CHAP.
I.
Miserere
mei
DEUS
,
Have
mercy
on
me
,
O
GOD.
AT
the
first
entrance
our
Kingly
Prophet
prefers
his
Petition
;
and
without
any
circumlocution
expresses
in
direct
terms
what
he
would
have
,
Miserere
mei
Deus
,
have
mercy
on
me
,
O
God
;
and
he
do's
it
with
such
confidence
as
if
he
had
a
right
to
be
forgiven
:
which
minds
me
of
a
rare
sentence
of
S.
Gregory
Nissen
;
that
Man
cannot
more
willingly
ask
pardon
,
than
God
is
ready
to
give
it
:
The
Divine
Majesty
expects
(
if
it
may
be
so
express'd
)
with
passion
the
conversion
of
a
sinner
,
and
no
sooner
a
repenting
motion
animates
his
heart
,
but
the
whole
Court
of
heaven
is
alarmed
with
joy
,
and
this
joy
is
followed
with
showers
of
mercy
:
No
wonder
then
if
our
Petitioner
make
his
address
with
so
little
Ceremony
,
since
he
speaks
to
a
Judge
resolved
to
mercy
upon
his
submission
;
to
a
Father
who
is
transported
with
joy
at
the
sight
of
his
long
lost
Son
:
to
a
Creatour
who
hath
framed
every
particle
of
his
being
,
and
perfectly
knows
how
frail
,
weak
,
and
prone
to
innumerable
failings
he
is
(
if
left
to
himself
)
wherefore
he
cryes
Miserere
mei
Deus
,
have
mercy
on
me
,
O
God
.
He
shelters
this
guilty
(
me
)
t'wixt
God
that
made
him
,
and
Mercy
that
must
save
him
;
on
these
two
he
anchors
all
his
hopes
,
which
being
let
down
by
a
vigorous
faith
renders
him
secure
amidst
all
the
storms
,
that
hell
and
earth
can
raise
;
so
that
now
like
a
rock
he
stands
braving
all
his
enemies
assaults
,
who
not
long
before
was
handed
like
a
ball
from
one
pleasure
to
another
,
as
if
he
had
been
made
up
of
sensuality
,
passion
,
and
a
neglect
of
God
.
Next
in
this
exordium
our
Petitioner
would
insinuate
a
great
truth
,
that
the
first
grace
is
a
free
gift
of
God
,
and
man
a
vessel
of
mercy
,
not
of
merit
;
hence
he
cryes
Miserere
mei
Deus
,
that
is
to
say
,
let
him
pine
away
in
sorrow
,
and
repentance
,
let
him
produce
acts
of
ardent
affection
,
by
which
he
prizes
God
above
all
things
imaginable
,
yet
when
all
this
is
done
,
he
is
a
Child
of
perdition
,
and
clouded
with
the
guilt
of
Sin
,
unless
an
act
of
Grace
be
made
him
from
his
Sovereign
:
Wherefore
we
must
know
that
Grace
expelling
Sin
by
access
unto
the
Soul
,
finds
there
no
merit
,
nothing
that
can
pretend
to
a
justification
;
neither
Faith
nor
any
other
Vertue
strikes
the
stroak
,
since
Grace
is
the
basis
,
or
ground-work
of
all
merit
,
whence
it
s
being
is
derived
no
less
than
a
beauteous
Flower
from
the
Plant
that
gives
it
birth
:
This
piece
of
Divinity
lay
not
hid
to
our
penitent
,
hence
he
acknowledges
his
imbecility
in
meriting
any
favour
,
only
he
strives
by
holy
acts
of
love
,
and
grief
to
dispose
himself
for
,
mercy
:
Nay
though
he
should
comfort
himself
with
Nathan's
words
that
he
was
already
possessed
of
the
first
Grace
,
yet
to
persevere
in
it
,
so
as
not
to
fall
again
,
he
knew
must
be
the
work
of
the
same
merciful
hand
;
for
it
is
no
less
out
of
our
reach
to
become
just
,
than
to
remain
so
,
without
a
constant
supply
of
many
actual
Graces
,
which
must
issue
gratis
from
Heaven
:
This
kept
him
still
in
humility
,
as
never
to
presume
of
his
own
strength
,
alwayes
in
fear
,
without
any
security
of
happiness
in
this
life
:
So
that
having
throughly
scann'd
the
Condition
of
Man
in
this
present
State
,
he
concludes
,
the
best
lesson
suitable
to
our
continual
wants
here
,
is
incessantly
to
repeat
,
and
entreat
under
this
effectual
form
,
Miserere
mei
Deus
,
have
mercy
on
me
,
O
God
.
Whil'st
he
thus
layes
all
his
hopes
at
the
feet
of
mercy
,
he
cannot
but
bless
the
sweet
proceedings
of
Heaven
,
in
requiring
of
us
to
compass
our
happiness
,
that
which
is
so
conformable
both
to
our
Reason
and
Nature
:
For
can
there
be
any
thing
more
rational
,
and
delightful
to
Man
,
than
to
love
a
Sovereign
Good
,
to
congratulate
the
Divine
Essence
,
Divine
Subsistences
,
Divine
Attributes
,
and
unchangeable
perfections
essentially
seated
in
God
;
Can
there
be
any
thing
more
just
,
than
to
desire
this
greatness
and
goodness
should
have
his
Divine
Laws
fulfilled
,
the
Universe
conserved
for
the
Encrease
and
Accomplishment
of
his
Service
,
and
that
all
praise
and
Benediction
be
poured
forth
before
him
by
all
Creatures
both
in
Heaven
and
Earth
:
Can
there
be
any
action
more
commendable
than
to
conceive
an
extream
detestation
of
Sin
,
because
injurious
to
His
Supream
Majesty
,
and
obstructive
to
his
glory
;
and
yet
in
doing
this
,
we
so
attemper
our selves
for
the
reception
of
his
favours
,
that
as
in
the
Order
of
Natural
things
,
upon
the
Organization
,
and
fitted
Dispositions
of
a
Body
,
he
hath
obliged
himself
to
infuse
a
Soul
,
so
he
hath
no
less
engaged
to
vest
that
Mind
with
supernatural
Grace
,
which
by
acts
of
love
and
repentance
shall
be
prepared
for
it
.
But
alas
!
Amidst
these
pleasing
reflections
,
when
he
looks
into
himself
he
finds
a
check
,
seeing
he
cannot
even
dispose
himself
for
this
happiness
without
a
supernatural
aid
;
for
though
't
is
true
humane
Nature
by
its
own
strength
knowes
that
God
is
worthy
of
all
love
,
yet
our
knowledge
in
morality
is
much
more
capable
of
comprehension
than
practice
:
'T
is
not
enough
to
have
Wings
to
fly
,
if
they
be
so
hamper'd
as
they
cannot
be
display'd
;
so
this
natural
faculty
in
Man
of
loving
God
above
all
things
is
so
weakned
by
original
Sin
,
and
a
million
of
Obstacles
,
that
we
find
the
inclination
of
doing
it
far
more
ineffectual
,
than
the
dictamens
of
our
reason
to
have
it
done
.
And
no
wonder
when
St.
Thomas
affirms
,
our
Will
by
original
Sin
,
is
much
more
damnified
than
our
understanding
,
whence
self
love
growes
powerful
in
us
,
and
if
it
hath
not
a
counterpoise
of
supernatural
succours
,
we
are
violently
hurried
into
the
pursuit
of
Fading
,
and
sensible
objects
.
This
consideration
makes
our
penitent
deplore
the
miseries
of
humane
Nature
,
so
wounded
and
made
impotent
unto
good
,
as
of
her self
she
cannot
pay
what
she
owes
to
the
most
lawful
object
of
all
hearts
,
for
his
just
homages
are
not
only
Sighs
,
Groans
,
and
Enthusiastick
throwes
,
but
effective
services
;
as
the
exact
observance
of
his
commands
,
an
aversion
from
what
may
put
a
separation
'twixt
God
and
our
Soul
,
such
are
sensual
pleasures
,
greatness
in
the
World
and
honours
in
excess
,
victory
over
Temptations
,
and
in
many
encounters
this
love
exacts
a
perpession
of
all
the
Calamities
to
which
Man
is
incident
,
even
to
the
privation
of
life
,
that
he
may
not
fall
into
transgressions
opposite
unto
it
:
And
these
difficulties
do
so
far
exceed
humane
imbecility
,
that
at
last
he
makes
this
result
,
he
must
stick
close
to
his
praeliminary
address
,
miserere
mei
Deus
,
have
mercy
on
me
O
God
;
Again
,
when
he
reflects
on
the
distance
of
these
Terms
Deus
&
mei
,
God
and
me
,
methinks
it
should
startle
the
greatest
Assurance
,
to
consider
the
sublimity
of
him
that
is
offended
,
and
the
despicability
of
the
offendour
;
the
one
is
immense
and
fills
all
places
,
the
other
is
contracted
into
the
dimensions
of
a
small
Body
;
the
one
is
immutable
,
and
still
the
same
,
the
other
is
corruptible
,
and
mouldring
away
every
Moment
towards
that
nothing
from
whence
it
came
;
the
one
is
eternal
,
the
other
subject
to
time
;
the
one
is
the
object
of
Beatitude
,
the
other
of
Misery
:
'T
is
true
our
penitent
in
relation
to
earthly
greatness
was
qualified
with
the
highest
Title
the
World
can
give
,
as
being
Sovereign
Monarch
,
and
sole
Ruler
of
a
chosen
Nation
,
a
vast
and
numerous
Body
of
People
;
yet
if
compared
to
God
,
he
is
not
so
much
as
an
Atome
in
respect
of
the
Sun
:
And
for
this
me
,
this
nothing
to
rise
up
in
rebellion
against
such
a
Sovereign
,
it
must
needs
work
a
strange
Confusion
and
Disturbance
within
him
how
to
make
his
submission
;
on
the
one
side
dejected
by
his
own
unworthiness
,
on
the
other
,
dazled
and
confounded
by
the
glory
of
the
incensed
.
Yet
at
last
he
breaks
through
all
obstacles
,
and
implores
mercy
,
he
had
rather
perish
in
hoping
too
much
,
than
to
commit
a
Sacriledge
in
distrusting
the
goodness
of
him
who
invites
all
without
distinction
unto
him
:
Nay
I
believe
,
had
the
object
against
which
he
trespassed
,
been
any
thing
less
than
God
,
he
would
never
have
opened
his
Lips
in
Order
to
a
Remission
:
For
he
knew
well
that
he
only
to
whom
Goodness
and
Mercy
is
essential
,
would
or
could
obliterate
his
guilt
.
'T
is
true
his
power
and
greatness
strike
a
terrour
,
yet
they
are
so
contempered
with
a
merciful
sweetness
,
that
the
Blackest
Soul
may
there
find
wherewith
to
rinse
her
stains
,
and
exchange
them
for
a
pure
Dye
of
innocency
,
if
she
can
with
a
Davids
Heart
and
Tongue
but
issue
forth
Miserere
mei
Deus
,
have
mercy
on
me
O
God
,
I
observe
moreover
that
Almighty
God
permits
a
Soul
though
very
dear
unto
him
,
to
be
often
here
exposed
in
troubled
waters
,
where
she
seems
to
be
wholly
lost
,
and
abandoned
;
that
Heaven
appears
to
have
no
light
for
her
,
and
the
Earth
nothing
but
malice
to
work
her
ruine
:
How
many
terrors
,
and
anxieties
of
Mind
have
Saints
endured
,
and
been
left
without
any
glimps
of
Comfort
,
even
for
some
whole
year
:
And
why
all
these
rude
tryals
in
the
conduct
of
the
most
innocent
Soul
,
but
that
God
seems
to
be
delighted
when
his
creatures
tune
forth
;
Miserere
mei
Deus
,
have
mercy
on
me
O
God
:
Whence
you
may
see
,
that
God
will
exempt
no
condition
from
this
supplicating
stile
,
he
will
be
sued
to
by
the
innocent
,
as
well
as
nocent
,
and
where
the
Formality
of
malice
is
wanting
,
he
oft
gives
the
apprehension
,
to
the
end
,
that
flying
to
this
powerful
miserere
,
they
might
draw
at
least
from
his
Goodnss
the
benefits
of
Conversation
,
encrease
of
Grace
,
addition
of
Vertue
,
and
other
innumerable
Mercies
which
he
hath
in
store
for
those
who
trust
in
him
.
So
that
there
is
no
time
,
nor
place
unseasonable
for
any
person
to
prefer
this
Petition
;
Miserere
mei
Deus
,
have
mercy
on
me
O
God
.
The
Application
.
By
this
Petition
we
are
taught
not
to
presume
on
the
value
of
our
own
actions
:
For
God
is
the
Sovereign
Lord
of
the
whole
World
,
and
particularly
of
the
just
,
all
whose
good
works
convey
unto
him
a
pleasing
odour
;
yet
can
they
not
arrive
to
that
pitch
as
to
have
any
Empire
over
him
,
or
force
him
to
let
them
share
with
him
in
the
participation
of
his
Heavenly
Kingdom
.
Let
the
just
perform
all
the
good
imaginable
,
in
return
he
may
justly
say
,
I
accept
these
services
in
discharge
of
your
past
debts
,
and
what
you
owe
me
for
your
Creation
,
Conservation
,
and
the
Grace
I
have
given
you
to
act
:
So
that
we
may
truly
say
with
St.
Paul
,
when
we
have
done
all
we
can
,
we
are
useless
Servants
:
For
whereas
we
were
pure
Negatives
,
it
was
his
Sole
Mercy
that
extracted
us
from
nothing
;
it
was
this
same
Mercy
which
added
to
our
natural
Being
,
a
Being
of
Grace
.
Lastly
,
the
accomplishment
of
this
Mercy
is
to
bring
us
into
the
possession
of
eternal
Glory
,
wherefore
if
we
attire
our
actions
in
the
colours
of
Mercy
,
and
alwayes
beat
upon
this
string
,
we
may
justly
hope
one
day
to
sing
the
praises
of
this
incomparable
Mercy
with
our
holy
penitent
,
throughout
the
vast
spaces
of
Eternity
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
II.
Secundum
magnam
Misericordiam
tuam
,
According
to
thy
great
Mercy
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
having
set
a
foot
his
Petition
,
we
have
all
reason
to
believe
since
it
is
in
a
matter
of
so
great
weight
,
and
from
a
person
so
accomplished
,
that
't
is
framed
and
ajusted
to
the
exactest
rules
of
an
effectual
address
;
wherefore
let
us
examine
what
Arguments
he
uses
to
move
for
a
grant
.
I
observe
in
the
first
place
he
alledges
not
the
innocent
and
harmless
life
he
led
whilst
he
kept
his
Fathers
Flock
:
Nor
his
zeal
for
the
honour
of
God's
people
in
his
Combat
with
Goliah
:
He
mentions
not
his
constant
sufferings
wrought
by
the
malice
of
Saul
:
Nor
his
transport
of
joy
,
and
reverence
when
he
danced
before
the
Ark
:
In
a
word
he
declines
the
memory
of
any
action
in
his
life
past
which
might
make
him
recommendable
;
wisely
considering
as
did
Job
that
admirable
pattern
of
patience
:
Should
he
expostulate
with
God
,
He
would
not
be
able
to
answer
one
word
for
a
thousand
:
Therefore
he
casts
himself
wholly
upon
the
Favour
of
his
judge
,
saying
,
Secundùm
magnam
misericordiam
tuam
,
according
to
thy
great
mercy
:
He
silences
all
the
other
Divine
Attributes
,
and
conjures
his
Creatour
by
that
which
seems
most
appropriated
to
his
condition
.
Nor
is
he
content
to
challenge
his
mercy
without
the
specification
of
great
mercy
,
as
if
the
Enormity
of
his
Crimes
were
such
as
required
more
than
an
Ordinary
Condonation
.
Indeed
his
Mercy
may
well
be
stiled
great
,
for
it
hath
all
the
dimensions
of
greatness
,
it
reacheth
from
Heaven
to
Earth
,
even
to
the
Gates
of
Hell
:
It
is
extended
from
one
pole
to
another
,
nay
it
is
immense
as
God
himself
,
participating
of
his
Divine
nature
;
it
searches
the
abstrusest
corners
of
our
Heart
,
and
if
the
least
Crany
be
put
open
to
his
light
,
and
grace
,
it
is
presently
replenished
by
this
great
mercy
.
Ah!
did
we
but
know
what
mists
of
terrene
affections
,
the
beams
of
his
mercy
have
dispersed
within
us
;
what
a
change
they
have
made
in
our
bad
inclinations
,
what
dangers
they
have
met
and
diverted
from
us
:
We
should
even
repine
at
Nature
that
hath
not
furnished
us
with
more
Hearts
,
and
Tongues
to
love
and
praise
this
great
mercy
.
He
adds
likewise
secundùm
,
that
is
according
to
the
custome
of
thy
great
mercy
,
which
uses
not
to
boggle
at
the
remission
of
any
sin
,
nor
to
look
so
precisely
upon
the
degree
of
the
offendours
past
malice
,
as
upon
his
present
repentance
,
whence
he
grounds
the
Communication
of
his
Grace
;
by
which
we
may
discern
the
Sense
our
Holy
King
had
of
his
transgressions
,
which
made
him
willing
to
huddle
up
his
score
,
and
without
giving
in
any
particular
to
desire
they
migh●●…ther
in
a
cluster
be
cast
,
and
drowned
in
the
Ocean
of
his
Mercy
.
We
are
taught
by
this
two
things
,
First
not
to
presume
upon
the
value
of
our
own
actions
,
so
farr
as
from
them
to
justifie
our selves
;
for
in
this
kind
none
could
plead
more
for
himself
than
our
holy
petitioner
;
he
had
with
a
Piety
and
fortitude
unequalled
run
through
many
difficult
,
and
glorious
enterprises
,
wherein
God
was
pleased
to
appear
for
him
,
and
own
him
his
champion
:
Yet
he
thinks
good
to
hush
up
all
this
,
well
knowing
that
praise
is
due
alone
to
him
under
whose
guidance
and
protection
he
had
begun
,
and
set
a
fortunate
period
to
them
.
Next
we
are
taught
that
(
reflecting
upon
our
sins
past
)
we
should
never
despair
;
for
as
our
good
deeds
we
owe
to
God
alone
,
by
whose
inspiration
moving
us
we
do
them
;
so
we
must
submit
our
bad
deeds
(
whereof
we
our selves
are
the
sole
Authors
)
to
his
Mercy
:
Whence
we
may
see
,
though
he
cannot
concurr
with
us
in
doing
ill
,
his
unspotted
Nature
being
incapable
of
any
obliquity
;
yet
it
being
done
,
he
will
share
with
us
in
the
undoing
,
or
repairing
of
our
misfortunes
:
And
which
is
more
,
no
sooner
hath
this
M●rciful
Hand
dragg'd
us
out
of
the
mire
of
Sin
,
but
't
is
stretched
forth
to
be
joyn'd
to
ours
in
a
happy
nuptial
bond
,
promising
by
his
Prophet
to
espouse
us
unto
himself
for
ever
in
misericordia
,
in
the
inseparable
Union
of
his
Mercy
.
It
is
this
great
Mercy
without
end
,
or
beginning
,
which
hath
decreed
from
all
eternity
to
bring
us
off
clear
from
all
misery
,
and
place
us
glorious
in
his
light
inaccessible
;
from
the
time
that
God
was
,
and
loved
himself
,
he
disposed
us
for
his
love
,
and
mercy
;
have
we
not
therefore
reason
to
spend
every
moment
of
our
Life
in
loving
,
praising
,
and
glorifying
this
great
mercy
:
It
is
in
all
kinds
infinite
,
no
excess
of
malice
obstructs
it
,
no
frequency
of
Commission
or
reiterated
guilt
renders
it
inexorable
,
no
time
excludes
it
,
no
not
a
desperate
delay
to
the
last
moment
,
O
God
thy
judgments
may
be
well
said
to
be
unfathomed
Abysses
,
wherein
are
lost
our
most
Enormous
crimes
,
and
from
that
loss
we
find
our selves
transferred
unto
the
enjoyance
of
thee
,
irradiated
with
the
comfortable
beams
of
thy
mercy
.
But
above
all
,
this
mercy
never
appears
so
great
as
in
the
admirable
Mystery
of
the
Incarnation
,
where
we
behold
the
eternal
Father
giving
up
his
only
Son
in
behalf
of
Mankind
vitiated
,
and
defiled
with
Sin
,
rebellious
,
and
insolent
against
His
Sovereign
,
a
Worm
,
and
poor
scantling
of
putrefaction
,
a
prey
for
the
Flames
of
Hell
:
That
,
I
say
,
a
God
most
perfect
in
himself
,
who
hath
no
want
,
should
love
so
vile
a
Creature
,
at
such
a
distance
from
him
,
and
who
could
stand
him
in
no
stead
:
and
yet
this
eternal
God
full
of
greatness
hath
cherished
Man
in
such
a
manner
,
as
to
bestow
upon
him
the
dear
production
of
himself
,
coeternal
,
consubstantial
,
and
equal
to
him
in
Greatness
and
Majesty
,
and
for
what
end
?
To
save
him
from
ruine
,
to
enrich
him
with
eternal
Life
;
this
is
that
great
mercy
our
Penitent
now
implores
,
and
he
claims
it
by
vertue
of
a
promise
made
to
Abraham
;
that
since
he
had
not
grudged
him
his
only
Sonne
,
all
Nations
should
be
blessed
in
his
Seed
,
that
the
Eternal
Death
of
him
who
is
temporal
,
should
be
redeemed
by
the
temporal
Death
of
him
who
is
eternal
:
How
many
Miracles
found
birth
in
the
execution
of
this
act
of
love
and
mercy
:
First
,
Nature
was
stopt
as
to
the
result
of
a
humane
subsistence
,
in
whose
place
was
intimately
applyed
the
personality
of
the
Divine
word
;
and
this
infinite
subsistence
,
was
adorned
with
graces
,
vertues
,
and
priviledges
supereminent
;
a
Mother
enjoyed
a
fruitful
Virginity
,
and
a
delivery
without
pain
;
in
the
fruit
was
found
at
the
same
instant
the
blood
consolidated
,
organized
,
animated
,
and
deifyed
:
So
that
the
Second
Person
of
the
blessed
Trinity
assuming
a
new
Being
newly
produced
,
that
is
,
the
essence
of
a
holy
humanity
,
attyred
himself
with
it
,
becomes
a
good
man
,
and
a
master
piece
of
love
,
and
mercy
:
A
remedy
so
necessary
,
that
without
it
all
the
purity
of
Angels
,
and
Holy
Souls
,
all
the
inflamed
desires
of
the
Patriarchs
could
never
have
merited
with
condignity
this
incarnate
mistery
:
For
were
all
the
groans
put
together
,
all
the
tears
,
sufferings
,
and
exquisite
torments
which
Saints
have
endured
for
the
love
of
God
,
and
on
the
other
side
but
one
single
tear
thrown
in
of
Jesus
Christ
shed
either
at
his
birth
,
or
any
time
of
his
life
,
this
tear
issuing
from
the
flaming
Furnace
of
his
Heart
,
Sacred
,
and
united
to
the
Divine
Word
,
would
exceed
in
value
all
you
can
think
,
or
imagine
in
the
meritorious
actions
of
Creatures
:
So
that
this
adorable
mistery
is
not
a
mistery
of
just
retribution
springing
from
any
humane
,
or
Angelical
merit
;
but
,
't
is
a
mistery
of
goodness
and
supereminent
mercy
,
and
in
consideration
of
that
prodigious
design
of
love
,
he
is
animated
in
his
suit
,
and
believes
he
cannot
receive
a
repulse
,
because
he
acts
it
Secundùm
magnam
misericordiam
tuam
,
in
the
name
of
the
Messias
in
whom
all
the
Divine
mercies
from
the
beginning
of
the
World
issued
forth
unto
mankind
are
comprised
,
and
consequently
may
be
stiled
a
great
,
and
the
greatest
of
mercies
.
The
Application
.
Our
Holy
penitent
having
in
the
clear
prospect
of
his
prophetick
View
,
beheld
this
great
work
of
mercy
,
brake
forth
into
this
happy
expression
,
and
couches
a
clause
of
all
others
the
most
efficacious
to
obtain
the
end
he
sues
for
;
we
may
learn
from
hence
that
our
Mediator
Jesus
Christ
is
the
best
Sanctuary
in
all
our
distresses
,
whether
in
regard
of
our
past
offences
,
or
of
our
impotency
to
repair
our
failings
:
Methinks
I
hear
our
Petitioner
to
say
,
O
God
what
shall
I
return
thee
in
requital
;
when
I
would
praise
thee
,
an
Abyss
of
Majesty
exhausts
in
a
moment
all
Encomiums
,
and
my
Adorations
appear
nothing
before
thy
Divine
Essence
;
could
I
unmake
my self
in
deference
to
thee
the
Fountain
of
all
Beings
,
it
were
a
poor
homage
to
thy
ineffable
greatness
:
Nay
could
I
annihilate
the
whole
World
for
thy
glory
,
yet
would
it
nothing
equal
what
thy
immensity
might
justly
exact
:
But
whilst
I
thus
labour
with
my
own
poverty
,
finding
nothing
created
worthy
thy
acceptance
,
behold
the
perfect
oblation
of
thy
Son
,
a
prodigious
effect
of
mercy
;
this
I
offer
to
thee
,
he
can
best
speak
our
gratitude
,
who
can
only
satisfie
thy
Justice
;
since
by
this
gift
the
very
treasury
of
Heaven
will
be
exhausted
,
and
the
Earth
enrich'd
with
a
pure
Sacrifice
,
whose
odour
draws
upon
mankind
a
continued
flood
of
mercies
.
It
is
this
eternal
offering
meant
by
our
Petitioner
when
he
mentions
thy
great
mercy
,
whose
very
thought
and
foresight
at
the
distance
of
many
ages
replenished
his
heart
with
joy
:
And
if
the
expectation
of
him
to
come
so
transported
,
what
dilation
of
spiritual
joy
ought
to
invade
us
,
who
now
possess
,
what
they
had
only
in
hope
,
who
now
reap
a
plentiful
harvest
of
Salvation
,
when
before
the
World
was
blasted
with
sterility
and
doom'd
to
darkness
,
untill
the
bowels
of
this
great
mercy
were
opened
,
to
store
us
with
his
light
and
grace
.
Let
us
joyn
our
Petitions
with
Holy
David
,
and
adore
the
wonders
of
this
great
mercy
,
in
which
we
behold
humane
flesh
hypostasiated
in
a
Divine
nature
,
a
Creatour
link'd
to
his
Creature
,
Death
unto
Life
,
Glory
unto
Confusion
,
and
Iniquity
stamped
with
Innocence
:
And
whilst
we
contemplate
these
admirable
contrivances
of
the
Divine
Wisdom
,
can
they
do
less
than
ascertain
us
(
if
we
place
in
the
Frontispiece
of
our
supplications
this
compositum
,
made
up
of
so
many
contrarieties
)
that
our
desires
will
take
effect
,
that
under
this
Sanctuary
we
shall
strike
off
all
the
scores
of
guilt
,
and
render
a
satisfaction
as
great
as
God
can
expect
or
require
:
Hence
you
see
how
confidently
every
sinner
may
repeat
with
David
:
Have
mercy
on
me
,
O
God
,
according
to
thy
great
mercy
.
CHAP.
III.
Et
secundùm
multitudinem
miserationum
tuarum
,
And
according
to
the
multitude
of
thy
mercies
.
OUr
Holy
Petitioner
having
expressed
his
relyance
in
general
on
Gods
mercy
,
next
fixes
upon
its
effects
in
particular
,
and
makes
a
series
,
or
list
of
all
his
mercies
:
Wherein
methinks
I
behold
him
just
like
one
in
desolation
of
Shipwrack
fastning
on
a
plank
,
and
though
the
storm
continue
,
darkness
surround
him
,
and
nothing
but
the
Face
of
Death
appears
before
his
Eyes
,
yet
he
remembers
that
many
have
been
saved
in
his
condition
;
how
some
have
been
cast
upon
the
shore
,
others
upon
a
Rock
,
some
by
a
passing
Boat
gathered
up
:
In
fine
he
calls
to
mind
a
thousand
wayes
of
preservation
to
consolate
himself
in
this
distress
,
and
every
thought
of
hope
makes
him
grasp
with
new
fervour
his
floating
support
:
Even
so
I
may
say
of
our
distressed
Penitent
,
his
goodly
Vessel
of
innocence
was
wreck'd
,
dashed
against
the
powerfull
charms
of
a
Woman
,
from
thence
he
was
thrown
into
an
Ocean
of
Sins
,
where
on
all
sides
he
beheld
the
menaces
of
eternal
destruction
;
in
these
perplexities
he
runs
with
his
thought
over
all
the
passages
of
God's
mercy
from
the
World's
beginning
by
the
consideration
of
them
,
a
little
to
keep
up
his
sinking
Spirits
.
He
fails
not
to
remember
the
mild
proceeding
of
God
with
Adam
in
not
punishing
him
irrecoverably
,
as
he
had
done
the
reprobate
Angels
,
but
was
contented
to
Exile
him
from
the
delicious
place
of
his
Creation
,
and
to
expose
him
here
to
the
Whirl-winds
of
passions
,
in
which
contest
if
he
proved
faithful
;
his
reward
was
to
be
the
same
as
first
designed
for
him
:
From
thence
he
passes
to
the
conflagration
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
,
where
though
God's
justice
fell
heavy
upon
those
miscreants
,
yet
he
layes
it
on
their
impenitency
,
and
admires
his
goodness
that
would
notwithstanding
have
kept
in
his
shafts
of
vengeance
for
the
sake
of
ten
just
persons
;
if
that
small
number
were
but
found
in
those
populous
Cities
;
he
goes
on
to
the
Ninivites
,
and
pleases
himself
to
see
them
under
the
Lee
born
thitherby
repentance
,
even
when
the
storm
of
God's
wrath
was
ready
to
plunge
them
in
an
Abyss
of
ruine
:
He
insists
much
upon
the
prayer
of
Moses
,
which
still
diverted
the
rigorous
designs
of
God
upon
his
people
;
he
fancies
that
every
Groan
and
Sigh
of
his
contributes
something
towards
the
making
up
of
a
brazen
Serpent
,
by
whose
Soveraign
aspect
his
cauterized
Soul
might
be
unvenomed
and
made
whole
.
It
was
no
small
Consolation
when
he
reflects
on
God's
people
in
the
Land
of
Egypt
,
whose
Oppression
(
which
their
own
Sins
had
drawn
upon
them
)
was
yet
relieved
at
the
rate
of
miracles
,
and
wonders
,
and
such
as
Israel
had
not
seen
:
And
why
all
this
?
But
to
make
good
his
promise
to
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
and
Jacob
,
that
he
would
never
abandon
a
Truly-repenting
Heart
.
Thus
he
goes
on
enumerating
a
thousand
other
passages
of
God's
mercy
from
the
Worlds
Creation
,
until
his
time
;
nor
is
he
content
with
this
,
but
advances
further
,
displaying
in
his
prophetick
knowledge
,
innumerable
other
effects
of
God's
compassion
to
Mankind
,
and
at
last
begins
to
make
this
Application
,
though
he
could
not
deserve
to
partake
of
his
great
mercy
,
that
is
,
not
only
to
have
his
guilt
remitted
,
but
also
to
become
the
object
of
his
choicest
favours
,
yet
at
least
he
hoped
he
might
be
hudled
in
amidst
the
multitude
of
his
mercies
.
How
sweetly
did
those
Attributes
Divine
resound
in
his
Ears
,
where
God
is
stiled
rich
in
mercies
,
where
his
Mercy
transcends
all
his
other
works
,
and
where
his
Goodness
and
Mercy
are
proclaimed
inexhausted
Sources
:
He
leaves
not
a
Crany
in
the
World
unransacked
,
and
after
the
severest
scrutiny
finds
,
and
confesses
there
is
no
place
destitute
of
his
mercy
,
no
Creature
that
is
not
cheered
,
and
enlivened
by
the
effects
of
his
mercy
;
this
made
him
cry
:
Lord
when
thou
dost
open
thy
hand
,
all
Creatures
are
filled
with
blessings
;
and
he
tells
us
that
every
Being
looks
upwards
depending
on
his
Creatour
,
and
expects
from
him
a
seasonable
supply
of
all
wants
:
Nay
he
excludes
not
Hell
,
nor
Souls
doom'd
to
eternal
flames
from
this
mercy
,
for
he
considers
that
God
is
bonus
universis
,
good
to
all
,
and
though
his
Justice
have
plunged
them
in
that
Calamitous
State
of
misery
,
yet
that
their
torments
are
not
more
intense
,
and
in
many
circumstances
aggravated
,
they
owe
it
to
his
mercy
,
which
still
hath
something
to
do
,
even
in
the
punishment
of
the
highest
offendours
.
Having
then
survey'd
Angels
,
Man
,
and
sensible
Creatures
,
the
Heavens
,
Earth
,
and
Hell
,
and
found
no
Being
that
could
in
the
least
repine
for
want
of
mercy
;
upon
these
reflections
with
just
reason
our
Petitioner
entitles
them
a
multitude
of
mercies
,
for
on
all
sides
they
flow
as
from
a
natural
Source
.
Nor
wonder
that
we
have
more
Presidents
of
his
mercy
than
Justice
,
for
the
one
consists
in
a
communicative
vertue
of
what
is
good
,
and
as
God
is
essentially
good
,
so
he
can
alwayes
breath
forth
these
emanations
of
his
goodness
upon
us
:
Now
Justice
,
though
it
be
equally
essential
to
the
Divine
Essence
with
mercy
,
and
other
Attributes
,
yet
in
its
operations
ad
extra
or
exteriour
effects
,
it
depends
upon
the
obliquity
of
our
actions
,
without
which
it
hath
no
matter
or
Subject
to
work
on
:
So
that
mercy
he
can
alwayes
shower
down
upon
us
,
but
Justice
only
when
we
offend
:
he
would
not
forget
how
the
greater
number
of
Angels
stood
the
brunt
of
temptations
,
when
Lucifer
perished
with
his
proud
adherents
,
it
was
this
mercy
held
them
up
at
the
instant
of
their
Tryal
;
and
though
our
afflicted
penitent
found
not
this
innocence
preserving
mercy
,
yet
he
hopes
to
lay
hold
on
that
part
where
he
is
stiled
a
purifying
mercy
:
Let
his
Subjects
fall
from
their
obedience
,
and
throw
curses
at
him
,
let
his
Children
prove
unnatural
,
and
labour
to
dethrone
him
,
let
a
pestilential
Disease
depopulate
his
Country
;
in
fine
let
the
Joy
of
his
Life
Absalom
be
sacrificed
by
the
Hand
of
his
own
Souldier
,
with
smiles
he
will
pass
through
all
these
Tests
,
so
they
proceed
from
the
hand
of
this
all
purifying
mercy
:
He
values
not
the
mediums
,
but
the
end
he
tends
to
,
and
when
he
thinks
o●
this
,
he
begins
afresh
to
admire
this
mercy
in
the
reward
of
the
elect
;
he
knows
not
whether
it
exceeds
more
in
the
expectancy
and
furtherance
of
a
sinners
conversion
,
or
in
those
immense
felicities
he
communicates
by
his
presence
:
For
here
he
beholds
a
God
courting
his
Creatures
,
insensible
as
it
were
of
injuries
,
and
dishonours
from
them
,
and
seconding
their
least
good
intents
,
with
the
powerful
succours
of
grace
.
There
he
contemplates
a
God
remunerating
our
small
inconsiderable
Acts
of
Vertue
with
the
same
Felicity
,
wherewith
he
himself
is
blest
and
made
happy
:
For
his
Beatitude
is
to
enjoy
himself
and
contemplate
his
own
beauty
and
perfections
,
and
this
same
Beatitude
he
imparts
to
us
poor
worms
through
the
excess
of
his
Mercy
.
But
whether
our
holy
penitent
more
extolls
the
effects
of
his
mercies
in
Heaven
or
Earth
I
know
not
;
yet
of
this
I
am
sure
,
he
is
reconciled
to
make
it
whilst
he
hath
life
,
the
Theam
of
his
Pen
,
Heart
,
and
Tongue
;
he
will
celebrate
the
praises
of
his
innumerable
mercies
for
all
Eternity
,
he
hath
scarce
a
Psalm
which
speaks
not
his
zeal
for
this
subject
,
as
if
his
quill
had
been
dipped
in
this
Fountain
of
mercies
.
Another
branch
which
growes
up
amidst
the
multitude
of
his
mercies
,
is
,
that
he
distributes
his
blessings
not
so
much
in
the
measure
of
his
wisdom
,
as
love
;
and
after
his
innumerable
favours
done
to
his
Vineyard
,
he
defies
the
whole
Mass
of
Creatures
to
tax
him
of
any
want
on
his
part
:
For
should
he
reward
us
according
to
our
actions
which
he
in
his
praescience
and
eternal
essence
foresees
will
come
to
pass
,
who
of
us
should
be
left
alive
,
or
who
of
us
should
be
born
?
Only
the
innocent
should
then
be
favoured
,
and
rather
than
it
should
be
so
,
he
was
willing
to
put
it
upon
the
Tryal
,
how
or
what
we
might
prove
hereafter
.
He
foreknew
that
Lucifer
should
fall
,
that
Adam
would
sin
,
Saul
become
disobedient
,
and
Judas
betray
him
,
yet
he
forbare
not
(
for
all
this
)
to
throw
his
favours
upon
them
;
to
shew
his
mercy
is
ever
in
competition
with
Man's
malice
,
and
like
a
good
Physitian
if
one
Medicine
work
no
good
,
he
applyes
another
like
a
g●od
Husbandman
if
his
Land
yield
him
no
Crop
one
year
,
he
cultivates
and
labours
it
again
the
Second
,
and
Third
,
by
which
it
often
happens
that
one
fruitful
season
repaires
the
sterility
of
divers
years
past
:
Just
so
God
still
goes
on
,
and
though
he
sees
no
hope
to
stop
our
malice
,
yet
he
stops
not
his
mercy
;
this
proceeding
made
St.
Austin
cry
,
Praise
and
Glory
O
Lord
be
to
thee
O
Fountain
of
mercies
,
the
worser
I
grew
,
and
more
perverse
,
so
much
the
nearer
thou
wast
unto
me
.
It
is
said
a
small
proportion
of
chastisement
suffices
a
Father
in
order
to
his
Son
;
so
God
(
as
a
kind
and
loving
Father
)
thinks
a
little
punishment
enough
for
his
Children
:
St.
Chrysostome
says
that
after
the
Master
of
the
Vineyard
had
his
Servants
beaten
,
and
slain
by
the
Husbandmen
,
he
sent
his
Son
,
and
for
all
these
their
outrages
required
no
other
satisfaction
than
to
see
them
abash'd
and
ashamed
of
their
Cruelties
and
Ingratitude
:
They
will
(
says
he
)
reverence
my
Son
;
so
that
't
is
evident
,
their
blushing
not
their
bleeding
he
desired
:
Whence
St.
Hierom
makes
a
result
of
this
Parable
,
that
in
God's
Clemency
there
was
no
Weight
,
no
Number
,
no
Measure
;
nor
likewise
in
the
others
Malice
.
So
that
our
holy
penitent
beholding
in
every
transaction
of
God
with
Man
this
fulness
of
Mercy
,
might
with
reason
expostulate
,
and
entreat
his
pardon
:
Secundùm
multitudinem
miserationum
tuarum
,
according
to
the
multitude
of
thy
mercies
.
The
Application
.
Let
every
one
examine
his
life
from
the
time
he
had
the
use
of
reason
,
and
I
am
confident
he
will
find
many
tyes
of
obligation
to
this
great
mercy
;
nay
amongst
the
mass
of
Christians
,
I
believe
there
is
none
but
ranks
himself
a
favourite
in
order
to
his
largesses
of
mercy
:
For
his
love
is
constant
,
and
knowes
no
change
,
this
great
and
good
God
hath
persisted
for
an
infinity
of
time
in
the
perpetual
resolution
of
gratifying
us
with
his
gifts
,
his
enflamed
heart
hath
entertained
a
continual
solicitude
without
any
truce
for
our
good
.
Witness
the
Prophet
Jeremy
who
sayes
that
God
hath
loved
us
with
an
everlasting
Charity
:
His
love
is
eternal
,
having
alwayes
decreed
to
enrich
us
with
his
favours
;
St.
Paul
proclaims
it
,
that
he
hath
loved
us
before
the
World
was
framed
.
It
is
disinteressed
,
without
any
advantage
to
himself
or
hope
of
return
on
our
parts
:
No
other
motive
than
the
superabundance
of
his
goodness
;
like
a
fountain
which
runs
over
,
his
natural
goodness
throwes
blessings
on
all
Creatures
.
Plutarch
speaking
of
love
,
sayes
,
it
takes
any
occasion
be
it
never
so
slight
,
to
oblige
the
beloved
;
he
wants
no
baits
,
nor
snares
,
carrying
about
him
the
matter
of
his
own
bondage
:
So
God's
love
never
takes
leave
of
a
Sinner
;
nay
where
Man
's
impiety
extorts
as
it
were
from
him
the
darts
of
his
Justice
,
he
seems
presently
to
relent
,
and
promises
(
as
he
did
after
the
Deluge
)
to
do
so
no
more
;
so
that
his
love
being
eternal
,
unchangeable
,
and
devested
of
all
self
ends
,
what
can
we
ask
of
God
that
issues
not
from
his
mercy
,
wherefore
let
us
with
holy
David
cry
have
mercy
on
us
O
God
,
according
to
the
multitude
of
thy
mercies
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
IV.
Dele
iniquitatem
meam
,
Wipe
away
my
iniquity
.
OUr
poor
Criminal
having
thus
prepared
his
Judge
,
the
next
care
is
to
lay
open
his
condition
,
and
shew
he
implores
God's
purifying
Mercy
,
by
whose
vertue
the
Chains
of
our
sins
are
loosened
and
dissolved
:
Nor
did
it
a
little
raise
his
confidence
,
that
his
Judge
was
not
tyed
up
to
Lawes
,
as
the
Ground-work
of
proceedings
with
offendours
;
but
his
power
is
absolute
to
do
all
he
pleases
,
and
his
will
such
as
to
render
what
ever
he
doe's
good
,
and
Just
:
So
that
the
least
propension
of
this
Will
;
in
order
to
a
remission
,
is
sufficient
to
wipe
away
all
the
iniquities
of
the
Earth
.
Besides
,
he
considers
that
when
God
chastises
,
he
doth
a
thing
extraneous
to
him
,
and
(
as
Esay
saies
)
a
work
that
is
not
his
:
But
to
be
merciful
he
owns
it
as
a
propriety
annexed
to
his
Godhead
,
not
to
extenuate
his
Justice
,
but
to
insinuate
the
love
he
bears
to
Man
.
He
embroyls
not
his
Fancy
with
the
niceties
in
Schools
;
which
dispute
how
Sin
is
remitted
,
whether
by
the
expulsion
of
any
positive
form
,
and
the
introduction
of
another
opposite
to
it
:
Whether
it
be
by
the
meer
infusion
of
Grace
,
or
else
only
by
taking
away
the
obligation
of
a
Sinner
to
eternal
punishment
;
he
omits
all
these
curious
questions
,
and
attends
only
to
the
sweet
effect
,
to
wit
,
that
he
may
be
freed
from
his
iniquity
,
oft
repeating
in
his
Heart
,
he
had
rather
be
a
good
Disciple
,
than
a
great
Master
in
the
exact
knowledge
of
his
own
misery
.
When
he
looks
back
into
his
life
past
,
and
remembers
with
what
satisfaction
,
and
spiritual
joy
he
had
performed
many
acts
of
vertue
,
he
begins
to
be
enfired
with
new
flames
of
urging
for
a
grant
of
his
Petition
:
Since
he
knowes
that
whilst
he
lyes
under
this
attaindour
of
Treason
,
he
is
capable
of
no
right
nor
priviledge
,
in
the
Charter
given
us
by
Heaven
,
that
should
he
do
actions
which
in
another
condition
might
be
praemiated
,
would
now
be
looked
upon
as
a
Jewel
counterfeit
and
of
no
value
:
He
compares
himself
to
a
Plant
in
a
Region
far
remote
from
the
Sun
,
whose
Fruit
never
comes
to
maturity
,
so
his
iniquity
sets
him
at
a
great
distance
with
God
,
the
light
and
life
of
Souls
,
and
consequently
nothing
can
be
expected
from
him
which
savours
not
of
a
Soyl
accursed
,
and
doom'd
to
sterility
;
so
that
as
a
misfortune
seldome
walks
solitary
,
he
finds
besides
the
unhappiness
to
have
offended
God
,
this
addition
,
to
be
unable
to
do
any
thing
acceptable
unto
him
.
Then
he
goes
on
ruminating
upon
the
sad
consequences
of
his
Sin
,
which
makes
him
fluctuate
in
his
thoughts
,
wholly
unresolved
how
to
comport
himself
:
Sometimes
he
appears
like
a
Statue
without
motion
,
and
would
eternally
remain
so
,
since
by
no
endeavours
he
can
please
his
Creatour
:
Then
again
I
behold
him
bent
upon
the
execution
of
all
the
good
imaginable
,
at
least
within
the
extent
of
his
natural
Force
or
Power
;
that
he
may
omit
no
Homage
and
Duty
he
owes
to
the
Author
of
his
Being
:
But
after
all
his
restless
solicitudes
,
he
observes
the
main
Hinge
of
his
happiness
depends
upon
this
Dele
iniquitatem
,
the
cancelling
of
this
Bond
by
which
he
is
lyable
to
eternal
punishment
,
e're
he
can
hope
for
admittance
unto
his
wonted
ravishing
entertainments
with
his
Divine
Master
.
He
descants
upon
the
proceeding
of
Almighty
God
with
Sinners
,
and
would
feign
search
into
the
secrets
of
his
Providence
,
why
some
are
drawn
from
the
depth
of
wickedness
;
even
when
they
seemed
to
be
lost
to
the
World
and
Heaven
,
whilst
others
less
guilty
in
the
Eyes
of
men
sadly
perish
without
source
,
or
redress
.
The
preservation
of
the
one
he
attributes
to
the
immense
goodness
of
God
,
which
sometimes
dispenses
(
as
justly
he
may
)
in
his
own
lawes
,
as
to
afford
unto
an
unworthy
sinner
such
powerfull
calls
that
they
are
never
resisted
;
such
melting
affections
,
as
if
they
had
been
train'd
up
in
the
School
of
Divine
love
,
not
in
the
Forge
of
iniquity
:
It
is
fit
(
he
confesses
)
the
Divine
Will
which
frames
all
Creatures
,
should
so
dispose
of
what
he
hath
made
,
that
when
he
pleases
to
raise
any
one
out
of
corruption
,
and
render
them
instrumental
to
his
Glory
,
none
ought
,
or
can
justly
repine
at
it
:
He
sustains
this
Argument
with
much
heat
,
himself
being
a
party
interessed
,
still
expecting
to
be
the
object
of
his
choice
mercy
:
He
dilates
and
expands
his
Soul
under
this
inexhausted
source
,
like
the
Earth
without
Water
thirsting
for
one
drop
of
that
Coelestial
stream
which
might
allay
the
anguish
of
his
Mind
,
and
deface
all
the
foul
Characters
of
his
iniquity
;
his
groans
,
and
unwearied
sighs
are
fair
Harbingers
of
that
Noble
Guest
he
once
entertained
,
with
unspeakable
delight
,
and
if
he
ever
gain
the
repossession
,
he
protests
that
neither
Angels
,
Men
,
Devils
,
nor
all
the
charmes
in
Creatures
shall
ever
brand
him
with
a
new
stamp
of
iniquity
:
his
Eyes
by
which
his
Soul
receiv'd
her
first
wound
are
become
two
floods
of
tears
,
and
if
they
prevail
not
to
cleanse
his
stains
,
at
least
they
will
testifie
to
the
World
,
he
repented
what
he
had
done
:
He
casts
not
one
glance
towards
Heaven
which
is
not
accompanied
with
hopes
of
meeting
this
mercy
,
and
this
confidence
is
so
grounded
in
him
,
that
were
it
decreed
God
would
save
but
one
Soul
,
he
hath
courage
enough
to
hope
that
his
might
be
that
one
;
nay
he
builds
so
much
upon
these
hopes
,
that
transporting
himself
to
the
consideration
of
many
Sinners
,
abandoned
in
their
impieties
,
it
doth
not
at
all
deject
him
;
for
he
considers
that
God
hath
given
us
a
free-will
,
which
he
will
never
violence
to
our
prejudice
,
and
though
we
cannot
elevate
this
will
to
an
act
so
perfect
as
naturally
to
merit
the
first
Grace
;
yet
it
may
in
such
sort
dispose
us
for
grace
by
love
,
and
sorrow
;
that
God
will
doubtless
gratifie
us
so
prepared
:
Whence
't
is
clear
,
that
as
we
fall
not
but
by
our
own
default
,
so
by
vertue
of
a
promise
,
and
contract
made
by
Heaven
,
we
cannot
finally
perish
but
by
an
obstinate
reluctancy
of
our
own
Hearts
:
If
he
sees
a
Phararh
sink
into
ruine
irrecoverably
,
he
beholds
likewise
a
Nebuchodonozer
for
the
same
crime
struck
down
,
to
rise
again
:
They
were
both
Kings
,
the
sin
of
either
alike
,
detaining
God's
people
in
captivity
,
yet
the
Fates
of
both
very
unequal
:
Because
the
one
retracts
his
misdeeds
,
and
raises
a
detestation
of
them
,
the
other
persists
in
his
Enormities
without
any
truce
or
suspension
.
At
last
he
makes
a
Corollary
of
this
discourse
,
and
concludes
,
since
some
are
preserved
in
Innocence
by
continued
showers
of
Grace
,
others
by
a
sweet
violence
drawn
from
an
Abyss
of
Sin
to
the
upshot
of
happiness
,
and
none
so
entangled
,
whom
a
true
repentance
will
not
set
free
;
he
will
never
cease
to
importune
Heaven
till
his
iniquity
be
rased
out
:
let
his
Throat
grow
hoarse
with
clamours
,
his
Eyes
droop
and
wax
dimme
,
his
Heart
rend
asunder
with
grief
,
he
will
spare
no
Particle
of
his
whole
Body
,
nay
glory
in
its
ruine
,
if
by
that
means
he
can
but
unclog
his
Soul
from
the
weight
of
Sin
:
He
judged
it
very
reasonable
,
that
the
Body
having
contributed
to
his
Sin
,
should
share
in
the
punishment
,
as
it
had
done
in
the
crime
,
and
as
it
had
concurred
unto
his
misery
,
so
likewise
it
might
unto
his
happiness
:
For
doubtless
the
Combats
which
a
virtuous
Man
sustains
amidst
so
many
Head-strong
passions
which
abound
in
this
mortal
frame
of
ours
,
are
no
small
advancements
to
eternal
Glory
,
nor
mean
Engins
to
work
our
Freedom
from
the
slavery
of
Sin
:
Hence
he
takes
up
arms
,
proclaims
Warr
against
himself
,
and
abjures
any
future
compliance
with
his
unbridled
appetite
:
He
will
make
his
Body
a
Sacrifice
into
pennance
,
which
before
had
been
a
lump
of
ordures
,
and
sensuality
:
His
will
shall
become
a
Tyrant
,
and
check
every
the
least
inclination
to
Evil
,
which
till
then
was
agitated
and
born
away
with
every
breath
of
Vanity
,
and
foul
delights
;
and
if
withall
these
rigours
he
can
break
the
stamp
of
his
iniquity
,
he
will
prize
that
Action
,
beyond
all
his
former
Victories
,
and
raise
more
Trophies
in
Memory
of
this
deliverance
than
ever
were
consecrated
to
the
most
Heroick
enterprize
of
any
person
in
the
World
.
The
monstrous
shape
of
his
iniquity
so
confounded
him
,
that
'till
it
was
defaced
,
he
could
not
ask
any
blessing
;
for
it
is
the
greatest
of
evils
,
and
wherein
all
misfortunes
are
Centered
.
When
Rheuben
importuned
his
Father
Jacob
that
Benjamin
his
darling
might
go
into
Egypt
,
he
offered
his
two
Sons
as
pledges
for
his
return
,
and
adds
for
a
further
engagement
,
ero
peccati
reus
,
he
would
be
guilty
of
sin
,
that
is
,
exposed
to
all
the
miseries
imaginable
,
if
he
falsifyed
his
word
.
St.
Paul
expressing
how
severely
God
fell
upon
his
only
Son
,
sayes
he
,
who
knew
no
sin
,
was
made
sin
for
us
;
that
is
,
he
discharged
upon
him
the
Tempest
of
his
wrath
,
rendring
him
the
most
despicable
of
Men
,
as
a
Testimony
of
sins
deformity
,
and
the
deplorable
State
of
him
that
lyes
under
the
guilt
of
a
mortal
transgression
:
Whence
a
great
Doctor
allowing
the
truth
of
St.
Austin's
assertion
that
one
drop
of
the
water
of
Paradise
will
be
sufficient
to
quench
the
flames
of
Hell
,
yet
will
it
not
suffice
(
says
he
)
to
wash
away
the
foulness
of
sin
:
Our
Holy
Penitent
knew
well
that
Death
concludes
all
our
merit
,
and
demerit
;
that
though
the
Just
after
this
life
shall
perform
many
glorious
actions
,
yet
these
will
not
purchase
to
them
any
new
Crowns
,
no
more
than
the
reprobate
shall
not
become
more
criminal
by
their
abominations
acted
in
Hell
;
Wherefore
during
the
time
of
this
transitory
life
,
wherein
we
are
to
fix
our
choice
of
an
eternity
good
or
bad
;
our
penitent
resolves
to
play
the
industrious
Merchant
;
whilst
he
lives
,
his
extinguished
light
of
Grace
may
be
enkindled
,
and
the
hideous
Character
of
his
iniquity
worn
out
,
but
if
Death
surprize
him
in
the
obscurity
of
sin
,
he
must
eternally
remain
in
darkness
,
deformed
with
the
ugly
stamp
of
his
iniquity
:
Wherefore
having
a
clear
view
,
both
of
his
present
state
,
and
danger
of
delay
,
he
will
both
importunely
,
and
opportunely
redouble
his
Note
,
Dele
iniquitatem
meam
,
blot
out
my
iniquity
:
The
Application
.
We
may
learn
by
the
example
of
our
penitent
,
to
work
whilst
the
day
of
this
life
endures
,
for
the
Night
of
Death
approaching
our
lot
is
cast
:
As
the
Tree
falls
,
so
it
will
lye
;
no
skipping
from
vice
to
vertue
,
nor
from
vertue
to
vice
,
after
Death
,
if
here
you
claw
not
off
the
stamp
of
your
iniquity
it
will
be
fixed
as
an
eternal
reproach
unto
you
;
and
't
is
but
just
where
there
is
a
capacity
of
perfection
,
that
a
place
,
time
,
and
state
should
be
allotted
for
its
acquisition
.
The
Angels
who
excell
Men
compassed
their
Felicity
by
one
sole
Motion
,
by
one
simple
operation
:
But
Man
who
is
more
gross
,
and
set
at
a
greater
distance
from
Beatitude
must
usually
speaking
gain
it
by
several
reiterated
operations
;
for
the
period
of
our
merit
,
or
demerit
,
takes
its
beginning
where
we
surcease
in
the
use
of
our
senses
,
for
as
in
flattering
their
inclinations
we
offend
,
so
in
curbing
and
wisely
ruling
them
for
the
love
of
God
,
we
perform
acts
of
Piety
and
Vertue
,
so
that
in
Death
the
matter
of
Vice
and
Vertue
expiring
with
the
loss
of
our
senses
;
Man
remains
confirmed
in
that
State
he
is
then
found
,
be
it
of
good
,
or
evil
;
Wherefore
let
us
imitate
our
penitent
,
and
whilst
our
Petition
may
be
heard
,
cry
out
with
Holy
David
,
Dele
iniquitatem
meam
,
blot
out
my
iniquity
,
Amen
.
CHAP.
V.
Amplius
lava
me
ab
iniquitate
mea
,
Wash
me
more
from
my
iniquity
.
OUr
distressed
Penitent
rowses
up
his
Spirits
believing
he
hath
already
a
grant
of
part
of
his
Petition
;
but
he
fears
lest
some
relicks
may
yet
remain
of
his
sin
,
that
is
,
bad
inclinations
,
and
proneness
unto
wickedness
,
contracted
by
many
reiterated
peccaminous
Acts
,
and
therefore
he
thinks
good
to
stick
close
unto
the
same
subject
till
he
compleat
his
design
:
Wash
me
more
from
my
iniquity
.
It
is
natural
to
Vegetables
simply
to
covet
a
Being
,
to
sensitive
Animals
,
to
seek
a
well
Being
,
and
to
reasonable
Creatures
to
thirst
and
long
after
a
Soveraign
Being
,
which
only
can
satisfie
their
God-thirsting
Souls
:
So
that
we
see
our
Petitioner
by
an
impulse
of
nature
is
carryed
on
to
his
first
demand
,
but
when
with
this
tendency
in
nature
are
joyn'd
the
seeds
and
beginnings
of
Divine
love
,
the
least
stain
supervenes
not
without
a
sequel
of
a
strange
horrour
and
trembling
,
arising
as
well
from
an
apprehension
of
losing
the
rich
Donative
of
Grace
,
as
from
a
restless
ambition
of
improving
it
every
moment
to
God's
Glory
:
He
knowes
our
life
is
here
as
it
were
between
privation
and
existence
,
between
light
and
darkness
;
by
how
much
we
recede
from
one
Extream
,
we
approach
nearer
to
the
other
;
and
to
make
a
hault
or
stop
in
this
mean
,
is
to
slide
back
into
that
part
we
would
avoid
;
this
made
our
Petitioner
not
satisfied
with
a
bare
remission
,
and
to
press
for
a
further
exemption
from
his
iniquity
;
Amplius
lava
me
,
wash
me
more
.
He
beholds
the
Sun
to
cheer
the
World
with
his
light
,
not
by
one
continued
constant
ray
,
but
by
a
perpetual
emission
of
Spirits
from
his
luminous
Body
:
Even
so
he
wishes
that
splendor
of
the
eternal
Father
,
which
hath
already
visited
with
comfortable
beams
his
happy
Soul
,
might
incessantly
oblige
him
with
new
influences
,
that
if
the
least
exhalation
of
Sin
arise
,
it
may
in
an
instant
fly
and
disperse
it self
before
this
purifying
Globe
;
amplius
lava
me
,
wash
me
more
.
His
anxiety
continues
,
but
with
this
difference
,
before
he
feared
to
dye
an
enemy
to
God
;
now
he
dreads
to
dye
not
his
friend
:
Before
his
care
was
to
clear
himself
of
sin
,
now
it
is
,
how
to
preserve
and
purchase
an
encrease
of
grace
:
He
begins
to
wonder
that
this
spiritual
resurrection
allayes
not
all
his
desires
;
but
forthwith
he
checks
himself
with
the
reflection
of
Man's
condition
in
this
life
,
where
he
is
alwayes
to
seek
and
never
to
find
,
because
he
proposes
to
himself
the
Idea
of
an
Entity
beyond
his
reach
,
and
hath
only
this
support
to
hold
up
his
hope
,
that
he
seeks
a
thing
incomprehensible
,
an
Object
on
Earth
designed
for
our
love
,
and
inquisition
;
in
Heaven
reserved
for
our
fruition
:
And
which
will
be
communicated
more
or
less
in
proportion
to
the
Zeal
and
Purity
of
Hearts
we
have
here
in
seeking
:
It
is
then
in
order
to
this
happy
enjoyment
that
our
Penitent
sues
again
and
again
to
be
more
freed
from
his
iniquity
.
Besides
Vertues
have
in
them
an
admirable
Sympathy
,
which
makes
they
never
jarr
,
but
mutually
conspire
to
unite
themselves
and
the
Subjects
they
inhabit
to
the
most
perfect
Object
;
and
since
this
Union
is
only
found
in
glory
,
it
is
consequent
we
must
needs
here
be
in
perpetual
motion
,
sometimes
rooting
out
this
imperfection
,
otherwhiles
acquiring
that
perfection
,
untill
we
arrive
at
him
,
who
is
the
beginning
,
and
end
of
all
our
agitations
.
He
remembred
with
what
wariness
God
gave
his
command
to
Adam
,
advising
even
not
to
touch
the
Fruit
he
must
not
tast
off
,
well
knowing
the
consequences
which
attend
occasions
of
sin
:
Hence
he
gathers
this
lesson
,
if
we
must
not
play
with
danger
,
much
less
harbour
the
lest
atome
of
sin
within
us
;
for
it
is
of
such
a
malignity
,
as
the
Ocean
upon
the
breach
of
a
bank
rushes
not
in
with
more
violence
than
sin
doth
,
and
over-flowes
that
Soul
where
once
it
finds
admittance
:
Who
will
grant
nothing
,
must
receive
no
Petitions
;
it
was
not
without
reason
the
Jews
forbad
the
eating
of
Fat
,
that
they
might
not
be
allured
to
devour
what
was
offered
in
their
Sacrifice
.
Our
Holy
Petitioner
implores
then
a
preservative
,
as
well
as
pardon
;
this
more
implyes
not
only
a
fuller
deletion
of
his
iniquity
,
but
also
a
stalling
of
dangerous
occasions
;
he
now
suspects
every
motion
of
his
enemy
he
hath
seen
from
his
own
too
dear
experience
that
a
spark
hath
grown
up
to
a
masterless
incendium
,
and
this
now
happily
extinguished
,
should
he
again
dally
but
with
the
least
resemblance
or
shaddow
of
sin
,
would
in
him
appear
monstrous
after
the
tast
of
so
signal
a
mercy
.
This
made
him
cry
,
wash
me
Lord
not
only
from
sin
,
but
more
,
even
from
all
danger
,
and
occasions
of
sin
:
For
in
the
midst
of
imminent
occasions
of
sin
,
not
to
decline
from
Vertue
,
and
noble
resolutions
,
is
a
possibility
more
speculative
,
than
reducible
to
practice
:
Nor
was
our
penitent
so
transported
with
his
change
,
as
not
to
have
a
solicitude
for
prevention
of
the
like
disaster
:
His
repentance
was
not
by
halves
,
this
made
him
stand
alwayes
upon
his
guard
;
alwayes
in
fear
,
and
still
panting
after
more
purity
,
and
more
relaxation
from
his
chains
of
iniquity
.
Wash
me
more
,
that
is
,
more
than
others
,
this
clause
of
his
Petition
he
judged
not
unnecessary
;
for
he
believed
the
stains
of
his
guilt
were
drunk
in
more
deeply
,
and
were
more
fixt
,
than
in
the
Soul
of
any
other
the
greatest
offendour
,
and
consequently
his
cure
required
the
application
of
a
more
Sovereign
remedy
.
If
the
Leprous
Condition
of
Naaman
Cyrus
found
not
a
compleat
redress
untill
his
seventh
Lotion
in
Jordan
;
what
streams
must
he
seek
out
,
whose
infirmity
speaks
a
contempt
of
God
:
What
multiplicity
of
reiterated
bathings
will
suffice
to
cleanse
that
Crimson
Dye
,
whose
reeking
smoak
ascends
to
Heaven
to
purchase
thence
a
consuming
fire
:
Whose
numberless
offences
he
himself
compares
to
the
sands
of
the
Sea
,
and
confesses
he
cannot
entertain
a
thought
of
them
without
horrour
.
He
reckons
up
many
signal
Favours
he
had
received
from
the
liberal
hand
of
God
,
how
he
was
pickt
out
from
amidst
his
Fathers
flocks
,
being
the
youngest
and
least
considerable
of
all
his
children
,
to
be
made
Author
of
liberty
unto
Israel
:
how
God
had
sheltred
him
as
it
were
,
under
his
Wings
from
all
his
Enemies
,
and
so
ordained
that
their
greatest
malice
proved
matter
of
his
greatest
glory
;
how
God
had
entrusted
into
his
hands
the
Rule
and
guidance
of
his
elect
people
,
and
given
him
wisdom
,
and
courage
to
acquit
himself
of
that
weighty
charge
with
immortal
honour
:
How
God
had
promised
not
to
confine
his
munificence
unto
his
person
,
but
that
he
would
settle
the
succession
of
his
Regal
Dignity
to
his
posterity
for
ever
:
And
above
all
,
how
from
his
line
,
and
seed
should
issue
forth
an
abstract
of
all
his
liberalities
to
Mankind
;
the
Saviour
of
the
World
:
When
he
had
registred
all
these
Obligations
,
and
passed
on
to
survey
what
return
he
had
made
,
he
found
so
high
ingratitude
,
so
much
of
disloyalty
,
that
to
rank
himself
with
other
sinners
,
were
to
add
presumption
to
his
heap
of
sins
:
He
supplicates
therefore
that
to
the
Enormity
of
his
Crimes
may
be
proportioned
the
Measure
of
his
pardon
,
that
as
the
deformity
of
his
sin
was
unparalell'd
,
so
likewise
might
the
stroke
of
that
pencil
exceed
,
which
was
to
correct
all
his
imperfections
,
and
beautify
him
with
a
touch
of
perfection
;
wash
me
more
from
my
iniquity
.
When
he
had
thus
framed
his
Petition
,
implying
in
this
word
more
;
first
a
necessity
of
greater
helps
than
others
,
proportionably
to
the
greatness
of
his
transgressions
;
next
a
desire
to
be
free
from
the
least
venial
sin
,
and
lastly
to
be
secured
even
from
occasions
of
sin
:
He
ventures
yet
a
little
further
,
and
following
the
Dictamens
of
flesh
and
blood
,
makes
instance
for
a
relaxation
of
the
temporal
punishment
due
to
his
Sin
;
wash
me
more
,
that
is
,
not
only
in
taking
away
his
doom
to
eternal
torments
,
but
also
the
temporary
satisfactions
he
must
here
make
:
His
sensitive
part
shrinks
at
the
foresight
of
contradictions
he
was
to
wade
through
,
and
would
feign
obtain
this
additional
remission
;
Man's
natural
affection
to
the
Body
,
from
a
strict
Union
it
hath
with
the
Soul
,
raised
in
our
Petitioner
a
great
tenderness
of
it
,
insomuch
as
not
to
plead
for
it
,
were
to
violate
(
he
thought
)
the
Articles
of
Friendship
made
by
nature
between
them
:
Yet
he
had
alwayes
such
an
Eye
to
the
Decrees
of
Heaven
,
that
after
all
his
supplications
he
totally
submits
:
He
will
not
repine
at
any
pressure
,
but
with
an
entire
resignation
drink
in
the
bitterest
draughts
of
temporal
afflictions
,
if
his
Divine
Justice
so
require
:
He
values
(
't
is
true
)
his
Body
in
it self
,
God
and
nature
having
imprinted
this
love
in
him
,
but
when
its
depression
may
conduce
to
the
purifying
of
his
Soul
,
upon
whose
happiness
it
mainly
depends
,
reason
teaches
we
must
then
let
it
sink
;
and
though
it
be
drown'd
in
an
Ocean
of
torments
,
our
Penitent
hath
this
consolation
that
his
Petition
is
granted
as
to
the
effect
,
for
he
shall
see
it
rise
again
wholly
distained
in
the
waters
of
tribulation
,
he
shall
find
his
past
sorrows
grown
up
into
Jubileys
,
and
Exultations
,
and
his
heart
more
sensible
of
that
mercy
which
gave
him
constancy
in
his
sufferings
,
than
if
by
a
pure
act
of
grace
he
had
been
released
from
sin
without
any
satisfaction
in
his
own
person
:
If
then
he
be
purified
either
according
to
his
own
wish
,
by
an
exemption
from
sufferings
which
his
frail
Nature
suggests
,
or
else
by
an
inundation
of
afflictions
which
he
hath
merited
by
his
crimes
.
He
hath
still
this
comfort
that
he
sues
not
in
vain
,
since
both
will
contribute
to
the
drift
of
his
Petition
,
which
is
to
appear
every
minute
with
a
greater
purity
in
the
Eyes
of
his
Creatour
.
Amplius
lava
me
,
wash
me
more
from
my
iniquity
.
The
Application
.
St.
Bernard
observes
that
if
at
any
time
God
deprives
us
of
what
is
good
,
it
is
but
to
gratifie
us
with
something
that
is
better
;
upon
this
reflection
he
reckons
it
a
happiness
in
St.
Paul
that
he
was
struck
blind
,
for
immediately
upon
that
stroke
he
was
raised
to
the
third
Heavens
,
and
admitted
unto
secrets
unfit
to
unfold
to
Man
;
and
afterwards
receiving
the
sight
of
his
Body
,
with
that
restitution
was
superadded
the
clear
Eye-sight
of
his
Soul
.
God
sent
Jeremy
to
the
Potters
shop
,
that
he
might
see
how
the
broken
Vessel
was
to
be
new
moulded
;
and
come
out
better
than
before
,
if
then
the
Clay
frequently
recieves
a
better
form
and
fashion
than
at
first
,
let
us
in
imitation
and
with
the
same
confidence
of
our
holy
penitent
after
our
failings
cry
,
Lord
,
wash
me
more
,
Let
our
past
harms
warn
us
not
to
presume
of
our
own
strength
;
this
humble
opinion
will
separate
much
of
the
dross
of
our
actions
,
and
teach
us
to
rely
more
upon
God
than
our selves
:
Let
us
oft
lay
before
us
the
Seal
of
God's
pardon
,
this
cannot
but
enflame
our
love
,
and
enfire
our
Hearts
in
the
zeal
of
his
service
;
nay
Christ
seems
to
set
it
down
as
a
rule
that
we
proportion
our
love
to
our
Obligations
.
He
little
loves
to
whom
little
is
forgiven
;
that
where
a
large
score
is
struck
off
by
his
Mercy
,
there
must
needs
succeed
an
ambition
to
a
more
supereminent
perfection
;
wash
me
more
from
my
iniquity
:
In
fine
,
this
quadrates
with
Habakkuk's
prophecy
:
If
heretofore
thou
madest
one
step
in
the
way
of
Death
,
thou
shalt
now
tread
for
it
ten
in
the
way
of
life
.
So
that
every
sinner
is
encouraged
not
only
to
recover
his
innocence
,
but
to
improve
it
throughout
the
remainder
of
his
life
,
never
ceasing
to
repeat
:
Amplius
lava
me
ab
iniquitate
,
wash
me
more
from
my
iniquity
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
VI.
Et
à
peccato
meo
munda
me
,
And
cleanse
me
from
my
sin
.
IN
the
Series
of
Acts
inordinate
and
deficient
from
that
rectitude
required
to
give
them
a
denomination
of
good
:
We
find
some
which
relate
immediately
to
God
,
as
when
with
contempt
we
strike
at
things
directly
ordained
to
his
glory
and
service
,
these
pass
under
the
name
of
impiety
:
Others
there
are
whose
first
tendency
levells
at
our
Neighbour
,
as
when
we
traverse
the
light
of
Nature
,
in
doing
to
another
what
we
would
not
have
done
unto
our selves
,
and
these
are
styled
by
the
appellation
of
iniquity
:
Lastly
there
are
certain
treasons
whereof
we
make
our
Bodyes
instrumental
,
and
by
which
we
are
corrupted
,
depraved
,
and
wrought
into
strange
habitual
Frailties
;
these
are
properly
expressed
by
the
term
of
sin
,
because
by
them
we
act
against
our selves
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
drawes
the
exordium
of
his
Petition
from
a
sense
of
his
impiety
,
when
in
this
first
verse
he
said
,
have
mercy
on
me
,
O
God
,
for
there
he
owns
his
Frailties
as
a
Creature
in
respect
of
his
Creatour
,
and
beggs
his
Gracious
pardon
:
In
the
next
verse
he
confesses
his
iniquity
,
whose
full
discussion
as
to
injustice
towards
his
Neighbour
I
reserve
for
another
place
:
In
this
third
verse
he
surveys
his
own
person
,
beholds
the
Havocks
,
and
corruption
made
there
by
sin
;
and
now
would
feign
apply
a
Salutary
Medicament
,
to
which
end
he
inserts
this
clause
in
his
Petition
:
A
peccato
meo
munda
me
,
cleanse
me
from
my
sin
;
that
is
,
from
the
filth
,
and
ordure
which
accompany
sins
of
the
flesh
.
Amongst
all
the
irregular
motions
whereof
Man
is
capable
,
there
is
none
which
leads
unto
Labyrinths
so
inextricable
,
into
precipices
so
disastrous
,
as
this
unhappy
sin
of
carnality
:
In
the
first
place
it
drawes
a
Cloud
over
the
understanding
,
and
so
depresses
the
faculties
of
the
Soul
,
as
she
becomes
in
a
manner
terrestrial
,
that
is
,
unable
to
elevate
her self
beyond
the
objects
of
sense
;
for
the
operations
of
the
Soul
are
more
perfect
,
as
they
are
more
abstracted
from
materiality
:
Now
this
sin
wholly
drowns
,
and
takes
us
up
in
the
pursuit
of
sensible
things
,
and
consequently
must
needs
debilitate
,
and
weaken
the
Mind
in
her
natural
functions
.
In
other
passions
,
as
Anger
,
Fear
,
Joy
,
and
the
like
there
are
still
extant
some
Seeds
of
reason
;
this
destroyes
all
that
is
Man
in
us
,
and
makes
Man
by
a
thousand
homages
,
and
venerations
subject
to
that
Sex
,
which
God
and
Nature
have
designed
Mans
inferiour
;
as
if
it
aimed
not
only
at
Mans
destruction
,
but
to
resolve
the
World
into
another
Chaos
:
For
what
shafts
of
Gods
vengeance
have
fallen
heavy
upon
Mankind
,
that
were
not
directed
to
the
chastisement
of
this
sin
:
It
was
an
inordinate
appetite
to
mix
with
the
Daughters
of
Gentiles
that
first
gave
birth
to
Monsters
,
and
Gyants
;
and
from
their
accursed
off-spring
the
Earth
became
such
a
sink
of
abominations
,
as
no
less
than
an
universal
inundation
was
able
to
wash
away
the
stanch
and
infection
of
their
impieties
.
It
was
this
foul
pleasure
which
ministred
Fuel
to
the
consuming
flames
of
Sodom
,
and
Gomorrah
;
this
blind
passion
led
Israel
ensnared
by
Madian
Women
in
Idolatry
,
a
foundation
to
all
the
Calamities
and
derelictions
by
God
which
befel
that
chosen
Nation
:
At
one
time
twenty
four
thousand
Hebrews
were
punished
with
Death
for
Adultery
,
and
what
a
slaughter
of
sixty
thousand
persons
did
our
sad
Penitent
behold
,
and
this
in
revenge
of
his
own
libidinous
Acts
,
as
if
the
stains
they
had
left
behind
,
could
not
be
drawn
out
by
a
Sea
of
blood
.
When
his
affrighted
thoughts
had
layed
before
him
all
these
dismal
passages
,
he
trembles
,
expecting
every
moment
to
be
shivered
and
dispersed
into
Ashes
by
the
decrees
of
a
just
avenger
;
he
approves
the
fancy
of
those
who
compose
Venus
of
the
Froth
of
the
Sea
,
brackish
,
perfidious
,
and
the
Seat
of
hazzards
,
and
disquiets
;
the
pleasure
he
hath
had
,
appears
to
him
now
but
like
a
Froth
,
or
bubble
,
which
if
not
born
away
(
as
easily
it
is
)
by
every
blast
,
will
certainly
of
it self
soon
dissolve
,
and
work
its
own
ruine
;
and
however
the
substance
be
fleeting
,
it
leaves
notwithstanding
a
remembrance
behind
,
so
bitter
and
distastful
,
and
so
hardly
clawed
off
,
as
one
would
think
that
alone
were
a
sufficient
punishment
for
a
trespass
of
so
little
satisfaction
;
and
for
the
storms
,
and
wastes
it
often
makes
in
Kingdoms
,
and
private
Families
,
scarce
any
age
hath
not
furnished
many
sad
examples
:
I
am
sure
our
Holy
Penitent
felt
the
smart
of
this
bitter
Truth
in
the
desolation
of
his
house
,
in
the
dishonor
and
death
of
his
Children
,
in
the
rebellion
of
his
Subjects
,
and
above
all
in
the
forfeiture
of
those
large
promises
made
by
Heaven
to
him
and
his
posterity
,
all
which
found
not
their
Tomb
but
in
the
corruption
of
this
unhappy
sin
.
So
that
in
this
request
to
be
cleansed
from
his
sin
,
he
first
declares
the
foulness
of
it
,
evident
in
the
horrid
Disease
Nature
gives
to
those
who
use
it
in
excess
;
next
,
he
hints
the
reliques
,
and
dreggs
it
leaves
behind
,
that
if
God's
grace
,
joyned
with
a
great
resolution
happen
to
dislodge
this
petulent
Guest
,
yet
still
some
footsteps
or
impressions
remain
,
apt
to
reenter
,
and
claim
an
interest
:
Wherefore
he
could
promise
to
himself
no
security
,
unless
an
inundation
of
mercy
fall
upon
him
to
purify
,
and
carry
away
all
the
remainder
of
bad
inclinations
grown
into
a
habit
,
and
become
as
it
were
a
second
Nature
in
him
.
Cleanse
me
from
my
sin
,
and
as
it
was
not
a
slight
stain
he
had
contracted
,
but
all
circumstances
weighed
the
most
indelible
that
springs
from
inordinate
acts
in
carnal
pleasures
:
For
Lawes
Divine
,
Natural
,
and
Humane
seem
to
be
violated
in
Adultery
:
Divine
,
in
that
two
persons
by
marriage
are
made
one
flesh
,
and
both
pass
into
the
incommunicable
Nature
of
individuality
;
becoming
the
essential
part
of
each
other
whence
violation
cannot
happen
to
one
without
destroying
the
life
of
the
other
,
and
breaking
that
bond
which
God
hath
knit
together
.
Natural
Law
is
likewise
by
an
adulterous
act
infringed
,
because
Marriage
consists
not
in
the
sole
possession
of
the
Body
,
but
also
,
nay
principally
in
the
affections
of
a
reasonable
Soul
:
For
the
bonds
of
Marriage
are
not
wrought
by
copulation
,
but
mutual
consent
,
and
under
a
sacred
Vow
never
to
be
retracted
;
who
then
infringes
these
engagements
must
needs
contract
a
note
of
infidelity
,
and
consequently
strike
at
the
main
Hinge
of
humane
Society
to
preserve
which
Nature
chiefly
tends
in
all
her
principles
,
and
essential
motions
.
Lastly
,
a
breach
is
made
in
humane
Law
by
Adultery
,
in
that
Marriage
is
not
a
private
but
domestick
good
,
which
concerns
not
one
,
but
infinite
Families
,
strengthened
by
the
Laws
of
the
Church
,
and
publick
Faith
of
Nations
:
From
hence
Nature
finds
those
who
carefully
cultivate
her
plants
;
hence
Commonwealths
are
enriched
with
Citizens
,
the
Church
with
Children
.
By
this
we
may
see
the
malice
of
Adultery
,
that
drawes
along
with
it
the
violation
of
so
many
Laws
.
Christ
enjoyns
us
a
love
of
our
Enemies
;
and
that
the
Sun
should
not
set
in
our
anger
.
Yet
in
the
treachery
of
Marriage-Bed
permits
a
separation
between
Man
and
Wife
,
how
strictly
soever
united
by
indissoluble
tyes
,
as
if
such
crimes
surpassed
the
limits
of
pardon
;
as
if
an
evil
so
destructive
,
that
remedies
could
find
no
place
,
and
that
this
individual
life
once
dissolved
,
could
no
more
be
recalled
than
habit
from
privation
.
Many
Tyrants
have
subdued
to
therage
of
their
cruelties
the
wealth
,
liberty
,
and
lives
of
their
Subjects
,
who
looking
upon
this
power
as
given
from
Heaven
over
them
,
patiently
sustained
all
those
depredations
;
but
if
once
they
touched
upon
their
wives
,
and
would
involve
them
in
the
Mass
of
their
impurities
,
this
rowsed
up
their
fallen
spirits
,
cast
them
into
rebellion
,
nay
pushed
them
to
that
extremity
as
never
to
desist
untill
they
had
deprived
those
of
life
,
who
had
ravished
from
them
what
was
more
dear
than
life
;
untill
they
had
reduced
unto
ashes
the
Authors
of
their
infamy
,
and
taught
them
for
the
example
of
posterity
this
violence
of
all
others
will
not
be
left
unrevenged
in
this
World
.
There
hath
scarce
been
any
Nation
though
Pagan
or
Infidel
which
hath
not
punished
Adultery
with
Death
or
exquisite
Torments
:
Some
by
fire
,
others
by
wild
Horses
;
some
by
the
Halter
,
others
in
pulling
out
their
Eyes
,
cutting
off
their
Noses
;
some
by
stones
as
in
Moses
Law
:
Whence
't
is
clear
that
even
the
light
of
Nature
taught
,
there
ought
for
the
good
of
humane
Society
that
a
stop
be
made
to
this
disorder
.
Our
Penitent
having
in
his
thoughts
lay'd
open
all
those
Enormities
of
an
Adulterous
Act
,
is
surprised
to
see
himself
plunged
in
so
many
abominations
,
to
have
heaped
up
to
himself
so
much
ignominy
and
infection
,
as
the
reproach
of
them
would
last
as
long
as
time
.
How
sparingly
do
good
Men
treat
of
carnal
subjects
,
either
in
Writing
or
in
the
Pulpit
,
lest
the
very
articulate
sound
or
Characters
in
this
matter
might
offend
chast
Ears
,
or
cause
worse
effects
in
Hearts
already
tainted
:
If
then
this
poyson
carry
with
it
so
much
of
malignity
in
the
very
name
or
lightest
thought
,
what
corruption
,
and
noysomness
must
the
sin
it self
produce
.
Oh!
how
strong
did
this
scent
breathe
in
the
Nostrils
of
our
Penitent
when
once
his
understanding
was
awake
,
and
beheld
with
an
Eye
free
from
passion
his
Body
dissolved
into
so
many
contaminations
;
no
wonder
than
if
he
so
oft
repeat
in
this
Psalm
the
cleansing
from
his
sin
:
Every
glimps
of
his
past
foul
delights
casts
him
into
a
blush
,
beholding
no
other
consequence
of
them
than
shame
,
confusion
,
and
the
threats
of
eternal
destruction
,
notwithstanding
all
this
he
sues
for
a
Vesture
of
innocence
,
and
he
does
it
to
him
who
with
a
fiat
or
blast
from
his
Mouth
drew
out
of
a
dark
Chaos
that
glorious
Body
of
the
Sun
which
so
revives
us
:
To
him
who
hath
promised
to
let
fall
all
the
darts
of
his
anger
upon
the
true
repentance
of
a
sinner
;
on
this
basis
he
fixes
his
Petition
,
and
doubts
not
but
at
last
to
find
a
happy
issue
,
to
be
drawn
out
of
the
mire
of
his
sensualities
,
and
his
leprous
condition
changed
into
the
consistence
of
restored
grace
;
after
this
he
sighs
and
groans
,
nor
is
capable
of
any
consolation
untill
that
happy
moment
arrive
which
shall
put
a
period
to
this
longing
demand
;
Et
à
peccato
meo
munda
me
,
cleanse
me
from
my
sin
.
The
Application
.
We
must
consider
that
God
is
purity
it self
,
who
hath
nothing
more
in
abomination
than
an
impure
Soul
:
That
Heaven
inhabited
by
Angels
is
a
place
of
honour
,
where
nothing
defiled
can
have
access
:
Wherefore
we
ought
to
apprehend
any
stain
of
lubricity
;
because
most
obstructive
to
our
final
Beatitude
.
First
,
in
that
it
is
according
to
St.
Thomas
,
peccatum
maximae
inhaerentiae
,
a
Sin
that
clings
like
Bird-lime
to
our
Souls
,
and
of
all
others
most
hard
to
be
clawed
off
;
it
resembles
a
Phoenix
,
who
renews
her self
with
the
fire
enkindled
by
the
motion
of
her
own
Wings
;
so
a
person
inured
to
that
vice
,
even
when
he
would
give
it
over
,
and
bury
it
withall
occasion
of
incentives
,
doth
often
find
the
Coals
to
be
blown
afresh
by
the
wings
of
thoughts
,
so
that
whilst
we
live
,
we
ought
never
to
be
secure
;
since
't
is
a
combat
of
all
others
the
most
hazzardous
,
and
where
the
victory
is
most
rare
next
,
it
is
a
sin
of
impudency
,
and
when
a
Soul
is
devoid
of
shame
,
what
hopes
can
there
be
to
reclaim
her
;
St.
Hierom
advises
to
a
private
admonition
of
our
neighbour
,
and
gives
this
reason
,
lest
he
break
the
curb
of
shame
,
and
dwell
in
his
sin
for
ever
.
By
baptism
we
are
made
members
of
Jesus
Christ
,
and
the
chiefest
homage
we
can
pay
to
him
as
our
Head
,
is
to
preserve
it
unspotted
from
any
smut
of
impurity
:
A
virginal
integrity
is
so
acceptable
unto
God
,
that
the
Angels
(
were
they
permitted
)
would
translate
them
Body
and
Soul
into
Heaven
,
that
Death
might
not
prey
on
a
treasure
that
deserves
to
be
immortal
,
wherefore
let
us
never
cease
to
cry
with
our
holy
Penitent
;
à
peccato
meo
munda
me
,
cleanse
me
from
my
sin
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Quoniam
iniquitatem
meam
ego
cognosco
,
Because
I
know
my
iniquity
.
AFter
all
these
supplications
our
Petitioner
now
comes
to
give
a
reason
,
why
so
confidently
he
requires
an
Act
of
Grace
.
