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The right vnderstanding of the times opened in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, December 30, 1646, at Margaret Westminster, being the day of their solemne monethly fast / by Stephen Marshall ...
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Die
Mercurii
30.
Decemb.
1646.
ORdered
by
the
Commons
Assembled
in
Parliament
,
That
Sir
William
Massam
doe
from
this
House
give
thankes
to
Mr.
Marshall
and
Mr.
Newcomen
for
the
great
paines
they
tooke
in
their
Sermons
they
preached
this
day
before
the
Commons
at
St.
Margaret
Westminster
(
being
a
day
of
their
publique
Humiliation
)
and
desire
them
to
Print
their
Sermons
.
H.
Elsynge
Cler.
Parl.
D.
Com.
I
appoint
Stephen
Bowtell
to
print
my
Sermon
.
Stephen
Marshall
.
THE
RIGHT
VNDERSTANDING
OF
THE
TIMES
:
OPENED
In
a
Sermon
preached
to
the
Honorable
House
of
Commons
,
December
30.
1646.
at
Margaret
Westminster
,
Being
the
day
of
their
solemne
Monethly
Fast
.
By
Stephen
Marshall
,
B.
D.
Minister
of
Gods
Word
at
Finchingfield
in
Essex
.
Jer.
8.
Vers.
7
,
8.
The
Storke
in
the
heavens
knoweth
her
appointed
times
,
and
the
Turtle
,
and
the
Crane
,
and
the
Swallow
observe
the
time
of
their
comming
,
but
my
people
know
not
the
judgement
of
the
Lord
:
How
do
yee
say
,
wee
are
wise
?
If
thou
hadst
knowne
,
even
thou
at
least
in
this
thy
day
,
the
things
which
belong
unto
thy
peace
,
but
now
they
are
hid
from
thine
eyes
.
Luk.
19.42
.
So
teach
us
to
number
our
dayes
,
that
wee
may
apply
our
hearts
unto
wisedome
,
Psal.
90.12
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
Richard
Cotes
,
for
Stephen
Bowtell
,
and
are
to
bee
sold
at
the
signe
of
the
Bible
in
Popes-head
Alley
,
1647.
TO
THE
HONORABLE
The
House
of
COMMONS
Now
Assembled
in
PARLIAMENT
.
IT
hath
been
much
lamented
by
learned
men
,
that
the
times
wherein
things
have
been
done
in
the
world
,
are
no
more
truly
computed
,
and
that
thereby
all
Histories
of
times
are
very
imperfect
,
Apud
quos
ratio
temporis
non
cohaeret
,
apud
illos
neque
veritatis
neque
fidei
historicae
ratio
ulla
constare
potest
;
How
much
more
is
it
to
bee
lamented
,
that
so
few
have
any
understanding
of
the
times
in
reference
to
the
things
which
concerne
their
everlasting
peace
?
because
no
lesse
mischiefe
then
ruine
of
soules
,
of
Nations
and
Churches
unavoidably
breake
in
upon
them
,
who
know
not
the
time
of
their
visitation
;
If
this
plaine
Sermon
may
help
this
way
to
mend
the
times
,
and
promote
the
right
and
best
study
of
them
,
especially
if
God
vouchsafe
to
blesse
it
to
bee
in
any
degree
usefull
to
you
in
your
great
worke
,
for
whose
Meridian
it
was
calculated
,
for
whose
use
it
was
composed
,
to
whom
it
was
preached
,
and
by
whose
order
it
is
now
made
publique
,
it
will
bee
a
great
comfort
to
the
spirit
,
and
a
blessed
answer
from
heaven
to
the
Prayers
of
Your
unworthy
and
most
devoted
Servant
,
STEPHEN
MARSHALL
.
A
SERMON
PREACHED
Before
the
Honorable
House
of
Commons
,
at
their
Monethly
Fast
,
Decemb.
30.
1646.
1
Chron.
12.32
.
And
of
the
Children
of
Issachar
,
which
were
men
that
had
understanding
of
the
times
,
to
know
what
Israel
ought
to
doe
;
the
heads
of
them
were
two
hundred
,
and
all
their
brethren
were
at
their
command
.
THis
whole
Chapter
(
Beloved
)
doth
containe
a
List
or
Catalogue
of
all
the
men
of
warre
which
did
cleave
to
David
,
their
names
,
their
qualities
,
their
Number
;
and
there
is
a
double
Catalogue
of
them
:
First
,
a
Catalogue
of
them
that
did
cleave
to
him
,
before
Saul
was
dead
,
while
he
was
in
a
defensive
warre
for
his
owne
safetie
;
for
although
David
for
a
great
while
,
had
not
above
six
or
seven
hundred
with
him
,
yet
in
the
end
they
fell
to
him
,
especially
out
of
the
Tribes
of
Judah
,
Benjamin
,
Gad
,
and
Manasseh
,
so
many
that
his
Army
grew
to
be
like
an
Army
of
God
.
And
lest
any
man
should
thinke
that
it
were
no
better
then
rebellion
in
him
and
them
to
beare
defensive
Armes
against
his
Prince
,
it
is
said
in
the
18
Verse
,
That
the
Spirit
came
upon
one
of
the
chiefe
Commanders
,
and
told
him
they
were
his
,
and
would
live
and
die
with
him
,
and
that
God
was
with
him
,
they
knew
him
innocent
;
they
saw
he
was
unjustly
persecuted
,
they
came
to
rescue
him
as
a
Partridge
out
of
a
Falcons
Talons
,
and
in
so
doing
they
did
no
more
,
then
the
whole
hoste
did
at
another
time
,
when
they
saved
Jonathan
out
of
the
hands
of
his
father
Saul
,
who
would
unjustly
have
put
him
to
death
.
The
other
part
of
the
Chapter
beginning
at
Verse
23.
containeth
the
Catalogue
of
the
Commanders
and
Souldiers
that
fell
in
to
him
to
make
him
King
,
after
the
death
of
Saul
,
and
there
you
shall
finde
that
the
excellent
qualities
of
all
the
Leaders
,
and
of
many
of
the
Souldiers
are
described
;
some
of
them
were
excellent
Archers
,
some
were
exact
Slingers
who
could
throw
and
hit
at
a
haires
breadth
,
some
of
them
were
as
couragious
as
Lions
,
some
of
them
were
as
swift
as
the
Roes
upon
the
Mountaines
,
but
none
of
them
all
came
neere
the
Tribe
of
Issachar
,
in
that
which
makes
a
people
strong
and
happy
both
in
the
time
of
warre
and
peace
;
They
were
men
of
understanding
,
who
knew
the
times
what
Israel
had
to
doe
;
and
of
this
excellent
commendation
of
this
Tribe
of
Issachar
,
as
of
a
Theame
that
very
much
concernes
us
,
I
have
chosen
to
treate
this
day
before
this
great
Assembly
by
the
assistance
of
Almighty
God
;
wherein
there
are
three
things
to
bee
handled
.
First
,
The
persons
spoken
of
,
the
Tribe
of
Issachar
,
and
their
heads
and
leaders
especially
.
Secondly
,
Their
singular
commendations
,
they
had
understanding
to
know
the
times
,
what
Israel
,
had
to
doe
;
the
whole
Tribe
,
but
especially
their
Leaders
,
who
were
about
two
hundred
,
knew
the
times
in
reference
to
their
duty
.
Thirdly
,
Here
is
the
interest
which
these
Leaders
had
in
the
hearts
of
their
Brethren
,
and
this
procured
principally
by
their
wisedome
and
understanding
;
all
their
Brethren
were
at
their
command
,
or
as
the
word
signifies
,
depended
on
their
mouth
.
I
begin
briefly
to
speake
of
the
first
.
The
persons
,
they
were
the
men
of
Issachar
;
Issachar
you
know
was
one
of
the
twelve
Tribes
,
one
of
Iacobs
sonnes
by
Leah
,
and
their
lot
in
the
land
of
Canaan
fell
betwixt
the
halfe
Tribe
of
Manasseh
and
Zebulun
,
and
their
province
was
bounded
by
the
mountaines
of
Gilboa
on
the
one
side
,
and
mount
Hermon
on
the
other
;
all
that
goodly
part
of
the
Countrey
,
that
was
called
the
fat
valley
of
Jezreel
,
was
the
inheritance
of
this
Tribe
of
Issachar
,
a
rich
in-land
Country
,
and
formerly
their
Spirits
and
Genius
was
like
to
that
of
Country
Farmers
.
They
minded
nothing
but
their
back
and
their
belly
,
and
so
Jacob
himselfe
did
foretell
of
them
,
in
the
49.
of
Genesis
,
when
he
said
,
that
Issachar
was
like
a
strong
Asse
that
couched
downe
betweene
two
burthens
,
and
saw
that
rest
was
good
,
and
gave
himselfe
willingly
to
beare
Tribute
:
The
meaning
was
,
that
this
Tribe
would
bee
like
unto
that
dull
,
simple
,
slothfull
creature
the
Asse
,
that
minded
nothing
but
his
belley
,
give
him
but
meate
enough
for
his
belly
and
lay
what
you
will
upon
his
back
;
so
this
Tribe
,
if
they
might
not
be
outed
or
plundred
in
their
rich
Country
,
but
might
follow
their
businesse
,
and
gather
wealth
,
lay
any
thing
upon
them
they
would
beare
it
:
this
of
old
was
the
Genius
of
this
Tribe
,
but
now
another
manner
of
Spirit
possessed
them
;
none
of
all
the
Maritine
townes
nor
Cities
where
the
people
are
most
active
,
and
fit
for
Negotiation
,
went
beyond
,
or
came
neere
to
the
Tribe
of
Issachar
,
now
(
I
say
)
they
had
learned
that
that
makes
a
people
happy
,
they
had
wisedome
and
unitie
,
they
had
understanding
to
know
the
times
and
their
dutie
,
they
had
many
thousands
of
eyes
to
see
into
the
true
state
of
affaires
,
and
then
they
had
as
many
thousand
hands
ready
to
execute
;
they
could
presently
fall
upon
that
which
belonged
to
them
;
they
had
understanding
of
the
times
,
and
knew
not
onely
what
themselves
,
but
what
all
the
Country
,
what
all
Israel
had
to
doe
;
this
was
the
people
,
and
this
strange
alteration
that
God
had
made
in
the
Spirit
of
this
Tribe
of
Issachar
,
doth
afford
us
this
excellent
lesson
.
That
the
Lord
can
at
his
pleasure
inable
and
raise
up
the
spirits
of
persons
,
and
people
to
doe
worthily
,
from
whom
no body
would
expect
any
thing
.
Moses
had
foretold
that
Issachar
would
bee
but
a
dull
Asse
,
but
you
see
how
the
Lord
had
altered
,
and
raised
him
up
to
doe
excellently
;
hee
went
beyond
all
the
other
Tribes
;
and
God
hath
often
done
so
,
hee
takes
Moses
a
Shepheard
,
a
man
slow
of
speech
,
sends
him
and
makes
him
a
fit
man
to
deliver
a
whole
nation
out
of
bondage
and
captivitie
;
at
another
time
,
hee
raises
Gideon
,
a
private
Gentleman
,
it
may
bee
but
a
Yeomans
sonne
,
from
his
Flayle
when
hee
was
threshing
of
Wheat
,
and
makes
him
a
Captaine
to
route
the
whole
Army
of
the
Midianites
and
to
judge
his
people
;
at
another
time
takes
Saul
,
a
Private
Gentlemans
sonne
,
who
was
seeking
for
his
fathers
Asses
,
and
makes
him
fit
to
governe
a
kingdome
;
takes
David
a
young
youth
from
following
his
Ewes
great
with
Lambe
,
and
presently
enables
him
to
cope
with
the
Gyant
Goliah
,
and
to
destroy
him
,
and
afterwards
to
bee
the
ruler
over
Gods
people
;
hee
takes
Amos
from
being
a
Neatheard
,
and
a
gatherer
of
Summer
fruit
,
to
bee
a
Prophet
,
and
to
preach
in
the
Kings
Chappell
;
takes
Fishermen
who
were
never
bred
in
Universities
,
and
sends
them
into
all
the
world
with
the
power
of
the
Gospel
to
subdue
the
Nations
to
Jesus
Christ
.
Thus
the
Lord
hath
raised
up
instruments
,
and
hee
can
easily
doe
it
,
for
there
is
a
spirit
in
man
,
but
the
inspiration
which
gives
understanding
and
gifts
comes
onely
from
the
Almighty
;
the
Lord
hath
abundance
of
the
Spirit
,
and
powres
it
out
where
,
and
how
,
and
in
what
manner
hee
pleaseth
.
This
may
bee
a
great
incouragement
to
us
in
all
our
extremities
and
exigents
,
let
us
doe
our
dutie
,
and
let
us
never
feare
Gods
wanting
of
instruments
for
his
worke
;
when
wee
are
low
,
wee
presently
cry
out
,
Lord
by
whom
shall
Jacob
arise
,
by
whom
?
by
stones
raised
up
to
bee
children
,
and
by
children
inabled
to
doe
the
worke
of
men
:
Wee
should
never
bee
at
our
faiths
end
,
though
sometimes
wee
are
at
our
wits
end
,
let
us
doe
our
dutie
,
and
leave
it
to
God
,
who
can
easily
raise
up
instruments
to
do
his
worke
,
from
whom
wee
would
never
expect
it
;
wee
our selves
have
had
a
great
deale
of
blessed
experience
of
it
.
In
the
beginning
of
our
publique
troubles
,
our
question
was
,
by
whom
shall
England
arise
now
it
is
thus
low
?
Wee
demanded
,
where
shall
wee
finde
Captaines
and
Commanders
for
a
warre
in
a
Nation
where
all
men
have
been
bred
in
ease
and
peace
?
God
hath
found
them
,
and
tooke
Gentlemen
from
following
their
Hawkes
and
Dogs
,
and
Tradesmen
from
their
shops
,
and
Husbandmen
from
their
Ploughes
,
to
bee
able
to
cope
with
the
most
expert
Commanders
in
the
world
:
and
now
wee
are
at
another
losse
,
now
wee
are
demanding
,
where
shall
we
find
Ministers
for
eight
or
ten
thousand
Congregations
,
to
instruct
them
in
the
way
of
life
?
Feare
not
,
if
God
for
our
sinnes
deny
us
not
this
mercy
,
hee
can
fulfill
that
in
the
68.
Psalme
;
The
Lord
will
give
the
Word
,
and
great
shall
be
the
multitude
of
them
that
shall
publish
it
,
the
Lord
can
raise
them
up
unexpectedly
;
and
so
in
all
other
our
difficulties
.
But
this
I
purposely
onely
point
at
,
that
I
might
not
bee
straightned
in
the
second
,
which
is
the
singular
commendations
of
this
Tribe
,
They
were
men
of
understanding
to
know
the
times
,
and
what
Israel
had
to
doe
.
