A godlie mans guide to happinesse A manuell of necessary motiues, holy meditations, and godly prayers, to stirre vp the hearts of men vnapt to pray. To the great comfort of all, that with due and holy attention will practise this most godly and Christian dutie. Written for his owne, and published for the comfort of them that long for trv[e] happinesse. by I.N.
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A godlie mans guide to happinesse A manuell of necessary motiues, holy meditations, and godly prayers, to stirre vp the hearts of men vnapt to pray. To the great comfort of all, that with due and holy attention will practise this most godly and Christian dutie. Written for his owne, and published for the comfort of them that long for trv[e] happinesse. by I.N.
Norden, John, 1548-1625?
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A
GODLIE
MANS
GVIDE
to
Happinesse
.
A
Manuell
of
necessary
Motiues
,
holy
Meditations
,
and
godly
Prayers
,
to
stirre
vp
the
hearts
of
men
vnapt
to
pray
.
To
the
great
Comfort
of
all
,
that
with
due
and
holy
attention
will
practise
this
most
godly
and
Christian
dutie
.
Written
for
his
owne
,
and
published
for
the
Comfort
of
them
that
▪
long
for
trv●
happinesse
.
By
I.
N.
LONDON
Printed
by
A
M.
for
Iohn
Marriott
,
and
are
to
bee
sold
at
his
Shop
in
Saint
D●nstons
Churchyard
in
Fleetsheet
.
1624.
TO
THE
HONORAble
,
Sir
IAMES
FVLLERTON
,
Knight
,
one
of
his
Highnesse
Councell
of
Reuenues
,
&c.
I
Know
(
Sir
)
that
I
shall
be
censured
very
rash
,
in
attempting
;
more
vnaduised
,
in
publishing
;
and
most
improuident
,
in
making
your selfe
the
Patron
of
so
weak
a
Pamphlet
;
for
the
first
,
I
may
excuse
me
,
in
that
I
haue
bin
long
vnwillingly
idle
,
and
loath
to
lose
the
benefit
of
the
inforced
intermission
of
mine
accustomed
former
imployments
,
I
could
conceiue
no
fitter
or
better
passe-time
,
then
in
this
interim
,
to
seek
some
inward
consolation
,
in
my
outward
discomforts
:
for
the
Second
,
I
acknowledge
,
that
imparting
these
weake
Meditations
,
vnto
some
seeming
wel
affected
to
the
best
things
,
I
was
incouraged
to
lay
them
down
to
the
pleasure
of
the
Printer
;
who
,
not
without
examination
&
allowance
hath
brought
the
same
to
publike
view
.
And
as
touching
the
Third
and
last
,
in
making
choyce
of
your
name
among
so
many
of
that
Honourable
Societie
,
whom
I
most
humbly
and
sincerely
honour
and
reuerence
;
I
cannot
but
acknowledge
the
reason
,
to
be
no
other
then
that
I
haue
bene
longest
knowen
vnto
your selfe
;
And
you
best
know
,
how
I
haue
past
many
yeares
in
Seruice
and
attendance
,
commanded
by
that
Honorable
Table
.
These
,
no
fained
excuses
may
,
in
honourable
fauour
,
free
me
from
the
censure
of
rashnesse
in
attempting
it
,
of
presumption
in
publishing
it
,
and
of
neglect
,
or
respect
of
persons
in
patronizing
it
:
So
shall
I
think
mine
idle
time
not
altogether
lost
,
though
gaining
little
outward
profit
,
whether
happy
or
vnhappy
,
in
gaining
the
one
,
or
loosing
by
the
other
.
I
am
so
much
the
more
doubtful
to
iudg
,
by
how
much
I
obserue
,
that
men
are
heere
censured
happy
&
vnhappy
(
not
in
respect
of
inward
or
outward
qualities
,
bee
they
good
or
bad
)
but
according
to
their
present
prosperitie
or
aduersity
,
glory
or
basenesse
,
riches
or
pouertie
,
which
as
a
sea
often
ebbes
and
flowes
;
As
variable
winds
blow
,
and
waues
tossed
,
are
lifted
vp
,
and
come
low
:
wherein
some
sayling
with
a
full
gale
of
glory
,
thinke
themselues
in
highest
felicity
,
who
yet
forgetting
or
neglecting
to
steere
aright
the
huge
bulke
of
their
conceiued
happinesse
,
rush
many
times
vpon
the
rocke
of
Disgrace
,
more
grieuous
then
their
former
fortunes
were
glorious
.
He
that
seeketh
and
thinketh
to
finde
true
felicitie
in
the
inconstant
things
of
this
life
,
is
as
happy
a
man
as
hee
that
dreameth
that
hee
hath
sound
great
store
of
golde
,
and
seemeth
to
reioyce
beyond
measure
in
his
good
fortune
;
and
when
hee
awakes
,
hee
findes
it
a
dreame
:
So
may
men
dreame
of
happinesse
here
;
but
it
is
onely
reserued
for
such
as
make
least
account
of
this
worlds
glory
,
who
haue
their
conuersations
in
Heauen
while
they
liue
in
the
earth
,
where
yet
no
man
can
iudge
of
a
truely
happy
man.
At
yours
,
and
to
the
rest
of
their
Honourable
Commaunds
euer
ready
.
IOHN
NORDEN
.
To
as
many
as
long
for
true
happinesse
.
IT
is
not
to
be
doubted
,
but
that
euery
man
that
liueth
,
desireth
to
liue
a
happie
life
:
but
euery
man
taketh
not
the
right
course
to
be
truly
happy
.
For
,
as
there
is
in
euery
man
a
double
life
,
the
one
in
this
world
,
the
other
in
another
;
the
one
perishing
,
the
other
permanent
:
so
are
men
carnally
or
diuinely
qualified
,
and
accordingly
bend
their
indeuors
,
to
visible
,
or
inuisible
things
&
are
commonly
most
affected
to
things
visibly
seene
,
and
sencibly
felt
,
tasted
,
or
heard
.
But
as
for
inuisible
things
,
few
attaine
to
know
them
,
much
lesse
to
seeke
them
,
least
of
all
to
enioy
them
.
No
,
although
their
bodies
bee
ouerwhelmed
with
millions
of
maladies
,
&
their
minds
,
with
cares
,
griefs
,
&
infinite
passions
;
which
nothing
can
cure
,
or
releeue
;
but
some
speciall
inward
spirituall
working
,
yet
seldome
or
neuer
looke
they
vp
aboue
these
earthly
things
;
but
in
whatsoeuer
outward
,
or
inward
hard
estate
they
are
,
they
seeke
helpe
here
below
,
if
they
finde
it
,
they
ascribe
it
,
to
the
visible
meanes
and
acknowledge
them
happie
in
finding
it
;
in
sicknesse
to
finde
a
Phisition
to
heale
them
,
in
pouertie
to
haue
a
friend
to
enrich
them
,
is
imputed
happinesse
:
how
much
more
happinesse
were
it
then
for
a
man
neuer
to
be
sicke
,
to
be
rich
,
to
be
glorious
in
the
eyes
of
all
men
,
to
be
reputed
the
wisest
man
in
the
world
,
and
to
enioy
what
his
heart
could
thinke
here
?
Would
not
all
men
admire
this
mans
happinesse
?
And
would
not
all
men
desire
,
and
couet
to
bee
in
his
like
estate
?
And
admit
hee
attaine
vnto
it
,
is
this
the
happinesse
he
aymes
at
?
No
,
hee
must
haue
peace
and
long
life
to
enioy
it
,
else
the
very
consideration
of
death
,
and
to
forgoe
this
faigned
happinesse
would
be
vnto
him
as
if
a
sword
hung
ouer
his
head
by
the
haire
of
a
horse
taile
;
euerie
minute
readie
to
fall
on
his
head
.
Alas
,
what
shall
a
man
then
so
much
struggle
and
striue
for
the
happinesse
of
this
life
,
that
consisteth
onely
of
such
things
as
the
getting
of
them
requires
labour
,
somtimes
lies
;
the
hauing
of
of
them
,
enuie
;
the
keeping
of
them
feare
,
and
the
losse
of
them
sorrow
?
Which
yet
is
not
all
:
there
must
bee
finally
a
redde
rationem
,
an
account
;
a
fearefull
reckoning
;
which
,
if
men
would
dulie
consider
,
in
the
time
of
their
greatest
supposed
happinesse
,
it
would
make
their
hearts
to
tremble
,
and
their
knees
to
knock
one
against
another
like
Balteshars
,
for
feare
of
the
infelicitie
to
come
.
If
then
the
greatest
happinesse
that
man
can
attaine
vnto
in
this
life
,
be
thus
accompanied
,
where
is
that
true
happinesse
,
that
absolute
felicitie
finally
promised
?
Such
a
happinesse
there
is
,
but
what
it
is
,
no
man
can
declare
it
;
for
the
eye
hath
not
seene
it
,
the
eare
hath
not
heard
,
neither
can
it
enter
to
mans
heart
,
what
God
hath
prepared
,
for
those
that
loue
him
:
But
by
examination
of
the
chiefe
things
wherein
man
in
this
life
can
repute
himselfe
most
happie
,
and
comparing
them
with
what
things
wee
shall
futurely
enioy
,
it
will
appeare
,
that
mans
happinesse
doth
not
onely
consist
in
the
enioying
of
good
things
,
but
in
the
freedome
from
euill
things
.
The
happiest
man
in
this
life
hath
causes
of
mourning
,
griefe
and
vexation
of
spirit
,
his
life
requireth
labour
,
labour
brings
wearinesse
;
wearinesse
couets
rest
,
and
rest
presupposeth
the
bodies
infirmitie
;
and
consequently
decay
and
death
:
And
death
precedeth
eternall
saluation
,
the
happinesse
of
the
soule
and
bodie
,
or
damnation
of
both
.
This
is
the
portion
of
all
men
mortall
,
how
happie
soeuer
hee
seeme
to
liue
heere
,
where
they
haue
hunger
;
thirst
;
heate
and
cold
,
want
of
things
desired
:
and
a
thousand
discontents
;
from
which
wee
can
neuer
bee
freed
,
vntill
wee
come
to
our
heauenly
Country
,
where
Christ
is
ready
to
receiue
vs
,
where
the
holy
Angels
and
Saints
are
euer
expecting
the
increase
of
that
heauēly
cōpany
,
whose
ioy
and
happinesse
increaseth
by
the
increase
of
sanctified
soules
,
to
accompanie
them
;
where
the
seruitude
,
which
in
this
life
oppresseth
vs
,
shall
bee
turned
into
ioyfull
libertie
,
where
we
shall
haue
no
more
cause
of
mourning
,
of
sorrow
,
or
griefe
;
God
himselfe
will
wipe
away
our
teares
,
which
the
tribulations
which
we
heere
indure
haue
prouoked
,
death
shall
haue
no
more
power
ouer
vs
;
wee
shall
haue
there
no
night
,
nor
darkenesse
;
we
shall
neede
there
neither
sleepe
,
nor
corporall
sustinance
;
wee
shall
be
free
from
sicknesse
;
we
shall
feare
there
no
enuie
,
or
malice
of
neighbours
;
wee
shall
neither
buy
nor
sell
;
we
shall
neede
neither
gold
nor
siluer
;
wee
shall
want
no
garments
,
to
adorne
and
couer
our
base
bodies
,
as
heere
wee
need
;
wee
shall
not
be
oppressed
with
the
euills
wherewith
we
are
here
infested
;
But
bee
replenished
and
made
rich
in
euery
delightfull
thing
;
wee
shall
be
there
imbraced
of
our
God
,
as
his
deere
Children
;
our
happinesse
shall
be
so
vnspeakeable
,
as
it
cannot
be
manifested
here
,
what
and
how
glorious
it
shall
be
there
;
but
we
shal
haue
pleasure
at
Gods
right
hand
for
euermore
:
If
men
therefore
,
that
now
delight
themselues
in
the
multitude
of
their
riches
;
in
their
siluer
and
gold
▪
and
boast
themselues
of
the
greatnesse
&
largenesse
of
their
possessions
,
of
their
magnificent
Mansions
,
of
their
rare
iewels
,
the
abundance
of
their
plate
,
and
sumptuous
feasts
,
wherein
they
repose
their
felicitie
and
happinesse
,
did
duely
consider
the
shortnesse
and
inconstancie
of
these
deceiuing
v●nities
,
and
other
inferiours
that
delight
themselues
in
all
kindes
of
vices
,
would
but
call
themselues
to
minde
,
what
they
lose
by
these
false
baytes
of
Sathan
;
they
would
cast
their
most
precious
things
ouer-boord
into
the
sea
of
contempt
,
as
disdayning
this
worlds
accounted
best
things
,
and
their
dearest
sinnes
,
wherein
they
finde
a
kinde
of
counterfeit
content
,
and
felicitie
,
which
shall
bee
futurely
requited
,
with
future
infelicitie
and
horrour
.
Happie
then
shall
that
man
bee
euen
heere
,
(
seeme
he
neuer
so
vnhappie
)
that
for
this
pearle
wil
sell
all
his
carnall
and
corporall
delights
,
to
buy
such
a
precious
purchase
,
and
so
permanent
,
which
hee
shall
hold
to
himselfe
for
euer
,
freely
without
r●nt
,
without
feare
of
forfeiture
,
and
without
any
other
mans
claime
:
for
euery
man
shall
haue
so
competent
a
portion
,
as
none
shall
couet
another
mans
.
The
purchase
in
respect
of
the
value
is
not
deere
.
And
the
Lord
,
of
whom
he
shall
hold
it
,
will
neuer
expose
his
tennant
,
nor
exact
any
seruile
seruice
at
his
hands
,
but
such
as
shall
bee
vnto
himselfe
,
more
glorious
and
sweet
,
then
the
most
honourable
attendance
of
the
greatest
Potentate
of
the
World.
Hee
that
hath
a
heart
to
conceiue
the
least
portion
of
this
vnexpressible
happinesse
;
let
him
seeke
it
while
hee
hath
time
;
let
him
aske
Wisdome
of
him
,
that
giueth
it
freely
;
let
him
heare
,
and
consider
what
comfortable
words
,
and
serious
promises
are
spoken
of
in
the
Scriptures
,
touching
this
happinesse
by
the
Prophets
,
by
CHRIST
who
is
Truth
it selfe
,
and
by
his
Apostles
,
who
beare
witnesse
of
the
same
Truth
;
that
so
being
ass●●ed
of
the
certaintie
of
this
happinesse
to
come
;
hee
may
labour
to
attaine
it
,
hungering
and
thirsting
for
it
,
with
continuall
prayer
to
him
that
giues
it
.
Yours
in
Christian
good
will
,
I.
N.
To
the
zealous
Reader
.
THinke
not
the
Prayers
contained
in
this
little
Booke
too
ted●o●s
,
by
reason
of
their
length
and
pro●ixitie
:
for
if
thy
heart
be
well
prepared
,
thou
wilt
thinke
it
no
burden
to
thy
tongue
&
lips
to
speak
vnto
God
▪
Short
prayers
in
de●d
,
are
most
pleasing
to
them
that
vse
prayers
without
●eeling
,
more
for
custome
,
then
comfort
.
A
truely
〈…〉
man
is
not
onely
not
wearie
in
Prayer
▪
but
the
longer
hee
prayeth
,
with
the
more
fe●uency
he
prayeth
;
and
the
more
ferue●t
,
the
more
pleasing
vnto
God.
Pray
therefore
alwayes
in
all
manner
Prayer
and
Supplication
in
the
〈◊〉
,
(
as
long
as
Gods
holy
Spirit
〈…〉
Spirit
)
and
watch
thereunto
with
all
perseuerance
(
without
wauering
or
wearinesse
:
)
And
so
shall
thy
Prayers
be
acceptable
to
God
,
and
true
comfort
to
thy selfe
.
This
is
the
way
,
walk
in
it
.
A
HELPE
to
Happinesse
.
A
premeditation
or
consultation
,
what
are
the
best
things
,
men
in
this
life
should
principally
ayme
at
,
to
attaine
vnto
highest
happinesse
;
which
are
,
hearing
the
Word
,
and
faithfull
prayer
.
EVery
man
by
nature
hath
in
himselfe
a
desire
of
the
best
things
,
and
in
heart
wisheth
,
and
endeauoureth
to
obtaine
them
,
wherin
euery
man
hath
his
priuate
and
peculiar
affection
,
according
to
his
inward
qualification
.
But
as
Nature
and
Grace
,
mans
corruption
and
Gods
holy
Spirit
doe
differ
in
euill
and
good
so
doe
mens
desires
differ
in
choyce
of
things
,
yet
all
seem
to
tend
to
the
attaining
of
the
things
they
conceiue
to
be
best
,
and
they
are
such
as
may
giue
them
the
content
they
ayme
at
,
which
they
account
happinesse
.
And
the
most
of
men
in
stead
of
true
happinesse
,
desire
and
seeke
things
not
only
,
not
best
,
but
meerely
hurtfull
:
things
subiect
●o
the
outward
senses
,
which
are
often
deceiuing
,
taking
that
for
best
that
is
to
bee
abandoned
,
and
reiecting
that
which
is
to
bee
chiefly
imbraced
as
truest
happinesse
.
The
best
things
are
such
as
the
eye
sees
not
,
the
mouth
tasteth
not
,
the
handes
h●ndle
not
,
neither
are
they
subiect
to
natures
vnderstanding
:
For
the
things
wee
see
,
touch
,
or
taste
,
haue
neither
true
goodnes
,
such
as
to
giue
a
man
best
content
,
nor
continuance
to
tarry
with
them
;
and
therfore
are
but
shadowes
of
seeming
happinesse
,
which
by
experience
are
found
fickle
and
vanishing
Beautie
,
Health
of
the
body
,
Riches
,
Honour
,
high
Office
,
Long
life
,
Delights
&
Carnall
pleasures
,
Humane
wisdom
,
and
Naturall
Literature
,
are
things
much
esteemed
.
But
what
happinesse
is
there
in
any
of
these
?
Beautie
decayes
,
Health
impayreth
,
Riches
vanish
,
Honour
is
enuied
,
Offices
dangerous
,
Long
life
a
burden
,
humane
wisdome
foolishnesse
,
naturall
Learning
,
a
puffe
of
vaine
glory
.
Wee
may
therefore
conclude
,
that
if
a
man
haue
all
the
former
seeming
contentments
,
yet
may
he
not
be
happie
for
euery
of
them
drawes
with
it
,
as
many
disasters
,
as
variable
accidents
,
&
as
many
peeuish
passions
of
the
minde
,
which
draw
him
into
as
many
calamities
and
miseries
.
And
therefore
doth
no
truely
wise
man
thinke
,
that
these
are
worthy
the
name
of
happinesse
,
for
then
had
many
Heathens
attained
vnto
that
best
.
But
true
happinesse
consisteth
onely
in
the
enioying
of
Gods
graces
,
and
Spirituall
blessings
,
which
carnall
men
,
who
enioy
onely
the
former
,
haue
not
:
But
are
possest
with
an
erronious
opinion
of
those
things
which
seeme
best
,
rather
by
an
implicite
conceit
,
following
▪
and
allowing
that
for
happinesse
whi●h
the
most
hold
so
;
and
to
attaine
the
same
,
they
vse
all
meanes
,
labours
,
and
endlesse
trauailes
to
get
that
,
which
indeed
is
not
of
the
world
to
be
had
;
no
maruell
then
they
finde
it
not
,
and
yet
perswade
themselues
,
they
haue
in
some
measure
what
they
desire
,
euery
man
in
his
peculiar
affection
,
and
well
may
it
bee
sayd
in
some
measure
,
for
that
in
what
measure
soeuer
they
haue
,
that
they
craue
,
yet
they
want
the
fulnesse
of
what
they
desire
:
And
therefore
can
there
be
no
full
content
,
for
where
there
is
wanting
some
thing
,
the
want
of
the
thing
desired
,
is
a
kinde
of
ineuitable
miserie
,
and
distraction
of
the
minde
.
These
things
duely
considered
,
a
kinde
of
voluntarie
blindenesse
,
or
rather
desperate
madnesse
seemeth
to
appeare
in
the
most
,
who
contrarie
to
the
aduice
of
the
Apostle
(
that
willeth
to
vse
this
world
as
if
wee
vsed
it
not
)
vse
onely
this
world
and
the
vaine
pleasures
of
the
same
,
as
if
they
perswaded
themselues
,
that
either
they
shall
euer
remaine
here
,
or
that
after
this
,
there
will
be
no
other
being
whereas
the
contrarie
is
most
apparent
,
For
this
world
passeth
away
and
the
glorie
thereof
,
and
therefore
should
we
so
liue
,
as
only
to
passe
thorow
it
,
as
the
Jsralites
thorow
the
Red-sea
;
that
we
may
arriue
in
Heauēly
Canaan
,
the
place
of
true
Felicitie
,
Happinesse
and
absolute
content
in
deed
:
for
the
greatest
pleasures
and
deerest
delights
that
this
world
can
yeeld
,
are
like
the
vnsauorie
waters
of
Asphaltis
,
or
the
sea
of
Sodome
,
whereof
who
so
drinketh
,
infatuateth
or
dieth
instantly
:
And
yet
wee
see
,
that
hee
is
accounted
the
happiest
man
that
is
euen
drunke
with
this
worlds
vanities
.
Therefore
doe
the
truely
Wise
passe
by
them
,
as
it
were
disdayning
to
stoope
to
such
deceiuing
alurements
stopping
their
eares
with
Vlisses
,
least
these
forbidden
vanities
should
inchant
them
and
with
their
seeming
sweet
infecting
harmony
,
draw
them
to
the
gulfe
of
perdition
;
for
the
vanities
of
this
world
bewitch
the
mindes
of
carnall
men
,
who
though
they
reade
and
heare
their
danger
,
it
takes
no
impression
in
their
obdurate
hearts
:
they
reade
seldome
,
and
heare
,
and
vnderstand
not
;
they
yet
know
too
much
of
that
wherof
the
practice
doth
shew
they
are
not
wise
to
saluation
,
which
indeed
is
,
that
absolute
happinesse
,
that
the
truely
Wise
doe
onely
seeke
;
knowing
that
it
auayleth
them
not
,
to
gaine
the
whole
world
,
and
to
take
all
the
pleasures
and
delights
of
the
same
,
&
to
lose
their
owne
soules
.
The
best
thing
then
,
that
we
are
to
seeke
to
be
happy
,
is
to
be
assured
in
this
life
of
the
Kingdome
of
God
,
and
our
saluation
to
come
,
and
to
labour
for
the
righteousnesse
thereof
;
for
if
worldly
men
take
so
much
paines
for
the
getting
of
the
vanishing
things
of
this
world
,
counterfeit
happinesse
,
it
may
well
be
imputed
,
not
onely
as
a
shame
vnto
vs
,
but
a
iudgement
vpon
vs
,
if
wee
neglect
,
the
absolute
best
thing
,
the
saluation
of
our
soules
.
And
therefore
Saint
Paul
exhorts
vs
to
the
studie
of
righteousnesse
and
hatred
of
sinne
,
the
contrary
ends
of
both
being
set
before
vs
;
namely
as
touching
sinne
,
wherein
the
best
man
hath
once
defiled
himselfe
,
how
much
more
the
wicked
?
What
fruit
had
they
in
it
?
Onely
shame
,
and
griefe
,
and
in
the
end
death
eternall
,
without
repentance
,
therefore
it
behooueth
vs
now
to
cast
off
sinne
,
The
vanities
of
the
world
,
the
lusts
of
the
flesh
,
the
pride
of
life
,
to
which
things
whosoeuer
is
,
or
hath
beene
seruant
,
while
he
liueth
therein
is
free
from
righteousnesse
:
but
now
let
vs
seeke
to
bee
freed
from
the
seruitude
of
sinne
.
and
to
become
seruants
vnto
God
,
so
shall
wee
haue
our
fruit
in
holinesse
,
and
in
the
end
euerlasting
life
,
which
is
the
gift
of
GOD
through
Iesus
Christ
,
which
is
the
greatest
happinesse
that
we
can
desire
or
attaine
vnto
,
either
in
this
life
,
or
that
which
is
to
come
;
for
the
obtayning
whereof
,
euery
Christian
is
to
be
carefull
to
auoide
the
vanities
of
this
world
,
and
the
seruice
of
sinne
in
the
same
,
indeuoring
to
become
the
seruant
of
God
,
which
consisteth
in
an
holy
and
heauenly
conuersation
here
,
to
which
is
required
,
the
due
and
diligent
hearing
of
God
in
his
Word
:
and
the
true
practise
of
the
same
,
and
faithfull
prayer
to
him
.
By
these
two
rules
rightly
obserued
,
a
man
becomes
by
acceptation
perfect
,
and
by
imputation
iust
.
To
attaine
vnto
this
degree
of
perfection
and
happinesse
,
it
lyeth
not
in
our
owne
powre
;
wee
cannot
heare
without
the
Word
preached
,
and
none
that
heareth
vnderstandeth
;
but
he
whose
eares
the
Lord
openeth
.
Carnall
men
may
heare
indeed
,
but
not
profit
by
hearing
,
vnlesse
God
open
also
their
hearts
,
as
hee
did
the
heart
of
Lydia
,
for
both
the
Word
,
hearing
,
vnderstanding
and
practise
are
all
the
gifts
of
God.
Prayer
also
is
the
gift
of
God
,
so
is
Gods
Spirit
,
by
whom
wee
pray
,
and
faith
in
which
we
pray
;
and
the
assurance
,
to
obtaine
that
for
which
wee
pray
.
How
many
men
yet
are
there
of
conceit
,
that
they
can
pray
when
they
list
,
and
how
they
list
?
as
if
earnest
and
truely
cordiall
prayer
,
were
as
familiar
with
them
,
as
to
tell
a
tale
:
Liplabour
babling
indeed
,
is
as
easie
,
as
to
speake
any
thing
else
.
But
this
kinde
of
saying
prayers
,
is
not
indeed
prayer
,
but
prattle
,
a
mocking
of
God
,
and
hee
deceiueth
himselfe
,
that
so
speaketh
prayers
.
A
great
man
would
take
scorne
to
haue
a
tale
told
him
,
when
hee
that
tells
it
speakes
he
knowes
not
what
,
his
minde
being
vpon
some
other
matter
,
will
God
then
accept
of
those
prayers
,
which
onely
are
from
the
lippes
,
when
the
heart
thinks
of
nothing
lesse
,
then
what
the
mouth
speaketh
?
Their
words
may
bee
the
words
of
holy
prayer
indeed
,
but
if
the
heart
consent
not
,
nay
,
if
the
Minde
,
the
Will
and
Affections
,
and
the
Vnderstanding
agree
not
with
the
mouth
,
though
the
words
bee
good
,
the
prayer
is
counterfeit
.
True
and
feruent
,
faithfull
and
feeling
prayer
,
will
easily
bee
diserned
from
cold
and
counterfeit
,
for
whereas
a
man
may
fluently
without
stoppe
or
stagger
,
powre
forth
many
and
good
words
,
either
by
heart
or
booke
,
thinking
that
God
hath
enough
,
if
hee
haue
many
and
good
words
,
he
cannot
but
acknowledge
that
he
doth
but
flatter
God
,
&
so
commits
sinne
,
instead
of
a
sacrifice
;
But
the
prayer
that
pleaseth
God
,
and
profits
a
mans
selfe
,
comes
from
the
heart
to
the
lippes
,
or
the
heart
it selfe
,
sighes
and
groanes
vnto
God
,
in
such
vehemencie
of
spirit
,
as
if
not
with
outward
teares
,
yet
doth
the
heart
rent
it selfe
within
,
through
the
feruencie
of
zeale
,
and
power
of
a
liuely
faith
,
which
kinde
of
prayer
is
effectuall
,
and
pleasing
to
God
It
behooueth
therefore
euery
man
to
be
warie
how
hee
prayeth
,
least
hee
offer
the
sacrifice
of
fooles
,
and
so
instead
of
being
heard
,
to
his
comfort
,
hee
be
reiected
with
shame
.
