A dying fathers last legacy to an onely child, or, Mr. Hugh Peter's advice to his daughter written by his own hand, during his late imprisonment in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his death.
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A dying fathers last legacy to an onely child, or, Mr. Hugh Peter's advice to his daughter written by his own hand, during his late imprisonment in the Tower of London, and given her a little before his death.
Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.
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Lo
heere
!
the
Dictates
of
a
Dying
:
man
!
Marke
well
his
note
!
who
like
th'expiring
Swan
Wisely
praesaging
hir
approaching
Doomb
Sings
in
soft
charmes
hir
Epicaedium
.
Such
Such
are
His
;
who
was
a
shining
Lamp
Which
though
Extinguisht
by
a
fatall
Damp
Yet
his
Last-Breathings
shall
like
Incense
hurld
On
sacred
Altars
,
soe
perfume
the
world
,
That
the
Next
,
will
admire
,
and
out
of
doubt
Reuere
that
Torchlight
,
which
this
age
,
put
out
A
Dying
Fathers
LAST
LEGACY
TO
AN
Onely
Child
:
OR
,
Mr.
HUGH
PETER'S
ADVICE
TO
HIS
DAUGHTER
:
Written
by
his
own
Hand
,
during
hi●
late
Imprisonment
in
the
Tower
of
London
;
And
given
her
a
little
before
his
Death
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
G.
Calvert
,
an●T
.
Brewster
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
the
Black●
spread-Eagle
,
and
at
the
Three
Bibles
,
at
the
West-End
of
Pauls
,
1660.
To
the
Impartial
READER
BE
not
Discouraged
from
reading
this
small
Treatise
,
because
of
the
unhappy
End
of
a
wearisom
pilgrimage
,
which
the
Author
met
with
in
this
world
;
If
we
get
a
Fall
in
a
journey
,
or
meet
with
a
great
showre
of
rain
so
it
be
in
the
close
of
the
day
,
when
we
are
near
our
Inn
,
where
we
meet
with
accommodation
and
refreshment
,
we
are
the
less
troubled
;
Yet
such
was
his
Care
(
who
for
many
years
was
very
Instrumental
in
the
Church
of
God
,
and
a
means
of
bringing
many
Souls
to
Christ
;
and
for
the
Good
of
others
,
came
into
this
Kingdom
when
it
was
in
a
flame
of
Civil
War
,
which
hath
signed
him
also
,
that
he
might
escape
everlasting
flames
)
in
this
Discourse
he
bewails
the
vanity
of
his
own
Spirit
;
And
we
will
not
Exause
him
:
he
finds
himself
too
busie
in
Aliena
Republica
,
and
we
will
not
justifie
him
;
But
if
that
precious
Gold
should
be
cast
away
because
there
is
some
Dross
,
or
the
Children
of
God
cast
out
of
the
Family
for
every
fault
though
heinous
,
we
should
condemne
the
Generation
of
the
Iust
:
You
will
find
in
this
Legacy
,
to
his
only
Child
,
that
he
had
a
Root
of
Grace
,
and
that
the
Fountain
was
clear
from
which
ran
so
savoury
a
stream
;
And
that
at
the
last
when
he
had
no
hope
to
save
a
frail
Body
,
yet
he
minded
his
own
and
others
Souls
;
And
that
he
was
a
Master
Workman
in
that
Mysterie
,
wherein
he
had
laboured
succesfully
so
many
years
;
And
we
hope
,
that
notwithstanding
the
prejudicasie
of
some
against
him
,
and
the
words
of
others
,
and
his
sad
shameface
Catastrophy
,
we
may
charitably
judge
,
that
God
hath
wiped
away
all
Tears
from
his
Eyes
,
that
he
is
entered
into
Rest
,
his
Works
following
him
;
and
that
he
is
made
perfect
by
his
great
Sufferings
;
And
wish
the
same
to
you
,
except
these
Bonds
.
G.F.
N.B.
Mr.
HUGH
PETERS
LAST
LEGACY
TO
HIS
DAUGHTER
.
For
Elizabeth
Peters
.
My
Dear
Child
,
I
Have
thought
to
leave
you
the
Extract
of
all
my
Experiences
,
so
far
as
may
Concern
your
●elf
;
and
because
thre
are
so
●any
Books
Printed
,
looking
to
●●l
Cases
,
which
I
have
often
Commended
to
you
;
my
Labour
will
be
the
less
,
though
your
Pains
the
greater
,
in
searching
and
studying
them
,
which
next
to
the
Scriptures
,
I
conjure
you
to
acquaint
your self
withal
;
for
never
Age
was
so
pregnant
that
way
since
our
Saviour
came
in
the
flesh
,
which
Light
I
wish
may
grow
to
greater
Glory
.
But
to
thy self
,
1.
Above
all
things
know
,
That
nothing
can
do
you
any
good
without
Union
with
Christ
the
Head
;
which
can
never
be
,
till
your
Understanding
be
enlightned
with
the
want
of
Christ
and
his
worth
,
and
then
that
your
Will
be
so
subdued
to
that
Light
,
that
it
draw
forth
choice
,
and
consent
of
,
and
to
that
only
good
,
with
an
Emvire
or
Resolution
to
close
with
him
against
Sin
,
World
,
Hell
,
Death
,
&c.
And
know
this
,
Tha●
the
necessity
of
a
Christ
(
which
the
understanding
discovers
)
will
set
the
Will
on
work
to
all
duty
,
and
(
the
worth
in
Christ
it
makes
manifest
)
will
make
the
Will
delight
;
unless
these
two
Faculties
be
thus
wrought
upon
by
the
Word
and
Spirit
,
you
will
be
at
a
constant
loss
,
and
all
the
miscarriages
in
Religion
have
the
Ignorance
of
this
for
the
Fountain
.
Read
Shephards
Convert
,
Daniel
Rogers
Practical
Catechism
,
and
Hooker
,
to
this
end
,
with
such
other
helps
as
you
may
get
;
And
herein
I
am
the
more
earnest
with
you
,
because
in
this
my
Condition
,
I
find
that
Union
with
Christ
,
and
the
Satisfaction
Christ
hath
made
to
his
Fathers
Justice
,
by
his
Active
and
Passive
Obedience
,
are
the
only
Two
Pillars
that
must
Support
a
Soul
leaving
a
mortal
Body
:
For
,
as
I
profess
my self
Orthodox
in
all
Points
of
Religion
,
according
to
the
Assemblies
Confession
,
Explained
by
Others
at
the
Savoy
also
;
so
I
have
desired
in
nothing
to
be
more
Clear
,
than
in
the
Two
Doctrines
aforesaid
:
I
have
wished
you
to
be
perfect
in
Rom.
8.
and
mind
vers.
1.
and
vers.
28.
well
,
with
what
follows
to
the
end
of
that
Chapter
;
this
hath
been
my
Experience
,
That
the
Preaching
of
these
Truths
have
been
my
greatest
Advantage
,
and
of
most
benefit
to
Others
;
though
in
this
I
have
enough
to
bewail
also
.
2.
To
this
purpose
,
Hear
the
best
Men
,
Keep
the
best
Company
,
Read
the
best
Books
,
especially
make
the
Grounds
of
Religion
your
own
;
Balls
and
the
Assemblies
Catechism
,
with
the
like
you
have
from
me
Commended
to
you
:
And
though
there
are
near
an
Hundred
several
Catechisms
in
the
Nation
;
yet
(
if
sound
)
they
must
speak
one
thing
,
viz.
Man
lost
in
himself
,
Redeemed
only
by
Christ
,
and
holy
Walking
,
or
Thankfulness
;
you
have
my
Experience
so
often
repeated
to
you
,
That
an
unbroken
Heart
,
and
an
uncatechised
Head
,
will
keep
distance
enough
betwixt
God
and
a
poor
sinful
Creature
:
Oh!
that
Parents
and
Ministers
would
think
of
it
,
what
a
heap
of
Mischiefs
this
Neglect
hath
produced
.
The
Waldenses
and
Germans
had
never
been
so
famous
for
Suffering
,
had
they
been
uncatechized
:
This
is
a
large
Field
,
in
which
I
could
Walk
long
,
Preach
long
,
yea
,
lose
my self
in
this
sweet
Wilderness
;
For
this
is
life
eternal
to
know
thee
and
Jesus
Christ
,
Joh.
17.23
.
But
take
this
for
a
Caution
,
That
many
may
be
well
Taught
also
,
who
never
took
forth
Christs
first
Three
Lessons
,
never
denying
themselves
,
nor
taking
up
the
Cross
,
nor
following
him
,
Matth.
16.24
.
We
know
no
more
than
we
Practise
,
yet
we
shall
never
practise
without
Knowledge
;
How
many
Scriptures
give
Evidence
to
this
?
which
I
forbear
to
quote
;
only
remember
how
Solomon
extols
Wisdom
and
Knowledge
.
I
take
my
share
in
Mourning
,
that
I
see
in
the
Afternoon
of
this
Age
,
the
Shadow
longer
than
the
Substance
,
Profession
than
Practise
;
though
the
Trade
may
not
be
Condemned
,
when
it
falls
into
ill
hands
that
manage
it
.
He
that
sets
up
Religion
,
to
get
any
thing
by
it
more
than
the
glory
of
God
,
and
the
saving
his
own
Soul
,
will
make
a
bad
Bargain
of
it
in
the
close
.
(
My
dear
only
Child
)
be
rooted
in
the
Truth
,
and
thou
shalt
be
fruitfull
,
&
thriving
.
3.
Be
constant
in
Reading
the
Scriptures
,
and
that
with
a
fervent
Meditation
,
I
mean
,
as
to
pray
in
praying
,
fast
in
fasting
,
so
to
read
in
Reading
:
Many
doutbless
take
up
a
cursory
trade
,
to
read
out
the
Cries
of
a
defiled
or
rackt
Conscience
:
I
say
Read
with
delight
,
not
as
under
a
load
,
or
as
a
Labourer
,
who
waits
for
the
shadow
of
the
Evening
,
which
you
shall
never
do
,
unless
your
Heart
be
connatural
with
the
Word
;
and
therefore
remember
as
Justification
takes
away
Guilt
,
and
Punishment
;
Sanctification
takes
away
the
Power
and
Filth
;
Glorification
takes
away
the
presence
of
Sin
:
So
Effectual
Calling
takes
away
that
jarre
that
is
betwixt
the
Soul
and
the
Law
of
God
,
by
reason
of
Sin
;
the
Called
of
God
read
but
their
Fathers
blessed
Will
in
reading
his
Word
,
his
Testament
,
his
Legacies
,
his
Precepts
,
his
Threatnings
against
Sin
,
&c.
all
which
his
Childe
dilights
to
hear
,
and
read
.
This
one
Book
,
well
read
,
will
answer
any
Question
,
or
Case
;
and
you
'l
finde
Solomons
Proverbs
the
best
Politicks
,
and
Christ
crucified
the
best
Divinity
.
But
in
reading
the
Scriptures
let
me
reach
out
this
Experience
,
When
you
have
prayed
over
your
purpose
that
way
,
then
in
every
Chapter
,
first
minde
the
Method
then
note
the
hard
things
you
understand
not
,
and
get
helps
to
clear
them
to
you
.
And
Lastly
▪
gather
out
the
chief
Doctrines
,
o●
Lessons
,
then
in
reading
on●
Chapter
,
you
may
understan●
many
:
And
if
you
read
the
Bible
with
the
Annotations
o●
some
Divines
,
or
the
Dutc●
translated
,
it
will
not
be
amiss
.
I
have
formerly
commended
to
you
a
Little
English
Library
,
in
this
kinde
,
which
I
now
fear
,
your
so
much
altered
Condition
will
not
give
you
time
to
be
vers'd
in
:
However
,
Remember
David
,
Psal.
119.
how
every
Vers.
almost
shews
Love
to
the
Word
.
And
truly
you
may
be
assured
,
you
shall
upon
mine
and
your
own
Experience
finde
,
that
you
shall
have
no
more
Christ
,
nay
God
,
Spirit
,
Faith
,
Peace
,
Comfort
,
than
you
have
Scripture
:
Nor
will
you
have
any
Christ
,
a
Saviour
,
that
is
not
a
Scripture
Christ
.
Oh
that
the
Word
may
dwell
plentifully
in
you
,
my
poor
Child
.
4.
Pray
continually
,
is
the
Apostles
Counsel
to
the
Thessalonians
:
And
for
this
you
may
have
far
better
helps
,
then
from
my
unworthy
unable
self
.
There
are
many
helps
to
Devotien
,
Mr.
Baxter
,
Burrows
,
Gurnal
,
Bridg
,
&c.
Yet
you
shall
have
what
I
promised
,
even
my
Experience
:
I
hope
you
know
,
That
Prayer
is
the
breathing
forth
of
holy
Desires
,
or
,
lifting
up
the
Soul
upon
God
,
or
asking
the
Things
we
need
from
God
,
in
and
by
Christ
,
according
to
his
Holy
Will
,
not
without
Confessions
,
and
Thanksgiving
.
This
Work
must
have
Time
,
Seriousnesse
,
Composure
:
And
this
take
undoubtedly
,
That
Prayers
can
never
fly
high
,
where
the
Person
is
not
accepted
;
can
have
no
strength
without
Faith
:
About
this
Duty
,
I
must
let
you
know
,
There
are
Three
Miscarriages
usually
;
First
,
before
the
Duty
,
Unpreparednesse
,
Unsuteablenesse
,
reaking
hot
out
of
the
World
,
Self
,
sin
,
into
that
service
;
as
if
men
could
leap
into
Gods
bosome
,
out
of
the
Devils
lap
:
Before
Prayer
you
need
to
study
God
,
your self
,
and
the
way
to
him
,
John
6.
You
need
to
take
a
time
when
he
is
most
like
to
hear
,
even
when
he
is
inditing
for
you
,
and
puts
Words
into
your
mouth
,
Hos.
14.
The
Second
Failer
in
Prayer
is
,
When
you
do
not
watch
to
Prayer
.
O
the
Hurreys
of
our
Hearts
;
the
Thorowfare
that
carries
crooked
Thoughts
through
us
,
the
Vanity
,
Folly
,
Obliquities
of
our
Spirit
:
As
the
Heart
must
be
whipt
to
the
Duty
,
so
it
must
be
bound
fast
to
it
.
How
few
pray
!
how
many
say
words
?
Oh
,
How
many
say
their
Prayers
backwards
,
call
him
Father
,
who
is
not
their
Father
,
would
not
have
his
Name
hollowed
,
nor
his
Kingdome
come
?
&c.
3.
And
Lastly
,
After
this
duty
there
is
either
an
aptness
to
be
proud
,
And
adde
another
Note
;
as
if
the
Lord
was
in
our
Debt
;
or
upon
miscarriage
in
point
of
Inlargement
,
we
grow
weary
and
peevish
,
and
call
for
our
Prayers
again
,
if
we
succeed
not
,
as
Lovers
for
the
Portion
,
not
the
Person
,
call
for
their
Love-Tokens
back
:
Look
on
Th.
Goodwin
,
on
Isa.
55.6
,
7
,
8.
Be
plain
and
honest
with
God
,
shew
your
Sores
,
and
his
Love
to
you
:
You
cannot
be
so
bad
as
he
is
good
.
With
the
old
Martyr
I
cry
,
Pray
,
pray
,
pray
(
My
dearest
Child
)
Regard
no
injury
in
thy
heart
.
5.
Keep
a
constant
Watch
,
upon
your
whole
man
,
for
which
much
hath
been
written
,
as
Mr.
Reyners
Rule
for
the
new
Creature
,
Mr.
Brinsleys
Watch
;
and
many
others
,
from
the
Thonghts
,
and
affections
to
all
cases
almost
.