That
it
is
a
great
and
high
commendation
of
any
people
,
especially
of
their
Heads
and
Leaders
,
to
know
the
times
in
reference
to
their
dutie
:
These
men
of
Issachar
had
understanding
of
the
times
,
to
know
what
Israel
had
to
doe
;
this
God
sets
downe
as
their
high
commendation
;
in
the
handling
of
it
I
shall
indeavour
these
three
things
.
First
,
I
shall
interpret
the
meaning
of
it
,
make
you
see
what
it
is
to
know
the
times
in
reference
to
duties
.
Secondly
,
I
shall
indeavour
to
prove
it
out
of
the
Scripture
,
and
illustrate
the
truth
of
it
,
that
you
may
see
,
that
it
is
a
high
commendation
,
and
a
matter
of
extreme
consequence
;
and
thirdly
,
and
principally
,
I
shall
indeavour
to
make
Application
of
it
for
our
own
good
.
For
the
first
,
What
it
is
to
know
the
times
in
reference
to
dutie
;
you
may
please
to
observe
that
in
the
Scripture
,
and
in
the
practise
of
men
,
there
is
found
a
fivefold
knowledge
of
the
times
.
There
is
an
Astrologicall
knowledge
of
the
times
,
such
a
knowledge
as
the
Starre-gazers
do
boast
of
;
a
knowledg
whereby
a
company
of
vaine
men
doe
undertake
out
of
the
bookes
of
the
Starres
to
tell
you
whatsoever
God
hath
decreed
concerning
Men
or
States
:
this
knowledg
is
so
condemned
in
other
places
of
Scripture
that
none
of
you
will
imagine
,
that
this
was
the
commendation
of
this
Tribe
.
Secondly
,
There
is
another
knowledge
of
the
times
,
which
I
may
call
a
Diabolicall
knowledge
of
the
times
,
whereby
wicked
and
ungodly
men
do
studie
to
improve
all
advantages
of
time
to
further
their
own
lusts
and
wickednesses
;
the
study
and
knowledge
of
time-servers
,
who
indeavour
to
make
the
times
further
them
in
their
cursed
designes
;
men
who
like
Willowes
or
Bulrushes
in
the
water
will
bow
which
way
soever
the
streame
runs
,
and
dance
after
the
present
Fiddle
of
the
times
for
their
owne
ends
.
I
am
certaine
none
of
you
think
that
this
was
the
commendation
of
this
Tribe
;
such
Temporizers
&
Time-servers
,
however
they
may
for
a
while
applaud
their
own
wisedomes
,
will
one
day
know
,
they
have
served
but
an
ill
Master
;
this
was
farre
from
the
Tribe
of
Issachar
.
Thirdly
,
You
shall
read
of
a
Propheticall
knowledge
of
the
times
,
that
is
,
such
a
knowledge
as
wherein
the
Lord
by
revelation
doth
in
able
some
of
his
servants
,
I
meane
the
Prophets
,
to
know
what
shall
afterwards
come
to
passe
;
and
this
kinde
of
knowledge
,
though
every
man
hath
an
itch
after
it
,
and
many
doe
as
Nebuchadnezzar
did
,
when
his
thoughts
troubled
him
in
the
night
,
that
hee
might
know
what
should
come
to
passe
afterwards
;
yet
our
Lord
hath
told
us
,
That
it
is
not
for
us
thus
to
know
the
times
and
seasons
,
which
the
Father
hath
kept
in
his
owne
hand
;
there
is
fourthly
,
Another
knowledge
of
the
Times
,
and
study
of
it
,
which
is
,
an
Historicall
knowledge
of
the
times
,
or
an
Astronomicall
knowledge
of
the
times
;
a
knowledge
which
is
extremely
and
deservedly
cried
up
by
learned
men
;
a
knowledge
wherein
many
men
of
choycest
wits
,
both
among
Heathens
and
Christians
,
have
tooke
very
great
paines
,
wherein
they
have
much
advanced
wisedome
and
learning
,
especially
in
our
latter
age
.
Many
rare
men
of
choycest
abilities
have
set
downe
in
a
continued
Series
,
a
Chronologie
of
all
the
yeers
,
that
have
been
since
the
Creation
,
and
of
the
most
memorable
things
and
persons
that
have
fallen
out
,
or
lived
in
the
severall
ages
,
and
yeeres
;
and
this
they
have
done
to
their
owne
everlasting
honour
,
rectifying
the
accompt
of
time
,
and
extremely
advantaged
even
the
studie
of
the
Scriptures
;
now
this
knowledge
,
though
it
bee
excellent
,
yet
my
Text
hath
nothing
to
doe
with
it
,
and
truly
though
it
bee
an
excellent
thing
,
men
may
have
it
,
and
yet
die
fooles
,
and
be
miserable
for
want
of
that
knowledge
which
I
am
this
day
to
speake
of
.
The
Nation
of
the
Jewes
were
admirable
in
that
kind
of
accompt
of
times
:
Scaliger
saith
of
them
,
they
were
exact
even
to
admiration
;
and
Sethus
Calvisius
one
of
the
most
learned
writers
of
that
kind
,
though
hee
goe
another
way
to
worke
,
yet
confesses
that
in
the
Jewes
accompt
,
they
did
not
lose
above
the
accompt
of
one
houre
in
the
space
of
1500.
yeers
;
yet
because
they
had
no
better
knowledge
of
the
times
then
that
,
the
Lord
in
the
eighth
of
Jeremiah
saith
,
they
were
fooles
,
and
had
not
so
much
wisedome
,
as
the
Crane
and
the
Storke
,
and
the
Swallow
,
those
irrationall
Animals
,
who
had
so
much
sagacitie
,
as
to
know
the
times
of
their
comming
into
a
Countrey
,
and
leaving
a
Countrey
;
but
this
people
knew
nothing
of
the
times
in
reference
to
Gods
judgements
,
and
their
owne
duties
:
the
Lord
counted
them
fooles
for
all
their
other
learning
;
And
therefore
there
is
,
fiftly
,
Another
knowledge
of
the
times
,
which
I
may
call
a
Theologicall
knowledge
,
or
rather
a
gratious
and
a
practicall
knowledge
of
the
times
,
which
is
,
so
to
know
the
times
,
as
to
understand
the
moment
and
exigence
of
all
affaires
which
fall
within
the
times
in
reference
to
their
owne
dutie
,
that
they
may
improve
all
occurrences
which
fall
out
to
the
right
end
.
This
is
the
knowledge
that
I
am
to
speake
of
,
and
this
knowledge
infinitely
goes
beyond
that
other
;
I
confesse
I
finde
a
great
many
learned
Volumes
writ
for
the
helpe
of
the
other
,
to
further
the
Chronologicall
,
or
Historicall
wisedome
of
the
times
,
abundance
of
Astronomicall
Tables
have
been
compiled
,
and
other
helpes
set
forth
;
but
for
this
latter
,
I
hardly
know
one
little
Pamphlet
extant
about
it
,
and
yet
this
infinitely
goes
beyond
the
other
;
for
though
a
man
should
die
ignorant
of
the
other
,
and
never
know
the
Julian
Account
,
or
wherein
the
new
&
old
stile
differ
one
from
another
,
if
hee
have
but
learned
to
number
his
dayes
,
so
as
to
apply
his
heart
to
wisedome
,
hee
will
honour
God
here
,
and
bee
happy
for
ever
;
but
without
this
,
what
learning
soever
hee
had
in
the
other
,
his
life
will
be
wicked
,
and
in
the
end
hee
will
die
a
foole
:
And
this
was
the
knowledge
of
this
Tribe
,
this
Practicall
knowledge
,
so
that
when
the
other
Tribes
some
of
them
stood
for
the
house
of
Saul
,
to
continue
the
government
there
,
others
of
them
inclined
to
David
to
make
him
King
,
and
others
probably
were
unsatisfied
in
their
thoughts
concerning
either
of
them
,
possibly
thinking
it
would
bee
best
to
continue
their
old
Aristocraticall
government
,
in
their
severall
Tribes
,
and
to
waite
that
God
should
raise
them
up
extraordinary
Judges
in
difficult
times
,
and
so
they
stood
in
a
kind
of
indifferency
and
neutralitie
;
these
men
of
Issachar
,
especially
their
Leaders
,
had
so
studied
the
times
,
that
they
did
not
onely
know
what
was
lawfull
and
expedient
in
this
huge
turne
of
theirs
,
in
this
great
businesse
that
was
before
them
,
but
they
knew
what
was
their
dutie
,
yea
what
all
the
kingdome
,
all
the
Common-wealth
ought
to
doe
with
them
,
they
knew
the
times
,
and
what
Israel
had
to
doe
.
Now
this
knowledge
that
I
have
brought
you
to
,
is
not
a
mentall
or
speculative
understanding
of
humane
affaires
,
or
things
belonging
either
to
Church
or
Common-wealth
,
but
it
is
a
Practicall
knowledge
,
which
is
a
wise
abilitie
to
manage
all
the
understanding
that
they
have
in
reference
to
their
dutie
;
in
one
word
,
it
is
to
observe
all
Gods
administrations
,
wherewith
the
present
time
is
filled
,
his
providences
,
his
mercies
,
his
judgements
,
his
words
,
his
workes
,
to
observe
them
(
I
say
)
so
as
thereby
to
bee
inabled
seasonably
and
timely
to
performe
their
owne
duties
,
and
to
regulate
their
conversations
according
to
the
exigence
and
juncture
of
times
,
for
the
glory
of
God
,
the
good
of
their
brethren
,
and
the
salvation
of
their
owne
soules
,
and
this
is
the
Theame
wherein
I
now
proceed
.
To
give
you
some
evidence
out
of
the
Scripture
,
to
make
it
apparent
to
you
,
that
it
is
the
highest
commendations
that
can
bee
given
of
any
people
,
to
have
this
understanding
of
the
times
,
in
reference
to
their
dutie
:
and
for
the
proofe
of
it
,
I
shall
indeavour
these
two
things
.
First
,
To
shew
it
you
plainely
out
of
the
Scriptures
,
that
it
is
a
marvailous
high
commendation
,
and
a
deserved
one
.
And
secondly
,
I
shall
indeavour
to
make
a
further
illustration
of
this
Doctrine
,
of
knowing
the
times
,
out
of
Gods
Word
.
To
prove
that
it
is
such
a
high
and
deserved
commendations
,
take
but
these
three
proofes
.
First
,
every where
in
the
Scripture
this
is
counted
true
wisedome
,
and
in
the
accompt
of
God
,
they
goe
for
wise
men
,
who
understand
the
times
in
reference
to
their
duties
;
looke
first
into
the
fift
of
the
Ephesians
,
at
the
eight
verse
,
and
so
forward
,
the
Apostle
layes
downe
this
great
Doctrine
,
That
now
God
had
sent
the
light
of
the
Gospell
amongst
them
,
they
must
not
for
time
to
come
walke
as
other
Gentiles
did
walke
in
the
vanitie
of
their
minds
,
but
they
must
leade
a
life
worthy
of
the
Gospell
;
and
this
hee
proves
by
many
Arguments
,
which
when
hee
hath
proved
,
then
in
the
15.
and
16.
verses
,
hee
sets
downe
what
this
life
is
,
see
then
,
that
you
walke
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
exactly
,
not
as
Fooles
but
as
Wise
men
;
wherein
lies
that
?
redeeming
the
time
,
because
the
dayes
are
evill
;
there
is
all
required
,
there
is
the
manifestation
and
demonstration
,
that
you
do
not
walke
like
Fooles
,
but
as
Wise
men
,
if
you
have
but
once
learned
to
redeeme
the
time
in
these
evill
dayes
;
the
dayes
are
naught
,
the
times
are
evill
,
full
of
snares
to
be
avoyded
,
many
duties
to
bee
done
;
now
herein
will
appeare
Gospell-wisedome
,
to
walke
so
as
that
in
these
evill
dayes
,
you
may
redeeme
the
time
:
and
Solomon
hath
an
excellent
discourse
of
the
same
subject
,
in
the
eighth
of
Ecclesiastes
,
in
the
beginning
of
the
Chapter
,
hee
gives
a
high
Encomium
of
a
wise
man
;
Who
is
(
saith
hee
)
as
the
wise
man
?
that
is
,
no
●an
can
bee
compared
to
a
wise
man
,
what
is
hee
?
〈◊〉
that
knowes
the
interpretation
of
a
thing
,
hee
that
knowes
what
every
businesse
doth
truly
signifie
and
call
for
,
that
is
the
wise
man
;
then
hee
tells
you
,
this
mans
wisedome
will
gaine
him
courage
and
credit
,
hee
will
bee
honored
and
esteemed
;
then
brings
it
downe
,
to
manifest
the
excellency
of
this
wisedome
in
one
particular
case
,
which
is
the
most
tickle
businesse
in
the
world
for
men
to
bee
imployed
in
,
and
that
is
in
attending
upon
the
affaires
of
supreme
Governors
in
doing
that
which
the
higher
powers
command
them
,
for
they
will
quickly
bee
angry
and
take
offence
,
therefore
doe
their
businesse
carefully
and
speedily
as
you
should
,
and
if
they
bee
angry
,
goe
not
away
in
a
pet
,
&c.
But
now
lest
some
body
should
say
,
Doe
you
meane
that
a
man
should
doe
all
that
Kings
,
and
supreme
Magistrates
doe
command
,
without
further
enquiry
or
delay
?
No
,
saith
Salomon
in
the
fifth
Verse
,
the
wise
man
knowes
both
time
and
judgement
;
the
wise
man
that
hath
the
interpretation
of
a
thing
,
knowes
what
is
to
bee
done
,
what
is
to
bee
refused
,
and
when
things
are
to
bee
done
most
fitly
or
opportunely
;
therefore
none
like
the
wise
man
.
So
likewise
Moses
in
the
32.
of
Deuteronomy
,
about
the
19.
Verse
,
O
that
this
people
were
wise
,
that
they
did
but
understand
their
last
end
;
that
they
but
rightly
knew
their
time
:
and
in
the
90.
Psalme
,
which
is
another
prayer
of
Moses
,
Lord
teach
us
so
to
number
our
dayes
,
to
make
such
a
compute
of
our
times
,
that
wee
might
apply
our
hearts
to
wisedome
.
I
might
give
you
many
other
Scriptures
which
show
that
the
Lord
counts
this
to
be
true
wisedome
;
nay
,
I
'le
add
this
further
,
the
very
light
of
nature
hath
taught
the
Heathens
to
judge
this
to
bee
true
wisedome
:
the
seven
Counsellors
of
that
great
Emperour
of
Persia
,
in
the
first
of
Ester
are
said
to
bee
men
that
knew
the
times
,
the
meaning
is
,
that
they
were
wise
Counsellors
;
and
among
the
Romans
it
is
a
Proverbiall
Adage
,
homo
omnium
horarum
,
that
is
,
hee
is
a
wise
man
that
is
a
man
for
all
houres
,
knowes
the
businesse
of
every
time
,
of
every
place
,
whatsoever
hee
is
called
to
,
hee
understands
his
affaires
;
and
in
truth
this
may
well
bee
called
wisedome
,
for
it
is
wisedome
;
it
is
not
onely
a
part
of
wisedome
,
but
it
is
the
very
Systeme
and
comprehension
of
all
wisedome
:
I
know
there
is
a
particular
wisedome
that
men
may
have
in
some
affaires
,
as
a
Husbandman
that
knowes
but
how
to
plough
his
ground
seasonably
,
&c.
that
is
called
his
wisedome
;
and
the
women
that
did
but
know
how
to
spin
finely
,
&c.