Prayer
consisteth
not
in
the
motion
of
the
tongue
,
onely
which
is
proper
as
well
to
the
wicked
as
to
the
godly
:
But
prayer
is
a
diuine
exercise
of
a
sanctified
heart
And
therefore
before
we
presume
to
approch
into
the
presence
of
God
with
our
Petition
,
we
must
duely
and
reuerently
consider
,
to
whom
we
speake
,
what
we
speake
,
and
how
we
speake
;
wherein
we
may
not
consult
with
our
owne
fantasies
,
and
so
vnsanctifiedly
,
to
rush
vpon
the
holy
Throne
of
Iehouah
,
but
with
the
Word
of
God
,
wherein
is
layde
downe
the
persons
,
to
whom
,
the
manner
,
how
,
and
the
things
for
what
we
should
pray
.
These
things
being
vnderstood
,
it
behooueth
vs
also
to
looke
into
our selues
,
whether
this
great
worke
of
diuine
prayer
bee
within
the
compasse
of
our
owne
vnderstanding
,
what
to
pray
for
.
Saint
Paul
was
a
man
Diuinely
qualified
,
and
yet
hee
accounteth
himselfe
of
the
number
of
them
that
know
not
what
to
pray
,
as
hee
ought
:
what
then
?
Should
wee
not
pray
at
all
,
because
wee
know
not
how
,
or
what
to
pray
as
we
ought
?
God
forbid
,
wee
haue
a
promise
that
the
Spirit
of
God
shall
helpe
our
infirmities
,
and
shall
make
request
for
vs
vnto
God.
How
then
can
our
prayers
but
bee
heard
and
answered
,
seeing
they
proceed
from
Gods
own
Spirit
,
that
dwelleth
in
vs
?
The
truely
faithfull
in
deed
haue
a
promise
,
that
if
they
open
their
mouthes
,
God
will
hil
them
And
what
is
it
but
to
assist
them
in
their
prayers
?
And
therefore
not
euery
one
that
seemeth
to
pray
,
prayeth
in
the
Spirit
,
yet
this
promise
may
also
appertaine
vnto
,
and
in
time
,
be
felt
of
them
that
yet
want
him
.
Therefore
,
let
euery
man
indeuour
to
be
assured
,
that
the
Spirit
of
God
is
in
him
,
which
hee
shall
finde
by
the
feruencie
of
his
heart
in
prayer
;
although
he
be
not
at
all
times
a
like
powerfull
in
vs
,
but
retires
himselfe
for
a
time
,
to
make
vs
to
acknowledge
the
want
of
him
,
and
to
thirst
the
more
eagerly
for
his
presence
againe
,
which
euery
faithfull
soule
exercised
in
this
diuine
dutie
,
apparently
apprehendeth
;
for
the
Spirit
by
degrees
,
as
it
were
,
mooueth
our
dull
spirits
,
and
at
length
sheweth
himselfe
strong
and
powerfull
in
vs
,
for
when
we
finde
a
will
,
and
an
inclination
to
pray
,
though
wee
be
dull
,
not
able
to
open
our
mouthes
,
if
we
continue
in
desire
,
lifting
vp
our
hearts
to
God
;
wee
shall
feele
,
and
that
sensibly
the
Spirit
,
to
beginne
to
worke
and
to
touch
our
hearts
,
that
at
length
,
we
shall
,
not
onely
bee
able
to
speake
with
our
tongues
,
but
the
same
Spirit
will
frame
such
an
holy
forme
of
words
,
that
of
our selues
,
wee
were-neuer
able
to
vtter
:
which
I
confesse
to
the
praise
of
God
,
I
haue
found
by
most
comfortable
experience
,
and
therfore
to
my
more
effectuall
motiue
,
I
haue
framed
by
the
ayde
of
the
same
Spirit
,
this
Meditation
and
Prayer
following
,
which
may
bee
also
vnto
others
,
that
delight
in
this
holy
exercise
,
some
meane
to
suppresse
their
dulnesse
,
and
to
stirre
vp
their
affections
to
an
vnexpressible
zeale
.
A
motiue
to
a
prayer
against
the
tentations
of
Sathan
,
who
alwaies
endeauoureth
the
hinderance
of
prayer
,
and
all
other
diuine
and
holy
exercises
in
the
children
of
God
,
wherby
their
happinesse
may
bee
made
certaine
.
IT
is
impossible
that
any
man
,
be
he
neuer
so
deuout
and
religious
,
that
takes
any
action
in
hand
,
tending
either
to
Gods
glory
,
or
his
owne
soules
saluation
,
that
can
p●rforme
it
;
but
that
Sathan
,
that
malicious
enemy
of
mans
saluation
,
will
endeauour
to
peruert
it
,
or
altogether
to
hinder
it
.
As
when
Iehoshua
the
high
Priest
was
standing
before
the
Lord
to
pray
,
Sathan
stood
at
his
right
hand
to
resist
him
,
Zach
3.1
.
And
therefore
shall
any
man
thinke
that
though
he
be
strong
in
faith
,
and
feruent
in
zeale
to
pray
vnto
God
,
for
any
holy
and
heauenly
gift
,
that
he
shall
haue
no
opposition
by
this
ougly
Dragon
,
and
subtill
inuisible
Serpent
?
nay
,
the
more
faithfull
,
the
more
zealous
,
and
the
more
strong
a
man
seemeth
,
(
or
indeed
is
)
in
any
holy
and
diuine
exercise
;
so
much
the
more
mad
and
malicious
is
Sathan
to
oppose
him
,
especially
when
he
betaketh
himselfe
to
holy
prayer
,
whereof
no
true
child
of
God
is
,
or
can
be
ignorant
:
he
cannot
but
find
that
Sathan
,
thogh
vnseene
,
standeth
at
his
right
hand
,
at
his
elbow
,
laying
before
the
eye
of
his
mind
,
infinite
idle
and
vnholy
thoughts
,
not
to
be
nūbred
or
declared
;
either
to
peruert
or
vtterly
to
hinder
his
faith
&
zeale
;
&
that
sometimes
with
seeming
(
though
counterfeit
)
diuine
thoughts
.
As
when
,
in
the
mayd
,
he
spake
(
seeming
commendably
)
crying
of
Paul
and
other
Apostles
,
saying
,
These
men
are
the
seruants
of
the
most
high
God
,
which
shew
vnto
you
the
way
of
saluation
,
Act
16.16
17.
But
what
intended
he
by
this
his
flattery
?
onely
to
hinder
Paul
&
the
rest
from
prayer
,
a
worke
that
offends
him
most
,
and
makes
vs
most
happy
.
Therefore
when
he
flattereth
a
man
most
,
as
perswading
him
that
hee
hath
graces
and
holy
giftes
enough
:
hee
needs
seeke
no
more
of
God
,
he
may
saue
his
labor
of
praying
;
he
may
take
his
case
and
betake
himselfe
to
his
wonted
worldly
affaires
;
he
needs
not
bee
so
curious
in
reading
the
Word
,
or
hearing
Sermons
,
he
hath
knowledge
sufficient
,
and
in
the
right
way
to
happines
,
and
may
take
more
pleasure
and
delight
in
many
other
things
to
his
better
content
.
And
thus
are
too
many
ouermuch
lulled
asleepe
by
these
most
dangerous
inchantments
of
Sathan
,
especially
when
he
coueteth
to
deceiue
by
his
crafty
vndermining
men
,
vnder
his
counterfet
shew
of
being
an
Angell
of
light
.
Hauing
then
such
a
dangerous
enemy
,
more
malicious
then
the
red
Dragon
,
more
wi●y
and
subtill
then
the
crooked
Serpent
,
and
more
strong
then
the
roaring
Lyon.
We
had
need
to
craue
wisedome
,
to
preuent
his
subtilties
,
and
strength
to
withstand
his
forces
:
for
being
ignorāt
of
his
stratagems
,
and
weake
to
encounter
his
malice
,
we
can
neither
speake
vnto
God
in
our
prayers
,
which
are
the
principall
weapons
to
wound
,
and
put
backe
the
force
of
this
enemy
,
nor
with
true
desire
,
attentiue
eare
,
a
feeling
heart
,
constant
resolution
,
&
firme
faith
,
heare
God
spea●e
vnto
vs
by
his
holy
Messengers
and
Ministers
,
the
life
of
our
soules
,
and
truest
happinesse
.
It
behoueth
vs
therefore
to
labour
,
to
haue
the
eyes
of
our
minds
inlightned
,
and
to
be
filled
with
all
spirituall
prudence
and
wisdome
,
that
wee
may
bee
able
to
discouer
his
deceiuing
intisements
,
to
auoyd
h●s
forged
●la●teries
,
and
to
withstand
his
deadly
tentations
:
let
vs
indeauor
by
continuall
prayer
to
God
,
that
in
vs
may
be
created
and
confirmed
a
strong
and
liuely
faith
,
p●rfect
and
constant
zeale
to
serue
the
liuing
God
,
and
an
holy
iealousie
ouer
our selues
,
lest
Sathan
cir●umuent
vs
with
his
secret
and
subtill
intisements
,
in
stealing
away
our
mindes
,
and
estranging
our
thoughts
from
heauen
and
heauenly
things
,
from
God
in
Christ
,
in
our
holy
Meditations
and
Prayers
.
A
Prayer
for
Gods
holy
assistance
,
against
Sathan
,
who
indeauoureth
to
hinder
our
most
godly
prayers
,
fit
to
bee
said
in
all
tentations
.
O
Holy
,
mercifull
,
louing
,
and
most
powerfull
Lord
God
,
who
sittest
in
the
heauens
,
and
extendest
thy
power
ouer
all
the
powers
in
heauen
&
earth
,
who
hast
the
rule
and
absolute
gouernment
of
all
thy
creatures
;
and
to
whom
all
Principalities
,
Powers
,
Angels
,
and
spirits
doe
obey
:
Consider
,
I
humbly
pray
thee
,
the
malignity
and
malice
of
that
reprobate
infernall
spirit
,
that
falsely
pretendeth
dominion
in
the
earth
,
and
in
the
ayre
,
and
how
he
enuieth
and
opposeth
,
as
much
as
in
him
is
,
euery
good
dutie
and
seruice
which
thy
dearest
children
owe
and
endeauour
to
performe
vnto
thee
;
and
aboue
all
other
duties
,
tending
to
thine
owne
glory
,
and
mans
saluation
,
he
seeketh
to
hinder
none
,
with
more
bitter
violence
,
with
greater
enuy
,
&
more
wicked
and
subtill
wiles
,
then
this
of
diuine
prayer
,
and
endeauoreth
to
draw
thine
owne
dearest
children
into
manifold
sinnes
.
But
Lord
,
as
thou
hast
commaunded
vs
to
call
vpon
thine
holy
Name
,
to
pray
vnto
thee
for
faith
,
repentance
,
obedience
,
and
other
graces
and
blessings
:
So
according
to
thine
holy
ordinance
,
I
fall
downe
prostrate
vpon
the
knees
of
mine
vnfayned
heart
,
praying
thee
to
prepare
mee
to
this
holy
dutie
,
thou
sayest
,
Open
thy
mouth
,
and
I
will
fill
it
.
O
Lord
open
thou
my
mouth
,
and
fill
it
with
heauenly
words
,
furnish
and
fill
my
heart
with
a
strong
,
powerful
,
and
liuely
faith
,
constant
and
firme
obedience
,
that
without
wauering
,
and
straying
thoughts
,
I
may
at
this
time
make
my
prayers
&
supplications
vnto
thee
,
through
thy
Spirit
.
And
thou
,
O
inuincible
Lyon
of
the
Tribe
of
Iudah
stand
vp
for
me
,
against
my
most
mortall
and
most
malicious
enemy
,
satan
,
who
among
his
own
is
strong
and
powerfull
,
but
where
thou
my
Captaine
Christ
Iesus
appearest
,
he
is
weake
,
he
cannot
enter
the
house
where
thou
dwellest
.
O
fortifie
therfore
,
O
Lord
,
and
barre
vp
the
doore
of
my
soule
,
that
hee
enter
not
,
nor
preuaile
against
it
with
the
fire
of
his
tentations
.
Lord
thou
knowest
,
hee
is
enemie
to
thee
,
how
much
more
vnto
mee
?
Hee
tempted
thee
,
but
preuayled
not
,
but
his
tentations
flesh
and
blood
cannot
withstand
.
Therefore
arme
thou
me
against
him
,
with
heauenly
weapons
,
and
hee
shall
neither
stoppe
nor
hinder
mine
intended
prayers
,
as
he
desireth
and
laboureth
to
doe
.
Let
my
spirit
,
O
Lord
,
bee
strongly
assisted
by
thy
Spirit
,
and
my
prayers
shall
be
faithfull
,
my
heart
shall
entertaine
no
wandering
,
wauering
,
vnholy
,
or
prophane
thoughts
,
euill
cogitations
,
or
wicked
motions
,
though
I
bee
an
vnholy
lumpe
of
my selfe
by
nature
,
prompt
and
more
ready
to
thinke
,
or
doe
euill
then
good
:
yet
by
thy
Grace
,
Satan
shall
slie
,
sinne
shall
die
,
and
thy
Spirit
shall
be
liuely
in
mee
,
and
my
prayers
powerfull
and
effectuall
to
thee
in
my
mediator
Christ
Iesus
.
O
let
thy
heauenly
helpe
,
Lord
,
in
Iesus
Christ
descend
into
all
the
powers
and
parts
of
my
soule
and
body
,
that
in
speaking
vnto
thee
,
I
may
feele
the
worke
and
operation
of
thy
Grace
so
sufficient
in
my
heart
,
that
I
may
obtaine
a
victorious
conquest
ouer
satan
,
sinne
and
mine
owne
corruptions
,
and
bee
assured
,
through
Christ
Iesus
my
Sauiour
,
to
bee
either
freed
from
his
preuayling
tentations
,
or
to
bee
able
to
resist
them
;
that
all
my
prayers
at
all
times
may
bee
such
,
as
thou
maist
Fatherly
accept
them
in
thy
beloued
Sonnes
mediation
for
mee
,
howsoeuer
weake
and
imperfect
they
bee
in
respect
of
my selfe
,
who
am
full
of
imperfections
,
which
I
humbly
pray
thee
to
grant
for
his
sake
,
who
hath
conquered
him
,
that
couets
my
finall
destruction
.
Amen
.
Lord
euermore
strengthen
and
increase
my
faith
in
Iesus
Christ.
A
meditation
or
motiue
,
when
wee
are
dull
to
pray
,
a
most
necessary
preparatiue
,
to
prayer
.
AS
it
is
my
griefe
,
O
Lord
,
to
consider
the
hardnesse
of
my
heart
,
my
faintnesse
and
dulnesse
to
pray
:
So
can
I
not
but
comfort
my selfe
,
in
the
consideration
of
thy
great
mercie
towards
mee
,
in
often
remouing
my
dulnesse
,
and
in
steed
thereof
,
to
giue
mee
thy
holy
Spirit
,
and
by
him
power
effectually
,
to
call
vpon
thy
holy
Name
,
which
effectuall
fauour
of
thine
,
I
haue
oftentimes
found
and
felt
,
when
I
haue
had
an
inward
motion
,
tending
to
a
desire
to
pray
,
and
yet
no
power
or
ablenesse
to
open
my
mouth
,
or
aptnesse
to
mooue
my
tongue
,
which
hath
caused
mee
many
times
to
thinke
that
thou
my
God
,
hast
beene
angry
with
me
,
and
in
that
thou
hast
with-holden
thy
Grace
so
long
,
that
thou
hadst
forsaken
me
.
So
that
I
haue
bee●e
info●ced
oftentimes
to
keepe
silence
,
when
I
would
haue
prayed
,
and
to
close
my
lippes
,
when
I
would
haue
spoken
.
Thus
good
Father
haue
I
beene
many
times
,
as
I
am
presently
troubled
,
and
inwardly
greeued
,
euen
in
my
soule
,
at
the
hardnesse
of
my
heart
,
and
dulnesse
of
my
spirit
.
And
yet
at
length
I
haue
felt
as
it
were
the
fire
of
feruent
zeale
so
inflaming
my
heart
,
as
I
haue
suddenly
spoken
with
my
tongue
,
I
haue
prayed
vnto
thee
,
and
thou
hast
heard
me
.
This
holy
and
heauenly
worke
of
diuine
Prayer
,
I
finde
to
bee
farre
from
mine
,
or
the
best
mans
owne
power
▪
it
is
the
onely
worke
of
thine
owne
spirit
,
which
I
haue
many
times
formerly
discerned
,
for
when
I
haue
beene
most
dull
,
and
most
vnapt
to
pray
,
thou
,
euen
then
,
euen
in
my
silent
musing
,
and
meditation
hast
enabled
mee
,
to
breake
forth
into
words
,
through
faith
,
which
haue
pierced
the
very
heauen
of
heauens
,
euen
vnto
the
Throne
of
thy
great
Maiesty
,
where
Christ
my
mediator
stands
at
thy
right
hand
,
presenting
in
my
behalfe
,
my
weake
Petitions
euen
in
his
owne
name
;
and
obtayneth
mine
humble
desires
,
according
to
thine
owne
will
which
worketh
bet●er
things
for
mee
,
then
I
can
wish
or
will.
I
am
not
therefore
discouraged
,
good
Father
,
thogh
I
seeme
dull
in
spirit
,
and
as
it
were
cleane
destitute
of
faith
,
for
I
know
thy
guifts
are
without
repentance
,
and
though
I
feele
not
this
heauenly
worke
of
thy
holy
Spirit
,
at
all
times
a
like
in
mee
:
yet
doe
I
assure
me
,
hee
is
in
mee
,
and
will
worke
againe
,
the
same
heauenly
effects
,
for
where
thy
blessed
Spirit
hath
once
taken
habitation
;
and
once
sanctified
the
soule
,
that
soule
is
so
effectually
possessed
by
that
●pirit
,
and
that
Spirit
so
possesseth
that
soule
;
that
he
may
be
assured
,
neuer
to
bee
absolutely
dispossest
of
the
same
,
howsoeuer
hee
may
for
a
time
seeme
absent
.
It
is
but
to
mooue
mee
to
seeke
him
,
finding
the
want
of
him
,
to
long
for
him
.
Though
therefore
deare
Father
,
my
heart
bee
hard
by
nature
,
and
my
spirit
d●ll
to
euery
holy
and
heauenly
dutie
,
so
that
I
cannot
outwardly
vtter
,
what
I
inwardly
conc●iue
and
desire
,
with
such
earnestnesse
and
feruencie
of
spirit
,
as
I
would
;
but
weakly
and
coldly
:
yet
doe
I
assure
my selfe
,
that
thou
considerest
mine
inward
desires
,
and
hearest
my
most
secret
sighes
,
as
plainely
,
as
if
I
cryed
vocally
and
aloud
vnto
thee
.
I
cannot
therefore
but
confidētly
assure
my selfe
,
that
according
to
thy
promise
thou
wilt
heare
and
consider
,
that
I
hunger
and
thirst
for
thy
Grace
,
that
my
dulnesse
being
remooued
,
I
may
conceiue
in
my
heart
,
and
frame
with
my
lippes
mine
humble
Petitions
,
which
thou
hast
promised
to
heare
,
especially
such
as
thine
owne
Spirit
composeth
in
mee
.
Deny
not
therefore
good
Father
,
thy
holy
Spirit
to
me
,
that
faithfully
craue
him
onely
to
be
enabled
effectually
to
pray
vnto
thee
:
for
thou
hearest
not
the
best
man
,
nor
the
best
ma●s
best
prayers
,
for
his
,
or
his
prayers
sake
;
but
for
thy
best
beloued
So●nes
sake
,
and
such
onely
prayers
as
proceed
from
thine
owne
Spirit
.
Fulfill
therefore
good
Father
,
all
my
godly
desires
,
through
Christ
Iesus
.
Amen
.
Let
vs
pray
,
that
wee
may
pray
.
A
Prayer
to
God
for
the
helpe
of
his
holy
Spirit
,
and
other
blessings
,
Spirituall
and
Corporall
;
comprehending
the
most
needfull
blessings
,
fit
at
all
times
for
all
men
to
bee
desired
.
GRacious
Lord
God
,
and
most
louing
in
Iesus
Christ
,
thou
hast
of
thine
owne
free
fauour
,
willed
all
men
,
in
all
their
troubles
,
dangers
,
and
wants
of
Spirituall
and
corporall
things
to
come
vnto
thee
,
to
aske
in
the
Name
of
thy
Sonne
,
and
they
shall
receiue
whatsoeuer
they
faithfully
pray
for
,
to
seeke
helpe
of
thee
,
and
they
shall
finde
it
,
in
due
and
conuenient
time
,
to
knocke
and
they
shall
be
admitted
into
thy
holy
presence
.
But
good
Father
,
as
thou
hast
thus
commanded
me
,
worke
in
me
power
,
truely
to
performe
what
thou
commandest
;
to
pray
,
I
am
of
my selfe
dull
;
to
seeke
,
I
am
by
nature
blinde
;
&
to
knock
,
I
am
weake
;
and
therefore
thou
seemest
to
command
things
to
mee
impossible
to
be
effectually
performed
:
say
therefore
vnto
mee
,
and
performe
it
,
namely
that
thy
Spirit
may
bee
a
sufficient
helpe
vnto
me
.
Thou
well
knowest
mine
insufficiencie
Lord
,
for
I
cannot
of
my selfe
thinke
a
good
thought
,
how
then
can
I
of
my selfe
,
pray
and
obtaine
,
seeke
,
and
finde
what
I
want
,
or
knock
,
and
bee
heard
.
This
sacred
vertue
none
by
nature
hath
,
it
is
of
thine
owne
free
Grace
,
and
they
onely
to
whom
thou
vouchsafest
thine
owne
Spirit
,
to
helpe
their
weakenesse
,
such
in
deed
can
faithfully
aske
,
such
can
dilligently
seeke
,
and
constantly
knock
,
they
onely
obtaine
what
they
aske
,
they
finde
what
they
seeke
,
and
they
are
heard
and
admitted
into
thy
presence
when
they
knock
.
Oh!
admit
me
Lord
into
the
number
of
them
,
to
whom
thou
hast
vouchsafed
this
blessed
priuiledge
,
for
they
belong
onely
to
the
truely
faithfull
,
to
such
as
thou
hast
chosen
of
thine
owne
purpose
,
whom
thou
hast
made
fit
to
aske
,
apt
to
seeke
,
and
constant
to
knock
.
Apt
I
am
to
aske
many
things
,
because
I
want
manie
,
and
I
know
thou
art
able
,
and
willing
to
grant
euery
good
thing
.
But
I
am
ignorant
so
to
aske
,
as
I
may
obtaine
,
for
I
know
not
what
to
aske
as
I
ought
,
and
therefore
though
I
often
aske
,
I
receiue
not
,
because
I
aske
amisse
;
tending
my
prayers
rather
to
the
obtayning
of
carnall
,
then
Spirituall
and
heauenly
riches
,
and
finde
them
not
;
because
thou
seest
the
granting
of
them
,
rather
hurtfull
then
profitable
vnto
me
.
Send
therefore
deare
Father
,
send
downe
thine
holy
Spirit
,
who
onely
knoweth
how
,
and
for
what
to
pray
,
though
I
bee
ignorant
of
,
hee
knoweth
thy
will
,
though
I
bee
weake
,
he
is
powerfull
;
and
though
I
be
corrupt
,
He
is
holy
,
as
thou
art
holy
:
●ee
onely
knoweth
my
wants
,
and
how
they
may
bee
supplied
.
Therfore
none
but
he
Lord
can
make
my
Petitions
effectuall
,
none
but
he
can
speake
for
me
,
with
me
,
and
in
me
.
Good
Father
denie
him
not
vnto
me
,
leaue
mee
not
destitute
of
his
helpe
.
When
he
commeth
,
he
shall
teach
mee
all
things
,
fit
for
mee
to
learne
,
hee
will
prompt
,
and
tell
mee
what
is
fit
for
me
to
aske
,
he
will
prepare
my
heart
,
hee
will
rectifie
mine
affections
,
he
will
abandon
my
darkenesse
,
deadnesse
and
dulnesse
,
he
will
vntie
my
faultring
tongue
,
and
open
my
closed
lippes
,
hee
will
inlarge
my
knowledge
,
and
increase
my
faith
.
If
I
pray
without
the
helpe
of
this
thy
blessed
Spirit
,
I
doe
but
vtter
a
bare
voyce
,
O
Lord
,
which
cannot
come
into
thy
presence
,
nor
returne
any
comfort
to
mine
owne
soule
,
but
speaking
in
and
by
him
,
I
shall
assuredly
bee
heard
,
for
when
I
pray
sinceerely
and
effectually
in
deed
,
it
proceedeth
not
from
mee
,
but
from
thine
owne
Spirit
that
speaketh
in
mee
,
and
beareth
the
greatest
burden
of
my
prayers
,
though
the
words
passe
thorow
my
lippes
,
they
are
not
mine
,
but
his
.
Holy
Father
,
euer
louing
;
louing
in
Iesus
Christ
,
inkindle
mine
inward
godly
desires
,
through
the
heauenly
heate
of
that
Sacred
fire
,
touch
my
tongue
,
with
that
celestiall
cole
from
thine
Alter
,
then
shall
my
heart
be
prepared
;
then
shall
my
lippes
be
opened
,
then
shall
I
speake
with
my
tongue
,
according
to
the
meaning
of
thine
owne
Spirit
;
then
shall
mine
vnderstanding
be
inlarged
,
then
shall
I
app●ehend
thy
mercie
,
and
fully
enioy
thy
fauour
in
Christ
my
Redeemer
;
then
shall
I
finde
and
feele
in
my
heart
,
an
assured
testimony
,
that
my
prayers
are
come
vp
into
thy
presence
,
then
shall
my
guilty
conscience
,
burdened
with
sinne
be
eased
;
and
all
my
wants
spirituall
and
corporall
,
outward
and
inward
,
bee
fully
and
timely
supplied
,
and
all
my
feare
bee
remooued
;
and
all
things
,
howsoeuer
seeming
contrary
,
shall
worke
together
,
yea
together
,
to
my
perpetuall
peace
and
comfort
in
thee
.
Then
shall
I
receiue
in
this
corrupt
and
weake
vessell
of
dust
,
the
Image
of
my
Redeemer
;
bring
forth
the
fruits
of
his
Kingdome
,
and
euen
here
,
feele
and
be
assured
,
to
bee
sealed
vp
in
the
number
of
thine
Elect
Saints
;
and
enioy
the
glorie
of
that
future
Kingdome
in
full
,
which
heere
I
partake
and
know
but
in
part
,
according
to
that
measure
of
knowledge
which
it
hath
pleased
thee
,
through
thy
holy
Spirit
to
reueale
vnto
mee
,
in
this
mortality
,
where
yet
I
finde
the
merits
of
my
Redeemer
preuayling
,
to
the
washing
away
of
my
sinnes
.
I
heare
his
voyce
,
and
heere
desire
to
follow
him
,
and
to
obey
thee
in
him
,
submitting
my selfe
to
vndergoe
whatsoeuer
crosse
for
his
sake
,
as
hee
endured
the
death
of
the
Crosse
for
mine
;
euermore
looking
for
,
&
longing
to
be
dissolued
,
freed
from
this
worlds
vanities
,
and
to
bee
partaker
of
the
glory
,
which
by
his
death
,
hee
hath
purchased
,
for
all
that
in
faith
,
and
holy
desire
;
Looke
for
his
second
comming
:
for
which
all
that
are
guided
by
that
thy
Sacred
Spirit
,
inwardly
and
dayly
cry
,
Come
Lord
Iesus
,
come
quickly
,
and
end
these
dayes
of
sinne
.
In
the
meane
time
,
thou
knowest
louing
Father
,
that
I
am
inforced
to
bee
combred
about
manie
things
of
fa●re
inferiour
condition
,
following
the
things
of
my
worldly
calling
,
which
much
hinder
mee
in
the
performance
of
better
things
,
and
which
often
hinder
the
liuely
working
of
thy
holy
Spirit
in
me
.
I
am
much
and
often
oppressed
with
the
strength
of
mine
owne
inherent
corruption
,
often
assayled
by
that
my
deadly
enemie
Satan
;
who
seeketh
by
all
meanes
to
stop
the
course
of
thy
Spirit
in
mee
.
But
thy
Grace
is
sufficient
to
preuent
him
for
me
.