But
since
I
promised
the
Addition
of
my
Experience
to
your
Self
,
I
have
held
that
very
True
,
noted
by
David
;
yea
,
by
some
Heathens
,
That
our
Life
is
seventy
Years
;
half
of
which
time
spends
its
self
in
Eating
,
Drinking
,
and
Sleeping
;
the
Remainder
is
Thirty
Five
;
and
of
that
you
may
allow
the
first
Fifteen
,
even
for
Child-hood
,
till
when
ordinarily
little
is
minded
that
is
solid
:
then
Twenty
only
are
left
of
the
Number
,
and
of
them
even
half
spent
in
by-business
;
and
then
tell
me
how
little
do
we
live
?
How
needful
is
it
then
that
you
be
upon
your
Watch
continually
,
when
so
many
Silver
Brooks
run
by
many
Doors
unregarded
.
It
is
hard
to
Watch
,
most
are
very
Drowsie
;
The
Disciples
themselves
could
not
Watch
one
Hour
.
My
Advice
is
,
That
mainly
you
Watch
your self
in
what
you
are
,
And
where
you
are
:
These
Two
go
far
in
your
Watch
;
to
see
your self
in
a
good
Estate
;
And
to
be
where
you
should
be
in
your
Duty
and
Employment
,
argues
a
curious
Eye
,
and
a
careful
Head
:
But
to
be
very
accurate
in
your
Watch
,
and
to
keep
off
from
troublesome
Anneares
,
keep
a
Book
by
you
(
I
mean
it
litterally
)
in
which
,
every
Night
before
you
sleep
,
you
set
down
on
the
one
side
,
the
Lords
gracious
Providence
and
Dealings
with
you
;
and
your
dealings
with
him
on
the
other
side
:
This
Watch
well
kept
,
fits
for
Prayer
,
Fastings
,
Sabbaths
,
Sacraments
,
and
Death
;
upon
which
,
Judgment
follows
.
I
pray
Watch
so
,
That
Thoughts
,
Affections
,
Head
,
Heart
,
Hand
,
Foot
,
and
all
have
a
share
in
,
and
benefit
by
the
Work
.
The
Flesh
,
and
the
World
,
in
all
the
Pleasures
and
Profits
of
them
,
send
up
fumes
to
the
Head
,
occasioning
sleep
:
Therefore
the
Lord
is
forced
to
keep
us
waking
by
Affliction
,
as
the
Thorn
to
the
singing
Bird
.
David
sought
God
early
:
The
Three
Women
early
looking
after
Christ
.
Remember
thy
Creator
betimes
.
And
this
Watching
,
is
the
Circumspect
Walking
,
Ephes.
5.16
.
Look
round
about
you
continually
,
as
if
you
walked
with
God
,
as
Enoch
;
before
God
,
as
Abraham
;
or
,
after
God
,
as
David
:
he
walked
in
God's
wayes
.
If
you
do
not
Watch
,
you
will
be
Tempted
,
I
say
,
Tempted
.
The
Lord
watch
over
thee
,
that
thou
mayest
watch
(
my
dearest
Child
.
)
6.
For
thy
growth
in
grace
;
I
am
the
more
zealous
,
because
(
2
Pet.
3.18
.
)
the
Apostle
propounds
it
as
a
Cure
against
all
the
Errors
of
the
wicked
.
For
this
also
there
are
divers
helps
,
as
M.
Symmons
his
Cure
to
Distressed
Consciences
,
(
a
Choice
Piece
)
and
many
others
.
But
this
you
must
know
,
that
all
labour
tends
not
to
growth
;
no
more
than
Ants
grow
in
bulk
,
though
very
much
in
labour
;
Every
great
Hearer
is
not
a
great
Grower
:
Nay
,
a
tree
may
grow
in
parts
,
though
not
in
all
.
Grow
soundly
in
the
Root
,
Jesus
Christ
,
and
the
Freeness
of
his
Grace
,
and
then
you
wil
not
grow
as
Weeds
do
,
but
as
good
Grain
.
To
which
purpose
I
advise
you
,
observe
what
you
gain
against
Corruption
,
and
so
much
you
may
hope
,
you
may
thrive
in
Grace
;
as
the
House
of
David
,
and
the
House
of
Saul
.
Do
not
therefore
keep
the
Devils
counsel
;
but
let
some
able
Friend
watch
you
,
to
whom
communicate
your
Decays
or
Growth
.
When
a
Ship
is
observed
by
a
Land-mark
,
her
way
is
easily
observed
.
Therfore
mind
much
this
one
thing
,
in
all
make
much
of
a
Rule
,
and
keep
to
it
;
as
few
under
the
warm
Gospel
but
know
whether
they
be
hypocrites
or
otherwise
:
Even
so
you
shall
feel
your
Growth
.
An
old
stock
will
not
serve
turn
(
which
hath
been
the
delusion
of
many
)
when
every
day
needs
new
Incomes
of
the
Spirit
,
and
so
advancement
to
Heaven
.
Long
to
grow
,
strive
to
grow
;
bewail
decayes
:
grow
in
both
the
Tables
Duties
.
The
Apostle
tells
us
of
growth
from
Vertue
;
yea
,
at
last
,
to
patience
by
affliction
,
if
we
hear
the
Rod
,
&c.
Christ's
method
is
,
He
hath
all
Grace
,
He
giveth
out
what
he
pleaseth
;
He
maintains
what
he
gives
;
He
perfects
what
he
maintains
;
He
crowns
what
he
perfects
;
And
thus
Christ
loves
you
,
more
than
ever
you
could
hate
him
,
without
whose
watering
by
his
Blood
you
can
never
grow
.
The
best
Evidence
of
Growth
,
is
to
grow
more
humble
,
more
holy
,
attend
that
well
;
and
see
how
it
is
from
Meal
to
Meal
,
from
one
Sabbath
to
another
,
one
Sermon
to
another
;
are
you
fed
or
surfeited
?
A
very
very
little
Grace
(
if
true
)
is
saving
;
a
little
Growth
(
if
right
)
is
comforting
;
Believe
and
live
,
Believe
and
grow
;
all
decays
comes
through
want
of
Faith
;
to
fetch
blood
from
the
life
vein
,
the
Lord
Christ
.
The
South
&
North
blow
upon
thee
for
Growth
(
my
Child
.
)
7.
In
all
things
as
you
will
have
use
;
so
you
need
to
study
Conscience
well
,
for
it
eats
,
drinks
,
walks
,
sleeps
,
buyes
,
sells
,
accompanies
you
to
every
duty
,
service
,
work
,
doing
,
or
suffering
;
for
which
you
have
Ames
his
Cases
,
and
some
others
.
It
is
a
judging
your self
according
to
the
judgment
of
God
.
I
write
none
of
these
Heads
to
you
,
as
intending
any
common
place
,
which
this
and
others
would
make
;
but
only
to
leave
with
you
a
few
practical
thoughts
upon
each
.
Our
Saviour
made
the
Jews
to
buy
a
Knife
to
cut
their
own
throats
,
when
he
told
them
the
Parable
of
the
Servants
,
and
Son
,
sent
and
killed
;
and
so
the
Spirit
by
the
Jews
,
Isa.
5.
when
he
made
them
impannel
a
Jury
among
themselves
,
and
by
Conscience
their
Judge
;
So
Nathan
by
David
,
it
is
a
witness
with
a
witness
,
and
Judge
Paramount
;
therefore
I
wish
you
to
observe
it
narrowly
,
if
you
suffer
it
to
be
defiled
with
the
least
sin
,
whilst
it
hath
life
you
may
hear
of
it
;
and
therefore
Samuel
and
Paul
in
all
,
kept
all
clear
there
,
the
least
filth
must
be
washt
out
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
:
David
paid
dear
for
it
;
Cains
Building
,
and
Sauls
Harping
,
will
do
but
little
to
cure
it
;
it
may
be
quiet
and
good
,
unquiet
and
good
,
and
so
on
the
other
hand
;
but
this
I
have
noted
,
that
false
Lights
or
dim
ones
,
have
helpt
much
to
the
violation
of
it
;
present
things
and
the
out-sides
of
things
,
have
also
broke
in
upon
it
;
and
in
sinning
,
whether
the
wound
be
in
the
Head
or
Conscience
first
,
is
a
question
,
but
not
hardly
resolved
.
Your
wisdom
will
be
to
live
upon
a
directing
word
;
and
then
Conscience
will
make
a
soft
bed
for
you
in
your
greatest
sorrow
;
.
A
wounded
Conscience
who
can
bear
?
Go
to
our
first
Parent
,
and
he
will
tell
you
so
,
who
might
have
gathered
fruit
to
eat
,
rather
than
leaves
to
cover
himself
.
Do
not
grieve
Conscience
twice
,
it
must
be
your
best
friend
,
yea
,
when
friends
,
and
world
,
and
all
leave
you
to
sollitariness
.
If
it
whimper
a
little
,
do
not
make
it
roar
out
;
and
yet
do
not
stifle
it
,
but
attend
it
,
and
carry
it
up
to
Mount
Calvary
for
peace
.
Remember
good
Conscience
and
Sin
cannot
live
together
;
Let
but
this
Bird
sing
sweetly
within
,
and
let
Heaven
and
Earth
come
together
,
thou
shalt
be
safe
(
my
poor
Child
.
)
8.
Next
I
am
to
remember
you
,
that
you
have
much
work
to
do
in
a
little
time
;
which
calls
you
up
to
labour
,
as
the
Day
the
Lark
,
and
the
Lark
the
Husbandman
,
Eccles.
12.
the
whole
Chapter
;
I
hope
you
have
it
.
About
Redemption
of
time
,
you
have
many
Treatises
.
The
greatest
of
your
work
in
your
short
time
,
is
to
get
Christ
,
and
live
upon
him
,
and
to
him
;
And
this
is
the
life
of
Faith
,
which
you
can
never
live
,
unless
Faith
have
to
live
upon
it self
,
which
will
digest
nothing
but
word
,
and
promises
:
Therefore
now
you
are
young
,
lay
in
a
good
Stock
for
Faith
to
live
on
;
but
you
must
do
it
seasonably
;
you
are
young
I
say
,
and
may
have
a
little
time
before
you
,
which
certainly
hath
Eternity
hanging
upon
it
,
called
a
Race
,
a
Day
,
or
Hour
;
the
old
World
had
their
Day
,
Jerusalem
a
Day
,
the
Gospel
is
called
the
Day
of
Grace
:
Therefore
lay
in
seasonably
;
and
not
only
so
,
but
abundantly
,
for
your
market
may
be
at
the
highest
;
foolish
Virgins
had
Oyl
in
their
Lamps
;
none
in
their
Vessels
,
Store
is
no
Sore
;
for
you
know
not
what
Promises
you
may
need
,
for
Want
,
for
Reproach
,
for
Sickness
and
Death
.
The
Kingdom
of
Heaven
must
suffer
Violence
;
Violent
Faith
,
Love
,
Prayer
,
must
storm
it
.
The
time
will
come
when
wishes
will
not
help
;
your
own
Works
and
Righteousness
will
fail
.
Lastly
,
Lay
up
your
stock
for
Faith
conveniently
,
that
you
may
reach
a
word
when
you
need
it
most
.
Ah
that
you
would
be
wise
!
Ask
your
heart
at
night
,
what
you
have
done
that
day
in
this
point
,
because
every
night
may
be
your
last
.
Therefore
secure
your
Principles
,
walk
up
to
the
compass
of
every
duty
,
clear
your
Evidences
,
keep
close
Communion
with
God
,
Look
out
to
growing
Evils
,
and
fit
for
them
;
And
these
is
the
work
of
your
Generation
.
I
say
,
it
is
your
work
,
you
may
easier
make
barrs
to
the
Sea
,
and
order
the
Influences
of
Heaven
,
than
call
back
yesterday
.
Therefore
work
and
pray
,
repent
,
believe
,
get
assurances
of
Heaven
to
day
,
I
say
,
to
day
,
and
be
happy
for
ever
(
Dear
Child
.
)
9.
I
must
also
invite
you
to
Content
in
a
Low
Condition
,
for
which
you
have
great
furtherance
as
Mr.
Burroughs
for
Contentment
(
whose
Writings
are
all
savory
)
But
for
my
own
thoughts
they
are
these
,
That
though
many
write
and
speak
of
the
Contempt
of
the
World
,
some
cloyster
up
themselves
from
it
;
yet
very
few
are
Masters
of
this
Art
,
which
the
Apostle
himself
had
been
long
learning
.
Constitution
,
Age
,
Experience
,
Parts
,
Afflictions
,
Fulness
,
Honor
,
Glory
,
will
all
say
,
We
have
it
not
;
Crowns
have
it
not
;
and
Beggars
want
it
:
I
was
about
to
say
,
it
is
only
in
Heaven
.
This
Herb
grows
in
very
few
Gardens
.
But
Oh
that
you
might
be
truly
content
!
You
will
find
a
But
upon
all
your
Comforts
;
and
therefore
you
cannot
be
contented
:
You
may
find
a
fulness
in
Christ
,
Col.
1.19
.
and
therefore
you
should
be
contented
.
Mind
the
Disease
,
and
the
Cure
in
this
Case
.
First
,
All
your
under-moon
Refreshings
,
or
Comforts
,
are
too
short
,
and
too
narrow
beds
for
Content
to
lye
in
.
And
,
secondly
,
They
are
but
partial
in
their
help
,
and
cannot
answer
all
Cases
.
Thirdly
,
They
are
short-live'd
.
Riches
have
Eagles
wings
,
and
Beauty
but
skin-deep
;
Honour
in
anothers
keeping
;
Friends
and
all
,
are
but
waking
dreams
.
Content
must
have
something
to
answer
all
the
defects
of
the
Creature
;
and
it
onely
dwells
where
all
Questions
are
fully
answered
,
springing
from
thence
.
A
Naked
Soul
meeting
with
a
Naked
Christ
,
can
only
be
quieted
in
spirituals
,
and
the
same
Christ
improved
also
for
temporals
;
Sin
is
pardoned
,
Iniquities
and
Corruption
done
away
;
the
Favour
of
God
gained
,
the
Spirit
bearing
witness
to
Adoption
,
answers
all
;
for
to
this
you
must
roul
at
length
.
Though
I
know
(
as
others
)
so
we
our selves
,
adde
to
our
Discontents
,
and
often
quarrel
for
a
Feather
in
our
Cap.
Paul
sayes
nothing
befalls
us
;
but
what
is
common
to
man
,
and
upon
that
would
stay
us
,
but
when
Eternity
will
pay
for
all
;
And
Christ
hath
satisfied
for
all
sin
,
and
cut
the
score
,
and
will
make
all
work
to
the
Great
End
.
The
Saints
make
their
Challenge
against
all
,
Rom.
8.
&
last
.
The
good
Lord
grant
you
may
groundedly
say
,
Thy
Will
be
done
in
Earth
as
it
is
in
Heaven
;
and
that
is
Content
,
My
Child
.
10.
I
commend
unto
you
meekness
of
spirit
,
Zep
.
2.3
.
be
loving
to
all
;
envy
none
,
though
they
thrive
by
evil
,
&
are
evil
,
Psal.
37.1
.
You
know
what
a
Promise
the
Meek
have
,
Matth.
5.5
.
As
inordinate
Passion
bears
the
name
of
all
sin
in
Scripture
;
So
Meekness
carries
many
good
things
with
it
,
as
Love
,
Pity
,
Patience
,
&c.
Nor
do
I
oppose
Meekness
to
Zeal
,
but
would
have
you
allow
both
their
perfect
work
.
Meekness
wil
make
smooth
all
your
wayes
,
disappoint
Enemies
of
the
advantage
they
may
take
against
you
;
And
your
love
will
not
only
cover
many
sins
,
but
help
many
out
of
them
:
Indeed
these
will
be
a
strong
guard
unto
you
,
and
Grief
will
hardly
get
footing
long
,
where
Meeknesse
and
her
Concommitants
dwel
.
When
you
lose
a
poor
Father
,
or
a
rich
Friend
,
you
will
be
able
to
say
you
knew
them
mortal
,
and
will
be
quiet
,
though
not
sensless
.
