¶
A
Preparation
vnto
FASTING
and
REPENTANCE
.
GEN.
Chap.
18.
vers.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
&c.
20
And
the
Lord
saide
,
Because
the
cry
of
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
is
great
,
and
because
their
Sinne
is
very
grieuous
.
21
I
will
goe
downe
now
,
and
see
whether
they
haue
done
altogether
according
to
the
cry
of
it
,
which
is
come
vnto
mee
,
and
if
not
,
I
will
know
,
&c.
IT
is
not
needfull
my
brethren
to
represent
&
shew
forth
vnto
you
the
extraordinary
occasions
,
for
the
which
we
are
inuited
to
afflict
our
soules
,
and
sanctifie
a
Fast
by
Repentance
;
seeing
that
we
want
not
ordinary
causes
:
The
enmity
of
Satan
,
and
of
the
world
,
the
feeblenesse
of
the
Church
,
the
Name
of
God
blasphemed
,
our
vices
that
doe
increase
,
our
zeale
which
waxeth
cold
,
the
hand
of
God
lifted
vp
to
strike
vs
,
and
his
rods
prepared
,
doe
binde
vs
to
tremble
vnder
his
hand
,
and
preuent
his
iudgements
by
Fasting
and
Repentance
;
least
GOD
send
vs
another
kinde
of
Fasting
,
making
vs
to
Fast
from
his
Word
,
which
is
the
spirituall
bread
,
sending
vs
that
famine
prophecied
by
the
Prophet
Amos
,
not
a
famine
of
bread
,
but
a
famine
of
the
hearing
of
the
Word
of
God
,
for
a
punishment
,
because
we
taste
this
spiritual
bread
with
distaste
,
and
receiue
not
his
Word
with
reuerence
.
Let
vs
doe
in
such
sort
,
that
our
humiliation
may
be
acceptable
vnto
God
,
and
that
whiles
our
bodies
are
voide
of
meate
,
we
haue
not
our
hearts
replenished
with
hatred
and
rancour
,
that
whiles
wee
abstaine
from
drinking
,
we
be
not
drunken
with
pride
:
(
for
God
doth
as
much
detest
the
fast
of
the
hypocrite
,
as
the
dissolutenes
of
the
prophane
;
)
that
our
mouthes
doe
not
only
abstaine
from
meates
,
but
also
from
bad
discourses
and
euill
words
;
that
we
fast
with
our
eares
,
to
keepe
them
shut
against
vaine
and
idle
discourses
,
and
with
our
hands
,
keeping
vs
from
rapine
&
vsury
:
In
a
word
,
that
al
that
which
is
in
vs
,
euen
to
our
secret
thoughts
celebrat
vnto
God
an
holy
Fast
,
and
pleasing
vnto
God
,
through
Iesus
Christ
.
That
we
may
know
that
fasting
is
not
instituted
to
satisfie
the
Iustice
of
God
,
but
to
reuenve
vs
of
our selues
.
That
we
giue
vnto
the
poore
that
which
wee
spare
&
take
from
our selues
,
that
our
voluntary
fasting
may
helpe
and
aide
that
fast
which
the
poore
indureth
of
force
&
necessitie
.
And
while
that
your
bodies
fast
,
let
your
soules
feede
on
the
foode
of
life
,
which
is
a
meate
which
you
must
eate
(
as
of
olde
the
Paschall
Lambe
)
with
bitter
hearbes
,
soaking
it
in
teares
of
repentance
.
Instead
of
sackcloth
,
after
the
fashion
of
the
Elders
,
be
ye
cloathed
and
couered
all
euer
with
holinesse
and
integritie
;
in
lieu
of
sprinckling
of
ashes
,
as
of
olde
,
acknowledge
your selues
,
with
Abraham
,
to
be
dust
and
ashes
,
and
giue
glory
to
GOD
,
in
humbling
your selues
:
Who
knoweth
if
God
will
not
haue
pitty
on
his
people
,
and
will
not
stirre
vp
his
compassions
vpon
his
children
?
For
hauing
in
times
past
staied
the
Sunne
at
the
prayer
of
one
man
,
how
much
more
will
he
stay
and
keepe
backe
his
iudgements
at
the
generall
cry
of
his
whole
Church
,
proceeding
from
faith
,
and
made
strong
by
Repentance
?
To
dispose
our
hearts
thereunto
,
I
haue
chosen
this
excellent
conference
betweene
God
and
his
Seruant
Abraham
;
where
you
see
on
the
one
side
the
nature
of
sinne
,
and
the
vengeance
of
God
when
sins
are
come
to
their
full
&
heaped
measure
:
on
the
other
side
the
patience
and
familiar
accesse
which
hee
affords
to
those
that
loue
him
.
All
this
conference
may
be
reduced
to
these
three
heads
:
I.
Who
he
is
that
speakes
.
II.
How
hee
behaues
himselfe
towards
his
enemies
.
III.
How
milde
and
patient
hee
is
towards
them
that
feare
him
.
I.
PART
.
I.
Who
he
is
that
speakes
.
TOuching
him
that
speakes
vnto
Abraham
,
it
is
said
in
the
beginning
of
the
Chapter
,
that
three
men
did
present
themselues
to
Abraham
;
one
of
those
is
called
a
while
after
the
LORD
:
And
so
in
the
history
of
the
vision
of
the
burning
bush
,
and
in
the
history
of
Gideon
,
and
in
that
of
the
conception
of
Sampson
,
euen
he
who
is
called
an
Angell
,
is
called
the
LORD
;
which
cannot
appertaine
vnto
any
but
vnto
the
Son
of
God
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
:
For
it
is
hee
,
who
being
sent
of
God
,
is
notwithstanding
God
,
and
the
Lord
our
righteousnesse
,
Ieremie
23.
by
whom
euen
then
the
Lord
gouerned
his
Church
,
made
it
feele
his
assistance
and
know
his
wil
;
yea
,
before
the
floud
hee
hath
by
the
mouth
of
Noah
preached
to
the
dead
,
whole
spirits
are
now
in
the
infernall
prison
.
1
Pet.
3.19
.
Perhaps
you
finde
it
strange
that
hee
appeared
vnto
Abraham
in
the
forme
of
a
man
,
as
if
before
he
was
borne
of
the
Virgin
Mary
,
he
had
tooke
mans
nature
;
but
you
must
know
that
the
bodies
wherein
the
Son
of
God
appeared
in
the
olde
Testament
,
were
but
borrowed
bodies
for
a
time
and
by
dispensation
,
the
Deity
of
the
Sonne
not
being
vnited
personally
to
the
body
,
which
was
an
instrument
which
he
vsed
for
the
present
action
onely
,
and
then
left
it
.
Euen
as
a
good
or
a
bad
Angel
may
assume
a
body
and
moue
it
,
without
giuing
it
life
or
forme
,
and
without
making
himselfe
one
person
with
that
body
.
II.
How
God
behaues
himselfe
towards
his
enemies
.
NOw
touching
the
manner
wherein
and
wherby
God
behaueth
himselfe
towards
his
enemies
,
it
is
expressed
vnto
vs
in
these
words
:
And
the
Lord
said
vnto
Abraham
,
Because
the
cry
of
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
is
great
,
&
because
their
sin
is
very
grieuous
,
I
will
goe
downe
now
,
and
see
whether
they
haue
done
altogether
according
to
the
crie
of
it
,
which
is
come
vnto
me
,
and
if
not
,
I
will
know
.
Where
you
see
,
that
God
beares
and
permits
with
patience
the
wicked
to
rule
a
long
time
,
but
when
their
sinne
is
come
to
the
full
,
then
he
vnfolds
and
spreads
abroad
his
terrible
iudgements
;
which
he
doth
here
in
this
place
after
an
inquiry
and
kinde
of
information
,
to
shew
that
he
proceedes
herein
iustly
and
without
precipitation
.
Hee
speakes
then
of
a
sin
that
cries
before
God
,
so
Abels
bloud
,
Gen.
4.
cryeth
from
the
ground
vnto
God
for
vengeance
;
So
Iob
in
the
31.
chapter
,
speaking
of
land
detained
by
an
vniust
possessor
,
saith
,
that
the
land
cryes
against
the
vnlawfull
possessor
,
and
the
furrowes
likewise
therof
complaint
.
And
Habbakuk
Chap.
2.
speaking
of
houses
built
by
extortion
,
saith
,
that
the
stones
cryes
out
of
the
wall
,
and
the
beame
out
of
the
timber
answereth
it
,
as
bearing
witnesse
against
their
master
before
God
.
And
Saint
Iames
in
his
fist
chapter
,
saith
,
that
the
hyre
of
the
labourers
,
which
haue
reaped
downe
your
fieldes
,
which
is
of
you
kept
backe
by
fraud
,
cryeth
,
and
the
cryes
of
them
which
haue
reaped
,
are
entred
into
the
eares
of
the
Lord
of
Sabbath
.
Which
teacheth
vs
,
that
there
are
heinous
sins
that
cry
and
call
God
to
veangeance
,
so
that
though
men
should
holde
their
peace
,
the
thing
it selfe
would
speake
,
as
our
Sauiour
saith
,
Luke
19.
If
these
men
should
hold
their
peace
,
the
stones
would
immediately
cry
out
.
For
euen
as
when
God
speakes
,
the
liuelesse
and
sencelesse
things
vnderstand
:
When
he
speakes
to
the
rocke
,
it
casteth
foorth
water
;
when
he
speakes
to
the
dead
,
they
rise
vp
at
his
word
:
Euen
so
God
vnderstands
the
language
of
sencelesse
things
,
and
brings
them
foorth
to
witnesse
against
them
whom
hee
will
punish
in
his
wrath
.