Men
may
have
a
kind
of
wisedome
in
this
or
that
particular
trade
,
and
yet
all
the
world
may
know
him
to
bee
a
foole
in
everything
else
;
but
that
that
is
the
true
and
reall
wisedome
which
properly
sets
a
man
out
to
goe
for
a
wise
man
,
properly
stands
in
the
true
understanding
of
the
times
,
in
reference
to
mens
duties
.
For
both
Philosophers
and
Divines
doe
agree
,
that
wisedome
is
made
up
of
these
two
things
;
the
one
is
,
Intelligence
,
which
is
nothing
but
the
understanding
of
things
in
their
nature
,
as
they
are
good
or
evill
;
the
other
is
Sapience
,
which
is
the
same
understanding
applyed
to
particular
businesses
,
as
they
stand
vested
with
all
their
circumstances
:
and
that
man
that
hath
the
understanding
of
affaires
,
as
they
are
circumstantianted
with
all
things
that
goe
with
them
,
and
knowes
how
hee
may
dexterously
and
opportunely
apply
himselfe
to
them
,
hee
is
the
wise
man
,
that
is
the
first
proofe
,
that
the
Spirit
of
God
every where
calls
this
wisedome
.
Secondly
,
The
same
Spirit
of
God
doth
●sually
call
the
want
of
this
,
folly
;
whatsoever
other
excellencies
meete
in
any
man
,
if
they
want
this
,
the
Scripture
calls
them
fooles
;
yea
hypocrites
,
wicked
ones
,
in
the
8.
of
Jeremiah
,
the
Lord
speakes
in
the
6
,
7
,
8
,
9.
Verses
,
after
this
manner
,
How
doe
you
say
you
are
wise
?
why
doe
you
pretend
to
wisedome
,
(
and
hee
speakes
not
to
the
vulgar
people
,
but
to
the
Scribes
,
their
learnedst
men
,
that
could
handle
their
tongues
and
their
pens
best
)
there
was
no
wisedome
in
them
,
they
were
fooles
;
Why
?
because
(
saith
God
)
the
Storke
,
and
the
Crane
,
and
the
Swallow
know
their
seasons
,
but
this
people
knowes
not
the
time
of
my
judgements
;
and
therefore
the
Lord
would
not
have
them
pretend
to
any
wisedome
,
but
bee
contented
to
bee
counted
fooles
,
because
they
were
ignorant
of
this
:
and
our
blessed
Saviour
in
the
16.
of
Matthew
,
when
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
,
and
the
learned
Doctors
of
the
Law
came
and
desired
to
have
some
further
evidence
from
him
,
by
some
signe
from
heaven
,
that
hee
was
the
Messias
;
Christ
told
them
they
were
Hypocrites
,
they
were
a
sinfull
and
an
adulterous
Generation
,
meerely
because
they
did
not
understand
the
signes
of
the
times
,
A
wicked
and
an
adulterous
generation
would
have
more
light
:
you
can
tell
by
the
Clouds
when
it
will
bee
faire
weather
next
morning
,
and
you
can
guesse
by
the
morning
whether
it
will
be
rain
;
but
yee
hypocrites
,
yee
fooles
(
saith
hee
)
you
cannot
discerne
the
signes
of
the
times
,
what
the
times
signifies
,
and
calls
for
at
your
hands
,
you
have
no
understanding
of
this
,
and
therefore
you
may
goe
for
a
company
of
fooles
,
and
hypocrites
,
and
so
left
them
and
departed
.
Nay
,
thirdly
,
which
makes
it
yet
more
cleare
,
The
want
of
this
knowledge
of
the
times
in
reference
to
mans
dutie
,
is
that
which
the
Spirit
of
God
uses
to
render
as
the
onely
cause
of
a
peoples
ruine
:
whensoever
a
people
are
brought
to
ruine
,
if
they
be
a
people
to
whom
God
afforded
meanes
to
save
them
,
when
they
come
to
be
ruin'd
,
the
Lord
layes
it
wholly
upon
this
,
that
they
knew
not
the
times
of
their
visitation
.
This
you
'le
find
in
the
19.
of
Luke
,
and
the
latter
end
of
it
,
when
Christ
about
the
41.
Verse
,
came
to
take
his
farefull
of
Jerusalem
and
to
die
there
;
from
the
top
of
the
Mountaine
he
looked
over
the
Citie
and
fell
a weeping
,
O
(
saith
hee
)
that
thou
hadst
but
known
in
this
thy
day
the
things
that
belong
to
thy
peace
,
but
they
are
hid
from
thy
eyes
;
then
hee
goes
on
and
tells
them
what
shall
become
of
them
,
the
enemies
shall
cast
a
banke
and
not
leave
one
stone
upon
another
,
levell
them
to
the
ground
and
their
Children
in
them
;
for
what
I
pray
?
because
thou
knew'st
not
the
time
of
thy
visitation
:
destruction
came
in
onely
at
that
breach
,
they
knew
not
the
time
of
their
visitation
;
and
elsewhere
our
Lord
saith
,
in
the
latter
end
of
the
world
,
when
ruine
shall
come
,
it
will
bee
then
,
as
it
was
in
the
dayes
of
Noah
,
and
as
it
was
in
the
dayes
of
Lot
,
men
shall
bee
eating
and
drinking
,
and
marrying
wives
,
but
know
nothing
they
should
do
for
their
salvation
till
utter
ruine
come
upon
them
.
I
hope
now
the
truth
of
this
Lesson
is
cleare
out
of
the
Scripture
.
But
if
you
please
to
goe
a
little
further
yet
,
and
consider
the
excellency
and
difficulty
of
this
wisedome
to
know
the
times
,
how
much
depends
upon
it
,
&
how
much
is
required
to
it
,
you
'l
bee
fully
satisfied
,
that
a
greater
commendation
can
never
bee
given
of
any
man
,
or
any
people
,
then
this
,
that
they
know
the
times
in
reference
to
their
duties
:
and
that
I
may
open
what
belongs
to
the
making
up
of
this
worke
,
I
beseech
you
give
mee
leave
to
open
these
six
Conclusions
out
of
the
Scripture
,
which
all
much
concerne
this
wisedome
of
knowing
the
times
in
reference
to
dutie
.
First
,
That
time
is
one
of
the
most
pretious
treasures
that
ever
God
bestowes
upon
any
man
,
or
any
people
;
1.
because
time
is
the
onely
measure
out
of
which
God
powres
out
all
his
administrations
.
2.
Time
it
is
the
onely
space
in
which
men
are
to
doe
all
their
worke
.
3.
It
's
so
pretious
that
God
would
have
men
value
it
one
to
another
:
if
any
man
had
hurt
another
,
hee
must
not
onely
pay
for
his
healing
,
but
hee
must
pay
for
the
losse
of
his
time
.
Yea
,
4.
God
calls
upon
his
people
to
redeeme
it
at
any
rate
;
Redeeme
the
time
,
redeeme
the
time
,
as
if
there
were
no
commoditie
,
that
the
God
of
heaven
would
so
commend
unto
men
(
next
to
his
truth
)
that
wee
should
buy
so
eagerly
,
as
wee
should
purchase
time
.
Yea
,
5.
it
is
so
pretious
,
that
Hee
who
is
at
that
great
cost
to
make
and
contrive
it
,
as
to
cause
the
Sunne
every
day
to
run
about
the
world
,
and
all
those
excellent
creatures
in
the
firmament
to
make
it
their
work
,
for
the
continuation
of
time
will
call
men
to
accompt
for
every
moment
,
for
every
minute
of
it
:
That
is
my
first
Conclusion
,
that
time
is
a
pretious
Jewell
in
Gods
account
,
and
ought
to
be
so
in
all
people's
.
Secondly
,
God
hath
joyned
time
and
dutie
inseparably
one
to
another
;
so
that
there
is
no
dutie
,
but
it
hath
an
appointed
time
for
it
,
and
there
is
no
time
,
but
it
,
hath
an
appointed
dutie
for
it
;
it
's
disputable
whether
there
bee
a
vacuum
in
nature
or
no
,
it
is
most
certaine
there
is
no
vacuum
in
time
:
No
man
ever
lives
to
see
that
minute
of
time
,
nor
that
ragge
or
cranny
of
time
,
of
which
hee
may
truely
say
at
this
time
,
I
have
nothing
at
all
to
doe
;
but
the
Lord
hath
measured
out
to
all
times
some
dutie
or
other
:
this
our
Saviour
saith
expresly
,
Matth.
6.34
.
when
hee
would
disswade
men
from
troubling
themselves
to
day
with
the
duties
that
belong
to
to
morrow
,
hee
useth
this
argument
among
others
,
Trouble
not
your selves
for
to
morrow
,
for
to
morrow
day
hath
trouble
enough
of
its
owne
,
sufficient
for
every
day
is
the
trouble
of
it
;
the
care
,
the
worke
,
the
dutie
of
every
day
that
passeth
over
our
heads
is
enough
to
fill
the
day
,
that
is
the
second
,
that
God
hath
joyned
time
and
dutie
together
.
Thirdly
,
There
are
some
great
duties
that
are
to
bee
concurrent
in
the
practise
of
all
men
,
with
every
moment
of
their
lives
:
My
meaning
plainly
is
this
,
the
great
businesse
of
glorifying
God
,
of
saving
our
immortall
soules
,
of
keeping
a
good
conscience
,
of
working
out
our
salvation
,
these
great
things
are
not
set
off
by
God
to
any
set
time
,
but
they
are
to
be
concurrent
with
every
moment
of
a
mans
time
;
Trust
in
the
Lord
at
all
times
;
have
respect
to
Gods
Commandements
at
all
times
;
Blessed
are
they
that
doe
justice
and
judgement
at
all
times
;
bee
yee
alwayes
ready
for
your
masters
comming
:
And
of
those
excellent
men
Josiah
and
others
,
it
is
recorded
that
they
looked
to
Gods
Commandements
all
their
dayes
;
so
that
the
great
matters
of
glorifying
God
,
saving
our
soules
,
looking
for
our
Masters
comming
,
&c.
these
duties
are
to
bee
concurrent
with
all
our
time
.
Fourthly
,
Severall
times
,
I
meane
the
severall
compositions
of
times
,
or
Scenes
,
or
Junctures
of
times
,
have
their
severall
and
peculiar
duties
laid
out
for
every
man
by
God
himselfe
:
my
meaning
is
this
,
there
is
a
time
of
youth
,
a
time
of
age
,
a
time
of
prosperitie
,
a
time
of
adversitie
,
a
time
of
comfort
,
a
time
of
trouble
▪
a
time
of
warre
,
a
time
of
peace
,
and
a
hundred
other
severall
frames
,
and
compositions
,
and
junctures
of
time
.
Now
so
often
as
God
doth
make
a
new
Scene
of
the
time
,
every
man
hath
some
new
duty
or
other
to
act
;
his
part
requires
that
hee
should
act
some
new
thing
;
the
Scripture
is
full
of
such
expressions
as
these
,
in
the
times
of
prosperitie
doe
thus
,
in
the
time
of
adversitie
doe
thus
,
in
the
time
of
the
Gospel
doe
thus
,
&c.
Now
to
know
the
time
,
and
the
severall
duties
belonging
to
every
time
,
is
one
of
the
hardest
things
that
belong
to
the
taske
of
man
,
this
wisedome
lies
in
the
deepe
;
it
is
a
difficult
thing
to
find
out
what
the
duties
are
that
belong
to
the
severall
times
.
But
then
fiftly
,
That
the
Booke
of
God
,
and
onely
the
Booke
of
God
,
is
able
to
informe
them
who
faithfully
study
it
,
in
all
the
duties
that
doe
belong
to
every
new
posture
or
face
of
time
.
First
I
say
,
onely
Gods
Booke
can
do
it
,
there
are
Bookes
of
excellent
wisedome
written
by
other
men
,
but
take
them
all
together
,
let
a
man
bee
never
so
versed
in
them
,
they
will
never
discover
to
him
every
duty
that
belongs
to
every
time
,
but
the
Booke
of
God
can
doe
it
if
men
have
their
senses
exercised
in
the
study
of
it
;
there
is
no
time
so
intricate
,
no
dutie
so
arduous
,
but
the
booke
of
God
will
teach
all
men
,
from
the
Minister
to
the
Hearer
,
from
the
Prince
to
the
Subject
,
to
make
every
one
of
them
perfect
in
all
the
workes
which
belong
to
them
.
Psalme
19.7
.
it
is
said
,
the
Word
gives
understanding
to
the
simple
;
and
in
the
third
of
the
Proverbs
,
Vers.
21
,
22
,
23
In
all
thy
wayes
acknowledge
her
,
and
thou
shalt
walke
in
thy
way
safely
,
and
thy
foot
shall
not
stumble
;
when
thou
liest
downe
thou
shalt
not
bee
afraid
,
&c.
Doe
but
get
wisedome
into
thy
heart
,
get
acquaintance
with
Gods
Word
,
it
will
direct
thee
in
all
thy
w●●es
,
whether
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left
,
at
every
turning
place
it
will
say
,
here
is
thy
way
,
and
these
must
bee
thy
steps
.
Sixtly
,
and
principally
,
As
there
are
severall
times
,
and
severall
duties
annexed
to
these
times
,
so
in
every
time
for
any
duty
,
there
is
some
particle
of
that
time
,
which
is
the
opportunitie
of
the
dutie
,
the
season
of
the
dutie
there
is
the
space
of
time
,
and
there
is
the
season
of
time
;
the
space
of
time
is
nothing
but
the
continuation
and
succession
of
so
many
minutes
and
moments
one
of
another
;
but
the
season
of
time
,
or
opportunitie
of
it
,
is
time
apted
and
fitted
,
to
doe
a
businesse
.
Now
these
two
doe
very
much
differ
one
from
another
,
the
one
of
them
the
length
,
the
duration
of
time
,
the
Greeks
calls
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
but
the
season
,
the
opportunitie
is
called
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
which
is
the
tempus
commodum
,
the
tempestivitie
of
time
,
the
ripenesse
of
time
:
and
this
indeed
is
properly
time
in
reference
to
dutie
.
And
concerning
these
seasons
of
time
or
times
fitted
for
businesse
,
be
pleased
to
consider
these
five
things
,
I
shall
need
onely
to
name
them
,
because
I
speake
to
an
understanding
people
.
