THE
PREFACE
TO
THE
READER
:
AS
APOLOGIZING
FOR
THE
POEME
,
SO
GIVING
LIGHT
AND
life
to
the
whole
Historie
of
the
Life
and
Death
of
the
famous
ORIGEN
.
CHRISTIAN
READER
:
SInce
it
is
not
in
writing
of
Bookes
of
what
nature
soeuer
,
whether
in
Diuinitie
or
Humanitie
,
Verse
or
Prose
,
as
it
is
in
building
houses
,
planting
orchards
,
purchasing
land
,
trafficking
in
commodities
,
or
the
like
secular
affaires
and
occurrents
,
wherein
men
reserue
to
themselues
,
their
owne
priuate
ends
,
without
acquainting
the
world
with
their
purposes
and
proiects
;
but
hee
that
prints
a
booke
is
bound
,
by
the
prescription
of
as
long
a
continued
custome
,
as
since
Printing
was
inuented
,
to
giue
the
criticall
world
a
satisfactorie
reason
of
his
doings
,
and
to
reueale
his
motiues
and
inducements
,
yea
secret
ends
and
occasions
of
his
published
labours
:
since
I
once
againe
act
this
publike
part
vpon
the
worlds
stage
,
I
condescend
to
pay
this
tollerable
tribute
of
custome
,
to
whosoeuer
shall
be
my
Stationers
customer
,
for
these
subsequent
Shedules
,
as
to
acquaint
him
with
my
Reasons
and
Resolutions
in
their
penning
and
printing
.
Know
then
,
that
the
very
primus
motor
,
and
first
mouer
of
my
pen
,
to
prosecute
this
sad
and
sable
subiect
,
was
my
delight
and
desire
.
Delight
I
tooke
in
the
perusall
of
it
,
as
it
is
recorded
in
authentique
Authors
.
Desire
,
to
produce
that
pleasure
and
profit
vnto
others
,
which
I
experimented
in
my selfe
,
lent
it
legs
to
walke
,
or
rather
wings
to
flye
to
the
publike
view
.
Secondly
,
the
importunities
of
some
friends
,
to
whom
I
did
communicate
these
my
mentall
exercises
;
who
eyther
out
of
partiall
loue
to
the
Author
,
or
out
of
iudgement
(
at
least
opinion
)
of
the
worke
,
equallizing
and
paralelling
it
to
that
repentance
of
Peter
already
extant
,
did
so
farre
pleade
and
preuaile
for
the
publishing
of
it
,
as
they
haue
now
prest
it
to
the
Presse
,
adding
onely
fuell
to
that
fire
,
which
I
hope
the
coale
from
the
Altar
hath
inkindled
within
me
,
to
doe
all
the
good
I
can
,
eyther
in
publike
or
priuate
,
so
long
as
I
soiourne
in
this
my
tabernacle
of
the
flesh
,
knowing
(
as
the
very
Heathens
were
perswaded
●…
icero
in
Officij●
,
Non
●…
s●●●
nati
sumus
,
pa●tem
patria
,
partem
●…
ntes
.
)
that
wee
are
not
borne
to
our selues
alone
,
but
to
others
,
:
yea
further
,
that
we
(
chiefly
which
are
publike
persons
)
haue
not
receiued
our
talents
alone
for
our selues
,
(
no
more
then
the
Bee
her
hony
Sic●●s
non
vob●●
,
melcatu
Apes
.
,
the
Oxe
his
strength
,
the
Horse
his
agilitie
;
other
inferiour
sublunarie
creatures
,
Animate
or
Inanimate
,
sensitiue
or
vegetatiue
,
any
naturall
good
qualitie
or
propertie
;
yea
,
no
more
then
the
Sunne
his
heate
,
the
heauenl●
bodies
their
influences
,
light
and
motions
for
themselues
)
but
for
the
good
of
others
:
knowing
also
that
true
good
is
communicatiue
●…
onum
est
sui
commu●…
ati●um
,
&
quo
com●…
mus
eo
melius
.
,
distributiue
,
and
diffusiue
,
like
the
oyle
powred
out
for
the
suppling
,
like
the
precious
Spikenard
●…
rist
.
Ethic
.
●…
hu
12.2.3
.
,
or
Maries
boxe
of
oyntment
(
broke
on
the
head
of
the
true
Annointed
)
effused
for
the
refreshing
,
or
as
the
beautious
Vine
,
spred
abroad
for
the
shading
and
the
sheltring
of
others
:
knowing
also
that
he
is
the
best
Christian
,
who
being
sound
at
the
core
,
and
sincere
in
himselfe
,
brings
the
most
glory
to
God
,
and
good
to
others
,
chiefly
those
that
are
Gods
by
election
,
or
effectuall
vocation
:
(
euen
as
that
is
the
best
fire
which
equally
heates
,
and
warmes
the
most
:
the
best
tree
,
whether
apple
,
peare
or
quince
,
&c.
which
brings
the
most
and
best
fruits
:
the
best
Garden
,
that
(
bes●des
delight
)
affords
most
flowers
,
hearbes
or
drugges
for
meate
or
medicine
:
the
best
flocke
that
affords
most
fleece
,
best
flesh
,
purest
wooll
,
most
copious
milke
to
their
masters
:
)
desiring
also
to
be
as
neere
as
I
can
a
patterne
of
that
which
is
pressed
and
preached
to
others
,
and
which
the
Word
perswades
,
whilest
we
haue
time
to
doe
good
,
Galath
.
6.10
.
yea
,
not
to
forget
to
do
good
,
Hebr
.
13.16
.
yea
,
to
redeeme
the
time
for
doing
good
,
Ephes
.
5.17
.
with
many
the
like
places
.
From
these
considerations
and
others
of
this
nature
,
I
thought
good
,
neither
in
this
,
or
in
any
other
particular
,
wherein
I
perswade
my selfe
I
may
positiuely
doe
any
good
,
or
priuatiuely
preuent
any
euill
,
to
be
awanting
to
my
power
,
in
my
best
paines
:
fearing
the
terror
of
the
Lord
1.
Cor
.
5.11
.
,
and
mine
inexcusable
sinne
in
the
great
day
of
Audite
,
and
of
accounts
:
if
I
should
hide
my
Talent
in
a
napkin
,
or
bury
it
in
the
ground
●ath
.
25.25
.
,
or
put
my
light
vnder
a
bushell
,
or
stand
idle
in
the
Market-place
in
the
day
of
working
,
or
sleepe
or
slumber
with
the
Virgins
Verse
5.
,
in
this
needfull
time
of
watching
,
or
hoord
vp
any
gift
God
hath
giuen
me
,
(
as
misers
their
gold
,
or
as
countrey
cormorants
their
graine
.
)
I
desire
,
and
will
endeauour
,
like
that
mercifull
man
in
the
Psalmes
,
Psal
.
112.9
.
like
that
prudent
and
prouident
woman
in
the
Prouerbs
,
to
dispose
and
scatter
vpon
the
necessities
of
others
,
Prou.
31.
v.
20.
As
the
Husbandman
his
seed
in
a
hoped
haruest
:
hoping
(
like
those
lights
hung
forth
in
the
Tradesmens
shops
,
which
shine
to
the
workers
within
,
and
the
passengers
without
)
that
the
Lord
will
giue
me
grace
till
the
night
of
death
,
to
hold
out
some
small
glimmering
to
illighten
my selfe
and
others
,
chiefely
those
to
whom
I
haue
any
relation
,
eyther
Spirituall
,
Naturall
,
Morall
,
or
Ministeriall
.
To
apply
these
Generalls
to
my
speciall
purpose
:
if
any
question
this
truth
,
whether
any
good
can
come
to
any
,
by
these
my
vnpolished
labours
:
though
I
am
neither
conceited
,
nor
inamoured
of
this
mentall
issue
(
as
they
say
,
the
Crow
is
of
her
owne
bird
,
and
the
Ape
of
her
yongling
)
being
conscious
to
my selfe
of
mine
owne
defects
:
yet
without
any
ouerweaning
selfe-loue
,
if
I
be
not
deceiued
in
my
Caites
and
Cooking
,
I
should
giue
some
good
rellish
in
this
commixture
of
pleasure
with
profit
to
euery
sound
palate
,
that
is
not
distempered
by
pride
or
preiudice
:
and
this
(
me
thinkes
)
should
be
demonstrable
,
if
we
consider
,
either
the
matter
heere
handled
,
which
is
historicall
:
or
the
manner
of
handling
,
which
is
Poeticall
.
First
for
Historie
,
what
Encomiums
and
commendations
are
giuen
of
it
,
not
onely
by
the
Greeke
Writers
amongst
the
Heathens
,
Plato
,
Aristotle
,
Thucidides
Lib
.
1.
Belli
Pelopo
.
{αβγδ}
,
&c.
,
Polybius
Lib
.
1.
histor
.
&
lib
.
3.
,
Strabo
Lib
.
1.
Geograph
.
,
Dionisius
Halycarnaesseus
Lib
.
1.
historiae
●rchiphr●nesios
ca●
Sophias
.
,
Tully
amongst
the
Latines
,
and
others
:
but
euen
of
our
owne
moderne
Historians
,
by
Winger
in
his
laborious
Theater
,
Melancton
in
his
Additions
to
Carions
Chronicle
,
Meander
in
his
Synopsis
,
Gesserus
in
his
Epitome
of
Histories
,
with
Camerarius
and
the
rest
:
any
man
meanely
conuersant
in
their
Writings
,
that
reades
but
their
Prefaces
to
their
bookes
,
may
easily
perceiue
,
that
History
is
the
Mistresse
of
Life
,
the
mother
and
mid-wife
of
Truth
,
the
Conseruer
of
actions
,
the
Register
of
Antiquitie
,
the
Monument
of
Fame
,
the
Nurse
of
Memory
,
the
life
of
the
dead
,
the
treasure
of
the
liuing
,
the
square
and
rule
in
the
circumstance
of
all
honorable
designes
and
imployments
,
the
dead
Counseller
,
as
Alphonsus
called
it
,
counselling
better
then
the
liuing
:
the
looking-glasse
of
Time
,
in
which
we
may
behold
the
actions
,
affections
,
words
and
workes
of
the
liuing
and
of
the
dead
:
the
Interpreter
of
all
Nations
,
all
Natures
,
whereby
wee
may
freely
conuerse
in
the
Courts
of
Emperours
and
Kings
:
in
the
Pallaces
of
Dukes
and
Nobles
:
in
the
Campes
of
the
Martiall
:
in
the
Vniuersities
,
Schooles
,
Studies
,
Cloisters
and
Cells
of
the
greatest
Schollers
in
Diuinitie
or
Humanitie
:
yea
in
the
shops
of
the
famous
Artisans
,
to
heare
,
see
and
censure
what
euer
they
haue
said
or
done
blame-worthy
,
or
fame-worthy
,
in
their
places
and
functions
:
and
this
hath
been
the
reason
,
why
the
famousest
men
that
euer
were
for
Artes
or
Armes
,
haue
been
so
swallowed
vp
with
delight
in
Histories
and
Historians
:
as
that
great
Alexander
with
Homer
,
Cornelius
Scipio
with
Zenophons
Cyrus
,
Demosthenes
with
Thucidides
,
which
hee
writ
eight
times
ouer
with
his
owne
hand
,
to
make
it
familiar
vnto
him
:
and
that
great
Generall
vnder
Charles
the
fift
,
Fronsperge
,
with
Liuie
,
from
whom
he
acknowledged
himselfe
to
haue
receiued
so
much
light
and
life
in
managing
his
martiall
affaires
:
but
of
all
the
rest
,
we
are
most
affected
with
the
memorialls
of
these
things
that
haue
happened
strange
,
vnusuall
,
remarkable
and
obseruable
in
the
liues
or
deathes
of
those
that
haue
been
most
eminent
in
Place
or
Grace
in
the
Church
or
Common-wealth
.