It
will
fit
you
for
Meditation
,
a
duty
even
out
of
doors
,
and
very
hardly
practised
:
I
know
the
sad
experience
of
Passion
,
how
it
barrs
the
door
against
Prayer
and
other
duties
:
Oh!
how
can
we
lift
up
wrathful
hands
to
Heaven
?
They
say
Anger
is
the
boyling
of
the
Blood
about
the
Heart
;
I
am
sure
it
cools
the
Heart
in
Spiritutuals
:
God
took
this
to
himself
,
when
he
discovered
his
Name
to
Moses
,
a
pitiful
,
pardoning
,
long-suffering
God
.
Oh
that
you
might
be
God-like
,
Christ-like
,
Moses-like
;
Michael
contestng
with
the
Dragon
,
maintained
his
meekness
;
and
Paul
sayes
it
is
the
womans
Ornament
.
To
get
to
his
Meekness
,
Gentleness
,
Long-suffering
,
Patience
,
and
Love
;
Lonely
advise
,
to
get
all
when
they
may
be
had
,
as
James
for
Wisdom
,
Ja.
1.5
.
Study
Examples
,
for
with
the
froward
you
shall
learn
Frowardness
;
Prize
it
as
a
Jewel
.
And
because
all
the
good
or
evil
we
have
,
we
act
through
our
Complexions
and
Skins
,
(
and
great
are
the
advantages
sometimes
that
way
.
Know
there
are
tears
of
constitution
,
as
well
as
of
contrition
,
and
joyes
also
;
so
Meekness
and
other
graces
will
be
hardly
discern'd
by
some
,
from
Naturals
and
Morrals
.
The
Lord
make
you
Meek
from
the
true
Root
,
(
my
dear
Child
.
)
11.
Beware
of
a
trifling
loose
heart
,
which
hath
been
the
guise
,
&
the
bane
of
many
in
these
last
daies
of
Liberty
,
and
the
decay
of
that
old
solemn
,
serious
spirit
,
and
sober
,
that
was
among
,
and
upon
the
ancient
Professors
of
Religion
,
was
very
visible
,
and
broke
out
to
the
common
vanity
of
the
World
in
Dyet
,
Clothes
,
Recreations
,
condemn'd
and
threatned
,
Isa.
3.
But
so
loose
in
holy
things
,
that
who
almost
did
not
make
Religion
an
indifferent
thing
,
and
all
duties
concerning
it
accordingly
,
(
though
the
like
Reformation
was
never
known
in
any
age
)
But
new
temptations
drew
forth
old
corruptions
,
made
good
by
the
changes
the
Israelites
were
under
,
and
their
trifling
with
God
under
all
his
bounty
to
them
,
till
they
scorn
Manna
and
ease
,
and
would
have
Garlick
and
oppression
.
It
much
appear'd
in
this
,
that
it
grew
common
to
dispute
Principles
,
even
the
highest
,
and
most
consented
to
;
as
also
in
slighting
Promises
,
Vows
,
Ingagements
,
Oaths
,
Incoustancy
in
duty
,
undervaluing
Authority
;
shaken
men
were
with
every
wind
,
like
to
every
company
;
Ministers
many
words
,
and
frothy
,
Shells
,
and
Out-sides
,
most
men
playing
fast
and
loose
with
God
.
Do
but
minde
in
your
reading
,
what
a
sober
,
plain
,
unaffected
,
holy
strain
,
is
in
Dod
,
Sibs
,
Preston
,
Hooker
,
Burrows
,
and
many
other
good
men
,
to
what
you
find
in
some
others
;
though
it
may
be
good
men
too
.
Ah
(
my
Childe
,
)
a
frothy
wit
,
and
a
vitious
life
carry
directly
to
Athisme
,
which
is
the
Mastermischief
of
this
Age
,
yea
in
professing
England
.
This
trifling
,
springs
either
from
a
heart
and
head
never
kindly
wrought
upon
,
or
never
wel
way'd
;
where
sin
hath
been
,
or
is
an
easie
burden
,
there
men
trifle
with
their
spirits
;
and
where
men
are
not
guided
by
a
Rule
,
they
will
prove
the
children
of
Changes
;
it
grows
as
other
evils
,
gradually
,
and
soon
conspicuous
in
some
Constitutions
,
like
Davids
Waters
,
from
the
Ancle
,
soon
over
the
Head
.
I
must
tell
you
,
Thoughts
are
not
free
,
nor
words
wind
,
they
will
judge
us
one
day
,
and
from
thence
this
Trifling
comes
.
The
best
cure
I
know
by
experience
,
I
say
by
woful
experience
of
this
evil
,
will
be
to
look
within
the
Vail
,
to
the
Mercy-seat
,
made
of
pure
Gold
,
for
free
grace
to
help
against
so
great
a
mischief
;
and
then
to
be
much
in
Prayer
,
communion
of
Saints
,
fasting
,
and
holy
duties
,
to
lay
some
more
weight
upon
this
spirit
,
and
often
to
mingle
the
sense
of
sin
,
to
take
away
this
Froth
and
Lightness
.
Every
Morning
down
to
Golgotha
,
and
from
thence
go
up
to
Mount
Calvary
.
Believe
me
,
If
sin
made
our
Saviour
cry
My
God
,
my
God
,
&c.
What
is
the
weight
of
sin
?
Look
to
a
day
of
Reckoning
.
Christs
Spirit
was
ever
serious
,
never
known
to
laugh
.
Be
Sober
and
Watch
;
(
dear
Child
.
)
12.
In
like
manner
against
that
spreading
evil
of
being
a
Busie-body
,
and
Pragmatical
,
which
is
the
Plague
of
Man-kind
,
1
Thess.
4.11
.
The
words
are
very
full
and
plain
,
Study
to
be
quiet
,
Do
your
own
Business
,
Work
with
your
own
Hands
.
The
last
two
will
cure
the
former
danger
.
Read
and
know
,
That
whilest
you
look
too
much
into
others
Gardens
,
you
will
neglect
your
own
.
Be
not
like
the
Squiril
,
leaping
from
Tree
to
Tree
,
and
Bough
to
Bough
.
Be
much
at
Home
,
and
you
will
find
work
enough
;
as
long
as
you
keep
Christ
and
sin
before
you
,
you
will
have
work
enough
for
your
Thoughts
;
and
if
your
Fancy
be
not
well
fed
,
your
Thoughts
(
like
Milstones
)
will
grinde
themselves
,
Spirits
rais'd
,
and
not
imploy'd
,
will
torment
the
Witch
that
rais'd
them
.
And
if
you
set
not
your self
on
work
,
the
Devil
will
mark
but
the
several
Trees
of
fruit
or
others
,
they
grow
in
their
own
roots
and
change
not
.
Be
content
to
be
a
shrub
,
Cedars
will
shake
;
and
never
desire
to
be
near
Greatness
.
Honour
often
dies
grinning
and
ghastly
.
Our
business
must
be
our
own
,
as
well
as
our
Crosses
.
To
meddle
with
other
mens
work
will
be
thankless
,
as
to
take
other
mens
Physick
will
be
useless
,
if
not
dangerous
.
An
hours
Idleness
is
a
sin
,
as
well
as
an
hours
Drunkenness
.
Few
mens
feet
stand
before
Princes
,
because
few
mens
hands
are
diligent
.
The
Maid
was
possest
,
because
the
Devil
found
her
in
his
own
house
,
viz.
a
Play-house
.
The
Busie-body
is
but
a
Pedler
to
carry
up
and
down
,
and
vend
the
Devils
Wares
.
How
few
lose
any
thing
by
quietness
,
and
doing
their
own
work
?
Their
sweet
sleep
commends
it
.
David
got
his
great
wound
upon
this
neglect
,
and
Peter
his
,
by
warming
his
Hands
,
when
he
should
have
been
breaking
his
heart
in
secret
.
Oh
keep
home
,
keep
home
;
I
speak
experience
to
you
,
who
never
found
good
hour
but
in
mine
own
work
:
Nor
doth
this
cut
off
works
of
Love
,
or
Charity
,
which
must
be
attended
in
their
seasons
,
and
by
their
Rules
.
The
cure
of
this
evil
lies
much
in
Studying
duty
,
the
end
of
your
Creation
&
being
,
the
practice
of
Saints
;
that
though
you
work
here
,
ease
is
in
Heaven
;
all
your
labour
is
little
enough
for
your
own
business
;
be
alwayes
ready
to
say
,
I
am
where
the
Lord
would
have
me
to
be
.
How
bitter
is
the
remembrance
of
good
hours
ill
spent
?
How
cuting
of
time
lost
?
Death
knows
no
distance
;
whether
King
,
or
Bishop
,
or
Pawn
,
all
at
the
end
of
the
Game
is
put
into
one
Bag
,
the
Grave
.
Be
doing
your
own
work
,
what
ever
your
condition
be
;
Tell
me
what
our
blessed
Lord
did
,
but
the
work
he
was
sent
about
?
Be
like
him
in
this
,
as
in
all
things
else
,
and
that
Spirit
of
the
Lord
Jesus
be
with
thee
,
(
My
dear
Heart
.
)
13.
Through
your
whole
course
let
Truth
have
its
way
,
and
do
not
make
Lyes
your
Refuge
,
they
will
mock
you
in
the
end
.
Mr
Reynor
,
and
others
have
written
largely
about
the
words
and
the
Tongue
,
but
none
to
James
the
Apostle
.
You
see
I
do
not
load
you
in
any
thing
with
Heathens
,
Fathers
,
Poets
,
and
their
Apothegms
,
which
are
many
in
these
Cases
;
which
I
purposely
avoid
as
tickling
the
ear
,
when
often
they
reach
not
the
heart
:
A
Schollar
,
yea
a
School-boy
may
gather
them
,
but
the
Truth
of
God
,
set
on
by
his
Spirit
,
must
make
you
consistent
.
All
the
World
is
hung
with
lyes
,
and
all
of
man
Proclaims
so
much
;
Cloaths
,
Meats
,
Trades
,
Salutations
,
yea
our
Profession
of
Religion
:
All
men
are
Lyers
,
and
all
things
on
this
side
Christ
a
Lie
▪
The
Prince
of
the
Ayre
makes
it
his
work
,
who
was
the
Father
of
Lies
.
Christ
calls
for
Yea
,
and
Nay
onely
.
I
wish
in
Christianity
we
could
find
this
Christianity
;
Heathen●
and
Turks
shame
us
;
it
is
the
blot
of
the
Nation
,
as
if
we
were
Lyars
in
the
Womb
;
the
sin
even
lives
and
dyes
with
us
;
you
may
not
tell
a
Lye
for
God
.
The
Prophet
Zechary
put
Peace
and
Truth
together
,
as
if
they
could
not
be
asunder
,
Zech
▪
8.15
,
16
,
19.
The
Root
is
the
Heart
,
from
whose
abundance
the
Tongue
speaketh
.
Oh
the
falsness
and
deceit
of
this
little
thing
!
Not
a
Breakfast
for
a
Kite
!
Away
with
that
distinction
of
Jocous
,
or
Friendly
Lyes
.
Psal.
101.
David
will
have
no
Lyer
with
him
.
Truth
takes
in
all
good
Religion
;
God
ownes
none
where
it
is
not
.
Hypocrisie
is
a
Lye
;
Friend
,
Name
,
Credit
,
Estate
,
Beauty
,
Honour
,
&c.
are
full
of
Lyes
.
John
6.
Christ
the
Truth
,
as
well
as
Life
and
Way
.
Though
every
untruth
be
not
a
Lye
,
where
it
is
not
spoken
with
a
purpose
to
deceive
,
(
so
men
distinguish
;
)
your
care
must
be
to
trade
with
your
heart
:
Nathaniels
heart
was
honest
,
and
so
without
guile
;
good
feed
fell
into
an
honest
heart
.
Truth
is
naked
;
beware
of
base
Coverings
.
Let
your
conversation
be
without
Guile
,
without
a
Lie
,
the
Lord
is
the
Heart-searcher
.
Sow
up
your
Mouth
,
but
let
it
be
with
Honestie
;
not
Policie
.
As
you
never
hurt
your self
by
speaking
little
,
so
will
you
never
gain
any
thing
by
telling
a
Lie
.
Let
others
call
this
sin
a
Virtue
,
but
do
you
call
it
by
its
own
name
,
and
hate
it
as
Poison
.
Let
Truth
be
thy
Portion
,
it
will
preserve
you
;
and
ever
say
,
I
can
do
nothing
against
the
Truth
;
(
dear
Child
.
)
14.
And
what
I
said
last
,
urgeth
me
to
commend
Wisdom
to
you
,
which
is
a
very
comprehensive
word
,
and
is
justified
of
her
Children
▪
But
I
mean
not
the
Wisdom
of
this
world
,
whether
natural
or
artificial
:
I
intend
Scripture
Wisdom
,
which
is
from
above
.
And
this
is
a
Light
that
God
sets
up
in
the
Soul
,
to
direct
us
,
and
affect
us
,
in
our
whole
course
,
Joh
28.
last
.
The
Fear
of
the
Lord
,
that
is
Wisdom
;
and
to
depart
from
Evil
,
that
is
Understanding
:
If
you
be
wise
,
be
wise
for
your self
:
To
have
all
Books
in
ones
Head
,
and
want
this
Catechism
in
the
Heart
,
will
never
amount
to
it
.
Many
great
Clerks
,
not
wise
;
many
a
Statist
falls
short
.
But
this
will
make
you
hear
,
Prov.
1.5
.
It
will
make
you
lay
a
sure
Foundation
,
Matth.
7.
the
Wise
Builder
.
This
will
make
you
provide
for
Changes
,
Luke
16.8
.
This
will
make
you
lay
in
abundantly
,
Matth.
25.
the
Virgins
were
wise
.
This
will
make
you
bear
sorrow
,
Eccles.
7.4
.
And
truly
this
is
Wisdom
,
and
the
Helps
hereunto
are
,
to
become
a
Fool
,
1
Cor.
3.18
.
To
number
your
dayes
,
that
so
you
may
apply
your
heart
to
Wisdom
,
To
beg
it
of
God
,
Jam.
1.5
.
But
above
all
,
to
make
Christ
your
Wisdom
,
1
Cor.
1.
last
.
Oh
that
you
were
thus
wise
!
Much
of
Wit
must
be
pared
off
before
it
will
be
usefull
.
I
have
seen
the
wayes
of
it
,
though
never
could
pretend
much
to
it
:
But
this
I
know
,
that
being
unsanctified
,
it
is
a
sword
in
a
mad-mans
hand
,
spends
it self
in
vanity
,
foolish
jesting
,
abuse
of
those
who
are
weaker
than
our selves
;
yea
,
often
to
play
with
the
blessed
Word
of
God
.
But
this
Wisdom
will
guide
,
preserve
,
honour
you
:
How
doth
Solomon
admire
it
in
the
Proverbs
!
bids
you
seek
it
,
love
it
,
follow
after
it
,
and
this
is
Christ
himself
.
You
shall
never
have
comfort
in
suffering
for
Folly
,
therefore
see
the
plague
,
and
hide
,
which
hath
invited
some
so
to
do
often
.
Experience
(
which
is
the
observation
of
many
Events
)
will
help
you
much
in
this
study
:
be
much
in
the
Word
,
which
will
make
you
wise
to
Salvation
:
Let
your
Companions
be
the
Children
of
Wisdom
;
Judge
of
all
things
by
this
Wisdom
,
which
will
make
you
look
upon
them
by
Eternity
.
To
the
only
wise
God
I
commend
you
;
dear
Child
.
15.
There
are
two
very
great
Turns
in
mans
Life
;
the
one
is
a
lawful
Calling
;
the
other
is
Marriage
:
and
miscarriages
in
either
are
almost
irrecoverable
.