That
any
worke
to
be
done
is
done
easily
if
the
opportunitie
be
taken
;
take
opportunitie
by
the
forelock
,
and
any
businesse
whatsoever
is
to
bee
done
,
will
bee
done
with
ease
;
not
onely
because
opportunitie
is
the
ripenesse
of
time
,
but
because
in
opportunities
God
offers
to
worke
with
us
,
and
for
us
:
Now
you
know
any
businesse
that
must
bee
done
by
the
helpe
of
another
,
is
then
easily
done
,
when
both
parties
joyne
in
it
.
Two
Men
that
are
to
lift
up
a
burthen
,
if
they
both
lift
together
,
and
take
the
Hae
,
now
,
it
goes
up
easily
.
A
vessell
that
is
to
be
driven
,
if
the
Watermen
ply
the
Oares
,
the
wind
&
tide
go
with
them
,
the
vessell
is
carried
easily
;
Now
(
I
say
)
the
Lord
offers
himselfe
to
come
in
to
a
people
when
there
is
a
fit
opportunitie
▪
●hen
he
holds
up
his
hand
,
and
saith
,
Now
lift
,
and
I
'le
lift
with
you
,
now
row
,
and
my
Word
shall
blow
with
you
;
such
Scripture
as
these
are
frequent
,
In
an
accepted
time
I
have
heard
thee
;
and
I
will
heare
thee
in
an
acceptable
time
;
In
a
day
of
salvation
I
will
succour
thee
,
in
an
opportune
time
:
God
offers
to
come
in
and
helpe
,
if
opportunitie
bee
taken
;
This
made
the
heathens
esteeme
opportunitie
a
goddesse
.
As
things
are
easie
when
men
take
opportunities
,
so
they
are
then
beautifull
;
the
beautie
and
grace
of
every
dutie
,
both
with
God
and
man
,
is
,
when
it
is
done
in
its
fit
season
;
the
righteous
man
in
the
first
Psalme
,
is
compared
to
the
Tree
that
brings
forth
his
fruit
in
his
season
,
suum
in
suo
,
his
owne
fruit
,
and
in
his
proper
season
;
God
(
saith
Solomon
)
hath
made
every
thing
beautifull
in
its
season
;
all
Gods
works
are
beautifull
in
their
season
,
and
so
are
all
mens
workes
too
:
A
word
spoke
in
season
,
is
like
Apples
of
Gold
in
pictures
of
Silver
;
and
a
good
word
in
season
,
O
how
comfortable
it
is
.
Thirdly
,
But
know
,
that
these
Opportunities
are
wondrous
hard
to
find
out
;
very
difficult
it
is
for
men
to
know
the
true
season
or
opportunitie
of
a
businesse
:
men
may
know
times
and
seasons
wel
enough
in
particular
businesses
,
the
seasons
for
tilling
the
ground
,
and
breeding
and
breaking
of
Cattle
,
&c.
In
such
low
and
triviall
things
in
comparison
,
seasons
may
easily
bee
knowne
,
but
in
the
great
morall
affaires
,
that
concerne
God
and
mens
soules
,
the
difficultest
thing
that
lies
before
man
,
is
,
to
finde
out
the
true
season
when
they
are
to
bee
done
;
this
Solomon
sets
downe
most
excellently
in
the
eighth
of
Ecclesiastes
,
Verse
6.
Because
to
every
purpose
there
is
required
time
and
judgement
,
therefore
the
misery
of
man
is
great
upon
him
;
marke
that
expression
,
most
men
are
miserable
,
because
a
businesse
cannot
bee
done
,
without
a
fit
season
and
judgement
to
know
it
:
as
if
Solomon
had
said
thus
,
The
truth
is
,
opportunities
are
so
rare
,
oft-times
so
sudden
,
so
violent
,
so
short
,
the
wind
seldome
blowing
long
in
an
opportune
point
,
and
men
so
ignorant
,
so
blinded
with
prejudice
,
with
vaine
hopes
or
feares
,
that
most
men
are
miserable
in
that
they
cannot
find
out
the
true
season
of
a
businesse
,
and
thereby
intimates
that
in
every
businesse
the
most
difficult
part
of
the
worke
is
the
right
timing
of
it
.
I
adde
fourthly
,
That
when
opportunities
are
past
,
if
they
bee
let
slip
,
they
are
oftentimes
altogether
irrecoverable
;
and
the
businesse
is
either
wholly
lost
,
or
never
better
then
halfe
done
;
it
may
cost
more
to
patch
up
a
businesse
out
of
season
,
then
required
to
have
done
it
beautifully
if
the
season
had
been
taken
;
As
the
story
goes
of
the
Sibylls
bookes
,
they
were
faine
to
give
the
full
price
for
one
,
which
would
have
bought
all
three
,
when
two
of
them
were
burnt
.
Post
est
occasio
calva
.
Unlesse
God
make
another
opportunitie
,
man
can
never
call
opportunitie
back
againe
.
Opportunities
are
Gods
fitting
of
time
to
businesse
,
&
none
but
God
can
thus
fit
it
;
therefore
you
shall
find
Esau
would
have
repented
and
got
the
blessing
,
he
wept
and
cryed
for
it
,
yet
missed
it
,
he
might
have
had
it
once
without
weeping
and
crying
,
but
he
lost
the
season
,
and
the
season
being
gone
,
hee
could
never
recover
it
with
all
his
weeping
:
So
the
foolish
Virgins
came
with
their
Lampes
,
pretending
to
have
got
some
oyle
,
and
cryed
,
Lord
open
to
us
,
but
the
season
was
past
,
and
there
was
no
entrance
;
the
truth
is
,
seasons
are
to
businesses
as
money
is
to
wares
,
hee
that
would
buy
a
commoditie
upon
a
market
day
,
when
possibly
the
commoditie
is
very
cheape
,
may
then
have
it
for
laying
out
his
money
,
lose
but
that
market
,
possibly
ten
market
dayes
will
not
helpe
him
againe
with
it
,
and
either
never
buy
it
or
give
a
greater
rate
for
that
which
is
not
so
good
as
the
other
would
have
been
;
if
opportunities
bee
once
past
over
,
without
the
Lord
create
them
againe
,
men
are
utterly
lost
in
their
businesses
.
Fiftly
,
and
lastly
,
As
these
opportunities
are
excellent
,
and
hard
to
find
,
and
irrecoverable
if
they
bee
lost
:
So
in
the
last
place
,
know
,
that
no
wisedome
,
no
learning
,
nothing
but
a
gratious
heart
guided
by
the
Spirit
of
God
,
doth
know
how
to
take
opportunities
in
time
,
for
the
great
businesses
that
concerne
God
and
his
glory
,
no
wisedome
but
the
wisedome
of
grace
,
and
Gods
Spirit
guiding
the
heart
,
doth
ever
know
to
doe
businesses
in
their
right
seasons
.
In
other
things
(
as
I
said
before
)
they
may
bee
taken
,
naturall
men
may
plow
and
sow
in
season
,
&c.
Yea
,
men
may
sensibly
understand
the
times
,
so
as
to
mourne
for
the
afflictions
of
them
,
so
as
to
rejoyce
in
the
good
of
them
;
and
wicked
men
by
a
devillish
wisedome
can
take
the
seeming
opportunities
,
to
promote
their
owne
wicked
designes
;
the
harlot
can
take
the
opportunitie
of
her
husbands
absence
,
the
thiefe
the
opportunitie
of
the
twilight
,
and
so
every
man
the
seeming
opportunitie
of
things
that
are
of
the
Devill
,
for
Satan
helpes
them
;
but
to
know
the
opportunities
of
the
things
that
concerne
God
and
our
soules
,
nothing
but
a
gratious
heart
enables
a
man
to
doe
it
:
the
Scripture
is
very
plaine
for
this
,
Solomon
expresses
it
notably
in
the
tenth
of
Ecclesiastes
,
Vers.
2.
A
wise
mans
heart
is
at
his
right
hand
,
but
a
fooles
heart
is
at
his
left
;
the
meaning
is
this
,
when
a
businesse
is
to
be
done
,
&
the
right
season
for
it
,
the
wise
man
,
a
gracious
man
hath
his
hand
ready
,
and
his
heart
to
joyne
with
his
hand
,
he
is
alwayes
dexterous
at
it
,
but
a
fooles
(
i.
e.
a
wicked
mans
)
heart
,
when
his
businesse
is
to
bee
done
,
his
heart
is
at
his
left
hand
,
every
finger
is
a
Thumbe
,
hee
cannot
manage
it
:
but
more
clearely
Solomon
expresseth
this
,
Prov.
17.
Vers.
16.
Wherefore
is
there
a
price
in
the
hand
of
a
foole
to
buy
wisedome
,
seeing
he
hath
no
heart
to
it
?
Let
a
wicked
man
have
opportunities
,
give
him
wealth
,
give
him
honour
,
give
him
meanes
of
grace
,
give
him
any
thing
that
may
helpe
to
wisedome
,
hee
hath
no
heart
to
it
:
So
also
saith
Daniel
,
Dan.
12.10
.
speaking
of
understanding
the
times
,
none
of
the
wicked
shall
understand
,
but
the
wise
shall
,
the
godly
shall
.
Thus
I
have
done
with
the
Doctrinall
part
of
it
,
and
by
this
time
I
hope
you
all
grant
,
that
it
is
a
matter
of
wonderfull
concernement
,
of
admirable
wisedome
and
commendation
,
to
have
understanding
of
the
times
and
seasons
,
so
as
rightly
to
discharge
their
owne
duties
:
I
now
come
to
the
Application
of
it
,
wherein
I
shall
onely
insist
upon
two
Uses
,
the
one
is
,
For
Humiliation
,
in
reference
to
time
past
,
to
seasons
and
opportunities
which
are
past
and
lost
.
The
other
shall
be
,
For
Exhortation
,
in
reference
to
the
time
to
come
,
that
wee
may
learne
this
excellent
wisedome
to
know
the
times
and
seasons
so
as
to
lose
no
more
of
them
.
For
the
first
,
Is
it
such
a
singular
commendation
,
so
excellent
a
wisedome
,
a
matter
of
so
great
moment
and
consequence
,
to
know
the
times
in
reference
to
duty
?
O
what
cause
of
lamentations
is
there
:
First
,
In
generall
to
us
all
?
a
man
might
in
this
case
fill
such
a
booke
as
Ezekiels
roule
was
,
wi●h
weeping
,
and
lamentation
and
mourning
:
Here
is
a
great
Assembly
gathered
together
to
mourn
upon
a
day
of
mourning
,
and
if
ever
any
Doctrine
that
ever
I
have
preached
might
call
for
mourning
at
all
your
hands
,
I
am
perswaded
this
doctrine
calls
for
it
from
every
one
of
us
;
God
bee
mercifull
to
us
,
wee
have
all
been
fooles
,
we
have
not
knowne
the
times
of
our
visitation
,
wee
have
knowne
the
times
to
talke
of
them
,
sometimes
to
inveigh
against
them
,
crying
out
,
they
are
the
worst
times
that
ever
were
;
but
for
this
knowledge
of
my
Text
(
wherein
true
wisedome
should
appeare
)
to
know
the
times
in
reference
to
our
duties
,
I
feare
I
may
say
as
Paul
said
of
the
Corinthians
,
hardly
one
wise
man
to
bee
found
amongst
us
.
One
said
,
(
I
know
not
how
truely
)
of
the
Helvet●ans
,
that
he
travelled
through
their
Country
,
and
found
that
there
are
toti
pagi
repleti
fatuis
,
whole
Villages
inhabited
by
none
but
fooles
;
Truly
(
beloved
)
not
onely
our
Country
Villages
,
but
our
market
townes
,
and
our
Cities
,
and
I
pray
God
it
prove
not
that
our
Parliament
and
Assemblies
are
all
filled
with
fooles
in
this
great
point
,
few
or
none
of
us
know
the
times
in
reference
to
our
duties
.
Let
mee
speake
freely
to
you
,
God
hath
cast
the
lot
of
all
of
us
in
such
times
as
have
been
filled
with
such
administrations
,
as
the
like
could
not
have
been
in
the
space
of
these
1000
yeers
;
and
confident
I
am
,
that
hee
that
loses
these
times
wherein
we
have
lived
,
would
never
have
redeemed
any
time
;
and
yet
notwithstanding
,
have
not
wee
,
O
have
not
wee
all
usually
put
off
to
the
future
,
the
duties
that
belong
to
the
present
time
,
and
done
in
the
present
time
,
the
things
that
should
never
have
been
done
at
all
?
Have
not
most
of
us
lived
all
our
dayes
,
as
if
God
had
made
us
for
the
World
,
as
Leviathan
for
the
Sea
,
onely
to
take
our
pleasure
in
it
?
others
of
us
to
fill
our
shops
with
commodities
,
our
purses
with
money
,
our
houses
with
stuffe
and
provision
,
as
if
there
had
been
no
better
things
to
have
been
regarded
?
when
in
the
meane
time
for
the
admirable
opportunities
wee
have
had
for
the
glorifying
of
God
,
and
the
saving
of
our
soules
,
as
if
these
had
been
nothing
worth
;
woe
unto
us
,
wee
have
done
any
thing
rather
then
make
improvement
of
them
:
and
as
rich
people
will
give
any
poore
people
leave
to
goe
into
their
Pease-fields
to
gather
lapfulls
of
their
Pease
,
as
being
things
of
little
worth
,
so
have
wee
allowed
any
thing
to
take
up
our
time
,
sporting
,
and
eating
,
and
prating
,
and
sleeping
,
and
such
things
that
are
of
little
concernment
.
O
how
much
of
our
pretious
time
have
they
devoured
and
wee
regard
it
not
?
what
cause
have
we
to
tremble
at
the
thought
of
it
?
I
beseech
you
tell
me
,
if
God
should
come
now
,
and
say
to
any
Nobleman
,
Gentleman
,
Minister
,
Citizen
,
or
other
that
is
here
,
I
have
given
thee
20.
yeers
,
40.
yeers
,
threescore
yeers
of
time
,
I
have
filled
thy
time
with
glorious
opportunities
,
as
excellent
as
ever
I
gave
to
any
,
the
least
of
them
worth
a
world
,
give
in
your
Bill
of
accompt
what
you
have
done
with
these
?
what
improvement
you
have
made
of
them
?
how
have
you
walked
I
beseech
you
?
what
accompt
could
you
make
?
would
it
not
appeare
that
you
have
spent
many
houres
and
dayes
in
riot
and
wantonnesse
,
sporting
and
playing
,
in
swearing
and
cursing
,
in
contriving
and
acting
that
which
is
evill
and
mischievous
,
and
very
few
minutes
for
your
God
,
&
for
your
soule
,
for
obtaining
eternall
life
,
happinesse
,
or
doing
good
to
your
brethren
:
God
bee
mercifull
to
us
,
wee
could
not
answer
him
one
word
for
a
thousand
,
wee
have
all
cause
to
lie
in
the
dust
,
and
acknowledge
we
have
been
fooles
,
and
not
knowne
the
things
that
belonged
to
our
peace
,
not
regarded
the
time
of
our
visitation
.