To
apply
this
to
my
present
purpose
:
A
man
that
shall
seriously
poize
and
ponder
the
life
of
Origen
,
as
he
is
thoroughly
described
by
Eusebius
in
many
chapters
:
by
Pamphilus
the
Martyr
in
his
Apologies
for
him
:
by
Saint
Jerom
the
translator
of
many
of
his
workes
,
the
trumpet
of
his
Fame
,
and
admirer
of
his
learning
,
chiefly
in
his
Apologie
against
Ruffinus
,
and
in
his
Epistles
to
Pammachius
,
and
to
Ocean
:
by
Erasmus
,
the
Collecter
,
Corrector
and
Censurer
of
his
labours
;
in
his
Preface
before
his
first
Tome
:
by
Grineus
and
Rhenanus
,
the
Heralds
of
his
Prayses
,
and
defenders
of
his
vertues
,
in
their
Epistles
to
their
friends
prefixed
before
Origens
workes
.
He
that
shall
seriously
consider
the
lustre
and
eminencie
of
his
gifts
,
the
promptnesse
and
dexteritie
of
his
wit
,
whom
the
great
Critick
,
Erasmus
,
compares
with
the
chiefe
and
choise
wits
of
Rome
,
Athens
,
Italy
,
or
all
Graecia
,
able
so
to
swimme
without
a
corke
,
that
he
attained
to
the
perfection
of
Artes
without
a
Teacher
and
Tutor
:
of
memory
so
tenacious
,
in
vtterance
so
plausible
,
in
elocution
so
fluent
,
in
discourse
so
readie
,
in
apprehension
so
quicke
,
in
vnderstanding
so
deepe
,
in
dispute
so
subtill
;
besides
the
perfecting
of
his
naturall
parts
by
Art
,
so
acute
a
Logician
,
so
eloquent
a
Rhetorician
,
so
profound
a
Philosopher
,
so
deepe
a
Mathematician
:
that
euen
his
enemies
,
Porphyrie
,
and
other
Heathens
and
Heretickes
could
not
but
applaud
and
approoue
him
:
but
aboue
all
,
so
exquisite
a
Diuine
,
that
Saint
Ierome
in
his
Prologue
before
his
Homilies
vpon
Ezekiel
,
feares
not
to
call
him
the
Master
of
the
Church
,
after
the
Apostles
,
(
that
howsoeuer
in
some
places
he
doe
sharpely
taxe
his
errors
,
)
yet
in
his
Preface
vpon
his
Questions
vpon
Genesis
,
hee
wisheth
himselfe
to
haue
that
knowledge
of
the
Scriptures
,
which
Origen
had
,
together
with
the
enuie
of
his
name
.
Athanasius
withall
esteeming
of
him
,
as
singular
and
laborious
,
ofttimes
vsing
his
Testimonie
against
the
Arrians
,
Socrates
lib
.
6.
cap
.
13.
Hee
that
shall
consider
him
withall
,
so
laborious
,
that
(
except
the
necessarie
times
of
his
parsimonious
eating
,
and
moderate
sleeping
,
for
refreshing
of
nature
)
he
was
continually
imployed
eyther
in
reading
,
conferring
,
disputing
with
Heretiques
,
Catechizing
,
Preaching
,
writing
,
or
dictating
(
in
which
he
was
so
copious
,
that
daily
dictating
as
much
as
seuen
Scriueners
could
write
,
Commenting
on
all
the
Scriptures
;
besides
other
Tractes
in
positiue
and
controuersall
Diuinitie
,
with
many
things
in
Humanitie
,
writing
as
much
,
saith
Saint
Ierome
,
as
Varro
amongst
the
Romans
:
the
number
of
his
bookes
comming
to
seuen
thousand
volumes
,
(
most
of
which
are
perished
:
)
I
say
,
hee
that
shall
seriously
consider
these
excellent
mixtures
of
Nature
,
Arte
and
Grace
,
concurring
in
this
one
man
,
together
with
his
excellent
zeale
and
sanctity
of
life
,
that
many
times
to
the
ieoparding
of
his
owne
life
,
he
would
incourage
,
comfort
,
and
kisse
the
Martyrs
as
they
went
to
their
deaths
:
hee
himselfe
so
desirous
of
Martyrdome
,
that
besides
his
incouragements
to
his
Father
Leonides
(
the
first
Martyr
in
Decius
his
time
)
he
would
needs
be
martyred
with
him
,
euen
when
he
was
a
childe
,
if
he
had
not
been
restrained
:
the
graces
of
God
euen
in
those
yeeres
so
budding
out
in
him
,
that
oft
when
he
was
asleepe
his
Father
would
bare
his
brest
,
and
kisse
it
,
as
being
the
lodge
and
the
Temple
of
the
Spirit
of
God
:
as
Master
Fox
notes
,
Part
.
1
Martyrol
.
pag
.
49.
out
of
Eusebius
and
Antoninus
.
He
that
shall
truely
and
dexterously
compare
these
many
and
manifold
graces
of
this
Origen
,
with
his
infirmities
;
his
drosse
with
his
gold
;
his
falls
and
slips
with
his
vertues
;
the
errors
of
his
iudgement
,
in
broaching
,
holding
,
defending
so
many
vntruths
,
bundled
vp
by
Osiander
and
other
Authors
;
chiefly
the
Heresie
of
the
Millenaries
Osiana
.
Epitom
.
C●●t
.
:
the
lightnesse
and
leuitie
of
his
wit
,
or
the
mist
in
his
vnderstanding
,
turning
reall
,
positiue
and
historicall
truthes
,
into
fictions
and
fabulous
allegories
and
vntruths
(
as
the
Turkes
in
their
Alcoran
,
the
Iewes
in
their
Thalmud
,
the
Hebrew
Rabbins
in
their
Comments
vpon
the
old
Testament
,
the
Friers
in
their
Postils
See
World
of
wonders
,
and
the
Bee
●i●…
of
the
Romish
Church
)
wresting
and
wringing
the
dugs
of
the
Church
,
the
old
Testament
(
chiefly
)
and
the
new
,
as
a
man
wrings
his
nose
till
it
giue
blood
:
the
indiscreetnesse
of
his
zeale
from
some
misconceiued
Scriptures
,
in
Castrating
and
Gelding
himselfe
Euseb
.
lib
.
6
cap
.
7.
,
as
the
prescribed
meanes
of
Chastitie
,
to
the
griefe
of
his
friends
,
derision
of
his
enemies
,
and
his
owne
lasting
obloquie
:
but
aboue
all
the
foulenesse
of
his
fall
into
the
sinne
of
of
Idolatrie
,
yea
euen
after
he
had
sustained
so
many
torments
,
rackings
,
dungeons
,
and
threates
of
death
Eus●b
.
lib
.
6.
cap
39.
;
comparing
,
I
say
,
thus
his
chaffe
with
corne
,
weeds
with
flowers
,
it
cannot
but
stirre
vp
admiration
and
commiseration
in
the
dullest
apprehension
,
and
the
grossest
imagination
.
Omitting
all
the
rest
,
the
thing
which
I
chiefly
take
notice
of
,
is
the
greatnesse
and
grossenesse
of
his
Idolatrie
,
together
with
his
confused
and
disordered
Repentance
,
which
I
haue
(
according
to
my
Talent
in
that
kinde
)
reduced
into
number
and
order
.
Concerning
his
fall
,
thus
it
was
,
according
to
Suidas
and
Nicephorus
Lib
.
5.
cap
.
39
,
,
that
vnder
the
hotte
persecution
vnder
Decius
,
in
which
so
many
Martyrs
sealed
the
Truth
with
their
blood
(
amongst
which
were
many
of
Origens
Schollers
and
Catechists
,
as
one
Plutarchus
with
Serenus
his
brother
,
who
were
burned
;
Heraclides
and
Heron
,
who
were
both
beheaded
;
another
Serenus
,
as
also
Julianus
,
Cromion
,
Epimachus
,
Alexander
,
Macar
,
Isodorus
,
burned
:
many
women
of
masculine
faith
tormented
,
Quinta
,
Apollonia
,
Mercuria
,
Dionisia
,
Potamiena
,
See
Euseb
.
hist
.
Eccl●s
c
.
6
▪
cap
.
40.
or
41.
after
the
Greeke
.
with
many
moe
;
some
stoned
to
death
,
some
beheaded
,
some
burned
,
some
broyled
in
hot
pitch
)
after
many
other
,
Origen
fell
into
the
hands
of
those
Butchers
.
After
many
torments
which
he
manfully
suffered
,
they
desiring
rather
his
Apostasie
then
his
Martyrdome
(
because
hee
being
a
Pillar
of
the
Church
,
and
falling
,
many
would
fall
with
him
)
they
vsed
this
stratagem
:
bringing
him
to
an
Altar
,
where
was
a
foule
filthie
Aethiopian
;
this
option
or
choise
was
offered
vnto
him
,
whether
he
would
offer
to
an
Idoll
,
or
haue
his
body
abused
with
a
foule
Blackamoore
.
Then
Origen
,
who
was
alwayes
a
louer
and
admirer
of
virginitie
,
who
with
a
Philosophicall
minde
,
had
alwayes
kept
and
preserued
his
Chastitie
vndefiled
;
much
distasting
and
detesting
that
filthie
villany
to
be
done
vnto
his
bodie
,
condescended
to
the
other
motion
,
of
two
euils
,
as
he
thought
,
chusing
the
lesse
:
whereupon
the
Iudge
putting
Incense
in
his
hand
,
caused
him
to
set
it
to
the
fire
,
on
the
Altar
.
