A
SERMON
Preached
at
St.
Maries
,
in
Oxford
.
PSAL.
1.
3.
He
shall
be
like
a
tree
planted
by
the
riuers
of
waters
,
that
bringeth
forth
his
fruit
in
his
season
.
THat
which
[
a
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a
Westmonasteriensis
.
Stories
report
of
a
strange
childe
,
vnited
in
heart
and
breast
,
but
diuided
in
the
vpper
parts
;
hauing
one
face
alwayes
laughing
,
and
the
other
alwayes
weeping
,
may
serue
as
a
fit
embleme
and
liuely
image
of
this
sacred
hymne
:
which
being
vnited
together
in
the
whole
,
but
diuided
in
the
parts
,
seemes
as
it
were
to
haue
two
faces
;
wherof
the
one
is
alwayes
lightsome
with
the
rayes
of
gladnesse
,
the
other
alwayes
clouded
with
sorrow
and
euerlasting
horror
.
And
as
there
are
onely
two
places
and
ends
of
our
iourney
,
whereunto
wee
must
all
repaire
,
after
our
long
pilgrimage
here
vpon
this
bale
of
earth
,
heauen
and
hell
,
so
likewise
are
there
onely
two
sorts
and
kindes
of
people
which
must
trauaile
in
the
same
,
the
reprobate
and
regenerate
;
the
habits
and
condition
of
both
which
are
here
described
:
of
the
one
,
in
the
three
first
;
of
the
other
,
in
the
two
latter
;
and
of
both
together
,
in
the
last
verse
of
this
Psalme
.
An
Epitome
of
which
two
sorts
of
people
was
heretofore
represented
vnto
vs
,
in
Abel
and
Caine
,
Sarah
and
Hagar
,
Isaac
and
Ismael
,
Iacob
and
Esau
;
and
are
O
how
glorious
are
the
titles
,
which
are
said
of
thee
thou
citie
of
God!
But
of
the
other
it
may
be
said
;
O
how
glorious
are
the
titles
which
thou
sayest
of
thy selfe
,
O
citie
of
the
world
!
But
hearken
,
I
beseech
you
,
with
reuerence
,
what
the
holy
Prophet
saith
of
them
both
in
this
Psalme
:
the
one
(
saith
he
)
is
as
chaffe
which
the
winde
driues
away
,
but
the
other
is
blessed
,
and
shall
be
like
a
tree
planted
by
the
riuers
of
waters
,
which
shall
bring
forth
his
fruit
in
due
season
.
In
which
description
of
the
prosperitie
of
the
godly
,
there
are
two
parts
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
narration
,
and
an
exornation
;
the
narration
in
the
two
former
verses
,
the
exornation
in
the
third
which
I
now
haue
read
vnto
you
.
Where
,
mee
thinkes
,
not
onely
the
person
here
described
,
in
my
Text
,
but
my
Text
it selfe
,
may
fitly
be
resembled
vnto
a
Tree
:
the
branches
of
my
Text
are
like
the
branches
of
trees
at
this
time
of
the
yeere
,
full
laden
with
faire
and
goodly
fruit
.
The
chiefe
materiall
of
which
the
body
and
branches
of
this
tree
are
compounded
,
is
a
Proposition
,
which
containeth
in
it
a
Description
,
and
a
Comparison
,
or
rather
,
a
comparatiue
description
of
the
life
of
a
regenerate
man
,
vnto
the
life
of
a
flourishing
and
fruitfull
tree
.
The
parts
of
this
proposition
are
in
number
foure
:
first
the
Subiect
;
secondly
,
the
Copula
;
thirdly
,
the
Attribute
;
and
fourthly
,
the
Adiuncts
of
this
attribute
.
The
subiect
of
this
Proposition
,
and
of
all
these
attributes
here
in
my
text
,
is
the
Pronoune
of
the
third
person
,
hee
,
by
which
may
be
vnderstood
and
implied
three
persons
;
viz.
Christ
,
the
Church
,
and
the
righteous
man
.
The
Copula
is
the
Verbe
substantiue
,
erit
:
for
so
reade
the
seuentie
,
Arius
Montanus
,
Vatablus
,
and
the
Latine
vulgar
,
onely
Iunius
,
est
,
the
matter
being
of
no
consequence
▪
the
Hebritians
vsing
these
two
tenses
promiscuously
one
for
the
other
.
The
attribute
is
a
similitude
or
resemblance
,
like
a
tree
.
The
adiuncts
of
this
attribute
are
these
,
planted
,
by
the
riuers
of
water
,
which
shall
bring
forth
his
fruit
in
due
season
.
All
which
,
being
ioyntly
annexed
vnto
the
principall
attribute
,
like
a
tree
,
doe
make
it
perfect
,
and
absolute
,
and
are
together
with
their
principall
attribute
,
to
be
referred
to
the
subiect
(
he
,
)
who
as
he
is
a
man
,
is
likened
to
a
tree
;
as
he
is
a
man
regenerate
,
is
likened
to
a
tree
planted
;
as
hee
is
a
man
regenerate
by
the
waters
of
Baptisme
,
and
the
fountaine
of
Gods
graces
,
is
likened
to
a
tree
planted
by
the
riuers
of
waters
:
his
actions
are
compared
to
the
effects
of
trees
;
his
working
,
to
bringing
forth
;
his
workes
to
the
fruit
;
the
time
of
his
working
and
labour
in
his
vocation
,
to
the
due
season
of
the
yeere
.
He
shall
be
like
,
&c.
