PSAL.
90.
12.
Teach
vs
so
to
number
our
daies
,
that
we
maie
applie
our
hearts
to
wisedome
.
THis
Psalme
was
compiled
by
Moses
,
at
what
time
,
the
spies
returning
from
the
land
of
Canaan
,
discouraged
their
brethren
;
and
the
Lord
for
the
murmuring
of
the
people
,
pronounced
,
that
all
aboue
twenty
yeares
old
(
Caleb
and
Iosua
only
excepted
)
should
die
in
the
wildernes
.
Now
when
Moses
heard
this
general
sentence
of
death
denounced
both
against
himselfe
,
and
all
those
that
●ame
out
of
Egypt
with
him
,
he
frameth
this
Psalme
,
and
praieth
thus
for
him selfe
and
all
the
rest
.
But
I
may
not
insist
in
generalls
:
the
foundation
of
my
speech
shall
onely
rest
vpon
this
12
verse
.
The
words
are
so
plaine
and
manifest
,
that
I
may
say
of
this
Scripture
,
as
Augustin
speaketh
,
Desiderat
auditorem
,
Tract.
50.
in
Iohannem
.
magis
quàm
expositorem
,
It
requires
rather
an
attentiue
hearer
,
then
a
skilfull
expositor
.
I
will
draw
the
substance
of
mine
intended
speech
vnto
two
generall
heads
:
the
first
a
prayer
of
Moses
,
Teach
vs
so
to
number
our
daies
.
The
second
a
reason
why
he
prayed
thus
,
That
wee
maie
applie
our
hearts
to
wisedome
.
Out
of
these
two
generall
heads
,
I
will
distinguish
fiue
seuerall
conclusions
.
First
,
Death
is
the
hauen
of
euery
man
.
Moses
maketh
this
prayer
in
the
plurall
number
.
Mans
time
is
set
,
and
his
bounds
appointed
which
he
cannot
passe
.
Peach
vs
to
number
our
daies
;
there
is
a
number
of
dayes
.
Mans
time
is
short
:
Moses
mentioneth
not
yeeres
,
nor
monethes
,
nor
weekes
,
but
dayes
.
Although
mans
time
be
short
,
yet
he
remembreth
it
not
;
for
we
are
apt
to
forget
death
.
If
we
could
remember
death
,
it
would
cause
vs
to
apply
our
hearts
vnto
wisedome
.
Thus
you
see
how
this
Scripture
naturally
brancheth
and
deuideth
it selfe
into
these
particulars
.
I
wil
not
offer
any
violence
in
the
handling
of
this
text
,
I
will
not
set
any
of
these
points
vpon
the
Racke
,
I
will
not
proffer
to
stretch
mine
arme
higher
then
my
stature
may
carry
it
;
I
will
not
trouble
you
with
Idle
curiosities
,
I
will
returne
therfore
to
the
head
of
the
race
,
where
I
first
began
.
Doct.
1
The
first
conclusion
to
be
examined
,
and
the
first
doctrine
to
be
extracted
,
is
this
,
That
death
is
the
hauen
of
euery
man
.
What
man
liueth
,
saith
Dauid
,
And
Psal.
89.
48.
shall
not
see
death
?
The
Apostle
saith
,
It
is
appointed
vnto
all
men
,
to
dye
once
,
Heb:
9.
27.
And
if
we
looke
into
the
catalogue
of
those
long
liued
Fathers
before
the
floud
,
though
some
of
them
liued
700.
some
800.
some
900
,
yeers
and
vpward
,
yet
at
length
this
Epitaph
was
written
ouer
euery
one
of
their
heads
,
Mortuus
est
,
He
died
.
Though
euery
day
of
our
life
,
were
Gen.
5.
as
long
as
the
day
of
Iosua
,
when
the
Sun
stood
stil
in
the
midst
of
the
heauen
,
yet
the
Sunne
will
set
and
go
Iosh.
10.
13.
downe
,
and
it
will
be
night
at
last
.
Euery
man
must
acknowledge
with
Iob
,
Corruption
is
my
father
,
and
the
worme
is
my
mother
:
therefore
Esay
witnesseth
that
●ob
17.
14.
Esay
40.
6.
All
flesh
is
grasse
.
All
these
testimonies
as
a
cloud
of
witnesses
,
confirme
this
doctrine
.
There
are
also
two
reasons
to
inforce
the
same
.
Reason
.
1
First
,
all
men
are
dust
in
their
originall
,
the
matter
whereof
we
are
made
is
the
dust
of
the
earth
:
And
therefore
to
dust
we
must
againe
returne
.
And
this
Gen.
3.
19.
reason
is
vsed
,
Gen.
3.
19.
Reason
.
2
Secondly
,
all
men
haue
sinned
,
and
are
depriued
of
the
glory
of
God
.
Man
at
the
first
was
created
to
immortality
;
and
if
he
had
neuer
sinned
,
he
should
neuer
haue
died
.
But
when
sin
entred
,
death
followed
as
the
wages
doth
the
worke
;
as
God
threatned
,
Gen.
Gen.
2.
17.
2.
17.
And
the
Apostle
,
Rom.
5.
15
By
one
man
sinne
Rom.
5.
12.
entred
into
the
word
,
and
death
by
sinne
:
And
so
death
went
ouer
all
men
,
in
whom
all
men
haue
sinned
.
Vse
.
1
There
shall
be
no
difference
betweene
the
rich
&
the
poore
in
the
graue
:
there
is
a
great
difference
in
their
life
time
,
in
respect
of
honours
and
houses
,
lands
and
liuings
,
duties
and
dignities
,
and
such
like
externall
priuiledges
and
prerogatiues
:
But
in
the
end
we
see
that
wise
men
and
likewise
the
ignorant
and
foolish
Psal.
49.
10.
perish
.
Zenacherib
in
his
Ruffe
for
a
time
,
made
proud
challenges
,
Where
is
the
king
of
Hamah
,
where
Esay
37.
13.
is
the
king
of
Arpad
,
where
is
the
king
of
Hena
?
kings
which
he
had
destroyed
:
And
haue
the
Gods
of
the
nations
deliuered
their
Clients
and
orators
,
out
of
my
hands
?
But
a
man
might
soone
haue
asked
him
,
Where
is
the
king
of
Ashur
?
And
hath
Nisroch
the
God
of
Assiria
,
deliuered
Zenacherib
himselfe
?
Looke
into
the
graue
and
shew
me
,
where
is
Diues
,
&
where
is
Lazarus
?
where
is
Alexander
that
conquered
the
whole
world
,
and
Zerxes
that
could
not
number
his
armie
for
multitude
?
where
is
Nimri
that
built
his
rest
in
the
clouds
,
and
Antiochus
that
sealed
vpon
the
Mountaines
?
where
is
Edom
that
exalted
himselfe
like
an
eagle
in
the
skies
,
and
said
in
the
swelling
of
his
heart
,
Who
shall
bring
me
down
?
Where
is
Paper
the
king
of
Persia
,
that
wrote
himselfe
Rex
regum
,
fratersolis
et
lunae
,
par●ceps
siderum
,
king
of
kings
,
brother
to
the
sunne
and
moone
,
and
partner
with
the
starrs
?
where
is
Samson
that
slew
an
armie
with
the
law
bone
ludg
.
15.
15.
of
an
asse
?
what
is
become
of
all
those
great
Roman
Lords
,
Nero
,
Caligula
,
Vespasian
,
Titus
,
Domitiam
and
the
rest
?
Haue
they
not
all
felt
and
bin
foyled
by
the
stroake
of
this
all
conquering
death
?
who
would
haue
Acts
12.
23.
a
Kings
.
9.
35.
thought
that
Herod
,
who
was
honoured
as
a
God
,
should
haue
bin
deuoured
of
wormes
?
That
Iezabel
should
haue
bin
eaten
of
dogs
?
what
would
he
thinke
,
that
should
haue
seene
Solomon
in
his
glory
and
Royaltie
,
to
see
him
now
lying
in
the
clay
?
Yesterday
the
tallest
Cedar
in
Libanus
,
to
day
or
to
morrow
a
broken
stick
trodden
vnder
foot
;
when
death
comes
,
no
difference
.
