GODS
MERCIES
AND
IERVSALEMS
MISERIES
.
IEREMIE
5.1
.
¶
Runne
two
and
fro
by
the
streetes
of
Ierusalem
,
and
behold
now
,
and
know
and
inquire
in
the
open
places
thereof
:
if
yee
can
find
a
man
,
or
if
there
be
any
that
executeth
Judgement
and
seeketh
the
trueth
and
J
will
spare
it
.
MAny
meanes
did
the
Lord
vse
to
reclaim
IERVSALEM
from
her
rebellion
against
him
,
by
sundry
commemorations
of
his
benefites
he
wooed
her
by
the
sweet
promises
of
the
Gospell
,
he
incited
her
by
the
captiuity
of
her
sister
Samaria
,
he
forwarned
her
,
but
yet
she
continued
like
her
forefathers
,
[
](A19953-e10600-b)a
a
Psal:
78.
a
faithles
and
stubborne
generation
,
a
generation
that
set
not
her
heart
aright
,
she
runnes
still
on
a
wrong
Bias
,
in
stead
of
beeing
a
faithfull
Spouse
,
she
becomes
a
filthy
harlot
,
and
[
](A19953-e10640-b)b
b
Iere.
3.6
.
playeth
the
Whore
vpon
euery
hie
mountaine
,
and
vnder
euery
greene
tree
,
her
[
](A19953-e10670-b)c
c
Isa.
1.22
.
wine
is
mixed
with
water
,
her
siluer
is
become
drosse
,
her
Princes
rebels
and
companions
of
theeues
,
and
as
shee
groweth
in
yeares
,
so
shee
increaseth
in
all
impieties
,
shee
which
at
the
first
did
onely
pull
little
sinnes
with
the
small
[
](A19953-e10700-b)d
d
Jsa.
5.18
.
cordes
of
vanity
,
doth
now
draw
greater
transgressions
with
the
huge
cart-ropes
of
iniquity
,
so
that
now
[
](A19953-e10740-b)g
g
Isa.
1.6
.
from
the
sole
of
her
foot
to
the
crown
of
her
head
,
there
is
nothing
found
in
her
but
woundes
and
swellings
,
and
sores
full
of
corruption
.
In
this
case
God
[
](A19953-e10760-b)h
h
Psal.
5.4
.
which
cannot
abide
wickednesse
,
neither
can
any
euill
dwell
with
him
,
(
as
the
Psalmist
speaketh
)
beginnes
to
loath
her
,
and
to
giue
her
vp
into
the
hands
of
her
most
sauage
and
cruell
enemies
,
(
the
Chaldeans
)
who
shall
[
](A19953-e10790-b)i
i
Psal.
79.1
.
defile
the
holy
Temple
,
and
make
Ierusalem
a
heape
of
stones
.
Oh
,
but
shall
the
husband
be
so
vnkind
to
his
Spouse
[
](A19953-e10810-b)k
k
Ier.
2.2
whome
hee
hath
married
vnto
himselfe
?
shall
a
Father
be
so
seuere
to
his
child
?
shall
the
God
of
mercy
bee
so
vnmerciful
vnto
his
chosen
?
[
](A19953-e10830-b)l
l
Gen.
18.25
Shall
not
the
iudge
of
the
world
doe
right
?
farre
be
it
from
God
,
that
hee
should
slay
the
righteous
with
the
wicked
.
God
answereth
,
that
there
is
no
reason
,
why
shee
should
repine
against
him
,
or
accuse
him
of
cruelty
:
her
Apostasie
is
so
generall
,
her
disease
(
like
a
Gangraena
)
is
spread
through
euery
member
of
the
body
,
her
malice
is
so
incurable
,
that
hee
cannot
without
impeachment
of
his
iustice
,
spare
her
any
longer
.
Runne
to
and
fro
by
the
streetes
of
Ierusalem
,
&c.
v.
8.
O
yee
men
of
Iuda
and
inhabitants
of
Ierusalem
,
doe
not
say
that
your
teeth
are
set
on
edge
,
because
[
](A19953-e10870-b)m
m
Ezech.
18
your
fathers
haue
eaten
sowre
grapes
,
doe
not
obiect
,
that
my
wayes
are
not
equall
,
it
is
your
wayes
that
are
vnequall
:
it
is
your
sinnes
that
bringes
this
heauy
doome
vpon
your
heads
:
whether
this
be
so
or
not
,
you
your selues
bee
Iudges
:
for
I
beseech
you
seeke
vppe
and
downe
,
not
in
the
Country
townes
onely
,
and
villages
of
Iudah
,
but
in
the
Metropolis
of
the
whole
Kingdome
,
in
the
[
](A19953-e10900-b)n
n
Math.
4.
Isa.
52.1
.
holie
Citie
,
runne
through
euery
corner
of
it
,
search
and
enquire
in
the
houses
and
allyes
and
backe-lanes
,
and
high
streetes
therof
,
marke
their
conditions
,
obserue
their
practises
,
consider
their
behauiour
,
take
a
full
view
of
their
whole
carriage
,
if
after
such
enquirie
,
there
bee
found
but
one
man
amongst
the
whole
multitude
that
feareth
me
,
or
maketh
any
conscience
of
his
wayes
,
and
I
will
spare
the
whole
City
for
that
one
mans
sake
:
but
if
after
you
haue
sought
man
by
man
,
there
bee
not
one
godly
man
found
amongst
them
all
,
thinke
it
not
cruelty
,
if
now
at
length
I
inflict
(
in
iustice
)
my
iudgments
vpon
her
:
the
summe
is
contained
in
this
short
proposition
:
I
will
spare
Ierusalem
,
if
there
can
one
righteous
man
bee
found
in
her
.
Wherein
we
may
obserue
these
two
principall
pointes
:
Gods
mercy
,
in
that
hee
would
haue
spared
Ierusalem
for
one
mans
sake
;
Ierusalems
misery
,
in
that
not
one
righteous
man
can
bee
found
in
her
;
the
former
I
deliuer
in
this
proposition
;
Gods
mercie
in
sparing
doth
exceede
his
iustice
in
punishing
,
and
with
this
wee
will
beginne
.
Doctrine
.
But
alas
,
who
am
I
dust
and
ashes
that
I
should
intreate
of
this
Subiect
?
it
is
a
bottomlesse
depth
,
who
can
diue
into
it
?
it
is
an
vnaccessible
light
,
who
can
beholde
it
?
Tull
de
.
natu
.
deorum
.
if
the
Heathen
Simonides
after
three
dayes
study
how
to
describe
God
,
was
further
from
any
resolution
in
the
latter
end
,
then
when
hee
first
beganne
:
nay
,
if
[
](A19953-e11020-b)o
o
Exod.
33.
Moses
(
a
man
more
familiar
with
God
then
any
that
euer
liued
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
)
when
he
was
put
in
a
clift
of
a
rocke
,
and
couered
with
Gods
hands
,
could
not
behold
the
glory
of
his
face
;
then
may
it
not
seeme
strange
,
if
the
tongues
of
men
and
Angels
faile
in
describing
the
very
backe
parts
of
this
one
attribute
,
being
more
proper
and
essentiall
vnto
God
then
any
whatsoeuer
.
Iustin
lib.
18.
That
Tyrian
proued
the
wisest
in
the
end
,
who
hauing
concluded
in
the
Euening
with
his
fellowes
,
that
hee
which
could
first
in
the
next
morning
behold
the
Sun
(
which
they
worshipped
as
a
God
)
should
bee
King
;
looked
not
toward
the
East
where
hee
riseth
,
but
towards
the
westerne
mountaines
where
his
rayes
did
first
appeare
.
We
will
follow
his
Example
and
seeing
we
cannot
seeke
into
the
fountaine
at
which
the
Cherubs
did
couer
their
faces
:
let
vs
behold
it
in
the
mountaines
,
that
is
,
the
Prophetes
and
Apostles
,
Hierom.
lib.
110.
Comment
in
Ezech.
as
Ierome
expounds
the
word
,
or
the
mountaines
,
that
is
the
creatures
and
works
of
God
,
in
all
which
it
doth
most
clearely
shine
:
there
is
no
worke
of
God
in
al
which
there
doth
not
appeare
such
manifest
Characters
of
his
mercy
,
that
he
which
runneth
may
reade
them
.
Those
benefites
in
tended
towards
his
children
,
as
namely
Election
before
all
time
,
creation
in
the
beginning
of
time
,
Vocation
,
Redemption
,
Iustification
in
the
fulnes
of
time
,
Glorification
after
all
time
,
&c.
To
proue
them
to
bee
so
many
riuers
of
the
bottomles
Ocean
of
Gods
neuer
dying
mercy
;
it
were
but
to
busie
my selfe
about
a
principle
,
which
I
hope
none
of
you
will
call
into
question
:
Gods
almighty
power
is
manifested
vnto
vs
,
in
that
hee
hath
created
the
world
of
nothing
,
[
](A19953-e11110-b)p
p
Psal.
33.6
.
and
made
all
the
hoast
of
heauen
by
the
breath
of
his
mouth
,
and
it
is
a
property
in
describing
of
which
Gods
Secretaries
do
striue
to
be
eloquent
,
Iob
to
shew
it
saith
that
[
](A19953-e11140-b)q
q
Iob.
9.
he
spreadeth
out
the
heauens
like
a
Canopie
,
and
walketh
vpon
the
the
height
of
the
Sea
,
that
he
maketh
the
starres
Arcturus
and
Orion
,
and
Pleiades
,
and
the
climates
of
the
South
.
Elihu
sets
it
forth
vnder
Benoth
,
whose
taile
is
like
a
Cedar
,
[
](A19953-e11200-b)r
r
Iob.
40.
and
his
bones
like
staues
of
brasse
,
yet
the
Lord
leadeth
him
whither
soeuer
hee
will
;
and
vnder
Leuiathan
,
which
makes
the
depth
to
boile
like
a
pot
,
and
the
sea
like
a
pot
of
ointment
,
and
yet
the
Lord
can
put
a
hooke
in
his
nose
,
and
pearce
his
iawes
with
an
Angle
.
Dauid
to
shew
it
,
sayth
that
hee
maketh
the
mountaines
to
skippe
like
Rammes
,
and
the
little
hils
like
young
sheepe
:
Psalm.
114.
I
say
,
to
expresse
it
sayth
,
that
[
](A19953-e11260-b)s
s
Isa.
40.
all
nations
before
him
are
as
a
droppe
of
a
bucket
,
and
are
counted
as
the
dust
of
the
ballance
,
that
he
taketh
away
the
Isles
as
a
little
dust
,
that
hee
hath
measured
the
waters
in
his
fist
,
&
counted
heauen
with
a
span
,
&
comprehended
the
dust
of
the
earth
in
a
measure
,
and
weighed
the
mountaines
in
a
weight
,
and
the
hilles
in
a
ballance
,
and
yet
his
mercy
goeth
beyond
his
power
,
in
that
his
omnipotency
hath
made
nothing
but
what
his
mercy
moued
him
to
create
,
and
it
comes
after
too
,
in
preseruing
,
and
guiding
,
and
protecting
,
by
his
heauenly
prouidence
(
a
branch
of
his
mercy
)
whatsoeuer
his
powerfull
hand
hath
made
,
if
hee
should
but
once
stoppe
the
influence
of
his
mercy
,
al
the
works
of
his
hands
should
presently
bee
annihilated
.
[
](A19953-e11280-b)t
t
Psal.
33.5
.
The
earth
is
full
of
the
mercies
of
the
Lord
(
sayth
the
Psalmist
)
hee
sayth
not
the
heauens
sayth
Austen
,
Quia
non
indigent
misericordia
vbi
est
nulla
miseria
:
they
needed
no
mercy
where
there
is
no
miserie
;
Augustin
in
illum
locum
.
and
yet
in
another
place
hee
addeth
the
heauens
to
thy
truth
(
an
other
of
his
attributes
)
goeth
vnto
the
clouds
,
there
it
stayeth
,
but
thy
mercy
goeth
further
:
Psal.
14.5.9
it
reacheth
vnto
the
heauens
,
in
fewer
wordes
:
It
is
ouer
all
his
works
.
But
my
text
leades
me
to
entreat
of
his
mercy
,
as
it
hath
reference
vnto
his
iustice
;
where
you
shall
find
that
of
two
infinites
one
doth
infinitely
surpasse
an
other
,
to
bee
called
a
mercifull
God
,
and
the
father
of
mercy
is
a
title
wherein
God
especially
delighteth
,
but
he
is
almost
neuer
called
the
God
of
iudgement
:
heare
how
hee
proclaimeth
himselfe
:
The
Lord
,
the
Lord
strong
,
there
is
one
Epithite
of
his
power
;
mercifull
,
gratious
,
slow
to
anger
,
aboundant
in
goodnesse
,
and
truth
,
reseruing
mercy
for
thousands
,
forgiuing
iniquity
and
transgression
and
sinne
:
there
are
sixe
of
his
mercy
.
Then
comes
his
iustice
in
punishing
of
offences
:
not
making
the
wicked
innocent
,
visiting
the
iniquity
of
the
Fathers
vpon
the
children
,
vnto
the
third
and
fourth
generation
:
there
he
confines
his
iustice
,
hee
sayth
vnto
vs
as
he
doth
vnto
the
seas
in
Iob
:
[
](A19953-e11420-b)(w)
(w)
Iob.
38.11
.
Hither
shalt
thou
goe
,
and
thou
shalt
goe
no
further
,
here
shalt
thou
stay
thy
raging
waues
,
it
shall
not
passe
the
fourth
generation
,
and
that
is
more
then
Ordinarie
,
if
it
come
so
farre
,
it
is
but
at
a
high
spring
,
Exo.
20.5.6
.
vpon
such
as
hate
him
:
but
his
mercy
followes
like
a
boundlesse
Ocean
,
vpon
thousandes
of
those
that
loue
him
.
Nay
the
Prophet
tels
vs
that
to
punish
,
is
with
God
a
rare
&
extraordinary
work
.
[
](A19953-e11470-b)x
x
Esa.
28.21
.
The
Lord
(
sayth
he
)
shall
stand
as
in
as
in
mount
Perazim
,
he
shall
be
angry
as
in
the
valley
of
Gibeon
,
that
hee
may
doe
his
worke
,
his
strange
worke
,
and
bring
to
passe
his
act
,
his
strange
act
.
This
is
an
act
of
iudgement
,
where
you
see
that
to
punish
,
with
him
is
an
vncouth
and
strange
worke
,
an
acte
indeed
,
vnto
which
without
compulsion
of
iustice
,
hee
could
not
be
drawne
;
hee
is
more
loath
to
put
out
his
hand
for
to
inflict
a
iudgement
,
then
euer
was
Octauius
to
subscribe
his
name
to
the
execution
of
any
publike
offender
,
whose
vsuall
speech
was
this
,
Sueton.
Vtinam
nescirem
literas
,
I
would
to
God
I
could
not
write
.
How
oft
doth
miserable
man
offend
against
his
maker
?
surely
if
the
iust
man
fall
seuen
times
,
then
the
wicked
falleth
seuenty
times
seauen
times
,
&
yet
hee
maketh
his
Sunne
to
shine
vpon
them
both
,
he
makes
his
rain
to
fall
vpon
them
both
,
still
almost
hee
containeth
the
sword
of
his
iustice
within
the
sheath
of
his
mercy
:
if
in
case
hee
bee
enforced
to
draw
it
,
hee
is
as
it
were
touched
with
a
feeling
of
that
which
the
wicked
suffer
;
heare
himselfe
speak
,
Therefore
thus
sayeth
the
Lord
of
hoastes
,
Isa.
1.24
.
the
holy
one
of
Israel
,
ah
,
I
will
ease
me
of
mine
aduersaries
,
and
auenge
mee
of
mine
enemies
:
it
is
a
kind
of
ease
to
be
auenged
of
thine
enemie
,
and
therefore
God
when
the
Iewes
continue
still
to
prouoke
him
to
his
face
,
will
ease
himselfe
by
inflicting
his
iudgements
vpon
them
,
I
will
ease
me
of
mine
enemies
,
but
it
comes
with
an
(
ah
)
or
(
alas
)
it
is
paine
and
griefe
to
him
,
hee
is
wounded
to
the
very
heart
,
his
bowels
are
rowled
and
turned
within
him
;
a
few
teares
might
haue
made
him
sheath
his
sworde
,
and
deferre
his
punishments
;
the
history
of
Ahab
will
proue
as
much
,
who
was
one
that
had
solde
himselfe
to
worke
wickednes
,
that
prouoked
the
Lord
God
more
then
all
the
Kings
of
Israel
that
were
before
him
,
1.
King
.
16
30.
then
Baasha
,
then
Omri
,
then
Ieroboam
the
sonne
of
Nebat
that
made
Israel
to
sinne
,
therefore
the
Lord
sends
vnto
him
the
Prophet
Eliah
telling
him
,
that
in
the
field
where
the
dogges
licked
vp
the
bloud
of
Naboth
,
1.
King
.
21.19.21
.
they
should
licke
his
blood
also
,
and
that
he
would
wipe
away
his
posterity
as
one
wipeth
a
dish
,
when
it
is
wiped
and
turned
vpside-downe
.
Ahab
hath
no
sooner
rented
his
clothes
at
the
Prophets
words
,
then
God
repenteth
him
of
what
hee
had
threatened
:
Seest
thou
how
Ahab
is
humbled
before
me
?
verse
.
29.
a
simple
humiliation
God
wot
,
onely
in
outward
shew
,
and
yet
it
shall
suffice
to
reuoke
part
of
Gods
iudgements
against
him
,
because
hee
submitteth
himselfe
before
me
,
I
will
not
bring
that
euill
in
his
dayes
vpon
his
house
.
Niniuie
had
multiplyed
her
transgressions
as
the
sand
vpon
the
sea
shore
;
she
had
by
her
sinnes
blowne
vp
the
coales
of
Gods
anger
against
her
;
but
yet
he
will
not
come
vpon
her
as
a
thiefe
in
the
night
to
destroy
her
,
she
shall
haue
fortie
dayes
warning
,
and
if
in
the
meane
time
she
will
turne
her
plaiing
into
praying
,
and
her
feasting
into
fasting
,
and
by
couering
her selfe
with
sackcloath
,
hide
from
his
eyes
her
broade
sayles
of
pride
,
he
will
make
it
knowne
vnto
her
,
that
hee
was
not
so
ready
before
,
to
lend
a
left
eare
of
iustice
to
her
crying
sinnes
,
as
he
is
now
to
affoord
a
right
eare
of
mercy
to
the
cry
of
her
sinners
:
Ionah
.
3.10
.
hee
will
repent
of
the
euil
that
he
had
denounced
against
her
,
and
will
not
doe
it
.
The
old
world
had
so
defiled
the
earth
with
her
cruelties
,
and
the
smoake
of
her
sinnes
did
so
fume
vp
to
heauen
into
the
nostrils
of
God
,
Gen.
6.6
.
that
he
was
sorry
in
his
heart
that
euer
hee
had
made
man
:
yet
hee
will
not
presently
destroy
this
wicked
generation
,
there
shall
bee
an
hundreth
and
twenty
yeares
for
repentance
,
Vers.
3
before
hee
will
purge
this
Augaeum
stabulum
,
with
a
deluge
of
waters
.
Nay
,
such
is
the
neuer
drying
streame
of
his
mercies
,
Ruffin
hist.
Eccles.
lib.
2.
Cap.
18.
that
for
the
righteous
sake
,
the
wicked
though
they
doe
not
repent
,
shall
fare
the
better
.
God
is
not
like
to
the
Emperour
Theodosius
,
who
for
the
offence
of
a
few
,
put
all
the
Thessalonians
to
the
sword
:
but
rather
(
if
without
offence
the
Potter
may
be
compared
to
the
clay
)
like
to
that
Persian
Generall
,
Herod
.
lib.
Plut.
in
Caesare
.
who
spared
Delos
because
that
Apollo
was
borne
there
;
or
Caesar
who
made
the
Cindians
free
men
for
Theopompus
his
sake
:
it
was
an
opinion
of
the
Heathen
,
that
for
one
euill
mans
sake
,
many
good
men
were
put
to
the
worse
,
—
Pallas
exurere
gentem
Virgil.