But
(
Honorable
and
beloved
)
give
me
leave
to
bring
this
lesson
nearer
to
you
,
who
have
called
mee
this
day
to
preach
,
and
let
me
make
a
more
through
enquirie
after
your
wisedome
in
this
particular
,
because
you
are
look'd
upon
as
the
wise
men
of
the
Land
that
know
the
times
better
then
others
;
I
am
confident
you
doe
not
desire
to
bee
flattered
any
day
,
but
this
day
I
hope
that
will
bee
most
acceptable
which
in
a
way
of
God
could
most
effectually
humble
and
abase
you
,
and
you
have
put
a
necessitie
upon
mee
,
to
deale
freely
and
faithfully
with
your
soules
.
Have
not
you
,
honored
and
worthy
Patriots
and
Senators
,
infinite
cause
to
bemoane
this
,
that
you
have
not
knowne
the
times
in
reference
to
your
duties
?
First
,
be
pleased
to
view
the
times
you
lived
while
you
were
private
Gentlemen
,
before
you
were
called
to
these
publique
services
,
when
you
lived
in
your
severall
Countries
;
where
I
know
by
reason
of
your
wealth
,
and
parts
,
and
interests
,
and
states
,
you
had
abundance
of
opportunities
more
then
other
people
had
,
to
have
done
much
service
,
to
have
made
the
times
and
places
better
for
you
.
Did
you
then
thus
know
the
times
?
did
you
then
walke
as
wise
men
,
redeeming
the
times
?
did
you
know
what
God
expected
from
you
in
your
places
,
and
have
you
done
it
?
O
blessed
yee
,
if
you
have
:
But
(
I
beseech
you
)
will
it
not
rather
appeare
upon
a
true
search
,
that
many
of
you
in
those
dayes
walked
in
the
wayes
of
riot
,
in
uncleannesse
,
in
drunkennesse
,
possibly
in
swearing
,
in
prophaning
Gods
holy
time
,
in
opposing
and
scorning
Religion
,
was
it
not
thus
?
it
behoves
you
to
search
;
did
you
not
make
your
owne
Families
,
the
Townes
and
Lordships
where
you
lived
the
worse
for
you
,
as
so
many
Jeroboams
causing
Israel
to
sinne
?
did
not
you
thereby
helpe
to
pull
downe
those
judgements
that
have
beene
like
to
devoure
and
destroy
this
whole
Land
?
and
if
so
,
have
you
beene
humbled
under
these
things
?
have
you
since
repented
of
them
?
or
do
they
still
stand
upon
your
score
before
that
God
that
keeps
an
exact
accompt
of
all
the
Talents
that
ever
hee
hath
put
into
your
hands
?
I
beseech
you
enquire
into
it
;
but
let
me
goe
further
,
and
enquire
whether
since
the
time
that
God
hath
separated
you
from
your
brethren
,
and
by
a
notable
providence
called
you
out
to
be
the
heads
of
all
our
Tribes
,
have
you
since
that
time
knowne
the
times
in
reference
to
your
duties
?
It
is
now
above
six
yeers
since
many
of
you
have
beene
called
to
this
worke
,
one
of
the
greatest
workes
that
mortall
men
have
beene
imployed
in
these
many
hundreds
of
yeers
,
a
work
wherein
you
have
beene
assisted
not
onely
with
the
prayers
and
teares
of
those
that
feare
God
,
throughout
the
Christian
world
,
but
with
the
states
and
blood
of
many
,
and
God
himselfe
hath
carried
you
in
his
bosome
,
and
made
you
the
most
remarkable
handfull
of
men
,
that
I
thinke
this
day
breath
upon
the
earth
,
in
regard
of
the
mercies
that
hee
hath
shewed
you
,
and
in
this
time
(
certaine
I
am
)
hath
put
into
your
hands
as
many
golden
opportunities
,
not
onely
required
as
many
duties
,
but
put
as
many
golden
opportunities
into
your
hands
to
establish
our
wretched
kingdome
,
and
to
rescue
a
decayed
,
lukewarme
,
Apostatized
Church
,
as
ever
were
put
into
the
hands
of
a
Parliament
.
Now
(
beloved
)
have
you
known
your
times
,
and
taken
your
opportunities
?
I
know
it
well
,
that
you
have
wrestled
with
huge
difficulties
,
infinite
oppositions
,
and
I
know
that
oft-times
the
perversnesse
of
a
Patient
poysoning
his
owne
disease
or
wounds
may
frustrate
the
care
of
the
best
Physitians
;
and
God
forbid
,
that
that
which
is
onely
your
misery
,
should
ever
bee
imputed
to
you
as
your
sinne
;
but
suppose
upon
a
diligent
search
,
any
of
you
that
are
called
to
bee
our
wise
men
,
to
know
the
times
for
us
,
that
at
your
doore
it
should
lie
in
great
part
,
that
our
miseries
are
not
yet
healed
,
how
sad
would
that
bee
?
To
this
end
I
most
humbly
pray
you
inquire
,
if
upon
a
diligent
search
there
should
bee
found
among
you
any
who
at
this
day
live
in
the
same
sinfull
,
riotous
,
ungodly
,
wicked
conversation
that
they
led
,
before
God
called
them
to
this
publique
service
:
that
after
your
solemne
oath
,
with
your
hand
lifted
up
to
the
most
high
God
for
the
reformation
of
your
wayes
,
that
you
should
bee
found
still
with
Zimri
and
Cozbi
,
to
live
in
those
sinnes
for
which
God
is
judging
this
Nation
;
Were
this
to
know
the
times
,
and
what
Israel
hath
to
doe
?
Suppose
further
,
there
should
bee
found
amongst
you
any
such
as
should
ordinarily
neglect
the
publique
service
,
and
turne
your
backs
upon
it
,
to
attend
your
own
private
affaires
,
after
that
the
Kingdome
hath
put
into
your
hands
whatsoever
under
God
is
pretious
and
deare
unto
them
;
were
this
to
know
the
times
and
what
Israel
hath
to
doe
?
Suppose
there
should
bee
found
amongst
you
any
that
should
seeke
advantage
to
themselves
out
of
publique
calamities
,
or
should
sinfully
helpe
to
undoe
those
for
whom
they
are
called
to
bee
Saviours
;
were
this
to
know
the
times
?
Suppose
that
any
of
you
should
bee
found
unjust
in
judgement
,
and
favour
an
unrighteous
man
in
his
cause
,
either
for
corrupt
gaines
or
out
of
opposition
to
them
you
like
not
,
and
so
prostrate
the
untainted
honour
of
the
Parliament
to
the
reproach
of
the
adversaries
,
the
scandall
of
the
Nation
,
the
teares
and
griefe
of
them
who
love
you
;
were
this
to
know
the
times
,
and
what
Israel
hath
to
doe
?
Suppose
it
should
bee
found
that
there
should
bee
any
that
in
matters
of
Religion
should
side
with
a
partie
for
corrupt
and
sinfull
ends
,
and
make
Religion
but
an
Engine
to
carry
on
some
other
sinfull
designe
;
were
this
to
know
the
times
and
what
Israel
had
to
doe
?
Suppose
yet
further
,
that
upon
a
diligent
search
there
should
be
found
among
you
any
that
doe
retard
matters
of
the
greatest
moment
;
that
the
setling
of
Religion
should
bee
obstructed
by
you
,
that
many
people
abroad
are
remisse
in
it
,
because
they
judge
you
have
no
heart
to
it
;
were
this
to
know
the
time
,
and
what
Israel
hath
to
doe
?
Suppose
that
the
cries
and
teares
of
the
oppressed
▪
I
meane
not
the
fatherlesse
and
widowes
,
(
whom
I
am
confident
the
Houses
of
Parliament
would
helpe
this
very
day
,
if
it
lay
in
their
power
)
but
the
cries
of
some
oppressed
by
Committees
or
others
in
the
Countrey
,
should
come
up
to
you
and
seeke
for
succour
,
and
it
should
bee
found
that
some
of
you
should
patronize
the
wrong-doers
,
and
keepe
them
off
from
comming
to
a
hearing
,
and
thereby
from
redresse
;
were
this
to
know
the
times
,
and
what
Israel
had
to
doe
?
Honorable
,
and
Worthy
,
doe
not
mistake
mee
,
I
am
farre
from
saying
it
is
so
,
I
onely
suggest
these
things
to
your
owne
search
,
and
if
in
naming
the
particulars
I
mistake
any
of
them
,
God
knowes
it
is
with
the
same
singlenesse
of
heart
,
wherewith
Job
sanctifyed
his
Children
,
sacrificed
for
them
,
saying
,
Peradventure
my
sonnes
have
sinned
,
and
cursed
God
in
their
hearts
;
sure
I
am
it
concernes
you
all
to
search
and
try
;
for
if
it
should
be
so
,
wee
are
all
like
to
smart
for
it
,
for
as
he
said
of
the
Roman
Senate
,
Ita
nati
est
is
ut
bona
malaque
vestra
ad
rempub.
pertineant
,
Your
condition
is
such
,
that
your
good
and
your
evill
,
is
the
good
and
evill
of
the
Commonwealth
;
it
belongs
to
us
all
:
and
should
the
great
God
find
any
of
you
walking
thus
unworthy
of
the
great
trust
hee
hath
committed
to
you
,
when
hee
hath
put
(
as
it
were
)
the
fates
of
his
Church
and
Kingdome
in
your
hands
,
under
him
to
dispose
of
them
,
h●s
wrath
would
bee
kindled
against
you
,
these
things
would
lie
very
heavy
upon
your
score
,
and
wee
and
you
should
dearely
rue
it
.
Sure
I
am
,
there
is
not
a
man
of
us
,
but
for
some
or
other
of
these
things
,
hath
just
cause
to
lay
his
hand
upon
his
heart
with
sorrow
,
and
to
put
his
mouth
in
the
dust
,
and
this
day
to
bee
very
deepely
humbled
and
abased
before
God
.
And
this
is
the
first
Use
,
a
Use
of
Humiliation
,
that
wee
have
not
in
time
past
,
so
knowne
the
times
as
wee
should
in
reference
to
our
duties
.
There
is
one
more
,
and
that
is
,
A
Use
of
Exhortation
;
Is
this
so
excellent
and
necessary
a
dutie
,
to
know
the
times
in
reference
to
our
duties
?
O
that
I
knew
how
to
speake
somewhat
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
,
that
might
promote
this
wisedome
in
you
for
time
to
come
,
that
in
this
our
day
wee
might
know
the
things
that
concerne
our
peace
,
that
they
may
not
be
for
ever
hid
from
our
eyes
;
O
that
I
could
say
to
you
,
as
Paul
said
to
the
Thessalonians
:
Concerning
the
times
and
seasons
,
it
is
superfluous
for
mee
to
write
to
you
,
for
you
your selves
know
perfectly
.
To
this
end
I
beseech
you
take
briefly
these
foure
Meditations
to
provoke
you
to
study
this
wisedome
in
time
to
come
.
First
,
Often
consider
how
much
time
,
&
how
many
golden
opportunities
thou
hast
lost
already
;
how
oft
there
hath
been
in
thy
hands
a
price
to
purchase
Wisdome
,
and
thou
hast
lost
it
for
want
of
a
heart
;
and
then
thinke
whether
it
bee
not
more
then
needfull
that
thou
shouldest
lose
no
more
.
Secondly
,
Consider
how
much
doth
depend
upon
that
moment
of
time
that
yet
is
behinde
;
It
is
an
old
saying
,
Our
life
is
but
a
moment
▪
but
Ex
hoc
momento
pendet
aeternitas
,
Eternity
dependeth
upon
this
moment
;
no
lesse
then
the
glory
of
God
,
and
the
saving
of
thy
immortall
soule
,
and
it
may
bee
of
thy
family
,
it
may
bee
of
the
Church
and
Kingdome
,
dependeth
upon
thy
knowing
the
times
.
Thirdly
,
Consider
thou
canst
not
tell
,
whether
ever
thou
shalt
enjoy
after
this
day
one
opportunity
more
;
the
Angel
may
quickly
come
and
sweare
concerning
thee
and
mee
,
Time
shal
be
no
more
.
And
then
Fourthly
,
Consider
when
Time
ceases
to
bee
any
more
,
thou
must
give
an
accompt
for
all
the
time
that
hath
been
;
that
certainly
at
the
barre
and
Tribunall
of
God
,
all
the
Times
and
seasons
that
God
hath
trusted
thee
with
,
stand
upon
thy
score
,
and
will
bee
exacted
of
thee
:
Rejoyce
O
young
man
(
saith
Solomon
in
the
11
of
Ecclesiastes
)
in
thy
youth
,
and
let
thy
heart
cheare
thee
in
the
dayes
of
thy
youth
,
and
walke
in
the
wayes
of
thine
heart
,
and
in
the
sight
of
thine
eyes
;
take
thy
pleasures
,
waste
thy
seasons
,
but
know
that
for
all
these
things
thou
must
come
to
judgement
.
Such
Meditations
as
these
would
provoke
your
hearts
to
bee
very
carefull
to
lose
no
more
time
▪
but
rather
to
enquire
what
you
should
doe
for
time
to
come
,
and
how
you
might
learne
this
Wisdome
:
And
truly
,
it
would
fill
a
Volume
,
to
tell
what
every
one
should
doe
,
from
what
wee
should
redeeme
our
time
,
and
to
what
wee
should
redeeme
it
,
and
by
what
meanes
wee
should
doe
it
.
I
dare
not
enter
upon
that
discourse
:
But
there
is
one
thing
wherein
I
desire
freedome
,
that
I
might
be
as
helpfull
as
I
can
to
the
Honourable
Senate
that
hath
called
me
to
the
service
of
this
day
:
Honourable
and
Beloved
,
God
hath
cast
your
lot
so
,
that
if
you
be
rightly
instructed
in
this
one
Lesson
,
you
may
make
our
times
differ
as
much
from
former
times
,
as
Nebuchadnezzars
Golden
head
did
from
the
feet
of
iron
and
clay
;
Golden
times
indeed
might
bee
brought
about
,
if
God
vouchsafed
but
to
teach
you
this
one
Lesson
.
Your
duties
are
many
,
for
whatsoever
lies
upon
any
other
,
lies
eminently
upon
you
;
You
are
to
doe
all
those
things
in
every
time
,
that
others
are
to
doe
;
and
you
are
to
doe
many
things
that
others
cannot
doe
,
and
may
not
doe
:
That
you
may
therefore
know
your
duty
,
give
mee
leave
to
represent
before
you
the
true
face
of
our
Times
wherein
wee
live
,
and
shew
what
in
these
Times
you
have
to
doe
,
and
herein
I
will
not
presume
to
put
any
Prudentialls
upon
you
,
(
we
ought
all
to
thinke
that
Prudentialls
are
better
understood
by
you
,
then
by
us
)
but
what
shall
I
say
,
shall
(
God
willing
)
appeare
to
be
matter
of
Conscience
,
matters
of
necessity
,
and
things
that
may
not
bee
left
to
liberty
;
Know
then
our
present
times
.