The
bones
of
Agamemnon
that
renowned
Captaine
among
the
Grecians
,
and
of
Thirsites
that
ill
fauoured
and
deformed
souldier
,
shal
be
mngled
together
.
The
bones
of
Vashti
the
most
beautifull
queene
,
and
the
blackest
Egiptian
bond-woman
shall
not
be
found
asunder
:
looke
into
the
graue
,
&
there
I
say
is
no
difference
,
but
Putidum
et
putridum
Cadauer
,
a
rotten
and
a
stinking
Carkas
.
Vse
.
2
Men
of
excellent
&
eminent
places
must
learne
to
liue
religiously
&
vprightly
;
for
they
must
go
the
way
of
all
the
earth
,
and
depart
hence
when
it
shall
be
said
,
Priora
transierunt
,
Former
things
are
passed
away
,
and
it
wil
be
said
,
Come
giue
an
account
of
thy
stewardship
.
The
thriuing
of
the
wicked
in
the
bookes
of
Iob
&
of
the
Psalmes
,
wanteth
not
a
learned
oratour
Luke
16.
2.
Iob
21.
7.
Psal.
73.
3.
to
set
it
forth
at
large
.
But
as
in
the
burning
of
a
candle
,
when
it
hath
long
giuen
light
,
Extremum
occupat
fumus
et
caligo
,
The
end
is
in
smoake
and
in
a
stinking
sauour
:
so
falleth
it
out
with
the
candle
of
the
wicked
,
In
puncto
descendunt
in
infernum
:
In
the
stirring
of
an
eye
they
goe
downe
to
hell
,
where
if
there
be
not
famus
&
caligo
,
smoke
and
darknesse
,
and
the
blackenesse
of
darkenesse
,
and
a
stinking
sauour
,
and
much
worse
,
there
is
no
hell
at
all
.
Lift
not
vp
your
Psal.
75.
5.
borne
on
high
,
speake
not
with
a
stiffe
necke
,
for
in
the
hand
of
the
Lord
there
is
a
cup
,
and
the
wine
is
red
of
the
colour
of
bloud
.
My
brethren
,
let
not
the
pompe
of
the
world
deceiue
you
,
whether
it
stand
in
authoritie
,
in
opulencie
or
voluptuousnesse
of
life
:
I
say
,
let
it
not
deceiue
you
;
for
as
all
the
fresh
riuers
runne
into
the
salt
sea
,
so
shall
all
the
honours
of
the
world
end
in
basenesse
,
all
the
pleasures
of
the
world
in
bitternesse
,
all
the
treasures
of
the
world
in
emptinesse
,
all
the
garments
of
the
world
in
nakednesse
,
and
all
the
dainties
and
delicates
of
the
world
in
loathsomnesse
and
rottennesse
.
Take
heede
of
too
large
an
indulgence
,
least
God
giue
you
a
rent
,
that
hath
giuen
you
a
garment
;
and
cloath
you
with
worser
then
leprosie
,
that
hitherto
hath
couered
you
with
glory
,
worship
,
and
dignitie
.
Vse
.
3
Let
vs
prepare
for
death
,
that
we
may
haue
oyle
in
our
lampes
,
when
the
bridegroome
commeth
.
Let
vs
prepare
and
prouide
for
the
day
of
our
dissolution
.
Let
vs
prepare
for
a
Nunc
dimittis
.
Oh
be
not
like
the
foolish
virgins
that
knocked
at
the
gate
,
when
it
was
shut
,
and
too
late
.
Oh
be
not
like
the
vnprepared
Math.
25.
12.
Math.
22.
13.
guest
,
that
came
to
the
wedding
without
his
wedding
garment
.
Great
Iupiter
was
carelesse
of
his
death
.
Visuntur
magniparua
sepulchra
Iouis
.
Great
Iupi●er
had
but
a
little
tombe
.
And
Alexander
the
Monarch
of
the
world
,
prepared
nothing
at
all
for
his
death
,
he
had
all
other
things
,
sauing
onely
a
sepulcher
,
to
burie
him
in
when
he
was
dead
.
But
Abraham
prouided
for
his
death
,
for
he
bought
a
field
to
Gen.
23.
17.
burie
his
dead
in
.
So
did
Ioseph
of
Aramathea
,
for
he
Gen.
23.
17.
Math.
27.
60.
made
his
tombe
in
his
life
time
in
his
garden
,
to
put
him
in
remembrance
of
death
.
Oh
imitate
these
latter
:
prouide
and
prepare
for
your
last
end
,
and
still
looke
vp
to
death
,
as
the
wisemen
looked
vnto
the
starre
which
stood
ouer
Bethlem
,
Qui
gloriatur
viribus
corporis
,
gloriatur
viribus
carceris
.
He
that
glorieth
in
the
strength
of
his
bodie
,
glorieth
in
the
strength
of
his
prison
.
Plato
spake
wittily
to
one
of
his
schollers
,
when
he
saw
him
too
curious
in
pampering
his
belly
and
his
body
,
Why
doest
thou
,
said
he
,
make
thy
prison
so
strong
?
Doct.
2
I
will
proceede
now
to
the
second
conclusion
,
to
wit
,
that
mans
time
is
set
,
and
his
bounds
appointed
which
he
cannot
passe
.
It
was
said
to
Belshazzar
.
Dan.
5.
25.
Mene
,
mene
,
God
hath
numbred
thy
kingdome
.
So
it
may
be
said
,
Mene
mene
,
God
hath
numbred
the
daies
of
our
life
.
To
this
Iob
beareth
witnesse
,
Are
not
his
Iob
14.
5.
daies
determined
?
thou
hast
appointed
his
bounds
,
which
he
cannot
passe
.
And
the
Prophet
Ieremie
saith
,
The
Egyptians
could
not
stand
,
because
the
Ierem.
46.
21.
day
of
their
destruction
was
come
,
and
the
time
of
their
visitation
.
Reason
.
1
A
certaine
time
is
appointed
for
all
other
things
.
The
day
of
birth
,
the
day
of
marriage
,
the
day
of
honour
,
the
day
of
deliuerance
,
and
the
day
of
death
must
not
bee
excluded
.
God
hath
determined
Dan.
1
1
:
36.
all
things
,
saith
the
Prophet
.
God
appointed
a
time
when
his
Sonne
should
come
into
the
world
,
Dan.
9.
and
he
came
at
the
same
time
.
God
appointed
a
time
when
his
blessings
should
come
vpon
Ioseph
:
and
Gal.
4.
4.
when
the
appointed
time
was
come
,
he
was
exalted
.
Psal.
105.
19.
Therefore
saith
Christ
,
My
time
is
not
yet
come
.
Ioh.
7.
8.
Reason
.
2
Secondly
,
the
prouidence
of
God
hath
two
parts
,
to
wit
;
Gouernment
and
Knowledge
.
God
is
not
a
retchlesse
,
carelesse
,
and
improuident
God
;
Oh
no
:
he
is
not
a
God
by
halues
,
and
in
part
,
not
onely
in
the
Mountaines
,
not
onely
in
great
imployments
,
but
also
in
the
vallies
,
and
in
the
least
matters
.
Hee
gouerneth
all
the
world
,
as
one
that
sits
in
a
chaire
at
ease
;
his
prouidence
is
seene
in
the
least
things
,
In
Pulice
et
in
Culice
,
as
Saint
Augustine
saith
,
in
Flies
and
August
.
in
Psal.
148.
in
Gnats
.
He
is
Curiosus
et
plenus
negotii
Deus
,
A
curious
God
,
exquisite
in
all
things
,
and
full
of
businesse
,
saith
Tullie
,
against
the
Atheists
and
Epicures
of
his
De
natura
deorum
.
time
:
he
examineth
the
least
moments
and
titles
in
the
world
that
can
be
imagined
:
a
handfull
of
meale
,
a
Cruise
of
Oyle
,
in
a
poore
Widdowes
house
;
the
caluing
of
Hindes
,
the
feeding
of
young
Lyons
,
and
Rauens
,
the
falling
of
Sparrowes
to
the
ground
:
he
numbreth
the
haires
of
our
heads
,
he
feedeth
the
Fowles
of
the
heauen
,
and
cloatheth
the
flowres
of
Math.
6.