]
Marke
,
I
beseech
you
,
the
apparant
Climax
,
or
gradation
in
this
text
,
of
euery
attribute
one
aboue
another
,
each
adding
a
grace
,
or
degree
of
perfection
to
the
other
.
He
,
the
righteous
man
may
be
like
vnto
a
tree
,
and
yet
not
like
vnto
a
tree
planted
:
planted
he
may
be
,
and
yet
not
by
the
riuers
of
waters
:
by
the
riuers
of
waters
he
may
be
planted
,
and
yet
not
bring
forth
:
bring
forth
hee
may
with
the
Fig-tree
in
the
Gospell
,
leafes
,
and
yet
not
bring
forth
fruit
:
fruit
he
may
bring
forth
,
and
yet
not
in
season
,
much
lesse
in
due
season
.
But
the
righteous
man
shall
be
like
vnto
a
tree
,
and
not
onely
to
a
tree
,
but
to
a
tree
planted
,
and
planted
by
riuers
of
water
,
which
shall
bring
forth
not
onely
leafes
and
blossomes
,
but
fruit
,
and
that
fructum
suum
,
his
fruit
;
and
that
not
immaturely
,
but
tempore
suo
,
in
due
season
.
Here
then
you
see
(
Right
Honourable
,
reuerend
,
and
to
me
all-beloued
)
what
amplitude
,
&
varietie
of
matter
each
branch
of
this
tree
affords
:
I
cannot
speake
of
any
part
(
being
bounded
within
the
limit
of
an
houre
)
as
I
would
;
therefore
I
will
speake
a
little
of
all
,
taking
the
words
in
order
as
they
lye
.
He
,
that
is
,
the
iust
man
,
whose
whole
life
is
nothing
else
but
a
continuall
meditation
of
the
law
of
God
:
he
,
who
alwayes
speakes
as
he
thinkes
,
does
as
he
speakes
,
speakes
,
thinkes
,
and
does
as
God
commands
:
whose
person
if
I
should
exactly
describe
and
delineate
,
I
must
raise
out
of
this
one
hiue
,
a
whole
swarme
of
persons
,
and
take
a
generall
view
and
suruey
of
all
the
persons
in
the
world
,
and
describe
what
it
is
to
be
excellent
and
admirable
in
all
kinde
of
vertues
:
for
so
this
person
he
is
in
my
text
.
He
,
that
is
,
the
iust
and
righteous
man
,
&
qui
iustum
dixerit
,
omnia
dixerit
:
he
that
saith
a
man
is
iust
,
hath
said
all
that
may
be
said
to
the
glory
and
praise
of
a
righteous
man
.
The
paucitie
of
which
persons
is
so
great
,
and
the
raritie
so
singular
,
as
that
it
will
not
make
a
plurall
;
the
number
of
the
vniust
,
or
wicked
,
is
indefinite
,
or
rather
,
like
chaffe
,
infinite
;
but
he
,
the
iust
man
in
my
text
,
is
singled
out
alone
.
The
citie
of
Sodome
,
though
rich
and
populous
,
had
but
one
Lot
:
all
the
region
of
Huz
,
but
one
Iob
:
Abram
had
many
children
by
Cethura
,
but
one
by
Sarah
:
the
off-spring
of
Ishmael
was
more
fruitfull
then
the
progenie
of
Israel
:
there
were
many
Athenians
,
but
few
Phocians
:
many
Thebanes
,
but
few
Epaminondaes
:
many
Romanes
,
but
few
Reguli
:
Catilinam
(
saith
the
Poet
)
Quocunque
in
populo
videas
,
quocunque
sub
are
,
At
nec
Brutus
erit
,
Bruti
nec
auunculus
vnus
.
Foelix
(
saith
Austen
)
enim
tanquam
Phoenix
,
vix
sexcentessimo
anno
nascitur
;
the
iust
man
is
as
rare
,
and
as
hard
to
be
found
here
on
earth
,
as
the
Phoenix
bird
.
But
contrary
the
wicked
are
so
many
in
number
,
that
among
the
Latines
,
malum
&
multum
,
and
among
the
Shall
be
.
]
Man
through
the
ouer-weening
appetite
of
his
greedy
will
,
desirous
to
picke
of
the
Apples
of
Eden
,
and
to
eate
of
the
forbidden
fruit
,
hath
beene
so
grieuously
wounded
in
the
best
part
of
his
vnderstanding
soule
,
by
Gods
iustly-reuenging
hand
,
that
with
the
crow
in
the
Poet
,
of
whom
it
was
said
,
she
could
not
say
,
she
was
well
;
but
slightly
said
,
she
shall
be
well
;
Est
benè
non
potuit
dicere
,
dixit
erit
.
So
neither
can
man
in
this
life
say
,
he
is
well
,
or
that
he
is
as
a
tree
planted
by
the
riuers
of
water
,
but
his
hope
is
,
and
all
that
he
can
say
,
is
;
Est
benè
non
potuit
dicere
,
dicit
erit
.
The
iust
person
hath
no
permanent
or
abiding
citie
in
this
life
,
but
expects
one
that
shall
be
,
and
shall
come
.
In
this
life
hee
shall
finde
troubles
,
but
in
the
other
peace
;
in
this
life
sorrow
,
but
in
the
other
ioy
;
in
this
life
shame
and
rebuke
,
in
the
other
endlesse
glory
with
renowne
.
What
a
garland
doth
Saint
Paul
plat
of
his
owne
crosses
and
tribulations
,
2
Cor.
11
?
In
stripes
aboue
measure
,
in
prison
more
plenteously
,
in
perill
of
death
,
in
perils
by
land
,
in
perill
by
waters
:
these
were
the
riuers
of
waters
,
by
which
he
was
planted
.