At
the
first
view
,
it
seems
a
strange
one
,
and
to
imply
his
greater
guilt
:
It
is
this
,
because
he
knowes
his
iniquity
.
Ignorance
(
where
the
fact
is
palpable
)
makes
a
great
plea
in
offendours
;
our
criminal
on
the
contrary
acknowledges
his
trespass
,
declares
he
knowes
what
he
has
done
,
and
from
thence
claims
and
pretends
a
rationality
in
his
petition
;
had
he
in
lieu
of
this
,
inserted
a
Repentance
of
his
misdeeds
,
a
detestation
of
his
past
failings
,
this
might
have
carried
some
weight
,
in
order
to
a
remission
.
But
we
must
reflect
,
injuries
done
to
God
and
Man
are
things
very
disparate
,
and
quite
of
another
nature
:
For
I
may
consider
many
disobligations
I
have
thrown
upon
my
Neighbour
,
and
yet
not
retract
in
my
will
those
ill
Offices
;
because
I
may
have
received
the
like
from
him
,
and
many
humane
Lawes
have
allowed
this
retaliation
;
so
that
to
retain
a
memory
of
the
harms
I
have
done
to
Man
,
may
signifie
nothing
of
vertue
,
or
pious
amendment
.
But
when
I
look
upon
any
miscarriage
in
my
Duty
towards
God
,
this
glance
must
needs
reproach
me
of
ingratitude
;
there
can
be
no
pretence
,
or
shadow
of
excuse
to
justifie
any
failing
towards
the
Divine
Majesty
:
Since
we
are
overwhelmed
on
all
sides
with
his
favours
,
and
benedictions
;
whence
the
Sequel
of
such
a
consideration
inevitably
will
humble
,
confound
,
and
cast
us
upon
the
storms
of
Repentance
.
Our
Petitioner
therefore
knowing
his
iniquity
,
virtually
declares
by
it
,
he
disowns
what
he
hath
done
,
or
rather
owns
it
to
be
exorbitant
,
and
from
this
confession
layes
claim
to
his
Justice
,
which
upon
the
conversion
of
a
sinner
,
engages
to
abolish
and
raise
out
of
his
memory
all
past
iniquities
.
Because
I
know
my
iniquity
:
This
knowledge
evidences
the
return
of
Grace
to
his
Soul
.
In
the
35.
Psalm
he
describes
his
own
condition
in
the
state
of
sin
:
My
iniquities
surrounded
me
,
and
I
could
see
nothing
:
St.
Austin
exclaims
against
that
day
,
wherein
he
committed
sin
,
and
questions
whether
he
may
call
it
day
;
since
he
was
involved
in
a
profound
obscurity
,
and
then
he
goes
on
,
saying
,
he
will
rise
,
and
disperse
the
mists
of
his
iniquities
,
that
he
may
see
the
fountain
of
all
goodness
.
Our
Petitioner
again
in
the
48.
Psalm
gives
Man
(
when
enslaved
by
sin
)
the
title
of
Beast
,
nay
with
something
of
aggravation
,
assimilating
him
to
a
Foolish
Beast
:
He
remembred
how
Adam
after
his
fall
,
was
cloathed
with
Skins
of
Beasts
;
which
attire
was
but
a
Symbol
of
his
Mind
bestiatized
,
and
made
Savage
by
transgressions
.
St.
Thomas
speaking
of
those
Clouds
of
darkness
,
wherein
poor
sinners
lye
groveling
;
sayes
,
it
proceeds
from
a
propension
bent
upon
evil
,
aversed
from
God
and
deprived
of
grace
:
The
opposite
beams
then
,
which
fill
our
Souls
with
light
and
serenity
,
must
needs
draw
their
source
from
a
love
of
what
is
good
,
an
adhaesion
to
God
,
and
a
sweet
repossession
of
grace
,
and
in
these
splendours
our
Petitioner
finds
himself
:
First
,
they
raise
his
Soul
to
an
Object
infinitely
good
,
and
amiable
,
and
after
vehement
affections
enkindled
towards
this
Sovereign
felicity
,
his
Eyes
are
unsealed
,
and
beholds
the
Ghastly
shape
of
his
sins
,
which
cast
him
into
exclamations
against
his
own
unworthiness
,
upon
reiterated
addresses
for
mercy
and
pardon
,
and
at
last
admitted
into
favour
;
he
learns
by
that
inestimable
gift
(
under
whose
Dominion
he
now
lives
)
what
it
is
to
offend
God
,
how
monstrous
a
thing
sin
is
,
and
therefore
will
not
conceal
his
new
acquired
notions
,
but
proclaim
.
Quoniam
&c.
because
I
know
my
iniquity
.
It
was
not
an
abstract
knowledge
of
his
iniquity
he
alledges
,
for
this
may
consist
with
the
most
innocent
and
spotless
Soul
,
and
was
found
in
Adam
before
his
fall
:
But
't
is
what
he
had
learnt
by
dear
experience
;
he
had
tasted
that
Tree
which
imports
knowledge
of
good
and
evil
,
but
alas
,
far
different
from
those
pure
Idaeas
,
which
reside
in
Souls
that
were
never
involved
in
the
shades
of
sin
;
for
such
survey
with
an
intellect
as
it
were
Angelical
,
the
commands
of
God
and
in
obedience
to
his
Law
make
use
of
their
knowledge
,
but
to
avoid
the
prevarication
:
But
our
Petitioner
looks
upon
the
deformity
of
sin
in
all
its
circumstances
of
the
Abyss
of
ruine
it
drawes
upon
us
,
and
having
with
the
Cananean
cryed
for
mercy
,
then
he
confesses
his
nakedness
,
then
he
layes
open
his
failings
,
and
blushes
not
at
the
knowledge
of
his
iniquity
,
because
they
are
now
washed
in
a
Christal
stream
,
and
their
past
horrours
serve
but
to
raise
in
him
a
detestation
of
them
,
and
to
invite
him
at
the
same
time
to
admire
the
Wisdom
of
God
,
that
thus
by
his
penitential
acts
will
manifest
his
Justice
;
and
lastly
to
praise
his
mercy
that
hath
given
him
a
perfect
knowledge
of
his
iniquity
,
as
a
certain
Land-mark
to
preserve
him
from
future
Shipwrack
;
because
I
know
my
iniquity
.
I
remember
the
Prodigal
Son
,
when
languishing
in
misery
,
and
perishing
for
hunger
,
pitched
only
upon
this
remedy
,
that
he
would
tell
his
Father
he
had
sined
against
Heaven
and
him
:
In
like
manner
our
Petitioner
layes
aside
the
thought
of
any
good
he
may
have
done
,
offers
to
the
view
of
his
eternal
Father
all
the
wounds
of
his
cauterized
Soul
,
and
that
he
might
engage
himself
to
a
compleat
discovery
,
confesses
he
is
not
ignorant
,
but
knowes
all
the
Windings
,
and
extravagant
progressions
of
his
iniquity
;
how
they
had
led
him
from
Adultery
to
Homicide
,
thence
to
Pride
,
Vanity
,
and
Sole
reliance
on
his
own
greatness
and
power
,
and
when
he
had
summed
up
all
his
ingratitudes
,
he
gives
this
account
,
Domine
opus
tuum
vivica
illud
,
Lord
I
know
my
Sin
.
So
likewise
I
know
the
temper
of
the
delinquent
,
how
he
is
composed
of
frailties
,
unable
of
himself
to
set
his
hand
to
any
good
work
,
to
any
supernatural
motion
:
Wherefore
he
hopes
this
consideration
may
something
take
off
,
and
render
his
deviations
less
irregular
.
Yet
on
the
other
side
he
will
not
flatter
himself
into
a
blameless
condition
,
he
knows
a
support
of
Grace
ever
attended
him
amidst
his
predominant
passions
,
and
smartest
tryals
,
by
whose
means
he
might
have
been
victorious
:
This
brings
him
on
his
Knees
,
and
drawes
from
him
an
humble
confession
.
Because
I
know
my
iniquity
.
It
was
this
knowledge
fixing
him
on
the
basis
of
humility
which
prepared
him
for
those
sublime
,
and
supernatural
communications
he
afterwards
received
from
his
dear
Creatour
:
What
are
his
Psalms
but
a
Series
of
raptures
,
and
coelestial
ravishments
,
a
Tabernacle
of
sacred
mysteries
with
which
his
understanding
was
fed
;
that
we
may
see
to
what
pitch
Man
is
capable
of
arising
from
this
knowledge
of
our
Sins
.
How
confidently
did
St.
Peter
persist
in
his
denial
of
Christ
,
and
cryed
as
naturally
,
I
know
not
the
Man
;
as
if
he
had
been
nursed
up
in
infidelity
:
It
was
only
the
reflection
upon
his
perfidious
Crime
,
and
a
clear
view
of
it
,
that
brought
him
to
himself
,
and
sprung
in
him
such
flouds
of
tears
.
What
cast
St.
Mary
Magdalen
into
such
rigours
which
seem
incomparable
with
humane
Nature
but
a
sense
,
and
knowledge
of
her
transgressions
.
What
opened
Heavens-Gate
to
the
expiring
Thief
but
this
:
Nos
quidem
digna
factis
recipimus
;
We
truly
receive
a
punishment
which
our
crimes
deserve
.
In
a
word
,
you
shall
find
no
remarkable
change
in
the
life
of
any
person
from
Vice
to
Vertue
,
which
took
not
its
first
rice
from
a
serious
consideration
of
their
former
ingratitude
;
and
this
is
confirmed
in
the
example
of
our
Holy
Petitioner
;
who
first
cryes
out
he
hath
sinned
,
and
presently
hears
Nathan
,
who
proclaims
a
pardon
,
after
which
assurance
,
he
sits
not
still
,
nor
returns
to
his
Vomit
,
but
will
for
the
future
offer
up
as
many
holocausts
,
as
before
he
hath
had
unlawful
delights
,
he
will
convert
the
number
of
his
sins
into
a
greater
number
of
vertues
;
and
whatsoever
in
him
hath
contributed
to
the
contempt
of
God
his
Creatour
,
shall
be
employed
in
his
service
by
penitential
acts
,
that
as
now
he
sadly
acknowledges
his
errours
,
he
may
one
day
be
transported
in
the
praise
of
the
Divine
goodne●…
,
divulge
his
satisfactions
,
the
first
step
to
which
ascent
he
will
ever
owe
to
this
lesson
:
Because
I
know
my
iniquity
.
The
Application
.
St.
Austin
prescribing
a
remedy
to
siners
,
gives
them
this
short
Recipe
,
tu
inde
non
avertas
,
withdraw
not
thy
sight
from
thy
sins
:
For
if
thou
fix
thy
Eyes
upon
them
,
God
will
turn
his
away
;
but
in
case
you
throw
them
behind
your
back
,
then
he
will
take
a
full
view
of
them
,
and
punish
them
severely
in
thee
;
the
Sun
setting
upon
a
dark
Cloud
makes
it
become
bright
and
radiant
;
so
Almighty
God
laying
open
unto
our
holy
penitent
,
the
foulness
of
his
iniquity
,
he
cooperates
with
his
merciful
rayes
,
surveys
them
,
and
by
a
true
sense
of
his
ingratitude
,
attracts
the
splendour
of
his
pardon
upon
him
.
Let
us
then
in
imitation
of
our
Holy
Penitent
not
become
a
stranger
to
our
own
misdeeds
,
that
so
our
great
Judge
may
examine
no
other
witnesses
;
an
humble
confession
will
prove
our
best
plea
,
which
we
cannot
exactly
do
,
unless
we
know
them
,
nor
know
them
in
all
their
colours
of
deformity
without
a
high
detestation
of
them
;
so
that
if
we
make
a
careful
inquisition
after
our
guiltiness
in
this
life
,
we
may
hope
to
be
warranted
from
a
severe
sentence
in
the
next
:
Learn
therefore
to
alledge
this
powerful
Topick
here
:
Quoniam
iniquitatem
meam
ego
cognosco
,
because
I
know
my
iniquity
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Et
peccatum
meum
contra
me
est
semper
,
And
my
sin
is
alwayes
before
me
.
AFter
this
declaration
of
our
Petitioner
how
knowing
he
is
in
his
own
misfortunes
,
next
he
layes
open
his
condition
,
hoping
it
may
draw
some
beams
of
mercy
and
pitty
upon
him
,
at
least
serve
to
warn
others
by
his
harms
.
My
sin
(
sayes
he
)
is
alwayes
before
me
,
sometimes
as
an
Accuser
,
deposing
with
much
vehemency
every
crime
he
hath
committed
,
and
omitting
no
circumstance
that
may
render
it
more
odious
;
sometimes
as
a
Judge
delivering
exactly
every
statute
he
hath
prevaricated
,
either
of
Heaven
,
Nature
,
or
Reason
,
shewing
the
punishment
ordained
for
his
misdeeds
.
And
lastly
,
pronouncing
a
Sentence
against
which
he
hath
no
plea
,
nor
evasion
:
Whence
St.
Chrysostom
sayes
,
what
pleasure
alas
can
there
be
in
sin
,
when
the
necessary
consequences
of
it
are
,
accusation
,
reproach
,
scandals
and
condemnations
;
all
other
afflictions
have
a
remedy
,
this
allowes
no
truce
nor
respit
in
other
tribulations
(
whilst
our
conscience
is
unstained
)
we
have
a
Sanctuary
within
us
,
whether
we
may
retreat
,
and
find
God
,
and
in
him
all
consolation
;
but
this
once
forfeited
by
sin
,
what
can
we
do
?
If
in
the
Country
,
or
City
,
abroad
,
or
at
home
still
this
remorse
attends
us
,
and
having
fled
from
all
the
World
,
we
find
our
Enemy
and
Executioner
in
our
own
selves
,
which
we
alwayes
dragg
after
us
wheresoever
we
go
.
What
dreads
and
horrors
besieged
the
Heart
of
Cain
,
every
shadow
he
beheld
seemed
to
threaten
Death
and
destruction
to
him
,
so
that
his
thoughts
were
alwayes
lodged
in
a
Sepulchre
;
the
memory
of
his
crimes
still
rising
up
as
witness
against
him
,
with
how
just
reason
then
did
St.
Austin
cry
:
Lord
thou
hast
commanded
,
and
it
is
fulfilled
,
that
a
vicious
Soul
proves
to
her self
her
own
tormentour
.
Plato
sayes
,
God
hath
given
to
the
faculties
of
the
Soul
a
certain
Harmony
,
which
infinitely
delights
,
and
recreates
that
spiritual
substance
,
now
when
by
inordinate
actions
she
dissolves
this
unity
,
there
must
needs
spring
from
this
dissolution
a
great
grief
or
anguish
,
though
the
cause
be
not
known
,
as
when
any
vital
part
is
offended
,
a
smart
pain
is
dispersed
through
the
whole
Body
,
albeit
we
know
not
from
whence
it
proceeds
.
If
then
this
great
Philosopher
gives
affliction
as
a
natural
effect
of
sin
,
what
must
he
endure
who
hath
the
addition
of
a
supernatural
precept
,
when
he
looks
upon
it
infringed
,
and
made
the
Subject
of
his
contempt
;
when
he
weighs
the
loss
he
hath
made
of
Grace
,
the
Abyss
of
misery
,
wherein
he
is
plunged
;
certainly
this
must
create
within
us
a
torment
far
beyond
any
impression
of
cruelty
,
or
malice
from
abroad
.
This
is
the
state
of
our
Penitent
;
let
him
go
where
he
will
,
he
finds
a
Tribunal
erected
within
him
,
where
his
Case
is
scanned
to
the
full
,
and
all
his
Exorbitances
laid
home
to
him
;
whil'st
he
in
the
mean
like
poor
Job
not
able
to
return
one
word
for
a
thousand
,
looks
about
,
at
lest
to
fee
some
Councel
,
but
alas
,
every
one
withdraws
,
nay
his
own
Conscience
rises
up
against
him
.
Paschasius
upon
that
place
of
St.
Mathew
,
where
two
possessed
persons
issuing
forth
from
Monuments
encountred
;
our
blessed
Saviour
wonders
why
the
Devils
should
rather
inhabit
corrupted
Vaults
,
than
pleasant
Fields
,
Gardens
,
or
stately
Mansions
,
and
at
last
satisfies
himself
with
this
reason
,
that
it
is
a
just
return
for
those
who
would
not
relish
Heavenly
delights
,
they
should
be
fed
with
Carkasses
,
nourished
with
Ordure
and
Putrefaction
,
to
the
End
their
punishment
may
be
suitable
to
their
offence
;
this
stroke
of
Justice
our
Penitent
acknowledges
his
senses
take
in
nothing
,
but
the
species
of
foul
and
cruel
acts
committed
by
him
,
and
every
glance
adds
a
new
fuel
to
his
consuming
flames
;
the
Memory
of
them
is
so
Ghastly
,
that
were
it
to
be
his
sole
penalty
he
should
think
the
reiteration
of
his
crimes
purchased
at
too
dear
a
rate
:
My
sin
is
alwayes
before
me
.
We
need
seek
no
other
Topicks
to
prove
the
terrour
which
remorse
brings
to
a
Conscience
,
then
our
Penitent's
own
words
in
the
54.
Psalm
,
where
he
sayes
,
Discedunt
in
Infernum
viventes
,
they
descend
alive
into
Hell
.
He
thought
no
allusion
,
but
to
the
state
of
the
damned
could
reach
this
misfortune
,
so
that
whosoever
is
upon
the
rack
of
a
tortured
Conscience
seems
to
anticipate
his
sad
doom
,
and
to
find
a
Hell
even
upon
Earth
,
and
no
wonder
when
Mercurius
Trismegistus
asserts
,
that
the
Body
by
habitual
sin
becomes
brutish
,
and
the
Mind
turns
to
be
a
Devil
,
which
chastises
and
afflicts
the
offendour
with
the
stripes
of
his
own
sin
.
Our
sad
Penitent
little
foresaw
this
Enemy
within
him
at
the
beginning
,
his
whole
Solicitude
was
only
to
dazle
the
Eyes
of
the
World
,
by
that
means
to
stifle
the
dishonour
might
arise
from
his
crimes
.
He
sends
for
Vriah
to
Court
,
there
caresses
him
,
and
all
his
Stratagems
failing
at
last
commands
him
to
be
exposed
to
certain
ruine
,
and
the
drift
of
all
this
was
to
conceal
his
sin
,
believing
could
that
be
effected
he
should
do
well
enough
for
the
rest
;
but
what
was
the
event
,
hear
the
tydings
Nathan
brings
him
,
thou
hast
done
this
offence
covertly
,
and
in
secret
;
but
God
will
publish
it
at
noon-day
,
and
make
known
thy
ingratitude
.
Behold
all
his
policy
blown
up
in
an
instant
,
and
besides
he
hath
this
slow
Executioner
of
his
own
Conscience
,
which
like
a
shadow
inseparably
attends
him
,
and
makes
him
groan
forth
:
My
sin
is
alwayes
before
me
.
Epicure
was
of
Opinion
,
exorbitant
actions
ought
to
be
declined
upon
the
sole
motive
of
fear
which
alwayes
invades
the
Minds
of
Criminals
;
this
shews
that
nature
is
disordered
by
Evil
(
for
this
Philosopher
had
no
other
ray
than
that
of
reason
)
and
the
disturbance
we
find
to
spring
from
transgressions
,
is
but
an
effect
of
nature
in
order
to
its
own
preservation
:
For
who
would
conceive
(
did
not
sad
experience
render
it
manifest
)
that
Man
could
support
the
constant
reproaches
and
sharp
sentences
of
his
condemning
Conscience
,
for
the
enjoyment
of
some
slight
pleasure
of
Carnality
,
Revenge
,
and
the
like
:
Which
as
a
flash
of
lightning
instead
of
glory
and
delight
,
leaves
us
to
moulder
away
in
the
ashes
of
dishonour
,
and
to
be
surrounded
with
torments
,
even
before
we
had
at
a
full
pause
tasted
the
cause
and
subject
of
our
chastisements
.
Hence
methinks
Plato
happily
compares
a
person
enslaved
to
his
sensualities
unto
one
who
hatches
,
and
nurses
up
a
Chymaera
consisting
of
many
exact
lineaments
,
and
after
a
thousand
complacent
thoughts
of
this
phantastick
beauty
,
it
is
found
at
last
to
be
a
meer
effect
of
the
imagination
.
Our
sad
Penitent
looking
back
into
his
life
,
acknowledges
the
truth
of
this
allusion
,
he
awakes
as
from
a
dream
,
all
his
past
delights
appear
to
him
under
no
other
form
;
only
he
finds
the
smart
of
his
punishment
to
be
real
,
and
confesses
his
unpittying
Conscience
like
another
Caligula
destroyes
him
,
not
at
once
by
a
stroak
of
fury
,
but
wracks
him
by
degrees
,
that
he
might
(
as
that
Tyrant
was
wont
to
say
)
feel
he
was
dying
,
and
this
in
the
most
horrid
manner
to
perish
as
it
were
by
his
own
hands
:
Other
indispositions
admit
some
intervalls
,
this
allowes
no
respit
,
the
very
sleep
of
guilty
persons
is
filled
with
spectres
,
and
frightful
Ideas
;
witness
that
reproach
of
Mankind
Nero
,
who
confessed
even
when
he
slept
the
Ghost
of
his
Mother
failed
not
to
torment
him
.
Witness
likewise
our
Penitent
,
who
cryes
out
my
sin
is
alwayes
before
me
.
Ah!
let
us
then
make
his
misfortune
our
instruction
,
to
live
well
is
the
securest
Bulwark
against
frights
and
terrours
;
a
spotless
Mind
joy
alwayes
attends
,
as
Sorrow
and
Anguish
are
the
Mates
of
guiltiness
:
And
though
these
at
present
are
the
Companions
of
our
Penitent
,
he
hath
yet
this
consolation
,
that
the
dismal
shape
of
his
sin
carryes
him
on
to
repentance
,
not
to
obdurateness
,
nor
despair
,
and
his
hope
is
,
that
after
they
have
agitated
and
raised
the
storms
of
sad
remembrances
within
him
,
a
gracious
calm
of
pardon
will
follow
,
as
well
to
settle
peace
and
security
in
his
Soul
,
as
to
banish
for
ever
from
his
sight
the
hideous
spectacle
of
his
sins
;
which
is
now
the
sad
subject
of
his
complaint
,
and
bitter
remorse
;
my
sin
is
alwayes
before
me
.
The
Application
.
St.
Austin
sets
down
the
method
his
dear
Creatour
held
to
reduce
him
to
his
duty
:
Retorquebat
me
ad
meipsum
ut
viderem
quam
ulcerosus
essem
;
He
threw
me
upon
my self
,
that
I
might
in
my self
,
as
in
a
Glass
behold
how
I
was
ulcerated
and
full
of
Sores
:
For
this
spectacle
gave
him
at
once
a
full
view
,
both
of
his
own
misery
and
God's
mercy
,
and
both
strike
a
terrour
into
him
;
in
the
one
,
he
reads
the
characters
of
his
banisment
,
and
forfeiture
of
his
heavenly
right
,
since
nothing
defiled
can
enter
heaven
,
in
the
other
,
a
Shole
of
God's
mercies
appear
before
him
,
which
meeting
with
his
ingratitude
make
a
strange
Combat
within
him
,
and
strike
a
terrour
not
to
be
expressed
,
expecting
every
moment
a
just
vengeance
to
fall
upon
his
guilty
head
;
this
is
the
effect
of
sin
,
these
are
the
lmps
of
that
hideous
Monster
which
surround
a
poor
sinner
,
and
keep
him
still
awake
with
continual
Alarms
.
Whence
,
I
wonder
not
if
Solomon
proclaims
non
est
pax
impiis
,
that
there
is
no
peace
for
the
wicked
,
because
the
ugly
face
of
sin
is
alwayes
in
their
Eyes
,
all
the
rigours
of
Disciplines
,
Hair-cloths
,
fastings
and
other
austerities
of
a
true
Christian
Dissciple
,
are
but
toyes
if
compared
to
the
tortures
of
a
wounded
conscience
;
but
to
one
grimace
,
or
wory
look
of
sin
,
the
hissings
of
a
Snake
,
stinging
of
an
Adder
,
and
croaking
of
a
Toad
,
offend
not
the
senses
like
to
the
dire
aspect
and
frightful
voice
of
sin
:
It
was
sin
made
Hell
,
Devils
,
and
all
that
is
terrible
in
nature
;
wherefore
let
us
beg
to
be
freed
from
this
dreadful
Object
,
and
that
we
may
never
make
it
the
subject
of
our
misfortune
,
as
to
have
the
reproach
of
mortal
sins
before
us
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
IX
.
Tibi
soli
peccavi
&
malum
coram
te
feci
;
I
have
sinned
only
against
thee
,
and
done
evil
.
IT
would
amaze
one
at
the
first
glance
to
see
this
clause
of
the
petition
inserted
,
that
he
who
had
highly
injured
Vriah
,
scandalized
,
and
drawn
by
his
sin
the
heavy
hand
of
God
upon
his
people
,
should
disclaim
of
wrong
done
to
his
neighbour
,
and
assert
with
confidence
that
he
had
offended
against
God
alone
.
Nathan's
Covert
insinuation
of
the
poor
Man's
whole
and
little
stock
wrested
from
him
by
a
merciless
depredation
,
speaks
the
prevarication
of
a
precept
in
the
second
Table
,
which
concerns
our
neighbour
;
the
curses
of
Semei
stiling
him
a
Man
of
blood
import
a
charge
of
injuries
done
to
Man
:
again
,
he
knew
the
petitioned
is
a
searcher
of
hearts
,
to
whom
nothing
can
lye
hid
,
so
as
to
extenuate
his
transgressions
in
the
least
tittle
were
absurd
:
Besides
St.
Thomas
,
sayes
God
,
showers
down
his
blessings
upon
Princes
for
the
Subjects
sake
,
so
that
if
they
abuse
these
gifts
,
they
are
ungrateful
to
God
the
Author
of
them
,
and
injurious
to
the
people
;
for
whose
good
they
are
to
be
managed
and
directed
.
All
this
put
together
seems
to
reflect
on
the
sincerity
of
our
Penitent's
proceedings
,
and
that
he
would
disguise
,
if
not
wholly
suppress
a
main
part
of
his
offences
,
yet
let
us
examine
e're
we
censure
,
and
I
believe
his
confession
will
not
be
found
to
want
the
due
circumstances
of
a
true
repentance
.
I
have
sinned
(
sayes
he
)
against
God
alone
.
He
considers
first
he
is
a
criminal
,
next
he
beholds
no
power
on
Earth
,
which
hath
right
to
take
cognizance
of
his
trespass
,
and
to
carry
on
a
compleat
process
against
him
;
the
Holy
Ghost
had
taught
him
,
the
anointed
of
God
are
sacred
things
not
to
be
violated
by
any
hand
,
wherefore
since
no
humane
Law
could
reach
him
,
for
that
power
is
not
supream
which
is
linked
to
any
dependency
:
To
whom
can
he
acknowledge
himself
an
offendour
,
but
to
him
who
is
King
of
Kings
,
and
from
whom
all
Dominion
both
in
Heaven
and
Earth
is
derived
?
He
alone
is
his
Judge
,
he
alone
can
punish
or
save
,
and
to
his
sole
will
he
submits
himself
,
and
the
correction
of
his
misdeeds
.
This
specification
of
his
Royal
dignity
which
exempts
him
from
all
Earthly
Jurisdiction
,
renders
him
not
more
innocent
,
but
rather
is
a
circumstance
of
aggravation
;
for
the
perfection
of
the
person
offending
,
is
a
note
of
higher
ingratitude
proportionably
to
the
excellency
of
his
nature
;
and
therefore
Divines
conclude
the
sin
of
Lucifer
to
be
the
most
Enormous
that
ever
was
committed
:
First
because
of
the
excellency
of
his
nature
;
next
in
that
he
directly
strook
at
the
source
of
his
perfections
,
for
which
he
ought
to
have
been
more
grateful
than
other
Creatures
,
having
tasted
more
liberally
than
any
other
of
his
divine
Favours
.
Lastly
from
the
causality
or
consequence
of
his
sin
,
which
gave
a
rise
,
and
was
the
foundation
of
all
the
evil
that
hath
happened
in
the
World
,
and
in
Heaven
before
it
was
created
,
overwhelming
both
Angels
,
and
Men
by
his
temptations
;
as
in
Tobit
Chap.
4.
From
the
Pride
of
the
Devil
all
ruine
and
perdition
is
derived
,
and
took
its
beginning
.
If
we
look
upon
the
dignity
of
our
Penitent
,
we
shall
find
none
above
him
upon
Earth
;
if
on
the
favours
showred
upon
him
from
Heaven
,
he
appears
the
Object
of
Gods
choicest
liberalities
;
if
on
the
disastrous
sequel
of
his
sin
,
what
divisions
in
his
Kingdom
,
what
streams
of
Blood
have
issued
from
it
.
Hence
I
wonder
not
if
St.
Austin
sayes
,
it
is
hard
for
Princes
to
commit
a
small
offence
:
For
the
eminency
of
their
place
obliges
them
to
so
much
integrity
,
that
the
least
blemish
in
them
grows
up
into
a
monstrous
deformity
;
they
are
as
it
were
the
Primum
Mobile
,
upon
which
all
the
other
Orbs
depend
in
their
motion
;
Nay
Cassidorus
sayes
it
were
more
credible
that
Nature
could
erre
,
than
for
a
Prince
to
frame
a
Commonwealth
different
from
the
constitution
of
his
own
life
:
For
he
is
not
onely
a
glass
wherein
the
people
contemplate
the
Idea
or
platform
of
what
they
ought
to
do
,
but
a
glass
enflaming
,
and
issuing
forth
incentives
to
imitation
:
Have
we
not
seen
a
Rome
warlick
under
Romulus
,
religious
under
Numa
,
continent
under
Fabritius
,
dissolute
under
Lucullus
and
Anthony
,
Idolatrous
under
Julian
,
and
drenched
in
Arrianism
under
Valens
,
to
shew
the
people
are
alwayes
moulded
into
the
temper
of
their
Prince
;
nay
think
it
a
crime
not
to
follow
his
example
,
and
believe
every
leading
action
in
him
,
may
authorize
and
make
good
any
wickedness
in
them
.
It
was
for
this
cause
the
Poets
feigned
their
gods
to
have
been
vicious
,
that
from
thence
they
might
claim
a
title
,
and
right
to
do
the
like
;
and
Terentius
excuses
a
young
man
taken
in
adultery
,
because
he
had
seen
the
pourtraiture
of
Jupiter
representing
such
a
posture
of
obscenity
.
The
prophet
Hoseah
in
his
Fifth
Chapter
threatens
judgement
and
ruin
to
Kings
,
who
have
become
a
Snare
instead
of
a
Sanctuary
to
their
subjects
;
and
St.
Austin
stiles
bad
Kings
the
worst
of
homicides
,
in
destroying
the
Souls
of
their
Subjects
.
Our
sad
Penitent
was
not
a
stranger
to
his
own
condition
,
he
knew
well
his
duty
to
God
,
and
how
many
obligations
of
vertue
were
annexed
to
a
Crown
;
he
therefore
now
alledges
his
regal
power
,
not
to
diminish
,
but
rather
to
give
a
full
view
of
his
transgression
;
by
this
he
confesses
,
that
he
hath
broke
his
Faith
with
multitudes
of
Men
,
deceiving
the
publick
opinion
they
had
of
his
vertue
,
upon
which
presumption
,
their
Lives
,
Fortunes
,
and
what
most
dear
to
them
,
were
shrowded
under
his
guidance
,
and
protection
:
By
this
he
declares
the
Throne
is
to
edify
,
not
destroy
the
lookers
on
;
for
a
King
mediates
'twixt
God
and
Man
:
Now
that
a
Vacuum
might
not
happen
,
but
a
happy
concatenation
preserved
,
it
is
as
necessary
a
King
should
adhere
to
God
,
as
he
would
have
the
People
constantly
faithful
to
him
;
a
Christian
Prince
ought
to
make
God
,
not
Policy
the
ultimate
Object
of
his
sway
;
so
that
he
must
first
consecrate
himself
,
next
his
Kingdom
,
to
the
service
of
his
Creatour
:
And
if
he
do
it
not
,
he
seems
to
overwhelm
and
confound
both
divine
,
and
humane
Laws
.
By
this
he
ackowledges
his
own
misery
,
as
St.
Austin
sayes
,
Kings
are
not
to
be
esteemed
happy
from
their
conquests
and
success
of
Arms
,
but
by
using
their
power
in
the
advancement
of
God's
honour
and
service
;
if
they
love
,
fear
,
and
reverence
him
,
if
they
make
their
own
greatness
stoop
and
lye
prostrate
before
his
Divine
Majesty
;
lastly
,
if
they
more
value
the
sweet
reign
of
vertue
within
them
,
than
all
the
dazling
glories
of
their
Earthly
●…ingdoms
,
this
only
makes
them
happy
.
Mistake
not
then
our
Penitent
,
he
boasts
not
in
these
words
(
I
have
sinned
against
thee
alone
)
his
exemption
from
any
terrene
Judicature
,
but
rather
would
publish
by
his
greatness
,
the
enormity
of
his
crimes
,
how
every
glittering
flash
of
his
Crown
,
makes
a
new
flaw
in
his
unhappy
trespass
.
He
remembred
in
Leviticus
it
was
decreed
,
the
same
proportion
of
Sacrifices
for
the
Priest
,
as
for
the
Universal
people
;
and
what
satisfactions
might
then
justly
be
required
of
him
,
into
whose
hands
are
entrusted
the
guidance
of
that
chosen
Nation
;
and
to
fail
in
so
important
an
affair
,
must
needs
involve
a
greater
blame
.
For
where
the
Prerogative
is
more
sublime
,
there
the
miscarriage
carryes
with
it
more
of
deformity
;
as
St
Hierom
cryes
:
Let
us
rejoyce
whilst
we
ascend
,
but
likewise
beware
a
fall
,
because
there
is
not
so
much
contentment
in
the
purchase
of
honour
and
greatness
,
as
there
is
grief
and
confusion
to
be
torn
from
the
prossession
of
them
.
Besides
such
shall
not
only
render
an
account
of
their
own
defaults
,
but
also
be
responsible
for
the
deviations
of
all
those
to
whom
they
owe
the
duty
of
direction
and
good
example
.
O
ye
great
ones
,
whose
Birth
or
Fortune
have
made
eminent
in
the
World
,
take
heed
you
be
not
the
Subject
of
Jeremy's
complaint
;
who
having
surveyed
the
Valleys
,
found
therein
a
meer
vacuity
;
from
thence
passing
to
the
Heavens
,
he
there
met
with
a
profound
darkness
;
returning
back
upon
the
Mountains
,
he
beheld
them
all
in
disorder
.
If
you
be
Sovereign
Princes
meant
by
the
Heavens
,
examine
what
Splendour
hath
issued
from
your
Actions
,
by
which
your
Subjects
might
steer
the
course
of
their
lives
,
and
be
guided
(
free
from
Shipwrack
)
to
the
Haven
of
eternal
rest
:
For
if
they
lose
themselves
on
the
Sands
of
misbelief
,
or
dashed
upon
the
Rock
of
Vanity
,
unlawful
pleasures
,
and
the
like
;
for
want
of
your
directing
beams
,
their
ruine
will
be
laid
to
your
charge
;
and
were
it
permitted
you
to
hear
the
sad
complaints
,
and
dire
invectives
those
perished
Souls
do
vomit
forth
against
their
Leaders
,
who
have
deceived
,
and
tilled
them
on
into
misery
,
it
would
certainly
have
influence
upon
you
,
and
oblige
you
to
a
greater
circumspection
in
your
wayes
and
manner
of
life
.
If
you
own
Nobility
and
Honour
,
which
the
Mountains
personate
,
remember
you
are
the
Object
of
many
inferiour
eyes
;
you
are
looked
upon
with
respect
,
and
indeed
as
the
Glass
which
should
convey
unto
them
the
true
representation
of
their
Prince
:
For
he
being
but
one
,
and
consequently
not
so
communicable
,
it
is
your
parts
who
are
dispersed
through
Kingdoms
,
to
supply
what
he
cannot
do
,
to
shew
by
your
Justice
,
Piety
,
Devotion
,
Charity
,
and
other
Christian
vertues
,
that
the
practice
of
them
can
onely
maintain
your
greatness
,
and
is
the
Foundation
of
all
your
hopes
in
another
life
,
which
Principles
lively
set
forth
in
your
actions
,
cannot
but
fix
your
dependants
in
a
strange
passion
towards
goodness
,
and
ground
them
in
a
Belief
,
that
it
ought
to
be
the
ultimate
scope
of
all
their
endeavours
,
and
enterprizes
in
this
world
.
Nor
are
those
of
the
meaner
rank
(
hinted
at
by
the
Valleys
)
exempt
from
all
obligation
in
this
kind
:
There
is
not
a
Master
of
a
family
,
but
is
as
it
were
a
Sovereign
to
those
who
depend
on
him
:
He
ought
to
be
the
first
at
every
pious
duty
,
to
see
his
little
flock
fed
with
all
necessary
instructions
in
order
to
what
Christianity
obliges
them
to
know
,
and
believe
,
to
carry
a
watchful
Eye
over
them
,
that
he
may
know
their
faults
to
correct
,
their
vertues
to
reward
,
and
encourage
;
if
they
fail
in
this
,
they
may
say
with
David
,
I
have
sinned
against
thee
alone
:
Though
there
be
none
under
their
roof
can
be
a
competent
Judge
,
yet
this
will
not
render
them
innocent
;
and
this
our
holy
Penitent
confesses
,
who
in
this
expression
acknowledges
the
excellency
and
multitude
of
God's
favours
in
being
a
King
,
and
consequently
the
highest
ingratitude
on
his
part
towards
the
Author
of
them
.
The
Application
.
By
this
clause
we
are
further
taught
that
if
at
any
time
we
fail
in
our
duty
,
the
principal
motive
of
that
ressentment
must
be
in
that
it
is
displeasing
to
God
,
whose
onely
frown
we
apprehend
:
For
when
we
trespass
against
our
Neighbour
,
the
evil
is
in
reference
to
God
who
forbids
it
;
whence
every
sinner
may
justly
say
I
have
sinned
against
thee
alone
:
So
that
we
ought
not
to
regard
our
temporal
,
but
eternal
Penalties
due
to
sin
;
for
that
concerns
our
Soul
,
which
alone
is
the
source
of
all
our
transgressions
:
Wherefore
our
chief
solicitude
ought
to
be
for
its
preservation
:
Wherein
we
are
to
imitate
St.
Mary
Magdalen
,
who
pressed
in
her
spiritual
necessity
,
had
a
personal
recourse
to
her
dear
Saviour
,
but
when
concerned
in
the
loss
of
her
Brothers
life
she
contented
her self
to
dispatch
away
a
letter
by
a
servant
,
insinuating
by
this
the
distinction
she
made
between
a
soul
and
Body
.
I
wish
we
might
all
in
this
follow
her
Example
,
that
is
,
espouse
the
Souls
interest
as
the
main
concern
:
Since
in
relation
only
to
that
we
are
to
pronounce
,
tibi
soli
peccavi
,
I
have
sinned
against
thee
alone
.
CHAP.
X.
Vt
justificiens
in
Sermonibus
tuis
,
&
vincas
cum
judicaris
;
That
thou
mayest
be
justified
in
thy
words
,
and
overcome
when
thou
art
judged
.
OUr
holy
penitent
tells
us
in
this
clause
why
he
brought
his
guiltiness
as
King
upon
the
Stage
,
because
by
it
the
petitioned
will
be
justified
in
his
words
,
which
are
these
,
that
he
will
never
reject
a
truly
repenting
heart
,
and
he
thinks
they
were
never
put
more
home
to
the
Test
than
in
his
Person
,
for
who
can
despair
after
his
admission
into
favour
,
who
had
broken
all
the
chains
,
and
tyes
of
duty
,
wherein
a
Creature
is
linked
,
and
obliged
by
a
most
loving
and
liberal
Creatour
.
Besides
the
pardon
of
his
ingratitude
will
serve
as
a
fence
against
the
rash
judgements
of
the
impious
,
who
are
apt
to
lay
severity
to
God's
charge
upon
the
reprobation
of
a
sinner
;
this
makes
our
penitent
to
add
,
that
thou
mayest
overcome
when
thou
and
judged
;
that
is
,
when
his
case
shall
be
alledged
,
it
will
stop
and
silence
any
blasphemous
Tongue
.
I
believe
also
he
reflected
on
the
promise
made
by
God
,
that
out
of
his
line●
should
issue
forth
the
hope
of
Israel
,
the
Redeemer
of
mankind
;
and
lest
his
sin
might
divert
the
streams
of
God's
mercy
,
and
frustrate
his
succeeding
stemms
of
that
glorious
off-spring
;
he
minds
him
first
of
his
promise
to
receive
with
open
arms
the
most
enormous
,
if
repenting
Soul
;
nextt
,
his
Foundation
laid
,
he
would
insinuate
,
since
by
an
act
of
mercy
,
he
was
again
planted
in
the
Region
of
grace
,
his
hopes
now
are
that
the
promises
made
by
Heaven
to
him
and
his
posterity
might
stand
good
;
that
their
accomplishment
would
be
a
confirmation
to
him
of
a
plenary
indulgence
,
and
a
pledge
that
his
punishment
should
not
reach
to
so
heavy
a
Confiscation
,
in
order
to
his
temporal
satisfaction
.
But
you
must
know
when
he
sayes
,
that
thou
mayest
be
justified
,
&c.
This
particle
(
that
)
imports
not
the
efficient
cause
of
the
precedent
verse
;
to
wit
,
he
had
sinned
against
God
alone
,
to
the
end
God
may
be
justifyed
;
as
if
the
motive
of
God's
justification
gave
rise
to
his
sin
:
No
,
no
,
it
means
only
this
,
that
the
eminency
of
his
condition
rendered
him
guilty
of
the
highest
ingratitude
,
and
since
the
torrent
of
God's
mercy
had
born
this
clear
away
,
the
publication
of
this
pardon
must
needs
exalt
the
divine
goodness
,
and
testify
to
the
World
there
is
no
iniquity
so
monstrous
,
which
may
not
(
if
we
will
)
be
overcome
by
his
mercy
;
whence
he
is
justified
in
his
words
,
never
to
be
a
stranger
to
those
who
return
with
Repentance
unto
him
.
How
many
times
hath
God
been
irritated
by
Man's
ingratitude
,
nay
so
touched
to
the
quick
as
to
declare
he
repented
to
have
made
him
;
that
is
if
God
were
capable
of
defect
or
change
,
this
exorbitancy
in
man
might
well
deserve
such
a
repentance
:
have
we
not
seen
a
Pharaoh
prodigiously
unmoved
,
insensible
as
a
statue
at
the
sight
of
miracles
,
which
confounded
all
his
inchanters
,
and
false
Gods
;
yet
had
not
this
unbelieving
Prince
hardned
his
own
heart
,
God
had
reserved
one
greater
wonder
to
work
in
his
behalf
,
that
is
upon
his
sumission
to
receive
him
unto
mercy
:
what
can
be
thought
of
more
indulgent
than
his
amarous
care
and
conduct
of
his
people
through
the
desart
;
and
yet
even
when
he
was
prescribing
a
Law
,
and
Rule
for
the
observance
of
their
Duties
,
they
frame
Idols
,
and
plunge
themselves
in
transgressions
of
the
highest
nature
.
However
he
did
not
here
forget
his
promise
,
but
at
the
prayer
of
Moses
reassumed
them
into
his
Sovereign
Protection
;
the
same
Night
which
was
blest
with
the
institution
of
the
sacred
Synaxis
or
Eucharist
,
was
also
conscious
of
the
horrid
Treason
of
Judas
,
and
yet
this
Monster
of
ingratitude
according
to
all
Divines
might
have
sheltred
himself
from
God's
wrath
by
a
true
Repentance
.
Thus
all
along
we
see
God
justifyed
in
his
Clemency
towards
sinners
,
so
that
victory
must
needs
remain
to
him
when
questioned
by
blasphemous
Tongues
,
for
creating
those
who
were
to
perish
:
A
Nabuchodonozer
speaks
for
him
,
a
Thief
upon
the
Cross
,
a
St.
Paul
,
a
Magdalen
,
and
a
Million
of
others
that
have
redeemed
by
a
few
hours
repentance
,
what
had
been
contracted
in
many
years
impieties
and
wickedness
.
Our
holy
Penitent
will
also
come
in
for
a
witness
:
First
he
cryes
what
return
shall
I
make
to
my
God
for
all
he
hath
done
to
me
;
he
praises
,
blesses
his
holy
name
,
and
then
layes
open
his
enormous
crimes
,
believing
it
is
but
reasonable
to
do
him
all
right
,
that
hath
dealt
to
him
so
much
of
mercy
;
and
though
every
thought
of
his
sins
afflicts
him
,
yet
he
glories
that
his
Creatour's
goodness
will
appear
resplendent
through
his
deformity
;
he
is
content
to
become
nothing
that
he
might
add
the
least
tittle
to
God's
Honour
and
greatness
:
He
values
not
his
own
confusion
,
so
God
may
be
justifyed
,
and
this
sweet
experienced
truth
made
good
,
that
the
Divine
will
is
that
all
shall
be
saved
;
and
to
this
end
,
proportions
sufficient
means
to
all
;
so
that
none
can
perish
but
through
their
own
Impenitency
and
Perseverance
in
sin
.
The
Church
would
not
style
Adam's
sin
a
happy
sin
,
if
our
Redemption
and
the
merits
of
Christ's
sacred
passion
were
not
extenedd
to
all
,
even
the
highest
offendour
.
St.
Paul
sayes
,
as
Death
found
its
entrance
by
the
default
of
one
,
so
life
was
restored
by
one
;
whence
it
is
clear
,
the
remedy
brought
to
us
by
Christ
reached
as
far
as
the
Disease
.
St.
John
entitles
him
a
Sun
,
which
enlightens
every
one
that
comes
into
this
World
;
there
is
none
wrapped
up
in
so
black
a
Cloud
of
sins
,
who
may
not
(
if
they
will
)
take
in
the
Rayes
of
his
Mercy
,
and
by
their
Deliverance
justify
God's
Promises
to
Man
.
In
the
production
of
every
the
least
Creature
(
saith
St.
Thomas
)
the
power
,
wisdom
,
and
goodness
of
God
are
made
manifest
;
how
much
more
then
are
they
exalted
in
the
Transmutation
of
a
Soul
from
the
Privation
of
Justice
to
the
Possession
of
a
Supernatural
Gift
of
Righteousness
;
whence
St.
Paul
sayes
,
God
doth
predestinate
us
according
to
the
councel
of
his
will
,
that
we
may
praise
and
diffuse
abroad
his
glory
.
Ah
then
,
let
us
give
unto
God
what
is
his
due
as
near
as
we
can
;
by
despair
we
condemn
our selves
,
in
rendring
our
Judge
Inexorable
and
deaf
to
Mercy
:
By
Hope
animated
with
Repentance
,
we
quit
our
scores
of
guiltiness
,
and
justify
the
hand
that
wipes
them
off
.
To
our
justification
by
his
grace
he
doth
not
only
invite
us
to
dispose
our selves
for
it
,
promising
to
refresh
such
as
are
oppressed
,
&c.
But
declares
,
he
is
at
the
door
of
our
hearts
,
knocks
,
solicits
,
and
expects
but
our
consent
to
enter
in
,
at
last
defies
the
World
to
object
the
least
failing
on
his
side
,
having
done
to
his
Vineyard
what
ever
could
be
required
to
make
it
thrive
;
To
conclude
,
God
will
be
still
justified
,
that
sinner
who
doth
finally
perish
is
the
Author
of
his
ruine
by
his
own
impenitency
,
rejecting
graces
abundantly
sufficient
offered
to
him
:
So
that
in
the
height
of
his
misery
when
it
is
too
late
,
he
will
be
forced
to
acknowledge
;
crying
,
O
Lord
,
thou
art
just
,
and
thy
judgements
equitable
:
That
sinner
again
who
hath
imitated
our
Penitent
,
in
having
had
timely
recourse
to
the
throne
of
mercy
,
will
not
blush
to
unfold
his
wickedness
,
since
he
now
breaths
a
new
life
of
grace
,
which
obliges
him
to
proclaim
,
how
just
God
is
in
his
promises
,
and
glorious
in
his
Mercies
.
That
thou
mayest
be
justifyed
in
thy
words
,
and
overcome
when
thou
art
judged
.
The
Application
.
In
this
clause
,
we
read
the
clear
view
our
Holy
Penitent
had
of
the
unquestionable
proceedings
of
God
with
Man
;
for
beholding
in
his
all-displaying
Eye
the
ingratitude
of
Millions
of
Souls
who
would
abuse
his
favours
,
yet
did
not
this
restrain
his
munificence
to
them
;
he
first
gave
them
a
Being
,
added
to
this
Being
the
exhibition
of
his
Graces
,
all
sufficient
,
nay
in
a
greater
proportion
than
to
many
of
the
elect
;
and
to
the
acquisition
of
these
benefits
he
made
his
only
Son
instrumental
,
by
whose
blood
is
conveyed
to
them
a
capacity
of
Salvation
:
Now
if
afterwards
they
come
to
perish
,
it
is
through
their
own
malice
in
misusing
his
gracious
endearments
,
and
proving
refractary
to
his
commands
,
for
since
he
had
conducted
them
indiscriminately
with
the
predestinate
by
a
supernatural
Providence
,
with
which
all
along
he
obliged
them
,
what
wisdome
,
prudence
,
or
justice
were
it
to
gratify
Traytors
(
obstinate
even
unto
death
in
rebellion
)
with
his
Glory
:
So
that
the
motive
of
their
reprobation
is
a
foresight
of
their
final
perseverance
in
Sin
;
their
guiltiness
gives
matter
of
God's
hatred
,
and
eternal
damnation
,
the
effect
of
their
impenitency
.
'T
is
true
it
was
not
in
their
power
to
be
born
,
or
not
be
born
;
but
to
fight
generously
,
or
be
vanquished
by
the
Devil
this
depends
on
us
:
It
seems
unreasonable
that
a
King
opening
a
Tournament
,
and
proposing
a
reward
to
the
Conquerour
,
should
admit
onely
that
person
into
the
list
whom
he
feresaw
would
be
victorious
:
So
God
in
Creating
an
infinity
of
persons
whereof
the
greater
part
would
become
reprobate
is
not
to
be
blamed
,
no
more
than
that
Prince
who
lets
all
run
at
the
ring
though
it
cannot
be
gained
but
by
one
,
for
if
we
be
foyld
it
is
by
our
own
Cowardize
and
remissness
.
Thus
the
goodness
of
God
appears
in
the
Creation
of
Reprobates
,
and
no
less
his
justice
in
pouring
vengeance
upon
them
,
so
that
he
would
be
justified
in
his
words
,
and
silence
any
blasphemous
Tongue
;
nay
,
though
these
unfortunate
wretches
miss
of
their
particular
end
that
is
paradise
to
which
they
are
created
,
yet
the
general
design
of
their
Creation
,
to
wit
the
promotion
of
his
Glory
,
will
take
effect
:
for
after
his
patience
hath
been
strained
(
if
it
may
be
so
expressed
)
in
supporting
their
insolencies
,
he
will
give
lustre
to
his
Saints
Glory
by
the
opposition
of
their
misery
;
just
as
a
Moor
sets
off
a
great
beauty
.
Wherefore
let
us
keep
consort
with
our
Holy
Penitent
,
avowing
his
just
providence
,
and
submitting
to
all
his
Decrees
,
as
most
equitable
and
worthy
our
Adorations
,
Amen
.
CHAP.
XI
.
Ecce
enim
in
iniquitatibus
conceptus
sum
,
For
behold
I
am
conceived
in
iniquity
.
OUr
Penitent
here
appeals
to
the
World
whether
he
hath
not
reason
being
reinvested
with
the
rich
ornament
of
Grace
to
stand
up
,
and
maintain
Gods
proceedings
with
his
Creatures
;
to
this
intent
he
knowes
no
better
medium
,
than
the
publication
of
Man's
corrupted
Nature
,
brought
to
that
imbecility
,
as
of
himself
unable
to
give
life
,
and
birth
to
one
good
thought
behold
(
sayes
he
)
I
am
conceived
in
iniquities
;
that
from
the
first
instant
of
his
conception
,
he
is
seized
on
by
sin
,
and
though
that
lineal
stain
be
cleared
by
circumcision
in
the
old
Law
,
and
now
by
Baptisme
,
yet
there
still
remains
a
propensity
to
sin
,
which
grows
up
with
us
,
gaining
strength
through
the
whole
course
of
our
Adolescence
:
For
many
years
of
our
age
are
spent
e're
we
come
to
distinguish
between
good
and
evil
;
in
all
which
time
't
is
clear
we
follow
without
any
stop
,
or
haesitation
the
Dictamens
of
sense
;
so
that
at
the
opening
of
our
understanding
we
discover
a
Law
Anathemathematizing
our
former
practices
,
the
which
by
many
reiterated
,
and
continued
Acts
are
so
wrought
into
habit
;
that
to
break
them
,
we
must
(
as
it
were
)
mould
our selves
into
another
nature
.
This
considered
,
together
with
the
dreggs
,
and
relicks
of
corruption
which
original
sin
leaves
behind
,
I
wonder
not
if
our
Penitent
deplore
his
misfortune
,
and
hints
in
his
Petition
this
memorandum
;
that
he
was
conceived
in
iniquities
.
This
Fomes
or
scattered
seed
of
original
sin
hath
a
double
effect
,
one
an
inclination
to
evil
,
the
other
a
drawing
back
,
or
declining
from
what
is
good
:
This
made
St.
Paul
confess
,
he
found
a
Law
in
his
Body
contradicting
that
of
his
reason
;
and
St.
Bernard
sayes
,
the
sin
(
't
is
true
)
may
be
taken
away
by
Baptism
,
but
to
work
a
compleat
cure
,
that
we
feel
no
spice
,
nor
itching
of
the
infection
,
is
in
a
manner
impossible
;
at
least
it
requires
a
long
course
of
remedies
by
a
constant
exercise
and
Tryal
in
vertuous
actions
:
For
it
is
an
inordinate
,
and
habitual
concupiscence
in
the
sensitive
part
,
so
radicated
,
that
it
becomes
(
as
it
were
)
a
portion
of
nature
:
Whence
Seneca
affirms
,
vertues
are
rarely
acquired
without
a
Master
,
but
we
quickly
become
expert
in
vice
without
the
help
of
any
Teacher
,
which
shews
the
pernicious
consequence
of
original
sin
.
Our
Penitent
had
found
the
bitterness
of
it
by
dear
experience
,
and
this
pushed
him
on
to
the
reflection
of
a
main
cause
of
his
misery
;
because
he
was
conceived
in
iniquities
.
Yet
our
Penitent
repines
not
at
God's
Justice
herein
,
but
submits
to
this
smart
doom
,
acknowledging
a
just
retaliation
;
that
since
the
Soul
had
been
disobedient
to
her
Creatour
,
the
Body
in
requital
should
rise
up
in
rebellion
against
her
,
and
punish
her
by
the
same
Engins
she
had
made
use
off
in
her
prevarication
;
he
doth
not
scan
the
motives
why
God
should
punish
so
severely
many
millions
of
innocent
Souls
,
for
the
miscarriage
of
one
Man
,
and
though
he
could
satisfy
himself
,
that
since
original
Justice
had
been
purchased
to
all
Adam's
descendents
by
his
obedience
,
it
is
not
unreasonable
to
share
by
his
fall
in
the
pain
due
to
his
transgression
:
Our
Penitent
I
say
waves
all
argumentation
,
looks
upon
the
sentence
pronounced
,
and
executed
,
and
being
a
Decree
from
God
,
it
must
be
just
:
His
sole
hope
is
,
that
this
disordered
,
and
depraved
constitution
in
humane
nature
,
will
draw
a
more
powerful
aid
,
and
greater
compassion
towards
a
sinner
when
he
fails
,
and
still
the
burden
of
his
Song
is
,
because
he
was
conceived
in
iniquities
.
St.
Bernard
seems
unresolved
,
and
full
of
perplexity
,
when
he
considers
Man
in
this
tottering
condition
,
it
makes
him
confess
,
he
knowes
not
by
what
strange
bewitching
means
our
will
impared
by
sin
is
hampered
in
a
kind
of
necessity
,
and
in
such
a
manner
,
as
neither
the
necessity
because
voluntary
,
can
plead
excuse
for
our
consent
;
nor
the
will
being
allured
,
can
scarce
break
through
the
necessity
;
for
this
necessity
is
in
some
sort
voluntary
,
it
is
a
kind
of
amorous
violence
working
by
flattery
,
and
flattering
by
force
:
Whence
the
Will
having
once
consented
to
sin
,
can
hardly
disengage
her self
,
nor
yet
finds
reason
enough
to
excuse
what
she
hath
done
.
Upon
this
score
I
wonder
not
to
hear
the
plaining
note
of
Job
.
Lord
I
suffer
violence
,
it
is
onely
you
who
impose
the
necessity
can
answer
for
me
.
And
a
little
after
he
cryes
,
O
thou
Ruler
of
men
,
why
hast
thou
set
me
against
thee
;
all
which
shews
the
sad
State
of
man
wrought
by
original
sin
,
if
left
to
himself
:
for
he
was
conceived
in
iniquities
.
Philo
the
Jew
speaking
of
Sin
gives
it
a
Term
of
infinity
,
that
being
once
set
a
flame
can
never
be
extinguished
:
he
calls
it
an
immortal
evil
,
by
no
death
,
or
desolation
to
be
destroyed
.
The
truth
of
this
Philosophy
who
finds
not
in
himself
,
that
albeit
Baptism
hath
cleared
the
channel
,
so
as
the
streams
of
grace
may
run
,
yet
there
are
certain
exhalations
which
issued
from
that
corruption
always
ready
to
fall
,
and
embody
with
the
currant
;
so
that
if
there
be
not
a
continual
care
and
sifting
,
it
will
be
morally
impossible
to
preserve
our
Souls
pure
,
and
unstained
.
Seneca
sayes
,
there
are
certain
vices
which
are
obvious
to
every
Eye
,
and
to
which
we
may
be
led
as
it
were
by
the
hand
;
others
there
are
that
lye
lurking
,
and
are
hardly
discerned
,
till
fastned
upon
us
;
and
these
are
the
most
pernicious
,
because
against
them
we
can
have
nither
open
warr
,
nor
a
secure
peace
:
And
this
truly
is
the
genuine
State
of
our
natures
from
the
corruption
wrought
in
us
by
sin
,
that
we
are
not
said
to
be
clearly
sick
,
or
well
;
and
this
fluctuancy
(
if
rightly
considered
)
must
needs
be
a
torment
,
because
though
we
happen
not
to
fall
,
yet
danger
still
threatens
,
so
that
if
we
tender
our
happiness
,
we
must
stand
upon
our
guard
at
all
times
,
and
places
,
because
neither
Heaven
,
Paradise
,
Religious
Cloyster
,
or
remote
Hermitage
is
a
secure
fence
against
sin
;
and
a
main
reason
to
us
the
Children
of
Adam
is
,
because
in
iniquitatibus
conceptus
sum
,
we
are
conceived
and
born
in
iniquities
.
Whilst
we
are
invironed
and
beset
with
such
adversaries
as
our
bad
inclinations
,
who
watch
(
as
I
may
say
)
but
an
advantage
to
undo
us
,
surely
we
ought
to
work
out
our
Salvation
with
fear
and
trembling
;
St.
Bernard
was
not
ignorant
of
Mans
inconstancy
when
he
gave
this
caution
;
Oh
(
sayes
he
)
did
we
but
know
,
how
small
a
portion
of
vertue
we
have
,
and
how
soon
it
vanishes
,
upon
how
ticklish
a
foundation
it
rests
,
unless
the
giver
by
a
continued
flux
of
Grace
secure
it
to
us
,
we
would
not
so
easily
imbark
our selves
into
dangerous
occasions
,
for
to
indulge
our
senses
,
and
to
arm
our
Enemies
,
is
the
same
,
but
a
strange
policy
.
How
many
who
have
thought
themselves
like
Cedars
elevated
to
a
high
pitch
of
vertue
,
by
a
presumption
of
their
own
strength
through
ignorance
of
humane
frailty
,
and
a
Supine
negligence
,
rashly
engaging
themselves
in
hazardous
Tryals
,
have
been
ignominiously
blasted
,
and
reduced
to
the
condition
of
a
contemptible
shrub
.
Lucifer
enamoured
of
his
own
perfections
,
and
aspiring
to
a
parity
with
God
,
became
the
most
abject
of
Creatures
.
St.
Peter
promising
wonders
of
his
constant
Fidelity
,
sufficiently
testifyed
by
his
shameful
denyal
;
what
Man
is
in
his
own
nature
without
the
support
of
Grace
.
Our
Penitent
comes
in
also
for
a
sad
example
,
and
hopes
it
will
serve
at
least
for
a
monument
to
Posterity
,
that
they
may
reflect
what
Man
is
from
the
instant
of
his
conception
,
and
however
he
may
be
raised
and
enobled
by
God's
favours
,
yet
in
his
103.
Psalm
,
he
tells
what
he
must
trust
to
when
left
to
himself
.
Auferes
spiritum
eorum
&
deficient
,
&
in
pulverem
suum
revertentur
;
upon
the
subtraction
of
thy
Spirit
,
O
Lord
we
sink
;
and
resolve
into
the
dust
from
whence
we
came
,
all
covered
,
and
besmeared
with
the
stains
of
sin
.
St.
Austin
sayes
,
because
Man
did
not
what
he
could
and
might
have
done
,
now
he
hath
a
desire
to
that
he
cannot
perform
;
losing
by
a
will
of
malice
the
power
of
doing
good
.
Hence
St.
Paul
become
as
it
were
a
captive
cryes
,
the
evil
I
would
not
now
I
do
,
truly
it
is
an
expression
which
might
terrify
,
were
it
not
that
a
little
he
confesses
,
there
is
a
power
of
grace
which
contradicts
this
predominancy
of
nature
,
and
therefore
in
the
Sixth
Chapter
to
the
Romans
,
he
warns
us
not
to
let
sin
reign
in
our
mortal
Bodies
;
intimating
hereby
,
the
seeds
of
tumults
and
seditions
be
sowed
within
us
,
yet
we
have
also
arms
,
and
strength
sufficient
(
if
we
adhere
to
God
)
to
crush
,
and
frustrate
all
their
insolencies
:
So
true
it
is
that
Man
cannot
be
injured
but
by
himself
,
to
whom
alone
he
owns
his
ruine
if
he
perish
.
Thus
the
life
of
Man
is
become
a
warfare
upon
Earth
,
the
Seat
of
many
a
contest
,
and
strife
;
the
sensitive
part
haling
him
one
way
,
reason
another
,
and
this
by
a
just
Decree
of
Heaven
,
that
since
he
would
not
have
peace
with
God
,
he
should
have
warr
brought
to
his
own
doors
,
and
feel
it
within
himself
.
Now
to
come
off
clear
,
and
safe
amidst
so
many
hurley
burleys
,
requires
no
small
dexterity
and
courage
:
It
minds
me
of
Agesilaus
answer
to
his
friend
who
importuned
him
not
to
remove
his
Camp
,
though
necessity
urged
it
;
because
he
was
sick
,
and
could
not
without
much
pain
endure
any
motion
;
whereat
Agesilaus
all
perplexed
what
to
do
crys
,
O
how
hard
a
thing
is
it
to
be
wise
,
and
yet
compassionate
.
So
our
sensitive
part
made
treacherous
by
sin
,
still
makes
its
moan
,
fawns
,
solicits
with
importunity
;
and
if
the
Will
never
so
little
condescend
,
Man
is
presently
lost
in
sensual
pleasures
.
Our
Penitent
had
felt
the
smart
of
this
Shipwrack
,
how
soon
he
was
overthrown
by
a
little
dalliance
;
and
therefore
exposes
to
the
view
of
his
Judge
the
source
from
whence
he
springs
,
and
hopes
since
he
knowes
his
brittle
substance
,
it
may
plead
some
inducement
unto
mercy
,
at
least
to
a
mitigation
of
his
penalty
;
upon
this
score
he
proclaims
,
behold
I
am
conceived
in
iniquities
.
The
Application
.
In
imitation
of
our
holy
Penitent
we
ought
seriously
to
reflect
upon
the
sad
plight
of
humane
nature
wounded
by
original
sin
;
so
depressed
and
made
feeble
,
as
most
Divines
affirm
,
we
cannot
in
any
vehement
temptation
prove
victorious
without
a
speciall
assistance
from
Heaven
:
For
you
must
know
,
though
the
Will
have
an
absolute
command
over
the
sensitive
part
,
yet
if
the
object
be
present
and
very
delightful
or
afflictive
,
it
is
not
in
the
Will
's
power
to
suppress
the
contentment
,
or
anguish
derived
from
thence
to
the
imagination
:
Wherefore
spiritual
Men
give
these
Rules
,
that
we
remove
what
we
can
the
Object
beloved
,
or
hated
from
our
sight
,
senses
,
imagination
and
thoughts
;
next
,
that
we
consider
the
little
of
pleasure
,
and
multiplicity
of
defects
which
usually
attend
the
objects
of
a
sensual
love
;
all
which
shews
there
is
no
reliance
upon
our
own
temper
,
and
after
we
have
practised
all
evasions
to
decline
an
engagement
;
the
success
(
if
put
to
the
Test
)
must
be
expected
from
that
all
powerful
hand
which
never
fails
to
shield
the
humble
in
the
most
hazzardous
and
dangerous
attempts
.
It
is
humility
then
must
crown
us
with
Laurels
;
Amen
.
CHAP.
XII
.
Et
in
peccatis
concepit
me
Mater
mea
,
And
my
Mother
hath
conceived
me
in
Sin
.
OUr
Penitent
thinks
it
not
enough
to
display
his
own
misery
,
unless
he
relate
also
the
condition
of
his
Mother
at
the
instant
of
his
conception
,
and
he
expresses
it
so
as
if
she
yet
groaned
under
the
burden
of
original
sin
,
when
she
conceived
of
him
;
and
my
Mother
(
sayes
he
)
conceived
me
in
sin
:
That
is
,
had
the
same
stains
which
defiled
me
at
the
First
instant
of
my
Being
.
As
to
this
you
must
know
in
the
old
Law
was
instituted
a
remedy
against
original
sin
for
Women
as
well
as
Men.
For
from
the
Creation
of
the
World
to
Abraham's
time
(
when
First
circumcision
was
commanded
)
which
was
above
Two
thousand
years
,
we
find
nothing
set
down
for
the
expiation
of
this
hereditary
guilt
,
yet
doubtless
as
that
lineal
contagion
was
never
interrupted
,
no
more
was
there
ever
wanting
a
means
ordained
by
Heaven
to
disengage
us
from
it
;
so
that
it
is
probable
after
the
precept
of
circumcision
,
the
same
remedy
was
continued
on
for
women
,
and
't
is
thought
it
consisted
in
some
particular
Sacrifice
,
though
the
specifical
nature
of
the
Sacrifice
,
or
ceremony
be
not
laid
open
to
us
:
Hence
it
is
beyond
dispute
,
all
were
cleansed
from
this
contamination
,
and
therefore
our
Penitent
means
not
by
this
word
(
sin
)
Original
sin
,
but
the
penalty
,
and
unhappy
consequences
of
that
sin
,
which
are
hunger
,
thirst
,
sickness
,
and
all
other
afflictions
annexed
to
a
mortal
life
all
which
took
not
their
rise
but
from
Adam's
transgression
:
He
therefore
casts
this
glance
upon
his
Mothers
condition
to
quiet
himself
,
that
if
the
plant
from
whence
he
springs
be
beset
with
thorns
,
he
must
not
think
to
be
decked
with
roses
;
and
if
it
be
decreed
she
must
breed
,
and
deliver
him
amidst
the
horrid
throwes
of
her
labour
,
he
must
not
think
to
pass
the
rest
of
his
life
without
a
sweaty
brow
,
and
a
heart
seasoned
with
cares
.
Man
no
sooner
peeps
into
the
World
,
than
he
speaks
his
own
misery
,
and
prophecies
by
his
weeping
notes
this
future
condition
;
being
grown
up
he
finds
himself
engaged
in
a
perpetual
conflict
between
hope
and
fear
:
For
if
he
be
so
happy
as
to
live
well
,
yet
it
must
be
in
the
midst
of
temptations
,
which
oblige
him
still
to
have
his
arms
in
hand
,
and
dangers
threatning
from
all
sides
exclude
security
,
or
rest
;
so
that
in
all
events
,
Labour
and
Apprehensions
are
his
inseparable
mates
.
St.
Paul
exhorting
us
to
wisdom
,
tells
us
the
means
to
purchase
it
,
by
redeeming
our
time
;
and
gives
this
reason
,
because
the
dayes
are
evil
:
He
reflects
sure
upon
those
delicious
hours
we
might
have
spent
in
Paradise
,
and
which
are
not
to
be
regained
but
by
actions
quite
opposite
to
the
cause
of
our
Exile
from
thence
:
Our
First
Parent
valued
more
the
satisfaction
of
his
sensual
appetite
,
or
a
complacent
humour
towards
his
Wife
,
than
he
did
all
the
pure
delights
;
without
any
mixture
of
grief
,
or
repentance
,
he
might
have
enjoyed
for
many
years
:
To
recover
then
in
some
sort
those
years
and
lasting
joyes
,
we
must
here
denounce
war
against
our
senses
,
denying
them
the
least
contentment
;
we
must
drag
our
Bodies
after
us
,
as
a
slave
would
do
his
Chain
,
that
by
this
subjection
we
may
preserve
our
obedience
untouched
to
our
Creatour
;
and
let
our
Soul
which
naturally
covets
Eternity
,
deliciate
her self
in
ravishments
proper
to
her
spiritual
substance
;
by
this
means
we
may
strike
off
all
the
arrears
of
Time
,
which
the
Apostle
so
seriously
recommends
unto
us
.
Now
for
the
reason
why
he
puts
us
upon
this
task
of
good
Husbandry
to
repair
our
losses
;
because
the
dayes
are
evil
:
St.
Austin
tells
us
,
there
are
two
things
(
sayes
he
)
which
give
birth
to
these
our
unfortunate
dayes
;
One
,
the
common
misery
of
Mankind
derived
from
Adam's
sin
:
For
cast
your
thoughts
on
the
Mass
of
things
created
,
and
you
will
find
none
so
indigent
,
so
unsatisfyed
,
and
reduced
to
such
straights
as
Man
;
other
Creatures
are
no
sooner
brought
into
the
World
,
but
nature
gives
them
a
capacity
of
helping
themselves
;
Man
after
he
is
born
for
many
years
hath
his
understanding
so
tyed
up
,
that
he
resembles
a
meer
Brute
only
surpassed
by
them
in
an
industry
to
preserve
natural
life
;
other
Creatures
find
here
those
objects
which
quiet
all
their
motions
;
the
elementary
Bodies
meet
with
their
Centers
which
settle
them
in
a
full
repose
;
the
natural
appetite
of
Beasts
encounters
that
which
satiates
and
gluts
all
their
avidities
;
plants
grow
to
a
certain
greatness
proper
to
their
species
:
Man
only
is
the
unsatisfyed
Being
upon
Earth
,
for
his
understanding
elevates
his
thoughts
above
the
Heavens
,
and
all
the
powers
of
nature
;
his
will
frames
infinitely
more
desires
than
the
World
hath
perfections
;
so
that
there
being
found
no
Object
upon
Earth
adequately
proportioned
to
the
vast
capacity
of
his
Soul
,
it
is
necessary
he
still
languish
here
in
a
State
of
dissatisfaction
.
This
casts
him
upon
so
many
shelves
of
misery
,
and
makes
him
restless
,
hoping
still
to
find
something
to
allay
his
desires
:
Sometimes
he
fancies
riches
would
do
it
,
but
finding
them
ordained
to
the
purchase
of
other
things
,
it
cannot
be
a
sovereign
good
;
thence
he
flyes
to
honour
,
and
observing
that
also
to
depend
upon
the
breath
and
will
of
another
;
he
fastens
on
beauty
,
this
likewise
he
perceives
to
fade
,
and
perish
by
a
thousand
accidents
;
this
invites
him
to
the
acquisition
of
knowledge
,
and
after
many
a
toilsome
hour
he
finds
only
this
proficiency
,
how
little
we
are
capable
of
,
that
the
least
plant
of
the
Earth
will
puzzle
and
confront
all
his
acquired
Notions
to
render
the
true
vertues
of
it
:
Thus
he
passes
on
from
the
Essay
of
one
delight
to
another
,
still
as
unwearied
,
as
unsatisfyed
;
and
why
all
this
?
But
because
my
Mother
hath
conceived
me
in
sin
:
For
my
Mother
conceiving
me
in
sin
,
received
by
inheritance
the
doom
of
Death
,
and
of
miseries
consequent
to
a
mortal
Life
,
and
so
cannot
but
convey
the
like
direful
effects
to
her
posterity
.
Timon
an
Orator
of
Athens
was
wont
to
deliver
so
pathetically
the
miseries
of
Man
in
this
Life
,
that
after
his
Oration
which
he
held
forth
in
publick
,
it
was
usual
for
many
of
his
Audience
to
hasten
their
passage
unto
Death
by
a
course
of
violence
,
some
by
precipices
,
others
by
water
,
some
by
poyson
,
others
by
a
ponyard
,
or
halter
:
In
fine
,
they
regarded
not
much
the
means
,
so
it
might
but
have
the
effect
;
that
is
,
to
rid
them
from
the
Calamities
to
be
sustained
in
this
life
.
In
a
word
,
his
Eloquence
wrought
so
many
Tragedies
,
that
the
Senate
was
feign
to
make
a
recluse
of
him
,
that
by
sequestring
him
from
humane
Society
they
might
prevent
the
destruction
of
Mankind
.
This
person
was
an
Infidel
who
considered
only
Man
's
corporal
necessities
,
together
with
his
failings
in
order
to
moral
vertues
,
and
if
from
this
Ground
he
could
draw
such
efficacious
perswasions
,
what
would
he
have
done
with
the
addition
of
our
Penitent's
Faith
,
which
teaches
that
eternal
felicity
,
or
misery
depend
upon
our
actions
here
;
that
we
lye
under
the
Obligation
of
many
positive
precepts
,
against
whose
observance
are
laid
continual
Ambuscado's
,
both
from
the
malice
of
Hell
,
deceit
of
the
World
,
and
our
own
bad
inclinations
;
that
in
the
midst
of
these
imminent
dangers
we
steer
our
Course
to
an
Eternity
of
Joyes
,
or
Pain
:
What
Energy
I
say
,
would
this
consideration
add
to
the
draught
of
our
misery
,
when
we
not
only
suffer
here
,
but
suffer
with
so
much
hazzard
of
incurring
the
doom
of
Torments
without
end
.
Ah
blame
not
then
our
Penitent
,
if
he
set
before
his
Eyes
,
and
is
willing
also
the
petitioned
should
glance
upon
his
condition
in
this
state
of
mortality
;
his
own
reflections
will
serve
to
keep
him
in
a
wary
humility
checked
with
the
frailties
and
inconstancy
of
his
own
nature
;
the
notice
also
his
dear
Creatour
may
take
of
what
mould
he
is
made
,
will
stand
(
he
hopes
)
in
good
stead
,
for
he
knowes
him
so
inclinable
to
pardon
,
that
(
if
it
may
be
said
with
reverence
)
he
lyes
at
catch
for
an
opportunity
to
save
us
,
and
if
the
least
hold
be
given
,
he
presently
fastens
upon
it
,
and
hastens
away
(
like
a
Souldier
laden
with
a
rich
booty
,
of
which
he
fears
the
reprisal
)
till
he
brings
us
to
a
place
of
security
,
where
we
shall
have
no
more
reason
to
fear
the
irregular
motions
of
corrupt
nature
,
no
more
to
vent
in
sadness
;
And
my
Mother
hath
conceived
me
in
sin
.
Holy
Job
that
prodigy
of
humane
Constancy
amidst
the
smartest
Tryals
was
yet
so
sensible
of
Man's
misery
in
this
life
,
as
to
fall
with
bitterness
upon
the
very
day
wherein
he
was
brought
forth
,
wishing
it
might
perish
,
and
never
be
reckoned
amongst
dayes
in
the
course
of
the
Zodiack
;
Nay
he
goes
so
farr
that
he
involves
in
his
Anathema's
every
circumstance
which
concurred
to
his
Conception
,
or
Nativity
.
Expositors
of
Scripture
excuse
these
maledictions
in
Job
,
and
free
them
from
sin
upon
this
score
,
that
he
weighing
the
disproportion
of
Man's
desires
,
unto
the
objects
he
encounters
in
this
life
,
which
hold
him
in
a
continued
disquiet
;
how
naturally
he
sets
his
heart
on
riches
,
honour
,
beauty
and
other
perishable
goods
,
with
what
difficulty
they
are
attained
,
with
more
preserved
,
and
with
little
satisfaction
possessed
:
Amidst
these
pensive
Meditations
beholding
himself
in
the
extremity
of
affliction
,
his
sensitive
part
crushed
even
to
nothing
,
brake
forth
into
this
seeming
rage
,
as
to
fly
at
every
thing
that
had
a
hand
in
leading
him
to
so
much
misery
:
If
this
pattern
of
vertue
might
be
allowed
such
Salleys
that
speak
so
much
heat
,
without
any
derogation
from
his
innocence
,
upon
the
meer
consideration
of
that
high
pitch
of
distresses
wherein
he
was
plunged
.
Our
Penitent
having
been
made
a
prey
to
sin
and
frailty
may
doubtless
with
all
submissiveness
(
as
he
doth
)
expose
his
Nakedness
,
as
cast
into
the
World
without
arms
,
beset
with
Enemies
bent
upon
his
destruction
both
at
home
and
abroad
▪
and
in
this
plight
all
he
can
say
for
himself
is
;
my
Mother
hath
conceived
me
in
sin
.
The
Application
.
We
are
here
to
deplore
with
our
Penitent
the
sad
consequences
or
penalties
of
original
sin
:
First
,
it
is
from
thence
that
Men
become
Enemies
to
one
another
;
without
this
sin
,
we
had
known
no
Tyrants
,
Robbers
by
Sea
or
Land
,
no
corruption
in
Officers
,
no
oppression
nor
injury
from
any
person
:
From
hence
it
is
,
that
the
Beasts
of
the
Earth
,
and
Fowl
of
the
Air
,
as
if
absolved
from
their
Fidelity
,
are
in
a
manner
no
more
awed
by
the
Majesty
of
Man's
Face
.
The
Elements
,
malignant
Planets
,
and
other
insensible
Creatures
,
as
if
let
loose
to
our
destruction
,
occasion
an
infinity
of
disasters
unto
us
:
It
is
from
hence
we
are
stupid
in
our
own
concerns
,
that
being
in
a
condition
even
beyond
imagination
dangerous
,
we
yet
sport
,
and
vainly
pursue
our
pleasures
,
as
if
all
things
were
according
to
our
wish
.
It
is
from
hence
we
are
filled
with
self-love
,
pusillanimous
in
struggling
with
vice
,
inordinate
in
our
pursuit
of
fading
objects
,
never
satisfyed
with
our
state
;
and
alwayes
seeking
a
change
:
Our
sences
distract
us
from
the
meditation
of
heavenly
things
,
our
fancy
taken
up
with
illusions
,
disturb
our
sleep
;
and
after
a
thousand
other
discommodities
,
and
infirmities
which
usher
Death
,
at
last
it
comes
to
resolve
us
into
corruption
,
worms
,
dust
,
and
as
it
were
to
nothing
;
and
all
this
,
because
my
Mother
hath
conceived
me
in
sin
:
Ah
let
us
therefore
submit
our selves
under
the
powerful
hand
of
God
,
who
alone
is
able
to
conclude
all
our
misery
in
Beatitude
;
Amen
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
Ecce
enim
veritatem
dilexisti
,
For
behold
thou
hast
loved
Truth
.
OUr
Penitent
having
dissected
the
Anatomy
of
Man
,
and
left
no
Cranny
,
whereinto
misery
might
creep
,
undisplaid
:
Now
seems
to
Apologize
for
his
discovery
,
and
pleads
for
excuse
God's
love
to
truth
:
And
in
this
point
he
believes
he
hath
discharged
his
duty
;
nor
doth
it
a
little
satisfie
him
to
have
done
it
,
since
it
is
the
only
thing
he
can
now
perform
to
repair
the
failing
in
his
duty
.
First
he
hath
made
an
ingenuous
confession
,
ripping
up
every
thought
that
could
any
wayes
intrench
upon
God's
holy
Law
,
and
having
thus
emptied
his
unhappy
store
,
without
the
concealment
of
the
least
corrupted
grain
,
hear
what
he
expects
in
return
of
this
his
faithful
Narrative
,
or
rather
what
a
Sequel
depends
upon
it
.
Dixi
confitebar
injustitiam
meam
Domino
,
&
tu
remisisti
impietatem
peccati
mei
;
no
sooner
,
sayes
he
,
had
I
pronounced
that
I
would
lay
open
my
iniquities
,
but
I
found
my
shackles
unloosned
,
and
the
impiety
of
my
sin
wholly
rased
out
;
whence
we
may
see
how
the
meer
intention
of
doing
well
never
falls
to
the
ground
unrewarded
:
Which
imports
,
God
presumes
we
will
not
trifle
with
him
,
and
therefore
at
the
least
overture
of
rendring
a
just
account
of
our
misdeeds
,
he
makes
us
no
more
impious
;
that
is
,
takes
away
all
the
obstacles
to
Remission
,
as
impenitency
,
obduration
,
habitual
impression
of
evil
,
and
the
like
;
So
that
if
we
keep
touch
in
our
promise
,
he
will
be
faithful
in
compleating
his
act
of
grace
;
because
dilexisti
veritatem
,
thou
hast
loved
truth
.
Hugo
Cardinal
prescribes
unto
us
verity
under
three
considerations
;
that
is
,
a
verity
of
life
,
a
verity
of
Doctrine
,
and
a
verity
of
Justice
.
Verity
of
life
consists
in
a
conformity
with
those
Laws
which
God
and
Nature
have
set
down
for
the
Rule
of
our
actions
,
this
our
blessed
Saviour
sufficiently
asserts
,
when
he
gives
the
lye
to
him
who
pretends
to
love
God
,
and
yet
not
observes
his
commands
.
St.
Thomas
sayes
,
there
is
a
law
eternal
residing
in
the
Divine
intellect
,
by
which
the
World
is
governed
,
and
that
humane
lawes
are
more
or
less
just
,
as
they
participate
of
this
eternal
rule
:
Hence
our
life
if
not
squared
out
by
this
directive
original
,
must
needs
wander
,
fall
into
errour
,
nor
can
be
called
a
life
of
verity
;
nay
I
know
not
whether
we
may
call
it
a
life
,
since
Lactantius
affirms
,
that
whosoever
strayes
out
of
this
line
,
flyes
from
himself
,
despises
humane
nature
,
and
consequently
will
suffer
the
torture
of
an
erroneous
conscience
(
which
is
not
small
)
though
other
punishments
escape
him
.
The
First
Principle
then
of
a
life
of
Truth
,
is
to
steer
our
Course
in
order
to
this
universal
guiding
spirit
imprinted
in
us
by
the
light
of
nature
;
next
,
we
are
to
look
upon
positive
Lawes
,
dictated
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
the
adorable
example
of
our
Lord
Jesus
whose
life
and
actions
were
all
directed
to
our
instruction
:
So
that
any
structure
erected
upon
this
foundation
,
cannot
prove
Sandy
,
nor
fail
the
builders
expectation
.
We
find
in
holy
Scripture
frequently
eternal
felicity
promised
as
a
reward
to
good
works
;
this
the
penny
agreed
on
with
those
who
wrought
in
the
Vineyard
insinuates
,
no
less
doth
the
Crown
prepared
for
those
who
faithfully
combat
in
this
life
;
the
Triumph
also
of
Resurrection
speaks
as
much
,
assured
to
the
real
,
not
ideal
supporters
of
Christ's
Cross
:
Nor
is
the
name
of
Christian
given
us
as
bare
lookers
on
,
but
because
actually
made
a
spectacle
to
God
;
Angels
,
and
Men.
By
acts
therefore
of
Temperance
,
Patience
,
Humility
,
Resignation
,
and
other
Christian
vertues
,
we
shake
off
(
as
it
were
)
our
old
Natures
,
and
become
a
new
production
created
in
Justice
and
Truth
,
and
so
become
the
object
of
God's
Love
;
because
Veritatem
dilexisti
,
he
hath
ever
loved
Truth
.
If
we
look
upon
the
unwearied
labours
of
Men
in
pursuit
of
what
may
render
them
happy
in
this
life
,
we
shall
find
Truth
to
be
the
main
scope
of
their
aims
.
First
,
it
is
a
priviledge
of
Man's
Nature
,
there
being
no
Creature
in
the
World
but
Man
capable
of
truth
;
so
that
whilst
we
toil
in
the
inquisition
,
we
comply
with
an
appetite
,
or
desire
engrafted
in
us
,
which
eggs
us
on
towards
the
thing
that
can
only
make
us
happy
:
For
Beatitude
is
defined
a
joy
in
the
possession
of
truth
unveiled
,
and
clearly
discovered
to
us
.
Secondly
,
the
delight
we
derive
from
the
knowledge
of
Truths
far
surpasses
any
other
satisfaction
we
can
have
in
this
World
,
because
depending
meerly
upon
the
intellect
;
it
is
depurated
from
the
dreggs
of
sense
,
and
so
more
intimately
affects
,
and
transports
the
Soul
:
When
by
study
we
have
attained
to
a
Demonstration
,
how
quiet
is
the
understanding
,
freed
from
all
mists
of
doubts
,
and
uncertainty
,
and
securely
rests
in
the
acquisition
of
the
said
truth
.