●6
.
the
field
:
And
if
so
,
then
sure
this
wise
and
prouident
God
,
who
holds
the
whole
Globe
of
the
world
in
his
hand
,
and
ordereth
all
things
therein
,
who
keepeth
a
perfect
Kalender
of
all
times
and
seasons
,
hath
also
prefined
the
yeere
,
the
moneth
,
the
weeke
;
nay
,
the
very
day
of
our
departure
.
Obiect
.
But
it
may
be
obiected
,
If
this
be
true
that
a
man
must
liue
so
long
and
no
longer
,
and
if
a
mans
time
be
set
,
then
it
is
in
vaine
to
keepe
a
good
dyet
,
or
to
take
Phisicke
.
Answer
.
To
which
I
answer
,
God
hath
not
ordained
the
end
without
the
meanes
,
but
the
meanes
as
well
as
the
end
:
If
God
haue
appointed
a
man
to
die
in
his
youth
,
hee
hath
appointed
a
meanes
to
shorten
his
life
,
as
he
did
Absolons
.
If
God
haue
appointed
a
man
●
.
Sam.
18.
6.
to
liue
long
,
he
hath
also
appointed
a
meanes
to
preserue
his
life
;
as
Ioseph
nourished
and
cherished
his
Gen.
47.
12.
father
when
he
was
old
.
But
a
good
mind
will
neuer
quarrell
about
these
things
.
Vse
.
1
It
is
not
in
the
power
of
Physitians
,
though
they
vse
the
best
of
their
skill
,
to
preserue
their
sicke
patients
any
longer
then
the
time
that
God
hath
set
and
determined
:
let
the
Physitian
doe
his
dutie
with
an
vpright
and
faithfull
heart
,
but
let
him
not
lie
to
his
patients
,
making
them
beleeue
he
can
preserue
life
and
health
,
and
so
drawing
them
into
errour
,
as
though
death
were
farre
off
,
when
the
sicknesse
i●
incorporate
into
them
;
when
peraduenture
the
sicke
man
and
his
sicknesse
are
Duo
in
corpore
vno
,
as
it
were
two
in
one
flesh
.
There
is
no
remedy
when
the
time
appointed
is
come
,
our
last
garment
,
which
is
our
skinne
,
must
be
pulled
off
,
if
God
call
vs
away
,
and
say
as
he
said
to
Abraham
,
Exi
de
terratua
,
Come
out
of
thy
Countrey
wherein
thou
wast
borne
.
If
he
call
Gen.
12.
1.
to
our
Spirits
,
Come
out
of
your
houses
of
Clay
wherein
you
haue
long
dwelt
:
there
is
no
Balme
at
Gilead
,
there
is
no
Physition
there
that
can
preserue
vs
.
All
the
Phisitions
that
were
about
Asa
King
of
3.
Chron.
16.
12.
Iuda
,
could
not
recouer
him
of
the
Gout
in
his
feete
.
If
a
man
should
spend
all
his
substance
vpon
Phisitions
,
as
the
woman
did
that
had
a
bloody
issue
twelue
yeeres
,
yet
when
the
appointed
houre
is
Luke
8.
43.
come
,
the
learnedst
Phisition
will
faile
,
&
all
meanes
to
prolong
life
shall
be
in
vaine
.
Mistake
mee
not
,
I
denie
not
the
lawfull
vse
of
lawfull
meanes
,
I
know
well
,
a
man
is
bound
to
further
Gods
prouidence
in
what
hee
may
.
But
to
place
our
confidence
in
the
outward
meanes
,
and
to
neglect
the
Lord
to
whom
only
the
issues
of
life
&
death
belong
,
is
the
common
sinne
of
these
faithlesse
times
.
Trust
not
therefore
in
Physicke
,
trust
not
in
thy
strength
,
trust
not
in
any
kinde
of
dyet
;
for
thy
time
is
set
,
thy
daies
numbred
,
and
it
is
not
in
mans
power
to
passe
his
bounds
.
Vse
.
2
Secondly
,
the
consideration
hereof
offers
vs
matter
of
much
comfort
,
for
that
our
life
is
in
Gods
hand
.
The
aduersaries
of
the
righteous
increase
daily
,
and
Psal.
3.
1.
many
rise
against
them
;
many
pits
are
digged
,
and
much
mischiefe
imagined
against
the
godly
.
But
when
all
is
done
,
vnles
they
can
get
Gods
leaue
,
they
doe
but
weary
themselues
in
vaine
for
the
elect
dwel
Psal.
91.
3
in
the
secret
and
shadow
of
the
Almightie
,
and
are
so
safely
shrouded
vnder
his
wings
,
that
without
his
permission
nothing
can
touch
them
.
Why
then
are
men
so
fearefull
,
as
that
they
dare
not
stirre
one
finger
,
without
trembling
?
surely
such
men
either
know
not
or
remember
not
,
that
God
hath
limited
their
daies
,
and
that
their
life
is
in
his
keeping
.
When
the
Pharisies
said
to
our
Sauiour
,
Depart
and
goe
hence
,
for
Herod
will
kill
thee
,
he
answered
them
:
Go
ye
and
tell
that
foxe
,
Behold
I
cast
out
diuels
,
and
will
heale
still
,
to
day
and
to
morrow
,
and
the
third
day
I
shall
Luke
13.
32.
he
perfected
.
This
the
Apostles
likewise
acknowledged
:
Doubtlesse
against
thine
holy
Son
Iesus
,
whom
Acts
4.
27.
thou
hadst
annointed
,
both
Herod
and
Pontius
Pilate
,
with
the
Gentiles
&
people
of
Israel
,
gathered
themselues
together
,
to
do
whatsoeuer
thy
hand
&
counsell
had
determined
before
to
be
done
.
When
Pilate
the
lieutenant
of
the
Romanes
,
had
said
vnto
Christ
,
knowest
thou
not
that
I
haue
power
to
crucifie
thee
,
Iohn
19.
10.
and
haue
power
to
loose
thee
?
Iesus
answered
,
Thou
●ouldst
haue
no
power
at
all
against
me
,
except
it
were
giuen
thee
from
aboue
.
The
furie
and
malice
of
the
wicked
is
stinted
and
restrained
,
as
with
a
bit
and
bridle
,
they
cannot
satisfie
their
lusts
,
nor
accom●lish
their
designes
.
The
rage
of
men
,
and
of
the
di●els
themselues
,
is
stopped
,
and
all
the
power
of
dark●esse
curbed
.
The
tyranny
of
bloudy
spirits
is
bound
vp
,
and
compassed
within
the
listes
of
the
power
of
God
,
and
inclosed
within
the
circle
of
his
iurisdiction
.
They
cannot
annoy
such
as
are
created
after
the
Image
of
God
,
and
redeemed
with
the
blood
of
Christ
,
without
the
diuine
permission
:
their
power
is
imprisoned
,
they
can
goe
no
further
then
the
chaine
,
in
the
which
the
Lord
doth
hold
them
.
Behold
a
great
comfort
in
all
our
troubles
and
sufferings
,
there
is
a
barre
laid
in
the
way
of
the
wicked
.
Consider
the
strong
hand
of
God
,
the
yeeres
and
daies
,
the
very
moments
and
minuts
of
time
are
determined
.
These
things
spake
Iesus
in
the
treasurie
,
Ioh.
8.
20.
as
he
taught
in
the
Temple
,
and
no
man
laid
hands
on
him
,
for
his
houre
was
not
yet
come
.
Doct.
3
The
third
conclusion
now
followeth
to
be
discussed
:
Mans
time
is
short
in
this
world
.
Moses
speaketh
of
daies
,
not
of
yeeres
,
nor
of
months
,
nor
of
weeks
,
but
vseth
the
shortest
diuision
in
nature
.
There
are
as
many
little
skuls
in
Golgotha
,
as
there
bee
great
ones
.
Parents
doe
as
often
mourne
for
the
death
of
their
children
,
as
children
doe
for
the
death
of
their
Parents
.
Iacob
,
when
Pharaoh
asked
him
how
old
he
Gen.
47.
9.
was
,
answered
,
that
his
daies
had
beene
both
few
and
euill
.
