The
Royall
Guest
.
REVELAT.
3.
VER.
20.
Behold
I
stand
at
the
doore
,
and
Knock.
WEE
meete
here
a
Royall
Guest
,
who
enstated
in
all
the
Royalties
of
Heaven
,
yet
sues
for
a
welcome
on
earth
:
and
wee
have
him
in
my
Text.
First
,
for
Posture
,
Standing
,
I
stand
.
Secondly
,
for
Place
:
At
the
doore
:
I
stand
at
the
doore
.
Thirdly
,
for
Action
:
Knocking
:
I
stand
at
the
doore
and
Knocke.
Behold
I
stand
at
the
doore
,
and
Knocke.
These
are
the
severall
Branches
the
bodie
of
this
Text
spreads
into
,
where
doe
perch
on
every
sprigg
,
Wonder
and
Mercy
:
Wonder
that
GOD
who
is
all
Glory
,
should
come
downe
unto
man
who
is
all
vilenesse
:
Mercy
that
Man
who
is
a
foule
ragge
of
uncleanenesse
,
should
be
made
a
temple
for
GOD
to
dwell
in
,
who
is
all
Holy
;
GOD
and
man
were
at
distance
but
now
,
nay
at
odds
,
nay
at
feud
,
if
ever
any
,
happy
is
that
union
,
which
brings
them
under
one
roofe
,
to
one
table
:
this
is
marveilous
in
our
eyes
,
and
therefore
chain'd
in
with
an
Ecce
here
;
Behold
,
I
stand
at
the
doore
,
and
Knocke.
Behold
is
a
word
of
Emphasis
and
Energie
:
if
this
Starre
stand
ore
the
house
,
a
JESVS
is
within
,
nor
points
this
hand
in
the
Margin
,
but
there
's
juice
and
substance
in
the
Text
:
Some
of
ranke
are
in
the
Palace
,
where
this
Porter
keeps
the
gate
,
and
fruits
not
to
be
plucked
rudely
,
in
that
Paradice
,
where
this
Cherube
guardes
the
entry
▪
where
Ecce
is
written
on
the
box
,
be
sure
the
ointment's
precious
,
something
of
weight
and
moment
doth
march
in
the
reare
,
if
Behold
leades
up
the
front
,
and
as
the
Baptist
in
Sacred
Writ
,
prepares
the
way
to
it
;
't
is
so
here
;
GOD
bowes
the
Heavens
and
comes
downe
among
men
,
nor
comes
he
arm'd
with
thunders
,
cloath'd
with
Majesty
,
darkenesse
being
his
pavilion
about
him
,
as
to
Israel
on
Mount
Sinay
,
Singers
went
before
,
the
plaiers
of
instruments
followed
after
,
among
them
were
the
Damosels
playing
with
timbrels
;
thus
to
come
would
be
a
pleasant
object
to
all
eyes
:
He
comes
here
forma
pauperis
,
as
a
Mendicant
who
begs
an
almes
for
GODS
sake
:
He
breakes
not
into
our
roomes
,
but
stands
at
our
doores
,
at
whose
least
breath
the
gates
of
hell
flie
open
,
and
the
barres
of
iron
burst
in
peeces
:
here
is
patience
and
humility
to
a
miracle
,
and
both
stamped
with
an
Ecce
,
Behold
I
Stand
,
&c.
Nay
not
a
word
here
but
this
dash
of
the
HOLY
GHOSTS
quill
,
the
impression
of
this
character
is
due
unto
it
.
First
,
I
,
it
were
enough
were
I
a
guardian
Angell
to
some
Monarch
below
,
if
one
from
the
Sacred
Quire
of
the
Prophets
,
if
the
least
among
those
feathered
Hierarchies
above
:
but
I
,
the
Prince
of
peace
,
the
King
of
glory
,
the
LORD
Paramount
of
Heaven
and
Earth
.
Secondly
,
I
stand
,
I
sit
not
in
my
chaire
of
state
,
I
leane
not
on
a
cushion
of
ease
,
I
roule
not
on
beds
of
violets
and
strewings
of
rose-buds
;
but
I
stand
,
and
this
posture
of
mine
,
speakes
as
my
readinesse
to
enter
,
so
my
patience
to
awaite
it
.
Thirdly
,
I
Stand
at
the
doore
,
not
in
the
Hall
,
where
the
warmth
of
a
fire
might
cheere
me
,
not
in
the
chamber
,
where
I
might
rest
my
limbes
on
a
couch
of
Ivory
,
but
at
the
doore
,
without
shelter
or
penthouse
;
where
the
drislie
sleete
chils
,
and
the
stormie
tempest
beates
upon
me
;
where
my
head
is
is
fil'd
with
the
dew
,
and
my
lecks
defil'd
with
the
drops
of
the
night
.
Fourthly
,
I
stand
at
the
doore
and
Knocke.
I
stand
not
at
the
doore
,
happinesse
:
Behold
I
stand
at
the
doore
and
Knocke.
Now
,
O
LORD
,
what
is
Man
though
retinu'de
with
all
the
pompe
of
greatnesse
!
what
the
Sonnes
of
men
,
those
who
move
in
the
highest
Orbes
,
what
the
whole
Series
and
descent
of
them
,
even
theirs
,
whose
blood
flowes
from
the
noblest
veines
?
What
the
whole
cluster
and
bunch
of
mankinde
,
that
so
mighty
a
GOD
,
at
whose
persence
the
Heavens
droppe
,
out
of
whose
mouth
coales
of
fire
devoure
,
rents
the
rockes
and
discovers
the
forrests
:
I
stand
.
I
who
?