Thirdly
,
if
I
covet
a
Friend
,
I
propose
in
this
design
an
object
of
truth
,
and
fidelity
;
and
if
I
find
a
breast
sealed
with
this
sacred
stamp
,
how
pleasing
a
Sanctuary
is
it
,
where
in
all
distresses
I
fly
as
to
an
Oracle
,
unfolding
the
secrets
of
my
heart
,
resolving
in
that
consistory
between
us
two
what
to
act
,
and
how
to
steer
the
course
of
my
affairs
:
If
the
tye
of
marriage
,
leagues
between
Nations
,
and
Friendships
are
held
sacred
from
the
obligation
they
impose
upon
us
of
sincerity
,
and
truth
;
how
much
ought
verity
it self
to
be
valued
,
which
gives
life
,
and
influence
to
this
Vnion
;
since
common
reason
teaches
the
stream
is
not
to
be
regarded
with
equal
esteem
to
the
Source
from
whence
it
flowes
.
Lastly
,
what
is
the
final
End
of
all
Arts
and
Sciences
,
whether
they
ransack
the
bowels
of
the
Earth
,
or
survey
the
immense
bodies
of
the
Heavens
,
whether
they
examine
things
past
or
present
,
but
truth
:
it
sets
all
Men
on
work
,
and
can
alone
render
them
satisfied
,
so
that
it
may
well
be
defined
,
the
source
of
motion
and
rest
.
Our
Penitent
having
thus
run
o're
the
vast
extent
of
truth
,
and
observed
how
it
animates
the
actions
of
Men
,
takes
occasion
from
thence
to
adore
God's
holy
Providence
;
that
since
he
hath
obliged
us
to
a
precept
of
confessing
,
and
acknowledging
our
failings
with
all
integrity
,
and
fixed
it
as
the
sole
means
to
expiate
our
faults
,
he
hath
advantaged
us
with
so
powerful
an
inclination
unto
truth
:
For
if
we
be
born
so
impetuously
towards
the
acquisition
,
the
exhibition
of
it
must
needs
flow
as
it
were
naturally
from
us
;
and
it
is
this
motive
which
invites
him
to
so
frequent
a
repetition
of
his
offences
,
lest
he
should
disguise
any
the
lest
tittle
,
for
he
knows
as
an
exact
particular
of
our
Sins
,
accompanied
with
a
perfect
sorrow
,
is
very
acceptable
unto
God
,
so
it
is
beneficial
unto
Man
;
the
return
of
such
an
account
being
alwaies
an
evenning
of
all
●cores
,
an
abolition
of
past
Errours
,
and
a
compleat
act
of
grace
.
Upon
this
consideration
he
is
not
affrighted
,
that
his
Sin
shall
be
evidenced
like
the
Sun
rayes
to
the
World
,
and
of
this
harsh
sentence
to
Nature
,
he
himself
will
be
the
Executioner
,
he
he
will
pr●mulgate
his
enormities
,
and
every
exhalation
of
infamy
that
shall
arise
from
thence
upon
him
,
he
will
receive
as
a
blast
of
Zephir
,
because
he
speaks
a
truth
animated
with
Repentance
,
a
truth
which
speaks
What
he
hath
been
,
and
what
now
he
is
,
to
witt
,
an
imp
of
perdition
,
and
now
is
become
a
subject
of
mercy
,
because
it
is
a
Truth
God
will
ever
own
in
a
truly
repenting
heart
:
for
veritatem
dilexisti
,
it
is
essential
to
one
who
hath
an
Eternal
love
of
Truth
.
But
it
is
not
enough
to
trace
the
steps
of
of
our
Lord
Jesus
as
far
as
he
is
imitable
by
Man
,
unless
we
lay
the
Foundation
of
a
life
of
verity
,
which
is
done
by
imbracing
with
a
firm
belief
the
Doctrine
and
Faith
he
taught
and
delivered
to
us
,
for
it
is
certain
there
is
but
one
God
and
one
truth
.
First
,
we
cannot
deny
this
unchangeable
quality
of
Faith
to
spring
from
God
the
Primary
Truth
,
since
we
owe
him
the
Author
of
Civil
and
natural
Lawes
,
both
which
are
united
,
and
receive
efficacy
from
the
bond
of
Religion
,
f●r
all
things
are
created
to
the
service
of
Man
,
and
he
to
God's
service
;
so
that
by
an
act
of
Religious
worship
,
the
homage
of
all
other
Creatures
are
involved
in
that
of
Man
,
and
consequently
Religion
seems
of
created
things
the
final
End
,
and
ultimate
disposition
unto
God
.
Now
the
means
to
attain
to
this
Truth
cannot
be
by
the
strength
of
natural
reason
,
for
the
matter
of
credibility
is
above
Nature
,
and
Man
by
consenting
to
an
act
of
Faith
is
raised
above
himself
,
therefore
it
must
be
God
moving
us
by
his
Grace
which
drawes
the
motions
of
our
Will
to
submit
to
his
revealed
Truths
.
The
Centurion
proclaims
he
believes
,
yet
withal
adds
,
help
O
Lord
my
incredulity
,
which
shews
though
he
had
done
all
that
lay
in
his
power
,
yet
something
was
wanting
.
It
remains
then
we
render
our selves
fit
subjects
for
the
reception
of
so
noble
a
Guest
,
so
rich
a
Donative
as
that
of
Faith
,
the
way
to
this
preparation
is
,
first
,
to
practise
a
life
of
Truth
that
is
moral
vertues
;
next
,
to
lay
aside
all
prejudice
,
that
your
understanding
may
work
with
out
biass
,
or
restraint
:
thirdly
,
to
examine
the
opinions
of
those
whom
the
World
hath
unanimously
reverenced
for
their
knowledge
,
sanctity
,
and
wisdom
:
fourthly
,
to
receive
the
Decrees
of
the
Church
as
things
sacred
,
since
she
is
styled
in
Holy
Scripture
,
a
pillar
of
truth
,
a
spouse
all
immaculate
,
without
any
stain
of
errour
;
remembring
also
from
what
authority
her
infallible
placits
flow
,
witness
the
Apostles
in
their
first
Synod
at
Jerusalem
,
who
began
with
this
Form
to
publish
their
resolves
;
It
is
judged
expedient
by
the
Holy
Ghost
and
by
us
:
Where
you
see
that
Divine
Spirit
still
swayes
and
gives
life
to
all
Articles
of
Faith
;
and
indeed
it
was
the
closing
farewell
of
our
blessed
Master
Christ
Jesus
,
who
promised
to
dispatch
unto
them
his
Disciples
a
Spirit
of
Truth
,
to
reside
with
and
animate
his
Church
to
the
Worlds
end
.
A
verity
of
Justice
is
comprehended
in
that
of
integrity
of
life
;
it
being
the
very
Nerves
,
and
Sinews
of
humane
Society
,
without
which
we
should
be
like
wild
Beasts
in
desarts
,
no
leagues
twixt
Nations
,
no
amities
contracted
amongst
Men
,
no
traffick
or
commerce
;
so
that
in
this
sole
lovely
quality
is
seated
the
very
life
and
Soul
of
humane
conversation
:
For
behold
thou
hast
loved
truth
.
The
Application
.
We
are
further
taught
in
this
clause
,
that
God
hath
a
true
Being
;
that
is
,
all
qualities
suitable
to
a
Divine
Nature
,
as
to
be
Spiritual
,
Independent
,
Immortal
,
Omnipotent
,
all
good
,
wise
,
merciful
,
Soveraignly
happy
,
and
a
thousand
other
attributes
;
so
that
he
alone
hath
the
verity
of
a
Divine
Being
.
Whatsoever
is
imaginable
and
worthy
of
God
,
this
is
in
him
in
a
Soveraign
degree
of
perfection
;
Nay
whatever
his
infinite
understanding
can
conceive
,
this
he
enjoys
without
any
diminution
or
reserve
:
So
that
when
our
Petitioner
points
unto
us
how
God
loves
truth
,
he
means
that
he
loves
himself
,
and
if
herein
we
play
the
apt
Scholar
,
placing
our
affections
on
that
inexhausted
source
of
Beauty
,
we
shall
then
move
according
to
the
verity
of
humane
Nature
;
For
our
Being
is
to
be
reasonable
,
and
what
can
more
decipher
the
Truth
of
our
reason
,
than
by
a
disdain
of
this
World
,
to
aspire
unto
him
who
is
the
final
end
in
which
we
are
to
rest
,
and
for
which
we
had
our
Being
.
May
our
hearts
then
be
ever
fixed
on
this
eternal
verity
;
Amen
.
CHAP.
XIV
.
Incerta
&
occulta
sapientiae
tuae
manifestasti
mihi
,
The
uncertain
,
and
hidden
things
of
thy
Wisdom
thou
hast
made
known
unto
me
.
WHilst
our
Penitent
with
delight
descants
upon
God's
love
to
truth
,
it
were
(
he
thinks
)
impious
in
him
to
stifle
this
great
truth
,
that
he
hath
called
him
to
his
Councel
,
unbreasted
to
him
secret
and
hidden
things
,
and
enriched
him
with
the
high
Prerogative
of
Prophecy
.
Ah
what
a
change
in
this
Holy
King
;
not
long
before
when
Nathan
laid
before
him
his
offence
under
the
shadow
of
a
poor
Man
violenced
in
the
depredation
of
his
only
sheep
,
he
is
dull
,
unfolds
not
the
mystery
,
and
little
dreams
(
though
it
were
plain
enough
)
himself
is
pointed
at
,
by
which
we
may
see
what
a
mist
of
ignorance
,
as
well
as
other
mischiefs
sin
draws
along
with
it
.
But
now
he
transcends
the
limits
of
natural
knowledge
,
owns
an
irradiation
of
supernatural
lights
,
and
a
capacity
of
discerning
not
only
what
is
past
,
or
present
,
but
what
is
to
come
,
and
this
in
the
secret
,
and
uncertain
things
of
God's
Wisdom
.
It
is
true
there
is
required
in
that
person
,
who
is
made
a
repository
of
Prophetick
Truths
,
that
he
shine
with
integrity
of
life
,
have
an
absolute
command
over
his
passions
,
and
possess
a
Mind
elevated
and
fitted
to
contemplation
.
Yet
God
is
not
tyed
up
to
previous
dispositions
by
degrees
,
but
can
in
a
moment
both
prepare
,
and
render
perfect
that
party
he
designs
for
such
a
dignity
;
as
he
hath
done
in
the
person
of
King
David
,
and
so
,
as
to
make
him
one
of
the
most
accomplished
Prophets
that
ever
was
:
For
there
is
a
great
disparity
in
prophetick
irradiations
,
some
are
imperfect
lights
,
and
improperly
called
Prophetick
,
as
what
may
proceed
from
an
evil
spirit
,
or
from
nature
,
as
that
of
Pharoah
when
he
saw
oxen
,
and
Ears
of
Corn
,
not
knowing
from
whence
that
vision
might
come
,
or
whether
he
was
sleeping
,
waking
,
and
the
like
.
Another
degree
more
elevated
is
,
when
a
ray
is
infused
by
which
I
certainly
comprehend
that
which
I
see
only
by
a
species
imaginary
,
such
is
Joseph's
case
,
who
had
an
assured
knowledge
of
what
he
saw
,
that
is
,
the
signification
of
them
,
whence
he
is
more
justly
called
a
Prophet
than
Pharoah
,
who
only
saw
,
and
knew
not
what
they
signified
.
A
Third
degree
more
perfect
is
,
when
there
are
both
an
impression
of
species
,
and
sensible
representations
,
as
also
an
infused
light
,
by
which
I
can
judge
of
the
verity
of
the
thing
displayed
before
me
;
as
Daniel
could
tell
the
King
his
Dream
,
and
what
it
signified
;
for
the
Corporeal
forms
were
fixed
in
his
Spirit
,
and
the
meaning
of
the●…
revealed
in
Daniels
Mind
.
The
last
and
noblest
degree
is
,
when
a
Truth
is
represented
to
us
by
species
intelligible
,
and
a
light
infused
Superadded
,
which
enables
me
infallibly
to
judge
of
what
is
represented
by
them
,
without
any
external
medium
of
word
,
fact
,
or
imaginary
Vision
;
and
this
last
irradiation
Cassiodorus
ascribes
to
David
,
whence
he
entitles
him
the
most
eminent
amongst
all
the
Prophets
.
But
it
will
more
recreate
us
to
know
what
are
those
uncertain
,
and
hidden
things
laid
open
to
him
,
than
the
manner
how
it
was
done
:
Some
opinionate
it
was
the
Creation
of
the
World
,
where
the
wisdom
of
God
appears
glorious
in
the
admirable
reduction
of
a
confused
Chaos
to
light
and
order
:
In
the
contrivance
of
the
Heavens
,
that
such
vast
,
and
numerous
Bodies
should
keep
constant
,
and
uninterrupted
motion
,
without
any
jarring
,
or
hindrance
to
one
another
in
their
Rapid
Course
.
In
their
Soveraign
influences
conveyed
incessantly
to
inferiour
things
:
In
the
prodigious
fixation
of
the
Earth
,
poysed
,
and
sustained
by
its
own
Center
.
In
the
rare
vertue
of
its
plants
,
in
the
variety
of
Creatures
in
the
Air
,
Earth
,
and
Water
.
And
above
all
in
Man
the
Epitome
of
the
Vniverse
,
to
see
him
sway
as
Sovereign
,
and
by
his
reason
to
quell
the
fury
,
strength
,
and
cunning
of
the
most
savage
beasts
.
To
behold
the
revolutions
of
Cities
,
Kingdomes
,
and
Empires
,
the
strange
vicissitude
of
humane
things
;
to
day
a
City
swelling
in
pomp
,
and
magnificence
,
not
long
after
become
a
fallow
Field
;
an
Emperour
weeping
in
that
there
is
no
more
Worlds
to
conquer
,
hath
been
seen
to
perish
howling
,
dispatched
away
by
a
few
dropps
of
poyson
;
on
the
other
side
,
another
is
beheld
drawn
from
a
dunghil
,
set
on
a
throne
,
and
to
Raign
wrth
that
felicity
as
if
Heaven
and
Earth
were
held
in
fee
to
make
him
happy
.
Here
a
person
drenched
in
a
life
of
Sin
,
and
impiety
upon
a
suddain
becomes
a
Saint
there
,
another
endued
with
grace
,
and
vertue
,
whom
the
World
Eyes
not
but
with
a
kind
of
veneration
,
by
a
little
presumption
of
his
own
strength
and
merits
,
falls
to
nothing
,
and
proves
an
Imp
of
darkness
.
To
contemplate
I
say
all
these
works
in
Nature
,
all
the
strange
events
of
humane
actions
,
and
all
managed
by
the
Divine
wisdom
,
so
as
to
make
a
Harmony
to
God's
glory
,
and
out
of
the
clashing
and
thwarting
malice
of
Men
,
to
draw
good
;
who
would
not
be
ravished
at
such
a
prospect
?
And
confess
with
transports
,
they
are
truly
secret
and
hidden
effects
(
as
to
man
)
of
an
all-seeing
,
inscrutable
and
increated
wisdom
.
So
that
with
unspeakable
delight
our
holy
Penitent
repeated
oft
this
Verse
,
the
uncertain
,
and
hidden
things
of
thy
wisdom
thou
hast
revealed
unto
me
.
Others
(
and
more
happily
I
believe
)
say
,
those
communications
were
the
Incarnation
,
Nativity
,
Passion
,
and
all
the
other
mysteries
which
relate
unto
the
humanity
of
Christ
;
and
doubtless
the
contemplation
of
those
mysteries
clearly
objected
to
him
,
could
not
but
strangely
regale
his
mind
,
to
consider
an
infinite
Being
from
all
Eternity
Soveraignly
happy
,
in
the
perfect
enjoyment
of
his
blessed
self
,
to
be
Hypostasiated
in
humane
Nature
,
and
that
this
compositum
of
so
many
perfections
should
be
born
of
a
Virgin
,
have
no
other
pallace
then
a
poor
stable
,
no
other
Courtiers
then
simple
beasts
,
from
whose
Breath
he
must
borrow
a
little
warmth
to
preserve
him
from
the
rigours
of
the
season
,
that
a
bloody
design
is
hatched
against
him
,
to
avoid
which
he
must
fly
by
Night
into
Egypt
,
through
Cold
and
other
dangers
,
attended
only
by
his
apprehensive
Mother
,
and
her
faithful
Coadjutour
St.
Joseph
,
amidst
these
discomfortable
reflections
;
surely
our
Holy
Penitent
failed
not
to
remember
the
homages
done
to
him
,
by
the
Angels
,
and
Kings
,
that
he
might
see
he
still
intermixed
the
Splendour
of
his
Divinity
,
with
the
Ecclipses
wrought
,
and
cast
on
his
Humanity
.
From
thence
he
carryes
on
his
thoughts
to
Christ's
Sacred
Passion
,
where
he
lanches
himself
into
an
Ocean
of
misery
;
not
a
drop
trickles
down
of
his
bloody
sweat
,
but
it
makes
him
sink
;
he
distinctly
ponders
every
blow
lanced
at
him
,
every
scorn
,
and
every
Calumny
:
He
numbers
his
weary
steps
,
whilst
he
is
haled
from
one
Tribunal
to
another
,
he
foresees
the
shameful
flight
of
his
Apostles
,
and
how
he
is
abandoned
in
distresse
by
his
nearest
,
and
dearest
Friends
.
Thus
he
sifts
every
particular
passage
of
that
Sacred
Tragedy
,
and
were
it
not
he
is
sustained
by
the
consideration
of
its
immense
Fruit
,
to
wit
,
the
redemption
of
the
perished
World
,
he
would
have
shewed
by
his
compassionating
Death
,
too
much
was
revealed
unto
him
,
to
be
at
once
the
Subject
both
of
his
knowledge
,
and
life
.
Now
that
this
expression
of
our
Penitent
doth
quadrate
with
these
mysteries
;
you
must
observe
,
that
the
second
person
of
the
blessed
Trinity
is
styled
the
Wisdom
of
the
Father
,
because
produced
by
an
act
of
his
understanding
,
and
though
his
Incarnation
were
certain
as
decreed
from
all
eternity
,
and
foretold
by
many
Prophets
,
yet
it
was
uncertain
as
to
the
precise
time
,
and
secret
as
to
the
manner
of
his
coming
,
and
particular
occurrences
of
his
life
;
it
is
true
,
both
were
couched
in
some
prophecy
or
other
,
but
so
obscurely
that
the
most
learned
could
not
dive
into
them
,
until
he
came
himself
to
unread
them
by
his
painful
accomplishment
,
and
fulfilling
of
them
.
Again
by
the
uncertain
things
of
his
wisdom
imparted
to
him
,
he
insinuates
a
further
knowledge
as
to
this
;
that
it
is
not
known
to
any
in
this
life
,
whether
they
are
worthy
of
love
or
hatred
:
Almighty
God
(
by
a
special
providence
no
doubt
)
having
kept
this
shut
up
from
us
,
that
whilst
we
lye
under
an
awefull
fear
,
it
might
abate
our
pride
,
and
presumption
.
Now
the
Clouds
of
this
uncertainty
were
dispersed
as
to
him
,
assurance
being
given
that
his
sin
was
removed
,
and
the
Anathema
annexed
to
it
taken
off
,
and
what
greater
evidence
that
he
is
re-admitted
into
favour
,
than
the
entrusting
secrets
to
him
,
than
his
exemption
from
the
Common
Lawes
,
set
down
by
Providence
for
the
conduct
and
guidance
of
Mankind
.
These
Reflections
make
him
cherish
with
unspeakable
satisfaction
his
priviledged
notions
,
nor
do
they
carry
him
to
vanity
,
but
to
bless
the
source
from
whence
they
flow
,
since
gratitude
exacts
that
tribute
from
him
,
to
whom
thou
hast
laid
open
the
uncertain
,
and
hidden
things
of
thy
wisdom
.
The
Application
.
Here
we
may
observe
,
in
what
awe
and
terrour
our
Holy
Penitent
remained
after
his
transgression
;
that
though
the
Seal
was
set
to
his
pardon
,
yet
he
thought
this
gave
him
no
right
to
his
former
prerogative
,
whose
restitution
he
dares
not
ask
,
he
only
presumed
to
repeat
them
to
his
dear
Creatour
,
that
he
might
read
therein
his
ingratitude
,
who
enriched
with
supernatural
gifts
,
reserved
for
his
choice
favourites
,
and
by
means
of
which
endowments
he
might
have
proved
a
saving
Star
to
guide
others
to
Heaven
;
yet
he
hath
not
made
use
of
them
but
to
inure
the
Author
of
them
,
and
there
wrought
his
Ruine
,
where
he
might
have
erected
to
himself
Trophies
of
glory
;
Next
he
made
this
Repetition
,
that
he
might
ruminate
upon
the
sad
consequences
of
sin
;
which
so
alters
a
Man
that
God
himself
knowes
him
not
:
This
is
manifest
in
the
Gospel
,
where
God
said
to
the
foolish
Virgins
,
and
to
those
who
had
wrought
miracles
in
his
name
;
Nescio
vos
,
I
know
you
not
:
Again
,
Adam
after
his
sin
seemed
to
be
lost
to
God
who
made
enquiry
after
him
;
Adam
where
art
thou
?
which
imports
,
I
placed
thee
in
prosperity
,
and
content
,
but
find
thee
now
in
wretchedness
and
misery
.
So
our
Holy
Penitent
minds
his
dear
God
of
the
blessings
he
had
once
showred
down
upon
him
,
and
being
so
signal
,
as
few
besides
since
the
Worlds
Creation
could
boast
of
the
like
;
he
hopes
,
being
now
again
admitted
to
his
presence
,
he
may
not
only
be
revived
in
his
memory
,
but
restored
to
his
former
endearments
,
to
which
he
disposes
himself
by
this
bashful
expression
;
thou
hast
O
Lord
made
me
happpy
by
the
Communication
of
the
secret
and
hidden
things
of
thy
wisdom
.
CHAP.
XV.
Asperges
me
Hyssopo
,
&
mundabor
,
Thou
shalt
sprinkle
me
with
Hysop
,
and
I
shall
be
cleansed
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
replenished
with
a
Prophetick
Spirit
,
seems
how
to
breath
nothing
but
Divine
Truths
,
nothing
which
issues
not
from
such
inspired
lights
:
Behold
wherefore
he
speaks
at
present
in
person
of
the
Church
,
and
forespeaks
the
Oeconomy
God
will
practise
in
the
guidance
of
her
.
Thou
wilt
sprinkle
me
(
sayes
he
)
with
Hysop
;
that
is
,
pressures
will
fall
upon
me
from
all
sides
,
for
it
is
proper
to
Hysop
to
be
of
a
small
growth
,
to
take
root
in
Stony
and
Rocky
places
,
and
its
vertue
is
Soveraign
against
tumours
,
and
swellings
.
First
then
,
Christ
beset
his
Church
with
Hysop
,
when
he
planted
her
in
himself
the
fruitful
Womb
of
all
her
productions
;
hear
his
Lesson
,
Learn
of
me
that
am
meek
,
and
humble
of
heart
;
from
such
a
stock
what
can
be
expected
but
lowly
shrubs
Hysop
like
;
he
instructs
his
Apostles
to
bear
the
innocence
of
Lambs
amidst
ravenous
Wolves
,
the
simplicity
of
Doves
amidst
wilely
Serpents
;
he
bids
them
overcome
Tyrants
by
sufferings
,
opprobries
,
and
contumelies
by
a
patient
silence
,
the
glory
of
great
ones
by
humility
,
and
the
wealth
of
the
World
by
Poverty
.
With
these
arms
the
wisdom
,
power
and
greatness
of
the
World
have
been
laid
prostrate
,
and
the
humble
Cross
of
Christ
erected
in
Triumph
,
Maugre
the
malice
of
Hell
and
Idolators
:
After
Nero
,
Decius
,
Seperus
,
Maximian
,
Diocletian
had
raged
,
and
breathed
from
their
Nostrils
,
death
and
destruction
to
the
harmless
little
ones
of
Christ
,
affrighting
them
with
fire
,
Wheels
,
Gridirons
,
Gibbets
,
Lyons
,
Vipers
and
innumerable
other
tortures
,
what
was
the
event
?
Julian
the
last
and
greatest
persecutour
,
confesses
he
hath
lost
the
day
,
and
that
the
Contemptible
Nazarean
I
remained
Victorious
.
St.
Paul
gives
but
a
touch
,
yet
a
dexterous
one
,
and
represents
to
the
life
the
posture
wherein
God
hath
founded
his
Church
.
God
(
sayes
he
)
seems
to
have
marked
our
us
Apostles
unto
Death
,
for
we
are
made
a
spectacle
to
God
,
Angels
,
and
Men
;
we
suffer
hunger
and
thirst
,
we
are
reviled
,
and
buffeted
,
we
are
tossed
up
and
down
,
hurried
from
one
Tribunal
to
another
,
we
are
laden
with
maledictions
,
and
in
requital
distribute
blessings
,
we
are
plyed
with
persecution
,
but
sustain
;
we
have
blasphemies
thrown
at
us
,
yet
we
pray
,
and
petition
in
behalf
of
the
Authors
;
in
fine
,
we
are
looked
upon
as
the
soum
of
Mankind
,
and
become
as
the
mockery
of
the
World
.
Behold
the
Epitome
of
a
life
Apostolical
,
and
the
maximes
to
which
the
Primitive
Christians
conformed
themselves
,
by
which
you
may
judge
how
pat
the
allusion
of
Hysop
is
applyed
to
the
Church
;
for
what
is
more
abject
,
and
despicable
than
the
institute
of
Christianity
,
nay
it
was
the
usual
argument
of
Infidels
,
towards
any
person
of
eminency
embracing
Christian
Religion
,
to
reproach
them
with
the
baseness
and
contemptibility
of
it
.
The
Rocky
foundation
also
which
gives
life
to
the
Hysops
Root
,
is
no
less
suitable
,
if
you
reflect
upon
the
promises
made
to
St.
Paul
when
first
he
listed
himself
under
Christs
banner
:
Ananias
was
to
be
the
bearer
of
his
letters
Pattents
,
the
substance
of
them
was
,
that
he
should
see
what
sufferings
he
must
wade
through
for
his
Name
,
and
how
punctual
God
was
in
the
accomplishment
of
his
word
,
his
own
Epistles
sufficiently
declare
;
that
from
the
time
of
his
conversion
,
he
had
constant
supplyes
of
tribulations
,
from
his
unwearied
preaching
of
the
Gospel
,
unto
the
Snares
and
malice
of
false
accusations
;
from
thence
to
Prisons
,
then
to
Chains
,
Opprobries
,
and
lastly
,
to
a
publick
Death
in
the
Capital
City
of
the
World
.
Now
that
he
alone
was
not
doomed
to
these
sad
Catastropheys
,
he
tells
us
into
what
confusion
poor
Christians
were
universally
in
all
places
cast
;
some
lurking
in
Dennes
,
others
flying
into
desarts
,
some
groaning
under
want
,
others
exposed
to
scorn
,
and
contempt
;
of
whom
the
World
(
sayes
he
)
was
not
worthy
;
then
he
enumerates
a
multiplicity
of
horrid
tortures
which
ushered
their
ignominious
deaths
:
And
these
outrages
were
not
confined
to
any
one
Province
,
or
City
,
but
executed
throughout
the
whole
habitable
World
;
and
to
that
height
,
as
one
day
was
witness
of
a
hundred
thousand
who
were
Sacrificed
by
the
rage
of
Tyrants
;
nay
they
fancied
their
work
so
compleatly
finished
,
that
Trophies
were
erected
with
this
Inscription
,
To
the
August
Caesar
Diocletian
,
by
whom
Christian
Religion
is
abolished
,
and
the
worship
of
the
God's
improved
.
These
were
the
flinty
soyls
which
gave
life
,
and
growth
to
Christian
Religion
;
amidst
these
stony
tryals
the
Church
hath
still
kept
herself
firmly
rooted
,
in
despight
of
all
the
storms
,
tempests
,
and
whirlwinds
of
persecution
.
The
third
property
of
Hysop
(
that
it
is
medicinal
)
may
justly
be
consigned
to
the
furious
assaults
framed
and
put
in
Execution
against
the
Church
,
as
St.
Austin
sayes
,
Tyrants
could
never
by
obsequiousness
and
favour
have
so
much
contributed
to
the
good
of
Martyrs
,
as
they
did
by
their
bloud-thirsting
cruelties
:
St.
Paul
glories
in
his
tribulations
,
and
makes
of
them
a
ladder
to
lead
him
as
it
were
by
degrees
unto
Christian
perfection
;
whither
he
is
no
sooner
arrived
,
but
his
thoughts
are
filled
with
the
expectation
of
a
reward
:
Nay
he
terms
it
a
Crown
of
Justice
as
if
every
stroke
of
Persecution
had
contributed
to
the
making
up
of
his
Crown
,
unto
which
he
had
a
right
,
and
just
claim
,
since
hammered
and
compleated
by
his
patient
sufferings
.
This
same
Apostle
bids
the
Hebrews
look
back
upon
those
past
dayes
wherein
they
had
sustained
immense
Combats
for
the
name
of
Christ
,
as
if
those
pleasing
remembrances
had
been
able
to
charm
the
most
bitter
afflictions
:
Nay
he
thinks
it
a
happiness
when
no
burden
was
laid
upon
themselves
,
if
they
did
but
converse
,
and
hold
Society
with
the
oppressed
,
as
if
from
them
must
needs
issue
forth
some
communication
of
what
is
good
.
When
our
blessed
Saviour
had
foretold
to
his
Disciples
the
scandals
of
his
passion
,
and
how
the
World
would
allot
the
same
measure
to
them
,
he
gives
the
reason
why
these
sharp
decrees
are
made
,
because
(
sayes
he
)
you
should
fly
to
me
for
Sanctuary
,
and
only
within
my
arms
seek
consolation
,
and
security
:
St.
Austin
conformably
to
this
Doctrine
confesses
Job
to
have
lost
all
that
God
had
given
him
,
yet
he
retained
him
from
whom
he
had
all
;
to
wit
,
God
our
Lord
(
sayes
he
)
hath
given
,
our
Lord
hath
taken
away
,
the
name
of
our
Lord
be
praised
.
Afterwards
St.
Austin
rapt
as
it
were
into
admiration
cryes
;
behold
a
Man
with
a
Body
mangled
,
yet
entire
,
full
of
corruption
,
yet
comely
,
wounded
,
yet
without
a
sore
,
sprawling
on
a
dunghil
,
yet
powerful
in
heaven
:
Hence
you
may
gather
the
exuberant
Fruit
of
this
sprinkled
Hysop
,
not
a
drop
of
it
falls
,
which
carryes
not
along
with
it
a
vertue
,
that
transcends
the
malignity
of
persecution
,
and
the
rage
of
Tyrants
.
Who
would
then
repine
at
adversity
,
since
Heaven
hath
laid
it
as
the
foundation
,
at
least
medium
to
eternal
felicity
.
You
that
are
poor
tell
me
what
you
do
want
if
you
have
God
;
and
the
rich
what
possess
they
without
God
.
St.
Paul
relates
how
the
Hebrews
with
joy
sustained
the
rapine
of
their
goods
,
because
they
knew
there
is
a
more
lasting
,
and
incomparably
better
inheritance
prepared
for
them
.
You
that
bewail
the
loss
of
a
Friend
,
remember
he
was
not
born
to
live
alwayes
here
,
and
perhaps
was
taken
away
lest
malice
might
have
seized
him
:
Besides
,
if
you
truly
love
God
,
you
cannot
be
afflicted
at
your
Friends
Death
;
since
you
know
,
if
he
perish
not
to
God
,
he
cannot
perish
to
you
;
and
he
alone
can
never
be
deprived
of
what
is
dear
to
him
who
makes
God
the
Center
of
his
happiness
,
and
places
all
that
is
precious
in
him
,
since
he
is
not
lost
unless
we
will
.
If
you
groan
under
an
infirm
constitution
know
,
you
should
not
desire
to
enjoy
life
,
but
according
to
the
tenour
of
its
grant
;
we
breath
under
constellations
which
by
their
several
influences
create
different
humours
,
and
distempers
,
and
this
is
convenient
to
the
good
of
the
Vniverse
,
unto
which
particular
and
private
interests
must
give
place
.
Besides
,
we
learn
by
experience
,
that
since
we
can
break
and
thwart
our
inclinations
upon
the
score
of
health
;
we
may
likewise
do
it
from
the
motive
of
vertue
and
piety
,
we
hold
it
an
act
of
Religion
to
wean
our selves
from
sensual
delights
for
the
love
of
God
;
let
then
resignation
make
that
voluntary
,
which
accident
,
or
some
providential
decree
hath
reduced
to
a
necessity
:
you
ought
not
therefore
to
calumniate
this
or
that
cause
of
your
sickness
,
but
take
it
as
a
present
from
a
most
merciful
and
benign
Parent
,
ordained
either
for
chastisement
of
your
sins
,
or
tryal
of
your
vertue
;
this
flatters
not
the
unhappy
humour
of
Avarice
,
Ambition
,
Lubricity
,
and
the
like
;
every
access
of
a
Feaver
or
other
smart
pain
,
sets
before
us
the
lively
Image
of
mortality
,
and
gives
assurance
we
must
one
day
quit
all
our
Wordly
interests
.
It
were
not
amiss
also
,
whilst
our
indisposition
renders
us
unfit
for
humane
Society
,
that
we
fancy
our selves
as
dead
,
and
consider
what
will
be
done
in
the
World
without
us
;
it
subsisted
before
we
were
,
so
will
it
remain
when
we
are
gone
:
Who
now
seem
so
united
in
friendship
,
that
the
thought
of
separation
is
horrid
as
Death
,
will
when
a
few
dayes
are
slipped
over
after
your
Funeral
,
seek
other
alliances
,
and
if
by
chance
your
memory
be
revived
by
any
Casual
discourse
,
they
will
afford
you
a
sigh
perhaps
,
and
say
you
were
good
,
or
wise
,
or
valiant
,
or
fair
,
or
some
such
Epethite
you
might
deserve
;
and
is
this
worth
all
the
labours
and
hazzards
we
run
amidst
a
Million
of
designs
in
this
uncertain
life
?
how
blessed
then
is
that
sickness
whose
pains
lead
to
Salvation
,
and
how
fortunate
that
war
which
ends
in
eternal
peace
!
If
the
walls
of
a
Prison
affright
,
propose
to
your self
those
immense
spaces
above
the
Heavens
designed
as
a
praemium
of
your
restraint
;
't
is
true
for
the
present
you
are
deprived
of
a
little
fresh
Air
,
and
of
some
other
contentments
depending
on
Liberty
,
but
he
that
trafficks
for
so
great
a
purchase
as
eternal
felicity
,
may
well
venture
something
on
the
score
of
persecution
:
How
many
disasters
and
Ambuscado's
of
Enemies
have
been
avoided
by
Captivity
,
what
a
change
hath
it
wrought
in
many
,
who
by
a
necessity
of
Recollection
,
have
become
supereminent
Contemplatives
,
and
enlarged
their
Minds
by
Spiritual
entertainments
,
more
than
they
could
forfeit
by
the
denyal
of
their
Bodies
liberty
:
You
are
there
free
from
Envy
,
or
detraction
,
it
being
rare
to
find
malice
,
or
cruelty
to
rage
upon
the
prostrate
:
A
life
in
such
a
place
is
seldome
attended
on
by
scandals
,
because
adversity
is
the
Companion
;
a
Mistress
excelling
in
the
wayes
,
and
maxims
of
goodness
:
Nay
could
we
fancy
the
World
(
as
really
it
is
)
but
a
Prison
,
we
should
rather
think
we
have
made
an
escape
from
Thraldome
,
than
lost
our
liberties
.
Thus
we
see
the
sprinklings
of
Hysop
,
that
is
,
the
Seeds
of
Humility
,
Patience
and
Constancy
in
the
profession
of
Christ
,
have
furnished
the
Church
Universal
with
Champions
,
and
every
her
particular
Souldier
in
all
encounters
with
Rules
,
which
if
exactly
observed
cannot
but
end
in
Glory
:
So
that
our
Penitent
hopes
,
if
once
bathed
in
these
purifying
streams
,
he
shall
be
cleansed
,
and
become
an
Object
pleasing
to
the
all-pure-Eye
of
his
Creatour
:
Wherefore
with
Reason
he
inserts
this
clause
,
sprinkle
me
with
Hysop
and
I
shall
be
cleansed
.
The
Application
.
In
imitation
of
our
Holy
Penitent
.
we
are
to
covet
the
bitter
draughts
of
contradictions
in
this
life
,
denying
our
Will
what
sensuality
prompts
us
to
,
that
we
may
have
a
full
swinge
of
our
desires
in
the
vast
course
of
Eternity
;
tribulation
is
the
securest
clue
to
be
directed
by
,
in
ease
and
pleasure
,
vertue
must
needs
run
a
great
risque
;
Fire
in
its
own
Sphere
conserves
it self
without
any
fuel
to
maintain
it
,
so
vertue
would
have
done
in
Paradise
,
where
the
Goods
of
the
Body
concurred
with
those
of
the
Soul
,
but
this
Concord
was
dissolved
by
sin
.
St.
Ambrose
likewise
sayes
of
Job
,
that
he
had
shewed
himself
a
valiant
commander
in
peace
,
but
not
a
conquerour
in
War
,
and
that
his
troubles
and
afflictions
purchased
unto
him
the
Palms
of
a
compleat
Victory
:
For
Earthly
Crowns
are
made
of
Gold
,
but
Heavenly
Diadems
of
the
Thorns
of
tribulation
.
Ah
then
let
us
aspire
after
these
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XVI
.
Lavabis
me
,
&
super
nivem
dealbabor
,
Thou
wilt
wash
me
,
and
I
shall
be
whiter
than
Snow
.
OUr
Holy
Prophet
thus
purified
,
and
calcined
in
the
Furnace
of
adversity
will
not
rest
there
,
but
is
ambitious
of
a
further
sublimation
,
he
beholds
himself
much
refined
,
the
dross
of
many
frailties
separated
from
him
by
temporal
chastisements
,
and
in
this
harsh
School
he
hath
learnt
a
profitable
Lesson
;
which
is
,
not
to
advance
in
a
spiritual
Course
is
to
loose
ground
;
wherefore
these
sprinkling
dews
of
Grace
do
not
satisfie
,
he
must
be
washed
o're
and
all-bathed
in
streams
of
Martyrdom
;
this
will
give
him
a
tincture
outvying
the
purity
of
Snow
;
this
will
consummate
all
his
labours
,
and
set
on
him
the
last
and
highest
stroke
of
perfection
.
Thou
wilt
wash
me
,
and
I
shall
be
whiter
than
Snow
.
It
is
pleasant
to
read
Seneca
,
and
other
Philosophers
in
this
point
of
Sacrificing
life
for
a
publick
interest
,
or
on
the
score
of
friendship
;
they
alwayes
place
this
action
amongst
the
most
Heroick
,
whereof
Man
is
capable
in
this
life
.
The
Romans
had
several
solemnities
to
eternize
the
memory
of
such
as
lost
their
lives
in
the
service
of
the
Republick
.
The
Graecians
employed
all
their
Eloquence
in
setting
out
the
Glory
of
those
who
dyed
for
their
Country
,
believing
that
Souls
separated
from
the
Body
upon
such
a
score
,
were
depurated
and
free
from
the
mixture
of
any
inordinate
desires
,
or
affections
;
and
consequently
are
disposed
to
receive
the
highest
beatitude
that
a
created
substance
can
attain
unto
.
Xamolxis
of
Greece
for
his
Wisdom
was
by
the
Egyptians
ranked
amongst
the
gods
,
whose
memory
to
the
Graecians
was
so
Sacred
,
that
yearly
they
sent
one
of
their
most
learned
Doctours
to
be
Sacrificed
before
his
Shrine
,
and
at
his
departure
towards
Egypt
,
the
other
Collegiate
Philosophers
were
all
oppressed
with
grief
,
each
one
repining
he
was
not
worthy
to
be
chosen
for
so
glorious
a
design
.
The
reason
why
this
Opinion
grew
so
prevalent
amongst
them
was
,
that
love
and
respect
is
best
expressed
by
an
act
of
homage
and
Sacrifice
,
now
by
the
oblation
of
life
,
we
at
once
give
up
all
our
interests
of
honour
,
pleasure
,
or
what
ever
we
can
pretend
to
in
this
World
,
and
witness
in
that
action
,
we
more
value
the
cause
for
which
we
suffer
,
than
our
own
Being
,
and
in
a
manner
do
declare
the
person
for
whom
we
dye
,
to
have
a
perfect
Dominion
over
us
,
and
destroying
our selves
would
insinuate
that
we
are
nothing
,
at
least
willing
to
become
nothing
;
so
we
may
but
pay
to
the
Object
of
our
loves
the
tribute
of
glory
and
greatness
.
The
generous
Heart
of
our
Petitioner
had
trampled
under
his
Feet
the
Enemies
of
God's
people
,
he
had
purchased
many
Laurels
by
his
active
fortitude
;
and
passing
from
thence
to
the
passive
part
,
he
had
manifested
by
his
patience
,
and
perseverance
,
he
wanted
not
this
more
noble
branch
of
fortitude
;
and
that
he
might
crown
all
his
victories
,
he
now
contracts
all
the
circumstances
of
a
compleat
magnanimity
in
this
Petition
,
that
he
might
give
up
his
life
,
and
make
a
publick
satisfaction
for
the
injury
done
by
his
Exorbitancies
to
his
dear
Creatour
.
Thou
wilt
wash
me
,
and
I
shall
be
whiter
than
Snow
.
He
knew
well
this
supereminent
degree
of
fortitude
,
which
gives
a
check
to
Audacity
,
nor
permits
its
Salleys
beyond
the
limits
of
a
just
moderation
,
and
which
charms
likewise
the
retiring
spirits
of
fear
,
and
makes
them
return
to
their
first
stations
,
there
to
stand
upon
the
defensive
,
is
a
vertue
too
sublime
for
Man
,
if
considered
within
the
verge
of
his
natural
force
,
and
abilities
:
For
martyrdom
implyes
a
profession
of
the
true
Faith
which
none
without
a
divine
Aid
can
perform
:
It
being
necessary
to
an
Act
of
Salvation
,
that
it
be
accompanied
with
th●
power
and
means
of
Grace
,
wherefore
he
places
the
Energy
of
this
Action
in
the
Author
of
Grace
,
and
cryes
;
O
God
,
if
you
will
wash
me
,
that
is
,
if
you
will
shower
down
the
dew
of
your
Grace
,
I
will
dispose
my
Soul
for
the
reception
,
and
so
manage
the
gift
;
as
every
reproach
,
every
stroke
of
the
Executioner
,
every
drop
of
Blood
drawn
from
my
Veins
,
shall
have
its
effect
of
expiation
,
to
cleanse
my
stains
,
to
purify
my
Soul
,
and
give
it
a
whiteness
which
will
surpass
that
of
Snow
.
Again
though
the
Psalms
of
this
victory
be
never
so
precious
;
yet
unless
a
storm
of
Tyranny
convey
them
to
him
,
he
can
only
languish
in
desire
:
For
the
infliction
of
Death
must
come
from
anothers
hand
,
his
part
in
this
combat
must
be
only
to
accept
,
and
suffer
:
'T
is
true
the
Holy
Ghost
proclaims
,
that
violence
must
bear
away
the
wreath
of
this
immortality
,
but
it
is
understood
a
violence
not
so
much
active
as
passive
:
We
must
stoop
to
oppression
,
become
a
play-game
,
and
mockery
of
the
World
;
we
must
tune
forth
the
praises
of
our
Creatour
,
more
by
expiring
than
speaking
,
and
from
these
black
mixtures
of
cruelty
,
will
result
,
as
from
the
Phoenix
ashes
,
a
production
far
beyond
what
we
could
even
hope
for
in
recompence
.
You
shall
wash
me
,
and
I
shall
be
whiter
than
Snow
.
We
must
not
doubt
but
the
Soul
of
our
Petitioner
ambitious
of
perfection
,
had
all
the
internal
affections
which
move
to
this
end
,
as
charity
,
obedience
,
religion
,
faith
,
hope
,
and
an
heroick
fortitude
.
The
first
to
wit
charity
raises
him
to
acts
of
love
,
by
which
God
is
more
prizable
to
him
,
than
his
own
life
,
or
any
other
thing
imaginable
:
Next
,
this
amorous
contemplation
was
accompanied
with
a
perfect
submission
to
the
decrees
of
Heaven
whilst
Semei
threw
stones
,
and
curses
at
him
,
he
kept
close
to
this
principle
,
forbidding
any
punishment
to
the
Actour
,
lest
(
sayes
he
)
God
may
have
ordained
it
for
his
tryal
or
chastisement
of
his
Sins
;
and
what
he
Wills
is
just
,
and
ought
to
be
the
Rule
of
our
obedience
without
any
dispute
,
or
haesitation
.
The
third
ingredient
to
this
dye
of
purity
,
is
Religion
;
by
which
we
are
taught
to
pay
the
tribute
of
excellency
and
respect
unto
God
,
as
the
Sovereign
Author
,
and
Primogenial
Source
of
all
Beings
;
other
Creatures
who
cannot
comprehend
the
infinite
perfections
essentially
seated
in
God
,
have
a
right
that
their
wants
be
supplyed
by
our
Piety
;
so
that
we
have
a
duty
of
acknowledgement
not
only
for
our selves
,
but
in
behalf
of
every
thing
created
to
our
Service
;
by
an
act
then
of
Religion
we
return
our
own
Being
,
and
all
other
Beings
likewise
of
the
whole
World
into
his
Hands
from
whence
they
came
,
to
be
disposed
off
as
he
pleases
,
that
as
we
hold
it
from
him
,
so
we
would
not
enjoy
it
but
for
him
,
and
this
from
two
considerations
;
the
one
,
of
God's
immense
greatness
and
Majesty
,
the
other
of
our
own
smalness
,
or
rather
nothing
;
as
to
the
one
,
our
Penitent
defies
any
Being
to
compare
with
God
,
he
confesses
the
Earth
,
Seas
,
and
Heavens
lye
at
his
beck
;
that
his
Enemies
he
disperses
,
as
the
Sun
doth
the
Shades
of
Night
,
and
having
thus
exalted
his
unmeasured
greatness
,
he
then
religiously
exposes
himself
before
him
,
acknowledges
he
is
a
worm
,
and
not
a
man
;
and
if
a
man
,
the
very
outcast
,
and
opprobry
of
Mankind
:
He
presumes
to
question
God
what
man
is
,
that
he
should
daign
him
a
glance
of
his
careful
Eye
;
and
declares
his
opinion
that
he
is
but
a
piece
of
vanity
,
an
empty
out-side
,
a
heap
of
dust
,
and
therefore
it
is
but
just
in
him
to
honour
the
Majesty
of
God
by
a
profusion
of
what
he
enjoyes
,
and
that
his
Being
can
never
be
put
to
a
better
use
than
by
annihilating
it self
(
if
possibly
)
to
witness
by
that
submission
the
immense
perfections
of
his
Creatour
.
His
fortitude
in
attempting
great
things
needs
no
dilucidation
,
the
Sun-beams
are
not
more
conspicuous
;
what
Nation
hath
not
received
the
History
of
his
deeds
together
with
the
tydings
of
Christianity
,
where
also
is
set
forth
his
patience
in
adversity
,
in
many
rebellions
unnatural
stratagems
,
and
implacable
hatred
of
Saul
against
him
.
For
his
Faith
in
Christ
,
amongst
all
the
Prophecies
of
a
Messias
his
Psalms
excell
in
delineating
,
and
issuing
a
lively
Character
of
all
the
passages
of
his
passion
:
So
that
all
these
vertues
could
not
spring
but
from
a
hope
of
enjoying
one
day
that
Sovereign
good
,
for
whose
acquisition
he
was
ready
to
Seal
all
these
actions
with
his
blood
and
life
.
I
confess
this
tincture
of
Snow
to
arise
from
a
bloody
stream
might
seem
a
wrested
interpretation
,
were
it
not
that
a
passage
in
the
Apocalips
doth
clear
it
,
where
it
is
said
;
they
whitened
their
stoles
in
the
blood
of
the
Lamb
;
that
is
,
the
effect
of
this
ablution
gives
innocence
,
wipes
off
like
Baptisme
all
the
spots
of
Guilt
,
or
Pain
,
so
that
once
dipped
in
this
Lavatory
,
he
may
justly
promise
to
himself
a
lovely
Grain
far
surpassing
that
of
Snow
.
Wonder
not
then
if
our
Petitioner
touched
with
a
sense
of
his
transgressions
,
and
frighted
with
the
memory
of
that
condition
wherein
he
had
been
plunged
,
should
aim
at
the
glorious
Palms
of
martyrdom
both
to
secure
his
pardon
,
purchase
a
compleat
abolition
of
his
Faults
,
and
make
himself
a
perpetual
Sacrifice
of
praise
and
thanksgiving
to
his
dear
Creatour
.
Lord
thou
wilt
wash
me
,
and
I
shall
be
whiter
than
Snow
.
The
Application
.
Let
us
by
the
example
of
our
Penitent
thirst
after
these
purifying
streams
,
one
boisterous
billow
of
Persecution
carried
home
to
the
strugling
Patient
,
will
have
more
vertue
than
all
the
waters
of
Jordan
;
St.
Gregory
saith
,
that
the
departing
of
the
Body
from
the
Soul
is
but
a
shadow
,
but
the
departing
of
a
Soul
from
God
is
a
sad
Truth
:
And
as
a
shadow
is
refreshing
in
Summer
,
so
is
Death
to
the
Righteous
,
especially
if
voluntarily
accepted
,
and
inflicted
upon
the
account
of
a
pious
cause
.
But
since
this
Crown
is
out
of
our
reach
,
and
depends
upon
anothers
severity
,
we
must
be
thus
severe
to
our selves
,
as
to
put
on
an
undaunted
look
against
any
difficulty
which
may
obstruct
our
Salvation
,
or
advancement
to
p●…fection
,
and
resolve
to
suffer
or
overcome
them
,
either
of
which
we
may
,
by
the
aid
of
Grace
never
wanting
at
a
pinch
.
Next
,
we
must
rejoyce
when
harassed
with
adversities
,
it
is
St
Luke's
declaration
of
the
Apostles
,
that
they
returned
from
Tribunal
seats
with
joy
,
having
been
made
worthy
to
be
there
reviled
and
scorned
for
the
name
of
Christ
;
and
truly
Saints
have
seemed
to
measure
their
hopes
of
glory
,
according
to
the
proportion
of
their
sufferings
:
Lastly
,
we
are
to
expose
our selves
to
hard
and
painful
things
for
the
spiritual
good
of
our
Neighbour
;
if
we
strengthen
our selves
with
these
arms
of
fortitude
,
we
shall
be
fitted
for
that
last
and
most
glorious
proof
of
valour
,
at
least
secure
an
immense
reward
to
our selves
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XVII
.
Auditui
meo
dabis
gaudium
&
laetitiam
.
Thou
wilt
give
unto
my
hearing
joy
and
gladness
.
WHen
the
Church
proclaims
the
sin
of
Adam
happy
,
in
that
it
merited
to
have
such
,
and
so
great
a
Redeemer
;
Methinks
it
hath
some
resemblance
w●th
this
clause
of
our
Petitioner
,
where
he
promises
to
himself
joy
,
and
gladness
;
as
if
they
were
a
necessary
consequence
to
repentance
.
In
the
precedent
verse
he
minds
his
Creatour
of
the
Rules
he
hath
set
down
to
purchase
innocence
;
to
wit
,
by
temporal
adversity
,
here
he
opens
the
secret
of
God's
working
with
a
justifyed
Soul
,
which
is
to
fill
her
with
jubilies
,
and
consolation
.
For
when
Almighty
God
enlightens
our
understanding
to
consider
his
greatness
,
providence
,
goodness
,
and
his
other
perfections
;
and
when
he
gives
a
touch
to
our
Wills
,
imprinting
in
them
holy
impulses
of
fear
,
hope
,
love
,
and
the
like
;
by
which
we
are
excited
and
enabled
to
frame
and
execute
holy
and
pious
resolutions
,
he
doth
not
this
by
a
way
of
violence
,
as
a
stone
is
taken
up
from
its
Center
,
but
by
a
way
of
sweetness
,
he
governs
and
changes
our
inclinations
,
if
we
do
not
prove
too
stubborn
:
So
that
the
first
step
to
our
justification
is
not
made
without
the
concurrence
of
our
Wills
;
and
questionless
it
is
no
small
subject
of
joy
to
reflect
that
we
our selves
have
been
Actours
in
this
great
work
of
our
justification
;
which
exceeds
the
Creation
of
Heaven
,
Earth
,
and
all
that
is
comprized
in
Nature
;
for
though
we
owe
to
God
all
that
we
have
,
yet
that
his
liberality
may
take
its
desired
effect
,
this
he
will
have
depend
upon
us
;
to
the
end
by
working
our
Salvation
,
it
might
prove
an
honour
and
satisfaction
,
in
that
we
our selves
have
contributed
something
to
it
by
the
consent
of
our
free
will
,
by
which
we
can
claim
the
actions
we
do
to
be
our
own
.
The
next
branch
of
joy
and
gladness
in
a
justified
Soul
,
is
the
access
of
grace
,
a
supernatural
form
infused
by
God
,
by
which
we
are
raised
to
a
supernatural
Being
;
that
is
to
say
,
a
new
Being
,
more
prizable
than
an
intellectula
,
or
reasonable
,
than
Angelical
or
Seraphical
considered
precisely
in
the
order
of
Nature
:
Because
Grace
gives
a
new
birth
to
the
Soul
,
and
communicates
unto
her
a
new
Being
which
is
called
Divine
;
in
that
the
Soul
receives
from
it
a
resemblance
unto
God
after
a
manner
extraordinary
,
whose
more
perfect
knowledge
is
reserved
for
the
light
of
glory
,
which
will
make
the
discovery
unto
us
:
All
we
can
now
say
is
,
that
no
sooner
this
divine
gift
inhabits
our
Souls
,
but
we
are
designed
to
eternal
beatitude
:
Almighty
God
beholds
us
with
an
Eye
of
satisfaction
,
as
his
Children
received
into
his
Family
,
as
Solomon
sayes
,
by
grace
we
contract
an
eternal
alliance
with
God
.
St.
Thomas
stiles
Grace
a
participation
of
the
Divine
Nature
;
for
what
the
Divine
Nature
doth
in
God
,
the
same
Grace
by
imitation
doth
in
a
Soul
;
as
the
Divine
Nature
is
in
God
the
cause
of
his
most
transcending
actions
;
to
wit
,
love
and
union
:
So
Grace
in
a
Soul
is
the
spring
of
glory
,
beatitude
,
supernatural
knowledge
and
heavenly
affections
,
by
which
she
regulates
all
her
works
,
according
to
integrity
and
holiness
:
Nay
God
obliges
himself
to
give
a
Soul
that
can
plead
the
title
of
Grace
,
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
and
possession
of
eternal
bliss
.
No
wonder
then
if
after
the
sprinklings
of
Hysop
,
that
is
penitential
tears
,
our
Petitioner
,
expects
a
Harmony
of
joy
and
gladness
,
since
the
divine
quality
of
Grace
purchased
by
repentance
is
attended
on
by
so
many
advantages
:
What
matter
of
joy
to
be
spiritually
regenerated
,
the
Son
of
God
,
the
Brother
,
and
Coheir
with
Jesus
Christ
!
wherefore
St.
Leo
sayes
,
this
gift
of
being
the
Son
of
God
,
to
be
authorized
to
call
God
Father
,
exceeds
all
his
other
liberalities
;
for
by
generation
a
Father
communicates
his
Nature
to
his
Son
,
producing
him
in
species
alike
:
So
by
Adoption
,
he
that
adopts
gives
unto
a
stranger
in
desire
and
affection
,
what
he
is
in
himself
,
attributing
unto
him
the
prerogative
of
a
Son
,
entitling
him
to
all
his
inheritance
,
the
same
as
if
he
were
his
Son
by
Nature
;
now
what
Man
doth
to
another
out
of
affection
,
God
doth
in
effect
:
For
imprinting
Grace
in
a
Soul
,
he
gives
himself
,
and
is
really
in
her
;
insomuch
that
were
it
possible
,
God
could
be
not
immense
,
Grace
would
render
him
afresh
present
to
and
in
the
Soul
.
Certainly
if
ever
that
saying
was
verified
,
where
guilt
hath
raigned
,
there
grace
did
yet
more
powerfully
sway
,
it
was
in
the
person
of
our
holy
Petitioner
his
raptures
,
and
Enthusiastick
throwes
,
his
prophetick
notions
;
Nay
God's
own
Testimony
of
him
,
that
Repentance
had
moulded
him
even
conformably
to
his
own
Heart
,
sufficiently
proved
his
Soul
to
float
in
floods
of
Grace
,
and
consequently
must
needs
swell
with
a
great
portion
of
joy
;
therefore
with
just
reason
he
proclaims
,
thou
wilt
give
unto
my
hearing
joy
and
gladness
.
Again
this
possession
of
Grace
is
accompanied
with
the
expectation
of
a
Sovereign
good
:
For
the
understanding
enlightned
by
Faith
,
knowes
that
Mans's
Beatitude
is
in
God
,
that
this
Beatitude
is
promised
him
as
his
final
end
,
and
the
means
to
attain
unto
this
End
is
by
Grace
,
and
acts
of
vertue
;
So
that
he
enjoyes
it
not
but
upon
the
terms
of
being
one
day
eternally
happy
;
this
certain
expectation
of
Beatitude
,
St.
Bonaventure
calls
the
Anchor
and
basis
of
Man
in
this
life
:
It
keeps
him
from
dejection
,
placing
still
before
his
thoughts
an
infinite
good
,
and
which
is
infallibly
to
be
the
abject
of
his
future
acquisition
;
it
choaks
presumption
,
casting
him
upon
the
mediums
ordained
to
lead
him
to
this
end
;
it
draws
his
affections
from
terrene
things
,
and
raises
them
to
God
as
the
supream
object
alone
worthy
to
be
loved
,
and
served
.
What
joy
then
to
have
our
Wills
carryed
on
by
this
gift
of
hope
,
which
sweetly
entertains
us
in
the
contemplation
of
Eternity
,
and
this
not
as
a
thing
doubtful
(
for
what
would
Cloud
the
severity
of
our
comfort
)
but
as
a
reward
to
which
we
are
entitled
by
grace
,
and
of
which
by
this
vertue
of
hope
we
have
an
earnest
and
pledge
.
St.
Paul
to
the
Hebrews
prescribes
hope
as
a
means
to
compass
whatsoever
we
would
have
.
Let
us
approach
with
confidence
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
;
as
if
we
needed
only
a
firm
hope
,
to
be
able
to
scale
the
Throne
of
God
,
and
bear
thence
what
so
e're
we
desire
.
St.
Gregory
observes
,
there
is
no
pleasure
in
this
World
,
which
is
not
greater
in
the
expectation
than
fruition
;
by
which
we
see
what
a
strange
Operation
the
very
hope
of
some
temporal
object
hath
in
us
;
what
ravishments
then
must
needs
proceed
from
a
hope
that
is
fixed
on
the
source
of
perfections
;
and
to
have
this
addition
,
that
after
our
imaginations
have
proposed
all
the
delights
that
humane
wit
can
frame
,
yet
they
fall
infinitely
short
of
those
joyes
the
Object
of
a
supernatural
hope
will
discover
unto
us
.
Blame
not
then
our
Petitioner
if
he
give
himself
the
assurance
of
joy
and
gladness
,
when
once
his
Soul
shall
be
enriched
with
Grace
,
and
divine
hope
inspired
into
him
;
since
their
presence
brings
the
highest
satisfactions
we
are
capable
off
in
this
World
.
I
observe
after
Christ
had
declared
the
remission
of
St.
Mary
Magdalens
misdeeds
,
he
bids
her
go
in
peace
,
to
shew
she
is
no
more
impious
:
For
as
they
are
strangers
to
repose
,
so
rest
and
satisfaction
are
the
natural
effects
of
a
good
conscience
.
When
the
Thief
on
the
Cross
had
obtained
mercy
,
immediately
follow
the
glad
tidings
he
should
exchange
that
very
day
his
Gibbet
into
a
Paradise
;
St.
Austin
had
no
sooner
stepped
into
the
Paths
of
pennance
,
but
he
found
himself
overwhelmed
with
joy
which
he
thus
describes
.
On
a
suddain
(
sayes
he
)
it
grew
delightful
to
me
to
be
weaned
from
trifling
pleasures
,
and
what
before
I
feared
to
loose
,
now
with
joy
I
dismiss
;
for
thou
,
O
supream
Diety
didst
tear
them
from
me
,
and
supplyedst
them
by
thy
own
presence
who
art
in
all
honour
,
beauty
and
pleasure
excelling
.
You
see
what
he
got
in
exchanging
a
few
Worldly
joyes
for
a
life
of
pennance
,
in
quitting
a
Creature
he
came
to
the
enjoyment
of
his
Creatour
;
in
abandoning
that
we
must
needs
once
lose
,
and
which
we
still
apprehend
will
be
ravished
from
us
,
he
arrived
to
an
inestimable
,
and
never
perishing
good
.
Nay
reason
may
tell
us
,
as
happy
experience
hath
informed
Saints
,
that
if
his
mercy
be
so
great
,
and
transforms
it self
into
so
many
Shapes
of
vertues
in
reward
to
sinners
;
it
must
needs
be
much
more
admirable
in
order
to
the
just
:
For
it
is
but
equitable
,
that
those
who
must
love
and
honour
him
,
should
have
a
more
ample
share
in
the
Treasures
of
his
mercies
,
than
such
who
injure
and
daily
offend
him
:
If
when
we
are
Enemies
he
fails
not
to
give
Testimonies
of
his
love
,
being
reconciled
,
and
readmitted
to
his
favour
what
will
he
not
do
?
If
he
bestow
a
kiss
upon
a
treacherous
Judas
,
with
what
overflowing
sweetness
will
he
visit
a
loyal
heart
,
which
breaths
forth
nothing
but
love
and
a
conformity
to
his
will
;
if
a
sound
of
his
voice
as
Man
was
so
charming
,
that
many
of
the
Apostles
at
his
first
call
abandoned
all
their
Worldly
interests
and
engagements
to
follow
him
,
what
transports
do
the
sweet
whispers
of
his
Divine
Spirit
occasion
unto
his
dear
Servants
,
what
internal
consolations
,
what
tranquility
of
mind
:
St.
Austin
terms
them
certain
previous
relishes
or
Antipasts
of
Heaven
,
which
far
transcend
all
the
contentment
and
satisfactions
of
this
world
.
In
a
word
,
that
Seraphim
of
love
St.
Austin
gives
us
the
perfect
Character
of
a
spiritual
joy
by
his
own
experience
.
Saying
,
O
Lord
,
sometimes
thou
dost
lead
me
into
unknown
delights
,
which
(
were
they
compleated
in
me
)
I
know
not
what
they
would
be
,
but
certain
I
am
it
would
not
be
this
life
;
that
is
,
such
a
Dilatation
of
Spirits
he
found
to
attend
those
spiritual
comforts
,
that
he
saw
,
were
they
accomplished
,
a
ruine
of
his
mortal
Being
must
needs
ensue
.
This
is
the
joy
and
gladness
our
Holy
Petitioner
expects
,
and
that
he
was
not
deceived
in
his
expectation
,
scarce
a
Psalm
of
his
that
proclaims
not
the
sweetness
,
and
superabundant
satisfactions
issuing
from
the
love
,
fear
,
and
service
of
God
,
and
therefore
when
he
had
petitioned
for
persecution
,
adversity
,
and
the
Crown
of
Martyrdom
,
he
might
justly
solace
himself
with
the
sequel
and
fruits
of
sufferings
,
which
are
joy
and
gladness
.
To
my
hearing
thou
wilt
give
joy
and
gladness
.
The
Application
.
Ah
who
would
not
then
protest
against
the
vain
joyes
of
this
world
,
to
tast
the
sweetness
of
spiritual
entertainments
:
St.
Gregory
puts
this
difference
'twixt
Corporal
and
Spiritual
delights
,
that
the
former
whilest
in
expectation
,
are
coveted
with
much
vehemency
,
but
when
once
enjoyed
,
they
presently
become
nauseous
,
and
distastful
;
the
other
we
pursue
but
coldly
,
and
with
little
heat
of
desire
,
yet
when
once
we
have
a
relish
of
them
,
we
still
languish
after
the
encrease
:
This
made
St.
Francis
that
blessed
despiser
of
the
World
,
to
make
a
Covenant
with
his
senses
never
to
fasten
with
the
least
Contentment
on
any
sensual
object
;
and
truly
he
was
so
exact
in
the
performance
,
as
he
went
up
and
down
like
the
meer
shadow
of
a
Man
,
that
had
nothing
humane
in
him
but
his
shape
;
his
better
part
ever
dwelling
in
the
Mansion
of
the
Blessed
.
These
are
joyes
that
will
not
be
held
by
Repentance
,
may
we
then
still
languish
after
them
;
Amen
.
CHAP.
XVIII
.
Et
exultabunt
Ossa
humiliata
,
And
humbled
Bones
shall
rejoyce
.
THis
encouragement
which
our
Petitioner
allowes
himself
,
corresponds
with
the
second
part
of
the
former
verse
,
where
he
was
willing
to
Sacrifice
his
life
:
For
he
doth
not
only
cheer
himself
,
in
reflecting
upon
the
reward
which
repentance
will
bring
to
his
Soul
,
but
likewise
upon
the
future
condition
of
his
Earthly
mould
,
which
he
beholds
as
matter
of
great
consolation
;
and
therefore
upon
the
same
score
he
prosecutes
the
Subject
of
his
hope
,
saying
,
that
his
humbled
Bones
shall
rejoyce
.
Amongst
all
the
comforts
Christian
Religion
affords
,
there
is
none
hath
so
much
influence
upon
Man
,
as
the
expectation
of
a
future
resurrection
,
the
motive
of
this
consolation
springs
from
the
belief
we
have
of
God's
Omnipotency
:
For
as
we
believe
he
hath
created
us
of
nothing
,
so
we
must
acknowledge
his
power
to
restore
us
,
and
raise
our
ashes
to
a
better
,
and
more
happy
condition
:
Nay
if
we
observe
the
course
of
Holy
Scripture
,
we
shall
find
the
expiration
of
Saints
hath
a
particular
expression
given
it
:
For
they
are
not
said
to
dye
,
but
to
fall
into
a
sleep
,
as
if
their
Bodies
after
separation
retained
a
certain
vertue
,
which
had
resemblance
with
their
glorifyed
Souls
.
In
the
Fourth
Book
of
Kings
Chap.
13.
We
read
that
a
Carkass
being
thrown
into
the
Sepulchre
of
Elizeus
,
was
by
a
touch
of
his
Bones
restored
to
life
.
St.
Hierom
relates
how
Constantine
the
Great
conveyed
with
much
Solemnity
the
relicks
of
St
Andrew
and
St.
Luke
unto
Constantinople
.
Areadius
likewise
the
Emperour
translated
the
relicks
of
Samuel
the
Prophet
from
Judaea
into
Thrasia
,
where
they
were
received
with
great
veneration
,
and
joy
of
the
people
:
All
which
shews
,
our
Forefathers
looked
upon
the
remainder
of
Saints
Bodies
,
not
as
liveless
fragments
,
but
as
the
Fountains
of
life
,
and
health
;
as
certain
pieces
God
would
make
instrumental
to
miracles
,
and
to
works
above
the
power
of
nature
.
Therefore
the
Bones
of
Holy
Persons
endued
with
such
vertue
may
justly
be
qualifyed
with
joy
,
and
consequently
it
is
not
improper
to
say
,
That
humbled
Bones
shall
rejoyce
.
Again
St.
John
Damascene
hath
a
fine
conception
;
saying
,
those
who
imitate
the
vertues
of
Saints
,
may
be
more
truly
said
their
relicks
,
or
impressions
,
than
the
lump
and
mass
of
Earth
they
leave
behind
.
He
who
hath
the
zeal
and
ardours
of
a
St.
Paul
in
the
Conversion
of
Souls
,
may
be
stiled
his
lively
Image
:
Who
can
claim
the
fortitude
of
a
St.
Stephen
in
accepting
the
stroke
of
Death
for
Justice
sake
;
will
infallibly
bear
the
stamp
of
that
Protomartyr
:
Who
can
perform
the
humble
and
spiritual
life
of
a
St.
Francis
,
will
prove
a
better
pattern
of
him
,
than
his
own
Body
,
which
at
this
day
remains
entire
at
Assisium
,
as
a
Testimony
of
that
Glory
his
Soul
enjoyes
in
Heaven
;
so
that
when
we
cast
our selves
into
the
mould
of
their
vertues
,
we
become
their
animated
statues
,
and
make
them
rejoyce
in
our
imitation
,
as
the
Angels
do
at
a
sinners
Conversion
:
it
is
not
unlikely
our
Holy
Prophet
alluded
to
such
living
relicks
,
when
he
said
humbled
bones
shall
rejoyce
.
Since
good
Men
are
here
for
the
most
part
crushed
in
the
Worlds
esteem
,
that
values
nothing
but
what
is
great
in
vanity
:
Yet
amidst
these
Clouds
of
oppression
,
and
scorns
thrown
at
them
,
they
find
within
themselves
a
satisfaction
in
performing
their
duty
to
God
,
for
the
fruit
of
the
spirit
(
sayes
St.
Paul
)
is
joy
,
peace
,
and
a
thousand
other
contentments
which
attend
a
state
of
innocence
;
so
that
it
is
an
ingenious
Expression
of
our
Penitent
,
that
humbled
bones
shall
rejoyce
.
I
have
many
times
wondered
,
why
Almighty
God
should
give
unto
the
Ashes
of
Saints
,
what
he
had
denyed
them
whilst
they
were
alive
,
and
made
not
use
of
any
limb
,
or
vital
motion
but
for
his
sake
;
that
is
,
many
miracles
have
been
wrought
,
by
touching
the
mouldred
dust
of
Saints
,
who
living
were
never
favoured
with
the
power
of
any
Miracle
:
but
as
the
lives
of
Saints
are
admirable
,
so
the
proceedings
of
Almighty
God
with
them
seem
very
mysterious
,
yet
I
have
proposed
some
reasons
of
this
to
my
sell
.
First
,
Almighty
God
will
shew
by
this
how
dear
his
Servants
are
unto
him
,
and
if
he
give
so
much
vertue
to
their
Ashes
,
what
may
we
expect
he
doth
to
their
Immortal
Souls
.
Next
,
it
argues
how
grateful
a
thing
humility
is
in
the
sight
of
God
,
that
those
who
have
Crucifyed
their
flesh
,
and
daily
Sacrificed
their
Bodies
for
his
name
,
should
have
the
very
Ashes
of
that
Mortified
Body
,
cure
Diseases
,
restore
sight
to
the
blind
,
and
raise
the
dead
to
life
.
Thirdly
,
Almighty
God
will
manifest
the
difference
between
a
pampered
Body
,
and
one
mangled
by
acts
of
pennance
,
the
one
by
all
manner
of
delicacies
sought
to
preserve
a
beauty
,
and
make
it
proof
against
time
:
Yet
once
grown
old
,
or
cut
off
by
Death
it
is
cast
into
oblivion
;
the
other
kept
in
Chains
,
and
threatned
daily
with
ruine
,
yet
at
the
last
proves
matter
of
veneration
even
unto
those
who
before
perhaps
contemned
it
.
You
see
then
,
how
to
live
in
the
Memory
of
Men
,
what
Art
is
to
be
used
to
raise
a
stately
structure
of
our selves
,
the
materials
of
this
must
be
acts
of
Charity
towards
our
.
Neighbour
,
and
acts
of
severity
towards
our
selves
;
the
Cement
must
be
Patience
,
Constancy
,
Resignation
to
God's
holy
will
,
and
the
like
;
with
these
Saints
have
purchased
glory
to
themselves
before
God
,
and
veneration
amongst
Men
,
that
even
Kings
have
crouched
with
bended
knees
before
their
Ashes
,
who
whilst
here
poor
Pilgrims
upon
Earth
were
looked
upon
as
Idiots
,
and
made
as
it
were
the
mockery
of
the
World
;
so
that
humbled
bones
at
last
shall
Triumph
,
and
erect
their
Trophies
,
where
they
had
been
made
the
spoils
of
Death
.
St.
Gregory
Nazianzen
affirms
the
Ashes
of
St.
Cyprian
were
so
powerful
,
as
no
Disease
wanted
there
its
remedy
,
and
this
Testimony
he
received
from
those
very
persons
,
who
had
been
the
Subject
of
his
miraculous
Cures
.
St.
Ambrose
relates
of
one
Severus
who
being
blind
,
by
touching
only
the
Casket
wherein
were
enchased
the
relicks
of
the
Holy
Martyrs
St.
Gervasius
and
Protasius
,
he
recovered
his
sight
.
St.
Austin
recounts
many
miracles
wrought
by
the
relicks
of
St.
Stephen
,
and
adds
:
The
benefits
obtained
at
his
shrine
were
so
great
and
numerous
,
as
whole
Volumes
might
be
filled
with
the
relation
.
In
fine
,
there
is
not
a
Doctour
of
the
Church
,
whose
writings
speak
not
the
wonders
Heaven
hath
owned
,
(
even
in
their
time
)
upon
the
score
of
supplications
made
in
the
presence
and
honour
of
Saints
Bodies
.
Nor
did
this
religious
Worship
of
relicks
spring
up
originally
with
the
Ghospel
,
for
St.
Epiphanius
brings
evidence
how
the
Sepulchers
of
Esay
,
Ezekiel
,
and
Jeremy
were
had
in
great
veneration
among
the
Jews
,
and
this
from
the
extraordinary
succours
God
conferred
on
distressed
People
at
the
Tombs
of
those
Holy
Prophets
.
We
find
likewise
Exodus
13.
that
before
Moses
conducted
the
Israelites
out
of
Egypt
,
he
ordained
the
Bones
of
Joseph
to
be
taken
up
,
and
born
away
with
Ceremony
into
the
Land
of
promise
.
Now
why
all
this
?
But
to
verify
our
Holy
Prophets
assertion
that
humbled
bones
shall
rejoyce
;
that
Death
may
cause
a
separation
twixt
Soul
and
Body
,
and
so
seem
to
Triumph
over
this
mortal
clay
of
ours
,
cannot
be
denyed
:
Yet
if
our
members
have
served
in
purity
(
as
St.
Paul
terms
it
)
and
merited
in
life
to
be
the
Temple
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
such
as
these
(
though
exanimated
)
may
still
retain
a
vertue
by
which
they
give
life
and
joy
to
other
Beings
.
Whence
justly
our
Petitioner
fore-declares
,
and
humbled
bones
shall
rejoyce
.
Truly
it
is
but
rational
to
conceive
there
should
be
a
Providence
to
preserve
from
common
corruption
,
those
Bodies
who
had
been
instrumental
to
many
acts
of
vertue
,
and
made
a
daily
victime
by
pennance
:
For
since
mortality
is
the
effect
of
sin
,
there
ought
at
least
be
something
that
hath
the
resemblance
of
immortality
to
attend
that
Body
,
which
hath
much
contributed
to
the
Souls
happiness
.
Besides
,
we
believe
our
Bodies
shall
one
day
be
glorified
and
vested
with
immortal
dotes
;
it
is
fit
then
such
who
have
here
led
a
life
as
it
were
Angelical
,
without
any
contamination
of
sensual
pleasures
,
should
anticipate
in
some
kind
their
future
glorifyed
condition
,
and
how
can
this
better
appear
,
than
by
imprinting
a
Sovereign
vertue
in
their
extinguished
Ashes
,
since
it
is
decreed
a
compleat
glorification
cannot
(
unless
particularly
dispensed
with
)
be
conferred
till
the
universal
Resurrection
.
This
admirable
operation
given
to
their
Earthly
and
liveless
substance
,
as
it
is
a
Testimony
of
their
Souls
felicity
,
so
is
it
no
less
to
us
a
pledge
the
most
dear
we
could
have
,
by
which
we
are
assured
of
their
watchful
and
compassionate
care
over
us
.
In
fine
,
how
powerfully
are
we
wrought
into
the
imitation
of
their
lives
,
when
at
their
shrines
we
behold
both
Death
and
Nature
vanquished
,
and
the
prodigious
effects
of
humbled
,
prostrate
Limbs
lowdly
declare
,
how
precious
the
Death
of
Saints
is
in
the
sight
of
God
.
Thus
our
Holy
Petitioner
hath
laid
open
unto
us
;
First
,
the
Jubileys
of
mind
which
fill
a
Soul
united
unto
God
by
love
and
repentance
:
Next
,
to
compleat
the
Harmony
,
he
tells
us
our
very
bones
shall
not
want
their
portion
of
joy
;
that
if
they
here
be
made
bare
,
disjoynted
,
or
broken
,
Almighty
God
never
fails
to
sweeten
those
rigours
,
by
internal
whispers
and
consolations
,
which
carry
them
on
to
perseverance
in
their
pressures
and
debasements
,
and
when
Saints
have
once
payed
this
debt
to
nature
,
then
he
gives
to
the
one
part
the
immediate
fruition
of
his
Glory
,
and
to
the
other
he
often
communicates
such
Soveraign
vertues
,
that
they
are
as
it
were
certain
previous
dispositions
to
immortality
.
'T
is
true
,
the
relick
of
a
Saint
appears
but
a
lump
of
Earth
liveless
,
inanimate
,
and
so
is
not
capable
of
joy
,
yet
God
making
it
the
instrument
of
miraculous
effects
,
is
thereby
glorifyed
,
and
what
ever
relates
to
his
honour
is
matter
of
exultation
.
Again
,
St.
Paul
saith
,
that
every
Creature
groans
;
that
is
,
feels
throwes
,
and
longing
desires
after
their
Maker
:
If
then
these
resentments
be
allowed
to
every
Being
,
much
more
ought
we
grant
it
to
the
Sacred
pledge
of
a
Saints
Body
,
in
which
the
Omnipotency
,
and
other
Divine
attributes
of
God
do
so
gloriously
shine
;
and
humbled
bones
shall
rejoyce
.
The
Application
.
Let
us
then
so
manage
our
senses
in
this
life
,
enslaving
them
to
the
Lawes
of
reason
,
that
after
the
short
course
of
their
servitude
here
,
we
may
arrive
to
that
joy
mentioned
by
our
Holy
Petitioner
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XIX
.
Averte
faciem
tuam
à
peccatis
meis
,
Turn
away
thy
Face
from
my
sins
.
WHen
I
cast
my
Eye
upon
this
clause
of
the
Petition
,
I
cannot
but
reflect
on
that
passage
of
Esay
where
he
sayes
,
it
is
a
bitter
thing
to
have
once
abandoned
God
;
for
after
a
sin
is
committed
,
though
it
be
secret
,
unseen
,
and
none
reprehend
us
for
it
,
yet
we
fear
every
shadow
,
suspect
every
look
and
syllable
,
nor
can
we
ever
think
our selves
secure
and
out
of
danger
.
St.
Austin
sayes
,
as
iniquity
is
alwayes
accompanied
with
a
neglect
of
God
,
and
consequently
is
a
kind
of
Pride
,
by
which
we
value
our
own
satisfaction
beyond
his
honour
;
so
sin
by
a
just
punishment
throwes
us
down
below
our selves
;
it
first
induces
us
to
actions
unworthy
our
reason
,
and
after
that
engagement
,
what
Tyranny
like
to
this
usurper
:
For
having
shaken
off
the
fear
of
God
,
(
who
alone
ought
to
be
the
Object
of
that
passion
)
we
sink
into
the
fear
of
every
thing
capable
to
be
the
Term
of
Sense
;
if
a
sound
,
it
is
a
loud
promulgation
of
our
Crime
,
if
a
Shadow
it
is
some
Ambuscado
to
surprize
us
;
if
the
World
be
civil
,
they
are
acts
of
flattery
to
beguile
us
,
if
otherwise
they
are
open
hostilities
raised
by
Heaven
to
begin
that
vengeance
which
will
be
continued
to
eternity
.
Nay
though
the
cause
of
these
terrours
be
taken
away
by
the
reinfusion
of
grace
,
yet
there
is
a
kind
of
unsettledness
within
us
which
remains
ever
after
,
and
is
ready
to
break
forth
upon
every
representation
of
past
offences
.
Witness
our
Holy
Penitent
whom
but
a
little
before
we
have
seen
elevated
with
the
assurance
of
joy
and
prosperity
,
which
was
to
attend
both
his
spiritual
and
corporal
substance
,
but
now
glancing
upon
his
misdeeds
,
they
appear
so
ugly
to
him
,
that
he
believes
it
is
impossible
that
the
unspotted
Eye
of
a
Divinity
can
endure
such
abominations
;
wherefore
lest
he
might
again
be
involved
in
the
same
Abyss
of
misery
,
he
petitions
the
Face
of
God
may
be
averted
from
his
sins
;
as
if
the
just
Judge
of
Mankind
could
not
make
a
review
of
his
actions
,
without
laying
abroad
and
reviving
the
Ashes
of
his
former
condition
.
Again
our
Penitent
discreetly
weighed
that
God
hath
a
Countenance
of
Justice
as
well
as
mercy
,
to
dispense
unto
his
Creatures
;
that
should
the
former
be
cast
upon
him
,
he
were
lost
:
For
who
can
stand
the
Face
of
his
Anger
which
is
a
consuming
fire
;
he
knowes
God
is
just
,
holy
,
nay
purity
and
sanctity
it self
,
't
is
not
then
credible
he
can
have
any
complacence
to
injustice
,
for
sure
he
must
be
of
a
depraved
,
and
sordid
nature
,
that
hath
not
a
disdain
of
what
is
evil
,
hence
after
a
sin
is
committed
,
Almighty
God
suspends
no
longer
the
action
of
his
Will
,
but
passes
judgment
upon
it
in
himself
,
and
prosecutes
with
hatred
where
he
finds
it
,
and
truly
sin
deserves
his
vengeance
.
First
,
it
destroyes
Man
who
is
his
lively
Image
,
and
the
most
noble
Master-piece
he
hath
framed
in
this
World
,
and
as
a
rare
Artist
cannot
but
be
incensed
against
him
who
spoils
his
work
.
So
God
frowns
at
Sin
,
and
it
appears
in
his
sight
more
horrid
and
execrable
than
is
the
plague
,
Thunder
,
or
the
most
venemous
beast
unto
the
sense
of
Man
.
But
his
indignation
stops
not
at
the
Sin
,
he
passes
on
to
the
Sinner
,
who
commits
and
admits
it
within
himself
,
him
he
abominates
as
one
infected
with
the
poyson
of
Sin
,
as
one
disfigured
,
and
grown
up
in
to
a
Monster
,
as
one
who
hath
scorned
the
Empire
of
his
Soveraign
,
entertained
his
Enemy
,
transgressed
,
and
rebelled
against
his
holy
Lawes
.
This
truth
;
saith
Lactantius
,
is
the
Soveraign
basis
of
Religion
,
and
Piety
,
for
who
would
serve
God
if
he
loved
not
his
faithful
Servants
,
and
chastized
not
those
that
scorn
him
;
and
in
nothing
render
that
homage
and
respect
which
is
due
to
his
greatness
.
Do
but
imagine
(
says
a
holy
person
)
with
what
impetuosity
a
rapid
stream
,
that
hath
for
a
while
been
barricado'd
up
,
doth
at
last
finding
a
little
passage
break
through
and
make
its
way
:
or
a
thunderbolt
which
for
a
time
had
been
hemmed
in
a
cloud
,
with
what
a
dreadful
force
it
issues
forth
,
destroying
what
ever
happens
neer
unto
it
:
just
so
the
anger
of
God
,
when
not
restrained
by
his
mercy
and
patience
,
seises
upon
unfortunate
Souls
,
and
inflicts
immortal
and
endless
vengeance
upon
them
:
this
anger
in
the
next
life
will
be
implacable
never
to
be
moderated
in
the
vast
extent
of
Eternity
;
for
as
their
Souls
will
be
Eternally
contaminated
with
Sin
,
so
will
they
be
Eternally
odious
in
the
sight
of
God
.
From
these
considerations
our
holy
penitent
grounds
his
Suit
,
and
supplicates
that
his
face
of
justice
may
be
averted
from
him
;
for
to
be
strook
with
a
million
of
thunderbolts
would
appear
but
like
a
hony
dew
,
if
compared
to
the
terrour
,
which
the
angry
looks
of
our
great
and
good
God
will
strike
into
a
Sinner
.
Turn
away
thy
face
,
that
is
,
examine
not
thy
book
of
accounts
kept
in
the
archive
of
Eternity
,
where
the
debts
of
all
Men
are
enrolled
;
if
you
will
not
connive
,
and
pass
over
our
sins
,
but
retain
them
in
your
sight
,
and
design
their
discussion
before
your
just
tribunal
;
alas
,
who
will
be
able
to
plead
his
cause
;
if
the
just
Man
shall
with
difficulty
be
saved
,
where
can
the
impious
shrowd
his
Head
:
St.
Austin
pronounces
wo
,
and
desolation
to
that
person
,
whose
life
however
pure
and
holy
shall
come
to
be
laid
open
and
brought
to
the
Test
without
the
Mercy
of
God
.