The
Hebrewes
were
wont
to
reckon
their
life
thus
:
first
,
they
did
deduct
the
time
of
their
sleep
;
so
that
if
our
dayes
bee
threescore
and
ten
,
by
this
reckoning
fiue
and
thirtie
are
stricken
off
at
one
blow
,
because
we
spend
halfe
our
time
in
sleepe
.
Secondly
,
from
the
remainder
they
tooke
away
the
time
of
youth
,
which
Salomon
saith
is
vanitie
,
as
Eccl.
11.
10.
though
it
were
not
worthy
to
be
called
life
but
vanitie
.
Thirdly
,
they
did
subtract
the
daies
of
sorrow
,
because
all
that
time
a
man
findeth
no
sweetnesse
in
life
,
but
is
still
ready
to
propound
Iobs
question
,
Why
Iob
3.
20.
is
light
giuen
to
him
that
is
in
miserie
,
and
life
to
them
that
haue
heauie
hearts
?
So
then
these
three
being
●ducted
,
to
what
a
smal
epitome
is
mans
life
brought
?
●oses
may
well
speake
of
daies
,
and
of
numbring
them
●o
,
for
by
this
time
Iacobs
proposition
will
be
found
●●e
,
that
the
daies
of
our
pilgrimage
are
but
few
.
Da●d
it
seemes
was
well
acquainted
with
this
manner
of
●ckoning
,
when
he
tooke
so
short
a
mete
wand
to
measure
his
life
by
:
a
cubit
is
too
long
,
a
span
is
enough
,
Behold
thou
hast
made
my
daies
,
as
an
hand
Psal.
39.
5.
breadth
,
and
mine
age
is
nothing
in
respect
of
thee
.
Psal.
39.
5.
There
are
foure
reasons
,
why
God
hath
appointed
mans
time
to
be
so
short
.
The
Rauen
,
the
Eagle
,
the
Elephant
,
the
Lion
,
the
Hart
,
fulfill
their
hundreds
.
But
man
dieth
before
his
eye
be
satisfied
with
seeing
,
or
before
his
eare
be
satisfied
with
hearing
.
Reason
1
First
,
lest
they
should
deferre
to
do
good
,
as
our
manner
is
,
vpon
hope
of
long
life
.
Reason
2
Secondly
,
to
withdraw
our
hearts
from
the
loue
of
this
world
.
Reason
3
Thirdly
,
because
so
long
as
we
liue
in
this
world
,
we
●e
absent
from
the
Lord
.
2.
Cor.
5.
●
.
Reason
4
Fourthly
,
because
this
world
is
full
of
miseries
,
Iob
:
●4
.
1.
The
pleasures
of
this
world
are
but
the
painted
●●ce
of
Iezabel
,
euen
but
an
outside
of
pleasure
.
Indeed
the
wicked
seeme
to
liue
a
pleasant
life
,
none
like
them
;
but
there
is
a
worme
that
gripeth
and
gnaweth
them
inwardly
,
they
haue
many
times
a
trembling
heart
,
and
the
King
of
feare
doth
almost
kill
them
in
their
secret
chambers
;
The
pleasure
of
this
world
,
is
but
like
lightning
,
simul
oritur
,
&
moritur
,
it
suddenly
appeareth
&
suddenly
againe
vanisheth
away
.
It
is
sweete
,
but
withall
short
,
like
hunting
and
hauking
;
much
cost
●nd
care
for
a
little
sport
.
Vse
.
1
Our
conuersation
then
must
be
in
heauen
,
euen
while
we
liue
heere
on
earth
,
and
we
must
vse
this
world
as
though
we
vsed
it
not
.
There
is
but
one
way
of
comming
into
the
world
,
Vnus
introitus
,
but
a
thousand
waies
of
going
out
of
the
world
,
Mille
exitus
.
Our
life
is
full
of
holes
,
and
we●
are
readie
to
take
&
let
in
water
at
a
thousand
breaches
,
Ferro
,
peste
,
fame
,
vinclis
,
algore
,
calore
,
Mille
mod●●
miseros
mors
rapit
vna
viros
:
Our
time
slippeth
away
with
great
velocitie
.
It
was
a
worthy
answere
of
Artabanus
,
to
Xerxes
that
mightie
Emperour
of
Persia
:
when
the
Emperor
had
viewed
his
great
armie
,
athousand
thousand
drinking
riuers
dry
as
they
went
;
hee
fell
a
weeping
,
because
it
came
into
his
mind
,
that
within
the
space
of
an
hundred
yeeres
,
not
one
of
that
goodlie
companie
should
be
left
aliue
:
I
would
that
were
the
worst
,
said
Artabanus
.
It
would
grieue
a
man
viewing
at
this
present
so
great
a
congregation
,
of
so
many
worthy
and
worshipfull
persons
,
so
many
of
our
good
friends
and
honest
neighbours
:
to
consider
that
within
an
hundred
yeeres
,
peraduenture
fourescore
,
or
threescore
and
tenne
(
for
the
Psalmist
saith
,
Mans
age
Psal.
90.
10.
is
therabout
)
to
consider
,
I
say
,
that
not
one
in
this
assembly
shall
be
left
aliue
;
but
another
Preacher
in
this
Pulpit
,
and
other
hearers
in
those
pewes
and
seates
,
sitting
and
treading
vpon
your
dead
,
bodies
,
where
you
now
you
sit
and
tread
vpon
others
:
but
I
would
that
were
the
worst
.
Vse
.
2
Secondly
,
because
our
time
is
short
,
we
must
worke
and
walke
while
wee
haue
the
light
;
the
night
commeth
Iohn
9.
4.
wherein
no
man
can
worke
:
we
haue
a
great
taske
and
a
short
time
allowed
,
we
had
need
to
listen
to
the
clocke
and
to
count
the
houres
;
your
life
is
short
,
and
the
art
of
saluation
is
long
in
learning
;
The
way
to
heauen
cannot
be
trodden
in
a
short
time
.
Astronomers
say
,
that
the
space
betweene
heauen
and
earth
,
is
nine
hundred
thousand
miles
,
some
speake
of
much
more
.
The
ascent
then
will
aske
both
time
and
labour
,
ease
and
delay
neuer
brought
any
thither
.
Our
Sauiour
when
he
found
his
Disciples
sleeping
,
said
vn●o
Math.
26.
4●
.
them
,
What
,
could
ye
not
watch
one
houre
?
So
may
●
say
,
Can
you
not
be
contented
to
feare
God
,
to
heare
his
word
,
and
to
pray
vnto
him
for
a
few
dayes
?
It
may
bee
thou
hast
yet
twentie
yeeres
longer
to
liue
in
this
world
,
and
wilt
thou
not
bee
contented
to
serue
God
as
a
Christian
for
twenty
yeeres
,
that
thou
maist
liue
as
an
Angell
for
a
thousand
?
It
may
bee
thou
hast
but
ten
yeeres
to
continue
in
this
world
,
and
wilt
thou
not
addict
thy selfe
to
the
honourable
seruice
of
God
for
ten
yeeres
,
that
thou
mayst
liue
and
raigne
for
euer
with
Christ
in
his
presence
?
Thou
wouldst
for
a
worldly
preferment
serue
tenne
yeeres
,
and
canst
thou
so
far
vndervalue
eternall
glorie
,
as
to
thinke
that
any
thing
on
earth
deserues
more
cost
and
paines
,
in
the
seeking
and
obtaining
,
then
the
ioyes
of
heauen
do
?
But
it
may
be
thou
art
an
old
man
,
&
hast
one
foote
in
the
graue
already
;
then
I
say
as
Bias
one
of
the
seauen
wise
men
of
Greece
said
of
a
Mariner
,
Nec
inter
viuos
●ec
inter
mortuos
,
Thou
art
not
to
be
reckoned
among
them
that
liue
,
nor
among
them
that
be
dead
:
And
as
Paul
speaketh
of
a
widdow
liuing
in
pleasure
,
that
she
1.
Tim.
5.
6.
●●
dead
while
she
liueth
.
When
wil
ye
begin
to
abound
and
to
be
rich
in
good
workes
?
Is
it
not
time
to
begin
to
be
religious
,
when
the
pillars
of
your
house
begin
to
shake
,
when
your
windowes
begin
to
bee
darke
?
doe
you
meane
to
goe
away
in
a
sleepe
,
and
shall
your
life
passe
away
like
a
dreame
?