1.
lib
AEn
.
Argiuûm
atque
ipsos
voluit
submergere
ponto
:
Pallas
ouerthrew
the
whole
nauie
of
the
Argiues
.
Vnius
ob
noxam
&
furias
Aiacis
Oilei
,
for
the
sinne
of
one
man
by
name
,
Aiax
the
sonne
of
Oileus
,
Hesiod
.
op.
&
dies
.
and
Πολλα●●
καὶ
ξυμπασά
πόλις
κακοῦ
ἀνδρὸς
ἐπαυρεῖ
,
God
punisheth
a
whole
City
for
one
mans
sinne
,
and
sends
vpon
it
Διμὸν
ὸμοῦ
καὶ
λόιμον
,
famine
and
plague
,
for
the
sinne
of
some
particular
,
it
is
not
so
:
God
neuer
punisheth
one
man
for
anothers
offences
:
if
thou
obiect
vnto
me
,
that
the
Israelites
were
plagued
for
Dauids
trespasse
,
I
answere
,
Dauids
sinne
did
occasion
that
punishment
which
the
Israelites
did
iustly
deserue
for
their
owne
iniquities
:
for
howsoeuer
Dauid
in
respect
of
himselfe
(
who
deserued
more
)
called
them
sheep
,
yet
indeede
they
were
Wolues
in
sheepe
skins
:
and
verily
in
this
particular
,
wee
haue
an
euident
demonstration
of
his
mercies
:
for
first
,
of
three
seueral
punishments
,
he
giues
him
leaue
to
chuse
which
of
them
hee
would
:
When
Dauid
had
chosen
the
Pestilence
for
three
dayes
,
indeede
he
sent
his
destroying
Angell
;
but
before
his
sword
was
halfe
drawne
,
hee
puts
it
vp
againe
,
and
repenteth
him
of
the
euill
,
and
abridgeth
the
time
:
Now
we
know
that
euery
substraction
from
his
iudgements
is
a
multiplication
of
his
mercies
,
and
how
farre
hee
is
from
punishing
the
righteous
with
the
wicked
,
let
Sodome
witnesse
,
a
sinke
of
the
filthiest
sinnes
,
a
cage
of
the
vncleanest
birdes
,
a
denne
of
the
wickedest
theeues
that
euer
the
earth
bredde
:
yet
hee
will
not
rashlie
come
vpon
her
,
but
first
he
will
goe
downe
and
see
▪
Gen.
18.21
.
whether
they
haue
done
altogether
according
vnto
that
crie
which
was
come
vnto
him
,
&
if
there
can
but
fiftie
righteous
men
bee
found
in
fiue
Cities
,
which
was
but
for
euery
Citie
ten
,
nay
,
if
but
forty
,
nay
,
if
but
thirty
,
nay
,
if
but
twenty
,
nay
,
if
but
tenne
can
bee
found
amongst
them
all
,
which
was
but
for
euery
City
two
,
he
wil
not
destroy
the
City
for
those
mens
sake
:
when
none
can
bee
found
saue
iust
Lot
,
hee
will
not
subuert
Sodome
before
hee
bee
brought
out
of
the
City
,
nay
,
hee
will
spare
the
whole
City
of
Zoar
for
Lots
sake
:
if
good
Paul
bee
in
the
ship
,
all
that
are
with
him
,
Act.
27.
euen
the
barbarous
Souldiers
shall
for
his
sake
come
safe
to
land
.
But
of
all
others
(
that
I
may
end
this
point
where
I
beganne
it
)
Ierusalem
in
my
Text
is
most
famous
:
whome
the
Lord
doth
so
tenderly
compassionate
,
that
if
within
her
spatious
walles
,
amongst
so
many
millions
of
soules
,
one
righteous
man
could
haue
beene
found
,
eyther
amongst
the
Nobles
or
Magistrates
,
or
Priests
,
or
People
,
hee
would
haue
spared
Ierusalem
for
that
mans
sake
.
And
is
this
true
?
bee
not
then
Vse
.
1
dismayed
thou
fainting
and
drouping
soule
,
whome
the
burden
of
thy
sinnes
hath
pressed
downe
to
the
brinke
of
hell
:
is
there
such
a
thunder-threatning
cloud
of
Gods
iustice
set
before
thine
eyes
,
that
thou
thinkest
it
impossible
that
the
Sunne
of
his
fauour
should
pearce
through
it
into
thine
heart
?
deceiue
not
thy selfe
,
where
sinne
aboundeth
,
Rom.
5.20
.
there
grace
superaboundeth
;
thou
art
a
fitte
Subiect
for
God
to
worke
vpon
:
where
should
the
Physitian
shew
his
skill
,
but
where
the
greatest
maladies
doe
raigne
:
and
where
can
God
better
shew
his
mercy
,
then
where
is
the
greatest
aboundance
of
mans
miserie
?
the
desperatest
diseases
that
can
befall
the
soule
of
man
,
dead
Apoplexies
,
vncleane
leprosies
,
dangerous
Lethargies
,
remedilesse
Consumptions
,
whatsoeuer
they
be
,
God
can
as
easily
cure
them
,
as
the
smallest
infection
:
and
as
he
is
able
,
so
is
he
most
willing
to
doe
it
,
because
his
mercy
(
as
I
haue
already
proued
)
is
his
chiefest
attribute
,
and
euery
attribute
of
God
,
is
the
Essence
of
God
,
so
that
hee
can
no
more
cease
from
his
works
of
mercy
,
then
the
eye
beeing
well
disposed
from
seeing
,
or
the
fire
from
heating
,
or
the
heauen
from
mouing
,
or
the
Sunne
from
shining
:
hee
that
denyeth
this
is
a
Traytor
to
the
king
of
Heauen
,
because
hee
gaine-sayeth
that
still
wherin
God
especially
delighteth
.
There
is
no
sinne
of
it selfe
so
hainous
,
but
God
can
wipe
it
away
:
he
will
forgiue
wicked
Manasses
aswel
as
righteous
Abraham
10000
talents
as
one
penny
.
Suppose
that
all
the
sinnes
that
euer
were
committed
,
from
the
murther
of
Caine
to
the
treason
of
Iudas
,
laid
vpon
thy
shoulders
,
there
is
no
more
proportion
betweene
them
and
Gods
mercy
then
betweene
Stillam
muriae
&
mare
Aegaeum
betwixt
a
drop
of
brine
and
the
Acgean
,
Cicero
de
sinibus
.
nay
the
great
Ocean
,
the
snuffe
of
the
Candle
and
the
light
of
the
day
,
or
a
mote
in
the
Sunne
,
and
the
Globe
of
the
high
heauen
.
Flie
vnto
the
throne
of
grace
,
and
though
thy
sinnes
were
bloodie
like
Scarlet
,
he
will
make
them
as
Wooll
;
and
though
thou
be
as
Purple
which
is
twice
dyed
,
to
wit
in
the
Wooll
and
in
the
Cloath
:
Though
thou
bee
dyed
in
the
Wooll
(
the
first
lineaments
of
nature
)
with
originall
deprauation
,
and
in
the
Cloath
(
after
thy
natural
perfection
)
with
actuall
transgression
,
yet
he
wil
make
thee
as
white
as
the
snow
in
Salmon
:
Isa.
1.
he
will
bind
all
thy
sinnes
in
a
bundell
,
and
cast
them
into
the
bottome
of
the
Sea
,
hee
will
naile
them
vnto
his
Sonnes
Crosse
,
he
will
remoue
them
as
far
from
thee
as
the
East
is
from
the
West
,
or
the
North
distant
from
the
South
.
No
man
euer
begged
an
almes
at
Gods
hand
in
faith
,
and
returned
empty
.
Heauen
gates
are
neuer
shut
when
penitent
sinners
knocke
,
there
is
a
Master
of
requests
in
that
Court
,
which
is
more
ready
to
preferre
thy
petition
vnto
God
,
then
thou
canst
be
to
request
his
helpe
,
and
will
he
which
for
ten
mens
sake
would
haue
spared
Sodome
,
and
for
one
mans
sake
haue
passed
by
the
crimson
sinnes
of
Ierusalem
,
who
was
moued
with
compassion
at
the
hypocriticall
repentance
of
wicked
Ahab
,
and
reuoked
his
sentence
at
the
counterfait
humiliation
of
proud
Niniueh
,
stoppe
his
eares
at
the
petition
of
any
penitent
sinner
?
doubt
not
but
he
will
heare
thy
petition
and
giue
his
royall
assent
to
that
thou
desirest
,
though
thou
canst
but
with
Dauid
roare
and
not
speake
,
or
with
the
poore
Publican
vtter
a
short
and
abrupt
speech
O
Lord
be
mercifull
vnto
me
a
sinner
,
&c.
or
with
Hezekiah
Chatter
like
a
Crane
,
Isa.
38.14
.
and
mourne
like
a
Doue
.
Oh
then
flee
vnto
him
as
a
Doue
vnto
the
windowes
,
Cant.
2.
hide
thy selfe
in
the
holes
of
the
true
rocke
,
put
thy
finger
in
Christs
side
there
thou
shalt
finde
both
Oyle
to
soften
and
Wine
to
cure
thy
festered
soule
,
cry
mightily
to
God
with
Niniuch
,
say
with
Dauid
,
2.
Sam.
12.13
.
I
haue
sinned
,
morne
with
Hezekiah
,
weepe
bitterly
with
Peter
,
Matt.
26.
fall
downe
at
Iesus
his
feete
with
Mary
Magdalen
,
Iohn
.
11.
say
with
blind
Bartelmaeus
in
the
Gospell
,
O
sonne
of
Dauid
haue
mercy
vpon
me
.
Matth.
9.27
.
And
doubt
not
but
God
will
bee
mercifull
vnto
thy
sinnes
,
and
make
his
fauourable
countenance
shine
vpon
thee
.
Againe
is
Gods
mercy
such
that
hee
will
spare
the
wicked
for
the
Vse
.
2
righteous
sake
?
Here
then
yee
sonnes
of
Beliall
,
may
learne
this
lesson
to
spare
the
righteous
for
the
wickeds
sake
.
I
meane
to
cherish
and
to
make
much
of
all
those
that
feare
the
Lord
,
if
for
no
other
reason
yet
euen
for
this
,
because
such
men
are
often
times
a
meanes
to
keepe
away
Gods
iudgments
from
the
euill
doers
,
the
chaffe
shall
not
be
burned
as
long
as
it
is
mingled
with
the
wheat
.
Plutarch
saith
that
in
the
sacking
of
Cities
such
houses
as
were
erected
neare
vnto
a
Temple
,
of
any
of
the
heathen
Gods
,
were
vntouched
,
when
the
rest
were
ouerthrowne
by
the
enemy
:
as
long
as
a
sinner
standeth
neare
vnto
a
Temple
of
the
liuing
God
,
hee
needeth
not
feare
an
ouerthrow
.
God
could
doe
no
hurt
vnto
the
Sodomites
as
long
as
iust
Lot
was
in
their
company
,
Gen.
19.
as
he
blessed
the
house
of
Obed
Edom
,
2.
Sam.
6.12
.
and
all
that
he
had
because
of
the
Arke
that
was
with
him
,
so
the
blessings
that
fall
vpon
the
wicked
mans
head
,
are
because
of
the
godly
with
whom
he
dwelleth
;
it
was
the
encouragement
that
Caesar
gaue
vnto
the
Boateman
,
Phil
in
Caesare
.
when
his
Boate
was
almost
ouer
whelmed
by
the
violence
of
the
waues
,
in
the
Riuer
Anius
,
that
he
should
not
feare
because
Caesar
was
in
his
company
.
And
the
best
encouragement
that
can
be
giuen
to
the
wicked
,
in
the
time
of
danger
,
is
that
some
good
man
is
in
their
company
,
then
they
may
say
as
Michah
said
when
he
had
hyred
a
Leuite
to
be
his
Priest
,
now
I
know
that
the
Lord
will
bee
good
vnto
mee
seeing
a
Leuite
(
a
man
that
feareth
the
Lord
)
is
with
me
,
Iud.
17.13
.
and
therefore
at
the
least
in
this
one
point
,
let
them
resemble
the
iust
man
,
which
maketh
much
of
them
that
feare
the
Lord
,
Psal.
15.
because
they
are
as
it
were
Bucklers
to
keepe
away
the
force
of
the
blow
,
Psa.
106.23
.
and
with
faithfull
Moses
they
stand
in
the
gappe
to
turne
away
his
wrathfull
indignation
,
least
it
should
destroy
them
.
But
if
they
seeke
(
as
the
custome
of
so
many
is
)
by
al
meanes
possible
to
destroy
them
,
to
trample
them
in
the
dust
and
(
as
much
as
in
them
lyeth
)
to
roote
them
out
of
the
land
of
the
liuing
,
that
they
may
haue
none
to
controle
them
for
their
vnlawful
deeds
then
they
doe
their
best
to
cut
a
sunder
the
thread
that
keepeth
vp
the
sword
of
vengeance
,
or
Sampson
like
to
pull
downe
the
pillers
vpon
which
their
house
standeth
and
so
to
bring
all
downe
vpon
their
heads
.
Againe
is
God
so
slow
to
anger
,
Vse
.
3
so
vnwilling
to
reuenge
?
had
hee
rather
saue
one
righteous
man
than
punish
a
whole
Citie
,
of
such
as
sinne
against
him
?
Where
bee
the
gallants
of
our
dayes
,
who
will
not
brooke
the
least
offence
offered
against
them
?
Nothing
shall
wash
it
away
but
the
precious
Blood
,
it
is
a
disgrace
vnto
me
,
an
ignominie
vnto
my
whole
kindred
,
is
that
a
disgrace
in
thee
which
is
an
honor
in
god
?
For
thy
kindred
I
little
account
of
it
.
If
thou
canst
drawe
it
from
the
loynes
of
Adam
,
thou
gettest
nothing
there
but
shame
,
vnlesse
thou
canst
step
a
foote
higher
(
as
Luke
doth
in
the
Genealogie
of
Ioseph
)
and
say
that
Adam
was
the
Sonne
of
God
,
Luk.
3.38
.
if
thou
wouldest
bee
counted
the
Sonne
of
God
,
tread
in
his
steps
,
walke
as
thou
hast
him
for
an
example
.
Be
thou
mercifull
,
as
thy
Father
which
is
in
Heauen
is
mercifull
.
For
so
doing
thou
shewest
thy selfe
to
be
a
sparkle
deriued
from
that
infinite
flame
,
a
droppe
taken
from
that
bottomlesse
Ocean
,
it
is
remarkeable
(
which
one
obserueth
)
that
God
hath
giuen
vnto
Beasts
both
weapons
of
defence
and
offence
,
the
Lyon
hath
his
Pawes
,
the
Oxe
Hornes
,
the
Boare
Tuskes
,
the
Serpent
his
Sting
,
the
Birds
Clawes
,
the
Fishes
Skales
,
the
very
Hedg-hog
is
not
without
his
Pricks
:
But
man
the
excellencie
of
his
dignitie
,
and
the
excellency
of
his
Power
(
as
Iacob
speakes
of
Ruben
)
he
brings
into
the
world
smooth
and
naked
,
Gen.
49.3
.
in
token
that
hee
should
bee
like
vnto
him
,
soft
to
anger
slow
to
reuenge
.
Esau
,
that
was
borne
red
,
[
](A19953-e13110-b)f
f
Gen.
25
:
25.
and
rough
God
disinherited
as
a
Monster
,
and
no
true
Child
of
his
,
but
smooth
Iacob
hee
acknowledged
to
be
his
Sonne
.
The
child
of
wrath
is
no
Sonne
vnto
the
God
of
mercy
.
How
often
doest
thou
sinne
against
thy
God
?
By
thy
blasphemous
oathes
thou
tearest
him
,
by
thy
hypocriticall
holinesse
thou
mockest
him
by
thy
vncleannesse
thou
polutest
him
,
by
thy
arrogant
pride
thou
disdainest
him
,
and
spittest
in
his
face
.
The
least
trespasse
that
thou
committest
against
him
,
is
no
lesse
then
treason
against
his
royall
person
,
and
doth
God
for
euery
offence
vn-sheath
his
sword
against
thee
?
Si
quoties
peccant
homines
sua
fulmina
mittat
Iupiter
,
&c.
If
God
should
in
iudgement
punish
euery
sinne
vpon
the
offendor
,
where
should
wretchedman
be
?
now
when
God
writeth
thy
sinnes
in
dust
,
wilt
thou
write
thy
Brothers
in
Marble
?
When
he
forgiueth
thee
ten
thousand
tallents
,
wilt
not
thou
forgiue
thy
Brother
an
hundreth
pence
?
If
thou
wilt
be
indeede
his
Sonne
,
bee
like
vnto
him
,
be
pittifull
,
tender-harted
full
of
mercy
and
compassion
,
if
thou
bee
angry
beware
that
thou
sinne
not
,
Eph.
4.26
.
by
speedy
reuenge
,
if
thy
wrath
bee
conceiued
in
the
morning
,
and
perchance
increase
his
heate
with
the
Sunne
till
mid-day
,
yet
let
it
settle
with
the
Sunne
at
afternoone
,
and
set
with
it
at
night
,
1.
Kings
.
3.
Let
not
the
Sunne
goe
downe
vpon
thy
wrath
,
if
its
conception
bee
in
the
night
,
vse
it
as
the
harlot
vsed
her
child
,
smother
it
in
thy
bed
&
make
it
like
the
vntimely
fruite
of
a
woman
which
perisheth
before
it
see
the
Sun
,
Psal.
to
this
purpose
remember
that
the
Citizens
of
this
Ierusalem
are
at
vnity
amongst
themselus
,
the
stones
of
this
temple
are
fast
coupled
and
linked
together
,
the
members
of
this
Body
as
they
are
vnited
in
one
head
with
the
nerues
of
a
iustifying
faith
:
So
are
they
knit
in
one
heart
with
the
Arteries
of
loue
:
The
branches
of
this
Vine
as
they
are
vnited
with
the
boale
(
from
whence
they
receiue
nutriment
)
so
haue
they
certaine
tendrels
whereby
they
are
fastned
,
and
linked
one
to
another
.
Now
if
without
compassion
thou
seekest
thy
brothers
hurt
,
thou
dost
as
it
were
deuide
Christ
,
thou
pullest
a
stone
out
of
this
Temple
,
thou
breakest
a
branch
from
this
Vine
,
AEneid
.
3.
nay
(
more
then
so
)
thou
cuttest
the
Vine
it selfe
.
Virgill
tells
vs
that
when
Aeneas
was
pulling
a
bough
from
a
mirtle
tree
to
shadow
his
sacrifice
,
their
issued
drops
of
blood
from
the
boale
trickling
downe
vnto
the
ground
:
at
length
he
heard
a
voice
crying
vnto
him
thus
Quid
miserum
AEnea
laceras
iam
parce
sepulto
parce
pias
scelerare
manus
,
the
Poet
tels
vs
that
it
was
the
blood
of
Polydorus
Priamus
his
sonne
which
cryed
for
vengeance
against
Polymnestor
the
Thracian
King
which
had
slaine
him
,
in
like
maner
whensoeuer
thou
seekest
the
ouerthrow
of
thy
Christian
Brother
,
and
hast
a
desire
to
reuenge
thy selfe
of
him
(
as
hee
had
to
pull
a
bough
from
the
Tree
)
thinke
that
it
is
not
the
branches
but
the
Vine
thou
seekest
to
cutte
downe
.
Thinke
that
Christ
will
count
this
indignitie
done
to
his
members
as
it
were
done
to
himselfe
.
Thinke
that
thou
hearest
him
cry
vnto
thee
after
this
maner
,
iam
parce
sepulto
parce
tuas
scelerare
manus
,
imbrue
not
thy
hands
in
my
blood
,
haud
cruor
hic
de
stipite
manat
,
it
is
not
the
branches
thou
fightest
against
,
Iude.
9.5
.
Nam
Polydorus
ego
,
I
am
Iesus
whom
thou
persecutest
.
Titus
.
9.5
.