Epiphanius
alledged
by
Master
Fox
Martyrol
.
part
.
1.
pag
.
54.
,
mitigates
the
matter
(
though
in
other
things
a
great
and
seuere
censurer
of
Origen
and
his
workes
)
and
saith
,
That
hee
being
vrged
to
sacrifice
to
Idols
,
tooke
the
boughes
in
his
hand
,
wherewith
the
Heathens
were
wont
to
honor
their
Idols
,
calling
vpon
the
Christians
to
carrie
them
in
the
honor
of
Christ
.
It
is
added
also
by
some
in
the
extenuation
of
his
fact
,
that
he
was
rather
induced
to
sacrifice
,
from
a
hoped
good
that
he
might
doe
,
because
(
as
appeareth
by
some
passages
in
his
Repentance
)
some
of
the
Pagans
had
promised
and
couenanted
,
that
vpon
condition
of
his
sacrificing
,
they
would
turne
Christians
,
and
be
baptised
:
but
he
condescending
to
this
cursed
compact
,
they
reuolt
from
their
promise
,
leauing
him
in
the
stockes
and
briers
of
a
stinging
conscience
(
as
indeed
what
faith
or
fidelitie
is
there
in
a
Gen.
31.
●
.
Laban
,
a
Iudges
16.2
.
Timnite
,
a
Philistim
,
a
Saul
,
a
Turke
,
a
Faux
No
saith
to
be
held
with
Heretikes
,
is
the
position
and
practise
of
the
Papists
▪
as
was
shewed
in
their
doings
with
Ierome
of
Prage
,
and
John
Husse
,
in
the
Councell
of
Constance
.
,
a
Papist
,
a
Pagan
,
to
one
of
the
Orthodoxe
Religion
,
contrarie
to
their
idolatrous
superstition
?
)
how
euer
his
fact
was
,
the
Iudge
putting
him
by
from
martyrdome
.
The
Church
of
Alexandria
misliking
the
fact
done
,
Excommunicate
him
from
their
Church
,
and
driue
him
from
their
Communion
:
of
which
hee
being
ashamed
,
left
Alexandria
and
came
to
Ierusalem
,
where
being
intreated
to
preach
by
some
of
the
Ministers
,
by
reason
of
his
fame
that
had
gone
ouer
all
Churches
,
by
much
intreating
and
pressing
,
willing
nilling
in
a
great
and
thronging
Auditorie
,
hee
goes
into
the
Pulpit
,
opens
the
Bible
,
by
speciall
prouidence
hits
vpon
the
sixteenth
and
seuenteeth
verses
of
the
fiftith
Psalme
;
the
words
being
these
,
But
vnto
the
wicked
,
saith
God
,
what
hast
thou
to
do
to
declare
my
Statutes
,
or
to
take
my
Couenant
in
thy
mouth
,
seeing
thou
hatest
instruction
,
and
hast
cast
my
words
behind
thee
?
Which
Text
no
sooner
read
,
but
his
owne
guiltie
conscience
making
the
Comment
by
a
practicall
Syllogisme
,
applying
the
Prophets
expostulation
to
his
late
transgression
:
hee
hastily
claspes
the
booke
againe
,
sits
downe
as
one
Plannet-strucke
,
not
able
to
speake
one
word
;
but
bursting
out
into
vehement
and
aboundant
teares
,
(
which
in
a
silent
Oratorie
did
plead
his
guilt
)
all
the
auditorie
wept
excessiuely
with
him
:
what
became
of
him
after
is
not
extant
in
Historie
,
saue
onely
that
hee
died
and
was
buried
in
Tyre
:
Eusebius
thinketh
he
departed
vnder
the
Emperours
Gallus
and
Volusianus
,
Anno
255.
in
the
threescore
and
sixteenth
yeere
of
his
age
,
in
great
miserie
and
pouertie
:
but
more
miserable
by
the
racke
of
Conscience
,
in
his
deep
distresse
he
pens
this
Repentance
following
,
which
I
haue
by
Poetizing
authority
thus
illustrated
and
inlarged
by
running
diuision
,
vpon
his
plaine
song
.
That
wherein
I
am
now
to
labour
is
to
stop
the
mouth
of
exception
,
that
may
call
in
question
the
truth
,
either
of
his
Fall
,
or
Repentance
.
I
know
Eusebius
himselfe
,
who
writes
his
life
at
large
,
mentioneth
neither
:
I
know
Baronius
,
that
great
Chronologer
,
in
his
Annals
mentioneth
neither
Ann●
.
tom
.
3.
ad
annum
253
num
.
118.
.
I
know
Erasmus
Censurae
praefixa
lamento
.
,
though
he
translate
it
out
of
the
Greek
coppie
,
yet
fauouring
the
credit
of
Origen
,
he
thinketh
it
to
be
penned
by
some
of
his
aduersaries
in
disgrace
of
him
.
I
know
our
learned
Country-man
,
Master
Cooke
,
in
that
laborious
worke
of
his
,
termed
the
Censure
of
the
Fathers
,
placeth
this
in
the
rancke
of
one
of
the
Spurious
workes
falsely
fathered
vpon
Origen
,
and
reckoneth
it
with
one
of
the
knights
of
the
Poste
Censura
Script.
p
70.
.
It
is
much
for
me
to
answere
all
these
grear
Authorities
,
which
,
as
it
were
,
command
me
to
account
it
a
fiction
:
yet
thus
much
for
a
counterpoize
,
I
pleade
for
the
truth
of
it
.
First
,
great
and
learned
Papists
account
it
and
alledge
it
as
a
reall
truth
,
as
namely
the
Diuines
of
Colen
Censara
Colo
.
dial
.
6.
,
he
that
writ
the
three
Conuersions
of
England
Part
.
3.
p.
9.
,
Hosius
Confessio
Petrick
c
.
58.
the
Cardinall
,
and
others
,
which
though
I
doe
not
absolutely
auerre
it
as
truth
,
because
they
alledge
it
,
since
they
oft
alledge
many
fictions
,
lyes
,
Legends
,
and
bastard
writings
(
as
our
men
haue
manifested
)
for
the
propping
of
their
ruinous
and
declining
cause
;
yet
their
Authorities
for
it
may
counteruaile
Baronius
,
if
not
also
Erasmus
,
who
are
against
it
.
Secondly
,
it
is
in
the
Tomes
of
Origens
Greeke
coppie
.
Thirdly
,
it
is
approued
by
Saint
Ierome
,
and
translated
by
Erasmus
himselfe
;
which
me
thinkes
hee
should
neuer
haue
done
,
if
there
had
not
been
some
probable
truth
in
it
.
Fourthly
,
his
fact
is
recorded
by
Suidas
,
a
graue
and
venerable
Greeke
Author
,
who
liued
more
then
a
thousand
yeere
agoe
:
(
to
omit
Nicephorus
,
who
yet
is
ioyned
with
Eusebius
,
Socrates
and
Dorotheus
,
as
an
Ecclesiasticall
Historian
;
howeuer
in
many
things
he
is
as
fabulous
,
as
lying
Lippomanus
,
and
as
vnsure
as
Popish
Surius
:
)
besides
good
Master
Fox
Martyrol
.
part
.
1.
p.
5
,
that
great
Antiquarie
,
and
diligent
searcher
out
of
the
Actes
and
Monuments
of
the
Church
,
and
of
the
chiefe
Pillars
of
the
Church
,
both
in
ancient
and
moderne
times
,
alledgeth
from
Authors
,
without
contradiction
,
Origens
transgression
and
humiliation
.
Fiftly
,
A
Doctor
of
our
Church
Meridith
Hanmer
.
Apud
Euseb
.
lib
.
7.
cap
.
,
the
Translator
of
Eusebius
,
hath
also
thought
good
in
his
iudgement
to
translate
this
Fact
of
Origens
out
of
Suidas
and
Nicephorus
;
as
also
out
of
the
Greeke
coppies
omitted
by
Eusebius
himselfe
,
whom
some
thinke
a
partiall
fauourer
of
Origens
,
as
was
also
Chrysostome
,
which
was
the
occasion
of
all
his
broyles
and
bickerings
with
Epiphanius
Socrat
.
l.
6.
c
.
11.
12.
1
.
Sixtly
,
I
am
informed
by
a
Diuine
of
this
place
,
of
very
great
reading
and
iudgement
,
that
Bishop
Iewel
hauing
in
the
frailtie
of
the
flesh
,
giuen
too
much
way
to
some
things
in
that
turbulent
and
tragicall
time
,
in
Queene
Maries
reigne
Quinquen●ium
Mar●…
,
(
as
did
that
good
Cranmer
,
Pimbleton
and
others
;
as
did
also
good
old
Euseb
.
lib
.
8.
cap
.
43.
Serapion
,
in
the
dayes
of
Decius
)
and
repenting
and
recanting
what
he
had
done
,
in
the
reigne
of
Queene
Elizabeth
:
he
alledged
this
very
fact
and
fall
of
Origens
in
a
publike
Auditory
,
applying
it
with
griefe
vnto
himselfe
.
And
thus
much
,
they
say
,
eloquent
Doctor
Humfrey
relates
,
writing
his
life
.
I
confesse
,
I
cannot
in
this
place
,
nor
in
these
straits
of
time
,
come
to
the
sight
of
Doctor
Humfreyes
booke
,
and
therefore
I
trust
Tradition
and
relation
.
Seuenthly
,
Come
to
reason
,
and
what
improbabilitie
is
there
,
either
in
Origens
thus
sinsinning
or
repenting
?
might
not
Origen
sinne
thus
foully
,
though
not
finally
,
(
which
is
not
incident
to
the
Elect
)
as
soone
as
others
?
was
he
not
a
man
,
and
therefore
subiect
to
mutation
?
from
which
the
Nature
Angelicall
was
once
not
exempted
;
much
lesse
now
the
Nature
Humane
,
in
the
state
of
corruption
.
Did
not
the
Lords
owne
peculiar
people
,
the
Israelites
,
oft
Idolatrize
with
the
gods
of
the
Nations
Iudges
2.11.11
.
Ch.
●
.
v.
5
,
6
7
,
8
,
9.
c
.
4.
1
,
2
,
3.
,
in
their
prosperitie
,
yet
returning
and
repenting
in
their
aduersitie
?
Did
not
Salomon
,
the
mirrour
of
Wisedome
,
fall
as
foully
1
King
11.5
.
,
and
yet
rise
againe
,
as
(
besides
other
arguments
vsed
by
Authors
D.