There
is
no
one
page
of
Scripture
almost
,
not
breathing
out
sighes
of
the
Church
,
groaning
vnder
the
heauie
burden
of
her
afflictions
:
no
one
leafe
almost
not
blurred
with
the
teares
of
the
Saints
,
mourning
in
the
anguish
of
their
soule
,
and
pouring
forth
their
groanes
in
these
and
the
like
dolefull
Elegies
.
We
are
as
men
appointed
to
death
,
we
are
a
gazing
stocke
,
and
spectacle
of
misery
to
the
world
.
2
Cor.
4.
9.
For
thy
sake
we
are
killed
all
the
day
long
,
and
are
accounted
as
sheepe
to
the
slaughter
.
Rom.
8.
36.
The
child
of
God
therefore
,
and
his
church
,
is
not
alwayes
visibly
in
the
eye
of
the
world
,
like
a
greene
Oliue
tree
,
a
flourishing
vine
,
or
a
tree
planted
by
the
riuers
of
water
,
but
rather
like
a
Lilly
among
thornes
,
like
a
Doue
,
whose
habitation
is
in
the
rocke
,
as
a
woman
in
trauaile
with
a
Dragon
pursuing
her
.
Reu.
12.
Or
as
the
bush
wherein
God
appeared
vnto
Moses
,
which
alwayes
burnes
with
the
flames
of
persecution
,
but
is
neuer
consumed
.
Wherefore
erroneous
is
that
doctrine
of
the
Diuines
of
Rome
,
who
crowne
the
righteous
and
Church
militant
here
on
earth
,
with
a
garland
of
temporall
felicitie
,
making
worldly
pompe
to
be
the
true
note
and
badge
how
to
discerne
the
godly
from
the
wicked
;
true
Christians
from
erroneous
haeretikes
,
the
Church
of
Christ
from
the
Synagogue
of
Sathan
.
And
as
the
Painter
of
Thebes
painted
Venus
,
a
Goddesse
,
after
the
likenesse
of
Phryne
,
a
Romane
Curtezan
,
so
doth
Bellarmine
effigiate
and
But
who
so
shall
looke
backe
vpon
the
records
of
former
times
,
shall
finde
the
Church
of
Christ
,
from
her
first
infancie
,
to
haue
beene
clothed
in
sack-cloath
,
and
the
garments
of
aduersitie
,
when
the
profest
enemies
thereof
were
clad
in
purple
,
and
did
freely
enioy
the
choysest
pleasure
of
this
worlds
delight
.
In
Noahs
time
wee
may
see
her
floating
in
the
waterie
world
;
after
that
,
groaning
vnder
the
Egyptians
tyrannie
;
then
,
a
pilgrime
in
the
Desert
;
and
in
Canaan
neuer
free
from
his
malicious
and
insest
enemies
;
the
Philistim
,
the
Amonite
,
the
Madianite
;
and
last
of
all
,
captiued
by
the
Persian
and
Babylonian
.
Since
Christs
time
,
we
may
see
her
lye
sweltring
in
her
owne
bloud
,
and
for
long
three
hundred
yeeres
cruelly
oppressed
by
bloudy
Tyrants
.
But
to
omit
former
times
,
and
to
come
to
this
present
age
;
how
many
thousands
of
Christians
haue
sacrificed
their
deerest
bloud
in
their
Sauiours
cause
,
gainst
that
proud
Mahumetan
Rabshecai
,
who
being
possest
of
the
Easterne
parts
,
spits
defiance
to
the
Christian
world
,
pouring
forth
blasphemous
threats
against
all
the
professors
of
the
Name
of
Christ
?
If
worldly
felicitie
be
a
note
of
the
Church
,
then
there
it
is
,
and
they
all
false
professors
who
haue
beene
subdued
by
his
conquering
sword
.
But
the
Spouse
of
Christ
is
in
this
life
,
like
a
pilgrime
,
diuorced
from
her
beloued
,
her
weapons
are
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
not
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
not
carnall
,
but
spirituall
;
she
is
like
a
shippe
continually
tost
at
sea
,
though
neuer
ouer-whelmed
;
shee
is
like
an
house
built
vpon
a
rocke
by
the
sea
shore
,
which
is
obnoxious
to
many
a
tempestuous
flaw
.
In
this
life
she
is
militant
,
in
the
other
triumphant
;
here
she
hath
praelium
,
there
praemium
;
here
her
labour
,
there
her
reward
;
here
her
seed-time
,
there
her
haruest
;
and
therefore
this
iust
person
in
my
text
,
is
not
said
that
he
is
,
but
he
shall
be
like
a
tree
.
Like
a
tree
.
]
Man
is
compared
to
a
tree
,
each
part
of
him
hauing
some
correspondencie
and
resemblance
with
the
parts
of
a
tree
.
The
beauty
of
his
youth
is
likened
to
the
blossomes
of
trees
,
which
eyther
in
a
short
time
of
themselues
,
or
with
the
Sunnes
heate
,
drie
vp
and
wither
away
.
His
haire
which
couereth
his
head
,
and
adornes
his
body
,
is
resembled
to
the
leafes
,
which
couer
the
tops
and
vpper
parts
of
the
trees
.
His
breath
to
the
sweet
odor
which
trees
of
themselues
send
forth
in
the
spring
.
His
radicall
moisture
,
oyle
and
balsamum
(
whereon
the
naturall
heate
feedes
and
is
maintained
)
may
be
likened
to
the
oyle
and
sap
of
trees
,
which
they
of
themselues
sweate
forth
.
