne
,
as
might
out-runne
his
Father
in
the
race
of
Death
?
If
you
had
a
iourney
to
goe
afoote
thirty
Miles
,
will
you
not
say
God
a
mercy
to
him
will
let
you
ride
a
Dozen
of
it
,
because
he
will
not
spare
you
his
Horse
the
other
Eighteene
?
A
great
Duke
or
Prince
lends
you
a
dainty
sweet
Picture
,
of
exquisite
Workmanship
,
to
delight
your
Eyes
withall
;
Will
you
powte
,
and
snuffe
,
and
take
on
as
iniuri'd
,
when
after
diuers
yeeres
vse
,
he
re-demaunds
it
from
you
,
to
bee
placed
againe
among
the
Ornaments
of
his
Gallery
?
Ah
te
,
si
flentem
super
aethera
mox
rapuisset
Iupiter
.
What
could
you
say
for
your selfe
;
how
excuse
such
froward
bearing
,
if
God
should
instantly
summon
you
to
make
you
answer
before
him
?
CONSIDERATION
7.
BVt
you
could
haue
better
brookt
any
Crosse
,
then
this
.
But
we
may
not
choose
our
Crosse
,
but
beare
patiently
that
is
laid
on
vs
.
Shall
wee
take
vpon
vs
to
curb
,
or
direct
,
and
giue
lawes
to
God
?
You
deceiue
your selfe
,
and
lay
vp
but
discomfort
against
the
euill
day
,
if
you
thinke
no
Thorne
could
pricke
,
but
this
.
God
can
quickly
make
you
know
,
that
he
is
able
to
set
a
point
,
and
sting
vpon
a
Crosse
of
wooll
.
That
Rod
shall
smart
,
which
God
will
set
on
,
though
it
be
but
of
Rushes
.
A
little
browne
paper
shot
out
of
an
Elder-Gun
,
is
scarce
felt
against
the
hand
of
a
Child
;
The
same
browne
paper
out
of
a
Musket
,
is
able
to
breake
the
Ribs
of
a
Giant
.
—
Quid
enim
mirabile
,
si
quis
A
lotte
percussius
,
non
leue
vuluns
habet
?
What
maruell
if
one
bee
in
bitternesse
,
the
stroke
falling
like
a
Talent
of
Lead
,
and
the
wound
no
light
one
,
when
the
hand
of
God
inflicts
it
?
I
know
,
losse
of
Children
,
Men
of
best
Blood
and
Minds
,
take
most
to
heart
:
and
by
the
helpe
of
their
sharpe
conceit
,
encrease
and
sharpen
their
affliction
:
which
made
that
saying
scape
from
the
Pen
of
One
,
In
non
sapiendo
iucundissima
vita
.
It
's
good
sometimes
to
be
a
foole
.
Iners
malorum
Remedium
ignorantia
.
The
more
of
ignorance
,
the
lesse
of
grieuance
.
It
's
the
downe-right
,
senslesse
Remedy
of
Euils
.
For
Such
a
one
cannot
by
his
discourse
aggrauate
a
Losse
.
But
me
thinkes
,
Wisdome
should
reach
vs
as
soft
a
Cushion
to
leane
on
,
as
Ignorance
can
:
and
Discretion
forge
an
Armour
of
as
good
proofe
against
Aduersity
,
The
thing
I
scared
,
is
fallen
vpon
me
.
If
God
had
spared
you
from
this
affliction
,
doe
you
thinke
you
should
haue
beene
at
rest
from
euils
?
Hath
God
but
one
Rod
?
Is
his
Storehouse
so
vnfurnisht
?
Is
not
the
very
place
wee
liue
in
,
a
place
of
toyle
,
and
turmoyle
,
and
bickering
,
and
vexation
?
And
shall
we
thinke
to
find
Rest
in
that
,
whose
composition
is
of
Tumults
?
Nam
nemini
esse
prorsus
folici
,
licet
.