I
am
now
come
neare
to
a
point
,
which
I
haue
pressed
heretofore
in
the
other
publique
place
of
this
citie
,
At
the
Spittle
.
therfore
I
proceede
no
further
,
but
turne
aside
to
my
second
generall
point
obserued
in
this
verse
,
which
was
Ierusalems
misery
.
The
Tree
is
very
fruitfull
,
and
I
am
but
a
passenger
,
and
therefore
must
be
contented
to
pull
two
or
three
clusters
which
I
conceiued
to
be
the
ripest
,
and
the
readiest
to
part
with
the
boughes
,
which
when
I
haue
commended
to
your
seuerall
castes
,
I
will
commit
you
to
God
.
First
the
Paucity
of
true
professors
(
if
ye
can
find
a
man
,
or
if
there
be
any
.
)
Secondly
,
the
place
where
.
(
In
Ierusalem
.
)
Thirdly
,
that
God
will
bring
his
iudgments
vpon
her
because
of
her
wickednesse
;
not
expressed
but
necessarily
vnderstood
.
From
these
three
I
collect
three
propositions
;
from
the
first
,
Gods
flocke
militant
may
consist
of
a
small
number
:
from
the
second
,
There
is
no
particular
place
so
priuiledged
,
but
that
it
may
reuolt
and
fall
from
God
:
from
the
third
,
No
place
is
so
strong
,
nor
City
so
fenced
,
but
the
sinnes
of
the
people
will
bring
it
to
ruine
.
Of
these
three
in
order
,
Gods
holy
spirit
directing
me
,
and
first
of
the
first
.
God
made
all
the
world
,
Proposition
.
and
therefore
it
is
great
reason
,
that
he
should
haue
it
all
to
himselfe
:
yea
,
and
hee
challengeth
it
as
his
owne
right
:
[
](A19953-e13470-b)c
c
Hag.
2.8
.
The
Golde
is
his
,
and
the
siluer
is
his
,
and
all
the
beasts
of
the
fielde
are
his
,
and
so
are
the
cattell
vpon
a
thousand
hils
:
and
the
heauens
are
his
,
for
they
are
his
Throne
,
and
the
earth
is
his
,
for
it
is
his
footestoole
,
and
the
reprobate
are
his
,
Psal.
Act.
749
Ierem.
25
for
Nebuchadnezzer
is
his
seruant
,
and
as
Iuda
is
his
so
is
Moab
likewise
:
but
in
an
other
kind
of
seruice
,
in
a
word
,
The
earth
is
the
Lordes
and
all
that
therein
is
,
Psal.
24.
the
compasse
of
the
worlde
,
and
all
that
dwell
therein
,
but
not
in
that
property
,
which
is
now
ment
for
that
belongs
onely
vnto
men
,
and
yet
not
vnto
all
,
but
to
a
few
,
which
are
appointed
to
be
h●yres
of
saluation
.
Heb.
1.14
.
God
made
all
men
,
so
that
they
are
all
his
sonnes
by
creation
,
but
hee
ordained
not
all
to
life
,
so
that
there
is
but
a
remnant
which
are
his
sonnes
by
adoption
:
our
first
Father
did
eate
such
a
sowre
grape
as
did
set
all
his
childrens
teeth
on
edge
:
by
transgressing
Gods
commandement
he
lost
his
birth-right
,
and
was
shut
out
of
Paradise
,
by
committing
treason
against
his
Lord
and
King
,
Gen.
3.
his
bloud
was
stained
,
and
all
his
children
were
made
vncapable
of
their
fathers
inheritance
,
but
God
(
who
is
rightly
tearmed
the
Father
of
all
mercy
,
2.
Cor.
1.3
.
&
God
of
all
consolation
)
as
he
purposed
to
shew
his
iustice
in
punishing
the
greater
part
of
such
,
as
so
greeuously
incurred
his
displeasure
:
so
on
the
contrary
side
,
it
was
his
good
pleasure
to
shew
his
mercy
,
in
sauing
of
some
,
though
they
deserued
as
great
a
degree
of
punishment
as
the
other
,
and
therefore
it
is
a
Parliament
holden
before
all
times
,
it
was
enacted
,
that
the
naturall
sonne
of
God
,
the
second
person
in
the
Trinity
,
should
in
the
fulnes
of
time
take
vpon
him
mans
flesh
,
and
suffer
for
our
transgressions
,
and
gather
a
certaine
number
out
of
that
Masse
of
corruption
,
Austin
.
wherein
all
mankind
lay
:
these
be
they
which
shal
follow
the
Lambe
whethersoeuer
he
goeth
;
these
bee
his
people
and
the
sheepe
of
his
pasture
,
these
be
they
which
haue
this
prerogatiue
to
be
called
the
sonnes
of
God
,
Psal.
100.
Gal.
4.1
.
Rom.
8.17
.
and
the
heires
of
God
annexed
with
Christ
:
and
these
are
they
which
I
affirme
to
be
often
contained
in
a
very
narrow
roome
in
respect
of
the
wicked
.
There
is
much
chaffe
and
little
wheate
,
it
is
the
wheate
that
God
keepes
for
his
garner
:
there
are
many
stones
,
but
few
pearles
:
it
is
the
Pearle
which
Christ
hath
bought
with
his
bloud
.
2.
Cor.
4.
Many
fowles
but
onely
the
Eagles
bee
good
birds
.
Sathan
hath
a
kingdome
,
and
Christ
but
a
little
flocke
,
it
is
like
to
Bethleem
in
the
land
of
Iudah
,
Luk.
12.32
.
Mich.
5.2
.
Gen.
8.3
.
but
a
little
one
amongst
the
Princes
of
Iudah
,
it
is
like
to
Noahs
floud
,
going
and
returning
,
like
the
sea
flowing
and
ebbing
,
or
like
to
the
Moone
filling
and
waining
,
&
sometimes
so
Eclipsed
and
darkened
with
the
earth
,
that
thou
canst
not
perceiue
,
that
Christ
the
sonne
of
righteousnesse
doth
shine
vpon
it
.
The
story
of
Times
will
make
this
plaine
,
innumerous
were
the
men
of
the
old
world
,
yet
Gods
flocke
was
onely
contained
in
the
family
of
Sheth
,
they
onely
were
called
the
Sonnes
of
God
,
Gen.
6.2
.
afterward
this
flocke
was
compassed
in
a
very
narrow
fold
,
in
Noahs
familie
,
it
was
enclosed
in
one
Arke
,
and
yet
there
was
one
Wolfe
amongst
these
few
sheepe
.
Nat
lupus
inter
oues
.
Ouid
metam
.
lib
:
1.
Thus
it
continued
in
a
very
narrow
compasse
till
Abrahams
time
,
and
so
downeward
till
it
beganne
to
multiply
in
the
land
of
Egypt
,
and
afterward
in
the
promised
Canaan
,
as
yet
it
was
still
tied
to
one
place
,
there
was
but
one
pasture
for
Gods
sheepe
,
the
rest
of
the
world
playde
the
harlot
with
other
louers
,
and
went
a
whoring
after
their
owne
inuentions
,
and
in
this
one
pasture
there
were
more
Goates
then
sheepe
,
for
though
the
number
of
the
children
of
Israel
were
as
the
sand
vpon
the
sea
shore
,
Rom.
4.27
.
yet
onely
a
remnant
was
to
be
saued
.
When
the
fulnesse
of
time
was
come
that
God
had
sent
his
sonne
made
of
a
woman
,
this
Moone
did
suffer
such
an
Eclipse
,
as
that
the
quickest
eye
could
hardly
perceiue
her
:
then
she
beganne
to
recouer
her
light
,
for
God
broke
downe
the
partition
wall
,
and
rent
the
vaile
of
the
Temple
,
and
made
no
difference
betwixt
the
Iew
and
the
Gentile
,
Tuos
Niriusque
mihi
nullo
discrimene
agetur
.
Then
Gods
sheepe
brought
forth
thousands
and
ten
thousands
in
the
streets
,
then
the
Vine
stretcheth
forth
her
boughes
,
vnto
the
riuer
,
and
her
branches
vnto
the
lands
end
,
then
God
gaue
vnto
his
Sonne
the
heathen
for
his
inheritance
,
and
the
vtmost
part
of
the
earth
for
his
possession
.
Yet
then
and
euer
since
,
the
gleanings
of
Satan
haue
bin
more
then
the
vintage
of
Christ
.
Yet
take
a
suruey
of
the
world
,
as
it
is
at
this
day
;
deuide
it
into
three
parts
with
Ptolome
or
into
fowre
with
some
later
writers
,
nay
into
sixe
or
seuen
with
our
last
Geographers
,
Maginus
.
and
you
shall
not
find
much
aboue
one
of
these
seauen
which
professe
Christ
.
Amongst
these
seperate
the
orthodoxe
from
the
heterodox
,
and
you
shall
find
that
Christ
is
now
almost
banished
out
of
the
world
,
so
that
if
the
sonne
of
man
should
now
come
,
Luk.
18.8
.
he
should
scarce
find
faith
in
the
earth
,
the
true
profession
of
the
Gospell
,
is
confined
in
a
little
corner
of
the
Northwest
,
and
in
this
corner
remoue
the
Athiests
,
and
Hereticks
,
and
Worldlings
,
and
Neuters
,
and
Hypocrits
,
how
little
will
the
remainder
be
after
so
many
substractions
?
And
no
maruell
,
for
many
are
caled
,
but
few
are
chosen
,
and
broad
is
the
way
that
leadeth
to
distruction
.
Gods
sheepe
haue
a
little
narrow
path
,
but
the
Goates
haue
a
beaten
Cartway
.
Vse
.
1
This
being
so
,
it
is
strange
what
Bellarmine
ment
to
make
amplitude
,
and
multitude
,
to
be
a
note
of
the
true
Church
;
especially
when
he
proposeth
to
speake
of
such
notes
,
by
which
it
may
be
most
easily
knowne
,
and
distinguished
from
the
false
religion
of
the
Iewes
,
and
Heretickes
,
and
Pagans
,
and
Infidels
whatsoeuer
:
and
therefore
such
as
are
both
[
](A19953-e14130-b)g
g
Notae
debent
esse
propriae
non
communes
lib
4.
cap.
2
et
postea
in
eodem
cap.
notae
variae
inseparabiles
auera
Ecclesia
proper
and
inseperable
,
in
respect
of
the
Church
;
and
againe
such
as
thogh
[
](A19953-e14170-b)h
h
Non
quidem
efficiunt
euidenter
verum
ipsam
esse
veram
Dei
Ecclesiam
,
sed
tamen
efficiunt
euidenter
credibile
De
ecclesiae
lib.
4.
cap.
3.
they
make
it
not
euidently
true
,
yet
they
make
it
euidently
credible
,
not
only
probable
(
for
[
](A19953-e14220-b)i
i
Lutheranorum
notae
non
sunt
vllo
modo
,
sufficientes
,
nam
non
declarant
quae
sit
vera
Ecclesia
,
se
cūdū
haeretic
.
nisi
probabiliter
lib
eod.
cap.
2
that
is
the
imperfection
of
our
notes
,
if
you
will
beleeue
him
)
nay
,
amongst
those
which
admit
of
the
Scriptures
,
and
Ecclesiasticall
Histories
and
writings
of
the
ancient
fathers
,
faciunt
etiam
euidentiam
veritatis
.
Lord
how
plausible
a
Doctrine
would
this
haue
beene
vnto
Ahab
;
how
would
it
haue
fitted
his
turne
to
plead
for
Baal
?
what
meanest
thou
Eliah
thus
to
trouble
Israel
?
As
though
wee
were
all
Idolaters
and
thou
onely
a
true
worshipper
of
God
?
Consider
the
matter
aright
,
and
thou
shalt
find
what
a
weake
ground
thou
standest
vpon
,
those
are
the
true
worshippers
of
God
,
who
are
the
most
in
number
,
now
thou
art
but
one
and
the
Prophets
of
Baal
,
are
fower
hundreth
and
fifty
,
how
pleasantly
would
it
haue
sounded
in
the
eares
of
the
Iewes
,
when
Ieremiah
thus
prophesied
?
Behold
(
might
they
say
)
all
the
inhabitants
,
of
Iudah
,
and
Ierusalem
are
against
thee
,
and
is
the
spirit
of
God
departed
from
vs
all
to
possesse
thee
?
Thus
Constantius
disputed
with
Libanus
Bishop
of
Rome
,
against
Athanasius
[
](A19953-e14360-b)k
k
Hoc
orbis
terrarum
comprobat
:
quota
tu
pars
es
orbis
terrarum
qui
solus
facis
cum
homine
scelerato
pacem
orbis
d●ssoluis
.
Theod.
lib.
2.
cap.
16.
The
whole
world
is
of
this
Opinion
,
and
what
art
thou
that
thou
shouldest
take
part
with
a
naughty
fellow
,
and
disolue
the
peace
of
the
world
.
If
this
obiection
had
bin
vrged
against
Luther
,
when
he
first
began
to
baite
the
Popes
Bull
,
hee
might
easily
haue
answered
in
Athanasius
his
words
:
Athan.
Epist.
ad
solitarian
.
vitam
agentes
.
What
Church
is
there
now
that
doth
openly
adore
Christ
;
if
it
bee
godly
it
is
Subiect
to
danger
,
for
if
there
bee
any
that
feare
God
(
as
indeede
there
are
many
euery
where
)
they
haue
hid
themselues
with
Elias
in
Dens
and
Caues
of
the
earth
.
But
the
example
of
the
Iewes
will
not
much
mooue
our
aduersarie
quia
non
est
eadem
ratio
populi
Iudeorum
et
populi
cristianorum
,
Bellar.
li.
3.
d●●
Eccle.
milit.
cap.
16.
and
might
the
Church
of
Christians
bee
still
knowne
,
by
the
multitude
of
professors
,
so
that
a
man
not
yet
resolued
in
the
truth
,
might
bee
guided
by
this
marke
to
find
her
out
,
as
the
wise
men
by
the
Starre
were
directed
vnto
Christ
!
Surely
no
,
Jdem
.
lib.
4
cap.
5.
for
scimus
initio
fuisse
multo
p●uciores
Christianos
,
quam
essent
Iudaii
,
what
better
was
shee
in
the
time
of
those
ten
bloody
persecutions
which
indured
for
the
space
of
three
hundred
yeares
?
when
a
man
could
no
sooner
make
profession
of
his
faith
but
hee
was
either
killed
with
the
sword
or
burnt
with
fire
,
Alij
flammis
exusti
,
alij
ferro
perempti
,
alij
flagris
verberati
alij
cru●iati
patibulo
,
&c.
or
drowned
in
the
Sea
,
or
stoned
to
death
,
or
slaine
quicke
,
or
famished
with
hunger
,
or
thrust
through
with
bodkins
,
or
throwne
to
wild
Beasts
,
or
pulled
in
peeces
with
Trees
or
wilde
horses
,
or
boiled
in
lead
,
or
made
away
with
more
exquisite
,
and
more
Tragicall
torments
.
(
If
that
be
possible
)
then
the
Perilli
of
our
time
haue
inuented
to
gratifie
the
Romish
Phalleris
.
Come
a
little
lower
and
compare
the
Church
not
with
the
number
of
the
Gentiles
,
(
which
no
Papist
in
the
world
can
for
shame
deny
to
haue
euer
exceeded
the
number
of
Christians
)
but
with
Heretikes
,
I
meane
not
al
sorts
ioyned
togeher
(
for
they
will
subscribe
to
[
](A19953-e14570-b)a
a
Haeraetici
sunt
per
totam
faciem
terrae
,
alij
hic
alij
ibi
alia
secta
in
Africa
,
alia
,
haresis
in
oriente
August
de
past
.
Cap.
8.
Austin
the
Church
is
euery
where
,
and
Heresie
euery
where
,
but
the
Church
is
the
same
euery
where
,
heresie
is
not
the
same
but
most
different
)
but
only
the
Arians
,
which
sometimes
haue
so
ouerspread
the
whole
Christian
world
,
as
that
if
any
had
said
,
Loe
here
is
Christ
or
there
is
Christ
,
thou
wouldest
haue
beleeued
him
.
The
Church
was
like
a
Sparow
that
sitteth
alone
vpon
the
house
toppe
,
or
like
a
Pelican
in
the
Wildernesse
,
and
an
Owle
in
the
desart
:
they
counted
themselues
the
onely
Catholikes
,
but
the
true
Christians
they
tearmed
Scismatikes
,
Augustine
calling
them
Ioannites
,
and
Ambrosians
,
and
Athanatians
,
and
Homousians
:
Euen
as
the
Papists
at
this
day
challenge
the
name
of
Catholikes
,
to
themselues
,
and
call
vs
Lutherans
,
and
Zuinglians
,
and
Caluinists
.
They
did
not
onely
possesse
the
Church
of
Ierusalem
,
and
Alexandria
,
&
Antiochia
,
&
Constantinople
,
and
the
rest
in
the
Eastern
Empire
,
but
passing
thence
into
the
North
,
&
from
thence
with
the
Gothes
,
and
Vandals
into
Germanie
and
France
,
and
Spaine
,
and
Italy
,
(
yea
into
Africke
to
)
had
infected
all
the
Churches
in
the
West
.
Which
makes
Ieremy
say
that
the
whole
world
groned
and
marueiled
,
Hierom.
in
dialog
contr.
Luciferianos
.
to
see
her selfe
become
am
Arrian
,
an
Arrian
sate
in
Peters
chaire
,
the
head
of
the
Church
[
](A19953-e14850-b)a
a
Durand
.
lib.
2.
that
great
Melchisedecke
whose
Priesthood
is
not
to
be
compared
to
any
other
,
their
[
](A19953-e14890-b)*
*
Dominus
deus
noster
Papa
.
Ex
trau
.
Ioh.
22.
vt
citat
Iuell
.
God
and
their
Lord
,
the
[
](A19953-e14920-b)a
a
Durand
.
lib.
2.
Pope
himselfe
,
rather
then
hee
would
die
in
the
defence
of
the
Gospell
,
subscribed
to
Arianisme
;
surely
the
whole
Body
must
needs
goe
wrong
,
Liberius
teste
.
Athan.
Epist.
ad
.
Solitariam
.
vitam
agentes
idem
patet
.
ex
preambulo
.
Concil.
Nicen.
when
the
head
did
thus
miscary
.
This
plague
indured
not
for
some
small
moment
(
like
the
Macedonian
Empire
which
was
but
a
Flash
and
gone
)
but
for
the
space
of
three
hundred
yeares
and
vpward
.
Where
was
now
the
true
Church
amongst
the
Arrians
,
Bodin
.
which
oppugned
the
Doctrine
of
the
Nicene
Synod
in
sundry
councels
,
and
expelled
the
Orthodox
Bishops
and
enioyed
their
roomes
,
and
instead
of
the
true
Christ
worshiped
an
Idole
of
their
owne
inuentions
?
or
rather
in
a
few
miserable
and
forlorne
wretches
,
which
remained
in
prisons
and
wildernesses
,
and
Mountaines
,
and
dennes
,
and
Caues
of
the
Earth
,
as
was
the
case
of
the
Church
at
that
time
,
so
was
it
in
the
time
of
Wicliffe
and
Husse
,
for
then
the
Diuell
had
for
a
long
time
bin
loosed
,
and
Antechrist
was
in
the
height
of
his
pride
,
&
the
light
of
the
Gospell
was
taked
vp
in
the
Ashes
of
Popery
,
Ποῦ
●οτε
εἴσιν
ὃι
τὴν
πενίαν
ἡμέν
ὁνεισζοντει
καὶ
τῶν
πλοῦτῶν
.
κομπάζοντες
ὁι
πλήθει
τῆνεν
ἐκκλησίαν
ὅριξοντες
,
καὶ
τό
βροχυ
,
διάπτύ
οντες
ποίμνιον
.
Nazianz.
in
oratione
contra
Arrianos
.
in
so
much
that
that
which
Nazianzen
spoke
in
the
oration
against
the
Arrians
,
might
fitly
haue
bin
applied
against
the
Papists
.