Whilest
our
Petitioner
thus
contemplates
the
disproportion
of
Man's
justice
with
God's
prerogative
,
he
finds
himself
as
it
were
in
a
Labyrinth
,
and
after
many
a
pensive
thought
,
how
to
divert
the
Eye
of
his
displeasure
two
Expedients
occur
.
The
one
by
calling
home
his
affection
to
earthly
things
,
and
by
disowning
all
those
contentments
which
before
he
had
valued
beyond
the
Honour
and
Glory
of
his
God
;
by
suppressing
all
inordinate
passions
,
that
they
break
not
forth
and
wander
upon
unlawful
objects
:
and
when
he
shall
have
no
act
of
inordination
,
to
reproach
him
,
but
enjoy
a
quiet
of
Minde
,
which
knows
no
disturbance
unless
what
arises
from
the
storms
of
repentance
:
In
this
posture
he
hopes
,
the
peaceful
Eye
of
God
will
be
taken
up
in
beholding
the
change
,
wrought
in
him
,
and
that
his
vertues
may
serve
as
a
veil
cast
over
his
sins
;
only
he
begs
further
that
when
he
shall
design
design
him
a
glance
,
that
he
would
not
for
all
this
play
the
curious
,
and
pry
too
narrowly
,
but
rather
the
dissembler
,
as
if
he
saw
no
farther
than
his
penitential
groans
and
tears
.
St.
Bernard
warrants
this
design
of
our
Penitent
by
his
own
experience
;
saying
,
O
my
God
I
transgressed
,
and
thou
didst
feign
not
to
be
offended
,
I
forbear
not
my
crimes
,
yet
thou
didst
forbear
thy
chastisements
,
I
prolonged
,
and
persevered
in
my
iniquity
,
and
thou
O
Lord
in
thy
pitty
.
His
next
stratagem
is
to
interpose
the
amiable
person
of
Jesus
Christ
;
for
if
charity
cover
a
multitude
of
iniquities
,
what
a
preservative
must
this
sacred
pledge
of
Heaven
needs
prove
;
that
propitiatory
Sacrifice
prepared
by
so
many
sufferings
,
is
a
shield
of
protection
,
a
Sanctuary
which
the
Justice
of
God
it self
cannot
force
;
hence
our
Penitent
exclaimed
;
respice
in
faciem
Christi
tui
,
that
if
the
Head
of
Christ
all
Crowned
with
Thorns
were
interposed
'twixt
God
and
a
Sinner
,
it
would
obscure
and
Cloud
his
guiltiness
,
that
his
all-seeing
Eye
clogged
with
benignity
could
not
pierce
the
traverse
,
nor
come
to
a
survey
of
his
iniquities
.
Turn
away
thy
face
from
my
sins
.
This
assurance
Nathan
the
Prophet
gave
him
,
that
his
Sin
was
transferred
,
and
charged
upon
the
Shoulders
of
that
all-immaculate
Lamb
,
who
was
to
bear
away
the
sins
of
the
World
;
it
is
then
under
this
infinite
oblation
,
and
universal
expiation
he
shrowds
his
failings
from
the
face
of
God
.
St.
Austin
observes
,
in
God
not
to
take
notice
,
imports
the
same
thing
as
to
pardon
,
nor
doth
the
frequent
prosperity
of
wicked
people
shake
this
Truth
,
for
every
their
least
deviation
is
registred
and
reserved
till
the
last
bitter
account
they
are
to
make
,
however
they
here
run
on
without
any
stop
,
as
if
the
Sage
ruler
of
all
things
took
no
cognizance
of
their
actions
,
and
which
is
done
parhaps
from
a
foresight
they
will
persevere
to
the
end
in
wickedness
,
and
having
performed
acts
of
moral
vertues
,
God
allowes
them
a
little
calm
in
this
life
.
But
in
our
sense
,
when
God
passes
over
as
undiscerned
our
faults
,
he
remits
them
without
punishment
,
and
so
seems
to
have
been
a
stranger
to
our
misdeeds
;
but
yet
he
never
,
doth
this
;
that
is
;
never
turns
away
his
Face
from
our
sins
,
unless
we
first
turn
our
Face
upon
them
,
placing
them
before
our
Eyes
,
and
touched
with
a
horrour
at
their
deformity
,
abjure
,
and
protest
against
them
;
having
done
this
,
we
must
then
expose
that
abstract
of
wonders
Christ
Jesus
before
the
Eternal
Father
,
that
his
wounded
body
may
serve
as
a
bulwark
to
defend
us
,
and
appease
his
angry
looks
,
which
implies
the
aversion
of
his
Face
,
or
fury
from
us
.
Our
penitent
having
in
this
manner
made
his
way
,
he
hopes
the
effect
will
follow
,
that
God
averting
his
Face
,
in
that
act
will
give
him
an
abolition
of
his
crimes
,
that
so
he
may
reap
the
fruit
of
a
Holy
penitential
fear
.
We
kow
St.
Peter
fared
not
the
worse
,
when
prompted
by
a
low
esteem
of
himself
,
he
requested
his
Lord
to
withdraw
from
him
because
a
sinner
:
No
more
did
the
good
Centurion
lose
any
thing
,
in
acknowledging
his
little
of
merit
to
have
his
house
blessed
,
and
made
happy
by
Christ's
presence
:
So
our
Penitent's
awful
respect
in
declining
the
Face
of
his
Creatour
,
springing
from
a
sense
of
his
own
unworthiness
;
and
believing
his
sins
an
object
unfit
for
an
Eye
so
pure
and
unstained
,
may
perhaps
draw
benedictions
upon
him
,
and
contribute
in
a
large
measure
to
his
happiness
.
Wherefore
he
goes
on
still
repeating
,
turn
away
thy
face
from
my
sins
.
The
Application
.
From
this
discourse
we
may
learn
the
agitations
of
a
Soul
which
hath
once
been
defiled
with
sin
,
sometimes
he
Figures
God
unto
him
as
an
angry
judge
,
and
is
affrighted
to
appear
before
him
,
then
again
as
a
purity
so
compleat
and
Essential
,
that
though
he
should
be
conscious
of
no
guilt
,
as
having
been
cleansed
,
and
washed
as
white
as
Snow
,
he
dares
not
yet
stand
to
the
examen
:
Nay
,
on
the
contrary
it
makes
him
petition
to
have
that
face
(
which
is
the
joy
of
Angels
)
to
be
diverted
from
him
:
we
must
then
in
imitation
of
our
penitent
fix
only
to
this
comfort
,
that
humility
,
repentance
,
and
reverential
thoughts
,
though
they
keep
us
here
depressed
and
under
hatches
,
will
at
last
render
that
face
(
we
would
now
decline
through
the
terrour
of
our
Sins
)
amiable
and
pleasing
into
our
possession
,
whereon
we
may
gaze
,
and
feed
our
glorifyed
Senses
for
all
Eternity
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XX.
Et
omnes
iniquitates
meas
dele
,
And
wipe
away
all
my
iniquities
.
ST.
Cyril
of
Alexandria
saith
,
in
the
j●…stification
of
a
sinner
are
required
certain
previous
dispositions
,
amongst
which
he
reckons
up
faith
,
hope
,
repentance
,
and
fear
:
Whence
I
conceive
the
apprehension
of
our
Holy
Penitent
,
lest
God
should
fasten
his
regards
upon
his
iniquities
mentioned
in
the
preceeding
verse
,
was
initiative
,
and
preliminary
to
his
present
address
.
That
his
iniquities
may
be
wiped
away
.
St.
Austin
holds
it
a
thing
most
rare
,
that
any
should
embrace
Christian
Religion
,
who
have
not
first
received
within
them
an
impression
of
the
fear
of
God
.
That
the
Ninivites
became
Penitent
,
and
shrowded
themselves
under
a
veil
of
Sackcloth
,
and
Ashes
:
The
only
cause
was
a
fear
of
vengeance
threatned
them
by
the
preaching
of
Jonas
.
St.
Hierom
upon
the
First
Chapter
of
Malachy
sayes
,
behold
O
Lord
how
the
fear
of
punishment
diverts
us
from
evil
,
and
that
the
priviledge
of
being
your
Children
arises
from
a
servile
apprehension
.
Our
Penitent
was
not
ignorant
of
this
,
when
after
a
dread
conceived
of
God's
judgments
,
he
immediately
proceeds
(
as
if
prepared
by
that
terrour
)
to
demand
an
abolition
of
his
crimes
.
Wipe
away
my
iniquities
.
Besides
he
here
explicates
himself
more
fully
,
that
in
case
he
do
procure
the
Face
of
God
to
be
averted
,
then
he
is
confident
,
the
sequel
will
be
an
expulsion
of
sin
by
grace
.
For
it
were
absurd
that
faith
,
love
,
and
other
qualities
inherent
,
should
be
necessary
to
dispose
us
for
pardon
,
and
yet
the
formal
effect
to
be
extrinsecal
,
and
a
justice
not
ours
,
but
imputed
to
us
.
St.
Paul
desides
this
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Colossians
.
Christ
hath
freed
us
from
the
power
of
darkness
and
transferred
us
into
the
Kingdom
of
the
love
of
his
Son
.
Where
you
see
the
infusion
of
justice
(
by
which
a
Man
becomes
pious
)
succeeds
to
the
Remission
of
sin
,
by
which
we
cease
to
be
impious
,
and
just
as
the
Air
by
the
same
ray
of
the
Sun
,
hath
not
only
its
darkness
expelled
,
but
also
is
filled
with
light
;
so
that
true
Son
of
Justice
communicating
unto
Man
his
divine
grace
,
doth
at
once
by
this
gift
disperse
the
Clouds
of
sin
,
and
replenish
him
with
the
splendour
of
inherent
Justice
.
The
same
Apostl●…
Rom.
5.
takes
away
all
doubt
in
this
point
;
saying
,
that
the
grace
of
God
is
diffused
into
our
hearts
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
who
is
given
unto
us
;
and
that
no
mistake
in
this
Text
may
happen
,
St.
Austin
explicates
it
in
this
Sense
.
The
charity
of
God
is
said
to
fill
our
hearts
;
not
with
that
love
by
which
he
loves
us
,
but
by
●he●…by
which
we
love
him
.
It
is
then
in
this
fountain
of
love
,
which
springs
within
us
,
whose
over-flowing
streams
arise
from
Christ's
donation
;
in
these
we
are
washed
,
we
are
sanctifyed
,
and
made
just
;
by
this
regeneration
we
are
said
to
become
a
new
Creature
,
and
from
an
Enemy
purchase
the
title
of
being
the
Son
of
God
,
all
which
powerfully
import
a
mutation
and
real
change
within
us
.
St.
John
in
his
First
Epistle
sayes
,
he
that
doth
justice
is
just
:
Abel
was
just
in
that
he
sacrificed
unto
God
with
all
the
circumstances
of
homage
due
unto
a
supream
Being
:
Noah
just
in
that
he
gave
credit
unto
God
,
feared
his
judgements
,
and
obeyed
his
commands
.
St.
Luke
affirms
Zachary
and
Elizabeth
to
be
just
from
their
compliance
,
and
obedience
to
Divine
precepts
;
so
that
it
is
clear
the
Principle
of
their
justification
was
inherent
,
and
that
nothing
extrinsick
or
imputative
can
be
the
formal
cause
of
our
actions
,
for
if
not
issuing
from
something
within
us
,
we
cannot
own
them
to
be
ours
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
filled
with
supernatural
illustrations
,
was
not
a
stranger
to
Divine
Lawes
established
in
order
to
Man's
conversion
:
Wherefore
he
knew
well
his
Petition
,
to
have
his
iniquities
strook
off
,
involved
the
gift
of
grace
by
whose
power
alone
they
were
to
be
destroyed
.
Nay
,
even
Natural
Reason
will
lead
us
to
this
Truth
,
for
justification
is
a
motion
from
sin
to
justice
,
whence
its
name
is
derived
,
as
calefaction
from
heat
:
Now
it
is
evident
to
expell
cold
,
will
not
be
thought
calefaction
,
unless
the
quality
of
heat
be
introduced
:
So
the
bare
remission
of
sin
,
cannot
amount
to
an
act
of
justification
,
without
the
consecution
of
Justice
;
which
is
the
End
,
we
tend
to
in
this
motion
.
Besides
,
justification
is
not
bestowed
on
us
by
God
meerly
to
avoid
punisment
,
it
is
designed
as
well
to
fit
us
for
Heavenly
rewards
,
this
St.
Paul
testifyes
ad
Rom.
8.
That
God
glorifyes
whom
he
hath
justifyed
;
of
which
glory
a
simple
absolution
cannot
be
the
Subject
,
since
no
person
by
a
judicial
sentence
clearing
him
from
guilt
,
is
thought
by
that
to
merit
a
reward
,
but
to
exchange
the
condition
of
an
enemy
for
that
of
a
friend
,
of
a
domestick
,
nay
of
a
childe
,
this
must
needs
be
wrought
by
something
more
than
a
bare
condition
.
In
this
Petition
then
he
implores
virtually
the
infusion
of
justifying
grace
,
a
divine
quality
inherent
it
the
Soul
,
which
like
a
bright
ray
of
the
Sun
disperses
all
the
Clouds
of
sin
,
before
whose
presence
without
a
miracle
it
cannot
subsist
one
sole
moment
:
It
likewise
enclines
the
Soul
to
Christian
duties
,
and
from
that
source
do
flow
all
the
v●rtuous
,
and
pious
action
we
perform
:
For
as
sin
expells
justice
,
being
opposite
to
habitual
grace
;
not
only
by
way
of
privation
,
but
contrariety
:
So
a
supream
act
of
love
opposes
habitual
sin
,
and
by
a
contrary
working
,
as
an
efficient
cause
destroyes
it
.
Whence
infusion
of
grace
,
and
deletion
of
sin
do
as
infallibly
succeed
to
such
an
act
of
love
,
as
the
infusion
of
a
rational
soul
into
a
Body
after
humane
generation
.
Thus
our
Petitioner
like
a
quaint
Pen-man
,
so
couches
his
demands
,
as
to
comprize
in
them
much
more
than
the
letter
seems
to
express
:
Wipe
away
all
my
iniquities
.
This
word
all
is
emphatick
,
and
expresses
with
some
energy
a
desire
not
only
to
have
those
sins
which
appear
before
him
,
and
reproach
his
ingratitude
,
to
be
remitted
:
But
also
what
ever
are
set
upon
his
score
in
that
eternal
Book
of
accounts
,
and
contracted
by
him
,
either
through
ignorance
,
inadvertence
,
or
oblivion
,
in
not
discharging
what
he
owes
for
their
expiation
.
Our
Petitioner
had
reason
to
add
this
Particle
,
and
frame
his
Petition
full
,
if
we
reflect
upon
what
Solomon
sayes
Ecclesiast.
ch.
8.
That
all
things
concerning
another
life
shall
here
be
wrapt
up
in
doubts
and
uncertainties
.
No
security
of
our
state
whether
markt
out
to
punishment
,
or
reward
:
For
were
there
any
means
to
this
discovery
,
the
benefits
of
God
would
lay
it
open
;
yet
we
find
these
indiscriminately
dispenced
to
the
just
and
impious
;
to
preserve
some
in
humility
,
he
loads
them
with
afflictions
,
lest
others
should
despair
,
he
fills
them
with
abundant
consolations
;
some
he
draws
by
the
Lure
of
temporal
blessings
,
so
to
buoy
them
up
from
despair
,
or
in
reward
of
some
moral
vertue
;
others
he
steeps
in
the
bitterness
of
wants
and
disgraces
,
to
stop
the
Carreer
of
pride
,
and
excess
;
and
by
a
paternal
correction
he
presents
an
opportunity
by
which
they
are
either
deterred
from
sin
,
or
may
satisfy
in
this
life
for
their
transgressions
.
Sometimes
again
the
doom
of
punishment
begins
here
which
is
to
last
for
eternity
;
so
that
neither
adversity
,
nor
prosperity
give
us
any
light
into
the
state
of
Men's
consciences
,
whence
our
Penitent
,
fearing
lest
any
unknown
guilt
may
stain
his
Soul
,
petitions
that
all
his
iniquities
may
be
taken
away
.
St.
Paul
confesses
after
a
severe
inquisition
of
himself
though
he
found
no
matter
of
accusation
,
yet
he
durst
not
trust
to
his
own
justification
;
knowing
well
,
the
judgments
of
God
and
Men
are
very
different
,
and
if
we
groap
so
much
in
our
own
concerns
,
what
madness
upon
every
slight
conjecture
,
and
surmise
,
to
pass
sentence
of
condemnation
upon
our
Neighbour
:
This
savours
not
the
Spirit
of
an
Apostle
who
would
have
no
other
Vmpire
than
Christ
the
true
searcher
of
hearts
;
and
the
same
maxime
was
fixed
in
our
Holy
Penitent
,
who
not
daring
to
secure
himself
from
all
imputations
,
cryes
out
;
wipe
away
all
my
iniquities
that
no
sin
,
upon
what
account
contracted
,
may
escape
the
Seal
of
God's
pardon
.
How
many
have
been
seen
who
beheld
themselves
with
an
Eye
of
satisfaction
as
patterns
of
innocency
,
as
possessing
within
themselves
the
treasure
of
grace
,
to
a
great
proportion
;
and
yet
brought
to
the
Test
were
found
empty
Vessels
,
and
poor
Objects
of
frailty
and
malice
.
St.
Peter
told
his
blessed
Master
he
was
ready
to
attend
him
unto
Prisons
,
nay
,
even
to
Death
it self
;
but
the
event
proved
he
had
not
the
Ground-work
of
such
a
fortitude
within
him
.
St.
Paul
whilst
he
played
the
fierce
Lyon
,
preying
upon
the
Blood
of
Christians
,
believed
all
his
flames
were
enkindled
by
a
just
zeal
of
God's
Holy
Lawes
,
and
how
do
we
know
but
many
actions
of
ours
may
proceed
from
a
gross
ignorance
,
which
will
not
render
us
inexcusable
at
the
latter
day
;
what
greater
Evidence
of
integrity
than
to
Sacrifice
life
in
any
cause
,
and
yet
this
we
have
seen
done
on
either
side
of
two
opinions
diametrically
opposite
to
each
other
:
Both
these
propose
unto
themselves
Almighty
God
above
all
things
amiable
as
the
motive
of
their
sufferings
,
yet
without
dispute
one
of
the
two
must
needs
be
involved
in
errours
,
and
in
the
total
privation
of
grace
:
Hhw
justly
then
doth
our
Penitent
(
suspending
all
judgement
of
his
condition
)
beg
that
all
his
iniquities
may
be
taken
away
;
that
if
he
have
not
perfect
Charity
he
may
obtain
it
,
if
he
go
astray
he
may
be
reduced
into
the
right
path
,
if
in
darkness
he
may
be
filled
with
light
;
and
since
we
are
ignorant
of
our
own
state
,
and
that
God
hath
reserved
the
knowledge
of
this
Truth
to
himself
,
he
is
resolved
in
his
petition
never
to
omit
this
clause
;
Et
omnes
iniquitates
mea●
dele
,
and
wipe
away
all
my
iniquities
.
The
Application
.
In
pursuance
of
this
design
we
are
in
regard
of
our
own
infirmity
,
and
indisposition
never
to
Lull
our selves
in
security
,
since
God's
promises
in
order
to
the
remission
of
sins
require
on
our
part
,
that
we
be
worthily
disposed
for
the
reception
of
the
Sacraments
:
Now
to
have
an
infallible
assurance
of
this
fitted
disposition
,
or
that
we
are
not
guilty
of
some
secret
pride
,
some
mortal
sin
undiscovered
,
some
inordinate
cleaving
to
the
World
,
and
the
like
,
is
by
God's
Providence
locked
up
in
his
own
Breast
,
so
to
keep
us
humble
,
wary
,
and
in
fear
of
his
judgments
:
Wherefore
all
we
have
to
do
,
is
to
hope
in
the
mercy
of
God
,
in
the
merits
of
Christ's
passion
,
and
efficacy
of
the
Sacraments
,
and
then
conclude
with
the
same
Prayer
of
our
Penitent
,
that
all
our
defects
and
transgressions
whether
known
or
concealed
to
us
may
be
blotted
out
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXI
.
Cor
mundum
cre●
in
me
Deus
,
Create
in
me
O
God
a
clean
heart
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
in
the
Ten
precedent
Verses
,
working
like
an
expert
Carver
by
way
of
defalcation
had
still
desired
he
might
be
brought
into
shape
,
by
cutting
off
all
those
Excrescencies
,
which
made
him
monstrous
in
God's
Eye
:
Now
he
petitions
(
believing
his
whole
frame
vitiated
,
and
unfit
for
his
design
)
that
a
new
model
might
be
drawn
up
of
him
,
and
new
materials
inserted
in
the
whole
structure
.
In
order
to
this
,
he
first
moves
to
have
a
clean
heart
created
in
him
;
this
shews
him
a
wise
,
and
bold
beggar
,
that
will
not
be
content
with
scrapps
,
but
askes
a
treasure
which
may
enrich
,
and
enable
him
to
give
to
his
Benefactour
:
For
this
addresse
implyes
a
reformation
of
all
the
faculties
of
his
Soul
,
the
Scripture
expressing
frequently
by
the
name
of
Heart
both
the
understanding
,
Will
,
and
Memory
:
So
that
all
these
once
purifyed
,
and
adorned
with
innocence
,
he
will
be
able
to
produce
Heroick
acts
of
faith
and
hope
;
and
the
daily
influence
of
divine
favours
still
rising
in
his
imagination
,
must
needs
enkindle
flames
of
Charity
within
him
.
St.
Hierom
compares
sanctifying
grace
with
the
essence
of
the
Soul
,
for
as
the
powers
,
and
natural
faculties
(
which
are
the
instrument
of
action
)
flow
from
the
essence
:
So
from
grace
are
distilled
into
the
powers
of
the
Soul
all
those
vertues
by
which
they
are
moved
and
carryed
on
to
what
they
act
.
Grace
then
is
like
a
new
Being
which
elevates
Man
above
his
natural
condition
,
and
puts
him
into
a
capacity
of
possessing
God
who
is
his
supernatural
end
;
and
by
consequence
it
ought
like
a
noble
Queen
be
attended
with
a
train
of
infused
habits
of
Vertues
.
The
Theological
furnish
us
with
wings
to
fly
in
a
straight
Line
unto
God
;
the
Cardinal
set
us
in
a
just
comportment
of
holiness
towards
our
Neighbour
,
and
our
selves
:
Nay
,
when
Sanctifying
Grace
shall
no
more
be
clogged
with
the
Mass
of
the
Body
,
and
relicks
of
sin
,
her
last
operation
will
be
to
produce
unto
us
the
clear
vision
of
God
,
accompanied
with
beatifick
love
;
for
the
essential
part
of
grace
is
the
same
thing
with
Glory
,
and
only
distinguished
like
to
what
is
perfect
,
from
that
which
is
less
perfect
,
or
as
a
thing
begun
from
what
is
finished
and
compleat
.
This
Sanctifying
Grace
then
is
the
fountain
our
Penitent
thirsts
after
,
for
the
purifying
his
Heart
,
and
if
once
washed
in
this
stream
he
may
justly
call
it
a
clean
heart
,
witness
the
Prophet
Ezekiel
Chap.
6.
I
will
shower
down
upon
you
a
pure
water
,
and
it
will
cleanse
you
from
all
your
iniquities
.
If
this
stain
consist
in
a
perverse
action
unretracted
,
Sanctifying
grace
recalls
this
perverse
action
by
an
habitual
conversion
unto
God
,
and
submission
to
his
Holy
Will.
If
it
speak
an
offence
to
God
,
grace
repairs
this
injury
,
and
makes
that
injurious
Action
no
more
voluntary
:
If
his
ugliness
spring
from
an
enmity
with
God
,
grace
appeases
all
his
anger
,
and
changes
it
into
a
love
of
complacence
as
a
necessary
effect
;
not
that
to
love
us
he
hath
any
need
,
but
because
a
Soul
enriched
with
Grace
is
just
,
and
righteous
,
and
whilest
it
is
in
such
a
condition
,
God
cannot
but
delight
himself
in
an
object
so
worthy
and
deserving
.
If
his
deformity
involves
an
obligation
to
eternal
punishment
,
grace
clears
all
that
score
,
raising
a
Soul
to
that
degree
as
she
is
worthy
of
Heaven
:
Now
't
is
impossible
that
being
in
a
state
capable
of
enjoying
him
,
she
can
be
lyable
to
such
a
debt
,
wherefore
there
is
nothing
so
hideous
,
and
abominable
in
a
sinner
,
which
grace
doth
not
destroy
.
Thus
you
see
what
an
expedient
our
Holy
Penitent
hath
pitched
upon
to
arrive
by
it
to
his
designed
purity
,
and
if
he
obtain
his
demand
,
he
knowes
his
work
is
done
;
that
is
,
the
operation
of
grace
is
so
infallible
,
as
the
effect
is
not
to
be
hindred
:
For
it
is
not
possible
that
a
Soul
at
the
same
time
can
be
innocent
,
and
guilty
,
holy
,
and
impious
;
have
a
Right
to
Heaven
and
lyable
to
eternal
death
:
So
that
being
once
drowned
in
this
purifying
Ocean
,
he
receives
a
pledge
of
all
the
felicity
that
either
the
nature
of
Angels
or
Men
is
capable
off
.
But
it
may
be
objected
,
that
our
Petitioner
may
fall
short
of
his
expectation
even
though
he
obtain
his
demand
:
For
we
see
many
holy
habits
introduced
with
grace
,
to
lye
as
dead
within
us
;
no
wayes
disposing
us
sensibly
to
supernatural
actions
;
Nay
on
the
contrary
,
that
persons
so
enriched
are
often
disturbed
,
and
harassed
with
the
insolencies
of
perverse
inclinations
:
Now
the
reason
of
this
is
,
that
the
effects
of
Grace
are
spiritual
,
and
without
the
Sphere
of
sense
,
so
that
these
supernatural
vertues
being
of
a
quite
different
rank
from
the
vitious
propensions
of
our
corrupt
nature
,
they
do
not
by
their
presence
necessarily
destroy
them
.
This
position
our
Penitent
admits
,
knowing
that
God
obliges
not
himself
to
communicate
unto
every
Soul
all
kind
of
supernatural
vertues
as
a
necessary
dependance
on
Sanctifying
grace
;
but
that
he
distributes
to
some
more
to
others
less
,
in
reference
either
to
their
want
,
their
disposition
,
or
the
Series
of
his
Holy
Providence
,
which
deals
the
measure
of
his
favours
according
to
his
will
.
Having
weighed
all
this
,
he
recollects
his
thoughts
as
to
his
own
particular
,
and
remembers
how
before
he
defiled
himself
with
sin
.
God
had
witnessed
a
satisfaction
in
the
choice
of
him
,
making
him
the
object
of
his
most
obliging
liberalities
;
next
,
he
considers
that
when
God
is
pleased
to
sign
his
pardon
and
letters
of
grace
unto
a
sinner
,
he
doth
not
only
free
him
from
eternal
punishment
for
what
is
past
,
but
restores
all
the
treasure
he
had
hoarded
up
in
the
sunshine
of
his
favour
,
nay
more
,
conferres
an
addition
of
grace
in
that
very
penitential
act
by
which
he
concurs
with
his
merciful
call
:
So
that
he
hath
reason
to
hope
if
he
purchase
a
clean
heart
;
that
is
,
if
it
be
sprinkled
with
the
dew
of
sanctifying
grace
,
his
understanding
now
stupified
in
the
mists
of
sin
,
will
receive
its
wonted
irradiations
,
his
will
born
down
with
the
weight
of
earthly
affections
,
will
breath
forth
again
amorous
languishments
after
eternal
delights
;
his
memory
which
now
records
the
ugly
species
of
sensual
pleasures
,
will
be
taken
up
in
the
holy
entertainments
of
a
spiritual
life
;
and
in
sequel
of
this
,
he
thinks
it
not
presumption
to
believe
,
he
shall
find
himself
in
the
same
,
if
not
better
condition
than
before
his
fall
;
and
in
possession
of
all
those
precious
titles
the
Divine
Oracle
had
once
pronounced
of
him
.
This
meditation
puts
him
upon
great
resolves
how
to
preserve
,
and
improve
the
purity
he
sues
for
,
that
it
may
more
strictly
unite
him
to
God
who
is
his
final
end
,
his
hope
,
and
beatitude
;
wherefore
every
moment
he
redoubles
his
petition
.
Create
in
me
O
God
a
clean
heart
.
Another
motive
of
this
his
Petition
is
,
in
that
the
heart
is
the
source
of
all
evil
:
'T
is
from
thence
that
Homicide
,
Adultery
,
Theft
,
and
other
sins
arise
,
which
gave
occasion
unto
many
great
wits
to
assert
,
that
internal
transgressions
alone
were
punished
by
God
,
and
if
at
any
time
the
scourge
of
his
anger
seems
to
fall
heavy
upon
external
acts
,
it
was
meerly
upon
the
score
of
bad
example
,
whose
consequences
are
for
the
most
part
very
pernicious
to
Mankind
.
Besides
,
as
the
heart
is
the
fountain
of
all
evil
,
so
is
it
no
less
of
all
good
:
For
the
goodness
and
malice
of
every
action
consists
in
its
conformity
with
reason
,
which
rule
cannot
be
squared
out
by
external
acts
,
because
the
power
that
sets
them
on
work
,
cannot
discern
whether
the
object
be
sutable
to
reason
or
no.
This
alone
belongs
to
the
understanding
,
and
in
sequel
to
the
Will
,
by
whose
direction
it
is
led
:
It
is
evident
then
that
on
the
motion
of
the
heart
(
which
expression
comprizes
the
three
faculties
of
the
Soul
as
I
said
in
the
beginning
)
depends
the
blame
,
and
praise
of
whatsoever
we
do
:
For
that
an
action
may
be
said
to
be
of
Man
;
the
understanding
must
first
give
its
approbation
,
by
which
he
doth
it
knowingly
;
next
,
the
will
is
to
make
its
election
,
and
in
that
owns
its
liberty
:
Lastly
,
the
memory
is
for
the
most
part
filled
with
various
Images
of
Terrestrial
Objects
,
by
which
it
solicits
the
will
to
vain
and
bad
desires
,
so
that
,
if
these
three
be
reformed
,
he
questions
not
but
to
deface
all
the
fantomes
and
representations
of
this
World
which
have
led
him
so
astray
,
and
by
a
total
diversion
from
all
that
is
Earth
,
to
repose
quietly
in
God
:
That
then
his
understanding
may
receive
the
irradiations
of
a
holy
light
,
his
will
be
consumed
in
the
flames
of
a
pure
love
,
his
memory
stript
of
all
the
species
of
vain
objects
,
he
incessantly
repeats
:
Create
in
me
O
God
a
clean
heart
.
St
Gregory
sayes
that
Abel's
Sacrifice
was
so
highly
acceptable
unto
God
in
that
he
had
first
offered
up
the
same
in
his
heart
;
so
that
it
was
not
the
best
of
his
flocks
,
but
the
devotion
of
his
heart
,
which
set
a
value
upon
that
action
.
Again
,
the
gloss
sayes
,
it
is
not
the
loudness
of
the
voice
,
but
the
lovingness
of
the
heart
which
sounds
sweetly
in
God's
Ear
;
so
that
if
you
strike
not
upon
this
string
,
and
according
to
those
notes
which
our
great
Musitian
hath
set
down
,
you
will
but
●arr
,
and
make
a
dissonancy
ungrateful
to
your
Creatour
.
This
our
Blessed
Saviour
sufficiently
hinted
in
St.
Matthew
,
when
he
sayes
,
They
honour
me
with
their
lips
,
but
their
heart
is
far
from
me
:
Which
imports
,
that
though
our
Lips
,
Eyes
,
Hands
,
and
every
other
part
speak
Sanctity
and
Holiness
;
yet
if
our
Heart
that
great
Wheel
give
not
motion
to
the
rest
,
the
End
will
be
nothing
but
disorder
and
confusion
.
It
is
storied
of
St.
Catharine
of
Sienna
,
that
reading
this
verset
of
David
,
she
petitioned
for
a
new
heart
,
believing
her
own
to
be
defiled
with
Sin
;
for
her
love
represented
to
her
every
the
least
defect
as
a
monstrous
deformity
:
The
issue
of
this
her
Address
was
,
that
Christ
our
Lord
appeared
to
her
,
opened
her
breast
,
took
out
her
heart
,
and
thus
left
her
heartless
,
but
not
hopeless
;
in
this
plight
she
continued
somedays
,
when
her
amorous
maker
returns
,
and
fills
the
void
place
he
had
left
with
his
own
heart
:
O
happy
exchange
,
so
that
for
ever
after
this
blessed
Saint
was
wont
to
conjure
our
Saviour
,
that
he
should
have
care
of
his
own
heart
:
if
then
St.
Catharine
prosecuting
the
form
of
anothers
petition
met
with
so
good
success
,
have
we
not
reason
to
conclude
the
like
amorous
enterchange
befel
our
holy
prophet
,
especially
if
we
reflect
upon
what
God
sayes
of
him
,
that
he
had
found
a
Man
according
to
his
own
heart
,
that
is
,
who
in
all
things
follow
the
motion
and
impulse
of
that
heart
I
gave
him
:
But
I
conceive
this
Exchange
in
the
Legend
of
St.
Catharine
is
not
understood
to
be
Physical
and
real
,
the
moral
is
,
when
God
destroyes
in
a
sinners
heart
the
foul
Characters
he
there
had
forged
,
he
takes
his
pencil
,
marks
it
for
his
own
,
drawing
upon
it
his
divine
gifts
and
favours
;
whence
St.
Ambrose
sayes
,
at
the
latter
day
the
reproach
of
a
sinner
will
be
to
have
blotted
out
the
fair
Images
of
innocence
and
simplicity
of
heart
;
delineated
by
the
Hand
of
God
,
and
in
the
Room
to
have
set
up
his
own
Idol
of
shame
and
vanity
;
lest
then
any
of
those
hideous
spectres
may
appear
at
that
dreadful
Tribunal
he
now
implores
,
that
the
Table
of
his
heart
,
as
yet
capable
of
other
impressions
,
may
be
run
o're
with
the
strokes
of
his
mercy
:
To
this
end
he
cryes
;
Create
in
me
O
God
a
clean
heart
.
When
the
Machabees
had
regained
the
Temple
of
Sion
,
their
resolution
to
destroy
the
Altar
prophaned
by
Antiochus
was
commended
,
because
all
their
Ceremonies
of
Purification
,
whilst
the
Altar
stood
,
could
never
have
washed
away
the
opprobry
of
that
contamination
.
Our
holy
penitent
was
fixed
on
the
same
principle
,
for
beholding
his
soul
contaminated
by
his
transgressions
,
his
whole
contrivance
is
,
that
there
may
be
no
witness
extant
,
nor
any
Monument
remain
of
his
infidelity
,
wherefore
he
begs
a
recreation
,
or
rather
such
a
production
of
habits
opposit
to
what
he
had
contracted
,
as
it
might
not
appear
the
same
thing
:
He
would
not
have
it
created
anew
,
(
for
he
knew
it
to
be
incorruptible
,
and
immortal
)
but
that
God
would
daign
so
to
renew
it
,
as
it
might
seem
a
new
Creation
;
for
to
restore
it
to
its
former
condition
of
innocen●…
,
was
all
one
as
to
create
it
;
that
whereas
before
his
heart
was
like
a
World
without
a
Sun
,
excluded
both
from
light
and
heat
,
now
upon
this
transmutation
it
might
become
more
pure
than
Snow
,
whiter
than
Milk
,
and
more
beautiful
than
the
polished
Saphir
.
That
whereas
before
it
was
like
a
City
burnt
,
sacked
,
and
rased
to
the
ground
;
for
the
future
it
might
prove
a
fortress
impregnable
against
all
the
Worlds
allurements
.
That
whereas
before
it
was
like
a
habitation
deserted
and
made
a
refuge
only
for
Toads
,
Spiders
,
and
Snakes
;
hereafter
it
might
serve
as
a
Temple
for
the
Holy
Ghost
,
attended
on
with
a
retinue
of
supernatural
and
moral
vertues
.
That
whereas
before
he
had
not
Eyes
but
to
prye
into
the
faults
of
others
,
for
the
time
to
come
he
might
be
quick-sighted
only
to
discern
his
own
misdeeds
.
Lastly
,
whereas
he
had
left
God
to
follow
sin
,
and
at
the
same
time
became
as
it
were
a
stranger
to
himself
,
now
he
sues
for
a
clean
heart
that
he
may
recover
himself
,
and
so
return
to
his
God
,
hoping
like
the
Prodigal
Son
to
find
some
little
Corner
of
retreat
in
his
Fathers
house
;
though
it
be
but
in
the
nature
of
a
hireling
.
These
are
his
aims
,
and
which
he
awaits
as
the
effects
of
his
Metamorphosed
heart
,
he
knowes
on
its
temper
depends
the
consistence
of
all
vertues
,
and
if
that
foundation
be
well
laid
,
it
will
be
the
more
secure
for
him
to
reenter
his
formes
possession
.
He
is
not
likewise
ignorant
,
that
of
all
the
gifts
wherewith
God
hath
ennobled
Man
,
it
is
not
only
our
heart
he
exacts
in
requital
;
hence
it
is
that
the
Enemy
of
Mankind
layes
all
his
batteries
particularly
against
it
,
insomuch
that
St.
Chrysostome
affirms
there
is
not
any
Nation
,
City
,
or
Person
in
the
whole
World
,
against
whom
so
many
designs
are
set
on
Foot
both
by
open
force
and
treachery
,
as
are
machinated
against
a
poor
distressed
heart
;
and
which
is
yet
more
deplorable
,
that
most
of
its
Enemies
are
hatched
,
and
trained
up
within
its
own
Breast
,
who
like
the
Viper
tears
asunder
the
womb
that
bare
them
.
Besides
,
they
are
all
armed
compleatly
against
it
,
whilest
this
defendant
to
preserve
it self
against
so
many
Harpyes
and
ravenous
Wolves
,
hath
nothing
but
a
poor
will
,
and
this
weakned
extreamly
enfeebled
by
original
sin
;
so
that
many
times
it
is
so
overpowred
,
what
by
the
charms
of
objects
presented
to
her
,
what
by
their
importunity
,
and
near
approach
,
that
unable
to
make
any
offensive
;
nay
,
or
so
much
as
defensive
play
,
all
she
can
do
,
is
to
disown
and
disavow
any
compliance
,
protesting
against
the
violence
of
all
her
mutinous
passions
.
In
these
distresses
our
Penitent
knew
well
it
was
necessary
to
have
a
clean
heart
,
that
is
,
a
heart
st●…d
in
that
perfection
,
as
might
dimini●…
the
effects
of
●…iginal
sin
;
for
a
Soul
arrived
once
at
perfection
,
performs
acts
of
vertues
with
such
facility
as
if
he
seemed
not
to
have
forfeited
〈◊〉
●usti●es
,
and
though
usually
this
happiness
is
not
purchased
but
by
a
long
tract
of
unwearied
practise
,
yet
God
can
supply
all
this
by
a
superabundant
Collation
of
his
Grace
,
and
with
these
hopes
,
he
confidently
and
incessantly
tunes
forth
,
create
in
me
O
God
a
clean
heart
.
The
Application
.
Here
we
are
taught
that
in
all
our
actions
we
must
attend
to
the
sincerity
of
our
intentions
for
it
is
not
the
material
thing
we
do
,
that
gives
a
value
to
them
,
but
the
source
from
whence
they
spring
;
and
if
that
be
qualifyed
with
a
pure
designment
to
aim
only
at
God's
glory
,
then
it
is
evident
they
proceed
from
a
heart
fashioned
by
the
hand
of
God
,
and
directed
by
his
all-moving
Spirit
,
St.
Austin
sayes
,
we
shall
be
rewarded
,
or
punished
,
according
to
the
will
by
which
we
have
acted
.
Abraham
lost
not
his
Son
,
nor
likewise
did
he
lose
his
merit
,
because
it
is
the
same
moral
goodness
which
resides
in
the
inferiour
and
exteriour
act
,
and
if
the
one
be
obstructed
,
this
takes
not
off
the
esteem
due
to
the
other
;
just
as
the
Sun
is
still
luminous
,
though
a
Cloud
sometimes
hinders
the
effect
of
his
beams
:
Let
us
bless
therefore
our
good
God
who
contents
himself
with
the
heart
,
and
let
us
dispose
that
alwayes
ready
for
his
service
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXII
.
Et
Spiritum
rectum
innova
in
visceribus
meis
,
And
renew
in
my
Bowels
a
right
spirit
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
in
this
clause
keeps
the
method
of
a
wise
Petitioner
,
having
an
Eye
not
only
to
his
present
succour
,
but
also
how
to
settle
a
constant
supply
:
For
to
have
implored
a
dean
heart
would
avail
him
little
without
a
sentinel
and
guard
to
protect
this
fountain
from
impure
hands
:
He
was
not
ignorant
that
the
will
is
a
blind
faculty
that
must
be
directed
,
wherefore
he
petitions
here
in
behalf
of
his
understanding
,
that
it
may
receive
those
lights
which
are
necessary
for
his
conduct
in
all
the
occurrences
of
this
life
.
Renew
in
my
Bowels
a
right
spirit
.
This
spiritual
rectitude
consists
in
two
heads
,
to
wit
,
faith
and
morality
:
The
first
teaches
what
we
owe
to
God
,
the
other
what
is
due
to
our
Neighbour
and
our
selves
;
the
first
discovers
unto
us
the
perfections
,
and
attributes
of
God
,
and
of
these
gives
us
a
most
certain
knowledge
not
lyable
to
any
errour
,
because
it
is
grounded
on
the
Testimony
of
God
,
which
is
more
infallible
than
our
reason
,
senses
,
or
apparitions
of
the
dead
.
Now
that
this
certitude
in
matter
of
Faith
ought
to
be
of
all
things
most
unquestionable
,
is
evident
:
For
Man
is
obliged
to
prefer
God
before
all
created
things
,
to
set
a
value
upon
the
works
of
his
service
beyond
any
proper
interest
of
riches
,
honour
,
nay
of
life
,
which
is
frankly
to
be
exposed
in
defiance
of
all
the
cruelties
that
can
be
inflicted
,
rather
than
to
fail
in
the
least
tittle
of
what
Faith
prescribes
as
due
to
our
Creatour
:
It
were
then
very
severe
we
should
be
tyed
to
forfeit
what
is
most
precious
to
us
in
this
World
,
and
to
sustain
that
which
we
most
abhor
,
and
all
this
for
a
thing
that
is
dubious
,
uncertain
,
and
lyable
to
errour
.
Wherefore
in
all
reason
the
knowledge
we
have
by
Faith
ought
to
be
the
most
depurated
from
dross
of
doubt
,
or
vacillation
:
Now
what
can
be
more
secure
and
satisfactory
than
to
be
taught
by
God
himself
,
instructed
by
his
word
and
revelation
,
who
is
a
supream
verity
and
cannot
reveal
a
falshood
,
and
which
is
conveyed
unto
us
by
the
Church
,
who
is
the
immediate
receptacle
of
Divine
truths
;
so
that
it
is
inconceivable
how
any
expedient
could
be
found
more
efficacious
to
quiet
the
minds
of
Men
in
religious
duties
than
this
of
Revelation
.
In
other
vertues
God
seems
to
treat
with
us
familiarly
,
and
as
equalls
,
laying
down
reason
to
move
us
to
embrace
them
;
but
in
matter
of
Faith
he
playes
the
Sovereign
,
he
commands
,
forbids
,
threatens
,
promises
,
and
delivers
things
which
surpass
all
imagination
,
and
this
without
any
evidence
,
or
reason
of
their
existence
;
now
though
at
the
first
glance
this
proceeding
seems
harsh
,
yet
seriously
weighed
it
will
be
found
a
stroke
of
his
goodness
;
for
whilst
we
believe
amidst
these
Clouds
and
obscurity
,
it
speaks
more
loud
an
act
of
our
free
will
which
is
the
spring
of
merit
,
presupposing
the
existence
of
grace
:
For
if
where
we
most
contradict
our selves
,
there
is
a
Subject
of
greater
merit
,
certainly
in
nothing
Man
doth
more
devest
himself
of
his
inclinations
than
in
acts
of
Faith
,
for
he
renounces
his
natural
way
of
knowledge
by
reason
,
and
sense
;
he
Sacrifices
his
understanding
to
God's
simple
word
,
and
believes
all
the
greatnesses
and
wonders
of
the
Divine
Being
,
and
mysterious
works
,
meerly
because
he
hath
said
it
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
desirous
to
be
irradiated
with
these
unerring
notions
,
petitions
that
a
right
Spirit
may
be
resetled
in
him
,
for
supposing
Man's
End
or
Beatitude
,
which
is
to
know
,
serve
,
love
,
and
glorify
God
in
all
Eternity
;
we
must
in
order
to
this
end
raise
our
understanding
and
affections
to
objects
which
outstrip
the
power
of
sense
,
and
exceed
the
reach
of
our
natural
reason
;
the
acts
of
Religion
by
which
we
pay
our
duty
to
God
,
being
supernatural
,
and
justly
proportioned
to
Beatitude
to
which
they
tend
;
now
Man
of
himself
without
some
light
from
above
,
cannot
frame
any
supernatural
act
;
of
himself
he
knowes
not
what
homage
and
service
is
due
to
his
Sovereign
Monarch
,
nor
with
what
Sacrifices
he
ought
to
appease
his
anger
,
and
pay
the
tribute
of
thanks
,
and
adoration
,
wherefore
he
begs
,
that
he
himself
would
teach
him
and
be
his
Master
,
that
he
may
not
like
the
Gentiles
follow
the
vain
dictamens
of
sense
,
but
serve
him
as
he
would
be
served
,
and
in
that
manner
as
might
be
most
agreeable
to
his
divine
will
,
which
he
shall
infallibly
perform
if
he
daign
to
fill
him
with
his
right
Spirit
;
and
renew
in
my
bowels
a
right
Spirit
.
But
whilst
he
sues
that
this
Spirit
all
guiding
of
Truth
may
be
infused
into
his
bowels
,
that
is
diffused
through
the
whole
Man
,
in
such
sort
that
every
particle
of
him
may
feel
its
operation
,
he
is
not
I
say
so
transported
as
not
to
consider
what
he
asks
,
and
in
that
the
great
condescendency
of
God
,
who
disdains
not
to
converse
with
Men
;
he
deals
not
with
them
as
he
doth
with
Angels
,
where
the
superiour
intelligences
instruct
the
inferiour
,
but
by
himself
an
increated
wisdom
,
he
conveys
unto
our
happy
Ears
the
mysterious
wonders
of
our
Faith
:
It
is
by
him
we
are
taught
that
all
sin
is
forbidden
,
even
to
the
least
thought
or
desire
;
that
God
is
to
be
loved
above
all
things
,
and
sin
to
be
abominated
in
the
highest
degree
,
so
that
the
exact
observer
of
his
Laws
must
be
holy
and
enriched
with
all
vertues
;
there
is
nothing
in
our
Faith
that
speaks
not
the
greatness
of
God
,
nothing
that
is
not
sublime
,
transcending
,
and
what
becomes
not
an
infinite
Majesty
;
he
layes
down
nothing
of
eternal
things
that
sounds
the
least
imperfection
:
So
that
the
compleat
knowledge
of
them
must
needs
involve
a
joy
eternal
,
since
even
in
the
transitory
passage
of
this
life
we
experience
the
most
solid
contentment
and
satisfaction
we
have
to
consist
in
the
sweet
Meditation
of
those
Mysteries
:
For
alas
,
without
those
hopes
which
Faith
gives
us
,
what
Captive
more
wretched
than
Man
;
we
are
as
banished
into
a
Land
of
misery
,
enslaved
by
sin
,
where
we
truckle
under
the
insolency
of
unruly
passions
,
which
hurries
into
many
disasters
and
calamities
;
at
last
,
we
finish
a
deplorable
life
by
death
,
in
whose
Face
is
seated
nothing
but
dread
and
horrour
:
After
this
corruption
,
stanch
,
and
infection
are
the
last
farewell
and
monument
of
us
,
so
that
without
Faith
we
are
centered
within
these
myseries
,
unable
to
carry
our
sight
beyond
the
low
condition
of
a
brute
,
and
unreasonable
Creature
.
On
the
contrary
,
faith
teaches
we
are
created
to
a
supernatural
and
blessed
end
,
which
we
are
to
purchase
by
acts
of
Religion
:
That
our
Souls
are
immortal
,
by
which
(
resembling
the
Angels
)
we
are
excluded
from
putrefaction
,
and
approach
the
nearer
to
God
:
That
he
hath
created
all
things
of
nothing
in
which
belief
we
acknowledge
his
Omnipotency
,
and
cherish
our
own
hopes
,
that
if
he
could
extract
us
out
of
nothing
,
with
more
facility
can
he
after
death
rejoyn
our
disunited
parts
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
figures
to
himself
all
these
comforts
resulting
from
divine
faith
,
and
in
sequel
implores
with
instance
that
a
right
spirit
may
be
renewed
within
him
.
But
I
conceive
our
Holy
Penitent
looked
not
upon
himself
as
wholy
deprived
of
habitual
faith
,
for
though
every
mortal
sin
disposes
afar
off
unto
its
total
ruine
,
and
truly
merits
it
should
be
taken
from
us
;
yet
God
is
so
merciful
as
to
leave
that
foundation
unalterable
by
sin
,
unless
directly
undermined
by
an
opposite
act
of
infidelity
.
In
this
petition
then
for
a
right
spirit
he
pretends
to
the
operation
of
habitual
faith
;
that
is
,
an
actual
and
firm
belief
of
Objects
proposed
by
Faith
:
His
reason
is
,
that
the
lights
and
irradiations
of
Faith
have
a
certain
blessing
from
God
,
to
stir
up
and
carry
the
will
to
what
is
good
;
so
that
after
an
act
of
Faith
produced
in
the
understanding
,
he
knew
his
clean
heart
would
no
longer
lye
a
sleep
,
but
grow
up
into
a
spark
which
would
both
enlighten
and
enflame
,
as
the
Prophet
Habakkuk
sayes
,
Chap.
1.
The
just
Man
lives
by
Faith
;
that
is
,
Faith
actuated
,
and
enlivened
both
preserves
the
Soul's
life
by
grace
,
and
by
merit
opens
a
passage
to
eternal
glory
.
Run
o're
the
World's
History
from
the
Creation
,
and
you
will
find
habitual
faith
lying
dead
and
frozen
within
us
to
have
been
the
source
of
all
our
misery
.
The
reprobate
Angels
upon
what
score
did
they
forfeit
that
precious
title
of
being
the
Sons
of
God
?
was
it
not
in
that
they
preferred
a
motion
of
self
love
,
before
the
motives
of
faith
,
which
would
have
rendered
them
stable
and
secure
?
What
a
frivolous
plea
made
Adam
for
his
trespass
,
lest
his
Wife
upon
his
denyal
might
have
grown
sad
,
as
if
a
fear
to
offend
God
,
and
ruine
his
whole
posterity
ought
not
to
have
prevailed
in
this
temptation
?
Had
Cain
considered
the
greatness
of
God
,
his
obligation
to
observe
his
Law
in
loving
his
Brother
,
a
petty
suggestion
of
avarice
,
or
sting
of
envy
,
could
never
have
animated
him
to
an
action
so
horrid
;
the
Massacre
of
so
many
Infants
by
Herod's
command
wherein
he
thought
to
have
involved
the
person
of
Jesus
Christ
was
meerly
upon
the
account
of
ambition
,
the
Jewish
Oracles
foretelling
his
raign
and
Empire
,
which
Herod
understood
to
be
of
this
World
;
nor
did
the
Jews
put
our
Saviour
to
death
,
but
in
order
to
the
preservation
of
their
City
,
and
themselves
in
the
good
Opinion
of
the
Romans
;
so
that
Men
have
been
pushed
on
in
all
their
crimes
by
humane
reasons
and
interests
;
whilst
they
laid
aside
those
disswasives
which
Faith
held
forth
to
them
,
and
which
had
(
if
duly
weighed
)
rendered
them
victorious
,
witness
St.
John
Chap.
5.
The
power
of
faith
hath
made
a
conquest
of
the
World
,
which
is
meant
not
of
the
habit
,
but
act
of
faith
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
applyes
all
this
to
himself
,
having
seen
the
shipwrack
that
befel
him
through
a
sluggishness
in
not
giving
life
and
activity
to
his
faith
:
For
when
he
was
tempted
to
impurity
and
other
his
transgressions
that
sprang
from
thence
,
had
he
considered
what
faith
teaches
concerning
mortal
sin
,
that
it
deprives
a
Soul
of
eternal
glory
,
adjudges
her
to
the
endless
torments
of
Hell
,
that
it
throwes
a
scorn
and
contempt
upon
a
God
whose
greatness
and
Majesty
is
infinite
,
and
who
merits
from
all
Creatures
a
respect
and
love
ineffable
;
had
he
fixt
himself
on
these
sublime
and
supernatural
reasons
of
Faith
the
Childish
baits
of
flesh
and
blood
could
never
have
taken
hold
upon
his
unfortunate
senses
;
wherefore
to
prevent
at
least
for
the
future
,
he
solicits
a
right
spirit
may
be
infused
into
him
,
a
spirit
that
may
not
be
overgrown
with
rust
like
a
sword
in
a
scabberd
for
want
of
use
;
but
that
it
may
prove
active
even
to
his
very
bowels
,
which
is
to
say
,
that
this
noble
quality
of
faith
producing
frequently
acts
,
by
the
consideration
of
its
proper
objects
,
may
gain
his
will
,
memory
,
sensitive
and
moving
faculties
,
and
so
happily
conduct
him
to
his
designed
Beatitude
;
renew
in
my
Bowels
a
right
spirit
.
After
Faith
thus
enlivened
as
a
necessary
dependent
,
comes
in
a
troop
of
moral
vertues
,
which
compleats
the
rectitude
of
his
spirit
,
he
so
much
desires
:
For
vertue
is
a
habit
that
enclines
the
Soul
to
perform
actions
sutable
to
a
reasonable
nature
;
and
though
the
Soul
be
sufficient
of
herself
by
her
natural
faculties
to
frame
several
acts
of
vertue
,
yet
it
is
with
hardship
and
difficulty
,
whereas
this
quality
of
vertue
contributes
a
facility
by
which
the
good
thence
issuing
is
done
with
promptitude
,
and
delight
.
It
consists
in
a
mediocrity
between
two
extreams
,
that
is
,
too
little
,
or
too
much
:
For
example
;
Charity
is
between
a
coldness
or
indevotion
,
and
an
indiscreet
Zeal
:
Fortitude
between
rashness
and
cowardise
;
so
of
the
rest
:
Wherefore
the
art
is
,
so
to
steer
your
course
as
to
keep
at
an
equal
distance
from
them
both
,
yet
alwayes
mindful
,
that
if
one
be
more
dangerous
than
the
other
,
you
are
most
to
decline
that
;
as
if
I
would
embrace
the
vertue
of
hope
,
which
is
beset
with
presumption
and
despair
,
and
my
complexion
cold
and
melancholly
drawes
me
on
the
extremity
of
despair
,
this
certainly
most
threatens
my
ruine
,
and
therefore
I
am
to
look
upon
every
spark
of
that
with
more
apprehension
,
than
a
fire
which
issues
from
presumption
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
knew
that
whilest
he
sailed
in
the
Ocean
of
this
World
,
he
must
needs
be
flanked
with
two
dangerous
Rocks
,
that
is
two
opposite
vices
to
any
vertue
he
would
embrace
,
so
that
if
he
keep
not
a
steady
hand
to
the
helm
,
by
the
least
diversion
he
is
cast
upon
a
shelf
which
will
destroy
him
:
Wherefore
it
behoves
him
to
fit
himself
with
a
right
spirit
,
a
Spirit
of
vertue
,
which
leaning
upon
the
Principles
of
reason
,
might
preserve
him
in
that
degree
of
honour
wherein
he
is
ranked
amidst
created
Beings
.
For
as
knowledge
makes
one
knowing
,
so
vertue
gives
us
the
title
of
good
,
and
as
the
good
of
any
thing
consists
in
the
just
measure
and
proportion
unto
it
;
he
concludes
this
right
spirit
of
vertue
to
be
a
purchase
worthy
his
ambition
;
since
doubtless
nothing
to
Man
as
Man
is
more
sutable
and
agreeing
,
than
such
actions
as
are
produced
conformable
to
a
reasonable
nature
;
he
anticipates
his
Son's
Declaration
,
and
thinks
nothing
profitable
,
pleasant
,
or
great
,
which
is
not
made
so
by
vertue
:
This
right
spirit
will
shower
down
spiritual
comforts
,
settle
him
in
peace
with
God
,
Angels
,
and
Men
;
shelter
him
under
the
wings
of
God's
Providence
,
which
never
fails
to
cherish
those
who
live
according
to
the
rules
of
vertue
;
and
after
a
life
attempered
with
the
Harmony
of
delightful
actions
,
it
changes
into
swee●…ss
,
the
grim
face
of
Death
,
making
it
a
secure
passage
unto
eternal
Beatitude
,
He
is
resolved
to
put
in
execution
the
practice
both
of
intellectual
and
moral
vertues
,
and
that
they
may
prove
meritorious
,
he
begs
they
may
be
infused
into
him
,
that
when
he
considers
the
infinity
of
God's
Being
,
and
the
immensity
of
his
perfections
,
he
may
forthwith
pay
him
the
just
tribute
of
glory
,
respect
,
and
submission
;
all
worship
,
praise
,
and
possible
endeavours
of
Piety
:
That
his
omnipotency
may
never
pass
his
thoughts
without
an
entire
obedience
to
his
will
,
that
his
inexhausted
and
unerring
wisdom
may
draw
him
to
acts
of
faith
,
and
firm
assent
to
his
divine
word
.
That
the
fidelity
of
his
never
failing
promises
may
fix
a
reliance
,
and
assured
hope
in
him
:
That
his
unwearied
goodness
may
ravish
him
into
a
charity
and
love
never
to
be
extinguished
.
That
his
incomparable
greatness
may
work
him
into
the
annihilation
of
himself
before
him
,
and
give
him
a
true
feeling
of
his
own
vileness
.
That
a
terrour
of
his
judgments
may
throw
him
into
a
course
of
rigid
pennance
for
his
misdeeds
,
and
his
unspeakable
favours
be
met
with
all
the
Testimonies
of
gratitude
,
which
a
poor
Creature
can
give
:
He
knowes
that
had
he
a
Million
of
hearts
lodg'd
within
his
own
person
,
yet
could
they
never
reach
that
love
his
goodness
merits
,
and
should
he
stoop
even
unto
Hell
;
nay
lower
were
it
possible
,
it
would
still
be
short
of
that
submission
due
to
his
greatness
:
Wherefore
though
he
be
hopeless
to
pay
what
he
owes
,
he
will
shew
at
least
he
hath
a
will
to
be
just
,
nor
doth
he
blush
at
his
impotency
,
since
it
springs
from
the
excellency
of
his
Creditour
,
from
whom
likewise
he
expects
to
be
enabled
towards
the
discharge
of
his
arrears
,
and
he
conceives
no
treasure
can
be
more
effectual
than
that
of
a
right
spirit
,
and
therefore
he
incessantly
repeats
;
renew
in
my
bowels
a
right
spirit
.
The
Application
.
God
will
be
adored
in
spirit
and
truth
,
wherefore
man
is
to
serve
and
honour
him
,
by
a
certain
knowledge
sutable
to
his
intellectual
nature
;
now
in
the
essence
of
God
are
contained
wonders
not
to
be
comprehended
by
the
natural
force
of
our
understanding
:
Whence
we
are
with
our
Holy
Penitent
to
Petition
for
a
right
spirit
,
that
is
the
excellent
light
of
faith
,
by
which
we
are
raised
to
a
more
eminent
knowledge
of
the
Divinity
,
than
all
the
activity
and
vigour
of
our
reason
could
ever
reach
.
In
this
knowledge
consists
eternal
life
,
in
the
ignorance
of
this
eternal
death
:
For
with
what
Face
shall
he
one
day
ask
Heaven
of
the
adorable
Trinity
,
who
hath
never
known
that
mystery
?
Or
claim
a
share
in
the
fruit
of
our
redemption
,
who
hath
been
ignorant
of
Jesus
Christ
?
Let
us
then
beg
for
this
heavenly
wisdom
,
by
which
we
are
taken
off
from
the
low
affection
to
Creatures
,
to
fix
our
Eyes
upon
the
greatness
of
our
Creatour
,
the
wonders
of
his
works
,
and
amidst
a
Million
of
ravishing
objects
which
this
right
spirit
presents
to
our
meditation
,
let
us
insist
with
a
particular
gust
on
this
,
that
our
Souls
are
created
for
eternal
bliss
;
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXIII
.
Ne
projicias
me
à
facie
tua
,
Cast
me
not
away
from
thy
face
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
seems
here
to
question
the
success
of
his
precedent
petition
,
by
which
he
had
sued
for
a
right
understanding
;
this
argues
how
unsetled
the
mind
of
a
sinner
is
,
that
no
sooner
he
had
aimed
at
this
irradiation
,
but
immediately
he
is
struck
with
a
terrour
of
his
demerits
,
and
fancies
his
doom
is
to
be
eternally
banished
from
the
Face
of
God
,
wherefore
he
cryes
,
cast
me
not
away
from
thy
Face
.
St.
Hierom
conceives
this
clause
levels
only
at
the
communication
of
his
Divinity
in
order
to
the
Hypostatick
union
,
which
he
apprehends
in
punishment
of
his
sin
might
be
concealed
from
him
;
and
therefore
he
sayes
,
cast
me
not
away
from
thy
face
;
that
is
,
deprive
me
not
of
the
knowledge
of
thy
divine
nature
as
it
relates
to
Man
in
the
great
Sacrament
of
the
incarnation
:
It
is
this
mystery
he
fears
to
be
ravished
off
,
which
brings
along
with
it
a
fulness
of
time
,
and
wherein
all
the
groans
and
labours
of
many
longing
Souls
will
cease
and
be
at
rest
.
But
the
more
vogued
opinion
layes
this
expression
upon
his
anxiety
touching
his
eternal
reprobation
:
He
knew
he
was
unworthy
of
eternal
life
through
the
forfeiture
of
grace
he
had
made
,
and
whether
being
now
a
Vessel
of
dishonour
,
the
divine
Artist
will
not
leave
him
eternally
in
this
reproachful
mould
is
the
just
motive
of
his
fear
.
He
remembers
a
passage
in
Exodus
,
where
our
Lord
threatens
to
obdurate
the
heart
of
Pharaoh
,
and
it
is
no
less
affrighting
what
St.
Paul
declares
,
that
God
is
merciful
on
whom
he
will
have
mercy
;
and
in
the
Fourth
Chapter
to
the
Corinthians
,
God
hath
cast
an
obcaecation
on
the
Minds
of
unbelievers
.
Yet
our
Petitioner
is
too
good
a
Divine
as
(
entertaining
these
reflections
)
to
make
God
the
efficient
cause
of
Man's
obdurateness
,
he
knowes
that
God
is
only
permissive
,
and
accidentally
concurring
unto
final
impenitency
;
that
is
,
in
not
imparting
his
grace
dissolving
Hearts
unto
such
as
will
not
receive
it
;
for
since
they
obstinately
cleave
unto
sin
,
he
is
not
obliged
to
violence
the
liberty
of
Man's
free-will
which
he
hath
in
his
Creation
decreed
unto
him
:
Nor
prodigally
throw
away
his
precious
grace
upon
those
who
contemn
it
;
Wherefore
the
penal
substraction
of
his
grace
springs
not
from
the
slow
current
of
mercy
to
a
sinner
:
For
it
is
alwayes
ready
to
flow
where
the
Channel
is
cut
out
,
and
prepared
to
receive
it
;
but
from
the
malice
of
Man
by
which
he
is
totally
averted
from
God
,
opposite
and
refractory
to
his
holy
inspirations
.
When
therefore
he
begs
not
to
be
sequestred
from
his
face
,
far
be
it
from
his
thoughts
to
impeach
God
as
Author
of
obdurateness
;
it
would
only
speak
he
is
cause
of
the
punishment
not
the
fault
:
That
if
by
the
prevarication
of
our
first
Parent
we
were
reduced
to
such
a
condition
,
as
God
might
justly
leave
us
to
our selves
,
much
more
by
actual
sin
do
we
deserve
it
;
and
in
this
dereliction
we
can
never
rise
,
nor
frame
a
supernatural
act
,
without
which
it
is
not
possible
to
attain
unto
Salvation
:
So
that
if
God
will
use
his
own
right
,
and
divert
his
face
,
that
is
the
effects
of
his
goodness
and
mercy
from
him
,
he
gives
himself
for
lost
,
and
so
justly
lost
as
not
to
have
the
least
matter
of
complaint
against
his
Judge
:
Nay
on
the
contrary
he
joyns
issue
with
the
Prophet
Esay
;
saying
,
Lord
,
if
all
the
Nations
thou
hast
made
should
perish
,
who
can
blame
thee
.
If
God
hath
drawn
some
out
of
the
gulf
of
perdition
to
issue
forth
the
Marks
of
his
goodness
,
even
in
the
height
and
fury
of
their
malice
,
this
is
no
warrant
to
our
Petitioner
that
for
his
sake
he
will
break
the
ordinary
rule
of
his
providence
:
he
rather
apprehends
he
may
be
made
an
Example
of
his
Justice
,
and
be
abandoned
to
his
corrupt
inclinations
,
wherefore
he
petitions
that
he
would
daign
to
cast
a
benign
Eye
upon
him
,
nor
throw
him
away
from
his
blessed
face
.
Another
dismal
thought
occurs
which
eggs
him
on
to
this
demand
,
and
it
ought
certainly
to
be
very
dreadful
to
a
sinner
;
that
is
,
there
is
a
certain
period
set
to
every
Man's
transgressions
,
which
is
called
the
measure
of
his
iniquities
,
and
if
this
be
once
compleated
,
such
a
Cloud
of
obstinacy
and
perseverance
in
evil
involves
him
,
as
he
never
will
be
cheered
with
the
Sun-shine
of
God's
mercy
:
This
proceeding
hath
been
evident
in
the
downfall
of
several
Nations
and
Cities
,
whose
excess
of
wickedness
hath
drawn
upon
them
the
exterminating
hand
of
God
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
first
places
before
his
Eyes
the
universal
deluge
,
where
it
is
declared
that
the
World
had
accomplished
their
malice
,
and
by
it
so
prepared
the
divine
Justice
,
as
there
wanted
nothing
but
his
avenging
Rod
to
fall
heavy
upon
them
.
Again
,
as
to
the
Land
of
promise
designed
to
the
Seed
of
Abraham
,
God
told
him
he
could
not
yet
perform
it
,
and
his
patience
awaited
the
space
of
four
hundred
years
untill
the
Amorites
,
and
Canaanites
had
summed
up
their
iniquities
,
after
which
they
were
made
a
prey
to
the
Children
of
Israel
.
In
sequel
of
this
our
Holy
Penitent
concludes
,
that
though
these
examples
in
a
vast
multitude
were
remarkable
,
and
terrifying
,
yet
God's
judgements
hold
the
same
method
in
the
concern
of
every
particular
Soul
.
Besides
,
his
fears
encrease
when
he
considers
that
God's
patience
is
spun
out
longer
with
some
than
others
;
and
whether
his
last
sin
might
not
be
the
upshot
and
close
of
all
God's
special
favours
to
him
,
he
knowes
not
:
Wherefore
in
this
suspence
,
and
just
subject
of
apprehension
,
he
petitions
not
to
be
thrown
away
from
his
face
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
finds
notwithstanding
some
glimmerings
of
comfort
,
when
he
revolves
in
hes
Mind
the
marks
of
this
helpless
desolation
.
First
he
remembers
when
the
Sodomites
were
consumed
in
the
flames
of
his
anger
,
the
Harbinger
of
their
destruction
was
their
notorious
and
publick
commission
of
their
crimes
,
and
this
joyned
with
such
impudence
as
to
vaunt
and
boast
of
their
impieties
.
Our
sad
Penitent
found
himself
not
guilty
of
this
,
for
what
contrivances
had
he
nol
framed
to
conceal
his
sin
,
and
when
reproved
by
Nathan
presently
with
shame
and
confusion
he
owned
his
miscarriage
.
The
next
presage
of
Reprobation
is
obstinacy
which
was
laid
before
him
in
the
person
of
Pharaoh
,
whose
hardned
heart
not
all
the
importunities
of
Moses
,
nor
the
prodigious
wonders
he
wrought
,
could
in
the
least
mollify
,
nor
,
work
him
to
the
dismission
of
God's
people
:
When
therefore
you
behold
a
person
so
bent
upon
his
wicked
wayes
,
as
no
remonstrance
,
entreaty
,
promise
nor
threat
can
prevail
,
you
have
reason
to
believe
(
as
St.
Paul
sayes
)
they
are
given
up
to
a
reprobate
sense
,
which
insensibly
and
unawares
will
bring
them
to
endless
ruine
.
Our
Petitioner
cannot
likewise
accuse
himself
of
this
prelude
to
perdition
;
this
present
Psalm
(
which
he
composed
immediately
after
the
Prophet
from
the
part
of
God
had
denounced
unto
him
his
ingratitude
)
sufficiently
evinces
,
he
was
not
deaf
to
the
workings
of
God's
inspirations
,
nor
impenetrable
against
the
power
of
exciting
grace
.
Another
cause
of
God's
dereliction
is
an
habitual
application
to
a
certain
sin
,
to
which
one
is
so
fastned
,
as
his
ordinary
grace
hath
no
effect
to
draw
him
from
it
;
and
God
is
pleased
not
to
gratify
him
with
any
thing
extraordinary
in
punishment
of
his
transgressions
,
having
so
often
abused
his
mercy
:
This
habitual
malice
was
evident
in
the
Jews
,
who
from
age
to
age
had
persecuted
the
Prophets
,
sent
to
mind
them
of
their
duties
,
insomuch
as
St.
Stephen
laid
it
to
their
charge
,
and
defied
them
to
name
any
one
who
had
escaped
their
fury
;
and
this
they
continued
,
untill
at
last
they
laid
their
hands
on
the
Saint
of
Saints
Christ
Jesus
;
after
which
Sacrilegious
act
,
arrived
at
the
utmost
pitch
of
their
demerits
,
they
were
given
up
to
the
Tyranny
of
the
Romans
,
who
totally
subverted
their
City
and
Nation
.
Our
Penitent
had
reason
to
hope
his
deviation
was
an
effect
of
frailty
rather
than
malice
,
having
not
continued
any
space
without
repentance
,
when
once
his
sin
was
represented
to
him
by
the
Minister
of
God's
word
,
yet
knowing
the
web
of
Man's
Salvation
to
be
wrapt
up
in
the
secret
of
the
Divine
Providence
,
that
though
he
had
revealed
to
many
of
his
Servants
the
glad
tidings
of
their
predestination
,
yet
never
had
he
to
any
communicated
the
doom
of
reprobation
,
lest
it
might
cast
them
into
despair
;
therefore
he
thinks
it
the
wisest
course
to
sail
between
hope
and
fear
,
and
in
all
events
to
implore
,
that
he
may
not
be
excluded
from
his
sight
.
Some
again
weighing
the
subsequent
verse
,
where
our
Penitent
petitions
God
not
to
take
away
from
him
his
holy
spirit
,
are
of
Opinion
that
this
demand
imports
not
a
dread
of
reprobation
(
for
he
seems
to
thinks
himself
in
the
possession
of
grace
)
but
argues
rather
a
fear
to
have
stopt
the
sacred
stream
of
God's
extraordinary
favours
towards
him
:
For
he
was
so
well
versed
in
the
wayes
of
perfection
,
as
he
knew
the
foundation
of
a
life
of
Sanctity
consists
in
the
good
management
of
divine
inspirations
,
and
that
the
greatest
Saints
have
from
thence
derived
their
happy
success
in
a
spiritual
life
.
We
see
no
King
nor
Common-wealth
,
if
they
find
any
person
unfaithful
in
a
slight
Office
,
that
will
entrust
to
him
a
more
weighty
charge
;
and
why
should
we
think
that
God
will
be
less
prudent
in
the
Government
of
Souls
.
St.
Prosper
sayes
that
God
imparts
his
graces
in
order
,
and
by
degrees
:
First
distilling
into
them
some
little
dropps
of
his
grace
,
and
then
a
greater
quantity
,
in
case
those
first
be
carefully
improved
;
it
being
a
good
earnest
,
that
he
who
acquits
himself
with
fidelity
in
ordinary
things
,
will
in
matters
of
greater
perfection
come
off
with
no
less
honour
.
Whereas
on
the
contrary
,
the
first
step
to
the
misfortune
of
a
sinner
,
is
made
by
the
neglect
of
God's
early
inspirations
in
the
beginning
:
For
there
is
not
any
Pagan
,
misbeliever
,
or
Christian
,
whom
he
stirs
not
up
to
the
common
practice
of
vertue
,
as
obsequiousness
to
our
Parents
,
the
avoiding
Theft
,
Luxury
,
and
the
like
;
and
if
they
comply
with
these
,
he
fails
not
to
enflame
them
with
desires
,
and
gives
them
abilities
to
arrive
at
more
sublime
perfection
.
Wherefore
our
Penitent
fears
he
may
have
demerited
in
this
Nature
,
and
begs
not
to
be
excluded
from
his
face
;
that
is
,
not
to
be
deprived
of
those
endearments
wherewith
he
is
wont
to
overwhelm
such
Souls
as
correspond
with
his
inspirations
;
and
if
hitherto
he
hath
played
the
Coy
one
,
and
scorned
his
dalliances
;
for
the
future
he
will
change
his
humour
,
and
cherish
every
the
least
motion
of
his
dear
Creatour
:
He
will
aim
at
a
perfect
resemblance
of
his
beloved
;
in
imitation
of
his
wisdom
he
will
discern
good
from
evil
,
and
distinguish
'twixt
the
less
and
greater
good
alwayes
embracing
that
which
is
best
.
In
order
to
his
purity
as
much
as
is
consistent
with
frail
nature
,
supported
by
grace
he
hopes
to
preserve
himself
from
all
stain
and
imperfection
.
That
some
sparks
of
his
charity
may
shine
in
him
,
he
will
love
that
which
God
loves
,
and
love
nothing
but
what
he
loves
,
and
upon
the
same
motives
whereon
his
love
is
grounded
In
a
word
,
he
will
unite
all
his
faculties
with
God
in
as
strict
an
alliance
as
this
present
condition
of
mortality
will
bear
,
provided
he
be
not
exiled
from
his
Face
,
nor
the
flood-gates
of
gracious
communications
shut
up
in
punishment
of
his
past
offences
.
Whilst
the
person
offended
admits
the
offendour
to
his
presence
,
it
argues
there
is
not
an
utter
breach
between
them
,
wherefore
till
a
sentence
of
banishment
be
passed
,
he
still
retains
some
hope
;
his
aim
then
in
this
petition
is
,
to
put
a
barr
to
this
extremity
of
rigour
;
He
confesses
it
is
a
bitter
thing
to
leave
God
,
but
yet
a
far
greater
to
be
left
by
him
;
and
a
main
appearance
of
this
is
,
when
he
leaves
us
to
the
desires
of
our
own
heart
;
like
a
Physitian
who
permits
his
patient
in
a
desperate
condition
to
eat
and
drink
what
he
please
:
He
knowes
the
anger
of
God
is
great
when
he
is
not
angry
with
a
sinner
,
and
that
it
is
a
stroke
of
his
goodness
,
when
his
temporal
chastisement
immediately
followes
the
offence
;
so
that
if
he
please
to
afflict
him
,
and
like
a
Jealous
God
issue
forth
his
indignation
upon
the
place
for
every
misdemeanour
,
He
is
ready
to
embrace
with
open
arms
what
ever
affliction
he
shall
send
,
and
is
willing
to
expose
his
breast
to
the
direst
shafts
of
his
fury
;
so
it
may
but
divert
this
great
subject
of
his
fears
,
as
to
bee
ternally
cast
out
from
his
presence
.
Neprojicias
me
,
&c.
The
Application
.
We
behold
by
this
clause
,
how
all
along
in
this
petition
our
Penitent
hath
been
terrifyed
with
the
ugly
shape
of
sin
;
and
now
he
begins
to
apprehend
the
effects
of
sin
which
is
Death
:
For
Death
and
sin
considered
apart
are
very
frightful
,
but
once
joyned
together
,
that
is
to
dye
in
sin
,
there
is
nothing
more
dreadful
:
and
this
dismal
stroke
he
fears
,
when
he
sayes
cast
me
not
away
from
thy
face
.
St.
John
Damascene
observes
two
derelictions
of
God
;
the
one
seeming
,
when
he
permits
the
just
to
fall
into
sin
,
that
by
experiment
of
their
frailty
,
they
might
rise
more
humble
,
and
more
watchfully
attend
to
their
Salvation
.
This
happened
to
our
Penitent
St.
Peter
,
and
divers
others
.
The
other
is
absolute
,
and
a
final
cashier
for
ever
,
and
this
happens
when
after
all
remedies
applyed
,
a
Soul
remains
stupid
,
and
incurable
(
even
to
the
last
)
by
his
obstinate
perseverance
in
wickedness
:
so
that
God
foreseeing
this
obdurateness
withholds
his
special
grace
,
and
so
lets
him
end
in
his
impenitency
;
we
are
here
therefore
to
joyn
with
our
Petitioner
,
and
beg
we
may
not
come
to
this
period
,
or
consummation
of
our
iniquities
,
but
timely
lay
hold
on
the
shield
of
his
mercy
:
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXIV
.
Et
spiritum
Sanctum
tuum
nè
auferas
à
me
,
And
take
not
from
me
thy
holy
Spirit
.
THe
workings
of
God's
Holy
Spirit
in
our
Souls
are
great
secrets
,
and
if
to
our
selves
unknown
,
no
wonder
that
to
others
they
lye
hid
,
and
though
he
be
in
us
after
a
quite
different
manner
,
than
he
is
said
to
be
ubiquitary
by
his
essence
,
presence
,
and
power
;
yet
his
approach
,
or
recess
is
so
insensible
,
as
the
best
persons
during
this
life
are
left
in
suspence
,
ignorant
whether
they
be
in
a
condition
of
love
,
or
hatred
with
their
Creatour
:
Of
this
blessed
Job
seemed
to
complain
,
saying
Chap.
19.
If
he
come
I
shall
not
see
him
,
and
when
he
retires
I
am
in
the
same
Cloud
.
Notwithstanding
God
is
pleased
sometimes
though
rarely
to
dispense
with
his
ordinary
proceeding
,
as
to
give
such
marks
of
his
grace
and
friendship
to
a
Soul
,
that
it
is
apparent
even
to
the
Eye
of
the
Body
.
Of
this
we
have
an
example
in
the
Feast
of
Pentecost
,
when
the
Holy
Ghost
descended
upon
the
Apostles
in
form
of
fiery
tongues
,
so
replenishing
their
Minds
with
knowledge
,
and
enflaming
their
Hearts
with
charity
,
as
the
whole
World
was
in
a
short
time
laid
prostrate
to
the
power
of
their
doctrine
and
miracles
.
In
this
clause
of
the
petition
we
have
likewise
reason
to
pass
the
same
Opinion
of
our
Holy
Penitent
,
that
he
had
been
gratified
with
the
like
visible
communication
of
this
divine
gift
:
The
past
transactions
'twixt
God
and
his
once
happy
Soul
were
fresh
in
his
memory
,
and
how
he
had
designed
to
reveal
unto
him
many
secrets
of
his
Providence
:
Nay
,
had
given
him
so
many
proofs
of
inhabiting
grace
,
as
one
must
be
strangely
stupid
not
to
acknowledge
it
.
Now
here
he
seems
to
cheer
himself
with
a
confidence
,
that
after
his
petition
for
a
clean
heart
,
and
right
understanding
,
he
is
again
in
the
enjoyment
of
his
blessed
presence
by
grace
and
charity
;
wherefore
he
begs
he
might
alwayes
dwell
with
him
,
and
that
he
may
never
more
tast
the
bitter
absence
of
his
Holy
Spirit
:
Et
spiritum
sanctum
tuum
,
&c.
Spiritual
Men
who
have
employed
their
thoughts
on
the
subject
of
the
mission
of
the
divine
persons
unto
Creatures
,
discover
advantages
by
this
Embassy
unto
humane
nature
which
seem
to
surpass
all
the
wonders
of
our
faith
;
at
least
they
are
conveyed
unto
us
with
more
sensible
delight
.
First
,
they
say
when
a
Soul
is
priviledged
with
a
visit
from
that
divine
spirit
,
she
doth
not
only
receive
inherent
and
accidentall
grace
,
not
only
splendours
which
irradiate
,
and
ardour●
which
enflame
,
but
even
the
substantial
Principium
the
Holy
Ghost
from
whence
they
flow
.
Witness
St.
Paul
2.
ad
Rom.
The
charity
of
God
is
diffused
through
our
hearts
by
the
Holy
Ghost
who
is
given
to
us
.
The
Philosopher
sayes
,
that
two
Lovers
if
possibly
would
become
but
one
,
because
this
identity
would
destroy
all
fear
of
separation
,
and
since
they
cannot
arrive
to
this
,
at
least
by
conversation
,
discourse
,
and
mutual
presence
they
give
themselves
to
one
another
.
Now
the
love
of
God
is
all-powerful
,
no
obstacle
can
hinder
the
perfect
union
to
which
it
tends
;
wherefore
this
love
enclining
the
divine
person
to
unite
and
surrender
up
himself
unto
a
Soul
,
she
finds
herself
immediately
fastned
to
him
by
other
chains
than
those
of
his
immensity
;
it
is
by
grace
and
charity
she
is
enslaved
,
and
their
efficacy
is
to
prodigious
,
that
were
not
that
divine
spirit
already
at
the
door
,
they
would
draw
him
thither
and
court
him
to
a
most
intimate
alliance
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
well
knew
the
truth
of
this
Divinity
by
the
amorous
operations
he
had
once
felt
within
him
;
for
this
great
gift
of
God
was
no
stranger
to
him
,
whence
I
wonder
not
if
he
court
its
preservation
,
since
in
it
is
contained
the
whole
treasure
of
his
immense
love
:
If
then
he
shall
please
to
secure
this
present
to
him
,
he
will
in
return
consecrate
to
his
honour
all
the
fruit
of
his
understanding
and
will
;
his
thoughts
shall
ever
dwell
in
him
,
and
from
this
meditation
he
hopes
to
enkindle
such
a
flame
within
him
as
all
the
waves
of
adversity
,
or
allurements
of
the
World
shall
never
be
able
to
quench
;
his
constant
Prayer
therefore
shall
be
,
withdraw
not
from
me
thy
holy
spirit
.
After
he
had
thus
considered
the
dignity
of
the
person
communicated
to
a
devout
Soul
,
he
then
descends
to
the
particulars
of
his
negotiation
.
The
first
point
is
,
that
this
divine
spirit
is
the
Prin●ipium
or
great
wheel
which
gives
motion
to
all
her
supernatural
and
meritorious
actions
,
by
which
the
Soul
exceeds
her
own
strength
,
and
gets
above
all
her
natural
faculties
,
and
without
this
spirit
Man
is
feeble
,
impotent
,
and
can
act
nothing
generous
in
a
spiritual
life
.
The
second
advantage
of
this
Treaty
is
,
that
this
divine
person
becomes
the
object
of
our
understanding
and
will
,
so
that
he
is
a
known
object
in
a
knowing
will
,
and
a
beloved
object
in
a
loving
will
;
then
it
is
that
the
Soul
hath
God
within
her
,
who
alone
entertains
,
and
employes
her
thoughts
and
affections
;
it
is
towards
him
she
raises
acts
of
faith
and
love
,
setting
a
value
upon
him
beyond
all
the
World
,
as
the
most
excellent
Being
to
whom
she
can
consecrate
herself
.
Another
benefit
of
this
mission
is
,
that
this
divine
spirit
communicates
himself
unto
a
Soul
as
her
sole
treasure
,
and
appropriated
sovereign
good
,
and
in
such
a
manner
,
as
she
will
not
only
find
God
within
her
,
but
likewise
that
he
belongs
to
her
as
her
proper
right
,
the
serious
thought
of
which
happy
possession
must
doubtless
much
asswage
all
the
bitterness
of
this
life
.
In
sequel
of
these
irradiations
our
Holy
Penitent
is
at
a
stand
,
comparing
the
liberalities
of
his
good
God
with
his
own
ingratitude
:
For
God
had
given
himself
up
to
him
,
to
be
the
instrument
of
all
his
supernatural
operations
,
to
be
the
object
of
his
thoughts
,
and
repository
of
his
affections
;
in
requital
our
unfortunate
Penitent
rejecting
this
divine
legate
,
hath
taken
up
the
arms
of
sensualities
against
him
,
filled
his
memory
with
Earthly
species
,
and
consulted
with
brutish
passions
!
O
bad
exchange
?
When
he
had
thus
reproached
himself
of
his
disloyalty
,
he
then
converts
his
Eye
to
the
shipwrack
he
had
made
,
for
by
one
mortal
sin
he
hath
lost
God
,
as
he
is
God
of
grace
and
glory
;
though
not
as
he
is
God
of
nature
,
for
as
such
a
one
he
still
remains
to
cast
thunderbolts
of
vengeance
upon
his
guilty
head
;
but
he
is
resolved
,
if
the
divine
goodness
shall
please
to
restore
and
continue
to
him
himself
,
in
whom
is
found
the
source
of
so
many
precious
treasures
,
he
will
for
the
future
manage
them
to
his
honour
,
he
will
glorify
him
in
all
eternity
,
and
manifest
to
the
world
,
that
through
his
grace
he
is
made
worthy
not
to
have
his
holy
spirit
taken
from
him
.