No
man
but
finds
a
Pound
of
Woe
,
for
a
Dram
of
Content
.
God
will
not
glut
vs
with
Felicities
.
His
manner
is
eftsoones
to
vitiate
the
comforts
hee
allowes
his
Children
with
some
vn-expected
Dash
of
sorrow
,
lest
they
should
imagine
that
true
&
sincere
Content
might
be
found
on
Earth
.
I
haue
heard
you
obserue
a
like
course
held
with
your selfe
.
For
,
speaking
of
some
proiects
of
yours
for
a
retired
Country
life
,
how
much
you
affected
the
sweetnesse
and
innocency
thereof
,
and
what
please
you
could
giue
your selfe
in
it
:
God
(
you
said
)
did
by
one
meanes
or
other
still
crosse
and
defeate
your
purposes
,
foreseeing
how
it
might
steale
away
your
heart
from
heauen
and
him
,
and
make
you
desire
to
moare
here
,
and
set
vp
your
Rest
in
the
things
of
this
world
.
This
vse
you
made
of
that
Crosse
then
;
doe
the
like
by
this
now
.
God
hath
taken
your
Darling
from
You
,
lest
he
should
haue
taken
your
heart
from
Him
.
CONSIDERATION
8.
POnder
oft
that
saying
,
Sapit
qui
non
tristatur
propter
absentia
,
sed
gaudet
praesentibus
.
He
is
wise
that
is
not
so
much
sorry
for
the
absent
,
as
ioyous
in
the
present
Comforts
.
You
looke
to
what
you
haue
lost
,
but
not
to
what
you
haue
left
.
As
God
hath
Crosses
moe
then
one
:
So
Hee
hath
Comforts
&
Blessings
moe
than
one
.
And
hee
hath
left
you
a
great
many
of
them
,
euen
Childrens
Children
;
When
others
haue
nor
Son
,
nor
Daughter
in
their
inheritance
.
Will
you
,
because
one
is
remoued
out
of
your
sight
,
waywardly
depriue
Your selfe
of
enioying
the
Remainder
,
as
not
worth
thankes
,
now
one
of
the
tale
is
diminisht
?
That
were
leke
little
Children
,
if
you
catch
vp
one
of
their
Play-games
,
they
presently
cast
away
all
the
rest
in
a
fume
.
If
in
a
vast
succourles
Champian
,
or
Downe
,
the
furious
Wind
should
snatch
off
your
Hat
,
and
hurry
it
away
beyond
ouertaking
,
(
so
much
,
as
with
you
Eye
,
)
would
you
straight
in
a
Moode
strip
off
your
other
Garments
to
your
shirt
,
and
dare
the
Wind
to
do
his
worst
with
those
Parcels
also
?
O
take
heed
of
such
behauiour
.
'T
is
not
stouting
,
and
stomacke
,
and
pettishnesse
,
but
meekenesse
,
and
patience
,
and
humility
,
makes
God
propitious
.
What
shall
you
get
by
standing
and
knocking
your
Fists
at
Him
,
that
must
be
your
onely
Comfort
in
your
Anguishes
;
or
you
are
like
to
haue
none
at
all
,
but
scorne
and
dirision
?
Set
not
God
to
Schoole
;
appoint
him
not
what
to
take
,
what
to
leaue
.
He
knowes
best
which
Branch
of
the
Vine
to
prune
off
.
Be
thankefull
for
them
are
reserued
to
you
,
and
enioy
them
as
from
a
thrice
friendly
and
gracious
hand
.
Set
your
loue
on
them
as
on
another
mans
Loane
,
which
you
must
restore
vpon
demaund
.
Thinke
not
that
to
be
your
owne
,
that
was
but
lent
you
;
nor
that
to
bee
too
soone
required
againe
,
which
without
iniury
might
haue
beene
altogether
kept
from
you
.
CONSIDERATION
.
9.