His
disciplination
and
nurture
,
to
the
plantation
and
grafture
of
trees
.
His
bloud
which
disperseth
it selfe
by
the
veynes
,
as
branches
,
through
all
the
body
,
may
be
compared
to
those
riuers
of
waters
,
which
being
carryed
by
brookes
ouer
all
the
earth
,
and
through
the
pores
of
the
earth
,
doe
secretly
incorporate
themselues
into
the
rootes
of
those
trees
,
and
by
their
moisture
feed
and
maintaine
the
flourishing
estate
of
euery
tree
.
Plato
in
generall
saith
that
euery
man
is
a
tree
turned
topse-turuy
,
making
his
head
as
it
were
,
the
roote
,
his
members
the
branches
;
to
which
I
will
adde
,
that
his
words
are
the
leafes
,
his
workes
the
fruit
,
Gods
graces
the
riuers
of
water
,
by
which
euery
tree
is
,
or
ought
to
be
,
planted
.
From
this
resemblance
of
man
vnto
a
Tree
,
many
notions
doe
offer
themselues
to
our
consideration
,
each
of
them
attended
with
his
seuerall
instruction
.
1
As
a
Tree
which
bringeth
forth
no
good
fruit
,
so
a
man
which
bringeth
forth
no
good
workes
in
the
branches
of
his
faith
,
is
good
for
nothing
,
but
to
be
hewen
downe
,
and
cast
into
the
fire
.
2
As
a
tree
,
if
it
be
not
well
planted
,
the
fruit
therof
groweth
sowre
,
wilde
,
and
distastfull
;
so
a
man
,
if
he
be
not
well
nurtured
and
disciplind
.
3
As
a
tree
in
the
Spring
,
so
a
man
in
the
spring
of
his
youth
abounds
with
many
luxuriant
stems
,
which
by
carefull
education
,
may
easily
be
pruned
and
lopt
off
.
4
As
a
tree
,
though
his
first
off-spring
be
from
the
earth
,
and
his
roote
in
the
earth
,
erecteth
his
body
and
branches
vpward
toward
heauen
;
so
man
,
though
his
roote
and
off-spring
be
from
the
earth
,
dust
,
and
ashes
,
yet
ought
he
to
erect
the
branches
of
his
soule
and
affection
toward
heauen
and
heauenly
things
,
in
a
diuine
contemplation
of
his
creator
.
But
although
man
in
many
things
be
like
vnto
a
tree
,
yet
in
this
one
thing
must
he
be
most
vnlike
.
Trees
ordinarily
bring
forth
fruit
but
once
in
the
yeere
,
but
the
whole
life
of
man
must
be
nothing
else
but
a
continuall
haruest
,
bearing
fruit
at
all
times
,
as
well
in
the
Winter
of
his
aduersitie
,
as
in
the
Summer
of
his
prosperitie
;
as
well
in
the
Spring
of
his
youth
,
as
in
the
Autumne
of
his
age
;
he
must
be
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
hee
must
still
haue
leafes
,
and
these
leafes
must
not
wither
nor
fade
,
but
with
them
hee
must
heale
the
nations
of
the
earth
;
the
outward
barke
and
rine
of
his
conuersation
must
serue
as
a
rule
to
direct
others
:
and
as
they
report
of
the
figge-tree
,
so
the
fruit
of
this
tree
,
must
ripen
as
fast
as
it
is
gathered
:
Vno
auulso
non
deficit
alter
That
golden
tree
in
Virgil
enamoled
round
about
,
and
beset
with
all
the
richest
pearles
of
the
Poets
refined
wit
and
inuention
,
Aureus
&
folijs
&
lento
vimine
ramus
.
Planted
.
]
Planted
by
that
heauenly
husbandman
;
by
whom
whatsoeuer
is
not
planted
shall
be
rooted
out
and
cast
into
the
fire
.
This
word
planted
,
which
the
seauentie
render
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
is
by
Aquila
rendred
transplanted
;
which
doth
agree
either
to
the
person
of
Christ
,
transplanted
from
heauen
to
earth
,
or
to
euery
iust
and
righteous
person
,
who
is
translated
,
and
as
a
tree
transplanted
from
the
workes
of
the
old
man
,
to
the
workes
of
the
new
;
from
the
seruitude
of
the
Law
,
to
the
libertie
of
grace
;
from
a
land
whose
riuers
streame
with
bloud
,
to
a
land
that
flowes
with
milke
and
honey
.
That
tree
which
was
vnhappily
sprung
in
Adam
,
shall
be
as
happily
grafted
and
transplanted
in
Christ
:
that
tree
which
was
fruitlesse
in
his
owne
nature
,
shall
become
fruitfull
by
grace
:
that
tree
which
would
haue
rotted
for
want
of
naturall
moysture
,
shall
flourish
againe
,
and
receiue
iuyce
into
his
veynes
from
the
waters
of
life
,
by
which
hee
is
planted
.
Wee
know
that
the
whole
tree
of
our
nature
,
roote
and
branches
,
fruit
and
leafes
,
were
all
blasted
by
the
breath
of
Gods
first
malediction
,
and
the
ground
whereon
we
grew
;
nay
the
ground
of
mans
heart
was
curst
to
bring
forth
of
it selfe
,
nothing
but
bryars
and
thornes
;
his
wisedome
was
foolishnesse
,
his
strength
weaknesse
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
his
best
thoughts
were
defiled
,
in
abstracto
,
Ephes
.
5.