I
who
stretch
out
the
Heavens
like
a
curtaine
,
and
againe
make
a
sack
their
covering
,
and
shall
shrivell
them
up
as
a
parched
scroule
at
the
last
day
:
I
who
ride
upon
a
Cherube
and
flie
,
who
flie
upon
the
wings
of
the
winde
:
I
who
have
founded
the
earth
upon
the
waters
,
I
who
have
shut
up
the
Sea
with
dores
,
and
made
the
cloud
the
garment
thereof
,
and
thicke
darkenesse
the
swadling
band
for
it
:
I
who
weigh
the
mountaines
in
a
ballance
,
to
whom
the
Nations
are
as
the
droppings
of
a
bucket
,
I
who
dwell
above
the
circle
of
the
Moone
,
and
hold
the
ball
of
the
world
in
my
hand
:
In
a
word
,
I
who
am
Alpha
and
Omega
,
all
full
of
grace
and
truth
,
in
whom
dwells
the
fullnesse
of
the
God-head
bodily
;
who
thinke
it
no
robbery
to
bee
equall
with
GOD
,
as
being
the
image
and
character
of
his
goodnesse
:
whose
throne
is
at
the
right
hand
of
my
Father
,
but
my
Soveraignety
is
throughout
all
ages
,
and
to
the
ends
of
the
earth
:
I
thus
rob'd
with
dignity
,
thus
engirt
with
power
,
thus
bedect
and
crown'd
with
Majesty
;
I
stand
.
Now
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Saint
Chrysostome
in
a
holy
trance
here
:
O
the
height
and
depth
of
the
mercy
of
GOD
,
O
the
bowels
and
entrailes
of
the
love
of
CHRIST
:
thou
art
O
SAVIOVR
a
plant
of
the
Celestiall
Eden
,
what
finger
could
plucke
thee
thence
!
A
stone
thou
art
cut
out
of
the
Heavenly
quarre
,
but
by
what
hand
?
Who
could
force
thee
from
the
bosome
of
thy
Father
,
thy
palaces
of
glory
?
Who
but
thy selfe
?
't
was
for
us
Men
,
and
our
Salvation
that
thou
cam'st
downe
from
Heaven
:
this
Abisse
of
thy
goodnesse
wee
cannot
fathome
,
nor
measure
its
greatnesse
:
wee
may
guesse
at
it
,
if
we
reflect
,
1.
On
thy
All-worthinesse
,
2.
On
our
All-worthlesnesse
.
First
,
On
thy
All-worthinesse
:
but
what
tongue
of
the
learned
is
not
dumbe
here
?
CHRIST
comes
not
for
his
owne
benefit
,
but
ours
:
we
solace
our selves
in
the
diffused
raies
of
the
Sunne
,
but
doth
our
looking
on
him
,
add
the
least
sparke
to
his
brightnesse
:
the
earth
is
enricht
by
the
showers
that
fall
upon
it
,
doe
those
drops
or
the
ground
gaine
?
Sure
our
goodnesse
extendeth
not
to
thee
,
O
LORD
,
or
should
wee
impoverish
our selves
,
what
were
our
Mite
to
thy
Treasure
?
Our
Guest
here
,
is
the
Heire
of
all
things
,
nor
comes
Hee
to
gaine
by
us
,
but
to
gaine
us
:
Hee
wants
not
what
is
ours
,
for
His
is
the
Heaven
,
and
the
Heaven
of
Heavens
,
the
Earth
also
,
and
all
that
therein
is
:
here
is
worth
enough
,
as
to
blesse
,
so
entrance
us
.
Secondly
,
On
our
own
All-worthlesnesse
:
alasse
;
what
impure
Sties
,
what
Stables
of
dung
,
what
Cabins
of
filth
are
wee
?
How
unworthy
under
whose
roofe
such
a
Guest
should
come
?
is
there
any
beauty
in
us
to
attract
his
love
?
any
comelinesse
to
ravish
him
unto
us
?
None
;
Miriam
was
not
more
leaprous
,
never
Leopard
more
spotty
▪
wee
are
as
Homer
paints
out
Thersites
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
uncleane
thing
in
the
Prophet
,
that
either
way
we
are
the
objects
either
of
a
frowne
or
scorne
:
thus
wallowing
loathsomely
in
our
owne
gore
,
thus
patcht
up
with
shreds
of
filthinesse
,
CHRIST
now
lookes
upon
and
loves
us
:
O
the
over-flowings
of
a
gratious
pitty
!
what
channels
or
bankes
can
hold
it
?
how
freely
runs
it
,
how
fully
?
but
love
is
strong
as
death
,
and
by
that
coard
wee
might
pull
Him
to
us
?
Neither
,
how
dearely
wee
loved
Him
,
witnesse
His
head
harrowed
with
thornes
,
His
face
blurr'd
with
spittle
,
His
eyes
tortured
with
all
spectacles
of
shame
,
His
eares
board
with
blasphemies
,
those
iron
plates
,
which
pearced
His
hands
and
feete
,
graces
,
Behold
my
family
is
poore
in
Manasseh
,
I
am
the
least
in
my
Fathers
house
:
what
than
are
wee
,
that
such
a
visit
should
bee
given
us
,
how
poore
cottagers
to
entertaine
so
great
a
Landlord
?
can
our
tabernacles
of
sticks
hold
Him
,
whom
the
huge
vastnesse
of
heaven
and
earth
containes
not
?
Here
is
a
Maze
,
who
can
tread
it
?
it
is
not
for
my
pencill
to
limbe
in
this
peece
,
give
mee
leave
than
to
draw
a
vaile
,
and
passe
,
from
the
Guest
who
He
is
,
to
my
first
generall
,
his
Posture
which
is
Standing
:
Behold
I
stand
.
I
stand
.
