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         Soto, Andrés de, 1553?-1625.
      
       
         
           1634
        
      
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             The ransome of time being captive Wherein is declared how precious a thing is time, how much he looseth that looseth it, & how it may be redeemed. Written in Spanish, by the R. Father Andreas de Soto, confessor to the most excellent Infanta Clara Eugenia. Translated into English by J.H.
             Soto, Andrés de, 1553?-1625.
             Hawkins, John, fl. 1635.
          
           [16], 198 [i.e. 196], [2] p.
           
             Printed by Gerard Pinsone att the signe of Coline,
             At Doway :
             1634.
          
           
             Dedication signed: John Hawkins.
             Spanish original not traced.
             Page numbers 140-141 omitted in page numbering.
             With a final errata leaf.
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           Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
        
      
    
     
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           THE
           RANSOME
           OF
           TIME
           BEING
           CAPTIVE
           .
        
         
           WHEREIN
           IS
           DECLARED
           how
           precious
           à
           thing
           is
           time
           ,
           how
           much
           he
           looseth
           that
           looseth
           it
           ,
           &
           how
           it
           may
           be
           redeemed
           .
        
         
           Written
           in
           Spanish
           ,
           by
           the
           R.
           Father
           ANDREAS
           DE
           SOTO
           ,
           Confessor
           to
           the
           most
           excellent
           INFANTA
           CLARA
           EVGENIA
           .
        
         
           Translated
           into
           Englich
           by
           I.
           H.
           
        
         
           AT
           DOWAY
           ,
           Printed
           by
           GERARD
           PINSONE
           att
           the
           signe
           of
           Coline
           ,
           1634.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           HIGH
           ,
           AND
           MIGHTY
           PRINCESSE
           THE
           LADY
           KATHERINE
           DVTCHESSE
           MARCHIONESSE
           ,
           AND
           COVNTESSE
           OF
           BVCKINGHAM
           ▪
           COVNTESSE
           OF
           COVENTRIE
           ,
           VICE-COVNTESSE
           VILLIERS
           ,
           AND
           BARRONESSE
           OF
           WHADDON
           ▪
           &c.
           
        
         
           
             MADAME
          
        
         
           This
           peece
           in
           its
           natiue
           language
           was
           happy
           by
           the
           protection
           of
           that
           glorious
           Princesse
           ,
           and
           mirrour
           of
           vertuous
           Ladies
           ,
           the
           Lady
           CLARA
           EVGENIA
           
           of
           happy
           memorie
           .
        
         
           T'
           is
           now
           translated
           ,
           and
           vested
           with
           an
           English
           hew
           :
           to
           whose
           protection
           ,
           and
           tuition
           ,
           with
           more
           conuenience
           ,
           or
           more
           confidence
           ,
           may
           this
           stranger
           flie
           ,
           then
           to
           your
           most
           Gracious
           Highnesse
           ?
           For
           if
           it
           bee
           the
           bookes
           ambition
           to
           scorne
           the
           publicke
           view
           ,
           vnlesse
           it
           may
           hee
           graced
           with
           the
           sacred
           patronage
           of
           à
           Dutchesse
           ,
           of
           à
           Noble
           ,
           and
           vertuous
           Ladie
           ;
           by
           ●●ying
           to
           the
           refuge
           of
           your
           Highnesse
           vnparrelled
           vertues
           ,
           it
           shall
           onely
           change
           ,
           not
           loose
           it's
           mistris
           .
        
         
           MADAME
           ,
           yet
           I
           most
           humbly
           bowe
           ;
           craving
           pardon
           of
           your
           Grace
           that
           I
           present
           my
           homage
           so
           veiled
           as
           in
           à
           translation
           ,
           not
           in
           à
           primary
           composition
           ,
           best
           suting
           with
           my
           duety
           ,
           and
           your
           most
           eminent
           worth
           ;
           since
           that
           
           your
           Excellencyes
           splendor
           might
           well
           enlighten
           ,
           make
           acute
           ,
           giue
           full
           vigour
           ,
           yea
           and
           most
           liuely
           spirit
           to
           each
           vulgar
           capacity
           ;
           to
           me
           especially
           whose
           deuotion
           to
           your
           Greatnes
           and
           Goodnes
           well
           weighed
           ,
           would
           be
           found
           as
           verily
           ,
           it
           is
           ,
           truely
           resigned
           .
        
         
           Really
           I
           would
           haue
           attempted
           the
           deliverye
           of
           some
           notions
           wherewith
           aswell
           my
           zeale
           ,
           as
           also
           your
           Graces
           singular
           vertues
           haue
           formerly
           prompted
           me
           .
        
         
           But
           when
           I
           (
           let
           not
           this
           my
           Apology
           ,
           MADAME
           ,
           not
           finde
           grace
           with
           your
           Grace
           )
           perused
           this
           treatise
           (
           which
           I
           now
           dedicate
           to
           your
           Excellency
           )
           made
           English
           ;
           and
           found
           it
           consonant
           to
           what
           the
           height
           of
           my
           imagination
           could
           arriue
           ,
           yea
           and
           as
           well
           agreeing
           ,
           aptly
           according
           with
           your
           Excellencyes
           example
           :
           Then
           was
           
           I
           acquieted
           ,
           made
           no
           farther
           search
           ,
           for
           that
           I
           was
           euen
           fully
           appayed
           ,
           Alas
           !
           yet
           MADAME
           as
           confiding
           in
           your
           indulgency
           ,
           your
           conniuency
           .
        
         
           The
           Author
           most
           learnedly
           hath
           deliuered
           his
           charitable
           minde
           ,
           in
           whose
           worke
           reading
           and
           curious
           notions
           are
           sweetly
           couched
           ,
           euidently
           to
           bee
           seene
           in
           an
           appropriate
           Methode
           :
           yea
           and
           it
           is
           most
           assuredly
           embellished
           and
           practically
           confirmed
           by
           him
           ,
           as
           being
           fraught
           vvith
           many
           rare
           patternes
           ,
           among
           vvhich
           MADAME
           were
           I
           not
           à
           translator
           I
           would
           herein
           record
           ,
           register
           your
           Grace
           ,
           as
           one
           deseruedly
           .
        
         
           Farther
           what
           are
           the
           particular
           contents
           of
           this
           piece
           will
           cleerly
           be
           shewē
           in
           the
           subsequēt
           preface
           ,
           compiled
           by
           the
           Author
           himself
           ;
           
           to
           which
           I
           referre
           your
           Excellency
           wherein
           may
           be
           contemplated
           à
           discourse
           vvhich
           may
           well
           and
           likely
           proue
           à
           generall
           benefitt
           to
           all
           Readers
           by
           your
           Grace
           .
        
         
           
             MADAME
          
           
             Your
             Excellencies
             Most
             humbly
             deuoted
             Seruant
             IOHN
             HAWKINS
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           THE
           AVTHORS
           PREFACE
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           GOOD
           is
           not
           known
           ,
           yea
           not
           even
           taken
           notice
           of
           (
           as
           a
           spanish
           Prouerb
           deliuereth
           )
           vntill
           that
           it
           be
           passed
           by
           ;
           yea
           more
           ,
           be
           vtterly
           lost
           .
           Alas
           !
           the
           trueth
           hereof
           I
           most
           apparantly
           perceiue
           in
           my self
           ,
           it
           aptly
           agreeth
           with
           my
           state
           ,
           and
           my
           runne
           course
           of
           life
           ,
           for
           that
           I
           too
           late
           tooke
           notice
           thereof
           ,
           too
           late
           knew
           what
           time
           is
           ,
           and
           of
           what
           value
           it
           is
           ,
           and
           what
           a
           precious
           and
           inestimable
           treasure
           it
           may
           be
           truely
           found
           to
           be
           .
           So
           farre
           forth
           that
           I
           am
           much
           aggreiued
           that
           I
           did
           not
           dis●erne
           it
           ,
           and
           well
           might
           I
           ,
           for
           that
           I
           haue
           lost
           so
           great
           à
           jewell
           :
           and
           earnestly
           I
           desire
           (
           if
           it
           were
           possible
           )
           
           that
           I
           were
           maister
           of
           my
           yeares
           already
           spent
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           I
           might
           well
           and
           most
           solicitously
           employ
           them
           ,
           as
           I-ought
           ,
           and
           my
           well
           being
           requireth
           ,
           and
           my
           duety
           commandeth
           ,
           and
           that
           I
           might
           redeeme
           them
           from
           the
           Captiuity
           and
           enthrallment
           with
           which
           they
           haue
           been
           miserably
           detained
           ,
           yea
           and
           enchained
           .
           Rather
           might
           I
           well
           say
           ,
           that
           he
           who
           hath
           not
           known
           ,
           and
           prized
           time
           bath
           justly
           deserued
           ,
           that
           now
           he
           lament
           aud
           earnestly
           vvish
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           yet
           notvvithstanding
           he
           faile
           to
           possesie
           that
           vvhich
           he
           disesteemed
           ,
           that
           vvhich
           he
           ,
           alas
           !
           so
           slightly
           regarded
           .
           But
           I
           take
           for
           a
           singular
           ,
           a
           rare
           grace
           and
           mercy
           of
           notable
           value
           that
           our
           Lord
           (
           although
           at
           the
           end
           of
           my
           dayes
           )
           hath
           giuen
           me
           this
           capacity
           ,
           this
           vnderstanding
           ,
           and
           feruent
           desire
           of
           à
           better
           employing
           my
           time
           ,
           vvhich
           from
           hence
           for
           vvard
           his
           mercy
           vvill
           grant
           me
           ,
           that
           I
           may
           exhort
           and
           giue
           some
           counsaile
           to
           the
           remisse
           ;
           
           carelesse
           and
           as
           it
           vvere
           altogether
           negligent
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           give
           beginning
           to
           vvhat
           is
           fore
           deliuered
           ,
           I
           haue
           desired
           that
           he
           please
           to
           make
           me
           his
           Attorney
           or
           Proctor
           that
           I
           may
           petitionarily
           plead
           for
           the
           ransome
           ,
           the
           redemption
           thereof
           :
           and
           that
           I
           may
           instruct
           them
           ,
           who
           haue
           lost
           it
           ,
           hovv
           they
           may
           regaine
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           I
           may
           declare
           hovv
           much
           it
           importeth
           them
           ,
           hovv
           farr
           it
           concerneth
           them
           ,
           of
           vvhat
           great
           consequence
           it
           is
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           likevvise
           further
           I
           may
           earnestly
           ,
           and
           vvith
           fulnes
           of
           charity
           craue
           of
           thē
           and
           piously
           ,
           yea
           euen
           mooue
           them
           that
           they
           cast
           not
           avvay
           one
           hovver
           :
           vvhat
           say
           I
           ?
           no
           nor
           moment
           of
           time
           .
           I
           vvill
           be
           breife
           ,
           though
           vvere
           it
           I
           should
           spend
           neuer
           so
           much
           time
           in
           the
           account
           hereof
           ,
           I
           should
           not
           judge
           it
           lost
           time
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           not
           be
           able
           to
           bringe
           to
           passe
           vvhat
           Pythagoras
           doth
           aduise
           ,
           vvhich
           is
           to
           contract
           many
           sentences
           in
           fevv
           
           vvordes
           ,
           as
           good
           Philosophers
           ought
           ,
           and
           are
           accustomed
           to
           doe
           .
           Hence
           Diogenes
           to
           one
           vvho
           talking
           vvith
           him
           seemed
           to
           taxe
           some
           vvhat
           the
           breuity
           of
           the
           Philosophers
           sentences
           ,
           ansvvered
           ,
           you
           say
           right
           vvell
           truely
           they
           are
           in
           fevv
           vvords
           couched
           indeed
           ,
           yet
           deserue
           not
           hence
           reprehension
           ,
           for
           vvere
           it
           possible
           ,
           so
           likevvise
           should
           be
           the
           syllables
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           vvill
           doe
           the
           fall
           extent
           of
           my
           povver
           ,
           contracting
           this
           vvhole
           subject
           vnder
           tenne
           Chapters
           onely
           .
           Herein
           obserue
           Gentle
           Reader
           that
           I
           cast
           not
           time
           avvay
           neither
           in
           the
           definition
           or
           description
           of
           Time
           (
           vvhere
           it
           might
           seeme
           that
           the
           Treatise
           should
           take
           his
           beginning
           )
           for
           that
           it
           is
           not
           necessary
           (
           as
           said
           
             Saint
             Augnstine
          
           )
           for
           there
           is
           not
           ought
           more
           knovvn
           ,
           nor
           more
           familiar
           ,
           more
           frequently
           spoken
           of
           by
           humane
           tongue
           ,
           then
           is
           that
           of
           time
           .
        
         
           Let
           it
           gratiously
           please
           God
           Almighty
           
           our
           good
           and
           glorious
           Lord
           through
           his
           precious
           blood
           (
           which
           vvas
           the
           price
           of
           our
           redemption
           )
           that
           this
           treatise
           of
           the
           redeeming
           of
           lost
           time
           may
           ansvverably
           profit
           the
           Reader
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           The
           names
           of
           the
           Authors
           alleadged
           &
           cited
           in
           this
           tractate
           .
        
         
           
             SAint
             Ambrose
             .
          
           
             F.
             Alphonso
             de
             Castro
             .
          
           
             Andrew
             bishop
             of
             Cesarea
             .
          
           
             Aristotle
             .
          
           
             S.
             Augustine
             .
          
        
         
           
             B.
             
          
           
             S.
             Basil.
             
          
           
             V.
             Bede
             .
          
           
             S.
             Bernard
             .
          
           
             S.
             Bernardino
             of
             Siens
             .
          
           
             S.
             Bonauenture
             .
          
        
         
           
             C.
             
          
           
             S.
             Cassianus
             .
          
           
             Cesario
             .
          
        
         
           
             D.
             
          
           
             Dionysius
             Carthusianus
             .
          
           
             Dionysius
             Cassius
             .
          
        
         
           
             E.
             
          
           
             Elianus
             .
          
           
             Euthymius
             .
          
        
         
           
             G.
             
          
           
             S.
             Gregorie
             Pope
             .
          
           
             Gregorius
             Nissenus
             .
          
        
         
           
             H.
             
          
           
             Haimon
             .
          
           
             Horace
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             I.
             
          
           
             S.
             Ierome
             .
          
           
             S.
             Iohn
             Damaseene
             .
          
           
             S.
             Iohn
             Chrysostome
             .
          
           
             Iohn
             Stobeus
             .
          
           
             Don
             Iohn
             Orozcory
             .
          
        
         
           
             L.
             
          
           
             Laërtius
             .
          
           
             B.
             Laurentius
             Iustianus
             .
          
           
             Ludouicus
             Blosius
             .
          
        
         
           
             M.
             
          
           
             F.
             Maldonato
             Ies.
             
          
        
         
           
             N.
             
          
           
             S.
             Nicolas
             Diukespu
             .
          
        
         
           
             O
          
           
             Origen
             .
          
           
             Ovid.
             
          
        
         
           
             P.
             
          
           
             Plutarch
             .
          
        
         
           
             S.
             
          
           
             P.
             Salmeron
             Ies.
             
          
           
             Seneca
             .
          
           
             Simon
             de
             Caffia
             .
          
           
             P.
             Soarez
             .
             Ies.
             
          
        
         
           
             T.
             
          
           
             Thaulerus
             .
          
           
             Theodoret.
             
          
           
             S.
             Thomas
             of
             Aquine
             .
          
           
             Thomas
             de
             Kempis
             .
          
        
         
           
             V.
             
          
           
             P.
             Viegas
             .
             Ies.
             
          
           
             Virgil
             Po.
             
          
        
         
           
             Z.
             
          
           
             Zedrenus
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           The
           Chapters
           in
           this
           treatise
           contained
           .
        
         
           
             Cap.
             1.
             
             WHAT
             à
             pretious
             iewell
             Time
             is
             !
             pag.
             1.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             2.
             
             That
             we
             are
             Lords
             of
             Time
             ,
             and
             for
             what
             end
             God
             bestowed
             it
             on
             vs
             ,
             and
             in
             what
             manner
             it
             should
             be
             employed
             .
             pag.
             28.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             3.
             
             How
             God
             abbre●iateth
             ,
             shorteneth
             ,
             yea
             taketh
             away
             time
             when
             there
             is
             great
             want
             thereof
             to
             him
             who
             tooke
             no
             care
             thereof
             when
             he
             possessed
             it
             ,
             nor
             sought
             he
             ough
             to
             make
             go●●
             vse
             thereof
             according
             to
             his
             duety
             power
             .
             pag.
             45.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             4.
             
             That
             even
             now
             whilest
             we
             have
             time
             it
             concerneth
             vs
             ,
             to
             take
             paines
             with
             feruency
             ,
             and
             speed
             ,
             and
             that
             we
             ought
             to
             employ
             it
             well
             .
             pag.
             64.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             5.
             
             How
             iustly
             the
             sluggish
             deserve
             reprehension
             ,
             and
             who
             so
             called
             .
             pag.
             91.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             6.
             
             How
             the
             body
             doth
             captivate
             that
             time
             which
             is
             designed
             for
             the
             soule
             and
             thereby
             exalteth
             it selfe
             .
             pag.
             101.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             7.
             
             That
             lawfully
             secular
             people
             may
             vse
             some
             entertainements
             of
             mirth
             ,
             solace
             ,
             and
             pastime
             to
             recreate
             their
             spirits
             .
             pag.
             131.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             8.
             
             That
             it
             is
             lawfull
             also
             yea
             even
             necessary
             ,
             that
             spirituall
             men
             vse
             some
             convenient
             exercise
             
             vvhich
             may
             tend
             for
             an
             intermission
             ;
             recreation
             and
             solace
             .
             pag.
             148.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             9.
             
             Of
             the
             meanes
             to
             redeeme
             time
             ,
             vvhere
             shal
             be
             given
             to
             vnderstand
             more
             expressely
             vvho
             are
             they
             ,
             and
             of
             vvhat
             condition
             they
             are
             vvho
             loose
             it
             .
             pag.
             165.
             
          
           
             Cap.
             10.
             
             Hovv
             it
             is
             to
             be
             vnderstood
             ,
             that
             the
             dayes
             are
             bad
             ,
             and
             hovv
             since
             so
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             they
             are
             to
             be
             redeemed
             .
             pag.
             181.
             
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           THE
           RANSOME
           OF
           TIME
           BEING
           CAPTIVE
           .
        
         
           
             THE
             FIRST
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             What
             a
             pretious
             iewell
             Time
             is
             ?
          
           
             IT
             is
             the
             stile
             and
             manner
             of
             holy
             scriptures
             deliuery
             (
             that
             whensoever
             it
             teacheth
             or
             admonisheth
             〈◊〉
             ought
             )
             which
             is
             very
             notable
             ,
             〈◊〉
             of
             great
             importance
             ,
             it
             prepare●●
             vs
             with
             the
             fore
             sending
             of
             some
             marvailous
             and
             extraordinary
             vision
             or
             figure
             ,
             which
             may
             invite
             and
             rayse
             serious
             attention
             ,
             
             which
             may
             awaken
             and
             sprightly
             quicken
             our
             mindes
             ,
             and
             hold
             them
             in
             suspence
             and
             admiration
             ,
             as
             ordinarily
             is
             read
             in
             the
             kookes
             of
             the
             Prophets
             ,
             and
             especially
             in
             the
             Apocalypse
             of
             S.
             Iohn
             the
             Euangelist
             ;
             
             where
             among
             other
             admirable
             visions
             and
             figures
             ,
             that
             which
             he
             writeth
             in
             the
             10.
             
             Chapter
             is
             very
             remarkable
             ,
             which
             (
             ioyntly
             with
             those
             wordes
             of
             the
             Apostle
             in
             the
             epistle
             to
             the
             Ephesiās
             
               Redeeme
               thy
               time
            
             ,
             
             
               for
               thy
               daies
               are
               euill
            
             )
             shall
             be
             the
             Theme
             and
             groūd
             of
             this
             our
             treatise
             and
             exhortatiō
             .
          
           
             He
             then
             further
             sayth
             that
             he
             sawan
             Angell
             goodly
             ,
             mighty
             ,
             and
             powerfull
             to
             apprehēsion
             ,
             to
             come
             dovvne
             from
             heaven
             ,
             environed
             vvith
             a
             Cloud
             ;
             vvho
             brought
             vvith
             him
             on
             his
             head
             in
             lievv
             of
             à
             Diadem
             Heavens
             Rainebow
             ;
             his
             face
             was
             resplendant
             as
             is
             the
             Sunne
             at
             
             full
             Noone
             ,
             with
             his
             irradiations
             ,
             his
             glistering
             beames
             :
             his
             Feete
             were
             like
             Columnes
             or
             great
             pillars
             of
             purely
             bright-burning
             fire
             .
             In
             his
             hand
             he
             held
             a
             booke
             opened
             ,
             and
             treading
             on
             the
             Sea
             with
             his
             right
             foote
             ,
             and
             on
             the
             earth
             with
             his
             left
             foote
             ,
             so
             loudly
             strained
             he
             his
             voice
             ,
             and
             in
             such
             à
             māner
             ,
             that
             he
             seemed
             not
             vnlike
             a
             Lion
             ,
             when
             he
             roareth
             :
             and
             pointing
             at
             Heauē
             with
             his
             fore-finger
             sware
             ,
             by
             him
             who
             liveth
             ,
             and
             shall
             live
             for
             ever
             ād
             ever
             ;
             him
             who
             created
             heauen
             ,
             earth
             ,
             and
             sea
             ād
             whatsoever
             is
             in
             thē
             cōtained
             ,
             that
             after
             the
             dayes
             of
             the
             seavēth
             Angell
             ,
             time
             should
             cease
             for
             ever
             and
             ever
             ,
             that
             time
             should
             haue
             no
             being
             at
             all
             .
          
           
             To
             declare
             breifly
             the
             mysteries
             which
             herein
             are
             comprised
             .
          
           
             This
             Angell
             according
             to
             the
             exposition
             
             of
             many
             Authors
             ,
             is
             Christ
             our
             Lord
             ,
             the
             Angell
             of
             the
             great
             ,
             high
             and
             ,
             mighty
             Counsaile
             ,
             or
             is
             One
             of
             the
             most
             blessed
             Angells
             ,
             who
             representeth
             his
             person
             who
             hath
             from
             him
             the
             office
             of
             his
             Legate
             or
             Embassadour
             ;
             descended
             From
             heaven
             ,
             for
             apparantly
             ,
             most
             visibly
             he
             is
             to
             come
             downe
             from
             thence
             in
             a
             resplendent
             ,
             a
             cleerly-bright
             ,
             and
             most
             glorious
             Cloud
             ,
             with
             great
             and
             mighty
             power
             to
             giue
             Iudgment
             on
             all
             the
             world
             .
          
           
             Yet
             observe
             also
             that
             his
             being
             
               covered
               in
               a
               cloud
            
             doth
             signifie
             the
             confusion
             ,
             the
             strange
             conturbation
             which
             in
             those
             last
             daies
             will
             appeare
             ,
             as
             well
             in
             the
             time
             of
             the
             raigne
             and
             fearefull
             persecution
             of
             Antichrist
             ,
             as
             also
             when
             there
             shall
             appeare
             ,
             such
             terrible
             ,
             such
             horrible
             ,
             such
             dreadfull
             signes
             
             which
             are
             to
             fall
             out
             ,
             and
             evidently
             to
             be
             shewen
             before
             the
             vniversall
             iudgment
             ,
             the
             day
             of
             doome
             ;
             when
             as
             the
             fearful
             presence
             of
             the
             Iudge
             is
             from
             moment
             to
             moment
             looked
             for
             .
          
           
             The
             Rainebow
             is
             the
             Embleme
             or
             signe
             of
             peace
             .
          
           
             
               The
               Fire
            
             ,
             of
             Anger
             ,
             fury
             ,
             and
             chastisment
             .
          
           
             And
             in
             the
             two
             vttermost
             boundes
             of
             humane
             body
             ,
             which
             are
             the
             Feete
             and
             heade
             (
             the
             beginning
             and
             ending
             thereof
             )
             are
             delineated
             the
             two
             severall
             commings
             of
             Christ
             to
             the
             world
             ,
             whereof
             the
             first
             was
             of
             mercy
             to
             make
             peace
             betweene
             God
             ad
             Man
             ,
             and
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             for
             deuise
             he
             beareth
             on
             his
             head
             the
             
               Rainebow
               of
               Heauen
            
             ,
             for
             signe
             that
             the
             waters
             of
             the
             Deluge
             ,
             the
             afflictions
             and
             fore-passed
             chastisements
             were
             ceased
             .
             
             And
             in
             the
             other
             he
             shall
             come
             as
             a
             iudge
             ;
             and
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             he
             is
             delineated
             with
             
               Feete
               of
               fire
            
             ,
             which
             signifie
             inflexible
             ,
             implacable
             rigour
             ,
             and
             terrible
             anger
             .
             
               Ignis
               ante
               ipsum
               praecedet
            
             said
             David
             ,
             
             he
             shall
             come
             casting
             forth
             fire
             abūdantly
             .
          
           
             The
             Forme
             and
             
               figure
               of
               Colum●es
            
             import
             the
             mighty
             povver
             which
             hee
             will
             extend
             in
             the
             rigid
             execution
             of
             his
             iudgement
             and
             iustice
             .
          
           
             The
             
               Open
               booke
               in
               his
               hand
            
             doth
             give
             vs
             to
             vnderstand
             the
             eternall
             sapience
             ,
             eternall
             wisdome
             which
             he
             hathas
             God
             ,
             by
             vertue
             whereof
             the
             office
             of
             a
             iudge
             is
             his
             proper
             attribute
             and
             the
             fulnes
             of
             science
             ,
             of
             knowledge
             ,
             of
             wisedome
             ,
             which
             he
             hath
             as
             man
             to
             discerne
             and
             discusse
             the
             reall
             grounds
             of
             things
             ,
             the
             demeanor
             and
             desert
             of
             all
             the
             sonnes
             of
             Adam
             ,
             and
             the
             decreed
             rate
             of
             the
             Divine
             law
             according
             
             to
             the
             which
             they
             are
             to
             be
             adiudged
             .
          
           
             The
             placing
             
               one
               foote
               on
               the
               Sea
            
             ,
             and
             
               the
               other
               on
               the
               Land
            
             is
             as
             much
             as
             to
             say
             that
             he
             surroundeth
             ,
             that
             he
             comprehendeth
             the
             Sea
             and
             land
             ,
             the
             land
             and
             Sea
             :
             and
             that
             there
             is
             not
             ought
             which
             can
             be
             exempt
             from
             his
             hands
             ,
             
             nor
             hide
             it self
             from
             his
             presence
             .
          
           
             The
             
               roaring
               not
               vnlike
               to
               that
               of
               a
               Lion
               ,
            
             doth
             declare
             the
             strange
             anger
             ,
             and
             inexpressible
             irefull
             countenance
             of
             the
             iudge
             ,
             when
             he
             shall
             pronounce
             the
             heauy
             ,
             and
             most
             dolefull
             ,
             direfull
             sentence
             of
             the
             condemned
             .
          
           
             And
             the
             so
             
               Solemne
               oath
            
             doth
             expresse
             the
             infallible
             certainty
             ,
             which
             shall
             be
             in
             the
             full
             accomplishmēt
             ,
             and
             cōpleat
             executiō
             of
             that
             ,
             which
             hee
             declareth
             ,
             he
             pronoūceth
             ,
             he
             preacheth
             to
             mākinde
             :
             
             that
             in
             the
             dayes
             of
             the
             
               seauenth
               Angell
            
             when
             as
             that
             dreadfull
             trumpet
             shall
             be
             heard
             ,
             and
             horridly
             resound
             ,
             which
             shall
             summon
             to
             iudgement
             all
             the
             offspring
             of
             Adam
             ,
             
               time
               for
               euer
               and
               euer
               shall
               cease
               ,
               shal
               be
               consumed
               ,
               shall
               haue
               its
               full
               and
               vttermost
               bound
               and
               last
               end
               ,
            
             and
             that
             eternally
             ,
             that
             everlastingly
             it
             shall
             be
             wanting
             to
             them
             ,
             who
             oportunely
             did
             not
             benefit
             themselves
             by
             it
             ,
             but
             deferred
             their
             well
             doing
             when
             as
             they
             possessed
             this
             Time
             ,
             vnto
             the
             last
             period
             ,
             the
             vttermost
             day
             of
             their
             lives
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             the
             Angell
             published
             the
             Edict
             with
             so
             many
             and
             such
             like
             circumstances
             and
             ceremonyes
             ,
             that
             time
             should
             haue
             its
             end
             once
             for
             ever
             and
             ever
             and
             when
             this
             is
             to
             take
             effect
             ,
             it
             is
             for
             that
             we
             be
             informed
             ,
             and
             begiven
             
             fully
             to
             vnderstand
             of
             what
             price
             ,
             value
             ,
             and
             great
             esteeme
             it
             is
             ,
             and
             what
             greate
             benefit
             God
             imparteth
             to
             vs
             ,
             bestovveth
             on
             vs
             ,
             to
             make
             vs
             
               Lords
               thereof
            
             ,
             the
             whole
             course
             of
             our
             dayes
             ,
             of
             our
             life
             ,
             and
             contrary
             wise
             what
             a
             great
             punishment
             it
             is
             that
             he
             subtract
             it
             from
             any
             one
             ,
             as
             being
             altogether
             vnworthy
             of
             it
             ,
             it
             being
             ill
             employed
             :
             And
             to
             know
             how
             precious
             time
             is
             it
             would
             suffice
             to
             contēplate
             that
             in
             an
             instant
             the
             infinite
             eternity
             of
             Glory
             may
             therein
             be
             acquired
             ,
             since
             that
             man
             may
             gaine
             it
             in
             so
             litle
             a
             space
             .
             And
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             the
             
               Holy
               Ghost
            
             adviseth
             vs
             to
             conserue
             time
             ,
             
             as
             gold
             carefully
             wrapped
             vp
             ,
             as
             the
             apple
             of
             our
             eye
             ,
             and
             that
             we
             carefully
             eschewe
             vice
             ,
             yea
             and
             with
             perseverance
             ,
             successiuely
             ,
             continually
             :
             which
             is
             ,
             as
             if
             he
             should
             say
             that
             we
             spend
             
             it
             in
             good
             workes
             ,
             and
             that
             thereof
             we
             loose
             not
             ought
             ,
             no
             not
             one
             sole
             moment
             .
             Againe
             by
             the
             selfe
             same
             Ecclesiasticus
             he
             counsaileth
             vs
             ,
             
             saying
             ;
             Consume
             not
             ,
             cast
             not
             away
             a
             good
             day
             ,
             not
             without
             profit
             let
             passe
             the
             one
             onely
             particle
             of
             a
             good
             guift
             .
             One
             text
             readeth
             
               Particula
               bonae
               diei
            
             ,
             and
             the
             other
             which
             is
             the
             vulgar
             translatiō
             ,
             Bonidoni
             :
             whether
             the
             one
             or
             other
             be
             h●s
             wordes
             ,
             his
             true
             meaning
             is
             ,
             his
             realle
             scope
             is
             to
             advertise
             vs
             ,
             to
             give
             vs
             counsaile
             ,
             and
             to
             exhort
             vs
             earnestly
             to
             account
             of
             time
             ,
             to
             vse
             time
             well
             ;
             oh
             !
             yea
             carefully
             ,
             solicitously
             ,
             and
             most
             tenderly
             ,
             not
             onely
             of
             a
             day
             ,
             but
             also
             of
             each
             day
             ;
             for
             he
             who
             well
             vnderstādeth
             and
             well
             disposeth
             of
             one
             day
             ,
             may
             take
             patterne
             there
             by
             to
             square
             ,
             proportiō
             ,
             and
             well
             dispose
             of
             ,
             well
             order
             his
             whole
             life
             ;
             and
             he
             cōpleatly
             is
             maister
             thereof
             ,
             as
             also
             maketh
             
             thereof
             right
             vse
             ,
             vvho
             vvorketh
             his
             owne
             proper
             good
             and
             that
             of
             his
             Neighbours
             to
             his
             full
             povver
             ,
             employing
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             his
             time
             in
             workes
             of
             piety
             and
             mercy
             .
             King
             David
             feared
             a
             litle
             parcell
             of
             time
             of
             much
             ,
             and
             so
             much
             desired
             he
             to
             spēd
             it
             all
             well
             ,
             that
             he
             was
             even
             agonized
             in
             contention
             ,
             in
             strugling
             with
             the
             Sunne
             who
             should
             rise
             soonest
             to
             giue
             laudes
             to
             God
             ,
             to
             honor
             and
             praise
             God
             ;
             &
             at
             length
             the
             King
             overcame
             ,
             got
             the
             victory
             ,
             according
             to
             those
             wordes
             ,
             
             by
             which
             it
             is
             testified
             ,
             
               praeuenerūt
               oculi
               mei
               ad
               te
               diluculo
               vtmeditarer
               eloquia
               tua
               :
            
             My
             eyes
             gott
             ground
             of
             the
             sunne
             ,
             fore
             rāne
             it
             to
             cōt̄eplate
             ,
             to
             meditate
             on
             thy
             wordes
             ;
             for
             before
             it
             att
             all
             appeared
             ,
             I
             was
             all
             ētertained
             seriously
             attētive
             and
             earnestly
             busied
             thereō
             ,
             which
             according
             to
             the
             exposition
             of
             S.
             
             Ambrose
             is
             ,
             as
             if
             he
             should
             speake
             more
             plainly
             ,
             and
             more
             at
             large
             :
             oh
             ,
             thou
             who
             art
             a
             Christian
             rise
             before
             the
             Sunne
             is
             vp
             ,
             before
             the
             Sunne
             appeareth
             at
             all
             .
             For
             I
             cannot
             but
             hold
             it
             for
             a
             great
             lazines
             ,
             and
             a
             meerly
             most
             indefensible
             and
             most
             strangely
             careles
             negligence
             ,
             marvailously
             blamable
             ,
             and
             aboue
             all
             discretion
             ,
             that
             the
             beames
             of
             the
             Sunne
             rising
             should
             finde
             thee
             idle
             ,
             thee
             I
             say
             sluggish
             ,
             and
             drowsing
             in
             thy
             soft
             couch
             .
             Art
             thou
             peradventure
             so
             ignorāt
             ,
             so
             stupid
             as
             that
             thou
             apprehendest
             not
             ,
             that
             thou
             oughtest
             to
             offer
             ,
             and
             freely
             give
             to
             God
             each
             day
             the
             first
             fruits
             of
             thy
             tongue
             ,
             and
             heart
             ?
          