For
the
former
,
I
must
say
the
lesse
,
because
of
your
sex
,
though
your
present
condition
may
lead
you
to
the
service
of
others
;
and
then
know
,
Fidelity
and
Diligence
are
your
duties
;
your
time
and
parts
will
then
be
anothers
,
not
your
own
;
Eye-service
will
not
be
acceptable
to
God
or
man
,
much
lesse
comfortable
to
your self
.
Many
have
written
upon
this
subject
,
as
Dr.
Gouge
,
and
others
.
For
Marriage
,
though
your
present
estate
(
according
to
the
world
)
renders
you
many
wayes
hopeless
;
yet
your
times
are
in
Gods
hands
,
and
daily
Experience
(
with
my
own
)
will
let
you
know
,
that
as
it
is
the
joyning
together
of
one
Man
and
one
Woman
lawfully
,
in
an
indissolvable
bond
,
either
for
an
help
,
procreation
of
Children
(
which
were
before
the
Fall
)
or
a
remedy
against
Sin
since
that
;
so
it
hath
many
Concernments
in
it
,
where
Goodness
and
Sutableness
are
the
primary
ingredients
;
And
as
the
Husbands
duty
is
,
Love
,
Teaching
,
Providing
,
Honouring
,
&c.
So
the
Wifes
must
be
Subjection
,
suitable
to
that
Love
in
all
the
parts
of
it
:
And
these
dnties
need
mutual
supports
.
And
this
Conjugateness
(
like
a
yoke
)
must
still
be
lin'd
with
more
Love
,
to
make
the
draught
easie
.
Against
this
Love
,
the
Devil
and
Temptations
will
be
striving
.
People
so
engaged
,
need
a
Standard
(
even
the
Word
)
to
be
set
up
,
to
guide
all
by
:
They
need
to
observe
each
others
spirits
;
They
need
to
pray
out
,
not
quarrel
out
their
first
brablings
;
They
need
at
first
to
dwell
much
in
their
own
duties
,
before
they
step
into
each
others
:
When
Repentance
comes
too
late
,
the
best
is
to
be
made
of
the
present
condition
.
Read
Pro.
31.
Oh
the
bitterness
of
unequal
Matches
!
Oh
their
ruine
and
misery
!
I
ever
left
you
free
,
and
do
;
only
marry
in
,
and
for
the
Lord
;
The
sensual
part
of
that
condition
,
can
never
answer
the
incumbrances
may
attend
it
.
Let
Christ
be
your
Husband
,
and
he
will
provide
you
one
to
his
own
liking
:
do
nothing
herein
without
Prayer
,
Scripture
,
and
Counsel
.
The
Lord
love
you
,
My
dear
Child
.
16.
For
the
World
(
I
mean
the
People
in
it
)
and
that
part
of
it
the
Lord
hath
set
you
in
;
I
have
very
much
to
say
,
because
my
days
in
it
are
not
a
few
(
as
we
account
)
Believe
our
Saviour
and
the
Word
(
Joh.
16.
last
.
)
and
you
will
find
that
in
the
World
you
shall
have
Tribulation
;
and
your
passage
out
of
it
must
be
through
many
Tribulations
,
and
Persecutions
too
,
if
you
will
live
godly
.
The
World
loves
her
own
:
You
must
look
upon
it
as
your
Enemy
,
and
use
it
so
;
take
what
you
may
lawfully
from
it
,
and
imbrace
not
this
present
World
;
It
will
kisse
you
,
and
kill
you
;
like
a
Sea
of
Glasse
,
it
soon
cracks
,
though
it
glisters
;
and
when
you
have
Iron
shooes
that
tread
upon
it
,
how
soon
may
you
drop
in
?
The
World
will
give
you
no
more
credit
than
you
have
of
the
World
to
maintain
it
:
and
therfore
whilst
you
are
in
the
World
,
though
you
may
know
many
,
yet
be
acquainted
with
few
,
and
even
trust
none
.
Be
sure
you
get
nothing
unlawfully
,
it
hath
fire
in
it
to
destroy
:
Sweat
is
our
portion
here
below
,
and
whatsoever
is
gained
by
your
own
labour
will
be
sweetest
,
dearest
,
and
of
longest
continuance
with
you
;
And
do
not
borrow
.
You
may
wonder
why
the
World
is
generally
imbittered
to
God's
Children
,
and
why
the
way
to
Canaan
was
paved
with
so
many
difficulties
.
Oh
know
it
is
to
keep
us
humble
,
to
draw
forth
the
exercise
of
his
Attributes
,
viz.
Power
,
Wisdom
&
Mercy
;
and
the
exercise
of
our
gifts
&
graces
,
Prayer
,
Faith
,
Patience
,
&c.
he
will
have
the
use
of
what
he
hath
given
;
yea
,
hereby
Heaven
is
made
dear
and
sweet
to
us
;
the
storm
commends
the
haven
;
prison
,
liberty
;
sickness
,
health
;
and
sin
and
sorrow
,
Heaven
;
where
the
double
vail
of
Corruption
and
Affliction
shall
be
taken
off
,
and
we
shall
be
with
the
Lord
for
ever
.
Many
dying
men
speak
much
about
the
Vanity
of
the
World
:
But
truly
,
as
I
would
not
die
in
a
pet
,
so
I
would
not
quarrel
with
,
or
leave
the
World
,
because
I
could
be
no
greater
in
it
,
but
because
I
not
do
,
nor
be
better
in
it
;
and
that
God
is
pleased
I
should
leave
it
for
a
better
:
I
wish
I
had
never
been
vain
in
a
vain
World
,
but
I
appeal
to
,
and
plead
with
,
Christ
for
my
peace
.
So
use
the
World
,
as
if
you
used
it
not
:
for
the
World
hath
a
principle
of
decay
in
all
the
glory
of
it
:
Dote
not
on
it
,
my
poor
Child
.
17.
And
whilest
I
am
in
the
World
,
and
advising
about
it
,
there
is
a
great
Raritie
in
the
World
,
if
you
could
reach
it
,
and
that
is
a
Friend
;
which
is
a
Commoditie
so
very
scarce
,
that
it
will
be
your
wisdom
so
to
look
upon
a
Friend
this
day
,
as
likely
to
be
an
Enemy
to
morrow
.
How
manie
sad
Experiences
can
I
witness
to
of
this
kind
,
yea
in
these
times
and
changes
?
Fair
Dove-coats
have
most
Pigeons
;
Lost
Estates
know
no
Friends
:
Joh
and
all
the
Saints
complain
,
David
sadly
,
Paul
had
none
to
stand
by
him
;
You
see
most
men
now
are
either
upon
their
own
securitie
or
preferments
;
one
cries
,
My
Friend
betrayed
me
;
another
,
My
Friend
failed
me
:
and
some
cry
,
All
flesh
is
false
;
and
much
I
could
say
,
but
that
other
causes
are
to
be
attended
above
instrumental
.
They
say
,
Two
may
keep
counsel
,
if
one
be
away
;
So
hard
it
is
to
get
a
Friend
;
and
if
you
have
many
,
you
have
hardly
any
.
The
Friend
I
commend
,
is
a
Soul-friend
,
which
you
will
never
find
among
Children
,
Fools
or
Prophane
.
An
Experienced
Christian
Friend
I
intend
,
who
must
have
three
qualifications
;
he
or
she
must
have
the
art
and
skill
of
a
Friend
,
few
know
it
;
must
have
the
bowels
and
mercie
of
a
Friend
,
which
most
want
;
and
lastly
,
must
have
Faithfulness
,
the
great
ingredient
:
if
such
an
one
you
can
find
,
you
shall
enjoy
their
Experiences
freely
,
you
shall
constantly
be
carried
to
God
in
their
Prayers
,
you
shall
have
sympathie
and
help
in
your
troubles
:
The
Spirit
of
Christ
is
a
healing
saving
Spirit
,
and
such
is
theirs
:
To
such
open
your
heart
clearly
,
who
will
never
upbraid
you
for
Confessions
;
and
know
when
Foundations
shake
,
you
will
need
a
Master-builder
or
Workman
,
such
is
a
good
Friend
and
wise
.
To
get
such
an
one
,
must
be
your
care
;
and
to
keep
,
must
be
your
diligence
:
Walk
not
unworthy
of
the
mercy
if
you
gain
it
.
Kinsman
will
not
make
it
,
no
nor
a
Brother
,
though
born
for
adversitie
.
Your
hopes
may
be
these
,
if
the
Lord
promise
;
When
your
wayes
please
him
,
your
Enemies
shall
be
at
peace
with
you
:
He
can
raise
a
Friend
,
and
Himself
be
your
best
Friend
:
To
whom
I
commend
You
,
dear
Child
.
18.
And
because
sin
will
be
creeping
into
all
your
conditions
,
waies
and
works
,
something
I
must
advise
you
about
it
from
Experience
,
though
many
Books
are
written
about
it
;
as
Mr.
Goodwyns
Sinfulnesse
of
Sin
,
&c.
Yet
Two
things
take
from
me
:
Be
marvellous
careful
it
break
not
in
:
Secondly
,
as
diligent
to
drive
it
out
speedily
.
And
for
the
former
,
Gouge
and
Gurnal
I
commend
,
about
the
putting
on
the
whole
Armour
,
Ephes.
6.
Sin
is
a
breach
of
the
Law
,
and
the
strength
of
Sin
is
the
Law
from
that
breach
;
the
soul
being
as
well
left
to
Sin
the
Keeper
,
as
to
Satan
the
Jaylor
,
by
the
Fall
,
and
nothing
but
the
Satisfaction
of
Christ
put
in
to
Divine
Justice
,
can
remit
the
Authority
of
it
;
yea
,
though
the
power
and
filth
in
part
be
taken
away
by
Sanctification
,
yet
it
will
break
in
again
,
as
an
inmate
,
and
will
at
least
get
some
out-room
,
as
pride
in
cloathes
,
cozenage
in
dealings
,
lust
in
the
eye
,
passion
,
&c.
and
bad
work
it
makes
,
where-ever
it
is
;
Oh
keep
it
at
staves
length
:
Peter
,
David
,
Heman
and
others
ever
crack
under
it
:
As
you
cannot
build
your
Reformation
upon
unrepented
sin
;
So
you
should
not
make
daily
work
for
repentance
,
by
admitting
sin
,
which
must
be
reformed
.
Therefore
to
prevent
this
mischief
,
you
must
exercise
hatred
against
it
,
as
against
an
Enemy
that
cut
the
throat
,
or
would
,
of
your
best
Friends
,
and
yours
also
,
and
pursue
it
with
a
deadly
feud
;
hate
it
in
all
the
stock
and
linage
of
it
,
my
Child
.
A
little
sin
is
sin
,
down
with
it
,
keep
your
guard
,
and
hate
it
in
all
the
forrage
that
may
maintain
such
an
Enemy
;
I
mean
,
in
the
occasions
leading
to
it
;
in
which
I
might
be
large
.
On
with
all
your
Armour
speedily
:
and
when
you
find
it
hath
bespotted
you
,
do
as
a
good
houswife
with
her
linnen
,
get
a
Washing-day
,
I
mean
a
Fasting-day
,
out
with
it
by
hand
,
laver
,
bucking
;
if
it
be
a
stain
that
gets
through
and
through
,
it
will
●ut
the
next
spring
for
bleaking
,
I
mean
,
a
sin
premeditated
as
Davids
;
a
few
common
tears
will
not
help
there
,
but
extraordinary
,
and
the
Blood
of
Christ
above
all
.
Ask
the
Damned
what
they
aile
?
Sin
,
sin
,
they
cry
.
Ask
the
distressed
Conscience
?
Sin
too
.
Ask
the
Afflicted
?
Sin
.
For
the
Bulrush
will
not
grow
without
mire
.
That
which
crosseth
the
Law
of
God
,
make
thy
greatest
crosse
;
that
which
divides
you
from
the
best
Good
,
call
your
worst
Evil
.
It
made
Christ
to
bleed
,
to
groan
,
to
die
.
The
Lord
sprinkle
thy
Conscience
with
the
Bloud
of
the
Everlasting
Covenant
,
that
you
may
not
sin
to
death
,
My
dear
Child
.
19.
And
next
(
because
bordering
upon
what
went
before
)
I
would
add
a
case
,
which
so
often
even
choice
Christians
are
incumbred
with
,
and
that
is
,
Their
questioning
all
their
works
after
manie
years
Experience
and
Profession
;
and
their
Objections
,
many
against
themselves
;
as
from
sin
before
Conversion
,
in
Conversion
,
after
it
;
repeated
sins
,
against
Judgment
,
Mercie
,
Light
,
Means
;
yea
,
even
cutting
Purses
under
the
Gallows
;
against
all
Examples
,
and
what
not
?
Nay
,
it
cannot
stand
with
Gods
honour
to
save
,
&c.
though
Isa.
55.8
.
answers
all
.
This
therefore
I
would
have
you
know
,
that
though
it
be
not
safe
to
dig
at
Foundations
often
,
lest
we
shake
the
Building
;
so
our
great
care
is
to
have
sound
Foundations
to
build
upon
,
which
in
the
general
is
Christ
,
and
other
none
can
lay
:
Make
quick
work
,
and
see
you
be
in
Christ
,
and
offer
your
Evidences
to
a
discerning
Friend
,
or
more
;
and
know
,
that
God
hath
limited
his
tenders
of
Grace
to
a
day
of
this
Life
,
of
the
Gospel
,
and
of
Conscience
awakened
;
therefore
look
out
whilst
it
is
To
day
.
Put
by
Spiritual
sloth
,
Cares
of
this
World
,
bosom
Corruptions
,
or
what
ever
may
hinder
;
God
is
not
bound
to
your
limitings
:
Were
it
not
from
his
Mercy
,
and
and
to
leave
every
soul
inexcusable
,
why
should
the
Lord
give
any
time
of
Grace
?
Remember
,
this
day
ends
suddenly
;
How
unworthy
to
put
the
Lord
off
till
tomorrow
,
and
how
retaliated
?
See
Prov.
1.
29
,
&c.
Your
delayes
rob
your
soul
long
of
Comfort
,
and
you
keep
your self
the
longer
out
of
Christ's
service
.
The
nature
of
sin
is
poison
,
do
not
stay
till
to
morrow
for
an
Antidote
;
What
got
Lots
Wife
by
lingring
in
Sodom
?
the
Lord
must
pull
us
out
.
Nor
can
you
plead
any
thing
for
hereafter
which
you
may
not
now
.
Oh
to
work
,
to
work
;
and
if
you
find
it
will
not
amount
to
Grace
,
then
cry
mightily
;
Ply
the
Lord
with
all
the
Promises
of
his
Free-grace
,
Isa.
55.1
.
Matth.
11.
last
.
Revel.
22.17
.
Isa.
53.
the
whole
Chapter
:
Jer.
3.1
.
and
many
more
.
Tell
the
Lord
none
so
vile
as
you
,
none
so
good
as
Himself
:
Tell
him
,
his
Nature
is
Mercy
,
he
may
be
a
gainer
by
his
Grace
:
However
,
hang
upon
him
living
and
dying
in
the
use
of
all
means
,
Hos.
14.3
,
4
,
5.
But
if
you
have
your
share
in
Christ
,
though
hardly
discerned
,
make
much
of
it
,
you
need
walk
very
humbly
,
very
holily
;
do
not
question
continually
,
as
some
do
,
Psal.
18.1
.
Love
the
Lord
who
hath
been
your
strength
,
and
will
answer
all
thy
hard
questions
,
dear
Child
.
20.
I
add
hereunto
your
Case
,
under
crosse
Providences
;
yea
,
such
as
where
Promises
seem
to
speak
one
thing
,
and
Providence
another
;
Under
which
the
best
Saints
have
had
great
and
strange
sinkings
of
spirit
;
For
which
you
have
Sibbs
,
Burroughs
,
and
others
to
help
.
My
poor
thoughts
also
are
these
for
Case
and
Cure
;
When
Joh
faints
,
Joh
4.5
.
When
David
chides
his
soul
,
Psal.
42.