Came
ye
naked
of
goodnesse
from
your
mothers
wombe
,
and
will
ye
goe
backe
againe
naked
?
brought
ye
nothing
into
the
world
with
you
,
of
the
best
and
blessedst
riches
,
and
will
you
cary
nothing
out
?
A
great
many
of
you
heere
present
,
are
brought
to
the
eleuenth
houre
of
the
day
,
and
there
is
but
a
twelfth
,
a
few
minutes
between
you
and
iudgement
?
what
,
do
you
tarry
to
be
started
with
the
shrillest
Trumpet
that
euer
blew
,
or
to
be
awakened
with
the
fearefullest
voice
,
that
euer
sounded
?
The
night
is
comming
wherein
no
man
can
worke
.
Then
there
will
be
euerlasting
throbbings
,
and
throwes
of
the
heart
,
for
endlesse
miseries
:
then
the
eies
will
labour
for
teares
which
shall
euer
runne
downe
,
and
then
the
teeth
will
grinde
one
another
without
ceasing
.
Oh
,
saith
our
Sauiour
,
that
you
had
knowne
in
this
your
day
!
and
thus
Luke
19.
42.
much
for
the
shortnesse
of
mans
life
.
Doct.
4
The
fourth
doctrine
that
is
remarkable
,
is
this
,
that
man
is
more
apt
to
forget
death
then
any
thing
else
.
Moses
was
willing
to
remember
death
,
but
still
his
mind
did
turne
from
it
,
and
it
did
slip
out
of
his
mind
.
Solomon
bids
vs
remember
that
we
must
come
to
iudgment
,
Eccle.
11.
9.
and
yet
the
wicked
pleade
against
it
,
saith
S.
Peter
.
It
is
a
strange
kind
of
Arithmeticke
,
that
no
man
2.
Pet.
3.
4.
can
learne
it
,
except
God
be
the
schoolemaster
and
teach
it
.
Men
can
number
their
Coine
,
their
Cattell
,
their
corne
,
and
their
land
;
But
no
man
without
the
assistance
of
Gods
Spirit
,
can
number
his
dayes
;
as
though
our
daies
were
infinite
.
This
prayer
of
Moses
may
seeme
strange
.
Men
are
able
by
art
to
measure
the
Globe
of
the
earth
,
and
the
Spheares
of
heauen
,
the
quantitie
of
the
Starres
,
with
their
longitudes
,
latitudes
,
altitudes
,
motions
,
and
distances
from
the
earth
,
Flectere
per
varios
docuit
qui
nomina
Casus
,
Heu
cadit
,
hunc
casum
flectere
non
potuit
,
The
Grammarian
that
declineth
all
Nounes
and
euery
case
,
cannot
decline
death
in
any
case
.
It
is
a
hard
matter
to
remember
Death
,
and
we
striue
to
forget
it
.
Teach
vs
to
number
our
dayes
;
Oh
no!
hold
your
peace
wee
,
may
not
remember
.
Amos
6.
10.
Teach
vs
to
number
our
dayes
;
Amos.
6.
10.
nay
,
teach
vs
to
multiply
our
dayes
.
Teach
vs
to
remember
Death
;
nay
,
teach
vs
to
forget
death
,
to
prolong
life
,
is
the
common
language
of
our
times
:
Men
cannot
abide
to
thinke
of
death
,
they
are
sicke
to
●eare
the
name
of
it
;
they
say
to
death
,
as
Pharaoh
said
Exod.
10.
28.
●o
Moses
,
Get
thee
out
of
my
sight
.
There
are
two
reasons
why
we
ought
to
remember
●eath
,
and
there
are
foure
reasons
why
we
do
forget
it
.
Reason
1
The
first
reason
why
we
should
remember
it
,
is
,
be●ause
when
death
comes
,
the
greatest
matter
that
did
●●er
concerne
vs
,
will
then
be
in
question
,
to
wit
;
the
●erlasting
Saluation
,
or
else
the
euerlasting
condem●ation
of
our
soules
.
Reason
2
Secondly
,
then
it
will
bee
too
late
to
repent
,
to
a●end
,
to
pray
,
and
to
obtaine
pardon
.
The
rich
man
●ryed
,
Oh
Father
Abraham
,
send
Lazarus
to
lip
the
t●●
Luke
16.
42.
of
his
finger
in
water
to
coole
my
tongue
:
Desidera●●t
guttam
(
saith
Saint
Austin
)
qui
non
dedit
micam
,
●●e
de●ired
a
droppe
of
water
,
that
would
not
giue
a
●●um
of
bread
,
but
it
was
too
late
:
Hee
should
haue
beene
picifull
;
repented
,
and
prayed
in
his
life
time
before
his
death
:
For
in
death
there
is
no
remembrance
Psal.
6.
5.
of
thee
,
(
saith
Dauid
)
and
in
the
graue
who
shell
praise
thee
?
Reason
1
The
first
reason
why
many
doe
forget
Death
,
is
,
because
Death
commeth
oftentimes
like
a
●aylour
to
●ale
to
prison
.
Reason
2
Secondlie
,
the
remembrance
of
death
maketh
a
man
sinne
fearefully
,
and
taketh
away
the
pleasure
of
sinne
.
Reason
3
Thirdly
,
Death
is
against
nature
,
a
dissolution
of
nature
;
and
therefore
no
man
naturally
can
delight
in
it
.
Reason
4
Lastly
,
the
diuell
gaines
much
by
forgetfulnesse
in
this
kinde
,
and
therefore
will
be
sure
,
if
by
any
meanes
he
can
,
to
put
that
conceit
out
of
mens
heads
.
They
are
hence
to
be
reprooued
,
that
will
not
suffer
this
meditation
to
settle
in
their
hearts
.
Behold
you
despisers
,
and
wonder
at
the
hand
of
God
,
you
●hat
are
in
league
with
death
,
&
make
a
couenant
and
truce
with
the
graue
,
you
that
say
to
your
soules
,
Tak●
your
ease
,
and
liue
at
rest
for
many
yeares
,
your
lif●
Luke
12.
19.
Amos
6.
3.
hangeth
by
a
small
thread
.
Put
not
the
euill
day
farr●
from
you
,
which
the
ordinance
of
God
hath
put
so
neare
;
walke
not
alwaies
with
your
faces
towards
the
East
,
sometimes
haue
an
eye
to
the
West
,
where
the
Sunne
goeth
downe
:
sit
not
alwaies
in
the
prow
of
th●
shippe
,
sometimes
goe
to
the
sterne
:
stand
in
your
watch
towers
,
as
the
creature
doth
in
the
8.
to
the
Romanes
,
and
waite
for
the
time
of
your
deliuerance
;
Rom.
8.
19.
your
bodies
are
not
brasse
,
your
strength
,
is
not
the
strength
of
stones
.
The
earth
is
the
wombe
tha●
hath
bred
you
,
and
the
earth
is
the
wombe
that
will
againe
receiue
you
.
Searecloathes
,
spices
,
Balme
,
the
Immuring
stone
or
lead
,
or
a
timber
coffin
,
cannot
so
closely
hide
you
,
but
the
earth
will
challenge
you
for
her
naturall
children
,
and
say
,
You
are
my
bowels
:
the
earth
(
I
say
)
your
naturall
mother
,
will
know
you
againe
,
and
receiue
you
into
her
possession
.
Remember
2.
Tim.
3.
4.
your
mortalitie
,
you
that
are
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
louers
of
pleasure
more
then
louers
of
God
;
when
Adam
and
Eue
became
subiect
to
death
,
because
of
their
Gen.
3.
2●
.
sin
,
God
cloathed
them
with
the
skins
of
dead
beasts
.
So
that
the
cloathes
we
weare
vpon
our
backes
,
and
the
graues
vnder
our
feete
,
and
the
meate
which
goeth
into
our
bodiesies
,
crie
vnto
vs
that
we
must
die
;
like
the
fishes
,
fowles
,
and
beasts
,
which
a
little
before
were
liuing
in
their
elements
,
and
are
now
dead
in
our
dishes
.
Vse
.
2
Let
vs
pray
as
Moses
did
,
That
God
will
giue
vs
grace
to
meditate
vpon
our
last
end
.