           
             Behold
             ,
             observe
             well
             the
             guifts
             bestowed
             on
             thee
             ;
             thou
             possessest
             dayly
             harvest
             ,
             and
             hence
             each
             day
             is
             fruite
             .
             And
             in
             an
             other
             Psalme
             
             Prophet
             saith
             
               Anticipauerunt
               vigilias
               oculi
               mei
            
             .
             My
             eyes
             haue
             anticipated
             ,
             
             prevented
             ,
             and
             raised
             themselfes
             vp
             ,
             before
             the
             sentinells
             and
             Citty
             watch
             ;
             which
             importeth
             (
             according
             to
             S.
             Hierome
             )
             before
             any
             was
             awake
             ,
             any
             had
             opened
             their
             eyes
             ,
             euen
             then
             I
             was
             with
             watchfull
             eyes
             at
             Midnight
             ,
             when
             each
             one
             sweetly
             slept
             ,
             and
             profoundly
             ,
             then
             risse
             I
             ,
             not
             onely
             then
             ,
             but
             in
             the
             morning
             ,
             and
             at
             midday
             ,
             also
             at
             evening
             ,
             in
             a
             word
             ;
             seaven
             times
             a
             day
             I
             giue
             laud
             and
             praise
             to
             God
             ,
             and
             his
             praise
             vvas
             alwaies
             in
             my
             mouth
             ,
             and
             at
             all
             howers
             .
             It
             was
             he
             who
             knew
             well
             to
             conserue
             time
             ,
             he
             exactly
             and
             most
             prudētly
             observed
             &
             vnderstood
             what
             it
             was
             ,
             and
             of
             what
             value
             it
             was
             and
             how
             to
             avail
             himselfe
             ,
             to
             make
             true
             vse
             of
             so
             precious
             a
             gemme
             vvithout
             the
             losse
             of
             any
             
             one
             the
             least
             either
             of
             the
             good
             day
             ,
             or
             good
             guift
             .
             A
             precious
             hazard
             is
             tyme
             Theophrastus
             said
             ;
             and
             Seneca
             in
             his
             first
             Epistle
             (
             which
             he
             wrote
             to
             Lucilius
             his
             friend
             )
             delivereth
             his
             minde
             in
             this
             follovving
             manner
             ;
             
             vvhat
             man
             will
             you
             bring
             forth
             ,
             can
             you
             produce
             ,
             who
             can
             rightly
             value
             time
             ,
             who
             knovveth
             the
             price
             of
             one
             onely
             day
             ?
             &
             well
             cōsidering
             that
             wee
             daylie
             incline
             to
             our
             end
             ,
             our
             death
             ,
             and
             that
             we
             euer
             dye
             ?
             Herein
             we
             extremely
             deceive
             our selues
             that
             our
             phantasie
             ,
             and
             our
             eyes
             make
             not
             death
             our
             obiect
             .
             Much
             of
             time
             tending
             to
             our
             end
             ,
             is
             already
             passed
             :
             the
             rest
             of
             our
             a●e
             ,
             and
             life
             that
             thou
             canst
             expect
             aftervvards
             is
             vvhat
             death
             doth
             chal●enge
             to
             it self
             ;
             for
             one
             foote
             is
             then
             accounted
             to
             be
             in
             the
             graue
             Therefore
             my
             good
             friend
             (
             Lucilius
             )
             be
             thou
             even
             answerably
             to
             that
             vvhich
             thou
             writest
             
             in
             thy
             letter
             to
             me
             thou
             art
             ,
             as
             one
             who
             vvell
             knoweth
             the
             price
             of
             time
             .
             Entertaine
             ,
             make
             accoūt
             ,
             value
             all
             howers
             ,
             and
             each
             tēderly
             ,
             so
             shall
             lesse
             depēd
             on
             the
             howers
             of
             to
             morrow
             ,
             of
             the
             next
             day
             ,
             taking
             strict
             account
             and
             carefull
             esteeme
             of
             the
             presēt
             day
             ,
             not
             slightly
             and
             caresly
             letting
             it
             passe
             of
             ,
             for
             life
             though
             never
             so
             much
             prolonged
             ,
             yet
             in
             this
             his
             course
             passeth
             not
             withstandnig
             although
             at
             length
             ,
             yea
             and
             swiftly
             flyeth
             .
             And
             we
             cānot
             account
             ought
             our
             proper
             owne
             but
             time
             ;
             for
             that
             all
             other
             thinges
             are
             strangers
             to
             vs
             ,
             divers
             ,
             not
             agreeing
             with
             vs
             ;
             alas
             !
             not
             in
             our
             iurisdictiō
             ,
             ūder
             our
             power
             ,
             our
             cōmād
             ;
             nature
             hath
             impatronized
             vs
             here
             with
             ,
             we
             are
             possessed
             ,
             though
             of
             what
             is
             nimble
             ,
             vvhic
             rūneth
             ,
             flyeth
             ,
             and
             passeth
             beyond
             expressiō
             swiftly
             frō
             vs.
             And
             is
             humā
             kinde
             so
             vnwise
             ,
             so
             indiscreete
             
             that
             it
             is
             appassionated
             and
             looketh
             after
             meanes
             ,
             thinges
             ,
             almost
             matters
             of
             nothing
             ,
             and
             likewise
             recoverable
             ,
             which
             lost
             they
             miserably
             lament
             for
             ?
             There
             is
             not
             any
             bodie
             to
             be
             found
             who
             will
             acknowledg
             that
             he
             is
             indebted
             ought
             for
             being
             made
             Lord
             of
             time
             ,
             although
             vndoubtedly
             true
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             time
             is
             of
             a
             nature
             so
             pretious
             ,
             that
             be
             one
             never
             so
             thankfull
             ,
             yet
             is
             he
             never
             able
             to
             pay
             answerably
             to
             the
             greatnes
             of
             the
             due
             debt
             ;
             the
             price
             thereof
             hath
             so
             large
             extent
             ;
             no
             ,
             not
             the
             debt
             of
             one
             dayes
             time
             .
             And
             in
             his
             booke
             of
             the
             brevity
             ,
             
             the
             litle
             extent
             of
             life
             he
             pursueth
             further
             :
             There
             is
             not
             any
             bodie
             living
             who
             desireth
             to
             consume
             and
             cast
             away
             his
             patrimony
             ,
             his
             meanes
             ,
             his
             goods
             of
             fortune
             ,
             nor
             to
             vtterly
             despoile
             himself
             ,
             farre
             rather
             to
             conserve
             
             it
             carefully
             ,
             yea
             and
             more
             to
             make
             encrease
             thereof
             ;
             time
             and
             life
             is
             easily
             rendred
             ,
             giuen
             over
             ,
             and
             cōsumed
             in
             many
             and
             divers
             waies
             .
             Worldlings
             are
             couetous
             ,
             are
             marvailous
             greedy
             of
             wealth
             ,
             and
             strangely
             solicitous
             thereō
             ,
             and
             oftentimes
             immeasurably
             profuse
             ,
             wonderfully
             prodigall
             ,
             although
             such
             is
             the
             condition
             of
             thinges
             that
             coueteousnes
             ,
             the
             earnest
             desire
             of
             having
             ,
             possessing
             ,
             and
             compleatly
             enioying
             of
             time
             ,
             is
             that
             vvhich
             is
             truely
             iust
             and
             really
             laudable
             ,
             vvorthy
             to
             be
             esteemed
             ,
             and
             honored
             vvith
             praise
             for
             truely
             ,
             as
             immediately
             after
             in
             the
             same
             booke
             he
             delivereth
             ,
             time
             is
             the
             most
             pretious
             ievvell
             of
             all
             others
             ,
             to
             bee
             farre
             preferred
             before
             any
             ,
             vvhat
             soever
             is
             or
             can
             bee
             conceived
             ,
             yet
             notvvithstanding
             it
             of
             all
             other
             things
             is
             least
             valued
             ,
             yea
             and
             indeed
             to
             say
             more
             ,
             despised
             ,
             for
             it
             〈◊〉
             reckoned
             as
             a
             thing
             of
             nothing
             ,
             of
             
             no
             vvorth
             at
             all
             .
             There
             is
             not
             any
             vvho
             esteemeth
             it
             vvhen
             hee
             hath
             it
             ,
             if
             so
             it
             occurre
             that
             any
             one
             be
             sicke
             ,
             nay
             their
             ●ingers
             but
             even
             ake
             ,
             you
             shall
             see
             them
             croutch
             ,
             cringe
             ,
             yea
             even
             bovv
             their
             knees
             before
             the
             Physition
             ;
             and
             be
             it
             that
             he
             feare
             the
             prognostick
             ;
             the
             sentēce
             ,
             the
             doome
             of
             death
             ,
             he
             vvill
             give
             the
             physition
             his
             vvaight
             in
             gold
             for
             his
             recovery
             ,
             for
             ransome
             of
             his
             life
             .
             The
             blessed
             
               S.
               Laurence
               Iustinian
            
             cōsidering
             vvhat
             time
             is
             ,
             
             and
             of
             vvhat
             value
             ,
             breaketh
             forth
             into
             these
             vvords
             :
             Ah!
             vvho
             is
             there
             ,
             vvho
             is
             capable
             ?
             vvho
             is
             he
             ,
             vvho
             can
             vvith
             full
             extent
             of
             spirit
             and
             vnderstanding
             apprehend
             of
             vvhat
             price
             ,
             of
             vvhat
             vvorth
             is
             time
             ?
             Oh!
             vvhat
             grace
             of
             delivery
             ,
             vvhat
             eloquence
             ,
             what
             sweetly-spun
             ,
             or
             flowing
             speech
             of
             man
             can
             declare
             it
             ,
             lively
             and
             sprightly
             expresse
             it
             ?
             they
             who
             want
             time
             ,
             and
             haue
             it
             not
             at
             all
             know
             it
             .
             Then
             would
             they
             trucke
             all
             
             the
             possessions
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             honors
             ,
             dignities
             ,
             prelacyes
             ,
             pompes
             of
             the
             age
             ,
             corporall
             delights
             ,
             and
             all
             that
             is
             vnder
             the
             Sunne
             ,
             wherewith
             they
             are
             taken
             ,
             entertained
             ,
             and
             marvailously
             pleased
             with
             ,
             for
             one
             ,
             one-sole
             houres-time
             ,
             if
             possibly
             they
             might
             regaine
             it
             ,
             acquire
             it
             ,
             possesse
             it
             .
             For
             in
             this
             breife
             time
             ,
             in
             this
             most
             short
             space
             ,
             they
             might
             appease
             the
             diuine
             Iustice
             ,
             they
             might
             reioyce
             the
             Angells
             ,
             they
             might
             escape
             the
             terrible
             ,
             dreadfull
             ,
             most
             direfull
             doome
             of
             eternall
             losse
             ,
             euerlasting
             damnation
             ,
             and
             hence
             might
             they
             merit
             ,
             and
             (
             without
             all
             doubt
             )
             might
             winne
             euerliving
             life
             ,
             eternall
             blisse
             .
             The
             carelesse
             ,
             vnhappy
             ,
             ah
             !
             vnfortunate
             are
             those
             to
             whom
             the
             sunne
             of
             mercy
             is
             set
             .
             And
             they
             are
             passed
             of
             ,
             without
             hope
             of
             any
             recovery
             ,
             they
             are
             descended
             to
             the
             Lake
             of
             misery
             ,
             vvhere
             is
             nothing
             but
             confusion
             and
             ever
             lasting
             horror
             .
             And
             not
             
             without
             all
             reason
             pardon
             is
             denyed
             them
             ,
             for
             that
             they
             misseprised
             it
             ,
             
             when
             it
             was
             offered
             vnto
             them
             ,
             nay
             they
             did
             not
             once
             desire
             either
             to
             meditate
             ,
             to
             consider
             ,
             or
             know
             what
             time
             its
             worth
             was
             ,
             nor
             the
             much
             necessity
             thereof
             ,
             and
             the
             great
             want
             that
             they
             vvere
             to
             suffer
             thereby
             ,
             so
             living
             to
             please
             their
             palates
             ,
             and
             their
             appetites
             ,
             as
             if
             they
             vvere
             never
             to
             dy
             .
             Oh!
             if
             they
             to
             ke●t
             into
             consideration
             ,
             they
             should
             vvell
             apprehend
             (
             they
             I
             sav
             vvho
             employ
             their
             time
             ill
             ,
             and
             liue
             car●lesly
             )
             hovv
             they
             vvithout
             once
             reflecting
             thereō
             miserably
             loose
             it
             ;
             for
             vvhat
             is
             there
             more
             precious
             then
             time
             ?
             vvhat
             is
             more
             excellent
             ?
             vvhat
             more
             deare
             ?
             vvhat
             of
             greater
             benefit
             ?
             oh
             !
             vvhat
             is
             there
             more
             beautifull
             ,
             more
             to
             be
             beloved
             then
             time
             ?
             More
             is
             the
             pitty
             ,
             greater
             is
             the
             griefe
             ,
             that
             there
             is
             not
             any
             thing
             so
             vilified
             ,
             so
             despised
             ,
             so
             the
             least
             of
             leasts
             esteemed
             of
             ,
             nor
             
             so
             vnvvorthily
             possessed
             ,
             it
             being
             that
             ,
             through
             vvhich
             may
             be
             heaped
             treasures
             ,
             and
             eternall
             revvards
             vvonne
             in
             any
             one
             part
             thereof
             .
             Hence
             is
             that
             they
             ,
             vvho
             well
             observe
             ;
             vvell
             knovve
             that
             ,
             vvhich
             is
             vvorth
             let
             not
             the
             least
             time
             passe
             ,
             be
             it
             never
             so
             short
             vvithout
             fruite
             ,
             vvithout
             returne
             of
             profit
             ;
             and
             vvhy
             ?
             for
             that
             they
             haue
             to
             render
             to
             God
             an
             exact
             and
             strict
             account
             .
             And
             glorious
             
               S.
               Bernard
            
             saith
             that
             there
             is
             not
             any
             thing
             ,
             
             vvhich
             is
             more
             of
             value
             ,
             more
             pretious
             then
             is
             time
             ;
             but
             novv
             a
             daies
             is
             there
             foūd
             ought
             more
             despicable
             ,
             more
             contemptible
             ?
             The
             day
             of
             safety
             ,
             of
             vvell
             being
             doth
             like
             shadovves
             passe
             ,
             and
             there
             is
             not
             any
             body
             vvho
             according
             to
             reason
             doth
             lament
             the
             losse
             of
             that
             ,
             vvhich
             hath
             no
             regresse
             ,
             no
             returne
             .
             But
             let
             men
             vnderstand
             that
             even
             as
             no
             haire
             of
             the
             head
             shall
             perish
             ,
             
             evē
             so
             neither
             more
             nor
             lesse
             〈◊〉
             any
             
             least
             moment
             of
             time
             ,
             vnlesse
             there
             be
             thereof
             an
             account
             ,
             and
             reason
             .
             None
             of
             you
             bretheren
             esteeme
             ought
             the
             time
             you
             cast
             avvay
             in
             idle
             and
             most
             vaine
             vvordes
             ;
             Wordes
             irrecouerable
             fly
             ,
             yea
             and
             time
             flyeth
             irremediably
             ,
             not
             to
             be
             repaired
             ,
             alas
             !
             not
             to
             be
             helped
             ,
             and
             the
             sottish
             foole
             taketh
             no
             notice
             of
             vvhat
             he
             looseth
             .
             It
             is
             not
             amisse
             ,
             nay
             rather
             I
             may
             vvell
             say
             that
             it
             is
             euen
             lavvfull
             ,
             vvill
             some
             one
             vrge
             to
             chatt
             ,
             to
             talke
             a
             vvhile
             ,
             and
             to
             continue
             familiar
             discourse
             betvveene
             man
             and
             man
             ,
             vntill
             one
             hower
             be
             runn
             out
             ;
             vvhat
             !
             that
             hovver
             that
             God
             almighty
             freely
             and
             mercifully
             gave
             thee
             to
             doe
             pennāce
             ,
             that
             hence
             thou
             mightest
             obtaine
             pardon
             ,
             hence
             to
             vvinne
             grace
             ,
             and
             merit
             glory
             ?
             oh
             !
             vntill
             time
             glide
             away
             ,
             fully
             make
             his
             flight
             vntill
             the
             houre
             compleatly
             be
             runne
             ?
             Time
             ,
             oh
             !
             that
             time
             thou
             hadst
             to
             labour
             ,
             to
             procure
             to
             vvinne
             divine
             
             mercyes
             ,
             propiriousnes
             ,
             favour
             ,
             indulgency
             ,
             and
             vvhē
             thou
             oughtest
             to
             haue
             made
             all
             hast
             ,
             vvith
             fulnes
             of
             diligence
             to
             come
             vnto
             the
             society
             of
             Angells
             ,
             to
             sigh
             ,
             and
             breath
             for
             the
             eternall
             inheritance
             ,
             to
             suscitate
             ,
             to
             avvakē
             thy
             luke-vvarme
             ,
             thy
             sluggish
             vvill
             ,
             and
             to
             vveepe
             bitterly
             on
             thy
             forepassed
             life
             ,
             the
             iniquities
             thou
             hast
             transgressed
             in
             .
             All
             these
             are
             
               S.
               Bernards
            
             wordes
             .
             Oh!
             if
             this
             merchādise
             (
             sayth
             the
             blessed
             
               S.
               Bernardin
            
             of
             Siena
             )
             of
             time
             could
             be
             saleable
             in
             hell
             ,
             
             there
             for
             one
             halfe
             hovver
             what
             vvould
             they
             proffer
             ,
             nay
             what
             would
             they
             give
             ?
             ah
             !
             alas
             yes
             !
             they
             vvould
             part
             with
             a
             thousand
             worldes
             ,
             if
             they
             were
             possessed
             of
             them
             ,
             their
             state
             cōsidered
             ,
             they
             there
             knovving
             hovv
             it
             is
             with
             such
             miserably
             distressed
             ,
             although
             they
             vvere
             in
             being
             againe
             .
             Time
             is
             of
             more
             value
             then
             is
             vvhat
             soever
             the
             vvorld
             hath
             ,
             for
             of
             such
             nature
             is
             it
             ,
             that
             thereby
             may
             be
             acquired
             ,
             
             gained
             merits
             ,
             through
             which
             one
             may
             arriue
             to
             the
             possession
             and
             enioying
             eternall
             be
             atitude
             God
             himself
             the
             infinite
             good
             and
             ●●easure
             .
             And
             if
             the
             deuill
             vvere
             but
             maister
             of
             a
             litle
             time
             ,
             in
             vvhich
             he
             might
             doe
             acts
             of
             repentance
             ,
             he
             vvould
             saue
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             gaine
             ,
             that
             ,
             which
             vvithout
             all
             redemption
             he
             hath
             vtterly
             lost
             .
             The
             selfe
             same
             Saint
             further
             delivereth
             :
             That
             thing
             is
             of
             great
             value
             ,
             very
             pretious
             of
             vvhich
             asmall
             quantity
             is
             as
             much
             vvorth
             as
             is
             a
             greater
             vvaight
             and
             quantity
             of
             an
             other
             .
             And
             so
             it
             is
             vvith
             gold
             ,
             for
             that
             with
             litle
             there
             of
             is
             bought
             great
             waight
             of
             any
             other
             thinge
             or
             mettall
             what
             soever
             .
             Then
             contemplate
             time
             ,
             vveigh
             it
             vvell
             ,
             for
             that
             there
             with
             in
             an
             instant
             ,
             if
             you
             were
             practized
             in
             trading
             ,
             you
             shall
             be
             enabled
             to
             get
             heavē
             ,
             and
             life
             everlasting
             ,
             as
             did
             the
             good
             Theife
             .
             Well
             knevv
             Arsenius
             the
             Abbo●
             ,
             the
             
             price
             of
             time
             ,
             
             for
             when
             as
             he
             vvas
             in
             the
             hermitage
             of
             custome
             so
             vvell
             busied
             ,
             
             and
             vvas
             so
             earnestly
             coveteous
             of
             time
             ,
             that
             is
             vvas
             his
             wonted
             saying
             :
             An
             houre
             of
             sleepe
             is
             enough
             for
             a
             Monke
             .
             And
             vvhen
             once
             he
             found
             himselfe
             much
             incited
             ,
             marvailously
             surprised
             ,
             yea
             altogether
             overcome
             ,
             calling
             on
             sleepe
             vttered
             these
             vvordes
             to
             him
             :
             Come
             ,
             oh
             !
             come
             novv
             thou
             forcibly
             oppressing
             enimy
             ,
             and
             even
             then
             setting
             himselfe
             dovvne
             ,
             gaue
             himselfe
             ouer
             to
             repose
             ,
             slumbred
             ,
             tooke
             a
             nappe
             .
             And
             if
             so
             that
             it
             may
             be
             granted
             vnto
             me
             as
             lavvfull
             to
             the
             confusion
             of
             bad
             Christiās
             to
             recite
             the
             Gentiles
             ,
             
             the
             Heathens
             ,
             Pl●tarch
             writeth
             of
             
               Marcus
               Cato
               Censorius
            
             that
             three
             thinges
             he
             declined
             ,
             yea
             exceedingly
             abhorred
             ;
             The
             first
             to
             deliver
             to
             the
             discretion
             of
             vvomankinde
             ,
             what
             he
             would
             not
             each
             one
             should
             know
             .
             The
             second
             to
             make
             
             any
             iourney
             by
             water
             ,
             vvhen
             commodiously
             he
             might
             goe
             by
             Land.
             And
             the
             third
             was
             that
             negligently
             and
             through
             his
             owne
             fault
             any
             day
             should
             passe
             vvithout
             having
             vvell
             emploied
             the
             time
             thereof
             .
             Plinius
             the
             elder
             on
             a
             day
             seeing
             one
             of
             his
             nephevves
             to
             walke
             vp
             and
             dovvne
             ,
             although
             seeming
             by
             him
             donne
             for
             his
             recreation
             ,
             chidd
             him
             and
             sharply
             reprehended
             him
             saying
             :
             you
             might
             well
             haue
             aright
             known
             the
             price
             of
             time
             ;
             you
             need
             not
             haue
             lost
             these
             howers
             .
             Sertorius
             the
             Proconsull
             ,
             
             and
             Captaine
             generall
             of
             the
             Romans
             when
             he
             had
             bought
             ad
             redeemed
             by
             money
             of
             the
             Barbarians
             a
             passage
             ,
             and
             that
             hence
             some
             murmured
             ,
             and
             tooke
             it
             in
             ill
             part
             ,
             it
             seeming
             to
             them
             that
             this
             act
             of
             his
             was
             to
             enslaue
             the
             Romanes
             ,
             as
             that
             they
             should
             give
             vnto
             others
             tribute
             ,
             answered
             :
             Alas
             !
             what
             vrge
             you
             ,
             what
             may
             be
             called
             your
             true
             meanings
             
             herein
             ?
             I
             haue
             not
             donne
             ought
             else
             but
             redeemed
             and
             bought
             time
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             treasure
             more
             pretious
             then
             is
             any
             thing
             obiect
             to
             the
             eyes
             of
             men
             ,
             though
             neuer
             so
             covetous
             ,
             though
             never
             so
             greedy
             of
             great
             matters
             .
             Then
             well
             may
             I
             say
             ,
             if
             the
             Heathens
             valued
             time
             at
             so
             high
             a
             rate
             ,
             with
             what
             greater
             reasō
             should
             the
             Christian
             esteeme
             of
             it
             ,
             compleatly
             prise
             it
             ?
             since
             that
             through
             it
             he
             may
             acquire
             ,
             gaine
             ,
             and
             winne
             eternall
             beatitude
             ,
             and
             infinite
             glory
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             first
             Capter
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             THE
             SECOND
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             That
             we
             are
             Lords
             of
             time
             ,
             and
             for
             what
             end
             God
             bestowed
             it
             on
             vs
             ,
             and
             in
             what
             manner
             it
             should
             be
             employed
             .
          
           
             ALL
             other
             thinges
             (
             sayth
             the
             blessed
             
               Laurentius
               Iustinian
            
             and
             Seneca
             before
             delivered
             the
             selfe
             same
             ,
             are
             alienes
             ,
             strangers
             ,
             not
             appertaining
             to
             vs
             as
             our
             owne
             ,
             they
             are
             not
             ours
             ,
             time
             is
             that
             which
             we
             challenge
             as
             ours
             ,
             time
             is
             that
             which
             is
             our
             proper
             owne
             and
             we
             Lords
             thereof
             ;
             for
             that
             it
             lyeth
             in
             vs
             to
             employ
             it
             as
             we
             desire
             ,
             and
             will
             our selues
             .
             And
             it
             is
             not
             a
             small
             grace
             ,
             favour
             ,
             and
             benefit
             where
             with
             we
             are
             endowed
             ,
             that
             he
             giveth
             vs
             freely
             for
             our
             owne
             so
             pretious
             a
             iewell
             ,
             &
             especially
             giving
             vs
             so
             much
             ,
             that
             though
             the
             greatest
             extent
             of
             time
             is
             very
             short
             ,
             saith
             
             Seneca
             ,
             it
             is
             not
             a
             litle
             which
             we
             retaine
             ,
             possesse
             ;
             and
             without
             all
             reason
             doth
             human
             kinde
             complaine
             of
             lifes
             brevity
             ,
             its
             shortnes
             ,
             it
             s
             soonerun
             race
             ;
             they
             should
             rather
             reflect
             on
             time
             lost
             ,
             what
             time
             is
             carelesly
             cast
             away
             ,
             lamentably
             consumed
             ;
             let
             here
             be
             the
             ●eate
             of
             their
             vvhisperings
             ,
             their
             murmures
             ,
             their
             indiscreetly
             placed
             Complaints
             .
             Ah!
             life
             is
             long
             enough
             to
             operate
             ,
             to
             vvo●ke
             atchieument
             ,
             prais-vvorthy
             ,
             and
             of
             singular
             note
             ,
             if
             it
             so
             bee
             that
             it
             be
             vvell
             distributed
             ,
             vvell
             dispensed
             .
             God
             almighty
             yea
             even
             vvith
             the
             Angells
             themselues
             vvas
             so
             reserved
             herein
             ,
             that
             he
             gaue
             them
             for
             their
             boundes
             Instants
             of
             time
             ,
             and
             prefixed
             times
             of
             vvell
             or
             ill
             deserving
             .
             He
             gave
             them
             short
             spaces
             ,
             and
             moments
             vvhich
             some
             say
             vvere
             tvvo
             ,
             or
             three
             ,
             and
             those
             ,
             vvho
             goe
             farthest
             doe
             assigne
             but
             foure
             (
             true
             it
             is
             that
             
             it
             sufficed
             in
             respect
             of
             their
             guiftes
             and
             perfection
             of
             their
             nature
             )
             but
             to
             man
             who
             is
             slow
             ,
             inconstant
             ,
             and
             most
             variable
             ,
             God
             giveth
             time
             of
             life
             and
             many
             yeares
             ,
             and
             ages
             .
             But
             he
             was
             not
             endowed
             ,
             and
             enlarged
             there
             with
             to
             live
             sluggishly
             ,
             not
             to
             runn
             over
             it
             ,
             not
             to
             consume
             it
             in
             sports
             ,
             delights
             ,
             iests
             ,
             laughters
             ,
             pastimes
             ,
             and
             corporall
             entertainments
             ,
             and
             much
             lesse
             in
             sinnes
             ;
             but
             it
             was
             to
             be
             seriously
             employed
             in
             good-workes
             ,
             in
             well-doeing
             ,
             and
             iust
             and
             lawfull
             exercises
             ,
             and
             in
             taking
             paine
             ,
             labouring
             in
             his
             vyneyard
             ,
             gaining
             by
             labour
             ,
             and
             sweat
             of
             thy
             browes
             thy
             daily
             pay
             ,
             
             which
             is
             the
             wages
             of
             the
             paines-taker
             and
             the
             reward
             of
             happines
             .
             To
             the
             like
             end
             the
             Apostle
             delivereth
             :
             doeing
             good
             workes
             ,
             
             in
             thē
             employing
             our
             time
             :
             for
             to
             such
             end
             he
             gaue
             it
             vs
             ;
             let
             vs
             not
             faile
             ,
             let
             vs
             not
             be
             discouraged
             ,
             ought
             dismayed
             ,
             or
             weary
             ,
             for
             
             the
             time
             will
             come
             that
             we
             shall
             reape
             and
             get
             in
             our
             harvest
             ,
             and
             our
             fruite
             .
             Since
             so
             it
             is
             whilst
             we
             are
             impatronized
             of
             time
             ,
             let
             vs
             doe
             the
             vttermost
             of
             our
             power
             .
             And
             Seneca
             ,
             
             though
             a
             Heathen
             delivereth
             thus
             ,
             time
             was
             not
             bestowed
             on
             vs
             so
             liberally
             ,
             so
             benignely
             ;
             that
             wee
             might
             lawfully
             loose
             ought
             thereof
             .
             This
             is
             the
             time
             that
             is
             acceptable
             ,
             
             the
             time
             which
             will
             be
             receiued
             ,
             and
             well
             accounted
             of
             ,
             this
             is
             the
             even
             day
             of
             happines
             ,
             of
             health
             ,
             of
             safety
             (
             my
             brethrē
             )
             therefore
             in
             this
             worke
             your
             salvations
             by
             meritorious
             workes
             acceptable
             ,
             and
             such
             as
             may
             please
             God.
             The
             time
             of
             this
             life
             is
             likewise
             by
             him
             called
             ,
             the
             time
             of
             a
             faire
             ;
             for
             even
             as
             in
             them
             there
             are
             found
             ,
             bought
             commodities
             at
             small
             rates
             ,
             at
             litle
             price
             ;
             even
             so
             in
             this
             life
             merchandises
             ,
             and
             iewells
             of
             inestimable
             and
             infinit
             value
             are
             bought
             with
             small
             cost
             ;
             and
             yet
             with
             a
             momentary
             
             and
             easy
             ,
             light
             tribulation
             ,
             and
             small
             trouble
             is
             obteined
             an
             eternall
             weight
             of
             glory
             (
             as
             saith
             the
             same
             
               Saint
               Paul
            
             )
             which
             shall
             be
             possessed
             ,
             shall
             be
             compleatly
             enioyed
             in
             heaven
             .
             And
             by
             the
             way
             it
             is
             worth
             our
             observation
             to
             note
             how
             he
             giveth
             it
             the
             name
             of
             waight
             ,
             for
             that
             with
             its
             waight
             and
             greatnes
             it
             easeth
             and
             maketh
             light
             all
             the
             difficulties
             ,
             greifes
             ,
             and
             anxieties
             of
             this
             world
             ,
             and
             that
             which
             in
             this
             world
             maketh
             vs
             waighe
             most
             ,
             to
             suffer
             ,
             beare
             ,
             and
             endure
             ,
             compared
             with
             it
             ,
             is
             of
             no
             more
             waight
             then
             a
             straw
             ,
             is
             as
             light
             as
             a
             fly
             .
             And
             even
             so
             the
             waight
             of
             reward
             put
             in
             one
             balance
             maketh
             light
             ,
             lifteth
             vp
             to
             the
             very
             height
             the
             other
             scale
             of
             tribulations
             ;
             even
             as
             a
             great
             waight
             put
             into
             a
             scale
             ouerturneth
             the
             other
             ,
             in
             which
             there
             was
             one
             onely
             straw
             .
             Answereable
             to
             which
             the
             same
             Apostle
             hath
             deliuered
             
             in
             another
             place
             ,
             
             the
             passions
             and
             tribulations
             of
             this
             life
             ,
             its
             anxieties
             are
             not
             condigne
             ,
             not
             of
             a
             like
             worth
             ,
             altogether
             improportionable
             to
             the
             glory
             to
             come
             ,
             which
             shall
             be
             reuealed
             and
             manifested
             in
             vs
             ,
             rather
             (
             if
             you
             compare
             them
             )
             they
             are
             truely
             very
             litle
             ,
             and
             of
             no
             waight
             .
             And
             to
             this
             our
             purpose
             which
             we
             intend
             to
             follow
             Christ
             our
             Lord
             maketh
             a
             like
             Comparison
             to
             that
             of
             faires
             ,
             
             when
             he
             compared
             the
             Kingdome
             of
             heauen
             to
             a
             man
             buying
             and
             selling
             ,
             
             to
             a
             Merchant
             .
             And
             whē
             (
             as
             to
             men
             of
             employment
             )
             he
             spake
             to
             all
             the
             faithfull
             ;
             Be
             busy
             ,
             make
             your
             merchādize
             ,
             and
             loose
             no
             time
             therein
             vntill
             I
             come
             ,
             for
             then
             all
             traffique
             ceaseth
             ,
             hath
             it's
             end
             ,
             there
             shall
             be
             no
             more
             Faire
             in
             being
             .
             Hence
             further
             more
             the
             time
             of
             this
             life
             is
             called
             ,
             a
             time
             of
             leisure
             ,
             a
             vacation
             (
             free
             from
             all
             other
             things
             ,
             free
             from
             all
             other
             entertainements
             ,
             other
             
             
             
             
             
             emploiments
             )
             for
             man
             to
             busy
             and
             seriously
             attend
             the
             seruice
             of
             our
             Lord
             :
             It
             is
             likewise
             called
             a
             time
             of
             labour
             ,
             according
             to
             those
             wordes
             of
             our
             Sauiour
             ,
             by
             
               S.
               Iohn
               Euangelist
            
             his
             wordes
             ,
             
             Now
             is
             the
             time
             of
             paines
             taking
             whilst
             day
             is
             yet
             in
             being
             ,
             for
             night
             will
             come
             ,
             in
             which
             no
             body
             can
             worke
             .
             There
             is
             a
             time
             enstyled
             a
             time
             of
             sowing
             ,
             and
             a
             time
             of
             reaping
             ,
             and
             of
             carrying
             in
             the
             Corne
             ,
             the
             graine
             ,
             the
             haruest
             :
             for
             it
             is
             the
             time
             that
             one
             may
             deserue
             well
             ,
             and
             gather
             in
             the
             fruites
             of
             merit
             ,
             whereby
             the
             reward
             of
             heauen
             is
             to
             be
             gained
             .
             Hence
             it
             is
             that
             the
             Holy
             Ghost
             sendeth
             the
             idle
             ,
             careles
             and
             sluggish
             for
             his
             shame
             and
             confusiō
             ,
             to
             the
             carefull
             &
             fully
             solicitous
             Ante
             :
             goe
             thou
             to
             the
             Ante
             (
             saith
             he
             in
             the
             Prouerbs
             of
             Salomon
             )
             and
             obserue
             well
             how
             that
             in
             the
             summer
             season
             ,
             he
             maketh
             his
             prouision
             ,
             for
             the
             fall
             of
             the
             leafe
             ,
             for
             that
             time
             of
             
             the
             yeare
             ,
             and
             how
             he
             laboureth
             and
             gathereth
             his
             graine
             ,
             and
             how
             he
             hoordeth
             and
             keepeth
             it
             in
             such
             places
             ,
             not
             vnlike
             granaries
             ,
             corne
             lofts
             ;
             and
             hee
             maketh
             his
             prouision
             ,
             for
             that
             in
             winter
             there
             is
             no
             time
             to
             gather
             graine
             ,
             but
             to
             eate
             ,
             and
             liue
             by
             what
             is
             before
             gotten
             and
             conserued
             .
             Our
             Lord
             bestowed
             time
             on
             vs
             (
             said
             the
             blessed
             
               Laurentius
               Iustinianus
            
             )
             that
             we
             should
             lament
             ,
             
             and
             sigh
             ,
             and
             bitterly
             be
             waile
             our
             trespasses
             ,
             it
             was
             giuen
             vs
             for
             to
             doe
             pennance
             ,
             to
             acquire
             vertue
             ,
             to
             multiply
             merits
             ,
             to
             obtaine
             grace
             ,
             to
             excuse
             ,
             hence
             to
             defend
             ,
             and
             to
             vindicate
             our selues
             from
             the
             tormēts
             of
             hell
             ,
             and
             to
             acquire
             the
             glory
             of
             heauen
             .
             And
             such
             is
             this
             truth
             that
             time
             hath
             been
             giuen
             vnto
             vs
             to
             employ
             in
             good
             workes
             that
             that
             onely
             which
             we
             spend
             on
             them
             ,
             and
             practises
             of
             vertue
             is
             ours
             properly
             ,
             and
             that
             onely
             time
             is
             registred
             in
             the
             account
             
             of
             our
             life
             ,
             and
             of
             our
             dayes
             ,
             and
             of
             whatsoeuer
             else
             is
             no
             reckoning
             made
             ,
             nor
             memory
             in
             heauen
             ,
             nor
             in
             the
             booke
             of
             life
             .
             Although
             the
             world
             numbreth
             them
             ,
             and
             recordeth
             thē
             ,
             our
             Lord
             knoweth
             not
             those
             dayes
             ;
             at
             the
             least
             ,
             to
             vnderstād
             him
             aright
             ,
             he
             saith
             he
             knovveth
             them
             not
             ,
             as
             that
             which
             neither
             pleaseth
             him
             ,
             nor
             is
             ou●ht
             agreable
             to
             him
             ,
             but
             rather
             offendeth
             him
             .
             And
             in
             like
             manner
             Origenes
             expounding
             these
             wordes
             of
             Dauid
             ,
             our
             Lord
             knoweth
             the
             dayes
             of
             men
             who
             are
             without
             blott
             or
             staine
             ,
             who
             are
             the
             iust
             thus
             deliuereth
             .
             It
             is
             written
             in
             sacred
             scriptures
             that
             God
             knoweth
             nothing
             else
             but
             what
             is
             good
             ,
             and
             that
             hee
             knoweth
             not
             euill
             ,
             he
             forgette●h
             it
             ,
             not
             for
             that
             his
             science
             ,
             his
             vnspeakable
             fulnes
             of
             all
             knowledg
             doth
             not
             reach
             ,
             apprehendeth
             not
             ,
             all
             what
             good
             ,
             or
             euill
             is
             ;
             the
             meaning
             hereof
             is
             ,
             for
             that
             they
             are
             vnworthy
             of
             his
             sight
             ,
             
             his
             taking
             notice
             of
             ,
             his
             knowledge
             .
             I
             know
             you
             not
             said
             he
             to
             the
             foolish
             virgins
             ;
             
             and
             as
             much
             to
             the
             workmen
             of
             mischeife
             ,
             of
             iniquity
             .
             Our
             Lord
             knoweth
             the
             way
             of
             the
             iust
             ,
             said
             the
             kingly
             Prophet
             Dauid
             .
             And
             Salomon
             delivereth
             that
             our
             Lord
             vnderstandeth
             
               the
               right
               hand
               way
            
             .
             
             And
             likewise
             saith
             Dauid
             that
             our
             Lord
             knoweth
             the
             howers
             and
             the
             daies
             ,
             and
             their
             time
             who
             liue
             without
             staine
             of
             sinne
             ,
             and
             knoweth
             not
             the
             dayes
             of
             transgressors
             .
             Sacred
             Scripture
             registreth
             no
             more
             then
             onely
             two
             yeares
             of
             Saul
             his
             Raigne
             ,
             
             although
             he
             bore
             the
             scepter
             forty
             yeares
             ,
             
             for
             that
             he
             liued
             well
             but
             two
             yeares
             ,
             and
             vvithout
             blemish
             of
             sinne
             ,
             all
             the
             rest
             of
             his
             dayes
             vvere
             inquinated
             vvith
             foule
             and
             shamefull
             blotts
             .
             
               Dionysius
               Cassius
            
             vvriteth
             that
             in
             a
             Citty
             of
             Italy
             vvas
             found
             an
             auncient
             sepulcher
             ,
             
             on
             the
             tombe-stone
             vvhereof
             vvere
             insculp't
             
             vvere
             these
             vvordes
             vvritten
             .
             Here
             lieth
             Similus
             a
             Roman
             Captaine
             ,
             vvhose
             life
             although
             long
             it
             vvas
             ,
             yet
             he
             liued
             not
             in
             all
             this
             time
             ,
             but
             seauen
             yeares
             onely
             ,
             for
             during
             that
             time
             ,
             he
             being
             retired
             from
             Court
             ,
             and
             freed
             from
             the
             sollicitude
             ,
             the
             care
             ,
             the
             charges
             vvhich
             hee
             had
             held
             ,
             dedicated
             ,
             and
             fully
             deuoted
             himself
             to
             vertue
             ,
             &
             to
             it's
             schoole
             ,
             it
             's
             exercise
             ,
             
             it
             's
             practise
             .
             The
             glorious
             Damas.
             in
             the
             history
             of
             
               S.
               Barlaā
            
             and
             Iosaphat
             recounteth
             ,
             that
             Iosaphat
             demanding
             of
             Barlaam
             vvhat
             vvhere
             his
             yeares
             ,
             of
             vvhat
             age
             he
             vvas
             ,
             had
             deliuered
             to
             him
             this
             answere
             ;
             I
             am
             (
             if
             I
             deceiue
             not
             my self
             )
             forty
             and
             fiue
             yeares
             old
             ,
             to
             many
             there
             are
             runne
             ,
             since
             I
             vvas
             borne
             :
             What
             is
             your
             ansvvere
             ,
             I
             vnderstand
             you
             not
             (
             said
             Iosaphat
             )
             for
             to
             my
             eye
             ,
             to
             my
             coniecture
             you
             are
             aboue
             seuenty
             ?
             if
             so
             that
             you
             account
             strictly
             from
             the
             time
             of
             my
             natiuity
             ,
             you
             say
             right
             
             vvell
             ,
             and
             you
             erre
             not
             ought
             ,
             for
             I
             am
             aboue
             seuenty
             ;
             but
             I
             can
             no
             wayes
             admitt
             ,
             they
             be
             reckoned
             more
             ,
             for
             they
             seeme
             not
             to
             me
             at
             all
             yeares
             of
             life
             ,
             nor
             cā
             the
             rest
             which
             I
             haue
             misspent
             in
             the
             vanities
             of
             the
             world
             be
             accounted
             of
             For
             as
             at
             that
             time
             being
             slaue
             to
             sinne
             ,
             I
             liuing
             at
             pleasure
             ,
             at
             full
             swinge
             of
             sensuality
             of
             my
             body
             ,
             and
             outward
             man
             ,
             I
             was
             then
             vndoubtedly
             a
             dead
             man
             without
             life
             according
             to
             the
             inward
             mā
             ,
             so
             farre
             forth
             that
             I
             cānot
             call
             them
             ,
             enstile
             them
             vnder
             the
             title
             of
             yeares
             of
             life
             ,
             which
             were
             of
             death
             ,
             I
             liued
             not
             then
             :
             But
             after
             that
             by
             the
             grace
             of
             our
             Lord
             I
             was
             crucified
             and
             dead
             to
             the
             world
             ,
             likewise
             the
             world
             to
             me
             ,
             and
             that
             I
             haue
             despoiled
             my selfe
             of
             the
             old
             man
             ,
             and
             quite
             cast
             him
             of
             ,
             now
             I
             liue
             no
             more
             sensually
             nor
             to
             please
             the
             body
             the
             spirits
             enemy
             ,
             but
             onely
             for
             
               Iesus
               Christ
            
             ,
             and
             such
             my
             yeares
             liued
             in
             I
             call
             yeares
             
             of
             life
             ,
             of
             health
             ,
             safety
             and
             saluation
             .
             And
             beleeue
             it
             most
             assuredly
             that
             all
             they
             who
             are
             in
             sinne
             ,
             and
             obey
             the
             deuill
             ,
             and
             passe
             away
             ,
             I
             say
             cōsume
             their
             liues
             in
             delights
             ,
             and
             vaine
             concupiscences
             ,
             are
             dead
             and
             buried
             ,
             vtterly
             lost
             ;
             for
             that
             sinne
             is
             death
             of
             the
             soule
             as
             
               Saint
               Paul
            
             affirmeth
             .
             
             Diuine
             
               S.
               Ierome
            
             in
             his
             exposition
             on
             the
             third
             chapter
             of
             the
             Prophet
             Aggaeus
             deliuereth
             .
             