When
Heman
is
even
distracted
,
Psal.
88.15
.
Jacob
will
not
be
comforted
,
Gen.
37.35
.
and
so
divers
.
This
great
Dissertion
springs
from
either
the
overweening
some
Comforts
we
enjoy
,
our
overvaluing
them
breeds
much
trouble
in
the
losse
of
them
:
So
David
with
his
Absolom
;
or
from
the
surprizall
being
sudden
and
unexpected
;
a
prison
at
first
uncouth
,
in
time
easie
and
sweet
;
where
a
mortified
heart
grows
suited
to
it
:
(
to
this
I
could
speak
much
)
or
else
it
may
spring
from
some
secret
weight
God
may
put
into
this
Change
of
Providence
,
which
we
are
not
aware
of
;
and
so
the
scale
grows
heavie
with
some
Lead
hanging
at
the
bottom
unseen
:
a
small
thing
troubles
more
than
a
greater
:
the
former
we
apply
to
our
own
strength
in
it
,
but
for
the
other
to
Gods
.
Or
,
lastly
,
it
may
spring
from
the
Dispensation
it self
;
As
when
the
Crosse
is
heavie
,
or
multiplied
,
or
of
long
continuance
,
or
toucheth
some
noble
part
;
as
wounds
that
touch
the
Liver
,
Heart
,
Brain
,
&c.
Nay
,
I
must
tell
you
,
when
we
make
our
Case
worse
than
God
doth
,
as
by
our
refusing
the
Lords
Comforts
,
which
Jacob
did
Gen.
37.
or
where
we
let
loose
the
Reins
of
Passion
,
as
David
,
Oh
my
son
,
my
son
!
&c.
Or
when
we
drown
all
our
present
Enjoyments
in
that
one
crosse
Providence
,
which
is
too
near
the
spirit
of
Haman
,
who
crost
by
Mordecai
,
slights
all
his
Favours
at
Court
,
and
dies
upon
the
other
.
Your
Cure
in
all
this
will
be
,
To
be
willing
to
want
,
what
God
is
not
willing
to
give
,
and
to
know
he
is
wise
,
to
give
what
he
will
,
how
he
will
,
and
when
he
will
;
for
the
godly
heart
for
temporals
cries
,
Lord
,
what
thou
wilt
;
and
in
spirituals
,
When
thou
wilt
;
and
in
both
,
How
thou
wilt
:
Beggars
must
be
no
chusers
,
and
any
thing
is
good
from
the
hand
of
such
a
Father
.
Your
Interest
in
Christ
,
supplies
all
,
and
sweetens
all
;
but
with
the
Doves
Innocency
,
use
the
Serpents
Wisdom
;
live
in
daily
waiting
and
expectation
of
Changes
,
even
in
your
best
and
holiest
condition
here
:
Deaths-heads
,
and
Hour-glasses
will
be
but
ordinary
significant
Ceremonies
:
it
is
within
you
that
cruciats
,
or
comforts
:
He
that
made
the
World
,
can
change
it
when
he
will
:
Your
Comfort
will
be
,
that
in
the
greatest
storm
,
your
heavenly
Father
is
at
the
Helm
;
though
Sin
and
Satan
bussle
:
that
Hand
keep
you
,
My
dear
Child
.
21.
And
if
you
ask
me
(
after
all
)
what
you
shall
do
with
your
fears
to
which
your
sex
and
condition
prompt
you
?
you
shall
have
what
I
know
,
though
the
Lord
Jesus
answers
all
to
his
little
Flock
when
he
sayes
,
Fear
not
;
yea
,
more
particularly
,
Fear
not
them
that
can
only
kill
the
body
,
and
destroy
that
.
You
must
know
that
your
question
wil
mainly
lie
about
base
&
unwarrantable
fears
,
which
have
these
roots
;
Either
(
when
out
of
this
fear
)
you
are
loth
to
part
with
that
the
Lord
would
have
you
let
go
,
or
would
part
with
that
the
Lord
would
have
you
keep
;
as
when
you
wrangle
about
some
Corruption
,
especially
which
is
dear
unto
you
,
and
hath
some
great
disadvantage
attending
your
throwing
it
away
.
These
kinds
of
fear
are
accompanied
with
these
mischiefs
.
As
you
will
be
unwilling
to
know
your
duty
,
so
you
will
be
unwilling
to
practise
it
when
you
know
it
;
yea
,
not
only
so
,
but
(
through
fear
)
be
as
unable
,
as
unwilling
;
like
that
trembling
King
at
the
hand-writing
he
saw
.
The
inconveniences
are
very
many
,
and
the
sins
not
few
that
follow
it
.
The
cure
in
general
,
even
for
Peter
,
who
(
by
it
)
denied
his
Master
,
is
this
,
That
whoever
fears
to
sin
,
never
sins
by
fear
;
and
more
particularly
,
The
absence
of
some
good
you
desire
,
or
the
coming
on
of
some
evil
,
draws
out
this
fear
:
Therefore
make
much
of
this
Rule
;
Be
ever
possest
of
some
good
,
that
may
answer
the
taking
away
of
what
you
may
lose
,
which
is
the
presence
and
favour
of
God
in
Christ
:
In
the
night
the
waking
Child
in
the
Cradle
is
quiet
at
the
Nurses
coming
to
it
,
because
there
is
more
of
comfort
in
the
Nurse
,
than
fear
in
the
Dark
.
And
then
be
perswaded
to
set
a
right
value
upon
all
earthly
,
perishing
,
dying
things
;
do
not
call
a
Pebble
a
Pearl
.
But
above
all
,
keep
your
fear
in
his
proper
channel
:
Oh
fear
God
,
fear
God
.
It
is
not
only
the
beginning
of
Wisdom
,
but
the
perfection
of
your
joys
,
which
kept
Joseph
,
and
others
of
the
Saints
from
sin
.
My
earnest
desire
for
you
is
,
That
the
Lord
would
give
you
an
even
and
equal
spirit
,
and
the
root
of
it
,
Integrity
;
That
(
as
the
Righteous
)
you
may
be
bold
as
a
Lion
,
and
yet
rejoyce
with
trembling
.
In
this
good
fear
I
leave
you
,
My
dear
Child
.
22.
And
if
the
Evil
you
fear
,
and
a
day
of
Affliction
come
upon
you
,
then
my
counsel
is
,
(
bear
vvith
the
feebleness
of
it
in
all
)
take
that
Rule
,
Eccles.
7.14
.
In
that
evil
day
,
or
day
of
your
distresses
,
you
must
Consider
;
which
is
(
as
the
word
bears
)
by
solemn
and
diligent
thoughtfulnesse
to
take
things
assunder
,
especially
sorrows
and
sins
;
For
the
little
Needle
vvill
draw
a
long
tail
of
Thread
after
it
;
little
sins
may
be
follovved
vvith
great
sorrovvs
,
to
set
you
at
your
vvork
.
First
,
You
must
see
the
evil
of
Adversity
in
the
nature
of
it
,
such
a
plague
,
and
such
a
visitation
;
and
in
the
causes
of
it
:
As
in
the
principal
,
none
of
that
evil
in
the
City
,
but
from
the
Lord
.
In
the
Meritorious
Cause
,
there
look
at
sin
,
and
search
closely
,
and
then
the
Final
Cause
;
God
will
either
be
glorified
by
your
Humiliation
or
Ruine
;
He
will
either
bend
you
,
or
break
you
;
and
thus
he
doth
with
Nations
,
Churches
,
and
every
Individual
.
But
for
the
Instrumental
Cause
,
travel
not
much
there
.
Though
Pharaoh
were
the
occasion
of
the
Plagues
,
yet
the
Aegyptians
sins
,
the
Cause
.
Secondly
,
In
such
an
evil
time
you
must
live
by
faith
(
so
Habbakkuk
)
and
walk
with
God
;
for
this
must
be
your
Rule
,
That
no
condition
supercedes
Duty
that
may
be
,
must
be
performed
:
And
in
these
you
may
not
dally
,
it
is
your
life
.
Thirdly
,
To
get
out
of
such
a
day
and
case
,
you
may
not
act
unlawfully
;
nor
did
Paul
in
going
out
in
a
Basket
.
Take
these
Rules
.
First
,
See
what
the
word
saies
,
if
you
can
find
a
Paralel
case
and
help
.
Secondly
,
If
that
be
dark
,
see
what
Providence
suggests
;
but
that
you
must
neither
Slight
nor
Cross
,
nor
out-run
.
Lastly
,
If
here
you
want
Light
,
then
live
and
die
upon
the
counsel
of
Impartial
friends
,
that
you
may
trust
Gods
way
in
doubtful
and
hard
cases
.
And
be
assured
that
in
distress
(
I
know
not
)
if
Enemies
bring
your
Release
,
it
will
be
too
late
;
and
if
some
friends
bring
it
,
it
may
be
too
soon
;
but
if
God
do
bring
it
,
it
will
be
seasonable
.
I
will
hear
what
the
Lord
will
say
,
cries
the
Prophet
:
So
do
you
(
My
dear
Heart
.
)
23.
Though
in
part
I
have
hinted
something
about
Errors
,
yet
in
this
age
and
juncture
,
I
need
let
you
know
what
I
know
,
since
the
importunity
of
Errour
hath
brougt
forth
so
many
Obliquities
,
and
occasioned
so
much
scandal
to
Religion
the
World
thorow
.
And
because
many
have
touch'd
hereupon
(
as
you
see
in
their
Writings
,
)
and
many
more
Polimicks
and
Disputes
are
Printed
than
profitable
,
every
Partie
striving
their
own
advancement
;
this
I
have
said
,
this
I
must
say
,
That
whoso
departs
from
those
Fundamentals
profest
,
and
died
upon
by
the
Saints
and
Martyrs
since
the
reformation
and
departure
from
Popery
,
need
to
have
his
Opinion
written
in
Stars
:
for
If
an
Angel
bring
another
Gospel
,
he
or
it
may
not
be
received
,
that
shall
contradict
what
we
have
received
already
from
the
Lord
Jesus
.
It
is
a
continuing
word
,
Oh
that
it
might
abide
in
us
,
and
with
us
!
Two
things
in
such
a
danger
I
commend
unto
you
:
First
,
Observe
,
or
ask
your self
or
others
what
frame
of
spirit
or
heart
you
are
in
,
when
you
receive
this
noveltie
;
and
if
I
mistake
not
,
When
the
heart
is
Proud
,
Lazie
,
or
Frothie
,
neglects
communion
with
God
,
dutie
,
and
exactness
,
then
a
cover-Cup
for
such
corruption
is
sought
after
;
then
Preachers
understand
nothing
;
then
men
can
live
without
God
,
Ordinances
,
&c.
You
must
know
that
this
work
is
gradual
:
The
Ship
sails
through
the
Channel
,
where
she
may
have
Land
on
both
sides
,
before
she
come
to
the
Main
,
and
loseth
sight
of
all
Land
.
But
this
you
will
certainly
find
,
That
if
these
People
would
speak
out
,
they
have
changed
their
Opinions
about
God
,
before
they
change
about
his
Waies
.
I
could
be
very
large
in
this
,
accounting
it
my
very
great
Mercie
,
that
temptation
never
led
me
from
that
Honest
,
Old
,
Godly
,
Puritane
Profession
of
the
everlasting
truths
of
the
Gospel
.
Secondly
,
Inquire
whether
they
have
been
carried
more
to
God
and
Holiness
since
their
change
.
For
that
which
comes
from
God
,
will
carry
us
to
God
;
but
if
onely
to
Pride
,
Censuring
,
Libertinisme
,
&c.
you
know
what
to
make
of
it
.
Beware
of
Leaven
of
the
Pharises
,
(
Christ
saies
)
for
Leaven
will
sowre
the
Dough
;
will
swell
it
,
will
harden
it
,
and
these
you
meet
with
in
mens
spirits
leavened
with
Error
.
Where
men
once
leave
the
Rule
,
there
will
be
no
end
of
their
running
,
till
they
come
to
Atheism
.
Therfore
stand
in
awe
of
God
,
and
fear
him
alwaies
;
Hold
to
the
Word
as
to
Life
;
Question
not
Truths
;
Look
to
your
Company
;
Value
the
meanest
Ordinance
;
You
will
need
all
.
Be
very
low
and
humble
before
the
Lord
,
and
Grow
in
Grace
,
2
Pet.
3
,
18.
(
My
dear
Child
.
)
24.
And
because
the
first
Child
that
appears
in
view
of
this
Jesabel
,
the
Mother
of
Mischief
(
Errour
)
so
called
by
John
,
Rev.
2.20
.
is
about
the
Sabbath
;
either
wholly
slighting
it
,
or
counting
it
Jewish
;
or
our
day
not
the
right
day
,
not
the
Seventh
;
yea
that
every
day
is
a
Sabbath
,
with
the
like
:
I
mean
besides
all
such
as
profanely
look
upon
it
as
a
day
of
Sport
,
Pleasure
,
and
Vanity
:
I
think
it
my
duty
to
Charge
you
,
(
as
ever
you
mean
or
hope
to
enjoy
that
everlasting
Rest
hereafter
)
that
you
would
value
the
Sabbath
.
Read
Dod
and
others
about
it
.
I
do
not
remember
that
I
have
ever
met
with
a
truly
Godly
gracious
soul
,
that
lived
above
or
beyond
this
.
The
first
Commandment
sets
up
the
true
God
,
The
second
his
Worship
according
to
his
own
will
,
The
third
his
Reverence
and
Honour
,
and
The
fourth
Time
,
the
seventh
part
of
Time
for
him
,
is
holy
Time
,
Works
of
Necessity
and
Charity
not
crossing
that
Holiness
.
I
say
the
seventh
part
of
Time
,
because
it
is
Night
in
one
place
,
when
Day
in
another
;
which
Time
begins
at
the
Evening
,
as
Time
is
distinguished
into
Daies
,
Gen.
1.
And
though
the
Questions
about
the
Sabbath
and
Baptism
breed
much
Dispute
in
the
World
,
yet
we
must
Study
to
know
Gods
Will
in
both
.
I
must
say
more
to
you
:
Where
the
Sabbath
is
at
an
undervallue
in
any
Country
,
say
it
be
France
,
Holland
,
Germany
,
&c.
there
you
shall
find
Religion
low
,
and
at
best
wasting
it self
into
Disputes
.
But
know
that
England
(
which
is
most
famous
for
Religion
)
got
it
from
the
Sabbaths
,
upon
which
day
the
Lord
is
pleased
(
as
Princes
by
their
Almoners
)
to
give
out
his
Gifts
and
Craces
to
the
sons
of
men
.
I
was
a
witness
that
Middleburgh
in
Zealand
grew
famous
for
Religion
,
by
Teeling
their
Preacher
fetching
the
keeping
of
the
Sabbath
from
England
.
Certainly
the
Fourth
Commandment
is
the
Key
to
all
the
rest
;
for
how
shall
the
rest
be
practised
if
not
taught
?
and
how
taught
,
if
not
time
allowed
?
and
what
time
more
likely
to
carry
a
Blessing
,
than
Gods
Appointment
?
It
were
as
good
to
take
down
Ministry
,
and
all
Ordinances
,
as
to
take
down
the
Sabbath
.
The
wonders
of
God
have
born
witness
(
as
Burton
and
others
write
)
against
the
Breakers
of
it
.
Wherefore
look
well
about
you
,
Isa.
58.13
.
Love
the
Lord
in
his
Sabbaths
,
as
you
would
have
rest
hereafter
.
Look
to
this
Rest
here
,
and
remember
the
Sabbath
;
that
is
,
Prepare
for
it
all
the
week
long
,
especially
the
Evening
before
.
The
Jewes
had
two
Preparations
to
the
Sabbath
,
at
Three
,
and
Six
.
Do
you
keep
on
,
and
gather
home
all
Affections
to
wait
upon
the
Work
,
and
let
the
day
be
dear
to
you
.
The
God
of
Sabbath
be
yours
,
(
dear
Child
.