O
But
,
he
was
so
hopefull
,
so
towardly
,
so
well
dispos'd
,
such
a
Modell
of
Goodnesse
,
&c.
I
grant
you
all
this
.
But
how
know
you
,
he
would
haue
held
on
so
,
if
he
had
liued
longer
?
How
many
godly
Fathers
haue
had
their
hearts
broke
with
the
lewdnesse
and
ill
proofe
of
their
Children
?
Eu'n
many
Good
Princes
came
short
of
Neroes
first
5.
yeeres
.
What
Traps
doe
we
see
set
daily
in
the
way
of
Vertue
,
to
trip
it
,
and
make
it
fall
?
Occasions
to
many
sinnes
are
presented
,
and
taken
hold
of
in
tract
of
Time
,
which
once
we
neuer
dreamt
of
committing
,
or
contracting
the
least
acquaintance
with
them
.
He
is
gone
,
beginning
to
rellish
vertue
,
vntainted
of
vicious
inclinations
;
his
soule
had
not
yet
dipped
in
the
dish
of
voluptuousnesse
;
wickednesse
had
not
altred
his
heart
.
What
hath
he
lost
by
that
?
By
being
Heauenly
on
Earth
,
hee
is
now
made
Glorious
in
Heauen
.
Sic
fuit
vtilius
finiri
ipsique
,
tibique
.
So
was
't
most
profit
to
exspire
,
Both
to
himselfe
,
and
you
(
his
Sire
.
)
Besides
;
you
will
say
,
(
for
passion
hath
no
hoe
in
obiecting
)
To
you
,
he
was
so
vsefull
,
so
necessary
,
your
finger
next
the
Thumbe
,
growne
fit
to
aduise
with
,
to
impart
your
Counsels
to
,
to
make
a
Friend
and
Companion
of
,
&c.
Hinc
lachrymae
.
This
smoke
also
makes
your
eyes
runne
ouer
.
But
let
me
tell
you
,
To
bewayle
the
losse
of
your
Child
,
because
hee
was
necessary
to
you
,
&
you
could
ill
misse
him
,
is
selfe-loue
,
not
the
loue
of
your
Child
.
And
to
be
sad
for
the
welfare
of
your
Child
,
being
euaded
all
perils
,
and
highly
promoted
,
and
dignified
besides
;
is
the
part
of
an
enuious
person
,
not
of
a
Father
or
Kinsman
.
Would
old
Iacob
,
or
any
true-hearted
Friend
or
acquaintance
of
Iosephs
be
drest
in
melancholy
,
to
heare
that
the
King
of
Egypt
had
releast
him
out
of
prison
,
and
sent
for
him
to
Court
,
to
make
him
a
great
Lord
,
and
Vice-roy
of
the
Kingdome
?
If
you
had
beene
told
a
while
agon
of
some
extraordinary
worldly
preferment
befalne
your
Sonne
,
aboue
all
that
you
could
thinke
or
hope
for
,
though
in
some
farre
remote
place
,
whereby
your
former
familiar
Conuerses
must
be
cut
off
;
yet
I
suppose
,
that
for
his
good
,
you
would
haue
entertain'd
the
newes
with
gladnesse
,
and
laid
by
your
owne
particular
respects
:
And
now
that
he
is
exalted
to
the
very
Top
and
heighth
of
honour
,
and
that
in
eternity
;
now
that
he
is
enstall'd
a
Prince
among
Celestiall
Princes
(
for
not
any
are
lesse
then
Kings
and
Queenes
that
are
admitted
thither
)
will
you
lowre
and
be
in
dumps
,
as
for
a
matter
of
speciall
discomfort
,
and
mishap
?
Will
you
bee
sorry
for
his
ioy
?
deiected
for
his
aduancement
?
sicke
of
his
happinesse
?
Had
you
rather
your
Sonne
should
bee
without
Heauen
,
then
you
without
your
Sonne
?
This
is
a
plaine
degree
of
Madnesse
.