These
crying
sinnes
are
the
sinnes
that
are
come
to
their
full
measure
,
as
the
iniquitie
of
the
Amorites
in
Ioshuahs
time
;
for
in
Abrahams
time
God
declareth
in
the
15.
chapter
of
Genesis
,
that
the
iniquitie
of
the
Amorites
was
not
yet
full
,
that
is
to
say
,
that
the
measure
was
not
full
to
the
top
as
then
;
according
to
that
which
Christ
Iesus
saith
vnto
the
Iewes
,
Mat.
23
Ye
fill
vp
the
measure
of
your
fathers
:
which
the
Apostle
Paul
,
1
Thess.
2.
saith
,
happened
in
his
time
,
They
fill
vp
their
sinnes
alwayes
,
for
the
wrath
is
come
vpon
them
to
the
vttermost
.
This
last
period
of
sinnes
,
is
when
these
two
things
concurre
in
a
countrey
or
in
a
twone
:
I.
When
siners
doe
boast
of
their
wicked
acts
,
and
haue
lost
that
good
that
remaines
in
sinners
,
to
wit
,
the
shame
of
doing
euill
,
wherein
the
Prophet
Esayas
coupleth
the
Iewes
with
the
Sodomites
,
in
the
3.
chapter
,
They
declare
their
sinne
as
Sodome
,
they
hide
it
not
Such
are
they
of
whom
the
Wise-man
speaketh
in
the
2.
Chapter
of
Prouerbes
,
who
reioyce
to
doe
euil
,
and
delight
in
the
frowardnesse
of
the
wicked
,
which
is
the
third
and
last
degree
of
iniquitie
,
which
Dauid
describeth
in
the
1.
Psal.
namely
,
to
sit
in
the
seat
of
the
scornfull
,
that
is
to
say
,
of
those
that
with
insolency
and
flowting
do
mocke
at
Gods
Word
,
and
take
a
delight
,
yea
,
a
glory
to
despight
and
vexe
him
.
II.
The
second
point
that
makes
this
full
measure
of
sinne
is
,
when
there
is
no
one
man
to
be
found
in
a
citie
or
countrey
that
withstands
the
euill
,
and
opposeth
himselfe
against
it
,
and
as
it
is
said
in
the
12.
Psalme
,
The
godly
man
ceaseth
,
the
faithfull
faile
from
among
the
children
of
men
,
there
is
none
that
doth
good
,
no
not
one
;
none
that
feare
GOD
,
no
not
one
;
or
else
the
number
of
good
men
is
so
small
that
they
are
as
nothing
in
a
crowde
,
and
as
a
graine
of
corne
in
a
heape
of
straw
.
Such
was
the
condition
of
Ierusalem
,
which
Ieremie
deplores
in
his
5.
Chapter
,
Runne
yee
to
and
fro
through
the
streetes
of
Ierusalem
and
see
now
,
and
know
,
and
seeke
in
the
broad
places
thereof
,
if
ye
can
finde
a
man
,
if
there
be
any
that
executeth
iudgement
,
that
seeketh
the
truth
,
and
I
will
pardon
it
.
And
in
the
22.
chapter
of
Ezekiel
,
I
sought
for
a
man
amongst
them
that
should
make
vp
the
hedge
,
and
stand
in
the
gappe
before
me
for
the
land
,
that
I
should
not
destroy
it
,
but
I
found
none
;
therefore
haue
I
powred
out
mine
indignation
vpon
them
,
I
haue
consumed
them
with
the
fire
of
my
wrath
,
their
owne
way
haue
I
recompensed
vpon
their
heads
,
saith
the
Lord
God
.
This
selfe
same
enormitie
and
hainousnesse
of
sinne
is
here
represented
by
the
word
,
aggrauate
,
or
made
heauy
and
weighing
down
,
where
God
saith
,
that
the
sinne
of
Sodome
is
very
grieuous
,
speaking
of
sinnes
as
of
burthens
,
which
ouerwhelme
our
soules
,
and
doe
hinder
them
to
lift
vp
themselues
to
God
,
and
doe
cast
them
downe
headlong
into
the
depth
of
perdition
:
Or
else
he
speakes
of
sinnes
,
as
of
weights
put
in
a
ballance
,
that
carry
them
against
the
patience
of
God
,
and
doe
make
his
will
to
hang
towards
the
side
of
the
punishment
;
therefore
the
Prophet
Zacharie
in
his
fift
Chapter
compares
sin
to
a
lumpe
of
lead
;
and
the
Prophet
Dauid
Psa.
38.
saith
,
his
iniquities
are
gone
ouer
his
head
,
as
an
heauy
burthen
,
they
are
too
heauy
for
him
:
and
the
Prophet
Isaiah
speaking
of
our
sinnes
as
of
heauy
burthens
,
wherewith
Iesus
Christ
hath
charged
himselfe
to
discharge
vs
;
He
hath
borne
our
griefes
,
and
carried
our
sorrowes
,
the
Lord
hath
laid
on
him
the
iniquity
of
vs
all
and
S.
Peter
,
1
Pet
2.
He
hath
borne
our
sinnes
in
his
owne
body
on
the
tree
,
by
whose
stripes
we
are
healed
.
O
how
heauy
was
that
burthen
,
seeing
that
the
least
peece
of
our
sinnes
which
euery
one
of
vs
doe
commit
,
is
a
sufficient
weight
to
cast
vs
down
headlong
,
and
plunge
vs
to
the
bottome
of
the
bottomlesse
pit
!
Now
Iesus
Christ
hath
borne
the
sinnes
of
all
men
on
his
Crosse
.
It
was
the
most
principall
burthen
and
charge
of
Ionas
shippe
;
the
Marriners
laboured
with
strength
of
armes
to
vnload
the
ship
,
&
to
saue
their
liues
did
cast
their
wares
into
the
sea
,
but
the
heauiest
burthen
remained
in
the
ship
,
namely
Ionas
sinne
;
neither
was
there
any
way
to
saue
themselues
,
but
by
casting
him
into
the
sea
.
True
it
is
,
that
as
Leapers
doe
not
feele
nor
smell
their
owne
infection
,
nor
they
that
haue
an
obstructed
and
corrupt
nose
doe
not
smell
the
scent
of
their
breath
;
and
the
swine
wallowing
in
the
mire
doe
finde
that
odour
sweet
;
so
men
plunged
and
steeped
in
sinne
,
feele
not
the
weight
of
their
sinnes
,
because
they
are
as
it
were
borne
and
bred
with
them
,
and
that
this
naturall
euill
groweth
and
increaseth
more
and
more
by
custome
;
which
is
the
reason
which
the
Philosophers
doe
render
,
why
those
that
swimme
betweene
two
waters
,
feele
not
the
weight
of
the
water
which
is
ouer
their
heads
,
because
(
say
they
)
that
an
element
is
not
heauy
in
his
naturall
place
:
Euen
so
sinne
doth
not
oppresse
nor
ouercharge
the
consciences
of
prophane
men
,
and
they
feele
not
their
consciences
burthened
,
because
sin
is
there
in
them
as
in
his
own
naturall
place
,
but
if
God
withdraweth
a
man
out
from
this
bottome
and
depth
,
and
maketh
him
once
to
breath
the
aire
of
his
grace
,
then
the
very
reliques
of
sin
that
are
in
him
weighes
him
much
downe
and
wearies
him
much
.
When
therefore
the
sinne
of
the
wicked
is
come
to
his
full
and
last
measure
,
then
God
,
who
by
his
patience
hath
inuited
sinners
to
repentance
,
who
hath
vncouered
,
dunged
,
and
pruned
this
barren
figge-tree
three
yeares
long
,
finally
seeing
that
it
bringeth
forth
no
fruit
,
and
that
the
sinner
mocks
at
his
long
patience
,
commands
that
the
are
be
laid
vnto
the
roote
of
this
cursed
tree
,
and
rewardeth
his
long
expectation
with
the
greatnesse
of
his
punishment
.
Euen
as
when
a
woman
condemned
to
death
by
law
being
found
with
childe
,
her
execution
is
deferred
till
she
be
deliuered
of
of
her
childe
;
so
although
God
hath
already
determined
in
his
councell
to
punish
some
wicked
men
,
notwithstanding
he
stayes
till
the
sin
which
they
haue
conceiued
in
their
hearts
,
be
brought
to
ripenesse
;
during
which
time
the
sinner
often
makes
merry
,
as
malefactors
doe
,
who
to
driue
themselues
from
their
dumpes
,
play
in
prison
at
cards
and
dice
;
but
before
God
the
day
and
houre
of
their
execution
is
decreed
.
Notwithstanding
before
he
comes
to
that
point
,
hee
speakes
as
if
he
doubted
of
the
truth
,
and
prepares
himselfe
to
make
a
kinde
of
information
and
enquest
.
I
wil
goe
downe
and
see
now
,
saith
he
)
whether
they
haue
done
altogether
according
to
the
cry
of
it
,
which
is
come
vnto
me
:
And
so
in
the
confusion
of
languages
God
descends
,
to
see
what
the
children
of
men
builded
,
and
to
haue
knowledge
thereof
.
These
things
are
said
after
the
fashion
of
men
,
for
God
descends
not
,
seeing
he
is
euery
where
,
and
hath
no
need
to
enquire
,
seeing
hee
knoweth
all
things
;
but
the
holy
Ghost
stuttereth
with
vs
,
as
with
children
,
in
humane
words
,
of
Diuine
things
.