Willet
in
Synops
.
Soto
maior
praefat
.
Comment
.
in
Eccles
.
See
a
Sermon
called
Sa●omons
Harpe
.
)
his
Ecclesiastes
is
a
reall
and
demonstratiue
repentance
?
Come
to
Histories
:
Did
not
that
good
old
Serapion
sympathize
in
this
sinne
,
and
yet
(
as
appeares
by
a
Letter
writ
by
Dionysius
,
Bishop
of
Alexandria
,
to
Fabian
)
had
assurance
of
his
pardon
euen
in
his
death-bed
,
how
euer
the
Church
(
as
though
they
had
bin
all
Nouatians
or
Catharists
)
would
not
admit
him
vpon
any
acknowledgement
?
Leauing
Oecebolius
,
and
of
late
times
Francis
Spira
,
of
whose
repentance
(
notwithstanding
his
grieuous
conflicts
and
seeming
desperation
)
the
learned
Perkins
and
others
are
well
perswaded
;
as
also
that
zealous
and
worthy
Cranmer
Fox
Martyr
.
part
.
2.
,
before
mentioned
,
who
after
his
subscription
to
Popish
Articles
,
tooke
as
deepe
a
reuenge
of
his
transgressing
hand
,
as
euer
did
the
Romane
Scoeuola
.
Come
to
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
euen
those
,
that
in
former
time
were
farre
lesse
Antichristian
then
these
of
later
times
,
for
whom
their
deluded
Proselites
so
pleade
,
that
they
cannot
erre
,
(
how
euer
some
of
their
fellowes
Canus
l●b
.
6.
c
.
vlt
loc
.
Auton●●●●
p.
5
〈◇〉
2●
.
,
by
instances
,
examples
and
reasons
,
contradict
them
)
we
shall
finde
that
many
of
them
(
as
appeares
by
approued
Authors
)
haue
erred
heretically
,
some
idolatrously
as
farre
as
Origen
;
succeeding
,
yea
exceeding
Peter
,
not
in
his
supposed
Seate
or
pretended
faith
,
but
in
his
Fact
,
in
denying
his
Master
Raynolds
d●
Idol
.
Rom.
●cclesiae
.
Whitak
.
de
Rom.
Pont.
p.
781.
.
Clemens
Epist
5
in
tom
.
Concil
.
heretically
holding
a
Platonicall
communitie
for
goods
and
wiues
,
to
be
as
free
as
the
Sunne
and
Ayre
:
Siricius
G●atian
.
dist
82.
Calu
.
lib
.
4
Instet
.
cap
.
12.24
.
,
that
Mariage
,
Gods
ordination
,
was
pollution
:
Innocent
Aug
lib
2.
cap
.
4.
cont
.
Pelag
.
the
first
,
that
ch●ldren
could
not
be
saued
without
the
Eucharist
:
Pelagius
Apud
.
Grat
.
dist
.
31.
decreeing
maried
Deacons
to
be
deposed
:
Gregory
Magd●b
.
Cent.
8.
c
.
10.
the
third
diuiding
by
diuorce
in
case
of
dangerous
diseases
:
Celestine
the
third
in
case
of
Heresie
Concil
.
Trid
Sess.
24.
c
.
5.
:
Iohn
Conci●
.
C●n●tant
.
●es
.
11.
the
three
and
twentieth
,
that
the
soules
of
men
be
mortall
:
yea
some
of
them
as
grosse
Heretikes
as
euer
were
,
and
so
remaine
on
record
(
for
all
Bellarmines
Glozing
and
Sophisticall
colouring
:
)
Victor
Euseb
.
Ec●l
.
hist
.
lib
.
5.
cap
.
28.
,
a
Samosatenian
:
Zepherinus
,
a
Montanist
,
acknowledging
the
Prophesies
Tertul
.
in
lib
.
contra
Praxeam
sic
de
eo
testatur
.
of
Montanus
,
Prisca
,
and
Maximilla
▪
Liberius
Damasus
i●
vita
,
Zozomen
.
ib
4
c
.
15.
an
Arrian
;
yea
after
he
had
suffered
so
much
for
Athanasius
:
Felix
Ruffin
.
lib
.
10.
c
.
22.
Theod
lib
.
2
cap
.
17.
,
infoelix
,
leauened
with
the
same
leauen
:
Celestine
Laur
.
Valla
in
lib
.
cont
.
Den
.
Constantius
.
and
Anastasius
Grat
.
dist
19
Alphons
.
lib
.
1.
cap
.
4.
co●tra
Haeres
.
,
Nestorians
:
Vigilius
Liberatus
in
Bre●●ar
.
●ap
.
22.
an
Eutichetian
;
yea
Marcellinus
Andrad
.
lib
.
2
def
.
Conc
.
Trident
.
a
grosse
Idolater
,
as
euer
was
our
Origen
;
euen
sacrificing
to
Idols
.
Eightly
,
(
that
we
may
make
some
speciall
vse
of
Origens
Fall
)
doe
we
not
vsually
see
that
men
of
greatest
gifts
and
graces
,
oft-times
are
tainted
with
some
infirmities
or
foule
vices
in
conuersation
,
or
errours
in
iudgement
:
(
like
some
faire
face
with
a
foule
mole
;
as
a
sweete
rose
with
an
eating
canker
,
as
the
white
Swanne
with
her
blacke
feete
,
as
the
plumed
Peacock
with
an
hellish
voyce
?
)
Salomon
Nehem
.
13.27
.
so
wise
amongst
men
,
so
beloued
of
God
,
so
shining
in
graces
,
yet
so
besotted
with
women
,
so
spotted
with
corporeall
and
spirituall
pollutions
.
Samson
Iudges
14.15
.
&c.
Chap.
16.
that
renowned
Nazarite
,
so
stout
,
so
strong
,
yet
so
effeminately
weake
.
Amongst
the
Heathens
Alexander
Quintus
Curtius
lib
,
4.
&
lib
.
5.
,
so
full
of
prowesse
,
yet
so
palpably
proud
,
so
sottishly
drunke
,
so
brutishly
boistrous
in
murthering
his
wise
Parmenio
,
his
stout
Philotas
,
his
deare
Clytus
,
for
denying
his
fool●●●ly
desired
Deitie
?
Hannibal
,
Marke
Anthonie
,
Iulius
Caesar
:
other
Worthies
so
heroick
,
so
warlike
,
so
wise
;
yet
so
effeminate
,
so
weake
,
so
womanish
:
Picus
the
Earle
of
Mirandula
(
who
might
be
reckoned
amongst
those
whom
Scaliger
termes
worthy
and
wonderfull
spirits
)
so
learned
;
yet
(
as
Iouius
testifies
of
him
)
so
loose
and
luxurious
;
with
many
moe
that
might
be
added
,
confirme
and
ratifie
this
vndeniable
truth
.
Yea
which
is
more
,
which
of
the
Fathers
,
the
lights
of
the
world
,
the
successors
of
the
Apostles
,
the
pillars
of
the
Greeke
and
Latine
Church
,
were
without
their
naeui
,
their
warts
,
their
wants
,
their
errors
?
as
Osiander
in
his
epitomizing
of
the
Centuries
,
and
Sculietus
in
his
Medulla
Patrum
,
haue
obserued
throughout
all
their
writings
:
to
shew
some
few
of
many
,
Cyprian
condemnes
the
Baptisme
of
Heretikes
as
vnlawfull
,
in
which
fourescore
and
seuen
Bishops
erred
with
him
In
Concil
.
Cartha●ine
.
Tertullian
a
Montanist
,
is
doubted
to
be
homo
Ecclesiae
,
a
man
of
the
Church
:
Hilarie
erring
touching
Christs
Humanitie
:
Irenaeus
in
affirming
Christ
to
haue
died
the
fiftith
yeere
of
his
age
,
contrary
to
all
Orthodoxe
Diuines
.
Our
Origen
so
erronious
in
many
things
,
chiefly
in
imagining
the
Diuels
at
last
to
be
saued
;
that
as
some
haue
doubted
whether
to
account
him
among
the
Fathers
or
Heretikes
,
so
some
Papists
haue
as
much
questioned
his
saluation
,
as
they
did
Salomons
.
To
omit
the
rest
,
in
two
particulars
,
the
whole
streame
of
the
Ancients
haue
runne
counter
.
The
first
,
in
that
they
thought
that
Christians
should
reigne
with
Christ
after
the
resurrection
heere
on
earth
,
in
a
golden
Ierusalem
,
and
there
should
enioy
such
a
heauen
as
the
Turkes
dreame
of
in
their
Alcoran
,
marrying
wiues
,
begetting
children
,
eating
,
drinking
,
and
liuing
in
corporeall
delights
.
The
second
,
that
they
thought
the
world
should
endure
but
sixe
thousand
yeeres
:
which
opinion
the
iudicious
Zanchie
doth
discusse
De
fine
seculi
.
,
and
Saint
Augustine
In
Enar
.
Psal
.
89.
&
Ciuit
.
Dei
,
lib
.
18.
cap
3
condemne
as
rash
and
presumptuous
.
The
broachers
and
breeders
of
the
first
opinion
,
were
Iustin
Martyr
,
In
dial
.
cum
Tryphone
.
Irenaeus
alledged
by
Jerom
,
In
Esaiam
lib
.
18.
Papias
apud
Euseb
.
lib
.
3.
cap
.
36.
Victorinus
,
Lactantius
Diuin
.
Instit
.
lib
.
7.
cap
.
23.
Apollinarius
,
Seuerus
,
nominated
both
by
Saint
Ierome
,
●omment
.
in
Esaiam
,
lib
.
18.
&
in
Psal
&
in
Ezek
.
lib
.
11.
Nepos
recorded
by
Euseb
.
lib
.
7.
cap
.
23.
Of
the
second
opinion
were
also
Irenaeus
lib
.
5.
c
.
23.
Hilar
.
in
Matth
.
Lactantius
Diuin
.
Instit
.
lib
.
7
cap
.
14
Hieron
Epist.
139.
&
Iustin
Martyr
respons
.
a●
Orthodox
quaest.
71.
Yet
all
missing
the
marke
,
determining
without
the
word
,
they
groped
for
the
truth
in
the
darke
fogge
of
their
owne
inuentions
,
and
found
it
not
.
Now
our
Origen
being
of
as
great
graces
as
the
rest
,
why
are
not
his
falls
and
errors
as
probable
?
Now
ere
I
conclude
,
I
desire
leaue
of
further
inlargement
to
make
some
vse
to
our selues
of
the
fearefull
fall
of
this
our
present
Penitent
,
that
so
wee
may
gather
figges
from
his
thornes
,
grapes
from
his
thistles
,
drawing
light
out
of
his
darknesse
,
and
good
from
hi●
euill
.