So
that
with
Glaucoma
in
the
Poet
,
Ne
id
quidem
intelligit
quod
intelligit
,
vel
quod
Vnfruitfull
plants
,
and
vnsauory
trees
are
suffered
and
let
alone
to
grow
in
those
places
where
first
they
sprang
;
but
sweet
roses
,
fruitfull
vines
,
and
good
trees
are
taken
vp
and
transplanted
.
Almightie
God
,
who
in
the
Gospell
is
compared
to
a
husbandman
,
hath
transplanted
vs
from
the
kingdome
of
Sathan
,
to
the
kingdome
of
the
Sonne
of
God
;
from
wilde
Oliues
to
be
fruitfull
Vines
in
Christ
Iesus
.
And
as
the
Prophet
Eliah
restored
the
childe
of
For
vs
men
,
and
for
our
plantation
,
the
Sonne
of
God
descended
from
the
highest
heauens
,
and
suffered
his
God-head
to
be
clad
with
the
corruptible
roabes
of
humane
frailtie
,
and
in
our
nature
endured
the
wrath
of
God
,
did
merit
by
it
eternall
redemption
,
infused
into
it
his
spirituall
graces
,
and
aduanced
it
aboue
the
highest
rankes
of
the
Angels
in
heauen
.
At
the
first
,
man
was
set
as
a
Rose
in
the
Garden
of
Gods
Paradise
,
that
hee
might
proue
a
sweet
odor
of
life
vnto
life
:
but
when
hee
turned
from
a
Rose
to
be
a
Thistle
,
and
began
to
pricke
his
Maker
,
then
was
hee
transplanted
from
a
small
Garden
,
to
a
large
mannor
,
and
with
an
happy
exchange
of
estate
,
was
brought
from
his
first
freedome
of
nature
of
posse
non
peccare
,
to
a
better
libertie
of
Grace
non
posse
peccare
,
not
to
sinne
at
all
;
for
,
whosoeuer
is
borne
of
God
,
and
grafted
into
Christ
,
sinneth
not
,
nor
can
hee
sinne
,
1
Iohn
3.
9.
For
although
the
best
of
men
,
through
the
infirmitie
of
their
corrupted
nature
,
doe
oftentimes
commit
those
things
which
in
the
sight
of
the
world
are
foule
,
and
worthily
enormous
,
yet
because
the
inward
man
doth
sooner
or
latter
checke
and
comptrole
them
,
they
are
not
properly
said
to
commit
them
,
because
they
doe
not
wholy
and
fully
assent
vnto
them
.
That
celestiall
sap
which
euery
branch
doth
receiue
from
his
roote
,
Christ
,
doth
so
quicken
and
reuiue
the
regenerate
man
,
that
although
in
outward
appearance
,
and
in
his
owne
conceit
to
,
he
seeme
to
wither
and
be
decayed
,
yet
the
spirit
of
Adoption
,
which
ingendreth
Faith
,
doth
so
inhabite
and
possesse
his
soule
,
that
eyther
totally
or
finally
hee
cannot
perish
,
but
remaines
toward
GOD
,
like
the
Philosophers
demonstrator
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
firme
and
immoueable
.
And
although
he
hath
ofttimes
many
stragling
motions
,
inordinate
desires
,
despairing
cogitations
,
maintaine
diuers
errours
in
Religion
,
commit
foule
sinnes
,
such
as
Noah
,
Dauid
,
Salomon
,
and
Peter
did
;
nay
,
such
sinnes
as
leaue
no
place
for
saluation
,
without
an
actuall
and
especiall
repentance
,
yet
from
infidelitie
,
extreame
despaire
,
obduration
in
sinne
,
and
the
like
,
God
will
preserue
the
righteous
as
the
apple
of
his
eye
.
Hee
may
suffer
him
to
fall
,
but
not
to
fall
away
,
he
may
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
not
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
he
may
cadere
not
deficere
,
This
Spirit
Rom.
8.
is
tearmed
our
life
;
and
hee
that
hath
the
Sonne
(
saith
S.
Iohn
)
hath
life
,
and
he
that
hath
not
the
Sonne
,
hath
not
life
.
Whence
(
mee
thinkes
)
may
be
inferred
,
that
if
hee
which
once
is
planted
in
Christ
hath
the
Sonne
,
may
afterwards
cease
to
haue
the
Sonne
,
though
it
be
but
for
a
moment
,
he
ceaseth
for
that
moment
to
haue
life
.
But
the
life
of
them
who
haue
the
Sonne
of
God
,
is
euerlasting
,
and
in
the
world
to
come
,
1
Iohn
5.
13.
And
as
Christ
being
raised
from
the
dead
,
dyeth
no
more
,
death
hath
no
more
power
ouer
him
,
so
the
iustified
man
,
being
planted
by
Faith
in
Christ
,
doth
as
necessarily
from
I
am
with
you
to
the
worlds
end
?
And
if
the
seed
of
God
which
containes
Christ
,
may
be
first
conceiued
,
and
then
abortiue-like
cast
out
,
how
doth
S.
Peter
terme
it
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
immortall
Man
(
I
confesse
)
is
apt
and
ready
to
reuolt
from
God
,
but
God
is
not
so
ready
to
forsake
man
:
our
mindes
are
changeable
,
but
Gods
decree
is
immutable
:
whom
God
hath
iustified
Christ
assures
them
it
is
his
Fathers
pleasure
to
giue
them
a
Kingdome
.
Notwithstanding
I
giue
vnto
them
eternall
life
,
and
they
shall
neuer
perish
,
neyther
shall
any
plucke
them
out
of
my
hands
.
In
promising
to
saue
them
,
hee
promised
,
no
doubt
,
to
preserue
them
in
that
without
which
there
can
be
no
saluation
,
as
also
from
that
whereby
it
is
irrecouerably
lost
.