Shall
wee
lament
for
them
that
laugh
?
mourne
for
them
that
feast
and
sing
?
hurt
our
health
for
them
that
are
perfectly
whole
?
Now
that
hee
is
dead
and
buried
,
nay
now
that
his
life
is
indeed
truly
Vitall
and
Liuing
;
will
you
for
his
sake
goe
drowne
your selfe
in
your
owne
teares
?
Certè
plus
animi
debet
inesse
viris
.
More
wisdome
ought
to
rest
in
them
,
That
weare
the
onely
name
of
Men.
He
hath
no
sence
of
your
sorrowes
for
him
,
nor
will
thanke
you
for
hurting
your selfe
,
by
the
liberty
you
giue
to
the
Rage
of
Nature
.
CONSIDERATION
.
10.
GOd
hath
by
death
freed
him
,
not
onely
from
the
dangers
and
corruptions
of
the
Age
,
wherein
hee
might
haue
beene
swallowed
,
but
from
the
common
euils
which
may
fall
vpon
his
Suruiuers
,
greater
perhaps
,
and
neerer
then
we
imagine
.
The
Condition
of
the
Times
is
so
bad
,
as
punishments
cannot
be
farre
off
.
To
be
set
in
safety
before
their
approaches
,
whil'st
the
storme
is
but
a
thickning
,
is
no
small
benefit
.
Mors
eius
immatura
existimanda
erit
.
Quid
si
molesta
habuisset
multa
ac
tristia
?
Haec
finiens
mors
,
non
te
beneuolentior
Illi
fuit
?
If
you
were
sure
that
hee
should
haue
enioy'd
The
life
rest
from
him
free
,
and
vn-annoy'd
,
Then
you
might
thinke
his
death
t'
haue
hapt
too
rathe
;
But
what
if
now
much
Ruth
were
to
ensue
,
And
troublous
stormes
,
which
Death
preuented
hath
,
Was
't
not
in
that
,
more
kinde
to
him
then
You
?
If
yee
lou'd
mee
(
saith
our
Lord
to
his
Disciples
)
ye
would
verily
reioyce
,
because
I
goe
to
the
Father
;
out
of
this
troublesome
and
euill
world
.
So
if
we
lou'd
our
Children
,
and
Friends
departed
,
it
would
bee
a
more
regular
course
to
expresse
it
,
in
gratulating
their
escape
by
Death
from
so
manifold
hazards
and
euils
of
life
,
and
their
estating
thereby
into
so
ample
beatitude
and
happinesse
,
then
in
giuing
scope
to
those
effeminate
plaints
,
and
distaffe
lamentations
.
That
which
easeth
vs
of
all
burdens
and
cares
;
Is
the
end
and
death
of
our
miseries
;
The
euerlasting
farwell
to
all
smart
and
woes
;
Preuents
our
seeing
,
suffring
,
and
doing
of
much
euill
;
Cuts
the
Cords
whereby
wee
are
hampered
in
the
world
,
and
hindred
to
goe
to
God
;
Is
the
accomplishment
of
our
sanctification
;
our
Porter
to
Glory
,
rendring
vs
into
the
Armes
and
Embrace
of
our
Bridgroome
Christ
Iesus
,
neuer
more
to
be
separated
,
or
disioyned
from
him
;
doth
it
present
vs
cause
of
pensiuenesse
and
mourning
,
or
of
Iubile
and
reioycing
rather
?
Is
the
tired
Bondman
sorry
for
the
approach
of
night
,
that
he
may
giue
ouer
,
and
goe
to
rest
?
Is
the
brute
Oxe
grieued
to
be
vnyoked
?
was
euer
Mariner
ill
apaid
,
that
after
long
and
doubtfull
tossing
in
a
dreadfull
high-going
Sea
,
hee
had
recouered
the
safe
&
quiet
Hauen
?
Or
banished
man
,
that
hee
was
call'd
home
to
his
Country
and
Kinred
?