First
,
Standing
is
a
posture
of
Readinesse
,
Stands
;
Stands
,
now
that
his
Saints
engag'd
in
a
fight
to
death
,
as
a
Champion
with
his
sword
girt
unto
his
thigh
,
and
so
is
Ready
to
enter
the
lists
upon
the
signall
given
,
and
though
conquer'd
to
bring
him
off
victorious
:
CHRIST
stands
at
our
doore
in
my
Text
,
and
by
this
gesture
shewes
us
clearely
,
as
if
it
were
described
by
the
raies
of
the
Sunne
,
that
with
the
whole
traine
,
and
quire
of
his
graces
,
He
is
ready
to
enter
into
our
hearts
,
if
wee
open
unto
Him
:
what
a
blessing
is
it
to
bee
the
mansions
of
the
blessed
Trinity
,
the
Exchequers
and
Magazins
of
all
holy
endowments
,
the
favourites
and
darlings
of
Heaven
?
this
happinesse
,
CHRIST
is
ready
to
make
ours
,
and
that
wee
may
not
misse
it
,
as
being
bewitcht
with
the
worlds
inchantments
,
with
what
throwes
and
pangs
of
love
doth
Hee
wish
,
O
that
there
were
such
a
heart
in
this
people
to
feare
mee
alwaies
!
with
what
patheticall
Rhetorique
doth
hee
perswade
,
Returne
,
returne
O
Shunamite
returne
:
with
what
deepe
sighes
and
streames
of
teares
laments
He
,
O
Hierusalem
,
Hierusalem
,
how
often
would
I
have
gathered
thee
together
,
as
the
hen
her
chickens
:
CHRIST
weepes
not
in
sport
,
as
those
two
Mimiks
,
the
Stage-player
and
the
Hypoerite
;
it
is
for
our
weale
or
losse
that
waters
flow
from
His
eyes
;
if
throbs
and
groanes
breake
from
Him
,
't
is
,
or
for
our
stubbornenesse
that
we
not
,
or
for
His
owne
desire
,
that
He
would
have
us
lay
hold
on
mercy
,
if
wee
barre
our
gates
against
Him
,
Hee
deplores
our
contumacy
,
but
were
He
not
willing
to
come
in
,
Hee
would
not
stand
at
our
doores
.
Secondly
,
Stand●ng
is
a
posture
of
Expectance
;
Gehazi
went
in
and
stood
before
his
Master
;
I
have
spread
out
my
hands
all
the
day
to
a
rebellious
people
:
Forty
yeares
long
was
I
greeved
with
this
generation
and
said
,
it
is
a
people
that
doe
erre
,
&c.
In
halfe
the
time
,
I
could
have
greeved
every
veine
of
their
hearts
,
so
long
they
grieve
my
soule
,
and
I
am
patient
:
would
man
bee
so
to
his
brother
,
when
an
injury
heats
his
blood
?
but
my
plea
against
these
is
from
their
very
cradle
and
first
stone
of
their
city
:
The
children
of
Israel
,
and
the
children
of
Iudah
,
have
onely
done
evill
before
mee
from
their
youth
up
;
And
this
cittie
hath
beene
to
mee
a
provocation
of
my
anger
and
fury
,
from
the
day
that
they
built
it
:
where
is
that
Plato
now
,
whose
cheekes
choler
never
died
?
where
that
Socrates
,
who
never
spake
stormes
,
but
smiles
,
not
when
Zantippe
comes
like
a
tempest
upon
him
:
Behold
I
stand
at
the
doore
:
If
some
Grandee
of
the
State
stood
there
,
if
some
magnifico
swolne
with
titles
,
would
we
not
hast
to
open
,
and
thinke
such
a
presence
an
honour
to
us
?
this
wee
would
doe
to
the
Nimrods
of
the
world
,
and
Peeres
of
the
earth
:
Behold
One
is
here
to
whom
the
greatest
Monarch
is
more
base
,
than
the
basest
Boare
to
the
greatest
Monarch
,
one
who
knocks
importunately
,
why
shut
wee
Him
out
,
why
are
docres
blockt
up
against
Him
?
O
our
lunacy
and
madnesse
!
Satan
angles
for
us
,
with
a
baite
of
honours
,
wee
are
caught
,
the
world
as
pleasingly
gives
us
the
musicke
of
gaine
,
wee
are
charm'd
.
the
flesh
unvailes
a
beauty
,
a
peece
of
clay
more
handsomely
attired
,
wee
burne
:
Riches
are
but
the
garbage
of
the
earth
,
we
dig
into
its
entrals
for
them
;
pleasures
are
but
a
flower
,
garish
to
the
eye
,
soone
withered
,
Our
sences
are
captivated
with
their
smell
;
Canticles
,
Open
unto
mee
,
my
Love
▪
my
Sister
,
my
Vndefiled
.
Open
the
doore
,
of
thy
soule
O
my
unspotted
Church
,
let
me
come
and
dwell
with
thee
in
my
Graces
:
here
wee
or
coine
excuses
for
delay
,
as
the
Spouse
now
,
I
have
put
off
my
coate
,
how
shall
I
put
it
on
?
I
have
washed
my
feet
how
shall
I
defile
them
?
or
wee
out
Him
into
our
stables
with
the
Bethlemites
anon
,
as
having
no
roome
in
the
Inne
of
our
hearts
for
Him
.
CHRIST
yet
,
but
in
the
closet
of
our
hearts
,
will
take
up
no
lodging
in
us
;
and
to
this
the
doore
alludes
here
,
so
runs
the
streame
of
Expositors
;
not
the
doores
of
our
lips
we
are
bid
open
,
though
these
too
,
but
the
doore
of
our
hearts
;
GOD
askes
the
roote
of
this
,
not
the
rinde
and
shell
of
those
▪
My
Sonne
give
me
thy
heart
;
not
thy
wisedome
,
for
all
the
treasures
of
it
are
in
my selfe
,
not
thy
wealth
,
Heart
:
Aeschines
brought
the
best
guift
,
who
gave
himselfe
to
his
Master
,
and
Socrates
priz'd
it
above
the
costlier
presents
of
his
other
Schollers
:
thy
heart
is
a
jewell
,
give
it
to
thy
GOD
,
this
small
pibble
is
of
more
worth
with
him
,
than
whole
rocks
of
Diamonds
,
this
one
living
stone
than
the
quarries
of
the
vast
world
;
all
thy
offerings
are
but
Sacriledges
and
Sorceries
without
it
,
all
thy
front
of
holinesse
but
dawbe
and
morter
:
all
is
not
man-hood
,
that
lookes
big
,
and
spits
fire
as
it
speakes
,
nor
is
all
beautie
,
which
the
sumptuous
art
of
a
trimming
sets
forth
:
there
is
a
dresse
and
paint
of
holinesse
,
GOD
will
wash
it
away
with
a
flood
of
brimstone
,
for
without
the
heart
no
colours
can
take
him
:
As
mans
heart
is
,
such
is
he
,
if
this
bee
soild
,
laide
ore
thou
maist
bee
with
a
vermilion
die
,
shall
smite
thee
thou
painted
wall
:
if
this
bee
pure
,
thou
art
all
white
as
the
snow
on
Salmon
,
no
juice
of
Isop
can
cleanse
thee
more
,
and
sure
GOD
is
best
pleas'd
with
his
owne
worke
which
is
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Davids
Orizons
flew
up
for
,
Create
a
cleane
heart
in
mee
O
LORD
:
GOD
gives
thee
this
,
and
give
it
Him
againe
or
keepe
all
.