Thou
knowest
also
deare
Father
,
that
I
am
much
and
often
afflicted
heere
,
and
stand
subiect
to
many
and
seuerall
tryals
,
as
to
Sicknesse
of
the
body
,
danger
of
the
decay
and
losse
of
my
Limbes
,
and
the
vertue
and
vse
of
my
Senses
,
vnto
Pouertie
,
Enimies
,
and
Persecution
for
the
constant
profession
of
thy
sincere
Religion
,
vnder
the
burden
and
feare
of
these
ineuitable
miseries
,
I
should
faint
,
but
that
I
know
thee
and
whome
thou
hast
sent
Iesus
Christ
,
and
haue
the
assistance
of
thy
blessed
Spirit
,
testifying
vnto
my
spirit
,
that
thou
art
the
whole
and
sole
disposer
of
all
these
,
and
that
all
things
worke
together
for
the
comfort
of
all
that
loue
thee
,
knowing
and
being
assured
of
thy
presence
and
prouidence
,
I
will
not
feare
whatsoeuer
befall
mee
;
for
all
troubles
,
crosses
and
miseries
,
I
finde
to
bee
but
holesome
medecines
,
tempered
and
gently
prepared
by
thine
owne
hand
for
the
cure
and
preseruation
of
my
sicke
and
sinnefull
soule
,
from
eternall
death
.
I
humbly
therfore
,
deare
Father
,
pray
thee
,
so
to
moderate
my
troubles
and
afflictions
,
as
by
the
helpe
and
aide
of
thy
holy
Spirit
,
I
may
with
patience
and
an
heauenly
kinde
of
alacrity
vndergoe
them
.
And
according
to
thy
good
pleasure
continue
the
health
of
my
body
,
the
vse
of
my
senses
&
limbs
,
peace
with
thee
my
God
and
with
all
men
as
becommeth
mee
,
still
guided
by
thy
Spirit
,
that
I
abuse
none
of
thy
blessings
,
through
〈◊〉
corruptions
.
And
while
I
liue
here
in
this
earthly
pilgrimage
,
as
a
stranger
,
vouchsafe
me
,
with
thy
heauenly
Spirit
to
giue
mee
a
competent
portion
to
sustaine
me
,
and
those
whom
thou
hast
cōmitted
vnto
my
charge
,
both
in
spirituall
and
corporall
sustinance
.
Let
not
too
heauie
tentations
ouer-presse
me
,
let
too
much
want
,
and
too
heauy
crosses
ouer-afflict
me
,
but
lay
vpon
mee
what
thou
wilt
,
and
neuer
take
from
me
thy
holy
spirit
,
so
shal
I
be
able
to
beare
what
soeuer
thou
thinkest
fit
to
be
laid
vpon
me
;
for
by
the
strength
of
thy
preuayling
spirit
,
I
shall
vndergo
what
thou
in
loue
(
as
indeed
it
is
)
shalt
lay
vpon
me
.
By
promise
thou
carest
for
me
,
and
hast
willed
mee
to
cast
my
care
vpon
thee
,
which
I
haue
done
euer
since
it
pleased
thee
to
reueale
thy selfe
vnto
mee
in
thy
beloued
Son
:
and
thou
hast
not
deceiued
me
;
for
I
haue
euer
found
thee
true
,
in
performing
whatsoeuer
thou
hast
promised
,
euen
in
sending
that
Comforter
,
who
hath
euer
assisted
mee
in
reuealing
thy
Son
,
in
whō
thy
continual
fauour
I
haue
euer
found
most
certaine
,
secret
,
&
sweet
,
so
enabling
me
to
speake
vnto
thee
,
as
when
I
haue
offended
thee
by
my
sinnes
,
I
haue
felt
the
pardon
of
them
in
my
conscience
by
the
blood
of
that
Lambe
,
testified
vnto
mee
by
thy
blessing
and
sanctifying
Spirit
.
When
I
haue
been
sicke
,
thou
hast
healed
me
;
I
haue
been
in
mortall
danger
,
and
thou
hast
preserued
me
;
I
haue
had
enemies
,
and
thou
hast
defended
mee
;
and
often
haue
I
been
in
distresse
and
want
,
and
thou
hast
without
my
desire
or
desert
plentifully
releeued
mee
:
yea
Lord
,
thou
hast
giuen
when
and
what
I
haue
not
asked
;
thou
camest
and
soughtest
mee
first
,
Lord
,
I
sought
not
thee
:
thou
aboue
all
shewedst
thy selfe
most
louing
vnto
me
,
in
sending
me
thy
heauenly
spirit
,
without
whose
ayd
I
could
neither
aske
nor
receiue
,
I
could
neither
seeke
nor
find
comfort
;
neither
could
I
knock
,
or
deserue
to
enter
into
thy
fauour
.
By
his
presence
I
haue
felt
the
fulnes
of
ioy
and
gladnesse
:
And
therefore
as
thou
hast
graciously
begun
,
Lord
,
so
continue
thy
grace
in
mee
,
and
thy
loue
towards
me
alwayes
,
in
all
places
,
among
al
men
,
in
all
my
labours
,
iournies
,
and
lawfull
and
godly
endeauors
,
for
thou
hast
commaunded
mee
while
I
liue
●eere
,
not
to
rest
idle
,
but
to
bee
doing
that
which
is
good
.
Thou
hast
giuen
mee
a
calling
,
wherin
without
thy
blessing
I
may
labour
,
and
yet
lacke
;
I
may
ayme
by
good
intent
,
and
yet
erre
,
without
the
gracious
direction
of
thy
Spirit
:
I
am
ignorant
of
,
and
dull
to
performe
that
which
may
bee
either
well
pleasing
vnto
thee
,
or
truly
profitable
to
my self
.
But
by
the
blessing
of
thy
holy
spirit
,
I
shall
please
thee
in
Christ
,
who
pleaseth
thee
for
mee
;
and
then
whatsoeuer
I
thinke
,
speak
,
or
doe
,
shall
prosper
,
and
yeeld
mee
supply
in
all
my
wants
both
spirituall
,
and
corporal
,
and
that
from
day
to
day
,
which
by
thine
owne
promise
shall
be
sufficient
for
the
day
.
O
holy
and
heauenly
Father
,
hold
me
euer
in
thine
●bedience
,
shelter
me
vnder
●he
shaddow
of
thy
protecting
wings
,
stop
the
whole
course
of
sinne
in
mee
,
and
continue
thine
holy
spirit
euermore
in
me
,
that
he
being
my
guide
in
all
mine
actions
,
I
may
finish
the
course
of
this
my
pilgrimage
in
all
sinceritie
,
sanctitie
,
and
safetie
,
and
in
the
end
obtain
the
glory
which
thy
Sonne
my
Sauiour
hath
purchased
for
mee
by
the
shedding
of
his
blood
vpon
the
Crosse
;
and
that
euermore
while
I
liue
,
I
may
hunger
and
thirst
for
righteousnesse
,
vntill
I
become
a
perfect
man
in
Christ
Iesus
,
that
leauing
this
mortall
life
,
I
may
ioyfully
enter
into
that
euerlasting
rest
,
Amen
,
Amen
in
Christ
my
hope
,
my
strength
,
and
my
assured
and
faithfull
Redeemer
.
Lord
euermore
increase
and
confirme
my
faith
,
and
continue
that
holy
spirit
in
mee
.
A
motiue
to
begin
the
day
with
Prayer
.
IT
is
a
dutie
not
so
much
required
by
God
,
for
his
owne
sake
of
vs
,
as
necessary
and
profitable
for
our selues
to
begin
the
morning
with
Thanksgiuing
and
Prayer
.
The
first
,
God
requireth
of
vs
,
as
due
vnto
him
,
for
preseruing
vs
,
and
giuing
vs
rest
,
and
sleepe
,
and
safetie
the
night
past
.
The
second
,
namely
Prayer
,
most
necessary
for
our selues
:
for
without
the
helpe
,
fauour
,
power
,
protection
,
and
prouidence
of
God
,
wee
can
expect
no
comfort
,
or
safetie
,
or
good
successe
the
day
following
;
wherein
doe
lye
hidden
many
dangers
of
our
bodies
,
many
bayts
,
allurements
,
and
tentations
of
Sathan
,
the
world
,
and
our
owne
corruption
,
for
our
soules
,
much
weaknesse
and
ignorance
in
our selues
,
to
performe
the
works
of
our
owne
callings
,
besides
ill
successe
in
our
labours
without
his
blessing
.
And
shall
we
think
that
God
will
giue
a
blessing
to
our
labours
,
safetie
to
our
persons
,
or
defence
from
these
spirituall
enemies
,
vnlesse
we
recommend
our selues
to
him
in
the
name
of
his
sonne
?
No
,
no
,
we
may
not
flatter
our selues
,
that
because
we
are
lustie
and
strong
,
our
senses
good
,
&
our
wit
and
vnderstanding
quick
,
we
may
goe
from
bed
to
businesse
,
and
walke
in
our
owne
wayes
vntill
the
euening
,
either
forgetting
or
neglecting
God
,
who
with-holding
his
help
and
hand
,
infinite
are
the
dangers
wee
are
subiect
vnto
,
both
spirituall
and
corporall
.
Therefore
looke
vp
,
powre
out
thy
p●ayers
as
a
sweet
morning
sacrifice
to
God
in
the
name
of
Christ
;
and
then
goe
on
thy
lawfull
occasions
and
prosper
.
And
for
want
of
thine
own
abilitie
to
discouer
thine
owne
necessities
,
and
to
craue
Gods
blessings
,
and
to
declare
thy
thankefulnesse
,
vse
the
helpe
of
the
labours
of
such
as
haue
framed
prayer
for
this
holy
purpose
.
Or
this
,
howsoeuer
,
weake
prayer
following
,
wherein
thou
mayst
finde
comfort
,
and
so
with
inward
ioy
thou
maist
from
day
to
day
,
the
more
cheerefully
follow
thy
vocation
.
A
Prayer
fit
to
be
vsed
euery
morning
.
O
My
God
,
my
God
,
and
my
most
louing
Father
,
in
thy
best
beloued
Christ
Iesus
,
I
yeeld
thee
vnfained
thankes
,
for
thy
wonderfull
mercies
and
vndeserued
fauors
,
vouchsafed
vnto
mee
all
my
life
,
and
especially
for
electing
,
creating
,
and
redeeming
mee
,
and
for
all
other
thine
vnspeakeable
fauours
from
time
to
time
bestowed
vpon
mee
,
touching
my
corporall
comfort
,
which
I
neither
can
expresse
with
tongue
,
nor
conceiue
with
my
heart
.
Accept
I
humbly
beseech
the
merrits
of
thy
Sonne
,
and
his
obedience
in
stead
of
my
thankfulnesse
:
for
I
am
corrupt
,
and
sinnefull
,
not
worthy
to
take
thy
glorious
Name
into
my
mouth
,
nor
to
heare
that
sacred
Word
from
thine
,
I
am
dull
in
hearing
thee
speake
vnto
mee
,
and
slower
in
practise
of
the
good
things
thou
commandest
,
but
prone
and
apt
to
doe
the
contrarie
:
Such
is
my
wretched
condition
,
that
what
I
should
doe
in
answer
of
thy
will
,
I
cannot
doe
it
.
But
what
thou
forbiddest
,
I
cannot
but
doe
it
.
A
wretched
creature
,
deare
Father
,
I
am
by
nature
;
yet
grieued
in
heart
,
that
I
am
thus
yoked
,
that
when
I
would
serue
thee
,
I
finde
a
law
in
my
members
rebelling
against
thy
Spirituall
working
in
mee
,
and
am
cast
downe
in
my
Spirit
,
finding
so
strong
an
enemy
in
mine
owne
flesh
,
that
still
fighteth
against
thy
Grace
working
in
me
,
striuing
to
hinder
euery
good
and
holy
motion
arising
of
thy
Spirit
:
So
that
when
I
would
doe
good
,
euill
is
present
with
me
:
when
I
would
pray
,
dulnesse
and
drowsinesse
,
nay
(
to
my
shame
O
Lord
meere
infidelity
)
,
seemeth
so
to
possesse
my
heart
,
that
I
cannot
open
my
mouth
vnto
thee
.
Thou
giuest
mee
many
occasions
,
through
the
infinite
tokens
of
thy
loue
,
to
mooue
mee
to
thankefulnesse
,
and
yet
I
rest
vnthankefull
;
I
feele
also
in
my selfe
as
many
occasions
,
through
mine
owne
corruption
and
wants
,
to
hūble
my selfe
before
thee
in
prayer
;
&
yet
I
rest
,
often-times
altogether
mute
▪
and
can
neither
pray
,
nor
be
sufficiently
thankefull
.
The
comforts
,
which
thou
daylie
and
hourely
vouchsafest
mee
,
I
receiue
and
enioy
:
yet
doe
I
not
shew
my selfe
,
so
forward
to
acknowledge
these
thy
mercies
,
as
I
am
ready
to
receiue
them
.
They
are
infinite
,
my selfe
not
worthy
the
least
of
them
:
And
such
is
thy
loue
,
and
Fatherly
prouidence
ouer
mee
;
that
euery
day
and
euery
night
,
and
euerie
minute
in
them
,
doe
testifie
vnto
mee
,
that
thou
art
euer
my
mightie
God
in
defending
mee
from
dangers
,
and
my
most
louing
Father
in
cōtinually
supplying
all
my
wants
.
Thou
mayst
Lord
iustly
with-hold
from
mee
my
food
in
the
day
,
and
my
rest
in
the
night
,
because
in
the
day
I
neglect
to
serue
thee
,
and
in
the
night
I
forget
to
call
vpon
thee
.
Thou
canst
not
but
obserue
,
that
I
haue
not
so
thought
and
meditated
of
thy
louing
kindenesse
,
and
mine
owne
dangers
this
night
,
as
to
affoord
the
least
breach
of
my
sleepe
to
thanke
thee
.
I
layde
me
downe
,
I
haue
slept
my
sleepe
,
and
by
thy
power
risen
againe
.
O
that
mine
vprising
from
my
sleepe
,
might
through
thy
Grace
,
worke
mine
vprising
from
my
sleepe
in
sinne
.
Gracious
God
and
full
of
loue
,
grant
me
thy
loue
,
that
I
may
render
thee
loue
,
which
I
confesse
deserueth
not
the
name
of
loue
in
comparison
of
thine
,
though
for
thy
loue
I
should
giue
my
body
to
be
burned
,
yet
such
is
thy
mercie
,
that
thou
acceptest
the
least
mite
of
true
obedience
,
as
a
great
measure
of
my
loue
,
so
full
of
humane
and
spirituall
infirmities
,
which
haue
ouerspread
as
thou
knowest
,
all-offending
Adams
issue
.
Holy
Father
,
I
know
thee
,
and
whom
thou
hast
sent
,
Iesus
Christ
,
hee
it
is
that
hath
taken
away
that
heauie
burden
of
my
corruption
,
by
his
most
perfect
Righteousnesse
,
and
the
guilt
and
punishment
of
my
transgressions
,
by
his
owne
al-sufficient
sufferings
:
Therefore
,
though
I
be
slack
in
thankfulnesse
,
for
thy
blessings
and
fauours
,
formerly
bestowed
vpon
mee
.
Let
mee
euen
this
morning
,
as
I
newly
enter
into
the
light
of
the
day
;
so
by
thy
Grace
,
grant
Lord
,
that
I
may
enter
into
the
light
of
new
and
sincere
knowledge
and
obedience
.
Humbly
praying
thee
,
to
bee
vnto
mee
this
day
following
,
a
God
to
preserue
,
a
Captaine
to
defend
mee
,
a
light
to
guide
me
,
and
a
louing
Father
to
releeue
me
.
Let
thy
blessings
bee
plentifully
powred
vpon
mee
,
let
heauenly
knowledge
abound
in
mee
,
let
faith
more
and
more
increase
and
be
strengthened
in
me
,
and
the
power
of
sin
and
Satan
more
&
more
be
weakened
in
mee
.
So
shall
mine
obedience
towards
thee
my
God
,
more
and
more
appeare
in
mee
,
and
then
shall
all
that
I
take
in
hand
this
day
,
and
at
all
times
prosper
,
which
grant
good
Father
in
Iesus
Christ
sake
.
Amen
.
Lord
increase
my
saith
this
day
and
euer
.
A
motiue
to
prayer
before
a
man
goes
to
bed
.
IT
is
commonly
obserued
,
that
hee
that
forgets
to
giue
God
thankes
,
when
hee
beginnes
the
day
,
for
the
rest
and
saftie
in
the
night
past
,
will
not
be
well
disposed
,
to
commend
himselfe
to
God
,
when
hee
goes
to
rest
in
the
night
:
yet
is
the
night
the
most
dangerous
time
,
when
darkenesse
ouer
shadowes
the
house
,
wherein
wee
sleepe
,
and
when
our
eyes
are
shut
vp
by
the
drowsinesse
of
our
spirits
;
what
comfort
can
there
then
appeare
?
Though
wee
may
lie
downe
in
some
artificiall
light
,
wee
are
suddenly
be
cloud●d
with
naturall
darkenesse
,
wherein
all
that
intend
wicked
and
secret
mischiefes
,
are
most
apt
to
attempt
most
dangerous
plots
vpon
such
as
are
secure
without
God
:
And
Satan
himselfe
findeth
the
darkenesse
of
the
night
the
fittest
time
to
present
vnto
our
wandring
thoughts
some
euill
imaginations
:
our
mindes
,
being
then
at
seeming
quiet
,
free
from
externall
obiects
.
And
what
that
malignant
enimie
suggesteth
in
darkenesse
,
the
man
,
not
hauing
faith
and
the
feare
of
God
,
longeth
for
the
light
,
to
put
that
euill
in
practise
,
that
Satan
hath
in
the
darke
mooued
him
vnto
.
Besides
,
we
see
by
dayly
experience
,
that
many
haue
layd
themselues
downe
to
rest
in
the
night
,
in
seeming
safty
,
that
could
not
say
with
Dauid
,
J
rose
againe
in
safetie
,
for
the
Lord
sustained
me
,
for
some
haue
beene
preu●nted
by
sudden
death
,
some
by
sickenesse
;
So
that
if
the
Lord
sustaine
vs
not
,
if
hee
defend
vs
not
,
if
hee
watch
not
ouer
vs
,
if
his
Angels
garde
vs
not
,
especially
in
the
night
;
wee
cannot
but
be
subiect
,
to
manie
ineuitable
perils
.
And
how
can
wee
thinke
to
enioy
quiet
&
rest
in
safty
,
if
we
cal
not
vpon
him
,
that
is
our
keeper
and
the
giuer
of
rest
,
sleepe
and
health
?
For
where
God
is
not
in
the
minde
,
there
are
the
thoughts
wandring
vpon
things
offensiue
to
God
,
pleasing
to
Satan
,
hurtfull
to
our
soules
,
and
distempering
the
body
,
which
in
a
moment
,
may
seperate
the
vnprepared
soule
from
the
wretched
body
.
What
and
how
diff●rs
the
man
,
that
lies
downe
to
sleepe
not
calling
vpon
God
,
from
brute
creatures
,
which
couet
and
take
there
rest
and
sleepe
as
man
,
and
rise
vp
to
feed
?
Should
reasonable
man
so
neerely
resemble
vnreasonable
creatures
?
(
who
in
their
kinde
praise
God
)
and
man
to
dishonour
him
by
vsurping
the
benefit
of
rest
and
sleepe
,
without
acknowledging
them
his
owne
gifts
?
And
how
can
he
acknowledge
them
his
gifts
without
thankesgiuing
vnto
him
for
them
,
and
prayer
to
him
to
enioy
them
?
Let
no
man
be
so
stupid
,
sottish
,
and
bruitish
,
as
to
goe
to
his
rest
without
recommending
himselfe
to
God
,
his
body
,
his
soule
,
and
all
that
hee
poss●ss●th
:
for
it
is
hee
onely
that
keepeth
Israel
,
namely
,
all
that
feare
him
;
hee
is
euer
watchfull
ouer
his
,
for
he
neuer
slumbreth
nor
sleepeth
.
To
his
power
,
prouidence
,
and
protection
then
let
vs
recommend
our selues
,
confessing
our
sins
,
and
crauing
pardon
●n
the
m●rits
of
his
Sonne
:
so
shall
we
lay
our selues
downe
in
peace
to
rest
,
and
rise
againe
in
safetie
,
for
the
Lord
himselfe
will
sustaine
vs.
A
Prayer
before
a
man
goe
to
his
nightly
rest
.
O
God
,
powerfull
and
louing
in
Iesus
Christ
,
I
thanke
thee
that
thou
hast
safely
brought
mee
to
the
end
of
this
day
,
wherein
I
thankfully
confesse
I
haue
receiued
at
thy
most
bountiful
hands
,
through
Christ
,
many
cōfortable
blessings
,
not
worthy
of
the
least
of
them
,
but
rather
of
punishment
for
this
dayes
sinnes
;
though
committed
in
the
light
,
yet
are
they
the
works
of
darknes
.
Good
Father
,
disperse
&
dispell
the
darknesse
of
my
sinning
minde
▪
as
a
mist
,
and
send
mee
the
light
of
thy
sauing
grace
,
to
enlighten
mee
now
in
the
darknes
of
the
night
,
which
with
thee
is
as
the
noone
day
,
but
to
me
it
is
fearefull
without
thee
:
for
that
in
it
many
dangers
lye
hidden
,
to
mee
vnknowne
;
and
if
I
knew
them
,
vnable
I
am
without
thee
,
to
preuent
the
least
of
them
.
But
thou
that
hast
made
the
blacke
euening
,
hast
made
also
the
bright
morning
,
and
in
both
thou
art
a
like
watchfull
ouer
those
that
are
thine
.
I
doe
therefore
humbly
recommend
my selfe
,
my
soule
,
and
my
body
into
thy
most
powerfull
protection
.
The
darknesse
of
the
night
doth
as
well
declare
thy
glory
,
as
doth
the
clearest
rest
day
.
Though
to
mee
weake
creature
,
the
night
is
most
dangerous
;
but
that
thou
art
my
light
and
my
saluation
,
what
,
or
whom
,
therefore
need
I
to
feare
?
Thou
art
the
strength
of
my
life
,
of
whom
,
or
of
what
,
should
I
be
afrayd
?
Thou
art
to
mee
a
strong
rocke
,
a
house
of
saftie
in
the
night
;
for
weake
is
the
strength
of
the
strongest
materiall
house
,
vnable
to
preuent
the
dangers
,
which
thou
permittest
to
befall
many
.
But
Lord
,
I
trust
not
in
houses
of
clay
,
I
trust
in
thee
,
my
strength
,
to
thee
I
come
for
succour
&
defence
this
night
;
withhold
not
thy
helpe
lest
I
perish
in
the
darknesse
:
I
trust
in
thee
,
let
my
darknesse
be
turned
into
light
,
and
let
the
light
of
thy
sauing
coūtenance
cheere
mee
in
this
nights
darknesse
:
for
without
thy
fauor
I
liue
in
darknesse
in
the
most
cleare
day
light
;
and
hauing
thee
my
light
,
the
darknesse
of
the
night
shall
bee
light
vnto
mee
.
Lord
abandon
from
my
heart
all
vnholy
thoughts
this
night
,
and
giue
mee
a
watchful
heart
,
though
my
body
sleepe
,
mine
eyes
shut
vp
,
and
all
thy
visible
creatures
,
all
carnall
obiects
be
taken
from
my
sight
,
let
the
eyes
of
mine
vnderstanding
be
alwayes
open
,
to
behold
to
my
comfort
,
thy
brightnesse
and
glory
.
The
Heauens
declare
thy
glory
,
and
the
Firmament
sheweth
the
work
of
thine
hands
:
these
and
all
other
thy
creatures
,
shew
thy
greatnes
,
and
the
preseruation
of
them
,
sheweth
thy
goodnes
;
and
mine
owne
continuall
preseruation
,
I
cannot
but
to
my
shame
and
condemnation
,
confesse
,
to
thy
praise
and
glory
.
Giue
me
therefore
holy
Father
,
a
thankfull
heart
,
for
thy
mercies
this
day
past
,
and
a
fearefull
heart
to
offend
thee
sleeping
,
by
euill
and
corrupt
dreames
;
or
waking
,
by
euill
and
vngodly
thoughts
,
and
vnholy
imaginations
:
that
sleeping
and
waking
,
I
may
feele
the
working
of
thy
Spirit
,
either
in
holy
Meditations
,
or
faithfull
Prayers
;
that
euen
as
the
day
requireth
mee
not
to
bee
idle
,
in
well
performing
my
lawfull
labours
,
so
I
may
not
spende
my
night-wakings
in
idle
fantasies
,
but
in
holy
thoughts
.
And
let
mee
not
be
ouercome
as
Samson
,
with
sleep
,
who
lost
his
strength
,
least
Sathan
finding
mee
so
sleeping
,
should
depriue
me
of
my
faith
in
thee
,
which
is
my
strength
,
the
strength
of
my
life
:
but
that
I
may
so
watch
,
as
whether
I
wake
,
I
may
wake
to
thee
,
or
whether
I
sleepe
,
I
may
sleepe
in
thee
.
Lord
,
let
me
not
sleepe
in
my
sinnes
▪
●et
mee
not
carry
the
guil●
of
my
transgressions
past
vnto
my
bed
,
but
through
the
merites
of
my
Lord
and
Sauiour
Christ
Iesus
,
vouchsafe
mee
pardon
for
all
my
sinnes
,
and
be
thou
pleased
to
bee
reconciled
vnto
mee
,
through
his
Blood
:
So
will
I
lay
mee
downe
to
take
my
rest
,
beseeching
thee
so
to
watch
ouer
mee
,
that
I
may
rest
in
peace
,
and
rise
in
peace
:
and
let
the
words
of
my
mouth
,
that
I
shall
vtter
this
night
,
and
the
meditations
of
my
heart
,
bee
acceptable
vnto
thee
,
O
Lord
my
GOD
,
my
Strength
,
and
my
Redeemer
.
Amen
.
Lord
increase
my
Faith
this
night
,
and
confirme
it
in
mee
for
euermore
.
Amen
.
A
most
comfortable
incouragement
,
to
all
poore
and
distressed
men
,
to
vndergoe
whatsoeuer
trouble
,
with
patience
,
by
the
example
of
most
holy
men
,
that
haue
been
in
greatest
affliction
:
and
may
serue
as
a
generall
motiue
,
to
sundry
seuerall
Prayers
following
.
TRouble
comprehendeth
all
the
miseries
that
man
endureth
in
this
life
,
aduersitie
,
enemies
,
sicknes
,
pouertie
,
persecution
,
and
all
kindes
of
afflictions
,
and
sufferings
,
infinite
in
number
,
grieuous
in
qualitie
,
and
irksome
to
flesh
and
blood
,
and
befalleth
on
men
diuersly
,
either
for
the
punishment
of
sinne
past
,
or
for
the
preuenting
of
sinne
to
come
.
God
sendeth
affliction
vpon
his
owne
dearest
children
,
to
weine
them
from
the
loue
of
the
vanities
of
the
world
,
that
they
perish
not
with
the
world
:
But
vnto
the
wicked
,
as
the
beginning
of
their
sorrowes
;
and
to
terrifie
his
own
from
committing
like
sinnes
by
example
of
their
punishments
.
Gods
children
are
forewarned
,
that
they
must
suffer
:
He
that
will
liue
godly
in
Christ
,
must
suffer
affliction
;
yet
by
promise
,
not
aboue
their
strength
:
for
God
putteth
to
his
hand
,
to
make
their
burden
light
,
with
a
promise
also
of
future
comfort
;
and
though
their
troubles
seeme
great
and
grieuous
,
faith
in
God
maketh
them
more
easie
to
them
that
suffer
,
then
they
conceiue
that
beholde
them
with
carnall
eyes
.
Great
indeed
are
the
troubles
of
the
righteous
,
but
God
deliuereth
them
out
of
all
.
Sorrow
&
heauinesse
may
endure
for
a
night
,
namely
,
during
this
life
,
but
ioy
commeth
in
the
morning
,
after
this
death
,
and
at
the
resurrection
of
the
dead
,
glory
for
euermore
.
Troubles
are
but
for
a
moment
,
and
then
commeth
comfort
;
therfore
doe
the
children
of
God
with
ioy
and
patience
vndergoe
them
:
But
contrary
,
the
comfort
of
the
wicked
,
is
here
short
and
momentany
,
but
th●ir
future
misery
will
be
perp●tuall
.