God
comes
downe
to
vs
,
when
he
makes
himselfe
to
be
felt
of
vs
;
he
stretcheth
his
arme
,
when
he
displayes
his
strength
;
hee
moues
himselfe
when
hee
will
mooue
vs
;
he
wakens
when
he
makes
it
knowne
that
he
hath
not
slept
;
hee
enquires
of
the
sinnes
of
men
,
when
he
will
conuict
and
conuince
them
;
hee
speakes
as
doubting
,
when
he
will
put
vs
out
of
doubt
of
the
certainty
and
full
knowledge
of
our
actions
.
Notwithstanding
God
giueth
by
this
practise
a
rule
vnto
Magistrates
,
not
to
iudge
till
after
a
carefull
enquiry
,
and
after
a
ripe
consideration
,
and
to
vndergoe
that
Law
which
God
hath
imposed
vnto
himselfe
,
saying
,
I
will
goe
now
downe
and
see
if
it
be
thus
and
thus
:
Which
is
also
a
warning
to
all
particular
men
,
that
they
be
not
vniustly
prone
to
beleeue
calumnies
,
nor
rashly
vniust
to
condemne
others
without
being
well
informed
of
the
truth
;
but
expecting
the
iudgement
of
GOD
that
will
make
all
things
manifest
,
let
vs
beware
that
wee
giue
not
rashly
our
iudgement
.
III.
How
gentle
and
milde
God
is
towards
them
that
feare
him
,
and
the
care
hee
hath
of
his
children
.
THe
third
point
is
the
manner
,
how
God
behaues
himselfe
towards
those
that
feare
him
.
This
point
requires
a
more
carefull
and
serious
consideration
,
because
it
toucheth
vs
more
particularly
.
Of
these
three
men
setting
themselues
forwards
towards
Sodome
;
two
of
them
goe
on
their
way
,
but
the
third
who
is
called
the
Lord
,
stayes
with
Abraham
who
being
in
thought
for
his
nephew
Lot
,
fearing
least
he
should
be
intrapped
and
inwrapped
in
the
ruine
and
destruction
of
Sodome
,
makes
intercession
for
the
men
thereof
:
Wilt
thou
also
destroy
the
righteous
with
the
wicked
?
shall
not
the
iudge
of
all
the
earth
doe
right
?
Hee
could
not
better
ground
his
supplication
,
then
on
Gods
Iustice
as
Saint
Paul
saith
,
Rom.
3.
What
shall
we
say
,
is
God
vnrighteous
who
taketh
vengeance
?
God
forbid
,
for
then
how
shall
God
iudge
the
world
?
God
being
by
nature
righteousnesse
it selfe
,
can
no
more
do
iniustice
,
then
white
can
black
,
or
the
flame
can
freez
.
To
say
that
God
is
vnrighteous
,
is
to
say
hee
is
God
and
is
not
God
,
for
to
be
,
and
to
be
righteous
,
are
one
thing
with
God
,
not
as
with
men
,
or
Angels
,
who
are
susceptible
of
contrary
qualities
without
corruption
of
their
substance
.
Euen
as
the
right
of
gouerning
and
of
iudging
the
world
,
is
deuolued
and
fallen
to
him
by
inheritance
,
not
happened
by
election
:
so
neither
is
he
iust
and
righteous
to
be
conformable
to
lawes
that
any
hath
imposed
to
him
,
but
as
his
Empire
,
so
his
Iustice
is
naturall
.
This
righteousnesse
being
necessarily
ioyned
with
goodnesse
,
Abraham
had
reason
to
presuppose
,
that
it
was
more
conuenient
and
befitting
this
vpright
goodnesse
,
to
support
the
wicked
for
the
good
mens
sake
,
then
to
destroy
the
good
for
the
wickeds
sake
.
Notwithstanding
it
seemes
this
beares
many
exceptions
,
and
hath
many
difficulties
.
For
not
to
speake
of
afflictions
for
Gods
cause
,
which
befall
the
faithfull
alone
,
while
that
the
vngodly
prosper
as
Christ
saith
,
Yee
shall
weepe
,
but
the
world
shall
reioyce
,
because
these
afflictions
are
honourable
,
a
glorious
reproach
,
honest
brands
&
blemishes
,
scarfe
,
and
liueries
of
our
warfare
,
and
conformities
to
Iesus
Christ
,
I
will
speake
onely
of
euils
and
afflictions
wherewith
God
punisheth
the
good
with
the
wicked
,
and
that
because
of
the
wicked
:
God
had
foretolde
by
his
Prophets
,
that
by
reason
of
the
sins
of
the
people
,
the
land
should
vomit
out
her
Inhabitants
,
which
was
fulfilled
when
Nebuchadnezzar
did
lead
the
people
captiue
into
Babylon
;
with
the
multitude
of
this
rebellious
people
,
Daniel
and
Ezekiel
were
led
also
away
,
as
also
those
three
men
,
who
by
the
heate
of
their
faith
,
ouercame
the
heate
of
the
burning
furnace
.
There
were
the
good
afflicted
,
for
the
wicked
mens
sake
.
There
were
seauen
thousand
in
Samaria
,
and
among
the
ten
tribes
,
that
had
not
bowed
their
knees
vnto
Baal
,
were
those
exempted
from
the
publicke
calamitie
,
when
as
Salmanazar
&
Tiglatpilezer
kings
of
Syria
did
leade
the
ten
tribes
into
captiuitie
.
Doth
not
God
say
by
his
Prophet
Ezekiel
,
Chap.
21.
that
his
sword
shall
cut
off
from
the
land
of
Israel
,
the
righteous
and
the
wicked
.
And
when
God
saith
in
the
18.
Chapter
of
the
Reuelation
,
Come
out
of
Babylon
my
people
that
ye
be
not
partakers
of
her
sinnes
,
and
that
ye
receiue
not
of
her
plagnes
?
doth
hee
not
warne
them
,
that
if
any
of
his
people
remaine
there
,
he
shall
be
partaker
of
the
plagues
of
Babylon
?
And
if
God
would
now
at
this
time
afflict
a
kingdome
,
giuen
ouer
to
idolatry
,
and
should
finde
there
a
generall
plague
,
who
doubts
but
that
the
faithfull
mixt
with
the
Idolaters
should
incurre
the
same
danger
?
To
explaine
vnto
you
this
point
.
Obserue
that
when
God
visits
a
kingdome
,
or
a
Citie
,
with
a
generall
affliction
,
by
reason
of
the
wickednesse
of
the
people
,
then
those
of
the
faithfull
,
mixt
with
the
wicked
shall
escape
,
whom
God
intends
to
make
as
yet
vse
of
,
and
to
imploy
them
for
his
glory
,
and
for
the
good
of
his
Church
.
So
hee
saued
Noah
from
the
vniuersall
Floud
;
because
hee
would
reserue
him
,
and
make
vse
of
him
,
for
the
preseruation
of
mankinde
.
So
also
in
the
dayes
of
the
Emperour
Vespasian
,
the
Church
of
the
Apostles
that
was
in
Ierusalem
,
was
warned
to
goe
out
of
the
Citie
,
and
withdraw
her selfe
to
Pella
on
the
other
side
of
Iordan
,
least
shee
should
be
inclosed
by
the
enemies
in
the
besieging
of
the
Citie
,
whereby
it
was
razed
down
and
the
people
destroyed
.
And
in
the
14.
Chapter
of
Ezekiel
,
God
speakes
after
this
manner
:
Sonne
of
man
,
when
the
land
sinneth
against
my
by
trespassing
grieuously
,
then
will
I
stretch
out
mine
hand
vpon
it
,
and
will
breake
the
staffe
of
the
bread
thereof
,
and
will
send
famine
vpon
it
,
and
will
cut
off
man
and
beast
from
it
;
though
those
three
men
,
Noah
,
Daniel
,
and
Iob
were
in
it
,
they
should
deliuer
but
their
owne
soules
by
their
righteousnesse
,
saith
the
Lord
God
;
they
shall
not
deliuer
neither
sonnes
nor
daughters
,
they
onely
shall
be
deliuered
;
Because
that
the
conseruation
of
these
men
was
profitable
to
the
Church
of
God
.
But
if
God
,
who
prouides
for
his
worke
as
it
pleaseth
him
,
will
imploy
no
more
such
a
one
,
and
will
quickly
giue
him
the
possession
of
eternall
life
,
then
maruell
not
if
he
die
as
the
rest
doe
;
and
if
the
like
and
semblable
accidents
do
befall
him
;
notwithstanding
in
his
common
afflictions
with
the
wicked
,
he
hath
particular
consolation
;
God
giues
him
grace
to
profit
by
his
chastisements
,
and
to
take
these
banishments
for
flights
from
the
world
,
and
walking
towards
God
:
Pouerty
is
vnto
him
a
wholesome
and
profitable
dyet
,
and
an
exercise
of
abstinence
.
In
his
death-bringing
sickenesse
,
Gods
Angel
assists
him
,
who
wipes
off
from
him
his
sweaty
drops
of
bloud
,
and
Christ
Iesus
neere
him
shewing
him
the
crowne
of
Glory
.
His
death
is
as
farre
different
from
the
death
of
others
,
as
there
is
difference
betweene
the
gates
of
hell
,
and
the
Kingdome
of
God
.
So
Threshers
with
the
same
flaile
doe
alike
thresh
both
the
corne
and
the
straw
,
but
to
diuers
endes
;
which
are
as
Christ
Iesus
saith
,
To
gather
the
Wheate
into
the
Barne
,
but
to
binde
the
straw
in
bundles
,
to
burne
it
in
the
vnquenchable
fire
.
So
the
passage
through
the
red
Sea
,
was
the
ruine
of
the
Egyptians
,
but
was
to
the
Church
of
God
a
passage
to
arriue
vnto
the
promised
inheritance
.