Keepe
thy
almes
,
though
almes
bee
a
sweete
perfume
in
His
nostrils
,
thy
prayers
,
though
prayer
bee
as
incense
in
His
sight
,
thy
fasting
,
though
fasting
bee
the
Armour
of
true
penitence
,
thy
thousand
of
Rams
to
make
fat
,
thy
ten
thousand
rivers
of
oile
to
glad
His
altars
:
A
wreath
of
glory
waites
on
our
Almes-deeds
,
as
they
are
dispenc'd
by
charity
,
the
Almoner
of
faith
:
these
shee
doth
disperse
abroad
,
and
they
come
laden
home
with
sheaves
of
blisse
from
the
plentifullest
fields
,
for
a
good
eye
shall
be
blessed
of
GOD
;
but
what
are
good
workes
without
the
pittie
of
the
heart
,
this
temple
must
sanctifie
this
gold
,
or
as
Daniel
told
Balthasher
,
so
GOD
us
,
Keepe
thy
rewards
to
thy selfe
,
and
give
thy
gifts
to
another
:
Prayer
is
a
heavenly
Dialogue
,
or
the
soules
colloquy
with
its
Maker
;
't
is
a
chaine
,
whose
linkes
doe
reach
from
Heaven
to
Earth
,
and
by
which
wee
pull
downe
GOD
to
us
,
For
GOD
is
nigh
to
all
that
call
upon
Him
,
ye
spread
forth
your
hands
,
I
will
hide
mine
eyes
from
you
,
when
ye
make
many
prayers
I
will
not
heare
:
By
fasting
the
sinke
of
vice
is
dried
up
,
wantonnesse
waxeth
cold
,
concupiscences
grow
faint
,
and
pleasures
like
fugitives
runne
away
:
but
what
is
fasting
without
a
contrite
heart
?
what
is
it
to
tame
the
flesh
,
if
this
mutine
within
us
?
what
to
graspe
this
shadow
,
if
we
fathom
not
that
substance
;
if
that
Iebusite
be
not
subdu'd
within
thee
,
in
vaine
doest
thou
macerate
thy
body
into
a
skeleton
,
bury
it
in
a
shrowde
of
sackcloth
,
and
instead
of
sweete
Odours
besprinklest
it
with
Ashes
;
For
is
it
such
a
fast
as
I
have
chosen
,
a
day
for
a
man
to
bow
downe
his
head
like
a
bullrush
?
When
we
fast
at
once
from
meats
and
sinnes
,
is
thy
heart
right
,
saith
Iehu
,
when
he
would
feele
the
pulse
of
Iehonadab
how
it
beare
towards
him
,
give
mee
thy
hand
,
thus
man
doth
judge
the
roote
by
the
fruits
:
is
thy
hand
right
,
saith
GOD
,
is
there
no
jugling
,
no
imposture
,
no
legerde-maine
in
what
thou
doest
;
Give
mee
thy
heart
,
thus
GOD
doth
judge
the
fruits
by
the
roote
:
and
sure
all
the
wheeles
are
set
on
going
by
this
Primum
mobile
,
all
the
Planets
moove
,
as
this
Sphere
turnes
;
the
whole
infantery
,
the
foot
are
lead
up
by
this
man
of
valour
,
the
Heart
,
every
member
of
the
body
,
saies
to
it
,
as
the
Israelites
to
Ioshuah
,
All
thou
commandest
us
,
wee
will
doe
,
and
whithersoever
thou
sendest
us
wee
will
goe
:
onely
the
LORD
be
with
thee
:
and
doubt
not
,
but
GOD
will
bee
with
it
,
if
it
bee
His
,
if
it
be
not
,
He
hath
the
more
wrong
,
for
He
bought
it
dearely
,
it
cost
Him
that
blood
,
one
drop
whereof
was
worth
a
million
of
worlds
,
it
was
a
spittle
of
filth
,
He
hath
made
a
pallace
of
righteousnesse
,
Satan
had
his
throne
there
,
Hee
hath
bound
this
strong
man
and
cast
him
forth
:
so
that
now
't
is
His
owne
house
by
purchase
,
by
conquest
:
who
than
dares
to
keepe
Him
out
?
who
so
litigiously
given
,
as
not
to
open
,
when
Hee
knocks
?
which
is
my
third
generall
,
the
Action
it selfe
,
I
Knock
:
Behold
I
stand
at
the
doore
and
Knocke.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
the
Originall
,
from
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
say
Etymologists
,
a
Metaphor
taken
from
beasts
,
whom
nature
hath
armed
with
hornes
to
strike
:
no
creature
is
without
its
weapons
,
either
to
ward
of
from
himselfe
,
or
to
thrust
with
a
blow
at
others
:
the
Armadello
on
land
hath
his
hard
skinne
for
a
coate
,
the
Tortoise
in
the
Sea
,
his
as
hard
a
shell
for
a
covering
,
the
timerous
Roe
his
swift
feet
to
flie
,
the
wary
Fox
his
Labyrinths
,
to
hide
from
danger
:
the
Basilisk
hath
an
eye
to
kill
,
the
Dragon
a
breath
to
poison
,
the
Scorpion
a
sting
to
wound
:
the
Boare
roots
up
with
his
tusk
,
the
Griffins
teare
with
their
nailes
,
the
Eagle
with
her
talons
rends
in
peeces
,
and
the
Bulls
of
Bashan
push
strongly
with
the
horne
:
to
knocke
is
tropically
taken
here
,
and
borrowed
from
these
,
and
it
implies
a
mighty
stroake
,
as
a
blow
from
a
sinew'd
neck
,
or
those
hornes
of
iron
,
which
Zedekiah
made
,
when
he
betraid
himselfe
to
errour
by
a
false
spirit
,
by
the
gull
of
a
false
victory
he
cheated
Ahab
,
with
these
shalt
thou
push
the
Syrians
,
till
thou
have
consumed
them
:
't
is
than
a
knock
with
force
and
all
GODS
are
so
,
let
us
ranke
them
into
their
severall
files
.