The
patient
suffering
of
the
children
of
God
,
is
a
manifest
token
of
the
righteous
iudgement
of
God
,
as
Saint
Paul
saith
to
the
Thessalonians
,
whose
patient
suffering
he
commended
,
imputing
it
a
glory
vnto
them
,
that
they
were
accounted
worthy
of
the
kingdome
of
God
,
for
which
they
suffered
.
Whereby
it
appeareth
,
that
euery
suffering
,
euen
of
the
godly
,
is
not
glorious
such
as
befall
them
for
their
transgressions
.
But
if
we
liue
godly
in
Christ
,
and
for
that
suffer
trouble
,
wee
may
comfort
our selues
,
and
beare
it
with
patience
,
by
whom
,
or
howsoeuer
we
are
afflicted
:
for
we
may
be
assured
,
that
God
in
his
Iustice
,
will
recompence
tribulation
,
to
them
that
wrongfully
trouble
vs
;
and
to
vs
that
are
so
wrongfully
troubled
,
rest
and
peace
in
the
end
.
But
affliction
befalls
Gods
children
oftentimes
,
for
seeming
other
causes
,
then
for
righteousnesse
sake
;
as
when
the
wicked
mis-conceiue
of
their
actions
,
&
iudge
of
them
as
wicked
doers
,
without
iust
caus●
,
as
did
Jobs
friends
,
accusing
him
of
hypocrisie
;
and
as
Shimei
,
rayling
vpon
Dauid
;
the
wicked
iudges
,
falsly
accusing
Susanna
:
though
it
proceeded
not
from
these
wicked
men
,
as
of
malice
against
them
for
that
they
were
godly
,
but
instigated
by
the
malice
of
Sathan
,
to
abuse
them
,
because
he
saw
their
integrity
,
and
holy
conuersation
towards
God
,
therefore
made
hee
them
his
instruments
to
afflict
them
:
which
trouble
of
theirs
,
may
be
also
sayd
to
be
for
Christes
sake
,
forasmuch
as
Sathan
did
what
hee
could
to
shake
their
faith
in
God
,
&
so
to
fall
from
their
holy
conuersation
.
And
thus
worketh
hee
against
the
dearest
children
of
God
at
this
day
.
Sathan
cannot
endure
with
patience
,
any
that
liueth
in
the
true
feare
of
God
,
to
passe
in
so
holy
a
conuersation
,
but
that
he
will
endeauour
to
blemish
them
,
at
least
,
seeking
all
possible
meanes
by
afflicting
them
,
to
make
them
doubt
,
whether
,
by
Gods
permitting
the
wicked
to
afflict
them
,
they
stand
in
the
fauor
of
God
,
or
no
;
that
if
it
were
possible
,
he
might
draw
them
from
their
obedience
to
God
,
and
their
dependance
vpon
his
prouidence
,
and
to
seeke
some
sinister
,
or
vngodly
means
to
free
themselues
.
He
saw
that
Iob
serued
God
truly
,
&
that
God
was
his
continuall
protector
and
refuge
:
therfore
did
he
maligne
Iob
,
&
tryed
his
vttermost
infernall
stratagems
,
to
cause
him
to
distrust
God
:
he
slew
his
dearest
children
,
he
raised
the
Sabeans
,
and
others
to
rob
him
of
his
goods
,
hee
brought
vpon
his
person
loathsome
diseases
,
he
drew
vpon
him
extreame
pouertie
:
when
none
of
these
could
withdraw
him
from
his
faith
in
God
,
hee
caused
his
own
wife
to
be
an
instrument
of
deepest
malice
against
him
.
What
greater
affliction
could
befall
a
mortall
man
?
yet
in
all
this
was
not
Iob
vnfaithful
,
but
depended
still
on
God
,
knowing
,
that
though
God
was
pleased
to
permit
Sathan
to
punish
him
in
this
so
strāge
a
manner
,
God
had
his
ende
therein
for
Iobs
good
,
contrary
to
Sathans
purpose
:
for
where
Sathans
ayme
and
end
was
,
to
haue
confounded
Iob
body
and
soule
;
God
,
notwithstanding
Sathans
malice
,
turned
Iobs
miseries
,
into
vnspeakable
comfort
heere
,
and
future
eternall
saluation
,
and
caused
his
story
to
be
written
,
for
our
imitation
of
Iobs
constancy
and
patience
.
Heere
is
matter
of
comfort
for
all
Gods
afflicted
children
,
in
what
manner
soeuer
they
be
afflicted
,
for
this
holy
man
Iob
suffered
all
kindes
of
tryals
,
losse
of
goods
,
sicknesse
of
bodie
pouerty
,
slander
,
vpbrayding
,
rayling
on
of
his
owne
wife
;
and
what
not
?
By
which
we
may
learne
that
Satan
is
skilfull
in
the
art
of
afflicting
,
if
one
kinde
will
not
serue
,
hee
hath
a
second
,
a
third
,
and
infinite
:
yet
can
hee
doe
no
more
then
God
permits
him
,
who
according
to
his
promise
,
giues
to
the
faithfull
a
comfortable
issue
,
in
all
their
tentations
.
It
is
the
cognizance
of
Gods
Children
,
to
seeme
most
abiect
in
the
world
,
and
so
they
are
to
the
world
,
tossed
hither
and
thither
,
with
the
tempestuous
waues
of
diuers
tribulations
.
Dauid
a
man
chosen
after
Gods
owne
heart
,
how
was
he
vexed
on
all
sides
,
inward
and
outward
?
both
before
he
came
to
the
Crowne
by
Saul
and
his
malicious
and
vngodly
retinue
;
as
also
after
,
by
forraigne
enemies
,
the
Philistims
,
the
Moabites
,
the
Edomites
,
the
Amonites
,
the
Amalekites
,
and
others
;
by
his
owne
subiects
,
by
them
of
his
owne
house
:
as
by
Achitophell
,
his
owne
priuie
Counseller
,
and
by
Absolon
his
naturall
,
or
rather
,
vnnaturall
sonne
.
In
all
which
troubles
,
he
fainted
not
,
but
rested
still
in
hope
,
not
seeking
reuenge
of
his
enemies
;
but
onely
craued
ayde
of
God
,
who
neuer
fayled
him
,
nor
forsooke
him
.
God
neuer
forsaketh
his
,
though
for
a
time
hee
suffer
them
to
taste
a
little
smart
,
that
their
deliuery
may
be
the
more
sweete
.
None
of
the
dearest
Children
of
God
,
haue
liued
and
died
free
from
one
tryall
,
or
trouble
or
another
,
onely
by
Satans
malice
,
yet
to
their
owne
good
.
Hee
beganne
first
with
innocent
Abell
,
causing
cursed
Kayne
to
kill
him
,
for
the
sincere
worship
of
the
liuing
God.
Faithfull
Abraham
was
not
free
from
tryals
and
afflictions
,
from
doubtings
and
feares
.
Hee
was
commanded
of
GOD
to
offer
his
Sonne
Isack
in
Sa●rifice
,
in
whose
seed
the
blessing
was
promised
(
a
heauie
tentation
,
)
being
affraide
of
his
life
for
his
wiues
sake
,
was
driuen
to
faire
an
vntruth
,
both
to
Pharaoh
in
Egipt
,
and
to
Abimelech
in
●●ran
;
hee
had
trouble
by
Lot
his
brother
:
he
had
griefe
for
the
destruction
of
Sodom
,
and
many
other
troubles
befell
that
holy
man.
Izaake
for
feare
to
bee
slaine
for
Rebekah
his
wife
,
exposed
her
chastetie
to
the
will
of
a
Heathen
king
:
Hee
was
afflicted
by
the
Philistimes
,
hee
was
crossed
in
his
desire
of
preferring
Esau
before
Iaakob
;
And
thereat
striken
with
great
feare
to
obserue
the
prouidence
of
God
,
so
to
preuent
his
will
:
Iaakob
was
inforced
to
flie
out
of
his
owne
Country
and
from
his
friends
,
and
to
bee
a
seruant
in
a
strange
Land
,
for
feare
of
the
wrath
of
Esau
his
brother
;
he
was
deceiued
by
Laban
his
vnkle
,
and
hated
of
his
neerest
kinsmen
Labans
sonnes
:
he
was
inforc●d
to
flie
from
them
,
and
was
pursued
,
and
threatned
by
Laban
,
whose
purpose
was
to
doe
him
violence
,
but
GOD
,
the
Protector
of
his
,
preuented
him
.
Hee
was
incountred
by
a
man
in
the
night
(
the
Angell
of
God
)
who
wrestling
with
him
all
the
night
,
shooke
him
fearefully
,
and
lamed
him
:
hee
marched
on
with
paine
of
his
thigh
and
in
great
feare
and
perplexity
,
with
his
wiues
,
his
children
,
and
his
droues
towards
his
offended
brother
Esau
,
Who
came
against
him
with
foure
hundred
men
.
Hee
was
miserably
tormented
for
the
losse
of
Ioseph
his
dearest
sonne
,
whom
hee
thought
to
be
murdered
:
He
was
much
and
greeuously
perplexed
,
at
his
sonnes
murdering
his
neighbour
Sechemites
.
Ioseph
was
sold
by
his
bretheren
,
for
a
slaue
into
a
barbarous
and
prophane
Nation
;
he
was
falsly
accused
,
&
wrongfully
imprisoned
.
Yet
God
turned
all
to
worke
together
for
his
good
,
as
he
doth
euen
at
this
day
for
his
.
How
many
tryals
,
crosses
,
troubles
and
afflictions
,
had
that
most
meekest
man
Moses
?
He
was
like
to
be
slaine
by
the
Angell
of
God
in
the
Inne
,
for
not
circumcising
his
sonne
,
whom
Zipporah
his
wife
withstood
,
and
at
last
circumcised
him
her self
,
and
cast
the
foreskinne
of
her
sonne
,
at
Moses
feete
;
saying
,
Thou
art
indeed
a
bloudy
husband
vnto
mee
.
A
heauie
tentation
,
that
shee
that
lay
in
his
bosome
,
should
so
vpbrayde
him
,
especially
for
executing
the
strict
command
of
God
:
Besides
this
,
how
was
hee
troubled
by
the
peoples
Idolatry
,
murmuring
,
and
rebellion
?
Being
threatned
,
and
in
feare
to
bee
stoned
of
the
people
:
And
many
other
crosses
had
he
.
Not
one
of
Christs
Apostles
,
or
faithfull
Fathers
of
the
Primitiue
Church
,
no
not
Christ
himselfe
hath
escaped
the
troubles
of
this
mortall
life
,
and
shall
wee
,
(
we●e
wee
his
dearest
children
)
thinke
,
or
desire
to
escape
it
,
sith
it
is
our
honour
to
suffer
with
,
and
for
Christ
?
The
Scriptures
themselues
,
besides
authentike
Histories
abound
with
witnesses
,
that
Gods
Children
haue
beene
euer
most
afflicted
,
and
that
God
yet
n●uer
fayleth
them
,
nor
finally
forsaketh
them
.
Whosoeuer
therefore
,
is
strayted
with
any
troubles
,
or
pressed
with
any
afflictions
:
Let
them
make
vse
of
the
examples
of
Gods
dealing
with
,
and
his
mercies
shewed
towards
,
our
former
afflicted
faithfull
Fathers
.
For
hee
is
the
same
God
still
,
hee
hath
the
same
power
,
the
same
prouidence
,
the
same
loue
,
and
the
same
Fatherly
care
of
thē
that
trust
in
him
,
as
our
faithfull
forefathers
did
;
and
were
deliuered
.
And
the
memoriall
of
their
faith
and
patience
,
is
recorded
by
former
holy
men
of
God
,
as
by
Moses
,
by
Dauid
,
by
the
Prophets
,
by
Christ
and
his
Apostles
,
to
teach
vs
,
to
imitate
them
in
holy
obedience
,
euen
vs
vpon
whom
the
ends
of
the
world
are
come
,
that
through
our
like
patience
and
faith
,
wee
might
haue
hope
to
bee
likewise
eased
of
our
afflictions
and
troubles
,
as
th●se
and
other
holy
men
hoped
,
and
were
deliuered
,
and
releeued
.
Dauid
that
worthy
King
of
●srael
,
penned
to
the
prayse
and
glory
of
God
,
for
our
instruction
and
comfort
,
sundry
most
sweet
and
comfortable
Psalmes
,
in
the
middest
of
his
greatest
troubles
,
shewing
the
force
of
his
faith
to
bee
so
strong
,
and
his
hope
so
assured
,
depending
vpon
Gods
power
,
promises
and
prouidence
,
as
he
deemed
himselfe
,
euen
then
deliuered
,
when
he
was
yet
in
greatest
perill
.
Such
was
the
firme
and
constant
hope
of
holy
Dauid
,
that
in
all
his
troubles
,
sicknesse
of
the
body
,
danger
of
enemies
,
yea
,
when
his
Crowne
was
like
to
be
taken
from
his
head
,
by
his
owne
sonne
;
through
patience
and
hope
,
not
limiting
the
holy
one
of
Jsrael
,
hee
wayted
Gods
leasure
,
and
was
deliuered
:
teaching
vs
to
attend
Gods
appointed
time
without
grudging
at
our
troubles
.
There
is
no
danger
so
great
,
no
tentation
so
strong
,
out
of
which
God
is
not
able
to
deliuer
his
.
For
example
,
was
not
Daniel
in
a
desperate
danger
,
being
cast
into
the
hungry
Lyons
Denne
?
Did
hee
perish
there
?
The
three
children
in
the
seuenfold
hot
Furnace
,
were
they
consumed
?
Did
not
the
powerfull
and
preuayling
hand
of
God
,
the
Angell
of
his
presence
,
miraculously
preserue
them
in
his
mercie
?
And
did
he
not
confound
the
ministers
of
their
intended
torments
in
his
Iustice
?
Why
then
shall
faithfull
men
feare
or
be
affrayd
at
the
●alice
,
and
furious
threates
of
whatsoeuer
roaring
Tyrant
?
God
hath
power
ouer
their
hearts
and
hands
.
And
therefore
sayth
Dauid
,
full
of
faith
,
I
will
not
feare
what
man
can
doe
vnto
mee
,
for
it
is
the
Lord
that
maketh
mee
to
dwell
in
saftie
.
What
,
if
then
I
bee
sicke
with
Hezekiah
hee
can
apply
the
sweete
and
salutary
figs
of
his
fauour
to
heale
mee
,
or
will
affoord
mee
the
patience
to
beare
it
,
or
which
is
best
of
all
,
a
speedie
dissolution
,
to
rest
with
him
.
If
pouerty
assaile
mee
,
should
I
grudge
,
and
repine
at
the
wealth
and
prosperitie
of
others
,
euen
as
holy
Dauid
himselfe
once
seemed
to
doe
,
seeing
himselfe
in
necessity
,
and
the
wicked
to
prosper
?
This
he
did
in
his
haste
,
but
vpon
more
holy
deliberation
,
and
consultation
with
the
Word
of
God
,
he
did
acknowledge
it
good
for
him
so
to
bee
humbled
;
knowing
that
God
forgetteth
not
the
poore
that
call
vpon
him
,
though
he
supplie
not
our
necessities
in
abundance
,
yet
he
neuer
will
faile
to
prouide
for
vs
,
that
we
perish
not
.
Hee
may
suffer
vs
to
want
some
superfluous
things
of
this
world
,
that
the
wealthy
haue
:
but
instead
thereof
,
hee
will
giue
vs
better
things
that
the
wealthy
want
.
Though
Lazarus
was
poore
&
naked
,
hungry
and
full
of
sores
here
,
loathsome
to
the
eye
of
men
;
and
the
rich
man
gloriously
robed
,
his
belly
full
,
his
body
free
from
spott
or
wrinkle
,
which
of
these
was
the
happiest
?
Man
could
not
iudge
,
but
their
ends
declared
,
which
of
them
had
the
best
portion
,
the
vilest
of
them
in
mans
sight
,
was
most
glorious
in
Gods
,
and
contrary
.
Man
often
fayleth
in
iudgement
,
of
mens
happinesse
,
because
hee
seeth
onely
the
case
,
and
seeth
not
the
Iewell
within
it
;
hee
discerneth
onely
the
outward
habit
,
but
not
the
inward
heart
,
and
therefore
knoweth
not
what
end
any
man
shall
make
:
for
whatsoeuer
the
outward
shew
bee
of
a
happy
man
,
beleeue
it
not
,
till
thou
see
his
end
.
What
a
miserable
man
was
Iob
on
the
dunghill
?
and
what
an
vnhappy
man
was
Joseph
in
prison
?
what
ends
the
Lord
made
with
them
both
,
is
manifest
.
What
a
happy
man
was
Nabuchadnezzar
in
his
glorious
palace
?
and
what
a
glorious
Monarch
was
Balteshasher
,
who
feasted
one
thousand
of
his
Vassall
Princes
at
once
?
What
a
worthy
,
wise
,
and
glorious
King
was
Herod
,
the
son
of
Aristobulus
,
surnamed
Agrippa
,
sitting
in
his
royall
robes
,
in
his
regall
throne
,
at
whose
Oration
,
the
people
showted
,
crying
,
The
voyce
of
God
,
and
not
of
a
man
?
Looke
within
a
while
vpon
the
first
,
and
thou
shalt
see
him
grazing
with
the
wild
beasts
of
the
forest
.
Looke
vpon
the
second
,
&
thou
shalt
suddenly
see
him
perish
in
his
drunkennesse
:
and
behold
the
third
,
and
thou
shalt
see
him
,
immediatly
vpon
his
Deified
Oration
,
to
be
deuoured
with
the
vermine
of
his
owne
bowels
.
The
estates
of
these
kindes
of
men
,
seene
with
the
eyes
of
a
carnall
man
,
are
censured
as
they
seeme
:
but
these
,
and
infinite
other
examples
,
prooue
that
the
mightie
and
the
wise
men
of
the
world
,
are
not
all
glorious
within
,
though
gorgious
with
●ut
Iudge
not
therfore
the
ends
of
men
by
their
outward
appearance
:
for
the
most
glorious
beginnings
of
men
not
fearing
God
,
come
often
to
fearefull
endes
.
To
prooue
further
by
Histories
wee
need
not
,
wee
haue
seene
it
with
our
eyes
.
But
as
touching
the
children
of
God
,
they
for
the
most
part
seem
base
;
and
such
as
are
seemly
to
the
outward
appearance
,
haue
yet
humble
spirits
,
seeming
not
the
wisest
in
the
world
,
because
they
are
inwardly
so
innocent
and
harmlesse
,
as
they
can
shew
no
carnall
policies
,
as
doe
the
wise
of
the
world
:
but
the
basest
and
seeming
vilest
of
Gods
children
,
that
want
plentie
of
food
for
their
bodies
,
or
competent
clothes
to
couer
their
nakednesse
,
are
yet
,
through
faith
,
the
feare
of
God
,
and
humblenesse
of
heart
,
accepted
of
God.
And
although
it
be
obserued
,
that
at
their
deaths
there
be
no
pompous
funerall
Obsequies
,
yet
dying
the
Saints
of
God
,
they
haue
the
Angels
of
God
attending
thē
,
who
conuey
that
part
which
the
world
seeth
not
,
into
heauenly
Paradise
,
as
they
did
the
soule
of
Lazarus
,
and
leaue
that
seeming
base
part
to
the
world
,
in
as
meane
a
manner
to
be
disposed
to
the
earth
.
If
yet
the
vngodly
poore
should
pretend
interest
in
the
loue
and
promises
of
God
,
and
of
his
good
creatures
;
because
Dauid
saieth
,
There
is
a
God
that
careth
for
the
poore
,
they
deceiue
themselues
:
for
there
is
no
promise
,
but
to
the
poore
fearing
God
,
and
that
endeauour
to
liue
by
their
lawfull
labours
:
for
no
wilfully
idle
poor
man
can
expect
any
promised
comfort
from
God
,
but
the
godly
who
are
made
poore
by
Gods
prouidence
,
to
draw
them
to
himselfe
through
affliction
.
God
tryeth
all
his
children
,
poore
and
rich
,
not
after
one
and
the
same
manner
,
but
some
by
enemies
,
as
he
did
Dauid
;
some
by
sicknesse
,
as
hee
did
Hezekiah
;
some
by
imprisonment
,
as
he
did
Joseph
;
some
with
pouertie
and
penurie
,
as
he
did
Lazarus
;
some
by
losse
of
children
and
goods
,
as
hee
did
Iob
:
yet
hee
hath
his
time
againe
to
release
them
,
as
hee
raysed
Dauid
to
the
Crowne
of
Jsrael
,
as
hee
healed
Hezekiah
,
and
gaue
him
longer
life
,
from
the
prison
hee
made
Joseph
a
Prince
;
hee
gaue
Iob
abundance
of
wealth
,
and
tooke
Lazarus
from
his
misery
in●o
Abrahams
bosome
.
When
then
that
hath
any
faith
or
feeling
of
these
most
worthy
examples
of
Gods
humbling
his
Chrildren
,
and
againe
raysing
them
vp
,
will
faint
or
feare
,
whatsoeuer
befall
them
in
this
life
?
Were
he
persecuted
,
as
Eliah
by
Jezebel
,
who
had
no
visible
helpes
,
but
a
silly
boy
attending
him
;
did
not
God
send
an
host
of
heauenly
Angels
for
his
defence
?
God
hath
his
Angels
ministring
Spirits
,
still
ready
to
incampe
about
his
:
such
is
his
care
and
watchfulnesse
,
his
power
and
his
prou●dence
,
that
no
Saul
shall
preuaile
against
his
chosen
Dauid
,
though
hee
were
a
mightie
King
with
his
armies
against
that
one
single
man
he
could
not
hurt
him
:
no
Senacherib
with
his
mighty
Host
,
could
not
haue
his
will
against
faithfull
Hezekiah
.
And
therfore
sayth
Dauid
full
of
assurance
,
If
an
Host
pitched
against
me
,
my
heart
should
not
bee
affrayd
.
So
Iaakob
was
not
dismayde
at
Esaus
cōming
against
him
with
foure
hundred
men
,
because
hee
knew
that
God
was
with
him
.
But
admit
that
an
Herode
haue
power
permitted
him
of
God
,
to
take
away
Iohn
Baptists
head
,
and
to
kill
Iames
with
the
sword
,
shall
we
deeme
it
a
hurt
vnto
them
,
in
furthering
and
hastening
their
deliuery
,
from
misery
,
to
their
future
glorie
with
Christ
?
Whatsoeuer
the
enemies
of
God
practise
against
the
faithfull
Children
of
GOD
,
by
persecuting
them
,
as
they
did
by
whipping
Paul
,
by
imprisoning
Peter
,
by
stoning
Steuen
:
Doe
they
not
make
these
the
more
glorious
in
their
patient
suffering
for
Christ
,
who
hath
prouided
for
them
a
Citie
,
a
Kingdome
,
a
Crowne
?
What
lose
then
these
seeming
miserable
men
,
when
for
their
momentanie
sufferings
,
they
shall
receiue
a
perpetuall
reward
?
Gods
faithfull
Children
,
the
more
they
are
persecuted
and
afflicted
,
the
more
they
flourish
in
well
doing
,
and
the
more
they
suffer
,
the
more
faithfull
,
strong
,
and
constant
they
grow
;
And
the
more
miseries
they
indure
,
so
much
the
more
take
they
hold
of
Gods
power
prouidence
and
promises
,
who
hath
assured
them
,
that
hee
will
neuer
faile
them
,
nor
forsake
them
:
But
whatsoeuer
,
by
whomsoeuer
,
and
in
what
manner
soeuer
,
they
suffer
,
all
shall
worke
together
for
their
future
eternall
happinesse
.
A
generall
Prayer
,
in
whatsoeuer
troubles
&
afflictions
,
with
a
confession
,
that
sinne
is
the
cause
of
them
.
O
Father
,
full
of
mercie
,
and
abundant
in
louing
kindnesse
,
in
Iesus
Christ
thy
best
beloued
:
thou
hast
euer
a
most
Fatherly
care
of
thy
Children
,
though
thou
permit
them
often
times
to
vndergoe
heauie
afflictions
in
this
present
life
;
by
reason
of
which
their
greeuous
troubles
,
they
are
commonly
censured
of
the
world
:
to
bee
euill
doers
,
and
to
bee
cast
out
of
thy
fauour
,
as
was
thy
deare
seruant
Iob.
And
such
as
euer
prosper
and
fall
into
no
mis-fortunes
,
nor
troubles
like
other
men
,
to
bee
most
beloued
of
thee
,
which
often
causeth
thy
dearest
Children
to
doubt
of
thy
loue
.
But
Lord
,
I
know
thee
to
be
a
Father
,
whose
propertie
is
to
correct
those
whom
thou
louest
best
,
to
keepe
them
vnder
thine
obedience
,
who
else
by
reason
of
their
originall
corruption
,
the
worlds
vanities
,
and
Satans
malice
might
bee
easily
drawne
to
rebell
against
thee
.
I
account
it
therefore
gracious
Father
,
an
especiall
token
of
thy
fauour
and
loue
towards
me
,
that
thou
in
so
gentle
a
manner
,
dost
remember
me
,
and
so
fauourably
to
correct
me
;
for
I
cannot
but
acknowledge
Lord
,
and
confesse
against
my selfe
,
that
my
heart
within
mee
is
so
filthy
,
my
minde
so
polluted
,
and
my
will
and
affections
so
infected
with
sinne
,
that
if
thou
shouldest
seeme
to
winke
at
,
and
passe
by
mine
infinite
transgressions
,
and
not
in
some
measure
to
afflict
me
,
I
could
not
but
according
to
mine
owne
corrupt
condition
,
but
runne
into
and
commit
more
and
more
heinous
sinnes
,
then
hetherunto
I
haue
done
;
which
,
already
are
more
then
sufficient
,
to
cast
mee
cleane
out
of
thy
fauour
;
and
consequently
leaue
me
to
mine
owne
vnruly
will
,
which
euermore
hungreth
and
thirsteth
after
things
most
offensiue
vnto
thee
.
I
doe
confesse
,
O
Lord
,
that
pleasure
and
ease
,
and
fulnesse
of
all
carnall
delights
,
are
most
sweet
vnto
to
my
carnall
minde
,
but
much
offensiue
to
thy
most
holy
will.
The
things
that
I
should
doe
I
cannot
doe
:
but
the
things
that
I
should
not
doe
,
they
are
my
chiefe
delight
,
I
loue
what
I
should
loathe
,
and
loathe
that
which
is
life
vnto
my
soule
,
whereby
I
heape
vpon
mee
dayly
,
a
most
importable
burden
of
thy
wrath
;
And
were
it
not
that
thou
dost
visite
me
with
these
thy
Fatherly
corrections
,
I
could
not
but
meerely
forget
,
that
euer
thou
createst
me
,
that
Iesus
Christ
came
and
suffered
to
saue
mee
,
or
that
there
were
a
Holy
Ghost
sent
to
comfort
me
.
And
therefore
,
good
Father
lay
vpon
me
,
here
what
troubles
or
afflictions
thou
in
thy
wisdome
thinkest
sit
to
reclaime
me
from
my
euill
wayes
:
and
yet
as
thou
knowest
to
an
obdu●ate
heart
,
afflictions
,
though
they
bee
sharpe
and
greeuous
,
yet
they
profit
not
without
thou
with
thy
corrections
,
adde
the
molifying
playster
of
thy
Spirit
,
to
make
my
heart
appliable
to
thy
working
hand
.
Thou
saydest
vnto
Paul
,
hauing
carnall
motions
,
that
thy
Spirit
was
sufficient
to
sustaine
him
.
O
let
thy
Spirit
possesse
me
,
then
shall
my
stubborne
heart
relent
,
then
shall
my
peruers
will
in
some
measure
frame
it selfe
to
thy
Will
;
then
shall
my
corrupt
mind
now
wandring
after
vnholy
things
be
reclaymed
,
and
onely
seeke
thee
and
the
things
more
pleasing
vnto
thee
.
The
Fathers
of
our
flesh
haue
beene
carefull
of
our
corporall
preseruation
,
and
haue
in
loue
corrected
vs
,
for
our
childish
faults
.