             That
             all
             the
             time
             in
             which
             we
             serue
             vice
             ,
             perisheth
             ,
             becommeth
             vtterly
             lost
             ,
             and
             so
             is
             it
             reputed
             ,
             as
             if
             it
             had
             not
             beene
             at
             all
             ,
             it
             is
             reckoned
             for
             a
             thing
             of
             nothing
             .
             It
             is
             recorded
             of
             
               Titus
               Vespasian
            
             ,
             that
             being
             at
             supper
             one
             day
             ,
             when
             hee
             called
             to
             minde
             ,
             that
             he
             had
             donne
             no
             good
             office
             for
             any
             one
             ,
             that
             he
             had
             not
             been
             to
             any
             beneficial
             ,
             to
             all
             the
             standers
             by
             ,
             to
             each
             one
             present
             ,
             with
             resentment
             ,
             with
             sensiblenes
             ,
             and
             not
             vvithout
             greife
             he
             breathed
             forth
             these
             words
             .
             
             O
             my
             friends
             hovv
             much
             I
             am
             perplexed
             ,
             and
             afflicted
             that
             I
             haue
             passed
             of
             this
             day
             vnproffitably
             ,
             that
             I
             haue
             lost
             this
             day
             .
             Let
             the
             Christian
             obserue
             vvell
             ,
             let
             him
             knovv
             that
             the
             day
             vvhich
             hee
             hath
             ill
             passed
             ,
             hath
             ill
             spent
             let
             him
             account
             it
             not
             his
             ,
             that
             in
             it
             he
             hath
             no
             propriety
             at
             all
             .
             And
             that
             this
             is
             euident
             Seneca
             vvitnesseth
             in
             these
             vvordes
             ;
             that
             many
             there
             are
             vvho
             leaue
             to
             liue
             ,
             before
             they
             begin
             to
             liue
             .
             Time
             vvas
             benignely
             bestovved
             on
             vs
             ,
             saith
             that
             famous
             Doctor
             
               Thomas
               de
               Kempis
            
             ,
             to
             spēd
             it
             well
             ,
             
             to
             employ
             it
             well
             in
             good
             workes
             ;
             not
             to
             let
             it
             passe
             idely
             nor
             to
             heare
             ,
             nor
             to
             tell
             Fables
             ,
             and
             recount
             vaine
             entertainements
             of
             time
             .
             ah
             !
             since
             so
             it
             is
             ,
             let
             not
             passe
             avvay
             from
             you
             my
             sonnes
             (
             he
             deliuereth
             this
             to
             the
             Nouices
             of
             his
             order
             )
             neither
             hovvre
             ,
             nor
             any
             instant
             of
             time
             vvithout
             some
             fruite
             ,
             and
             if
             so
             that
             novv
             and
             then
             there
             shall
             be
             liberty
             
             of
             enterchanging
             words
             of
             discourse
             ,
             of
             speaking
             among
             your selues
             or
             others
             be
             giuen
             ,
             it
             is
             not
             granted
             vnto
             you
             ,
             it
             is
             not
             allowed
             to
             you
             ,
             that
             any
             word
             should
             be
             vttered
             by
             you
             ,
             which
             may
             not
             be
             of
             good
             vse
             ,
             and
             profit
             ;
             for
             euen
             as
             you
             haue
             to
             giue
             God
             Almighty
             an
             account
             of
             each
             idle
             world
             ,
             so
             likewise
             you
             must
             doe
             of
             all
             the
             time
             you
             haue
             lost
             ,
             and
             ill
             employed
             .
             
               Ludouicus
               Blosius
            
             among
             other
             aduertisements
             ,
             
             other
             counsailes
             which
             he
             deliuereth
             to
             him
             ,
             vvho
             newly
             beginneth
             to
             practise
             a
             spirituall
             life
             ,
             saith
             ,
             that
             he
             ought
             to
             value
             ,
             waighe
             to
             a
             graine
             times
             worth
             ,
             and
             account
             the
             losse
             thereof
             ,
             be
             it
             neuer
             so
             litle
             .
             And
             the
             mysticall
             Thaulerus
             
             among
             other
             lessōs
             ,
             &
             counsailes
             which
             he
             giueth
             to
             religious
             sayth
             :
             Carry
             your selues
             in
             such
             māner
             that
             you
             haue
             great
             care
             ,
             as
             of
             the
             eschewing
             of
             the
             most
             pestiferous
             ,
             most
             mortall
             poyson
             ,
             of
             
             the
             losse
             of
             any
             time
             .
             And
             likewise
             one
             of
             the
             officers
             of
             the
             exchequer
             ,
             and
             of
             the
             accusers
             that
             the
             day
             of
             Iudgement
             hath
             against
             vs
             is
             to
             be
             that
             of
             time
             ,
             according
             to
             vvhich
             the
             vvords
             of
             the
             Prophet
             Ieremias
             .
             are
             inculcated
             ,
             
             gi●●ing
             vs
             to
             vnderstand
             ,
             in
             his
             Lamentations
             
               Vocauit
               aduersum
               me
               tempus
            
             .
             My
             Lord
             against
             me
             called
             Time
             for
             vvitnes
             .
             The
             vvhich
             place
             the
             glorious
             Doctor
             S.
             Thomas
             shevveth
             to
             be
             at
             the
             day
             of
             doome
             ,
             
             for
             that
             among
             other
             things
             that
             there
             are
             to
             accuse
             vs
             ,
             one
             vvill
             be
             found
             to
             be
             that
             of
             time
             .
             And
             in
             that
             place
             it
             is
             it's
             office
             to
             contest
             vvith
             sinners
             ,
             vvho
             are
             insensible
             ,
             dull
             ,
             blockish
             ;
             and
             with
             all
             the
             vniuerse
             ,
             all
             the
             vvorld
             ,
             applying
             it self
             ,
             addicting
             it selfe
             vvholy
             and
             zealously
             for
             God
             his
             honor
             ,
             and
             it
             's
             owne
             ,
             accusing
             them
             ,
             and
             against
             them
             requiring
             iustice
             for
             the
             heauy
             offence
             vvhich
             they
             against
             their
             Lord
             ,
             and
             
             his
             creatures
             haue
             trespassed
             in
             ,
             with
             abuse
             of
             them
             ,
             vvith
             iniury
             donne
             to
             them
             ,
             and
             disgrace
             ,
             and
             for
             drawing
             these
             creatures
             by
             force
             ,
             &
             whether
             they
             vvould
             or
             not
             ,
             to
             the
             end
             they
             might
             serue
             them
             in
             their
             ill
             courses
             ,
             misled
             vvaies
             ,
             and
             monstrous
             vices
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             second
             Chapter
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             THE
             THIRD
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             How
             God
             abbr●uiateth
             ,
             shortneth
             ,
             yea
             taketh
             away
             time
             when
             there
             is
             great
             want
             thereof
             to
             him
             whosoeuer
             ,
             who
             tooke
             no
             care
             thereof
             when
             be
             possessed
             it
             ,
             nor
             sought
             he
             ought
             to
             make
             good
             vse
             thereof
             according
             to
             his
             duety
             and
             power
             .
          
           
             ALthough
             that
             solemne
             oath
             of
             the
             Angell
             ,
             (
             of
             which
             we
             haue
             spoken
             of
             in
             the
             first
             Chapter
             )
             that
             a
             day
             will
             come
             whē
             as
             time
             shall
             haue
             his
             end
             ,
             that
             the
             day
             of
             vniuersall
             iudgement
             for
             all
             in
             generall
             shall
             be
             accōplished
             ,
             shall
             haue
             it's
             cōclusiō
             ,
             after
             which
             there
             is
             no
             time
             to
             deserue
             well
             or
             ill
             ,
             nor
             to
             doe
             pennance
             which
             may
             be
             of
             any
             profit
             ,
             and
             for
             any
             each
             man
             in
             particular
             in
             the
             last
             day
             ,
             last
             period
             of
             his
             life
             ,
             in
             vvhich
             he
             vvill
             hope
             ,
             and
             there
             vvill
             be
             his
             particular
             iudgement
             :
             Not
             
             withstanding
             it
             is
             much
             to
             be
             feared
             ,
             and
             to
             be
             seriously
             considered
             that
             customarily
             God
             Almighty
             vseth
             ,
             for
             chastisement
             ,
             and
             deserued
             punishment
             to
             bereaue
             a
             negligent
             and
             altogether
             carelesse
             sinner
             of
             time
             ,
             to
             shorten
             his
             life
             ,
             because
             he
             doth
             not
             auaile
             himself
             of
             time
             ,
             as
             he
             ought
             seeing
             that
             it
             is
             spent
             ill
             .
             So
             teacheth
             the
             glorious
             
               S.
               Bernardine
            
             of
             Siena
             ,
             
             and
             he
             to
             proue
             it
             citeth
             that
             place
             of
             the
             
               Apocalypse
               ;
               Sinon
               vigilau●ris
               ,
               V●ian
               ad
               te
               tanquam
               fur
               ,
            
             If
             thou
             watch
             not
             I
             will
             come
             to
             thee
             vnawares
             like
             a
             Theife
             .
             Hence
             is
             it
             that
             God
             Almighty
             threatneth
             a
             careles
             sinner
             ,
             whose
             manner
             was
             to
             post
             of
             his
             conuersion
             and
             pennance
             from
             day
             to
             day
             ,
             it
             seeming
             to
             him
             that
             he
             had
             time
             ,
             I
             and
             euen
             time
             more
             then
             was
             sufficient
             ,
             very
             aboundant
             ,
             and
             he
             thus
             deliuereth
             himselfe
             :
             Be
             not
             too
             negligent
             ,
             be
             not
             careles
             ,
             play
             not
             with
             time
             ,
             
             mocke
             it
             not
             ,
             nor
             value
             it
             for
             thine
             owne
             surely
             ,
             and
             certainely
             ,
             nor
             at
             thy
             extent
             ,
             nor
             so
             much
             at
             thy
             command
             ,
             as
             thou
             imaginest
             ,
             as
             thou
             dreamest
             ;
             awake
             ,
             sleepe
             not
             I
             say
             ,
             stand
             on
             thy
             guard
             ,
             least
             death
             come
             on
             thee
             as
             a
             theife
             is
             wont
             to
             doe
             when
             he
             entendeth
             to
             robbe
             ,
             and
             that
             by
             a
             suddaine
             assault
             it
             reduce
             thee
             into
             a
             miserable
             exigent
             ,
             and
             all
             this
             without
             that
             thou
             know
             the
             houre
             of
             its
             approach
             .
             A
             theife
             cōmeth
             to
             doe
             mischeife
             ,
             and
             taketh
             the
             goods
             which
             are
             not
             well
             looked
             vnto
             ,
             not
             carefully
             preserued
             ,
             and
             with
             such
             diligence
             which
             is
             required
             ,
             whiche
             they
             deserue
             ,
             and
             such
             like
             is
             time
             in
             the
             house
             of
             a
             sinner
             .
             And
             hence
             iustly
             our
             Lord
             abridgeth
             him
             thereof
             ,
             for
             that
             he
             doth
             not
             spend
             it
             in
             such
             sort
             that
             thereby
             he
             may
             gaine
             ,
             and
             exchange
             ,
             and
             make
             himself
             very
             rich
             and
             happy
             .
             And
             answerable
             to
             this
             our
             Lord
             
             saith
             by
             his
             
               Euangelist
               S.
               Matthew
            
             :
             To
             him
             that
             hath
             ,
             more
             shall
             be
             giuen
             ;
             from
             him
             who
             hath
             not
             ,
             shall
             be
             taken
             away
             ,
             what
             he
             had
             or
             seemed
             to
             possesse
             .
             The
             iust
             man
             esteemeth
             time
             his
             owne
             ,
             and
             is
             thereof
             Lord
             ,
             and
             Maister
             ,
             for
             that
             hee
             well
             knoweth
             the
             vse
             thereof
             ;
             and
             to
             this
             he
             who
             is
             maister
             of
             time
             ,
             more
             time
             shall
             be
             afforded
             him
             at
             the
             period
             of
             his
             life
             ,
             more
             space
             to
             recollect
             himselfe
             ,
             to
             examine
             ,
             discusse
             ,
             and
             purifie
             his
             conscience
             ;
             and
             he
             shall
             haue
             aboundance
             ,
             he
             shall
             be
             supplied
             with
             fulnes
             ,
             all
             plenty
             will
             be
             bestowed
             on
             him
             as
             compleate
             indulgency
             ,
             plentifull
             grace
             ,
             and
             infinite
             glory
             ,
             and
             he
             is
             not
             Lord
             of
             time
             ,
             who
             whilst
             he
             liueth
             doth
             not
             vse
             it
             carefully
             and
             tenderly
             ;
             hence
             when
             as
             thus
             deceiued
             by
             the
             deuill
             ,
             with
             his
             dilation
             ,
             with
             his
             deferring
             this
             amendment
             ,
             he
             thinketh
             that
             yet
             he
             hath
             time
             ,
             he
             shall
             be
             found
             by
             God
             
             his
             iust
             iudgement
             to
             be
             depriued
             thereof
             ,
             space
             of
             repentance
             will
             be
             wanting
             vnto
             him
             ,
             either
             by
             suddaine
             death
             ,
             or
             by
             some
             vnhappy
             chance
             ,
             or
             other
             :
             all
             hitherto
             are
             the
             vvordes
             of
             the
             glorious
             
               S.
               Bernardine
            
             .
             And
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             so
             often
             our
             Lord
             doth
             admonish
             vs
             to
             watch
             ,
             
             to
             be
             vigilant
             ,
             for
             that
             vve
             knovv
             not
             the
             day
             ,
             the
             hovver
             in
             vvhich
             our
             time
             shall
             haue
             it's
             end
             .
             And
             the
             holy
             Church
             ,
             as
             a
             solicitous
             ,
             carefull
             and
             most
             tender
             mother
             doth
             counsaile
             vs
             in
             a
             responsory
             ,
             in
             ansvvere
             deliuered
             in
             the
             office
             of
             Lent
             ,
             the
             self-same
             saying
             Let
             vs
             amēd
             that
             vvherein
             hitherto
             ignorantly
             vve
             hane
             trespassed
             in
             ,
             Oh!
             let
             it
             not
             come
             to
             that
             exigent
             that
             hereafter
             vvee
             seeke
             for
             time
             of
             pennance
             ,
             vvhen
             it
             is
             not
             to
             be
             had
             .
             And
             to
             this
             purpose
             that
             God
             ,
             cutteth
             of
             his
             
             thred
             of
             life
             immaturely
             ,
             vvho
             auailed
             not
             himselfe
             therof
             to
             serue
             him
             :
             the
             glorious
             
               S.
               Bernardine
            
             of
             Siena
             recounteth
             a
             most
             fearefull
             and
             maruailous
             accident
             vvhich
             happened
             in
             his
             time
             amongst
             the
             Catalonians
             next
             neighbours
             to
             the
             Kingdome
             of
             Valencia
             .
             A
             youth
             arriued
             to
             eighteene
             yeares
             old
             had
             beē
             most
             disobediēt
             to
             his
             parēts
             ,
             and
             altogether
             disordered
             ,
             vvho
             oftētimes
             bare
             no
             reguard
             of
             thē
             ,
             tendred
             no
             duety
             ;
             for
             punishment
             of
             such
             his
             misdemeanour
             God
             Almighty
             subtracting
             his
             assistāce
             from
             him
             ,
             he
             became
             a
             great
             robber
             ,
             for
             vvhich
             he
             vvas
             hanged
             in
             the
             same
             Tovvne
             vvhere
             he
             vvas
             bred
             ,
             and
             being
             their
             hung
             on
             a
             gibet
             ,
             and
             dead
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             presēce
             of
             all
             the
             people
             there
             assēbled
             vvas●●eene
             his
             beard
             to
             grovv
             ,
             
             and
             that
             in
             like
             manner
             the
             haire
             of
             his
             head
             grevv
             ,
             that
             there
             hee
             vvas
             seene
             to
             haue
             a
             vvrinckled
             face
             ;
             also
             his
             head
             vvas
             all
             ouer
             gray
             ,
             and
             in
             semblance
             ,
             in
             countenance
             ,
             he
             vvas
             not
             vnlike
             to
             be
             of
             the
             age
             of
             fourescore
             and
             tēne
             yeares
             ,
             vvhich
             made
             them
             all
             admire
             ,
             yea
             and
             affrighted
             them
             ;
             the
             Bishop
             of
             the
             Diocesse
             being
             informed
             hereof
             ,
             commanded
             that
             all
             the
             people
             should
             poure
             forth
             their
             feruent
             prayers
             ,
             he
             in
             like
             manner
             doeing
             the
             same
             ,
             desiring
             of
             God
             Almighty
             if
             it
             vvere
             his
             divine
             vvill
             and
             pleasure
             to
             reveale
             this
             mystery
             .
             A
             vvhile
             after
             he
             craving
             silence
             and
             audience
             ,
             and
             speaking
             vvith
             a
             loud
             voice
             deliuered
             thus
             much
             :
             Novv
             yee
             see
             (
             my
             sonnes
             )
             that
             this
             youth
             died
             at
             eighitene
             yeares
             old
             ,
             and
             here
             he
             seemeth
             in
             his
             countenance
             to
             be
             
             fourescore
             and
             tenne
             yeares
             old
             ,
             Hence
             vnderstād
             that
             which
             God
             Almighty
             is
             pleased
             to
             teach
             vs
             ,
             vvhich
             is
             ,
             that
             really
             according
             to
             the
             course
             of
             nature
             he
             had
             to
             liue
             to
             the
             yeares
             of
             fourescore
             &
             tēne
             ,
             and
             so
             many
             had
             he
             runne
             ,
             had
             he
             been
             obedient
             to
             his
             parents
             ,
             but
             in
             regard
             of
             his
             sinnes
             ,
             and
             disobediēce
             God
             Almighty
             hath
             permitted
             him
             to
             dye
             a
             violent
             death
             ,
             cutting
             of
             so
             much
             time
             of
             his
             life
             ,
             as
             is
             betvveene
             eighteene
             years
             and
             fourescoure
             and
             tenne
             ;
             and
             that
             all
             the
             vvorld
             might
             hereof
             take
             expresse
             notice
             ,
             it
             vvas
             his
             diuine
             vvill
             to
             vvorke
             this
             miracle
             .
             
               Sainct
               Hierome
            
             ,
             
             that
             rare
             diuine
             ,
             vseth
             these
             vvordes
             ,
             that
             the
             shortnes
             of
             life
             is
             a
             chastisemēt
             and
             iudgement
             of
             sinnes
             ,
             and
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             our
             Lord
             hath
             abreuiated
             ,
             and
             cut
             of
             short
             the
             life
             ,
             and
             yeares
             of
             men
             
             from
             the
             beginning
             of
             the
             world
             to
             this
             day
             .
             
             God
             decreed
             that
             the
             life
             of
             king
             Ezechias
             should
             be
             lessened
             fifeteene
             yeares
             of
             vvhat
             he
             vvas
             to
             haue
             liued
             according
             to
             the
             course
             of
             nature
             ,
             and
             yet
             againe
             he
             gratiously
             granted
             him
             them
             ,
             through
             his
             teares
             ,
             and
             hearts
             sorrow
             .
             And
             to
             this
             purport
             saith
             Haimon
             ,
             expounding
             the
             wordes
             of
             the
             Prophet
             Isaias
             ,
             
             our
             Lord
             hath
             heard
             thy
             prayers
             ,
             and
             thy
             teares
             obserued
             indulgētly
             ,
             is
             pleased
             fo
             adde
             fifeteene
             yeares
             to
             thy
             life
             ,
             that
             euen
             as
             he
             spake
             to
             Adam
             conditionally
             that
             he
             should
             be
             immortall
             if
             so
             that
             he
             obeyed
             his
             diuine
             commands
             ,
             euen
             so
             in
             God
             his
             predestination
             vvere
             giuen
             these
             yeares
             to
             king
             Ezechias
             so
             that
             liuing
             vvithout
             sinne
             he
             vvere
             not
             svvollen
             ,
             and
             puft
             vp
             
             vvith
             pride
             ,
             and
             euen
             those
             vvho
             were
             foretaken
             vvith
             pride
             ,
             vvere
             mercifully
             restored
             through
             their
             humility
             .
             
               Viri
               sanguinum
               &
               dolo●i
               non
               dimidiabunt
               dies
               suos
               ,
            
             
             saith
             the
             Prophet
             Dauid
             :
             Bloody
             men
             ,
             and
             men
             vvho
             deceiue
             shall
             not
             runne
             out
             their
             race
             ,
             shall
             not
             liue
             halfe
             their
             dayes
             ,
             vvhich
             is
             as
             much
             as
             to
             say
             more
             cleerly
             ,
             they
             shall
             not
             liue
             the
             moity
             ,
             the
             halfe
             of
             their
             age
             ,
             vvhich
             they
             should
             runne
             out
             ,
             if
             so
             that
             they
             had
             spent
             their
             time
             vvell
             .
             Sinners
             thall
             not
             obtaine
             and
             enjoy
             as
             they
             designe
             and
             think
             ,
             for
             euen
             as
             o●r
             Lord
             said
             to
             the
             
               Iewes
               .
               Auferetur
               à
               vobis
               regnum
               Dei
               ,
               &c.
            
             
             The
             Kingdome
             of
             heauen
             is
             to
             be
             transferred
             from
             yee
             ,
             and
             it
             will
             be
             bestowed
             on
             an
             other
             people
             ,
             who
             may
             make
             vse
             thereof
             ,
             and
             yeild
             fruite
             ,
             and
             may
             better
             know
             ,
             and
             value
             it
             .
             Euen
             so
             God
             
             will
             abridge
             sinners
             of
             time
             ,
             for
             that
             they
             produce
             no
             fruite
             therein
             ,
             they
             doe
             no
             good
             ,
             and
             he
             will
             bestow
             it
             on
             them
             ,
             to
             whom
             it
             may
             deseruedly
             be
             giuen
             ,
             and
             who
             know
             to
             make
             right
             good
             vse
             thereof
             .
             Those
             words
             of
             Dauid
             the
             Prophet
             in
             his
             hundred
             and
             one
             Psalme
             ,
             
             
               Ne
               reuoces
               me
               in
               dimidio
               dierum
               meorum
               ,
            
             in
             which
             he
             petitioned
             our
             Lord
             ,
             that
             he
             might
             not
             be
             taken
             of
             ,
             that
             he
             might
             not
             dye
             in
             the
             midst
             of
             his
             dayes
             ,
             rather
             according
             to
             the
             exposition
             of
             some
             ,
             it
             is
             as
             if
             he
             should
             say
             :
             My
             God
             cut
             not
             the
             thred
             of
             my
             life
             ,
             let
             not
             me
             dye
             in
             the
             middest
             of
             my
             daies
             ,
             for
             this
             time
             and
             age
             is
             the
             dangerousest
             time
             ,
             euen
             the
             gulph
             of
             life
             ,
             full
             of
             idle
             cares
             ,
             phantasies
             ,
             and
             many
             vaine
             and
             misvnderstood
             courses
             ,
             and
             farre
             more
             dangerous
             is
             it
             to
             dye
             in
             these
             yeares
             ,
             
             then
             in
             an
             age
             compleatly
             runne
             ,
             in
             it
             is
             not
             the
             same
             security
             nor
             in
             it
             the
             same
             confidence
             ,
             alas
             !
             the
             same
             trust
             .
          
           
             Other
             deliuer
             the
             self-same
             according
             to
             what
             vve
             discourse
             in
             other
             vvordes
             :
             I
             feare
             my
             Lord
             :
             I
             feare
             my
             Lord
             that
             for
             my
             demerits
             ,
             my
             sinnes
             ,
             and
             for
             that
             I
             haue
             so
             ill
             spent
             my
             tyme
             ,
             that
             thou
             vvilst
             shorten
             my
             life
             ,
             vvhich
             punishment
             thou
             didst
             therefore
             inflict
             on
             some
             ;
             and
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             I
             humbly
             craue
             of
             thee
             that
             thou
             take
             me
             not
             avvay
             inseasonably
             ,
             in
             the
             middest
             of
             my
             yeares
             and
             daies
             ,
             but
             that
             I
             may
             runne
             them
             out
             ,
             accomplish
             them
             vvhich
             thou
             determinedst
             of
             ,
             had
             I
             been
             correspondent
             to
             my
             duety
             .
             The
             holy
             and
             most
             patient
             Iob
             sayeth
             in
             like
             manner
             of
             a
             sinner
             :
             
             
             
               Antequam
               dies
               impleatur
               peribit
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             Before
             that
             his
             time
             shall
             be
             run
             ,
             he
             shall
             dye
             ,
             and
             his
             hand
             is
             to
             become
             arid
             ,
             dry
             ;
             to
             fade
             ,
             to
             perish
             euen
             as
             a
             branch
             of
             a
             vine
             in
             his
             first
             blooming
             shall
             be
             withered
             ;
             which
             is
             as
             much
             as
             to
             say
             ,
             that
             in
             greene
             yeares
             before
             a
             full
             age
             run
             he
             shall
             dye
             ,
             and
             that
             his
             life
             shall
             be
             shortened
             and
             shall
             be
             cut
             of
             in
             the
             midst
             of
             his
             dayes
             ,
             as
             the
             dayes
             of
             an
             vnworthy
             and
             vniust
             possessor
             .
             And
             besides
             that
             it
             is
             a
             great
             punishement
             here
             in
             the
             world
             ,
             to
             come
             it
             will
             be
             greiueous
             and
             of
             great
             torment
             to
             the
             condemned
             the
             remembrance
             of
             the
             time
             they
             had
             ,
             and
             let
             slippe
             without
             makeing
             vse
             thereof
             ,
             and
             to
             see
             that
             they
             failed
             thereof
             which
             was
             to
             be
             well
             employed
             ,
             as
             for
             a
             better
             time
             .
             It
             is
             read
             in
             the
             booke
             
             of
             the
             seauen
             guifts
             ,
             that
             a
             Mōke
             of
             Claraual
             deuoute
             ,
             and
             of
             a
             good
             and
             tender
             conscience
             on
             a
             time
             persisting
             a
             lōger
             time
             in
             his
             prayers
             then
             was
             his
             custome
             ,
             heard
             a
             dolorous
             sad
             yea
             and
             most
             lamentable
             voice
             ,
             as
             euen
             of
             one
             who
             miserably
             plained
             ,
             sighed
             ,
             and
             breathed
             forth
             grones
             ,
             and
             the
             religious
             earnestly
             beseeching
             God
             Almighty
             with
             feruent
             teares
             ,
             that
             the
             meaning
             thereof
             might
             be
             declared
             vnto
             him
             ,
             the
             voice
             which
             he
             heard
             answered
             him
             :
             I
             am
             the
             soule
             of
             such
             an
             one
             a
             sinner
             (
             calling
             himselfe
             by
             his
             owne
             name
             )
             and
             I
             lamēt
             my
             misfortune
             ād
             condemnation
             ,
             and
             among
             all
             the
             torments
             I
             poore
             wretch
             in
             this
             my
             miserable
             estate
             suffer
             ,
             which
             doth
             not
             torment
             me
             alone
             but
             also
             the
             rest
             of
             my
             company
             most
             extremely
             ,
             and
             mooueth
             bitter
             
             greifes
             ,
             woefull
             weeping
             and
             lamentations
             ,
             is
             the
             remembrāce
             of
             the
             grace
             and
             mercy
             ,
             which
             our
             Lord
             the
             Sauiour
             of
             the
             world
             hath
             offered
             ,
             of
             which
             we
             haue
             made
             no
             account
             ,
             no
             reckoning
             at
             all
             ;
             as
             also
             the
             memory
             of
             time
             which
             we
             haue
             lost
             ,
             yea
             and
             to
             too
             ill
             employed
             alas
             !
             being
             made
             capable
             to
             gaine
             in
             so
             short
             a
             space
             so
             much
             mercy
             ,
             
             and
             such
             like
             rich
             and
             innumerable
             treasures
             ;
             and
             this
             worme
             and
             remorse
             will
             alwaies
             be
             gnawing
             their
             hearts
             and
             entrailes
             .
             
             And
             the
             glorious
             
               S.
               Bernard
            
             in
             one
             of
             his
             sermōs
             entitled
             ,
             of
             the
             Fallacyes
             and
             wyles
             of
             this
             present
             life
             ,
             sheweth
             ,
             how
             it
             ensnareth
             ,
             entrappeth
             and
             deceiueth
             sinners
             ,
             one
             while
             vnder
             the
             persuasion
             that
             it
             is
             long
             ,
             that
             they
             may
             a
             great
             space
             run
             on
             and
             deferre
             their
             pennance
             ;
             in
             such
             manner
             
             doth
             it
             winne
             them
             ,
             so
             ouercome
             are
             they
             by
             this
             meanes
             that
             they
             neuer
             make
             vse
             thereof
             ,
             that
             they
             neuer
             doe
             pennance
             ;
             and
             otherwhile
             making
             the
             same
             short
             ,
             very
             breife
             ,
             
             that
             they
             may
             say
             ,
             life
             is
             short
             alas
             !
             a
             breath
             ,
             a
             blast
             ,
             hence
             let
             vs
             hasten
             to
             enjoy
             all
             the
             flowers
             ,
             delights
             ,
             and
             pastimes
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             least
             that
             we
             be
             depriued
             of
             them
             ,
             before
             we
             take
             notice
             of
             thē
             :
             He
             farther
             among
             many
             other
             remarkeable
             thinges
             deliuereth
             that
             God
             Almighty
             doth
             shorten
             their
             paces
             ,
             their
             walkes
             ,
             their
             course
             in
             the
             midst
             of
             their
             pleasures
             ,
             their
             delights
             ,
             seeing
             their
             shamlesnes
             in
             offending
             him
             ,
             and
             he
             cutteth
             of
             both
             their
             time
             and
             life
             ,
             for
             that
             they
             who
             will
             not
             leaue
             to
             sinne
             willingly
             giuing
             themselues
             ouer
             to
             their
             disordinate
             
             affections
             ,
             trespasses
             ,
             and
             vices
             he
             abridgeth
             them
             of
             time
             ,
             taketh
             away
             their
             longer
             life
             ,
             and
             maketh
             them
             to
             leaue
             their
             further
             practise
             therein
             necessarily
             through
             death
             .
          
           
             And
             hence
             doe
             many
             sinners
             dye
             vvhether
             they
             vvill
             or
             noe
             ,
             for
             that
             the
             world
             conceiueth
             ,
             that
             it
             is
             for
             accidents
             or
             in
             dispositions
             occulte
             ,
             hidden
             ,
             or
             for
             manifest
             occasions
             ,
             notwithstanding
             that
             those
             dayes
             which
             they
             passed
             in
             sinne
             ,
             were
             not
             (
             as
             we
             haue
             already
             said
             )
             truely
             good
             ,
             were
             not
             well
             spent
             ,
             nor
             the
             life
             candide
             and
             sincere
             ,
             but
             shadowed
             ,
             and
             alas
             !
             painted
             ,
             I
             wis
             .
             Hence
             is
             it
             that
             in
             holy
             scripture
             sinners
             are
             valued
             as
             dead
             .
             
             The
             vviddow
             (
             sayeth
             the
             Apostle
             .
             )
             who
             liueth
             in
             pleasures
             ,
             is
             dead
             :
             
             And
             our
             Lord
             sayth
             in
             the
             Apocalypse
             to
             a
             Bishop
             vvho
             liued
             not
             answerable
             to
             his
             calling
             ,
             
             who
             lived
             not
             according
             to
             his
             duety
             :
             Thou
             art
             thought
             to
             liue
             ;
             the
             opinion
             of
             the
             world
             is
             no
             otherwise
             ,
             but
             notwithstanding
             I
             knovv
             ,
             Thou
             liuest
             not
             ,
             I
             say
             thou
             art
             dead
             ,
             and
             so
             doe
             I
             value
             thee
             ,
             when
             thy
             soule
             is
             dead
             in
             thy
             living
             body
             ;
             hence
             say
             I
             ,
             that
             a
             sinner
             is
             said
             not
             to
             liue
             but
             retaineth
             onely
             the
             name
             of
             a
             liuing
             creature
             .
             And
             if
             the
             time
             which
             he
             passeth
             in
             vice
             ,
             he
             liueth
             not
             ,
             to
             speake
             properly
             ,
             and
             that
             God
             Almighty
             customarily
             taketh
             away
             the
             halfe
             ,
             he
             liueth
             much
             lesse
             time
             then
             the
             world
             apprehendeth
             ,
             he
             shall
             proue
             short
             and
             scanted
             of
             time
             ,
             of
             dayes
             .
             But
             what
             ?
             the
             iust
             farre
             otherwise
             liveth
             a
             fairer
             ,
             yea
             and
             a
             longer
             age
             
             then
             the
             world
             imagineth
             ,
             and
             full
             of
             dayes
             ;
             and
             timely
             and
             in
             his
             good
             season
             his
             maister
             will
             cut
             him
             of
             from
             the
             tree
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             third
             Chapter
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             THE
             FOVRTH
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             That
             euen
             now
             whilst
             we
             haue
             time
             it
             concerneth
             vs
             to
             take
             paines
             with
             feruency
             ,
             and
             speed
             ,
             and
             that
             we
             ought
             to
             employ
             it
             well
             .
          
           
             IF
             time
             be
             so
             precious
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             was
             giuen
             vs
             to
             operate
             well
             ,
             and
             to
             labour
             in
             the
             vineyard
             of
             our
             Lord
             all
             the
             day
             to
             the
             setting
             of
             the
             Sunne
             ,
             and
             that
             if
             so
             that
             we
             auaile
             not
             our selues
             thereof
             ,
             it
             wil
             be
             taken
             from
             vs
             ,
             that
             we
             shall
             be
             vtterly
             depriued
             thereof
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             so
             fall
             out
             that
             it
             will
             faile
             vs
             when
             we
             most
             desire
             it
             and
             haue
             most
             neede
             thereof
             ,
             it
             will
             stand
             with
             good
             reason
             that
             we
             employ
             it
             well
             and
             that
             vve
             be
             very
             solicitous
             thereof
             ,
             and
             that
             
             we
             make
             all
             hast
             to
             labour
             and
             to
             trafficke
             therein
             to
             make
             right
             and
             ready
             vse
             thereof
             :
             And
             euen
             so
             doth
             Ecclesiasticus
             aduise
             vs
             ,
             
             saying
             :
             let
             thy
             hands
             labour
             in
             their
             vttermost
             abilityes
             ,
             earnestly
             ,
             diligently
             ,
             feruently
             ,
             and
             speedily
             .
             all
             he
             deliuereth
             is
             as
             much
             as
             to
             say
             :
             let
             not
             there
             be
             in
             thee
             any
             good
             thought
             ,
             which
             thou
             canst
             remember
             ,
             which
             thou
             keepe
             not
             ,
             and
             which
             thou
             procurest
             not
             to
             conserue
             ;
             nor
             good
             word
             which
             thou
             maist
             come
             to
             the
             hearing
             of
             ,
             which
             thou
             harken
             not
             to
             ,
             or
             what
             in
             duety
             and
             charity
             thou
             shouldst
             say
             ,
             that
             thou
             speake
             not
             ,
             nor
             good
             worke
             that
             thou
             canst
             doe
             ,
             that
             thou
             doe
             not
             ;
             without
             loosing
             occasion
             or
             time
             .
             And
             further
             he
             deliuereth
             ,
             that
             what
             thine
             owne
             can
             doe
             ,
             seeke
             not
             a
             strangers
             assistance
             ,
             for
             thou
             must
             by
             
             no
             meanes
             trust
             thy
             saluation
             on
             others
             ,
             nor
             must
             thou
             think
             or
             imagine
             ought
             that
             thy
             seruant
             ,
             or
             thy
             friend
             ,
             or
             any
             whosoeuer
             in
             the
             world
             is
             ,
             are
             to
             winne
             heauen
             for
             thee
             thou
             iocundizing
             in
             fulnes
             of
             delights
             :
             I
             tell
             thee
             plainly
             and
             indeed
             that
             thy
             hand
             ,
             thine
             arme
             ,
             thy
             strēgth
             ,
             thy
             vertue
             are
             to
             worke
             and
             bring
             this
             to
             passe
             ,
             &
             thou
             must
             labour
             with
             great
             desir
             ,
             much
             earnestnes
             ,
             and
             maruailous
             solicitude
             ,
             and
             most
             vigilant
             care
             ,
             yea
             and
             with
             viuacity
             ,
             euē
             to
             all
             speed
             ,
             for
             that
             life
             passeth
             and
             suddainly
             flyeth
             avvay
             ,
             and
             vvhen
             so
             that
             thou
             least
             thinkest
             on
             it
             ,
             the
             sunne
             vv●ll
             set
             ,
             and
             euen
             then
             indeed
             shalt
             thou
             be
             heartily
             glad
             ,
             that
             thou
             hast
             taken
             much
             paines
             ,
             for
             that
             proportionably
             so
             much
             more
             vvil●
             bethy
             revvard
             ,
             and
             thy
             rest
             .
             And
             the
             reason
             vvhich
             is
             deliuered
             
             by
             Ecclesiasticus
             of
             all
             vvhich
             is
             foresayed
             is
             ,
             for
             that
             after
             this
             life
             (
             vvhich
             so
             svviftly
             runneth
             his
             stage
             ,
             his
             course
             )
             no
             vvorke
             either
             of
             reason
             ,
             or
             vnderstanding
             ,
             or
             the
             act
             of
             vvill
             ,
             or
             any
             such
             faculty
             or
             povver
             vnder
             what
             title
             soeuer
             it
             be
             ,
             shall
             be
             of
             any
             validity
             ,
             any
             force
             ,
             of
             any
             fruite
             ,
             any
             commodity
             ,
             or
             benefit
             whatsoeuer
             hence
             to
             deserue
             grace
             or
             glory
             .
          