Where
be
those
that
obiect
pouerty
vnto
vs
,
&
boast
of
their
prosperous
Estate
,
this
is
another
marke
of
the
Popish
Church
.
Where
be
those
that
define
the
Church
to
bee
a
multitude
,
and
set
at
nought
a
little
Flocke
:
and
yet
if
multitude
should
beare
the
bell
away
,
the
Papists
should
not
haue
any
such
cause
of
triumph
,
as
they
will
beare
the
world
in
hand
that
they
haue
.
There
are
at
this
day
fowre
Religions
in
the
world
(
if
the
name
of
Religion
may
bee
giuen
to
them
all
)
Iudaisme
,
Paganisme
,
Mahametanisme
,
and
Christianisme
:
of
all
these
Iudaisme
is
the
least
,
but
Paganisme
exceedeth
all
the
rest
,
Mahametanisme
(
which
is
a
mixture
craftily
composed
of
the
other
three
)
both
in
largenesse
of
Countries
,
and
multitude
of
people
,
goeth
beyond
all
Christendome
:
for
it
hath
not
onely
seated
it selfe
in
the
whole
Turkish
Empire
,
and
the
large
kingdomes
of
the
great
Sophi
,
but
spreadeth
abroad
in
many
places
of
the
vast
dominions
of
Tartarie
,
Cathaia
,
&
China
almost
vnto
the
Easterne
Ocean
,
and
what
it
hath
of
later
yeares
gained
in
the
west
,
wee
feele
partly
in
the
miserable
distresse
of
Hungarie
and
Transiluania
,
and
haue
iust
occasion
of
greater
feare
,
if
the
Lord
out
of
compassion
to
his
poore
Church
,
shall
not
ouerthrow
the
plots
of
that
proud
Senacherib
,
2.
Kin.
19.28
and
put
a
hooke
in
his
nose
,
and
a
bridle
in
his
lips
,
and
carry
him
backe
againe
the
same
way
that
he
came
.
Now
for
Christianisme
,
amongst
those
that
professe
the
name
of
Christ
,
there
are
not
aboue
a
third
part
that
are
Papists
:
for
the
Russians
together
with
the
Reliques
of
the
Greeke
Church
,
the
Armenians
and
the
Christians
that
are
vnder
the
Emperour
of
the
Abassens
,
doe
exceede
the
number
of
all
those
,
which
holde
the
Principles
of
the
Romish
Church
.
The
Protestants
come
not
much
behind
them
:
for
howsoeuer
within
these
hundred
years
,
the
Moone
did
suffer
such
an
vniuersall
Eclipse
,
that
a
man
would
haue
iudged
she
had
lost
her
light
,
and
the
Lords
flocke
was
but
like
a
few
grapes
after
the
Vintage
is
ended
,
here
a
grape
and
there
a
grape
on
the
outmost
boughes
.
Breui
occupauit
doctrina
Lutheri
,
non
Soli
multa
regna
in
partibus
septemtrionalibus
sed
etiam
vsque
ad
Indos
excur●re
aufa
est
.
Bel.
lib.
3.
de
pont.
Ro.
cap.
23.
Yet
since
it
pleased
God
to
stirre
vp
the
heart
of
Martin
Luther
to
stand
at
open
defiance
with
the
Italian
Goliath
which
reuiled
the
Israel
of
God
:
shee
hath
euery
day
recouered
her
light
,
the
Gospell
that
was
then
hid
vnder
a
bushell
,
is
become
like
to
Dauids
Sunne
,
which
commeth
foorth
as
a
Bridegroome
out
of
his
chamber
,
and
reioyceth
as
a
Giant
to
runne
his
course
:
the
professors
of
the
Gospell
haue
wonderfully
increased
so
that
now
their
sound
is
gone
through
the
earth
,
and
their
words
vnto
the
ends
of
the
world
.
Psal.
90.4
,
There
is
no
place
in
the
Globe
of
the
earth
,
where
Christ
is
professed
,
which
hath
not
some
Protestants
.
Italy
the
very
Center
and
sinke
of
Popery
,
and
the
seat
of
the
great
Whore
,
when
Iezabel
hath
done
what
shee
can
,
in
murthering
the
Lords
Prophets
,
will
affoord
seuen
thousand
men
which
haue
neuer
bowed
the
knees
of
their
hearts
vnto
Baal
.
Vid.
Bell.
de
Paul
.
Rom.
lib
3.
cap.
21.
Nostris
temporibus
Romana
sedes
magnam
Germaniae
partem
amisit
,
Suetiam
Gothiam
,
Noruegiam
,
Damam
,
&c.
In
France
wee
haue
a
farre
greater
number
,
in
Germanie
the
maior
part
,
almost
all
Polonie
,
all
Denmarke
,
Swethen
,
Norway
,
Britaine
,
and
all
the
Islands
in
the
Northerne
seas
,
which
haue
taken
the
militarie
Oath
to
fight
vnder
Christs
standard
.
If
these
be
not
equall
to
them
,
yet
consider
on
eyther
side
such
as
know
the
Principles
of
Christian
Religion
,
and
can
giue
an
account
of
their
faith
,
and
we
haue
a
farre
greater
number
,
for
the
common
people
amongst
them
are
stupide
&
blind
,
and
doe
no
more
vnderstand
the
mysteries
of
their
saluation
then
Pagans
and
Infidels
,
or
those
in
the
Acts
,
who
being
demaunded
of
Paul
,
whether
they
had
receiued
the
holy
Ghost
,
made
answere
that
they
neuer
heard
whether
there
was
an
holy
Ghost
or
no.
Act.
19.2
.
And
little
maruell
for
many
of
their
Priestes
doe
no
more
vnderstand
their
Masses
,
which
they
mumble
dayly
in
their
Churches
;
then
Balaams
Asse
vnderstood
his
owne
voice
.
It
is
enough
for
them
to
belieue
as
the
Church
belieueth
,
though
they
know
no
more
what
that
is
,
then
did
Bellarmines
Collier
,
who
being
demaunded
what
he
belieued
,
(
quoth
hee
)
that
which
the
Church
beleeueth
,
being
againe
demaunded
what
that
was
,
answered
,
the
same
which
I
belieue
:
Herein
we
will
not
thinke
much
that
the
Papists
exceede
vs
:
Bellarmine
may
giue
good
measure
if
he
draw
the
dregs
and
all
:
August
:
in
Psal.
39.
but
Austen
will
teach
him
another
lesson
,
Noli
numerare
turbas
hominum
incedentes
latas
vias
,
implentes
crastinum
circum
,
ciuitatis
natalem
clamando
celebrantes
,
ciuitatem
ipsam
male
viuendo
turbantes
,
noli
illas
attendere
,
multi
sunt
,
&
quis
numerat
,
sed
pauci
per
viam
angustam
incedunt
.
Christ
:
hom:
40.
ad
populum
Antiochium
.
Chrysostome
will
teach
him
that
not
in
numeri
magnitudine
,
sed
in
virtutis
probitate
consistit
multitudo
.
It
was
a
prety
stratageme
of
the
Romaine
Captaine
,
when
his
Souldiers
were
few
in
number
,
to
make
euery
man
draw
a
bough
in
the
drie
dust
,
that
so
the
●amnites
(
with
which
hee
was
to
encounter
)
beholding
them
a
farre
off
might
beleeue
that
his
Armie
was
greater
then
indeed
it
was
:
we
are
no
such
dastards
as
to
be
afraid
of
euery
withered
branch
that
can
rayse
vp
dust
into
the
ayre
:
Liuius
decad
1.
lib.
9.
if
the
Papists
purpose
to
match
vs
with
multitude
,
let
them
bring
such
as
haue
some
skill
to
handle
their
spirituall
weapons
.
I
end
,
seeing
the
Church
is
like
vnto
the
Moone
,
sometimes
in
a
glorious
splendour
,
sometimes
clouded
with
Schisme
,
and
sometime
so
darkened
with
the
shadow
of
heresie
and
superstition
,
and
persecution
,
that
the
eyes
of
Linceus
can
scarse
behold
her
.
Seeing
that
the
Papists
at
this
day
,
cannot
compare
neyther
with
the
number
of
Christians
(
taking
the
name
generally
for
all
such
as
professe
the
name
of
Iesus
)
nor
with
the
Protestant
Churches
,
if
we
take
an
account
onely
of
such
as
vnderstand
the
Principles
of
their
Religion
:
Hic
non
tenetur
nota
marginalis
quae
nunquam
occurrit
in
li.
Sent.
P.
Lamberti
.
I
see
no
reason
why
Bellarmine
should
make
multitude
a
Note
of
the
true
Church
;
or
if
it
were
,
why
the
Papists
should
challenge
it
themselues
:
and
therfore
hee
may
bee
well
censured
with
a
hic
magister
non
tenetur
,
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s
Viues
de
causis
Co:rupt
:
Art
.
or
nota
quod
haec
nota
nihil
notat
,
it
was
onely
to
make
vp
the
number
of
notes
,
that
hee
may
number
one
Art
,
nam
cum
non
prosunt
singula
,
multa
iuuant
;
though
they
be
of
little
force
being
seuerally
considered
,
yet
if
they
bee
all
ioyntly
taken
,
they
will
proue
like
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t
Plut
Apoth.
Seleucus
his
roddes
,
or
like
a
threefold
corde
which
is
not
easily
broken
.
Indeede
hee
had
need
to
bee
stronger
then
Hercules
,
that
could
cut
off
all
the
heads
of
Hydra
at
one
blow
:
but
a
simple
warriour
taking
one
by
one
may
make
an
end
of
them
before
hee
bee
wearied
;
for
they
are
like
to
the
tayle
of
Sertorius
his
horse
,
Plutar.
in
vita
sertorij
.
which
a
valiant
Souldier
taking
it
all
together
,
could
not
pull
off
,
but
a
poore
Skull
pulling
one
hayre
after
an
other
had
quickly
made
it
bare
.
Vse
.
2
Secondly
,
dooth
Gods
flocke
sometimes
consist
of
a
very
small
number
?
then
it
behoueth
thee
(
beloued
Christian
)
with
greater
diligence
to
trie
and
examine
thy selfe
,
whether
thou
bee
comprehended
in
this
number
:
for
as
in
that
vniuersall
deluge
of
waters
,
all
were
drowned
that
were
not
in
Noahs
Arke
:
so
in
the
great
floud
of
fire
,
which
shall
bee
at
the
end
of
the
world
,
all
shall
be
swept
away
with
a
riuer
of
brimstone
,
which
are
not
of
this
flocke
:
it
is
a
common
saying
,
he
shall
neuer
haue
God
for
his
father
which
hath
not
the
Church
for
his
mother
,
and
hee
shall
neuer
bee
a
member
of
the
Church
triumphant
,
which
is
not
first
of
the
Church
Militant
:
first
,
then
thou
art
to
enquire
whether
thou
bee
of
the
true
visible
Church
;
and
this
thou
shalt
know
,
by
two
markes
;
by
the
true
preaching
of
the
word
,
by
the
right
vse
of
the
Sacraments
,
for
where
these
two
are
performed
according
to
the
prescript
of
Gods
word
,
there
must
needs
be
a
true
church
;
this
is
somewhat
,
but
it
is
not
all
:
for
what
did
it
auaile
Iudas
to
bee
numbred
amongst
the
twelue
?
hee
was
in
hell
before
any
of
the
rest
came
at
heauen
:
all
that
are
in
the
church
bee
not
of
the
church
:
there
are
both
good
and
bad
fish
in
this
net
;
there
is
wheat
and
tares
in
this
field
,
Sheepe
and
Goates
in
this
fold
,
thou
must
therefore
goe
further
and
examine
,
whether
thou
bee
one
of
that
Company
,
which
God
from
eternity
elected
vnto
life
,
and
in
time
effectually
calleth
by
his
holy
Spirit
,
and
makes
true
members
of
his
Sonne
Iesus
Christ
,
which
is
the
head
of
this
body
,
whether
thou
bee
of
that
flock
which
Christ
calleth
his
garden
,
Cant
his
sister
,
his
spouse
,
his
loue
,
his
doue
,
his
vndefiled
,
which
is
the
pillar
and
ground
of
truth
,
1.
Tim.
3.13
.
the
body
of
Christ
,
Eph.
1.23
.
the
temple
of
the
Lord
,
Eph.
2.21
.
which
the
gates
of
hell
shall
neuer
preuaile
against
,
Matth.
16
18.
Here
thou
must
exercise
thy
wits
,
this
must
be
thy
care
to
finde
thy selfe
in
this
little
number
,
but
how
may
this
bee
knowne
?
by
the
cause
?
that
is
the
will
and
good
pleasure
of
God
,
which
dwelleth
in
light
that
none
can
approach
vnto
.
This
is
a
bottomlesse
depth
,
who
can
sound
it
?
Neuer
man
looked
into
this
Arke
and
liued
:
busie
thy
braines
about
it
,
and
when
thou
hast
done
all
thou
canst
,
thou
art
but
like
a
flie
about
a
Candle
,
which
playeth
so
long
with
the
flame
,
Lipsius
lib.
2.
de
Con.
that
at
length
shee
burnes
her
wings
and
fals
downe
:
and
good
reason
it
should
bee
so
:
for
it
is
enough
for
wretched
man
to
bee
of
Gods
Court
,
Plut.
in
Thes.
and
it
is
too
much
to
be
of
his
Priuie
Councell
:
thou
must
therefore
doe
as
Theseus
did
with
the
Labyrinth
,
thou
must
catch
hold
of
the
threeds
end
that
hangs
without
the
doore
,
and
so
by
winding
steps
come
at
length
to
the
first
cause
.
Seeing
thou
canst
not
know
it
a
Priori
by
the
cause
;
thou
must
know
it
a
posteriori
,
by
the
effect
,
an
effect
of
Gods
immutable
decree
,
and
an
vndoubted
marke
(
to
let
all
others
passe
)
of
Gods
child
his
Sanctification
:
for
as
on
the
one
side
it
is
certainely
true
,
that
without
holinesse
of
life
,
no
man
shall
see
God
:
Heb.
12.14
.
So
it
is
as
true
on
the
other
side
,
that
hee
which
walketh
not
after
the
Flesh
,
Rom.
8.1
.
but
after
the
Spirit
is
ingrafted
into
Christ
and
shall
neuer
be
condemned
.
So
then
holines
of
life
is
the
true
touchstone
,
to
trie
whether
thou
be
of
this
number
:
but
here
deceiue
not
thy self
,
for
there
is
a
verbal
holines
,
and
a
Pharisiacall
holines
,
and
a
Herods
holines
,
and
a
popish
holines
,
and
an
Anabaptistical
holines
.
The
verball
holinesse
is
of
such
as
draw
neere
vnto
God
with
their
lips
,
Iohn
.
29.13
.
but
with
their
hearts
are
farre
from
him
as
the
Prophet
speakes
:
the
Pharisaicall
holinesse
,
is
of
those
which
deuoure
widdowes
houses
vnder
colour
of
long
prayers
;
and
such
as
will
not
leaue
a
mote
on
the
outside
of
their
cappe
,
but
neuer
care
how
filthy
it
be
within
.
The
Herods
holinesse
is
of
them
which
will
quench
the
fire
on
the
harth
,
and
leaue
it
burning
in
the
toppe
of
the
chimney
,
will
mende
their
least
faults
,
and
let
their
worst
bee
marring
.
The
Popish
holinesse
is
in
obseruing
humane
traditions
,
and
treading
vnder
foot
the
law
of
God
.
The
Anabaptisticall
holines
is
of
such
,
as
are
well
perswaded
of
themselues
(
though
without
all
reason
)
but
can
neuer
haue
a
charitable
opinion
of
any
others
:
they
are
troubled
with
a
Noli
me
tangere
,
touch
mee
not
,
Isa.
65.5
.
come
not
neare
me
for
I
am
holier
then
thou
:
but
I
say
vnto
thee
,
except
thy
righteousnesse
exceede
the
righteousnesse
of
all
these
men
,
Matth.
5.20
.
thou
shalt
not
enter
into
the
Kingdome
of
Heauen
:
it
is
an
other
kinde
of
holines
which
thou
must
haue
,
if
thou
wilt
assure
thy
soule
that
thou
art
one
of
Christs
flocke
:
it
is
indeede
in
the
tongue
,
but
it
proceedeth
from
an
other
fountaine
(
the
heart
)
and
makes
a
man
say
with
Dauid
,
thy
wordes
haue
I
hid
within
my
heart
,
Psal.
119.
that
I
might
not
sinne
against
thee
.
It
makes
a
man
haue
a
carc
to
approue
by
outward
actions
vnto
men
,
but
much
more
to
approue
the
cogitations
of
his
heart
vnto
God
:
it
striues
not
to
breake
of
some
branches
of
sinne
(
such
as
may
bee
best
forgone
)
reseruing
the
rest
,
but
it
is
most
seuere
against
those
sinnes
which
are
the
sweetest
to
man
,
because
such
sinnes
as
are
most
pleasant
vnto
many
,
are
most
vnpleasant
in
the
sight
of
God
.
It
will
not
sticke
charitably
to
censure
others
:
but
it
makes
a
man
most
sharp
in
censuring
&
containing
his
own
sinnes
,
it
resteth
not
contented
with
any
one
degree
of
perfection
,
but
forgetteth
that
which
is
behind
,
&
endeuoreth
to
obtaine
that
which
is
before
,
Phil.
3.13
.
and
followeth
hard
toward
the
marke
for
the
price
of
the
hie
calling
of
God
in
Christ
Iesus
.
Beloued
in
our
best
beloued
Iesus
Christ
,
doe
ye
all
desire
to
bee
fully
assured
that
you
are
of
that
little
number
,
whose
names
are
written
in
the
booke
of
life
:
I
know
you
desire
it
,
for
(
alas
)
what
comfort
can
a
man
haue
in
this
life
,
though
he
should
be
Monarch
of
the
whole
world
,
and
to
haue
kings
to
lay
their
crownes
before
his
footstoole
,
if
hee
doubt
what
shall
become
of
his
owne
soule
?
that
of
the
heathen
Emperour
,
animula
vagula
blandula
que
nunc
abibis
in
loca
,
&c.
Though
it
be
allowed
by
popish
Diuinitie
,
Verba
morientis
Traiani
.
will
be
but
a
cold
comfort
to
a
Christian
on
his
death
bed
:
hee
shall
neuer
come
in
heauen
that
is
not
perfect
of
the
way
before
hee
goe
hence
.
This
is
the
best
marke
whereby
you
may
assure
your selues
,
that
ye
are
already
in
the
high
way
,
euen
your
sanctification
.
Oh
then
bee
not
(
as
to
many
are
)
like
painted
tombes
,
guilded
without
,
rotten
within
;
tippe
not
your
tongues
with
godlinesse
,
when
your
soules
are
full
of
gall
and
bitternesse
.
Beare
not
Bibles
in
your
hands
,
and
Mammon
in
your
hearts
.
Let
the
remembrance
of
this
,
that
holinesse
of
life
is
the
cognisance
of
euery
true
member
of
Christs
Church
,
be
as
it
were
a
knife
to
cut
a
sunder
the
cords
of
vanitie
,
wherewith
Satan
striues
to
strangle
you
,
or
to
draw
you
headlong
into
hell
and
destruction
.
Let
it
be
as
a
spurre
to
pricke
you
forward
in
the
course
of
idlenesse
,
assuredly
howsoeuer
my
words
may
now
passe
away
as
a
wind
,
and
not
sinke
into
the
hearts
of
many
that
shall
heare
them
:
yet
Cum
votat
ille
dies
,
&c.
Ouid
Meta.
lib.
15.
When
those
muddie
walles
are
readie
to
fall
(
and
fall
they
must
for
all
your
daubing
)
there
cannot
a
greater
terror
befall
your
consciences
(
to
make
you
feare
that
you
are
but
rotten
members
at
the
best
of
Christs
Church
)
then
the
remembrance
of
an
euill
life
:
nor
on
the
other
side
can
there
a
greater
comfort
betide
you
,
Eccl.
12.8
.
when
your
pitchers
are
ready
to
be
broken
at
the
cesterne
,
then
to
assure
your selues
by
your
liues
past
(
abounding
with
good
workes
which
are
the
fruits
of
a
iustifying
faith
)
that
you
are
amongst
those
which
God
hath
accounted
to
be
his
children
.