)
25.
The
Premises
considered
,
I
should
a
little
open
what
I
mean
by
Free
Grace
,
to
which
I
send
you
so
often
for
succour
in
Cases
;
and
truly
it
hath
been
much
spoken
of
,
and
as
much
abused
,
as
if
men
from
thence
might
take
leave
for
any
evil
;
and
on
the
other
hand
also
,
filth
cast
upon
men
that
have
labour'd
to
hold
it
forth
;
for
which
Dr.
Crisp
suffered
also
,
and
some
of
that
mind
,
who
meant
faithfully
to
the
Church
of
Christ
,
and
have
written
much
for
the
abasement
of
the
Creature
,
and
lifting
up
Grace
.
I
wish
we
may
judge
right
judgement
of
all
men
,
and
things
.
But
a
little
Practically
to
cast
in
something
to
profit
you
:
The
Grace
so
spoken
of
,
should
mainly
be
minded
as
the
Root
and
Fruits
of
the
New
Covenant
,
Jer.
31.
and
that
in
Hos.
2.
19
,
20
,
&c.
Which
you
will
find
lie
upon
two-Parties
,
Christ
,
and
the
poor
Believer
;
and
Christ
to
be
considered
in
a
double
Act
of
his
:
First
,
In
his
loving
,
or
rather
manifesting
his
love
in
time
to
the
soul
.
And
,
Secondly
,
In
passing
over
that
Right
he
hath
in
himself
to
the
believing
soul
.
Answerable
whereunto
,
the
soul
first
from
Christs
love
is
warm'd
to
love
again
;
and
from
his
bounty
in
his
second
Act
,
turns
over
all
the
soul
hath
to
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
;
whether
Name
,
Estate
,
Wit
,
Parts
,
yea
all
its
Interests
.
Now
Christ
thus
loving
the
soul
,
and
giving
himself
upon
no
Meritorious
or
procuring
Cause
on
the
souls
side
,
is
called
Free
Grace
indeed
;
when
the
Father
shall
freely
give
his
Son
,
and
the
Son
freely
his
Heart-blood
,
and
the
Spirit
freely
all
its
operations
,
and
make
a
free
Covenant
of
grace
and
mercy
to
pardon
all
sin
,
to
receive
a
sinner
into
his
bosom
,
without
money
or
price
;
nay
not
to
offer
any
thing
of
his
own
,
either
Duty
,
or
Righteousness
,
Isa.
55.1
.
this
call
Free
Grace
;
though
when
Christ
comes
to
manifest
this
,
he
(
by
the
Law
)
gets
Parly
with
the
sinner
he
means
to
save
,
by
some
uncouth
waies
,
and
often
very
cross
to
flesh
and
blood
,
which
makes
the
work
hard
to
judge
of
at
first
;
yet
be
assured
that
the
whole
work
will
be
Free
,
in
the
Whole
Frame
of
it
.
But
because
this
point
is
of
such
singular
concernment
,
and
that
I
have
formerly
delighted
to
speak
to
others
touching
the
same
,
and
would
have
the
comfort
of
it
my self
,
I
shall
let
you
know
what
I
know
about
the
order
of
the
working
hereof
,
that
you
mistake
not
.
26.
And
in
the
letting
you
in
this
Light
,
to
give
you
the
summe
of
true
practical
Divinity
:
and
therefore
observe
with
diligence
,
That
when
a
discovery
is
made
of
this
Love
to
the
sinner
,
the
Lord
Jesus
makes
a
double
approach
to
the
soul
;
the
first
is
by
the
Law
,
where
he
takes
three
steps
:
And
first
,
by
the
Law
he
stops
the
sinner
in
his
course
,
and
makes
him
to
see
sin
in
the
very
nature
of
it
,
not
in
the
Hell
onely
,
and
consequence
;
but
in
that
it
separates
the
soul
from
the
greatest
good
,
Romans
7.7
.
And
,
Secondly
,
makes
the
soul
bear
the
burden
,
and
weight
of
it
,
which
makes
David
himself
cry
out
often
,
and
so
others
:
It
pincheth
hard
where
sin
hath
got
time
and
strength
,
&c.
Thirdly
,
it
lets
the
soul
to
know
,
that
he
is
not
able
to
satisfie
Divine
justice
,
and
so
the
Law
may
be
called
a
School-master
to
Christ
,
though
the
Text
leads
to
the
Ceremonial
;
the
Ceremonies
being
the
Gospel
of
the
Jewes
.
These
three
steps
of
Love
Christ
takes
in
the
Law
by
his
first
approach
.
Secondly
,
In
his
Gospel
approach
he
takes
these
steps
:
First
,
He
holds
forth
himself
to
the
sinner
,
a
Mediator
of
the
New
Covenant
,
and
a
free
pardoner
of
sin
;
this
keeps
the
soul
from
despair
.
Secondly
,
He
lets
you
know
,
that
he
is
as
able
,
and
as
willing
as
ever
to
do
it
,
Colos.
1.19
.
&c.
This
keeps
the
soul
in
heart
and
hope
.
Thirdly
,
By
that
which
they
call
the
Reflex
Act
,
he
brings
home
a
particular
Promise
of
grace
to
the
soul
,
as
Revel.
3.17
.
and
the
Spirit
of
Christ
thus
argues
:
He
that
is
athirst
must
freely
come
.
But
(
saies
the
Spirit
)
Thou
art
thirstie
,
Therefore
come
freely
.
Thus
I
use
to
say
:
A
pitiful
,
nasty
,
ragged
,
fatherless
,
friendless
Child
,
is
lying
dying
in
a
ditch
:
A
noble
bountiful
hand
means
to
save
him
,
and
adopt
him
;
first
sends
a
servant
to
awaken
him
,
and
bring
him
to
his
Court-gate
;
then
bids
another
let
him
in
,
a
third
to
wash
him
,
and
put
him
on
clean
clothes
;
another
to
read
him
the
Order
of
his
House
;
another
to
set
him
at
Table
with
his
Children
;
another
to
shew
him
his
present
,
and
future
estate
.
Thus
the
Spirit
of
Humiliation
first
wakens
a
miserable
lost
sinner
,
and
that
by
the
Law
,
and
can
onely
bring
him
to
the
Gate
:
Then
Vocation
opens
the
Door
:
Then
Justification
puts
on
Christs
Righteousness
:
Sanctification
teacheth
him
how
to
walk
,
taking
away
the
Power
of
sin
:
Adoption
makes
him
a
Brother
,
and
gives
him
his
Priviledges
:
And
Glory
begun
here
in
part
,
by
sanctifying
,
shewes
him
his
estate
.
And
all
this
hath
its
rise
from
Free
Grace
,
Ezekiel
16.
for
God
found
us
in
our
Blood
.
The
Lord
open
your
eyes
,
and
make
this
a
time
of
Love
to
you
,
dear
Child
.
27.
But
whilst
I
speak
to
you
of
Free-grace
,
I
must
let
you
know
that
in
the
next
place
I
must
commend
unto
you
,
accurate
walking
,
as
the
fruits
thereof
;
and
for
your
better
understanding
,
I
commend
unto
you
divers
of
the
aforesaid
Books
;
so
my
own
thoughts
are
,
that
it
consists
in
all
manner
of
Christian
Circumspection
,
Ephes.
5.15
.
to
look
within
you
,
without
you
,
about
you
,
beneath
you
,
to
all
and
every
duty
;
and
the
rather
,
because
God's
eye
is
ever
,
and
every where
upon
you
;
Oh
that
you
could
so
walk
,
so
think
:
and
not
only
so
,
but
you
have
bad
men
observing
,
who
,
by
your
negligence
,
may
either
infest
your
Liberties
,
or
infect
you
with
their
Evils
,
or
at
best
be
harder
drawn-on
to
the
wayes
of
God
by
your
carelesse
example
:
Adde
hereunto
,
that
you
have
the
eyes
of
good
men
upon
you
;
and
if
they
be
young
Christians
,
you
may
make
the
Wayes
of
God
like
Giants
and
Brazen
Walls
unto
them
,
carry
much
difficulty
and
discouragement
with
them
;
or
,
if
ancient
Christians
,
you
may
send
them
with
grief
to
their
graves
by
your
miscarriages
;
and
not
only
so
,
but
the
very
way
of
Religion
is
like
a
narrow
Bridge
,
you
need
step
advisedly
,
that
you
may
keep
upon
it
,
or
,
if
fall
,
you
may
recover
with
much
trouble
:
there
is
great
cause
you
should
be
wise
,
for
Free-grace
will
never
teach
sin
,
nor
folly
;
which
that
you
may
have
help
in
,
consider
what
is
said
from
the
above-said
Arguments
,
and
weigh
them
well
;
and
not
only
so
,
but
study
the
Lives
of
all
the
Saints
in
Scripture
,
and
do
but
see
what
trophees
of
their
failings
sin
hath
hung
up
,
and
Satan
:
David's
sins
of
Adultery
and
Murder
,
Peter's
Denial
of
his
Master
,
Hezekiah's
Pride
and
Vanity
in
shewing
his
Treasury
,
Jonah's
Impatience
and
Folly
,
with
the
like
:
And
see
Paul's
and
Samuel's
Integrity
,
Phineas
his
Zeal
,
Nathaniel's
Truth
,
&c.
On
the
other
hand
,
Oh
walk
in
this
Gallery
among
these
Pictures
;
and
for
your
security
,
rest
not
without
Assurance
of
God's
Love
,
which
will
make
you
wary
;
Who
would
endanger
it
?
much
lesse
forfeit
it
.
The
empty
Purse
fears
not
the
Thief
,
but
the
full
,
looks
to
every
Danger
,
every
Temptation
:
And
really
nothing
is
a
greater
safeguard
,
than
the
freeness
of
this
Love
communicated
to
the
Soul
;
stay
you
no-where
on
this
side
of
it
,
it
will
keep
you
steady
in
a
trembling
world
.
Thus
may
you
walk
,
and
from
this
blessed
Principle
,
dear
Child
.
28.
And
that
all
this
may
be
carried-on
,
and
is
property
the
life
of
Faith
;
remember
,
That
the
hardest
thing
in
the
world
is
,
To
believe
in
Jesus
Christ
to
these
and
all
other
good
ends
:
Faith
is
a
short
word
and
easily
spoken
;
but
Oh
how
hard
is
it
in
the
nature
of
it
!
when
if
ever
the
Lord
works
it
in
us
,
he
findes
nothing
,
not
a
spark
of
it
,
till
he
comes
;
nay
,
he
finds
us
opposit
to
the
work
of
it
;
nay
,
he
finds
us
unwilling
to
be
made
willing
to
close
with
the
offer
of
Christ
,
though
made
so
freely
;
Hypocrisie
and
all
evil
hath
its
fountain
here
:
we
believe
not
:
all
the
other
graces
sink
when
this
fails
;
all
must
have
its
cure
:
we
bind
the
lame
arm
,
we
anoint
it
,
we
warmit
,
and
yet
nothing
helps
,
because
it
is
out
of
joynt
.
Oh
we
believe
not
!
Anger
rageth
,
Lust
provokes
,
Covetousness
cozens
,
&c.
and
all
is
,
We
believe
not
:
Nature
cannot
reach
this
,
Art
cannot
compasse
it
:
to
look
near
1700
years
back
upon
the
Son
of
Mary
(
who
was
the
Son
of
God
)
lived
not
forty
years
,
preached
but
three
years
and
half
,
reproached
home
to
his
grave
;
and
to
believe
in
him
for
a
Savior
:
I
say
,
this
must
be
the
work
of
another
world
,
and
the
outstretched
Arm
of
God
.
See
Ephes.
1.18
,
19
,
20
,
&c.
To
believe
that
another
will
pay
all
my
debts
,
and
become
poor
to
make
me
rich
,
to
dye
to
make
me
live
;
Oh
Miracle
of
Mercy
!
My
Child
,
to
believe
things
incredible
,
to
hope
things
delayed
,
and
to
love
God
when
he
seems
angry
,
are
Luthers
wonders
,
and
mine
,
and
thine
.
It
is
unbelief
is
that
death
in
the
pot
,
that
lifts
up
sense
,
that
brings
an
ill
report
of
God
,
that
overhastens
our
mercies
,
and
sets
God
a
time
for
our
deliverances
.
Faith
is
the
gift
of
God
,
and
the
greatest
,
which
overcomes
difficulties
,
sets
Mercy
to
work
against
Justice
,
fetcheth
the
work
done
either
by
,
without
,
or
against
Means
,
throws
Mountains
into
the
Sea
.
A
little
little
grain
like
Mustard-seed
will
do
Wonders
;
enliven
a
dead
heart
,
save
even
a
damned
soul
;
for
such
we
are
:
This
will
not
be
had
without
the
Word
and
Spirit
,
Rom.
10.17
.
and
the
Glory
of
it
,
See
Heb.
11.
for
this
,
hear
,
beg
,
pray
,
weep
,
fast
,
seek
,
labour
,
strive
,
use
violence
,
read
,
ask
,
wish
,
sigh
;
and
if
you
do
believe
,
the
Lord
help
your
unbelief
,
dear
Child
.
29.
In
the
next
,
(
which
looks
like
the
last
)
indeed
,
I
must
give
you
my
thoughts
about
Death
;
which
certainly
must
be
your
portion
(
though
young
)
and
I
must
tell
you
,
it
is
a
great
word
to
say
,
I
dare
dye
:
many
Books
and
Funeral
Sermons
you
may
reade
about
it
.
I
say
,
Life
is
sweet
,
and
Death
terrible
:
many
in
several
distempers
may
call
for
it
,
neither
minding
what
it
is
,
nor
whither
it
leads
:
Job
describes
it
in
his
Agony
;
and
Heathens
could
say
,
The
first
good
was
,
not
to
be
born
,
and
the
next
,
to
dye
quickly
:
Paul
(
above
any
)
desires
it
upon
right
grounds
:
Yea
,
the
last
words
in
the
Canticles
,
and
the
last
in
the
Bible
are
,
for
the
Lord
Jesus
to
come
quickly
;
yea
,
to
come
to
judgment
:
as
if
it
were
the
breathings
of
the
spirits
of
the
Just
in
the
last
times
;
of
which
spirit
if
you
be
,
these
will
be
your
Reasons
,
as
theirs
.
First
,
That
you
may
see
Him
of
whom
you
have
heard
so
much
,
who
hath
done
and
suffered
so
much
for
you
.
Secondly
,
That
you
may
have
full
draughts
of
what
you
now
tast
only
.
Thirdly
,
That
your
Beloved
may
come
to
you
,
or
you
to
Him
;
for
whose
sake
,
and
love
,
you
may
undergo
here
many
frowns
,
brow-beatings
,
if
not
worse
:
thus
the
absent
Spouse
waits
for
her
Beloved
.
Fourthly
,
When
the
Sanctuary
is
troden
upon
,
Isa.
64.1
.
Fifthly
,
That
the
double
Vail
of
Corruption
and
Affliction
may
be
taken
off
from
you
:
Thus
to
wish
for
Death
is
to
wish
for
Life
.
These
things
I
pray
study
;
and
to
help
you
further
,
remember
,
Balaam
would
fain
die
the
Death
of
the
Righteous
,
which
you
can
never
do
,
unless
you
live
the
Life
of
the
Godly
;
to
which
I
have
written
so
much
before
:
Only
let
me
adde
,
That
you
must
live
in
daily
Expectation
of
this
great
Change
;
for
though
there
be
but
one
way
into
the
World
,
there
are
many
out
.
I
know
nothing
to
sweeten
it
but
the
Death
of
Christ
,
who
suckt
out
the
poison
of
it
,
and
saves
to
the
uttermost
.
Romans
and
Fools
can
dye
bravely
,
write
their
own
Elegies
.
I
am
sure
a
well-led
life
is
the
best
Monument
.
If
one
at
your
door
should
cry
every
morning
,
You
must
dye
,
it
would
not
reach
far
;
but
Christ
dyed
for
you
,
My
Child
.