In
temporal
afflictions
we
lose
(
it
is
true
)
the
gift
,
but
the
giver
is
yet
secured
to
us
;
by
sin
we
lose
both
.
So
that
there
is
no
desolation
can
happen
equal
to
what
is
thrown
upon
us
by
sin
:
For
whilest
we
lye
under
the
guilt
of
mortal
sin
,
God
is
no
more
the
Principium
of
our
meritorious
operations
,
no
more
the
object
of
our
amorous
powers
,
nor
to
be
claimed
as
our
proper
good
,
and
treasure
;
and
though
his
infinite
beauties
and
perfections
render
him
alwayes
a
source
of
all
good
imaginable
,
yet
to
a
Soul
defiled
with
sin
,
he
is
a
spring
that
diverts
his
stream
in
another
Channel
;
he
is
a
treasure
locked
up
,
whose
Key
is
taken
away
,
and
all-right
of
entrance
decreed
against
him
:
These
are
the
miserable
circumstances
which
attend
the
loss
of
God's
holy
spirit
,
of
which
our
Holy
Penitent
being
very
conscious
incessantly
repeats
;
Lord
,
withdraw
not
from
me
thy
holy
spirit
.
Theodoret
sayes
,
that
St.
Peter
having
heard
from
Christ's
own
Mouth
;
Thou
shalt
thrice
deny
me
;
would
feign
have
fled
many
Leagues
from
that
occasion
,
but
his
love
was
so
great
as
he
held
it
less
evil
to
follow
,
and
deny
him
;
than
to
fly
away
and
confess
him
:
He
took
so
much
pleasure
in
his
presence
,
that
he
chose
rather
to
hazzard
his
Soul
,
than
the
loss
of
his
blessed
sight
;
deeming
it
less
unhappiness
to
renounce
him
,
than
not
to
be
in
the
Eye
of
him
whom
he
loved
so
dearly
:
If
then
his
corporal
presence
so
ravished
this
Apostle
,
what
a
charm
must
it
be
to
possess
within
us
a
divine
spirit
,
what
solicitude
to
preserve
this
treasure
in
whose
participation
consists
all
the
happiness
we
are
any
wayes
capable
of
in
the
condition
of
this
our
mortality
.
Ah
blame
not
then
our
Petitioner
,
if
again
and
again
he
sues
under
this
forme
;
Lord
,
take
not
thy
holy
spirit
from
me
.
Many
Nations
have
made
their
gods
Prisoners
,
chaining
them
fast
in
their
Temples
,
the
Lacedemonians
hampered
their
god
Mars
with
Cords
of
Silk
;
Hercules
with
Fetters
of
Gold
,
fancying
to
themselves
,
that
if
they
could
enjoy
their
Company
though
by
violence
,
they
should
not
want
their
protection
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
thought
the
best
stratagem
to
fasten
his
God
unto
him
,
was
an
humble
acknowledgment
of
his
fault
;
joyned
with
a
fervent
prayer
.
In
the
First
part
of
his
petition
he
had
copiously
set
forth
his
own
guiltiness
,
and
now
he
supplicates
in
a
Subject
the
most
grateful
that
can
be
to
his
Creatour
;
for
his
delight
is
to
be
with
the
Sons
of
Men
;
It
was
to
draw
the
World
unto
him
that
he
exalted
himself
upon
the
Cross
;
his
extended
arms
there
sufficiently
expressed
,
with
what
dear
embraces
he
would
receive
those
that
fly
unto
him
with
an
humble
and
contrite
heart
:
His
thirst
there
was
not
so
much
the
effect
of
his
torments
,
as
an
excessive
zeal
for
Man's
Salvation
:
How
often
hath
he
justifyed
himself
in
his
proceedings
with
Man
;
insomuch
as
all
his
wisdom
and
love
could
not
contrive
more
inducements
than
he
hath
set
on
foot
to
gain
us
to
him
,
and
if
he
be
continually
rapping
at
our
door
,
can
we
think
he
will
shut
up
the
treasures
of
his
holy
spirit
in
despight
of
our
importunity
:
No
,
no
,
great
Penitent
fear
not
,
prefer
your
memorial
,
it
is
only
expected
you
ask
,
and
the
grant
is
ready
;
that
his
holy
spirit
shall
not
be
taken
from
you
.
A
holy
writer
observes
,
that
God
alwayes
gives
more
than
is
asked
of
him
:
Anna
prayed
for
a
Son
,
God
gave
her
one
that
was
a
Saint
,
a
Prophet
,
and
his
chief
favourite
:
Solomon
sued
for
wisdom
to
govern
his
People
,
he
received
it
not
only
to
Rule
,
but
he
was
universally
knowing
;
besides
,
an
infinite
store
of
wealth
was
bestowed
upon
him
.
The
Servant
endebted
ten
thousand
Talents
demanded
only
a
little
forbearance
,
and
the
whole
debt
was
remitted
to
him
;
wherefore
our
Penitent
demanding
only
to
keep
what
he
already
enjoyes
,
by
this
providential
act
he
not
only
secures
his
possession
,
but
gives
earnest
for
a
new
supply
.
Nay
,
his
goodness
alwayes
prevents
the
prayer
of
the
afflicted
,
giving
them
ease
of
their
griefs
,
before
they
ask
his
help
;
resembling
that
fountain
which
calls
and
invites
the
thirsty
to
drink
,
or
like
that
Tree
which
bending
its
bowes
,
offers
its
fruits
unto
gathering
hands
,
when
ripe
;
so
that
God's
love
needs
no
baits
to
allure
his
favours
from
him
;
an
affectionate
heart
doth
more
with
him
then
all
the
charms
in
nature
:
It
is
true
St.
Austin
distinguishes
between
a
willing
a
thing
,
and
a
willing
it
stoutly
and
entirely
:
But
we
have
all
reason
to
judge
the
velleity
of
our
Penitent
was
fervent
,
and
efficacious
,
when
he
hath
so
much
confidence
as
to
call
God
to
witness
of
it
:
Tu
scis
Domine
,
omne
desiderium
meum
ante
te
;
that
he
had
exposed
before
him
all
the
motions
of
his
heart
,
and
left
him
to
be
judge
whether
any
circumstance
was
wanting
that
might
hinder
the
effect
of
his
petition
;
as
not
to
be
deprived
of
his
holy
spirit
.
St.
Austin
sayes
,
were
it
impossible
for
a
sinner
to
hide
himself
from
God
,
he
would
advise
him
to
get
into
some
abstruce
retreat
,
and
there
lye
close
till
the
Cloud
of
his
anger
be
blown
over
,
but
since
this
cannot
be
done
,
his
best
way
to
escape
God's
hands
,
is
to
put
himself
into
his
hands
,
and
prostrate
himself
at
his
feet
.
Our
Penitent
then
is
not
ill
advised
,
that
being
already
enrolled
in
the
list
of
his
retinue
to
endeavour
to
prevent
his
dismission
by
a
non
auferes
à
me
:
For
he
hath
many
advantages
whilst
he
is
in
,
which
will
be
lost
if
once
cashier'd
:
Now
he
hath
the
Ear
of
his
Sovereign
,
can
discourse
his
case
with
him
,
and
purchase
a
good
word
from
many
powerful
friends
,
but
if
once
discarded
like
a
desolate
Orphan
he
will
find
no
refuge
.
Besides
,
though
God
beheld
in
his
all-seeing
prospect
the
treachery
of
Judas
and
ingratitude
of
the
Jews
,
yet
(
to
cut
off
all
matter
of
excuse
)
he
obliged
them
with
all
the
endearings
imaginable
;
why
shoul
not
then
our
Penitent
hope
to
dwell
in
the
lasting
enjoyment
of
this
divine
spirit
,
since
he
is
resolved
for
the
future
to
be
led
by
his
holy
dictamens
;
he
will
seek
his
Salvation
with
ineffable
groans
;
it
is
St.
Pauls
expression
of
such
as
are
guided
by
the
Holy
Ghost
;
he
will
with
the
Prophet
Jeremy
cry
out
for
a
fountain
of
tears
,
that
he
may
bewail
(
as
he
ought
)
his
own
and
his
peoples
sins
,
and
since
this
divine
spirit
communicates
himself
in
so
many
different
wayes
unto
Creatures
,
he
begs
he
may
return
himself
a
gift
and
oblation
to
God
,
by
every
thing
that
is
capable
of
Action
;
that
by
a
constant
,
and
unwearied
motion
in
his
service
,
this
seed
of
glory
he
now
possesses
may
at
last
conduct
him
to
the
beatifick
vision
,
where
he
shall
no
more
apprehend
what
is
now
the
subject
of
his
Fear
:
To
have
his
holy
spirit
taken
from
him
.
The
Application
.
St.
Ambrose
sayes
,
that
no
man
in
this
life
can
be
long
secure
from
falling
into
sin
,
for
whom
the
Devil
cannot
lay
prostrate
at
the
first
attack
,
he
presses
with
redoubled
assaults
,
and
leaves
no
stratagem
unessayed
to
work
his
end
.
In
this
warfare
our
Holy
Penitent
was
not
a
Novice
,
he
knew
there
was
no
place
in
Man
impregnable
,
unless
fortified
by
God's
Holy
Spirit
:
This
he
expresses
in
another
Psalm
,
If
you
withdraw
(
sayes
he
)
your
spirit
,
we
shall
presently
resolve
into
dust
;
that
is
,
corruption
from
whence
we
came
.
For
grace
is
a
motion
in
the
understanding
and
will
;
to
wit
a
certain
action
in
both
these
powers
,
which
soon
passes
away
unless
fixed
by
a
continued
influence
of
his
favours
:
Wherefore
we
must
take
the
admonition
of
St.
Paul
and
be
wary
,
that
the
grace
of
God
prove
not
a
liberality
in
vain
bestowed
upon
us
:
But
that
we
make
the
right
use
of
it
,
which
is
the
remission
of
our
sins
and
a
passage
unto
eternal
life
.
CHAP.
XXV
.
Reddite
mihi
laetitiam
salutaris
tui
,
Restore
unto
me
the
joy
of
thy
Salvation
.
IT
is
not
(
methinks
)
easy
to
determine
,
whether
Man
be
more
unfortunate
in
not
having
a
discerning
faculty
of
misery
,
or
through
the
mistakes
he
falls
into
about
the
object
of
his
felicity
:
How
many
have
been
seen
to
languish
and
pine
away
under
an
accident
which
they
looked
upon
as
their
ruine
,
and
yet
it
proved
their
making
;
whilest
others
again
have
triumphed
,
and
made
jubilyes
for
seeming
blessings
,
that
in
the
end
became
fatal
to
them
;
who
would
not
have
looked
upon
the
Patriarch
Joseph
when
sold
to
the
Madianites
but
as
a
slave
,
and
an
abortive
of
fortune
,
and
yet
without
this
cruelty
of
his
Brethren
in
all
likelyhood
he
had
never
handled
the
Scepter
of
Egypt
.
Again
,
who
would
not
have
envyed
the
success
of
our
Penitent
against
Goliah
,
and
yet
this
glorious
victory
occasioned
unto
him
a
life
full
of
disturbance
for
many
years
how
to
preserve
himself
:
This
uncertainty
in
the
event
of
things
is
managed
no
doubt
by
a
special
providence
,
to
teach
us
we
ought
to
bear
a
temper
unalterable
amidst
the
various
occurrences
of
this
life
,
not
to
be
too
much
transported
with
joy
,
nor
cast
down
with
sadness
upon
any
rencontre
,
since
the
effects
do
often
prove
far
different
from
what
they
promise
,
and
this
by
the
unresistable
ordinations
of
Heaven
,
which
can
draw
riches
out
of
poverty
,
make
us
great
by
humility
,
give
us
honour
by
contempts
:
In
fine
,
who
needs
no
previous
dispositions
in
Creatures
to
frame
his
productions
.
Now
to
lead
us
in
this
labyrinth
,
that
we
may
not
erre
,
Divines
distinguish
a
twofold
joy
:
The
one
is
temporal
which
hath
for
its
Object
riches
,
honour
,
sensual
pleasures
and
the
like
:
So
that
when
our
joy
reaches
but
to
the
petty
interests
of
this
World
,
this
is
poor
,
and
argues
a
baseness
of
Spirit
,
which
is
angustiated
within
the
limits
of
flesh
and
blood
,
and
hopes
or
fears
only
what
may
prove
distastful
or
pleasant
to
their
present
state
of
Being
.
The
other
branch
of
joy
is
eternal
,
taking
its
specification
from
the
object
which
is
God
,
without
end
or
beginning
;
it
only
looks
upon
him
,
and
it
is
he
alone
that
gives
the
rise
to
all
its
motions
.
One
part
of
this
joy
is
proper
for
us
here
whilest
we
are
in
viâ
(
as
Divines
term
it
)
or
pilgrimes
upon
earth
:
the
completion
of
the
other
we
must
expect
in
patria
,
when
we
shall
attain
to
the
mansion
of
the
blessed
;
it
is
this
joy
St.
Bernard
meant
when
he
sayes
,
O
good
Jesu
if
it
be
so
sweet
a
thing
to
weep
for
thee
,
what
will
it
be
to
rejoyce
with
a●d
in
thee
.
So
that
we
are
here
by
a
compunctive
sorrow
to
crucify
our selves
daily
,
and
by
this
means
dispose
our selves
for
that
joy
which
is
necessarily
consequent
to
such
acts
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
followes
this
method
in
his
petition
,
he
knows
the
effects
of
a
heart
pierced
with
a
vertuous
sorrow
and
repentance
,
is
peace
,
joy
,
and
the
like
:
So
that
though
we
labour
here
to
steep
our selves
in
bitterness
and
anguish
,
there
results
out
of
these
agonies
a
certain
contentment
in
performing
our
duties
to
God
,
and
this
so
great
,
as
it
surpasses
all
the
delights
of
this
World
.
Many
Heathen
Philosophers
have
been
of
Opinion
,
that
vertue
it self
was
a
sufficient
reward
unto
such
as
embraced
it
;
that
is
,
there
springs
from
good
actions
such
a
satisfaction
in
conformity
to
the
dictamens
of
reason
,
as
they
have
preferred
it
before
riches
,
honour
,
or
any
sensual
pleasure
;
we
have
seen
them
endure
torments
of
all
kind
,
the
hardship
of
want
,
the
rough
trial
of
disgraces
;
and
all
this
with
smileing
looks
,
and
meerly
from
this
Principle
,
they
took
their
cause
to
be
good
,
and
that
vertue
commanded
it
;
believing
her
Lawes
to
be
more
sutable
to
a
reasonable
Soul
than
all
the
glory
and
plenty
of
the
World
attended
on
by
injustice
and
impiety
.
Our
Ho●y
Penitent
by
his
own
experience
had
learnt
that
in
works
of
Piety
,
there
is
found
something
which
sensibly
affects
the
agent
with
delight
,
and
be
they
never
so
knotty
,
yet
they
are
still
sweetned
with
this
;
that
reason
is
their
guide
,
that
the
whole
intellectual
part
applauds
the
action
,
which
concurrence
of
the
Souls
faculties
cannot
but
be
followed
with
an
universal
dilatation
of
the
spirits
,
and
what
is
this
but
the
height
of
joy
:
If
then
moral
actions
,
looked
upon
as
apparallel'd
in
their
simple
natural
colours
;
that
is
,
meerly
confined
to
the
limits
of
what
is
good
and
just
by
the
light
of
reason
,
prove
such
an
Antidote
against
adversity
,
as
to
make
them
receive
the
most
embittered
Arrowes
of
fortune
with
cheerful
looks
:
What
may
we
expect
when
these
are
directed
to
a
supernatural
end
,
when
they
are
enriched
with
the
merits
of
Jesus
Christ
,
after
which
our
Holy
Petitioner
languished
,
and
whose
efficacy
had
influence
upon
his
repentance
at
the
distance
of
so
many
preceeding
ages
,
as
now
it
hath
on
ours
after
so
many
subsequent
revolutions
.
It
is
then
for
the
joy
of
this
Salvation
he
makes
instance
,
and
what
a
value
must
this
addition
set
upon
his
smallest
sufferings
?
Whence
I
wonder
not
to
contemplate
much
of
serenity
in
the
Fore-heads
of
afflicted
persons
crushed
for
vertues
sake
,
for
the
tempest
wherein
they
are
agitated
doth
only
bluster
about
them
,
within
they
enjoy
a
Harmony
and
full
peace
of
Mind
,
even
tasting
a
kind
of
Antipast
or
fore-notion
of
Paradise
.
I
observe
in
the
Gospel
of
St.
Luke
,
how
Christ
our
Lord
gave
a
check
to
his
Disciples
,
when
returning
from
the
exercise
of
their
Apostolick
Commissions
they
seemed
to
glory
in
their
power
of
casting
out
Devils
;
and
when
he
had
terrified
them
with
a
Memorandum
of
the
Angel's
fall
,
he
prescribes
rules
how
they
should
lay
the
foundation
of
their
joy
,
and
satisfaction
amidst
their
transcending
employments
,
saying
,
Rejoyce
in
this
that
your
Names
are
written
in
Heaven
:
First
he
disallowes
not
of
their
joy
,
but
rather
animates
them
to
it
;
only
he
dislikes
the
motive
,
or
more
properly
to
say
,
sets
down
what
they
ought
to
lay
hold
on
as
the
basis
of
their
exultations
:
Rejoyce
because
your
Names
are
written
in
Heaven
.
That
they
were
zealous
in
God's
service
,
charitable
,
had
the
gift
of
tongues
,
of
working
miracles
,
casting
out
Devils
,
and
the
like
;
these
must
not
be
the
groundwork
of
their
contentments
;
but
that
they
are
by
the
efficacious
Will
of
God
transmitted
to
a
supernatural
end
,
upon
which
foundation
are
built
all
the
spirituall
benefits
of
God
towards
them
,
as
their
vocation
,
justification
,
and
glorification
:
From
this
Root
springs
their
calling
to
be
a
Christian
,
to
be
a
member
of
Christ's
true
Church
,
by
means
of
which
they
obtain
grace
,
and
by
the
right
use
of
Grace
eternal
glorification
:
This
must
give
birth
and
life
to
their
joy
,
and
no
less
to
ours
;
as
it
did
to
our
Holy
Penitent
before
his
fall
,
and
now
restored
(
as
he
hopes
)
to
the
wonted
caresses
of
his
Creatour
,
he
begins
to
breath
after
the
assurance
of
his
predestination
,
which
had
often
occasioned
unto
him
abundant
joy
:
Wherefore
he
cryes
,
restore
unto
me
the
joy
of
thy
Salvation
.
Yet
whilest
he
petitioned
for
this
solid
contentment
,
he
was
not
ignorant
that
his
Election
must
proceed
from
the
merciful
hand
of
God
,
and
the
Collation
of
glory
from
the
interest
of
his
own
merits
:
God
first
puts
us
in
an
infallible
condition
to
be
happy
,
and
then
so
tempers
the
circumstances
,
as
we
our selves
may
be
a
partial
cause
of
our
happiness
;
he
offers
the
occasions
of
merit
,
this
done
,
he
seconds
our
endeavours
so
powerfully
as
the
effect
;
to
wit
,
eternal
glory
cannot
but
follow
:
So
that
the
joy
he
sues
for
,
is
an
assurance
to
be
in
the
state
of
grace
and
eternally
predestinate
;
that
be
his
combats
and
assaults
in
this
life
never
so
furious
,
he
shall
overcome
:
Be
his
temptations
never
so
vehement
,
the
issue
will
be
glorious
,
having
his
Eyes
still
fixt
upon
the
Palms
of
Beatitude
,
the
assured
guerdon
of
his
conflicts
,
in
case
,
I
say
,
he
be
in
the
number
of
the
Predestinate
.
But
as
to
the
infallible
decrce
of
predestination
,
our
Holy
Penitent
knowes
it
is
a
secret
shut
up
in
the
Cabinet
of
his
great
Councels
;
the
joy
therefore
he
aims
at
here
is
,
that
which
arises
from
the
mediums
consequent
to
our
eternal
Election
:
For
God
first
designs
our
Beatitude
,
and
after
this
the
means
to
arrive
unto
it
,
as
to
have
true
faith
,
to
observe
the
Commandements
,
to
avoid
sin
,
to
practice
works
of
mercy
,
to
have
a
sincere
repentance
,
a
perfect
charity
towards
God
,
and
our
Neighbour
,
to
bear
adversity
with
patience
,
and
finally
to
persevere
in
grace
;
these
actions
he
knowes
are
the
proper
instruments
to
cause
joy
within
him
;
in
order
to
this
he
resolves
upon
the
punctual
accomplishment
of
his
commands
,
and
this
vigorously
like
a
Giant
both
with
firm
footing
,
and
with
large
and
nimble
paces
;
nor
will
he
discharge
this
Obligation
in
a
cold
manner
simply
to
pay
what
he
owes
,
but
with
a
serious
application
of
his
Mind
offering
them
up
to
God
,
and
directing
them
to
his
glory
with
a
most
holy
and
pious
zeal
:
Next
,
he
resolves
alwayes
to
do
that
which
is
most
acceptable
to
God
,
knowing
that
we
cannot
give
him
too
much
honour
,
and
that
our
fidelity
engages
us
not
to
omit
any
occasion
of
doing
good
:
Lastly
,
he
will
be
assiduous
in
framing
interiour
and
exteriour
acts
of
vertues
,
especially
such
as
more
immediately
lead
unto
him
,
he
will
conspire
with
heart
and
affection
to
all
the
services
,
to
all
the
acts
of
love
,
praise
and
glorification
,
that
the
most
perfect
Creatures
ever
have
,
or
shall
give
unto
him
.
His
next
design
in
pursuance
of
this
joy
is
to
have
an
Eye
to
himself
,
whom
he
beholds
like
a
plat
of
ground
,
which
must
be
cultivated
,
and
emboweld
ere
it
be
fruitful
:
He
undertakes
this
melioration
with
the
tools
of
fortitude
,
temperance
,
and
other
vertues
;
nor
is
he
set
on
work
by
the
comeliness
of
vertue
,
or
turpitude
of
vice
;
his
final
end
is
the
object
of
all
his
motion
,
it
is
meerly
to
please
God
,
and
glorify
him
in
his
Salvation
.
He
knowes
the
condition
of
this
life
is
alwayes
beset
with
dangers
,
and
hazzards
(
alas
his
own
experience
had
too
freshly
taught
him
this
Truth
)
and
that
we
are
in
the
midst
of
sworn
mortal
Enemies
,
wherefore
he
is
resolved
to
bear
a
strict
band
,
and
purchase
victory
by
a
perfect
abnegation
of
himself
,
of
his
senses
both
interiour
and
exteriour
,
of
his
memory
,
understanding
,
and
will
,
knowing
it
is
a
Nice
and
Ticklish
Combat
to
overcome
by
Love
.
His
third
contrivance
to
joy
is
,
not
to
fail
in
what
he
owes
to
his
Neighbour
:
He
considers
Man
issuing
from
the
hands
of
God
,
and
in
a
capacity
(
if
faithful
to
his
Graces
)
to
return
unto
the
same
fountain
:
Wherefore
he
fears
to
hate
that
person
whom
God
may
have
designed
to
love
for
eternity
,
and
as
he
loves
God
not
as
a
particular
,
but
universal
good
,
so
he
will
cherish
,
love
,
and
honour
all
Souls
,
as
being
in
a
possibility
of
enjoying
him
.
This
is
the
foundation
our
Holy
Penitent
layes
for
the
superstructure
of
his
joy
;
remitting
the
rest
to
the
disposal
of
that
all
comprehending
Architect
,
whose
lines
are
drawn
severally
according
to
the
rule
of
his
providence
:
For
when
a
Soul
whom
he
hath
gratified
with
endearments
of
spiritual
relishes
,
and
ineffable
delights
happens
to
forfeit
by
some
default
the
subtraction
of
his
grace
,
sometimes
upon
her
repentance
he
not
only
admits
her
again
to
his
favour
,
but
also
to
her
wonted
ravishments
,
nay
to
that
degree
as
even
she
seems
to
have
gained
by
her
loss
:
Sometimes
again
he
is
pleased
barely
to
Seal
his
pardon
,
without
any
further
communication
of
those
Enthusiastick
throwes
,
she
used
to
feel
in
her
amorous
transports
.
Now
I
find
our
Penitent
in
this
his
petition
is
desirous
to
regain
all
,
and
this
appears
in
divers
others
of
his
Psalms
,
where
he
suffers
strange
convulsions
in
his
desires
to
be
united
unto
God
,
and
now
born
up
with
a
restless
longing
,
he
sighs
forth
,
restore
me
the
joy
of
thy
Salvation
.
St.
Gregory
puts
this
distinction
'twixt
corporal
and
spiritual
pleasures
,
that
the
former
not
had
,
push
us
on
to
vehement
desires
for
the
acquisition
,
but
when
enjoyed
they
presently
cloy
,
and
beget
a
nauceousness
;
the
other
give
very
little
insentives
when
absent
,
yet
being
once
possessed
they
are
still
coveted
,
because
still
creating
new
delights
,
and
though
to
be
kept
in
desire
and
hope
be
a
kind
of
torment
in
Earthly
enjoyments
,
yet
it
is
not
so
when
they
relate
to
Heavenly
treasures
;
the
reason
is
,
God
hath
deputed
Earth
for
our
hopes
,
and
Heaven
for
our
bliss
:
If
here
we
are
mindful
of
Celestial
glory
,
and
make
it
the
subject
of
our
thoughts
,
and
desires
,
every
the
least
glimmering
hope
of
that
blessed
state
will
produce
ineffable
joy
within
us
.
There
is
nothing
sayes
St:
Basil
which
ought
so
much
to
ravish
Man
,
as
to
reflect
that
he
is
designed
to
so
noble
an
end
,
as
to
enjoy
God's
immense
perfections
for
all
eternity
:
Whence
he
inferrs
the
sole
way
to
anticipate
our
happiness
,
is
to
think
continually
on
him
,
to
consider
that
our
Souls
shall
be
translated
and
as
it
were
dissolved
into
his
divine
essence
:
Wherefore
he
exhorts
us
to
the
imitation
of
Painters
,
who
aiming
at
the
performance
of
a
rare
piece
,
have
their
Eyes
alwayes
fixt
upon
the
Original
:
But
if
we
pervert
this
order
,
and
make
the
Earth
our
Heaven
,
enjoy
that
we
should
but
use
,
what
must
be
the
issue
;
for
after
a
long
enquest
,
passing
from
one
delight
to
another
,
our
thirst
is
never
satisfied
:
Whence
the
pleasures
of
this
life
are
resembled
to
brackish
waters
,
which
still
the
more
you
drink
,
the
more
you
encrease
your
thirst
;
nay
they
have
this
additional
circumstance
of
woe
,
that
their
drowth
shall
never
be
quenched
in
this
life
,
nor
in
the
next
;
not
in
this
,
for
Christ
our
Lord
positively
declared
it
to
the
Samaritan
,
that
those
who
swill
themselves
with
the
puddle
of
Earthly
pleasures
shall
be
alwayes
thirsty
and
panting
after
new
refreshments
:
Not
in
the
next
life
,
for
the
whole
extent
of
Hell
could
not
afford
the
unfortunate
rich
man
one
drop
of
water
,
a
little
to
allay
the
vehemency
of
his
enraging
heat
.
I
remember
Philo
the
Jew
treating
of
Earthly
delights
calls
them
furta
Coeli
the
plunder
of
Heaven
:
So
that
who
enjoyes
them
steals
them
from
thence
;
now
as
a
thief
retains
what
he
hath
got
by
rapine
with
a
continual
fear
and
jealousy
,
which
still
moderates
and
allayes
the
contentment
of
his
acquests
,
so
doubtless
there
is
nothing
transitory
can
give
a
true
satisfaction
to
the
owner
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
was
very
sensible
of
this
Truth
,
and
grown
weary
of
the
World's
prosperity
,
confesses
in
another
Psalm
,
that
his
Soul
could
find
no
comfort
but
in
the
meditation
of
everlasting
joy
;
as
in
this
the
whole
scope
of
his
petition
is
,
that
as
Abraham
was
ready
at
God's
command
to
sacrifice
Isaac
his
sole
joy
and
contentment
in
this
life
,
so
he
is
ready
to
renounce
his
lovely
Absalom
,
or
any
thing
most
dear
to
him
in
this
World
,
that
by
this
dispropriation
he
may
make
a
passage
to
that
lasting
joy
which
attends
his
Salvation
.
Wherefore
he
will
never
cease
to
implore
,
restore
unto
me
the
joy
of
thy
Salvation
.
The
Application
.
Our
Penitent
insinuates
the
high
contentment
he
once
received
,
when
a
darling
to
Heaven
he
had
promises
made
him
,
that
out
of
his
Line
should
issue
forth
the
Worlds
Saviour
;
and
as
the
perpetuity
,
of
his
blood
to
continue
in
the
Throne
was
fastned
to
his
posterity
,
upon
a
condition
that
they
observed
his
Lawes
,
which
promise
was
evacuated
(
he
fears
)
by
his
transgressions
:
Wherefore
now
readmitted
into
favour
,
he
hopes
to
be
restored
to
all
his
former
priviledges
and
amongst
all
,
he
most
covets
an
assurance
touching
the
coming
of
the
Messias
.
This
is
the
joy
of
Salvation
after
which
he
languishes
.
In
imitation
we
must
rejoyce
,
in
that
the
Incarnate
word
is
come
,
and
redouble
our
joy
in
the
reflection
of
his
glorious
qualities
:
First
,
that
this
sacred
humanity
is
distained
from
all
the
corruptions
of
our
nature
;
and
though
it
be
of
the
same
species
with
ours
,
yet
it
far
surpasses
all
created
things
,
even
in
the
first
rank
of
Angels
.
Next
,
his
flesh
miraculously
framed
by
the
operation
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
of
the
blood
of
a
Virgin
all
immaculate
,
was
so
pure
as
no
ray
of
the
Sun
could
be
equalled
to
it
.
Lastly
,
into
this
unspotted
flesh
was
infused
a
Soul
of
a
beauty
ineffable
,
adorned
with
grace
,
knowledge
,
and
all
supernatural
habits
,
as
God
himself
judged
it
not
unworthy
of
his
personal
union
.
Let
then
this
accomplished
wonder
of
all
perfection
be
the
subject
of
our
prayer
,
that
we
may
possess
the
joy
of
thy
Salvation
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXVI
.
Et
spiritu
principali
confirma
me
,
And
confirm
me
with
a
principal
Spirit
.
MEthinks
our
Penitent
by
this
clause
seems
to
have
shaken
off
his
Chains
,
and
fortifyed
with
the
Seal
of
his
pardon
begins
to
fly
at
all
.
He
had
laid
claim
to
the
Holy
Ghost
;
next
,
he
expostulates
for
the
restitution
of
his
primary
effect
which
is
joy
.
Now
he
would
have
a
principal
Spirit
which
might
lead
him
to
perfection
,
and
by
that
means
put
him
into
the
best
posture
of
security
from
a
relaps
,
as
our
present
condition
can
bear
;
saying
,
confirm
me
with
a
principal
spirit
.
This
perfection
or
principal
spirit
so
called
,
because
it
leads
to
generous
and
noble
exploits
,
consists
in
a
concourse
of
vertuous
habits
disposing
the
Soul
to
actions
most
holy
and
meritorious
.
Our
Penitent
aims
by
it
to
endear
himself
to
God
,
and
to
prove
just
and
obliging
to
his
Neighbour
:
As
to
the
first
,
this
noble
spirit
settles
the
Soul
in
a
perfect
repose
;
and
as
the
Needle
alwayes
points
towards
the
North-pole
,
so
all
her
affections
guided
by
this
spirit
tend
,
and
rest
quiet
in
God
:
She
looks
upon
herself
in
the
condition
of
his
spouse
,
a
quality
the
most
sublime
she
can
be
capable
off
,
by
which
she
is
enabled
to
lead
a
life
answerable
to
that
title
:
She
hath
no
remorse
of
conscience
,
as
being
at
a
great
distance
from
sin
,
she
is
enriched
with
peace
,
sheltered
under
God's
special
Providence
,
and
hath
power
to
bend
his
will
by
her
prayer
to
any
thing
she
desires
,
because
she
desires
nothing
but
what
is
good
:
Her
thoughts
are
all
celestial
,
her
affections
all
pure
,
and
her
life
no
less
admirable
than
it
is
rare
.
No
wonder
then
if
our
Penitent
after
a
grant
of
Jubilyes
,
alwayes
chearful
,
alwayes
ravished
with
pledges
of
Salvation
should
petition
for
this
spirit
of
perfection
,
which
might
secure
all
these
advantages
to
him
;
confirm
me
with
a
principal
spirit
.
It
is
this
wisdom
our
Penitent
aims
at
which
irradiates
,
enflames
,
and
gives
to
the
Soul
a
rellish
of
Heavenly
comforts
;
this
is
the
Evangelical
Pearl
for
whose
purchase
the
wise
Merchant
sold
all
he
had
,
and
it
is
a
good
bargain
;
for
St.
Paul
sayes
,
a
Soul
adorned
with
perfection
is
of
such
a
value
as
the
Earth
deserves
not
to
bear
her
,
and
Solomon
preferrs
one
single
person
fearing
God
before
a
thousand
impious
Sons
;
nay
God
is
pleased
to
own
a
special
protection
of
his
perfect
Servants
,
styling
himself
particularly
the
God
of
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
and
Jacob
:
So
that
I
doubt
not
,
one
Soul
endued
with
Perfection
doth
alone
more
glorify
God
,
than
an
infinity
of
others
that
languish
and
consume
their
lives
in
coldness
and
indevotion
:
Our
Penitent
therefore
becomes
now
ambitious
of
promoting
God's
honour
,
supplicates
for
a
spirit
of
perfection
,
and
though
he
knowes
usually
it
is
not
attained
to
but
by
a
long
practice
of
vertues
,
yet
Almighty
God
is
pleased
sometimes
to
dispense
in
this
proceeding
,
and
in
a
moment
raises
to
a
high
degree
such
as
he
hath
designed
for
his
choicest
favours
;
and
truly
he
had
so
far
experienced
God's
liberal
hand
towards
himself
,
that
he
might
reasonably
hope
to
obtain
whatsoever
he
made
the
subject
of
his
request
,
as
here
with
all
fervour
and
zeal
he
petitions
;
comfirm
me
with
a
principal
spirit
.
Many
Divines
are
of
Opinion
,
that
Christ
our
Lord
suffered
more
in
the
rude
combat
of
his
passion
for
the
most
perfect
Souls
,
than
for
others
:
For
though
he
offered
up
his
blood
for
the
redemption
of
all
Mankind
,
yet
all
did
not
equally
share
in
the
fruit
of
his
passion
:
Some
only
have
conveyed
to
them
by
it
sufficient
means
of
their
Salvation
without
any
other
effect
;
others
also
receive
from
thence
the
true
remission
of
their
sins
;
but
perfect
Souls
are
raised
by
this
oblation
to
a
strange
pitch
in
a
spiritual
life
;
and
in
consequence
to
that
,
to
a
degree
of
most
eminent
glory
:
Wherefore
the
passion
of
Christ
is
to
them
effectively
more
beneficial
.
This
position
they
prove
out
of
the
Canticles
,
where
Christ
speaking
to
a
beloved
Soul
sayes
,
vulnerâsti
Cor
meum
;
that
is
to
say
,
there
is
not
a
hair
of
her
head
,
dart
of
her
Eye
,
least
motion
of
her
heart
,
or
limb
,
which
cost
him
not
a
wound
;
because
they
all
import
acts
of
obedience
,
humility
,
and
love
,
towards
him
;
and
therefore
it
was
a
pleasing
wound
,
since
it
was
to
be
to
them
matter
of
all
their
spiritual
benedictions
:
Whence
you
may
see
that
Christ
our
Lord
doth
not
like
Creatures
who
love
the
less
those
persons
that
have
caused
unto
them
the
greater
sufferings
,
for
one
act
of
gratitude
on
our
part
is
of
a
vertue
so
soveraign
,
as
it
heals
and
closes
up
all
his
wounds
.
If
then
his
passion
however
bitter
in
it self
was
made
delightful
to
him
in
regard
of
the
just
whom
he
foresaw
would
make
good
use
of
it
;
how
ought
it
to
affect
those
who
reap
the
benefit
;
it
is
this
satisfaction
after
which
our
Penitent
aspires
,
for
in
this
a
double
contentment
arrives
to
perfect
Souls
:
First
,
in
that
his
love
made
him
suffer
so
liberally
for
them
:
Next
,
in
that
they
have
contributed
to
allay
the
acerbities
of
his
passion
,
by
the
foreknowledge
he
had
of
their
compliance
with
his
grace
.
O
what
solid
matter
of
joy
?
Now
you
must
know
that
our
Penitent
looked
upon
himself
asmuch
concerned
in
the
fruit
and
participation
of
Christ's
merits
,
as
those
who
were
to
live
after
his
comming
and
visible
appearance
upon
Earth
.
Our
Petitioner
in
the
preceding
verse
expresses
himself
in
the
Terms
of
thy
salvation
,
that
is
,
purchased
by
the
merits
of
Christ
God-man
.
The
Church
calls
it
a
happy
fault
in
that
it
merited
so
great
a
Redeemer
,
in
the
same
sense
our
Penitent
contemplating
the
cause
of
his
redemption
,
admires
his
happy
deliverance
,
and
urges
for
this
spirit
of
perfection
,
that
as
the
just
was
to
be
the
motive
of
a
more
copious
effusion
of
his
blood
,
so
he
becoming
perfect
might
asswage
his
torments
;
to
which
end
he
cryes
,
confirm
me
with
a
principal
spirit
.
Again
,
our
Penitent
is
animated
to
this
his
petition
upon
the
consideration
,
that
when
a
perfect
Soul
whom
God
hath
designed
to
salvation
falls
into
any
notable
default
(
as
she
may
,
not
being
impeccable
)
he
lets
her
not
lye
mired
in
the
filth
of
sin
without
any
feeling
of
her
condition
,
but
presently
solicits
her
with
his
exciting
graces
,
and
this
with
such
importunity
as
he
told
St.
Paul
,
it
was
hard
for
him
to
play
the
obstinate
against
so
many
darts
of
his
love
,
and
if
ever
that
parable
was
fulfilled
,
where
out
Saviour
having
found
the
lost
sheep
,
witnesses
more
joy
for
the
recovery
of
that
one
,
than
of
the
Ninety
nine
he
had
left
in
the
desart
,
it
is
certainly
in
the
resettlement
of
a
Soul
in
his
favour
,
whom
he
hath
marked
out
to
be
his
:
'T
is
true
,
sometimes
Almighty
God
withdraws
his
sustaining
hand
,
and
permits
them
to
dash
upon
the
Rock
of
offence
,
so
to
humble
them
;
that
sin
might
effect
what
his
Grace
could
not
,
yet
the
conclusion
is
alwayes
to
their
greater
good
;
and
if
he
makes
use
of
so
many
stratagems
to
bring
them
to
their
former
state
of
happiness
,
being
once
re●urned
,
with
what
profusions
of
his
bounty
,
with
what
inundations
of
his
grace
doth
he
overflow
them
?
It
is
then
a
Soul
makes
a
new
oblation
of
herself
to
God
,
renewing
her
vowes
and
promises
,
and
soon
regains
her
former
lustre
;
nay
becomes
more
accomplished
improving
still
her
light
and
vertue
,
and
with
these
penitential
ornaments
she
invites
her
Espouse
to
a
visit
,
who
declares
in
the
Canticles
,
that
he
is
descended
into
the
Garden
of
Filberts
,
and
amidst
the
Apples
of
the
Valleys
.
Intimating
by
these
words
,
that
his
satisfaction
is
to
behold
a
Soul
(
freed
from
the
sink
of
sin
)
to
spring
anew
,
and
bud
forth
in
the
practice
of
eminent
vertues
,
to
see
her
like
fire
always
in
motion
,
acting
generous
things
for
his
service
:
To
hear
her
amidst
the
baits
of
this
world
to
send
forth
amorous
Sighs
after
him
,
passionately
coveting
to
be
discharged
from
the
mass
of
the
body
,
so
to
arrive
at
the
fruition
of
him
,
and
he
is
so
good
as
to
answer
every
motion
of
this
converted
Soul
:
She
never
looks
on
him
,
but
he
amorously
casts
an
Eye
upon
her
;
she
never
thinks
on
him
,
but
he
requites
the
kindness
with
a
thought
on
her
;
she
never
gives
herself
unto
him
,
but
he
as
liberally
bestowes
himself
upon
her
:
These
are
the
entertainments
our
Holy
Penitent
doth
promise
to
himself
by
means
of
this
spirit
of
perfection
;
he
confesses
he
hath
been
humbled
by
his
sin
:
Next
,
he
hopes
he
is
raised
by
his
Grace
,
and
now
he
expects
the
consequence
of
his
merciful
reconciliation
;
imploring
,
confirm
me
with
a
principal
spirit
.
When
I
read
this
clause
,
it
minds
me
of
what
St.
Paul
sayes
,
that
where
sin
hath
abounded
,
there
Grace
doth
many
times
superabound
:
For
doubtless
nothing
adds
wings
to
the
fervour
of
a
true
Penitent
,
like
to
the
remembrance
of
their
past
failings
,
whence
I
gather
our
Petitioner
,
upon
these
seeds
of
his
restauration
,
will
add
a
superstructure
of
mystick
Divinity
,
and
raise
himself
to
as
high
a
pitch
of
Vnion
with
God
,
as
in
this
life
Man
is
capable
of
.
But
in
this
enterprize
he
is
ignorant
what
method
to
follow
,
because
no
certain
rule
is
set
down
by
God
for
its
acquisition
,
it
being
a
pure
gift
of
his
,
like
Grace
gratis
given
;
that
we
might
know
we
have
a
Master
in
Heaven
,
who
instructs
immediately
by
himself
his
Disciples
in
the
maxims
of
true
wisdom
:
Wherefore
our
Penitent
trusts
not
to
his
own
industry
or
vertue
,
but
supplicates
for
divine
immissions
,
as
a
thing
independent
of
any
other
means
than
his
own
free
Donation
;
confirm
me
with
a
principal
spirit
.
This
Science
of
mystick
Divinity
is
defined
an
experimental
knowledge
of
God
,
arising
from
a
most
elevated
union
of
the
will
with
him
:
For
the
will
is
the
Organ
of
a
spiritual
rellish
,
by
which
Man
tastes
the
sweetness
of
God
,
and
by
this
experience
teaches
the
understanding
what
God
is
:
Now
this
savour
,
tast
,
or
spiritual
feeling
may
be
said
to
be
a
kind
of
knowing
;
because
love
it self
according
to
St.
Austin
is
a
knowledge
;
but
a
knowledge
so
secret
as
unintelligible
to
any
but
the
person
in
whom
it
is
;
as
it
is
commonly
said
of
a
smart
pain
,
none
can
so
justly
conceive
it
as
he
that
suffers
.
Now
our
Penitent
thirsts
after
this
banquet
,
he
knowes
it
fortifies
and
confirms
a
Soul
in
the
practice
of
devotion
,
and
at
a
pinch
sustains
her
in
the
rude
combats
of
temptations
:
For
being
united
unto
God
,
she
is
above
all
the
attractives
,
and
violence
of
Creatures
:
So
that
enjoying
this
delicious
guest
by
an
experimental
knowledge
,
there
is
doubtless
nothing
in
this
World
of
force
to
separate
her
from
God
:
This
Job
seems
to
insinuate
Chap.
1.
Place
me
near
to
thee
,
and
I
fear
not
the
attempt
of
any
:
And
St.
Paul
likewise
apprehending
himself
in
this
secure
state
sets
the
whole
World
at
defiance
,
who
(
sayes
he
)
shall
separate
me
from
the
love
of
Jesus
Christ
.
As
this
security
must
needs
give
birth
to
continual
acts
of
joy
:
No
less
are
the
ravishments
which
overwhelm
a
Soul
in
the
practice
of
this
devotion
;
for
it
is
a
certain
lively
experiment
of
God's
intimate
presence
,
of
his
essence
,
of
his
perfections
and
divine
operations
;
and
this
with
an
experimental
affection
or
strong
assurance
that
we
love
God
,
that
we
make
his
glory
our
interest
,
that
by
complacence
and
friendship
we
share
in
what
he
hath
,
it
being
the
Nature
of
true
love
to
make
all
things
common
.
The
first
effect
is
to
work
a
compleat
Metamorphosie
in
us
;
for
to
transform
a
thing
,
is
to
separate
it
from
its
natural
form
,
and
communicate
another
not
only
interiour
but
exteriour
:
Now
when
a
Soul
is
arrived
to
a
holy
complacence
in
God
,
and
to
a
strict
amity
with
him
,
she
is
devested
of
the
form
of
sin
,
and
vitious
affections
,
which
was
her
natural
inclination
,
and
receives
within
the
Center
of
her
heart
,
new
affections
,
desires
wholly
Divine
,
and
motions
quite
different
from
what
Nature
prompts
her
to
:
This
made
St.
Paul
cry
I
live
now
,
not
I
,
but
Christ
doth
live
in
me
;
and
this
same
motive
gave
life
to
our
Petitioners
present
address
,
that
gaining
this
spirit
of
perfection
he
might
loose
himself
,
and
by
that
enterchange
come
to
know
what
God
is
:
That
he
is
a
source
of
goodness
,
eminency
and
beauty
;
that
he
merits
all
honour
,
glory
,
reverence
,
and
praise
:
Then
comparing
himself
to
God
,
he
beholds
how
vile
captive
,
and
contemptible
a
Creature
he
is
:
Lastly
,
comparing
God
to
himself
,
he
admires
the
greatness
of
his
clemency
and
sweetness
that
designs
to
lodge
in
so
despicable
a
place
as
his
conscience
,
the
inestimable
treasures
of
his
wisdom
,
hence
enfired
with
a
glowing
flame
of
love
,
he
can
think
on
nothing
but
him
,
study
no
satisfaction
that
relates
not
to
him
,
and
abhorrs
all
sensual
pleasure
whatsoever
:
In
sequel
of
this
arises
a
delight
and
sweetness
,
which
surpasses
all
that
is
Earth
;
Nay
even
the
capacity
of
Man
in
this
life
,
as
many
Saints
have
witnessed
the
same
,
crying
out
,
O
Deus
contine
undas
gratiae
.
That
such
a
torrent
of
delights
overwhelmed
them
as
if
they
were
not
moderated
,
they
must
needs
have
opened
a
passage
unto
Death
;
O!
Who
would
not
be
overcome
by
such
a
conquering
spirit
;
confirm
me
with
a
principal
spirit
.
Another
effect
of
this
spirit
is
to
settle
the
Soul
in
a
great
quiet
and
repose
,
free
from
all
joy
,
grief
or
the
like
;
for
every
thing
is
at
rest
when
in
its
proper
place
and
center
:
Now
God
is
our
Souls
final
end
,
nor
can
she
be
more
intimately
united
unto
him
in
this
life
than
by
the
power
of
this
Celestial
Philosophy
,
wherefore
the
storms
of
passions
very
little
molest
a
Soul
enriched
with
this
spirit
;
all
things
pass
in
peace
and
tranquility
,
and
though
it
be
true
that
we
must
still
labour
in
a
certain
languishment
and
desire
,
until
we
reach
our
Center
,
yet
this
is
so
attempered
by
the
goodness
of
God
,
as
it
is
no
wayes
Irksome
.
A
holy
person
expresses
this
very
pathetically
;
saying
,
My
Lord
and
God
,
who
art
the
support
and
strength
of
those
who
faithfully
seek
you
,
at
the
entrance
of
your
Paradise
I
behold
you
,
and
beholding
I
cannot
yet
say
what
Object
I
have
bofere
me
,
because
I
see
nothing
that
is
visible
;
there
is
only
one
thing
I
dare
owne
to
know
,
that
I
am
both
ignorant
of
what
I
see
,
nor
shall
I
be
ever
able
to
know
it
:
For
raising
my
Soul
to
the
highest
pitch
I
find
you
infinite
,
and
incomprehensible
beyond
the
access
of
my
imagination
,
and
whilest
my
thoughts
would
go
on
,
and
make
a
further
inquisition
,
a
mist
of
ignorance
surrounds
me
:
But
Oh
my
God
,
what
is
this
ignorance
but
a
learned
ignorance
!
Nox
illuminatio
mea
in
deliciis
meis
;
this
obscure
Night
is
a
splendour
overspread
with
delights
,
the
sum
of
my
joy
and
consolation
in
this
life
;
is
to
consider
that
you
are
infinity
it self
,
incomprehensible
and
an
inexhausted
Treasure
.
What
felicity
one
day
to
possess
in
glory
a
good
without
end
,
and
which
exceeds
what
the
understanding
can
imagine
,
the
heart
desire
,
or
tongue
can
express
,
and
that
these
Clouds
which
now
involve
us
shall
break
forth
into
a
Day
of
eternal
Sun-shine
.
By
which
you
may
see
,
that
holy
persons
in
these
admirable
transactions
,
though
they
are
left
in
darkness
,
and
meet
not
with
a
compleat
allay
of
all
their
desires
,
yet
it
breeds
no
disquiet
,
and
all
the
rest
is
supplyed
by
a
perfect
submission
to
the
will
of
God
,
not
desiring
even
Heaven
it self
but
according
to
the
measure
of
his
degree
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
having
received
the
fruit
of
one
part
of
this
meditation
by
his
gracious
deliverance
from
the
servitude
of
sin
,
he
now
covets
to
be
sheltered
under
the
secure
Bastion
of
this
principal
spirit
;
Confirm
me
,
&c.
Some
expositours
understand
by
this
principal
spirit
the
first
person
of
the
blessed
Trinity
,
unto
whom
power
is
peculiarly
attributed
:
Whence
they
inferr
in
this
petition
he
pretends
to
a
gift
of
Rule
and
Government
,
that
by
his
prudent
orders
circumstanced
with
Religion
,
he
might
induce
his
Subjects
to
pay
what
they
owe
to
God
,
himself
,
and
to
one
another
:
By
which
that
chosen
Nation
committed
to
his
guidance
might
flourish
,
and
he
himself
make
some
reparation
for
the
sufferings
thrown
upon
them
in
punishment
of
his
transgressions
.
Others
conceive
,
that
by
this
clause
he
aims
at
the
Spirit
of
Prophecy
,
because
in
the
subsequent
verse
he
undertakes
to
play
the
Master
,
and
teach
the
wicked
,
Principles
of
Heaven
,
to
which
nothing
would
more
conduce
than
a
prophetick
faculty
.
Notwithstanding
these
Opinions
,
I
adhere
to
my
first
conception
,
that
the
spirit
of
perfection
is
the
scope
of
his
desires
,
because
it
includes
the
others
;
for
perfection
is
styled
by
Masters
of
spirituality
a
spirit
of
wisdom
,
and
by
consequence
proper
for
a
Governour
;
and
as
to
Revelation
it
is
most
certain
that
contemplatives
are
illuminated
,
and
receive
irradiations
which
naturally
they
could
not
attain
to
;
they
are
often
so
surcharged
with
supernatural
lights
,
and
knowledge
,
a
prospect
of
the
World's
Scene
being
laid
open
to
them
,
as
even
ravished
with
admiration
they
seem
to
suffer
with
an
excess
of
communications
,
which
made
our
Holy
Penitent
in
some
such
like
transport
cry
out
.
Anima
mea
cognoscit
nimis
;
that
the
divine
operations
within
his
Soul
exceed
the
limits
of
her
capacity
.
Wherefore
we
conclude
,
that
perfection
is
an
abreviate
of
Gods
Vniversal
favours
to
Man
,
and
that
our
Holy
Penitent
in
this
his
petition
comprehends
what
soever
he
can
ask
;
confirm
me
with
a
principal
spirit
.
The
Application
.
We
are
taught
in
this
clause
to
aspire
unto
perfection
which
consists
in
these
degrees
.
The
first
is
to
obtain
grace
and
charity
;
this
perfection
is
requisite
to
all
Christians
,
and
is
so
essential
to
a
spiritual
life
that
without
it
we
cannot
make
one
step
towards
Heaven
.
The
second
perfection
is
of
councel
,
and
consists
in
a
certain
disposition
of
the
Soul
,
to
perform
readily
and
without
difficulty
on
her
part
,
not
only
what
is
commanded
,
but
also
works
of
supererogation
;
and
this
in
a
manner
more
pure
,
and
more
spiritual
than
usually
is
done
;
to
this
Christ
our
Lord
exhorts
us
in
the
fifth
of
St.
Matthew
;
Be
ye
perfect
as
your
Heavenly
Father
is
perfect
.
The
third
perfection
consists
in
eternal
felicity
,
where
we
shall
be
united
to
a
sovereign
good
,
by
a
clear
vision
and
fervent
love
.
This
is
called
our
final
perfection
,
because
there
is
none
greater
.
The
other
two
branches
are
but
the
means
to
arrive
at
this
.
The
subject
then
of
our
petition
must
be
to
attain
to
our
Beatitude
,
and
this
is
truly
to
be
confirmed
with
a
principal
spirit
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXVII
.
Docebo
iniquos
vias
tuas
,
I
will
teach
the
wicked
thy
wayes
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
like
a
Souldier
compleatly
armed
(
who
expects
but
the
Signal
to
fall
on
)
believes
himself
now
fittted
for
great
designs
:
His
first
undertaking
is
to
chaulk
out
the
wicked
the
Paths
of
Salvation
,
an
enterprize
worthy
so
great
a
Prince
,
and
so
great
a
Penitent
;
and
which
Christ
our
Lord
an
increated
wisdom
made
the
sole
motive
of
his
becoming
Man
.
This
he
declares
in
express
terms
,
asserting
that
he
came
not
to
call
the
just
but
sinners
:
Upon
this
foundation
I
conceive
he
imposed
upon
us
an
obligation
of
loving
our
Neighbour
,
as
our
selves
:
By
vertue
of
which
command
we
are
to
expose
our
corporal
life
and
fortune
for
the
preservation
of
our
Neighbours
spiritual
good
;
if
Christ
sets
so
high
a
value
on
a
drop
of
water
,
or
scrap
of
bread
given
in
his
Name
to
relieve
the
want
of
a
distressed
person
,
as
that
he
will
own
it
as
done
to
himself
;
what
may
we
expect
in
return
when
we
prevent
the
eternal
misery
of
our
Neighbour
,
which
is
the
necessary
consequence
of
sin
not
defaced
by
repentance
.
These
reflections
so
transported
,
St.
Gregory
the
great
as
to
make
him
say
,
The
very
Angels
do
envy
Man
in
the
conversion
of
a
sinner
:
Nay
,
they
would
be
content
to
quit
even
the
beatifick
Vision
for
a
while
,
that
they
might
render
to
God
the
service
of
gaining
one
Soul
;
and
could
they
repine
at
any
thing
,
it
should
be
in
not
having
Tongues
sensibly
to
express
themselves
in
order
to
this
end
.
Wherefore
you
may
see
by
this
clause
our
Penitent
is
grateful
,
he
will
not
like
the
sluggish
steward
bury
his
Talent
in
the
Ground
,
but
improve
it
,
and
this
by
the
noblest
way
of
Traffick
encreasing
the
number
of
the
blessed
:
I
will
teach
the
wicked
thy
ways
.
There
is
nothing
certainly
holds
in
subjection
,
and
strikes
an
awe
and
respect
into
us
more
than
the
impressions
of
knowledge
we
receive
from
any
person
,
those
who
are
most
famed
for
wisdome
in
the
world
,
have
alwayes
acknowledged
a
greater
Obligation
to
their
Masters
than
Parents
,
because
the
one
made
them
simply
to
live
,
the
others
to
live
well
:
It
was
from
this
principle
that
God
designing
to
give
a
precept
of
charity
to
his
reasonable
Creatures
,
to
facilitate
the
Execution
of
this
his
command
,
ordained
a
dependency
of
one
another
in
the
conveyance
of
intellectual
notions
;
that
the
first
rank
of
Seraphims
should
enlighten
the
next
immediate
order
,
and
so
to
the
lowest
Hierarchy
;
for
from
this
ordinate
transmission
of
scientifical
species
arises
a
Harmony
of
love
and
respect
,
love
in
those
that
communicate
,
respect
in
those
that
receive
;
nor
doth
it
end
in
the
giver
,
and
receiver
,
but
is
returned
with
the
advantage
of
praise
and
glory
unto
the
supream
Fountain
whence
all
true
wisdom
flowes
.
Now
Princes
are
Earthly
Seraphims
,
unto
whom
it
belongs
(
as
mortal
Quires
)
to
enrich
their
Nobility
,
they
their
immediate
subordinate
ranks
,
and
so
to
the
lowest
Peasant
,
with
Documents
of
Justice
,
temperance
,
and
Piety
:
First
,
by
good
example
:
Next
,
by
a
vigilancy
to
put
in
Execution
pious
,
and
equitable
Lawes
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
happily
ambitious
to
lay
the
Foundation
of
a
Common-wealth
,
which
unanimously
conspiring
to
God's
honor
might
imitate
that
of
the
blessed
,
is
resolved
to
play
his
part
;
he
will
not
barely
instruct
,
but
teach
by
his
actions
what
his
subjects
owe
to
God
;
Nay
he
will
have
a
particular
Eye
unto
the
wicked
,
and
shew
his
zeal
in
their
reduction
,
a
task
beyond
the
victory
over
Lyons
and
Giants
.
I
will
teach
the
wicked
thy
wayes
.
I
will
teach
the
wicked
thy
ways
,
that
is
,
thy
commandments
,
and
from
thence
confound
them
in
their
disobedience
:
for
God
having
created
the
world
of
nothing
,
an
absolute
dominion
over
all
Creatures
is
from
thence
most
justly
due
unto
him
,
and
if
the
potter
of
the
same
Mass
of
Clay
,
composes
Vessels
of
honour
,
and
others
to
baser
uses
,
and
this
without
any
blame
,
though
many
causes
concurr
with
him
in
this
action
:
With
much
more
reason
God
having
had
no
partner
in
the
production
of
Creatures
ought
to
have
an
entire
disposal
of
them
;
this
sovereignty
by
the
title
of
Creation
is
the
most
noble
and
accomplished
that
can
be
imagined
,
because
he
derives
the
priviledge
from
none
,
but
holds
it
from
himself
,
so
that
it
is
natural
to
him
.
Having
laid
this
foundation
,
our
penitential
Master
unfolds
unto
the
wicked
a
Law
eternal
,
which
is
nothing
else
but
certain
decrees
and
maxims
he
framed
in
his
infinite
understanding
from
all
eternity
,
by
which
he
resolved
to
govern
the
World
,
when
he
should
think
fit
to
give
it
a
Being
.
Amongst
a
multitude
of
these
Maxims
,
One
is
,
to
concurr
to
the
motions
and
actions
of
all
Creatures
conformably
to
their
Natures
which
he
would
not
destroy
.
Another
is
,
to
permit
Man
to
act
according
to
his
strength
and
liberty
whatsoever
the
issue
be
.
The
third
is
,
not
to
admit
him
into
Heaven
,
unless
he
render
himself
in
some
sort
capable
of
it
;
and
after
the
Collation
of
his
grace
,
and
imposition
of
his
commands
,
never
to
violence
his
liberty
so
to
obstruct
sin
,
but
yet
he
resolved
to
draw
good
out
of
evil
,
and
at
the
latter
day
pass
a
severe
sentence
upon
voluntary
bad
actions
.
This
is
then
the
first
lesson
our
Convert
will
read
unto
the
wicked
,
that
the
decrees
of
God
touching
the
worlds
Government
as
they
are
eternal
,
so
are
they
immutable
.
If
some
be
frozen
through
want
of
light
and
heat
,
others
again
do
melt
with
the
excess
of
both
,
yet
will
he
not
for
all
this
alter
the
Sun's
course
;
if
some
do
abuse
free
will
,
and
by
it
work
their
own
destruction
,
this
inconveniency
will
not
make
him
change
what
he
hath
done
,
nor
abrogate
that
noble
priviledge
.
Though
heaven
should
become
a
desart
,
yet
will
he
not
people
it
but
with
such
as
merit
it
by
a
good
life
;
I
mean
in
persons
grown
up
to
the
use
of
reason
,
however
foolish
intoxicated
brains
may
quarrel
his
conduct
(
as
they
do
)
in
many
of
these
particulars
.
The
next
Lecture
our
Convert
will
hold
forth
unto
the
wicked
,
and
mark
out
to
them
the
track
of
heaven
,
is
,
that
this
supream
Lord
hath
imprinted
in
every
man
a
law
of
reason
;
by
which
if
he
square
not
his
actions
,
his
own
reason
will
rise
up
against
him
,
play
the
judge
,
and
condemn
him
:
This
light
tells
us
we
must
fly
what
is
evil
in
it self
,
and
embrace
that
good
which
is
so
intrinsick
to
our
natures
,
as
its
contrary
is
absolutely
evill
:
As
for
example
,
to
adore
God
is
a
thing
so
corresponds
with
Mans
reason
,
as
were
there
no
superiour
command
to
do
it
,
yet
our
own
judgement
could
not
but
allow
it
as
proper
and
fitting
to
be
done
;
both
in
consideration
of
Man's
infirmity
and
vileness
,
as
also
in
relation
to
the
greatness
and
infinity
of
God
.
This
light
is
so
universally
spread
,
that
scarce
any
can
be
found
so
savage
,
who
knows
and
performs
not
good
in
some
kind
or
other
:
St.
Paul
confirms
this
doctrine
ad
Rom.
1.
The
Gentils
ignorant
both
of
the
Law
of
Moses
and
the
gospel
do
naturally
discharge
some
part
of
the
Law
,
that
is
,
of
nature
;
whence
St.
Austin
cryes
out
,
O
God
your
Law
is
written
in
our
hearts
,
which
no
iniquity
can
raze
out
.
Hence
springs
a
remorse
of
conscience
even
in
the
most
barbarous
persons
,
after
the
perpretation
of
any
crime
opposite
to
the
law
of
nature
,
and
which
sooner
or
later
never
fails
to
seize
them
with
apprehensions
of
the
divine
justice
,
but
especially
when
grace
(
of
which
no
man
is
altogether
and
always
destitute
)
awakens
their
drowzy
and
extinguished
conscience
:
this
I
say
ever
gives
them
some
light
spark
of
knowledge
,
by
which
their
first
inconsiderate
act
is
rendred
less
excusable
.
Thus
our
brave
combatant
beats
the
wicked
with
their
own
weapons
,
and
evidently
demonstrates
(
referring
all
to
their
own
conscience
)
that
when
they
prevaricate
by
injustice
,
falshood
,
irreverence
to
God
,
impenitency
and
the
like
;
they
act
against
a
Law-giver
which
is
God
himself
;
and
against
a
Law
that
took
birth
with
their
Creation
,
and
is
the
Model
and
Rule
of
humane
Lawes
,
which
(
without
conformity
to
this
Law
)
are
not
Lawes
,
but
injustice
and
tyranny
:
I
will
teach
the
wicked
thy
wayes
.
The
third
remonstrance
of
our
enflamed
Doctour
is
,
to
inform
the
wicked
that
positive
Divine
Lawes
are
necessary
,
not
only
to
rectify
their
wandring
steps
,
but
also
to
preserve
the
just
in
their
righteous
paths
.
The
reason
is
,
Man
is
designed
to
a
supernatural
end
,
to
arrive
at
which
his
natural
faculties
are
deficient
,
wherefore
it
was
requisite
he
should
have
supernatural
precepts
and
rules
proportioned
to
the
sublime
condition
of
his
end
:
Besides
,
after
he
had
exchanged
a
state
of
innocency
for
that
of
sin
,
and
corruption
;
he
stood
in
need
of
a
Master
who
might
instruct
him
how
disastrous
a
thing
sin
is
,
how
necessary
to
have
a
redeemer
,
all
which
Divine
Lawes
do
open
unto
him
.
Again
,
to
observe
even
the
Lawes
of
Nature
would
have
been
a
hard
task
;
if
he
aspired
not
after
somthing
more
sublime
;
for
the
efforts
of
his
Soul
are
so
clogged
by
the
violence
of
his
passions
,
and
his
nature
so
weakned
by
sin
,
that
unless
divine
positive
laws
had
engaged
man
unto
heavenly
pursuits
,
scarce
would
he
ever
have
been
able
to
reach
the
perfect
observance
of
the
Law
of
nature
.
Lastly
,
it
was
necessary
he
should
have
alwayes
before
his
Eyes
his
dependency
and
subjection
unto
God
,
so
to
be
stirred
up
to
the
performance
of
his
duty
,
and
by
giving
testimony
of
his
faithful
obedience
merit
something
at
his
hands
;
wherefore
his
Creation
was
no
sooner
finished
,
but
God
laid
a
command
upon
him
,
that
he
might
know
even
in
Paradise
he
had
a
Master
.
Next
,
he
consecrated
the
Seventh
day
to
works
of
his
service
,
obliging
the
first
inhabitants
of
the
Earth
to
its
observance
:
Moreover
,
those
first
Men
of
the
World
were
obliged
to
the
supernatural
vertues
of
Faith
,
Hope
,
and
Charity
,
without
which
acts
they
could
not
be
saved
;
now
those
decrees
were
positive
Lawes
,
and
superadded
to
those
of
nature
;
so
that
in
all
times
Men
were
never
left
purely
to
the
Law
of
nature
,
but
it
was
intermixed
with
several
positive
ordinations
,
that
might
help
them
on
more
advantagiously
in
the
way
of
their
Salvation
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
having
thus
exposed
before
the
wicked
the
endearing
providence
of
God
over
mankind
,
who
never
abandoned
them
to
the
sole
instinct
of
nature
,
and
conduct
of
their
own
Reason
,
but
like
a
careful
Master
teaching
them
his
will
by
himself
,
and
giveing
them
particular
directions
to
lead
them
in
the
way
of
vertue
;
he
would
not
stop
there
,
but
proceed
to
a
further
elucidation
of
God's
benefits
towards
them
;
that
at
last
overcome
by
his
goodness
,
they
might
lay
down
their
arms
,
and
think
it
no
dishonour
to
lye
prostrate
at
the
feet
of
so
noble
a
Conquerour
;
which
if
our
penitent
can
effect
,
he
will
repeat
with
much
joy
,
I
will
te●ch
the
wicked
thy
ways
.
Our
zealous
convert
plyes
the
Iron
whilst
it
is
hot
,
hoping
to
render
the
wicked
more
malleable
,
wherefore
he
produces
the
Mosaick
law
given
by
God
to
sanctify
the
Children
of
Abraham
,
and
dispose
the
World
for
the
knowledge
,
belief
,
and
honorable
reception
of
Jesus
Christ
:
The
Law
consisted
in
precepts
moral
,
ceremonial
,
and
judicial
:
The
first
contained
the
Ten
Commandments
,
and
divers
others
relating
to
them
;
and
though
the
Law
of
nature
led
to
their
observance
,
yet
many
errours
were
committed
in
reference
to
them
,
which
were
cleared
,
and
better
regulated
by
positive
Lawes
.
The
Ceremonial
were
ordained
in
order
to
the
worship
of
God
,
regulating
what
belongs
to
the
Sacraments
,
Temple
,
institution
of
fasts
,
and
bloody
Sacrifice
of
Beasts
;
wherein
God
manifested
his
justice
,
declaring
that
sin
deserved
Death
,
and
likewise
his
Mercy
,
in
that
he
would
exchange
the
death
of
a
sinner
for
that
of
a
poor
animal
.
The
third
are
judicial
which
conspire
to
the
establishment
of
a
rare
Government
amongst
the
Jews
,
that
by
an
admirable
policy
being
kept
in
peace
,
Religion
might
flourish
,
the
number
of
their
Laws
amount
to
above
six
hundred
,
an
Argument
of
God's
indulgence
towards
them
:
For
the
Jews
being
stupid
,
and
of
a
gross
apprehension
,
uncapable
of
being
led
by
general
rules
,
as
not
knowing
how
to
apply
them
in
particular
emergencies
,
he
was
pleased
in
every
point
to
satisfy
and
instruct
them
:
Nay
his
particular
providence
here
in
appears
,
that
delivering
so
many
Articles
for
their
observance
,
he
seems
to
take
upon
him
the
whole
care
of
providing
for
their
temporals
as
well
as
spirituals
,
as
if
he
would
keep
a
watch
over
every
step
and
motion
of
theirs
,
to
the
end
all
things
might
be
exact
,
and
setled
in
the
highest
order
.
He
designed
them
likewise
to
be
a
pattern
of
Holiness
and
Sanctity
to
the
Gentiles
,
that
by
their
example
they
might
be
drawn
from
the
corruption
of
Idolatry
,
to
the
real
sentiments
of
vertue
and
religion
,
wherefore
he
planted
them
in
the
midst
of
the
habitable
world
.
Lastly
,
it
was
just
that
Nation
should
be
the
most
Religious
and
Pious
,
from
whence
Jesus
Christ
was
to
issue
forth
,
that
they
might
prefigure
,
publish
,
and
engrave
him
in
the
hearts
and
minds
of
Men
by
their
holy
Ceremonies
and
legal
observances
,
which
were
all
to
represent
him
,
and
the
wonders
of
his
life
and
death
:
for
this
cause
,
the
kingdome
of
the
Jews
was
prophetick
,
and
their
religious
actions
a
figure
of
the
qualities
,
condition
,
and
mysteries
of
Jesus
Christ
:
Nay
,
all
the
worship
and
service
which
God
required
of
that
Nation
,
and
all
the
Exercise
of
their
Religion
was
meerly
to
foretel
,
announce
,
expect
and
receive
the
Messias
;
wherefore
St.
Paul
calls
it
a
holy
Law
abounding
in
Ceremonies
,
and
all
tending
to
this
effect
.
I
cannot
doubt
but
our
great
Doctour
and
Prophet
did
with
much
Energy
insist
upon
the
designed
End
of
the
Mosaick
Law
which
is
Jesus
Christ
;
representing
to
the
wicked
that
the
sole
way
to
Salvation
was
by
repentance
and
belief
in
the
Messias
;
exhorting
them
to
joyn
with
him
in
the
practice
of
Heroick
acts
of
vertues
,
so
to
expedite
his
coming
,
and
repeat
after
him
this
his
daily
Prayer
;
who
will
give
us
from
Sion
the
Saviour
of
Israel
.
He
told
them
there
was
not
a
sigh
or
languishment
,
any
prayer
,
or
good
work
,
directed
for
the
accelleration
of
this
mystery
which
had
not
its
effect
;
that
Abraham
advanced
it
much
by
his
prodigious
act
of
obedience
in
offering
to
Sacrifice
his
Son
,
and
after
he
had
run
over
all
the
Gests
of
Saints
till
his
time
,
he
conclude
all
these
motives
would
have
been
little
efficacious
without
the
charity
,
mercy
,
and
love
of
God
to
lost
Man
.
St.
John
attributes
the
glory
of
this
Action
to
love
alone
,
and
if
some
have
compared
the
vigour
of
love
to
equal
that
of
death
,
I
dare
give
it
a
higher
Encomium
,
and
will
say
it
was
so
generous
as
to
transport
it self
up
to
Heaven
,
and
assault
the
Divinity
in
his
Throne
,
drawing
from
thence
the
eternal
Son
of
God
.
O
who
can
be
so
wicked
to
behold
the
lines
of
this
merciful
proceeding
drawn
forth
,
and
not
presently
joyn
issue
with
our
holy
preacher
to
abandon
the
pernicious
wayes
of
sin
,
and
become
a
Disciple
in
the
Rudiments
of
vertue
:
To
behold
a
Redeemer
living
in
the
Hearts
of
Men
,
before
he
came
to
live
upon
Earth
,
to
see
all
the
Sanctity
of
the
World
addressed
to
him
,
to
speak
of
nothing
but
him
,
and
all
conspire
to
his
glory
.
If
before
he
came
,
he
had
so
many
tongues
and
voices
to
set
him
forth
;
and
that
the
Law
and
service
of
God
had
no
other
aim
than
to
engrave
the
Messias
in
the
Hearts
of
Men
,
what
expressions
ought
to
enflame
our
zeal
after
his
birth
,
life
,
cross
,
and
triumphant
glory
.
These
are
the
wayes
our
Graduate
will
distill
into
the
Minds
of
the
wicked
,
and
certainly
he
did
it
with
an
excess
of
fervour
and
delight
helped
on
by
the
consideration
,
that
out
of
his
seed
the
Saviour
of
Israel
was
to
be
born
:
And
it
is
clear
he
kept
close
to
this
Theam
even
to
the
last
,
making
it
his
Testament
,
and
the
subject
of
his
expiring
words
to
his
Son
Solomon
,
That
he
should
be
sure
to
walk
in
the
wayes
of
the
Lord
,
that
in
the
exact
observance
of
his
judgments
and
Commandment
written
in
the
Law
of
Moses
were
fastned
the
succession
of
his
Crown
,
saying
;
This
done
thou
shalt
not
want
one
of
thy
posterity
to
sit
upon
the
throne
of
Israel
.
These
are
the
wayes
if
happily
taken
will
preserve
the
wicked
from
ruine
,
give
them
eternal
life
;
secure
them
from
Hell
,
and
open
a
passage
to
all
the
delights
of
Heaven
,
as
St.
John
sayes
;
To
the
end
that
all
who
believe
in
the
should
possess
eternal
bliss
.
Wherefore
our
Penitent
egged
on
by
so
many
powerful
motives
to
the
discharge
of
his
task
,
will
never
fail
in
what
he
hath
promised
,
to
teach
the
wicked
the
wayes
of
God
.
The
Application
.
Our
Penitent
instructs
us
here
by
his
example
,
that
there
is
no
employment
so
acceptable
unto
God
,
as
to
disperse
in
our
Neighbour
the
clouds
of
Ignorance
,
and
imbue
him
with
principles
of
wisdome
.
His
Son
Solomon
was
perhaps
taught
by
this
clause
to
address
so
happily
his
petition
.
And
Joel
the
prophet
makes
it
the
great
subject
of
good
tydings
he
foredeclared
to
the
Church
:
Be
glad
yea
Sons
of
Sion
,
and
rejoyce
in
the
Lord
your
God
,
who
hath
given
you
a
teacher
of
righteousness
.
Aristotle
being
asked
why
Commonwealths
did
not
assign
pensions
for
Masters
that
taught
and
instructed
others
,
as
they
did
to
other
offices
of
the
State
,
made
this
reply
,
because
there
could
be
no
reward
answerable
to
their
desert
:
if
he
thought
certain
notions
in
natural
knowledge
to
be
so
valuable
,
what
a
price
would
he
have
set
on
such
as
convey
the
sublime
mysteries
of
heaven
unto
us
:
Let
us
then
instruct
our
Neighbour
,
by
good
example
,
by
doing
charity
to
the
distressed
,
and
by
wholesome
Documents
,
every
one
according
to
his
Talent
and
Ability
:
And
in
doing
this
,
we
follow
the
steps
of
a
great
Saint
who
believed
he
could
in
nothing
better
express
his
gratitude
and
zeal
for
God's
honour
,
than
in
the
Reduction
of
Souls
to
the
way
of
Salvation
;
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXVIII
.
Et
impii
ad
te
convertentur
,
And
the
impious
shall
be
converted
to
thee
.
BY
this
clause
our
Penitent
destroyes
the
Opinion
of
some
in
those
modern
times
,
who
assert
,
that
Christ
died
not
for
all
Men
,
but
only
for
the
elect
;
for
if
the
impious
be
not
excluded
from
the
participation
of
his
precious
Blood
,
surely
there
is
none
that
are
;
impiety
being
a
crime
that
directly
strikes
against
the
honour
of
God
,
and
is
a
complaet
rebellion
against
his
Divinity
.
Now
if
our
Divine
by
his
preaching
was
confident
to
reduce
such
offendours
,
whom
can
we
imagine
shall
be
excepted
?
nor
can
they
say
we
are
put
into
a
worse
condition
by
the
Evangelical
Law
,
in
which
a
plenitude
of
benedictions
are
showred
down
upon
us
,
and
which
as
far
exceeds
the
Mosaick
,
as
a
thing
real
,
the
type
and
figure
that
represents
it
.
St.
John
Chap.
1.2
.
sayes
,
Christ
is
a
propitiation
for
our
sins
,
and
not
only
for
ours
but
for
the
sins
of
the
whole
World
.
First
,
Christ
satisfied
for
Adam's
disobedience
and
original
sin
,
witness
St.
Paul
,
ad
Rom.
Chap.
2.
As
death
entered
by
the
default
of
one
,
so
life
by
the
justice
and
obedience
of
one
.
Again
St.
John
sayes
,
Behold
the
Lamb
of
God
that
taketh
away
the
sins
of
the
World
,
that
is
,
original
sin
,
for
the
Greek
version
puts
it
in
the
Singular
Number
,
so
Bede
,
Theophilact
,
and
St.
Thomas
understand
it
.
The
Angelical
Doctor
adds
,
that
the
Son
of
God
was
incarnate
rather
for
original
sin
,
which
was
an
universal
evil
,
whose
venome
infected
all
Mankind
,
than
for
the
actual
and
personal
sins
of
the
World
;
but
as
no
sin
is
irremissible
to
an
infinite
mercy
by
consequence
after
original
sin
,
he
made
satisfaction
for
all
actions
and
transgressions
which
were
mortal
:
The
reason
is
,
that
mortal
sins
not
only
deprive
the
Soul
of
the
vision
of
God
for
all
eternity
,
but
likewise
exposes
it
to
the
everlasting
torments
of
Hell
;
the
Son
of
God
then
,
whose
nature
is
all
goodness
considered
the
misery
of
these
sins
,
and
offered
up
his
life
and
death
for
their
expiation
.
For
without
sanctifying
grace
our
works
are
not
meritorious
;
nor
can
they
satisfy
for
any
venial
sin
:
Wherefore
deprived
of
grace
by
original
sin
,
we
could
not
by
our selves
(
no
not
by
the
assistance
of
the
blessed
Angels
)
satisfy
for
the
least
venial
sin
:
Because
,
though
they
be
endued
with
grace
,
yet
no
pure
Creature
can
merit
condign
grace
:
Wherefore
it
was
necessary
that
Jesus
Christ
should
make
satisfaction
for
our
least
failing
,
as
St.
Austin
sayes
excellently
well
,
that
to
save
an
infinity
of
Worlds
we
ought
not
to
cast
one
glance
of
the
Eye
contrary
to
the
will
of
God
,
Whence
it
is
clear
no
Creature
can
satisfy
for
the
least
sin
,
since
to
do
it
,
we
must
offer
up
something
more
valuable
than
the
whole
World
.
If
then
we
could
not
free
our selves
from
the
least
deviation
without
the
interposition
of
his
merits
,
much
less
were
we
in
a
capacity
to
relieve
our selves
from
the
guilt
of
Enormous
Crimes
,
and
if
as
to
these
the
fruit
of
his
passion
was
not
applyed
unto
all
,
it
must
be
either
from
the
inefficacy
of
satisfaction
,
or
a
defect
of
commiseration
and
goodness
towards
his
Creatures
.
It
cannot
be
the
first
,
for
his
merits
are
infinite
by
reason
of
the
divine
person
from
whence
they
proceed
,
for
actions
belong
to
the
person
according
to
Philosophy
:
It
was
likewise
infinite
in
regard
of
his
humanity
,
because
it
was
sanctifyed
and
deifyed
by
the
divinity
,
which
was
like
a
certain
sanctifying
and
deifying
form
unto
that
sacred
humanity
,
now
as
the
greatness
of
merit
is
not
only
measured
by
the
quality
of
the
work
,
but
also
by
many
circumstances
,
and
especially
in
consideration
of
the
dignity
of
the
person
that
merits
.
Hence
it
is
that
Jesus
Christ
being
infinite
in
consideration
of
his
person
,
and
his
humanity
being
infinitely
holy
,
his
actions
are
of
an
infinite
value
,
and
merit
.
If
it
be
said
his
goodness
is
deficient
in
this
ransom
,
and
that
he
contracted
it
only
to
some
few
;
St.
John
confounds
them
for
speaking
of
the
incarnation
,
he
seems
transported
with
wonder
,
and
expresses
it
with
a
sic
,
that
is
,
God
so
loved
the
World
as
he
gave
unto
it
his
only
Son
:
Can
we
imagine
then
he
loved
it
so
little
as
to
select
a
certain
small
number
;
no
no
,
he
loved
it
so
much
as
he
died
for
all
.
There
is
no
good
person
upon
Earth
who
desires
not
out
of
charity
all
Men's
Salvation
,
and
shall
Jesus
Christ
the
Saint
of
Saints
be
limited
in
this
his
charity
?
St.
Bridget
in
her
Revelations
recounts
how
Christ
our
Lord
said
once
unto
her
,
I
am
much
offended
with
those
who
say
my
Lawes
are
hard
,
that
I
give
not
sufficient
Grace
to
their
observance
,
and
that
my
passion
is
to
some
no
wayes
beneficial
,
by
which
they
would
ravish
my
goodness
from
me
,
but
at
the
latter
day
I
will
justify
my self
before
the
Angels
and
Saints
,
and
make
it
clear
as
the
Sun
,
there
was
no
want
on
my
part
;
that
there
is
not
one
Soul
for
whom
I
would
not
have
endured
as
much
as
I
have
done
for
all
,
and
that
the
sole
fault
consists
in
the
obliquity
of
their
wills
,
alwayes
rebellious
,
and
contrary
to
mine
.
St.
Peter
in
his
second
Epistle
,
Chap.
2.
speaking
of
certain
Reprobate
Hereticks
sayes
:
They
deny
him
by
which
they
are
redeemed
;
and
St.
Paul
1
Cor.
c.
8.
Thus
thy
Brother
will
perish
for
whom
our
Lord
and
Saviour
dyed
.
Whence
it
followes
a
person
may
be
damned
for
whom
Christ
offered
up
his
death
,
by
consequence
he
dyed
for
the
Reprobate
.
The
councel
of
Trent
Sess.
6.
c.
3.
Christ
dyed
for
all
,
though
as
to
the
benefit
of
his
death
those
only
receive
it
unto
whom
his
passion
is
applyed
.
The
price
of
his
blood
was
given
then
for
all
Men
,
though
the
success
be
different
,
some
more
,
some
less
partaking
the
fruit
of
his
passion
:
He
is
a
Saviour
then
to
all
in
some
degree
of
redemption
,
even
to
those
he
shall
judge
and
condemn
;
as
St.
Austin
on
the
53.
Psalm
.
He
shall
judge
all
the
World
who
hath
payed
the
ransome
for
all
the
World
:
In
which
appears
his
magnificence
and
copious
redemption
,
that
would
dye
for
Souls
whom
he
foreknew
would
resist
the
charms
of
his
grace
to
the
last
,
and
as
much
as
lyes
in
them
,
render
his
passion
fruitless
:
nay
he
gloryes
in
that
he
came
for
the
greatest
sinners
,
promising
cure
to
the
most
desperate
diseases
,
nay
to
the
impious
in
case
they
will
comply
with
his
prescriptions
.
To
bring
this
a
little
more
home
,
St.
Thomas
sayes
the
passion
of
Jesus
Christ
is
like
to
a
ray
of
the
Sun
,
which
though
it
be
created
for
the
benefit
of
the
whole
World
,
yet
all
reap
not
advantage
by
it
,
there
being
some
of
a
melancholy
reserved
humour
who
effect
darkness
,
and
shut
up
their
doors
and
windowes
against
his
beams
;
so
the
passion
and
death
of
our
Saviour
,
is
offered
up
for
the
universal
good
of
all
Men
;
but
many
loving
the
darkness
of
sin
,
keep
themselves
barricadoed
from
his
benign
influence
,
resisting
the
light
of
Faith
,
and
other
attractives
of
his
love
.
Thus
you
see
all
have
power
to
save
themselves
,
though
such
only
are
effectually
saved
,
unto
whom
the
passion
of
Jesus
Christ
(
by
our
happy
concurrence
with
his
sufficient
Grace
)
is
communicated
and
applyed
as
in
the
Fifth
Chapter
to
the
Hebrews
;
he
is
cause
of
Salvation
unto
all
those
who
obey
him
.
Our
Learned
Doctor
upon
these
grounds
hath
reason
to
hope
,
that
when
he
shall
have
deciphered
unto
the
wicked
the
wayes
of
God
;
how
full
of
mercy
,
and
obliging
sweetness
they
are
,
they
will
lend
their
cooperation
and
consent
to
the
movings
of
his
grace
,
bear
part
with
their
Saviour's
passion
,
that
they
may
likewise
share
in
his
glory
,
acknowledging
with
faith
and
love
all
that
is
done
,
or
to
be
done
by
them
,
the
effects
of
his
grace
,
and
so
apply
to
themselves
Christ's
merits
and
satisfaction
:
And
the
impious
shall
be
converted
to
thee
.
Impiety
in
the
strict
acceptation
imports
Atheism
and
a
shaking
off
all
acknowledgement
of
a
Deity
;
its
usual
mates
are
prophaneness
and
impurity
,
by
which
all
things
sacred
are
contemned
,
and
Man
degenerates
into
a
brute
.
What
a
task
is
it
then
to
reduce
an
impious
person
?
Whom
neither
the
fear
of
a
divinity
doth
awe
,
nor
the
charms
of
holy
things
allure
,
nor
finally
the
shame
of
a
base
action
can
move
.
St.
Austin
treating
of
such
as
are
enslaved
to
this
vice
sayes
,
they
resemble
in
nature
to
a
Feaverish
Distemper
which
still
creates
a
thirst
,
though
you
throw
in
an
Ocean
of
liquor
;
so
where
the
flames
of
impiety
have
once
taken
hold
,
to
stop
the
wastes
of
its
fury
passes
the
art
of
reason
,
or
eloquence
;
for
the
impious
have
neither
Eye
,
nor
Ear
,
nor
any
sense
which
is
not
depraved
,
and
turns
all
into
the
malignity
of
its
own
humour
.