First
in
generall
,
are
such
Times
,
as
I
thinke
never
were
before
us
in
the
World
;
I
may
say
of
our
times
,
as
the
Prophet
Joel
saith
in
the
1
of
Joel
,
Heare
O
yee
old
men
,
was
it
ever
thus
in
your
dayes
,
or
in
the
dayes
of
your
forefathers
?
I
meane
,
our
times
are
so
full
of
various
administrations
,
such
a
concurrence
of
all
kinde
of
Providences
and
Administrations
,
as
seldome
were
ever
knowne
in
so
few
yeares
;
Wee
have
been
sometimes
full
of
hopes
of
recovery
,
sometimes
at
the
brinke
of
despaire
,
sometimes
dawnings
of
light
,
by
and
by
all
clouded
over
againe
with
utter
darknesse
;
sometimes
we
see
a
people
drawing
nigh
to
God
that
hides
his
face
from
them
,
by
and
by
God
drawing
nigh
to
a
people
that
run
away
from
him
;
such
alterations
,
such
vicissitudes
of
all
kindes
of
administrations
,
that
truly
I
may
compare
our
times
to
the
wind
mentioned
in
the
first
of
Ecclesiastes
,
It
whirles
about
continually
,
now
in
the
North
,
and
then
in
the
South
,
and
never
abides
in
one
Point
:
So
hath
it
been
with
us
for
these
foure
or
five
last
yeares
:
this
day
of
ours
hath
been
like
that
day
in
the
14
of
Zachariah
,
neither
night
nor
day
,
nor
light
nor
darknesse
,
but
a
strange
kinde
of
mixture
of
all
these
,
and
in
such
various
and
uncertaine
Times
as
these
are
,
what
have
the
heads
of
our
Tribes
to
doe
?
I
answer
plainly
,
all
others
with
you
,
and
you
with
others
,
are
in
such
dayes
to
stand
and
behold
the
Workes
of
God
,
viewing
and
admiring
,
and
adoring
these
Mosaick
works
,
these
Checquer
workes
of
God
,
but
it
concernes
you
above
all
others
,
to
stand
constantly
upon
your
watch
,
and
employ
all
your
Parts
and
Wisdome
,
and
Faithfulnesse
,
lest
a
change
of
time
take
you
upon
a
sudden
.
As
when
a
Ship
is
at
Sea
,
if
it
saile
to
the
Westward
,
and
once
get
beyond
the
Canaries
,
where
the
Sea
sets
constantly
one
way
,
and
state-winds
blowing
for
so
many
Moneths
together
in
one
Point
,
a
moderate
skill
and
care
of
him
that
guides
the
Helme
,
wil
carry
them
on
with
ease
;
but
in
various
winds
,
and
tumultuous
Seas
,
when
they
saile
sometimes
among
Rocks
,
and
sometimes
among
Quicksands
,
sometimes
in
Gulfes
,
sometimes
in
the
Ocean
,
sometimes
almost
at
the
Shoare
,
if
the
Pilot
be
not
extreame
skilfull
and
carefull
,
himselfe
,
his
Barque
,
and
all
that
are
with
him
are
quickly
cast
away
:
So
I
am
assured
is
it
now
with
us
in
these
various
administrations
;
you
that
are
our
Pilots
,
that
sit
at
the
Sterne
,
must
shew
more
then
ordinary
skill
and
diligence
,
or
we
may
quickly
perish
.
But
More
particularly
,
there
are
seven
severall
Scenes
of
the
Time
(
if
I
may
so
call
them
)
or
sorts
of
things
,
that
every
day
are
acted
upon
our
Stage
,
and
in
every
one
of
them
I
shal
shew
you
,
what
you
that
are
the
Heads
of
our
Tribes
have
to
doe
.
First
,
Our
times
are
times
of
most
prodigious
wickednesse
,
horrible
abominations
in
mens
manners
;
I
am
confident
,
never
such
abominable
drunkennesse
,
and
generall
loosenesse
in
that
kinde
;
never
more
universall
liberty
of
whoring
▪
Incestuous
mariages
,
oppressions
,
cruelty
,
injustice
,
malice
,
revenge
,
and
every
thing
that
might
fill
a
Land
with
ungodlinesse
.
Since
wee
or
our
fore-Fathers
were
borne
,
never
was
there
a
greater
deluge
of
wickednesse
,
then
in
these
our
times
;
and
what
have
the
Heads
of
Israel
to
doe
at
such
a
time
?
Certainely
you
,
and
all
others
at
such
times
are
called
to
mourne
for
all
the
abominations
of
the
Times
;
and
you
,
and
all
others
are
called
to
walke
more
exactly
,
in
that
time
,
to
redeeme
the
time
when
the
dayes
are
evill
:
But
You
above
all
others
are
called
out
by
God
,
in
such
times
,
to
be
his
instruments
,
to
oppose
these
things
,
the
Ministers
of
God
,
to
execute
vengeance
upon
those
that
do
evill
:
For
these
things
,
I
think
you
shall
not
need
to
trouble
your selves
to
make
new
Lawes
,
as
excellent
Lawes
are
already
made
against
them
all
,
as
I
thinke
any
Common-wealth
in
the
world
hath
,
but
it
concernes
you
to
see
that
these
bee
put
in
execution
;
It
concernes
you
in
times
of
oppression
to
deliver
the
poore
and
the
oppressed
,
out
of
the
Talons
and
Pawes
of
them
,
who
teare
them
and
crush
them
in
pieces
;
It
concerns
you
to
see
that
the
Justices
and
other
officers
in
the
Countrey
,
set
not
up
these
houses
of
Sinne
,
Alehouses
and
Tavernes
,
nor
that
when
some
well-affected
put
them
downe
,
Great
men
set
them
up
againe
;
and
so
in
other
abominations
it
concernes
you
to
see
that
incestuous
Mariages
and
such
ungodlinesses
,
go
not
unbranded
and
unpunished
;
the
Lord
kindle
zeale
in
your
hearts
,
that
you
may
doe
it
:
that
is
one
,
Our
Times
are
times
of
abominable
wickednesse
.
Secondly
,
Our
times
are
times
of
Errors
,
horrible
Errors
,
I
meane
not
such
Errors
as
are
to
bee
found
among
Gods
people
,
to
whom
hee
never
hath
given
an
equall
light
,
and
notwithstanding
which
Errors
himself
beares
with
them
,
and
would
have
his
people
bear
one
with
another
;
but
I
meane
our
times
are
times
of
such
Errors
as
are
heretical
and
blasphemous
,
such
as
concern
our
Christian
faith
,
and
holy
conversation
,
in
a
very
high
degree
;
it
would
weary
you
,
but
to
tell
you
,
the
things
that
are
generally
knowne
to
spread
as
a
Gangrene
,
a
new
generation
of
men
are
risen
up
,
and
spread
all
the
points
of
Arminianisme
,
universall
Redemption
,
Apostasie
from
grace
,
Mans
free-will
;
multitudes
of
others
cry
downe
the
Law
,
as
not
having
any
thing
to
do
with
Gods
people
;
others
denying
that
the
Saints
of
God
should
ever
any
more
confesse
sinne
to
God
in
prayer
;
others
questioning
whether
there
bee
any
Church
or
Ministery
this
day
upon
the
face
of
the
earth
,
and
whether
there
shall
bee
any
till
new
Apostles
arise
:
Nay
,
beyond
all
these
,
many
denying
the
Lord
Jesus
,
that
bought
us
with
his
blood
,
to
bee
God
;
or
the
Holy
Ghost
to
bee
God
;
others
denying
the
three
Persons
in
the
Trinity
;
and
consequently
affirming
that
we
,
and
all
the
Christian
world
with
us
,
doe
worship
Idols
in
stead
of
God
,
for
if
these
men
bee
right
,
they
are
Idols
whom
wee
worship
.
These
,
and
abundance
of
such
horrid
things
as
these
are
,
doe
spread
and
scatter
like
wilde-fire
every where
in
all
corners
of
the
Land
,
to
the
great
provocation
of
Gods
wrath
,
&
our
reproach
through
the
Christian
world
.
And
what
have
our
Heads
to
doe
at
such
a
time
?
Certainly
you
,
and
al
others
ought
to
mourn
for
these
things
,
and
teare
your
clothes
,
and
your
haires
,
and
your
hearts
,
that
God
should
be
so
dishonored
,
but
for
your
duties
who
are
in
high
Places
,
for
what
is
peculiar
to
you
,
I
'll
not
dispute
any
controversie
at
this
time
,
but
set
down
Two
things
which
I
know
you
must
yeeld
to
.
One
is
,
Certainly
you
must
search
diligently
into
the
Scriptures
,
and
enquire
whether
Jesus
Christ
would
have
you
oppose
your selves
against
these
things
that
are
so
opposite
to
him
;
If
upon
a
diligent
search
,
you
finde
that
hee
hath
not
authorized
you
,
doe
not
you
arrogate
any
authority
that
Christ
hath
not
given
you
;
my
Lie
will
never
honour
God
,
though
I
should
tell
it
for
Gods
glory
,
and
your
thrusting
your selves
into
an
office
,
Christ
hath
not
called
you
unto
,
will
never
be
accepted
by
him
.
But
if
Secondly
,
Upon
a
diligent
search
,
it
appeares
hee
hath
given
authority
unto
you
,
then
I
am
as
assur'd
that
hee
hath
not
left
it
to
your
arbitrement
,
whether
you
'll
use
it
,
or
no
;
hee
hath
not
left
it
to
your
will
,
whether
you
will
punish
them
,
but
if
you
have
power
to
stop
them
,
and
doe
not
,
hee
will
lay
them
all
at
your
doores
,
and
require
them
at
your
hands
;
therefore
search
diligently
what
you
have
power
to
doe
,
and
then
let
not
these
things
goe
on
,
to
Gods
dishonour
.
But
supposing
you
have
authority
.
What
then
is
to
be
done
?
I
answer
,
you
must
not
take
Blasphemies
,
Errors
,
and
Heresies
to
bee
such
upon
the
reports
of
other
men
,
but
as
the
Lord
ordered
them
in
the
13
of
Deuteronomie
,
so
likewise
must
you
doe
,
Search
diligently
whether
indeed
such
and
such
things
are
done
;
and
when
they
appeare
to
bee
done
,
out
of
the
zeale
of
God
,
doe
that
against
them
which
the
Lord
would
have
you
doe
;
let
not
your
Religion
be
thus
contaminated
,
suffer
not
your
children
,
to
whom
you
ought
to
bee
nursing
Fathers
,
to
bee
thus
poisoned
by
such
corrupt
Doctrines
,
nor
devoured
by
such
wolves
:
This
I
know
you
will
all
subscribe
unto
;
This
I
desire
above
all
may
sticke
with
you
,
that
if
the
Lord
hath
given
you
power
,
hee
hath
not
given
you
libertie
to
forbeare
such
men
;
God
in
mercy
make
you
zealous
for
him
,
that
hath
been
zealous
for
you
in
all
your
troubles
.
Thirdly
,
Our
times
are
times
of
wrath
,
a
great
deale
of
wrath
from
the
Lord
is
gone
forth
;
you
know
what
dreadfull
Vialls
of
wrath
,
have
been
poured
out
in
blood
;
terrible
quivers
of
destroying
arrowes
have
been
shot
out
in
Pestilence
,
all
which
tell
you
God
is
angry
:
And
what
then
have
our
Heads
and
Leaders
to
doe
?
certainly
all
people
should
tremble
when
God
is
angry
;
The
Lyon
roares
,
what
beast
doth
not
tremble
?
and
every
one
must
labour
to
pacifie
him
when
hee
is
angry
;
but
you
whom
the
Lord
hath
placed
under
him
in
such
high
place
and
authority
,
must
with
Moses
at
such
a
time
,
call
to
Aaron
to
run
with
his
Censer
,
you
must
labour
to
enquire
out
the
Causes
of
it
,
and
execute
the
judgement
and
vengeance
that
God
would
have
executed
upon
them
who
have
procured
it
;
You
must
with
Josiah
,
2
Kings
22.13
.
inquire
what
will
appease
him
,
and
with
the
King
of
Nineveh
,
call
upon
every
one
to
turne
from
the
evill
of
his
doings
,
and
your selves
bee
examples
to
the
rest
.
Fourthly
,
Our
times
are
times
of
Warre
,
terrible
warres
,
unnaturall
warres
,
bloody
warres
,
as
ever
England
knew
,
and
as
yet
the
Armies
are
in
the
Field
,
and
though
there
bee
no
open
Enemy
,
the
Sword
is
not
put
up
;
and
in
Ireland
,
poor
wretched
Ireland
,
the
warre
is
more
terrible
,
where
if
we
labour
not
to
end
it
by
sending
our
brethren
timely
succours
,
the
bloody
enemy
is
like
to
come
to
make
a
new
war
upon
us
ere
it
be
long
;
And
in
the
times
of
warre
,
What
have
the
heads
of
our
Tribes
to
do
?
Certainly
all
people
in
a
time
of
warre
,
should
make
it
a
time
of
mourning
;
Ezekiel
saith
,
The
Sword
is
furbished
▪
and
drawne
,
and
made
bright
for
slaughter
,
should
wee
then
make
mirth
?
Should
this
bee
a
time
of
jollitie
?
and
all
should
labour
to
finde
out
the
Causes
of
the
warre
,
what
the
Sword-procuring
sins
are
,
and
every
one
to
repent
and
turne
from
them
.
But
you
that
are
our
Heads
,
are
to
look
to
these
2
Things
principally
.
First
,
That
while
the
warre
doth
last
,
and
must
last
,
that
our
Campes
and
Armies
may
bee
in
such
a
condition
,
that
God
may
not
abhorre
our
Armies
;
When
the
Host
goes
forth
to
the
battail
,
keepe
thee
from
every
evill
thing
.
And
Secondly
,
In
the
times
of
Warre
,
you
should
alwayes
labour
after
an
honourable
,
safe
,
and
just
Peace
;
peace
is
the
end
of
warre
;
Pax
una
triumphis
,
One
peace
is
worth
100
Victories
;
and
therefore
you
must
principally
addresse
your selves
to
God
,
who
alone
can
give
us
Peace
:
Kings
and
States
may
begin
a
warre
,
but
God
onely
must
end
it
;
we
may
daube
up
a
peace
,
and
get
counterfeits
of
peace
,
but
all
will
bee
arena
sine
calce
,
Sand
without
lime
,
a
mortar
which
will
not
hold
,
but
as
a
swelling
in
a
high
wall
,
whose
breach
comes
suddenly
:
Therefore
remember
againe
and
againe
,
your
work
lies
with
the
God
of
Peace
,
pacifie
him
,
and
hee
will
create
peace
for
you
.