In
a
word
,
the
chastisements
wherewith
God
doth
visite
the
faithfull
,
shall
neuer
be
fully
distinct
and
separated
from
those
of
the
wicked
before
the
day
of
iudgement
;
for
then
the
sheepe
shall
be
called
out
from
among
the
goates
,
diuided
and
set
a
part
,
and
the
tares
growen
pell-mell
,
and
confusedly
mingled
with
Wheate
▪
and
that
hath
together
endured
both
storme
and
weather
,
winde
and
havle
,
shall
be
picked
vp
by
the
Angels
,
euen
vnto
the
very
last
slip
and
sprig
,
and
be
bound
in
bottles
,
to
be
cast
into
the
euerlasting
fire
.
Notwithstanding
,
Abraham
might
seeme
to
passe
the
limits
of
modesty
in
this
demaund
,
as
ready
to
controule
the
actions
of
God
,
Wilt
thou
(
saith
hee
)
destroy
the
righteous
with
the
wicked
?
that
be
farre
from
thee
;
as
shewing
vnto
God
his
duty
.
Then
afterwards
hee
seemes
to
vse
policy
and
Art
towards
God
,
endeuouring
to
obtaine
of
God
by
retaile
and
parcels
,
that
which
hee
thinkes
hee
shall
not
get
by
the
whole
,
and
all
at
one
time
;
saying
,
If
there
be
fifty
righteous
in
the
Citie
,
wilt
thou
notspare
the
place
for
the
fifty
righteous
that
are
therein
?
And
this
being
granted
vnto
him
,
from
fifty
he
comes
to
forty
fiue
,
and
from
that
to
forty
,
and
from
that
to
thirty
,
and
so
at
last
vnto
ten
.
Hardly
I
suppose
is
there
to
be
found
any
Prince
,
be
hee
neuer
so
meane
and
pettie
,
that
would
endure
that
any
of
his
seruants
should
leade
him
so
by
degrees
,
and
abuse
thus
his
gentlenesse
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
there
is
some
comparison
betweene
the
greatest
Prince
of
the
world
,
and
the
meanest
begger
,
yea
,
betweene
the
excellentest
Angell
,
and
betweene
the
Pismire
and
worme
,
the
distance
and
inequalitie
is
not
infinite
,
for
they
are
creatures
,
and
there
can
be
no
infinite
distance
betwixt
two
finite
things
;
but
there
is
no
comparison
betweene
God
and
the
most
excellent
creature
that
is
;
how
much
lesse
betweene
God
and
between
a
man
,
a
sinner
as
Abraham
was
,
who
acknowledgeth
himselfe
to
be
nought
but
dust
and
ashes
?
whose
light
is
nought
but
darkenesse
?
whose
righteouinesse
is
as
filthy
ragges
?
whose
strength
is
as
smoake
that
vanisheth
away
?
If
God
findes
no
stedfastnesse
in
his
Angels
,
how
much
lesse
in
them
that
dwell
in
houses
of
clay
,
whose
foundation
is
in
the
dust
,
which
are
crushed
before
the
Moth
?
Such
as
was
the
splendor
of
Herods
robes
,
when
hee
was
eaten
of
wormes
and
gaue
vp
the
ghost
,
in
comparison
of
the
brightnesse
of
the
Sun
,
such
is
the
glory
of
man
in
the
presence
of
God
,
and
that
small
lustre
which
he
hath
in
this
world
,
is
accompanied
with
thousands
of
briers
and
incommodities
,
like
a
gloe-worme
in
the
midst
of
a
bush
.
What
thinke
ye
is
the
highest
heauen
before
God
?
It
is
as
a
point
in
his
presence
;
and
what
is
the
earth
in
regard
of
heauen
,
but
as
a
point
in
comparison
?
And
what
is
a
man
in
comparison
of
the
whole
earth
,
but
as
a
Pismire
wandring
in
a
large
countrey
?
as
the
Prophet
Isaiah
Chapter
40.
speaketh
,
Behold
the
nations
are
as
a
drop
of
a
Bueket
,
and
are
counted
as
the
small
dust
of
the
ballance
,
and
are
as
nothing
before
him
.
And
therefore
Abraham
saith
,
Behold
I
haue
taken
vpon
me
to
speake
vnto
the
Lord
,
which
am
but
dust
and
ashes
.
It
is
also
the
end
for
the
which
God
hath
created
man
of
the
dust
,
to
the
end
that
if
he
should
happen
to
glory
of
the
light
of
his
vnderstanding
,
hee
should
be
presently
abased
and
abated
by
the
remembrance
of
the
birth
and
beginning
of
his
body
,
and
by
the
feeling
of
his
infirmity
;
and
to
the
end
hee
should
vse
and
imploy
this
reason
to
pray
vnto
God
,
who
lifteth
the
poore
from
the
dust
,
and
powreth
his
treasures
into
earthen
vessels
,
that
he
would
not
contest
against
dust
,
nor
enter
into
an
accompt
with
ashes
;
that
he
would
let
it
dissolue
by
nature
,
without
dissoluing
it
before
his
time
by
the
violence
of
his
wrath
.
This
is
the
consideration
which
Dauid
brings
in
the
103.
Psalme
,
to
moue
God
to
clemency
and
compassion
.
Like
as
a
father
pittieth
his
children
,
so
the
Lord
pittieth
them
that
feare
him
;
for
he
knoweth
our
frame
,
he
remembreth
that
we
are
dust
,
before
whom
wee
cannot
present
our selues
,
but
our
haires
must
stare
,
our
blood
must
freeze
within
vs
,
and
all
the
pride
wee
haue
in
vs
must
needes
be
abated
by
feare
.
All
these
considerations
might
make
this
priuate
familiaritie
of
Abraham
with
God
,
seeme
to
be
excessiue
,
as
intending
to
controule
the
actions
of
God
;
and
his
cunning
with
small
respect
to
insinuate
himselfe
little
by
little
,
and
obtaine
by
peeces
that
which
hee
durst
not
demand
all
at
once
.
Notwithstanding
in
that
God
heareth
him
willingly
,
and
accepts
his
demaund
,
hinders
vs
to
presume
of
any
euill
in
such
an
holy
and
excellent
seruant
of
God
.
To
resolue
you
of
this
point
,
ye
must
know
that
in
a
great
similitude
of
words
,
there
is
often
a
great
dissimilitude
of
sence
and
intention
.
Two
persons
sometimes
will
vse
the
same
words
,
and
make
the
same
signes
,
but
to
diuers
ends
,
and
with
different
intentions
.
As
in
the
17.
Chapter
of
Genesis
,
Abraham
laughes
at
the
promise
which
God
made
him
touching
a
Sonne
,
this
laughter
in
him
is
not
reproued
,
because
it
proceeded
of
ioy
,
not
of
distrust
;
but
in
the
18.
Chapter
Sarah
laughes
at
the
selfe
same
thing
,
and
is
checked
for
it
,
because
God
did
perceiue
therein
her
distrust
,
as
if
the
thing
was
impossible
.
Zacharie
the
father
of
Iohn
Baptist
and
the
Virgin
Mary
doe
answere
the
Angel
in
words
alike
,
saying
,
How
shall
this
be
?
In
Zacharie
it
was
a
How
of
doubt
,
in
the
holy
virgin
Mary
it
was
a
How
of
inquiry
,
to
demand
instruction
.
Who
could
approue
in
any
other
then
in
Moses
these
bolde
words
,
Yet
now
if
thou
wilt
,
forgiue
their
sinne
,
if
not
,
blot
mee
I
pray
thee
out
of
thy
booke
which
thou
hast
written
?
You
know
that
Iob
and
Ieremie
prest
with
anguish
,
haue
cursed
the
day
of
their
birth
.
I
thinke
that
those
that
are
tormented
in
hell
,
say
the
very
same
thing
;
for
as
Christ
saith
of
Iudas
,
it
had
beene
good
for
those
men
,
that
they
had
neuer
beene
borne
.
But
other
was
the
motion
that
droue
these
holy
men
to
this
,
other
the
murmuring
of
the
damned
;
for
these
are
moued
and
set
on
with
hatred
against
God
,
but
Iob
and
Ieremie
haue
suffered
themselues
to
slippe
by
infirmitie
to
these
words
of
excesse
,
wherein
I
doubt
not
but
they
haue
greatly
offended
God
,
and
haue
asked
him
pardon
thereof
.
The
bubling
of
their
anguish
haue
casted
forth
for
once
this
scumme
of
their
impatience
;
So
in
a
man
weaker
in
faith
then
Abraham
,
and
lesse
accustomed
to
conferre
with
God
familiarly
,
this
priuate
familiarity
might
seeme
excessiue
;
but
the
humility
whereby
he
acknowledgeth
himselfe
dust
and
ashes
,
and
the
fauourable
answeres
of
God
to
his
demands
,
doe
exempt
him
from
the
crime
of
temerity
.
Let
vs
not
impute
to
subtilty
this
kinde
of
insinuating
himselfe
so
by
degrees
,
nor
looke
for
any
craft
therin
;
let
vs
rather
attribute
it
to
the
nature
of
faith
,
which
imboldeneth
her selfe
by
degrees
,
and
maketh
her selfe
familiar
little
by
little
,
by
how
much
shee
acknowledgeth
the
effects
of
Gods
fauour
;
for
the
first
fauourable
answers
doe
giue
liberty
to
make
others
,
the
first
graces
of
God
doe
containe
couert
promises
of
increasing
of
graces
;
for
God
giueth
because
he
hath
giuen
,
his
first
liberalities
doe
inuite
the
following
ones
,
hee
crownes
not
our
merits
but
his
gifts
,
his
gifts
and
his
calling
are
without
repentance
.