For
without
his
especiall
grace
,
which
must
restraine
vs
from
the
one
,
and
retaine
vs
in
the
other
,
wee
are
no
more
able
of
our selues
to
stand
,
then
the
carkasse
of
that
noble
captaine
,
which
when
a
Lacedaemonian
had
often
set
vp
in
vaine
,
the
carkasse
Aliquid
intus
esse
oportet
:
His
grace
it
is
within
which
like
the
fierie
Chariot
of
Elias
must
draw
both
vs
and
our
thoughts
to
heauen
:
For
,
wee
are
by
nature
like
warme
water
,
which
vnlesse
it
be
still
heated
,
will
coole
of
it selfe
;
or
like
vapors
,
which
rise
no
longer
then
the
heat
of
the
Sunne
draweth
them
,
which
Sunne
of
righteousnesse
if
hee
substract
his
beames
,
yea
,
but
a
little
,
wee
are
soone
frozen
in
the
dregs
of
our
impietie
.
God
therefore
vnwilling
to
see
his
trees
wither
for
want
of
moysture
,
his
dearest
children
to
pine
away
for
want
of
the
food
of
their
soules
,
hee
hath
planted
euery
tree
which
is
in
the
Paradise
of
the
Church
,
by
him
who
is
the
fountaine
of
Gardens
,
the
spring
of
Lebanon
,
by
riuers
of
By
riuers
of
waters
.
]
Obserue
I
beseech
you
once
more
,
the
attributes
of
this
tree
:
hee
is
a
tree
,
not
a
bramble
or
thorne
;
planted
by
regeneration
,
not
suffered
in
his
naturall
generation
;
and
planted
by
riuers
,
not
suffered
to
remaine
in
the
quagmire
and
filth
of
his
owne
inuentions
;
and
planted
not
in
any
mountanous
region
,
or
eminent
place
,
but
in
the
humble
valley
,
not
by
the
dangerous
shoares
of
the
swelling
Ocean
,
but
secus
decursus
aquarum
,
by
the
banke-side
of
riuers
of
water
.
The
bodies
of
men
are
the
Temples
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
their
soule
the
sanctum
sanctorum
;
the
Graces
of
God
the
riuers
which
runne
through
this
Sanctuarie
;
they
are
as
it
were
,
the
Lauer
before
the
Temple
,
to
wash
them
,
whose
fountaine
is
God
himselfe
,
who
shall
clense
them
from
all
their
sinnes
:
and
then
how
can
they
be
without
water
,
who
are
planted
by
those
riuers
which
spring
from
the
fountaine
of
life
?
how
can
they
be
without
light
,
whose
light
is
the
Sunne
of
righteousnesse
?
how
can
they
be
without
plentie
of
all
things
,
in
whom
dwelleth
he
that
is
the
fulnesse
of
all
things
?
though
the
tempest
shake
,
the
winde
blow
,
the
heate
scorch
,
yet
shall
they
not
wither
,
because
they
are
planted
by
the
riuers
of
Gods
spirituall
graces
.
By
these
riuers
of
waters
was
Noah
planted
,
when
he
was
preserued
from
the
deluge
of
waters
:
by
these
riuers
was
Lot
planted
,
when
hee
was
preserued
from
the
flames
of
fire
▪
by
these
riuers
was
Moses
planted
,
when
hee
was
preserued
in
the
riuer
from
that
great
massacre
of
infants
.
Aristotle
and
Pliny
both
report
,
that
tender
vines
,
and
other
fruitfull
trees
prosper
not
being
planted
That
which
Stories
haue
auerred
of
the
roote
of
Numb
.
24.
How
goodly
are
thy
tents
,
O
Iacob
,
and
thy
habitations
,
O
Israel
!
as
the
valleys
are
they
stretched
forth
,
as
Gardens
by
the
riuer
side
,
as
Aloe
trees
,
which
the
Lord
hath
planted
,
and
the
Cedars
besides
the
riuers
of
waters
.
These
riuers
of
waters
are
as
a
well
of
comfort
for
forlorne
Hagar
,
and
all
other
pilgrimes
to
refresh
their
wearied
and
fainting
soules
:
for
although
the
iust
and
godly
doe
many
times
in
the
bitternes
of
their
soule
,
cry
out
with
Dauid
,
abissus
abissum
inuocat
,
fluctus
tui
bring
forth
fruit
in
due
season
.
Which
bringeth
forth
fruit
.
]
When
man
was
first
endowed
with
a
soueraigne
command
ouer
all
the
creatures
here
on
earth
,
it
was
enioynd
him
by
his
maker
,
not
onely
to
fill
the
earth
with
men
,
but
(
as
Origen
writeth
)
replete
carnem
vestram
quae
terra
est
bonis
operibus
,
bring
forth
fruit
in
the
earth
of
your
flesh
.
Which
fruit
is
two-fold
,
internall
and
externall
:
the
first
is
infused
,
the
other
acquisite
:
the
first
are
the
vertuous
habits
of
the
minde
,
the
other
good
workes
,
flowing
and
proceeding
from
these
habits
.
The
first
S.