And
shall
I
thinke
,
that
it
behooueth
me
not
to
subiect
my selfe
to
thy
louing
care
of
the
preseruation
of
my
soule
,
who
seeing
,
not
onely
the
faults
of
my
weake
youth
,
but
the
grosse
sinnes
of
my
ripest
age
,
that
I
should
repine
,
at
thy
louing
chastisements
,
which
thou
so
fauourably
infl●ctest
vpon
me
,
not
to
confound
mee
,
but
to
conforme
mee
to
thine
obedience
.
And
therfore
,
Father
,
as
thou
well
obseruest
my
sinnes
,
which
either
I
neglect
to
call
to
minde
,
or
which
I
cannot
but
remember
;
so
consider
what
correction
is
fit
for
my
reformation
,
for
I
am
thine
,
and
vnder
thine
owne
hand
:
doe
with
mee
what
it
shall
please
thee
,
onely
strengthen
my
faith
,
that
whatsoeuer
thou
layest
vpon
mee
,
I
may
still
trust
in
thee
.
Yet
Lord
let
not
thy
corrections
be
ouersharpe
,
or
ouer
heauie
,
or
ouerlong
for
mee
to
beare
,
for
I
am
weake
.
And
therefore
as
thou
increasest
thy
corrections
,
so
increase
my
strength
to
beare
them
.
And
as
my
sinnes
by
thy
Grace
shall
diminish
;
so
Lord
,
with-draw
&
withhold
thy
correcting
hand
:
that
in
what
measure
soeuer
my
troubles
and
tryalls
bee
,
my
faith
may
bee
so
confirmed
,
as
I
may
bee
able
to
beare
whatsoeuer
thou
shalt
be
pleased
to
lay
vpon
me
.
Hetherunto
good
Father
,
as
I
haue
felt
thy
correcting
rod
,
so
also
I
haue
found
thy
supporting
hand
:
thou
woundest
,
and
thou
healest
,
nay
rather
Lord
,
thou
curest
the
wounds
which
my selfe
haue
made
,
for
there
is
no
sharper
sword
to
my
soule
,
then
mine
owne
sinne
,
and
thy
chastisements
do
abate
the
edge
thereof
.
As
thou
knowest
my
sins
Lord
,
so
thou
knowest
my
troubles
.
I
am
in
danger
,
deliuer
me
;
I
am
in
want
,
relieue
mee
;
I
haue
enemies
,
defend
mee
.
In
thee
I
trust
;
for
there
is
none
besides
thee
,
whom
I
may
trust
.
Thou
art
that
mighty
Iehouah
,
that
omnipotent
God
of
Hostes
,
who
hast
infinite
meanes
to
helpe
,
releeue
,
comfort
,
and
defend
those
that
are
thine
,
though
they
bee
beset
with
a
thousand
miseries
,
with
sicknes
,
with
pouertie
,
with
enemies
,
with
slaunder
,
backbiting
,
enuy
,
malice
,
strife
of
tongues
,
imprisonment
,
and
with
what
else
soeuer
misery
that
Sathan
can
deuise
against
them
,
thou
hast
yet
more
infinite
meanes
to
deliuer
them
out
of
all
.
And
therfore
Father
,
if
all
troubles
,
crosses
,
trialls
and
callamities
should
meete
and
combine
in
one
against
me
,
I
shall
not
(
assisted
by
thy
grace
)
be
ouermuch
moaned
or
dismayd
.
Though
trouble
and
affliction
bring
sorrow
,
and
sorrow
,
heauines
for
a
time
,
yet
is
my
heart
restored
againe
at
length
,
as
it
were
to
life
againe
by
thy
grace
:
nay
,
Lord
,
I
often
find
ioy
in
thy
fauour
,
euen
in
the
midst
of
misery
:
for
as
thou
Lord
,
continuest
not
long
in
thine
anger
;
so
is
not
my
heart
in
continuall
heauinesse
.
But
as
by
thine
holy
aid
I
increase
in
faith
:
euen
so
decreaseth
my
grief
and
sorrow
▪
and
in
my
greatest
troubles
,
the
apprehension
of
thy
blessed
presence
with
mee
,
causeth
my
heart
to
leape
for
ioy
within
mee
:
though
by
nature
I
am
weake
,
and
prone
to
stoope
and
droope
vnder
the
least
affliction
,
yet
I
finde
thy
grace
euermore
ready
to
support
and
strengthen
me
.
Therefore
doe
I
yeeld
thee
all
honor
,
praise
,
&
thanks
▪
together
with
my
Lord
and
Sauiour
Christ
Iesus
,
and
thy
heauenly
Spirit
,
that
euermore
doth
comfort
me
,
&
confirm
my
faith
in
thee
Lord
euermore
encrease
my
Faith.
A
Prayer
for
a
man
hindred
by
sicknesse
,
or
any
kind
of
infirmity
of
his
body
or
limbes
,
whereby
hee
is
disabled
to
follow
and
performe
his
lawfull
calling
:
fit
especially
for
such
as
cannot
maintaine
their
poore
estates
,
without
performance
of
their
honest
labors
.
O
Great
,
and
most
gracious
Lord
God
,
mercifull
and
louing
Father
in
Iesus
Christ
;
thou
hast
created
me
,
formed
and
framed
me
with
all
compleat
limbs
and
lineaments
in
the
beginning
,
with
all
my
senses
perfect
;
and
aboue
all
,
with
a
measure
of
the
knowledge
of
thee
&
thy
Christ
:
wherein
,
for
that
I
haue
not
so
walked
,
as
becommeth
a
sonne
of
so
gracious
and
great
a
father
,
but
haue
too
much
neglected
my
dutie
and
thankfulnesse
,
erring
,
estraying
,
and
ranging
to
and
fro
from
one
vanity
and
sin
vnto
another
,
abusing
al
the
parts
and
powers
of
my
soule
and
body
,
contrary
to
that
light
which
thou
has●
giuen
me
,
defiling
my selfe
,
and
polluting
those
parts
of
my
corrupt
flesh
,
which
thou
first
createdst
in
mee
clean
and
free
,
from
any
of
mine
owne
actuall
pollutions
.
Thou
in
great
mercy
hast
inflicted
these
infirmities
vpon
my
corporall
parts
,
to
cure
my
diseased
soule
,
my
spirituall
and
best
part
,
imprisoned
&
inthrall●d
in
a
most
filthy
and
lothsome
dungeon
of
dark
and
detestable
impieties
.
Lord
,
I
doe
confesse
my
else
worthy
of
greater
punishments
for
my
grieuous
sinnes
.
But
thou
art
so
mercifull
,
and
so
commiserate
a
Father
,
that
as
thou
knowest
the
qualitie
of
my
sinns
,
so
thou
well
knowest
what
quantity
of
correction
may
be
sufficient
to
reforme
me
.
And
therefore
,
I
doe
wholly
,
and
in
all
submission
commit
my selfe
vnto
thy
mercy
,
knowing
that
thou
hast
power
to
mitigate
,
or
totally
to
remoue
the
paine
and
misery
,
which
my
sinns
haue
iustly
drawne
downe
vpon
me
.
Good
Father
,
remember
that
thou
hast
promised
,
that
whatsoeuer
wee
shall
aske
of
thee
in
the
name
of
thy
beloued
Sonne
Christ
,
and
wauer
not
,
we
shall
receiue
.
Lord
,
I
beleeue
,
that
thou
art
able
to
cure
me
of
whatsoeuer
infirmitie
;
let
not
the
weakenesse
of
my
faith
hinder
thy
good
work
vpon
mee
;
let
not
my
former
sinns
preuent
thy
mercy
:
for
I
constantly
assure
me
,
that
thou
cāst
help
me
,
such
is
thy
power
;
and
that
thou
either
wilt
helpe
mee
,
or
so
mitigate
mine
infirmities
,
as
I
shall
not
onely
bee
able
to
beare
them
with
patience
,
but
in
a
measure
sufficiently
follow
my
vocation
,
such
is
thy
mercy
.
Father
,
I
haue
a
Mediatour
with
thee
,
and
such
a
mediator
,
as
is
not
ignorant
of
,
though
neuer
tainted
or
touched
with
any
humane
infirmitie
,
he
hath
taken
vpon
him
,
and
satisfied
for
my
sinnes
;
and
for
my
sinns
I
do
acknowledge
this
mine
infirmitie
is
fallen
vpon
mee
;
Therefore
Lord
,
my
sinnes
being
once
sufficiently
punished
in
him
,
punish
not
me
ouer-heauily
for
them
againe
.
I
am
vnfainedly
sory
,
for
that
I
haue
offended
thee
,
and
doe
heartily
repent
me
of
my
sinnes
;
and
thou
hast
promised
pardon
to
the
penitent
,
and
mercy
vnto
such
as
are
truly
sory
for
their
sinnes
.
This
being
thine
owne
promise
,
Lord
,
and
thou
knowing
my
faith
(
though
weake
)
and
my
repentance
,
what
should
hinder
thy
mercies
in
forgiuing
my
sinns
?
and
my
sinnes
being
forgiuen
,
what
should
hinder
that
thy
sweet
saying
▪
Be
thou
whole
,
and
I
shall
be
whole
?
Lord
,
as
thou
canst
do
all
things
by
thy
word
,
without
meanes
,
so
by
blessing
whatsoeuer
meanes
,
that
which
thou
wilt
shall
bee
done
:
the
very
clay
in
the
street
openeth
the
eyes
of
the
blinde
(
thou
giuing
a
blessing
vnto
it
)
which
in
humane
opinion
should
rather
make
blinde
them
that
see
.
But
such
is
thy
great
power
,
and
vertue
of
thy
word
,
as
things
most
contrary
to
humane
reason
,
obey
thee
,
and
worke
the
effect
wherunto
thou
appointest
them
:
as
the
cluster
of
figgs
,
healed
Hezekias
,
and
the
washing
in
Iordan
cured
Naaman
the
Syrian
of
his
leprosie
.
Thou
Lord
art
the
great
Phisician
,
curing
Phisicians
that
cannot
cure
themselus
,
howe
much
lesse
others
,
without
thee
.
Therefore
I
know
,
that
nothing
can
hinder
thy
healing
of
mee
,
but
mine
owne
vnbeliefe
&
sin
,
which
are
the
chiefe
diseases
of
my
soule
,
that
thus
pollute
my
body
:
so
that
soule
and
body
being
sicke
,
I
come
an
humble
patient
and
petitioner
,
desirous
only
to
touch
the
hem
of
thy
garmēt
;
for
I
belieue
Lord
,
that
if
my
faith
faile
not
,
I
shal
draw
vertue
from
thee
,
and
bee
either
fully
healed
,
or
eased
.
Wherfore
most
gracious
Lord
God
in
Iesus
Christ
,
increase
and
confirme
my
faith
,
and
say
vnto
me
,
Be
it
vnto
thee
as
thou
beleeuest
:
then
shall
I
be
whole
;
for
I
constantly
beleeue
,
that
thou
canst
doe
it
,
but
that
thou
knowest
what
is
best
for
me
.
In
thy
prouidence
it
befell
,
as
a
token
of
thy
displeasure
for
my
sins
,
that
I
might
bee
thereby
continually
put
in
mind
,
when
I
intend
any
thing
offensiue
vnto
thee
,
that
by
my
further
sinning
I
should
feare
greater
punishments
:
for
thou
knowest
my
corrupt
nature
,
euer
inclinable
to
forbidden
things
,
and
therfore
wilt
continue
thy
gentle
hand
vpon
me
,
lest
I
repenting
of
my
repentance
,
should
returne
againe
to
new
sinns
:
which
,
good
Father
,
I
humbly
pray
thee
in
fauour
to
preuent
.
If
thou
tarry
long
,
and
delay
thy
helpe
,
let
not
my
faith
falter
,
nor
faile
mee
,
nor
my
heart
be
discouraged
;
for
thou
knowest
better
what
is
best
for
mee
,
then
I
my selfe
:
And
therefore
will
I
wayte
when
,
what
,
and
how
thou
wilt
worke
for
mee
;
nothing
doubting
,
but
that
in
thy
fatherly
prouidence
,
thou
wilt
prouide
for
mee
,
and
that
thou
wilt
neuer
faile
mee
,
nor
forsake
me
.
Amen
.
Lord
increase
my
faith
.
A
consideration
or
consultation
,
touching
the
estates
and
conditions
of
seuerall
men
,
their
vocations
,
manners
,
liues
lawfull
and
vnlawfull
,
punishable
,
and
to
bee
cherished
:
seruing
also
as
a
necessary
motiue
to
a
prayer
,
for
the
blessing
of
God
vpon
the
lawfull
callings
of
men
,
of
whatsoeuer
condition
:
necessary
for
all
men
,
that
hope
of
any
blessing
vpon
their
labors
,
trauels
,
professions
,
arts
,
trades
,
or
imployments
.
IT
is
not
enough
for
a
man
to
haue
,
or
to
desire
a
calling
in
the
Church
or
Common-wealth
;
but
before
he
vndertake
it
,
he
must
consider
,
whether
it
be
lawfull
,
agreeable
to
the
word
of
God
,
honest
,
or
necessary
for
the
vse
and
societie
of
men
;
and
whether
his
apprehension
and
inclination
be
capable
and
able
to
manage
it
aright
.
It
is
not
lawfull
,
though
it
be
priuatly
profitable
to
himselfe
,
if
a
man
find
himselfe
not
fit
,
neither
is
lawfully
called
thereunto
,
but
assumes
it
to
himselfe
,
neither
respecting
Gods
glory
,
●or
the
good
of
others
,
and
consequently
not
honest
;
for
that
it
proceedes
only
,
respecting
his
owne
corrupt
ends
:
of
which
kind
,
may
bee
obserued
,
not
a
few
who
intrude
into
functions
and
callings
,
such
as
they
cannot
with
a
good
conscience
,
nor
with
sufficient
vnderstanding
performe
,
which
must
rest
vpon
euery
mans
conscience
for
his
choyce
.
Some
haue
againe
lawfull
and
laudable
callings
,
of
themselues
sufficient
,
and
yet
may
,
and
often
doe
erre
in
the
execution
,
either
for
priuate
profit
,
or
forbidden
ends
.
Some
liue
without
any
lawfull
profession
,
profitable
to
none
,
no
not
to
themselues
,
but
are
onely
Ladders
,
to
bring
most
plentiful
mulcture
to
the
Deuils
mill
,
their
patrimonies
to
Tauernes
,
Ale-houses
,
and
worse
places
:
mils
that
grind
onely
wickednesse
,
feeding
themselues
and
others
therewith
,
fat
in
impieties
,
for
the
shambles
of
Sathan
.
Of
this
,
are
some
well
descended
Gentlemen
,
whose
ancestors
haue
borne
honorable
&
praise
worthy
Offices
both
in
Church
&
Commonwealth
,
doing
good
to
many
,
and
to
none
more
hurt
,
thē
vnto
their
dearest
children
,
to
whom
they
haue
left
great
earthly
portions
,
and
patrimonies
,
and
no
good
education
or
profession
,
to
liue
as
men
;
no
,
not
as
men
:
for
all
men
are
borne
to
labour
in
one
commendable
calling
or
another
,
for
the
Church
or
Commonwealth
to
neither
of
which
are
many
of
these
men
profitable
,
but
run
on
in
their
lasciuious
liues
,
as
the
horse
&
mule
,
who
yet
in
their
kind
haue
more
vnderstanding
,
and
are
more
profitable
then
many
of
these
men
seeme
yet
to
be
.
All
parents
yet
are
not
much
blame-worthy
:
for
some
are
carefull
,
as
men
to
prouide
for
their
children
,
worldly
goods
,
to
maintaine
them
after
their
deaths
.
Some
as
Religious
men
,
desire
more
the
good
education
of
their
children
in
religious
knowledge
,
then
desirous
to
make
them
great
,
they
rather
endeauour
to
make
them
good
,
which
last
is
the
worke
of
God
,
without
whose
grace
,
howsoeuer
parents
may
instruct
,
and
educate
their
children
in
Gods
feare
,
and
by
a
primary
apprehension
of
their
towardnesse
in
vertue
;
yet
it
falleth
oftentimes
out
,
that
euen
these
,
full
of
hoped
towardnesse
to
prooue
good
and
vertuous
,
and
fit
for
laudable
imployments
,
when
their
parents
full
estates
befall
them
,
they
associate
the
company
of
such
,
as
turne
al
the
good
they
formerly
learned
into
euill
for
though
the
father
plant
,
the
Minister
waters
,
yet
if
the
Spirit
of
God
confirme
it
not
in
them
,
they
will
shew
themselues
to
be
but
men
,
and
such
as
feare
not
God
,
nor
reuerence
man
,
but
liue
as
if
there
were
no
law
,
spending
,
as
boastingly
they
will
say
,
but
their
owne
.
It
were
fault
sufficient
to
consume
it
,
had
it
bin
their
owne
,
gotten
by
the
sweat
of
their
owne
faces
:
but
being
left
vnto
them
by
their
carefull
fathers
,
or
louing
friends
,
it
is
reputed
by
law
theirs
indeed
,
yet
so
as
they
should
hold
it
as
the
free
gift
of
God
,
or
rather
lent
of
him
,
rather
to
do
good
with
it
,
then
with
the
prodigall
vnthrift
,
to
consume
it
as
these
men
doe
vpon
their
lusts
.
And
hauing
spent
all
,
as
(
in
Gods
iust
iudgment
)
many
of
them
doe
,
as
daily
experience
sheweth
,
what
becomes
of
them
?
doth
not
like
experience
tell
vs
?
Many
idle
drones
there
are
also
,
that
haue
not
that
,
they
by
any
colour
may
call
their
owne
,
and
yet
they
spend
and
labour
not
,
but
are
as
the
froth
and
scumme
of
a
good
Common
wealth
.
As
touching
their
conuersation
,
it
is
not
onely
idle
,
in
good
things
,
but
laborious
in
euill
:
they
roaue
and
run
about
the
citie
and
countrey
,
●ilching
,
stealing
,
couzening
,
cheating
,
rioting
in
all
kindes
of
wickednesse
,
and
whose
profession
is
only
to
deceiue
.
Can
these
men
pray
for
a
blessing
vpon
their
vocations
and
labours
?
Nay
,
can
they
,
or
doe
they
pray
at
all
?
They
may
haue
,
and
often
haue
the
name
of
God
,
and
his
parts
in
their
mouthes
,
but
for
a
curse
,
not
for
a
blessing
;
for
in
stead
of
praying
vnto
God
,
they
blaspheme
his
name
.
It
is
manifestly
obserued
,
that
God
is
abused
,
and
the
Common
wealth
pestered
,
and
priuily
endangered
,
by
the
idlenesse
,
wickednes
,
and
mischiefes
of
these
men
:
And
yet
who
taketh
it
into
consideration
and
endeuour
to
reforme
it
?
Some
are
in
places
so
eminent
,
as
they
cannot
look
so
low
;
and
some
are
in
place
of
Office
so
meane
,
that
haue
a
good
will
to
put
hand
to
helpe
it
,
but
their
power
is
weake
,
and
their
countenance
and
aid
small
:
they
dare
not
taxe
an
offender
in
this
kind
,
especially
a
Gentleman-like
Roarer
,
that
can
make
a
whole
Street
,
or
a
Hamlet
to
quake
at
his
carriage
,
and
execrable
blasphemies
.
Some
haue
lawfull
callings
,
but
vse
them
not
lawfully
,
for
want
of
the
grace
of
God
to
guide
them
,
and
the
blessing
of
God
to
profite
the
Church
,
or
Common-wealth
by
them
,
because
they
seldome
or
neuer
pray
for
a
blessing
.
Some
are
often
seene
to
prosper
in
outward
shew
,
by
callings
,
or
rather
trades
vnlawfull
,
whereunto
there
can
bee
no
lawfull
calling
,
neither
is
the
vse
lawfull
,
as
common
professed
Gamesters
,
combined
Cheaters
,
and
the
like
.
But
leauing
such
to
their
owne
wicked
practises
,
wherby
they
often
deceiue
the
innocent
and
simple
,
but
most
of
all
,
themselues
;
I
wish
that
other
men
that
haue
lawfull
callings
,
would
consider
the
necessitie
of
Prayer
to
God
,
for
a
blessing
vpon
their
labours
and
endeauors
,
not
onely
Mechanicks
,
and
such
as
liue
by
their
handy-labours
,
but
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
,
in
Church
or
Common-wealth
.
It
is
by
God
that
Kings
gouerne
;
therefore
in
imitation
of
Dauid
and
Salomon
,
they
pray
for
,
and
obtain
wisdome
,
rightly
to
gouerne
their
people
;
and
where
good
,
godly
,
wise
and
religious
Kings
reigne
,
there
the
people
in
imitation
of
them
,
pray
for
their
peace
and
safety
,
and
that
God
would
furnish
them
with
wise
and
religious
Counsellors
,
and
that
no
Achitophell
lurke
wayting
for
mischiefe
.
Counsellors
of
State
,
haue
an
high
and
weighty
calling
,
so
haue
Iudges
of
the
Land
,
and
other
chiefe
and
eminent
Magistrates
,
deriued
mediatly
from
God
;
for
,
as
the
King
is
called
of
none
,
but
immediatly
by
God
to
take
cha●ge
of
his
people
:
So
he
imparts
the
power
of
the
sword
,
vnto
his
sub-ordinate
Magistrats
,
for
the
execution
of
Iustice
,
functions
of
greater
weight
and
moment
,
then
is
vulgarly
esteemed
.
And
therefore
,
though
I
neither
presume
,
not
neede
to
mooue
them
when
or
how
to
pray
.
I
only
may
remember
them
,
that
as
they
haue
highest
functions
,
they
and
we
in
their
behalfes
for
them
,
may
pray
for
the
due
execution
of
them
;
because
their
office
and
place
is
to
correct
the
euill
,
and
to
protect
the
good
,
and
that
they
mistake
not
,
as
by
sinister
information
they
may
,
and
so
erre
vnwittingly
.
Men
in
authoritie
,
and
in
eminent
places
are
chosen
for
their
Vertues
,
Wisdome
,
Integritie
and
Iustice
,
yet
are
they
subiect
to
censure
,
not
onely
of
their
Superiours
,
and
equals
,
but
often
of
most
inferiours
,
wherein
happie
are
the
innocent
,
for
GOD
preserueth
them
,
who
sitteth
in
the
Throne
,
that
iudgeth
right
,
to
whom
whosoeuer
prayeth
as
Dauid
did
,
shall
finde
that
he
will
be
a
buckler
vnto
him
;
his
glorie
,
and
the
lifter
vp
of
his
head
the
greatest
honour
that
man
in
this
life
can
receiue
.
It
may
seeme
needlesse
,
to
put
such
in
minde
of
this
holy
dutie
of
prayer
,
who
haue
the
charge
and
ouersight
of
the
Lords
flocke
;
for
their
calling
is
so
diuine
,
as
they
may
not
bee
,
but
diuinely
indued
with
heauenly
gifts
,
abounding
alwayes
in
the
worke
of
the
Lord
,
whose
labours
are
not
in
vaine
,
blessed
be
God
,
whom
we
ought
to
reuerence
,
as
the
Ministers
of
God
,
labouring
our
saluation
,
and
to
pray
for
them
.
Yet
may
it
not
bee
superfluous
,
to
intimate
to
such
as
enter
rashly
into
this
holy
function
,
that
it
is
fit
for
them
to
examine
their
owne
inward
hearts
,
whether
they
came
with
a
sincere
Spirituall
deuotion
to
edifie
Gods
Church
;
or
to
make
onely
a
carnall
liuing
vnder
the
name
of
a
workeman
in
Gods
haruest
:
If
he
came
in
regard
of
the
first
,
Let
him
pray
that
God
will
blesse
his
labours
,
if
onely
of
the
second
,
Let
him
pray
that
God
will
enable
him
to
discharge
it
,
and
withall
that
GOD
remit
the
euill
thoughts
of
his
heart
,
for
he
entred
not
aright
.
Such
as
liue
by
their
labours
,
bee
they
neuer
so
ingenious
,
neuer
so
labourious
,
neuer
so
cunning
in
their
profession
,
art
,
or
trade
,
they
must
know
and
acknowledge
,
that
what
they
know
,
or
howsoeuer
they
may
performe
it
,
it
is
but
in
part
,
and
weake
in
comparison
of
the
perfection
.
And
that
the
knowledge
and
skill
they
haue
is
not
theirs
,
but
giuen
them
by
God
,
as
hee
gaue
to
Tubalkaine
,
the
art
of
working
in
yron
,
and
to
Iubal
,
skill
in
musicke
.
Yet
some
,
and
they
not
of
best
perfection
,
will
attribute
their
knowledge
to
their
owne
naturall
wit
and
inuention
,
making
an
idol
,
as
it
were
,
of
their
owne
braine
,
neuer
giuing
the
prayse
to
the
true
Giuer
;
and
that
,
and
the
want
of
prayer
is
the
cause
that
many
Artists
and
others
faile
often-times
of
good
successe
of
what
they
vndertake
to
performe
.
Nothing
can
truely
prosper
without
Gods
blessing
,
which
cannot
bee
obtayned
,
but
by
faithfull
prayer
.
Neither
will
God
heare
their
prayers
,
that
deale
vniustly
in
their
callings
,
taking
neuer
so
great
paynes
,
rising
early
,
taking
rest
late
,
sparing
euen
their
food
to
increase
their
store
,
it
is
all
in
vaine
;
Howsoeuer
some
may
,
&
doe
,
waxe
rich
,
by
dealing
vniustly
,
in
weights
,
measures
,
false
and
counterfeit
wares
,
by
swearing
,
forswearing
,
and
lying
;
the
gaines
they
get
,
are
but
froth
and
silth
,
scraped
out
of
the
deuils
dunghill
▪
that
will
quickly
returne
from
whence
it
came
,
and
hee
that
so
gets
without
repentance
,
shall
haue
his
portion
with
his
like
,
the
Rich
man
,
not
with
Lazarus
.
Happy
therefore
is
he
,
that
labou●s
in
his
calling
diligently
,
deales
truely
,
craues
Gods
blessing
faithfully
,
hee
,
and
onely
he
,
and
his
like
haue
rest
,
and
peace
,
and
plenty
in
their
little
truely
gotten
.
Such
are
they
that
eate
the
labours
of
their
hands
,
and
art
blessed
.
Hee
therefore
that
will
bee
happie
,
and
prosper
in
his
calling
,
let
him
often
and
faithfully
call
vpon
the
Name
of
the
Lord
,
to
which
purpose
he
may
vse
the
prayer
following
,
or
any
other
to
the
like
purpose
.
A
Prayer
that
God
will
blesse
and
prosper
our
labours
and
indeuours
,
in
whatsoeuer
calling
.
O
Heauenly
Father
,
great
in
Maiesty
,
wise
of
Counsell
,
absolute
in
Power
,
and
vnsearchable
in
Prouidence
,
who
of
nothing
hast
made
all
things
,
and
in
thy
greatest
Wisdome
,
hast
created
man
,
whom
thou
guidest
,
gouernest
and
disposest
according
to
thine
owne
Will
,
and
to
whom
thou
hast
appointed
labour
,
and
trauaile
,
whereby
to
get
their
reliefe
;
yet
not
all
,
in
one
manner
of
calling
.
Gracious
Father
,
as
I
haue
receiued
life
,
and
being
of
thee
,
and
in
thy
prouidence
,
a
calling
therein
,
whereby
to
maintaine
my
being
:
So
giue
a
blessing
vnto
mee
,
that
I
may
haue
true
iudgement
,
and
an
vpright
heart
to
performe
my
dutie
therein
,
according
to
thy
Will
,
that
my
calling
may
prosper
vnder
my
hands
,
as
thou
blessedst
Iaakob
vnder
Laban
,
and
Ioseph
in
Potiphers
house
:
So
blesse
me
and
my
vocation
,
that
whatsoeuer
I
doe
it
may
prosper
.
I
confesse
louing
Father
,
that
neither
the
most
absolute
art
,
greatest
naturall
knowledge
,
corporall
or
mentall
diligence
,
can
auaile
any
thing
without
thy
blessing
.