For
then
you
may
go
with
greater
desires
vnto
your
graues
then
a
weary
pilgrime
vnto
to
his
bed
,
assuring
your selues
that
your
soules
shall
bee
transported
into
Abrahams
bosome
,
there
to
raigne
with
the
holy
Angels
in
eternall
happinesse
,
for
euermore
.
The
second
proposition
followeth
,
2.
Proposition
.
No
particular
place
is
so
priuiledged
,
but
that
it
may
reuolt
and
fall
from
God
.
If
euer
citie
that
was
seated
vnder
the
cope
of
heauen
,
had
a
Pattent
from
the
God
of
heauen
,
for
her
perseuerance
in
religion
,
it
was
Ierusalem
:
for
as
of
all
the
countries
in
the
world
,
hee
choose
Iudea
,
so
of
all
the
cities
of
Iudea
,
hee
preferred
Ierusalem
.
Sometimes
his
tabernacle
was
placed
in
Silo
,
but
this
hee
disliked
,
Iosh.
18.1
.
and
remooued
vnto
Ierusalem
,
as
the
onely
place
which
hee
had
picked
,
and
culled
out
of
all
others
to
set
his
name
there
;
according
to
that
of
the
Prophet
.
He
refused
the
Tabernacle
of
Ioseph
,
&
chose
not
the
tribe
of
Ephraim
:
but
he
chose
the
tribe
of
Iudah
,
euen
the
hill
of
Sion
,
which
he
loued
,
and
there
hee
builded
his
sanctuarie
as
an
high
palace
,
like
the
earth
which
he
stablished
for
euer
.
Psal.
78.67.68.69
.
Thus
he
made
a
seat
for
himselfe
,
an
holy
place
,
for
the
tabernacle
of
the
most
highest
.
Here
was
a
Temple
for
the
Lord
,
an
habitation
for
the
mightie
God
of
Iacob
,
those
that
shall
but
sleightly
peruse
the
graunts
and
priuiledges
which
God
hath
promised
this
one
citie
,
will
thinke
that
it
had
beene
as
impossible
for
her
to
fall
away
,
as
for
the
found
to
be
darkened
in
the
midst
of
heauen
.
The
hill
of
Sion
is
a
faire
place
,
euen
the
ioy
of
the
whole
earth
vpon
the
North-side
lieth
in
the
citie
of
the
great
king
,
God
is
well
knowen
in
her
palaces
,
as
a
sure
refuge
.
Ierusalem
haue
I
chosen
out
of
the
tribes
of
Israel
,
to
put
my
name
in
it
for
euer
.
2.
King
.
21.7
.
The
Lord
hath
chosen
Sion
to
bee
an
habitation
for
himselfe
,
hee
hath
longed
for
her
,
saying
,
this
shall
be
my
rest
for
euer
,
Psal.
132.14.15
.
heere
will
I
dwell
,
for
I
haue
a
delight
therein
.
Heere
was
the
seate
of
iudgement
,
euen
the
seate
of
the
house
of
Dauid
.
To
whom
the
Lord
had
sworne
by
his
holinesse
,
that
his
seed
should
endure
for
euer
,
Psal.
132.5
.
&
his
seat
should
be
as
the
Sun
before
him
:
that
he
should
stand
fast
for
euermore
,
as
the
Moone
,
&
the
faithfull
witnesse
in
heauen
.
Psal.
89.
When
the
Israelites
were
yet
in
the
wildernes
,
God
told
them
by
his
seruant
Moses
,
that
hee
had
appointed
them
a
place
in
the
land
of
Canaan
,
where
they
should
all
meete
out
of
their
seuerall
tribes
,
and
townes
to
offer
their
first
fruits
,
&
to
sacrifice
vnto
the
Lord
:
You
shall
seeke
the
place
which
the
Lord
your
God
shall
chuse
out
of
all
your
tribes
to
put
his
name
there
,
and
thither
you
shall
come
,
and
shall
bring
your
burnt
offrings
,
&
your
sacrifices
,
&
your
tithes
,
&
the
offrings
of
your
hands
,
and
your
vowes
,
&c.
And
there
yee
shall
offer
before
the
Lord
.
Deut.
12.
This
was
Ierusalem
,
for
thither
the
tribes
came
vp
euen
the
tribes
of
the
Lord
,
to
testifie
vnto
Israel
,
and
to
giue
thankes
vnto
the
name
of
the
Lord
.
Psal.
122.
Moreouer
here
was
there
συνεδριον
their
chiefe
Councell
,
Sigon
.
de
rep.
haeb
.
lib.
6.
Cap.
7.
or
high
Commission
,
(
consisting
of
the
king
and
princes
of
the
people
,
to
wit
,
the
chiefe
of
euery
tribe
,
and
of
seuentie
Elders
,
Gijon
de
resp
:
haeb
.
lib.
6.
cap.
7.
and
of
the
high
Priest
,
with
the
Doctors
of
Law
)
in
which
all
matters
of
greater
moment
were
concluded
,
and
vnto
which
(
as
vnto
the
Oracles
of
God
)
in
difficult
pointes
,
which
could
not
be
decided
by
the
Iudges
of
particular
Townes
and
Cities
,
they
were
to
haue
recourse
for
the
full
determination
therof
,
according
to
that
of
the
Prophet
:
If
there
rise
a
matter
too
hard
for
thee
to
iudge
betweene
bloud
and
bloud
,
betweene
plea
and
plea
,
betweene
plague
and
plague
,
in
the
matters
of
controuersie
within
thy
gates
,
then
shalt
thou
arise
,
and
goe
vp
vnto
the
place
which
the
Lord
thy
God
shall
chuse
,
and
thou
shalt
come
vnto
the
Priestes
of
the
Leuites
,
and
vnto
the
Iudge
that
shall
bee
in
those
dayes
and
aske
,
and
they
shall
shew
thee
the
sentence
of
iudgement
and
thou
shalt
doe
according
to
that
thing
which
they
of
that
place
(
which
the
Lord
hath
chosen
)
shall
shew
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
obserue
to
doe
according
to
all
that
they
enforme
thee
,
Deut
17.
Beside
this
,
the
law
was
there
more
diligently
then
in
other
places
expounded
;
the
Prophets
did
reueale
Gods
secrets
vnto
the
people
,
and
by
thundering
out
the
Canons
of
the
law
did
striue
to
weane
them
from
their
euill
wayes
,
and
by
the
promises
of
the
Gospell
to
wooe
them
vnto
God
:
the
Iebusites
which
before
time
God
had
permitted
to
dwell
amongst
them
;
that
they
might
be
thornes
in
their
eyes
,
and
prickles
in
their
sides
,
were
now
extirpated
,
Sigonius
de
rep:
Haeb.
li.
1.
so
that
they
could
not
choke
the
word
of
God
,
which
was
sowne
amongst
them
,
and
make
it
vnfruitfull
.
Was
there
euer
City
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
,
which
had
such
a
Charter
as
this
?
it
was
the
Citie
where
God
had
promised
to
be
resident
,
where
was
the
Arke
of
the
Couenant
,
and
the
glorious
Temple
which
Solomon
had
built
at
Gods
appointment
,
where
the
Kings
of
Iudah
had
their
abode
,
where
the
Law
and
the
Prophets
were
diligently
read
and
expounded
vnto
the
people
,
where
all
points
of
difficultie
were
handled
,
where
was
the
Priestes
Pallace
,
whether
the
whole
land
had
recourse
out
of
their
seuerall
Tribes
,
as
vnto
the
place
where
men
ought
to
worshippe
:
Iohn
.
4.
it
was
a
heauen
vpon
earth
,
and
a
type
of
that
glorious
City
which
is
aboue
:
and
is
Ierusalem
so
fallen
from
God
,
can
there
not
one
righteous
man
bee
found
within
her
walles
?
is
the
holy
City
become
so
wicked
?
is
the
faithfull
Spouse
become
a
Harlot
?
are
her
Princes
become
Rebels
,
her
Iudges
Murtherers
,
her
Golde
drosse
,
her
charity
oppression
,
her
ripenesse
rottennesse
,
her
almesdeedes
al-misdeedes
?
Hath
the
leprosie
of
sinne
so
infected
euery
part
of
her
body
,
Isai.
1.
that
from
the
sole
of
the
foote
to
the
crowne
of
the
head
,
there
is
nothing
whole
therein
,
but
woundes
and
swellings
,
and
sores
full
of
corruption
?
What
neede
we
goe
further
for
prouing
our
conclusion
,
for
as
hee
speakes
in
Tully
,
Cicero
.
lib.
1.
de
orat
.
Eyther
this
is
enough
,
or
I
know
not
what
will
suffice
:
if
you
would
haue
Topicall
Arguments
after
such
a
demonstration
as
this
:
I
could
leade
you
through
many
places
of
inuention
,
which
would
manifestlie
confirme
my
assertion
.
I
could
shew
you
the
Churches
of
Gallatia
and
Philippi
,
and
Corinthus
,
which
Paul
had
planted
,
Apollo
and
other
Disciples
had
watered
,
and
God
had
wonderfully
encreased
,
I
could
instance
in
Smyrna
,
and
Pergamus
and
Laodicea
,
&c.
In
which
the
Euangelist
Iohn
had
so
painefully
laboured
in
Constantinople
and
Ephesus
,
and
Nice
,
and
Chalcedon
,
famous
for
the
generall
Councels
,
in
Carthage
,
and
Hippo
,
and
other
Churches
of
Affricke
in
Antiochia
,
the
first
Godmother
of
Christians
,
and
in
a
word
,
in
all
the
Easterne
and
Affrican
Churches
,
in
which
so
many
Worthies
haue
florished
.
What
is
the
cause
of
these
particulars
at
this
day
?
behold
they
are
fallen
,
as
though
they
had
not
been
planted
,
as
though
the
seede
of
the
word
had
not
beene
sowne
amongst
them
,
Isa.
40.
as
though
that
stocke
had
taken
no
roote
in
the
earth
,
the
Lord
hath
blowne
vpon
them
,
and
they
are
withered
,
and
the
whirlewind
hath
taken
them
away
like
stubble
:
the
abhomination
of
desolation
(
let
him
that
heareth
it
,
consider
it
)
sitteth
in
their
holy
places
,
which
are
now
nothing
else
but
as
it
were
an
habitation
for
Dragons
and
Courts
for
Ostriches
,
Phillip
.
Lonicerus
de
rebus
Turcicis
.
instead
of
the
sacred
Bible
,
they
haue
entertained
the
blasphemous
Alchoran
,
their
Mophti
Meizin
,
and
Antippi
,
and
such
Idolatrous
Mahometains
haue
gotten
the
roomes
of
the
ancient
Fathers
.
Vse
.
What
?
and
are
these
also
fallen
?
then
let
her
that
thinketh
she
standeth
take
heede
least
she
fall
.
I
meane
that
strumpet
which
aduanceth
her selfe
aboue
the
starres
of
God
:
which
saith
,
I
am
,
and
none
els
,
and
sings
with
Niobe
in
the
port
,
Sum
Felix
,
I
am
in
a
happie
estate
,
and
there
shall
no
harme
happen
vnto
mee
;
which
with
Laodicea
thinketh
that
she
is
rich
and
encreased
with
goods
,
and
needeth
nothing
,
Reue.
3.
whereas
indeed
,
(
as
anon
you
shall
heare
)
shee
is
wretched
and
miserable
,
and
poore
,
and
blind
,
and
naked
.
Niniue
had
such
a
conceit
of
her selfe
,
and
did
so
far
presume
vpon
her
strength
,
that
she
thought
it
had
beene
impossible
for
all
the
powers
of
the
world
to
bring
her
vnder
the
hatches
.
And
therefore
the
Lord
bids
her
looke
vpon
the
state
of
Alexandria
,
a
stronger
Citie
then
Niniue
,
and
yet
she
was
destroyed
.
Art
thou
better
(
saith
hee
)
then
No
,
Nahum
.
3.8
which
was
full
of
people
?
that
lay
in
the
riuers
,
and
had
the
waters
round
about
it
;
whose
ditch
was
the
sea
,
and
her
wall
was
from
the
sea
Ethiopia
and
Egypt
were
her
strength
,
and
there
was
no
end
:
Put
&
Lubin
were
her
helpers
,
yet
was
she
carried
away
,
and
went
into
captiuitie
.
The
same
may
be
said
of
Rome
,
(
suppose
that
none
of
these
Cities
which
I
haue
last
mentioned
may
paralele
with
her
)
is
shee
better
then
Ierusalem
:
which
was
seated
vpon
such
strong
bulwarkes
,
as
alreadie
hath
bene
mentioned
:
yet
she
fell
from
God
and
moued
the
holy
one
of
Israel
to
anger
against
her
:
graunt
vnto
her
all
that
shee
can
claime
(
and
she
will
be
sure
to
lacke
nothing
for
want
of
challenging
,
Thrasilaus
apud
Athen.
Dipnos
.
li.
12.
for
shee
is
not
vnlike
to
him
who
could
not
espie
a
ship
floating
vpon
the
seas
,
but
presently
said
it
was
his
)
and
more
then
all
the
Papists
in
the
world
can
proue
to
bee
her
due
,
yet
shee
hath
no
more
to
bragge
of
,
then
had
Ierusalem
;
is
she
the
mother
citie
of
all
other
and
the
Metropolis
of
all
Christendome
?
So
was
Ierusalem
,
in
respect
of
the
inhabitants
of
Iurie
.
Which
at
that
time
were
the
onely
people
which
God
had
chosen
.
Are
al
others
to
appeal
vnto
her
as
vnto
their
supreme
iudge
in
matters
of
difficultie
;
so
were
Iewes
vnto
the
high
court
of
Ierusalem
;
did
Peter
the
prince
of
the
Apostles
,
the
porter
of
heauen
gates
,
remoue
his
chaire
from
Antiochia
and
placed
it
at
Rome
?
so
did
the
Lord
his
tabernacle
from
Shiloh
to
Ierusalem
,
hath
Rome
the
head
or
chiefe
Bishop
of
all
Christendom
?
Ierusalem
had
the
like
,
is
shee
the
keeper
and
dispenser
of
the
Lords
treasurie
?
So
was
Ierusalem
:
doth
she
challenge
a
freedome
for
perseuering
in
the
truth
?
Ierusalem
had
better
grounds
to
do
the
like
:
and
verily
,
as
Rome
doth
at
this
day
flatter
her selfe
with
a
false
application
of
vniuersall
promises
,
Ioh.
8.33.39
Psalm.
So
did
Ierusalem
.
Abraham
is
our
father
,
we
are
the
children
of
Abraham
,
Gen.
49.10
.
Ier.
7.4
.
this
is
my
rest
for
euer
:
the
scepter
shall
not
depart
from
Iudea
,
nor
a
lawgiuer
from
vnder
his
feet
:
the
temple
of
the
Lord
,
the
temple
of
the
Lord
,
this
is
the
temple
of
the
Lord
.
All
her
titles
that
she
can
any
way
lay
claim
vnto
,
will
not
make
her
better
then
Ierusalem
,
which
became
such
an
Apostatate
,
that
not
one
godly
man
could
bee
found
in
her
.
So
that
she
cannot
challenge
any
priuiledge
to
her selfe
from
falling
to
the
like
wickednesse
,
that
which
happens
to
the
one
,
may
be
fall
the
other
,
Vnlesse
shee
can
deale
with
the
truth
,
as
the
old
Romanes
handled
the
goddesse
victoria
:
who
after
they
had
wonne
the
field
,
vsed
to
clippe
her
wings
that
she
might
not
flie
away
.
But
what
neede
we
stand
of
the
possibilitie
,
when
the
act
proueth
it
.
A
certaine
man
,
walking
on
his
way
,
while
hee
looked
not
so
well
to
his
feet
,
as
he
should
haue
done
,
fell
into
a
pit
:
when
diuers
of
his
acquaintance
came
by
,
and
saw
his
mischance
,
they
began
to
enquire
one
after
another
,
how
hee
fell
thither
:
What
a
question
is
that
said
he
,
you
see
that
I
am
fallen
,
thinke
rather
of
some
meanes
how
to
helpe
me
vp
againe
.
We
neuer
need
make
question
,
whither
and
how
Rome
could
reuolt
and
fall
from
Christ
;
certaine
it
is
,
she
is
fallen
;
and
well
it
were
for
her
,
if
she
could
bee
holpe
vp
.
When
Philip
told
Nathaniel
,
that
hee
had
found
the
Messiah
,
of
whom
it
was
written
in
the
Law
,
and
in
the
Prophets
,
and
told
him
who
it
was
,
viz.
Iesus
of
Nazareth
:
Nathaniel
wondered
at
it
,
and
said
;
Can
any
good
thing
come
out
of
Nazareth
?
Iohn
1.47
.
If
any
shall
wonder
that
there
should
be
any
defect
in
Rome
,
which
so
many
ages
hath
bene
counted
the
mother
&
nurce
of
true
religion
:
I
answere
him
as
Philip
answered
Nathaniel
,
Come
and
see
.
When
thou
art
an
eye-witnesse
of
all
her
abhominations
,
thou
wilt
subscribe
to
his
testimonie
,
who
at
his
comming
away
,
bad
her
thus
adew
:
Roma
vale
vidi
,
satis
est
vidisse
reuertar
,
cum
leno
meretrice
scurra
cinoedus
ero
.
I
must
confesse
,
that
when
first
I
made
choice
of
this
portion
of
Scripture
,
I
did
not
intend
to
haue
played
vpon
this
string
with
my
least
finger
.
But
now
that
I
haue
met
Rome
in
my
high
way
,
I
cannot
chuse
,
but
(
by
your
patience
)
speake
a
word
vnto
her
before
we
part
,
especially
,
when
I
consider
how
ready
shee
is
to
disgrace
all
such
as
will
not
drinke
of
her
Cyrcean
cups
.
How
she
sendeth
her
panders
amongst
vs
to
get
her
moe
customers
,
&
his
pedlers
to
sel
her
deceitfull
wares
.
How
busie
she
is
in
hanging
vp
her
spider-webs
to
catch
our
English
butterflies
which
haue
neither
wit
to
auoide
them
,
nor
strength
to
break
them
;
and
what
paines
she
taketh
in
decking
her selfe
,
and
in
painting
her
vglie
wrinkled
face
,
that
shee
may
allure
.
Men
destitute
of
vnderstanding
,
to
forsake
their
first
loue
,
and
commit
follie
with
her
.
There
was
a
time
when
Rome
was
a
glorious
Church
,
Prou.
7.7
.
Paul
giueth
her
this
testimonie
,
that
[
](A19953-e17790-b)a
a
Rom.
1.8
.
her
faith
was
published
throughout
the
whole
world
.
Shee
was
(
as
some
say
)
the
chiefe
,
seat
for
one
of
the
foure
Patriarks
.
[
](A19953-e17810-b)b
b
Praefac
.
in
Concil.
Nicenum
1
sedes
,
Romanoe
.
2
Alexandriae
.
&
Cant
6.
Antiqua
Consuetudo
.
&c.
or
rather
of
equall
dignitie
with
the
others
,
Her
approbation
was
desired
in
sundry
Councels
,
as
one
more
incorrupt
then
the
rest
,
Quia
vrbis
Romae
paril
.
estres
.
by
reason
that
she
was
not
so
shaken
with
Scismes
and
Heresies
,
as
were
the
Easterne
Churches
,
she
was
an
Asylum
for
many
which
were
persecuted
for
the
testimonie
of
Iesus
Christ
:
this
she
was
,
and
this
is
all
that
shee
can
boast
her selfe
off
at
this
day
.
Which
when
she
hath
done
,
she
is
no
better
than
those
degenerous
spirits
of
Nobilitie
and
Gentrie
,
who
when
they
haue
nothing
in
themselues
worthy
the
least
commendation
,
will
digge
vp
the
old
roote
whence
they
sprang
.
But
Si
vita
labat
,
perit
omnis
in
illa
,
Gentis
honos
cuius
,
Ouid.
laus
est
in
origine
sola
.