           
             The
             seauen
             fruitefull
             ,
             and
             most
             plentifull
             years
             (
             figured
             ,
             
             designed
             ,
             noted
             by
             the
             seauen
             fatt
             kine
             which
             Pharoah
             saw
             in
             a
             dreame
             )
             signified
             the
             time
             of
             this
             life
             ,
             which
             by
             weekes
             (
             each
             weeke
             cōprising
             seauen
             daies
             )
             goe
             on
             successiuely
             ,
             making
             their
             returnes
             and
             running
             their
             course
             ;
             but
             after
             are
             to
             succeed
             other
             seauen
             yeares
             (
             which
             will
             be
             all
             that
             other
             space
             of
             time
             ,
             wherein
             the
             other
             life
             ,
             
             which
             is
             without
             end
             ,
             and
             so
             shall
             endure
             ,
             shall
             last
             ,
             haue
             being
             and
             continuance
             )
             figured
             ,
             designed
             by
             the
             seauen
             leane
             ,
             and
             euen
             hunger-starued
             ,
             kine
             barrē
             &
             without
             any
             〈◊〉
             of
             deserte
             .
             Therefore
             in
             imitation
             of
             the
             discreete
             and
             prudent
             Ioseph
             fill
             thy
             Granaries
             (
             my
             Sonne
             )
             thy
             corne
             lofts
             ,
             and
             make
             thou
             prouision
             for
             time
             of
             want
             ,
             for
             time
             of
             dearth
             ;
             for
             if
             so
             that
             thou
             deferrest
             thy
             gathering
             of
             Manna
             vntill
             the
             Sabbath
             of
             the
             other
             life
             ,
             
             the
             other
             world
             ,
             it
             will
             not
             auaile
             thee
             ought
             ,
             rather
             it
             will
             proue
             vnto
             thee
             wormes
             ,
             for
             that
             there
             will
             be
             in
             thy
             soule
             (
             as
             we
             before
             said
             )
             a
             perpetuall
             worme
             ,
             and
             stinge
             of
             conscience
             .
             Faire
             beyond
             what
             tongue
             can
             expresse
             was
             Rachael
             the
             most
             beautifull
             ,
             
             but
             shee
             was
             barren
             ,
             and
             on
             the
             other
             part
             Lya
             was
             farre
             from
             
             being
             beautifull
             ,
             farre
             otherwise
             shee
             was
             very
             homely
             ,
             oh
             !
             farre
             inferior
             to
             such
             an
             excellēt
             cōelines
             with
             gratious
             beauty
             ,
             yet
             was
             this
             Lya
             fertill
             ,
             shee
             was
             fruitefull
             .
             The
             life
             to
             come
             is
             beyond
             all
             account
             most
             faire
             ,
             most
             sweet
             ,
             most
             amiable
             ,
             but
             it
             is
             barren
             ,
             for
             alas
             !
             yea
             euen
             alas
             !
             there
             meritorious
             workes
             haue
             no
             place
             ,
             haue
             no
             being
             at
             all
             ;
             such
             like
             are
             onely
             and
             solely
             proper
             to
             this
             time
             ,
             to
             this
             present
             life
             ;
             which
             although
             in
             comparison
             thereof
             it
             is
             duskish
             ,
             foule
             ,
             and
             full
             of
             trouble
             ,
             full
             of
             anguish
             ,
             yet
             is
             it
             notwithstanding
             fruitefull
             and
             hath
             in
             it
             this
             good
             ,
             that
             prepareth
             and
             bringeth
             forth
             good
             workes
             ,
             and
             meritorious
             ,
             with
             which
             grace
             is
             encreased
             ,
             and
             glory
             is
             acquired
             ,
             and
             who
             so
             will
             not
             regard
             it
             and
             entertaine
             it's
             tribulations
             
             and
             it's
             paines
             ,
             and
             will
             not
             endure
             it's
             mole●●ations
             ,
             it
             's
             vnquietnes
             ,
             and
             will
             not
             mortifie
             himself
             in
             the
             customary
             waies
             thereof
             ,
             shall
             not
             here-after
             enioy
             the
             most
             comely
             ,
             yea
             and
             most
             beautiful
             Rachel
             .
             Giue
             thy
             earnest
             attention
             oh
             Christian
             ,
             
             make
             all
             the
             speede
             thou
             any
             waies
             artable
             to
             vndergoe
             ,
             for
             hereafter
             thou
             wilt
             be
             bereaued
             of
             all
             power
             ,
             for
             it
             will
             be
             found
             impossible
             for
             thee
             to
             auaile
             thy selfe
             of
             ought
             to
             thy
             well
             being
             Wee
             are
             all
             of
             vs
             worke
             men
             ,
             hirelings
             ,
             and
             iourney-men
             ,
             we
             worke
             from
             day
             to
             day
             ,
             so
             it
             clearly
             appeareth
             to
             be
             voide
             of
             all
             reason
             that
             we
             passe
             ouer
             our
             timē
             of
             life
             in
             idlenes
             ,
             either
             in
             delights
             ,
             or
             nicenes
             ,
             as
             if
             we
             were
             great
             Maisters
             ,
             great
             Lords
             ,
             great
             Potentates
             .
             
             Before
             Adam
             sinned
             God
             Almighty
             placed
             him
             in
             a
             place
             of
             
             delights
             ,
             it
             was
             Paradise
             ,
             which
             he
             wrought
             and
             finished
             with
             his
             owne
             hands
             ,
             to
             the
             end
             that
             in
             this
             gardē
             ,
             à
             place
             of
             pleasure
             ,
             he
             might
             entertaine
             himself
             ,
             might
             enioy
             his
             time
             with
             content
             ,
             with
             great
             delight
             and
             singular
             recreation
             ;
             but
             after
             his
             delict
             ,
             his
             sinne
             ,
             expulsing
             him
             ,
             yea
             and
             banishing
             him
             from
             thence
             ,
             made
             him
             a
             labourer
             ,
             a
             paines-taking
             man
             ,
             and
             a
             workeman
             on
             his
             owne
             vine
             ,
             alas
             !
             contemplate
             here
             his
             estate
             :
             Well
             since
             so
             it
             is
             ,
             labour
             ,
             take
             paines
             ,
             and
             be
             very
             solicitous
             ,
             and
             make
             all
             the
             hast
             possible
             (
             my
             good
             friend
             )
             if
             so
             that
             thou
             hast
             a
             minde
             to
             liue
             without
             want
             ,
             and
             to
             dye
             rich
             in
             spirituall
             goods
             ,
             in
             heauenly
             treasures
             .
             And
             for
             so
             much
             as
             that
             mē
             vnderstēd
             not
             thus
             much
             ,
             (
             to
             speake
             more
             plainly
             )
             for
             that
             they
             will
             not
             ,
             desire
             not
             to
             apprehend
             ,
             
             to
             weigh
             and
             theron
             consider
             ,
             they
             conuerte
             the
             vine
             that
             is
             so
             fruitefull
             into
             gardens
             and
             places
             of
             pleasure
             ,
             and
             of
             ouer-weaning
             curious
             and
             nice
             solace
             ,
             alas
             !
             and
             many
             are
             so
             vainely
             gilien
             ouer
             that
             their
             sence
             must
             be
             entertaind
             with
             odoriferous
             smells
             and
             curious
             perfumes
             ;
             and
             many
             of
             such
             appeare
             to
             be
             like
             to
             King
             Achaz
             of
             whom
             it
             is
             written
             ,
             
             that
             when
             as
             he
             had
             veiwed
             attentiuely
             the
             Altar
             of
             Damascus
             ,
             he
             sent
             the
             the
             modell
             thereof
             from
             that
             Citty
             ,
             and
             draught
             to
             Vrias
             the
             Preist
             ,
             who
             erected
             an
             Altar
             according
             to
             to
             the
             King's
             designe
             ,
             and
             appointment
             ;
             but
             the
             Altar
             of
             brasse
             ,
             and
             of
             other
             mettall
             which
             was
             to
             that
             very
             time
             before
             our
             Lord
             ,
             he
             caused
             to
             be
             past
             of
             ,
             sent
             avvay
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             should
             be
             no
             more
             seen
             in
             his
             temple
             ,
             nor
             in
             his
             presence
             .
             
             My
             meaning
             ,
             my
             application
             is
             ,
             that
             novv
             a
             dayes
             are
             many
             Christians
             vvho
             beleiue
             ,
             and
             adore
             a
             God
             ;
             but
             hovv
             ?
             On
             the
             Altar
             of
             the
             Gentiles
             ,
             for
             their
             liues
             are
             correspondent
             ,
             answereable
             to
             theirs
             ,
             they
             liue
             euen
             as
             they
             were
             heathens
             ,
             giuing
             themselues
             ouer
             to
             as
             many
             sumptuous
             entertainemēts
             ,
             pleasures
             ,
             voluptuousnes
             ,
             &
             height
             of
             delights
             as
             they
             can
             inuent
             ,
             any
             way
             finde
             out
             ,
             and
             are
             able
             to
             compasse
             ,
             without
             taking
             notice
             diligently
             from
             time
             to
             time
             what
             are
             those
             things
             vvhich
             the
             appetite
             requireth
             of
             them
             ,
             nor
             doe
             they
             make
             any
             resistance
             ,
             farre
             othervvise
             they
             giue
             thēselues
             ouer
             to
             sensuality
             ,
             to
             that
             vvhich
             vtterly
             destroyes
             them
             .
             Oh
             Christian
             !
             I
             say
             oh
             Christiā
             !
             tame
             thou
             this
             thy
             body
             ,
             bring
             it
             vnder
             ,
             bring
             it
             in
             to
             true
             subiection
             ,
             set
             it
             a
             worke
             with
             
             the
             paines
             of
             a
             Christian
             labourer
             solicitously
             ,
             most
             carefully
             and
             most
             serious
             to
             make
             thy
             vine
             fruitefull
             ,
             prune
             it
             ,
             breake
             vp
             the
             ground
             about
             it
             ,
             open
             it
             at
             the
             roote
             ,
             then
             trench
             it
             ,
             and
             manure
             right
             well
             thy
             soules
             inheritance
             ,
             and
             hence
             will
             plainely
             appeare
             to
             thee
             how
             thy
             sensuality
             declineth
             ,
             yea
             abandoneth
             his
             willfulnes
             ,
             his
             folly
             ;
             ye●
             franticknes
             ,
             and
             in
             it
             there
             will
             not
             be
             so
             many
             bryers
             ,
             brambles
             ,
             and
             thistles
             of
             sinne
             ;
             euen
             so
             to
             the
             end
             that
             the
             children
             of
             Israël
             should
             not
             encrease
             ,
             nor
             become
             willfull
             &
             ●●ubborne
             ,
             but
             that
             they
             should
             liue
             in
             subiection
             and
             slauery
             ,
             Ph●roah
             made
             them
             worke
             hard
             ,
             and
             assigned
             them
             their
             daily
             taskes
             ,
             
             which
             were
             not
             small
             ones
             ,
             but
             heauy
             and
             very
             toilesome
             Oh!
             Christian
             take
             notice
             of
             this
             good
             and
             happye
             
             time
             ,
             herein
             take
             care
             of
             thine
             owne
             house
             ;
             set
             it
             in
             order
             ,
             that
             it
             may
             not
             be
             said
             to
             thee
             as
             to
             the
             Iewes
             :
             
             The
             Kite
             ,
             the
             Storke
             ,
             and
             the
             Swallow
             know
             their
             time
             ,
             and
             they
             well
             vnderstand
             how
             to
             aduantage
             themselues
             ,
             to
             worke
             their
             endes
             ,
             to
             winne
             their
             benefit
             ,
             but
             Israël
             taketh
             no
             notice
             ,
             enquireth
             not
             ,
             hearkneth
             not
             after
             the
             time
             of
             it's
             visitation
             ,
             help
             ,
             and
             redresse
             ,
             not
             taketh
             it
             hold
             ,
             no
             norknoweth
             to
             make
             his
             goodvse
             ,
             opportunity
             ;
             and
             hence
             he
             will
             lament
             hereafter
             most
             bitterly
             ,
             and
             will
             deerely
             wish
             for
             that
             which
             now
             he
             esteemeth
             not
             ,
             he
             valeweth
             not
             ,
             nor
             indeed
             knoweth
             .
             The
             people
             of
             Israël
             ,
             the
             riuer
             Iordan
             ,
             d●y
             and
             that
             hence
             they
             were
             well
             assertained
             of
             free
             and
             safe
             passage
             ,
             
             least
             that
             they
             might
             let
             passe
             so
             good
             an
             opportunity
             made
             all
             the
             hast
             
             possible
             to
             goe
             over
             it
             ,
             vvhich
             they
             did
             most
             securely
             ;
             and
             had
             they
             never
             so
             litle
             delayed
             likely
             they
             vvould
             vnhappily
             haue
             found
             the
             passage
             barred
             ,
             stopt
             ,
             by
             no
             meanes
             to
             be
             past
             .
             To
             morrovv
             is
             never
             secure
             ,
             alas
             !
             it
             is
             not
             in
             our
             hands
             ,
             vnder
             our
             command
             and
             vvill
             ,
             and
             if
             so
             that
             vvhat
             you
             can
             doe
             to
             day
             ,
             you
             practise
             not
             ,
             you
             put
             not
             in
             prosecution
             ,
             apply
             your selfe
             vvholy
             to
             God
             ;
             it
             may
             so
             fall
             out
             that
             to
             morrovv
             you
             cannot
             ,
             that
             to
             morrovv
             you
             be
             abridged
             of
             all
             meanes
             therevnto
             tending
             .
             If
             to
             day
             ,
             
             saith
             the
             Prophet
             Dauid
             you
             heare
             the
             voice
             of
             our
             Lord
             ,
             vvho
             inviteth
             you
             ,
             and
             calleth
             on
             you
             to
             repentance
             ,
             and
             amendmēt
             of
             life
             ,
             deferre
             it
             not
             to
             the
             next
             day
             ,
             in
             such
             māner
             hardning
             your
             hearts
             .
             Looke
             on
             thy self
             ,
             behold
             thy
             felfe
             ,
             poore
             vvr●tch
             that
             thou
             
             art
             ,
             alas
             !
             thou
             art
             an
             ignorāt
             sinner
             and
             dimmely
             sighted
             ,
             yea
             blinde
             ,
             that
             the
             devill
             to
             deceive
             thee
             ,
             saith
             ,
             allovv
             me
             this
             day
             to
             my selfe
             ,
             and
             that
             thou
             givest
             to
             God
             ,
             offer
             vp
             to
             God
             the
             next
             day
             ,
             the
             selfe
             same
             vvill
             he
             deliver
             the
             day
             follovving
             ,
             in
             such
             sort
             as
             that
             he
             vvill
             dravv
             thee
             on
             perverted
             and
             lost
             alas
             !
             to
             vtter
             ruine
             .
             There
             hath
             been
             obserued
             (
             
               Saint
               Basilius
            
             reaccounteth
             )
             a
             marvailous
             craft
             of
             a
             small
             bird
             (
             which
             according
             to
             the
             referēce
             of
             Elianus
             is
             the
             Partridge
             )
             vvho
             seeing
             à
             fovvler
             approach
             nigh
             the
             places
             vvhere
             his
             young
             one
             's
             were
             in
             their
             nest
             ,
             
             fearing
             least
             he
             should
             approach
             nigher
             he
             vvould
             discouer
             ,
             and
             take
             them
             (
             for
             they
             knew
             not
             yet
             their
             wing
             ,
             they
             vvere
             vnready
             in
             flight
             )
             sprung
             vp
             from
             her
             nest
             ,
             and
             boldly
             shevved
             her selfe
             before
             
             the
             fowler
             ,
             hence
             gathered
             that
             he
             would
             speedily
             follow
             (
             as
             thus
             inuited
             )
             her
             with
             all
             attention
             ,
             and
             that
             by
             this
             meanes
             would
             forget
             the
             nest
             ,
             and
             her
             young
             birds
             ,
             her
             litle
             ones
             ,
             taking
             so
             tender
             care
             of
             them
             ;
             and
             when
             as
             the
             fowler
             sought
             after
             and
             prosecuted
             this
             partridg
             ,
             and
             that
             hee
             tooke
             himselfe
             most
             certaine
             of
             the
             taking
             of
             her
             ,
             yea
             euen
             so
             sure
             ,
             as
             if
             so
             that
             shee
             vvere
             in
             his
             hands
             ,
             shee
             made
             à
             flight
             with
             à
             small
             turning
             about
             ,
             and
             hence
             got
             aduantage
             ,
             and
             in
             this
             manner
             flitting
             and
             fluttering
             hence
             and
             thence
             ,
             aud
             attending
             to
             such
             various
             motions
             ,
             at
             length
             got
             the
             vpper
             hand
             ;
             and
             in
             à
             vvord
             by
             these
             vvayes
             deceiued
             the
             fowler
             of
             his
             expectation
             ,
             and
             in
             such
             manner
             perplexed
             him
             and
             kept
             him
             busy
             ,
             vntill
             that
             the
             young
             partridges
             by
             litle
             ,
             &
             litle
             ,
             by
             short
             
             skipps
             &
             turnings
             vvearied
             ,
             &
             like
             ground
             pines
             betooke
             themselues
             into
             à
             lovv
             and
             safe
             place
             ,
             there
             hiding
             themselues
             very
             vvell
             :
             then
             their
             notably
             subtle
             damme
             made
             à
             great
             flight
             ,
             &
             deceiued
             the
             fowler
             ,
             yea
             put
             him
             into
             à
             great
             rage
             ,
             that
             he
             could
             neither
             catch
             the
             damme
             ,
             nor
             her
             young
             ones
             This
             euen
             selfe
             same
             practise
             is
             that
             of
             the
             deuill
             ,
             to
             deceiue
             thee
             ,
             alas
             !
             to
             cheate
             thee
             (
             blind
             and
             sottishly-ignorant
             sinner
             )
             and
             in
             like
             manner
             he
             detaineth
             thee
             ,
             yea
             and
             entertaineth
             thee
             vvith
             shadovved
             ,
             and
             false
             pleasures
             ,
             false
             delights
             ,
             yea
             euē
             from
             day
             to
             day
             ,
             and
             yeare
             to
             yeare
             ,
             yea
             and
             alas
             !
             too
             many
             ,
             and
             many
             ,
             vvith
             à
             false
             glosed
             hope
             ,
             sophisticated
             all
             ouer
             that
             time
             vvill
             be
             sufficiently
             afforded
             and
             supplyed
             for
             repentance
             ,
             yea
             and
             vndoubtedly
             ,
             which
             if
             it
             happē
             not
             
             to
             day
             ,
             either
             it
             vvill
             fall
             out
             to
             morrovv
             ,
             or
             next
             day
             ,
             or
             some
             other
             day
             ,
             
             at
             one
             time
             or
             other
             (
             as
             if
             so
             that
             dayes
             and
             time
             vvere
             at
             thy
             command
             vvhich
             God
             Almighty
             hath
             reserved
             to
             himself
             onely
             )
             to
             the
             end
             that
             thou
             casting
             avvay
             thy
             time
             in
             such
             manner
             ,
             &
             the
             present
             opportunity
             thereof
             ,
             that
             time
             faile
             thee
             altogether
             ,
             &
             that
             thou
             become
             in
             such
             state
             that
             thou
             haue
             that
             for
             vvhich
             thou
             may
             bevvaile
             for
             euer
             .
             Grant
             it
             good
             to
             conuerte
             one's
             selfe
             to
             God
             (
             deliuereth
             the
             glorious
             Austine
             )
             yet
             thou
             sayst
             ,
             
             and
             boldly
             ,
             I
             vvill
             change
             my
             life
             to
             morrovv
             ,
             I
             vvill
             be
             another
             manner
             of
             man
             to
             morrovv
             ,
             I
             vvill
             serue
             God
             to
             morrovv
             .
             Ah!
             poore
             vvretch
             if
             to
             morrovv
             ,
             vvhy
             not
             to
             day
             ?
             for
             there
             is
             no
             trust
             ,
             alas
             no
             certainty
             of
             to
             morrovv
             ,
             therein
             is
             no
             security
             
             at
             all
             ;
             pray
             speake
             plaine
             and
             vnderstandingly
             ,
             like
             à
             vvise
             man
             vvho
             knovveth
             the
             vvorld
             ;
             are
             vve
             not
             subiect
             ,
             and
             dayly
             exposed
             to
             suddaine
             death
             ?
             tell
             me
             farther
             ,
             doe
             not
             many
             dye
             vvithout
             confession
             ,
             vvithout
             giuing
             account
             penitently
             of
             their
             trespasses
             ?
             but
             you
             vvill
             not
             prosecute
             your
             vvay
             ,
             and
             vrge
             that
             as
             God
             shall
             help
             you
             ,
             you
             take
             notice
             of
             no
             ill
             in
             that
             you
             say
             ,
             that
             to
             morrovv
             shall
             be
             the
             day
             ,
             vvherein
             I
             vvill
             be
             an
             humble
             penitent
             ,
             and
             that
             I
             vvill
             turne
             à
             new
             leafe
             ,
             and
             not
             vnlikely
             it
             may
             be
             ,
             yea
             euen
             this
             very
             day
             ?
             but
             as
             God
             Almighty
             shall
             help
             me
             ,
             what
             haue
             you
             to
             say
             to
             me
             (
             ansvvereth
             
               Sainct
               Austine
            
             )
             vvherein
             speake
             I
             ill
             ,
             th●t
             there
             bee
             no
             dilatiō
             herein
             ,
             that
             this
             euen
             novv
             day
             ,
             be
             the
             day
             ?
             this
             being
             the
             safest
             ,
             the
             most
             secure
             ,
             hence
             the
             best
             ?
             so
             
             that
             obserue
             thy
             will
             I
             speake
             with
             more
             reason
             then
             doe
             you
             ,
             for
             you
             are
             not
             maister
             of
             any
             time
             but
             of
             this
             present
             day
             ,
             vvhat
             say
             I
             ?
             no
             ,
             alas
             no
             ,
             you
             are
             not
             Lord
             of
             all
             the
             day
             ,
             you
             cōmand
             onely
             presents
             moments
             ,
             or
             rather
             instants
             of
             time
             ,
             and
             well
             so
             .
             As
             nigh
             as
             thou
             canst
             ,
             let
             all
             thy
             life
             be
             good
             ;
             wherefore
             desirest
             thou
             that
             it
             be
             amended
             ,
             &
             become
             good
             by
             peice-meales
             ,
             and
             as
             litle
             at
             once
             as
             thou
             canst
             possible
             ?
             Thou
             desirest
             that
             thy
             fare
             be
             all
             good
             ,
             that
             thy
             vvife
             be
             good
             ,
             thy
             house
             likewise
             ,
             thy
             garments
             decent
             ,
             thy
             stockins
             yea
             ●uen
             thy
             shoes
             ;
             dost
             thou
             make
             more
             esteeme
             of
             thy
             shoes
             ,
             then
             of
             thy
             soule
             ?
             art
             thou
             so
             void
             of
             consideration
             and
             iudg●ment
             ?
             hitherto
             are
             the
             vvords
             of
             glorious
             
               Sainct
               Austine
            
             .
             
             Seneca
             doth
             distribute
             the
             course
             of
             our
             life
             into
             three
             
             sections
             ,
             three
             parts
             ;
             into
             time
             past
             ,
             present
             ,
             and
             yet
             to
             come
             ;
             and
             of
             these
             the
             present
             is
             as
             breife
             as
             can
             be
             imagined
             ,
             the
             time
             to
             come
             is
             not
             ours
             ,
             is
             doubtfull
             ;
             of
             all
             these
             the
             time
             passed
             is
             certaine
             and
             nature
             hath
             lost
             her
             power
             thereof
             ,
             nor
             is
             it
             in
             any
             human
             power
             ,
             to
             make
             it
             returne
             ,
             to
             repossesse
             it
             .
             Since
             so
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             we
             let
             passe
             ,
             let
             glide
             away
             that
             vvhich
             is
             present
             to
             abide
             for
             euer
             and
             à
             day
             vvithout
             it
             ,
             and
             to
             be
             stated
             in
             euerlasting
             damnation
             ,
             and
             vtter
             losse
             ,
             vtter
             ruine
             ,
             by
             so
             much
             the
             rather
             (
             open
             thine
             eyes
             ,
             and
             be
             of
             my
             opinion
             ,
             yea
             my
             sentence
             )
             that
             throughout
             the
             whole
             course
             of
             time
             ,
             euen
             frō
             the
             time
             of
             vse
             of
             reason
             ,
             there
             is
             all
             reason
             ,
             all
             discretion
             that
             thou
             bring
             forth
             fruite
             ,
             that
             thou
             carefully
             looke
             aboute
             thee
             ,
             that
             thou
             be
             prepared
             ,
             that
             thou
             be
             not
             
             vnready
             for
             that
             time
             in
             which
             thy
             Lord
             and
             Maister
             is
             to
             come
             ,
             and
             to
             call
             vpon
             thee
             ,
             since
             that
             there
             is
             not
             à
             moment
             ;
             farre
             lesse
             an
             hower
             ,
             in
             which
             any
             one
             can
             say
             he
             may
             not
             come
             ,
             and
             cite
             vs
             to
             particular
             doome
             ,
             wherein
             revvard
             is
             giuen
             to
             the
             vvorkemen
             of
             the
             vineyard
             ,
             answereable
             to
             their
             labour
             ,
             and
             great
             paines
             .
             This
             is
             
               saint
               Ierome
            
             his
             sentence
             ,
             and
             to
             confirme
             what
             he
             hath
             deliuered
             the
             parable
             of
             the
             figg
             tree
             is
             opposite
             ,
             
             and
             vvell
             alludeth
             ,
             to
             which
             the
             planter
             thereof
             came
             nigh
             being
             hungry
             ,
             and
             entending
             to
             satisfie
             his
             hunger
             ,
             and
             earnest
             appetite
             to
             eate
             figgs
             ,
             and
             found
             none
             on
             the
             tree
             ,
             he
             laid
             his
             curse
             on
             the
             tree
             ;
             
             and
             the
             sacred
             Euangelist
             sayth
             that
             he
             gaue
             his
             malediction
             on
             the
             tree
             ,
             vvhen
             as
             it
             vvas
             not
             it's
             season
             to
             beare
             fruite
             ,
             
             the
             scope
             of
             this
             vvas
             not
             much
             appertaining
             to
             the
             punishment
             of
             the
             tree
             ,
             but
             vnder
             it
             is
             meant
             that
             men
             voide
             of
             vvorkes
             are
             hereby
             denoted
             ,
             designed
             ,
             so
             much
             is
             signified
             by
             the
             figg
             tree
             :
             for
             that
             human
             kinde
             is
             seriously
             to
             attend
             ,
             is
             strictly
             bound
             at
             all
             time
             to
             yeild
             fruite
             ,
             and
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             our
             Lord
             vvhen
             he
             commeth
             with
             expresse
             intention
             to
             seeke
             and
             findeth
             not
             ,
             giueth
             his
             sentence
             of
             eternall
             malediction
             ,
             of
             eternall
             damnation
             .
          
           
             All
             things
             (
             sayeth
             Salomon
             )
             haue
             their
             determinate
             and
             precise
             time
             ,
             
             in
             such
             like
             manner
             ,
             that
             each
             time
             is
             not
             time
             ,
             &
             season
             for
             all
             things
             ,
             but
             that
             onely
             which
             is
             proper
             &
             so
             appointed
             for
             à
             particular
             ,
             not
             for
             any
             other
             whatsoeuer
             to
             well
             being
             ,
             farre
             rather
             for
             it
             proueth
             
             to
             it
             assured
             hurt
             ,
             as
             for
             example
             sake
             vvould
             it
             be
             conuenient
             to
             sow
             ,
             vvhen
             it
             is
             haruest
             ,
             to
             grubbe
             vp
             rootes
             ,
             vvhen
             the
             fittest
             time
             is
             to
             plant
             ,
             to
             speake
             ,
             vvhen
             it
             is
             best
             to
             be
             silent
             ,
             to
             laugh
             when
             it
             is
             proper
             to
             vveepe
             ?
             There
             is
             no
             time
             lim●ted
             ,
             there
             is
             no
             precise
             time
             to
             labour
             in
             good
             vvorkes
             ,
             to
             toile
             on
             the
             well
             ordering
             ,
             vvell
             cultiuating
             the
             vine
             of
             our
             Lord
             ,
             each
             time
             is
             opportune
             ,
             it
             will
             be
             euermore
             seasonable
             ,
             in
             whatsoeuer
             houre
             it
             fall
             ,
             and
             in
             whatsoeuer
             age
             ,
             forevnderstād
             ,
             and
             well
             know
             that
             it
             is
             not
             lawfull
             to
             sinne
             at
             any
             time
             ,
             and
             that
             there
             is
             not
             allotted
             ,
             nor
             set
             out
             any
             time
             to
             sinne
             in
             .
             According
             to
             those
             words
             of
             Ecclesi●sti●●s
             ,
             
             to
             none
             giue
             God
             command
             to
             doe
             ill
             ,
             nor
             afforded
             he
             space
             of
             t●me
             vvherein
             to
             sinne
             ,
             
             but
             he
             counsaileth
             all
             the
             world
             ,
             
             and
             admonisheth
             each
             one
             that
             they
             conserue
             ,
             that
             they
             be
             tender
             of
             time
             ,
             &
             that
             they
             leaue
             to
             sinne
             ,
             that
             they
             forsake
             euill
             ,
             for
             that
             this
             iewell
             of
             time
             was
             not
             benignely
             bestowed
             on
             them
             to
             the
             end
             they
             should
             doe
             ill
             ,
             but
             they
             should
             doe
             well
             .
             
             And
             the
             state
             of
             an
             idle
             man
             in
             the
             person
             of
             a
             worke
             man
             and
             day-labourer
             is
             also
             reprehended
             by
             the
             maister
             of
             à
             family
             ;
             much
             more
             reprehension
             might
             be
             and
             iustly
             laid
             of
             him
             who
             '
             is
             more
             aged
             ,
             who
             hath
             runne
             à
             longer
             course
             of
             life
             ,
             alas
             !
             à
             longer
             time
             .
             And
             if
             so
             that
             the
             Kingly
             Prophet
             Dauid
             in
             the
             beginning
             of
             his
             Psalmes
             ,
             compareth
             the
             truely
             iust
             man
             ,
             vvith
             the
             tree
             which
             is
             planted
             hard
             by
             à
             current
             of
             waters
             which
             yeildeth
             his
             fruite
             seasonably
             ,
             yet
             doth
             not
             he
             at
             all
             imply
             ,
             he
             meaneth
             not
             that
             euen
             ●s
             
             the
             tree
             yeildeth
             no
             fruite
             but
             in
             his
             proper
             moneth
             and
             destined
             time
             of
             yeare
             ,
             and
             not
             othervvise
             ;
             so
             hath
             the
             iust
             man
             to
             tender
             his
             one
             dayes
             ,
             moneths
             ,
             and
             precise
             times
             ,
             strictly
             determined
             of
             ,
             and
             not
             in
             any
             other
             ,
             but
             vnderstand
             aright
             that
             euen
             as
             that
             the
             owner
             of
             à
             tree
             ,
             vvhich
             giueth
             fruite
             in
             it's
             due
             season
             ,
             vvould
             cut
             it
             vp
             ,
             and
             grubbe
             it
             by
             the
             roote
             vvere
             it
             not
             so
             :
             euen
             so
             man
             ought
             to
             doe
             his
             duety
             ,
             according
             to
             his
             vocatiō
             ,
             his
             being
             and
             his
             profession
             timely
             ,
             novv
             man's
             time
             runneth
             the
             full
             end
             ,
             and
             vvhole
             course
             of
             his
             life
             .
             And
             so
             it
             is
             aduised
             ,
             
             and
             coūsailed
             in
             the
             name
             of
             God
             ,
             that
             it
             is
             expedient
             for
             à
             man
             to
             pray
             euermore
             ,
             yea
             and
             vvithout
             ceasing
             ,
             
             and
             to
             be
             alvvaies
             vvatchfull
             ,
             and
             avvake
             vvith
             à
             burning
             candle
             in
             hand
             ,
             for
             that
             it
             is
             not
             
             known
             at
             vvhat
             time
             his
             Lord
             and
             Maister
             will
             come
             to
             reckon
             with
             him
             ;
             and
             that
             he
             be
             à
             good
             accountant
             of
             what
             is
             laid
             out
             ,
             and
             receiued
             of
             those
             thinges
             which
             were
             comitted
             to
             his
             charge
             and
             of
             the
             profit
             of
             the
             vineyard
             which
             they
             let
             and
             set
             ,
             and
             of
             his
             traffique
             and
             commerce
             ,
             all
             which
             are
             manifest
             tokens
             ,
             that
             at
             all
             times
             our
             Lord
             requireth
             of
             vs
             that
             we
             bring
             fruite
             and
             he
             that
             so
             doth
             is
             valued
             to
             be
             à
             true
             seruant
             ,
             à
             true
             ,
             à
             prudent
             ,
             &
             à
             most
             discreet
             seruant
             .
             And
             the
             time
             which
             man
             is
             maister
             of
             is
             the
             whole
             time
             of
             his
             life
             ;
             vvherefore
             after
             it
             (
             as
             the
             Angell
             hath
             solemnely
             svvorne
             )
             time
             hath
             to
             haue
             no
             more
             being
             .
             
             The
             tree
             vvhich
             the
             
               Euangelist
               S.
               Iohn
            
             in
             his
             Apocalypse
             did
             see
             (
             which
             euer
             more
             and
             at
             all
             times
             bare
             fruite
             ,
             
             &
             each
             moneth
             gaue
             it
             mature
             ,
             ripe
             ,
             all
             which
             
             was
             very
             wholesome
             ,
             yea
             and
             euen
             to
             the
             very
             leaues
             of
             the
             tree
             )
             is
             an
             embleme
             or
             figure
             of
             the
             iust
             man
             ,
             who
             alwaies
             ,
             and
             in
             all
             times
             beareth
             fruite
             ,
             as
             vvel
             in
             each
             moneth
             ,
             as
             also
             in
             the
             vvhole
             course
             of
             his
             age
             ,
             and
             vvhatsoeuer
             he
             attendeth
             to
             is
             of
             great
             benefit
             and
             singular
             profit
             ,
             as
             well
             his
             thoughts
             ,
             as
             also
             his
             workes
             ,
             and
             words
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             fourth
             Chapter
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             THE
             FIFTH
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             How
             iustly
             the
             sluggish
             deserue
             reprehension
             ,
             and
             who
             are
             so
             called
             .
          
           
             AMong
             all
             men
             (
             saith
             Seneca
             )
             those
             cheifely
             yea
             and
             onely
             are
             to
             be
             accounted
             idle
             ,
             
             least
             busy
             ,
             though
             most
             serious
             ,
             who
             employ
             themselues
             ,
             giues
             themselues
             ouer
             quite
             to
             the
             practise
             of
             piety
             and
             wisedome
             ,
             and
             these
             solely
             and
             onely
             liue
             ,
             for
             that
             hence
             they
             doe
             not
             alone
             conserue
             ,
             and
             well
             keepe
             their
             owne
             time
             ,
             but
             likewise
             they
             annexe
             to
             their
             owne
             dayes
             ,
             other
             ages
             ,
             and
             other
             times
             ,
             for
             that
             which
             they
             haue
             gathered
             and
             are
             made
             Lords
             of
             turneth
             to
             their
             vse
             ,
             their
             profit
             ,
             their
             well
             being
             &
             hereof
             they
             auaile
             themselues
             ,
             hereof
             
             they
             make
             singular
             benefit
             .
             This
             vacancy
             ,
             this
             idlenes
             so
             well
             employed
             is
             laudable
             ,
             is
             worthy
             of
             all
             praise
             indeed
             ,
             set
             this
             apart
             thus
             vnderstood
             ,
             
             all
             other
             vacancy
             ,
             all
             other
             idlenes
             which
             is
             really
             such
             ,
             and
             so
             esteemed
             of
             ,
             so
             truely
             valewed
             ,
             is
             right
             worthy
             of
             reprehension
             euen
             as
             the
             bird
             was
             ordained
             to
             fly
             ,
             so
             is
             man
             to
             labour
             ,
             to
             take
             paines
             .
             And
             of
             this
             vacancy
             ,
             this
             idlenes
             speaketh
             the
             fame
             Seneca
             ,
             
             that
             it
             was
             the
             sepulcher
             of
             a
             living
             man
             ;
             in
             such
             sort
             that
             an
             idle
             man
             ,
             not
             employed
             ,
             and
             one
             who
             addicteth
             himselfe
             to
             nothing
             but
             idlenes
             is
             buried
             therein
             ,
             and
             in
             extreme
             danger
             to
             fall
             into
             many
             sinnes
             and
             greiuous
             trespasses
             against
             God.
             Hence
             is
             that
             Ecclesiasticus
             deliuereth
             that
             idlenes
             hath
             occasioned
             mach
             malice
             ,
             
             much
             sinne
             ;
             our
             
               Seraphick
               Father
               S.
               Francis
            
             
             in
             one
             of
             his
             rules
             calleth
             it
             the
             enemy
             of
             the
             soule
             :
             and
             the
             glorious
             Augustine
             sayeth
             ,
             
             that
             it
             will
             ne●er
             come
             to
             passe
             ,
             nor
             can
             it
             be
             that
             à
             Citizen
             of
             heauen
             be
             freind
             of
             idlenes
             ,
             of
             sluggishenes
             .
             And
             
               S.
               Chrysostome
            
             professeth
             that
             idlenes
             is
             a
             part
             of
             vice
             ,
             
             or
             to
             say
             more
             oppositely
             is
             no
             part
             ,
             but
             is
             the
             occasion
             ,
             and
             peruerse
             roote
             ,
             for
             that
             it
             is
             the
             teacher
             of
             all
             sinnes
             and
             director
             to
             them
             .
             The
             great
             Anthony
             spake
             earnestly
             yea
             and
             cryed
             out
             with
             à
             loud
             voice
             in
             the
             heremitage
             ,
             which
             voice
             was
             heard
             in
             heauen
             ,
             and
             these
             were
             his
             wordes
             .
          