By
my
naturall
vnderstanding
,
I
can
neither
apprehend
in
my
minde
,
nor
performe
with
my
hands
,
or
wit
,
the
things
that
properly
belong
vnto
my
calling
:
But
it
is
thy
onely
Wisdome
,
and
of
thine
owne
Fatherly
fauour
,
that
I
haue
beene
made
in
some
measure
,
capeable
of
that
reason
and
iudgement
,
to
which
I
haue
attained
,
it
is
not
in
me
,
as
of
mine
owne
power
to
performe
the
least
part
of
that
,
which
necessarily
belongeth
vnto
my
vocation
,
It
is
thine
owne
worke
in
me
.
If
thou
shouldest
deale
with
mee
according
to
my
deseruings
,
thou
mightest
iustly
depriue
mee
of
that
meane
measure
of
knowledge
,
that
by
thy
fauour
and
aide
,
I
haue
attained
vnto
,
thou
mightest
weaken
my
senses
,
and
the
faculties
of
my
body
and
minde
,
all
which
I
cannot
but
confesse
I
haue
abused
,
and
without
the
vse
of
them
,
thou
knowest
I
cannot
performe
the
workes
of
my
calling
.
I
humbly
therfore
pray
thee
,
good
Father
,
rather
to
increase
and
continue
in
me
,
that
measure
of
knowledge
,
and
that
perfection
of
my
body
and
minde
,
which
thou
hast
already
bestowed
vpon
mee
,
then
either
to
depriue
mee
of
them
,
or
to
weaken
them
in
mee
.
I
acknowledge
,
Gracious
Lord
,
that
there
is
no
vocation
or
calling
,
high
or
low
,
no
labour
,
exercise
or
endeuour
that
can
bee
vsefull
or
profitable
to
himselfe
or
others
,
no
mans
life
pleasing
or
commendable
without
thine
especiall
direction
and
blessing
,
and
that
in
the
Name
,
of
that
blessed
of
all
blessings
,
in
whom
as
all
blessednesse
doth
consist
,
So
through
his
most
blessed
mediation
,
and
merrits
,
blessings
vpon
blessings
,
are
powred
vpon
the
godly
labours
of
all
them
,
that
in
whatsoeuer
calling
●n
his
Name
,
truely
seeke
to
be
blessed
.
In
him
therefore
Father
of
blessings
,
let
thy
blessing
be
vpon
mee
in
all
my
labours
,
enterprises
and
endeuours
:
for
without
thy
blessing
,
ayde
,
direction
and
protection
,
I
may
labour
,
trauaile
,
bee
carefull
solicitous
,
diligent
,
and
most
industrious
,
yet
all
in
vaine
:
my
paines
may
bee
great
,
my
rising
vp
to
my
labours
earely
,
yet
without
thy
blessing
little
profit
mee
:
I
may
get
much
,
but
I
shall
put
it
,
as
it
were
in
a
broken
bagge
,
my
going
foorth
without
thy
blessing
cannot
be
but
dangerous
,
my
trauailes
subiect
to
many
perils
,
&
in
euitable
inconueniences
.
Mine
owne
carnall
corruptions
accompany
mee
,
whithersoeuer
I
goe
,
ride
,
or
remaine
:
the
vanities
of
the
world
euery
where
distract
my
wauering
and
inconstant
minde
:
And
Satan
with
his
millions
of
infernall
ministers
,
prouoking
mee
to
sinne
,
pursue
mee
,
euer
plotting
and
practising
occasions
to
draw
mee
from
thee
;
suggesting
Idlenesse
and
Ease
,
to
bee
sweete
,
and
Labour
and
Trauaile
in
lawfull
and
honest
callings
,
painefull
;
deceite
in
my
vocation
,
gainefull
;
iust
dealing
,
foolish
nicenesse
;
&
negligent
performance
,
a
sufficient
discharge
of
my
dutie
.
Thus
being
beset
,
good
Father
,
within
and
without
with
sundry
tentations
,
I
cannot
without
thy
Grace
,
auoyde
the
committing
of
many
sinnes
,
not
only
in
abusing
my
calling
,
but
in
mine
ordinary
conuersation
and
course
of
life
:
and
sinne
committed
,
draweth
on
thy
displeasure
,
and
thy
displeasure
punishments
,
such
as
in
thy
seueritie
may
iustly
disable
mee
to
performe
my
dutie
in
my
calling
,
hauing
no
power
in
,
or
of
my selfe
to
performe
the
least
part
of
my
duetie
,
either
in
my
vocation
or
conuersation
.
Leaue
me
not
therfore
,
deare
Father
,
vnto
mine
owne
weakenesse
,
nor
to
the
will
,
and
wiles
of
my
Spirituall
or
corporall
enemies
,
that
hate
me
,
and
couet
to
hinder
,
or
slander
euery
good
worke
in
mee
,
reioycing
when
any
euill
befals
in
my
life
or
calling
.
Preuent
them
,
O
Lord
,
and
for
thy
best
beloueds
sake
,
teach
mee
wisdome
,
and
giue
me
vnderstanding
according
to
thy
Word
,
that
in
all
my
wayes
,
I
may
bee
watchfull
;
in
my
labours
,
painfull
;
in
my
carriage
and
calling
faithfull
and
iust
;
&
that
my
principall
&
chief
care
may
euer
bee
to
please
thee
;
And
furnish
mee
so
with
true
iudgement
,
in
all
and
euerie
part
of
my
duetie
,
as
there
may
bee
nothing
wanting
in
mee
,
which
may
further
thy
Glorie
;
which
grant
for
thy
blessed
Sonnes
sake
,
IESVS
CHRIST
,
to
whom
with
thee
and
the
Holy
Ghost
,
bee
praise
for
euermore
.
Amen
.
Lord
increase
my
faith
.
Hee
whose
calling
requireth
Iourneys
by
land
or
sea
,
may
prepare
himselfe
by
adding
this
Prayer
following
,
or
to
vse
it
by
it selfe
.
MOst
louing
and
most
mercifull
Father
in
●esus
Christ
,
I
acknowledg
my selfe
the
weakest
,
and
most
ignorant
of
al
humane
creatures
,
hauing
receiued
in
thy
prouidence
,
a
calling
requiring
continuall
trauailes
,
iourneys
,
and
much
labour
of
body
and
mind
,
hauing
such
and
so
great
a
troupe
of
aduersaries
,
and
dangers
accompanying
me
in
the
execution
thereof
,
as
euermore
seeke
to
stop
the
way
of
my
good
successe
therein
,
as
well
in
my
iourneying
forth
,
in
performing
my
lawfull
labors
abroad
as
also
in
my
returning
home
.
I
most
humbly
therefore
pray
thee
,
to
haue
a
fatherly
care
of
mee
,
and
to
take
charge
of
me
in
all
my
proceedings
,
in
all
places
,
among
all
men
,
and
at
all
times
,
that
all
my
iourneis
,
from
,
and
to
mine
owne
home
,
may
be
prosperous
,
and
all
my
labors
&
indeauors
may
succeed
to
thine
owne
glory
,
to
the
faithfull
discharge
of
my
dutie
in
all
mine
imployments
,
to
the
competent
supply
of
whatsoeuer
I
need
.
And
forasmuch
as
these
my
iourneys
,
trauailes
,
and
labours
,
are
and
may
bee
much
hindered
through
sicknes
,
&
infirmities
of
my
body
,
defects
of
my
limbes
,
bodily
members
and
senses
;
the
perfection
of
which
being
originally
thine
own
gif●s
,
continue
my
body
in
health
,
my
limbs
in
strēgth
,
and
all
my
senses
perfect
,
vntill
the
time
when
thou
shalt
thinke
fit
to
dissolue
my
whole
bodily
frame
,
when
I
shall
no
more
trauaile
,
no
more
labour
,
nor
feele
any
defect
of
body
or
mind
.
And
grant
,
if
it
bee
thy
good
pleasure
,
that
neither
sicknesse
,
death
,
or
any
other
corporall
infirmitie
,
seize
vpon
mee
in
my
trauels
and
iourneys
,
submitting
my
will
yet
vnto
thy
will
,
knowing
that
thou
knowest
what
is
most
necessary
for
mee
;
and
that
who
so
is
thine
,
is
thine
,
and
in
thy
fauour
,
and
protection
,
as
well
abroad
,
as
in
his
owne
house
;
yea
,
whensoeuer
,
wheresoeuer
,
and
in
what
manner
soeuer
thou
art
pleased
to
touch
him
with
thy
correcting
hand
,
or
to
call
him
out
of
this
mortall
life
.
And
forasmuch
good
Father
,
as
there
are
many
other
impediments
to
hinder
my
necessary
iourneys
,
trauels
,
and
labours
,
as
distemperature
of
the
ayre
,
immoderate
weather
,
difficulties
of
wayes
,
inundations
of
water
,
danger
of
theeues
,
&
euilly
disposed
persons
,
defects
in
the
creatures
,
which
thou
vouchsafest
for
my
vse
in
trauell
,
and
many
other
dangers
,
and
hinderances
,
infinite
in
number
,
all
concealed
from
mee
vntill
they
fall
,
yet
all
knowne
and
foreseene
of
thee
,
and
all
disposed
and
permitted
by
thee
.
I
most
humbly
therefore
pray
thee
,
to
watch
,
and
spread
the
wings
of
thy
power
and
prouidence
ouer
mee
,
and
stretch
foorth
thy
helping
hand
ouer
me
,
that
no
euill
if
it
please
thee
,
befall
me
.
But
if
thy
will
bee
so
,
grant
me
wisedome
and
patience
,
not
to
impute
it
to
fained
Fortune
,
but
as
indeed
it
is
to
mine
own
sinfull
deseruings
,
and
that
I
may
be
euer
thankfull
vnto
thee
,
whatsoeuer
befal
me
.
Let
the
Angel
of
thy
presence
accompany
mee
,
let
thy
heauenly
spirit
euer
possesse
me
,
&
let
my
heart
euermore
possesse
thee
;
let
my
thoughts
be
euermore
free
from
sinne
,
and
all
the
parts
and
powers
of
my
body
,
my
mind
,
affections
,
and
will
,
from
euery
euill
action
,
and
vngodly
desire
.
Giue
me
a
holy
feare
,
to
walke
,
worke
,
trauaile
,
and
vse
mine
occasions
as
in
thy
presence
,
knowing
that
thou
beholdest
me
,
mine
inward
inclination
,
and
outward
actions
.
Thou
knowest
also
,
good
Father
,
that
besides
mine
owne
wandring
and
wauering
heart
,
Sathan
ceaseth
not
to
watch
opportunitie
to
snare
mee
in
some
vaine
obiect
or
other
,
in
my
silent
and
solitary
trauailes
,
and
iourneys
,
laying
before
the
eyes
of
my
corrupt
minde
,
infinite
bayts
to
allure
mee
to
sin
against
thee
,
that
so
I
may
offend
thee
;
that
by
offending
thee
,
thou
in
thy
displeasure
mayest
inflict
some
crosse
or
hinderance
vnto
my
trauels
,
and
so
to
preuent
the
good
successe
of
mine
endeauors
.
But
grant
good
Father
in
Iesus
Christ
,
that
neither
sin
,
Sathan
,
nor
mine
owne
corrupt
desires
,
hinder
thy
blessings
vpon
my
trauels
,
but
that
I
may
constantly
continue
in
thine
obedience
,
and
thy
loue
towards
mee
,
not
onely
in
these
my
trauailes
,
but
vnto
my
liues
end
.
Amen
.
Lord
increase
my
faith
,
and
prosper
my
Iourney
.
A
motiue
to
a
Prayer
for
patience
in
godly
Parents
,
that
are
afflicted
in
minde
for
the
disobedience
,
and
vngodly
liues
of
their
children
;
whom
if
good
counsell
cannot
reforme
,
prayer
is
to
bee
made
to
God
for
them
;
if
that
will
not
preuaile
,
to
leaue
them
to
God
,
and
the
Lawes
.
IT
is
not
the
least
crosse
that
can
befall
godly
and
religious
parents
,
to
see
and
obserue
their
owne
flesh
&
blood
,
their
owne
dearest
children
,
to
bee
disobedient
&
rebellious
,
and
by
their
lewd
liues
,
to
become
scandalous
in
themselues
,
and
a
shame
and
slander
vnto
their
parents
and
friends
.
A
griefe
it
is
of
all
griefes
,
especially
vnto
such
parents
as
haue
had
,
not
onely
,
a
fatherly
,
but
a
religious
care
of
their
holy
education
:
And
their
griefe
cannot
but
bee
so
much
the
more
,
by
how
much
the
world
condemnes
the
parents
,
censuring
them
euill
,
by
obseruing
the
vngodly
liues
of
their
children
.
A
great
temptation
to
a
carefull
father
,
that
hath
done
his
vttermost
godly
endeauor
to
educate
his
children
in
the
feare
of
God
;
wherin
the
wise
,
indifferent
,
and
impartiall
obseruer
,
cannot
but
spare
his
condemnation
,
finding
this
corrupt
world
so
fraught
with
multitudes
of
wicked
youth
,
whose
examples
abroad
,
doe
worke
more
euill
in
children
,
then
the
wisest
and
most
godly
father
can
worke
good
in
them
at
home
by
their
best
counsell
.
It
is
no
maruel
then
,
that
a
good
man
may
haue
euill
children
,
who
though
hee
propagate
their
bodies
,
cannot
infuse
grace
and
goodnes
into
their
hearts
;
he
can
not
frame
their
inclinations
to
vertue
,
further
the●
God
by
his
diuine
Spirit
,
doth
second
his
good
endeauors
.
The
Husbandman
may
soyle
his
land
with
the
best
Marle
,
he
may
be
carefull
in
plowing
,
circumspect
in
sowing
,
painefull
in
harrowing
,
&
as
much
as
in
him
lieth
,
preuent
the
vermin
that
might
deuoure
the
seed
sowen
:
Yet
it
is
not
his
labour
,
diligence
,
or
best
skil
that
can
forme
the
blade
,
nor
infuse
the
graine
in
the
eare
.
A
good
and
godly
father
may
infuse
his
best
coūsell
into
the
eares
of
a
refractory
sonne
,
and
harrowe
him
with
sharp
threats
,
to
preuent
venemous
vices
,
that
deuoure
best
counsell
:
But
hee
cannot
imprint
grace
in
his
heart
,
nor
work
the
practise
of
godlinesse
in
him
;
he
cannot
driue
away
Sathan
,
and
his
wicked
instruments
,
from
deuouring
the
good
seed
sowne
in
his
sonne
.
Euill
examples
,
and
wicked
counsell
preuaile
more
with
corrupt
flesh
,
then
most
diuine
perswasions
,
or
disswasions
.
It
is
a
vaine
thing
to
sowe
good
corne
vpon
a
stony
rocke
,
it
will
take
no
root
:
so
to
giue
best
counsell
to
a
stubburne
,
and
an
obdurate
heart
,
can
not
fructifie
;
yet
must
not
parents
therfore
giue
ouer
,
but
againe
and
againe
,
early
and
late
,
endeauor
to
encourage
his
children
in
ve●tue
and
goodnesse
,
and
to
reclaime
them
from
sin
,
according
to
the
counsell
of
the
Preacher
in
Ecclesiastes
,
Jn
the
morning
sow
thy
seed
,
and
in
the
euening
let
not
thine
hand
rest
,
for
thou
knowest
not
whether
shall
prosper
this
or
that
,
or
whether
both
shall
bee
a
like
good
.
So
should
parents
bee
alike
instant
,
at
all
times
to
instruct
their
children
with
holy
counsell
:
for
they
know
not
,
whether
God
haue
appointed
this
or
that
time
,
or
this
or
that
aduice
,
to
conuert
them
from
euill
to
good
:
for
as
one
drop
often
falling
,
descends
at
last
to
moisten
the
root
of
the
tree
:
So
time
,
and
timely
counsell
,
may
mollifie
the
hardest
heart
,
and
reforme
the
peruersest
mind
:
for
as
the
wind
bloweth
when
and
where
it
listeth
,
and
no
man
knoweth
from
whence
it
commeth
;
so
may
the
Spirit
of
God
come
into
the
heart
,
when
man
thinketh
least
of
it
:
therfore
ought
parents
to
pray
earnestly
,
and
often
for
godly
liues
of
their
Children
;
in
whom
,
then
if
God
haue
any
share
,
it
will
in
time
preuaile
.
The
reason
why
the
world
is
so
ful
of
loose
lasciuious
&
vnbrideled
youth
,
is
much
in
the
euill
examples
of
Parents
,
the
want
of
the
feare
,
&
neglect
of
the
seruice
of
God
;
for
the
example
of
a
father
may
something
alter
the
nature
of
a
son
in
good
,
or
euill
.
For
there
is
a
kinde
of
ineuitable
imitation
in
the
son
,
of
the
fathers
qualities
;
If
they
be
good
,
nature
rebelleth
against
them
,
in
the
son
,
because
it
is
corrupt
;
&
if
they
be
euill
,
nature
it selfe
teacheth
the
son
,
without
further
documēt
,
how
to
resemble
the
father
in
euill
.
And
nothing
can
help
the
one
,
or
bridle
the
other
,
but
grace
,
which
cannot
be
obtayned
,
but
by
prayer
.
Another
maine
cause
of
Childrens
lewdnesse
,
is
too
much
lenitie
in
Parents
,
and
too
much
libertie
in
Children
,
wherein
idle
doting
and
foolish
mothers
,
are
commonly
most
guilty
,
who
because
they
haue
giuen
their
Children
suck
of
their
breasts
,
when
th●y
were
young
,
they
giue
them
leaue
when
they
become
able
to
sinne
,
to
suck
their
pu●ses
,
to
feede
them
fat
in
vices
;
in
haunting
Tauernes
,
idle
,
and
vngodly
companies
,
drinking
,
gaming
,
and
which
is
not
the
least
,
pampering
them
in
pride
,
the
beginning
of
their
fall
;
wherein
many
silly
fathers
,
are
as
guilty
in
winking
at
the
mothers
folly
,
or
,
not
hauing
the
wit
or
spirit
to
redresse
it
,
vntill
their
children
,
become
so
farre
plunged
in
impieties
;
as
when
they
would
,
they
cannot
not
reclaime
them
,
and
so
in
fine
,
are
inforced
,
to
see
them
,
to
their
vnspeakeable
griefe
,
come
either
to
publike
shame
and
obloquie
,
or
to
vntimely
and
fearefull
ends
,
which
may
befall
the
vngodly
Children
of
most
godly
Parents
.
What
then
?
Shall
the
Parents
beare
the
shame
of
their
Children
that
kick
against
all
good
counsell
,
and
will
obstinately
run
to
their
owne
ruine
?
No.
But
if
Parents
be
totally
remisse
in
wholesome
counsell
,
&
erre
in
their
example
,
in
the
eye
of
their
Children
,
no
maruell
if
they
taste
of
the
shame
,
and
griefe
,
of
,
and
for
their
Children
.
But
least
good
men
,
men
fearing
God
,
hauing
vngodly
Children
,
to
whom
they
haue
done
their
best
duties
in
their
youth
to
teach
them
,
the
way
of
godlinesse
,
and
they
depart
from
it
,
should
be
too
much
deiected
,
and
cast
downe
through
griefe
conceiued
for
the
wickednesse
of
their
Children
,
let
them
consider
,
that
as
they
cannot
make
one
haire
black
,
that
is
white
,
no
more
can
they
make
him
good
,
that
is
euill
:
neither
can
they
keepe
them
in
awe
that
are
wilfully
rebellious
,
nor
preuent
them
of
confusion
,
that
voluntarily
seeke
it
.
Foolishly
vnaduised
,
then
are
they
that
will
taxe
a
good
Father
of
an
euill
Childe
(
comming
into
shame
,
and
deepest
danger
)
with
the
error
of
his
sonne
,
when
as
good
Children
are
the
gifts
God
in
mercie
to
the
Parents
,
and
wicked
ones
a
punishment
,
not
so
much
to
the
Parents
,
as
to
themselues
.
Though
euery
man
would
willingly
haue
good
Children
,
yet
the
best
men
haue
had
▪
and
oft
haue
wicked
Children
.
Adam
,
the
first
man
had
wicked
Caine.
Abraham
had
an
Ismael
,
Izaake
an
Esau
,
Dauid
a
rebellious
Absolom
,
and
an
incestious
Ammon
,
good
Eli
had
two
wicked
sonnes
,
Hophnie
and
Phineas
.
Infinite
are
the
examples
,
yet
no
doubt
,
these
good
men
gaue
good
instructions
to
these
their
erronious
issues
,
whereby
it
appeareth
,
that
it
is
not
in
good
men
to
beget
good
Children
,
neither
doth
it
follow
,
that
wicked
men
alwayes
propagate
wicked
Children
,
God
frames
both
in
the
wombe
,
giues
them
life
and
frames
their
hearts
,
wills
and
affections
.
It
resteth
onely
then
for
Parents
of
vngodly
Children
,
to
pray
for
their
reformation
,
and
to
leaue
them
to
God
,
in
whose
counsell
it
is
determined
,
what
shall
be
the
ends
of
such
as
feare
not
him
,
nor
reuerence
man.
A
Prayer
for
the
reformation
of
vngodly
and
disobedient
Children
,
and
for
patience
in
Parents
,
not
ouermuch
to
afflict
themselues
,
for
their
irreconciliable
stubbornenesse
and
disobedience
.
HEare
the
words
of
my
mouth
,
O
Lord
,
and
consider
the
meditations
,
and
sorrowes
of
my
heart
;
for
my
spirit
is
full
of
heauinesse
,
I
am
vexed
and
sore
greeued
,
for
that
they
whom
thou
gauest
mee
for
a
blessing
,
are
turned
to
my
griefe
,
sorrow
,
and
shame
.
I
confesse
,
that
mine
owne
sinnes
haue
prouoked
thee
to
anger
against
mee
;
and
thy
displeasure
appeareth
,
in
that
they
,
whom
I
receiued
as
a
comfort
from
thee
,
are
become
,
not
onely
disobedient
to
mee
,
but
as
it
were
rebellious
against
thee
,
and
thy
counsell
.
Thou
art
a
God
that
louest
not
wickednesse
,
and
thou
hatest
iniquity
;
and
it
cannot
be
hid
from
thee
,
what
I
haue
done
;
my
neglect
in
trayning
my
Children
in
thy
feare
thou
mayst
lay
vnto
my
charge
,
yet
thou
knowest
I
haue
laboured
to
winne
them
vnto
thee
,
if
it
haue
beene
in
vaine
,
thou
hast
wisdome
and
power
to
supply
in
them
,
what
is
defectiue
in
me
,
to
giue
them
.
I
haue
endeuoured
,
to
make
them
to
know
thee
,
and
to
walke
in
thy
wayes
,
but
they
haue
contemned
mine
instructions
,
and
cast
my
counsells
behinde
their
backs
,
they
will
not
bee
reclaymed
from
their
vanities
.
They
forget
thee
,
the
God
of
power
to
punish
them
,
and
the
God
of
mercie
,
to
receiue
&
comfort
such
as
returne
from
their
sinnes
to
thee
.
Lord
it
is
onely
in
thee
to
reclaime
them
,
as
thou
diddest
the
prodigall
son
,
whom
thou
vouchsafest
to
receiue
vnto
mercie
,
after
his
long
going
astray
;
no
man
erreth
so
farre
,
whom
thou
canst
not
recall
.
Oh
recall
these
that
erre
,
reduce
them
back
to
the
sheepe-fold
of
thy
Saints
.
They
are
the
worke
of
thine
owne
hands
,
though
I
wretched
man
begate
them
in
corruption
,
and
their
mother
conceiued
them
in
sinne
,
and
bare
them
in
misery
,
these
are
no
hindrance
vnto
the
worke
of
thy
Grace
in
them
,
for
what
is
,
or
hath
beene
the
man
that
hath
not
had
the
like
beginning
(
thine
owne
begotten
Sonne
excepted
)
Enoch
that
walked
vprightly
before
thee
.
Abraham
the
Father
of
the
faithfull
,
Eliah
and
Iohn
Baptist
,
and
all
thine
elect
vessels
,
came
by
nature
of
the
same
corrupt
seed
:
yet
thou
wert
pleased
to
sanctifie
them
;
haddest
thou
left
them
vnto
their
owne
original
nature
,
they
had
bin
as
one
of
these
that
lift
vp
their
heeles
against
(
not
me
but
)
thee
.
Lord
giue
them
Grace
,
Wisdome
and
Vnderstanding
,
Faith
and
Obedience
,
they
are
onely
thine
to
giue
:
I
may
bee
as
the
hand
to
giue
them
,
as
from
thee
,
food
for
their
bodies
wherby
by
thy
blessing
,
they
grow
;
and
I
may
sow
the
seeds
of
my
best
knowledge
of
thy
worke
in
their
outward
eares
;
but
vnlesse
thou
plow
vp
the
fallow
ground
of
their
hearts
,
that
it
may
take
roote
,
it
cannot
fructifie
.
Consider
,
gracious
Father
,
that
they
are
of
the
polluted
seede
of
Adam
,
yet
be
thou
pleased
,
to
accept
them
as
thine
,
admit
them
into
thy
fauour
,
and
guide
them
by
thy
Grace
,
in
a
religious
conuersation
,
that
they
may
cease
to
doe
euill
,
cleaue
vnto
that
which
is
good
,
and
walke
before
thee
,
&
be
vpright
.
Thē
shal
they
serue
thee
,
&
I
shall
prayse
thee
,
for
their
reformation
and
saluation
Let
neither
their
sinnes
nor
mine
,
any
more
prouoke
thee
to
anger
,
lest
thy
seuere
iudgements
should
fall
vpon
them
,
&
shame
&
grief
vpon
vs
their
parents
.
But
their
repentance
Lord
shall
bee
our
comfort
,
and
wee
shall
reioyce
in
their
conuersion
,
and
not
onely
wee
,
but
all
the
godly
shall
reioyce
at
their
returne
into
the
Spirituall
societie
of
thy
Saints
.
Grant
it
gracious
Lord
,
for
thy
Christs
sake
,
whose
righteousnes
,
make
theirs
,
and
his
merrits
a
sufficient
satisfaction
for
theirs
,
and
for
the
sins
of
all
that
haue
erred
as
they
haue
done
.
Amen
.
Lord
increase
in
them
,
the
holy
feare
of
thy
Name
,
Faith
,
&
Obedience
vnto
thee
,
&
giue
me
grace
,
with
patience
,
to
waite
their
holy
reformation
.
A
Christian
incouragement
,
to
all
that
feare
God
,
not
to
bee
daunted
at
the
threats
,
power
and
policies
,
of
whatsoeuer
enemies
,
be
they
neuer
so
many
in
multitude
,
or
seeming
strong
in
armes
,
fit
vpon
occasion
;
to
be
taken
into
consideration
,
to
which
is
added
a
prayer
,
for
Gods
holy
protection
and
defence
of
his
,
in
whatsoeuer
danger
.
THey
that
trust
in
the
Lord
,
shall
be
as
mount
Sion
,
that
can
neuer
be
mooued
,
but
remaine
fast
for
euer
.
And
as
the
mountaines
are
about
Ierusalem
,
so
is
the
Lord
about
them
,
that
trust
in
him
,
from
generation
to
generation
.
Wherof
holy
Dauid
,
had
good
experience
,
who
through
the
assurance
of
Gods
presence
,
with
him
,
his
loue
towards
him
,
and
power
ouer
him
,
could
say
with
a
bould
and
vndaunted
spirit
.
If
an
Host
pitched
against
mee
,
my
heart
should
not
be
affrayd
.
He
alwayes
found
the
redie
helpe
,
wherewith
God
euer
assisted
him
,
and
the
true
performance
of
Gods
promises
at
all
times
,
in
all
his
dangers
;
and
therefore
assured
himselfe
,
that
if
tenne
thousand
of
the
people
,
did
rise
against
him
and
bese●
him
round
about
,
he
would
not
be
affrayde
.
He
was
in
many
dangers
,
and
wonderfull
his
deliuerances
were
as
appeareth
by
diuine
History
.
God
is
not
the
God
of
Dauid
onely
,
because
hee
was
a
King
,
and
a
man
chosen
after
Gods
owne
heart
,
but
the
God
of
all
them
,
that
fa●thfully
trust
in
him
,
of
good
kings
&
godly
subiects
,
through
all
generations
to
the
end
of
the
world
,
whereof
no
nation
hath
had
more
manifest
proofe
(
though
vnworthy
)
then
wee
:
And
therefore
bee
our
dangers
neuer
so
great
,
or
many
,
God
sheweth
himselfe
to
haue
euer
as
many
meanes
to
deliuer
vs.