First
,
GOD
knocks
by
the
Ministery
of
His
Word
,
it
casts
downe
,
saith
Saint
Paul
(
and
hee
speakes
it
as
an
Oracle
)
every
high
thing
that
exalts
it selfe
against
the
knowledge
of
GOD
,
and
brings
into
captivity
every
thought
to
the
obedience
of
CHRIST
:
Men
have
fore-heads
of
Stone
,
necks
vein'd
with
Adamant
,
hearts
rib'd
with
Marble
,
these
cannot
bleed
,
nor
those
bow
,
nor
tother
blush
,
the
Word
is
a
hammer
to
breake
this
rock
a
peeces
,
Word
distills
as
the
dew
upon
it
,
and
than
O
the
happy
fruits
of
a
few
drops
!
is
the
heart
malitious
?
no
knee
can
beg
a
pardon
of
it
,
as
soone
wee
may
calme
the
Sea
,
when
all
the
windes
are
in
an
uproare
:
is
it
covetous
?
no
balme
can
supple
it
to
pittie
,
none
art
extract
a
mite
from
it
:
is
it
ambitious
,
and
will
we
stay
its
careere
!
as
well
we
may
stop
the
lightning
:
is
it
factious
?
all
the
harmony
of
Heaven
cannot
sing
it
into
peace
:
is
it
fruitlesse
,
as
soone
we
may
plow
the
waters
and
expect
a
crop
thence
:
is
it
hard
:
what
meanes
can
mollifie
it
?
what
oile
here
,
what
vineger
there
?
Word
drops
as
the
raine
upon
it
;
as
the
small
raine
upon
the
tender
herbe
,
and
as
the
showers
upon
the
grasse
:
straight
this
flint
softens
into
flesh
,
these
jars
kisse
in
a
sweet
concord
,
this
rough
Ocean
doth
cease
to
rage
,
that
Gilboah
is
cloath'd
in
Greene
,
where
but
now
no
blade
was
,
not
a
leafe
of
grasse
to
apparell
it
:
as
if
a
new
soule
were
breath'd
into
him
,
such
a
change
is
in
the
whole
man
:
quantum
mutatus
ab
illo
:
Zacheus
is
mercifull
,
Paul
tame
as
a
lambe
,
Ahab
puts
sackcloth
upon
his
flesh
,
Felix
trembles
like
an
Aspen
leafe
:
Peter
taken
from
the
nets
,
doth
catch
a
thousand
and
a
thousand
soules
at
a
draught
,
nay
the
world
is
won
to
the
faith
,
not
by
the
Sages
of
Aegypt
,
but
the
refuse
of
Iury
,
the
Rabbies
with
these
,
with
those
the
Magi
are
master'd
by
them
;
the
words
of
Fishermen
are
reade
,
saith
Augustine
,
but
the
necks
of
Oratours
are
subdu'd
:
that
Romane
Chieftaine
might
not
more
boast
his
veni
,
vidi
,
Ore
gladij
,
with
the
edge
of
the
sword
,
this
can
but
gash
the
flesh
,
at
most
make
a
gappe
for
the
soule
to
step
out
at
;
but
gladio
oris
the
keene
blade
of
the
Word
,
which
divides
betweene
the
soule
and
the
spirit
,
no
other
weapon
can
pierce
so
deepe
,
not
that
fiery
one
,
with
which
the
Cherubins
kept
the
passage
of
Paradice
:
not
a
heart
within
these
wals
,
but
GOD
now
knocks
at
it
by
this
Word
,
though
not
by
this
onely
:
for
Secondly
,
GOD
knocks
by
His
Mercies
:
His
Mercies
!
a
Capitoll
of
justice
,
but
we
slie
into
His
bosome
,
as
He
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
an
Asylum
of
mercy
;
and
the
best
Sanctuary
Hee
is
,
nay
joyes
to
be
so
:
Tully
speakes
it
of
himselfe
,
and
take
him
as
the
Embleme
of
a
good
judge
,
strange
worke
,
a
strange
Act
:
Austerity
is
no
consort
of
His
,
no
familiar
,
little
acquaintance
He
hath
with
it
,
nor
glories
He
to
have
any
:
is
gratious
and
full
of
compassion
,
slow
to
anger
and
of
great
mercie
,
is
good
to
all
and
His
tender
mercies
are
above
all
His
workes
:
what
above
all
His
workes
?
that
starry
roofe
over
our
heads
,
and
those
millions
of
tapers
which
burne
there
?
this
pavement
of
thy
workmanship
,
O
LORD
,
we
tread
on
,
every
the
least
inch
of
it
,
the
whole
earth
is
full
of
thy
goodnesse
:
Thy
mercy
,
O
LORD
,
is
in
the
Heavens
,
Psal.
36.
it
than
equals
them
for
site
here
,
but
it
transcends
them
there
,
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
now
,
Thy
mercy
is
great
above
the
heavens
,
Moses
:
He
kept
him
as
the
Apple
of
his
eye
,
he
bore
him
on
his
wings
as
an
Eagle
,
he
gave
him
the
increase
of
the
fields
,
he
made
him
suck
honey
out
of
the
rocke
,
fed
him
with
butter
of
kine
,
and
milke
of
sheepe
,
with
fat
of
Lambs
,
and
Rams
of
the
breed
of
Bashan
:
May
I
speake
it
to
the
conscience
of
every
one
here
,
who
hath
not
tasted
and
seene
that
the
LORD
is
good
?