           
             O
             my
             God
             ,
             and
             my
             Lord
             ,
             true
             Samaritan
             ,
             and
             true
             wat●h
             ,
             and
             protector
             of
             soules
             ,
             and
             bodyes
             ,
             resuscitate
             in
             me
             ,
             raise
             a
             new
             in
             me
             thy
             grace
             newly
             enable
             me
             herewith
             ,
             and
             grant
             vnto
             thy
             seruant
             ,
             so
             much
             mercy
             ,
             
             that
             indulgently
             thou
             permit
             not
             ,
             that
             I
             euer
             be
             in
             the
             desert
             idle
             ;
             to
             these
             his
             feruent
             acclamations
             is
             answered
             from
             one
             of
             heauē
             from
             some
             one
             or
             other
             appointed
             messenger
             of
             God
             :
             Anthony
             desirest
             thou
             indeed
             ,
             in
             earnest
             ,
             really
             to
             please
             God
             ?
             then
             doe
             thou
             pray
             ,
             and
             vvhen
             so
             that
             thy
             spirits
             in
             prayer
             are
             enfeebled
             are
             become
             weake
             ,
             then
             labour
             ,
             let
             thy
             hands
             worke
             and
             euermore
             entertaine
             thy self
             in
             some
             what
             or
             other
             ,
             doe
             but
             thy
             endeauour
             ,
             so
             will
             the
             diuine
             fauour
             neuer
             be
             vvanting
             vnto
             thee
             .
             It
             was
             the
             sentence
             ,
             the
             iudgement
             of
             the
             Fathers
             ,
             who
             liued
             in
             Egipt
             ,
             
             that
             one
             Deuill
             waited
             to
             doe
             mischeife
             through
             his
             temptations
             to
             one
             onely
             monke
             employed
             ,
             but
             on
             him
             who
             is
             idle
             ,
             many
             attend
             ;
             yet
             for
             that
             of
             this
             idlenes
             ,
             of
             this
             sluggishnes
             ,
             of
             this
             
             remissenes
             much
             hath
             been
             vvritten
             ,
             and
             that
             hereof
             hath
             been
             various
             disputes
             on
             one
             &
             the
             other
             parte
             ,
             and
             that
             my
             principall
             aimeth
             at
             the
             spirituall
             ,
             against
             that
             sluggishnes
             I
             will
             arme
             my self
             ,
             I
             will
             moore
             processe
             against
             it
             by
             making
             apparant
             to
             many
             (
             who
             in
             their
             opinions
             are
             well
             employed
             )
             the
             deceipt
             hereof
             ,
             declaring
             and
             sufficiently
             proouing
             ,
             that
             they
             are
             no
             otherwise
             to
             be
             v●●ewed
             then
             idle
             persons
             ,
             and
             that
             they
             loose
             their
             time
             ,
             and
             that
             so
             it
             is
             ,
             and
             no
             otherwise
             with
             them
             ,
             alas
             !
             For
             necessarily
             you
             must
             grant
             that
             he
             is
             an
             idle
             &
             sluggish
             man
             ,
             vvho
             maketh
             not
             the
             same
             vse
             of
             time
             which
             is
             conformable
             to
             it's
             vse
             ,
             to
             it
             's
             end
             ,
             for
             vvhich
             God
             Almighty
             bestowed
             it
             ,
             yea
             farre
             other
             wise
             employeth
             it
             vnlawfully
             and
             vniustly
             ,
             vvhere
             appeareth
             that
             
             nothing
             in
             such
             his
             course
             goeth
             ,
             or
             can
             any
             waies
             tend
             to
             God
             his
             seruice
             or
             to
             the
             benefit
             of
             his
             neighbour
             ,
             nor
             can
             they
             be
             made
             good
             as
             to
             any
             vpright
             ,
             laudable
             ,
             and
             praise
             worthy
             end
             .
             And
             euen
             so
             as
             many
             handy
             crafts
             men
             there
             are
             ,
             and
             labourers
             ,
             and
             Merchants
             ,
             and
             tradsmen
             ,
             workemen
             ,
             and
             iour
             neymen
             ;
             Kinges
             ,
             Princes
             ,
             Counsailors
             ,
             Aduocats
             ,
             and
             Officers
             ,
             &
             all
             and
             each
             persō
             vnder
             the
             Sunne
             loose
             time
             ,
             when
             so
             that
             they
             employ
             it
             in
             workes
             ,
             practises
             ,
             actions
             ,
             and
             offices
             vnlawfull
             and
             prohibited
             by
             the
             lawes
             ,
             and
             diuine
             decrees
             ,
             and
             not
             with
             the
             end
             and
             intention
             for
             which
             they
             ought
             to
             be
             made
             vse
             of
             ;
             or
             liue
             so
             carelesse
             that
             they
             doe
             not
             ought
             which
             is
             good
             and
             meritorious
             ,
             for
             (
             as
             vve
             haue
             said
             a
             while
             since
             )
             that
             God
             neither
             gaue
             man
             time
             to
             doe
             ill
             ,
             
             no
             nor
             be
             sluggish
             ,
             and
             he
             that
             employeth
             his
             time
             ill
             ,
             he
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             God
             is
             idle
             .
             In
             vaine
             hath
             he
             been
             endowed
             with
             à
             soule
             ,
             
             who
             with
             it
             hath
             alwaies
             trespassed
             against
             God
             ,
             and
             alas
             !
             in
             vaine
             hath
             any
             sinner
             what
             soeuer
             retained
             it
             ,
             all
             that
             time
             in
             which
             he
             hath
             been
             in
             mortall
             sinne
             ,
             yea
             and
             in
             vaine
             I
             further
             say
             haue
             they
             it
             now
             who
             are
             in
             such
             state
             ;
             and
             their
             soules
             (
             ah
             !
             )
             haue
             been
             idle
             all
             this
             time
             ,
             for
             albeit
             they
             haue
             made
             vse
             and
             dayly
             doe
             thereof
             &
             of
             its
             powers
             for
             other
             workes
             ,
             actions
             ,
             practises
             ,
             and
             seruice
             ,
             but
             for
             this
             as
             à
             principall
             end
             vvere
             they
             herewith
             enformed
             ,
             and
             hence
             was
             it
             that
             God
             gaue
             it
             ,
             that
             they
             should
             serue
             him
             (
             which
             euē
             Seneca
             himsef
             came
             to
             the
             knowledg
             of
             :
             
             when
             he
             sayd
             ,
             God
             Almighty
             created
             all
             exterior
             thinges
             
             of
             lesser
             ranke
             and
             quality
             in
             the
             world
             ,
             to
             serue
             human
             body
             ,
             and
             the
             same
             body
             he
             created
             for
             the
             senses
             ,
             and
             the
             senses
             for
             the
             soule
             ;
             and
             the
             soule
             ,
             that
             it
             might
             contemplate
             ,
             and
             feruently
             loue
             the
             diuine
             beauty
             )
             all
             the
             time
             which
             mā
             passeth
             in
             sinne
             ,
             or
             employeth
             not
             in
             the
             seruice
             of
             God
             he
             is
             therein
             idle
             ,
             yea
             and
             most
             vaine
             .
             And
             although
             you
             call
             your selfe
             à
             busied
             King
             entertained
             by
             your
             graue
             and
             waighty
             affaires
             ,
             or
             à
             Counsellor
             ,
             or
             handy-craftsman
             ,
             or
             seruant
             &c.
             
             I
             will
             enstile
             you
             herein
             à
             lazy
             &
             lither
             christian
             ,
             and
             à
             sluggish
             and
             idle
             workeman
             in
             the
             house
             of
             God
             ,
             in
             what
             appertaineth
             to
             the
             seruice
             of
             God
             ,
             &
             for
             idle
             &
             for
             nought
             vvorth
             in
             this
             kinde
             of
             fluggishnes
             milliōs
             of
             people
             shall
             be
             in
             hell
             ,
             vvho
             according
             to
             their
             hallucination
             ,
             their
             misdeeming
             ,
             
             their
             alas
             !
             misseco●ceit
             ,
             thought
             that
             they
             were
             not
             idle
             ,
             farre
             other
             wise
             that
             they
             were
             alwayes
             attētiue
             on
             affaires
             .
             All
             the
             howers
             spēt
             in
             vnlawfull
             games
             ,
             murmurings
             ,
             grumblings
             ,
             detractiōs
             ,
             and
             in
             writing
             and
             reading
             vaine
             letters
             and
             lasciuious
             bookes
             ,
             and
             prophane
             bookes
             ,
             which
             often
             haue
             corrupted
             formerly
             chast
             soules
             ,
             to
             chāge
             their
             such
             purity
             to
             dishonesty
             ;
             and
             they
             and
             those
             houres
             which
             are
             spent
             in
             ripping
             vp
             and
             giuing
             sentence
             ,
             giueing
             verdict
             on
             the
             liues
             of
             others
             without
             giuing
             reference
             to
             the
             party
             ,
             &
             with
             his
             being
             heard
             ,
             yea
             without
             that
             he
             hath
             any
             the
             least
             notice
             thereof
             ,
             and
             euen
             vvithout
             that
             the
             Iudges
             be
             vvell
             and
             plainly
             instructed
             in
             the
             trueth
             neuer
             informing
             them
             as
             they
             ought
             ,
             &
             as
             iustice
             ,
             &
             charity
             exacteth
             at
             their
             hāds
             ,
             who
             is
             there
             ,
             
             who
             will
             spare
             to
             condemne
             them
             as
             idle
             ,
             as
             sluggish
             ,
             as
             il
             employed
             ,
             and
             hence
             conuince
             them
             of
             their
             assured
             losse
             of
             time
             ?
             And
             all
             those
             houres
             which
             thou
             hast
             ill
             spent
             (
             which
             are
             not
             few
             ,
             too
             many
             alas
             !
             )
             Oyee
             vaine
             women
             in
             the
             dressings
             ,
             in
             your
             deckings
             to
             ensnare
             ,
             to
             entrap
             ,
             to
             captiuate
             soules
             yea
             and
             to
             enthrall
             them
             ,
             to
             subiugate
             them
             alas
             !
             to
             enslaue
             ,
             occasion
             free
             wills
             to
             yeild
             ,
             pray
             let
             me
             knovv
             from
             you
             ,
             can
             you
             except
             against
             those
             that
             range
             yee
             vnder
             the
             same
             iudgement
             ,
             the
             same
             censure
             ?
             And
             the
             time
             ,
             the
             howers
             ,
             that
             the
             ambitious
             who
             feede
             themselues
             (
             as
             like
             to
             Efraim
             ,
             and
             satisfy
             themselues
             with
             winde
             ,
             with
             vanity
             ,
             spend
             and
             consume
             in
             designing
             their
             towers
             ,
             their
             airy
             fabricks
             ,
             &
             in
             the
             writing
             in
             the
             aire
             their
             dreames
             ,
             chimeraes
             and
             crotchets
             of
             
             their
             idle
             braines
             ,
             talking
             to
             themselus
             &
             speaking
             with
             themselues
             vvhat
             the
             haughty
             King
             Cyrus
             (
             figure
             of
             proud
             Lucifer
             )
             said
             thou
             shalt
             see
             mee
             in
             the
             mountaine
             of
             the
             testament
             ,
             in
             the
             same
             place
             of
             the
             North
             side
             by
             side
             with
             it
             !
             I
             will
             so
             seate
             my self
             ,
             and
             so
             place
             my
             throne
             ,
             I
             say
             so
             high
             ,
             so
             eminent
             ,
             that
             I
             may
             set
             my
             feete
             on
             the
             starres
             ,
             that
             I
             may
             make
             themselues
             my
             footstoole
             ,
             who
             is
             he
             who
             will
             say
             that
             herein
             is
             time
             ill
             employed
             ,
             cast
             away
             ,
             yea
             miserably
             lost
             ?
             The
             time
             ,
             the
             houres
             vvhich
             the
             couetous
             man
             passeth
             of
             ,
             consumeth
             in
             his
             braines
             ,
             working
             ,
             and
             reckoning
             ,
             how
             and
             with
             what
             attention
             ,
             diligence
             ,
             and
             intelligence
             he
             may
             aduantage
             himselfe
             ,
             that
             he
             may
             gain
             more
             by
             exchange
             ,
             and
             returne
             herein
             ,
             by
             vse
             ,
             or
             otherwise
             rum●nating
             
             and
             variously
             disposing
             his
             spirit
             ,
             solicitous
             ,
             and
             againe
             solicitously
             serious
             hereon
             ,
             hereon
             making
             the
             seate
             of
             all
             his
             care
             ,
             and
             as
             one
             resolued
             ,
             as
             one
             decreeing
             to
             get
             by
             lawfull
             or
             vnlawfu●l
             meanes
             ,
             by
             hooke
             or
             by
             crooke
             ,
             by
             any
             vvaies
             ,
             who
             is
             so
             void
             of
             iudgement
             vvho
             vvill
             ascertaine
             them
             that
             they
             so
             running
             ouer
             their
             time
             ,
             vvhen
             as
             the
             moderatest
             account
             thereof
             be
             made
             ,
             these
             things
             shall
             passe
             for
             good
             ?
             my
             desire
             is
             not
             to
             goe
             farther
             ,
             as
             to
             memorate
             particularly
             more
             ran●ks
             of
             people
             ,
             or
             their
             natures
             ,
             qualities
             ,
             or
             vvhatsoeuer
             their
             conditions
             are
             ,
             for
             to
             take
             particular
             notice
             to
             call
             them
             to
             my
             memory
             vvould
             appassionate
             me
             ,
             vvould
             really
             afflict
             me
             ,
             I
             should
             herein
             so
             doeing
             notably
             suffer
             ,
             and
             for
             that
             the
             world
             is
             not
             so
             lost
             ,
             so
             dull
             ,
             so
             sottish
             (
             alas
             !
             yet
             
             well
             may
             it
             be
             said
             it
             is
             farre
             gonne
             herein
             )
             that
             any
             Christiā
             may
             not
             hence
             vnderstand
             ,
             collect
             aud
             gather
             all
             whatsoeuer
             may
             be
             farther
             specified
             ,
             and
             condemned
             ,
             if
             he
             please
             by
             what
             hath
             been
             deliuered
             by
             the
             bookes
             vvhich
             he
             hath
             read
             ,
             and
             by
             the
             inspirations
             which
             God
             hath
             benignely
             giuen
             him
             ,
             and
             by
             that
             vvhich
             his
             conscience
             (
             witnes
             and
             loyall
             freind
             ,
             so
             it
             be
             beleft
             )
             herein
             cannot
             but
             haue
             ,
             oftentimes
             counsailed
             him
             and
             accused
             him
             .
             And
             that
             there
             may
             be
             more
             credit
             to
             confirme
             it
             vvith
             holy
             scripture
             ,
             Dauid
             in
             one
             of
             his
             Psalmes
             speaketh
             of
             the
             good
             and
             iust
             :
             
               Dies
               pleni
               inuenientur
               in
               eis
            
             .
             That
             there
             shall
             be
             found
             in
             them
             full
             dayes
             ,
             
             entire
             ,
             &
             cōpleate
             dayes
             ,
             not
             empty
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             à
             māner
             of
             speach
             frequētly
             vsed
             ,
             in
             the
             old
             testamēt
             ,
             to
             say
             ,
             that
             they
             died
             full
             of
             yeeres
             ,
             
             that
             they
             died
             when
             they
             vvere
             aged
             ,
             as
             it
             is
             related
             of
             Abraham
             ,
             
             &
             of
             other
             Saints
             ,
             freinds
             ,
             and
             beloued
             of
             God
             ,
             
             if
             this
             be
             deliuered
             of
             the
             iust
             let
             vs
             say
             on
             the
             contrary
             patt
             that
             neither
             dayes
             ,
             nor
             yeares
             of
             sinners
             are
             full
             ,
             rather
             they
             are
             false
             ,
             vaine
             and
             their
             houres
             ,
             houres
             of
             deceipt
             ,
             consequently
             they
             shall
             not
             dye
             aged
             ,
             but
             empty
             of
             dayes
             .
             And
             
               Dionysius
               Carthusianus
            
             ,
             declaring
             those
             words
             of
             Saint
             Iob
             ,
             
             
               Mens●s
               vacuos
               enumerau●
               mihi
            
             ,
             Monethes
             ,
             and
             empty
             dayes
             I
             haue
             recounted
             vvith
             my selfe
             ,
             sayth
             he
             ,
             so
             much
             may
             the
             penitent
             sinner
             vtter
             vvho
             hath
             spent
             ,
             and
             consumed
             vvithout
             fruite
             ,
             vvithout
             benefit
             his
             time
             ,
             and
             his
             daies
             ,
             hence
             vvere
             they
             empty
             of
             good
             vvorkes
             and
             idle
             ,
             yea
             and
             full
             of
             vanityes
             ,
             and
             indeed
             of
             vice
             ,
             vvhich
             is
             nothing
             .
             
             To
             this
             purpose
             saith
             
               Saint
               Ambrose
            
             ,
             
             the
             life
             of
             à
             iust
             man
             is
             compleatly
             full
             and
             empty
             are
             the
             daies
             of
             those
             vvho
             are
             vvicked
             ,
             and
             really
             vaine
             ,
             and
             they
             retaine
             nothing
             ,
             but
             appearance
             ,
             s●doth
             the
             greene
             reed
             vvithout
             pith
             ,
             or
             substance
             .
             Of
             the
             same
             indgement
             is
             the
             glorious
             Gregory
             in
             his
             Moralls
             ,
             
             in
             his
             Exposition
             on
             the
             l●st
             Chapter
             of
             Iob.
             That
             all
             those
             vvho
             haue
             so
             liued
             ,
             and
             spent
             their
             times
             in
             such
             manner
             ,
             are
             vvorthy
             of
             blame
             ,
             now
             it
             appeareth
             cleerly
             by
             the
             fore
             deliuered
             Chapters
             ,
             that
             time
             being
             so
             precious
             à
             thing
             ,
             as
             hath
             been
             said
             in
             the
             first
             Chapter
             ,
             and
             it
             being
             bestowed
             vpon
             vs
             that
             we
             may
             gaine
             heauen
             by
             our
             endeauours
             ,
             our
             paines
             ,
             our
             good
             vvorkes
             ,
             (
             as
             is
             likewise
             shewen
             in
             the
             second
             )
             and
             in
             seeing
             (
             which
             you
             may
             find
             vvritten
             in
             the
             third
             )
             that
             
             who
             so
             employeth
             not
             time
             well
             ,
             God
             abridgeth
             him
             of
             it
             ,
             and
             altogether
             bereaueth
             him
             of
             it
             ,
             taketh
             it
             '
             out
             of
             his
             command
             ,
             when
             he
             thereof
             least
             thincketh
             ,
             not
             with
             standing
             all
             this
             they
             will
             not
             take
             the
             aduise
             and
             counsaile
             which
             we
             haue
             giuen
             in
             the
             fourth
             Chapter
             in
             the
             name
             of
             the
             Holy
             Ghost
             ,
             but
             forgetting
             all
             ,
             all
             feare
             postposed
             ,
             ●et
             by
             ,
             by
             their
             depraued
             tasts
             ,
             deceiued
             by
             outwardly
             seeming
             dainties
             though
             vgly
             be
             they
             and
             bitter
             mo●sells
             ,
             wast
             their
             time
             ill
             ,
             &
             misprise
             it
             ,
             value
             it
             at
             naught
             ,
             yea
             and
             vvrong
             it
             beyond
             all
             measure
             ,
             &
             in
             liew
             of
             tendring
             it
             good
             treaty
             ,
             &
             of
             making
             profitable
             vse
             thereof
             they
             molest
             it
             ,
             they
             peruert
             the
             vse
             thereof
             in
             so
             much
             as
             they
             are
             foūd
             to
             haue
             vtterly
             lost
             it
             ,
             nor
             obserue
             they
             what
             they
             haue
             neglected
             ,
             what
             they
             haue
             passed
             from
             ,
             &
             what
             they
             might
             haue
             acquired
             
             are
             foūd
             therein
             ,
             nor
             of
             their
             duety
             to
             God
             vvho
             at
             so
             great
             à
             price
             redeemed
             them
             ,
             &
             vvhō
             for
             so
             many
             great
             and
             innumerable
             respects
             &
             obligations
             they
             should
             serue
             both
             day
             and
             night
             alvvayes
             ,
             incestantly
             ,
             they
             should
             loue
             and
             adore
             vvith
             all
             their
             hearts
             ,
             &
             vvith
             all
             their
             soules
             .
             These
             such
             like
             may
             be
             aptly
             compared
             to
             men
             who
             in
             the
             time
             of
             traffique
             ,
             of
             commerce
             ,
             of
             buying
             and
             selling
             of
             faires
             making
             no
             reckoning
             of
             the
             great
             gaine
             that
             there
             (
             vvell
             knowing
             how
             to
             trade
             )
             they
             might
             hence
             acquire
             to
             themselues
             are
             busied
             ,
             and
             entertained
             ,
             all
             taken
             vp
             with
             m●mick
             toyes
             ,
             and
             iests
             ,
             &
             in
             hearing
             blind
             men
             sing
             ,
             and
             seing
             of
             stage
             players
             ,
             and
             aftervvards
             their
             purse
             becommeth
             empty
             ,
             and
             opportunity
             of
             traffique
             ,
             and
             hence
             gaining
             by
             the
             faire
             ,
             passed
             .
             
             They
             may
             be
             accounted
             alike
             to
             those
             vvho
             cōming
             a
             shoare
             from
             à
             shipp
             or
             galley
             ,
             to
             land
             ,
             to
             make
             prouision
             of
             vvhat
             they
             vvant
             to
             accomplish
             &
             bring
             the●r
             iourney
             to
             à
             happy
             end
             ,
             &
             the
             long
             wished
             for
             hauen
             ,
             keepe
             themse●ues
             busied
             in
             the
             gazing
             on
             curiosities
             vvhich
             occurre
             in
             the
             streetes
             ,
             or
             passages
             ,
             or
             in
             vvalking
             in
             places
             of
             pleasures
             ,
             as
             in
             pleasant
             gardens
             ,
             and
             so
             time
             ouerrunneth
             them
             vvithout
             time
             being
             obserued
             in
             so
             much
             as
             that
             they
             forget
             that
             principall
             and
             cheifest
             end
             for
             vvhich
             they
             came
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             shipp
             ,
             or
             vessell
             vvas
             to
             hoyse
             sailes
             ,
             and
             to
             depart
             ,
             and
             euen
             so
             they
             stay
             behinde
             ,
             for
             that
             they
             came
             to
             late
             ,
             in
             à
             strange
             countrey
             ,
             poore
             disconsolate
             ,
             and
             miserable
             .
             It
             seemeth
             to
             them
             vvho
             vvithout
             any
             conturbation
             loose
             time
             that
             they
             
             are
             possessed
             of
             so
             much
             as
             vvill
             serue
             for
             all
             ,
             and
             that
             there
             is
             more
             then
             time
             enough
             to
             doe
             pennance
             ,
             and
             to
             amend
             their
             liues
             ,
             and
             it
             clearly
             appeareth
             that
             their
             vnderstandings
             and
             vvisedome
             are
             faulty
             ,
             for
             that
             
               Zenon
               Cl●ticus
            
             à
             faire
             conditioned
             ,
             
             graue
             and
             vvise
             man
             (
             as
             Laërtiu●
             reporteth
             )
             sayed
             ,
             that
             men
             failed
             not
             so
             much
             in
             any
             thinge
             ,
             as
             in
             that
             of
             time
             ,
             nor
             that
             they
             haue
             more
             neede
             of
             ought
             ,
             then
             of
             it
             ,
             and
             all
             this
             he
             deliuereth
             vpon
             good
             grounds
             truely
             :
             for
             that
             vve
             possesse
             not
             what
             is
             passed
             ,
             nor
             vvhat
             is
             to
             come
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             present
             it
             followeth
             so
             at
             hand
             ,
             and
             so
             breife
             ,
             that
             it
             runneth
             it's
             course
             in
             à
             moment
             .
          
           
             The
             
               Saint
               Prier
               Gill
            
             brother
             of
             our
             holy
             order
             falling
             into
             admiration
             ,
             and
             compassionating
             vvith
             himself
             vpon
             contemplation
             of
             
             these
             idle
             persons
             ,
             vvho
             so
             much
             and
             beyond
             measure
             passe
             their
             time
             vvithout
             fruite
             and
             hearts-greife
             thus
             deliuereth
             himselfe
             .
             The
             idle
             ,
             the
             sluggish
             man
             looseth
             this
             ,
             yea
             and
             the
             other
             vvorld
             ,
             happy
             is
             that
             man
             vvho
             employeth
             his
             time
             ,
             and
             passeth
             his
             life
             ,
             and
             his
             forces
             ,
             his
             full
             strength
             ,
             his
             vttermost
             ability
             in
             the
             seruice
             of
             God
             ;
             Tell
             mee
             if
             there
             vvere
             giuen
             vnto
             thee
             à
             fountaine
             which
             vvere
             to
             runne
             oile
             or
             wine
             one
             entire
             day
             in
             thy
             house
             vvouldst
             thou
             consume
             thy
             time
             being
             à
             poore
             man
             in
             play
             ,
             in
             loitering
             ,
             or
             in
             seeking
             of
             barrells
             ,
             or
             other
             neate
             vessells
             whatsoeuer
             wherin
             to
             keepe
             it
             ,
             thy
             end
             ,
             thy
             scope
             being
             to
             be
             rich
             ?
             vndoubtedly
             if
             thou
             wert
             not
             simple
             yea
             and
             sottishly
             such
             ,
             thou
             vvouldst
             make
             vse
             of
             such
             like
             aftervvards
             soe
             did
             the
             vvise
             
             vvidow
             (
             of
             vvhom
             is
             made
             mentiō
             in
             the
             fourth
             booke
             of
             the
             Kings
             )
             in
             carefully
             taking
             and
             reseruing
             the
             oyle
             which
             the
             Prophet
             Elizeus
             ,
             
             gaue
             vnto
             her
             miraculously
             therewith
             to
             satisfie
             for
             her
             husbands
             death
             ,
             that
             the
             creditors
             might
             not
             haue
             power
             to
             leade
             avv●y
             and
             detaine
             her
             two
             sonnes
             for
             slaues
             ,
             vntill
             that
             shee
             should
             discharge
             what
             was
             due
             ,
             but
             true
             it
             is
             (
             saith
             the
             Saint
             )
             that
             soe
             farre
             forth
             hath
             our
             folly
             taken
             hold
             of
             vs
             ,
             and
             wee
             entertaine
             ,
             wee
             admitt
             of
             so
             little
             discretion
             &
             wisedome
             ,
             that
             whereas
             God
             Almighty
             giuing
             vs
             time
             ,
             and
             present
             life
             ,
             that
             in
             it's
             course
             through
             his
             grace
             ,
             his
             benignity
             ,
             and
             fauour
             ,
             and
             the
             maine
             ,
             the
             principall
             ,
             the
             stock
             vvhich
             he
             doth
             enrich
             vs
             vvith
             vvee
             may
             make
             our selues
             hence
             rich
             ,
             and
             that
             vvee
             may
             satisfie
             
             vve
             may
             acquit
             ,
             and
             pay
             vvhat
             vve
             owe
             ,
             so
             farre
             forth
             as
             that
             vve
             fall
             not
             into
             the
             misery
             of
             being
             made
             slaues
             of
             the
             fiend
             ,
             the
             deuill
             without
             all
             peraduenture
             ,
             vvithout
             all
             remedy
             ,
             and
             end
             ;
             vve
             consume
             our
             time
             in
             vanityes
             ,
             and
             toyes
             ,
             and
             buffoneries
             ,
             and
             in
             meere
             iest
             as
             Iob
             the
             most
             patient
             sayed
             in
             those
             words
             ,
             
             
               Dedit
               ei●lo
               um
               poenitentiae
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             God
             gaue
             vnto
             man
             place
             of
             pennance
             ,
             and
             time
             to
             that
             end
             ,
             and
             he
             hath
             changed
             the
             good
             vse
             thereof
             into
             abuse
             ,
             and
             into
             sinnes
             of
             pride
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             fifth
             Chapter
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             THE
             SIXTH
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             How
             the
             body
             doth
             captiuat
             that
             time
             which
             is
             designed
             for
             the
             soule
             ,
             and
             thereby
             exalteth
             it selfe
             .
          
           
             AFter
             the
             sinne
             of
             our
             Auncestors
             did
             the
             bodye
             rebell
             against
             the
             soule
             ,
             so
             much
             preuailed
             it
             as
             that
             the
             body
             (
             as
             the
             seruāt
             or
             slaue
             Agar
             did
             to
             her
             Lady
             and
             Mistris
             )
             laid
             aside
             all
             respect
             and
             duety
             ,
             in
             so
             much
             as
             it
             might
             seeme
             that
             the
             body
             vvas
             the
             m●stris
             ,
             the
             soule
             slaue
             alas
             !
             and
             that
             all
             the
             course
             of
             this
             life
             was
             and
             is
             onely
             for
             the
             body
             ,
             and
             for
             it's
             daintines
             ,
             it
             's
             nicenes
             ,
             and
             it's
             recreation
             and
             to
             accomplish
             it's
             appetits
             and
             ouerweaning
             desires
             ▪
             in
             so
             much
             as
             that
             the
             poore
             soule
             takes
             it
             as
             à
             great
             fauour
             ,
             that
             the
             body
             grāts
             
             it
             that
             time
             vvhich
             is
             required
             and
             by
             her
             challenged
             .
             That
             to
             such
             her
             miserable
             state
             shee
             hath
             drawē
             on
             her selfe
             by
             sinne
             ,
             disgrace
             and
             abasement
             ,
             in
             so
             much
             as
             shee
             may
             call
             out
             to
             God
             repeating
             her
             tribulations
             ,
             her
             miseries
             in
             those
             wordes
             vvhieh
             Hierusalem
             in
             the
             Lamentations
             vsed
             ,
             
               Vide
               Domine
               &
               considera
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             Behold
             Lord
             and
             consider
             how
             I
             haue
             been
             come
             to
             be
             abject
             ,
             since
             that
             my
             seruant
             ,
             yea
             my
             slaue
             doth
             so
             vilify
             me
             ,
             &
             more
             offereth
             outrages
             against
             mee
             .
             And
             in
             such
             māner
             doth
             the
             body
             draw
             on
             great
             burthē
             on
             the
             soule
             which
             it
             doth
             extremely
             wrōg
             ,
             &
             doth
             raise
             and
             exalt
             it selfe
             with
             vvhat
             is
             not
             agreable
             ,
             rather
             contrary
             to
             all
             reason
             ,
             and
             iustice
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             bound
             to
             returne
             to
             the
             soule
             what
             properly
             belongeth
             vnto
             it
             ,
             vnder
             paine
             ,
             vnder
             amerce
             ,
             that
             vvhen
             the
             soule
             
             hath
             as
             also
             the
             body
             each
             of
             them
             ,
             both
             of
             them
             may
             be
             lost
             vvithout
             any
             redemption
             or
             any
             safety
             .
             And
             to
             giue
             life
             to
             vvhat
             hath
             been
             deliuered
             ,
             as
             also
             what
             is
             to
             follow
             what
             better
             doctrine
             can
             be
             set
             downe
             then
             that
             vvhich
             the
             glorious
             Bernard
             ,
             hath
             in
             à
             sermon
             of
             the
             comming
             of
             our
             Lord
             ,
             
             of
             Aduent
             ,
             vvhereof
             I
             vvill
             here
             recite
             à
             great
             part
             .
             The
             time
             of
             this
             life
             (
             sayeth
             hee
             )
             appertaineth
             not
             to
             the
             body
             ,
             it
             belongeth
             properly
             to
             the
             soule
             and
             for
             it
             vvas
             it
             appointed
             ,
             for
             of
             much
             more
             value
             is
             the
             soule
             ,
             then
             the
             body
             ,
             and
             it
             hath
             first
             to
             repaire
             and
             procure
             remedy
             vvhich
             first
             fell
             ,
             for
             it's
             fall
             ,
             it
             's
             transgression
             the
             body
             vnderwent
             ,
             incurred
             punishment
             .
             And
             if
             vve
             desire
             to
             liue
             ,
             and
             be
             true
             members
             of
             our
             head
             ,
             vho
             is
             IESVS
             CHRIST
             our
             Lord
             ,
             our
             
             duety
             is
             to
             imitate
             him
             ,
             and
             to
             conforme
             our selues
             to
             him
             ;
             the
             way
             wee
             must
             walke
             ,
             the
             principall
             care
             and
             sollicitude
             must
             be
             of
             our
             soules
             ,
             for
             vvhich
             he
             cheifly
             came
             into
             the
             vvorld
             and
             suffred
             the
             torment
             of
             the
             Crosse
             ,
             and
             let
             vs
             reserue
             the
             care
             of
             the
             body
             for
             that
             day
             and
             time
             vvhen
             our
             Lord
             shall
             come
             to
             reforme
             them
             ,
             to
             change
             them
             into
             à
             better
             state
             ,
             as
             said
             the
             Apostle
             
               Saluatorem
               expectamus
               nostrum
               ,
               &c.
            
             
             
             We
             looke
             for
             our
             Sauiour
             (
             who
             is
             IESVS-CHRIST
             our
             Lord
             )
             and
             his
             comming
             to
             Iudge
             ,
             vvho
             will
             reforme
             ,
             (
             or
             according
             to
             the
             Greeke
             text
             ,
             vvill
             transforme
             )
             our
             body
             meane
             ,
             abject
             ,
             and
             full
             of
             imperfections
             and
             miseries
             ,
             and
             it
             shall
             be
             according
             to
             his
             similitude
             ,
             vvho
             is
             replenished
             with
             clearnes
             and
             splendour
             .
             Hence
             striue
             not
             no
             attempt
             
             not
             (
             oh
             !
             thou
             body
             ill
             to
             be
             regarded
             ,
             ill
             to
             bee
             esteemed
             of
             )
             to
             impatronise
             thy selfe
             of
             time
             by
             force
             ,
             and
             vvith
             violence
             ,
             before
             time
             ,
             for
             albeit
             thou
             maist
             occasiō
             yea
             hinder
             safety
             to
             thy
             soule
             ,
             yet
             canst
             thou
             not
             vvithout
             it
             procure
             it
             for
             they
             selfe
             alas
             !
             no.
             
          
           
             All
             things
             haue
             their
             time
             ,
             permit
             ,
             
             suffer
             and
             consent
             ,
             that
             the
             soule
             may
             worke
             freely
             ,
             nor
             be
             thou
             any
             impedimēt
             vnto
             it
             ,
             rather
             helpe
             it
             and
             labour
             iointly
             vvith
             it
             ;
             
             for
             if
             you
             trauaile
             together
             ,
             if
             you
             shall
             suffer
             with
             it
             ,
             you
             shall
             raigne
             vvith
             it
             ;
             and
             so
             much
             as
             thou
             troublest
             and
             hinderest
             it's
             safety
             ,
             thou
             troublest
             and
             hinderest
             thine
             owne
             ,
             for
             thou
             canst
             not
             be
             reformed
             ,
             vntill
             that
             our
             Lord
             see
             in
             thy
             soule
             his
             image
             reformed
             .
             Oh!
             body
             obserue
             vvell
             that
             thou
             hast
             vnder
             thy
             roofe
             à
             most
             
             noble
             guest
             ,
             à
             guest
             of
             grand
             rancke
             and
             quality
             ,
             vvhich
             is
             the
             soule
             ,
             and
             that
             thy
             well
             being
             and
             safety
             dependeth
             on
             it
             ;
             Be
             therefore
             some
             what
             like
             à
             Courtier
             ,
             well
             mannered
             ,
             and
             discreet
             ,
             and
             giue
             vvay
             ,
             respect
             ,
             and
             free
             entertainement
             vnto
             so
             honorable
             à
             guest
             .
             Thou
             thy selfe
             art
             in
             thine
             owne
             house
             ,
             and
             in
             thine
             owne
             proper
             soile
             ,
             for
             thou
             art
             earthly
             ,
             and
             of
             earth
             ,
             but
             the
             soule
             is
             but
             à
             guest
             in
             thy
             house
             ,
             euen
             as
             à
             stranger
             ,
             à
             trauailer
             and
             exiled
             alas
             !
             banished
             from
             his
             proper
             place
             of
             residence
             .
             Let
             mee
             freely
             enterchange
             à
             word
             vvith
             thee
             (
             oh
             !
             body
             )
             vvhat
             rusticall
             &
             rude
             lowne
             ,
             very
             block
             head
             ,
             and
             course
             conditioned
             fellow
             should
             bee
             be
             valiewed
             ,
             to
             vvhose
             house
             might
             happen
             à
             Prince
             or
             Earle
             to
             come
             to
             allodge
             ,
             vvho
             would
             not
             willingly
             and
             most
             readily
             
             giue
             way
             ,
             and
             betake
             himselfe
             to
             the
             worst
             roome
             of
             his
             house
             ,
             to
             present
             him
             vvith
             the
             best
             roome
             and
             best
             lodging
             of
             his
             house
             ,
             yea
             if
             it
             vvere
             necessary
             ,
             vvould
             sleepe
             on
             hay
             ,
             and
             straw
             ,
             or
             by
             the
             chimnyes
             harth
             &
             cinders
             .
             Let
             this
             be
             thy
             way
             ,
             forsake
             thy
             meate
             ,
             sleepe
             litle
             if
             so
             it
             be
             expedient
             and
             necessary
             for
             the
             good
             of
             thy
             soule
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             loue
             of
             it
             let
             passe
             thy
             pleasures
             ,
             thy
             entertainements
             ,
             and
             passetimes
             ,
             fast
             and
             be
             regular
             ,
             sober
             and
             temperate
             in
             thy
             diet
             ,
             to
             the
             end
             that
             it
             may
             be
             in
             good
             time
             and
             perfect
             health
             ,
             and
             so
             perseuere
             ;
             correct
             thy selfe
             sharply
             ,
             bleed
             ,
             and
             mortifie
             thy selfe
             that
             it
             may
             liue
             ;
             this
             time
             is
             not
             the
             time
             of
             laughter
             ,
             but
             of
             teares
             ,
             not
             of
             repose
             ,
             but
             of
             labour
             ;
             not
             of
             dantinesse
             ,
             nicenesse
             ,
             but
             of
             pennance
             :
             not
             of
             delight
             ,
             not
             
             pleasure
             ,
             but
             of
             anguish
             ,
             of
             sharp
             tribulation
             ;
             the
             time
             vvill
             come
             about
             ,
             there
             vvill
             come
             à
             time
             of
             mirth
             ,
             of
             joye
             ,
             and
             of
             laughter
             together
             vvith
             it
             ,
             so
             be
             it
             that
             with
             it
             thou
             lament
             ,
             thou
             suffer
             ,
             thou
             at
             the
             present
             poure
             forth
             thy
             teares
             ,
             and
             if
             together
             thou
             so
             west
             in
             teares
             ,
             together
             thou
             shalt
             reape
             gladnes
             &
             hearts-comfort
             ,
             hearts
             ioy
             :
             and
             vilifie
             not
             ,
             nay
             esteeme
             not
             at
             an
             ordinary
             value
             thy
             guest
             ;
             for
             that
             hee
             seemeth
             to
             come
             vnto
             thee
             from
             forraine
             countries
             as
             à
             stranger
             ,
             but
             contemplate
             ,
             obserue
             vvell
             the
             many
             ,
             and
             singular
             benefits
             which
             accrew
             to
             thee
             through
             his
             society
             ,
             his
             conuersation
             ,
             and
             presence
             .
             This
             guest
             ,
             this
             soule
             ,
             is
             it
             vvhich
             giueth
             life
             ,
             spirit
             ,
             and
             vigour
             to
             thy
             sight
             ,
             and
             to
             thy
             eares
             faculty
             of
             hearing
             ,
             speach
             to
             thy
             tongue
             ,
             to
             thy
             palate
             it's
             tast
             ,
             and
             sense
             of
             feeling
             ,
             and
             motion
             to
             
             all
             thy
             entire
             body
             ,
             beauty
             and
             gracefull
             comlines
             .
             And
             if
             so
             that
             thou
             vvilt
             vvell
             obserue
             and
             ponder
             what
             I
             now
             deliuer
             ,
             let
             it
             be
             your
             serious
             attention
             ,
             vvhat
             is
             it
             that
             you
             would
             be
             found
             to
             bee
             if
             so
             that
             it
             should
             faile
             you
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             should
             depart
             frō
             you
             ,
             that
             it
             should
             at
             any
             time
             leaue
             you
             ,
             abandon
             you
             ,
             and
             vtterly
             forsake
             you
             ,
             &
             your
             house
             :
             in
             this
             euen
             point
             ,
             and
             instant
             of
             time
             ,
             thy
             tongue
             will
             not
             be
             able
             to
             doe
             his
             office
             ,
             thou
             wilt
             be
             vtterly
             bereaud
             of
             speach
             ;
             thine
             eyes
             will
             become
             blind
             ,
             thou
             wilt
             be
             depriued
             of
             thy
             guift
             of
             hearing
             ;
             thy
             countenance
             will
             appeare
             pale
             ,
             all
             thy
             beauty
             will
             fade
             and
             fully
             perish
             ,
             and
             thou
             shalt
             proue
             to
             be
             terrible
             foule
             ,
             vgly
             ,
             stark
             cold
             ,
             irksome
             ,
             and
             horrible
             ,
             and
             thou
             shalt
             be
             an
             vnsauory
             carcasse
             ,
             and
             altogether
             rotten
             ,
             and
             à
             dunghill
             for
             vvormes
             .
             Since
             