Hee
leaneth
vpon
a
rotten
staffe
,
which
hath
nothing
to
speake
for
him
saue
his
dead
Progenitors
vertues
.
If
any
man
thinke
I
doe
her
wrong
,
may
it
please
him
to
compare
her
with
the
state
of
Ierusalem
in
the
time
when
Ieremie
prophesied
:
the
sinnes
of
Ierusalem
were
eyther
in
doctrine
and
matters
of
Religion
,
or
in
conuersation
and
manner
of
liuing
:
for
the
former
,
it
is
as
much
(
if
not
more
)
corrupted
at
this
day
in
the
Romish
Church
,
then
it
was
then
amongst
the
Iewes
.
The
Prophets
there
[
](A19953-e17960-b)c
c
Ier
5.31
.
Prophesied
lies
:
[
](A19953-e17980-b)d
d
Cap.
23.24
God
sent
them
not
,
and
yet
they
ranne
,
he
spoke
not
vnto
them
,
and
yet
they
prophesied
[
](A19953-e18000-b)e
e
Cap.
14.14
.
euen
a
false
vision
,
and
the
dreames
and
deuises
of
their
owne
hearts
:
whether
the
Romanists
doe
this
or
no
:
those
impious
assertions
which
they
maintaine
against
the
reformed
Churches
(
for
oppugning
whereof
,
[
](A19953-e18020-b)f
f
Vid.
Lind
:
li.
4.
Cap.
100.
et
petrum
a
Soto
contra
Brentium
.
many
holy
Martyrs
haue
with
their
best
bloud
dyed
the
skirts
of
the
purple
hoare
)
may
sufficiently
witnesse
.
What
shall
I
tell
you
of
their
prayers
for
the
Deade
,
their
Sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
their
communicating
vnder
one
kinde
,
their
vowes
,
their
forbidding
of
Mariages
,
their
Indulgences
,
their
Purgatorie
,
their
workes
of
Supererogation
,
and
a
number
moe
,
by
which
like
[
](A19953-e18050-b)g
g
Act.
14.25
.
the
Siluer
Smithes
of
Diana
,
they
haue
gotten
their
goods
?
all
which
make
a
goodly
show
of
holinesse
,
to
such
as
are
blinded
with
the
mistes
of
ignorance
,
by
reason
that
the
candle
of
the
word
is
couered
vnder
a
Bushell
,
and
locked
vp
in
the
closet
of
an
vnknowne
tongue
,
but
bring
[
](A19953-e18070-b)h
h
Psal.
105.
Dauids
Lanthorn
to
trie
them
and
you
shall
finde
that
when
they
are
viewed
in
the
light
,
they
wil
proue
like
Gloe-wormes
,
and
Toade-stooles
,
more
like
to
any
thing
then
that
which
they
were
taken
for
:
or
like
[
](A19953-e18090-b)i
i
Solimus
.
the
Apples
of
Sodome
,
which
make
a
goodly
show
a
farre
off
,
but
if
they
be
once
touched
,
they
will
presently
fall
into
dust
;
or
like
those
[
](A19953-e18110-b)k
k
D.
D.
in
his
preface
vpon
Euclid
.
Mathematicall
Showers
,
which
in
the
twilight
seeme
to
bee
golde
or
precious
stones
,
yet
where
the
light
comes
,
proue
nothing
but
lime
&
sand
:
then
their
prayers
vnto
Saints
wil
proue
but
much
babling
:
their
Images
teachers
of
lies
,
their
forbidding
of
mariages
,
doctrines
of
Deuils
:
their
Purgatorie
fire
borrowed
from
the
superstitious
Ethnicks
,
to
keepe
their
Kitchins
hoat
,
their
Masses
,
massacres
of
Soules
,
their
Holy-water
,
Crucifixes
,
Reliques
and
Ragges
of
Saints
,
&c.
beggarly
rudiments
,
base
Marchandise
not
worth
the
cheapning
:
this
they
themselues
know
full
well
,
and
therefore
if
yee
aske
these
Luci●ugae
scripturarum
,
Tertul.
de
resurrectione
Carnis
.
Persius
.
Eckius
Pighius
contro
.
3.
de
scriptura
.
Ludov.
Canonicus
quat.
in
orat
.
hab.
in
Concil.
Trid.
vide
Chem.
in
exam.
Concil.
Trid
,
et
Iuellum
in
defen.
apol.
Cap.
19.
et
.
20.
Si
quis
habent
interpretationem
Romanae
Eccl.
deal
q●o
l●co
scripturae
etiamsi
nec
sciat
nec
intelligat
an
aut
quomodo
eum
scripturis
Conueniat
.
habet
tamen
ipsissimum
dei
verbum
,
Hosius
:
de
expresso
dei
verbo
.
what
warrant
they
haue
from
the
Oracles
of
God
,
Romulidae
Satyri
quid
diâ
Poemata
narrant
?
They
will
tell
you
they
haue
it
by
tradition
,
or
the
Church
hath
ordayned
it
:
or
it
is
not
needefull
to
bring
Scripture
for
a
ground
of
their
Positions
:
which
it
pleaseth
some
of
them
to
call
a
Lesbian
rule
,
and
a
nose
of
waxe
,
and
a
blacke
Gospell
,
and
inkie
Diuinitie
,
and
a
dumbe
Teacher
,
and
a
dead
and
killing
Letter
.
Indeede
,
if
they
can
wrest
any
place
of
Scripture
though
it
be
contrary
to
the
meaning
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
yet
it
must
bee
taken
for
sound
Diuinity
,
because
as
a
great
Cardinall
speakes
:
If
any
man
haue
the
interpretation
of
the
Romish
Church
,
of
any
place
of
Scripture
,
although
hee
know
not
whether
it
agree
with
the
word
of
God
or
no
:
yet
it
is
not
to
be
doubted
,
but
hee
hath
the
very
word
of
God
.
Thus
must
these
expositions
goe
for
sound
Diuinitie
,
marke
them
and
compare
them
with
Iewish
glosses
:
Drinke
yee
all
of
this
,
that
is
not
all
,
but
some
,
to
wit
,
the
Cleargie
,
Mariage
is
honourable
amongst
all
men
,
not
all
,
but
some
,
the
Laietie
:
Cast
not
pearles
before
swine
:
that
is
,
suffer
not
the
people
to
reade
the
Scriptures
in
a
known
tongue
:
Psal.
8.
Thou
hast
put
all
things
in
subiection
vnder
his
feete
,
that
is
,
vnder
the
Popes
feet
:
The
fishes
of
the
Sea
,
that
is
the
Soules
in
Purgatorie
,
The
beasts
of
the
land
,
that
is
the
men
of
this
world
,
Antoni
:
in
Sum.
part.
3.
tit
:
2
2.
c.
5.
The
fowles
of
the
heauen
,
that
is
the
soules
of
the
blessed
which
the
Pope
hath
canonized
,
Here
are
two
swords
,
that
is
,
the
Pope
hath
the
managing
of
both
swordes
,
Ciuill
and
Ecclesiasticall
,
an
exposition
not
altogether
so
harsh
,
as
that
which
[
](A19953-e18360-b)n
n
In
his
aduertisement
to
Pope
Paul
the
Fift
touching
the
Venetians
.
Baronius
brought
of
late
,
to
proue
that
the
Pope
had
authority
not
onely
to
feede
Christs
Sheepe
,
but
also
to
punish
with
death
such
as
resist
his
Papal
dignitie
:
because
hee
which
said
,
[
](A19953-e18380-b)o
o
Ioh.
21.
Peter
feede
my
sheepe
,
said
also
,
[
](A19953-e18400-b)p
p
Act.
10.13
Arise
Peter
and
kill
:
if
he
had
pressed
the
text
a
little
further
,
hee
might
by
the
same
Argument
haue
proued
his
holy
Father
to
bee
an
Anthropophagus
or
Caniball
,
because
it
is
not
simply
sayde
,
Arise
Peter
and
kill
,
but
Arise
Peter
kill
and
eate
,
vnlesse
hee
had
Bellarmines
wit
,
Bellar.
de
Rom.
Pont.
lib.
1.
cap.
12.
who
proueth
the
Popes
Supremacy
,
not
from
the
first
word
kill
,
but
from
the
second
word
Eate
.
But
the
maine
fault
in
Religion
,
which
hastened
Gods
iudgements
vpon
Ierusalem
,
was
her
idolatrie
:
Shee
changed
her
God
:
[
](A19953-e18550-b)r
r
Ier.
2.13
.
She
forsooke
the
fountaine
of
liuing
waters
,
and
digged
vnto
her selfe
euen
broken
pits
which
would
hold
no
water
:
shee
played
the
harlot
vpon
euery
high
mountaine
,
and
vnder
euerie
greene
tree
:
Verse
.
17.
Shee
sayde
vnto
a
tree
,
thou
art
my
Father
,
and
to
a
stone
,
thou
hast
begotten
me
.
Whether
Rome
goe
not
beyond
her
in
this
particular
,
he
that
hath
but
halfe
an
eye
may
plainely
see
,
Virgill
.
Aene.
1.
Cur
natos
toties
crudelis
tu
quoque
falsis
,
Ludis
imaginibus
?
—
Wee
doe
not
reade
of
many
Idols
that
were
famous
amongst
the
Iewes
,
there
was
Ashtereth
the
God
of
the
Sidonians
;
&
Milcome
the
abhomination
of
the
Moabites
,
and
Chemosh
the
abhomination
of
the
children
of
Ammon
,
and
Baal
,
and
a
few
more
:
but
the
Idols
which
Papists
haue
inuented
are
so
many
,
that
Rome
can
scarse
finde
roome
for
placing
them
:
Shee
is
more
like
to
the
old
Gentiles
,
who
did
acknowledge
one
chiefe
Iupiter
,
—
αναξ
ανδρωντε
θεωντε
,
Hominum
rex
atque
deorum
.
And
Iupiter
omnipotens
,
qui
res
hominumque
Deumque
aeternis
regis
imperiis
:
But
hee
had
three
hundred
vnder
him
which
they
worshipped
as
gods
:
Varro
.
though
the
Papists
acknowledge
one
supreame
power
,
yet
are
there
three
hundred
to
whom
they
performe
that
worshippe
which
is
due
onely
vnto
God
,
and
as
they
had
twelue
which
they
counted
greater
gods
,
which
Ennius
containeth
in
these
old
verses
,
Iuno
,
vesta
,
Minerua
,
Ceres
,
Diana
,
Venus
,
Mars
.
Mercurius
,
Iouis
,
Neptunus
,
Vulcanus
,
Apollo
.
Extant
apud
Apulerum
.
et
Natalem
Comitem
.
Sen.
na.
quaest.
lib.
2.
cap.
41.
Whome
they
hold
to
be
of
Gods
Priuie
Councell
:
but
many
lesser
gods
and
goddesses
for
particular
purposes
,
as
for
their
Waters
,
Lympha
,
Varro
.
lib.
1.
de
re
Rustica
.
for
her
Gardens
,
Pomona
for
their
grounds
,
Terminus
,
&c.
So
the
Papists
haue
the
twelue
Apostles
,
which
(
with
the
Platonists
)
they
vse
as
Mediators
betweene
them
&
the
high
God
,
vnto
which
they
haue
added
the
Virgine
Marie
,
thinking
especially
by
her
intercession
to
haue
their
desires
;
as
the
Troians
in
the
Poet
vsed
the
mediation
of
Venus
to
obtaine
fauour
of
Iupiter
.
Now
for
particular
matters
,
there
is
scarse
any
thing
but
they
haue
a
God
or
Goddesse
for
it
:
When
they
are
in
feare
of
the
plague
they
pray
to
Sebastian
,
Lutherus
in
Decalog
.
against
the
falling
sicknesse
to
Valentine
,
against
sodaine
death
to
Christopher
,
against
the
Ring-worm
to
Anthonie
.
Now
then
as
Pythagoras
from
the
print
of
Hercules
his
foot
in
the
games
of
Olimpus
,
did
collect
the
bignesse
of
his
whole
Body
.
So
from
these
few
things
which
haue
beene
spoken
,
you
may
gather
how
farre
Rome
hath
declined
from
her
former
purity
,
and
how
well
shee
may
paralell
with
Ierusalem
in
my
Text.
I
might
take
occasion
to
speake
of
that
preheminence
,
which
the
Pope
chalengeth
ouer
all
Christian
Kings
(
Gods
immediate
Deputies
on
earth
)
by
reason
of
a
supposed
Authority
giuen
vnto
Peter
,
whose
successour
hee
pretenteth
himselfe
to
be
,
the
very
same
argument
in
substance
,
by
which
the
Turke
claimeth
the
Westerne
Empire
,
because
hee
succeedeth
Constantine
:
or
he
that
married
Tullies
wife
,
laid
claime
to
his
learning
,
because
he
had
married
his
executor
:
all
Princes
must
hold
their
scepters
from
him
,
all
nations
must
crouch
downe
before
him
,
and
all
kingdomes
must
doe
him
seruice
:
Heere
Ierusalem
dare
not
stand
out
in
comparison
with
Rome
:
her
hie
Priests
were
neuer
come
to
that
height
of
impudencie
,
as
to
set
vp
their
heades
aboue
the
Lordes
annointed
.
When
Tiberius
obserued
the
base
seruitude
which
the
Romanes
vsed
towards
him
:
hee
could
not
chuse
but
cry
out
,
Tacitus
Annal.
lib.
3.
O
homines
natos
ad
seruitutem
,
hee
that
considereth
how
vilely
&
seruilely
,
she
which
sometime
was
the
Empresse
of
the
world
,
dooth
obey
him
which
is
stiled
a
seruant
of
seruants
,
he
may
well
vse
Tiberius
his
words
:
or
those
of
the
Poet
,
Roma
tibi
quondam
suberant
domini
dominorum
,
Seruorum
serui
nunc
tibi
sunt
domini
.
but
this
is
only
by
the
way
.
From
her
religion
,
let
vs
come
to
her
conuersation
and
manner
of
liuing
.
Ierusalem
was
as
corrupt
in
life
,
as
she
was
in
religion
:
[
](A19953-e19220-b)z
z
Ier.
7.9
.
She
did
steale
,
murder
,
and
commit
adulterie
,
and
sweare
falsly
.
Her
inhabitants
,
[
](A19953-e19240-b)a
a
Cap.
6.13
from
the
least
vnto
the
greatest
,
were
giuen
to
couetousnesse
,
and
from
the
Prophet
vnto
the
Priest
,
they
all
dealt
falsly
.
[
](A19953-e19260-b)b
b
Cap.
2.34
.
In
the
wings
was
found
the
blood
of
the
soules
of
poore
innocents
:
How
farre
Rome
goeth
beyond
Ierusalem
,
euen
in
this
also
we
may
haue
a
little
taste
in
our
holy
English
Catholikes
,
the
remainder
of
the
Romish
Church
,
and
the
only
true
professours
(
if
ye
will
beleeue
them
)
of
the
ancient
faith
in
this
kingdome
:
but
trie
them
by
the
works
of
regeneration
(
the
principall
bodie
of
true
Christianitie
)
and
you
shall
find
,
that
in
prophanation
of
Gods
Sabbath
,
in
swearing
and
blaspheming
,
in
lying
and
cozening
,
in
drunkennesse
and
whoredome
,
in
oppression
,
and
all
vnconscionable
dealings
,
they
are
for
the
most
part
,
the
very
scumme
and
excrements
of
this
land
.
And
why
should
they
make
conscience
of
these
sinnes
,
Venalia
Romae
temlpa
,
sacerdotes
altaria
sacra
,
coronae
,
ignes
thura
preces
Coelum
est
venale
deusque
.
seeing
their
holy
mother
is
as
it
were
a
faire
or
royall
Exchange
,
where
any
sinne
may
bee
bought
at
a
reasonable
rate
.
Nothing
more
common
then
what
doe
you
lacke
,
or
what
will
you
buy
,
&c.
A
pardon
for
your
sinnes
past
,
or
for
any
sinne
you
shall
hereafter
commit
?
a
tolleration
for
common
Stewes
,
for
,
(
but
I
dare
not
name
it
)
a
dispensation
for
incestuous
marriages
,
or
any
thing
els
,
you
shall
haue
it
if
you
can
agree
for
the
price
:
shall
I
say
all
in
a
word
,
Shee
is
a
hell
of
impieties
,
Reu.
18.2
.
a
habitation
of
diuels
,
and
the
hole
of
all
foule
spirits
,
and
a
cage
of
euery
vncleane
and
hatefull
bird
.
And
therfore
I
lesse
maruaile
why
Friar
Mantuan
should
bee
so
bitter
against
her
corruptions
in
his
time
.
Sanctus
ager
scurris
venerabilis
ara
cinaedis
,
Seruit
,
honorandae
diuum
Ganimedibus
aedes
.
Mantuane
.
And
he
saith
further
,
Nulla
hic
arcana
reuelo
,
It
was
no
shriuing
secrets
the
Fryar
did
disclose
,
but
such
things
as
all
the
world
could
witnesse
to
be
true
.
Bernard
Bernardus
.
lib.
4.
de
Consideratone
ad
Eugenium
.
is
more
sharpe
against
the
abuses
of
his
time
(
though
the
rotten
humours
were
but
then
in
gathering
)
when
he
complaineth
that
the
couetous
,
Luxurious
,
Ambitious
,
Incestuous
,
Sacreligious
,
and
all
such
hellish
Monsters
did
flocke
to
Rome
,
to
get
a
warrant
from
the
Apostolicke
Sea
,
for
their
proceedings
.
And
that
they
made
no
more
conscience
of
Sinning
,
then
theeues
after
they
haue
robbed
a
man
by
the
highway
,
are
afraid
to
deuide
the
spoile
.
Curia
tua
recipere
bonos
magis
,
quam
facere
consueuit
,
(
he
speakes
vnto
the
Pope
)
mali
enim
illic
non
proficiunt
sed
boni
deficiunt
.
I
intend
not
now
to
lay
open
her
monsterous
cruelties
and
bloody
massacres
,
of
such
as
truely
professe
the
Gospell
of
Christ
,
in
which
point
she
doth
very
well
resemble
(
Shall
I
say
)
Ierusalem
,
which
killed
the
Peophets
&
stoned
them
that
were
sent
to
her
?
nay
,
rather
old
Rome
vnder
Nero
as
often
as
the
Emperor
gaue
commandement
that
any
should
be
slaine
or
banished
,
Tacitus
.
lib.
14.
Annal.
quoties
fugas
&
caedes
iussit
princeps
,
toties
,
predijs
actae
:
quaeque
rerum
secundarum
olim
nunc
publicae
cladis
insignia
fuere
.
so
often
(
saith
Tacitus
)
did
they
giue
thankes
vnto
God
:
and
those
things
which
in
former
time
had
beene
notes
of
some
prosperous
successe
,
were
now
the
ensignes
of
publike
slaughter
.
Is
not
this
her
custome
at
this
day
?
are
there
any
bloody
butcherings
of
Christs
flocke
,
any
cruell
murthering
of
Christian
Princes
,
by
Romish
Iebusites
,
but
it
shall
bee
receiued
at
Rome
with
Bonefires
and
Hymnes
in
most
triumphant
manner
?
all
which
things
when
I
consider
,
I
am
fully
resolued
that
a
learned
Diuine
of
later
yeares
,
doth
not
speake
of
any
malitious
humor
,
when
hee
saith
that
there
bee
three
points
of
diuinity
,
Caluinus
lib.
4.
Iustit
.
ca.
7.
(
he
calleth
them
Capita
arcana
Theologiae
)
which
go
current
in
Rome
.
The
first
,
that
there
is
no
God
:
the
Second
,
that
whatsoeuer
is
writen
of
Christ
is
lyes
and
deceits
.
The
third
,
that
the
Doctrine
of
the
resurrection
and
of
the
last
iudgement
is
merely
fabulous
,
now
then
this
being
the
case
of
that
great
and
glorious
Citie
,
wee
may
well
collect
,
that
her
horrid
desolation
and
fearefull
downefall
is
at
hand
.