This
priuate
familiarity
of
Abraham
therefore
,
was
without
contempt
,
his
boldnesse
was
modest
;
his
confidence
humble
;
which
hee
testifies
in
acknowledging
himselfe
dust
and
ashes
,
for
without
this
humility
his
prayer
had
beene
vnpleasing
to
God
,
who
reiects
the
prayer
of
the
proud
,
and
inclines
his
care
vnto
those
that
haue
a
contrite
and
broken
spirit
,
as
it
is
said
in
Isaiah
,
Chapter
66.
I
will
looke
to
him
that
is
poore
and
of
a
contrite
spirit
,
and
trembleth
at
my
word
.
God
sendeth
raine
in
greater
abundance
on
low
places
,
yea
,
&
when
it
doth
fall
on
high
places
it
stayes
not
there
.
And
if
any
great
tempest
or
furious
storme
happeneth
,
the
Oake
and
Ashe
trees
are
ouerthrowne
and
cast
downe
to
the
earth
,
but
the
Time
and
Marioram
remaine
whole
.
Gods
graces
falling
vpon
the
proud
doe
not
stop
nor
settle
there
;
God
resisteth
the
proud
,
but
giueth
grace
vnto
the
humble
:
To
aske
of
God
graces
with
a
haughty
spirit
,
and
opinion
of
his
owne
righteousnesse
,
is
to
be
like
him
that
should
begge
with
a
suit
of
cloath
of
gold
and
all
perfumed
;
he
that
askes
after
such
an
vndecent
manner
must
looke
to
be
refused
.
Notwithstanding
in
this
gradation
of
Abrahams
de●…ands
,
considering
that
he
being
come
to
the
number
of
ten
,
he
stayes
there
,
and
saith
not
,
but
Lord
if
there
be
fiue
found
within
the
Citie
,
wilt
thou
not
spare
the
place
for
those
fiue
righteous
?
Whither
it
was
because
Abraham
did
iudge
in
himselfe
,
that
hee
ought
to
subscribe
to
the
decree
and
sentence
of
the
iustice
of
God
,
and
acknowledged
that
it
was
a
iust
thing
that
a
great
Citie
in
the
which
ten
righteous
men
were
not
to
be
found
,
should
be
destroyed
,
and
that
hee
ought
not
to
make
intercession
for
it
:
Or
whither
it
was
,
because
God
hindered
him
to
proceede
on
in
his
demands
,
least
hee
should
aske
things
contrary
to
Gods
decree
and
ordinance
,
and
that
thereupon
God
should
haue
been
faine
to
haue
refused
him
,
and
reiect
his
prayer
;
for
often
in
the
Scripture
God
forbids
his
seruants
to
make
intercession
for
such
and
such
,
when
hee
is
resolued
not
to
pardon
them
;
he
forbids
Samuel
to
pray
for
Saul
,
and
Ieremie
to
make
intercession
for
the
Iewes
,
because
God
holdes
it
not
conuenient
to
his
goodnesse
,
to
permit
his
children
to
pray
vnprofitably
and
without
reaping
some
fruit
.
Obserue
also
that
in
this
conference
of
God
with
Abraham
,
and
often
elsewhere
,
the
faithfull
are
called
righteous
,
not
that
they
are
without
sinne
,
but
in
comparison
of
the
wicked
;
and
because
God
wipeth
out
their
sinnes
by
his
mercy
for
his
Sonnes
sake
,
whom
Ieremie
calleth
the
Lord
,
our
righteousnesse
,
Ieremie
23.
Sometimes
also
because
of
the
righteousnesse
of
the
cause
,
which
they
maintaine
,
and
for
the
which
cause
they
are
persecuted
:
So
Noah
,
Lot
,
Iob
,
Daniel
,
and
Zacharie
are
called
righteous
,
though
Noab
fell
into
drunkennesse
,
Lot
committed
incest
,
Dauid
adultery
and
murther
,
Iob
cursed
the
day
of
his
birth
,
Zachrie
doubted
of
Gods
promises
;
which
faults
are
as
warts
in
a
faire
face
,
which
seeme
as
an
exposition
of
this
word
Righteous
.
That
we
may
know
,
that
when
Christ
Iesus
saith
that
hee
is
not
come
for
the
righteous
,
but
to
call
sinners
to
repentance
,
these
sinners
are
righteous
in
some
sort
,
and
that
Iesus
Christ
by
the
righteous
vnderstands
those
that
thinke
they
are
without
sin
.
Our
righteousnesse
consists
in
acknowledging
our
vnrighteousnesse
,
and
in
cloathing
our selues
with
the
righteousnes
of
Iesus
Christ
,
who
hath
beene
made
sinne
for
vs
,
that
wee
might
be
made
the
righteousnesse
of
God
in
him
,
2
Cor.
5.
By
his
knowledge
shall
my
righteous
seruant
iustifie
many
Isa.
53.
Who
of
God
is
made
vnto
vs
wisedome
,
and
righteousnesse
,
and
sanctification
,
&
redemption
,
1
Cor.
1.
This
is
the
sence
and
meaning
of
this
history
,
and
the
exposition
of
the
three
points
which
wee
haue
propounded
vnto
you
;
whence
springeth
diuers
doctrines
,
that
serue
to
comfort
,
instruct
,
and
to
humble
vs
.
The
Application
.
FIrst
in
the
manner
wherin
God
proceeds
against
Sodome
,
you
haue
an
example
and
patterne
of
Gods
patience
,
soliciting
sinners
to
repentance
;
he
sends
Lot
to
those
of
Sodome
,
who
was
among
them
an
Herald
and
Preacher
of
righteousnesse
,
who
dwelling
among
them
,
vexed
his
righteous
soule
from
day
to
day
with
their
vnlawfull
deeds
,
as
S.
Peter
saith
,
2
Pet.
2.
But
they
beleeued
him
not
,
Gen
,
19.9
.
This
one
fellow
came
in
to
soiourne
,
and
so
will
needes
be
a
Iudge
?
After
Lots
comming
,
God
sends
them
wars
,
that
spoiles
their
Countrey
,
and
leads
them
into
captiuity
,
whence
being
deliuered
by
Abrahams
helpe
,
they
amend
not
.
At
the
last
God
being
prouoked
,
sends
fire
from
heauen
,
which
consumes
them
:
whereunto
serued
the
nature
of
the
soile
,
for
the
countrey
was
full
of
slime
pits
,
which
serued
as
matter
vnto
it
,
and
brought
a
sudden
inflaming
.
Three
things
are
happened
vnto
them
for
examples
,
and
are
written
for
our
admonition
,
vpon
whom
the
ends
of
the
world
are
come
,
least
we
should
abuse
Gods
patience
,
who
hath
so
long
time
supported
vs
,
solicites
&
calls
vs
to
repentance
:
for
what
hath
not
God
done
,
to
binde
vs
to
his
loue
and
feare
?
He
hath
sent
vs
his
seruants
,
and
set
his
word
before
our
eyes
,
he
hath
chastised
vs
often
,
and
hath
set
vs
on
foote
againe
by
his
helpe
;
he
hath
scattered
vs
in
strange
countreys
,
and
then
re-assembled
vs
together
againe
by
his
mercy
.
He
makes
vs
to
subsist
now
as
the
remainder
of
the
massacre
,
as
some
plankes
saued
from
shipwracke
,
or
like
a
brand
reserued
from
the
fire
,
and
doe
as
yet
subsist
as
a
miracle
to
strangers
,
and
a
rare
example
of
his
prouidence
;
for
in
the
troubles
of
a
State
it
happeneth
ordinarily
as
with
catarres
and
defluctions
,
which
alwayes
fall
vpon
the
weakest
part
.
Now
the
weakest
part
in
the
body
of
this
kingdome
is
the
Church
of
God
,
notwithstanding
in
these
last
stirres
which
haue
troubled
this
estate
,
God
hath
secured
and
saued
harmeles
his
Church
,
and
restrained
the
peoples
will
,
though
on
our
side
we
haue
enough
contributed
to
our
owne
ruine
,
and
yet
God
euen
this
day
giueth
vs
this
grace
,
that
we
are
here
assembled
in
peace
,
to
lift
vp
together
our
hands
and
hearts
before
his
presence
.
He
may
then
say
that
which
he
saith
,
Isai
.
5.
What
could
haue
beene
done
more
to
the
vineyard
,
that
I
haue
not
done
in
it
?
Wherefore
when
I
looked
that
it
should
bring
forth
grapes
,
it
brought
forth
wilde
grapes
:
For
that
we
doe
not
bring
forth
fruit
worthy
of
repentance
,
is
it
because
we
haue
not
beene
chastised
?
but
wee
newly
come
forth
out
of
persecution
:
Or
is
it
because
he
hath
not
threatned
vs
?
but
yet
euen
now
we
were
at
deaths
dore
,
and
as
it
were
on
the
point
of
our
steepe
downe-fall
:
Or
is
it
because
he
hath
imparted
vnto
vs
his
gifts
and
graces
so
sparingly
?
but
who
can
comprehend
his
goodnesse
towards
vs
,
his
liberalitie
and
his
patience
?
Or
is
it
because
you
haue
not
beene
sufficiently
and
carefully
informed
?
but
surely
we
haue
not
spared
our selues
in
this
point
,
yea
,
our
liberty
and
freedome
of
reprehending
seemes
intollerable
vnto
many
.