             Since
             that
             vvhich
             I
             here
             deliuer
             is
             true
             ,
             from
             whence
             is
             it
             ,
             that
             for
             à
             small
             momentary
             delight
             that
             thou
             dispensest
             ,
             and
             thou
             notably
             offendest
             ,
             so
             great
             à
             guest
             ,
             one
             of
             such
             quality
             ,
             and
             so
             profitable
             as
             of
             whom
             so
             inexpressible
             vse
             might
             haue
             been
             well
             made
             ?
             and
             that
             thou
             takest
             away
             it's
             time
             ,
             doth
             injure
             it
             ,
             and
             stealest
             from
             it
             ,
             and
             employest
             it
             so
             ill
             ?
             but
             thou
             canst
             not
             haue
             euen
             this
             thy
             shadowed
             delight
             ,
             if
             it
             vvere
             not
             vvith
             thee
             .
             And
             if
             so
             great
             guifts
             depend
             and
             accrue
             to
             thee
             through
             it's
             presence
             and
             society
             not
             withstanding
             it
             be
             in
             à
             forraine
             Countrey
             ,
             and
             banished
             for
             sinne
             from
             the
             high
             and
             mighty
             Court
             of
             heauen
             ,
             and
             from
             the
             sight
             of
             it's
             Lord
             ,
             thinke
             maturely
             what
             it
             vvilbe
             vvhen
             so
             that
             it
             is
             fully
             reconciled
             with
             him
             ,
             and
             in
             his
             grace
             ,
             vvhen
             so
             it
             shall
             
             by
             him
             be
             beloued
             and
             one
             of
             his
             fauourites
             ?
             And
             great
             cause
             ,
             yea
             and
             great
             inducement
             &
             conuincible
             reasons
             are
             there
             ,
             that
             thou
             apply
             thy selfe
             vvith
             all
             the
             patience
             possible
             ,
             and
             vvith
             all
             good
             liking
             ,
             and
             that
             thou
             deuote
             thy selfe
             to
             all
             thinges
             that
             may
             be
             whatsoeuer
             they
             be
             ,
             and
             of
             what
             condition
             soeuer
             to
             benefit
             and
             laboriously
             attend
             to
             this
             reconciliation
             ,
             and
             returne
             to
             Freindshippe
             .
             Giue
             vnto
             thy
             guest
             ,
             
             vnto
             thy
             soule
             that
             vvhich
             Ioseph
             spake
             of
             to
             à
             gentleman
             Cupp-bearer
             to
             King
             Pharoah
             ,
             assure
             thy selfe
             that
             happly
             à
             day
             will
             come
             ,
             that
             the
             King
             vvill
             take
             sensible
             notice
             of
             thee
             ,
             and
             vvill
             restore
             thee
             into
             thy
             lost
             estate
             ,
             let
             me
             impetrate
             so
             much
             fauour
             of
             thee
             that
             thou
             remember
             mee
             from
             hēce
             forward
             ,
             and
             help
             me
             vvhen
             so
             that
             thou
             
             well
             mayest
             ,
             alas
             !
             haue
             pitty
             on
             me
             :
             And
             without
             all
             peraduenture
             it
             vvill
             haue
             an
             especiall
             care
             ,
             and
             regard
             of
             thee
             to
             thy
             well-being
             if
             so
             that
             now
             thou
             tenderest
             thy
             seruice
             as
             becommeth
             thee
             ,
             and
             spendest
             the
             time
             according
             as
             is
             conuenient
             &
             expedient
             to
             the
             soule
             ,
             and
             not
             to
             thy
             ease
             to
             that
             which
             thou
             valuest
             thy
             proper
             interest
             to
             it's
             cost
             ,
             losse
             and
             vtter
             onerthovv
             :
             vvhen
             as
             so
             it
             shall
             be
             in
             fauour
             of
             it's
             Lord
             ,
             and
             face
             to
             face
             ,
             it
             vvill
             implore
             ,
             and
             impetrate
             for
             thee
             ,
             &
             vvill
             shewe
             it selfe
             à
             true
             and
             faithfull
             freind
             ,
             intercessor
             ,
             and
             aduocate
             ,
             such
             like
             vvill
             be
             it's
             speech
             ,
             its
             treatye
             .
             Most
             mercifull
             &
             Lord
             of
             all
             power
             when
             I
             was
             for
             my
             trespasses
             ,
             for
             my
             greiueous
             sinnes
             banished
             ,
             and
             exiled
             to
             the
             vvide
             world
             ,
             &
             wandred
             vp
             &
             downe
             as
             à
             pilgrime
             ,
             &
             meere
             stranger
             à
             poore
             
             and
             mercifull
             man
             receiued
             mee
             vnder
             his
             roofe
             ,
             &
             did
             all
             the
             pious
             and
             cōmiserating
             respects
             that
             can
             be
             expressed
             ;
             hence
             am
             I
             à
             suppliāt
             to
             thine
             infinit
             Majesty
             with
             all
             the
             feruour
             ,
             with
             all
             the
             earnestnes
             I
             can
             ,
             that
             thou
             be
             mercifull
             vnto
             him
             ,
             pitty
             him
             ,
             who
             for
             my
             sake
             gaue
             all
             he
             was
             possessed
             of
             &
             freely
             dispoiled
             himselfe
             of
             them
             ,
             yea
             &
             further
             offred
             vp
             his
             owne
             persō
             to
             assist
             in
             whatsoeuer
             was
             good
             for
             mee
             loosing
             for
             my
             cause
             his
             owne
             pleasures
             ,
             and
             whatsoeuer
             delights
             ,
             sweating
             ,
             hardly
             labouring
             euen
             to
             wearisōnes
             ,
             yea
             to
             fainting
             it selfe
             ,
             for
             mee
             ;
             suffering
             hunger
             &
             thirst
             ,
             and
             tyrings
             ,
             watchings
             ,
             toyles
             ,
             and
             what
             tribulations
             not
             ?
             for
             whatsoeuer
             he
             counted
             ,
             hee
             tooke
             no
             time
             of
             enquiry
             or
             supply
             therefore
             ,
             or
             so
             litle
             as
             may
             vvell
             be
             accounted
             no
             time
             ,
             to
             the
             end
             that
             he
             
             might
             deuote
             himself
             to
             my
             seruice
             ,
             and
             vvhat
             best
             appertained
             to
             me
             .
             Nor
             is
             there
             any
             the
             least
             imaginable
             doubt
             ,
             but
             that
             the
             Scripture
             wil
             be
             fulfilled
             ,
             which
             deliuereth
             .
             Our
             Lord
             will
             correspōd
             to
             the
             vvill
             of
             those
             vvho
             truely
             feare
             him
             ,
             
             and
             vvill
             heare
             their
             praiers
             ;
             and
             vvhen
             that
             the
             great
             King
             ,
             I
             say
             that
             King
             of
             infinite
             and
             incomprehensible
             Majesty
             enuironed
             with
             splendour
             &
             glory
             attended
             on
             by
             à
             thousand
             millions
             ,
             nay
             an
             innumerable
             troupe
             of
             Angells
             ,
             to
             reforme
             ,
             &
             bring
             our
             body
             to
             perfection
             to
             change
             them
             into
             à
             better
             state
             ,
             and
             being
             ,
             and
             to
             make
             them
             alike
             vnto
             his
             owne
             ;
             raising
             and
             (
             at
             that
             terrible
             and
             dreadfull
             voice
             of
             the
             trumpet
             )
             awakening
             them
             from
             the
             sleepe
             ,
             in
             vvhich
             they
             now
             deeply
             drouse
             ,
             then
             thou
             hauing
             been
             ,
             what
             thou
             
             oughtest
             to
             haue
             been
             towards
             the
             soule
             ,
             our
             Lord
             will
             well
             pay
             thee
             ,
             for
             hee
             will
             reward
             thee
             with
             glory
             for
             thy
             good
             entertainement
             &
             allodging
             of
             that
             guest
             ;
             and
             he
             will
             glorifie
             thee
             ,
             and
             enrich
             thee
             with
             those
             precious
             guifts
             and
             endowments
             of
             immortality
             ,
             agility
             ,
             impassibility
             ,
             and
             splendour
             ,
             vvhich
             all
             thou
             shalt
             enioy
             in
             the
             company
             of
             thy
             soule
             for
             euer
             and
             euer
             .
             Bee
             thou
             then
             althogether
             vnwilling
             (
             I
             earnestly
             besseech
             thee
             )
             to
             loose
             so
             glorious
             à
             glory
             ,
             such
             delight
             ,
             such
             treasures
             and
             crownes
             of
             honour
             for
             small
             ,
             litle
             ,
             weake
             ,
             fading
             and
             perishing
             goodes
             ,
             and
             for
             certaine
             kindes
             of
             pleasures
             fraught
             with
             so
             many
             discontents
             ,
             and
             so
             many
             hazards
             ,
             to
             suffer
             for
             such
             like
             toyes
             ,
             besides
             vvhat
             is
             spoken
             of
             ,
             eternall
             affliction
             ,
             paines
             and
             torments
             .
             All
             the
             fore-written
             
             are
             the
             words
             of
             
               Saint
               Bernard
            
             :
             And
             those
             who
             vsurpe
             the
             time
             belonging
             vnto
             the
             soule
             for
             the
             vse
             of
             the
             body
             ,
             and
             well
             like
             of
             this
             ,
             please
             themselues
             herewith
             ,
             neglect
             that
             ;
             yea
             tread
             it
             vndet
             their
             foote
             ,
             our
             Lord
             threatneth
             to
             punish
             sharply
             by
             the
             words
             of
             holy
             Iob
             in
             his
             foure
             and
             twentith
             Chapter
             ,
             
             saying
             :
             Their
             delights
             shall
             quickly
             haue
             an
             end
             ,
             and
             all
             what
             vvas
             so
             pleasant
             vnto
             them
             ,
             shall
             proue
             to
             them
             no
             other
             then
             wormes
             and
             remorse
             of
             consciēce
             ,
             his
             mercy
             vvill
             forget
             them
             ,
             will
             not
             acknowledge
             them
             ,
             will
             take
             no
             Notice
             of
             them
             for
             euer
             ,
             they
             shall
             be
             buried
             in
             perpetuall
             obliuion
             ,
             there
             shal
             be
             no
             remembrance
             of
             them
             to
             any
             their
             vvell-being
             .
          
           
             They
             shall
             from
             coole
             snowy
             water
             passe
             to
             an
             excessiue
             heate
             ,
             
             to
             the
             end
             that
             their
             paines
             ,
             their
             sufferāces
             may
             be
             the
             more
             dolourous
             and
             sharpe
             ,
             farr
             the
             more
             intensiue
             and
             the
             reason
             hereof
             shall
             bee
             ,
             
               Pauit
               enim
               sterilem
               ,
               &c.
            
             for
             that
             they
             fed
             ,
             and
             vvith
             many
             curiosities
             and
             dainties
             entertained
             the
             barren
             ,
             and
             they
             did
             take
             no
             care
             ,
             no
             respect
             of
             the
             vvidow
             .
             By
             barren
             is
             meant
             the
             body
             ,
             for
             the
             more
             they
             nicelyvse
             it
             ,
             and
             cherish
             it
             ,
             and
             deck
             it
             ,
             it
             vvill
             returne
             and
             bring
             forth
             no
             meritorious
             fruite
             for
             the
             acquisition
             of
             eternall
             life
             ,
             of
             euerlasting
             saluation
             ;
             it
             is
             to
             vse
             vvith
             much
             curiosity
             and
             nicenesse
             à
             block
             ,
             à
             dry
             sticke
             .
             The
             Widdow
             is
             here
             an
             Embleme
             of
             the
             soule
             ,
             for
             that
             there
             is
             not
             à
             vviddow
             so
             distressed
             ,
             nor
             so
             solitary
             &
             comfortles
             ,
             as
             is
             it
             vnder
             the
             roofe
             of
             à
             sinner
             .
             Sinners
             attend
             ,
             and
             vvell
             obserue
             (
             for
             hereō
             I
             treat
             no
             further
             )
             
             for
             the
             loue
             of
             IESVS-CHRIST
             marke
             seriously
             and
             maturely
             and
             all
             yee
             whosoeuer
             doe
             abridge
             y
             r
             soules
             of
             time
             for
             your
             bodyes
             ,
             &
             vndoe
             the
             soule
             by
             the
             molestation
             it
             bringeth
             to
             it
             ,
             and
             dayly
             afflicteth
             it
             ,
             with
             all
             the
             losse
             possible
             ,
             for
             that
             on
             the
             soules
             good
             ,
             &
             safety
             dependeth
             all
             vvhatsoeuer
             happines
             the
             body
             can
             be
             capeable
             of
             ,
             and
             from
             the
             glory
             of
             the
             soule
             doth
             redoūd
             that
             in
             them
             which
             they
             hope
             for
             ,
             vvho
             are
             to
             enioy
             i●
             for
             euer
             and
             euer
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             sixth
             Chapter
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             THE
             SEAVENTH
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             That
             lawfully
             secular
             people
             may
             vse
             some
             entertainements
             of
             mirth
             ,
             solace
             ,
             and
             pastime
             to
             recreate
             their
             spirits
             .
          
           
             FOr
             so
             much
             as
             (
             as
             saith
             
               S.
               Iob
            
             )
             our
             body
             is
             not
             composed
             of
             brasse
             or
             steele
             ,
             
             nor
             is
             it's
             hardnes
             like
             vnto
             that
             of
             à
             flint
             ,
             but
             it
             is
             friable
             ,
             weake
             ,
             sensible
             of
             each
             offence
             ,
             feeble
             alas
             !
             nice
             ,
             delicate
             and
             tender
             ,
             vvhich
             is
             vvearied
             ,
             tired
             and
             yeildeth
             vnder
             the
             burthen
             of
             it's
             labours
             ,
             its
             affaires
             and
             businesses
             ,
             and
             also
             for
             that
             the
             soule
             is
             so
             vnited
             and
             affixed
             to
             the
             lumpish
             body
             ,
             it
             is
             as
             it
             vvere
             necessatily
             constrained
             sometimes
             
             to
             condiscend
             to
             the
             body
             ,
             as
             to
             comply
             vvith
             its
             desires
             :
             no
             otherwise
             thē
             an
             aged
             married
             man
             ,
             wise
             and
             discreet
             ,
             how
             vvitty
             soeuer
             he
             be
             ,
             giueth
             vvay
             to
             the
             childish
             desires
             of
             his
             vvife
             since
             that
             she
             is
             very
             younge
             .
             Some
             breathing
             while
             ,
             some
             relaxation
             from
             cares
             ,
             and
             affaires
             ,
             labours
             ,
             and
             bodily
             toyles
             is
             certainely
             expedient
             ;
             for
             if
             à
             man
             should
             alvvaies
             labour
             &
             toile
             his
             vnderstanding
             and
             memory
             incessantly
             ,
             he
             vvould
             destroy
             his
             forces
             ,
             and
             his
             health
             ,
             and
             he
             vvould
             quickly
             consume
             and
             end
             his
             dayes
             .
             And
             for
             so
             much
             as
             the
             vniuersall
             labour
             of
             men
             should
             haue
             limit
             ,
             and
             ease
             ,
             and
             rest
             ,
             yea
             and
             that
             of
             brute
             beasts
             ,
             nature
             prouided
             then
             with
             sleepe
             ,
             and
             vvith
             successiue
             variety
             and
             change
             of
             time
             ,
             ordaining
             ,
             that
             the
             day
             should
             succeed
             the
             night
             :
             in
             
             vvhich
             as
             is
             vvritten
             in
             the
             booke
             of
             vvisdome
             ,
             
             All
             things
             ,
             all
             creatures
             are
             silent
             ,
             and
             husht
             are
             (
             as
             sayeth
             Virgil
             )
             all
             the
             vvide
             feilds
             and
             vvildernes
             and
             as
             vvell
             the
             birds
             as
             beasts
             ;
             and
             for
             so
             much
             as
             yet
             this
             rest
             ,
             this
             repose
             vvas
             not
             sufficient
             ,
             there
             vvere
             appointed
             holy
             daies
             ,
             vvhich
             vve
             call
             Festiuall
             dayes
             ,
             vvhich
             are
             celebrated
             among
             all
             people
             ,
             and
             all
             Nations
             and
             in
             all
             ages
             .
             It
             vvas
             expedient
             then
             that
             vve
             should
             by
             rest
             repaire
             our
             weary
             selues
             ,
             that
             we
             might
             hold
             out
             ,
             through
             the
             benefit
             thereof
             ,
             for
             that
             hence
             strength
             and
             vigour
             is
             reassumed
             ,
             and
             as
             vvel
             desire
             as
             also
             vvill
             is
             hence
             recouered
             to
             returne
             to
             take
             paines
             à
             new
             ;
             vvith
             vvhich
             repose
             vvere
             vve
             not
             endowed
             ,
             any
             toile
             ,
             yea
             any
             vvhatsoeuer
             labour
             ,
             affaire
             ,
             or
             exercise
             vvould
             be
             extreamely
             
             burthen-some
             ,
             nor
             could
             our
             feeblenes
             or
             imbecillity
             sustaine
             long
             such
             continuance
             of
             toile
             &
             wearisomnes
             .
             
             For
             (
             as
             saith
             Ovid
             ,
             )
             that
             vvhatsoeuer
             it
             be
             ,
             cannot
             long
             continue
             vvhich
             hath
             not
             sometimes
             rest
             ,
             which
             incessantly
             toileth
             ;
             this
             repose
             according
             to
             Plutarch
             
             is
             the
             restore
             of
             labours
             burthen
             ,
             as
             also
             of
             minds
             agitation
             ,
             and
             eares
             .
             It
             is
             written
             of
             kinge
             Amasis
             ,
             that
             vvhen
             so
             he
             had
             dispatched
             his
             graue
             and
             serious
             affaires
             ,
             hee
             vvould
             à
             vvhile
             be
             pleasant
             and
             recreate
             himselfe
             amōg
             his
             familiar
             freinds
             and
             fauorites
             :
             and
             it
             is
             rehearsed
             of
             Sceuola
             that
             in
             part
             of
             his
             leasure
             and
             out
             of
             hovvers
             from
             his
             charge
             ,
             he
             vvould
             passe
             time
             in
             playing
             at
             hand
             ball
             :
             and
             although
             it
             is
             deliuered
             of
             CHRIST
             our
             Lord
             (
             to
             leaue
             the
             examples
             of
             the
             Gentiles
             )
             it
             is
             noe
             vvhere
             read
             that
             he
             
             laughed
             ,
             
             but
             that
             he
             hath
             wept
             ,
             as
             namely
             in
             the
             raising
             of
             Lazarus
             ,
             
             and
             vpon
             the
             vngratefull
             citty
             of
             Ierusalem
             ,
             and
             vpon
             the
             sacred
             vvood
             of
             the
             Crosse
             ;
             
             Not-vvithstanding
             he
             some
             times
             tooke
             out
             his
             disciples
             into
             the
             feildes
             ,
             whē
             so
             he
             thought
             it
             expedient
             for
             recreation
             sake
             and
             spake
             to
             them
             in
             this
             manner
             :
             Vnweary
             your selues
             ,
             repose
             à
             while
             ,
             take
             breath
             againe
             ,
             recouer
             your
             spirits
             ,
             and
             enioy
             the
             fresh
             aire
             (
             yee
             are
             indeed
             men
             ,
             hence
             vveake
             ,
             subjects
             of
             sufferances
             (
             yee
             are
             in
             à
             word
             mortall
             men
             )
             that
             yee
             may
             be
             hence
             enabled
             to
             reassume
             your
             vocations
             and
             dueties
             vvith
             à
             more
             liuely
             and
             rigourous
             spirit
             .
             So
             that
             by
             the
             former
             Chapters
             deliuered
             vve
             condemne
             not
             altogether
             time
             spent
             in
             sports
             ,
             pastimes
             ,
             recreations
             ,
             and
             entertainements
             ,
             
             solaces
             ,
             and
             glorious
             shevves
             ,
             fights
             ,
             which
             haue
             in
             them
             such
             scope
             ,
             such
             end
             ,
             such
             motiues
             and
             reasons
             ;
             but
             vve
             ,
             vvillingly
             counsaile
             and
             vvarne
             ,
             that
             necessary
             it
             is
             to
             keepe
             order
             ,
             and
             temperance
             ,
             &
             moderation
             in
             these
             things
             which
             are
             reall
             and
             serious
             ,
             much
             more
             in
             friuolous
             toyes
             ,
             in
             vvhich
             some
             times
             very
             graue
             men
             doe
             forget
             themselues
             some
             vvhat
             ,
             such
             is
             the
             danger
             of
             excesse
             .
             Therefore
             that
             (
             according
             to
             the
             Apostle
             )
             à
             Christian
             ought
             to
             doe
             all
             things
             in
             good
             order
             ,
             
             he
             should
             set
             down
             à
             taske
             ,
             
             and
             measure
             on
             his
             recreations
             ,
             and
             on
             that
             time
             which
             is
             passed
             in
             them
             ,
             and
             hence
             is
             there
             à
             known
             vertue
             called
             Eutrapelia
             ,
             or
             like
             à
             true
             vnderstanding
             courtly
             and
             vvell-bred
             gentleman
             ,
             answereable
             to
             vvhich
             God
             Almighty
             vvould
             that
             men
             doe
             so
             recreate
             
             themselues
             (
             as
             wrot
             
               Saint
               Ambrose
            
             ,
             )
             that
             they
             loose
             not
             their
             grauity
             altogether
             whilst
             they
             are
             in
             their
             pastimes
             ,
             
             for
             the
             harmony
             of
             àgētile
             life
             and
             liuing
             vvell
             ,
             is
             not
             to
             be
             dissolued
             ,
             is
             not
             to
             be
             disordered
             .
             And
             Aristotle
             asseuereth
             that
             litle
             recreation
             is
             enough
             to
             sustaine
             life
             with
             ,
             
             as
             doth
             a
             small
             portion
             of
             salt
             serue
             to
             giue
             season
             to
             meate
             in
             its
             right
             preparation
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             palate
             ,
             and
             that
             recreation
             should
             be
             vsed
             to
             its
             end
             as
             is
             salt
             to
             the
             other
             :
             And
             in
             like
             manner
             pastime
             and
             entertainements
             ought
             to
             be
             lawfull
             ,
             then
             of
             no
             long
             continuance
             ,
             seldome
             ,
             faire
             conditioned
             ,
             and
             without
             the
             preiudice
             of
             any
             body
             ,
             and
             accōmodated
             to
             the
             time
             ,
             place
             ,
             and
             persons
             ,
             and
             so
             tempered
             with
             à
             fit
             moderatiō
             ,
             that
             it
             proue
             not
             à
             hinderance
             vvhich
             is
             ordained
             ,
             
             is
             appointed
             for
             à
             helpe
             ,
             and
             furtherance
             and
             for
             à
             solace
             ,
             nor
             let
             that
             be
             an
             impediment
             of
             vertuous
             exercises
             ,
             and
             your
             expresse
             duetyes
             which
             is
             destined
             to
             repaire
             ,
             and
             recouer
             your
             forces
             ,
             and
             full
             vigour
             ,
             and
             be
             the
             better
             able
             in
             accomplishments
             by
             their
             meanes
             without
             want
             ;
             Wherfore
             now
             that
             it
             is
             adjudged
             good
             that
             vve
             repaire
             the
             weaknes
             of
             our
             nature
             ,
             &
             reinforce
             it
             ,
             and
             giue
             it
             animosity
             and
             spirit
             ,
             so
             on
             the
             other
             part
             the
             selfe
             same
             is
             so
             great
             an
             enimy
             of
             labour
             ,
             paines
             taking
             ,
             and
             pennance
             ,
             and
             so
             vnbridledly
             vvithout
             all
             rule
             and
             order
             doth
             affect
             and
             doth
             appetit
             and
             couet
             pleasures
             ;
             if
             so
             that
             there
             be
             not
             much
             care
             taken
             and
             that
             meane
             be
             not
             obserued
             in
             vvhich
             the
             vertues
             are
             placed
             ,
             idlenes
             taketh
             place
             easily
             and
             vice
             is
             entertained
             
             for
             labour
             ,
             and
             wearisomnes
             is
             no
             way
             admitted
             of
             ,
             so
             falleth
             it
             out
             ,
             and
             to
             such
             passe
             is
             it
             come
             vvhen
             the
             inward
             man
             is
             out
             of
             frame
             ,
             and
             so
             desisteth
             from
             labour
             and
             due
             entertainements
             ,
             exercises
             ,
             &
             practizes
             ,
             there
             cannot
             be
             beheld
             à
             person
             more
             heartlesse
             ,
             sluggish
             ,
             lither
             ,
             and
             lesse
             apt
             ,
             one
             altogether
             indisposed
             .
             Hence
             the
             Philosophers
             ,
             and
             the
             Ciuill
             lawes
             haue
             ordained
             and
             prescribed
             and
             assigned
             certaine
             boundes
             :
             Aud
             vvho
             vvill
             not
             professe
             ,
             and
             vvith
             all
             reason
             maintaine
             that
             the
             recreations
             of
             Christians
             ought
             to
             surpasse
             them
             in
             moderation
             ,
             &
             grauity
             and
             sobriety
             ,
             and
             that
             they
             ought
             to
             be
             according
             to
             the
             squares
             &
             rules
             of
             Iustice
             farre
             beyond
             those
             of
             the
             Philosophers
             ,
             or
             Ciuill
             Lavves
             haue
             either
             permitted
             or
             granted
             .
          
           
           
             The
             Lacedemonians
             tooke
             great
             care
             that
             none
             breathing
             should
             loose
             their
             time
             ,
             
             norliue
             idly
             ,
             nor
             passe
             it
             of
             in
             jestings
             ,
             and
             fopperyes
             ,
             and
             in
             such
             like
             as
             are
             called
             witty
             sayings
             ,
             but
             in
             workes
             and
             in
             right
             worthy
             and
             vertuous
             exercises
             and
             practises
             :
             Hence
             vvhen
             as
             the
             Gouernour
             of
             many
             people
             among
             whom
             were
             those
             of
             De●aleya
             was
             informed
             that
             they
             who
             liued
             there
             carelesly
             and
             without
             regard
             walked
             vp
             and
             downe
             ,
             vvrote
             them
             à
             letter
             to
             this
             purpose
             :
             Walke
             not
             vp
             and
             downe
             so
             much
             to
             satisfie
             your
             selues
             ,
             and
             for
             recreation
             ,
             but
             so
             farre
             forth
             as
             may
             concerne
             the
             exercise
             of
             your
             bodyes
             ,
             for
             expedient
             it
             is
             that
             the
             Lacedemonians
             acquire
             &
             conserue
             their
             health
             not
             vvith
             walking
             ,
             but
             with
             exercising
             themselues
             in
             those
             things
             which
             are
             
             lawfull
             ,
             and
             vvhence
             may
             be
             deriued
             profit
             .
             There
             are
             many
             allowable
             conditions
             ,
             
             and
             occasions
             ,
             and
             times
             in
             vvhich
             to
             play
             &
             passe
             of
             some
             time
             vould
             proue
             vertuous
             ,
             as
             vvhen
             it
             vvere
             necessary
             that
             à
             man
             might
             be
             hence
             made
             the
             better
             able
             to
             doe
             his
             offices
             ,
             &
             charges
             on
             him
             laid
             ,
             and
             by
             them
             to
             satisfy
             ,
             they
             being
             vertuous
             and
             answereable
             to
             the
             seruice
             of
             our
             Lord
             that
             he
             may
             not
             faile
             in
             his
             wayand
             that
             according
             to
             the
             Prouerbe
             ,
             he
             fling
             not
             his
             burthen
             in
             the
             mire
             .
             But
             by
             degrees
             by
             litle
             ,
             and
             litle
             as
             it
             were
             insensibly
             Custome
             hath
             crept
             in
             ,
             and
             pastimes
             are
             so
             differently
             vsed
             from
             the
             end
             &
             intent
             for
             which
             they
             were
             fir●
             inuented
             ,
             especially
             after
             that
             in
             certaine
             entertainements
             coueteousnes
             ,
             and
             interest
             of
             gaine
             hath
             crossed
             and
             ouerthwarted
             ,
             
             these
             such
             gaming
             's
             I
             vnderstand
             vvith
             the
             rest
             to
             be
             hurtfull
             ,
             and
             that
             so
             farre
             is
             it
             that
             they
             are
             helpes
             ,
             assistances
             to
             accomplish
             the
             better
             their
             offices
             ,
             and
             their
             expresse
             and
             precise
             duetyes
             that
             they
             owe
             to
             God
             ,
             and
             their
             conscience
             ,
             as
             that
             they
             are
             directly
             found
             to
             be
             impediments
             ,
             lets
             ,
             hinderāces
             ,
             and
             euident
             cause
             that
             there
             arise
             many
             imperfections
             and
             vvhat
             worse
             is
             many
             foule
             offēces
             against
             the
             Majesty
             of
             God
             as
             are
             lies
             ,
             false
             oathes
             ,
             impatience
             ,
             furious
             ire
             ;
             and
             quarrells
             ,
             which
             customarily
             beget
             disgusts
             ,
             distasts
             ,
             ill
             language
             ,
             enmityes
             ,
             and
             malitious
             rancours
             ,
             hence
             doe
             I
             account
             that
             which
             is
             passed
             in
             such
             gaming
             's
             &
             wagers
             to
             be
             ill
             employed
             ,
             and
             vtterly
             lost
             ;
             To
             visite
             one
             another
             and
             interchangeably
             ,
             to
             communicate
             charity
             ,
             is
             à
             very
             lawfull
             recreation
             ,
             
             and
             is
             necessary
             to
             the
             cōseruation
             of
             freindshipp
             among
             them
             ;
             ansvverably
             to
             this
             à
             Philosopher
             sayed
             ,
             that
             silēce
             hath
             broken
             of
             ,
             hath
             cutt
             of
             many
             freindshipps
             .
             The
             discourses
             of
             comforts
             &
             crosses
             one
             to
             another
             ,
             doe
             ease
             one
             another
             ;
             and
             hence
             they
             continue
             freindshipp
             .
             But
             I
             vvill
             ingeniously
             &
             freely
             deliuer
             my
             minde
             ,
             many
             visits
             in
             these
             dayes
             are
             so
             tedious
             ,
             &
             without
             any
             benefit
             ,
             or
             good
             to
             be
             hence
             acquired
             ,
             and
             to
             so
             much
             prejudice
             of
             thy
             neighbour
             ,
             and
             of
             those
             who
             are
             absent
             ,
             or
             are
             such
             ,
             as
             that
             all
             which
             is
             treated
             of
             is
             meere
             vanity
             ,
             vvorldly
             ,
             &
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             &
             of
             it's
             language
             ,
             as
             that
             I
             esteeme
             them
             for
             dāgerous
             ,
             and
             for
             time
             ill
             employed
             ,
             &
             time
             meerely
             lost
             ,
             being
             past
             of
             in
             such
             like
             visits
             ;
             &
             I
             beleeue
             that
             the
             tongue
             is
             that
             which
             hath
             consumed
             
             most
             time
             &
             vnthriftily
             scattered
             it
             for
             this
             worme
             neuer
             ceaseth
             or
             is
             weary
             ,
             and
             his
             fire
             is
             that
             which
             dilateth
             it selfe
             most
             at
             large
             ,
             and
             his
             spotts
             are
             such
             as
             are
             most
             spred
             although
             by
             litle
             and
             litle
             ,
             and
             this
             moth
             is
             that
             vvhich
             destroyeth
             more
             cloathes
             ,
             nor
             spareth
             it
             those
             which
             are
             of
             the
             finer
             sort
             ▪
             Feasts
             and
             banquetts
             to
             the
             end
             of
             conseruation
             of
             peace
             ,
             freindship
             ,
             and
             concord
             ,
             and
             for
             other
             just
             reason
             ,
             are
             lawfull
             ,
             being
             temperate
             and
             moderate
             as
             they
             ought
             to
             be
             ,
             and
             vvith
             their
             due
             circumstances
             ,
             and
             vvhat
             is
             requisite
             .
             But
             as
             now
             it
             is
             for
             the
             most
             part
             they
             are
             so
             disordinately
             vsed
             ,
             and
             vvith
             so
             great
             excesse
             yea
             so
             long
             ,
             and
             so
             tedious
             ,
             protracted
             to
             so
             many
             howers
             that
             I
             will
             not
             engage
             my selfe
             to
             make
             them
             good
             ,
             nor
             to
             take
             their
             iustification
             on
             my
             conscience
             ,
             for
             
             that
             rather
             my
             iudgement
             is
             convinced
             ,
             that
             their
             time
             is
             ill
             employed
             ,
             and
             the
             most
             part
             thereof
             so
             vtterly
             lost
             .
             Of
             these
             called
             feasts
             ,
             balls
             ,
             or
             great
             meetings
             to
             dau●ce
             I
             know
             not
             what
             to
             say
             ,
             but
             that
             I
             esteeme
             them
             to
             many
             of
             the
             Company
             for
             dangerous
             and
             wanton
             ,
             and
             sometime
             awaken
             him
             who
             sleepeth
             ,
             and
             chāge
             quiet
             soules
             and
             heart
             ,
             &
             disquiet
             them
             ,
             moue
             sedition
             in
             them
             and
             are
             the
             occasiō
             of
             vnlawfull
             thoughts
             ,
             &
             disordinate
             desire
             ,
             I
             hold
             much
             of
             the
             time
             so
             spēt
             ,
             for
             ill
             employed
             and
             lost
             .
             And
             to
             the
             end
             it
             may
             appeare
             with
             what
             discretion
             ,
             and
             moderatiō
             ,
             pleasures
             ,
             recreatiōs
             &
             pastimes
             are
             to
             be
             vsed
             
               Lodouicus
               Blosius
            
             relateth
             that
             the
             sister
             of
             
               S.
               Cosme
            
             &
             Damian
             was
             fififteene
             daies
             in
             purgatory
             ,
             
             for
             no
             other
             cause
             but
             that
             once
             shee
             attentiuely
             obserued
             
             out
             of
             à
             window
             with
             some
             small
             content
             and
             delight
             certaine
             persons
             ,
             who
             in
             the
             streete
             were
             sporting
             ,
             and
             merrily
             iesting
             ,
             playing
             the
             buffons
             .
             And
             he
             writeth
             of
             a
             deuout
             maide
             ,
             that
             shee
             suffered
             there
             à
             longer
             time
             ,
             for
             that
             in
             her
             last
             sicknes
             shee
             had
             eaten
             vvith
             delight
             those
             meates
             which
             vvere
             prepared
             for
             her
             ,
             and
             tooke
             them
             as
             solaces
             and
             entertainements
             vvith
             some
             roote
             of
             earthly
             pleasure
             .
             And
             it
             would
             not
             be
             out
             of
             purpose
             to
             loppe
             and
             cutt
             of
             the
             superfluities
             of
             the
             worlds
             pleasures
             ,
             to
             aptly
             dispose
             here
             in
             this
             place
             vvhat
             the
             diuine
             Chrysostome
             deliuereth
             reprehending
             the
             speeches
             ,
             vvhich
             vsurpe
             the
             name
             of
             jests
             or
             witty
             sayings
             ,
             
             merry
             conceits
             ,
             fond
             and
             ridiculous
             gibings
             ,
             and
             such
             kinde
             of
             carriages
             ,
             especially
             being
             from
             nipping
             and
             biting
             
             tongues
             ,
             &
             who
             season
             them
             with
             malices
             ,
             which
             declare
             themselues
             so
             by
             incōuenien●ies
             which
             hence
             arise
             .
             This
             life
             (
             sayth
             hee
             )
             bretheren
             ,
             &
             its
             course
             is
             a
             time
             of
             warre
             ,
             of
             watch
             ,
             and
             for
             all
             to
             goe
             harnessed
             with
             corslets
             on
             their
             shoulders
             and
             eyes
             quick
             ,
             sprightly
             ,
             and
             attentiue
             against
             the
             ambushes
             of
             the
             enimy
             and
             ponder
             it
             vvell
             ,
             here
             is
             noe
             place
             nor
             time
             of
             laughter
             ,
             that
             belongeth
             to
             those
             of
             the
             world
             and
             to
             it's
             oftsprings
             vvho
             professe
             and
             practize
             their
             lavves
             and
             customes
             and
             abuses
             .
             Heare
             thou
             Christian
             the
             vvords
             of
             our
             Lord
             ,
             
             vvho
             speaketh
             to
             his
             faithfull
             :
             The
             vvorld
             shall
             rejoyce
             and
             laugh
             ;
             but
             yee
             shall
             runne
             the
             course
             in
             grauity
             ,
             soberly
             and
             sadly
             :
             Christ
             vvas
             crucified
             for
             thy
             sinnes
             ,
             and
             buffeted
             ,
             sharply
             strucken
             ,
             and
             thou
             desirest
             to
             passe
             thy
             
             time
             in
             jests
             ,
             scoffs
             ,
             and
             profuse
             laughters
             ,
             and
             pastimes
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             seauenth
             Chapter
             .
          
        
         
           
             THE
             EIGHTH
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             That
             it
             is
             lawfull
             also
             yea
             euen
             necessary
             ,
             that
             spirituall
             men
             vse
             some
             conuenient
             exercise
             ,
             which
             may
             tend
             for
             an
             intermission
             ,
             recreation
             &
             solace
             .
          
           
             THere
             were
             certaine
             Hereticks
             who
             moued
             by
             the
             words
             of
             the
             Euangelist
             .
             