Saluation
belongeth
to
him
alone
,
and
his
blessings
are
vpon
them
that
call
faithfully
vpon
him
.
Hezekiah
sore
terrified
at
the
threats
&
blasphemies
of
Tartan
Rabsaries
,
and
Rabsakeh
,
the
seruants
of
Senacherib
,
who
by
his
blasphemous
letters
reuiled
,
not
Hezekiah
onely
,
but
high
Iehouah
himselfe
.
Hezekiah
therefore
prayed
vnto
the
GOD
of
Hostes
,
who
sent
his
Angell
,
and
that
night
destroyed
in
Senacheribs
campe
,
one
hundred
fourescore
and
fiue
thousand
men
.
Thus
God
can
deale
with
the
enemies
of
his
faithfull
people
,
hee
can
destroy
them
without
their
helpe
,
as
wee
our selues
haue
found
by
memorable
experience
;
to
shew
that
it
is
not
alwayes
the
multitude
of
armed
souldiers
that
are
the
absolute
meanes
of
victorie
,
it
is
the
meere
hand
of
God
to
declare
himselfe
,
to
be
in
deed
the
GOD
of
Hosts
,
against
whom
no
power
,
pollicie
,
or
humane
wisdome
can
preuaile
.
And
therefore
admitteth
not
the
arme
of
flesh
(
though
a
necessary
meane
)
to
haue
the
glorie
of
the
distruction
of
his
enemies
,
he
will
confound
.
When
Joshua
,
was
to
goe
against
Jericho
,
a
Citie
whom
God
would
destroy
,
though
hee
was
accompanied
with
a
multitude
of
armed
souldiers
:
yet
the
Lord
would
not
haue
the
ouerthrow
ascribed
vnto
battery
,
and
engines
of
warre
,
violent
instruments
;
But
at
Gods
command
they
blew
with
Rams-hornes
onely
about
the
wals
,
with
a
shoute
,
and
the
walls
fell
downe
.
God
by
weake
meanes
can
doe
wonderfull
things
for
his
.
Fiue
mighty
kings
combined
their
forces
together
against
Ioshua
,
and
though
God
permitted
Ioshua
to
haue
the
victory
and
slaughter
of
some
of
them
,
yet
God
himselfe
had
the
prayse
,
who
slew
more
with
hayl
stones
from
heauen
then
Ioshua
slew
with
the
sword
.
Thus
,
doth
God
manifest
his
power
,
that
all
men
may
see
,
that
they
that
haue
God
on
their
side
,
neede
not
feare
,
though
kings
combine
,
and
people
rage
,
as
if
they
would
deuoure
Gods
people
at
their
pleasures
,
casting
their
accounts
,
and
disposing
of
their
pray
before
the
victorie
.
Benadab
,
that
mighty
Aramite
king
,
threatned
Ahab
king
of
Israel
,
to
depriue
him
of
all
that
he
had
,
His
siluer
and
his
gold
,
his
women
and
his
faire
children
.
But
God
gaue
Ahab
the
victorie
,
both
on
the
Mountaines
and
the
Vallies
;
Because
they
obiected
against
God
,
that
he
was
God
in
the
Mountaines
,
not
in
the
Vallies
,
as
if
we
should
say
he
were
God
at
Land
,
but
not
at
Sea
,
or
to
impute
good
or
ill
successe
,
in
these
weighty
occasions
,
to
false
and
contrary
causes
;
as
is
commonly
seen
,
and
obserued
to
ignorance
,
or
negligence
of
some
Commanders
,
or
to
this
or
that
omission
,
ouer-sight
or
rashnesse
which
indeed
may
bee
blame-worthy
;
yet
for
that
wee
attribute
not
good
successe
to
God
,
but
to
humane
power
,
wisdome
,
or
pollicie
,
and
ill
euents
and
issues
,
to
our
owne
sinnefull
deseruings
,
and
wa●t
of
calling
vp
on
God
for
a
blessing
.
God
many
times
permits
his
owne
children
to
suffer
violence
,
when
they
forget
to
serue
him
.
The
Israelites
committing
wickednesse
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
,
God
gaue
them
ouer
into
the
hands
of
their
enemies
,
the
Midianites
,
for
seuen
yeares
;
yet
vpon
their
repentance
and
returning
to
God
,
hee
raysed
vp
Deborah
and
Barak
to
deliuer
them
.
Sinne
is
the
cause
that
God
permitteth
a
mighty
multitude
to
bee
ouer-throwne
by
a
few
:
foure
hundred
thousand
Israelites
,
for
one
sinne
were
ouercome
,
twice
by
sixe
and
twentie
thousand
Beniamits
.
If
God
for
one
sinne
,
suffered
his
people
to
bee
thus
slaine
by
a
few
,
what
will
hee
not
permit
to
bee
done
vnto
a
nation
,
that
commits
infinite
sinnes
?
For
one
seeming
small
sinn
of
one
man
Achan
,
the
children
of
Israel
were
chased
and
put
to
flight
by
a
few
;
to
shew
,
that
where
sinne
raigneth
,
there
is
no
strength
in
the
people
to
withstand
their
enemies
.
God
is
a
righteous
God
,
perseruing
and
punishing
,
as
hee
findeth
men
faithfull
or
sinnefull
,
not
sparing
his
dearest
children
,
when
they
rebell
against
him
,
but
as
long
as
they
truely
obay
him
,
no
enemie
shall
preuaile
against
them
.
Let
Pharoh
pursue
Gods
children
,
with
purpose
to
consume
them
,
let
them
but
call
vpon
God
,
let
them
bee
faithfull
,
and
they
shall
see
the
saluation
of
God
,
the
confusion
of
their
enemies
,
by
the
immediate
hand
of
God
,
without
the
helpe
or
hand
of
man.
An
hoste
of
men
cannot
hurt
one
man
,
whom
God
will
protect
;
and
yet
permits
sometimes
one
of
his
to
preuaile
against
many
,
as
Samson
,
who
slewe
one
thousand
men
with
the
iaw-bone
of
an
asse
:
and
Shamgar
,
with
an
Oxe
goad
slew
six
hundred
men
,
to
shew
that
God
is
not
tyed
to
multitudes
,
to
auenge
him
of
the
enemies
of
his
children
;
and
that
a
multitude
to
him
is
but
as
one
man
,
and
as
easie
to
bee
ouercome
.
And
yet
he
many
times
permitteth
the
wicked
to
take
away
the
liues
of
the
most
righteous
and
innocent
:
as
Kain
to
kill
Abel
,
Herod
to
kill
Iohn
Baptist
,
James
,
&c.
he
permits
bloody
massacres
,
and
suffers
his
d●arest
children
to
be
martyred
after
many
fearefull
meanes
,
not
that
he
is
not
able
to
deliuer
them
,
but
that
his
owne
name
by
their
patient
suffrings
may
be
glorified
.
On
the
other
side
,
if
it
please
him
,
and
that
it
stand
for
the
good
of
his
,
hee
can
and
will
defend
them
;
hee
can
send
an
hoste
of
Angels
to
defend
thē
,
and
fire
from
h●auen
,
to
consume
the
adu●●saries
of
them
,
that
take
him
for
their
strēgth
.
But
not
according
to
naturall
mans
reuengefull
desire
;
As
when
his
disciples
willed
him
to
call
for
fire
from
heauen
,
to
consume
their
enemies
;
he
answered
them
,
Yee
know
not
of
what
spirit
yee
are
.
And
therefore
although
he
in
his
iustice
in
former
times
hath
,
and
yet
is
in
his
power
to
execute
his
seuere
iudgments
with
fearefull
fire
,
as
vpon
Sodome
,
vpon
Nadab
and
Abihu
,
and
vpon
the
fifties
,
which
came
to
apprehend
Eliah
:
yet
ought
we
to
be
farre
from
desire
,
to
haue
like
iudgements
inflicted
vp●on
our
most
mortall
enemies
,
vpon
such
as
would
euen
eate
vs
vp
:
but
rather
as
wee
are
instructed
,
first
to
pray
for
their
reformation
,
and
serious
reconciliation
,
and
refer
the
issue
to
God
,
though
it
may
be
we
cannot
as
properly
say
of
some
malicious
aduersaries
,
as
Stephen
sometimes
said
of
his
,
Lord
lay
not
this
(
his
death
)
vnto
their
charge
,
for
they
know
not
what
they
doe
.
No
,
our
most
malicious
enemies
are
not
ignorant
,
that
their
malice
towards
vs
,
is
sinne
against
God
,
to
whose
iudgement
we
are
in
charitie
to
leaue
them
:
for
to
him
,
not
to
vs
,
belongeth
reuenge
,
who
being
wise
in
his
vnderstanding
,
and
iust
in
his
iudgements
,
is
also
mercifull
and
patient
in
punishing
,
and
in
all
things
,
both
to
them
and
vs
,
will
do
that
which
is
equal
&
right
;
and
will
reward
tyranous
oppressors
,
&
malicious
persecuters
of
his
faithful
children
,
in
his
time
,
&
according
to
his
owne
will
,
and
for
his
owne
,
he
will
neuer
leaue
,
nor
forsake
them
.
Although
our
enemies
may
pretend
Religion
the
cause
of
their
malice
,
and
couer
their
inward
hatred
vnder
a
counterfeit
pretence
to
worke
our
reformation
therein
;
and
with
many
seeming
sweet
insinuations
,
worke
themselues
into
our
thoughts
,
it
behooueth
vs
to
be
wise
,
lest
that
in
conceiuing
they
seek
our
good
,
they
get
not
our
goods
,
which
are
our
obedience
to
God
,
faith
in
him
,
and
perseuerance
.
True
it
is
,
that
Religion
is
the
cause
of
many
both
priuat
and
publike
controuersies
and
quarrels
;
but
that
Religion
that
is
increased
,
and
maintained
by
the
sword
,
let
my
soule
neuer
imbrace
.
Though
true
Religion
haue
it
foundation
from
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
it
is
no
true
Religion
that
maintaines
it selfe
by
the
shedding
of
the
blood
of
Gods
Saints
.
If
therfore
any
shall
pretend
themselues
religious
,
and
seek
in
shew
to
gaine
vs
,
and
draw
vs
to
their
societie
by
blowes
,
shall
we
think
they
come
from
God
?
who
willeth
his
,
to
shew
their
Faith
and
Religion
,
by
meeknes
and
loue
.
But
admit
they
should
offer
the
sword
of
offence
;
it
is
lawfull
for
Gods
children
to
vse
the
sword
of
defence
:
and
we
haue
the
same
&
no
other
God
,
then
Dauid
and
Hezekiah
had
,
who
will
assuredly
defend
vs
,
and
maintaine
his
owne
cause
for
vs.
The
experience
of
Gods
protection
and
prouidence
in
former
dangers
,
cannot
but
incourage
vs
against
whatsoeuer
like
dangers
,
wherein
he
deliuered
vs
to
the
wonder
of
the
world
,
&
nothing
but
our
sinnes
and
vnthankfulnes
can
shorten
his
hand
,
or
weaken
his
power
towards
vs
,
but
that
he
will
stretch
foorth
his
hand
still
to
defend
vs.
We
are
now
,
thankes
be
to
God
,
seeming
secure
,
there
is
no
apparent
dangers
threatened
;
but
wee
must
remember
when
wee
say
and
see
peace
,
peace
,
who
knoweth
,
but
that
our
sinnes
may
not
call
for
troubles
:
if
they
come
,
not
looked
for
,
they
will
bee
the
more
dangerous
.
If
therfore
we
would
abandon
our
sinnes
,
if
wee
would
timely
returne
vnto
God
with
humble
and
repentant
hearts
,
God
would
returne
vnto
vs
,
&
saue
vs
;
he
would
as
he
hath
hitherto
done
,
deliuer
vs
,
and
euer
sustaine
vs
;
hee
will
send
from
heauen
&
deliuer
vs
from
them
that
would
oppresse
vs.
Let
vs
not
forget
that
our
soules
are
among
lions
,
though
we
liue
among
the
children
of
men
:
they
are
not
all
of
one
family
,
they
are
not
all
of
one
mind
,
they
are
not
all
the
children
of
God
;
some
are
as
it
were
set
on
fire
against
vs
;
some
haue
their
teeth
as
spears
some
haue
their
tongus
as
swords
,
yet
oyle
in
their
mouthes
:
yet
let
vs
depend
on
him
that
seeth
their
hearts
and
ours
;
He●
knoweth
who
are
his
,
and
seeth
his
and
our
aduersaries
afar
off
.
He
hath
his
time
and
the
meanes
to
deliuer
his
:
The
Lord
of
hosts
is
with
vs
,
let
vs
not
feare
what
man
can
doe
vnto
vs.
Though
an
hoste
of
men
armed
should
assaile
vs
▪
we
need
not
be
afraid
,
for
the
Lord
is
with
vs
,
who
is
of
more
might
and
power
,
then
all
the
potentates
of
the
world
can
resist
:
Let
vs
therefore
euermore
lift
vp
the
eyes
of
our
faithfull
hearts
,
vnto
him
;
he
is
the
hill
from
whence
commeth
our
help
and
deliuerance
in
all
our
dangers
:
from
the
Lord
of
hostes
commeth
our
help
,
who
hath
made
heauen
and
earth
,
who
taketh
charge
of
his
,
and
will
neuer
leaue
vs
,
faile
vs
,
or
forsake
vs
,
in
him
let
vs
trust
.
A
Prayer
to
God
that
he
will
defend
vs
from
our
strongest
enemies
,
and
most
malicious
,
with
thanks
to
God
for
his
former
deliuerances
.
O
Lord
our
God
,
whose
Habitation
are
the
heauens
,
and
whose
footstoole
is
the
earth
,
thou
gouernest
all
things
in
heauen
aboue
,
and
in
the
earth
beneath
,
thou
directest
and
protectest
those
that
feare
thy
name
;
so
as
they
neede
not
feare
the
powre
or
malice
,
of
whatsoeuer
furious
enemies
:
For
saluation
belongeth
vnto
thee
,
and
thy
blessing
is
euermore
vpon
thy
people
.
Wee
,
euen
we
thy
feeble
and
vnworthy
creatures
,
haue
had
experience
of
thy
former
fauour
and
defence
in
our
troubles
,
and
of
thy
deliuerance
out
of
our
desperate
dangers
,
when
men
haue
said
,
There
was
no
help
for
vs
,
no
,
not
in
thee
.
But
we
haue
found
them
lyers
,
deceitfull
,
and
wicked
men
;
acknowledging
thee
,
most
faithfull
,
most
louing
;
of
greatest
wisdome
and
power
,
shewing
thy selfe
our
Buckler
,
our
Castle
,
and
our
strong
defence
:
euen
when
our
Aduersaries
sought
our
confusion
,
thou
shewedst
thy self
our
God
,
and
the
maintainer
of
our
cause
,
when
our
enemies
rose
against
vs
,
in
greatest
multitudes
,
malice
and
madnesse
.
Thou
gauest
vs
courage
and
boldnesse
,
euen
when
our
enemies
seemed
most
to
insult
and
triumph
ouer
vs
:
euen
then
,
Lord
,
didst
thou
fight
for
vs
,
and
turnedst
their
glory
into
shame
their
strength
into
weakenesse
,
and
their
multitudes
into
a
handfull
of
men
.
Shorten
not
,
O
Lord
,
thy
helping
hand
toward
vs
,
in
whatsoeuer
time
,
or
manner
of
our
danger
;
for
thou
knowest
,
what
our
enemies
cānot
performe
with
force
,
they
seeke
to
effect
by
secret
mischiefes
,
which
thou
hast
discouered
,
and
prouidently
preuented
:
The
S●are
was
broken
and
we
deliuered
;
not
for
any
merit
or
worthynesse
of
ours
,
but
euen
of
thy
free
and
aboundant
mercies
;
for
thine
owne
glory
,
and
our
safetie
:
and
without
our
shame
wee
cannot
but
acknowledge
our
vnthankfulnesse
,
for
thy
manifold
deliuerances
from
them
that
hate
vs
;
who
yet
waite
opportunity
to
betray
vs
,
if
thou
preuent
vs
not
.
And
therefore
,
gracious
Father
,
leade
and
guide
vs
,
euer
in
thy
righteousnesse
,
because
of
our
enemies
,
make
thy
way
plaine
before
vs
,
lest
we
in
offending
thee
giue
our
aduersaries
occasion
,
to
say
,
thou
hast
forsaken
vs.
It
is
in
thy
power
,
Lord
,
●o
reconcile
them
vnto
vs
in
the
band
of
Christian
loue
;
by
opening
their
eyes
,
that
they
may
see
,
and
now
at
last
consider
,
their
owne
errors
,
wherein
they
haue
kicked
against
thy
truth
;
so
should
we
reioice
in
their
perfect
vnion
.
If
they
continue
in
the
hardnesse
of
their
hearts
,
continue
in
vs
perfect
knowledge
;
and
howsoeuer
they
hate
vs
,
giue
vs
loue
vnto
them
:
leauing
them
vnto
thy
wil
,
to
deale
with
them
as
thou
wilt
.
Giue
vs
,
gratious
God
,
and
louing
Father
,
a
liuely
apprehention
of
thy
truth
,
faith
and
obedience
vnto
it
;
howsoeuer
our
enemies
may
hate
vs
for
the
same
,
we
know
that
thou
art
God
all-sufficient
,
able
to
deliuer
vs
from
their
greatest
tyranny
,
as
thou
hast
done
:
and
we
cannot
but
remember
thy
merueilous
workes
,
which
thy
very
enemies
,
cannot
but
acknowledge
to
proceede
of
thy
meere
loue
,
vnto
the
continuall
practise
and
profession
of
thy
sincere
Word
,
which
thou
hast
maintained
hitherunto
through
all
ages
,
by
thine
owne
power
,
and
for
thine
own
names
sake
.
And
therefore
when
our
enemies
rose
vp
against
vs
,
or
rather
,
against
thee
,
in
vs
,
thou
causedst
them
to
stumble
and
fall
,
still
maintaining
thine
owne
cause
;
Who
sittest
in
thy
throne
,
and
gouernest
all
things
,
and
iudgest
according
to
equitie
.
They
therefore
,
that
know
thy
power
,
and
thy
loue
,
and
thy
promises
,
and
thy
righteous
dealing
,
will
trust
in
thee
;
for
thou
hast
neuer
fayled
to
bee
a
sure
defence
to
them
,
in
whatsoeuer
perils
.
Vp
therfore
,
Lord
,
disappoint
al
our
irreconciliable
enemies
of
their
hope
,
lest
they
say
,
We
haue
preuailed
,
our
own
policies
haue
brought
our
desired
enterprises
and
desires
to
passe
.
Lord
,
stay
our
steps
,
guide
vs
euer
in
thy
pathes
,
lest
our
feet
slip
,
and
our
enemies
that
watch
oportunitie
to
betray
vs
,
take
aduan●tage
by
our
sinful
liues
,
and
so
preuaile
.
They
lay
their
heads
together
,
and
take
counsell
how
they
may
circumuent
vs
,
and
to
blow
vs
vp
,
neuer
to
recouer
our
hope
againe
in
thee
.
Keepe
vs
therefore
as
the
apple
of
thine
eye
,
Lord
,
hold
vs
euer
vnder
the
shadowe
of
thy
wings
,
from
them
that
seeke
to
oppresse
vs
:
For
by
thee
alone
.
Lord
,
shall
wee
bee
able
to
breake
through
an
hoste
of
enemies
:
And
though
we
seeme
,
by
reason
of
the
number
of
our
aduersaries
,
to
walke
,
as
it
were
,
thorow
the
valley
of
the
shadow
of
death
,
yet
will
we
not
feare
them
:
for
thou
art
with
vs
,
a
strong
rocke
,
and
a
house
of
defence
to
saue
vs.
Thou
redeemest
the
soules
of
thy
seruants
:
for
,
when
we
were
euen
ready
to
be
swallowed
vp
with
a
mercilesse
multitude
,
thou
by
the
powre
of
thy
strength
,
didst
deliuer
vs.
To
thee
be
praise
and
glory
for
euer
.
Amen
.
Lord
increase
our
faith
in
thee
for
euermore
.
A
necessary
motiue
to
stirre
vs
vp
to
a
holy
desire
to
resort
to
the
Temple
of
God
,
to
pray
vnto
him
with
the
Congregation
,
and
to
heare
his
word
the
knowledge
and
practise
wherof
,
is
truest
happinesse
;
and
he
that
is
ignorant
or
negligent
of
this
holy
dutie
,
bee
he
neuer
so
carnally
wise
,
or
worldly
glorious
;
is
a
most
vnhappy
man.
WHat
difference
doth
christian
experience
find
between
a
carnall
worldling
,
and
a
man
truely
fearing
God
?
It
can
hardly
be
answered
to
the
vnderstanding
of
the
meere
naturall
man
,
that
hath
as
many
desires
,
as
are
pleasing
delights
offered
to
his
senses
▪
and
euery
sense
as
many
delights
,
as
the
heart
hath
fantasies
,
which
are
not
to
bee
numbred
,
and
the
fulnesse
of
euery
delight
esteemed
a
kinde
of
happinesse
;
yet
if
each
sense
had
as
many
pleasures
,
as
it
could
entertaine
,
the
desire
were
not
satisfied
:
And
if
all
the
senses
had
what
they
couet●d
,
were
it
not
a
heauy
burthen
to
the
heart
,
which
ingrosseth
them
all
?
And
yet
the
more
it
apprehendeth
,
the
more
desire
increaseth
:
for
,
the
eye
is
neuer
satisfied
with
seeing
,
nor
the
eare
with
hearing
things
of
delight
.
And
thus
with
all
the
senses
,
and
yet
but
one
thing
necessarie
.
This
one
thing
,
Mary
the
sister
of
Martha
made
choyce
of
,
the
hearing
Christ
preach
;
a
thing
most
needfull
,
approued
by
Christ
;
and
that
Mary
●n
hearing
Christ
,
chose
the
best
part
,
which
neuer
could
be
taken
from
her
.
Dauid
desired
this
one
thing
,
namely
,
That
hee
might
dwell
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
all
the
dayes
of
his
life
:
onely
that
hee
might
pray
to
God
with
the
Congregation
,
and
heare
God
speake
vnto
him
by
the
Prophets
,
and
men
of
God
,
whom
whosoeuer
heareth
attentiuely
,
and
profitably
,
heareth
God
himselfe
,
which
is
a
sure
token
that
he
is
of
God
,
For
hee
that
is
of
God
,
heareth
Gods
word
.
The
hearing
of
God
speake
vnto
vs
in
his
familiar
word
,
is
the
sweetest
Musicke
that
the
eare
of
the
heart
of
a
spirituall
man
can
heare
,
and
acceptable
also
to
God
himselfe
,
Jf
yee
will
heare
my
voyce
indeed
,
saith
God
,
and
keepe
my
Couenant
,
then
shall
yee
bee
my
chiefe
treasure
aboue
all
people
.
Is
not
this
chiefest
happinesse
to
bee
accepted
of
God
as
h●s
onely
Treasure
?
No
maruell
then
that
Dauid
d●sired
onely
this
one
thing
,
a
farre
better
request
,
then
Bathsheba
his
wise
,
the
mother
of
Salomon
,
desired
of
her
son
,
which
hee
promised
her
to
graunt
,
but
performed
it
not
.
But
Dauid
the
father
of
Salomon
,
desired
this
one
thing
,
the
thing
most
needefull
,
of
a
King
greater
then
Salomon
,
and
a
matter
of
farre
more
moment
,
then
was
Bathshebaes
,
yet
she
was
reiected
,
and
his
request
accepted
.
Both
their
desires
seemed
to
proceed
of
loue
:
yet
the
one
procured
hatred
and
death
,
the
other
life
and
happinesse
.
Shee
made
her
request
to
man
,
in
whome
to
put
confidence
,
is
vaine
.
The
other
in
God
,
the
Holy
one
of
Jsrael
,
who
is
truth
it selfe
,
and
neuer
deceiueth
.
But
Dauids
petition
might
seeme
strange
,
being
a
King
,
to
desire
to
dwell
better
then
in
a
Kings
palace
,
where
hee
might
sport
at
his
pleasure
,
take
what
delights
hee
would
,
hauing
a
Kingdome
to
supply
whatsoeuer
hee
desired
.
But
in
these
delights
he
found
not
the
happinesse
hee
sought
for
;
it
consisted
in
his
loue
to
God
,
and
Gods
fauour
towardes
him
:
and
therefore
desired
,
rather
to
bee
one
day
in
his
Courts
,
then
a
thousand
in
the
Court
of
Saul
,
or
in
his
owne
Court
,
among
his
gallant
Courtiers
;
nay
,
hee
would
choose
rather
to
bee
a
Doore-keeper
in
the
House
of
God
,
then
to
command
an
earthly
kingdome
.
It
is
in
d●ede
a
glorious
thing
to
bee
a
King
,
but
that
glory
hath
no
long
continuance
,
many
discontents
&
distractions
accompany
worldly
greatnesse
.
But
the
glory
that
Dauid
desired
,
(
though
seeming
base
)
was
such
as
commonly
greatest
men
desire
last
and
least
;
and
yet
desire
as
Balaam
did
,
To
dye
the
death
of
the
righteous
,
(
seldome
yet
remembred
)
but
practise
not
the
life
of
the
righteous
.
Yet
fewe
or
none
,
doubtlesse
,
are
so
irreligious
,
or
barbarous
in
shew
,
but
they
will
loo●e
into
the
House
of
God
,
peraduenture
once
,
it
may
bee
,
twice
in
a
Sabbath
,
and
peraduenture
thinke
it
long
;
they
would
bee
loath
to
spare
their
pleasures
,
delights
,
and
vanities
,
to
liue
a
whole
day
in
hearing
God
speake
vnto
them
,
and
praying
vnto
God
;
nay
,
but
one
required
houre
:
but
to
liue
all
the
dayes
of
their
liues
,
as
Anna
did
,
and
as
Dauid
desired
,
in
the
Temple
of
God
,
they
would
thin●
it
as
hard
as
taske
,
as
the
bondage
of
Egypt
,
or
the
captiuitie
of
Babylon
.
But
th●re
are
no
doubt
diuers
,
and
some
as
high
in
Office
,
as
Dauid
,
that
haue
both
Dauids
desire
,
and
are
comfortably
conuer●a●t
in
the
House
of
God
,
and
doe
finde
that
in
his
presence
is
the
fulnesse
of
ioy
and
happinesse
.
This
is
that
chiefe
happinesse
and
delight
,
that
great
men
should
desire
and
ayme
at
,
to
the
ende
they
might
be
examples
vnto
their
inferiors
,
going
before
them
in
well
doing
,
especially
in
Gods
seruice
:
For
it
is
commonly
found
by
experience
,
that
example
doeth
more
good
or
euill
,
then
documents
,
or
dehortations
.
The
godly
,
and
religious
life
of
a
great
man
,
is
as
a
towre
seene
a
farre
off
:
And
many
,
especially
his
fol●owers
,
will
indeuour
to
immitate
his
steppes
,
at
least
in
shew
;
and
euen
that
shew
of
a
godly
life
is
a
good
motiue
to
others
,
to
liue
godly
in
deed
:
and
as
a
good
lif●
giues
comfort
and
incouragement
to
othe●s
to
bee
good
;
So
the
president
of
euill
,
makes
many
euill
.
If
greatnesse
and
goodnesse
goe
together
,
it
is
the
sweetest
harmonie
that
man
can
make
in
this
life
.
And
the
contrarie
,
as
h●●sh
and
hellish
.
This
holy
desire
of
Dauid
was
not
for
a
day
,
for
hee
speakes
of
the
time
past
.
J
desired
,
which
implyes
a
continuall
inward
petition
.