Paul
cals
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
fruit
of
the
spirit
,
Neyther
must
wee
onely
bring
forth
fruit
,
but
euery
man
must
bring
forth
his
fruit
:
he
that
is
planted
as
a
Cedar
in
the
Paradise
of
this
world
,
must
bring
forth
the
fruit
of
Cedars
;
an
Oliue
,
the
fruit
of
Oliues
,
euery
tree
his
owne
fruit
:
and
not
onely
so
,
but
wee
must
not
curiously
entermeddle
with
the
fruit
and
affaires
of
other
men
:
spartam
suam
quam
nactus
est
,
vnusquisque
ornet
,
euery
man
must
striue
and
endeauour
in
the
ground
of
his
owne
vocation
wherein
God
hath
planted
him
to
bring
forth
his
fruit
,
that
is
,
such
fruit
as
is
proper
and
peculiar
to
his
vocation
,
and
not
to
the
vocation
of
others
;
least
seeking
to
be
what
others
are
,
thou
loose
thy selfe
;
in
seeking
to
be
euery
body
,
thou
proue
to
be
no
body
;
in
seeking
to
excell
in
all
things
,
thou
proue
a
foole
in
euery
thing
.
Vzza
must
not
touch
the
Arke
,
nor
meddle
with
the
Priests
office
:
ne
sutor
vltracrepidam
,
let
not
the
Shooe-maker
goe
beyond
his
Last
,
the
Pedler
beyond
his
packe
,
the
Painter
beyond
his
pensell
,
but
let
euery
man
keepe
himselfe
within
the
sphaere
of
his
owne
profession
.
It
is
reported
,
as
a
pleasant
Fable
,
by
Leo
Africanus
,
of
a
little
bird
,
which
is
of
so
strange
a
condition
,
that
shee
can
liue
very
well
both
in
the
water
,
and
in
the
ayre
,
and
sometimes
liues
in
the
one
,
sometimes
in
the
other
:
of
this
bird
when
the
king
of
birds
demandeth
tribute
,
she
flyeth
presently
into
the
water
,
saying
shee
is
a
fish
,
and
no
bird
:
afterward
when
the
king
of
fishes
demandeth
tribute
of
her
,
she
flyeth
into
the
ayre
,
saying
shee
is
a
bird
and
no
fish
:
euen
so
these
dissecta
animalia
,
these
particoloured
trees
;
semivirique
boues
,
semibouesque
viri
,
these
branches
which
bring
forth
now
Almonds
,
now
Acornes
;
now
Figs
,
now
Thistles
;
now
the
fruit
of
this
man
,
now
the
fruit
of
that
mans
vocation
,
indeed
bring
forth
none
,
much
lesse
mature
fruit
,
and
in
due
season
.
A
good
word
(
saith
Salomon
)
spoken
in
his
due
place
,
and
I
adde
also
a
good
work
,
or
any
good
fruit
brought
forth
in
due
season
,
is
like
apples
of
gold
with
pictures
of
siluer
,
Prou.
25.
11.
There
is
one
fruit
of
our
youth
,
The
fruit
which
we
should
bring
forth
before
wee
come
to
olde
age
,
is
the
fruit
of
a
good
life
;
the
fruit
which
wee
must
bring
forth
in
the
season
of
our
old
age
,
is
the
fruit
of
a
good
death
:
according
to
that
of
Seneca
,
ante
senectutem
studebam
vt
benè
viuerem
,
in
senectute
vt
benè
moriar
.
There
is
no
season
of
our
age
vnfit
to
bring
forth
some
fruit
of
righteousnesse
;
but
the
season
of
the
time
wherein
wee
ought
most
to
stretch
the
sinewes
of
our
industrie
to
bring
forth
these
fruits
,
are
especially
in
the
season
when
wee
are
tempted
to
doe
euill
,
or
in
the
season
when
occasion
is
offered
to
doe
good
.
The
fruits
of
a
Christian
,
they
are
ripe
at
all
times
,
his
haruest
to
gather
them
is
at
all
times
of
the
yeere
.
When
hee
is
tempted
to
Lust
,
then
is
his
haruest
of
Chastitie
:
to
Gluttonie
,
then
of
Abstinence
:
to
Anger
and
reuenge
,
then
is
his
haruest
of
Mildnesse
and
moderation
.
When
thou
seest
thy
brother
imprisoned
,
then
is
thy
season
to
visite
him
:
naked
,
then
to
clothe
him
:
hungry
,
then
to
feede
him
:
wrongfully
opprest
,
then
to
relieue
him
:
in
want
and
extremitie
,
then
to
succout
him
.
Thou
must
not
concredit
the
disposing
of
thy
almes
to
the
too-often-carelesse
performance
of
succeeding
heyres
,
but
thou
must
be
thy
owne
Almoner
,
and
so
shalt
thou
be
sure
to
haue
thy
Will
kept
,
and
to
bring
forth
thy
fruit
in
due
season
.
Such
as
shall
deferre
all
their
good
workes
till
the
end
of
their
dayes
,
and
leaue
their
goods
by
others
to
be
distributed
,
are
like
a
man
that
carries
a
candle
behinde
him
in
the
darke
,
which
may
benefit
those
that
follow
after
him
,
but
not
himselfe
.
Such
as
all
their
life
time
by
extortion
and
greedy
oppression
wrong
the
poore
,
and
vpon
their
death-beds
bequeath
some
pettie
Legacie
to
clad
a
few
in
Frize
,
and
stop
the
mouthes
of
Orphanes
with
loafes
of
bread
,
who
otherwise
would
cry
for
vengeance
for
their
oppression
,
from
the
GOD
of
Heauen
,
doe
not
bring
forth
their
fruit
in
due
season
,
nor
are
not
like
trees
,
but
rather
like
that
Lion
which
Sampson
killed
,
which
although
it
was
rauenous
in
his
life
time
and
mankinde
,
yet
being
dead
,
had
some
little
honey
in
his
mouth
.