Though
we
forget
other
things
,
though
we
forget
our
owne
names
,
and
to
eate
our
bread
,
yet
our
memorie
doth
sufficiently
stand
vs
in
stead
,
if
we
can
remember
our
last
end
.
Sathan
perswaded
our
first
parents
,
that
they
shold
Gen.
3.
4.
not
die
at
all
.
Now
though
he
cannot
make
vs
beleeue
that
,
yet
he
perswades
many
,
that
they
shall
not
die
●t
,
yea
though
they
be
at
the
brinke
of
the
graue
,
and
●t
a
steppe
betweene
them
and
death
.
Many
there
be
●●t
are
condemned
in
hell
,
and
there
doe
suffer
the
●ngeance
of
eternall
fire
,
who
would
giue
the
whole
●orld
if
it
were
in
their
power
,
for
one
day
or
houre
in
●is
world
,
that
they
might
repent
and
turne
vnto
God
.
What
they
wold
do
if
they
might
,
let
vs
do
while
w●
may
;
their
glasse
is
already
runne
,
and
ours
stands
●●t
still
:
yet
a
little
while
,
and
the
time
of
hope
,
grace
,
and
mercy
will
be
past
.
Let
vs
not
then
be
so
much
our
o●ne
enemies
,
as
to
forget
what
belongs
to
our
peace
.
●●e
doe
not
reade
that
Moses
,
who
made
this
pray●●
,
did
oppose
himselfe
by
the
least
thought
of
his
heart
,
to
the
ordinance
of
God
,
when
it
was
told
him
.
Behold
the
daies
are
come
,
that
thou
must
die
:
though
Deut.
34.
7.
h●
might
haue
liued
longer
;
for
his
eies
were
not
yet
d●mme
,
nor
his
naturall
strength
abated
.
But
rather
he
spake
to
the
people
with
alacritie
of
spirit
and
chearefulnesse
of
heart
,
imbracing
the
tidings
of
death
.
He
was
not
pulled
like
a
beast
by
violence
from
his
den
.
●●t
on
the
other
side
,
if
a
man
will
not
pray
,
as
Moses
●●d
:
Death
will
be
a
death
indeede
,
and
little
profit
or
●●se
to
be
found
in
it
.
Oh
pray
that
the
flight
and
dep●rture
of
your
spirits
,
be
not
vpon
the
Sabbath
day
,
that
is
,
in
the
rest
and
tranquilitie
of
your
sinnes
;
pray
●●
God
that
your
departure
be
not
in
the
frost
and
win●●
of
your
hearts
:
Oh
pray
to
God
that
your
departure
be
not
in
the
midnight
of
your
securitie
.
Wee
worth
the
man
,
whome
the
Lord
when
he
commeth
shall
finde
sleeping
.
The
vntimely
fruite
is
better
then
that
man
,
it
had
beene
much
better
for
him
,
neuer
to
haue
beene
borne
.
Doct.
5
I
am
now
come
to
the
last
part
of
my
text
,
and
the
doctrine
thereof
is
this
:
That
the
remembrance
of
●eath
,
will
cause
vs
to
apply
our
hearts
vnto
wisedome
.
There
are
many
benefits
which
come
by
death
,
an●
there
bee
many
benefits
that
come
by
the
reme●brance
of
death
;
Moses
considered
the
shortnesse
●
his
life
:
and
therefore
was
carefull
to
spend
his
ti●●
well
.
He
chose
rather
to
suffer
affliction
with
th●
Heb.
11.
25.
children
of
God
,
then
to
enioy
the
pleasures
of
sinn●
for
a
season
.
The
Prophet
Ieremie
imputeth
all
the
calmities
Lam.
1.
9.
and
sins
of
Ierusalem
,
to
this
,
that
shee
remembred
not
her
last
end
.
Reason
1
There
is
no
greater
enemie
to
repentance
,
then
●●
thinke
we
haue
a
long
time
to
repent
hereafter
:
me
doe
not
vse
to
thinke
vpon
death
,
when
they
go
abo●
euill
things
;
but
they
say
as
the
serpent
said
,
We
shal
not
die
.
It
is
hard
for
a
man
to
thinke
vpon
short
life
and
to
thinke
well
.
Reason
2
Though
death
come
after
life
,
yet
it
guideth
the
whole
life
,
as
the
sterne
doth
the
ship
;
but
for
deat●
there
would
be
no
rule
,
but
euery
mans
lust
,
would
be
his
law
.
As
the
bird
guideth
her
flight
by
her
taile
,
s●
the
life
of
man
is
best
directed
by
a
continuall
recourse
vnto
the
end
.
Reason
3
Though
death
the
king
of
feare
,
differ
his
sessions
,
and
stay
his
execution
,
yet
the
remembrance
tha●
death
will
come
,
maketh
the
proudest
peacocke
lay
downe
his
feathers
;
and
is
like
a
dampe
that
puts
ou●
all
the
light
of
pleasure
.
Hereupon
Salomon
,
Eccl.
11.
9
▪
opposeth
this
memorandum
against
all
vanities
as
●
Eccl.
11.
9.
counterpoise
,
Remember
for
al
these
things
thou
shal●
come
to
iudgement
.
Reason
4
The
remembrance
of
death
serues
to
humble
vs
,
vnder
the
mightie
hand
of
God
.
Abraham
is
an
example
Gen.
18.
27.
hereof
,
I
am
but
dust
and
ashes
.
Vse
.
We
know
not
when
our
great
Landlord
will
come
and
recken
with
vs
.
Quo
hora
&
mora
incertior
est
,
eo
magis
vigilandum
,
By
how
much
the
more
the
houre
o●
our
departure
is
vnknowne
,
we
must
be
so
much
the
more
watchfull
and
vigilant
.
Ideolatet
vltimus
dies
,
vt
●eruetur
omnis
dies
.
Other
farmers
know
certainly
the
●me
of
their
lease
.
But
wee
are
all
Gods
tenants
at
●l
,
he
may
put
vs
out
of
house
and
home
,
when
hee
●●
.
Some
landlords
set
leases
for
three
liues
.
But
God
●uer
demiseth
any
tenement
,
longer
then
for
one
●●
:
we
cannot
be
secured
an
howre
.
The
remem●●●nce
of
death
therefore
,
is
like
a
strainer
:
all
our
th●ughts
,
words
and
actions
which
come
through
it
,
●●clensed
and
purified
,
like
a
cloath
that
cometh
out
of
the
water
.
The
thought
of
death
causeth
many
si●●es
to
avoide
,
as
Sathan
avoided
,
when
Christ
alle●●ed
Math.
4.
11.
Scripture
.
Surely
if
a
man
did
perswade
himself
,
that
this
were
the
last
day
that
euer
he
should
liue
,
hee
would
not
deferre
his
repentance
till
to
morrow
.
If
he
did
thinke
that
this
were
the
last
meate
that
euer
hee
●o●ld
eate
,
he
would
not
surfeit
:
if
he
did
beleeue
,
that
th●se
are
the
last
wordes
that
euer
he
shall
speake
,
hee
●●uld
not
offend
with
his
tongue
:
if
he
were
perswaded
,
that
this
were
the
last
Sermon
that
euer
he
should
he●●e
,
he
would
attend
better
then
euer
he
did
to
any
.
R●member
your
last
end
.
Alas
what
are
our
Churches
and
Church-yards
,
but
Humanarum
cladium
miseranda
●●●●pta
,
the
lamentable
pinfolds
of
the
deaths
of
〈◊〉
?
Beware
that
you
offer
not
to
God
the
dregs
of
your
life
,
lest
God
make
you
drinke
the
dregs
of
his
anger
.
Remember
that
death
ere
it
be
long
will
set
her
〈◊〉
vpon
your
heads
,
and
your
lippes
must
kisse
the
dust
of
the
ground
:
remember
that
the
grauell
&
slime
of
the
graue
,
shall
dwell
betweene
your
hawtie
eye●●●●
.
I
haue
not
leasure
to
say
any
more
,
Quid
superbis
terra
&
cinis
.
Oh
earth
and
ashes
,
why
art
thou
so
p●●ud
?
And
thus
much
out
of
my
text
.
And
now
right
worshipfull
and
beloued
,
I
know
you
looke
that
I
should
speake
something
of
this
gentl●●an
,
whose
shadow
is
here
presented
vnto
our
view
.