God
for
this
purpose
oft
permitting
the
falls
of
his
Saints
,
that
we
that
stand
(
as
the
Apostle
Rom.
11.18.19.20
.
vrgeth
from
the
falling
away
of
the
Iewes
)
might
take
heed
lest
we
fall
,
that
,
like
Lots
w●f●
turning
into
a
piller
of
salt
(
as
Augustine
instanceth
in
her
)
their
example
might
season
vs
,
to
make
vs
more
carefull
and
cautelous
,
not
more
secure
and
presumptuous
,
after
the
fashion
of
the
world
;
who
from
the
sinnes
of
Noah
,
Lot
,
Dauid
,
Samson
,
Salomon
,
Peter
,
and
other
of
the
Saints
,
thinke
they
haue
a
warrantable
charter
to
sinne
,
making
the
presidents
of
others
falls
,
so
mans
Proctors
,
Patrons
,
and
Protectors
of
their
securitie
,
in
their
sensuall
courses
,
imitating
(
as
Ambrose
Pe●ca●it
Dau●d
quod
so●ent
●e●e
〈◇〉
a●
&
pen●●●t
quod
non
solent
reg●●
notes
in
Kings
and
great
men
compared
with
Dauid
)
their
sinnes
,
but
not
their
sorrowes
;
their
fallings
by
transgressing
,
not
their
rising
by
repenting
.
But
in
the
slippes
and
slidings
of
the
Saints
,
and
so
of
this
our
Origen
,
First
,
We
may
see
what
man
is
,
if
God
leaue
him
neuer
so
little
to
himself●
;
what
indeed
,
but
a
Citie
without
walls
?
a
Fort
without
a
garrison
,
a
ship●e
without
anchor
,
cable
,
Pilot
or
Palynure
:
a
confused
armie
without
a
Generall
:
a
straying
sheepe
without
a
shepheard
:
a
vine
vnpropt
:
a
house
ruinous
(
as
the
Philistims
Dagons
)
without
the
vpholding
pillar
;
yea
a
bowle
set
on
the
top
of
a
hill
(
the
hand
withdrawne
)
neuer
resting
,
euer
running
till
it
come
to
the
bottome
?
so
we
falling
from
God
to
sinne
,
into
the
bottomlesse
gulfe
of
hell
(
as
the
staffe
left
alone
fals
to
the
ground
)
without
the
staying
and
vnderpropping
hand
of
grace
.
Hence
Abraham
is
faining
or
dissembling
,
Noah
drunke
,
Lot
incestuous
,
Dauid
vncleane
,
Salomon
idolatrous
and
adulterous
,
Ezekiah
haughtie
hearted
,
Thomas
incredulous
,
Peter
presumptuous
and
crauenly
timerous
:
Theodosius
(
in
his
anger
massacring
seuen
thousand
Thessalonians
)
bloodie
and
furious
:
our
Origen
grossely
idolatrous
:
when
God
lette
them
a
little
alone
,
and
left
them
to
stand
by
themselues
(
as
the
mother
or
nurse
sometimes
doth
the
weakling
childe
)
we
see
how
grosse
were
their
falls
,
how
grieuous
their
sinnes
.
Secondly
,
As
a
depending
admonitorie
vse
,
the
consideration
of
the
premisses
,
must
cause
vs
alwayes
,
according
to
our
Sauiours
command
,
to
watch
and
pray
Luke
21.36
.
,
to
stand
vpon
our
guard
,
to
be
sentinels
ouer
our
hearts
,
Centurions
ouer
our
affections
,
to
keepe
(
as
the
Gaoler
his
prisoner
)
this
roauing
runnagate
heart
Prou.
4.23
.
,
with
all
diligence
,
yea
with
watch
and
ward
,
with
lock
and
key
(
as
the
carefull
and
vigilant
Father
,
his
wandring
Dinah
,
his
immodest
daughter
)
within
the
doores
and
barres
,
and
limits
of
the
Word
:
lest
going
a
whoring
after
strange
gods
with
Israel
;
after
dumbe
Idols
with
the
Papists
;
after
vaine
and
vile
inuentions
,
with
the
prophane
ones
of
the
world
:
the
Diuell
,
that
vncleane
Sichem
Gen.
34.2
.
,
that
malignant
spirit
meeting
with
it
,
thus
straying
and
stragling
from
God
,
from
our
Fathers
house
,
whorishly
affected
(
as
incestuous
Iudah
Gen.
38.15.16
.
,
with
vailed
Thamar
)
beget
vpon
it
such
bastards
of
sins
,
as
shall
bring
more
dishonor
to
God
,
more
danger
and
damage
to
our
owne
soules
,
then
Lots
vncleane
issue
,
and
spurious
frye
Gen.
19.
last
verses
.
(
Moab
and
Ammon
)
to
transgressing
Israel
.
Thirdly
,
Not
to
trust
in
our selues
,
or
to
repose
any
confidence
or
affiance
in
any
thing
from
our selues
,
either
for
the
doing
of
any
positiue
good
,
or
preuenting
any
priuatiue
euill
;
not
to
goe
out
with
Goliah
1
Sam
.
17.44
.
in
our
owne
might
,
in
a
proud
presumption
in
our selues
with
Peter
,
but
to
walke
Mich
.
76.7
.
humbly
,
as
Micah
admonisheth
:
to
goe
out
euery
day
,
against
sinne
and
Satan
,
and
our
owne
trayterous
and
rebell
hearts
,
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
the
God
of
Israel
,
as
Dauid
against
that
Giant
1.
Sam
.
17.45
.
:
to
put
vpon
vs
the
spirituall
Armour
prescribed
,
to
buckle
it
close
to
vs
daily
,
since
wee
haue
Satan
,
that
subtill
Serpent
,
so
politickly
insnaring
,
so
powerfully
assaulting
;
the
world
with
her
allurements
,
intrapping
:
our
owne
flesh
,
as
Eue
to
Adam
,
Delilah
to
Samson
,
daily
tempting
and
betraying
;
yet
,
not
to
rest
in
the
value
of
the
weapons
,
or
to
trust
to
our
owne
valour
in
weilding
them
,
but
to
make
the
Lord
our
stay
and
our
strength
,
our
speare
and
our
shield
,
to
be
strong
in
him
,
and
in
the
power
of
his
might
,
Ephes
.
6.10
.
Fourthly
,
To
take
notice
of
our
weaknesse
and
cowardize
,
in
some
straits
and
assayes
of
our
ficklenesse
and
inconstancie
,
in
holding
out
the
spirituall
battery
:
for
we
shall
see
it
in
this
instance
,
and
feele
and
finde
it
experimentally
in
our selues
and
others
,
that
though
a
Christian
sometimes
be
exceeding
strong
and
couragious
,
and
marcheth
against
his
soules
assailants
like
a
second
Jehu
,
or
a
conquering
Iephte
,
standing
strongly
and
stoutly
in
the
day
of
triall
:
First
,
Partly
from
his
owne
watchfulnesse
and
circumspection
.
Secondly
,
Partly
from
the
diligent
and
carefull
custodie
of
his
owne
heart
.
Thirdly
,
Partly
in
the
wise
guidance
of
his
wayes
,
according
to
the
rule
and
square
of
the
Word
.
Fourthly
,
Partly
from
the
constant
and
conscionable
vse
of
the
meanes
.
Fiftly
,
Partly
from
faith
,
affiance
and
dependance
vpon
God
.
Sixtly
,
But
aboue
all
,
by
the
assisting
ayde
of
the
powerfull
and
al-preuailing
sanctifying
Spirit
,
resisting
and
conquering
many
and
mightie
temptations
:
yet
at
other
times
,
the
same
man
,
the
same
Christian
combatant
,
may
be
so
infirme
and
weake
:
First
,
Satan
more
slily
,
subtilly
,
and
incessantly
rempting
.
Secondly
,
Grace
more
weakely
assisting
.
Thirdly
,
God
leauing
his
seruant
to
himselfe
(
as
he
did
Dauid
1.
Chr.
21.2
:
,
Ezekias
2.
Chr.
32.31
.
,
this
our
Origen
)
in
a
temptation
of
probation
or
trying
.
Fourthly
,
His
prouidence
wisely
,
for
good
ends
and
causes
,
permitting
.
Fiftly
,
But
aboue
all
,
the
heart
being
but
weakly
guarded
.
Sixtly
,
Gods
presence
not
awfully
eyed
.
Seuenthly
,
The
deceits
of
sinne
,
not
strictly
obserued
.
Eightly
,
The
occasions
of
sinne
not
cautelously
preuented
.
Ninthly
,
Good
duties
,
publike
or
priuate
hearing
,
reading
(
but
chiefely
prayer
)
either
wholly
omitted
,
or
intermitted
for
the
matter
;
or
sleightly
,
heauily
,
superficially
and
perfunctorily
performed
for
the
manner
,
a
lighter
or
lesser
temptation
may
preuaile
,
and
vassalize
the
soule
of
a
couragious
Christian
.
If
we
require
examples
,
which
are
called
the
hostages
and
pledges
of
our
speeches
:
we
may
obserue
,
Dauid
at
one
time
so
tender
hearted
,
that
hee
was
smit
for
touching
the
very
garment
of
the
Lords
Annointed
1
Sam
.
24.5
.
,
that
he
would
spare
euen
his
enemies
,
Saul
and
2
Sam
19.23
.
Shimei
,
when
he
had
them
in
his
power
:
at
another
time
so
bloodie
,
so
filthie
,
that
he
would
not
onely
abuse
his
owne
body
and
blood
in
vncleannesse
2
Sam
.
12.
,
but
by
a
treacherous
premeditated
plot
,
effuse
and
powre
out
the
blood
of
his
deare
and
faithfull
friend
.
Once
wee
haue
Peter
as
stout
as
a
Lion
,
in
confessing
and
professing
Christ
with
his
fellow
Disciples
Acts
4
19.20
.
,
couragiously
confronting
and
contesting
against
all
the
menacings
,
threatnings
,
beatings
,
force
and
furie
of
the
malicious
Scribes
and
malignant
Pharisies
:
at
another
,
as
a
Hare
or
Hart
,
so
heartlesse
,
or
Hen-hearted
,
that
the
very
breath
and
blast
of
a
silly
Damosell
Luke
22.57
.
&c.
made
him
crie
crauen
,
and
fearefully
deny
his
Master
.
At
one
time
we
haue
Reuben
Gen
37.21
.
so
naturall
to
pittie
and
commiserate
his
brother
Ioseph
,
pleading
for
his
life
,
in
his
vnbrotherly
vsage
by
his
emulating
brethren
:
at
another
time
so
vnnaturall
and
vngracious
too
,
as
incestuously
hee
defiles
Gen.