Psal.
34.
8.
whom
amongst
vs
hath
He
not
drawne
with
the
coards
of
men
,
the
bands
of
love
?
Apostles
,
silver
and
gold
have
we
none
,
we
can
,
as
Pindarus
did
of
the
citie
Rhodes
,
the
King
of
the
gods
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
those
dewes
of
Hermon
,
which
fell
upon
the
hils
of
Sion
:
these
are
blessed
knockings
,
if
they
miscarry
,
will
GOD
leave
us
so
?
no
,
He
will
knock
more
sharply
yet
,
with
a
more
smarting
blow
,
by
His
Afflictions
:
First
,
Them
,
they
are
indeed
the
stroakes
of
justice
properly
,
as
a
reall
Sermon
,
by
which
GOD
doth
preach
unto
us
the
vilenesse
of
our
sins
and
His
loathing
of
them
:
they
are
eventually
a
pawne
of
love
,
for
as
those
floods
rise
,
so
with
them
the
Arke
of
the
Church
is
more
lifted
up
to
Heaven
,
by
these
rough
rocks
,
as
Ionatthan
to
the
garrison
of
the
Philistins
,
the
Saints
climbe
up
,
as
by
staires
to
glory
:
crosses
are
rough
and
pricklie
,
they
are
waters
of
marah
,
as
draughts
of
Hemlock
to
an
unhallowed
pallat
:
but
there
is
an
unction
of
joy
,
that
supples
them
them
to
the
godly
,
honey
is
suckt
by
them
from
these
thistles
,
and
now
here
is
Sampsons
riddle
without
a
mistery
,
Out
of
the
eater
comes
meate
,
and
out
of
the
strong
comes
sweet
:
that
Absynthium
which
smarts
our
eye
cleares
it
,
and
we
thank
that
paine
which
gives
us
sight
:
the
way
to
cleanse
thy
sore
,
may
bee
to
launce
and
tent
it
to
the
quick
,
and
to
dead
thy
festring
flesh
thou
bidst
a
free
welcome
,
even
to
searings
and
cauteries
:
to
purge
out
my
grosse
humours
,
I
ask
not
for
sugred
but
working
potions
,
nor
will
I
distast
their
bitternesse
,
though
intermingled
with
gall
:
he
shall
die
without
my
pittie
,
who
will
languish
rather
under
a
wilfull
sicknesse
,
than
venture
on
a
harsh
remedie
:
A
sound
body
may
house
a
crazie
soule
,
and
't
is
a
rare
one
,
that
hath
not
some
notable
maladie
:
One
swels
with
a
tympany
of
pride
,
that
reeles
with
the
staggers
of
drunkennesse
;
this
rots
with
a
consumption
of
envie
,
tother
thirsts
with
a
dropsie
of
Avarice
,
in
many
the
whole
heart
is
sicke
;
crosses
are
our
best
medicines
,
what
if
their
relish
displease
us
?
it
is
enough
that
they
are
soveraigne
,
though
not
savoury
;
if
they
are
wholesome
,
why
are
we
squeamish
?
who
loves
his
tast
,
above
his
health
,
may
hee
be
diseas'd
still
.
Secondly
,
sift
we
our selves
,
and
those
knockings
,
which
go
against
the
graine
,
weigh
how
they
work
to
our
good
,
and
how
in
them
GOD
doth
crosse
us
with
a
blessing
!
sweetning
dewes
in
his
face
,
should
a
smooth
gale
ever
fill
his
sailes
,
what
an
elated
meteor
would
man
grow
to
,
how
would
this
Colosse
ore-stradle
the
world
?
Alexander
if
he
be
Great
,
some
flatterers
of
his
court
(
and
these
burs
still
cleave
to
the
coates
of
greatnesse
)
will
intitle
him
to
immortality
,
and
say
,
he
is
a
god
:
we
are
easily
befool'd
to
an
over-valuing
of
our selves
,
so
was
he
,
untill
wounded
with
a
dart
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Such
a
juice
as
drops
from
the
veines
of
the
gods
:
As
mens
pompe
,
so
their
mindes
rise
,
these
are
higher
,
as
that
is
more
lackey'd
:
how
can
it
be
full
sea
in
the
thoughts
,
if
the
ebb
be
low
in
the
state
,
or
to
whom
the
world
is
imbitter'd
,
will
they
suck
vanity
from
her
breasts
?
this
knockes
at
the
rich
mans
doore
,
nor
lies
it
on
a
pad
of
straw
,
but
a
bed
of
downe
:
Ease
slayeth
the
foolish
,
it
pufs
up
this
bladder
of
winde
,
if
plenty
waft
in
a
high
tide
to
him
,
and
but
what
is
in
those
Aires
,
the
world
fan's
on
his
cheekes
,
other
happinesse
he
knowes
none
:
what
more
endeeres
our
home
unto
us
,
than
our
wants
abroad
?
as
but
for
the
enterchange
of
cold
&
winter
,
who
would
long
for
the
spring
,
though
for
ornament
the
most
gorgeous
season
of
the
yeare
?
the
Prodigall
,
when
he
feedes
on
husks
,
than
thinkes
on
his
Fathers
house
,
as
at
the
thought
of
Aegypt
and
her
flesh-pots
,
Israel
loaths
Canaan
it selfe
:
where
do
our
desires
breathe
so
short
of
Heaven
,
as
where
Vsury
sits
wrapt
in
furs
,
where
bravery
failes
in
tissues
and
embroideries
,
where
opulencie
showres
downe
in
fleeces
of
gold
,
where
honours
fawne
,
and
all
things
flow
in
an
over
prosperous
abundance
:
such
a
wretchednesse
it
is
to
be
too
happy
:
Minutius
beares
away
the
palme
of
a
glorious
victory
,
and
all
Rome
ecchoes
as
one
Theatour
in
his
praises
Fabius
his
wise
Colleague
than
feares
him
most
,
and
most
justly
,
for
said
that
famous
Oratour
,
in
a
more
famous
Senate
,
Israel
being
smitten
,
seekes
after
GOD
early
:
Davids
sweetest
songs
were
his
lachrymae
,
this
Saint
in
a
tempest
how
crest-fallen
in
his
devotion
,
when
he
lies
at
hull
at
home
!