I
remember
St.
Chrysostom
makes
a
query
,
why
Herod
fell
so
barbarously
upon
the
massacre
of
so
many
Infants
,
for
(
sayes
he
)
he
either
believed
the
Prophecy
or
believed
it
not
,
if
he
gave
no
credit
to
it
,
it
was
sottish
in
him
to
embrue
his
hands
in
so
much
blood
,
any
spark
of
judgement
would
have
dictated
he
ought
to
have
contemned
and
slighted
it
:
Again
,
if
he
believed
it
was
a
real
prophecy
issuing
from
the
decree
of
Heaven
,
it
must
needs
be
inviolable
,
and
could
not
want
its
effect
:
At
last
,
he
solves
the
question
,
and
throwes
it
upon
this
,
that
a
Soul
drenched
in
impiety
,
is
above
all
things
the
most
infatuated
,
she
is
so
unhappy
as
,
where
there
is
no
impulse
from
abroad
,
to
precipitate
herself
into
inevitable
ruine
,
nay
fruitlesly
to
attempt
odious
,
and
impossible
things
.
It
is
of
these
impious
,
holy
Job
speaks
,
when
he
gives
a
relation
of
their
Maxims
.
They
say
unto
God
retire
from
us
,
we
scorn
the
knowledge
of
your
wayes
,
what
is
the
Omnipotent
that
we
must
serve
him
,
and
what
benefit
arises
if
we
pray
unto
him
?
These
are
the
familiar
blasphemies
which
the
impious
belch
forth
;
the
presence
of
God
they
decline
,
shutting
up
all
the
Avenues
of
Faith
and
Charity
,
by
which
he
may
enter
unto
them
:
The
knowledge
of
his
wayes
,
and
Commandements
they
abhor
,
because
they
are
contrary
to
their
works
;
to
his
power
they
submit
not
,
faigning
to
believe
he
is
not
omnipotent
,
because
he
is
merciful
:
Finally
,
they
offer
not
up
their
supplications
unto
him
,
because
they
would
ask
what
is
not
fit
for
his
supream
wisdom
and
goodness
to
accord
.
Our
great
Minister
in
despight
of
all
these
exorbitancies
,
promises
yet
to
himself
the
reduction
of
these
Monsters
,
and
hopes
to
shape
them
to
the
resemblance
in
which
they
were
created
;
in
which
undertaking
we
need
not
doubt
but
he
used
all
the
Topicks
of
authority
and
reason
apt
to
convince
and
perswade
:
First
,
offering
to
their
consideration
how
much
it
comforts
Man
to
believe
there
is
a
God
,
for
in
doing
this
,
we
contemplate
a
Being
infinite
,
and
sovereign
,
that
presides
and
rules
in
the
World
,
so
that
the
World
possesses
in
him
a
sovereign
good
;
Is
it
not
then
better
,
the
World
should
enjoy
such
a
Being
which
derives
from
himself
alone
his
essence
,
and
existence
,
than
to
be
deprived
of
it
.
For
in
believing
there
is
a
God
,
we
consecrate
our
love
unto
him
,
we
pay
him
the
homage
of
obedience
,
than
which
nothing
is
more
delightful
.
For
to
serve
an
Object
of
so
much
excellency
is
the
height
of
glory
,
we
raise
our selves
finally
one
day
to
enjoy
this
accomplished
Being
,
as
the
ultimate
end
to
which
we
are
designed
,
and
every
glance
of
this
hope
creates
in
us
a
new
contentment
.
Now
if
we
have
not
the
belief
of
a
God
,
what
followes
?
We
convert
our selves
to
a
Creature
inferiour
to
us
,
on
this
we
rely
,
to
this
we
submit
,
in
this
we
hope
,
who
being
filled
with
misery
and
want
,
can
contribute
little
or
nothing
to
make
us
great
,
or
happy
,
so
we
must
needs
languish
without
any
hopes
of
a
full
satisfaction
.
Besides
,
suppose
there
were
no
such
thing
as
a
God
,
we
are
yet
in
as
good
a
condition
as
impious
Atheists
;
for
then
we
shall
tast
no
punishment
after
Death
,
no
more
than
they
;
but
if
there
be
a
God
,
they
have
lost
all
,
in
having
not
acknowledged
the
Worlds
Sovereign
,
nor
performed
any
duty
to
him
;
so
that
in
all
Events
it
is
better
to
believe
than
disbelieve
a
Deity
:
For
besides
the
joyes
our
hopes
afford
us
in
this
life
of
eternal
felicity
,
we
run
no
hazzard
of
ruine
,
as
poor
unfortunate
,
impious
Atheists
do
.
Next
,
he
layes
before
the
impious
,
that
he
who
believes
not
a
providence
,
resembles
an
Orphan
bereft
of
his
Parents
,
and
hath
none
to
take
care
of
him
;
is
like
a
person
at
Sea
in
the
midst
of
Tempests
,
who
fancies
to
be
without
a
Pilot
,
and
exposed
to
the
mercy
of
the
Waves
;
Whereas
the
contrary
opinion
settles
us
in
peace
and
tranquility
;
and
in
all
the
disasters
of
this
life
,
we
have
this
consolation
that
his
wise
and
indulgent
Providence
,
will
make
all
our
seeming
misfortunes
to
end
in
happiness
,
if
with
patience
we
expect
but
the
Issue
.
Again
,
he
would
have
the
wicked
represent
unto
themselves
what
a
comfort
it
is
to
place
God
in
our
thoughts
,
enriched
with
all
kind
of
perfections
,
that
he
is
an
unfathomed
Abyss
of
excellency
,
that
he
is
most
happy
,
most
wise
,
most
powerful
,
most
good
,
and
merciful
.
So
that
our
dependance
on
such
a
Sovereign
cannot
but
add
much
to
our
contentment
;
to
think
he
hath
abundance
to
supply
all
our
indigency
,
and
goodness
to
confer
it
upon
us
,
if
we
prove
faithful
to
his
service
.
When
he
had
thus
ravished
them
with
a
discourse
of
God's
amiable
perfections
;
he
tells
them
,
they
were
created
of
nothing
:
and
so
distills
into
them
a
conception
and
belief
of
his
Omnipotency
,
and
by
that
stirrs
up
their
hope
.
For
if
he
drew
them
out
of
nothing
,
with
more
facility
can
he
restore
life
,
and
raise
them
from
their
Ashes
:
This
belief
gives
us
a
knowledge
of
our
extraction
,
and
shews
it
is
noble
,
in
that
we
belong
to
God
,
we
are
subjects
to
a
Lord
all
powerful
,
who
can
reward
,
and
punish
according
as
we
deserve
:
Next
,
he
minds
them
that
being
composed
of
Soul
and
Body
,
the
one
is
immortal
,
by
which
he
is
elevated
above
all
other
Creatures
,
and
resembles
the
glorious
Angelical
spirits
:
Now
had
they
not
this
assurance
by
faith
,
what
desolation
and
despair
would
seize
them
at
the
approach
of
Death
,
when
like
Beasts
they
must
come
to
lose
all
,
and
perish
for
ever
in
corruption
;
whereas
the
belief
of
a
Resurrection
renders
Death
unto
us
but
like
a
sound
sleep
,
in
the
space
of
which
we
remove
from
one
habitation
to
a
better
:
So
that
the
belief
of
the
Soul's
immortality
is
accompanied
with
the
greatest
consolation
that
can
be
.
His
next
overture
is
that
they
are
designed
to
eternal
beatitude
,
from
which
article
proceeds
a
most
ravishing
harmony
:
for
it
is
the
sole
charm
by
which
all
the
traverses
and
afflictions
of
this
life
are
made
supportable
,
and
the
only
ingredient
which
sweetens
the
bitterness
of
misfortunes
here
:
It
is
just
like
a
person
in
distress
,
and
born
to
a
great
inheritance
,
who
still
animates
himself
with
the
expectation
of
his
Estate
,
which
will
be
the
more
welcome
to
him
,
as
his
hardship
hath
been
the
greater
;
no
less
do
our
pretensions
to
Paradise
plant
in
us
hope
,
charity
,
humility
and
constancy
in
all
events
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
notwithstanding
all
this
is
not
so
arrogant
as
to
perswade
himself
,
the
force
of
his
Arguments
will
infallibly
prevail
upon
the
impious
:
For
though
the
advantages
of
Faith
prescribe
an
Antidote
against
any
Poyson
of
misfortune
either
in
this
life
,
or
the
next
;
though
it
contain
nothing
that
is
not
holy
and
pure
,
nothing
that
is
not
worthy
the
Majesty
of
God
;
yet
he
knowes
that
Man
by
the
strength
of
nature
cannot
purchase
a
compleat
beatitude
;
that
neither
by
the
succour
of
any
natural
Agent
can
he
arrive
to
his
perfect
happiness
,
because
it
is
above
,
and
exceeds
any
created
vertue
;
so
that
it
is
necessary
God
should
there
act
immediately
himself
,
as
in
the
raising
a
dead
person
to
life
,
or
restoring
sight
to
the
blind
,
whence
St.
Austin
sayes
,
None
can
give
eternal
life
,
but
the
Author
of
Eternity
:
And
therefore
our
wise
Penitent
sayes
not
,
he
will
convert
the
impious
,
but
that
they
shall
be
converted
,
which
is
to
say
,
the
power
of
God's
grace
must
strike
the
stroke
.
Lastly
,
he
acquaints
them
,
that
though
they
are
to
be
illuminated
,
inspired
,
and
introduced
into
their
happiness
by
God
himself
,
yet
the
sole
way
to
dispose
themselves
for
this
,
must
be
by
their
own
good
works
and
actions
:
Not
but
that
the
Omnipotency
of
God
might
give
them
beatitude
without
exacting
any
thing
at
their
hands
,
but
the
order
of
his
Providence
would
have
it
so
,
that
Man
should
exercise
himself
in
virtue
,
and
labour
for
the
purchase
of
his
final
perfection
:
To
which
end
God
assists
him
with
his
grace
,
and
gives
supernatural
helps
,
which
proportion
his
good
works
to
the
greatness
of
beatitude
,
unto
which
he
may
raise
himself
by
degrees
,
by
many
labours
and
pious
exercises
;
so
to
purify
,
and
the
better
to
dispose
himself
for
so
sublime
and
transcending
an
end
.
In
conclusion
,
our
great
Doctor
bids
them
gather
from
this
his
discourse
upon
what
foundation
they
stand
,
that
if
they
will
have
a
Crown
they
must
fight
for
it
;
they
must
desert
their
wayes
of
impiety
,
change
their
gluttony
into
a
sober
repast
,
their
softness
and
delicacies
into
austerity
,
their
vain
joyes
into
Tears
of
Repentance
,
their
libidinous
desires
,
into
languishments
of
love
and
affection
towards
God
.
If
then
the
most
impious
will
submit
to
this
doom
,
and
follow
these
rules
his
Holy
Providence
hath
set
down
,
he
will
not
blush
to
assert
with
confidence
that
even
the
most
enormous
sinner
shall
be
converted
:
And
the
impious
shall
be
converted
.
The
Application
.
By
this
clause
our
Penitent
would
fortify
us
against
despair
,
and
shew
there
is
no
sin
so
enormous
which
can
resist
the
efficacy
of
a
true
repentance
,
for
God
hath
engaged
his
word
not
to
be
inexorable
,
and
protests
it
is
far
from
his
thoughts
,
to
will
the
death
of
a
sinner
,
and
he
excepts
none
;
no
not
the
impious
,
but
upon
submission
he
will
receive
them
with
open
arms
,
raze
from
his
memory
their
iniquities
,
and
transport
them
from
a
state
of
perdition
to
the
rich
title
of
being
his
Children
.
St.
Bernard
sayes
,
he
that
assents
to
what
God
affirms
,
expresses
his
Faith
,
and
gives
belief
to
God
;
he
that
acknowledges
his
Existence
and
Being
,
is
said
to
believe
God
:
Lastly
,
he
that
places
all
his
hope
in
God
,
is
properly
said
to
believe
in
him
.
Let
us
then
remember
when
we
say
our
creed
,
that
at
the
same
time
we
cast
all
our
hope
and
confidence
in
God
,
relying
on
his
goodness
and
power
,
which
is
infinite
and
exceeds
by
consequence
all
the
malice
of
sin
.
Let
us
repeat
with
St.
Austin
,
if
Paul
a
persecutour
and
great
sinner
is
become
a
Vessel
of
election
,
why
should
I
despair
;
and
why
should
not
I
with
our
Holy
Penitent
entertain
a
firm
hope
,
when
the
impious
shall
be
converted
;
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXIX
.
Libera
me
de
sanguinibus
Deus
,
Deus
salutis
meae
,
Free
me
from
blood
O
God
,
God
of
my
Salvation
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
makes
a
stop
in
the
carreer
of
his
zeal
at
the
voice
of
blood
from
Heaven
which
beats
his
affrighted
Ears
:
He
remembers
how
Cain
wandered
like
a
restless
motion
,
beholding
alwayes
in
his
imagination
Spectres
,
Monstres
,
Fears
,
and
dreads
the
usual
mates
of
a
Conscience
wounded
with
homicide
.
And
shall
he
then
sit
quiet
in
his
Throne
,
whilst
Vriah
his
Veins
are
opened
,
and
emptyed
by
his
command
;
the
reeking
Vapour
which
arises
from
that
injured
Body
seems
so
to
condense
the
Air
,
that
it
even
stifles
him
;
wherefore
he
begs
a
little
respiration
,
that
he
may
recover
a
new
life
;
and
which
he
shall
ever
owe
to
the
God
of
his
Salvation
;
Free
me
from
blood
,
&c.
St.
Gregory
the
great
,
rendering
a
reason
why
God
will
inflict
an
eternal
punishment
for
a
momentary
transgression
,
layes
the
weight
of
his
argument
upon
the
practice
of
Men
,
who
dispatch
away
into
another
World
by
Sentence
of
Death
Murderers
,
and
other
Criminals
of
several
less
degrees
;
by
which
(
as
much
as
in
them
lyes
)
they
inflict
a
punishment
for
eternity
,
depriving
them
of
life
which
they
can
never
restore
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
fears
the
force
of
this
ratiocination
,
for
since
he
hath
decreed
this
doom
to
his
innocent
neighbour
,
what
remains
for
him
to
expect
,
but
a
torment
without
end
,
which
shall
last
as
long
as
the
injury
,
and
this
he
can
never
repair
.
All
his
plea
then
is
to
repent
,
to
disown
his
malice
,
to
throw
himself
at
the
Feet
of
him
in
whose
Hands
are
grasped
all
the
Lawes
of
life
and
death
;
that
he
haveing
the
supream
Legislative
power
,
to
him
alone
it
belongs
to
dispense
,
acquit
,
or
chastise
according
to
the
measure
of
his
will
.
Wherefore
he
sues
to
this
God
of
Salvation
,
that
he
may
be
freed
from
that
heavy
doom
due
to
his
transgressions
;
Free
me
from
blood
,
&c.
St.
Matthew
sayes
whosoever
shall
take
up
a
Sword
in
order
to
the
effusion
of
humane
blood
shall
perish
by
the
Sword
;
the
same
measure
shall
be
returned
to
him
which
he
hath
dealt
to
others
,
and
by
the
same
means
he
wrought
anothers
destruction
,
his
own
shall
be
contrived
,
and
in
Gen.
9.
the
reason
is
given
;
because
Man
is
created
to
the
resemblance
of
God
.
We
find
that
upon
the
score
of
the
excellency
of
humane
nature
,
Man
is
taken
off
from
the
perpetration
of
several
sins
as
too
low
for
the
dignity
of
his
Creation
.
The
consideration
that
he
is
endued
with
reason
,
gives
unto
wise
persons
an
aversion
from
carnal
pleasures
,
lest
they
should
by
them
degenerate
into
the
condition
of
a
brute
;
The
consideration
that
his
Soul
is
immortal
,
makes
him
fly
Avarice
,
it
being
sottish
for
a
substance
which
is
to
exist
for
ever
,
to
dote
upon
any
thing
that
is
lyable
to
ruine
and
corruption
.
The
consideration
that
his
Soul
is
invisible
,
gives
a
check
to
Pride
and
Vanity
,
since
her
glories
cannot
appear
sensibly
and
with
splendour
before
the
Eye
of
the
World
.
Lastly
,
the
consideration
that
she
animates
and
enlivens
every
particle
of
the
Body
,
how
minute
,
or
vile
so
ere
it
be
,
warns
her
from
offering
any
damage
or
injury
to
our
Neighbour
.
If
I
say
these
thoughts
work
many
to
decline
several
particular
sins
,
in
regard
they
are
misbeseeming
the
excellent
qualities
of
the
Soul
;
doubtless
the
meditation
,
that
she
is
the
fair
Image
of
God
,
ought
to
make
us
abominate
all
sin
without
reserve
,
fearing
by
any
vitious
act
to
deface
the
lively
Image
of
a
Divinity
:
Wherefore
the
respect
we
owe
to
his
resemblance
,
ought
to
strike
in
us
a
terrour
of
laying
violent
hands
on
our
Neighbour
,
much
less
by
any
force
to
dissolve
that
lovely
union
of
Soul
and
Body
,
in
which
consists
the
accomplishment
of
God's
work
in
framing
Man
:
Wherefore
St.
Cyprian
sayes
,
the
honour
of
humane
nature
is
to
treat
well
the
pourtraiture
of
God
,
and
from
thence
discharge
our
awful
reverence
towards
the
Original
.
But
when
any
one
is
led
on
by
fury
and
revenge
,
or
will
usurp
in
a
private
person
the
execution
of
Justice
,
this
is
to
dash
in
pieces
the
Image
of
God
,
which
perhaps
he
would
preserve
,
or
at
least
have
it
stand
,
untill
by
instruments
of
his
own
he
is
pleased
to
undo
it
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
confesses
he
hath
committed
this
outrage
,
he
is
guilty
of
this
irregular
proceeding
,
and
hath
destroyed
God's
fair
handy
work
in
the
Death
of
Vriah
,
which
he
was
bound
to
keep
decently
in
repair
,
it
being
the
Office
of
a
King
to
protect
,
and
not
destroy
his
Subjects
.
How
many
brave
designs
hath
he
had
to
erect
a
Temple
in
God's
honour
,
and
now
hurried
on
by
an
unruly
passion
,
he
hath
demolished
a
structure
more
valuable
in
the
sight
of
God
,
than
all
his
material
edifices
the
Hands
of
Man
can
raise
.
If
incendiaries
by
all
Nations
are
punished
with
most
rigorous
Laws
,
what
animadversions
of
severity
will
be
practised
upon
such
as
destroy
not
only
habitations
but
inhabitants
,
who
ruine
a
mansion
wherein
God
hath
lodged
a
Soul
immortal
,
and
which
he
hath
designed
to
be
the
matter
of
her
great
merit
in
this
life
;
and
an
instrument
of
his
praise
in
the
next
.
And
if
St.
Paul
sayes
,
the
blood
of
Souls
will
be
required
at
the
Hands
of
Pastors
,
who
starve
and
famish
their
flock
for
want
of
due
instruction
,
and
good
Example
;
what
account
shall
he
have
to
make
,
who
hath
not
only
by
omission
frustrated
his
Subjects
of
good
Documents
,
issuing
from
an
exemplar
life
,
but
more
,
hath
effectively
concurred
to
the
destruction
of
them
,
and
hurried
them
to
a
dreadful
Tribunal
,
at
a
time
when
perhaps
they
were
little
prepared
for
that
grand
ballancing
of
all
their
good
and
bad
deeds
;
and
by
this
means
who
knowes
whether
he
hath
not
only
disjoyned
,
and
torn
the
Soul
from
the
Body
,
but
even
from
God
for
all
eternity
.
These
dismal
thoughts
prompt
him
to
fly
for
Sanctuary
,
and
it
is
no
where
to
be
found
but
at
the
Throne
of
God's
mercy
which
he
implores
;
Free
me
from
blood
,
&c.
Again
,
he
considers
with
what
a
severe
Eye
God
looks
upon
the
sin
of
homicide
,
commanding
in
Moses
Law
,
that
blood
alone
should
be
the
price
and
satisfaction
for
blood
;
nay
he
extends
it
even
to
irrational
Creatures
,
that
if
any
happen
to
be
the
cause
of
Man's
death
,
the
Beast
(
what
ever
it
be
)
should
lose
its
life
.
It
was
to
prevent
this
unnatural
violence
,
that
he
prohibited
the
eating
of
blood
,
so
to
cut
off
any
practice
which
might
diminish
the
horrour
of
it
.
Besides
,
the
remorse
and
tortures
of
conscience
which
alwayes
attend
this
sin
,
sufficiently
evidences
,
that
though
in
other
Crimes
his
patient
Justice
seems
for
a
while
to
lye
asleep
,
yet
this
he
alwayes
revenges
upon
the
place
:
For
if
the
Thunder-bolts
of
his
anger
do
not
immediately
fall
upon
their
heads
as
to
the
publick
view
;
at
least
he
begins
the
execution
from
the
first
moment
of
the
Fact
committed
,
disturbing
their
sleep
with
frightful
Phantomes
,
and
filling
their
awakened
hearts
with
dreads
and
terrours
that
their
life
is
even
a
burden
and
Irkesome
to
them
;
of
this
are
extant
innumerable
examples
,
both
in
sacred
and
prophane
Histories
,
too
long
here
to
recite
.
It
is
not
unworthy
our
observation
,
that
a
murdered
Body
should
bleed
afresh
(
as
it
hath
been
often
experimented
)
at
the
presence
of
the
murderer
.
It
is
true
many
give
natural
reasons
of
the
thing
,
attributing
it
to
the
vital
spirits
not
yet
extinguished
in
the
remnants
of
the
blood
retreated
into
several
Cranies
of
the
Body
,
which
by
an
Antipathy
at
the
approach
of
their
adversary
fall
into
a
Commotion
,
and
by
this
disturbance
occasions
the
blood
again
to
flow
.
Others
say
it
may
proceed
from
a
simpathy
,
supposing
the
murderer
to
have
upon
his
weapon
wherewith
he
gave
the
wound
,
or
in
some
other
part
about
him
,
certain
dropps
of
blood
of
the
deceased
,
by
which
Sympathetick
vertue
it
receives
motion
in
order
to
its
reunion
.
But
my
design
not
being
to
insist
on
Philosophical
disputes
,
I
will
not
labour
to
weaken
the
force
of
their
Arguments
,
and
only
assert
my
Opinion
,
which
is
,
that
it
speaks
simply
the
extraordinary
way
of
God
,
which
he
holds
sometimes
in
one
kind
,
sometimes
in
another
,
to
manifest
and
publish
offendours
of
this
nature
,
Our
Holy
Penitent
may
be
brought
in
for
an
instance
,
unto
whom
it
was
declared
by
God's
own
command
,
that
notwithstanding
all
his
Artifices
in
contriving
Vriah
his
Death
,
it
should
be
exposed
in
the
view
of
the
whole
World
;
that
future
ages
might
see
he
whom
he
had
chosen
as
the
delight
of
his
heart
,
should
have
no
priviledge
in
this
particular
,
and
though
he
would
abate
something
of
his
wonted
rigour
,
in
not
exacting
his
life
for
a
satisfaction
;
yet
he
would
bring
it
near
to
his
door
by
the
rebellion
of
his
Children
,
with
the
Enmity
and
Machinations
of
many
Conspiratours
against
him
;
and
that
the
Law
of
retaliation
was
not
executed
against
him
,
perhaps
he
owes
it
to
this
clause
of
the
petition
,
which
he
seems
with
more
than
usual
fervour
to
have
preferred
,
repeating
;
O
God
,
God
of
my
Salvation
.
We
may
here
reflect
,
how
pernicious
a
thing
passion
is
,
when
once
it
hath
got
the
Mastery
,
and
how
soon
it
gets
strength
with
the
aid
of
dangerous
occasions
.
Our
Penitent
knew
well
,
that
the
Divine
precept
;
Non
occides
,
thou
shalt
not
kill
;
did
not
only
forbid
the
taking
away
of
our
Neighbours
life
,
but
likewise
all
rancour
or
malice
towards
him
,
all
injury
by
word
or
deed
,
which
may
touch
upon
his
honour
or
person
;
all
disputes
,
contest
,
or
impetuosity
of
Choler
,
these
are
the
seeds
of
that
monstrous
fruit
homicide
,
as
St.
John
sayes
,
who
hates
his
Brother
is
a
homicide
:
For
by
nourishing
within
you
a
little
spark
of
animosity
,
this
from
the
heart
appears
in
the
Eyes
which
are
the
glass
of
the
inward
temper
;
thence
it
breaks
into
words
,
and
at
last
sadly
ends
in
his
destruction
.
Behold
our
Kingly
Prophet
,
and
now
an
humble
petitioner
in
his
own
behalf
,
he
is
said
to
have
been
the
meekest
of
Men
;
and
in
consideration
of
his
lenity
,
and
mildness
in
Government
,
God
spun
out
his
reign
to
the
Term
of
Forty
years
,
which
was
granted
to
few
or
none
of
the
Jewish
Kings
;
with
what
patience
did
he
sustain
the
reproaches
and
maledictions
of
Semei
,
with
what
an
admirable
temper
the
long
and
restless
persecution
of
Saul
,
how
tenderly
issued
he
forth
his
orders
touching
Absalom
,
that
though
he
were
actually
in
arms
against
him
,
and
thirsted
after
nothing
but
his
life
and
Throne
,
yet
he
commanded
a
hair
of
his
Head
should
not
be
touched
.
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
upon
a
suddain
seized
with
a
passion
of
love
,
both
his
sweet
temperament
and
all
his
former
habits
of
vertue
proved
of
little
use
unto
him
:
The
Christal
of
his
understanding
was
blemished
with
gross
vapours
arising
from
brutish
pleasures
,
the
purling
stream
of
his
inclinations
,
which
was
wont
to
flow
softly
without
noise
,
and
from
the
source
of
vertue
;
is
now
grown
into
a
storm
of
fury
;
it
is
so
deprived
of
reason
,
as
to
imagine
his
own
good
and
safety
to
depend
upon
the
ruine
of
his
Neighbour
;
and
therefore
hastens
to
take
vengeance
upon
him
,
who
never
gave
him
the
least
shadow
of
real
offence
.
O
what
a
Tyranny
is
the
Rule
of
passion
,
to
make
us
love
what
is
not
amiable
,
and
hate
what
is
not
odious
,
to
push
us
on
to
desire
what
we
should
abhor
,
and
fly
from
what
we
ought
most
to
covet
.
Our
holy
penitent
hath
served
under
this
oppression
,
and
now
petitions
a
release
:
Free
mee
from
blood
,
&c.
Now
the
Latins
not
using
the
word
blood
in
the
plural
Number
,
though
the
Greeks
do
,
hence
it
is
,
that
some
infer
and
with
reason
,
that
our
Penitent
aims
at
the
remission
of
Adultery
likewise
,
because
all
carnal
acts
unlawful
carry
along
with
them
a
corruption
both
of
flesh
and
blood
,
this
appears
in
Deut.
Chap.
21.
Where
it
is
said
,
that
rotteness
and
worms
shall
be
the
inheritance
of
a
luxurious
person
,
and
as
the
one
(
that
is
homicide
)
destroyes
the
species
of
Man
,
so
adultery
subverts
those
rules
which
are
set
down
for
his
education
,
a
design
which
nature
intends
,
and
drives
at
as
well
as
Generation
.
The
one
injures
his
Neighbour
in
his
person
,
the
other
in
his
honour
,
and
this
not
only
of
himself
,
but
casts
an
infamy
upon
his
posterity
.
It
is
storied
of
Vlysses
that
he
met
in
his
Travails
with
Circes
the
Enchantress
,
who
promised
,
to
make
him
immortal
in
case
he
would
be
naught
with
her
;
and
though
he
believed
she
was
able
to
make
good
her
promise
;
yet
he
refused
her
,
less
valuing
immortality
than
fidelity
to
his
Wife
;
Susanna
far
less
esteemed
of
Death
,
than
she
did
the
dishonour
to
herself
and
Family
.
Solomon
sayes
a
Thief
may
have
some
excuse
,
in
that
extremity
of
hunger
urged
him
to
his
villany
,
at
least
in
rendering
seven-fold
he
makes
satisfaction
:
But
an
Adulterer
hath
no
plea
,
nor
can
the
Indies
ballance
the
wrong
done
by
him
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
revolving
all
these
truths
in
his
Mind
,
hath
reason
to
joyn
in
his
petition
the
crimes
of
homicide
and
adultery
together
,
since
both
are
Coincident
in
his
malice
,
both
injurious
to
our
Neighbour
,
both
destructive
to
the
very
Lawes
of
nature
,
and
both
exemplarly
punished
in
all
ages
by
Divine
Justice
:
Wherefore
he
may
justly
insert
;
Free
me
from
blood
,
&c.
When
I
read
a
passage
in
St.
Paul
,
2
Cor.
Chap.
7.
it
appears
terrible
the
resentment
God
entertains
of
Adultery
:
He
there
sayes
,
if
the
Husband
be
in
the
number
of
the
faithful
,
and
the
Wife
of
the
unfaithful
,
he
shall
not
dismiss
her
:
But
if
she
be
unfaithful
to
his
bed
,
then
he
may
lawfully
forsake
her
;
so
that
God
seems
to
be
more
offended
,
in
that
she
keeps
not
her
saith
with
her
Husband
,
than
in
being
disloyal
to
him
,
insinuating
by
this
that
he
will
give
no
quarter
to
an
adulterous
act
.
How
odious
this
Crime
is
to
humane
Society
appears
,
in
that
the
Civil
Law
permits
the
Father
or
Husband
of
the
Adulteress
(
if
taken
in
the
fact
)
to
offer
violent
hands
,
and
immediately
destroy
both
the
offendours
;
and
though
the
Cannons
seem
to
disallaw
of
this
Law
as
unjust
,
because
it
precipitates
the
guilty
into
an
evident
hazzard
of
their
eternal
Salvation
:
Yet
still
it
concludes
,
how
monstrous
an
exorbitancy
Adultery
is
in
the
judgements
of
Men
,
when
to
punish
it
they
allow
parlies
interessed
to
be
both
Accusers
,
and
Judges
,
which
in
no
other
circumstance
hath
ever
been
permitted
.
Adultery
is
a
commerce
between
persons
who
are
not
linked
together
in
a
conjugal
tye
,
and
from
thence
it
is
cloathed
with
the
turpitude
of
fornication
,
and
is
a
sin
against
charity
:
Next
,
it
is
a
violation
of
a
bond
indissoluble
,
by
which
the
Author
of
Nature
hath
united
one
to
another
,
and
superadded
to
fortify
this
Chain
the
blessing
,
and
vertues
of
a
Sacrament
.
I
remember
the
Councel
of
Trent
in
favour
of
this
Sacrament
teaches
,
that
God
by
it
bestowes
a
particular
grace
;
that
as
in
Baptism
we
purchase
as
it
were
a
new
Being
,
regenerated
and
born
to
a
spiritual
life
;
as
in
confirmation
we
receive
a
Grace
strengthening
us
in
our
Faith
;
as
in
the
Eucharist
an
encrease
of
heavenly
blessings
is
showred
down
upon
us
the
like
in
the
rest
of
the
Sacraments
.
So
in
that
of
marriage
a
grace
is
communicated
which
perfits
,
and
refines
the
natural
love
they
bare
to
one
another
before
they
married
:
Insomuch
as
that
love
which
before
was
perhaps
seated
in
some
corporeal
charm
or
grace
,
afterwards
becomes
wholly
sacred
,
and
no
attractive
appears
,
which
carries
not
along
with
it
a
pious
allurement
,
and
which
makes
them
(
whilest
they
tread
the
paths
of
vertue
)
to
have
a
horrour
of
any
thing
that
may
alter
or
diminish
it
.
Now
this
holy
effect
is
evacuated
by
Adultery
,
so
that
it
may
be
called
a
kind
of
Sacriledge
,
dissolving
the
sacred
union
of
hearts
which
is
made
by
marriage
;
and
therefore
I
wonder
not
if
St.
Cyprian
terms
it
Summum
delictum
,
the
highest
crime
that
Man
can
be
guilty
of
.
Our
sad
Penitent
alarmed
with
the
outcryes
of
blood
on
the
one
side
,
and
Adultery
on
the
other
,
for
which
as
an
Enemy
to
God
and
Nature
he
deserves
to
be
exterminated
,
hath
no
refuge
but
to
the
God
of
his
Salvation
,
and
he
repeats
it
again
and
again
that
he
would
daign
to
save
him
from
the
doom
of
both
,
protesting
a
true
repentance
of
both
,
and
that
for
the
future
like
a
Lamb
in
the
shearers
hands
,
he
will
be
silent
,
endure
all
the
opprob●ios
his
Subjects
shall
cast
upon
him
,
and
make
a
return
of
all
the
good
he
can
:
Lastly
,
he
will
extinguish
for
ever
within
him
all
the
Fires
of
concupiscence
and
unlawful
desires
,
so
he
may
be
sheltered
from
these
crying
sins
under
the
beams
of
his
mercy
:
Free
me
from
blood
O
God
,
God
of
my
Salvation
.
The
Application
.
The
way
to
preserve
our selves
from
this
torturing
guilt
is
to
be
well
versed
in
the
precept
of
charity
:
For
by
this
same
vertue
by
which
I
love
God
,
I
am
likewise
carried
on
to
love
my
Neighbour
:
So
that
whensoever
I
injure
him
,
I
violate
the
Law
of
love
towards
God
,
which
obliges
not
only
to
love
him
,
but
all
that
belongs
to
him
:
Now
as
Man
is
the
most
excellent
Creature
in
this
inferiour
World
,
and
most
capable
to
render
him
honour
and
glory
,
there
can
be
no
violence
offered
to
him
,
which
reflects
not
upon
the
Sovereign
Lord
he
serves
,
for
whose
respect
we
ought
to
cherish
what
he
would
have
cherished
.
I
must
not
then
love
my
Neighbour
because
he
is
rich
,
beautifull
,
well
fashioned
,
or
to
me
particularly
obliging
,
but
I
must
love
him
,
because
I
love
God
,
to
whose
Family
he
belongs
,
and
in
a
place
of
Eminency
by
the
priviledge
of
his
Being
:
I
must
love
him
in
that
〈◊〉
the
glory
of
God
,
to
which
he
may
contribute
much
by
the
Conversion
of
his
own
and
other
Souls
to
his
Service
:
why
should
I
then
plot
mischief
against
him
,
for
whom
Jesus
Christ
hath
a
value
?
why
should
I
aim
at
his
Death
,
to
whom
God
imparted
life
,
for
whom
our
redeemer
suffered
Death
,
and
would
if
needful
do
it
again
?
What
need
I
care
if
they
be
malicious
to
me
,
since
I
love
them
nor
for
what
they
are
in
themselves
,
not
for
what
they
are
to
me
,
but
meerly
for
the
love
I
bear
to
my
dear
Sigi●…r
?
Let
us
stick
close
to
this
Principle
,
and
pray
,
Free
me
from
blood
,
&c.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXX
.
Et
exultabit
Lingua
mea
justitiam
tuam
,
And
my
Tongue
shall
exalt
thy
Justice
.
AT
the
first
glance
,
one
might
Censure
our
Petitioner
as
not
placing
aright
his
acts
of
gratitude
,
ascribing
to
God's
Justice
rather
than
mercy
his
deliverance
from
sin
;
but
you
must
know
,
it
is
far
from
him
;
nay
contrary
to
the
Doctrine
he
delivered
in
the
preceeding
Chapter
,
to
think
he
could
merit
any
thing
de
condigno
,
or
by
the
value
of
his
own
works
without
sanctifying
grace
,
which
is
the
sole
effect
of
God's
mercy
.
His
meaning
therefore
is
,
that
supposing
he
be
enriched
with
the
Donative
of
Grace
,
he
may
then
lay
claim
to
his
Justice
for
a
reward
.
St.
Paul
Tim.
4.
sayes
,
A
Crown
of
Justice
is
reserved
and
will
be
justly
given
to
him
.
First
,
he
calls
Heaven
a
Crown
of
Justice
;
because
it
is
given
by
way
of
Justice
,
in
consideration
of
the
worth
of
merit
:
Next
,
that
God
will
give
it
as
a
thing
to
which
he
hath
a
right
;
and
Lastly
,
he
styles
God
a
just
Judge
,
in
Testimony
he
doth
it
by
vertue
of
his
Office
,
that
is
,
to
observe
the
Rules
of
Justice
.
The
Arausican
Councel
chap.
28.
declares
that
a
recompence
is
due
to
good
works
,
but
grace
(
which
is
not
due
)
must
go
before
and
give
life
to
them
;
and
truly
it
is
rational
,
that
since
God
threatens
punishment
to
the
wicked
deeds
of
Men
,
he
should
likewise
propose
a
recompence
to
vertuous
actions
;
otherwise
he
might
be
said
to
be
more
enclined
to
severity
than
sweetness
,
which
is
much
repugnant
to
his
nature
.
Again
,
sanctifying
grace
is
a
quality
so
sublime
,
that
it
dignifies
and
exalts
the
works
of
that
subject
it
informs
above
all
the
Worlds
greatness
:
Now
there
being
nothing
but
eternal
glory
which
surpasses
grace
,
a
meritorious
action
animated
by
grace
,
cannot
be
recompenced
to
the
worth
but
by
glory
,
whence
it
followes
that
grace
by
a
title
of
right
and
condignity
merits
eternal
glory
.
Lastly
,
sanctifying
Grace
is
communicated
by
God
unto
a
Soul
with
the
circumstance
of
an
affectionate
Amity
,
by
which
in
the
first
place
he
loves
her
,
and
this
love
of
friendship
moves
him
to
pardon
all
her
offences
,
to
receive
her
into
his
favour
,
and
adorn
her
with
the
incomparable
Ornament
of
this
Celestial
quality
.
This
done
,
Man
becomes
a
Friend
of
God
in
his
first
justification
,
is
raised
to
a
pitch
of
greatness
so
transcending
,
as
his
works
are
worthy
of
Heaven
as
performed
by
a
friend
of
God
,
who
hath
an
affection
for
her
,
and
by
that
will
render
her
compleatly
happy
.
Upon
these
motives
,
and
supposition
of
a
grant
to
the
preceeding
clause
of
his
petition
,
he
will
blazon
forth
the
Iustice
of
God
not
in
the
remission
of
his
sin
,
for
this
he
acknowledges
to
his
pure
mercy
,
but
upon
the
score
of
a
recompence
which
his
goodness
hath
promised
.
This
consideration
awakens
him
from
sluggishness
,
and
as
the
Labourer
endures
patiently
the
fatigues
of
his
task
,
in
hopes
of
his
salary
at
Night
,
so
will
our
Petitioner
unweariedly
sustain
the
traverses
of
this
life
,
and
amidst
his
tribulations
,
every
thought
of
Paradise
shall
move
his
Tongue
to
exalt
,
O
Lord
,
thy
Justice
.
Merit
is
defined
a
service
which
obliges
to
a
retribution
or
a
good
work
done
freely
,
and
which
God
accepts
of
as
the
price
of
eternal
life
:
Now
albeit
good
actions
arising
from
grace
(
by
which
they
are
supernaturallized
)
are
in
a
certain
manner
rendered
worthy
of
eternal
life
,
even
without
the
promise
of
God
;
yet
they
can
no
wayes
oblige
God
to
give
it
,
unless
he
first
engage
his
word
to
this
effect
.
For
he
is
the
Sovereign
Lord
of
the
World
,
and
most
particularly
of
just
Men
,
and
their
good
deeds
;
yet
can
they
not
so
much
sway
with
him
,
as
to
put
a
constraint
on
his
will
to
let
them
share
with
him
in
his
Heavenly
Kingdom
.
For
when
all
the
just
had
consecrated
to
his
honour
all
the
good
works
imaginable
,
he
might
justly
say
,
I
accept
of
these
in
discharge
of
your
past
debts
,
and
obligations
due
to
me
for
your
Creation
,
conservation
,
grace
and
power
I
have
given
you
to
act
:
So
that
when
any
one
makes
an
oblation
of
his
person
,
fortune
,
or
any
other
his
goods
unto
God
,
he
must
not
present
it
in
way
of
a
gift
,
but
with
humility
as
in
satisfaction
of
a
debt
;
nor
yet
as
if
he
would
clear
all
scores
,
but
as
a
small
parcel
of
that
great
Summ
which
he
owes
.
Wherefore
that
Man
may
have
an
unquestionable
right
to
Heaven
by
the
value
of
his
good
works
(
being
so
engaged
to
God
as
he
is
)
it
was
necessary
a
contract
or
stipulation
should
pass
,
by
which
God
should
please
to
declare
he
would
give
him
Heaven
in
recompence
,
and
upon
this
ground
he
should
have
a
title
to
demand
and
obtain
it
.
In
this
proceeding
his
Mercy
and
Justice
meet
,
his
mercy
in
that
he
accepts
the
works
of
the
just
,
for
more
than
the
bare
discharge
of
their
obligations
:
His
Justice
in
that
he
is
pleased
to
give
the
rate
of
Heaven
in
return
of
their
good
works
;
by
this
means
Saints
are
humbled
in
the
excellency
and
value
of
their
merits
,
for
by
it
they
know
that
Heaven
is
so
bestowed
by
way
of
Iustice
,
as
they
are
notwithstanding
unspeakably
obliged
to
the
Divine
mercy
,
which
passing
over
the
debts
,
accepts
of
their
works
for
Heaven
;
this
certainly
will
give
them
immortal
resentments
of
gratitude
,
for
which
they
will
powre
forth
an
infinity
of
praises
,
and
benedictions
throughout
the
vast
spaces
of
eternity
,
to
a
Benefactour
,
who
treats
them
so
nobly
,
with
such
signal
favours
,
as
to
become
a
Debtor
even
to
his
own
debtors
.
St.
Austin
admiring
this
Mystery
sayes
,
God
hath
made
himself
a
Debtor
to
us
,
not
by
receiving
any
thing
from
us
,
but
by
promising
what
he
pleased
unto
us
.
For
all
things
are
depending
on
him
,
nor
can
they
oblige
him
but
as
far
as
he
will
oblige
himself
,
by
his
incomparable
Charity
and
inviolable
Fidelity
.
Our
great
Penitent
ravished
in
the
contemplation
of
these
truths
cannot
but
unloose
his
Tongue
to
celebrate
the
praises
of
the
Divine
Iustice
,
which
so
attempers
the
circumstances
of
our
Salvation
,
that
we
may
claim
it
as
our
due
:
He
hires
us
into
his
Vineyard
,
and
if
we
prove
faithful
to
our
task
,
he
will
not
fail
in
his
promise
to
give
us
a
salary
;
he
often
reflects
what
a
comfort
it
will
be
to
a
beatifyed
Soul
to
have
contributed
something
to
her
own
happiness
.
In
this
liberty
and
free
will
which
God
hath
given
us
,
he
beholds
the
perfection
,
and
greatness
of
the
Soul
,
that
neither
the
most
charming
beauties
,
the
most
ravishing
delights
,
the
most
glorious
dignities
,
the
most
amiable
vertues
in
spiritual
entertainments
,
nay
,
nor
the
most
eminent
hopes
of
glory
,
can
work
any
impression
or
impose
any
necessity
upon
her
actions
,
but
according
to
the
mtasure
of
her
will
.
Again
,
she
hath
a
vigour
impregnable
(
fortifyed
with
God's
grace
)
against
all
sin
and
misfortunes
,
that
neither
the
allurements
of
what
is
lovely
,
nor
the
horrid
face
of
what
is
frightful
,
can
make
any
entrance
by
force
;
for
the
Soul
is
above
all
the
machinations
of
Men
,
can
resist
them
,
and
meerly
because
it
pleases
her
so
to
do
.
Let
them
speak
fair
,
let
them
bribe
,
threaten
,
weep
,
attack
,
thunder
,
lighten
,
muster
the
Elements
into
storms
and
fury
,
nothing
finds
admittance
,
but
at
her
disposal
.
So
that
these
words
in
the
Apocalips
may
justly
be
applyed
to
her
.
I
have
been
dead
and
am
living
:
She
was
dead
by
Original
sin
,
and
is
revived
by
the
Grace
of
Jesus
Christ
,
she
hath
put
into
her
Hands
the
Keys
of
life
and
death
,
that
is
free
will
,
which
may
open
to
her
either
Paradise
or
Hell
.
After
this
survey
of
Man's
liberty
in
this
life
,
by
which
he
is
free
either
to
the
acting
of
what
is
good
or
bad
;
he
makes
a
pause
upon
the
apprehension
that
Man
would
have
been
more
perfect
,
were
he
limited
to
vertue
,
and
incapable
of
any
vitious
action
,
as
God
himself
is
,
and
all
the
blessed
by
a
clear
vision
.
But
he
solves
this
objection
,
considering
that
God
alone
by
nature
is
impeccable
,
it
is
a
priviledge
wherein
none
can
share
with
him
,
as
being
infinitely
perfect
,
and
can
admit
of
no
imperfection
.
St.
Ambrose
sayes
,
that
only
the
substance
of
the
Divinity
is
a
Being
that
cannot
dye
,
to
wit
,
by
the
death
of
sin
:
All
other
reasonable
Creatures
in
this
sense
are
mortal
,
and
if
the
blessed
in
heaven
be
impeccable
,
it
is
not
by
their
nature
,
but
by
the
power
of
glory
communicated
,
in
which
they
were
invested
by
God
after
they
had
given
proof
of
their
vertues
whilest
they
were
Viatours
,
and
under
their
Tryal
.
Now
as
to
Man
the
experience
of
his
frailty
helps
him
on
to
discern
more
clearly
(
as
the
obscurity
of
the
Night
renders
a
fair
Day
the
more
resplendent
)
and
reverence
this
excellency
in
God
.
Next
,
he
ought
not
to
repine
that
he
is
not
here
glorious
;
for
this
life
is
his
place
of
Combat
,
and
the
Crown
is
not
given
till
the
Victory
be
gained
,
wherefore
as
long
as
he
lives
he
enjoyes
a
liberty
,
by
which
he
may
sin
and
be
overcome
,
and
by
which
he
may
vanquish
.
Lastly
,
God
decreed
this
liberty
to
Man
,
and
gave
him
a
faculty
by
which
he
might
with
a
full
swinge
of
his
Will
be
take
himself
to
good
or
evil
,
to
the
end
he
might
be
capable
of
merit
or
demerit
;
for
if
he
acted
by
the
impulse
of
necessity
,
he
could
merit
no
recompence
for
his
vertue
,
nor
punishment
for
his
sin
,
no
more
than
a
tree
which
bears
good
or
bad
fruit
,
and
by
this
means
the
divine
Justice
could
not
be
discerned
either
in
the
condemnation
of
the
wicked
,
or
in
the
reward
of
the
just
.
Our
great
Penitent
in
the
issue
of
this
meditation
hath
reason
to
set
his
Tongue
a
work
,
and
spend
it self
in
exalting
this
powerful
and
remunerating
Iustice
of
God
,
which
happily
converts
to
our
advantage
what
at
the
first
glance
appears
the
Subject
of
our
ruine
;
and
resign
himself
to
those
dangers
wherein
the
perfection
of
his
free
will
may
involve
him
;
since
by
his
grace
(
which
he
implores
)
he
may
embrace
,
and
practise
what
is
pleasing
to
him
:
And
if
to
the
end
he
carry
on
this
noble
resolution
,
he
hath
an
assurance
to
bless
his
Iustice
for
all
Eternity
.
And
my
Tongue
shall
exalt
thy
Iustice
.
St.
Austin
upon
this
place
is
of
Opinion
that
our
Penitent
means
the
Messias
whose
Justice
he
will
extoll
,
in
that
by
his
merit
both
Men
and
Angels
are
rescued
from
the
slavery
of
sin
.
To
which
I
agree
,
nor
do
the
premises
any
waies
derogate
from
this
interpretation
;
for
the
merits
of
Jesus
Christ
are
the
source
and
cause
of
Sanctifying
grace
,
which
grace
dignifyes
the
works
of
the
just
,
and
raises
them
to
the
degree
of
merit
:
Now
that
which
is
cause
of
the
cause
,
is
likewise
cause
of
the
effect
,
and
consequently
the
merits
of
Jesus
Christ
,
are
cause
of
the
merits
of
Saints
,
as
St.
Paul
to
the
Galatians
Chap.
1.
He
hath
blessed
us
with
all
spiritual
benediction
in
Jesus
Christ
.
Next
,
the
merits
of
Jesus
Christ
contribute
to
the
merits
of
Saints
,
in
that
he
hath
obtained
by
his
actions
,
and
sufferings
a
promise
from
God
to
accept
the
merits
of
Men
in
order
to
Heaven
,
for
it
was
in
consideration
of
him
,
and
upon
the
score
of
his
torments
,
that
this
promise
was
made
unto
us
:
It
is
this
St.
Peter
in
his
Second
Epistle
Chap.
3.
hints
at
,
when
speaking
of
Christ
he
sayes
,
by
him
he
hath
made
us
great
and
precious
promises
,
to
the
end
we
might
by
them
be
made
partakers
of
the
Divine
Nature
.
Now
as
Grace
is
the
Fountain
of
the
merits
of
Saints
,
and
God's
promise
the
accomplishment
;
both
the
one
,
and
the
other
proceeding
from
the
merits
of
Jesus
Christ
;
it
followes
that
the
merits
of
Saints
subsist
not
but
by
those
of
Christ
.
Nor
have
they
a
dependency
only
by
way
of
simple
condition
,
or
necessary
circumstance
,
but
they
flow
from
them
as
from
the
root
,
fountain
,
and
principal
cause
,
without
which
they
would
have
no
Being
.
Our
Holy
Doctor
therefore
will
praise
and
set
forth
the
divine
Justice
under
several
Notions
.
First
,
as
he
is
the
Principium
or
Off-spring
,
whence
all
remission
of
sin
,
and
collation
of
grace
is
derived
;
and
without
which
all
Mankind
had
been
eternally
wrapt
up
in
the
darkness
of
sin
,
so
that
the
just
and
superabundant
ransom
he
hath
paid
for
us
;
merits
the
Adorations
and
praises
of
all
hearts
and
tongues
.
Next
,
he
will
extoll
him
under
the
title
of
a
remunerating
Iustice
,
in
that
after
he
hath
taught
us
how
to
fight
,
put
arms
into
our
hands
,
and
hath
stood
by
us
to
confirm
our
courage
,
exacting
only
a
firm
will
to
overcome
;
doth
yet
dispense
his
Crowns
with
applause
,
as
if
we
had
done
all
our selves
:
O
who
can
then
asperse
,
and
lay
a
charge
upon
this
Opinion
as
if
it
injured
Christs
merits
?
doth
the
fulness
of
a
stream
dishonour
the
source
from
whence
it
flowes
;
or
the
excellency
of
any
fruit
injure
the
Root
that
gives
birth
to
it
;
so
the
merits
of
the
just
,
being
only
the
rivulets
,
and
fruit
of
Christ's
superabundant
satisfaction
,
cannot
certainly
in
the
least
derogate
from
his
;
they
only
serve
in
an
inferiour
degree
to
extol
and
do
homage
to
the
infinity
of
Christ's
merit
.
Wherefore
Our
Penitent
will
incessantly
tune
forth
:
And
my
Tongue
shall
exalt
thy
Justice
.
The
Justice
of
God
beholds
Creatures
in
three
several
relations
:
First
,
it
is
distributive
,
by
which
he
allots
unto
every
Creature
faculties
proportionable
to
carry
them
on
to
the
End
for
which
they
were
created
.
To
the
Soul
which
he
hath
designed
to
contemplate
and
love
him
,
he
hath
given
an
understanding
and
will
;
the
Body
doomed
to
labour
he
hath
framed
with
Arms
,
and
Hands
:
The
Sun
whose
Office
is
to
enlighten
the
World
,
he
hath
vested
with
a
lasting
brightness
,
which
never
fails
to
perform
its
task
;
in
fine
,
every
animal
,
Tree
,
Plant
,
or
what
ever
is
existent
in
the
World
hath
a
vertue
proper
to
the
designment
of
its
Creation
.
Whence
St.
Dennis
sayes
,
that
God
is
communicable
in
his
Justice
,
distributing
to
every
one
according
to
the
dignity
of
its
nature
,
and
bounding
within
limits
most
equitable
,
the
manner
,
beauty
,
order
,
Ornament
;
the
inequalities
and
proportions
of
all
Creatures
,
accommodating
every
thing
with
that
which
is
proper
to
it
.
Our
Penitent
will
not
be
silent
in
order
to
this
his
distributive
Iustice
,
he
will
admire
the
works
of
God
,
give
his
approbation
without
the
least
Censure
,
and
confess
that
this
wise
Architect
hath
ballanced
all
things
with
equity
and
justice
;
and
if
he
may
be
so
happy
as
to
manage
his
individual
Being
conformably
to
those
proprieties
and
qualities
he
hath
received
from
his
Creatour
,
he
will
with
confidence
proclaim
,
that
his
tongue
shall
exalt
his
justice
.
In
the
second
consideration
his
punitive
justice
hath
place
,
by
which
he
inflicts
a
punishment
on
sinners
,
the
reason
of
this
is
,
that
a
sinner
living
contrary
to
the
wil
of
God
,
and
disobedient
to
his
order
,
setling
his
contentment
on
things
forbidden
by
his
Sovereign
,
doth
by
these
his
wayes
throw
a
contempt
upon
him
:
Wherefore
it
is
most
just
reparation
should
be
made
;
and
since
he
hath
rebelled
in
breaking
the
Commands
of
his
Creatour
,
it
is
fit
he
should
be
afflicted
with
torments
,
and
enslaved
by
that
will
he
hath
so
much
scorned
,
and
set
at
naught
.
Lactantius
sayes
,
the
Law
is
just
which
imposes
on
Criminalls
a
punishment
they
merit
;
and
that
Iudge
is
upright
and
good
who
spares
not
offendours
;
because
the
chastisement
of
the
wicked
,
is
a
preservation
of
the
good
.
So
God
is
not
blamable
if
he
fall
heavy
upon
the
wicked
,
that
they
may
no
longer
oppress
and
injure
the
innocent
,
for
it
would
not
be
a
vertue
in
God
to
behold
his
Servants
in
this
great
World
tread
his
Lawes
under
foot
,
blaspheme
his
Holy
Name
,
thwart
in
every
thing
his
Sacred
will
,
commit
exorbitancies
of
all
kind
,
and
amidst
all
these
disorders
,
remain
as
stupid
and
incensible
:
No
,
no
,
God
hath
a
vertue
dreadful
to
the
impious
,
which
is
his
avenging
Iustice
.
Our
Penitent
finds
here
likewise
matter
enough
for
his
Tongue
,
that
God
having
had
so
much
reason
to
execute
his
Justice
,
upon
his
criminal
Head
,
hath
yet
been
pleased
to
hold
in
his
Thunderbolts
,
as
that
they
have
not
(
as
he
deserved
)
reduced
him
to
ashes
.
Wherefore
he
will
amend
his
life
so
to
avoid
the
terrours
of
this
dreadful
power
,
and
if
he
be
not
for
the
future
led
by
the
charms
of
his
sweetness
unto
the
observance
of
his
lawes
,
then
he
will
submit
to
this
his
punitive
right
,
it
being
just
he
should
not
forfeit
it
upon
his
score
,
or
that
of
any
unrepenting
sinner
:
So
that
in
all
events
,
his
Tongue
shall
exalt
thy
Justice
.
The
third
reflection
of
God's
Iustice
towards
his
Creatures
is
styled
remunerative
,
by
which
he
fills
with
ineffable
and
endless
joy
,
such
as
have
served
him
faithfully
in
this
life
;
for
as
it
becomes
not
his
Majesty
to
let
the
infringers
of
his
Lawes
to
the
last
go
unpunished
,
no
less
is
it
sutable
to
his
goodness
,
not
to
reward
the
obedient
services
of
his
Friends
.
They
have
studied
here
to
please
him
,
to
confirm
themselves
to
his
desires
,
and
promote
his
Glory
as
much
as
lay
in
them
:
Nay
,
were
it
possible
to
make
any
addition
to
his
treasure
and
perfections
,
they
would
have
done
it
.
Wherefore
their
good
God
being
invincible
,
and
not
to
be
overcome
by
the
good
will
or
affection
of
any
Creature
,
thinks
himself
engaged
to
confer
by
way
of
recompence
eternal
honour
,
riches
,
and
joyes
unto
those
Souls
who
have
her
served
,
and
gloryfied
him
by
their
vertuous
actions
.
Our
penitent
laies
hold
on
this
justice
,
and
and
it
is
the
great
Theam
on
which
he
promises
here
to
dilate
himself
:
but
whilst
he
is
busied
in
this
his
duty
,
he
is
confounded
to
consider
,
that
all
he
can
possibly
give
to
God
,
is
a
bare
and
simple
good
will
,
the
plenitude
of
his
perfections
admitting
no
encrease
;
but
on
the
other
side
,
he
receives
effective
and
solid
blessings
:
God
draws
no
profit
out
of
our
good
works
,
yet
he
sets
such
a
value
on
them
,
as
to
think
Heaven
it self
not
too
great
a
price
for
them
:
We
can
only
glorifie
him
in
the
film
,
or
outside
,
by
witnessing
an
esteem
we
have
for
his
service
,
but
he
glorifies
us
intimately
,
and
to
the
lowest
Center
of
our
Soul
,
which
he
will
replenish
with
splendour
,
delight
,
and
glory
;
and
all
these
great
things
he
will
not
do
gratis
,
as
a
favour
at
discretion
,
but
by
vertue
of
an
engagement
,
and
under
a
title
of
Justice
,
that
we
might
more
firmly
hope
for
our
felicity
,
and
possess
it
in
the
most
noble
manner
of
enjoyment
!
O
what
a
stroke
of
goodness
even
in
this
his
Iustice
?
Therefore
our
Penitent
will
never
cease
:
And
my
Tongue
shall
exalt
thy
Iustice
.
The
Application
.
Christ
our
Lord
declared
those
blessed
who
hungered
,
and
thirsted
after
Iustice
.
Now
this
Iustice
consists
in
the
aggregation
of
all
vertues
;
to
be
humble
,
chast
,
or
patient
suffices
not
to
qualify
any
person
with
the
title
of
just
:
For
if
we
are
guilty
of
any
one
inordinate
act
,
we
forfeit
our
whole
right
to
Iustice
:
Our
Penitent
therefore
in
the
precedent
clause
sued
to
be
freed
from
the
crimes
of
homicide
and
adultery
,
hoping
as
to
the
rest
he
was
innocent
,
and
nothing
of
an
enormous
Nature
could
be
laid
to
his
charge
;
supposing
then
to
be
cleared
from
these
,
he
raises
his
hopes
after
that
promised
recompence
;
to
wit
,
He
himself
would
be
our
too
great
reward
;
and
whosoever
should
glorify
him
,
should
be
glorifyed
by
him
.
Let
us
then
exalt
this
Iustice
which
seems
wholly
to
lay
aside
his
own
interest
,
that
he
may
stand
engaged
to
those
who
owe
him
all
;
what
demonstration
of
his
goodness
is
this
even
in
his
Iustice
,
as
to
be
himself
our
happy
portion
for
all
eternity
;
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXXI
.
Domine
labia
mea
aperies
.
Lord
thou
shalt
open
my
Lips
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
conscious
of
the
sublimity
of
the
Subject
he
hath
undertaken
,
warily
considers
his
inabilities
,
and
that
the
Tongues
of
Angels
do
but
stammer
when
they
would
set
forth
his
Perfections
;
yet
willing
to
express
his
gratitude
,
he
cannot
be
silent
,
holding
it
a
less
fault
to
praise
him
unworthily
than
not
to
praise
him
at
all
,
and
his
deficiency
hath
at
least
this
plea
of
comfort
,
that
it
springs
from
the
excellency
of
the
Being
he
would
extoll
.
But
since
his
duty
binds
him
to
say
something
,
like
a
sage
Oratour
he
would
fortifie
himself
with
all
the
helps
imaginable
:
His
first
contrivance
is
to
dispose
his
Lips
,
which
is
a
main
Instrument
of
Speech
,
and
the
best
way
to
fit
them
to
a
right
temper
,
is
to
put
them
into
the
hands
of
him
that
made
them
:
whence
he
desires
,
that
he
who
shapes
the
tongues
of
infants
into
eloquence
would
open
and
frame
his
lips
,
that
they
may
tune
forth
his
praises
,
and
ravish
men
with
the
love
of
him
;
upon
this
design
,
he
cryes
;
Lord
thou
wilt
open
my
Lips
.
It
is
couched
in
Genesis
that
after
God
had
framed
Man
out
of
a
mass
of
Clay
,
he
breathed
into
him
a
spirit
of
life
.
Our
Petitioner
like
a
Clod
of
dull
Earth
lyes
exanimated
,
and
as
it
were
dead
in
sin
,
and
though
some
life
of
grace
be
put
into
him
,
yet
he
is
as
in
a
trance
and
it
is
necessary
his
Lips
and
Teeth
be
wrenched
open
that
he
may
speak
,
and
to
speak
to
the
purpose
,
it
was
also
necessary
words
should
be
put
into
his
Mouth
,
and
such
words
as
are
enlivened
with
a
Spirit
of
Wisdome
,
which
he
alone
could
give
,
who
is
an
increated
source
of
knowledge
;
and
if
once
thus
prepared
he
will
do
wonders
,
his
Lips
shall
no
more
be
employed
in
the
vain
Art
of
Arithmetick
to
cast
up
the
number
of
his
People
,
so
to
rely
more
on
the
strength
of
a
Multitude
,
than
on
the
divine
assistance
.
No
more
shall
his
Lips
give
out
unlawful
orders
for
the
death
of
the
Innocent
:
No
more
taken
up
in
the
luxurious
courtships
of
women
:
So
that
if
the
divine
goodness
shall
please
to
lift
up
these
floudgates
,
he
doubts
not
but
to
convay
a
stream
,
which
bacting
upon
the
stones
of
his
repenting
breast
will
make
up
a
fine
harmony
in
the
ears
of
his
Creatour
;
wherefore
he
begs
,
Lord
thou
wilt
open
my
Lips
.
It
is
storied
of
Creesus
King
of
Lydia
,
that
seeing
a
City
wherein
he
was
besieged
,
attacked
,
and
forcibly
entered
by
Cyrus
King
of
the
Medes
,
he
resolved
rather
than
become
a
scornful
prisoner
to
dye
on
the
places
,
upon
which
design
he
cast
himself
into
the
midst
of
his
Enemies
,
preferring
an
honorable
death
before
an
opprobrious
life
:
His
Son
beholding
his
imminent
danger
,
though
to
that
instant
at
the
Age
of
twenty
years
he
had
been
alwayes
dumb
;
cryed
out
,
spare
my
Father
,
spare
my
Father
,
it
is
the
King
:
Whereupon
the
Enemy
seised
his
person
,
and
preserved
his
life
,
some
attribute
this
to
a
natural
cause
,
alledging
the
love
this
Prince
had
for
his
Father
,
put
all
his
vital
spirits
into
combustion
,
and
by
that
violent
motion
broke
the
obstacle
of
his
speech
.
However
methinks
this
passage
may
in
some
sense
be
applyed
to
our
great
Penitent
,
who
was
morally
dumb
,
the
Organs
of
his
Soul
structed
by
the
malignity
of
sin
;
insomuch
as
he
could
not
utter
one
syllable
,
which
might
have
force
to
reach
the
Ears
of
his
Creatour
;
untill
he
came
to
have
a
prospect
of
his
eternal
ruine
,
and
no
sooner
these
Terrours
appeared
before
him
,
but
all
the
faculties
of
his
Soul
were
stirred
up
,
removed
all
Obstacles
,
and
made
him
Petition
for
the
opening
his
Lips
,
the
first
motion
to
his
happiness
.
Lord
thou
wilt
open
my
Lips
;
For
this
imports
not
a
local
division
of
the
Lips
,
but
an
inflamation
of
the
heart
,
by
vertue
of
which
heat
,
all
the
parts
of
his
Body
will
be
disposed
to
discharge
those
functions
for
which
they
were
created
.
St
Paul
to
shew
how
little
Man
can
do
if
left
to
himself
,
sayes
,
1
Cor.
4.
What
do
we
possess
which
we
have
not
received
,
and
if
so
,
why
glory
we
in
it
as
if
our
own
.
Again
,
he
powerfully
asserts
it
in
the
Eighth
Chapter
to
the
Romans
,
It
is
not
he
who
wills
,
or
runs
,
but
he
on
whom
God
will
have
mercy
.
As
if
he
would
say
,
as
Esau
in
vain
pursued
his
Chase
,
thinking
from
thence
to
derive
to
himself
his
Fathers
blessing
:
So
Man
after
sin
loses
but
his
time
,
and
endeavour
,
if
he
think
by
the
strength
of
his
natural
faculties
to
be
able
to
observe
the
Commandements
of
God
,
or
perform
what
is
requisite
to
the
purchase
of
Heaven
;
So
that
it
must
chiefly
spring
from
the
mercy
of
God's
assisting
grace
.
Nay
,
which
is
more
,
we
cannot
so
much
as
desire
to
serve
God
according
to
our
obligations
,
unless
he
first
by
his
divine
grace
move
our
hearts
,
and
dispose
our
will
unto
it
;
as
the
same
St.
Paul
sayes
,
God
works
in
us
both
the
will
and
the
execution
;
without
God
assisting
,
we
cannot
have
a
desire
neither
to
believe
what
is
proposed
as
the
object
of
Faith
,
nor
perform
what
we
should
in
order
to
vertuous
actions
;
and
therefore
St.
Austin
sayes
,
the
prodigal
Son
had
never
resolved
to
return
home
to
his
Father
,
if
the
mercy
of
God
had
not
inspired
him
to
it
.
To
manifest
this
truth
we
need
go
no
further
than
to
cast
our
thoughts
upon
the
Grecian
and
Roman
learning
,
which
produced
the
greatest
wits
in
the
World
;
yet
in
all
their
inquisition
after
a
sovereign
good
,
they
were
so
lost
as
even
to
become
ridiculous
;
acting
things
concerning
a
Deity
,
and
Man's
supream
felicity
,
as
if
they
were
destitute
of
reason
.
St.
Paul
takes
notice
in
particular
,
how
coming
to
Athens
he
found
an
Altar
dedicated
to
an
unknown
God
:
For
they
had
been
visited
with
a
great
pestilence
,
and
ignorant
for
what
offence
a
chastisement
so
severe
was
inflicted
;
at
last
,
fancied
it
was
for
want
of
homage
to
be
rendered
to
some
Deity
not
yet
discovered
;
than
this
what
could
be
more
absurd
,
to
shew
in
what
darkness
and
errours
,
Man
doth
grope
when
left
to
himself
.
So
that
if
at
any
time
a
person
blushes
at
his
vanities
and
past
extravagancies
,
and
doth
confess
that
what
before
he
behold
as
light
,
and
life
,
to
be
nothing
else
than
obscurity
and
death
;
this
Conversion
(
sayes
St.
Austin
)
comes
not
from
himself
,
but
from
the
powerful
,
and
hidden
grace
of
God
which
dissipates
the
Clouds
of
Earthly
opinions
,
and
enflames
his
heart
with
a
desire
of
knowing
the
truth
.
Now
this
change
God
works
in
Souls
several
wayes
,
in
some
more
gently
,
in
others
more
forcibly
:
Solomon
insinuates
that
he
particularly
gives
his
call
by
the
outward
preaching
of
his
word
;
this
Esai
.
confirms
Chap.
40.
God
hath
sent
Doctors
of
his
Faith
into
the
World
,
who
should
reduce
their
Brethren
like
the
blind
into
the
way
;
that
is
,
unto
Jesus
Christ
the
Messias
,
who
is
styled
the
way
,
truth
,
and
life
.
In
this
manner
Surius
recounts
Barlaam
was
sent
to
Josaphat
Son
to
a
King
in
the
Indies
,
that
by
his
conversion
the
whole
Kingdom
might
embrace
the
Law
of
Christ
.
St.
Paul
was
sent
to
Athens
,
who
converted
the
great
St.
Dennis
a
famous
Doctor
of
the
Areopagites
.
St.
Philip
to
the
Eunuch
of
the
Ethiopian
Queen
,
who
by
expounding
unto
him
a
Prophecy
of
Christ
in
Esai
.
immediately
received
Baptism
at
his
hands
.
In
the
History
of
Japonia
it
is
related
of
a
certain
Indian
who
had
lived
well
according
to
the
light
of
nature
,
how
he
was
restless
in
his
Mind
,
believing
his
religion
to
be
false
:
he
went
to
the
Turks
thinking
to
follow
theirs
,
but
finding
there
no
satisfaction
,
then
he
applyed
himself
to
the
Jews
,
but
still
remained
in
perplexity
,
so
that
with
much
fervour
he
was
wont
to
cry
out
;
O
God
,
let
me
know
who
thou
art
,
and
that
I
may
serve
thee
according
to
thy
will
,
otherwise
do
not
charge
me
with
blame
for
my
errour
.
At
last
it
happened
St.
Francis
Xavierus
came
into
the
Town
where
he
was
,
and
no
sooner
did
he
hear
him
unfold
the
points
,
and
sacred
mysteries
of
Christian
Religion
,
but
he
proclaimed
,
that
Man
preaches
the
God
I
must
serve
,
and
forth
with
was
baptized
.
By
this
expedient
he
likewise
made
a
conquest
of
our
Holy
Penitent
,
in
which
action
Nathan
the
Prophet
was
instrumental
,
who
laying
before
him
his
obligations
to
God
and
his
ingratitude
,
occasioned
that
without
delay
he
had
recourse
to
the
Sanctuary
of
this
present
petition
or
Miserere
.
The
second
manner
of
his
call
is
by
the
inward
operation
of
his
Spirit
,
and
this
he
communicates
to
all
,
witness
St.
Paul
,
1
Cor.
4.
God
who
drew
light
from
darkness
by
a
word
from
his
mouth
,
hath
filled
our
hearts
with
the
splendour
of
his
knowledge
:
For
without
this
light
of
Faith
,
Man
knowes
not
God
who
made
him
,
he
knowes
not
whither
he
tends
;
he
knowes
not
eternal
felicity
,
for
which
he
was
created
;
nay
he
knowes
not
himself
;
for
without
Faith
,
we
know
not
that
we
are
born
Imps
of
wrath
,
and
lyable
to
eternal
death
:
We
know
not
the
wounds
of
our
nature
,
our
inability
to
good
,
the
necessity
of
being
regenerated
by
grace
.
Lastly
,
without
this
interiour
light
,
we
know
not
Christ
our
Mediatour
,
by
whose
pretious
blood
we
are
Redeemed
from
eternal
damnation
,
and
restored
to
a
life
of
Grace
and
Glory
.
But
you
will
say
if
God
imparts
this
light
of
faith
to
all
,
how
comes
it
so
many
remain
in
darkness
,
and
infidelity
;
of
this
the
reason
is
,
that
it
is
required
to
the
end
the
light
of
Faith
may
have
its
effect
,
a
cooperation
in
our
wills
,
otherwise
this
ray
(
how
glorious
so
e're
it
be
)
is
rendered
useless
,
and
as
it
were
under
a
Cloud
:
Therefore
St.
Paul
ad
Rom.
10.
sayes
,
Faith
which
justifies
must
come
from
the
heart
;
and
in
Luke
22.
Christ
reprehends
the
Disciples
going
to
Emaus
,
that
notwithstanding
he
had
filled
them
with
the
beams
of
his
light
,
yet
their
hearts
were
slow
in
admitting
a
belief
;
Job
likewise
confirms
this
Chap.
24.
saying
;
they
were
obdurate
,
and
rejected
the
light
presented
to
them
.
Our
Learned
Graduate
and
Petitioner
more
happy
,
rejected
not
the
internal
call
of
God
by
his
secret
inspirations
,
but
corresponded
with
them
by
a
pious
affection
in
his
will
;
and
having
a
merciful
invitation
to
a
feast
of
grace
,
he
would
not
like
those
guests
mentioned
in
the
22.
of
St.
Matthew
,
Let
the
consideration
of
a
poor
Farm
,
or
a
little
musty
ware
gain
more
upon
him
than
the
hope
of
this
treasure
,
more
pretious
than
the
whole
World
:
He
would
not
preferr
darkness
before
light
,
nor
choose
to
wallow
in
dirt
and
mire
,
rather
than
beautify
his
Soul
with
a
gift
which
will
one
day
render
him
immortal
in
glory
.
He
had
already
obtained
a
desire
to
do
well
,
and
this
desire
he
would
improve
by
action
,
and
since
God
had
daigned
to
give
him
the
velle
,
or
will
to
serve
him
,
he
begs
he
would
open
his
Lips
,
that
he
might
redeem
his
miscarriage
in
setting
forth
the
Enormity
of
sin
,
the
Characters
of
the
divine
goodness
,
and
the
greatness
of
his
Justice
;
Lord
thou
wilt
open
my
Lips
.
St.
Austin
reflecting
upon
the
goodness
of
God
,
in
that
he
not
only
bids
us
ask
,
but
even
gives
us
more
than
we
demand
;
sayes
,
That
our
slothfulness
ought
to
blush
in
that
God
is
more
ready
to
give
than
we
are
to
receive
.
Abraham
petitioned
for
a
Son
,
and
received
a
promise
that
his
Seed
should
be
multiplyed
like
Stars
of
Heaven
,
or
Sands
of
the
Sea
,
and
that
Christ
should
issue
forth
from
his
Loyns
.
Jacob's
request
was
extended
only
to
Bread
,
and
a
Garment
,
and
he
was
honoured
with
Angels
to
be
his
Companions
,
was
partaker
of
many
heavenly
visions
,
and
abundance
of
riches
powred
as
it
were
into
his
Lap.
The
Thief
on
the
Cross
sued
but
for
a
remembrance
,
and
Christ
gave
him
a
promise
of
Paradise
.
So
our
Penitent
seems
to
be
very
modest
in
his
petition
knowing
well
the
wont
of
God's
bounty
,
that
doth
not
succour
us
in
one
kind
,
and
leave
us
miserable
in
another
,
but
relieves
compleatly
:
Wherefore
he
sues
only
to
have
his
Lips
unsealed
;
for
the
rest
he
referrs
it
to
his
incomparable
munificence
,
being
fixt
in
this
Principle
,
that
according
to
the
measure
of
his
donation
,
he
will
exhort
,
allure
,
threaten
;
nay
put
himself
into
any
shape
,
that
may
most
effectually
purchase
Souls
unto
God
.
Nor
is
it
a
bad
presage
of
his
future
success
,
that
he
is
so
confident
to
have
his
Lips
laid
open
;
Lord
(
sayes
he
)
thou
wilt
open
my
Lips
,
as
if
he
had
the
Key
of
grace
at
his
command
.
For
I
observe
when
God
would
dispose
a
Soul
for
the
reception
of
his
favour
,
the
first
Seed
he
casts
into
her
is
that
of
hope
,
this
lesson
he
read
to
the
Paralytick
,
Matt.
9.
Son
be
confident
and
hope
well
.
Cassianus
sayes
,
it
is
a
sign
we
shall
obtain
what
we
demand
,
when
we
find
a
strong
faith
and
confidence
in
our selves
whilst
we
offer
our
petition
:
For
Almighty
God
uses
to
inspire
this
vertue
into
us
as
an
earnest
or
pledge
of
his
future
grant
;
this
made
the
Apostle
St.
Paul
prescribe
it
as
a
means
to
compass
our
desires
,
Heb.
2.16
.
Let
us
approach
with
confidence
the
Throne
of
grace
.
As
if
we
needed
only
a
firm
hope
to
be
able
to
scale
the
throne
of
grace
and
bear
thence
what
ever
we
desire
.
Hope
is
defined
a
vertue
residing
in
the
will
,
which
raises
it
to
the
expectation
of
a
sovereign
good
,
and
consequently
to
all
necessary
means
in
order
to
that
;
as
grace
,
remission
of
sin
,
and
the
like
:
For
the
understanding
enlightned
by
Faith
,
knowes
that
the
beatitude
of
Man
is
in
God
,
that
this
beatitude
is
promised
him
as
his
final
end
;
whence
the
will
sets
itself
a
work
after
this
sovereign
good
,
and
being
unable
of
it self
to
reach
so
high
,
this
vertue
of
hope
is
infused
to
strengthen
the
imbecility
of
our
nature
.
Now
the
motives
of
hope
are
;
First
,
God's
mercy
,
which
is
no
less
prompt
to
free
his
Creatures
from
misery
,
than
the
fire
is
to
burn
,
or
the
Sun
to
give
light
,
The
next
motive
is
his
Providence
,
which
allots
unto
every
Being
what
is
necessary
to
lead
them
to
their
final
end
.
The
third
motive
is
his
divine
power
,
against
which
no
machination
or
force
can
be
of
any
effect
to
ruine
a
Soul
he
means
to
save
:
For
all
the
power
of
Hell
before
him
is
but
like
an●
atome
before
the
Sun
,
nay
he
can
with
more
facility
draw
a
Soul
from
an
Abyss
of
sin
,
and
adorn
her
with
an
Angelick
purity
,
I
say
with
more
ease
,
than
we
can
utter
a
Syllable
,
or
make
the
twinkling
of
an
Eye
.
Besides
,
he
is
generous
,
and
seeing
his
Enemy
at
his
Feet
,
imploring
his
mercy
,
he
loves
to
raise
them
by
his
pardon
,
and
cannot
endure
that
any
in
vain
should
hope
in
him
.
In
sequel
of
this
meditation
our
Petitioner
assures
himself
that
God
will
not
reject
him
;
nay
,
that
he
will
give
him
more
than
even
he
dares
to
hope
for
:
That
since
he
hath
designed
him
to
a
supernatural
end
,
his
providential
care
will
enrich
him
with
an
interiour
illustration
of
his
Mind
,
and
a
holy
impulse
in
his
will
,
that
he
may
comprehend
those
Truths
which
he
hath
hid
from
the
wise
,
and
discovered
to
his
little
ones
.
He
knew
the
Messias
would
not
shed
his
pretious
blood
to
make
us
great
Oratours
,
Physitians
,
Astrologers
or
the
like
;
because
Man
by
the
strength
of
his
own
capacity
may
reach
and
acquire
them
in
some
perfection
;
but
to
enable
us
to
supernatural
principles
:
And
though
by
the
contemplation
of
created
things
,
Man
may
make
many
deductions
and
inferences
,
and
so
come
to
the
knowledge
of
several
perfections
in
God
:
Yet
knowledge
thus
acquired
is
very
imperfect
;
and
therefore
St.
Thomas
observes
,
that
the
wisest
Men
have
fallen
into
many
sottish
errours
,
untill
a
supernatural
Divinity
came
to
rectify
,
what
Man's
Wit
could
not
penetrate
and
discern
.
Our
Penitent
now
feeling
himself
to
swell
like
a
Fountain
to
the
brim
,
with
these
irradiations
and
sacred
transports
,
longs
to
discharge
himself
,
and
besprinkle
the
Arid
Souls
of
languishing
sinners
:
Wherefore
he
begs
his
Lips
may
be
laid
open
,
that
like
a
torrent
he
may
bear
all
down
before
him
,
destroy
all
the
Barricado's
of
impiety
,
and
teach
the
World
in
his
Example
,
that
notwithstanding
we
forfeit
by
sin
all
supernatural
aids
;
yet
repentance
is
of
power
to
redeem
them
,
and
restore
us
to
a
capacity
of
regaining
our
eternal
Beatitude
:
Wherefore
he
exhorts
all
Men
to
joyn
issue
with
him
,
and
with
a
firm
hope
cry
;
Lord
thou
shalt
open
my
Lips
.
The
Application
.
We
are
taught
here
when
we
begin
to
pray
,
that
we
look
upon
our selves
as
infirm
,
indigent
,
and
ulcerated
Beggars
;
who
expect
from
the
merciful
hand
of
God
to
find
some
relief
in
our
necessities
;
and
we
must
further
reflect
upon
this
great
addition
to
our
misery
,
that
as
that
the
time
was
not
tedious
to
him
,
to
whom
the
Saint
replyed
,
that
the
whole
world
was
a
great
Volume
expanded
,
in
which
he
read
as
it
were
in
great
Characters
,
the
wonders
of
its
Creatour
,
to
which
also
alludes
the
Sentence
of
St.
Chrysostom
:
There
is
not
any
particle
of
a
Creature
,
be
it
of
worth
or
not
,
which
issues
not
forth
a
voice
more
loud
than
a
Trumpet
,
and
speaks
the
praises
of
God
.
But
above
all
,
it
belongs
to
Man
by
many
Titles
of
obligation
to
contribute
to
the
praise
and
glory
of
God
.
First
,
his
natural
perfections
more
lively
represent
the
Divine
perfections
,
as
being
created
to
his
Image
,
and
enriched
with
an
understanding
able
to
comprehend
supernatural
things
,
so
that
he
alone
in
this
Earthly
Sphere
can
acknowledge
,
and
make
a
return
of
gratitude
,
for
all
the
visible
productions
we
here
behold
.
Whence
it
is
evident
,
that
Man
is
obliged
to
pay
the
tribute
of
praise
and
thanksgiving
in
the
behalf
of
all
Creatures
:
it
was
upon
this
score
the
high
Priest
among
the
Jews
was
wont
to
have
wrought
in
his
Garment
a
draught
of
the
World
,
to
insinuate
,
that
it
was
his
part
to
discharge
the
duty
of
Adoration
,
and
acknowledgment
unto
God
in
the
name
of
the
universe
.
Next
,
Man
may
be
aiding
to
the
glory
of
God
,
employing
those
gifts
of
grace
he
receives
in
acts
of
Religion
,
obeying
his
Commandments
,
embracing
his
Councels
referring
all
his
actions
to
his
honour
,
and
evidencing
by
a
holy
life
,
that
all
his
endeavours
are
in
order
to
him
,
and
his
service
.
For
from
hence
is
reflected
a
certain
external
glory
upon
God
;
not
only
in
that
he
is
known
,
loved
,
and
respected
by
such
a
life
of
Sanctity
;
but
also
in
that
he
hath
such
holy
and
generous
Creatures
,
just
as
it
is
the
glory
of
a
Father
to
have
a
Son
vertuous
and
wise
,
and
who
by
his
valour
and
sage
conduct
,
drawes
the
Eyes
of
the
World
with
a
kind
of
admiration
upon
him
.
But
the
greatest
glory
Man
can
give
unto
God
,
is
in
a
state
of
Beatitude
,
for
when
once
there
arrived
,
he
shall
see
him
face
to
face
without
any
interposed
Veil
,
he
shall
know
the
wonders
of
his
essence
,
cast
his
sweetness
inconceivable
,
and
have
his
heart
ravished
with
eternal
affections
:
He
shall
there
praise
him
in
a
full
consort
for
all
Eternity
:
This
is
the
highest
,
pitch
of
glory
Man
can
give
unto
God
,
in
which
he
is
partner
with
the
Angels
,
it
is
the
final
end
of
our
Creation
,
we
are
not
put
into
this
World
upon
any
other
design
,
than
by
a
constant
progress
in
vertue
to
advance
our selves
daily
to
this
end
.
Here
you
may
discern
the
general
Heads
of
praise
in
which
our
Penitent
will
engage
his
mouth
.
First
,
he
will
praise
him
in
the
infinite
variety
of
Creatures
he
hath
framed
in
this
inferiour
World
for
Man's
use
,
and
in
his
behalf
he
will
powerforth
his
thanks
,
and
acts
of
gratitude
,
resolving
never
to
abuse
them
,
or
design
them
contrary
to
that
end
for
which
they
were
made
.
Next
,
he
will
submit
all
his
actions
,
to
be
led
and
conducted
according
to
the
impulse
and
dictamens
of
those
Graces
he
shall
please
to
bestow
upon
him
;
making
his
Body
a
holy
,
chast
,
and
ma●…rated
victime
to
his
Laws
,
and
by
this
means
he
will
dispose
himself
for
that
last
and
highest
service
he
is
to
render
him
in
a
compleat
Beatitude
,
where
his
Mouth
shall
never
cease
to
celebrate
his
praise
:
And
my
Mouth
shall
declare
thy
praise
.
Whilest
our
Penitent
thus
in
his
thoughts
runns
over
all
these
motives
which
might
justly
afford
matter
of
praise
to
his
grateful
Tongue
,
there
occurs
one
more
which
must
not
be
omitted
,
since
it
exceeds
all
others
,
and
exalts
the
glory
of
God
beyond
all
the
submission
of
Men
and
Angels
;
it
is
the
mystery
of
the
Incarnation
in
which
Christ
Jesus
God-Man
hath
contributed
the
most
to
God's
glory
:
For
he
hath
saved
the
World
by
the
effusion
of
his
pretious
blood
,
and
nothing
is
more
glorious
to
God
than
the
Salvation
of
Mankind
;
for
good
and
holy
persons
will
praise
,
love
,
admire
,
contemplate
,
enjoy
,
and
adore
his
perfections
in
the
vast
spaces
of
Eternity
:
Now
had
he
not
dyed
for
Man
,
no
Paradise
,
no
felicity
could
have
been
for
them
;
so
that
God
had
remained
under
the
privation
of
that
glory
,
he
doth
and
is
to
receive
from
blessed
Spirits
for
all
Eternity
.
Nay
more
,
not
only
Men
do
glorify
God
by
Jesus
Christ
,
but
the
Angels
likewise
,
in
whose
concern
the
Church
declares
the
Angels
praise
your
Majesty
,
the
Archangels
bow
before
you
,
the
Powers
tremble
with
respect
,
the
vertues
of
Heaven
,
and
blessed
Seraphims
with
like
joy
and
love
do
glorify
you
:
So
that
all
the
external
glory
consecrated
to
God
either
in
Heaven
or
Earth
is
in
consideration
of
the
divine
person
as
it
supports
the
sacred
humanity
of
Christ
.