Or
Prisoner
,
that
hee
was
brought
out
of
a
Dungeon
,
into
the
liberty
and
pleasures
of
a
Palace
?
And
will
you
still
weare
a
Cloudy
brow
,
and
wither
away
in
your
Mournings
for
him
,
that
is
a
sharer
in
all
these
Priuileges
and
Blessings
?
CONSIDERATION
.
11.
ELeuenthly
:
You
remember
the
saying
;
Schola
crucis
,
Schola
lucis
.
The
Schoole
of
Tribulation
is
the
Schoole
of
Edification
.
The
Graecian
Prouerb
is
like
it
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Those
things
that
trouble
vs
,
teach
vs
.
You
may
perhaps
learne
more
out
of
this
Affliction
,
then
prosperity
euer
could
teach
you
in
all
your
life
.
This
may
make
you
looke
into
your
Conscience
,
examine
the
state
of
your
soule
,
weepe
your
owne
Deseruings
,
and
iustifie
God
in
all
his
Doings
;
and
in
this
Particular
,
though
the
waight
were
doubled
&
trebled
vpon
you
.
Pray
that
these
effects
may
be
wrought
in
you
.
These
will
proue
salubres
cogitationes
,
lacrymae
beatae
,
verni
imbres
;
holsome
Meditations
,
Teares
of
Grace
,
Aprill
showres
,
which
will
cause
the
flowres
of
Consolation
to
spring
vp
in
your
heart
.
When
I
lost
the
better
halfe
of
my selfe
,
(
the
Best
of
Wiues
,
such
a
One
,
as
euen
by
wishing
could
hardly
haue
beene
exceeded
,
the
Country
that
bred
her
,
being
left
poore
of
such
another
;
)
Pectore
concepi
nil
nisi
triste
meo
:
You
can
iudge
(
for
your
hand
dropt
the
first
Balsome
into
my
wound
)
whether
there
were
not
cause
for
my
Brest
to
bee
full
fraught
,
bursting-ripe
,
with
Anguish
and
Dolour
?
And
how
long
had
the
wound
beene
kept
rawe
,
if
I
had
wilfully
insisted
here
,
and
sate
onely
plodding
,
and
showring
Teares
vpon
my
Losse
?
But
when
at
length
(
almost
too
late
)
I
turn'd
away
from
Nature
,
and
humane
Reason
,
(
ill
aduising
Friends
in
this
Time
and
Occasion
)
to
Religion
,
and
considered
this
Crosse
as
the
Rod
of
God
for
my
many
many
sinnes
;
That
it
was
not
a
beating
vpon
the
Coates
,
but
laid
on
in
good
earnest
,
with
a
prouoked
angry
hand
;
That
he
was
constrained
to
runne
this
rugged
Race
with
me
;
Though
my
Griefe
were
not
lessened
by
this
consideration
,
yet
it
began
to
be
turned
into
a
righter
Channell
.
Recenti
Malo
,
priorum
quoque
admonemur
.
The
fresh
Euill
which
I
suffred
,
laid
fresh
before
mee
former
Euils
I
had
done
.
And
where
before
I
grieued
for
the
suffring
,
now
my
griefe
was
to
haue
deserued
so
to
suffer
.
Here
was
sorrow
changed
into
sorrow
;
worldly
sorrow
for
a
Precious
,
but
Temporall
Losse
,
into
godly
Sorrow
to
Repentance
,
neuer
to
bee
repented
off
.
Dolor
ipse
iam
voluptas
erat
.
brinish
drops
.
Now
began
Nature
to
bee
content
to
wipe
her
Eyes
,
and
Reason
,
that
suggested
the
value
of
such
a
Iewell
,
to
lay
her
hand
vpon
her
Mouth
;
and
the
golden
Morne
of
Comfort
to
dawne
to
me
.
Now
I
found
it
true
,
That
God
will
not
alway
be
chiding
,
nor
keepeth
his
anger
for
euer
.