After
a
continuall
labour
,
we
receiue
instead
of
recompence
,
calumnies
,
which
tend
to
make
our
Ministery
vnfruitfull
,
and
to
take
away
the
efficacy
from
our
preaching
:
The
time
will
come
(
●f
GOD
hath
not
pitty
on
vs
)
wherin
ye
shall
haue
teachers
according
to
your
desire
,
or
else
shall
haue
leasure
to
fast
after
the
Word
of
God
.
But
if
we
speake
in
our
exhortations
against
the
abuses
of
Popery
,
ye
heare
that
with
great
attention
,
but
yee
will
not
enter
into
disputation
with
your
own
vices
,
as
being
at
agreement
with
the
diuell
on
that
side
.
You
condemne
the
Church
of
Rome
,
in
that
she
forbids
the
people
the
reading
of
the
holy
Scripture
,
but
are
we
for
all
that
the
carefuller
to
reade
it
?
they
are
hindred
to
reade
it
by
scruple
,
but
you
by
contempt
and
negligence
.
Ye
blame
those
that
pray
,
not
vnderstanding
what
they
say
;
but
are
ye
more
excusable
to
pray
without
thinking
what
yee
say
?
You
reprehend
them
for
superstitious
signes
and
gesture
that
they
haue
in
the
Church
;
but
you
in
auoiding
superstition
fall
into
irreuerence
,
one
keeping
on
his
Hat
in
Prayer
time
:
another
makes
difficulty
to
kneele
,
to
shew
vnto
our
aduersaries
that
wee
neede
not
suffer
so
much
for
religion
,
seeing
we
haue
it
in
so
litle
esteeme
.
You
condemne
the
idolatry
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
notwithstanding
you
idolatrize
,
and
as
it
were
worship
your
bodies
and
goods
,
which
you
serue
much
more
and
better
then
you
serue
God
.
You
condemne
spirituall
whoredome
,
and
you
pollute
your selues
with
corporall
fornication
.
You
condemne
those
that
esteeme
to
merit
Paradise
by
their
good
works
,
&
in
the
meane
time
you
liue
as
if
you
would
go
into
hel
by
your
euill
workes
,
or
as
hoping
to
be
saued
without
your
good
workes
.
Wee
blame
auricular
confession
,
but
are
we
for
all
that
now
carefull
to
confesse
our
sinnes
to
God
?
Wee
blame
those
that
thinke
to
redeeme
their
sinnes
by
money
giuen
to
the
Church
,
but
the
money
we
spare
on
that
side
,
is
it
bestowed
in
almes-deedes
?
and
that
which
we
withdraw
from
the
idle
,
is
it
consecrated
to
Gods
seruice
.
Contrariwise
the
poore
languish
and
accuse
the
rich
to
be
little
charitable
,
the
cry
of
the
poore
is
mounted
and
entred
into
the
cares
of
the
LORD
of
hostes
.
And
therefore
doe
not
take
it
as
an
iniurie
to
be
compared
to
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
;
for
although
we
are
guiltlesse
of
that
sin
,
for
the
which
God
consumed
them
with
fire
;
notwithstanding
there
are
other
sinnes
that
cry
as
loude
as
that
,
and
for
the
which
many
hearers
of
the
Word
of
God
,
shal
be
more
roughly
handled
in
the
day
of
Iudgement
then
Sodome
and
Gomorrah
,
as
it
is
denounced
vnto
Capernaum
,
Corazin
,
and
Bethsaida
,
Mat.
11.
that
had
seene
the
miracles
of
Iesus
Christ
,
and
heard
his
word
,
which
they
had
reiected
,
and
were
not
conuerted
.
And
indeed
the
Scripture
teacheth
vs
,
that
beside
the
sinne
of
Sodome
,
there
are
other
sinnes
that
cry
and
call
for
the
vengeance
of
God
.
There
is
the
cry
of
the
innocent
bloud
,
witnesse
the
bloud
of
Abel
,
that
cryed
from
the
earth
vnto
God
.
There
is
the
cry
of
the
labourers
and
Seruants
,
whose
hire
is
kept
backe
by
fraude
,
whereof
Saint
Iames
speaketh
,
Iam.
5.4
.
There
is
the
cry
of
the
widdow
,
and
of
the
orphan
,
whereof
Moses
speaketh
,
Exod.
22.
Yee
shall
not
afflict
any
widdow
,
or
fatherlesse
childe
,
if
thou
afflict
them
in
any
wise
,
and
they
cry
at
all
vnto
me
,
I
will
surely
heare
their
cry
,
and
my
wrath
shall
waxe
hot
,
and
I
will
kill
you
with
the
sword
,
and
your
wiues
shall
be
widdowes
,
and
your
children
fatherlesse
.
Which
is
a
sinne
that
is
to
be
found
among
vs
,
besides
which
,
example
of
violent
snatching
and
vsury
are
to
be
found
.
Such
a
one
fasteth
this
day
from
flesh
and
meat
,
that
eateth
at
his
house
the
flesh
of
the
poore
,
and
consumeth
his
neighbours
substance
.
Many
ouerturning
Gods
commandement
that
forbids
to
come
vnto
the
altar
with
voide
hands
,
bring
to
the
Lords
Table
hands
full
of
violence
and
extortion
,
farre
from
cloathing
Iesus
Christ
in
his
members
,
seeing
that
they
strip
them
thereof
.
And
what
thinke
yee
of
the
mortall
,
or
rather
immortall
quarrels
of
those
,
that
haue
not
learnt
to
forgiue
,
that
aske
of
God
euery
day
that
hee
forgiue
them
not
their
sinnes
,
seeing
they
forgiue
not
those
that
haue
trespassed
against
them
;
that
hate
a
thousand
times
more
their
neighbour
,
then
they
loue
God
;
seeing
they
defame
the
Church
of
God
by
their
quarrels
,
and
put
it
to
an
open
shame
?
What
,
doe
yee
thinke
that
these
things
cry
not
against
heauen
?
Doe
ye
thinke
that
the
Heathen
souldiers
,
hauing
not
torne
Christs
coate
,
those
can
be
suffered
that
teare
his
body
,
which
is
the
Church
?
and
seeing
that
he
who
offendeth
one
of
the
least
ones
,
deserues
to
be
thrown
and
drowned
in
the
depth
of
the
Sea
,
with
a
milstone
about
his
necke
,
hee
which
offends
the
whole
Church
,
deserues
he
not
to
be
cast
into
Hell
?
Or
do
ye
thinke
that
he
can
haue
peace
with
his
father
,
that
is
alwayes
in
quarrell
with
his
brethren
?
It
is
good
also
to
obserue
the
causes
of
the
destruction
of
Sodome
,
and
by
what
degrees
she
came
to
be
corrupted
.
The
Prophet
Ezekiel
,
tels
vs
in
the
16.
Chapter
.
Behold
,
this
was
the
iniquitie
of
thy
Sister
Sodome
,
pride
,
fulnesse
of
bread
,
and
abundance
of
idlenesse
,
neither
did
she
strengthen
the
hand
of
the
poore
and
needy
.
These
selfe-same
vices
doe
infect
our
flocke
;
charity
diminisheth
amongst
vs
,
and
couetousnesse
increaseth
;
the
quarrels
are
hot
,
and
the
prayers
cold
;
the
word
of
GOD
ill
planted
in
our
hearts
,
rancour
and
hatred
firmely
rooted
in
them
;
the
parents
are
careful
to
hoord
vp
goods
for
their
children
,
but
not
to
teach
them
to
make
good
vse
of
them
,
and
to
forgoe
them
willingly
for
the
Gospels
sake
.
In
poore
families
,
you
shall
find
in
an
extream
pouerty
,
an
extreame
pride
,
idlenes
&
drunkennes
;
they
had
rather
see
their
children
go
naked
,
then
apply
themselues
to
labour
and
sobriety
.
Yee
shall
see
in
many
of
the
Nobility
a
prophane
humour
,
an
arrogant
ignorance
,
vncleane
and
filthy
words
,
ordinary
swearing
,
a
distaste
of
Gods
Word
.
They
are
couragious
to
reuenge
their
owne
iniuries
,
but
cowards
to
resist
their
vices
,
or
to
defend
Gods
cause
;
sumptuous
in
cloathes
,
but
niggards
in
almes-deeds
.
They
are
not
such
as
our
forefathers
were
in
olde
time
,
ready
to
run
to
Martyrdome
,
but
they
are
ready
to
runne
to
euery
publike
faction
and
sedition
.
Are
these
those
,
whom
God
hath
raised
to
vnderprop
&
support
his
Church
?
or
doe
we
hope
that
God
will
deliuer
his
people
by
their
hands
?
Of
all
in
generall
wee
make
this
complaint
,
with
the
Prophet
Isaiah
,
Chap.
9.
The
people
turneth
not
vnto
him
that
smiteth
them
neither
doe
they
seeke
the
LORD
of
hostes
.
Thou
hast
strucken
them
,
and
they
haue
felt
no
paine
;
thou
hast
consumed
them
and
they
haue
refused
to
receiue
instruction
;
they
haue
hardened
their
faces
like
stone
,
they
haue
refused
to
turne
themselues
;
and
as
it
is
in
the
29.
Chapter
of
Deuteronomie
:
They
haue
blessed
themselues
in
their
hearts
,
that
is
to
say
,
flattered
themselues
,
saying
,
I
shal
haue
peace
,
though
I
walk
in
the
imagination
&
stubbornes
of
mine
heart
,
to
adde
drunkennes
to
thirst
.
By
this
meanes
Gods
patience
,
that
should
serue
to
amend
vs
,
serues
to
marre
vs
.
God
will
giue
vs
thereby
leasure
to
repent
vs
of
our
sinnes
,
and
we
take
leasure
thereby
to
reioyce
in
our
wickednes
.