For
there
is
no
state
so
strong
,
no
Citie
so
fenced
,
but
the
sinnes
of
the
people
will
bring
it
vnto
distruction
,
which
is
my
third
and
last
Proposition
out
of
the
second
generall
branch
of
my
text
,
whereof
I
am
now
by
your
patience
to
intreat
.
Proposit
.
3
That
Kingdomes
and
common
wealthes
haue
their
periods
and
downefalls
,
is
a
conclusion
which
the
premises
of
all
former
ages
doe
demonstrate
;
learned
Athens
,
stately
,
Sparta
rich
Babylon
,
victorious
Carthage
,
ancient
Troy
,
proude
Niniue
,
and
a
thousand
more
haue
numbred
their
yeares
:
and
at
this
day
haue
no
stronger
fence
then
Paper
walls
,
to
keepe
their
names
from
obliuion
,
the
great
enemy
of
antiquitie
.
Now
for
the
true
cause
of
their
subuersions
,
it
is
a
truth
,
which
the
greatest
wisards
of
this
world
,
after
much
studie
,
and
many
serious
consultations
which
nature
could
neuer
find
out
.
The
Epicures
attribute
it
to
fortune
the
Stoicts
to
destinie
,
the
Pythagorians
to
numbers
.
Which
last
opinion
Plato
made
such
reckoning
of
,
that
he
will
haue
numbers
to
bee
the
sole
cause
of
the
transmutations
of
common
wealths
.
Whose
words
bee
so
Aenigmaticall
,
Plato
.
lib.
8.
de
rep.
Cicero
.
lib.
7.
Epist
ad
Atticum
.
that
Tullie
makes
them
a
Prouerbe
,
and
Marsilius
Ticinus
inuocateth
not
Oedipus
but
Apollo
to
vnfold
them
.
Arist.
5.
lib.
pollit
.
cap.
12.
Aristotle
(
who
of
all
others
commeth
nearest
vnto
the
trueth
)
makes
the
cause
to
be
a
disharmonie
in
the
body
politicke
,
as
too
much
wealth
of
some
few
,
the
great
miserie
of
many
,
iniurie
,
feare
,
&c.
I
little
maruell
that
heathen
Philosophers
should
shoote
so
wide
,
when
Christians
haue
so
grossely
mistaken
their
marke
.
Bodin
how
wittie
is
hee
in
pleading
for
numbers
?
Bodin
Math.
hist.
cap.
6.
what
vertue
doth
he
attribute
to
7.
or
9.
or
12.
and
the
squares
and
cubiques
.
How
doth
he
shift
himselfe
to
proue
his
opinion
sound
,
by
instances
of
the
most
comon-wealthes
that
haue
bene
hitherto
in
account
,
adding
,
or
detracting
yeres
at
his
pleasure
,
from
the
calculation
of
the
best
Chronologers
,
to
make
the
number
square
or
cubique
,
or
spherical
,
or
at
the
least
,
some
way
consisting
of
7.
or
9.
or
of
three
rootes
or
squares
.
Cardanus
Cardanus
.
hangeth
all
vpon
the
taile
of
the
greater
beare
.
The
common
sort
of
Astrologians
,
referre
it
to
the
planets
and
starres
,
making
such
a
scheme
at
the
first
foundation
of
any
Citie
,
which
made
Varro
(
as
Plutarch
witnesseth
)
so
earnest
with
Taruncius
Firmanus
,
to
enquire
the
opposition
,
and
aspect
of
the
planets
,
when
Rome
was
first
situated
,
thinking
hereby
to
coniecture
how
long
that
Empire
should
endure
.
Copernicus
Copernicus
.
will
haue
the
conuersion
&
motion
of
the
centure
of
his
imaginarie
excentricle
circle
(
which
circle
according
to
him
,
is
not
caused
by
the
heauens
motion
(
for
the
heauens
in
his
opinion
are
vnmoueable
)
but
by
the
earth
,
which
he
will
haue
to
be
continually
wheeled
about
,
to
be
the
cause
of
these
alterations
of
Common-wealths
.
Thus
while
they
groped
in
the
darke
,
they
missed
their
marke
,
Gen.
19.
as
the
Sodomites
did
Lots
doore
,
and
while
they
professed
themselues
wise
,
Rom.
1.22
.
they
became
fooles
.
And
little
maruaile
,
for
the
wisedome
of
this
world
is
foolishnesse
with
God
:
None
of
all
these
haue
happened
on
the
true
cause
,
1.
Cor.
1.
it
is
the
sinnes
of
the
people
which
bringeth
euery
common-wealth
to
ruine
.
And
how
can
it
be
otherwise
?
for
if
thou
lay
more
weight
on
the
roofe
,
then
the
pillars
can
support
,
the
house
must
needes
fall
.
Now
sinne
is
of
such
an
intollerable
weight
,
that
no
house
nor
Citie
,
nor
Common-wealth
can
stand
vnder
it
,
but
it
will
presse
it
downe
,
it
is
a
burden
to
the
whole
earth
,
and
makes
it
reele
to
and
fro
,
Isa.
24.20
.
and
stagger
like
a
drunken
man
:
it
is
a
burden
to
all
the
creatures
,
Rom.
8.22
.
and
maketh
them
grone
and
trauell
in
paine
:
it
is
a
burden
to
God
himselfe
,
which
makes
him
crie
out
in
the
Prophet
against
the
Iewes
,
Amos
2.13
.
That
they
had
pressed
him
with
their
iniquities
,
euen
as
a
cart
is
pressed
with
sheaues
:
it
lay
so
heauie
vpon
Christs
shoulders
,
that
it
made
him
sweat
drops
of
blood
,
Luke
22.44
.
This
burden
of
it selfe
so
heauie
,
like
a
malefactor
that
is
pressed
to
death
,
cries
for
more
weight
,
to
presse
the
sinner
to
the
pit
of
hell
:
it
cals
to
heauen
for
the
burden
of
the
Lord
,
Iere.
23.
that
is
,
for
vengeance
to
be
inflicted
vpon
the
impenitent
sinner
,
God
in
regard
of
his
patience
,
and
long
suffring
,
is
said
to
haue
leaden
heeles
,
hee
commeth
slowly
euen
against
his
will
to
punish
,
but
in
respect
of
his
iustice
,
he
is
said
to
haue
yron
hands
.
He
striketh
with
a
witnesse
,
when
once
hee
begins
to
smite
in
his
proceedings
against
the
sinnes
of
men
,
he
hath
a
double
method
sometimes
,
(
and
this
method
is
most
vsuall
when
he
proceedeth
against
the
sinnes
of
his
children
)
he
comes
to
them
as
he
came
to
Elias
.
1.
King
.
19.
First
he
sendeth
a
mighty
strong
wind
,
to
blow
downe
the
tall
Cedars
,
and
cast
them
to
the
ground
,
as
Paul
was
,
before
he
was
conuerted
.
Then
an
Earth-quake
,
Acts
24.26
.
to
shake
the
flintie
rockes
,
I
meane
the
stonie
hearts
of
men
,
&
to
make
them
tremble
,
as
Felix
did
,
when
Paul
disputed
of
the
iudgment
to
come
,
then
a
fire
to
burne
vp
the
stubble
,
and
consume
the
bryars
,
and
then
(
when
these
forerunners
,
like
Iohn
Baptist
haue
prepared
a
way
for
the
Lord
)
he
comes
himselfe
,
in
a
soft
voice
,
the
gratious
and
sweet
promises
of
the
Gospell
,
to
seale
a
pardon
to
such
,
as
by
the
former
Iudgments
are
deiected
and
humbled
.
And
this
may
bee
tearmed
Gods
Ordo
compositiuus
:
Sometimes
(
and
this
is
more
vsuall
,
especially
when
hee
proceedes
against
the
wicked
)
hee
taketh
a
contrarie
course
:
First
,
he
comes
in
a
soft
and
still
voyce
,
to
wooe
them
to
himselfe
:
But
when
they
harden
their
hearts
,
and
will
not
bee
reclaimed
from
their
euill
wayes
;
then
at
length
he
will
send
a
fire
to
deuoure
them
,
and
an
Earthquake
and
mighty
strong
wind
,
to
scatter
them
away
like
chaffe
from
the
face
of
the
earth
,
Psal.
1.
&
to
blow
them
downe
euen
in
the
bottome
of
hell
;
and
this
I
may
fitly
call
Gods
ordo
resolutiuus
;
it
is
sayd
of
Alexander
,
Q.
Curtius
.
that
when
hee
besieged
a
certaine
City
,
hee
helde
out
a
Lampe
,
proclaiming
a
pardon
to
as
many
as
would
yeeld
themselus
before
the
Lampe
was
burned
:
so
the
Lord
first
holdeth
out
the
Lampe
of
his
word
,
whereby
hee
calleth
them
to
submit
themselues
,
and
giues
them
a
time
to
deliberate
;
if
in
the
meane
time
they
doe
not
yeeld
,
nothing
remaines
but
death
and
destruction
:
it
is
storied
of
Tamberlaine
the
Scythian
,
Stephani
.
Epi.
in
Herod
.
that
whensoeuer
hee
besieged
a
City
,
first
hee
displayed
a
white
flagge
in
token
of
mercy
,
if
they
would
yeeld
themselues
,
the
second
day
a
redde
flagge
threatening
blood
because
they
did
not
in
time
submit
themselues
,
if
they
continued
vntill
the
third
day
,
then
came
out
his
blacke
flacke
menacing
vtter
ruine
and
desolations
;
this
is
Gods
Methode
.
First
he
sets
out
his
white
flagge
of
peace
;
if
this
bee
not
regarded
,
then
comes
his
red
flagge
of
correction
,
though
not
of
destruction
:
if
this
will
take
no
place
with
them
,
then
he
sets
out
his
blacke
flagge
,
Virgil
lib.
6.
Aeneid
.
bella
horrida
bella
,
nothing
but
death
and
desolation
.
Downe
with
it
,
downe
with
it
▪
euen
to
the
ground
,
tribulation
and
anguish
,
fire
and
brimstone
,
storme
and
tempest
,
this
shall
bee
their
portion
to
drinke
.
It
s
long
before
he
be
moued
to
anger
,
but
if
the
coales
of
his
wrath
bee
kindled
;
O
Lord
God
how
terrible
will
this
flame
be
!
it
will
licke
vp
the
sea
like
dust
,
and
melt
the
mountains
like
waxe
,
and
burne
to
the
very
bottome
of
Hell
,
so
that
nothing
in
the
world
will
quench
it
,
but
the
bloud
of
the
Lambe
,
and
the
streaming
teares
of
vnfained
repentance
:
cast
your
eies
to
the
time
of
old
,
for
wee
are
:
Iob.
8.9
.
but
men
of
yesterday
,
and
our
dayes
on
earth
are
like
a
shadow
,
as
Bildad
speaketh
in
Iob
,
and
you
shall
finde
my
conclusion
proued
by
the
occurrents
of
all
ages
.
Sodome
that
fruitfull
and
plentifull
Citie
,
which
was
for
beauty
and
pleasure
like
the
garden
of
God
,
or
as
the
valley
of
Egypt
,
Gene.
19.
as
thou
goest
vnto
Zoar
,
Gene.
13.10
if
the
stinke
of
her
sinnes
ascend
into
heauen
,
shall
bee
conuerted
into
a
stinking
Fen
,
for
an
euerlasting
remembrance
of
her
iniquity
.
Deut.
3.3
.
Iericho
a
goodly
place
,
a
City
of
Palme
trees
,
a
fenced
City
,
whose
walles
reached
vp
to
heauen
:
Iohn
6.21
.
if
shee
be
withall
a
sinnefull
and
an
idolatrous
City
,
shee
and
all
that
is
in
her
,
both
man
and
woman
,
young
and
olde
,
Oxe
and
Asse
,
shall
bee
vtterly
destroyed
.
Babylon
,
which
Aristotle
Arist.
Polit.
for
the
greatenesse
cals
rather
a
Region
then
a
City
,
the
Empresse
of
the
earth
,
the
Princesse
of
Cities
,
the
glory
of
Kingdomes
,
the
beauty
and
pride
of
the
Chaldeans
,
which
said
,
I
sit
as
Queene
,
I
am
no
widdow
,
and
shall
see
no
mourning
:
If
shee
continued
in
her
sinnes
,
shall
bee
as
the
destruction
of
God
in
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
,
Isa.
13.
it
shall
not
bee
inhabited
for
euer
,
neyther
shall
it
bee
dwelled
in
from
generation
to
generation
,
but
Zim
shall
dwell
there
,
and
their
houses
shall
bee
full
of
Ochim
,
Ostriches
shall
dwell
there
,
and
the
Satyrs
shall
dance
there
,
and
Iim
shall
cry
in
their
Pallaces
,
&
Dragons
in
their
pleasant
places
:
so
that
a
man
shall
bee
more
precious
then
gold
,
euen
a
man
aboue
the
wedge
of
the
gold
of
Ophyr
:
It
is
not
her
powerfull
state
,
nor
rich
Citizens
,
nor
strong
walles
,
nor
high
Towers
,
nor
magnificall
buildings
,
that
shall
free
her
from
Gods
punishing
hand
:
nay
,
Ierusalem
in
my
Text
,
the
Vine
that
Gods
right
hand
had
planted
,
the
Citie
of
the
Great
King
,
the
holy
place
of
the
Tabernacle
of
the
most
high
,
the
beauty
of
Israel
,
the
glory
of
Nations
,
Lament.
1.
and
Princesses
of
prouinces
,
if
she
will
not
bee
awaked
from
her
sinnes
,
shall
not
be
much
better
then
the
destruction
of
Sodome
and
the
miserable
desolation
of
doleful
Gomorrah
,
her
walls
shall
bee
turned
into
heapes
of
dust
,
her
houses
consumed
,
her
Temple
burned
,
her
treasury
empty
,
her
in
habitants
killed
:
Quis
Cladem
illius
vrbis
quis
funera
flaetu
explicet
.
What
heart
is
so
flinty
which
will
molt
into
teares
,
when
it
shall
thinke
of
the
miserie
which
did
twise
befall
this
one
Citie
.
Now
all
[
](A19953-e20740-b)c
c
1.
Cor.
10.11
.
these
punishments
came
vpon
Vse
.
1
them
for
an
ensample
and
are
written
to
admonish
you
vpon
whence
the
ends
of
the
world
are
come
,
that
you
should
bee
armed
and
warned
,
that
you
should
see
,
and
fore-see
,
before
the
time
be
past
,
Cicero
.
Phil.
1.
vt
quorum
facta
imitamini
eorum
exitum
per
horrescatis
,
that
if
you
tread
in
their
footsteps
you
should
remember
their
downfals
,
God
is
the
same
God
still
,
he
is
as
strong
as
euer
he
was
,
he
is
as
iust
to
reuenge
as
euer
hee
was
,
his
arme
is
not
shortned
,
his
strength
is
not
abated
,
his
wrath
is
not
turned
away
from
sinne
,
but
his
hand
is
stretched
out
stil
.
Sinne
may
bud
in
the
spring
but
it
withereth
before
Haruest
:
it
may
flowrish
for
a
time
,
but
godlinesse
endureth
vnto
the
end
.
When
the
wicked
thinketh
himselfe
the
surest
,
when
he
saith
vnto
his
soule
,
Peace
,
Peace
,
and
Soule
,
take
thy
rest
.
Euen
then
there
is
but
one
steppe
betweene
him
and
destruction
:
beleeue
the
kingly
Prophet
,
he
speaketh
it
of
his
owne
experience
,
I
my selfe
haue
seene
the
vngodly
in
great
prosperity
,
Psa.
37.36.37
and
flowrishing
like
a
greene
bay
tree
;
what
followeth
,
I
went
by
,
and
loe
,
he
was
gone
;
I
sought
him
,
and
his
place
could
no
more
be
found
.
Behold
his
countenance
,
he
is
but
as
the
grasse
vpon
the
house
top
,
which
withereth
before
it
bee
pluckt
vp
,
Psal
73.18
.
or
as
the
sound
vpon
the
water
,
or
as
a
garment
freted
with
mothes
:
O
how
suddenly
doth
he
fade
,
perish
,
and
come
to
a
fearefull
end
:
euen
as
a
dreame
vanisheth
when
as
one
awaketh
.
Plut.
in
vitae
Pyrrhi
.
idem
in
vita
Aninib
.
It
is
noted
of
Pyrrhus
and
Hanniball
,
that
they
could
quickly
conquer
a
Citie
,
but
they
could
neuer
keepe
that
which
they
had
once
subdued
.
I
little
maruaile
,
that
the
wicked
haue
great
facility
in
heaping
vp
of
riches
,
but
I
should
thinke
it
strange
,
if
they
could
keepe
them
till
the
third
generation
.
Their
wealth
is
like
a
snowball
,
gathered
in
the
fall
,
not
without
labour
and
cold
fingers
:
and
anon
after
it
is
melted
with
the
Sunne
,
or
washed
away
with
the
raigne
.
But
alas
,
alas
beloued
,
I
may
heare
take
vp
the
Prophets
complaint
.
Isa.
53.1
.
Who
will
beleeue
our
report
?
my
words
seeme
vnto
many
,
as
Lots
Sermon
did
to
his
sonnes
in-law
,
when
hee
foretold
the
destruction
of
Sodome
,
who
seemed
as
though
he
had
mocked
,
Gen.
19.14
.
Giue
mee
leaue
a
little
to
speake
plainely
:
I
came
not
to
sing
vnto
you
a
gloria
patri
without
a
sicut
erat
,
to
flatter
you
with
a
smooth
tale
,
as
to
lay
pillowes
vnder
your
elbowes
,
whereby
you
may
securely
sleepe
in
your
sinnes
,
Multi
sunt
Placentini
,
&
Landenses
pauci
Veronenses
,
many
come
hither
from
Placentia
,
and
Landa
,
but
few
from
Veron
.
I
doubt
not
but
yee
will
all
with
your
tongues
confesse
my
Proposition
to
be
true
,
but
the
practise
of
the
most
denyeth
it
:
it
is
the
sins
of
the
people
that
bringeth
euery
common
wealth
to
ruine
.
Euery
one
wil
say
as
much
,
but
yet
in
our
practise
wee
hold
an
other
strange
Axiom
that
goeth
for
currant
amongst
vs
:
it
is
the
sinnes
of
the
people
that
vpholdeth
euery
Common
wealth
:
conscionable
and
true
,
and
faithful
dealing
,
which
my
Prophet
as
I
suppose
,
nameth
,
by
executing
of
iudgement
and
seeking
of
the
Truth
,
is
like
an
Almanacke
out
of
date
,
euery
man
hath
found
out
a
new
way
,
both
to
maintaine
and
better
his
estate
,
this
old
way
is
to
farre
about
.
The
blood-sucking
Vsurer
,
instead
of
lending
and
expecting
nothing
againe
,
a
lesson
which
our
Sauiour
would
haue
him
to
take
out
,
if
hee
looke
for
the
true
treasure
,
doth
eat
and
consume
his
needy
Brother
,
euen
as
Pharaos
leane
and
il-fauored
Kine
deuoured
the
other
.
This
is
the
way
hee
taketh
to
support
his
house
,
God
loues
not
such
an
Arethmatician
as
spendeth
his
whole
study
about
Multiplication
,
Regula
falsitatis
.
and
the
Rule
of
falshood
,
and
can
neuer
learne
,
the
practise
of
Diuision
.
The
Lawyer
who
should
employ
his
best
knowledge
in
vniting
the
knots
of
the
law
,
and
should
bee
an
Atropos
to
cut
off
the
thread
of
controuersies
betweene
man
and
man
:
feedeth
his
Client
with
golden
hopes
,
and
sugred
wordes
,
and
in
the
meane
time
like
Lachesis
draweth
in
length
the
thread
of
contention
,
vsing
vnnecessary
delayes
,
and
posting
of
the
matters
from
Court
to
Court
,
Tearme
to
Tearme
,
yeare
to
yeare
,
not
vnlike
the
cogging
Surgeon
,
who
in
hope
of
greater
gaine
doth
poyson
the
wound
,
that
it
may
be
longer
in
curing
,
or
(
if
I
may
vse
a
homely
comparison
)
like
the
waggish
Boy
in
the
streetes
,
who
when
hee
seeth
two
dogs
snarling
and
grinning
one
at
another
for
a
bone
,
is
neuer
at
rest
till
(
for
his
owne
pleasure
,
but
little
for
their
profite
)
hee
hath
brought
them
a
rictu
ad
morsum
,
to
trie
their
right
by
their
teeth
,
til
at
length
the
weaker
bee
enforced
to
resigne
vp
his
right
to
the
stronger
:
this
is
a
principall
plot
to
maintaine
his
estate
.