49.4
.
his
fathers
bed
.
Thomas
is
once
so
strong
,
that
hearing
of
Lazarus
death
Iohn
11.16
.
,
hee
offers
to
accompany
his
Master
Christ
and
his
fellow
Disciples
,
to
go
and
to
die
with
him
,
in
respect
of
the
present
perill
by
the
Iewes
laying
awaite
for
Christ
:
at
another
time
so
incredulous
,
that
hee
would
not
,
nor
could
not
beleeue
the
life
of
Christ
,
auerred
and
auouched
to
him
by
so
many
eye
and
eare
witnesses
Iohn
20
25.
.
To
leaue
the
rest
:
this
our
Origen
,
once
euen
in
the
prime
of
his
youth
,
being
but
a
Boy
,
so
spirited
,
that
he
durst
looke
grimme
Death
on
the
face
,
in
the
cause
of
Christ
,
and
desired
to
goe
to
Christ
thorow
rackes
and
fires
,
as
a
martyr
in
desire
(
as
some
speake
of
John
the
Disciple
)
being
by
the
force
of
friends
restrained
from
the
Act
,
writing
a
letter
consolatorie
to
his
martyred
father
,
not
to
sh●inke
in
the
profession
of
so
good
a
cause
for
any
outward
respect
:
yet
at
another
time
,
the
same
Origen
so
infirme
,
weake
,
vnwise
,
so
deceiued
,
so
deluded
,
that
shamefully
,
blamefully
,
publikely
he
sacrificed
to
an
Idoll
,
and
so
reiected
and
ref●sed
the
true
seruice
and
sacrifice
of
his
Sauiour
.
What
shal
we
say
to
all
this
?
not
as
the
Prophet
●…
ame
8.
,
Lord
what
is
man
,
that
thou
art
mindfull
of
him
?
&c.
but
,
Lord
what
is
man
,
if
thou
be
not
mindfull
of
him
?
Euen
as
the
childe
set
cockering
neere
the
fire
,
or
ouer
the
pond
,
readie
euery
minute
to
fall
in
,
and
burne
or
drowne
,
if
the
nurse
be
vnmindfull
.
I
must
say
againe
,
Lord
what
is
man
,
if
thou
leaue
him
to
himselfe
?
and
all
of
vs
had
need
say
and
pray
with
the
zealous
Anne
Ascew
martyr
,
Lord
doe
not
thou
forsake
me
,
lest
I
forsake
thee
.
Fiftly
and
lastly
,
In
Origens
fall
,
once
so
good
,
so
great
,
so
glorious
a
light
,
so
eminent
in
grace
and
peace
;
we
may
learne
what
to
esteeme
of
man
,
yea
euen
of
the
choise
and
chiefe
of
men
;
namely
,
to
esteeme
of
them
as
men
,
not
gods
,
not
angels
,
but
men
;
fraile
men
,
as
the
Scripture
speakes
of
Elias
,
subiect
to
frailties
and
infirmities
;
and
therefore
not
to
adore
them
,
not
to
magnifie
them
too
much
,
not
to
make
Idols
of
them
,
not
to
attribute
too
much
vnto
them
;
as
the
Papists
and
Canonists
to
the
Antichristian
man
of
Rome
(
deifying
him
more
then
euer
the
Samaritans
did
Simon
Magus
;
or
the
Sidonians
Herod
,
or
the
Scycophants
of
Alexander
,
that
ambitious
Monarch
)
.
The
graces
of
God
in
men
,
First
,
let
vs
reuerence
.
Secondly
,
let
vs
bee
thankfull
vnto
God
for
them
.
Thirdly
,
let
vs
endeauour
to
imitate
them
.
Fourthly
,
let
vs
make
the
best
benefit
and
vse
of
them
,
in
profiting
by
them
.
Fiftly
,
let
vs
desire
the
Lord
to
redouble
the
like
gifts
and
graces
vpon
vs
,
as
Elisha
desired
the
spirit
of
Elias
.
Sixtly
,
let
vs
take
heed
we
do
not
enuie
the
graces
of
any
,
as
the
proud
and
carnall
Pharisies
did
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
because
hee
was
in
greater
grace
with
God
and
man
,
his
Sermons
better
accepted
,
and
he
more
deseruedly
honored
in
the
hearts
of
the
people
then
themselues
.
Seuenthly
,
let
not
(
aboue
all
)
our
emulation
grow
to
hatred
,
as
Cain
against
Abel
●…
ohn
3.12
.
,
(
for
this
shewes
a
Cainish
brood
●…
ers
.
15.
,
and
one
of
the
Serpents
seed
)
but
yet
let
vs
still
hold
them
so
as
men
,
that
we
honor
that
God
,
the
giuer
and
wise
dispenser
and
disposer
of
his
gifts
,
aboue
the
subiects
and
receiuers
of
these
gifts
.
Let
vs
rest
and
rely
vpon
the
Lord
,
and
not
vpon
man
:
let
vs
not
make
flesh
our
arme
,
nor
trust
to
the
reed
of
Aegypt
;
for
he
that
rests
on
man
,
rests
but
vpon
a
broken
staffe
,
a
staffe
of
reeds
:
he
that
builds
on
man
,
builds
vpon
a
sandie
,
vnsure
and
clay
foundation
;
man
being
but
clay
,
a
blast
,
a
bubble
,
a
vapour
,
a
winde
,
whose
breath
is
in
his
nostrils
.
And
thus
much
,
according
to
our
first
proposed
method
,
for
the
subiect
or
matter
vsefull
,
which
is
historicall
..
Now
I
desire
,
without
preiudice
of
prolixitie
to
Apologize
for
the
manner
(
which
perhaps
will
bee
more
excepted
)
being
Poeticall
;
for
the
lawfulnesse
or
laudablenesse
of
Poetrie
,
if
I
should
speake
much
,
I
should
call
in
question
that
which
is
not
controuerted
:
if
I
should
spend
much
in
the
praise
of
it
,
I
should
write
Jliads
after
Homer
:
since
so
many
pens
haue
as
so
many
trumpes
and
Heralds
,
prosecuted
her
due
and
deserued
praises
,
both
Diuines
and
others
;
and
indeed
it
were
to
adde
water
to
the
sea
,
or
light
to
the
Sunne
.
For
first
,
since
it
hath
pleased
the
wisedome
of
God
,
to
indite
and
pen
some
of
the
holy
Oracles
in
Numbers
,
as
the
booke
of
Iob
,
the
booke
of
the
Psalmes
,
the
Prouerbs
of
Salomon
,
his
Ecclesiastes
and
Canticles
,
&c.
Secondly
,
Since
our
Sauiour
himselfe
makes
the
Psalmes
of
Dauid
one
part
of
the
Scripture
,
diuiding
the
whole
into
the
Law
and
Prophets
,
and
booke
of
Psalmes
,
Luk
.
24.44
.
Thirdly
,
since
some
of
these
Numericall
Scriptures
,
so
pleasingly
,
so
plentifully
and
powerfully
,
in
that
eleuated
,
sublime
,
and
refined
stile
and
straine
,
describe
the
great
and
glorious
attributes
of
God
,
as
Psal
.
103.
The
Mercie
of
God
:
Iob
Chap.
37.38.39.40
.
The
Power
,
Glory
and
Maiestie
of
God
shining
in
the
creatures
;
the
Leuiathan
,
the
Rinoceros
,
the
Lion
,
&c.
Ecclesiastes
Chap.
12.
describing
the
approching
of
old
Age
,
as
other
Scriptures
other
things
in
as
apt
similitudes
,
in
as
sweet
metaphors
,
yet
in
a
greater
heate
and
height
of
spirit
,
and
sweetnes
of
eloquence
,
then
either
Virgil
,
or
Homer
,
or
Tully
,
or
Demosthenes
euer
attained
vnto
.
Yea
,
fourthly
,
since
the
holy
men
of
God
,
vpon
speciall
mercies
receiued
,
of
adornation
or
preseruation
,
to
the
better
exciting
and
stirring
vp
of
themselues
and
others
,
haue
praised
God
in
spirituall
songs
and
holy
Hymnes
,
as
Moses
and
the
Israelites
deliuered
from
Pharaohs
pursuite
,
Exod
.
15.1
.
Deborah
and
Baruch
after
their
victorie
ouer
Jabin
and
Sisera
,
Iudges
5.
Iudith
and
the
Elders
of
Israel
,
for
the
ouerthrow
of
Holofernes
:
Dauid
and
all
his
host
,
after
his
foure
great
last
battels
ouer
the
Philistims
,
2.
Sam
.
22.
Moses
in
his
Cygnaean
or
Swan-like
song
,
as
also
that
good
old
Symeon
,
a
little
before
their
deaths
,
Deut.
31.19.22
.
and
32.1.2
.
&c.
Luk
.
2.29.30
.
Good
Anna
,
after
shee
had
obtained
a
desired
sonne
,
1.
Sam
.
2.
yea
euen
vpon
other
occasions
,
2.
Sam
.
1.17.18.19.20
as
Dauid
in
that
exquisite
Epitaph
,
which
he
makes
vpon
the
death
of
Saul
and
Jonathan
,
as
besprinckling
their
Tombes
(
as
also
Abners
)
with
his
teares
of
loue
,
so
perfo●ming
his
last
obsequies
,
in
his
poetizing
funerall
Neniae
.
Fiftly
,
Since
it
cannot
bee
denied
,
but
that
it
is
a
speciall
gift
of
God
,
as
the
very
Heathen
thought
their
Poets
extraordinary
inspired
:
Exod
.
31.3
.
&
35.30
since
there
can
be
no
excellency
euen
in
Mechanicall
Trades
,
in
working
in
gold
,
siluer
,
brasse
or
stone
,
much
lesse
in
this
mentall
and
more
noble
exercise
of
the
vnderstanding
part
,
but
it
comes
from
God
,
from
whence
euery
good
gift
proceeds
,
as
the
light
from
the
Sunne
,
heate
from
the
fire
,
and
waters
from
the
Sea
,
Jam
.
1.17
.
Then
sure
who
euer
speakes
against
Poetry
,
in
it selfe
and
owne
nature
,
is
either
witlesse
or
wicked
,
wanting
either
a
sound
braine
or
good
heart
,
in
so
much
that
I
may
say
,
like
other
parts
of
learning
,
it
hath
no
enemies
,
but
either
the
ignorant
or
malicious
.