Fifthly
,
Our
Times
are
times
of
Divisions
;
such
Divisions
,
as
(
I
thinke
)
were
hardly
ever
knowne
in
the
Christian
World
;
Divisions
every where
,
divisions
in
Parliament
,
divisions
in
the
Assembly
,
divisions
in
the
Citie
,
divisions
in
State
affaires
;
but
woe
and
alasse
,
most
of
all
,
and
worst
of
all
,
divisions
among
Gods
people
,
the
Servants
of
God
who
heretofore
prayed
together
,
fasted
together
,
could
have
been
banished
together
,
now
,
as
if
the
curse
of
Simeon
and
Levi
were
fallen
upon
them
,
they
are
divided
in
Jacob
,
and
scattered
in
Israel
;
Manasseh
is
aagainst
Ephraim
,
and
Ephraim
against
Manasseh
,
and
every
one
eates
the
flesh
of
his
owne
arme
,
and
through
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
,
the
Land
is
darkened
and
infatuated
,
by
the
miserable
divisions
of
Gods
owne
people
;
and
these
divisions
are
fomented
,
encouraged
,
and
back'd
by
a
Third
il-affected
party
,
who
desires
that
these
Two
,
like
wilde
beasts
,
may
teare
one
another
,
and
weaken
one
another
,
that
they
may
devoure
them
both
;
and
all
this
goes
on
thorough
our
sinne
:
And
truly
wee
are
in
my
poore
thoughts
,
as
if
God
had
left
us
to
bee
as
Moab
,
and
Ammon
,
and
Mount
Seir
,
where
two
stood
up
against
one
to
destroy
it
,
and
then
the
other
two
to
destroy
one
another
;
as
the
foolish
Woman
,
wee
are
pulling
downe
our
house
with
our
owne
hands
.
And
now
(
Honorable
and
Beloved
)
in
such
sad
&
uncomfortable
times
as
these
are
,
what
have
the
Heads
of
our
Israel
to
doe
?
what
doth
the
Lord
looke
for
at
your
hands
?
Certainly
you
with
others
,
and
you
above
all
others
,
should
labour
to
bee
our
Physitians
,
our
Aesculapiusses
,
to
joine
our
dissever'd
limbes
,
and
if
it
bee
possible
,
to
make
us
one
againe
:
Noble
Senators
,
is
there
no
way
that
your
Wisdome
can
contrive
to
make
Pacification
,
Accommodation
,
and
Reconciliation
,
but
must
wee
goe
on
thus
to
ruine
one
another
?
Any
ordinary
head
may
serve
to
embroyle
things
,
but
here
would
bee
the
Master-piece
of
your
Wisdome
,
if
you
could
find
out
a
way
how
the
envie
of
Ephraim
,
and
the
ill
will
of
Manasseh
might
cease
,
and
that
Gods
people
might
yet
bee
reconciled
and
united
,
of
one
minde
as
farre
as
is
possible
,
and
made
of
one
heart
in
those
lower
things
,
wherein
they
cannot
bee
of
one
minde
:
Would
God
put
this
in
your
hearts
,
that
you
might
speedily
and
earnestly
set
about
it
,
that
if
there
should
be
found
any
Animosities
amongst
your selves
,
you
would
lay
them
down
first
,
&
all
agree
to
study
the
Publike
good
,
and
then
see
what
you
can
doe
to
reconcile
others
in
the
Ministery
,
in
the
City
,
in
the
Countrey
;
o
that
you
could
doe
as
Constantine
did
,
who
burnt
all
the
Libells
that
were
presented
to
him
from
one
Bishop
against
another
,
and
never
left
till
hee
had
made
peace
among
them
.
O
that
God
would
both
inable
you
,
and
provoke
you
to
set
speedily
upon
this
worke
,
God
,
and
his
people
have
their
eyes
upon
you
,
and
expect
you
should
imploy
all
your
Wisdome
,
Piety
,
Parts
,
and
Authority
to
extinguish
those
flames
which
threaten
speedy
ruine
to
us
all
.
Our
times
are
times
of
Reformation
;
As
they
are
times
of
sinne
and
errour
,
and
wrath
,
and
warre
,
and
divisions
,
which
all
five
are
very
sad
,
so
the
other
two
are
excellent
,
our
times
are
times
of
Reformation
;
I
mean
,
they
are
times
not
onely
of
much
Gospell
light
,
but
they
are
times
of
growing
,
and
increasing
light
,
wherein
the
light
of
the
Gospell
spreads
more
,
and
the
Lord
as
in
other
parts
of
the
world
,
so
especially
amongst
us
,
seemes
to
bee
laying
out
the
platforme
of
his
Temple
,
and
to
set
out
a
new
edition
of
his
Church
,
fairer
and
more
beautifull
then
ever
;
and
what
have
the
Heads
of
our
Tribes
to
doe
at
such
a
time
?
without
all
question
,
very
much
of
it
will
lie
upon
your
hands
under
God
,
you
have
contended
stifly
and
couragiously
for
our
liberties
,
and
properties
▪
and
to
recover
us
from
bondage
and
slavery
,
and
God
hath
been
with
you
in
it
;
and
although
the
kingdome
doth
not
yet
feele
it
,
and
so
it
may
bee
doth
not
greatly
thank
you
,
because
in
desperate
diseases
,
the
cure
is
commonly
more
costly
and
more
tedious
then
the
disease
is
,
but
I
doubt
when
God
vouchsafes
a
settling
they
will
finde
the
fruit
of
what
you
have
done
for
them
,
and
blesse
God
for
you
that
are
their
healers
.
But
know
(
I
beseech
you
)
that
our
Religion
is
our
most
Orient
Pearle
,
and
that
whereupon
our
heart
is
most
set
▪
and
if
there
should
bee
any
miscariage
in
it
all
will
perish
with
it
,
wee
should
call
every
thing
else
Ichabod
,
if
Religion
miscarry
,
all
is
gone
;
and
therefore
to
provoke
you
to
helpe
us
in
this
thing
,
let
mee
leave
these
two
Conclusions
in
your
bosomes
.
First
,
A
Reformation
begun
,
and
not
carried
on
▪
alwayes
brings
more
wrath
from
God
;
you
have
begun
the
Reformation
,
you
are
engaged
in
it
by
oath
and
Covenant
,
and
some
happy
proceeding
and
progresse
you
have
made
in
it
,
God
grant
you
slack
not
in
it
:
For
you●l
finde
in
the
Scriptures
,
a
reformation
begun
and
laid
aside
is
a
peoples
undoing
;
In
Elijahs
dayes
there
was
a
Reformation
begun
,
it
fell
downe
and
the
Kingdome
perished
with
it
.
In
Josiah's
time
a
Reformation
was
begun
,
and
quickly
laid
aside
with
the
death
of
that
good
King
,
and
the
Kingdome
was
ruined
presently
after
it
.
In
Haggai
his
dayes
,
the
Reformation
was
begun
,
then
laid
aside
;
God
presently
smote
them
with
Blasting
and
Mildew
,
and
would
have
undone
them
,
if
they
had
not
taken
it
up
againe
:
God
lookes
you
should
carry
this
work
on
.
And
I
adde
,
Without
setling
Religion
,
you
shall
never
settle
the
Common-wealth
;
Hee
that
writes
a
Booke
of
the
corrupt
and
troubled
state
of
the
Church
,
will
hardly
ever
write
a
Booke
of
the
quiet
and
setled
State
of
the
Commonwealth
;
Christ
is
King
of
Nations
and
Common-wealths
as
well
as
King
of
Saints
:
Now
the
glory
of
Christ
is
so
much
concerned
in
the
matter
of
Religion
,
that
they
shall
never
finde
him
propitious
to
them
,
for
their
good
in
humane
affaires
,
who
neglect
him
in
that
that
is
dearest
to
him
.
But
what
have
our
Heads
and
Rulers
to
doe
in
that
?
I
feare
not
to
say
confidently
,
that
they
are
mistaken
who
say
,
you
have
nothing
to
doe
with
it
;
All
the
good
Kings
that
ever
I
read
of
in
the
booke
of
God
,
thought
not
onely
they
had
to
doe
with
it
,
but
it
was
their
first
work
a
Jove
principium
,
they
all
began
with
it
,
they
ever
accounted
the
Reformation
,
&
preservation
,
&
propogation
of
Religion
to
be
their
Crown
:
but
what
have
you
to
doe
?
I
answer
,
you
must
with
David
,
set
your
whole
hearts
to
the
house
of
your
God
,
really
and
seriously
;
with
Solomon
set
as
many
on
worke
as
you
can
possibly
,
to
prepare
materialls
for
Gods
house
;
with
Jehosaphat
send
abroad
as
many
faithfull
Preachers
as
you
can
,
to
goe
about
and
instruct
the
people
from
Towne
to
Towne
,
and
Citie
to
Citie
,
till
you
can
get
Ministers
to
bee
setled
.
With
Nehemiah
labour
to
build
the
walls
of
Jerusalem
,
though
in
a
troublesome
time
,
with
a
Sword
in
one
hand
and
a
Trowell
in
the
other
,
set
up
discipline
to
bee
a
hedge
and
fence
to
the
Churches
.
With
Hezekiah
labour
to
provide
honorable
maintenance
for
Gods
house
and
his
Ministers
,
that
young
men
may
not
bee
discouraged
in
their
studies
.
For
when
young
Students
can
see
,
Galen
and
Justinian
,
the
study
of
the
Law
or
Physick
can
give
them
wealth
and
honour
,
and
the
Ministry
nothing
but
beggery
,
it
will
bee
a
great
snare
to
them
,
though
the
worke
of
the
Ministry
bee
honorable
,
and
hath
an
abundant
reward
with
God
,
yet
for
want
of
maintenance
the
house
of
God
will
bee
forsaken
;
Sint
Maecenates
,
non
deerunt
marones
:
Men
of
parts
must
have
incouragement
,
and
in
your
provision
for
them
forget
not
the
Schooles
of
the
Prophets
,
remember
the
Universities
:
Indeavour
to
carry
on
the
worke
,
that
the
beautie
and
power
of
Religion
may
be
promoted
,
and
the
Lord
direct
you
to
it
.
Seventhly
,
and
lastly
,
Our
times
are
times
of
Deliverances
,
the
greatest
deliverances
that
I
thinke
the
Lord
hath
wrought
,
since
hee
brought
Israel
out
of
Egypt
;
such
deliverances
as
we
our selves
are
like
men
in
a
dreame
,
such
deliverances
that
there
hath
beene
but
few
footsteps
of
ordinary
Providence
in
them
;
deliverances
that
have
beene
the
fruit
of
Prayer
,
the
fruit
of
Covenanting
,
the
fruit
of
Fasting
,
and
in
all
these
the
fruit
of
free
grace
,
wherein
the
Lord
hath
exceeded
not
onely
our
Faith
,
but
our
Prayers
,
and
hath
measured
out
to
us
all
that
hee
hath
done
by
the
shekel
of
the
Sanctuary
,
his
own
shekel
that
is
double
of
ours
;
I
know
,
you
forget
not
the
wonderfull
things
the
Lord
hath
done
,
and
what
have
our
Heads
to
doe
at
such
a
Time
?
Truly
,
all
others
with
you
,
but
you
more
then
all
,
at
such
a
time
must
bee
carefull
of
these
foure
things
;
First
,
God
expects
when
hee
workes
deliverances
,
that
his
people
should
consider
his
workes
,
and
stand
amazed
at
it
;
When
the
Lord
turned
the
captivitie
of
Zion
,
wee
were
like
men
in
a
dreame
,
our
mouth
was
filled
with
laughter
,
and
our
tongue
with
joy
;
The
Lord
(
say
they
)
hath
done
great
things
for
us
;
Thus
let
us
admire
his
works
.
In
times
of
deliverance
,
you
must
bee
very
carefull
to
pay
your
vowes
;
the
vowes
that
you
made
in
the
time
of
your
low
condition
;
the
vowes
you
made
,
when
your Selves
,
and
Liberties
,
and
Religion
,
and
the
Kingdom
were
all
like
to
bee
buried
quicke
together
;
God
expects
in
times
of
deliverance
to
have
those
vowes
remembred
and
paid
;
consider
what
they
were
.
Thirdly
,
When
the
Lord
workes
such
deliverances
,
hee
expects
,
and
it
will
very
well
become
the
Heads
of
our
Tribes
,
to
keepe
the
same
lowly
and
humble
spirit
,
that
they
had
while
God
kept
them
under
afflictions
;
to
have
their
eares
as
much
opened
to
good
counsell
,
when
God
hath
exalted
them
,
as
when
hee
abased
them
;
this
is
a
hard
lesson
to
learne
:
I
finde
the
best
of
all
Gods
servants
have
much
failed
in
this
particular
.
Good
David
himselfe
in
the
day
of
his
prosperity
kept
not
alwayes
that
humble
spirit
which
hee
had
in
his
low
estate
,
nor
Asa
,
nor
Uzziah
,
nor
Hezekiah
;
and
wee
know
the
story
of
that
famous
Queen
,
whose
motto
in
the
time
of
her
afflictions
was
Tanquam
ovis
,
as
a
sheepe
for
the
slaughter
,
yet
afterwards
it
was
thought
needfull
to
intreate
that
it
might
not
bee
tanquam
indomita
juvenca
,
as
an
untamed
Heifer
.
Men
are
infinitely
prone
to
bee
lifted
up
,
when
God
enlarges
them
,
but
God
infinitely
detesteth
it
,
and
will
not
put
it
up
at
the
hands
of
any
.
Therefore
I
most
humbly
beseech
you
,
(
Right
Honorable
,
and
Honorable
and
beloved
)
let
David
and
Solomon
his
sonne
,
and
Uzziah
,
and
Hezekiah
bee
warnings
to
you
,
and
doe
you
labour
to
maintaine
the
same
lowly
spirit
,
that
you
had
when
you
could
keepe
dayes
of
mourning
for
the
sinnes
of
the
Kingdome
,
for
your
personall
sinnes
and
Parliament
sinnes
,
such
a
spirit
would
infinitely
please
God
.
And
lastly
,
In
the
time
of
deliverance
,
God
expects
of
those
that
are
the
Heads
and
Rulers
of
a
people
,
that
every
deliverance
should
by
them
bee
improved
to
the
utmost
,
for
the
end
for
which
it
is
given
;
every
Rod
hath
a
voyce
and
calls
for
some
dutie
,
and
every
mercy
and
deliverance
hath
a
voyce
and
calls
for
a
dutie
,
every
victory
your
Armies
have
got
,
and
every
towne
hath
beene
surrendred
,
every
plot
that
hath
been
discovered
hath
some
dutie
written
upon
it
,
which
God
expects
you
should
learne
:
All
these
things
without
question
lie
upon
you
,
and
God
doth
and
will
expect
them
at
your
hands
,
and
what
heart
would
not
tremble
to
thinke
how
much
lies
upon
you
?
my
soule
is
deepely
affected
with
your
taske
,
more
then
humane
strength
must
carry
you
on
,
or
you
will
bee
impares
oneri
,
never
able
to
goe
through
your
work
.