The
Citizen
that
liueth
on
his
trade
,
is
like
to
the
idolatrous
Iewes
in
the
Psalmist
,
which
worship
the
Images
of
Canaan
;
Canaan
signifieth
a
Marchant
,
and
what
is
the
Marchants
Image
(
saith
Luther
)
but
Denarius
the
Crosse
.
This
hee
maketh
such
reckning
of
,
as
that
he
careth
not
for
making
shipwracke
,
not
of
a
crased
,
wodden
vessell
,
but
of
a
good
conscience
,
so
that
hee
may
obtaine
it
:
hee
selleth
dayes
and
months
,
and
yeares
at
a
higher
rate
then
his
best
stuffes
;
if
his
wares
bee
too
light
,
false
ballances
must
make
vp
the
weight
,
if
too
bad
,
too
deare
,
a
false
oath
must
make
a
mends
for
both
.
The
country
Landlord
(
for
though
I
speake
in
Ierusalem
,
yet
I
do
not
doubt
but
some
of
euery
quarter
of
Iudah
doth
heare
mee
,
whome
the
Lord
hath
endowed
with
ample
possessions
that
hee
should
bee
as
it
were
Pater
Patriae
,
an
vpholder
of
his
Country
,
a
maintainer
of
iustice
,
a
scourge
of
vice
,
a
protector
of
Religion
,
a
shelter
for
the
distressed
to
defend
them
from
the
rage
of
oppressors
,
as
the
[
](A19953-e21220-b)a
a
Xenocrates
apud
Aelianum
.
var.
hist.
lib.
13.
cap.
31.
Philosopher
did
the
Sparrow
that
fled
into
his
bosome
from
the
talentes
of
the
Hawke
.
What
doth
he
?
he
rayseth
his
rentes
,
wringeth
his
Tenants
like
spunges
,
shaketh
by
some
new
deuise
the
ancient
custome
;
if
this
will
not
serue
his
turne
,
he
farmeth
out
his
liuings
(
especially
in
such
a
yeare
as
this
,
when
he
should
breake
his
bread
to
the
poore
at
his
owne
dores
)
and
taketh
a
roome
in
this
City
,
or
some
other
,
where
he
may
liue
with
much
ease
,
little
charges
,
and
small
credite
,
this
he
counteth
an
especiall
meanes
to
hold
vp
his
estate
.
If
I
haue
beene
in
the
bosomes
of
many
of
you
,
blame
your selues
,
for
mine
owne
part
I
may
truly
say
to
euery
particular
that
thinketh
himselfe
touched
,
as
our
Sauiour
saide
to
the
woman
that
was
taken
in
Adulterie
;
Ioh.
8.11
.
Hath
no
man
condemned
thee
?
neither
doe
I.
Marry
,
withall
I
adde
that
of
Iohn
,
1.
Ioh.
3.20
.
If
thine
owne
conscience
condem
not
hee
,
God
is
greater
then
thy
conscience
,
and
knoweth
all
things
;
and
therefore
I
dismisse
thee
with
that
speech
of
our
Sauiour
spoken
to
the
Criple
,
that
was
newly
restored
to
his
feet
;
Goe
thy
way
and
sinne
no
more
,
Ioh.
5.14
.
lest
a
worse
thing
come
vnto
thee
.
What
shall
I
say
more
?
Runne
through
each
particular
Estate
and
calling
,
and
you
shal
find
by
the
practise
,
thogh
not
of
all
,
God
forbid
that
I
should
thinke
so
,
I
know
there
are
in
euery
profession
which
make
a
conscience
of
their
wayes
,
and
in
all
their
actions
set
God
before
their
eyes
,
yet
of
the
most
part
,
that
fraudulent
and
deceitfull
dealing
,
or
some
other
vnlawfull
meanes
,
is
thought
the
most
expedite
and
beaten
way
for
supporting
them
.
Few
will
let
this
conceit
sinke
into
their
heads
,
that
sinne
is
the
meanes
that
bringeth
euery
Estate
to
ruine
,
the
Preacher
may
tell
them
as
much
,
but
they
will
belieue
him
at
their
leasure
;
in
the
meane
time
,
they
wil
still
runne
on
their
olde
Bias
;
the
husbandman
may
labour
in
weeding
those
grounds
,
but
still
they
bring
forth
briars
to
entangle
and
nettles
to
sting
others
:
the
Gardner
may
busie
himself
in
pruning
those
vines
,
but
still
they
bring
forth
sowre
grapes
,
such
as
will
set
the
teeth
of
Gods
children
on
edge
.
Gods
shepheards
may
watch
continually
about
their
flockes
;
Ier.
2.
yet
like
swift
Dromidaries
they
runne
by
their
wayes
,
and
like
the
wilde
Asse
vsed
to
the
wildernesse
,
which
snuffeth
the
wind
by
occasion
at
her
pleasure
,
as
the
Prophet
speakes
;
they
canot
bee
kept
from
going
astray
.
Euery
one
can
bee
angry
if
his
worldly
purpose
be
crossed
neuer
so
little
,
but
few
or
none
will
say
with
Dauid
;
it
greeueth
me
when
●
see
the
transgressors
,
because
they
keepe
not
thy
law
:
Many
can
weepe
and
commend
plenty
of
teares
,
when
any
worldly
calamity
doth
befall
them
,
but
few
or
none
can
shed
one
teare
,
Misere
terendo
oculos
(
as
he
speaks
in
the
Comedy
)
for
their
sinnes
,
much
lesse
weepe
bitterly
as
Peter
did
,
Math.
26.
or
haue
their
eyes
gush
out
with
water
,
because
other
men
keepe
not
Gods
lawes
,
Psal.
119.
with
Dauid
many
will
sing
to
the
Viole
,
and
inuent
to
themselues
instruments
of
musicke
like
Dauid
as
the
Israelites
did
.
Amos.
6.5
.
But
few
will
say
with
him
,
Psal.
119.143
.
All
my
delight
is
in
thy
commaundements
;
Many
will
say
,
with
those
good
fellowes
,
Come
&
bring
wine
,
and
wee
will
fill
our selues
with
strong
drinke
,
and
to
morrow
shall
be
as
this
day
,
Isa.
56.12
and
much
more
abundant
But
fewe
or
none
will
say
with
those
good
professors
,
Come
&
let
vs
goe
vp
to
the
mountaine
of
the
Lord
,
and
to
the
house
of
the
God
of
Iacob
,
and
he
will
teach
vs
his
lawes
,
Isa.
2.3
.
and
we
will
walke
in
his
paths
.
I
thinke
I
cannot
truely
say
with
Hosea
,
that
the
Lord
hath
a
controuersie
with
the
inhabitants
of
this
land
,
because
there
is
no
knowledge
of
God
in
the
land
.
For
our
heads
are
not
so
sicke
,
as
our
hearts
are
heauie
:
Isa.
1.5
.
I
meane
our
heads
are
not
so
void
of
knowledge
,
as
our
hearts
are
of
obedience
,
but
I
dare
boldly
say
,
that
which
followeth
:
By
swearing
and
lying
,
and
killing
,
and
stealing
,
and
whoring
,
Hos.
4.2
.
they
breake
forth
,
and
blood
toucheth
blood
.
Wil
you
heare
the
iudgements
annexed
in
the
subsequent
words
:
Therefore
shall
the
land
mourne
,
and
euery
one
that
dwelleth
therein
,
shall
be
cut
off
.
This
is
a
terrible
curse
,
&
he
that
dwelleth
in
heauen
,
still
auert
it
from
vs
,
but
yet
it
is
a
conclusion
which
the
Lord
vseth
to
inferre
vpon
such
premises
.
Giue
me
leaue
ro
repeat
a
parable
vnto
you
,
Isa.
5.1.2.3
.
&c.
My
beloued
had
a
vineyard
in
a
very
fruitfull
hill
,
and
he
hedged
it
,
and
gathered
the
stones
out
of
it
,
and
hee
planted
it
with
the
best
plants
;
and
hee
built
a
Tower
in
the
midst
,
and
made
a
winepresse
therein
.
The
Prophet
in
that
place
applieth
it
to
the
land
of
Iudah
,
Surely
the
vineyard
of
the
Lord
of
hosts
,
is
the
land
of
Israel
,
and
the
men
of
Iudah
,
are
his
pleasant
plants
:
me
thinkes
I
may
not
vnfitly
apply
it
vnto
this
Island
.
Surely
the
vineyard
of
the
Lord
of
hosts
is
the
land
of
Britaine
,
and
the
men
of
this
land
are
his
pleasant
plants
,
Now
therefore
,
O
ye
inhabitants
of
this
and
,
iudge
I
pray
you
,
betweene
him
and
his
vineyard
,
what
could
he
haue
done
vnto
it
,
that
hee
hath
not
done
?
Hee
hath
planted
it
with
his
own
right
hand
,
hee
hath
so
hedged
it
about
with
his
heauenly
prouidence
,
that
the
wild
boare
out
of
the
woods
cannot
roote
it
vp
,
nor
they
that
goe
by
,
pull
off
his
grapes
.
Hee
hath
watered
it
most
abundantly
with
the
dew
of
heauen
:
he
hath
gathered
the
stones
of
Popery
and
superstition
out
of
it
;
he
hath
set
the
winepresse
of
his
word
therein
:
he
hath
giuen
it
a
Tower
,
euen
a
king
as
a
strong
tower
against
his
enemies
,
whose
raigne
the
Lord
continue
ouer
vs
,
if
it
bee
his
pleasure
,
as
long
as
the
moone
knoweth
her
course
,
&
the
sun
his
going
down
and
let
all
that
loue
the
peace
of
Britaine
,
say
Amen
.
Now
hee
hath
long
expected
that
it
shuld
bring
forth
grapes
,
but
behold
it
bringeth
foorth
wild
grapes
.
He
looked
for
iudgement
,
but
behold
oppression
,
for
righteousnesse
,
but
loe
a
crying
.
These
were
the
sinnes
of
Ierusalem
,
and
you
know
her
iudgments
,
he
that
was
Ierusalems
God
,
is
Britaines
God
too
,
and
therfore
if
shee
paralell
Ierusalem
in
her
iniquities
,
let
her
take
heed
she
tast
not
of
her
plagues
;
God
though
he
hath
not
yet
begun
to
punish
her
in
his
fury
yet
hath
he
sundry
times
shaked
his
rod
of
correction
ouer
her
,
if
this
will
not
worke
amendment
,
her
iudgement
must
be
the
greater
.
Fearefull
was
the
case
of
Samaria
,
whom
Gods
punishments
could
not
moue
to
repentance
.
I
haue
giuen
you
cleannesse
of
teeth
in
al
your
Cities
,
Amos.
4.
and
scarcenesse
of
Bread
in
all
your
places
,
yet
haue
yee
not
returned
vnto
me
saith
the
Lord
God
.
I
haue
with
holden
the
raine
from
you
when
there
was
yet
three
moneths
to
the
haruest
,
and
I
caused
it
to
ruine
vpon
one
Citie
,
and
brought
a
drought
vpon
another
,
yet
haue
yee
not
returned
vnto
me
saith
the
Lord
.
Pestilence
haue
I
sent
amongst
you
after
the
manner
of
Egipt
,
and
yet
ye
haue
not
returned
vnto
me
saith
the
Lord
.
I
haue
smitten
you
with
,
blasting
and
mildew
,
&c.
yet
ye
haue
not
returned
vnto
me
saith
the
Lord
God
.
The
Lord
hath
not
hitherto
dealt
with
vs
after
our
sinnes
,
nor
plagued
vs
according
to
the
multitude
of
our
iniquities
,
yet
he
hath
made
it
manifest
that
he
is
displeased
with
vs
:
His
mercy
hath
pulled
backe
his
hand
from
drawing
his
sword
of
vengeance
against
vs
,
yet
hee
hath
left
vs
sundry
tokens
that
hee
is
angred
with
our
sinnes
.
It
is
not
long
since
that
the
heauens
were
made
as
brasse
,
Deut.
28.23
.
and
the
Earth
as
yron
,
nay
,
the
very
waters
became
as
yron
or
as
brasse
so
that
neither
the
heauens
from
aboue
,
nor
the
earth
,
or
water
from
below
did
aford
comforts
for
the
seruice
of
man
.
This
extraordinary
cold
distemperature
of
the
ayre
might
by
an
Antiperistasis
haue
kindled
some
heate
of
zeale
&
deuotion
in
our
brests
;
when
it
had
not
the
expected
effect
,
Psal.
105.16
then
he
Called
for
a
dearth
vpon
the
land
,
and
destroied
our
prouision
of
bread
:
euen
such
a
famine
,
that
if
we
were
not
releeued
from
forraine
countries
,
Ten
women
might
bake
their
bread
in
one
Ouen
,
as
the
Lord
speaketh
,
Leuit.
26.26
.
But
all
this
hath
not
brought
vs
vpon
our
knees
,
nor
humbled
our
soules
before
our
God
,
therefore
once
againe
,
he
hath
put
life
in
his
messenger
of
death
,
and
set
him
on
foote
,
which
heretofore
of
late
yeres
hath
raged
in
this
city
,
like
a
man
of
warre
,
and
like
a
gyant
refreshed
with
wine
,
and
bestirred
himselfe
(
though
not
with
the
like
violence
)
almost
in
euery
part
of
this
kingdome
:
Psal.
91.6
.
I
meane
the
pestilence
that
walketh
in
the
darkenesse
,
and
the
sicknesse
that
hath
killed
many
thousands
at
noone
day
:
all
these
are
infallible
tokens
that
he
is
offended
with
our
sinnes
:
Howbeit
he
is
so
mercifull
that
he
will
not
suffer
his
whole
displeasure
as
yet
to
arise
,
—
Horum
si
singula
duras
Flectere
non
possunt
,
poterint
tamen
omnia
,
mentes
.
If
each
of
these
by
themselues
cannot
preuaile
with
vs
,
yet
if
they
be
all
put
together
,
they
may
serue
(
as
a
threefold
cord
)
to
draw
vs
vnto
repentance
.
If
these
be
not
of
force
but
still
wee
continue
to
blow
vp
the
coales
of
his
anger
,
then
let
vs
know
for
a
certainty
,
that
they
are
the
forewarners
of
a
greater
euill
,
as
the
cracking
of
the
house
is
a
forewarning
of
his
fall
:
these
bee
but
the
flashing
lightnings
,
the
thunderbolt
will
come
after
.
The
cloud
that
is
long
in
gathering
,
will
make
the
greater
storme
:
he
is
all
this
while
in
fetting
his
stroke
,
that
hee
may
giue
the
sorer
blow
,
Eurum
ad
se
Zephirumque
vocat
;
hee
is
in
bringing
the
windes
out
of
his
treasures
,
that
he
may
rain
vpon
our
heads
a
showre
of
vengeance
which
shall
bee
the
portion
of
al
the
vngodly
to
drink
.
I
beganne
like
a
Barrabas
,
I
will
not
end
like
Boanarges
:
my
song
had
an
Exordium
of
mercy
,
I
am
loath
to
bring
for
an
Epilogue
a
thunderclap
of
iudgment
.
Wherefore
(
my
beloued
Brethren
)
now
that
you
see
the
true
causes
of
the
ruines
of
euery
common-wealth
and
the
iudgement
that
hangeth
ouer
your
heads
(
like
Damocles
his
sword
)
for
our
iniquities
;
flatter
your selues
no
longer
in
your
own
sinnes
,
but
turne
vnto
him
by
speedy
and
vnfained
repentance
,
that
hee
may
repent
him
of
the
euill
,
&
turne
away
his
plagues
from
you
:
let
the
wanton
leaue
his
dallying
,
and
the
drunkard
his
carrowsing
,
and
the
Vsurer
his
biting
,
and
the
swearer
his
blaspheming
,
and
the
oppressor
his
grinding
,
and
euery
one
amend
one
in
time
,
before
the
Lords
wrath
bee
further
kindled
:
then
will
the
Lord
bee
mercifull
vnto
this
land
:
hee
will
quicklie
turne
the
sowre
lookes
of
an
angry
and
sinne
reuenging
Iudge
,
into
the
smiling
countenance
of
a
mild
and
gentle
Father
.
Hee
will
take
the
rodde
which
he
hath
prepared
for
you
,
and
burne
it
in
the
fire
.
These
plagues
which
doe
hang
ouer
you
for
your
iniquities
,
he
will
blow
away
with
the
breath
of
his
nostrils
,
as
hee
did
the
Egyptian
Grashoppers
into
the
red
sea
:
he
will
command
his
destroying
Angell
to
put
vp
his
sword
into
the
sheath
,
he
will
open
the
windowes
of
heauen
,
and
power
downe
a
blessing
vpon
you
without
measure
.
Then
shall
you
be
blessed
in
the
Citie
and
blessed
in
the
field
,
blessed
at
your
going
out
,
and
blessed
at
your
comming
in
,
and
whatsoeuer
you
put
your
hands
vnto
shall
be
blessed
;
your
sonnes
shall
[
](A19953-e22090-b)a
a
Psa.
129.4
.
grow
vp
as
Oliue
branches
,
and
your
daughters
shall
be
as
the
[
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b
Psal.
144.
polished
corners
of
the
Temple
.
Your
grounds
shall
so
abound
with
grane
that
the
tillers
shall
laugh
and
sing
;
your
garners
shall
be
full
and
plenteous
with
all
manner
of
store
[
](A19953-e22130-b)c
c
Ioel.
2.24
.
your
presses
shall
abound
with
Oyle
and
wine
,
your
sheepe
shall
bring
forth
thousands
,
and
tenne
thousands
in
your
fields
;
Euery
thing
shall
prosper
,
nothing
shall
stoppe
the
current
of
Gods
blessings
,
there
shall
be
no
decay
,
nor
leading
into
captiuity
,
and
no
complayning
in
your
streetes
;
and
which
is
better
then
all
●hese
,
hee
will
giue
you
faithfull
&
painefull
Pastors
to
feede
you
,
his
spirite
to
comfort
you
,
his
word
to
instruct
you
,
his
wisedome
to
direct
you
,
his
Angels
to
watch
ouer
you
,
his
grace
to
assist
you
,
and
in
a
word
,
He
will
be
your
God
,
and
you
shall
be
his
people
:
Esther
.
6.9
thus
shall
it
be
done
vnto
all
those
whome
the
King
of
heauen
shall
honour
:
so
that
all
the
world
shal
wonder
at
your
felicity
,
&
say
,
Blessed
be
the
Lord
which
taketh
pleasure
in
the
prosperity
of
his
seruants
,
&
happy
are
the
people
that
bee
in
such
a
case
,
yea
blessed
are
al
they
which
haue
the
Lord
for
their
God
;
thus
wil
he
be
with
you
,
and
direct
you
in
the
desert
of
this
world
,
till
he
bring
you
into
a
faire
and
Goodly
place
,
the
promised
land
,
a
land
that
floweth
with
better
things
then
aboundance
of
Milke
and
Honey
,
the
celestiall
Paradise
,
the
heauenly
Canaan
,
the
kingdome
of
glory
prepared
for
you
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
,
euen
that
kingdome
where
the
King
is
verity
,
the
Lawes
charity
,
the
Angels
your
company
,
the
Peace
felicitie
,
the
life
eternity
.
To
this
kingdom
,
the
God
of
al
mercy
bring
vs
for
his
sake
that
bought
vs
with
his
owne
blood
,
to
whom
with
the
Father
and
the
holy
Spirit
,
three
persons
in
trinitie
,
and
one
God
in
vnitie
,
be
ascribed
all
honor
&
glory
,
power
and
Maiestie
,
both
now
and
for
euermore
Amen
.
FINIS
.