I
confesse
,
the
licenciousnes
of
many
preachers
in
c●mending
the
dead
contrarie
to
desert
,
is
worthily
●●
be
censured
,
as
that
which
grieues
the
godly
;
hardneth
the
wicked
,
and
makes
the
ministery
of
the
Go●pell
to
be
euill
spoken
of
.
And
yet
I
haue
euer
though●
it
not
onely
lawfull
but
necessarie
,
to
speake
somewh●●
liberally
,
so
it
might
bee
done
warrantably
,
of
mag●strates
and
publike
persons
,
deseruing
well
of
th●
Church
and
Common-wealth
:
my
iudgement
a●
practise
in
the
present
occasion
shall
accompanie
eac●
other
,
while
by
your
patience
I
speake
a
few
words
●
Chrys.
lib.
de
sacerdo
.
his
life
and
death
.
Sed
vereor
ne
tanti
viri
laudes
orat●
mea
eleuarem
,
magi●
quam
exorn●rem
.
I
feare
lest
while
●
striue
to
set
forth
this
gentleman
in
his
owne
worth
rather
lessen
and
diminish
his
praise
,
then
any
way
dorne
it
.
But
as
I
intend
not
to
deny
or
with
hold
fro●
him
any
part
of
his
due
,
so
if
all
your
expectations
:
not
fully
satisfied
,
let
me
alleadge
.
Bernards
words
fo●
Bern.
ser.
in
Cant.
34.
my
excuse
,
Culpetur
sanè
ingenium
non
voluntas
:
The
fa●
is
not
willingly
committed
,
blame
them
my
vnskilfu●nesse
.
But
I
will
hold
you
no
longer
in
suspence
.
A●●
therefore
first
of
all
I
say
as
Dauid
said
vpon
the
dea●
of
Abner
,
Hodie
cecidit
princeps
in
Israele
.
This
day
there
fallen
a
great
man
in
Israel
.
I
will
not
speake
much
2.
Sam.
3.
38.
his
birth
&
progenitours
,
though
it
be
worthy
respe●
to
descend
from
the
loines
of
those
that
are
worth●
and
worshipful
.
But
alas
,
Stemmata
quid
faciunt
?
Ancie●
and
noble
pedigrees
what
are
they
worth
,
when
t●
line
of
well
doing
continueth
not
?
Honour
falling
v●on
an
vnworthy
man
,
is
but
as
an
ornament
in
t●
dirt
,
saith
Saluian
:
It
doth
but
bring
the
person
of
s●●
a
one
,
with
his
faults
and
infirmities
to
a
more
op●●
view
,
which
otherwise
perhaps
had
beene
either
●●
knowne
or
vnregarded
.
I
will
say
little
of
his
natur●
parts
,
of
wit
,
memorie
volubility
of
speech
,
all
whi●
were
excellent
in
him
,
and
commendable
in
any
,
espcially
when
,
as
Bernard
saith
,
Gratia
ordinat
,
quod
●
●auit
creatio
.
Grace
doth
order
and
sanctifie
that
which
Ber.
tract
.
de
gra.
●reation
hath
giuen
and
bestowed
.
But
I
will
come
to
●he
best
,
wherein
he
deserued
to
be
commended
.
It
is
●ell
knowne
he
was
a
good
magistrate
in
his
country
.
●he
charge
is
waighty
and
the
burden
heauy
which
is
●●id
vpon
them
,
whom
the
Lord
hath
marked
out
vnto
●●aces
of
gouernment
:
which
made
Chrysost.
say
,
Maror
si
q●is
Rectorum
,
saluaripossit
:
I
maruell
(
said
he
)
how
any
●agistrate
can
bee
saued
.
Hee
was
full
of
courage
in
●●e
execution
of
Iustice
.
Impunitatis
spes
magna
p●ocandi
●●ecebra
,
Hope
to
escape
vnpunished
is
a
great
prouocation
of
transgressing
,
It
is
not
the
Roabe
,
nor
the
sword
,
●●r
the
highest
roome
that
maketh
a
magistrate
.
He
con●●●ered
whose
Image
he
did
beare
,
whose
person
he
did
present
,
what
cause
he
had
taken
in
hand
,
and
whose
Iudgement
he
did
execute
.
It
is
certain
,
the
vine
of
the
Church
doth
spread
out
her
branches
with
much
cherfulnesse
when
magistrates
doe
execute
Iustice
,
without
any
conniuence
.
Oh
put
not
honie
into
the
sacrifice
,
instead
of
salt
;
you
that
are
rulers
and
gouernours
in
this
our
Israel
,
execution
of
iustice
vpon
riotous
and
inordinate
liuers
,
is
for
the
present
a
sweet
smelling
sacrifice
v●to
God
,
the
ioy
of
angels
,
the
comfort
of
good
men
,
the
sauing
of
soules
,
&
a
reuocation
of
many
from
des●●uction
:
nor
shall
your
labour
be
in
vaine
in
the
Lord
;
in
respect
of
your selues
,
it
wil
procure
you
euen
in
this
life
,
●●ny
sweete
blessings
from
aboue
.
And
hereafter
it
shal
●●●
a
crowne
vpon
your
heads
,
in
that
day
when
the
iust
God
shall
largely
recompence
your
faithfull
seruice
.
Secondly
,
he
was
to
be
commended
,
for
his
Hospita●●●ie
.
It
is
well
knowne
,
his
house
was
seldome
without
strangers
.
I
may
in
some
sort
compare
him
to
Abraham
Gen.
18.
1.
Gen.
19.
1.
and
vnto
Lot
;
they
sate
in
their
gates
&
at
the
doores
of
their
tents
,
to
inuite
strangers
.
And
this
gentleman
desired
his
friends
&
neighbours
to
come
to
his
house
,
and
they
were
vnto
him
welcome
guests
.
In
this
respect
he
was
like
vnto
Iob
,
he
did
not
eate
his
morsels
alone
.
Iob.
31.
17.
Thirdly
,
his
loue
and
kindnesse
to
his
poore
friends
and
neighbours
,
may
not
be
forgotten
:
he
was
ready
to
speak
for
them
,
to
write
for
them
,
and
to
lend
them
money
in
their
neede
.
It
was
his
resolution
to
keepe
some
money
by
him
alwaies
,
if
God
should
so
blesse
him
and
inable
him
,
that
he
might
lend
(
as
he
said
)
fiue
pounds
,
tenne
pounds
,
or
twenty
pounds
,
to
any
neighbour
or
Gentleman
vpon
an
vrgent
occasion
;
which
sure
was
in
him
a
charitable
consideration
,
and
to
you
,
right
worshipful
,
may
be
a
patterne
for
imitation
.
Want
driueth
many
into
dangerous
extremities
;
poore
men
are
often
forced
by
necessity
to
gage
their
houses
,
their
lands
,
and
vineyards
:
and
they
may
iustly
complaine
,
as
those
did
in
Nehemiah
,
And
now
our
flesh
it
is
as
the
flesh
of
our
brethren
,
Nehe.
5.
5.
and
our
sonnes
as
their
sonnes
;
there
is
no
power
in
our
handes
,
for
other
men
haue
our
lands
.
It
is
charity
and
mercifulnesse
to
lend
to
such
.
Oh
that
they
which
be
wealthy
&
rich
,
would
lay
aside
superfluities
and
vanities
,
and
learne
frugality
and
thriftines
,
as
this
Gentleman
did
,
and
conuert
their
hands
and
their
harts
to
such
workes
of
mercy
!
Oh
take
something
from
your
bellies
and
backes
,
both
in
regard
of
your
owne
soules
,
to
witnesse
humility
and
sobriety
before
God
and
man
:
and
for
your
poore
brethrens
sake
,
that
they
may
bee
comforted
and
releeued
.
It
is
Christ
that
hungreth
,
and
Christ
that
must
satisfie
you
:
It
is
Christ
that
craueth
,
and
Christ
that
must
giue
vnto
you
.
It
is
Christ
that
is
indebted
and
impouerished
,
and
it
is
Christ
that
must
aduance
you
to
glory
.