So
,
our
desire
of
well
doing
,
should
not
be
but
for
a
moment
,
and
then
vanish
like
Ionahs
Gourd
,
that
quickly
grew
vp
,
and
suddenly
withered
,
and
like
the
seede
sowne
in
stonie
ground
,
we
must
be
constant
heires
,
and
humble
petitioners
,
not
wauering
like
waues
;
but
as
we
once
desire
to
heare
and
practise
,
we
must
continue
therein
with
a
godly
and
religious
perseuerance
,
still
desirous
,
according
to
oportunity
,
to
visite
Gods
Church
,
not
yet
to
thinke
that
there
is
no
place
to
serue
God
in
,
but
the
materiall
Temple
,
but
wheresoeuer
wee
are
,
whatsoeuer
wee
doe
,
wee
are
to
haue
our
hearts
exercised
in
godly
meditation
of
the
Word
,
and
inward
prayer
Bethel
the
house
of
God
,
is
euery
where
,
where
the
truly
godly
are
;
Dauid
found
it
euen
in
the
wildernesse
of
Ziph
,
in
the
holds
of
Engedi
,
in
M●an
,
and
Gath.
Hee
found
the
Lord
in
these
desolate
places
:
though
hee
were
hated
and
persecuted
,
driuen
from
place
to
place
through
the
malice
of
his
enemies
,
he
was
neuer
out
of
the
presence
of
God
,
in
the
Temple
,
or
in
the
field
;
for
where
God
is
present
,
there
is
his
Temple
;
In
the
Lyons
Denne
,
Daniel
found
him
;
In
the
Furnace
,
the
three
Children
;
In
the
Dungion
,
Ieremy
;
In
the
Prison
,
Peter
;
vnder
the
stones
,
Stephen
;
yea
,
euen
in
sinnefull
Sodom
,
Lot
;
and
Noah
,
in
the
Floud
.
Euery
true
Childe
of
God
,
is
alwayes
in
Gods
house
,
where
Dauid
desired
Spiritually
to
dwell
,
finding
it
true
that
God
was
with
him
euery
wh●re
,
yet
had
hee
an
earnest
desire
to
bee
conuersant
in
that
Temple
,
where
the
Children
of
God
did
assemble
,
to
heare
GOD
speake
,
and
to
speak
vnto
God.
He
was
their
king
,
yet
did
hee
thinke
it
the
greatest
part
of
his
dutie
,
nay
,
of
his
glorie
and
happinesse
,
to
accompany
his
subiects
,
in
the
holy
exercises
of
religion
,
to
goe
before
them
,
to
incourage
them
to
call
vpon
,
and
to
serue
the
liuing
God
with
them
;
whereof
being
preuented
by
the
malice
and
furie
of
his
enemies
,
he
complayneth
,
that
he
was
left
as
a
Pellican
in
the
wildernesse
,
and
as
an
Owle
in
the
Desert
,
and
thought
the
Sparrow
more
happie
then
hee
,
because
that
silly
bird
,
could
at
all
times
resort
vnto
that
holy
place
,
to
which
he
could
not
come
.
It
is
our
dutie
to
frequent
the
materiall
Temple
,
to
accompanie
the
congregation
,
in
p●aying
vnto
,
and
praysing
of
God
,
and
attentiuely
to
heare
his
Word
:
yet
are
not
wee
to
hold
it
a
necessitie
,
to
pray
onely
in
the
Temple
,
as
if
God
could
,
or
would
not
heare
our
prayers
,
but
in
the
Temple
made
with
hands
;
wherein
God
himselfe
sayth
he
dwelleth
not
,
his
dwelling
is
in
the
heauens
,
and
his
footstoole
is
the
earth
;
and
as
long
as
wee
are
pilgrimes
in
the
earth
,
wee
must
seeke
,
and
we
shall
finde
God
in
the
earth
by
his
presence
and
power
.
Therefore
as
Moses
put
off
his
shooes
,
when
hee
came
into
the
presence
of
God
,
because
the
place
was
holy
whereon
hee
stood
.
So
must
we
put
off
all
our
vngodly
affections
,
and
vnholy
desires
,
before
we
enter
into
his
holy
presence
.
He
teacheth
vs
by
his
Prophet
Ieremy
,
what
it
is
to
come
prepared
into
the
presence
of
God
,
whether
into
the
materiall
Temple
with
the
congregation
,
to
heare
him
speake
vnto
vs
by
his
Word
,
or
to
speake
vnto
him
in
publike
,
or
in
any
conuenient
place
in
our
priuate
prayers
,
Wee
must
amend
and
redresse
our
wayes
&
our
works
,
then
he
will
admit
vs
,
and
entertaine
vs
into
his
holy
presence
.
It
is
not
enough
,
saith
h●
,
to
crie
and
say
,
The
Temple
,
the
Temple
of
God
,
this
is
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
,
〈◊〉
amend
our
wayes
and
our
works
▪
to
execute
iudgement
,
betweene
a
man
and
this
neighbour
,
not
to
oppresse
the
poore
,
nor
the
stranger
,
the
fatherlesse
,
nor
the
widdow
,
not
to
shed
innocent
bloud
,
nor
to
walke
after
other
gods
.
T●is
is
the
condition
which
God
makes
with
them
that
shall
dwell
in
his
house
,
that
shall
see
his
beau●ie
,
and
that
are
admitted
into
his
presence
,
and
truely
to
visite
his
holy
Temple
:
but
bars
all
those
that
trust
in
lying
miracles
,
and
vaine
words
,
and
vanities
that
cannot
profit
:
they
that
steale
,
murder
,
commit
adultery
,
idolatrie
,
such
as
sweare
fasty
;
the
coueteous
oppressors
,
vniust
,
enuious
,
malicious
,
drunkards
and
the
like
;
if
these
stand
in
this
house
,
the
materiall
Temple
;
God
will
haue
no
respect
vnto
their
prayers
,
finding
them
hypocrites
,
that
worke
wickednesse
in
secret
,
coueting
to
couer
it
with
a
forged
shew
of
cunning
with
the
congregation
into
the
Temple
of
God
,
which
by
their
presence
make
it
a
denne
of
theeues
.
For
what
are
Hypocrites
,
but
theeues
,
shewing
themselues
to
bee
religious
,
and
are
not
;
obedient
,
and
are
not
;
than●efull
,
and
are
not
;
faithfull
,
and
are
not
?
These
are
they
that
rather
cōmit
sacriledge
,
thē
offer
acceptable
Sacrifice
,
they
visite
not
the
Temple
,
but
rather
defile
it
with
their
coūterfeit
holines
,
in
shew
,
seeming
saints
,
in
deed
,
enemies
to
Christ
and
Christians
.
They
can
crie
the
Temple
of
God
,
the
Temple
of
God
,
They
can
say
Preach
,
Preach
,
and
seeme
neuer
satisfied
with
Sermons
.
The
desire
is
good
,
if
the
heart
bee
good
,
for
a
true
and
sincere
desire
of
the
heart
,
to
heare
the
Word
,
cannot
but
please
God
;
for
such
are
approoued
to
be
of
the
family
and
house
of
God
:
Such
shall
dwell
in
his
Tabernacle
,
and
rest
vpon
his
Holy
Hill
▪
for
they
are
of
the
generation
of
the
righteous
.
But
,
there
is
a
generation
,
saith
Salomon
,
that
are
pure
in
their
owne
conceits
,
and
yet
are
not
washed
from
their
filthinesse
,
They
follow
the
deuices
of
their
their
owne
hearts
:
and
assume
vnto
themselues
a
peculiar
manner
of
seruing
of
God
,
not
according
to
the
sincere
truth
:
These
mens
sacrifices
God
abhorreth
;
but
he
that
hath
innocent
hands
,
and
a
pure
heart
,
that
hath
not
lift
vp
his
hand
vnto
vanitie
,
nor
sworne
deceitfully
,
he
comming
into
the
house
of
God
in
priuate
,
or
in
publike
petitions
,
shall
receiue
a
blessing
from
the
Lord
,
vnderstanding
by
hearing
,
God
speake
vnto
him
,
and
bee
heard
speaking
vnto
God
:
it
is
contrary
with
the
hypocrites
,
they
may
heare
and
not
vnderstand
,
they
may
pray
,
but
GOD
will
not
heare
them
.
They
cryed
,
sayth
Dauid
,
but
there
was
none
to
●aue
them
,
euē
vnto
the
Lord
;
●ut
he
answered
them
not
.
God
heareth
not
hypocrites
,
●hough
they
come
neere
him
with
their
lips
,
in
a
counterfeit
zeale
,
when
yet
their
hearts
are
prophane
.
To
come
into
the
marteriall
Temple
,
is
required
of
all
to
accompanie
the
congregation
,
in
the
diuine
seruice
of
the
liuing
God
,
Princes
and
greatest
persons
:
As
Dauid
a
King
,
who
was
glad
and
reioyced
,
when
the
people
sayd
vnto
him
,
Come
,
let
vs
goe
into
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
where
in
deed
his
owne
desire
wa●
to
dwell
.
To
dwell
,
is
not
to
come
for
a
spirt
and
away
,
but
hi●
desire
was
to
make
there
h●●
continuall
abode
all
the
daie●
of
his
life
.
It
may
bee
conceiued
by
●
naturall
man
,
and
one
th●●
builds
his
happinesse
vpo●
the
pleasures
of
this
life
,
th●●
it
was
not
wisdome
in
Daui●
to
desire
to
dwell
in
the
me●lancholy
Temple
continually
:
but
it
may
be
sayd
vnto
that
carnallist
,
Thou
deemest
it
to
bee
a
place
of
sadnesse
and
melancholly
,
which
administreth
to
the
true
Children
of
God
the
most
absolute
ioy
,
mirth
,
gladnesse
,
and
consolation
,
and
finally
truest
happinesse
.
Carnall
men
in
deed
delight
in
vaine
aspects
,
and
shewes
,
moouing
to
sinne
in
Stages
,
Theaters
and
the
like
,
and
thinke
them
therewith
much
cheered
,
and
in
short
time
therewith
wearied
:
But
the
Temple
of
God
,
the
heauenly
Theatre
,
that
is
most
glorious
by
the
Diuine
presence
,
onely
seene
by
the
sanctified
minde
,
neuer
wearieth
the
soules
of
such
as
delight
in
the
liuing
God
;
whose
beautie
Dauid
saw
,
as
neuer
satisfied
with
the
contemplation
of
the
glorious
Maiestie
o●
Iehouah
,
whose
beautie
the
more
the
Spirituall
minde
beholdeth
in
his
word
,
his
workes
,
his
fauour
,
power
and
prouidence
,
the
more
is
hee
mooued
with
desire
,
to
see
more
and
more
.
And
thinkes
no
happinesse
comparable
,
to
the
happinesse
of
a
heauenly
life
.
Much
were
the
Disciples
mooued
at
the
sight
of
Christs
transfiguration
,
in
so
much
as
they
desired
to
haue
built
there
Tabernacles
,
to
haue
enioyed
that
blessed
sight
.
Still
to
desirous
was
Dauid
,
still
to
behold
the
beautie
of
the
Lord
,
and
to
visite
his
holy
Temple
.
Where
God
is
truely
heard
,
and
duly
called
vpon
by
a
holy
congregation
,
nay
,
by
one
particular
faithfull
Christian
,
there
appeareth
the
glorie
of
God.
There
is
the
Arke
of
the
Lord
the
presence
of
the
mightie
God
of
Iaakob
,
whose
glorie
filleth
the
Temple
,
which
onely
the
Spirituall
man
seeth
with
a
supernaturall
eye
.
Though
the
carnall
man
bodily
present
,
apprehendeth
it
not
.
Paul
at
his
conuersion
saw
Gods
glorie
but
they
that
were
with
him
,
heard
onely
a
voyce
,
but
saw
it
not
.
Such
beautie
shineth
in
the
hearts
of
the
deere
Children
of
God
,
by
the
operation
,
and
illumination
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
by
whom
Stephen
saw
the
glorie
of
God
,
in
the
heauens
,
and
Christ
sitting
at
his
right-hand
,
which
none
〈◊〉
can
see
,
but
such
onely
a●are
inlightened
,
who
take
such
surpassing
sweet
delight
,
in
the
beholding
the
face
of
God
,
not
onely
in
the
Word
,
wherein
hee
is
in
part
seene
,
but
especially
through
faith
,
that
their
soules
are
euen
rauished
,
and
as
it
were
transchanged
,
by
the
splender
therof
,
as
it
were
into
the
Image
of
the
glorie
of
the
onely
begotten
Sonne
of
the
Father
.
●od
commanding
the
light
to
shine
out
of
darkenesse
,
shineth
in
our
hearts
,
to
giue
light
of
the
knowledge
of
the
Glorie
of
God
in
the
face
of
Jesus
Christ.
Let
vs
therefore
indeuour
to
exercise
our selues
in
puritie
and
sanctitie
,
clensing
our
consciences
from
all
counterfeit
sincerity
,
and
labour
to
become
in
deed
,
such
as
wee
would
seeme
to
bee
;
And
not
to
neglect
the
visiting
of
the
materiall
Temple
,
to
heare
the
Word
of
GOD
,
and
to
pray
vnto
him
,
if
wee
hope
to
be
happie
;
for
there
is
none
happie
,
but
they
whom
GOD
loueth
,
and
who
loue
GOD
;
if
wee
loue
God
,
wee
will
delight
in
him
,
to
heare
him
often
for
our
instruction
,
and
confirmation
of
our
faith
;
and
to
seeke
him
by
our
prayers
,
for
he
is
ready
to
bee
found
of
all
them
that
are
true
of
heart
,
who
shall
heere
behold
his
beautie
,
and
hereafter
enioy
his
glorie
.
A
Prayer
vnto
God
,
that
he
will
prepare
our
hearts
to
the
visiting
of
his
holy
Temple
,
to
heare
his
Word
,
to
pray
vnto
him
,
and
to
prayse
him
.
GRant
O
most
gracious
Lord
God
,
according
to
the
riches
of
thy
grace
-
that
I
may
bee
strengthened
by
thy
Spirit
,
in
the
inner
man
,
that
Christ
may
dwell
in
my
heart
by
faith
,
and
so
my
whole
spirit
,
soule
and
bodie
may
bee
kept
blamelesse
,
to
the
comming
of
the
Lord
Iesus
,
for
thou
Lord
knowest
what
I
am
by
nature
,
a
man
vnworthy
to
take
thine
holy
Name
into
my
mouth
,
or
to
come
into
thy
presence
,
being
inclynable
to
no
good
dutie
,
but
apt
to
euery
vanity
.
I
come
therefore
vnto
thee
heauenly
Father
,
in
the
Name
of
Iesus
Christ
thy
Sonne
,
in
whom
thou
hast
promised
to
receiue
them
,
that
sincerely
seeke
thee
,
heare
the
voyce
of
my
petitions
,
O
Lord
,
when
I
crie
vnto
thee
,
and
when
I
lift
vp
my
hands
towards
the
mercies
seat
of
thy
holy
Temple
,
reiect
me
not
;
vnto
thee
O
Lord
,
I
lift
vp
my
soule
,
crauing
pardon
for
my
sinnes
,
and
that
thou
wilt
admit
me
into
the
holy
societie
of
thy
Saints
,
and
that
I
may
delight
to
dwell
in
thy
holy
Temple
,
vnder
the
shadow
of
thy
protecting
wings
for
euer
.
Let
my
heart
bee
euer
vpright
in
thy
Statutes
,
and
faithfull
euer
before
thee
,
for
thou
hast
pleasure
in
righteousnesse
,
and
hee
is
blessed
in
whose
heart
are
thy
wayes
;
knit
my
heart
vnto
thee
,
that
I
may
feare
thy
Name
;
giue
me
a
holy
desire
to
seeke
thee
,
and
to
walke
euer
vprightly
as
in
thy
presence
.
Indue
me
with
thy
Spirituall
knowledge
,
&
leade
me
by
thy
right
hand
,
to
thine
holy
Temple
;
shew
mee
thy
glorie
,
and
thy
beauty
,
that
I
may
be
comforted
through
thy
presence
.
Open
mine
eares
,
that
I
may
heare
thee
,
and
thy
Word
by
thy
holy
Ministrie
;
and
prepare
my
heart
to
receiue
knowledge
and
vnderstanding
,
and
open
my
mouth
,
and
fill
it
with
thy
prayses
,
and
let
my
prayers
in
thy
Sons
Name
bee
acceptable
vnto
thee
.
Shew
me
thy
way
,
and
giue
mee
vnderstanding
,
that
I
may
learn
thy
Commandements
,
and
walke
in
them
.
My
hearts
desire
,
Lord
is
to
dwell
with
thee
,
to
haue
the
full
&
free
fruition
of
thine
house
,
and
the
place
where
thine
honour
dwelleth
,
that
I
may
serue
thee
with
a
pure
affection
,
and
giue
thee
prayse
in
the
congregation
of
thy
Saints
.
Turne
thy
face
vnto
me
,
O
Lord
,
that
I
may
see
the
beautie
of
thy
countenance
,
and
bee
changed
into
the
same
Image
,
by
thy
Spirit
,
and
in
the
same
Spirit
,
bee
admitted
to
visite
thine
holy
Temple
,
with
faith
and
assurance
of
thy
presence
,
wherein
I
know
is
libertie
and
life
,
protection
and
plentie
of
all
good
things
.
Make
my
heart
stable
&
vnblameable
before
thee
in
holinesse
,
that
I
may
serue
thee
with
a
sincere
and
pure
conscience
,
and
vndefiled
,
that
I
may
not
come
into
thine
house
only
to
bee
seene
,
and
to
seeme
seruiceable
,
or
dutifull
vnto
thee
;
but
may
inwardly
hunger
&
thirst
for
thy
Word
,
the
food
of
my
soule
,
the
bread
of
life
,
and
imprint
the
same
so
effectually
in
my
soule
,
that
it
may
prooue
fruitfull
in
●ee
,
and
that
I
may
sh●w
it
in
my
〈◊〉
holy
conuersation
to
thy
Glorie
,
that
being
filled
with
the
comforts
proceeding
from
the
beautie
of
thy
countenance
;
I
may
euer
pos●sesse
my
soule
in
that
peace
which
passeth
all
vnderstanding
,
euer-more
reuerencing
thy
glorious
Mai●stie
,
that
euer-more
fille●h
both
the
heauens
and
the
earth
;
fill
my
heart
,
O
Lord
,
with
thy
Spirit
,
that
I
may
draw
neere
vnto
thee
,
and
to
thy
Holy
place
,
my
strong
Rocke
,
to
thee
will
I
alwayes
resort
.
Make
mee
to
heare
ioy
and
gladnesse
,
and
that
I
may
more
abound
in
hope
,
and
be
strengthened
to
euery
good
work
,
through
the
power
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
by
Iesus
Christ
,
my
Lord
and
onely
Sauiour
.
Lord
increase
my
faith
.
The
Conclusion
.
A
Prayer
for
true
happinesse
,
which
shall
bee
consummate
onely
in
heauen
.
O
Lord
,
what
am
I
,
the
son
of
dust
and
ashes
,
that
I
should
presume
to
come
into
thy
presence
,
to
seeke
and
desire
felicity
and
happinesse
,
here
in
this
wildernesse
of
so
many
vanities
,
miseries
,
and
troubles
,
as
are
among
the
children
of
men
?
As
for
me
,
Lord
,
thou
knowest
wherof
I
am
made
;
thou
remembrest
that
I
am
but
dust
,
what
happinesse
therfore
,
Lord
,
can
I
look
to
obtaine
here
,
where
sinne
dwelleth
in
my
mortall
body
;
and
by
sinne
I
offend
,
and
displease
thee
,
and
in
thy
displeasure
is
death
?
O
preuent
me
Lord
,
therfore
,
from
sinfull
feeding
my
foolish
mind
with
false
felicitie
,
as
to
repose
my
happinesse
in
the
things
of
this
life
,
in
health
,
riches
,
honour
,
beautie
,
carnall
friends
,
worldly
wisdome
,
pleasures
,
delights
,
&
ease
,
which
are
not
worthy
,
in
respect
of
true
happinesse
in
deed
,
to
bee
the
least
esteemed
.
Giue
me
therefore
here
,
O
Lord
,
euen
in
this
life
,
an
entrance
into
true
happinesse
;
send
foorth
thy
Spirit
,
and
breath
life
into
my
dead
soule
;
transforme
me
into
thine
own
image
,
from
glory
to
glory
,
by
thy
Spirit
;
withdraw
me
from
delight
in
the
vanities
of
this
life
:
for
as
long
as
I
delight
in
the
pleasing
things
of
this
world
,
I
am
farre
from
happinesse
;
and
it
lies
not
in
my
power
to
restrain
my
heart
from
that
which
naturally
I
affect
:
I
cannot
subdue
the
corruption
of
mine
owne
nature
;
but
that
which
is
impossible
to
mee
,
is
possible
with
thee
,
declare
therefore
thy
great
power
in
mercy
vpon
me
.
I
am
by
nature
wretched
,
&
miserable
,
and
poore
,
and
naked
,
a
most
vnhappy
man
;
yet
such
is
my
blindnesse
,
that
I
see
it
not
:
I
feele
not
mine
owne
vnhappinesse
,
Lord
remooue
that
darknesse
from
me
,
and
graunt
,
that
seeing
,
I
may
see
mine
owne
errour
;
and
in
hearing
I
may
vnderstand
,
and
take
the
right
way
to
felicitie
;
work
faith
in
my
heart
,
that
I
may
taste
how
gracious
thou
art
,
in
working
in
me
a
new
heart
,
a
new
mind
,
and
new
affections
,
holy
and
heauenly
,
the
beginning
here
of
happinesse
to
come
.
Make
mee
to
feele
the
peace
of
a
good
conscience
;
let
my
faith
be
seen
through
obedience
vnto
thee
;
let
me
feele
in
my
soule
through
faith
the
merits
of
thy
Son
,
working
the
assurance
of
the
remission
of
my
sinnes
,
and
assured
hope
of
the
enioying
of
my
finall
felicity
,
and
endlesse
happinesse
in
heauen
.
None
are
truly
happy
or
blessed
,
but
such
as
thou
dost
chuse
,
&
cause
to
come
vnto
thee
;
for
none
can
come
vnto
thee
,
but
whom
thou
callest
,
and
they
onely
are
iustified
;
&
whom
thou
iustifiest
,
them
wilt
thou
glorifie
;
and
whom
thou
glorifiest
,
are
,
and
none
else
,
truly
happy
.
Carry
me
therefore
,
gracious
Lord
,
carry
me
by
the
wings
of
thy
mercy
,
and
by
the
strength
of
thy
fauour
in
Christ
my
Sauiour
,
into
that
heauenly
Canaan
,
the
inheritance
of
them
that
are
in
Christ
Iesus
,
elected
to
saluation
.
Let
me
,
euen
here
in
this
base
outward
forme
of
an
vnhappy
man
,
behold
thee
through
faith
in
thy
word
;
let
mee
behold
thy
face
in
righteousnesse
:
for
in
the
liuely
beholding
of
thee
,
is
the
fulnes
of
ioy
,
and
highest
happinesse
in
this
life
.
O
that
the
time
would
therefore
speedily
come
,
wherein
I
being
dissolued
,
may
see
thee
my
Sauiour
face
to
face
,
when
this
my
mortall
body
shall
be
quickened
,
and
made
like
vnto
thy
glorious
body
:
for
I
know
,
thou
wilt
keepe
vnto
the
end
,
that
which
I
haue
committed
vnto
thee
,
both
my
soule
and
body
to
bee
glorified
and
made
happie
,
though
I
yet
see
not
what
I
shall
be
:
and
therfore
when
thou
wilt
,
I
will
willingly
lay
down
my
life
,
and
commit
my
soule
vnto
thee
,
my
God
,
through
Iesus
Christ
,
as
vnto
my
most
faithfull
Creator
,
and
louing
Redeemer
;
to
whom
with
the
holy
Ghost
bee
all
glory
for
euer
.
Amen
.
The
consummation
,
and
full
perfection
of
our
happinesse
,
shall
be
When
wee
shall
bee
made
partakers
of
the
diuine
Nature
,
2.
Pet.
●
.
v.
4.
When
Christ
shall
tran●forme
our
base
bodies
,
that
they
may
bee
like
the
glorious
body
of
Christ
,
Phil.
3.
v.
21.
When
she
shall
perfectly
enioy
those
things
,
which
eye
hath
not
seen
,
nor
the
eare
heard
,
nor
euer
entred
into
the
heart
of
man
to
co●ceiue
,
which
God
hath
prepared
,
for
them
that
loue
him
.
1.
Cor.
2
11.9
.
Who
then
,
or
what
shall
seperate
vs
from
the
loue
of
Christ
,
in
and
by
whom
wee
haue
firme
hope
to
attaine
vnto
this
so
great
happinesse
?
neither
tribulation
,
nor
anguish
,
nor
persecution
,
nor
famine
,
nor
nakednesse
,
nor
perill
,
nor
the
sword
,
Romanes
8.
verse
.
35.
Which
God
,
for
his
Christes
sake
graunt
,
to
whome
with
the
Holy
Ghost
be
ascribed
all
glory
for
euer
.
Amen
.
The
principall
things
contained
in
this
Booke
.
A
Meditation
,
or
Consultation
,
what
are
the
best
things
that
men
in
this
life
should
principally
ayme
at
,
to
attaine
vnto
highest
happinesse
,
&c.
Fol.
1.
A
motiue
to
Prayer
against
the
temptations
of
Sathan
,
&c.
18
A
Prayer
for
Gods
holy
assistance
against
Sathan
.
23.
A
Meditation
,
to
stirre
vs
vp
,
when
wee
are
vnapt
to
pray
.
29.
A
Prayer
to
God
,
for
the
helpe
of
his
holy
Spirit
,
and
other
blessings
spirituall
,
and
corporall
,
&c.
35.
A
motiue
,
to
begin
the
day
with
Prayer
.
54.
A
Prayer
fit
to
bee
vsed
euery
morning
.
57.
A
motiue
to
Prayer
,
before
a
man
〈…〉
.
65.
A
Prayer
for
a
man
,
before
hee
goes
to
hi●●●ghtly
rest
.
70.
A
most
comfortable
incouragement
to
all
poore
and
distressed
men
to
vndergoe
whatsoeuer
trouble
with
patience
,
&c.
and
may
serue
as
a
motiue
to
some
prayers
that
follow
,
viz.
77.
A
generall
Prayer
,
in
whatsoeuer
troubles
and
affections
,
with
a
conf●ssion
,
that
sinne
is
the
cause
of
them
.
103
A
Prayer
for
a
man
hindred
by
〈…〉
kind
of
〈…〉
lawfull
takings
,
&c.
114
A
consideration
,
or
consultation
,
touching
the
estates
and
conditions
of
seuerall
men
,
&c.
necessary
for
all
men
that
hope
of
any
blessing
vpon
their
labors
,
Trauels
,
Professions
,
Artes
,
Trades
,
or
Jmployments
.
124
A
Prayer
,
that
God
will
blesse
and
prosper
our
labours
and
endeauors
in
whatsoeuer
calling
.
139
A
Prayer
for
a
man
whose
Calling
requireth
Journeyes
by
land
,
or
sea
.
149
A
motiue
to
a
Prayer
for
patience
in
godly
Parents
,
that
are
aff●icted
in
minde
for
the
disobedience
▪
and
vngodly
liues
of
their
children
,
&c.
150
A
Prayer
for
the
reformation
of
vngodly
and
disobedient
children
,
and
for
patience
in
Parents
,
&c.
166
A
Christian
incouragement
,
to
all
that
feare
God
,
act
to
bee
〈◊〉
at
the
threats
,
〈◊〉
,
and
policies
,
of
whatsoeuer
enemies
,
&c.
To
which
is
added
a
Prayer
for
Gods
holy
protection
and
defence
of
his
,
in
whatsoeuer
danger
.
173
A
Prayer
to
God
,
that
hee
will
defend
vs
from
our
strongest
enemies
,
with
Thankesgiuing
to
God
for
our
former
deliuerances
.
189
A
necessary
motiue
to
stirre
vs
vp
to
a
holy
desire
to
resort
to
the
Temple
of
God
,
to
pray
vnto
him
with
the
Congregation
,
and
to
heare
his
VVord
.
&c.
198
A
Prayer
to
God
,
that
hee
will
prepare
our
hearts
to
the
visiting
of
his
holy
Temple
,
to
heare
his
Word
,
to
pray
vnto
him
,
and
to
praise
him
.
219
A
Prayer
for
true
happinesse
▪
which
shall
be
consummate
only
in
heauen
.
226
FINIS
.