VVhat
gratious
man
who
understands
this
,
would
ever
pray
to
God
in
his
Chamber
without
remembring
you
,
and
your
work
?
and
for
you
your selves
▪
O
what
need
is
there
that
you
should
call
in
the
Payers
and
supplications
of
all
Gods
people
to
helpe
you
;
and
that
every
one
of
you
,
lay
aside
any
businesse
of
your
owne
,
all
self-interest
,
and
count
it
to
be
but
catching
of
Flyes
,
in
comparison
of
the
worke
you
are
called
to
;
and
that
you
lay
aside
all
carnall
confidence
of
any
power
or
wisdome
of
your
owne
,
or
relying
on
any
Arme
of
flesh
,
that
is
never
able
to
carry
you
thorough
all
your
worke
:
But
in
stead
hereof
,
to
relie
wholly
upon
the
wisdome
,
promise
,
and
power
of
God
,
submit
your selves
to
him
,
and
trust
to
him
alone
,
who
onely
is
able
to
carry
you
thorough
all
.
Thus
of
the
second
part
of
my
Text
,
the
excellent
commendation
of
this
Tribe
of
Issachar
,
They
had
understanding
to
know
the
times
,
and
what
Israel
had
to
doe
.
Spare
mee
libertie
for
a
few
words
of
the
Third
,
and
I
have
done
;
which
is
,
The
interest
that
they
had
in
their
Brethrens
hearts
,
all
their
Brethren
were
at
their
command
,
or
at
their
mouth
,
hung
upon
their
mouth
:
certainly
it
is
not
meant
of
any
compulsion
,
but
a
power
they
had
got
in
their
brethrens
hearts
by
their
Wisdome
and
faithfull
carriage
;
they
saw
that
they
were
wise
and
faithfull
men
,
and
that
set
them
up
high
in
their
esteem
,
and
by
this
inward
respect
,
the
lifting
up
of
their
hands
,
was
as
good
as
the
displaying
of
a
Banner
,
to
make
all
their
brethren
come
out
and
spend
their
lives
,
and
whatsoever
they
had
in
their
Countreys
service
;
which
affords
us
this
Lesson
,
That
when
the
Heads
and
Leaders
of
a
people
are
wise
,
to
doe
their
duties
,
it
gives
them
that
interest
in
their
Brethrens
hearts
,
that
they
will
bee
at
their
disposing
.
Of
this
I
could
give
you
abundance
of
evidence
;
Moses
reigned
as
King
in
Jeshurun
,
his
wisdome
and
grace
was
the
things
which
set
him
so
high
.
Joshua
that
had
beene
but
Moses
servant
,
had
the
same
power
with
them
,
because
they
saw
the
wisdome
of
God
in
him
:
This
was
it
got
Job
that
authority
,
that
the
young
men
feared
him
,
and
the
aged
,
reverenced
him
,
and
every
eye
which
saw
him
,
blessed
him
;
because
hee
put
on
righteousnesse
,
and
wisdome
;
and
judgement
was
to
him
as
a
robe
and
diademe
.
David
a
man
of
a
meane
family
,
from
a
Shepheard
,
was
feared
by
Saul
,
loved
by
the
people
▪
even
while
hee
was
but
a
Captaine
,
because
they
saw
hee
behaved
himselfe
wisely
.
Solomon
a
childe
,
and
being
but
a
childe
,
very
subject
to
be
contemned
,
swayed
all
Israel
,
they
honoured
him
and
feared
him
,
When
they
saw
the
wisdome
that
God
had
given
him
to
doe
Justice
and
Judgement
;
abundance
of
other
instances
there
are
of
it
,
and
David
expresseth
it
notably
in
the
2
of
Samuel
23.
He
that
rules
over
men
must
bee
just
,
ruling
in
the
feare
of
God
;
if
hee
bee
such
an
one
,
hee
shall
bee
like
the
light
of
the
morning
,
like
a
cleare
bright
morning
without
clouds
,
as
the
tender
grasse
that
growes
by
the
sweet
showers
of
raine
;
such
a
one
shall
bee
amiable
,
desirable
,
beautifull
,
comfortable
,
hee
is
every
thing
you
can
wish
,
if
hee
bee
a
good
Man
ruling
in
the
feare
of
God
;
and
Solomon
proves
it
notably
by
the
contrary
,
in
the
4
of
Ecclesiastes
,
Better
is
a
poore
and
wise
Childe
,
then
an
old
and
foolish
King
,
who
will
no
more
be
admonished
,
&c.
A
childe
,
a
poore
childe
that
hath
wisdome
,
will
have
more
love
and
honour
,
then
a
King
,
though
an
old
man
,
and
a
great
Prince
,
if
hee
bee
doting
and
foolish
,
and
will
not
receive
Counsell
,
nor
learne
wisdome
to
discharge
his
duty
;
'T
is
wisdome
will
winne
hearts
,
and
one
dram
of
this
wisdome
and
grace
will
do
more
then
a
whole
pound
of
greatnesse
:
And
the
reason
is
plaine
,
Because
this
Wisdome
that
I
have
spoken
of
,
is
the
Image
of
God
,
which
cannot
bee
contemned
,
but
will
bee
feared
by
them
that
are
bad
,
and
honoured
and
embraced
by
them
that
are
good
;
and
therefore
it
is
said
of
most
of
them
I
instanced
in
,
that
the
people
would
say
,
God
was
with
them
,
when
they
saw
their
wise
behaviour
.
I
winde
up
all
with
a
brief
Application
.
To
you
our
Heads
and
Leaders
,
give
me
leave
to
instruct
you
,
how
you
may
keep
England
to
be
yours
;
how
you
may
have
your
Brethren
at
your
Command
,
not
out
of
Rules
of
State-policy
,
but
as
a
Minister
of
Christ
,
out
of
the
Word
of
God
,
know
the
times
and
your
duties
,
and
walk
as
Men
fearing
God
,
taking
the
counsell
of
his
Word
as
your
onely
guide
;
This
will
make
the
worst
of
men
feare
you
,
and
the
best
honour
and
love
you
,
your
Brethrens
hearts
will
hereby
bee
at
your
command
,
and
your
interest
in
their
hearts
will
rule
them
better
then
Armies
or
Garrisons
:
Many
great
Politicians
go
another
way
to
worke
,
they
thinke
the
affections
of
people
are
not
to
bee
valued
,
they
say
,
Populus
humiliter
servit
,
superbe
dominatur
,
that
the
People
(
like
fire
and
water
)
are
good
Servants
,
but
evill
Masters
;
and
therefore
the
best
way
is
to
subdue
them
and
keep
them
under
,
but
I
am
assured
that
you
detest
these
Rules
;
you
know
well
enough
,
that
the
Peoples
love
is
the
best
Exchequer
;
and
this
Lesson
teacheth
you
the
surest
way
how
to
hold
that
firme
,
and
close
to
you
,
even
your
wise
walking
and
working
in
your
great
Trust
;
Herein
lies
the
difference
between
Wisdome
and
Policy
,
VVisdome
makes
a
man
constantly
keep
the
high
road-way
of
Justice
and
Judgement
,
doing
every
thing
upon
Scripture
grounds
and
rules
:
Policy
directs
men
,
when
need
is
,
to
turne
into
odde
by-paths
,
sometime
taking
in
the
helpe
of
the
Foxes
skin
,
sometime
of
the
Lions
paw
;
But
(
Beloved
)
you
shall
certainly
finde
the
way
of
VVisdome
to
bee
the
safest
and
most
successefull
;
Politicians
may
deceive
others
for
a
while
,
but
themselves
for
ever
:
You
your selves
have
had
much
experience
of
it
,
you
know
what
it
is
to
command
in
the
hearts
of
your
Brethren
,
had
you
had
all
the
Port
Townes
in
England
,
in
the
beginning
of
your
Troubles
,
and
Garisons
wheresoever
you
could
have
desired
,
it
would
never
have
done
you
the
service
〈◊〉
the
hearts
of
your
brethren
have
done
;
you
were
in
their
hearts
,
and
they
have
been
at
your
command
,
and
wha●
gave
you
this
interest
?
VVhy
,
they
saw
you
were
set
upon
Judgement
and
Justice
,
breaking
their
yoakes
,
removing
their
grievances
,
they
saw
your
hearts
were
set
to
it
;
and
while
you
goe
on
in
the
same
wisdome
,
pietie
,
singlenesse
and
integrity
;
You
will
preserve
your
interest
in
God
and
his
people
,
and
while
you
have
Gods
favour
,
and
your
brethrens
hearts
,
all
confederacies
against
you
will
bee
broken
,
all
conspiraeies
come
to
nought
,
No
weapon
that
is
formed
against
you
shall
prosper
,
and
every
tongue
that
riseth
up
against
you
shall
bee
condemned
.
But
should
they
ever
finde
,
(
which
God
forbid
)
that
you
turne
out
of
the
right
way
of
VVisdome
and
Piety
,
of
Judgement
and
righteousnesse
,
that
you
grow
injurious
,
that
oppression
and
injustice
should
bee
found
among
you
,
that
you
should
favour
evill
men
in
evill
causes
,
grow
to
bee
self-seekers
,
or
not
cordially
indeavouring
to
settle
Peace
and
Religion
,
you
would
then
certainly
engage
God
against
you
,
and
lose
the
hearts
of
your
brethren
,
and
you
will
be
undone
,
and
wee
shall
be
undone
with
you
.
But
I
am
perswaded
better
things
of
you
,
and
such
things
as
become
a
Parliament
of
England
;
yea
,
a
Parliament
thus
blessed
and
magnified
by
God
.
But
consider
what
I
have
said
,
and
the
Lord
give
you
understanding
in
all
things
.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A52050e-430
Introduction
shewing
the
scope
of
the
Chapter
.
Verse
22.
1
Sam.
14.45
.
The
Text
opened
and
divided
.
1
Part
,
what
the
Tribe
of
Issachar
was
.
What
their
temper
and
spirit
in
time
past
.
Gen.
49.14
,
15
opened
and
explained
.
What
at
the
present
.
Doct.
1.
God
oft
raiseth
up
the
spirits
of
people
to
doe
worthily
from
whom
men
would
little
expect
it
.
Gen
4.
Iudges
6.
1
Sam
9.
1
Sam.
16.
Amos
7.14
.
Reasons
of
it
.
He
hath
abundance
of
the
Spirit
.
Application
.
Psal.
68.11
.
The
second
and
chiefe
thing
in
the
Text
.
Their
singular
commendation
.
Doct.
2.
It
is
a
singular
commendation
to
know
the
times
in
reference
to
mens
duties
.
This
Doctrine
,
first
,
explained
.
2ly
,
proved
.
3ly
,
applyed
.
First
explained
,
there
is
a
fivefold
knowledge
of
the
times
.
1
Astrologicall
.
2
Diabolicall
.
3
Propheticall
.
Dan.
2
▪
29.
Act.
1.7
.
4
Historicall
and
Astronomicall
Ier.
8.
5
Theologicall
,
a
gracious
and
practicall
knowledge
,
which
is
here
meant
.
What
this
practicall
knowledge
of
the
times
is
.
2.
This
Doctrine
proved
.
●
.
The
Scripture
calls
this
wisedome
.
Ephes.
5.15
,
16.
opened
and
explained
.
Ecles.
8.1
.
to
6.
opened
▪
Deut.
32.19
.
Psal.
90.12
.
Ester
1.13
.
Esay
28.16
.
Exod.
36.
What
wisedome
is
▪
Jer.
8.6
,
7
,
8.
Matth.
16.1
,
2
,
3
,
4.
Luke
19.41.44
.
Matth.
24.
Luke
17.
The
right
understanding
of
the
times
opened
out
of
the
Scripture
in
6.
Conclusions
.
Conclus
.
1.
Exod.
21.19
.
Ephes.
5.16
.
Col.
4.5
.
Conclus
.
2.
Eccles.
3.1
,
2
,
&c.
Matth.
6
▪
Conclus
.
3.
Esay
26.
Psal.
106.3
.
Psal.
62.81.119.20
.
Conclus
.
4.
Conclus
.
5.
Psal.
19.7
,
8.
Prov.
3.21
,
22
,
23.
Esay
30.21
.
Conclus
.
6.
2
Cor.
6.2
.
Psal
1.3
.
Eccles.
3.11
.
Prov.
25.11
.
Prov.
15.23
.
Eccles.
8.6
.
opened
.
Heb.
12.17
.
Matth.
25.
Eccles.
10.2
.
opened
.
Prov.
17.16
.
opened
.
Dan.
12.10
.
Application
in
two
Uses
.
Vse
1.
Humiliation
.
1
In
generall
to
all
.
2.
More
particularly
to
the
Parliament
.
Vse
2.
Exhortation
.
1.
In
generall
to
all
,
to
indeavour
after
this
wisedome
.
●
Thes.
5.1
.
Motives
thereto
.
2
In
particular
to
the
Honorable
Members
of
this
House
.
Daniel
2
▪
The
face
of
our
present
times
represented
.
First
,
in
generall
,
full
of
changes
.
Joel
1.2
.
Eccles.
1.6
.
Zach.
14.6
,
7.
Psalm
107.43
.
2
More
particularly
our
times
are
opened
in
7
Particulars
.
1.
Our
times
are
times
of
prodigious
wickednes
in
mens
conversations
.
Ezekiel
9.
Ephes.
5.15
.
Rom.
12.4
2.
Our
times
are
times
of
errors
,
heresies
,
and
blasphemies
.
Deut.
13.
Deut.
17.
3.
Our
times
are
times
of
wrath
▪
Amos
18.
2
S●m
.
21.1
.
2
Kings
22.13
.
Ionah
3.
4.
Our
times
are
times
of
warre
.
Ezek.
21.10
.
Deut.
23.9
.
5.
Our
times
are
times
of
divisions
.
2
Chron.
20.
6.
Our
times
are
times
of
Reformation
.
1
Chron.
29.
1
Kings
5.
2
Chron.
17.7
.
Nehemiah
8.
2
Chron
31.
Nehemiah
13.11
.
7.
Our
times
are
times
of
deliverances
.
Psal.
126.1
,
2.
Psal
50.14
.
Psal.
66.13
,
14
Eccles.
5.4
.
Third
part
of
the
Text
,
The
interest
these
●
Leaders
had
in
their
brethren
.
Doct.
3.
Deut.
13.
●
.
Iob
29
▪
●
.
1
Sam.
18.16
.
1
Kings
3.28
.
2
Sam.
23.3
,
4.
Eccles.
4.13
.
Vse
.
Of
Exhortation
.
Esay
54.17
.