Lastly
,
Jesus
Christ
in
Heaven
doth
praise
and
magnify
the
Divinity
with
an
Air
incomparable
;
he
doth
it
more
copiously
,
with
more
variety
,
with
a
note
more
lively
and
ravishing
than
all
the
Choires
of
Angels
and
Saints
put
together
:
The
reason
is
,
that
the
most
perfect
knowledge
,
and
most
ardent
affection
are
the
●ources
of
the
most
sublime
and
magnificent
Panegyricks
:
Now
the
Soul
of
our
Redeemer
enjoyed
without
dispute
a
more
clear
and
penetrating
wisdom
and
knowledge
of
the
Divinity
,
is
enflamed
in
that
Abyss
of
essence
to
a
higher
degree
:
than
any
other
whatsoever
,
and
consequently
his
most
pure
Soul
breaks
forth
into
praises
,
which
outstrip
and
surpass
by
far
all
the
Harmony
both
of
Angels
and
the
blessed
spirits
in
Heaven
.
I
doubt
not
but
our
Penitent
with
much
satisfaction
let
his
Tongue
strike
upon
this
Theam
;
for
if
the
very
thought
of
the
Messias
replenished
his
Mind
with
abundant
joy
,
what
consolation
to
consider
that
by
him
alone
God
would
derive
to
himself
more
glory
,
than
from
the
whole
mass
of
Creatures
,
that
he
was
to
share
with
him
in
this
task
of
praise
,
that
he
would
procure
,
encrease
,
and
magnify
the
honour
of
God
to
his
utmost
;
and
since
Angels
and
Men
were
to
pay
their
homage
of
praise
and
benediction
by
and
in
the
person
of
the
Messias
,
our
Penitent
would
not
be
exempted
from
that
priviledge
of
bearing
a
part
in
the
confort
,
and
bless
the
divine
goodness
in
that
by
the
bloody
Sacrifice
of
the
Messias
,
God's
honour
should
be
repaired
,
and
as
many
voices
gained
to
promote
his
greatness
,
as
there
were
to
be
glorious
spirits
in
Heaven
,
that
by
his
sacred
Mouth
the
praises
of
his
God
,
his
sovereign
good
,
and
object
of
his
love
were
to
be
ecch●…d
forth
in
the
midst
of
Paradise
;
with
what
●…y
would
he
put
a
helping
hand
,
and
conspire
in
this
design
,
and
second
the
generous
intentions
of
the
Messias
,
by
a
million
of
toyl●…e
Labours
,
might
he
but
live
to
see
the
Day-break
of
his
coming
,
however
he
is
resolved
by
him
to
offer
up
all
his
stock
of
praise
and
benediction
.
And
my
Mouth
shall
announce
,
thy
praise
.
Cassianus
admires
the
goodness
of
God
,
that
possessing
within
himself
an
inexhausted
Treasure
of
all
good
,
in
whom
cannot
be
found
the
least
want
of
any
thing
desirable
,
is
yet
pleased
to
play
the
Merchant
with
poor
Creatures
,
entrusting
into
their
hands
not
only
the
visible
stock
of
this
inferiour
World
,
but
also
the
dispensation
of
heavenly
graces
,
and
this
whilst
he
can
expect
no
return
,
this
our
Petitioner
himself
confesses
in
the
last
Chapter
of
the
first
of
the
Chronicles
;
where
He
and
the
Princes
of
the
people
had
made
a
large
Offering
of
many
Talents
of
Gold
,
Silver
,
and
other
Metals
:
For
reflecting
then
upon
the
state
of
Accounts
'twixt
God
and
his
Creatures
;
he
said
,
Who
am
I
,
and
what
is
my
people
to
offer
any
thing
unto
thee
,
for
all
things
come
from
thee
,
and
of
thine
own
we
have
given
.
So
that
none
can
offer
unto
God
but
what
they
have
received
from
him
:
Nay
,
he
is
so
indulgent
,
as
though
we
can
return
him
nothing
but
what
is
his
own
,
yet
let
them
be
stamped
with
the
mark
of
gratitude
,
he
will
put
them
upon
account
as
satisfactory
.
In
a
word
we
can
exchange
nothing
in
return
of
all
his
benefit
,
but
the
oblation
of
praise
,
and
is
it
not
strange
we
should
r●fuse●
him
this
?
Nay
,
to
encourage
us
though
we
give
him
but
a
trifle
,
not
worth
the
regarding
,
yet
if
it
be
done
with
a
real
intent
of
serving
him
,
he
blenches
not
at
it
,
but
by
his
acceptance
makes
it
valuable
,
and
of
a
price
not
to
be
esteemed
.
I
must
needs
then
say
,
our
great
Penitent
hath
pitched
upon
a
right
way
of
traffick
,
and
which
is
most
suitable
to
the
state
of
his
affairs
.
Wherefore
I
wonder
not
if
in
divers
other
Psalms
,
he
protests
he
will
live
no
longer
than
he
shall
be
able
to
remit
unto
his
obliging
Creditour
,
the
just
tribute
of
praise
,
and
that
he
will
be
punctual
in
this
commerce
whilst
he
hath
a
Being
,
which
resolution
he
again
here
confirms
:
And
my
Mouth
shall
send
forth
thy
praise
.
St.
Bonaventure
forbids
two
things
in
those
that
would
praise
the
name
of
God
;
to
wit
,
Pride
and
fear
:
For
,
if
proud
,
though
he
take
up
the
Subject
of
anothers
praise
,
and
descants
upon
it
with
much
seeming
zeal
,
yet
he
alwayes
so
manages
the
Encomiums
as
to
involve
himself
as
a
Party
,
which
spoils
all
;
for
God
will
have
no
Ri●al
,
he
communicates
(
it
is
true
)
unto
his
Creatures
the
participation
of
his
divide
essence
,
I
but
in
matter
of
glory
he
will
be
singular
,
and
protests
that
none
shall
bear
a
share
with
him
;
in
this
he
proclaims
himself
to
be
a
Jo●lo●…
God
.
Next
,
if
the
Praiser
be
timorous
,
he
can
never
be
faithful
,
for
this
unmanly
passion
like
an
Apoplexy
seizes
upon
all
the
vital
spirits
,
Whinders
the
speech
,
nay
even
be
rayles
any
interest
at
the
Face
of
danger
.
So
that
you
never
see
any
thing
great
or
generous
to
issue
from
a
Coward
;
wherefore
our
blessed
Saviour
declares
he
will
not
owne
him
at
the
Latter
day
,
who
hath
here
blished
,
and
not
dared
to
acknowledge
him
.
Our
great
Doctor
was
far
exempt
from
these
irregular
motions
:
As
to
the
first
,
he
was
the
meekest
of
Men
,
the
Character
he
gives
of
himself
shews
he
was
not
elevated
with
an
Any
conceit
of
his
own
worth
,
when
he
pronounces
in
his
Psalm
;
That
he
is
a
Worm
,
and
not
a
Man
;
the
opprobry
of
Men
,
and
scorn
of
the
people
.
So
that
the
brain
blast
of
Pride
did
not
stifle
,
or
any
wayes
obstruct
those
just
Attributes
he
promises
here
to
give
unto
his
Maker
.
As
to
the
other
branch
of
fear
,
his
Heroick
exploits
are
abundantly
set
forth
in
the
sacred
History
,
so
that
to
go
about
to
clear
him
from
(
apprehension
)
of
terrour
,
when
God's
●…use
●ay
〈◊〉
●…e
,
were
the
same
as
to
use
Arguments
in
a
glorious
day
,
to
perswade
the
Sun
shines
:
Let
us
then
conclude
he
was
compleatly
qualifyed
in
border
to
the
performance
of
his
task
,
and
that
his
Mouth
was
admirably
fitted
to
Sing
forth
the
praises
of
his
God
:
And
my
Mouth
shall
announce
thy
praise
.
Whilst
our
Penitent
goes
on
in
his
designe
to
make
an
Elogy
of
his
Creatours
praises
,
he
is
startled
at
an
opinion
,
that
God
is
glorifyed
in
the
damnation
of
a
Soul
,
as
much
it
in
her
Salvation
.
But
he
soon
recovered
himself
upon
the
principles
he
hath
laid
;
for
as
a
rare
and
accomplished
piece
of
work
speaks
more
the
art
and
perfection
of
the
workman
,
than
one
that
is
imperfect
and
be
set
with
many
faults
;
so
a
blessed
Soul
adorned
with
many
perfections
,
and
being
lively
image
of
her
Maker
,
doth
more
express
the
power
,
wisdome
,
and
other
Attributes
of
God
than
a
lost
Soul
all
stained
with
a
horrid
guilt
of
sin
.
Again
,
it
would
be
indifferent
to
the
most
zealous
in
the
love
of
God
,
whether
a
soul
perished
or
not
;
because
they
desiring
nothing
but
the
glory
of
God
,
and
if
that
were
equally
concerned
in
the
loss
,
or
Salvation
of
a
Soul
,
certainly
either
would
be
a
like
to
them
,
but
it
is
most
evident
they
practise
the
contrary
,
entertaining
passionate
desires
for
the
gaining
of
a
Soul
,
and
much
resenting
,
nay
with
great
desolation
,
the
ruine
of
any
;
which
evidences
that
God
derives
to
himself
more
glory
from
a
Soul
enlivened
by
his
grace
,
than
from
another
wallowing
in
the
filth
of
sin
.
Wherefore
he
concludes
the
task
of
God's
praise
cannot
be
carried
on
but
by
a
life
of
Sanctity
,
which
he
looks
upon
as
a
happy
necessity
,
that
the
glory
of
our
Creatour
is
annexed
to
our
greatest
happiness
;
For
he
hath
produced
all
things
to
be
finally
referred
to
himself
,
and
if
in
this
,
Creatures
find
likewise
their
interest
and
full
delight
,
how
great
an
obligation
is
it
?
That
he
hath
linked
his
glory
to
our
happy
condition
,
and
utmost
perfection
;
that
is
,
whilst
we
procure
unto
God
the
greatest
glory
,
in
the
same
action
we
purchase
to
our selves
our
greatest
felicity
:
So
that
our
Penitent
will
never
cease
:
And
my
Mouth
shall
send
forth
thy
praise
.
The
Application
.
Here
we
are
instructed
that
our
Being
is
conferred
upon
us
to
no
other
end
than
to
love
,
praise
,
and
glorify
God
,
and
to
procure
(
as
much
as
in
us
lyes
)
that
others
likewise
discharge
this
designment
of
their
Creation
.
If
then
we
direct
our
actions
to
our
own
praise
,
sucking
in
the
Air
of
humane
applause
,
we
commit
an
act
of
injustice
against
God
,
and
pervert
the
noble
employment
allotted
to
our
nature
:
We
play
the
Thief
,
and
plunder
the
lawful
propriety
of
our
Creator
:
The
utmost
perfection
of
a
stream
is
to
be
reunited
to
its
source
;
and
that
of
Man
to
praise
and
glorify
God
,
in
loving
,
serving
,
and
manifesting
his
perfections
;
and
since
all
other
Creatures
conspire
according
to
their
capacity
to
render
him
glory
,
Let
us
who
are
endued
with
reason
consecrate
all
our
thoughts
and
words
,
all
our
desires
and
affections
to
exalt
his
praise
and
glory
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXXIII
.
Quoniam
si
voluisses
Sacrificium
,
dedissem
utique
,
Because
if
thou
wouldest
have
had
a
Sacrifice
,
I
should
verily
have
done
it
.
IN
this
Clause
our
Petitioner
hints
a
remarkable
consideration
;
which
is
,
that
he
will
not
play
the
Heady
devote
,
nor
follow
his
own
will
;
and
what
his
weak
brain
may
suggest
unto
him
in
order
to
God's
service
,
but
wisely
commit
himself
unto
God
,
who
must
be
his
Master
in
this
particular
:
For
Man's
blindness
is
so
great
,
the
Clouds
over
his
understanding
so
black
,
that
of
himself
he
cannot
discern
what
homage
is
due
to
his
Sovereign
Monarch
,
nor
with
what
Sacrifice
he
ought
to
adore
,
thank
,
and
appease
him
:
He
knew
well
our
important
affair
in
this
life
,
is
to
serve
God
as
he
would
be
served
,
and
in
that
way
which
might
be
most
pleasing
to
him
;
by
consequence
the
orders
he
is
to
observe
must
be
revealed
to
him
by
God
,
that
conformably
to
his
pleasure
he
is
ready
to
obey
,
to
Sacrifice
not
only
a
beast
,
but
his
fortune
,
honour
,
crown
,
person
,
and
all
.
There
are
many
Opinions
about
this
Quere
;
why
those
legal
Sacrifices
instituted
by
God's
own
appointment
,
as
a
testimony
of
our
acknowledgment
of
his
supream
Dominion
over
us
,
and
being
their
sole
refuge
to
shelter
themselves
from
the
darts
of
his
anger
,
should
in
the
case
of
our
Petitioner
be
censured
as
useless
,
and
no
wayes
to
be
countenanced
by
the
approbation
of
Heaven
.
Some
say
our
Penitent
means
by
this
the
bare
external
act
of
Sacrifice
,
which
as
an
accustomary
thing
without
the
intention
,
which
gives
life
to
the
action
,
is
not
required
of
God
,
nor
receives
from
him
any
support
,
and
that
in
this
sense
he
truly
doth
not
authenticate
any
Sacrifice
so
offered
.
But
questionless
this
exposition
is
far
from
our
Penitents
thoughts
,
for
no
oblation
unless
vested
with
a
form
of
sincere
respect
,
and
reverence
to
the
Divinity
,
can
find
any
propitious
effect
;
and
since
that
depends
on
the
will
of
him
that
offers
sacrifice
,
if
this
circumstance
be
wanting
,
neither
will
his
immolation
be
acceptable
,
nor
he
himself
blameless
;
if
he
desist
upon
that
title
from
discharging
his
duty
by
those
Ceremonies
which
the
Law
then
required
.
I
will
wave
the
sentiments
of
divers
others
so
to
avoid
prolixity
,
and
give
you
that
of
St.
Gregory
,
who
seems
to
have
hit
upon
the
genuine
sense
of
this
clause
.
For
he
reputes
it
to
be
a
prophetick
inspiration
in
our
Penitent
,
that
the
legal
Sacrifices
being
a
Type
only
and
Figure
of
that
eternal
Sacrifice
to
be
offered
up
in
the
person
of
Christ
,
in
whom
they
were
all
to
end
.
Therefore
in
consideration
of
his
vigorous
Faith
,
and
ardent
zeal
for
his
coming
,
by
which
he
merited
the
effect
of
what
they
represented
,
he
was
dispensed
within
these
legal
Sacrifices
as
to
himself
,
they
being
in
these
circumstances
little
beneficial
,
and
as
it
were
unnecessary
.
But
let
us
examine
the
nature
of
a
Sacrifice
which
will
give
us
light
the
better
to
discern
the
verity
of
this
clause
:
First
,
it
exacts
that
he
who
offers
Sacrifice
be
a
Priest
;
for
since
it
is
a
worship
of
all
others
the
most
eminent
,
by
which
the
World
conspires
in
one
to
acknowledge
a
Divinity
,
it
is
requisite
this
external
Ceremony
,
should
not
be
committed
to
the
Execution
of
everyone
,
but
that
certain
selected
Persons
be
constituted
,
who
in
the
name
of
the
Common-wealth
should
pay
their
homage
to
the
divine
Majesty
;
and
in
that
action
of
Sacrifice
,
acknowledge
both
his
supream
power
,
and
their
subjection
;
and
this
person
ought
to
be
a
Priest
because
it
is
his
proper
office
;
witness
St.
Paul
in
the
Fifth
to
the
Hebrews
,
Every
Priest
chosen
out
amongst
Men
are
appointed
for
the
service
of
Men
,
in
those
things
which
relate
unto
God
in
the
oblation
of
gifts
and
Sacrifices
.
Now
as
to
the
Law
of
nature
where
mention
is
made
of
Sacrifices
,
and
not
of
Priests
;
St.
Hierom
cites
a
tradition
of
the
Hebrews
which
testifies
that
the
First
born
Male
,
or
Eldest
Son
were
Priests
,
and
enjoyed
both
a
regal
,
and
pontificial
authority
in
their
Line
,
and
Family
.
Whence
Job
Chap.
2.
Sacrificed
in
behalf
of
his
Children
,
whom
likewise
he
blessed
and
sanctifyed
.
Next
,
it
is
required
in
a
Sacrifice
,
that
it
be
some
external
sensible
thing
,
either
living
or
inanimate
;
for
whatsoever
by
the
esteem
of
Nations
,
or
authority
of
holy
Scripture
hath
been
reputed
a
real
and
true
Sacrifice
,
it
ever
consisted
in
some
such
visible
and
external
thing
.
The
third
condition
of
a
Sacrifice
is
,
that
the
thing
offered
up
be
killed
,
or
some
alteration
made
in
it
;
for
all
the
Sacrifices
of
the
natural
and
Mosaick
Law
were
not
performed
by
a
simple
oblation
or
elevation
of
the
thing
,
but
by
its
destruction
,
and
this
directed
to
God's
honour
.
Living
Creatures
were
slaughtered
,
and
things
inanimate
,
some
burnt
,
as
Flower
,
Salt
,
Incense
:
Others
poured
out
or
spilt
,
as
Blood
,
Oyl
,
and
Water
.
The
reason
why
a
Sacrifice
ought
to
be
destroyed
is
,
that
by
the
destruction
it
serves
no
more
to
the
use
of
Men
,
and
so
more
compleatly
seems
all
applyed
to
God's
honour
,
as
importing
his
supream
Dominion
,
and
a
dependency
of
all
things
on
him
.
Fourthly
,
a
Sacrifice
is
to
be
offered
up
implicitly
,
or
explicitly
to
the
honour
of
God
;
if
for
any
other
end
it
loses
the
nature
and
quality
of
a
Sacrifice
:
For
a
Sacrifice
is
in
the
number
of
those
signs
by
which
we
express
our
inward
value
of
anothers
excellency
,
and
a
desire
in
our selves
to
become
his
slave
,
now
if
this
esteem
or
desire
be
wanting
,
the
sign
is
false
,
and
hath
no
effect
;
so
that
a
Sacrifice
proceeding
from
flattery
or
fear
is
impious
,
and
puts
a
scorn
upon
the
Deity
they
seem
to
adore
.
Lastly
,
the
place
wherein
a
Sacrifice
is
performed
,
ought
to
be
consecrated
to
that
end
,
and
this
we
call
an
Altar
,
for
doubtless
the
dignity
of
that
action
may
justly
exact
a
particular
department
separated
from
prophane
uses
,
as
the
custom
of
all
Nations
declares
.
From
these
premises
we
see
what
a
Sacrifice
is
taken
in
the
strictest
sense
;
to
wit
,
an
external
oblation
of
some
sensible
thing
offered
unto
God
,
by
which
we
acknowledge
his
supream
power
over
us
,
and
all
things
:
that
he
may
dispose
of
them
and
us
at
his
pleasure
.
Now
that
God
should
not
require
at
the
hands
of
our
Petitioner
such
an
expression
of
his
duty
seems
intricate
,
because
though
by
the
tye
of
nature
we
are
obliged
to
worship
God
by
acts
of
vertue
;
and
good
works
issuing
from
such
a
principle
,
may
quadrate
with
the
end
of
a
Sacrifice
,
which
is
to
honour
God
:
Yet
they
produce
no
external
sign
,
and
so
properly
cannot
be
said
to
be
an
act
of
Religion
,
nor
consequently
a
Sacrifice
,
which
comprehends
the
most
perfect
worship
that
can
be
given
by
a
Creature
.
Besides
,
it
is
most
certain
that
the
Law
of
Moses
obliged
the
Jews
very
strictly
,
and
this
appears
in
God's
promises
to
the
punctual
observers
of
it
;
as
that
rain
should
fall
in
due
season
,
their
Lands
become
fertile
,
their
Trees
be
laden
with
fruit
,
abundance
in
their
Vineyards
,
that
they
should
be
preserved
from
wild
Beasts
,
enjoy
a
full
peace
,
overcome
their
Enemies
,
and
plant
themselves
in
the
midst
of
them
;
Nay
more
,
that
these
temporal
blessings
were
to
be
Crowned
with
eternal
life
,
of
which
promise
made
to
the
first
inhabitants
of
the
Earth
,
they
had
a
Tradition
,
though
their
Law
made
no
mention
of
it
.
So
that
not
only
for
their
temporal
prosperity
,
but
likewise
in
order
to
spiritual
and
eternal
treasures
,
they
were
bound
to
obey
their
legal
precepts
,
and
this
in
conscience
under
the
penalty
of
a
mortal
or
venial
guilt
,
according
to
the
matter
wherein
they
transgressed
.
Now
this
obligation
was
extended
not
only
to
their
moral
,
and
Ceremonial
precepts
,
but
likewise
to
their
Judicial
and
Politick
;
for
why
should
not
civil
and
temporal
Lawes
bind
in
Conscience
,
since
we
are
tyed
by
a
certain
external
Justice
in
morality
to
contribute
to
the
peace
and
quiet
order
of
the
Common-wealth
.
Lastly
,
they
are
commanded
by
God
as
well
as
the
others
,
and
pronounced
with
the
like
benedictions
,
and
maledictions
;
and
therefore
obligatory
after
the
same
manner
.
It
was
upon
this
ground
they
set
more
by
one
precept
of
the
Law
,
than
by
their
lives
,
or
whatsoever
else
most
precious
to
them
:
For
example
Eleazer
,
and
the
Mother
of
the
Machabees
with
her
Sons
,
chose
rather
to
dye
,
than
to
eat
Swines
flesh
forbidden
by
the
Law
;
it
was
in
pursuance
of
this
their
zeal
,
that
when
the
Romans
first
took
Hierusalem
under
Pompey
,
and
forcibly
entering
the
Temple
,
mowed
down
all
before
them
;
neither
the
terrour
of
death
,
nor
outcryes
of
the
dying
Multitude
round
about
them
,
could
divert
them
from
their
divine
service
,
oblations
,
and
Sacrifices
;
but
on
the
contrary
were
resolved
to
lye
at
the
mercy
of
the
victorious
,
and
suffer
what
they
pleased
,
rather
then
abandon
their
Altars
,
on
quit
any
part
of
their
duty
,
in
observing
what
was
commanded
by
their
Law
,
and
forefathers
.
Now
since
these
legal
Sacrifices
were
so
much
valued
by
the
Jews
,
and
observed
with
so
much
zeal
,
as
instituted
by
God's
own
appointment
,
in
Testimony
of
our
acknowledgment
,
of
his
supream
power
,
and
our
subjection
,
and
being
they
were
their
sole
refuge
to
shelter
themselves
from
the
darts
of
his
anger
,
how
comes
it
to
pass
that
in
the
case
of
our
Petitioner
they
are
censured
useless
,
and
no
wayes
to
be
countenanced
from
Heaven
:
For
as
here
he
expresly
declares
,
that
God
would
not
have
him
pay
this
tribute
or
homage
of
Sacrifice
,
so
we
have
reason
to
believe
he
did
it
not
;
for
it
is
no where
read
,
that
he
offered
up
any
Sacrifice
for
Vriah's
murder
,
or
his
adultery
with
Berfabee
;
though
usually
all
offendours
in
that
nature
did
it
,
nor
were
to
be
admitted
into
humane
Society
untill
they
had
purifyed
themselves
by
a
Sacrifice
of
expiation
.
Some
there
are
who
fancy
that
our
Petitioner
understands
here
,
that
legal
Sacrifices
were
most
of
them
appointed
for
sins
committed
through
ignorance
,
and
negligence
:
Now
he
not
finding
himself
guilty
in
this
kind
,
presumes
that
God
would
not
exact
a
Sacrifice
of
him
upon
that
score
.
But
this
cannot
hold
Water
,
for
certain
it
is
,
that
many
of
those
Sacrifices
were
instituted
for
the
expiation
of
several
trespasses
of
commission
;
and
namely
those
which
gave
birth
to
this
his
penitential
Psalm
:
Besides
,
he
seems
to
be
much
devoted
to
that
kind
of
Sacrifice
,
which
was
ordained
for
sins
of
ignorance
,
often
supplicating
the
Divine
mercy
in
behalf
of
his
secret
,
and
hidden
sins
,
which
must
needs
import
his
faults
into
which
through
ignorance
he
may
have
fallen
;
and
therefore
upon
that
score
he
would
never
desist
from
the
offering
up
of
a
Sacrifice
.
Others
again
interpret
this
clause
of
our
Petitioner
,
as
if
he
would
say
,
Lord
should
I
offer
up
those
Sacrifices
commanded
in
the
Law
they
will
not
please
,
nor
appease
thee
?
They
are
but
figures
and
representations
of
that
true
Sacrifice
thou
wilt
one
day
give
us
,
and
from
the
efficacy
of
which
future
Sacrifice
the
weak
vertue
of
these
are
derived
,
at
whose
approach
all
these
are
to
be
evacuated
,
and
cease
:
Were
it
not
then
better
that
I
present
you
with
one
,
that
will
never
be
refused
,
that
is
,
a
heart
pierced
with
sorrow
,
and
bowed
with
repentance
;
this
is
a
Sacrifice
I
am
sure
you
require
,
and
if
I
give
you
this
,
you
will
not
think
I
grudge
you
the
other
:
Upon
these
Terms
the
three
Young
Men
in
Babylon
petitioned
:
That
God
would
receive
a
contrite
heart
and
spirit
of
humility
,
in
lieu
of
Ramms
,
Bulls
,
and
a
thousand
fat
Lambs
offered
up
in
Holocaust
.
But
with
submission
I
conceive
our
Petitioner
in
this
clause
appeals
to
his
great
God
,
and
insinuates
it
,
is
his
revealed
will
he
should
desist
from
these
Sacrifices
;
as
being
all
satisfyed
with
his
internal
acts
of
repentance
,
which
more
perfectly
contribute
to
the
effect
of
a
Sacrifice
(
though
not
to
the
formality
of
it
)
than
any
external
oblation
;
For
this
expression
if
you
would
have
had
one
(
supposing
the
command
of
God
in
general
to
the
Jewish
Nation
,
that
in
all
their
distresses
they
were
to
make
their
way
to
him
by
the
means
of
Sacrifice
)
imports
a
knowledge
he
had
to
the
contrary
,
otherwise
he
would
never
have
put
in
an
if
,
nor
made
a
Quere
whether
he
should
do
it
,
had
he
not
been
first
warranted
in
the
forbearance
.
Now
,
if
you
ask
me
why
God
should
proceed
so
particularly
with
him
,
it
seems
to
me
probable
,
that
it
was
in
consideration
of
his
vigorous
Faith
,
and
ardent
zeal
for
the
coming
of
the
Messias
,
by
which
he
merited
the
effect
of
what
the
legal
Sacrifices
did
represent
;
and
so
was
dispensed
with
,
in
order
to
all
those
Sacrifices
,
as
to
him
with
these
circumstances
little
beneficial
.
For
we
see
in
several
Emergencies
,
that
God
would
not
tye
himself
to
the
strict
rules
he
had
set
down
for
the
guidance
of
his
people
;
he
had
ordained
that
Priests
only
were
to
be
the
lawful
Ministers
of
Sacrifice
,
and
the
prevarication
of
this
Law
he
punished
severely
in
the
persons
of
Ozias
and
Saul
:
Yet
at
another
time
by
a
particular
Ordination
,
he
enjoyned
Abel
,
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
and
others
;
though
they
were
not
Priests
to
offer
Sacrifice
:
For
by
vertue
of
this
Command
they
were
consecrated
Priests
,
and
had
the
power
of
Sacrificing
committed
to
them
.
In
like
manner
our
Petitioner
living
in
the
time
of
the
Law
,
a
Law
of
bondage
;
where
many
harsh
impositions
were
laid
upon
them
,
might
be
exempted
from
the
burden
of
Sacrifices
,
upon
the
score
of
his
Heroick
Love
,
Repentance
,
and
ceaseless
groans
for
a
Redeemer
:
For
doubtless
amongst
all
the
Patriarchs
of
the
old
Testament
,
none
ever
interessed
themselves
so
much
in
that
particular
as
he
,
and
it
is
believed
he
much
obliged
the
World
by
those
his
longing
desires
,
in
hastning
the
coming
of
the
Messias
.
For
all
this
at
the
first
glance
,
one
would
think
our
Penitent
were
lyable
to
censure
:
That
knowing
he
addressed
himself
to
one
who
is
the
searcher
of
hearts
,
and
before
whom
the
most
secret
motions
are
displayed
;
he
should
nevertheless
make
this
superfluous
expression
of
his
promptitude
to
perform
what
ever
he
would
exact
of
him
.
But
we
ought
to
justify
our
Penitent
,
and
believe
that
in
this
he
aims
at
the
Worlds
satisfaction
;
to
the
end
after
ages
might
read
,
he
declined
not
the
use
of
those
remedies
the
Law
prescribed
,
out
of
any
defect
of
submission
to
the
Law
,
but
meerly
upon
the
score
of
God's
dispensation
,
who
was
pleased
to
accept
of
the
interiour
Acts
of
his
repentance
,
and
in
that
acceptation
,
would
inform
Mankind
,
the
heart
is
the
thing
he
most
considers
.
The
Application
.
From
hence
we
may
learn
this
instruction
,
that
when
we
see
our
Neighbour
deficient
in
what
he
owes
to
the
eternal
Law
,
we
must
not
immediately
pass
Sentence
of
Condemnation
upon
him
;
the
Judgements
of
God
being
far
different
from
those
of
Men
,
but
referr
all
to
that
great
day
which
will
lay
open
all
Truths
;
especially
in
matters
of
omission
,
where
the
causes
are
so
inevident
,
and
where
in
we
so
often
make
the
Innocent
guilty
.
If
seriously
we
insist
upon
this
principle
,
then
with
confidence
we
may
keep
time
with
Holy
David
,
and
cry
;
If
thou
wouldest
have
had
a
Sacrifiice
,
I
had
verily
done
it
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXXIV
.
Holocaustis
non
delectaberis
,
Thou
wilt
not
be
delighted
with
Holocausts
.
HAd
our
Petitioner
couched
this
Clause
in
the
present
Tense
,
and
said
,
Thou
art
not
dedelighted
with
Holocausts
;
it
would
have
cleared
the
sense
of
the
precedent
disease
,
and
proved
a
satisfactory
alligation
for
his
omission
of
Sacrifice
:
But
being
in
the
future
,
it
renders
the
expression
dubious
,
and
may
import
,
that
upon
the
establishment
of
a
new
Law
,
all
these
Figurative
oblations
will
cease
,
and
then
the
Incense
of
those
appeasing
Sacrifices
would
no
more
smell
sweet
in
his
Nostrils
.
But
however
upon
a
more
serious
inspection
it
may
bear
this
construction
,
that
an
immediate
,
and
present
effect
would
follow
;
to
wit
,
whensoever
he
should
offer
Sacrifice
,
it
will
be
no
wayes
acceptable
to
him
,
because
as
I
said
in
the
promises
,
the
lively
Faith
he
had
of
the
Law
of
grace
,
put
him
in
the
same
condition
through
a
particular
dispensation
of
Heaven
,
as
if
he
had
not
been
under
the
Mosaick
Yoak
,
and
therefore
since
he
contributed
on
his
part
,
what
was
requisite
to
the
perfection
of
an
Evangelical
Sacrifice
,
God
would
supply
the
rest
,
so
that
truly
,
as
to
his
particular
,
he
might
say
;
Thou
art
not
delighted
with
Holocausts
,
&c.
Upon
these
grounds
our
Petitioners
argument
carries
weight
,
and
inferrs
that
if
Holocausts
be
not
countenanced
by
Heaven
,
it
were
in
vain
to
think
of
any
other
oblation
,
for
amongst
all
the
legal
Sacrifices
,
that
of
Holocausts
,
or
Burnt-offerings
,
was
the
most
perfect
,
and
the
most
compleatly
expresses
the
supremacy
of
God's
power
over
us
,
and
the
fulness
of
our
subjection
to
him
;
for
in
some
Sacrifices
part
of
them
were
burnt
,
the
rest
applyed
to
the
use
of
the
Minister
,
but
in
Holocausts
all
was
consumed
,
and
by
the
total
destruction
of
that
offering
was
implyed
a
dependency
of
Fortune
,
Life
,
and
Being
on
his
orders
,
and
commands
from
whence
they
were
derived
.
I
observe
likewise
in
the
sacred
Text
,
that
if
Sacrifices
were
not
performed
with
a
pure
conscience
,
and
detestation
of
sin
,
they
were
odious
in
the
sight
of
God
,
this
appears
in
the
First
Chapter
of
Esay
;
by
whose
Pen
God
declares
,
that
Incense
was
abominable
to
him
,
and
that
he
abhorred
their
Solemnities
.
Again
,
in
the
Prov.
The
Sacrifice
offered
up
by
an
impious
hand
is
abomination
in
his
sight
.
For
the
end
of
a
Sacrifice
is
either
in
order
to
a
reconciliation
with
God
,
a
return
of
thanks
for
benefits
received
,
or
for
the
impetration
of
some
new
favour
:
Now
to
pretend
to
any
of
these
,
and
not
renounce
all
affection
to
Sin
were
rather
to
provoke
,
than
any
wayes
appease
his
anger
:
But
our
Petitioner
delivers
not
the
thing
with
that
horrour
,
he
touches
not
upon
any
abomination
,
or
severity
on
God's
part
,
but
expresses
it
in
the
Negative
of
any
satisfaction
he
will
take
in
it
,
which
concludes
his
Sacrificing
action
would
not
be
rejected
upon
the
score
of
any
real-guilt
,
but
as
a
thing
unnecessary
to
him
,
who
was
priviledged
with
the
conditions
of
a
more
efficacious
oblation
,
and
therefore
justly
he
might
cry
,
thou
art
not
delighted
with
Holocausts
.
Again
,
our
Holy
Penitent
in
his
30.
Psalm
,
explicates
himself
more
clearly
about
this
point
,
his
words
are
these
.
Thou
hast
not
required
a
burnt-offering
for
sin
,
wherefore
I
will
plant
your
Law
in
the
midst
of
my
heart
;
since
I
said
engraven
in
the
Frontispiece
of
the
Book
that
is
my
conscience
,
I
should
in
this
manner
perform
your
will
:
What
can
be
more
evident
to
demonstrate
,
he
had
orders
to
desist
from
any
other
Sacrifice
,
then
what
were
hatched
and
conveyed
unto
God
,
from
an
unspotted
Heart
;
for
by
this
Book
is
meant
the
secret
of
Gods
proceedings
with
Man
,
as
appears
in
the
Apocalips
,
where
is
expressed
that
the
Lamb
alone
was
found
worthy
to
open
,
and
unclasp
the
Book
of
God's
secrets
,
and
this
Book
was
unfolded
to
him
,
by
which
he
is
taught
.
That
he
is
not
delighted
with
Holocausts
,
Holocausts
,
&c.
Besides
,
though
the
Law
of
Moses
were
abrogated
as
to
their
Ceremonial
and
judicial
precepts
:
Yet
what
depended
on
the
Doctrine
of
Faith
,
and
morality
was
not
cashierd
,
but
refined
,
amplifyed
,
and
made
more
perfect
:
Whence
our
Holy
Petitioner
by
way
of
Amplification
instructed
in
the
more
ample
Elucidation
of
Faith
to
be
unfolded
in
the
Law
Evangelical
,
and
enriched
with
a
right
Spirit
,
not
only
to
discern
what
is
good
,
from
bad
;
but
likewise
to
embrace
,
and
pursue
the
wayes
of
vertue
,
not
only
to
know
the
wounds
of
humane
nature
,
but
also
the
sovereign
remedies
for
their
cure
;
presumed
he
might
lay
claim
to
a
Law
,
not
of
fear
but
love
,
laid
open
to
him
in
his
prophetick
Spirit
.
A
Law
not
only
given
by
a
Legislator
,
but
by
him
who
was
both
a
Lawgiver
,
and
Redeemer
;
a
Law
not
written
in
stone
,
and
which
breathed
forth
anger
,
but
one
that
should
be
imprinted
in
the
hearts
of
Men
,
whose
effects
are
Grace
and
Truth
,
and
by
which
he
should
be
related
to
them
as
their
God
,
and
they
to
him
as
his
people
:
A
Law
not
given
to
one
single
Nation
,
but
directed
to
the
whole
World
,
in
which
repentance
,
and
remission
of
sins
should
be
enacted
,
and
held
forth
;
A
Law
not
consisting
of
shadowes
,
but
substance
,
by
the
infusion
of
Faith
and
Charity
,
and
by
the
impletion
of
all
figurative
Sacrifices
;
a
Law
not
of
slavery
,
but
freedome
,
and
love
,
which
with
the
Precepts
would
be
communicated
a
spirit
of
Charity
,
to
enable
them
to
the
performance
of
what
was
imposed
,
and
where
the
Lords
spirit
is
,
there
liberty
is
found
.
Hence
though
our
Petitioner
was
still
under
the
Law
,
yet
it
was
not
as
a
bond-man
,
performing
his
acts
by
constraint
;
but
as
a
Child
born
to
his
duties
by
affection
and
respect
,
and
therefore
exempt
from
the
terrours
of
the
Law
,
he
sayes
,
thou
art
not
delighted
,
&c.
Christ
our
Lord
abrogated
the
bill
of
divorce
practised
amongst
the
Jews
,
declaring
that
whosoever
dismissed
his
wife
,
and
took
another
,
played
the
Adulterer
:
Now
it
is
most
certain
that
it
was
alwayes
unlawful
,
though
in
the
Law
(
upon
the
score
of
the
Jews
proness
,
and
obstinacy
in
evil
)
no
punishment
were
ordained
for
the
fame
,
as
there
were
for
other
crimes
;
so
that
it
was
an
evil
permitted
,
not
approved
off
.
And
this
not
as
to
the
guilt
,
but
defect
of
chastisement
.
If
then
the
Law
practised
a
kind
of
connivancy
in
forbearing
the
use
of
its
coercive
power
to
prevent
a
greater
inconveniency
,
that
might
ensue
;
Why
may
we
not
inferr
with
more
reason
,
that
where
the
most
perfect
conditions
,
as
to
the
effect
of
a
Sacrifice
are
found
,
others
of
less
moment
may
be
omitted
:
The
legal
Sacrifices
not
having
power
to
conferr
Grace
,
nor
without
the
internal
worship
of
vertues
,
as
Charity
,
Repentance
,
and
the
like
were
grateful
,
no
more
than
our
external
good
works
at
present
are
,
even
in
the
highest
,
and
more
perfect
oblation
,
if
a
disposition
in
the
Mind
be
wanting
;
wherefore
our
Petitioner
enriched
with
all
essential
requisites
of
a
lively
faith
,
love
,
sorrow
,
&c.
And
being
a
person
according
to
Gods
own
Heart
,
I
see
not
but
with
these
circumstances
he
might
rest
fixed
in
his
Oblation
in
Spirit
;
and
cry
,
thou
art
not
delighted
with
Holocausts
.
This
Clause
hath
set
a
work
many
great
wits
,
and
pushed
them
on
so
far
,
as
to
assert
that
Sacrifices
were
not
commanded
in
the
old
Law
,
but
only
permitted
as
a
lesser
Evil
,
as
to
make
them
decline
Idolatry
;
which
that
gross
people
were
so
apt
to
slide
into
,
and
to
shew
this
was
the
end
of
that
Institution
,
they
observe
those
Beasts
were
appointed
,
and
marked
out
for
their
Sacrifices
,
which
were
the
Deities
adored
by
the
Egyptians
;
as
a
Sheep
,
a
Goat
,
a
Kid
,
an
Ox
,
a
Calf
,
a
Dove
,
a
Sparrow
,
a
Turtle
;
that
whilst
they
mangled
,
and
destroyed
those
Animals
they
might
reflect
upon
that
one
supream
God
,
before
whom
all
other
powers
must
lye
prostrate
,
and
by
their
destruction
acknowledge
his
Sovereign
Dominion
.
Now
I
confess
,
as
to
the
Vniversal
tye
of
the
Law
,
I
go
not
along
with
this
Opinion
in
matter
of
Sacrifice
,
for
before
the
written
Law
,
it
is
clear
in
the
Sacrifice
of
Abel
,
Noah
,
and
Abraham
,
that
they
were
Obligatory
,
and
likewise
acceptable
to
God
,
and
this
the
Church
confirms
supplicating
that
this
unbloody
Sacrifice
might
find
acceptance
at
his
Hands
,
as
those
of
Melchizedeck
,
and
other
just
Patriarchs
had
done
:
Nay
,
in
Exodus
the
12.
God
makes
an
accurate
,
and
distinct
settlement
of
the
Ceremonies
,
inflicting
punishments
on
the
infringers
,
which
speaks
more
than
bare
permission
:
Nay
,
he
owns
the
perfume
arising
from
a
Sacrifice
,
to
be
most
Odoriferous
,
and
pleasing
to
him
.
You
must
know
then
that
one
motive
in
the
Institution
of
Sacrifices
was
to
divert
the
Jews
from
dangers
of
Idolatry
,
just
as
now
one
of
the
intentions
in
marriage
may
be
to
avoid
fornication
.
Another
motive
was
to
prefigure
that
bloody
Sacrifice
of
the
Cross
,
to
be
offered
up
in
the
new
Law
;
for
the
end
of
the
Law
was
to
know
love
,
and
obey
Christ
,
so
that
all
their
Sacrifices
tended
to
his
instruction
:
They
were
as
a
kind
of
bond
,
or
engagement
by
which
the
new
Law
was
promised
to
them
.
So
that
if
they
addressed
them
under
that
Form
,
and
attired
with
these
circumstances
,
they
were
questionless
holy
,
and
grateful
in
the
sight
of
God
,
and
in
this
sense
the
Law
obliged
all
in
general
unto
Sacrifice
;
yet
this
hinders
not
,
but
our
Petitioner
prevented
with
extraordinary
Graces
,
may
be
taught
another
method
of
Sacrifice
,
and
truly
he
insinuates
as
much
in
his
39.
Psalm
,
where
he
owns
to
have
received
a
command
to
performe
the
will
of
God
,
and
adds
he
had
done
it
;
and
this
in
planting
his
Law
,
that
is
Sacrifice
in
the
midst
of
his
Earth
;
wherefore
as
to
himself
he
might
say
:
Thou
art
not
delighted
with
Holocausts
,
&c.
I
am
not
Ignorant
there
are
many
who
lay
the
force
of
this
expression
upon
the
sole
inefficacy
of
the
Law
,
whose
Sacrifices
,
and
Sacraments
did
not
Physically
and
really
conferr
Grace
,
but
only
after
a
moral
way
,
prefigured
and
shadowed
it
forth
;
depending
more
upon
the
disposition
of
him
that
offered
,
than
on
any
innate
vertue
contained
in
themselves
;
and
upon
this
ground
our
Petitioner
might
alledge
that
burnt-offerings
would
not
serene
his
angry
looks
,
since
they
did
but
discover
the
Vlcer
not
heal
it
.
Yet
the
difficulty
still
remains
,
that
however
inefficacious
they
were
,
they
had
no
other
remedies
;
so
that
they
were
duties
,
to
which
they
were
obliged
,
and
the
sole
expedient
to
relieve
them
in
distress
.
Some
were
propitiatory
to
divert
,
and
shelter
them
from
the
storms
of
Gods
vengeance
,
and
this
was
a
victime
for
sin
,
others
were
in
thanksgiving
for
blessings
received
,
and
for
the
continuation
of
them
,
and
was
stiled
a
pacifick
oblation
,
part
of
this
Animal
was
burnt
,
the
rest
eaten
by
the
Priests
,
and
those
that
offered
the
same
Sacrifice
likewise
if
not
consumed
the
same
day
,
but
reserved
till
the
next
;
was
directed
to
the
impetration
of
new
benefits
;
whence
you
may
see
,
that
upon
every
turn
,
and
in
all
their
Exigencies
they
were
necessitated
to
flye
unto
the
help
of
Sacrifices
,
and
how
liberal
and
unwearied
they
were
in
that
devotion
,
appears
by
a
just
account
,
(
as
Josephus
relates
)
given
into
the
President
of
Syria
,
who
was
desirous
to
acquaint
Nero
by
this
with
the
greatness
of
their
Common-wealth
,
it
was
there
found
,
and
exactly
set
down
,
that
they
did
Sacrifice
at
every
one
of
their
Solemn
Sabbaths
,
two
hundred
fifty
six
thousand
five
hundred
Lambs
:
So
that
you
see
their
fervour
was
not
slack
,
and
tepid
in
matter
of
Sacrifices
,
and
though
they
were
a
Nation
of
all
others
most
addicted
to
avarice
:
Yet
in
this
they
jumped
not
with
the
Opinion
of
Socrates
,
who
judged
things
of
the
least
value
most
fit
to
be
offered
up
to
the
Gods
,
because
as
they
stand
not
in
need
of
our
gifts
,
so
do
they
more
value
our
affection
,
then
what
we
give
;
but
they
on
the
contrary
,
thought
nothing
better
spent
,
than
what
was
laid
out
in
Sacrifices
,
a
clear
Evidence
,
that
the
main
part
of
their
Religion
consisted
in
these
external
rules
.
Nay
,
they
were
so
bent
upon
them
,
as
St.
Chrysostom
by
way
of
similitude
sayes
,
as
a
Physitian
to
cut
off
all
opportunity
from
his
Fevorish
Patient
,
that
he
might
not
ruine
himself
by
intemperate
draughts
of
cold
water
,
in
a
kind
of
passion
throwes
away
that
liquor
,
and
breaks
the
Vessel
in
which
it
was
brought
,
just
so
(
sayes
he
)
Christ
the
original
,
and
accomplishment
of
all
their
Figures
,
appearing
amongst
them
,
who
came
to
make
a
perfect
cure
,
and
free
them
from
all
their
distempers
,
saw
he
could
not
wean
them
from
their
habitual
practises
of
the
Law
at
that
time
,
not
only
unnecessary
,
but
even
obnoxious
to
them
,
without
proceeding
like
a
resolute
Physitian
by
way
of
severity
:
Wherefore
where
he
saw
reason
,
sweetness
,
and
all
the
Wonders
he
had
wrought
could
effect
nothing
with
those
obdurate
,
and
unbelieving
spirits
;
he
was
forced
to
a
course
adverse
to
his
meekness
,
and
to
the
love
he
bare
that
chosen
Nation
,
designing
the
total
subversion
of
their
City
,
and
place
of
Sacrifice
,
and
their
utter
dispersion
through
the
habitable
World
,
and
this
he
foretold
them
all
bathed
in
Tears
,
to
shew
his
resentment
for
what
he
needs
must
do
,
there
being
no
other
expedient
to
draw
them
from
that
strange
dotage
on
victimes
and
immolation
of
Beasts
.
From
these
premises
we
may
conclude
that
whilst
the
Law
was
in
its
vigour
,
Sacrifices
as
to
the
universality
of
the
people
,
were
the
only
rules
set
down
for
the
reparation
of
their
failings
,
and
till
our
Penitent
had
a
particular
Patent
for
his
exemption
,
none
was
ever
more
magnificent
in
his
exhibitions
in
this
kind
:
Nay
,
he
made
it
the
Theam
of
his
exhortations
to
others
,
that
they
should
consecrate
their
Vowes
,
and
discharge
by
way
of
Sacrifice
what
they
owe
unto
the
Lord
God
.
But
when
God
was
pleased
to
reach
unto
him
,
the
fair
draught
of
the
mystery
of
the
incarnation
;
wherein
he
read
the
Lawes
evacuation
,
the
darkness
of
its
Figures
,
to
break
forth
into
the
splendour
of
a
Crucifyed
oblation
,
from
whence
arises
a
perfume
,
whose
odour
would
lay
open
Heavens
Gates
,
that
to
this
Law
of
terrour
would
succeed
one
of
love
,
and
which
like
to
its
Priesthood
was
to
be
eternal
;
his
desires
heightned
by
these
prophetick
notions
were
certainly
inflamed
to
a
great
pitch
of
charity
,
and
strengthened
with
a
vigorous
and
lively
Faith
,
pushed
him
on
to
vehement
longings
to
become
a
Member
of
that
Kingdom
of
Grace
,
then
to
flourish
in
the
Hearts
of
Men.
In
this
manner
prepared
by
internal
acts
of
vertue
,
of
repentance
for
his
misdeeds
,
submission
to
his
will
,
patience
under
the
weight
of
his
Chastisements
;
no
wonder
if
the
Eye
of
Heaven
pleased
to
behold
an
Object
so
worthy
of
his
special
favour
,
should
take
him
out
of
the
Common
track
of
the
Mosaick
way
,
and
conduct
him
by
the
Beams
of
an
Evangelical
light
;
So
that
supported
with
Grace
by
a
firm
hope
in
the
merits
of
the
Messias
to
come
,
he
might
now
(
void
of
any
blame
)
as
to
himself
say
,
thou
art
not
delighted
with
Holocausts
,
&c.
The
Application
.
This
Clause
seems
but
a
confirmation
of
the
precedent
Verse
,
wherein
our
Holy
Penitent
doth
specify
in
the
Example
of
a
Holocaust
,
how
little
valuable
our
actions
are
,
if
they
be
not
circumstanced
with
the
approbation
of
Heaven
:
For
amongst
all
the
Religious
ordinations
of
the
Jews
,
there
was
none
that
expressed
their
entire
submission
,
and
dependance
upon
God
,
like
to
that
of
a
Holocaust
;
and
yet
our
Holy
Petitioner
declares
,
God
is
not
delighted
with
it
;
that
is
,
if
performed
in
his
person
,
whom
he
had
instructed
in
the
oblations
of
a
more
perfect
Sacrifice
,
not
so
gross
and
carnal
as
that
of
Beasts
;
but
which
hath
a
resemblance
with
what
the
Angels
and
blessed
do
incessantly
offer
up
from
their
flaming
Brests
.
Let
us
then
in
imitation
ascend
from
vertue
to
vertue
,
and
proportionably
to
the
communication
of
his
Graces
,
aspire
to
a
life
more
perfect
,
remembring
we
are
to
improve
our
stock
according
to
the
Sum
we
have
to
negotiate
.
God
grant
then
we
may
give
a
just
account
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXXV
.
Sacrificium
Deo
spiritus
contribulatus
,
A
Sacrifice
to
God
is
a
troubled
Spirit
.
AFter
our
Penitents
Declaration
,
that
God
required
not
at
his
Hands
the
external
right
of
Sacrifice
,
he
comes
now
to
specify
what
homage
he
is
to
pay
,
saying
a
Sacrifice
to
God
is
a
troubled
spirit
.
Now
if
you
look
upon
the
principles
of
spiritual
Masters
,
this
oblation
seems
very
opposite
to
what
they
design
;
for
the
main
intent
of
all
their
prescriptions
drive
at
this
,
as
to
make
us
insensible
of
any
Earthly
Objects
,
which
might
turmoil
the
Spirit
,
and
to
hinder
a
quiet
repose
in
the
Soul
,
without
which
no
fruit
can
be
reaped
in
contemplation
.
Nay
,
indeed
its
necessary
in
order
to
the
meritorious
performance
of
any
good
work
;
this
appears
in
Aaron
,
who
reprehended
by
Moses
,
that
upon
the
loss
of
his
Beloved
Daughter
,
he
forbare
to
eat
of
the
Sacrifices
,
made
this
answer
,
how
can
I
please
God
by
eating
,
or
any
other
Ceremony
,
whilest
I
possess
a
sad
and
troubled
Mind
.
But
you
must
know
there
is
a
two-fold
sorrow
,
one
that
springs
from
God
,
the
other
from
the
World
,
this
gives
life
,
that
Death
:
St.
Hierom
calls
a
Soul
crushed
with
austerity
and
fasting
,
a
Sacrifice
,
so
that
by
this
oblation
of
a
troubled
spirit
,
our
Penitent
means
the
combat
of
a
vertuous
Man
,
in
subduing
his
passions
;
and
this
St.
Gregory
terms
a
continual
martyrdom
,
in
which
is
daily
offered
up
a
living
victime
,
Holy
,
pure
,
and
acceptable
to
God
,
by
which
a
Man
may
be
resembled
to
one
that
flying
his
Enemy
kills
himself
.
In
Leviticus
12.
A
command
is
laid
upon
the
Jews
,
that
they
should
celebrate
with
great
solemnity
the
Feast
of
expiation
,
and
the
manner
how
it
was
to
be
done
is
set
down
,
that
they
should
afflict
their
Souls
:
Now
this
seems
very
incongruous
to
the
nature
of
a
Feast
,
but
since
our
felicity
consists
in
suffering
here
,
we
must
be
merry
to
see
ourselves
piously
sad
;
green
wood
cast
on
the
Fire
both
weeps
,
and
burns
,
our
breast
may
be
sad
in
one
part
,
and
cheerful
in
the
other
.
The
Prophet
Baruc
sayes
,
the
Soul
that
bewails
her
Sins
gives
Glory
unto
God
,
for
as
there
is
nothing
more
sad
than
sin
,
so
doubtless
nothing
more
delightful
as
worthily
to
deplore
it
:
Wherefore
this
troubled
spirit
imports
not
a
tortured
conscience
but
a
Lancet
in
the
Hand
of
a
dexterous
Artist
,
who
making
a
passage
for
corruption
,
the
sooner
cures
the
wound
;
so
likewise
groans
,
tears
,
wringings
of
Hands
,
outcryes
,
and
such
like
Testimonies
of
a
disturbed
Mind
,
are
the
several
compositions
of
a
Sacrifice
pleasing
to
God
;
A
Sacrifice
to
God
is
a
troubled
spirit
.
St.
Austin
sayes
,
Man
comes
into
the
World
wrapt
up
in
such
a
Cloud
of
Ignorance
in
order
to
truth
,
and
replenished
with
such
a
swarm
of
desires
,
that
were
he
left
to
his
own
inclination
,
there
is
no
evil
he
would
not
commit
.
This
is
evident
in
the
Comportment
of
Men
before
Cities
were
built
,
and
pollicy
of
Laws
established
,
which
restrain
the
impetuosity
of
their
passions
;
for
it
is
storied
,
they
killed
,
and
devoured
one
another
,
falsifying
all
equity
,
and
justice
:
So
that
to
deserve
the
name
of
Man
,
we
ought
to
bridle
,
and
check
the
insolency
of
our
sensual
appetites
,
but
to
become
a
Sacrifice
pleasing
to
God
under
the
Character
of
a
troubled
spirit
,
not
only
the
Body
must
be
macerated
,
and
brought
under
,
but
the
spirit
likewise
must
be
enslaved
,
and
captivated
to
the
Faith
of
Christ
.
In
the
composition
of
this
Sacrifice
,
I
find
spiritual
directors
are
divided
,
some
think
the
most
powerful
ingredient
is
to
chastise
the
Body
,
waste
it
with
abstinence
,
and
hair-cloths
,
and
spend
it
with
labour
;
by
which
harsh
usage
,
it
is
weakned
,
and
the
Soul
gets
the
Mastery
to
do
what
she
pleases
,
as
with
an
Enemy
overcome
,
disarmed
,
and
at
our
Feet
:
This
Opinion
hath
given
birth
to
so
many
austerities
in
several
orders
,
to
so
many
Crucifying
inventions
,
that
the
Soul
might
become
more
powerful
by
extenuating
the
Body
,
and
so
render
it
less
rebellions
to
the
decrees
of
reason
:
This
way
hath
the
approbation
of
St.
Paul
,
who
in
his
Fift
Chapter
to
the
Galathians
sayes
;
that
those
who
are
servants
to
Christ
,
have
crucifyed
their
flesh
with
their
vices
,
and
concupiscencies
.
Others
again
say
,
it
is
not
enough
to
quel
,
and
reform
your
spirit
by
the
Body
,
but
that
your
Body
is
likewise
to
be
reduced
to
order
by
the
Mind
;
because
in
the
commission
of
sin
,
the
Body
is
not
alwayes
the
offendour
,
and
deserves
not
to
be
harassed
with
rude
strokes
like
an
Asse
:
wherefore
they
judge
it
more
expedient
that
the
superior
portion
of
Man
,
to
wit
,
his
reason
should
interpose
;
and
taking
into
consideration
what
is
prejudicious
,
or
conducing
to
Salvation
,
frame
resolutions
accordingly
both
to
avoid
such
actions
as
are
pernicious
,
and
embrace
such
as
are
to
her
interest
:
And
if
this
be
put
in
Execution
with
a
vertue
Heroick
,
it
will
infallibly
oblige
the
sensitive
part
to
quit
her
pursuits
,
and
follow
the
dictamens
of
the
Soul
:
For
example
,
suppose
I
am
transported
with
a
passion
of
Anger
for
some
disgrace
thrown
upon
me
,
my
part
is
to
reproach
my self
with
the
Vanity
of
being
concerned
in
the
trifling
affairs
of
the
World
,
to
that
degree
as
to
forfeit
my
quiet
which
is
more
pretious
,
and
if
I
generously
pardon
my
Neighbour
,
this
injury
will
at
last
conclude
in
my
honour
;
by
this
means
all
will
succeed
in
peace
,
and
tranquility
;
I
shall
be
fortified
against
all
Events
and
so
rationally
govern
my
passions
,
especially
if
guided
with
a
moderate
severity
to
my
Body
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
having
undertaken
to
instruct
the
wicked
,
and
setled
in
the
possession
of
a
principal
spirit
,
that
is
a
spirit
of
perfection
,
was
not
blind
in
the
conduct
of
himself
;
wherefore
we
may
believe
he
squared
out
this
Sacrifice
,
according
to
the
rules
of
a
good
,
and
prudent
Artist
,
he
expresses
in
the
first
of
his
penitential
Psalms
,
that
his
Soul
was
troubled
,
and
in
another
place
it
was
like
wax
melted
before
the
Fire
,
and
that
his
Enemies
neer
him
;
to
wit
,
his
passions
assaulted
him
with
strange
violence
,
insomuch
as
he
confesses
his
sole
refuge
(
as
if
reason
were
then
useless
to
him
)
was
to
play
the
deaf
,
and
dumb
;
and
by
that
passive
comportment
,
avoiding
contests
,
he
Sacrificed
his
troubled
spirit
to
his
Creatour
.
A
Sacrifice
to
God
,
&c.
St.
Gregory
Nyssen
descants
upon
God's
proceeding
with
the
Israelites
in
commanding
them
to
set
up
a
brazen
Serpent
,
at
the
sight
of
which
those
that
should
be
bit
with
those
venemous
Beasts
,
might
immediately
find
their
cure
,
and
why
(
sayes
he
)
did
not
God
take
a
shorter
cut
by
destroying
all
those
Serpents
,
which
had
given
an
end
to
that
Plague
he
had
sent
amongst
them
;
at
last
,
he
satisfies
himself
with
this
reason
,
that
whilst
the
Hebrews
beheld
that
Soveraign
Medicament
,
in
casting
up
their
Eyes
to
Heaven
,
they
might
have
occasion
to
consider
from
whence
they
received
their
deliverance
,
which
otherwise
that
gross
ungrateful
people
would
soon
have
forgot
:
So
that
to
draw
them
to
pay
what
they
owe
to
his
goodness
,
he
was
faign
to
lengthen
out
their
afflictions
.
Job
likewise
whilst
he
was
scraping
his
Soares
upon
the
Dunghill
,
said
,
Lord
when
I
was
in
prosperity
I
heard
thee
,
but
now
in
my
affliction
I
see
thee
:
Which
shews
nothing
gives
a
more
intimate
knowledge
of
God
,
than
to
be
surrounded
with
tribulation
,
the
Soul
in
prosperity
growes
proud
,
deaf
,
and
careless
;
so
that
she
must
smart
in
the
sense
to
be
made
sensible
:
With
how
many
charming
Courtships
doth
the
espouse
in
the
Canticles
woe
his
Darling
to
open
the
door
,
but
all
in
vain
,
she
is
not
to
be
wrought
upon
,
but
inter
angustias
,
when
afflicted
,
and
in
misery
:
Jonas
in
the
Whales
Belly
,
the
Prodigal
in
the
Pig-sty
,
the
Sick
in
his
Feaver
,
thinks
and
calls
upon
God
,
but
when
in
sports
,
and
pastimes
sailing
in
a
Sea
of
plenty
and
delights
,
all
our
senses
are
shut
up
,
and
no
passage
open
to
his
merciful
call
.
But
to
be
pinched
in
the
last
of
any
temporal
misfortune
,
as
it
awakens
a
Soul
to
stretch
out
for
succour
,
so
doth
it
no
less
bow
God's
powerful
Arm
towards
us
:
This
he
declares
to
Moses
out
of
a
bush
,
which
he
made
the
Throne
of
his
Glory
,
to
shew
that
the
affliction
of
his
people
made
him
run
after
that
Prophet
,
and
retrive
him
in
the
Thickest
part
of
the
desart
,
and
from
thence
commission
him
in
order
to
their
deliverance
:
St.
Gregory
sayes
,
that
God
appeared
to
Job
in
a
Whirl-wind
;
because
having
hurried
him
into
a
boisterous
storm
of
afflictions
,
he
would
himself
enjoy
no
calmer
Weather
,
but
let
him
know
he
was
there
to
secure
him
.
Of
Joseph
it
is
said
he
went
down
with
him
into
the
Pit
,
nor
left
him
in
his
Bonds
,
and
Esay
12.
speaking
in
the
person
of
God
,
sayes
,
my
people
is
gone
down
into
Egypt
:
Assur
hath
afflicted
them
without
cause
,
and
now
what
do
I
here
?
My
people
captive
,
and
I
at
liberty
,
What
do
I
here
?
My
people
trod
under
Foot
,
and
I
enjoy
the
smoak
of
Incense
,
and
Sacrifice
,
what
do
I
here
?
No
,
no
,
there
is
no
Sacrifice
acceptable
to
God
,
like
to
a
troubled
spirit
,
and
this
our
Holy
Penitent
had
wrought
out
even
to
perfection
:
For
he
declares
how
all
his
Bones
were
in
disorder
,
his
Loyns
filled
with
illusions
and
spectres
,
at
the
ghastly
memory
of
his
Sins
;
his
groans
were
like
the
roarings
of
a
Lyon
,
and
the
burthen
of
his
Folly
so
weighty
,
as
it
bowed
him
even
to
the
ground
;
if
his
Flesh
appeared
before
the
Face
of
God's
anger
,
it
dissolved
into
corruption
,
and
had
not
one
sound
part
,
if
before
the
frightful
aspect
of
his
transgression
it
gave
a
trembling
,
and
disquiet
to
all
his
Bones
;
the
night
he
spent
in
bathing
his
Couch
with
Tears
,
and
in
the
day
he
confessed
that
the
hand
of
God
was
heavy
upon
him
;
so
that
if
ever
the
Sacrifice
of
a
troubled
spirit
,
that
is
,
of
a
person
discomposed
by
the
resentment
of
his
ingratitude
was
offered
up
to
God
,
it
was
certainly
in
our
Holy
Penitent
,
who
amidst
all
his
afflictions
had
this
comfort
;
A
Sacrifice
to
God
is
a
troubled
spirit
.
Spiritual
directors
lay
down
as
the
ground
work
of
a
life
of
Sanctity
,
an
interiour
abnegation
of
our selves
,
by
which
we
give
a
repulse
to
our selves
:
For
when
once
we
come
to
devest
our selves
of
love
,
then
the
terrours
of
mortifications
,
torments
,
and
adversity
will
find
no
effect
,
then
generous
,
and
Heroick
Acts
will
be
the
productions
of
such
a
Soul
;
for
solid
vertue
,
like
a
Rose
amidst
Thornes
seldome
springs
forth
but
in
the
soyl
of
crosses
,
austerities
,
and
repentance
.
Those
that
are
seised
with
this
holy
aversion
against
themselves
,
mind
not
the
hardships
they
are
to
wade
through
in
making
good
their
fidelity
to
God
,
they
throw
themselves
upon
the
points
of
Halberts
,
and
other
instruments
of
severity
;
without
the
least
whining
or
flinching
at
their
sharpness
:
they
take
in
as
it
were
with
the
same
relish
the
Gall
of
misfortunes
,
and
desolations
,
and
the
Hony
of
prosperities
and
comforts
:
No
stormy
season
hinders
their
Journey
,
and
that
which
disturbs
soft
and
effeminate
Spirits
is
to
them
matter
of
joy
,
and
repose
;
because
they
possess
what
they
desire
,
to
wit
,
affliction
;
so
that
all
things
which
pass
under
the
name
of
Adversity
,
are
not
so
,
but
to
the
wicked
who
make
ill
use
of
them
in
prizing
the
Creature
,
more
than
the
Creatour
:
Hence
it
is
that
the
general
spirit
of
Saints
have
carried
them
on
to
be
ambitious
of
suffering
,
and
to
reckon
it
amongst
one
of
the
choice
favours
of
Heaven
;
for
they
had
learnt
by
experience
,
that
if
God
with
one
Hand
reaches
unto
them
the
Cup
of
his
passion
,
it
is
but
by
snatches
and
as
it
were
a
sup
,
whilst
with
the
other
he
gives
them
large
draughts
of
consolation
.
It
is
noted
in
the
sacred
Text
,
that
God
laid
open
the
person
of
Job
to
all
the
assaults
of
Satan
,
but
with
this
reserve
,
that
he
touch
not
upon
his
life
;
and
this
not
in
regard
that
death
would
have
ecclipsed
the
glory
of
that
great
Champion
,
but
because
he
would
not
be
deprived
of
such
a
Combatant
to
whose
conflict
he
,
and
his
blessed
Angels
were
intent
with
much
satisfaction
,
and
so
would
not
lose
the
pleasure
of
seeing
this
stout
skirmish
,
fought
out
to
the
last
'twixt
him
,
and
his
Enemy
.
And
as
the
Heathen
Emperours
took
great
delight
to
see
a
Christian
enter
into
the
list
with
a
wild
Beast
;
so
the
King
of
Heaven
is
solaced
with
the
sight
of
one
of
his
Saints
,
when
he
maintains
a
Fight
against
those
fierce
Beasts
of
Hell
.
Seneca
out
of
the
principles
of
humane
wisdom
,
drew
this
excellent
saying
,
that
no
object
was
more
worthy
in
the
Eyes
of
the
gods
,
than
to
behold
a
stout
Man
with
a
settled
countenance
unmoved
to
struggle
with
adverse
Fortune
:
and
truly
the
delay
our
blessed
Saviour
made
,
in
sending
succour
to
his
Disciples
endangered
by
a
storm
at
Sea
,
sufficiently
hints
unto
us
,
the
pleasure
God
takes
to
see
the
Just
row
against
the
stream
,
tugg
and
wrestle
with
all
the
might
they
can
against
the
stream
,
and
afflictions
of
this
World
.
Thus
you
see
how
happy
our
Holy
Penitent
hath
ajusted
his
Sacrifice
to
the
lines
of
God's
will
,
and
that
he
never
spake
more
emphatically
than
when
he
said
,
A
Sacrifice
to
God
is
a
troubled
spirit
.
St.
Bonaventure
sayes
,
that
honor
is
due
to
God
in
four
several
respects
,
and
in
like
manner
we
ought
in
as
many
wayes
render
it
unto
him
:
First
,
in
consideration
of
many
blessings
,
and
this
is
to
be
returned
by
our
gratitude
,
and
acts
of
thanksgiving
:
Next
,
we
owe
him
honor
in
that
he
hath
laid
his
commands
upon
us
,
and
this
we
perform
by
our
obedience
,
and
submission
to
his
Laws
:
Thirdly
,
his
greatness
and
sovereignity
exact
it
at
our
hands
,
and
this
is
paid
by
the
vertue
of
Latria
,
and
adoration
:
Lastly
,
honor
is
due
unto
him
in
that
he
hath
been
offended
,
and
injuriously
treated
by
sin
:
Now
the
honor
due
to
him
in
this
point
is
restored
by
Penitential
acts
,
and
by
a
troubled
spirit
.
Because
,
in
regard
of
his
displeasure
,
and
to
make
reparation
for
the
contempts
thrown
upon
his
Majesty
,
he
is
ready
to
humble
himself
,
and
apply
all
his
endeavour
to
works
of
piety
,
so
far
as
even
to
afflict
himself
,
that
he
might
honor
the
Divine
Justice
,
which
requires
that
sin
should
never
go
unpunished
.
Wherefore
God
is
delighted
in
these
painful
satisfactory
acquittances
,
which
we
often
give
him
written
in
our
sweat
,
and
blood
:
And
Jesus
Christ
makes
of
them
a
present
to
his
Father
with
his
own
,
from
whence
the
value
of
ours
is
derived
,
and
there
they
find
acceptance
,
not
upon
the
score
of
any
contentment
it
is
to
God
that
we
are
tormented
either
in
Soul
or
Body
,
but
meerly
in
that
by
them
his
Justice
is
honored
and
exalted
,
and
the
Palms
of
our
victory
more
resplendent
.
This
anxiety
of
spirit
supported
with
a
patient
resignation
,
and
strengthened
with
a
fervent
prayer
,
purchased
to
the
distressed
Anna
,
and
to
the
Jewish
Nation
,
that
great
Prophet
Samuel
.
This
same
disturbance
of
Spirit
,
carried
on
by
a
generous
submissive
resolution
against
all
the
Machinations
of
Saul
,
put
into
the
Hands
of
our
Penitent
the
Scepter
of
Juda
;
in
a
word
,
it
seems
to
be
a
principle
setled
in
Heaven
,
that
without
this
Sacrifice
of
a
troubled
spirit
,
he
will
not
part
with
his
blessings
.
It
may
be
objected
that
God
knowes
the
Hearts
of
Men
,
and
what
they
will
do
,
and
therefore
he
need
not
this
external
Testimony
:
Next
,
that
Christ's
merits
being
of
an
infinite
value
,
ours
appear
altogether
superfluous
;
to
which
I
answer
:
First
,
that
his
external
glory
consisting
in
the
visible
homages
payd
to
him
by
his
Creatures
,
this
would
be
wanting
should
he
give
them
no
occasion
to
make
it
manifest
,
and
shew
unto
the
World
,
he
hath
dependants
who
value
no
suffering
in
proportion
to
the
duty
they
owe
him
:
Besides
the
satisfaction
we
shall
take
in
Heaven
to
have
done
something
to
merit
our
Beatitude
,
will
certainly
be
a
great
addition
to
our
Contentment
.
As
to
the
other
,
though
I
confess
the
merits
of
Christ
all
sufficient
,
yet
this
will
not
excuse
us
from
offering
what
we
can
in
satisfaction
,
for
the
Honor
and
glory
of
all
our
actions
belong
to
God
;
now
it
being
an
Act
of
injustice
to
defraud
any
one
of
his
revenue
,
no
less
is
it
against
equity
to
deprive
God
of
the
glory
due
unto
him
:
Wherefore
a
life
that
contributes
not
to
his
glory
is
perverse
and
wicked
.
Again
he
that
owns
a
Tree
,
hath
likewise
right
to
the
fruit
it
bears
,
if
the
Land
be
mine
,
the
Crop
also
is
at
my
disposal
;
the
labour
and
service
of
a
Horse
is
due
to
his
Master
:
In
like
manner
all
that
we
are
,
all
the
good
we
do
,
or
shall
do
,
is
the
work
of
God
,
and
a
present
with
which
he
enriches
us
,
that
we
might
be
able
to
give
something
to
him
:
Wherefore
as
all
is
his
,
our
duty
binds
us
to
consecrate
all
our
interiour
,
and
exteriour
actions
to
promote
his
honor
and
glory
:
And
since
it
is
reasonable
sin
should
be
punished
,
our
Holy
Penitent
submits
to
the
decree
,
exposes
himself
to
be
wracked
and
tortured
by
what
punishment
the
Divine
Majesty
shall
think
good
either
in
Mind
or
Body
,
nor
can
he
ever
repine
whilst
he
reflects
:
That
a
Sacrifice
to
God
is
a
troubled
spirit
.
The
Application
.
Here
we
are
taught
,
there
is
no
Sacrifice
conveyes
an
odour
so
pleasing
unto
Heaven
,
as
that
of
a
Soul
angustiated
upon
the
score
of
God's
cause
.
The
oblation
of
a
Holocaust
imports
the
reduction
of
it
to
Ashes
,
that
of
a
troubled
spirit
is
a
transmutation
into
the
Holy
Ghost
who
promises
to
be
the
intellect
,
to
be
the
Tongue
;
nay
all
unto
him
that
suffers
for
his
name
.
It
is
a
Sacrifice
of
what
is
most
dear
unto
us
,
that
is
the
Friendship
of
Men
:
For
Christ
foretold
his
Servants
that
they
should
be
hated
of
the
whole
World
,
so
that
by
this
immolation
we
forfeit
what
is
natural
,
and
of
all
things
most
delightful
to
us
.
But
whilst
we
are
in
this
consuming
task
,
we
must
remember
that
the
Husbandman
expects
not
the
fruit
of
his
labours
until
the
seed
he
casts
into
the
ground
be
corrupted
,
and
thence
a
plentiful
Generation
spring
forth
:
So
we
must
continue
perishing
to
the
last
,
that
so
we
may
rise
under
a
new
form
,
never
more
to
be
crushed
by
the
Flail
,
or
Mill
of
grinding
persecutors
,
but
to
flourish
in
eternal
quiet
,
as
the
just
recompence
of
a
troubled
spirit
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXXVI
.
Cor
contritum
&
humiliatum
Deus
non
despicies
,
A
contrite
and
humble
Heart
O
God
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
ST.
Chrysostom
sayes
,
no
fond
Lover
dotes
so
much
upon
his
Mistress
,
as
God
doth
on
a
Soul
truly
Penitent
;
and
then
making
an
Apostrophe
unto
Tears
,
he
cryes
,
O
happy
streams
,
all
principalities
and
powers
strike
Sail
to
you
:
The
countenance
of
a
Judge
affrights
you
not
,
your
accusing
adversaries
are
struck
dumb
,
before
you
:
It
is
you
alone
that
finds
admittance
,
and
are
entertained
by
your
Sovereign
,
you
only
can
overcome
the
invincible
,
and
tye
up
the
Omnipotent
.
When
I
read
these
words
of
this
great
Saint
upon
the
efficacy
of
Tears
,
I
am
startled
at
the
slender
Character
our
Petitioner
gives
in
this
clause
:
A
contrite
heart
(
sayes
he
)
O
God
thou
wilt
not
despise
:
An
expression
which
falls
much
short
of
a
Lovers
passion
;
for
to
have
no
other
return
of
a
present
,
than
barely
not
to
have
it
rejected
,
argues
the
gift
very
little
prized
by
the
receiver
,
and
is
in
the
next
door
to
a
contempt
.
But
yet
the
addition
our
Penitent
makes
of
humble
,
speaks
very
much
and
helps
out
the
sentence
:
For
it
imports
,
that
humility
teaches
him
the
excellency
of
God
,
and
at
the
same
time
his
own
nothing
;
so
that
not
to
find
a
repulse
in
the
exhibition
of
any
homage
rendered
to
a
Being
infinitely
perfect
,
is
an
endearing
beyond
what
a
poor
Creature
could
any
wayes
in
Justice
expect
;
and
therefore
in
these
lowly
thoughts
it
seems
to
him
he
sets
out
God's
mercy
in
saying
;
A
contrite
and
humble
heart
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
Wherefore
it
is
evident
our
Petitioner
relyes
upon
sure
principles
,
and
speaks
he
is
well
read
in
Divinity
;
for
if
satisfactory
and
penal
works
be
a
Sacrifice
pleasing
to
God
(
as
is
demonstrated
in
the
precedent
clause
)
much
more
a
contrite
heart
must
needs
be
highly
acceptable
,
which
is
a
total
destruction
of
all
love
to
sin
,
a
detestation
and
dislike
against
it
;
which
involves
a
passion
of
sorrow
consequent
to
this
hatred
,
and
a
firm
purpose
to
avoid
all
future
relapses
.
But
the
motive
of
this
sorrow
must
be
in
that
we
have
offended
the
Majesty
of
God
,
who
merits
all
love
,
honor
,
and
obedience
from
us
;
and
therefore
meerly
in
that
sin
is
displeasing
to
him
,
we
are
to
retract
and
abominate
our
past
misdeeds
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
,
the
more
effectually
to
create
within
him
this
lively
compunction
,
considers
that
by
sin
we
deny
unto
God
the
just
tribute
of
ohedience
,
as
if
in
a
manner
we
would
wrest
his
Scepter
from
his
Hand
,
and
in
sequel
reduce
him
to
nothing
;
for
God
cannot
be
God
,
nor
subsist
,
without
a
soveraign
Empire
over
all
things
,
it
being
an
attribute
immediately
resulting
from
his
Divine
and
Infinite
Majesty
.
Next
,
he
weighs
how
God
hates
sin
even
to
death
;
witness
his
Commandements
imposed
under
such
heavy
penalties
on
the
transgressors
.
The
rebellious
Angels
,
our
first
parent
Adam
,
the
universal
Deluge
,
conflagration
of
Sodom
,
&c.
are
frightful
examples
.
After
he
had
run
over
all
these
punishments
,
it
was
easy
for
him
to
judge
of
sin's
horrour
,
and
how
much
it
is
abominated
by
God
;
nay
he
yet
stooped
lower
,
and
beheld
many
eternally
doomed
to
the
flames
of
hell
,
and
this
perhaps
but
for
one
only
mortal
sin
.
After
these
dreadful
presidents
he
proceeds
further
,
and
in
his
prophetick
view
contemplates
the
Son
of
God
innocent
,
undefiled
,
and
set
at
a
great
distance
from
any
sin
,
to
pass
through
the
highest
rigours
of
Justice
,
and
this
meerly
because
he
had
taken
upon
him
our
iniquities
.
Hence
he
concludes
,
if
the
eternal
Father
be
so
severe
to
the
dear
production
of
himself
in
chastising
the
prevarications
of
another
,
he
will
certainly
redouble
his
stripes
on
Man
for
his
own
proper
defaults
:
Conformably
to
this
meditation
St.
Austin
sayes
,
If
a
Redeemer
be
so
roughly
handled
upon
the
score
of
anothers
transgression
,
what
may
a
sinner
expect
in
revenge
of
his
own
miscarriage
.
Lastly
,
our
Penitent
layes
down
how
by
sin
we
are
declared
Enemies
to
God
,
enslaved
to
Satan
,
odious
in
the
sight
of
Angels
,
and
doomed
to
suffer
in
Hell
without
end
;
which
infinitely
exceeds
all
the
disasters
of
this
life
.
Besides
,
we
lose
the
grace
and
love
of
God
,
a
treasure
above
all
other
imaginable
,
and
whose
forfeiture
we
ought
more
to
deplore
,
than
all
other
misfortunes
joyned
together
:
Wherefore
one
mortal
sin
is
more
to
be
lamented
,
than
all
the
disgraces
and
hardships
which
possibly
may
befall
us
in
this
World
.
Our
Petitioner
having
by
these
remonstrances
alarm'd
all
the
faculties
of
his
Soul
,
and
so
disposed
them
for
action
,
just
like
Souldiers
commanded
to
Arms
;
he
then
instructs
them
how
to
redeem
all
their
dammages
they
have
sustained
by
sin
.
First
,
they
must
abhorr
their
past
misdeeds
,
that
is
,
have
such
an
aversion
as
heartily
to
wish
they
had
never
been
committed
,
and
since
the
birth
and
essence
of
sin
springs
from
the
will
,
it
must
be
ruined
by
the
same
power
,
retracting
,
disowning
,
and
as
much
as
in
us
lyes
,
breaking
the
force
of
sin
in
becoming
unvoluntary
.
This
done
,
he
reads
unto
them
the
efficacy
of
contrition
,
by
which
our
Souls
are
sanctifyed
,
and
all
the
Characters
of
sin
defaced
:
So
that
from
Children
of
perdition
,
in
an
instant
we
are
declared
heirs
to
eternal
felicity
;
the
reason
of
this
is
,
that
contrition
comprizes
a
love
of
God
above
all
things
,
and
the
nature
of
charity
is
to
make
an
absolute
destruction
of
all
vice
,
which
other
vertues
do
not
,
as
having
a
repugnance
only
to
the
opposite
sins
:
So
that
there
is
no
medium
'twixt
charity
and
sin
;
Man
hath
the
one
or
the
other
,
but
cannot
enjoy
them
both
together
.
This
is
confirmed
by
the
Prophet
Ezechiel
Chap.
53.
The
impiety
of
the
impious
shall
not
do
him
harm
,
whensoever
he
shall
be
converted
:
For
love
,
saith
St.
Gregory
,
is
nothing
else
but
a
flame
,
and
sin
may
be
compared
to
rust
:
So
that
when
Christ
said
,
Many
sins
are
forgiven
her
,
because
she
loved
much
;
it
imports
her
Soul
enkindled
with
a
fire
of
divine
love
,
had
worn
away
all
the
rust
of
her
sins
.
But
what
need
we
seek
for
authorities
to
strengthen
this
Doctrine
,
when
our
Penitent
had
this
happy
Truth
wrought
in
himself
;
for
no
sooner
he
had
cryed
peccavi
,
and
repented
what
he
had
done
,
when
the
Prophet
Nathan
published
his
deliverance
,
and
that
his
sin
was
taken
from
him
,
so
that
he
had
all
reason
to
assert
;
a
contrite
and
humble
heart
O
God
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
St.
Ambrose
sayes
,
that
pennance
is
as
necessary
to
a
sinner
,
as
any
Balsom
,
or
Medicament
can
be
to
a
dangerous
wound
:
For
where
parts
by
any
hurt
are
disunited
,
and
by
separation
break
off
a
necessary
communication
with
the
blood
,
or
vital
spirits
,
nature
cannot
of
herself
repair
those
breaches
,
without
the
supply
of
remedies
ordained
in
such
extremities
:
So
likewise
in
any
spiritual
distemper
,
which
threatens
the
Souls
ruine
;
if
the
sovereign
medicine
of
contrition
(
whose
principal
ingredient
is
gathered
in
Heaven
)
be
not
applyed
;
she
must
needs
run
a
hazzard
of
destruction
:
Wherefore
since
pennance
is
the
sole
remedy
of
sin
after
Baptism
,
this
great
Doctor
exhorts
us
to
make
it
our
Refuge
;
he
bids
us
not
to
shrink
at
the
face
of
sufferings
,
but
on
the
contrary
fill
our
Soul
with
bitterness
,
endure
the
storms
of
compunction
,
remember
the
heart
is
to
be
contrite
,
not
crooked
or
broken
,
but
shivered
into
pieces
by
disgraces
,
confusions
,
tears
,
sighs
,
and
acts
of
humility
;
and
when
you
shall
be
in
these
Agonies
upon
the
account
of
vertue
,
then
may
you
joyn
issue
with
our
Holy
Petitioner
and
say
;
a
contrite
and
humble
heart
O
God
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
But
our
Penitent
adds
the
particle
of
humble
,
to
shew
that
a
heart
compleatly
disposed
for
God's
favourable
aspect
must
have
a
stroak
of
humility
,
because
this
vertue
speaks
obedience
,
for
Eccles.
Chap.
10.
sayes
,
as
the
beginning
of
Pride
is
the
Seed
of
Apostacy
from
God
,
so
humility
is
a
reduction
to
our
duty
.
St.
Austin
makes
no
distinction
between
pride
and
disobedience
,
nor
between
humility
and
obedience
,
but
takes
them
in
a
manner
for
the
same
thing
:
In
his
Fourth
Book
of
the
City
of
God
he
declares
,
It
is
good
to
keep
our
hearts
aloft
,
not
towards
our selves
,
for
that
is
pride
;
but
unto
God
which
is
obedience
,
and
a
vertue
not
to
be
found
but
in
the
humble
.
Again
on
the
Eighth
Chapter
of
Gen.
our
proper
will
cannot
but
sink
under
a
great
weight
of
ruine
,
if
it
prove
rebellious
to
the
will
of
a
superiour
power
;
this
the
First
Man
contemning
Gods
command
found
too
true
,
and
by
this
he
learnt
to
distinguish
between
good
and
evil
;
that
is
,
between
the
good
of
obedience
,
and
the
evil
of
disobedience
:
So
that
we
see
the
transgression
of
our
first
parent
sprung
from
a
secret
Root
of
disobedience
;
for
puffed
up
with
pride
he
would
be
his
own
Master
,
and
scorn
to
be
subordinate
to
the
Lawes
of
God
,
this
made
him
seise
on
the
forbidden
fruit
,
and
by
that
act
of
disobedience
we
are
all
made
guilty
.
So
that
to
repair
our
innocency
and
begin
a
new
life
,
we
must
destroy
the
old
man
,
that
is
,
pride
and
self
love
:
And
as
by
those
unhappy
instruments
we
fell
from
our
righteousness
,
it
is
by
humility
,
and
a
love
to
God
above
all
things
we
must
return
to
Justice
;
and
if
our
Hearts
be
vested
with
these
noble
qualities
,
we
shall
alwayes
have
a
stock
to
fashion
out
to
our
Creatour
,
a
Sacrifice
that
will
not
be
despised
.
It
is
feigned
by
the
Poets
that
the
Son
of
the
Earth
wrestling
with
Hercules
,
still
as
he
touched
the
ground
,
he
received
a
fresh
vigour
;
just
so
the
humble
minded
Man
,
who
esteems
himself
to
be
but
an
Imp
of
the
Earth
,
the
off-spring
of
Dust
and
Ashes
,
in
proportion
as
he
bowes
himself
in
acts
of
lowliness
,
he
will
be
raised
,
and
approach
nearer
to
Heaven
.