That
his
correcting
is
not
to
destruction
,
but
to
saue
vs
from
being
destroyed
and
condemned
with
the
World
.
Hee
chastens
vs
,
to
amend
vs
,
and
amends
vs
,
to
saue
vs
.
When
we
stoope
,
he
is
appeased
.
Discipline
goes
before
,
but
pardon
followes
after
.
Now
I
willingly
kist
the
Rod
,
that
beat
me
neerer
to
Heauen
and
God
;
and
blest
the
Occasion
,
that
led
mee
from
sorrow
to
sorrow
,
that
I
might
arriue
at
true
and
sound
Ioy
.
O
how
good
was
it
for
me
to
be
so
afflicted
!
Out
of
the
Eater
came
meate
,
and
out
of
the
Strong
came
sweetnesse
.
According
to
the
measure
of
our
sorrow
,
so
is
his
Consolation
.
Finally
,
now
I
saw
how
grossely
passion
had
made
my
thoughts
ouershoote
before
;
not
onely
in
wronging
her
happy
soule
,
by
so
often
wishing
her
againe
in
these
Elements
of
sorrow
,
who
walkes
arme
in
arme
with
Angels
;
but
euen
in
charging
God
foolishly
,
(
pardon
me
,
O
blessed
Fountaine
of
long
suffring
and
Goodnes
)
as
ouer-cruell
and
rigorous
to
his
Creature
,
(
rauishing
our
Comforts
from
vs
,
then
,
when
wee
had
cause
to
hold
them
closest
to
our
bosome
;
delighting
,
sporting
in
our
vn-resistable
miseries
and
ill-turnes
;
)
who
indeed
of
very
faithfulnesse
had
caused
me
to
be
troubled
.
O
what
a
Foole
,
a
Franticke
,
a
wild
prodigious
thing
is
Man
thus
transported
,
till
God
vouchsafe
his
finger
,
to
temper
,
and
tune
him
right
againe
!
This
End
the
Lord
in
his
mercy
made
for
Mee
;
This
was
the
Method
of
my
Cure
,
the
Crop
and
Haruest
of
my
sowing
in
Teares
;
And
my
Wish
&
Hope
is
,
that
by
his
Blessing
,
Yours
may
be
like
.
CONSIDERATION
.
12.
TWelfthly
.
And
now
,
Sir
,
summ
vp
these
parcels
,
&
see
if
the
foot
of
the
Account
declare
you
not
a
Gayner
.
You
haue
lost
a
Son
,
whom
all
that
knew
,
lou'd
liuing
,
and
commend
dead
.
One
you
had
bred
vp
for
Heauen
;
and
haue
now
return'd
him
to
the
true
Owner
,
the
Father
of
Spirits
.
Is
he
not
well
there
?
doe
you
thinke
hee
would
bee
better
here
?
would
you
haue
him
change
his
glorious
Eternall
Mansion
,
for
a
ragged
,
reeling
,
mudwalld
Houell
?
Did
you
not
ayme
at
his
being
a
Citizen
there
,
instructing
,
preparing
,
fitting
him
for
it
?
Could
you
wish
a
righter
Season
to
be
taken
thither
,
then
when
the
Ages
viciousnesse
,
&
infections
example
had
dropt
least
slubber
and
soyle
vpon
him
?
Are
you
sorry
hee
is
early
there
arriued
,
his
Vessell
safely
landed
before
you
thought
he
should
?
What
though
(
in
your
esteeme
)
others
were
neerer
Land
then
he
?
Is
it
any
disaduantage
to
a
Merchant
,
that
his
Ship
so
farre
behind
the
rest
,
while
they
lye
still
at
Anchor
,
is
flown
to
shore
fraught
with
welcome
lading
?
Paines
haue
chas'd
his
soule
out
of
this
House
of
Earth
:
But
is
not
Abrahams
bosome
,
where
Angels
haue
lodg'd
it
,
a
ioyfull
Receptacle
?