I
know
indeed
it
is
abused
;
not
the
vse
of
it
,
but
the
abuse
is
to
be
taxed
,
as
it
is
made
fuell
to
the
fire
of
lust
,
a
Baud
or
Pander
to
vncleannesse
,
a
baite
to
sinne
,
the
bellowes
to
blow
vp
these
lustfull
sparkes
in
our
corrupted
nature
;
as
it
is
abused
and
abased
by
the
Poets
,
Poetasters
,
Rimers
,
Sonnetters
,
Amorettoes
,
Balladers
and
Terntonists
of
our
time
:
chiefly
those
Comaedians
,
that
sell
their
vaine
and
froathy
wittes
,
such
as
sell
their
tongues
,
voyces
,
actions
,
and
personated
gestures
to
the
sinfull
times
;
Players
,
the
Pest
and
Plague
of
a
well
ordered
Common-wealth
,
the
corrupters
and
poysoners
of
men
,
of
mindes
,
of
manners
●…
odin
.
de
Repub
.
lib
.
6
.
〈…〉
.
1.
,
able
to
effeminate
euen
a
Romane
Spirit
,
euen
masculine
Vertue
it selfe
:
as
not
onely
Plato
,
Cato
,
and
some
of
the
wisest
Heathens
,
but
that
once
Light
of
Oxford
●…
psius
de
Glad
.
lib
.
1
.
〈…〉
.
7.
,
and
other
zealous
men
of
our
owne
,
besides
the
Fathers
D.
Reinolds
against
Gagar
,
and
other
Ci●…
ian●
,
in
his
ouer●…
ow
of
Stage-playes
.
Cyprian
.
de
Spect
.
lib
.
●…
pist
2.
●…
rysost
hom
.
56
in
Gen.
●…
meus
Alex
poed
.
lib
.
3.
〈…〉
.
11.
●…
ian
.
de
Guber
.
dei
.
6.
praedictae
expensae
.
〈…〉
condemned
by
se●…
rall
Councels
,
by
●…
inolds
alledged
.
,
haue
thought
and
written
.
Thus
,
I
know
,
it
may
be
abused
;
so
may
the
best
blessings
of
God
,
women
to
vncleannesse
,
wine
to
drunkennesse
,
as
indeed
they
both
are
by
the
Ers
and
Onans
,
and
the
Baltazars
of
our
dayes
:
licencious
men
,
whose
belly
is
their
god
,
and
whose
goddesse
is
Venus
;
so
may
meate
to
gluttony
,
yron
to
wounds
,
or
vnlawfull
blood-shed
:
Tobaccho
from
a
Physicall
vse
,
to
a
vaine
phantasticke
,
humerous
abusiue
profuse
prodigalitie
:
Apparell
to
pride
and
luxurie
:
Wit
to
Machiuillian
policie
:
Authoritie
(
as
Ahabs
)
to
crueltie
:
Magistracie
to
Iniustice
and
briberie
:
the
Artes
and
tongues
,
sophistically
to
colour
Schisme
and
Heresie
:
so
all
the
rest
of
Gods
creatures
,
blessings
,
graces
,
to
superfluity
,
pride
,
arrogancie
,
vanitie
,
villanie
,
and
the
most
egregious
iniquitie
.
Euen
so
I
say
of
Poetrie
,
because
many
vaine
vicious
men
abuse
it
;
some
,
euen
of
the
sonnes
of
Belial
,
doe
prostitute
it
as
a
Baude
to
sensualitie
:
may
it
not
therefore
be
moderately
vsed
(
as
a
man
lawfully
his
marriage
)
for
the
forming
and
framing
the
diuiner
issues
of
his
soule
,
and
the
mentall
conceptions
of
his
vnderstanding
?
Yea
indeed
,
the
more
that
the
world
abuseth
this
,
the
more
are
they
to
be
applauded
and
approued
,
that
seeke
to
refine
it
,
and
bring
it
to
the
true
vse
:
like
as
Erasmus
,
Melancthon
,
Agricola
and
others
,
deserue
well
of
all
posteritie
,
for
refining
the
Latine
tongue
in
Belgia
,
long
before
rusted
,
and
barbarously
corrupted
by
the
inundation
of
the
Gothes
and
Vandals
.
I
know
not
what
more
can
iustly
be
obiected
against
me
:
vnlesse
,
first
,
the
grauitie
of
my
place
and
function
,
in
intermedling
:
or
secondly
,
my
defects
in
handling
:
or
thirdly
,
my
enlarging
and
adding
more
in
the
Poeme
,
then
is
in
the
Prose
,
Greeke
or
Latine
.
For
the
first
,
if
any
aske
or
maruell
,
as
once
,
why
Saul
amongst
the
Prophets
?
so
now
,
why
a
Preacher
amongst
the
rancke
of
Poets
?
To
stoppe
the
mouth
of
this
exception
,
I
might
answere
,
that
one
Swallow
makes
no
Summer
,
nor
one
action
a
habite
,
to
giue
a
denomination
to
the
doer
,
no
more
then
to
play
one
straine
of
a
Lute
,
make
a
professed
Musitian
.
Secondly
,
if
to
Poetize
were
a
disparagement
,
then
the
grauest
Diuines
that
euer
the
world
had
,
are
culpable
.
For
to
omit
the
Poems
of
Moses
and
Dauid
Prophets
,
of
Salomon
a
Preacher
,
before
specified
;
haue
wee
not
the
Poems
of
many
of
the
Fathers
●…
reg
.
Naz
.
Arcana
de
princ
.
versus
422●
d
.
carmen
contra
.
A●…
.
Jtem
de
Poem
à
se
●…
it
,
Lugd
.
1591.
in
8o
.
?
Are
not
the
Poems
of
Prudentius
,
Paulinus
,
Fortunatus
,
and
diuers
others
extant
?
yea
haue
we
not
of
later
times
the
Poems
of
Melancton
,
Luther
,
Beza
,
Strigelius
and
diuers
others
?
Yea
what
part
of
Scripture
is
there
,
but
I
can
instance
famous
schollers
and
iudicious
Diuines
,
to
haue
written
vpon
them
Glosses
,
Comments
,
Expositions
,
Paraphrases
,
&c.
all
in
Poetrie
,
both
Protestants
,
and
the
acutest
of
the
Papists
?
yea
,
some
versifying
vpon
all
in
generall
;
in
which
it
were
easie
to
instance
not
only
the
Authors
,
but
the
place
and
time
of
their
publishing
and
printing
,
with
the
quantitie
of
their
volumes
.
To
insist
in
some
,
haue
we
not
extant
●…
prian
.
carmen
●…
sis
tom
.
3.
Antuerp
.
〈…〉
1589.
Amenus
and
Lauterbachius
●…
nard
.
Oratio
Ryth●…
,
de
Pass
.
,
their
Enchiridions
vpon
both
the
Testaments
(
though
●…
tress
.
Basil
apud
●…
ri●
.
64.
in
4o
.
Prudentius
were
thought
to
be
the
Author
of
the
first
:
)
haue
we
not
●…
cof
.
73.
in
8o
.
Boius
,
as
also
Fryen
Viennae
24.
in
8o
.
his
Muemosinon
,
or
Memoriall
of
the
Bible
:
Chelius
Herborna
1608.
his
Disticks
in
Alphabeticall
order
vpon
euery
Chapter
.
Vulteius
In
octauo
1605.
,
as
also
Helmboldus
Marpurgi
.
87.
in
4o
.
,
their
Monastickes
vpon
the
same
subiect
;
the
last
also
his
Disticks
vpon
euery
Epistle
and
Gospell
for
the
yeere
,
Duaci
87.
in
8o
.
Orbizius
his
sacred
Idyls
:
and
(
to
omit
many
moe
)
reuerent
Gualter
Tiguri
43
in
fol.
his
Arguments
vpon
the
old
and
new
Testament
,
in
sacred
verse
,
and
for
seuerall
parts
of
Scripture
:
vpon
Genesis
we
haue
recorded
in
these
great
volumes
,
called
Bibliotheca
Patrum
,
in
which
the
seuerall
dispersed
writings
of
sundrie
Authors
,
are
collected
fiue
bookes
of
the
Poems
of
Alchimus
or
Alcimus
Biblioth
.
Patrum
p
35
,
three
bookes
of
Marius
To
.
8.
Bill
Patr
.
Col.
28
Victors
,
one
booke
of
Saluianus
,
called
his
Hexameron
Ibidem
tom
.
5.
,
and
another
Hexameron
of
Dracontius
Tom
8.
Col.
969.
a
Spanish
Priest
,
concerning
the
Creation
of
the
world
,
besides
the
Heroicke
verses
of
one
Didilindus
Hetdelb
.
anno
87.
in
4
,
of
the
state
and
fall
of
our
first
Parents
:
Skernitius
Wittemb
.
15●0
.
his
Elegiackes
vpon
Iacob
and
Esau
:
Fracastorius
Venetijs
1584.
in
4●
.
his
Ioseph
:
Didimus
Lib
8
.
●●●s
.
his
Iosephiados
in
eight
bookes
,
comprising
whole
Genesis
.
In
Exodus
we
haue
extant
Borluith
his
Tetrastickes
Impr●nt
1558.
,
comprising
the
most
memorable
things
in
the
booke
:
Alcinus
Tom
.
5.
B●bl
Patr
.
his
Heroickes
,
concerning
the
Israelites
passing
thorow
the
red
sea
:
Vrbanus
Wi●temb
1680.
Tymeus
Metrically
describing
the
typical
brazen
Serpent
in
Numbers
:
yea
,
Husanus
Anno
1580.
in
4o
.
in
his
Successiue
houres
,
or
Mosaicall
Images
in
2.
books
of
Eleg
.
Theodorits
in
Gr.
Epigrams
:
Petrus
de
Rigae
,
according
to
the
literall
or
allegoricall
sense
,
poetizing
the
whole
Pentateuch
or
fiue
bookes
of
Moses
,
which
Riga
.
B●si●
1536.
,
also
hath
versified
the
whole
booke
of
Numbers
:
as
one
Theodorus
Manus●r
extant
in
Bi●…
Prodromus
the
booke
of
Iudges
:
Louitius
●uit
Praesbit
.
Remens●…
the
booke
of
Ruth
:
Actius
B●sil
anno
1536.
as
also
Abraham
Laescherus
Jmprinted
1532.
the
booke
of
Kings
,
as
also
the
Monomachie
or
combate
betwixt
Dauid
and
Goliah
:
expressed
also
by
the
zealous
Gualter
Anno
1604.
in
8o
.
:
chiefely
for
the
booke
of
Psalmes
in
generall
,
and
on
seuerall
Psalmes
we
haue
as
many
turning
them
into
seuerall
kinds
of
verses
,
as
there
be
seuerall
Psalmes
:
Bersman
Basil
.
apud
Operi
.
turning
Psal
.