St.
Austin
speaking
of
the
Centurions
humility
,
who
judged
himself
unworthy
to
receive
such
a
guest
as
our
Saviour
under
his
roof
,
sayes
;
that
by
confessing
himself
unworthy
,
he
rendered
himself
more
worthy
,
for
there
is
no
disposition
so
fit
for
the
reception
of
God
,
as
to
acknowledge
,
and
avow
our
own
unworthiness
.
But
you
must
know
there
is
a
humility
of
the
understanding
,
another
of
the
will
;
this
gives
us
a
true
knowledge
of
our
nothing
that
brings
us
readily
to
submit
:
Now
to
be
humbled
by
the
will
,
and
force
honour
and
greatness
to
stoop
,
this
is
Heroick
,
and
worthy
a
Prince
;
but
to
be
brought
down
by
adverse
fortune
,
this
humility
carries
with
it
little
of
wonder
,
there
being
no
great
vertue
for
one
that
is
humbled
to
become
humble
.
This
vertue
then
,
to
render
it
meritorious
,
and
accomplished
in
all
points
,
as
to
make
our
Heart
a
pleasing
Sacrifice
to
God
,
requires
that
we
seriously
consider
our
own
faults
and
imperfections
,
the
wants
and
necessities
incident
to
humane
nature
,
and
which
every
one
(
how
charming
soever
in
the
outside
they
appear
)
carry
about
them
.
This
will
sufficiently
evidence
that
instead
of
praise
and
veneration
,
we
ought
to
expect
nothing
but
scorn
and
confusion
from
the
sense
of
our
own
defects
,
and
conclude
that
honour
and
excellency
belong
not
to
us
.
Thus
you
see
the
will
is
carried
on
by
humility
to
decline
all
things
which
raise
our
hope
or
appetite
above
our
deserts
.
It
is
proper
then
to
this
vertue
to
check
all
excessive
attempts
in
Man
,
after
the
purchase
of
greatness
and
Earthly
advantages
:
Nor
is
it
notwithstanding
opposite
to
hope
as
a
Theological
vertue
,
nor
unto
magnanimity
as
a
Christian
vertue
:
For
these
stirr
up
to
the
pursuit
of
what
is
great
in
order
to
God
,
and
humility
obstructs
not
this
,
waving
only
that
greatness
which
sides
with
the
inordinate
interests
of
the
World
.
St.
Thomas
sayes
,
There
is
none
but
may
believe
,
and
declare
himself
without
a
falshood
to
be
the
most
vile
Creature
in
the
World
,
according
to
the
hidden
defects
he
knowes
in
himself
,
and
the
gifts
of
God
unknown
to
him
which
are
or
may
be
in
his
Neighbour
.
In
fine
,
Christ
our
Lord
declared
it
to
be
the
sole
clew
leading
to
Heaven
;
it
is
the
first
and
last
step
to
bliss
:
For
in
this
life
where
all
is
storm
and
tempest
,
torment
,
war
,
and
temptation
;
where
nothing
is
secure
and
certain
,
humility
alone
amidst
these
perills
and
dangers
like
so
many
rocks
,
and
shelves
,
can
bring
us
safe
off
,
and
conduct
us
to
the
Haven
of
happiness
.
Elias
in
that
furious
whirlwind
,
terrible
Earthquake
,
and
dismal
Fire
,
wrapt
himself
up
like
a
bottom
of
Yarn
,
and
lay
close
to
the
Earth
.
Job
in
that
general
destruction
of
all
his
goods
,
rent
his
garments
,
shaved
his
Head
,
fell
flat
to
the
ground
,
and
worshipping
,
said
,
Naked
I
came
into
the
World
,
and
naked
I
shall
return
:
The
Lord
hath
given
,
the
Lord
hath
taken
away
,
blessed
be
his
name
:
The
tempest
afterwards
encreasing
upon
him
,
as
boiles
,
botches
,
leprosy
,
worms
,
and
a
wife
,
he
fled
to
a
Dunghill
with
a
piece
of
potsheard
in
his
Hand
,
making
choice
of
the
humblest
and
safest
place
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
likewise
in
that
his
persecution
by
Saul
,
cryed
out
,
I
was
humbled
,
and
he
delivered
me
:
So
that
he
spake
not
at
random
,
but
had
experience
,
how
acceptable
unto
God
is
a
contrite
and
humble
heart
.
The
Scripture
attributes
two
Names
unto
Christ
;
the
one
Espouse
,
the
other
Lord
;
in
the
one
he
shews
his
love
,
in
the
other
the
fear
which
is
due
unto
him
;
in
the
one
the
security
with
which
we
may
come
unto
him
,
and
offer
our
petitions
;
in
the
other
,
the
respect
and
reverence
we
owe
to
so
great
a
Majesty
:
As
our
Espouse
he
hath
contracted
with
us
a
holy
alliance
by
grace
,
which
we
have
forfeited
through
our
infidelity
;
and
therefore
to
redeem
this
adulterate
action
,
nothing
but
a
pure
act
of
sorrow
arising
from
the
source
of
Charity
will
suffice
to
a
reconciliation
.
But
as
he
is
our
Lord
,
we
ought
(
were
it
possible
)
to
dissolve
into
nothing
before
him
in
acknowledgement
of
our
guiltiness
,
and
satisfaction
to
his
offended
greatness
:
So
that
this
Sacrifice
of
a
contrite
and
humble
heart
seems
to
be
appropriated
to
these
titles
of
Espouse
,
and
Lord
ascribed
in
sacred
writ
unto
him
:
For
love
rooted
in
repentance
is
the
most
proper
compensation
for
an
injured
and
abused
lover
,
and
fear
joyned
with
humility
is
the
best
allay
to
an
irritated
Sovereign
.
St.
Gregory
sayes
a
repenting
sinner
,
for
the
most
part
beginning
his
conversion
,
is
seised
with
a
terrour
and
fear
,
which
the
memory
of
his
treason
doth
work
within
him
;
this
makes
him
for
a
time
consume
in
the
sad
apprehension
of
deserved
punishment
for
his
crimes
;
and
whilst
he
remains
in
this
plight
he
beholds
God
under
the
notion
of
a
severe
Judge
;
but
by
degrees
the
bitterness
of
these
terrours
wearing
off
by
some
glimmering
hopes
of
pardon
obtained
,
he
still
continues
his
penitential
acts
,
yet
with
this
disparity
;
that
whereas
at
first
he
wept
lest
he
should
be
brought
to
Execution
,
now
enflamed
with
a
love
of
spiritual-delights
,
he
melts
away
in
Tears
,
lamenting
that
he
is
with
held
from
his
felicity
:
So
that
love
and
fear
are
still
the
materials
of
this
Sacrifice
which
God
will
not
reject
.
This
same
Doctor
observes
the
several
agitations
of
a
Soul
in
this
oblation
of
love
and
fear
:
First
,
she
calls
to
mind
in
the
glass
of
her
sins
where
she
was
;
to
wit
,
on
the
brink
of
Hell
:
Next
,
weighing
and
affrighted
at
the
Abyss
of
God's
judgments
,
considers
where
she
may
be
;
then
casting
her
Eye
upon
the
miseries
of
this
present
life
sadly
reflects
where
she
is
:
Lastly
,
she
contemplates
the
joyes
of
eternity
,
and
filled
with
sighs
,
and
groans
,
laments
she
is
not
there
.
Thus
you
see
how
a
Soul
is
distracted
,
that
hath
ever
tasted
the
bitterness
of
sin
:
If
she
look
back
she
is
affrighted
at
the
ghastly
sight
of
her
misdeeds
,
and
hath
only
this
comfort
which
God
declared
to
Ezechias
upon
his
repentance
,
that
he
had
thrown
all
his
sins
behind
him
,
never
to
take
a
further
view
of
them
.
If
she
look
upon
what
may
befall
her
,
the
judgements
of
God
are
unfathomed
Abysses
into
which
she
cannot
dive
;
and
the
sole
buckler
she
hath
to
rely
on
,
that
he
will
not
reject
an
humble
and
contrite
heart
.
If
she
fix
her
Eye
upon
the
present
state
of
things
,
she
beholds
herself
surrounded
with
dangers
from
abroad
,
and
her
own
frailties
at
home
,
against
which
her
only
fence
is
humility
and
resignation
to
his
blessed
will
.
If
she
raise
her
thoughts
to
the
end
for
which
she
is
created
,
she
can
but
languish
after
it
;
and
frame
ardent
desires
for
the
possession
.
In
these
distresses
our
Holy
Penitent
marches
between
love
and
fear
,
his
love
cimented
with
fear
keeps
him
from
sinking
into
despair
;
and
his
humility
,
fortifyed
with
a
true
sorrow
resolves
him
to
a
future
constant
obedience
to
God's
Lawes
.
Thus
armed
,
thus
guarded
with
a
train
of
hope
and
confidence
,
trusting
in
God
,
and
alwayes
distrustful
of
himself
,
he
concludes
;
A
contrite
and
humble
heart
O
God
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
The
Application
.
We
are
here
instructed
how
to
prevent
any
repulse
in
our
addresses
to
Heaven
,
for
a
heart
qualifyed
with
love
and
humility
,
God
will
not
reject
;
this
is
declared
in
the
person
of
St.
Mary
Magdalen
that
her
love
had
purchased
a
compleat
abolition
of
all
her
iniquities
,
and
Christ
hath
engaged
that
he
who
humbles
himself
shall
be
exalted
.
St.
Thomas
says
,
as
there
is
no
attribute
wherein
God
more
glories
than
in
his
mercy
,
so
above
all
,
he
most
delights
in
the
humble
,
it
being
a
vertue
which
renders
Men
still
capable
of
his
favours
;
and
upon
the
same
score
he
hates
the
proud
,
because
they
have
not
recourse
to
his
mercy
,
as
believing
they
want
it
not
.
Let
us
then
stick
close
to
our
Penitents
doctrine
,
and
seek
no
other
way
to
be
great
,
than
what
was
practised
by
our
redeemer
;
he
stooped
even
to
the
death
of
the
Cross
,
and
so
entered
into
his
glory
;
we
likewise
must
either
take
up
our
own
Cross
,
or
else
with
love
and
humility
bear
that
which
God
shall
please
to
lay
upon
our
shoulders
,
and
if
we
thus
sustain
our
load
,
we
need
not
fear
that
scornful
World
,
I
know
you
not
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
a
happy
invitation
,
Come
yee
blessed
into
the
Kingdom
prepared
as
a
recompence
of
your
contrition
and
humility
from
the
Worlds
beginning
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXXVII
.
Benigne
fac
Domine
in
bona
voluntate
tua
Sion
,
Deal
favourably
O
Lord
in
thy
good
will
with
Sion
.
THe
order
of
Charity
prescribes
that
in
the
first
place
we
love
God
;
next
,
our selves
,
and
then
our
Neighbour
:
As
to
God
,
he
is
the
primary
,
and
chief
object
which
gives
motion
unto
Charity
;
because
a
goodness
infinite
(
which
is
the
ground-work
of
our
love
)
is
found
essentially
and
most
perfectly
in
him
.
He
being
then
the
sovereign
good
of
all
things
,
there
is
no
goodness
in
Creatures
which
is
not
derived
from
him
as
the
source
,
and
without
whom
they
could
not
one
moment
subsist
.
Insomuch
as
God
is
to
me
a
greater
good
than
I
am
to
my self
:
For
though
God
be
a
thing
distinct
from
me
,
yet
he
is
the
good
on
whom
both
my self
,
and
all
others
depend
;
wherefore
I
ought
absolutely
to
wish
and
choose
rather
that
God
should
be
,
than
that
my self
should
be
;
because
it
is
better
,
and
more
sutable
to
the
inclinations
of
nature
:
For
Man
is
not
carried
by
any
natural
propension
to
love
himself
more
than
God
,
such
an
inclination
were
perverse
and
wicked
:
Nay
,
forbidden
by
the
Law
of
nature
,
that
a
Being
created
and
imperfect
should
be
preferred
before
one
infinite
and
increated
:
God
therefore
whose
productions
are
all
good
,
never
gave
unto
Man
such
a
tendency
:
The
conclusion
then
is
,
that
we
are
carryed
on
by
the
impulse
of
nature
to
love
God
above
all
things
,
even
above
our selves
,
however
this
inclination
be
strangely
thwarted
by
our
passions
,
and
the
corruption
wrought
in
us
by
sin
.
After
God
we
are
to
love
our selves
in
our
spiritual
wants
and
necessities
,
beyond
all
our
Neighbours
in
the
most
strict
alliance
either
of
blood
or
friendship
:
Because
the
aim
of
Charity
is
to
unite
the
Subject
it
informs
with
God
;
and
therefore
St.
Bernardin
of
Sienna
sayes
,
Whosoever
defiles
himself
with
sin
under
the
Cloak
of
Charity
,
this
Charity
is
impious
;
for
that
cannot
be
Charity
which
destroyes
our
own
Charity
within
us
,
since
all
Charity
in
Man
begins
at
home
,
and
in
order
to
himself
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
had
steered
his
actions
according
to
the
Rules
of
Charity
:
First
,
he
had
consecrated
his
love
to
God
his
sovereign
good
,
and
in
view
of
this
he
beheld
all
other
things
as
a
fair
nothing
:
When
he
had
paid
him
these
first
fruits
of
his
inclinations
,
he
fell
upon
his
own
concerns
in
his
spiritual
necessities
,
and
having
exposed
them
all
before
the
beams
of
God's
mercy
,
which
never
fails
to
enliven
and
cherish
a
contrite
and
humble
heart
;
he
presumes
now
to
intercede
for
his
Neighbour
,
and
petition
in
behalf
of
the
inhabitants
of
Sion
,
a
Hill
dedicated
to
God's
service
,
and
for
the
holy
City
of
Jerusalem
,
that
these
places
might
be
preserved
to
the
encrease
of
the
peoples
devotion
,
and
not
be
laid
open
to
destruction
upon
the
score
of
his
transgressions
,
wherefore
he
cryes
,
Be
favourable
O
Lord
in
thy
good
will
with
Sion
.
When
I
read
a
passage
in
Jeremy
,
Chap.
7.
I
admire
the
power
and
force
of
prayer
;
for
there
God
speaking
to
this
Prophet
sayes
,
do
not
pray
for
this
people
,
lest
I
divert
my
anger
;
and
again
he
bids
Moses
forbear
his
importunity
,
that
his
fury
might
break
forth
;
which
shews
that
the
supplications
of
the
just
bind
up
Gods
Hands
,
and
stand
like
a
bulwork
between
his
rage
and
our
guiltiness
.
Now
if
the
efficacy
of
prayer
be
such
,
as
to
appease
his
avenging
Face
,
when
all
enflamed
against
offendours
,
it
hath
doubtless
no
less
vertue
to
obtain
what
ever
we
demand
for
our
own
or
our
Neighbours
good
.
St.
Austin
sayes
,
that
whilst
God
leaves
us
a
Heart
and
Tongue
disposed
for
prayer
,
we
need
not
fear
the
substraction
of
his
graces
;
for
he
is
faithful
in
his
promise
,
nor
will
ever
give
a
repulse
to
just
petitions
:
The
Head
of
this
Truth
springs
from
the
order
of
his
Providence
,
which
hath
eternally
resolved
,
that
many
things
shall
be
done
in
the
World
by
the
means
of
prayer
:
For
there
are
two
kinds
of
decrees
,
the
one
absolute
,
by
which
he
determined
the
Creation
of
the
Heavens
,
Angels
,
and
Elements
,
and
these
things
he
determined
to
create
without
any
entermingled
condition
:
His
other
decrees
are
conditional
,
as
that
of
Beatifying
the
Angels
,
and
communicating
unto
Men
eternal
glory
,
upon
supposition
that
by
their
vertuous
actions
they
rendered
themselves
worthy
of
Beatitude
.
Such
also
is
that
decree
by
which
he
designs
a
grant
of
several
benefits
in
case
he
be
petitioned
for
them
,
and
with
humility
demanded
at
his
Hands
as
the
Author
of
all
good
:
Wherefore
prayer
works
no
change
in
Gods
determinations
,
but
brings
them
to
Execution
sutably
to
his
orders
;
whence
prayer
hath
the
power
of
impetration
,
and
obtains
of
God's
mercy
what
he
hath
graciously
promised
,
but
this
must
be
understood
in
things
that
are
conducing
to
Salvation
.
Whereupon
St.
Bernard
delivers
these
excellent
words
:
The
Care
of
God
over
thee
is
so
tender
and
prudent
,
that
when
ignorantly
thou
dost
petition
for
what
is
useless
,
or
perhaps
prejudicious
to
thee
:
he
is
deaf
to
thee
in
this
particular
,
yet
will
exchange
it
into
some
gift
or
other
more
to
thy
advantage
.
For
example
,
suppose
you
ask
to
be
freed
from
some
affliction
that
seems
very
heavy
to
you
,
if
God
grant
you
patience
,
it
is
a
blessing
beyond
the
deliverance
you
seek
after
:
Again
,
you
would
be
exempted
from
this
or
that
temptation
;
as
St.
Paul
made
it
his
earnest
suit
,
but
if
God
give
you
grace
and
courage
to
repress
it
,
in
such
sort
as
to
receive
no
injury
,
but
an
encrease
of
merit
,
you
have
no
reason
to
repine
:
So
that
God
is
alwayes
faithful
in
his
promises
,
and
never
breaks
his
word
with
his
Creatures
,
but
gives
the
effect
of
prayer
either
in
the
specifical
thing
demanded
,
or
in
that
which
is
more
valuable
;
if
I
say
it
be
asked
with
faith
,
hope
,
perseverance
,
and
concerning
necessaries
to
Salvation
.
St.
Austin
sayes
,
the
Soul
hath
power
assisted
by
grace
to
cultivate
herself
,
and
by
a
pious
industry
purchase
and
get
into
the
possession
of
all
vertues
;
by
which
she
may
be
delivered
from
the
difficulties
of
concupiscence
which
torments
her
;
and
of
ignorance
that
blinds
her
.
Nay
,
in
the
height
of
temptation
or
ignorance
,
God
never
takes
from
her
a
free
will
,
by
which
she
may
demand
,
seek
,
and
play
the
couragious
,
even
before
she
assent
to
those
that
ask
,
discover
to
those
that
enquire
,
or
give
admittance
to
such
as
importunately
press
upon
her
;
how
comes
it
then
to
pass
(
sayes
he
)
that
she
is
sometimes
ignorant
what
to
do
,
it
is
because
she
hath
not
yet
received
that
Grace
,
but
infallibly
she
will
receive
it
,
if
good
use
be
made
of
what
she
hath
already
received
,
that
is
,
a
grace
to
seek
piously
and
with
diligence
.
Hence
he
layes
the
ruine
of
many
Souls
upon
this
default
in
not
praying
against
the
difficulties
of
concupiscence
and
ignorance
:
Nay
on
the
contrary
,
we
covet
for
the
most
part
to
be
glutted
with
some
Earthly
satisfaction
,
on
which
our
sensitive
part
is
fastned
,
for
which
our
prayers
and
instances
are
made
out
of
self
love
not
the
glory
of
God
:
Now
because
they
are
pernicious
to
us
,
he
playes
the
deaf
;
and
thinks
it
misbecomes
his
love
to
Man
to
set
a
seal
to
his
undoing
,
which
made
St.
Austin
say
;
It
is
a
stroak
of
Gods
mercy
sometimes
to
withdraw
his
mercy
.
Our
Petitioner
knew
that
the
gift
of
prayer
is
the
first
grace
God
bestowes
on
Man
,
which
serves
as
a
Ladder
,
that
by
it
he
may
ascend
to
other
Graces
necessary
to
Salvation
;
he
hath
made
it
the
Subject
of
his
Song
,
and
beat
upon
no
other
string
in
the
whole
tract
of
this
his
petition
,
than
to
obtain
pardon
for
his
sins
,
and
to
be
restored
to
the
inestimable
treasure
of
Sanctifying
grace
;
after
this
task
of
his
own
concern
,
he
undertook
to
instruct
the
wicked
,
and
labour
in
the
conversion
of
the
impious
,
and
that
these
principles
wherewith
he
had
imbued
them
might
take
the
deeper
root
by
a
constant
practice
,
he
now
supplicates
the
Divine
Majesty
in
behalf
of
the
City
of
Jerusalem
,
and
the
holy
mountain
of
Sion
,
to
the
end
it
might
be
settled
in
peace
,
and
be
a
secure
refuge
not
onely
to
the
numerous
inhabitants
,
but
also
to
that
infinite
resort
of
Pilgrims
,
who
from
all
parts
came
thither
to
pay
their
religious
duties
to
God
;
and
he
hopes
for
a
good
effect
of
his
prayer
,
since
it
is
in
order
to
the
establishment
of
God's
Church
;
in
which
action
the
divine
zeal
hath
more
visibly
appeared
(
both
in
gratifying
such
as
have
advanced
the
structure
,
and
in
punishing
any
sacrilegious
violence
)
than
in
any
other
external
actions
of
Men.
Ezekiel
,
painting
forth
the
abominations
of
the
Temple
sayes
,
there
came
six
Angels
,
and
every
one
had
in
his
hands
Vessels
of
slaughter
;
upon
which
Theodoret
observes
in
the
destruction
of
Zenacharib's
Army
,
one
only
Angel
appeared
,
but
against
the
prophaners
of
his
Temple
six
are
deputed
,
that
no
day
of
the
Week
should
pass
over
their
Heads
without
a
fresh
Executioner
to
torment
them
.
Jeremy
weighs
the
wrongs
Nebuchodonozer
had
done
to
Jerusalem
by
dishonouring
Matrons
,
deflowring
Virgins
,
killing
little
Children
,
tormenting
the
aged
,
burning
houses
,
their
robberies
and
spoils
,
and
yet
all
these
he
passes
over
in
silence
(
though
he
took
it
much
to
heart
)
and
presses
only
the
prophanation
of
the
Temple
,
having
made
of
it
a
stable
for
his
Horses
.
When
the
Angel
appeared
to
Joshuah
with
a
drawn
sword
,
and
commanded
him
to
put
off
his
Shooes
,
as
before
he
had
done
to
Moses
in
the
flaming
bush
,
enjoyning
him
the
like
;
many
grave
Doctors
assert
th●…
this
Angel
was
the
Son
of
God
,
wherein
he
would
insinuate
two
things
:
First
,
the
reverence
they
ought
to
bear
to
that
place
,
where
in
a
manner
so
particular
he
was
pleased
to
manifest
himself
:
Next
,
that
against
those
who
should
lose
this
respect
,
he
had
Fire
and
Sword
ready
to
vindicate
his
honour
:
For
the
Majesty
of
a
King
or
regal
power
upon
Earth
is
respected
throughout
the
whole
jurisdiction
of
his
Crown
,
but
yet
much
more
where
he
hath
his
Throne
,
and
Chair
of
state
:
So
God
as
he
is
King
of
Kings
,
and
Lord
of
Lords
over
all
the
Nations
of
the
World
,
ought
in
all
places
to
have
homages
of
submission
and
obedience
paid
unto
him
,
but
especially
in
places
dedicated
to
religious
acts
;
in
Heaven
at
the
right
hand
of
his
Father
is
the
supream
throne
of
his
greatness
;
in
the
Synagogue
he
had
the
propitiatory
,
and
in
the
Temple
his
Sacrarium
;
and
as
to
a
Temple
or
Church
wherein
God
is
to
be
honoured
.
Nilus
sayes
a
Christian
should
bear
no
less
respect
to
this
his
Holy
Tabernacle
than
if
he
were
in
Heaven
:
Because
,
the
glory
of
God
is
more
apparent
in
the
adorable
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
;
and
from
thence
a
greater
reverence
may
justly
be
required
,
than
from
all
the
Temples
that
were
in
past
ages
dedicated
to
God's
honour
:
For
in
this
dread
Sacrifice
God
is
adored
,
honoured
,
appeased
,
loved
and
served
by
his
Son
Jesus
Christ
in
all
the
Corners
of
the
World
;
where
this
mystery
is
celebrated
all
the
adorations
,
and
homages
of
other
Creatures
,
contribute
nothing
to
his
Glory
,
if
compared
to
what
he
receives
here
by
his
Son
;
because
he
is
an
object
infinite
,
and
as
a
King
receives
more
honour
from
the
submission
of
a
Prince
,
than
of
an
ordinary
vulgar
person
;
in
like
manner
the
adorations
rendered
to
God
by
Jesus
Christ
do
glorify
him
more
,
than
those
of
all
Men
and
Angels
,
together
by
the
Mouth
of
Malachy
the
Prophet
;
God
sayes
,
my
name
is
great
among
the
Gentiles
,
because
in
all
places
a
pure
oblation
is
offered
up
unto
me
,
which
Theodoret
explicates
an
unspotted
Lamb
taking
away
the
sins
of
the
World
,
and
which
is
Sacrificed
unto
him
in
this
mystery
.
The
Master
of
the
Family
Matth.
20.
having
had
his
Servants
ill
treated
by
the
labourers
in
his
Vineyard
,
sent
his
Son
to
reduce
them
to
obedience
;
saying
,
they
will
respect
him
:
So
God
the
Father
would
render
his
Son
present
in
this
mystery
,
to
induce
all
Christians
to
pay
their
duties
to
his
greatness
.
Who
would
not
then
Combat
in
the
presence
of
their
King
?
We
may
reasonably
expect
to
live
with
Angels
,
and
with
them
contemplate
the
divine
essence
,
since
now
we
live
with
Jesus
Christ
himself
who
is
the
Food
of
our
Souls
;
he
who
gives
himself
to
be
eaten
here
,
will
not
deny
us
to
see
and
behold
him
in
eternity
.
Now
our
Holy
Penitent
in
his
prophetick
view
beheld
this
Hill
of
Sion
,
as
a
place
marked
out
for
the
admirable
structure
of
the
Evangelical
Temple
,
whereof
the
Messias
was
to
be
the
Corner
stone
,
and
therefore
he
calls
it
holy
,
wherein
Sacraments
conferring
grace
by
their
proper
vertue
were
to
be
administred
;
upon
this
score
he
preferrs
the
Gates
of
Sion
,
before
all
the
tabernacles
of
Jacob
:
He
forespeaks
the
building
of
this
Sion
,
and
that
God
will
there
be
seen
in
his
glory
,
as
much
as
the
Cloudy
Scene
in
this
World
can
represent
him
;
and
as
on
mount
Sinai
the
written
Law
,
a
carnal
and
Earthly
Law
was
given
;
so
on
Mount
Sion
should
be
enacted
a
Law
Evangelical
,
holy
,
spiritual
,
and
heavenly
.
These
fore-notions
imprinted
in
our
Petitioner
a
reverence
to
this
model
of
perfection
,
and
stirrs
him
to
implore
his
mercy
in
her
behalf
;
that
since
it
is
to
be
a
Law
of
love
,
all
powerful
to
conduct
Souls
unto
a
great
pitch
of
sanctity
in
this
life
,
and
glory
in
the
next
,
he
will
hope
his
prayer
may
contribute
somthing
to
draw
from
his
liberality
a
confirmation
of
his
gracious
promises
unto
her
;
in
this
confidence
with
much
fervour
and
zeal
he
repeats
;
Deal
favourably
O
Lord
in
thy
good
will
with
Sion
.
The
Application
.
We
have
a
Lesson
here
of
Charity
which
shews
us
inexcusable
,
if
we
fail
to
endeavour
the
succour
of
our
Neighbour
:
For
there
is
none
so
impotent
but
may
lend
the
assistance
of
his
prayers
,
and
how
powerful
that
is
to
avert
danger
,
appears
in
that
God
seems
willing
to
prevent
the
Prophet
Jeremies
mediation
,
commanding
he
should
not
resist
him
;
that
is
,
he
should
not
stand
between
him
,
and
the
destruction
of
his
people
;
as
if
it
were
in
the
power
of
this
Prophet
by
means
of
his
prayer
,
to
hold
God's
Hand
,
and
force
him
to
a
merciful
composition
.
Besides
we
are
much
encouraged
to
relieve
the
distressed
in
this
supplicating
way
by
the
form
of
prayer
which
Christ
prescribes
,
in
that
we
should
conjure
him
under
the
title
of
Father
;
nay
more
our
Father
which
speaks
I
have
a
right
to
ask
not
only
as
I
am
your
Child
,
but
likewise
to
intercede
for
him
who
hath
the
same
relation
unto
you
,
and
by
that
an
alliance
towards
me
,
which
naturally
exacts
my
help
;
if
then
as
a
Maker
you
can
destroy
;
as
a
Father
nature
will
prompt
you
to
save
:
In
fine
,
God
playes
not
the
stately
like
the
great
Princes
of
this
World
,
but
gives
audience
upon
the
place
;
whether
in
behalf
of
your self
or
Neighbour
:
Nay
,
he
excludes
not
his
greatest
Enemies
,
but
doth
treat
with
them
of
peace
upon
the
least
overture
they
make
:
Ah!
let
us
then
daily
present
our
supplications
before
his
throne
of
grace
,
in
behalf
of
all
persons
capable
of
eternal
Salvation
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXXVIII
.
Vt
edificentur
muri
Jerusalem
.
And
let
the
Walls
of
Jerusalem
be
built
.
BY
the
Walls
of
this
Sion
or
Jerusalem
(
for
they
are
usually
taken
for
the
same
thing
)
is
meant
the
Prelats
,
and
Pastours
of
this
happy
Congregation
,
within
whose
circumference
or
direction
we
are
all
piously
to
walk
,
and
to
whose
care
and
protection
all
Mankind
is
committed
:
Our
Penitent
beholds
the
Messias
as
the
foundation
and
prop
of
this
eternal
structure
;
for
the
Office
of
a
Priest
consists
in
the
power
of
administring
sacred
things
,
and
to
offer
prayers
,
gifts
,
and
Sacrifices
unto
God
for
the
remission
of
sins
,
and
this
in
the
name
of
the
universal
Church
:
Now
Iesus
Christ
was
constituted
by
God
over
all
Souls
,
with
a
plenary
authority
to
reconcile
them
to
him
,
and
for
this
end
he
offered
up
a
true
and
real
Sacrifice
,
in
which
the
immolated
victime
suffered
a
real
mutation
,
both
in
that
Christian
oblation
without
effusion
of
blood
,
which
he
celebrated
the
night
before
his
death
,
as
also
in
the
bloody
Sacrifice
of
himself
,
which
he
might
have
hindred
but
would
not
;
he
is
then
a
true
Priest
.
Again
,
his
power
not
being
confined
to
Sacraments
,
nor
to
certain
words
and
ceremonies
,
as
that
of
Men
,
who
are
Priests
after
him
;
and
not
depending
upon
the
impression
of
any
Character
(
since
he
was
setled
in
it
sufficiently
by
his
Hypostatick
union
)
he
enjoyes
a
degree
of
Priesthood
with
eminency
above
all
other
Men
,
invested
with
this
sublime
dignity
.
Wherefore
doubtless
this
his
Priesthood
,
above
all
other
things
was
most
acceptable
to
God
;
because
by
this
title
and
quality
he
hath
wrought
the
Worlds
Salvation
,
hath
reconciled
Souls
unto
God
,
and
put
them
into
a
condition
of
rendering
him
glory
in
all
Eternity
:
So
that
among
all
the
sublime
qualities
of
Jesus
Christ
,
that
of
his
Priesthood
hath
been
the
most
beneficial
to
the
World
;
for
by
it
he
hath
made
up
all
the
breaches
of
sin
,
both
in
Heaven
and
Earth
,
appeased
God's
anger
by
his
Sacrifice
,
and
restored
us
to
his
lost
grace
and
favour
.
Next
,
he
is
not
only
Priest
but
sovereign
Bishop
,
empowred
to
institute
,
ordain
,
and
govern
at
his
pleasure
in
all
spiritual
things
,
which
relate
unto
God
and
the
Salvation
of
Souls
;
wherefore
St.
Peter
Ep.
1.
C.
2.
Stiles
him
the
Bishop
and
Pastour
of
Souls
.
St.
Paul
likewise
to
the
Hebrews
Chap.
7.
sayes
,
It
was
fit
we
should
have
a
Bishop
holy
,
innocent
,
unpolluted
,
and
separated
from
sinners
,
who
hath
no
necessity
of
offering
Sacrifice
daily
for
his
own
sins
.
So
that
Christ
is
not
reduced
to
that
extremity
as
to
offer
Sacrifice
for
the
expiation
of
his
own
faults
,
he
hath
no
need
to
purify
himself
,
since
he
hath
a
Sanctity
which
outvyes
that
of
Angels
;
his
only
task
is
to
enlighten
,
purify
,
and
improve
others
,
that
he
might
transmit
them
from
the
perfection
and
spiritual
treasures
of
this
life
;
to
the
perfection
and
eternal
treasures
of
the
next
.
At
this
his
sovereign
Chair
doth
aim
;
that
is
,
the
acquisition
of
immortal
felicity
,
he
hath
laid
down
for
our
safe
passage
and
firm
footing
two
planks
;
to
wit
,
the
Cross
and
pennance
,
he
is
mediatour
between
God
and
Man
,
an
intercessour
for
us
,
he
assists
at
our
right
Hand
that
we
might
not
be
overthrown
,
and
amidst
the
storm
of
Stones
which
fell
upon
St.
Stephen
,
he
is
awake
and
upon
his
Leggs
,
ready
to
run
to
his
succour
;
so
that
he
hath
all
the
conditions
of
a
powerful
and
careful
Prelat
.
The
Prophet
Joel
had
in
his
prospect
this
Prince
of
Ecclesiasticks
,
when
in
his
2.
Chapter
he
exhorts
the
Daughters
of
Sion
to
skip
for
joy
,
and
fly
to
the
Lord
their
God
,
because
he
had
given
unto
them
a
Doctor
of
Justice
;
to
teach
them
a
spiritual
life
,
how
to
separate
their
Souls
from
affection
to
Creatures
,
and
unite
themselves
to
God
.
This
he
did
in
commanding
us
to
renounce
our selves
,
and
follow
him
;
to
carry
with
him
our
Cross
,
to
be
perseverant
in
prayer
,
to
practise
vertues
,
to
love
God
above
all
things
;
and
our
Neighbour
as
our selves
:
In
fine
,
his
Doctrine
permits
no
vice
,
cherishes
all
vertues
,
raises
Man
above
himself
,
and
his
nature
,
and
besides
his
Commandements
he
gives
admirable
Councels
of
chastity
,
poverty
,
and
obedience
,
and
other
precepts
leading
to
perfection
;
which
if
exactly
weighed
would
evidence
as
clear
as
the
Sun
beams
,
that
he
is
the
greatest
Master
and
Doctor
of
a
spiritual
life
.
He
is
then
Head
of
the
Church
because
the
Founder
,
from
whence
she
hath
received
her
Life
and
Being
;
by
the
seeds
of
his
grace
,
by
the
preaching
of
his
Apostles
,
by
all
the
good
works
and
stratagems
he
hath
set
on
foot
to
draw
Souls
unto
Faith
and
Baptism
:
From
whom
she
hath
received
her
subsistence
and
nourishment
in
the
provision
of
the
Sacraments
,
and
of
a
multitude
of
gifts
and
graces
in
order
to
the
propagation
and
defence
of
the
Church
.
He
hath
likewise
setled
here
an
Ecclesiastical
Hierarchy
resembling
that
of
Angels
;
and
lastly
,
he
overwhelms
her
with
the
load
of
his
favours
,
transmitting
daily
her
Members
to
his
Church
Triumphant
,
where
he
invests
them
with
glory
,
nor
will
cease
untill
he
hath
made
of
the
Souls
issuing
from
the
militant
here
beneath
a
Church
glorious
,
and
without
the
least
stain
or
wrinkle
.
This
Saint
of
Saints
,
this
Prince
of
Ecclesiasticks
,
this
Doctor
of
Justice
is
the
Corner
stone
on
which
our
Penitent
had
fixed
his
Eye
,
and
petitioned
to
be
the
Basis
of
Jerusalem's
fair
Walls
;
so
that
having
such
a
foundation
,
what
noble
superstructure
might
he
not
expect
;
and
truly
this
edifice
was
squared
out
to
the
highest
Ideas
of
perfection
.
First
,
we
see
an
addition
of
the
three
Theological
vertues
,
that
is
so
polished
and
refined
as
it
gives
them
quite
another
lustre
;
as
to
Faith
the
mysteries
of
the
blessed
Trinity
,
the
Incarnation
,
and
the
holy
Eucharist
are
in
the
Evangelical
Law
drawn
as
it
were
out
of
a
Cloud
into
the
Sun-beams
,
and
therefore
St.
Paul
styles
the
written
Law
a
Schoolmaster
which
taught
the
Jews
only
the
first
Rudiments
of
Religion
,
whereas
Christian
Faith
proposes
ravishing
objects
,
and
discovers
the
wonders
of
the
said
mysteries
distinctly
,
which
begets
reverence
and
devotion
in
the
Hearts
of
Men.
As
to
hope
,
which
enflames
our
courage
to
the
Execution
of
generous
undertakings
,
the
Jews
had
very
obscure
revelations
of
eternal
beatitude
,
nor
could
they
hope
for
it
till
the
coming
of
the
Messias
and
Redeemer
who
was
to
open
Heaven's
Gates
,
and
have
the
honor
to
be
the
first
Man
that
entered
there
;
in
the
interim
they
were
fed
with
promises
of
Earthly
rewards
which
rendered
Souls
Mercenary
,
and
their
intentions
more
gross
,
whilst
the
Evangelical
Law
unfolds
the
wonders
of
Heaven
,
the
glory
of
a
Resurrection
,
and
engages
for
our
immediate
reception
into
that
place
of
immortal
felicity
after
this
life
,
supposing
we
are
distain'd
from
all
guilt
of
sin
.
As
to
Charity
the
Soul
of
vertues
and
devotion
,
it
must
needs
receive
from
the
Evangelical
Law
many
degrees
of
heat
and
fervour
;
since
it
renders
our
faith
and
hope
more
perfect
:
For
where
the
knowledge
is
greater
of
things
more
worthy
of
love
,
and
where
our
hopes
are
heightned
to
a
more
valuable
expectation
,
there
doubtless
will
be
found
the
production
of
a
more
ardent
desire
and
affection
.
After
this
rare
piece
which
much
embellished
the
structure
,
are
disposed
the
Sacraments
which
like
a
great
water
about
the
circumvallation
,
serve
both
to
secure
the
inhabitants
from
the
assaults
of
their
Enemies
,
and
to
strengthen
them
in
the
noble
exploits
of
vertues
:
So
that
by
this
succour
and
powerful
aid
they
are
obliged
in
honour
and
conscience
to
a
more
eminent
degree
of
Sanctity
.
We
see
that
Arts
and
Sciences
are
improved
by
success
of
time
,
and
those
Masters
which
come
after
are
more
expert
than
the
former
:
Now
this
proceeding
we
behold
in
divine
precepts
,
not
out
of
any
deficiency
in
the
Law-giver
,
but
because
after
Adam's
sin
humane
nature
was
rendered
unworthy
of
God's
grace
,
so
that
if
at
any
time
he
communicated
his
blessings
,
it
was
by
way
of
advance
,
and
upon
credit
in
consideration
of
the
merits
of
his
incarnate
Son
.
Wherefore
being
once
come
,
he
gave
precepts
of
higher
perfection
,
so
that
doubtless
nothing
can
be
better
,
more
just
,
and
more
suitable
to
Man
than
the
Evangelical
Law
:
Nothing
more
agreeable
to
the
good
Government
of
the
Universe
,
and
all
Creatures
;
nor
which
contains
in
its
decrees
more
equity
and
holiness
:
Insomuch
as
its
perfection
alone
seems
ground
enough
to
pass
a
judgment
,
that
it
cannot
issue
but
from
the
deep
Councels
of
a
Divinity
.
Lastly
,
as
to
good
manners
,
or
natural
precepts
,
this
great
Architect
hath
made
of
them
a
more
clear
and
ample
explication
,
by
which
the
will
is
rectifyed
,
and
carried
on
to
the
pursuit
of
greater
things
than
were
proposed
in
the
Mosaick
Law
.
What
just
reason
then
had
our
Petitioner
to
make
this
edifice
of
Jerusalem's
Wall
the
object
of
his
most
fervent
prayer
,
and
that
all
his
subjects
should
subscribe
to
the
petition
,
and
offer
up
their
Vowes
for
the
dispatch
of
this
great
work
,
in
which
their
heavy
Yoak
so
little
beneficial
to
them
would
be
taken
off
,
and
in
exchange
they
were
to
be
ranked
under
the
discipline
and
law
of
grace
and
love
;
wherefore
let
us
joyn
issue
and
cry
;
Let
the
Walls
of
Jerusalem
be
built
up
.
The
next
composition
of
this
structure
is
foretold
by
the
Prophet
Esay
;
I
will
lay
in
the
foundation
of
Sion
a
stone
that
hath
endured
the
touch
,
a
corner
and
precious
stone
founded
in
the
foundation
:
This
is
Peter
and
his
successours
,
that
rock
on
whom
Christ
hath
built
his
Church
,
and
which
hath
been
tryed
by
all
the
assaults
of
Earth
and
Hell
:
Nor
hath
this
stone
proved
only
of
right
temper
,
in
which
no
engin
of
malice
could
work
a
flaw
,
but
it
is
shaped
into
a
corner
stone
,
by
which
the
two
walls
of
Jews
and
Gentiles
are
united
together
,
and
make
one
Christian
Church
:
It
is
also
precious
in
copiously
distributing
her
Spiritual
Treasures
throughout
the
World
;
as
the
clear
explication
of
her
Doctrine
by
universal
consent
,
the
rights
of
Sacraments
,
which
delivered
with
a
Harmony
and
unity
in
faith
,
is
the
bond
of
peace
,
the
Life
and
Soul
of
Religion
.
Lastly
,
it
is
grounded
in
the
foundation
which
shews
it
to
be
a
secondary
foundation
:
The
first
St.
Paul
declares
;
no
Man
can
lay
any
other
foundation
(
that
is
primary
and
Basis
of
all
)
than
what
is
already
laid
;
to
wit
,
Jesus
Christ
.
But
after
him
the
next
groundwork
is
St.
Peter
,
by
whom
alone
,
and
his
successours
we
are
to
arrive
at
Christ
,
and
what
can
be
to
God
more
glorious
than
to
make
use
of
the
feeble
to
confound
the
strong
,
and
by
faith
and
humility
to
lead
Men
unto
wisdom
and
glory
.
This
piece
of
Workmanship
in
the
Fabrick
of
Jerusalem
is
like
a
Citadel
which
commands
all
,
and
holds
its
awful
title
not
by
Law
of
Nations
,
but
divine
right
:
It
governs
men
in
order
to
their
Souls
,
and
rather
under
the
notion
of
being
Christians
,
than
Men
;
it
looks
not
upon
their
temporal
ease
and
security
,
but
hath
an
Eye
to
a
life
and
felicity
immortal
:
It
is
fortifyed
with
divine
Lawes
,
and
maintains
a
perpetual
skirmish
not
only
with
a
few
visible
adversaries
,
but
with
an
infinity
of
invisible
Enemies
.
After
this
Rock
solidly
disposed
and
fited
,
the
Bishops
like
Watch-towers
and
strong
Bastions
are
erected
;
whose
office
is
to
superintend
over
the
Guards
and
Sentinels
,
and
to
protect
the
weaker
part
of
the
Walls
from
the
Enemies
assaults
;
this
contrivance
is
set
down
by
St.
Athanasius
,
where
he
sayes
,
O
Peter
upon
thy
Foundation
the
Bishops
as
pillars
of
the
Church
are
setled
and
confirmed
.
Then
Priests
,
Deacons
,
and
other
officers
are
assigned
to
render
this
structure
in
all
points
compleat
;
some
of
these
materials
are
for
the
beauty
and
ornament
of
the
Church
in
her
great
solemnities
;
others
as
Priests
for
the
necessary
discharge
of
our
duty
to
God
;
for
religion
teaching
us
to
pay
that
honor
and
esteem
we
owe
to
God
,
is
the
perfection
and
accomplishment
of
the
World
,
nor
can
we
upon
any
score
be
dispensed
with
in
the
acknowledgment
of
these
fealties
:
Whence
no
Nation
hath
ever
been
found
so
ignorant
or
barbarous
as
not
to
own
,
and
in
some
manner
or
other
to
pay
this
Tribute
,
either
by
way
of
adoration
,
praise
,
prayer
,
sacrifice
,
festival
solemnity
or
by
some
external
Ceremony
:
Now
that
these
actions
might
be
duly
acquitted
,
there
appears
an
absolute
necessity
that
some
selected
person
should
be
set
apart
,
and
sanctifyed
to
this
end
.
But
above
all
it
was
most
requisite
in
the
Evangelical
Law
,
where
a
Priest
hath
power
to
offer
up
a
victime
and
Sacrifice
by
which
in
a
moment
he
renders
to
God
more
glory
and
service
than
all
the
Angels
and
Men
can
do
in
the
vast
durance
of
Eternity
:
Where
he
is
daily
to
represent
to
the
eternal
Father
Christ's
holy
passion
,
and
by
that
moving
object
render
him
propitious
unto
Souls
,
where
he
is
to
disengage
Men
from
the
slavery
of
sin
,
and
jawes
of
Hell
by
the
administration
of
holy
Sacraments
:
So
that
all
the
splendour
and
beauty
of
the
Church
consists
in
the
Ministery
of
Priests
,
that
as
the
Sun
diffuses
his
beams
on
all
sides
,
no
less
doth
this
sacred
Character
enrich
those
Souls
with
a
perfume
of
Sanctity
,
who
make
themselves
worthy
by
a
due
cooperation
with
its
vertue
;
so
that
we
ought
to
esteem
it
one
of
the
greatest
blessings
of
God
to
the
World
,
in
that
he
hath
given
us
Ecclesiastical
persons
to
dispense
his
Heavenly
treasures
,
and
spiritual
graces
to
enlighten
the
World
,
purify
Souls
from
sin
,
and
lead
them
as
it
were
by
the
Hand
unto
a
sovereign
good
.
Ah!
what
ingratitude
then
to
throw
a
contempt
upon
those
without
whom
Mankind
would
be
but
a
Fire-brand
for
Hell
in
all
Eternity
.
The
last
materials
for
this
Fabrick
are
lay
and
secular
persons
of
all
sorts
;
so
that
of
these
and
Ecclesiasticks
are
composed
two
different
and
great
Nations
under
the
Jurisdiction
of
Christ
;
the
Office
of
the
one
is
to
give
,
the
other
to
receive
;
the
one
communicates
by
oblation
of
Sacrifice
,
and
administration
of
Sacraments
,
spiritual
goods
,
without
which
Men
would
be
like
a
Body
destitute
of
a
Soul
,
having
little
tendency
or
elevation
unto
God
;
the
others
passively
make
up
the
Hierarchy
,
as
being
framed
,
instructed
,
purifyed
,
and
by
Ecclesiasticks
united
unto
God
.
Thus
you
see
our
holy
Prophet
was
solicitous
in
a
matter
of
no
small
concern
,
for
within
the
limits
of
this
sanctuary
are
bounded
all
the
hopes
of
Man's
Salvation
.
Christ
was
made
(
sayes
St.
Paul
)
cause
of
eternal
Salvation
unto
all
those
who
obey
him
:
Now
his
Commandements
relate
to
Faith
,
good
manners
,
and
the
Sacraments
,
which
are
not
rightly
performed
but
within
the
bosom
of
his
Church
.
Let
us
then
joyn
our
hands
and
hearts
to
this
noble
structure
,
and
cry
,
that
the
walls
of
Jerusalem
be
built
up
.
The
Application
.
If
our
Holy
Penitent
was
so
zealous
for
the
erecting
this
magnificent
structure
of
the
Church
,
as
by
his
ardent
prayer
to
dispose
the
divine
Architect
unto
this
admirable
work
;
what
a
reproach
will
it
be
to
us
,
who
find
the
Fabrick
done
to
our
Hands
,
and
who
are
our selves
so
happy
as
to
be
part
of
the
materials
,
if
we
do
not
so
much
as
keep
it
in
repair
,
nor
preserve
it
against
any
rebellious
or
violent
effort
.
To
this
performance
is
required
a
due
obedience
to
the
supream
Pastour
,
who
as
it
were
the
form
and
Soul
of
this
edifice
:
Next
,
a
reverence
and
submission
unto
Bishops
,
who
are
the
pillars
,
and
great
supports
of
it
:
Lastly
,
a
respect
to
Priests
,
who
are
a
main
ornament
,
and
useful
to
this
glorious
Fabrick
.
Whereas
then
our
Holy
Penitent
poured
forth
his
prayers
,
with
so
much
fervour
for
the
raising
of
these
Evangelical
walls
,
it
is
our
part
now
to
make
addresses
unto
Heaven
,
that
according
to
his
promise
it
may
continue
pure
,
unstained
,
and
invincible
against
all
the
malice
of
Earth
and
Hell
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XXXIX
.
Tunc
acceptabis
Sacrificium
,
Justitiae
oblationes
,
&
Holocausta
.
Then
thou
wilt
receive
Sacrifice
,
oblations
of
Justice
,
and
whole
Burnt-offerings
.
OUr
Holy
Penitent
had
entertained
in
his
thoughts
not
only
the
Materials
and
Architecture
of
this
Building
,
but
he
went
further
and
reached
in
his
prophetick
view
the
Sacrifices
which
were
there
to
be
offered
up
.
The
first
object
display'd
in
this
Temple
is
the
Messias
God-man
,
who
was
a
true
Sacrifice
,
oblation
of
Justice
and
Holocaust
.
A
Sacrifice
,
in
that
he
appeased
God's
anger
,
frankly
offered
,
and
with
the
purest
intention
that
could
be
imagined
;
this
is
expressed
in
John
14.
That
the
World
may
know
I
love
my
Father
,
and
perform
his
commands
,
arise
(
sayes
Christ
to
his
Apostles
)
and
let
us
to
the
Cross
.
For
God
having
committed
to
him
the
affair
of
Man's
Salvation
lost
by
sin
,
he
was
enflamed
with
a
zeal
of
rendering
all
possible
satisfaction
;
and
considering
that
if
he
should
make
himself
a
victime
,
and
present
that
Sacrifice
to
God
,
it
would
be
of
an
infinite
value
,
in
regard
of
the
infinity
of
his
person
;
and
such
a
Sacrifice
infinite
,
would
counter-ballance
the
infinite
malice
of
sin
,
and
prove
a
satisfaction
answerable
to
Man's
offence
:
Wherefore
that
God
might
have
reparation
of
honor
,
he
designed
an
actual
bloody
Sacrifice
of
himself
unto
God
for
the
sin
of
Adam
,
and
all
Mankind
:
And
to
this
end
likewise
that
God
being
appeased
and
satisfyed
by
the
dignity
of
this
Sacrifice
,
might
depose
all
animosity
against
Man
,
and
restore
him
to
those
expedients
by
which
he
may
work
his
Salvation
.
Amongst
all
the
contrivances
that
can
enter
our
thoughts
,
none
appear
more
excellent
and
noble
,
both
to
ajust
God's
honor
and
Man's
Salvation
together
,
than
this
immolation
of
himself
upon
the
Altar
of
the
Cross
.
First
,
it
is
very
powerful
to
appease
God's
wrath
,
for
nothing
more
than
death
can
be
endured
for
God's
honor
,
nor
can
any
Creature
more
absolutely
avow
himself
unto
him
,
than
in
dying
for
his
sake
:
Wherefore
St.
Paul
sayes
of
Christ
ad
Ephes.
5.
He
gave
himself
up
an
oblation
and
host
unto
God
in
the
perfume
of
sweetness
.
Next
,
it
is
very
proper
to
cure
Man's
infirmity
,
who
by
his
disobedience
and
pride
had
forfeited
his
right
to
Paradise
;
wherefore
Christ
submitting
himself
to
the
Cross
,
and
so
accomplishing
the
will
of
his
Father
,
repaired
those
breaches
we
had
made
by
our
Rebellion
.
Lastly
,
it
is
very
efficacious
to
purchase
our
love
without
infringing
the
liberty
of
our
free-will
:
For
what
can
more
charm
us
to
love
,
than
to
behold
a
person
for
my
sole
interest
sustain
the
torments
of
a
Cross
,
which
was
the
most
infamous
of
all
kind
of
punishments
;
yet
so
great
was
the
affection
our
Saviour
Christ
bare
us
,
that
he
deposited
in
the
infamy
,
and
reproach
of
the
Cross
,
all
that
honor
which
his
miracles
,
his
Doctrine
,
and
innocent
life
had
purchased
to
him
;
leaving
them
all
hanging
on
it
as
a
Trophey
of
his
love
:
The
Cross
then
is
the
North
Star
of
our
comfort
,
and
hope
;
for
what
can
he
deny
us
,
nay
what
will
he
not
grant
us
,
who
on
the
Cross
hath
made
such
large
expressions
of
his
kindness
.
God
is
said
to
be
the
searcher
of
hearts
;
that
is
,
he
only
knowes
the
sincerity
of
them
;
whence
some
have
taken
occasion
to
murmur
at
the
Maker
;
in
that
he
placed
not
a
window
before
the
Breast
of
every
one
:
But
though
we
may
be
jealous
of
all
the
rest
,
yet
sure
we
cannot
be
of
Christ
upon
the
Cross
,
nor
of
his
love
,
since
he
there
even
layes
open
his
Bowels
unto
us
;
upon
this
consideration
Christ
might
justly
promise
to
himself
,
That
when
he
shall
be
lifted
up
from
the
Earth
(
that
is
upon
the
Cross
)
he
would
draw
the
affections
of
all
Mankind
unto
him
.
How
different
is
the
proceeding
of
this
our
eternal
Priest
from
the
usual
wayes
of
Men
,
who
upon
a
mean
and
trivial
interest
fall
upon
the
destruction
of
their
Neighbour
;
whilst
his
design
is
to
Sacrifice
himself
upon
our
score
,
and
by
that
means
gain
our
love
as
a
just
Tribute
to
his
eternal
Father
;
he
might
well
assure
himself
this
Sacrifice
would
be
accepted
,
he
knew
that
God
could
not
behold
the
Face
of
his
Christ
under
this
bloody
posture
for
the
redemption
of
guilty
Souls
,
and
not
be
touched
with
the
worth
of
this
Sacrifice
;
wherefore
our
Penitent
may
confidently
repeat
tunc
acceptabis
,
then
,
that
is
,
at
this
plenitude
of
time
a
Sacrifice
will
appear
which
shall
convey
to
Heaven
an
odor
grateful
unto
God
,
and
serve
as
a
balm
to
cure
all
the
wounds
of
humane
nature
.
This
Sacrifice
was
likewise
an
oblation
of
Justice
,
for
supposing
that
God
would
have
sin
punished
,
because
it
is
a
decree
of
his
eternal
Law
,
which
cannot
erre
nor
want
its
effect
.
Again
,
since
Man
was
impotent
to
any
compleat
satisfaction
for
sin
,
wherewith
he
was
defiled
and
contaminated
,
it
was
necessary
some
person
exempt
from
all
sin
should
interpose
,
and
take
upon
him
out
of
love
and
goodness
,
the
discharge
of
our
transgressions
.
Now
Christ
was
this
happy
Redeemer
,
who
replenished
with
mercy
spared
not
his
sacred
humanity
for
our
deliverance
.
First
,
he
dragged
us
out
of
the
misery
wherein
we
lay
after
Adam's
sin
,
that
by
no
action
of
ours
we
could
recover
grace
,
or
any
wayes
reach
our
justification
;
this
impotency
Christ
took
away
,
and
purchased
to
all
Mankind
means
of
Salvation
in
case
they
make
right
use
of
it
.
Next
,
he
freed
us
from
the
misery
of
sin
,
and
by
his
passion
obtained
a
perfect
enlargement
for
all
those
who
faithfully
cooperate
with
his
grace
.
Lastly
,
he
merited
for
the
Soul
and
Body
an
exemption
from
the
Calamities
they
sustain
and
endure
in
this
life
;
and
afterwards
the
glory
of
Heaven
,
if
so
be
they
persevere
in
sanctifying
grace
;
and
all
this
upon
the
design
of
rendering
a
full
satisfaction
for
all
the
sins
of
the
World
in
rigour
of
Justice
:
And
since
God
was
irritated
by
Man's
contempt
which
sin
involves
,
Christ
knowing
that
God
could
not
receive
more
honour
than
what
was
paid
him
by
the
way
of
Sacrifice
;
and
that
by
how
much
the
victime
excelled
,
his
glory
went
in
the
like
proportion
:
He
presented
his
sacred
humanity
personally
united
to
the
Word
by
way
of
Justice
on
the
Tree
of
the
Cross
,
as
a
just
compensation
of
all
indignities
thrown
upon
him
by
the
World
;
and
for
this
end
he
exposed
his
Body
to
all
the
highest
severities
of
Justice
.
Thus
God
accepting
this
oblation
of
Justice
punished
in
his
Son
all
the
sins
of
Mankind
.
Wherefore
as
a
disobedience
to
God's
Law
,
a
Pride
in
thwarting
his
greatness
,
and
a
pleasure
in
our
conversion
to
a
Creature
are
found
in
sin
;
all
these
were
confronted
in
Christ's
passion
,
by
a
prodigious
obedience
,
an
incomparable
humility
,
and
a
perpession
of
the
most
exquisite
torments
that
could
be
inflicted
;
so
that
there
was
not
the
least
punctilio
of
equity
wanting
in
this
oblation
of
Justice
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
weighing
this
terrible
account
could
not
but
tremble
:
It
is
true
God
was
contented
with
Abrahams
good
intention
,
and
stopped
the
Execution
of
Isaac
;
but
when
his
eternal
Law
to
punish
sin
was
in
question
(
which
he
will
have
inviolable
)
he
spares
not
his
only
Son
,
and
if
on
him
the
darts
of
his
anger
fall
so
heavy
,
and
this
for
anothers
transgression
,
what
may
not
a
miserable
sinner
justly
expect
for
his
own
sins
in
his
own
person
:
If
this
be
done
on
the
green
branches
,
what
havock
will
be
made
of
those
that
are
withered
:
if
the
Innocent
have
this
measure
,
what
will
become
of
the
Guilty
,
but
however
these
dismal
reflections
may
affright
our
penitent
,
yet
he
is
still
boyd
up
with
hope
and
confidence
in
this
oblation
of
Justice
.
Lastly
,
this
Sacrifice
is
a
perfect
Holocaust
,
the
excellency
of
which
consists
in
the
total
destruction
of
the
thing
offered
.
In
confirmation
of
this
St.
Paul
asserts
,
that
Christ
annihilated
himself
in
becoming
obedient
to
the
Death
of
the
Cross
.
Look
on
his
passion
;
and
you
will
see
him
reduced
to
a
moral
nothing
.
First
,
at
his
last
Supper
,
he
throws
himself
at
the
Feet
of
his
Apostles
,
he
washes
,
dryes
,
and
kisses
even
those
of
a
perfidious
Judas
:
in
the
garden
of
Olivet
he
not
onely
prayes
with
bended
knees
,
but
is
prostrate
on
the
ground
,
bedewed
with
a
bloody
sweat
,
the
most
prodigious
effect
of
terrour
that
ever
hapned
in
nature
:
In
the
sequel
of
his
passion
he
is
branded
with
false
accusations
,
and
ignominious
reproaches
,
derisions
and
scorns
:
He
receives
the
highest
indignities
from
the
vilest
of
persons
,
as
to
be
buffeted
,
spit
on
,
crowned
with
Thorns
,
fastned
on
the
Cross
between
two
Thieves
as
the
ring
leaders
,
and
this
at
their
Paschal
solemnity
in
the
populous
City
of
Jerusalem
,
where
he
forfeited
all
that
reputation
,
which
the
wonders
of
his
power
,
and
sublime
communications
of
his
wisdom
had
purchased
to
him
;
so
that
many
who
had
been
his
spectators
,
and
of
his
audience
,
in
whose
opinion
he
had
passed
for
a
signal
person
,
a
great
Prophet
,
a
Man
incomparable
in
vertue
and
sanctity
,
nay
who
looked
upon
him
as
the
promised
Messias
,
and
Son
of
God
,
gave
him
then
the
Character
of
an
Hypocrit
,
and
condemned
all
his
miracles
,
as
meer
illusions
,
and
the
effects
of
Art
magick
,
and
his
Sermons
as
dreams
of
phantastick
babling
.
Nay
,
the
Prophet
Esay
stiles
him
the
last
and
outcast
of
Men
,
disfigured
,
mishapen
,
and
laden
with
infirmities
,
insomuch
that
he
was
esteemed
as
one
Leperstrook
,
and
the
object
of
God's
vengeance
.
O
what
a
Holocaust
was
this
?
He
that
is
Lord
and
Creatour
of
the
World
,
King
of
Heaven
,
and
Sovereign
Judge
over
the
living
and
the
dead
;
is
destroyed
in
his
honor
and
reputation
,
his
Eyes
wax
dimm
and
dark
,
his
Face
pale
and
wan
,
his
Tongue
furred
and
swoln
,
his
Lips
black
and
blew
,
and
his
whole
Body
mangled
in
such
sort
as
they
numbred
all
his
Bones
;
so
that
it
was
as
it
were
but
one
wound
;
and
all
these
outrages
are
compleated
in
his
Execution
upon
the
Cross
,
which
kind
of
death
was
so
abominable
as
Tostatus
sayes
;
it
is
an
injury
done
to
God
himself
that
a
Creature
created
after
his
Image
should
dye
on
the
Cross
.
Cicero
sayes
,
it
is
an
act
very
hainous
to
bind
a
Citizen
of
Rome
,
a
Villany
to
scourge
him
,
and
in
a
manner
a
Parricide
to
kill
him
,
but
what
then
will
it
be
to
put
him
on
a
Cross
.
Heretofore
God
made
himself
known
by
destroying
Pharaoh
and
all
his
Host
,
but
now
he
will
get
himself
a
Name
and
Fame
by
playing
the
Holocaust
,
and
dying
upon
the
Cross
.
Thus
you
see
how
justly
our
Petitioner
might
assert
this
Sacrifice
to
be
an
oblation
of
Justice
,
and
a
Holocaust
or
whole
burnt
offering
which
would
be
accepted
off
:
For
certainly
God
was
never
more
honoured
than
by
Christ
offered
up
on
the
Cross
,
because
the
glory
there
given
him
,
outvyes
all
the
injuries
and
affronts
that
had
been
or
ever
shall
issue
from
the
ugly
Face
of
sin
.
But
the
Fire
of
his
love
stopt
not
here
:
his
sacred
humanity
would
further
yet
honour
God
by
a
Sacrifice
,
which
should
not
be
confined
to
a
short
space
of
three
hours
,
to
a
little
〈…〉
Nation
of
the
Jews
,
nor
to
the
narrow
hill
of
Mount
Calvary
:
wherefore
by
a
generous
design
he
instituted
the
Sacrament
of
the
Eucharist
,
where
this
same
humanity
without
effusion
of
blood
might
honour
God
by
a
Sacrifice
that
would
last
to
the
worlds
end
,
and
be
every
day
reiterated
,
not
upon
one
single
mountain
,
but
in
millions
of
places
throughout
all
kingdomes
where
there
is
any
Priest
to
offer
up
this
Sacrifice
to
God's
honor
,
and
as
a
tribute
to
his
infinite
greatness
.
Our
great
God
beholding
this
admirable
contrivance
of
his
incarnate
word
,
and
of
a
Soul
most
pure
,
and
holy
,
allyed
to
his
Son
by
a
personal
union
;
and
relishing
this
honor
he
should
receive
from
this
Sacrifice
begun
at
a
great
distance
to
nose
the
sweet
odour
it
would
evaporate
even
up
to
Heaven
;
this
gave
him
a
distast
(
as
it
were
)
of
the
Mosaical
Sacrifices
;
which
revealing
to
our
Holy
Penitent
made
him
cry
,
thou
art
not
delighted
with
Holocausts
.
But
this
is
more
clearly
expressed
by
the
Prophet
Malachy
,
where
God
requires
the
Temple
Gate
to
be
shut
;
the
Fire
of
his
Altar
for
the
destruction
of
victimes
no
more
to
be
kept
in
;
and
confesses
he
is
cloy'd
with
them
,
upon
the
prevision
of
that
excellent
Sacrifice
to
be
made
to
him
in
the
Evangelical
Law
.
Again
,
as
a
Sacrifice
is
directed
not
only
to
express
God's
supream
Dominion
over
us
,
but
likewise
to
acknowledge
our
thanks
for
his
divine
favours
;
now
the
sacred
humanity
of
Jesus
Christ
accomplished
in
vertue
would
not
be
ungrateful
:
For
God
had
given
himself
unto
it
by
a
personal
union
,
in
a
manner
the
most
obliging
,
and
most
sublime
,
that
is
any
way
consistent
with
a
Creature
;
in
return
of
this
he
would
consecrate
himself
unto
him
with
all
the
circumstances
of
perfection
,
by
which
a
Creature
can
be
made
his
:
And
which
cannot
be
more
than
by
a
Sacrifice
wherein
he
himself
is
destroyed
,
and
as
much
as
may
be
reduced
to
nothing
,
that
his
immense
greatness
might
appear
by
his
opposite
subjection
:
Now
having
done
this
once
by
the
bloody
Sacrifice
of
the
Cross
,
he
would
perpetuate
the
same
in
the
Sacrifice
of
the
Altar
:
that
whilest
the
fabrick
of
this
new
Jerusalem
should
stand
,
he
might
alwayes
render
acts
of
thanksgiving
for
the
graces
conferred
on
his
humanity
,
and
on
the
members
of
his
Church
.
By
this
Sacrifice
we
are
enabled
to
pay
our
debt
of
thanks
to
God
for
the
rich
present
of
his
only
Son
,
which
we
return
unto
him
as
a
due
and
equal
acknowledgment
;
and
if
it
be
proportioned
to
what
we
owe
for
a
gift
so
pretious
,
much
more
will
it
serve
to
discharge
our
duties
of
gratitude
for
other
benefits
;
as
when
he
is
pleased
to
make
us
victorious
over
temptations
and
all
the
Enemies
of
our
Salvation
.
Lastly
,
his
Sacrifice
on
the
Cross
was
to
allay
God's
anger
against
the
sins
of
Mankind
;
and
this
same
design
is
carried
on
in
the
Sacrifice
of
the
Altar
,
and
aims
chiefly
to
render
God
propitious
to
our
transgressions
.
In
the
works
of
St.
Iames
,
St.
Basil
,
and
St.
Chrysostom
speaking
of
this
Sacrifice
is
found
this
expression
.
Lord
accept
of
this
Sacrifice
as
a
propitiation
for
the
sins
and
ignorance
of
the
people
,
by
which
you
may
see
this
Sacrifice
doth
not
only
appease
God's
anger
,
discharge
our
large
score
of
gratitude
,
but
also
is
effectual
to
purchase
a
supply
for
all
our
wants
.
So
that
our
Petitioner
in
the
prospect
of
this
bloody
and
unbloody
victime
might
confidently
usurp
this
pleasing
air
:
Then
he
will
with
a
satisfyed
Eye
behold
a
Sacrifice
,
oblation
of
Justice
,
and
a
whole
burnt-offering
.
The
Application
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
in
another
Psalm
expresses
the
resentment
of
the
Children
of
Israel
,
when
in
captivity
they
sat
weeping
upon
the
Banks
of
the
River
of
Babylon
at
the
remembrance
of
Sion
,
and
of
those
Religious
acts
they
were
wont
to
perform
in
that
holy
place
.
I
am
confident
our
zealous
Petitioner
felt
no
less
the
bitter
throwes
of
affliction
and
langutshments
after
the
Evangelical
Temple
,
wherein
would
be
offered
up
a
Sacrifice
so
full
,
as
the
Justice
of
God
could
exact
nothing
more
;
with
what
satisfaction
did
he
reflect
on
this
then
,
to
wit
,
that
time
we
now
possess
,
wherein
we
can
daily
adore
Jesus
Christ
in
his
sacred
throne
of
the
Eucharist
,
as
Children
paying
the
duty
we
owe
to
so
indulgent
a
Father
,
as
Subjects
to
a
lawful
Prince
,
as
Criminals
to
a
most
equitable
Judge
as
slaves
to
a
Redeemer
,
and
as
Creatures
to
a
Sovereign
Creatour
.
Let
us
beg
that
since
he
hath
daigned
to
expose
himself
a
daily
victime
upon
the
Altar
for
all
Mankind
,
that
there
may
be
no
Soul
who
shall
deny
him
the
just
tribute
of
love
,
praise
,
and
Adoration
.
Amen
.
CHAP.
XL.
Tunc
imponent
super
altare
tuum
vitulos
,
Then
they
will
lay
Calves
upon
thy
Altar
.
OUr
holy
Penitent
having
decipherd
this
bloody
,
and
unbloody
Sacrifice
,
as
Jerusalem's
greatest
Glory
,
and
the
Ornament
of
Sion
,
that
is
,
the
Church
of
Christ
;
he
carries
on
in
his
prophetick
view
his
thoughts
to
other
inferiour
offerings
,
as
the
off-spring
and
result
of
this
supreamly
great
one
:
Such
are
the
oblation
of
persons
,
who
raised
above
the
charms
of
flesh
and
blood
embrace
the
Councels
,
and
Rules
of
highest
perfection
given
by
our
Saviour
,
and
quitting
all
Earthly
interests
consecrate
themselves
totally
to
God
.
These
our
Petitioner
shadowes
under
the
name
of
Calves
(
according
to
Enthymius
)
because
having
never
tasted
the
Yoak
,
but
let
loose
to
their
full
swinge
and
liberty
,
do
yet
of
their
own
accord
make
themselves
a
daily
Sacrifice
unto
God
:
For
he
that
embraces
such
a
state
of
perfection
forsakes
all
;
first
,
he
forsakes
himself
,
renouncing
in
some
sort
all
right
over
himself
,
and
to
become
a
slave
to
God
in
the
person
of
another
,
who
in
the
name
of
God
,
and
in
his
stead
accepts
the
donation
and
surrender
of
himself
;
and
it
is
upon
these
terms
,
that
he
may
be
conducted
to
perfection
;
so
that
the
Final
motive
of
this
Sacrifice
is
the
exact
and
universal
practise
of
all
kind
of
vertues
.
Riches
,
honour
,
and
pleasure
are
the
three
main
Enemies
to
perfection
;
all
which
are
clearly
subdued
in
the
essential
obligations
of
this
perfect
State
.
Poverty
choaks
the
desire
after
temporal
goods
;
Chastity
allays
the
concupiscence
of
pleasure
,
and
obedience
stifles
all
appetite
to
Worldly
greatness
:
But
besides
all
this
,
we
are
to
give
to
God
our
actions
,
our
time
,
and
employments
;
and
this
gift
consists
in
the
punctual
observance
of
certain
Rules
which
allot
to
every
one
how
to
spend
the
Year
,
the
Moneth
,
the
Week
,
the
Day
;
nay
every
Hour
:
So
that
persons
who
devote
themselves
to
such
a
state
need
not
be
solicitous
for
directions
leading
to
perfection
;
the
Commandements
of
God
,
and
zealous
performance
of
such
prescripts
as
are
given
by
spiritual
masters
,
afford
abundant
matter
for
this
noble
design
.
What
a
comfort
must
it
be
to
those
who
are
setled
in
this
state
to
think
,
that
there
is
nothing
more
excellent
in
a
Creature
,
than
to
belong
in
a
particular
manner
to
God
their
Creatour
;
who
hath
power
to
glorify
and
enrich
them
with
all
good
?
What
can
be
more
desirable
than
to
grow
every
Day
,
and
hour
in
perfection
,
and
this
in
spirituality
,
which
is
beyond
all
others
a
treasure
of
highest
value
?
We
see
all
Beings
strive
to
their
utmost
in
this
ambition
;
Plants
spring
up
,
and
bear
the
fairest
Flowers
that
possibly
they
can
:
Trees
afford
liberally
their
best
fruit
;
Bodies
issue
forth
all
their
strength
and
vigour
to
become
more
powerful
in
which
their
vertue
consists
:
And
what
invention
is
not
hammered
out
by
Women
to
add
the
least
stroak
to
their
natural
beauty
;
shall
the
Soul
then
be
alone
insensible
in
this
propriety
of
nature
?
No
,
no
,
our
new
Law-giver
hath
planted
in
Man
a
holy
ambition
after
perfection
,
and
this
seed
hath
been
so
fruitful
,
and
so
efficacious
,
that
one
might
judge
the
abstracted
lives
which
so
many
have
led
in
all
ages
,
since
his
visible
appearance
upon
Earth
,
were
the
effects
of
a
severe
command
,
rather
than
a
Paternal
Councel
,
and
that
such
a
Sacrifice
of
Calves
;
that
is
,
a
religious
simplicity
and
total
abnegation
of
Earthy
interest
,
could
not
spring
from
a
frank
choice
of
the
will
,
but
from
an
absolute
necessity
:
Wherefore
our
Holy
Penitent
all
ravished
with
admiration
points
out
that
time
wherein
these
wonders
shall
be
wrought
;
Then
will
they
put
Calves
upon
thy
Altar
.
The
great
Wheels
which
give
motion
to
all
our
actions
in
this
life
are
what
is
beneficial
,
pleasant
,
and
glorious
:
As
to
the
first
,
those
who
addict
themselves
to
a
state
of
perfection
find
good
rules
,
good
example
,
spiritual
documents
,
knowing
directours
,
several
exciting
graces
,
and
all
things
that
lead
to
the
accomplishment
of
vertue
,
and
encrease
of
merit
.
Besides
,
he
is
secured
from
innumerable
miseries
of
the
World
,
which
is
nothing
else
but
a
Chaos
of
trouble
and
confusion
,
a
Theatour
of
envy
,
ambition
,
luxury
,
tyrannical
oppressions
,
a
place
of
errour
,
and
darkness
,
overspread
with
nets
of
temptations
,
and
cluttered
with
impediments
of
Salvation
heaped
one
upon
another
:
So
that
to
be
warranted
against
so
many
dangers
,
and
at
the
same
time
put
into
possession
of
a
real
good
by
the
constant
practice
of
vertues
,
is
an
advantage
to
a
humane
Creature
designed
for
Eternity
beyond
all
other
in
the
World
.
As
to
the
other
motive
which
agitates
us
here
;
to
wit
,
things
delightful
,
none
are
to
be
compared
to
those
ravishments
enclosed
within
the
precincts
of
a
holy
retirement
:
For
they
are
satisfactions
of
the
Mind
,
which
being
more
pure
and
solid
than
those
of
the
Body
,
do
consequently
much
outstrip
them
in
worth
and
excellency
;
the
first
ground
of
this
contentment
is
a
perfect
tranquility
of
Mind
,
which
knows
no
gnawing
nor
remorse
of
conscience
.
The
Soul
(
sayes
Solomon
)
that
rests
in
this
assurance
is
a
continual
banquet
,
after
this
quiet
succeeds
a
great
love
to
God
,
which
yields
a
sweet
relish
to
the
most
embittered
accidents
of
this
life
:
Then
a
vigorous
subduing
of
immortifyed
passions
,
which
like
an
Executioner
tortures
the
greatest
part
of
Worldlings
,
and
makes
them
spin
out
this
miserable
life
in
an
infinity
of
anxieties
,
and
affliction
.
In
a
word
,
it
is
the
property
of
vertue
to
affect
with
delight
that
person
which
puts
himself
upon
the
performance
of
any
Heroick
action
.
Wherefore
a
state
of
perfection
which
teaches
the
practice
of
all
vertues
,
in
the
most
generous
and
disinteressed
way
,
must
needs
be
attended
with
a
great
joy
and
consolation
;
what
pleasure
then
must
it
be
to
be
setled
in
a
condition
of
life
which
is
a
holy
resemblance
of
Heaven
,
surrounded
with
the
precious
ornaments
of
all
vertues
,
wherewith
it
is
decked
and
set
forth
no
less
than
is
the
Firmament
embellished
with
Stars
.
O
what
pleasure
to
be
received
into
the
Houshold
and
Family
of
God
,
to
be
cherished
with
an
amiable
aspect
from
that
grand
Master
,
and
own'd
by
him
as
a
Domestick
;
where
a
multitude
of
graces
and
divine
favours
are
showred
down
;
where
at
every
turn
are
offered
occasions
of
doing
well
,
and
arriving
at
an
admirable
pitch
of
Sanctity
,
and
lastly
,
where
particular
aids
of
grace
are
communicated
to
carry
us
to
our
final
end
and
ete●…al
felicity
!
As
to
the
third
Engin
which
gives
life
to
our
actions
,
that
is
honor
;
what
greater
can
there
be
than
for
a
Soul
to
be
God's
spouse
,
his
favourite
,
and
friend
!
Now
this
state
of
perfection
ennobles
a
person
with
all
these
titles
of
greatness
;
for
vertue
is
the
source
of
honor
,
and
by
how
much
that
excells
in
any
one
,
so
much
is
his
honor
really
advanced
,
this
state
then
being
a
nursery
of
vertues
,
wherein
the
most
excellent
are
practised
,
and
in
the
most
excellent
manner
,
as
squared
out
to
the
Evangelical
Councels
,
it
followes
that
such
are
truly
noble
who
are
enlisted
under
the
sublime
Standard
of
so
perfect
and
Christian
a
warfare
.
First
,
they
practise
the
method
of
getting
honor
;
that
is
,
by
flying
it
;
for
honor
resembles
a
shadow
that
flyes
the
pursuer
,
and
pursues
the
fugitive
.
Next
,
they
profess
humility
,
and
the
Son
of
God
hath
protested
,
that
those
who
humble
themselves
shall
be
exalted
.
Thirdly
,
they
incessantly
praise
and
glorifie
God
both
by
their
deeds
and
words
;
now
Christ
sayes
,
those
that
glorify
him
shall
be
glorifyed
by
him
.
Wherefore
this
state
cannot
be
but
truly
glorious
and
honorable
,
in
which
are
comprised
in
its
perfection
all
that
is
either
to
our
profit
,
pleasure
or
honor
.
Some
who
would
diminish
the
worth
of
this
Sacrifice
object
,
that
many
languish
under
the
Yoak
of
their
vocation
,
and
lead
a
life
more
embittered
than
others
in
a
worldly
conversation
.
To
which
I
answer
,
that
those
defects
spring
not
from
the
State
,
but
from
the
immortifyedness
,
pride
,
indevotion
,
and
other
evil
qualities
in
particular
persons
,
who
were
they
such
as
their
state
requires
,
would
trip
with
joy
in
their
tribulation
,
acknowledge
themselves
singularly
countenanced
by
Heaven
,
that
when
they
were
in
the
midst
of
a
depraved
and
corrupted
world
,
he
drew
them
off
clear
from
all
its
hazzards
and
miseries
;
to
plant
them
in
a
Land
flowing
with
Milk
and
Hony
:
That
having
rescued
them
from
a
party
,
that
would
have
betrayed
and
given
them
up
to
death
,
he
admitted
them
inhabitants
of
God's
City
upon
Earth
;
who
will
be
to
them
a
loving
and
indulgent
Mother
,
and
transmit
them
rich
laden
with
merit
into
the
Land
of
the
living
;
in
case
they
acquit
themselves
faithfully
of
their
duty
:
This
I
say
would
be
their
Harmony
were
they
not
ungrateful
,
and
by
their
Chagrin
and
Male-contented
humour
,
distastful
to
God
and
themselves
,
and
so
unworthy
of
the
dignity
of
their
state
.
But
whilst
I
thus
exalt
this
Sacrifice
,
which
is
the
purchase
of
that
eternal
victime
offered
up
on
the
Cross
,
yet
I
am
not
so
transported
with
its
excellency
,
as
not
to
know
it
hath
its
proper
Crosses
,
nor
do
I
blush
to
confess
it
,
since
every
difficulty
finds
there
likewise
its
Consolation
.
First
,
the
indigent
life
there
led
is
many
times
but
a
simple
dispropriation
;
where
we
find
more
necessaries
for
a
subsistence
than
an
infinity
of
persons
in
the
World
enjoy
,
who
by
constraint
is
feign
to
continue
poor
:
Besides
,
this
poverty
will
be
recompenced
with
a
hundred-fold
in
eternal
treasures
,
and
to
this
performance
the
Son
of
God
hath
engaged
himself
.
Chastity
there
observed
is
a
life
Angelical
,
and
an
imitation
of
that
eternal
,
wherein
no
marriage
will
be
admitted
,
it
frees
them
from
a
million
of
cares
,
sufferings
and
perplexities
which
married
persons
experiment
at
a
dear
rate
,
and
thence
frankly
confess
their
state
to
be
much
less
happy
.
Obedience
is
a
life
without
curiosity
,
a
secure
navigation
,
and
an
excuse
of
weight
with
God
:
It
is
a
journey
performed
sleeping
;
for
whilst
you
obey
,
you
repose
quietly
in
the
conduct
of
another
,
and
by
that
,
avoid
a
thousand
dangers
and
difficulties
incident
to
those
,
who
live
at
the
Helm
of
their
own
will
and
liberty
.
If
they
are
startled
at
the
necessity
of
cohabiting
with
some
who
may
be
of
a
strange
peevish
and
cross
humour
,
and
with
these
they
must
continue
even
to
death
;
this
I
confess
may
happen
sometimes
,
yet
not
alwayes
;
but
as
to
this
likewise
there
is
often
a
mistake
,
the
froward
humour
being
rather
in
themselves
than
in
their
companion
,
so
that
possessing
a
spirit
like
that
of
the
Jaundice
,
all
they
behold
appears
yellow
to
them
:
But
admit
they
are
really
so
,
that
is
,
thwarting
and
contradictory
,
perhaps
God
hath
given
them
to
you
,
that
they
may
be
converted
and
saved
by
your
mildness
and
patience
,
at
least
to
be
unto
you
occasion
of
merit
:
Christ
our
Lord
disdained
not
to
cohabit
with
Judas
,
and
if
they
discharge
not
their
duty
to
you
,
at
least
do
yours
to
them
,
and
so
you
will
hammer
out
a
Crown
at
their
cost
,
and
by
means
of
their
unpleasing
stroaks
.
In
a
word
,
if
you
have
a
love
for
God
,
and
a
serious
thought
of
Eternity
,
be
it
of
Heaven
or
Hell
;
if
you
consider
the
torments
and
death
of
Jesus
Christ
,
nothing
will
seem
harsh
or
tedious
to
you
in
this
life
:
If
you
consider
the
immense
obligations
you
owe
to
your
Redeemer
,
you
will
lament
in
that
you
have
but
one
life
to
Sacrifice
for
him
,
that
hath
lost
his
own
so
worthy
upon
the
Altar
of
the
Cross
for
your
sake
:
You
will
repine
that
nature
allowes
you
but
a
term
of
sixty
years
or
thereabouts
in
this
world
to
spin
out
in
his
service
;
since
he
hath
surrendered
up
his
life
for
you
,
of
which
one
moment
is
more
to
be
valued
than
all
the
duration
and
existence
of
Men
and
Angels
.
This
is
the
Sacrifice
of
Calves
,
which
our
Penitent
had
in
his
prophetick
view
,
and
it
leaves
a
sweet
relish
in
his
Mind
,
with
which
he
concludes
his
petition
.
It
was
doubtless
matter
of
great
joy
to
our
Penitent
,
to
consider
the
powerful
operation
of
Christ's
Spirit
,
that
would
draw
Men
from
sensual
pleasures
,
and
baits
of
this
World
,
induce
them
to
contemn
riches
,
honors
,
and
Earthly
glory
,
and
exchange
these
for
hair-cloths
,
fasting
,
disciplines
,
and
other
mortifications
of
the
flesh
;
and
this
to
be
acted
by
persons
great
in
dignity
,
swimming
in
a
full
plenty
of
wealth
,
and
endued
with
intellectual
parts
even
to
admiration
:
Millions
of
these
have
shrowded
themselves
within
the
Walls
of
a
poor
habitation
,
where
cloathed
with
a
course
habit
they
have
led
a
life
wholly
Angelical
,
and
made
themselves
a
daily
Sacrifice
,
unto
God
beautifyed
with
a
religious
simplicity
,
which
surpasses
all
the
wisdom
of
the
World
,
and
so
fulfilled
the
prophecy
of
our
happy
Penitent
;
Then
(
that
is
in
the
Church
to
be
established
and
founded
by
the
Messias
)
they
will
lay
Calves
on
thy
Altar
.
The
Application
.
Our
Holy
Penitent
here
entertains
himself
with
the
grateful
returns
which
Christians
were
to
make
in
consideration
of
Christ's
eternal
Sacrifice
,
and
certainly
there
is
no
state
speaks
so
much
a
generous
love
to
God
,
as
that
of
a
contemplative
life
,
where
we
behold
Men
devested
of
all
self
love
,
to
become
perfect
slaves
to
the
divine
will
;
freed
from
all
adhesion
to
created
things
,
that
in
charity
they
might
be
united
to
God
,
avoiding
the
World's
conversation
,
the
better
to
enjoy
God's
presence
,
that
since
they
cannot
live
without
him
,
at
least
they
might
live
with
him
as
much
as
the
condition
of
this
mortal
life
will
bear
.
To
contemplate
so
many
thousand
Families
,
where
Creatures
anticipate
their
felicity
by
praising
God
incessantly
,
and
who
seem
not
to
subsist
but
by
the
dew
of
a
Holy
Love
,
like
the
Seraphims
in
Heaven
.
Ah
let
us
then
conclude
with
our
Holy
Penitent
,
and
bless
the
divine
Providence
,
who
hath
in
the
revolution
of
so
many
ages
received
the
perfume
of
prayers
and
thanksgivings
,
from
an
infinity
of
pure
innocent
Souls
,
consecrated
in
a
peculiar
manner
to
his
glory
and
service
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.