it
is
good
for
me
that
I
was
in
trouble
:
it
was
good
for
Naaman
that
he
was
a
Leaper
,
but
by
his
leaprosie
he
had
not
knowne
Elisha
,
nor
GOD
,
but
by
his
Prophet
;
it
was
good
for
Paul
,
that
he
had
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
a
stub
in
the
flesh
,
hee
might
through
his
heavenly
rapture
,
have
beene
enamour'd
on
himselfe
,
but
for
those
corasives
of
sharpe
buffetings
:
Even
the
worst
men
may
be
made
good
by
sufferings
,
they
make
the
good
happy
;
and
so
expect
not
their
patience
onely
but
cheerefullnesse
;
Every
bird
can
chirpe
it
in
a
temperate
Aire
,
give
me
those
notes
are
carol'd
in
the
midst
of
a
storme
:
not
an
Epicures
spleene
but
claps
his
wanton
sides
in
the
midst
of
his
jollity
,
but
O
that
inimaginable
joy
of
Martyrs
,
which
made
them
sing
at
the
stake
!
never
repine
we
,
let
them
glad
us
rather
,
at
those
beatings
,
which
humble
us
here
,
to
exalt
us
hereafter
,
the
rod
is
worthy
to
be
kist
,
which
doth
lash
out
our
folly
:
if
therefore
the
sound
of
thy
Word
pearce
not
my
dull
eares
,
if
I
speake
not
at
the
ravishing
knock
of
thy
blessings
,
knock
on
,
till
I
not
heare
but
smart
,
but
still
in
Mercy
,
O
LORD
and
not
in
judgement
,
and
this
is
GODS
fourth
way
of
Knocking
.
Fourthly
,
GOD
knocketh
by
His
Judgements
,
whether
at
the
next
doore
,
or
our
owne
.
First
,
if
at
the
next
,
His
stroakes
there
,
are
caveats
to
us
;
if
others
are
beate
,
thou
art
warn'd
:
Sodome
and
those
cities
of
the
plaine
,
which
were
mixt
with
cloudes
of
pitch
,
and
heapes
of
Ashes
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
at
the
seventh
of
Iude
,
are
items
to
all
;
to
all
who
have
fronts
of
whoredomes
,
that
in
those
legible
characters
they
may
spell
what
GOD
meanes
to
themselves
;
to
all
too
,
who
have
hearts
of
flesh
,
and
looke
on
those
monuments
of
vengeance
,
as
Sea-men
do
on
shelves
,
to
shun
them
:
Remember
Lots
wife
,
she
is
made
a
statue
to
thee
,
a
pillar
of
Salt
to
this
end
,
ut
suo
te
exemplo
condiret
,
as
Saint
Augustine
warbles
it
,
to
season
thee
by
her
example
,
to
scare
thee
by
her
doome
too
,
for
't
is
the
propertie
of
Salt
,
Except
yee
repent
,
yee
shall
all
likewise
perish
:
happy
he
,
whom
▪
others
harmes
make
wise
,
and
whom
they
teach
not
,
he
may
want
not
griefe
,
but
pittie
:
Lamech
slaies
a
man
to
his
wounding
,
and
a
young
man
to
his
hurt
,
nor
could
the
President
of
Caine
take
of
his
edge
from
blood-shed
:
wee
need
no
Iury
to
passe
upon
him
,
no
judge
to
sentence
him
for
this
,
his
own
mouth
hath
done
it
:
if
Caine
shall
be
avenged
seven
fold
,
sure
Lamech
seventie
and
seven
fold
:
how
often
are
men
swallowed
up
of
those
judgements
,
they
see
to
ingulfe
others
,
and
sleight
them
:
Oportet
abietem
ululare
,
quia
cecidit
cedrus
;
if
the
Cedar
fall
,
let
the
firre-tree
howle
,
the
next
blow
stocks
up
that
too
:
the
cloud
may
gather
a
farre
of
,
and
some
fury
of
the
storme
may
breake
on
our
heads
:
the
Sword
which
is
drunke
with
blood
yonder
,
will
perhaps
quaffe
thine
,
the
Pestilence
which
destroies
in
the
next
Citie
,
what
garrisons
can
keepe
it
out
of
this
?
if
my
neighbours
house
be
on
fire
,
shall
I
warme
my
hands
at
the
flame
?
may
not
those
sparkes
catch
my
roofe
?
let
a
Nero
sing
,
when
Rome
burnes
,
by
anothers
losses
,
I
shall
collect
mine
owne
,
what
they
may
be
,
how
neere
to
arrest
me
,
Smite
a
scorner
and
the
simple
will
beware
:
may
others
ingrosse
all
the
skill
of
Aegypt
,
let
me
be
blest
with
this
simplicity
,
no
vatican
or
Library
of
the
world
is
enricht
with
so
true
wisedome
:
for
who
bleeds
at
anothers
hurt
doth
in
that
forestall
his
owne
,
if
that
punishment
makes
thee
wary
,
which
lies
at
the
next
threshold
,
be
sure
,
it
shall
not
step
ore
thine
:
Otherwise
Secondly
,
GOD
knocks
by
his
judgements
at
our
owne
doores
:
His
knocks
of
mercy
,
are
as
the
raine
that
comes
downe
upon
the
mowen
grasse
,
not
with
noise
enough
to
rouse
us
:
the
knocks
of
Afflictions
gall
us
,
but
wound
not
,
these
arrowes
strike
,
but
stick
not
in
us
,
with
some
little
paines
we
shake
them
of
,
non
haeret
lateri
lethalis
arundo
:
the
knock
of
judgement
,
though
at
the
next
wicket
,
is
out
of
our
hearing
,
and
therefore
out
of
our
care
,
yet
is
it
not
for
want
of
sound
in
that
,
but
for
want
of
eares
in
us
:
but
these
knocks
at
our
owne
gates
,
no
bars
of
iron
can
hold
out
against
them
,
no
heart
so
knotty
,
but
they
cleave
it
:
GOD
smites
another
and
we
keepe
aloofe
from
His
soare
,
Aul.