30.
They
say
,
and
truly
,
Where
Death
leaves
you
,
there
Judgment
finds
you
;
Nothing
flies
so
swiftly
than
as
the
soul
out
of
the
body
:
and
you
know
Eternity
hangs
upon
a
moment
;
and
such
is
our
Life
;
and
especially
such
is
the
last
groan
and
pang
,
and
thither
it
leads
.
It
is
a
vast
Ocean
,
hath
neither
bound
nor
bottom
;
where
you
are
to
come
before
an
impartial
Judge
,
with
a
naked
and
open
breast
;
it
is
unavoidable
,
and
the
miscarriage
there
intolerable
.
Many
Books
are
written
by
many
about
these
last
things
,
and
Apothegmes
not
a
few
:
the
World
and
the
Flesh
will
not
appear
for
you
;
the
former
can
lend
you
but
a
few
Ceremonies
and
Complements
;
the
other
dare
go
no
further
than
the
Judges
door
;
but
a
good
Conscience
,
sprinkled
by
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
will
enter
with
boldness
,
and
plead
,
and
hear
the
voice
of
,
Come
ye
blessed
.
Your
wisdome
will
be
,
to
carry
your
Pardon
in
your
bosome
,
there
Wit
,
and
Learning
,
Parts
,
and
Wealth
will
get
no
hearing
;
there
the
Eloquent
Orator
is
dumb
;
no
Coin
is
currant
but
the
Blood
of
a
loving
Saviour
;
No
man
can
appear
there
by
any
other
Proxy
:
there
Greatness
must
give
way
to
Goodness
;
there
Hypocrisie
is
unmask'd
,
Truth
naked
;
there
your
fellow
Saints
shall
sit
Judges
,
though
dispised
amongst
men
;
there
the
Son
of
man
shall
appear
,
because
despised
as
the
Son
of
man
;
there
Preaching
,
Miracles
,
Casting
out
Devils
will
not
profit
,
but
a
Name
written
in
the
Book
of
the
Lamb
.
Oh
that
you
would
consider
betimes
what
a
nothing
a
thousand
years
are
to
Eternity
,
yea
,
where
you
shall
be
an
hundred
years
hence
:
if
the
Grave
make
no
distance
betwixt
the
Scepter
and
the
Mattock
;
what
will
Eternity
do
when
that
shall
make
the
difference
?
Wherfore
I
pray
measure
all
your
works
by
Eternity
,
eat
,
drink
,
sleep
,
work
by
Eternity
;
the
cry
of
a
damned
soule
is
,
I
never
minded
Eternity
;
how
many
are
every
day
carrying
faggots
to
burn
them
to
Eternity
?
Call
that
good
that
holds
for
ever
:
Let
but
the
Judge
be
your
Husband
,
and
fear
nothing
.
The
ever-living
God
love
you
,
and
keep
you
to
all
Eternity
,
My
Child
.
31.
And
because
I
have
brought
you
so
far
as
the
Great
Day
,
give
me
leave
to
awaken
you
with
the
condition
of
the
place
,
Heaven
,
and
to
let
you
know
it
in
the
particulars
,
which
are
the
presence
of
all
good
,
and
the
absence
of
all
evil
;
the
former
commends
it self
unto
you
in
these
:
First
,
in
the
universality
of
it
:
whereas
all
things
here
below
are
but
partial
;
so
in
the
suitableness
of
,
it
they
are
there
spiritual
,
and
suitable
to
the
Spirit
.
Secondly
,
for
their
Continance
:
the
good
things
are
not
like
Cherries
drawn
by
the
lips
,
or
Comforts
tasted
,
and
gone
;
but
they
stay
and
are
good
for
ever
.
Thirdly
,
Evil
knows
no
place
,
there
Sin
cannot
dwell
with
that
Holiness
,
Sorrow
cannot
mingle
it self
with
that
Joy
:
no
more
fading
Riches
,
dying
Friends
,
changing
Honors
,
perishing
Beauty
;
no
more
aking
heads
,
nor
languishing
diseases
;
no
more
hearing
the
chain
of
the
Prisoner
,
nor
anger
of
the
Oppressor
;
no
cry
of
what
do
you
lack
?
every
Bottle
is
full
,
and
every
Bed
easie
,
being
of
never-blasting
Roses
and
Sweets
;
where
every
Room
is
paved
with
Love
;
where
Wisdom
,
Power
,
Mercy
,
and
Grace
have
combined
,
to
make
all
glorious
and
pleasant
.
Then
never
be
troubled
about
a
dunghil-world
;
when
the
Apostle
to
the
Thessalonians
,
sayes
all
in
a
few
words
,
We
shall
be
with
the
Lord
for
ever
;
and
that
includes
all
,
answers
all
hard
Questions
,
all
hard
Labours
under
the
Sun
.
Remember
the
Swaggerer
that
met
the
poor
man
ever
mourning
over
his
sins
,
(
quoth
he
)
What
,
still
mourning
?
&c.
But
what
if
there
be
no
Heaven
?
Ah
Sir
,
quoth
the
other
,
what
if
there
be
a
Hell
?
The
Doctrine
of
Hell
was
never
enough
preach'd
(
some
thinks
)
and
there
on
the
contrary
is
the
presence
of
all
evil
,
and
the
absence
of
all
good
;
you
may
study
it
by
the
former
,
where
the
Tormented
never
die
,
and
the
Tormentor
is
never
weary
;
where
thought
and
fear
,
despair
,
punishment
,
extremity
meet
altogether
in
Eternity
.
The
Father
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
preserve
you
to
his
Heavenly
Kingdom
,
My
poor
Child
.
Union
with
Christ
,
and
Knowledge
sound
,
The
Scriptures
reade
,
in
Pray'r
be
found
;
A
constant
Watch
,
and
growth
in
Grace
,
Good
Conscience
,
Time
short
,
Work
apace
:
Contentment
in
Condition
Low
,
No
Trifling
Spirit
in
you
grow
,
Nor
Busie
,
nor
Pragmatical
,
Truth
still
appearing
in
your
All
,
Wisdom
directing
soon
and
late
,
In
Calling
,
and
in
Marriage-state
;
The
World
describ'd
in
its
bad
wayes
,
A
Friend
indeed
beyond
all
praise
;
And
Sin
the
Mother
of
all
Grief
,
Grace
often
question'd
for
relief
,
With
Providences
running
crosse
,
Fears
sinfull
,
causing
Doubts
and
Losse
;
Dayes
of
Adversity
and
Evil
,
Errors
that
spring
from
Self
and
Devil
;
Sabbath
for
Rest
and
Worshipping
,
And
Free-grace
pitying
,
pardoning
;
With
accurate
,
and
holy
walking
,
Hard
to
believe
,
though
easie
talking
;
Death
ghastly
looking
,
and
Sins
daughter
,
With
Judgment
that
will
follow
after
:
Heav'n
in
its
great
Magnificence
,
Hell's
punishment
in
Losse
and
Sense
,
Are
the
great
things
charg'd
on
thee
here
,
To
reade
,
and
minde
,
and
minde
(
my
Dear
.
)
From
him
,
who
grieves
he
hath
no
more
,
But
Words
to
leave
.
Christ
be
thy
Store
.
33.
And
because
I
know
not
how
the
door
of
Oportunity
may
stand
open
or
shut
,
(
the
Day
drawing
near
of
Tryal
)
I
shall
give
you
an
account
of
my Self
and
dealings
,
that
(
if
possible
)
you
may
wipe
off
some
Dirt
,
or
be
the
more
content
to
carry
it
;
in
which
I
shall
mainly
apply
my self
to
these
late
troubles
I
was
the
Son
of
considerable
Parents
,
from
Foy
in
Cornwall
;
my
Father
a
Merchant
,
his
Ancestors
driven
thither
from
Antwerp
for
Religion
,
I
mean
the
Reformed
;
my
Mother
of
the
same
Town
,
of
a
very
ancient
Family
,
the
Name
Treffey
of
Place
,
or
the
Place
in
that
Town
,
of
which
I
would
not
boast
.
These
lived
in
very
great
abundance
,
their
Losses
at
Sea
grew
very
great
;
in
the
midst
of
which
Losses
,
my
elder
Brother
being
at
Oxford
,
I
was
sent
to
Cambridge
,
and
that
Estate
I
had
by
an
Uncle
,
I
left
with
my
Mother
,
and
lived
at
the
University
;
and
a
little
from
thence
,
about
eight
years
,
took
my
Degree
of
Master
of
Arts
,
where
I
spent
some
years
vainly
enough
,
being
but
14
years
old
when
thither
I
came
,
my
Tutor
died
,
&
I
was
expos'd
to
my
shifts
.
Coming
from
thence
,
at
London
God
struck
me
with
the
sense
of
my
sinful
estate
,
by
a
Sermon
I
heard
under
Pauls
,
which
was
about
40
years
since
;
which
Text
was
The
burden
of
Dumah
,
or
Idumea
,
and
stuck
fast
.
This
made
me
to
go
into
Essex
:
And
after
being
quieted
by
another
Sermon
in
that
Country
,
and
the
Love
and
Labours
of
Mr.
Thomas
Hooker
:
I
there
Preacht
,
there
married
with
a
good
Gentlewoman
,
till
I
went
to
London
to
ripen
my
Studies
,
not
intending
to
preach
at
all
;
where
I
attended
Dr
Gouge
Sibs
,
and
Davenports
Ministry
,
with
others
;
and
I
hope
,
with
some
profit
.
But
in
short
time
was
forced
to
preach
by
importunity
of
Friends
,
having
had
a
Licence
from
Dr.
Mountain
B.
of
London
before
,
and
to
Sepulchers
I
was
brought
by
a
very
strange
providence
;
for
preaching
before
at
another
place
;
and
a
young
man
receiving
some
good
,
would
not
be
satisfied
,
but
I
must
preach
at
Sepulchers
once
monthly
for
the
good
of
his
Friends
;
in
which
he
got
his
end
(
if
I
might
not
shew
vanity
)
and
he
allowed
Thirty
pounds
per
Annum
to
that
Lecture
,
but
his
person
unknown
to
me
:
he
was
a
Chandler
,
and
dyed
a
good
man
,
and
Member
of
Parliament
.
At
this
Lecture
the
Resort
grew
so
great
that
it
contracted
envie
and
anger
:
Though
I
believe
above
an
hundred
every
week
were
perswaded
from
sin
to
Christ
.
I
wish
I
may
not
be
judged
for
saying
so
:
There
was
six
or
seven
thousand
Hearers
,
and
the
Circumstances
fit
for
such
good
work
:
But
I
am
tender
;
there
I
had
some
trouble
,
who
could
not
conform
to
all
:
and
went
to
Holland
,
where
I
was
five
or
six
years
,
not
without
the
presence
of
God
in
my
Work
;
But
many
of
my
Acquaintance
going
for
New-England
,
had
engaged
me
to
come
to
them
when
they
sent
,
which
accordingly
I
did
:
And
truly
,
my
reason
for
my self
and
others
to
go
,
was
meerly
,
not
to
offend
Authority
in
that
difference
of
Judgment
;
and
had
not
the
Book
for
Encouragement
of
Sports
on
the
Sabbath
come
forth
,
many
had
staid
.
That
good
man
,
my
dear
firm
Friend
,
Mr.
White
of
Dorchester
,
and
Bishop
Lake
,
occasioned
,
yea
,
founded
,
that
Work
,
and
much
in
reference
to
the
Indians
,
of
which
we
did
not
fail
to
attempt
,
with
good
success
to
many
of
their
souls
(
through
God's
blessing
)
See
Bishop
Lake's
Sermon
,
1
King.
8.37
.
who
profest
to
Mr.
White
of
Dorchester
,
he
would
go
himself
with
us
,
but
for
his
age
,
for
which
we
had
the
late
Kings
gracious
Patent
,
Licence
and
Encouragement
.
There
I
continued
seven
years
,
till
sent
hither
by
the
Plantation
to
mediate
for
ease
in
Customes
and
Excise
;
the
Country
being
poor
,
and
a
tender
Plant
,
of
their
own
setting
and
manuring
.
But
coming
hither
,
found
the
Nation
imbroiled
in
those
Civil
Discontents
,
Jars
and
Wars
,
and
here
was
forced
to
stay
,
though
I
had
nothing
to
support
me
but
the
Parliaments
Promises
;
And
not
being
able
in
a
short
time
to
compass
my
Errand
,
studied
with
a
constant
purpose
of
Returning
,
and
went
with
the
first
to
Ireland
,
most
of
your
London
Godly
Ministers
being
engaged
in
Person
,
Purse
,
and
Preaching
in
this
Trouble
:
I
thought
Ireland
the
clearest
Work
,
and
had
the
Pay
of
a
Preacher
then
and
afterward
,
as
I
could
get
it
;
I
was
not
here
at
Edge-hill
,
nor
the
Bishop
of
Canterburies
troubles
or
death
.
Upon
my
Return
,
was
staid
again
from
going
home
,
by
the
Earl
of
Warwick
my
Patron
;
then
by
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
afterwards
by
the
Parliament
,
who
at
last
gave
me
an
Estate
,
now
taken
away
.
I
had
access
to
the
King
about
my
New-England
business
:
he
used
me
civilly
;
I
,
in
requital
,
offered
my
poor
thoughts
three
times
for
his
safety
;
I
never
had
hand
in
contriving
or
acting
his
Death
,
as
I
am
scandalized
,
but
the
contrary
(
to
my
mean
power
:
)
I
was
never
in
any
Councils
or
Cabal
at
any
time
,
I
hated
it
,
and
had
no
stow●ge
for
Counsel
,
thinking
all
Government
should
lie
open
to
all
;
nor
had
penny
from
any
General
,
but
lived
in
debt
,
as
now
I
am
;
nor
had
means
for
my
Expences
,
what
I
had
,
others
shared
in
.
I
confesse
I
did
what
I
did
strenuously
,
though
with
a
weak
head
being
over-laid
with
my
own
and
others
troubles
;
never
was
angry
with
any
of
the
King's
Party
,
no●
any
of
them
for
being
so
;
though
the
Parliament-Authority
lawfull
and
never
studied
it
much
;
have
not
had
my
hand
in
any
man●
bloud
,
but
saved
many
in
Lif●
and
Estate
.
The
Parliament
i●
1644
,
gave
me
the
Bishops
Book
valued
at
140
l.
which
I
intende●
for
New
England
,
being
a
part
〈◊〉
his
private
Library
,
which
(
wi●●
all
mine
own
)
I
have
often
offere●
for
150
l.
the
mistake
about
the●●
was
,
and
is
great
,
for
they
nev●●
were
so
considerable
:
And
the●●
were
my
gettings
,
who
never
ai●ed
to
be
rich
,
nor
ever
had
mea●
to
reach
it
.
The
Changes
gr●●
(
as
you
see
)
a
Commonwealth
found
,
but
thus
altered
;
I
staid
so
long
at
White-hall
,
contented
with
any
good
Government
that
would
keep
things
together
;
till
the
breach
of
that
they
call
Richards
Parliament
,
and
then
I
removed
,
and
never
returned
more
,
but
fell
sick
long
,
and
in
trouble
ever
since
;
never
was
summoned
but
once
by
the
Council
,
which
was
in
April
,
about
Books
;
of
which
(
lying
sick
)
I
craved
of
the
President
of
the
Council
to
excuse
me
,
who
sent
unto
me
he
had
,
and
I
gave
him
an
account
of
the
Books
:
but
hearing
that
my
Estate
was
gone
,
and
I
indebted
,
was
private
,
and
did
purpose
so
to
live
,
and
so
to
die
,
having
a
resolution
(
which
I
kept
)
never
to
meddle
with
State-matters
,
but
either
here
,
or
in
New-England
,
to
spend
my
old
age
,
in
looking
into
my
Grave
and
Eternity
:
and
never
had
to
do
with
any
Transactions
,
with
Souldiers
or
others
;
nor
never
would
,
had
I
a
longer
life
,
my
head
and
heart
be
tired
,
as
well
as
my
body
craz'd
:
I
thought
the
Act
of
Indempnity
would
have
included
me
,
but
the
hard
Character
upon
me
,
excluded
me
,
which
I
was
so
sensible
of
,
that
Nature
(
in
its
own
preservation
)
carried
me
to
privacy
;
but
free
from
that
report
of
the
manner
which
is
suggested
,
of
which
you
may
be
assured
:
By
my
Zeal
(
it
seems
)
I
have
exposed
my self
to
all
manner
of
reproach
:
but
wish
you
to
know
,
that
(
besides
your
Mother
)
I
have
had
no
fellowship
(
that
way
)
with
any
Woman
since
first
I
knew
her
,
having
a
godly
Wife
before
also
,
I
blesse●
God
.