God
commands
vs
to
be
holy
,
but
we
will
make
him
a
sinner
,
winking
at
our
prophane
humour
.
Hee
will
haue
vs
expect
his
helpe
,
and
we
will
haue
him
expect
our
amendment
at
our
leasure
.
This
is
the
right
brimstone
that
puls
downe
fire
from
heauen
,
that
sulphurous
earth
of
Sodome
neuer
had
such
force
,
to
draw
downe
Gods
inflaming
anger
consuming
them
with
fire
,
as
the
contempt
of
Gods
Word
hath
power
to
pull
downe
his
iudgements
on
our
heads
:
Let
vs
feare
least
his
patience
being
in
the
ende
ouercome
by
his
wrath
,
we
find
no
more
place
of
repentance
,
as
Godthreatneth
by
his
Prophet
Isaiah
,
Chap.
1.
Therefore
when
you
spread
foorth
your
hands
,
I
will
hide
mine
eies
from
you
,
yea
,
when
ye
make
many
prayers
,
I
will
not
heare
.
But
as
for
them
that
turne
themselues
vnto
the
LORD
.
Gods
familiarity
with
Abraham
,
and
the
free
accesse
he
giues
to
his
Seruant
,
ought
to
giue
them
a
holy
confidence
to
speak
vnto
God
familiarly
,
and
to
be
assured
that
God
will
heare
them
.
For
as
Saint
Paul
teacheth
vs
,
Rom.
4.
that
that
which
is
written
of
Abrahams
faith
,
which
was
imputed
to
him
for
righteousnesse
,
Was
not
written
for
his
sake
alone
,
but
for
vs
also
,
to
whom
it
shall
be
imputed
,
if
we
beleeue
on
him
that
raised
vp
Iesus
our
Lord
from
the
dead
.
So
then
hold
certainely
,
that
this
benignitie
of
our
God
in
hearing
Abrahams
demaunds
,
that
seemed
to
be
importunate
,
is
not
propounded
onely
for
Abrahams
sake
;
but
for
you
also
that
beleeue
,
that
yee
may
haue
this
assurance
,
that
God
is
euen
delighted
and
desires
to
be
importuned
by
his
children
,
and
is
not
offended
with
this
filiall
freedome
,
which
proceedes
from
the
spirit
of
Adoption
;
that
he
loues
this
holy
obstinacy
;
who
according
to
Iacob
wrastling
with
him
,
lets
him
not
goe
,
till
it
hath
got
a
blessing
;
or
after
the
example
of
the
woman
of
Canaan
,
who
being
often
repulsed
by
Iesus
Christ
,
yea
euen
so
far
as
to
be
compared
by
him
to
a
dogge
,
yet
at
last
she
obtaines
,
besides
the
curing
of
her
daughter
,
this
testimonie
of
Christ
that
her
faith
was
great
,
and
that
hee
had
not
found
so
great
a
faith
,
no
not
in
Israel
.
And
this
is
that
spirit
of
adoption
,
of
freenesse
and
libertie
,
which
makes
,
that
as
in
afflictions
wee
had
rather
fall
into
the
hands
of
God
,
then
into
the
hands
of
men
,
because
his
compassions
are
great
and
many
;
so
in
matter
of
demands
and
requests
we
dare
aske
of
him
such
things
,
as
we
dare
not
aske
of
men
,
because
his
grace
and
goodnesse
are
according
to
his
greatnesse
,
that
is
to
say
,
are
incomprehensible
.
Nay
,
which
is
more
,
to
giue
vs
the
more
priuate
familiarity
to
call
vpon
him
,
although
he
doth
vs
good
by
his
free-will
,
and
without
any
constraint
;
notwithstanding
he
will
haue
vs
to
thinke
that
he
giues
it
to
our
importunity
and
continuance
in
prayer
,
as
wee
are
taught
by
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
Luke
11.
by
that
similitude
of
a
friend
that
goes
vnto
his
friend
at
midnight
,
and
sayes
vnto
him
;
friend
,
lend
me
three
Loaues
,
I
say
vnto
you
,
saith
Christ
,
though
hee
will
not
rise
and
giue
him
,
because
he
is
his
friend
,
yet
because
of
his
importunity
,
he
will
rise
and
giue
him
as
many
as
he
needeth
;
and
by
the
example
of
an
vniust
Iudge
,
which
dispatcheth
the
poore
widdow
of
her
suit
to
deliuer
himselfe
from
her
importunitie
,
whence
Christ
saith
,
Shall
not
God
auenge
his
owne
elect
,
which
cry
day
and
night
vnto
him
,
though
he
beare
long
with
them
?
This
confidence
and
familiarity
of
praying
vnto
God
,
shall
no
more
barre
humility
,
then
it
did
in
Abraham
,
who
amiddest
his
requests
,
full
of
liberty
,
acknowledgeth
himselfe
notwithstanding
to
bee
naught
but
dust
and
ashes
.
There
is
an
humble
familiarity
,
an
humility
with
freenes
,
which
being
drawne
to
by
loue
,
diminisheth
not
the
reuerence
due
vnto
him
.
Wherefore
in
prayer
wee
ioyne
together
these
two
gestures
,
we
bow
our
knees
,
and
lift
vp
our
eyes
,
whereof
the
one
witnesseth
our
humility
,
the
other
our
confidence
.
Many
other
doctrines
doe
arise
from
this
Text
,
which
we
will
briefly
touch
.
When
you
reade
that
in
a
great
city
,
ten
righteous
are
not
to
be
found
among
many
thousands
;
you
may
learne
,
that
you
must
not
square
your selfe
by
the
multitude
to
liue
well
,
as
the
LORD
saith
,
Exod.
23.
Thou
shalt
not
follow
a
multitude
to
doe
euill
.
The
multitude
hath
been
alwayes
a
bad
counsellor
,
the
broad
way
leades
to
destruction
.
The
whole
world
,
shall
run
after
and
follow
the
beast
,
Reuel
.
13.
They
that
produce
the
greatnesse
,
multitude
and
vniuersality
for
markes
of
the
Church
,
had
they
liued
in
Sodome
,
would
haue
sooner
ioyned
themselues
with
the
Sodomites
,
then
with
Lot
,
who
was
almost
alone
among
this
multitude
.
Which
Lot
being
righteous
,
of
whom
Abraham
speaketh
,
when
hee
saith
,
wilt
thou
destroy
the
righteous
with
the
wicked
?
teacheth
vs
by
his
example
,
that
it
is
a
dangerous
thing
for
an
holy
man
to
liue
in
the
company
of
the
wicked
.
Wherefore
Dauid
saith
,
Psal.
26.
Gather
not
my
soule
with
sinners
,
nor
my
life
with
bloudy
men
.
One
Ionas
thinking
to
escape
and
fly
from
the
presence
of
God
,
and
to
exempt
himselfe
from
his
obedience
,
had
like
to
haue
cast
away
the
whole
ship
.
A
heathen
Captaine
of
a
ship
,
hearing
a
wicked
man
making
his
prayer
among
the
rest
during
the
tempest
,
Hold
thy
peace
,
saith
he
,
and
hide
thy selfe
,
lest
the
gods
know
that
thou
art
heere
.
Wherefore
God
saide
vnto
the
Israelites
,
depart
from
the
tents
of
these
wicked
men
;
namely
,
Korah
,
Dathan
and
Abiram
,
and
touch
nothing
of
theirs
,
least
ye
be
consumed
in
all
their
sinnes
:
Come
out
of
Babylon
my
people
,
that
ye
be
not
partakers
of
her
sinnes
,
and
that
ye
receiue
not
of
her
plagues
;
and
that
therefore
not
onely
for
feare
of
the
like
peril
&
punishment
,
but
also
for
feare
of
the
contagion
of
vices
.
There
is
nothing
so
glewish
as
euill
examples
,
nothing
so
pernicious
as
the
company
of
the
wicked
.
If
Dina
had
not
haunted
dancing
,
shee
had
preserued
her
chastity
.
If
the
Israelites
in
Nehemiahs
time
had
not
allied
themselues
by
marriage
with
the
infidels
,
their
children
should
not
haue
spoken
the
language
of
Ashdod
.
A
little
leauen
leaueneth
the
whole
lumpe
,
by
the
conuersation
and
acquaintance
with
the
wicked
,
wee
become
like
them
.
Wherefore
euen
as
one
counselleth
women
that
conceiue
,
to
haue
by
their
bed
side
the
pictures
of
faire
children
,
so
must
we
haue
faire
examples
before
our
eyes
,
to
the
end
we
may
conceiue
good
thoughts
,
and
bring
forth
good
actions
▪
For
what
concord
hath
Christ
with
Belial
?
or
what
part
hath
hee
that
belieueth
with
an
Infidell
?
wherefore
come
out
from
among
them
,
and
be
ye
separated
▪
●aith
the
LORD
,
and
touch
not
the
vncleane
thing
,
2
Cor.
6.
Finally
touching
that
which
you
haue
heard
;
namely
,
if
there
had
beene
tenne
righteous
men
in
Sodome
,
God
would
haue
spared
the
Citie
for
their
sakes
;
ye
may
learne
how
God
esteemeth
his
children
,
chusing
rather
the
preseruation
of
ten
of
his
children
,
then
the
ruine
of
ten
thousands
of
his
enemies
.
He
beares
with
the
wickednesse
of
the
world
,
and
fore
slowes
his
iudgements
for
his
Church
sake
mixed
with
the
world
;
so
God
would
not
send
the
floud
till
after
Methusalems
death
,
who
dyed
a
yeare
before
the
floud
;
as
soone
as
Iosias
is
dead
,
Nebuchadnezzar
inuadeth
the
countrey
of
Iudea
;
the
life
of
one
seruant
of
God
did
support
the
countrey
,
and
keepe
backe
Gods
iudgements
.