62.
Paraphrastically
:
our
Theodor
Beza
all
of
them
1594.
in
octauo
.
,
with
their
Arguments
,
in
seuerall
kindes
of
verses
:
the
like
the
learned
Buchanan
Antuerp
in
4o
.
,
with
Chytraeus
Geneuae
1566.
his
Collections
vpon
Buchanans
Paraphrase
:
Lemannus
Francof
.
1595.
performing
the
same
,
in
perpetuall
Hendecasyllables
:
besides
wee
haue
the
Hexameters
and
Dactylls
of
Horlinus
Tiguri
.
in
16.
,
Henry
Stephens
Magdeb
.
in
4o
.
Saphyckes
:
Toscanus
In
decimo
sexto
.
his
Distickes
:
Paris
.
in
80.
Castilion
his
Odes
:
D.
Basil
.
1551.
Maior
his
verses
Heroicke
on
seuerall
Psalmes
;
see
Camaerarius
Magdab
.
in
4o
.
vpon
the
seuen
Penitentiall
,
with
many
moe
:
so
for
the
three
bookes
of
Salomon
,
we
haue
Eobanus
Hessus
1573.
in
8o
.
,
and
Aluarus
Basil
apud
Winteru●…
in
numerous
verses
,
Lemannus
Ibidem
1538.
in
his
Christian
Ethickes
:
Mallerius
Tigur
.
1680.
in
40.
in
his
Greeke
Metaphrase
rendring
the
Prouerbs
,
the
same
Author
,
as
also
one
Iohn
Clayius
Geneuae
1600.
8o
.
his
Ecclesiastes
,
as
also
Viuianus
Lips
.
1583.
in
8o
.
,
Grebner
Apud
Plant
1580.
,
Siberus
1562.
in
4o
.
,
Moncerus
Witemb
.
1690.
in
his
sacred
Bucoliques
;
and
aboue
all
,
our
reuerent
Paris
.
1587.
in
40.
Beza
,
canting
and
singing
sweetly
vpon
his
Canticles
,
or
Song
of
songs
:
what
paines
one
Carpenter
Geneuae
1584.
in
his
Heroickes
Paraphrastically
:
Mollerus
in
his
Elegiackes
Paris
1589.
vpon
Esau
:
how
much
Cornerus
1587.
in
80.
,
Finckelaus
1606.
in
40.
,
Jacomotus
Tubingae
1571.
,
Ioachim
Camerarius
Geneuae
1591.
,
and
others
,
some
in
Greeke
meeters
,
some
in
Latine
▪
Elegies
,
haue
anew
lamented
the
Threenes
and
Lamentations
of
the
mournefull
Ieremie
;
any
man
may
see
in
their
extant
Poems
:
Hoius
Arg.
1568
in
80.
in
his
sweet
Numbers
vpon
Ezekiel
:
Duaci
1598.
Castellioes
Heroickes
vpon
Ionas
:
Resman
Argent
.
1544.
vpon
Amos
:
Osius
Lips
1599.
in
80.
vpon
Malachie
:
Theuanus
〈…〉
1604
in
8o
.
vpon
the
twelue
Prophets
;
yea
,
Eudosia
Posseu
tom
1.
fol.
458.
that
learned
woman
(
Empresse
to
Theodosius
the
Iunior
)
by
her
Metaphrase
vpon
Daniel
,
haue
perpetuated
their
names
by
Poetrie
.
The
like
I
might
instance
in
some
,
that
haue
as
profitably
,
as
pleasingly
poetized
vpon
the
rest
of
the
Scriptures
in
the
new
Testament
:
besides
,
I
might
shew
,
what
,
how
much
,
and
by
how
many
other
Diuine
subiects
haue
been
prosecuted
;
chiefly
the
Birth
,
Incarnation
,
Circumcision
,
Death
,
Passion
,
Triumphall
resurrection
,
Glorious
Ascention
of
our
Lord
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
diuinely
poetized
by
Prudentius
,
Paulinus
,
Sedulius
,
Fortunatus
,
and
others
amongst
the
Ancients
:
by
●…
n
carminibus
sacris
.
Widebramus
,
In
Isagog
.
Strigelius
,
Castilion
,
Montanus
,
Cresilius
,
Coelius
,
Lumnius
,
Iungius
,
Faber
;
and
by
the
chiefe
and
choice
wits
of
the
Papists
.
Now
is
Poetry
commendable
in
them
,
worthy
of
their
paines
,
their
parts
,
their
spirits
,
worthy
the
grauity
,
the
greatnesse
,
the
graces
,
the
places
of
those
eminent
men
,
famoused
Diuines
,
great
Schollers
in
their
places
or
graces
:
and
shall
it
be
culpable
and
blamable
in
me
,
or
any
other
in
my
Ranke
,
to
bee
employed
in
this
course
and
kinde
?
Secondly
,
if
my
want
of
exactnesse
,
and
concisenesse
in
this
kinde
bee
censured
,
my
dissuetude
and
want
of
practise
may
pleade
my
excuse
:
for
since
some
nine
or
ten
yeeres
agoe
I
left
the
Vniuersitie
,
conuerting
and
turning
the
streame
of
my
studies
from
Philosophie
and
Poetrie
,
to
the
Theorie
and
Preaching
practise
of
Diuinitie
:
(
as
once
Augustine
his
Millenarie
Rhetoricke
:
Saint
Ierome
and
this
our
Origen
,
their
vehement
studies
of
Humanity
,
to
the
studie
of
Theologie
;
as
once
our
reuerent
Beza
,
his
youthfull
Poetizing
,
with
which
detracting
Papists
so
blemish
him
(
as
though
they
should
blemish
Augustine
for
his
once
Manichisme
,
and
S.
Paul
for
his
once
Pharisaisme
)
into
more
profitable
preaching
;
so
leauing
the
Hand-maides
to
court
Diuinitie
,
the
Mistresse
Penelope
,
I
say
,
since
,
haue
I
very
seldomely
and
sleightly
vsed
this
veine
,
either
in
Latine
or
English
;
except
of
late
,
that
I
was
awakened
to
answere
in
verse
,
a
Dotterels
Rime
doggerill
,
in
a
namelesse
,
shamelesse
loose
lewde
Libell
:
A
confused
Chaos
or
a
lumpe
of
sinne
,
Pandoraes
box
,
diseas'd
without
,
within
;
A
bastard
brat
,
a
baggage
Beldams
taile
,
The
fume
of
smoake
,
Tobaccho
,
Wine
and
Aile
:
A
messe
,
a
masse
of
malice
,
sincke
of
euill
,
A
false-tun'd
Black-bird
,
feathered
from
the
diuell
:
A
hellish
brand
inflam'd
from
●…
ther
take
Cainish
●…
n
Caine
,
or
Canis
,
it
this
Doeg
,
or
Cyn●…
k
Dogge
.
Cainish
ire
,
His
pen
the
taper
,
and
his
paper
fire
.
A
silly
sottish
Song
from
rurall
Straines
,
Or
blood
impostum'd
,
burst
from
Popish
vaines
:
Which
veine
,
veines
cut
,
I
aim'd
to
cure
,
not
kill
;
And
shewed
the
world
his
wounds
,
his
flouds
of
ill
,
Which
Dragon-like
on
innocencie
casting
,
His
gall
did
burst
,
and
all
his
venome
wasting
:
His
fooles
bolts
shot
from
bow
of
poysoned
hate
,
F●om
me
rebounds
,
on
his
selfe-guiltie
pate
.
—
●st
praestat
motus
componere
fructus
?
Al.
—
si
fas
dicere
?
sed
non
—
Fas
.
—
Dabit
Deus
his
quoque
finem
(
aut
funem
.
)
—
Interim
leuius
fit
patientia
,
Quicquid
corrigere
est
nefas
,
&
patior
,
vt
potiar
.
Thirdly
,
if
any
obiect
that
I
haue
exceeded
my
bounds
and
limits
,
in
making
so
great
a
fire
or
smoake
from
so
small
a
sparke
;
adding
so
much
in
aggrauating
the
sinne
or
sorrow
of
Origen
,
in
so
many
circumstances
,
more
then
was
either
done
or
said
:
herein
I
take
that
Licentia
Poetica
(
as
they
call
it
)
which
both
Virgil
vsed
in
his
Aeneidos
;
Statius
in
his
Thebaidos
:
Homer
in
his
Iliads
;
and
our
Spencer
(
our
English
Homer
)
in
his
Fairie
Queene
;
yea
,
which
the
exquisite
Poet
Siluester
vseth
in
his
Dubartas
;
and
in
his
owne
little
Dubartas
,
running
all
descants
and
Poeticall
diuisions
(
in
this
best
minde
musick
of
numerous
versifying
)
from
some
positiue
,
reall
(
or
else
only
fictious
or
imaginarie
)
grounds
:
and
indeed
,
as
Virgil
makes
his
Aeneas
,
Homer
his
Achilles
and
his
Ulysses
,
but
images
and
patternes
of
a
martiall
Worthie
,
and
a
wise
Polotitian
,
Zenophon
his
Cyrus
,
the
patterne
of
a
true
Prince
:
Tully
his
Orator
,
the
rule
of
Oratory
.
So
I
desire
onely
in
my
aymes
and
ends
,
that
my
Origen
may
be
a
patterne
and
a
president
of
a
true
penitent
.
In
which
aymes
and
hopes
resting
;
crauing
pardon
for
my
prolixitie
(
the
paines
being
mine
(
Ingenious
Reader
)
as
well
as
the
patience
thine
,
my
error
being
an
error
of
loue
,
not
a
loued
error
:
)
desiring
the
God
of
all
Grace
,
Error
ex
amere
,
non
ex
more
.
euen
he
that
is
the
Author
of
euery
good
gift
and
grace
,
who
giues
repentance
vnto
Israel
Acts
5.31
.
:
that
who
euer
reades
this
,
hauing
committed
any
sinne
against
conscience
,
either
actually
in
his
conuersation
,
or
subscribed
to
any
Popish
vntruthes
(
for
feare
,
or
sinister
respects
)
against
the
light
of
his
knowledge
,
and
the
illumination
of
his
iudgement
,
imitating
Origen
in
his
horride
sinne
,
may
much
more
imitate
and
exceed
him
,
in
his
happie
,
speedie
,
and
sincere
Repentance
:
which
hoping
,
and
for
which
instantly
praying
;
I
rest
.
From
my
House
in
Newcastle
,
May
12.
A
constant
friend
to
Sion
,
and
a
well
willer
to
all
that
loue
the
truth
,
in
the
Truth
.
S.I.