               Saint
               Luck
               ,
               
               it
               is
               expe
               ;
               dient
               to
               pray
               alwayes
               ,
               and
               incessantly
               -
            
             these
             words
             being
             ill
             apprehended
             by
             them
             ,
             they
             brought
             into
             the
             Church
             à
             false
             and
             new
             doctrine
             ,
             teaching
             that
             dayly
             &
             nightly
             ,
             one
             was
             neuer
             to
             cease
             from
             praying
             ,
             &
             
             therein
             they
             should
             passe
             their
             time
             so
             cōtinually
             as
             that
             they
             were
             to
             doe
             nothing
             else
             ,
             without
             any
             intermission
             ,
             &
             that
             à
             man
             should
             not
             employ
             himself
             at
             all
             to
             any
             thing
             whatsoeuer
             else
             .
             But
             with
             expresse
             grounds
             of
             reason
             these
             hereticks
             were
             condemned
             ,
             and
             excōmunicated
             ,
             cutt
             of
             frō
             the
             Church
             ,
             for
             it
             is
             insupportable
             and
             impossible
             ,
             to
             our
             weake
             nature
             to
             pray
             alwaies
             ,
             as
             they
             deliuered
             ,
             nor
             is
             that
             the
             iudgement
             and
             sense
             of
             holy
             Church
             ,
             nor
             hath
             the
             high
             &
             profound
             Trueth
             taught
             any
             such
             doctrine
             .
             And
             what
             in
             those
             words
             are
             taught
             vs
             
               it
               is
               expedient
               yee
               pray
               alwaies
               :
            
             and
             in
             those
             of
             the
             Apostle
             ,
             
               Pray
               without
               intermission
            
             ,
             
             is
             this
             .
             That
             vvhen
             à
             great
             exigent
             occurreth
             to
             petition
             God
             ought
             ,
             
             or
             soe
             vvhen
             as
             vve
             are
             fallen
             into
             some
             vnwonted
             distresse
             ,
             
             tribulation
             or
             aduersity
             and
             are
             euen
             then
             in
             such
             māner
             afflicted
             ,
             vve
             are
             then
             to
             be
             suppliants
             vvith
             great
             instance
             ,
             vvith
             great
             earnestnes
             and
             perseuerance
             once
             ,
             and
             tvvice
             ,
             and
             the
             third
             time
             that
             he
             vvill
             be
             mercifull
             vnto
             vs
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             vvill
             help
             vs
             and
             be
             propitious
             ,
             and
             gratious
             to
             vs
             without
             discouragement
             ,
             vvithout
             ceasing
             ,
             or
             being
             dismayed
             ,
             and
             although
             at
             present
             that
             vvhich
             vve
             impetrate
             for
             ,
             be
             not
             granted
             vs
             ;
             that
             vve
             call
             out
             for
             it
             at
             the
             gate
             of
             his
             mercy
             ,
             vntill
             it
             be
             opened
             vnto
             vs
             ,
             and
             almes
             be
             giuen
             vs
             :
             Then
             it
             wil
             be
             bestovved
             on
             vs
             for
             our
             earnestnes
             our
             importunity
             ,
             
             as
             our
             Lord
             hath
             taught
             vs
             in
             the
             Parable
             of
             the
             Widdovv
             and
             the
             vnjust
             Iudge
             (
             vvhich
             he
             thē
             to
             that
             purporse
             after
             he
             had
             sayed
             it
             is
             
               Expedient
               to
               pray
               euermore
            
             ,
             propounded
             )
             vvho
             
             by
             her
             simple
             importunity
             and
             perseuerance
             therein
             came
             to
             obtaine
             of
             the
             Iudge
             ,
             that
             vvhich
             shee
             so
             earnestly
             petitioned
             for
             ,
             and
             this
             is
             confirmed
             by
             the
             example
             of
             the
             Church
             ,
             vvhich
             prayed
             without
             intermission
             for
             the
             
               Apostle
               S.
               Peter
            
             ,
             
             vvhen
             so
             that
             he
             vvas
             in
             prison
             vntill
             that
             he
             vvas
             freed
             ,
             &
             was
             in
             safety
             .
             And
             likevvise
             he
             is
             said
             to
             pray
             continually
             vvho
             obserueth
             time
             and
             howers
             of
             prayers
             in
             conuenient
             time
             in
             them
             ,
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             
               Dionysins
               Carthusianus
            
             ,
             
             he
             prayeth
             vvithout
             intermission
             ,
             vvho
             prayeth
             in
             due
             seasons
             ,
             in
             fit
             times
             ,
             and
             he
             likewise
             prayeth
             alvvaies
             ,
             vvho
             prayeth
             vvhen
             so
             that
             he
             can
             ,
             and
             that
             occasion
             and
             opportunity
             be
             had
             for
             prayer
             .
             Simon
             of
             Cassia
             doth
             declare
             it
             thus
             :
             
             All
             human
             life
             is
             à
             continuall
             warefare
             and
             temptation
             ,
             and
             through
             the
             
             whole
             course
             of
             our
             liues
             ,
             our
             enimies
             make
             assaults
             against
             vs
             without
             ceasing
             by
             night
             or
             day
             ,
             nor
             can
             we
             by
             meanes
             of
             our
             proper
             guifts
             ouercome
             them
             ,
             or
             withstand
             their
             strengths
             ,
             hence
             it
             is
             expedient
             for
             vs
             to
             pray
             euermore
             ,
             and
             to
             implore
             help
             and
             succour
             of
             our
             Lord
             who
             onely
             can
             conferre
             it
             on
             vs
             ,
             wherefore
             by
             all
             māner
             of
             meanes
             importunate
             and
             earnest
             prayer
             is
             opportune
             .
             And
             this
             such
             like
             is
             not
             so
             to
             be
             mistaken
             ,
             that
             there
             may
             not
             be
             à
             pause
             or
             intermission
             of
             time
             in
             prayer
             ,
             for
             sleep
             requireth
             it's
             due
             ,
             feeding
             it
             's
             ,
             yea
             and
             cloathing
             &
             some
             time
             is
             to
             be
             allowed
             for
             repose
             ,
             &
             men
             are
             to
             employ
             themselues
             in
             arts
             ,
             vocatiōs
             &
             diuerse
             seruices
             ,
             and
             to
             attend
             the
             workes
             of
             corporall
             and
             spirituall
             mercy
             ;
             What
             is
             required
             of
             vs
             is
             that
             in
             fitting
             ,
             conuenient
             ,
             and
             opportune
             time
             for
             prayer
             ,
             we
             
             lift
             vp
             our
             hearts
             and
             minds
             to
             him
             with
             prayer
             and
             humble
             petition
             for
             vvhat
             we
             stand
             in
             need
             of
             ,
             what
             we
             extreamely
             want
             :
             in
             such
             sort
             that
             through
             the
             vvhole
             course
             of
             our
             life
             it
             concerneth
             vs
             to
             pray
             without
             ceasing
             ,
             for
             that
             therein
             is
             not
             found
             one
             day
             or
             hower
             vvherein
             à
             man
             may
             say
             ,
             that
             hee
             hath
             no
             expresse
             need
             thereof
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             may
             decline
             so
             important
             and
             necessary
             à
             custome
             and
             practise
             .
             But
             to
             be
             alwaies
             praying
             vocally
             or
             mentally
             &
             euermore
             without
             any
             ceasing
             ,
             or
             intermission
             ,
             there
             is
             not
             à
             head
             ,
             à
             spirit
             that
             can
             beare
             it
             ,
             nor
             body
             that
             can
             endure
             it
             ,
             nor
             doth
             the
             lawes
             of
             God
             cōmand
             it
             ,
             nor
             oblige
             vs
             so
             farre
             (
             for
             his
             yoke
             is
             sweet
             ,
             and
             his
             burthen
             light
             )
             and
             there
             is
             some
             what
             else
             to
             attend
             to
             ,
             vvhich
             charity
             chalengeth
             and
             necessity
             ,
             vvherein
             there
             is
             much
             
             of
             our
             time
             to
             be
             spent
             ,
             and
             to
             fully
             accomplish
             this
             ,
             be
             à
             man
             neuer
             so
             contemplatiue
             ,
             neuer
             so
             spirituall
             ,
             it
             is
             necessarie
             that
             he
             employ
             himselfe
             in
             some
             entertainement
             and
             lawfull
             exercise
             which
             may
             be
             his
             recreation
             ,
             and
             solace
             ,
             for
             that
             variety
             (
             as
             sayth
             Theodoretus
             )
             acquitteth
             vvearisomnes
             ;
             and
             procureth
             à
             nevv
             minde
             ,
             
             and
             nevv
             desire
             in
             so
             much
             as
             aftervvards
             à
             man
             returneth
             vvith
             more
             ease
             &
             ability
             &
             feruour
             to
             spirituall
             practises
             ,
             and
             à
             nevv
             acquired
             liuelynes
             .
             
             Wherefore
             euen
             as
             Salomon
             the
             most
             vvisest
             in
             that
             his
             most
             discrreete
             judgement
             &
             sentence
             which
             he
             pronounced
             to
             satisfy
             the
             tvvo
             vvomen
             ,
             vvho
             required
             one
             and
             the
             self-same
             child
             ,
             each
             of
             them
             pretending
             that
             it
             was
             hers
             ,
             gaue
             order
             that
             it
             sho●ld
             be
             deuided
             into
             equall
             parts
             ,
             and
             each
             of
             
             them
             should
             take
             their
             assigned
             portions
             Euen
             so
             à
             spirituall
             man
             and
             prudent
             must
             diuide
             his
             time
             betvvene
             the
             body
             ,
             and
             his
             soule
             allotting
             to
             each
             of
             them
             their
             part
             vvhich
             is
             due
             ,
             
             and
             as
             Iacob
             the
             vpright
             married
             tvvo
             vviues
             Rachel
             and
             Lya
             ,
             he
             hath
             to
             practise
             at
             vvhiles
             each
             manner
             of
             life
             ,
             as
             well
             the
             actiue
             ,
             as
             the
             contemplatiue
             ,
             giuing
             the
             most
             he
             can
             ,
             to
             what
             is
             most
             perfect
             and
             excellent
             .
             And
             for
             that
             in
             this
             miserable
             and
             vvreched
             life
             the
             soule
             cannot
             alvvaies
             attend
             to
             that
             which
             appertaineth
             to
             the
             spirit
             ,
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             all
             they
             vvho
             vvrite
             spirituall
             treatises
             ,
             of
             spirituall
             life
             ,
             deliuer
             that
             it
             is
             necessary
             that
             there
             vnto
             be
             allotted
             à
             time
             of
             interposition
             ,
             vvherein
             the
             spirituall
             man
             may
             exercise
             himself
             In
             some
             vvell
             be
             seeming
             ,
             juste
             and
             lawfull
             exercise
             ,
             
             which
             may
             not
             distract
             and
             put
             the
             soule
             out
             of
             order
             ,
             and
             enfeeble
             the
             spirits
             ,
             rather
             that
             hereby
             they
             be
             reinforted
             and
             comforted
             ,
             and
             doe
             the
             office
             of
             help
             and
             refectiō
             .
             Hence
             the
             anncient
             Fathers
             who
             liued
             in
             heremitages
             and
             in
             those
             solitary
             places
             ,
             desarts
             and
             vvildernesses
             of
             Egipt
             vsed
             bodily
             exercises
             ,
             and
             allotted
             times
             for
             thē
             ,
             to
             the
             end
             that
             the
             deuill
             might
             finde
             them
             alwaies
             busied
             either
             in
             corporall
             or
             spirituall
             exercise
             ,
             and
             the
             corporall
             should
             serue
             for
             recreation
             and
             pastime
             ,
             and
             to
             recouer
             spirit
             and
             strength
             for
             the
             spirituall
             .
             And
             in
             like
             manner
             sayth
             
               S.
               Ierome
            
             in
             his
             rule
             ,
             giue
             no
             way
             ,
             no
             entrance
             to
             idle
             ,
             and
             vvandring
             thoughts
             ,
             for
             if
             once
             they
             begin
             to
             be
             Maisters
             of
             thee
             ,
             thou
             shalt
             euidently
             finde
             à
             change
             to
             very
             great
             prejudice
             .
             And
             that
             the
             fiend
             
             find
             thee
             not
             idle
             ,
             take
             this
             course
             .
             vvhen
             thou
             dost
             not
             contemplate
             ,
             entertaine
             thy selfe
             in
             some
             litle
             handy
             worke
             or
             other
             ,
             as
             namely
             make
             à
             litle
             basket
             of
             rushes
             ,
             or
             of
             curious
             fine
             Osiers
             ,
             one
             vvhile
             digg
             in
             à
             garden
             ,
             make
             the
             earth
             fine
             ,
             set
             it
             in
             comely
             order
             ,
             and
             by
             line
             make
             all
             your
             bancks
             and
             garden
             quadrats
             euen
             ;
             sow
             therein
             diuets
             sorts
             of
             pulse
             ,
             plants
             &
             flowers
             ,
             looke
             to
             them
             ,
             &
             take
             care
             that
             by
             watering
             them
             in
             their
             due
             times
             they
             be
             succoured
             ,
             and
             whilst
             the
             litle
             seeds
             sprout
             vp
             ,
             and
             appeare
             as
             grown
             ,
             pull
             vp
             by
             the
             rootes
             the
             weedes
             ,
             and
             you
             may
             if
             you
             like
             well
             plant
             some
             trees
             ,
             from
             vvhich
             you
             may
             in
             their
             due
             season
             gather
             sauory
             and
             looked
             for
             fruite
             ;
             make
             bee-hiues
             to
             which
             the
             labourious
             bees
             may
             make
             their
             recourse
             ,
             and
             there
             liue
             ,
             and
             
             make
             their
             honycombes
             :
             make
             netts
             to
             catch
             fish
             ,
             dravv
             pictures
             ,
             paint
             ,
             or
             limme
             ,
             for
             he
             vvho
             attendeth
             to
             nothing
             ,
             is
             à
             Sea
             of
             thoughts
             ,
             is
             full
             of
             imaginations
             ,
             and
             hence
             is
             it
             that
             the
             Monkes
             of
             Egipt
             receiue
             not
             any
             one
             ,
             vvho
             knoweth
             not
             at
             all
             any
             workmansipp
             ,
             not
             that
             thereby
             they
             may
             get
             their
             meate
             ,
             drinke
             and
             cloth
             ,
             but
             for
             their
             soules
             sake
             ,
             and
             that
             hence
             they
             acquit
             themselues
             of
             idlenes
             ,
             and
             that
             through
             the
             variety
             of
             such
             like
             entertainements
             he
             may
             become
             more
             feruent
             ,
             and
             as
             it
             were
             greedy
             in
             feruour
             of
             spirituall
             exercise
             of
             prayer
             ,
             and
             contemplation
             ,
             which
             practise
             as
             vve
             are
             weake
             cannot
             be
             continuall
             ,
             cannot
             alas
             !
             be
             incessant
             .
             And
             writing
             to
             Demetrius
             he
             thus
             deliuered
             himselfe
             :
             
             It
             concerneth
             you
             much
             ,
             &
             is
             of
             great
             importance
             ,
             that
             you
             
             loose
             no
             time
             ,
             &
             that
             you
             employ
             y
             r
             selfe
             alwayes
             ,
             yea
             &
             euen
             hauing
             saied
             thy
             Primes
             ,
             Terses
             ,
             Sexts
             ,
             nones
             ,
             Vespers
             ,
             Cōplines
             ,
             &
             Mattins
             vvhich
             thou
             art
             to
             daylie
             practise
             ,
             yet
             shalt
             thou
             haue
             houres
             assigned
             thee
             for
             thy
             study
             ,
             and
             to
             serious
             readinge
             of
             holie
             Scriptures
             ,
             and
             to
             the
             informing
             &
             enabling
             thee
             therewith
             ▪
             and
             when
             so
             that
             thou
             hast
             passed
             some
             time
             ,
             and
             the
             care
             of
             thy
             soule
             shall
             haue
             a-wakened
             thee
             and
             moued
             thee
             to
             kneele
             humbly
             and
             often
             on
             the
             ground
             ,
             thou
             shalt
             if
             thou
             wilt
             be
             aduised
             by
             mee
             vse
             some
             corporall
             labour
             or
             some
             manufacture
             in
             thy
             cutt
             of
             howers
             ,
             in
             the
             houres
             thou
             hast
             to
             spare
             ,
             as
             the
             worke
             made
             of
             wooll
             or
             Cotton
             ,
             spinne
             flax
             ,
             or
             wind
             vp
             yarne
             ,
             worke
             with
             the
             needle
             à
             while
             or
             some
             such
             like
             worke
             or
             entertainement
             of
             
             time
             :
             for
             if
             so
             that
             you
             employ
             your
             time
             ,
             the
             dayes
             will
             neuer
             seeme
             long
             but
             euen
             very
             short
             .
             And
             diuine
             Bernard
             in
             the
             treatise
             of
             à
             solitary
             life
             aduiseth
             the
             same
             ,
             
             saying
             :
             After
             the
             daylie
             sacrifice
             of
             prayers
             ,
             after
             study
             ,
             after
             examination
             &
             discussion
             of
             conscience
             ,
             thou
             shalt
             giue
             thy selfe
             to
             some
             entertainement
             ,
             or
             corporall
             exercise
             where
             with
             the
             soule
             may
             solace
             and
             recreate
             it selfe
             à
             while
             ,
             and
             breathing
             time
             ,
             without
             that
             it
             be
             distracted
             ,
             or
             remisse
             ,
             out
             of
             which
             when
             thou
             wilt
             and
             shalt
             finde
             it
             expedient
             ,
             thou
             canst
             not
             deliuer
             thy selfe
             ,
             &
             freely
             part
             from
             without
             some
             difficulty
             .
             
             For
             euen
             as
             man
             was
             not
             ereated
             for
             à
             woman
             ,
             but
             à
             vvoman
             for
             à
             man
             ;
             euen
             so
             corporall
             exercise
             is
             for
             spirituall
             and
             for
             to
             assist
             it
             ,
             and
             not
             to
             bee
             à
             hinderance
             to
             it
             .
             And
             euen
             as
             the
             
             companion
             vvhich
             God
             gaue
             to
             Adam
             ,
             vvas
             very
             like
             to
             him
             and
             made
             of
             his
             ribbe
             asvvell
             bone
             as
             flesh
             ,
             euen
             so
             the
             help
             and
             exercise
             vvhich
             hath
             to
             accompany
             spirituall
             life
             ,
             ought
             to
             haue
             à
             proportion
             and
             solicitude
             to
             the
             spirituall
             state
             ,
             and
             to
             symbolize
             and
             correspond
             vvith
             it
             ,
             euen
             as
             it
             is
             to
             meditate
             any
             thinge
             one
             vvrit
             ,
             or
             vvrite
             ought
             one
             hath
             read
             ,
             for
             vvere
             it
             soe
             that
             they
             vvere
             workes
             of
             great
             labour
             and
             wearisomnes
             ,
             oppressing
             the
             spirits
             and
             senses
             much
             and
             vvearing
             the
             body
             ,
             the
             spirits
             viuacity
             &
             deuotion
             would
             hence
             proue
             lessened
             ,
             grovve
             weake
             and
             alas
             !
             feeble
             and
             cold
             .
             Yet
             let
             the
             religious
             and
             spirituall
             person
             be
             aduertised
             that
             long
             time
             bee
             not
             consumed
             in
             corporall
             exercises
             but
             breife
             ,
             and
             in
             such
             manner
             
             that
             easily
             he
             from
             them
             call
             himselfe
             to
             those
             of
             the
             spirit
             ,
             and
             the
             condition
             thereof
             ought
             not
             goe
             alone
             ,
             and
             euen
             solely
             such
             ,
             but
             it
             ought
             to
             be
             accompanied
             and
             to
             be
             associated
             vvith
             that
             of
             the
             spirit
             .
             Corporall
             exercises
             are
             those
             vvhich
             are
             vnder
             the
             denominatiō
             of
             manufactures
             ,
             handy-vvorkes
             ;
             for
             others
             vvherein
             necessary
             it
             is
             that
             the
             body
             take
             paines
             ,
             and
             suffer
             vvatches
             ,
             fastings
             ,
             austerityes
             ,
             and
             such
             like
             penances
             ,
             and
             sharpes
             and
             mortifications
             do
             not
             onely
             not
             hinder
             ,
             nor
             dravv
             on
             any
             prejudice
             to
             the
             spirit
             ,
             nor
             are
             they
             workes
             aduerse
             to
             it
             ;
             but
             farre
             othervvise
             they
             are
             favourers
             and
             friends
             ,
             be
             it
             so
             that
             they
             be
             vsed
             vvith
             discretion
             ,
             vvit
             ,
             and
             ansvvereable
             to
             true
             iudgement
             .
             And
             the
             same
             Bernard
             writing
             
             to
             à
             certaine
             sister
             of
             his
             (
             à
             Nunne
             )
             delivereth
             himselfe
             in
             this
             :
             
             the
             seruant
             of
             GOD
             must
             alwaies
             either
             read
             ,
             pray
             ,
             or
             worke
             ,
             left
             that
             the
             luxurious
             spirit
             get
             advantage
             and
             possesse
             it selfe
             of
             an
             idle
             spirit
             ;
             carnall
             pleasures
             are
             overcome
             with
             busines
             ,
             paines-taking
             ,
             and
             employments
             .
             Diuide
             thy
             day
             (
             Sister
             )
             into
             three
             parts
             ,
             in
             the
             first
             ,
             pray
             ;
             in
             the
             second
             ,
             read
             ;
             in
             the
             third
             ,
             doe
             some
             or
             other
             labour
             ,
             and
             handy-worke
             .
             Prayer
             ,
             doth
             purifie
             vs
             ;
             reading
             ,
             doth
             teach
             vs
             ;
             and
             labour
             gaineth
             vs
             happinesse
             ,
             according
             to
             what
             David
             sayed
             .
             Thou
             shalt
             be
             blessed
             ,
             
             and
             thy
             affaires
             all
             vvill
             haue
             good
             successe
             ,
             because
             thou
             shalt
             eate
             of
             the
             labours
             and
             works
             of
             thy
             hands
             :
             And
             he
             vvho
             shall
             dispose
             and
             passe
             his
             time
             ouer
             ,
             shall
             haue
             
             no
             account
             to
             giue
             to
             God
             for
             time
             ill
             employed
             and
             lost
             ,
             nor
             shall
             hee
             haue
             time
             to
             lament
             of
             ,
             to
             complaine
             of
             ,
             nor
             to
             accuse
             himselfe
             at
             the
             day
             of
             Iudgement
             that
             he
             neglected
             time
             ,
             cast
             away
             time
             ,
             lost
             time
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             Eighth
             Chapter
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             THE
             NINTH
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             Of
             the
             meanes
             to
             redeeme
             time
             ,
             where
             shal
             be
             giuen
             to
             vnderstand
             more
             expresly
             who
             are
             they
             ,
             and
             of
             what
             condition
             they
             are
             who
             lose
             it
             .
          
           
             The
             
               Apostle
               Saint
               Paul
            
             among
             other
             doctrines
             ,
             exhortations
             and
             counsailes
             that
             he
             giueth
             to
             the
             Ephesians
             ,
             and
             vnder
             them
             to
             all
             Christian
             people
             ,
             after
             that
             hee
             had
             admonished
             them
             that
             they
             should
             beware
             of
             Luxury
             and
             couetousnes
             ,
             and
             of
             all
             other
             workes
             of
             darkenes
             ,
             and
             that
             they
             converse
             not
             ,
             
             cōmunicate
             not
             with
             hereticks
             the
             enimies
             of
             light
             ,
             these
             are
             his
             words
             
               Videte
               quomodo
               cautè
               ambuletis
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             You
             haue
             well
             seene
             already
             how
             many
             dangers
             there
             are
             
             and
             traps
             ,
             snares
             ,
             impediments
             &
             ambushes
             in
             the
             way
             to
             heauen
             ,
             and
             how
             many
             theeues
             ,
             pirats
             and
             enimies
             ;
             hence
             vvell
             obserue
             ,
             and
             take
             tender
             &
             most
             solicitous
             care
             how
             you
             trauaile
             ,
             stand
             on
             your
             guard
             prudently
             ,
             and
             that
             vvith
             very
             great
             sollicitude
             and
             cautelousnes
             ,
             vvith
             watch
             and
             circumspection
             that
             you
             miserably
             fall
             not
             into
             their
             hāds
             ;
             Runne
             not
             the
             course
             of
             fooles
             ,
             but
             entertaine
             the
             discretion
             of
             the
             wise
             ,
             discreete
             ,
             prudent
             ,
             subtle
             ,
             and
             sound
             solid
             men
             ,
             that
             vvell
             know
             what
             to
             doe
             ;
             and
             hee
             following
             his
             intent
             and
             continuing
             his
             discourse
             sayeth
             :
             
               Redimentes
               tempus
               ,
               &c.
            
             
             Redeeming
             time
             ,
             for
             the
             dayes
             are
             ill
             ,
             
             and
             the
             first
             exposition
             of
             the
             first
             vvords
             is
             
               Saint
               Ierom's
            
             (
             the
             later
             shal
             be
             explaned
             in
             the
             following
             Chapter
             )
             
             time
             vnto
             men
             that
             they
             might
             therein
             serue
             him
             ,
             and
             that
             they
             might
             employ
             themselues
             in
             good
             workes
             and
             meritorious
             (
             vvhich
             is
             at
             large
             read
             in
             the
             second
             Chapter
             )
             hence
             appeareth
             it
             ,
             that
             they
             loose
             time
             ,
             vvhen
             so
             they
             employ
             it
             ill
             ,
             and
             vnvvorthily
             ,
             as
             in
             bad
             workes
             (
             which
             is
             the
             true
             losse
             most
             culpable
             ,
             most
             to
             be
             blamed
             and
             most
             to
             be
             deplored
             )
             and
             euen
             so
             hath
             ,
             time
             to
             be
             redeemed
             ,
             to
             be
             ransomed
             by
             the
             doing
             of
             good
             workes
             ;
             and
             then
             à
             man
             buyeth
             &
             redeemeth
             it
             and
             maketh
             it
             his
             owne
             proper
             ,
             vvhich
             was
             formerly
             detained
             ,
             impawned
             ,
             engaged
             ,
             nay
             sold.
             The
             second
             declaratiō
             is
             this
             :
             Many
             times
             God
             Almighty
             doth
             shorten
             ,
             and
             cutt
             of
             sinners
             from
             daies
             and
             time
             ,
             vvhich
             according
             to
             the
             course
             of
             nature
             they
             were
             to
             runne
             ,
             had
             they
             been
             good
             (
             as
             
             the
             third
             Chapter
             sheweth
             )
             so
             that
             the
             just
             ,
             the
             vertuous
             ,
             and
             vvho
             so
             employeth
             his
             time
             vvell
             ,
             redeemeth
             it
             ,
             ransometh
             it
             ,
             for
             he
             doth
             recover
             and
             re-assume
             that
             part
             of
             time
             ,
             and
             space
             of
             life
             ,
             that
             though
             he
             were
             à
             sinner
             ,
             God
             Almighty
             as
             à
             just
             judge
             will
             acquitt
             him
             ,
             and
             it
             so
             happily
             falleth
             out
             ,
             that
             he
             liveth
             to
             his
             full
             yeares
             destined
             him
             ,
             and
             dyeth
             enioying
             à
             long
             course
             of
             life
             and
             many
             years
             .
             The
             third
             exposition
             is
             ,
             that
             he
             ransometh
             time
             ,
             who
             parteth
             vvith
             parcell
             thereof
             from
             vvordly
             affaires
             to
             offer
             it
             vp
             to
             God
             ,
             and
             in
             serious
             applying
             himselfe
             to
             God
             ,
             and
             to
             enjoying
             of
             inward
             comfort
             of
             his
             soule
             ,
             and
             that
             seeming
             to
             doe
             nothing
             he
             employeth
             it
             in
             an
             holy
             vacancy
             from
             worldly
             addictions
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             exāple
             of
             
               S.
               Mary
               Magdalene
            
             .
             
             And
             also
             he
             who
             carefully
             
             and
             strictly
             boundeth
             his
             time
             ,
             in
             so
             much
             as
             he
             abridgeth
             it's
             addiction
             to
             tēporall
             affaires
             ,
             &
             maketh
             as
             litle
             consuming
             thereof
             as
             he
             can
             ,
             as
             it
             were
             some
             what
             purloyneth
             or
             onely
             stealeth
             some
             time
             for
             necessary
             affaires
             and
             requisite
             for
             the
             body
             ,
             and
             yet
             herein
             saueth
             some
             thing
             for
             the
             soule
             ,
             &
             for
             it's
             good
             and
             profit
             ;
             &
             this
             is
             as
             it
             were
             à
             redeeming
             of
             time
             ,
             and
             to
             allow
             for
             it
             that
             which
             one
             vvould
             spare
             from
             other
             occasions
             ,
             and
             decline
             them
             .
             And
             although
             this
             edēptiō
             and
             ransome
             (
             from
             the
             delights
             &
             pleasures
             wherewith
             mankind
             is
             taken
             )
             is
             sensible
             ,
             as
             is
             it
             for
             one
             very
             hungry
             to
             be
             abridged
             of
             food
             ,
             not
             with
             stāding
             à
             man
             must
             necessarily
             vse
             all
             his
             strength
             and
             power
             ,
             yea
             vt-most
             forces
             and
             procure
             with
             all
             earnestnes
             to
             difengage
             à
             thing
             so
             valuable
             &
             of
             so
             great
             
             vvorth
             as
             is
             that
             of
             time
             ,
             since
             pastimes
             and
             vnlavvfull
             entertainements
             and
             superfluous
             vvere
             the
             moneys
             and
             price
             ,
             for
             vvhich
             he
             sould
             it
             to
             the
             deuill
             ,
             being
             notably
             deceiued
             in
             the
             sale
             ,
             to
             his
             great
             affliction
             ,
             asvvell
             for
             the
             losse
             of
             time
             ,
             as
             also
             for
             its
             great
             val●evv
             &
             vvorth
             .
             And
             ansvverable
             to
             what
             is
             here
             delivered
             is
             sayed
             by
             the
             glorious
             Doctor
             of
             the
             Church
             
               Saint
               Austine
               ,
               
               to
               redeeme
               time
               ,
            
             is
             this
             :
             Whensoeuer
             any
             one
             moueth
             à
             suite
             in
             Lavve
             ,
             à
             plea
             against
             thy
             estate
             ,
             loose
             some
             vvhat
             to
             winne
             time
             to
             serue
             God
             ,
             and
             cutt
             of
             the
             time
             vvhich
             thou
             vvert
             to
             loose
             in
             thy
             suites
             and
             that
             vvhich
             thou
             thinkest
             that
             thou
             loosest
             ,
             thou
             winnest
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             the
             price
             and
             valievv
             vvith
             vvhich
             thou
             art
             made
             Maister
             of
             time
             ,
             vvho
             hath
             any
             thing
             to
             be
             depriued
             of
             for
             gaine
             ,
             
             in
             vvhich
             he
             sayth
             that
             God
             gaue
             and
             to
             buy
             :
             for
             if
             so
             thou
             goe
             into
             the
             market
             ,
             and
             buy-est
             bread
             or
             wine
             or
             oile
             ,
             or
             other
             merchādise
             ;
             thou
             partest
             from
             one
             thinge
             ,
             receiuest
             another
             ,
             leauest
             thy
             money
             ,
             partest
             from
             it
             ,
             and
             makest
             good
             thy
             commerce
             and
             traffique
             ,
             for
             this
             is
             the
             manner
             of
             buyng
             and
             selling
             ,
             of
             traffique
             ;
             Then
             if
             thou
             shalt
             giue
             nothing
             ,
             nor
             haue
             lesse
             then
             thou
             hadst
             before
             ,
             and
             yet
             shouldst
             possesse
             more
             ,
             either
             it
             must
             be
             that
             thou
             hast
             found
             it
             ,
             or
             that
             thou
             art
             heire
             of
             it
             ,
             or
             that
             it
             was
             giuen
             vnto
             thee
             in
             curtesy
             ;
             but
             when
             so
             that
             thou
             giuest
             and
             partest
             vvith
             one
             thing
             for
             an
             other
             ,
             and
             dost
             giue
             out
             from
             thy
             house
             in
             barter
             for
             some
             vvhat
             that
             is
             necessary
             for
             thee
             ,
             then
             dost
             thou
             traffick
             ;
             and
             that
             vvhich
             thou
             
             possessest
             ,
             is
             vvhat
             thou
             boughtest
             ,
             and
             vvhat
             thou
             partedst
             vvith
             ,
             and
             hast
             not
             ,
             is
             the
             price
             where
             with
             thou
             boughtest
             it
             .
             The
             divine
             Chrysostome
             declareth
             it
             in
             this
             following
             manner
             :
             
             To
             redeeme
             time
             (
             brother
             )
             is
             the
             selfe
             same
             as
             is
             the
             taking
             hold
             of
             opportunity
             &
             occasion
             offered
             ,
             and
             in
             being
             time
             is
             not
             thine
             owne
             to
             neglect
             it
             ,
             or
             more
             to
             despise
             it
             ,
             and
             that
             without
             sinne
             thou
             mayest
             play
             it
             away
             ,
             &
             cast
             it
             of
             to
             ill
             purpose
             (
             euē
             as
             another
             sayth
             that
             hee
             may
             dispose
             ,
             of
             his
             money
             at
             will
             ,
             so
             that
             he
             may
             euē
             play
             it
             away
             ,
             and
             throw
             it
             in
             the
             river
             if
             such
             be
             his
             humour
             for
             that
             he
             is
             Lord
             thereof
             )
             although
             it
             be
             thine
             owne
             ,
             for
             that
             it
             is
             in
             thy
             povver
             and
             frewill
             to
             employ
             it
             vvell
             ,
             or
             no
             ;
             Yee
             are
             strangers
             here
             and
             passingers
             ,
             and
             since
             such
             is
             your
             state
             ,
             seeke
             not
             after
             
             honors
             ,
             nor
             hunt
             after
             vaine
             glory
             nor
             riches
             ,
             dignities
             and
             authorities
             ,
             revenges
             ,
             nor
             points
             of
             honor
             .
             Patiently
             suffer
             euery
             thing
             vvhich
             happeneth
             to
             the
             contrary
             of
             thy
             expectation
             ,
             as
             also
             to
             thy
             content
             ,
             and
             be
             amidst
             them
             patient
             and
             meeke
             ,
             in
             so
             doing
             thou
             redeemest
             time
             ,
             and
             doth
             ransome
             it
             :
             Moreover
             be
             good
             &
             charitable
             to
             thy
             enimies
             and
             adversaries
             ,
             and
             give
             vnto
             them
             all
             the
             riches
             thou
             hast
             if
             they
             require
             it
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             be
             necessary
             to
             make
             à
             change
             betweene
             thy
             vvorldly
             vvealth
             and
             sinne
             .
             Imagine
             ,
             faine
             à
             man
             vvho
             hath
             à
             house
             of
             valiew
             ,
             and
             sumptuous
             ,
             and
             very
             magnificently
             furnished
             ,
             and
             that
             certaine
             theeues
             moved
             by
             the
             report
             and
             fame
             thereof
             breake
             into
             this
             palace
             vvith
             firme
             resolution
             
             to
             depriue
             him
             of
             his
             life
             ,
             that
             they
             might
             easily
             robbe
             him
             ,
             and
             that
             hee
             call
             out
             to
             them
             vvith
             à
             pittifull
             and
             commiserable
             voice
             and
             say
             thus
             much
             :
             Oh!
             alas
             !
             for
             the
             passion
             of
             our
             saviour
             ,
             for
             the
             loue
             of
             God
             (
             freinds
             )
             kill
             mee
             not
             for
             pitty
             sake
             ,
             for
             I
             vvill
             not
             vvithstand
             you
             ,
             saue
             my
             life
             ,
             and
             take
             my
             goods
             ,
             I
             vvill
             give
             you
             all
             treasure
             in
             my
             house
             ;
             and
             euen
             he
             parteth
             from
             all
             vvhatsoeuer
             they
             demand
             ;
             euen
             then
             of
             such
             an
             one
             vvee
             vvill
             speake
             and
             decypher
             ,
             who
             doth
             ransome
             his
             life
             ;
             In
             like
             manner
             hast
             thou
             (
             brother
             )
             à
             goodly
             palace
             and
             rich
             jewells
             ,
             &
             of
             great
             valiew
             ,
             thou
             hast
             à
             soule
             ,
             vvhich
             is
             the
             lively
             temple
             of
             God
             and
             his
             house
             and
             dwelling
             place
             ,
             thou
             art
             endowed
             vvith
             faith
             ,
             hope
             and
             charity
             ,
             and
             other
             vertues
             ,
             &
             guifts
             of
             his
             infinite
             goodnes
             giue
             
             them
             their
             demaunds
             ,
             giue
             I
             say
             whatsoeuer
             they
             aske
             and
             part
             with
             all
             thy
             estate
             ,
             when
             so
             it
             be
             requisite
             and
             necessary
             ,
             in
             exchange
             ,
             not
             to
             loose
             the
             life
             of
             the
             soule
             :
             and
             this
             is
             the
             manner
             and
             true
             course
             to
             ransome
             it
             ,
             and
             thou
             redeemest
             time
             which
             shoulest
             thou
             not
             doe
             ,
             thine
             enimies
             would
             take
             thee
             captive
             ,
             thy
             time
             vvould
             be
             lost
             .
             Sinners
             ransome
             time
             which
             they
             lost
             ,
             be
             it
             that
             they
             follow
             the
             counsaile
             of
             the
             Prophet
             Baruch
             ,
             
             vvhen
             he
             sayeth
             :
             
               Sicut
               fuit
               sensus
               vester
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             Convert
             your selues
             to
             God
             ,
             and
             after
             thon
             art
             conuerted
             to
             him
             through
             thy
             penance
             ,
             serue
             him
             tenfold
             more
             ,
             vvith
             farre
             greater
             sollicitude
             ,
             care
             ,
             feruor
             ,
             diligence
             ,
             and
             earnest
             attention
             ,
             then
             vvas
             that
             thou
             employedst
             in
             parting
             from
             him
             in
             falling
             of
             from
             thy
             duety
             ,
             and
             in
             offending
             him
             ,
             and
             
             in
             ill
             casting
             away
             thy
             time
             .
             They
             shall
             redeeme
             their
             time
             likewise
             who
             doe
             answereably
             to
             what
             
               Saint
               Paul
            
             the
             Apostle
             aduiseth
             ,
             
             giuing
             counsaile
             to
             the
             same
             purpose
             .
             
               Sicut
               exhibuistis
               membra
               vestra
               &c.
            
             Euen
             as
             to
             this
             very
             instant
             you
             employed
             and
             yeilded
             vp
             your
             bodyes
             ,
             senses
             ,
             and
             the
             parts
             of
             your
             body
             to
             serue
             vncleanenes
             and
             iniquity
             on
             iniquity
             ,
             make
             even
             now
             a
             turne
             about
             ,
             yea
             and
             turne
             à
             new
             leafe
             and
             spēd
             all
             your
             time
             on
             the
             seruice
             of
             iustice
             and
             vertue
             to
             sanctification
             .
             Before
             these
             wordes
             the
             Apostle
             deliuered
             .
             