Gellius
stories
it
,
bound
ore
a
woman
for
the
triall
of
her
cause
,
when
they
could
not
sentence
it
,
who
descants
on
others
falls
,
without
the
least
reflex
to
their
owne
merits
,
or
turne
taile
,
like
a
weather-cock
in
a
gentle
calme
,
when
GOD
courts
them
by
His
mercies
,
where
will
these
hide
them
,
in
what
rocks
,
under
what
mountaines
,
when
GOD
will
bee
knowne
by
the
judgement
that
hee
executeth
,
Ier.
5.
ver.
3.
Thou
hast
smitten
them
;
but
they
have
not
greeved
,
thou
hast
consumed
them
,
but
they
have
made
their
faces
harder
than
a
rock
:
So
Saint
Augustine
upbraideth
the
seduct
Pagans
:
Perdidistis
utilitatem
calamitatis
,
miseri
facti
estis
,
&
pessimi
permansist
is
:
wickednesse
makes
you
wretched
,
wretchednesse
makes
you
worse
,
so
the
fruits
of
your
calamities
die
in
their
touch
,
and
like
those
by
the
Lake
Asphalites
crumble
into
Ashes
:
GOD
fiftly
knocks
by
the
sweet
inspirements
This
is
the
way
,
walke
in
it
:
a
voice
audible
to
all
within
the
pale
of
the
Church
,
even
those
false
fires
of
Religion
,
which
but
glow
in
it
:
these
have
their
pangs
of
zeale
,
their
quames
of
devotion
,
their
flashes
of
holinesse
,
and
from
this
Spirit
are
all
these
,
how-ever
nick-nam'd
:
this
Spirit
enkindled
those
sparks
,
non
plust
spight
of
his
subtle
disputes
,
and
made
a
Proselyte
with
those
,
whom
but
now
he
martyr'd
:
if
we
thinke
a
good
thought
,
it
is
grace
infused
,
so
Saint
Augustine
the
devout
patron
of
it
,
if
we
speake
a
good
word
,
it
is
grace
effused
,
if
we
doe
a
good
worke
,
it
is
grace
diffused
;
now
what
is
done
by
grace
,
the
Spirit
doth
it
,
whose
royall
Epitheton
and
character
it
is
,
The
Spirit
of
grace
:
there
is
a
Spirit
of
giddinesse
,
Anarchy
,
disorder
,
irreligion
:
they
are
other
fruits
,
which
blossome
on
that
tree
,
the
good
Spirit
plants
;
who
keepe
the
unity
of
the
Spirit
in
the
bond
of
peace
:
Precept
upon
precept
,
precept
upon
precept
,
line
upon
line
,
line
upon
line
,
here
a
little
,
and
there
a
little
:
if
this
Spirit
enflame
not
our
hearts
to
the
love
of
the
truth
,
how
do
we
looke
the
Prophets
in
the
face
,
cast
their
words
behind
our
backs
?
or
heare
them
as
we
doe
musick
to
stuffe
our
eares
,
when
our
bellies
are
full
.
Secondly
,
GOD
knocks
by
His
Mercies
,
exhausts
all
the
treasures
of
them
,
and
crownes
us
with
His
blessings
:
if
this
Spirit
mould
not
our
hearts
to
thankfullnesse
,
how
as
wild
heafers
doe
we
kicke
being
full
,
or
how
,
like
a
peevish
beautie
,
the
more
GOD
woes
us
by
His
bounty
,
the
more
coy
and
shie
are
we
?
Thirdly
,
GOD
knocks
by
Afflictions
,
these
rise
not
out
of
the
dust
,
none
can
take
of
,
or
add
the
least
scruple
to
their
weight
,
and
they
are
for
our
health
those
drams
that
are
mingled
to
us
of
them
;
this
heavenly
physicke
workes
not
on
our
soules
;
if
the
Spirit
make
it
not
operative
,
without
Him
the
whole
head
is
still
sick
,
nor
hath
any
drugsters
shop
that
medecine
can
cure
us
.
Fourthly
,
GOD
knocks
by
His
judgements
,
they
breake
in
like
waves
of
the
sea
,
this
on
the
neck
of
that
,
ere
the
former
have
wrought
all
his
spight
:
they
beate
with
blowes
able
to
shake
the
center
,
mans
heart
like
the
Anvill
,
the
more
't
is
hammer'd
on
,
the
harder
it
growes
;
onely
this
Spirit
makes
us
flexible
mettall
;
judgements
may
leave
an
impression
behind
them
,
but
no
stampe
to
that
of
Grace
.
Powre
out
O
LORD
,
of
this
thy
Spirit
upon
us
;
Knock
by
thy
Word
,
and
may
it
leade
us
in
the
paths
of
life
;
Knock
by
thy
Mercies
,
and
may
those
load-stones
attract
our
longing
to
thee
;
Knock
by
thy
Afflictions
,
and
in
that
Schoole
,
may
we
con
new
lessons
of
Amendment
;
Knock
by
thy
judgements
,
may
they
put
us
in
feare
,
and
make
us
know
our selves
to
be
but
dust
and
ashes
:
Knock
above
all
by
thy
Sacred
Spirit
,
O
thou
who
hast
the
keyes
of
hell
and
death
,
say
effectually
to
our
soules
;
Lift
up
your
heads
,
O
ye
gates
,
and
be
ye
lift
up
ye
everlasting
doores
,
that
the
King
of
glory
may
come
in
:
So
Veni
Domine
Iesu
,
Come
LORD
JESV
,
come
quickly
:
To
whom
with
the
Father
and
the
Spirit
,
be
All
praise
,
and
honour
for
ever
,
Amen
.
FINIS
.