Such
as
are
called
to
be
lights
in
the
Church
,
and
shine
not
in
their
profession
;
such
as
are
called
to
the
sacred
function
of
the
Ministerie
in
the
Spring
of
their
youth
,
and
strength
of
yeeres
,
and
bring
forth
no
buds
nor
blossomes
thereof
,
no
not
so
much
as
in
the
Autumne
of
their
age
,
doe
these
,
or
can
they
euer
be
hoped
to
bring
forth
their
fruit
in
due
season
?
I
feare
of
this
number
there
are
too
many
here
present
,
who
as
if
they
had
receiued
all
their
learning
sub
sigillo
confessionis
,
in
secret
confession
,
dare
not
impart
any
of
it
,
nor
bring
forth
any
fruits
thereof
themselues
,
but
get
some
of
their
neighbour
trees
to
bring
forth
fruit
for
them
,
euen
at
that
time
,
when
this
place
should
expect
theirs
.
And
as
the
Beast
Tarando
,
in
Pliny
,
turnes
himselfe
into
the
Your
parts
it
is
(
Reuerend
and
Learned
Fathers
)
whom
iust
desert
hath
worthily
aduanced
to
eminencie
of
place
in
this
our
Athens
,
to
prune
and
lop
off
these
vnfruitfull
branches
,
which
bring
forth
no
fruit
in
their
owne
boughes
,
but
draw
iuyce
and
sap
from
other
fruitfull
branches
,
and
not
to
conferre
your
choysest
fauors
vpon
such
as
are
by
profession
non-proficients
,
whose
end
and
scope
is
the
carrying
of
a
bagge
and
a
bunch
of
keyes
,
least
in
short
time
,
those
places
which
by
the
beneficency
of
worthy
founders
,
were
erected
to
be
Nurseries
of
hopefull
wits
,
turne
to
be
Golgothaes
,
places
of
dead
mens
bones
,
and
liuing
emptie
sculs
,
or
at
the
best
,
but
old
shrines
,
and
smokie
Images
,
for
nothing
venerable
,
but
senioritie
.
Howbeit
I
stand
not
here
to
patronize
those
Lapwings
which
flye
away
from
hence
with
part
of
the
shell
vpon
their
heads
,
and
thrust
themselues
before
their
due
time
into
the
Lords
haruest
,
expecting
(
I
thinke
)
some
Apostolike
Enthusiasme
to
be
inspired
in
illâ
horâ
:
their
haste
is
greater
then
their
speed
,
Nimis
properè
,
&
minus
prosperè
,
as
saith
Bernard
.
Such
men
should
haue
made
a
longer
residence
in
this
garden
of
pleasure
,
this
seate
of
happinesse
,
from
whence
flowes
that
of
Pindarus
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
Riuers
of
Helicon
,
and
waters
of
Parnassus
.
I
know
how
fitly
I
might
resemble
this
whole
Vniuersitie
to
a
tree
:
Theologie
to
the
roote
of
the
tree
,
Law
to
the
iuyce
and
radicall
moysture
,
which
maintaines
the
life
and
vnion
of
the
body
together
:
Physicke
to
those
leafes
which
heale
the
nations
of
the
earth
:
the
Liberall
Sciences
to
the
branches
of
this
tree
:
the
Garlands
of
degrees
to
the
blossomes
and
fruits
of
the
tree
.
For
as
Theophrastus
reports
of
a
tree
in
Persia
,
which
at
the
same
time
doth
bud
,
blossome
,
and
beare
fruit
,
so
may
we
truely
auerre
of
this
tree
,
that
now
at
this
one
season
it
bringeth
forth
some
Doctors
,
some
Masters
,
some
fruit
that
is
fully
ripe
,
some
drawing
to
ripenesse
,
some
in
the
flowre
,
and
some
in
the
bud
.
I
now
meruaile
not
that
the
Poets
fained
the
Muses
to
dwell
in
woods
,
and
amongst
trees
:
here
groweth
the
Iuniper
tree
,
which
might
teach
euery
man
to
haue
a
sweet
conuersation
with
all
men
:
here
groweth
the
Palme
tree
,
which
teacheth
vs
a
conquest
of
our selues
:
here
the
Laurell
,
which
crowneth
vs
with
the
peace
of
a
good
Conscience
.
Amidst
these
Arbors
,
and
in
the
barkes
of
these
trees
,
let
vs
(
as
the
ancient
Shepheards
were
wont
to
doe
)
engraue
our
names
with
the
Sonets
of
loue
,
and
imprint
the
characters
of
our
dearest
affections
;
and
with
earnest
deuotion
desire
the
heauenly
Apollo
to
water
this
tree
with
the
dewe
of
his
grace
,
distilled
into
the
rootes
thereof
,
that
it
may
spread
it selfe
forth
into
branches
,
and
the
branches
may
bud
,
and
the
buds
may
blossome
,
and
the
blossomes
may
bring
forth
fruit
;
such
fruit
as
shall
neuer
be
corrupted
,
such
flowers
as
shall
neuer
be
withered
,
such
buds
as
shall
neuer
be
blasted
,
such
branches
as
shall
neuer
be
dismembred
,
but
flourish
and
spread
abroad
their
armes
to
defend
the
Church
from
all
Haeresie
,
Schisme
,
and
peruerse
doctrines
,
to
the
aduancement
of
true
Religion
,
and
the
glory
of
thy
great
Name
,
through
Christ
our
Lord
:
To
whom
with
the
Father
,
and
the
holy
Ghost
,
be
ascribed
all
glory
,
honour
and
praise
,
both
now
and
for
euermore
,
Amen
.
FINIS
.