Come
,
wash
your
Cheekes
,
giue
no
further
passage
nor
indulgence
to
your
passions
,
He
is
not
cleane
gone
,
Reioyce
and
blesse
God
,
that
you
had
such
a
Son
.
Had
him
,
did
I
say
?
You
haue
him
still
.
Not
one
Child
the
fewer
haue
you
for
his
taking
hence
.
When
God
turned
the
Captiuity
of
Iob
,
the
Text
saith
,
hee
gaue
him
twice
so
much
Substance
of
euery
kind
,
as
he
had
before
.
He
had
7000.
Sheep
before
,
now
hee
had
14000.
Three
thousand
Cammels
before
,
now
6000.
Fiue
Hundred
Yoke
of
Oxen
before
,
now
1000.
500.
Shee-Asses
before
,
now
1000.
of
them
also
.
Why
were
not
his
Children
doubled
as
his
other
Blessings
?
But
oh
!
How
much
changed
from
that
themselues
were
,
or
that
their
Brothers
and
Sisters
are
in
their
Fathers
House
!
Iobs
Children
on
Earth
,
though
the
prime
Women
of
the
Land
for
Beauty
,
would
appeare
but
Ethiopians
,
compared
with
the
radiant
glistering
faces
of
Them
in
Glory
.
Their
Festiuall
Apparell
here
,
though
as
rich
as
Salomons
Royallest
Mantles
,
would
seeme
no
better
then
Cannas
,
or
Haire-cloth
,
being
set
in
match
with
the
Robes
of
Glory
,
and
immortality
,
bright
as
the
light
it selfe
,
of
those
Heauen-dwellers
.
And
as
great
Ods
is
there
betweene
your
Immortall
Son
,
and
his
Mortall
Brethren
and
Sisters
.
You
may
,
when
you
will
,
haue
him
present
with
you
in
your
minde
and
thought
.
You
may
see
him
as
he
was
,
A
yong
Plant
in
your
house
;
You
may
see
him
as
he
is
;
A
blessed
Soule
in
Gods
heauenly
Palace
.
Liue
you
mindfull
of
your
owne
Mortality
,
and
Eternall
life
;
and
let
your
heart
leape
vp
into
ioy
,
that
he
hath
already
hit
the
White
,
whereat
others
are
but
leuelling
;
And
weares
the
Garland
,
for
which
others
are
doubtfully
wrastling
and
contending
.
He
sits
aloft
,
and
smiles
at
this
Emmet-hill
of
Earth
,
with
such
a
deale
of
Bustle
and
Garboyle
,
and
Vanity
,
&
Foolery
,
and
Mischiefe
,
&
Wickednes
left
beneath
him
;
Out
of
the
Gun-shotte
of
Temptation
,
freed
from
sinne
,
in
safety
from
Foes
,
resting
from
labours
,
exempt
from
sighs
,
and
teares
,
and
cares
;
A
Consort
with
Angels
,
and
happy
Spirits
that
see
Gods
Face
,
and
attend
vpon
his
Throne
;
laughing
euen
Kings
,
and
all
their
painted
Glories
and
Pleasures
here
,
to
scorne
.
There
you
shall
one
day
see
him
againe
face
to
face
,
in
that
very
House
of
clay
,
which
hee
laid
downe
,
when
hee
left
the
World
and
You
,
(
though
altred
in
Quality
:
)
And
(
if
that
may
make
to
the
increase
of
your
Blisse
)
I
am
perswaded
,
know
,
and
enioy
him
,
see
Heauen
the
richer
in
your
Seed
,
his
ioy
augmented
and
made
fuller
by
yours
,
and
yours
by
his
Let
Sadduces
deny
this
,
and
Gentiles
deride
it
;
This
is
the
Hope
of
Israel
.
There
you
shall
sing
that
Alleluïa
with
him
,
Soli
Deo
Trin-vni
Gloria
.
FILIVS
AD
PARENTES
.
Viuo
,
FINIS
.