There
are
many
poore
men
that
are
ashamed
to
craue
an
almes
,
1
and
yet
they
would
be
glad
with
the
Disciples
of
Christ
to
rub
an
eare
of
corne
betweene
their
hands
:
their
bowels
sound
like
shalmes
for
want
of
foode
,
and
their
teeth
are
cleane
.
It
is
charity
&
mercifulnesse
to
lend
to
such
.
And
certainly
the
lower
this
well
of
charitie
is
drawne
,
the
clearer
&
sweeter
,
will
the
water
flow
vp
vnto
you
.
Fourthly
,
he
was
worthy
of
much
praise
&
commendation
for
the
ciuil
order
and
gouernment
of
his
family
;
he
was
excellent
that
way
.
I
know
not
wel
how
to
parallel
him
with
any
of
his
ranke
and
place
:
his
seruants
were
obsequious
&
officious
vnto
him
,
both
for
his
credit
and
his
profite
;
he
abhorred
idlenesse
in
his
seruants
.
Appelles
posie
was
this
,
Let
no
day
passe
witbout
a
line
:
he
appointed
them
such
offices
and
imploiments
,
that
euery
one
in
his
house
,
had
either
a
sweating
brow
,
or
a
working
braine
.
Alexander
Seuerus
,
that
worthy
and
learned
Emperour
,
was
wont
to
say
that
he
would
not
feede
his
seruants
with
the
bowels
of
the
Common-wealth
.
And
as
he
required
diligence
in
their
places
,
so
he
was
liberall
&
beneficial
for
their
preferments
;
which
he
frankly
expressed
in
his
life
time
towards
them
:
and
at
his
death
he
gaue
them
annuities
&
pensions
,
&
bestowed
vpon
them
bountifull
legacies
:
herein
also
he
was
like
vnto
Iob.
If
I
should
despise
my
seruants
,
what
shall
Iob.
31.
14
I
doe
when
God
standeth
vp
?
and
when
he
shall
visite
mee
,
what
shall
I
answer
?
But
you
will
say
,
all
this
is
well
,
these
things
are
commendable
,
but
you
say
nothing
of
his
religion
.
I
confesse
this
is
the
temple
that
sanctifieth
the
gold
,
this
the
altar
which
sanctifieth
the
sacrifice
:
all
the
former
though
excellent
in
themselues
,
and
glorious
in
the
sight
of
men
;
yet
without
this
,
they
are
but
splendida
peccata
.
Whatsoeuer
they
seeme
to
be
,
yet
deuided
from
sauing
grace
,
they
are
but
glittering
sinnes
,
as
Saint
Augustin
calles
them
.
It
happened
a
little
before
he
fell
sicke
,
that
he
considered
of
the
mercies
and
blessings
of
God
,
vouchsafed
vnto
him
,
in
great
abundance
;
and
rendred
praise
and
thankesgiuing
to
God
,
for
such
fauours
and
benignities
.
But
he
complained
in
my
hearing
,
that
with
that
plentie
and
fulnesse
,
there
was
a
great
want
and
defect
of
the
publike
worship
of
God
vpon
the
Sabbath
day
.
His
determination
was
this
;
that
with
all
speed
he
would
haue
a
Preacher
in
his
house
,
because
his
corpulent
and
vnweildie
body
would
not
permit
him
to
trauaile
vnto
the
Church
.
Hee
resolued
therefore
to
allow
a
sufficient
maintenance
,
and
desired
me
with
great
earnestnesse
to
effect
the
businesse
,
and
made
this
his
purpose
knowen
to
all
his
family
,
and
to
many
others
.
His
heart
was
smitten
with
an
awfull
reuerence
of
Gods
Maiestie
,
for
the
sanctifying
of
the
Lords
Sabbaths
,
and
for
the
sincere
preaching
of
the
Gospell
of
Christ
Iesus
.
It
is
my
comfort
to
see
such
a
happy
and
friendly
aspect
of
so
many
principall
Planets
together
in
one
place
,
so
many
Gentlemen
and
Magistrates
.
Giue
me
leaue
(
I
beseech
you
)
to
wash
my
hands
in
innoceny
to
free
mine
owne
soule
in
the
sight
of
God
,
and
to
speake
a
few
words
,
to
stirre
vp
your
minds
,
and
to
quicken
your
affections
,
in
the
behalfe
of
the
Lords
worship
and
seruice
.
Think
not
your
dwellings
safe
enough
without
the
house
of
God
:
sing
not
at
home
with
your
owne
Muses
,
absent
not
your selues
from
the
Lords
sanctuary
,
as
though
Iorden
lay
between
you
and
the
Church
:
say
not
as
the
women
did
in
Esay
;
We
will
eate
our
owne
bread
,
and
we
are
our
owne
garments
.
The
Sabbath
day
is
the
sanctified
day
of
the
Lords
rest
.
If
you
haue
any
loue
to
that
hidden
Manna
,
which
perisheth
not
;
If
you
haue
any
desire
to
those
fruits
of
the
tree
of
life
,
in
the
midest
of
the
Paradise
of
God
:
If
you
haue
any
sincere
affection
to
those
white
garments
washt
in
the
blood
of
Christ
:
If
you
desire
to
shine
hereafter
as
the
stars
in
the
firmament
,
rather
then
to
be
but
as
a
Glow-worme
in
this
world
;
then
helpe
to
bring
the
Lords
Sabbaths
to
rest
,
they
are
shamefullie
troubled
&
disquieted
:
the
common
daies
of
the
weeke
are
happier
in
their
seasons
then
the
Lords
Sabbaths
.
The
sanctifying
of
the
Sabbath
is
one
of
those
vnchangeable
lawes
,
which
God
himselfe
wrote
with
his
owne
finger
.
Resolue
therefore
as
this
Gentleman
did
,
to
keepe
it
holy
.
God
did
not
ordeine
it
for
carnall
pleasures
,
or
that
we
should
giue
liberty
on
that
day
to
our
sensuall
affections
.
But
if
you
will
not
regard
and
obey
this
,
then
behold
the
dispersion
and
dissipation
of
your
posterity
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
:
behold
the
ruine
,
vastation
,
and
desolation
of
your
houses
;
behold
the
detestation
of
your
names
,
behold
the
hissing
&
clapping
at
your
death
and
departure
,
among
your
neighbours
.
The
want
of
the
word
of
God
,
is
the
want
of
your
credit
and
prosperity
:
the
want
of
the
word
of
God
,
is
the
want
of
your
true
comfort
,
peace
and
happinesse
:
the
want
of
the
word
of
God
,
will
be
the
want
of
your
saluation
,
if
in
this
open
and
free
time
of
the
Gospel
,
you
depriue
your selues
through
wilfull
neglect
of
that
benefit
which
others
receiue
by
it
.
Thus
you
haue
heard
of
this
Gentlemans
life
,
I
must
now
speak
a
word
or
two
of
the
maner
of
his
death
.
When
the
shadow
of
death
was
vpon
his
eies
,
his
senses
began
to
faint
and
faile
,
yet
this
was
obserueable
,
that
in
the
time
of
prayer
,
his
senses
were
quickned
and
againe
reuiued
;
so
that
he
was
able
to
lift
vp
his
hands
and
his
eies
at
euery
Petition
,
and
to
say
Amen
to
euery
conclusion
.
This
was
also
worthy
regard
,
that
the
last
words
he
spake
were
these
;
O
Lord
Iesus
haue
mercy
vpon
me
,
&
forgiue
me
my
sins
,
O
Lord
Iesus
receiue
my
spirit
.
And
presently
after
,
his
breath
and
his
spirit
departed
.
So
that
I
may
say
of
him
as
Ierome
reporteth
of
Nepotians
quiet
and
peaceable
departure
from
this
life
;
Non
intelligeres
illum
emor●
,
sed
emigrare
,
Thou
wouldst
not
thinke
he
died
,
but
rather
that
hee
walked
forth
:
And
this
was
the
manner
of
his
death
.
I
must
not
be
tedious
,
in
regard
of
the
present
businesse
,
Time
at
this
time
must
haue
power
ouer
●y
words
:
I
will
therfore
conclude
,
and
make
an
end
as
I
did
begin
,
O
Lord
teach
vs
to
number
our
daies
,
t●at
wee
may
apply
our
hearts
vnto
wisedome
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.