               Humanum
               dico
               propter
               vestram
               infirmitatem
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             I
             desire
             to
             perswade
             you
             ,
             and
             to
             propose
             vnto
             you
             what
             is
             in
             it selfe
             nothing
             estranged
             frō
             mā
             &
             his
             nature
             ,
             à
             thing
             feasible
             yea
             and
             easy
             to
             be
             donne
             and
             sufferable
             ,
             notwithstanding
             thy
             frailty
             and
             
             weaknes
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             for
             so
             much
             you
             serue
             not
             justice
             and
             trueth
             as
             your
             duty
             is
             ,
             and
             you
             ought
             according
             to
             reason
             ,
             at
             the
             least
             I
             require
             it
             at
             your
             hands
             ,
             that
             with
             as
             much
             affect
             ,
             attention
             ,
             efficacy
             ,
             and
             fulnes
             of
             vigour
             you
             employ
             your selues
             in
             the
             seruice
             of
             God
             and
             in
             true
             obseruance
             of
             his
             commandements
             ,
             and
             to
             make
             as
             much
             vse
             of
             time
             and
             houres
             (
             of
             which
             the
             fruite
             ,
             practise
             ,
             and
             entertainement
             is
             sanctification
             ,
             for
             by
             such
             workes
             à
             man
             is
             sanctified
             ,
             and
             is
             truely
             dedicated
             and
             deliuered
             ouer
             to
             God
             )
             with
             as
             much
             care
             ,
             attention
             and
             sollicitude
             as
             you
             spent
             in
             your
             addictions
             ,
             yea
             and
             giuing
             your selues
             ouer
             to
             serue
             iniquities
             and
             sinne
             ,
             for
             from
             hence
             the
             sinner
             contracteth
             nothing
             on
             himself
             ,
             but
             to
             be
             in
             the
             state
             of
             sinne
             ,
             and
             to
             be
             alas
             !
             à
             sinner
             
             and
             wicked
             ,
             and
             to
             be
             so
             enstyled
             ,
             to
             beare
             such
             domination
             ,
             such
             name
             .
             And
             although
             true
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             sanctification
             doth
             notably
             exceed
             ,
             farre
             surmount
             iniquity
             ,
             vnrighteousnes
             ,
             yet
             should
             I
             be
             some
             what
             acquieted
             that
             they
             would
             employ
             so
             much
             earnestnes
             ,
             so
             most
             vigilant
             sollicitude
             in
             vvelldoeing
             after
             conuersion
             ;
             as
             they
             haue
             rendred
             ,
             and
             formerly
             fully
             placed
             to
             sinne
             ,
             and
             to
             displease
             the
             Majesty
             of
             God.
             But
             ,
             ô
             pitty
             !
             although
             bold
             ,
             and
             ill
             placed
             couragious
             many
             vvere
             to
             sinne
             ,
             how
             luck
             warme
             ,
             and
             euen
             cold
             ,
             slacke
             ,
             and
             hee●●es
             are
             they
             to
             vndergoe
             repentance
             ,
             and
             to
             exercise
             themselues
             in
             practise
             of
             vertue
             ?
             A
             sinner
             maketh
             no
             difficulty
             of
             ought
             to
             give
             himselfe
             his
             intended
             delights
             ,
             and
             pleasures
             ,
             to
             obtaine
             his
             contents
             ,
             and
             fulnes
             of
             his
             appetits
             :
             
             nothing
             is
             by
             him
             accounted
             hard
             to
             acquire
             :
             and
             if
             so
             be
             that
             you
             question
             him
             ,
             can
             you
             suffer
             and
             endure
             such
             like
             ?
             or
             such
             other
             ?
             be
             it
             neuer
             so
             difficult
             ,
             he
             will
             answere
             to
             all
             ,
             yea
             ,
             he
             can
             ;
             time
             is
             very
             short
             of
             too
             quick
             speed
             for
             sinners
             to
             enjoy
             the
             fulnes
             of
             their
             delights
             ,
             but
             to
             employ
             themselues
             in
             good-workes
             ,
             they
             account
             the
             time
             long
             ;
             masse
             is
             long
             ;
             à
             sermon
             long
             ,
             and
             tedious
             ,
             prayer
             ,
             as
             also
             meditation
             burthensome
             ,
             and
             fasting
             very
             painefull
             ;
             cold
             maketh
             them
             heartles
             ,
             quelleth
             their
             spirits
             ;
             and
             heat
             doth
             euen
             enfeeble
             them
             ,
             and
             each
             thing
             whatsoeuer
             seemeth
             à
             great
             torment
             ,
             or
             heauy
             burthen
             ;
             euen
             soe
             as
             (
             to
             conclude
             this
             Chapter
             )
             it
             is
             à
             very
             good
             remedy
             ,
             to
             redeeme
             time
             ,
             to
             employ
             it
             vvell
             ,
             yea
             and
             with
             à
             like
             agony
             ,
             earnestnes
             ,
             covetousnes
             ,
             
             with
             such
             vvatch
             ,
             diligence
             ,
             and
             expeditenes
             ,
             and
             mindfullnes
             ,
             vvhich
             might
             equalize
             that
             vvhich
             vvas
             applyed
             ,
             to
             loose
             time
             ,
             and
             to
             haue
             it
             taken
             prisoner
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             Ninth
             Chapter
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             THE
             TENTH
             CHAPTER
             .
          
           
             How
             it
             is
             to
             be
             vnderstood
             ,
             that
             the
             daies
             are
             bad
             ,
             and
             how
             since
             so
             it
             is
             ,
             that
             they
             are
             to
             be
             redeemed
             .
          
           
             ALL
             things
             which
             God
             created
             are
             good
             ,
             
             considered
             in
             themselues
             ,
             &
             cōformable
             to
             their
             nature
             ,
             for
             from
             his
             good
             hands
             there
             could
             nothing
             come
             ,
             vvorke
             nor
             vvhatsoeuer
             else
             ,
             vvhich
             vvas
             not
             good
             :
             and
             euen
             the
             same
             all-Godnes
             after
             hee
             had
             created
             thē
             ,
             hee
             valued
             them
             good
             ,
             and
             gaue
             them
             for
             good
             to
             all
             .
             And
             that
             wee
             continue
             our
             discourse
             to
             our
             the
             selfe
             same
             purpose
             ,
             the
             daies
             and
             yeares
             pondered
             in
             themselues
             by
             the
             same
             groūds
             cānot
             be
             bad
             ,
             cannot
             be
             evill
             ,
             nor
             can
             they
             beare
             in
             
             thē
             morall
             malice
             ,
             which
             may
             be
             accoūted
             à
             fault
             in
             thē
             ,
             for
             &
             in-so
             much
             as
             that
             they
             are
             not
             capeable
             thereof
             ,
             as
             litle
             are
             they
             subjects
             or
             objects
             of
             sufferance
             &
             punishment
             ,
             for
             as
             improper
             are
             they
             to
             receiue
             such
             inflictions
             ,
             nor
             whatsoeuer
             other
             miseryes
             ,
             vvhich
             men
             sustaine
             for
             their
             trespasses
             ,
             their
             greivous
             transgressions
             :
             but
             euill
             dayes
             are
             called
             by
             such
             name
             ,
             and
             goe
             vnder
             such
             like
             title
             ,
             respect
             had
             to
             men
             ,
             vvho
             then
             liue
             ,
             for
             the
             ills
             of
             sinnes
             which
             they
             commit
             in
             those
             daies
             ,
             or
             for
             the
             ills
             of
             punishements
             which
             are
             inflicted
             on
             them
             ,
             and
             for
             ,
             and
             by
             they
             suffer
             as
             
               Saint
               Chrysostome
            
             ,
             and
             
               Saint
               Ierome
            
             declare
             .
             
             And
             customarily
             sick
             ,
             sad
             ,
             and
             afflicted
             men
             vse
             to
             say
             :
             Oh!
             vvhat
             à
             day
             hath
             this
             been
             to
             mee
             ,
             alas
             !
             how
             ill
             ,
             oh
             !
             how
             bitter
             ,
             ah
             !
             poore
             wretch
             as
             I
             am
             ,
             vvas
             
             euer
             knowne
             the
             like
             ?
             There
             are
             two
             things
             (
             sayth
             the
             glorious
             
               S.
               Austine
            
             )
             which
             are
             cause
             that
             the
             dayes
             are
             evill
             ,
             
             are
             bad
             ,
             and
             that
             they
             are
             so
             called
             ,
             though
             in
             themselues
             they
             bee
             good
             ;
             which
             are
             malice
             ,
             and
             the
             misery
             of
             men
             ;
             misery
             is
             common
             ,
             but
             in
             no
             sort
             is
             malice
             .
             From
             the
             time
             that
             Adam
             sinned
             ,
             and
             was
             banished
             from
             Paradice
             ,
             the
             daies
             haue
             been
             evermore
             evill
             ,
             bad
             and
             the
             crying
             of
             children
             in
             their
             being
             even
             newly
             borne
             is
             to
             fore-tell
             ,
             to
             presage
             ,
             to
             prophetize
             miseries
             ,
             calamities
             ,
             and
             heauy
             labours
             ,
             and
             to
             say
             that
             in
             that
             day
             they
             make
             their
             entrance
             ,
             and
             beginning
             in
             this
             valley
             of
             teares
             ,
             and
             at
             least
             (
             although
             it
             fare
             well
             with
             them
             ,
             &
             that
             they
             be
             happy
             in
             their
             lot
             ,
             that
             they
             prove
             good
             )
             they
             shall
             not
             be
             free
             from
             temptations
             ,
             and
             wherefore
             
             to
             feare
             ,
             nor
             vvhy
             not
             .
             Euthymius
             expounding
             the
             vvords
             of
             the
             Psalmist
             :
             who
             is
             the
             man
             vvho
             desireth
             life
             ,
             
             and
             to
             see
             good
             daies
             ?
             delivereth
             that
             these
             good
             daies
             are
             those
             of
             the
             other
             vvorld
             ,
             the
             other
             life
             ,
             for
             that
             those
             of
             this
             time
             are
             evill
             ,
             according
             to
             vvhat
             Iacob
             sayed
             to
             Pharaoh
             ,
             
             and
             the
             Apostle
             
               Saint
               Paul
            
             ,
             
             vvhen
             he
             spake
             to
             the
             people
             of
             Ephesus
             ,
             redeeme
             time
             ,
             for
             the
             daies
             are
             bad
             .
             And
             to
             the
             same
             purpose
             delivereth
             
               S.
               Basill
            
             :
             
             The
             daies
             of
             my
             pilgrimage
             (
             sayed
             
               S.
               Iacob
            
             ,
             answering
             to
             Pharaoh
             ,
             vvho
             questioned
             of
             him
             how
             old
             he
             vvas
             )
             are
             one
             hundred
             and
             thirty
             ,
             fevv
             ,
             and
             those
             bad
             .
             The
             King
             asked
             of
             him
             ,
             how
             many
             are
             the
             yeares
             thou
             hast
             lived
             ?
             and
             he
             replyed
             &c.
             and
             although
             he
             seemed
             at
             first
             sight
             that
             he
             answered
             not
             to
             the
             purpose
             ,
             yet
             hee
             returned
             an
             
             admirable
             answere
             ,
             &
             like
             himselfe
             ,
             à
             Saint
             ,
             and
             discreete
             ,
             &
             as
             à
             wise
             and
             prudent
             man
             he
             cutt
             of
             in
             à
             tacite
             and
             silent
             way
             ,
             the
             question
             which
             was
             asked
             of
             him
             :
             as
             the
             Maister
             doth
             with
             his
             scholler
             ,
             when
             he
             demandeth
             an
             impertinent
             questiō
             ,
             his
             meaning
             to
             Pharaoh
             was
             that
             the
             years
             of
             this
             life
             ,
             are
             not
             years
             ,
             but
             dayes
             :
             and
             the
             dayes
             ,
             not
             dayes
             ,
             but
             howers
             ,
             and
             the
             howers
             ,
             not
             howers
             ,
             but
             moments
             :
             and
             the
             life
             of
             the
             seruants
             of
             God
             is
             not
             à
             place
             of
             setling
             in
             this
             world
             ,
             but
             à
             journeying
             ,
             a
             travelling
             frō
             place
             to
             place
             ;
             à
             pilgrimage
             to
             the
             celestiall
             Ierusalē
             .
             They
             are
             passengers
             ,
             &
             euen
             as
             such
             like
             ,
             they
             make
             vse
             of
             the
             goods
             and
             commodities
             of
             the
             vvorld
             ;
             and
             hee
             spake
             further
             that
             his
             yeares
             vvere
             fevv
             ,
             although
             he
             vvere
             an
             hundred
             and
             thirty
             ;
             for
             
             that
             those
             his
             ,
             yea
             and
             many
             more
             are
             few
             ,
             
             for
             that
             the
             longest
             life
             is
             short
             ,
             yea
             euen
             as
             à
             shadow
             .
          
           
             And
             finally
             he
             enstyleth
             his
             daies
             bad
             for
             the
             many
             dangers
             and
             corporall
             &
             spirituall
             crosses
             ,
             
             labours
             and
             afflictions
             ,
             which
             in
             it
             are
             found
             ,
             and
             which
             it
             suffereth
             ,
             for
             temptation
             is
             mans
             life
             ,
             are
             the
             time
             of
             his
             life
             .
             Hence
             is
             it
             that
             for
             the
             euills
             ,
             for
             the
             labours
             ,
             crosses
             ,
             misfortunes
             which
             often
             occurre
             to
             man
             in
             his
             daies
             ,
             the
             daies
             are
             said
             to
             be
             euill
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             holy
             scripture
             they
             are
             called
             euill
             .
             Hence
             is
             the
             day
             of
             Doome
             called
             bad
             ,
             
             respect
             had
             to
             the
             euill
             ,
             and
             it
             goeth
             vnder
             the
             title
             of
             sharpe
             ,
             and
             bitter
             ,
             and
             from
             hence
             wee
             shall
             vnderstand
             the
             meaning
             of
             those
             words
             which
             our
             Lord
             and
             Sauiour
             deliuered
             by
             
               S.
               Mathevv
            
             :
             
             Bee
             not
             too
             much
             sollicitous
             of
             to
             morrow
             ,
             
             for
             each
             dayes
             ill
             ,
             each
             dayes
             malice
             is
             enough
             :
             which
             is
             ,
             
             as
             if
             he
             should
             speake
             more
             at
             large
             :
             You
             haue
             enough
             to
             doe
             to
             day
             ,
             take
             great
             care
             of
             this
             present
             day
             ,
             and
             of
             it's
             labours
             ,
             it
             's
             busines
             ,
             it's
             entertainements
             ,
             it's
             necessityes
             ,
             without
             that
             thou
             seeke
             to
             redouble
             thy
             charge
             ,
             and
             to
             take
             to
             thee
             to
             day
             the
             anxiety
             ,
             and
             care
             of
             mind
             ,
             and
             burthen
             that
             belongeth
             to
             the
             following
             day
             ,
             thinking
             what
             thou
             hast
             to
             doe
             therein
             ,
             or
             what
             may
             happen
             vnto
             thee
             ,
             and
             I
             assure
             thee
             that
             ,
             let
             it
             take
             sufficient
             care
             for
             it self
             .
             And
             euen
             to
             this
             same
             purpose
             ,
             was
             that
             which
             the
             Apo●●le
             deliuered
             to
             the
             Ephesians
             ,
             when
             he
             sayed
             :
             Redeeme
             the
             time
             ,
             for
             the
             dayes
             are
             ewill
             .
             Obserue
             well
             that
             the
             dayes
             are
             laborious
             ,
             full
             of
             miseries
             ,
             difficulties
             ,
             
             and
             hinderances
             ,
             employments
             ,
             occasions
             ,
             temptations
             ,
             and
             impediments
             to
             thy
             salvation
             ,
             and
             to
             thy
             safety
             ;
             for
             which
             ,
             for
             many
             other
             respects
             and
             affaires
             to
             which
             our
             vveake
             body
             draweth
             on
             vs
             ,
             as
             necessity
             for
             conseruation
             of
             it
             and
             life
             ,
             and
             our
             ill
             inclined
             nature
             after
             the
             sinne
             ,
             much
             time
             is
             frequently
             lost
             without
             any
             fruite
             of
             good
             workes
             ,
             and
             is
             impawned
             ,
             sold
             and
             captivated
             ,
             imprisoned
             ;
             hence
             doe
             I
             craue
             of
             thee
             with
             all
             tendernes
             ,
             I
             exhort
             thee
             vvith
             all
             sincerity
             ,
             &
             recommend
             vnto
             thee
             with
             all
             fervour
             ,
             that
             thou
             beware
             of
             employing
             thy
             time
             ill
             ,
             &
             to
             let
             it
             bee
             imprisonned
             ,
             alas
             !
             and
             lost
             ,
             and
             that
             thou
             endeavour
             tooth
             and
             naile
             ,
             vvith
             all
             thine
             endeavour
             ,
             to
             the
             vtter
             most
             of
             thy
             power
             ,
             to
             make
             vse
             thereof
             ,
             to
             reedeeme
             it
             ,
             and
             to
             value
             it
             ,
             and
             so
             to
             cōmerce
             &
             carry
             
             thy
             busines
             ,
             that
             vvhen
             our
             Lord
             shall
             come
             ,
             &
             shall
             call
             for
             accoūt
             ,
             thou
             may
             giue
             him
             vp
             à
             good
             ,
             an
             exact
             and
             perfect
             one
             .
             And
             euen
             so
             we
             must
             each
             of
             vs
             doe
             ,
             for
             moreover
             and
             aboue
             vvhat
             is
             delivered
             ,
             the
             daies
             are
             as
             short
             as
             possibly
             may
             be
             ,
             vncertaine
             ,
             yea
             and
             irreuocable
             ,
             not
             to
             be
             called
             backe
             ,
             not
             to
             be
             returned
             vnto
             vs
             ;
             and
             vve
             must
             be
             of
             time
             very
             sparing
             ,
             euen
             to
             coveteousnes
             thereof
             ,
             painefully
             ,
             and
             most
             sollicitously
             endeavouring
             to
             recover
             that
             vve
             lost
             ,
             those
             daies
             vvhich
             vve
             cast
             avvay
             ,
             vvith
             making
             all
             hast
             to
             make
             vse
             of
             that
             time
             vvhich
             is
             lent
             vs
             ,
             and
             left
             vnto
             vs
             ,
             to
             the
             seruice
             of
             God
             ,
             &
             repaire
             our
             omissions
             and
             negligēces
             with
             diligence
             &
             present
             care
             ,
             multiplying
             penāce
             ,
             sorrovv
             for
             our
             sinnes
             ,
             mortificatiōs
             ,
             meritorious
             workes
             ,
             &
             of
             charity
             ,
             as
             doth
             he
             ,
             who
             hath
             à
             
             long
             iourney
             to
             make
             ,
             the
             time
             prouing
             short
             for
             him
             ,
             almost
             passed
             ,
             and
             through
             his
             negligence
             and
             carelesnes
             and
             sloth
             is
             ca●
             very
             much
             behinde
             hand
             ,
             endeauoureth
             afterwards
             to
             runne
             in
             such
             à
             manner
             ,
             so
             speedily
             ,
             that
             he
             dispatcheth
             in
             two
             howers
             that
             iourney
             ,
             for
             the
             performance
             of
             which
             hee
             had
             sixe
             howers
             and
             therfore
             seeketh
             out
             '
             the
             shortest
             way
             ,
             sweats
             ,
             trauaileth
             paine
             fully
             ,
             and
             forceth
             himself
             to
             runne
             à
             mile
             together
             ,
             without
             giving
             ouer
             ,
             or
             wearisomnes
             ,
             although
             necessarily
             it
             be
             required
             to
             eate
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             take
             vnto
             him
             some
             foode
             ,
             à
             morcell
             ,
             ot
             two
             ,
             yea
             ,
             and
             euen
             this
             doth
             he
             eate
             running
             and
             as
             first
             as
             he
             can
             .
             Euen
             so
             did
             the
             same
             Apostle
             to
             redeeme
             the
             time
             he
             had
             fore
             gone
             ,
             
             and
             lost
             :
             
               Sequer
               si
               quomodo
               comprehendam
            
             .
             As
             if
             he
             should
             say
             ;
             
             Since
             so
             it
             is
             that
             I
             had
             so
             much
             time
             ,
             and
             went
             so
             farre
             astray
             ,
             and
             gott
             so
             litle
             ground
             in
             the
             seruice
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             was
             so
             negligent
             in
             endeauouring
             to
             gaine
             the
             reward
             of
             heauen
             ,
             and
             had
             so
             many
             daies
             lost
             my
             time
             ,
             I
             now
             earnestly
             desire
             to
             make
             à
             double
             hast
             ,
             insomuch
             as
             I
             runne
             speedily
             ,
             yea
             and
             without
             looking
             behinde
             mee
             at
             all
             ,
             for
             that
             I
             make
             noe
             esteeme
             of
             all
             my
             former
             walkes
             ,
             rather
             absolute
             forgetfulnes
             thereof
             hath
             taken
             me
             vp
             ,
             euen
             as
             if
             I
             had
             not
             gonne
             astepp
             going
             forward
             ,
             and
             boldly
             aduācing
             my
             pace
             through
             thicke
             and
             thinne
             ,
             mine
             eyes
             attentiue
             on
             my
             waie
             I
             am
             to
             run
             ,
             and
             my
             journey
             I
             haue
             to
             expedite
             ,
             and
             finish
             ,
             and
             not
             on
             that
             I
             haue
             already
             passed
             .
             
             The
             self
             same
             did
             king
             David
             put
             in
             practise
             after
             that
             God
             dilated
             ,
             extended
             ,
             and
             
             enlarged
             his
             heart
             with
             the
             loue
             of
             him
             ,
             and
             charity
             ,
             and
             released
             him
             of
             those
             fetters
             ,
             thoses
             gyues
             which
             were
             on
             his
             feete
             ,
             as
             he
             testifieth
             ,
             in
             these
             words
             :
             
               Viam
               mandatorum
               tuorum
               cucurri
               &c.
            
             
             When
             as
             through
             thy
             great
             mercy
             (
             my
             Lord
             ,
             my
             God
             )
             thou
             pleasedst
             to
             attract
             mee
             ,
             and
             release
             mee
             from
             sinne
             ,
             and
             misery
             ,
             in
             vvhich
             I
             vvas
             plunged
             ,
             surprised
             and
             fast-held
             so
             long
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             breaking
             the
             chaines
             vvherevvith
             I
             was
             fast
             tyed
             ,
             refreshing
             my
             heart
             vvith
             the
             vvater
             ,
             the
             liquor
             more
             precious
             then
             that
             of
             Angels
             ,
             from
             the
             bounty
             of
             thy
             all
             Soueraigne
             benignity
             and
             grace
             comforting
             it
             ,
             consoling
             it
             therewith
             ;
             I
             began
             (
             that
             I
             might
             redeeme
             time
             )
             to
             hasten
             and
             run
             ,
             and
             I
             made
             all
             possible
             speed
             ,
             all
             diligence
             imaginable
             ,
             without
             getting
             vnto
             mee
             ,
             or
             purchasing
             so
             
             much
             as
             one
             breathing
             ,
             or
             other
             ,
             n●thy
             way
             for
             the
             way
             of
             thy
             commandements
             .
             The
             deuout
             and
             mysticall
             Thaulerus
             (
             and
             then
             with
             him
             will
             we
             conclude
             this
             treatise
             )
             moueth
             a
             question
             in
             this
             manner
             how
             a
             man
             may
             redeeme
             ,
             
             and
             recouer
             time
             passed
             by
             ,
             and
             lost
             ;
             how
             hee
             may
             ransome
             it
             ,
             since
             that
             there
             is
             not
             ,
             no
             not
             one
             moment
             of
             time
             ,
             which
             is
             not
             due
             to
             God
             ,
             which
             wee
             are
             not
             to
             giue
             account
             of
             to
             God
             ;
             and
             (
             as
             
               Gregory
               Nissenus
            
             sayed
             )
             if
             so
             that
             vvee
             should
             passe
             all
             our
             time
             in
             prayer
             ,
             
             and
             in
             rendring
             of
             thanks
             to
             God
             ,
             hardly
             shall
             wee
             accomplish
             ,
             fulfill
             the
             obligation
             ,
             and
             duety
             which
             vvee
             euen
             at
             this
             present
             instant
             owe
             ,
             &
             for
             it
             ,
             how
             much
             more
             for
             the
             time
             passed
             ,
             and
             to
             come
             ;
             and
             thus
             he
             answereth
             ;
             turne
             another
             way
             ,
             retire
             your selues
             each
             one
             of
             you
             
             vvith
             all
             your
             power
             ,
             and
             greatest
             height
             of
             your
             strength
             and
             abilityes
             ,
             the
             highest
             yea
             and
             the
             lowest
             ,
             from
             all
             time
             ,
             and
             place
             ,
             and
             let
             it
             all
             be
             recollected
             and
             drawne
             vnto
             that
             present
             instant
             of
             eternity
             ,
             vvhere
             God
             is
             essentially
             and
             remaneth
             in
             one
             being
             ,
             and
             in
             a
             most
             firme
             stability
             ,
             vvithout
             that
             there
             be
             any
             thing
             passed
             ,
             or
             to
             come
             ,
             but
             that
             all
             is
             presēt
             ,
             &
             in
             an
             euerlasting
             state
             ,
             vniforme
             ,
             durable
             fixed
             ,
             permanent
             ,
             constant
             ,
             inuariable
             ,
             vvithout
             change
             ,
             &
             immoveable
             ,
             vvithout
             time
             it
             's
             passing
             in
             so
             much
             as
             hath
             relation
             to
             him
             ,
             there
             being
             and
             being
             found
             in
             him
             ,
             all
             vvhat
             is
             present
             ,
             passed
             ,
             and
             to
             come
             ,
             and
             all
             beginning
             ,
             and
             ending
             of
             time
             ,
             vvithout
             beginning
             and
             ending
             .
             And
             there
             vvith
             hee
             shall
             finde
             all
             those
             treasures
             ,
             which
             he
             set
             at
             light
             ,
             and
             despised
             ,
             
             and
             infinitely
             more
             ;
             and
             they
             who
             oftentimes
             accustome
             themselues
             ,
             make
             it
             their
             practise
             ,
             and
             raise
             themselues
             aboue
             themselues
             ,
             and
             all
             creatures
             ,
             and
             euen
             to
             hide
             thēselues
             ,
             couer
             themselues
             ,
             and
             to
             make
             their
             nest
             ,
             and
             place
             of
             abiding
             in
             God
             ,
             vvho
             is
             present
             in
             the
             hearts
             of
             all
             people
             ,
             they
             vndoubtedly
             acquire
             riches
             ,
             procure
             vnto
             themselues
             treasures
             ,
             and
             finde
             therein
             much
             more
             thē
             ,
             alas
             !
             they
             can
             haue
             lost
             .
             And
             in
             this
             their
             entrance
             and
             conuersiō
             to
             God
             each
             one
             ought
             fully
             ,
             entirely
             ,
             and
             perfectly
             to
             transforme
             himselfe
             into
             him
             ,
             and
             euen
             from
             the
             very
             bottome
             of
             his
             heart
             say
             :
             ô
             my
             eternall
             God
             I
             would
             ,
             that
             all
             the
             time
             which
             hath
             beene
             from
             the
             beginning
             of
             the
             world
             ,
             and
             hath
             to
             cōtinue
             vntill
             the
             end
             thereof
             ,
             that
             I
             had
             liued
             for
             thee
             ,
             and
             thy
             seruice
             ,
             
             and
             that
             I
             may
             hence
             forward
             live
             such
             as
             I
             may
             bepraise-worthy
             ,
             &
             cleane
             with
             obedience
             ,
             and
             all
             kind
             of
             vertues
             ,
             as
             those
             men
             whosoeuer
             haue
             beene
             borne
             at
             any
             time
             who
             haue
             runn
             the
             course
             of
             their
             liues
             in
             afflictiōs
             ,
             poverty
             ,
             tribulations
             ,
             &
             anxious
             toiles
             .
             Oh!
             could
             I
             distill
             ,
             power
             forth
             ,
             yea
             gush
             out
             from
             mine
             eyes
             all
             the
             water
             in
             the
             sea
             ,
             &
             supply
             the
             necessities
             of
             those
             who
             want
             ,
             and
             are
             poore
             ,
             &
             conferre
             comfort
             to
             the
             heauy
             ,
             afflicted
             ,
             and
             sad
             ,
             and
             for
             thee
             (
             my
             God
             )
             that
             I
             might
             love
             thee
             ,
             praise
             thee
             ,
             and
             exalt
             thee
             ,
             and
             glorify
             thee
             ,
             even
             as
             much
             as
             doe
             all
             the
             Saints
             and
             Angells
             of
             thy
             soueraigne
             ,
             high
             ,
             and
             mighty
             Court
             ?
             For
             vndoubtedly
             all
             these
             things
             would
             I
             doe
             most
             willingly
             :
             And
             let
             him
             be
             most
             assured
             ,
             who
             so
             hath
             taken
             into
             his
             heart
             this
             will
             ,
             and
             liuely
             
             desires
             ,
             that
             even
             accordingly
             that
             most
             just
             ,
             and
             most
             vpright
             judge
             will
             accept
             them
             ,
             as
             if
             they
             were
             put
             in
             execution
             ;
             for
             to
             desire
             with
             sincere
             and
             efficacious
             will
             to
             doe
             any
             worke
             ,
             is
             as
             much
             as
             if
             it
             were
             donne
             before
             God
             in
             his
             sight
             ;
             so
             it
             is
             accounted
             of
             him
             ,
             it
             being
             (
             as
             we
             formerly
             sayed
             )
             à
             perfect
             will
             ,
             and
             it
             so
             being
             that
             the
             worke
             surmoūt
             the
             possibility
             ,
             
             and
             facultie
             of
             our
             forces
             ,
             and
             hence
             I
             referre
             the
             Reader
             to
             the
             4.
             
             Chapter
             ,
             where
             mētion
             is
             made
             of
             the
             good
             theife
             which
             doctrine
             there
             deliuered
             agreeth
             well
             to
             that
             of
             this
             .
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             the
             tenth
             and
             last
             Chapter
             .
          
           
             LAVS
             DEO
             TRINO-VN●
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Hic
           liher
           cui
           titulus
           est
           ,
           
             The
             Ransome
             of
             time
             being
             Captiue
             ,
          
           id
           est
           ,
           Redēptio
           temporis
           captiui
           ex
           Hispanica
           lingua
           in
           Anglicanam
           ,
           fideliter
           translatus
           ,
           nihil
           habet
           fidei
           aut
           moribus
           bonis
           aduersum
           ,
           Actum
           Duaci
           27.
           
           Nouembris
           1634.
           
        
         
           Georgius
           Coluenerius
           S.
           Theol.
           Doctor
           &
           Professor
           ,
           Collegiatae
           Ecclesiae
           S.
           Petri
           praepositus
           ,
           Academiae
           Duacensis
           Caneellarius
           ,
           &
           Librorum
           Censor
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           ERRATA
           .
        
         
           P.
           1.
           l.
           3.
           dele
           (
           )
           .
           p.
           2.
           l.
           〈◊〉
           for
           kookes
           ,
           reade
           bookes
           .
           p.
           15.
           l.
           21.
           for
           〈…〉
           which
           .
           p.
           26.
           for
           as
           ,
           reade
           and
           p.
           75.
           l.
           19.
           after
           Isra●●
           〈…〉
           p.
           84.
           l.
           13.
           for
           opposite
           ,
           reade
           apposite
           .
           〈…〉
           appositely
           .
           reade
           appositely
           .
           p.
           95.
           l.
           7.
           for
           〈…〉
           ●oue
           .
           p.
           97.
           l.
           1.
           after
           nor
           ,
           add
           to
           .
           p.
           101.
           l.
           13.
           〈…〉
           not
           .
           p.
           103.
           l.
           12.
           for
           beleft
           ,
           reade
           beleeued
           .
           p.
           122.
           
           〈◊〉
           .
           for
           dispensest
           ,
           reade
           despisest
           .
           p.
           135.
           l.
           19.
           for
           rigorous
           ,
           reade
           vigorous
           ,
           the
           page
           142.
           is
           putt
           twice
           ,
           the
           latter
           shold
           be
           144.
           p.
           15●
           .
           li.
           4.
           for
           reinfortid
           ,
           reade
           reinforced
           .
           p.
           171.
           l.
           1.
           the
           first
           line
           of
           this
           ,
           page
           171.
           shold
           haue
           beene
           putt
           the
           first
           line
           of
           the
           page
           167.
           pag.
           171.
           
           The
           second
           line
           of
           this
           page
           is
           〈◊〉
           follow
           after
           the
           last
           line
           of
           the
           page
           170.
           pag.
           193.
           line
           2.
           for
           the
           lettre
           n
           ,
           reade
           in
           .
        
         
           Some
           other
           faults
           in
           orthographie
           ,
           the
           numbers
           of
           the
           pages
           ,
           &c.
           the
           Readers
           courtesie
           may
           pardon
           ,
           and
           the
           printers
           want
           of
           an
           English
           tongue
           excuse
           .
        
      
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A12614-e1450
           
             Apoc.
             10.
             
          
           
             Ephes.
             9
             
          
           
             Psa.
             49.
             
          
           
             Psal.
             13.
             
          
           
             Eccles.
             4.
             
          
           
             Eccles.
             14.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             118.
             
          
           
             Psa.
             79.
             
          
           
             Theophras
             .
             Seneca
             .
             Epist.
             1.
             
          
           
             Idem
             lib.
             de
             breuitate
             vitae
             .
          
           
             Laurēs
             .
             Iust.
             de
             vita
             solitaria
             .
             cap.
             10.
             
          
           
             Iob
             10.
             
          
           
             Bern.
             serm
             .
             ad
             Schol
             :
          
           
             Luc.
             1●
             .
          
           
             S.
             Bernardin
             .
             ●o
             .
             vlt.
             serm
             .
             13
             art
             .
             3.
             
             &
             4.
             &
             tom
             .
             vl
             .
             serm
             .
             1●
             pag.
             1
             princip
             .
          
           
             Dionys.
             ciuit
             .
             in
             opuscul
             .
          
           
             Dionys.
             Carthus
             .
             in
             opusc
             .
          
           
             Plut●rch
             .
          
           
             Plutarc
             .
             in
             Sertorio
             .
          
           
             Matth.
             10.
             
          
           
             Gala.
             6
             
          
           
             Seneca
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             Cor.
             6.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             8.
             
          
           
             Luc.
             19.
             
          
           
             Matth.
             13.
             
          
           
             Iohn
             .
             9.
             
          
           
             Laur●t
             .
             lustinian
             .
          
           
             Matth.
             25.
             
          
           
             Prouer.
             4.
             
          
           
             1.
             
             Reg.
             13.
             
          
           
             Act.
             20.
             
          
           
             Dionisius
             Cassius
             .
          
           
             Damas.
             Hist.
             Barla
             cap.
             18.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             6.
             
          
           
             Hiero.
             in
             Aggaeum
             .
             cap.
             3.
             
          
           
             Thomde
             Kēpis
             .
             ●
             .
             p.
             Ser.
             ad
             Nonit
             cap.
             7.
             
          
           
             Ludou
             .
             Blosius
             .
          
           
             Thauler
             .
          
           
             Ierem.
             
          
           
             Thom.
             de
             Aquin
             .
             Sap.
             ●
             .
          
           
             Bern.
             art
             .
             3.
             cap.
             4.
             
          
           
             Matth.
             25.
             
          
           
             S.
             Hieronym
             .
             Epist.
             21.
             
          
           
             Isai●s
             38.
             
          
           
             Haimon
             in
             Isai.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             34.
             
          
           
             Matth.
             21.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             101.
             
          
           
             Iob.
             15.
             
          
           
             S.
             Nicol
             de
             Kesp
             
          
           
             Bern.
             serm
             .
             de
             falaci●
             praesentis
             vitae
             
          
           
             Sap.
             2.
             
          
           
             Tim.
             5.
             
          
           
             Apoc.
             3.
             
          
           
             Eccles.
             9.
             
          
           
             Genes
             .
             41.
             
          
           
             Exod.
             16.
             
          
           
             Genes
             30.
             
          
           
             Matth.
             20.
             
          
           
             Gen.
             3.
             
          
           
             4.
             
             Reg.
             16.
             
          
           
             Exod
             1.
             
          
           
             Iorem.
             87.
             
          
           
             Iosue
             4.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             95.
             
          
           
             S.
             Basilius
             ho●
             .
             13.
             exhort
             .
             ad
             Bapt.
             
          
           
             Act.
             10.
             
          
           
             Aug
             ad
             fra●res
             in
             eremo
             .
          
           
             S●neca
             .
          
           
             Matth.
             ●9
             .
          
           
             Marc.
             13.
             
          
           
             Eccles.
             3.
             
          
           
             Eccles
             15.
             
          
           
             Eccles
             4.
             
          
           
             Matth.
             10.
             
          
           
             Luc.
             18.
             
          
           
             Luc.
             12.
             
          
           
             Apoc.
             1.
             
          
           
             Apoc●●
             .
             22.
             
          
           
             S●neca
             de
             breuitate
             vitae
             .
          
           
             Iob.
             15.
             
          
           
             Seneca
             .
          
           
             Eccles.
             33.
             
          
           
             Augustin
             .
             ad
             fratres
             in
             e●●mo
             .
             ser.
             19.
             
          
           
             Chrys.
             hom
             .
             1●
             .
             in
             ca.
             4.
             ad
             Ephesios
             .
          
           
             Cassianus
             lib.
             10.
             collat
             .
             c.
             3.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             14
             
          
           
             Seneca
             .
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             72.
             
          
           
             Genes
             .
             25.
             
             &
             35.
             
          
           
             Iobvlt
             .
          
           
             Iobs
             .
          
           
             Ambrose
             .
          
           
             Greg.
             in
             Moral
             .
             sup
             .
             ca.
             vlt.
             Iob
             
          
           
             Laēt
             .
             in
             vit●
             Philosoph●
             .
          
           
             4.
             
             Reg.
             4.
             
          
           
             Iob
             24.
             
          
           
             Bern.
             6
             de
             Aduen
             ●u●
             Domini
             .
          
           
             Philip.
             3.
             
          
           
             Eccles.
             3.
             
          
           
             2.
             
             Tim
             2.
             
          
           
             Genes
             .
             40.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             144.
             
          
           
             Iob
             24.
             
          
           
             Iob
             5.
             
          
           
             Sap.
             18.
             
          
           
             Ovid.
             
          
           
             Plutarch
             .
          
           
             Ioan.
             11.
             
          
           
             Lu●
             .
             19.
             
          
           
             Heb.
             3.
             
          
           
             1.
             
             Cor.
             14.
             
          
           
             S.
             Tho.
             2.
             2.
             qu.
             168.
             
          
           
             S.
             Ambrose
             .
          
           
             Aristotle
             .
          
           
             Aelianus
             de
             varia
             Hist.
             li.
             2.
             
          
           
             S.
             Tho.
             2.
             2.
             q.
             168.
             
          
           
             Ludo●icus
             Blo●●us
             App●●●
             .
          
           
             Chrysost
             .
             in
             expos●●
             .
             〈◊〉
             ad
             Ephes
             serm
             17.
             
          
           
             Ioan.
             16.
             
          
           
             Castro
             aduers.
             heres
             .
             lib.
             ●1
             .
             verb.
             oratio
             Luc.
             18
             
          
           
             2.
             
             Thes.
             5.
             
          
           
             almer●n
             .
          
           
             Luc.
             18.
             
          
           
             Act.
             12.
             
          
           
             Dionysius
             Carthusianus
             .
          
           
             Simon
             de
             Cassia
             .
             Iob.
             7.
             
          
           
             Theodoret
             l.
             de
             provid
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             Reg.
             3
             
          
           
             Genes
             .
             29.
             
          
           
             idem
             epistola
             ad
             Deme●riū
             .
          
           
             D.
             Bernard
             .
             tract
             .
             de
             vitâ
             .
             solitaria
             .
          
           
             Genes
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             Idem
             tract
             .
             formae
             benevidendi
             ad
             sororemc
             .
             51.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             127.
             
          
           
             Eph.
             5.
             
          
           
             Viegas
             in
             Apoc
             .
             c.
             10.
             citat
             Hiero●ymum
             
          
           
             Luc.
             10
             
          
           
             August
             serm
             .
             24
             de
             verbis
             Apost●li
             .
          
           
             Chryso
             .
             in
             epiad
             Ephes
             .
             serm
             .
             17.
             
          
           
             Baruch
             4.
             
          
           
             Rom
             6
             
          
           
             Genes
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             Chrys.
             &
             Hieron
             .
             super
             Psa.
             26.
             
          
           
             Augu.
             serm
             .
             24.
             de
             verb.
             Apost
             .
          
           
             Euthymius
             in
             Psalm
             .
             33.
             
          
           
             Gen
             4●
             
          
           
             Ephes
             5
             
          
           
             Basill
             .
             ibid.
             
          
           
             Genes
             .
             29.
             
             &
             32.
             
          
           
             Iob
             7.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             29.
             
          
           
             Matth.
             6.
             
          
           
             Simon
             de
             Cassia
             .
          
           
             Philip.
             3.
             
             &
             1.
             
             Cor.
             9.
             
          
           
             Psalm
             .
             118.
             
          
           
             Thaulerus
             .
          
           
             Gregor
             .
             Nissenin
             orat
             .
             Pater
             noster
             .
          
           
             Chrys.
             homil
             .
             19.
             in
             Math.
             S.
             Tho.
             1.
             2.
             q.
             20.
             art
             .
             4
             ,
          
        
      
    
  