So
soone
as
Saint
Augustine
was
dead
,
the
Citie
Bona
,
whereof
hee
was
Bishop
,
was
wonne
by
the
Vandals
,
and
sacked
by
them
;
as
if
by
the
death
of
that
good
man
of
God
,
the
rampiers
and
walles
of
the
towne
were
fallen
downe
.
Therefore
the
LORD
in
the
57.
Chapter
of
Isaiah
,
after
he
had
saide
,
that
the
righteous
man
perisheth
,
and
no
man
layeth
it
to
heart
,
and
mercifull
men
are
taken
away
;
immediately
after
hee
makes
the
punishment
of
the
wicked
to
follow
,
as
a
necessary
sequele
and
consequence
.
But
draw
ye
hither
yee
sonnes
of
the
Sorceresse
,
against
whom
doe
ye
spore
your selues
?
&c.
Nay
which
is
more
,
God
hauing
lifted
vp
his
hand
,
to
turne
vpside
downe
heauen
and
earth
,
because
they
are
become
a
temple
of
idols
,
and
the
kingdome
of
the
deuill
,
is
stopped
and
withheld
from
doing
it
,
because
there
are
a
few
of
the
faithfull
mingled
among
the
wicked
,
least
in
rooting
vp
the
darnell
,
hee
should
also
plucke
vp
by
the
rootes
the
good
corne
;
therefore
it
is
said
to
the
soules
of
them
that
were
slaine
for
the
Word
of
God
,
that
were
vnder
the
altar
,
and
cryed
for
vengeance
against
them
that
dwell
on
earth
,
Apocal.
6.
that
they
should
rest
yet
for
a
little
season
,
vntill
their
fellow
seruants
,
and
their
brethren
that
should
be
killed
as
they
were
,
should
be
fulfilled
;
that
being
once
done
,
the
end
of
the
world
will
necessarily
follow
:
for
should
the
world
be
so
possest
by
the
diuell
that
God
should
haue
no
part
in
it
?
or
should
the
Sunne
rise
onely
to
giue
light
to
those
that
doe
euill
?
It
is
therefore
one
of
the
reasons
,
for
the
which
the
faithfull
are
called
the
salt
of
the
earth
,
Matth.
5.
Because
it
is
that
part
that
preserues
the
rest
of
the
Inhabitants
of
the
earth
,
and
protects
the
world
from
corruption
.
And
to
apply
these
things
to
our selues
,
I
esteeme
that
these
last
dayes
past
,
when
our
Churches
were
in
great
danger
,
God
cast
his
eyes
vpon
vs
;
hee
considered
therein
many
mischiefes
and
maladies
that
infect
the
flocke
;
that
couetousnesse
is
very
rise
among
vs
,
so
that
wee
esteeme
of
men
as
wee
esteeme
of
bagges
of
money
,
that
is
to
say
,
according
to
the
money
they
haue
,
the
man
is
esteemed
as
nothing
,
as
the
bagge
is
nothing
esteemed
.
That
euery
one
tels
lyes
and
liues
subtilly
with
his
neighbour
.
That
destruction
,
hatred
,
suspition
are
among
vs
,
in
the
highest
degree
;
that
vsury
,
whoredome
,
and
blasphemies
are
to
be
found
among
vs
,
to
the
great
dishonour
of
the
Gospell
,
that
so
soone
as
there
is
neuer
so
little
prosperitie
,
excesse
,
not
and
superfluity
of
apparell
doe
incontinently
appeare
;
and
that
charity
towards
the
poore
,
and
the
zeale
of
the
honour
of
God
is
waxed
colde
;
while
as
the
superstitious
powere
out
their
goods
at
the
feete
of
an
Idoll
,
doe
lay
foundations
of
new
religions
,
build
Churches
,
giue
offrings
,
buy
masses
and
seruices
at
a
great
rate
and
with
an
extreame
cost
;
that
is
to
say
,
that
superstition
is
seruent
in
them
,
but
true
religion
key-cold
in
vs
;
that
they
to
make
a
molten
Calfe
,
doe
contribute
euen
vnto
their
iewels
and
golden
eare-rings
,
whiles
that
the
seruice
of
the
honour
of
God
is
ill
maintained
.
For
these
causes
he
had
already
sent
his
destroying
Angels
,
and
had
snatcht
away
his
word
from
vs
,
had
it
not
beene
that
euen
hee
the
same
vnto
whom
Abraham
spake
,
who
is
his
onely
Sonne
our
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
hath
stayed
his
wrath
,
and
therevpon
hee
hath
considered
ten
righteous
amidst
this
corruption
,
that
is
to
say
,
some
few
of
the
number
of
the
true
faithfull
,
and
of
holy
soules
that
feare
him
,
and
groane
vnder
the
generall
corruption
;
for
whose
sake
he
suspends
as
yet
his
iudgements
,
and
spares
the
flocke
;
and
those
perhaps
not
the
greatest
ones
,
nor
the
richest
,
nor
the
most
noble
;
but
perhaps
some
poore
,
whom
we
know
not
,
and
to
whom
we
,
as
vngratefull
,
con
little
thankes
;
He
hath
stopt
and
stayed
Gods
iudgements
,
and
hath
stood
in
the
gap
,
and
hath
beene
in
the
publicke
commotion
,
like
the
lifting
vp
of
the
hands
of
Moses
,
that
did
more
then
Iosuahs
sword
;
which
is
the
obseruation
that
the
wise-man
makes
in
the
9.
of
Ecclesiastes
,
That
there
was
a
little
City
and
few
men
within
it
,
and
there
came
a
great
King
against
it
,
and
besieged
it
,
and
built
great
bulwarkes
against
it
;
now
there
was
found
in
it
a
poore
wise-man
,
and
he
by
his
wisedome
deliuered
the
City
,
yet
no
man
remembred
that
poore
man
.
Seing
then
that
the
number
of
those
that
feare
the
Lord
among
vs
,
is
the
defence
and
the
safety
of
the
Church
,
and
as
King
Ioram
said
of
Elisha
,
the
Chariot
of
Israel
,
and
the
horsemen
thereof
,
for
whose
sake
God
pardoneth
the
rest
:
Let
vs
labour
to
increase
the
number
of
them
;
and
that
notten
not
thirty
,
not
fifty
,
but
that
the
whole
troupe
and
flocke
be
truely
the
holy
nation
and
the
portion
of
the
Lord
.
Let
vs
make
our
sinnes
hold
their
peace
that
cry
,
and
that
their
crie
be
ouercome
with
the
crye
of
repentance
,
which
powres
vnto
the
feete
of
our
Sauiour
Iesus
,
that
precious
ointment
,
with
an
holy
griefe
,
and
bedewes
them
with
herteares
as
heretofore
Mary
did
,
whose
teares
were
a
thousand
times
more
odoriferous
,
then
her
precious
ointment
,
for
this
filled
the
chamber
with
a
sweet
pleasing
smell
,
but
her
repentance
is
euen
yet
of
good
fauour
in
the
Church
of
God
.
And
in
stead
of
that
heauy
burthen
of
sinnes
,
wherof
Christ
Iesus
doth
discharge
vs
,
Let
vs
charge
and
take
vpon
vs
his
yoake
which
is
easie
,
and
his
burthen
which
is
light
;
whether
by
this
yoake
and
burthen
we
vnderstand
his
crosse
;
or
whether
wee
take
it
in
generall
for
our
subiection
vnto
his
word
;
that
hereafter
we
haue
no
other
will
then
his
,
no
other
trust
and
confidence
then
in
his
promises
,
no
other
ioy
then
in
his
loue
.
And
that
wee
may
make
vse
of
our
vices
,
and
giue
to
our
desires
a
lawfull
imploiment
and
occupation
;
let
not
the
violent
haue
hereafter
any
other
violence
,
then
that
which
taketh
by
force
the
Kingdome
of
heauen
.
Let
vsurers
giue
themselues
to
giuing
to
the
poore
,
for
that
is
to
lend
vnto
God
by
vsury
.
Let
the
couerous
gather
a
treasure
in
heauen
.
Let
the
quarrellers
make
an
irreconcillable
warre
against
their
vices
.
Let
the
haughty
and
ambitious
glory
in
the
knowledge
of
God
,
and
in
that
they
are
the
children
of
the
most
high
.
If
ye
doe
so
,
God
who
desires
not
the
death
of
a
sinner
,
but
his
conuersion
,
whose
compassions
are
alwaies
open
towards
those
that
seeke
him
;
will
watch
for
your
safegard
;
hee
will
blow
vpon
the
enterprizes
of
our
enemies
,
and
will
frustrate
their
hopes
;
his
prouidence
shall
be
as
a
wall
of
fire
about
his
Church
.
If
you
feare
GOD
,
you
will
not
feare
men
.
Beare
your selues
couragious
against
mens
threatnings
,
but
tremble
at
Gods
Word
,
who
hath
bought
and
redeemed
you
with
too
great
a
price
,
to
leaue
you
.
He
will
not
deny
you
things
necessary
for
this
present
life
,
seeing
that
from
the
foundation
of
the
world
he
hath
prepared
for
you
an
euerlasting
kingdome
;
as
he
himselfe
will
proclaime
in
the
last
day
.
Come
yee
blessed
of
my
Father
,
inherito
the
kingdome
prepared
for
you
,
from
the
foundation
of
the
world
.
To
whom
be
ascribed
all
honour
,
power
and
dominion
,
for
euer
and
euer
,
Amen
.
FINIS
.