But
because
what
is
before
written
,
may
seem
my
white
side
only
,
I
shall
deal
in
all
plainness
with
you
,
That
though
for
Religion
I
am
and
have
been
really
sound
and
Orthodox
to
my
best
apprehension
,
according
to
the
blessed
Word
of
God
,
and
the
generality
of
the
Protestant
Confessions
;
yea
,
though
I
travell'd
through
Protestant
Churches
for
Order
,
to
espy
the
best
,
and
have
joyned
with
the
Churches
of
Christ
,
and
took
in
with
that
I
call
a
Tender
Presbytery
,
for
such
was
ours
in
New-England
,
and
yet
so
,
as
I
never
unchurcht
any
Parish
where
a
godly
Minister
was
,
and
godly
People
joyned
together
,
though
not
all
so
;
and
do
know
God
may
have
a
People
under
all
Forms
,
and
would
withdraw
to
the
furthest
Judges
,
rather
than
give
offence
to
what
I
cannot
close
with
:
yet
so
unworthy
have
my
thoughts
been
of
my self
to
be
a
meet
Preacher
of
the
Gospel
,
that
more
than
twice
I
had
given
it
over
,
had
not
Friends
prevailed
;
yea
,
my
profession
of
the
Gospel
hath
been
with
much
folly
,
weakness
,
and
vanity
:
I
crave
pardon
of
any
that
have
taken
offence
,
though
in
a
Christian
way
I
have
not
had
the
reproofs
of
Three
either
for
Preaching
or
Conversation
.
I
am
heartily
sorry
I
was
Popular
,
and
known
better
to
others
than
my self
;
It
hath
much
lain
to
my
heart
above
any
thing
almost
,
That
I
left
that
People
I
was
engaged
to
in
New-England
,
it
cuts
deeply
,
I
look
upon
it
as
a
Root-evil
:
and
though
I
was
never
Parson
nor
Vicar
,
never
took
Ecclesiastical
promotion
,
never
preach'd
upon
any
agreement
for
money
in
my
life
,
though
not
without
offers
,
and
great
ones
;
yet
I
had
a
Flock
,
I
say
I
had
a
Flock
,
to
whom
I
was
ordained
,
who
were
worthy
of
my
Life
and
Labours
;
but
I
could
never
think
my self
fit
to
be
their
Pastor
,
so
unaccomplisht
for
such
a
work
,
for
which
,
who
is
sufficient
(
cryes
the
Apostle
?
)
This
is
my
sore
trouble
;
and
a
private
life
would
have
become
me
best
,
and
my
poor
gift
have
had
its
vent
also
:
But
here
I
was
overpowered
to
stay
.
For
Errors
in
judgment
I
have
pittied
,
never
closed
with
any
that
I
know
;
when
I
was
a
Tryer
of
others
,
I
went
to
hear
and
gain
Experience
rather
than
to
judge
;
When
I
was
called
about
mending
Laws
,
I
rather
was
there
to
pray
,
than
mend
Laws
;
When
to
judge
in
Wills
,
I
only
went
sometimes
to
learn
,
and
help
the
Poor
,
than
to
judge
:
but
in
all
these
I
confesse
I
might
well
have
been
spared
.
Nor
do
I
take
pleasure
in
remembring
any
my
least
activity
in
State-matters
,
though
this
I
can
say
,
I
no where
minded
who
ruled
fewer
or
more
,
so
the
good
ends
of
Government
be
given
out
,
in
which
men
may
live
in
Godliness
and
Honesty
.
I
have
often
said
,
That
is
a
good
Government
,
where
men
may
be
as
good
as
they
can
,
not
so
bad
as
they
would
;
where
good
men
and
things
are
uppermost
;
and
have
thought
if
good
Magistrates
cannot
bring
all
to
their
Judgments
,
the
Dissenters
may
have
liberty
,
being
kept
out
of
Office
,
and
want
some
other
publick
Characters
.
That
which
a
Friend
of
mine
,
and
my self
writ
by
Letters
about
Magistrates
,
was
very
little
,
and
the
Records
of
the
Tower
were
only
named
,
as
giving
way
to
all
other
Records
,
to
cut
off
dissentions
,
or
marks
of
Tyranny
,
which
no
good
Prince
will
exercise
;
I
am
sorry
if
any
offended
,
it
was
Zeal
for
Quietnesse
.
I
honour
Laws
,
and
good
Lawyers
heartily
,
and
know
their
use
;
only
ease
,
expedition
,
and
cheapness
,
what
good
man
doth
not
call
for
?
Sedition
is
the
heating
mens
minds
against
the
present
Authority
,
in
that
I
never
was
,
yet
sorry
,
Authority
should
have
any
hard
thoughts
of
me
,
or
know
so
inconsiderable
a
creature
as
my self
:
I
never
could
be
fit
for
a
Court
,
many
wayes
not
fit
,
and
am
therefore
grieved
,
that
I
was
either
constrained
,
or
content
to
live
,
where
I
could
do
so
little
good
;
for
I
would
dye
without
a
secret
in
my
bosom
,
unless
Cases
of
Conscience
in
the
way
of
Preaching
,
which
are
secret
indeed
;
and
for
reading
them
to
the
World
I
had
appointed
a
Portion
,
if
it
had
been
continued
to
me
.
Upon
all
this
you
may
ask
what
design
I
drove
,
being
look'd
upon
that
way
?
Truly
these
three
.
First
,
That
Goodness
,
that
which
is
really
so
,
and
such
Religion
,
might
be
highly
advanced
.
Secondly
,
That
good
Learning
might
have
all
Countenance
.
Thirdly
,
That
there
may
not
be
a
Beggar
in
Israel
,
in
England
.
And
for
all
these
I
have
projected
or
laboured
,
and
I
have
no
other
.
And
these
I
pray
his
present
Majesty
may
look
to
,
and
that
God
would
blesse
him
every
way
.
If
in
the
prosecution
of
these
I
have
used
any
of
my
wonted
rudenesse
,
or
unguided
zeal
,
I
am
heartily
as
sorry
.
So
begging
pardon
from
God
and
Man
,
Constitution
or
Custom
,
I
conclude
in
these
particulars
,
though
the
aim
be
good
.
I
conclude
the
former
thus
;
I
think
,
That
as
bad
men
care
not
who
rule
,
or
what
is
uppermost
,
so
they
may
have
their
lusts
;
so
good
men
,
if
they
may
enjoy
God
and
his
Truth
,
with
good
Conscience
.
For
my
whole
course
you
know
and
feel
where
my
wound
hath
been
these
Twenty
years
,
which
hath
occasioned
not
only
my
Head
and
Heart
breaking
,
but
travelling
from
mine
own
Nest
into
businesse
.
Blesse
God
,
if
ever
you
meet
with
suitablenesse
in
Marriage
.
For
my
spirit
it
wanted
weight
,
through
many
tossings
,
my
head
that
composure
others
have
,
credulous
,
and
too
careless
,
but
never
mischievous
nor
malicious
:
I
thought
my
work
was
to
serve
others
,
and
so
mine
own
Garden
not
so
well
culticated
;
only
this
I
say
,
I
aimed
at
a
good
mark
,
and
trust
the
Lord
in
Jesus
Christ
hath
accepted
it
.
My
Faith
in
the
Everlasting
Covenant
was
and
is
,
though
feeble
,
yet
Faith
.
I
could
thus
continue
,
ripping
my
whole
heart
to
you
,
who
have
very
often
had
great
success
,
even
to
the
last
hour
of
my
last
Preaching
,
and
am
preaching
the
life
of
Faith
to
my self
,
to
which
call
in
all
prayers
to
the
Father
in
Jesus
Christ
his
dearest
Son
,
to
whom
let
us
look
,
as
the
Author
and
Finisher
of
our
Faith
,
who
for
the
joy
that
was
set
before
him
,
endured
the
Crosse
,
despised
the
Shame
,
and
now
sits
at
the
right
hand
of
Majestie
,
making
Intercession
for
Transgressors
,
Heb.
12.12
.
To
whom
be
Glory
and
Praise
,
and
Thanks
for
ever
.
For
he
is
worthy
,
who
hath
washed
us
from
our
sins
by
his
own
Bloud
,
and
made
us
Kings
and
Priests
unto
God
the
Father
;
To
him
be
Glory
and
Dominion
for
ever
.
For
that
part
of
my
Lord
Craven's
Estate
which
I
have
,
took
no
small
place
in
my
trouble
.
You
may
know
that
I
was
not
in
the
City
when
that
Act
was
made
,
nor
urged
my
Lord
Grey
to
buy
;
nor
ever
advised
the
said
Lord
(
as
I
had
time
)
but
to
good
and
just
things
and
company
,
against
that
Spirit
of
Levelling
then
stirring
:
and
do
heartily
wish
,
that
taken
offence
might
dye
;
for
it
was
not
intended
by
me
,
who
could
and
can
be
as
well
contented
without
Land
,
as
with
it
;
never
being
ambitious
to
be
great
or
rich
since
I
knew
better
things
.
34.
And
now
I
must
return
to
your self
again
,
and
to
give
you
my
thoughts
about
your
own
Condition
,
.
I
do
first
commend
you
to
the
Lord
,
and
then
to
the
care
of
a
Faithfull
Friend
,
whom
I
shall
name
unto
you
,
if
a
Friend
may
be
found
in
this
Juncture
,
that
dare
own
your
Name
(
though
there
be
more
of
your
Name
)
and
if
such
a
Friend
advise
it
,
that
you
serve
in
some
Godly
Family
,
to
which
you
seem
to
incline
,
and
must
(
it
seems
;
)
but
truly
if
not
a
good
Family
,
what
will
your
Condition
be
?
Dwell
where
God
dwells
,
and
be
in
such
Company
,
as
you
must
be
with
in
Heaven
,
and
then
you
do
but
change
your
place
,
not
your
company
;
though
it
be
unexpected
and
uncouth
,
yet
remember
the
best
of
men
have
been
servants
;
Moses
kept
his
fathers
sheep
;
so
Jacob
,
and
the
Patriarchs
;
David
to
Saul
,
and
many
more
;
I
have
before
given
thee
Rules
for
it
:
and
be
sure
to
be
steady
to
Family
and
Private-Duties
,
your
life
will
be
dead
without
them
;
call
your
Condition
,
Gods
Ordinance
,
and
he
can
blesse
it
to
you
.
But
if
you
would
go
home
to
New-England
(
which
you
have
much
reason
to
do
)
go
with
good
Company
,
and
trust
God
there
:
the
Church
are
a
Tender
Company
;
a
little
will
carry
us
through
the
world
,
yea
very
little
:
Oh
Godliness
with
Content
!
Your
faithfulness
to
me
and
your
Mother
will
find
acceptance
in
Heaven
,
I
trust
.
My
dear
Child
,
tell
me
,
how
couldst
thou
be
without
God's
Rod
?
remember
he
hath
a
Staffe
also
.
For
your
Mother
(
considering
her
distemper
)
I
have
and
shall
say
more
unto
you
.
To
his
Grace
who
is
able
to
do
above
all
we
can
ask
or
think
,
I
commend
you
both
.
And
if
I
go
shortly
where
time
shall
be
no
more
,
where
Cock
nor
Clock
distinguish
hours
,
sink
not
;
but
lay
thy
head
in
his
Bosom
who
can
keep
thee
:
for
he
sits
upon
the
Waves
.
Farewel
.
35.
And
since
we
must
part
,
must
part
;
take
my
Wishes
,
Sighs
and
Groans
to
follow
thee
,
and
pitty
the
feebleness
of
what
I
have
sent
,
being
writ
under
much
,
yea
very
much
discomposure
of
spirit
.
My
WISHES
.
I
Wish
your
Lamp
and
Vessel
full
of
Oyl
,
Like
the
Wise
Virgins
,
(
which
all
Fools
neglect
)
And
the
Rich
Pearl
,
for
which
the
Merchants
toyl
,
Yea
,
how
to
purchase
are
so
circumspect
:
I
wish
you
that
White
Stone
,
with
the
New
Name
,
Which
none
can
reade
but
who
possess
the
same
.
I
wish
you
neither
Poverty
,
nor
Riches
,
But
Godlinesse
,
so
gainful
,
with
Content
;
No
painted
Pomp
,
nor
Glory
that
bewitches
;
A
blamelesse
Life
is
the
best
Monument
:
And
such
a
Soul
that
soars
above
the
Skie
,
Well
pleas'd
to
live
,
but
better
pleas'd
to
die
.
I
wish
you
such
a
Heart
as
Mary
had
,
Minding
the
Main
,
open'd
as
Lydea's
was
:
A
Hand
like
Dorcas
,
who
the
Naked
clad
;
Feet
like
Joanna's
,
posting
to
Christ
apace
.
And
above
all
,
to
live
your self
to
see
Marryed
to
Him
,
who
must
your
Saviour
be
.
For
ENGLAND
,
&c.
I
Wish
that
Prince
and
Rulers
,
all
that
guide
,
May
be
good
,
and
do
good
;
which
is
God-like
:
And
that
their
care
appear
,
so
to
provide
,
That
those
of
Strength
do
not
the
Weaker
strike
;
The
End
of
Rule's
from
Christian
Policy
,
To
live
in
Godlinesse
,
and
Honesty
.
I
wish
Religion
truly
pure
may
grow
,
Above
Prophanenesse
,
and
Idolatry
,
Which
strive
to
nip
it
,
and
to
keep
it
low
Throughout
the
World
,
from
the
Seeds
Enmity
:
I
wish
this
present
Government
surmount
All
went
before
,
and
that
in
Gods
Account
.
I
wish
Religion
,
Learning
,
and
the
Poor
May
find
sound
Patrons
,
and
that
Holy
Life
Make
the
distinction
still
,
and
that
no
Door
Be
stopt
,
where
Christ
would
enter
to
his
Wife
;
And
that
the
Saints
would
learn
to
suffer
,
where
Nothing
can
help
,
more
than
a
Groan
,
or
Tear
.
Amen
,
Amen
.
Whosoever
would
Live
long
and
Blessedly
,
let
him
observe
these
Following
Rules
,
by
which
he
shall
attain
to
that
which
he
desireth
.
Let
thy
Thoughts
Be
Divine
,
Awful
,
Godly
.
Let
thy
Talk
Be
Little
,
Honest
,
True
.
Let
thy
Works
Be
Profitable
,
Holy
,
Charitable
.
Let
thy
Manners
Be
Grave
,
Courteous
,
Cheerful
.
Let
thy
Dyet
Be
Temporate
,
Convenient
,
Frugal
.
Let
thy
Apparil
Be
Sober
,
Neat
,
Comely
.
Let
thy
Will
Be
Confiant
,
Obedient
,
Ready
.
Let
thy
Sleep
Be
Moderate
,
quiet
,
Seasonable
.
Let
thy
Prayers
Be
Short
,
Devout
,
Often
,
Fervent
.
Let
thy
Recreation
Be
Lawful
,
Brief
,
Seldom
.
Let
thy
Memory
Be
Of
Death
,
Punnishment
,
Glory
.
FINIS
.